July 15, 2026
Kookie Climate Talking Points
This from meteorologist Chris Martz:
Climate cultists think that anyone who disagrees with their creed must be on the payroll of Big Oil. Rather than taking the time to address the actual arguments being made, alarmists dismiss critics by insisting that skeptics' work has a conflict of interest.
This talking point goes hard if you're inbred, but it has little actual merit. While a few scientists (and think tanks / NGOs) used to receive funding from oil majors like ExxonMobil prior to the late 2000s, to the best of my knowledge, that is no longer happening because the vast majority of these Fortune 500 companies have decided to "go green.” Why? I'll raise you two big reasons: (1) oil companies receive tax breaks for doing so and (2) they can increase profits by dipping their fingers into multiple energy sectors. Why should they put all of their eggs in one basket?
The real COIs these days on the environmental front come from activists employed at NGOs (e.g., Climate Central and World Weather Attribution) that receive funding from environmental groups such as the Bezos Earth Fund, Grantham Foundation, and the 11th Hour Project. These outlets intentionally push doomerism and cherry-pick data (e.g., start analyses in the 1970s) to portray alarming trends where the full data record show a very different story. Another COI is that many federal employees employed as "research scientists” (e.g., series 1340, 1360, etc.) are under the thumb of the federal government to adhere to a very specific message. The same goes for academics whose career success (that is, climbing the ladder to tenure at a university, collecting accolades, and getting published in prestigious journals like Nature, Science Magazine, or PNAS) are contingent on being awarded taxpayer-funded grants.
If climate academics and bureaucrats were to admit today that "We were wrong, there is no climate crisis,” then their funding would dry up quickly and they'd be out of a job because Congress will only appropriate that money and create large science budgets to study "problems” whose findings will advance whatever policy goals politicians have. Academics know what they have to say in order to get funding and to get their work published. Grants also typically have a specific set of strict guidelines that recipients must adhere to.
Now, if skeptic scientists are openly advocating for increased fossil fuel consumption, you could indeed argue that they have a conflict of interest. I will toss the alarmists a bone there. But that applies in equal measure to scientists who advocate for renewables and denigrate the O&G industry on the regular (I'm talking to you Michael Mann and Stefan Rahmstorf). If you are openly anti-fossil fuel industry, you cannot call yourself a dispassionate scientist. The anti-fossil fuel rhetoric stems from the left's [increasingly] anti-capitalist sentiment. Left-wingers envy individuals who are financially more successful than they are, so they want Big Daddy Government to step in and shake the rich down for cash to redistribute wealth as if it's a fixed pot of money.
That is precisely why I avoid giving preference to any specific energy sector (though I'm a nuclear fanboy). I am indifferent to fossil fuels. They're the backbone of our modern economy, but should better and more affordable alternatives come along through technological innovation, then that's great. Remove all subsidies (O&G included, though most of theirs are tax breaks, which isn't a direct subsidy), let the free market decide, and keep the government out of it (i.e., remove mandates). But I'm not going to demonize the very energy source that keeps me alive. That'd make me quite a hypocrite, wouldn't it?
Alarmists like to claim that I am a fossil fuel shill, but when I press them to show the receipts, they come up empty every time. That's because I have never once advocated for increased fossil fuel use (except natural gas as an on-demand backup and coal alternative for nuclear when energy demand spikes) and I have never advised lawmakers to subsidize the coal industry or O&G companies.
Climate activists' accusations of shilling and political motivation are, as far as I can tell, projection to avoid having a serious and honest discussion
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Apocalypse Now
Timothy Birdnow
Apocalypse now.
This does loo very much like the early days of the End Times as described in the Bible.
Certainly this business with the Persian Gulf being closed presents a fascinating geo-political issue; the Bible says the "King of the East" will come with an army of two hundred million men to do battle at Armageddon, and that is a plausible scenario if the Gulf is closed for an extended period - without oil the Chicoms will face total economic collapse. They can't allow that. I suspect India could well join their old enemy in this as well. Imagine an Indian/Chinese coalition coming to open the strait! It would be the thing, the only thing I can see in fact, that would motivate so large an army marching west to fight to the death.
And of course they may well conclude that it's time to put a stop to all this and who is at the center of it all? Israel.
Meanwhile a coalition of the Western nations want to put a stop to this too. So would the Arab states to the south of Israel. And so would the Russians, who need Syria as their warm-water port and have a good reason to suck up to the Arabs.
BTW this article discusses Pickax Mountain. The author states that PM has a bunker deeper than anything our weapons can reach. Maybe. And maybe Mr. Trump is being advised to do something rather rash. Conventional weapons may not reach that facility, but do we perhaps have, uh, nonconventional weapons capable? Are we about to nuke the Iranians?
Do that and all bets are off.
And the Iranians are promising a very escalated retaliation. Did they have those 11 nukes as they claimed? Are they going to nuke US? It's possible. We could lose a city or two. And if they can get one high up over Nebraska we could lose a helluva lot more than a city.
I sure hope Trump knows what he is doing!
But is this the apocalypse? Not yet it's not, but it appears are the pieces are in place with the exception of the construction of a new temple in Jerusalem. And the final revealing of the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition. We don't know who that is yet. Whoever it is will make a peace agreement with Israel to guarantee their safety. Then he will break that agreement midway through the Great Tribulation.
So who is the Anti-Christ? Hard to say. There are those who say Trump is he. They can make a strong case for that by pointing out that Trump came out of nowhere, won power, survived all the attacks thrown at him, and is a man who survived a gunshot to his head. Trump went to military school and has great respect for the military - and the Anti-Christ was said to be much like that. The Anti-Christ is said to be self-aggrandizing and of course we know Mr. Trump has a big ego and sticks his name on everything.
But Trump doesn't fit the bill in other ways. He's not a man of the Left, and the Anti-Christ is supposed to be erudite and charms the upper classes - the antithesis of Jesus, who was a man of the People. Trump is a man of the People whom the upper classes despise.
The headwound was not in the least mortal as the Anti-Christ's is going to be - it was just an ear ding. Trump did survive a total war on him through lawfare but the Bible never mentions any such thing or even hints at it.
Also, the Bible says in Romans 1: 26-27 the Anti-Christ would "abandon the natural use of women" probably meaning he would be homosexual. Mr. Trump is most definitely NOT homosexual. Trump very much likes the girls.
I would add the spirit of the age is not MAGA at all but rather Progressive/socialist and atheistic. It is rebellion against God and His Church. That is not Donald J. Trump. He may not be a saint or holy man but he stands with the old time values and beliefs. Anti-Christ cannot do that. As Jesus said "a house divided cannot stand". Trump is dividing the house of Satan if he is the chosen one of el diablo.
I rather suspect that Satan will ape Trump, use the Trump template. The Devil isn't creative - he has a few things in his playbook at he simply rehashes them. Everything he does is a copy of what God is doing. Trump has largely saved the Western world and that was not on his own power and he has acknowledged that. God was moving through him and the Devil hates being outdone by God.
Anti-Christ will be a Progressive copy of Jesus, but he will need a political model as well as Jesus never did politics. So...
The thing is, if we get a President Newsom or Harris or any of the other leftists who are lurking in the great sea (the Bible's way of saying politics - the Anti-Christ comes out of the sea of politics, unlike Trump who did not) will turn against Israel hard. Then, surrounded by her enemies, Israel will find itself in the "time of Jacob's troubles". That will mean the end is nigh.
The Anti-Christ will appear suddenly, and surprise many. But he will a politician from the get-go. The State is now our god, just as Rousseau suggested early in the nineteenth century. Politics is that god's unholy church.
At any rate the geopolitical alignment is right. Time may be shorter than any of us know.
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July 14, 2026
DEI Woman Umpire Stinks on Ice
Timothy Birdnow
Never send a woman to do a man's job!
A pure DEI hire.
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Is it Proof of Life for the Chinless Wonder?
Timothy Birdnow
Mitch McConnell's "proof of life" photo is generating considerable doubts among many people, including me. Mitch appears much more aware and bright-eyed than he has in the last year or so.
But he's also fully dressed in the hospital. No hospital gown, but rather clothed and he's wearing blue jeans. If he were hospitalized why put on Jeans? Why not just pull the covers over you, or shoot above the waist?
Strange.
Yes, he's holding a Washington Post (which shows why he's a dope) with the current date but that could easily be done with AI.
So why did he feel the need to show the WaPo in the first place? It is strange given he got up and dressed before the photo. It means someone knew there would be doubts about the veracity of this.
He does have a band-aid on his hand which suggests an I.V. had been inserted there, but it was gone, which is rare for the hospital to remove an I.V. before discharge.
(I feel like Mr. Bean in The Ultimate Disaster Movie, only instead of sitting and looking at paintings I'm looking at a photo of a politician.)
At any rate this won't quell all rumors of the death of moonface here, just with some Fox News types who will say "case closed". But I still have my doubts.
So what would be the point of hiding his death? I don't really know but it happens in politics and perhaps the multi-chinned McConnell doesn't want the Democrat governor of Kentucky to (illegally) appoint his replacement (Kentucky law calls for a special election if the Governor is from a different party but when did that stop Democrat?)
At any rate it seems to me if McConnell had just fallen and had a slight case of pneumonia they would have said that at the beginning.
This provides no real answers.
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Killing Trump
Timothy Birdnow
I am convinced the government set Trump up to be killed.
FTA:
Sister station WTAE in Pittsburgh reports that the 64-page report outlined the Secret Service's shortcomings, saying members failed to receive 102 radio transmissions from local authorities concerning an "increasingly intense search for a suspicious person."
According to the report from OIG, the Secret Service only received five phone calls and three text messages about the shooter, who was later identified as Thomas Crooks.
The calls included reports that Crooks had a range finder and a long gun and had taken a position on top of the American Glass Research International complex's roof.
The shooting resulted in the death of rallygoer Corey Comperatore. Two other attendees were injured as a result of the incident.
Trump was also grazed by a bullet and sustained an injury to his ear.
Authorities said the Secret Service did not establish a joint communications room with representatives from all law enforcement agencies, which, if done, could have prevented harm or injury to the then-presidential candidate and rally attendees.
This is incompetence at a level that is unthinkable for an agency with one job and over a hundred and sixty years of experience. It is a level of incompetence that strongly suggests it was not incompetence at all. Secret Service agents are drawn from the very best of the Special Forces in the military. This is mall cop level.
The Ruling Class wanted Trump gone, there is no question of that. His assassination would have solved a lot of their problems. But they couldn't do it themselves, hire the CIA, because that would be obvious if it was a professional hit. They needed to clear the way for an amateur to do it, a "lone, crazed gunman" as they are so fond of.
Easier and safer to recruit some half-wit kid, clear the way for him, and let him take the fall He was too stupid to realize he as being manipulated. Crooks certainly was. I suspect he was recruited without even knowing it.
He almost succeeded. And he did murder an innocent and injured a few others. One family will never see their dad again because of him.
That's his legacy.
Naturally Crooks died before he could talk. Conveniently so.
We know the CIA was involved in plots to take Trump down politically in the past and they are known to have a lenient conscience when it comes to wet work. Oh, and their own handbook suggests recruiting outside third parties to do this sort of thing.
I imagine the people behind this are still in the system and they are plotting new things. Assassination seems off the table now but maybe, with Iran issuing a Fatwah against Trump, they might try again, this time with a guy with a Middle Eastern name.
Mr. Trump has many powerful enemies. Fortunately I believe he has God on his side, and that is the greatest ally a man can have.
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Graham's Sister to Fill His Seat
Timothy Birdnow
So it will be Lindsey Graham's sister who will fill his Senate Seat.
South Carolina Gov. McMaster unveils pick to succeed late Sen. Lindsey Graham for remainder of his term
The Governor chose Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone at the urging of President Trump. Nordone will serve through the remainder of the 119th Congress.
It seems unlikely she will seek to win his seat, but you never know.
Graham largely raised Darline after their parents died and so it would be a fitting tribute to him.
What kind of senator will she be? Hard to say. She has a masters degree in counseling, which is disturbing (most counselors are liberals). Her political beliefs are unclear.
I would rather McMasters had appointed someone seeking this office - the GOP needed to get an early start on this. We can't risk losing a single Senate seat.
But she may wind up being a good senator, and she may wind up running for the seat. Right now we have to assume she's a caretaker.
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Slotkin Admits Illegals Vote - for Democrats
Timothy Birdnow
Ssshhhhh....you aren't supposed to say that!
OOPS! Dem Senator Elissa Slotkin Says the QUIET PART OUT LOUD About the SAVE America Act (VIDEO)
Slotkin admitted the SAVE America Act would make it harder for Democrats to win elections.
Now why would that be if illegal aliens aren't voting? Anybody?
Straight from the horse's mouth.
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ICE Shooting Justified
Timothy Birdnow
The ICE shooting in Maine yesterday was entirely justified and we have an eyewitness to prove it.
If you don't want to get shot don't turn your car into a weapon and try to kill cops.
Of course they will lie about this and try to force an end to ICE operations. The Left is desperate to keep these aliens in the country at any cost. Like Islam, where they have won a victory they shall never be moved.
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Justine Bateman Loses Patience with Tlaib
Timothy Birdnow
Remember Justine Bateman? She was a big star back in the eighties. Not conservative but she is fed up:
Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
These people are ridiculous.
They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to "fight tyranny." They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else.
None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some "hero" in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country.
She is an infant.
She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it's time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known.
Myself, I have a limit to tolerance.
I have a limit to patience.
I know there is a limit to free speech.
If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech.
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Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib: "The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf******. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and
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How the Fed is Screwing Future Generations
Timothy Birdnow
Since his election Donald Trump has been pushing the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and Jerome Powell had refused to do so. It seems unlikely to me that the new Fed chair will either as he is another Keynsian and an inflation hawk and Keynsians believe low interest rates will "overheat" the economy and drive up prices (there is no historical evidence for this but it's what they believe.)
Low interest rates thus have that benefit - they stimulate economic growth, which gives everyone more money. That includes the Federal government.
Here is a story about how this is killing the U.S. in terms of being able to control the budget deficit; higher interest rates make it much harder to refinance the bonds that government generally relies on, and also makes them more expensive to pay back. As a result we are seeing rising deficits and the only option is to cut spending - something politically difficult if nigh unto impossible in the current climate.
From the article:
The most recent monthly budget review put hard figures on the strain. Net interest on the public debt has reached $857 billion this fiscal year, or about $23.8 billion every week, according to the CBO. That figure is roughly $100 billion, or 13%, higher than the interest paid in the same stretch of 2025, the result of a bigger debt load and higher long-term rates, the CBO added. Most of the federal budget can be debated, trimmed, or delayed. Interest cannot. It is a legal obligation paid before almost anything else, which is why its growth crowds out the very spending lawmakers argue about. Here is the part that reframes the whole federal budget. According to the CBO's July budget review: Net interest so far in fiscal 2026 has reached $857 billion. That is about $20 billion more than the combined budgets of the Defense, Commerce, Homeland Security, and Education departments, plus the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, and pandemic-era refundable credits. Social Security outlays rose $62 billion, or 5%, on higher benefits and more beneficiaries. Medicare outlays rose $58 billion, or 8%, on higher enrollment and payment rates. Medicaid outlays rose $49 billion, or 10%, on rising cost per enrollee. When I lined the interest tab up against those agency budgets, one thing stood out. The single fastest-growing line in the federal budget buys nothing new at all. It is pure carrying cost on decisions already made.
So we are dumping ever-increasing debt on our children just because the Federal Reserve refuses to cut interest rates.
We get absolutely nothing for it, zip, zero, nada, the null set. We just are paying more for money because the Federal Reserve tells us we have to.
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How the Left Wins the Culture
Timothy Birdnow
Here is how this crap advances and eventually conquers social norms.
A Christian school in Bangor, Maine, is being forced to teach a pro-homosexual and pro-trans curriculum against their will and not teach that these things are Biblically unsound because of a state law that says they can be sued if they do by "victims" who chose to be there. These schools take money from the state o Maine for tuition assistance to the underprivileged.
One of the members of the three judge panel died before the ruling was announced - Providential? I rather think so.
At any rate the court also decided on a Catholic suit in the same way. The state can dictate what schools teach if they hand out the cash.
The only way around that is to not take the money, but that is very hard in this modern era. It's expensive to run a school.
(Hillsdale college is the only university I am aware of that doesn't take government money. They blow up my inbox with endless appeals for cash, granted, and I'm growing to loathe them but that is a good thing they are doing regardless.)
At any rate this school would be forced to allow a student who decided he was trans to use a woman's restroom and locker room.
The court also ruled: ” violated the Religious Nondiscrimination Rule, including "church member discounts” and "consideration of ‘prospective students’ spiritual fit.’”
Church member discounts are common; we had them in our Catholic school because the church members are generally expected to pay through Sunday donations. I remember it well; we got a bunch of envelopes and if we didn't turn them in with cash in them on Sunday we'd hear about it. And OF COURSE a Christian school will expect students to be "spiritually fit"; the whole point of not attending a public school is to avoid the things that make them spiritually unfit.
At any rate if the school doesn't win on appeal they will knuckle under, or they will probably have to close, and so the Christian message they are teaching will be silenced, and the Progrssive insanity will be normalized just that much more..
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The Erosiion of Reality
Chester McAteer
THE EROSION OF REALITY: Hannah Arendt on Systematic Lying and the Destruction of Judgment
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), the German-Jewish political philosopher who fled Nazi Germany and became one of the twentieth century’s most penetrating analysts of totalitarianism, understood that the gravest threat to human freedom often arrives not through brute force alone but through the calculated assault on shared reality itself.
In her writings on propaganda, totalitarianism, and the nature of political lying, most notably in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and the essay "Lying in Politics” (1971) Arendt explored how regimes weaponize falsehood not merely to persuade but to dismantle the very capacity for truth-seeking, moral discernment, and independent action.
The following observation, widely circulated distills this insight with chilling clarity:
"If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.” —Hannah Arendt (Oct. 1906 – Dec. 1975), German historian and philosopher
There are profound implications of Arendt’s observation. In exploring how constant, organized lying functions as a tool of domination, why it severs the link between epistemology and ethics, and why Arendt saw the preservation of factual truth and the capacity for judgment as essential defenses of human freedom and political life.
The Mechanism of Constant Lying: From Persuasion to Cynicism
Traditional political lies aim to convince people of a specific falsehood whether about an event, a policy, or an enemy. The liar hopes the audience will accept the fabrication as true and act accordingly. Arendt observed something far more radical in totalitarian and authoritarian contexts: the constant production and circulation of lies serves a different end. It does not seek belief in any particular narrative but rather the wholesale destruction of belief itself.
When lies multiply rapidly, change frequently, and contradict one another depending on "how the political wind blows,” the public is overwhelmed.
As Arendt noted, a lying government must continually rewrite its own history. Citizens receive not one coherent lie they might cling to, but a torrent of shifting falsehoods.
The result is not credulity but profound cynicism: people come to assume everything is a lie. They no longer bother distinguishing truth from falsehood because the effort seems futile. This state of epistemic exhaustion "nobody believes anything any longer” is precisely the goal.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt described a related psychological condition in mass movements: a mixture of gullibility and cynicism in which people are "ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd,” yet simultaneously hold that every statement is probably a lie.
Totalitarian leaders exploit this by making ever more fantastic claims; when disproven, followers often double down, claiming they "knew all along” it was a lie and admiring the leader’s tactical cleverness.
The constant lying does not create true believers so much as it creates a population for whom reality has become optional or irrelevant.
The Collapse of Moral Discernment
The second clause of the quoted observation follows logically: "A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.” Arendt’s philosophy consistently linked factual reality to ethical and political judgment. Factual truth about what actually happened, what the evidence shows provides the common ground upon which citizens can debate opinions, form judgments, and hold power accountable. When this ground erodes, judgment becomes impossible.
To judge requires distinguishing what is the case from what is claimed, and then evaluating actions against standards of right and wrong. If truth and lies blur into an indistinguishable fog, moral categories lose their anchor.
One cannot condemn an injustice if one cannot reliably establish the facts of the injustice. One cannot defend a principle if "facts” are treated as mere competing narratives or weapons in a power struggle.
This is not merely a philosophical point. Arendt saw it as a practical precondition for totalitarian rule. In a world where reality itself is up for grabs, leaders can rewrite history at will: erasing crimes, inventing victories, redefining victims and perpetrators. The population, deprived of stable reference points, loses the ability to orient itself morally or politically. It becomes, in the stark words of the quote, a people with whom "you can do whatever you want.”
The Destruction of Agency and the Triumph of Arbitrary Power
The final part of the observation "With such a people, you can do whatever you want” names the ultimate political payoff. A cynical, disoriented populace does not need to be convinced or even actively oppressed in the traditional sense. It can be manipulated, pacified, or mobilized as needed because it has lost the capacity for coherent resistance rooted in shared reality.
Arendt emphasized that political action and freedom depend on plurality and a common world. Human beings act together in a space where facts can be established through testimony and debate.
When lying destroys that common world when the texture of facts is "perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nations, or classes” political freedom withers.
In "Lying in Politics,” written in response to the Pentagon Papers, Arendt analyzed how even non-totalitarian governments can engage in "defactualization” the systematic substitution of images, ideologies, and self-deceptions for factual reality.
While she distinguished this from full totalitarian lying (which aims at total domination of reality itself), she warned that the same psychological and political dynamics could take hold. When policymakers operate in a bubble of their own fabrications, reality eventually asserts itself, often catastrophically as it did in in so many Socialist/Communist Countries. Yet the deeper danger is the gradual habituation of both elites and publics to a world without firm factual anchors.
Arendt’s analysis feels urgently relevant today. In an age of social media, algorithmic amplification, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, and "post-truth” rhetoric, the strategy of flooding the information space with contradictions, conspiracy theories, and rapidly shifting narratives has become a recognizable tactic.
Authoritarian leaders and movements often appear less interested in persuading citizens of a single coherent ideology than in creating an environment where no claim can be trusted and all institutions are suspect. The goal is the same: to render the public unable to distinguish truth from lies, right from wrong, and therefore unable to mount effective opposition.
"Democratic” societies are not immune. When trust in media, science, elections, and expertise collapses under sustained assault whether from foreign interference, domestic polarization, or the deliberate "flooding the zone with shit” strategy the conditions Arendt described begin to emerge. Cynicism spreads; people retreat into tribal narratives; factual debate gives way to power contests over whose "truth” prevails.
Yet Arendt was no fatalist. She insisted that truth possesses an "ineradicable primacy” over falsehoods. Lies require constant maintenance and eventually collide with reality; the liar must keep lying to cover previous lies. More importantly, human beings retain the capacity for thinking and judging activities Arendt saw as inherently resistant to total ideological capture.
Thinking, for her, is a silent dialogue with oneself; judging requires the ability to see things from multiple perspectives. Both depend on a world in which facts retain some stubborn independence from power.
The preservation of a free press, independent institutions capable of establishing and defending factual truth, and a vibrant public sphere where citizens can encounter differing views are therefore not luxuries but necessities. As Arendt said in the Errera interview, "The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen.”
The observation attributed to Hannah Arendt is more than a description of totalitarian technique; it is a profound warning about the fragility of the human capacity for truth and freedom. Constant lying does not merely deceive it aims to make deception irrelevant by destroying the conditions under which truth matters.
A people reduced to cynicism and epistemic despair loses not only its bearings in the world but its moral and political agency. With such a people, arbitrary power can indeed do "whatever it wants.”
Arendt’s life and work stand as testimony that this outcome is not inevitable. She devoted herself to understanding totalitarianism precisely so that free societies could recognize its early signs and resist them. In our own time of information warfare and eroding trust, her insight remains indispensable: the defense of factual reality is inseparable from the defense of human dignity and political freedom.
To lose the ability to distinguish truth from lies is to lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong and ultimately, to lose the capacity to act as free citizens in a common world. Preserving that capacity, against all efforts to dissolve it, is among the highest political responsibilities we inherit from thinkers like Arendt.
In Liberty and Eternal Vigilance,
C.M.McAteer
October 13, 2009
References
Primary Sources (Arendt’s Works)
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1951 (especially Part III, "Totalitarianism,” on propaganda, cynicism, and mass movements).
Arendt, Hannah. "Truth and Politics.” The New Yorker, February 25, 1967 (later included in Between Past and Future and Crises of the Republic). Discusses factual truth, rational truth, and the role of facts in political life.
Arendt, Hannah. "Lying in Politics: Reflections on the Pentagon Papers.” The New York Review of Books, November 18, 1971 (reprinted in Crises of the Republic, 1972). Analyzes defactualization, image-making, and the limits of organized lying.
Arendt, Hannah. Interview with Roger Errera (October 1973/1974). Excerpts published as "Hannah Arendt: From an Interview.” The New York Review of Books, October 26, 1978. Contains the core passage on constant lying leading to disbelief and loss of judgment.
Secondary Sources and Analyses
Berkowitz, Roger. Various commentaries (e.g., on the viral quote’s composite nature). Discussed in Jewish Telegraphic Agency and related pieces noting how the popular version synthesizes Arendt’s ideas.
Holbrook, David. "A quote about political lying attributed to Hannah Arendt which itself turned out to be a lie: update.” Substack, date varies. Provides detailed sourcing to the Errera interview.
"Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality.” Open Culture, January 24, 2017 (and updates). Summarizes key passages from Origins of Totalitarianism.
WIST Quotations entries on Arendt (various dates, compiling interview and book excerpts). Reliable aggregator of primary passages.
Additional Contextual Reading
The Marginalian (Maria Popova). "Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization,” June 15, 2016. Excellent overview of the 1971 essay.
Harpers Magazine / Scott Horton. "Arendt on the Political Lie,” November 21, 2009. Excerpts and commentary on lying in politics.
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Psychology Journal: Adultery is O.K.
Timothy Birdnow
It always starts with the psychology journals listing some deviancy as just an alternate thing and then they make it so.
In this case adultery is being mainstreamed as "secret non-monogamy".
Psychology Journal Adds Adultery to Valid List of Relationship Types, Calls It 'Secret Non-Monogamy'
This is how we mainstreamed homoxesexuality. This is how we mainstreamed transvestism. And now we are going to mainstream adultery.
This was the world dreamed about by the free love movement of the nineteenth century, of the Marquis de Sade, who was not just about beating women but also wanted to make sex just another human act, like eating or having a glass of wine. De Sade was highly influential in his day and started the world down the path to the sexual degeneracy we see today. In many ways he was the father of the modern world. (See Eic Kuehnelt-Leddhen, the great Austrian thinker, who wrote extensively about the matter.) Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse
At any rate, in Britain someone seeking mental health help will now be counseled that cheating is normal and natural and they should keep on doing it.
That's a civilizational killer. Nations that excuse adultery see marriage decline, and with marriage declining they see their civilizations begin to fall apart. Marriage and family are the glue that holds any civilization together.
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July 13, 2026
Don't Trust it's been Verified
Timothy Birdnow
Brian Joondeph writes about Covid and how it cost public trust at American Thinker.
Lydia leaves this comment:
The conspiracy era began with the JFK cover-up. The Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (under Geo. H.W. Bush) classified the records until 2025 and allowed for continued postponement if disclosure would cause grave harm to national security, law enforcement, or foreign relations. There are still records being held back.
Government distrust has only escalated, and the obvious plots against Trump are too numerous to be disregarded.
I do not believe Covid was accidental. A "global pandemic” exercise was actually practiced at Event 201 in NYC, October 2019. The main focus was public control. It was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (prime funder of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance). Among the participants was Avril Haines, former Deputy Director, CIA and former Deputy National Security Advisor. The participants and date of the exercise is curiously coincidental.
Avril Haines then became Biden’s Director of National Intelligence in the Biden regime. Bill Gates and Fauci had worked together for years. Curiously coincidental.
Why the rush to get rid of Trump? He was the obstacle in the way of the WEF/UN 2030 Agenda goals. They proposed to end poverty and inequality, and control climate change through economic devices.
Covid provided the key to Trump’s ouster, the installation of of a cognitively failing "president” (81M votes!), the implementation of harsh public control, and the invasion by millions of foreign illegals. It wasn't just plausible, it happened.
Between the Covid enhanced virus and experimental mRNA "vaccine” millions have died. I’d call that depopulation. Getting Trump out of their way was a two-fer. It is implausible that the continuing attacks, obstruction, and attempts on Trump’s life are unrelated to past events.
We have now been trained to believe, as Dr. Joondeph notes, "The next pandemic will almost certainly occur.” You can bet your life it will.
My thoughts exactly. The loss of trust predated the Covid outbreak and this was supposed to RESTORE trust in experts.
I remember reading an article, in Psychology Today, I believe, but it might have been another journal. This article argued that very thing, that this was going to restore trust that had been lost over such things as Climate Change because we would see how the authorities knew what they were doing and save lives. This was at the very beginning of the pandemic.
We had been treated to a series of scares generated by the scientific community that wound up being bogus. Alar on fruit, dioxin, the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear winter, the population bomb, the dying whales, dying polar bears, global cooling, freon, etc. etc. Most of these proved to be false, red herrings to justify more government control and money. The big kahuna though was global warming and the world's elites jumped on that and rode it hard. But none of their doomsday predictions were coming true and the elites had expected to have this nailed down and then could say their quick work saved us from disaster - which justified the "great reset" ending capitalism and creating the framework for a world government.
So government had been lying to us about a great many things. And had been since the Cold War. Now, while we were fighting the Communists it was understood by the public that the government couldn't reveal everything but we began learning about all manner of bad things they did in the name of national defense - the MK Ultra experiments, for instance. Eisenhower warned about this sort of thing coming when we built the "military industrial complex" but it was more than just that - he warned against the tyranny of an academic elite we were empowering. He was right.
So along comes a variant of SARS Covid 2, one that those who understand recombinant DNA said was an artificial virus and it appeared right outside a Chinese lab which happened to receive funding from the United States government and that same government assured us it was just natural mutation, nothing nefarious going on. And this at a time when China was desperate to get rid of President Donald Trump as well as the entire Democratic Party and voila! Suddenly there are articles "this may offer an opportunity to Democrats" when the virus began spreading (btw Trump had holdovers in his Administration who were violating his order to stop travel from China and brought it into the U.S. - coincidence?)
This worked to a large degree; Trump was gone after the election and it appeared they had pulled it off. But too much began coming out about this and then Trump was elected in 2024. Had that not occurred (and a number of other dubious things came out, like vote fraud which the media simply denied was happening) this would have remained hidden and the public would have soured on the experts maybe but not had anything solid to justify it. Now we know they openly lied to us and we can prove it.
Covid wasn't the beginning of it - Covid was the final straw that broke the Kamela's back.
Dr. Joondeph is precisely that - a medical doctor - and he's not going to be willing to take the final step and admit the people who are supposed to be giving us advice have been lying to us, but what can you say? The medical community in particular has gone off their rocker in recent years. They find it hard to tell us what a woman is and they promote cutting off the healthy penises of little boys and the healthy breasts of girls because they refuse to call transgenderism a mental disorder - which it always was considered and clearly is. The AMA has been at the center of every foul and diseased disorder of the last quarter century. They've lost any right to speak to Americans and be believed.
But me, I'm a big fat nobody and I have nothing to lose by calling these people out.
Would final point; were I them I would try to multiply conspiracy theories as much as possible - it hides the actual conspiracies you are involved with. If you want to fudge climate data, or misrepresent Covid death statistics, you don't just do it but rather you get people talking about UFO's or Bigfoot, or say the Russians tampered with our elections to get Trump elected, or that 911 was a Bush operation to justify his taking over, or whatever. Multiply the conspiracies then yours gets little attention, and if it does get some you can say it's just another wacko conspiracy and a boring one at that. You hide in plain site that way.
Conspiracies happen all the time and always have. The first time a caveman got fire and the strongest guy in the tribe bogarted it, ordering the guy who figured out how to make it to not tell anyone else so he could control them, you had a conspiracy. When Standard Oil and Goodyear tires joined with GM to kill street cars and promote public buses you had a conspiracy. Every time a guy bucking for promotion at work talks some people into supporting him over the other fellow you have a conspiracy. They are ubiquitous.
But some are worse than others. Covid was one of the worst, a crime against all humanity. So is climate change.
We live in an era of extreme gaslighting by those who are supposed to be telling us the truth. It should come as no surprise that the public has lost trust in the institutions we once had faith in.
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The Only Proper Way to Vote (Hint: For the Party, Not the Person)
by Selwyn Duke
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"I vote for the person, not the party,” people will proudly say. This is considered the enlightened position, taken by "free thinking” Americans unconstrained by partisan politics. Why, they’re fair-minded: They judge every politician as an individual.
Here’s what no one says:
In general elections, this is often what demagogues want you to do.
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Who is the Racist?
Timothy Birdnow
Liberals at The New Yorker claiming
that the
loss of USAID to Africa, claiming it has cost 700,000 lives in Subsaharan Africa (SSA).
Funny; the Covid shutdowns cost just about that many lives in SSA and the left wasn't the least bit concerned about THAT.
The claim of lost life is an estimate by those who want it restored so we can keep funding leftist projects around the globe and launder money to Democrats. The death by Covid recession was real and it was devastating to Africa.
We selfishly shut the economy down so Democrats could win elections; who is the racist?
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It's an Ill Wind that Blows No Democrat any Good
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well...
FTA:
The HarrisX survey found that Trump/MAGA Republicans were the most likely to say they were "definitely going to vote" in the 2026 congressional midterm elections on November 3: 75 percent of MAGA respondents expressed that enthusiasm while 70 percent of Republicans gave the same response and 63 percent of Democrats.
Contrary to claims by the media the Democrats are NOT fired up about the democratic socialists taking over their party, and are not enthused to take power from the GOP at the expense of losing their own party in the process.
I've been saying that the rising DS in the Democrats is more mirage than trend and this suggests I am correct.
We could wind up having a very good night in November.
The article continues:
The Harris Poll, which was conducted between July 9 and 10, and surveyed 1,019 registered voters, found that 85 percent of Trump/MAGA Republicans reported that they were likely to vote in the 2026 midterms (combining the categories of "definitely going to vote" and "probably going to vote.") The poll had an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The Democrats have to be reading this and it has got to be making them worried. I suspect it was they who took out Graham Platner based on internal polling more than anything else (the latest accuser is a devout Democrat and I find her testimony not that credible, personally, but it's the way Democrats take out the inconvenient.) Right now the donks are projecting confidence and the media is projecting confidence but I imagine a lot of balding is afflicting liberal scalps as they are yanking those hairs right out of their Menshevik skulls.
The Democrats desperately need a game changer. Watch for the October surprise to come early.
Platner wasn't the only Democrat who stinks of dead fish!
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Trump Proposes Fee to Exit Strait of Hormuz - for U.S.
Timothy Birdnow
Two can play at that game!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as "THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Trump always thinks like a businessman - he's not going to do the heavy lifting then walk away with nothing.
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Thurnberg Family Values
Timothy Birdnow
Meet the Thurnbergs!
That is one twisted, disturbed family! Greta's wannabee punk sister is a total freak.
Did I mention she's a dyke?
What did their parents do to those kids?
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Flushing Out the Truth
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like the float inside a toilet to me!
BTW Who knew Australia had a "space agency"? What do they do, launch balloons?
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