July 14, 2026
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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Woke Bombs from Hollywood
Timothy Birdnow
Go woke go broke!
Supergirl ticket sales down by 90%, now projected to lose $240+ mill
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Supergirl ticket sales down by 90% from opening weekend ($3.8 million domestic earnings)
Now projected to lose $240+ million
The trailers look absolutely dreadful, with Supergirl being a smart-aleck feminist. (Supergirl was always a lame attempt at a woman superhero anyway.)
If they had made her a proud American and exemplifying American values this movie would have succeeded, in all likelihood. But it's bombing because it appears to have eschewed America for - something else.
Meanwhile Disney's latest effort at woke multiculturalism Moanna is crashing and burning
Tje film, a live action version of a Disney animated film from 2016, drew about as much money as did the disaster that was the new Snow White at the box office.
Disney simply refuses to accept that the public doesn't want woke. In fact, the public wants the old America back, when films acknowledged God and Country and good moral values. We are getting none of that out of Disney or any Hollywood production.
Part of the reason is that China funds a lot of the films we see now. And many more are shot up in Canada, which offers tax incentives.
Part though is just that filmmakers and the Nazis at Disney in particular believe in the Great Reset and make movies designed to influence people to accept the socialist worldview.
That isn't popular. But parents often take their kids to see such tripe anyway because they are desperate for some "family friendly" films, even if they wind up being disgusting.
America sells - rewarmed leftovers full of political correctness do not.
P.C. has destroyed whatever creativity that once existed in Hollywood. Now all they can do is rework older stuff with a p.c. spin. Socialism always drains any nation of talent.
I remember when I was in college in the eighties and we would translate speeches by Gorbachev for my Russian class. He was always going on about the need for greater creativity; The U.S.S.R. had lost all creativity because the socialist system in place stifled it. Glasnost was Gorbachev's attempt to reignite that spark of creativity that he knew lay dormant. But who will create in a place that will destroy you if you do and it doesn't please your overlords? Hollywood is much the same; they don't kill you outright, just erase you with cancel culture. In the end you may as well be dead when you are blacklisted and wind up taking a job at QuikTrip.
The success of movies like Young Washington show there is a huge market for good, pro-American entertainment. Sadly Hollywood has plugged it's ears.
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Iranian Candlelight Vigil for Graham
Timothy Birdnow
Graham was a war hawk. At least the Iranians in Britain loved him for it!
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E. Jean Carroll Perjury in Deposition
Timothy Birdnow
E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who accused then citizen Trump of sexually assaulting her in a changing room of a clothing store was being funded by LinkedIn founder and billionaire leftist Reid Hoffman, despite the fact Carroll said in a deposition that her legal fees were not being paid by someone else.
This was perjury and as such it should get the civil judgment tossed out.
Trump's lawyers have asked that an ethics violation investigation be conducted on Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who knew of the perjury and never reported it or asked to amend Carroll's statement.
Hoffman gave more than chump change to Carroll - seven million dollars for legal expenses.
This is important because it speaks towards motive, about why Carroll was bringing these accusations.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will revisit this issue. They declined to review the judgment against Mr. Trump recently, but perjury may make them take a second look.
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All Murders in the (Capitol) Building
Timothy Birdnow
How long before the conspiracy theories start to fly?
Trump Spoke to Lindsay Graham Shortly Before His Death, Offers Glowing Praise for Late Republican
No doubt Trump poisoned Graham to keep Lindsay silent because, like, he knew Trump had been flying regularly to Epstein's Slave Island and Graham was going to spill the beans!
See, Graham had been in contact with the alien UFO's (or whatever they call them now) and they assured him he needed to do the right thing and tell the truth about Epstein's ties to Trump. So Trump had him murdered. Oh, and Graham was also going to come clean about how Ericka Kirk plotted with Mossad to assassinate Charlie Kirk and cover it up. So Graham had to go.
See how easy it is to be a liberal!
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Remember the Coffee Party?
Timothy Birdnow
Mu question; how do we know these photos AREN'T from 2020 rather than from 2026? How do we know this "Joe Wrote" Bolshevik didn't just take old photos to show how much "excitement" was in the Democratic Socialist movement?
Yes, I know that many on the Left wear masks even now to show their allegiance. But this many?
I want to say this right now about the rising Democratic Socialists; I do not think they are an organic movement but rather an astroturfed movement, likely funded by George Sros and these other Billionaire-socialists. I further believe they are only winning in extreme leftist enclaves - mostly it's out with the old socialit and in with the new. The media is blowing these folks up beyond their natural state. I suspect we'll see them collapse on election day, and if so we won't hear a whole lot about it - the media will change the subject and even the Conservative media will forget. And of those who win (and a lot of them will as they are in radical leftist districts) the media will proclaim the era of MAGA over and the rise of the new Socialism.
But it will be a Potemkin Village, a series of facades.
I hope so at least; if I'm wrong we are in bigger trouble than I feared, and I'm a known paranoid, or at least a confirmed pessimist.
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, said deception is the essence of warare. He's right and it has always been so from the first time a human being took down an antelope. The Left understands this more than the Right (who is constrained by Judeo-Christian morality) and they have always deceived the public. That is why they go into journalism and education - they know they need to control the dissemination of information. Right now they need to reinvigorate their left, which is feeling quite defeated to learn the public doesn't love them but loves that SOB Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, and to reinvigorate the Let they need to create the facade that suggests they are winning. This whole rising DSA is necessary to put new life into their moribund cause.
So they won a few non-competitive battles and proclaim this as victory on general principles and are hoping this will start momentum. It only works, of course, because the mainstream media is in the tank for them. But then this fact has twisted and distorted the political landscape (and cultural) for decades now.
Sadly a lot of people on our side will believe this and defeatism will spread through the ranks. That too is the intended goal.
We've watched as the media has taken great pains to split the MAGA movement. They basically have seduced people like Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Green with acceptance if they betray MAGA and by and large have succeeded. This splits our movement as it was intended to do.
Now they need to gin up the Left. This is phase II. It's working psychologically and our side is becoming dispirited.
Will it work? Maybe. Certainly a lot of people are now fretting about the "rising Democratic Socialism" (there isn't any such thing - socialism by it's very nature is imposed by those with guns and violates human nature.) But it will probably fail long term. That's not the goal; the goal is to win in the short term and thus end the MAGA revolution. They did something similar to end the Tea Party (you may remember the rise of Nancy Pelosi coincided with the decline of the Tea Party and she made a sharp left turn from the Clinton era's "triangulation".)
Anyone remember the Coffee Party? It was the Left's answer to the Tea Party and it failed because it was pure astroturf. But the Tea Party failed in the end because all the Coffee Party was doing was providing an alternative to the TP and the TP was then split from within in much the same way the media is trying to split MAGA now.
If nothing else this will clear away the old brush and make way for the new. It's a "rebuilding year" to use a sports metaphor.
There is always a danger in going too far and souring the public, of course, but what this does is makes the rest of the Democrats seem reasonable by comparison and thus more appealing to the average voters than they would otherwise have been.
At any rate that's my 2c worth on that.
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Keep Dreamin' California!
Timothy Birdnow
One of the tricks the Left pulls is to pass a ridiculous regulation in California then impose it across the country to comply with California law.
The most obvious example was the low-flow toilet. The whole nation had to suffer without toilets that would not push the poop down into the sewer solely because California thought it a good idea to conserve water and they didn't want their citizens buying real toilets from Arizona or Nevada or whatnot. So the whole country suffered with clogged toilets just so California could conserve water (a necessity because California wouldn't store enough in reservoirs out of environmentalist concerns).
Which brings us to this.. California, in it's ravenous appetite for restraining anything the Gang Green wants to restrain, has banned the importation of car parts they deem "environmentally unsound" and expected the whole country to go along with them as before. Only thing is there is a new sheriff in town and he isn't playing this game.
The EPA and Lee Zeldin just issued a ruling that these parts will be permitted in every state except where banned by local law only. In other words, California can ban them inside of California, but the rest of us will still get them.
California rightly knows their ban will fail because people will just cross state lines and have their cars fixed. Essentially Zeldin annulled their law.
Good for him!
How long before they find some district court judge to issue an injunction even though nationwide injunctions are not legal, according to the Supreme Court?
FTA:
The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that manufacturers could sell car parts that defy California’s "green” regulations in the other 49 U.S. states.Under the EPA’s advisory opinion, manufacturers can demonstrate compliance with the federal Clean Air Act through Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) emissions certificate program rather first obtaining approval from California regulators.
"Americans should not be forced to solely rely on California to certify aftermarket products. Starting today, Americans can trust that products certified by SEMA meet federal requirements and can be used to repair vehicles,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in the agency’s July 1 press release.
"The Tampering Policy explains how a person may demonstrate that an aftermarket product does not adversely affect automotive emissions by documenting that an appropriate vehicle equipped with the product will pass the same emissions tests used by the original equipment manufacturer to certify the vehicle under the Clean Air Act,” EPA assistant administrator Jeffrey Hall stated in a letter to Specialty Equipment Market Association CEO Mike Spagnola on July 1.
"The EPA’s Tampering Policy provides guidance to aftermarket manufacturers for meeting the ‘reasonable basis’ criteria for emissions compliance. The policy indicates that certification level testing done in a fashion similar to that required by California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the EO process is appropriate,” SEMA Certified-Emissions’ website stated.
In other words go suck on it Ca!
California, and New York and Illinois, have long held an overly large impact over the rest of the country by using this trick - passing laws to regulate industries and thus becoming "industry standards" that everyone must follow. The EPA just said that this isn't going to continue.
California has been particularly impactful with this stuff because it is a major port area and also has been under the control of Democrats for decades now. New York, while being a huge market, is mostly land-locked with the exception of the Port of New York and of course Illinois is too except Chicago. But California? San Diego, L.A. and the Golden Gate all offer entry points into America. Oh, and there are no large barrier island chains as in the Gulf of America or along the Carolina coast.
So California has always had an outsized role in national commerce and they have long manipulated national policy as a result. But a the state drives people away, and as we are seeing more ports gaining importance in places like Florida or even Texas, and as we are importing less and producing more, California's influence is waning. And that is a very good thing.
Peaches come from Georgia and Arkansas and other places than California. Ditto lettuce. Ditto Tomatoes. Wine comes from all fifty states - not just California. In fact while California has an ideal climate for most agriculture it is not NEEDED - we grow everything we need in other states, all of whom could increase production to meet demand. California is not absolutely necessary to our national survival or even our convenience. It's time they learned that.
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July 11, 2026
Gone to Pot
Timothy Birdnow
Pot slowly erodes the person long after the high fades.
I've seen it happen with people I've known. I have little doubt it's true with high levels and prolongued exposure.
When someone goes to pot it's quite literal.
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Party Discipline
This from Wretchard T. Cat
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For those familiar with the Left, what happened to Karim Khan, Graham Platner and Cesar Chavez is straight out of the playbook of the purges: "bourgeois immorality". Here's how revolutionary discipline works. While people were were always purged for political reasons, the public charge to make it odious was nearly always personal "decadence".
For example Genrik Yagoda reported to Stalin about "pederast activists" involved in orgies and alleged espionage/counter-revolutionary activities. This is how he strung people up.
Then he himself was arrested and executed with raids on his apartments and dacha uncovering a large collection of pornographic materials. He died begging for his life from Yezhov his successor.
Yezhov (AKA "the dwarf") was later arrested and executed by Beria, for among other crimes organizing drunken sexual orgies in his Kremlin apartment, involving both male and female partners and engaging in the most perverted forms of debauchery. He too died pleading for mercy but none was given.
When he fell Beria himself was accused of kidnapping hundreds of young girls and raping them in a special soundproofed room. These acts were framed as "bourgeois immorality," sexual deviancy, and moral corruption — the same rhetorical category used against Yagoda and Yezhov. He met the same end as his predecessors.
The big mystery of the Communist Party is how it can be so strictly morally revolutionary and yet so full of perverts at the same time. How could an organization so skilled at parsing pronouns, quick to take umbrage at the slightest disrespect and of such ethical standards be so full of scumbags?
The obvious answer is it 's all a sham. The whole damn edifice is rotten and it's held together by reciprocal blackmail with each holding the goods on others. Just imagine the ICC sitting in judgment of creeps when it turns out to have been led by a creep all along.
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The Eve of Civil War
This from John F. DiLeo
Another British patriot has been assassinated - this time it's 78 year old Reform UK Party spokesman Ann Widdecombe, a 28-year Conservative Party MP who joined Nigel Farage's Reform Party as the Conservatives collapsed.
We are in a civil war; the fight is existential, not just for Britain and the USA but for the entire West.
We have to recognize that a movement that happily riots, commits arson, lets murderers out of jail and floods the streets with drugs, advocates mass abortion-on-demand and government-pushed euthanasia, obviously isn't going to feel any moral restraint about things like political assassinations.
Their goal is to take over our governments to establish marxist dictatorships. What's amazing is that there haven't been that many murders yet, not that there are any at all.
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July 10, 2026
God - the Logical Choice
Timothy Birdnow
This article in Psychology Today discusses phenomenon such as visions or special knowledge or sensing the presence of the dead. It is a universal phenomenon and a very common one at that.
The author links an earlier article he wrote giving the evidence for the individuals about to die or who have seen glimpses of an afterlife - this one talks about those present when someone has died or who had some special event occur.
I've had many such experiences over the years. My best friend died of cancer years ago and for a long time I had dreams where he and I hung out and just chatted. But I kept pressing him to tell me about the afterlife and he said I "got him in trouble" and he couldn't visit anymore. I've had a couple of dreams involving him but he never speaks in them now, not since I got him in Dutch.
And my wife too. As she was dying she had some experiences. She saw a bus outside in the back of the apartment we were living in and said people were getting on. She said "you don't believe me, do you" and I answered "I don't see it but I believe you do". When the time came for her to pass I was sick and in the hospital. She waited for five long days. They had stopped the water and food and there was no reason for her to live but she did. She died the evening after I got back, with me by her side.
Since then I've had unusual experiences that I know are her. I had a situation where this floor lamp kept going off. I would find it was turned off and would turn it back on and out it would go. That was something Cathy would do. I also felt someone slap my leg at one point. And I hear noises in the house that sound like someone walking around. Oh, and I dreamed she called me on the telephone! She said Heaven was great and she was very busy. That was all. I wish I'd had more from her but apparently you only get one phone call in Heaven (like prison, only it's a GREAT prison that everyone wants to break INTO.)
At any rate I've had my share of such experiences. I know many other people who have had similar things.
I remember my mother when she was dying, pointing at the ceiling and saying her brother's name. She could see him up above her!
These are the elephants in the rooms that the atheists refuse to discuss, or they dismiss these phenomenon because they are inconvenient. They blame near death experiences on carbon dioxide building up in the blood stream (what do they have against carbon dioxide?) but they never once think that it is a result of dying and not a cause. They are just desperate to find a purely material cause for such things because otherwise they have to admit there is a God and He really is in control of things and what we do in our lives really do have eternal consequences. They do not ever want to admit that.
So they twist and squirm to dismiss all of this as weak-minded people following an ancient superstition that some scam artist made up millenia ago and everyone just happened to believe.
When arguing with atheists I often bring up NDE's and these ancillary phenomenon as evidence and as witnesses and usually it's met with cricket chirps from our atheist friends. Very few try to argue against this, even though among themselves they will spout the carbon dioxide theory, something they cannot prove in the least. Well, the carbon dioxide theory may work for those who had NDE's, but how do you explain these associated phenomenon with survivors? Anybody?
These are powerful arguments for the existence of God. There are others - the Anthropic Principle, for instance, which is a theory in physics which points out that the universe is uniquely fine-tuned to us, that if you alter any one physical law even slightly, or put us anywhere but where we are life would be impossible. We hit the absolute sweet spot. Chance could not have caused this - while it's not possible to calculate the odds of this universe being capable of producing us, it is possible to calculate the odds of one major amino acid being produced through random chance. Astronomer Fred Hoyle calculated those odds as ridiculously low.
Here is how one website put it:
Proteins, for example, consist of long chains of 400 or more amino acids in a specific sequence. Each of the amino acids in the sequence is one of 20 different kinds, and if the sequence is altered slightly, the protein will not be functional. Moreover, 19 of the 20 kinds of amino acids[2] come in two forms—a left-handed and a right-handed form—but living things consist only of left-handed molecules. Outside of living things, amino acids occur only in a 50-50 ratio of right-handed and left-handed forms. Even if we artificially create a sample where one form or the other predominates, the sample will, with time, return to a 50-50 ratio through a process called racemation.
The odds of 400 left-handed amino acids linking up by chance is less than (0.5)380, and, since the simplest cell would need over 120 proteins, the combined probability would be less than (0.5)380x120 = 1.08x10-13,727.
In other words it couldn't happen in the lifetime of the Universe. That is why Hoyle, a devout atheist, created the Steady State theory which says the Universe has always existed so he could get around this pesky limitation. Life, he thought, evolved elsewhere and just floated in over time. But if it always existed how is there any energy left? Every virtual particle would have wound down by now and we would be in heat death, a cold, empty universe.
In fact Hoyle realized the difficulty, once saying "the chance that higher life forms might emerge from evolutionary processes is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein".
Here is a whole slew of statements made by the atheist Hoyle about the impossibility of life spontaneously generating out of the chaos of the universe.
DNA, and it's older, simpler cousin RNA, are both hellishly complex molecules that could never have come into existence spontaneously. There is no way environmental pressures could have created them - their structure is too complicated and they would have had to assemble by random chance. No "random mutations" would build such a structure.
There are other proofs of God Natural Law; we all understand "self-evident truths" as Jefferson spoke of in the Declaration of Independence. They are self evident because they are self-evident. We know they are correct even without understanding why. They are truths built into the fabric of reality. There is no reason why we couldn't eat our own children, but we all know it's a transgression of some sort of cosmic law that is immutable. Slavery was ended because, in the end, everyone realized it was a violation of natural law. Murder is a violation of natural law and every civilization and even primitive tribal groups ban it. You don't sodomize your mother. You don't do the Oedipus Rex thing. We know these are moral evils without having solid empirical, pragmatic reasons. They just are. Nature and Nature's God. Rights are rights and not privileges because we understand they transcend our human will. They are built into the fabric of reality.
Then there is the order seen in the universe. Concepts like Pi, or the Golden Spiral. Mandelbrot sets! The universe is full of such, be it the spiral on a sea shell and how it is fundamentally no different than the spiral shape of the milky Way galaxy.
Then there is consciousness, something we cannot define and do not understand. Is it created by the human brain? If so, why can the human brain rewire itself through an act of will by a person with, say, Obsessive Compulsive disorder through mindful meditation? How can you have half your brain removed and still live like a normal person? The brain simply rewires and life goes on. Oh, you may have problems, but life goes on. What about split brain disorder when the corpus collosum - the connecting tissue between the two hemispheres - is cut? Two brains, differing personalities, in one body. But again life goes on.
We cannot explain love, loyalty, friendship, beauty, peace of mind using purely material concepts. These all transcend the purely physical.
Take beauty. We don't know what it is but we know it when we see it. And in fact in physics and other hard sciences this concept is critical for determining if a thing is correct or not. The math has an "elegance" that appeals to the sense of beauty of the researcher. That is what tells them they are on the right track. How do you explain that?
That's because it is fundamentally no different than natural law. We knows it when we sees it.
It's why Donald Trump is popular. He's not eloquent. He's not reasonable. He's bombastic and bragadocious and one wouldn't say he was a seductive speaker. But he has something other politicians lack - he speaks with elegance. People hear him and realize what he says is true. It's like natural law or elegance in science -- we knows it when we hears it.
Trump merely speaks the way average Americans speak. He doesn't parse words or use cloying phrases or sugar coats things. Like George Patton he gives it to 'em loud and dirty and then they'll remember.
I digress. The point is there are all sorts of things that suggest the existence of God. The Big Bang sounds surprisingly like the Book of Genesis "God said 'let there be light'". Interestingly enough scientists now believe the Big Bang happened just after cosmic expansion began. This too comports with Genesis "and the Earth was malformed and void and darkness was upon it's face, and God said 'let there be light'". And the universe has been expanding ever since.
There are a lot of things in the Bible that predated scientific understanding. It mentions undersea volcanic vents. It mentions "sea monsters" in the deep, which we now know to be giant squid and like. It spoke of the Earth as "a circle in space sitting on nothing" which clearly shows the author was writing about a round Earth floating in a void. There are a bunch of other things from the Bible that told us what science would later tell us.
I could go on. There are all manner of evidence available to us. There is no smoking gun though, and that is how God wanted it. What is the point of having people worship you because they know for a fact you exist and are just afraid of you? Uncertainty makes everyone make a choice and prove who and what they are.
Just the fact that we have this discussion proves the existence of God. Why would we even think such a thing? The first guy to postulate a deity would have been stoned or otherwise killed by the ancient people when this so-called god failed to protect them despite all the virgins they sacrificed. The idea would have died a dull death for lack of evidence.
And there has never been a civilization based primarily on the atheist model.
I could also mention apparitions of Mary, seen by many people over the centuries, including Egyptian President Nasser who saw the apparition of Mary over a church in Zeitun, Egypt, along with thousands of others. It was on T.V. for crying out loud! We have video of her! But the media won't run them and refuse to report on it.
I myself have had some supernatural experiences involving the Blessed Virgin. I didn't see her; I'm not worthy for sure. But I did have a number of secondary experiences. I saw a giant dove fly above the very place where she was appearing to a visionary named Ray Doiron. (I got on t.v. myself over that one). I've seen some rather stunning things involving Marianne apparitions. So have many others, at places like Medjugorje or Fatima. A friend of mine, a very sober person, saw the "miracle of the Sun" at Medjugorje. as it happened at Fatima in 1917.
And down at my Ozark Hilton I once performed a miracle and stopped a storm by commanding it to cease. I had a memory of Jesus commanding a storm to cease and did likewise. It did. I know; it was the eye of the storm passing, but the time I really needed it
And there are demonic possessions which have been investigated and not just by churchmen. It is an ubiquitous human phenomenon if rare. Oh, and it responds to prayers to God. If there is a devil there must be a God.
Don't like the Catholicism of all this? What about people healed by prayer? Some of it is well-documented.
One or two such things would constitute a coincidence. There are way, way too many. There is a pattern that intersects with faith and with the Cross in particular. At what point do you say the "God Hypothesis" makes more sense than inventing multiple dimensions, unlimited numbers of universes, little green men seeding the universe with life like a cosmic Johnnie Appleseed, and inventing Dark Matter to explain why the Universe isn't expanding faster, then Dark Energy to explain why it's expanding too fast. Occam's razor makes God the simpler, more logical choice.
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The Nose of the Kamal in the Tent
Timothy Birdnow
It's because she's an idiot but not COMPLETELY insane.
Newsom has some serious baggage and it keeps growing all the time. He's now under investigation. Harris is the last great hope for them, like Jim Jeffries was the last great white hope to defeat the black Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. Jeffries, an old, out of shape former undefeated champion, got creamed.
From the National Flatline, er, pulse:
Former Vice President Kamala Harris holds an early lead in the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, according to a new Quantus Insights national poll conducted July 3, 6, and 7, which found her supported by 35.3 percent of likely voters compared with 17.7 percent for California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg received 12.9 percent, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earned 11.1 percent, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro trailed with 7.1 percent in the survey of 1,140 respondents, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. On the Republican side, Vice President J.D. Vance led the field with 42.2 percent support, ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio at 25.9 percent and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 8.7 percent. The findings are consistent with other 2026 polls that have shown Harris maintaining a double-digit advantage over Newsom, including surveys by Center Square Voters’ Voice and Lake Research Partners. Although no major candidates have formally announced 2028 campaigns, the results suggest Harris begins the early Democratic contest as the clear frontrunner, with Republicans appearing even more consolidated behind Vance. Early polling primarily reflects name recognition and current political standing, but it can influence fundraising, party perceptions, and campaign momentum as the race develops.
The Kamel was sold to America as a moderate centrist, something she most definitely is not and never was. But this proves the party as a whole does NOT support the new young turks, the radicals who are winning in isolated instances but who ultimately, when push comes to shove, will likely lose in the general election.
On the GOP side we've got a deep bench there - Vance, Rube, and DeSantis. Any of those guys would make a great President. I still don't trust Rubio after his signing on to the Gang of Six (or was it eight?) to push Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and his accusing opponents of the bill of racism. Maybe it was a youthful indiscretion, but I find that indicative of a problem deep in his core. He went with the wind and now is all MAGA because that is the way the wind is blowing. But he's done a good job.
DeSantis has been excellent and I'd love him to be Prez. Maybe Rube can be Veep? But I think Vance is the likeliest candidate to win.
But the '28 elections are a long way off. Much will change. People will start seriously thinking about this stuff.
Watch for the Donkeys to pull a dark horse out of their a, er, pants. That is how they've won every election since Kennedy with the exception of Biden; pick a nobody out of nowhere. Carter was a "who's that", so was Bill Clinton. So was Barack Hussein. Biden was a known quantity and look how that turned out. So I suspect they are going to try to surprise us with some oyster farmer or some such.
We'll be coming in with a known quantity. Much will depend on how anti-establishment the public feels at the time. IF things are going great we'll likely do well (although even that is uncertain as the media can turn a rose into a pile of bear droppings if give enough time and leeway.) But if the economy is bad or we are in a quagmire in Iran or elsewhere we're liable to find the going hard. Dark horses do well in unstable times. Watch for the Democrats to try for another Covid type "emergency" to give them the ability to steal the election. It won't be Covid again but no doubt they are sitting on a stool, dunce, er, thinking caps on trying to plot out the next big thing to steal elections.
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