Two of the last remaining journalists in American face off against the histrionic dummies of the Democratic establishment, valiantly attempt to save free speech
I completely share your reaction to the hearing - and to the idea that it was the twisted crones exposing the decrepit “mean girls clique” that now is the left. I only take issue with your last sentence:
“I only hope the liberals wake up before they drag us all down with them. “
I know it’s been said before but it bears repeating: these people are not liberals. They are many things but liberal is not one of them. I do hope that *true* liberals wake up; most of the formerly liberal people I know have been buried under a cloak of fear. This is almost unfathomable to me because I always felt we were the brave ones.
 Second, we cannot rely on those who are dragging us down to wake up. We may gain supporters but time is rapidly running out. We need to fight with the army we have. Is an astounding blessing that that army includes people like Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi
Mar 12, 2023·edited Mar 12, 2023Liked by Jenny Holland
This week Tucker Carlson described men like Schiff on the J6 committee as "weak, therefore vicious." Taibbi's treatment by Democrats this week was appalling. He handled himself with grace and his commentary on the experience is priceless. But the treatment of Taibbi et al was deferential compared to what Democrat lawmakers put Brett Kavanaugh through. Never before have I personally seen in real time anything as vicious as what I witnessed watching the Kavanaugh hearings live. I happened to be in a hotel over those days and so had access to a TV (which I would never normally waste time on). They truly treated him like an ax murderer, cutting him off, berating him, belittling him, slandering him. If you want a picture of what this country is up against - totalitarians in the making - you cannot do better than watch the Kavanaugh hearings - including the spine chilling, coordinated disruptions by audience members and, for good measure, the mobs assaulting the doors of the Supreme Court. Yet, compared to "The Insurrection" TM there was "nothing to see there"!
It's getting more and more embarrassing to be an American.
Every day more and more skill-free people talk down to those of us that are not in their club.
Sometimes I think they actually believe that we are unable to process information on our own and that we need these elitist hall monitors to prevent us from hearing information that might be harmful to us, or worse yet encourage us to join the next fascist-in-waiting.
It's also getting more and more exhausting to be an American, which I suppose could be the point.
I'm an old enough dog to remember when the ACLU defended the Nazi-wannabe's marching in Skokie. Now we have the ACLU fighting against free speech. Then it was the Right who were the true danger to our freedoms. Now we it's the Left. This AM I read a great essay by Joe Lonsdale (https://blog.joelonsdale.com/p/to-save-america-restore-our-frontier) that I think is apposite. The Congressional clowns – on both sides – need to be held accountable. We can only do that at the ballot box for so many of them. Why have so many voters bought into their BS?
It was despicable of their interrogators to repeatedly and disrespectfully mispronounce Taibbi & Schellenberger's names. A bitchy tactic, which the two gentlemen kindly ignored. They evinced dignity under fire and insult.
That particular Industrial Complex is just one among a mosaic of Industrial Complexes (including Covid, Climate, CRT, Ukraine, Transgender/LGTBQ, Jan6/Anti-Trump) which we reasonably infer is internationally coordinated and reflects not merely organic development, but a concerted CONSPIRACY to deconstruct the West in order to replace it with a totalitarian globalist new world order. Hopefully a critical mass of anti-Leftists will realize this before it's too late.
One thing that Bill Clinton said that is actually worth repeating is "It's the economy stupid." when referring to the driving force behind elections. In the UK, the vast majority of people couldn't give a toss about the MSM, Woke, etc and they'll just go on ignoring all the garbage (Note how popular 'beach days' were during the Covid pandemic) They are likely to kick out the Tories because they failed economically (the irony that the Tories basically followed Brown's economic policies and Starmer will too may escape them) So all this Net Zero, ESG and general wokery will simply be a froth pushed by the MSM until?
Until the economic catastrophe heading our way, and by our I mean the West in particular but the globe in general, hits. Then see how compliant we proles will be.
The Ukraine war isn't the only thing splitting the world in half. Another is the fact that the west, and the EU in particular follows political paths whose consequences are catastrophic BUT who push the consequences onto the 3rd world - see Sri Lanka - no fertilisers because of gas/war shortages combining with economic corruption in their elite. Pakistan/Bangladesh no gas because the EU paid 3 or 4 times the price to take their 'share' of the globe's LNG all thanks to EU incompetence with Net Zero and then this war.
Next West Africa's veg from N Africa going to the EU because they could pay more when other policies had caused a drop in production of veg, noticeably tomatoes and so they hoovered up N Africa's produce.
Soon the West won't be able to afford to outbid the rest of the world so easily, the debts incurred will either default or bring down economies and banking systems. THEN the woke elites won't survive. The only question is how they fall - by the ballot box, OR if the catastrophe is bad enough, by revolution?
I suspect in the UK by the ballot box, but given the elite propensity to try and fiddle any democratic vote, it wouldn't surprise me to discover it gets violent.
If you want to know what the real situation is in the UK, look to the BBC - NOT because of what they report, BUT because of what they suppress. Since the Hancock WhatsApps started to appear in the Telegraph, the BBC ceased allowing any comments on anything other than sport (Their HYS = Have Your Say).
They were infamous for censoring anything that wasn't the Government line during Covid - hence their closing down now the reality is exposed. But closing down didn't' include sport HYS - until?
Gary Lineker shot his mouth off!
BBC suspended him and it ballooned from there. The Blackburn/Stoke Championship football match HYS became a 'political football'. Go and look at how many 'posts' have been removed - and they weren't talking about either Blackburn or Stoke's performance . It went political.
As I write, NO HYS at all on the BBC. Now this isn't because the BBC object to the Wokeratii, it is because the normally placid proles started weighing in with none Woke observations and the BBC can't cope, it has no answers so it simply stops any discussion. That is the indicator of just how many in the UK simply don't bother with the Elite message. As long as they are left to themselves and they can work and play, they do so. BUT screw the economy and damage their livelihoods and so ensure they can neither work nor play, then they'll start to take a great interest in Wokery and the Elites.
The Woke Elite's grip on power won't survive an economic catastrophe, because the proles can't simply ignore that and get on with life. Nor is the globalist agenda going to survive. Ukraine has split the world, and the Globalists of the West are basically siding with say WHO, UN etc. ALL of those are simply useful tools for the BRICS etc to get back at the West and US Hegemony. Western Globalists are going to discover they brought the rope that is going to hang them when the BRICS are able to shrug off the chains that the US Petro $ and Western Banking systems bind them with. Iran and Saudi burying the hatchet in a Chinese inspired deal? Saudi saying they'll no longer require the $ to purchase oil. The Western hegemony is in danger, and Wokery in the US won't save it, it will destroy it even quicker.
There is a reason Central Bankers are suddenly buying gold. Pity Gordon Brown flogged off so much UK gold, we sure could do with it and more now. PS You can buy your own gold, it might be worth owning some.
As I mentioned on another post, I believe we are in a 'Fin de siècle' period or as the Chinese are reputed to say "Interesting Times" The most intriguing question for me is, which Western State will survive? It may be arrogance, but I suspect England is going to wake up before any of the others. I even wonder if the US ceases to be a member of the Anglo-sphere, or even Eurosphere, but sinks into becoming a Latin-American banana republic - albeit with Nuclear Weapons, or will States attempt to secede! Who knows? But I think being in England is the place to be because eventually we English get fed up, and when we do, the Elites get stuffed. Brexit was but one example, the problem is we also quickly get fed up of politics and so keep leaving them to get on with it. However, we proles are NOT happy with the backsliders in UK politics and IF we can't work or afford to play, watch out!
It truly depresses and angers me to see people who force, by any means available, absolute adherence to a chosen dogma refer to themselves as "liberals." By definition, these people are fascists, products of a political system in which "absolute adherence to an authoritarian dogma is required, and often enforced with violence" (dictionary quote). Who counts it as nonviolent if it is deemed "mostly peaceful" while the city burns and people die in the background? What happened to us?
Political hack propagandists are not statesmen or stateswomen. Lies are lies whether they are fashionably woke or not. The fact that so many are deceived is disturbing, but we are in end times after all. To recognize falsity, it sure helps to know the truth. The idol of wokeness can be recognized as the counterfeit that it is when we have enough biblical literacy to recognize the real deity and enough wisdom to follow Him.
I completely share your reaction to the hearing - and to the idea that it was the twisted crones exposing the decrepit “mean girls clique” that now is the left. I only take issue with your last sentence:
“I only hope the liberals wake up before they drag us all down with them. “
I know it’s been said before but it bears repeating: these people are not liberals. They are many things but liberal is not one of them. I do hope that *true* liberals wake up; most of the formerly liberal people I know have been buried under a cloak of fear. This is almost unfathomable to me because I always felt we were the brave ones.
 Second, we cannot rely on those who are dragging us down to wake up. We may gain supporters but time is rapidly running out. We need to fight with the army we have. Is an astounding blessing that that army includes people like Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi
This week Tucker Carlson described men like Schiff on the J6 committee as "weak, therefore vicious." Taibbi's treatment by Democrats this week was appalling. He handled himself with grace and his commentary on the experience is priceless. But the treatment of Taibbi et al was deferential compared to what Democrat lawmakers put Brett Kavanaugh through. Never before have I personally seen in real time anything as vicious as what I witnessed watching the Kavanaugh hearings live. I happened to be in a hotel over those days and so had access to a TV (which I would never normally waste time on). They truly treated him like an ax murderer, cutting him off, berating him, belittling him, slandering him. If you want a picture of what this country is up against - totalitarians in the making - you cannot do better than watch the Kavanaugh hearings - including the spine chilling, coordinated disruptions by audience members and, for good measure, the mobs assaulting the doors of the Supreme Court. Yet, compared to "The Insurrection" TM there was "nothing to see there"!
It's getting more and more embarrassing to be an American.
Every day more and more skill-free people talk down to those of us that are not in their club.
Sometimes I think they actually believe that we are unable to process information on our own and that we need these elitist hall monitors to prevent us from hearing information that might be harmful to us, or worse yet encourage us to join the next fascist-in-waiting.
It's also getting more and more exhausting to be an American, which I suppose could be the point.
I'm an old enough dog to remember when the ACLU defended the Nazi-wannabe's marching in Skokie. Now we have the ACLU fighting against free speech. Then it was the Right who were the true danger to our freedoms. Now we it's the Left. This AM I read a great essay by Joe Lonsdale (https://blog.joelonsdale.com/p/to-save-america-restore-our-frontier) that I think is apposite. The Congressional clowns – on both sides – need to be held accountable. We can only do that at the ballot box for so many of them. Why have so many voters bought into their BS?
It was despicable of their interrogators to repeatedly and disrespectfully mispronounce Taibbi & Schellenberger's names. A bitchy tactic, which the two gentlemen kindly ignored. They evinced dignity under fire and insult.
Thank you for distilling the 3 hour testimony down for us so well.
𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎 “𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝-𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥” 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 “𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡[𝑖𝑛𝑔] 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒."
That particular Industrial Complex is just one among a mosaic of Industrial Complexes (including Covid, Climate, CRT, Ukraine, Transgender/LGTBQ, Jan6/Anti-Trump) which we reasonably infer is internationally coordinated and reflects not merely organic development, but a concerted CONSPIRACY to deconstruct the West in order to replace it with a totalitarian globalist new world order. Hopefully a critical mass of anti-Leftists will realize this before it's too late.
One thing that Bill Clinton said that is actually worth repeating is "It's the economy stupid." when referring to the driving force behind elections. In the UK, the vast majority of people couldn't give a toss about the MSM, Woke, etc and they'll just go on ignoring all the garbage (Note how popular 'beach days' were during the Covid pandemic) They are likely to kick out the Tories because they failed economically (the irony that the Tories basically followed Brown's economic policies and Starmer will too may escape them) So all this Net Zero, ESG and general wokery will simply be a froth pushed by the MSM until?
Until the economic catastrophe heading our way, and by our I mean the West in particular but the globe in general, hits. Then see how compliant we proles will be.
The Ukraine war isn't the only thing splitting the world in half. Another is the fact that the west, and the EU in particular follows political paths whose consequences are catastrophic BUT who push the consequences onto the 3rd world - see Sri Lanka - no fertilisers because of gas/war shortages combining with economic corruption in their elite. Pakistan/Bangladesh no gas because the EU paid 3 or 4 times the price to take their 'share' of the globe's LNG all thanks to EU incompetence with Net Zero and then this war.
Next West Africa's veg from N Africa going to the EU because they could pay more when other policies had caused a drop in production of veg, noticeably tomatoes and so they hoovered up N Africa's produce.
Soon the West won't be able to afford to outbid the rest of the world so easily, the debts incurred will either default or bring down economies and banking systems. THEN the woke elites won't survive. The only question is how they fall - by the ballot box, OR if the catastrophe is bad enough, by revolution?
I suspect in the UK by the ballot box, but given the elite propensity to try and fiddle any democratic vote, it wouldn't surprise me to discover it gets violent.
If you want to know what the real situation is in the UK, look to the BBC - NOT because of what they report, BUT because of what they suppress. Since the Hancock WhatsApps started to appear in the Telegraph, the BBC ceased allowing any comments on anything other than sport (Their HYS = Have Your Say).
They were infamous for censoring anything that wasn't the Government line during Covid - hence their closing down now the reality is exposed. But closing down didn't' include sport HYS - until?
Gary Lineker shot his mouth off!
BBC suspended him and it ballooned from there. The Blackburn/Stoke Championship football match HYS became a 'political football'. Go and look at how many 'posts' have been removed - and they weren't talking about either Blackburn or Stoke's performance . It went political.
As I write, NO HYS at all on the BBC. Now this isn't because the BBC object to the Wokeratii, it is because the normally placid proles started weighing in with none Woke observations and the BBC can't cope, it has no answers so it simply stops any discussion. That is the indicator of just how many in the UK simply don't bother with the Elite message. As long as they are left to themselves and they can work and play, they do so. BUT screw the economy and damage their livelihoods and so ensure they can neither work nor play, then they'll start to take a great interest in Wokery and the Elites.
The Woke Elite's grip on power won't survive an economic catastrophe, because the proles can't simply ignore that and get on with life. Nor is the globalist agenda going to survive. Ukraine has split the world, and the Globalists of the West are basically siding with say WHO, UN etc. ALL of those are simply useful tools for the BRICS etc to get back at the West and US Hegemony. Western Globalists are going to discover they brought the rope that is going to hang them when the BRICS are able to shrug off the chains that the US Petro $ and Western Banking systems bind them with. Iran and Saudi burying the hatchet in a Chinese inspired deal? Saudi saying they'll no longer require the $ to purchase oil. The Western hegemony is in danger, and Wokery in the US won't save it, it will destroy it even quicker.
There is a reason Central Bankers are suddenly buying gold. Pity Gordon Brown flogged off so much UK gold, we sure could do with it and more now. PS You can buy your own gold, it might be worth owning some.
As I mentioned on another post, I believe we are in a 'Fin de siècle' period or as the Chinese are reputed to say "Interesting Times" The most intriguing question for me is, which Western State will survive? It may be arrogance, but I suspect England is going to wake up before any of the others. I even wonder if the US ceases to be a member of the Anglo-sphere, or even Eurosphere, but sinks into becoming a Latin-American banana republic - albeit with Nuclear Weapons, or will States attempt to secede! Who knows? But I think being in England is the place to be because eventually we English get fed up, and when we do, the Elites get stuffed. Brexit was but one example, the problem is we also quickly get fed up of politics and so keep leaving them to get on with it. However, we proles are NOT happy with the backsliders in UK politics and IF we can't work or afford to play, watch out!
It truly depresses and angers me to see people who force, by any means available, absolute adherence to a chosen dogma refer to themselves as "liberals." By definition, these people are fascists, products of a political system in which "absolute adherence to an authoritarian dogma is required, and often enforced with violence" (dictionary quote). Who counts it as nonviolent if it is deemed "mostly peaceful" while the city burns and people die in the background? What happened to us?
Political hack propagandists are not statesmen or stateswomen. Lies are lies whether they are fashionably woke or not. The fact that so many are deceived is disturbing, but we are in end times after all. To recognize falsity, it sure helps to know the truth. The idol of wokeness can be recognized as the counterfeit that it is when we have enough biblical literacy to recognize the real deity and enough wisdom to follow Him.