tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post2476543510422351328..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Occam's Razor 1, Usual Suspects 0Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-41420876037359711432022-10-07T12:18:33.642-07:002022-10-07T12:18:33.642-07:00I wonder if sociopathy, rather than psychopathy, i...I wonder if sociopathy, rather than psychopathy, is the pathology in play?Reltney McFeehttp://www.musingsofastretcherape.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-29306819855490478062022-10-03T11:05:42.789-07:002022-10-03T11:05:42.789-07:00No.
But I believe that there is a level of dishon...No.<br /><br />But I believe that there is a level of dishonesty and duplicity this administration is incapable of getting <b>everyone else</b> to go along with.<br /><br />It's the reason tinfoil hat conspiracy theories always sound retarded: because they are.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-59815473543560235602022-10-03T07:29:48.144-07:002022-10-03T07:29:48.144-07:00The psychosis ("inability to recognize realit...<i>The psychosis ("inability to recognize reality from fantasy") is anyone anywhere thinking Putin is an honorable man doing good things.</i><br /><br />There you go with the strawman again. The premise that we did it has <b>absolutely nothing to do with Putin being good or honorable.</b> It has everything to do with us being incompetent, stupid and arrogant. We are all those things.<br /><br />A bad, dishonorable Putin has no reason to blow up his own pipeline, just like a hypothetical good, honorable Putin. We have tons of reasons, if we are dishonest and duplicitous.<br /><br />Do you really think that there is a level of dishonesty and duplicitousness that this administration is incapable of?Phelpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270536870200063563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-4631065013280018222022-10-03T01:25:14.999-07:002022-10-03T01:25:14.999-07:00Every generation since the Apostles thought they w...Every generation since the Apostles thought they were in the Last Days, sure God would be coming back at any minute.<br />One day, one generation will be correct.<br /><br />In the mean time, Jefferson's words are the only way to fly:<br />"<i>Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.</i>"<br />Notably, TJ didn't specify foreign or domestic either.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-63855227632026328122022-10-02T18:55:21.489-07:002022-10-02T18:55:21.489-07:00Of course the Globalists aren't fighting this ...Of course the Globalists aren't fighting this conflict. They never have nor will they ever. They don't like to get their hands dirty, they use the useful idiots to do their dirty work.<br /><br />There you go again starting from a wrong premise: THERE ARE NO SIDES. The agenda has been and always will be a New World Order. <br /><br />As for the ones driving the tanks and pulling the triggers. I was once one of those guys. I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. It took me a long time to realize that not all of the enemies of the US are outside our boarders.<br /><br />If you haven't realized it yet, this isn't a conventional war that will end by using the traditional methods. I hope and pray no nukes will be deployed but again this isn't a war that involves just men. We are truely in a spiritual war and there's no amount of bullets or blood that will stop what's coming. I can explain it but why, watch the video and read the book.<br /><br />https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/watch-jonathan-cahn-exposes-gods-behind-current-irrational-events/<br /><br />God SpeedMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-73031692617589000212022-10-02T18:23:14.706-07:002022-10-02T18:23:14.706-07:00You should wake up from yours. I've not only m...You should wake up from yours. I've not only missed none of that, I've documented all that and worse on this very blog. None of that is news.<br /><br />Hysterical handwaving isn't proving any points.<br /><br />The psychosis ("inability to recognize reality from fantasy") is anyone anywhere thinking Putin is an honorable man doing good things. That's quite simply delusional, and contrary to every bit of evidence about him since ever.<br /><br />Abandon that level of nonsense, see all the players for what they really are, and abandon cartoonish caricatures, and come at this again, and let's talk.<br /><br />"Globalists" aren't fighting this conflict. On either side.<br />The people egging it on from both sides all have agendas, as ever. <br />But they're not the ones driving the tanks and pulling the triggers, and never are.<br /><br />Get back to first principles, and stop trying to weave cotton-candy castles in the clouds.<br /><br />Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-7073540273228585912022-10-02T16:19:09.253-07:002022-10-02T16:19:09.253-07:00I'm sorry to say but there you go again presum...I'm sorry to say but there you go again presuming that the Globalist care. The whole idea is to destroy the US and any other government power. These all need to be destroyed to put into place their New World Order. <br /><br />Do you really believe that any of the Presidents in the past 30 years haven't done their best to purge the US military of the brightest and best. For crying out loud they abandoned millions of dollars in equipment in Afghanistan. The Navy is rusting in place and falling apart because our sailors don't know how to chip and scrape paint or how to maintain their ships. They can't sail from port A to B without ramming into another Navy ship. The Marines are having some sort of identity crisis and don't know what their function is. The Air Force now has to redefine their mission since the Space Force opened up. The Army isn't much better. None of the branches can meet their recruiting needs due to the lack of qualified individuals we call US citizens and are now going outside our borders to recruit and fill billets in all the branches. The readiness of the US military is in the crapper and has been for years.<br /><br />When I served it was unthinkable that the US military would turn on the people of the US. Now?!? Damn straight they would! Most of them aren't US citizens and the would walk all over people while flying their rainbow flags and wearing their high heeled combat boots.<br /><br />At one point in time our country was feared because we had the greatest military ever assembled in the world. We also were feared because every citizen had a rifle over the door and a revolver under the pillow. We still have the largest standing army of citizens but I would guess that most have never fired a round down range or know how to strip and clean a weapon, even if their life depended upon it.<br /><br />I think it's time for you to wake up from your slumber and take a good look around. You've missed a lot in the past 30 years. Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67436993344108735402022-10-02T08:27:37.717-07:002022-10-02T08:27:37.717-07:00Michael,
Can we get serious? If you truly believe...Michael,<br /><br />Can we get serious? If you truly believe I think Emperor Stumblefuck Poopypants has the best interests of the US at heart, at any point in his entire miserable life, you've either had a profound stroke, or else mised the last 200 posts on the topic of Poopypants.<br /><br />If the US sabotaged the pipeline, when (<i>not if</i>) that truth comes to light - and it always does - NATO dissolves overnight, Europe becaomes Russia from the Urals to the Hebrides, and the US becomes a Turd World failed state.<br />The is like suggesting someone sawed both his legs off to run faster.<br /><br />And while Poopypants might try that, the entire country, nor even just the leadership of it, is not that barking bugfuck insane.<br /><br />And they would not destroy the country, they'd literally pull the entire world down around their heads, and be tried and executed for treason at the speed of wire and a nearby light pole, by noon the day the news came out, long before the rest of the world got a crack at them.<br /><br />That's literally a 2AM dorm room acid trip suggestion, and entirely unserious.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-24673218822924289462022-10-01T20:45:55.566-07:002022-10-01T20:45:55.566-07:00I think the premise you started from is incorrect....I think the premise you started from is incorrect. You suppose that President Poopy Pants wants to preserve the US. He does not. He is in league with the Globalists and wishes to see it destroyed as much as they do. I believe the US did sabotage the pipeline. First to keep the EU in line and show them who's the boss and second to keep the EU from doing an end around and start negotiations with Russia for the coming winter's fuel. The US can further control the EU by eliminating the temptation to suck off of the Russian energy tit while at the same time showing how magnanimous it is and give just enough raw energy to the EU to survive the coming winter. Currently, all of the EU is upset with the US and think it to be a joke. Most likely the sabotage will be an escalation event into WWIII and the US has few true allies if it gets involved in a war with Russia and China. Regardless, if the entire world is angry with the US it will be easier for Poopy Pants and the Globalists to destroy it. The US is the last bastion of freedom in the world and in the eyes of the Globalists it is also the last major stumbling block preventing their warped idea of a NWO from being realized.<br /><br />Just my two cents.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-82858546634538594902022-10-01T05:56:42.095-07:002022-10-01T05:56:42.095-07:00It's the Ukes pulling an ELF set out of their ...It's the Ukes pulling an ELF set out of their tailpipes where you run off into the weeds.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61555455031839368622022-09-30T17:06:43.301-07:002022-09-30T17:06:43.301-07:00Just a little food for thought. I know it's al...Just a little food for thought. I know it's all cool at the moment to blame either Russia or the USA, but how about Ukraine? Hear me out. Ukes send a boat into the area as a fishing boat or whatever. Now the depth is nothing that a saturation diver cant do, they do it all the time. A couple of charges set and they go their merry way. They wait for the right time, with one or the other leader mouthing off in just the right way. Send the signal ELF and bam. You now have a situation where one blames the other, and it sucks the big bad US into a full blown war with the Russkies. False flag all the way.Randy S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01482029702931629687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-4982645316906636002022-09-30T09:03:46.236-07:002022-09-30T09:03:46.236-07:00And if Russia was a democratic republic, rather th...And if Russia was a democratic republic, rather than a police state dictatorship, you'd have a valid point.<br /><br />Yet again.<br /><br />Which also underlines the very low likelihood that it was Ukraine, or any NATO nation.<br /><br />If this wasn't just multiple failures from incompetence, it points to a top-down command government model, and the number of states in play that fit that bill all start east of Poland and Ukraine.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-31349377333787439092022-09-30T08:46:16.854-07:002022-09-30T08:46:16.854-07:00Waving your arms and telling us all the crazy shit...<i>Waving your arms and telling us all the crazy shit some part of government does is not the same thing as demonstrating that the entire defense establishment in an unbroken chain down to the guy locking out the hatch on the action team plus the guys on the other side of it, is balls-out insane, is a bridge you can't build.</i><br /><br />This is literally your argument against Putin.Phelpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270536870200063563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-87442363569000720192022-09-30T08:09:47.888-07:002022-09-30T08:09:47.888-07:00Conflating apples with oranges is a fallacy.
Show...Conflating apples with oranges is a fallacy.<br /><br />Show the class the unbroken link of psychosis from the White house to the guy putting the explosives in place, or find a similar chain that long, and you can make the argument.<br /><br />Waving your arms and telling us all the crazy shit some part of government does is not the same thing as demonstrating that the entire defense establishment in an unbroken chain down to the guy locking out the hatch on the action team plus the guys on the other side of it, is balls-out insane, is a bridge you can't build.<br /><br />Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-80760582976617031062022-09-30T07:36:04.642-07:002022-09-30T07:36:04.642-07:00The drawbacks to such an asinine operation being l...<i>The drawbacks to such an asinine operation being launched from the US, or any NATO country, would require not just a clinically crazy leader and clinically crazy minions, it would require bog-standard full-blown psychosis from them, all the way down to the lowest levels, inclusive.</i><br /><br />This administration, from the highest to the lowest, has kept trespassers in prison for over 18 months, sent the FBI to investigate school board speakers as terrorists, demand post-birth abortion rights, claim that there are an infinite number of genders, let people who murder Republicans for being Republicans out on bail, shipped arms to Syrian jihadists, had a SWAT team raid the former President's home, wiretapped Congress while Congress was investigating them for wiretapping Congress, demand that schools hold Drag Queen Story Hour for kindergarteners, teach CRT at the military academies, put women who can't conn ships in command of our Navy ships, and are trying to prosecute lawyers for representing defendants.<br /><br />What's the difference between that and "full blown psychosis?" Blowing up a pipeline and thinking they can blame the Russians for it?Phelpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270536870200063563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-1716537137311197002022-09-30T06:24:16.491-07:002022-09-30T06:24:16.491-07:00@Eris Guy,
That sounds oh-so-sophisticated, but I...@Eris Guy,<br /><br />That sounds oh-so-sophisticated, but I labor under no such conceit.<br />The drawbacks to such an asinine operation being launched from the US, or any NATO country, would require not just a clinically crazy leader and clinically crazy minions, it would require bog-standard full-blown psychosis from them, all the way down to the lowest levels, inclusive. <br /><br />So how long d'ya think you could run so much as an airline with a staff of all-crazy personnel?<br />Never would happen.<br /><br />People who are that crazy have no ability to plan and execute the operations required, for that, or this incident, and sane people anywhere in the pipeline simply wouldn't do it. Not even "just following orders". Because they know that the guilty always come to trial, eventually, which is always something that crazy people dismiss out of hand at every step when considering their actions, because they can't reason abstractly.<br /><br />I literally see this firsthand every week, and I know whereof I speak.<br /><br />Your analysis inappropriately conflates stupidity and miscalculation on a grand scale with just another day at the office. The trouble with that is that operations once wars were begun followed no such initial pattern of foolishness, proving only that - exactly like a deep hole - it's far easier to get <i>into</i> a war, for whatever reasons, than it is to get out of it, let alone foresee what it's going to entail. War is chess, and most people have checkers minds. If not tic-tac-toe minds.<br /><br />As Russia proves, daily.<br /><br />BTW, Macron's people will be just as cold and hungry as Germany, and besides, his mommy would never give him permission.<br />The Norwegians won't even deport Muslims or end socialism, so blowing up a pipeline to make a buck is right out.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-3017807363327669552022-09-30T04:30:43.096-07:002022-09-30T04:30:43.096-07:00Regarding other nations’ self-interest or even the...Regarding other nations’ self-interest or even the self-interest of your own nation, which ever that may be: the conceit that leaders of nations and their lieutenants are rational actors (by one’s arguable definition of what is a rational act) can’t pass the smell test, the laugh test, or history test. <br /><br />The 20th century alone shows that leaders of vast and powerful states as well as negligible ones are less rational than, well, anyone not confined to mental hospital.<br /><br />Take WW1. Who ordered this up? The head of Serbian secret police ordered the assassination of the Archduke. That’s all it takes. <br /><br />Who blew up the pipeline? Disgruntled third-level bureaucrat with connections to terrorists in any of a dozen nations?<br /><br />Take WW2. Who ordered that up? Great leaders of second-rate powers who thought invading Russia or angering the USA would, yes, further their nations’ own self-interest.<br /><br />Who blew up the pipeline? Biden! That drooling moron. Jill Biden and the cabal governing in Biden’s name? I thought we were talking rational self-interest here. “As in it isn’t in X’s self interest to.” Macron, because he wants to really shaft Germany and take over leadership of the EU? King Harald V’s crack squad of secret spetnaz because Norway would make tons of money for decades?ErisGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09383064735664269791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-63142850772590303842022-09-29T15:42:37.711-07:002022-09-29T15:42:37.711-07:00(gets more popcorn) best comment section, ever!(gets more popcorn) best comment section, ever!John Wilderhttps://wilderwealthywise.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-24606915700276260192022-09-29T15:08:58.031-07:002022-09-29T15:08:58.031-07:00The US has given Ukraine materiel and support to s...The US has given Ukraine materiel and support to successfully repel an illegal invasion.<br /><br />Prolonging the war has been Putin's steadfast refusal to wake up, smell the coffee, and toddle his ass back to Russia.<br /><br />The quickest way to end a war is to surrender, but that's not in Ukraine's interest.<br /><br />Russia perpetuating the conflict beyond futility is the problem here, but then again, they never should have embarked on this course of action to begin with.<br /><br />Russia doubling and quadrupling down?: "The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - EinsteinAesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-51407054047073109332022-09-29T14:06:00.634-07:002022-09-29T14:06:00.634-07:00"Nobody sane wants to prolong this war,"..."Nobody sane wants to prolong this war," Maybe so, but since the actions of the US and the West have done precisely that...JimRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05923216132527645836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67140523921101632572022-09-29T13:52:54.602-07:002022-09-29T13:52:54.602-07:00What is or is not in America's interest isn...What is or is not in America's interest isn't the issue.<br />Whether we have the means to cast a vote in it does.<br /><br />We didn't invade Ukraine.<br />But we certainly have the capability to blow up a pipeline or three.<br />Just very little motive to do so, that withstands a smell test.<br /><br />Ukraine and Poland have so much more to lose than to gain as to make the lemon not worth the squeeze.<br />The truth always comes out, and in either country's case, that would be an extinction-level national event.<br /><br />Putin comes out tomorrow and announces on live TV "I did it. Sue me." and that's the end of the discussion. That would be the total downside for Russia.<br /><br />Anybody else does that? Grave and catastrophic consequences.<br /><br />By commission or omission, Russia did this.<br />For a view of Russian deliberate/non-deliberate culpability, read Lawdog's take:<br />https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.htmlAesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-51415163830037587552022-09-29T13:48:42.069-07:002022-09-29T13:48:42.069-07:00I am watching for more "industrial accidents&...I am watching for more "industrial accidents" shutting down US LNG export facilities, like what happened in Texas this summer, taking out 20% of our LNG export capacity, or accidental explosions of LNG tankers at sea.<br />Germany especially, but most of Western Europe generally are screwed without gas this winter, and because of the lack of fertilizer and the shutdown of industries dependent on cheaper gas, are even more screwed next year.<br />Allowing Putin to turn on the gas, and save Westetn Europe, at his price, would not be in the interests of the US, but that presumes that Putin wants Western Europe to survive intact. <br />He may want the chaos that is coming, and if so, having the world blame the US for it is just gravy.<br />I will wait and see what comes out over time, and prepare as I can for the mess that is likely rolling down on us.<br />John in IndyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-13899452777569434682022-09-29T13:35:13.342-07:002022-09-29T13:35:13.342-07:00@Aesop, let's say arguendo that you are right....@Aesop, let's say arguendo that you are right. That this whole thing would not be in America's interest. How has the entire fiasco in Ukraine since Obummer been in America's interest? A good share of the reason Bidet is sitting in Trump's chair is Nuland and the traitorous Vindman put Ukraine's interests above America's.<br /><br />The pipelines still extant run through Poland and Ukraine. Even the southern route comes through Ukraine. If anyone has anything to gain, it's Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, Poland. They get paid for every bit of gas that flows through their territory, and, note, they did not shut off the flow through this whole "war". It's not until Germany starts getting a little squishy that this comes up, in a way that strengthens both Ukraine and Poland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-51312941833337025042022-09-29T13:27:51.354-07:002022-09-29T13:27:51.354-07:00Actually, he misses entire libraries of salient po...Actually, he misses entire libraries of salient points regarding Russia's pros and cons, and draws the wrong conclusions. He's evidently wholly unfamiliar with the fact that Russia had already cut the pipeline off a month earlier, and was getting zero revenue from it, nor likely to anytime soon.<br />And he can't conceive of even one of the main points I raised.<br />And overall, his "analysis" is only slightly better than the blather on the MSM.<br />That's not a complement.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-41708339692876381172022-09-29T12:43:02.209-07:002022-09-29T12:43:02.209-07:00The Ukes could have hired a third party to do it. ...The Ukes could have hired a third party to do it. Heaven knows we've sent enough money to them to outfit the best operators U$D can buy. A half dozen qualified divers, one or two experienced UDT types, some det cord and timers and they're in business. <br /><br />That being said, any non-Russian actor pulling such a stunt without the knowledge and approval of the US would be forever on the run for playing in the DoD/CIA/State Department's sandbox. Even the UK wouldn't dare attempt such an action without Washington's approval. Can't see Ukraine risking doing anything that endangers those weekly pallets of cash and Stingers showing up.<br /><br />So it distills down to us or them. Who benefits more? <br /><br />Neil does a pretty fair job of looking at potential actors:<br /><br />https://youtu.be/lujMHLYA8Ic<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com