We're in the midst of ongoing political drama. Please remember that ideology is paramount, and minor deviations from ideological orthodoxy to not spell the end of a movement. For those of us on the side of freedom and liberty, our opponents are not the people. The true opponent is the toxic modern Marxist/Socialist ideology. Our opponents have had some recent wins, albeit in solidly blue areas where the propaganda and voting are tightly controlled. Don't panic, we can leverage NYC, Minneapolis, and Chicago as showcases of predictable catastrophe. What's really critical is that we liberty and freedom folks dedicate ourselves to the ideology instead of the actors, while arguing against the opponents' ideology instead of their actors. Avoid the cult of personality like the plague (or the Covid vaccine). Always evaluate the actors based on their articulation of their ideology. Most of them are useless posers that don't have a coherent ideological framework. Don't waste your time and energy on them. Instead, meme and mock them mercilessly.
Spot on. We need to stop the noisy infighting and focus on the communists. Larry Summers is a case study of the frog and the scorpion. He subverted Harvard with DEI commissars, then they fired him for an anodyne remark about differences between genders. The most absurd part is that Claudine Gay is still employed at Harvard with a $1 million per year sinecure. Harvard's board of trustees is full of Obamassars: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-gay-bobo-corporation
Grammar used to be important! Not only can they not honestly report any longer, apparently they’ve lost their copies of the Associated Press Stylebook.
The Big Picture nobody else is talking about. The salacious, tawdry, disgusting aspect of the Epstein story is eye-catching, sex sells and all, even pedophilia. But that’s not the most important aspect of Epstein, his work, what his focus that sex with adolescents was really about: Eugenics. That is what his operations were for. Kompromat and kink was an added “benefit.”
The tranche of Epstein records that the House Oversight Committee released last week is a trove of information for us to search through to find out what Jeffrey Epstein really was working on. That was much more important for the ruling elite - who've bought into the eugenics pseudoscience just like a century ago - to keep under wraps than even the salacious, tawdry, reprehensible acts that the media and most are focused on.
Jeffrey Epstein in 2016:
“re taboo
maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation.. the earths forest fire. potentially a good thing for the species”
“too many people, so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense
is the fundamental fact that everyone dies at some time.
make it impossible to ask so why not earlier.
if the brain discards unused neurons, why should society keep their equivalent?”
Found in the keyword searchable tranche from House Oversight Committee released last week:
Epstein was at the hub of the planning for future man, systems, the perfection of society and man as the ruling elite have always dreamed of achieving. Think Indian Caste system. But genetically engineered like much of our food supply today. Through eugenics, technology and biotechnology. Including lots of entries on AI population surveillance and control systems. If his story was ‘only’ pedophilia and the powerful…
Other Epstein interests:
“*early-stage life science-based ventures, especially those with one or more of these technologies: optics, wearable-sensors, brain-computer interface, behavioral engineering that goes beyond robo-noodging. I am not up to speed on synthetic bio and CRISPR, but I have a good friend who is.”
THIS is the real story of Esptein. And why he didn't kill himself. Think about it, as rich and as powerful as the people who visited Lolita Island are they could acquire their own adolescents without Epstein's help, and without as many loose ends to be careful about spilling the scandal, kompromat. They didn't need Pimp Epstein. They needed Eugenicist Epstein for their eternal life legacies. The thing that every person of immense wealth and power who's ever lived has wanted when they already have everything they could possible own in a natural lifetime. Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth is still being sought, never found, they hope they've invented it with today's technology. That Epstein was right smack in the middle of. Bigger scandal than pedophilia, truth be told.
Bingo! And Robert Maxwell used MI6 money (no doubt laundered trafficking proceeds) to purchase a Scientific publication. The people behind all this, whose names we don't know & faces we've never seen, have been laundering "Science™️" for at least a few centuries (see Matt Ehret's excellent work on eugenicist occultists & the institutions they created).
Not just Bill. Many like him. Names we know. Names we don't know. The eugenicists never went away. There's a reason Buck v. Bell "three generations of imbeciles is enough" Oliver Wendell Holmes 8-1 SCOTUS decision has never been fully overturned. The case that Nuremberg defendants raised in their defense, "but you Americans do it, too." They made a valid point. Who won?
On that subject, Joscha Bach's reply to Epstein's proposition that seniors and infirm be executed:
"The radical idea of treating individuals in a society as cells and the society itself as a well-organized organism is fascism, or course. Probably the most efficient and rationally stringent way of governance, if someone could pull it off in a sustainable way; and if it is aggressive and expansive, its efficiency makes it a virus that everybody will want to stomp out. Fascism makes romantic doo-gooders like me very uncomfortable (I visited KZ Buchenwald five times and it had a profound influence on me; we East Germans inoculated ourselves very thoroughly against fascism), and the general public will not be willing to consider it.
I rather like the treatment Fascism gets in the Amazon Series "The Man in the High Castle", which explores what would have happened if the Germans and Japanese had won the war: A society that tries to function as a brutal and ruthlessly efficient machine, eliminating all social and evolutionary slack. It is very dark, but not a flat caricature of pointless evil for its own sake. Heinlein's late book "Starship Troopers" explores fascism, too, but unlike Philipp K Dick he does not see it as a form of insanity, but as the most desirable order.
I find your "political incorrectness" very fascinating. In the beginning, I thought it is a form of costly signaling, but now I think you are simply entirely unconstrained in your thoughts. How did you manage in your youth? Did you get in trouble, or did you keep your thoughts to yourself? I wonder what kind of person you want to transform into."
I love it!! I am one of those people for whom the spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes just leap off the page and slam into my brain, figuratively speaking. While I understand that speaking and writing proper English may be difficult for some (I struggle with math, so I can empathize), if one is a professional writer, say for a newspaper, there is no excuse. Does no one actually proofread anything anymore?!
Never forget that’s it’s entirely possible for a culture to go from literate to illiterate within a generation. They're dismantling the written word one digital message at a time right now with emojis and acronyms because it’s just so much easier than writing what you actually mean.
We are really only one catastrophic, grid obliterating event from resorting to base level sign language. So much for our noble constitutions and laws, not to mention our great literature. Too many words for a species of mammal that is always on the brink of savagery and ready to relinquish those few markers of civilization that we have left into the abyss.
You meant read, right, not proofread. It is appalling what has happened to language. What do you expect when they no longer even teach the only subject I ever failed, cursive writing.
Once I wrote an Aunt a newsy letter while I was at University for Engineering. She was a professor at another university. It was the first time I had written to her. She sent the letter back to me all marked up in red with corrections!
I had to laugh! I was notorious for sending notes passed in class back to the original sender with all the mistakes corrected! My friends were not amused.
My mom was Italian and was determined to never speak English with an accent. Her grammar, spelling, punctuation was stellar. Consequently, her children followed suit. ❤️
I seem to recall (vaguely) being taught that the choice rested on the number of syllables in the name. The single syllable Jones would become Jones's, while the multi-syllable Summers would become Summers'. Of course, I could be making that up. I'm old.
Now, THAT's the one I hate to see. That "s's" thing LOOKS awkward, SOUNDS awkward in my mind's ear, and definitely sounds ridiculous being said out loud (IMO).
Actually, it can be either. Summers’ just happens to be more popular right now, but it was originally Summers’s because this is a singular person. However, this may have been your mom’s preference.
This is coming from a professional editor who gets paid a lot of money, and also someone who owned an award-winning publishing house for nearly 20 years.
That isn’t to say these news outlets don’t make a ton of grammatical and punctuation errors. It’s rather embarrassing to read them at times.
Nancy, my family had a small print shop when I was a child that supplied all the Catholic Cathedrals in NYC with their monthly Sunday bulletin. We all worked: linotype, press, folding and staple machine. But my favorite was proof reading. It's why today I can't believe the mistakes that are made, and this is with computers??
That's my favorite as well! Too funny. I guess we are the grammar/punctuation nerds. Computers are not replacing real knowledge. So many things are being lost. What a great experience you had growing up.
I'm a professional writer and I sometimes use the xxxxs's also. It's one of those things. How about a name like Hass? Would you say Hass' wife or Hass's wife? I prefer the latter. Jones' wife or Jones's wife (the latter sounds better to me).
Haha my last name is Hess and I never know how to sign family Christmas cards…from the Hess’ or from the Hess’s! 😂 ahhh 1st world problems.
I am severely deficient in proper grammar because of a loony liberal grade school project adopted by grade schools in Urbana, IL in the 1960s. Does anyone else remember this? Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, and Class 4 words that I would later find out were ACTUALLY nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs after my parents (whom I have thanked repeatedly)moved us mid-sixth grade to a sane school district.
Although the English instruction I received in the 1970s must have been deficient too (the dumbing down of America?). When my children brought high school English homework home (approx 2012-2016), I was learning parts of speech I had never even heard of!!
Luckily I leaned towards math and chemistry…can you tell I still feel cheated? I love words, especially properly spelled and pronounced words.
I’m a huge reader and love and appreciate reading things that are well-written. It’s helped me to know what “sounds” right.🤷🏻♀️
I am outraged by the ways the enemy (Satan, imo) has/is trying to change words and definitions, and other parts of our speech.
Actually, if it's from your family group it would be "from the Hesses." An apostrophe would signify possession not plurality. I think I would say "from the Hess family" since it sounds less cumbersome. Just an idea....
I’m enjoying reading all the wonderful comments on grammar. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if some of the C&C grammarians wrote a grammar substack offering weekly advice on common errors.
My kids in the 80s didn’t diagram. I was disturbed, as I had to suffer through that tedious diagramming. In the 90’s, cursive was also done away with. Egads!
Lol. Reading the comments 12 hours after it's been posted is a bit much... 😁 I actually limit my comments on popular posts, avoiding making redundant comments. Reading your whole thread I noticed several grammatical errors in comments but forced myself to move on. 😉
Principle over pragmatism I always say and let the chips fall where they may. What if there is a guy who has found the delicate balance between the two and is in a position of power to change the game? I think I just described President Donald J. Trump so "Let the man work already!"
How to plagiarize and still receive a million dollar salary... new book title, perhaps? She and Kamala could do tandem book tours - Tour Theme: How to make more Americans throw up in their mouth at the mention of our names."
Everyone should find and listen to Yuri Bezemov's interview by the great...I forget his name. It's on YouTube, and explains everything about the world today. The only difference is that someone or some group of people took the reigns from the Soviets when they disappeared. Could it be Putin? Maybe, but basically they have destroyed us from within. Trump and independent media have not even touched the tip of this colossal iceberg of rot and corruption that we have become. Any progress we make will be wiped out by 12:05 on January 21, 2029.
He is asking for millions of dollars in donations for his transition. It should be free according to his beliefs so why ask NYers for donations. This guy is absurd.
I giggled when I read his first give-me-money request raised only $1 million, and the average donation was $77. He is going to have to shrink his dreams.
I saw on X there are already 50,000 ghost apartments in NYC. Rent controlled units where the long/time tenant finally died and the landlord can’t afford to upgrade it and then re-rent at lower levels. So they sit empty.
I honestly cant see him lasting until the end of his term. His type of socialism breeds massive corruption and kickbacks and bribes, and he doesnt have the power to suppress it to the degree necessary to keep it all hidden. He also does not have the power to do most of the stuff he promised, or have the ability to implement the things he does have the power to do. His followers will turn on him as Progressives and "give me free stuff" people are prone to do.
Evans! Damn, I missed you over at the platform that used to be called Common Sense. I have since departed. Isn't it something that our ostensible "5th Estate", either here or across the pond, seems to be in the midst of a major Emperor's New Clothes Event? I do feel at times like this moment is our Battle of Morgarten. Squeeze, baby!
1,000% agree here! Ideology is the enemy and it uses actors and rhetoric to present its ideology indifferent ways.
Coherency is key!
Thanks John for this comment. This is what I look to drive on: understanding the principles (ideas) that are being pushed on us—and the reasoning behind them.
I agree 100%. We have to be about principles and not personalities. Even Trump must never become beyond question.
I had only two serious complaints about Trump:
1. His continued support for the dangerous and defective mRNA jabs.
2. His refusal to release all the Epstein evidence.
At least he is addressing #2 , and maybe in the best way possible, relying on TDS as his own weapon.
But I'm still not happy about #1. Millions died for the profits of Pfizer and the power of the DoD. Appointing pharma uber-lobbyist Suzies Wiles as his gatekeeper smells very bad.
Agreed but my other issue is if he is trying to dismantle the NWO why have Larry Ellison of Oracle in the oval office on day 2. Ellison said we will all be tracked so we can be controlled.
Yes Trump's connection with the technocrats and the digital ID that Trump is now pushing is my concern and it frustrates me that Jeff never talks about this. That is what I see as the Trojan horse.
Go to the furniture store with $3000 in cash to buy a sofa that you've had your eye on and see how they look at you as if you are suddenly a drug lord.
Wasn't MBS the target of a hit during the Las Vegas Fiasco several years ago? I believe Kashoggi was part of the group that was attempting to overthrow the succession for the Throne.
All I heard was that Kashoggi was a dissident, and Saudi Arabia allows zero dissent, so he was lured into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul and chopped into pieces on orders from MBS:
For those in the bleachers (or Rio Linda, as Rush used to say):
"But please remember: if I haven’t covered a particular story, it isn’t that I’ve sold out, gone over to the 'other side,' or collaborated with hostile space aliens. Assume my silence means I’ve looked and concluded it’s either a fake issue, isn’t ripe, is still a hot take, or is otherwise non-essential news."
Yes. My every day begins with Jeff's stack. On YouTube, my favourite optimist is "Dr. Steve" Turley. Both do us so much good with their highly intelligent take on things. And yes, I'd recently discovered Promethean Action, too... another good one.
Well the digital ID, which Trump has already stated he wants to implement and Trump's cozying up with the technocrats is not fake, very ripe, beyond a hot take and is essential news. So why isn't Jeff talking about it?
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
— 1 John 5:11-12
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
When a senior Catholic Archbishop — a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States — openly accuses global elites of infiltrating Western governments to impose Agenda 2030… the world should stop and listen. Viganò warns:
“A dangerous subversive elite has infiltrated the highest levels of Western institutions to implement a criminal global plan.”
When cardinal Vigano speaks, my ears always perk up. He is someone to pay attention to regarding global affairs. He’s also a man of God who I very much respect.
I have a hard time understanding how so many people don’t realize the depth of the operation in which Trump is involved. Does no one recognize the world wide financial and political ties he is untangling and freeing the American people and economy? This is a massive task and I am thankful every day President Trump is willing to take on the job. I wish people could see the big picture and avoid getting bogged down in the trivia. President Trump is a master at this game, give him some grace.
And about his stating that Epstein is a Democrat Hoax: he wasn’t referring to the Epstein crimes or the coverups. He was speaking to how they were trying to use the files to implicate him - that was their hoax. That they ignore the hundreds of guilty within the files only caring to find HIS name. The hoax is they DON’T really care about the women and children at all, they only care about using their abuse to get him. That’s the hoax. Like Russia Russia Russia, convincing the public Trump did something he didn’t that THEY actually did.
It’s mind boggling to think that the democrats thought they could demand the release of these files and really think they would not at the very least implicate some of their own self proclaimed heroes. Now Hakeem Jeffries being mentioned, that’s just icing on the cake!
I agree! They care about ONE NAME but there are plenty and it’s sick and disgusting. I’ve seen some IG videos on Epstein island stuff and stories from the victim that pulled a ‘dead man switch’ after she committed suicide after sieving a bus accident and then kidney failure 😏 anyhow not sure if it’s real but sick stories
I am convinced that Trump is playing the easy game with dems and libs. It is so easy for him to enrage them. They don’t know how to stop themselves at this point. Imagine being constant enraged for the last 11 months. Their immune systems are shot because of all the cortisol responses. They can’t sleep and don’t “feel safe” anywhere. Poor things. They are being tossed around in the MAGA Ocean on the USS Trump, waiting for the next missile like a Venezuelan drug boat.
Trump is lightning fast and pummels them from all sides. They have zero coping skills and even less of a grasp on reality. They are chaff in the wind, with no direction or stability. Let them flounder and flail. Let them try to sway the narrative. That’s all they can do at this point. All they have is narrative manipulation. Reality is staring them down and they cower relentlessly.
I wish he would get RFK Jr. to work on medical freedom. One of my competitors was recently put in prison for marketing a frequency instrument that eliminates disease in the body. It was a primitive device, but it worked and customers loved it. That's NOT medical freedom.
2 marketers got prison sentences for marketing frequency instrumentation (Rife Devices) using Sympathetic Resonance that Rife used. (A Rife Machine is a microscope) The formal charges were "Practicing medicine without a license" and "Evading income tax". Both bogus, of course.
We, now, have more advanced technology that works faster and doesn't need programming, called Energy Density. It's only sold by word of mouth or text like this; never advertised.
If I'm the only one you have heard this from, it's because the others are in prison. For example, Cancer was proven to be 100% curable in a clinical trial in 1934. They used frequency instrumentation. You can see modern, computerized frequency instrumentation on my website as well as the Rife story about the clinical trial. harmonicresearch.org I'm not in prison because I don't advertise or sell enough for big pHARMA to care.
And when people say “he should focus on domestic policy, not foreign policy…”. I just shake my head and think HE IS!!! Also, if foreign countries have been taking advantage of us, and he’s righting so many wrongs, then that foreign policy is good for all Americans.
Lol. Yes, I even went back to yesterday’s comments to try to see who the troll was, but I couldn’t tell. Maybe Jeff blocking him/her deletes comments made previously. Anyway, kudos to Jeff for policing the room and removing a (most likely) paid activist shill.
Just a reminder 🌱Nard, that some of us with old devices can’t even register a “like” on avid posters comments we appreciate… and often comment less than our brilliant known to us regulars… I’ve “been in the room” daily since April 2020… just saying “hello” so you know “I’m not missing” 👋🏻… fantastic journalism today Jeff Childers!!!!
I recognize your name though, and I daresay all the regulars do too! Even when someone doesn’t post much, I can usually remember them if they’ve posted at all.
And I know some people just read and don’t post, or almost never post, which is everyone’s right to do! But you can also tell which posters are just here to stir the pot 🤨
Had that problem myself. My browser wasn't using the latest javascript, so I had to upgrade my browser just to like a comment here, and that required an upgrade of my laptop OS.
Such pain Substack is putting their users through! Ugh.
I was a programmer for 30 years and know exactly how this shit happens: bad management. The Substack dev managers need to force their developers to develop and test on older browsers to include the widest possible audience. They won't like it, but it's the right thing to do.
Programmers always want to use the shiny new things both for fun and because it helps their resumes. But it's bad for business.
Well, i might not be missed by some ....who knows. But, make no mistake (as a few have done)..... I have been here for at least a year or two, recommended others to read C&C , and have never posted just to troll . I asked one person for an apology, but only received a nasty response. Below is one of my posts from last July.
alongername
Jul 26
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Exactly . My thoughts as well , with the voracious C&C readership " rioting like caged rhesus monkeys who just found out the banana shipment got rerouted to El Paso" ....trying to get to the front of the comment queue . (ok, a little plagiarism there ..haha) .
This novel is getting better and better ....... I almost feel guilty not being a paid subscriber . almost . Hey , Jeff is probably as happy to be writing as we are reading .
to be continued .....................
Note: just for context ...this comment was originally posted by me under the one extolling the great "spy novel " analogy . just sayin '
He was a weirdo. Kind of a perv and just plain stupid. There were times I wanted to respond to his utter nonsense, but instead I would furiously delete my post and move on.
He was like a mosquito bite, annoying and itchy but you just ignore it.
I don't post very often, but do enjoy the banter and the knowledge I get from reading the posts. Yesterday's comments had a very different tenor and I am happy to see that gone.
I have been here every day, yet silent, as the trolls were so mean, even the ones that "seemed" well meaning gave no one grace or a fair listen. Glad there has been a clean up on C&C aisle 3!!!
You know I didn't notice the poster that Jeff mentioned, with flags and such in the name. This blog (and really much of substack) has not been too infested with outright trolls, which is nice.
President Donald J. Trump is a gift from God. One of his greatest skills is exposing rot and the people or forces behind it. He has never reneged on a promise that he has had the power to keep. Please let him work. His reasons will eventually become clear. Give him the support he needs. If he makes a mistake or two it is minor in the greater scheme of things. He is rescuing this country and us from a globalist evil beast.
Don't make Jeff spend hours and column inches pulling us out of silly rabbit holes. Don't pay attention to media talking heads and political naysayers. They are worthless and a waste of your time.
Pay attention to Congress. They have failed to codify Trump's Executive Orders. They blather endlessly. BUT DO NOTHING. They sit on the sidelines and take no stand followed by concrete action. THEY SHOULD BE GETTING YOUR ATTENTION AND COMMENTS.
Thank you so much, Jeff. I so appreciate your work and efforts.
Pray for all of us and let's make America great again.
That’s what is so frustrating. They treat our President as if he is a dictator and can do anything he wants. He does not but he gets the blame for everything. Meanwhile Congress sits on their hands and just does nothing to move America forward. The GOP is the worst. So ineffective. I hate to admit it but the Dems at least stick together as a bloc to move their agenda forward. The GOP does nothing for us. They are the uniparty. By their inaction they are moving with the Dems. I also believe that Trump has been selected to be God’s champion to do His will so I pray and watch. God’s Will be done. 🙏
He is an instrument/tool. GOD is fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. Give HIM the credit and the glory. Let HIM do HIS works.
Yes! Why on earth did congress come together to pass the Epstein thing but they can’t to ANYTHING else? How about voting reform? Birthright citizenship reform? They do NOTHING.
Good morning, Kit Kat! Joining you, from the heart of commie-fornia, in your thanksgiving praise for the many things we can be thankful for! Thankful for what we can see and continuing to pray for the things that are still unseen. 🙏🏼❤️
Have you seen Doug Casey's book The Preparation? It talks about designing an alternative to college, to build real skills. I haven't finished it yet but it's a fascinating concept. I think it's free on Kindle Unlimited.
The College of St. Joseph the Worker is a trade school PLUS undergrad degree in Catholic Studies (BA).
You work all 4 years in apprenticeship programs to pay cost of tuition & living expenses - then walk out with a journeyman certification, BA, no debt, and possibly $$ in your pocket if you work hard enough.
They are just one example of new ways to approach life after high school - and GenZ guys are absolutely stoked about it.
College of the Ozarks encourages students to work on campus to pay for their tuition. Not quite the same as an apprenticeship but a useful way to save lots of money and gain work experience.
My Grandfather aged out of a orphanage on his 18th birthday. He went and became an apprentice to a printer and did well for himself. Bring this back to being an approved way of life.
Interesting. I have no regrets about my education back in the dark ages (U Penn, Wharton) but today, I'd LOVE a program like that. Keep us informed if you hear more about U of Austin's program!
Tough not to like that comment. Ford just said they have 5K skilled mechanics jobs going begging. Six figure salaries. And they aren't the only ones by a long shot.
My CC has a Ford Asset program that trains mechanics, pays the tuition, the students work in a Ford dealership during part of the academic year then work for the dealership that sponsored them when they finish. It is very popular.
Long term, I agree, but short term, it also indirectly hurts their suppliers and people like plumbers and electricians who get work from these institutions. I am ok with allowing them to fail but it’s probably more prudent to go slowly so there are fewer unintended consequences.
The entire higher education system in this country is a complete and total scam. I’d venture to say that half of those enrolled in four year colleges are wasting their time.
I guess the downside that stood out in Jeff’s article today would be the many financially less fortunate American students who can only afford a smaller or state college, and if that tuition doubles or triples they will be unable to go to college at all. It makes college only available to the wealthy in our country. Yes I know more effort should be put into trade schools and such, but lower class children academically capable of doing really well in medical or science/tech fields should be given that opportunity the same as the wealthy. These smaller colleges were their avenue. Other than that, I see no other downsides, but that IS a big one. We need time for our new economy to adjust and allow these universities the ability to make it with less foreign tuition without raising it for Americans.
I think the US has built a strong market of excellent colleges. I don’t object to foreigners coming to our schools per se, but I do think there should be a strict limit on students coming from economies that compete against us or from areas with high anti-US sentiment. It’s like immigration, we need to really know who we’re allowing into our country.
But also, these educational visas should expire upon graduation and they have to leave, go home, before they can apply to work here on a different type of visa. Give American kids first shot.
I agree and I don't trust the Chinese at all. It is sad to say this but those students are indocrinated to be against us and furthermore, why can't they go to college in China? They have their own colleges. Oh I forgot, they are spying on us, silly me.
I was on the cutting edge of detente with China in 1978 at work, and I could see then all they wanted was to suck all the technical knowledge and know how from us they could, then show us the door. Nothing has changed. What is more, I don't feel bad about pretending to pay them with paper funny money, because almost all the products they send us are crap.
And the "American students" are indoctrinated to be pro-commie, anti-american NPCs by their "esteemed" socialist brainwashers pretending to be "educators". What is the ultimate purpose, then, of these indoctrination centers who churn out youth with zero regard (or understanding) of the Constitutional Republic, the core values of THIS country, a distaste for anything moral, led to believe meritocracy is racist, twisted liberal ideology that can't handle or define basic biology or gender, etc? It's best those ivys get dramatically downsized to take away the massive grift funding pretending to be "academia" which does little to support academics, and to stop the garbage grads (half of whom can't read) they're churning out. It's past time for a realignment of the FUNCTION of "education" and actually defining what that is. (A college grad can't define what a "woman" is, but somehow closing down or downsizing these indoctrination centers is an existential threat? 🤦♀️) If that means they close, they weren't academically-oriented in the first place; and, therefore, have no real use for their [falsely] stated purpose.
With all due respect, I don't think that would work in a communist controlled country when they return. The CCP is atheist and won't tolerate any religion. And why is it always us that has to do the accepting, affecting, leading? Is there no other country in the world capable? Charity begins at home and Americans first.
The argument that schools will suffer without the foreign students is nonsense. This is about greed. The tuition American students pay is already outrageous and unaffordable, obviously overpriced. We know because everybody is in student debt! How these schools cannot survive on the ridiculous tuition they're charging our kids is BS. They need to be audited and trim the fat.
Also, the Ivy Leagues have plenty in their endowments. Stop being so greedy.
Jeff - monitoring and checking the comments for "bad actors" must be a time consuming process. Hopefully you can delegate it to someone. Best of luck and God bless. And for everyone else, Jeff is correct when he says "don't feed the trolls". That's what they want, engagement. If you don't like a comment, just say (in a low voice, of course) "screw you" and move on.
One suspects that a properly-trained AI bot can scan and block commenters accurately. The algorithm should include tone of commenter's words, number of comments per day and per week, and how long has the commenter been present on C&C.
Historical tidbit: Great Britain - the English crown and Chatham House, specifically - has been behind virtually every bit of globalist malarkey inflicted on the rest of the world since about 1783.
Modern universities are like junkies with the international students. They are hooked and dependent on them for their survival. With any addiction, they need to go cold turkey. Let the universities fail, they have no problem letting American students take out loans more than a mortgage but can’t find jobs and still owe the debt. It’s time we tear the bandage off and kick out all foreign students till our children, American children are not graduating in debt, without jobs and no future. Let the market decide and those that can make it, make it. There are too many universities in this country and we have a falling youth population. Let the universities burn. It’s almost karmic…
They are (generally) corrupt institutions that sold 19-year olds a lie that it was "good debt" to borrow $200k and that doing so would guarantee them high-paying employment. The financial institutions eagerly went along with this knowing that debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy. All done to kids just out of high school who had never demonstrated any ability to repay it, or common sense for that matter. This is debt slavery (usury) and it's condemned in the Bible over and over.
There are worthwhile degrees. I'm paying for two kids to get STEM degrees in state universities with good reputations. It is a good value. But we are paying for it out of pocket with zero debt. It means making sacrifices in other areas but for us it is very much worth it.
The Zoomer frustration stems from the fact that people won't acknowledge this is very real issue, and isn't just ingrateful whining. What is really atrocious is that their parents (who are supposed to have the wisdom, not the 19 year old), let them do this. I realize the kids were adults (18 or over) and if they are hell bent you cant stop them. But their parents could have impeded them but didn't. This is the real failure IMO.
We told our kids we would pay for their education if 1) they got a worthwhile degree, 2) it was from a respectable but good value institution and 3) they took out no debt. Totally up to them, but if they didn't do this they were on their own for schooling. Further, if they decided to take out loans they could not live at our house when doing so. No exceptions.
Some may think this is radical, but it absolutely worked. Both of my kids are pursuing STEM degrees and will graduate highly employable with zero debt. That is the legacy my wife and I want for our kids, not twenty years of making payments.
Radical? Hardly, Jeff. Common sense. And I'll bet a college tuition you are told by many people that you and your wife are so LUCKY to have kids that turned out so well. Had nothing to do with common sense "parenting". Great job, Mom and Dad!!
We have similar boundaries in our house. All I know is that I have 3 highly functional adults who are paying for their own needs (except the youngest he’s still in college, but he’ll outearn all of us).
Universities are Woke Indoctrination Centers that needs to be dismantled and rebuilt to Higher Education Centers. Money Talks (as always). Reduce Foreign Student Tuition, Eliminate Student Loan Programs. Force University endowments to fund Education and stop being Woke Private Equity Firms. Bye, bye Woke Marxist Professors and Administrators. Hello to more graduates who are not swamped with debt, do not believe in Marxism and can earn an income to support a family.
EXACTLY! Its the only way to force them to reform along with putting them on the hook for student loans e.g. acting as a guarantor... After all, the graduate is their product and they need to be held accountable for quality control...
Some would say that college students are adults and have the right to screw up their lives with excessive debt for useless degrees.
But this is simply allowing banks to take advantage of naive young people without giving them an honest warning of what a horrible deal they are being offered.
Make student loans dischargable by personal bankruptcy once again. Banks need to have an interest in seeing students get good jobs and not merely make obviously predatory loans.
It’s bigger than just that. Universities are the cheap and subsidized research arms for industry and government. They are also the development leagues for professional football and basketball. The taxpayers of America have been taken of advantage by the change of the focus of education to enriching corporations bottom lines.
"Now time grows short. History will not allow the people of Shem additional centuries, or even decades, to come to their senses and realize what is going on. Just as they have been victims of massacres and genocides for centuries, the people of Shem now face the determination of the Canaanites to exterminate them utterly and finally. a goal they hope to achieve by the end of the millenium."
They "research" (and get paid to skew) some mind-boggling, horrific, heinous and anti-humanity "projects" that, if people were aware of, would shock them to their core as to the extent of their evil... not the least of which is bio-cyber interface and genetic modification of humans which is has already been done... and the sheople, pretending to be awake and aware, while knowing virtually nothing about what's been done to them by g0vt and these institutions whose activities for generations has been nothing short of satanic. WBAN? IOT? IOB? Quantum dots? Digital twins? Anyone? Beuller? These universities (and their billions in g0vt & NGO funding) are nothing more than front groups for the most nefarious activities imaginable. But let's all pretend the sky is falling, and clutch our pearls, if these establishments (and their dastardly programs) cease to exist... while trusting the g0vt's plan going forward -- which you "don't have to know it" (just like you didn't have to know about the c0vid psy0p, trust the plan) -- cuz, this time, for sure, we promise!, they'll change their evil ways about what goes on in the indoctrination centers simply because a different face sits in the oval office. Preserve the status quo, and 🤫.
I'm ready for a new T shirt, "Have you read Coffee & Covid Today?". C&C is better and much more informative than 10 newspapers. Its my first read of the day and little else seems worthwhile after it. Thanks JC!
You are spot on about watch what Trump does and not what he says. iI usually falls on deaf ears when I say it. Trump watchers know he deliberately says outlandish things to provoke or misdirect linear thinkers. It is the same with all politicians, and people. I care not what you say (promise) . The only thing that matters is what you do.
Anytime we put our opinions out there, we are enticing the people in the universe to respond and some of those responses can help us practice stoicism!
Like what Seneca advises – that the best reaction to anger is silence. Or, Epictetus, who advised, “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.” Ghandi said something similar, "Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Not really entirely true. There is evil and it is wrong because it hurts and you should NOT give in or cooperate. You certainly should try to stop it from hurting others.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding it perhaps repeating what it means. 🤷🏻♀️
Perhaps it depends on what has been said – is it defamation of character that is a lie? Then, by all means, we should defend the truth. But, in general, a lot of what is said is BS, thus we should not hold on to it.
I agree. I love the ‘sayings’ but they appear to be about ‘feelings’, which seems to be what our feminized society is all about (and I am a female, lol).
As one who had 4 individuals undermine our parental authority / credibility with our severely depressed daughter, I concur. I get the gist of it and agree with the stoics, but people can hurt you through other people you love.
Epictetus and Seneca have taught me a lot, though I sometimes "go off" on people (smiles here). Jesus had a lot to say on starving the trolls, too. Staying whole in body and spirit.
We're in the midst of ongoing political drama. Please remember that ideology is paramount, and minor deviations from ideological orthodoxy to not spell the end of a movement. For those of us on the side of freedom and liberty, our opponents are not the people. The true opponent is the toxic modern Marxist/Socialist ideology. Our opponents have had some recent wins, albeit in solidly blue areas where the propaganda and voting are tightly controlled. Don't panic, we can leverage NYC, Minneapolis, and Chicago as showcases of predictable catastrophe. What's really critical is that we liberty and freedom folks dedicate ourselves to the ideology instead of the actors, while arguing against the opponents' ideology instead of their actors. Avoid the cult of personality like the plague (or the Covid vaccine). Always evaluate the actors based on their articulation of their ideology. Most of them are useless posers that don't have a coherent ideological framework. Don't waste your time and energy on them. Instead, meme and mock them mercilessly.
Spot on. We need to stop the noisy infighting and focus on the communists. Larry Summers is a case study of the frog and the scorpion. He subverted Harvard with DEI commissars, then they fired him for an anodyne remark about differences between genders. The most absurd part is that Claudine Gay is still employed at Harvard with a $1 million per year sinecure. Harvard's board of trustees is full of Obamassars: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-gay-bobo-corporation
And the Boston Globe gets an “F” in punctuation. It’s Summers’ wife, not Summers’s. Not important….I know.
Well grammar should be important to a "Major" news outlet. 🙃
I always thought grammar was somehow connected with frasier.
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs.
😂🤣
That should be "good" grammar, Susan. Not "well" grammar... ; )
More like "Well, grammer..."
⬆️ This one 😂
In my defense, I was typing with one hand, had coffee mug in the other AND was balancing a cat on my lap, so ... there's that! LOL
😂😂
Or: "Well, grammar...."
there needs to be a laugh checkbox
Doug,
🙄
😂 See below LOL
Grammar used to be important! Not only can they not honestly report any longer, apparently they’ve lost their copies of the Associated Press Stylebook.
One would hope.
Comma needed after "Well."
I love it. We can see the big picture and still zoom in.
Walking and chewing gum at the same time……for some, that is unacceptable.
So.
Thank you….with a big 😀.
The Big Picture nobody else is talking about. The salacious, tawdry, disgusting aspect of the Epstein story is eye-catching, sex sells and all, even pedophilia. But that’s not the most important aspect of Epstein, his work, what his focus that sex with adolescents was really about: Eugenics. That is what his operations were for. Kompromat and kink was an added “benefit.”
The tranche of Epstein records that the House Oversight Committee released last week is a trove of information for us to search through to find out what Jeffrey Epstein really was working on. That was much more important for the ruling elite - who've bought into the eugenics pseudoscience just like a century ago - to keep under wraps than even the salacious, tawdry, reprehensible acts that the media and most are focused on.
Jeffrey Epstein in 2016:
“re taboo
maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation.. the earths forest fire. potentially a good thing for the species”
“too many people, so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense
is the fundamental fact that everyone dies at some time.
make it impossible to ask so why not earlier.
if the brain discards unused neurons, why should society keep their equivalent?”
Found in the keyword searchable tranche from House Oversight Committee released last week:
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/search?collection=092314e384a58618&p=1&docid=cee34c6584afa885_092314e384a58618_0&page=1
Epstein was at the hub of the planning for future man, systems, the perfection of society and man as the ruling elite have always dreamed of achieving. Think Indian Caste system. But genetically engineered like much of our food supply today. Through eugenics, technology and biotechnology. Including lots of entries on AI population surveillance and control systems. If his story was ‘only’ pedophilia and the powerful…
Other Epstein interests:
“*early-stage life science-based ventures, especially those with one or more of these technologies: optics, wearable-sensors, brain-computer interface, behavioral engineering that goes beyond robo-noodging. I am not up to speed on synthetic bio and CRISPR, but I have a good friend who is.”
As well as tips to watch his back.
Found in:
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025169.txt.pdf
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=092314e384a58618&p=1&docid=b72f1afd9dbc89b3_092314e384a58618_0&page=1&dapvm=2
From: David Grosof
on behalf of David Grosof
Sent: 1/20/2017 6:28:10 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Your Special Day
Importance: High
At 10:13 PM 01/19/17, you wrote:
[Grosof is a Big Pharma neuroscientist]
THIS is the real story of Esptein. And why he didn't kill himself. Think about it, as rich and as powerful as the people who visited Lolita Island are they could acquire their own adolescents without Epstein's help, and without as many loose ends to be careful about spilling the scandal, kompromat. They didn't need Pimp Epstein. They needed Eugenicist Epstein for their eternal life legacies. The thing that every person of immense wealth and power who's ever lived has wanted when they already have everything they could possible own in a natural lifetime. Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth is still being sought, never found, they hope they've invented it with today's technology. That Epstein was right smack in the middle of. Bigger scandal than pedophilia, truth be told.
Bingo! And Robert Maxwell used MI6 money (no doubt laundered trafficking proceeds) to purchase a Scientific publication. The people behind all this, whose names we don't know & faces we've never seen, have been laundering "Science™️" for at least a few centuries (see Matt Ehret's excellent work on eugenicist occultists & the institutions they created).
Sounds like Bill Gates was in his ear. We know they spent a lot of time together…
Not just Bill. Many like him. Names we know. Names we don't know. The eugenicists never went away. There's a reason Buck v. Bell "three generations of imbeciles is enough" Oliver Wendell Holmes 8-1 SCOTUS decision has never been fully overturned. The case that Nuremberg defendants raised in their defense, "but you Americans do it, too." They made a valid point. Who won?
On that subject, Joscha Bach's reply to Epstein's proposition that seniors and infirm be executed:
"The radical idea of treating individuals in a society as cells and the society itself as a well-organized organism is fascism, or course. Probably the most efficient and rationally stringent way of governance, if someone could pull it off in a sustainable way; and if it is aggressive and expansive, its efficiency makes it a virus that everybody will want to stomp out. Fascism makes romantic doo-gooders like me very uncomfortable (I visited KZ Buchenwald five times and it had a profound influence on me; we East Germans inoculated ourselves very thoroughly against fascism), and the general public will not be willing to consider it.
I rather like the treatment Fascism gets in the Amazon Series "The Man in the High Castle", which explores what would have happened if the Germans and Japanese had won the war: A society that tries to function as a brutal and ruthlessly efficient machine, eliminating all social and evolutionary slack. It is very dark, but not a flat caricature of pointless evil for its own sake. Heinlein's late book "Starship Troopers" explores fascism, too, but unlike Philipp K Dick he does not see it as a form of insanity, but as the most desirable order.
I find your "political incorrectness" very fascinating. In the beginning, I thought it is a form of costly signaling, but now I think you are simply entirely unconstrained in your thoughts. How did you manage in your youth? Did you get in trouble, or did you keep your thoughts to yourself? I wonder what kind of person you want to transform into."
FF - You just can't make this shit up.
Excellent points.
So much to digest. You’re very good at dissecting it into more chewable (still nasty though) bites.
Thank you.
No worries Nancy, it's an affliction with which some of us are plagued.
My mother was an English teacher. I can’t help myself.
I love it!! I am one of those people for whom the spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes just leap off the page and slam into my brain, figuratively speaking. While I understand that speaking and writing proper English may be difficult for some (I struggle with math, so I can empathize), if one is a professional writer, say for a newspaper, there is no excuse. Does no one actually proofread anything anymore?!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Never forget that’s it’s entirely possible for a culture to go from literate to illiterate within a generation. They're dismantling the written word one digital message at a time right now with emojis and acronyms because it’s just so much easier than writing what you actually mean.
We are really only one catastrophic, grid obliterating event from resorting to base level sign language. So much for our noble constitutions and laws, not to mention our great literature. Too many words for a species of mammal that is always on the brink of savagery and ready to relinquish those few markers of civilization that we have left into the abyss.
You meant read, right, not proofread. It is appalling what has happened to language. What do you expect when they no longer even teach the only subject I ever failed, cursive writing.
Apparently, like math, grammar is now racist.
Agreed! Sadly, far too many people just don't know the proper form or don't care.
And don’t get me started on calling a single person “they” in newspaper articles. My poor mom, who still reads her local paper, gets so confused.
All of their editors are dei hires, so…
Once I wrote an Aunt a newsy letter while I was at University for Engineering. She was a professor at another university. It was the first time I had written to her. She sent the letter back to me all marked up in red with corrections!
That's hilarious. Bless her heart. Maybe she thought she was helping you.
I had to laugh! I was notorious for sending notes passed in class back to the original sender with all the mistakes corrected! My friends were not amused.
Mrs. "the Knife"
She should’ve been happy you wrote to her. Instead, she tsk-tsked and had to discipline you. I’ll bet she didn’t get many more letters.
My mom was Italian and was determined to never speak English with an accent. Her grammar, spelling, punctuation was stellar. Consequently, her children followed suit. ❤️
Nancy, No need to! Someone(s) must hold the line.
My inner grammarian is applauding this lovely and all too seldom used introduction to a relative clause: "...with which some of us are..."
Sounds lovely, doesn't it?
And ones like I is. doesn't not's ,have no problems; with grammar and punctuation "; I does what I want's;😅🤣
I am noticing the word ‘gone’ is gone with the word ‘went’ in its place: He has went there before. 😖
Yes!!! This one drives me nuts!! Granted, some days that is a shorter drive! 🤣
Mrs. "the Knife"
My trigger lately has been sale/sell. I don’t think people understand the difference anymore.
Ugh
I was taught either is acceptable. Merriam-Webster has this as acceptable also:
—“For names that end in an s or z sound, though, you can either add -'s or just an apostrophe. Going with -'s is the more common choice:
the car that belongs to Jones → Jones's car or Jones' car
Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/what-happens-to-names-when-we-make-them-plural-or-possessive
I seem to recall (vaguely) being taught that the choice rested on the number of syllables in the name. The single syllable Jones would become Jones's, while the multi-syllable Summers would become Summers'. Of course, I could be making that up. I'm old.
I was taught the same thing.
I have a problem with hearing people saying Moses’s and Jesus’s…
For words ending in S, there is no further need for an added ‘s’!!S!
It hurts Moseses ears….earses.
How can you tell it’s a possessive otherwise? Otherwise it sounds like a descriptor/adjective—as in Moses basket, for example.
We were taught to put an apostrophe at the end of the names to indicate possessive on words that already ended in ‘s’
As in Jeff Childers' pen, vs. the pen of Jeff Childers.
Or Jeff Childers’s pen.
Now, THAT's the one I hate to see. That "s's" thing LOOKS awkward, SOUNDS awkward in my mind's ear, and definitely sounds ridiculous being said out loud (IMO).
Style books or not, it just doesn't work.
Period.
Yep, me too.
Style books used to address this and not all of them were consistent either.
Yes, definitely agree about the style books.
Actually, it can be either. Summers’ just happens to be more popular right now, but it was originally Summers’s because this is a singular person. However, this may have been your mom’s preference.
This is coming from a professional editor who gets paid a lot of money, and also someone who owned an award-winning publishing house for nearly 20 years.
That isn’t to say these news outlets don’t make a ton of grammatical and punctuation errors. It’s rather embarrassing to read them at times.
Nancy, my family had a small print shop when I was a child that supplied all the Catholic Cathedrals in NYC with their monthly Sunday bulletin. We all worked: linotype, press, folding and staple machine. But my favorite was proof reading. It's why today I can't believe the mistakes that are made, and this is with computers??
That's my favorite as well! Too funny. I guess we are the grammar/punctuation nerds. Computers are not replacing real knowledge. So many things are being lost. What a great experience you had growing up.
I had great English teachers in grammar school. This kind of stuff in major publications drives me crazy.
I'm a professional writer and I sometimes use the xxxxs's also. It's one of those things. How about a name like Hass? Would you say Hass' wife or Hass's wife? I prefer the latter. Jones' wife or Jones's wife (the latter sounds better to me).
Haha my last name is Hess and I never know how to sign family Christmas cards…from the Hess’ or from the Hess’s! 😂 ahhh 1st world problems.
I am severely deficient in proper grammar because of a loony liberal grade school project adopted by grade schools in Urbana, IL in the 1960s. Does anyone else remember this? Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, and Class 4 words that I would later find out were ACTUALLY nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs after my parents (whom I have thanked repeatedly)moved us mid-sixth grade to a sane school district.
Although the English instruction I received in the 1970s must have been deficient too (the dumbing down of America?). When my children brought high school English homework home (approx 2012-2016), I was learning parts of speech I had never even heard of!!
Luckily I leaned towards math and chemistry…can you tell I still feel cheated? I love words, especially properly spelled and pronounced words.
I’m a huge reader and love and appreciate reading things that are well-written. It’s helped me to know what “sounds” right.🤷🏻♀️
I am outraged by the ways the enemy (Satan, imo) has/is trying to change words and definitions, and other parts of our speech.
Ok, hopping of my soapbox lolol
Thanks for listening!!❤️
Actually, if it's from your family group it would be "from the Hesses." An apostrophe would signify possession not plurality. I think I would say "from the Hess family" since it sounds less cumbersome. Just an idea....
I’m enjoying reading all the wonderful comments on grammar. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if some of the C&C grammarians wrote a grammar substack offering weekly advice on common errors.
Thank you!!!!! I’ll be using these for this year’s (is that correct?) Christmas card! ❤️
I would sign ‘The Hess Family’
Thank you so much. I agree. :)
Diagraming sentences was such a good teaching tool. I doubt they still do that.
My kids in the 80s didn’t diagram. I was disturbed, as I had to suffer through that tedious diagramming. In the 90’s, cursive was also done away with. Egads!
I find it can be a useful tell.
That bothered me so much!!
I can't believe how many responses my comment generated. A lot of C&C readers are proper English fanatics. Who knew?
Lol. Reading the comments 12 hours after it's been posted is a bit much... 😁 I actually limit my comments on popular posts, avoiding making redundant comments. Reading your whole thread I noticed several grammatical errors in comments but forced myself to move on. 😉
Yes it is. Another slide to mediocrity
It's telling though.
But not trivial either!!! 👌
Both forms can be considered correct, depending on which style guide you are following. The AP style guide prefers Summers' but others recommend the style used by the Boston Globe in its headline. See: https://editorsmanual.com/articles/possessives-of-names-ending-in-s/#:~:text=The%20possessive%20of%20a%20name,James's%20house
Style manuals allow both punctuations, although the trend is to punctuate it as the Globe did.
And Fauci changed the meaning of vaccination. I hate what they’re doing to the language.
You aren't the only one that noticed that! I noticed it right at the beginning, because I know what a vaccine is, and this shot wasn't one!
Principle over pragmatism I always say and let the chips fall where they may. What if there is a guy who has found the delicate balance between the two and is in a position of power to change the game? I think I just described President Donald J. Trump so "Let the man work already!"
How to plagiarize and still receive a million dollar salary... new book title, perhaps? She and Kamala could do tandem book tours - Tour Theme: How to make more Americans throw up in their mouth at the mention of our names."
Agree 💯
In regards to Claudine Gay, they’re just planning to wait Trump out.
You were right, comrade!
Everyone should find and listen to Yuri Bezemov's interview by the great...I forget his name. It's on YouTube, and explains everything about the world today. The only difference is that someone or some group of people took the reigns from the Soviets when they disappeared. Could it be Putin? Maybe, but basically they have destroyed us from within. Trump and independent media have not even touched the tip of this colossal iceberg of rot and corruption that we have become. Any progress we make will be wiped out by 12:05 on January 21, 2029.
Gay's unattributed rehash of other academics' works is well worth a million per year, no?
Meme them until they cry, then make memes about them crying.
double down, lol! Gato is the man
Related--- mock them until they cry and then mock them for crying....
Dave Smith is so on point with Zohran Mamdani & NYC. Its going to be a bloodbath.
https://x.com/Evans_Wroten/status/1991173422525870352?s=20
Mamdani can't raise taxes without the state's OK, and the Gov already said it's not going to happen. Tough times for the commie.
Yes, but he and the city council can raise fees and permit requirements. There are myriad ways to raise revenue that do not require state approval.
He wants road congestion charges like London. Khan uses that money as his personal piggy bank.
I think I just read that Hochul plans to raise corporate tax from 7.something to over 11% 😬
Mamdani is creating the NYC bank, like North Dakota, bypassing Wall St. To fund City projects. Interesting capitalism.
He is asking for millions of dollars in donations for his transition. It should be free according to his beliefs so why ask NYers for donations. This guy is absurd.
I giggled when I read his first give-me-money request raised only $1 million, and the average donation was $77. He is going to have to shrink his dreams.
Not even in office and already begging. Unbelievable:}
Plenty of big spenders looking for influence and not being targeted when he taxes the rich like Robin Hood.
is he transitioning to a woman? makes sense based on his bench press strength.
wondering that myself, lol!
The easier to money launder my dear Watson😉
You are right…Dave Smith is right on the money!
Wow. Thanks for sharing this! I'm pushing it out far and wide!
Yes, I was having this discussion the other day with someone about rent control and how it ends up creating housing shortages.
I haven’t talked much about the money printing, but he is right about that.
I saw on X there are already 50,000 ghost apartments in NYC. Rent controlled units where the long/time tenant finally died and the landlord can’t afford to upgrade it and then re-rent at lower levels. So they sit empty.
I honestly cant see him lasting until the end of his term. His type of socialism breeds massive corruption and kickbacks and bribes, and he doesnt have the power to suppress it to the degree necessary to keep it all hidden. He also does not have the power to do most of the stuff he promised, or have the ability to implement the things he does have the power to do. His followers will turn on him as Progressives and "give me free stuff" people are prone to do.
Evans! Damn, I missed you over at the platform that used to be called Common Sense. I have since departed. Isn't it something that our ostensible "5th Estate", either here or across the pond, seems to be in the midst of a major Emperor's New Clothes Event? I do feel at times like this moment is our Battle of Morgarten. Squeeze, baby!
"Your actions speak so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying". As Jeff keeps saying, let the man (POTUS) WORK. Actions!
Be Well, Be Blessed,
Phillip
1,000% agree here! Ideology is the enemy and it uses actors and rhetoric to present its ideology indifferent ways.
Coherency is key!
Thanks John for this comment. This is what I look to drive on: understanding the principles (ideas) that are being pushed on us—and the reasoning behind them.
Just becuase it’s valid, doesn’t make it SOUND:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-sacred-art-of-logic-why-brilliant
I agree 100%. We have to be about principles and not personalities. Even Trump must never become beyond question.
I had only two serious complaints about Trump:
1. His continued support for the dangerous and defective mRNA jabs.
2. His refusal to release all the Epstein evidence.
At least he is addressing #2 , and maybe in the best way possible, relying on TDS as his own weapon.
But I'm still not happy about #1. Millions died for the profits of Pfizer and the power of the DoD. Appointing pharma uber-lobbyist Suzies Wiles as his gatekeeper smells very bad.
Agreed but my other issue is if he is trying to dismantle the NWO why have Larry Ellison of Oracle in the oval office on day 2. Ellison said we will all be tracked so we can be controlled.
I didn't like that strange show either. I do not want any AI-generated mRNA jabs.
Trump does a lot of good things, but also hangs out with some shady people like Ellison and MBS.
Yes Trump's connection with the technocrats and the digital ID that Trump is now pushing is my concern and it frustrates me that Jeff never talks about this. That is what I see as the Trojan horse.
I agree.
Instant reporting of ID usage to a centralized database gives the government unwarranted visibility into and control over our lives.
Credit cards are kinda evil for this very reason. I always use cash now.
Go to the furniture store with $3000 in cash to buy a sofa that you've had your eye on and see how they look at you as if you are suddenly a drug lord.
https://x.com/tpv_john/status/1991234009729290606?s=46
Read that
That’s in reference to the control grid and digital ID
Well guess what happens if something happens to trump? Then who's president? The Simpsons predicted it
Patrick, I don't get out much. Who is MBS?
Mohammed bin-Salman, ruler of Saudi Arabia
Wasn't MBS the target of a hit during the Las Vegas Fiasco several years ago? I believe Kashoggi was part of the group that was attempting to overthrow the succession for the Throne.
Didn't hear about that. Got a link?
All I heard was that Kashoggi was a dissident, and Saudi Arabia allows zero dissent, so he was lured into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul and chopped into pieces on orders from MBS:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/what-happened-jamal-khashoggi-murder-trump-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman
So long ago! John Cullen did a few long-form videos explaining the Coup attempt and the subsequent retributions.
Keep 'em close - the better to know what is going down...
Absolutely. Principles before personalities.
Agree 💯
And Seattle. It’s already a dump, but it will get worse.
Love this!
Posers? Stop being nice. More like a new age Manson family. A few thoughts here. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/jay-jones-and-the-personification
Good reminder John! Thx!
Happy Wednesday, C&C readers!
For those in the bleachers (or Rio Linda, as Rush used to say):
"But please remember: if I haven’t covered a particular story, it isn’t that I’ve sold out, gone over to the 'other side,' or collaborated with hostile space aliens. Assume my silence means I’ve looked and concluded it’s either a fake issue, isn’t ripe, is still a hot take, or is otherwise non-essential news."
Let Jeff Childers work. 😉
Yes. My every day begins with Jeff's stack. On YouTube, my favourite optimist is "Dr. Steve" Turley. Both do us so much good with their highly intelligent take on things. And yes, I'd recently discovered Promethean Action, too... another good one.
Yes, Promethean is well worth spending time listening to.
I love Prometheus Action!
Me too. Promethean is calm, cool and collected. And I have been loving it.
“Come, let us reason together”says the Lord.
They and Jeff Childers present reason, in a world fraught with emotional manipulators.
I listen to “Dr Steve” each day. Enjoy his take on current events.
He's great.
Do you have a link for Promethean Action? I can’t find anything recent.
Promeathean is on You Tube
Aka Promethean Updates
Just reading his summary at the top today left me breathless. 🤣🤣 He more than adequately covers the news that’s worthy to report.
LJW! LTW!
Amen and amen!
Amen!
Indeed!
Well the digital ID, which Trump has already stated he wants to implement and Trump's cozying up with the technocrats is not fake, very ripe, beyond a hot take and is essential news. So why isn't Jeff talking about it?
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And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
— 1 John 5:11-12
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
— 2 Timothy 2:19
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When a senior Catholic Archbishop — a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States — openly accuses global elites of infiltrating Western governments to impose Agenda 2030… the world should stop and listen. Viganò warns:
“A dangerous subversive elite has infiltrated the highest levels of Western institutions to implement a criminal global plan.”
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1990395227547316324
When cardinal Vigano speaks, my ears always perk up. He is someone to pay attention to regarding global affairs. He’s also a man of God who I very much respect.
Me too. I respect him a lot.
Amen, Janice. What an apt Scriptural quotation today.
“Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
Amen. God's Will be done.
Thank you Janice for your daily Scripture posts. They are always a blessing. BTW, I often copy and paste them on a note page called "C&C Scriptures".
“Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
It is evident that there are many people who claim Christ, don’t hear His voice.
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I have a hard time understanding how so many people don’t realize the depth of the operation in which Trump is involved. Does no one recognize the world wide financial and political ties he is untangling and freeing the American people and economy? This is a massive task and I am thankful every day President Trump is willing to take on the job. I wish people could see the big picture and avoid getting bogged down in the trivia. President Trump is a master at this game, give him some grace.
And about his stating that Epstein is a Democrat Hoax: he wasn’t referring to the Epstein crimes or the coverups. He was speaking to how they were trying to use the files to implicate him - that was their hoax. That they ignore the hundreds of guilty within the files only caring to find HIS name. The hoax is they DON’T really care about the women and children at all, they only care about using their abuse to get him. That’s the hoax. Like Russia Russia Russia, convincing the public Trump did something he didn’t that THEY actually did.
It’s mind boggling to think that the democrats thought they could demand the release of these files and really think they would not at the very least implicate some of their own self proclaimed heroes. Now Hakeem Jeffries being mentioned, that’s just icing on the cake!
I know, right?
I agree! They care about ONE NAME but there are plenty and it’s sick and disgusting. I’ve seen some IG videos on Epstein island stuff and stories from the victim that pulled a ‘dead man switch’ after she committed suicide after sieving a bus accident and then kidney failure 😏 anyhow not sure if it’s real but sick stories
We just don't deserve him as Gutfeld says. He is the funniest President ever!
Amen. And realize Trump is just the front man. There are legions of light warriors doing the deeds behind the scenes.
I am convinced that Trump is playing the easy game with dems and libs. It is so easy for him to enrage them. They don’t know how to stop themselves at this point. Imagine being constant enraged for the last 11 months. Their immune systems are shot because of all the cortisol responses. They can’t sleep and don’t “feel safe” anywhere. Poor things. They are being tossed around in the MAGA Ocean on the USS Trump, waiting for the next missile like a Venezuelan drug boat.
Trump is lightning fast and pummels them from all sides. They have zero coping skills and even less of a grasp on reality. They are chaff in the wind, with no direction or stability. Let them flounder and flail. Let them try to sway the narrative. That’s all they can do at this point. All they have is narrative manipulation. Reality is staring them down and they cower relentlessly.
Trump knows how to play his hand.
💯 agree. I’ve been on a steady diet of popcorn the past 11 mos 😂
My thoughts exactly!
Very well written.
(Much better than I would be able to express.)😊
Right?? All these people saying “Trump should just… [fill in the blank] “ seem to think it’s so easy and straightforward 🙄
I wish he would get RFK Jr. to work on medical freedom. One of my competitors was recently put in prison for marketing a frequency instrument that eliminates disease in the body. It was a primitive device, but it worked and customers loved it. That's NOT medical freedom.
Maybe we'll see a 'Medical Freedom' bill or 'Freedom from Medical Tyranny' bill that the admin will be pushing. In a year or so hopefully.
In the US? What did they get him on? His device sounds like Rife.
2 marketers got prison sentences for marketing frequency instrumentation (Rife Devices) using Sympathetic Resonance that Rife used. (A Rife Machine is a microscope) The formal charges were "Practicing medicine without a license" and "Evading income tax". Both bogus, of course.
We, now, have more advanced technology that works faster and doesn't need programming, called Energy Density. It's only sold by word of mouth or text like this; never advertised.
Wow. 🤯
@Sir Jeff- that sounds awfully Star Trekky to me to believe.
If I'm the only one you have heard this from, it's because the others are in prison. For example, Cancer was proven to be 100% curable in a clinical trial in 1934. They used frequency instrumentation. You can see modern, computerized frequency instrumentation on my website as well as the Rife story about the clinical trial. harmonicresearch.org I'm not in prison because I don't advertise or sell enough for big pHARMA to care.
The more advanced Energy Density Technology is used in the product in the following vids: https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/a2759efb-0c6e-4577-b6c8-6a3c4fa5ed6b
I tried to click on your website… Nothing came up 😵
copy link and paste - it works.
And when people say “he should focus on domestic policy, not foreign policy…”. I just shake my head and think HE IS!!! Also, if foreign countries have been taking advantage of us, and he’s righting so many wrongs, then that foreign policy is good for all Americans.
Yes Gommey, I agree completely! 👏🏻
**Everyone else: don’t feed the trolls. Agree to disagree and move on.**
Best advice for a pleasant day on the internet!
{{👀👀looks around the room to see who’s missing today}}
Lol. Yes, I even went back to yesterday’s comments to try to see who the troll was, but I couldn’t tell. Maybe Jeff blocking him/her deletes comments made previously. Anyway, kudos to Jeff for policing the room and removing a (most likely) paid activist shill.
Or a very insistent bot… 💩
Just a reminder 🌱Nard, that some of us with old devices can’t even register a “like” on avid posters comments we appreciate… and often comment less than our brilliant known to us regulars… I’ve “been in the room” daily since April 2020… just saying “hello” so you know “I’m not missing” 👋🏻… fantastic journalism today Jeff Childers!!!!
I recognize your name though, and I daresay all the regulars do too! Even when someone doesn’t post much, I can usually remember them if they’ve posted at all.
And I know some people just read and don’t post, or almost never post, which is everyone’s right to do! But you can also tell which posters are just here to stir the pot 🤨
Had that problem myself. My browser wasn't using the latest javascript, so I had to upgrade my browser just to like a comment here, and that required an upgrade of my laptop OS.
Such pain Substack is putting their users through! Ugh.
I was a programmer for 30 years and know exactly how this shit happens: bad management. The Substack dev managers need to force their developers to develop and test on older browsers to include the widest possible audience. They won't like it, but it's the right thing to do.
Programmers always want to use the shiny new things both for fun and because it helps their resumes. But it's bad for business.
Wow you’re an old subscriber 😳 I’ve been here since August of 2021
I am not here! I am not talking now!
I’d be sorely upset if you ever were blocked. I’d lead a LOUD protest. You are my comedy relief!
The only thing about me that is blocked is my head, as my father used to say.
@Jeff S- LOL
Well, i might not be missed by some ....who knows. But, make no mistake (as a few have done)..... I have been here for at least a year or two, recommended others to read C&C , and have never posted just to troll . I asked one person for an apology, but only received a nasty response. Below is one of my posts from last July.
alongername
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Exactly . My thoughts as well , with the voracious C&C readership " rioting like caged rhesus monkeys who just found out the banana shipment got rerouted to El Paso" ....trying to get to the front of the comment queue . (ok, a little plagiarism there ..haha) .
This novel is getting better and better ....... I almost feel guilty not being a paid subscriber . almost . Hey , Jeff is probably as happy to be writing as we are reading .
to be continued .....................
Note: just for context ...this comment was originally posted by me under the one extolling the great "spy novel " analogy . just sayin '
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I'm still here, but I have been MIA because I didn't like what was going on in the comments. But I'm back now, lol😂...let the man work!
Damn trolls. Welcome back. Looking forward to more joie de vivre, as they don’t say in Poughkeepsie.
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I definitely know who is missing 😂
He was a weirdo. Kind of a perv and just plain stupid. There were times I wanted to respond to his utter nonsense, but instead I would furiously delete my post and move on.
He was like a mosquito bite, annoying and itchy but you just ignore it.
Are you referring to Tr00th S33ker?
I don't post very often, but do enjoy the banter and the knowledge I get from reading the posts. Yesterday's comments had a very different tenor and I am happy to see that gone.
Homeschool mom here! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
BTW, I just lost my brother-in-law to the mRNA shot. I warned them…😢 Fatal arrhythmia’s… Enlarged heart… Etc. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😔
So sorry to hear GBA. Will say a prayer for your family healing. <3
Thank you… 🙏🏽😢🙏🏽 funeral is Monday… such a waste… my SIL is a widow at 63… ☹️
So sorry to read about your loss.
🤣 me too
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Same! 👀
I have been here every day, yet silent, as the trolls were so mean, even the ones that "seemed" well meaning gave no one grace or a fair listen. Glad there has been a clean up on C&C aisle 3!!!
You know I didn't notice the poster that Jeff mentioned, with flags and such in the name. This blog (and really much of substack) has not been too infested with outright trolls, which is nice.
That’s what I’m doing 🤣🤣🤣 crack me up!
I have a couple “pet trolls” that I’ve long suspected their true intentions, but I’ve never blocked them, and I’m curious if it’s one of them. Lol
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What's missing is a Dick Cheney lying in State and a funeral. I'm not upset as demons should not receive such cermonies.
Me too 😉🍁
Right, their mission is to waste your time and make you angry.
To that end, they deliberately appear obtuse over and over. Do not engage after establishing their lack of good faith.
I mute them!
Many of you are frustrating me.
President Donald J. Trump is a gift from God. One of his greatest skills is exposing rot and the people or forces behind it. He has never reneged on a promise that he has had the power to keep. Please let him work. His reasons will eventually become clear. Give him the support he needs. If he makes a mistake or two it is minor in the greater scheme of things. He is rescuing this country and us from a globalist evil beast.
Don't make Jeff spend hours and column inches pulling us out of silly rabbit holes. Don't pay attention to media talking heads and political naysayers. They are worthless and a waste of your time.
Pay attention to Congress. They have failed to codify Trump's Executive Orders. They blather endlessly. BUT DO NOTHING. They sit on the sidelines and take no stand followed by concrete action. THEY SHOULD BE GETTING YOUR ATTENTION AND COMMENTS.
Thank you so much, Jeff. I so appreciate your work and efforts.
Pray for all of us and let's make America great again.
That’s what is so frustrating. They treat our President as if he is a dictator and can do anything he wants. He does not but he gets the blame for everything. Meanwhile Congress sits on their hands and just does nothing to move America forward. The GOP is the worst. So ineffective. I hate to admit it but the Dems at least stick together as a bloc to move their agenda forward. The GOP does nothing for us. They are the uniparty. By their inaction they are moving with the Dems. I also believe that Trump has been selected to be God’s champion to do His will so I pray and watch. God’s Will be done. 🙏
He is an instrument/tool. GOD is fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. Give HIM the credit and the glory. Let HIM do HIS works.
Yes! Why on earth did congress come together to pass the Epstein thing but they can’t to ANYTHING else? How about voting reform? Birthright citizenship reform? They do NOTHING.
MAGA MAHA DOGE!
Dave, well said! 👏🏻 Yes, Congress is the huge bump in the road for sure. And, great for mentioning Jeff and the endlessly amazing job he’s doing!!!! 🎯
I had several conversations with folks yesterday regarding your comment on Trump’s action vs. words.
I was taught as a kid that actions speak louder than words. I appreciate that reminder.
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Good for getting rid of gaslighters!!!
A bit like the bibles comments on a woman's inner beauty.
Some are lovely to look at but they are ugly or even evil inside, and their sections are bad.
Others don't look much on the outside but they are beautiful people on the inside, only doing good, wise and kind deeds.
By their fruits you will know them.
Good morning from behind enemy lines in chilly Commiefornia. Thanksgiving is next week. So much to be thankful for! :D
Good morning, Kit Kat! Joining you, from the heart of commie-fornia, in your thanksgiving praise for the many things we can be thankful for! Thankful for what we can see and continuing to pray for the things that are still unseen. 🙏🏼❤️
I love that y'all have a Godly and biblical perspective living where you do, it's how you are able to survive and even thrive. God Bless from Texas.
East Texas blesses you my neighbor! 🙏🏽
Hello both of you from Sonoma County!
Joining you from Ventura! (Grew up in Texas. Love the Lone ⭐️ state.) Hate our politics but love our geography & climate & lack of bugs!
Greetings from chilly “mountains and valleys” of Inland Empire- out in the sticks 😊
Thank you Father for all our blessings as we live in the best country in the world. Good morning C&C.
AND we aren't under Kackling Karmala!!
Amen 🙏
“…if the U.S. cut those numbers in half, you would have half the colleges in the United States go out of business.”
I fail to see the downside.
Have you seen Doug Casey's book The Preparation? It talks about designing an alternative to college, to build real skills. I haven't finished it yet but it's a fascinating concept. I think it's free on Kindle Unlimited.
The College of St. Joseph the Worker is a trade school PLUS undergrad degree in Catholic Studies (BA).
You work all 4 years in apprenticeship programs to pay cost of tuition & living expenses - then walk out with a journeyman certification, BA, no debt, and possibly $$ in your pocket if you work hard enough.
They are just one example of new ways to approach life after high school - and GenZ guys are absolutely stoked about it.
- Ryan’s Wife (putting in my 2 cents)
https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/
College of the Ozarks encourages students to work on campus to pay for their tuition. Not quite the same as an apprenticeship but a useful way to save lots of money and gain work experience.
https://www.cofo.edu/
@Walk- its called work/study but most institutions require you be low income to qualify.
Love it!
Do you have a link to that school?
https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/
Thank you! I passed it on to my CORAC group. https://corac.co/
My Grandfather aged out of a orphanage on his 18th birthday. He went and became an apprentice to a printer and did well for himself. Bring this back to being an approved way of life.
Mike Rowe is also working on that!
University of Austin is working on that.
Interesting. I have no regrets about my education back in the dark ages (U Penn, Wharton) but today, I'd LOVE a program like that. Keep us informed if you hear more about U of Austin's program!
It's being developed. Here's where you can read more about it.
https://www.uaustin.org/
Thank you.
read the sample and the reviews - amazing book, wish I'd had it when faced with college way back when
Tough not to like that comment. Ford just said they have 5K skilled mechanics jobs going begging. Six figure salaries. And they aren't the only ones by a long shot.
My CC has a Ford Asset program that trains mechanics, pays the tuition, the students work in a Ford dealership during part of the academic year then work for the dealership that sponsored them when they finish. It is very popular.
Long term, I agree, but short term, it also indirectly hurts their suppliers and people like plumbers and electricians who get work from these institutions. I am ok with allowing them to fail but it’s probably more prudent to go slowly so there are fewer unintended consequences.
The entire higher education system in this country is a complete and total scam. I’d venture to say that half of those enrolled in four year colleges are wasting their time.
It’s a vicious circle, employers often demand degrees for most jobs nowadays, regardless of how truly useful they might or might not be 😕
And one to five years of experience in similar position. Like they’re incompetent to train - or folks are incompetent to learn.
No one wants to spend the time or energy to train people maybe either 😕
Well let’s face it, training on a new job is inevitable. It’s just a question of how much.
Even 2-year ones are full of junk.
I guess the downside that stood out in Jeff’s article today would be the many financially less fortunate American students who can only afford a smaller or state college, and if that tuition doubles or triples they will be unable to go to college at all. It makes college only available to the wealthy in our country. Yes I know more effort should be put into trade schools and such, but lower class children academically capable of doing really well in medical or science/tech fields should be given that opportunity the same as the wealthy. These smaller colleges were their avenue. Other than that, I see no other downsides, but that IS a big one. We need time for our new economy to adjust and allow these universities the ability to make it with less foreign tuition without raising it for Americans.
The entire system is corrupt. It’s a for profit scheme that benefits banks and elites within the university system.
This is true to an extent but not for all majors.
I think the US has built a strong market of excellent colleges. I don’t object to foreigners coming to our schools per se, but I do think there should be a strict limit on students coming from economies that compete against us or from areas with high anti-US sentiment. It’s like immigration, we need to really know who we’re allowing into our country.
But also, these educational visas should expire upon graduation and they have to leave, go home, before they can apply to work here on a different type of visa. Give American kids first shot.
I agree and I don't trust the Chinese at all. It is sad to say this but those students are indocrinated to be against us and furthermore, why can't they go to college in China? They have their own colleges. Oh I forgot, they are spying on us, silly me.
I was on the cutting edge of detente with China in 1978 at work, and I could see then all they wanted was to suck all the technical knowledge and know how from us they could, then show us the door. Nothing has changed. What is more, I don't feel bad about pretending to pay them with paper funny money, because almost all the products they send us are crap.
And the "American students" are indoctrinated to be pro-commie, anti-american NPCs by their "esteemed" socialist brainwashers pretending to be "educators". What is the ultimate purpose, then, of these indoctrination centers who churn out youth with zero regard (or understanding) of the Constitutional Republic, the core values of THIS country, a distaste for anything moral, led to believe meritocracy is racist, twisted liberal ideology that can't handle or define basic biology or gender, etc? It's best those ivys get dramatically downsized to take away the massive grift funding pretending to be "academia" which does little to support academics, and to stop the garbage grads (half of whom can't read) they're churning out. It's past time for a realignment of the FUNCTION of "education" and actually defining what that is. (A college grad can't define what a "woman" is, but somehow closing down or downsizing these indoctrination centers is an existential threat? 🤦♀️) If that means they close, they weren't academically-oriented in the first place; and, therefore, have no real use for their [falsely] stated purpose.
Darn right!
But, it could be a way for US to affect them instead and lead them to freedom and our Lord, as well.
With all due respect, I don't think that would work in a communist controlled country when they return. The CCP is atheist and won't tolerate any religion. And why is it always us that has to do the accepting, affecting, leading? Is there no other country in the world capable? Charity begins at home and Americans first.
Yes, and can you imagine the loss of all that "research"?
The argument that schools will suffer without the foreign students is nonsense. This is about greed. The tuition American students pay is already outrageous and unaffordable, obviously overpriced. We know because everybody is in student debt! How these schools cannot survive on the ridiculous tuition they're charging our kids is BS. They need to be audited and trim the fat.
Also, the Ivy Leagues have plenty in their endowments. Stop being so greedy.
Very like the federal govt itself.
Jeff - monitoring and checking the comments for "bad actors" must be a time consuming process. Hopefully you can delegate it to someone. Best of luck and God bless. And for everyone else, Jeff is correct when he says "don't feed the trolls". That's what they want, engagement. If you don't like a comment, just say (in a low voice, of course) "screw you" and move on.
I was late to the party with yesterday's substack.
By the time I got to read it, there were over 1,000 comments and it was too much to sort through.
So I appreciate Jeff's explanation.
I don’t usually even visit the comments section for this very reason. Just too much to sort through and I would be reading all day!
One suspects that a properly-trained AI bot can scan and block commenters accurately. The algorithm should include tone of commenter's words, number of comments per day and per week, and how long has the commenter been present on C&C.
the operative words: properly-trained. No AI for me or mine.
Off the the digital gulag we face
🤣🤣🤣 I like it!
Foreign actors entering chat.
Yeah. It happens when substacks become very popular. So, in some ways it speaks to Jeff's success.
Agree 💯 The trolls and the bots go to where the positive action is. To weave discord, doubt and side track the momentum.
Historical tidbit: Great Britain - the English crown and Chatham House, specifically - has been behind virtually every bit of globalist malarkey inflicted on the rest of the world since about 1783.
Definitely Great Britain. For sure. (I wouldn't even look any further).
They're the ones behind most of the nasty behind the scenes stuff. Like Epstein. Wasn't he working with them?
Modern universities are like junkies with the international students. They are hooked and dependent on them for their survival. With any addiction, they need to go cold turkey. Let the universities fail, they have no problem letting American students take out loans more than a mortgage but can’t find jobs and still owe the debt. It’s time we tear the bandage off and kick out all foreign students till our children, American children are not graduating in debt, without jobs and no future. Let the market decide and those that can make it, make it. There are too many universities in this country and we have a falling youth population. Let the universities burn. It’s almost karmic…
Yes, you nailed it.
They are (generally) corrupt institutions that sold 19-year olds a lie that it was "good debt" to borrow $200k and that doing so would guarantee them high-paying employment. The financial institutions eagerly went along with this knowing that debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy. All done to kids just out of high school who had never demonstrated any ability to repay it, or common sense for that matter. This is debt slavery (usury) and it's condemned in the Bible over and over.
There are worthwhile degrees. I'm paying for two kids to get STEM degrees in state universities with good reputations. It is a good value. But we are paying for it out of pocket with zero debt. It means making sacrifices in other areas but for us it is very much worth it.
The Zoomer frustration stems from the fact that people won't acknowledge this is very real issue, and isn't just ingrateful whining. What is really atrocious is that their parents (who are supposed to have the wisdom, not the 19 year old), let them do this. I realize the kids were adults (18 or over) and if they are hell bent you cant stop them. But their parents could have impeded them but didn't. This is the real failure IMO.
We told our kids we would pay for their education if 1) they got a worthwhile degree, 2) it was from a respectable but good value institution and 3) they took out no debt. Totally up to them, but if they didn't do this they were on their own for schooling. Further, if they decided to take out loans they could not live at our house when doing so. No exceptions.
Some may think this is radical, but it absolutely worked. Both of my kids are pursuing STEM degrees and will graduate highly employable with zero debt. That is the legacy my wife and I want for our kids, not twenty years of making payments.
Radical? Hardly, Jeff. Common sense. And I'll bet a college tuition you are told by many people that you and your wife are so LUCKY to have kids that turned out so well. Had nothing to do with common sense "parenting". Great job, Mom and Dad!!
We have similar boundaries in our house. All I know is that I have 3 highly functional adults who are paying for their own needs (except the youngest he’s still in college, but he’ll outearn all of us).
Congrats to you and your wife Jeff C! The carrot and the stick - it works - and down the road your kids will appreciate it greatly! Good job! 👏🏻
Nice.
Universities are Woke Indoctrination Centers that needs to be dismantled and rebuilt to Higher Education Centers. Money Talks (as always). Reduce Foreign Student Tuition, Eliminate Student Loan Programs. Force University endowments to fund Education and stop being Woke Private Equity Firms. Bye, bye Woke Marxist Professors and Administrators. Hello to more graduates who are not swamped with debt, do not believe in Marxism and can earn an income to support a family.
Boom!
EXACTLY! Its the only way to force them to reform along with putting them on the hook for student loans e.g. acting as a guarantor... After all, the graduate is their product and they need to be held accountable for quality control...
Some would say that college students are adults and have the right to screw up their lives with excessive debt for useless degrees.
But this is simply allowing banks to take advantage of naive young people without giving them an honest warning of what a horrible deal they are being offered.
Agreed. Also it's a scam as the system is rigged since school loans cannot be discharged in personal bankruptcy.
Added this to my platform:
Make student loans dischargable by personal bankruptcy once again. Banks need to have an interest in seeing students get good jobs and not merely make obviously predatory loans.
https://patrick.net/post/1303173/2017-02-19-patrick-s-platform
They also do all the research for Pharma and drugs with their funding.
It’s bigger than just that. Universities are the cheap and subsidized research arms for industry and government. They are also the development leagues for professional football and basketball. The taxpayers of America have been taken of advantage by the change of the focus of education to enriching corporations bottom lines.
And destroying freedom of speech
They also were front and center developing covid
Yeah and look how that works out for us. They are hubs for culling us, no thanks.
"Now time grows short. History will not allow the people of Shem additional centuries, or even decades, to come to their senses and realize what is going on. Just as they have been victims of massacres and genocides for centuries, the people of Shem now face the determination of the Canaanites to exterminate them utterly and finally. a goal they hope to achieve by the end of the millenium."
The Curse of Canaan
Eustace Mullins 1987
They "research" (and get paid to skew) some mind-boggling, horrific, heinous and anti-humanity "projects" that, if people were aware of, would shock them to their core as to the extent of their evil... not the least of which is bio-cyber interface and genetic modification of humans which is has already been done... and the sheople, pretending to be awake and aware, while knowing virtually nothing about what's been done to them by g0vt and these institutions whose activities for generations has been nothing short of satanic. WBAN? IOT? IOB? Quantum dots? Digital twins? Anyone? Beuller? These universities (and their billions in g0vt & NGO funding) are nothing more than front groups for the most nefarious activities imaginable. But let's all pretend the sky is falling, and clutch our pearls, if these establishments (and their dastardly programs) cease to exist... while trusting the g0vt's plan going forward -- which you "don't have to know it" (just like you didn't have to know about the c0vid psy0p, trust the plan) -- cuz, this time, for sure, we promise!, they'll change their evil ways about what goes on in the indoctrination centers simply because a different face sits in the oval office. Preserve the status quo, and 🤫.
Excellent summary.
Writing home about it.
They've gotta be missing that USAID goodness.
Right on!
I'm ready for a new T shirt, "Have you read Coffee & Covid Today?". C&C is better and much more informative than 10 newspapers. Its my first read of the day and little else seems worthwhile after it. Thanks JC!
Badlands, New York Post, C&C.
checking out the Badlands stack - interesting
You are spot on about watch what Trump does and not what he says. iI usually falls on deaf ears when I say it. Trump watchers know he deliberately says outlandish things to provoke or misdirect linear thinkers. It is the same with all politicians, and people. I care not what you say (promise) . The only thing that matters is what you do.
I love his outlandishness! He is the funniest Pres we have ever had adding he says it like he sees it. He cracks me up!
Lori, I agree and loved being entertained by him, especially when he’s being mischievous!
I tried explaining this to a TDS during a flare up. She didn't get it. She ONLY gets her opinion from what Trump says. Oh Sure ... OK
OTH, a lot of people 'take you at your word'. So they have to throw that rule out for the President? 4D chess! Heh.
Well she says he’s horrible and says terrible things about people. My reply was, well only people who deserve it. 🤣
Anytime we put our opinions out there, we are enticing the people in the universe to respond and some of those responses can help us practice stoicism!
Like what Seneca advises – that the best reaction to anger is silence. Or, Epictetus, who advised, “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.” Ghandi said something similar, "Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Not really entirely true. There is evil and it is wrong because it hurts and you should NOT give in or cooperate. You certainly should try to stop it from hurting others.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding it perhaps repeating what it means. 🤷🏻♀️
Perhaps it depends on what has been said – is it defamation of character that is a lie? Then, by all means, we should defend the truth. But, in general, a lot of what is said is BS, thus we should not hold on to it.
I agree. I love the ‘sayings’ but they appear to be about ‘feelings’, which seems to be what our feminized society is all about (and I am a female, lol).
As one who had 4 individuals undermine our parental authority / credibility with our severely depressed daughter, I concur. I get the gist of it and agree with the stoics, but people can hurt you through other people you love.
Epictetus and Seneca have taught me a lot, though I sometimes "go off" on people (smiles here). Jesus had a lot to say on starving the trolls, too. Staying whole in body and spirit.