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The elite fear for their status and authority. This explains everything.


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2021 Aug 20, 11:06am   8,397 views  73 comments

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The elite are very insecure since the election of Trump. Trump represents populism, their worst nightmare.

Populism is the idea that ordinary people who did not attend Ivy League schools are as capable of governing as the elite who did.

Note that Trump, though a billionaire, did not attend an Ivy League school and does not have the manners or ideas or the elite.

This makes him a mortal threat to that elite, especially because he demonstrated the ability to avoid wars and boost the economy quite well in spite of being an outsider.

And so their Ivy League degrees and other signs and symbols of being better than everyone else have been devalued. Everything they worked for to separate themselves and place themselves on a pedestal above the hoi polloi is being devalued as they are publicly proven over and over to be incompetent and venal, not deserving of any authority at all.

Thatcher and Trump refused to give the automatic respect many academics feel is their due. They gave the impression that they could see right through us, an uncomfortable feeling.


This elite perceived what was happening in national politics as a deadly challenge to its own status.
- Thomas Frank on why the elite hated Trump

And so the mandatory jabs are the latest expression of the obviously psychotic and desperate attempts of the elite to achieve utter obedience to their "superior wisdom". They are also a way to filter those obedient to the incompetent and venal elite from those who are not obedient so that they can be killed.

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15   NDrLoR   2021 Aug 21, 9:15pm  

Reality says
U.Penn is one of the original Ivy League Colleges/Universities
And the alma mater (or Alma Mammy as he called it) of Fred Waring, one of the most talented musicians of the first half of the 20th century. His dance records of the 20's and early 30's are some of the best arrangements that came out of that era, then his Glee Club occupied the rest of his career. He was also the inventor of the Waring Blendor, as he spelled it. His first interest was engineering, but in 1918 his small band, along with his brother Tom, became too popular to ignore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq8G7D3Nsrs
16   AmericanKulak   2021 Aug 21, 9:31pm  

Ceffer says

Stuff that they had from Obama's actual writings show it full of misspellings and errors, written at an intermediate college level at best, kind of like a high school kid doing encyclopedia copy. The years he was supposed to be at Columbia, nobody remembers him. He was probably attending intelligence agency charm, dress and beauty school during that period, and the Columbia and Harvard Law shticks were just part of the Manchurian fix.


I think they whipped out something he allegedly edited/wrote for the Harvard Law Review as a student, but nobody remembered him there either.

Contrasted with Bill Clinton, whom everybody remembered at the time.
17   Ceffer   2021 Aug 21, 10:20pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
I think they whipped out something he allegedly edited/wrote for the Harvard Law Review

Attendees at other law schools and law review positons said Obama's rise to the law review didn't resemble anything they knew about the process of law reviews in general and how they function at high end law schools. Most required some pretty exhaustive bibliotec-ing skills and preferably an original piece of research. What Obama ever wrote was short and derivative at best.
The publicity stunt part of it was that Obama was some kind of grand mediator and reconciliation genius between the bitterly opposed conservative and liberal segments of the student body, which had nothing to do with the process of law review appointments. Also, it was said that Obama had some designated student who partnered with him or acted as a secretary or something, another unusual thing that they said was never previously done at Harvard. Whoever partnered with him was likely the actual brains acting as beard while Obama was for show and law review was a fake generalissimo medal, like his Nobel Peace Prize. Harvard was in on the intelligence operation scam from beginning to end.
18   zzyzzx   2021 Oct 12, 12:26pm  

Tulsi Gabbard issues warning about elites to Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn-cd6YJvF4

Non YouTube link:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6276088288001#sp=show-clips
19   Patrick   2021 Oct 12, 12:27pm  

@zzyzzx Can you find that on Rumble, Bitchute, or Odysee?
20   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 13, 9:09pm  

Ceffer says
Harvard was in on the intelligence operation scam from beginning to end.


I could believe it. Same reports from Columbia. He's repped as some big shot ace student, but almost nobody remembers him, and those that did thought him unremarkable.

The Ayers - because I believe the Father was in on it - were his lifetime handlers.
22   Patrick   2022 Sep 30, 10:02pm  

BTW, the above meme fits perfectly with most of the Ivy League people I've met.

I had a girlfriend who went to Harvard, and I remember being surprised that she absolutely hated the idea of direct democracy, because then the hoi polloi would get a direct vote over how they she was governed. Just reeked of disdain for common American people.
23   Patrick   2022 Sep 30, 10:22pm  

https://palexander.substack.com/p/agreed-i-we-have-nothing-zero-less?publication_id=579356&post_id=75803652&isFreemail=true


The stakes are apocalyptic but our political and military leadership and the blue-check geniuses on Twitter do not seem to care. Like blustering Western leaders of ages past, this group seems willing to risk it all for their “master of the universe” sense of superiority. As Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow on Russia and Europe at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told MSNBC in a recent, essential piece on how we might have averted this crisis, “It was the desire of Western governments not to lose face by compromising with Russia.”
25   Erasmus   2022 Oct 1, 4:38pm  

I think people don’t understand the whole game the elites play and that s probably by design … the Ivy League system is part of the rigged system by the elites to show how great their children are and assure the continuity of their dynasties … it s a way for them to be like kings and queens without the responsibilities since they don’t operate in the same way … deep down the elites have a complex of inferiority and they have to cover it by imposing on us their rules by force (look at Bill Gate when he was interviewed by the DOJ for Microsoft antitrust infringement and you ll understand what I mean) … read “The hero with a thousand faces” by Joseph Campbell and it will inspire you with a better meaning of what s going on with these fake heroes … it looks like nowadays everything around us is fake
26   clambo   2022 Oct 2, 7:59am  

The elites are an interesting bunch; they are actually intellectually lazy. They have made a mistake to believe because they have intelligence, they don't need to gather facts before having an opinion. They actually assume that the liberals at the NYTimes tell them what they need to know.

Remember that guy Andrew Lahde (not Dr. Burry) who made a fortune shorting the housing mortgage derivatives? He closed his hedge fund making fun of the Ivy League dimwits on Wall Street.

"The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America."

He actually had visited California and saw who got mortgages; for example, an illegal allien who picked strawberries bought a $750,000 house.
"How will I pay it back?" Mortgage broker: "Don't worry about it."

I knew some illegal aliens in California who got mortgages; one told me she and her brother immediately defaulted when the value of the house dropped. Why not? They likely used fake names on the app, or names of dead people.

I digress. The true elites are the vast army of government employees who fear and hate guys like Trump who will scrutinize their pay, pensions, raises, budgets, and nonsense called "work".

Why is there a Federal Department of Education for example? These and others are afraid of Trump or someone like him focusing attention on them.
27   Patrick   2022 Oct 2, 4:08pm  

clambo says

Why is there a Federal Department of Education for example? These and others are afraid of Trump or someone like him focusing attention on them.


Exactly. It should not exist and knows it. Thus the apoplectic fits of hate for Trump.

My current working assumption is that no federal agencies should exist at all except for the military and whatever agency sets US trade policy. Defense and trade, that's all the Federal government should have.

Everything else should be left to the states, as the Constitution says.

The Federal Reserve in particular should not exist, as it isn't even part of the government, but somehow has a monopoly on the issuance of money.
29   Patrick   2022 Oct 4, 12:00pm  



Trump did make some mistakes, imho:

Choosing Pence.
Cozying up to the Saudis who murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11
Trying to take credit for the dangerous and ineffective toxxine.
Failing to dismantle any of the Deep State.
Failing to pardon Assange and Snowden.

But he remains the most effective president any of us have seen.
30   Patrick   2022 Dec 5, 11:50pm  

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/crowdsourcing-request-what-are-the/comments


Great post ! Without reading the 380 comments I'll just say that in my experience THEY WILL NOT ENGAGE. I stopped trying as I only receive blank stares and they walk away. If you send them links they do not respond with "Thanks for sharing I'll take a look." they say nothing. (Even though you are my sister, or best friend, who I was close to for 50 long years and you do have a master's in Critical & Creative Thinking...I'm not looking). What is mind blowing to me is that they have zero consideration of your research and how you came to your opinion. Rather they have outsourced their thinking to their traditionally trusted sources, NYT, NPR, etc. and those sources in my view are telling them that even considering an alternative version of the narrative puts them in the dreaded 'conspiracy nut' basket. Thinking themselves the academics (many I know are) they can't stomach the idea of the label. (Your average Joe doesn't have this fear and knows that they have been treated as 'less than' for their blue collar work, when they are the ones keeping the lights on, so they have always smelt shit from these main stream sources.) The best way in my view is not to try to have any conversation rather it is putting the truth out on T-shirts from sea to shining sea. This way everywhere they look they are seeing that their sources are not being trusted by millions. They will not lose face by having to back down in a conversation but the exposure of these alternate opinions will then will have them secretly questioning their stance. As much as they don't want to be labeled 'conspiracy theorist' they also don't want to be left behind as 'stupid' for being the last one to 'get it'.
31   GNL   2022 Dec 6, 3:08am  

Patrick says

The best way in my view is not to try to have any conversation rather it is putting the truth out on T-shirts from sea to shining sea.

I've been doing this for over a year now. I have several t-shirts now. The last one I bought says..."Noah was a conspiracy theorist and then it rained" on the front. I'm going to add "Are you jabbed?" on the back.
32   HeadSet   2022 Dec 6, 8:15am  

GNL says


."Noah was a conspiracy theorist and then it rained"

That slogan may actually be detrimental, as it can be dismissed as coming from someone with dogmatic beliefs. Better to point out current relevant facts, like "Biden, fully vaxed, fully boosted, and fully Covid positive."
33   richwicks   2022 Dec 6, 8:26am  

How about "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and I don't believe in this vaccine".
34   gabbar   2022 Dec 6, 9:50am  

What the elites are executing and succeeding at, is a slow but surely moving insurrection. And this is why it was worth it to go after Trump for the supposed insurrection, as a distraction. The printing of trillions and the Ukraine pony show is a part of this plan.
35   gabbar   2022 Dec 6, 9:59am  

Patrick says








Elon will be shut down, they cant let him continue to do what he is doing today, they can't let Twitter be used by people to empower themselves.
36   gabbar   2022 Dec 6, 10:03am  

Patrick says

I'll just say that in my experience THEY WILL NOT ENGAGE. I stopped trying as I only receive blank stares and they walk away. If you send them links they do not respond with "Thanks for sharing I'll take a look." they say nothing.

There is no reason for them to engage because engagement doesn't benefit them, power often works this way.
37   gabbar   2022 Dec 6, 10:07am  

richwicks says

How about "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and I don't believe in this vaccine".

I have 2 family members in healthcare industry and they both believe in vaccines, I don't know, I am confused.
38   rocketjoe79   2022 Dec 6, 10:20am  

cisTits says

Need to line the elites up against a wall and, well...you guess the rest.

So let's be like China during the cultural Revolution?
Elites serve their purposes, but the rank and file need to elect people who keep them in check.
39   Patrick   2022 Dec 6, 10:21am  

But what if we don't really have elections anymore?
40   Patrick   2022 Dec 6, 10:25am  

gabbar says

I have 2 family members in healthcare industry and they both believe in vaccines, I don't know, I am confused.


@gabbar There is a big difference between previous vaccines and this mRNA crap:

- the toxxine is new tech, no long term safety data
- short term safety data is far worse than any other vaxx ever
- the mRNA can integrate itself into your genes, and possibly the genes of offspring
- rushed through development
- rushed through testing, and testing results were bad, especially for pregnant women
- forced on the public through threat of job loss, expulsion from school and military, exclusion from public life; this has never been done before
41   Patrick   2022 Dec 6, 10:25am  

gabbar says


There is no reason for them to engage because engagement doesn't benefit them, power often works this way.


Might be better to send them a few choice memes, because they can often make the point before defense mechanisms kick in.

https://patrick.net/memes
42   GNL   2022 Dec 6, 10:37am  

Patrick says

gabbar says



There is no reason for them to engage because engagement doesn't benefit them, power often works this way.


Might be better to send them a few choice memes, because they can often make the point before defense mechanisms kick in.

https://patrick.net/memes

T-shirts
44   Patrick   2022 Dec 6, 10:52am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/greg_price11/status/1599786392363892739#m


Greg Price
@greg_price11
Dec 5
Sen. Kennedy: "These woke, high IQ stupid people, they walk around with zip lock bags of kale that they eat to give them energy. If you want to eat kale, that's up to you. I don't eat kale. You know why? Because kale tastes to me like I'd rather be fat."
Townhall.com


45   Patrick   2022 Dec 6, 11:10am  

GNL says

T-shirts


Yes, maybe T-shirts are better because a lot of people get to see them.
46   richwicks   2022 Dec 6, 7:03pm  

gabbar says

richwicks says


How about "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and I don't believe in this vaccine".

I have 2 family members in healthcare industry and they both believe in vaccines, I don't know, I am confused.

I believe in SOME vaccines, just not this one.

It obviously doesn't work. It doesn't prevent spread, it doesn't give immunity, and it's for a disease that is RARELY fatal. Why mandate people take it?

How can somebody in health care not understand this?

No vaccines work against airborne viruses. You need mucosal immunity. You need an INHALED vaccine to get that - not a shot.
47   GNL   2022 Dec 6, 8:28pm  

We're being set up.
48   Undoctored   2022 Dec 7, 12:09pm  

richwicks says

How about "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and I don't believe in this vaccine".


Almost. But the proper analogy is

Iraq WMD : War in Iraq :: Wuhan Virus : Mandatory Vaccination

So my line is: "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (so I didn’t support the war in Iraq), and I don't believe in a deadly supervirus from Wuhan (so I don’t support mandatory vaccination)”

Not very catchy I admit.
49   Patrick   2022 Dec 7, 1:05pm  

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-december-7-2022


Maginot Line

All of the academic scholarship of the last 100 years failed to protect society from the mind virus of fascism. It was another Maginot Line that provided a very expensive illusion of safety yet it was easily circumvented when the fascists launched their blitzkrieg. One by one the heroes of the anti-corporate left pledged their allegiance to the Fascist Pharma State and support for the iatrogenocide — Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, George Lakoff, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Micah White, Slavoj Žižek.

If we survive, we have to completely dismantle and restructure all of the institutions that failed over the last three years, especially education. If the system fails the moment it is tested, then it was never a good system to begin with.
50   richwicks   2022 Dec 8, 10:25am  

Undoctored says

richwicks says


How about "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and I don't believe in this vaccine".


Almost. But the proper analogy is

Iraq WMD : War in Iraq :: Wuhan Virus : Mandatory Vaccination

So my line is: "I didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (so I didn’t support the war in Iraq), and I don't believe in a deadly supervirus from Wuhan (so I don’t support mandatory vaccination)”

Not very catchy I admit.

No.

The point is the government tells huge lies and it's not just the Republicans that do, the democrats do too

It's stupid to trust this government. You have to be a fucking retard to trust it still.
52   Patrick   2023 Jan 10, 8:32pm  

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/former-top-cia-analyst-condemns-fbi/comment/11795879


Clever Pseudonym
6 hr ago
Not only is the Trump phenomenon the most important event of our time, but now (oddly enough) it looks like Trump and his 4 years in power are only a footnote in comparison to the reaction he engendered.

Trump in his way almost qualifies as a revolutionary moment, but which has been swamped almost entirely by the counter-revolution.

Every single power center in our society, from the FBI and State Dept to the legacy news corps down to your local branch library and county clerk, were jolted into some kind of allergic response where (mostly because all our modern modes of communications work best as conduits of mass hysteria) nothing mattered except ejecting the Orange Beast of the Apocalypse.

This has meant blasting through every possible guard rail and tradition, tearing up the Bill of Rights like Pelosi tore up his speech, and nothing has been off limits: 2 spurious impeachments, the prosecution of anyone who worked for him, the social blackballing of anyone who supported him, up to and including unleashing massive riots in the hope of dislodging him.

I am not as optimistic as Martin Gurri: our Corporate Social Justice ruling class is officially post-democratic, they simply do not recognize any legitimate political opposition, and they absolutely believe that the only reason anyone opposes them (on any point) is retrograde bigotry.

They would sooner turn our entire culture into one single endless Maoist struggle session than admit any possible mistake.
53   Patrick   2023 Jun 27, 3:00pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/indoctrination-reputation-and-evolution


it’s an old saw that “the smart, educated people become liberals because progressivism is somehow the “better” or “more intellectual” or “higher” position on the political spectrum.”

the leftward shift among the more and most educated and especially among the faculties at schools and universities is often trotted out as evidence to this end.

but what if the causality flows the other way?

what if this “blueshift” among the most credentialed who spend the most time in school is not illumination but indoctrination and capture?

what if they are just being inducted to this worldview from long years in institutions designed for just that purpose and then locked into durable allegiance by the elevation of “credentialed classes” into preferential guild-like structures around things like law, science, medicine, and academia where one must be granted and maintain some sort of accreditation to participate?

because there sure seems to be a lot of that going around. ...

the civil war, we were assured, was about nothing but slavery. issues like state’s rights, secession, free association, preferential internal mercantilism, and large scale tax and spend infrastructure projects were not mentioned. the same idea of “no taxation without representation” was not applied to tyranny of the majority and north vs south or industrialized vs agrarian. ...

i have spoken before about the importation of prussian notions that school was meant not to “educate” and generate free thinking but rather to mold model citizens loyal and subordinate to the state and its ends. ...

the minds of the young are not like the minds of the adult. they are missing parts and far more prone to intense irrational loyalty that lacks the basic self-awareness and self-governance that comes later. the human mind is not really fully finished until into one’s 20’s. before that they are more malleable, more easily programmed. how tantalizing then that this is just the age that “school” seems to have evolved to finally let them go. one might well wonder what it evolved to optimize…

but what happens when these systems of indoctrination become utterly corrupt?

and what happens when the fact of this really starts to leak out? ...

these wizards of woo woo ran into a buzz saw of people who had real domain expertise outside the walled gardens of academic endeavor and the pattycake peer review of friendly guild systems. they came from a world where one has to actually be right for a living, not just “socialized and credentialed.”

the “experts” ran headlong into the reputation economy and it turned them into mulch.

and it’s going to keep coming.

and it needs to keep coming. ...

universities and university systems hung together because this pvivileged class had FAR more invested in keeping this system intact and functioning than it did in knocking it down or pruning back its power or prestige over trifling matters like truth, honesty, or accuracy. ...

it’s tearing ivory towers down because this newly informed and enfranchised class does not care about “keeping the system as it is” and are happy to bulldoze the castles of the would be feudal lords of academia because they have come to realize that this group is not here to protect us from invasion.

it IS the invasion.

and this invasion is dishonest.

and it is weak.

it has succeeded because it retained sufficient reputation to gaslight society into being too frightened, too alienated, and too intimidated to challenge it. but it was all woo-woo, a kung fu theater of phony facility. it’s all flash, no substance; it’s all hat, no cowboy.

the true power of woo-woo lies in making you too afraid to challenge it.

and a lot more of the world works like this than you think. ...

the level of access and education available to any who seek it and engage with it is almost impossible to overstate and is certainly impossible to compete with. it just takes desire, diligence, and application. 3 years of arguing economics in earnest on twitter probably has more value than most econ degrees.

and the cream will find ways to rise.
54   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2023 Jun 27, 4:49pm  

i don’t know about cream. i see a lot of crooks, swindlers and professional liars rise. thats what our system rewards.

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