As one views modern man in his innumerable exhibitions of irresponsibility and defiance, one may discern, if he has the courage to see what he sees … a prodigious egotism.”
Richard M. Weaver
The West’s decline into “fragmentation,” said Weaver, owes much to an inner disintegration of soul, an egotism without any sense of proportion. Weaver then quoted Plato’s statement that, “the excessive love of self is in reality the source to each man of all offenses; for the lover is blinded about the beloved, so that he judges wrongly of the just, the good, and the honorable, and thinks that he ought to prefer his own interest to the truth.” With these words the ancient philosopher has given us an insight into the collapse of empires and the fall of mighty men; and also, an insight into the fall of a pillow salesman from Minnesota named Mike Lindell.
In the days following his Sioux City symposium extravaganza, Mike Lindell has turned into a raving madman, lashing out at anyone who disagrees with him. How do we explain Lindell’s self-destructive behavior? Has he shown such behavior in the past? As a gambling addict? As a crack cocaine addict? Has politics become yet another addiction for this addictive personality? What are we to do with Lindell as he careens dizzily into unreality? One thing is certain. We must not follow him there.
Many of us thought Lindell was well-intentioned; but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Many of us thought Lindell was honestly taken-in by the swindler, Dennis Montgomery; but then we are forced to admit the adage that “you cannot cheat an honest man.” Many of us thought Mike Lindell was a loyal patriot; but he and his side-kick Brannon Howse are slandering and maligning an ever-expanding circle of patriots, truthtellers and good-faith bearers of bad news.
When detective Mike Zullo and I attempted to warn Lindell that he was being swindled by Dennis Montgomery, Mr. Lindell called Mr. Zullo on the phone and chewed him out for two straight minutes – refusing to hear anything Mr. Zullo had to say. Being a former police detective, who had invested months of his own time, Mr. Zullo had much to tell Mr. Lindell. But Lindell would not listen, though he would have profited beyond measure by doing so.
Zullo and I worked to warn Mr. Lindell because we believed Lindell was a reasonable and honest man. To our regret, Mike Lindell could not recognize the truth if it crawled up his nose and ate out his brain. A real leader is one who can see the truth when others cannot. Lindell, however, has proved to the country that he is unable to tell truth from falsehood. We have also learned that questioning Lindell is Lèse-majesté. His money, indeed, has purchased a small army of “investigators” and “experts.” They earned their pay by failing to correct three crazy assertions: (1) that in August Lindell was going to win before the Supreme Court, nine to nothing; (2) that this would return Donald Trump to the White House; (3) that this was possible because Lindell had acquired and verified all the packet captures for the whole November 3rd election.
All three of Lindell’s assertions were absurd on their face for the following reasons: (1) The Supreme Court is in recess until 4 October 2021; (2) There is no precedent for overturning a presidential election once a new president has been sworn in; (3) It is impossible for a civilian to legally acquire all the packet captures from the November 3rd election.
Nearly everyone who attempted to warn Mike Lindell has been taken to task, either by Lindell or his yapping dog (Brannon Howse). Others, who dared report the truth about the cyber symposium, have been maligned and slandered. Just to name one: IT consultant Josh Merritt has been vindictively assailed by Lindell as a “traitor” to America.
On Tuesday I spoke with Tom Trento and John Guandolo. All three of us were publicly chastised by Brannon Howse during an ill-omened Friday the 13th radio broadcast. Incredibly, Howse berated us because we were allegedly wrong about the dangers of going ahead with last week’s symposium. Gaslighting his audience, Howse claimed that we had acted shamefully, that we were “useful idiots” on the right. In retrospect this was high praise coming from a “useless idiot” in the wrong. In order that he does not gaslight his audience (once again) by saying I have misquoted him, I have linked an audio recording of his Friday the 13th program in the notes below. Here is what Howse said about me:
Shame on Jeff Nyquist. We should have never given him a platform. It’s amazing the people we’ve given a platform to over the years that turned out to be not what we thought they were. But, you live and learn; and it’s hard to see through people; but, Jeff Nyquist, big disappointment. Quoting me in articles, lying. He wasn’t even quoting me correctly. And he was quoting private conversations. That’s a trashy journalist. That’s not even a journalist.
I am gratified that Mr. Howse failed to notice my real faults. Yet Mr. Howse needs to explain his grotesque hypocrisy; for three days after decrying my alleged misquotation of a private conversation with him, Mr. Howse aired the private conversation of IT consultant Josh Merritt before a live TV audience. In a back-and-forth discussion, Lindell and Howse commented on Merritt’s use of foul language in a conversation not intended for television. Howse even complained of how he had to clean up the recording for broadcast. If, indeed, I am a “trashy journalist” for outing Mary Fanning and Brannon Howse’s slanderous whispering campaign against detective Mike Zullo, then what are we to think when Howse maliciously broadcasts a man’s private telephone conversation with a running blow-by-blow commentary?
Yet even so, Merritt’s sincerity was obvious to every discerning listener. By comparison, Lindell and Howse’s misrepresentations were painfully inept. Merritt’s words, even as they were decried by Lindell and Howse, rang true. Merritt said that Lindell’s vaunted packet captures were bogus. When Merritt broke the news to Lindell at the symposium, the pillow salesman refused to believe him. After all, Lindell would have been compelled to honor his promise to pay out $5 million dollars. Naturally, he wasn’t ready to part with his money. Yet, if you make a public promise in front of a hundred million people, you’d better be prepared to honor it.
To Lindell and Howse there is only one thing to say: If you were going to gaslight us, gentlemen, you should have shown more skill. What kind of idiots do you think we are? We are not members of a cult who are bound to believe that last week’s symposium was a glorious success. We were never fooled by Montgomery, as you were. And neither were those polite politicians who do not want to tell you, face-to-face, that you fell on your face. Furthermore, it would be best if you quit the field before you do even more damage to the country and to yourselves. Once more, it is good advice I give – and free. I am afraid, however, you will once again go against my advice. I am afraid that you both have decided to brazen it out, and pretend you were not fooled – alleging you still have the vaunted packet-captures. In this matter I must offer another warning. Lies have a limited lifespan. When you are caught in a lie, it does you no good to cast light upon it while saying it isn’t so. And when you are given accurate warnings, it does you no good to cry shame at those you should have heeded. And when you are dressing someone down for an alleged offense, it is stupid to turn around and commit that same offense for all to see.
And I must say, again, that I am gratified that Mr. Howse missed my real faults. Oh yes, to my everlasting shame I do not turn the other cheek. I hit back, Mr. Howse. And I can hit harder than you, having nothing to lose. So think twice before you call another man a “joke” and a “clown”; for I investigated Dennis Montgomery when you did not. I investigated back in January because I was afraid you were walking into a trap. I got involved in this subject out of concern for you; that is to say, I was a fool for thinking you cared about the truth. And so, I sought to protect your reputation by diligently researching the source of these packet captures. I warned you in early February about Montgomery. And for my reward in trying to protect you – ungrateful blockhead that you are – you not only disregarded my warning; but you slandered Mr. Zullo. And now you say that I am a “Joke” and a “clown.” And yes, I am a joke and a clown because I trusted you. I believed in you; and I did not let you down. You let me down. And you know what? I should have seen that coming.
The bottom line, Mr. Howse, is simple: When you veered away from the truth, I veered away from you.
Notes and Links
Lindell Declares all-out war on Fox News – https://patriots.social/2021/08/06/mike-lindell-sets-off-firestorm-with-symposium-new-ad/
Lindell says Trump will return to White House in August – https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-lindell-says-trump-will-be-back-in-office-in-august-thanks-to-his-voter-fraud-lawsuit/ar-BB1f5SW8
Supreme Court Calendar and Lists – https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/calendarsandlists.aspx
Mike Lindell bizarrely airs ‘confession’ from his own cyber expert – Mike Lindell Apparently Streamed A ‘Confession’ About Symposium’s Lies (uproxx.com)
Brannon Howse assails Trento, Guandolo and Nyquist, starts during 9th minute of broadcast – https://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/brannon-howse-august-13-2021
Jeff Buongiorno on Mike Lindell – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lindell-attack-jeff-buongiorno_n_611c17f9e4b0e5b5d8e3d2a0
Pillow fight! Police release photo of man suspected of assaulting CEO Trump supporter Mike Lindell at South Dakota cyber symposium – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9907109/Police-release-photo-man-allegedly-aggressively-poking-CEO-Mike-Lindell.html?src=ilaw
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410 responses to “The Pillow Fight: Part I”
Well, no easy answers from you, I see, Mr. Nyquist, RE the Old Yeller example…reminds me of my English major days when a beloved professor would challenge me to consider the topic at hand more critically. At the time, I would be frustrated, but later on, I would appreciate their constraint.
I encourage everyone to use their imagination. It is a wonderful resource.
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@JRNyquist: I write creatively in my spare time, so I do tend to use my imagination a lot of the time 😉
The latter part of my previous post, wherein I had made an analogy about a professor, was meant to be a compliment, not sarcasm, by the way 🙂
If I ever give up this blog, I will write science fiction.
Connoting, therefore, respect and fondness
Janelle LaTrouvere, I think Old Yeller is Lindell. The people who dont want to put Old Yeller down because he is such a great dog, is the public who continued to support Lindell’s claims for the past several months, even though he has not showed the absolute proof he says he has. The money he brings for folks like Bannon, is like the 300 millions Old Yeller brings in.
Mr. Nyquist, is that what you meant, or do I need to do some more thinking?
You are clever.
@GreyKnight: Thank you for the explanation; I appreciate the insight. I had never watched nor had read “Old Yeller” before, so I hadn’t been familiar with the plot, or with the characters. I had known that Old Yeller was a dog, that was about it, tbh.
The movie is good, but as always, the book is better. You’re welcome, I hope it didn’t seem like I was trying to butt in. Just wanted to see if I actually got it or not.
Old Yeller is a great story. Perfect for young boys.
Even good for old boys to read a book like that sometimes. It takes you back to a simpler time for an hour or two.
Not really. I had to think about it for a few minutes when I saw it.
Carlyle’s book on the French Revolution arrived yesterday. It’s very tempting to start reading it, but I am on Live Not by Lies right now.
Mr. Nyquist, The Fool and His Enemy is just as good as Ideas Have Consequences. You have a way of packing a punch with each sentence.
I’m very glad I found your site. Your blog is the only one I have ever read. I do read other sites such as Conservative Treehouse, Gateway Pundit, Pamela Geller, but yours is the only blog. I get a real feeling of genuineness, honesty, and good sense from you, and pick up good thoughts and info from your readers as well.
Plus it has encouraged me to get back to reading more. Your work is an encouragement to me, and I’m sure to many others.
I hope everyone will support your work on a regular basis. You are a rare find. I’m not trying to flatter, I just want you to know that you are greatly appreciated.
I am very glad to see you are inspired to activate your brain. Life is better that way, too.
>>>Many of us thought Lindell was well-intentioned; but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Many of us thought Lindell was honestly taken-in by the swindler, Dennis Montgomery; but then we are forced to admit the adage that “you cannot cheat an honest man.” Many of us thought Mike Lindell was a loyal patriot; but he and his side-kick Brannon Howse are slandering and maligning an ever-expanding circle of patriots, truthtellers and good-faith bearers of bad news.<<<
Jeff – I believe you have been correct about most of the story with Mike Lindell… I did not like it at first, and I think many might agree with me, but you did indeed try to warn Mike, and everyone else, what was going to happen. Having said that, my only disagreement is with the adage about not being able to cheat an honest man. However, I do believe that honest people fall prey to cons all the time. A great deal of America did, myself included, with regard to the cyber symposium.
Are we dishonest? I don't believe so. I think we WANTED to believe, because we are so dismayed by the election fraud that did occur and everything else that is collapsing in our once-great nation. I do believe election fraud occurred at levels that are almost unfathomable, and much of this was presented at the symposium, which helped it not be a complete disaster. It has also had the effect of motivating many to demand full forensic audits in their own states, which must be done.
The simple fact is people don't want to believe that they are, were or might be victims of conmen, and will lash out at anyone who brings their lack of discretion to light. If Lindell were a democrat, he wouldn't care, as democrats are by and large without shame, but he is a patriot, and the embarrassment at this point must be overwhelming.
I am not sure you were cheated in the same sense Lindell was. Did you lose money? Sources are telling me that Lindell gave Dennis Montgomery $3.3 million. Do you think you would have parted with such a sum if the recipient had a reputation for serial fraud and was known as “the man who conned the Pentagon”? I think there is a self-dishonesty inherent in someone who takes the word of a known swindler and pays him that much money — assuming it is true.
Onengineer, you said;
”The Russian Orthodox Church is organically unable to lead any sort of spiritual recrudescence in Russia.”
It’s the only Institution that can, not being entirely human but founded by Christ Himself as His Church. You may not be used to hearing people contradict your own musings on things, but such is life.
”A large number of the clergy were KGB agents”
Funny thing is, they are all very much Capitalists today, those same gentlemen, today. And they are really big on union with Rome, strangely enough, and suspiciously so. In other words, highly adaptable.
”and are still compromised and working with the Putin regime.”
The Church always tries to work as harmoniously as possible with very temporal regime under the sun, for the good of souls, and comprised of sinners of course. Specks and Beams.
”Russia became a moral junkyard under the soviet regime, and things have not improved.”
Did it not? Sounds like Pharisee talk to me. Russia is not deluged with Communist tripe these days, but instead with the kind of tidal wave of immoral Western filth and pornography and degradation that swamped the country after the collapse and the opening to the West in the 1990’s. I know you will not believe it, but common people in Russia were indeed more moral before the collapse than after. We were so naive, we did not think the Western people would take a dump on our very souls and cover the land with the very excrement that is killing the West too. First thing Yeltsin did, very first thing, was to de-criminalize sodomitical acts, for example.
And mr Nyquist, you said;
”This is true. The fish, as it were, rotted from the head.”
Well the Head is Christ, in whom there is no darkness as far as my own faith leads me to believe. There may be at one time or another many bad ”Orthodox” clergy, who are actually heretics who are expelled from the Church. The last problem began in the 17th century, it will be resolve.
Do you really think a Church headed by State Security agents is actually headed by Christ? Surely, the Church you seek has moved to another set of people and buildings. Not the ones with the “official” label.
I tend to think these days that those who still hold to the traditional ways of Orthodox Christians, the so-called ”Old Believers”, Starovery, are in the right. Solzhenitsyn and Sharefevich thought so too, among others (Dostyoevsky hinted at it as much as he dared, because of the official Romanov censors and his friendship with Podbedonostyev the Romanov’s Oberprocurator), and that the Schism must be ended, for the sake of the whole world. So no, I am not very ”official”, but I do not doubt the sincere piety of those Christians who are going to the official temples. It’s perhaps a start for them. I have many reasons therefore that go back long before Bolshevism, to be mistrustful. God is merciful, more merciful than I would be perhaps.
What is a Church when led by the enemies of God? This question now afflicts Catholics and Orthodox, and many Protestants. We must go deeper to discover what is happening.
An example of what I’m speaking of in ”Old Believer” Worship. It is not in Russian, but Old Slavonic, which is closer to modern Bulgarian than Russian, but still quite understood;
He Blames Russian post Soviet moral collapse on Western influence. Nice try.
Seems to me that based on your comments you are emotionally invested in the moral turpitude of an entire people, and no contrary facts will be allowed by you. Unlike Mr. Nyquist, who has not only the intelligence but also good grace to see things as they are for the most part, you shoehorn reality to fit your malevolent worldview. By your personal attacks on me, you show yourself as bereft of ideas and incapable of coming up with serious rebuttals.
The moral collapse is something you are projecting, people in Russia really are getting their act together, but perhaps that too is a reason for you to hate us, if we do succeed? Fact is, I do blame Russians for being infected with bad Western ideas such as Marxism, but also falling prey to the stupidity of Western ”Enlightenment” era philosophy. Post-Communist Russia now is bombarded with Western style but home grown trash, which anyone in the West knows is difficult to fight. Rap is stronger than Lenin. Butt s and Boobs on television more powerful than Stalin’s ghost. Drugs stronger than dreams of international revolution. But, God is stronger than all, and Russia will awaken greater than before after the 20th century Democide of over 100 million Russian lives. Even Zhironovsky gets it now, debating Communists in the Duma;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9W83vWUjc0
Here he talks about Lenin’s hatred of Russia;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vGI4Rc4Fec
A hatred that you and your blood brother Lenin share!
No, your position is a sick joke, funny almost if the pathological paranoia and hysterical hatred didn’t make it sad. Christ enlighten you!
Zhirinovsky? The former KGB officer whose party was formed under the USSR?
Russias moral collapse started long ago. It’s continuation under the wisdom of the Russian leadership can’t be blamed on the West. I think it had something to do with communism. I don’t hate Russians but you like to label anyone that has anything bad to say about her as a paranoid Russaphobe. I wonder how long before Nyquist “bans” you again. I’m taking bets on your next handle.
Things like this whole Mike Lindell controversy are an unfortunate distraction. The central problem remains: there is no replacement for Donald Trump, only one much more effective. Mr. Trump came along and grabbed ahold of the Republican Party and did not let go until after a re-election defeat forced it out of his hands. He may still wield some influence, but it has certainly waned. Now the Republicans flounder under a feckless Mitch McConnell, and the yippy RHINO likes of crying wuss Adam Kinzinger and defacto Democrat Liz Cheny. The leadership void is vast. There is no Republican who will unabashedly stand up and flex verbal muscle enough to absolutely and uber-effectively scorch-earth flamethrow Biden/Harris/Pelosi/Fauci to the extent of not only getting their attention, but genuinely terrifying them and their lackey media. That is who we need now, and that is what so many people would rally around. But there is no senator, no governor brave enough, or skilled enough, to do so. No one to electrify us, no ‘grey champion’ to galvanize a whole new movement, one greater than the Tea Party, the Trumpists, and erstwhile Reaganites combined. That is who and what is needed now. One might wonder if he/she would literally survive the establishment’s certain consequent wrath. Nonetheless, the *need* for one such person unfortunately echoes to an empty chamber.
I suppose all the institutions would move to crush such a person. They would send agents to befriend and beguile. They would trip him up. Flatten him.
Mr. Nyquist, you said when speaking of the enemies of God and man alike;
”What is a Church when led by the enemies of God? This question now afflicts Catholics and Orthodox, and many Protestants. We must go deeper to discover what is happening. ”
Obviously for many there is an Eschatological dimension, an Apocalyptic dimension, to what is happening. I resist that notion, because I want to keep my head about me and not be deceived. However I am not blind to the possibility, as we have been in the ”Last Days” since 33 AD.
One of my concerns is that the son of perdition will be one who is disguised as a liberator from the evils of secular modernity and progressivism. The evil one already has the wicked in his train; to seize the ”good” (or as much as he can seize them) he needs to promote that which has the aura of godliness, morality, and the natural social virtues, without the substance thereof.
Did not the Antichrist appear in Russia, in 1917? — in the form of Bolshevism? And has not that Antichrist clothed itself in Russian Orthodoxy? And are not the Old Calendar Greeks the true Orthodox — refusing to associate with Kremlin Orthodoxy? Can you really argue with the stand taken by those few brave priests in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, who forfeited church property and money to avoid communion with the Moscow patriarchate?
Dear Mr. Nyquist, the ”spirit of Antichrist” has been with us in the world for a long time, so do not fully identify it entirely or exclusively with Bolshevism (although that has been one very overt form). As for the ”official” church of what might be called ”world orthodoxy” (which is not Orthodox, but is conforming to the spirit of error), it is intimately linked to the today’s Vatican in significant ways.
The so-called ”Old Calendar” Orthodox (called ”Old Calendar” by their opponents, as if the only problem they have with the official structures is the new liturgical calendar of 1921) including the ROCOR clergy who won’t abide by Patriarch Kyrill, are indeed, with the ”Old Believers”, the Remnant that is in the world. I know these Clergymen and Laity, I’m one of them, with them.
But… The Apostolic Church, guided in the Holy Spirit and with the aim of salvation and not anathema as much as is possible, always gives the erring time and opportunity to repent and return to the Christian faith. I with others seal myself off from them, knowing their errors are already condemned. If and when the time comes for their formal and final judgement of Anathema, I will with heavy heart accept that and take my own actions accordingly. As it is, numerous Anathemas have already been proclaimed;
The Man Of Sin is revealed by the signing of a peace treaty for the protection of Israel, by and between the dictator of Europe and the leader of the one World religion; the two Beasts, The Antichrist and the False Prophet.
”Ricardo Galvan”, you said;
”What are your views on Dugin as an alleged Satanist and Occultist? I’ve heard these claims but have not verified them.”
If I may answer to the best of my ability (not sure if your question was addressed to me or not), I do know that Dugin was hanging out with a group of marginal freak intellectuals who (in a very transgressive un-patriotic and un-russian way) obviously admired the SS and Third Reich and other Fascistic figures, and who engaged in Crowleyite ritual sex magic and such things. To me that suggests un-natural acts between men and other men among other things, by the way, which is pretty much a requirement for that sort of depravity. It is claimed by his supporters that he and his family was of the Edinovertsy, ”Old Believer” supporters of the official Church, but one little detail makes that highly unlikely to me; Old Believer adult men do not shave their beards, ever, unless drafted into military service maybe (funny, never heard of Dugin’s record in the military, when all able bodied men serve at least two years) whereas Dugin has only had a beard in pictures since about 2000, if I’m not mistaken. He definitely knows the occult, he’s very well versed in that from what I can tell. Maybe he’s changed, I try not to judge people overly much even though that’s my natural inclination, but I don’t trust him.
Mr. Nyquist, you said concerning ”Notes from the Underground” that;
”The man from underground. He emerges into the open now. He surfaces. Yes.”
You might like this one man theatrical monologue, a play of ”Notes from the Underground”;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asp5tqDql0g&list=LL&index=1
When I see it, I am struck by how un-russian the Underground Man is in the story, how unlike regular Russian people. An alienated Modernist intellectual egghead, the kind of crooked timber that almost murdered the 20th century.
I remember the story, yes. Dostoyevsky is a real psychologist.
Isn’t it interesting though in this modern world that probably everyone knows someone, from the book or the play, like the spiteful and alienated creature in their personal circles?
Why do some posts not have a reply button? Is that moderator controlled?
You reply at the bottom and touch the arrow in the reply box. All have it.
Not for me. I’ll try different browser. Ty
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Bedlamsbard1, if you download the Wordsmith app, you will have it. Also you will have a reply button under each comment. I just downloaded the Wordsmith app about a week ago. For awhile, I was just going to the JRNyquist blogsite, and it sounds like that is what you are doing. Download Wordsmith
Bedlamsbard1, I meant WordPress, not WordSmith. Sorry.
Mr. Nyquist, you asked;
”Zhirinovsky? The former KGB officer whose party was formed under the USSR? ”
Yes, the same. Now, is anything that he openly said in the Duma untrue?
And you must admit, it is all Anti-Communist statements of fact.
Zhirinovsky is an intentional Marxist parody of a Western liberal Democrat. Come on!
Mr Nyquist, I showed videos of Mr. Zhirinovsky utterly trashing Communism and it’s Idols, repeatedly, while speaking in the Russian Duma. That is, given that what he said about them is entirely true, he presented hard facts. Now, I am not interpreting this information for you, or even debating what you’ve said about Zhirinovsky, so I leave it up to you to determine what this information means. He is not a woman that I should love him, I think he is a coarse man with no verbal filter, but what of his clearly anti-communist statements? Surely they mean something and cannot be simply dismissed by dismissing him.
He is supposed to do that, while making a fool of himself.
I believe Zhirinovsky’s role is to serve as a safety valve outlet for angry hotheads who want to sound off, as Russia is full of such men. They reckon he speaks for them and serves as a reminder to Putin not to get soft. When, in fact, his actual role is to help maintain the status quo.
”Bedlam’sbard”, you said;
”Russias moral collapse started long ago.”
Interesting, because I said as much and the historical reasons why. But again, people in glass houses… I suppose you like living in a land where the LGBTQ agenda is vigorously promoted even under ”conservative” Presidents, for example?
” It’s continuation under the wisdom of the Russian leadership can’t be blamed on the West.”
The irony being, that they the leadership are for the most part, some sort of Westernizer. They haven’t approached peak Liberal absurdity though.
” I think it had something to do with communism.”
Communism didn’t help. Look at Zhirinovsky’s videos again, where he says the Bolsheviks killed most of the good people, the best and brightest too. But then, that doesn’t fit your narrative very well either, does it?
”I don’t hate Russians but you like to label anyone that has anything bad to say about her as a paranoid Russaphobe.”
Russophobia is an ”acceptable” outlet these days for people that otherwise would be tempted into Anti-Semitism or some other grotesque xenophobia or racism or religious prejudice. You hide behind Mr. Nyquist’s work (aside from its merits) in order to indulge in it. For you and people like you, nothing Russians do is enough; we are like ”Orcs from Mordor” who should just lay down and die, and let other peoples take our lands. No conspiracy theory about us is too wild, too implausible to people like you, we’re behind everything, the external locus of evil in this world. Demonizing us justifies our future slaughter, just as with Hitler and his minions.
”I wonder how long before Nyquist “bans” you again. I’m taking bets on your next handle.”
Hmm, a man says something uncomfortable to another, and one is positively slavering at the jaws to get them banned. Why is that? Because you know I’m right.
Lol.
“You hide behind Mr. Nyquist’s work (aside from its merits) in order to indulge in it. For you and people like you, nothing Russians do is enough; we are like ”Orcs from Mordor” who should just lay down and die, and let other peoples take our lands. No conspiracy theory about us is too wild, too implausible to people like you, we’re behind everything, the external locus of evil in this world. Demonizing us justifies our future slaughter, just as with Hitler and his” etc.
You have no basis for atributing any of those beliefs or characteristics to me, fine gentleman . BUT FOR ANY VETERANS OF TFP BB – here is another tell by good ole VLAD. This “Orcs from Mordor” comes from a poster on the last TFP board. Someone whose handle was Szygyz or something like that. I think he was German. Any other VETS remember the guy? So this reference shows that Vlad or a member of his team is a dinkle berry from the last site(and we had a Vlad). A prolific poster(s)!
The guy that used the phrase “Orcs from Mordor” was quite derisive of the Russian people as well of its leadership whilst attributing most of Soviet Russia’s military and technological successes to Ukrainians. Now that I’m recollecting the “Orcs from Mordor” guy was Ukrainian wasn’t he?
The guy used the “Orcs” line quite frequently.
Mr. Nyquist, you said about America that;
”Our enemies are not bogeymen. And in the end, all the above lose because the whole world goes into the abyss when America goes down. ”
America is, whatever an internal or external critic of her may say, is one of those necessary nations, without which the forces of Barbarism would cover the world.
Her Capitalism, while an imperfect human system full of imperfect people, actually uses that imperfection and produces better socio-economic outcomes than any utopia ever devised by man possibly could.
Her Republic, while flawed as I believe being a Monarchist, is still nonetheless set up as a ”Res Publica”, for ”the common good” of her citizens, representing the rule of Law, not the whims of mere men.
These things are important and have meaning. It is a framework, both for good and for bad, that requires a good and virtuous citizenry. It’s a revolutionary concept and thus in my opinion flawed, but it has the merit of still understanding human nature. American revolutionaries were not entirely composed of bad men, crazy men. They were very often people any nation would love to have serving their country as citizens.
No sensible patriot of any country worthy of the name, can possibly genuinely be Anti-American or wish her slide into the abyss.
Guys, if Vladimir is some sort of Russian intelligence operation, at least we’re keeping them all busy and away from other more important work, subverting the democracy. We’re too smart to be fooled by their propaganda. But in all seriousness, Vladimir, do you ever sleep? Not to mention work?
Ru Int Op? Doubt it. Just one of many trolls setting up shoodly made and maintained bridges along Jeff’s lands.
What if Vladimír is a Russian traditionalist who is intrigued by this site and is working out his own doubts? Everyone is saturated by the stereotypes and propaganda of a certain way of seeing. The challenge is to see the world truly. Even an enemy can help you to see, if you know how to learn from him. — if he is an enemy.
The Republic, I meant to say!
@GREYKNIGHT TY
You’re welcome
Jeff after 20 plus years of exp with boards associated with your work, I had my fill of Vlads.There have more than enough. Nothing new for me here. He’s been disingenuous enough for me. Might be fun for or educational for some. Note I’m not asking for him to be banned. Let the games continue.
Mr. Nyquist, you said;
”What if Vladimír is a Russian traditionalist who is intrigued by this site and is working out his own doubts? Everyone is saturated by the stereotypes and propaganda of a certain way of seeing. The challenge is to see the world truly. Even an enemy can help you to see, if you know how to learn from him. — if he is an enemy.”
Thank you for your courtesy, even if sometimes we may find ourselves in disagreement, even vehement disagreement at times, it is necessary I think to be gentlemen.
Absolutely.
He banned you once for your ” nonsense” his words on the thread he banned you. He’s allowed you back for further observation apparently. I never saw him retract his reasoning for the ban. I guess it’s troll season still, Ill try to observe its behaviors or mutations.
Mr. Nyquist, you said of Mr. Zhirinovsky and his Anti-Communism;
”He is supposed to do that, while making a fool of himself. ”
I had considered that as some kind of possibility. Nonetheless, it also would then mean if so, that these people do not hold their Idols in high regard, nor are they concerned overly much about being damned in the eyes of posterity. It would mean that these people are cynics, kind of nihilistic, flexible opportunists and mercenaries.
I can think of numerous reasons and intrigues for that kind of state of affairs, and none of them make republicanism look very well generally speaking.
Not fake republicanism, no. And there are many signs that they are gaslighting you and your countrymen.
Ah, as I’ve said before, the people are not fooled ever, and know the truth of all these matters more than anyone on this Earth, collectively more than individually of course, because of fools. The people know where the dog is buried, so to speak.
Alexander Hamilton famously said, “The masses are asses.”
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In fact, it resembles the absurd carnival of mr. Lindell and company, does it not?
Exactly.
Most of you guys are a lot smarter than me, but I would like to out in my two cents on Vladimir. I have never commented on a site, and do not have experience sorting out trolls. I had no idea until Mr. Nyquist said it, that people actually get paid to troll sites all day. I personally am not totally sure about Vladimir. He could be an enemy, but I get a gut feeling a lot of the time that he is sincere, though I dont agree with a lot of what he says when it comes to defending the Communist aspect of Russia, or saying the West corrupted Russia.
I think that all societies, being made up of men, who are born with sin natures, corrupt themselves. Especially when they reject the God of the Bible, as did the Bolsheviks, as did European intellectuals, and as American intellectuals finally did.
After this, What does the Bible say that God does to them? He gives them over to a reprobate mind -a mind void of judgement. A mind that doesn’t know right from wrong, or as God told Jonah about the Ninevites, “persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand”.
The more people persist in refusing to acknowledge their Maker, the more inverted their reasoning will be.
Now, I am sure that Communism corrupts societies in order to weaken and conquer them. I am convinced the Soviets have actually had a hand in the corruption of the West, to be honest. But that corruption was already there in the men of the West’s hearts, and without a return to their faith in the God of the Bible, would have plunged them into the abyss, regardless of Soviet strategy.
I could be totally wrong about Vladimir, but I have to lean toward giving him the benefit of the doubt. My gut could be wrong, but I feel that he is sincere. If he is an enemy, I have still learned from some if the things he has said.
Shoot, the Muslims are my enemy, but I tend to agree with them on not letting women vote, 🤣🤣
Greyknight, I appreciate your comments and your honest sincerity.
Most Russian intellectuals abandoned God after being exposed to the influences of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and brought it back from Paris and Europe. In fact, there was a revolt of officers called the Decembrist revolt, which was put down harshly. That being said, most common people still believed in the God.
I recall you saying something about the Scottish people; and I recalled that many Scots immigrated to Russia to enlist in the military;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Russians
Anyway, you would discover that Russians are about the most innately ”conservative” people there are, life is too hard for stupidity and foolishness.
I don’t think women should vote either, lol. It is a man’s world in Russia, but woe to the man who crosses a woman too much 🙂
“Hell hath no fury…”
It should be a man’s world. Women have the most valued position of all, in being wives and mothers. They have an intuition that their husbands should listen to. But men should be the ones who run the country, not women. And not just any man, but men who own property be it ever so little. Men with a vested interest in the affairs of the country, who stand to lose a lot in different ways, if the country is governed foolishly.
Also, men who are manly, not effeminate.
I have a similar view concerning Vladimir. I think it is possible that he was legitimate. It is important to remember that, to many people, it is not obvious that Russia remains communist. This is not meant to detract from the arguments made on this site, only to prevent us from falling into an echo chamber where we assume our conclusions are the obvious ones.
Most people in Russia and America do not understand communism or what happened in 1989-1991. Everyone was given slogans which colored public perceptions.
Mr. Nyquist, I wanted to ask you what you thought of the copy of the alleged interrogation of Christian Rakovsky by the NKVD;
http://mailstar.net/red-symphony.html
I do not know what to make of it; because for one I know that while Spanish Fascists did fight on the Eastern Front in the Great Patriotic War, I do not recall their Blue Division being in the Leningrad area (where it’s claimed a Spanish soldier found the file on a dead body during the siege of Leningrad).
Looking at it again, it seems to be fake.
I should have said *downplaying* Communist aspects of Russia, not defending.
I do not think he has actually defended communism.
No, he hasn’t. I should have said downplayed. That is what I had in mind.
He’s not that dull.
Also, I appreciate Bedlamsbard1’s vigilance. We can never be too careful about folks. I appreciate he isn’t calling for Vladimir to be banned as well.
Scroll back up and see what I said about Vlad likely being a holdover from the last Bulletin Board where Nyquists readers gathered to talk. Some of us here have been talking to each other on boards for as far back as 20 years though I recognize only a few handles. But Vlad is bringing himself into remembrance.
Greyknight, you said;
”“Hell hath no fury…”
It should be a man’s world. Women have the most valued position of all, in being wives and mothers. They have an intuition that their husbands should listen to. But men should be the ones who run the country, not women. And not just any man, but men who own property be it ever so little. Men with a vested interest in the affairs of the country, who stand to lose a lot in different ways, if the country is governed foolishly.
Also, men who are manly, not effeminate.”
Cannot disagree in the slightest. And this was the way for most of the history of the world. In the hard times that are coming, it will be the way once more, everywhere. In prosperous times, it is easy to be tempted to be indulgent, give in in gradual small ways to little foolish changes, until one finds everything in disorder. In true Orthodoxy, rule over a nation by a woman is illegitimate, sorry, I cannot change that even if I wished, so I accept it as true. People may mock that a growing number of people use the ”Domostroy” as a household guidebook for good prosperous living, like I do, because of their modern feminism and other nonsense they hate it. Oh well;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domostroy
It was written during the reign of Tsar Ivan Grozny in the 1500’s, but it’s Aristocratic and Heirarchical truths are timeless.
Very Interesting Blast from the Past Video Series of Jeff Nyquist:
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMxaF01INao
Part 2-10
https://www.youtube.com/c/kabud/videos
Jeff, you handled the audience questions and attacks calmly, sincere and well prepared. Have you ever considered running for Congress, Senator or to get an appointment as CIA Director?
Haven’t you listened to, or haven’t you watched, any of his interviews, past and present? I must say that you do come off as rather ignorant in this matter.
Let me, therefore, inform you: Nyquist has said numerous times to many different people in these interviews that pathways, such as the occupations which you list in your post, have been, unfortunately, blocked to him by Communist intervention, because he would not be seduced to their cause(s).
Didn’t mean to offend anyone. Not ignorant. Only rusty. I found his blog by accident while researching Marxism. I used to have a good grasp on the Soviet military. I am trying to learn as much as I can as quickly as well as watching Nyquist’s past videos I found on the net. They are quite fascinating and give me a much better background to thoroughly understand his research of today. Also, I have found his blog to be quite informative and it has filled in gaps for my own research.
I am well aware of Communists blocking. I completely get it. It is a shame to be honest. We need people like Nyquist and other brilliant minds in leadership roles of the intel community. Mr. Nyquist you are a leader, and a brilliant mind. Your pathway is just a bit different than the way you had planned. You are awakening people and making a difference. These things take time. We all have a plan by God.
I had my long career in one of the alphabet agencies ended by a Marxist. From my experience, they are very deceptive, manipulative, narcissistic and dangerous. Once they have the brass under their spell, there is no stopping them. They will destroy anyone that gets in their way. They are masters of the Art of War.
So interesting to hear from you, MinusXero. It is surprising when you first realize that actual Marxists can control your career opportunities in America or get you fired. Please feel free to email me at jrnyquist@aol.com – in so many ways we are late in terms of organizing people and comparing notes. It is happening more and more. As people come together and compare stories, we get a better sense of the mapping here. Good guys, bad guys, clueless guys, etc.
It’s all right. I am the one who should apologize here, for answering in such a high-handed manner. I didn’t realize that you are new here.
I would never be accepted as a leader.
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Nevertheless, you have such unique, valuable insights that deserve to be heard and to be acknowledged. I am glad that you keep on writing and keep on speaking even when you are faced with formidable opposition. Also, you, Mr. Nyquist, must have tremendous integrity, to refuse to be bought off by these Leftist snakes in the grass.
Your lecture, which the previous gentleman had posted, is extraordinary, and is gripping. I had found videos of it independently of his post here. The fact that the audience had laughed when you had said, “we are too busy shopping and having fun,” reveals just how cosseted we are in this great land of ours.
I watched through to the Q and A period, and that first man who spoke was so incredibly rude and very aggressive towards you. I’m very surprised that the event’s moderators let him talk for as long as he did. In addition, I’m kind of amazed at how you had kept your cool under the abuse from that guy and from others who spoke during the session.
It is very difficult, in the current environment, to write and talk about certain realities because people think they already know the truth by reading a few conspiracy books. Going to my own mistake at the time, I thought Obama’s presidency was the end for us. I could not understand how the communists would not have used that presidency to finish us off; but the communist Chinese and Russians needed more time to strengthen their military position. You can see what Biden is doing to further this end, since he and his masters are calling the tune in Washington. So everything takes longer to play out. You see the biological attack and the communist power grab. You see the beginning of the collapse of our strategic position in South Asia. Biden is secretly the creature of our enemies. A very large number of Americans, however, do not want to admit that Russia, China and global communism are the main enemies we must oppose. Many are hostile to this view because they have been trained to think that their real enemy is found among elite Western capitalists. Of course, communists teach this exact same concept. So what we find is a right wing form of Marxism under the guise of conspiracy theory. For example, Russia and China very much support the idea that 9/11 was “an inside job.” This is one of many false narratives they support. We are constantly being fed false narratives, which are designed to move us away from the truth while leading us to focus on the wrong things. Mike Lindell’s false narrative, for example, is doing tremendous damage to the country while sabotaging the election audit process. Ask yourself: how can we achieve genuinely positive results when our narrative is mistaken? How can you unite a party or a country with a false narrative? There is a way, of course, to unify a country on a false basis. You might ask why I would be opposed to such a method. What works is all that counts, right? Well, that was Hitler’s reasoning when he unified Germany under a false narrative in the 1930s. In practice, when you seek power and public agreement with a false narrative you have to destroy anyone who wants the truth, anyone who asks questions, and anyone who gets in your way. You become an enemy of those very things that are the basis of human dignity, freedom, goodness, truth and justice. If your narrative is not about truth, you can never admit when you are wrong. You will then slip further and further into falsity. I do not care so much about power. I would rather know what is true and pray that power abides by it. But power and wealth and celebrity do not always abide by the truth. And if you seek the truth, when wealth and celebrity are against it, you will be misunderstood and maligned because lies are effective shortcuts for people seeking power. To call out the lie is to be odd man out. Power and celebrity and money seem to offer more powerful arguments than truth. Lindell has a lot of money. He has celebrity. When someone like that — or his media associate — goes to crush you, I can assure you it is very damaging. Doors close and people walk away from you. But one truth outweighs the entire world. I am trying to understand that one truth through the fog of war. That fog of war is all around us and people have to decide who the main enemy in that war is. It is very grim to say this, but we are not figuring this out in a timely fashion. And while Lindell points to one of our main enemies as “hacking” the election, his facts are wrong and his data comes from a serial fraudster. He promises, in the long run, to discredit his own cause and assure that the country cannot come together on the only true ground of agreement; that is, the truth. We cannot convince Democrats with a false election narrative because they are predisposed to see the problems with it, while true believers on the right simply get taken in by false promise after false promise. You cannot — you must not — have leaders like this. But we do. This is what we call leadership now. And someone like me is never going to fit in with people like this. Curiosity about the truth is not welcomed by people who want to cut corners, or who are motivated by envy, or the desire for power, or who are unwilling to read and study. Under current circumstances those with serious money and celebrity would never support someone like me (and so, I am not supported). That is a fact with which I am very well acquainted. If an honest and intellectually clear leadership was even possible today, we would be living in a different country and we would already have better leaders. As for the keeping my cool, nobody is ever persuaded by anger. The article at the top of this thread does have anger in it because I am done with trying to persuade Mr. Howse and Mr. Lindell. I have no interest in persuading them. They are not persuadable and so I oppose them in principle. If that sinks me, so be it. I couldn’t care less. How this plays out is a test of whether or not I have been wasting my time with this blog.
Perhaps not, but you’d make a wonderful Grand Vizier! The man behind the curtain, as it were.
Mr. Nyquist, I understand 🙂
And you can see why it would not be such a fun job….. 😳
@JRNyquist: I say this sincerely; it has been a great pleasure to interact with you, if only through these comments, brief though it has been. You have been very responsive to many of my comments, which is something that I deeply appreciate; as oftentimes on these threads, people just tend to talk amongst themselves.
It’s just that I really enjoy speaking to you, whether it is on foreign affairs or on philosophy, or if it is a political debate. Frankly, it’s become hard for me to imagine not being able to hold a conversation with you, because, of course, eliminating the comments section means a lack of access.
I want, therefore, to invite you to comment as often as you’d like on my blog when I get it up and running, which will likely be very soon. I would not like to lose such an intriguing, accomplished, and intellectual conversational partner as yourself.
I am toying with shortening the length of time comments are open. Be sure to note my email address in the “contact us” section of this blog. I am sometimes overwhelmed there as well.
Thank you!
Someone I havent seen post in awhile is Bogdan the Aussie. He is Polish, but does he live in Australia? Bogdan, if you live in Australia, how are you holding up with the craziness from the government taking place over there?
Good question.
Dear Greyknight, thank you very much for mentioning me. I’m indeed Polish and I live in Melbourne in EUNUCHALIA which has, unfortunately, become one of the worst places to live in the world. It’s simply beyond description what is happening here right now. When migrating here I would never, in my darkest dreams, envisaged that anything like that would be EVER possible. This is the result of symbiotic relationship between the DEMON (the current federal and local regimes) and the Aussie MORON who eternally votes for them.
I’m also one of the greatest supporters of Jeff whom I read for the last fifteen years.
I comment rarely because I’m doing my own, very intense fight here “DOWN UNDER” mostly producing, printing leaflets and distributing them around Melbourne when it is physically possible.
I’m also a bit reluctant to post here as my English is entirely self taught (I began learning it when I was already 34) and thus far from perfect so it is sometimes very difficult for me to produce any longer comment.
Needless to say that such an activity has recently became almost as dangerous as in my former Poland under the boot and the whip of a commune fascist regime.
Quite frankly, I’m very pessimistic about our future right now, however, it doesn’t mean that we should give up on our fight.
Regards to you and Jeff – Bogdan
Please keep us all updated here on Mr. Nyquist’s blog. Your English is very good. I will be praying for you. If you can get out of that hellhole, or want to start making arrangements, email me at joryly@protonmail.com. I’m positive I can help you settle in Alabama. Other people on here may be even more able to help you, but I at least know I can. I hate to hear this. I hate to see the videos and updates of what is going on there.
Bogdan’s story reminds me of another former Polish citizen I had heard about not that long ago. Maybe some of you even know about this woman, because she was interviewed on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” several months back. I can’t remember her name, but she had left Poland decades ago when it was still held hostage by a Communist regime.
She came to America, and she settled in Michigan, and in subsequent years, she ran a successful restaurant there. When Covid reared its ugly head last year, she opened her restaurant, and she loosened restrictions on it, openly challenging Governor Witchmer’s “emergency” orders. She was arrested for this act of “rebellion,” but thankfully, she was released a short time later. It’s so terribly ironic–she escapes Communist repression, only to be thrown into a situation like this.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6242166363001#sp=show-clips
I remember that. How about the Polish pastor in Canada, who refused to close his church doors, or to quit feeding the homeless? The Polish remember life under Communism.
Thank you for reporting in from Australia! We are seeing some terrible video images from down under. It looks dark on every front. Hold fast if you can.
Women should not be allowed to vote, Greyknight? I expect that kind of stupidity from Vladimir, but from you? Jeff, I am leaving this blog. I may check back in a month or two to see if it’s any different, but your work is being railroaded and corrupted by ignorant posters hell-bent on steering discussion away from the issues you come here to bring to light. If I, for years an avid reader and supporter of your work, can no longer stomach the discussion, how many other people are dropping away from visiting here — people you wanted to educate to the truth but who now cannot find it, buried as it is beneath irrelevant conversation. And what woman will read here, when you allow sexist comments that are stupid and offensive?
t don’t care if Vlad is a troll or not. I care that he takes over all discussion and pushes out the free exchange of ideas from others who would like to start discussion of something other than the Church and Russian orthodoxy. For God’s sake — the Church and Russian orthodoxy? Who cares? He is not here to “work out his doubts,” as you so generously suggest. He is here to “educate us all,” as he so arrogantly announced upon his return.
I no longer have time to scroll through the comment section every day, hoping to find fragments of thought that are fresh and new from other thinkers. Now every discussion is driven by Vladimir, what he thinks, and what he wants to “educate us on.” You have so much to offer, so much of import to say, but you’re allowing one man to take over your blog — someone the rest of your readers are leaving on account of, or at best, are sticking around and “tolerating” out of respect for your right to run your blog the way you see fit.
Goodbye, and maybe I’ll see you all again one day. Gretchen over and out.
Gretchen, I did not mean it in a bad way against women. I just think it disrupts the natural order of things. As I said, women have the most important role of all in guiding the home, seeing to it we have well raised generations. Men should give regard to the intuition of their wives. But men should be the ones running the country. But men should be men, forthright, with integrity and honor, and should treat their wives with respect as well.
I probably should have kept that thought to myself. I said it in a way to be a little humorous in the point I was trying to make.
Even though that is what I think, women’s right to vote is not going anywhere.
I’m not trying to steer conversation away from Mr. Nyquist’s main topic. Conversation just takes different courses after the first several after an article, with so much happening.
Please dont leave Mr. Nyquist’s blog on my account.
Actually, you have a good point, Gretchen. Maybe we should try to keep the comments more in line with the article. At least not stray too far out of the logical bounds of the article.
Here is an argument to close the discussion section and end this blog altogether. I do not understand why people post so many irrelevant things, or why the posts are rarely on topic. And it takes too much of my time. Perhaps I should close the comments altogether. They are counterproductive. For every person who registers a complaint there are a thousand who silently agree — if not more.
Jeff, this is your blog. Run it as you wish. As a subscriber, I enjoy the comments except when commenters try to take it over. Perhaps if the silent majority would be less silent and blast the offenders, it would shame them into greater self-control.
I have sometimes felt like an unpaid babysitter here. I like a certain kind of discussion if good points can be made.
I bet. But I, for one, would miss greatly your voice and your words. I really enjoy your work, and I look forward to reading your new articles.
Just a suggestion here, I don’t even know if WordPress allows you to do this; but perhaps you could put a “character limit” on comment posts? Then people wouldn’t feel the impulse to write novels out of their opinions.
I wasted half a day studying to control panel on this thing. I can only limit the length of time a chat remains open.
@JRNyquist: I apologize if I had sent you on a wild goose chase with my idea(s) about shortening people’s messages. I didn’t mean for you to waste your time; I was genuinely trying to help you improve your comments/forum section.
How to fix problems is always a problem. 🤓
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Gretchen, although you say you seek the “free exchange of ideas from others,” it seems you really don’t want to hear provocative ideas that offend you. This is the same approach to “tolerance” and “inclusiveness” that has captured all of our universities — wholesale banning of non-PC views.
Rather than stop your ears and run away, may I suggest you simply respond with winning arguments? There are of course many good ones for women to participate equally in our representative democracy.
As for Vladimir, ah well, it’s Jeff’s blog, not mine…
Dear Greyknight, thank you very much for your prompt and so friendly response. I shall consider your noble proposal, however it won’t be easy to move from here as I have family in Melbourne. Also, being seventy it is difficult to rearrange your life in such a dramatic way.
Also, please, read my post at the end of the commentary section about my experience from my life back in Poland many years ago.
Regards and greetings – Bogdan
Yessir, I read it earlier. I know there would probably be a lot of difficulties, but if it’s possible, and if you would like to try, I know with God’s help we can make it happen. I know people who would chip in to provide funds if needed. It seems so silly to make that proposal, in this kind if setting, but I am willing and felt I must offer, and I am dead serious.
Mr. Nyquist, if you think it is for the best to keep from offending women readers, then please delete my posts.
I will be closing the discussion section soon. It was a mistake to have a discussion section. It detracts from the articles.
I am not one to tell you or anyone else what to do with your own blog, but I’m of two minds on this. I do enjoy some aspects of posting here, particularly intelligent back and forth with you and other posters, but at the same time the overall negative response to my posting here is a drain. I disagree too much I guess, but the ”bottom line” is that I really don’t care to post in the discussion section anymore. My views are not democratic, so I find no reason or pleasure to subject those views to just another kind of ”popular vote”. I certainly never intended to contribute to any distraction or disruption of anyone else’s views, however. Whatever our disagreements, I wish all of you well, and beg for others to be mindful of everyone else’s common humanity. God bless one and all, farewell.
Jeff, rather than eliminating comments altogether, how’s about the alternative of a strict rule that comments must be on-topic?
It might work, but when do I get to sleep?
Mr. Nyquist, I will try to stay on topic better for however long you keep the comments section up. I know there will be things I would like to ask you sometimes that may not pertain to a current article, but will be along the lines of what you discuss in general. I hope I have not caused you trouble.
I hope you will keep it open though.
I hope you reconsider.Really appreciate your willingsness to engage with the readers.And athough they sometimes do distract,the comments also provide the opportunity to explain and further explore.
I disagree, I greatly enjoy the discussion section. I like reading Jeff’s responses to people’s questions about as much as his actual articles. I’ve also learned a great deal from some of the off-topic comments. I view these threads as an ongoing discussion— anything relevant to any of Jeff’s previous articles is fair game, including the Marxist takeover, the Grand Solar Minimum, the decline of civil society, etc. I also really appreciate some of the news stories that have been linked to here— stories I never would have heard of otherwise. However, I will say that I’d probably be more productive if it weren’t for the comments section! 😅
One other thought— it’s nice to hear from a few people each day who actually understand what’s really going on in the world! It can be a bit lonely knowing the truth.
I wouldn’t worry about Gretchen. I’m a woman and was not offended. In fact I agree with your comments completely, that in general, voting is best left to men. In my view, society really started to go astray when women began voting and working outside the home. Obviously this is not a popular view, and I don’t usually express it to anyone else, but it’s my true opinion. Every woman my age that I know is too easily led astray by the mainstream media’s emotional manipulations. I hate to say it, but my lady friends are exceptionally gullible and fickle, more so than the men I know. The only people I know in my generation who aren’t being led astray by the propaganda, all happen to be men. There are a few exceptions to this, a few women who see through the mainstream propaganda, but those women are into conspiracy theories and are frequenting sites like Infowars, so still very misled in my opinion, just in a different way. They’re simply being influenced by a different stream of propaganda. In order to find the truth, you have to read widely, both conservative and liberal sources, and put together the pieces. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem that very many women my age seem to have the initiative or ability (or perhaps patience and interest) to do this. Sadly for our country, because by and large, they’re the ones voting for liberal Democrats.
Ann Coulter has a similar viewpoint. Richard Weaver says the breakdown of distinctive roles for male and female goes hand-in-hand with a larger disintegration and decline. The fall of the birth rate is perhaps the most terrifying indicator — leaving us with the need to import people into the West who do not share our heritage or values. As Western people we are not replacing ourselves. It is a trend toward extinction. This trend may be connected to feminism. For writing this I will now be accused of racism to the bargain.
I caught Weaver’s allusion to this, and have seen Ann Coulter refer to it many times as well.
I award a full point for that masterful take down, Jeff !
I never understood why any private business would involve itself in politics or “social causes”. The purpose of business is to make profit. Alienating half your customer base unnecessarily is counter productive as well as counter-intuitive.
The world has become nuttier than squirrel scat.
Keep swinging, slugger!
Pillow fight indeed. Let us not succumb to snowflake-ism. It is one thing to agree to focus comments more directly on posts as a way of disciplining and advancing discussion; it is another to constrain them for fear of micro-aggressions. As a Catholic, I have been “offended” a number of times, whether directly or by implication. As Gretchen might say, who cares? I vote* no to any form of censoring, self or external, for the sake of political correctness.
Thank you, Deborah.
I echo Gretchen’s comments. Really, did you intend to alienate half the population, Grayknighty? The Taliban would welcome your views in Afghanistan.
I also agree with Gretchen there are too many long winded off topic comments by Pilgtim/Vladimir. I will miss her insights.
Here is one of my favorite quotes that maybe will help us.
The Four Stumbling Blocks to Truth by Roger Bacon, 13th century
I. The influence of fragile or unworthy authority.
II. Custom
III. The imperfection of undisciplined senses
IV. The concealment of ignorance by ostentatious of seeming wisdom.
If men were the men they were supposed to be, and weren’t caught up in themselves, but were giving of themselves for their families and country, whether in the running of the country, defending their families, sacrificing for their families, fighting the wars, then I think you would see what I meant. Unfortunately, most men dont strive to be the self-sacrificing servant/leader they were created to be. So I understand why you could take offense. But none was meant, and I will cease from this topic and stay in line with the articles.
The implication that women are inferior to men and incapable of making rational decisions does not deserve an argument in response, anymore than a Jew should have to defend against a comment that he’s a monster by virtue of being a Jew. I am not ignorant by virtue of being a woman. I should not be kept from having a voice in the proceedings in my republic because I don’t have a d**ck between my legs.
If a “free exchange of ideas” includes allowing people to post that women are too stupid to vote and should be second-class citizens, then by all means, let’s opens the doors to all manner of stupidty. Why censor posts that claim Jews are monsters or that blacks are ruining the country? That’s hardly fair to the Jew haters and racists, now is it, if the sexists are allowed THEIR “free exchange of ideas”!
Jeff, there’s no need to close down all discussion — just to stop it when it starts to veer off the tracks.. Before Vladimir, the discussion section was great — interesting and stimulating. But a discussion moderator needs to truly moderate, or a blog can become a runaway horse. If one person starts dominating the conversation with pages and pages of posts every day, he needs to be told he can only post three times a week, or something to that effect. That isn’t censorship — it’s controlling the discussion so all voices can be heard. It’s just a matter of better management. Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I’m monitoring this blog for another day or two to see what the response is to my earlier post, in a last-ditch hope that things will change here.
I surely did not mean it the way you took it. Please see what I just posted to ladyfromlibertygarage. Ann Coulter is one of the smartest people around, and she thinks the same.
If that is true, then Ann Coulter is a sexist.
She’s not. But look, I dont understand why that made you so angry. I’m not saying that you are stupid or inferior. But isn’t it clear that each sex has different strengths and weaknesses, and God-given places to fill?
But I believe women have taken certain roles, and even been thrust into certain roles, because the vast majority of men have abdicated their responsibilities, and do not conduct their lives as men.
I’m not saying that husbands should disregard the good sense God gave their wives either. They should consider what a wise woman says. Remember the account of Abigail and David? Abigail’s husband Nabal was a churlish, rash, arrogant man. But his wife had coolness of head and wisdom. God wound up taking Nabal’s life because of his foolishness, and David married her.
I’m not going to grovel, or retract what I said, but I do believe that modern men’s self-centeredness and weakness has caused many unnecessary roles to be filled by women, and that contributes to the great imbalances in our society today.
I truly bear you no ill will, and do not think you are inferior to me, and hope you will continue posting your insightful contributions.
I will shut up about it though, and if you want the last word, it is yours.
This has been a healthy discussion. That was a very good analogy, Gretchen. Generally, I try to limit myself to one comment per blog if I comment at all. I have violated that self-imposed rule this time. 🙂 but I had to speak up on the topic of free speech. As others pointed out. some simple guidelines and limits for posting comments might be in order as a healthy structure helps all of us to be better thinkers. Maybe closing comments after a certain total number would allow Jeff to sleep in peace. It’s up to Jeff though. My final thought is this the free exchange of ideas is necessary to get to the truth even if some of our thinking turns out to be faulty, it’s up to the rest of us to point it out. The 4 Stumbling Blocks to truth are a good rule of thumb for sniffing out lies. Gretchen, please don’t leave. I think we have gotten the point. Greyknight, I appreciate your response to my comment.
Jeff, looking forward to Pillow Fight, part II.
I’m not actually a fan of Ann Coulter’s, but I do agree with her on that. Perhaps in previous generations, women were well-educated enough to see through the propaganda. But in my generation, the women are sadly almost entirely brainwashed. I should know; I was one of the brainwashed for many years. It’s a miracle that I was able to finally see the truth.
For Pete’s sake, could we refrain from dumping 51% of the U.S. population in the same bucket?
Jeff, I can’t find the original thread, so I’ll post this here. With regard to your coming article on Afghanistan, have you thought about having it published on WND or in the Epoch Times? I feel like many people are becoming a lot more open to the idea that foreign actors are harming our country in various capacities, and putting the pieces together as far as what happened in Afghanistan might be a great way to draw them in to your audience.
I prefer to write for my own site. I feel less constructed.
Amen to that.
Less constrained certainly, but writing for other sites occasionally in addition to maintaining the blog would get this extremely important information out to tens of thousands of more people.
I do occasionally write for other sites. Last year I was the first person to suggest that COVID-19 was a bio-weapon. Epoch Times published the story and Zero Hedge discussed it. My article was published in January 2020.
Mr. Nyquist, what do you suppose was the point of Trump playing the clip of George Scott’s Patton speech, in Alabama last night? I have a brother who lives in that area, who tried to get me to go to the rally, and I told him that I think anyone who went was stepping into a potential trap set to go off later. I saw some comments on Twitter where people were saying they hoped FBI agents were there taking tag numbers, etc. My feeling all along was something like that.
Either Trump is so full of himself, he was equating himself with Patton, or he was trying to stir up the fighting spirit he knows many Alabama natives have, or he is playing a part in setting people up to be arrested similar to Jan 6 folks. I see no other options, and figure ut is either the 1st or the 3rd.
I do not understand Trump’s use of the Patton symbolism. The left controls all the institutions, including the Department of a defense. Every word Trump says is now taken out of context and may be used against his followers. Does he realize how dangerous the situation is? I want someone who explains his position and his strategy better so I can understand the trajectory. On January 6 Trump walked into an ambush, and what could any of us say? He was blotted out by the media and by social media. The leftists who control the state are setting up something larger — you can see indicators. How do we see around the next corner? Lindell is probably going to play a part in what unfolds; that is, if he continues on his present path. Has anyone noticed how beholden the right is to a handful of people who have gained celebrity status through TV? It troubles me.
I have told people since the election, that I feel what they are doing now is laying a net around all of us, and whenever they feel the time is right, they are going to suddenly draw it closed.
Mr. Nyquist, I know you have a heavy load with all you do with this blog. I am sorry if I caused you any headache with my comment on women voting and all the ensuing comments. I hope you will keep comments open for another article or two and see how it goes. I myself will stay in context of your articles.
Agree with you. I apologize for going off topic. I am new to the blog. Lesson learned. It won’t happen again. Also, I tried through channels to get YOUR info to Lindell, but to no avail, it was ignored.
Why is Lindell obsessed with all of this? It makes no sense in why someone would risk it all to save someone they barely know. It isn’t good to mix business with politics.
MinusXero: I do not fully understand Lindell’s motives. I know that Dennis Montgomery is a very convincing con man. I also know that Mary Fanning and Brannon Howse were pushing this narrative hard. They have both taken credit for getting this narrative to Lindell, and, from my personal interactions with them, their presentations took a suspicious turn in late January. For example, they had always left all the bad stuff out about Montgomery, never mentioning his checkered past. Why? And when they were trying to sell Montgomery as the source of the data, they made him sound like a hero when he was not. Then, later, they claimed the information was coming from multiple sources and would not talk about Montgomery, pretending it had nothing to do with him. I thought they were gaslighting me. I simply never took this bait and switch seriously. Was I supposed to believe that Montgomery had all the data one day and then several people were providing it the next? Perhaps they thought I was stupid. It was insulting, in fact, to be gaslighted so outrageously. It left me permanently suspicious of their motives. So I broke off communication with Fanning and Howse when I realized this was a scam and they were enabling it. I have phone records, texts, etc., if they ever want to challenge me on this, go ahead and make my day. If Howse tells people I misquoted him, I have his texts. If Zullo wants to collect damages, I am also a witness. Is it shoddy journalism to quote a private communication? When that communication is part of a whispering campaign to destroy the reputation of a retired police detective, I think I had an obligation to defend the victim and to warn Mike Lindell. It was all very disappointing since I had thought Howse and Fanning were patriots. No facts or research I brought to them on Montgomery would be accepted or discussed. They would simply slander my sources on Montgomery — personal or official. Why would they do this? Also, Fanning’s prevarications convinced me she was not merely duped by Montgomery. She was playing her own game of misleading people. Of course, I suspect that Howse made book off Lindell. Fanning’s motives completely baffle me. She is a mystery.
Yessir, I have noticed that the right seems to have set certain people as idols for our cause, and I hate it. Number one is Trump, and I have actually come to almost loathe him. The rally in Cullman, Alabama, trying to equate himself with Patton, or either rile people up and get them in trouble with the FBI, has put the final nail in that coffin for me. We have no true leaders on a national level.
I’m not an American and i live in Europe,so maybe you would pardon my iinorance.But in what way is Trump ensnaring his rally-attendees into a fbi-trap?Could it not be said,bearing in mind revolutionary theory,that its important to have a ‘ground game’,to have a ‘popular street presence’?And isnt Trump facillitating this requisite with his rallys?Just wondering..
Anon, I am pretty ignorant myself on revolutionary theory. I’m just basing this off of the fact of what took place leading up to, and on, Jan6, the insurrection that wasnt.
Trump called for people to be there. He even went so far as to say “it will be wild”. Because of him, thousands of Patriots showed up at DC, and got involved in the excitement at the Capitol. I’m not sure exactly how many, but over 500 have been arrested by the fbi. Some are still sitting in DC jail, without bond. They have been stripped of all their rights. All because of Trump calling people who were concerned about the nation to be at D.C., making it sound like they were going to take the country back.
He will never have more authority then he did that day, as president, and yet, now he’s running his mouth, stirring people up, acting like he can do something. He’s allowing people to believe that there’s a possibility he will go back in.
Based on these things, I can only conclude that he is so full of himself that he enjoys all of the almost worship of him, and is oblivious of what he is causing to happen, as he plays with people’s emotions. Or either he knows full well what he us doing, and is playing a part in setting up a lot of concerned, patriotic citizens.
I’m no expert, nor privy to some secret information. That’s just what I think based on what I see happening.
He also countenanced Lindell’s foolishness.
Trump is ensnaring rally-attendees? I do not know what you refer to.
It just seems like he is playing a part in setting people up to do something they will be arrested for. Just like what took place in the aftermath of January 6, how so many people who were there have been arrested by the fbi. The screening of the Patton speech at the rally in Cullman the other night, with its potential to help raise the level of people’s emotions, at the very least was very irresponsible. But I am starting to wonder if it isn’t all on purpose.
Also, maybe he is drawing Patriots to these events, and someone is taking notes of who is there. Because I really cant see any good that these rallies do.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m suspicious of him. I can’t help it.
I meant playing a part, whether conscious or unconscious of it. But at this point, how could he be unconscious of the effects that his words and actions are having on people who are getting more desperate with every passing week under the current regime.
Hi Friends, as Jeff is signalling closing the comment section I’d like to use this as an opportunity to share my personal experience from the time when I was still living in Poland under the boot and a whip of a communist regime there because, I believe, is hugely relevant to what is happening in America and the so called “Western civilization” right now.
This is an experience of a desperate man in the most desperate situation imaginable and of a man who sees that we are finding ourselves in the same desperate situation again.
On the 13th of December 1981 the Polish communists imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity freedom movement. Few days later, they massacred protesting miners in the “Wujek” (Uncle) mine in the Northern Silesia. As great number of my friends I became convinced that it would trigger a civil war in Poland.
Because I was holding the rank of a Lieutenant of reserve (In Poland every man had to go through a military training) I became also sure that I would be drafted back into a military service to quell the protests.
In that fateful moment i made a decision that I would try to keep quiet and maintain a low profile to avoid unnecessary trouble, however, if I would be given the direct order to shoot at the protesting people or witnessing such an order given to someone else in my presence, I would shoot my commanding officer and then shoot myself to spare my family the persecution from the revenge-thirsty communist fascists.
You can only imagine how I dreaded such a scenario and how upset my wife was when I told her about my resolve.
Fortunately, this horror hasn’t materialized as the leadership of the Polish Catholic church launched statewide campaign to calm the Poles down thus preventing any major bloodshed.
later we also learned the the anti communist forces represented by Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II were already at work to destroy communism and that gave us a bit of hope for the better future.
I’m not writing this to present myself as a some kind of a hero or a tough guy because I’m not. I don’t know how I would be acting in the real situation, what I would do if I was arrested and tortured both physically and mentally.
It was just a conscious decision made by the human being who had to make the choice; to preserve your body and lose your soul or lose your body and save your soul. I’m making that statement as someone who, generally, doesn’t believe in God’s existence but who at the same time doesn’t reject Him.
I also share this my experience because, as I pointed out that in the beginning of my rant my American Friends (and not only) will be facing such heart breaking choices very soon.
Regards and greetings from Aussie – Bogdan
I fear you are right.
To solve the comments problem, you should do as I did when I ran a blog: simply ignore 99% of the comments and selectively reply. I’ve actually always been surprised that you take the time to read every post. It is impossible to keep it up ordinarily. Readers will understand if individual questions go unanswered.
I have to read every post because I am legally liable for what you write here.
Wow. I had no idea that was the case.
Get an account and read the liability statement.
I’ll just take your word for it, lol. I tried to set up a site, but I’m pretty clueless about all that. Very clueless.
Be careful, brother.
Thank you Greyknight. The same to you.
Jeff, I think it is a mistake to close the comments, not as big a mistake as closing down the whole blog, but still a mistake.
The best thing about the old Final Phase boards was that you didn’t have to moderate them, the worst thing about them was your lack of regular comment.
Perhaps there is a happy medium here, there, or somewhere.
Irregardless, your timely and complete responses to questions and comments on this blog sets it apart from others, where the writer rarely if ever interacts with the participants.
Guess why the old forum was shut down? Trolls, spamers, page long posts off topic by a few people with pet issues. Does anyone here fit those descriptions? WW didn’t have the time to moderate. Similar pattern. Vladimir was at the last TFP forum as well. His tell was quoting a poster there referring to Russians as “Orcs from Mordor”. He also labeled me a paranoid Russian hater, a brother to Hitler and Lenin.
Very interesting.
Does anyone remember the fellow who apparently believed that he was the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ? He didn’t state this on the forum right away, and I forget how it came out. His name might have been “Spirit of Truth.” I ran into him, years later, in the comment section of an article that had been posted on Drudge and ended up emailing with him.
He pointed to a number of things that proved his divinity as Christ in our conversation, including a very small birthmark on his hand, which he said is from where the nail had pierced him. As it happens, I also have a birthmark on the same spot, except mine was far bigger than his and covered in hair that is darker and thicker than anywhere else. I told him that if his birthmark is evidence of his Christhood, that my claim is better due to my birthmark’s size. He stopped responding to me after that!
His name was Jay Adams. He passed away a few years back. He was not entirely sane. I began corresponding with him in 1994. He was very angry with me when I delayed publication of my book to 1998.