sometimes you just don't know what is true but even then there are signs;

Yesterday’s assault by the Democratic National Committee on the Joe Biden campaign has failed.

Thursday night, as soon as the Trump-Biden debate had started, anonymous DNC officials contacted their usual ‘liberal media’ contacts and denounced Biden’s performance. Even those media, like CNN and MSNBC, who have for years denied the obvious problems Biden has had, jumped onto the train. Biden, they said, should retreat.

The New York Times mobilized a slew of its opinion writers to convey the message:

• To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race (Editorial)
• Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. (Friedman)
• ‘God Help Us’: 12 Writers Rate Biden’s Performance at the First Presidential Debate
• ‘Is It Too Late?’ Four Writers on What Democrats Should Do About Biden.
• Kamala Harris Could Win This Election. Let Her.
• After That Debate, the Risk of Biden Is Clear
• Is Biden Too Old? America Got Its Answer.

But Joe Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, resisted the move:

President Biden knew immediately after stepping off the stage in Atlanta on Thursday night that the debate had gone wrong. In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden.
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The first lady’s message to him was clear: They’d been counted out before, she was all in, and he — they — would stay in the race. Her thinking, according to people close to her, was that it was a bad night. And bad nights end.........more.....

 

"If you truly seek the Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else:
An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong, about everything..." - JSB

the zionists aren't doing as well in gaza as 'our free press' would have you believe; 

Over 500 Israeli armored vehicles have been either damaged or decommissioned since October in the war on Gaza, according to the Israeli paper Maariv, which like all Israeli media outlets needs to run its reports past IDF censors before publication.

From Middle East Monitor, "Over 500 Israeli armoured vehicles in Gaza damaged since last October: Report":

More than 500 Israeli armoured vehicles have incurred damage in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war last October, the Maariv newspaper has reported, Anadolu Agency reports.

The Hebrew-language Israeli daily said dozens of these military vehicles had been completely decommissioned and removed from service.

The military has established two logistics centres within Gaza, where it has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians in nearly nine months, to repair the vehicles damaged in fighting with Hamas, which conducted a cross-border incursion on 7 October.

The troops responsible for transporting the vehicles are said to be physically and mentally fatigued, the report said, adding: "If they are called upon to occupy southern Lebanon, they will be there, but not in their best condition." Border tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have increased over the past few weeks, with fears of an all-out war.........more....

 pcr points out the 'horns' that french nationalism turns on and where it may lead which won't be positive for the empire;

The Resurrection of French Nationalism?

Paul Craig Roberts

France was the last European nation to lose its sovereignty, and France might be the first to recover its sovereignty. In the 1960s France was still a nation of ethnic French as contrasted with the tower of babel and a geographical entity that it is today.

During the ten-year presidency of Charles De Gaulle (1959-69) France’s policy was one of national independence. DeGaulle refused to join NATO, and he opposed a supranational Europe in which nations would subordinate themselves to a European Union.

French independence could be on the point of return judging from the success of Marine Le Pen’s party yesterday in the current French elections. Her nationalist party has in the first round of the parliamentary elections taken 34% of the votes with President Macron’s centrist coalition receiving only 21% support. If the second round produces similar results, a restoration of French independence is possible.

For many years European governments have worked consistently to overwhelm their ethnic populations with third world immigrant-invaders. It has reached the point where ethnic European women raped by immigrant-invaders fear to report the crime as it can result in a charge of racism or worse against the victim. For example, in response to a gang-rape of an ethnic German female, a 20-year old ethnic German female citizen called one of the gang rapists a “disgraceful rapist pig.” The German citizen was sentenced to jail for defaming an immigrant-invader, a protected species under German law, while the rapist was given a suspended sentence and served no jail time.........more.........

 in 'our new world order' speech was once free, but now it has controls placed on it that would be denounced if the 'opposition' practiced the controls we, the empire, now impose;

As Germans become increasingly unhappy about the number of crimes being committed by foreign people there, the government has been trying to curb opposition to immigration. In one recent incident, however, police who went to investigate reports of people singing a banned song were surprised when they saw the “culprits.”

In Germany, police have been increasingly deployed in “operations” to address instances of people singing a song that has become associated with nationalism. This trend has seen mostly young people singing the phrase “Foreigners out, Germany for the Germans” to the beat of a popular electronic song by Gigi D’Agostino known as “L’amour toujours.” The slogan was used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and is illegal in Germany.

However, when police were called out to a birthday party in Rhineland-Palatinate, they discovered that the people singing the song calling for foreign people to leave the country were actually foreigners themselves, speaking only Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Romanian.

A representative of the police department that responded said: “What is remarkable in this context is that the women were all non-German nationals and only one woman had any significant knowledge of German.”

In this case, the individuals involved were only singing the song because they had heard it on social media. They said they did not know that people who sing it are facing criminal prosecution in Germany right now.

That’s right – some of Germany’s top politicians have demanded that people who sing the song face the “maximum penalty."........more.......

 to find out who owns you discover who you aren't allowed to criticize;

The Zionist lobby is dumping lots of cash into a nationwide effort to redefine "antisemitism" in United States law and make it illegal for Americans to oppose Israel.

In response to rising anti-war protests across America, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli was summoned by the Knesset – the Israeli parliament – to brief lawmakers about what they can try to do to stop Americans, and especially those at college and university campuses, from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.

"I've said it before and I'll say it again now that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive," Chikli said.

Even though he is not an American citizen and has never been elected by any Americans to represent them, Chikli and others in the Israeli government feel as though they have a "God"-given right to push the world around in order to suit their own interests.

Chikli assured the room full of Israeli politicians that Israel has "new money" in its budget to launch a pushback campaign against Americans who vocally and publicly oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Israel already produces propaganda for the U.S. market that is designed to deter people from criticizing Israel, one of their arguments being that God will "curse" those who "curse Israel," this being a verse from the Old Testament taken out of context. There are 80 different public relations programs in total, at least that we know about, that Israel is using to push its agenda in the United States.

(Related: Did you know that Donald Trump once said that the death penalty is a proper punishment for "antisemitism" in America?)..........more........

 a good kunstler monday essay here to be enjoyed, unfortunately because its all too accurate, by at least two thirds of what's left of the country;

“Joe Biden is the walking embodiment of the exhausted American Establishment. More and more people have simply lost their faith in our Ruling Class. You could scarcely have a more potent symbol of its impotence.” — Rod Dreher

Just before the weekend, a political prairie fire raced across a nation buffaloed, blind-sided, and buried deeply in bullshit, and the little critters who inhabit the landscape are still running around with their fur smoldering. What a surprise that “Joe Biden,” the mentally-disabled pretend-president, fell apart in the debate spotlight for all to see, like Captain Queeg in his fateful witness chair, or William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes trial (1925), or the Wizard of Oz when little Toto drew the curtain back — a brutal revelation of stark truth about how things actually are.

      Since his hiding-in-the-basement campaign in 2020 “Joe Biden’s” Party of Chaos has pretended that he is fit and alert for the job and now all of sudden they pretend to be shocked to see how far gone in the head he really is. The bullshit shovelers of the mainstream news media were especially rocked, not by the truth of the situation per se, but at being unmasked as the contemptible, confabulating tools that they’ve become. The New York Times wheeled around on a dime from their servile lionizing of the presidential hologram they helped create to its editorial board abjectly yelling for him to drop out and get gone. They were joined instantly by a long list of other opinion-shapers, campaign donors, political celebs, and Beltway players.

      Right after the debate, First lady Dr. Jill led a cheerleading session before a roomful of partisans that went beyond cringeworthy into uncharted territory of mortification. (“You were great, Joe! You answered all the questions!”). By the time the entourage moved to a pre-planned event at a nearby Atlanta Waffle House, “JB” had gone full-on zombie. If all that was intended to be reassuring, the effect was the opposite. Someone handed the blank-faced old grifter a milkshake and they beat it out of there............more......