This post will present three clarifications before we plod forward through my plague years archive:
My state of mind.
Disarming (adj.) sarcasm.
Disarming (adj.) indignation.
As to the first, I like to squeeze in a few wisecracks here and there in my posts, gallows humor I reckon, and some readers might think that I think I’m clever. NO. I never feel clever. I feel helpless and heartbroken, because I now live in a huge and prosperous nation whose hospitals, from shore to shore, have murdered peaceful law‑abiding citizens for remuneration, by means of contraindicated medical procedures, in tandem with the prohibition of known therapeutic aids.
(Did I mention that murder for monetary gain is the most drastic form of murder?)
The next two clarifications will appear down the page, but please be patient and remember:
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MEMES
A year ago, I went Wayback surfing to try and sense when the definition for “meme” changed from a fancy anthropological term (which I still don’t understand) to a synonym for visual joke, to web users. Near as I can tell, it was midsummer 2017.
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According to the above, today’s web memes became a thing in late summer of 2012, courtesy of a grumpy cat. Prudently, dictionaries don’t alter definitions on a whim, but wait awhile.
In 2020 memes were enlisted for duty in the underground resistance to the War Against Humanity (which yet rages on). The memes we will see in this plague series are definitely gallows humor. They derive from the Truthosphere, created by concerned citizens to alert the public at large. They are concise and informative. They serve a purpose. They shout, “We know – look at what we know!” Let’s consider these COMBAT MEMES, to distinguish them from ordinary fun memes.
TOONS
By this I mean the political cartoons you've seen (mostly in newspapers) all your life. Whereas memes are from The People, toons are almost invariably commissioned by The Man. Memes struggle for freedom, whilst toons disguise hidden agendas, social engineering, and fascism.
Here is some background on this circumstance, covering a century in time:
U.S. Congressional Record February 9, 1917, page 2947
(excerpt):
Mr. CALLAWAY: Mr. Chairman, under unanimous consent, I insert into the Record at this point a statement showing the newspaper combination, which explains their activity in the war matter, just discussed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. MOORE]:
“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, ship building and powder interests and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press in the United States.
“These 12 men worked the problems out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.
“This contract is in existence at the present time, and it accounts for the news columns of the daily press of the country being filled with all sorts of preparedness arguments and misrepresentations as to the present condition of the United States Army and Navy, and the possibility and probability of the United States being attacked by foreign foes.
“This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served. The effectiveness of this scheme has been conclusively demonstrated by the character of the stuff carried in the daily press throughout the country since March, 1915. They have resorted to anything necessary to commercialize public sentiment and sandbag the National Congress into making extravagant and wasteful appropriations for the Army and Navy under false pretense that it was necessary. Their stock argument is that it is ‘patriotism.’ They are playing on every prejudice and passion of the American people.”
This control was exerted four years after the ur-crime of the modern era: the wresting of the nation’s duty to manage a stable money supply into the hands of the piratical international bankers. Soon THEIR newspapers were terrorizing the public with LIES about German armies chopping of the hands of Belgian toddlers and skewering Belgian babies on their bayonets. Said LIES finally dragged us into The Great War in Europe. Here are four illustrations I found:
A more recent example of the project for media control:
"By the early 1950s," writes former Village Voice reporter Deborah Davis in her book Katharine the Great, "Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst." The network was overseen by Allen Dulles, a templar for German and American corporations who wanted their points of view represented in the public print. Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda. Many of these were already run by men with reactionary views, among them William Paley (CBS), C.D. Jackson (Fortune), Henry Luce (Time) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger (N.Y. Times).
Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been appalled to find in FOIA documents agents boasting in CIA office memos of their pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country. It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.
*Steve Kangas
And more recent still:
ADVERTISING
I’m sure you’re aware that, in the realm of advertising, the progression of expertise evolved from trying to convince the consumer intellectually to finding ways to steer the target’s emotions to a desired behavior. This is powerful stuff, and I insert this example, now used for the third time in my published posts:
Fiji, a nation that has traditionally cherished the fuller figure, has been struck by an outbreak of eating disorders since the arrival of television in 1995, a study has shown.
Anne Becker, an anthropologist at Harvard Medical School, has studied Fijian eating habits since 1988. In 1998 - 38 months after the [first ever television] station went on air, Ms. Becker conducted a survey of teenage girls and found that 74% of them felt they were "too big or fat".
Ms. Becker said there had been a sharp rise in indicators of disordered eating, such as induced vomiting. She said 15% of the girls reported they had vomited to control weight.
*BBC 20 May 1999
So sad. Now you know where “gender dysphoria” comes from: smart, well‑paid clinicians whose moral compasses are on the fritz.
Here are two early ads, which try to explain product advantages:
Here are two from the later, more emotional, approach:
They still contain considerable text in an appeal to logic. Ironically, the Pepsi ad yammers on about how “this generation” has a better diet than grandpa did. Um, yeah. And the ciggie ad includes the required “scientific tests confirm” LIE.
Here’s the final example:
Wrangler = happy family. Done and dusted. The second one is a bit more convoluted yet dripping with emotions. No mention of engine reliability, storage capacity, road handling, service warranty. It’s simply the “I’m not my mom” car.
BACK TO TOONS
Keep the foregoing in mind as we look at some toons. From over the decades, they vary from being ham‑handed to being quite subtle, but all are typically decodable to the informed mind. Many are disingenuous, whereas combat memes are without guile.
As with ads, many of the older toons appeal more to the intellect, largely because today’s subconscious mind‑twisting techniques had not been developed yet. Sadly, another reason is that US citizens of 100 years ago were “smarter” than today.
Educational results far exceeded those of modern schools. One has only to read old debates in the Congressional Record or scan the books published in the 1800's to realize that our ancestors of a century ago commanded a use of the language far superior to our own. Students learned how to read not comic books, but the essays of Burke, Webster, Lincoln, Horace, Cicero. Their difficulties with grammar were overcome long before they graduated from school, and any review of a typical elementary school arithmetic textbook printed before 1910 shows dramatically that students were learning mathematical skills that few of our current high school graduates know anything about. The high school graduate of 1900 was an educated person, fluent in his language, history, and culture, possessing the skills he needed in order to succeed.
*The Leipzig Connection by Lionni & Klass (a thank you to reader Jeanette Bates)
Feel free to exempt yourself from this statement, but I have to admit it applies to me! Ugh.
After a while though, the famous advertising principle of KISS (keep it simple, stupid) prevailed. The following is probably about as complicated as you would see, going forward in time:
Uncle Sam is sick. Franklin D will mend his ills. Congress will do what they usually do – not much.
From a few years later we have this super-simple toon with a strong emotional element:
Those big bad Germans again. Ironically, it is a Nazi bigshot who explained the war dynamic for all time:
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
* Hermann Goering
Neither “world war” should have ever happened. They were bankers’ wars, as usual, willed and stewarded by the cabal.
Note in the above you could substitute “…tell them they are being infected and denounce the anti‑maskers…”
Eighty years later, we have a toon with the same kindergarten level of sophistication as the Nazi bugbear shown above:
DISARMING (adj.) SARCASM
(also described as D. Humor or D. allusion or D. obliqueness)
For clarification # 2 I must first visit the realm of television.
For a good portion of the last half of the last century Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite dominated the boob tube.
Cronkite was called “the most trusted man in America” and Carson ended everyone’s day with a good chuckle and the feeling that all was OK with world.
Cronkite had a sonorous voice and avuncular mien, and, if after his carefully metered recounting of the day’s important stories he hadn’t instructed you to hide in the basement until further notice, you could feel confident that “America” was in good shape (I use scare quotes because this name almost never includes Central or South Americans).
Carson was a master of comedic timing, and his opening monologue would routinely reduce the woes of the world into silly behaviors which no savvy person would lose any sleep over.
Cronkite the reassuring father, Carson the ballsy, undaunted Yankee; and together they anchored the notion that there was thing called America, a people called Americans, who were virtuous and safe, and could take it on the chin and get through anything.
I won't call Cronkite LYING sack of shit ─ after all he’s so … avuncular. But the following excerpt expresses what my gut tells me about his mission at See-B.S.
The American public was, in effect, subjected to a magic act that diverted their focus to the left-hand (Hollywood) while picking their pocket with the right (Washington D.C.). Of course, Hollywood and D.C. are only two of the prongs on the controller’s pitchfork. The news media (i.e. Walter Cronkite and Katharine Meyer’s Washington Post) was doing its typical yeoman’s job of selling the mainstream stories and half-truths about Vietnam, the Manson Family psyop, the Weather Underground psyop, the Patty Hearst psyop, and Watergate, while conveniently ignoring the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
*Kevin S. ─ guest writer at Miles Mathis (link)
His boss, William Paley, is mentioned in the following essay about “the overclass”. I will never believe that his shining star Walt was of a different mindset. (link)
But Carson is key to my present concern. Even those who didn’t watch his whole show, populated with inane “celebrities”, probably caught his opening monologue which followed the 11 o’clock news. This was the money shot for the cabal – let’s have a good smirk about all the nutty things going on in this crazy world we live in.
For humor to work, you have to “get” the joke. For sarcasm to work you need an even deeper or more subtle awareness of the topic at hand. This is a captivating mechanism and I say we must be alert to its pitfalls.
This can be disarming sarcasm, or humor, or allusion, or obliqueness. Here’s a benign example of what I mean:
You're at the annual banquet for the local poetry club, and in the last speech before dinner the speaker says, “Don't worry, we're not having peach cobbler for dessert”, and the audience laughs knowingly, since she has just alluded to Eliot's Prufrock poem, and the group becomes bathed in the warm glow of camaraderie.
Here’s a problematic example of disarming sarcasm:
The corruption of a large nation’s economy by a tiny cabal of piratic psychopaths is not funny. They want the viewer to feel smug in “knowing what’s going on”, and to think “I’m not fooled by these shenanigans”. Any time you want to say, “Oh, this is so stupid even a child could see” – don’t do it! You’re getting reamed in the keister, and the lubricant jar is empty. One of my mottos is:
IF YOU AREN'T TERRIFIED AND CONFUSED BY 10:00 AM ON ANY GIVEN MORNING YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
You’ve heard of Occam’s Razor.
In philosophy, Occam's razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony. *Wikipedia
Let us consider Hanlon’s Razor:
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Coined in 1980, I learned about it only a few months ago. It sounds like something Walter Cronkite might have said.
In daily life, it might apply – say someone runs over your toe with their grocery cart – but on the national and world stages stupidity is rarely the explanation. Furthermore, how convenient for the cabal – murderous lunatics – to have us wandering about, muttering to ourselves that malice is unlikely in play.
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
*Franklin Roosevelt
Here are three more examples wherein we will NOT employ Hanlon’s Razor:
We've bragged for decades about being the beacon for democracy, and US agencies have traveled to many other nations to monitor their elections. The notion that we can't accurately count our own citizens’ votes is not funny.
The routine mismanagement of millions and billions of dollars year in and year out, impoverishing hard working families is not funny.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
*Benjamin Franklin
Summer of 2020. Setting aside the plandemic crime, the notion that children’s hazmat suits are more acceptable with cute graphics and pastel colors is not funny.
Speaking of not funny, a few months ago I chanced upon a wormhole on the internet which let me view all of the New Yorker cartoons from 2020 and 2021. I think we can all agree they have some funny cartoons. I found 53 I liked, and also captured 53 that were about the “pandemic”. NOT ONE of them was funny. Here are four examples:
Just so you don’t think I’m an old grouch, here’s one I though WAS funny:
DISARMING (ADJ.) INDIGNATION.
This pitfall can originate with The Man, but it’s more dangerous with grassroots memes. Here’s my only example from the mainstream, from my small-town newspaper:
Note the date – about 16 months before the $camdemic – ginning up the topic of viruses. Catering to germophobes, the righteous indignation would be something like “Well, duh, any fool can see that’s a conveyor system for disease spreading, with the infected people flying all over the place!”
Never mind that the TSA (over 50,000 employees, annual budget $9.7 billion) is utterly useless, has never prevented any dangerous occurrence of any sort, and when tested for efficiency has a laughable failure rate. The TSA was established to create another tax-sucking fiefdom for cabal insiders, employ an army of dumbasses who enjoy lording it over others, discourage the general public from flying and feeling free (rather than hiding under their beds and buying antidepressants) and, most important of all, inuring us to the notion that wherever we go and whatever we do, we will probably need to be scrutinized by armed police.
On to the memes:
“Yeah, man. You said it, mister. Amen, brother. Take that, you DEI poopoo-head.”
But wait ─ is there anything wrong with diversity, or equity, or inclusion per se? I’m thinking “no”.
Further, how do I know what another soul has “earned” in life? You know – the old “walk a mile in another’s shoes”. If we want to get steamed about someone not earning something, we can more accurately recall the trillions stolen from the humble citizen, by the cabal, going back to the railroad barons, and centuries before.
The job at hand is not to sneer at my fellow citizen and puff myself up. My solemn duty is to research where this awful shit comes from. The cabal controls the large corporations and the large universities and the media. DEI is new/recent. It’s frequently in the news. This is a psyop. Wikipedia tries to tie it to the civil rights movement and anti-discrimination. Yeah, sure. DEI is what you get when you throw billions of dollars at Political Correctness, which is a tool for censorship. Consider reading my short post on this topic (link).
George Washington did not belong to a political party. He ran as a nonpartisan candidate in the presidential elections of 1789 and 1792. *Brittanica
(and)
Democratic Party officials often trace its origins to the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and other influential opponents of the conservative Federalists in 1792. *Wikipedia
Well, that’s awkward. Maybe this is a bit too complicated for Occam’s Razor.
Jefferson is given large credit for writing the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was originally “life, liberty, and property”, but Tom and his cronies were from the landed gentry and the bloodline families and didn’t feel quite comfortable with that phrasing. So, you are allowed to “pursue happiness” in whatever feeble way you might prefer, but don’t get any big ideas about crowding the cabal, with their limitless sense of entitlement.
More about Jefferson if you’re interested: (Miles Mathis link)
Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican when the group was fully established. But when he wanted to wrest the 1912 Republican candidacy from his successor, Taft, he started his own splinter party nicknamed Bull Moose and ruined Taft’s shoo-in status, bringing in Wilson, who facilitated the Federal Reserve system crime and got us into World War One. Did you know that Wilson sold us down the river in exchange for $40,000 to pay a blackmail threat pertaining to a secret love affair? (His wife probably found out anyway). Thanks Teddy, you're a real gem!
Here’s an essay about what a phony servant of the cabal he was: (Miles Mathis link)
Lincoln was a Republican, and broadly revered, and often rated as the best President:
(often rated) “number one is Lincoln, the mass murderer and military dictator who is the real father of the present nation. His term was a model of every despot's dream: spending money without Congressional approval, declaring martial law, arbitrarily arresting thousands and holding them without trial, suppressing free speech and the free press, handing out lucrative war contracts to his cronies, raising taxes, inflating the currency, and killing hundreds of thousands for the crime of desiring self-government.”
*Arnie’s archives/anonymous
Thomas J. DiLorenzo wrote two groundbreaking books about him. Keep in mind that people who are broadly revered are oftentimes pleasing to the cabal – after all, they own most of the avenues of communication which inform us of such stuff.
By the way, George Washington didn’t need no stinkin’ political party – he was a high Mason. Have you heard of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial? I didn’t until I was 60 some years old. It’s not in some obscure location – it’s just over 6 miles south of The White House. It’s not small, at 333 feet tall (an occult number … the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet with base included). It’s in a 36-acre park and is modeled after an ancient Roman lighthouse (yes, that Rome – the original evil empire).
Anyway, a person might want to be a little more reserved about bragging that this foursome is on their team, and that the other team is somewhat lame.
It's quite obvious the Democrat party is being forced to do some illogical, unsavory, and downright nutty things currently. Who has the power to do this? It's the usual answer: the cabal. Don't play the cat chasing the ball of yarn. Get angry and do your homework.
And one more thing. I would not sniff at the opinion that Rushmore is somewhat of an eyesore. The natural rock formations are beautiful and were revered by the Amerindians.
The carving was the idea of Doane Robinson, a historian for the state of South Dakota. Robinson originally wanted the sculpture to feature American West heroes, such as Lewis and Clark, their expedition guide Sacagawea, Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Oglala Lakota chief Crazy Horse. Borglum (Ed. the sculptor) chose the four presidents instead.
The sculpture at Mount Rushmore is built on land that was illegally taken from the Sioux Nation in the 1870s. The Sioux continue to demand return of the land, and in 1980 the US Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians that the taking of the Black Hills required just compensation, and awarded the tribe $102 million. The Sioux have refused the money, which has grown with interest to over a billion dollars, and demand the return of the land. This conflict continues, leading some critics of the monument to refer to it as a "Shrine of Hypocrisy".
*Wikipedia
The riots were FAKE. The riots were a PSYOP. Quit playing the sap, dude!
Black US citizens, perennially abused, suffered the most under the $camdemic lockdowns.
lockdown (n.) also lock-down, from late 19c. in various mechanical senses … Prison sense is by 1975, American English. (link)
Black Lives Matter was a cruel sop offered to this demographic cohort, to give the impression that influential parties cared about them. No, the cabal care only for their bloodline allies and (grudgingly) a few of their upper-tier lieutenants.
Let me add, I have never lived in abject poverty ─ therefore I cannot tell you honestly how I would behave if I had the opportunity to take something that didn’t belong to me. Sadly, riots affect the neighbors of the rioters, not the cabal, who are always the cause of the anger.
I would call this disarming humor. It’s lightly clever and gets the juices flowing, but …
Build Back Better is a cabal shibboleth. In order to “build back”, something must be destroyed. And that might be? The current structure of society. And “better” for whom? Not for you, dear reader; better for the cabal. Example: “national security” has always meant corporate security (IBM, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer – not Aunt Betty’s Knit Shop). This is about the transmogrification of a moribund constitutional republic into a full-on techno-feudalist open air prison, and one shouldn’t crack wise about “things aren’t better”. Don’t play checkers whilst the cabal play chess.
Joe Biden hid in his basement, then held a handful of rallies attended by less than twenty people, then won the White House by “the most votes ever”. Who can make this happen? You know the answer.
AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE ABOUT IT. We no longer have a voting system. It’s the same phenomenon as 911:
Let’s quit having a laugh over Joe “I wiped my butt” Biden and start learning about whose sock puppet he is.
This one smacks you right upside the head. There's some real venting going on here ─ a genuine catharsis. But I tell you, the cabal are rubbing their hands in glee at such reactions.
Maybe the young man pictured is somewhat of a doofus ─ I don't know. I used to be a hippie, and didn't think I looked silly, even though I did.
Notice they say “your generation” and not “you”. This is an absurd notion concocted by the social engineers. I remember the following magazine cover. I had just gone into the army. My gut reaction at the time was “Wha-?”
This was a brand new term, and we’ve had to suffer with it ever since. We’re now constantly barraged with the notion that PEOPLE CAN’T UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.
Cui bono? You know the answer.
90% of society’s frictions are synthetically induced, to weaken the fabric of society. To degrade our immune systems. To smother our spiritual radiance.
I say to you, this meme is as cruel as the following cartoon I just made:
We need to love and nurture each other, always and forever. Our only enemy is the cabal.
Well, I’ve banged on long enough – thanks for stopping by!
Let’s end with a topnotch meme of the type we will be sharing in this “memories” series, followed by one of my favorite “just funny” memes.
Best wishes to you in all your research and communications with your loved ones and colleagues.
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This is the kind of story I like to read because I can relate to it so well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us all. Peace and love! 😊
Isn't it delightful what the use of money creates? So awesome that power over Others! Promoting psychopaths to the top and all!
Money Motivates the Most Marvelous Manifestations! (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/money-motivates-the-most-marvelous