A Country That Sells Homeopathic Concoctions Don't Need No Stinkin' Evidence

George W. Bush recognized that, in order to bomb a Middle Eastern country,...you needed to provide a rationale, you needed to provide a basis, you needed to 'let the dog see the rabbit.' But of course, in Trumpland, you don't need to let the dog see anything. You just need to tell them there's a rabbit."

Lost: Surviving The NewAge

"I'm sure, in time, history will reward [George W. Bush]...Hell, I'm as sure of that as I am my own friggin' name." 

 - The Crack Emcee, February 14, 2008 

Look at the date: 2008 was 8 years before the Washington Post saw the photo, above, and thought "it may come as a surprise to many" that a Democrat would be caught dead hugging George W. Bush. And why wouldn't they write that, when - even as I'm blogging in 2024 - the vast majority of their readers, if not the country and the world, are still angry at W., because the media do such a good job of convincing Americans to "believe" in narratives - like there were no WMD found in Iraq:

“I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” [Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant] said. “There were plenty.”

- The New York Times, October 14, 2014 

   

Of course there were: we sold them to Saddam (DUH). I know what I know: Narratives are the crimes of our times. Starting with the "spiritual" machinations of an uber-rapey, Epstein Island-dwelling Bill Clinton, we've not only been living in an age punctuated by Hillary Clinton's lies and conspiracy theories (presumably for the rest of our lives) while surrounded by the pushing and buying of worthless homeopathic medicines, "pointless" CBD crap, useless cold medicines, outlandish breathwork seminars (also popularized by Hillary Clinton), corporate Wellness programs, criminal psychics, delusional reiki healers, and Aaron Rodgers, but it's a time that no longer actively illuminates reality. 

We haven't been made wary of being lied to, political parties, spiritual movements, or being swept away by media, as we we were warned to do in the '70s, after Harvey Milk stole his election with the help of Jim Jones and his People's Temple cult. We're now a society serving those purposes, and made ripe for deception, by our own deceptions. By always moving so fast, the world is now convinced the truth, too, is a moving target. 

But how is anyone supposed to live in a pile of shit, once they can can see it's shit, as a world filled with multitudes of, almost unidentifiable, NewAge cultists - who are incapable of learning from mistakes - and almost always retaliate against exposure? (Watch any Netflix doc on cults and tell me I'm wrong.) It's damn near impossible.

   

TMR extols Atheism. Not pretending to see what's not there, but seeing what is, and betting you can't then forget it, or look away. For instance, instead of King Charles being in the hospital for his prostate treatment - after he's been such a big fan of homeopathy all these years, promoting it to his subjects and the world for decades - shouldn't he be compelled to rely on it now? Shouldn't it be expected? As an example to us all, of the King as a man of integrity? He has a Royal Homeopath. 

Come on. The monarchy is as dead as he'd be. And no one will force him to change his tune. But, you can bet, somebody already wants to kill me. And THAT'S the point: Bill Ackman is not alone. 

   

Words are violence. Everything happens for a reason. Karma. These are reasons we can lose employment today. There's simply no way to live, unless you're rich enough to be ignored or endure it. Not when nonsense has erected such a formidable, world-wide support system, that people groan when they hear the truth. Friendships are destroyed. Immoral persecutions. People have died.

 

 Free Palestine.

 

Splish-Splash I Was Taking A Bath (In Sorrow)

 

 Second teacher at Missouri high school caught peddling porn on OnlyFans 

   

 Conspiracy beliefs prompt consumers to use so-called alternative medicine 

  

A Calif. house is listed for $1.55 million. There’s a meth lab inside.

Netanyahu's Holy war: Israeli PM quotes the Bible and says 'this is a time for war' 

  

Eleven Israeli soldiers killed since expanded ground operations in Gaza

Things Are Going Swimmingly

Morgan Freeman warns The View of an imminent 'apocalypse' and 'human extinction'

Poll shows alarming support for Hamas

NYC developers rip judge in Trump case

Man DRAGGED out of Hillary Clinton event after he questions why Bill was on Epstein's flight logs 

   

  AS TMR PREDICTED: Peter Zeihan is missing George W. Bush.

Notes

Let's give French President Emmanuel Macron credit for honesty, after putting his desire for power right in the middle of his new motto, “Recovery, power, belonging”. The little man ain't got any. He wants some, and he wants us to know it. Because he's the second-rate leader of a second-rate nation - still acting as the world's fair-weather friend - so, it's nice to want.

"George W. Bush and/or George H.W. Bush bought hundreds of thousands of acres in Paraguay, adjoining a similar spread owned by the Unification Church's ev. Sun MyRung Moon. Both massive parcels are hidden within a remote South American wilderness atop the world's biggest freshwater aquifer adjoining a secret U.S. military airbase. Oh, and there's a special non-extradition law to protect the Bush/Moon families as they enjoy their old age and run drug/weapons smuggling rings, safe from American justice. And they'll own all the drinking water in the world, or something." 

That was a popular conspiracy theory in 2008, spread by the same people now trying to convince you the right started this shit.

Greg Tate has died. I bought one of his books last year. Too soon. Too soon.

 

Putting The Cart Before The Horse (Is The Easy Way To Make A Life Harder)

Political partisanship appears to cause almost every major writer, who sees the world as I do, to forget or ignore (or maybe they were already oblivious to) Andrew Breitbart's admonition that politics lives downstream from culture. So - by putting the emphasis on the wrong people: politicians - they've pointed their readers in the wrong direction, in almost the exact same wrong way, to end up telling the exact same wrong story, over and over again:

Francis Wheen discovered - almost immediately - he blew his NewAge thesis by attaching Margaret Thatcher to it.

Christopher Locke revealed the weakness in his argument, through the Republican-to-hate of the moment, George W. Bush.

And Kurt Andersen of The New York Times (of course) spirals down the drain by being unable to resist the zeitgeist, and attaching Donald Trump to his, otherwise sound, theories.

They're all wrong, with TMR's point being - even if they weren't - we wouldn't have any of them without a NewAge MOVEMENT, and that puts the ball back in the court of an Oprah or Deepak or Shirley MacLaine or Arianna Huffington or Gary Lachman or any of the other frauds and cult leaders assisting The Democrat Party in distorting reality, and thus, the American way of life.

 

They Say "Cult" How They Used To Say "God" (To Say They Don't Understand)

Reuters is "reporting" Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it 'Trump cult', which helps no one - least of all the former Bush officials - who are not cult experts, or even well-versed in the topic. Actual cult experts (who any journalist could've consulted for this article) say: 

"Politicizing the word “cult” and using it to label Trump supporters serves no useful or constructive purpose. It dismissively demonizes a majority of the Republican party and other voters that support Donald Trump without recognizing their preexisting personal sentiments. This inaccurate labeling also denigrates the suffering of real cult victims."

So this Reuters headline should've actually read: 

 Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party - hurting their own party's future political prospects - and everybody's just rolling over cult victims, willy-nilly, without a care. As long as they get Trump.

 

Once I Discovered The Matrix I Was Doomed To A Lifetime In This Dystopian Hell

Almost two decades later, this sounds like kind of a familiar - rather than unique - experience, for some overseas at the time (as I soon was) watching 9/11 unfold:

I had just gotten back from a year in France....In the weeks that followed, I watched the American news with one eye, and its European counterpart with the other....The one time my country could side with the U.S. was when America was on its knees, but when it refused to stay down it quickly went back to the smug relativism of World War II, the icy efficiency of a country never having to fight for either ethics or its existence.

Soon enough, the narrative was clear....Bush was a moron and a puppet. America was killing innocent people for oil. It went on and on, and all I could think was that if I know that these things are not true, then what other lies have I accepted as truth throughout my life?

So I pulled at the thread of my ideology, and it all unraveled before me.

If, instead of "a European Upper-Middle-Class Radical", this woman had been poor and black - here or in France - then she would've really had a problem.

Rand Paul Will Not Run 4 President & Crack's Colorblind

I haven't gotten upset about Edward Snowden's NSA revelations because I figured (duh) the government was doing it already. But, in light of Rand Paul's success at Berkeley - where he talked, specifically, about opposing the NSA - running into Adalia Woodbury's braying, about internet surveillance being authorized by President Bush, became kinda interesting. As a matter of fact, I've got to agree with her - if Rand Paul's planning on running for president, he's got to find a better class of losers:

   The ironies in this story are endless, beginning with the cast of characters. We have Rand Paul who believes freedom means businesses denying services to black people, denying women the right to make their own healthcare decisions and denying non-Republicans the right to vote as a great civil libertarian fighting for privacy rights that were, in reality, violated by the NSA solely on orders by fellow Republican, George W. Bush. We have Ken Cuccinelli who tried to regulate sex when he was Virginia’s Attorney General as the lead attorney in a suit on privacy rights.  We have Larry Klayman, who tried [to] nullify Barack Obama’s presidency with a birther suit, and last year tried to stage a coup with his demand that Obama “put the Quran down.” Yet, he filed his suit because he is concerned about privacy rights?

[Snip]

In Rand Paul’s world, privacy is merely his delusion of a ticket to the White House.

Delusion, eh? We at TMR know a few things about that. So here's where it gets tricky - I looked into this "businesses denying services to black people" thing (naturally) and discovered why Mr. Paul is avoiding all discussion of "social issues":

He's actually a racial Mr. Magoo:

 

Gobbledigook. Solicitor General Walter Dellinger said he was puzzled by Paul's comments elsewhere (which are all demonstrations in avoidance strategy) "suggest that he did not understand the magnitude of what was at stake in the civil rights movement.” I wouldn't be surprised, if Paul's peers, and supporters, are any indication. 

Later, The Washington Post accused Paul of "rewriting history" regarding his positions. (A major no-no around these parts.) As best, I can tell, the most clear point Rand Paul has ever made, regarding race, is in saying he would've marched with Martin Luther King - he's made that point many, many, many times - but he would NOT have insisted King could eat at a Woolworth's lunch counter. 

 Come on. I've seen that line repeated, in one form or another, by Republicans and Hard Right types for a while now: 

They "don't see race," and they'll even be a black's friend, but - in a most unfriendly manner - they'll also endorse ideas and policies that result in blacks, specifically, not having what we need to live after undergoing what they openly acknowledge was a well-delivered "stain on our history". 

Yes, we get it, it's a blood stain. Ours.

 Look, give it up, Guys. Rand Paul doesn't stand a chance with this nonsense in his background, his dad's white supremacist newsletters, etc.. He's toast. I've read a bunch of his statements and he can't even hold a coherent discussion on the topic without coming off as evasive or racist. I mean really racist. But I'm not saying he is one.  See?  

I'm catching on to how this game is played, too.

I hate to say this, folks, but here's TMR's presidential political analysis for those with no skills:

After the disaster of Romney, here's Hillary's challenger,…

PTSD: My Life-Long Condition, My Best President & Me

The Crack Emcee, 23 February 2014, 6:17 AM:

"PTSD? Sure, some,…but, as you said, something bad causes that, so save your pity and the eye rolls,…

…Noticing what hurts you - and speaking up about it - doesn't mean you're crazy."

The Daily Mail, 23 February 2014, 13:06 EST:

George W Bush fights to stop PTSD being called a disorder

Althouse Marginalization: To Relegate Or Confine A Blog To The Lower Or Outer Limit Or Edge Of Social Standing

You know, as much as I try to love Ann Althouse, sometimes, she can be such a bitch that - like a lot of feminists - beating on her is the only option. Look at this:

"How George W. Bush Evolved From the Uncoolest Person on the Planet to Bona Fide Hipster Icon."

And then, who does she go on to quote? Rush Limbaugh and Vanity Fair! Like - after years of participating on her blog - she missed me, repeatedly, saying:

"Yes, Democrats, years from now - but, I predict, not too many - you're going to have to pretend you liked George W. Bush."

The Crack Emcee, May 8, 2008

Look at that date - 2008. Or how about a post saying "This Is A Nice Profile For Mt. Rushmore":

"This one man has been more important to the world than all of his detractors combined,...

Bit by bit, as time goes by, we're going to continue find that every critic of the Bush administration - including the current president and his supporters - were on the wrong side of history.

Not that they'll ever admit it." 

The Crack Emcee, February 13, 2011

Meanwhile, here and at Althouse, I've always been predicting George W. Bush would grow in stature beyond the past assessment.

But no - to Ann, it's just her, Rush, and Vanity Fair.

I'm sorry, but I've been blogging too long with this pack of liars:

I call RACISM on the lot of them,....