Is It Too Late? Joe Kent Says

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This worries me too. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Top of my head, voting in the Dems doesn’t do anything to fix the fiasco in the middle east. There’s plenty of avenues now for them to thwart the war now but they’re doing f*ck-all. They’re AIPAC shills just like the Repubs. Plus, it’s highly unlikely that once Pandora’s box gets opened that we can close it again.

Much as I bristle at your “all boomers” posts, I think in this case you’re right in regard to Trump. Before he was elected, I read “The Art of the Deal” and it gives a pretty clear indication of who he is. And it ain’t good. According to him, in any development deal, the first thing he does is try to find a way to avoid paying back the bondholders. And to find a way not to pay his contractors. So it should surprise no one that he views the presidency as a means for self enrichment at the expense of the very people who invested in him.

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This and migration were the only reasons I voted for him.

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He did shut the border (which that Cackler sure wouldn’t have done) but he really stalled out on deportations. We can see this play out in the foreign born job numbers every month. They aren’t shooting higher (like they did under Senile Joe) but neither are they screaming lower. Its a slow-motion move lower.

So maybe a half-win for the migrant invasion. (With a minus for his H1 visa enthusiasm).

And a total loss for Bibi’s Greater Israel war.

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tbf, I did say “some people”. I didn’t say all people and/or all Boomers.

I think some people fit classic Boomer tropes/stereotypes very well and I am not averse to pointing that out when it’s the case.

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Only 15 minutes in, I have to say that you and Mr. Kent right off the hop are dealing with questions that are unanswerable because of the context and framing from which they are asked.

First - is it too late for “our system”.

What is “our system”? A managed political system controlled by private central banks, oligarchs, and the security state? “Our democracy” as a participant in “the rules based international order”? “Our system” - this is what has to be anwered first, because as evidenced by the comments, most of us suffering from Normie mental maps of what our system even is reply, automatically, “We are doomed!” - but the system?

Consider the system begun with the 4th crusade that won control of Constantinople market access in 1204 for Florentine, Genoese, Pisan, and Venetian merchants and which built itself a coalition with the Mongols as they destroyed Silk Road network nodes from 1207 up until the 1340’s. For their rivals, this was collapse. For the Italians and the Mongols, this was victory. It all held together - slavery, the silver to gold exchange hustle - until the Black Plague arrived in 1343-1344. Then, “the system” collapsed, which was bad news for the system, but great news or no big deal for other parties.

“Our system” - private central bank debt as the basis of all enterprise, social life and governance; social isolation mandated by urban planning; private bank collateral expansion uber alles; etc.

Well, that system f&#&$$* sucks in many ways.

However, it is waging a global war of attrition against the multipolar rival system of private central bank managed currency exchanges and, as of right now it is losing militarily but winning strategically.

The discussion is set up to fail in anwering its own initial question because we must define our system. We must discuss what is happening to it factually. To pass a judgement of “is it too late” - maybe “too late” for its curent incarnation, but right on time for what comes next.

As I see it, I am subscribed to Blaine Holt’s analysis: we are caught between efforts of nationalist-sovereigntists against monetary powers to dominate the globe. Our “system” is a state of affairs. We have been born and raised in the midst of fifth generation warfare dominated by those interests battling it out. The pattern is holding and will define the next several decades, at least.

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Can’t tell if that is sarcasm or not. Hoping it is… if not, takers will all have blood on their hands.

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Yeah there’s an escalation of cynicism with a dying empire. At first corruption is marginal, shamed, and punished. As that resistance fades, a growing number of people rationalize their own corruption as “everyone else is doing it so it’s ok.”

What happens with that concession- at first very small - is they lose their moral courage to rebuke the corrupt.

So thus this $5k bribe not only adds to the currency devaluation, it makes more people morally culpable for participating in this fraud. That provides more cover for the deeply corrupt in power, as it reduces the moral outrage against them, and encourages deeper and more widespread corruption overall.

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I think the way everyone should interpret the $5K bribe is that it’s just hot air, an empty promise. Something that perhaps occurred to Trump on the spur of the moment, and very much in the spirit of “The Art of the Deal”.

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As a practical matter, and all other things being equal, which type of civilization would succeed against others? The first kind made of faithless, self-interested, individuals? Or a second kind made of faithful, self-sacrificng, members of an ethnos or nation?

I think I know the answer, but maybe I am wrong.

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This single issue given me tremendous hope.

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The civilisation that has the most people that can find power and energy to survive and be authentic no matter the system they have to live in.

In wars it’s more difficult to control a population than to win militarily.

If people simply won’t accept the masters, the masters disappear. Sadly we, as a golbal civilisation, are not fully aware of this. We are born in a world that has so many problems that we continue to reinforce simply because it’s the way it is.

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I aimed at Joe’s 3 seconds from 13:16 to 13:19,
and, Joe, I know “the guy’s” full name, birth date, and death date:
Jeffrey Joseph Bester: 21 May 1964, 05 October 2025.
I could try to run an ad in Bester’s university monthly newspaper, The Rocket,
if that would help, and I’d certainly pay for the ad myself.

For now, I made an “eBook”, translated into 11 languages, and used cURL commands to make a Stripe payment link.
The price is 6 Chinese Yuan, and many payment methods are acceptable at this stripe.com payment_link:

https://buy.stripe.com/8x2aEZeBsfuybpq3wq1ZS01

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Heads of state, CEOs, and bankers bought with women, children, and big money. Congress bought for $100k to millions. And now the rest of us NPCs will be bought for $5k. Peanuts.

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Humans are designed to sublimate their personal, short term, interests for both their long term interests, the interests of their kinsmen, and the tribe they might psychologically belong to. This has made our species an apex predator. The civilization that puts this set of instincts to its own use, all things being equal, will destroy or enslave its rivals.

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Americans somehow manage to be obsessed with both religion and with personal property, wealth and self interest.

Anything that might benefit anyone else is branded as Commie - backed up by decades of propaganda. Then selfishness is backed up with the propaganda that anyone can have anything (The American Dream) if only they work hard enough and fck enough people over. Plus the paranoid idea that if anyone walks across your land, or even rings your doorbell for any reason, they deserve to be shot with one of the guns that you keep propped up in the hallway. That’s a trusting, civilised society, apparently.

Basically, the whole place is held together with money and cheap stuff. If there is a decline in that for any reason, you’ll soon find that there is absolutely no glue whatsoever. And you all know it. That’s why you are all super paranoid about your stuff and your property and obsess over digging a trench in it and shooting anyone who passes.

You all know it to be true.

You’re a young nation. If you get to be an old one, you’ll start to understand some of the things I’m saying in a way that you cannot possibly comprehend right now.

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You seemed to have us all figured out .

Although , I’d say , at least we still have our guns , religion, property and wealth to obsess over.

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It was ever thus..

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SOME humans are wired this way, others are very much the instant gratification type. The key predictor of ‘delayed impulse gratification’ appears to be IQ, with higher IQ correlating with higher impulse control and the ability to invest time and effort now, in order to enjoy a better future. One example would be the person who was diligent at school, then university - sacrificing ‘play time’ now for ‘more wealth’ later.

In contrast, lower IQ appears to correlate with higher impulsivity, violence and poor impulse control. This then shows up as more criminal behaviour. The ‘sweet spot’ for which appears to be around 85.

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My personal experience has demonstrated to me, repeatedly, that from the bottom of the upper class on down to just before abused welfare recipiants, we are an incredibly awe inspiring high trust society. Some acquaintances from former Soviet nations personally commented to me that they are sometimes shocked at how cooperative Americans are, like children, they said.