I also really recommend the documentary STRIPPED for a pretty detailed look into the comic strip industry, specifically the way the Internet and the shrinking number of newspapers in the US has changed things, as well as the number of "legacy" strips out there (why take a risk on something new, strange, and unproven when you can just hire someone new to do "Blondie" or "Beetle Bailey?") I just looked it up and, the movie came out in 2013, so I'm sure things have only gotten more extreme since then.
El judeomessianisme fa gairebé dos mil anys que escampa entre nosaltres el seu missatge verinós. Els universalismes democràtics i comunistes són més recents, però només han reforçat la vella narrativa jueva. Són els mateixos ideals.
Els ideals transnacionals, transracials, transsexuals, transculturals que aquestes ideologies ens prediquen (més enllà dels pobles, races, cultures) i que són el sosteniment diari de les nostres escoles, als nostres mitjans de comunicació, a la nostra cultura popular, a les nostres universitats, i sobre al nostres els carrers han acabat reduint la nostra identitat biosimbòlica i el nostre orgull ètnic a la seva mínima expressió.
Els banquers jueus han inundat Europa amb musulmans i Amèrica amb escombraries del tercer món . . . L'exili com a càstig per als que predicen la sedició s'hauria de restablir dins el marc legal d'Occident . . . El judaisme, el cristianisme i l'islam són cultes a la mort originats a l'Orient Mitjà i totalment aliens a Europa i als seus pobles . . . El comunisme és una ideologia jueva que va venir de Londres; Marx hi va passar la major part de la seva vida. Els nacionalsocialistes van venir a alliberar París, nosaltres no el vam destruir.
De vegades ens preguntem per què l'esquerra europea es porta tan bé amb els musulmans. Per què un moviment sovint obertament antireligiós es posa del costat d'una religiositat ferotge que sembla oposar-se a gairebé tot allò que l'esquerra sempre ha pretès defensar? Part de l'explicació rau en el fet que l'islam i el marxisme tenen una arrel ideològica comuna: el judaisme.
Don Rumsfeld tenia raó quan va dir: "Europa s'ha desplaçat en el seu eix", va ser el bàndol equivocat que va guanyar la Segona Guerra Mundial, i es fa més clar cada dia . . . Què ha fet l'OTAN per defensar Europa? Absolutament res . . . Els meus enemics no són a Moscou, Damasc, Teheran, Riad o algun eteri bogeyman teutónic, els meus enemics són a Washington, Brusselles i Tel Aviv.
Cap país segueix el seu propi curs en aquesta invasió perquè és una agenda política liderada per l'ONU i impulsada pels jueus i els seus titelles (polítics). La majoria de la gent simplement no sap ni entén que aquesta és una agenda política. Tanmateix, alguns aconsegueixen entendre que els polítics estan treballant deliberadament per importar musulmans i substituir gent, però això és tot, són com un ordinador que no pot funcionar perquè el programa no ho permet.
I posted something back on the bird site a few years back. But as crazy seems on the ascendant among these goons and their hired hands, it’s probably prudent not to show a panel. Do you remember the first ones you ever saw? I also grew up in Missouri, and that shit was mental wallpaper.
Which, the first Jack Chick? Probably one about Halloween being Satan's holiday -- some parents of my friends gave those out on Halloween instead of candy. They were a dreary, scary family who talked endlessly about "loving people" yet never in my presence did anything nice for anybody but members of their own church. Eight-year-old me was like, "WTF?"
Canadian drug addict Jordan Peterson has taken to Twitter in his criticism of the validity of Pope Francis’ Christianity . . . Never mind that Peterson is supposedly an atheist . . . and that the Popes all wear a yarmulke, and all pay homage to the Hebrew god Satan at the Wailing Wall in their obeisance to the Jews . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xnSKHynXE
Peterson believes that the American Israeli Political Action Committee is the official religion of the United States government . . . which really isn’t that far off the mark . . . but, Peterson is also a Canadian and doesn’t have a kippa like the Pope does, so how does he get to claim he has rabbinical authority here? Maybe it’s because he’s over at the (((Daily Wire))) with Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin . . .
Peterson has a giant portrait of his favorite Jewish Bolshevik heroes who all changed their Jewish names to conceal their true ethnic identity.
It’s sort of a humorous irony that the Canadian government wants Peterson to undergo some type of 're-education' (a term that is right out of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-no-9-re-education . . .)
For years Juden Peterstein happily collected his Canadian government paycheck, now he faces losing his government certification . . . he has advocated depriving others of their speech for ‘antisemitism’, ‘racism’, and whatever the Temple of AIPAC deems to be stochastic terrorism . . .
Jack Chick tracts were endlessly entertaining to us Catholic HS boys who lived for hashish. I even wrote to the publisher once with a made-up story about being saved by one, and received a big envelope of titles. If only our school had a drama program....
YOU LIKED PLAYING 'SPREAD THE OTHER CHEEK' WITH MONSIGNOR . . . HA HA HA . . .
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
I enjoyed this piece, but as a Boomer I get a little annoyed by how my age cohort is subject to stereotyping. Some of us are still down with the cause and haven't gone over to the dark side. But Gerber's description of the Reagan years rings true.
Thanks Greg! I was just watching a great video of the B-52s in concert in 1982.
I try to be fair to the Boomers, because I genuinely LOVE the Boomers, and have always preferred them to my own cohort. I am actually quite sad about this lately, because many of my dearest closest friends are 75 and up, and I am pre-grieving them. This next decade will be a difficult one for me, and I feel utterly unprepared to step into the role of Wise Old Owl. These Friday columns are an attempt to get ready for that, I guess.
Boomers made me into the person I am today; and saved my life in my early 40s. Good wise Boomers are the BEST of us.
Right there with ya. I'm gonna make it a point to have music by D.O.A and the Circle Jerks played at my funeral as mouners are encouraged to burn photos of Reagan, Trump and Jerry Falwell.
Four Ways The Destruction of Israel Can Benefit The West . . .
❝Besides the yearly $3.8 billion sent to arm Israelis and help provide its citizens with a cradle to grave welfare state Americans could only dream of, there are tens of billions of additional dollars dispatched as protection payoffs to various Muslim nations historically hostile to Zionism, such as Egypt and Jordan, so that they turn a blind eye and even covertly support the hostile actions of the Jewish state.
Add in the cost of the Middle East wars that have been fought on Israel’s behalf in the last 20 years and the cumulative price of Israel is well into the trillions. Yesterday, President Joe Biden ordered the US Congress to provide another $100 billion dollar package to fund the Jewish war efforts in Ukraine and Israel. This arrangement, where the United States and its NATO allies violently clear out leaders and countries who oppose Israeli expansion, is the driving force behind every American military adventure in North Africa and the Middle East.
Zionist foreign policy makers have also played a role in the 2014 coup in Ukraine that served as the first domino in the wider Ukraine conflict in 2022. Victoria Nuland, who is a member of the ultra-Zionist Kagan family played a leading role in the failed regime-change conspiracy against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and the militarization of Ukraine. In 2020, Nuland wrote an article explaining the logic behind antagonizing Russia, where she stresses that creating conflict in Eastern Europe is a means to weakening the Kremlin’s ability to support anti-Israel governments such as the former Libyan state, Syria, and Iran. Though Israel has formally sought to keep plausible deniability on Ukraine out of fear that Russia will retaliate by increasing support for Iran and Syria, its Zionist diaspora is able to prosecute wars on its behalf using the blood and treasure of America and Europe as their cover.❞
“They have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables, in bad conduct and in barbarism. They deserve to be punished, for this is their destiny. The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred towards all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous; cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.” — François-Marie Voltaire
“I fear that the Jewish bankers, with their cunning and torturous tricks, will completely control the abundant wealth of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. The Jews will not hesitate to plunge all of Christendom into wars and chaos so that the earth becomes their inheritance.” ― Otto Von Bismark
“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
I grew up in Cucamonga, California (later, when incorporated, the city fathers named it "RANCHO" Cucamonga), which was the home of Jack Chick Productions. His tracts were a major feature of my junior and senior high school years. Hilariously bad but entertaining.
El judeomessianisme fa gairebé dos mil anys que escampa entre nosaltres el seu missatge verinós. Els universalismes democràtics i comunistes són més recents, però només han reforçat la vella narrativa jueva. Són els mateixos ideals.
Els ideals transnacionals, transracials, transsexuals, transculturals que aquestes ideologies ens prediquen (més enllà dels pobles, races, cultures) i que són el sosteniment diari de les nostres escoles, als nostres mitjans de comunicació, a la nostra cultura popular, a les nostres universitats, i sobre al nostres els carrers han acabat reduint la nostra identitat biosimbòlica i el nostre orgull ètnic a la seva mínima expressió.
Els banquers jueus han inundat Europa amb musulmans i Amèrica amb escombraries del tercer món . . . L'exili com a càstig per als que predicen la sedició s'hauria de restablir dins el marc legal d'Occident . . . El judaisme, el cristianisme i l'islam són cultes a la mort originats a l'Orient Mitjà i totalment aliens a Europa i als seus pobles.
De vegades ens preguntem per què l'esquerra europea es porta tan bé amb els musulmans. Per què un moviment sovint obertament antireligiós es posa del costat d'una religiositat ferotge que sembla oposar-se a gairebé tot allò que l'esquerra sempre ha pretès defensar? Part de l'explicació rau en el fet que l'islam i el marxisme tenen una arrel ideològica comuna: el judaisme.
Les eleccions són falses, només un espectacle, els jueus són propietaris dels mitjans. El comunisme és una ideologia jueva que va venir de Londres; Marx hi va passar la major part de la seva vida. Els nacionalsocialistes van venir a alliberar París, nosaltres no el vam destruir.
As a liberal Episcopalian living in the South (yes, we still exist), I agree with your assessment of Jesusaholics, though it would be more accurate to call them Paulaholics, plus it rhymes. They actually have little use for the teachings of Jesus, so they emphasize a handful of passages written by St. Paul and yanked violently out of context. Loved your mention of Jack Chick, whose godawful (pun intended) comics emotionally scarred whole generations of fundie kids.
❝. . . collective amnesia over just who aided and abetted Jim Jones is much easier to explain. The same influence used on Jones’s behalf during his life helped after his death to erase the causes and candidates he supported.
“Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple,” Harvey Milk gushed. Yes, that Harvey Milk.
Willie Brown, later speaker of the California assembly and mayor of San Francisco, compared Jim Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Dianne Feinstein joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs.”
Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.
Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.❞
Couple of additional idiosyncratic drawers that are hella funny:
Legacy print: Roz Chast
Internet: Allie Brosh (Hyperbole And A Half)
So based on your account, you are one year and ten months older than I am. In high school and college, it really seemed to me that people born in ‘68 and ‘69 were cooler, as if they somehow absorbed those years by osmosis. I think what’s more likely is that they took in the wonderfully weird exhaust fumes of the ‘70s with just those two additional years of sentience that allowed them into a more “knowing” world inhabited by adults. That world was far more permeable back then (for good and ill)
These things are always overdetermined, but rather than the pat use of 1980 I think of Rick Perlstein’s description of the Bicentennial celebration in 1976, where the U.S., two years after Nixon’s resignation, among many, many other shocks, had a big party and felt…OK! Perlstein considers this a refusal to “grow up”; I don’t see a problem with celebrating a big number like 200. Then again, he was born in ‘68, while I’m a naive ‘71er. 2026 should be an interesting test case…
Oh yes yes YES on both Roz and Allie Brosh. It can be done, and it's great when it works. I'd also put Brad Neely into that bucket.
1976 has merit in this discussion because all this Born Again-bullshit really started with Carter. "I've lusted in my heart"--what nonsense for serious adults to talk about in regard to a Presidential candidacy. Jimmy Carter, who is fearsomely smart, dedicated to science, and someone who walks the Christian walk more than any other public figure I know, opened the door to the flood of dimwitted cunning self-dealing charlatans we've suffered ever since.
But I have no problem with the Bicentennial, and don't think it demonstrated an immature country. In fact it seems to me to be the apogee of postwar can-do America, after which it's been a slow glide into our present plutocracy. I've always been fascinated by the theory that the Bicentennial was where HIV really began to spread.
But I'm not picking 1980 for the round number; I'm picking it for
1) The rise of Reagan, who had been a somewhat fringe character, and roundly reviled by the counterculture, into "the Great Communicator." And all the terrible policies of his that have done so much to shape our present world.
2) The end of the Kennedy dynasty, the love for or fear of which had utterly driven American politics, for the twenty years before. After Teddy's speech at the '80 convention, when it was clear that no other Kennedy brother would ever be President, everyone felt the end of an era of muscular popular liberalism which had started with FDR. We forget this, but it had been considered by the right-wing as an existential threat to its very existence. The demise of Teddy in 1980 signaled that not only would conservatism survive the threat of three Kennedy brothers, it could capture power and dominate the discussion even while its policies were unpopular with most Americans. That this transformation was founded on a series of shady political murders/chicanery is never discussed, and it's a much bigger sign of American cultural immaturity than the Bicentennial. I've never read Perlstein for this reason; if you don't view American politics between 1963-2000 primarily by *who isn't there*, you're whistling past the graveyard. Both left and right historians do this, and it's absurd. In 1976, JFK would've been 59 years old; MLK would've been 47. 47!
3) Shifts in popular culture. The period 1976-80 was not broken off in any obvious way from the period of 1970-75--in fact '76-80 was an intensifying of all that. SNL deepens and intensifies; JAWS becomes Star Wars; American Graffiti becomes Happy Days; disco culture becomes Saturday Night Fever. 1979's Apocalypse Now is thoroughly of a piece with the Hollywood that started with Bonnie and Clyde. But 1980 was a huge cultural inflection point, if only because of the murder of John Lennon. This was felt as a profound shift at the time, with no little foreboding, and was the literal closing of a chapter of ferment which had begun in 1963-64, right after Kennedy's assassination.
All this taken together, and 1980's the obvious pivot.
I'm ten years older than you, turned twenty-one the day after Reagan's inauguration, & you're goddamn right that 1980-ish (more precisely early 1981) was the tipping point. That's when AIDS was first reported, by the way.
I was talking to Shary Flenniken, and out of the blue she said to me, "Early 1981, that was a bad time, the worst. That's when everything changed. Everybody I knew was depressed. A bunch of people died."
❝. . . collective amnesia over just who aided and abetted Jim Jones is much easier to explain. The same influence used on Jones’s behalf during his life helped after his death to erase the causes and candidates he supported.
“Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple,” Harvey Milk gushed. Yes, that Harvey Milk.
Willie Brown, later speaker of the California assembly and mayor of San Francisco, compared Jim Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Dianne Feinstein joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs.”
Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.
Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.❞
As I remember, Brian McConnachie's first Lampoon appearance was as artist of "The Worst Cartoons in the World", introduced by the claim that this guy was only being published because he was a friend of the editors & other really terrible cartoonists shouldn't bother sending their submissions. What can I say, though -- the cartoons really WERE funny!
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞
I also really recommend the documentary STRIPPED for a pretty detailed look into the comic strip industry, specifically the way the Internet and the shrinking number of newspapers in the US has changed things, as well as the number of "legacy" strips out there (why take a risk on something new, strange, and unproven when you can just hire someone new to do "Blondie" or "Beetle Bailey?") I just looked it up and, the movie came out in 2013, so I'm sure things have only gotten more extreme since then.
El judeomessianisme fa gairebé dos mil anys que escampa entre nosaltres el seu missatge verinós. Els universalismes democràtics i comunistes són més recents, però només han reforçat la vella narrativa jueva. Són els mateixos ideals.
Els ideals transnacionals, transracials, transsexuals, transculturals que aquestes ideologies ens prediquen (més enllà dels pobles, races, cultures) i que són el sosteniment diari de les nostres escoles, als nostres mitjans de comunicació, a la nostra cultura popular, a les nostres universitats, i sobre al nostres els carrers han acabat reduint la nostra identitat biosimbòlica i el nostre orgull ètnic a la seva mínima expressió.
Els banquers jueus han inundat Europa amb musulmans i Amèrica amb escombraries del tercer món . . . L'exili com a càstig per als que predicen la sedició s'hauria de restablir dins el marc legal d'Occident . . . El judaisme, el cristianisme i l'islam són cultes a la mort originats a l'Orient Mitjà i totalment aliens a Europa i als seus pobles . . . El comunisme és una ideologia jueva que va venir de Londres; Marx hi va passar la major part de la seva vida. Els nacionalsocialistes van venir a alliberar París, nosaltres no el vam destruir.
De vegades ens preguntem per què l'esquerra europea es porta tan bé amb els musulmans. Per què un moviment sovint obertament antireligiós es posa del costat d'una religiositat ferotge que sembla oposar-se a gairebé tot allò que l'esquerra sempre ha pretès defensar? Part de l'explicació rau en el fet que l'islam i el marxisme tenen una arrel ideològica comuna: el judaisme.
Don Rumsfeld tenia raó quan va dir: "Europa s'ha desplaçat en el seu eix", va ser el bàndol equivocat que va guanyar la Segona Guerra Mundial, i es fa més clar cada dia . . . Què ha fet l'OTAN per defensar Europa? Absolutament res . . . Els meus enemics no són a Moscou, Damasc, Teheran, Riad o algun eteri bogeyman teutónic, els meus enemics són a Washington, Brusselles i Tel Aviv.
Cap país segueix el seu propi curs en aquesta invasió perquè és una agenda política liderada per l'ONU i impulsada pels jueus i els seus titelles (polítics). La majoria de la gent simplement no sap ni entén que aquesta és una agenda política. Tanmateix, alguns aconsegueixen entendre que els polítics estan treballant deliberadament per importar musulmans i substituir gent, però això és tot, són com un ordinador que no pot funcionar perquè el programa no ho permet.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
I posted something back on the bird site a few years back. But as crazy seems on the ascendant among these goons and their hired hands, it’s probably prudent not to show a panel. Do you remember the first ones you ever saw? I also grew up in Missouri, and that shit was mental wallpaper.
Which, the first Jack Chick? Probably one about Halloween being Satan's holiday -- some parents of my friends gave those out on Halloween instead of candy. They were a dreary, scary family who talked endlessly about "loving people" yet never in my presence did anything nice for anybody but members of their own church. Eight-year-old me was like, "WTF?"
https://www.chick.com/images/tracts/0009/0009_21.gif?
Canadian drug addict Jordan Peterson has taken to Twitter in his criticism of the validity of Pope Francis’ Christianity . . . Never mind that Peterson is supposedly an atheist . . . and that the Popes all wear a yarmulke, and all pay homage to the Hebrew god Satan at the Wailing Wall in their obeisance to the Jews . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xnSKHynXE
Peterson believes that the American Israeli Political Action Committee is the official religion of the United States government . . . which really isn’t that far off the mark . . . but, Peterson is also a Canadian and doesn’t have a kippa like the Pope does, so how does he get to claim he has rabbinical authority here? Maybe it’s because he’s over at the (((Daily Wire))) with Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin . . .
Peterson has a giant portrait of his favorite Jewish Bolshevik heroes who all changed their Jewish names to conceal their true ethnic identity.
It’s sort of a humorous irony that the Canadian government wants Peterson to undergo some type of 're-education' (a term that is right out of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-no-9-re-education . . .)
For years Peterson turned a blind eye to somebody like Dr. James Sears (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvjVH0goLw) who was actually jailed for his speech . . .
For years Juden Peterstein happily collected his Canadian government paycheck, now he faces losing his government certification . . . he has advocated depriving others of their speech for ‘antisemitism’, ‘racism’, and whatever the Temple of AIPAC deems to be stochastic terrorism . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the
Jack Chick tracts were endlessly entertaining to us Catholic HS boys who lived for hashish. I even wrote to the publisher once with a made-up story about being saved by one, and received a big envelope of titles. If only our school had a drama program....
YOU LIKED PLAYING 'SPREAD THE OTHER CHEEK' WITH MONSIGNOR . . . HA HA HA . . .
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
I enjoyed this piece, but as a Boomer I get a little annoyed by how my age cohort is subject to stereotyping. Some of us are still down with the cause and haven't gone over to the dark side. But Gerber's description of the Reagan years rings true.
Thanks Greg! I was just watching a great video of the B-52s in concert in 1982.
I try to be fair to the Boomers, because I genuinely LOVE the Boomers, and have always preferred them to my own cohort. I am actually quite sad about this lately, because many of my dearest closest friends are 75 and up, and I am pre-grieving them. This next decade will be a difficult one for me, and I feel utterly unprepared to step into the role of Wise Old Owl. These Friday columns are an attempt to get ready for that, I guess.
Boomers made me into the person I am today; and saved my life in my early 40s. Good wise Boomers are the BEST of us.
Right there with ya. I'm gonna make it a point to have music by D.O.A and the Circle Jerks played at my funeral as mouners are encouraged to burn photos of Reagan, Trump and Jerry Falwell.
Four Ways The Destruction of Israel Can Benefit The West . . .
❝Besides the yearly $3.8 billion sent to arm Israelis and help provide its citizens with a cradle to grave welfare state Americans could only dream of, there are tens of billions of additional dollars dispatched as protection payoffs to various Muslim nations historically hostile to Zionism, such as Egypt and Jordan, so that they turn a blind eye and even covertly support the hostile actions of the Jewish state.
Add in the cost of the Middle East wars that have been fought on Israel’s behalf in the last 20 years and the cumulative price of Israel is well into the trillions. Yesterday, President Joe Biden ordered the US Congress to provide another $100 billion dollar package to fund the Jewish war efforts in Ukraine and Israel. This arrangement, where the United States and its NATO allies violently clear out leaders and countries who oppose Israeli expansion, is the driving force behind every American military adventure in North Africa and the Middle East.
Zionist foreign policy makers have also played a role in the 2014 coup in Ukraine that served as the first domino in the wider Ukraine conflict in 2022. Victoria Nuland, who is a member of the ultra-Zionist Kagan family played a leading role in the failed regime-change conspiracy against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and the militarization of Ukraine. In 2020, Nuland wrote an article explaining the logic behind antagonizing Russia, where she stresses that creating conflict in Eastern Europe is a means to weakening the Kremlin’s ability to support anti-Israel governments such as the former Libyan state, Syria, and Iran. Though Israel has formally sought to keep plausible deniability on Ukraine out of fear that Russia will retaliate by increasing support for Iran and Syria, its Zionist diaspora is able to prosecute wars on its behalf using the blood and treasure of America and Europe as their cover.❞
https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2023/10/20/four-ways-the-destruction-of-israel-can-benefit-the-west/
Glad you were able to work Chick into the kicker. A++.
I was going to reprint an image, and it woulda been SO PERFECT, but they seem like just the type of people who would hassle me.
Chick actually was a good artist. But only unintentionally funny.
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The Jewish god Yahweh, the locust master, the one who drowned the world . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/we-cant-afford-healthcare-for-american
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“They have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables, in bad conduct and in barbarism. They deserve to be punished, for this is their destiny. The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred towards all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous; cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.” — François-Marie Voltaire
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
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“I fear that the Jewish bankers, with their cunning and torturous tricks, will completely control the abundant wealth of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. The Jews will not hesitate to plunge all of Christendom into wars and chaos so that the earth becomes their inheritance.” ― Otto Von Bismark
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocols-of-zion-protocol-ii-economic
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“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/oh-how-fond-they-are-of-the-book
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“In Washington right next to the Holocaust Museum is the Federal Reserve where they print the money. Is that an accident?” ― Louis Farrakhan
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/black-liberation-news-uganda-declares
I grew up in Cucamonga, California (later, when incorporated, the city fathers named it "RANCHO" Cucamonga), which was the home of Jack Chick Productions. His tracts were a major feature of my junior and senior high school years. Hilariously bad but entertaining.
El judeomessianisme fa gairebé dos mil anys que escampa entre nosaltres el seu missatge verinós. Els universalismes democràtics i comunistes són més recents, però només han reforçat la vella narrativa jueva. Són els mateixos ideals.
Els ideals transnacionals, transracials, transsexuals, transculturals que aquestes ideologies ens prediquen (més enllà dels pobles, races, cultures) i que són el sosteniment diari de les nostres escoles, als nostres mitjans de comunicació, a la nostra cultura popular, a les nostres universitats, i sobre al nostres els carrers han acabat reduint la nostra identitat biosimbòlica i el nostre orgull ètnic a la seva mínima expressió.
Els banquers jueus han inundat Europa amb musulmans i Amèrica amb escombraries del tercer món . . . L'exili com a càstig per als que predicen la sedició s'hauria de restablir dins el marc legal d'Occident . . . El judaisme, el cristianisme i l'islam són cultes a la mort originats a l'Orient Mitjà i totalment aliens a Europa i als seus pobles.
De vegades ens preguntem per què l'esquerra europea es porta tan bé amb els musulmans. Per què un moviment sovint obertament antireligiós es posa del costat d'una religiositat ferotge que sembla oposar-se a gairebé tot allò que l'esquerra sempre ha pretès defensar? Part de l'explicació rau en el fet que l'islam i el marxisme tenen una arrel ideològica comuna: el judaisme.
Les eleccions són falses, només un espectacle, els jueus són propietaris dels mitjans. El comunisme és una ideologia jueva que va venir de Londres; Marx hi va passar la major part de la seva vida. Els nacionalsocialistes van venir a alliberar París, nosaltres no el vam destruir.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
Dear Michael,
As a liberal Episcopalian living in the South (yes, we still exist), I agree with your assessment of Jesusaholics, though it would be more accurate to call them Paulaholics, plus it rhymes. They actually have little use for the teachings of Jesus, so they emphasize a handful of passages written by St. Paul and yanked violently out of context. Loved your mention of Jack Chick, whose godawful (pun intended) comics emotionally scarred whole generations of fundie kids.
Cheers,
Steven Kent
Nov. 18, 1978 . . .
❝. . . collective amnesia over just who aided and abetted Jim Jones is much easier to explain. The same influence used on Jones’s behalf during his life helped after his death to erase the causes and candidates he supported.
“Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple,” Harvey Milk gushed. Yes, that Harvey Milk.
Willie Brown, later speaker of the California assembly and mayor of San Francisco, compared Jim Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Dianne Feinstein joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs.”
Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.
Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.❞
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish
Couple of additional idiosyncratic drawers that are hella funny:
Legacy print: Roz Chast
Internet: Allie Brosh (Hyperbole And A Half)
So based on your account, you are one year and ten months older than I am. In high school and college, it really seemed to me that people born in ‘68 and ‘69 were cooler, as if they somehow absorbed those years by osmosis. I think what’s more likely is that they took in the wonderfully weird exhaust fumes of the ‘70s with just those two additional years of sentience that allowed them into a more “knowing” world inhabited by adults. That world was far more permeable back then (for good and ill)
These things are always overdetermined, but rather than the pat use of 1980 I think of Rick Perlstein’s description of the Bicentennial celebration in 1976, where the U.S., two years after Nixon’s resignation, among many, many other shocks, had a big party and felt…OK! Perlstein considers this a refusal to “grow up”; I don’t see a problem with celebrating a big number like 200. Then again, he was born in ‘68, while I’m a naive ‘71er. 2026 should be an interesting test case…
Oh yes yes YES on both Roz and Allie Brosh. It can be done, and it's great when it works. I'd also put Brad Neely into that bucket.
1976 has merit in this discussion because all this Born Again-bullshit really started with Carter. "I've lusted in my heart"--what nonsense for serious adults to talk about in regard to a Presidential candidacy. Jimmy Carter, who is fearsomely smart, dedicated to science, and someone who walks the Christian walk more than any other public figure I know, opened the door to the flood of dimwitted cunning self-dealing charlatans we've suffered ever since.
But I have no problem with the Bicentennial, and don't think it demonstrated an immature country. In fact it seems to me to be the apogee of postwar can-do America, after which it's been a slow glide into our present plutocracy. I've always been fascinated by the theory that the Bicentennial was where HIV really began to spread.
But I'm not picking 1980 for the round number; I'm picking it for
1) The rise of Reagan, who had been a somewhat fringe character, and roundly reviled by the counterculture, into "the Great Communicator." And all the terrible policies of his that have done so much to shape our present world.
2) The end of the Kennedy dynasty, the love for or fear of which had utterly driven American politics, for the twenty years before. After Teddy's speech at the '80 convention, when it was clear that no other Kennedy brother would ever be President, everyone felt the end of an era of muscular popular liberalism which had started with FDR. We forget this, but it had been considered by the right-wing as an existential threat to its very existence. The demise of Teddy in 1980 signaled that not only would conservatism survive the threat of three Kennedy brothers, it could capture power and dominate the discussion even while its policies were unpopular with most Americans. That this transformation was founded on a series of shady political murders/chicanery is never discussed, and it's a much bigger sign of American cultural immaturity than the Bicentennial. I've never read Perlstein for this reason; if you don't view American politics between 1963-2000 primarily by *who isn't there*, you're whistling past the graveyard. Both left and right historians do this, and it's absurd. In 1976, JFK would've been 59 years old; MLK would've been 47. 47!
3) Shifts in popular culture. The period 1976-80 was not broken off in any obvious way from the period of 1970-75--in fact '76-80 was an intensifying of all that. SNL deepens and intensifies; JAWS becomes Star Wars; American Graffiti becomes Happy Days; disco culture becomes Saturday Night Fever. 1979's Apocalypse Now is thoroughly of a piece with the Hollywood that started with Bonnie and Clyde. But 1980 was a huge cultural inflection point, if only because of the murder of John Lennon. This was felt as a profound shift at the time, with no little foreboding, and was the literal closing of a chapter of ferment which had begun in 1963-64, right after Kennedy's assassination.
All this taken together, and 1980's the obvious pivot.
I'm ten years older than you, turned twenty-one the day after Reagan's inauguration, & you're goddamn right that 1980-ish (more precisely early 1981) was the tipping point. That's when AIDS was first reported, by the way.
I was talking to Shary Flenniken, and out of the blue she said to me, "Early 1981, that was a bad time, the worst. That's when everything changed. Everybody I knew was depressed. A bunch of people died."
Nov. 18, 1978 . . .
❝. . . collective amnesia over just who aided and abetted Jim Jones is much easier to explain. The same influence used on Jones’s behalf during his life helped after his death to erase the causes and candidates he supported.
“Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple,” Harvey Milk gushed. Yes, that Harvey Milk.
Willie Brown, later speaker of the California assembly and mayor of San Francisco, compared Jim Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Dianne Feinstein joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs.”
Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, actually spoke at Peoples Temple. George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.
Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media. Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner who long served as one of San Francisco’s most admired newspaper writers, acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.❞
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish
Oooh I'd like to see that. I'll ask Dennis Perrin his opinion on MO'D's drawin'.
Brian also had some cartoons, but his crudity was part of the joke; Brian had the good taste to team up with the amazing Frank Springer.
As I remember, Brian McConnachie's first Lampoon appearance was as artist of "The Worst Cartoons in the World", introduced by the claim that this guy was only being published because he was a friend of the editors & other really terrible cartoonists shouldn't bother sending their submissions. What can I say, though -- the cartoons really WERE funny!
"She's not your niece, Sky King, she's just an actress!"
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-x-preparing-for-power-sars