Bullshit as Religion
[Lankham Hotel in Pakse on 4/22/23]
Never home, I still must establish a routine, so wherever I go, the first order of business is to find a congenial place to write. At 5:24AM on 4/23/23, I’m sitting at a long table outside the Lankham Hotel. Dawn is just breaking. Noisily, cars, trucks and motorbikes zoom by.
Across the street, a woman is busy at the noodle with duck joint. I had my $1.74 bowl there yesterday. It won’t open until 7AM. Two doors away, an old woman should come out presently to sit on a chair next to her walker. Looking at traffic is her daily recreation. Though her world is tiny, there’s still plenty going on.
Travel bins would be a great idea, no? Again, send me all your savings for a fantastic return. Locked inside a container just outside his house even, a traveler can peer through slits to marvel at a new world. He’ll also be introduced, perhaps for the first time, to his interior monologue, and maybe even to God.
Denied a continual intercourse with the most ordinary, men lose their common sense or even mind, so it’s no surprise they understand next to nothing.
When I posted two photos of the Boston Marathon Bombing, I thought the bullshit was obvious, yet one reader commented, “The guy in the wheelchair looks like he's gone into shock already. Is that his femoral artery the guy in the cowboy hat has in his hand?”
With two legs just blown off, he should have two femoral arteries gushing blood, but there’s no evidence of that. There’s no blood on his clothing or the ground.
As for the man with his pants shredded but not bleeding, Benedict Tiberius Cato explains that “the type of bomb used there could easily have had that effect of shredding cloth and not flesh.” A most humane bomb, then, a cosmetic bomb.
I never suggested his legs should be as shredded as his trousers. I said, “Whatever cut through his pants stopped at his flesh.”
As for the audio of Betty Ong, Benedict Tiberius Cato and one other say she’s trained to remain calm even as passengers were being stabbed, and people were rushing towards her, “I’m sitting in the back. Somebody’s coming back from business. If you can hold on for one second, they’re coming back.”
There were 92 people on American Airlines Flight 11. Subtracting the “terrorists” and crew, 76 were just ordinary passengers. If anyone was being stabbed at the front, you can bet dozens would be fleeing from such bloody horror, towards relative safety at the back, but we hear no such commotion during the four-minute audio.
People will believe what they want to believe, however.
For pointing out bullshit in an exasperated tone, I must have had someone piss in my food or bed, Benedict Tiberius Cato suggests, but it’s hard to not be vexed at such infinite idiocy.
Granted, we’re bombarded nonstop by propaganda. On 7/29/19, the New York Times had an article exposing Trump’s bullshit about 9/11, so it clarified he was not at Ground Zero, didn’t see anyone jump from the Twin Towers, didn’t supply +100 workers to help with the reconstruction and didn’t follow through on his $10,000 pledge to Twin Towers Fund. It also mocked his false claim that, with the Twin Towers gone, Trump’s 40 Wall Street would be tallest in Lower Manhattan.
What the New York Times didn’t bring up was what Trump got right on 9/11, and, this is most important, Trump never made these points again. As I’ve said all along, Trump is not trying to subvert anything. A most useful tool for the establishment, Trump’s is neck deep in The Swamp.
Well before Trump was elected, I wrote on 6/12/16, “A Trump presidency will temporarily appease restless, lower class whites, while serving as a magnet for liberal anger. This will buy our ruling class time as they continue to wage war abroad while impoverishing Americans back home. Like Obama, Trump won’t fulfill any of his election promises, and this, too, will be blamed on bipartisan politics.”
On 9/11/01, though, Trump the non politician talked straight, in this call to WWOR-TV. Regarding the collapse of the Twin Towers, Trump the builder explained:
Well, it wasn't an architectural defect, the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building. Don't forget that took a big bomb in the basement. Now the basement is the most vulnerable place because it's your foundation and it withstood that. And I got to see that area about three or four days after it took place because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building and I said I can't believe it.
The building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out. I mean so this was an unbelievably powerful building. If you don't think about structure it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside the steel. The reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows you had the steel in the outside and the steel on the outside of the building.
That's why when I first look at you at big heavy, I-beams. When I first look at it I couldn't believe it because there was a hole in the steel and this is steel that was... you remember the width of the windows of the World Trade Center, folks, I think you know if you're ever up there they were quite narrow and in between was just heavy steel. I said how a plane could even a plane even a 767 or a 747 or whatever it might have been.
How could it possibly go through with this deal? I happen to think that they had not only a plane but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously because I just can't imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Most buildings are built with the steel is on the inside around the elevator shaft. This one was built from the outside which is the strongest structure you can have. And it was almost just like a can of soup.
I just think that it was a plane with more than just fuel. I think obviously they were very big planes going very rapidly because I was also watching where the plane seemed to be not only going fast it seemed to be coming down into the building so it was getting the speed from going downhill so to speak. It just seemed to me that to do that kind of destruction is even more than a big plane because you're talking about taking out steel. The heaviest caliber steel that was used in the building and these buildings were rock solid.
If the establishment wanted to expose Trump as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, they could have easily quoted the above, but the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox, Amy Goodman, Tucker Carson and the rest never did, and they won’t, because even idiots can see Trump, in this instance, makes perfect sense.
Actually, I take that back. Bullshit faithfuls don’t see anything. They’re braindead.
It’s 7:05 and I haven’t even had a cup of coffee. Since Boulange is reopened, I will stroll down there for a real baguette with real brie and real butter. Real humans need real food, not the most appalling bullshit the world has ever seen.
[Chicago, 4/11/12]
[Cumberland, Maryland on 3/29/12]
[Rudy Dent in Detroit on 2/18/17. Do read my interview with Mr. Dent]
Hi everyone,
Below is an excerpt from my "America as Religion" of 4/8/19:
America has even landed men on the moon six times, 225,623 miles away, without a glitch! Yes, it couldn’t rescue hostages from Iran or pretend to assassinate Bin Laden in Pakistan without crashing its helicopters and leaving a mess of charred corpses behind, but moon landings were much easier, you moron, because there were no Muslims there to spook the astronauts! As with the Holocaust and 9/11, we have photographic proofs! How can you argue with such impeccable photos, with the aperture, shutter speed and ISO just right? America hasn’t returned simply because the technology fell through the crack, and can’t be found again, even with a broom with an extra-long handle.
Just now, Ron Unz published “The Moon Landing: A Giant Hoax for Mankind?” by one MOON LANDING SKEPTIC, but on April Fools’ Day, and with a long disclaimer as the first comment. Though most commenters joined Ron in howling at the piece, Kevin Barrett, Godfree Roberts and Jonathan Revusky supported it, and I’d like to add my name to this list, for there are way too many obvious lies in the official story, and the photographs are clearly fake. Even with today’s cameras, with their compact sizes, large view finders and automatic focus, it’d be impossible to take so many perfectly framed and exposed photos in a row, without flops. Not one betrays even the slightest camera shake. Armstrong wasn’t so much the first man on the moon, as the first tripod.
In One Small Step? The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space, Gerhard Wisnewski explains, “Of course one might understandably assume that what NASA has published and put on the Internet are only the best photos, with any amount of duds being omitted. But this is not the case. NASA has supplied the Internet with the complete first film supposedly shot by Neil Armstrong. The pictures are numbered consecutively with no gaps, and are shown under the heading: ‘Apollo 11 Hasselblad Film Magazine 40/S Unabridged – First Lunar EVA (digitally scanned by JSC in 2004 from original film roll).’ There are exactly 120 pictures – numbered from 5850 to 5970. Although a handful are ‘unintentional’ releases of the shutter, the ‘intentional’ ones are all perfect. In that sense none of the pictures on that film are failures.”
That’s impossible, even if Armstrong wasn’t shooting with a camera attached to his chest, with only the vaguest idea of what he was aiming at. If only I could photograph as well as Armstrong’s tits!
On top of this, you have Aldrin’s iconic footprint snapped from an impossible, downward angle; moon photos with clearly more than one light source, although no floodlights were lugged up from the earth; no crater on the lunar surface from the landing engine; no noise from the blasting rocket as Buzz Aldrin, seated just 16 inches away, communicated with Houston; no required minimal gaps of 2.6 seconds on several radio exchanges; and my favorite, Charles Duke leaving a plastic wrapped snapshot of his family on the moon surface, so he could photograph it. What a heartwarming moment or, should I say, a heartmelting farce, since it’s 212 degrees Fahrenheit up that way! The inconsistencies, lies and absurdities multiply, and Wisnewski does a very good job of elucidating them, in clear, measured prose, so do check out his book if you’re interested in examining this controversy in good faith.
Calling the Apollo spacecraft “a bucket of bolts,” Gus Grissom openly expressed his doubts about its imminent landing on the moon, and for this frankness, Gus and two other astronauts were roasted in Apollo 1, in an act of sabotage, many believe, caused by a short circuit, with lots of Velcro stuffed in there to stoke the flames, a genuine holocaust. As fire broke out, the hatch wasn’t opened immediately, and doctors arrived late, only to be falsely told that the men were already dead. Their suspicious deaths were not investigated by the police or the FBI but NASA itself, and the agency predictably concluded that it was just an accident.
Inspecting the wreck, Gus Grissom’ son, Scott, found “a plate that fitted exactly underneath the switch exactly where all the cables from that switch were located. It was obvious that the plate should not have been there, for its effect was to short-circuit all the cables regardless of whether the switch was set at ‘On’ or at ‘Off.’” Having located the smoking gun, Scott Grissom did not suspect NASA but the Soviets!
In a decade that saw the oddly explained deaths of JFK, RFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, etc., Grissom’s is just another, minor example. Moreover, American history is filled with thousands of bizarre and murky incidents, as in 9/11, but if most of its population, including all its leading intellectuals, are willing to go along with any preposterous story, why should the deep state worry? The few who do pipe up are invisible and impotent.
Though the Apollo spacecraft had 20,000 malfunctions in December, 1966, it had no problems landing on the moon on July 16, 1969, beating Kennedy’s absurdly confident deadline by five months, but how dare you doubt the universe’s greatest country ever?
MOON LANDING SKEPTIC, “Indeed, travelling to the moon and coming back alive is a feat of mythical proportions. It is tantamount to travelling to the Other World and coming back to the world of the living with your physical body. That makes the NASA astronauts the equals of ancient supernatural heroes, immortal demi-gods, and that semi-divine quality reflects on the USA as a whole. Such was the significance of the Apollo moon landings: it was about a new world religion that elevated the United States above all other earthly nations.”
Landing on the moon, the US redeemed itself and pushed into the shadow a decade of riots, assassinations, war crimes and moral degeneracy. As the country sinks to new depths, many Americans are now mesmerized by Elon Musk’s promise of life on Mars, “Once you can get there the opportunities are immense. So we’re going to do our best to get you there and then make sure there is an environment in which entrepreneurs can flourish; and then I think it’ll be amazing.” Meanwhile, Musk’s cars on earth explode, his stocks sink and the conman may even go to jail. Yes, it is very human to dream of flying ever higher, but to wish to live on a distant, inhospitable planet where nothing is meant for your kind betrays not hope, but a profound despair and a near total lack of imagination.
https://www.unz.com/ldinh/america-as-religion/
Linh
Hi everyone,
Bullshit faithfuls can believe all races are the same, gender is a mere notion and NASA has lost the technology to get back to the moon, etc. It's people like me, though, who are insane.
A comment at my blog on 11/19/21, "Man, get a grip. Listen to yourself. I used to be a fan of your poetry and prose and how you amplified the voices of common working people. Now you seem like one of those street corner schizophrenics, obsessively ranting and raving, perhaps desperate to drown out some inner demons yourself. Get a mental health check-up if you need to."
It is the sickest society on earth.
Linh