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iop890 · 2017-01-09 19:13:00 · #54680
If those four losers in Chicago wanted to kidnap and torture a retarded white person why couldn't it have been Meryl Streep?
Going strong · 2017-01-09 19:34:00 · #54681
(01-09-2017 07:13 PM)iop890 Wrote:  If those four losers in Chicago wanted to kidnap and torture a retarded white person why couldn't it have been Meryl Streep?

They'd be afraid to come close to her: horse-face Meryl looks meaner and uglier than those 4 gangstas. Combined.
LeoneVolpe · 2017-01-09 23:22:00 · #54682
I'd say Meryl Streep made her way to the top on the flat of her back -- but who'd want to looking at that fucking mug?
Genghis Khan · 2017-01-10 00:06:00 · #54683
Question for those of you who understand the economy really well: what's going to happen in the next 8 years, especially with the stock market? My understanding was that we were in for a stock market collapse, especially once the interest rates get increased. Not to mention we've got the student debt bubble waiting to pop. But what's going to happen now that all these (millions) jobs are being created/promised? Will that be enough to avoid an economic disaster during the Trump presidency?
Silver_Tube · 2017-01-10 00:20:00 · #54684
I think the fed is going to kick and scream and break things if any of this 'audit the fed' stuff comes to pass. West coast real estate looks pretty bubbly as well. I'm sure automation is going to remove multiple times more jobs than Trump could ever hope to bring back and that is no fault of his but just the way technology is going. Beyond that it is hard to say. I'm just paying my debts down as fast as I can, once that is done in a couple years I want to try the mister money mustache method.

Maybe fewer job openings will bring us back to traditional sole breadwinner family units out of necessity, wouldn't that be something.
Mercenary · 2017-01-10 03:29:00 · #54685
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/ja...ump-speech

Quote:George Clooney backs Meryl Streep anti-Trump speech

Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Tuesday 10 January 2017

Speaking at event for documentary on volunteers in Syria, actor says US ‘is a little unlucky’ to have Trump as president-elect. George Clooney gave his backing to Meryl Streep’s scathing attack on Donald Trump. Trump took to Twitter on Monday to describe Streep as overrated after she used her platform at the Golden Globes to condemn his imitation of a disabled reporter and accuse him of spreading hate and violence.

“Aren’t you supposed to be running the country?” said Clooney in response. “I didn’t vote for him, I don’t support him, I don’t think he’s the right choice. "At this moment in our lives we have to hope that he doesn’t destroy everything. The reality is you have to hope he will do a decent job because if the United States fails, really terrible things happen, so you have to hope that he can.” But he added: “I don’t see any signs of it.”

Clooney suggested that after a lucky run of previous presidents including Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy, America had got “a little unlucky with Bush” and that “I think we’re going to be a little unlucky now.” Clooney was speaking at a reception for a Netflix documentary, the White Helmets, which follows the lives of the rescue volunteers in Syria. The actor recently acquired the rights to make a fiction film based on the documentary, but said it was still in very early stages. Clooney said the film would be done in Arabic with English subtitles and that he intended to involve “as many Syrian people and [as much] Syrian talent as we can”. Clooney said that bringing public attention to the bravery of people such as the White Helmets was one good way he could use his public platform. “The only reason that people who are well known should be involved in these kinds of things is when no one knows about them,” he said. “I can’t change policy but I can make things louder. The filmmakers, they are the brave ones, they are the ones who are doing all the work and are the heroes. So if I can help them out at all so people know about it, then that’s a good use of celebrity I think.”



I knew Clooney had been pussy whipped and turned from a long time bachelor super alpha, into a total beta mangina when he stopped banging models and married that post wall disaster from Lebanon. Of all the young hot girls he could have wifed up and put babies into, he chose the absolute worst kind - a 38 year old lawyer cunt. Women who are lawyers are some of the most unfeminine and worst kind of women in the world. I doubt they will ever have children.


Clooney before, with one of his many hot girlfriends he could have made pregnant:

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Clooney now, with his childless lawyer wife:

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Eastside · 2017-01-10 03:56:00 · #54686
^she looks like Michael Jackson
Handsome Creepy Eel · 2017-01-10 05:04:00 · #54687
I can't remember a single decent movie from either Clooney or Streep in more than 10 years. It makes sense that they're resorting to this to retain fame and globalist sponsorships.
Going strong · 2017-01-10 05:08:00 · #54688
(01-10-2017 03:56 AM)Eastside Wrote:  ^she looks like Michael Jackson

Not quite, but, he does look like a tired and haggard Woody Allen in this pic... marrying this old SJW militant career woman aged him real fast.

Also, remember how he reacted when a journalist, one year ago, asked him why he advocates taking in "refugees", but did not himself take any into one of his numerous luxury mansions...? To which lying Georges answered, "Oh I would, I'd like to, but the USA don't allow any refugee in..." (a falsity, and on top of that, he has empty proprieties in Italy and France - empty because he hasn't been back living in Europe since the start of our migrants crisis: is he a racist person, Georges?).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-NONE.html

"Human rights lawyer Amal and her Hollywood husband own five homes between them, while Jolie and the other half of her power couple - Brad Pitt - have three.

The Clooneys have two villas in Laglio, Italy, a £10million nine-bedroom mansion in the Berkshire village of Sonning Eye, a holiday home in the Mexican beach location of Cabo and a property in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Jolie and Pitt own a £35million château in Brignoles, Provence in the south of France, a £4.5million home in New Orleans and a house in Los Feliz, California.

But none of the properties have a single refugee living there.
"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movie.../80289960/

"Clooney lost a bit of his famous cool at a Berlin Film Festival press conference Thursday when a reporter asked what else he's been doing, beyond making movies, to ease the ongoing refugee crisis.
..... That's fine, knock yourself out," a peeved Clooney snapped"

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Leonard D Neubache · 2017-01-10 05:36:00 · #54689
(01-10-2017 03:29 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/ja...ump-speech

Quote:George Clooney backs Meryl Streep anti-Trump speech

...
“Aren’t you supposed to be running the country?” said Clooney in response. “I didn’t vote for him, I don’t support him, I don’t think he’s the right choice. "At this moment in our lives we have to hope that he doesn’t destroy everything.
...

Well, Clooney. There's your everything and there's my everything, and you are indeed correct to worry about him destroying your everything. My folk? Not so much.
Guriko · 2017-01-10 05:42:00 · #54690
(01-10-2017 03:29 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/ja...ump-speech

Quote:George Clooney backs Meryl Streep anti-Trump speech

Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Tuesday 10 January 2017

Speaking at event for documentary on volunteers in Syria, actor says US ‘is a little unlucky’ to have Trump as president-elect. George Clooney gave his backing to Meryl Streep’s scathing attack on Donald Trump. Trump took to Twitter on Monday to describe Streep as overrated after she used her platform at the Golden Globes to condemn his imitation of a disabled reporter and accuse him of spreading hate and violence.

“Aren’t you supposed to be running the country?” said Clooney in response. “I didn’t vote for him, I don’t support him, I don’t think he’s the right choice. "At this moment in our lives we have to hope that he doesn’t destroy everything. The reality is you have to hope he will do a decent job because if the United States fails, really terrible things happen, so you have to hope that he can.” But he added: “I don’t see any signs of it.”

Clooney suggested that after a lucky run of previous presidents including Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy, America had got “a little unlucky with Bush” and that “I think we’re going to be a little unlucky now.” Clooney was speaking at a reception for a Netflix documentary, the White Helmets, which follows the lives of the rescue volunteers in Syria. The actor recently acquired the rights to make a fiction film based on the documentary, but said it was still in very early stages. Clooney said the film would be done in Arabic with English subtitles and that he intended to involve “as many Syrian people and [as much] Syrian talent as we can”. Clooney said that bringing public attention to the bravery of people such as the White Helmets was one good way he could use his public platform. “The only reason that people who are well known should be involved in these kinds of things is when no one knows about them,” he said. “I can’t change policy but I can make things louder. The filmmakers, they are the brave ones, they are the ones who are doing all the work and are the heroes. So if I can help them out at all so people know about it, then that’s a good use of celebrity I think.”



I knew Clooney had been pussy whipped and turned from a long time bachelor super alpha, into a total beta mangina when he stopped banging models and married that post wall disaster from Lebanon. Of all the young hot girls he could have wifed up and put babies into, he chose the absolute worst kind - a 38 year old lawyer cunt. Women who are lawyers are some of the most unfeminine and worst kind of women in the world. I doubt they will ever have children.


Clooney before, with one of his many hot girlfriends he could have made pregnant:

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Clooney now, with his childless lawyer wife:

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Goddamn, you can see the emasculation like a before and after picture.

He's holding that book as if desperately trying to protect his balls which are being squeezed by his wife.

Need to burn this picture into my memory as a warning of what NOT to become.

And back to traditional Law and Order patriarchal winning.

Horus · 2017-01-10 08:36:00 · #54691


rotekz · 2017-01-10 09:37:00 · #54692
Progressives are planning to use Tea Party tactics to block Trump in congress. They have a released a guide available to read online or download here.

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Indivisible: A Practical Guide To Defeating The Trump Agenda

Quote:We believe that protecting our values, our neighbors, and ourselves will require mounting a similar resistance to the Trump agenda — but a resistance built on the values of inclusion, tolerance, and fairness. Trump is not popular. He does not have a mandate. He does not have large congressional majorities. If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.

To this end, the following chapters offer a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve.


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Silver_Tube · 2017-01-10 09:57:00 · #54693
Today should be an interesting day, the appointee grilling begins.
HighSpeed_LowDrag · 2017-01-10 10:17:00 · #54694
Jeff Sessions is doing his opening remarks right now, and is already being interrupted by hecklers. Dodgy
Zelcorpion · 2017-01-10 11:20:00 · #54695
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2017/01/he...istration/

Quote:Here’s How Goldman Sachs Became the Overlord of the Trump Administration
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 9, 2017

During his political campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly railed against Wall Street with a specific focus on Goldman Sachs. In the final days of his campaign, Trump released an advertisement (see video below) that featured his opponent, Hillary Clinton, shaking hands with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. As the image flickers on the screen, Trump does a voice over, stating: “”It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.” As the ad ends, Trump bares his soul: “I’m doing this for the people and for the movement and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.”

How did a candidate who repeatedly demonized Goldman Sachs as the poster child for a corrupt establishment that owned Washington end up with Goldman Sachs’ progeny filling every post that even tangentially has the odor of money or global finance? One answer is family ties; another may be something darker.

Trump’s non-stop nominations and appointments of Goldman Sachs alumni have left his supporters stunned. Trump nominated Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year veteran of Goldman Sachs to be his Treasury Secretary. Stephen Bannon, another former Goldman Sachs banker, was named by Trump as his Chief Strategist in the White House. The sitting President of Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn, has been named by Trump as Director of the National Economic Council, which, according to its website, coordinates “policy-making for domestic and international economic issues.” Last week, in a move that stunned even Wall Street, Trump nominated a Goldman Sachs outside lawyer, Jay Clayton of Sullivan & Cromwell, to serve as Wall Street’s top cop as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Adding to the slap in the face to Trump’s working class supporters, Clayton’s wife currently works as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs.

But the Goldman Sachs’ ties don’t stop there.

When Alexander Blankfein, the oldest son of Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein was married in 2013, Joshua Kushner attended the wedding. Joshua had been Alexander’s roommate at Harvard according to the New York Times. Joshua is the brother-in-law to a woman who will play a major role in the Trump administration – Ivanka Trump, daughter of the President-elect and wife of Joshua’s brother, Jared.

According to Politico, Goldman Sachs partner, Dina Powell, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, is Ivanka’s “top adviser on policy and staffing.”

Then there is Erin Walsh who had worked at Goldman Sachs since 2010 as an Executive Director and head of its Office of Corporate Engagement for Asia Pacific. Walsh also previously worked in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Walsh is now part of Trump’s transition landing team for the State Department and is engaged in prepping the just retired CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, for his Senate confirmation hearing this week to become the Secretary of the Department of State, according to Politico.

A recent Executive Director of Goldman Sachs preparing the recent titular head of Big Oil to pass muster to run the State Department is the Orwellian version of draining the swamp — and Trump’s pre-election campaign language is proving to have been very Orwellian, as in reverse-speak.

And there is yet another former Goldman Sachs banker, Anthony Scaramucci, who sits on Trump’s transition team.

Since 2010, according to Federal Election Commission records, Gary Cohn, the President of Goldman Sachs and Trump’s designee as Director of the National Economic Council, has given $148,800 to political candidates running for Federal office. No contributions were made to Donald Trump. Despite that, Cohn will sit atop a powerful body and have the President’s ear on both domestic and international economic issues. According to multiple media reports, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is a close friend of Cohn’s and set up the first meeting with Trump.

During the primary campaign, when it emerged that Trump’s opponent Ted Cruz had received a loan from Goldman Sachs, Trump said that Cruz was “owned” by Goldman Sachs. Now the Dow Jones company, MarketWatch, has reported that Trump’s debt is held by more than 150 Wall Street firms. The New York Times has reported that Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company holds a loan on an office tower at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, a building that is 30 percent owned by Donald Trump.

Some of the Trump debt held by Wall Street firms, according to media reports, includes Donald Trump’s personal guarantee in the event of a default. The true owners of other Trump debt are shielded behind secretive Limited Liability Corporations. These serious conflicts of interests together with the unprecedented infusion of Goldman Sachs honchos into his administration, have the potential to set a new low in Washington politics – an outcome that America can ill afford as it struggles to rise above the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression just eight years ago.

The Senate is set to hold confirmation hearings on nine of Trump’s nominees this week. Call your Senator today and demand that he or she asks the questions that will get to the bottom of these Byzantine conflicts.


We will see how much things will be able to change for real.....

As much as I love watching the progressive tears and antics, it seems like the real boss is the old boss. Still much better than The Cunt....
YossariansRight · 2017-01-10 11:23:00 · #54696
If you’ve ever seen the movie “She Devil” with Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep, the character Steep "plays" - an out of touch, gated community dwelling, “I’m better than everyone!” twat - she wasn’t acting at all.
kaotic · 2017-01-10 12:13:00 · #54697
Sessions said he'd recluse himself from any investigations of Hillary Clinton.

Quote:“I’ve given that thought. I believe the proper thing to do would be to recuse myself from any questions involving those kind of investigations that involved Secretary Clinton and that were raised during the campaign, or could be otherwise connected to it,”

“To be very clear, you intend to recuse yourself from both the Clinton email investigation and any matters involving the Clinton Foundation if there are any?” Grassley asked.

“Yes,” Sessions said firmly.

He should've said this more indirectly, it's going to rub people the wrong way.

Samseau was saying that the voters want Hillary investigated and charged.

This isn't the way to do it.

However, I can understand why he says it's the proper thing to do as to not show any bias.
Mercenary · 2017-01-10 12:16:00 · #54698
Various protesters removed at different times from Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing as US Attorney General today.

There have apparently been at least 5 seperate interruptions throughout the day



















MasterBacja · 2017-01-10 12:33:00 · #54699
I hope they keep this shit up, they are about annoy their way into universal revilement.
Dr. Howard · 2017-01-10 12:46:00 · #54700
(01-10-2017 12:33 PM)MasterBacja Wrote:  I hope they keep this shit up, they are about annoy their way into universal revilement.

Agree. Hippies tried this shit during the Wisconsin protests of 2008 and guess what happened? Galleries got closed to the general public and if people wanted to observe they set up a separate room with a cctv feed.
Enoch · 2017-01-21 21:44:00 · #55851
(01-21-2017 09:28 PM)John Michael Kane Wrote:  
Quote:I look forward to the day when my kids learn about Donald J Trump in school. And I take them to the Trump monument in DC.

Now I have to start going to church again to find a woman worthy of breeding with.

Yup. I'm actively in wife search mode too. A solid church starts with a solid pastor. Don't attend church run by a cuck. The real churches are ones where they actually preach about sin and teach people to lead good lives.

Can't wait to find my Trump supporting babe. I'm going to tell her unapologetically that her job is to have my babies. I've even used this opener with a huge grin with women and overwhelmingly the response has been disbelief, but they don't run away. It is bold, and there's truth behind it.

Women, deep down, know they are meant for mothering, not to be the POTUS.

I was born and raised Catholic, but the Catholic Church is so cucked now from top to bottom, I just can't bring myself to go. Plus I'm really an agnostic at heart.
John Michael Kane · 2017-01-21 21:47:00 · #55852
The Devil is very real, and John Podesta, Soros, Clinton et al worship him. Those who doubt this do so at their own peril. We almost had a Satanist in the White House. I'm not sure what we did as a nation to deserve God's mercy to avoid that happening, but I say we make the most of the present day to help Trump rebuild our nation on masculine virtue. If you read the Bible and other Early Church Fathers, you'll see there's plenty of timeless wisdom in there. The whole Women's March is just a rebellion against rightful masculine authority. Why do you think feminists hate Jesus? He was a masculine patriarch of patriarchs. Jesus had game, and Jesus had frame.

Further reading:

https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2014/04/...-had-game/

Quote:Jesus wept? Oh no, my friends. Jesus charmed!

Jesus, like so many leading protagonists in the great books for men, had game, and used it to mesmerize the fuck outta his audiences of admirers. There’s a direct line throughout history leading from the thorny crown to the furry hat. Jesus was mystery, and Jesus was the first Mystery.

Proof of Jesus’ mad skills with the coy doubters comes to us via this nifty list of his best follower pickups.

One of the best-described of all charismatic leaders is Jesus. About 90 face-to-face encounters with Jesus are described in the four gospels of the New Testament.

Notice what happens:

The Son of God is about to raise your buying temperature.

Jesus is sitting on the ground, teaching to a crowd in the outer courtyard of the temple at Jerusalem. The Pharisees, righteous upholders of traditional ritual and law, haul before him a woman taken in adultery. They make her stand in front of the crowd and say to Jesus: “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The Law commands us to stone her to death. What do you say?”

The text goes on that Jesus does not look up at them, but continues to write in the dirt with his finger. This would not be unusual; Archimedes wrote geometric figures in the dust, and in the absence of ready writing materials the ground would serve as a chalkboard. The point is that Jesus does not reply right away; he lets them stew in their uneasiness.

Jesus used tension to build attraction.

Minutes go by. One by one, the crowd starts to slip away, the older ones first– the young hotheads being the ones who do the stoning, as in the most primitive parts of the Middle East today.

Finally Jesus is left with the woman standing before him. Jesus straightens up and asks her: “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She answers: “No one.” “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus says. “Go now and sin no more.” (John 8: 1-11)

Jesus is a master of timing. He does not allow people to force him into their rhythm, their definition of the situation. He perceives what they are attempting to do, the intention beyond the words. And he makes them shift their ground.

Jesus forced others into his frame.

He does not allow the encounter to focus on himself against the Pharisees. He knows they are testing him, trying to make him say something in violation of the law; or else back down in front of his followers. Instead Jesus throws it back on their own consciences, their inner reflections about the woman they are going to kill. He individualizes the crowd, making them drift off one by one, breaking up the mob mentality.

Jesus passed shit tests.

Jesus is a charismatic leader, indeed the archetype of charisma. Although sociologists tend to treat charisma as an abstraction, it is observable in everyday life. We are viewing the elements of it, in the encounters of Jesus with the people around him.

Game is applied charisma. I wonder if Jesus was a Dark Triad? Or should I say, Dark Trinity?

(1) Jesus always wins an encounter […]

Jesus never lets anyone determine the conversational sequence. He answers questions with questions, putting the interlocutor on the defensive. An example, from early in his career of preaching around Galilee:

Jesus has been invited to dinner at the house of a Pharisee. A prostitute comes in and falls at his feet, wets his feet with her tears, kisses them and pours perfume on them. The Pharisee said to himself, “If this man is a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him– that she is a sinner.”

Jesus, reading his thoughts, said to him: “I have something to tell you.” “Tell me,” he said. Jesus proceeded to tell a story about two men who owed money, neither of whom could repay the moneylender. He forgives them both, the one who owes 500 and the one who owes 50. Jesus asked: “Which of the two will love him more?” “The one who had the bigger debt forgiven,” the Pharisee replied. “You are correct,” Jesus said. “Do you see this woman? You did not give me water for my feet, but this woman wet them with her tears and dried them with her hair… Therefore her many sins have been forgiven– as her great love has shown.”

Jesus doesn’t follow conversational threads like an attention starved beta; he breaks them and makes his own. He answers ambiguously. He puts people in the defensive crouch, where tingles are born. Jesus follows the statement-statement-question format of effective discourse control.

The priests send spies, hoping to catch Jesus in saying something so that they might hand him over to the Roman governor. So they asked: “Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

Jesus knowing their evil intent, said to them, “Show me the coin used to pay taxes.” When they brought it, he said, “Whose image is on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. “Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” And they were astonished by his answer, and were silent.

Jesus the charismatic alpha male was unpredictable. You expect him to say one thing; he says another. AMOGs show deference and vaginas weep on cue.

(2) Jesus is quick and absolutely decisive

As his mission is taking off in Galilee, followers flock to hear him. Some he invites to come with him. It is a life-changing decision.

A man said to him: “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” Jesus replied: “Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.”

It is a shocking demand. In a ritually pious society, there is nothing more important that burying your father. Jesus demands a complete break with existing social forms; those who follow them, he implies, are dead in spirit.

Chicks hate mincing betaboys. Jesus was not a mincing betaboy. Chicks dig rule breakers. Jesus was definitely a rule breaker.

The Pharisees complained, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus replied, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Jesus perceives who will make a good recruit, and who will not.

Jesus was practiced in the art of target selection.

(3) Jesus always does something unexpected […]

Some of the disciples said indignantly to each other, “Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.

“Leave her alone,” Jesus said. “She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare me for my funeral.” (Mark 14: 1-10; Matthew 26: 6-13)

A double jolt. His disciples by now have understood the message about the selfishness of the rich and charity to the poor. But there are circumstances and momentous occasions that transcend even the great doctrine of love thy neighbour. Jesus is zen-like in his unexpectedness. There is a second jolt, and his disciples do not quite get it. Jesus knows he is going to be crucified. He has the political sense to see where the confrontation is headed; in this he is ahead of his followers, who only see his power.

When was the last time you saw an alpha male do the dull, boring thing? Never.

(4) Jesus knows what the other is intending

Jesus is an intelligent observer of the people around him.

Jesus was situationally aware.

He is highly focused on everyone’s moral and social stance, and sees it in the immediate moment. Charismatic people are generally like that; Jesus does it to a superlative degree.

Jesus lived in the moment. Jesus did not suffer “paralysis by analysis”.

Jesus’ perceptiveness helps explain why he dominates his encounters. He surprises interlocutors by unexpectedly jumping from their words, not to what conventionally follows verbally, but instead speaking to what they are really about, skipping the intermediate stages.

Jesus knew how to “elicit values”, and build deep connections with people.

(5) Jesus is master of the crowd […]

Crowds are a major source of Jesus’ power. There is a constant refrain: “The crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.” His enemies the high priests are afraid of what his crowd of followers will do if they attack Jesus.

Jesus was socially proofed.

[His disciples] are the privileged in-group, and they know it. Jesus admonishes them from time to time about their pride; but he needs them, too. It is another reason why living with Jesus is bracing. There is an additional circuit of charismatic energy in the inner circle.

Push-pull game.

Jesus can still arouse this crowd, but he cannot silence it. He does not back off, but becomes increasingly explicit. The metaphors he does use are not effective. His sheep that he refers to means his own crowd of loyal followers, and Jesus declares he has given them eternal life– but not to this hostile crowd of unbelievers. Words no longer convince; the sides declaim stridently against each other. The eloquent phrases of earlier preaching have fallen into cacophony. Nevertheless Jesus still escapes violence. The crowd is never strong enough to dominate him. Only the organized authorities can take him, and that he does not evade.

Alpha males can be taken down by a state-sanctioned beta male show of force.

(6) Jesus’ down moments

Even an alpha male occasionally gets cockblocked.

Leaving aside the miracle itself and its symbolism, one thing we see in this episode is Jesus conflicted between his mission– to demonstrate the power of resurrection– and his personal feelings for Lazarus and his sisters. Jesus let Lazarus die, by staying away during his sickness, in order to make this demonstration, but in doing so he caused grief to those he loved. The moment when he confronts their pain (amplified by the weeping of the crowd), Jesus himself weeps. It is the only time in the texts when he weeps. It is a glimpse of himself as a human being, as well as a man on a mission.

Vulnerability game.

Finally Jesus is taken before Pilate, the Roman governor. Jesus gives his usual sharp replies, and indeed wins him over. “Are you the King of the Jews?” Pilate asks.

King of the Poon, amirite?

“Is that your own idea,” Jesus asks in return, “or did others talk to you about me?”

“Am I a player? Only if you want me to be.”

In the crises, Jesus’ interactional style remains much the same as always; but the speaking in parables and figurative language has given way to blunt explanations. Parables are for audiences who want to understand. Facing open adversaries, Jesus turns to plain arguments.

Sometimes it’s necessary to drop the flirty banter and aloofness and draw a line in the sand that you don’t want a woman to cross.

Jesus the alpha male. Jesus the PUA (of disciples). Jesus the master of the crimson arts. Men followed him. Powerful men feared him. Prostitutes paid *him*.

Jesus is risen, indeed!
wi30 · 2017-01-21 22:07:00 · #55853
(01-21-2017 07:29 AM)weambulance Wrote:  Mattis has never been married and has no children.

That he knows of.

(01-21-2017 09:42 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  At what point do we start talking about demonic possession being real?

Paging Merc...
John Michael Kane · 2017-01-21 22:13:00 · #55854
(01-21-2017 09:44 PM)Enoch Wrote:  
(01-21-2017 09:28 PM)John Michael Kane Wrote:  
Quote:I look forward to the day when my kids learn about Donald J Trump in school. And I take them to the Trump monument in DC.

Now I have to start going to church again to find a woman worthy of breeding with.

Yup. I'm actively in wife search mode too. A solid church starts with a solid pastor. Don't attend church run by a cuck. The real churches are ones where they actually preach about sin and teach people to lead good lives.

Can't wait to find my Trump supporting babe. I'm going to tell her unapologetically that her job is to have my babies. I've even used this opener with a huge grin with women and overwhelmingly the response has been disbelief, but they don't run away. It is bold, and there's truth behind it.

Women, deep down, know they are meant for mothering, not to be the POTUS.

I was born and raised Catholic, but the Catholic Church is so cucked now from top to bottom, I just can't bring myself to go. Plus I'm really an agnostic at heart.

Even if you have a hard time believing in the existence of God, ask yourself, on a society-wide level, is there any more proven code of conduct than what Christians are supposed to live up to? Not saying Christians are perfect, we're not. I'm Catholic, and just went to confession today for the sins I've committed in the last two weeks. Faith acts to give a man resolve. While Trump is not an overtly spiritual person, I have no doubt he believes that God exists and he is fighting not only a spiritual war, but also a social/political one. There are many Catholic churches that are cucked, no doubt about that. I don't donate to them. Thankfully, I found an old-school pastor at a new one who actually talks about children respecting their parents, especially their father. He also mentions the importance of sex roles. He lashes out at the addictive qualities of social media and the need to reign them in. He's unapologetically pro-life and anti-feminist. He's red pill on women and actively discourages dating the bad ones, and instead filtering in the good ones. There are good priests out there, just have to search hard to find them. Hopefully we'll see a spiritual revival of the Church, as it is, and always will be, a necessary institution in fighting cultural marxism.
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