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Ritaritabobita's avatar

Thankyou Walter for getting to the “protest industrial complex”. Finally!

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Gym+Fritz's avatar

Thank God for Matt & Walter, and how well they balance each other out. And how much common sense they have.

I listen to commentary and news “reporting” elsewhere, and it’s like watching inexperienced sophomores lying and fantasizing . . . . then comes M&W, and Their mature reality; they try their best to do rational analysis, and reasonable interpretation, knowing that most of the information available to them, and us, is not true, and in fact has been systematically processed. CNN and MSNBC are nothing but polished propaganda and Dem cheerleading - the sooner they are gone / dead the better. Nothing on the internet can be trusted, period. ABC / NBC / CBS should be ashamed of themselves - we trusted them and they dropped the ball when they were desperately needed. Matt & Walter are not the only one that I trust, but there’s only a dozen or so others that are worth following re the news.

The book talks are good (I’m waiting for “Master & Margarita”), but secondary, compared to the hen’s teeth of honest news commentary.

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Tardigrade's avatar

It's no secret that you can even rent crowds.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rent+a+crowd+protest&ia=web

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Ritaritabobita's avatar

To you, many would consider that “conspiracy theory”. Only when it becomes widely spoken will it be truly known.

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alexei's avatar

It already appears to be widely known on other substacks, not to mention in comments on main media articles, that Soros has had a hand in such protests for years, including BLM and Antifa groups. I don't understand M & W's lack of awareness about this.

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Ritaritabobita's avatar

Look below at Jack, not everyone!

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Ritaritabobita's avatar

As reporters they only want to print what can be backed up. Otherwise, just speculation and possibly misinformation. Even though “it seems from all accounts” to be true. Walter did say it though….thanks

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Jack's avatar

Where is the proof that the crowds are rented? How come there has never been a whistle blower?

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Substack Reader's avatar

Special Request! Please do not do Catch-22 until you've done two more books. Honestly, I need time, brother. For the others, I'll do graphic novels, but I want to read the original version of Catch-22.

That book means a lot to me. I was in high school, sitting in study hall. The football coach was at the back of the room watching game film. Next to me, at the far end from the coach, was an upper classman reading Catch-22, laughing out loud, quietly so the coach would not hear. He wore a wristwatch and it was five minutes until the period ended. I had chewing tobacco in my pocket gifted to me earlier in the day by a shit-kicker. I surreptitiously took it out and put it in my mouth. Salivation began. I looked at the upper classman's watch and it was actually 15 minutes until class ended. Oops. When the bell finally rang, I rushed outside to throw up and go home for the rest of the day.

I hope that explains why I want you to give me time to read the book, which I never have. Thanks in advance!

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alpinelake's avatar

❤️ Love these ATW shows, thanks Matt and Walter.

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Ollo Gorog's avatar

Jeez! Walter, you are clairvoyant! I just stopped the feed at about -1:30:00 (it's decending, so it's wierd), but Walter is spot on! This does NOT look like put upon immigrants and their families, protesting for their freedom. It looks a lot more like a well-organized violent political movement to me. Is this a practice run? What's next?

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Running Burning Man's avatar

It is Antifa. 20209 was the practice run. There are forces in the world that wish to see the Us taken down. Or at least so distracted that others can do what they want elsewhere.

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John Duffner's avatar

Why would people wave the flag of a country they demand not to be returned to?

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Billy Bob's avatar

Maybe they have knowledge and experience of the drug cartels in Mexico and don’t want anything to do with them?

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John Duffner's avatar

Oh I certainly get wanting to stay, but making a patriotic display for the country they don't want to go back to is a bit of a mixed message. I wonder if those waving the foreign flags aren't illegals but are instead activists who have appointed themselves those people's champions.

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Mattlongname's avatar

When former Intel agents say there is a color revolution in the US right now, believe them.

The goal is a loss of control that topples the government, much like what they've done in other countries that can't be "invaded"

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j juniper's avatar

Can we read something fun, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop?

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Bobby Lime's avatar

I'd favor The Loved One.

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Susan Russell's avatar

A Handful of Dust.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

Oh yes!

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DaveL's avatar

The movie they made of that was hilarious. Saw it in 1966 (or somewhere around that year).

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Bobby Lime's avatar

It is. I bought it from Amazon at a really reasonable price a few years ago. My parents and I saw it at a drive - in when it was new. My mother had a great, boisterous laugh, but I'm surprised she didn't have actual convulsions during the scene when the old lady rips the turkey to shreds.

I've read that Waugh hated the movie, and it's never a surprise to learn that he hated anything, but I have wondered if his hatred wasn't driven by his not having thought of Mother Joyboy's dinner scene.

If you haven't read the book, consider it. It's one of my favorite novels.

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DaveL's avatar

Shelley Winters in the movie ripping the fridge open, wasn't it?

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Bobby Lime's avatar

No, it wasn't. If that was Mother Joyboy - I need to watch that movie again! - then it was some anonymous woman they found somewhere.

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BevElliott's avatar

Walter’s point about inverse Trump/Goldstein blew my mind! I love this show.

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Lisa Gleaton's avatar

Would love to reread Catch-22 if it's on the table. Is that next?

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I taught junior English and junior U.S. history at a public high school in northern CA. We arranged it so most of the kids had me for both periods so we could do some cool curricular linkage with our work. The students loved turning one assignment in to two classes! (Gatsby and Langston Hughes during the 20s, etc.)

Sadly, even with the higher reading ability we had on average in classes back in the late 90s compared to now, the satire went over most of their heads. It's a pretty high level skill! Ended up reading big chunks of key parts of it in class because I was too stubborn to give up on it. Figured they'd appreciate it some day! Interestingly, they all got it when it was read aloud to them. They just couldn't see it on the page in front of them. Or maybe it was a conspiracy to get me to read it to them... ? Hmmm.. Anyway, I'm in!

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Running Burning Man's avatar

Funny you should mention the class preferring to have you read it. Sure, that could have been teenage laziness. On the other hand, the ability to cast oneself into a story being told to oneself is much easier, I think, than trying to do that while reading and attempting to get the words correct. You knew the books. First time readers would not. I will bet there are created fantasy images in their heads to this day!

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Ollo Gorog's avatar

"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" - I'm Kamala D now! I'm SOMEBODY now!!

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DarkSkyBest's avatar

Jesus. Corey Booker. Spartacus.

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michele burns's avatar

But a bladder of steel. Credit where credit is due.

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mhj's avatar
Jun 9Edited

The Democratic arguments about Trump nationalizing the National Guard sound just like Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus when Eisenhower sent elements of the 101st Airborne Div. (not merely the National Guard, but the real Army) to Little Rock to ensure the safety of black children trying to go to school, who were threatened by mobs trying to stop them.

https://onlyinark.com/places-and-travel/little-rock-central-high-school-national-historic-site/

I am so disgusted with the Democrats and the media, words really fail me. Every time I think they cannot go lower, they do. The lying is really beyond even the low standard that has become normal in the last few years.

Matt wonders what the "protesters" are trying to accomplish, but near the start of this livestream he showed people burning a US flag and saying the whole country has to be brought down. Seems pretty clear to me.

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Spiderbaby's avatar

"I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that.

This is anarchy and true chaos.

My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement." - U.S. Senator John Fetterman

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Lia's avatar

A severed hand in the street? Why oh why didn't David Lynch direct the film of 1984?

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DaveL's avatar

The whole riot looks bad, I agree, but I’m all for destroying self-driving cars. I’m against the whole idea, both from a technical view and legal view, and from a social view. It’s a technology that’s being imposed on us, as well as A.I.

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DarkSkyBest's avatar

Here in rural Illinois, our local fire departments are getting training on how EV fires are different, hard to put out with different toxins being released.

I guess in LA, ground zero for Planet Earth, that doesn't matter at all, if your politics are true.

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DaveL's avatar

EVs are bad enough, but self-driving EVs are even worse! Looks like they burn pretty good, though...

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Jack's avatar

Where is the proof that all these protesters are paid? How is it there has never been a whistle blower that Soros or whoever paid them to get out there. Walter is so full of shit. He doesn’t have any “sources.” Of course protests are somewhat planned. Matt needs to dump this clown.

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Paul M's avatar

I listened to Walter's lede about his intel on the protests and how this is just another protest season in which legit labor orgs, NGOs, etc., exploit the gullibility of Americans who bear grievance. Walter, you sound like the cop who files charges because someone's chin injured their knee. I'm done with this bullshit. Sorry yer mixed up in it, Matt.

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Scott Leaver's avatar

Once upon a time in Los Angeles...  There were aircraft factories in Long Beach and Burbank. Satellite factories El Segundo.  The Space Shuttle production line in Downey.  Nearly all major movie and TV production.  It was the epicenter of the music industry.  It had a thriving petroleum industry, with active oil wells and refineries.  Does anyone remember? 

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Tardigrade's avatar

My dad worked his entire adult life at McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach—late 50s to maybe the 80s.

In 1971 I had a summer job in Long Beach that I would ride my bike to from Cypress, ~15 miles. I rode over Signal Hill, which at the time was covered with oil wells.

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Nowhere Man's avatar

We were coming back from a Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) show at the Foothill on the back side of Signal Hill on Cherry in 1993 or so headed north to the 405 when we saw a kitten dart across the street in front of the car and into the parking lot of the Home Depot there. We figured it was alone and needed help so we pulled in to try to find it and we saw it go try to hide in one of those wells. I don't remember how but eventually we got him out, completely covered in oil, and took him to a nearby animal hospital where they were able to help him. My friend who was driving ended up adopting him and dubbed him "Boom". She and he moved to New York City not long after and he lived a swell life. I just looked, you can see the spot in the parking lot fenced off with a green barrier on Google Maps.

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