
Consider the humble doughnut, generally a ring or flattened sphere of fried dough topped or filled with sugary or fruity flavoring. These sweet, satisfying bakery products have been created and enjoyed for centuries in various forms. Then in the mid-1900s, a big U.S. corporation called Dunkin’ Donuts became very successful by selling what can best be described as limp, weak imitations of doughnuts. A corporation’s idea of a doughnut. The company’s marketing geniuses convinced millions of Americans—and eventually much of the rest of the world—that their mass-produced “donuts” were highly desirable.
Although the multinational rebranded Dunkin’ now sells countless numbers of their products all over the world, a purchase from most any small local doughnut shop will reveal the falseness of the claim that Dunkin’ actually makes real doughnuts. (Unfortunately, the local shop is probably spelling doughnut incorrectly, just like the big corporate chain. Such is the modern perversion of American English.) Go buy some doughnuts from your local shop, and you will understand the difference between a real doughnut and an artificial donut.
The amazing American innovation of giant fast food corporations has corrupted many other forms of food, of course. Compare the artificial chemical concoctions of what McDonald’s calls hamburgers with the real, meaty, simple, traditional hamburgers that most old-fashioned sit-down family restaurants still serve. (The sloppy disgusting creations of burger excess that are served by such large restaurant-bar chains as Applebee’s are another matter entirely.)
This is artificial food that masses of brainwashed people have been conditioned to crave by the clever marketing of American advertising companies, generating vast amounts of revenue for the creators of the fast-food crap. And keep in mind that the cravings promoted by the ubiquitous advertising campaigns are supplemented by the physically and emotionally addictive ingredients that the big corporations deviously add to the foods.
I believe that this concept of successful American marketing of artificiality can be extended far beyond the fast food business to encapsulate almost every sector of the giant-corporation-controlled U.S. economy today. In fact, I propose that what is often called America’s national and international “greatness” can be summarized with this equation: Artificiality x Marketing = American Greatness. A cruder way of articulating this concept would be to refer to The Triumph of Bullshit, which T.S Eliot once hilariously wrote about in a much different context.
Bullshit, within the corporate context that I am discussing here, can be viewed as the primary domestic product and export product of the United States today. I mean, we are hardly known for manufacturing steel or any other real things anymore, like we were back when the United States was a real country, instead of just a military with a stock market like it basically is today.
Consider the cell phones, “smart” phones, and other technological electronic gadgetry that enable the online, virtual connections to which the multitudes are now psychologically addicted. Mass marketing has convinced the masses of people today that they need these artificial corporation-made technologies to live, just as much as they need Mother Nature’s oxygen. Moreover, the corporate economic structure is now set up so that if you don’t use at least some of these electronic technologies, you effectively cannot even survive and function in the modern-day world.
So, a conscious, non-braindead person (unlike our current president, for example) cannot help but make the following observations these days: People walking down the street with their eyes and hands glued to their cell phones, oblivious to the real world (including the traffic) all around them. People eating or drinking out with friends or family but never even talking with or looking at their fellow humans sitting right next to them, as they are entirely focused on the virtual world emanating from their phones. Adults sacrificing real-life relationships for the convenience of make-believe online relationships or online pornography. Children no longer going out to play in the real world outside their homes, because, like their parents, they are addicted to their virtual worlds that can be easily accessed inside their homes via electronic devices.
And, of course, “virtual reality” devices today are expressly designed and marketed to remove users from reality and transport them to make-believe places. You can buy all the virtual reality and anything else you want from Amazon with your virtual money. You never have to use real money or go to a real store. You can pay with the make-believe money on your credit cards (for which you might go into deep debt as you never actually pay for your purchases, because that’s the American way). Or you can now use the new make-believe money of “cryptocurrency.” Wow, what monetary scam will this amazingly innovative American society think of next? I wouldn’t know. I still use cash and personal checks, American outcast that I am.
Technological devices and online virtuality are the most obvious consumerist manifestations of the successful American marketing of artificiality these days. But I observe this concept even extending into the marketing and consumption of political and societal policies and agendas, where make-believe and sophisticated propaganda (ie, slick BS lies) are viewed as much more important and successful in swaying public opinion than are grounded reality and objective truth.
This is clearly demonstrated in the astonishingly successful ways in which the American (and also Western European) elite “intellectual” classes have insidiously and thoroughly inserted phony “woke” agendas into almost every large institution today. Examples of such agendas include net zero, climate change; diversity, equity, inclusion; and environmental, social, governance, as well as the overall globalist WEF program. These agendas, which I believe are designed primarily to grow the power of the elites over the regular people, have no basis in reality, yet they now seemingly dominate the functions of almost every large American corporation, media organization, academic institution, and science and medical establishment. You just can’t escape it. In my view, many educated people who should know better go along with this stuff simply because they value their jobs, while uneducated or uninformed people go along with it because they don’t know any better.
This is how artificiality triumphs over reality, how bullshit beats truth.
The marketers of American and Western foreign policy have pushed the triumph of artificiality over reality to perhaps its greatest height yet. The most prominent current example is the war in Ukraine. The reality is that Russia is waging a legitimate war for its national security and is achieving success on the battlefield. Yet, we see that the real war on the battlefield is not as important as the propaganda war being waged online and in the mass media.
The same types of marketing geniuses who successfully convinced millions of people of the wonders and joys of the artificial doughnuts and hamburgers purchased from fast food joints and the artificial realities derived from cell phones and the Internet—not to mention the artificial “protection” obtained from ineffective masks and dangerous vaccines—have now apparently convinced most Americans that Russians are evil brutes hungering for more land, that Ukrainians are honorable and brave defenders of “democracy,” and that the United States is—yes, yet again—the great champion of global truth and justice! Most people in the European Union have also apparently been convinced of these propaganda points.
We’ve seen this same brand of BS propaganda many times before, from Vietnam to Iraq. All initially glorious triumphs for the U.S. military-industrial complex’s marketing machine, but ultimately not so good for the people in those countries and very costly for Americans.
So, we are told that the masses of people are eating up all this war propaganda—along with their Dunkin’ donuts and their McDonald’s hamburgers—and that they are buying all the other lies promoted in the media—just like they buy the latest iPhone and everything else they get from Amazon.
However, is that really true? Are most people really buying all that BS about the war, about climate change, about diversity, equity, inclusion, about environmental, social, governance, and all the other globalist nonsense? Or have people today, submerged in their various forms of virtual reality, become so oblivious to genuine reality that they just have no idea at all as to what is going on in the real world—whether it’s some distant foreign country, their own country, their own neighborhood, or even their own home and family?
I tend to believe the latter explanation.
The awesome triumph of the American-based corporate marketing of artificiality is on display every day in the phony society that we have in the United States and Western Europe today. From artificial foods to artificial relationships to artificial news to artificial economies to artificial educations to artificial science to artificial wars, we now live in a society consisting mostly of bullshit.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are still some isolated bastions of truth and reality out there, such as a few honest, independent, non-corporate news sources. And there will always be, I hope, the small, local doughnut shop. You just have to take the time and effort to look for these few pleasant good things hidden among all the putrid piles of crap.
Excellent article!
I cannot stand anything artificial and have been this way since I was a kid growing up in the 70’s / 80’s.
My mother and grandmothers did a lot of baking. And as a kid you always wanted to help out when it came time to make the frosting, you got to lick the spoon!
So I remember the vanilla extract being used and it had always just said “vanilla extract” on the bottle. At some point mom or grandma sent me to the cupboard to get the bottle of vanilla and noticing “artificial vanilla.” We had both types on hand and I opened both and dabbed a little on my finger and did a taste comparison.
It wasn’t even close! The artificial vanilla left an unpleasant after taste. It was the same but “different.” I remember asking mom or grandma, “why wouldn’t you use the real thing always?” And I heard something to the effect that the cost of artificial vanilla being cheaper, and more readily available.
I have always hated:
Artificial banana in anything as in candy, it always tastes fake!
Drinking from plastic cups / bottles.
Eating off of plastic plates / bowls / forks / spoons. Everything tastes better out of glass / ceramic cups / mugs/ bottles, especially milk!
Imitation leather.
Polyester or nylon fabrics. Although sometimes these fabrics are superior for a given application like winter / rain gear / durability. Cotton always feels better on the skin.
The over use of plastics in automotive interiors.
Dashboards / consoles used to be metal, door / kick panels used to be vinyl or cloth covered cardboard, artificial but more aesthetically pleasing.
Almost every company I’ve worked for has supplied only artificial powdered or fake non dairy coffee creamers. They’re nasty why bother!
All artificial sweeteners taste like shit! And are worse for the human body than sugar / corn syrup.
Cannot stand plastic lawn chairs / benches / furniture of any kind.
Particle board.
I could go on for days but I’ll leave it at that. It’s a long enough rant…
Plastics / polyesters/ nylon are a miracle and indispensable for a lot of things, I’m talking about the abusive overuse of these materials.
I’m curious to see what others have to say.
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is about it. See our comment to Mr. Unz’s latest article, the best he’s ever written.This is in reverse. America is a stock market with a military that it uses quite freely. Everything about the US is fake. It is the biggest indoctrination machine ever created, never mind the never-ending stories about how bad everyone else is or has been. It’s all lies, spin, disinformation, or LSD for short. Have you had your daily dose of LSD yet?
Sure, there’s been pockets of sanity and reason within the US but they’ve been shrinking. Who knows how long they can hold out.
Eat whole foods.
Get outside and exercise even it’s only for 15 minutes!
Be positive about your future.
You are NOT alone.
A few years ago Krispy Kreme Donuts tried to break into the northeast market. I went to visit the new store and there I saw the big automated doughnut-making machine in operation, quite a spectacle, from batter to finished product. And at the end was a pretty girl who handed me a free sample! Talk about extreme delight from a minor pleasure, I recall this incident as one of life’s very modest but most memorable recent highlights. As for DD, their coffee tastes like dishwater and every one of their baked goods, from bagels to croissants, tastes the same as their donuts. A local Bawston variation of the company name involves the terms “Drunken” and “Dognuts” in various combinations.
An interesting book was published last year discussing the psychological harm of digital media, and how it (and other factors) contributed to widespread acceptance of the COVID exaggerations, extreme censorship, the phenomenon of “woke” intolerance, and other matters of current interest. The title is “The Psychology of Totalitarianism,” by Mattias Desmet, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022. Written by an academic psychologist, it could have taken more notice of politics, economics, and history, but it does provide a needed frame of reference to the frightening drive for over-regulation coming from those who fearfully crave relief from the anxieties that are normal part and parcel of the human condition. The author makes the point that these quasi-moralistic modern Crusades are unwittingly marching our fragmenting society lockstep into a new kind of tyranny, masquerading as a socially engineered utopia. Among those contributing blurbs are Eric Clapton and RFK Jr. In our Orwellian age of universal deceit, it’s a refreshing read.
Your comment brings back memories…Around the time Krispie Kreme had their 15 minutes of fame, when all the morning talk show hosts and Oprah were stuffing their faces singing the praises of Krispie Kreme Donuts on air,
Krispie set up one of those operations you referred to in my area in Western N.Y. Some small stores, and the “Donut factory” you described. I worked third shift at a company just down the road and used to stop in every now and then and grab a dozen to bring home to the kiddies. It was a pretty cool place like you said, and had a sorta “mom and pop” vibe, although it was anything but.
And in maybe 5 – 7 years time, poof! Gone!
They were all the rage wherever I worked Krispie Kreme were in the break room daily, and special work occasions they were ubiquitous.
Just another American “fad.”
Yes, this country is a shadow of its former self when I was growing up in the 40’s-60′. It was at its zenith.
Doughnuts probably are much better at local joints compared to Dunkin’. However, chicken is something that really is high-quality across the spectrum of restaurants in America. There are a half dozen fast food/fast casual chains that at least have a good chicken sandwich, for example. In fact, many Americans are heavy in part because certain foods like chicken are so tasty these days.
I wouldn’t go that far. Most of the more recent trendy chicken chains are serving up fairly decent chicken tarted up with breading and sauces laced with the various borderline addictive and/or artificial additives that the author alludes to.
It’s a sad fact that the public is so conditioned to such poor quality fast food that anything better than reheated by-product ‘chicken fingers’ is seen as something to be highly prized.
In the new world tolerance will reach such levels that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.
‘Donuts’ is spelled doughnuts.
The Airforce evolved into dependency on a $50,000,000 UAV with a cruise speed of 200mph that you can tip over…it’s like flying Stukas over Dover while there are Spitfires and Hurricanes abroad.
But catastrophically more expensive.
Most Dangerous Food On Planet Earth.
Ha. Nice.
Well sorry the comparison really did not work Krispy Cream and Dunkin doughnuts are really good and you get to see them on the doughnut rollercoaster…
Don’t you understand? It’s a free market. Corporations have every right to exist. Moreover, they are people. And they deserve all the rights of people. If people like to eat at Dunkin Donuts, then that is the market in action. Hurray for Dunkin Donuts. And every corporation that succeeds in this best of all possible worlds free market capitalist system. Don’t you understand freedom? You are just another one of these anti-capitalist communists.
I don’t think the country is much different then the days of the past. Everyone had their fancy gadgets, there was violence, there were pretty girls, there we those who like “each others type”, there were killers, and there was lovers.
I think we tend to reminisce about our past in many cases, but there still was pure hell for others whether it was 1800 or 2000. I do think information has expanded and the way it is manipulated presents as change. But, at the end of the day whether it is the riots of the 60’s or Antifa today same old human nature.
McDonalds and Dunkin and all of the rest of the fast food corporations are success stories.
You are against success stories. You are un-American.
I like how you hate donuts but you think pollution is a hoax.
Yeah, too much artificiality, but…
1. Dunkin Donuts is fantastic… though I rarely order it.
2. Smartphone is an amazing invention… though I don’t use it.
This George Washington Statue at the Federal Hall on Wall Street
…looks a lot like Bernie Madoff. It struck me that Madoff is a far more appropriate symbol of the American financial system than Washington who, legend has it, never told a lie.
Its a giant Ponzi scheme folks. That is why it has to bust from time to time. Buckle up. That time is now.
If a typical person attempted to abruptly and completely quit their cellphone/laptop habits, their symptoms of withdrawal would be substantially the same as a heroin addict going cold turkey.
The media is just like the fake doughnut: a marketing product.
The state media is marketing.
The corporate media is marketing.
The alt media is marketing.
The different forms of media target different market segments.
The common overall goal, the strategy of the war, is to promote acceptance, apathy, disillusion, escape, futility, and FEAR of non conformity to the establishment’s power, that is FEAR of true rebellion. Thus examples of punishment of true rebels.
Assange is punished not for what he did but to make people afraid of promoting actively the only ideology which can challenge the marketing: transparency of elite power.
Thus few demand of Taibbi and Musk and Greenwald and Snowden and Tucker Carlson: give us EVERYTHING! ALL the files!
Artificial Intelligence is constantly calibrating the marketing/media system. They need BigData to harvest every possible opinion expressed, then they immediately target every opinion segment. That’s one reason this site is tolerated. Rest assured they are harvesting our data, every comment, and they need the data to create the marketing.
We are valuable because we represent various segments of dissenting opinion. They then use our data to neutralize our various market segments exactly like they use data to market a product.
The only remaining possible revolution is psychological revolution which creates a mind impossible to be conditioned with marketing whose resulting political demand will be naturally transparency of elite political and economic power.
City of Antwerp, @Kleinblatt (bakery shop in a non-descriptive …Jewish quarters, in the shadows of a dreary railway overpass, in accordance to the preferences of the Euro-Ukro-Polish-Russian Jew of lore, a Jewish understatement, as kosher as kosher is stealth with a warning)
…there is this Ashkenazim bakery, “kosher” for their tribe, and plain delicious for the insiders to bagels and “Strudel” in the goyim middle class that can disregard the snub when shelling their coins. That is how i see the Ashkenazim tribe at it’s best, as bakers to the king-makers, to the middle-men, to restore their fleecing energies. It takes honesty into a protected bulb. Kind of like a traditional tailor, boutiques these days, that tailors the suit to the hapless, shapeless man of influence. The hat makes the man.
See, either the “artificial” is on the plate, or the “artificial” is the one in front of your face, and you notice or do not which is where, which is when, what is them.
There’s so much artificiality everywhere these days. Materialism is built up on it. Make no mistake there’s a strong wave of materialism here in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. The young metropolitan adults don’t know any better. They chase after iPhones, fancy clothes and expensive European cars. But if you look around their a minority among ordinary citizens. I try my best to avoid such people as much as possible. From the outside looking in at my country, America is totally fake now. There’s very little genuine left. It’s one of the many reasons that life in Russia is preferable to those of us who emigrated here.
Yep. A Hurricane could bring down a Reaper.
The mauch vaunted TB-2 drone could be destroyed by a Gloster Gladiator (biplane)
“It’s all bullshit.” That’s just how my grandfather used to describe the then “modern” world of the 1940’s and 50’s as I grew up on the sidewalks of Chicago and often sat on the front stoop with him watching all the assholes walk by listening to their trendy portable radios twice the size of a cigar box, powered by a few pounds-worth of 6-volt lead-acid batteries and enveloped in a snazzy futuristic Bakelite case. For our later viewing entertainment there was the 12-inch black & white Admiral cathode ray tube television mounted in a five-foot high varnished wooden cabinet, which you had to whack in just the right place to restore the picture when the regiment of vacuum tubes directing the flow of electrons through the marvelously modern device routinely scrambled the image. Sometimes our dad had to actually go up on the roof of our apartment building to adjust the aerial which might have shifted in the wind. Occasionally grandpa described better days during his childhood when the garages in the alleys at the back of the houses were formerly horse stables and the toilet facilities were outhouses in the back yards. Having been born in 1890, I guess he was the counterpart to today’s Millennials, though strictly speaking he was no more than a Centennial–which he would have thought was just more bullshit. Things seem to never change, but they always do. The bullshit always endures.
Sorry buddy. Your local doughnut hole is probably using some major corporations donut mix, replete with all the fake food ingredients DD probably has in their products.
I like the use of the word ‘artificiality’ to describe the political and social creations of modern Western (i.e. American) culture. I’ve been trying other words; childish, insane, absurd, playacting, meaningless, and so on but now I think artificial is the best word. Thanks!
If you read the article, you’ll see that the author made that point.
In reality, most so-called doughnuts should be called cakenuts. They are made from cake batter and not from bread dough.
I can remember my mother baking bread once a week and often using some of the dough to create what we called doughnuts, although they were nothing more than chunks of flattened dough dropped into a pan of boiling oil, flipped once, then taken out and eaten as soon as they were cooled sufficiently. We would punch a hole in the end, shove in a spoonful of real butter, and munch down until the entire batch was gone…which didn’t take long.
Those days are also gone. More’s the pity.
The fact that they started being spelled “donuts” already shows a certain dumbing down.
Anyway, I don’t care much for donuts or doughnuts, I’m not a cop, but it seems to me that current Western people are like children. They like sweet stuff, unhealthy fast food, shiny stuff (smartphones) childish clothes etc.
In fact, it is difficult to separate children from adults these days, as they behave basically the same way. Except for the sex stuff, but public education and the media are taking care of that…
From a resident of Airstrip One. I’m sorry. We should have left the place to the French.
So, is Krispy Kreme over? Never tried their product, but went for lunch with a friend at a restaurant near the first Krispy shop in Tokyo, on the weekend, and just after the latter opened.
At least several hundred, maybe even a thousand or more people, were in a queue outside Krispy Kreme. Stretched for far more than a hundred metres.
Unbelievable, the power of hype + social mania!
Enjoyed and agree with the points in the article. Thanks, Mr. Smuskievicz.
Must admit, though, old-fashioned doughnuts not being available here, I’ll eat a couple from Dunkin’ once or twice a year. Also, the coffee is bad as an O.P. said, but the endless refills can be handy for a cheap place to sit and think about what to do next when travelling.
It is funny that this article came out today because just yesterday, after a long discussion I had about life and growing up with my nephew, comparing school and after school activities (we grew up in the same part of the city) I sat down and had a significant epiphany of what was otherwise something that I more or less knew but had never boiled down to its essence.
Namely, that if I had grown up in my formative years with PC’s, computer games and I-phones, I would have been fully and totally robbed of my childhood, the most fondly recalled years of my life.
How much would have been lost without the adventures on bikes in the nooks and crannies of the city, scraped knees, burnt fingers, war games with ‘sides’ devised only by us, sports, later hunting adventures with your favorite dog, getting your first car to drive (and fix) legally at age 16, stuttering on the phone from nervousness when phoning that girl you liked from class for a movie date etc….
I makes me better understand the de-humanized elements that I see in youth today. They never stood a chance (nor would I have) and it is a global, not just an American phenomenon.
It reminds me of the now near futile admonition, “you were born an original, don’t die as a copy”.
Cheers-
How could they give us everything? This whole charade discussed here is useless fiction.
Like you said:
Krispy Kreme still here!
What an excellent article!
The author could as well have noted the raging financial success of Starbucks, whose dubious swill tastes like a blend of rust water and battery acid and justifiably comes in last place in one blind taste test after another.
Donuts’ is spelled doughnuts.
Who gives a shit!
If you are saying Jews are responsible for a lot of “artificial – fake,” I agree.
I must confess however I love Jewish NY deli rye bread.
It is funny that this article came out today because just yesterday, after a long discussion I had about life and growing up with my nephew, comparing school and after school activities (we grew up in the same part of the city) I sat down and had a significant epiphany of what was otherwise something that I more or less knew but had never boiled down to its essence.
Namely, that if I had grown up in my formative years with PC’s, computer games and I-phones, I would have been fully and totally robbed of my childhood, the most fondly recalled years of my life.
How much would have been lost without the adventures on bikes in the nooks and crannies of the city, scraped knees, burnt fingers, war games with ‘sides’ devised only by us, sports, later hunting adventures with your favorite dog, getting your first car to drive (and fix) legally at age 16, stuttering on the phone from nervousness when phoning that girl you liked from class for a movie date etc….
I makes me better understand the de-humanized elements that I see in youth today. They never stood a chance (nor would I have) and it is a global, not just an American phenomenon.
It reminds me of the now near futile admonition, “you were born an original, don’t die as a copy”.
Cheers-
I’m out of buttons “thanks Ron”
I couldn’t agree more!
Krispy Kreme is still operating parts of NC. But it is very different in a tragic way.
A large store in High Point used to stay open 24/7. My family had a tradition of going when it snowed. We would pile in the 4 wheel drive and go slowly on the deserted back roads because people in the South mostly stay home if there is a scant amount of snow on the ground. The snow falling, darkness all around, the smell of doughnuts in the jeep after we ate some at the quiet store. Magical.
Or, you could go at 3AM, get a dozen glazed and a cup of coffee just because the notion struck you. It was a fun, inexpensive adventure.
Now, KK has to close at 8PM or 9PM. Why? Because the homeless started using it as a shelter. You had to muscle past crazed, dirty stinking people wearing 10 coats to get your glazed. They profaned the bathrooms and begged and loomed if you told them NO. None of them are 24 hours anymore.
Staffed by sullen rude stupid blacks and Mexicans who can barely manage an order if you throw them a curveball and get a chocolate covered creme filled.
The doughnuts are now trucked in and only run through the machine to be glazed. I have no idea why this is more economical, but I wondered if the people working there are too dumb to prepare doughnuts.
In the past, the KK “red light” on meant the doughnuts had just been made. Doughnuts that would melt in your mouth and had a hint, just a whisper, of lemon, vanilla and sugar. Now it means – the doughnuts brought off the truck, have been ran through the glaze machine. They do not taste the same, and one dozen doughnuts, with tax , is over $14 dollars.
When we were in the best of times in America, we did not know it.
A DD glazed stick ain’t too bad.
With some home brewed coffee! ☕️
I think you forgot the spaces. Who is this Doug H. Nuts fellow?
It has also corrupted the bodies and minds of its diners as well. My 29 year old neighbour just suffered a heart attack. 29 years old ? How can that be ? It can be because he is a lazy fat fuck who finds it easier to cruise through a drive through at the fast “food” restaurant. Breakfast, lunch and dinner with sugary snacks in between !
Not only that, but whatever they put in the food also seems to twist his behaviour patterns ! His loving wife is no better, with a huge belly that flops from side to side when she walks. About the same age, she now needs knee surgery to both legs. That’s because the human leg was never designed to support 250 pounds 24/7. She does not understand the concept !
They are not unique. It seems the youth are afflicted by all sorts of disease and conditions that strike out of nowhere, some with unpronounceable labels.
That’s America for you and the rot is enhanced by kids who are on the phone and playing video games all day. It is so bad that most 18 year olds inducted into the military are unfit for service. If you can lift a french fry to your mouth you are sworn in. One recruiter told me that the military is so desperate for people they offer all sorts of financial incentives. Recruits who try to back out after they have signed up are threatened with all sorts of mayhem.
Yesterday I made a pot of vegetable soup with onions, garlic, parsley, bok choy greens, sweet potatoes, carrots and zucchini. My visiting nephew (always sick with a cold, sore throat, fever or stuffy nose) laughed at the “concoction” and ordered a tripe burger, fries, onion rings and a large soda all delivered by some African. He finished the whole fucking “meal” before I was halfway through my soup bowl. He offered a piece of the burger to the dog, who sniffed it and walked away. It looks like even animals know shit food when they smell it and instinctively avoid such crap. Not us though, because we are the most intelligent species on earth. We eat anything !
The fast food industry are not the only ones who love this. Doctors, dentists and therapists cannot keep up. Big Pharma is on a roll. Few seem to make the connection between diet and health and the Advertisement Industry like it that way.
That;s where we are and its only getting worse.
Krispy Kreme may have ushered in the Trans-diabetic buttons as seen on TV:) Just drool on your Krispy Kreme, it”ll disolve before your eyes. 40s-60s also had a 92% tax rate-gift of the 1942 Tax Act, thus allowing Comrade Bernie to brag about his Cheap education(I bet a lot of the faculty were war refugees as well:( Bernays Sauce.
Depending on how you pin the date, by about 1890 or 1900 America moved into a world of perpetual labor surplus because of the move to assembly line production. Better technology has only made that worse through time. The reality meant that America would be in perpetual recession/depression unless it convinced consumers to buy products that (1) were poorly made; (2) were not needed; and (3) cost more money than they had (to force credit card debt). That “need” gave birth to American advertising and hype. Good examples of such things are children’s toys, anything by Disney, and women’s fashion.
There was also a wealth component to this. Before the Great Depression the US suffered from massive wealth inequality. That meant that those at the top of the pile were able to hire lots of “help” to do things like cook very good food, clean their homes, and take care of their clothes. After the Depression, all were much more equal and the push for business was to develop “convenience” to replace domestic help.
Today massive wealth inequality as returned, but business still has the same burden to convince underpaid baristas and fast food workers to over consume.
Bad goods and bad food are the product of American capitalism. The system would collapse without them.
It would not require jets. Or anything but civilian marked airframes.
The USA shoots down Chinese balloons with a $400,000 missile. The Russian allegedly nudged the drone and the thing crashed. The controller in the US must have shit his pants LMAO.
The joke though, was that the Pentagon labelled the Russian tactic as dangerous and unprofessional, declared a red line had been crossed but that “these things do happen by accident”. The Russian Ambassador was “summoned”, he let them lick caviar off his balls and that was that. Its the Keystone Kopps redux !
Lets check out the cost comparison: balloon =$400,000 versus drone = zero. If you ask me it seems the Russian pilot was a surgeon with his aircraft. The scuttlebutt though is that he threw an old stinky shoe at the propeller while he buzzed it at 1500 miles per hour. A $2 sneaker made by Fung Kee Fung and Sons Mfg Co. in China brought down a $35M craft. LOL What eye to hand coordination !!
Russia is losing tactically, operationally, strategically ! We are winning ! Russia will be defeated whatever it takes. Yeah sure !
how about we compromise and call them dognuts?
I just built a folding picnic table using real lumber. Light-years better than any of the mostly recycled plastic crap on offer at my local garden centre, and actually not much more expensive after all was said and done. Real glass and ceramic along with stainless steel cutlery will adorn it as we dine on home-grown veggies. Don’t have the time to herd cattle, so the steaks will be bought from a neighbour who does and butchers them himself.
You painted a very nice picture of your adventures to KK, something I myself would have enjoyed! 4×4, snow, family, donuts, coffee, adventure…
Seems it is part and parcel of Americana, to build – create wonderful things, and promptly destroy it.
I was just talking to my youngest son yesterday about this phenomena.
He’s heard myself and others talk of how things were when I was growing up, and a young adult in the 70’s – 80’s and although the train was already headed off the rails, it was good enough that we did not notice. Stories much like yours, and now he looks around and says… WTF happened? He’s 22…
It’s a very sad, pathetic, sorry state of affairs. Hopefully after it finally burns down, ppl like ourselves can rebuild something resembling what we remember.
These problems are very recent. Humans adapted over 200.000 years to a completely different world, and there’s a theory that health and happiness come from recreating the past in the present.
That’s to say:
– An hour or so fairly strenous physical exercise most days (best walking).
– Eat fruit after excercise.
– Sugar free. One community meal in the late afternoon. Meat and vegetables.
– Long term close social bonds/trust with about máximum 25 people.
– Separate social roles for males and females. Both equally respected and valuable.
– The most capable group leadership with continual accountability (face to face).
Difficult in the modern world it would probably work.
Thanks for sharing that, fat boy.
I don’t think the country is much different then the days of the past. Everyone had their fancy gadgets, there was violence, there were pretty girls, there we those who like “each others type”, there were killers, and there was lovers.
I beg to disagree… I grew up in the 70’s – 80’s. It is like two entirely different worlds compared to now… The guy who remarked how good the 40’s – 60’s were probably, thought it was considerably worse in my era, i wouldn’t disagree, these things are relative. However during all those era’s we had relative freedom, and wokeness, busy body Karen’s, and corporate, govt totalitarianism was virtually non existent. There have always been female “busy bodies “Karen’s” but they were generally mocked, ridiculed, laughed at and ignored. They had no social power.
When the first caveman discovered fire, some hairy bitch probably ran out of the cave and said “put that out!”
The prohibition era was a “glitch.” And didn’t last long.
We are in the midst of Orwell’s totalitarian nightmare, or Huxley’s Brave New World, however you wish to see it.
All of this madness is driven by white women, and weak white men, with “small hats” egging them on!
… and we’d ride the streetcar all the way into the city to go shopping. Hollywood was orange groves as far as the eye could see! It was a magical time.
The Gambler gave it damn straight to Kenny Rogers. For the muddled masses being systematically destroyed by everything catalogued in this article, and much more still hidden carefully from plain sight: “The best thing you can hope for is to die in your sleep.”
The corporate/government leviathan is being deployed, by its owner/operators, to do everything imaginable to deliver a prettily-packaged false promise of exactly that “blessing” to every hapless consumer wishing for it….consciously or (mostly) not. None of them will be able to claim honestly, either, that they weren’t warned.
In the actual event, of course, most of them will end-up cheated of even that dubious relief. The System has always been well-positioned to profit greatly from the most drawn-out and pain-filled demise possible of its captive Human resource units. Here at THE END of Days every conceivable fate-worse-than-death is set to precede it for just about everyone unable or unwilling to take responsibility for their own. Then, for the lucky escapees into the Metaverse, comes the ultimate degradation of being among those about whom it is written: “In those days men will seek death….but death will elude them.”
“This is how artificiality triumphs over reality, how bullshit beats truth.”
Without morality—brought by God/Jesus Christ to the world—there is no truth. “
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” No other religions—be it Muslim, Hinduism, Jewish, and “Communist Atheists,” morally require their followers to always tell the truth—and Muslim, Hinduism, Jewish, and “Communist Atheists” are allowed, and even encouraged, to lie to people outside their own religion.
Consequently, without God/Jesus Christ—there is no United States!
Truth can be defended with arguments, whereas lies can be defended only with censorship. Ipso Facto—Whoever engages in censorship thereby admits that their protected narrative is a lie.
And the most manipulated information is History. You obviously believe that the 1960s were “hell for some,” thus the riots. But the movies from which most Americans “learn” history tell a perverted tale. Left out is the role of the agitators and their “revolutionary spirit.”
As with the labor riots earlier, and antifa today, not to mention the French and Russian revolutions, Jews are always at the center of the unrest, inflaming, provoking, and dividing. Jews also control Hollywood, so they tell the story and they always present themselves as some sort of altruistic hero of the oppressed, when, in fact, they are always destroyers.
In the 1950s, the Jim Crow South was the attempt by a society with two very different populations to contrive a means of coexistence. Segregation was the means decided on. It was always going to be a difficult task fraught with political tensions, but it was working. Both black and white communities had much higher levels of two-parent families, divorce was rare, church attendance was high, the crime rates were lower, employment was higher, and the wealth and education gaps were narrower.
No natural social division ever exists that Jews don’t notice and seek to exploit to destroy the existing order of things. Segregation, which enjoyed the support of both blacks and whites, became the target of the Jewish press in the North. Black malcontents became media celebrities. Eventually, of course, under the withering fire of Jewish power, segregation was destroyed and we see the results today. More hatred, more dysfunction, and a weaker society careening toward implosion. Precisely the Jewish goal.
The story we hear today is told by Jews, who NEVER portray history honestly. Lynching is a good example of how it works. In the Jim Crow era, lynching in the south served as an adjunct to the justice system, just as it did in much of the rest of the country. Both whites and blacks were lynched. The NOI has compiled a breakdown of lynching victims by race during that period. Yes, blacks are overrepresented among the victims, but if you compare those rates to the rates of black prisoners currently sitting on death row as I did in the mid-2000s, they were nearly identical. In other words, lynching was the means of administering capital punishment. But Hollywood presents lynching solely as band of evil white racists pulling innocent black men out of the arms of their sobbing wives and stringing them up out of pure white wickedness. Both blacks and whites today believe that “history” unquestioningly.
The only sure way to get an accurate picture of our history is to read what people who were there were saying, i.e. source materials. Many small town museums contain binders full of personal correspondences from a hundred years ago written by both blacks and whites. Spend a few hours reading through them and it becomes crystal clear how corrosive, false, and dishonest history is as presented by Hollywood.
In looking at things tend to think which scheme the facts point onto, which a con intent is ruin earth, they despise trees, animals, fish, natural. Their tactics many, beside poison, steering to dumb thinking. The label ‘muther’ earth one of grossest cons, inferring as if ‘parent’ –when obviously earth cant defend against chemical twisted plastic, poison electronics, magnetic weapons, ignorant breeders, drought fire, ocean death. If search bogus ‘muther’ phrase the many web cons spew nonsense to make seem ‘old but is bs, ‘gaia’ label is their bs. Important to use our own labels. Most supposed ‘history’ is their perpaganda, including supposed ‘time and whatever ‘year. Much better is brother nature, Not ‘mother. If using kin type, more real and responsible, also masculine. Have to stop femy bs, steering scheme by the cons. also false ‘green’ groups . The way is use real words and share around us.
Supposed ‘clean’ nonsense, same, perpaganda, same time ‘vaxs’ bs, we forget most of history we *didn’t even have running water, and were better off. Its a great fact. Femy ‘clean’ nonsense distracts from what’s important.
The article graphic, plastic-y doghnut, ‘military tank, mericun flag, should screen capture as remind, bs is everything. Sharp example, connect absurds. Between article and good comments, could also pick sentences to copy for re-read, best paper pen instead of copy paste. Last thought, paper another, they don’t want us looking at natural paper because it affects our mind differently, also solid in hand, can’t be disappeared with a button.
Really good article, one to share.
All wars are evil.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/all-wars-are-evil-period/
Only the Jewish Financial Elite profit from wars.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/how-the-ashkenazi-jews-conquered-the-west/
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/imperial-warmongering/
“Everything that my grandfather built, they destroyed”: de Gaulle’s grandson called on France to gain independence from NATO
“I regret this policy – I don’t even know if it can be called politics, because it is not based on a clear strategy. In my opinion, this is rather a reaction and, in particular, a reflection of the loss of autonomy and authority of France in the international arena. But this is a very two-faced policy, because it is dependent on NATO and the Americans. It is also very two-faced because they say they want Russia’s defeat in Ukraine and, at the same time, they do not want to humiliate Russia, ” says public figure Pierre de Gaulle.
The politician is convinced that France should play its role in resolving the conflict in Ukraine, but the authorities, unfortunately, are very dependent on public opinion and future elections.
“I wish they had a long-term vision. Everything that my grandfather built, they destroyed. Of course, I am against it,” de Gaulle added.
Agreed on KK doughnuts, made from scratch in every store. Each one has a neon sign that said “Hot Donuts Now”. When I saw one lit up, it always pullled me in.
KK’s quality suffered after the Randolph family sold it back in the 90s. Bad management for 10+ years that has been corrected.
Yo Vinny – Paula’s.
Everything in our culture that is artificial can be truncated down to one person..
The father of marketing, the author of the architect of consent by the masses.
Edward Bernays…….(Freuds nephew)
Every………..
Single………….
Time……………
Your soup sounds amazing. You are right- your nephew is slowing blocking his arteries and causing his pancreas to constantly shoot out insulin. I had a client who is obese at 23 and told me he could not even get an erection or walk to his mail box.
I made a potato soup a few weeks ago, but used sweet potatoes.
I did a roux with butter, cream, onions, celery and flour, then added chicken broth and a bit of heavy cream then the sweet potatoes.
I then added some frozen corn. It was so much better than any fast food garbage. I mean- it was amazing.
And, excellent point about the dog. I broke up with a woman who kept giving my dogs French fries she brought in and I would find them in their beds- they did not like them. I even told her to make the dumb things from scratch if she wanted them in air fryer. She had not gotten big yet but she was on the cusp.
All the wars the ZUS was in from WWI to the war in the Ukraine have been zionist provocateur wars and the biggest provocateur has been the zionist privately owned central bank , the FED and its collection agency the IRS, both of which are 2 of the 10 planks of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto ie America has been under communist/zionist control since 1913, when the FED ie the zionist debt creation machine and their IRS the zionist collection machine and both of these are unconstitutional.
Wars are the zionist sacrifice to their god satan, as long as they can get someone else ie the goyim to do the fighting and dying. The FED and the IRS are the two must diabolical and demonic things that have been done to us in the history of America and must be abolished.
“The reality is that Russia is waging a legitimate war for its national security and is achieving success on the battlefield. Yet, we see that the real war on the battlefield is not as important as the propaganda war being waged online and in the mass media.”
i would take issue whether Russia’s invasion is legitimate. Not at all legit. However, in doing some reading last night, I was stunned, stunned to see how much money is being invested in 5g tech as some kind of military juggernaught — frankly i was floored.
I was tempted to take back every word i have said regarding Us ability. You are correct in this, the US needs to be preparing for real war — with, guns, bullets and bayonets . . . all the evils the younger generations and women want to avoid with their high tech gidgets and gadgets.
Awesome!
Maybe invite your neighbor over for a steak dinner on your custom table!
DIY feels good doesn’t it brother!
An interesting synopsis..yet one that manages to avoid the evident and to the intelligent…. the bleeding obvious ..
and that being.. all of these policies are the unhinged policies of the ‘jews’ that have captured the West..via finance and media…
So when you talk about so called ‘elites’ consolidating power..what this really references are the ‘jews’ running your country..for ‘jew’ interests..
who always use lies and inversion to further their agendas and increase ‘profits’..and which.. by no accident is why your countries now resemble lunatic asylums…
Because of course they are being run (into the ground) by narcissistic lunatics..the people of the lie…
For example..this is also the reason why you are now a second class citizen forbidden to object to tranny’s grooming your children.. because the deviant and paraphile is now the saint not ahem ‘sinner’ in this strange inverted ‘system’..
..or even govern-ment imbeciles forcing you to be injected with ‘jew’ corp produced dog shit that may well kill or seriously harm you.. for reasons of ..ahem health and social duty..and of course have you all hang for the costs…
Prove me wrong…. because anyone can gather together a list of obvious absurdities..they are all around you…but no one seems to be able to name the people behind them..
Even the bloke that scribbled this article…
Yo Vinny – Paula’s.
Hell yeah brother! Now you’re talkin!
“Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
Jun 20, 2016 The Century of the Self – Part 1: “Happiness Machines”
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Jan 7, 2014 Rule from the Shadows – The Psychology of Power – Part 1
Time to look behind the curtain. Sources, full transcript and bonus footage
… and we’d ride the streetcar all the way into the city to go shopping. Hollywood was orange groves as far as the eye could see! It was a magical time.
I was heading to the Sunset Strip from the Northeast in my youth to seek fame and fortune as a guitarist in the hair metal era not just for the music scene, but the type of life described in the comment. You know, the Cali The Beach Boys put so well into song.
The scenery, the weather, the women, as close to paradise on earth as it could get right?
I changed course and went to college, often wondering what I missed.
Look at it now? Scenery? Weather? Sure… paradise? The women? Lmfao!
The women are sick everywhere!
Had I made it out there, I would have enjoyed a few good years, but when the kooks took over, ran for my life!
But how can we build “safe” neighborhoods where the kids can actually go outside to run around and play when there are FedEx murderers and pedophiles lurking behind every bush?
I grew up in a northern Ohio town of about 5,000 in the 50’s and 60’s and we kids could ride our bikes everywhere and we played all over our neighborhoods sometimes until 9pm playing Ghost in the Graveyard or Kick the Can or Capture the Flag.
No fences between houses meant we could run through neighbors back yards and hide as folks were sitting outside eating and drinking and (gasp!) talking!
In the summer we rode our bikes out to the pool and dropped them at the bike rack with no locks.
I am in Los Angeles now and my grandkids will NEVER know a life like I had as a child. No TV all day except for Mickey Mouse Club after school. The TV was just another piece of furniture to walk by.
Even in “small towns” now I don’t think it would be safe to let small children walk to school or play.
Sad.
…the chewy poppy-seeded bagel @Kleinblatt Antwerp is king maker to anything Ashkenazim.
Yep, the whole of the food-chain is poisoned, not “climate-change” for a change.
I just used the 60’s as an example. There are plenty of others. It has been hell for some since the beginning of time. There also has been conquest, violence, discovery, peace, hate, love, war, and everything else since the beginning of time. I do not blame the “Jews” for a consolidation of power. It is the nature of people to consolidate power, amass fortune, build security, and associate with their own. None of us if within our power would do much different.
FYI, I will NOT eat chicken any more, unless it is “free-range” chicken, raised by a local and sold in the locally-owned grocery store.
Chicken neither looks nor tastes like it did, when I was a kid in the 50s & 60s.
Thank you.
“the chewy poppy-seeded bagel @Kleinblatt Antwerp is king maker to anything Ashkenazim.”
Should I be fortunate enough to ever make it to Antwerp my friend, I will be sure to try it!
For all the Jew bashing around these parts, no one can say their baked goods are not amazing!
NY deli pastrami on Jewish rye… worth a trip just for that!
Cheers!
But how can we build “safe” neighborhoods where the kids can actually go outside to run around and play when there are FedEx murderers and pedophiles lurking behind every bush?
I grew up in a northern Ohio town of about 5,000 in the 50’s and 60’s and we kids could ride our bikes everywhere and we played all over our neighborhoods sometimes until 9pm playing Ghost in the Graveyard or Kick the Can or Capture the Flag.
No fences between houses meant we could run through neighbors back yards and hide as folks were sitting outside eating and drinking and (gasp!) talking!
In the summer we rode our bikes out to the pool and dropped them at the bike rack with no locks.
I am in Los Angeles now and my grandkids will NEVER know a life like I had as a child. No TV all day except for Mickey Mouse Club after school. The TV was just another piece of furniture to walk by.
Even in “small towns” now I don’t think it would be safe to let small children walk to school or play.
Sad.
That’s how I remember it. We were lucky! I worry like you about what will be left for our children and grandchildren.
How to fix it? I can’t say, likely we have the same idea on what needs to be done.
We are not voting our way out, I know that much!
There is no reason to assume that a donut from a local shop is any less artificial than one from Dunkins.
It will depend on the donut.
Old fashioneds, glazed classics and maple bars are pretty basic.
If you eat a donut with dayglo sprinkles then it will be packed with artificial dyes. Your local shop or grocer is not going to splurge on all natural colors. There is probably no natural replacement for neon green or orange sprinkles.
As for Krispy Kreme I have had it numerous times and I honestly don’t get it. White people will line up for the plain ones as they come out fresh. It’s the strangest phenomenon. I really don’t think they are any better than Kroger. As far as I can tell KK exists to serve fat people at night in the drive thru. Starbucks also makes a lot of money from selling giant drinks to sugar addicts at all hours.
I just think you are a victim of your own perception. You can go back thousands of years and you will have those that lived fat and happy raising sheep and making butter and then those getting their hearts cut out in the Amazon.
In the famous words of the French writer Karr, The more things change the more they remain the same.
You use think loosely. Your problem is you don’t know what you are talking about. You obviously didn’t live during that time.
English spelling simplification is not a “dumbing down” but a de-faggotization of American culture.
Yes, I was simply adding my support.
You’re welcome, fathead.
Not blaming the Jews for doing what you think is natural to all of us and any of us would do in their place is one thing, however, making criminals of and destroying the lives of those who bring Jewish depravity and criminality to the attention of their unknowing victims is something else.
That really is victim blaming and shaming.
I just think you are a victim of your own perception. You can go back thousands of years and you will have those that lived fat and happy raising sheep and making butter and then those getting their hearts cut out in the Amazon.
Apples to oranges. Not buying it!
Since you are such a “student of history.”
You should know some periods in human history have been more pleasant to live in than others.
Social, political, economic, technological, religious, circumstances at any given time are all variables.
How many periods of time have historians dubbed “the golden ages,”
of this or that society, vs “the dark ages?”
The “renaissance,” the “enlightenment.” You think they are meaningless titles?
I think you are not a very good student
of history!
Just how do you create a company and then lose it so easily? Now a new company? How long will he keep that one?
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How is paying with cash and checks any different than imaginary debt or cryptocurrency? Because there is a physical object? You carry paper with pictures on it. Money is just an imaginary thing with agreed upon value.
Is it possible you were marketed the ideal of a small town doughnut shop and influenced to believe your paper is more valuable than someone else’s string of code? You were marketed to believe it’s useful to hear the news about what’s going on halfway across the world when it has literally no bearing on your life at all?
There are just as many who appear unplugged from screens ranting and raving about Russia and something about Florida and the tiny hat people, so far removed. The screen isn’t in front of them—it’s in their head.
We can’t retain any small pocket of truth without realizing that all of this on earth is vanity. We need to see these things as what they are: a tool, a distraction, a transient thing. and seek what is True. Good. Beautiful. The infinite value of our soul. Our love of God and neighbor. If we do not seek first the kingdom of God we are missing Truth entirely. If we can’t see as God sees we are missing Reality entirely.
Who are you kidding? Nothing is free in the market! And much has hidden costs we never see.
You are right, of course, that humanity is a messy affair with an inexhaustible capacity for atrocious behavior. But there is a countervailing human impulse to elevate the human condition–an instinctual universal brotherhood.
And yes, there is competition between groups. But there is only one group in the world for whom all humanity outside their group is defined as “enemy,” for whom the theory of the master race is laid down as The Law. That group is comprised of the unfortunate captives of the Judaic cult of eternal racial hatred. That cult, alone in the world, worships a god that demands the enslavement or extermination of all humanity.
Though the Judaic cult likes to pretend it is a religion, no real religion would have a god that commands adherents to take delight in dashing babies’ heads against the rocks. No real god would command genocide. No real universal god would require a particular group to “pull down and destroy” everyone else. Only a primitive tribal god is capable of that kind of bloodthirsty depravity.
The Talmudic rabbinate that directs the Judaic cult is a uniquely evil force in the world. There is no gentile equivalent to George Soros or Jacob Schiff. Your claim that all humanity would act the same if it were in its power to do so is like a kid who poisons his classmates claiming any kid would do the same if they had access to poison.
The most enlightening book I’ve ever read is The Controversy of Zion by Douglas Reed available in this site.
“Unreality” works too. For those instances wherein the media-state didn’t trouble itself to construct a proxy for truth.
The quintessential American is not the rugged frontiersman, if he ever was that; the quintessential American is the salesman. So of course everything corporate is plastic in our country. Or as William Saroyan had a character grieve in The Time Of Your Life, “No foundation, all the way down the line.”
Lose it? He was kicked out.
I briefly worked in the bakery debt of a small family owned grocery store “Market on the Square,” making donuts, who took their donuts as a point of pride. And as a competitive edge against larger grocery store chains locally.
In the same bakery other employees made breads, rolls etc…
All the donuts were made from bags of dry pre mixes. Sometime you had to combine premixes, depending on the variety of donut. The breads, etc, same, a few select types of specialty products came in frozen, because they could not buy a premix for it, or it was prohibitively expensive.
The premixed bags saved time, the ingredients were no different than if grandma mixed flour, leavening, sugar etc by hand at home.
There were no preservatives, because everything was baked fresh, that day, and any unsold product was tossed in the dumpster that night.
Most chains, some who started out mixing dry ingredients in house, as in Dunkin’s “time to make the donuts,” days have shifted to shipping in frozen, with preservatives, drop in the fryer and go. The regional Tim Hortons franchise, out of Toronto Canada, founded by former Toronto Maple Leafs / Buffalo Sabre’s hockey player Tim Horton, made its reputation on in house, old school, mom and pop donuts. With photos posted in his stores / advertising of him personally making donuts. They are insanely successful in Canada and parts of the north east, now more for their coffee, I know some people who work there, they have been shipped in frozen, for a few years now.
Not disagreeing with you. You never know, but pretty much corporate = frozen food plant made, mom and pop mixed fresh in house.
Chain grocery stores it’s hit and miss.
Just a little inside baseball.
So-called mainstream news constantly screams about danger but small towns are still quite safe for kids walking to school or playing outside…even into the evenings in the summertime.
So O’Keefe has the courage, creativity, and intelligence to take on the most powerful and corrupt forces destroying our civilization. He has success after success. He accomplishes more for our side than perhaps any other human alive.
The powerful forces arrayed against him, Big Pharma, the media, the DNC, the FBI, etc try and try to take him down. After years, they finally find a way to corrupt some of those around him, and he is betrayed and ousted.
And you describe this as someone so easily losing his company. Yer kinda dumb, huh?
Dude the Okeefe thing infuriates me!
Like you, when this went down, I asked the same question… How do these guys start a company from nothing, on their own with no “board” to account to, then before you know it, the founder, the only important employee, the only guy who makes the company valuable at all gets kicked to the curb!
If he needed capital, is setting up a corporation with a board of directors the only way? Why not an LLC with no board of directors? Did Project Varitas offer stock? I don’t know.
We need to support O’keefe wherever he lands, he’s a national treasure!
After the destruction of France, Germany Japan and Britain, we were the only game in town.
Organized crime.
I wouldn’t use ‘artificiality’, but ‘meaninglessness’ to describe Yankee Doodleismo.And it is simply INSANE to deny ecological collapse just because the Woke monsters are exploiting it, without, of course, achieving any meaningful success or threatening any profit source.
Talmudism is uniquely Evil because it is peculiar to the Jews and the result of nearly thirty-five hundred years of refinement. But other organised Evils exist, such as the Anglosphere, American Exceptionalism, capitalism, Hindutva, Wahhabism etc, outside Jewry, although they have been less successful in seizing power and using it.
I would agree on that.
That doesn’t prevent kids from being exposed to all the woke, queer crap, and corporate, government totalitarianism.
Or the “fake artificial,” world they live in.
Or the foreign invaders who are going to displace them, the culture, and heritage.
Not disagreeing with you. You never know, but pretty much corporate = frozen food plant made, mom and pop mixed fresh in house.
Corporate food chains are more likely to use frozen food. No doubt about that.
They try to keep the food consistent and don’t want the franchise owner buying random stuff.
But that doesn’t mean your local Joe Bob’s donuts are going to be healthier for you. That is all I was saying.
A lot of people will trust local places over corporate under the assumption that they are more likely to be concerned with your health or will strive to use better ingreidents. The problem is that there are assholes everywhere. Your smilin’ local Joe Bob’s hamburgers could be using the cheapest meat available while a chain like McDonalds has a reliable source. Our local butcher is within a few miles of cattle farms and yet sells scary looking beef that was processed in Chicago.
If you really want to make sure that your food has healthy ingredients then you need to make it yourself.
So O’Keefe has the courage, creativity, and intelligence to take on the most powerful and corrupt forces destroying our civilization. He has success after success. He accomplishes more for our side than perhaps any other human alive.
The real shame is that Fox won’t run his videos.
Fox talks as if they care about CRT and yet ignored his undercover videos with teachers and staff.
I really hate Fox News. They aren’t opposition to the system. They are a fake alternative that ultimately supports the system.
If Fox were actually anti-liberal then they would have given O’Keefe his own show.
We all need to be openly race-ist. As -ism means belief, race + ism should mean belief in racial reality and racial differences.
Race-ist truth says blacks evolved to be less inhibited and more aggressive. So, they’re likely to steal more. Also, blacks are more muscular and tougher, which means blacks know whites are afraid to call out on blacks as thugs and bullies. Race-ism explains so much.
Even the sacralization of blackness is race-ist because it’s premise on blacks being different. Because blacks are prominent in sports and pop music, whites idolize them as sacred and overlook bad black behavior.
Race-ism explains it even further by pointing to the difference between Jews and goyim. Jews are smarter and pushier. By amassing lots of money and insisting on their ‘prophetic’ narrative, Jews gain control of idolatry and narrative. And Jews elevated blacks to control whites. Indeed, the white girl’s reaction in the video is the result of Jewish and black race-ist advantages in certain fields.
She feels virtuous and holier-than-thou because he calls out on ‘racism’ against blacks, as if blacks are sacred and can do no wrong. But in fact, race-ism explains why Walmart has such policy. Blacks steal more, and it’s in their blood to steal more.
Race-ism is the plain and simple truth. We feel and act race-ist about blacks because racial differences are real, which means blacks do act different.
The big contradiction of anti-racism is it says race isn’t real and we mustn’t judge people on the basis of race BUT it says blacks are especially magical and special as a group. It’s just one big lie.
The people opposed to artificiality are presented as the bad guys.
Name calling now? Good argument on your part perhaps you can check my grammar too. Didn’t have to live 2000 years ago to know the sun was warm and nights were chilly.
Whose “golden” and whose” dark”? Yes I do think they are meaningless titles to many.
LOL. Whites now come in two flavors. Wheaks and whummies.
KK doughnuts rock. DD’s suck but good coffee (dish water indeed!). Neither compare to fry bread
I realize of course that doughnut trivia was not the point of the article but at this point, after like five years of watching everything, everywhere, all at once (an Oscar, really?) go to hell in a hand basket I have become comfortably…
I don’t know how you come back from what we are witnessing in our leadership and business sector. I think we are watching late stage decay leading to rather sudden collapse, nothing is based in reality be it finance, societal issues, foreign policy, now even “the science”.
Britannica
corporation, Specific legal form of organization of persons and material resources, chartered by the state, for the purpose of conducting business. As contrasted with the other two major forms of business ownership, the sole proprietorship and the partnership, the corporation has several characteristics that make it a more flexible instrument for large-scale economic activity. Chief among these are limited liability, transferability of shares (rights in the enterprise may be transferred readily from one investor to another without constituting legal reorganization), juridical personality (the corporation itself as a fictive “person” has legal standing and may thus sue and be sued, make contracts, and hold property), and indefinite duration (the life of the corporation may extend beyond the participation of any of its founders).
Corporations have every right to exist according to …. governments.
re: An American renaissance ignore the fact that 99% of Americans are douche bags. This makes it hard to do anything at all, except go down the toilet. It’s no accident that the entire country/(corporation) is stuck in Nowhere Mode. Faster ways to do dumb things. Very USian.
Fake, artificial? It’s the US empire and its dolt populace – subordinates—Pilipinos, Western Euros, USUKA. Clowns who enjoy being clowns.
Diabetes type II rocks
A vile empire of Hucksters and hustlers. E.g., 335+ million used car salesmen
Take a look at the latest YouTube army recruiting ad. Thousands of comments and they are excellent. No white guys want to join and contend with have negro higher ups, or fighting for Israel. Let the lesbos, homos, and trannies have at it.
On the other hand, I cook everything from scratch. Soups, bread baking, beef, pork, chicken entrees, desserts, etc.
Sitrep Tease. Send more money to Ukraine.
This is the funniest shit I ever did see(though sad on a deeper level). An idiot son flips out because his father referred to him as ‘my transgender daughter’ than ‘daughter’. Totally batshit crazy and totally hilarious. Tranny stuff used to be ‘camp’, but now it’s ‘concentration-camp’, i.e. it wants to purge everyone who’s not with the program.
I was preparing to make an extended comment on this topic until I realized this Author is – despite making a few good points – just another person living in a fantasy world of his own making.
For others here, consider the prevalence of “Super Hero” movies, and novels where a reader can identify with a superman sort of fellow who goes around correcting injustices he discovers with his trusty guns and huge fists.
The world is getting to be a very dangerous place, and escaping into dream worlds is the only alternative to being beaten down into helpless depression. Acquiring a “penis extender”, whether in the form of a huge pickup, a big firearm, or something else, is another way of retreating into fantasy.
Subliminal manipulation of minds has been going on for well over a century, and the art has continued to advance. Few US citizens know this exists, and even those who acknowledge the existence of the technique stoutly deny “they” are susceptible to the practice.
It went from ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ to ‘you can’t get away from this stuff’.
I grew up in Boston when DD was just starting up in the 1960’s and the doughnuts were fantastic and they had a wide selection. I don’t think that the coffee is different now and I prefer it to Starbucks which is over roasted, but the quality of the doughnuts is quite poor now.
You old-timers didn’t do a thing to stop the niggers.
Can’t remember details: Jobs and Apple.
Confusing pollution with the latest climate whatever?
You are proselytizing to strangers on the internet about the fantasy of the “Kingdom of God” and you are scolding about truth?
You could not make it up.
Let me tell you:
I have a case with a black man who brutally beat another man to death. A murderer. A killer.
He beat him the victim so badly the man’s brain swelled and he died. He also had a broken jaw and many of his ribs were cracked.
So, this killer has decided he is a woman. A girl. A 6’3, 275 brute now wears make up and goes by a female name.
He files a complaint against the County Jail that one guard, my client, who is white, stating that he will not give him his bra.
Now, this sounds like a joke. Just like the punk screaming at his dad in that video. That dad should beat the brakes off that kid and kick him out.
But, it’s not a joke. The guard is being investigated up the chain, and has a complaint filed against his 16 year work history because a killer wants to pretend he is a woman and my client would not give him a bra.
At this point, it’s not funny anymore. It is obscene.
Chinese nepotism = good business.
Jewish nepotism = group survival strategy.
Black nepotism = brotherhood.
Latino nepotism = family values.
White nepotism = racism.
America used to be a very different place, but this is largely the world the baby boomers have brought us. A shallow, narcissistic and corrupt society based entirely on short-term materialistic values.
There’s nothing boomers love more than corporate America and big business. They can’t stand the thought of any higher values getting in the way of short-term profits. They inherited a sane, functioning nation and left it morally, intellectually, and socially bankrupt in every way.
Thankfully, younger generations are waking up to the malicious effects of this generation and turning away from the consumerist and workaholic lifestyle of the boomers. Every American under the age of 50 or so should read “A Generation of Sociopaths” by Bruce Gibney to fully understand the disastrous effects of this generation.
You younguns aren’t doing a thing, either, and you appear not even to understand who the enemy really is.
All intergenerational sniping is harmful to the goal of white unity and plays directly into the hands of the enemy. So knock it off.
‘Donuts’ is spelled doughnuts.
Who gives a shit!‘
Those who care about truth.
Femen in Combat fatigues.
Quote:
” there we those who like “each others type”, there were killers, and there was lovers.”
Apparently, grammar was not one of your better subjects in school…
Being 71 years old and having received my first driver’s license in 1968, I can assure you that things were different in my teen-age years. Most drivers were courteous and there was no such thing as “road rage.” Almost everyone used their turn signals and very few drivers either “tailgated” or pulled out in front of other drivers.
Back then, there were factories which made quality products that were useful and most of the factories paid their employees decent benefits, often with good benefits. Appliances were built to last, not made so cheaply that one just throws them away when they stop working, as is done now.
Doctors in those days were in the business of helping people to become well again, not pushing drugs to make themselves and the pharmaceutical concerns richer. Most hospitals were non-profit organizations, where medical care was much more reasonably priced, compared with the for-profit hospitals that are a part of some huge medical corporations nowadays, which pay their CEOs tens of million dollars a year.
I could go on and on, but you should be able to grasp what I am trying to relate to you.
Thank you.
Let’s see. We inherited a nation that had just allied with the greatest criminals in world history, the Bolshevik Jews, who had already murdered 20 million of our Christian brothers in Russia, against our Christian brothers in Germany, who were trying to prevent a Bolshevik revolution in their country. The genocide of Christians IN Russia actually picked up during WWII, while we fire bombed residential areas of German cities. After the war, we let millions of German POWs starve to death while we continued the blockade of Germany for two years after Germany surrendered. It was only open rebellion among our own troops and especially British troops over the sight of German children dying of starvation in the streets that broke the genocidal cruelty of the American Jews in control of the occupation.
You call that a sane country?
Oh, and guess what? You aren’t the first generation to be duped into blaming the previous generation for the current insanity rather than the real culprits. When I was a kid, Jews taught us to say things like “never trust anyone over 30.” We stupidly blamed our ancestors for the disintegrating society around us, instead of the real destroyers.
You link to The Sun an awful lot, which is a Sister Company of Fox.
This essay reminds me of all the fakery I’ve been exposed to from parents, peers, education, employment, relationships, religion, culture, politics, nature — everything. It is maddening. But after recognizing artifice and accepting it as a fact of material life I am more at peace.
‘There is nothing new under the sun’. ‘All is vanity’. It is written that material life is a trap of artifice and self that makes you prisoner and slave to the world. Feels true.
The essential ingredient is spirit. It’s a gift that is grown, not mass produced. It’s the wine, salt, and bread (or donut, as you like) of life. It makes heaven on earth. No artificial ingredients necessary.
This essay reminds me of all the fakery I’ve been exposed to from parents, peers, education, employment, relationships, religion, culture, politics, nature — everything. It is maddening. But after recognizing artifice and accepting it as a fact of material life I am more at peace.
‘There is nothing new under the sun’. ‘All is vanity’. It is written that material life is a trap of artifice and self that makes you prisoner and slave to the world. Feels true.
The essential ingredient is spirit. It’s a gift that is grown, not mass produced. It’s the wine, salt, and bread (or donut, as you like) of life. It makes heaven on earth. No artificial ingredients necessary.
last line of comment, supposed federal govt is a corporation, also ‘states’ are corporations, also ‘courts’ are corporations, supposed ‘judges’ are business contractors listed on dunn, also supposed ‘cities’ are ‘municipal’ corporations’.
supposed ‘con-stitutions’ arent contracts. the cons con, fraud posing as contracts. – lysander spooner, constitution of no authority, 1870. you can’t sign’ a contract for ‘others, or ‘the people’. no such thing.
power is about action and weapons. the cons got mass weapons as others sit looking for more false ‘leaders.
The real shame is that Fox won’t run his videos.
Tucker ran O’keefes black, queer, big pharma scientist video. I watched it, with my own two non lying eyes. Tucker is on fox. I mean, come on man. You’re lying!
These are my main points: Minimize artificiality. Maximize naturalness. Minimize bullshit. Maximize honesty. Minimize group-think. Maximize individuality.
Tucker ran O’keefes black, queer, big pharma scientist video. I watched it, with my own two non lying eyes. Tucker is on fox. I mean, come on man. You’re lying!
Fox didn’t run the Quintin Bostic story. Go ahead and search the main page.
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/evil-salesman-admits-plan-to-violate-georgia-state-law-by-secretly/
Fox is weirdly selective about anything related to race.
It’s bread and circuses opposition.
A real opposition channel would give O’keefe his own show and not a weirdo fag (Shep Smith).
What name did I call you?
No argument, just facts…something you need to become more familiar with. You have the sensibility of a childish shitlib.
That is the kind of statement that demonstrates your inability to conduct an intelligent conversation.
Ok man, I missed that one, I only watch Tucker, because the rest of Fox is useless!
A real opposition channel would give O’keefe his own show and not a weirdo fag (Shep Smith). Agree!
I wasn’t going to reply to you, but except for Notsofast’s reply, I see people piling on to you.
In future, just think about how it may be read before posting. Your post has no indication of what you later claim to have meant.
It’s all weird, but the original disinfo ‘Russian pilot clipped the propellor’ has to be untrue, it’s hard to imagine a pilot damaging his aircraft like that.
Gil Scott Heron noticed in 1971:
Plastic people with plastic minds
Are on their way to plastic homes
No beginning, there ain’t no ending
Just on and on and on and on and on.
I read somewhere that by now 50% of house dust is plastic particles.
I once bought a donut at a Mister Donut franchise in the Philippines. It literally weighed next to nothing, even encased in a paper bag. The main ingredient must have been air with a few wheat, seed oil, and sugar molecules binding the air in place. Some doughnut that was.
Nutritional content: zero.
It was as fake as a Biden presidency.
I am sorry you are obviously a bitter loser in life. The mental masturbation that goes on here is epic.
The author is correct that artificiality has been steadily increasing, but incorrect as to the cause. The increase is part and parcel of the growth of technology and its taking over more and more of our lives, not a plot by evil corporations to foist it on an unsuspecting public. In fact, a little examination will show that the whole idea of technology is to replace the natural with the artificial. Consider the construction of a dam. Why do we do it? Isn’t it because we see the benefits? If periodic flooding (the natural result of not having a dam) were acceptable, there’d be no need to build it. Also, with a reservoir, there will be more water available during the summer when water would otherwise naturally be in short supply. That this same dam will disrupt local riparian ecology and destroy a certain amount of forest is thought to be an acceptable trade-off. All technological “progress” follows this same example. Piece by piece Nature is being replaced with the artificial. We can even anticipate that it eventually will be necessary to replace man himself with an artificial construction, one better able to appreciate and thrive in such an artificial world.
It seems to me that Smuskiewicz isn’t upset with technology in general so much as with the elaboration of “progress”. He’s okay with older techniques, and he longs for things to stay the way they used to be, but “Progress” doesn’t work like that. His is a crotchety old man act, and this article follows a tried and true formula, tailor made to appeal to a senescent audience. And were the older techniques really better? Apparently most people don’t think so, or they would have been retained. With respect to his examples of handmade doughnuts and homemade hamburgers, it would of course be impossible to mass produce their unique qualities. But the advantages of mass production make this kind of food more widely available at a cheaper price than it otherwise would be, something many people find worth the trade-off. That eating such fatty, sugary food, as donuts or eating muscle tissue from a corpse (hamburgers) isn’t a good idea from the standpoint of health is just a minor problem in the opinion of the patrons of the establishments that sell these products. In that respect, the old technology may even have been worse.
But what about the “fake” wars of modern days? Do they represent a technological improvement? Probably it’s a false issue to see it that way. Take the religious wars that dominate much of human history. These were basically bloody contests to determine whose imaginary friend was better than the other guy’s imaginary friend. Is that really so much different than the modern “fake” war for democracy? No, it’s just typical human viciousness, coming down to us unchanged through the eons.
Wars for demoncracy and degenerocracy (liberal democracy).
The video shows the pilots blinding the drone with fuel, in a highly skillful maneuvre, that had the Yanks lying with more than usual hysteria. An excellent result. Vlad has probably had it installed in the Kremlin gardens as a sort of garden gnome.
But ‘donut’ signals that you are speaking of execrable and poisonous non-food, a junk-food product. Real doughnuts, and, as Bourdain observed, every culture has some form of fried dough, are different.
There was a demo by women in Melbourne on the weekend. Feminists, lesbians, middle of the road, all there to defend real female women from the ‘trans-gender’ lunacy invading their spaces and seeking to appropriate the very reality of their existence. Then they were gate-crashed by uninvited neo-Nazis, all Hitler salutes and idiocy.
So the MSM, with she-male feminazi imbeciles in the van, abuse the women as ‘anti-trans’, now nearly as bad as ‘antisemites’ in the gibberish of public discourse. Of course, the real women are no such thing, but lying is universal in the MSM. Moreover, the real women are plainly ‘Nazis’ through guilt by proximity. All neatly arranged. A society mad, bad, dangerous to know and sick to its dead core.