Election Karma

[kimberlysteele]

I won’t pretend to be an expert on socioeconomic policy and the rule of nations: I am not. The sorts of observations I am about to make are potentially ill-informed and wrong and I fully admit it. To get straight to the point, I believe the US got the election it deserved in the last months of the year 2022. Analysts who don’t suffer from imbalances of temerity seem to agree it was a wash with neither side of the coin (notice it’s the same exact coin) prevailing, which suggests the Recession the US finds itself in may turn into the Depression I predicted after all.

Many Americans believe the 2022 elections were stolen by the Democrats in much the same way the 2020 elections were stolen in order to install Biden. I am one of those Americans. I believe Democrats tried to steal 2016, but were content to rest on the laurels of their belief in Hillary Clinton only to have the rug ripped out from under them when Trump won. When I handed in my voting sheet in the city of Naperville, two polling assistants (both women) actually looked at the paper in my hand and sneered in disgust because they saw my vote for Trump. I should have raised a stink, but unfortunately I was not of the mind at the time. Trump lost in Illinois anyway, and I have no doubt in my mind it was due to election interference by early TDS sufferers such as the two government workers who illegally viewed my voting placard before I submitted it.

I predicted that Illinois would remain unchanged because of Democratic cheating in the 2022 elections and I was exactly right. Record numbers of people showed up at the polls to vote the Democrats out in my supposedly blue state: my parents tried to go to their local church three times to vote but ended up not voting at all. The lines were too long and neither one of them can stand on a hard floor for hours at a time. In Illinois, Democrats have proved that the only way they will loosen their chokehold on the state is when their heads are removed from their bodies via an axe or a guillotine. I’m sure that can be arranged, but I’d rather not be around when it happens.

Illinois, much like the rest of the States, remains at the mercy of the creepy globalist agenda of bug eating, electric car driving, TV watching, injection receiving, appliance renting, and politically correct pod living put forth by the World Economic Forum. Callous disregard for human rights and human life in general has been imported from China along with electronic doodads and plastic-cased convenience. I have benefited from the China-ization of the economy as much as anyone. The computer I type this on has quite a bit of Chinese rare earth minerals in it. This morning I trained my cats with a plastic clicker that was made in China. I am not innocent when it comes to using Chinese made stuff in my life by a long shot.

Karma is a B*tch

The US has been meddling in the affairs of other countries since the day it was born and arguably before that date in 1776. War hero General Smedley Butler was one of those military men who saw the harsh truth. When recalling his many tours, he observed:

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. -Gen. Smedley Butler, War is a Racket

When our own republic was raked over the coals in 2020, the US got to experience what it is to have an incompetent (and incontinent, har de har) puppet installed as its face and leader, just as it has done countless times to other countries to benefit corporate interests. If the US is a bunch of rabid chimpanzees and fascism is poop, the chimpanzees just learned what happens when you throw poop. Sometimes the other chimpanzees throw it back in your direction, and sometimes their aim is decent and they hit the mark.

Kimberly Steele, Broken Record Player

I only speak for myself here, but I am going to suggest that voting in general is a joke, at least in blue states like Illinois. When I braved a windstorm a few Saturdays ago to vote early, I engaged in an act of futility. I will still vote as a gesture, but I am now at the point where I have completely divorced myself from the idea my vote makes a significant difference.

When a family has become completely dysfunctional, if a child wants to survive to healthy adulthood, she must learn to separate from the bickering parents and make a life according to her own ideals apart from them. I cannot influence my local politicians to stop pushing dangerous injections or to expose five year olds to gay pornography in the name of tolerance. What I can do is continue to work on my group for people who want to get around the dangerous injections. I cannot stop election fraud and also do what I believe I was meant to do in this incarnation.  I don't have that kind of time.  I can practice my instruments, record, and arrange more music.  I can plan tonight's dinner.  I can figure out ways to use less energy that don’t involve shooting myself in the foot by buying new Chinese-made doodads, such as putting insulated blinds on the windows, solar cooking, and rocket mass heaters. I can tune out my narcissist elders and go live my own life, and that’s what I suggest most people should do as well.  Make yourself strong and resilient.  Tune them out.  If they get in the way, quietly go around them.  

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is a great post Kimberly!

You express my feelings exactly. I am also trying the same solution as you: it's a combination of stoicism (focus on what we can change) and military strategy (fight them in a place and time picked by us not them).

The US empire has managed its population for a long time. First it was by simply giving them a share of the spoils. That is why in the 1950s a working class family in US with a single earner was living better than upper middle class do today, with less working hours and more family time, better schools and more upward mobility.

In the last 20 years, the main control method was saturation propaganda. They completely filled people's lives with lies, from MSM and movies to schools and workplaces. A big part was played by psyops designed to keep people in a state of fear and helplessness. This is a giant rabbithole but please read about "learned helplessness" and you will understand why for example all the medical authorities are constantly contradicting themselves while treating people like slaves.

By now, surprisingly, even propaganda has lost its power. So what's left?
If we look at the history of communism (or the French revolution), there is only one thing: terror.

So expect, the terrorist psyops to increase (all of the perpetrators will obviously be fascist trumpists).

But even that is not enough so real terror MIGHT become a reality. They have tested different approaches in EU Aus etc - what will it work in US? Will it be police beating people out because they dare go outside? FBI arresting parents when they complain about pedophile teachers? Or simply door to door purges a la Stalin?

Either way, I hope all americans remember this quote by Soljenitin:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested A QUARTER OF THE ENTIRE CITY, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you, this is a great comment. When Pluto finally ends its long reign of influence in 2030 or so, I hope that learned helplessness will go with it. One group of people I have had to teach myself not to hate is doctors and other medical professionals. At best, most medics are clueless boobs who legitimately think they are helping patients by forcing masks on them and giving them anti-coagulants when MRNA spike proteins inevitably clog their veins and arteries from the quaxx. At worst, they are virtue-signaling human dildos who booty-shake (how does a dildo shake its own butt? Hmmm... 🤔🤔🤔) for TikTok and Heil Fauci with every new draconian issuance from the CDC. I was done with them back when I went vegan in 2010 and realized most of them couldn't care less about patient health just as long as they got their paychecks on time. Proof in the pudding is how they insist that drugs are always the way and get all butthurt when someone suggests that dietary improvements and exercise can ameliorate health conditions.

As far as the Solzhenitsyn quote, exactly. This American remembers it. I wasn't sure whether 2020 was going to go in a Stalinist direction. I was prepared if it did. Had a white suited goon arrived at my house with needles ready, I would have done horrific things to that person/people if given the upper hand. All he or she would have to do is step inside the door and I would take that intrusion as permission to unleash my latent serial killer on them. I would not give up until good and dead. I have a great deal of life force as well as people willing to follow me because of it. I believe I was a serial killer in a past life. It explains a great deal of my personality, at any rate. That instinct never goes away. A small group of people like me would see neo-Stalin's minions defecting or choosing death by firing squad rather than face the horror of what would go on in my basement. Part of me is glad they didn't try it. Another part of me is a little sad.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I'd not realised Pluto's influence is ending in 2030. That may explain the bizarre insistence on 2030-related goals around various human enslavement-based activities, such as banning the sale of petrol powered cars (to be replaced with automated taxis which log your movements and electric cars that charge you by the mile, logged of course, by GPS) , ambitions on 'smart cities' (which again, track your every movement using apps and facial recognition), getting rid of cash, and other spurious environmental goals for logging carbon credits to track your purchases and everything being made by robots. It's difficult to see how vast banks of computer servers busily chugging through mountains of personal data could ever be seen as environmentally conscious, but then I'm not a politician.

Aside from just being an arbitrary round number, I'd also wondered if some sort of demonic bargain runs out then, or is due to be collected, hence the slightly panicked frenzy which these useless new technologies are being pushed out with. The Plutonic influence fading may explain it though.

Mr. Crow

[mr_nobody1967]

I wouldn't be surprised if Pluto's influence started suddenly collapsing once it moves into Aquarius, the sign ruled by revolutionary-humanitarian Uranus (2024). The time of Pluto's ascendency was from when it entered Cancer right around the time WWI was starting to when it entered Capricorn right after the Great Recession hit and almost collapsed the financial economy. Pluto in Capricorn, I think, has been characterized by Pluto trying to desperately cling to the sour fruits of its previous ascendancy, but only guaranteeing by its desperate and heavy-handed behavior that it will lose it all suddenly and completely at some point in the foreseeable future.

[econojames]

Amen, Kimberly. This is a wonderful post, and I expressed many of the same sentiments to my mother with whom I just spoke via telephone. It's all crooked; we can't do anything about it; let's concentrate on those things that we *can* affect.

I don't want to try to "convert" pro-clotshotters to anti-clotshotters or anything like that: I just want to recognize "real" people when I encounter them, and try to form associations with them.

I am in disbelief that Pritzker got reelected, but that IL political machine is not to be taken lightly. I'm next door to you in Iowa: our governor has more balls than Pritzker, and she's a biological woman. If you want to move here, I for one would welcome you.

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you Econojames. I am glad I was able to get over myself enough to keep ties with some vaccinated people. There are some I just had to drop though -- too toxic. The further I get away from caring about politics, the more pleasant my life becomes. Since politicians like to fiddle while the world burns, I can turn away from them and do that too, except I play guitar and piano, not fiddle.

Pritzker bought the election. Rumor has it that he donated his opponent, Darren Bailey, a boatload of cash because he knew Bailey didn't have a snowball's chance in hell and the other potential opponent, Gary Rabine, presented more of a threat. If anything removes Pritzker from office, it will be his morbid obesity. He can barely waddle from the car to the bathroom, he's so fat.

Iowa seems fairly appealing lately!

[mr_nobody1967]

Yeah, I try not to judge people too much based on their physical appearance, but Pritzker is just rather grotesque to look at in a "Jabba the Hutt" sort of way.

[kimberlysteele]

I call him JB the Butt/Emperor Butterball in my groups. Just my opinion, but sometimes obesity is simply the most obvious way of wearing gluttony. I believe this to be true of J.B. Pritzker.

[mr_nobody1967]

I have to say, though, that if I lived in Illinois, the fact that he successfully got cannabis legalized there would make it very difficult for me to completely disdain the man. In Wisconsin, we have a governor who would like to do the same thing, but our old-school Republican legislature as well as the beer-industry that rules this state with an iron fist will never allow this to happen. They won't even legalize the medicinal use of cannabis, probably because "medicinal" states have a way of not always but often becoming "recreational" states.

[(Anonymous)]

I always relish your posts.

re: "agenda of bug eating, electric car driving, TV watching, injection receiving, appliance renting, and politically correct pod living" --

Thanks for the LoL there.

Things are a little different in Texas, I say, fortunately.

Your Fan in the South

[kimberlysteele]

Glad to hear it! One of my former students and her family moved to Texas because of the sheer stupidity of Illinois.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting post Kimberley.

I'm not American and no expert on US politics, but, it seems to me from afar that the election was driven by competing forces at work.

On the one hand, voters are getting hammered by inflation and soaring costs which they partly blame, rightly, on Biden. Crime is also soaring, particularly in blue-state cities and voters wanted to punish the ruling Democrats for their failure to deal with crime (ergo see the NYC results).

Plus, the blue state governors were very keen on vaccine mandates, mask rules and the closure of schools. Now, it is questionable just how angry the average vaccinated person is with mandates (most seemed ok at the time) but what is certain is most voters dislike mask mandates and parents the closure of schools/after school clubs/activities during the pandemic. So there was a bit of a backlash there.

On the flip side, the GOP are seen as trying to ban abortion which goes against the majority of Americans and is a big issue for younger females. Plus, the Trump supported MAGA candidates are a bit off and seem obsessed about the alleged 2020 steal that most voters find off-putting and frankly boring.

Throw in the fact that most Americans don't want Trump to run again, and you got some cross-currents at work there that helped the Dems and hit the GOP.

To me, the results seemed fairly balanced. The GOP re-gain the House which means an end of the Biden legislative agenda, accountability on the Administration whilst not the sweeping Red Wave that might have led to severe restrictions on abortion that many voters feared.

It also hits the Trump reputation and paves the way for more competent, younger and smarter candidates like Ron DeSantis to run in 2024 and beat the Democrats.

My position on the 2020 election was the Democratic decision to introduce mass mail-on voting helped pave the way for substantial voter fraud that they effectively outsourced.

Republican friendly polling does suggest that, maybe, Arizona and Georgia should have gone GOP (although those elections were always going to be tight) but there is no evidence that the Rust Belt states were ever voting for Trump. Even the very pro-GOP polling I was tracking did not show ONE poll that had Trump ahead of Biden in the Rust Belt states.

So my conclusion is, yes, there was fraud, the election result was probably closer than the official one, but Biden did win, albeit more narrowly (factoring in likely fraud).

[kimberlysteele]

That sounds about right. People forget that Trump was the original pusher of MRNA injections. Without Trump, there would have been no way for Fauci to inflate himself.

You're very right about abortion. I may not be a young woman anymore, but I am actually glad Republicans did not win Illinois for the reason that they would have pushed to make abortion illegal here. Not that I ever was an incredibly sexual person or anything, but my younger self lived in fear of getting pregnant from age 12 - 31, when I had myself sterilized. I didn't want kids this time around, yet there were plenty of parties who wanted to foist that decision on me whether I liked it or not. In my opinion, that attitude (that someone else has autonomy over my body because I had the misfortune to get pregnant after forced or consensual sex) is disgusting and it's actually more reprehensible than the women/girls who obtain abortions as a form of birth control. I myself never had enough unprotected sex or wasn't fertile enough to merit having to have an abortion. Nevertheless, the fear of it during my prime ruined my attitude about sex and resulted in a great deal of anger directed towards men and maleness. I have yet to meet a woman who had an abortion who saw it as a form of birth control. For every woman I know who had an abortion and told me about it (more than a dozen) it was a one-time only procedure done because there was no other good choice.

[mr_nobody1967]

WRT your answer to my Ogham question on Sunday, I've been thinking about it, and I arrived at the conclusion that negative "Harvest" answer doesn't rule out election cheating/ tampering if this cheating and tampering has become such a systemic and normalized thing that it is essentially an integral part of the process now. I am inclined to think that in the 2016 election and the ones before that, cheating was certainly present and often-utilized, but it was less systemic and more a spotty "here and there" thing used by both parties whenever they felt they had something to lose.

2016, however, triggered a major "uh-oh" moment, and the elections since then have been characterized by a much more systemic form of cheating/ tampering. I now believe that even the 2018 "blue wave" would have merely been a "blue ripple" had the new election-tampering "magic" not been worked upon the actual results of that election. It's interesting to note that even with this systemic tampering changing the results, the substantial Democratic majority in the house achieved in 2018 has since been whittled down to a bare Republican majority for next year. But the fact that every Democratic incumbent senator and governor except for the Governor of Nevada and perhaps the senator in Georgia, with the Democrats retaining their just-barely white-knuckle grip on the senate (this effectively prevents Biden-Harris from any possibility of impeachment), should really be a red flag given the intensity of voter discontent and disdain that we all know is out there right now.

Poll-workers blatantly examining your ballot after you submit is something that would never happen in Wisconsin. In every election in which I have voted here, I was the only one who saw what was filled in on my ballot until the time came to count it.

[kimberlysteele]

I agree with you that cheating is an integral part of the process at this point, at least in the US.

Also agree that the blue wave of 2018 would have been a ripple.

If hubby and I ever move, we will move to Wisconsin. I like the four season weather that everyone else hates and the flora/fauna up north. He was born and raised in Wisconsin, so it feels like home to both of us.

Courage

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoy your work here Kimberly and most of all admire your fierce courage.
We're all dead men/women walking through this place anyway. Life and light descend from somewhere above this dense plane, the battle line, the event horizon between the Divine and Demonic so no wonder it stinks of sulphur and rot from time to time perceptable only if one has smelled the bloom of Divinity and tasted of the nectar within. I take heart, when in my higher mind, at being stationed
by the Gods Ineffable, as witness and sentry to the battle pitched here.
As a stoic I accept my duty. As a mortal I cringe and tremble. I'm here it would seem to choose and train and prove. In the end there is no choice for me, only duty.
In the creation myth of the Abrahamic faiths there is one single implied commandment, assiduously overlooked by mortal man, To tend and keep Gods garden. Keep here means to guard. The fall is Mans' failure to stand that station and so we find ourselves in occupied territory. It's a comfort to know the enemy is evil itself, lies and infidelity and pride, and that it only consumes, eventually consuming itself if we can only stand our station and keep the garden.
To the point of your essay I am really, really glad to find myself stationed with you and not opposed. That would be terrifying and I think futile.
Gawain

Re: Courage

[kimberlysteele]

Christians these days are so literal/obsessed by Biblical idolatry that many of them likely think there's a literal garden out there that needs to be tended, somewhere over the rainbow and beyond the sea. Though arguably they could do worse than to turn their backyards into gardens and literally tend God's garden in the form of their own!

This is a dark and exhausting era. I can see why the Incas tried to check out of it and why some Buddhists and Hindus are so focused on jumping out of mortal existence. The astral at this point is a s**tstorm that never ends. I take some small consolation that the heavy lifting I do now will make me into spiritual beefcake in the far, far future when gravity isn't so oppressive.

[kimberlysteele]

Offlist who said:

"The world is no different from any other place with humans in it and it must be policed so that criminals and other malignant pieces of s*** get pumped and dumped."

I don't allow any swear words worse than "bitch" on this blog. Please keep that in mind for the future.

In case you didn't catch it

[kimberlysteele]

Illinois Democratic House Representative Sean Casten's 17 year old daughter, Gwen, died suddenly and unexpectedly in June 2022. Casten bragged several times about all his children being MRNA-vaccinated.