Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more.”

The Raven (1884) by Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809.




Jan 19, 1953: Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. The most powerful hypnotic, psychological tool ever created by mankind...still going strong after 73 years.




Jan 19, 1969: In the Year 2889 was released by B-Movie King, Larry Buchanan. A remake of the Roger Corman film, Day the World Ended.

HD version on Archive.org

"He's a mutation, Steve. Face it. He's a freak of this new atomic world of ours."




Jan 19, 1981: Closing In on Cloning - In 363 tries, 3 rare mice & hints of things to come.
Jan 19, 1998: Of Headless Mice...and Men; The ultimate cloning horror: human organ farms by Charles Krauthammer. Richard Seed "Cloning is the first serious step in becoming one with God."




The West, specifically the USA and now Canada has been making some billion & Trillion dollar investment deals with the Qatari's. Carney may not like Trump, but he sure wants a piece of the same Arab pie.




In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Trump commuted her sentence. Camberos returned to crime. She and her brother were convicted in 2024 in an unrelated fraud. This week, Trump pardoned her again.


Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time


Trump letter to Jonas Gahr Støre, PM of Norway: "no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace" as Norway did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize. If he is not celebrated as a peace president, we shall feel his wrath.



The Don seems hell-bent on flipping the old world order on its head no matter what it takes.


This scathing critique by a French-Polish geoeconomist lays bare the essentially hopeless condition in which the former titans of Europe now find themselves...

Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover".

First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.

The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st.

Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades.

France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid.

Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide.

Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

Daniel Foubert

Daily Lockheed trolling...D-0R-IT-0


The Lockheed D-21 is a supersonic reconnaissance drone. The D-21 was initially designed to be launched from the back of an M-21 carrier aircraft, a variant of the Lockheed A-12 aircraft. The drone had maximum speed in excess of Mach 3.3 (2,200 miles per hour; 3,600 kilometers per hour) at an operational altitude of 90,000 feet (27,000 meters). Development began in October 1962. Originally known by the Lockheed designation Q-12, the drone was intended for reconnaissance deep into enemy airspace.

The D-21 was designed to carry a single high-resolution photographic camera over a preprogrammed path, then release the camera module into the air for retrieval, after which the drone would self-destruct.[1] Following a fatal accident when launched from an M-21, the D-21 was modified to be launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Several successful test flights were made, followed by at least four unsuccessful operational D-21 flights over China, before the program was canceled in 1971.

Lockheed D-21 Strategic Reconnaissance Drone

Lockheed Martin Vectis



Mysterious ‘Dorito-Shaped’ Aircraft Spotted at Night Near Area 51


Quirky but fitting old fashioned words in our current timeline:

Skedaddle

Nincompoop
Highfalutin
Malarkey
Gobbledegook
Comeuppance
Skullduggery
Kerfuffle
Flummoxed
Thingamajig
Tomfoolery
Shenanigans
Hoodwink
Blethering
Hullabaloo
Curmudgeon
Caddywhampus
Bamboozled
Numpty


This is worth 6 minutes of your time...Quite extraordinary. Then again I don't much read Russian newspapers.



Russian trolling but probably has some serious tones. Afterall, if Trump annexes Greenland, NATO further degrades to a footnote and Russia's wish is finally fulfilled.


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down...