3-23-2024
Aloha, Bonjour, Konnichiwa,
Ciao, Guten Tag, Privet,
Anyeong, and Ola …
How are you Maniacs doing? It’s me, Bone Face, your favorite former moderator! Space Ghost is working on some kind of thesis about why you should vote for Robert Kennedy Jr in November. He told me that of the three candidates, RFK Jr would fit here at Maniac Nebula the best! Why? Because we’re maniacs! He comes from a family of maniacs! His uncle, JFK, fought the Federal Reserve and said,
“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence; on infiltration instead of invasion; on subversion instead of elections; on intimidation instead of free choice; on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day …”
This quote was one of the reasons I joined this site. There’s an irony, though. Why is it that the real forum is at a different location? Why do you need an embedded link to get there? Why do you need a recommendation from a mod? Or pass a test from Demented?
As we study conspiracies, we create our own. What an irony! The word “Jerusalem” means “City of Peace” but it’s known for violence. Another irony! When Trump first ran for president in 2015 he said,
“I don’t need anybody’s money. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s money. I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich …”
Today, he puts out ads where he begs for five, ten, twenty-five dollars from poor people! My sister is one of those people! I know how she lives! She’s broke, but she’s sending this loser money! I hate it!
So is this another irony? You be the judge.
I got into conspiracies because I knew they were there. Before I heard about the Carnivore program, I intuitively knew the government was scanning emails for certain trigger words. Before I heard of Edward Snowden, I knew the government was over reaching its powers. And I speculated they were using psychic spies before I heard of RNM, remote neural monitoring. I don’t trust the government! I haven’t since I was a child.
As for politicians, I don’t trust them, either. If my life was on the line and I could call a used car salesman or a politician to save me, I would call the used car salesman one hundred percent of the time. The thing I discovered in life is that you become the thing you hate.
“Whomsoever I’ve cured
I’ve sickened now
And whomsoever I’ve cradled
I’ve put you down
I’m a search light soul they say
But I can’t see it in the night
I’m only faking when I get it right
When I get it right …”
— Fell On Black Days by Soundgarden
This site has gone through this. You talk to people who have been here from the beginning. We studied JFK and we were repulsed by the repugnant nature of the Establishment pawning us around in the shadows. This used to be an open forum to the public! I became a moderator and I dealt with all kinds of new members. There were “know it alls” with esoteric understandings. There were true maniacs! These people operated with many screws loose, and they weren’t faking! There were misguided people who thought they knew what was “really going on” but they were way off. There were casual people with natural curiosities. These people came together and I was glad to moderate their discussions.
Then there were the trolls and shills. I think they did the site in. At some point, there was a decision to create some kind of standard about who would be accepted to Maniac Nebula. We became another one of those repugnant secret societies and that’s when I let Demented know I no longer wanted to moderate.
I’m not a religious person but I’ve picked up a lot of religious rhetoric from moderating religious discussion. There’s a point when Jesus and his Apostles feel defeated. This is the root of when Judas starts to turn to the dark side. Jesus asks who they think he is. Judas responded that he’s a great teacher, but Simon Peter went to the highest level.
“You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
— Mathew 16:16
Later on, they start to lose followers. They’re sitting around and Jesus asks the Apostles if they’re going to leave him as well. Simon Peter responds, “To whom shall we go?”
I quit as a moderator at this site and I tried to stay away for a few months. It was hard to do. I created a sock account and I peeked in once in a while. Wacky Taffy knew about this. She’s one of my best friends. I would hardly post, but it drove me nuts. I had to be part of the Maniac Nebula again. I revived my Bone Face name and I started to talk to the guys like the old days. I was offered a moderator position, but I turned it down. Discussions can get trite. Too often, you must make judgements between two people you equally like. Also, it gets to be like a high school where clicks form and they bully under-represented voices. I don’t miss that part.
Space Ghost wanted me to chip in my two cents about the 2024 election. This does not mean I plan to be a mod again, by the way. It only means I poke my head above water, now and then. People who know me understand my beliefs. The motto of this site is, “Conspiracies, Extra-Terrestrials, and Good Times.” The conspiracies don’t produce good times for me any longer. Maybe that’ll change. My stance has always been that the United States no longer exists as a functioning democracy since the implementation of the PNAC document which led to the destruction of the Twin Towers. By showing up to voting booths, you are casting a vote for deception and corruption. In 2013, Jimmy Carter said the United States has no functioning democracy, so it’s not just me. It doesn’t matter who you mark on the ballot. The purity of our system is gone.
I want to change my mind. I really do. Demented posted a John Oliver critique of the United States Supreme Court. Very disheartening stuff. When Donald Trump failed to get SCOTUS to overturn the 2020 election, he said they chickened out. This dude is the definition of a man child!
When I was a kid, I played Little League baseball. One day, I was watching my neighbor pitch. I had played a game just before and I was still in uniform watching from behind the backstop fence. It was a classic situation with two outs in the last inning where our school’s bully was at the plate with a runner on third and a chance to tie.
My neighbor struck the bully out, and the bully started to cry.
I walked to school with my neighbor the next morning and the bully was waiting for us at the gate. The bully socked my neighbor in the stomach. “Don’t tell anyone what happened!” he said. Of course, word got around because other people from school were also there watching. I watched the bully wiff really bad when he struck out, but the bully told a story that he went down looking. The pitch was obviously a ball way outside of the strike zone. The umpire had it in for him. And when asked why he cried, he said he didn’t. He was rubbing dirt out of his eyes.
Donald Trump threw the biggest tantrum in world history! He is a bully who doesn’t use logic well so he resorts to taunting and name-calling. According to him, the Supreme Court chickened out last election. I was proud back then that they “chickened out” and I was proud that Mike Pence “didn’t have the courage” to bail on the Constitution on Jamuary 6, 2021. Of the three branches of government, the Supreme Court was the last bastion of purity and decency. It showed cracks when Antonin Scalia handed the 2000 election to his conservative ally, George W Bush. Now? Lawyer Alina Habba says Brett Kavanaugh will “step up” for Trump as a quid pro quo favor. What bullshit! Right? You can’t make this stuff up! The corruption is beyond repair. It doesn’t matter who the next president is.
The bully who struck out became a good guy, by the way. In high school, he got into ska music and became somewhat effeminate. After we graduated, he became manager of a KFC. He used to give me free chicken wings. I think guilt ate him. It’s too late for Donald Trump, though. He will die as a man child. I fear it’s too late for the United States of America as well. How can the corruption end?
The motto of this site is still important to me. Conspiracies, Extra-Terrestrials, and Good Times. I didn’t sit down today to write a lengthy piece about politics. It happened, though. I was going to brush it off and get straight to the good times. Otherwise, the terrorists win, right? I watched a music video just before sitting down to type. It was a mush up of Judas Priest and Michael Jackson. “Billy Jean’s Got Another Thing Coming” didn’t set in too well with me for the first few seconds, but I gave it a chance. I liked it! I wound up liking the song. Besides conspiracies, there’s a couple of great threads at Maniac Nebula: The kitten memes, and the music one. I hope you enjoy the song …
Yours Truly,
Bone Face
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