Stripe persecutes Robert Malone; Substack does nothing to stop it

Plus: Terror attack in Russia; Art of attritional warfare; Oral sex cop walks away with $500K; Biden wants to phase out gas cars; Elon's first Neuralink patient; Planet Fitness stock; and more!

Welcome to this week’s issue of Morgthorak’s Goody Bag. This post is a smorgasbord of the content I’ve read this week, and that I liked enough to share with you here. 😎

Good day, frens. Before I get into this week’s goody bag, I have some payment housekeeping to do. Please be aware that, for the time being, paid subscriptions have been paused due to the situation with Stripe and Robert Malone (more on that below). I am not accepting new paid subscribers during this time.

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So now let us proceed to why I turned off Stripe payments.

The corporate fascists at Stripe persecute Robert Malone

Robert Malone posted an article detailing how Stripe was persecuting him by attempting to force him to “link his banking account” to Stripe, so Stripe could gain detailed information about his financial business:

Under the guise of “credit review”, Stripe is now rolling out a requirement that appears to target conservative or "anti-vax" Substack authors. Stripe is requiring that these authors provide all of their current and historic financial records associated with the bank account into which Stripe deposits Substack subscriber payments (after taking 10% off the top for Substack and 3% for Stripe).  Stripe already has information concerning this bank account (including deposits from Stripe), as we have been doing business with Stripe via this account for over two years.

If I or anyone else agree to these new terms, this newly implemented arbitrary, capricious and overreaching requirement will provide Stripe with complete records of all financial transactions associated with this account. Consequently, this will provide Stripe with comprehensive information on all of my customers, patients and clients, all of my travel (historic and planned), all of my purchases, and any donations (and donor information). This information from my account and those of any others who comply with this demand can be hacked or sold, provided to the US Government, used to fuel predictive algorithms (AI), used to derive insights into my political orientation, weaponized against me by press or other hostile actors, or used to support future social credit score-based restrictions.

Stripe has a history of financially de-platforming (or de-banking) for political reasons, including removing support for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Despite its relatively recent entry into the financial transaction business, Stripe has become a major global financial organization, and processed one Trillion US Dollars in payments during 2023, and is now expanding its credit charge program.

I weighed in with a post of my own, making it very clear that Stripe and Substack do not have control over my content, I do. Stripe is going after the big fish right now, but they will come for the smaller fish in due time. But this little fish has sharp teeth like those of a piranha, and I know how to use them.

To put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, I have paused Stripe payment processing for my Substack. I will accept no further paid subscriptions, and current subscribers will not be billed again until I turn it back on.

Do you understand now, Substack and Stripe? You do not have control here; I do, and it is I who will decide if I will allow Stripe to continue working for me as my payment processor on Substack. For the time being, Stripe payments are off for this Substack. Stripe will not get a dime from my paid subscribers, nor will Substack.

Yet, the content will still flow. My readers will still enjoy my scribblings, and there is NOTHING WHATSOEVER that Stripe can do about it. 🖕🏻

And now I shall close this letter with something special from Moby Dick for the corporate fascists at Stripe:

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee."

So that’s where we are with Stripe and Robert Malone. I will keep you informed as the situation changes. If this is resolved properly, I will consider turning paid subscriptions back on. In the meantime, please use the BMAC and crypto stuff to support my writing. Thank you all for your support and kindness during this time. 👍🏻 🥰

Terror attack in Russia

As I’m sure you know by now, there has been a terrible terror attack in Russia that has resulted in many deaths. This is a fast-moving, evolving story with a lot of moving parts. Suffice to say, it is likely that Ukraine and the United States are directly involved with it.

For ongoing coverage, please see the Telegram channels below. There are already a lot of posts about the terror attack, and there are far too many for me to include them here. But if you check out the Telegram feeds of these channels, you can keep up to date with what’s going on.

DD Geopolitics

Slavyangrad

Intel Slava Z

Please also see this Telegram post that has a video of Putin stating that he has intelligence indicating that Ukraine was involved in the attack, and we all know who holds Ukraine’s leash.

The art of attrition warfare

Occasionally, I come across an article that is truly exceptional, and so it is with one recently published on the Rusi site by Alex Vershinin. This commentary covers attrition warfare, and it points out how utterly screwed the West is in such a war.

Make yourself a cup of your favorite beverage and savor this excellent article:

The conduct of attritional wars is vastly different from wars of manoeuvre. They last longer and end up testing a country’s industrial capacity. Victory is assured by careful planning, industrial base development and development of mobilisation infrastructure in times of peace, and even more careful management of resources in wartime.

Victory is attainable by carefully analysing one’s own and the enemy’s political objectives. The key is recognising the strengths and weaknesses of competing economic models and identifying the economic strategies that are most likely to generate maximum resources. These resources can then be utilised to build a massive army using the high/low force and weapons mixture. The military conduct of war is driven by overall political strategic objectives, military realities and economic limitations. Combat operations are shallow and focus on destroying enemy resources, not on gaining terrain. Propaganda is used to support military operations, not the other way around. With patience and careful planning, a war can be won.

Unfortunately, many in the West have a very cavalier attitude that future conflicts will be short and decisive. This is not true for the very reasons outlined above. Even middling global powers have both the geography and the population and industrial resources needed to conduct an attritional war. The thought that any major power would back down in the case of an initial military defeat is wishful thinking at its best. Any conflict between great powers would be viewed by adversary elites as existential and pursued with the full resources available to the state. The resulting war will become attritional and will favour the state which has the economy, doctrine and military structure that is better suited towards this form of conflict.

If the West is serious about a possible great power conflict, it needs to take a hard look at its industrial capacity, mobilisation doctrine and means of waging a protracted war, rather than conducting wargames covering a single month of conflict and hoping that the war will end afterwards. As the Iraq War taught us, hope is not a method.

But can she suck a golf ball through a garden hose?

A female cop who…er…got around with some of the male cops in her department was fired, sued, and has now walked away with $500K.

I leave you with this story, with no further commentary:

Tennessee cop-gone-wild Maegan Hall settled her lawsuit with the city of La Vergne for $500,000 after she was fired when an internal probe revealed her raunchy romps with six male officers that involved games of 'strip-Uno' and foot fetish photos.

The 28-year-old was fired in January 2023 after it was first discovered that she had sexual relationships with several cops in the suburban-Nashville department - some who have been terminated, others suspended.

The rookie cop hit back in a federal lawsuit, claiming she was groomed and abused by lecherous superiors, including Police Chief Burrel 'Chip' Davis and Sgt. Lewis Powell, a 15-year law enforcement veteran.

Biden attempts to eliminate gas cars

The dementia-addled pedophile wants to get rid of gas cars, but he has run into some snags, and now he has had to back off somewhat: 

Drastic new rules that limit the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2032 were unveiled by the Biden adminstration Wednesday.

The news come as take-up of electric cars has stalled in many parts of America - with just 3 percent of new sales an EV in some states.

In a concession to automarkers, the rules will be phased in more slowly - and give car companies more ways to comply.

It was initially proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency that two-thirds of all cars sold by 2030 were EVs, but the brakes were put on that plan Wednesday.

Instead, hybrid cars - which combine gas engines with electric batteries - can play a bigger role in cuttng tailpipe emmisons.

I made it clear a while ago in a post that I would not buy an electric vehicle. First, they are far too expensive. Second, I work as a delivery driver, and I need a reliable vehicle that can be quickly refueled, and that will work well in cold weather. Electric vehicles do not meet either requirement.

Also, electrical power grids in America have not been upgraded to provide power to millions of electric vehicles, so where is the power going to come from? 🤔

Elon’s first Neuralink patient

Elon has been hell-bent on getting his Neuralink technology to work, and now he has his first human patient using it:

Elon Musk has shared stunning footage of the first person to use the Neuralink brain chip to control a computer cursor and play video games just by thinking.

The groundbreaking patient, paraplegic man Noland Arbaugh, 29, was seen in a video shared to X using only his mind to play a game of chess.

'See that cursor on the screen? That's all me... it's all brainpower' he said from his wheelchair. Arbaugh said in the clip that he suffered a 'freak diving accident' eight years ago that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down.

The Arizona man's successful use of the tech marks a breathtaking development - and bolsters beliefs from experts that it could revolutionize care for the disabled.

Arbaugh beamed with happiness throughout the clip - showing off the mouse moving side to side across the online chess board while being filmed by an engineer.

I admit that the technology is impressive, and I am happy for the man who is using it and seems to like it. However, it also grosses me out, and I wonder how dangerous it will prove in the long term. Wiring the human brain into a computer seems like something that will bring unexpected problems and could prove to be a nightmare for humanity.

We shall see how it works out, but I remain skeptical, and I don’t trust Musk or any of the other people working on this technology.

The Troon Cult crashes Planet Fitness’ stock price

I chuckled when I saw that the Troon Cult had managed to take down another company. Planet Fitness has been pushing the troon ideology hard in its gyms, and now the stock price has dropped massively:

Planet Fitness' valuation has plummeted $400 million in five days after they banned a member who shared a photo of a 'trans woman' using a female locker room.

The company's value dropped from $5.3 billion on March 14 to $4.9 billion on March 19, and its shares are down by 13.59 percent compared to a month ago.

The decline follows Planet Fitness' refusal to walk back its decision to ban a member who exposed a 'trans woman' shaving in a female locker room earlier this month.

Patricia Silva was barred from the gym in Alaska after she detailed an incident online - where she said she saw a transgender woman in her locker room.

Following backlash against the ban, the company said although some members may feel uncomfortable sharing facilities, 'this discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender member.'

Men shoving objects up their butts for pleasure

Well, what can I say about this story except that it might be better to avoid putting objects up your rear end, guys. I mean, WTF, artillery shells? 🙄 😂

What do artillery shells, aquatic animals and McDonald's Happy Meal toys all have in common?

The answer, probably to your horror, is that they have all been inserted in men's bottoms for sexual pleasure.

A new book detailing the history of extreme self-pleasuring techniques has laid bare how far some go in search of a 'perfect' orgasm - and the psychology behind it.

Inserting foreign objects into one's rectum is shockingly common. In fact, 10 Americans visit the hospital every day with the embarrassing injury, data suggests.

In his book DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation, sex therapist Dr Eric Sprankle documents some of the most bizarre case reports.

'One ER physician in 2022 reported removing twenty Happy Meal toys from a middle-aged man’s anus, which gives a new meaning to the McDonald’s slogan, “I’m lovin’ it.”'

Technology as the accelerator of time

Neofeudalism Review has some words of caution about technology and time:

This is a post about the accelerating nature of time and the increasing “solidification” of the world where reality becomes more material and less spiritual at an ever-increasing rate.

Time as we experience it is not a static thing. Depending on our circumstances and perspective it can feel long (put your hand on a hot stove and it will feel like forever) or short (watch an exciting sports match, play video games, have fun with friends). The nature of time also changes as we age; for a three year old a five minute time-out can feel like eternity, while in adulthood whole years go by in a blur.

One under-discussed aspect of time is how technology accelerates it.

Take the smartphone or computer. If you have a salaried wagecuck job or your own business, you are expected to respond to texts, emails or calls at any hour of the day including weekends. The “job” transitioned sometime in the past twenty years from a 9-5 to 24/7. Even if you don’t have such a job, the smartphone is a constant temptation to pull you out of whatever you are doing in the real world to engage in the virtual world. By serving as an attack on our down-time, on the empty space between events where silence and boredom develops (which is the fertile ground where imagination is born), it serves as an attack on time itself: life blurs together and every day feels the same and you blink, waking up 50 years later with your life over.

Tim Pool and Israel’s control over US foreign policy

Tim Pool tried to shut somebody down on his show when that person started to point out how Israel has a certain amount of control over US foreign policy:

This meme was posted in response on X:

For the record, I don't watch Pool's show, so I have no idea if he actually is a Zionist Jew or if he was playing the devil's advocate. I've never understood his appeal, and I find his voice and mannerisms to be annoying. He constantly interrupts guests and pushes his own perspectives on them instead of letting them speak. I can’t stand watching him.

Memes of the week

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Runners up:

Morgthorak the Undead week in review

If you missed some of my content this week, here are the links so you can get caught up:

An open letter to the corporate fascists at Stripe

Friday fun thread: Which digital device are you willing to give up?

Donald Trump needs to suffer and be punished

Ketanji Jackson: Woke communist

Writers: Beware of the FBI here on Substack

Bravo, Vlad! An open letter to President Putin

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