One of the strange things about living near the Imperial Capital is you tend not to notice it very much, at least not directly. Everyone knows about the traffic around the area and everyone knows it is the Imperial Capital. Washington, for most people around here, is a thing you navigate around, not a place you go to for business or pleasure. It exists in the same way it exists for people all over the country. It is the symbol of the empire, but not a real place with a reason to exist, other than government.
It is a real city with people living in it. I was reminded of this as I made my way through residential neighborhoods to the Ritz-Carlton, where the conference is being held. As is true of all ruling class areas now, Washington is gentrifying, which is a polite way of saying ethnic-cleansing. Slowly, block by block, the underclass blacks are being shipped out to surrounding areas so they can be replaced with hipsters working for government and the array of think tanks that support the government.
The gentrified areas are quite nice, actually. Sitting in traffic, I saw all the things you see in the nice parts of an America city. There are lots of young childless women. At every intersection is a guy with a beard out for a jog or toting a bike. There are funky eateries and bars with outdoor seating. All of it is mixed in with old houses and old apartment houses that have been renovated enough to warrant a high rent. These days, hipstervilles have young people on scooters dodging traffic.
The Imperial Capital still has its rough areas. I passed through a neighborhood that is probably overrepresented in the crime stats. You can tell you are in a bad neighborhood when you see bars on the second and third floor windows. It’s not that the blacks fear Spider-Man will break into their apartment. Those bars are there to keep the residents from falling out. There was a time, not long ago, when a regular news item was someone falling out of a slum window. Bars solved that problem…
My reason for being in the Imperial Capital is to attend the National Conservatism conference, organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation. This is an group organized by Israeli Zionist Yoram Hazony and some other people brought in for decoration. The stated purpose is to define nationalism for Americans, but the real purpose is to whip up pro-Israel fervor among white Americans. Five minutes in the room and that is amusingly obvious. Bar mitzvahs are less Jewish.
The organizers and most of the attendees would deny this, of course. That is one reason I am here. In dissident circles, there is a debate about what motivates these so-called conservatives. The anti-Semites argue it is part of the master plan executed by Big Nose™ to undermine the Occident. Others say these people are just acting on greed, as being a punching bag for the Left pays well. Still others think these people are not terribly bright, but truly convinced they are involved in a great project.
So far, and I have been here for only an evening, all three are right to some degree. For example, the conference opened with a sermon from someone calling himself David Brog, who was the Executive Director of Christians United for Israel. I call his speech a sermon, as it sounded like something you would hear from a highly animated Protestant minister in another age. Instead of throwing the devil out of the room, however, he demanded that anyone with a hint of racism in their heart leave the room.
For purely aesthetic reasons, I briefly considered making a theatrical exit when he went on his tirade, but I had been drinking for a while and did not trust my judgement. Instead, I scanned the room for reactions. One older guy at my table was deep in prayer. A swarthy young guy, who works for the DOJ, seemed a bit puzzled. A nice Jewish lady from AEI was giddy with excitement. That pretty much describes the room. Some were puzzled by the sermon, while others were in some form of ecstasy.
I would imagine some portion of the puzzled were just as insulted as I was hearing this loon rant and rave about racism. While I am not a racist, I don’t think being one is the worst thing. It’s probably down there with being gay or wearing shorts in winter, as far as character flaws. Even allowing for the cuck’s need to grovel on these issues, his fanaticism was not contrived. Even after all that has happened, these idiots still don’t get it. To be a conservative now is to be a moron…
I drank with a person calling himself Jamie Weinstein, who is both a minor celebrity and some sort of organizer of salons in the city. He talked about all the famous people he has had to his place over the years. He lives in the Ritz-Carlton, so doing whatever it is he does must pay well. That’s something you get used to in the Imperial Capital. You will often run into people living very nice lives, but no obvious source of income. He says he has a podcast and deals in real estate, but neither seemed all that important to him…
The phrase “intelligence community” gets used often in the mass media, but most people just assume it means intelligence services. In reality, the intelligence gathering is done in the social scene, while the processing of it is done by the services. This came home to me when an old acquaintance turned up in the restroom. I had spotted him earlier, but it has been thirty years, so I was not sure if my memory was correct. He looked like a guy I used to know, who worked for a foreign government.
He must have spotted me so he tracked me down on my way to the toilet. He seemed happy to see me and I was happy to know my memory was correct. I asked him what he was up to and why he was at the event. He no longer has an official role with his government, but it was obvious to me that he remains a member of the community, which is why he was at the event. That’s how the spy game works. It is lots of people taking notes in social settings, passing them on to their government…
As far as the conference thus far, imagine if the comment section of Breitbart was a real place and you were sentenced to live in that place. It’s like a cult meeting, where everyone thinks it is 1985. The intent is clear. They hope to reanimate the corpse of Buckley conservatism, by riding the coattails of Trump. From a purely cynical perspective, it is not a bad strategy. Most whites cannot bear to think about the future, so turning their alienation into nostalgia, then monetizing it, is a nice grift….
One final note. Everyone I spoke with at the event talked about themselves as if they were dissidents, dodging the search lights of the man. It’s really weird hearing people talk about how dangerous it is to be a civic nationalist. The event has been highly publicized and is held at a swanky venue in the Imperial Capital. Yet, they really think they are living as underground heretics. They seem to relish this status. Instead of being horrified that their very mild dissent is anathematized, they think it makes them hip and edgy.
In a way, I feel sorry for these people. They are in this room for the same reason I see dissidents at our events. In their daily lives, they are surrounded by radicals who would like to murder the rest of us. In this room they get to let their hair down and be themselves, around people like themselves. For many of them, this is a rare chance to feel like they are not alone. The utter pointlessness of the enterprise goes unnoticed, because it is swamped by the basic desire for fellowship and community…
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I really wanted to make this event but I swore to myself this was the weekend I finally organize my sock drawer. Glad you had a good time, hope the drinks were reasonably priced.
WRT to the lecture from the Zionist, the huge news of the day is Trump’s declaration of war Tweet over the weekend against the Anti-American POC invasion(telling them they should leave the country) and the screaming backlash to his statement by the Bill Kristol-Neo-Cons and the ((Media.)). Not to mention the lack of support from the Cuck Republicans.
The die is cast. Let’s see if the “Dissidents” have what it takes to follow.
Dissidents will defend the bluster, but Trump needs to come up with concrete action before dissidents will follow again.
Being Charlie Brown trying to kick a football gets tiring.
Epstein and the whole can of worms.
2020: The Trump Strikes Back
Jews can rightly claim Trump as their friend, White Americans, not so much.
Trump’s weekend declaration may have been the most courageous words spoken by a US President in decades. Trump can’t move mountains. It’s up to the People to get it done.
Z could have been describing Trump above when he said “From a purely cynical perspective, it is not a bad strategy. Most whites cannot bear to think about the future, so turning their alienation into nostalgia, then monetizing it, is a nice grift….” He’s screwing you just like every other fraudulent GOP uniparty junior varsity shill. Tweet capitulate defeat repeat. Words are cheap, and the excuse that he can’t do it all by himself sounds more like “if only comrade Stalin knew what was going on, he’d save us kulaks…” every day.
Carl B said: “Trump’s weekend declaration may have been the most courageous words spoken by a US President in decades. Trump can’t move mountains. It’s up to the People to get it done.” Amen brother.
Did you see his response earlier today?
Of course it’s all about “our greatest ally.”
Of course. He’s using Israel against US secular Jews, the primary financiers and promoters of International Progressivism in America. More power to Mr. Trump.
Carl B, not even Scott Adams could sell a “4D Chess” narrative so obviously silly.
What an obvious fool/plant you are.
The people can’t “get it done” because they have no power.
Trump has the executive power to repatriate foreigners and it needs to be him who gets it done fool.
The transparency of how this is all just another ploy to get the rubes worked up again makes me hate Trump and his band of “Muh God Emperor” retards even more.
Exactly. Taking a rightward position and failing miserably actually moves the Overton Window to the Left.
Trump may “trigger the Libs”, but if he keeps on failing they keep on winning.
Z, we’re partying in your unoccupied house again. We learned our lesson from previous gatherings though and banned that Derb guy who trashed your place last time. Again, sorry about that, the dude was irrepressible.
On occasion to gain a true understanding of things you need to be there yourself.
Better you than me. The good news is now we know.
Z, wondering if you could clarify your definitions of anti-Semite and racist. (Sorry if you’ve done so in the past. I’m just not sure where to look.) You seem tolerant of such folks but not a fan. Personally, I’m not sure how a rational white goy could choose to be anything but anti-Semitic and a racist, but I suspect that may be in how we define the terms. I’m anti-Semitic because I believe that a large portion of influential Jews have been working – quite successfully, btw – to undermine gentile whites to the point of our being minorities in… Read more »
Racism is good. Racism is the immune system of a people. It protects your people from outside harm.
That’s exactly why they fight against racism so hard–they want to destroy our psychological ability to defend ourselves.
Extending the immune-system metaphor, political correctness and Cultural Marxism are social AIDS: they destroy the ability of the infected body to defend itself.
And unlike AIDS, which arose naturally, Cultural Marxism was designed by (*cough*) somebody.
One of Many Georges said: “That’s exactly why they fight against racism so hard–they want to destroy our psychological ability to defend ourselves.” That’s the wonderful world of political correctness my friend. Here’s a quote from Theodore Dalrymple that I’ve posted before. “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told… Read more »
That’s exactly why they fight against racism so hard–they want to destroy our psychological ability to defend ourselves.
They don’t fight against racism – they don’t give a fuck – but the reason they use racism as a rhetorical cudgel is exactly because they know racism is hardwired into every person on the planet, so you always provoke a jab of guilt in the target, when you level the term as an accusation.
That’s why we’ll never win this fight until we manage to convince our people that there’s nothing wrong with being a racist.
Our natural instinct when we see people different from ourselves is fear and hatred because in the past, different tribes showing up in your village was potentially a death sentence for you and your family. This is a good instinct. Not 100% sure, but I think that Z and others make a distinction between hating the person because of their race (racist = bad) and hating what that person could mean to your people if they settle in your area (race realist = OK). If that’s the case (and I’m not sure that it is), I’m saying that it’s a… Read more »
Well put. Nature color codes things for a reason.
Z Man said: ” The utter pointlessness of the enterprise goes unnoticed, because it is swamped by the basic desire for fellowship and community…” Fellowship and community well be one of the key factors that will make or break the dissident white. I know I come off sounding like the black pill guy some times. But it’s just because a lot of people seem a bit naive about the challenges we face. E. O. Wilson the ant scientist said that one of the defining characteristics of humans is that we form groups. like I was saying yesterday, there’s around 193… Read more »
I have a hard time believing that radicals™ would go after a room full of wealthy zionists, considering the immense overlap between those two populations.
Be careful, Z, you’re foxin’ for a doxin’ with that crowd.
It’s probably down there with being gay or wearing shorts in winter, as far as character flaws.
I think Zman drastically underestimates the character flaws that are part and parcel of being gay.
Aw, Vizzini, you have to admit that, on the whole, it was a great line. In any case, it’s one that I plan on stealing.
The Lavender Mafia’s politically and culturally thuggish coming out party over the last few years destroyed any illusions I once had that homosexuality was something we could tolerate so long as they kept it in the bedroom. Homosexuals reproduce by child abuse, and everything they are involved in is poisoned by their base and crass materialism hyper narcissism and utter lack of a disgust reflex. This most dysgenic of traits would be aggressively purged by any healthy society.
Some of us live where weather allows such behavior…
Queers are mentally disturbed. We used to treat them as such back when we had a country.
“In a way, I feel sorry for these people. They are in this room for the same reason I see dissidents at our events. In their daily lives, they are surrounded by radicals who would like to murder the rest of us.” Well at least they’re aware of it! Anyone who has worked in the gov’t or corporate world has to be mystified by the people blissfully kowtowing to those who would love to exterminate them. Bourgeois Christian women who desperately try to show that they are just as “SJW hip” as the progressive little girls (the Booby refuses to… Read more »
Weinstein told you that he deals in real estate because he’d prefer not to admit that he’s not on anyone’s payroll. Trust fund. His grandfather built a pretty substantial real estate empire.
Some of the normies in attendance may fit the description of “in the room for the same reasons as us” but guys like Harzony and Weinstein (aka Mr. Michelle Fields – take that, Shapiro!!) are in the room for the same reasons as Bill Kristol. As for fellowship, for once I agree with (((Mark Leibovitch))). In “This Town,” he says that there are no friendships in Washington everything is transactional and everyone considers using each other simply as coin of the realm. Get out of that shit hole as fast as you can and get back to a more decent… Read more »
In Vino Veritas Sir.
Post more after parties
It makes you edgy.
I like the edge.
We need it.
Quite serious.
While it was only a side note in the article, “gentrification” is a lie. Gentrification is described as whites taking over an “historically black” neighborhood, when it is really just taking back surrendered territory lost in the post war period. My 50% black city was 7% black in 1930 and this surrender of territory has never stopped. When one part of the city gets taken back, another, bigger, part of the city gets taken. My city has lost over a million residents since the 1960s. Both sides of my family have been ethnically cleansed from the city. The neighborhoods my… Read more »
Except its faggots and hipsterz, asians taking what whites built and blacks ruined.
Worse the blacks are then sent to the burbs.
The importance of your point cannot be overstated: the destruction of communal living for our tribe and our fleeing to suburbs (white refugee relocation camps) has destroyed our tribal bonds, our generational bonds and degenerated our culture into shopping for crap we don’t need, numbing and directing our interest into trivialities and walling us off from our past.
What struck me some years ago when I was in Coruscant during the height of the recession and housing crash was how disengaged from the rest of the country D.C. is. You would have never known there was a problem in the nation, everyone in DC was fat and happy. They are as oblivious as any aristocracy right before the heads started to roll.
That’s simply a clear market indicator that far too much money is flowing into DC. Real estate pricing responds to supply and demand – probably like nothing else other than maybe food. If D.C. real estate prices kept going up despite the general fall in prices everywhere else – that’s a clear indicator that people were flocking into D.C. D.C. exists like no other city in the entire country – by the simple means of being able to extract more money from your pocket under the threat of violence. Most cities only get to fleece their residents in this fashion.… Read more »
I’d love to hear someone ask Preacher Man if he’s ever addressed a non-White crowd, and if so if he began with the same statements about racism that he opened this conference with.
I’m sure we know the answer, but the cognitive dissonance would be fun to watch.
“My reason for being in the Imperial Capital is to attend the National Conservatism conference, organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation.”
Good God! Z, you deserve a medal just for being stoic enough to endure the kind of speeches one can imagine emanating from a crowd associated with groups formed around those names. You’re like an Indian scout bravely venturing into the wilderness to find out what the savages are up to. Thanks for the smoke signals.
I doubt that anyone in that conference room had ever picked up a hammer in his life. Their skill set starts and stops with a talent for blathering. A hundred years ago, they would have been good cannon fodder in the era of massed foot soldiers marching into doom; but alas, that purgative no longer exists. Oh, the horror.
What you’re seeing here is an appeal to the Power Above. That cry- “Pick me! Pick me!”- is why the drug war conservatives and civil rights liberals were so eager to murder the Constitutional libertarians (the old “small governments, we can play in the our sandboxes without supervision” types), to tear down their temples, to replace the old social religion with the new. Note that the new has gutted and wears the skin of the old. Both, desperate for status in a world whose needs are increasingly being met, insist on fixing what ain’t broke. The resulting FUBAR leads to… Read more »
I’ll be honest with you. For most of my 66 years I really haven’t payed all that much attention to the (((Tribe))). It’s the freaking spades that drive me crazy. As far as I’m concerned 13% of the population is precisely 13% too much..