I was feeling pretty good about the AFPAC event last weekend, so this week I wanted to do some stuff related to it. My original thought was to open with a segment talking about the event itself, but one thing led to another and it evolved into an overall theme for the show this week. I found myself with more material than I could cover. Taking a step back and assessing things is probably a good idea in everything, but in politics it is highly useful in maintaining a proper perspective on things.
When I finished up the show, I put on Tucker Carlson to see what he was saying about things and he did a bit on Lizzy Warren. It fit right in with the final segment of the show this week. I disagree with Carlson’s assertion that identity politics was the cause of Warren’s madness. That’s just red meat for his Boomer audience. I think the better answer is that Warren was probably always insane. It’s just that the structures around her prevented it from expressing itself in public.
What’s happening to our world, I suspect, is something Joseph Tainter observed about societal collapse. That is, one ingredient essential to collapse is the lack of a surrounding set of societies that are connected to the failing one. For a failing society, the surrounding stable societies operate as a support structure, either slowing the decline or preventing it from reaching a critical point. The stable societies have an interest in preventing collapse, so they act to mitigate it.
Something may be at play with radical female empowerment. A century ago, when society was run by men, indulging female empowerment was a luxury good, like having ice cream in the summer or a drink after dinner. Over time, as the male power structure faltered and atrophied, female empowerment expanded to fill the void. Because it was inherently unstable and antithetical to orderly society, the overall society became less stable, more chaotic. Our world got more hysterical.
In the example of Elizabeth Warren, we see this in miniature. For most of her life, the necessity of career and social pressure kept her within a narrow path. She could decorate her office with dream catchers, pretending to be an Indian, but she had to follow the rules in order to maintain her position. On the campaign trail, she suddenly found herself free to express all of her thoughts. The result was demanding that transgender children riding unicorns select cabinet members.
What we are seeing, I think, is a madness spreading across the ruling class that is closely following the final feminization of it. If Elizabeth Warren had not lost her marbles on the campaign trail, the party would not be in the position to back a dementia patient for the nomination. Just let that sink in for a moment. The inner party is prepared to install a dementia patient in the White House as their best option. That is prima facie evidence that the political class has descended into madness.
The thing is, this virus spreading around the world could very well be the crisis that requires a competent and assertive ruling class. Tough decisions will need to be made in order to prevent a catastrophe. can we realistically count on the people around Dementia Joe to make those decisions? For that matter, can we count on Trump to provide sober minded leadership and assurance in a crisis? Covid-19 could very well be the modern equivalent of the Mongol Invasion.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- 00:00: Opening
- 02:00: The State Of Our Thing
- 17:00: Spicy Hot Takes
- 27:00: Wet And Dry
- 37:00: Chesterton’s Fence (Link)
- 47:00: The Gathering Madness (Link)
- 57:00: Closing (Link)
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Every day more people begin to think more or less like most of us here do. More and more I think of all this as tidal, and ours is incoming.
When one is gambling or is trading the markets (but I repeat myself), one can feel it when one has positioned himself correctly and things are coming one’s way. Likewise, being wrong-footed and feeling the tide move away, and going into complete scramble mode. As sad as things are, I agree that we are well positioned and in the right frame of mind to understand what is likely around the corner. If you look carefully, you can see the tide pulling the sand out from under the feet of our adversaries.
Wish I could say the same about Canada.
Lots of younger and manly looking white dudes in the usa with no white guilt.
The “manly” looking young canadians just try and act like arabs or negroes. The rural areas are populated by losers and the rest are boomers.
Why are we so cucked while the movement is growing right across the border? No idea.
“[O]ne ingredient essential to collapse is the lack of a surrounding set of societies that are connected to the failing one.” Well to the north we have Canada in race to madness with us, and to the south we have a narco-state. Other than that we have…big blue oceans… Oh, and most of the societies closest to us culturally and spiritually, western Europe, are right among Canada and us on the road to clown world… This won’t end well. (But I am looking forward to my walk this afternoon with the dulcet sound of the Z Man’s voice playing in… Read more »
The demographic change is happening so fast here that normies are kind of scratching their heads, but being the pussies they are they just rationalize it and go back to sleep.
But it’s happening so fast that it’s over. Even if all canadians woke up it would be too late.
This is the globalist plan for the USA when the dems get back in power. Borders open so wide you don’t even know what happened. Whites stood up for themselves in 2016 and therefore must be crushed. We don’t even get the courtesy of the slow burn anymore.
The ruling class are the inhabitants of an insane asylum making laws. I went back one day and looked at the people that have been the candidates for President for the last half century. This is the best we can do?
Your observation suggests that there are fundamental flaws in the way we are going about things, as to the structure of the levers of government. In a properly constructed system (or at least one properly calibrated to deal with the other issues in our midst), the caliber of candidates in this last half century would not look like that.
Your observation suggests that there are fundamental flaws in the way we are going about things, as to the structure of the levers of government
One thing that looks a bit strange to outsiders, is that nepotism seems to be openly endorsed. RFK hires his brother to be attorney general, Clinton lets his missus do health reform and Trump lets his kayak-in-law run the Middle East desk like it was his personal pawn shop, and nobody seems to have a problem with any of this.
Mass media. They could put a gorilla on camera with overdubbed speech and somebody would take it seriously. No joke. I bet Harambe has gotten some write in votes.
I’m not convinced at all about this specific virus. Maybe some virus, some day. Briggs has a good analysis of this compared to the typical seasonal flu.
“The mortality rate is highest in the elderly and sick, as expected. This is not killing off healthy individuals.”
https://wmbriggs.com/post/29566/
Possibly. I don’t see enough reliable data to make any firm predictions. The meta-data, sober minded people who know about this stuff in detail, suggests it is very serious. How serious is still unknown. The truth about the Spanish Flu is it followed the patterns we see in common colds and flus. It was just much more deadly. It is the old saying from statistics. Quantity has a quality all its own. We don’t notice the tiny number of people who die from the normal flu. We will notice two percent of people dying from the Wu-flu, even if the… Read more »
If the virus continues to spread, then Trump’s whole “the media is overblowing this to make me look bad” shtick could really bite him in the ass.
Someone (maybe it was Z?) asked if COVID was Trump’s Katrina – it sure has the potential to be.
It could be, but it could also be his Pearl Harbor. Often, events make men, as they rise to the challenge of their age. Trump’s instincts are uncommonly good. My read on his reaction thus far is that he wants to be a calming influence. That’s a positive. If things get worse, perhaps he grows into the position and becomes a rallying point. The real scary thing is that lunatics like Schumer and Pelosi would happily sow panic if they thought it would boost their chances. I say this all seriousness. In a real state of emergency, those two and… Read more »
Sow, not sew. Otherwise, I agree.
‘Schumer and Pelosi would happily sow panic”… these two would happily sow the actual virus, if sufficient political gain and plausible deniability were available.
It will only be Trump’s Katrina if he plays by the media’s paradigm. If Trump is Trump the media can’t do anything against him.
He also closed the borders quickly. I don’t know what else you can expect.
And yeah it’s highly suspicious that none of the names have been released. Basically it’s all chinkies who have “American” citizenship. And racism is the worst disease ever so we can’t have that.
The mortality rate is defined as (number of deaths)/(number infected). We know the numerator pretty well, but we have very little information about the denominator. We know how many have been diagnosed but have no idea of the number of undiagnosed walking around but not dying or even getting very sick.
Some contagion models say the last number is huge.
We’ll know more as widespread testing becomes possible.
Maybe, but the reaction to this virus shows that there is something about it that spooks the shi$ out the Chinese government. (I’m willing to chalk other govt reactions to politicians bowing the media hysteria.) The numbers and the reaction don’t match up. China isn’t shutting down its economy for a nasty flu virus.
I’m not saying that the coronavirus is the end of the world; I’m just saying China’s reaction was massive.
I have though for 6 weeks that the actions of the Chinese Government are not consonant with their speech.
This is a big deal.
Maybe the Chinese government is as full of hysterical ninnies as ours is?
No way. They locked down a city of 11 million people and ground to a halt industrial production across the country. They were worried about this thing, which just screams accidentally released bio-weapon or, at least, a natural virus that terrified their scientists.
Now, maybe the virus turned out to be not as bad as they suspected, but they didn’t know that at first so they went defcon 5 right off the bat.
That has always been my focus. China reacted as if they feared it was the end of them. My hunch all along has been they know or at least suspect it came from their labs in Wuhan. The lockdown is as much about keeping that from the public as containing the virus. Such a thing has the chance to destabilize the country in ways we don’t appreciate. What I think will be telling is the CFR in each country and the number requiring hospitalization in each country. I’d expect the highest CFR in a place like Iran, but the lowest… Read more »
There are some interesting C-virus backstories going on. Unverified, but how often have they truned out to be correct in the end? Anyway, the story is that genetic Chinese (and likely Persian, from the look of it) have many more receptors to take in the virus. Whites fewer, and blacks, almost none at all. And that is why Chinese and Iranians are dropping dead in the street, right and left, while Africans, in the midst of unsanitary and crowded conditions, are not succumbing. BTW, men may have more receptors than women, generally, as well, and the old age/frailty thing is… Read more »
Is their interest strictly economic or are they actually trying to save lives? Loss of confidence could bring down a shaky economy.
Save lives, as in their lives. China is an old country with a long memory that includes many bloody revolts and periods of unrest. Thye fear unrest more than anything.
Yeah, Americans seem to view the Chinese public as quite docile, almost like worker ants who would never rise up against their govt. But as you say, that’s just not the case.
The new case figures for South Korea are slowing down and seem to following China’s pattern, which is good news.
My best guess on all of this is that it was an accidentally released bio-weapon. The Chinese govt knew it but maybe weren’t 100% sure of its lethality so they went to Defcon 5 immediately just in case. Other govts – particularly in Asia – read the tea leaves and reacted the same. In the end, the virus turned out to be quite nasty but not the plague so the reaction seems out of proportion.
China’s reaction is certainly worth considering. It has been extreme to say the least. All I can say is, wait for the numbers from more testing and diagnoses.
Nature is on our side I just wish it would hurry up…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68
“virus-laden gaseous plume” Now THAT’S the kind of characteristic that – to me – would make a coronavirus a weapon if it could somehow be made more lethal. Along with others I suspect that Covid-19 was a lab experiment that escaped into the wild. If somebody can make alter it so as to make it lethal to moderately healthy individuals it could be a dandy herd culler. Just think of the “good” it could do in cities with large homeless (and illegal?) populations. I think the elites WANT something like another Spanish Flu. They just want to keep enough of… Read more »
Long ago Ciprofloxacin was sparsely produced and rarely used, and only for the occasional outbreak of Anthrax in sheep-herding regions. But then the US Army decided that anthrax could be used as a bioweapon, and to prepare for that they encouraged the pharmaceutical industry to ramp up production, nearly ten-fold. During the past twenty to thirty years there have been a handful of people who received anthrax laden envelopes mailed to them anonymously; I won’t delve into whether those were actual attempts to assassinate people, or false flag operations to gin up fear of anthrax. But now, because it is… Read more »
It’s a jacked up version of the common cold. I’m not expecting much carnage. Not Spanish flu anyhow. More concerned about the panic.
Common sense measures (using antibacterial wipes) should be an everyday thing, but I agree the panic is of more concern to me . . . at least at this point. The fact they will not release death info by race is very telling . The age of the average fatality in Italy is 81 (and few realize just how many Han have colonized Italy). Tragic for the family it affects, but not something world shattering. The idiots trying to buy out all cleaning supplies and cold/flu medicine are of much greater concern to me.
The Chinese are so scared of it they shut down their industrial base to keep it from spreading. And Commies aren’t know for being overly worried about deaths. The problem we still know very little of what happened in China since they are not letting in CDC virologists. And nothing is getting shipped from China to the U.S. I live near a rail line that brings in Chinese made goods from Long Beach Harbor to the rest of the U.S. and those big freight trains used to run by me every hour or so. They haven’t for over a week.… Read more »
The Democrats discussed removing Trump based on psychological reasons and now they push for their own candidate who has dementia.
Handicapped people’s rights are officially over the top. If you can get a large fine for parking in a handicap spot, when will we be fined for sitting on the handicapped crapper in a public restroom?
So you’re not the only one to notice. Here in So Cal I’m watching every major intersection, and all the parking lots get rebuilt, because one wheelchair ramp per corner is inadequate. It seems they now need two per corner, plus talking “walk” signal buttons, plus yellow pads for the blind. The standard for ADA compliance is apparently a morbidly obese, blind quadriplegic, unaccompanied in a mouth stick electric wheelchair. Doing this involves moving all four traffic signals about six or eight feet. And all the street lights as well. How easy and cheap is it to move a traffic… Read more »
I prefer the old days when people were humble in their oppression. Handicapped and their activist non-handicapped (physically) allies have become bullies. Case in point: the strip mall businessman who works hard for a living while trying to make enough just to pay commercial rent. Activists driving expensive personal cars stop and examine the property looking for deficiencies in order to extort money for violations as they post official written threats to the businesses, minority owned businesses employing minorities, mind you.
Most people in America (at least its middle, upper-middle, and to a lesser extent, the working classes) know very little about human nature, or what kind of impulses (and people) get unleashed when the center does not hold. If SHTF and there are riots and the power grid goes out, the only order will be local and organic, so defacto conservative. But if the kids (especially the girls) have imbibed too much of the fantasy/SF tropes pushed by Woke culture, I can see some girls in armor suits trying to cosplay as heroines and getting raped and killed by the… Read more »
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Something else happened to change Warren along the way. The Two Income Trap is not the rantings of the insane harpy we saw campaigning for President. Unless she really didn’t write the book and someone else did all the heavy work of putting it together and let her put her name on it because she was a Harvard professor.
That’s the direction I’m leaning. Everything about her life points to increasing madness. That book is a wild exception. I’m thinking others did the work, let her take credit, in order to make her a viable political figure. Look at how Obama’s handlers developed him from a young age. It happens.
My thought is her ex-husband could be a considerable source of clarification on her mind, but he would never do that to her for obvious reasons. Based on her retelling of that part of her life, it sounds like he would have been much happier if she had personally wanted to avoid the Two Income Trap and stayed home with their kids.
I read somewhere on the Internet (so it must be true) that her book was ghost written. It is actually quite perceptive.
This explains my confusion when she went off the rails on the campaign trail.
When I was exiled from the hive I wandered like a lost soul. The libertarians and NRx might have appealed except for their people. All they were, were shitlib lefties in reverse. Lord knows I tried to get comfortable with the cucks… But they had that wet/dry argument too… and both sides of that lost. I’m not saying that will happen to the dissidents… But it bears keeping a sharp eye on. I like that the dissidents don’t shy away from honest debate about anything. They are perhaps the ONLY movement with an honest intellectual playing field in North America… Read more »
It’s not so much that Liz Warren lost her marbles, it is that she never had any marbles in the first place. She spent her life as a coddled, spoiled, cozy law professor (not even an actual lawyer, but a /professor!), a theorist and dreamer, to whom nobody ever said No — and she did not enter politics until she was already old and out of touch. And when she finally did enter politics it was in the genteel senate. She never got in the ring and brawled, so she had no scars, no calluses, no bruises, no instincts. She… Read more »
The video of her invading a diner and trying to engage the people there, and they looking at each other disgustedly like “why is she doing this?”, is classic. The cool thing is that it is on the Internet, just like her “git me a beer“ kitchen video, with little black Sambo in the corner. This stuff will never go away.
Some thoughts: Biggest risk of this virus is not short term impact but the fact that it is on track to be endemic meaning that we will need a vaccine every year as we do for the flu. This is because it is a fast mutant RNA virus which is more infectious than influenza, is airborne and is stable outside of the host for several days. From a definitional standpoint it already fits the criteria of pandemic (even though the World Zionist Health Organization doth protest too much). In terms of hysteria, feminization, I tend to disagree. Women are petty… Read more »
I have to agree with Tucker on Warren. She went nuts when she had to adopt identity politics to have any shot at winning the nomination. Heck every other candidate with the exception of a couple mainstream types adopted a similar platform. The ones who didn’t vanished in short order.
The other thing that doomed her candidacy was that she is a thoroughly unlikable person. She radiated phoniness and being a ball busting scold that is so typical among female Democratic pols.
Yesterday my crazy sister-in-law was texting my wife about how sad she was that Warren dropped out. My wife did not know how to reply since she regards Warren as a dangerous lunatic, but doesn’t want to cause family strife.
There is something odd going on with Fuentes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oaOVbQoDg8
There is a strong crabs in the bucket quality to the anti-optics crowd. Another reason why I tend to think they are not arguing in good faith.
There is a strong hanging out with gay cat boys while claiming to be a traditionalist Catholic quality to Fuentes. Another reason why I don’t think he is what he purports to be.
Young people say and do all sorts of goofy things. This is why I don’t think your side of the debate is honest. By the standards you hold Fuentes, the entire alt-right should be condemned.
If you happened to read my previous post Chd7y, you would see I didn’t exactly lavish flowering praise on the fruitier variety of our gender.
This being said I don’t care if Nick Fuentes takes big black dick up the ass with a cat costume every day.
He’s handled the optics better than gangs of grown men. We all have our disagreements with each other, but for a 21 year old, he has handled the pressure and has identified the problems very well.
Gay accusations are t enough to bring him down.
I’ve met and spent time with him twice now. I know people close to him. My gaydar does not go off. He’s just a young guy, maybe a little sheltered, but that’s it. Young people say and do goofy things. It’s part of being young.
As a recovering, actually at this point recovered, former lifelong Democrat I look with both bemusement and horror at the current moment. If the Democrats actually proceed with Biden as their nominee our society has finally run off the cliff and is in a free fall into the heart of darkness and there can be no illusion of turning back.
Brilliant turn of a phase by Z, “when society was run by men, indulging female empowerment was a luxury good.” Luxury goods require that we have the other bases covered. We no longer do.
Just yesterday or the day before I saw a story of some kids playing with toy guns outside of their house and a person driving by saw them and called the police. The boys were subsequently arrested. 11yo boys arrested outside of their own home for playing with toy guns, presumably some cops and robbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TSxsnVGik When I was that age we were making bottle cap guns out of a 2×4 or whatever we could find, a rubber band and a clothespin. We had somewhat cool/real looking toy guns, caps to make the bang and plastic pellets that would launch… Read more »