Note: I have a new post up on Taki today about the Church of Covid. Good to see the headline writer finally took my advice. I also have a new post up behind the green door on the 80’s comedy Back to School.
An old criticism of liberal democracy was that the system would inevitably become less stable, as each election would result in a wild swing in direction. The people would support position X in one election and then support position Y in the next election, with X and Y being opposite positions on some issue. We are getting a sense of that now with Biden’s handlers promising a reversal of Trump’s policies, which were allegedly a sharp break from the policies of predecessors.
One reason for this is that liberal democracies are bourgeois societies, in which the old instinct to dress up interests in objectivity and civic virtue remain strong. It is considered immoral for a group to press their interests in a purely partisan way, so everyone insists that science and the public good are the motivations. The deliberate destruction by the elites of the civic life of societies is not just a naked attempt to remake the world in their image, but an effort to build back better.
Bourgeois objectivity, however, does not work as a brake on the partisanship that comes with democracy. Instead, it works to magnify it. Every issue, instead of being a fight between interested parties, is a fight for eternal truth and cosmic justice. Voting for party X is not about where your bread is buttered, but about where you stand in the moral hierarchy, relative to the people in party Y. The polarization we are seeing today is not about practical politics, but about good versus evil.
Of course, in order to arrive at the point of bourgeois partisanship, you first must arrive at a post-scarcity society. When the threat of extinction is no longer obvious, the people are free to indulge in fantasy and leisure items. In the Cold War, the West avoided this state because the threat of nuclear war was real. The sober-minded had the primary duty of keeping the frivolous under control. Once that was removed, the frivolous and insane were free to run wild through society.
The result is a strange paradox. The issues that rise to the top are increasingly trivial and ridiculous, but the partisanship around them becomes more intense. Two men playing house is a fact of life going back to the dawn of man, but suddenly the embrace of this became a defining issue. If that was not ridiculous enough, what followed was a parade of men in dresses demanding we play along with them. Then it was people with a list of bizarre pronouns demanding validation.
At some level, the bourgeois partisan knows this, but instead of acknowledging the obvious, the demand for public judgement becomes more intense. In the Cold War, the Left had get out the vote drives, by which they meant rigging the voting in major urban areas. Otherwise, there was a quiet understanding that voting should be left to those who pay attention. Today, voting is a moral duty and we are endlessly reminded of it in the months before an election. The truth must be decided.
This is probably the only thing about liberal democracy that makes sense. If everyone votes, then the winners can claim a mandate. If Trump voters, for example, realized the vote was being rigged and boycotted the election last week, the winners could not legitimately claim a mandate. This used to be a tactic in low-trust societies ruled by an elite seeking legitimacy at the ballot box. In modern societies, everyone assumes the truth is fifty-percent-plus-one, so everyone must vote.
Here is where we stumble into another paradox of liberal democracy and another source of partisan anger. All human societies have elites and those elites control the institutions of the society. In theory, popular forms of government either check the power of the elites or place real power into the hands of the people. In one variation, the powerful propose and people dispose. In the other variation the people both propose and dispose. Democracy is about the public will.
In reality, voting is entirely meaningless in a liberal democracy, as the elites control public policy exclusively. The winning side in 1992 thought they were getting a folksy John F Kennedy, when they just got a skeevy Bush I. Bush voters thought they were getting a dim version of Reagan, but got Lyndon Johnson. The people celebrating Biden think they will get reeducation camps and proscription lists, but instead they will end up with a less coherent version of Bush II.
As the researchers in this 2014 study found, those elites that are a permanent feature of all societies control public policy in a liberal democracy, just as they do in every other form of government. In liberal democracy, however, the people are blind to this reality, instead believing that the market place of democracy decides. If elite opinion tracked public opinion, no one would mind, but when elite opinion is at war with the public, it becomes another source of partisan rage.
This leads to the final paradox of liberal democracy. The most rational strategy for minority interests is to withdraw consent, as this strips some legitimacy from the winner of the democratic process. Instead, partisans become more intensely partisan after each electoral defeat and every betrayal. In two years, those red MAGA hats will be a bloody shirt inspiring partisans to vote for the GOP, who will promptly betray those voters at the first opportunity. The anger will keep rising.
The reason that the world appears to be going mad is that liberal democracy, without the brake of thermonuclear war, is a runaway train of partisan fury. Instead of disputes being settled at the ballot box, each election intensifies the dispute. Haldane famously observed that fanaticism is man’s greatest invention. That’s because it is his greatest weapon. As partisan fury rises in liberal democracy, the fanatic becomes the most valued participant. It becomes rule by fanatic.
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Maybe the importation of replacements can end, now that the ((())) & team can steal in plain sight with no consequences. Never will they lose another election, starting with GA senate runoff.
My spell checker doesn’t seem to be working, is it “Amerazuela” or “Amerizooela” ?
I believe it is spelled “Zimbabwe”
I think there’s a glitch in my Apple synaptic implant from the C-19 vaccine, keeps flipping everything to biden
C’mon, man!
No worries we’ll get you fixed right up! The WSJ leaks miraculously the Monday after election that Pfizer’s poison, er um, vaccine, for the common cold, er um, covid, has a 90% efficacy. Amazing!
Take your water vaccine, and the col– I mean covid disease is magically cured!
I have not looked it up, but if so (90% effective) I believe it would make it unique among vaccines.
Will be interesting to watch all the Whole Foods progs who have kept their precious kids off of the evil and toxic GMO apples over the years line up to have them injected with a secret sauce that genetically modifies their cells to pump out sars rna.
and that 90% has 20 footnotes and qualifiers in very small fine print
Read that the vaccine hurts like a mo-fo. It’s been known to happen with some vaccines.
Ask any Gulf State Liberation/democracy spreader/ freedom enhancing team warrior about his anthrax shot and watch them wince.
AND it’s be ready by December, as they are rushing everything to be ready for Biden ASAP (or before the courts reverse his “win”)
Well, since the disease doesn’t exist, I’m surprised it isn’t 100% They could get the same results with Coue’s “Everyday in every way I’m getting better and better.”
Proof that what matters to them isn’t “science” but virtue signaling.
It was the smallpox that was gross.
That too. All that is needed is a sycophant MSM and the disease disappears. The MSM will carry water for the explanation of continuing cases—and a few deaths now and then—as those poor unfortunate 10%, or the assholes refusing vaccine who deserve such. But all you “smart” people who took the vaccine are safe and can go out again thanks to Biden and his decision to follow “science”.
Yep, people are that stupid.
Is there a vaccine for leftism yet? Who is working on this?
Stanley Tool Manufacturing, Inc.
Mssrs. Smith and Wesson are hard at it.
I thought that was developed long ago by Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Looking forward to the GOP rats losing both Georgia seats in a landslide.
I always thought that if mass immigration was going to end it would have to be at the hands of the Democrats
Only Nixon could go to China?
Yep, something akin to that
I agree and it will only happen when unemployment tops a certain level as wages continue to stagnate.
Makes sense; a resurgence of Bernie style working class solidarity on the Left would be as likely as populism overcoming Chamber of Commerce open borders on the Right. Best to look at all options.
Or perchance Amer Rouge.
I really ought to know better by now, but could not resist a dig at a co-worker waffling on about how ‘Biden was going to undo all the ills Trump caused’. I played dumb, asking what the result of the election was, she looks at me, dumbfounded: Dude, how can you not know that?! It is the most important election in the history of the US! Me: So, who won… apparently? Her: Biden! Me: That’s the creep who grooms under age girls, isn’t it? I must say, partisanship is most amenable to my character. I don’t even need to think… Read more »
Yeah this is true I do actually understand how the leftist felt four years ago now because I am totally over people in my own family. Mostly, because my state does not have a mask a mandate so I don’t have to walk around the park with a mask on. I’m making sure all my Lefty family members know that Biden wants Nationwide mask mandate because that is actually something we will all feel
Hammer them with the fact mask waste is piling up in the environment and the fibers are piling up in our lungs:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/06/face-masks-a-danger-to-our-planet-our-children-ourselves/
Start screaming about, “murdering Gaia,” when they try to push back on the environmental angle.
Ah, hammering them, yes. But with sarcasm, a heavy variety. Just had this exchange with a family member living in a retirement community (word for word): Arc: Hey, congrats! Person: For what? Arc: Your man Biden. I saw on tee vee that he received the largest vote count of any presidential candidate in American history! I am bleeding red, white and blue right now. I could not be more proud. Person: I am going to [conduct typical retirement community activity] with my Biden fan friends right now. You know Doctor [other person] and his son. His son is 48 (non… Read more »
And one of them is actually going to feel tangible harm. I’ve been giving one of my leftist relatives money since this all started. We’re in the same business but they’re much less competent than I am so their business has suffered a lot. If there’s another lockdown that’s it they don’t get another dime from me
I should compliment you on your charity but my gut response is ARE YOU NUTS? All you get from charity (verbal or financial) is a kick in the teeth.
Yeah
Yes. Nothing breeds resentment like charity.
I’m in a similar position. My older sister is in her late 50s, and has not had a job in about 20 years. She has health problems she uses as an excuse, but could work somewhere like Walgreens. But she is one of those people that just can’t seem to get or hold a job. She is very leftish and convinced my parents to vote Biden. Thankfully we are in a red state so it made no difference, but it still rankles. My parents give her about $2K/mo from their pensions. They don’t need the money and don’t want to… Read more »
I still will not wear the mask. Unfort this will make Bezos even richer. Or else perhaps the mom and pop Mexican groceries here. The Mexicans have great meat and produce, and they will let you inside to buy without a mask and nobody will call them on it. Mexican alderman, you know.
I know I am. I’ve checked out of politics completely now. I’ll only get involved once the shooting starts. For now I’m stockpiling ammo, beer and popcorn and stropping my bayonet across the whetstone.
Soon…sooooon, my Precious……
Agreed. None-the-less, I detest those leftard dirtbag bast**** & bit**** gloating and rubbing our faces in it. Old somedunce and his treepers say it creates a cold anger – mine is more like a white hot hatred. I need to take a chill pill…
Same here
Officially done with this garbage
Nothing will change the fact that I am literally being swarmed by weird people from the third world, so no need to involve myself
Dropping out time for Falcone. Buy some land. Build a tennis court, God willing. Whack balls for a few years, get a tan, do some farming, fishing. May have a grandchild in a few years. Walk the farm with him or her. My middle finger to the world
What happened after that?
Her: …
Three seconds later, eye roll and
Her: No, that’s not true… That was something the Trump administration put out to the press. What it was was just that some of the girls got a bit uncomfortable because he got too close. It was innocent… I never knew you were a Trump fan..
Whether I was a fan of Trump or not, I have been outed. Because bad feelings.
“I’m not a Trump fan, I just #BelieveAllWomen. Don’t you believe all women?”
(staircase wit, I know).
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The dumb fucks don’t realize that they’re going to own every fuckup for the next four years.
CovId deaths up this week? Thanx Biden and the asholes that selected him.
Terrorist attack? Thanx asshole that voted Biden.
Unemployment up? Thanx d-douchebag.
Im going to enjoy this.
Communists never own anything. All bad is from public enemies. Those people never wake up. In former Soviet Union it is clearly visible. Even those commies who ere sent to Gulag and somehow survived, did not change their opinion not even a little. For commies Donald damage lasts forever so now they have excuse for problems for next 200 years.
Yep. Out-running Orange Man Bad is like out-running Whiteness. Distance from original sin only compounds the toll to be collected.
Exactly how I am seeing it
With every Biden/Harris screw up and I am gong to LAY into every liberal like no tomorrow
They are going to regret every saying they supported those two grifters
The dumb fucks don’t realize that they’re going to own every fuckup for the next four years.
They’re going to own everything for much, much longer. In two years, they will control Congress and have begun packing the courts. A million Chinese will have newly arrived to “help” us restore our manufacturing base (cough). Our IP laws and enforcement mechanisms will be detuned to contribute towards innovation that addresses climate change.
And we will begin hearing a lot of mandarin and chinese political expressions gradually being inserted into our daily lives.
All of that stuff will be blamed on Cheeto Hitler.
Go deeper. Once upon a time, the weak and the stupid died young, did not reproduce, and the strong and the smart dominated the gene pool. And the species rose to the top of the life pyramid. Modern civilization and affluence has entirely reversed that dynamic, and all the maladies mentioned in this post are a consequence of ongoing and worsening DNA pollution. You cannot talk or vote your way out of this dilemma. At some point, malicious and corrupt government smashes headlong into peon fury and desperation. During the French Revolution, this unleashed chaotic destruction and imperfect culling. We… Read more »
Do you think so? I have always thought that the race issue trumps dysgenic issue hands down. In fact, most of the people I have spoken to seem OK with the fact that we’re more cowardly and to a degree more stooopider than in the past. The topic seems far easier to bring up that race.
Race is simply the manifestation of evolutionary selection in a particular environment. Black people (Negroids) possess the traits that worked well in the environments of central and southern Africa (this includes skin pigmentation). Caucasians possess traits that worked well in the Caucasus Region of SE Europe and SW Asia. DNA pollution takes the entire species down, and does not discriminate based on race. None of us are well adapted for the modern man-made environment of civilization in which many peoples are intermixed in places where they are not well suited.
This is why DNA pollution/dysgenic (I assume I have not conflated the two) is easier to bring up in public… It’s not racist!
That situation exists among animals, too. Whitetail deer in Maine tend to be bigger than whitetail deer in Florida. Leopards and jaguars in the tropics are often black. Arctic animals are often white. Wild animals are typically more intelligent and hardier than their domesticated brethren. Difficulties arise when an animal or human who evolved to exist under certain conditions moves to a different one. The high rate of skin cancer among Whites in northern Australia is one example. During the era of genuine White Gentile supremacy in this country, blacks to some degree adopted White attitudes and behaviors. With the… Read more »
Bingo! But as to speaking of race. From my point of view in this berg it is far more common to talk of such on the radio. Not as common to talk of specific minorities, but one hears of “Whites” having problems specific to them and their plight all the time. Prior to a few years ago, such problems were usually spoken about as being universal in nature. It was never Whites vs “others”. It is now.
Wondering if the ratings for Political Cesspool begin to skyrocket
I had forgotten all about them until Greg Johnson was a guest the other day, I found out about through Counter Currents.
Actually for me, a little hard to believe that Political Cesspool is on an actual radio channel / Liberty Network.
Sounds a lot like Spandrell’s Bio-Leninism or the spiteful mutant concept.
I have to say that I have never cared for the Bio-Leninism. It’s always struck me as tarted up elite theory, which is perfectly fine and does not require tarting up.
I have tried to understand Spandrell’s definition and use of the term Bioleninism, and it always strikes me as obtuse, vague, and contradictory. So not much use in rational discussion or reasoning.
I thought your points were a decent summary!
Anyone that takes a simple concept and makes it significantly harder to understand by using esoteric and arcane academic language is not someone you want to hitch your wagon to whatsoever. They are either elitists or posers, it is lose-lose. (See: Curtis Yarvin)
You just said it better than I tried some months back
Which is what I feel about Kevin MacDonald, although I agree with him. Wraps everything up in academic jargon where no one needs any of that to know what shitbirds are the ((()))
Someone on this site in just the past week was saying that evolution didn’t work on a timescale short enough to include peoples’ selection of socio-political organization. I didn’t know how to respond without being rude.
The French managed to shave off everything to the right of the Jacobins for 230 years (and counting) with the National Razor. The Russians managed to literally r@pe to death whatever was left of the national character of Germany. The Mongols, etc. etc. Vizzini, whoever was saying that is historically illiterate, or maybe just regular illiterate.
Wasting disease is found in deer populations that inhabit man-made environments devoid of predators as opposed to their natural environment of routine culling predation. This change happened in a relatively short time span. Why should our species be any different?
They should read “The 10,000 Year Explosion”.
Agree. One assumes a needed change to DNA in order to cause a socio-political change downstream. Why not an underlying—existing—DNA proclivity now asserting itself due to environmental change? Epigenetic? Here’s a somewhat similar example. We have several Indian Nations in AZ. Hopi tribe is perhaps the worse people in the world for obesity and diabetes. 200 years ago, they had none of these maladies. What happened? Reservations, change from hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and 20th century processed fatty, sugary faux food. This has been researched, even written about. Last I heard however, those brave enough to research such have been cast into… Read more »
Since I’ve broken the taboo and not been banned, I will press my case. If we continue down this road of ever-increasing technology based complexity and faux (read unearned) affluence, the species (in theory) will homogenize into a few archetypes and morph into an insect-like hive model. This will likely include an elite ruling cadre, a sycophant coterie (MSM), an entropic bureaucracy, worker drones, and Jackboots to keep the drones in line. And this change must occur slowly and incrementally lest the peasants revolt when their future becomes apparent.
Not too long ago I had a conversation with my sister-in-law where she made a remark like “huh, that cold war was a pretty big deal wasn’t it?” “WTF?”, I thought, but then realized she was just young enough that she didn’t sit through endless nuclear war apocalypse-porn movies (Terminator being perhaps the most well known), school teachers talking about how Reagan was going to blow up the planet, and a legitimate fear that some political situation in within the opaque Soviet government would cause them to pour across the West German border to put an end to their political… Read more »
I think that’s one reason for the growing support for communism and avowed atheism throughout the West. A tail-end Boomer like myself remembers the “Evil Empire” and “godless communism.” Communism’s promises never panned out, what with long lines to purchase consumer goods, gulags and high-ranking individuals fleeing with just the clothes on their backs. There’s more of an obviously racial element involved, as well. Jews have always been heavily involved in communism (Hillaire Belloc called bolshevism “a jewish movement” in his book The Jews), but there are reinforcements coming from other non-White groups. I think that blacks had no interest… Read more »
The cancelling of Solzhenitsyn was due to his unmentionable association of Jews with Soviet communism. But what would Solzhenitsyn know about it, right?
Approval required for my comment about the great Soviet dissident? Really?
Maybe the J word? Moderation filter has been a little touch in the last 72 hours just FYI. I got flagged for some unknown reason in another post so it isn’t just you.
Don’t have links and details, but quite a few of the more successful blacks (i.e. in movies and education) were very attracted to Marxism in the early years. Check out Paul Robeson. Marxism was/is the product of an aggrieved race so it suits noggers to a T.
Blacks have a natural affinity for prison and plantations, should explain the fondness for communism
“…in the end victory defeated us.” That’s a good way of staying it, Sandmich. It ties in with the point that having a powerful, long term enemy keeps a society sober, focused, and impatient with corrosive nonsense. It keeps decision making in the hands of men, and those generations that are mature and experienced, but still actively engaged in life. That’s the opposite of our present age, governed by the immature (not necessarily young) and those who’ve entered sentimental, even self-centered old age (and soon senility). I would add that the prosecution of the Cold War is also implicated in… Read more »
I admit that I stole the line from The Dark Knight (“Peace has cost you your strength, Victory has defeated you”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdM46G984vw
Given the not subtle message of the movie, the line probably means exactly what we think it means.
For several months I’ve thought the deluge of zombie popular media during the past two decades was predictive programming for Beer Flu.
I can’t believe Taki was changing your headlines. You’re actually a master of the pithy headline
According to Jim Goad, Taki’s daughter is Editor-in-Chief and has a nasty habitat of doing things just like that. (asserting herself, she be)
I dropped Takimag, which I used to enjoy, once the unworthy wench assumed the throne. But I would still drop serious coin on the opportunity for cocktails and stories with Taki himself. He’s the last of a breed.
This is why it is OK that Trump lost (fair or by cheating, doesn’t matter). He has served his purpose, which was exposing the hatred the elites have for commoners and the complete corruption of the system. There is not much more he would have done over the next 4 years. The enemy owns the system and they are progressing with or without their man the the top political post.
The dissident right now needs reinvigorate itself and take advantage of this exposure.
I’m coming around to this view. Everything got worse under Trump, not necessarily his fault, and now we have 2 odious creatures who will inadvertently or maliciously reveal the plot and red pill normiecons whether they like it or not. Plus Trump could actually follow thru with the network rumor which, God willing, isn’t a gatekeeping limited hangout. We’ll know if Z-man and Jared Taylor get their own prime time show.
One interesting aspect is that Netanyahu congratulated Biden. Trump has since unfollowed Netanyahu on Twitter. The Israel worshipers at FreeRepublic are beside themselves.
Netanyahu thinks that a Biden-Harris presidency would be better for Israel? It gives the lie that the Democrats are anti-semitic. A few are, but the Party as a whole is staunchly pro-Israel. Democratic politicians are bought just like Republican politicians are. AIPAC would lose influence under the Democrats to JStreet. Either way, Israel always wins.
The Israel worshippers must be torn between their fidelity to the US and what they thought was our bestest friend Israel. They loved Netanyahu, too.
Trump wouldn’t give him the wars in Syria and Iran that he wants. Look at who’s advising Biden now, and who actively worked to sabotage his reelection. It’s a “who’s who” of Bush-era neocons and Israel-first partisans.
Netanyahu’s advisors believe Biden-Harris have won and this result will sustain. Trump is yet another has-been to bibi.
Trump unfollowed both Netanyahu and another Israeli politician. At present, these are the only folks that he has unfollowed and they are both Israelis.
Say whut?! You do realize that if you refuse to participate in the sham elections, you have no right to complain about anything, right?
Why? Do you have to take some meth to be able to complain about druggies in the city?
I was just being a wise ass, bro.
Excuse my density. Sarcasm is sometimes not obvious in written form, though in the context of this blog it should have been…
Agreed. Our esteemed blog host has not only missed the mark here, he’s screwed the pooch and shat the bed! If all a vote is, is a flip of the middle finger at Lefty… yeah, I’ll take half a day off work and go down and vote. If all it does is counter some pink haired 400 lb. lesbian‘s vote… it’s a good deal. If all it does is make it harder for some low IQ black baboon work harder to rig the vote…I’m in!👍 Yes, those cretins ARE evil people and we shouldn’t dismiss that or minimize it. They’re… Read more »
“The people celebrating Biden think they will get reeducation camps and proscription lists, but instead they will end up with a less coherent version of Bush II.”
And just a few hours ago, Bush II called Biden and congratulated him. These people are worse than we CAN imagine.
They’re all part of the same fraternity, man. Which I’m sure you already knew, but I had to say it anyhow.
Funny, though; can’t you imagine Biden receiving that call while having one of his episodes where is brain is starved for oxygen like he’s in the “death zone” on Everest or K2. I don’t know why but thoughts like that come to mind and make me LOL!
And these people are all on Team Globohomo, Bush II, Biden, HRC, Romney, etc. Except the normies look at them where they’re all at Bush I’s funeral, for instance, getting along, and say how great it is that they’re not enemies. Yep, working together and cooperating with each other, for more immigration and more outsourcing and more war.
And these people are all on Team Globohomo, working together and cooperating with each other, for more immigration and more outsourcing and more war.
stage 1 – turn whole country into california
stage 2 – take guns away
stage 3 – open season on white people(whites better be gone by then)
I read that Dick Cheyney has been giving Biden foreign policy advice. That can’t be going over well with the hardcore left. They might move up their timetable on deposing Joe.
Steve Sailer talks about the Coalition of the Fringes turning into a circular firing squad. Normie-Dem Biden won’t go nearly as far as AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Pressley etc (the Squad) would like, although I’m sure a Prez Kamala will be satisfactory to them.
Seems to me that the circular firing squad aspect of the left, while real, in the sense that cannibalism is a natural attribute of leftism, it seems to fall short of actually helping or advancing the interests of our side. It offers amusement and I suppose a speed brake on the crazy train, but stops short of delegitimizing their grip on actual levers of power. Perhaps its iterative. Like a PCR test. And after 35 years – or maybe generations, it finally flips positive.
I used to think the dissidents were too hard on Dubya… but after that… they sure got that one right, I will admit. Unfortunately many of my fellow yesterday men are like that…
As someone who voted for Bush, I’m struggling to come up with a single thing he got right. There’s probably no other figure in my life that I’ve done a bigger 180 on.
Yeah I was thinking earlier about how spirited an opinion I had on the Bush vs. Kerry election, what a dolt. Too many years of listening to Limbaugh I suppose…
Same. And I voted for the POS for governor as well. I’ve flipped on Nixon too – my leftist childhood led me to hate him for ‘reasons’; now I despise him for the opening to China, the EPA, etc.
It’s worse than merely being mistaken: he lied. There were no high-tech caves in Tora-Bora. There were no WMDs in Iraq (the Niger docs were proved to be forgeries.) The anthrax came from the US, etc. Oh, and it took 14 years for the redacted 28 pages from the JIST report re: Saudi involvement in 9/11 to be released. And people who were at ground zero continue to die horrible deaths after he sent the Whitman woman from the EPA to say the air quality there wasn’t dangerous.
I always thought Bush the Lesser was a decent, moral human being. But then he started palling around with Clinton, and joking about them being brothers. This is a man who likely raped a woman, engaged in routine sexual assault and probably had sex with minors on Epstein’s island. And yet Bush II looked down on Trump as being immoral. Yes, they are worse than we can imagine.
Facebook was relentlessly gaslighting about how secure American elections are and suppressing your most basic right-wing memes. Normies are now abandoning Facebook and Twitter for Parler. While not the best choice, and the only good choice will be some sort of blockchain-based censorproof forum, a lot of what Facebook and Twitter are tasked with now is giving legitimacy to an obviously corrupt system. If even your basic civnat is leaving the hostile digital sphere for another, two parallel societies will slowly form. If the rural-urban divide keeps becoming more stratified, people will continue to segregate until a good portion of… Read more »
Gab is a better alternative than Parler.
Agreed and I love Torba’s work, but Gab is not normie friendly.
Why not?
The average user is too hard-right for your average mom with a few kids who is right wing enough to hate Facebook but emotionally not ready for full race-realism.
Because normies cannot handle free speech. They want their comfort blanket.
I already find it difficult to believe my local good ‘ol boy rural sheriff will participate in any scheme to round up or disarm dissidents, and the state police simply aren’t capable of going door to door here in the hills, no less the feds. At some point, big parts of the country are already or will become ungovernable by the far-away urban elites. Even stuff like the mask mandates are all but ignored.
Like Soviets, we put on acts of official compliance when The Man is looking our way, but flaunt him in private.
Soros will just pick em off 1 by 1 they’ve already proven they can rig any election. Plus refugee resettlement and mass immigration will resume, rigging the vote that way too
My entire county has only about 35,000 people but you could lose most big cities within its boundaries. At some point you start to reach “community” level and Soros’ tricks simply won’t work. The sheriff isn’t a personal friend of mine, but there’s only one or two degrees of separation.
Soros will just pick em off 1 by 1 they’ve already proven they can rig any election. Plus refugee resettlement and mass immigration will resume,
plus they wanna destroy the economy to get everyone hooked on social credit/food stamps, so that the population can become dependent on the government.
Think of how uninformed Normie is now. Wait until the next level of internet censorship kicks in.
We need a smart secession movement. The feds do not have anywhere near enough people to handle more than a small (single digit) percentage not cooperating. Their major means of control is the banking system and, I suppose, the no-fly list.
It’s going to be barter, bullion, and bills for Red areas going forward.
Cheap and easy air travel will be over.
All finance, gov regulation / taxation, and insurance are self-enforcing systems entrapping White people. Coupled with the general population’s sheep-like behavior ensures these systems enjoy unchallenged compliance.
I keep expecting the harsh reality of the NOW to shake folks awake. But people love their chains it seems.
It is telling how the “vote” is like everything else in the end: data. Notice how quickly how the precious kernel of Democracy is reduced to two states of being: media narrative and big data. The story is about the will of the people but the fight will be made into one of data. We don’t own our data. The end. All those votes were googled into property of one corporation or the other. Once cast into the system, digitized into electrons of liberty, the end user agreement says who owns it. The adjudication of what comes next then becomes… Read more »
I could force mandatory buyback compliance for any registered gun owner within a few days at max. skeptic, below, mentioned this but didn’t expand on why. 1) Take list of registered firearm owners 2) Take list to banks 3) Tell banks to FREEZE accounts until compliance with new federal law is accepted 4) Cucked and pozzed BLM supporting (((Banks))) gladly comply w/ new federal mandate 5) You are now shut off from your money hence your livelihood. 6) The vast majority of people even ‘muh Constitution’ and ‘muh guns’ are f-cking LARPers who will go along to get along 7)… Read more »
No, I don’t think it sounds far-fetched, at all. I have planned for dealing with that.
When having a “boating accident” with your guns, just make sure they “sink” on someone’s property other than your own.
Me too. Problem being I am more likely than you are, Vizzini, to use one of my firearms for self-defense given where I live. That’s when my plans break down because I will be sent to die in prison and forfeit my assets for non-compliance. But if I do not use my firearms then what was the point in having them and incurring the associated risks?
Apex, I was just about to comment on your post line by line as to why such was unconstitutional and how it would not stand up to judicial scrutiny and such.
Then I caught myself, like an alcoholic almost falling off the wagon. 😉 Then I reminded myself, “This is not 1950! The Constitution is long gone.”
Bad habits are hard to break.
Compsci, kudos to you for how far you’ve come. You used to respond reflexively in that old fashion (my husband did the same), but you’ve definitely learned. It’s hateful and horrible to have to teach oneself and one’s children that everything is a lie and nothing save God can be trusted, but reality is.
Just wait until they get rid of cash altogether. They’re already making those noises.
The oscillation increases in both frequency and intensity before the bridge collapses.
Aeroelastic flutter is a cruel wind.
Yup, the swings get wider and faster until someone or something steps back to let things settle. In this frenzied age, who is going to step back? In the absence of cooler heads, only a catastrophic collapse of the whole thing will stop the swings, which now appears to be our most likely outcome, IMHO.
LOL, just got done arguing at another comment board that it’s our DUTY to vote. What I was really doing was trolling a dude over there for reasons I won’t go into here.
I can’t really mount any good reasons for voting, but still, voting furnishes some rooting interest.
‘There’s nothing so absurd than when you repeat something often enough people begin to believe it.’
You have three minutes to name the author. Ha, ha.
Time is suspended in the realm of the absurd.
edit: Hold on hold on… the Red Queen.
Here’s my reason
Will voting make the POC go away?
Nope. Ok, so no need to vote then.
Just voting with your feet will make POC go away (for now).
The 2016 election was the first time in my lifetime (and maybe the last) that anything even close to the will of the people was addressed in rhetoric, if not in substance. The elite obviously found it horrifying and took steps to prevent a repeat. The few remaining genuinely civic-minded journalists are convinced Silicon Valley overplayed their hand by censoring The New York Post because it’s a 200 year-old newspaper. Big deal. America is a little older than that and it’s toast. They got away with it. Bob is dead. Forget it, Jack. It’s Chinatown.
Presidential elections in the US, fraud notwithstanding, have achieved the stability of a bang-bang servo.
Yes, this push for everyone to vote is interesting, but it’s related to our deification of democracy. Not voting is like not going to church in a theocracy, and we most certainly life in a theocracy.
51% of the vote = The Truth
But as I pointed out to a relative this weekend, democracy loses its legitimacy (if not its authority) when one group no longer views the entire country’s population as “their” people. At that point, democracy becomes tyranny.
“Every issue, instead of being a fight between interested parties, is a fight for eternal truth and cosmic justice.”
I am right wing because I care about my posterity’s future (and my ancestors’ sacrifice to get me here) not about moral abstractions. E.g. I think abortion is a woman murdering her baby but as an issue it’s low on the list of things that motivate me.
OK, what about your people’s posterity? If your people’s women are free to murder their unborn children, will there be a “your people” in the future? Or do you just see your ideal future as your own clan, inbred and alone, on some isolated mountaintop? What is the point of your progeny having a future, if in the process their people die out and leave them to be a hated, hunted minority? Collective defense has as a prerequisite the existence of a collective.
Yeah, actually that’s a pretty fair point.
The threat of extinction is obvious. Having overcome all other obstacles, only the grave is left. The big one.
That’s what it comes down to. Hence an election turning on a highly contagious but not very deadly virus. Those of guilty conscience see the grim reaper everywhere.
Those who’ve forgotten immortality is in their kids and grandkids, their nation.
Take heart. Brighter days are ahead, probably sooner than you think.
Boomers and leftists are terrified of death, they live an empty soulless life and there is no redemption at the end. The COVID hysteria is partly a response to that.
You can lock down society and destroy future generations but you can’t avoid the end fate – burning in the Lake of fire and eternal damnation. Leftists know what is coming even if they reject religion.
Sorry for not reading down further enough; what B125 said.
No worries; mine was more straightforward, yours was more philosophical and eloquent.
All the mcmansions and rv’s in the world won’t set their soul right. Not even a Christian issue, mostly atheist vs. Religious.
Still painting with a too broad brush.
If it wasn’t for Boomers, and some gen X’ers, you’d hear no calls to reopen society and stop the lockdowns. If I had to paint with a broad brush, it would be to point out women as a class for fearfulness and safety over reason and responsibility. But then that would wrong the strong, intelligent, thoughtful women who post here.
NAXALT. But consider:
They had the JFK assassination, I had the Reagan revolution.
They had Martin Luther King, I had Rodney King.
They had the holocaust, I had Goldman Sachs.
They expect the steal, I expect to beat the odds.
Etc.
This is not younger generations’ story. Have some faith and pass the torch!
Who’s holding back the torch? I simply remark that the follow on generations are pretty quick to blame someone else for their predicament, e.g., Boomers, and yet are—in the given example—absent from the forefront of current efforts to amend the situation. Now some of such I understand. Follow on generations neither have the resources, nor standing in technical fields and institutions as do Boomers and X’ers. But I also note for the record, it’s not Boomers attending the nightly riots that are going on for literally months in our major cities. I’ve never criticized the younger generation that I recall.… Read more »
That’s right.
One of the fundamental problems with the West is too many people living totally empty, debt-funded, keep up with the Joneses lifestyles.
These people have endless college, mortgage, auto, and credit card debt.
That’s it.
Their subconscious knows exactly how empty their lives are.
Well said, painter. Why does “some people’s” foolish desire for actual immortality, that dread fear of the hereafter that comes only from a guilty conscience and an unsaved soul, trump my children’s right to have a normal childhood and go trick-or-treating without these bizarre freaks with their social-compliance fetishes scaring them with these pointless masks? You’re going to die, Boomer. We all will, eventually. No need to take all of civilization with you.
It’s a darkness I’ll never understand.
edit: only God’s grace saves, but whatever He wills I’m at peace with.
So “truth” is now to be decided upon by a consensus of the ignorant? Sounds about right.
America, is analogous to the Roman Republic ca 150bc. Both started as a small weak states and then grew exponentially by absorbing nearby areas and then conquering far away ones. The very facto of that growth meant that it wasn’t ever a unified nation in the modern sense, but rather a collection of competing groups temporarily United by war. Until the great enemy was dispatched, Carthage in Rome’s case and the SU in ours. Free from a existential threat means free for the internal groups to attack each other for temporary supremacy. IMO that the dynamic with modern America. It… Read more »
I’m sick of hearing about this “Hammer and Scorecard” rumor being passed around It’s a hell of a cope. Although we wouldn’t have to jump to such a conspiracy theory if we had secure balloting….like Mexico. The real conspiracy is that any asshole can vote.
You think the CIA that spawned Clapper is, what, too patriotic and red-blooded American to try a Color Revolution in the USA? You think they have these tools, see this “threat” to their very existence, and just sit idly by? We know that’s not the case, see Comey and his troop of r-tards. The only question is HOW, not IF the alphabet soup “intelligence” community interfered in this election. Election voting software makes good sense: see the Law of Liberal Projection. If they are claiming Trump “hacked the election” with Rushing Collusion, you can guaran-damn-tee they actually have some sort… Read more »
The government is a comedy of errors. If any of these people had a brain they would be in the private sector. Everyone is so quick to believe some rumor about internet connected software changing votes when in reality you had millions of mail in ballots sent out like Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes, with thousands of them ending up in trash cans, on floors of mail centers, and being harvested door to door by Acorn like orgs. This election was decided when Republican state legislatures buckled to crazy mask ladies who thought, last April, that the virus would kill them at… Read more »
JR, I’m of the opinion it was “all of the above” on cheating, and it was still not enough, and they had to go to flat-out posting millions of fake votes last Tuesday night, to get their preferred result. Have you seen the county or precinct maps, where almost all of them are always red? That’s the truth of the thing, and they work 24/7 to engineer a work-around, by any and all strategies.
Trump won in a massive blowout, insane white turnout in PA gave him almost as many votes as Obama in 08. The polls that said trump was down 17% in Wisconsin now say he lost white male support. Bullshit.
Dems did massive fraud in WI and had to run it up to 90% turnout to get a 0.4% win.
You’re right, they might just be adding fake votes into the system at this point. Balls to the wall now.
Yes, I’m of the opinion that the bulk of the election fraud occurred over the four years prior to voting with the endless media drumbeat of “Bad Orange Racist!” Garbage in, garbage out.
Liberal democracy’s biggest problem is that it can never say “no.” So when man in sun dress walks into a city council meeting to demand a right, he’s never abruptly cut off with the mayor saying “get the hell out of here you degenerate!” Because liberal democracy can never say no, it’s been saying “yes” to every new program to come down the road, to a point where our private sector is crowded out (socialism..it’s already here) and where employees of bloated bureaucracies, to keep the gravy train going, perpetuate the insanity. Also, all kinds of government grants and assistance… Read more »
They never say no to the man in the sun dress but they have no problem telling the normal, sober minded citizen who dares to ask legitimate but uncomfortable questions to FOAD.
I wonder how a Biden fan would respond to “How do we know that the Russians didn’t want Biden this time?”
That’s an easy one: “Reeee! Orange Man Bad! Putin’s cockholster! QAnon! White Supremacy! Shut up!”
Brings to mind scenes of a pro football game
You have the total fanatical crazies in the stands with halloween costumes on screaming for their teams and shaking their fists in an ice storm, hurling beer bottles at the opposing team
Then you have the quiet family of four sitting as if in church all wrapped up in ski coats and mittens and a wool cap with the team logo
You would think the latter would be a better fit to decide the fate of society. But NOPE. We got the crazies making the decisions.
The hard, cold truth:
“…The sober-minded had the primary duty of keeping the frivolous under control. Once that was removed, the frivolous and insane were free to run wild through society…”
Excellent piece, Z-Man. I would argue that naked partisanship, in place of rouged up civic virtue, got its meathooks into America in the 1960s with identity politics. Sure, most white people continued believing or professing to believe, that they were voting for the objective public good. However, the reality was that every fringe group, from blacks to heaumeaux (and the roster of dysfunctionals has since grown geometrically) began agitating for their group interests, the public good be damned. And as the number of partisan loci increased, any sense of a common and comprehensive good was torn asunder. We now live… Read more »
Identity politics was ALWAYS around, only white people were fed lies by the pop culture back then to fall asleep. They saw Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and actually started fantasizing about their spoiled brat daughter meeting some Sidney Poitier and having hybrid babies with her. The drumbeat actually started in the 50’s.
I’d like to see Trump do a document dump of all the crap the federal government has been involved with – 9/11, JFK assassination, USS Liberty, the color revolutions, financial system bailouts, Pearl Harbor, Israeli spying and interference etc. Scorched earth/Samson Option.
He’s more likely to do a document dump on all the “white supremists” who’ve been shitposting on sites like this.
Oh, I’m a good old rebel, Now that’s just what I am, And for this yankee nation, I do not give a damn. I’m glad I fought a ganner, I only wish we won. I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done. I hates the yankee nation and everything they do. I hates the declaration of independence, too. I hates the glorious union, t’is dripping with our blood. I hates the striped banner, and fit it all I could. I rode with Robert E. Lee For three years, thereabout. Got wounded in four places, And I starved at point… Read more »
Amen.
“Then conquer we must, for our cause is just. Victory or death.”
Amen and God Bless !
RE your Taki article, you mention there Andrew Cuomo re his handling of the coof. He also gave a wonderful expression of what you call “build back better” ever before then. Back when Trump was shiny and new, he responded to the idea of MAGA by solemnly intoning (like a high school principal warning about something the kids may think is “cool” but really isn’t if you think about it) “America was never great.” He had to quickly walk it back (it’s likely why he never replaced Biden on the ticket) but like all “gaffes” it was the truth, at… Read more »
I don’t think with certainty we have two years to literally bloody shirts.
I am stumbling into behavior among the sober and hard minded to suggest these idiots have stirred up a Hornets nest among normies, including normie small businessmen. Esp normie small business. With no more COVID PPP in sight and our noses being rubbed in shit publicly ala dumb fraud something quietly profound has changed.
Not voting is worse than voting and being cheated. You lose any legitimacy, you can be slaughtered and none take notice. Ask the Iraqi Sunni how that worked out.
Disappearing pre-emptively when the enemies goal is disappearing you entirely is bad policy.