Note: The Monday Taki piece is up and the topic is the moral dimension to the ongoing social war. There are a few new items up behind the green door as well.
The “Black and Tans” were a police force recruited by the British into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as something like a paramilitary force or a militia during the Irish War of Independence. The majority were unemployed former soldiers who fought in the Great War, but many were criminals and even prisoners. They got their nickname from the uniforms they wore. They were supposed to help the overstretched RIC maintain order and deal with the Irish Republican Army.
In reality, they were something like a mob of thugs unleashed on the Irish population as a form of state sponsored terrorism. While most had military training, there was no code of conduct to control their actions. They were known for their brutal tactics and their indiscriminate attacks on civilians in retaliation for IRA attacks on them. Because the men recruited into the ranks were young and had few prospects at home, they were happy to do whatever was asked to the Irish population.
This is a useful historical example to keep in mind when reading this Time article on how the oligarchs rigged the 2020 election. Most people have fixated on the audacity of posting such a piece. Usually, people who commit crimes try to conceal their actions, but in this case, the principles are willing to boast about it. We are in the midst of a great purge of our institutions of anyone who questions the legitimacy of the election and here we have these people confirming many of the claims.
The motivation behind writing that piece is spite, of course. The half-hearted talk of bringing unity after the election has not fooled many people. That Time piece makes clear that there can be no unity, because there will be no peace. As the article says, the point of rigging the election was to “fortify” what they call democracy, but which the rest of us call their permanent rule. They were prepared to use any means necessary to defend their rights and privileges from the people.
One of those tactics, of course, was the unleashing of mobs onto the public starting with the highly orchestrated George Floyd incident. This was a combination of Black Lives Matter, created by the Obama administration during his second term, and ANTIFA, created and funded by the Soros organization. One group allegedly represents the interest of blacks, while the other group claims to be the inheritors of the communist revolutionary spirit. It was blacks and reds.
This is the truly remarkable aspect of that post. For months, the evidence piled up suggesting the mobs were manufactured. There seemed to be someone or a group of people funding and directing them. Early in the Time story, it boasts “In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.”
In other words, the suspicions were correct. The left-wing terror networks that operate out of not-for-profits like Pro Publica and The Bail Project, funneled cash, supplies and instructions to the mobs on the streets. That cash came from the CEO’s and their money changers in Washington, Silicon Valley and New York. This money was offered in exchange for violent street actions intended to either provoke a right-wing reaction or embarrass the Trump administration.
This sounds a lot like what the British did in Ireland. Unable to win popular support in their crusade against Trump, they unleashed thugs with official protection to terrorize the population. State sponsored terror is a well-known tactic to control a population, but it is generally considered the bane of civilized government. This is the sort of thing you expect from authoritarian societies or occupied ones. It was something the Bolsheviks did after the revolution, which is ironic given the people involved.
A century ago, the Irish Republican Army figured out that winning the hearts and minds of the people made British occupation expensive. When the British could not recruit Irish into the police force, they brought in the thugs that became known as the Black and Tans. These thugs only made it easier for the IRA to win the public over to the cause and the IRA was quick to take advantage of it. Eventually, the British had no choice but to abandon the tactic and disband the unit.
Here in modern America, the situation is different, at least for now, so the Black and Reds are seen as effective. They have not been officially disbanded by the ruling regime, even if they have been sidelined. Recently, Antifa turned up in Washington, harassing diners and fighting with the police. They will no doubt be out this summer causing trouble along with Black Lives Matter. Unlike the Black and Tans, they have not been promised pensions or positions in the government.
Even so, it is a useful comparison. The British unleashed the Black and Tans because they did not see the Irish as humans. They were a population that had to be controlled, like wild animals or maybe prisoners. The people on the other side of the razor wire and in the bunkered communities of Silicon Valley and Wall Street look at the rest of us, especially the white population, the same way. We are no longer humans, so they are free to do as they like in order to control us.
The lesson is that in a social war, every event must be used to rally support for your side and put the other side in a bad light. The Black and Tans undermined the British position with both the Irish and British public, because the IRA made them the face of the British occupation. That is what must happen here. These mobs must be closely tied to the CEO’s and politicians directing them. The Biden presidency must be known as the Antifa presidency. Make them own their golem.
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Those big piles of bricks that popped up near all these “protest” seemed pretty suspect.
So what happens after the military purge? If the worldwide hegemony of the us dollar is only back up by the military this seems like a particularly disastrous move?
No problem, based on early signs the digital yuan is being positioned as the next reserve currency.
I didn’t mean bad news for the oligarchs I meant bad news for us
I was on scene during a riot in downtown Chicago. Those piles of bricks were small pallets, that had to be staged. There was one on every corner in the loop.
Funny how there is no video of the people who delivered them.
This sounds a lot like what the British did in Ireland. A good piece, Mr Z man. But, you know what? I watched the very good film The Devil’s Own over the weekend and came to have far more sympathy with Brad Pitt’s character than any ‘traditional’ Englishman ought to. I guess, in the running time of the film, I saw many parallels with with today. In the grotesque government actions of The Troubles, somehow I saw that same malevolence today (of course not as directly violent). At the parents for dinner, I had a heated exchange with my father… Read more »
It’d be great to make the “Biden administration” the face of antifa and own their golem. Unfortunately, with their ownership and control of mass media, it doesn’t look practical. The talking heads ignore and refuse to cover antifa/blm antics truthfully, if at all, so most people are fairly clueless as to what’s going on. Combine that with spineless supposed conservatives and GOPe pussies afraid to call a spade a spade, and we’ve got our work cut out.
I don’t know:
http://antifa.com
Still seems to re-direct to the White House. Whoever did this, it’s still rather amusing at cleanly summing up what many believe.
I guess you missed the olive branch offered by Jeep through their puppet Bruce Springsteen yesterday. Our rulers and their minions are really confident now but also the most vulnerable. I hope the next few years we exploit that. Remember Eric Hoffer’s observation: The enemy—the indispensable devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. Something they need always. As you said with the Irish where the British didn’t look at them as human. We aren’t even accorded that. As you have written often they do need an enemy and any white male or Trump supported fits the bill just fine. I hope… Read more »
Maybe. But don’t count on the oligarchs going anywhere soon. You’ll have to use some pretty heavy explosives to blast them out of power.
As a Jeep owner, that ad was disgusting. I thought that old turd looked familiar. That they’d preach unity using a washed up leftard douchbag like springdick was a real slap in the face.
That Jeep ad was utterly vile.
The Antifa Regime. I like that. And it is the perfect description. I keep hoping our Sulla or Caesar will soon appear to put an end to this monstrous charade of a legal government.
“But that’s a conspiracy theory!”
Which is just another version of “that’s racist”. As long as these accusations sting, they have power over us.
The article makes it clear that elections are no longer democratic exercises, but opportunities to build the ‘proper’ narrative. It’s not the result, or that it was stolen, but what the outcome should mean, that matters. This article is an attempt to sell the result to the populace. “Yes, there were shenanigans, but it produced the right STORY (or Myth), so the result was also correct.” We live in propaganda machines now. I’ve pointed out to a few liberals that the election was clearly stolen. Their answer has been that they do not care. In their minds, as long as… Read more »
As has been mentioned before, the overreach of the oligarchs is bringing more and more normies over to our side. As I’ve written in the past, my dad, who was a Teamster and truck driver most of his life, and who voted for the magic negro twice, is safely ensconced and redpilled. I did nothing but present the information and evidence. He and his wife worry about their two beautiful white grandsons. As the Orcs and Antifa continue to perpetrate chaos this summer, more and more white people will be pushed across the River. Have a towel and a warm… Read more »
Mahomes is mixed race. Mom is white, dad is black and was a major league baseball pitcher.
Mahomes is the neo-Amerikan Coudenhove-Kalergi poster child of the glorious future.
I think that the CEOs and Business Titans are intentionally trying to provoke a backlash in the white community so that they can justify even further crackdowns. From the start the gloating over the humiliation of white men especially that’s coming out of the media has been so mind bogglingly offensive that it’s hard to imagine how it couldn’t be an intentional campaign to just insult people as a provocation. I think the fact that they have all but ceased enforcing laws in most big cities, which has led to a skyrocketing of carjackings, robberies, and murders is also part… Read more »
Why would they need to justify further crackdowns? They are already doing whatever they want. 10 months of de facto martial law, biggest wealth transfer from poor to rich in history, open borders for rapists etc.
Right?
At this point it just looks like the powerful flexing on the powerless.
Watching the Super Bowl yesterday (yes, I watched it so you didn’t have to) further nailed down the thought that this is no longer my country and culture. At least Brady and Gronkowski gave us a reprieve from all of the black, black, blackety-black.
Good point. The hardest thing to resist will be the urge to monkey dance with oligarchy’s minions on the ground they choose. And why the nonsense at the Capitol was just such a disaster. Scared the bejesus out of them, but gave them all the excuses needed to wage full out war on 80m+ people. And if you think the Bank of America thing was an isolated incident, you are wrong. I’m seeing what’s next up close and personal right now. Better adjust tactics to fit. And while some have argued the “Green Zoning” of DC was a reaction to… Read more »
Ever wondered why Irish dancing is so rigid from the hips up (but with all the very fancy foot work)? It’s because the British outlawed dancing among the Irish and if by chance they could see them through a window is just appeared as through they were simply moving about, but certainly not dancing. It was also much easier to see the Irish through their windows since the British cut down all the oak trees across Ireland.
The American version of the Black and Tans was effectively created when States enacted laws like Civil Forfeiture and the RICO Act.
Police departments and local courts quickly figured out they could used them on innocent law abiding citizens for the sole purpose of funding their departments.
Pretty pathetic that a German citizen can see what most Americans can not.
The reason the Time article was published is because the ruling class knows that we know they massively cheated, wants us to know they cheated and that we cant do a damn thing about it (so they think). They want to both rub our faces in it and get loud and vigorous agreement from the useful idiots on their perfidy. It’s commie 101. Remember when Clinton met with Lynch on that tarmac and they claimed they only talked about their grandkids? I’m betting that’s true, they only did talk about their grandkids. It’s all they needed to talk about, because… Read more »
Didn’t Biden say that ANTIFA was just an idea not an organization. And didn’t Chris Wray, the top law enforcement officer in the land say that he saw nothing suspicious or to be concerned about in the riots last summer that burned cities from coast to coast. These are men of the highest moral and ethical standards. It is really not our place to question our betters.
If one wants an idea of what’s happening, I would recommend the book “The Final Pagan Generation”, only this time we’re witnessing the dying remnants of the final Christian generation and the ascendance of wokeism.
The only problem is the new religion is performative and internally hollow. That doesn’t mean we won’t see a couple of generations of madness before it implodes though. The only question is how many whites will remain after the chaos.
The best quote from your latest Takimag column:
“the moralizer is always a narcissist. Her claims to morality are always a con to disguise her belief that she is the ideal moral being and that only she can guide society into salvation.”
I particuarly like the use of “her”, progressivism being a feminine ideology.