It is Fourth of July here in the empire and our rulers will be out congratulating themselves on their wonderfulness. The late Washington columnist Robert Novak used to say that he “loved his country but hated his government.” That was my sentiment for a long time as well. The orchestrated celebrations with politicians and other state actors always made me wince, but I could still feel the stir when hearing myths about the founding or stories about certain patriots from our history.
That last part has faded for the most part. If we take Ben Shapiro at his word, patriotism just means a love of ideas. If that is true, then there is no reason to have an emotional bond to the state or the history that created the state. The celebrations and flag waving around holidays like Independence Day are wildly out of line with his conception of patriotism. Instead, your emotional bond should be to your people, not the conditions in which they temporarily find themselves.
It is ironic how many on the Right now hold the same view of patriotism that the Left used to hold a generation ago. Just a few decades ago it was the Left that said patriotism was a con to keep people from noticing what was happening. In the Bush years, they said dissent was the highest form of patriotism. Today, they put dissenters in prison on trumped up charges. They orchestrate elaborate plots to frame people for schemes that were cooked up by state actors.
I talked about that Revolver story in the show. It reminds me of the old gag about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. “People would stop believing these conspiracy theories about Clinton if they stopped being true.” It is increasingly looking like the so-called insurrection was another hoax. Protestors did clash with cops, and they did barge into the capitol, but it was at the direction of state actors. That does not absolve them of what they did, if any of it was criminal, but it stinks, nonetheless.
It is not just the issue of patriotism. Look at how attitudes have shifted on the issue of corporate power. A generation ago the Left was the alleged enemy of big business, while the Right offered a limited defense. Bill Buckley famously said that “the problem with socialism is socialism, but the problem with capitalism is capitalists.” The roles are reversed now. The Left, which has now absorbed the Buckley Right entirely, loves big business and they use it as a weapon against the Right.
We have traveled far since the heyday of Conservative Inc. There you have a sitting senator asking corporate America to crush the democratic process. No one thinks it is odd that a Democrat is the one doing it. The entirety of corporate America is now far Left by the reckoning of the day. The same is true of sports leagues, which are happy to punish locals for getting too uppity with their masters. This Independence Day, I feel like Jeremiah Johnson in the final scene of the movie.
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My bad, I thought the Bid-Ala government was planning to celebrate “Dependence Day” this year. Or in the case of the Dear Leader, “Depends Day”.
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July 4th is just another day for me. My nation is dead and the country that remains is America in name only. I mourn its passing. That’s what July 4th will be for me this year, a time of sad remembrance. I’ve had an American flag on my front porch for years now. There’s a protocol about taking care of it that I never minded. It’s rotten now, and I just took it down with no intention of replacing it with another. I guess that’s poetic. Maybe more care could have been taken, but alas it’s too late. I don’t recognize this place anymore. It’s time to move on to something new.
Grill if you want, but I won’t condone the delusion that we have freedom or liberty when the state is occupied by alien foreigners and sociopathic liars who use the NSA to spy on journalists, the “Justice” Department to jail and torture protestors for the crime of trespassing, and the FBI to persecute the enemies of the party in power. So, we should consider leaving this holiday behind … and its symbols and traditions. They only serve to brainwash our people into accepting the legitimacy of their oppressors. One day, perhaps, Patriots Day (Jan 6th) will replace it. That day will be like a new Thanksgiving and not just a gaudy excuse for badly grilling chicken and hotdogs and popping off fireworks made in other countries. Maybe that too will be poetic.
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” So, we should consider leaving this holiday behind … and its symbols and traditions. They only serve to brainwash our people into accepting the legitimacy of their oppressors.”
Indeed. The first desertion is a mental one. Once that mentality is rock solid and conditioned with the truth of the brutal nature of The System, then other things may follow.
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If I dare say, it’s just a colony, a glorified outpost, and we always wanted it to be more than it was. I think it helps to be realistic. And I try not be hard on myself, but I have to be honest with myself, but if this country was all that great people like me wouldn’t do well in it. And better people would have risen to the top. The fact that someone like bill clinton can rise to the top, ok sure, that’s great for the American mythology where anyone can make it, great story, but look at it objectively. A country where anyone can make it, is that such a good thing? I’m starting to question the whole program.
And the beautiful thing, that’s my God given right in this country.
Happy 4th!
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Starting with Memorial Day Weekend 2020, the flag I fly is the traditional, 13-star Betsy Ross flag. I decided back then that the 50-star flag no longer stands for freedom, liberty, and my people (if it ever did). Since we’ve had 50 stars on our flag (1959), we’ve had the 1960s, Vietnam, wars for Israel, white replacement, the elevation of a sick, debauched, gay/tranny/vulgar culture, and systematic stripping of our liberties due to a fake pandemic.
I considered trying to find a 48-star flag, which would have flown from 1912 until 1959, but that would not be as obvious from the street.
Further, apparently the Betsy Ross flag triggers some mulattos and other various dark people, so that is a bonus.
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Sulla, I like the cut of your jib with this vexillological war cry. I’m partial to the Gadsen flag myself; but concerned lest any Libertarians (sound clown horn) should think me a fellow traveller. Yours might be the better solution. Bene est et gratias ago.
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I think that’s a great idea. People need symbols, both to establish themselves as part of an ingroup and outside of another. The Betsy Ross flag has just enough relationship to America to appeal to normies while also letting them distinguish themselves from others — from this regime. I think we should try to get our side to adopt that flag and discard the 50 stars. Adopting the symbols of your oppressors, the current flag, only gives them legitimacy. And coming up with another flag ad hoc won’t appeal to the masses because there is no history attached to it.
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The “An Appeal to Heaven” pine tree flag is just as subversive and triggering to Karens and white liberals (I repeat myself); but they have to go on the Google to be told why to be upset.
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I fly two flags only now. The Continental Navy Jack I hand made from proper wool bunting made by whites, not that cheap Chinese nylon garbage. In fact, I cut up a vintage 48 star flag to make it, and hand painted a coiled timber rattler on it. It felt good to take the scissors to the old flag. The other flag is a handsewn Confederate battle flag, a copy of the exact regimental battle flag my blood ancestors fought under in 1863. I also have something for anyone that dares to touch them.
Nemo me Impune Lacessit
We should take the example of Vicksburg, Mississippi from 1863 until 1945. The city was surrendered on July 4th, and for 82 years did not have an official 4th of July celebration, because they were proud Southerners, who remained defiant.
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Affluence has made us soft, and for 90% of the population, life is a boring grind. That is no way to live (or die). But fate has placed a supreme challenge in our midst and it represents an opportunity to rise above the mundane and perhaps make a final glorious statement before we keel over.
There is a way to make a real difference, and fail or succeed, it can be one-Hell-of-a-ride before joining with the sunset. The disease cells are actually quite few and a well camouflaged antibody stands a good chance of making that difference. There is no redemption in lament, but there can be jubilation in a last hurrah.
Where’s the direct download?
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Fixed!
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A lot of the old terms I now find pretty meaningless – but I suppose that is because they were also easy to either distort or co-opt. Patriotism, conservatism, traditional, all these things used to be great catch-all terms that may have described my views. They are also highly abstract, which is where the problem lies. In a highly scaled society like the US, we can really only deal with abstractions – of course we cannot know every individual in our country and ascertain exactly how we feel about them.
But the realization that a large part of the country hates you is a real eye opener. It makes you realize that perhaps your group is much smaller than it was; for example, maybe five years ago you thought your people were all 320 million in your lands, but now you know it’s probably less than a tenth of that. The upside to smaller communities is of course the strength of bonds between the members, so moving into the future that’s something that we may see more of.
But as for me now, I couldn’t give two hoots about my so-called country. The cheats in charge. The swindlers. The debauched. The murderous. The ruthless and neither the cunning. I have a people, and I know they are there, even though I may not know them. That said, everything starts with blood and family, if you’re lucky. Currently my two sons have two people who would die for them – that’s a strong bond right there, so imagine such a feeling in a community of like minds. I hope to set an example by living in the way I’d like my future community to be, but that’s going to be very, very hard. Because The State. Still.
Another plus is in fact to realize just how many people think the MSM is full of bullshit, but they’re invisible. Here in The Isles, we have rural spots all over the place flowing with angry people, but you’d never know it is you took the MSM at their word. Never in a million years – which is just the way TPTB like it.
Right, I’ll listen to the show now.
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cannabis is completely different than alcohol, in effect. so the real question to the person asking for drug advice – what effect are you going for? also, try drinking less, or spreading it out across the day.
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This week, I feel like Charlton Heston on the Planet of the Apes.
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Your thoughts about the intelligence community getting dumber definitely come to mind with the January 6th plot. It looks like “Person 1” in all the documents is Stewart Rhodes, a guy whose cover story feels like the plot to a bad mid-80s Chuck Norris movie. A former airborne paratrooper whose files can’t be located, who graduated from Yale (which also can’t be corroborated). Those confidential informants defeat their own purposes whenever discovery happens, not because they get doxed there, but because a lot of interactions between government informants and the people they’re snitching on involve only two people. If your name is Bob and you remember talking to Bill about how you like his eyepatch, and they present you with a document that says, “Bill told Person One he liked his eyepatch,” it’s pretty easy to figure out what’s going on. I won’t be surprised if they send the Capitol Trespassers to Guantanamo for the crime of making Ocasio Cortez cry. We have a regime that’s both brutal and hysterical, not a good combination, like a T-1000 programmed by the staff of “Huffington Post.”
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I’d not be surprised if the worse of the protesters get off due to agreement to become CI’s back where they came from—at least those who were already not in FBI employment—and I’m sure there were many in the “riots” who were provocateur plants. How else could they round up 400+ “rioters” so quickly.
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No wonder the T-1000 had inflatable wonder bosoms. Definitely programmed by HuffPo.
Based on what we’ve seen of Whitmer the past year, any kidnapping would have gone full “Ransom of Red Chief” in a New York minute.
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Haven’t had a chance to listen to the show, Z… but:
“Bill Buckley famously said that “the problem with socialism is socialism, but the problem with capitalism is capitalists.” The roles are reversed now. The Left, which has now absorbed the Buckley Right entirely, loves big business and they use it as a weapon against the Right.”
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I have a question: Is the left using big business against the right? Or is big business using the left against the right?
I think we need to really look hard at that one. It will be important in the days ahead when the perps have been rounded up, are being tried in court, and claiming they were just following orders and pointing fingers at each other…
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Yes – would seem to be the answer to both questions.
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more for comment checker
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with respect to finding the FBI plant: Andrew Codvilla said that he would go give speeches somewhere and people would approach him afterward to chat. He said there was always some guy in his early 30s, jacked, who wanted to talk about getting shizz going for real. He’d ask about their history and it was always the same: recently transferred to from out of state to a new job locally, no family, no wife, no history. He’d always tell them to report back that they had failed.
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I ran into a guy once who claimed to be a plumber. I shook hands with him and they were as soft as a baby’s ass. Just for fun I started asking questions that a plumber would know. He excused himself and I never saw him again.
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well, there are some famous “political” plumbers from 1971/1972 I believe…
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Don’t give up on the democracy Kool-Aid, comrade.
Wakandastan is building now and it will be a golden utopia that will last for 1000 years or at least until someone is offended.
These enlightened faculty lounge corporate logo rebels are the ones that we have been waiting for to build the Wakanda!
Yes we can, forward.
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“Madcap Laughs,” I got the reference in your name. Syd was a beautiful soul, but a terrible warning of the effects of psychedelics on a sensitive young man.
Dark Globe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEr6w7P44Nk
So how can we congregate without our organization becoming an FBI Barbeque? It seems any right wing group with a clear hierarchy gets infinite money for the alphabet agencies to infiltrate and subvert. Even with legitimate leadership, we’re starting in a rough place.
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I’m pretty sure that a person like me who’s seen every bullshitter and scammer in the world in Los Angeles can spot a 30 year old informant in person. After a few drinks. After a few pointed questions. Being able to read people is a matter of survival out here.
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This is probably why rural folk who are more used to being able to trust people get rolled so badly. I myself got rolled hard when transitioning from a farming culture to corporate culture on a couple of occasions in my young life.
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The short answer is that unless you have known all the guys since middle school, you can’t trust anyone. And even then, one of them might have become an informant after working as a summer intern at the FBI or something. Ex-military? How can you be sure what he really did? I can think of “initiation rites” that would all but prove the loyalty of a candidate, that no Fed could possibly pass, but I’m a bit squeamish and I’d rather not discuss them here, much less participate in them. Let’s just say that if they become the rule, then our civilization will be very near the jumping-off place. 🙁
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Agree. I think that’s how the ice will break. Once it becomes openly possible to do what everyone knows is going to happen on both sides of the debate, then literally millions of spontaneous participants will jump in too. Like how the peaceful protests erupted last year nationwide.
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I enjoyed the long monologue about how the FBI sets people up. Obviously the easiest way to appear to be solving a problem is to create the problem to solve yourself, which we all experience with people at work doing that too. It’s a kind of Political Munchausen’s syndrome or whatever that thing is called where mothers harm their children intentionally.
But, to be frank, the reason I don’t buy any of the products offered by sponsors on this site is precisely because I think this blog exists for the same reason, i.e. it’s a set-up. It has always struck me as odd that the Z Man is allowed to exist on Apple as a podcast on my phone, and was recommended to me by their algorithm, when he makes it flagrantly clear what he means by being in a “Secret Handshake Society”.
The problem the FBI has is they need to identify us in real life, so they offer things like a Bed and Breakfast you can visit or items you can have shipped to your home. I haven’t done anything illegal and they know it. But they want to put us all on a path to be included in their next big caper. Don’t fall for it guys.
And that brings me to Youtube and other sites that were supposedly trying to end alt-right politically charged content in order to defend diversity and all that. I think practically everyone on the alt-right making videos on Youtube was doing so at the behest of Youtube in order to tag the audience, identify them, and then drive us all off a cliff. In other words, they were recommending that content to people intentionally as a set-up in order to try to grow the white power politics problem so that they could later justify a harsh take-over and lockdown. They are intentionally provoking you and setting you up.
Anyways, I still enjoy checking in every once in a while. Sometimes the Z Man cracks some good jokes. But I would never show up at any event in real life or buy any item promoted by anyone on this side of the great divide.
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Your concerns are valid and it is sad that,in 2021, we in the USA now find ourselves on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. Perhaps we could all use something to lift our spirits. A light summer read to brighten our day. I recommend The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
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Excellent book suggestion.
Maybe since things are so bleak with respect to listening to podcasts or renting lodgings, a book on how to kill oneself? Perhaps the Jack Kevorkian biography, “The Goodness of Planned Death” would be appropriate?
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Luckily, I don’t take medical advice from strangers or the internet and yours fails both tests. Sorry.
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Maybe, maybe not? Trust has since become a rare commodity, but sometimes you just have to trust, otherwise we are all just useless, ineffectual atoms.
By the way, how do we know, American Citizen 2.0, that you are not a plant?
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I know, that was going to be my question too.
A little reverse psychology / head fake action on American Citizen 2.0’s part
But you have to weigh the evidence. I mean Z Man has been doing this for a very long time and most of that time he didn’t have a big “fan base” as it were or lots of commenters. Would FBI really invest in this blog for a 7-10 year time frame when all it was doing was attracting handfuls of people? No they wouldn’t. They would have written it off as a sunk cost and lost cause long ago.
Now, that does not mean I have 1000% trust in the vendors like the ring people or the soap people. I mean, I never really thought about them tbh, but now that I am, I guess it’s wise to be a little bit wary. Further, I would never donate to Z with a credit card.
And that reminds me. I need to send him some cash and I hope the weekend I can finally get off my duff and do it.
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Well you would need a Shibboleth or something like that… as in Judges 12:6. But the whole problem with this atomized, digitized way of sharing information is that we cannot form true communities without also being scrutinized. There is no mechanism for building trust in this type of environment. The main thing to keep in mind is that the FBI and their type of organization worldwide has vast databases tracking data for decades. So, they can work on a very long timeline in minute detail and use that power to create trust if they want. We could all be here merely to create a trust gateway, where nothing bad ever happens to us but people who encounter us 10 years from now have the trap sprung on them.
In short, you can’t know. It’s an asymetrical information sort of problem. In an environment like that, e.g. buying a used car from a private owner where you don’t know if it’s a lemon, the value of the product drops. If you don’t know whether a car is a clunker, you won’t pay very much for it. WE ARE THE PRODUCT. The whole point is to make us worthless by making us suspicious. The only way out would be to simply invert the value system by doing something like creating a self help group for men recovering from white supremacy and then advocating for health insurance benefits for treatment like alcoholics do. I would love to spend a month on a ranch detoxing from white supremacy.
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My advice: don’t meet up with anyone involved in dissident politics unless you’re prepared to get doxxed, have an FBI file opened on you, and be denied government jobs. They’ll leak that to the media and antifa will show up at your doorstep. Don’t put your name to any purchase either unless you send cash with a nonreturnable address or use bitcoin.
“By the way, how do we know, American Citizen 2.0, that you are not a plant?”
Because he isn’t doing anything that will get you doxxed, put on a list, and ruined. I’d have a lot more confidence (but not total confidence) meeting a public figure who’s been vetted. Nothing personal, but if you guys really are into meeting up in public, give Paul Ramsey a shout out and bring a board game.
“Maybe, maybe not?”
Maybe has huge consequences. Don’t be stupid. Don’t meet up with anyone involved in anything this regime considers subversive. You’ll have far more impact complaining anonymously, to the extent that’s possible, on the internet than meeting up for a weekend coffee and having your picture taken and license plate catalogued.
“But, to be frank, the reason I don’t buy any of the products offered by sponsors on this site is precisely because I think this blog exists for the same reason, i.e. it’s a set-up.”
Before Covid, there was a regular poster who was constantly trying to meet up with people and exchange contact information. I pointed out how expensive his plan to individually meet up with people across the country was. After some more ribbing (pointing out that his username was a subtle reference to FBI culture), he abandoned the forum. Funny that. Watch yourself. All of these comments sections are infiltrated, and not just with feds. Some are private Leftist groups who work pro bono on behalf of the state.
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A Man:
Some good advice A Man, thanks. Just a couple things though.
When does being careful turn into paralytic paranoia? The regime wants us to be afraid to speak up, gather, strategize. One must weigh the risks of exposure versus, the benefits of the information, thoughts, and of interacting with like minded people.
I need more evidence to believe that this site is a “set-up”. I shall continue to buy Z an occasional coffee. Also weigh the risk that Z stops his good work. I also bee leaf dat dis sight is beeing m@n1toured. By the way, i think Marx and Engels were very nice people.
Thanks for the sound advice. This is not your father’s country anymore.
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It would be hilarious if most of the commenters were in fact obese, impressionable young women working for a Leftist organization pretending to be old white guys. Kinda makes ya think where is all this crazy racist commentary really coming from because those of us who are regulars here hardly ever say anything all that weird.
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Would you go to an Amren event?
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5 years ago? Sure.
Not now. There’s no upside, and plenty of downside.
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I recognize the dangers of going to an AmRen conference, but consider this. At the 2019 AmRen afterparty, I got to watch Jared Taylor pour himself a shot of whiskey and down it all in one gulp with the same elegance that he does everything else.
Admit it: many of you would risk a lot to be present for that.
I love Jared Taylor like I love George Washington. Such excellence. I want to support him.
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One of the reasons in my opinion that the Z is not targeted as much is because he gives the usual suspects a break.
Also he is not widely known in the hive yet.
Yes we are gonna be infiltrated by the agents if the hive like the FBI but I don’t think the Z fits the bill.
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I should have said a break now and again. The Z does not overtly blame all our problems on the usual suspects or talk about them all the time and perhaps that does helps him stay on some of these mainline platforms.
Although many of us know the usual suspects are powerful and do cause us real problems.
I tend to think the Z just has not got the attention of the hive the way a Nick Fuentes is getting as an up and comer who is tagged with the anti Semitic label or a Tucker Carlson has gotten because iof the sheer numbers in his audience and the attention Fox News gets.
We should be grateful the Z remains on these mainstream platforms.
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The people hunting for heretics are quite stupid, so they need overt signals to notice their target. You’ll note that they use the same few clips of Fuentes making jokes. The tone here in the posts and comments is a click above the witch hunters, so it just looks and sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher to them.
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“I enjoyed the long monologue about how the FBI sets people up. Obviously the easiest way to appear to be solving a problem is to create the problem to solve yourself..”
Yes, by all means Clyde Tolson solved a problem J. Edgar Hoover had and the FBI went from there. What a great organization, great people, great mission.
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Was watching ex-Mafia guy, Sammy the Bull Gravano, on YouTube. He spoke of an unarranged “meeting” he had with a fellow from CA who claimed to be a “Boss” from a family there. It was in a bar of a friend (made man), but the friend did not “know” this guy either, just that he wanted to meet Mafia types, introduce “himself”, and make Eastern connections.
Well the story basically was told to explain that in the Cosa Nostra no one knows anyone else (as mob types) unless “introduced”. Introductions are always made by an individual “you know” is a member and have “worked” with and in turn, the person you know is solid is basically vouching for the person he’s introducing.
Gravano played dumb, and when pushed almost got into a fight with the person trying to “meet” with him as he would not accept Sammy playing dumb. Turned out later this guy was identified as an FBI informant. The moral of the story as stated by Gravano was to stick with Cosa Nostra rules and you’ll never get into trouble.
Not to tout organized crime figures’ precautions, but there is some wisdom in that story worth imitating.
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i guess if anyone would know about informing and snitching it would be him
Certainly a honey pot or whatever you want to call it could be set up. But why go to the trouble? The internet is a rich ecosystem of diverse opinions. Want to monitor the Dissident Right? Why go to the rigamarole of running a blog when all you need to do is routine passive surveillance? Just harvesting the emails, IP addresses and frequency of visit is plenty for a basic dossier on all of us. Keyword analysis of postings and other detailed stuff if you want in-depth intel of what each of us likes.
As Z alleges in today’s episode, really the only thing you need humans for is to actively recruit or deceive potential victims.
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Because you have to get the people you want to target to say the right words into the microphone so you have to lead the conversation down a certain path. There is absolutely nothing wrong with sending a friend an email about topics that are a little sensitive socially. You need to get the targets to start talking the right way about the wrong things basically. So you give them the script. Hence, blogs, podcasts, etc. Islamic fundamentalists have been recruiting this way for decades. Duh?
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I’m with Sterling Archer on this one — no one appreciates the “honey pot” anymore.
I personally would fall for the honey pot. But the problem is, I have high standards. Have you seen the Chinese spy Swalwell was banging? Pass. I guess I just don’t have yellow fever. If the Feeb or the CIA really wants to try to run a honey pot at me, they’ll need a statuesque blonde… probably not too many of those in the ranks, what with the #wokeness and all. But guys… please feel free to try.
You have healthy paranoia, can’t wrong you for that but this site is mainly 2nd tier shitposting and political theorizing. I.E. Completely harmless. It is a ‘vent to atmosphere’ mechanism for the most part. There are WAAAAY more openly & overt sites that are filled with some dodgy fedpoast type material. This is Boomer tier bitching basically. *shrug*
he “loved his country but hated his government.”
When a person “loves his country” what does that mean? He can’t have much of a detailed knowledge of its geographic entirety or its population, as a society. In fact, what he loves is what he imagines his country to be. He might love the fact that he can drive from Wilmington, NC to Barstow, CA without stopping for a traffic light if he has enough fuel in his car. He appreciates the population’s understanding of the techniques and nuances of popular spectator sports like football and basketball, things that differentiate the Yankee from his feudal European ancestors. He’s proud of the fact that the country was able to organize a team of Hungarian scientists that were able to assemble an explosive device that could turn Japanese teen-age girls walking to school into embers. He’s happy that the country was able to incorporate places like North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, Saipan, Puerto Rico and others into its national structure, bringing genuine democracy and Christianity to the uncivilized and allowing the indigenous to be a part of the capitalist miracle.
Sadly, the government itself is part of the country and must be accepted along with the rest. So asset forfeiture, boys on the girls’ track team, public financing of sports arenas, trains to nowhere, colossal financial boondoggles, rigged elections and phantom epidemics are also features of the country. It’s hard to ignore or forget those things but it can be done for at least one day, July 4.
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You can love the land, the air, the lakes and creeks, the memories
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That’s all there is. Memories.
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I didn’t think about that…
But you may be right
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Nostalgia was originally considered a kind of debilitating medical condition.
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What about thinking everyone’s a Fed?
What’s that condition called?
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Paranoia or common sense. Opinions vary. The government already announced you are the biggest threat to America so…
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Billion dollar industry. Well said citizen .
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Good post. I think one loves his country as he loves his children. Not because they’re lovely, but because they’re his.
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A meetup in New England? Yes please!
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That’s my nexk of the woods. I might do it.
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I’ll be in Boston en route to the Azores in a few months. Only reason I’m going there is because Boston Logan is the only airport I’ve found with direct flights.
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You sure? Curfew in Portugal now. Which I would think includes the islands.
Z,
A few other readers/friends who live in Massachusetts would absolutely be up for a meet and greet. Most of us live within a few minutes of 95 and or 128. Just gives us a shout. Quincy, Mansfield and Waltham are all within easy driving distance.
I can send you my email or contact if need be.
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Christopher? Christofer Wray? Is that you?
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Is this a Farley Brothers reference?
So I read through the comments and…. I guess that’s it. A majority of people have ultimately given in to being intimidated to the extent we should donate via the P.O. Box or donating to VDARE ala Stop and Shops customer service desk.
I enjoy good food and good conversation. And as Bill O’Reilly said at one time – “Fuck it, we’ll do it live.” Z, pull a Howie Carr and do it from a restaurant of your choosing and we’ll call in. You can choose who will act as Sandy.
I believe that Grace Curley is Howie Carr’s current Gal Friday; it seems that Sandy Shack is in a more administrative position. I should tune it to Howie’s program, just to see if the format has changed. He was doing very few interviews over the past year, and the humorous anecdotes were few and far between. Even the Trump affiliation was de-emphasized in favor of a monomaniacal obsession with Biden and Pelosi audio gaffes, which grew tedious very quickly, and seemed to indicate that Howie was not ready to retire, but was losing interest in his show. Trump’s zingers–even his goofs–would have been at least entertaining as a substitute. At any rate, cheers.
Drinking is social? Could have fooled me!
Sadly, I’ve been roped into a couple 4th of July events with baizuo of all ages. At one event a baizuo family will bring Asian Fumi salad to share.
In other news, I have a six-figure corporate job being thrown at me.
The issue there is that I would need to take the jab and be a good company man to perform in the role long-term.
I don’t need the money, but doubling my income is of great interest.
I’m asking strangers on the Internet because my close family has not been a useful sounding board.
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Corporate probably means having to deal with all the Woke stuff
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And “diversity training”.
The upside? Maybe he’ll learn to be “less white”. ;<)
I couldn’t survive the corporate world. They’d toss me out in 5 seconds.
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I wouldn’t take the stab for any amount of money. A similar offer ma come soon with no strings.
I would play hardball with the company however, before declining.
Good luck with your decision.
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Take the money. Get yours while you can. The last year has made it clear that making money is “who we are”.
If your community are baizou anyhow, you might as well get paid.
As for the jab, the paperwork is easy.
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My sentiment exactly. I work for a woke company, and it’s so over the top it’s amusing. It’s a small company, so no real strong arming. Just sweet, naive people who mean well, as they goose-step to the latest fad faxed out from Democrat HQ. You just have to keep your head down and laugh at the ridiculousness. Make as much money as possible and retire early. There is a lot of freedom once you have f*** you money.
My company didn’t require the jab though. I would try to forge the paperwork. Companies seem to be setting themselves up for adverse reaction lawsuits for forcing a non-FDA approved experiment on their employees, but I think they can safely bank on the courts looking the other way.
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The hyper visible wokeness is going to be the struggle. You will be celebrating Pride Month and applauding Juneteenth with gusto. If you don’t, you can leave. They ain’t playing around and you will be sh*t tested for ideological purity constantly by younger co-workers who all grew up on Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games. Before you accept, get deep into a conversation with the HR/Recruiting person about what they are doing to promote an Inclusive Culture as if you are super woke too in order to get a sense of whether or not you want to spend your days being monitored by the Company’s Diversity Commissar. Some people can play along and do fine in that environment. You might be able to be successful. I say give it a try and just be honest about “team fit” if you don’t like it and leave.
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Faking being “woke” for Globocorp is not difficult. Ignore everything until forced to do something.
The bigger the firm, the more you just have to click the box.
Furthermore, the people designing the training are by definition the girls who couldn’t cut it in finance or accounting. They are not the people hitting sales goals, designing synthetic CDO’s or structuring mutil-currency swap derivatives.
Answer key: “is racism bad?” YES
“Are women paid less than men?”
YES
“After taking this course, will you take a brief survey and give us your honest feedback?”
“No” or, for extra credit, “This was the best training ever. Thank you, sir. May I please have another”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hiCpKEbns
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well, how much time do you think you have left? how much of that are you willing to waste to get money you don’t need. that corporate job will damage your health in very real ways. the time there will taint all the other hours of the day. on the other hand, you could take it with a mind to just go through the motions and take their money without caring about any consequences once they figure out you aren’t really “one of the team”.
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Price and a prize for everything, saying that a lot today. Anyway it’s true. I’ve spent most of my career as a mechanic working for large corporations out of Europe. 3 years ago couldn’t take it anymore. Stretching ( yoga) before meetings, gps on phone, and truck, superintendent who’s only qualifications was her curves, backstabbing coworkers who take pics of your work to send to headquarters in hopes of moving up. I went to work for a mom and pop shop. A lot of the above minus the gps. And no jab required. I don’t need the money either, but I do enjoy what I do. The money’s the same ( union). In the end it’s a wash. It’s called work because it’s work. Good luck.
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Gonna miss you, my friend.
It’s okay. Since the vaxxed are infecting the unvaxxed, we’ll test positive, get the blame for the ramp up in mortality, and the Grand Vendee’ can begin.
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Even the people on the inside have to deal with plants, snitches, and backstabbers. These are the trappings of power. It’s necessary to get over it.
(Says the nobody with an opinion. Draw your own conclusions 🙂 )
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Z never misses a chance to take a dump on the alt-right. Sad.
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My Mossad handlers require it.
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“Wait – what? Z is the rat?”
“Always was,” he said, raising his pistol…
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Let’s just hope mike Enoch doesn’t write a book.I’m pretty sure he’d bump mike cernovich off the #1 spot. Maybe a tie. Every one gets a trophy! From the J Edgar Hoover gift shop that is.
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If you conflate Enoch and Cernovich then you’re not tall enough for this ride.
Sure, Enoch is a cantankerous half Serb, but he is the purest and most intelligent expression of white identity that you will find, with all due respect to Z and his Russian roots.
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Great reference to Jeremiah Johnson. That scene captures the feeling perfectly.
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Yes, my thought too. It is an extremely sad and poignant scene at the end of one of my all time favorite movies. “I hope you’ll fare well.”
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It’s one of my favorites as well. It’s one of those rare movies that when I see it’s on, I flip over to see which scene is playing, and then I end up watching it to the finish. There are better movies that I don’t do that for.
Should be a spicy time in most cities, Chicago already has 100 shootings this week and the forecast is for sunny and upper 80s Saturday and Sunday. The youths and teens are going to be getting crazy.
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One dividend of emasculating the heat is that the nuggras will have even freer rein to thin their own ranks.
The drug and alcohol “recovery “industrial complex reared its ugly head in the 80’s hence Hazelton and the rest of the TC’s ( therapeutic community). total insurance scam. It reminds me of the modern Aspergers, on the spectrum industrial complex we’re dealing with now. Every one I know has a kid on the spectrum. My nephew who is a little shit is now living on a compound in Utah because he “ doesn’t pick up on social clues “after playing video games in a dark room for 12 hours a day. I’m getting too old to drink. The recovery isn’t worth the window of buzzing. Price and a prize for everything. A six pack last the whole weekend now, no drinking during the week. Being a baby baby boomer ( early 60’s) I’ve enjoyed the sweet leafs for many decades. That went away when the drug testing showed up at work. Even if you get rear ended in company truck, drug test. Panopticon ….,Price and a prize for everything. Ever since showing up around places like this, clear mind has helped accelerate the thought process needed to digest the kind of topics we discuss . Every jogger driven Dodge Charger that pulls up next to me at red lights smells like a skunk animal control transport vehicle. Another deterrent. Too bad, those cars look like they would be fun to drive. Not an option.
As far as the postal cancellation stamp, I’ve noticed it’s rare to see one on a envelope these days. How does that work on mail in voting ballads that have to be postmarked by midnight? I personally don’t care. I find it strange that the people who claim they do care never mention it.
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Yep. They call nerdy behavior Asperger’s and forbid bullying, which only stunts children more.
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I know the old commenter you’re referring to. I’ve met him and I’ve met his family. I really doubt that he is a fed.
He didn’t stop commenting here because he was hounded or shamed off. He felt he had made his points and doesn’t have the same love of daily discussion that many of us have.
Although I don’t deny the risks that we take when we meet, the risk aversion expressed by some in this thread may paralyze us. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but don’t be reckless.
If events unfold the way most of us expect, then we need networks based on real life trust and there’s only one way to build those.
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Darn it. This comment was supposed to be a reply to https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=24282#comment-255090.
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I acknowledge most of the reasons not to meet listed by commenters. For me, I take calculated risks because I feel I a duty to work with those of my people who see the same threats as I do. Maybe some of those who have sat out will come to feel that too.
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Although I’m one of the “don’t get involved” types, I often point out that if you have posted here, maybe even if you’ve just lurked, you are in fact “meeting.” Unless you have taken extraordinary steps to shield your identity, it is likely the Feds, or at least their Brown Shirt volunteers in corporatocracy, maintain files on us, or could easily get our real identities.
In a way, knowing (ok, suspecting) the above is liberating: I don’t have to hide all my cards. I’m probably not going to reveal my name, address and phone number for the world to see. But I can be pretty free in stating my beliefs and such.
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Agree. I have been using the “innernet” for years and years and especially when I was very young and naive. So I already clicked on everything that would get my IP address logged. I am fine with that. I am not doing anything other than clicking around and read and suchlike so I don’t really feel like I am on the list of Really Bad People. I think our system is corrupt and they abuse their power but don’t see them just rounding people up for no reason yet. And if they do start doing that, I am already doomed as is probably everyone else on here.
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Back in the 1980s, the military’s “Stars and Stripes” newspaper had a cartoon series named Cpl. Kev. It was delightfully irreverent towards the Service. One panel ran about like this:
New solider: “Hi! I’m new in your unit. Let’s go smoke some hash.”
Kev: “Um, no thanks, I don’t…”
New soldier: “No problem. Let’s black market our cigarette and liquor rations!”
Kev: “CID? [Criminal Investigation Division}”
New soldier: “How could you tell?”
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If a thousand pajits typed on a thousand typewriters for a thousand years, they could never write anything as shitty as Kevin Williamson writes daily.
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at least they will accept Google Play cards as payment
Victor Davis Hanson quit contributing to National Review in April. He is now contributing to American Greatness, but I haven’t read much of his stuff there and I have no idea how frequently he writes for them. I don’t go directly to National Review and check their stuff but occasionally see a link to them from somewhere else. They don’t even have anyone now who can develop a following. Goldberg and French are morons, but they could at least attract a few followers. The writers National Review has replaced them with can’t even do that.
For a young writer with talent, taking their money has to have less appeal than going independently. Having National Review on your resume is most likely a hindrance to getting established as a writer. Most of their interns are probably kids who are related to donors or D.C. insiders.
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Stay away from FB, Twitter et.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/pretty-weird-facebook-starts-sending-extremist-content-warnings-to-users_3883194.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-07-02&mktids=ab50c2b873197c4b77b7efe5bebafced&est=rWaeYuml0tsadoztVMAKn6ndrBZ3L8yqpeLdAxH2LVzQDFcWleDD44XhJ%2BCFnLlhQw%3D%3D
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I was never a National Review reader. The only ex-member of the stable I follow is Derbyshire. Given NR’s multi-year history of purges, you’d think that a magazine/web site would have sprung up, whose claim to fame was it hired those writers evicted from NR and other captured legacy media.
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Derb, Steyn, VDH, Buchanan. That would make a pretty good start at an expat site.
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“[In place of NR], you’d think that a magazine/web site would have sprung up.” It did. The American Conservative. And it ended up similar to NR. Not as bad. But bad enough.
I like VDH in a sort of “well-read grandpa kind of way but the fact that American Greatness doesn’t allow comments (at least as far as I have seen when I read his stuff on there) makes it a no-go for me. This last year has been people at the top talking down to us but giving us no effective way to talk back. Obviously some billionaire wants us all to hear more from VDH so he is given a platform. That billionaire, whoever it is, couldn’t care less what we think and hence… no comments allowed! Yuck.
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AG is owned by one of the three conservative NYT opinion columnists against whose publication the woke staff has NOT revolted.
Fake and/or gay.
Unfortunately, VDH is basically a Griller with a slight edge to him. As such, he really has nothing of great worth to say to the DR. Too bad, because he’s certainly intelligent and a quality writer. There was not a better commentator on 9/11 ca. 2001-04 than VDH. His essays from that period were small masterpieces.
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VDH is better at documenting how far we have fallen than telling us where to go.
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1. Perfect intro song.
2. I used to be a craft beer guy, until I decided most of it was OK brew with a ton of hops added, definitely not worth the cost. It’s like drinking weed.
3. Torba is in Lancaster? I thought Gab was up around Scranton.
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New blog rule: no using music unless you identify it first! I am not musically inclined but sometimes there are good toons kicked around here and I can’t find them…
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This is Not America. David Bowie/Pat Metheny
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the music of every decade except for the past 2 seems to have a distinct sound to it
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That’s because most of the “music” from the past two decades does not involve instruments or singing.
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There’s still good stuff out there but you have to dig for it. Top 40 is definitely toast. So much treatment on everything. Somehow even music is being dehumanized.
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I will never forget the unanimous applause the legislatures gave themselves for surviving a guy putting his feet up on Pelosi’s desk. Tainted by a commoner!
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It’s the courage under fire that’s really inspiring us all to rally behind the Lady Bosses and their minions. Diversity is like a big strong man with hairy arms snuggling us to sleep.
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Maybe fly the flag upside-down, a sign of distress.
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If you have blood relatives with addiction problems, you should not imbibe any alcohol or any drugs. The closer related they are or the more blood relatives that there are, the more you shouldn’t take any drugs or drink. Certain ethnicities should lay off the booze too.
I took one of those implicit bias tests. It measured me as not racist. It way underestimated even my level of race consciousness. It’s all nonsense.
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I have not heard the show, but my sense is the FBI looks for something that is not there: “insurgents” and all the rest. It is not there because of who and what we are.
We are, for the most part, middle and working class people and we WANT stability. We want to keep on working at our jobs. We want stable prices and wages. We want security and safety. We want to be mostly left alone. We want to live like a Vermont College Professor. That is what we want. We don’t want to go marching in the street, burning down buildings or cop cars. We want to live the lives our parents lived. That’s pretty much it.
Now, our rulers want something different. THEY WANT CHAOS. They want instability. They want violence. They want burned down buildings. They want burned down cop cars. The want no personal safety for ordinary people. They want a complete and total overturning of society, from every norm, custom, tradition, holiday, and symbol. The most obscure to the most famous, from local parades for some local event to big national celebrations like the Fourth of July.
They want this because there are too many of them, and they want/need chaos and revolution in everything so a few can rise to the top. Since their entire structure is up or out. A few superstars reign forever (Pelosi, Schumer, Biden) and the rest are scrabbling for nickels. Add in the racial resentments of Ilhan Omar, AOC, Ayanna Pressley and the like, against the octogenerian White ruling elite, and you have a simple and elegant explanation of why we want to be left alone and they want violence and revolution.
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You have perfectly described what the kids these days call “white fragility”. You are fragile, like a rare vase, where if you are disturbed in any way it’s a catastrophe. The reason the elites “want” chaos is that they are trying to show you that white fragility does not set the norms here anymore. They can live with disturbance and disorder and their cultural norms reflect that.
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White submissiveness I’ll buy but not white fragility. Still finding the bottom.
They are the most powerful agency, along with the secret service. make soviet secret police look like amateurs by comparison.
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I will add that while I think the ruling elite will get their violent revolution they so ardently desire, it will not turn out the way they think.
For one thing, foreign powers will grab off large chunks of America fighting a violent revolution. China is likely to take Hawaii. Russia, Alaska. With perhaps some of the Pacific Northwest. A society with a violent revolution led by the Upper Class against the lower classes cannot fight off such power grabs.
For another thing, while the Managerial Class is good at certain things, it has failed completely and absolutely in every war it ever led: Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, all the secret forever wars. They just don’t have the capacity to win. Nor have they been able to maintain equipment, systems and infrastructure. That important pipeline and energy companies get repeatedly hacked given this vulnerability has been known for over 25 years is appalling and an indictment on the Managerial Class competency.
Finally we have demographics on our side (yes, really). The number of the Managerial class is small. They have a lot of low IQ, low skill, low ability masses but can’t react quickly. An example is the Battle of Shiloh. In that, a Confederate General led a surprise attack on Union forces led by Grant and Sherman in Tennessee up from Mississippi. He nearly won on the first day, but could have been routed if a Union General who had marched around and by accident into his rear area had not disregarded his orders to withdraw and simply attacked from behind. Armed conflict is a high IQ endeavor, shown repeatedly. There is a fairly moving video on Youtube about McNamara’s Morons, the idea from Managerial Class “genius” Robert McNamara that low iq retarded people would make good soldiers. In fact they caused disaster in combat which required instant snap judgments about firing, maneuvering, etc. One of the reasons the Vietnamese were so combat effective was their high IQ of their combat troops and officers.
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Wow….thanks to all for the great perspectives on my situation below.
I’m a few years on the wrong side of 40 and I am in much better shape than the average 40-something. I hike about 10-15 miles a week, lift 3-4x a week, and do a little paddling on the lakes around here. No aches or pains, don’t take any pills. I feel like I have at least several good years left.
I’m by myself, and I’m not seeing any young women nearly as marriageable as those I knew in high school and college.
I don’t have much time to make a decision on this role. They are hot to fill it and I am getting pressed for a resume. I was referred to the hiring manager by a colleague. I know the hiring manager as well.
As for my seemingly nonsensical mashup screen name, the first portion is indeed from the film, “The Wild Geese.”
The second portion is the name of a ’90s Japanese fighting game character:
https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Geese_Howard
Now, the mashup should make a bit more sense.
Thanks to all for reading and I wish everyone a great 4th of July!
“As for my seemingly nonsensical mashup screen name, the first portion is indeed from the film, “The Wild Geese.”
I rented that on VHS when I was a teenager in the late 80’s. I was on a Richard Burton kick. It was a damn good movie. Not great, but entertaining. One of those flicks that used to be advertised as, “With an *all-star* cast, featuring…” And they weren’t BS’ing. So many great actors in that one. Made at a time when middle-aged actors really needed the money.
Burton wasn’t a great film actor, as is well known and true. Too stately. But he had such presence it really didn’t matter, hah. He knew it too, so he downplayed his roles. For 1984 he downplayed O’Brien so much that the character was dull. He could have made O’Brien much more interesting and terrifying.
Remember that scene in The Wild Geese where Richard Harris or O’Toole was getting run down by the Zulus and he was pleading with his buddies in the plane taking off ahead to shoot him? Man, I’ll never forget that.
Also, the ending theme song by Joan Armatrading is quite nice. Next time Z ends a podcast on a darker note, he should play it to end the podcast.
Sad are the eyes
Yet no tears
The flight of the wild geese
Brings a new hope
Rescued from all this
There were promises made
Plans firmly laid
Now madness prevails
And lies fill the air.
Time is running out
So much to be done
Tell me what more
What more
What more can we do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-BY9HO598w&ab_channel=bigbarnbed
(I’m sure it’s a Lefty themed movie, but whatever, they all are.)
Noticed something; People don’t understand elections are past.
Normalcy Bias to insanity.
In the 2020 runup the National Guard was guarding poll sites in advance of the election and saw ballots filled out already in stacks. (Cu0m0 land).
Yes, fraud.
Guarding election sites in another Blue state near the above is already on the schedule for 22. Ah hav refuzed dis all such missions categorically already, but dere it is in black and white. No they won’t fuck with me or anyone else saying no, dey understand.
Dah Gard is dere to keep people from prying. It will no doubt work. Yes it sucks but there’s no alternative but personal no’s, which count for nothing in the scheme of things. Dat I live not by lies doesn’t change anything, just makes me feel better. Kind of like commenting. Nada.
Elections are over. Those V0tes are already counted, probably printed.
There isn’t any alternative. This is the price of refusing risk.
No one on the Right seems to come to grips with this; the election is settled. That’s why Abbott can build a wall in Texas. Why South Dakota can send Gardsmen with private money.
Hell they could nuke Mexico, it’s irrelevant how many come. Its why GA suddenly wants to audit elections in the future (in no state was the government more compromised than GA).
Elections are over, lets have a post on that.
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I live in a historically “blue” state that very nearly went for Trump in ’16. In ’20 it wasn’t close, Biden landslide. Nobody mentions our strange result, because “historically.” We’re not considered a swing state, though we’d just become one. Curious!
I’ve never voted, never registered, never even considered it. Our state’s jury duty summons list is our registered voter list. I’m on it now, being threatened with prison if I won’t go to the courthouse and routinely convict some black idiot of some terrible thing he certainly did but I don’t care. Curious!
My wife is in a public employee union, an odd outlier member who doesn’t work for the government. She was mailed five absentee/mail-in ballots last year. I was mailed none. Curious!
Etc.
It’s all fake, always been fake. The people beat the fakery in ’16. Never before*, and never again.
*maybe Nixon
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Nice intro song… More apt now than ever… I was a huge metheny fan for many, many years… Until last year when I went to his website The landing page had a black lives matter power fist on it…
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American Citizen 2.0: “I think this blog exists for the same reason, i.e. it’s a set-up”.
You weren’t clear. Do you think Zman is himself a fed? Or knowingly complicit in fed scheme? Or an unknowing or uncarring pawn? For me, there is zero chance that Zman is anything other than as he presents himself. Zero chance he’s connected to any of our enemies in any way. Not a 5% chance. Not a 0.2% chance. But sub-zero chance. Z working for the fed is unthinkable. If it turns out he’s some sort of Zmannequin I’ll quit life. Seriously I’ll pull an A.J. Certain betrayals are so devastating that one can’t continue on. Catastrophic system collapse of body and mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzvcsD2vFE&ab_channel=TonySoprano
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Off topic: A recent email to a friend of mine on the East Coast.
My friend in CdA says that there is lots of restaurant work but no affordable place to live. In a year, Idaho has turned into coastal California. All those rich Californians who laughed at me 6 years ago for moving to a dumb, inbred state are trampling each other to follow me. I am not pleased.