Us And Them

A striking feature of American liberal democracy is the great gap between the reality of the political class and the people. The Cloud People are not just floating above the Dirt People, living different lives, like aristocrats of old. They no longer have a clear vision of the Dirt People below them. Instead, they conceive of the people over whom they rule based on inputs from the managerial class. To the political class, the general public is an abstraction, not a physical reality.

One example of this is in how the political class understands hierarchy. Every Washington politician and appointee lives in a world where hierarchy is well understood and respected. The appointed class have an array of titles that indicate their position in the hierarchy. Elected officials, of course, have their office and their committee assignments, along with their seniority. This is a world every one of them inherited when they entered politics. It is how it has always been.

In this world, a senator tells his staff to do something and he just assumes they will do it, assuming it can be done. If it cannot be done, then he is going to have them find out why it cannot be done and report back to him. An appointee works the same way within the bureaucracy. They have a staff, usually of appointees, and that staff carries out the orders of the director or secretary. Even though nothing of public good is done in Washington, the petty tasks are carried out with precision.

In this regard, the political class is a petty aristocracy. Senator Lindsey Graham, for example, commands absolute loyalty from his staff. Not only does his staff do what they are told, they faithfully keep his secrets. He has been in the Imperial Capital for a quarter century, without a hint of scandal, despite the obvious. Congress operates a private slush fund to settle sexual harassment claims. Over 260 claims have been paid, without a word about the details. That’s loyalty.

Scan the biographies of the political class and the thing you will be hard pressed to find is anything resembling real world experience. Few have ever worked in the dreaded private sector. Those that have, worked in the law or maybe finance. These careers were just alternative paths to the place they wanted to be all along. There are no sons of the soil in Washington. The exception is President Trump, which is why he is hated by the entire political class. He is not one of them.

If any of these people had spent time in the world of the Dirt People, they would know that the reality of the petty aristocracy is nothing like reality. In the dreaded private sector, a manager at any level must be conscious of his subordinates. If that manager is going to make his bosses happy, he has to keep his people happy. Otherwise, they will not do what he asks and they will undermine his authority. This is the reason every middle manager sounds like a psychotherapist.

In the military, every officer is trained to know this. There is a strict hierarchy and ethos that says you respect the rank, not the man. Humans are human, so that theory gives way to the reality that men follow men. A good officer is one who commands the respect of his men. Bad officers think they can just issue orders and they will be carried out, no matter how stupid or ridiculous. The officer who acts like a petty aristocrat can find himself with a live grenade in his bunk.

Everywhere in the dreaded private sector, hierarchy relies about a dynamic that is not all that different from a pirate ship. Everyone understands that someone has to be in charge and that there has to be order. The question as to who is in charge and who gives the orders, however, is not written in stone. You earn your position and you keep earning it in the execution of your duties. Unlike in Washington, failure has consequences and people get fired and demoted.

This great gap between the Cloud People and the Dirt People in the nature of human organization and hierarchy is the great source of friction. We see that with the response to the Covid virus. The petty tyrants in the lowest level of the petty aristocracy just assumed the rest of us would happily follow their orders. The striking feature of this pandemic is how the political class is resentful that the public has not celebrated them in song and story for their heroism during these times.

The ruling class sees no danger in their social engineering schemes, because everyone they know thinks they are great ideas. Spend time in the Imperial Capital and it is like visiting a foreign planet. They live in a world that is divorced from the reality of the human condition. It has evolved into something closer to a college campus, where good times or bad, it is always the best of times. It is why critic race theory sounds like a grand idea to them. All of their ideas are grand ideas.

For those old enough to remember, there is a Ceausescu’s last speech quality to what we hear from our political elites and their organs. The gap between us and them has reached such a point it is impossible for us to think of them as us. This reality is slowly creeping into the minds of the dirty people like the fog. The Cloud People, however, remain locked in their old mode of thought. Nancy Pelosi truly thinks she is a beloved and respected figure to the Dirt People.

In such situations, there is always a moment when the people suddenly realize that they are not alone in their thoughts about us and them. That is what happened during Ceausescu’s last speech. The people suddenly realized that everyone else had the same thoughts about their ruler. On that day, that reality was made clear to Ceausescu’s as he gave his speech. The next day he fled the capital and a few days later he was tried and executed.

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250 thoughts on “Us And Them

  1. Think of the press repeatedly lying and then acting like it never happened: Russia hoax, Jussie Smollett, Kavanaugh. If any of us behaved like this in the private sector we’d be fired. Yet they keep doing it with no consequence. In a month they’ll move on from the lockdown hoax, and memory-hole that one too.

  2. We shouldn’t forget that the Capitol has many acolytes in the Districts: the Corona hoax could not have gone on this long without the generous assistance of the Karens & Cucks.

      • Alas, given the ubiquity of the Maskatards, NOT wearing a mask is what marks one out as a certain type. I.e. somebody with a triple-digit IQ and at least one testicle.

    • Women don’t understand hierarchy the way men do. They think it’s the biggest and the strongest “alpha male” rises to the top and orders everyone around. Not exactly. The pope doesn’t get to be the pope by beating up all the other cardinals. Hierarchy is real, extremely efficient (business, military), and allows lines of authority to have weight in large organizations where personal ties with everyone involved are numerically impossible. But respect flows both ways – any martinet who relies solely on a title will fail. The Karens understand “the rules issued by authority”; they fail to understand they, individually,… Read more »

      • The Karens understand “the rules issued by authority”; they fail to understand they, individually, are outside the hierarchy and no obedience or respect is owed to them, personally. I think this is why so many Karens (male or female) are such nasty and angry creatures. They do all this PC stuff like wearing their goofy little masks everywhere, even when driving or outside, and yet their bank account doesn’t get any bigger and they get no medals or celebrations in their honor. In fact, in the case of masks, it leads to them becoming even more of a non-person than… Read more »

          • Ha ha, I clicked on the link and thought maybe I was on a spoof site. Perhaps that Satan(a) should re-think that tagline.

          • Looking at the picture my first thought was “Was that born a female or did it” transition”? My 2nd thought, after reading the individual’s campaign slogan – “Citizens of Durham County deserve better” – was, “Damned skippy they do but you ain’t it.”

      • Our stores had scowling African or Indian security guards in work boots guarding every entrance.

        A couple months ago, they got rid of the guards and just use smiling store clerks to direct us now.

        The dark people love having power over us, even if it’s small and insignificant. Don’t forget.

        • Yeah, the relish it a bit too much. Their accusations of oppression is just pure projection of their fantasies. I have no desire to even be around them let alone oppress them!

  3. There isn’t a person on this board who would not be giddy with excitement to see the Imperial Capital invaded by hordes of Dirt People and burned to the ground…with their bureaucrat toadies and aristocrat pols inside.

        • Eastern block revolutions had some distinct flavor to them in that they were smoke and mirror for the most part.
          After high profile figures were disposed of, these movements were hijacked and owned by military and spooks, who were big part, if not the real enablers, of the old system.
          In this place and time I’d wager that big tech will take their shot, and that is something to beware of.

        • Wood-chippers.
          At an average weight of 170 lbs, 10 people = 1 cubic yard (specific gravity about 1.)
          Three twenty yard dumpsters = 600 people.
          All the Congress, Cabinet and Supremes.
          Even allowing for Nadlers.

          • If the results were composted and used to grow crops this would indeed be the first time most of these people had done anything useful at all for anyone else.

          • Did you watch the recent C-SPAN video of Nadler literally crapping his pants while standing during a Pelosi event and then shuffling off to the side, trying not to look down for stains, and leaving little to the imagination?

            Under stress, Nadler could instantly get down to 170 lbs given he’s so full of crap. Oy.

          • THEY don’t deserve it that easy for what they’ve done to us over the centuries.

        • I’m more a fan of lining I-95 all along the East Coast leading north and south from DC with heads on pikes. One every 50′ on both sides of the road gives you 200 per mile. Hell even just a few congress critters and their bloated staffs gets you all the way to Baltimore…

      • a reminder to the next ruling class
        This is what we’ve been missing. We’re still operating under our first true ruling class.

      • As gratifying as that strategy would be, it is not the optimum solution. Much smarter to focus on a few “example cases” and then faux mourn their tragic accidental demise. Think like a lighting bolt. Sudden, unexpected, and natural.

      • Only thing burning to the ground is what Whites built. Families, Businesses, Cities, Nation, Civilization. There is nothing in the Lefts way but varieties of other Leftists. Why anyone thinks this revolution or whatever happens magically, without a shred of organization simply means a Romantic view of War. There have been zero spontaneous revolutions; none. Even the closest in France had the Duc of Orleans and his helpful agents. The American one took a generation, that was building on the militias built for the French and Indian Wars. The Bolsheviks had Ludendorff. Mao had the Russians, Japanese Arms, and the… Read more »

        • Zman said: “Burn it to the ground, put the inhabitants to the sword and leave it as a reminder to the next ruling class.”
          The author is certainly no fool, as his essays prove. Perhaps this was simply an historic metaphor for how such problems have been dealt with in the past.
          However, the responses fantasizing about feeding people into wood chippers or putting heads on pikes sound more like the irresponsible, uncivilized drivel from the “Antifa” crowd.

      • It would do no good. The good news is political Karen is made, not born. To get rid of the modern Karen, you have to get rid of feminism. Sure, you might still have proto-Karens, but they will be enforcing good social standards and not clownworld. ‘Church ladies’ are a lot better than ‘progressive ladies.’

        • Church Karens are organizing the roast beef dinners and scolding young girls for wearing slutty clothing.

          A big improvement.

          • Yep. Women are the enforcers of social norms on both men and women, but especially young women and girls. The church lady is infinitely preferable to the progressive cat ladies.

    • Anyone who thinks a repeat of 9/11 would not be met with wild domestic applause is too isolated from reality to live a meaningful life. Bin Laden just struck a generation too early. A sane society would start to dissolve such a collection of enemies who literally hate one another. This portends to make the old Yugoslavia’s breakup look like a child’s birthday party.

    • I pray, I pray that when those hurricanes manages up the coast it takes out DC

      God, I beg you

      And it would be a nice touch if the Hurricane is named after a black woman.

  4. many people nowadays miss ceausescu and the real reason ceausescu died was cause Silviu Brucan(jew) orchestrated his assassination, but I agree with the article’s message.
    Romania is being ruled by jews right now, they control secret services, they control media, they caused election fraud, Ceasuescu was romanian nationalist, despite his many faults.

      • information about brucan comes from actual historian, I just parroted the guy.
        I don’t know if jews control secret services in Pakistan, but SRI chief is Eduard Raul Hellvig(he’s a jew, google him), he received soros scholarship, 1997-1998 he was Soros foundation coordinator.

      • Always makes me think what would be different with no Jews in America: probably not as much as people would think, and probably even for the worse. The best example that’s pointed out is Sweden: a country with (nearly) no Jews, no “legacy of slavery” and no colonialism and yet has no issues sucking on the PC crack pipe even harder than the most ardent left-wing Jew. There’s more going on there than some well thought out maniacal scheme by Netanyahu. And yeah The Merchant doesn’t have our best interests at heart (quite the contrary), but they wouldn’t be selling… Read more »

        • Yeah, but a lot of their policy is just a mimesis of/cow towing to globalist progressive Jewry, but whites effectively create their own Jewish like class and the thinking ends up being basically the same as the chosen tribe so I get your point. The difference is, the Jews protect/weaponize themselves with the very same multicult/civil rights legislation that dismantles Euro majority’s, by being part of an untouchable outgroup/tribe. The white elites don’t have that luxury.

        • Good thing the Swedes own their media and banks.

          And Pakistan? Who could possibly have an interest in the British Raj? Opium played no part- zip, zero, none- in world affairs.

        • Things would be very different Anyone who grew up in a white area without a lot of Jewish people and influence knows it well Night and day difference Not saying Jewish people don’t have their talents, but they don’t have what it takes to run a society. They stink at it. Not much better than blacks, actually. On some level they have to know it, and their “hate whitey” stance is probably a coping mechanism and distraction from their complete and utter failure. If you fancy yourself chosen by the creator of the universe yet some “hick” in muddy boots… Read more »

      • That’s classic, and, yes, it is the same as putting the demise on Ceausescu on the Tribe’s shoulders.
        My personal favorite, not original by me but still, was the Muslim claim 9/11 was both a Mossad op and a major Arab victory.

    • i was going to down vote this comment, but it really made me laugh out loud, so i left it alone 😛

      that video of Ceausescu (and his wife) running around like headless chickens, is funny AF!

      • Ceausescu was nationalist in the purest sense, meaning he wanted total independence from any outside force, including the russians.
        Ceausescu was the precursor of Gaddafi(they were allies actually), Gadaffi had similar polices to Ceausescu’s, meaning paying external debt and zero dependence on western banking system. Both figures ended up the same way and their countries got ruined.
        Tito was much closer to russians than Causescu was, yugoslavians and soviets were good pals, yougoslavians had it easy during communism, not like the romanians, who were too ambitious for their weight class.

        • In his first decade of rule, Ceausescu was a very mild tyrant by the standards of communism. He publicly opposed the crackdowns in Prague and allowed for some freedom in Romania. That changed and his rule became a cult of personality. He was not the monster the West claimed, but he was not a benevolent dictator either.

          • i actually agree about the narrative that Ceausescu was a cloud person, the romanian secret services lied to him, they told Ceausescu that he was universally loved by the people, he really believed that crap, he never saw his death coming. The secret police in romania were bad, the people around ceausescu were the worst. His wife was an awful Hillary type woman, but Ceausescu himself as a person wasn’t that bad, he was an uneducated man, he was basically the equivalent of an american redneck with street smarts, who loved his country. You can’t really expect too much from… Read more »

          • The story regarding ceausecu’s regime going downhill during 80s has a lot to do with the west. Westerners used Ceausescu during 70s for political reasons, so their banks offered him loans, some occidental countries even bought some of the stuff romanians exported(as favours), but no one really wanted to buy cheap, trashy romanian products, the romanian economy was doomed from the start imo. In early 80s romanian debt grew so he took 4 loans from IMF, despite that economy still wasn’t strong enough to pay back the initial debt. Creditors suffocated him, demanding money in return so Ceausescu did the… Read more »

          • That is true. Virginia Pruden (she’s on Facebook) was a Christian attorney in Romania. She won quite a few religious liberty cases showing that there was some independence within the judiciary. Ceausescu kicked her out eventually, but most Communist tyrants would have imprisoned her or arranged an accident.

        • Libya was attacked to prevent formation of an alternate currency. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/6528 BLUF: “This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA)…this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.”… Read more »

        • O, and Ceasescu was so independent of outside world that he charged Israel thousands of dollars for every Jew he allowed to leave.
          Till my last days in the Soviet Union in the 70s there was always a positive coverage of Ceausescu and negative of Yugoslav Iosif Tito.

          • After the collapse of the Soviet Union, just about every Jew in Romania left for Israel. A few came to America, but the Jewish population of Romania collapsed. I recall reading somewhere that it went from 30,000 to 3,000. During the communist reign, the population went from 150,000 to 30,000, mostly due to emigration to Israel. It was a profit center for the regime.

          • I have to say, having a Ceausescu apologist in the comments is an unexpected event. Perhaps I should arrange a reader meet-up in Transylvania.

          • “i’ve no clue what selling jews is supposed to prove…”

            That an agreeable and just kind of reparations exists?

          • many people that lived during ceausescu regime saw it as better than present day romania, each has his own reasons i guess, but it’s a fact, which I am stating, not judging either way.
            I am not an ideological guy, i simply have a tendency of defending dictators cause i like strong men, i like white alphas(but not the jewish owned stalin types), whites should learn to respect their alphas, instead of bashing them all the time, that’s why west is filled with weaklings.
            Doesn’t mean that i promote or like old communist regimes.

          • Not unexpected: every anti-semite is a socialist at heart, as Jews’ wealth must be redistributed, hopefully to him.

          • Then a collapse of our own might rid us of the pests? Maybe it won’t be so bad after all.

          • You live in fantasyland

            Why comment on what whites want when you don’t have a clue?

          • Keep a low profile if it’s in Transylvania–there’s a large ethnic Hungarian minority that thinks that part of Romania should be in Hungary. I have heard, however, that the Transylvanian Alps are breathtakingly beautiful.

          • I have a friend with a small dacha on the Black Sea, six rooms.

            (He was showing me, with great pride, pictures of Vlad’s childhood home- with the Castle high up above town.)

            Remember, though, that Romanians aren’t like us. They think 3 station wagons packed with 25 family members is a small picnic.

          • Jevvs 101: How to make yourself disliked and unwanted everywhere with both a massive paranoia complex and an utter lack of self awareness.

          • When King Billy, King of All the Roma, when his daughter turned 15, it was time for her to be married.

            King Billy doesn’t wear shoes, and none of his guests may either.

            Limos, luxury cars parked all over the place, even sultans came- and nobody wore shoes to the wedding.

          • Empire of Dacia, baby!

            Romania is named after a lost colony of Roman legionnaires who didn’t go back home, but stayed to carve out a Kingdom of their own.

            Our Future, perhaps, repeated an hundred times until we grow mighty once more?

          • Not trying to be mean, but it’s a never ending cycle where they do everything they can to make people dislike them just so they can complain that people dislike them

          • Once we stop abortion on demand, we’ll need to sell The Juice to harvest their body parts. They secretly fear this.

    • Yea, Ceasuescu was such a romanian nationalist that romanian babies turned to the state by hungry parents were kept for years in their cribs without seeing outside or ever holding a toy or having human interaction.

      • romanian population grew a lot during ceausescu regime, that’s sounds like white nationalism to me, how many white babies are being born/killed nowadays during feminist regime?

        • If anyone has ever wondered what the “whites only Communism” espoused by the likes of Erik Striker and Mike Enoch would look like, see the system Sentry is praising above.

          • da heck are you on, i don’t give a flying fuck about communism, i just present some historical facts.

          • No. Communism is their “gift” to the world. Tikkun Olam. There is no making the best of that poison seed.

          • Not for nothing, my parish at the time sponsored missionaries to Romania. Frightening stuff. Babies need moms or a surrogate. Romania provided neither.

          • Peopel who see babies as a resource for the race or nation stop seeing the value of people very quickly.

        • But of course it did. There was NO birth control and abortions forbidden. That excess population ended in orphanages with no care or fresh air ever.

          • I’m sure, and your sober assessment is well appreciated, but her melodrama and hyperbole is what I am hoping to draw attention to

            Gets old.

        • The TFR in Romania at the time came at a horrible cost Most importantly White is also a set of cultural assumptions and Communism is not part of that. Say we go to theoretical maximum Communist, force growing clones to adulthood and implant an ideology chip into them so there is only a complaint population of ideological perfect European stock. That isn’t White Nationalism at all even if you were to have a population doubling every 20 years. Its not even White even if 100% Euro stock. Its totalitarian bullcrap Quoting Kaiser Wilhelm on Hitler but it could have been… Read more »

          • that regime did a great deal of good in regards to birth rates, it forced high iq people to reproduce. western society is dysgenic in this regards, many smart people, especially high iq women do not reproduce. Romania would be filled with gypsies if not for the state forcing population to reproduce. I have a question, if whites don’t want to use force in order to raise white population, and if they do not want to use force in order to reduce black fertility, then i really see no outcome other than total collapse of industrial world, the end of… Read more »

          • I don’t care what good that regime might have done It was Communist and thus I will brook no apologies for it. Even if I was so willing , do note this society failed to accomplish its goals in the end and ended up with more than generation of broken children and adults. maybe if they hadn’t starved people for austerity and you know made a decent economy for people to live in people might have wanted kids but nope, had to brutalize people. Frankly the F*ck*R got what was coming to him. And sure sometimes brutal social means can… Read more »

          • So your answer is to put faith in the amish people, basically you are in denial, cause that’s not a serios answer.
            You do realize huge country like America Will get invaded if population is too small to protect it.
            Porn matters not if men can control their women.

            Why is White man not entitled to fertility of the parasite women who live in his society though? What’s the logic behind that?

          • By who? Latin America is already here in mass numbers . Even so it is entering low fertility. Brazil is already there and Mexico is near if not at it. The people with high fertility in the MENA region mostly can’t even get here unless brought in and the idea of enough boats from Africa entering US harbors is ridiculous. China possibly could invade the US but they could do it right now if they so wished By y the time the US enters the “mostly highly religious, maybe Amish” period no one will be doing that kind of thing.… Read more »

          • Jokes on you Pal. I DID read it.

            LOL, they should charge people to use the internet. I get so much entertainment from it for free. Not from trolling, the only person who thinks I’m funny is me and even then. But everyone else? Wow. I mean, who’d have thought that Zoomers could get trolled into getting Nazi tattoos? See? Now I can’t stop laughing again

            Have a great week

          • Force is neither moral, nor required.
            Positive media campaign to glamorize heterosex, same-race relationships. Financial incentives, infrastructure support, and social rewards for parenting.
            Negative media campaign to discredit sexual perversion and hedonism. Financial penalties and social shunning for sterile “queer life” choices.
            Of course, this would require re-capturing media control then political control from the degenerate “progressive” class and their financiers.

        • It grew, despite increasing poverty, because Ceausescu wanted bigger families. He reined in abortion and penalized childless couples. Hence the growth of the abandoned children institutions so notorious in the news of that time after the fall. I was able to see such first hand with a couple of children adopted by a “good-White” family. Physically normal, psychologically screwed up, but I guess they pass your criteria—they were indeed, White!

          • There was also talk of organized rape gangs when people stopped having sex because they could not afford a child or didn’t want them living in that hell.

  5. The people suddenly realized that everyone else had the same thoughts about their ruler. Indeed. It is this simultaneous realization that drives any actual revolution or at least push back against the Cloud People. Perhaps this is why keeping your enemies distributed and fragmented is such a powerful weapon to wield. As always, the importance of communities cannot be stressed enough. Oddly enough, these ‘mass awakenings’ are very hard to predict, but are always game changers; the US must surely be due one in the next half a decade. Even on the small scale, it is fascinating to watch how… Read more »

    • One hopes so, but I ain’t holding my breath. The Soviets put up with a whole lot more than we have to put up with.

      • Watching the first few minutes of “The Chekist” (to the point where men and women are disrobing in a rat-ridden cellar, preparing to be dutifully shot), I realized everyone in the scene were white people from a Christian, conservative, patriarchal civilization.

        How? How did this happen?

        Why didn’t the soldiers simply shoot the functionaries issuing the 10-second “judgements”?

        I don’t get people, they make no damn sense. The simplest, most direct solution is usually the best- and it eliminates all kinds of future problems. Weed that garden!

        • that is an amazing movie. made in the early 90’s just after the fall of the ussr. it is a brutal, unflinching , but accurate view of what happened after the Bolsheviks took over . remembering that ANTIFA is bolshevik , it casts the current runctions in a much more severe light.

    • “Perhaps this is why keeping your enemies distributed and fragmented is such a powerful weapon to wield.” Yes, but it only works for a short while. The powers that be are trying to stave off an insurrection, and there are two ways to do it: keep your citizens divided against each other, or pursue a unified vision of material improvement for everyone. The former is easier, but it has the nasty side effect of diminishing the polity which is being ruled, making it susceptible to invasion and conquest, or of destroying it altogether. The latter is more difficult, but leads… Read more »

        • “Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and community
          propose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

          — David Rockefeller, CFR chairman, New York Times, 1973-08-10

  6. Scan the biographies of the political class and the thing you will be hard pressed to find is anything resembling real world experience. Did this a couple of months ago with our Members of Parliament. I managed to go through six names – starting with the Labour party – the similarity in backgrounds was so striking after even this small sample set, I thought that there was no point in going on: MP X was born in Hampstead to Mr X, a teacher and Mrs X, a social justice organizer. MP Y was born in Telford to Mr Y, a… Read more »

    • I would change the clausal opener to “scan the biographies of the careerist class …” E.g. – Scan the biographies of admirals and generals. They have a smattering of operational, point-of-the-spear tours of duty, but they’re usually of very short duration, and preceded and followed by tours in the Pentagon or “congressional affairs.” I was once an assignment officer, frequently receiving tasking to carefully assign a supporting cast of warriors to prop up the upwardly mobile (and feebly qualified) careerist. But in the arena of crisis & conflict, these feeble parasites were worse than useless. Then I became a senior… Read more »

      • And its why cloud people despise dirt people. True. As to your wider point about careerists, and with particular focus on the military, every time I see one of their higher-ups, particularly in the Anglosphere, I think: How does this person square up to Erwin Rommel? It just all seems so false these days. Quite how many of these men can claim any authority or speak confidently of battle when they’ve not even – and correct me if I am wrong – seen it for any extended period of time is beyond me. But yes, you’re correct that this applies… Read more »

      • During my year or so assignment to the Pentagram (Army), I enjoyed a “war story” from a fellow junior enlisted in a technical field. He was repairing an electronic gizmo is some General’s office and, when the General asked him if he wanted some coffee, the subrdinate (LTC? Captain?) unhappily brought it to the E-4 🙂

        • “Repairing an electronic gizmo.” Had to laugh at that one. Serious experience with that as well – when a General gets exasperated with an electronic casualty it’s often because he couldn’t figure out the on-off switch.

      • A friend once conducted a review of Flag Officer biographies over many years to determine any patterns that might lead to flag selection. Turns out, the most common billet among Flag Officer … Flag Aide!

    • If you read my comment somewhere on here, you’ll see that I lived around Imperial Capitol folk (US version). While there are slight variations, they’re amazingly similar people with very similar backgrounds. The best you can hope for with these people is indifference toward Dirt People, but it’s usually hatred.

  7. “The petty tyrants in the lowest level of the petty aristocracy just assumed the rest of us would happily follow their orders.”

    Judging by what I see around me the majority of the people are quite happily obedient to the petty tyrants in charge. No one has had to hire mask enforcement officers, or social distancing comisars. The people get their marching orders from the TV and smartphones. They bleat right along, and enforce the tyranny on one another.

    JWM

    • I live in a blue City but a red state so we don’t have a mask mandate but I have witnessed people I know wearing a mask while walking through the park. They are literally less than 1% of the people doing it. I was absolutely shocked and cannot look at them the same way again. I actually already knew both of them were fools but now it’s even worse

      • Here in Brooklyn NY, at least 95% of the people wear masks, even when driving alone in their cars, or walking alone inthe park. I’ve been maskless (even in the supermarkets) for the past 4 months, and occasionally get told to put one on by various store keepers. Last week a Mexican stock boy told me to put one on, and I just left my cart in the aisle and walked out. At the medical center, I’m required to put one on and get my temperautre checked at the entrance, but I usually take it off in the doctor’s office.… Read more »

          • 25%? A challege goal for DeBlaaahsio to double the score to 50 – or more

        • https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/hillary-denies-she-traded-clemency-exchange-votes This has been an ongoing situation in NYC, and the surrounding Jewish communities. The link is to the influence peddling Killary did to steal her seat when she ran as the carpetbagger Senator ‘from New York’. The article states, “In two other nearby all-Hasidic villages – Kiryas Joel and Kaser – residents overwhelmingly voted against Clinton. Election results indicate Lazio picked up 3,480 votes in the two villages, while the then-first lady received only 152 votes.” So, doubtful is the ne’er do well Cuomo, and his even dumber Lurch sidekick, Wilhelm II, are going to drive the Kiryas Joel… Read more »

          • I’m not observant, but i grew up surrounded by liberal jewish family and friends; all are anti Trump, and as far as I remember they didn’t like him even ten or twenty years ago,before he got into politics. There is a deep seated visceral hatred of him, and I’m not sure why.
            I worked briefly for some Hasids last year, and they are very right-wing, pro-Trump, anti-democrat.

            blasio is da Nazi-o.

          • as a side note, the last election for mayor featured the Repub candidate Joe Lhota (former head of the subway system) ; Turnout was very light, less than half of the turnout back in the day when Guiliani ran against Dinkins. DeBlasio got 75% of the votes cast vs Lhota who got 25%.
            (Lhota got 250k votes, Guliani had gotten over a million votes when he ran. )
            Ho Hum, people stayed home.

          • “There is a deep seated visceral hatred of him, and I’m not sure why.”

            From my experience, agree.

            Reform Jews I know, even ones that spent time as Unitarians, have a spitting, frothing Trump Derangement Syndrome.

            Orthodox Jews I know, including one NYPD cop, Right, not left.

          • There are any number of Orthodox rabbis posting YouTube videos as part of their teachings/ministry. Never saw one criticize Trump. Indeed, they proclaim him to be Israel’s and the Jew’s best friend. (Which of course is correct by any standard)

            Makes me wonder just what the split is between them and the other flavors of Jewish faith. Must be the bend towards modernism and leftism.

          • That’s what nobody sees, the split.

            Their societies have been riven by fratricidal civil war since the beginning.

          • When I worked corporate, the company head and a number of people were Jewish, all secular, and their hatred for the Orthodox was pretty intense.

          • That might have applied to a small, monolithic tribe 2500 years ago. America gets its “leaders” selected by a small, inbred clique of urban billionaires who don’t give a sh*t about the Torah or the goyim.

        • From the occasional news headlines, Australia’s enforcement makes most of USA look like an anarchist utopia.

        • Yet another reason our tyrants will fight to keep the mask and shutdown fraud going. It becomes another tool to punish disobedient parts of their fiefdoms. At this point I think the only thing that will free the bluest parts of the country from this stuff is an executive order or some ruling from the Supreme Court.

      • The other day I saw a girl playing tennis while wearing a Karen Kloth. People that stupid are fit only for slavery. Alas, that’s a pretty high percentage of “Americans.”

    • But that is what you want to see. Actual compliance has been spotty and there has been lots of enforcement. The reason our betters are moaning and groaning about people not complying is people are not complying.

      • Can confirm the 3rd worlders (“brown”) people are doing the bare minimum in public to keep the mask Karens off their back – and privately still meeting in large groups, eating from communal pots with their hands, and wiping their ass with their hands (ok maybe not the last one). I wish the same could be said for the goodwhites in my family, who are terrified of the virus and isolating themselves to the point of depression. The new recommendation in Toronto is to not celebrate Thanksgiving – whitey celebrations no longer permitted – and sadly many whiteys are following… Read more »

      • True. Traveled from a blue hellhole state out west to the South for vacation this summer. With the notable exception of New Mexico mask compliance dropped exponentially the further I traveled southeasternly vacation. By the time I reached the buckle of the Bible belt the only people I saw wearing them were people who should probably be wearing them (elderly and fragile, already on oxygen, morbidly obese, etc.)

      • I don’t know, very few people rebel. They complain, but I assume it’s just to placate me. I was refused dental service last week. I got screamed out of a library. Thank Darwin for wegmans…

  8. I happened on youtube to see the opening scene in Designated Survivor, the Keifer Sutherland tv show where he is the only one of the president’s cabinet to survive a terroist attack when the state of the union speech was given. Honestly, seeing the aftermath of the explosion in the distance on the capital was quite satisfying.

    • Tom Clancy ran with this plot line in Debt of Honor to get the Jack Ryan character installed as President.

    • Audiences famously cheered when the White House was destroyed in the movie Independence Day. The studio was surprised at first, then featured the shot in all their advertising. The press blamed Newt Gingrich and “angry white men.”

      In some ways the world has changed a lot since then. Some.

      • Same stuff, different decade. In the 90s, Gingrich and Clinton were members of the CFR, while Soros and Cheney were CFR directors. The globalists intend for us to tear down the old order so they can replace it with something more to their liking.

    • This has been the national mood for along time. When I went to see Independence day in theater way back in 1996 the entire audience cheered when the aliens blew up Congress.

  9. Nancy Pelosi truly thinks she is a beloved and respected figure to the Dirt People.

    And not just the white Dirt People. They fancy themselves as the savior of the poor brown masses, who they imagine will be on their knees thanking the generous Cloud People for refugee status.

    • It boggles the mind. All of these diversities have national and tribal ruling elites of their own and replace the stupid white leftists who brought them into our country the very first chance they get. Again and again and again …. THIS time it will be different, said ever leftist ever.

      • just like how communist sympathizers claim no country out there was ever truly communistic and that the nth attempt is the charm.

    • Pelosi is 80 years old. Statistically speaking, any day could be her last. Instead of being with her family and spending her ill gotten gains on more $15000 freezers and gourmet ice cream she insists on continuing to stir the pot. Any money she leaves her grandkids is not going to protect them for long from the tyranny she is helping to create.

  10. Oh boy, Z. I dunno if you missed or hit with this one.
    There is no doubt the ruling class has lost touch with US. But… there are a million blogs, pundits, and normies within a stone’s throw of here that think our leadership – with the exception of Trump – is just grand. California thinks Nancy walks on water. Their cities are dumps and they’re proud of it. Seattle, Chicago, and other shitlib bastions are doing their level best to turn their cities into the same kind of dump!

    • Glenf, I know exactly what you mean. Unless you have met and spent time around this kind of person, you just don’t understand how deluded they are. How impervious to objective reality. They really aren’t fully human any longer; they are infected.

    • It is an open question how many of them think the leadership is grand and how many have doubts about the leadership but think they are the only think stopping the wicked people on the other side. A fair number of people of the left most prone to violence would gladly turn their wrath on the average elected Democrat as well.

    • Because of Trump’s debate comment, some entrepreneur started selling “Philadelphia is a Bad Place” T shirts. Homicides up 40% over last year, and they are proud of it.

      • Homicides up 40% over last year, and they are proud of it.

        Steve Sailer kind of poked at this idea with the idea that the homicide rate could serve as a substitute for sportsball – i.e. “our joggers are tougher than yours.”

        • Yes, and James LaFond has been keeping running tabs on the different cities’ gladiator sacrifice numbers for years.

    • Their cities are dumps and they’re proud of it.

      I keep saying the liberal ideal for the US is an amalgam of Third World slums.

      They keep proving me right.

        • I mean, white communities will always be nicer than black and brown ones.

          On this course, eventually we will just be Brazil, with a more diverse elite. It will be shitty for everyone but slightly less shitty for whites / light skinned mystery meats because of the genetics.

          Of course things will go bad long before we hit that point, imo.

          • at some point , the CCP will call the game and send their settlers in . this geography will be used by the strongest global player once we are neutered. iit is pretty close , look how little anger there is a the fact that they continued to allow international flights out of wuhan after they had locked down domestic travel from there.

    • Yes, they seem to like to live amidst offal. Their self-perceived virtue endorphin boost must be greater than anything that might enter their brains via sight and smell.

      Note, I did not include “thought”, only the senses of the eye and nostrils.

      They want the entire country to live like they do.

    • I know plenty of this type. The blind rule follower, the plan truster. Let’s say the building is on fire, they are seated in a waiting room full of people and it starts to get smoky. The plan truster will sit there nervously waiting for the fire alarm to sound, or for someone to direct him to evacuate before getting out of his seat.

  11. It has been said often about in the before times, most executives, government leaders etc knew some people or were themselves from poor or working class background.

    Robert Macnamara when he became ceo of Ford in the early sixties and saw all the management class derived from those backgrounds, who worked their way up through merit and hard work. He decided they needed ivy league graduates with pedigrees.Everything improved after that , right?

    • When I started at my current place of work, the production manager was a local guy who’d started on the floor and worked his way to the top. He had a connection with his employees because he lived among them and always would. He had their respect because he’d done the same things he was asking him to do. He’d been in that position for a couple decades, too, so we knew he had experience in his position. Since he hung it up a decade ago, we’ve had 9 people rotate through that position. They were all wunderkinds who went… Read more »

    • Who’s buying all the ammo? The State? Mr. Normie-Con/Prepper? Or the fascist Left? I suspect the State and the fascist Left are winning this contest too.

        • https://www.ammoland.com/2013/01/cuomo-forget-30-rounds-no-one-needs-10-rounds-in-a-gun/#axzz6a6YBfYaf “Cuomo: Forget 30 Rounds, No One Needs 10 Rounds in a Gun”From the piece, No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer…” Now I might speak to the “shootings” compared to the “deaths” in the shitlibistan Utopias where both activities take place in the dozens every weekend. And where people apparently go to “haunted houses” in the wee hours of the morning, on nights when others have to work the next day … only to be shot and killed. So in terms of the “10 bullets”, looking at the data, one might need that quantity to kill an… Read more »

          • Further, many inner city people in places like Jersey City, New Jersy, keep chickens on hand. So one might not need to travel to the countryside to hunt them. Then, perhaps, being penned in alleys, one might be plugged with lead with a mere 10 rounds, as they would be unable to exit their compounds and head to safety. All that said, the Post this is in reply to mentions something “tacticool”. Whatever that means, suspect poster owns a sex doll as its sole companion. There is a certain tone. We know leftist mobs usually show up at a residence… Read more »

          • I keep seeing these video segments on YT with headlines that begin like “26 people shot to death…” They always make sure the headline is long enough so you have to click on the video to see the part that says “…in Chicago this weekend.” Then you can relax again.

          • I’ve always wondered if the normal people still stuck there have weekend dachas in the cornfields of Indiana just to escape the now predictable “festivities” in Chicongo.

          • Some do, we do not although it has been explored. In our case, we have two Plan B’s. An older but dear friend, a gazillionaire, lives three days a week in one of Chicago’s premier buildings to remain near her elderly mother here. She also acquired an enormous spread near my home town in Michigan and the home there is the size of a mid-sized city hotel complete with lagoons, ponds, swan boats and orchards leased out to local farmers. Another good friend owns as a second home a large family-owned farm in Wisconsin that has several coach houses on the… Read more »

          • They have terrible aims there in Chitcongo. Very low kill rates per shot fired. Somebody needs to start showing those fools how to shoot a gun. Although maybe not.

        • Everyone is buying guns and ammo.Men, Women, White, Non White.
          Everyone knows trouble is coming.
          But as for lack of action, don’t expect other to do what you won’t do.
          Oh yes let us not forget the mandatory disclaimer, don’t do stupid illegal things.

      • Mostly the right, but essentially everyone. All the rodents know the ship is sinking. And unless the left has taken to hard core gun culture, it is mostly the right. Reloading, hunting,and black powder supplies are “sold out – no backorder” these days. I dont see Antifa setting up a communal Dillon progressive and churning out hot 38 special loads being the reason you cannot buy bullets, primers, or powder for love nor money.

      • No. I live in a deep red area where BLM/Antifa is nonexistent, yet ammo is plenty scarce. The guns and the ammo are being stockpiled by the right, such that it is.

        • I suspect “normie” overload due to riots and publicity there of. Gunnies and preppers have bought beforehand, albeit often again after a national shooting incident.

          I suspect our perceived constant state of lawlessness and the inaction of political leadership is bringing those on the sidelines into the buying spree. As a 2nd Amendment person, I say the more, the merrier.

          I’m actually divesting wrt the “armory”. Whenever I see a good candidate for “enlightenment”, I issue him out of stock. 😉

          • Frankly speaking and off topic, most defense ammo isn’t really any better than basic ammo. Sure its a little higher performance but even in times of plenty, the juice often isn’t worth the squeeze.
            As long as it shoots, its all good practice ammo or fighting ammo.
            The caveat being precision rifle ammo which is at very long range better than the basic stuff.

  12. The starkest example of this delusion is Joe Biden’s “tough guy” act. I keep waiting for him to try his “working-class Joe” spiel on the wrong guy, roll up his sleeves and talk about kicking ass and then to subsequently get his dentures shattered like fine china. Sure, he has a security detail, but he is dumb and has already gotten in the faces of several people not inclined to play in his pretend realm. Who is the last “Swamp Creature” to burnish working class bona fides who wasn’t completely full of it? Tim Russert, maybe. Michael Moore’s everyman b.s.… Read more »

    • Nothing worse than a phony tough guy.

      I have no issue with real, rough and tough blue collar guys.

      But joe is fake and I want to knock him out every time he pulls his BS act.

  13. The guy I worked for the most over the years at the telephone company said that a good boss was a good subordinate. He also was known to say, “If you look out that window long enough you can see the unemployment line.”

  14. Re: Ceausescu. The Romanian dictator was overthrown after people started flooding the streets and public squares. These protesters were mostly Christians who wanted godless Communism to end. Chuck Colson discusses this revolution in his book “Loving God”. Those of you who are Christ followers need to pray for Trump and the coming election. Pray that people wake up like they did in Romania and other Communist countries. Pray for a third great awakening. Don’t count on so called Christian leaders. Although there are a few courageous ones (e.g. Franklin Graham), most are sympathetic to woke politics and/or are anxious to… Read more »

    • By their fruit you shall know them. Was roped into attending a friend’s daughter’s birthday party for their first grandchild, very young. Lots of kids 3 or 4 yo. Not my thing, but while standing around noticed a couple of older children 10 yo or so, both boys, who were playing and leading the little ones in activities. They were dressed well, clean cut and very attentive to the youngsters. In short, the stood out and gave the parents in attendance respite from their own little ones. Unusual. Not knowing anyone except a couple of oldsters, I struck up a… Read more »

  15. Lindsey Graham not being outed as a homosexual predator after years in Washington is proof that he is protected by powerful interests, likely Israel, military industrial complex, foreign policy lobbies and stuff like that.

    • It’s almost more telling that in those 260+ taxpayer-funded settlements (1997-2017) that Z mentions not one of the pervs names leaked out?

      • Very few names around Epstein have leaked out, too. Lends credence to the Ron Unz theory on how the elite move up in society.

        • I’m not familiar with Unz’s theory. But, like the Clintons (with whom Epstein had more than a passing aquaintance) there’s a statistical anomaly of associates’ deaths.

    • There’s a point here that Z missed: it did come out, but it was covered up. Remember all that Lady G stuff a few months ago? Yeah, betting there are a lot of dead bodies in the Potomac waiting to be found.

    • Grahamesty could be asexual and not a practicing homosexual. On the other hand, he promised hearings to investigate the Russia collusion plot to overthrow Trump and never followed through. Blackmail may be the reason why he gave up the opportunity to be a conservative hero (which he was briefly when he stood up for Kavanaugh).

  16. > This is the reason every middle manager sounds like a psychotherapist.
    This is not a good thing.
    One of my buddies went to his manager to argue that his pay did not equal his responsibilities, he was hamstrung by bureaucracy that has nothing to do with quality, and he was not given enough leverage in doing what was necessary. Basically a boilerplate complaint that any competent engineer has had at one point or another.
    The manager just looked at him and asked “And how does that make you feel?”

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