Broadly speaking, a crisis comes in two forms. There is the internal crisis driven by irreconcilable contradictions. Then there is the external crisis that is driven by some unusual occurrence like a natural disaster. The latter tests mostly the ability of the system to weather the storm and recover. The former tests the ability of the system to radically alter itself in order to address the contradiction. This is the most dangerous crisis and the one that few systems survive.
Of course, the internal crisis can be papered over for a long time until some external crisis comes along and makes that impossible. The external crisis puts pressure on the system, forcing it to respond under duress. The internal problems are then made obvious as the system responds poorly. Efforts to quickly resolve those issues in order to address the immediate problems just create new problems. This was the process that led to the French Revolution.
It is also where the Global American Empire finds itself. In theory, the system relies on the trust of the people. The citizens of America trust that the way they choose leaders, while never perfect, eventually gets them leaders who address the needs of the people by respecting the will of the people. It may require a few elections, but the politicians eventually figure out what they need to do to make things right. This belief rests on the additional belief that the politicians want this result.
That is not reality and people are clearly beginning to understand this. Most Americans have no genuine representation in Congress. The Democrats represent abstract identity groups that get plenty of airtime but are a tiny minority. Most people, for example, only know crossdressers through the media, not in real life. Most black people can easily describe a woman. Of course, the GOP represents no one. White voters are well outside the ideological orbit of the Republicans.
After the 2020 election, it was generally assumed that Joe Biden would not finish out his first term in office. His physical condition was the main reason. During the campaign he was mostly kept out of the public eye. When he was in public, he looked like a man struggling with the ravages of time. There was also the fact that his second was clearly picked to be his successor. The Left has developed an obsession with elevating black females and Kamala Harris is supposedly one of them.
The betting initially was that Biden would make it through the midterms and then announce that he was stepping down for health reasons. This would allow Harris to finish Biden’s term and then run for two terms on her own. This was a left-wing talking point that was echoed by mainstream conservatives. It was mostly about depressing the populist opposition. That plan assumed every other part of their grand strategy would go according to theory.
Here we are seven months out from the November elections and it is clear that Joe Biden needs to be removed from office now. His insane rantings in Europe about Russia have terrified the rest of the world. More important, the world is adjusting to the fact that the Global American Empire has an incoherent figure head. The Russians call him grandfather, not out of respect but from pity. The world sees Biden as a doddering old man who is not in charge of his administration.
This is an untenable situation. Every political system requires energy in the executive, even if it is just symbolic. The North Korean public is regularly treated to images of Kim Jong-un looking vigorous and in charge. The Chinese make sure Xi Jinping looks like a CEO of a successful firm. American presidents have often been shown doing cool outdoor things like chopping wood or playing sports. Society needs a leader and one who looks like he is fit and ready to lead. That is not Joe Biden.
Of course, the times need a fit leader. The crisis in Europe has now become a global crisis because no one has a hand on the tiller. The inmates are running the asylum in the Biden Administration. In prior generations, this crisis would have featured one-on-one meetings between the ruler of the Global American Empire and the parties at the center of the dispute. In this case, it would have meant a summit between Russia, China and the Global American Empire.
Ukraine is not the only issue. The fallout from two years of Covid mismanagement are creating serious trouble for normal people. Food prices have been climbing for a year and are now rising at an alarming rate. Retail and wholesale inflation are at levels not seen since the 1970’s. Labor markets are now showing the first signs of crisis as the deliberate demographic changes turnup in hiring. This is the unsaid basis of the commercial pilot shortage in America.
In other words, the Global American Empire is facing both serious external crises and irreconcilable internal crises. The lack of energy in the executive is allowing these problems to spiral out of control. Compounding it is the fact that the plan to install Kamala Harris looks unworkable. She is mentally and emotionally unfit for the ceremonial position she has now. The weird cackling and general ineptitude say she can never be permitted to hold power.
Of course, the coming elections mean a blowout of historic proportions for the ruling half of the uniparty. Professionals who study these things suggest this may be the worst election conditions for either party in American history. As a practical matter, that means the Republican half of the uniparty will play a major role in selecting the person to fill the remainder of Biden’s term. They may be tasked with removing Biden and Harris in order to save the system from total ruin.
That sounds like good news for the system, but the Republican half of the uniparty is every bit as inept and morally bankrupt as the other half. Again, this is a party without a genuine constituency. Their voters are just choosing the least bad option. That option is built to deny those voters real power. In other words, leadership of the system will go from people obsessed over esoteric identity groupings to people focused on denying the majority any influence over the system.
For normal people, this means a system that becomes increasingly erratic and paranoid about the general public. The things that matter like employment conditions, food prices and energy costs will continue to get worse. The standard of living is about to drop precipitously for most people. The quality of life is also going to decline. This is the cycle that the aristocracy faced in 18th century France. It is also what the party faced in the waning years of the Soviet Union.
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Looks like 2022 could end up being “The Year of the Four Emperors” for the Evil Empire. What a fascinating precedent — the “right”-wing party wins total control of Congress, then immediately uses the 25th Amendment to oust both the “President” and the “Vice President” and install…. Mitch McConnell, I guess. They’re dumb enough to try it, anyway, which is how you end up with an insane Leftist Man on a Horse.
If they were smart — and I know some big league guys read your site, Z, so please, y’all, think this over — they’d use the Biden laptop stuff they’ve already been dropping to hold a “truth and reconciliation” type deal for 2020. Declare a massive do-over special election or something. It’s either that, or… well, you know. Basic history is not a secret. (and yeah, I know, they’re NOT smart, so they’ll do the dumbest possible thing. I really wasn’t kidding about President Mitch McConnell, may God have mercy on us all).
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Thinking about it, one scenario is that they remove Harris this summer and install someone new. Maybe Lizzy Warren as a Hail Mary to salvage the midterms. After the midterms, Biden resigns. The GOP would have a huge say over who is VP, but the inner party would have someone controllable in the main job.
The more likely scenario is they push Biden out after the midterms and they are stuck with DMV Lady. This allows the staff to remain in charge since she is more of a vegetable than Biden. The GOP will then pick the VP who will be promised control of foreign policy. That means a super-neocon.
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John Bolton as vice president.
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If the left side of the uniparty were smart, it would install Bernie Sanders. He’d reenergize the populist/socialist wings in the party and probably dull the red wave. I know they’ve screwed him in the past, but that’s precisely the reason his installation would save them. Plus he’s more controllable than one would think. Watch videos of him from 2000-2010 (ish). There are interviews where he talks about open borders being harmful to Americans, and it being a Koch brothers wet dream. Now he’s full throttle pro-immigration. The uniparty gave him a proper “reeducation.”
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“If the left side of the uniparty were smart”
If
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They are in power. They have implemented every program they have wanted in my memory. Fanaticism should not be conflated with stupidity.
To be clear, I know they are unable to cite facts, use basic reasoning, or even make cogent points – the common metric of stupidity. But they know how to operate within the system, at least indicating shrewdness.
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Maybe they should do it as to who has the most second homes gets to be VP.
Should be a big field. Is Bernie tops with 4?
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Harris would never go quietly and I can’t see the rising class of Brahmins in the tech industry letting her get forced out either. What would be the pretext for her removal? They can’t use lack of competency, it isn’t applied to anyone else in Washington.
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Z:
Stacey Abrams is rested, ready, and eager to step up to the plate. Because the White House needs more sass.
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Stacey is ready, ready to chow down on the plate she filled up at the Sizzler buffet.
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and if the uniparty cannot stem the collapse after a new stooge is installed? as you have pointed out, real world consequences are happening now, and getting worse by the day. propaganda is useless in these conditions, it just makes people more angry (and more frightened). forces have been set in motion that have taken on a life of their own; china and russia can now see a path forward that collapses america without (obvious) risk of a war. and biden and co handed it to them. IMO the Pinochet option is the only move that has any chance of success, now that the political/business class is so catastrophically inept.
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Most likely. All hail VP Victoria Nuland!
(Seriously, though, that’s why a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” is the way to go, boys. Since it’s “the staff” who are screwing things up, it’s “the staff” who most need to go… but since they don’t stand for election, there needs to be a purge somehow. Scratch that, there will be a purge somehow, since what can’t continue, won’t. It’s only a question of “when” and “how” and “who’s running the rubber hose room.” I feel weird offering really solid advice to The Uniparty (who of course won’t listen anyway), but the alternative is far worse. I’m like Hobbes that way — “peace at any price,” though the price is horrifying).
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If I were advising Trump, I would suggest he promises to purge the neocons from the foreign policy establishment and permanently revoke their security clearances. He would never do it because Israel, but it would be a good way to personalize public anger over endless wars.
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He would be dead before signing the paper.
Or more likely, they would refuse to go, and he would do what?
It seems the presidency is effectively a token position at this point, like the Charles I monarchy.
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I’d advise him to do exactly what Biden did on Day One: spend the afternoon countermanding each and every Executive order Biden signed, while reinstating all the ones Trump himself put into play during his term.
Let’s show the world what a clown show this “democracy” is.
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People say Trump should have fired Fauci and yes he should have. Fauci would have refused to leave and the establishment including most of Congress would have backed him. I doubt he could have forced Fauci out of government.
How could a competent leader purge the foreign policy and intelligence establishment? I don’t even know where you would start.
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He should have moved his office to the Aleutian Islands or Diego Garcia. When he refused to show up, then he could be fired. The trouble is Trump was surrounded by people who either hated him or were incompetnant.
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The idea of the Republicans holding a “Truth and Reconciliation Committee” literally made me laugh. The visuals. The self-denunciations. Some strong black woman chosen to play the role of Aunt Jemina as Super Lawyer.
And, of course, the intelligence community leaking really nasty shit about the GOP’s cooperation in the coup attempt against Trump and how the CIA was the True Hero.
My money is on Harris, despite the disastrous consequences, becoming president after Biden resigns January 21st and Admiral Rachel Levine receiving unanimous Senate approval as vice president, with McConnell tone policing base opposition and handing out envelops after stiff pours of Maker’s Mark.
And, of course, de facto separation accelerating among the states as the dollar becomes worth at best a dime.
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The faster the Vichy Right shows itself as being nothing but the obedient lapdogs of the Left and their collection of spiteful mutants and obsolescent farm equipment, the better. Changing the doddering old man nominally in charge for a doddering old man from Kentucky who will pursue the same insane policies as dictated by the apparatchiks in Tubman might finally break the illusions of the Grillers.
But it will probably take an aircraft carrier going down with all hands for that to happen.
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They pretty much have, no? The whole Ukraine thing really cleared a lot of the smokescreens of bullshit that had been masking peddlers of GOP/neocon talking points (eg, Instapundit). Hilarious how quickly those people went from screeching about “media lies about covid” to parroting every retarded Pentagon/state department briefing as though it were the Gospel.
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Right?
One week everyone’s an epidemiologist and expert on human biochemistry.
Next week they’re all experts on geopolitics and modern combined arms military operations.
Amazing.
“The Washington Examiner reported, “Two German states announced on Saturday that it is now illegal to display in public the letter Z, a symbol of Russian nationalism.”
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/03/highlights-of-news_0877447611.html#more
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A facepalm is all I can respond to that. 🤦♂️
Nice to see the Europeans are taking Foreign Policy advice from “Animal House”:
Otter: “Bluto’s right. Psychotic… but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!”
Bluto: “We’re just the guys to do it.”
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Followed by “You fucked up! You trusted us.”
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“My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.”
Just when you thought the gesture stupidity could not get any more retarded.
These are supposed to be people entrusted with billion dollar decisions.
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They’re just trying to delay their inevitable submission to the newly created petro-agro ruble.
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Meanwhile, the Russians have has made some currency adjustments:
https://tomluongo.me/2022/03/28/got-gold-rubles-russia-just-broke-the-back-of-the-west/
The money quote:
[…] So, in order to get rubles, the West will have to exchange gold for them (there is no point in the Russian Central Bank accepting USD or EUROs as they could have just sold the oil for them in the first place).
Furthermore, Russia said, to make it easier on you, we will discount the ruble when you exchange it for gold. So for example, say oil is going for $150/barrel in Saudi Arabia. If you have $150 usd you can buy 1 barrel of Saudi Oil. Or, you can exchange your $150 usd for gold then use that gold to buy rubles. So, assume the discount rate is 50% you can then buy 2 barrels of Russian oil for that same $150 usd. And what do you think people will do?” […]
G8 governments are beside themselves and have issued a sternly worded statement.
Personally, I hope they keep going right along with Biden and/or Harris for at least four years, and the more corrupt and ridiculous the elections and candidates in the next couple cycles the better.
America getting what it asked for good and hard is the only way past this.
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The longer Biden – Harris remain in place the better for us. Additionally, I hope they find a way to keep Trump off the ballot and the GOP picks a ticket of Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.
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The only thing that might go in our favor regarding Trump is if he were allowed to win. Him winning would accelerate the collapse and possibly lead to something new a little faster. That being said, the carnage that would result from all of this would be disastrous. I think it would finally wake normie up though.
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My guess:
President Hillary
VP Romney
She’ll bring back the draft and send your daughters to Ukraine.
Americans did not ask for this. The election was stolen.
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I would argue Americans did ask for/deserve this, even if the election was stolen. Americans have been complacent as all these things have happened. Americans have stood by idly as American school systems have radicalized our youth into faithful believers of the one true religion. Americans cow when called racist for wanting voter ID laws or border security. The cowardice and apathy of white Americans is coming home to roost. On top of that, even if we had a candidate that was completely honest in the 1980s about the trade offs, Americans would have voted them out of office. Imagine this candidate in the 1980s. “I will cut back immigration to a trickle, but your 401ks, retirement funds, and home appreciation will stagnate unless you start to reproduce like the early 1900s.” I personally would trade all of my home’s appreciation to look more like the demographics of the 1950’s, but Boomers would have voted said candidate out of office the moment their 401k stagnated.
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Huge upvote. This is the best case scenario for us because it skips past the idiotic talk about good candidates and gets to the heart of the matter: dissolution of a failed system.
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There are other pressures too. Soaring home values mean higher property taxes for homeowners. The end of low interest rates this year limits consumers ability to borrow. Student loan payments have not been made for almost two years now.
There will be further demands for debt forgiveness, which thankfully Biden has resisted. Someone in there seems to understand how bad it looks to pay off the debt of Beltway lawyers making over $200k on the backs of people who never went to college or already paid their loans. Maybe they are just having the ultimate “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” moment. I would expect them to attempt some sort of maneuver where requiring blacks to pay back their students loans is considered racist and not required though. They are already trying to make failing HBCU’s effectively free to attend.
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I think they will tie it to “reparations” in the not too distant future.
It will be effectively a white tax to pay off the non white student loans and provide them with “free education” for evermore as payback for industrializing the world, enabling an extra 5 billion people to live and viciously letting them into the country.
This would be easy to push through at this point.
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They are getting the reparations paid out a hundred different ways. Still blacks won’t be satisfied unless they get a check that says “reparations” on it and even then they will want it in perpetuity. Here is another example, Kamala announces a pledge to give $4.7 billion to minority owned businesses in the swamp. This is coming from large corporations not the taxpayers. Why, you may ask is this only available to businesses close to D.C.? It appears no one in the press was even curious enough to ask.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/kamala-harris-to-join-greater-washington-partnership-to-unveil-investment.html?&qsearchterm=
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If it were the colleges that took the hit, I would almost have sympathy for forgiving POC college debt, given that most of their degrees are worthless. As Ol’ Remus pointed out years ago, 60% of black college graduates work for the government. Do they really need degrees for these positions?
https://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2015/06/frankly-my-dear-guest-post-from-ol-remus.html
And doesn’t the inflated home values make a perfect thing to tax under the new “billionaire” tax? After all, your home has gone up in value – unrealized gains. Isn’t that one of the great wealth disparities? Isn’t that another great way to force you to sell your home and move to hive megacities? Doesn’t that help create equity?
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“After all, your home has gone up in value – unrealized gains.”
Yes, the proposed legislation stipulates conditions that would require–not just permit–that very thing. What is more, if you property’s value collapsed the next year for some reason, you would not get a refund.
And I was wrong yesterday when I said this was to be an executive order. It is legislation that has to get through both houses of Congress. And the mid-terms are approaching, and the GOP candidates have to get through that even though, as ZMan points out today, they are dedicated to the proposition that nobody deserves any representation after the elections, least of all from them.
“American presidents have often been shown doing cool outdoor things like chopping wood or playing sports. Society needs a leader and one who looks like he is fit and ready to lead. That is not Joe Biden.”
I always told My Lovely 🥰 Mrs. that with his energy Donald Trump looked 10 to 15 years younger than he is. Joe Biden looks 10 to 15 years OLDER than he is.
But then again I’m old enough to remember the cries and snark of his opponents that a doddering old fool of a President shouldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes and that he’d start WW3 and get us all nuked.
Good times, good times. Maybe I should stream “The Day After” to get myself in the mood of the times.
P.S. Anybody seen Code Pink lately?
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I haven’t seen Code Pink, but the Washington Free Beacon had an article yesterday about the SPLC. Workers were wearing masks outside while protesting the requirement that they return to the office full time. Some of these organizations will end up imploding as they cannot control their workforce and there is no natural endpoint to the woke madness they have put in place.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RtXmnUe9s0
Remember back when politicians were articulate and funny?
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Can you imagine Trump or Biden referencing “Seneca or Cicero”?
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Well, Seneca is a town in South Carolina, and Cicero is a town in Illinois, but beyond that, no. You nailed it.
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When he made that joke about his age, he was 6 years younger than Biden is now.
The liberal Americans I know think that Biden was a great choice for President and seem to have no issues with the way things are going. Not sure if it’s possible to share a country with people like that either. And people like this aren’t capable of having their own country since it’ll immediately get destroyed, or invaded (both currently seem to be happening).
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I think this is important to remember. The same group that elected him are the same that still admire him. I cannot fathom, in any way, that Republicans will be able to remove him. The laptop story is another non starter. Just like Burisma. Just like the freedom convoy(s). Just like Qanon. Just like the Podesta emails. Just like the DNC emails. Just like Benghazi…… just like Iraq……….
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“The liberal Americans I know think that Biden was a great choice for President and seem to have no issues with the way things are going.”
For these people, it is unlikely that they’ll ever see – even when they’re eventually, very obviously, enslaved… or put to the sword by cultural enrichment. I look at such people and have visions of them being rudely awakened by a culturally enriched home invasion, and then bad things done to them, and then limply watching as The State (The Evil) does nothing to help them. Maybe some light sentences, but then again, maybe not. I simply cannot see that such people will ever relief themselves of the illusion of what their country is.
It is worthy of note that even in my small north UK city, office employees remark about how much of a vegetable Biden looks to be. No American Potato has even inspired that much in the way of office gossip – the guy is comical (although his incompetence is terrifying).
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They might note that Brandon seems old and unfit, but then they will talk about how Britain First is racist and not vote any further right than “respectable” Boris Johnson.
Perhaps most people are like this because we simply didn’t have democracy for that long and it’s unnatural. They’re natural sheep who just do as they’re told and for most of history didn’t think much about politics because it was above their rank.
I would be interested to do a family line analysis. I know in my family the people less susceptible to Globohomo all come from lines of small business owners, tradesmen, and farm owners. The cattle (and there are more of them) come from servant lines. Democracy makes us all “equal” with disastrous results.
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“I would be interested to do a family line analysis.”
Some such studies have been done along these lines, although as I recall, it didn’t involve family lines, but the conclusions were that political and social attitudes and outlooks have some kind of innate, maybe genetic, component.
Can’t remember for the life of me when these studies were done, or by whom, or where.
Googled this one up rather quickly:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/#:~:text=More%20than%20half%20a%20century,see%20Hatemi%20and%20McDermott%202012a)
more like office work, or any kind of corporate employment.
We’re talking about a nation which cannot internally reconcile its need for excellence with its emotional desire for affirmative action for women and minorities. That alone is destroying us. Time is not on our side.
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The MSM and social media and the corporate sphere is gradually, but relentlessly pushing psychosis down everyone’s’ throats.
Until that breaks there is no way to turn that ship.
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The complete collapse of excellence in the education system is an 800 lb gorilla few are talking about.
My STEM college’s alumni mag is nearly unreadable word salad about racist diversity initiatives, green energy scams, and dystopian transhumanist initiatives.
The mag from my STEM grad school is the same.
They both run articles on vibrant alums for their video game collections and Wakanda costumes.
Older alums are complaining about the woke rot in the comments section of our school’s website and threatening to cut donations.
I figure this is commonplace in the US university system now.
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“For normal people, this means a system that becomes increasingly erratic and paranoid about the general public. The things that matter like employment conditions, food prices and energy costs will continue to get worse. The standard of living is about to drop precipitously for most people. The quality of life is also going to decline.”
Yes.
This has been my main concern for a number of years now, even before the Covid Tyranny made is obvious that these people just think they can ‘shut it all down’.
Yesterday, I left a comment detailing the hike in prices my end; in particular, detailing that such items were going to get dearer. I mentioned the importance of foregoing luxuries, and one commenter asked if I considered electricity, gas &c to be such (here in the UK). My answer is that they are not luxuries now, but I think they will be within my lifetime (I’m in my thirties, so there’s plenty of time to go).
Western governments cannot do much in the way of help their citizens. Even if they knew what to do to make the lives of one group better, another would get worse. That’s assuming the plan could even be implemented in our highly distributed and scaled-out world. Thus, it becomes incredibly important for concerned men to start to think about how to prepare for the future that we’re likely to have.
For my money, I don’t think I’ll see an end to private property rights in the next twenty years – so that’s a basis I’m working from (of course, I could be way off). But I do not expect: reliable energy generation and distribution, a fairly enforced law for the plebs, cheap and worthwhile educational establishments, a large and good quality source of foodstuffs, ‘elected’ politicians to help me in any way, local authority to sort local issues out competently. I just cannot see it, and to my mind, this is the least deadly route: a gradual decline and then tepid stagnation of the standard of living.
The mental tooling to sooth this process is quite obvious: you accept the decline. You then begin to condition yourself to live without (what I at this point in time consider to be) luxuries: holidays abroad, expensive meals out, season tickets for a football team. Naturally, Christianity has it’s role here – a reading of the New Testament will detail suffering after suffering, and even those who were comfortable had little. A good mindset for the future, I think.
I’m not advocating for a return to the Dark Ages, here. I don’t want it, but it is coming and it is just the timing that I’m unsure of. Another question for our types is that of the decline of social capital. My family have dropped people like we’ve dropped some luxuries since The Shamdemic, why? Because these people, whilst nice, lived in a totally different world, a world of plenty, a world where they cannot believe in State Evil, a Godless world. Drop those who will weigh you down, but seek others that will buoy you up in the bad times.
As we’ve lamented here before, our ‘leaders’ have very little understanding of what needs to be done. But let us suppose that they did: how then to effect the change? I cannot be done, The System cannot be reformed only decline and – eventually – destroy itself.
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I disagree about the private property.
I don’t think you will get laws specifically to do this. Its not how the direction of travel is structured, as we seem to be in a post legislative world in many respects as demonstrated by recent events.
You will get a digital currency, that is programmable plus all the corporates will join in restricting transactions based on terms of service as they do now for stuff like normal opinions or assertion of reality.
Deviation from proscribed behavior will be met with removal of any property . Look at the language against Russia. The UK FS stated that Russia would get sanctions lifted if they “changed their behavior”. Its now the dominant nanny mind state in the entire ruling structure.
The effect is that property rights will just be gone at some difficult to define time that we will see after it has passed the threshold.
Personally I think that will be within 5 years.
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Yes, I must admit to being a bit optimistic – and certainly used to think that an outright legal assault on said rights would’ve been out of the question. But, by stealth or by law, I imagine they’ll eventually be taken.
A direct legal challenge would be most beneficial for us, as it would get shot down in flames. But, as you mention, it is the ’round-the-houses’ cuntery that’ll get it done.
Of course, I also bet that any future society will have an enormous amount of problems doing all of this. It does seem to me like they have bitten off more than they can chew.
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You are much more optimistic than me.
I think they are in many ways already half way there, the rest is just a matter of keep slicing away until its done, same as all the other stuff.
For example I recently got a letter from my bank about the new terms of service, which included me being discriminatory in any way to staff, or not being able to justify to their rules why I wanted to withdraw money from my on account (including possibly having to provide an invoice from a “reputable” company to support such a withdrawal as a reason),
otherwise any withdrawal could be refused, or not able to deposit if I can’t show where the funds originate.
I was also told if I did not agree I could move my account, but to where?
They are all going to be there in a short period of time.
The digital Pound is already in white paper form in the BoE, as is the Ecash in the US, and the one in Australia.
The time is now it seems to me, not 20 years.
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” … an outright legal assault on said rights would’ve been out of the question. But, by stealth or by law, I imagine they’ll eventually be taken.”
But it seems to me that that could be accomplished only with the willing cooperation of *local* authorities.
Presidents and Prime Ministers can give all the commands they wish, but who is there to carry them out or enforce them?
“You will get a digital currency, that is programmable plus all the corporates will join in restricting transactions based on terms of service as they do now for stuff like normal opinions or assertion of reality.”
I agree, but my conclusion is that this situation will produce black markets everywhere and for everything. And how can anything like that be controlled by the would-be “authorities”?
No government in North America has the manpower to enforce all this stuff. And they can’t *get* the manpower.
Everything is local. If I’m in Kansas, cops or soldiers in Washington cannot arrest me or bother me at all.
If some would-be tyrant decides to make an example of a town or city somewhere, even the stupidest griller will see the handwriting on *that* wall and will act–finally!
” … plus all the corporates will join in restricting transactions based on terms of service … .”
It is growing increasingly commonplace–and popular–to take what one wants from a shop or other business and walk away with it. It’s well known now. If corporations decide to make the plebeians toe the mark, the plebes can be expected not to take it well. Business would have to shut down. Obliging customers to hand in written orders and wait outside for their purchases to be brought out to them, as is now happening in some places, depends *entirely* on the willing cooperation of *every* member of *every* population. It would take only one man and one incident to demonstrate to all businesses everywhere that locking the customer out of the store is a non-starter.
And supply chains are breaking down anyway, but even if they weren’t, it would take very few men to break them down or shut them down by killing truck drivers or others in the supply chain.
I don’t see how a population as large and as well-armed as ours can be expected (realistically) to endure both privation *and* tyranny at the same time. One or the other, yes. Both at once, no.
We are probably looking at a general breakdown of everything, together with a local barter economy, at least for a while, probably a short while, until some equilibrium is reached via a series of now-unpredictable events.
My two cents’ worth.
digital currency is not the future. barter is. no one is going to take bidencoin for a sack of turnips.
I haven’t been out of the country for over 2 years. First travel was banned, then it was banned for the unvaccinated. I have thought before that this lifestyle is much more in line with my ancestors, most of whom probably never left their county their whole lives – let alone their country.
COVID was a good test to see how you’ll fare in the New World we’re getting. Sounds like you’ll be just fine.
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Private property rights have already been grievously wounded by what the controllers have done to truckers’ bank accounts and Russian billionaires’ yachts.
The unrealized gains tax they keep chirping about is another tool they will use in conjunction with rising property taxes to force people from their homes.
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and small landlords got screwed royally by rent suspension.
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Just so, now prognosticate.
Wanton, irrational violence is on the rise everywhere as pressure builds within a people struggling to deal with the manufactured insanity that is being inflicted upon them. And LEOs have been systematically castrated, so you can forget that counterbalance to self-correction. It only gets worse faster.
People will take to the streets in protests and mass demonstrations. Opportunistic pols will leap in front of the mob and shout what people want to hear and put voice to the angst and anger. They will be elevated to messiah status and the fervor will grow exponentially.
And then there will be a spark and pent up rage will spread like wildfire.
When the chaos begins, the Cloud People want white guys to start killing other white guys and decimate the alphas as fast as possible. Failing that, detention camps will sprout up like dandelions. But what if, instead of French Revolution style madness, the disease cells start keeling over; first one, then another, and another et cetera. And they take the hint and head for the exit in their Gulfstreams. Far less pain and harm for everyone. Just sayin’.
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If the Gulfstreams start to take off, hopefully those Stingers sold to the Ukraine prove worth the price.
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I don’t think you’ll see that. Too many normies think the system still works. I have convos with my normie conservative friends and they still watch Fox News and believe that voting matters. They keep telling me that when “we” take the house and senate back all will be well. Yeah….
I think what will happen is you’ll see the death by a 1000 cuts continue while the tax slaves continue to slog through life. The republicans will start rolling out their LGBTQ “inclusion” plans. Reparations for blacks might be on the table as well in order to garner favor with them, etc. All the while normie is grilling and watching the NFL on Sundays.
Speaking of republicans trying to get votes… Listening to Cotto/Gottfried this week, Halsey English said it best. The energy spent by republicans trying to get the black vote is a colossal waste of time. Telling blacks who have welfare, preference and all sorts of government mandated freebies that you’ll be taking those away and offering them a job instead is a waste of time. It can’t ever work. Culture matters, and what defines our culture…
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TomA: The castration of LEOs is selective as this morning I could not help but observe that those tasked with serving and protecting were actually harassing and extracting. The harassers were all white as were all of their prey.
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What I meant by castration was demoralized and pissed off rather than highly motivated and scrupulous. Yes, they can and will crack heads on command, but are otherwise reactionary to crime, arriving after the fact and thereafter often conducting half-assed investigations. During riot season and the accompanying chaos, they won’t have time to be looking for the needle in the haystack. Wear the fog.
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” … detention camps will sprout up like dandelions.”
This is something one often hears, but I don’t quite know how to visualize it.
Who would put people into these camps? How would that be accomplished?
We don’t have a national police force. All law enforcement is local. The County Sheriff is not going to cart people off the a concentration camp in May and then ask to be re-elected in November.
His deputies live next door; in the general population. Most of them have families living with them, and nobody could protect them from reprisals at the hands of a heavily armed population.
The country is too vast physically to be subjugated even by *all* members of *all* the uniformed services acting *simultaneously.*
Martial law *might* be enforceable in the city center of three or four megalopolises, but no more than that. And the cost would be such that even that desperate measure could b sustained for only a few months at most. Maybe only a matter of weeks, depending on circumstances. The troops have to be fed and armed. They have to sleep sometime.
What am I missing? I can’t see how camps or martial law or anything like that could be accomplished unless we assume a willing and cooperating public, which seems unrealistic. To me, anyway.
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In perhaps the same way Australia set up the Covid camps and dragged people off for internment.
Happens the same in every country I imagine.
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We most definitely do have a national police force, where have you been. Stasi, HLS, DEA, Marshalls, etc. They number in the tens of thousands and do what they’re told like all paramilitary organizations. They serve their paycheck and pension first and foremost. And yes, they will set up detention camps very fast just like in WWII. And don’t worry, you are very likely on the list due to your participation on this board.
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Wear your mask.
Take the jab.
Know your place, bigot.
21st century concentration camps don’t need barbed wire and guard dogs.
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Bingo.
Once they install the CBDCs and global digital ID they have no need for a physical site.
Rather, the entire world will become one goant decentralization camp.
I used to regard the Left’s design for us as resembling a metaphorical Playpen Gulag–infantilizing totaltarianism. But I never envisioned concertina/razor wire atop and around the sides.
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The Uyghurs beg to differ. They reside in camps where indoctrination is relentless and literal castration is the modern version of the final solution. Luckily there is no Siberia in the lower 48 so gulags are unlikely unless they open up the Alaskan North Slope for labor camps.
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You must factor in the fact that the majority of citizens will support you and I being put in camps for “the greater good”. It will be popular with the public which removes many of the impediments you mentioned.
Also, I think for all intents and purposes we do have a national police force.
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that’s how i see it too. the cities are already unmanageable, how will the progs build anything, that’s not their thing.
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Creating a national police force was the motivation behind the whole defund movement. Destroy local, build back better nationally. Thankfully, they won’t have time or enough follow through to pull this off.
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Aren’t there a lot of earmarks for federal funds to be used to effectively buyout local police in the new $1.5T spending bill?
Of course we have a national police force. Not counting all the feds, what you have is your local police department being just a field office for the national one.
Biden will die or become unable to perform his duties due to a stroke or some other severe condition before the end of this year. Then it’s her turn.
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With Hillary as VP
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“…due to a stroke…”
Or a stuffed pillow….
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The standard of living issue continues to build and yet it seems like more people want to talk about hitlerian Putin and the “horrific” invasion of poor little Ukraine. Of course that is having an impact on our lives, but not in the way most people think. It’s the west’s, and in particular, DC’s hysterical reaction to it (and other things) that are causing all the negative consequences – and most people just can’t (or won’t) see it. At some point, one would hope, the general population will finally see the forest for the trees and do something about it, but I wouldn’t place any big bets.
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I’ll take the under on that bet.
Remember when Covid killed literally everyone because of Bad Orange Man and everyone was forced to stay in their homes? Obviously the economy tanked: everyone was DEAD. It had nothing to do with the government reaction.
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It is easy to talk about Putin/Hitler for the average person. We’ve seen lots of movies themed about the little guy vs Goliath. It’s a theme where we can root for one side or the other. Like Monday morning sports talk, it’s easy.
The economy is another thing altogether. Even Harvard trained economists disagree about what we can or should do. The air quickly thins and discussion is difficult for the average person. All they know is that they are in pain and as the threat becomes existential, they become more and more desperate.
As noted by everyone in this group, especially TomA, these are dangerous times. As has been said, “a drowning man, grasps at straws”. The democratic process may very well vote (I use this term loosely) their own Putin/Hitler in. Some say we did via Trump, but Trump was/is a pussy compared to Putin.
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Confidence in the System is ineffable yet essential. It’s as vital as wheat or gasoline. And it has become all the more important now that the Elites have decided to run the System with no feedback or input from the Dirt People.
Therefore, you’d think that they have to do something about Biden. But the surprise could be that there’s no surprise. Uncle Joe was a product of a grand compromise. How exactly are the Elites supposed to conduct a succession plan without a battle royal that would upset the balance of Uniparty power?
I think the answer is that confidence has to fall even further to force the Elites into action. The dollar hasn’t collapsed and the stock market is still high. Home prices are high. So my prediction, to paraphrase Mr. T in Rocky III, is more pain.
It would take something akin to a general strike 1848-style to get anything done about Biden/Harris. Meanwhile, you’re going to hear more gaslighting from Yellen/Blinken/Bernstein/Austin as Uncle Joe gradually fades away. This show can run longer and get worse than anyone could currently imagine.
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disagree. it is closer to systemic collapse than you think. modern economies are quite fragile, with no design margin to spare.
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“The crisis in Europe has now become a global crisis because no one has a hand on the tiller”
But how much of this is because of our idiotic response to the crisis we helped create in the first place? There really shouldn’t be a global food crisis because of the war. The global food crisis is because of our idiotic “sanctions” on Russia. Same with energy. The problem is not no hands on the tiller, but an insane hand on the tiller.
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Ahab on the Potomac
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Let us hope the epilogue is not: I alone am saved to tell thee.
Perfect! The sad truth of our untenable situation and impending socio-economic crisis is beginning to sink in to the addled brains of the general populace. This is the moment at which history calls up fascism, war and revolution – not necessarily in that order, mind you.
As a side note, the 26 year old wheelchair representative from North Carolina did us a service last week when he spouted off on the back room coke and orgies of the degenerate ruling class (likely within the useless party). As I recall he was and likely still is neo-con in his views. He would definitely wheel up to the wailing wall and caress the stones for hours. First he says the obvious truth, Ukraine and its leadership is far from pure, then get reprimanded by the party leadership and now this. My guess is that the click he wanted to be part of, including Patches Crenshaw, had such glory hounds that he was stuck wheeling around a bucket of their piss, and he was quietly seething about it, as a young thin skinned millennial he desperately wants to feel important, and feeling unimportant, lashed out as his masters. Other thoughts on this appreciated.
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I wish fervently the Democrats’ “abstract identity groups” were only a tiny minority, but alas, they are not. In fact, very shortly they will be the majority. And, unlike the traitorous GOP, the Dems actually give their voters what they want. The GOP also gives Dem voters what they want. And that is why close to half the people in AINO have no federal representation.
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“The quality of life is also going to decline. This is the cycle that the aristocracy faced in 18th century France.”
1789 problems require 1789 solutions.
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