I decided to call this show The Borg, after the fictional entity in the Star Trek universe, but I could have gone with Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone. The thing that this show describes is a self-perpetuating system. The purpose of Conservative Inc., and all nodes of the managerial ecosystem, is to maintain itself by defending itself from outside threats through assimilation and subversion.
The trouble with the self-licking ice cream cone idea is that it suggests the self-perpetuating system is benign. The United Nations, for example, is not actively trying to change much of anything. The damage it does is incidental to its existence, in the same way the damage done by the postal service is just the result of it not being particularly good at delivering letters and packages.
The Borg concept, on the other hand, is an aggressive entity. It sustains itself by seeking out and assimilating new life forms. The process by which it sustains itself is a constant danger to everything around it. Cancer, for example, destroys its host by replacing good cells with cancer cells. The death of the host is not incidental to the existence of cancer, but the end point of it.
This is true of managerialism in general and specifically true with regards to anything resembling an American right and Conservative Inc. The conservative ecosystem that forms up one part of the political class exists to absorb, assimilate, and subvert anything viewed as a threat along its assigned place on the wall. Since its purpose is to do those things, it has evolved to find causes and people to assimilate.
The minor controversy over Project 2025, a scheme hatched by The Heritage Foundation, is a good example, one used in the show this week. Its purpose is to assimilate what it can use from the populist uprising led by Trump, subvert his efforts, and snuff out anything that cannot be assimilated or subverted. Heritage is the Borg queen of the hive mind that is the conservative industrial complex.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Introduction
- Background
- Skin Suits, Day Walkers & The Borg
- Co-opting
- Project 2025 (Link) (Link)
- Agenda 47 (Link)
- Conclusion
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I know you were using the Borg as a metaphor, but it still has me thinking about the actual entity in the “Star Trek” films. Probably because I just watched one of the less bad films, “First Contact,” which deals almost exclusively with the Borg. “Star Trek” has always been considered progressive—a notorious early adopter of the stunt casting that has grown to be so abominable of late; there were some heavy-handed lectures in there, too. But there was always, in the first iteration at least, an unapologetic strain of the pioneer spirit to it. Kirk was a white man… Read more »
First Contact was terrible. All the Next Gen films were bad, but the least bad was Insurrection.
Insurrection deals with a white utopia, where the astoundingly capable hwite inhabitants need to be removed so their ugly cousins can come and suck all the life-force from their homeland.
Then Picard shows up and gives one of his smug speeches about the removal of peoples. We need Picard again to stick up for white homelands!
Relative to Blade Runner or 2001, maybe. Not relative to other “Star Trek” movies. No one is ever going to confuse Jonathan “Two Takes” Frakes with Kubrick or Scott, but the movie has good FX (especially on the Borg queen) and James Cromwell has fun chewing scenery. He’s one of those character actors always playing white authority figures—sometimes, horror of horrors—actual racists. But he is a pathetic lefty, of the flak-catching type Tom Wolfe wrote about in his famous essay. I’ve seen an interview with Cromwell somewhere where he’s literally weeping about Civil Rights.
Cromwell is very soft in the head. Seriously. I saw him weeping over pigs in conjuction with the film, Babe. May have even been at the Oscars.
I’m probably the only guy around here who has never seen a Star Trek film or an episode of Next Generation. I do, however, rather like the camp elements of the original TV series. Generally speaking, pop culture from that era–mid- to late-60s–is pretty interesting stuff.
I have spent a lot of time lately (old age retirement does that) reviewing much of my early interest in TV. Hell, I remember our first B/W TV with a *round* projection screen. 😉 More often than I’d care to admit, I watch an episode of an old series and remark…”How the hell could you have wasted your time watching this?”, and of course lament the time spent in such which could have been better spent in more fulfilling pursuits. However, I agree. Watching old shows really does put into perspective societal progression (decline?) over the years. Especially apparent when… Read more »
“I have spent a lot of time lately (old age retirement does that) reviewing much of my early interest in TV.”
You mean brainwashing. And yes, I’ve have also youtubed old shows i watched when I was a kid and it’s a mind fuck. I simultaneously think how different it was back then and also ask why the fuck did I think this shit was so impotrant and waste my time on it?! Youth is truly, TRULY wasted on the young.
Generation X is OWNED by Norman Lear, Gary David Goldberg, etc.
and Sherwood Schwartz!
The propaganda in the older shows is far more subtle and sometimes doesn’t even exist at all. But by the 1960s, pretty much all TV became propaganda. The same is true of radio, books and magazines. Some are worse than others, but virtually all of them have propaganda angles, sometimes subtle and sometimes as in your face as possible.
Yeah, Gilligan’s Island and the Brady Bunch were clearly anti-white propaganda…
Yep. One despicable aspect of such shows as they progressed from the 50’s through the 70’s and 80’s was the change in the family structure depicted. Gone were the days of the intact family featuring a (White) hard working, but wise father figure. In came the days of the (White, Black, or missing) buffoon father figure.
And yes, there were notable exceptions, but they were just that, exceptions.
If you asked me to think of memorable original Star Trek scenes/episodes I’d probably list the famous kiss scene between Kirk and Uhuru and that tedious anti-racist one with the two guys who were half black and half white but on different sides. I actually think the propaganda in that show was easier to spot than it is today because it was a contrast with the better value system of mainstream media at the time.
Today, everything is super ghey and the miscegenation is shoved down your throat in everything. How do you even show how progressive you are nowadays?
They will probably start completely memory-holing all those old films and shows soon. I’m surprised they haven’t already.
Didn’t they already do that to the Dukes of Hazard?
The late studio era thriller movies with outdoor scenes shot on location are like a window into a different society. “The Desperate Hours, for instance. “Anatomy of a Murder” is another, shot on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Maybe. I’ve never checked if it is impossible to get that show. There’s probably a tension there between some run of the mill Epstein islander owning the rights vs the more wild eyed genocidal fanatics wanting to eradicate even the memory of white Europeans. I know certain bugs bunny cartoons are gone. Unga bunga binga bunga
IIRC, the Dukes’ car, called the General Lee, sporting the Confederate flage on its roof and with a horn that played the first several notes of “Dixie,” caused some people to go scurrying for their safe spaces. For that reason–and probably a few others–it has been largely banned.
Yep. Captain Kirk was Jewish. So was Dr. Spock. Never knew that until recently!
The old Star Trek episodes were actually quite good, but in hindsight now I can see the subtle leftist and Jewish undertones, especially in Patterns of Force, in which the crew beams down to a “Nazi” planet and Kirk kicks some Nazi ass.
I’ve never seen one of the movies, nor watched a single episode od any Star Trek TV show. Mothing against those who have, hell I was a big wrestling fan in a past life and still watch the mat classics, but Star Trek never interested me.
I tried watching a few episodes as a kid when they first went into syndication, but I thought it was dumb. My older brother watched them on network TV and loved it and he had all the books too. I tried reading one of the books, and it was dumb too. The special effects were all dumb too. The dumb uniforms and automatic hiding doors were dumb too. I am a fan of sci-fi in general. But I cannot help notice the types of people it draws in. I don’t know how true it is, but I have always heard… Read more »
WWF was the perfect primer for US politics and i thank my childhood friends who were into it and had parties which forced me to watch it.
I still find fascinating (as Spock would say) the depiction of modern technology in the first Star Trek series. Lot’s of blinky lights in vast arrays, but really no view screen as we commonly use today with icons. Indeed, with the exception of a single on/off switch/button, I left a computer room at my old department that did not support a single blinky light panel and accompanying mechanical switches.
The “trekie” archetype and the incel archetype are basically the same thing. Poor hygiene, morbid obesity leading to being unable to do much of anything other than watch TV, smugness, and a tone deafness for others’ perspectives are the main characteristics of both. It’s probably just that whole array of noxious habits makes it virtually impossible to find a (consensual) sex partner. These types are at high risk of going gay or pedo or both. The juvenal nature of TV sci-fi probably also leads to the occasional presence of children at the few trekie social events. Star Trek can be… Read more »
There are many times when I would like to whack some of our “leaders” with a folding chair.
“I’m probably the only guy around here who has never seen a Star Trek film or an episode of Next Generation.”
You are not alone.
I always described the Star Trek iterations as pirates in space (Original), then corporate office in space (TNG), then regional office in space (DS9), then finally, HR is space (Voyager).
I agree that the Borg as villain is an interesting thing, given that the people who created it are of the hive mind, but the progressive hive tends to project fears about itself on imaginary villains, so creating such a villain makes some sense.
Once you realize everything the left says or does about the right is a projection you understand the game. But I have always considered the Borg as leftists. In fact the quintessential leftists since they have not only destroyed the individual but they have achieved destroying every individual they come in contact with. It’s enough to give a Democrat a woody.
TNG was definitely Management In Space. The Federation and the Borg were rival Borgs. The bad one was forthright and the good one was hypocritical/self-deluding. The virtue of the Federation was in its proto-“West Wing” speeches, contradicted by its actions—all necessary. The lonely agony of the corner office! (Even a round bridge has a corner office.) The one kind of space entity the show had nothing to say about: normal Federation citizens. When later shows purport to fill this gap, they don’t. They’re about low-ranking Feds, i.e., writers’ “self-insert” complaints about being relative losers within the system, not external subjects/victims… Read more »
Enterprise was boring. It was an effort to fill in the back story, but these efforts always fail, especially these days when the writing room is full of women and homosexuals.
Enterprise ended just as it was getting good, In the series’ final season (Season 4), Enterprise ended with the prelude to the Romulan War and the founding of the Federation. Enterprise’s showrunners were saving those two big events in Star Trek history for Season 5, but the series was cancelled.
The last couple of entries into the franchise are downright insulting.
Then you had the “right wing” villain in DS9 as the Dominion. The founders who un-apologetically viewed themselves as a master race and set out to conquer the galaxy.
Though the “founders” seemed kind of Jewish to me. Shapeshifters who prefer to infiltrate and dismantle their enemies from within before sending in their chattel servant races to militarily conquer.
I wonder about DS9 writers. They snuck in lots of right-wing / libertarianish stuff.
DS9 was saved by the “prophets”, Bajoran gods. The main enemy they defeated was “the dominion” whose founders were shape-shifting space Jews who viewed all other races as servants.
These “Founders” even had an ancient persecution story which justified their revenge on the rest of the galaxy.
Ah yes, The shapeshifting “founders” story was that they lived among “solids” and then gotten kicked out of every planet they tried to live on. So they set up camp on a fringe rogue planet (space Israel) where they ruled the rest of their empire through servant peoples.
The Quasarbergs and Neutronsteins, weren’t they?
I liked DS9 because they had obvious Space Jews (Ferengi), a fascist cop who would have loved to send them all to space Auschwitz (Odo) and the Bajoran/Kardassian struggle was pretty obviously the Palestinians and Israelis. It’s still remarkable that they got that stuff past the thought police even then.
My favorite episode is when Captain Sisko colludes with the Cardassian Garak to engineer an alliance with the Romulans when the Federation’s war with the Dominion is going badly. They use deception, illegal sale of contraband, and murder to achieve the goal. Sisko is abhorred by these tactics but decides that the alliance was worth it. It seemed like a slice of the way the real world works.
First Contact had to introduce a “Borg Queen” because the non-Trekkie movie-going rubes in the 1990s couldn’t understand leaderless villains.
Of course if we had a demented president back in 1994…
Not only did the Queen ruin the Borg as a villain, but the plot contradicted established Borg motives.
The Borg existed to assimilate advanced technology and they viewed primitive races as unworthy of assimilation.
So what was the point of going back in time to assimilate a pre-spaceflight Earth?
I absolutely hated First Contact, the people who seemed to like the movie are the type who just want phaser battles and don’t want to think.
“Corporations”, an interesting take that at the time of its airing, I hadn’t considered. To me Picard was more of a diplomat to Kirks “Gunslinging sheriff of the old west” image, more polished if you will. I’m glad they fired the writers after the first season because the whole “avoid violence at any cost” theme of the show was nauseating. That and the new Enterprise, which I didn’t like because it reminded me of a piece of sculpture. The same with the bridge which I thought looked too much like someones living room.
Like how the progressives are always worrying Trump will utilize the DOJ to go after his political enemies!!! Projection is their number 1 attribute.
Five minutes of Star Trek Discovery (Diversity in Space) and you’d want to destroy Earth too.
The Death Star is in position, m’Lord…
No entity is more clueless about the Left than the Left itself. This explains why Leftists can create a villain, such as the Borg, that accurately mimics the Leftist zeitgeist. It also explains why Leftists, as a matter of course, project so much. They simply do not understand their own ideology. For them, Leftist simply equals good, and that’s all there is to it.
Z: “The Borg concept, on the other hand, is an aggressive entity. It sustains itself by seeking out and assimilating new life forms. The process by which it sustains itself is a constant danger to everything around it. Cancer, for example, destroys its host by replacing good cells with cancer cells. The death of the host is not incidental to the existence of cancer, but the end point of it.“ joey jünger: “The loss of individual ego, the assimilation into the hive, seems to encapsulate the beau ideal of what the left wants, or at least claims to want.“ For… Read more »
This is an excellent read and gets across what i fail to say in my own words:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251660
Is it “Fwentays” or “Fwentiss”? I prefer Fwentiss
If you’re a white Anglo, the latter.
Regardless, it’s the most effete-sounding Spanish name in existence. Its English analog would be Dinwiddie.
Just a note on the perverse con inc subversion of Brexit. Brexit was a referendum/movement based almost entirely on the fact that Britons wanted to take control of their immigration policy and stem the tide of mandatory refugee resettlement outlined in EU policy. The conservatives reframed it that Britons wanted to leave the EU because it was too racist, and didn’t allow for enough refugee resettlement, and they wanted MORE. Hence the sheer tidal wave of the last 3 years. These people are pure evil, and we’re not voting our way out of this problem.
Marko: Instead of a flood of Poles (and I like Poles but they ought to be home working to make Poland great instead of taking jobs in England) they’ve just gotten more Pakistanis and Nigerians. Even if all immigration stopped tomorrow, the future for France, Germany, and England – like the US – is total population replacement given birth rates and age cohorts. Short of massive repatriation (and whatever bloodshed and/or violence that would require), there is no way our children are going to be able to avoid dealing with this. Voting is far too little, far too late, and… Read more »
I can’t help but notice the parallels between Brexit and Trump’s term.
It seems like addressing the problem of massive immigration was one of the primary motivations of both campaigns, if the not the biggest motivation.
But once Farage and Trump took the helm, it was as if immigration was mostly forgotten. What became most important was proving to the world that the conservatives love the blacks more than the liberals.
When exactly did Farage “take the helm?” The Tories co-opted his movement in exactly the way Z described.
The problem with European-descended societies is they have succeeded almost TOO well. The water is clean, the traffic lights work 100% of the time and when they don’t there’s a friendly cop to wave you on by, the factories are churning out massive amounts of food and goodies (much of which is imported from foreign lands using Western know-how). Driven by natural human need to find safety in a world of scarcity, the 3rd world immigrant invites himself and his whole extended family to join him using liberal repatriation laws. The powers that control the West have long ago decided… Read more »
The concept of a Borg queen never arose in the Next Generations series to my knowledge. I think it was early girl boss junk thrown into the later movies. The Borg as leaderless and completely autonomous is more like our real world apparatus today.
Good point. The Borg were the ideal “villain”, soulless and leaderless. But I guess Leftists of the time required a leader figure (an elite) to complete their fantasy.
We are thinking along similar lines, Z. I did some quick fact finding on this project 2025 that all you eeeeeeevil conservative nazis are supposedly in on. It’s part of a bigger trend I am seeing over on the left. You and the rest of the fellas may have noticed it? It seems that scuttlebutt and traffic over on the left is getting more and more like Gab – but in reverse. The corporations aren’t owned by palm rubbing hook nosed happy merchants – but he red neck hillbillies that are extremely wealthy and extremely stupid at the same time.… Read more »
Ben Shapiro that little… guy.
Z’s momentary pause for restraint made me laugh.
I feel as if we are all lined up in a circular firing squad, screaming at each other for the same “crimes.” We are watching the death of a former nation in real time. I have no idea what’s next, but there is so much bad, dark energy out there.
That dark energy has building for quite some time, and we keep asking ourselves how much longer it can continue. When will the whole ball of wax finally disintegrate? And yet, like Old Man River, it just keeps rolling along…
It’s feeling awfully 1939-ish out there, and no bones about it. Something’s going to blow…
I feel it’s just as 1859-ish. In the sense that when I was a kid (some time ago) it was hard to understand how it could have been brother against brother, but today, it’s easy to understand.
Star Trek is basically a concept of progressivism we all could have lived with. How to keep it at lofty speeches we could have just rolled our eyes at and moved on with our daily lives and not the gay black masses I have to shield my children from that is has become today is a topic for another day.
True. However, A ineluctibly leads to B. What appeared innocuous in 1966 proved, by 2016, to be utterly depraved and malevolent.
“…the damage done by the postal service is just the result of it not being particularly good at delivering letters and packages.”
Did I just read a good definition of, or rather example of, “mediocrity”? I think so. Mediocrity is exactly what this country has strived for since it adopted as its highest moral value—the pernicious concept of equality.
Equality is achieved not primarily through sublimation–most people cannot be sublimated–but rather through hammering the gifted down into deformed lumps of base metal.
Exactly. Equality belief failed to elevate all to the same level, so now we seek to hammer down those pesky nails (Whites) that stick up. Of course, the concept of “merit” is diametrically opposed to such a process, hence my original posting.
That’s a classic concept, Compsci. Classic.
The pursuit of mediocrity is the main obsession of our elites. Outsourcing is a good example. Are Chinese manufactured goods on a par with those produced by the now-shuttered American or European factories? Of course not. They are at best poor imitations and often dangerous to those using them. It doesn’t matter. The elites just want something half-assed that looks and functions sort of like the real thing. They get to pocket the money that used to be “wasted” on well paid factory workers. The same thinking is why your company replaced it’s software developers with a bunch of mush… Read more »
The thing about Project 2025 is that it encourages conservative civilians from outside of politics to fill out a form with all their info. The form is quite detailed since they claim it will be used for job vetting and secrecy clearance. The form also includes essay questions where applicants are asked to describe their personal philosophy and thoughts about the direction of the country. Now just imagine some ordinary guy fills in the forms honestly and sincerely. Suppose he gives certain dangerous answers in his essay questions. This data will not be extinguished after the election. It will live… Read more »
I don’t think Project 2025 is an op. I think the people behind it correctly understand the primary problem with the first Trump administration, which was a people problem. The Trump admin was staffed by RNC losers. They sought to correct it by building a database of capable people ready to work for Trump’s stated policy preferences and goals. Trump tried to do the same thing the first time around, he had a job website. The website was totally ignored by Reince Priebus when it came to job hiring. It essentially said “do not hire these people for government.” Also,… Read more »
You’re probably correct that P2025 is not some devious scheme to entrap the ravening hordes of Blue-eyed Ice Devils. However, the BEIDs are also right to be suspicious. The Power Structure’s surveillance apparatus, after all, is very real and it is worked exclusively against people like us. Fifty times bitten, a hundred times shy.
Project 2025 needs to be put into context. It was not some super-secret thing concocted by some shadow people to implement the Handmaiden’s Tale. it was done by the Heritage Foundation, an organization that has been around FOREVER and is basically the default conservative organization in DC and has been forever. It has publicly available tax forms and one can see the funding sources. They put up the PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Hundreds of people contributed to Project 2025 including big businesses and policymakers in the past. if the glowies want to go after a bunch… Read more »
Just like the Republican party itself, the Heritage Foundation is part of the Power Structure. That fact will do precious little to soothe the jitters of those suspecting an arriere pensee.
Whatever the motives behind Project 2025, it will eventually be subverted by Con, Inc types. It’s in conservatives’ nature to be either cucks or sellouts–and I include most self-proclaimed MAGA champions.
Yes, to be clear: P20255 is not fake. But it has many possible uses as a catalog of unapproved people.
If you are White, heterosexual, try to keep yourself in good health, and have a desire to work hard and provide for yourself and a family, you have already outed yourself as an unapproved person.
Such folk, however, are passive enemies of the BFE. Once you go to the point of effectively publishing a non-Leftist manifesto, no matter how half-assed, you go from passive to active, and from the shadows to on the radar screen. Doesn’t mean Men in Black will knock on your door in the dark of night, but it does put you in the gun sights. And they can pull the trigger at their own discretion.
I have two words for you: Heritage Foundation. The fact that it’s sponsored by them is all you need to know.
You sure do think good and rite purty for an intellectual wigger…
It’s curious how the Heritage Foundation all of a sudden became a Far Right/Nahtsee org. Up until about two weeks ago it was the boring, staid, establishment “conservatism” of the rinocons and had been for as long as I can remember. Now, practically overnight, it’s dangerous and subversive, a threat to “democracy.” So either….. somehow HF was taken over by “maga” while nobody was looking, or the MSM got the bat signal to rebrand it, and/or it is as you say, this is an op. Nevermind that nothing in Project 2025 would have been thought radical by anyone a mere… Read more »
You want to talk dangerous and subversive, we’re talking about people who spent the last four years covering up the fact that they have a dementia patient as a puppet for their schemes. No surprise they rolled this out now. The document has been online since April 2023 for all the world to see.
Timing is everything with these people. One of the very few “news” sites I use is something called Market Watch. And one of the reasons I use it is because it has been basically apolitical. All that changed with Joey Depends’ public face-plant. Now Market Watch is pushing the anti-Trump message good and hard. These people are in panic mode and are showing their true colors. Not that I hadn’t suspected they were Leftists all along, of course.
Borg to the left of me, Borg to the right…RESIST…there is only one Borg! Is that about it?
It just offers different fears or favors however it needs to in order to succeed.
My first contact with the term Borg was over at the late Colonel Lang’s blog about ten years ago. IIRC it was Andrei Martyanov who started using it there. Borg is a lot better than “MICIMATT” but basically means the same thing. I’m sure ConInc rates “node” status, whatever that means. I assume they are still using the term. But maybe not. I checked out after Lang died and the site was taken over by a borg-ist Ukrainiac who was just repeating bullshit from ISW. I’m not a homosexual, so I don’t know if there is more etymology to the… Read more »
Quick thought while listening to today’s podcast. That Heritage playbook could be very useful both as model for how to be really effective in disrupting things as well as a negative list of who to exclude.
Heritage took a huge, albeit fleeting, severe hit when it went down the DIE Pike with its strong black woman affirmative action hire Kay Coles as director. She was a complete Bushie who embraced all the leftwing pablum albeit in the typical kinder, gentler fashion. On her disastrous way out, as I recall, Coles called her persistent critic Tucker Carlson a racist and misogynist. She apparently didn’t think transphobia applied. Heritage thus became too Con, Inc., for Con, Inc. and the money dried up. The organization then fully jumped on the Trump Train to remain relevant and, of course, able… Read more »
Z, I can’t believe you brought up Star Trek’s Borg without mentioning the impact of the character 7-of-9, played by actress Jeri Ryan and her magic tits. Nary a red-blooded male fan of that era wouldn’t have given his left nut to join the Borg and “go where no man has gone before” despite the Borg’s evil ways. Moral of this story . . . an appeal to the amygdala always beats rational analysis in the cerebral cortex. It’s in the DNA.
There’s some kind of corollary there to nerdy leftist bugmen going to protests hoping to get laid
“I went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of poon.”
With apologies to the Stones.
I never miss an opportunity to remind people that Jeri Ryan was (with the possible exception of Penny Pritzker) the woman most responsible for Obama’s political rise. Without her messy divorce from Jack Ryan, Obama would not have coasted to his Senate seat. Although maybe the “credit” should go to the L.A. judge who for some reason ($?) disclosed more of the divorce papers than either party had agreed to.
Jack Ryan was a literal cuck. Jerri Ryan divorced him because she didn’t to have sex with strange men while Jack fapped himself watching in the room.
The fault lies entirely with Jack Ryan.
Very true and as I recall, the Israeli hatchet-men Emanuel brothers (Ari & Rahm) we’re heavily involved as well.
The world’s most important breasts. It was the leak of her sex-themed divorce filing that destroyed her politician husband’s image and made Obama’s career.
He’d been a treadmilling local failure for years because his handlers kept changing his identity. “Birtherism” was their invention. They pretended he was foreign so he wouldn’t seem like a standard-issue corrupt local. Black voters hated him for it. Then they forgot about that, just like they forgot they love Trump, when the tv changed its mind about him.
Obama’s biography has two fully separated halves. The cleavage between them is 7 Of 9’s.
Yes. When he attempted to get into the US House of Reps, Bobby Rush crushed him 2 to 1, despite Obama’s heavy support from the White/Jewish liberal node of the Chicago political system. He won the White vote in Hyde Park but the blacks went heavy for Rush. Then at least, they knew a phony when they saw one.
My Three Sons was the last show made in innocence–at least the first season. I have been watching it with dumbstruck wonder, marvelling at the clean, White world it showcases.
Maybe seasons after 1960 became the usual propaganda/ engineering vectors, but the first season conveys morally sound, upbuilding plots and dialogue.
Anyone who sneers at the 50s, or repeats the tired old lies about how that era was not, ackshuallyyyyyy, an infinitely better world, can cram it right up his Brainwash hole.
Uncle Charlie was like a god to me…
Off Topic: apparently someone got wind of a recent post of yours called “Ending Strength”. He linked to it on the Starting Strength website: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/mark-rippetoe-q-and-a/98502-strength.html
A quick note about Amanda Milius. She’s the daughter of John (Dirty Harry, Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn) Milius. Not sure how she got mixed up with this Project 25 business but she did serve in Trump’s previous administration in the White House and the State Dept. so her thinking she might have a job in his next administration wouldn’t necessarily be a delusional fantasy. She also directed the documentary film, The Plot Against the President, which I’ve heard good things about but haven’t got around to watching. The Astral Flight Simulation podcast has an interesting interview with her for… Read more »
The “Project 2025” memes are hilarious.
I heard Project 2025 will replace all NPR with nothing but reruns of “The Z Blog Power Hour.” 🤣