Most of the people who use the phrase “America First” do so emotively, as a way to indicate that they like or dislike something. They will use this phrase, for example, when dismissing something or someone from the left. Alternatively, they will use it as a way to restate allegiance to their cause. “I’m America First” reduces to “I’m on the side of the good guys and those people are the bad guys.” Beyond this basic political signaling the phrase has little meaning for the users.
This is not true of everyone. Trump and his more reliable supporters use the phrase to mean a radical reorientation of the political class. What Trump means when he says he wants an “American First” foreign policy, for example, is that he looks at foreign policy in service to his domestic policy. The same is true with trade. He promotes the use of tariffs, for example, because he thinks about trade as a means to an end and that end is the promotion of the American domestic economy.
The radicalism of this gets lost because both sides of the political class have mischaracterized these positions for half a century. So-called conservatives talk about “free trade”, a thing that does not exist, as enlightened policy, while tariffs are slandered as isolationism and central planning. The left now promotes endless wars around the globe as a necessary duty of the American government, even if it comes with a heavy cost to the American people.
One reason that government policy now feels anti-white is because it generally feels anti-American, but in reality, it is simply indifferent to white Americans. The thing that has consumed the Biden presidency has been Ukraine, followed by the endless wars in the Levant, and then their escalations with China. Whenever the concerns of white people come up, they are blasted with the tired old slogans that are simply meant to dismiss the concerns of the majority population.
Immigration is another example. The logic behind open borders is not that it is good for the native population, but that the people enabling it are doing a good deed for these foreigners and humanity in general. While much of it is driven by spite and ingratitude, the underlying cause is indifference to domestic concerns. For the typical person in the political system, the concerns of average Americans matter only in so far that they have an impact on these cosmopolitan projects.
This is why the usual suspects screech in horror at Trump. He is a threat not just to their specific schemes but to the framework in which they operate. For example, he looks at Ukraine and asks why Americans are paying for it. If the Europeans want to make war with each other, according to Trump, they should pay for it. In other words, he looks at the Ukraine situation purely in terms of domestic economics. The starting question for Trump is “how is this good for Americans?”
This is most obvious in his statements regarding Taiwan. In a recent interview Trump pointed out that Taiwan is rich mostly because of America, so they should pay for their own defense against China. He also criticized prior administrations for allowing Taiwan to corner the market on high end computer chips. Trump feels no moral or emotional commitment to Taiwan. For him, it is just another transactional relationship that is either good or bad for Americans.
Even with regards to Israel, the area where Trump gets most criticized by dissidents, his view is purely transactional. He looks at Israel as part of the greater Jewish lobby in America, so he treats it as such. The Jews have a lot of money and power, so Trump caters to them in the same way he caters to other powerful interests. If Evangelicals stop worshipping Jewish people, Trump will be less enthusiastic for Israel, because Israel stops being important domestically.
J.D. Vance also takes this transactional view of trade and foreign policy, which is why the usual suspects detest him. When asked about Ukraine during his senate run, he shrugged and asked why anyone cares about Ukraine. Vance has also talked about using tariffs as a way to bring manufacturing back, as well as a way to boost the American economy in general. This kind of talk around the usual suspects is like wearing garlic around a vampire.
The reason this terrifies official Washington is that all of their projects and therebefore their reason to exist rest on the assertion that overseas concerns are paramount because they serve the interest of the empire. If politics moves to a debate about what is and what is not good for the American people, suddenly these schemes not only stop making sense, but they also sound un-American. Project Ukraine, for example, is exactly what Washington warned about in his farewell address.
That is the root of the rage we see in the political class. Trump and now Vance signal a shift back to an older form of politics where candidates promised a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage. This is antithetical to the cosmopolitical politics that have dominated for at least the last thirty years. A successful politician of old actually had to know something about chickens, pots and cars. Contrast that to now when politicians take pride in having no practical knowledge.
None of this should lead to a celebration. The odds of Trump winning are not good, despite all of the good things breaking his way. The mere fact that he is in a close race with a nursing home patient shows how much damage has been done to the self-respect and intelligence of the voting public. Even if Trump wins, the political machine will simply work harder to undermine his efforts. The usual suspects are terribly smart but hey never take no for an answer.
Even so, this all points to the problem with empire. All empires are eventually controlled by an alien elite that parasites off the people who made the empire. As the cost of empire exceeds the benefit of the empire, the people at the top begin to hollow out that which makes them possible. In this regard, the Trump – Vance ticket is a symptom and a warning of what lies ahead. Either the reformist elements of the oligarchy embrace America First, or something much worse than Trump comes next.
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This is what I enjoy, all of the armchair pundits proclaiming that this is it. It’s not, this is the beginning. We’ll never see Emperor Trump. It’s gonna be someone else, and it’s gonna crazy. I await the “… strange new respect for Donald Trump…” pieces. Please practice second order thinking.
The Z has been doing “strange new respect for Donald Trump” pieces on the regular.
Noticed the slight shilling going on, too. He’s probably got some under-the-table money coming in from a Trump-related entity. It’s not a negative accusation, per say, I merely suspect a lot of mature, non-insane political voices who’ve been cast into the void might be being courted somewhat. Sailor got brought back after all.
Sailer rise seemed to coincide with Oct. 7 and the college protests. I’d suspect that the tribe decided that if they’re going to be forced to be on Team Whitey, they should push colorblind civic nationalism rather identity politics.
God himself reaching out and saving a man’s life will do that.
Which god? Because they were praying to Wahegru at the RNC.
Z has mentioned in the past that Trump has top-tier political instincts (which is correct) and that he supports the people who expose the corruption of and do maximal damage to the current Regime. If some Democrat were doing this, like a better version of Tulsi Gabbard or RFK Jr, I think Z and many of us would be “respecting” him or her too.
It doesn’t matter if the Trump-Vance ticket disappoints you. What matters is the people that want to kill you also want to kill them. That should blessedly focus our efforts.
“Either the reformist elements of the oligarchy embrace America First, or something much worse than Trump comes next.” With the changing demographics in this country and the way that such a development affects voting, I find that final sentence questionable. Besides, the system has proven itself impervious to the results of elections. It appears that Donald Trump’s original term as president had zero impact on how the leviathan actually operates. That Trump obviously is a massive CULTURAL figure/icon blinds people to how inconsequential he has been in terms of how the state manages its affairs. The same bankers, military industrialists,… Read more »
This is entirely possible but I offer an alternative scenario today. You certainly are correct about the first Trump years.
“the system has proven itself impervious to the results of elections.”
Nah, he has been very successful in my opinion. Whether you consider this a plan or is unique ability to goad them into shooting themselves in the foot, we’re at a point right now that an unprecedented number of people feel about the federal government like people in the Soviet Union felt about theirs 30 years ago. They are hanging by a thread and hopefully Trump will follow through and demolish what’s left of it when he steps into the oval Office in January.
You must have slept through the whole period of January 2017 through January 2021. How many times will you try to kick the football that Lucy/the system keeps teeing up for you? Politics is theater.
I think you’re right that the system dodged a figurative bullet when that literal one merely grazed Trump. Another few centimeters the other way and they would have gotten what they wished for, only with terribly ironic consequences, like something from “The Monkey’s Paw.” Walter Kirn—an old-style democrat from Montana and not given to hyperbole or conspiracy—says an old regime friend told him the plan was probably for Trump to be dead before the RNC. The seeding of the media with stories about an Iranian hand in assassination attempts would have helped Haley astroglide her way into the nomination, the… Read more »
The prosecutions have merged in the public mind with the State-sponsored assassination attempt. That’s not a good long-term prospect for the Regime. Stalin learned this the hard way but he was crazier than he was stupid. Our versions have that in reverse order.
But, yes, slow, steady decline is possible. Don’t discount a sudden collapse, either, if the lunatics decide the window is closing to conduct another world war. It is a miracle we have avoided a nuclear war so far, and that is only due to the Russians being less emotionally incontinent than the domestic psychopaths.
I’m the only one who seems to interpret this to mean that the Biden presidency and the stolen election was engineered by people FRIENDLY to Trump.
“…How do you attempt to ‘sneak one in’?
How do you attempt to ensure victory? …”
https://qalerts.app/?n=4014
—–
“Sometimes you can’t TELL the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE. …”
https://qalerts.app/?n=4908
Knock yourself out with the downvotes.
How did you draw this conclusion that people friendly to Trump undermined him in 2020 by design?
To me it’s pretty obvious. As bad as our system May be, it isn’t this bad. As Sundance has said, it appears to me that they’ve got Judas a goats throughout the system pushing the right buttons, exaggerating what has gone on in the past so that it hits us upside the head, so we see it, so we get to a slow boil so that Trump can do something about it. Election night was a great example. That just doesn’t happen in real life. Likewise with the 59 times the courts told people to pound sand after they complained.… Read more »
None of your word salad explains people friendly to Trump tanking the 2020 election as some form of 3D chess.
Dr. Jill, please take the keyboard away from your husband.
Please stop with the Q spam. We have standards here.
I will be proven right in the end. There is no such thing as coincidence.
Feel free to downvote. I get a kick out of it.
You’ve gone off the rails a bit lately Nick, you used to be solid.
“There is no such thing as coincidence.”
But God does have a sense of humor wouldn’t you say?
TempoNick, looks like you’re a fan of X22 Report featuring “Dave.” Dave’s been pitching the same message for a long time, which is essentially the Qanon “trust the plan,” which includes the regime being arrested any time now. When nothing happens, Dave kicks the can down the road a bit more, with his declarations that “the people have to see it.” It’s a lot of hopium and copium, and he says absolutely nothing about the war on White people or the tribe holding vast disproportionate power, which speaks volumes about Dave’s credibility. Dave’s a true gatekeeper with thousands of patriotic… Read more »
“Ivanka’s sewer-dwelling prince” and “astroglide her way into the nomination”. Thanks for making me laugh this morning.
“America First” as a phrase is of course inevitably associated with, as usual, the ghosts of the 1940s and the ongoing obsession with Mustache Guy and used as a club to beat the political right into submission with that used to be much more effective. To the Bagels, America First is antisemitic, because the moral duty of America is to sacrifice everything for Bagels, because America didn’t want to in 1933 all the way to 1941. To the foreigners, America First is racist. To the Spiteful Mutants, America First is Christian. To the Fistagon and the MIC,America First is their… Read more »
The ghosts of the 1940s included Charles Lindburgh, Robert Taft, and John F. Kennedy. From the perspective of 2024, the concerns of the America First movement appear remarkably prescient. FDR repeatedly violated the Neutrality Act by shipping arms to belligerant powers and provoked the Japanese government with a series of economic and financial sanctions (sound famiiar?). Although Charles Lindburgh was denounced for noticing how Jews sought to involve the US in the war, during the war the fate of Jews was hardly an issue of concern–Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle never mentioned it during the war, nor… Read more »
I think there’s an argument to be made that the outcome of WW2 could be thought of as America’s Third Founding.
The first three “foundings” came at roughly 80 year intervals.
it’s been 80 years since the 3rd “founding”
One full cycle according to Strauss and Howe is 84 years. These theories have their limitations, but there are legit reasons why they exist.
I think Strauss and Howe are pretty spot on with the length of the cycle.
My issue with them is that they really seem to process the facts through their own peculiar worldview to arrive at their detailed conclusions.
You can also throw Henry Ford into the mix, staunchly pro America, however rabidly anti Jew. My kinda guy!
Go further back, Wilson’s campaign slogan in 1916 was, “He Kept Us Out of War.”
The first America Firster?
How could Wilson keep us out of WWI When he schemed to get us in it?
Wilson is the original U.S. globalist. Look up “League of Nation’s.”
I have been finding it very interesting that with the new AI “interpretations” of mustache man have been reforming his image quite a bit. It’s easy to say he was crazy when you don’t understand the words and all you can see is a raving lunatic onstage.
Now that we can hear his speeches like the audience would have heard them, and also see how the audience responds to his arguments, they don’t seem so crazy. Instead, they seem prophetic.
There is a reason why they were not concerned with their fate, but it’s illegal to say in my local jurisdiction.
The best part of this slogan is dusting off the slogan of an old boogeyman (the WWII isolationists) and making it your own. The old mythologies are losing steam and the elite class is desperately trying, and failing, to create new, grand myths. That was the entire point of the Floyd nonsense, the gay marriage push, etc. The problem is their leaders are becoming more decrepit, their folk heroes are outright criminals, and social media is making it impossible to sweep their more unsavory elements under the rug. If the 1960’s revolutions were today, every normal person would see the… Read more »
The great thing about the phrase “America First” is that it has the same quality that “Black Lives Matter” unfortunately shares: to push back against it makes someone look really, really bad. “You aren’t for America first?” “You mean black lives do not matter?” The rhetoric survived the Nazi fearmongering for a reason–to be offended by it is to lose.
The Finkels neutralized themselves by importing their new overlords, the Pajheets. Let’s see how they like being ruled by an alien people with alien attitudes.
One should not underestimate the amount of pure hatred that motivates the anti-America First bunch.
All the arguments over “America First!” would evaporate if the slogan were to be replaced by “AMERICANS First!”
“America First!” embraces empire, while “AMERICANS First!” puts the emphasis smack dab where it belongs, on us, “the people.” “AMERICANS First!” embodies the principle of government serving the people, while “America First!” embodies an imperial imperative.
“AMERICANS First!” demolishes missionary wars, imperial sanctions on foreign powers, “free trade,” “refugee” resettlement, legal and illegal imminvasion, and all the other ills that the Imperial Ruling Elite have imposed upon us, the people.
I do not know about “reformist elements” but someone inside the Hoover Building is trying to signal to the House of Trump and the rest of the inner party by arresting Max Boot’s wife.
Yep. And the absolutely repellent Neocons make fine sacrificial lambs. The retarded and equally despicable Never Trumpers also will be thrown into the burning pit to make peace. My God these people are stupid.
“…it is simply indifferent to white Americans.”
Lol, no. Just no, and it’s not even wrong. Heat shock and Z probably hadn’t put in a proper cycle since the move. Understandable.
“The odds of Trump winning are not good…”
Why would globo-homo actors attempt an assassination if Trump’s odds of winning are not good? Why bother?
“…despite all of the good things breaking his way.”
I doubt Trump is so lucky, CNN forgot how to do propaganda.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1813557975761773006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1813557975761773006%7Ctwgr%5E6cf16a693cfe7934becb0200ac6042fb9f62102b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2F
Agree. The Trump shooter was no mythical lone wolf, he’s a copy and paste Lee Harvey Oswald patsy without the gravita’s and experience.
If the swamp has the election fix in hand, not only did they not need to try and take him out, every failed attempt to take Trump out politically and now literally has backfired and only benefited Trump. The Swamp is running scared.
At the moment, Trump is probably outside the plausible margin of fraud in a race against Biden, but there are other factors in play. A foreign crisis, economic distress, “natural” disasters, “terrorism” or even another assassination attempt could reset the board. If Biden withdraws, the entry of a new Democratic candidate could re-energize the party. However, it is difficult to imagine younger Democrats like Newsom, Whitmer or Shapiro wasting their shot by running against a presumably invincible Trump.
I will merely note, as have others, that the Blood Countess of Chappaqua has been very quiet of late. Too quiet.
Great essay – I would just add the following: we are seeing Intra-Elite competition emerging aligned with the America First narrative. It sucks that grass-roots Dirt people cannot accomplish much without significant Elite support. And for sure the movement risks being co-opted by self-interested Elites. But the last few weeks have seen meaningful segments of Silicon Valley and Wall Street get behind Trump/Vance. Unfortunately the best we are likely to do in the short run is get an Elite more focused on domestic concerns. These people want to do business, not fight foreign battles. They’re always going to support Israel,… Read more »
I don’t think it is unfortunate at all. All revolutions require elites gone rogue. The problem is co-opting. That aside, the booing of Mitch McConnell was a healthy development.
This is the best thing coming out of 2024 so far. Finally we are getting a counter-elite. There is something shifting out there. Hopefully it’s permanent and not just a pendulum swing. Compare where we are now compared to this time last year: *DEI is falling by the wayside, one large corporation at a time. *Nationalists (civic or otherwise) are gaining popularity in the West. Not electoral wins yet, but it’s only growing. *Big-money men are starting to talk about meritocracy again. If nothing else, this will fix a lot of problems. *Biden has been embarrassed multiple times, and nobody… Read more »
Honestly, 2024 feels like an echo of 2016.
Symbolically, a second Trump presidency at least puts the foreign and domestic policies you reference in your article Z “on the table.” Trump will be on the bully pulpit preaching, and the MSM and D’s will be screeching. Although you are correct that the swamp will do whatever they can to thwart all of Trump’s efforts, the normies being exposed to these policies on the regular due to the daily battle can’t hurt or make anything worse. Trump putting these recycled paleocon policies back into public discourse in 2015, did open a lot of eyes, and create a lot of… Read more »
As Z notes, the cost of the empire has become too high. As such, our elite will have no choice but to scale back. It was inevitable. The dollar’s place as the Global Reserve Currency allowed us to maintain a ridiculously large military but at the expense of our manufacturing base and the rise in debt. Mass immigration and globalization kept the white working and middle class on their heels and inflation at bay. But those policies were slowly eroding the very society that our elites need to run the world. Our hollowed-out manufacturing base can no longer supply the… Read more »
Reality always bats last and its average is 1.000.
This. Reality has a quality of its own.
Reality is the worst mistress to cheat on. She always gets the last word
Commie traitors always accuse others of committing the crimes they are guilty of:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ex-cia-wife-wapos-spy-hunter-max-boot-indicted-foreign-spy
If by some miracle Trump wins, his only path to success is to initiate Operation Valkyrie against his own entrenched military industrial Congressional complex. (Didn’t work out well for Stauffenberg)
I’m not optimistic.
The assassination attempt, the fist and the high of its failure was a boost. But now it’s back to what passes for normal. And we still have all the same problems. Civilizational crises of this magnitude take a long time and a lot of trouble to work out. We’re still in a rut
It’s curious that the Ds suddenly toned down the BOM messaging. As if they never meant it. If they did mean it then they should want him dead. Maybe it will return, but when? How? Awkward.
One reason that government policy now feels anti-white is because it generally feels anti-American, but in reality, it is simply indifferent to white Americans.
This is one hundred percent wrong. Public policy is explicitly anti-white. My main fear is Trump will be allowed to win to lure whites back into the fold, particularly for use as cannon fodder in Forever Wars. I have yet to hear any explicit denunciation of a military draft although Vance came close.
It is genocide not just neglect
And right on cue, some 98 y/o WW2 veteran said he’d enlist for Trump. Ischmael must be rubbing their collective hands in glee…
Uh no! Trump “no new wars.”
Not just a slogan, because he proved it his first term. If Trump gets back in he will broker a deal with Putin to end the Ukraine fiasco, cut off funding, and tell Zelensky to take a hike.
He will likely calm the sabre rattling with China, because he knows the U.S economy is completely dependent on Chinese manufacturing. Trump’s recent comments on Taiwan suggest his stance is “you’re big boys now, fight your own battles.” You’re position has an element of paranoia to it.
You left out one glaring hotspot.
Could be his “No new taxes,” “read my lips” moment.
Less paranoia than realism, but from your lips to God’s ears, Vinny. I really want to hear an explicit plan to exit this madness.
We’re going to need a bigger trump than Trump
Trump is Godzilla. there is no political animal in American politics bigger than Trump, and nothing close on the horizon.
The Trump you imagine is not the Trump that exists in the real world. But hope is necessary so I don’t have a beef with you preaching the gospel of the savior
I said nothing of Trump as savior. I said there is no one bigger than him, because you’re wrong. Name he or she who is bigger than Trump. I’m sure I’ll be waiting till hell freezes over.
George Soros
your boy Trump holds no more real power than Hulk Hogan
You’re just as much an ass clown as your boy Hulk Hogan. Got something better? If Soro’s had THAT much power Trump doesn’t win in 2016, and Soro’s rent a DA’s bogus cases are all going belly up. Documents case against Trump dismissed. Etc… etc…
What Moran said.
Godzilla is we, the people, tuning in on white identity politics, something the internet gave us.
Trump simply found a way to ride the monster.
Yes. The internet is for us what the television was for a certain other Tribe. The mad scramble to control its information and content indicates as much. Take note how much further to the Right so many young whites are.
The mad scramble to control its information and content indicates as much.
It is quite incidental that a lot of the kosher-right reaction to the Curious Case of Trump’s Ear is about cancelling mean words on the internet.
“Oh, vey! Some leftard on the internet said he wished the sniper had brained Trump! Shut it down!”
On the other hand they’ve invented a new word, “photoganda” for the iconic image. Photograph + Proganda.
It’s sort of interesting that they acknowledge that such media can be used for propaganda purposes. Because all their photos exist only to disseminate The News, you understand.
We saw the same with the evil TikTok becoming the demon du jour.
He is talking about “a person” singular. A political figure. Not the body politic.
And it’s not Trump as a political figure that’s big and scary, he just looks that way because he’s sitting on top of Godzilla.
The usual suspects are not afraid of Trump – he’s one of their guys after all – they are afraid of a white awakening, and they project that fear and hate onto Trump.
I think you nailed it right there.
“Project Ukraine, for example, is exactly what Washington warned about in his farewell address.”
Project ISRAEL is exactly what Washington warned about in his Farewell Address:
“…nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded… The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.”
Too bad nobody stood up and read that line during all the Israel-fellating at the Republican convention last night…
Agreed. I have written about this specifically with regards to Israel. The difference is Israel assassinated a president and his brother, while Ukraine has yet to figure this out yet.
That’s a new one on me. I didn’t realize it was the Jews whacking the Kennedys. Makes complete sense that our greatest ally was responsible. Their diaspora has done essentially the same thing to the American economy.
Read about Dimona at Unz Review.
According to many “experts” Mossad had a hand in wacking the Kennedy’s. One of those experts is Ron Unz.
Did you know Jack Ruby’s real name was Jacob Rubenstein?
Do you think D.C./Tel Aviv will install a successor puppet government or just let Project Ukraine go after Zelensky achieves room temperature? I don’t have a feel for what will happen afterwards.
Considering we were in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years and accomplished nothing, I am not optimistic.
I think Project Ukraine is over. Tel Aviv has concerns closer to home now, and American resources need to be redirected.
As Z mentioned, a big part of the problem here is Trump’s base demands support for Israel. It’s been preached to them from the pulpit all their lives. I don’t know if there’s anything we can say (however true) that can overcome that. When I’ve tried, I usually just get those blank stares which indicate communication has ended.
I usually ask a few questions: in what way are they our greatest ally? Did they ever fight in a war with us like Great Britain, France, Canada, Australia, etc.? Are they a key trading partner? Do we share a culture? Are we neighboring countries? The only response I ever get is that they are the only democracy in the ME. I then ask how that helps us more than non-democratic countries like Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. That’s when I get the blank stares, or something about how hard they had it during the holocaust.
“The reason this terrifies official Washington is that all of their projects and therebefore their reason to exist rest on the assertion that overseas concerns are paramount because they serve the interest of the empire. If politics moves to a debate about what is and what is not good for the American people, suddenly these schemes not only stop making sense, but they also sound un-American. Project Ukraine, for example, is exactly what Washington warned about in his farewell address.”
Yep.
I’ve heard that “the polls” (whichever ones) are unchanged by recent events. Obviously opinion can be generated and/or selected to send whatever message, but it’s a plausible result. It’s true—or it’s The Message. What is it? A blatant regime attempt to murder the great symbol of its opposition—of citizen resistance to anything—cost it no votes. The victim’s heroic/mediagenic response to getting shot in the face gained him no one’s consideration. There are not only no undecided voters, but no persuadable Americans. Literal death moves no one. I believe it. As I say too often, Democratic voters are far more “extreme”… Read more »
You are correct. I beat this drum a lot, but the primary problem is quite white. My dream scenario, the most non-violent one possible, is that these types secede. The problem, again as you point out, is that the politicians are less radical than their constituents and want the present situation with its attendant gibs to continue.
I suspect the 2020 election was outright stolen to forestall leftwing secession. I honestly have no clue if that will happen this time.
Z filtering comments ala Sailer?
Tsk… tsk… tsk…
What are you talking about?
I have a comment “waiting for approval.”
Maybe that’s the way the board software runs. Sometimes you can set the filters to slow people down so they don’t hog the board. I’m guilty of that sometimes myself when I’m on a roll. Everyone now and then, I get one that gets bumped into the approval queue. I have no idea what it is I do–haven’t figured the pattern out yet and I’m usually good at that. The other day I typed, “hëad wrāp” and “SSDeeDee”. I wonder if that’s what threw me into the queue.
Happens all the time. The modbot is fairly tolerant, but too much spicy language and too frequent posting triggers it.
Look (as all the Washington pundits say) if we can’t recognize that this Thing is wrapping up right now, then what’s to talk about? Z Man, you’re taking a long-view here, yes? As in, there will come a time when it’s transactionally-more self-interested to ignore American Zionist concerns, and at that time, pragmatic politicians (not necessarily Trump, because this isn’t happening anytime soon) will shift their policy preferences. I’m thinking we really don’t have that kind of timeline based on the events of the past ten years and particularly the last week. And Biden’s just getting started after the RNC… Read more »
If Hamilton hadn’t been an ambitious immigrant and a stock jobber, or if Jefferson hadn’t been a radical slave owner. Instead, we got two walking contradictions who didn’t like each other and fought, setting up the political dynamic since. What this country has always needed is some combination of their virtues.
One reason that government policy now feels anti-white is because it generally feels anti-American, but in reality, it is simply indifferent to white Americans. Affirmative action was rammed down upon us in 1964, and made even more intrusive by Johnson via totally democratic EO in 1965. That’s 60 years; if we use the standard 20 years as representing a generation we see that three generations of White people have now been actively discriminated against by Ruler fiat, with no end in sight. Doubtless the millions of Whites who were violated through this legislation will be relieved to discover it was… Read more »
“As the cost of empire exceeds the benefit of the empire, the people at the top begin to hollow out that which makes them possible.” Quite so. Maybe there was a time after WW2 when the empire served the majority of white American people but now empire serves only a minority — maybe the top 10 or 15%. The rest of white America is subsidizing the costs of empire. Or as the saying goes, “profits remain private while costs are socialized.” Thus the unfolding debacle in Ukraine has perhaps benefited the military-industrial sector — but at the cost of everyone… Read more »
Military supremacy is gone, in the sense of supporting empire. There is still military power in the sense of destructive force, but that does not maintain rule over foreign lands. For that, you need competent boots on the ground, and the US doesn’t have enough of that. And that’s a good thing.
Maybe the Regime is indifferent to the average White American in terms of foreign policy goals but the average coastal drone within that hive does hate the average White Heartland American. That has been proven time and time again by their actions and words. The usual suspects running foreign policy and the oligarchs behind them such as Larry Fink of Blackrock aren’t going to slow down or reconsider their goal of bringing Russia to heel, ideally even breaking her up to gain control over her natural resources and just because Trump is in the White House won’t change that. If… Read more »
I wrote a long, eloquent refutation of this “only indifferent to Whites” nonsense, but it was eliminated by moderation. I presume it was because I used the taboo N-word voodoo. Which only further amplifies my point that we are very much second class citizens, and indifference has nothing to do with that.
TBF I assume this was the platform muzzling my Crime Think, and not the Z Man.
If I know anything about how this works, your post will suddenly appear in some number of minutes or hours
I had two post’s held in purgatory with zero naughty words. Appeared, dissapeared, re appeared with “awaiting approval.” Z says he doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Maybe he doesn’t personally moderate, but farms it out.
Non the less, something stinks in Denmark.
The notion often expressed here that elections don’t matter seems to conflict with the argument that MAGA has the hopeful potential to prevent or at least impede America’s march towards doomsday.
Election’s don’t matter is akin to Trump derangement syndrome.
Of course they matter. When the swamp gets a politico friendly to their agenda. It makes things easier for them. With a guy like Trump they have to work overtime.
Trump did indeed infuriate the bad guys with his naughty talk but he governed pretty much as a standard Republican. He violated Machiavelli’s rule: Never do an enemy a small injury. Talk infuriates but action incapacitates. I don’t think he has it in him to do more than use his mouth but we shall see.
Akshully, I think in the penultimate paragraph you meant “the usual suspects are not terribly smart but they…”
Semiconductor manufacturing went to Taiwan because the US didn’t want it anymore. It was more toxic than gold mining. Taiwan, like many islands in such situations, didn’t care.
“or something much worse than Trump comes next.” A retroactive prophesy. They failed to embrace MAGA IN 2017. What followed Trump 45 is absolutely, measurably, objectively, worse. Economy? Worse. Inflation? Massively worse. Foreign affairs? 2.5 new wars. Illegals? 30M invasion. Roads/bridges/infrastructure? Cratering outside of government-controlled enclaves and key Congressional districts. Social cohesion? Worse. Orderly politics? They’re now arresting, jailing and shooting at our candidates. What could be worse than the O’Biden regime? Nuclear war. Economic collapse. Anarchy/color revolution terrorism. Balkanization. American military forces deployed against US citizens in “troublesome” areas. The elite’s version of what comes next was installing a… Read more »
America First is simply government doing what it SHOULD’VE already been doing: The work of making the lives of the people it is supposed to serve better. When I think of all of the good that could done with keeping the billions we’ve spent on the Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan projects, it breaks my heart. Our interstates are pockmarked with suspension shattering ruts and potholes, our bridges are falling apart, crime is rampant in our black-infested hellhole cities and airplanes are falling from the sky. And yet the ruling elites only care about immiserating whites with the climate change mumbo… Read more »