Clown Country

John Derbyshire often says that his home country is lost. That it is far past the point of reforming itself and becoming anything like its original self. That is probably true, but not because it has imported a Muslim ruling class. If the Brits shut off that faucet today, they remain no worse than 80% white, assuming current fertility rates. If they could muster a little national pride, they could easily get back to 90% and relegate the Muslim hordes to a despised minority status, something like the Irish travelers or the Welsh.

That is not going to happen without a revolution, one that results in the wiping out of the British ruling class. The public is clearly turning against the lunacy of the prevailing orthodoxy, but they are saddled with a generation of lunatics, who remain firmly in charge of the institutions. The whole Tommy Robinson affair makes the point. In a country with a sane ruling elite, there would be no need for Tommy Robinson and his situation would never happen. But, the British ruling class is full of crazy people worried about nonsense.

Too few women and people from ethnic minority groups cycle in London and more must be done to promote diversity among a largely white, male and middle class biking community, the city’s walking and cycling commissioner has said.

Grand schemes, such as the Cycle Superhighway network of partially-segregated routes linking the suburbs with the centre, are too often perceived as simply a way of getting “middle-aged men cycling faster around the city”, Will Norman acknowledged.

He said he was considering setting diversity targets for London’s cycling population to ensure progress was achieved.

Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups account for about 15 per cent of the city’s cycle trips – around two-thirds less than Transport for London estimates it could be.

Speaking to The Independent, Mr Norman, whose job it is to deliver on Sadiq Khan’s pledge to make walking and cycling safer and easier in the capital, said: “There is a problem with cycling and the way it is perceived of getting middle-aged men cycling faster around the city, which is not the objective at all.

“It touches on something which is a real challenge for London cycling, which is diversity.”

For starters, in a real country, there is no such thing as a “walking and cycling commissioner.” That is a job for a retired volunteer at a charity 5K. That is not a job that should ever exist, and it is not a job that a fully grown adult would ever accept. The city’s dog catcher has a more respectable title. More important, this simpleton is yammering on about diversity as the native population is being chased off by hordes of savages that have no business in Europe. In a serious country, he would have been shot by now.

This is the heart of the matter. The Pax Americana, which has guaranteed peace in Europe for the last 75 years, has done more than pacify the continent. It has turned the political classes of Europe into children. They are not real leaders in any meaningful sense, because no matter what they do, Uncle Sam is there to make sure they never get a serious boo-boo. Because they are insulated from serious consequences, they have become the Eloi, playing dress-up and pretending to be big boys and girls.

This is why the Brexit negotiations have come to a halt. The renegotiating of Britain’s economic relationship with the Continent is difficult and complicated. No one on either side of the table is capable of doing anything other than showing up at a candlelight vigil following the latest Muslim attack. These are not serious people. Instead, they are silly people who worry about diversity on the bike path. The only way Brexit gets finalized is if Trump decides to get involved and forces the issue. Otherwise, it never happens.

The clownishness does not stop at the political class. The vaunted British security apparatus has also degraded into play-land. It is obvious now that they were roped into helping that old fool John Brennan’s scheme to spy on the Trump campaign. There was a time when the Brits would have seen that for what it was and not got involved. Instead, they put on daddy’s old suits and played James Bond, causing a serious riff between the two countries. Notice Trump’s treatment of Theresa May versus Emmanuel Macron.

In a better age, when the king realized the court he inherited was not up for the job, he would get a new court. On the other hand, when it was clear the new king was dangerously feeble-minded, the king fell off his horse and they got a new king. In this age, when the people realize their rulers are supercilious poseurs, incapable of doing the basics of government, they are supposed to vote for new rulers. The trouble is this is not a political problem. It is a cultural problem. Britain is ruled by a clown culture now.

There is only one way to fix that.

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MtnExile
MtnExile
6 years ago

One other point: this is an almost perfect example of the modern progressive push toward “diversity,” and what it illustrates is, once again, that progressives lie in the most spectacular fashion imaginable. What they really mean by “diversity” is simply that everyone, no matter his origin, race, sex, shoe size, is to be assimilated. Everyone must think, speak, and act alike. Why else should anyone care whether or not blacks or women ride bicycles enough? Why else have a “commissioner” for something as trivial as this? Whenever you hear calls for “diversity,” just be aware that progressives are social and… Read more »

Frip
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Reply to  MtnExile
6 years ago

MtnExile: “What they really mean by “diversity” is simply that everyone, no matter his origin, race, sex, shoe size, is to be assimilated. Everyone must think, speak, and act alike.” Well said and thought. If everyone is not forced to act alike, then people will start noticing/wondering why certain groups aren’t acting alike. Some groups will be noticed to be physically lazy, uncultured, or dumb, if they’re not doing exactly what others are doing. Can’t have differences sprouting up. Better get a commissioner assigned to it ASAP. Side note. Years ago I asked on a forum what we as a… Read more »

Dan Kurt
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Reply to  Frip
6 years ago

re: “what we as a society could do to get more black people interested in the great outdoors?” It’s an IQ thing. Blacks with a mean IQ of less than 80 and Mestizos less than 85 don’t have the mental horse power to appreciate the wonders of nature. When I was a youth I was involved in Amateur Astronomy & Telescope making and also in Amateur Radio where I encountered adults of all ages, many as mentors. Never saw a Black then and the Mexican invasion had not started as it was in the 1950s. Currently I am in my… Read more »

Frip
Member
Reply to  Dan Kurt
6 years ago

“It’s an IQ thing. Blacks with a mean IQ of less than 80 and Mestizos less than 85 don’t have the mental horse power to appreciate the wonders of nature.”

They’re just not that into nature. And that’s ok. Not everything’s an IQ thing.

joe_mama
joe_mama
Reply to  Frip
6 years ago

I’ve always viewed camping/backcamping as recreating your own version of civilization. In my experience, blacks aren’t really into it, hispanics here and there, and I’ve never seen asians camping. Blacks view it as a “white person thing”.

This article from SWPL is hilarious:
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/08/14/128-camping/

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Frip
6 years ago

Gangbangers?
Scared to go to the forest. SCARED by it.

calsdad
calsdad
Reply to  MtnExile
6 years ago

There are three simple words that a large portion of the population in Western countries needs to learn. Especially in relation to their “betters” and the people who reside in government offices.

Repeat after me:

GO FUCK YOURSELF.

Say it daily. Say it multiple times daily. Make sure you say it to people who really deserve to have it said to them. Keep saying it until it sinks in.

Make sure you MEAN IT.

Duke of Deploraville
Duke of Deploraville
Reply to  calsdad
6 years ago

What good will it do to tell members of the proglodyte overclass, “Go fuck yourself”? If they pay any attention at all, that will just confirm in their locked minds that the uncouth hayseeds don’t appreciate the necessity for their lives to be directed by Harvard intellectuals. Sure, we can’t help feeling a little better when we see demos and sign waving by the peasants protesting against the rule of the elite state. But it is naive to believe that anything of the sort will issue in regime change. What it will take is … honestly, I don’t want to… Read more »

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Duke of Deploraville
6 years ago

At all sort of goes together, doesn’t it?

A.B. Prosper
A.B. Prosper
Reply to  Duke of Deploraville
6 years ago

Go fuck yourself is the prelude to We deal in lead, friend. Assuming that the elite will understand anything else or give anything that isn’t taken by force is folly at this point They, their institutions , their quislings and helpers have to be removed from power for good Now it can be mitigated State force and therefore “legal” as such things go which is what everyone on our side is hoping for but the elite? They’ve failed at job one, preserving society and have to go. The only caveat is our side must rule and manage a complex society… Read more »

calsdad
calsdad
Reply to  Duke of Deploraville
6 years ago

It seems I have to explain better. A) Dumb people just say ” Go fuck yourself ” and then start coming up with Roseanne Barr level insults aimed at the target in question. B) “Smart” people in my experience have a habit of coming up with all manner of justifications to NOT tell people to go fuck themselves. When you tell a person to go fuck themselves – and then explain to them in clear concise language what they just did wrong – you KNOW what they did wrong – and why you’re going to make them pay for it… Read more »

Frip
Member
Reply to  calsdad
6 years ago

I’ll practice in the mirror tonight.

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  calsdad
6 years ago

There is that. However, I prefer “Kiss my ass”. I find it a bit more demeaning. If you want to add a bit of ghetto menace, you can make it “Kiss my motherf**kin’ ass”.

Cloudbuster
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Reply to  MtnExile
6 years ago

I don’t see any pressure on foreigners to assimilate. Whites are simply expected to adjust to the differences in those around them. The fact that nobody on their street speaks English any more is “vibrant.”

They talk about more minorities biking, but the only actions they will ever take in that direction will, mark my words, express themselves as inconveniences to or costs to White people.

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

“Assimilation” is a dirty word to Leftists. Assimilation is People of Color adopting white attitudes and behaviors. It is the opposite of multiculturalism, where all groups retain their distinctive attitudes and behaviors, while respecting and honoring each other.

With regard to cycling, it’s my experience that white hipsters cycle is because it’s green and anti-capitalist (auto and oil companies). Blacks cycle when they have no better mode of transport.

RafterRat
RafterRat
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

The “costs to White people” will probably go like this…….minorities can’t afford bikes, so they need free bikes bought with tax dollars.

ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

your writing here perfectly exhibits two of the most common fallacies expressed by dissident right writers: 1. you say that the british leaders are silly and or crazy…they are not…they are smart people who are going to get well paid by the globalist corporations after they help thwart the populist rebellion by whites…the big corporations will pay them well if they do what the corporations want…that is not silly or crazy…that’s smart… there is a difference between pretending to be silly or crazy or stupid and actually being silly or crazy or stupid … here in american the conservative pundits… Read more »

Roulf
Roulf
Reply to  ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

Hate to burst your bubble, but these people are crazy. No other word for it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/27/knives-sharp-filing-solution-soaring-violent-crime-judge-says/

ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
Reply to  Roulf
6 years ago

wrong, the judge ruled this way because that ruling comports with the ideology pushed by the elites…the judge knows that the best way to get ahead is to fall in line with the elite ideology…

Glen Filthie
Glen Filthie
Member
Reply to  Roulf
6 years ago

You may both be right. It is a truism that people get the gov’ts they want and deserve. Not all of them – but most of them. And they get the consequences they deserve too.

Whiskey
Whiskey
Reply to  thezman
6 years ago

I’ve long suspected rap stars are money laundering machines. Jay Z is richer than a Paul McCartney? Really?

How much of our elites are money launderers? Walter White writ large? Or that sweaty guy on the Shield?

A.B. Prosper
A.B. Prosper
Reply to  thezman
6 years ago

Hollywood accounting is a well known thing and using it, a 1 billion dollar movie can miraculously be a loss

That’s why smart actors working for royalties or residuals get it on gross not net because net is always miraculously zero

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Whiskey
6 years ago

supposedly woody harrelson has a chain of video stores in the north west, that launder profits from pot selling. Another time the actor Don Johnson was stopped (while driving) in Switzerland, and had a $B+ of bearer bonds with him.

MtnExile
MtnExile
Reply to  ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

If the people in charge were really smart, they would be able to understand the trend of history and prepare for it better than simply buying into a gated community. Allowing your own country to collapse isn’t smart…it’s the action of a person who is either silly or crazy. There is a third possibility as well: evil. Personally, I vote for #3.

Rod1963
Rod1963
Reply to  MtnExile
6 years ago

They are stupid and crazy at the very least and maybe so evil they don’t see they are slitting their own throats.

How long will those gated communities, country clubs and exclusive zip code will protect the elites when the security forces and government is composed of the very savages that they imported and now try to keep out with the gates and whatnot?

Not very long is the answer. Once the savages have the weapons the elites get a dirt nap.

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Rod1963
6 years ago

which they deserve, in “spades”

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  MtnExile
6 years ago

I imagine that many of them think that they’ll have checked out before the worst of it hits. I don’t know what stories they tell themselves if they have children or grandchildren.

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

You sound like a retard kid talking about being a fireman. Many cognitively marginal people like your self, don’t realize how dim witted they really are. Here’s a test: can/do you tie your own shoelaces? This assumes you wear shoes with laces…

active pu-ter
active pu-ter
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

karl, we have police who are always on the outlook for any opportunity to come to the rescue of any female (especially in a domestic dispute)…we call these cops “Captain Save-A-Ho”…
likewise, what should we call commentators on sites such as this who gallantly respond to detractors in order to shore up the arguments of conservadad pundits?

Bartleby the Scrivener
Bartleby the Scrivener
Reply to  active pu-ter
6 years ago

I confess;
I’ve been on the job for over 20 years and have never heard that one. Thank you for the laugh!

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

Some are pure opportunists, but many believe their own propaganda. Their propaganda is lunacy and they are loons. This is probably more true of both British parties (3 if you bother to count the Liberals) and the American Dems, less true of the American Repubs.

active pu-ter
active pu-ter
Reply to  MBlanc46
6 years ago

Mblanc46 wrote: “Some are pure opportunists, but many believe their own propaganda.” This is true, but there is more to it than just that…and here it is (and it is one of the most important things to realize about socio-politics): human beings are evolved to generate emotions about ideas that help them get rich/reproduce/survive. In other words, what we have here is that the elites are pushing an ideology–an anti-white/pro-nonwhite ideology…and in turn there are millions of ordinary white people who adopt this ideology in order to serve their own best interests…they internalize this elite ideology and they make that… Read more »

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  active pu-ter
6 years ago

Active pu-ter: I was thinking more of the elites themselves, but the process does percolate down through society.

Frip
Member
Reply to  ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

ChanChan, our leaders can be silly, crazy, stupid and smart all at the same time.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
Reply to  ChanChanRight--ActivePooter
6 years ago

Your use of the word smart needs some help

i1205897
i1205897
6 years ago

Speaking of lunacy, it appears John McCain’s Senate seat will be passed off to his wife.

Drake
Drake
Reply to  i1205897
6 years ago

I heard that and had a hard time believing Arizona elected a Governor that stupid.

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Drake
6 years ago

Really? After 30 years of asshat#1 McCain? And el grande cuck, Flake? They say AZ is a conservative state, but politically they look like the retard state.

PawPaw
PawPaw
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

Arizona’s tuff to figure out isn’t it? Are there any readers out there who can tell us what this McCain worship is all about? Of course I have no room to talk; my two state senators are arguably the worst ineffectual libtards ever elected.

bilejones
Member
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

“my two state senators are arguably the worst ineffectual libtards ever elected.”

It’s not the ineffectual ones who are the problem.

Drake
Drake
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

One of my Senators is a drama queen who wants to be the next Obama. The other just got a hung jury on about a thousand counts of corruption – and is now favored to win re-election.

Cloudbuster
Member
Reply to  Drake
6 years ago

He may be a crook, but at least he never said Valerie Jarrett looks like a Muslim ape!

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

although he did think it every time he saw her ugly mug.

anonymous
anonymous
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

I lived there for several years. McCain is not just a Senator, he’s a machine. McTammany Hall. He’s got the Chamber, developers, ASU/UA/NAU juggernaut, the courts and lawyers … in short, he’s not just a man, he’s corruption personified.

Most people in AZ, including myself, vote for him because they don’t know better — many are newbies and transients — and he’s got the magic “R” after his name. After an election cycle, or two, people figure it out, but by then, like me, they’re off to the next state.

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

Can you top Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth?

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

Don’t forget what’s-her-name, Obama’s Homeland Security head of “vets are domestic terrorists” fame, AZ governor Neapolitano?

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

She is now tasked with running the University of California into the ground, with a huge salary.

A.B. Prosper
A.B. Prosper
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

That’s easy work. The UC system is carp and mostly a sump for foreign funds

Tax Slave
Tax Slave
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

Insanity is one of the side benefits of old-age induced dementia. Blame the Baby Boomer old farts ruling Arizona.

Member
Reply to  i1205897
6 years ago

Hell you say!

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
6 years ago

While the British government frets about the lack of minority bikers, would it be okay for a white British citizen to make that observation publicly? I don’t think it would, if he said it as an example of how different the immigrants are from the native population. But he gets the green light if he points out that it’s caused by white discrimination or privilege or some type of reason you can track back to whitey.

Severian
6 years ago

Oh, and I can think of one easy way to get more Asians and other minorities cycling around London: rickshaws. Ever ridden in one? It’s pretty awesome if you like cosplaying as Lord Curzon (and who doesn’t?). And the Liberals could apologize to the poor coolie all the way to their destination. The Guardian could write 5 million words of thumbsuckers about the need for unionization in the cycle-rickshaw industry. What’s not to like? (That one’s free, Comrade Cycling Commissar. I’ve got lots more. Call me!)

Cloudbuster
Member
Reply to  Severian
6 years ago

Leftist rickshaw: you pay to haul the immigrant “driver” around while he lounges in the back, as penance for your Whiteness, privilege and imperialism.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

Hahaha! Dammit, Viz!
Rickshaw Oversight’s already breathing down my neck. Got another complaint filed for not letting the ‘worker’ hector me enough

King Tut
King Tut
6 years ago

I’m afraid that Mr. Derbyshire is correct. Britain is now North Korea with shopping malls. The clown people control every aspect of our society from the government, every agency of the state, the administration, the corporations, the education system, the police, the judiciary, the media, the security services, the church – everything. And their control is total. We have “Conservative” Party in government which makes American liberal democrats look like the John Birch Society by comparison. The alternatives are EVEN WORSE, if you can believe that. No dissent is permitted. It’s like we were taken over by pod people while… Read more »

Whitney
Member
6 years ago

Revolution is the only option that is left. Voting doesn’t work. I think we’ve all seen what happened in Italy. Trump with an anomaly that won’t be allowed to happen again. So now it’s just waiting for enough people to get extremely uncomfortable. I’m not looking forward to it. I’m still extremely comfortable. But every day that goes on takes me further past my prime and I don’t want to be old when it hits

Teapartydoc
Member
6 years ago

I think Trump is forcing the issue on the EU. I don’t think the Saudis would have withdrawn their ambassador and banned German goods without consulting with Trump. Backdoor hardball. And they respond by market manipulation when a right wing government gets elected in Italy.

Common market? A commons always ends up being enclosed. I thought peoples who had lived through the late middle ages and the enlightenment would have been smart enough to figure that one out.

Sam L.
Sam L.
6 years ago

It is simply impossible to think that women are not cycling around London because the women think it might be UNSAFE. They must be RAAAAAAACIST.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Sam L.
6 years ago

Goodwhites are implicitly white supremacist in a way that race realists are not. How is the Sierra Club fretting about the “Unbearable Whiteness of Hiking and How to Solve It” any different from whites in the 19th century trying to turn Africans or Amerindians into whites? The underlying assumption is that non-whites would like what goodwhites like if non-whites were not oppressed. Isn’t it possible that Hispanics, for example, simply don’t like state parks? Assuming that non-whites must want to be like goodwhites is white supremacist.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  LineInTheSand
6 years ago

Race realists can accept the observation that Sun People (Derb’s term) don’t like national or state parks, or things like hiking and skiing, etc. Goodwhites can’t accept it. For them, there has to be a reason and the reason cannot be that they simply have different likes and preferences, and it’s certainly not anything having to do with how their brains work. The solution to this “problem” has to be ferreted out, and somehow whitey has to be at fault.

Cloudbuster
Member
6 years ago

Speaking to The Independent, Mr Norman, whose job it is to deliver on Sadiq Khan’s pledge to make walking and cycling safer and easier in the capital, said: “There is a problem with cycling and the way it is perceived of getting middle-aged men cycling faster around the city, which is not the objective at all. This is such an insane paragraph. While there’s nothing wrong with “safer and easier” one presumes that a lot of people cycle for very utilitarian reasons and thus “faster” is also important to quite a lot of people. In fact, I bet a lot… Read more »

Frip
Member
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

The term “middle-aged men” is the new “ni**er”, “Chinaman”, “Kike” etc.

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
6 years ago

At this point Uncle Sugar can’t do much for them. They’ll either figure out how to fight it out for themselves or they won’t. Certainly the Poles and Hungarians have figured it out. But those miscellaneous Slavs never had the softness of the Pax Americana…they had the Soviet fist.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Saml Adams
6 years ago

I tremble to think what will make us the Poles and Slavs in the someday future.
Hope we make it.

The Mongol/Islamic Golden Horde lorded it over Eastern Europe for 900 years…

What astonishes me, though, are the deplorables. European society cast out it’s rubbish- orphans, convicts, the dregs of it’s slums- and wherever they landed, these slaves built a high civilization within a hundred years. Four generations to do something the natives could not in 10,000.

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

Well, in the early days it wasn’t like you bought a discount ticket to howling wilderness on Virgin Atlantic. Own family got here between 1629 and 1700…and just surviving the trip over and the first few years probably weeded out the lower end of the gene pool. Think that’s how you produced two Continental Congresses and a Constitutional convention out of the equivalent population of southern Wisconsin.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
6 years ago

Unfortunately, we have too many children pretending to be adults here in the U.S. as well. I remember turning on the TV some years ago (back when I had TV service) and watching with dismay an Obama whitehouse spokesperson make a statement to the media. She sounded sophomoric. She sounded like a first year college student making her first presentation to class. It was actually painful to watch.

I never watched another press statement from the obama administration again. I moved and binned my TV service before the ’16 election.

Drake
Drake
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
6 years ago

That’s how Obama sounded to me whenever he went off-script.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Drake
6 years ago

The thing about Obama is that he never really “did” anything prior to running for congress in Illinois. He had a very thin resume, and that’s putting it charitably. Of course he was way out of his depth as POTUS.

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
6 years ago

One attractive feature of Trump on the campaign trail, was that he was the only one who consistently spoke to us as if we were functioning adults. The condescending third grade scolding and pats on the head from Obama/Hillary (and from the rest of the candidates, too, for the most part) were insulting.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

As if we were the children.
As if WE were the spoiled, retarded, lunatic, lying, criminal children.

Ris Eruwaedhiel
Ris Eruwaedhiel
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

Zman pointed out that the Cloud People despise us, the Dirt People, and hate the Deplorables. They regard us as zoo animals. I prefer the analogy that we are livestock to be cared for as long as we are useful. Much of what motivates the welfare state is the elitist view that the common people are too stupid and feckless to look after themselves. Well, they – we – did throughout most of history. It seems to me that people have grown more stupid and feckless as the welfare state has grown and they are relieved of personally taking responsibility… Read more »

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

One great moment came in the third debate with Trump, when Hillary started talking in her scolding schoolmarm way, how police need to undergo training to correct their unconscious bias in dealing with minorities. I thought, “keep going Hillary, keep telling us how racist we are in your grating, condescending manner.”

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

Well, there is a reason why Trump was elected. Its not as though the liberals are about to learn the lesson from this.

Drake
Drake
6 years ago

In an earlier essay you talked about how boring it must have been to govern a western European country a few decades ago. If everyone in the country was English or Dutch, how do you beat them over the head to be “diverse” and “multicultural”?

So they had to import a massive underclass of Third World rejects. These new peasants could be counted on the vote for evermore government while causing enough mayhem to justify bigger state surveillance and security apparatuses. And having lots of obnoxious brown people about is a great excuse to hector the normals.

Ursula
Ursula
Reply to  Drake
6 years ago

Just as important as voting the right way, the Third World imports keep the wages down.

Gwithian
Gwithian
6 years ago

I would argue that the European elite is implementing US policy. The policies maybe clownish but the implemetation is ,sadly, less so. .The US wants Europe to be post-white and wants to reverse the Brexit vote.The US is not protecting Europe but forcing it down the same path the US is currently on.Even the example of “Bike Tsar” is about creating a vast habitat for neo-liberal parasites and to create the impression that the sensible citizen is a beleaguered minority. For Americans to claim the UK is a clown country is a wee bit rich considering the nature of your… Read more »

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Gwithian
6 years ago

Shit, if we have that much control over Europe, why don’t we send all our nigs over there?

Tax Slave
Tax Slave
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

Because they prefer Ur-nigs not Ersatz-nigs.

Dave
Dave
Reply to  Gwithian
6 years ago

This is true. The U.S. State department has been telling Western Europeans how to run and structure their societies since the end of WWII.
The Deep State has also engaged in all sorts of skullduggery in many European countries, Italy being a particularly extreme example.
Americans have been manipulating and undermining European sovereignty for 70 years.

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Dave
6 years ago

Just returning the favor.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

More like devil salmon returning to their spawning place.

Issac
Issac
Reply to  Gwithian
6 years ago

I’d argue Tel’Aviv has more pull on Downing St. than Washington most days of the week, but you may call such a thing a distinction without a diffirence. Regardless, as an outsider to both the US and Europe, I don’t see the direct lines you describe. There is an immense amount of cultural and economic exchange across the Atlantic and that includes subterfuge (eg. MI5 and the Trump camp or neocons and the Blair inner circle), but the hierarchy of the broader western empire isnt so crystal clear. It’s a lot of neoliberals who fancy themselves the top of the… Read more »

Cloudbuster
Member
Reply to  Issac
6 years ago

And Tel Aviv has more pull in Washington than Wichita does.

Issac
Issac
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

Kansas has a surprising ability to draw farm money. They obviously can’t compete with AIPAC for loyalty, but I don’t know of any electable candidates from the last century who would challenge big ag. either. The problem with the regional elites of America is the same as the state (let) elites in Europe. They identify and support a raft of issues for their class and care nothing at all for their civilization. You can find the same level of disloyalty in many elite political dens of Israel too. The diffirence is that our fiercely tribal middle and lower classes are… Read more »

Christopher S. Johns
Christopher S. Johns
6 years ago

Thanks to Tyler Cowen and his brilliant meta-econo-historical analysis, I now see that Ethiopia and China are really the same (more or less), and that Ethiopia – and by implication all the rest of Africa – is poised to transform itself into a real-life Wakanda. And just think, all they needed was a little nudge from western globo-managerial-class experts like Tyler Cowen for this miracle to occur. These visionary people really are as special as they think they are.

Severian
6 years ago

“city’s walking and cycling commissioner.” Don’t turn around – uh oh! Ja ja der komissar’s in town, uh oh! Seriously, what is it with Bolshies and these offices? It reminds me of my very favorite part of the early Soviet Union, the State Commission on Enlightenment. Which made Anatoly Lunacharsky the Enlightenment Commissar. When do you think we’ll be getting one of those? I’ve got $5 on 2021 in the office pool.

Epaminondas
Member
6 years ago

I think that European man made the mistake of believing his own propaganda. Once that happened, we got onto the slippery slope.

A.B. Prosper
A.B. Prosper
6 years ago

The UK Left before they went nuts after Thatcher understood this and some of the farther Left pols floated the idea of banning Public schools (what we call Private schools) to make sure the bullying sodomy and caning culture was broken and that the rich find it much harder to opt out of bad policy choices It didn’t happen and may not have been a sound idea but in a society with few races issues making sure that some rich Lord or rich whosoever’s kid is in the same boat as a Chav has a certain philosophical merit Future societies… Read more »

AntiDem
Member
6 years ago

Moldbug was right that modern liberalism is essentially an American thought virus that became an invasive species in other lands (including Europe), where, unlike in its homeland, it has no natural resistance to keep it in check. In America, for every Jefferson, Susan B. Anthony, and Barack Obama, there has been a Madison, a Mencken, and a Donald Trump. Yes, America has slid leftward for a hundred years, but at least here there has been *some* real resistance to it, whereas the western Europeans have succumbed to it like the Aztecs succumbing to smallpox (and for the same reason).

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  AntiDem
6 years ago

The (((American))) thought virus is transmitted to the world via the (((US entertainment industry)))

Lure/tats/horse Boy
Lure/tats/horse Boy
6 years ago

It’s a question of location! I toured the uk recently and most of the diversity appeared centered in London proper. The outlands were mostly still English, especially wales. The diversity was even low in Edinburgh, which is the major city in Scotland.

My point being that the situation could be contained with a correction of political philosophy and leadership.

Tim Newman
6 years ago

“Children at play” is precisely how I described what is laughably called the investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire. It might get better as the process goes on, but it’s gotten off to a terrible start.

Frip
Member
6 years ago

Zman got everyone riled today. Read the comments. We are PISSED! LOL

D&D Dave in the Bubble
D&D Dave in the Bubble
6 years ago

Speaking of Tommy Robinson, today I notice a headline link to a NR article – “Tommy Robinson Drew Attention to ‘Grooming Gangs.’ Britain Has Persecuted Him.” Oh ok, I’ll bite even though its an NR article. Of course after reading the article, the title should have been penned “Tommy Robinson, Victim of His Own Belligerence”. The meat of the article was all about pointing out everywhere that Tommy has gone wrong or did wrong since he formed the EDL. With a sprinkling of Grooming Gang info layered in so some credence could be given to the headline. The sort of… Read more »

Alex
Alex
6 years ago

For starters, in a real country, there is no such thing as a “walking and cycling commissioner.” That’s a job for a retired volunteer at a charity 5K.

Haha. Dude I will say this again and again. I look forward to your book.

tz1
Member
6 years ago

Either the rule of law or the rule of men, but you need men to implement the law.
The hard part is when men ignore the law and you are required to remove the men without removing the law they are ignoring.

Epaminondas
Member
6 years ago

Step one in giving Europe a backbone is to withdraw from NATO. Let the chips fall where they may. We should have learned that lesson during the first world war.

Worldly Wiseman
Worldly Wiseman
6 years ago

The British did what most of the world did – currying favours with Hillary Clinton as everyone expected her to become president. They were in a position to do a lot more than others and took the opportunity. Look at the list of international donors to Clinton Foundation, lots of different countries there . Brexit is a prestige and a power issue. Britain derives its power and influence as an intermediary between us and EU (see recent Schengen database scandal) and Brexit (departing the political union ) makes them redundant. Witness trump going straight to the core Europe – France… Read more »

Maddog
6 years ago

TheZman Crushes it on Britain! Thanks for taking the time to write this piece. It is an issue I believe important and something I’ve written about on occasion. https://www.maddogslair.com/blog/the-zman-crushes-it-on-britain “This is the heart of the matter. The Pax Americana, which has guaranteed peace in Europe for the last 75 years, has done more than pacify the continent. It has turned the political classes of Europe into children. They are not real leaders in any meaningful sense, because no matter what they do, Uncle Sam is there to make sure they never get a serious boo-boo. Because they are insulated from… Read more »

Joseph Suber
Joseph Suber
6 years ago

I legitimately feel bad for not knowing what the “…one way to fix that” is. I am in suspense. That last sentence breaks your normal paragraph structure further increasing my angst.

Some possible solutions:

1) shoot the clowns.
2) stop “protecting” them with US defense spending.
3) #freeTommy
4) play Hearts of Iron, win Battle of Britain, do operation Sea Lion.

I’m at a loss.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
Member
Reply to  Joseph Suber
6 years ago

Pretty sure learning Hearts of Iron AND winning would be the more difficult option

SidVic
SidVic
Member
Reply to  Joseph Suber
6 years ago

Suber, consider changing your avatar. You look geeky, and demented with an air of perversion. Which i admit is hard to pull off (an achievement of sorts). Nonetheless….

Joseph Suber
Joseph Suber
Reply to  SidVic
6 years ago

Maybe honesty isn’t the best policy.

Member
Reply to  Joseph Suber
6 years ago

They won’t leave voluntarily. We can vote, but it won’t matter. See all those black-robed tyrants who tell us all that what POTUS #1 started with an executive order can not be ended by POTUS #2 with an executive order.

They have removed all the regular process options of changing policy, direction of the ship of state, etc. and leave us only “irregular process options” to effect change.

Rod1963
Rod1963
Reply to  roo_ster
6 years ago

The elites always do that – seal off all avenues of reform. Why? Because they are better than us and are much smarter and informed as well.

And when do people like that take advice from “dirt people”? Never. They look at some angry steel worker or engineer who is losing their job to globalization and think, ‘that’s progress’. The same with the flooding of the West with 3rd worlder savages.

So it leaves us to implement option #1.

thud
6 years ago

What London does is what London does, the rest of us take no feckin notice and go about our business pretty much as we always have done but perhaps now a little smarter and a bit quieter.

Cloudbuster
Member
Reply to  thud
6 years ago

“… a bit quieter.”

Yes. You’ve learned your place. Good slave.

thud
Reply to  Cloudbuster
6 years ago

Nah, just smarter than you although that’s starting from a pretty low base.

Cloudbuster
Member
Reply to  thud
6 years ago

You have provided no evidence to support your assertion, and a good bit of evidence opposing it.

bart simpsonson
bart simpsonson
6 years ago

And that’s the way we like it.

bart simpsonson
bart simpsonson
6 years ago

Sadiq Khan, or whatever his name is, has ONE objective, and that is to get more muslims doing anything and everything, and being in charge of anything and everything, and making the rules for anything and everything, to the ultimate detriment of everyone else, as well as to London and England itself, not to mention the world.

Mark Matis
Mark Matis
6 years ago

The REAL problem is instead the UK “Law Enforcement”, who will do WHATEVER they are told, as long as that paycheck keeps comin’ in. Their perfidy was apparent when they enabled the murder of Alfie Evans. Tommy Robinson is merely icing on that same cake. Eliminating any of the “leaders” in the UK will get you nothing. They are all totally replaceable by any random person off the streets of London. On the other hand, if UK “Law Enforcement” and their spouses were to start dying, that would tend to realign the dinner conversations about the appropriateness of a career… Read more »

Bartleby the Scrivener
Bartleby the Scrivener
Reply to  Mark Matis
6 years ago

If you’re talking about Management, with regards to Rove Republicans in law Enforcement, you are spot on. The rank and file are the polar opposite. It’s mind boggling how a handful of examples of police misconduct color the opinions of the commenters on this blog. Police handle hundreds of thousands of calls for service, and the few instances of police brutality, stupidity, and incompetence colors us all. Oh well, you can believe what you want, but know that most of us have already prepared to exit our current positions. A full 1/3 of the department in Chicago will exit in… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivener
6 years ago

Thanks for the heads up.
Like our doctors, (and how many other industries), the labor dearth will need to be filled by nonwhites and immigrants, who will fight to retain their privileges. The rise of a loyalist Enforcer class.

Mark Matis
Mark Matis
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivener
6 years ago

That’s a very nice story you tell. But if there were truly only a “handful of examples of police misconduct”, how come THOSE “bad apples” aren’t gone? The barrel is rotten to its very core.

Yak-15
Yak-15
6 years ago

Why care about Europe? Let them finally fulfill the death wish they’ve had for 100 years. Worrying about the children on the dead continent is just going to raise your blood pressure.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
Reply to  thezman
6 years ago

That is a perfect response to Yak’s post.
For a long time I thought jolly old England had just fallen down and was a bit dizzy, things would clear up. Then Brexit happened and I “knew” things were going to change.
Nope.
They ARE literal clowns now, but the ones with the sad faces. Heartbreaking really, beyond parody, watching their bobbies run amok arresting all the wrong people, twisting themselves into pretzels protecting the wrong people. Over and over and over. And most of the masses don’t even seem to mind

Matt
Matt
Reply to  Rube Goldberg
6 years ago

The MSM + Clown State is doing a great job hiding reality and punishing those who try to expose reality. This is occurring all across Europe and the UK. To some, perhaps a huge extent in the US as well.

james wilson
james wilson
Reply to  Rube Goldberg
6 years ago

Seventy years ago Orwell wrote that the British ruling class was distinguished for it’s loathing of it’s own county and countrymen. That’s a long time for institutions to be marinated in loathing.

bilejones
Member
Reply to  Rube Goldberg
6 years ago

I remember thinking it was over a few years ago when I saw a piece noting that the English were now a minority in London.

Next time you see a bit in The Grauniad about “Native Americans” throw a comment in there that mentions the “Native English” and see how long it lasts before the memory hole comes for it.

Pimpkin's Nephew
Pimpkin's Nephew
Reply to  Rube Goldberg
6 years ago

Well, the “masses” minded enough to vote for Brexit. But they don’t count, as is now obvious.

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
Reply to  Pimpkin's Nephew
6 years ago

The day after the Brexit vote Mme B and I were lunching with a Lefty friend of Mme’s. He was all in a tizzy about the outcome. I told him not to worry, the elites would never let it happen.

Tykebomb
Tykebomb
Reply to  Yak-15
6 years ago

That 100 year death wish also hit America. Really it was Whites and Western civilisation itself that blew it’s brains out in 1914 after a rough 50 years of philosophy and theology.

Solving Europe’s problem is good practice for solving America’s problems. We can do it from a safe distance.

LFMayor
LFMayor
Reply to  Tykebomb
6 years ago

By talking about it? Sorry, I meant “gaming”. That’s useful so long as it doesn’t last a decade.
The D and A parts of ooda are where real shit gets finalized. Psychobabble, muhFeelz therapeutic voodoo science poison has weakened us and placed unnecessary and harmful emphasis on talking and consensus.
There should be an even, almost rhythmic flow in solving a problem. Bam, bam, bam BAM: fixed.

Tamaqua
Tamaqua
Reply to  Yak-15
6 years ago

Because that’s OUR ancestors homeland, OUR cultural wellspring, OUR PEOPLE.

Dave
Dave
Reply to  Yak-15
6 years ago

Why care about Europe ?
Why should I care about my cousins or my extended family ?
Make no mistake, Europeans are our extended family, and Europe our ancient homeland. If push comes to shove, and it is coming to shove as we speak, Europeans in the Americas will have to step up and help our sickly brethren reclaim our common birthright.
Europe belongs to all Europeans wherever they may be on this globe, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up on it.

Pimpkin's Nephew
Pimpkin's Nephew
Reply to  Dave
6 years ago

There are Europeans as concerned about the fading fortunes of our country just as we are about theirs; I’d say we need their support, just as we need theirs, in this twilight battle that our rulers seem determined to fight – and win – as soon as possible.

Pimpkin's Nephew
Pimpkin's Nephew
Reply to  Yak-15
6 years ago

Tiny Duck couldn’t have said it more brutally. Well done.

calsdad
calsdad
Reply to  Yak-15
6 years ago

I fail to see how Europe falling to a combination of socialist stupidity and Muslim invasion – is going to make our lives any better over here. That alone is reason enough to be concerned about what happens in Europe.

Max
Max
6 years ago

You’re not in any position to decide what is serious or what serious people should do.