Knocking At The Door

One of the pitfalls of dissident politics is the temptation to succumb to despair, focusing only on the negative. Excessive cynicism is an escape, an indulgence, like libertarianism, where you get to pretend the sideline is the high ground. Cynicism is a cost free way of both participating in politics, but standing outside of it, as if you are above it all. It has been a feature of modern conservatism as a way of keeping the people from noticing that they are being scammed.

The truth is, politics at this level is not about elections or public policy. It is about effective social change, by changing the frame of reference. That’s a lot like steering a super tanker into port. A little nudge here. A little there. In the moment, you see little progress, but eventually, the tanker does move. That’s the point of dissident politics in the current age. It is moving things a little here and a little there in the effort to make our target audience aware of what’s happening to them.

An example of one of those tiny little bits of evidence that the ship is moving a little bit our way is this post from NRO, of all places. It is an interview with Oren Cass, who is the director of a new think tank in the Imperial Capital. The mission statement of American Compass says it is “to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity.” Put another way, they claim to oppose what we call marketism.

Another Washington think tank is hardly an inspiration to our side, but Oren Cass has gotten a lot of attention from influential people. This twitter thread spelled out the problem of worshiping economic data as an end in itself. More important, he did so in the language technocrats can understand. That is an important step, as it introduces dissident topics to people lacking the language and mental constructs to understand much of what is discussed on this side of the great divide.

A good example of this is the response from another NRO pod person to that Oren Cass twitter thread. Like so many in that hive, he clearly does not understand the concept of trade-offs. He certainly is clueless when it comes to concepts like social capital or community capital. He’s stuck at the place where knowing that the big number is more than the small number gets a gold star. Still, Cass is able to speak to him in language he can grasp, which is important.

Now, this does not signal a revolution of thought inside the Imperial Capital, but it does suggest some people inside are looking over the divide to this side. More important, instead of just assuming the people on this side of the great divide are evil or stupid, they are wondering why so many people are heading this way. The first step to legitimacy is often when the people in charge simply start taking their critics seriously, rather than treating them as a pestilence to be eliminated.

To be clear, Oren Cass is not “one of us” and never will be. In fact, if the inner party decides to round us up and ship us off to camps, he will be right there with them, as he is them and not us. The ruling class, along with their attendants, define themselves in opposition to us. Who they are is explicitly not us. They are the occupiers, the colonial pod people, ruling over the rest of us. Oren Cass and his project are simply a flicker of doubt, a sign that all is not well inside the walls.

A sober minded person would wonder why it has taken so long for anyone inside the walls to notice the problems outside the walls. After all, paleo-conservatives were predicting these sorts of problems forty years ago. Pat Buchanan ran on these issues, as well as Ross Perot. Trump is in the White House, in large part, because of the economic realities just dawning on people inside the walls. Heck, Bernie Sanders exists because of the things Cass identified in that thread.

It is the big tanker ship. A thing normal people cannot grasp is just how different the world inside the walls is compared to regular America. In the Imperial Capital, it is always a booming economy. Every day is Fat Tuesday, because tomorrow is always fat Tuesday as well. It’s always good times in the Washington for people who make their living in politics. Imagine a college campus the size of a city, but instead of students roaming about it is adult who work in politics.

This is why all past political reform efforts have failed. When the road goes on forever and the party never ends, reform sounds like ingratitude. From the Tea Party to the Bernie Bros, to the people inside, these movement strike the revelers as irrational ingratitude by people who don’t know how good they have it. But, the dissident right is knocking at the door and some people are starting to listen. It is a tiny example of how things are moving our way, ever so slowly, like that tanker ship.


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Elementary Penguin
4 years ago

Actually, the Pod People are right about something very important: it is quite true that the People Outside the Walls have never had it so good. Mohammad has never had it so good. Vikram and Pradesh have never had it so good. Jose and N’Gongwe and Yolanda and Fatima and Ching Chao, they’ve all never had it so good. The replacement “people”, the New Americans, the Paperwork Americans, the looters, the invaders, your literal replacements, they’ve all never had it so good. They’ve been handed America on a platter — a country they did nothing to build, which they did… Read more »

UpYours
UpYours
Reply to  Elementary Penguin
4 years ago

Yeah buddy, the WASPs pioneers who built California, said the same thing about the Micks, Wops, Polacks and Vodka Rapists who came here and had everything handed to them and have no loyalty and gratitude and who will side with the Kaiser or the Pope, sound familiar? Oh so unless you can trace your lineage 100% to the people of the 13 colonies, according to your logic, this is not your country, you did nothing to build it up or fight for it, other than to strip mine it and take it for yourself. Places dominated by Wops and Micks… Read more »

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

You are a very poor infiltrator. Go troll Breitbart, there’s tons of dumb Boomers there and you’ll probably have a lot more fun.

Elementary Penguin
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

So what do we have here?

a) top honors for obnoxious twit and retard prose stylist,
b) top honors for zero knowledge or understanding of American history,
c) Jew with a guilty conscience, making imbecilic false analogies, trying desperately to deflect,
d) Jew scared sh!tless that the dumb goyim have figured it out, and the Supercaust is in the works any minute now,
e) all of the above?

I’ve always liked the letter E, it makes such an intriguing sound.

dad29
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

Obviously you don’t look very deeply into immigration questions. Buchanan made it clear back in ’92: immigrants such as Polacks, Wops, Krauts, and Micks come from CHRISTIAN cultures (as did the original colonists).

The culture makes all the difference. Mohammedans are not Christian; nor are Confucians, nor Hindi. That doesn’t mean that they are “bad people.” But it DOES mean that there will be a Kulturkampf.

You want Kulturkampf? Good for you. Better be prepared for it. How’s your ammo supply?

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  dad29
4 years ago

Culture does NOT make all the difference; RACE does. Culture, like almost everything else, is downstream from race.

dad29
Reply to  3g4me
4 years ago

No, pal. The root of the word “culture” is “cult”–which is loosely translated as ‘religion.’ Or is that too big a word for you to understand?

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  dad29
4 years ago

dad29, I don’t disagree, they were White Christians.

And, tellingly, they already had an amazing array of diversity- as White Christians.

BadThinker
BadThinker
Reply to  dad29
4 years ago

Even then, southern and eastern european (and even irish) attitudes are quite different from American ones, and they did change the character ofnthe country, not always for the better.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

I’ve already abused Zman’s twitter tolerance, don’t make me include the vids and headline/article collections where they openly promote and celebrate their Muslim alliance against Europeans.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

I accept what you say about the lack of white solidarity in the past. Before WW2, whites dominated the planet and had no motivation to bond as a collective. But that was then.

Whites are having an identity forced on them by the rest of the world, because the non-whites don’t make any of the distinctions that you recount.

The most powerful forces that exist today are non-white and Jewish tribalism and resentment against non-liberal whites and to these forces we must respond.

Jim
Jim
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

Hey what’s up Mossad?

Yman
Yman
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

“Benjamin franklin hate German too!”

not quite right, WASP actually welcome European people who assimilate Anglo Custom, but didn’t want Non-European came his land

Again, your argument is not only inaccurate, busy to pointing out how much you hate white people
continuous decline of social norm and culture, stagnated scientific achievements and economy prove your side have no plan after “destruction of White society”

What’s you gonna do when everywhere is uncivilized world and no place to run

abprosper
abprosper
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

You are on the wrong blog bro. Since truth is OK here ,you should know the Know Nothings (aka American Party) were correct. The US needed to be ethnically and religiously homogeneous to work as well as it could. Unfortunately few of the Founders got this, John Jay did but not enough and the drive for money and faster colonization left is in a bad place, Anglo German when we should have been entirely Protestant and Anglo. However as other have noted , the other groups that came later were European and Christian which was a manageable level of chaos.… Read more »

Calsdad
Calsdad
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

Hahahaha.

I can trace my lineage almost 100% on both sides to the colonies pre-USA.

Does that mean I get to tell all the Micks, Wops, Polacks, Vodka rapists, Jews, assorted Hispanics…… etc……. to all get the the hell out?

I’m starting to like the way this is going………… 🙂

abprosper
abprosper
Reply to  Calsdad
4 years ago

I get the humor here but I feel like a straight response. Its not 1776 and the mistakes of the past are just that, mistakes of the past. The tension between Catholics and Protestants is still there though with Mormons thrown in for good measure but the US is much less Christianized so the issue is now more secular vs Christian with other flavors and most of the older ethnic groups are thoroughly blended even Jews Hell I’d argue many of leaders might as well worship Mammon and his Prophetess Ayn Rand or are into Crowleyanity and/or Marx. That’s a… Read more »

UpYours
UpYours
Reply to  Elementary Penguin
4 years ago

And one more thing, this country was sold out by white males such as LBJ, BJ Clinton, GHWB, GWB, Woodrow Wilson and yes even Saint Reagan. None of them are Jews, Chongs or Pajeets. Look in the mirror asshole.

The DR’s race obsession will be your downfall, by focusing on the wrong enemy. To quote the Cmdr. Oliver Perry ,”We have met the enemy and he is us”.

Horace
Horace
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

“This enemy you cannot kill,” I murmured. He nodded and finished the quote for me. “You can only drive it back damaged into the depths and teach your children to watch the waves for its return.” ― Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies While you are correct that we have been betrayed by our native elites, it is neither obsession nor “the wrong enemy” to note that a subset of Jews have played an instrumental catalytic role in the destruction of Western Civilization. Both can be, and are, true. Judeo-communists were instrumental in the transformation of the training grounds of our… Read more »

Mike_C
Mike_C
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

” a subset of Jews have played an instrumental catalytic role in the destruction of Western Civilization”

I think your spellcheck is corrupted. It seems to be replacing “catastrophic” with “catalytic”….

Rwc1963
Rwc1963
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

You are correct that our fellow whites betrayed their country and race. The fact remains Jews have played a very destructive role in the last 70 years to destroy westerm civilization, Christianity and European peoples. In almost every movement that is destructive to Western peoples and their culture is led by a Jew.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

Actually, the DR and the extreme Left are equally obsessed with race and human inequalities. The difference is that the Left’s understanding is false and ungrounded in HBD understanding. Since you can not build a lasting public policy on a lie, the DR—or at least it’s ideas, must eventually prevail.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

UpYours, I didn’t down vote you. I appreciate your contrariness and I am curious. You say people like me are “focusing on the wrong enemy.” Who is the real enemy?

UpYours
UpYours
Reply to  LineInTheSand
4 years ago

Mr. LineIntheSand, the enemy of White America sadly is…White America, just like the worst enemies of black Africans are black Africans. Throughout history, tribes have been sold out by their own. Sad really, but it is what it is. I don’t have any solutions on how DR or even the populist/nationalist right can reach out and convert the brainwashed whites like the Berniebros. They are the enemy, they don’t need to be one. Trump cannot even win 70% of the white MALE vote, even though his anti-Globoshlomo policies benefit white males the most. Cannot wrap my head around it. Explains… Read more »

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

I agree that the low ethnocentrism of whites is a problem. A big difference between us is that I don’t believe that we must solve this problem before we address our external foes. We’ve got to work on both problems simultaneously.

My guess is that the single best way to promote white solidarity is to diminish Jewish dominance of the culture.

abprosper
abprosper
Reply to  LineInTheSand
4 years ago

This is already happening and as the Boomers die off I expect that Whites will be more ethnocentric out of necessity. Oh the propaganda engine will be going full tilt but as brittle as the US is now, it may not last the wrong administration. Some ambitious or arrogant Leftist decides to rule with a phone and pen and go for the gun grab he’s wanted or some other bad policy he might get a coast to coast insurgency. Given the US is in crisis mode now with a decent leader something worse may be beyond recovery with a bad… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

Uppity, I quote Lenin:
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”

Man behind the curtain.
Unfortunately, even much of the Alt and Dissident right has a great deal of those men behind the curtain.

More than we realize.
Unfortunate but to be expected.
Still, use the army you have, since you won’t get the army you want.

abprosper
abprosper
Reply to  UpYours
4 years ago

Two Jews were a good chunk of the 1965 Immigration act, banking, Hollywood Depravity, most of the pron industry and part of the Southrons slavery chain though I do agree with you on Reagan who was as destructive if not more so than Wilson who I hate. That said peddling civic nationalism is just trying to convince people that immigration is good just like say excrement in soup is tasty and good. One people per land. They must be the vast majority and rule it Nothing else works. The US is a little unique in having a White race ,… Read more »

Felix Krull
Member
Reply to  Elementary Penguin
4 years ago

they’ve rewarded their mercenaries and their pets with the rest

They’re trusties in a prison: they get perks, but at the end of the day they’re dirt people like the rest of us and can be dropped back in the general prison population at any time, their privileges stripped from them.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
4 years ago

Peak neoconservatism was after the failures of the Perot and Buchanan campaigns, then later the purge of Sam Francis as a syndicated columnist, along with Joe Sobran disappearing from many newspapers. Things like immigration and free trade were no longer allowed to be debated in the mainstream and meanwhile war raged on. VDare, Amren and Lawrence Auster and Steve Sailer were still doing their thing, but it was far in the background. Neoconservatism reigned supreme. Then came Trump. I’ll always be grateful to him for kicking the door open on the immigration topic and questioning our trade arrangements and speaking… Read more »

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Wolf Barney
4 years ago

You are absolutely correct about Trump. Much of the Dissident Right criticism of him is little more than the Beautiful Loser mentality Z described. We, or at least our children and grandchildren, will look back in amazement at what he did in such a compressed period of time. It is easy to forget you are winning while the battle rages, but we are winning, perhaps too late to forestall the awful consequences but early enough not to be devoured. We do have to reassess what winning is.

King Tut
King Tut
Reply to  Jack Dobson
4 years ago

I am aware of the bitter disappointment felt by many at Mr. Trump’s failure to reverse the course of public affairs but I feel that that was never remotely a possibility. You cannot simply change the direction of an oil tanker going full steam ahead. First, you need to bleed off the momentum. Like Brexit over here, Trump has not changed things because such change is not possible in such a short time frame. But what he has done is made it possible to change things. He has kicked open the doors. His are the giant shoulders that others will… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  King Tut
4 years ago

The UK voted for Brexit and got Netzero’d in revenge.

NetZero- “Zero carbon emissions by 2050”, so they’re cutting down millions of grand English oaks to put up wind turbines.

Our rulers hate us. They truly hate us.

King Tut
King Tut
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

Oh Alzaebo, you’re forgetting about “gender neutrality”. We’re going to get that too.

“Our rulers hate us. They truly hate us.”

That they do, sir, that they do. But, like I said, Brexit didn’t change things, it just made change possible. It was a revolution – the first of many.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  King Tut
4 years ago

Electricity is 20% of total energy consumption. Rule by cannibals is one thing, but rule by autistic tranny cannibals is a whole ‘nother level.

Mikep
Mikep
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

Don’t they just! Let’s not forget the Pakistani rape gangs, only a level of malice worthy of Old Nick himself can explain how that utter shitshow came about.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Mikep
4 years ago

MikeP: here’s the Inversion propaganda.

Me: **with Murder in his eyes**

They’re flipping the story to:
Deus Vult Nazi Killers

https://mobile.twitter.com/BaronStrucker/status/1236032329539145729

The youtube:
https://t.co/Vtdvq7rG19?amp=1

Anybody remember “The Siege” with Bruce Willis rounding up helpless all-American Muslims, came out right before 9-11?

Go ahead. Call me a conspiracy theorist.
As if I could give a flying f*ck anymore.
Maybe some brass-licker will write me up in the Atlantic.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

On “education”:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Nature_and_Race/status/1235677159160758272

These kids are 6 years old. Six.
I repeat: **with MURDER in his eyes**

Gonna be unpleasant here.
Its not so much these little ones, but their continuing education.
A little English beauty, 11 years old, Paki gang-raped multiple times in every possible way.

The rapists got off scot-free, and laughed in her face IN COURT, to the approval of the judge.

The time has come, the time is long, long past come.

Felix Krull
Member
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

The UK voted for Brexit and got Netzero’d in revenge.

Just you wait until Uncle Boris reveals his new immigration policies. The Brits WILL be punished for their insolence.

King Tut
King Tut
Reply to  Felix Krull
4 years ago

“Just you wait until Uncle Boris reveals his new immigration policies.”

Oh yes, that too. Brexit was just the first of many battles. A long war lies ahead.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  King Tut
4 years ago

Yes, can’t have those Pollacks or Spaniards.
Bojo needs the full African.

Jim Smith
Jim Smith
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

Disagree: Our masters don’t “hate us” (I prefer the term “masters’ to “rulers” as it brings to mind an uglier reality). To them we’re inconsequential; barely minor irritants to the oligarchs who seek unrivaled power. We can be safely swept aside. Or ignored.

Felix Krull
Member
Reply to  Jim Smith
4 years ago


We’ll make them hate us soon enough…

vxxc💂🏻‍♂️😉 Toxic masculinity vector
Reply to  Felix Krull
4 years ago

I like you Krull

HamburgerToday
HamburgerToday
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

We’ll see. The English loves them some trees. NetZero is going to unleash the UK version of the Yellow Vests. You don’t cut down people’s trees without a fight. Not in the UK.

vxxc💂🏻‍♂️😉 Toxic masculinity vector
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

Yes – they hate us.
Intensely.
And yes genocidally, although being craven they’d prefer you know sort of an incidental genocide ala Ireland in the famine, or Belgium in the Congo- just some unfortunate disaster.

So this means…?
When you know they mean your Doom – you what?

ReturnOfBestGuest
ReturnOfBestGuest
Reply to  King Tut
4 years ago

I only blame him for those things entirely within his remit to remedy: Immigration and War. Immigration was just an issue for him to run on. His businesses always employed illegals and didn’t implement E-verify (which, by the way, he’s defunded in every budget and no longer supports.) His position on the ME wars of choice is far more interesting. He correctly blamed the Saudis’ for 9/11 more than a decade before he entered politics. Then he overrides congress to give them sensitive military technology and wants them to continue training here. Explain that. I’m all ears.

T. Morris
T. Morris
Reply to  ReturnOfBestGuest
4 years ago

I never trusted Trump, and always thought of him as a clown. He is a clown, and that’s the bottom line for me. However, I was pleasantly surprised that he – through Stephen Miller – even raised the whole “birthright citizenship” issue. Clown that he was, and is, no one had ever done that before except a few “fringe lunatics” like yours truly. On the other hand, I used to think (before I wised up) that Bush’s initiation of the FMA (it was never his idea to begin with, but that is beside the point for my purposes here) would… Read more »

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  King Tut
4 years ago

I’d push back strongly on the notion that Trump has “kicked open doors.”

What he has done is kick at doors, without actually breaking them, which just tells the enemy which doors need to be reinforced or replaced.

His one great virtue is that he’s proven we can’t vote our way out of this. That’s the only reason I can’t say we’d have been better off if Hillary had won.

Tim from Nashua
Tim from Nashua
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

Globalists used the phrase “Trump is at the gates.” in order to frighten the sheeple. They let him anyway, because the Globalists devour sheeple. President Trump has not done any devouring despite the Globalists insisting he is worse than Hitler.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  King Tut
4 years ago

As an American observer, it looks like the people are making it happen over there. It’s great to see. That needs to happen here again. Trump ride or die, and I’ll always support him for what he did in ‘16, but man he’s been frustrating the last couple of years. His people (and I’m one of them) need to get off the bench and start making noise, get him on the path again.

Horace
Horace
Reply to  Jack Dobson
4 years ago

I strongly agree with this. President Trump is one of the great heroes of Western Civilization. Yes, he is NOT saving our country, but that is because he is at least 30 years too late (not his fault). He is, by delegitimizing the social, political, and economic assumptions that underlie globalism, building the foundation for Western Civilization’s rebirth when this evil globalist empire finally dies. It doesn’t matter whether that is his explicitly conscious strategy. It matters that it is the outcome of whatever likely civnat boomer-cuck playbook from which he is operating. Whatever repairs to the empire he makes… Read more »

Ris_Eruwaedhiel
Ris_Eruwaedhiel
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

Somebody here observed that we hoped that Pres. rump would be another Gen. Pinochet, but he is probably another Gorbachev, trying to reform a disintegrating system. What comes next? I’ve heard the date of 2032 or 2033 as Year Zero when everything comes crashing down.

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Ris_Eruwaedhiel
4 years ago

2032 makes a lot of sense. That’s probably the year Texas flips. Demographic decline will become really obvious by that point, as the older baby boomers (born 46-52) will be dying off in large numbers.

As for the “Muh Supreme Court” types, those that don’t “evolve” in office will probably be ‘removed’, consequence-free, by ANTIFA.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

SCOTUS need not evolve, albeit Conservative picks often do. Look to the Left to immediately begin to “pack” the court when Congress is secured. This requires (IIRC) no Constitutional Amendment.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

I’ve had a change of opinion on this point recently. Previously, I also thought the demographics bomb would go off around 2033/34 but no longer do. That’s largely because the Brazil suggestion seems more and more probable. There really is no forecast where whites don’t constitute a plurality this century, and watching this Democrat primary has been enlightening. Below the surface, blacks and Hispanics have separated and the former supports Biden, the latter Bernie. It won’t be reported for obvious reasons, but that split seems quite real. Yes, the vast majority from both groups will vote for whoever eventually wins… Read more »

Bill_Mullins
Member
Reply to  Ris_Eruwaedhiel
4 years ago

“I’ve heard the date of 2032 or 2033 as Year Zero when everything comes crashing down.” ’32 or ’33? Good! I’ll surely be dead by then. I’m sorry my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have to live through those terrible times – IF they can. I will be moldering in my vault at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery down the way from my folks and will be well out of the fray. Nothing is forever. Entropy rules. Sooner or later everything turns to shit and it was just my descendants’ bad luck to be born just as the world as… Read more »

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

’>>>32 or ’33? Good! I’ll surely be dead by then. I’m sorry my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have to live through those terrible times – IF they can. <<<

Boomers: say shit like this.

Also Boomers: Why do younger people hate us?

Bill_Mullins
Member
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

Your point? The world’s about to go to hell in a handbasket and I’m damned glad I get to miss thefun. You have a problem with that, Junior?

abprosper
abprosper
Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

Ok Boomer. Yes we do. Your generation oo weak , greedy and cowardly to fix the screw ups from your parents and now once you have nothing to lose , still the same. You guys failed in every meaningful way to help your nation and left the rest of us holding the bag and if there was a hell for politically spinless punks, most Boomers would be frying there. And while ProUSA is right that NABALT especially the Vets, on the aggregate , the Boomers were generation fail. My generation X wasn’t much better but we were the rump generation… Read more »

Penitent Man
Penitent Man
Reply to  abprosper
4 years ago

Nah, I’m not buying the Boomer-hate-bate from this one. He is, in my Xgen summation, a solitary asshat. Bless his heart.

Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

Can you at least chip in $5 to our host before you kick the bucket?

ProUSA
ProUSA
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

I’m a late Boomer and I agree with you. We are not all Bill Ayers type Boomers, and don’t forget the forgotten Boomers who went to’Nam and never turned coat.

ProUSA
ProUSA
Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

I don’t want that for my children! Two of the three are vaguely aware of what is coming, and I keep forwarding readings their way—as much as that annoys them. But I saw a crack and that gives me hope that they will be knowing. I would rather die fighting the enemy before it comes to that, and I don’t know how courageous I would be when it comes down to real bullets. I can only pray for divine protection, and if is not to be, then it should be a glorious death. I must never stop trying to do… Read more »

Calsdad
Calsdad
Reply to  Ris_Eruwaedhiel
4 years ago

Martin Armstrong has been using his cycle analysis to point to 2032 as one of the key SHTF data points: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/?s=2032 ” The computer projects 2032. It is not my opinion or premonition. How they justify 2032 from an “opinion” perspective is beyond me. I do not believe anyone can give such a date with conviction from any current economic theory. It is strange that they will not cite our work. I think they fear repercussions from the governments that stick their foot into everything. Yet, governments are monitoring this perhaps out of their own self-interest. Shutting me up will… Read more »

Horace
Horace
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

One last observation … I classify the Trump movement as the last gasp of multiculturalism. Cognitive and financial 10%ers often make the mistake of extrapolating their sample-biased diversity experiences to the rest. The Dem left is not multicultural but anti-white in mission. Trump really is a 1970’s Democrat multicultural nice-guy boomer-cuck. He is trying very hard to build a multicultural society that is not anti-white, but inclusive to us. It may seem obvious to us that it will fail hard, but that is not so to many Americans. It has to be tried (and is being tried) honestly and earnestly… Read more »

Bill_Mullins
Member
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

In the ancient Near East there was an empire we call The Assyrian Empire which weaponized multiculturalim. When the Assyrians conquered a country, they would deport (IMS) roughly 80% of the population; replacing the deportees with multiple groups from throughout the empire. Each group would have its own individual racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic identity. As now strangers in a strange land, usually far from their ancestral homeland, these groups would work very hard to retain their identity. This would make the sort of political unity necessary to a successful rebellion a virtual impossibility. Thus the Assyrians solved the problem… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

“For their arrogance”
Heavens no, a successful, thriving civilization better than what (a certain “we”) can build.
One that sought science and knowledge, patiently observing.

Understand now, when I tell you it’s a record of battle strategies and propaganda?

Ris_Eruwaedhiel
Ris_Eruwaedhiel
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

Political correctness is a war on noticing. Liberals have said for I don’t know how long that “prejudice is ignorance.” That sometimes true, but, IMO, “familiarity breeds contempt” is equally true. As the US grows more and more diverse, more and more Whites will be forced into close proximity with the the diversities. Easy to think highly of the them when you they’re not around you. Democratic Georgia Senator Richard Russell said in the 50s, “The surest cure for liberalism is a strong dose of Negroes.” Pres. Trump is a typical baby boomer civic nationalist. We’re all Americans, we all… Read more »

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Ris_Eruwaedhiel
4 years ago

“Political correctness is a war on noticing.”

Upvoted just for this phrase.

Yes, it is.

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Jack Dobson
4 years ago

Our children and grandchildren will be rounded up and shot because of the demographic change your ZOG Emperor failed to prevent.

I’ll give Trump this – he has a unique aptitude for making people think that failure is triumph.

Rwc1963
Rwc1963
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

He’s been getting away with a lot because FoxNews and the pro Trump blog sites like BB have been covering for him on issues like trade and immigration. He gets a total pass for signing bulls bringing in more foreign workers to replace Americans. However the corona virus is going to kick his fat ass and drop kick the the stock market into the gutter. So far our response to the virus has been no better than China’s in the early months. IOW a day late and a dollar short. Only 2000 people tested? That’s a joke and then add… Read more »

The Right Doctor
The Right Doctor
Reply to  Rwc1963
4 years ago

Not so worried about neonatal ICUs. No deaths reported in children 10 and under, worldwide.

And by the way, that isn’t the way such viruses (family of Coronavirus) normally behave.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  The Right Doctor
4 years ago

Doctor, is that correct? Yes, the Corona virus is often associated with common colds, but last I saw reported, the micro-biologists were classifying 7 Corona viruses. First four were of the common cold verity, while the 5, 6, 7 were responsible for MERS, SARS, COVID-19 respectively. Or am I interpreting your comment incorrectly?

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Compsci
4 years ago

Thumbs up to Compsci for true information yet again. Good grounding, good science.

abprosper
abprosper
Reply to  MemeWarVet
4 years ago

ZOG can’t keep the US from being flooded with illegal immigrants and drugs and its not “doesn’t want to.” its can’t . The manpower isn’t there, the money isn’t there and the level of corruption is too high. We are also getting dumber by the hour. This isn’t Germany or the UK its Brazil with way more guns. Also your children and grandchildren have more firearms than people to use them. The ATF numbers say the US has 432 million firearms and that 8.1 billion rounds are made each year. 18 million of these are AR15 or AK variants ,… Read more »

vxxc💂🏻‍♂️😉 Toxic masculinity vector
Reply to  Jack Dobson
4 years ago

When we fight we’ll win.

Assess after winning the fight.

Trump is a great man who’s done a great many things – but he wants to close the deal peacefully, and that isn’t likely to work.

Horace
Horace
Reply to  Wolf Barney
4 years ago

It was Charlie Cuck who performed the ritual banishment of Mitt Romney.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/485046-conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-urges-cpac-crowd-to-boo

There is no question that there is noticing going on.

ReturnOfBestGuest
ReturnOfBestGuest
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

Is there a more pathetic, talent-less, unprincipled, and loathsome creature in all of ConInc. than Char-lay? (We could do a poll.) He’s the human weather-vane: Grifting along in whichever direction the wind blows.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  Wolf Barney
4 years ago

Here are some of the phrases the CPAC/normie-con crowd like to repeat, which are either now or very close to being ridiculed and considered cringe among a much wider group than ever before: 1. Lowest black unemployment! 2. Socialism sucks (without mentioning the mass immigration that will make socialism happen) 3. Attacks on Omar, Tlaib et al, again, same as above, with no mention of immigration. 4. Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. 5. Israel, our greatest ally. 6. Hispanics are natural conservative. 7. Look at this black conservative, could be Diamond & Silk, Candace Owens, those funny twin guys,… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
4 years ago

Ah, Ross Perot. Remember, he was “all ears”. Folks laughed at that quip. But he was right—he heard “that sucking sound” of jobs leaving the US 20 years before any of us did. And for that, we should remember him fondly and apologize for voting for either Bush or Clinton.

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Compsci
4 years ago

My first Presidential election was 1992, having missed ’88 by a couple months. I pulled the lever for Clinton even though there was something about Perot that seemed to make a lot of sense. By 1996 I was too far to the left to consider even Clinton. Strange days, indeed.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  KGB
4 years ago

Yes indeed, I pulled the lever for every Rep candidate since Nixon. That is the definition of insanity. After the let down, there was always the “next time”. Some people never catch wise.

Shadowbass
Shadowbass
4 years ago

I’ve tried to explain to people than when you live in the land of “Lotus Eaters”, things simply never go bad, so people inside never understand what the peasants are rebelling about. Some these people are creeps, but many just never experience what happens, on the “outside” it’s just harder to get their attention. Now, the noise, and occasional rocks and spears thrown over the walls, by the barbarians outside, is getting noticed finally.

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Shadowbass
4 years ago

People are starting to look over the fence at our thing, in part, because Trump has showed up and does not appear to be a flash in the pan. His followers will stick with him, that is clear. The other side is trying to figure out what is going on, and part of that is giving us a look see. I think it is more “scouting the enemy” than anything else. But Trump’s staying power has legitimized a lot of things, and one of them is us. We can leverage that.

joey junger
joey junger
4 years ago

Something related is that sometimes outsiders even complain when things start moving their way because insiders are co-opting their ideas and taking the credit. The thing is, I don’t care who gets the credit, just that the thing I want done gets done. What’s going on in Germany now is a good example. Otherwise crazy and traitorous pols are being sensible about stopping refugees flowing in from Turkey even if it means making little brown kids cry and even if it means using violence to stop them. They’re not doing this because they’ve had a change of heart, or even… Read more »

King Tut
King Tut
Reply to  joey junger
4 years ago

Agreed. Treating our ideas like precious intellectual property would be a huge error. Scatter them to the winds like seeds and let them take root where they may.

Horace
Horace
Reply to  joey junger
4 years ago

“I just want it done.” That has been my basic attitude to the ruling class: I didn’t care who ruled as long as they ruled well. However, the transformation of my country from Christian-heritage European-heritage republic into a multicultural empire in which my people has been completely dispossessed from every node of control (coinage, courts, media, education, etc) has made it crystal clear that it matters who rules. If you leave the cockroaches in power any changes they make will be tactical and optical and they will reverse them the second the public goes back to sleep thinking everything is… Read more »

Jim
Jim
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

Black men are the sexiest men in America. Tell that to any founding father, including that faggot Madison

Jim
Jim
Reply to  Jim
4 years ago

Clearly nobody caught the sarcasm.

Jim
Jim
4 years ago

My favorite piece from March! Excellent tanker analogy, and I loved the reminder of optimism! Realism and rationalism have a gravitational tendency towards nihilism, (I.e. Wittgenstein, Laplace, Descartes, Nietzsche). Why are we especially prone to this devolution in spirit? Let us revisit the foil you paint. Let us compare and contrast “cosa nostra” versus the pods. The Pods: It’s a brisk day in Boston, and out from a pod apartment comes a Podman, the Back Bay clouds hanging over his oblivious Podbrain. He sports a charcoal pea coat, navy slacks, light brown dress shoes, product in the hair, sides of… Read more »

G Lordon Giddy
G Lordon Giddy
4 years ago

I am sometimes a critic of Trump but this week in that town hall Trump had the balls to say he did not like Obama and what he did especially to the military. Now granted this statement is not full on dissident and for certain I am not sure our military is not going to be used against us in time and it’s turning pozed too. But Trump did criticize a black. Which whites now in the west have been brainwashed into never doing in public. Trump has opened up the idea that white guys might just push back. And… Read more »

Member
4 years ago

There is a fine line between despair and realism. It is often said but bears repeating that there is no political solution to extricate ourselves from this mess. For every person we red pill, 100 mestizo mamas drop another future Democrat voter. It’s a numbers game and we already lost.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
4 years ago

Solid stuff here. The black pill is indeed both a crutch and a dodge and sometimes it does pay to take stock of how much things have started to move our way, however incrementally. As to the interview, though, the National Review guy is like a Moonie. Despite the universe of evidence that indicates people are not in fact doing well, he spouts clichés and shibboleths that have been debunked again and again by facts on the ground; he seems quite taken aback by the answers. This degree of cluelessness indicates the daunting task of turning the tanker around as… Read more »

Yves Vannes
Yves Vannes
Member
Reply to  Jack Dobson
4 years ago

Remember Patrick Deneen? He hit the same brick wall Cass is about to hit. https://www.amazon.com/Why-Liberalism-Failed-Politics-Culture/dp/0300223447. Hopefully, Cass will put a few cracks in that wall. Cass is a step in the right direction. The articles Zman has linked to are worth the time to read, just don’t translate terms like “community” into what one of us would call community. Cass take a very big step in the right direction with one critical ingredient missing: demographics. Read the comments on the twitter thread, they are encouraging. Cass : In 1985 the male head of household had to work 30 weeks to… Read more »

Horace
Horace
Reply to  Jack Dobson
4 years ago

“Is there any chance whatsoever the tanker cannot hit the iceberg just ahead?” We have already hit the iceberg. We just haven’t sunk yet. The country into which I was born has already been murdered. The cocaine-addled globalists partying on the bridge at the top of the ship, who ignored (or celebrated) for decades the screams of suffering coming from the lower decks, are now noticing the sloshing 20 degree tilt in the level of the brandy in their snifters. They are now forming a committee to consider sending a damage control party to investigate. This disaster was entirely avoidable… Read more »

Major Hoople
Major Hoople
Member
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

A hundred up votes for this. It’s the hardest thing to accept. If you grow up reciting the pledge every morning, realizing that the country you grew up in has been murdered in its sleep is a rough thing to accept.

Fluella de Vil
Fluella de Vil
Reply to  Major Hoople
4 years ago
vxxc💂🏻‍♂️😉 Toxic masculinity vector
Reply to  Major Hoople
4 years ago

The country hasn’t been murdered.
Really, a murdered country looks very, very different. Trust me, we murdered Iraq. Nearly murdered Syria. A murdered country looks like Iraq and Syria.

The government is in the hands of hostile and frankly occupying forces – the good news is they’re weak, craven degenerates – and we the people are merely guilty of being asleep at the switch.

I mean have you ever talked to a lifelong working class White Democrat? They just started to notice. Congratulations on waking up from your 60 year Coma. Yes, there are some problems. Thanks for checking in.

Ivar
Member
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

Z is probably right on this, but I don’t think the system has enough time left to allow the demon-waifs to be gently led to awareness. Additionally, many of us among the unwashed are in it now mostly for the possibility of sweet revenge.

HamburgerToday
HamburgerToday
Reply to  Horace
4 years ago

I wonder if any genuine catastrophe is avoidable. I’m not talking about natural disasters, but human-induced catastrophic events. Was WWI avoidable? All kinds of actions had to fall into place to make that war happen. It’s as if it were an expression of the existing system, not an exception to it. I think we’re in the same situation. Guys like Cass are acting as though there is hope because hope sells to some people better than fear, but the background is always fear. That’s why the Doomsday people always have a ready audience and why the Hope-Mongers do as well.… Read more »

vxxc💂🏻‍♂️😉 Toxic masculinity vector
Reply to  HamburgerToday
4 years ago

Spes Anchora Vitae.

But we have to fight.

And… most don’t want to.

Xman
Xman
4 years ago

“Imagine a college campus the size of a city, but instead of students roaming about it is adult who work in politics.” That’s exactly what every Blue, liberal city is now — a big college campus. Craft beer, Starbucks, good pizza, freely available pussy, weed, Jewish intellectuals, hippies in tie-dye, gun control, and a smattering of compliant Negroes, handpicked by affirmative action. All financed by someone else’s money, with women giving the orders. As a former white collar intellectual now looking for a job, I am struck by the starkness of the divide between the effete snobs in the bubble… Read more »

Whiskey
Whiskey
4 years ago

We have advantages and disadvantages. They are really the same. Western society is pretty much White women conspiring actively with foreign men to enslave us White men, at best, exterminate us at worst. For the crime of being unsexy. Hell hath no fury like a woman not turned on by the men around here. Its the only unforgivable sin men can commit. Look at the Democratic race. Not a single straight White male lasted very long. We had gay-gay-gay-now cosplayers, angry school marms, and an aging old communist vs a senile old pol. Ambitious young White men can look at… Read more »

Mike Ricci
Mike Ricci
Reply to  Whiskey
4 years ago

Why does the Right attract so many weirdos?

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Mike Ricci
4 years ago

Ricci – it doesn’t help that we make excuses for them…

“Don’t punch Right”

“We need all the allies we can get”

“Hunter Wallace writes a lot of great articles”

I could go on….

Rwc1963
Rwc1963
Reply to  Mike Ricci
4 years ago

At least the guy thinks for himself and he is actually spot on in his observations about Democratic politics and about the Vikings.

The Vikings were slavers for the Muslims. They provided millions of European slaves to Baghdad, Spain and Tunis.

And he is dead on about Our Thing offering young white men alternative to what we are currently given. Though I doubt the Thought Leaders of the DR will do anything to recruit or attract young white men to the cause

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Mike Ricci
4 years ago

Nice piercings, Ricci. They really complement those problem glasses.

Without doubt, you have more intellect, education, money, and a better car than I do. Plus, your p*ssy is a lot tighter.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Whiskey
4 years ago

Whiskey, your misogyny is ever on my mind.
Above is a tweet video as to why.
(The “education” vid. That insufferable twat.)

I was wrong. You were right.
We could use another WWll- only this time, against our enemies.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Whiskey
4 years ago

You’re on to something here Whiskey and one need look no further than South Africa to see the eventual result. Whites are now living in poverty and fear while a sizable number of their White countrymen have traitorously sided with the SA Black majority for a pay check to keep the country from imminent failure. I doubt they can save the country, nor themselves with that strategy. When the lights go out, there will be no differentiation between good Whites and bad Whites. They have made a bargain to be the last eaten.

Rwc1963
Rwc1963
Reply to  Compsci
4 years ago

White traitors(quislings) are a problem for us. There are plenty of whites in the military and law enforcement who have no qualms working for a Obama, Bernie or Mugabe type as long as the checks get cashed. We see this with how the intelligence agencies and Pentagon have turned on Trump from day one. Or the FBI that is flat out a hostile agency that opposes the American people yet is staffed and run by whites. We see the same in Europe, it’s white men putting the boot to fellow whites while ptotecting 3rd world types and silencing white people… Read more »

Jim
Jim
Reply to  Whiskey
4 years ago

Very important that you recognize that white men are not “sexy.” Let’s dive. What is sexy? For 99% of human history basic features of health such as youth, skin that is not pockmarked or blemished, ideal levels of adiposity, muscle mass and skeletal structure were seen as attractive. Today we have a new definition. Do you know what happens to beautiful young white maidens who give birth? Their rectums prolapse and they soil their sexy black leggings and sexy Victoria secret panties (shh! It’s secret!). They can’t control their urination the same way ever again and they routinely urinate on… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Jim
4 years ago

Hear, hear!
Whiskey, being in the industry, was one of the first to point out that Madison Avenue was owned by Eskimos who hire 90+% women (and gays) as judas goats, as sirens, the voices leading the others over the cliff with ‘naughty’ fads and fashions.

Women are afraid to speak out against other women in public- and will stab them in the back in private.

Not saying we must change their instincts and nature. Can’t anyways. Only to expect them.

bilejones
Member
Reply to  Whiskey
4 years ago

My fiftyish female lawyer told me last weekend that the source of much evil in the US are the covens (my word not hers) of fiftyish divorced women sitting around telling each other how wonderful it is to be free and how when it’s not wonderful it’s all the fault of white men not paying attention to them.

(btw, is it coincidence that the only suggestion that my spell-checker has for “fiftyish” is “shifty”)

Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
Reply to  Whiskey
4 years ago

Dating site data shows the vast majority of white women prefer white men. Mixed couples are like gays. Far more popular on television than in real life.

Sperg Adjacent
Sperg Adjacent
4 years ago

Not an original point by any means, but I think the big difference between the Buchanan/Francis/Sobran years and now is the internet. To put it simply, it was a lot easier to fence off and/or disappear people in those days. But now the internet can keep ideas spreading from tiny and even one-man (hi, Zman!) platforms. As well as resurrect earlier, memory-holed voices. Moreover, the internet allows us to draw strenght and ideas from the very far right, the verboten right, which even open nationalists might pretend not to be engaging with as a matter of optics–but which is a… Read more »

bilejones
Member
Reply to  Sperg Adjacent
4 years ago

Just imagination the rage that this Sobran piece from 1997 would inspire today. “Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible. It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself. Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared. The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And,… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Sperg Adjacent
4 years ago

The Verboten Right!
“the “id” of the movement”. Yes!

TomA
TomA
4 years ago

And sometimes that tanker sinks before getting into port. Or the captain orders all the naysayers to walk the plank. Or the crew mutinies and throws the captain overboard, then changes course for a better port of call. Ancient wisdom, keep your options open and your powder dry.

AnotherAnonymous
AnotherAnonymous
Reply to  TomA
4 years ago

True that. History is full of surprises.

Range Front Fault
Range Front Fault
4 years ago

“It is the big tanker ship.” Yes it is, even though I just snotted off about Oren Cass. By the way, he’s probably a distant relative of me. Hmm…I still put in that order for an additional lamp post. Working in water treatment, in a conventional treatment plant with a big sediment basin, it can take hours or a couple days for a volume of water to move from the aerators through the sed basin into the clearwell. I was taught the conventional plant is the USS Carl Vinson. Turn a big ship incrementally and slowly. Make chemical changes sloooowly…stop… Read more »

Exile
Exile
Member
Reply to  Range Front Fault
4 years ago

I hope he cracked the glass public-opinion-wise. As a BoomerCon last hurrah, he’s fitting. Sleepy Joe would fit for BoomerLibs, FWIW.

We have nowhere to go but up. Given Trump’s position on Our Thing, I don’t see how da Squad’s FBI is going to be a bigger threat than Zion Don’s FBI. What has SCOTUS done to save Whites in general, much less BadWhites? Evil times in DC are generally good times for Us.

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Exile
4 years ago

>>>Evil times in DC are generally good times for Us. >>>

YES! This! Thank you!!!

We are a dissident movement. Mediocre times make mediocre results for us. Bad times are our friend.

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Range Front Fault
4 years ago

RFF – our ancestors with those little “faith in the footsteps” plaques on their graves are turning over in them at the evil their Globalist descendants have perpetrated.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
4 years ago

“He’s stuck at the place where knowing that the big number is more than the small number gets a gold star. ”

Every day at the Z-blog is Fat Tuesday!

Best of all, the audience gives as good as it gets. Wicked wit makes for the best parties!

Screw ’em. Die laughing.

AnotherAnonymous
AnotherAnonymous
4 years ago

The economy has been distorted with policies galore to funnel taxpayer funds into Solyndra scams, wind farms, POC professorships etc and it’s not about to change anytime soon. Nothing changes without actual numerical representation – especially culture. Now that the POCs joined blacks to form a “majority” demand block, it’s only going to get more dysfunctional. Their rapid ascent and incorporation into institutional positions is like having gays in the military. Soon they will have their own networks within the institutions and the result is true third world government, irrespective of “Technology”. One way to win the numbers game is… Read more »

DLS
DLS
4 years ago

“…libertarianism, where you get to pretend the sideline is the high ground.” Perfect.

Exile
Exile
Member
4 years ago

Public opinion is a macrocosm of Haidt’s “rider & the elephant.” Our Woke mahouts can apply the goad or offer us treats according to the manual but as the joke says, what does an elephant do? Anything he wants. Plumbing the depths and current shifts of public opinion is hard. Ask Hillary. There are chtonic elements in the public psyche that polling doesn’t disclose (thus the Bradley Effect). We’ve recently been informed that almost all social studies conducted in the modren era are deeply flawed if not outright fabricated. Turns out that asking WEIRD kids about themselves yields bad data… Read more »

Vegetius
Vegetius
4 years ago

To spread despair is treason.

MemeWarVet
MemeWarVet
Reply to  Vegetius
4 years ago

As is the spreading of false optimism

The North American Vespers
The North American Vespers
4 years ago

Imagine if that diamond princess ship was loaded with illegals. Prog congressman would be decrying the outrage of us letting them die on that ship. The media would publish photos of dead toddlers. Once the next Holocaust was averted by Pelosi and the Blue-haired twitterers and the illegals were on shore, the leftists would fall over themselves trying to hug the infected illegals to show how the real problem is the stigma, not the virus.

Mikep
Mikep
4 years ago

Thank’s for the links. This guy takes an awful lot of words to say that they’ve been “cooking the books” for decades and people have started to notice. He must be an academic.

Senator Brundlefly
Senator Brundlefly
4 years ago

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-cost-of-thriving/

The Twitter thread is basically a summary of this article. IDK about this Cass dude throwing us overboard. Tucker was once the bow-tied defender of the Iraq war and standard fusionist capitalism. Now look at him.

Range Front Fault
Range Front Fault
Reply to  thezman
4 years ago

Hmm….maybe sincere? Guilt by association with Mittens Turncoat. “Oren Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he focuses on energy, the environment, and antipoverty policy. He was domestic policy director of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2011–12. In that role, Cass shaped campaign policy and communication on issues from health care to energy to trade.” The takeaway line…..”Cass was a management consultant for Bain & Company in its Boston and Delhi offices.”…and replace us with the Dot Indians. Well, maybe he’s noticing our side of the divide, but only to more accurately draw the bead. For our… Read more »

Walt Jeffers
Walt Jeffers
Reply to  thezman
4 years ago

Carlson supported the initial Iraq invasion but changed his mind when he visited Iraq in December of 2003 and ended up being an enthusiastic opponent. I give him credit for that. In 2012, though, he was calling for the annihilation of Iran when he was at the Daily Caller. I give him credit again for changing on that. He appears sincere.

ReturnOfBestGuest
ReturnOfBestGuest
Reply to  Walt Jeffers
4 years ago

That was true of a lot of people. Emotions were running high and information was heavily curated. Now I laugh (bitterly) at Gen. Powell holding up the cartoons of the “high tech caves” in Tora
Bora. I don’t know how he sleeps at night. I don’t know how any of them do. (Well, it’s never Bushes, Clintons, or Trumps sending their kids off to die, is it?)

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
4 years ago

Z… the meteor hit. The first wave of extinction has begun. It’s you who are clueless, it is mass panic in the hive. The Donkosauruses died first. At the top of the shitlib food chain, they could only greet the tectonic and environmental changes with faggots, screeching vaginas, and greasy, elderly Jewish Commies and vulture capitalists… Yesterday has come and gone for them. The Republasaurs are struggling to adapt with limited success. Trump has made some of the nudges… but the Titanic is still headed for that iceberg at full speed. The new smaller, faster organisms are warm blooded, smarter,… Read more »

rkb100100
Member
4 years ago

James Burnhams “The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom” was correct – politics and rational thinking have little to do with each other!

TBD
TBD
4 years ago

Zman, have you been talking to Rachel Bovard over at American Greatness? A few hours ago I went back and relistened to your Marketism podcast. Afterward, I noticed her article (from today) on the same theme. Looks like the theme is getting traction.

Thurgood
Thurgood
4 years ago

Caldwell’s book is significantly derived from Dissident thought. Policy proscriptions lifted from that work would be hard evidence of a nudged tanker. Neoconservatives have much less orthodoxy on economics than libertarians, so one may doubt the dissident origins of that tangent.

Exile
Exile
Member
4 years ago

“This twitter thread spelled out the problem of worshiping economic data as an end in itself.”

Is this another Harzony thing, trying to front-run populist sentiment, or is the marketplace of ideas actually responding to supply and demand? This is clearly aimed at the Tucker audience either way.

ReturnOfBestGuest
ReturnOfBestGuest
Reply to  Exile
4 years ago

Exile, It may or may not “strike a chord,” Folks have begun to “notice.” Why can’t they save? Why did we bail out a Hedge Fund? Oopsie.

Member
4 years ago

The interview at NRO is actually with someone named Wells King, who is either an economic illiterate or an extreme Left con man. Following up with looking into Oren Cass and this “American Compass”, it has the aroma (stench) of yet another extreme Left front masquerading as “Conservative”.

dad29
Reply to  EndOfPatience
4 years ago

Aha!! Those who intend to preserve the American culture pre-LBJ are ‘economic illiterates’ and/or ‘extreme Left con-men’.

That’s not a good way to win friends and influence people, pal. Perhaps you have something to lend to the debate aside from asinine assertions?

Member
Reply to  dad29
4 years ago

I don’t feed trolls.

Pal.

If you want to try again, with adult behavior, I’ll respond.

Yman
Yman
4 years ago

Trump is pro-black, pro-gay marriage, pro-immigration because he wants to attract white boomer voters who still believe civil right
But also Party told him that if you want to stay in politics, you have to be pro-brown and pro-homosexual
Current system literally prevent any pro-white candidate enter the system

there’s massive immune system to filtering hell out white people who doesn’t hate so much their kin

Yves Vannes
Yves Vannes
Member
4 years ago

When your enemies are forced to use your language and address your concerns, even if it’s to blunt and corrupt them, you are gaining ground. Most of what we call civilization and culture moves almost unnoticed like the tide in the middle of the sea. Events and personalities are the flotsam and jetsam of history. The tide is moving our way. Candidate Trump rode the tide. Once elected he’s been a net negative. Cville was a PR disaster, the media, pop culture, the Justice Dept are at war with us…and yet we grow in numbers. Some surveys have 75% of… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Yves Vannes
4 years ago

“When your enemies are forced to use your language and address your concerns, even if it’s to blunt and corrupt them, you are gaining ground.”

Again, hear hear! Of course the Concerned will try to co-opt- their instinct is to run in front of the parade. Flotsam floats on the tide.

Rwc1963
Rwc1963
Reply to  Yves Vannes
4 years ago

No, that is what happens when a clever enemy infiltrates your movement. and that is what’s happening with Conservatism Inc. They are slowly using DR – populistic terms to take over. It’s not the success Zman thinks it is. The DR is a basically a big fat joke. Just some disgruntled whites and that’s ti. and you haven’t even seen the DOJ drop the hammer on us. You have no idea how ruthless and barbaric our leaders really are. . You think their constant mantra of wanting us dead and gone are a joke? Well it’s not. What do you… Read more »

Bill_Mullins
Member
4 years ago

OT: Was in W’Mart on our weekly shopping run. Scandal sheets are all screaming about how deadly this coronavirus is gonna be. National Enquirer headline predicts 100 MILLION INFECTED in the U.S. with 7 MILLION DEAD! Hello! That death toll is more than TWO FULL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE greater than the annual flu. What the HELL are those guys are smoking?

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

From my notes, a rumor: “…the document US hospitals are using to prepare for a major coronavirus outbreak. It estimates 96 million US coronavirus cases and 480,000 deaths.” Quiet preparation in the industry, very quiet. They know how quickly facilities will be overwhelmed as room runs out and the doctors and nurses get sick. Other notes: *Two weeks ago Italy had 20 cases. Today it’s near 5,000. *about 10% of cases in Italy require ICU Not sustainable *expects 40% of the population of Tehran to catch the virus. *Children just as likely- Three have died, 225 have recovered (median time… Read more »

Bill_Mullins
Member
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

From a video I watched on a left-leaning website today. Italian figures: 280 cases with 10 fatalities or 3.5% mortality. Reuters’ China figures: 80,000 infected with 2,700 fatalities or 3.3% mortality. Both sets of numbers have mortality rates right around 3.5%. The Enquirer headline was more like 7%. Look! Nobody is saying that “Covid-19 is nothing.” It’s just that it’s nothing like the lethal juggernaut the media and deep state are playing it up to be. Where were the Media and Congress last fall when the administration TRIED to brief congress about the virus and fewer than two dozen congress… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Bill_Mullins
4 years ago

That’s always been the problem.

Two different sets of rumors and factoids.
How to choose?

Calsdad
Calsdad
Reply to  Alzaebo
4 years ago

I read somewhere this morning that patient zero in the Italian coronavirus situation has been tracked back to a Pakistani – who apparently refused to quarantine and kept making and delivering Chinese food.

You see – these are the situations that dissident views on immigration need to capitalize on.

Actual revolutions have started from less.

Official Bologna Tester
Official Bologna Tester
4 years ago

Z Man said: “A sober minded person would wonder why it has taken so long for anyone inside the walls to notice the problems outside the walls. After all, paleo-conservatives were predicting these sorts of problems forty years ago. Pat Buchanan ran on these issues, as well as Ross Perot. ” Here’s something we all know but bares repeating. This is a short Youtube vid from a guy I’ve posted before called “The Academic Agent” . He’s a free market libertarian pinhead but has some good things to say to people on our side of the street. It’s about the… Read more »

Official Bologna Tester
Official Bologna Tester
Reply to  Official Bologna Tester
4 years ago

And here’s a guy called “Blackpilled” with a vid entitled: “The Dangerous Tribalism of the Ruling Class.” This will tell you a lot about “why it has taken so long for anyone inside the walls to notice the problems outside the walls.”
https://www.youtube.com/v/ojqAfETtzYM

Renard Fox
Member
Reply to  Official Bologna Tester
4 years ago

Thanks for the link!
The next video in the playlist (#7) was very good too, cheers!

ProUSA
ProUSA
4 years ago

Not being the economic theory type, I’m going to pass on this one. But last night I was reading Discus comments by Seen2013. His description says he owns some think tanks. Some of you Econ guys and gals might want to scan his comments. Not the typical rah rah type of commenter. And please let me know what you think.

ReturnOfBestGuest
ReturnOfBestGuest
Reply to  ProUSA
4 years ago

Can you give a link? And don’t sell yourself short: we’re in an economic meltdown of money-printing and negative interest rates, largely because of “experts.” Also the Fed (which should be ended.)

ProUSA
ProUSA
Reply to  ReturnOfBestGuest
4 years ago

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/06/democrats-attempt-to-create-path-to-senate-majority/ Comment made by Seen2013 replying to comment on RINOS: Seen2013 Where’s Joe? 15 hours ago “Progressive Republicans. They agree with Progressive Democrats in the hierarchy not the power-structure itself. The Democrats and Republicans have effectively reconciled the Democratic-Republican Party from whence they came and broke up in the late 1800s over: -Central banking -Tariffs -Indentured that leads directly to slavery though owning labor of multiple generations that will never be paid.“ After reading this comment I tapped on the username, which said “owner of a few think tanks. If you comment on Disqus you might be able to search… Read more »

ReturnOfBestGuest
ReturnOfBestGuest
Reply to  ProUSA
4 years ago

Got it. Thanks Bro (or Sis).

vxxc💂🏻‍♂️😉 Toxic masculinity vector
4 years ago

Well good.

What’s my social capital ROI on the $5 a month or week or whatever it is?

Say something nice about veterans, or guns, or something … even knives.

Clubs?

bilejones
Member
4 years ago

On a different note: ” Who says there’s never any good news?

CPAC, AIPAC BOTH CONFIRM ATTENDEES HAD CORONAVIRUS

https://www.infowars.com/cpac-aipac-both-confirm-attendees-had-coronavirus-schlapp-shook-president-trumps-hand/

I do apologize for the source.