Note: I have a new post up at Taki Mag. This is a regular Monday thing until the end of the year. Perhaps I should forgo the usual post here and cross post the Taki post on Monday so people can comment upon it. Let me know.
Critics of modern liberal democracy often repeat Juvenal’s line about the populace being pacified with bread and circuses. In the modern usage it means the public is easily bought off with free stuff and mindless entertainment. While the average guy is watching television sports and adding to his waistline, he does not care that the political class is looting the country. Just as long as he has a steady stream of new products, he is happy to abandon his duties as a citizen.
Juvenal had a different meaning, as he was writing in the second century. He was criticizing the Roman political class for their lack of heroism and virtue. They cared more for holding office than tackling the challenges of the day. They would corrupt the people with free grain and elaborate public spectacles, if that is what it took to win favor and gain power. The ruling class was mortgaging the civic virtue of Rome in order to get short term profit from the political system.
Of course, the culture of liberal democracy forbids the idea of a ruling class, so the blame must always fall on the people for the problems with the rulers. After all, the people picked the office holders. If they are unhappy with the choices, they should find new ones that they prefer. The civic religion of liberal democracy is like a spell cast on even the most jaded. It prevents them from accepting that there is not a democratic solution to the inherent defects of liberal democracy.
The irony is the cynical will often quote de Maistre and say that the people get the government they deserve. This is ironic in several ways. One is that de Maistre was no fan of democracy or popular government. He also meant that a people, as in a biologically connected people, will get the ruling class that reflects their temperament and talents, regardless of the system. This is something that no modern liberal democratic could possibly accept and remain a liberal democrat.
Putting that aside, the problem with the Juvenal quote is that bread and circuses is the only peaceful and predictable solution to the large society problem. Bringing large numbers of people together under a single ruler, whether it is the farce of democracy or the force of a despot, goes against man’s nature. Humans can only know and trust about 150 people at one time. Once a group breaks what is called the Dunbar number, no one person can know everyone well enough to trust them.
The solution long ago was a code, a set of rules for the group. A set of rules to govern relations between all people within the group solved this problem. The members did not have to trust one another or even know one another very well. They just had to trust that the rules made sense for the group and that the people enforcing the rules could be trusted to predictably enforce the rules. The proof of these two pillars of society would be the peace and prosperity of the group.
Of course, once you get to very large groups, like city-states and countries, you end up with lots of dissimilar people in the same society. A large group of related people will come with the habits of mind to make cooperation natural. Have a large diverse group of people and those habits of mind will inevitably conflict. This is the large society problem and we have just two solutions. One is a great mission to focus the public’s attention and the other is bread and circuses.
The great mission or crusade, like a war, comes with an expiry date. You can rally the most diverse and uncooperating people against some crisis. In a war, for example, people put aside their grievances to fight the common enemy. Yankee New England dropped their secession drive, for example, because of the War of 1812. The trouble is, people tire of war and every crisis losses its sense of urgency. Even the communists figured this out eventually.
This is the fork in the road the American ruling class faces now. The pretender Biden also adds the complication of being seen as illegitimate by most people. Many of those people may be glad Trump is gone, at least for now, but they also know that Biden has no business on the throne. He is just a shuffling corpse, animated by players operating in the shadows. Like all pretenders, Biden will be limited by the fact that the rest of the ruling class is looking to exploit him, rather than support him.
Compounding his dilemma is that the people who engineered his ascent to the throne want to start a new cold war with Russia and start a war with Iran. They also seek to impose the Chinese social model on Americans. Speech and movement will be sharply curtailed with the help of the corporate oligarchs. In other words, the new regime tilts heavily toward a holy crusade to rally the people, like a war against the virus and a war against Iran, rather than a new round of bread and circuses.
This is something that was overlooked in the Trump years. After eight years of the dreary preaching of Obama, Trump’s antics were a relief. His style was not everyone’s cup of tea, but he kept things lively. He also focused on the economy, which did rather well until the Covid panic. The stock market doubled in value during his time in office, which is something that matters a lot to people. In other words, Trump gave the people four years of bread and circuses.
Finally, the other dilemma for the Pretender Biden is that he will have Trump out there reminding people of how Biden got on the throne. In the old days, Biden’s first order of business would be to have Trump assassinated. By removing the old ruler, there was no chance for him to return to power. That’s unlikely to happen with Trump, although one cannot rule it out, so Biden will have to operate in the shadow of what many will view as the rightful President.
This is the dilemma facing the Pretender Biden. He cannot go for the bread and circuses route, as that would be a concession to the hated Trump. That means going along with the warmongers and scaremongers. The trouble there is that requires trust and exactly no one trusts a pretender. The only solution may be to forge ahead with a manufactured crisis like a war with Iran and hope the people are gullible enough to fall for it like they did in the Bush years.
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When dealing with our political class, one cannot summon enough cynicism.
“Some are born cynical, some achieve cynicism, and some have cynicism thrust upon ’em” ( w/ apologies to the Bard.)
I’m trying – but they keep raising (or is it lowering) the bar
I think we are going to be rapidly entering the looting/gibs phase of this thing. Every news channel I turn on all they are talking about it’s most Die-verse administration evah!1!! And all the Gibs Groups are lobbying hard to get their people into positions of power. We need a black female as Solicitor General because… black. female. Her other (lack of) qualifications matter f-ck all. The Latino coalition is lobbying hard for their peeps to be installed. Wall to wall stronk wahmen and mystery meats as far as the eye can see. Not to mention Janet Yellen and the… Read more »
We’re just moving to the open looting phase.
The unnamed people from the unnamed country have been covertly looting for years.
Since 1865 to be precise.
Not to worry, we got guys like Dan Crenshaw and Madison Cawthorn looking out for us. Next election those based minorities are finally going to show up after decades of not doing so. Trust the plan.
They are going to find out just how much of a strength diversity really is.
Of course Whites won’t be mentioned, but the overt discussion of which racial group gets which positions is great for our side. The more open our elite our about everything being a game of diving up the pie among our societies various ethnic and religious groups, the more Joe Normie understands that no other group is playing the “We’re all just Americans” game and that Whites are suckers.
Directly that stoned mandrill St. George got his chips while resisting arrest in Minny I knew dam’ well the blak blak blakkity blak was going to be cranked up to 11, and that is exactly what has happened. With the Thief-in-Chief installed by the Power Structure, it will now be cranked to 12 or even 13! Peak diversity means no white people, and that is the obvious plan of action.
The real question is what happens when every president is seen as a pretender by half the population. That already happened with Trump four years ago. No one claimed that he didn’t win the election, though they complained about the popular vote. Yet, half the people didn’t accept his legitimacy, which is one of the reasons why you saw voter fraud this time around. As Z says, democracy doesn’t rely on the legitimacy of the ruling class but of the people. However, once a part of the population no longer accepts the legitimacy of population – either because they are… Read more »
It’s going to be part and parcel of American regimes moving forward: the loser will never concede, the winning side is considered illegitimate due to ballot stuffing or international hacking cartels, articles of impeachment will be drafted against the sitting president, and grifting, lots and lots of grifting. We all know this is just theater for the uniparty but the public demands bloodsports as living standards continue to drop and people get increasingly desperate. Everything, especially the Georgia elections currently feel scripted. I could see the powers that be let the GOP win just to keep the #StopTheSteal voting population… Read more »
That happened with Bush v. Gore, too. Both of whom were feckless rich-kid mid-wits, and everybody behaved as if it were the most important decision ever.
Someone pointed out that if 9-11 were to happen today, there isn’t enough vestigial social capital left for anyone to care, let alone get roped into another War on behalf of G_d’s Chosen People. You see that with Dan Crenshaw’s Lee Greenwood antics not working even on college kids (Groypers, or whatever you call them). To be honest, if some Hajjis with monobrows were to ram a couple planes into Manhattan tomorrow I’d be looking for the silver lining (how many stockbrokers, statue-destroyers, and media people who work around 30 Rock went up in flames along with the construction workers,… Read more »
If 9/11 happened today, the side out of power would accuse the side in power of a false flag attack. And they’d probably be right.
“After all, the people picked the office holders.”
Have they now?
Oi! Shut up, you! You had your vote!!!!
Bloody dirt people… they are so tiresome, aren’t they?
🙂
Yes, yes, with my dirt law degree, and two other undergraduate degress and additional useless credentials so I can scrape shekels in credential-land while blending in with the almighty people of the moral high ground.
Problem is, I was born loud. Remain loud. Your emoticon, pull of the ripcord noted. I like that, like texting your waff, “you look as fat as a cow in that outfit… jess kidding!”
My computer algorithm voted for me at least 250 times, as best I can tell. Shame, shame on you algorithm for breaking the rules.
Yes, that was just a “glitch”, a bug not a feature. And why sell oneself short, better to steal 25,000 votes at a clip, not 250. I do see the Governor of Georgia, Kemp is putting his lady-parts driven FEEEELZ before evidence, law, the voters. His FEEELZ were hurt by the Mean Tweeter In Chief so he/she is gonna show that big mean Mean Tweeter. No sex for a month, oops, that’s from his personal life. I mean, Obama-esque ‘doubling down’, facts, party affiliation, my FEEELZ she said. My FEEELZ are hurted. Isn’t it amazing how POTUS Trump sizes up… Read more »
New term, “twat-hurt” — aka “Kemp-hurt” insted of “butthurt”.
More accurate.
My FEEELZ she cried.
I just Iearned that there is such a thing as Fractional Vote tallying. And I can’t find an explanation for this anywhere.
that happened to me…
Why is anyone talking about parties?
You mean like…elections?
………………………………….
Was that back in the days when they had churches Grandpa?
Under a Biden regime, war is inevitable. A war against Iran, maybe. A war against Whites, no doubt about it.
Just let Iran have the Middle East. Christ.
Some people want a time machine to go back and kill Hitler, Mao, Stalin. ( Good choices. )
I’d like to add one more: Whoever the asshat was that came up with the slogan “Judeo-Christian”. That abomination of a slogan will be the end of US
If Biden does attack Iran, I would not be too upset to see our ass get kicked. The down side is that it would be used as justification to “rebuild our defenses” and shovel even more money to the MIC. Plus we would have to listen to conservatives whine about our military heroes having to “fight with one hand tied behind our back” for the next 30 years. We would also have to take in all the Iranians at risk because they sided with us.
Serious have you read anything? The Obama restoration will restore the Iran deal and maybe even give them nuke tech to nuke Israel to restore the flood of money laundering.
the way it works is corrupt third world nations like Ukraine or Malaysia 1MDB Jho Low use people like the Biden’s or Do Caprio to launder billions and keep it safe. The launderers get their cut.
Biden’s not going to get the JCPOA restored. His jewish handlers will insist on so many extra conditions that Iran will reject it. Don’t worry you and your zionist buddies will get your war.
Just got the notice that they are trying to make employees in my agency/branch/whatever “high priority” for this untested, experimental coof vaccine. I’m just left praying they are so incompetent (they are even for govt standards) and I’m so unimportant that they will let me fall through the cracks. Very scary stuff. High percentage of people polled say they don’t want it, but I’m guessing that with any pressure the vast majority will fold. If you got a wife and kids- hard choices.
My position went to full-time work-from-home (previously only 1 day a week in the office for the previous 6-7 months). Can’t see a reasonable rationale, even though I work in healthcare IT, for making me take the vaccine. Or even take the previously mandatory annual flu vaccine any more.
Me
Me
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Boom Boom Boomer regardless of age.
Same.
A “vaccine “ that doesn’t prevent infection, and doesn’t even stop you from being a non-symptomatic carrier who can infect others.
What, exactly, is the point of this thing?
Control Slavery Death
A vaccine so safe
They have to threaten you to make you take it
For a disease so deadly
You have to be tested to know if you have it
Stealing this for use in arguments with Covidiot true believers in my social circles over the next few weeks.
I’m stealing that
I still claim the point is to have a purported “fix” to a disease that has been blown out of all rationality. At first, it was used as a political weapon against Trump, but now is a liability to a non-Trump administration. Biden and Harris need a thriving economy to loot, although they will play along after Jan 20th inauguration into the Spring so they can claim they rid us of this horrible disease while riding the expected decline in cases of this seasonal virus. The vaccine need not have great effectiveness nor be long lasting—only that it is believed… Read more »
Old Joe’s gonna get a dose of covid sprayed on his nose jock. That fucker will be dead 2 weeks after putting his grifter, child molester puppet hand on a bible.
No, COVID is the most successful tool of repression politically and economically in America ever, and its not going anywhere. You see besides destroying your opposition and shuttering those pesky churches- COVID is the greatest election machine in history; THAT goes nowhere.
For COVID to disappear it would have to lose Dems elections- and that won’t happen.
COVID=Vote by Mail = Victory.
Tell them you have a religious objection.
And you have the virtual church services to prove it.
Just say No and prepare to accept the consequences. Trying to justify or rationalize it to your enemies is an exercise in futility.
On the circuses side of the coin, there was a kerfuffle in England this past weekend when fans of Millwall (in the second (Championship) division) booed the ritual player kneeling before the game. Millwall fans, even among the old-fashioned standards of soccer hooliganism, retain a strong reputation for being Cockney troglodytes, so of course the usual suspects have clutched their pearls over this. But look at the comments on this video that addresses the incident. Like Z-man pointing out that the Breitbartarians are starting to come around, the people commenting here have had it to their back teeth with these… Read more »
“retain a strong reputation for being Cockney troglodytes”-Who determines the reputation and why do you believe them?
They are the same people who descibe you and your family as evil scum.
I didn’t say I believe the reputation is warranted, but it’s certainly out there. The supporters’ anthem is “No One Likes Us!”. I was only trying to add some context.
One other bit of context to this story is that the pre-game kneel began this summer but it wasn’t until this weekend that fans were allowed to attend games, so this was the first chance anyone had to voice their opinion on the matter.
<The supporters’ anthem is “No One Likes Us!”>
Seeing that, I like ’em already!
It’s out there because the media push it out there.Why even engage the Left’s lies?
How many people have been killed by Millwall supporters over the last 30 years and how many people in England have been killed by Islamists in the last 30 months?
It’s all framing.
There was always going to be a tipping point. The only questions were where it is and would it come too late. Although briefly reading through the comments of the video, most are still caught in the moral framework of whether the actions of the fans are “racist.” It’s true that things have changed where many now support the booing fans, but they’re still stuck inside that box, by deciding the fans aren’t racist. That needs to change. The term “anti-white” needs to spread. Racist is our enemies’ word.
I totally agree. A couple years ago I would have been arguing from the same perspective. But it’s encouraging that so many are willing to push back on negrophilic narrative, however they justify it.
This. I frequently use this term to describe my feeling toward ANTIFA, BLM and the like. They are, as so many other entities have come to be, anti-white.
Agree. It forces the issue.
Eh, disagree but no downvote. In a rhetorical public dispute, definition shifting works. See, e.g., “I’m not racist because racism requires institutional support.” The people on the left bought that because they wanted to excuse the anti-whites, not because it makes logical sense. Ditto the “I’m not being racist, I’m being anti-communist, what are you saying, all blacks have to be communists?” Our side, esp the old boomers and x’ers, buy that, even if it is logical poopytalk. End result: people on our team get to have fun by publicly booing and shaming people on their side, raising our morale.… Read more »
The bad guys may want to curtail our rights and freedoms… but they certainly don’t have the wherewithal to do it. Talk to any 2A guy and he will start foaming at the mouth and rattling about cold dead fingers. The neoliberals hate the military, and the rank and file hate them right back. Pozzed officers that drag the troops into unnecessary and unconscionable conflicts will be fragged in short order. The revolt is just starting to germinate. County Sheriffs are refusing to enforce idiotic gun bans or COVID lockdowns. Guys like our esteemed blog hose and the wanks at… Read more »
“Talk to any 2A guy and he will start foaming at the mouth and rattling about cold dead fingers….”
Yeah, and then they rush out to get those concealed permits in blue shitlib states, putting themselves squarely on the list for confiscation when a $200.00 12 gauge in the hands of every citizen would be a better choice IMO.
When your local, just doing his yob sheriff pulls up with two cars in your driveway, with a list in his hands bearing YOUR name, then whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
But, but, but, … I backed the blue!
Yeah, well I would not turn your back on the so-called blue”.
Watch your back. They don’t have your back. Never had your back. Will Elvis ever be back?
Probably before the blue will have your back.
When your local, just doing his yob sheriff pulls up with two cars in your driveway, with a list in his hands bearing YOUR name, then whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Well that’s why Community is so important because then your Sheriff will be fighting for you instead of against you…
“Well that’s why Community is so important because then your Sheriff will be fighting for you instead of against you…” When there is a fight and I see proof about this “fighting for you” I might believe it. Until then, speed traps, ‘enforcement’ against low-hanging fruit soccer moms in Audi SUVs while illegals wander about un-molested doing illegal things. That is what I see now, so what indication do I have that these attitudes will somehow change when the SHTF? I am personally acquainted with one of my local Sheriffs but my hopes along the lines you mention are NOT… Read more »
If people want to know how it will truly play out, they can see how Virginia went. Strong anti-gun laws, a protest that celebrated gays and minorities, and the bills passed after watering them down a little but still getting about 90% of what they want. How did the 2A set respond? They declared victory because they mostly lost out over totally losing out. Thats how I see this playing out. Only reason we didn’t see more Virginia-style legislation was because it was close to election season. Rest assured more states are going to push – maybe some former red… Read more »
Hmmm. When I think “Virginia”, besides avoiding the place like the PLAGUE — as long as we are talking about “the blue” … due to their highway robbers in uniform … I think Charlottesville. Legal permit, our heroes in the LEO ‘community’ there herd rioters INTO THE MIDST of the men protesting the removal of one of the most hallowed sons of the state, Robert E. Lee. Sure, the uniforms were ‘just following orders’ … as the local politicians created a riot, a kill zone. And an enduring leftist myth that continues to this day. So please, don’t get me… Read more »
That’s because you are not in a Community of your people which your reality proves the need of one…
Hmmm. When I think “Virginia”, besides avoiding the place like the PLAGUE — as long as we are talking about “the blue” … due to their highway robbers in uniform … I think Charlottesville. Legal permit, our heroes in the LEO ‘community’ there herd rioters INTO THE MIDST of the men protesting the removal of one of the most hallowed sons of the state, Robert E. Lee. Sure, the uniforms were ‘just following orders’ … as the local politicians created a riot, a kill zone. And an enduring leftist myth that continues to this day. So please, don’t get me… Read more »
You make a good point. I will detail some of my agreement with you. Like many, I settled near where I was born. Married a girl I met young, settled around family and raised our own. Now that we are on our own again, the discussion is 100% on, “where to go?” We never were cut and run people, but when an area changes around you … This is not to say that I do not have great friends, only do business with my people – no leftists get my patronage nor that of my business. Yes, too many leftists… Read more »
I’ll do what they did in Pennsylvania. Give him the 200 hundred dollar duck gun. Then make a few phone calls, dig out the $900.00 AR15, and go down to the police station with the boys and get it back. If there are any problems, the police will be disarmed, relieved of duty and incarcerated in their own cells. Yes, it may come to that. Buddy – your president is getting muscled as we speak. Do you see him bowing down to those assholes? You shouldn’t either. American gun owners are not fwench or Roman peasants. They are citizens, and… Read more »
“If there are any problems, the police will be disarmed, relieved of duty and incarcerated in their own cells.”
This is a movie inside head or a Fedpost?
Things like this have happened before near to living memory (Battle of Athens 1946) but those were different times and a harder people.
I like the trajectory of The Whisky Rebellion more me self. However it also is a reminder how soon the Feds got into the over-reach in the history of our country…
I mean except the part where 5,000 Federals crushed the rebellion.
I figured you meant that. The Whiskey Rebellion teaches simply “be sneaky” instead of gung ho at least until you have enough force.
“…be sneaky” instead of gung ho at least until you have enough force.”
That would be quoting Ho Chi Minh right there, irregular warfare until you are strong enough for open warfare.
Guess who won his fight?
Sheriffs won’t be sent to enforce unpopular laws. They answer to county voters, and in less populated counties they are generally just another citizen more than an overlord. Typically, despots bring in foreign ringers to enforce unpopular laws because they have no camaraderie with the people they are policing. If you want to black pill, at least have the courtesy to not be completely ignorant of basic human politics.
Which was Arcasians original scenario, only a nindless dipshit would assume they are bringing you the 308 ammo that’s so hard to get nowadays.
You seem to qualify.
“…at least have the courtesy to not be completely ignorant…’
Good laugh, that. See my previous post in terms of whom I know and what I know, Officer.
“…basic human politics…”
Our recent Sheriffs Dept. top man was a crook, cost the taxpayers $6 figures in fines, and brought in terrible people on his force. Sure, he eventually was ousted.
Sorry, Officer, we have a different perspective.
How about looking at what happened and what is happening, instead of fantasies either way?
The Police are not seizing guns, with rare exceptions where family members and neighbors called the police to say this or that person is dangerous….in which case it’s lose/lose…either your family, friends, neighbors are shitbirds or they were right about the person they ratted.
now to me ratting is always wrong, except never no exceptions.
But lets deal with what is happening and what happened, instead of fantasy lands about shooting cops …or rebellions that didn’t happen either.
“But lets deal with what is happening and what happened,…”
Agreed. The Journal News in Westchester County, NY once posted the names and addresses of EVERY licensed gun owner in that county.
And all those gun owners sat there and took it good and hard.
A few squeaked about it, but none of them put the fear of God into the newspaper staff that did that.
On THAT paper…. Funny you say that. Some years ago, that paper had an unmoderated comments policy for its youth sports. That opened the door for some egregious defamation against some young athletes that were under my wing. A lot of pain was caused to minors by a handful of miscreants, but like “Covid” is not responsible for travails, but government policy, it was the policy of the paper that was at fault. Human nature is the constant and youth sports can be very nasty. They simply would not remove clearly defamatory posts aimed at minors and created an environment… Read more »
And home burglaries went up by 80% as a result. The sword cut both ways though, one enterprising individual managed to lay his hands on the home address of the editor in chief of the paper who green-lighted the idea in the first place. Not only did the death threats begin rolling in, but a few upset individuals did show up at her house and her and her family were literally forced to flee in the night.
Every miscreant leftist claims they receive “death threats…” It is their go-to victimhood whiny lie. If you seek to harm me and my loved ones, you better count on me seeking your out in person for a discussion. See, the psychology of debt collection is simple: you do not want to meet me or meet me again once you meet me. Most people cannot handle conflict, so it does not take much to rattle them. No need to kill them, harm them. Nothing illegal whatsoever. Just good, direct communication of your position. Best in person, without breaking any laws. They… Read more »
You’re basically here to Blackpill and piss on everything right Arcadian?
Let us know how life works out for you, 2021 should be interesting.
Lie. My shooters? Stolen. Just find a good, dry, well hidden spot ahead of time.
Useless. A gun you won’t use is a gun you don’t have serves the system well.
And to note the UK and OZ have many unregistered guns and ammo galore, it ain’t used when banned, its banned anyway.
You can keep your shooters both hidden and easily accessible. Also maintain two ammo caches. One for when you really need it and one for target practice. I suspect govt. is working to keep supply low and costs high. Try buying any 9 mm lately?
Maybe. Personally I think this is just natural supply and demand . TP is also unavailable too and even Clownfornia where I live wants that to be plentiful.
Truth is we don’t make all the components we need for all the ammo and reloading supplies we’ve been hoarding.
We’ve also had demand surges and ammo droughts before.
Right now demand is so great with everyone arming up I don’t think anyone could keep up with it.
The local sheriff isn’t going to come and seize your guns. The Plan (they have already done it in NY and CA) is to outlaw the sale of the stuff you want, like ARs and hi-cap mags. Then they demand registration of the stuff you already have. If you’re ballsy enough to ignore the registration edict, they’ll pick you off one-by-one when you get pulled over for speeding with the “illegal” gun in the trunk, or they show up at your house for a domestic or a medical call or a fire. Or when your ex-wife or ex-girlfriend rats you… Read more »
I cannot fathom why your detailed, accurate prognostication did not receive more up votes. I cannot take exception with anything you say.
Thanks.
I hate being right about how bad things are gonna suck, though.
All of us are busting ass to prevent it but if such a things happening and I’m suggesting possible results not advocating here, Those D.B.s are facing the same dying economy the rest of us are and are rather vulnerable to reprisal. Snitches known or suspect always get worse than stitches. Right now 40% of US Homicides go unsolved. Making bad people or soft targets go away for good isn’t hard if there is no connection to you, just ask any serial killer or Middle East Vet. Also people kind of learned to avoid hard targets after the Weaver debacle… Read more »
If you would cross post your Taki Mag columns here for comments that would be appreciated.
Agree about cross posting here for comments (in the manner of Steve Sailer). I appreciate Taki’s lineup of writers (and Z-man is a strong addition), but the user experience on that site has traditionally been terrible, and commenting there is fruitless.
Z-man, re comments: I do wish comments here worked like they do on Unz, where you can search for and find the whole history of a given commenter (or oneself). I find that to be a useful function that encourages quality comments.
Agreed. I don’t know if they still have comments at Taki’s but when they did, they were unreadable. Z Man’s comment section here is excellent.
Agree.
The regime is rallying the people to a war…
against the people themselves…
and the people themselves are going along with it.
Sickening times.
That worked for 80 years for the virtue-signaling parents of the Woke: the drug warriors. No, they’ll never own up to it either.
80 years of Woke? Welp, how long did the USSR last?
The struggle with a manufactured crisis is what we saw during the Obama years with the Arab Spring and Syria: the appetite for endless wars in the Middle East is now gone. The elites will get increasingly frustrated at the lack of enthusiasm to die for people who hate them. Same goes for Russia. In the end, Iran and Russia are going to be beyond their grasp. The working class if they want to create conflict at all wants it with China and good luck with that! I suspect that once the elites get frustrated at their cannon fodder not… Read more »
“the appetite for endless wars in the Middle East is now gone”
Among the public it’s gone, but when you stack the wishes of the public against the wishes of the MIC, the ne*c*ns, and a certain country which shall go nameless, who always wins?
First, the rule of law is effectively dead, and that is no trivial thing. Second, the war on police will have far-reaching consequences when it comes time to put the boot of tyranny on everyone’s throat. Third, lots of bubbles are poised to burst, and the magic of the printing press is not going to work forever. And last, once the coup is finalized, there will be real and serious talk of rebellion all across the US. How far will it go? Time will tell. All forest fires start with a spark.
Kams would need to stage a dirty nuke false flag in Des Moines to have any hope of mustering any support for war with Iran.
If it were Washington DC, I could get on board with that plan.
Problem with another war is that the military is worn out. And from what I can tell losing a lot of the experienced NCO corps that actually fought the last two + extracurricular romps in various third world hellholes. Meanwhile the Navy is so short of experienced personnel that it can’t navigate ships through known shipping lanes without running into something.
The military is very dependent on a small handful of elite units of soldiers and also automation. I would not rule them out, a squad of Seals commanding multiple wings of fighting drones and “suicide missiles” would make for a fearsome force. The problem is that if someone figures out a response to that then it’s game over.
Mr. Sandmich,
What military are you discussing?
Navy: Or maintain a adequate fire watch when parked in a USN harbor located at major metropolitan mega-city.
Possibly arson, cause still under investigation. But it it was arson by anything except a WASP male, you’ll never hear anything more about it.
Bonhomme Richard, we hardly knew ye, and you deserved so much better.
The problem with another war is that the normalization of war crimes is now so routine that the DC fuckers think they run the world.
And?
We get the blowback.
They probably won’t assassinate Trump, but they will probably imprison him. And bread-and-circuses and crusades aren’t mutually exclusive. There will be plenty of gibs for the usual suspects and whatever crusades the globalists want.
Agree. I think Trump will be forced into silence by investigations, audits and prosecutions of him and his family. I wouldn’t rule out exile somewhere as the price of salvaging some of his fortune. Uniting a country by provoking a war has a dangerous downside: the other side. I wonder what the loss of an aircraft carrier or the annihilation of a sizeable Marine or Army unit might have on the temporary unity of a war. Unlike Z-man, I think the War of 1812, which was not a military success for the United States until after the Treaty of Ghent,… Read more »
More effectively demoralizing that way.
Would you rather be shot by a firing squad after “last words”, or die an old man, forgotten, in a federal prison?
The economy is based on interest. We have to have either growth or inflation or some combination of the two to the exclusion of anything else. But “the economy” as we talk about it is retarded. By the measure of GDP, if all international trade involving the US stopped, the economy would expand. Or if a hurricane flattens Miami or any other city, it would expand. War would make it expand. If production were to double, the economy, as we measure it would barely move.
“The great mission or crusade, like a war, comes with an expiry date. You can rally the most diverse and uncooperating people against some crisis. In a war, for example, people put aside their grievances to fight the common enemy. Yankee New England dropped their secession drive, for example, because of the War of 1812. The trouble is, people tire of war and every crisis losses its sense of urgency. Even the communists figured this out eventually.” The first order of business of a true right wing leader is to strip NASA of their current leadership, get our guys in… Read more »
WTF does throwing away $100 billion on a Mars pipe-dream accomplish?
Muh white ethnoplanet.
A cohesive dream to rally the nation. No nation can exist long-term without long-term goals that go beyond material comfort.
Better than finding some other country to bomb.
Gotta capture some resource rich asteroids and put them in earth orbit first. Great fiction book came out about this a few years ago.
Love the direction you’re thinking though.
If the asteroid is resource-rich enough, it could throw world markets into a tailspin, unless the chokepoint is controlled, like with the diamond concessions. Imagine if someone who believed what we believed but kept it quiet managed to finance a SpaceX-like private venture, and all of a sudden they got their hands on a rock filled with tungsten and platinum lodes? Pretty sure cutting off paypal accounts wouldn’t be enough to stop that movement’s momentum or deplete its war chest.
That’s small thinking. Platinum, for example, is $$ because it’s rare. But if it were cheap, the commercial applications would be fantastic (hydrogen fuel cells, for example) The real dream is space based infrastructure and manufacturing. Launching stuff into space is very energy intensive: there’s a huge payoff if all the materials are ALREADY in space. A one-off mission to Mars is a stunt, very expensive, and there’s no real reason to do it if you can just send robots. Hell, China is going to win this race, if they want to. The US produces bankers, lawyers, regulations, and not… Read more »
You are thinking like a consumer, no a citizen. You need to break that habit and think in terms of the social culture that facilitates families with kids, not more stuff, Any American with a decent job even now can fill his home with more than a family can use and enough to spill over into storage rooms. Used carefully there is no shortage of any basic materials, certainly not enough to merit huge expanses for asteroid mining. After deportation and a boot on the neck of finance, even housing will be pretty learnable. What’s needed is social capital. That… Read more »
A cohesive dream to rally the nation?
What nation? How many blacks, muslims, hispanics, LGBTs, etc, etc, etc are interested in spending the hundreds of trillions of dollars required to make Mars habitable for a few thousand white people in a hundred years time?
The only Mars they understand is Bruno.
Why should I care either? Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact its cold as hell (apologies to Elton John) Not to mention nearly airless with little if any free standing water and soil heavily made of percolate which is a deadly toxin. More importantly after DR takeover, the US population will be in decline for many decades. Millions of deportations, a wrecked economy and an uncertain future. Those conditions of the Space Ear fantastic optimism, massive wealth increase and population growth might come under a DR Republic, its possible in time . But the… Read more »
Right Wing Whites don’t care either.
Progress Driven Space Bugs are a tiny subgroup these days and no offense to fellow dissidents here, what you want while well meaning is dumb and impractical.
I can think of better and more useful things to do, than a Mars landing stunt.
Even if you mange the Whitey on the Moon problem we already have discussed with other groups , today’s Whites aren’t interested in Space nearly as much. Truth is virtually no one is interested in space these days, only cyber space . Also the space program was a product of the 60’s culture, the faux homogeneity and highly centralized culture. That country is long gone, tech and immigration and the long march killed it and spending tax dollars isn’t going to ignite that ideal. Frankly you first few decades after you get power will be a mix of rebuilding an… Read more »
You prefer spending it on noggers and their glass pipes?
Why do you assume it MUST be spent at all?
I can safely assume it will be spent. I can safely say that $100 Billion will be spent by the Feds alone by Dec 17, 2020, ten days from now. Most likely more. I would rather spend it on advancing our race and nation – White America – than on plutocrats stock swindles and noggers glass pipes. Speaking of pipes ~ what are you smoking? It smells libertarian from here… $100 Billion is merely a larger pittance, indeed that is average 10 days of Federal spending of $10B daily. Wise up, even Reason is kept afloat by stock swindlers, er… Read more »
I’d rather spend it on national health care or putting in sewers in the impoverished White or Black parts of Alabama or on jails or nearly anything else than a useless space program.
Welp. The sun’s gonna turn into a red giant here directly, so we might as well get crackin’ on that li’l complication.
We spend too much on both already. We have no shortage of shit, sewers, jails, and gimmedats.
Or useless moochers.
It ain’t 1960. Machines gut wages now and make the value of the 90% of the population who aren’t techie types lower year after year. This means every bit of automation is either a future moocher or an abortion. No jobs means either socialism or no economy. Choose wisely. and note Clownfornia where I live is going socialist, The State is now the main lender for housing. Funny enough, it works Optionally you can spend tons on cops and live with homeless camps and the constant risk that millions could be become radicalized or join gangs. Enjoy cartel Mexico. Well… Read more »
A new powdered drink?
“Get your a** to Mars!” (Carl Hauser, Total Recall)
That Mars project is about as useful as tits on a boar hog. Reasons? First, tech isn’t the solution to our problems but the cause of them, Second, even if you expel fifty million people or so, you haven’t solved the problems the county faces. Not my people exactly but the problem are still there from Whitey on the Moon which is blackity black as you would expect. A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face and arms began to swell. (and Whitey’s on the moon) I can’t pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey’s… Read more »
Super Off-Topic– What happened to Exile? I enjoyed his comments here and he used to comment often here and on Unz. Then he like vanished off the face of the earth a while back. Did the Commissars scoop him up?
He’s deep into the TRS stuff these days. Sad to see, but some people just get sucked into that world and never resurface.
Zman, What’s TRS?
TheRightStuff.
The Right Stuff; wignats, remnants of the Alt Right. People with an unhealthy obsession with the JQ and a propensity to be photographed giving “Roman salutes” where the right arm is extended in an upward “heil” angle…
“The Right Stuff”- a paywall video blog from the good ol’ days. What are they up to lately?
They were nearly as antisemitic as I am. Except, theirs was snarky while I am scientifical.
I’m deep into working with people who do IRL activism instead of just curating online content – and my only association with TRS remains my subscription, contra the ooga-booga. I’m over paleo-con edge-posting. It’s a dead end. The time I spent here is now spent researching how to implement stuff like crowd-funding for 5PT community projects and writing when I can on our forum site upic.works. It’s not oriented to blog-style, topical or current events content but rather for info-sharing among people who already broadly agree on a 5PT approach. FWIW, up until last winter’s heel-turn here, a significant portion… Read more »
I’m glad you are taking a more proactive approach but it is a ‘big tent’ at the end of the day so the America First Normie Brigade will have to crawl under it at some point. 🙂
I bet they will try to burn it down before they crawl under it and then turn around expecting the Commies to give them an attaboy for being such good little quislings only to get a bullet to their head…
I agree with Apex’s follow-up comment, but I’m curious, so I visited the site, and created an account. Now what?
Hey, Exile, I was curious like AP to know where you’d gone. Glad to see your not just alive but still kicking. I’ve missed your pungent and insightful commentary. Forgive my ignorance, but what is “5 PT?” My Google search yielded nothing. And good fortune with the mission.
Not surprised as he was the biggest Jew hater around here.
Yea letting people know what the enemy is doing to them and has planned for them is hating on them… Wanting to have a Community for whites and to improve their quality of life is sure a whole lot of hating…So you are either part of the enemies camp or you’re not tall enough for what is coming at us…
At this point I say let’s go to war with Iran. We’ll get way more than we bargained for as our newly minted tranny midshipmen and diverse HR Types (Latinx) at the Pentagon lead us to disaster. Just as it took WW1 to shatter the previous consensus. Let’s go to war and show the world just how incapable we are.
Unfortunately, the consequences of military incompetence might be the resort to nuclear weapons in an attempt to retrieve the situation.
At this point would bringing us back to the stone age be a bad thing…Who could survive such a thing? We could and our future might just be brighter than the path we are on now…Now it probably wouldn’t be good for those in the blue hives but we have warned time and time again to be vacating them and if people haven’t done it yet or the very least set up an alternate location to go to if something happens then that’s on them…
Plus you’re in an area that would have minimal fallout. I on the other hand will welcome the white flash from my deck, surveying the city below, like the scene in Terminator 2.
You still have the option Brother of getting out or having an alternate location…
If the Ayatohllah nuked NYC and Washington DCC, would our lives improve or get worse from that? Perhaps we can convince the world that our military intelligence agencies all moved to Palo Alto…
I take it you’ve never buried someone who served in the bullshit wars. I don’t wish it on anyone.
Actually anyone in the military today, I’m talking 2020, not even 2000, is complicit. Mostly because they’re too brain dead to even contemplate the current ethical situation. So, I don’t mind.
Do you Americans ever consider how your victims feel? Does Iran really have to be bombarded from distance just to “own the trannies”?
Iran may be bombarded from a distance to force it to accept its own trannies.
That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. Yes.
Sarcastic or not, this is the reason why the US and UK need to collapse asap.
The ruling class prefers cleansing the population of steerage like us. So they have purchased billions of rounds and have reduced the supply. It’s going to be a blood bath. Happens every time.
The fomenting dogs will be thrown some bones. On the circus side, Zuckerberg and Dorsey will probably be made examples of, providing some release for the dirt people and reminding the cloud people what happens if they go too far.
The X factor in play here will likely result in the bottom falling out of leftie’s platform with a loud bang.
On a humourous note:
This young lady teacher is in dire need of repeated Victorian-era cures for female hysteria:
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1336004080037224448?s=19
I have an urge to smack that woman very hard. Looks like she is driving a Subaru.
I was amazed she didn’t have a, “Coexist,” bumper sticker.
In my twenties (pre-red pill) I worked with a guy who’d cooly say about any disgruntled female “She just needs a little dick tonight.”
Literally the first thing that went through my mind when I say that crazy cat lady.
Appalling to pre-red pill 1990’s me; seems spot on the older I get.
Part 7: Georgians—real ones—don’t give a good God-damn about the GOP. Well, let me say, rather, that I personally do not know anybody who does. The Chamber of Commerce types obviously do, but probably not for the reasons you might think. And this is why I say that it is wrong to try to punish the Georgia GOPes at the present moment for being such pigs. First of all, they are pigs that we know, and that is better than getting new pigs that we don’t know, but that is a secondary reason. The main reason is that, along with… Read more »
I respectfully disagree with this analysis. The essential fight is not between electing less worse corrupt politicians or more worse corrupt politicians, but whether we can long endure being led by corrupt politicians in perpetuity. At some point, you have to give up the false hope that a non-corrupt politician will magically appear someday and be elected, and then hallelujah, redemption occurs. Have you forgotten that vote rigging virtually assures that that will never happen? Better to hit bottom quickly and force everyone to take an existential stand.
This is a very Joe Hunt attitude Sir.
It will work out as well this time as last time, but thanks for the heads up.
= GA is to be treated as a maneuver area, with no fire restrictions.
I vote for the additional content of Taki along with the normal ZBlog. The ZBlog is one of the top blogs and sources of daily thoughts on our side of the divide. But I get it if you need a break or want us to just focus on the Taki article on Monday’s.
Great Taki article today by the way.
I neglected to thank the Zman for his Thanksgiving paen to the Puritans
Also not to be missed is Ann Coulter’s companion article, “A Historically Accurate Thanksgiving.”
Stiff, stern Yankees or hot-headed Southrons, they are all, our people, and our people are remarkable.
Fake news. Yankees get the camp and/or castrated. They have plagued mankind too long.
*After* the election…is *before* the coup.
I think the coup is incremental and has been happening for some time. Think of the illegal BS that Assange and Snowden exposed.
Trump should pardon those two immediately. They were good little old-school leftists – they spoke truth to power! Funny how the current-day dems don’t take a shine to that.
He should also pardon himself on the way out the door not only for any crimes he might have committed in the past, but for any he might commit in the future. That should tie up the courts for years.
Whatever happened to all those “Question Authority” bumper stickers we used to see on all those Volvos back in the aughts?
Argentines showing the police some love:
https://twitter.com/wes92i_1/status/1334941966170284038?s=19
“Bringing large numbers of people together under a single ruler, whether it is the farce of democracy or the force of a despot, goes against man’s nature.” I think this is backwards. I think this is the norm as people congregate. From Asia to Russia which was basically an Asiatic despotism for a thousand years after the Mongol invasion and even look at South America the Aztecs and the Incas in particular. The Incas ruled for 200 years and they kept a firm grip on everyone and it was only the Conquistadors that broke it up but even they were… Read more »
I believe the Incas were in the midst of a civil war between 2 or 3 factions when the Spanish showed up. The Spanish allied themselves with one of the factions, then beat out the others.
After that was done, they naturally betrayed their ally & finished the conquest of the Inca.
If the Inca were not fighting amongst themselves, they would have had a good chance of turning back (for a while, at least) the Spanish invasion.
Yea wonder how many conservatives will get fooled by that…
Personally I’m not worried about commenting on your articles, but I don’t want you to burn yourself out, so you should do what you feel is best for yourself.
With all due respect there is zero chance Biden will do anything but cozy up to Iran, restart the deal with nukes and get the money laundering ocean moving again into connected law and consulting firms.
Russia yes because most of that money goes to London.
Syria is the likely place for a big new push. Or perhaps somewhere in North Africa so they can open an even bigger pipeline of Third World “refugees” to be dumped on unsuspecting American communities.
I’m seeing the Great Game at work here.
Russia is a spoiler, being weak, and China wants the One Belt.
Disrupting, not destroying, Iran would further hinder the Syrian-Cyprus offshore oil games and block Russia’s Southstream, while opening the way for further One Belt growth.
In short, we’re not seeing a war for defensible territory, but sabre-rattling as a way to renegotiate the prices.
And kill a few more Early Christians/Persians in the bargain. Yretz Israel and their brother Hagarite Emirs want to control the oil. All Semites look alike to me, and do business in their own strange way.
Addendum: Turkey wants control of the Bosphorus chokepoint and Syria’s Amman oilfields.
The Saudis and Mossad want to keep their prosperous Kosovo-Albania-Afghanistan opium pipeline to Europe running.
The Emirs want to weaken Iran’s grip on Hormuz, to expand their LNG ports without threat, and to get their cut of sweet Iraqi offshore oil pump stations.
I seriously don’t get the Obama/Biden thing with Iran. Money laundering for a big cut is the only thing that makes sense- the Obama faction is building a war chest to complete its takeover of the Dem Party.
I think they want to break up Iran, like they did to Iraq, its not really the nukes that worry them, its the missile and drone tech Iran are supplying to Hezbollah and Syria, if Biden lifts the sanctions on Iran, their economy will recover a little and so they will continue working on long range missiles, Israel just can’t allow that to happen. But how will they start the war, they need Iran to attack first, but the Mullahs are too smart for that Biden saying he will stick with Barry’s Iran deal is BS IMO, under the deal… Read more »
The solution to the “large society problem” is no large societies. Support secession always and everywhere.
Which is why they subordinated the states to the federal government because that is where the power lies for the people…
Part 6: So what if he sold the Senate seat? None of us wanted the damned thing. It would have been preferable had he sold it to a native Georgian or at least a Southerner, but how many native Georgians are married to the president of the New York Stock Exchange? Exactly none. So I’m sure he got a very attractive price for it. And that is why it doesn’t matter one whit that he has made such a complete fool of himself recently. It doesn’t matter now whether he is re-elected or not, does it? But he probably will… Read more »
Part 5: Governor Kemp is one of these New South “Chamber of Commerce types,” although he understands the white Georgia voter very well, or at least his campaign manager did, but it was probably Kemp himself. Like all of his type, he has a certain shrewdness that is born of greed and avarice. Like Nancy Pelosi. These are not smart people, but they do possess a certain shrewdness. And Kemp has made us a very satisfactory governor. Southerners do not mind—have never minded, even under the ancien régime—that elected officials skim money from the public treasury. We require only two… Read more »
TIP, you need to learn the art of brevity. Your overly lengthy comment is little more than a rant of despair, and way too long for most folks considered attention.
Yeah, blog and link, and if there is no “money quote” that can be shared from the post to entice people to read the full thing then don’t bother.
There is a place here for his comments.
Who made you arbiter?
And he has a right to his opinion re: brevity, too.
Physician, heal thyself.
Appreciate ya, hand
(Meant for Infant)
Interesting, in depth, and honest.
We don’t often get a good old- fashioned Southern filibuster round these parts.
Nah, it was plenty pithy, and I upvoted him.
Alas, that is a common problem in this particular commentariat.
who would biden and his backers fight? all the potential opponents are actually pulling the strings of the dnc. and iran as a target?! for obama II?
To add on to Weekend at Biden’s that never ends, restoring the Iran Deal to restart the gusher of money to be laundered (standard procedure with uncertain regimes where no one knows if a shift in favor can bring confiscation of wealth carefully stolen) also means sky high energy prices. As Iran and Russia conspire to keep their energy prices high to pay their security forces. This means the Silicon Valley Oligarchs achilles heel comes into play. Data Centers run on energy, and they can’t be just moved, and require a highly technical and skilled workforce. Profit can turn to… Read more »
“… the blame must always fall on the people [who] picked the office holders.” The office holders are ensconced in one of the least powerful of the nodes of civilizational control. Those who possess control over the manufacture and distribution of our fiat currency use it to ensure that a necessary majority of ‘office holders’ dance on their puppet strings. ” Little bag of gold for Little Marco Rubio?! Only a little bag for you, Little Marco, because you are after all only a little man-whore!” The puppet masters change out the office holders when they can no longer serve… Read more »
Zman addresses the large-society problem we now face, but the real solution is “don’t cram lots of dissimilar people into the same society”. As he has written, the answer to the large-society problem is “a passive ethno-nationalism organized around group identity and rights.”
That is correct but it rules out out the current configuration of the US. I’m a hard right wing guy lifelong but my values are not congruent with Southron values in quite a few respects and I’m far from sure that I should share a polity with them. That’s the black pill, even if COVID strain AH14 somehow made the US a European derived nation, even with the homogenization of the TV age, we really don’t belong in one county and nor will federalism work. Worse as the mass media age ends the gap will grow worse. It seems to… Read more »
Regarding the Taki column the only solution the elites have is the Chinese one for Uighurs. Rick Wilson wants it. So does the Besos Post and NYT.
There are enough diverse to at least give this a try. I expect t that Congress person who wanted South Dakota nuked will get his wish.
Factory slave workers? Experimental subjects for new biowar virus testing?
I suspect we’re well on our way.
Trump supporter’s home bombed in Michigan:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/michigan-trump-supporters-home-bombed-police-investigate-video-footage
Who was it said every forest fire starts with a spark?
While we’re talking about punishment and persuasion using violence: https://www.infowars.com/posts/deep-state-threat-gov-kemp-daughters-boyfriend-killed-in-fiery-explosive-wreck/
I do not know what joe and what’s her name have planned, but what if “Little Rocket Man” gets a new rocket for Christmas or China puts a sold sign on Taiwan. Not going to talk your way out of trouble with those two. War or peace in the ME is the same thing, is it not? Just because America got snookered doesn’t mean the rest of the bad boys will be going on vacation. The situation looks ripe with opportunity.
As for Taiwan “sold” sign – wasn’t Joe China’s real estate agent in the deal? Joe would only complain if he doesn’t get his commission.
You are right, but the kids that live there will get cranky. Putting that down might be a problem. Maybe I don’t get it but joe has a lot to do, free medical for the whole world, open borders, reparations, lbgtqp super rights, shut down the bad white people.
Telling China ” No, you are a bad boy could force an overtime situation, especially if you don’t know where you are. All of the chickens have not hatched yet. I would not feel too good about Jan. 20th if I were him. CNN can only spin so fast.
Holy smokin’ Jehosephat. Did somebody say circuses?
Higgs Boson, yesterday, late comment:
“Hold the line, dissidents. Flight 93 cockpit just got stormed.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1319648516919205889
So scorched earth it is.
*grabs popcorn*
Remember, the 12/14 (or is it 12/8?) certification deadline does not apply if the state is contested.
What constitutes “contested?” Is it like in legal-land where the plaintiff must have “standing?”
Yeah! He is going to clean house, TRUST THE PLAN Q!
That tweet is from October 23rd. Every single swamp creature and government bureaucrat still has their job in spite of this ‘ZOMG!!1!, Trump is going to eliminate protections and drain the swamp’. This is more gaslighting and bullsh-t from the people who are positioned to perform just that service for the plebes. You aren’t helping BTW by positioning this 6 week old stale tweet as some 4D chess move…
Yikes. I missed that. Mea culpa maxima.
Woops. Maxima culpa, I mean.
Another all nighter.
And jiminy christmas, this Phoenix morning sunrise! I think I blew an optic nerve.
The engine of General Flynn’s revenge is barely warm yet. The Beautiful Black Sky is dark with unshed communist tears.
Do I hear the sounds of black helicopters, what about that scene from Scarface, that Omar, after wall, “was a piece of chit”, was he not?
Say hello
To mah li’l fren
I neffer lah-cked thatt Oh-marr. He’s a piece of chit.
A business friend was one of the people that did the storming. Garrett, btw is a crazy lefty, though has done good work on pandemic disease, “The Coming Plague” written twenty years ago was prescient.
Why didn’t he realize he was President until the last month?
Mind you, taking away government employees ‘we can’t be fired’ status is a good thing and long overdue, but where has this man been the last 4 years?
My God, it’s as if in the last month, watching how brazenly criminal our bureaucracy and elites are …the Normie scales fell from his CivNat eyes, and the POTUS saw the truth.
Yep, too little, too late from our Monitor-in-Chief.
Part of it was staffing. There’re no “feeder” institutions for a Populist administration the way the Federalist Society/Heritage/Cato/TPUSA provide for the GOPe. Also Javanka. Key posts went to establishment subversives.
Yup. There was no “art of the deal” handbook called “Mr. Outsider Goes to Washington, Does and Don’ts”..
Mr. Trump may have wanted, sincerely, to “drain the swamp” … but no one lent him a yardstick to measure its depth.
This is a very good point. President Trump was woefully unprepared for the resistance he’s facing if he even thought he’d win in the first place Its understandable though, he’s basically Bubba Bill 2 and in normal times would have been seen as a centrist and easy to work with. These days? Even with C19 things are nuts This problem of institutional subversion is also why if there ever is a DR takeover the institutions will either be completly subverted to our ends or removed from power B.A.M.N. One of the militia blogs suggested the New State bulldozing some of… Read more »
No doubt, Trump had a lot of trouble finding anyone who was: competent, loyal, sane. It was like that Hot/Crazy chart for Girls from a few years ago. Maybe it was a 3 body problem – Hot/Crazy is a 2 body problem, Competent/Loyal/Sane is a 3 body problem. Even the West Point Mafia guys Pompeo bought with him suffer from the GOP disease: Every GOP-er from Town Alderman to DC staffer, never mind Senator wants to be POTUS, none of them focus on the job at hand. Frankly Trump had a choice of smashing the government at the outset or… Read more »
The RINO war brides are fervently waving the CCP flag bearing Biden’s demented visage. Hell is a Trump second term, now or in 2024.
Final part: For those looking to relocate, check out Cullman, Alabama. Population 16,000: “During the 1890s, and still to this day, Cullman was reported to be a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullman,_Alabama#History Good schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullman,_Alabama#Education Good demographics: “The racial makeup of the city is 94.6% White […]”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullman,_Alabama#Demographics Well-watered, well-drained, well-situated, long growing season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullman,_Alabama#Geography I have hope for Alabama, and Cullman is a very pleasant town. If the Commies do manage to force the universal basic income down our throats, I suspect Cullman might be a first-rate destination for members of Our Thing. Thank you for… Read more »
Stop the spamming, no one is reading you.
Now, you two. Go ahead.
Tell him that speech was Lincolnesque.
What Compsci said. Get your own blog, dude.
Not really convenient. I am blind, so it takes a long time to “write” things because it has to be done aurally and orally. But thanks for the idea.
I am blind
Nobody cares.
Not really convenient.
The Z-blog is not here for your convenience.
It’s too bad there was no other way to say that, right? Right?
Just trying to help.
You are better than that.
No I’m not, I’m rude to everyone; just ask the Jesus-freaks in here.
“I’m blind” is as useful a preamble as “speaking as a Jew/tranny/Latinx/etc.” It does not exonerate you from bad commenting etiquette, it’s a passive-aggressive bullying strategy, and you are falling for it.
I did not care for his post at all. The Z man provides a place where you can actually learn a thing or two. I am not sure that acting like a hard on all the time adds to that learning.
and well, the people as a whole may not be as gullible as 20 years ago…. but, enough individuals are. but again, Biden can simply throw enough media smoke and mirrors and pretend the augmented but still quite misapplied gibs will be enough to sustain the economy. it worked on enough Obama voters. add to that the few boomer idiots who think we need to stand up to Russia or some other neoconlib bs.
they’re gonna do the guns bread and circuses. the greatest of the lbj legacy policies. war with iran and eventually russia, for demahcrazy. ubi, free trade deal with east asia and the americas, eventually africa. total banning of gasoline powered vehicles, nuclear power, eventually all non-govcorp oil uses; total banning of visitors to national parks, total open borders. nationalization of wealth following a nationalization of debt; lots of printing machine mishaps. a string of really great movies, concerts, and sport events. all from the comfort of your home, because forced masking and quarantine. ending with the inauguration of the third… Read more »
>Biden/Pence 21. <
It’s so white, I’d donate to it just to piss off the coloreds.
And the bitches.
And the Indians.
Yes, it’s possible – see here:
https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-happens-if-no-one-wins/
Great news ! The House is being petitioned to and will likely intervene in contested elections.
Bad news: it’s to seat Democrats in races GOP won 😀
[breitbart link, I know but it’s the only link I found]
Obey the Laws ! and don’t forget to vote !
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/05/democrats-represented-by-marc-elias-try-to-overturn-two-house-elections-pelosi/
Z the war will be against us, never mind the Pretender it’s the Puppetmasters who are in trouble.. Annus Mirabilis 2020 must continue forever. Now politics is power, and that’s all. That’s my only lens for politics – power and it is correct. Short version of below: our worst problem as Americans is that we aren’t a one party state yet, and the one party must continuously go forward now after the stolen election or hang for what they’ve done: so they must repeat and increase 2020 until all our resistance both party and as peasants is crushed. The Uniparty… Read more »
This is OT, although not as OT as I had expected it to be, given today’s outstanding article. but I hope that y’all will indulge me. I was physically unable to reply when this topic was the subject, but I had to speak on it, and the whole world seems to be waiting to see what will happen here in Georgia so, again, I beg to be indulged. I read with much interest the Z-Man’s insightful article of Saturday, the 5th: “Just Walk Away.” But I was disappointed in the general tenor of many of the comments and in the… Read more »
ProZNov said, “How can you fight for a party that won’t even fight for itself?” To which WOPR said, “That’s the question everyone asks and the “SAVE THE SENATE” people have no good answer.” Exactly so. But immaterial to the issue at hand because it is the wrong question. We shall return to this presently. J. van der Meer mentioned that “ […] the Republican party in Georgia (the rotten crew who want Biden to win) and South Carolina (Lindsay Graham, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, et al.) don’t seem to be conservative in any way.” No, they are not conservative… Read more »
The old ruling class had been a slave-holding landed gentry, and their rule was rooted in their sense of duty to, and their responsibility for, the people below them: the white “plain folk” and the African slaves. Those people had erected a well-functioning aristocratic republic that produced Jefferson and Washington and Madison and Calhoun and Lee and Jackson and, well, Z’s readers know. But the upstart class that replaced them in Henry Grady’s “New South” had no such roots; no such sense of duty and responsibility. They were—and are—opportunists. Many of us call them “the Chamber of Commerce types.” THAT… Read more »
We have a functioning culture and civilization here—still—and an excellent climate, so these jumped-up nouveaux riches descend upon us from the Frozen North and they love it, but they can never be civilized, let alone integrated, during what remains of their wretched lifespans, and they vote, so they are net negatives. We shall return to Lindsey Graham presently. (And about our still-functioning culture and civilization, I highly recommend this article, which is TRULY fascinating: https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/12/01/portland-memories/?unapproved=330510&moderation-hash=ddf775d98dc7a823f002a6a59e20af4c#comment-330510 ) Now, van der Meer is right to call the Georgia Republicans “rotten,” for so they are. That Loeffler chick—and that’s exactly what she is—is… Read more »
I want to take issue with your idea of a “biologically connected people.” I maintain that all politics, after the transition from hunter-gather bands to agriculture, is “fake tribalism.” It is the artificial notion, probably instigated by a ruling class or priesthood, “we” are “one people.” In other words, humans believe what we are taught to believe. And there is nothing to make this easier than a nice big war in which all the young men are mixed together and made to stand in line with their “brothers.” That’s what Bismarck knew when he got the Germans into three nice… Read more »