Note: The Taki post is up. This week the subject is another take on the subject of today’s post, just from a more serious angle. The Sunday Thoughts podcast is up behind the green door for subscribers.
Politics in a democracy not only devolve into theater, but they select for the sorts of people attracted to the theatrical. The reason for this is democracy is about winning the crowd, which rewards those best at winning the crowd. Inevitably, elite interests will invest in those who show the ability to stand in front the mobs and win them over without making too many promises. After all, if you need to bribe the crowd then why bother investing in a guy trying to win the crowd?
Of course, the best stage performers are the people who are extraordinarily high in extraversion and very low in agreeableness. This person loves being the center of attention and likes meeting new people. A good actor can light up a room full of strangers and come away energized by it. He will also be very low in empathy and see others as either competitors of victims to be exploited. Great performers tend to be horrible people when away from the stage.
This is what you get with democracy. It is rule by the sorts of people who run away to the circus because it is their best shot at a happy life. Liberal democracy is supposed to correct the defects of democracy by bounding the choices of the mob with a set of principles like equality before the law. In reality, these principle are turned into props by the performers to add moral weight to their performance. They are no long winning the crowd, but instead are leading them on a moral crusade.
This is why morality in a liberal democracy gets turned on its head. Society’s least principled people are elevated to the top of the moral hierarchy. Carny folk are made into the priestly class. Naturally, they warp public morality into that which best serves their interests as performers. Like all carny acts, the political class in a liberal democracy is always on the look out for a new act and new bit. The highest moral good becomes the new act that brings in the crowds.
This is why American politics is so shallow. The current gun grabbing show being staged in Washington is a good example. Like a reboot of a comic book franchise, the gun grabbers are performing fan service. They know the slobbering idiots will show up with their t-shirts and home made costumes. It is a low cost way for the performers to get a big audience. The only point of the gun grabbing act is to please this narrow market sector so the performers can get a quick payday.
One of the ironies of this system is the biggest clowns come from the wealthiest and poorest congressional sectors. The obvious example is Nancy Pelosi, who represents one of the richest and most progressive districts in the country. The people who live in her district are rich and presumably have serious responsibilities. Yet, in their politics they go for the most ridiculous and absurd. Their politics are not about serious matters, but about the gestures that control bourgeois life.
That is what liberal democracy becomes at it zenith. It is a form of escapism for the class wealthy enough to escape the consequences of bad government, but not so wealthy as to enter the ruling elite. These are the people who promote pointless nonsense like climate change and gun grabbing campaigns. At the same time, they refuse to even think about practical problems that haunt society. Fixing roads is for poor people, while fixing the climate is for special people.
Another side effect of liberal democracy is the race for novelty. In the 1990’s, the luxury opinion was homosexual marriage. That was the thing bourgeois simpletons waved around to signal their aloofness from practical politics. Since anyone can acquire these luxury opinions, we have quickly moved along the clown line to the point where major corporations are celebrating child molesters. When novelty is the highest moral principle, who has time to worry about the kids?
Some will argue that the circus of politics is an intentional creation by the usual suspects to conceal their grip on society. That is a form of escapism, like all conspiracy theories, to avoid the reality of liberal democracy. Elites do run society, but they do not run the circus of democracy. Their only role is to make sure the actors do not accidentally shoot one another with a prop gun. Otherwise, they let these frivolous freaks do their shows and keep the masses occupied.
This is the beauty of the system, when you think about it. If the only way to fix the system is to get a bigger crowd, that means all opposition must select for greater novelty and narcissism than what is currently on stage. The winners of every election end up with a bigger clown than what was on stage. The losers get the new clown as well, which means no matter the result, you get stuck with a clown. Elections are always heads they win, tails you lose.
Just as the solution to a drinking problem is not more drinking, the solution to democracy is never more democracy. The drunk can only begin to recover himself by quitting the booze. Similarly, a people can only recover from the rule by carny trash by exiting the theater of democracy. Usually, the drunk has to hit rock bottom before he has the will to conquer his addiction. Most likely the same applies to democracy. America will have to hit rock bottom before it abandons the clown-ocracy.
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Being ruled by someone born into power, rather than someone hungry for it, is the traditional solution to democracy. People do not really like democracy, but actually like a rapid turnover of leadership in times of rapid technological change. Without that progress, monarchy is preferred.
If nobility is too offensive then randomly selected citizens of various wealth and education levels could be drafted into government positions, like a random poll except not trivial and too big to rig.
Fantastic Taki’s piece today. The Zman takes points from Veblen’s conspicuous consumption, and Bourdieu’s class distinction in taste and habits, showing how they play out through the ages. First the Macaroni example, eerily similar to the current age (although the comparison does not completely fit, as Britain would continue its run as a major power for another two centuries, so hardly a telltale of decaying empire). Then there is a transition to Apple gadgets of the years 00s which were coveted by hipsters, but had the drawback of being accessible to anyone, not just the trendies. Coming from that, the… Read more »
It’s the only explanation for Lululemon.
Edward Conze reflecting on Jonathan Swift. “It was Voigt who drew my attention to Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” as a repository of profound political wisdom. In my “Buddhist Thought in India” [p. 20] [1964] I have referred. to the Voyage to Laputa as the best description of the sciential madness of our times. Voigt himself showed me the classical passage in the Voyage to the Houyhnhnms [ch. vii] about the democratic madness of our time. This confirmed me in the belief that leaders of any democracy – parliamentary, plutocratic, popular or racial – must be rotters, because their adherents want them… Read more »
Some good clips from First Things article Zman linked to in his Taki article: Re. Traditional Liberals vis-a-vis Radicals during pre-Russian Rev: Or why classic Liberals who know better, allow radicals to topple them and everyone else. “Though some liberals recognized their differences from the radicals, most acted like [radical] wannabes who were unwilling to acknowledge, even to themselves, that their values were essentially different [than the radicals]. Socialized to regard anything conservative as reprehensible—and still worse, as a social faux pas—these liberals contrived ways to justify radical intolerance and violence as forced, understandable, and noble. They had to, since… Read more »
I didn’t read the cited article, but many of the same thoughts are echoed in the fascinating “The Jewish Century,” which I’m slowly browsing. While I’d class the work as pro-Jewish, the author speaks frankly about the political changes European (e.g. Russian and other Eastern areas) Jews experienced prior to WW I/Revolution. In a generation, many Jews had felt the call of modernity/secularization, at least to the point of studying host nation’s tongue (e.g. Russian) and entering highly skilled professions where permitted (the usual: banking, law, teaching, medicine, etc.) Significantly, many of them rejected or were rejected by their family… Read more »
True, the FirstThings article was golden. I did not know that in Russia “Between 1905 and 1907, nearly 4,500 government officials and about as many private individuals were killed or injured. Between 1908 and 1910, authorities recorded 19,957 terrorist acts and revolutionary robberies, doubtless omitting many from remote areas.” These are huge numbers that testify to a situation of utter chaos. Much worse than today, even with multicultural societies. Avoiding this kind of slippery slide of violence seems to be the good part of the Western regime having criminalized the mere thought of fedposting I guess. The induced self-censorship works… Read more »
If Donald Trump had been a better type of clown — i.e., less man-in-a-suit, more man-in-a-leather-jacket — he might have done better in the elections than he did. The only problem with the suit is that he makes you think suit-ish things.
Who the frik is this guy? George Bernard Shaw? Sam Clemens? G.K. Chesterton? Mencken? Not bad dude. not bad.
“When novelty is the highest moral principle, who has time to worry about the kids?”
Brilliantly said.
“Elites do run society, but … their only role is to make sure the actors do not accidentally shoot one another with a prop gun.”
I wish they could do better than that and stop the madness from metastasizing. Wishful thinking perhaps.
A small note in American history comes to mind from the late 1970s or 1980s in a forgotten monthly edition of Freak Show and Circus Review. The story is told of an incident here in San Diego where a courageous and sober minded person had the opportunity and clarity to beat up Howard Cosell in an elevator at Jack Murphy Stadium. It may seem minuscule and off the main road of political theater but as a sociological note of yore it gives me fractional hope that America may yet come out of this current cultural and political crises with some… Read more »
I’m a firm believer in the dictum that civilian firearms are for hunting and self defense. I also highly recommend thinking outside the box when it comes to various remedies for the disease cell problem. Your tale is therefore fundamentally educational. Elevators do indeed represent excellent venues for potential remedy. Are we now at the stage of enhancing tactical education?
Yes. See the John McClane Elevator Usage and Instruction Manual for the Nakatomi Plaza Building.
Robo: “It may seem minuscule and off the main road of political theater but as a sociological note of yore it gives me fractional hope that America may yet come out of this current cultural and political crises with some dignity and perspective.”
Reading that sentence was like trying to swim through sand.
Got it. You think I should have used the word ‘fragmented’ or ‘subatomic’ instead?
From the Taki post, regarding the “macaroni” subculture. Apparently, 18th century soyboys:
“Stereotypically, men in the macaroni subculture dressed, spoke, and behaved in an unusually sentimental and androgynous manner.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)
I have a question- what happened, then, to the Macaroni?
They’re still with us. You’ve heard of Benedict Cumberbatch, right?
Lord, what a dorky name.
Hey now, he’s Khan!
Err, umm, the, uhh, modern version. Updated, as it were.
Improved, even!
My favorite thing about Boobydoo Cummerbund is that no matter how much you butcher his name, people know who you’re talking about.
Wait, are you talking about Bendymore Coopersnatch?
Watched that Davos clip. I’d say that when this is all said and done, if we are not in chains, it will be because we did some calibration on noose sizes. I flashed to the SXSW clip. That was angering. I couldn’t get past 30 seconds of the hysteric plea from the ridiculous people in BoPeep dresses and beards to be saved from a Texas holocaust – as they sit on stage in Austin to the applause of the powerful in the audience. There has been a lot of, “is this 1984 or Brave New World?”, talk the past few… Read more »
The Hunger Games takes place in a society that is from my distant glances at it, mono-racial. Our clownshow is rapidly approaching the combination of the worst of Hotel Rwanda, the Killing Fields, the Lives of Others, Salvador (with James Woods), Missing, and Z by Costa-Gavras. Because that is the historical reality of multi-racial, multi-cultural societies. Particularly when prosperity such as it is ends. The pods, streaming soma, and bugs will not work when there is no power because we imported the third world’s population and got their power grid. Elite helicopters can’t fly without fuel, pilots, and mechanics and… Read more »
And Africa Addio
Yes and I forgot the Year of Living Dangerously, the Last Wave, the Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, and that movie about Jonestown. Our regime seems intent on Revolutionary Suicide.
Speaking of helicopters, southernprepper1 on YouTube cited an anecdote from a military helo mechanic stating they were struggling to specific lubricants for helo engines.
In North Africa, the locals contract their helo maintenance out to a Euro-American firm run by a guy that was a colonel in the Portuguese Air Force.
And the southern border is an amped up Sicario, not just regarding drug & human trafficking but as to CIA involvement as well. Which is quite something for it to be “amped up” since its not a very old movie.
Each movie listed, and then some others, give us a glimpse of where we are at present. If you’re asking, the answer is yes.
Love it when Z gets sociological on our ass. “[Upper class] politics are not about serious matters, but about the gestures that control bourgeois life. That is what liberal democracy becomes at it zenith. It is a form of escapism for the class wealthy enough to escape the consequences of bad government, but not so wealthy as to enter the ruling elite. These are the people who promote pointless nonsense like climate change and gun grabbing campaigns. At the same time, they refuse to even think about practical problems that haunt society. Fixing roads is for poor people, while fixing… Read more »
This discussion is not doing much for me. Everyone’s running too far with this airy concept of the ‘elites’. I don’t see any elites as such in the US. There’s just a conveyor belt of petty bourgeois who get churned out by the system. The system, and society itself, IS nothing more than the churning of the petty bourgeois. My pet theory is that it’s simply those who are best at making presentations who get pushed to the top. That’s not real intelligence, obviously – and that’s the problem. The western world is now being ruled by office Karens. The… Read more »
Every people has a natural aristocracy, those who are best fit to rule. There will be variation among peoples, with some nations and tribes punching above below their weight in producing good stewards of their civilization. Liberal democracy is a system where those who rule (who have the power to design and implement the governing structures of civilization like immigration, trade, and industrial policies) are completely removed from accountability. They use money (and increasingly as things fall apart, violence and threat of violence) to control those with authority, e.g. governors and legislatures. These latter are puppets who dance on strings… Read more »
Our aristocracy is supposed to be people like Tucker Carlson and the younger Martha Stewart(she still leans this way but her need for fame corrupted her a bit) with a smattering of cowboy.
What we have is a bunch of carnies and Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey only 24-7 not at the circus where it belongs
A riddle in Western history up to the present time is a particular tribe that does indeed punch far above its weight. Whether they have been good guardians of their civilization may be debated. They often bring valuable talents that seem to benefit all, yet they seem cursed, often bringing disaster upon both themselves and their host. Whether that’s a feature or a bug, I leave for others to ponder.
That’s all out of date. The idea of a bunch of ‘elites’ (or ‘ruling class’) influencing the masses is pure flight of fancy. It’s now just the opposite. Since the advent of social media we are in a plebocracy more than anything – since the mid-90s it’s been the shrillest who have moulded society, and now it’s the TikTok influencers. The legacy batch of politicians have been desperately trying to keep up and are in the process of being replaced by more and more Karens.
These people are deeply unhappy as they are constantly in search of the next “high,” and that’s why they often turn to rage when someone thwarts their desires. It is also why we get the increasing bizarreness. Once someone engages in this sort of thing it can only lead to a downward spiral. Just look at how far we progressed with the TSA. It went to a little stricter security to full body scans within a really short period of time. Would anyone be that surprised if you had to show up 6 hours early and were required to undergo… Read more »
Constantly humiliating the Dirt People is the highest aspiration of the Cloud People.
I had an interesting conversation with a like-minded soul this morning and the topic of the mid-terms came up. He thought maybe it would be harder for the Dems to steal this one since so many realize how our current Potato-in-Chief was forced on us. I said they don’t care if we know it. In fact, the more blatant the steal the better. Like the saying goes, they want us dead and they think it’s funny. Their attitude is basically ‘well, what are you going to do punk?’.
They want us dead; we want them dead. Seems we understand one another perfectly well.
Dirt people suffer most at the hands of other dirt people who occupy the lowest positions of the cloud people’s enforcement arms.
“Some will argue that the circus of politics is an intentional creation by the usual suspects to conceal their grip on society. That is a form of escapism, like all conspiracy theories, to avoid the reality of liberal democracy. Elites do run society, but they do not run the circus of democracy. Their only role is to make sure the actors do not accidentally shoot one another with a prop gun. Otherwise, they let these frivolous freaks do their shows and keep the masses occupied.” Uh, yes they do run the circus of democracy. You say it in your next… Read more »
Welp, I read the Taki poast too. I think I might disagree completely – unless I am missing something? I have seen any number of clowns and buffoons among the dirt class. My daughter is a militant gay social justice warrior. She and her creepy girlfriend are even poorer than we are… and they are right up to speed with the swankiest elite jesters. (Last I heard through the grapevine, they were all on pins an needles waiting for the first topless pics from one of there friends – she was getting her tits cut off so she could transition… Read more »
it’s a weird kind of social aspiration going on with plebes parroting the pathologies of their betters.
Thus it has always been, and thus it will always be. Plus, it’s rather strange that people around these parts frequently complain about the quality of our leaders and then denigrate the gullibility of their followers. The quality of leadership can only matter if there is some number of people who will uncritically follow whoever is in charge.
Not to blame you or anything but do you ever blame yourself as a father? I feel like there must have been a reason that your daughter went crazy, maybe relating to you maybe not.
it’s called the Menendez Syndrome.
Yes. I think every parent of a failed child does, B. I think that homosexuality is the product of bad parenting, or bad genetics, or both. It’s a devastating thing to contemplate for any parent. This is why so many parents of such kids try to normalize and mainstream sexual perversion: they don’t have to see their children as they are, or their own role in making them that way. I will stand before God and answer for my daughter. I tried to give her the best home I could, and I flat out refuse to make excuses for her… Read more »
Sorry for your loss[es]. This too shall pass
Unless she’s the bull, odds are she’ll grow out of it. One of the reasons the old bulls are so angry all the time is because their feminine girlfriends keep dumping them to have a real family once the college indoctrination starts wearing off.
Very honest and sincere response Glen. Sometimes it’s 20% us and 80% other with negative outcomes of our children. I’ll bet you fall in this category.n. In the end every human has agency and is responsible for themselves.
If I had a gay or degenerate offspring you can be sure I wouldn’t embrace or accept that part of them. It would be a pain I would have to live with. That said, i have been blessed.
How the F any normal person could foresee or deal with this degree of crazy.
The good Lord bless you and keep you. It’s like the unhappy creeps find the tiniest chink in the wall, i.e. good order of humanity, and worm their way in to cause devastation and unhappiness.
Kids respond to propaganda and indoctrination — by the media, by the schools, by social media, by TV, by movies, etc. I know a sad number of good parents whose kids have fallen down the globohomo rabbit hole. These parents are good people who don’t deserve this. They’re heartbroken and rightly so. We would have very few trannies — and a lot less homosexuality — if promoting it were to become illegal. And yes, this includes having the sassy gay best friend in movies. Right now, it’s so pervasive that it’s nearly impossible to avoid once the kids reach a… Read more »
Bad parents matter vastly more than good ones. By bad, I mean sexual or physical abuse, a crackhead “putting out” her 5 year old to wander the streets etc.
Foxes only took a few generations to manifest bizarre toy-dog anticamouflage when fed and cared for. The Industrial Revolution has gifted two centuries of dysgenics now.
It shows up.
For Goodness’ Sake – Don’t give your kids cellphones. And no Netflix.
That works fine when they’re twelve, not so fine when they’re sixteen. Or when they go off to college. Look, I get it. I used to have contempt for parents whose kids turned out this way, but after seeing it firsthand, all I have is sympathy. Sure, some kids turn out this way because the parents are liberal and promote it. Others turn out this way because the parents were neglectful in some manner. But now it’s hitting good, intact families where the parents are actively involved in the kids’ lives. It’s not just an epidemic. It’s being done on… Read more »
Winter – I have a 17 year old. It requires filling the void with activities rather than abdicating responsibility. And who says you should send your kid to college?
Further, to be clear, I am not blaming OP. It is systemic. I just push those two as things ways you can help minimize your exposure and risk. I’ll put it this way – my 17 year old was shocked and disgusted when she saw Rachel Levine just two days ago in a video. You have to remind your kids these are freaks by relegating them to occasional observation. Social media makes it seem normal.
This is standard mimetic behavior exhibited all throughout history. But as a parent I sympathize with you and pray you can hang in there….
Thanks Captain, but there is nothing “standard” about any of this. And do not be complacent…this could happen to your kids. All of you guys… be careful!!! We’ve lost enough kids to this craziness as it is… don’t assume it can’t happen to yours.
While reading the Taki article, I had a thought, and I believe it may address a complimentary point and your question. May I offer a historical parallel? Footbinding. One of the unique aspects of the Chinese practice was that, much as the macaroni craze, it was designed specifically to highlight the status of the elites (supposedly tracing back, if memory serves, to some emperor’s fetish for small feet or something like that). Footbinding literally rendered your daughter unable to walk. In theory, this would make it so only the rich, who could afford to enfeeble their daughter, could display this… Read more »
Note that after foot binding had spread to the lower classes, the Qing Dynasty Manchus attempted for hundreds of years to ban the practice, because it was actually starting to cause problems. The leaders of the Taiping Rebellion also prohibited it (not that the rebellion succeeded, but it controlled a lot of territory for a long time). The Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties did little or nothing to protest it, and the Yuans – Mongols – even encouraged Han Chinese to practice it as that ended up crippling their subjects. By the time the Qings came around, it was so… Read more »
Damn dude. That is very difficult I can only imagine how awful that must be. I said to our growing clan that I wouldn’t watch any of them destroy themselves through any of the many ways there are to do it, That it would be too painful and would make what ever time I have left unbearable and undoubtedly much shorter. I told them this at Thanksgiving two years ago and I meant it. If or more likely when any of them are possessed by “chosen insanity” they would be banished from our life. This alone would cause my wife… Read more »
Levine Levity Dept: Trivia: during one of my intermittent conservative* gadfly missions over at ft.com, it is early 2021. Someone relieved that Orange Man was finally gone, the new Biden Administration that America could get back to business as usual. My snarky reply was “A man wearing a dress in a Cabinet position is ‘business as usual’?” *The really funny thing is they haven’t banned me in two years, although some posts do vanish. There are a handful of conservatives in comments, perhaps tolerated as legacy readers and/or to add the air of open debate. But the EU shitlib is… Read more »
One of the main reasons the Ivory Tower abandoned the “great man” school of History, I think, is because abandoning it relieves them of the burden of trying to understand people. Just to stick with the approximate era of the “macaronis,” the events in Britain’s North American colonies don’t make sense without understanding the individual personalities, and how they developed — William Pitt was a different guy before he was “Pitt the Elder;” and then again after he was “the Earl of Chatham.” There’s also the quirks of Lord North to consider, not to mention George III himself… If you… Read more »
Great men are overwhelmingly white and…ahem…predominantly male. That, as much as anything, is the explanation for why study of them has been elided.
Ostei, correct. We’ve gone through “phases” here. First phase was to attempt to compete with White historical cultural/technological supremacy by attempting to elevate minority mediocrities into the ranks of those who created and lead such, and therefore should be recognized and emulated along side of Whites. This was a joke and utterly failed—although they won’t admit such. Then the ploy switched to elevating minority “victims”. Victim hood is still a goto for those seeking to elevate minorities, with of course Whites being painted as victimizers—a twofer of sorts. The latest strategy is the crudest, that is to gaslight all White… Read more »
True and not true… the Seven Years War was not going well for Britain, but Pitt comes around with stiffer policies that stirred the ship back on course. The war was won, but not against a formidable adversary: France did not invest much on the North American theater as per usual, given its weaker navy than the British, and given that its most pressing need was as always the fighting in Europe, this time against Frederick2’s Prussians. France counted on prevailing in Europe, so then regain any colony lost during the war at the conference table. This time such a… Read more »
France had a larger economy and population than Britain. Also the political system allowed the French to throw more money at the war. Britain fielded sizeable armies against the French so hardly just a naval affair. Britain payed for Frederick’s armies which was a huge undertaking for the British and a result of decisions made by Pitt. You consider Wellington to be bland and fungible! It wasn’t just the Seven years war. Consecutive defeats in the Nine and Seven years war did for the French. Using competence as a way to denigrate a politician is absurd when you consider how… Read more »
Ah, that ever-elusive bottom. Sometimes I fear AINO is a bottomless pit.
Nah, it sure seems like there are a lot of bottoms.
We’re about to find out…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1533524778610348032.html
I’d say that the point of the gun grabbing act is to grab the guns. Perhaps only slowly at first, but, sooner or later, completely.
The open borders are there to allow easy entry for the bodies they will require to grab the guns.
Gun grabbing will not work at the local level. County sheriffs are not stupid enough to play along and big city PDs now have dwindling numbers of competent white male officers with which to prevent serious crime. And you can’t send the affirmative action hires to a gangbanger’s house to confiscate guns without taking huge loses. The most likely method of gun grabbing will be federal and involve outlawing certain firearms and then making a few very public persecutions of entraped stooges as a warning to others that its compliance or serious jail time. Similar to the Jan 6th political… Read more »
Last night at the supermarket down the street I saw a towering vibrant city PD officer in line at the sandwich counter with his diminutive female partner.
I wonder how he feels about being sent on night patrol essentially by himself.
Well, seeing as she’s probably the brains of the outfit, she likely doesn’t feel much better.
They will not win.
There are machine shops & chemical labs in every other garage.
Most importantly enough diehards to make it a wacamole impossibility.
Just, just, just hold on there a minute, bucko. You’re telling me Volodymir Zelenskyy isn’t a real hero.
Just as the solution to a drinking problem is not more drinking, the solution to democracy is never more democracy.
Once again, in his exceedingly verbose fashion, Z seems to be telling us that the way forward is to disengage with politics. Because after all, it couldn’t possibly matter whether Stephen Miller or Alejandro Mayorkas is running our immigration system. Isn’t that just blazingly obvious?
Disengage from voting, not politics.
Be less obscure! What kind of politics are you talking about that does not involve voting? Voting is what put Trump and Miller in office. It worked! It made a difference! That seems undeniable to me. And it doesn’t stop you from pursuing your objectives through other means as well.
Or are you actually saying that it didn’t matter that we had Miller for four years, rather than Mayorkas? If so please say that outright and justify it, because it doesn’t seem plausible at all.
If you watch the documentary “2,000 mules”, it will disabuse you of the notion that voting matters. And yes, you can always dangle the carrot of “but we can fix the system and end the fraud” and no doubt convince the softheads that that chimera is viable; but as for me, I prefer the real to the imaginary.
Nothing disabuses JEB from his mistaken beliefs. Cognitive dissonance is not a problem for JEB.
At this.point it’s going to take rivers of blood.
I hope vlad jump starts it with a 100 Megaton on DC
In mine craft of course.
Yes, “America” improved so dramatically under Trump. The transformation was so profound that it might as well have been a different country.
:rolleyes:
Trump (and hence Miller) was a one-off. TPTB believed their own bullshit and therefore were not prepared for the level of cheating necessary so he slipped in. They did not make that mistake twice. To prove to the world and future wannabees that they learned their lesson, they ran the most glaringly obvious disaster of a candidate and campaign, and blatantly stole an election just in case there were any lingering doubts about their resolve. One would hope the message has been received (I can almost imagine some elite thinking to himself “what have we got to do to get… Read more »
You’re not getting it. Stephen Miller gained control of our immigration system and nothing changed.
What are you talking about? Plenty changed — at least while Trump was in office. The fact that Trump was unable to bring about lasting change is Trump’s fault, not Miller’s. Trump’s failings are immense, and were plainly visible to everyone even in 2016. And yet he won! So I don’t buy this lame defeatism that says that the all powerful elites will never allow real change through the political system. Trump won, and as far as I’m concerned that proves it isn’t impossible. What we need is to vote in a better Trump. If Trump had been a better… Read more »
Yep, we need to work harder, vote harder, pray harder. That’s the ticket. So what if the opposing side (and increasingly the other party as well) holds control of the “process” and reserves the “right” tip the scale in their favor when the public gets it “wrong”. You’d be a fool to not vote. 🙁 Take it to the bank, JEB. Latest from this State’s (AZ) corrupt process. Just released after months of suing, the chain of custody records wrt mail in ballots for largest County being delivered by the postoffice, postmarked *after* Nov 4 deadline—20K. All were tallied, albeit… Read more »
And yet, somehow, Stephen Miller really did run our immigration system for four years. It’s just inexplicable!!!
A better Trump would not have mattered. Stalin/Pinochet level purges are what is needed, and that does not appear on the horizon yet. I don’t see TPTB allowing a Stalin/Pinochet to be voted in, unless of course it’s THEIR Stalin/Pinochet.
It changed, but it was just not enough of a change. We needed an absolute moratorium with harsh enforced penalties for transgressors. What we got were a few disincentives for people to immigrate which slowed the deluge a bit.
Better than the situations which preceded and followed, but not nearly enough.
In their desperation to ban guns, they have started highlighting black gun fights and calling them mass shootings, which happen almost daily somewhere in America. Of course they have banned all discussion of race around these events but it is kind of hard for people not to notice when the arrests are reported. They don’t even seem to have considered the possibility this could backfire on them.
“…they have started highlighting black gun fights…” Just mentioned this last night – bleck and messican, BTW. And yes, as if — these people are not shooting at one another every weekend, and some weekdays. AND they could give a tenth of a damn about ‘gun laws’. Please, retard tier pablum fed to Normie. What I also found interesting is how the same media lackeys are promulgating ‘anti cop’ stories, the latest today about some members of the John Law club refusing to ‘go in’ as some guy lost the Darwin Award, I mean won it – by drowning. So… Read more »
CharlieHustle: I found it both interesting and promising that the vast majority of the comments at the Daily Mail story about that Darwin Award nogger essentially said ‘too bad so sad.’ American cops aren’t lifeguards, aren’t required to know how to swim, etc. So we have, simultaneously, insane amounts of DIE virtue signaling from White leftists and equally intense amounts of both nogger and compassion fatigue. Generally, when I read of stupid people winning stupid prizes, I just shrug. Genetic pool is way overdue for cleaning. Whether it’s a subcon “Illinois woman” who killed herself paragliding or a nogger who… Read more »
California just ended mandatory reporting of shooter events because rayciss. They were trying to keep a database on how often NRA militia types murdered kids… it ended up being a database about all dem yoofs. The ACLU finally complained.
David Cole (as usual) has an insightful post up at Takimag on this very issue. He notes that all this “anti-racist” (i.e., pro-black) legislation comes at the expense of everyone else, not just Whitey. Thus, once the hispanic (mostly Mexican, but expanding Central American as well) population wakes up to this, things are probably going to get spicy. There is no love lost between ghetto blacks and their numerically growing hispanic neighbors, who are actually displacing them in most of the blacks’ former strongholds (i.e., “the ghetto”). I look forward to the time when hispanics become the plurality in the… Read more »
“They don’t even seem to have considered the possibility this could backfire on them.”
Double entendre intended?
As I’ve noted, “mass” shootings have been defined as 4 or more killed or wounded—including gunman. This was done long ago so that it’s much easier to conflate school shootings with general gang violence. However, yesterday I heard one news “reporter” calling a three-fer a new mass shooting. So even the above definition seems too rigorous for these professional liars.
The interesting thing is, the carny and macaroni acts show that democracy is already dead. We are ruled by bureaus and agencies, by multinationals and NGOs- nowhere is there seen an input by citizens or a commons. So what will be the nature of this rule, then? It’s not based on territory, which has been the final definition for all living things since forever. Is caste possible in such a hypermobile world? Who chooses? Which ruleset? And with the damaged younger generation up-and-coming, I don’t see how any order can be maintained. We’re in undiscovered country here, all bets are… Read more »
That shiny new TSMC fab in Arizona has already issued a call for willing Taiwanese to immigrate because they can’t find qualified local staff:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-arizona-taiwanese-workers
Readers might be wondering why TSMC isn’t hiring for these lower-end technical positions in the US, as the requirements are so low.
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That’s because they are not nearly low enough.
Wild Geese: That is so typical and so infuriating. Regardless of qualifications or experience, they demand every new American hire spend months in Taiwan for ‘training.’ Not an option for people with family obligations (wives, kids, parents, etc.) or community ties. And as for the English proficiency of the Taiwanese applicants, I’m sure their test results will be just as honest as all Oriental test takers in the US are today.
The Taiwanese know how to bake sub-5nm cakes at scale. Americans do not. It’s that simple. Most of the kit they use to do is (albeit very expensive) COTS.. and in theory with a bunch of spare billions can buy it and build their own fab — just like you and Shaniqua could Learn to Code. It’s really simple. The secret is in the sauce. The institutional knowledge… the myriad small things which taken together and done by a workforce with *continuity* going back decades has the institutional knowledge and culture to be able to handle very complex manufacturing and… Read more »
The ruling class is powerful but they’re incompetent. We saw this with the Freedom Convoy. The affirmative action police chief in Ottawa was unprepared and let all the truckers in. Trudeau refused to do the simple thing, meet with the truckers and rescind a very small trucking vax mandate. After belittling the truckers he ran away into hiding. They were unable to clear out the trucks for 4 weeks. Tow truck companies refused to help. Military said no way. Regular cops didn’t want anything to do with it either. Finally the government had to go full scorched earth, declaring Emergencies… Read more »
and they damaged the national banking system in the process. not to mention the reputation of canada as a country.
“and they damaged the national banking system in the process. not to mention the reputation of canada as a country.” I wonder how many outside of the former country known as “Canada” reacted the way I did with my business holdings. The moment word came out about the scoundrel Tru Dork and his minions locking up truckers’ bank accounts – I ordered a pull-out of ALL financial resources, personal and corporate. Sure, my paltry mid 6-figures, perhaps ‘a lot of money’ to the millions working for $14-18 an hour here in the States – but understood to be chump change… Read more »
Getthemoney: Hope many others did the same thing. The more of us who withdraw from the system – political, social, and financial – the better. We try to keep just enough in the bank to cover our bills – more than we’d like – but nothing extra. Just as Whites shouldn’t trust their children to government schools, we shouldn’t trust the fruits of our labor to banks. Buy tangible assets and hold or hide them as you choose. Only a fool would willingly choose to be an unsecured creditor to the bankers, especially when government scrip is losing value day… Read more »
Yes. The elites were stretched to their breaking point thanks to ONE incident involving just a FEW thousand rednecks.
Can you imagine how powerful and controlling the elites would remain if they had to deal with even 2 or 3 of such events simultaneously? The elite’s position is really more fragile and precarious than they would have you (or themselves) believe.
The Freedom Convoy ended with the government being stronger and the protesters much weaker.
With the stoke of an executive pen, Trudeau made JUST DONATING to the truckers an act that could make you lose everything.
Emotionally the Freedom Convoy looked great, but the precedent has been set. Minor, peaceful protests can get your license revoked and your bank account seized.
On what planet was the Freedom Convoy a win?
Not really stronger. The power was always there to use. The Convoy forced them to use it. It showed the world where the fear lies.
And it had the salutary effect of illustrating to any Canadian who had eyes to see, that the government was essentially a nascent dictatorship operating behind a facade of liberal democracy.
Canada had to go scorched Earth because the truckers were a real threat to them. BLM, trannies, etc. are worthless, so no need to show force on them (in fact, they become an asset by transforming into the club with which to beat normies into submission). But the truckers provide an actual service that is necessary to continued functioning of society. Can’t let them believe they have any leverage.
Regarding the Taki post, to distinguish themselves from the Dirt People, the elite or really, “progressives” must – by definition – hold views not held by the majority of people. The result is a continuous ideological arms race. Every time the Dirt People are forced to accept some crackpot idea, such as homosexual marriage, the elite are forced to move on to something more radical, such as a man in a dress is a woman. Now, if the elite weren’t so powerful, we could some happy equilibrium where the elite hold some insane view and the Dirt People ignore them.… Read more »
Nah, this one’s got it all wrong. What you need is… Pence 2024! ***** We must defend democracy everywhere, because its two great strengths are: First, you can invite people in who then vote you out of power. Second, they then can vote themselves your stuff. This is why the franchise must always be expanded- so that a story can be told of your historical grievance against them. So of course you owe them your lands and your stuff. Did I mention the greatest promoters of new franchises? I did not. Remarkable that liberal democracy and BIS banking grew to… Read more »
Speaking of expanding the franchise, it’s funny how out of one side their mouths comes ‘we need to give 16 year olds the franchise.’ But out of the other side of their mouths, ‘we cannot send 16 year old murderers to prison for life because their precious little minds are undeveloped.’
They just say whatever happens to serve them in the moment.
In the “Theory of the Leisure Class”, Veblen coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption” to capture the behavioral and sartorial signaling of the Elite. The whole point of outlandish clothing is to signal one’s complete avoidance of manual labor. Along these lines, today’s Elite signal their status by holding beliefs utterly inconsistent with the laws of physics and basic biology. They shun fire, dirt and blood in favor of “Macaroni ideas”, as Zman observes at Taki. Like the Red Queen in Wonderland, they can believe six impossible things before breakfast. But if we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the peasants… Read more »
But they just had their nails done, you heathen!
There was a scene in Gone With the Wind where Rhett Butler examines Scarlett’s hands and exclaims in horror that she was doing modern labor. In a more modern context, one of my wife’s Hispanic friends goes to insane lengths to avoid the sun, as in Hispanic culture being very tan is considered low status, since it implies labor in the sun. In contrast, some elite schools in the early 1900’s required men to join rough sports like football or rugby, since they believed, correctly, that leaders need to be able to cope with physical duress. Pretty simple what elite… Read more »
“America will have to hit rock bottom before it abandons the clown-ocracy.”
The scary thing is, how many Americans will have to die before we eke our way out of this level of hell where we’ve been for quite awhile?
Day of the Rope says:
As many as we need to
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Over 200 million, if you buy the Deagel forecast.
I didn’t used to.
Things in this country are failing so quickly and on so many fronts it’s hard not to wonder if much of the deep states actions aren’t wholly deliberate.
I have believed there is a plan being implemented for quite a while.
My thoughts about the factions and intent behind that plan are my own.
On the flipside, I’m pleasantly surprised things in my area are still relatively normal given the havoc that has been wreaked during the past two years.
It’s fitting that the luxury opinions are, in themselves, becoming more and more restrictive and stifling to the people espousing them. Just like entertainment media is so constricted by unwritten speech codes as to what can and can’t be said that little interesting art is capable of being produced, modern political entertainment has become just as stuffy. Most people in Gen Z are so inundated in this environment that’s it’s questionable whether they will even have the mental framework to understand any arguments outside the sphere, including founding documents such as “The Federalist Papers”, and the average young swamp creature… Read more »
About a dozen years ago, I was with a friend and his son, who was early teens at the time. I used a colorful euphemism about homosexuals and the boy actually gasped. I ignored it, but my friend after told me that it was the conditioning in the schools. The kids were trained to fear such talk. By the end of high school the conditioning was gone and the kid sounded normal. Nature finds a way.
Hershey-Compressors.
Colorful euphemisms aren’t dead. My kid uses all kinds of colorful euphemisms when gaming with his friends. Every time he says the F word I get misty. “That’s my boy!”
Well, it is pride month. What used to be yesterday’s saddle-less bicycle for nuns is today’s mobile dilation for trannnies. Sustainability in practice.
Submitted for your amusement: an utterly tasteless impromptu composition by Layabout. An Ode to Gay Pride Month Forgive my buffoonish buggery, Poetry purely in jest you see, A song of a schlong where it don’t belong, Were it set to melody. In some States it’s still a felony, To have some fellow’s rod in me, There’s incipient irony, As I’ll recount below. All seemed well at the rest stop Until he announced he was a cop Activity screeched to a stop And I was under arrest Well I was tried and convicted But it’s to dick that I’m addicted And… Read more »
I was at a New Year’s Eve party about 10 years ago. There was karaoke. A group of mid20s milennials were singing Money For Nothing. They all sang ‘the little fa99ot’ lyrics with extra gusto. Not sure if the same would transpire today. The kids have been programmed to be terrified of such language. By the by, the local radio stations either dub that lyric or skip the whole segment of the song.
The problem with escalating panics and sideshows is the next has to be more absurd than the last and at some point escalation becomes impossible. The Empire’s current embrace of pedophilia surely is the last stop or the one before it. From all accounts, when the Mayans reached their final stop at human sacrifice, which was a pretext for Elite cannibalism, the wheels soon came off and the once-great society collapsed. The Davos degenerates touting insect consumption certainly has parallels, but my money is on domestic mass murder (which we currently have with wars for pleasure and profit, but I’m… Read more »
I’m thinking some version of Hunger Games. Running man also?
We have a lot of creative talent in our past giving us some nice options. Of course maybe with a more decadent twist.
The clowns and jesters at the top are only half the problem. The Dirt class is infested with clowns too. The schools are churning them out like sausages.
The normies and grillers are going to be the guys that end this. We are literally looking at food shortages and economic depression. Clowns are expensive, and hungry grillers and normies will not be placated by capering faggots and pedos.
Either a Stalin or a You-Know-Who will arise from this, but regardless… a chitstorm and a reckoning are one the way.
No doubt it has trickled down to some degree, but those people below the Clouds going along with this or outright embracing it are powerless. My guess is the number of Dirts who pay lip service vs. actually believe skews way toward the former.
I am not so certain economic depression will shake the Grillers or Normies up outside of maybe wasting their time voting for the same Republicans who want to disarm them. They probably will not act until subjected to actual physical violence, which now seems likely.
Well, almost powerless. Plumbing still has to plumb. The fear from the trucker convoy came to the fore with the aggressive actions taken against them. TPTB know they cannot let the Truckers win, nor even give them an inch, lest they get uppity. BLM is not threat, as they provide nothing which is needed.
It needs to be said. Yes, the DC political class is dominated by carny trash. And yes, they are spending us into oblivion, supercharging hyperinflation, and pushing the dirt people into ruin. And yes yes, there are no checks & balances because they own the police and elections are a fraudulent joke. But they are not tough guys (like the old mafia was), and they can only exist as long as white guys chasing a paycheck man protect them. Once the white guys in uniform stop manning the riot line, they will have no choice but to exit to their… Read more »
Who else saw that row of private jets at Davos and thought, “a nice collection of illegitimate SAMS and MANPADS would be just the thing right now.”
“…a people can only recover from the rule by carny trash by exiting the theater of democracy.”
Paging General Pinochet…
In memory of the recently departed Ray Liotta, “You wanna see helicopters? I’ll show you helicopters!”
Our clowns in charge are doing their best to keep all the plates spinning – Ukraine, covid, trannyism, faggotry, negrophilia, abortion, gun grabbing, J6 etc. Unfortunately for them as well as us, inflation is the big, bad genie popping out of the bottle. When you can hardly afford to drive to the store in order to attempt to buy what little is left, no one is going to give two sh*** about those clown issues and the spinning plates are going to come crashing down.
Hitting bottom may occur via economic collapse and mass impoverishment, as seems likely going forward or, with dictatorship also a probability as the two often go together.
Unless and until this scenario develops in a more full fledged way, the elite, absent intramural conflict, have little to fear from opponents and have no real need to keep the carny going.
Consider Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII. “Your kingdom for a horse?” he replied to Richard III’s offer of a deal. “I’ve got the horse and now it appears I’ve got the kingdom, so what’s to deal?”
Henry would be a queen now, and the horse an eight-year-old boy.
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