Hard Truths

A few months ago, when Pedro Gonzalez suddenly became an over-the-top supporter of Ron DeSantis and committed enemy of all Trump supporters on Twitter, I knew I was going to hate the 2024 election. The election was never going to be fun with Trump running, as it would mean another round of foaming at the mouth claims about Trump, but with DeSantis in the race it would be much worse.

The reason it would be worse is lots of people who should know better would convince themselves that DeSantis was the miracle antidote to their troubles. They would make all of the arguments that the anti-Trump people make, but swear they are acting from better motives or making a reasoned critique. Many of the on-line influencers, of course, would be on the payroll of DeSantis.

On the other side would be the vast on-line army of Trump fans, many of whom are on the Trump payroll. They would dust off their playbooks from 2016 when they went to war with the neocons and Buckley-cons, but this time they would not be using jokes and clever memes, but shrill denials and denunciations. In other words, they will just be monkeys fleeing poo at the crap-fest.

This election will be a test of sorts for our people. Many on this side of the great divide still cling to the fantasy of voting our way out of this mess. Their heads tell them it is not possible, but a lifetime of conditioning still traps holds their hearts. Their struggle will be avoiding the crap show, but many will succumb and join it. Those who have broken free from the madness will not enjoy seeing this.

That is the point of the show this week. There are hard truths about this age and our politics that are the final boss on the trip over to this sort of politics. Once these truths are accepted, the coming election is just a reboot of a bad movie. It is Fast & Furious Nth edition, this time with new bad actors to join the bad actors from previous iterations of the franchise. Enjoy the fake explosions.


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Contents

  • Elections Are A Circus
  • Elections Do Not Matter
  • The System Is The Problem
  • Your Opinion Does Not Matter (Link) (Link)
  • The Game Is Rigged (Link)

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Paintersforms
Paintersforms
11 months ago

Mike Judge got pretty close with Idiocracy imo. Maybe getting too serious about a funny movie, it says people are evolving to be less intelligent. I think the darker truth is we’re being domesticated and farmed. Then again, there’s a lot to read between the lines of that movie. Look how goofy domesticated foxes are compared to wild after only a few generations. Granted, that’s my view of civilization these days. I think domesticating, degrading, and weakening people is what it does. Probably why it seems to have an expiration date. Far from trying to save the thing, I think… Read more »

ray
ray
11 months ago

Here is your enemy and here is the face of those who thirst to see you humiliated and in bondage: https://www.foxnews.com/media/jane-fonda-blames-white-men-climate-crisis-calls-arrest-jail It was not black men, or Mexican men, or Trobriand Island vegan Jews that built the Prog Politburo Security State. It was Champagne Jane and the tens-of-millions like her, the hysterical busybodies who monitor every step and every word, who poison every well. White, empowered, cocooned anglo women. They are the engine of Woke. They are the destroyers of fatherhood and family, the screeching ruin of civilization, the construction crew of the gynogulag. And they want you and all… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  ray
11 months ago

Then they will ask where did all the good men go

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  ray
11 months ago

Jane Fonda owns a $13 million, 7,100-square foot home and flies private. Her concern is noted, and she should be encouraged to kill herself to save the planet.

I.M. Brute
I.M. Brute
Reply to  ray
11 months ago

Have you ever noticed the vanguard of most of these BLM, Antifa, and “Refugees Welcome” demonstrations are made up of mostly young white women?
This guy nailed it years ago: https://www.bitchute.com/video/11iZWPzUhtBy/

Carrie
Carrie
Reply to  I.M. Brute
11 months ago

RE: white women: I came across a book (which I purchased in hard copy) called “Pathological Altruism” edited byBarbara Oakley et al. Publish date 2012. (For everyone’s reference if interested) Point is: this mental defect almost ALWAYS occurs exclusively in white (Western) women. That’s it. Not African women, not Mexican women, not Uruguayan women, not Chinese women. The book lays out a LOT of evidence and it’s a “thick” read. But interesting. I definitely haven’t finished it. But the point to reiterate is: the Leftists do not have their women under control (which we knew). And I dare say, brighter… Read more »

Mike
Mike
11 months ago

This is off subject, but this article popped up on MSN homepage:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-time-honored-duty-to-serve-one-s-nation-in-the-military-is-missing-in-today-s-youth/ar-AA1bN96N?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c0ddbb676b634bcc8702f07d16f187e6&ei=19

Yep, they’re getting us ready for war. But it’s hard to have one if no one shows up.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Mike
11 months ago

It’s funny how these assholes really think they’re some kind of elite heroes when they really are disposable playthings for the ruling class.

And once a Russian sniper splits this guy’s daughter’s head open like an overripe cantaloupe, he’ll write another op-ed about how happy and proud he is that she was such a hero saving Ukrainian democracy.

ray
ray
Reply to  Ploppy
11 months ago

‘ . . . he’ll write another op-ed about how happy and proud he is that she was such a hero saving Ukrainian democracy.’

. . . and he will whine that if only ‘men
manned up’ and fought to defend the matriarchy, well then his princess would still be alive today! . . . and working her way up the affirmative-action corporate personnel chart. Childless and empowered.

He’ll leave out the part about the matriarchy.

Horace
Horace
Reply to  Mike
11 months ago

I have a elder family member who watches a lot of TV. The war programming seems especially concentrated in the last several months. I don’t get the impression that this kind of propaganda resonates with anyone other than militarily-useless old white people. I think this is especially true with the Holocaust stuff. There isn’t a diversity inside AINO that gives flung feces about the Holocaust, except perhaps as an avenue for grift. I think that, to the extent they think about it at all, it is classified as white-on-white violence, at best none of their concern and at worst all… Read more »

Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler
Reply to  Horace
11 months ago

“I don’t get the impression that this kind of [pro-war] propaganda resonates with anyone other than militarily-useless old white people.”

And many of them are more likely to fight against the Clown World regime, rather than for it.

Pasaran
Pasaran
11 months ago

Personally, I arrived to the conclusions as follow All those conclusions are not zetetically “proved” by “sources” but are fruits of tuitions, slowly connected to form something quite coherent 1-left as won. Bigly. The trend was too powerful. 2-Conspirationists are wrong. Their “usual suspects” would be inoffensive if the western world wasn’t corrupt 3-left, Conspirationists, neoRX, 1488werdopagans, moderate conservative and neocons seems have the same common point : anrichristianity or total disinterest for it (it’s quite obvious for fans of conspiracies, which clearly have no faith in the victory of God (and thus of good), and, even more importantly, they… Read more »

Crassus
Crassus
Reply to  Pasaran
11 months ago

I downvoted you because your post is barely readable.

Not going to take the time to try to figure out what you meant with the sloppy writing.

Pasaran
Pasaran
Reply to  Crassus
11 months ago

Hey, that’s not easy to write a good English when you are french.;)

My TLDR was : stopping whining about the left, admit than rightists are also decadents, and let’s build a true right for, not tomorrow but the day after tomorrow

Gespenst
Gespenst
Reply to  Pasaran
11 months ago

That’s much better.

Carrie
Carrie
Reply to  Pasaran
11 months ago

Pasaran:

The French love to write and express themselves.
BEST is when you distill your idea to TWO sentences.
Bravo.

Et s’il y en a besoin, je pourrais faire un “proofread” pour toi.
Mais, plus court est le mieux.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Pasaran
11 months ago

I upvoted you due to some very good advice about personal behavior. Separation from the rot is tougher in France due to its size vs. United States but it is possible there, too, and you should have mentioned that (if you did it got lost in translation). And, yes, the people who have gone along with the worst aspects just to get along deserve severe criticism. It is one thing to assent to a lie to preserve employment, another to boost social standing.

B125
B125
Reply to  Pasaran
11 months ago

Upvote for your ideas on proper conduct.

Being poor isn’t an excuse for being ghetto. And a rich white man has a duty to guide a poor white man.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  B125
11 months ago

I was mulling this over the other day at the cheap grocery store, watching all the flabby white arm and leg tattoos.

WillS
WillS
11 months ago

Great show. Disturbing reality. I am starting to think we are just reverting to the mean. Things have been prosperous long enough and it’s just time for things to do what they have always done and we are on our way back to what has been the norm for most of human history. As America’ns we have this silly belief everything should continually improve. History appears to be cyclical and not linear. The contempt for reality that prosperrity breeds, seems to be the downfall of complex societies. The end result for a suuccessful civilization can only be ruin. The question… Read more »

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  WillS
11 months ago

The one thing libertarians might be right about is that prosperity and progress (actual, not moral/political) are side effects of the official recognition of individual rights. Of course that’s not stable, because rights aren’t a real thing. If prosperity = complacency, the poorest would be the most radical enemies of whatever constitutes the present regime. They are not—anywhere, ever. They riot when permitted, when it’s in regime interest. A few (e.g., black Americans) are regime golems in everyday life. The rest just scrape by. The current American/globohomo regime pretends its great enemies are white losers, but of course they’re lying.… Read more »

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  WillS
11 months ago

I agree that complacency induced by long prosperity is a big problem for our people. It’s up there with gullibility and low ethnocentrism on our list of big problems. However, I can’t let a discussion like this go by without pointing out that we have an elite that hates traditional whites and is trying to dispossess us. This elite mostly controls the media and uses our compassion and gullibility as a weapon against us to make us believe that we are a uniquely evil race that deserves the worst. Our kids are taught his almost from birth. Some people put… Read more »

WillS
WillS
Reply to  LineInTheSand
11 months ago

My point is not that prosperity = complacency, it does but that is a minor problem. Prosperity alows for the growth and implementation of bad ideas. In a Less prosperous era it would be impossible to sell the concept energy is evil and destroying the planet. Life was too hard to push such a lie. Simalarly the demonization of the architects and builders of modern western society can only be done by someone living with the comfort, security and luxury afforded by that western society. It’s a form of cancer that comes from a blind and ignorant faith in continuity…things… Read more »

ray
ray
Reply to  WillS
11 months ago

They come in the age’s most uncertain hour
and sing an American tune. . . .

But it’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still tomorrow’s gonna be another working day
I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all, I´m trying to get some rest

‘American Tune’

Geo. Orwell
Geo. Orwell
11 months ago

Having been inside advertising for over thirty years, I can say Zman’s assertion that advertisers and ad agencies don’t care about public opinion is absolutely true. This seems hard to believe, and certainly few people in that business would agree. “We do focus groups on everything! We do market research!” Those things are just trim tabs on the airplane. The flight still goes where the pilot wants, and that’s no place that looks anything like traditional America. I mostly understand the creative end of the business, and you might be surprised to learn that the topic of what the consumer… Read more »

ray
ray
Reply to  Geo. Orwell
11 months ago

Of course. Television and film are the same as advertising. The goal is not to make money, and certainly not to please the customers. All these elements operate under intel oversight, mostly CIA. Been thataway for fifty years.

The goal is to propagandize and mind-bully the public into embracing evil, whether that evil is Total Feminism Grrl Power or some other doctrine of Woke. Gradually and incrementally, the message seeps in and people are brainwashed both subliminally and via the overt messaging of Correctness.

Geo. Orwell
Geo. Orwell
Reply to  ray
11 months ago

All I can address is advertising, and honestly the woke stuff is almost unconscious. It’s assumed, just like taking off a hat indoors or putting on a seatbelt. No outside prompting by shadowy forces is necessary. They really believe in this stuff on their own. I also don’t want to imply ad people give no thought to the customer. As an example, take a home improvement ad. You may be making a commercial aimed at small fry contractors. You want to show a bunch of them in quick vignettes using the products. There will be a lot of internal discussion… Read more »

ray
ray
Reply to  Geo. Orwell
11 months ago

Great info on ad industry and motivations. I enjoy learning from experts. You’re either busy being born or you’re busy dying. Agree that rank-and-file Woke are largely true believers, with plentiful sadists and moolah-grifters tossed in, and that at the lower and mid-levels of corporate business, profit and customer-targeting still is priority. Makes sense. However, the decision-making supervisory levels (above the Boards) are not true believers. Their motivation is mass-control and incremental but constant movement towards chaos, degeneracy, and malevolence. By this, both mass depopulation and complete subjugation is feasible; the People delete themselves, mostly. The rulers want passive sheep,… Read more »

TomA
TomA
Reply to  Geo. Orwell
11 months ago

Sometime anecdotes are prophetic. I was shopping at Walmart the other day late in the evening (hardly anyone there except for the shelf-stockers), and happened to glance down the isle where the cold beer is stocked in an open refrigerator case. What looked like a homeless guy was pissing on the Bud and Bud light cases. I actually thought about telling someone in the store so they could remove the piss-soaked cases of beer, but then I said “Nah” and went about my business. Methinks the anger at Anheuser-Busch is worse than most people realize.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  TomA
11 months ago

“Oh no, the cans are leaking, I can smell the beer!”

cg2
cg2
Reply to  TomA
11 months ago

Were you buying Doritos?

Davidcito
Davidcito
Reply to  Geo. Orwell
11 months ago

I’ve worked in direct response marketing for more than a decade and this kind of marketing requires evidence of transactions. We all get fired if the phone number doesn’t ring or if the link isn’t clicked. You know it’s direct response marketing when you see white people and men as the talent. That’s what generates the instant sales because when it comes to opening your wallet, those are the people america trusts the most. The big brand advertisers are all listening to marketing graduates who have no way to prove if their progressive ideas generate any sales. David Ogilvy famously… Read more »

My Comment
My Comment
11 months ago

There really needs to be some alternative to the status quo beyond the Dissident Right’s “just give up.” Don’t vote. Don’t marry. Don’t have kids. Don’t go to university. Don’t boycott. There is some solid rationale behind all those directives (especially don’t vote in Federal elections) but the cumulative impact is the other side runs rampant and the destruction is even crazier. Granted it is hard to see anything that will work and there doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. However, the idea that societal collapse is going to happen and hurt the rulers… Read more »

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  My Comment
11 months ago

My Comment: “Even though I don’t know if young I would marry and have kids in the current fat, misogynistic culture, I have to acknowledge that it is pretty much only the conservative normies we mock who are generating more white people.”

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Then how about getting up off your big phat posterior, grabbing a soap box, and preaching some sense into the Grillers?

De-toxify their minds and cleanse their souls of the stench of Scofield, and get them squarely onboard with Team Victory ?!?!?

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Bourbon
11 months ago

Who are the 7 JIDF agents, assigned to monitoring Z, who don’t want the Grillers to be cleansed of Scofield?

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Bourbon
11 months ago

8 JIDF agents now, as of Sunday moarning.

Sheesh.

40 billion here & 40 billion there, and before you know it, Greater Khazaria has very deep pockets.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  My Comment
11 months ago

I can’t recall ever hearing a US dissident say, “just give up” or “don’t have kids.” The most common advice is to live in a place that is far away from any potential breakdown in the cities and to become part of a physical community that you can depend upon in troubled times. Some people hold an expectation that a small group of Davids, with enough courage and luck, can always topple Goliath, but that is probably the result of watching too many movies. Such a feat is not in the cards for us right now. We’re preparing, watching, and… Read more »

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  LineInTheSand
11 months ago

He seems to be confusing the dissident right with the MGTOW movement.

My Comment
My Comment
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

There is an overlap among the young. The MGTOW has morphed into the trad Christian and young opinion leaders like Nick Fuentes position themselves as celebate. A lot of these trad men only want to marry a virgin if they want to marry at all. Good luck with that

miforest
miforest
Reply to  My Comment
11 months ago

fuentes doesn’t lead anybody. he is a creation of the donor class. charlie kirk too. no Christian can be a MIGTOW frapper. those are just losers trying to justify their pathetic condition.

Gringo
Gringo
Reply to  LineInTheSand
11 months ago

I’ve heard it often. Mostly from boomer-generation dissidents preaching MGTOW.

On the off chance this isn’t censored by Zman like my posts criticizing Russian gulaghomo, senior dissidents are heavy on preaching the lopsided dichotomy of 1) do nothing and await system collapse (a historically silly position) or 2) violence (the token alternative everyone understands doesn’t work).

The middle path for normal men who simply want to raise their kids in a better world gets left out because it involves mundane, local political activism.

Xman
Xman
Reply to  My Comment
11 months ago

“Even though I don’t know if young I would marry and have kids in the current fat, misogynistic culture, I have to acknowledge that it is pretty much only the conservative normies we mock who are generating more white people.” Do you mean “misandrist” culture? Seems to me it’s more anti-male than “misogynistic.” I don’t know how true that is, though. I am shocked at how many 50+ white men I know who are unmarried and never had kids. I’d say a majority of the people I know — and they’re all conservatives. Liberal Millennials seem to be having at… Read more »

My Comment
My Comment
Reply to  Xman
11 months ago

You are right. I meant misandryst.

It is a tough one for the young. Few young women are worth having and the system is set up to solely favor women.

However, men are biologically wired to want women and kids. That doesn’t magically change with the craziness of the culture.

However, an increasing percentage of men are simply not wanted because even many obese single moms think they deserve chads.

Dammed if you do. Dammed if you don’t

PrimiPilus
PrimiPilus
Reply to  Xman
11 months ago

An observation from a far corner of the American hinterland: There are lots of young, married people here. It’s not unusual to see young families with three kids under 6 or seven (I can’t always accurately guess their ages). Two kids is a yawner. Fairly frequently, I see four. It’s not just at WalMart, and they’re not simply drooling mouth-breathers. I travel around in the Old Territory, into the corners of this state. I see a lot, and I look. The other day in the area’s only settled spot that could really be called a city, the most popular regional… Read more »

Lucius Sulla
Lucius Sulla
Reply to  PrimiPilus
11 months ago

About a year ago, with my family at Disney World (yes, I know), I noticed most teenage girls there were fat, but the 30 & 40 something moms pushing strollers or herding multiple kids were more likely to be thin, in shape, and hot. Different from what I recall in my youth.

Carrie
Carrie
Reply to  Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

I also think it’s the things that parents today are allowing their children to eat.

I do think they just have no idea that we are being poisoned… if we don’t read labels, grow some of our own food, shop locally, etc.

Luber
Luber
Reply to  PrimiPilus
11 months ago

Give us some hints of the magic area you’re referring to, please.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Luber
11 months ago

Unless it’s Mormon country out west it’s hard to picture

PrimiPilus
PrimiPilus
Reply to  Luber
11 months ago

For Lub: I’d not say this is a “magic” place; there are plenty of things here that are far from ideal, at least for a guy used to a different culture for most of his adult life. Much of what one sees in the towns, villages and hamlets looks like areas which would have been condemned long ago in other parts of the country. Many small towns hereabouts look to have had their best years before the depopulation waves of the 1930s, and following WWII. Many small commercial areas are utterly abandoned; most settled places have a large number of… Read more »

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  PrimiPilus
11 months ago

There are a many places like that, and I think it explains some of the craziness. Trannies, overdoses and loud war drums are geared toward stopping the production of white children. It has failed so far, which is very surprising. The Tribe’s greatest success was with straight, decent white men now in the age range of 40ish to 70 or so who did not marry or have children. The evil ones attained this result with mass media and pop culture targeted toward white women in that age range that turned many of them into repulsive, lonely shrews. Below that age… Read more »

B125
B125
Reply to  Jack Dodson
11 months ago

Yes, seen that too. It’s not all bad. Somehow some whites are still figuring things out.

ray
ray
Reply to  Xman
11 months ago

‘Repulsive, frankly. As much as I would like to be a white supremacist, I despair for my race when I see young white females today.’ LOL. You don’t hear THAT too often. I don’t aspire to white supremacy — the races are what they are, for all to witness — but to pleasing my Father. The church I attend accepts men of all races, if the strict criteria is met. That does not mean I am unaware of innate race-characteristics going back to Noah. Nor am I unaware of the benefits of a majority-white, patriarchal American nation without constant tribal… Read more »

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  ray
11 months ago

I believe that racial tribalism commands greater loyalty than religious belief. So, I guess that if some racial incident arose in your church, most of your non-white brothers in Christ would be against you and the whites.

I don’t want to sound dogmatic or dismissive of your beliefs. These issues are difficult, and smart people of good will can disagree.

If I am correct, then when we want to build a new society on the most firm foundation, we build on race, not values.

ray
ray
Reply to  LineInTheSand
11 months ago

You want to ‘build on race’ but it is your own white daughters, wives, mothers, sisters and women who oppress you and who rule over you.

Which is why I say your White Nation is a fantasy. Take command and control over your women and you may have something to talk about. Right now, you don’t.

We’re gonna see which lasts longer and thrives: your White Nation (full of empowered feminist women and girls) or my church.

usNthem
usNthem
11 months ago

Truly a sad state of affairs. Even sadder is the only way these corrupt Fs are going to be dislodged is most likely via something truly disastrous – for everyone.

imbroglio
imbroglio
11 months ago

Massachusetts gets a mention! There are Bay Staters who meet for mutual consolation in our tiny, out of the way pubs in Massachusetts’ “Little Appalachia” up in the western hills. We’re the Red Sox fans time forgot. And then, from ten miles up the road across the Vermont line, in storm the Bernie Bros to guzzle all the Bud Lite (they formerly sipped only the most exotic microbrews.) You might think that no one could be more ridiculous than Liz, but check out our junior senator, Markey, who hails from the same Southie as MSNBC’s insufferable Laurence O’Donnell while Rachel,… Read more »

NoOneImportant
NoOneImportant
11 months ago

The first contest of the Republican primary is will underway, at least if you believer the Jewish Insider:
https://jewishinsider.com/2021/06/for-gop-hopefuls-israel-is-the-new-iowa/

B125
B125
11 months ago

Is the target stock really down? Or is it just down like the rest of the market? I doubt Target will be impacted long term. AB is in real trouble though. -25% bud light, -10% budweiser, -7% busch, -2% natural ice w/o/w vs. last year. Getting worse each week too. And it may get even worse with this weeks memorial day data. Almost seems like Conservatives are purposely trying to get us to boycott everything to dilute the success of the Bud boycott. We need to see this one through, ideally until AB inBev is liquidated and its properties sold… Read more »

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  B125
11 months ago

I’ve come to the conclusion that, most of the time, “go woke, go broke” is just cope for conservatives, who can’t accept that the market is not free and probably rigged against them specifically.

If I’m right, then these problems that Bud and Target are having are just temporary bumps in the road. They can stay fanatically anti-traditional much longer than your group can maintain the motivation to boycott.

I’d like to be wrong, because that would mean that we are not as economically powerless as I believe that we are.

Andrew
Andrew
Reply to  LineInTheSand
11 months ago

It doesn’t matter if AB-INBEV goes broke what matters is whether you have enough dignity to stop doing business with degenerates that denigrate you. The metric of a successful boycott is not whether the business apologizes, changes or goes broke, but whether your personal dignity and moral standards remain intact.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Andrew
11 months ago

Yes, but it’s difficult. I suspect if one were to list all the woke companies one should avoid, they’d be no companies left to do business with. I have left many companies and charities, but there seems to be no limit to their proliferation these days. City life, ironically, seems to present fewer alternatives for day to day living necessities. So many times I’m faced with finding the “cleanest dirty shirt” in the hamper.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Compsci
11 months ago

In as close to an ideal world as there could be, we would still do business with lots of people who disagree with us. But not with people who mock and subvert us.

Bloated Boomer
Bloated Boomer
Reply to  B125
11 months ago

Target stock doesn’t look to be much down from other natural dips. Also note that stock price doesn’t necessarily track with profitability. Thirdly (regarding LineInTheSand) the problem isn’t that the cattle aren’t economically important, it’s that you’re utterly spineless at the end of the day. Also encrusted from head to toes with grifters like barnacles on an old ship’s hull. You can run out of patience and sympathy when these people just seem to shuffle between Jack Murphy, Mike Cernovich, Posobiac or Gunt Vandelay (real name Avi Schlep’n’Fress) being taken in the by same three card monte scam year after… Read more »

miforest
miforest
11 months ago

here is some readin for the folks who vote down every post i put up about the voting machine being corrupt . https://www.emerald.tv/p/how-one-man-ran-americas-election?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Greek
The Greek
11 months ago

I largely agree with you on hating the seething anti-Trump people. However, I do think Ann Coulter’s criticism is legitimate. She had (another) article in taki on it this week. Trump was good at talking sh*t. He triggered lefties. However, he rarely actually did anything. Despite having republicans majorities the first two years he never got his wall, constantly backed down, and was constantly trying to make a deal and compromise. Platinum plan anyone? Where Ann loses me is that she thinks DeSantis is some panacea. She really doesn’t see that the system is broken and will spit out any… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

Might as well ask why VDare is every other day calling for someone to be impeached. Some things are just a mystery.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

Oy, VDare. They are little different than Breitbart or Revolver. They live for the rage-clicks.

Gespenst
Gespenst
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

“However, he rarely actually did anything.”

Anything he did was overturned by some judge nobody ever heard of. Anything legislation program he wanted was never acted on by the Ryan / McConnell Congress.

Give Trump credit for nominating some decent judges and McConnell credit for a seating a couple of Supreme Court justices.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Gespenst
11 months ago

I’ll believe they’re good judges if/when they strike down affirmative action and other blatantly anti-white policies. I won’t hold my breath though. Considering she adopted some African kids, my guess is Amy Coney Barret is all in on work stuff.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

*all in on woke stuff

Davidcito
Davidcito
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

I’m convinced all of this is downstream from affirmative action. Blm, female-run ad agencies, gay obsessed corporations, and even the collapse of universities and the rise of managerialism. Women and POCs ruin everything. I even tweeted Charles Murray asking if wokeism was just affirmative action on steroids and he seemed to not disagree. If scotus overturns that, it will still take a while to trickle through the culture but it will be a genuine victory for the future generations, and trump will deserve some credit I think.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Gespenst
11 months ago

Trump simply never was the president. “His” judges suck but they’re not his. And his too would have sucked. No judge is a decent person, and Trump is a credentialist/meritocrat who’s incapable of understanding that successful careerists can be (and typically are) incompetent, saboteurs, or both.

I think the only anti-Trump people around here—source of your frown-votes—are what we could call “alt-right deadenders” who’ve followed Spencer’s or Vox Day’s lead in pretending to be disappointed that Trump failed to “cross the Rubicon”—during a military coup *against himself*.

They’re retarded.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Hemid
11 months ago

For many of those types, it is a cope. I suspect a substantial portion of the so-called “Alt-Right” is controlled opposition. Most of the rest is in fact retarded and believed the Q nonsense hook, line and sinker.

Bloated Boomer
Bloated Boomer
Reply to  Gespenst
11 months ago

If Trump is incapable of doing anything useful (whether that’s his fault or systematic) then what is the point in arguing over whether he’d be a good president or not?

TomC
TomC
11 months ago

I fantasize that Trump loses to some over the top undeniable cheating so suddenly we have two guys running around, only staying in their strongholds, issuing arrest warrants for the other while claiming to be president. Much like Rome had periods of multiple emperors.

TomA
TomA
11 months ago

Blackpill podcast, but some whitepill encouragement to round things out. The models are clear that we can fix what ails us, but it has to be smarter rather than harder. First, the number of disease cells operating at the root of the problem is quite small, and they are not robust. Too much good life makes you are highly sensitive to losing this windfall via a quick exit. They will stampede out of Dodge under sufficient motivation, and it only takes a few noteworthy examples in a sustained pattern to start the stampede. Focus matters more than anything else. It’s… Read more »

Mr C
Mr C
Reply to  TomA
11 months ago

Which models? We talking trains or planes?

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

Maybe I’m still too idealistic to be a real dissident, because from where I sit, judging from what’s happened with Bud Light and Target, it looks like normie has finally found a way, and the will, to push back in a manner that forces the enemy to change its behavior. When’s the last time anything coming from the “Right” accomplished that? It may not be much, maybe all it potentially gets us is a return to corporations merely selling us things without trying to indoctrinate us, but it’s something. Or at least keeping the indoctrination subtle, and not overt. Speaking… Read more »

Intelligent Dasein
Intelligent Dasein
Member
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

Yes. I have been saying, for more years than I can recall, that the correct strategy is to stop spending money. I don’t even mean boycotting the woke corporations (although you should certainly do that, too) but just stop spending so much, period. The general idea is slow down the consumerist merry-go-round. Not stop it completely—the vast majority of people would not survive without modern conveniences, so that’s unrealistic—just slow it down. Reducing debt loads promotes personal liberty and it radically curtails the amount of leverage the corporations have over us. Make the C-suites fight for scarce capital so they… Read more »

Rachelk
Rachelk
Reply to  Intelligent Dasein
11 months ago

I agree with you. Our entire system is built on debt. Limit what you buy to the greatest extent you can and at the least refuse to carry credit card debt. Be willing to buy a home below what you qualify for. My car is 7 years old, it’s paid for and I will drive it at least. Starve the system.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Rachelk
11 months ago

It’s actually quite the opposite for mortgage debt. If you bought the absolute biggest house you could afford while ZIRP was in effect, your mortgage note is an enormous liability now to those banks as interest rates rise. This is a big factor causing stress in the banking system right. In effect, your mortgage note becomes a short on the dollar, and with inflation and interest rates rising, that mortgage is an albatross. Think about it this way. If you have a million dollar mortgage at 3% interest, with “official CPI around 8-9%”, they’re losing money every year. Now throw… Read more »

cg2
cg2
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

the problem with that is large property tax bills, and large amounts spent on upkeep and maintenance.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Intelligent Dasein
11 months ago

Totally agree.

Simply paying down one’s debt an building your rainy day fund in a variety of assets is one of the most powerful things the individual can take action on immediately.

Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler
Reply to  Intelligent Dasein
11 months ago

Starve the beast. Spend as little money as possible. Lie flat. Give your enemies nothing.

“They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will all rise up and fight while we stood still…

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Intelligent Dasein
11 months ago

Agree fully. I have been doing this for my entire life. Debt makes you a slave to The System. You have to pay homage to the corporate Gay Pride and feminist and trans and BLM shit and keep your opinions to yourself if you want to have a job to pay your debt. In my case I NEVER had a good job and was never part of The System, so I was never able to incur debt. So I learned to do without things, or to do things myself. For example, I bought a used truck for less than $2000… Read more »

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Intelligent Dasein
11 months ago

X 20,000.

We built a house a few years back, and paid cash rather than feed the monster. Yes, that loan would be a problem for the lenders now due to the increased interest rates, but it is still an asset to them. It was a hit worth taking.

Everyone’s top goal should be to get rid of any and all debt. It is a power you absolutely control.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

Maybe we’re reaching critical mass. There are now more normies that hate the woke stuff than normies who ignore it. (There was always a small minority who supported it.) So boycotts are going to work. Will this have a lasting effect? I don’t know. Our overlords have figured out that if something upsets the public, just memory-hole it. Many of the people actively boycotting Bud Light will come back in a few months, feeling satisfied that they proved that money runs everything (not ideology, as Z teaches). The biggest hurdle for normie to jump would be stopping buying F-150s. You… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Marko
11 months ago

Yes, sticktoitiveness is a bugaboo for the Grillers. I remember during an MLB players’ strike back in the 80s, Griller after Griller came forward to announce that he’d never attend another MLB game. The very next season the Grillers were back in force cheering on Dave Winfield, pounding down piss poor beer, and scarfing up Ball Park franks.

I.M. Brute
I.M. Brute
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
11 months ago

Personally, I’d been advocating for years a complete boycott of all spectator sports (for at least one damned weekend!) by white, working-class men. Just to show racial and cultural solidarity.
Of course, that’s never gonna happen. What’s so addictive about worshiping large, overpaid negroes whose only contribution to society is their ability to chase a ball around?

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
Reply to  Marko
11 months ago

But why would anyone “come back” to Bud Light? It’s not like virtually every other light beer isn’t as good or better…

Marko
Marko
Reply to  pyrrhus
11 months ago

There are people that only buy Bud, like there are people that only buy Fords. But boycotting cheap swill is one thing. Boycotting the company that supplies your fossil fuel phallus…that is another thing indeed.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Marko
11 months ago

I always thought there was something Freudian about the constant polishing and waxing.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

The Bud Light success is a mirage. The Bud Light boycott has worked because it requires almost no effort from normie. There are numerous competitors that normie can easily switch to for cheap generic swill. How hard is it to say Coors or Miller light at the bar? The Target one will fail, people won’t drive further to the Walmart if the target is closer. Furthermore, the public school stuff will go on because people have no choice. For people that can’t afford to send their kids to religious school or home schooling, you’re a captive audience.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  The Greek
11 months ago

read that Target is making most of their profit off groceries, and there are plenty of other places to get those.

Andrew
Andrew
Reply to  karl von hungus
11 months ago

That could be true, but I strongly doubt it. Grocery stores typically have the lowest margins of any retailers, because it’s extremely difficult to charge above market prices for any length of time.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Andrew
11 months ago

Yeah I’d like to see the numbers on that. I know Walmart almost operates at a loss with its groceries to make them so cheap. They do it to get people in the doors to buy other stuff.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  karl von hungus
11 months ago

Your own article states that they use groceries as a “gateway to other departments” and “groceries as a category has the lowest profit margins.” The large numbers you saw, $22 billion, is just their yearly gross, not profit.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

I’m out of the loop on Target. Was there a successful boycott? I know Target was pushing pervs in the women’s loo to the max, and therefore haven’t set foot in the joint in several years. Have they stopped doing that?

I.M. Brute
I.M. Brute
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
11 months ago

I almost never shop at Target. But one thing that has struck me for years are the large photos of smiling young models posted everywhere. Almost all of them are nonwhite! And this is in the town of Venice, Florida which must be pretty close to 95% white!

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  I.M. Brute
11 months ago

I began noticing the same thing several years ago at Walmarts in my West Texas city. Soon after that revelation, Walmart lost my business.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  I.M. Brute
11 months ago

There is a component of desperation to the marketing and advertising. As I mentioned above, young couples are having more children than in a long, long time so the propaganda is geared toward making non-white women seem more attractive. Everyone with eyes knows white women are absolutely the most beautiful of the lot, though.

If the advertising fails, and it will, look for a mass casualty war to try to kill off white men again. I seriously doubt the appeals to patriotism have much juice left, though, in that age bracket.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
11 months ago

Just want to butt in with an “actually” as Apple’s computers have gone to using their own processors as the x86 processor development is now so backwards that even Apple’s inhouse engineers can beat it:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-and-m1-max-the-most-powerful-chips-apple-has-ever-built/

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Evil Sandmich
11 months ago

They probably needed more powerful hardware to handle the bloated MacOS operating system.

Pozymandias
Reply to  Ploppy
11 months ago

I can’t think of anything more bloated than Windows 11. My wife works in IT support and some people in that field are pretty close to the murder/suicide level of frustration with it. During my job search I applied to this one startup that was using something that needed to run on Win11. To get ready for the interview I though I’d be proactive and install Win11 and their software on VirtualBox. I’ve got a 20 core laptop with 64Gb RAM. It wasn’t enough. Couldn’t even do the install. MacOS, by contrast, is just a BSD* Unix microkernel at it’s… Read more »

RDittmar
Member
11 months ago

That Moldberg piece reminded me of something’s that been driving me crazy a lot of late. I’ll admit up front that I’ve never been particularly interested in the abortion issue one way or another, so I’d like to think that I can discuss it somewhat neutrally. What I seem to see happening more and more lately however is a bunch of “right-wing” commentators bad-mouthing the Dobbs decision. Usually the claim is that that decision cost the GOP the 2022 elections because it scared away all the abortion-loving soccer moms. Now did that decision hurt the GOP? Maybe. But how the… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  RDittmar
11 months ago

We could theoretically wave our magic wands and return America to 1953, Biden wins reelection, and the GOP would whine that returning America to 1953 cost them the election. Idiotic is not a big enough word to describe the GOP.

Bloated Boomer
Bloated Boomer
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
11 months ago

The GOP is not your friend. You sound like the sort of person who thinks Slick Jimmy down at the used car yard is your pal, he’s always trying to get you the best price and is always looking out for your interests. After all, he said so, right?

“Jimmy told me he gave me the best deal around, but then I found the same car for half the price at a place a few blocks over. I’m starting to think Jimmy might not be too bright.”

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Bloated Boomer
11 months ago

You’re really not terribly bright, are you?

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
Reply to  RDittmar
11 months ago

The argument made by some is that since blacks have a higher percentage of abortions, it has held down their numbers…likely true, except that blacks mostly live in blue states, which will still have liberal abortion laws, so nothing will change….
But in AZ, the thievery was extremely crude, as shown by Keri Lake’s witnesses, and abortion was not an issue…

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  RDittmar
11 months ago

I don’t even think the Roe v Wade thing was intended to save any babies. I think it was purposefully done to drive up Dem turnout by getting all the women’s panties in twists.

If the goal was actually ending abortions, you have to explain why Republicans only paid lip service to being pro-life for the previous 40 years. Same with the border.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  RDittmar
11 months ago

The GOP has two constituencies: the MIC and corporate interests, and they are losing them.

Melissa
Melissa
11 months ago

There is a great meme of an image of a black man looking away with a sad and contemplative expression. The caption reads “In America, a Black man cannot even scream threats at passengers on the subway without fearing for his life.” The amount of money raised in the crowdfunding efforts for Daniel Penny is encouraging. It’s good to see white people noticing the injustice and rallying to support. There are also many videos of young white women calling out target for the obvious pro-pedophilia and grooming campaign led by satanists. Z explains why this does not matter to target.… Read more »

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Melissa
11 months ago

Unfortunately, there’s always the possibility of those people donating to Mr. Penny losing their jobs. This famously happened to some cops that donated to Derek Chauvin’s defense. This is not a free country anymore. Don’t forget that.

Winter
Winter
11 months ago

Regarding Bud Light, the parent company might recover, but the Bud Light brand is damaged beyond repair.

Queer beer. That’s what they’re calling it. Normal dudes don’t want to be seen buying it, drinking it, or holding a can in public. Normal women are angry that “girlhood” is represented by a tranny.

No one likes to be mocked, which is why Bud Light is doubly screwed. The company mocked its customers, and now those offended customers will mock fellow beer drinkers caught drinking the stuff. IMO, there’s no coming back from this.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Winter
11 months ago

Exactly, I don’t want to look like a f*g drinking Budweiser. I’m sticking to my pink-colored cranberry ciders like a real man.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  Winter
11 months ago

Beer is one of those products where people tend to identify with it. There’s lots of brand loyalty, “this is MY beer,” that sort of thing. In commercials, Coors used to show crystal-clear Rocky Mountain streams, or Hamm’s with it’s “from the land of sky-blue waters,” or Old Style talking about being brewed (fully krausened!) from “god’s country.” All appealing images. And then some would appeal to men in a different way, using hot chicks in bikinis to pitch their brand of beer. For normal men a tranny is unappealing, to put it mildly. Nobody wants to identify with the… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Wolf Barney
11 months ago

They’re not going to stop with the trans stuff because they fervently believe they can use it as part of their recruiting effort to lure heteros into homo behavior.

Yes, they are that crazy. Just look how the Pritzker clan has destroyed Chicago and Illinois with their lunacy.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Winter
11 months ago

I think almost any other brand could have waited it out, but the problem with Bud Light is it’s not very good, but long-time drinkers of it won’t realize it until they drink something else for a few weeks. I think that’s why the brand continues to rot as usually there’s a snap-back when people go back after feeling like they’ve made their point.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Evil Sandmich
11 months ago

” the problem with Bud Light is it’s not very good, but long-time drinkers of it won’t realize it until they drink something else for a few weeks”

This. And stigma is attached now. It was the perfect storm, and while this is a tempest in a teapot, as someone else here earlier wrote, preservation of dignity is important and supporting products and organizations that hate you should be avoided at all costs.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  Winter
11 months ago

But how much do you want to bet the people boycotting Bud Lite are getting Budweiser beer instead? I’ve not heard of any similar drop in all Anheuser Busch products. It’s like getting mad at Diet Coke and drinking Diet Sprite instead. It’s all the same Borg.

Winter
Winter
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
11 months ago

I’m not a beer drinker, but I do know this. The Bud Light drinkers in my circle are boycotting all of the company’s brands.

This might pass, but Bud, whether Light or normal, will carry the taint of trannies for a long while.

Tranny taint. Envision that how you will.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Winter
11 months ago

“This might pass”

Well, you know what they say about beer…

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Winter
11 months ago

Does Cindy McCain still own that Anheuser Busch distributorship? I’m looking for the real silver lining here

wj
wj
11 months ago

The hordes pouring in from the South are not going to care a bit about our voting habits. They will pour in because the current puppet has decided to stop enforcing the laws with the intent of browning or blackening the USA. The flood from Sub Saharan Africa has not really hit full speed yet. Due to the big water in between it will probably not reach the size of the European wave but air travel, subsidized by Catholic Charities, Hebrew Immigration Aid Society and Soros, can help on that front. The people of Cleveland , Texas thought they lived… Read more »

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  wj
11 months ago

Bush-II, Clinton and Obama have officially endorsed constant flights of migrants dispersed all over America. The First American Triumvirate. Rome’s first triumvirate at least had actors bent on reforming and restoring Rome. We are so past degeneracy our First Triumvirate is bent on the utter ruin of America.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  wj
11 months ago

“Mexicans mass murdering Hondurans”

That’s the future, too, no matter how hidden.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jack Dodson
11 months ago

Well, whatever keeps their population in check. I feel exactly the same about Hutu-on-Hutu violence–you go, homie!

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
11 months ago

I’m pro-abortion for that very reason.

Pozymandias
Reply to  wj
11 months ago

A couple weeks ago I posted here about how people seem to have two different ways to deal with “problems”. I gave the example of a person with an unreliable car needing to get to a job interview or to the airport. Certain proactive and practical actions like renting a car come to mind whether people act on them or not. With the flood of illegals though it’s really that people seem to process the problem more like something they see in a movie or a TV show. Of course they also lack the courage to take direct action themselves… Read more »

Lucius Sulla
Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

For dissidents, I think the more interesting action is on the Dem side. As we know, for all the reasons stated on this blog, a Republican cannot win, and even if one did, it would not change the direction of this former country. The best outcome for us on the GOP side is for Trump & DeSantis to keep trying to run to the right of each other, shifting the Overton window. However, I think we can really sow chaos on the Dem side. If 20% of righties shifted over and voted RFK in the primaries, really forcing the Dems… Read more »

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

Evil Party vs. Stupid Party describes the voters, as Z has said. Democrats are thrilled that their primaries are rigged. The more blatant it is, the more “enthusiasm” they show in the general. A party that’s willing to screw them is going to full-on rape you and let them watch. They love it.

Bloated Boomer
Bloated Boomer
Reply to  Hemid
11 months ago

Harsh, but true.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

That’s funny you say that. In Massachusetts, undeclared voters get to choose their primary they want to vote in. I plan on voting RFK for the same reasons. Cheers Haha

Mike
Mike
Reply to  Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

I intend to do the same thing in my primary. What better way to say that I’m fed up with the whole thing and want it to burn. He will either be assassinated or cheated out of the nomination so it’s a wasted vote but who cares.

Lucius Sulla
Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

I raise this point with normies when I have the chance, and at least it gives them pause…

“We elected 2 Presidents back-to-back (Obama & Trump) with very different life and political backgrounds, from different parties. Both campaigned on ending pointless wars. Neither were able to accomplish this over 12 years. This calls into question who exactly is in charge? That should be scary to you.”

WJ
WJ
Reply to  Lucius Sulla
11 months ago

Trump started no new wars. He wasn’t able to end Afghanistan but the US combat role was minimum. He foolishly lobbed some missiles into Syria because Ivanka the twat cried, but overall, not too bad. The number of combat deaths under Trump was low.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  WJ
11 months ago

Can’t sell Trump short on that as they tried like hell to get him to start a war with Iran.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
11 months ago

Perhaps I’m wrong, but I’d estimate that, among the regular posters on this site, only ca. 15% will vote in the electoral farce of 2024. I’d like that number to be zero, of course, but 15% is still not too bad.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
11 months ago

Ostei: If, as you do, you limit it to ‘regular posters,’ I’d generally agree with your estimate – perhaps raise it to 20%. If you add less frequent and newer posters (say within the past 2 years), I would hazard at least 35% will vote. As Zman says, it seems to be a very hard habit for folks to break. It means accepting that what you want and believe in – even if these are/were White societal norms for hundreds of years until quite recently – is being destroyed and you really cannot do anything to slow or stop it.… Read more »

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
Reply to  3g4me
11 months ago

Up here in Alberta it’s time to vote for our provincial premiere. Two women have “tossed their panties into the ring” as our esteemed blog host so eloquently put it. The menopausal commie candidate pretty much bankrupted the province when she ran it four years ago. The menopausal conservative candidate talks a good talk but has never held a real job in her life and often takes her orders from the left. My voating harder this time was not about saving the world, or protecting my province or about asserting my civil right to vote. It was only a therapeutic… Read more »

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
11 months ago

the regime has eliminated elections, but they have also eliminated key means of retaining power. once the dollar implodes and fedgov can’t print their mistakes away, the current system will collapse. what’s going on now is the terminal stage of AINO, and it won’t take 100 years to complete (like imperial Rome did), not even 100 months.

Maxda
Maxda
Reply to  karl von hungus
11 months ago

I think the rate of collapse over the next year will catch everyone by surprise and make the election irrelevant (if it even happens).

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Maxda
11 months ago

I expect the security apparatus to execute a false flag to provide cover for a declaration of a state of emergency that allows them to implement martial law and cancel all elections indefinitely, which really means permanently.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
11 months ago

While I see where you’re coming from, even Stalin and Kim Il Sung and lots of other tinpot despots regularly held “elections.”

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
11 months ago

Something along these lines assuredly will happen. The release valve of elections no longer works with a big chunk of the populace. We’ve had medical martial law. Look for a variation that involves Russians or white supremacists or something along that line.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Jack Dodson
11 months ago

Jack-

I expect it to go down in a red city somewhere in flyover land, most likely a Great Plains state, because the regime thinks that will produce the strongest rally around the flag effect.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Jack Dodson
11 months ago

That’s my take as well, Geese. Because if something happens in most of the Northeast it will be, if not celebrated, kind of a nothingburger. I do think the false flag, which will in fact likely be in a place like the Dakotas or West Texas and geared toward stirring up the Griller rubes, easily could go sideways since the border is wide open and so forth. And they have gotten shoddy at this stuff in recent years and people are infinitely more distrustful than was the case 911. Covid hurt them. But, yes, I know they have something in… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Jack Dodson
11 months ago

Jack-

You read my mind on location. I was thinking Rapid City, Odessa, Grand Junction, and Helena must be near the top of their target list.

I also agree that they are getting so sloppy they may not be able to pull this off. I figure they have all their best people assigned to keeping the national data collection center in Utah up and running.

Krustykurmudgeon
Krustykurmudgeon
11 months ago

Anyone think someone should write a book on this topic? I feel that in the 1970s, the migration patterns to California started changing.

This is when white low church protestants from the Midwest and border states stopped moving there. If my assumption is correct,b then the why would also be interesting.

Maybe the jolly west inspired mayhem in the state caused people to stop moving there?

Compsci
Compsci
11 months ago

“ Once these truths are accepted, the coming election is just a reboot of a bad movie.” Yep, it’s become one of my guilty “pleasures” for the last few years—listening to the talking heads repeating the same old, same old, for years and years, never progressing to a solution, always blaming the same characters, always demanding more of the same (proposed) remedies. For example, school deterioration and our abject failure of students in math and reading proficiency (13% and 22%). Never a mention of racial differences between the student populations of the “good” public schools (not many in the public… Read more »

Chet Rollins
Chet Rollins
Reply to  Compsci
11 months ago

“ Once these truths are accepted, the coming election is just a reboot of a bad movie.”

Election 2016 put some freshness back into the stale theme, really subverted my expectations. Election 2020 failed to capture the same magic though.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  Compsci
11 months ago

A few days ago, Devon Stack (Blackpilled) produced an “Insomnia Stream: Ghetto School Edition.” He showed a documentary, along with his comments, from the 60s about a NYC school with many black students who couldn’t read, do math, were violent, etc. The “experts” were frustrated at their inability to solve the problem. You guessed it, biological reasons were never mentioned in the documentary as a possible reason for the dysfunction. And today, the problems haven’t changed. Link: https://odysee.com/@Blackpilled:b/ghetschool:9 Another related worthwhile series of videos is Pete Quinones reading from a 1969 book called “Race War in High School,” again, about… Read more »

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Wolf Barney
11 months ago

Thanks for the heads up. On Bitchute, I don’t see any new vids from Blackpilled since May 4.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  KGB
11 months ago

I’m not sure why he stopped posting on bitchute. Check out odysee. He’s there.

miforest
miforest
11 months ago

It is very clear now that an “Internet Influencer” is someone on the payroll of and intrest group that pays him and the platforms that promote him. they are as as fake as CNN.

Chet Rollins
Chet Rollins
Reply to  miforest
11 months ago

I honestly don’t care if some of these guys get some side money from various interests. What bugs me is when they insult my intelligence by becoming complete hacks and changing their opinions based on who pays them, or become parodies of themselves from insane shilling.

As cable T.V. viewership plummets and people want to pay influencers who actually have persuasive powers over the masses, it’s only going to increase.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  thezman
11 months ago

In other words, they’re made of the same stuff as politicians.

Wkathman
Wkathman
11 months ago

“Those who have broken free from the madness will not enjoy seeing this.”

Thank you, Zman, for noting the camp in which I find myself. Your accompanying prose today is as on-point as can be. Looking forward to the podcast!

Maus
Maus
Reply to  Wkathman
11 months ago

I agree. Not only do I no longer enjoy the madness, but I grow weary of being harangued as a shirker or even a traitor because I no longer offer my services to local candidates as an advisor on public safety issues. It’s hard enough for an outsider, no matter how bright or morally upright, to beat an entrenched incumbent sheriff or district attorney. The final straw was the 2022 election, which saw over $1 million dollars in outside PAC money pour into a county with about 102,000 registered voters and less than 50% turnout. People refuse to see that… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Maus
11 months ago

Maus: This. Friend of a friend experienced exactly this trying to compete in a local race. You have to have big donors and connections within the party apparatus, even when running for the school board or city council. Perhaps in some small enough town it could work with lots of people and organization and time and money, but on the whole I argue that even voting or running locally is a waste of time. Just don’t play their games.

KGB
KGB
11 months ago

I hate to go OT so early but this article is a hoot. Apparently Jamaicans still enjoy freedom of association?

https://news.yahoo.com/jamaican-owner-vacation-rental-company-214543898.html

The comments are telling, particularly for a left-center outlet like Yahoo. Step one appears to be complete – people have noticed. Step two is organizing and making demands, and that’s where the shoe pinches.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  KGB
11 months ago

She must be an American Republican pretending to be Jamaican. “My best friend is an American black woman” Or, perhaps, the desire to cuck is in everyone everywhere.

CrankyDespot
CrankyDespot
Reply to  KGB
11 months ago

She should do a joint marketing video with Scott Adams. Do you want to go to a Carribbean Island, but are you rightly bothered by that, “Stay the F*** Away”, rule that you know your life depends upon not breaking? Well, Caribbean Island Lady and her tranquil, and beautiful resort house have answered your call. Caribbean Island Lady is enforcing that rule for you. So if you can make it from the airport to the resort alive, then you will enjoy a great retreat free from the worries and stresses of the necessity and vigilance of adhering to post-America’s new… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  KGB
11 months ago

These days there are plenty of comments about the futility of voting, the green scam, CBDCs, and the stroke poke on stories at MSN. Comments are turned off for many stories about Ukraine.

Maybe normie really is starting to awaken?

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
11 months ago

Polling on Ukraine has all but ceased.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  KGB
11 months ago

That’s great but hardly unexpected. If you travel much abroad and encounter people who interact with black Americans (and feel they can speak freely), this is the default opinion. Given their relatively close proximity to the States, it is most pronounced among the West Indians, who tend to speak freely about it. Bahamians hate black Americans in particular and feel no hesitation telling them about it to their face. Tribal affinity goes out the window for dusky foreigners there. Britons tend to be an exception to the rule because they are exposed to the cancer of American media and identify… Read more »

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Jack Dobson
11 months ago

“They’re cannibals” as Obama’s supposed aunt supposedly said of West Africans.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Jack Dobson
11 months ago

Back in the day, in Africa, a number of black Africans expressed to me how ridiculous they found the term African American to be. And I never brought it up. They did.

Based5.0
Based5.0
11 months ago

https://youtu.be/C6BYzLIqKB8 This show was a prime example of the “Dissident Wank.” Normiecon: “We need to vote moar harder, at least at the local level. If enough of us vote, we can beat the cheat.” Dissident Wanker: “No, voting doesn’t matter because you can’t beat the cheat because (quite likely and certainly valid) systemic reasons with the process and even if you do, the elites won’t listen to you anyway. Here’s a study with 50 million times that public opinion didn’t get the majority what it wanted from their elected officials. Maybe vote for your local school board, but eventually they’ll… Read more »

miforest
miforest
Reply to  Based5.0
11 months ago

As z has said in the past , we ony get one life. the part you leave out is where you have a familyand accept the blessings if children so you have real skin in the “future” . practice your faith(hoprfully trad cath), work on your friend group, fet as fit as you can , do healthy recreation with those friends like biking,fishing, hunting,camping ,kayaking, classic or performance cars, or target shooting. basicly live your life well . educate as many as you can about the crapstorm coming. None of this fixes the country , but it will help you… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  miforest
11 months ago

Yep, that’s what Based leaves out. The situation is fluid and therefore the remedies possible are also always changing. Immediate action when the time is wrong—as in you are weak, they are strong—is ill advised. However, that’s not to say there is nothing you can do as there is some local control you can effect. As you’ve noted, that’s often within yourself and immediate family. Start there.

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  miforest
11 months ago

As miforest says, there are plenty of healthy and positive activities to immerse yourself in, along with spreading the word about the harsh realities and what’s coming. There are still 200 million White people in America, which counts for something. Because you’re a realist, it doesn’t mean you have to wallow in despair.

joey jünger
joey jünger
11 months ago

“My fellow Americans, as a young boy I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say we must move forward, not backward… upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!”

-Bill Clinton/Kodos

“THESE CANDIDATES MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT IN TERROR.”

-Homer Simpson

“Treehouse of Horror VII”

Return of Return of
Return of Return of
11 months ago

Z loves to tell us that we “can’t vote our way out of this” (true enough), but offers no suggestion for what we should do otherwise.

And no, “form groups so the FBI can RICO you and put everyone you love in a rape cage” is not a solution.

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Return of Return of
11 months ago

Ah, you’re a noob. Listen to the first fifteen minutes and he preaches the “go small go local” type of politics with the schoolboard example.

Return of Return of
Return of Return of
Reply to  Forever Templar
11 months ago

So Benedict Option, huh? How’d that work out for Vicki Weaver?

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Return of Return of
11 months ago

When you form a “group” such as the Proud Boys and then organize “outings” such that you attend political rallies and such events, that’s a horse of a different color. When you form groups and form bonds of friendship through more subtle activities, then when the SHTF, you have a ready made group to approach the situation as it presents itself. Not sure Z-man ever suggested otherwise.

Based5.0
Based5.0
11 months ago

Never forget: Cheeto Jesus, Jr. was one of the first Republicans out of the gate to defend his good friends at Budweiser against the Bud Light boycott.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Based5.0
11 months ago

Trump is more likely to say “we have the best trannies” than to take some kind of oppositional position. It’s puzzling why the gays mostly seem to hate him. What did he ever do to them?

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
11 months ago

Yeah, this. I previously decided to only vote and only for Trump in the event he was indicted or charged, not because I thought it would do anything but to show “no confidence” in the system. Screw that. That still can be interpreted as an endorsement of sorts of a man who defends trannies.

Based5.0
Based5.0
11 months ago

“Asa Hutchinson can be the sword swallower… no, wait, that should be Tim Scott!”

Heh. I see what you did there.

“The hard truth… I think I’ll stick with that.”

That’s what Tim Scott said!

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Based5.0
11 months ago

South Carolinians have a fondness for gay Republicans, apparently.

Maxda
Maxda
11 months ago

Simply cannot get myself motivated enough to care about an obviously rigged election.

Maybe if the Republicans rig up their primaries and get a mainstream insider like Haley or Scott nominated, that person would be allowed to beat Biden because the boat won’t be rocked at all.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Maxda
11 months ago

If anyone gains traction that the Regime doesn’t like, they’ll get lawfare’d. Plain and simple.

As for the media, Team Red will latch onto every Biden indictment and Team Blue will latch onto any DeSantis or Trump indictment. “Where’s the outrage?!” they’ll say. It’s all so tiresome.

Chet Rollins
Chet Rollins
11 months ago

One of the more popular psychological tricks to deal with unproductive thought patterns is to put down these thoughts on a piece of paper, then take the paper and burn it. Sounds like you did the same thing when you nuked your original broadcast and started from scratch.

Nick
Nick
11 months ago

Calling Yarvin moldberg,LOL! Freudian slip?

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Nick
11 months ago

They’re the same guy, dude.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Forever Templar
11 months ago

who downvoted reality?

Nick
Nick
Reply to  Forever Templar
11 months ago

Akshually Yarvin is MoldBUG

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Nick
11 months ago

He may call himself Moldbug, but it’s still Moldberg.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Nick
11 months ago

Nice one! Loving the comments today. The reminders to do some pre-TV era recreation with solid guys is perfect advice. Good reminder. I think home brewing and taking them out on the fishing expedition is a great combo. Have you ever spoken with a guy who is smitten with Moldberg? I have and it was as cultish and delusional as dealing with any Wokester minus the ovarian hysteria and anxiety in the air. Let’s see. What other fun can we have? How about a Charles Haywood/Yarvey Moldberg on a Caesarian Party ticket? Haywood’s had his clackers straightened and bleached, so… Read more »

John Q. Publicke
John Q. Publicke
11 months ago

Early posting today! Waking up with the Sun?