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One of the criticisms of the public company model is that the managers tend to think in the short term rather than long term. This was a popular critique of American business in the 1980’s when Japan was on the rise. The Japanese magically thought long term, which allowed them to benefit from long term investments in industry. Sinophiles made similar arguments about China as she rose economically. The Chinese think long term, it was said, while America thinks short term.
Up until Trump came to town and started making bad noises about China, those same Sinophiles made this point about democracy. The democratic West, they said, was hobbled by the short-term thinking that arises from regular elections, while China avoids this problem through one party rule. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times was fond of making this point. China’s system was winning because the Chinese were not thinking from one election to the next.
Of course, the real reason Japan and China rose from the ashes to challenge American industry is that connected people in the United States saw a profit in helping these countries at the expense of America. They flung open the gates, so to speak, on deindustrialization of America, which led to the shifting of manufacturing to low-cost places like Japan and then Korea and China. It turns out that both China and Japan were the beneficiaries of short-term thinking.
Putting that aside, this difference between short and long-term thinking with regards to how an organization functions does matter. A business with lots of fixed assets, for example, will have to think long term, while a business with no fixed assets can operate in the moment. The reason for this is the former has assets that are not easily transported or converted into cash. The latter is not tied down this way, so it does not have to worry about long term asset protection.
You also see this in how the people in a business think. The person who has been with a company for a long time will often take the long view. This is exclusive to privately held companies, where the owner is directly involved. Those long-term employees take on the owner’s time horizon. The people who move from job to job are opportunists, making what they can from their current situation and then moving onto the next opportunity in which they make little investment.
This is why small business tends to be better at customer service than the big chain stores that now dominate life. That small business owner thinks in the longest of long term, his own life and that of his children. The business owner sees his business as an extension of himself. The hired man, in contrast, looks at the business as just a place he toils for money. Who he is exists outside of what he does. The customers are no more meaningful to him than the coffee pot.
This mindset is what harmed Trump in office. He spent his life leaping from one real estate or media opportunity to the next, never stopping in one place very long before he leaped to the next opportunity. His opportunistic thinking makes him a special campaigner, but it made him a terrible president. To be successful, a president must think about his legacy, which is the longest of long-term thinking. That means forcing through big changes with your name on them.
Ironically, Trump reflects what is wrong in Washington. His opportunism is different from the people in permanent Washington only in its presentation. The people who run the government are all hired men with the time horizon of hired men. None of them have ever built anything or even left footprints on the beach. The point of their existence is to never be tied to anything, so they can flit from one opportunity in the system to the next opportunity, building the resume for the next job.
One of the weird things about life in Washington is that it is an insult to ask one of these people what they do for a living. Lewd acts are met with less offense than asking one of these people what they do for work. The reason for that is they do no work in the way in which people in the dreaded private sector think of it. The resume of the Washington man is a list of places and people with whom he has a connection. Where you are and who you are with is what matters in Washington.
Of course, the politicians for whom this army of hired men in Washington allegedly work are hired men as well. In theory, at least, the elected official is a servant of the people, temporarily holding an office. The whole business about the people paying the salaries of the elected officials is supposed to remind the office holder that he is just a hired man, easily replaced at the next election. The fact that 97% of incumbents win reelection does not change the fundamental mindset.
Therein lies the problem with the American managerial state. The politicians and the army of policy makers all have the mindset of the hired man, but they also live consequence free lives. Victoria Nuland, the architect of the disastrous Ukraine strategy, will never pay for being terrible at her job. Anthony Blinken will bounce from this job to a turn at the Kennedy school then maybe a comfortable ambassadorship somewhere in the Gavin Newsome administration.
Imagine a business owner hiring a general manager that he can never fire. Once the general manager figures out that he can never be fired, he is no longer going to think much about the business, beyond how it benefits him. His hired man mentality will be turbocharged by his immunity to consequences. This is what has happened in Washington over the last few decades. Personal success is now fully detached from the outcome of public policy.
This is why Washington is so hostile to white people. They see white people as the owners, and they are the general manager who cannot be fired. They gnaw away at the assets of the owner but resent that the owner exists. That is why they are so comfortable using terms like “whiteness” and “white power structure.” Everyone they know is in the same position and harbors the same resentments, therefore this language of resentment comes naturally to them.
What this points to is the truth of managerialism. Managers are essential in every enterprise, but they can only exist at the pleasure of the owner. The CEO must respect the shareholders. The hired man must respect the owner. To do otherwise turns the relationship on its head, putting the dispensable above the permanent. That is the root of the current crisis. America is ruled by easily replaceable men, while the owners are treated like day workers.
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Army renames Louisiana base for Black WWI hero who received Medal of Honor
No point in linking the story
Might as well just rename the USA, Nuggrastan.
“Might as well just rename the USA, Nuggrastan.”
Hey, hey, there, Bub. Did you fail to remember that this is Pride Month? It’s the “United States of Anal Sodomy” and don’t you forget it.
It’s all about demoralizing us.
The Z-Man: “The people who run the government are all hired men with the time horizon of hired men. None of them have ever built anything or even left footprints on the beach. The point of their existence is to never be tied to anything, so they can flit from one opportunity in the system to the next opportunity, building the resume for the next job.” Structurally speaking, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, passed during the administration of Chester Arthur, has played a near-omnipotent role in all of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform_Act But reading the Wikipedia history [likely filled… Read more »
In fairness Polk didn’t seem to be much of a general. They should rename it fort Tecumseh Sherman
It’s always been kind of the big joke that the prominent bases, Hood, Bragg, Polk, were named for not so well performing Confederates brass
We didn’t hire President Trump to run the organization, we hired him to drain the swamp, which, as the saying goes, is hard to do when you’re ass deep in alligators.
Yep the swamp’s still there but because of him, far more folks can’t help but see and smell it now.
I don’t have high hopes for the nation, nor for civilization for that matter, but I’m willing to hire, once burned President Trump again to slow down the fall.
His first presidency only inspired them to greater furor. Accelerating clown world. Multiply that for the second one, if it were allowed to happen. The danger of civil war doesn’t come from a disgruntled right. We have amply demonstrated that we will lie down and take it. It comes from an enraged left that absolutely will not accept a second Trump presidency, and they will have all the backing the cathedral can give them.
Maybe we should get it over with. I won’t argue with that. But we should be very clear about what we’re getting into.
Calling the alien structure that rules over us the “cathedral” was one of Yarvin’s greatest subversions.
(((Yarvin))) for the newcomers.
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Zman, suggest you expand your Gab post regarding de-weaponization of the DoJ into a full post here. I’m always dumbfounded when I speak with conservatives who push for de-politicizing the government (as if it’s possible), and their knee-jerk reaction when I state that the proper response is not to de-politicize, but to implement an activist, right-leaning government policy when we’re in power. Throw lefties in jail, hang some of their leaders, go after the business interests of their financiers, etc. This is one explanation for the ratchet effect of government policy. They move the ball down the field. We take… Read more »
Kind of off topic but kind of on: I used to puzzle over how Trump managed to run economic policy, (i.e trade sanctions on China) while he apparently wasn’t allowed to run anything else. That is, if the permanent regime had denied him everything else, which it had, how did he manage to get his grasp on that? And the answer, as shown by the Biden admins harsher sanctions on China, is that he didn’t. That was the GAE agenda all along. Trump’s economic people were globohomo’s economic people. Bear in mind that Mnuchin and Soros have a lot of… Read more »
Aren’t you describing every president?
The last two anyway
I think there are certain initiatives they need a president to sign off on that Trump wouldn’t sign. That was the rub. Whereas Biden will sign anything they want. They can do a lot of things without presidential permission, most things, but not everything. Of course any initiatives of Trump’s own were pretty much DOA, unless they involved letting black people out of jail.
The power of the presidency isn’t a magic wand, but it still exists. Somebody with the brains and the cajones and the willingness to actually do something with the job, could use the bully pulpit and get something accomplished.
Trump just wasn’t interested in all that heavy lifting, and he also never understood the historical and cultural forces that elected him. He thought it was all about himself.
“The resume of the Washington man is a list of places and people with whom he has a connection. Where you are and who you are with is what matters in Washington.” – which is why they can never be “made the fool of.” For all Trump’s thousands of shortcomings, he was good at that, which is why they hate him so much. If your resume is your work, you have no talent. You are a talentless hack with an easily dented ego. The more talent you have, the more you don’t care about being made the fool of because… Read more »
“…they do no work in the way in which people in the dreaded private sector think of it. The resume of the Washington man is a list of places and people with whom he has a connection. Where you are and who you are with is what matters in Washington.” In other words, these people are simply jackals feasting on the carcass of a dying empire and looting the profits of other people’s work. It’s like this everywhere — private sector, nonprofit sector, medicine, law, and academia, etc., not just in politics. Even the officer corps of the military is… Read more »
Very well said. I would add a second reason for going to college. It is a massively overvalued IQ and punctuality test you can hand to employers, who cannot legally check you for those things because they are racist. Modern universities are basically museums funded by taxes on students (through tuition), and taxpayers (through Pell grants and loans). The university design is hundreds of years old, and was meant to train the top 10% in general studies to make them well-rounded leaders. It was never meant to force accountants and engineers to waste years of their lives studying philosophy, history… Read more »
An IQ test that shows you likely have a propensity for not thinking for yourself and that reflects how many practice exams your parents can force you to take. A University was originally the means to: a) permit long slow inquiry into history b) exhange ideas and objective proof and use good faith argumentation to properly interpret that history c) cultivate the arts and sciences and theology d) preserve knowledge e) use all of the above to train elites so they could be prepared to be highly effective statesmen and/or highly effectively advise them f) Not be the sole means… Read more »
Recent college graduates seem to be full of “alternate facts.”
I did get civics in middle school. Maybe even elementary, can’t remember for sure. Was in the 80s. If I was one of the last ones to receive this, and I suspect I was, that would help explain a lot, wouldn’t it.
I had a similar discussion with a liberal friend of my wife. She is a prosecutor in a county of about 2 million, so pretty intelligent (you would think). Somehow we got on General Milley committing treason by promising China a heads-up of our top secret foreign policy strategies. Her view was he had to do it because Trump is crazy, since she believes he threatened them with nuclear weapons. I asked by what process a general can take over foreign policy when he thinks the president is crazy. Well, you know, when it’s obvious like with Trump. We moved… Read more »
Plus, she’s a woman in a position of gubmit authority.
That was your first mistake….
DLS: “The parroting of MSNBC is off the charts, and these people never hear anything contradictory.”
They never hear anything contradictory because they are TERRIFIED to hear anything contradictory.
(((The Narrative))) is their psychological security blanket.
Without (((The Narrative))), they would be psychologically naked, helpless in the face of the encroaching circle of psychological wolves [Truth Facts] enveloping them and preparing to devour them [psychologically].
They are psychological herd creatures.
The sunlit meadow is their home.
The shadows of the forest terrify them.
FooBar
You have excellent ideas.
But all of them will have to wait until AFTER the war (with or without the Chinese on the North American landmass…)
As you experienced first hand, routine college admittance has morphed into one of the great brakes on social mobility. Even one generation ago, but especially two – three generations past, it was common for a doctor to marry a school teacher, nurse, or even homemaker whereas today, doctors are most likely to marry other doctors. (Social mobility actually figured heavily into popular culture, as reflected in movies and much of TV dramas and comedy.) A glance at today’s society/weddings columns reads like “Match for Bureaucrats”. It seems like almost, to a one, every DC bureaucrat is married to a mirror… Read more »
I have long been on record [for the better part of a decade now] warning that Ivy-League/Seven-Sisters styled selective mating would result in rapidly escalating preponderances & statistical intensification of the genes for grotesque Personality Disorders.
As an example, one of the classical pairings in the psychological literature is {Narcissistic Male}x{Borderling Female}.
You go through four or five consecutive generations of those kinds of Personality Disorders mating with one another, and by the end of the Century, you could very likely be looking at outright sadistic psychopathy in the descendants.
I posted something similar a few days ago, that all work above say the middle class layer of society is just socializing to advance oneself through connections and securing sinecures. The highest class of professionals actually doing stuff would be something like doctors and engineers, but at that level they’re intermixed with the pretend workers. Like an engineer will have to answer to a blue-hair whose job is to check their code for proper pronoun sensitivity. Just like the frat guys you speak of, the blue-hairs don’t know anything either and just go to college to have the proper connections… Read more »
Notoriously, that is the exact purpose of places like the Harvard Business school…It’s who you know, and who you get to know, that counts..The curriculum is a bunch of airy fairy stuff that has little use in the real world…
Great comment and completely true. Hierarchies simply based on lucky birth, connections and backslapping work until they don’t, and then they implode. The United States is well down that road now. Further, the “elite” (laughable) surplus was on full display during Covid. We learned that you really don’t need four diversity directors no matter who their daddies are.
This might be my naivete but some businesses being under state control might make them better as opposed to worrying about costs.
Disneyland sounds like a place that would be fun to enjoy of there was a 1000 person cap per day. That way it would be more enjoyable. You could also book years in advance to experience it.
The park would have to be owned by the state of California for it to function that way.
Otoh, I could simply be confessing that I am an autiste and a misanthrope.
Yeah, the park could be “better” if you define massive taxpayer subsidies for it as better. But that doesn’t necessarily translate into other businesses besides theme parks.
” I could simply be confessing that I am an autiste and a misanthrope.”
I believe the technical term is Moron.
The Japanese, at least (not sure about recently – they seem to have the same sort of economic betrayal problem as us, and not sure about China): They still have a bit of a feudal mindset. When an American company tells you to think of them as a “family”, they’re just cynically manipulating you in the most vomit-inducing manner. The Japanese might actually mean it in this weird extended-clan sort of way. You’ve been adopted into some distant-cousin/servant sort of position in the XYZ clan. They’ll take care of you as one of their people, and you’ll take care of… Read more »
Yes. But there are the American globalist companies that entice you with overflowing cupboards of candy, candy posing as health food, catered breakfast, lunch and dinner, laundry and car services … … You can tell the bugmen because they get these jobs and tout these perks as if they are some special person who has been conferred a bonanza. All that is is the confession of an infantalized person who likes life with Mommy and a cupboard full of treats who takes those crumbs in exchange for working very long hours. For the few whose 18 hour days translate into… Read more »
Often, you have a job until the next takeover, or your leaders want to sell…Then McKinsey tells them they have to reduce head counts by some % less than 100, and you’re out on the street…
If you had a Japanese salaryman’s wife who’d popped out the statutory 2 kids and mutated into sack dress maza-mode, you’d probably be happier (relatively speaking, you understand) going out on a Friday night doing mandatory socialising with the boss and co-workers. You sure as shit wouldn’t be getting any nookie back home.
As for Korean wives? At least Wagner recruits don’t get the crockery smashed over their heads.
Yellow Fever Detox?
No… Just an Old East and South-East Asia Hand. You get around and live and learn.
Just had a sudden flash of inspiration and remembered the state motto of Indonesia: “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” — Unity in Diversity. Triggering, no? 😀 In reality of course it means Javanese suzerainty over various other races.
You see the same thing in the private sector. Like all the publicly traded companies who borrowed money to buy back their own stock based on the low interest rates when they did it. It seemed to me, granted an ignoramus on the topic supply and demand would bite them in the butt. They drove the stock up while buying it and would drive the price down when the inevitable happens and they sell it. The difference would be higher interest debt. Or how the banks bought record low yielding long term bonds to back their demand deposits. A demand… Read more »
“Like all the publicly traded companies who borrowed money to buy back their own stock based on the low interest rates when they did it.” That’s LBO security. Or at least used to be. Now that the giants like Blackrock seem not to care how much it costs their investors to destroy companies they don’t like, it probably doesn’t work as well as it once did. Changing the fiduciary responsibility of corporations and hedge funds is taking us into new territory. “There’s never been a better time to invest in plant and equipment.” So long as you don’t put it… Read more »
This is why I often say that in order to cure the accumulated mass of economic ills, the policy which would do the least amount of damage to the common man would be a high rate of inflation and an even higher rate of interest. Monetize the debt while forcing capital be ultra-productive. There are winners and losers to every shift in monetary policy. With this scheme, workers and savers would win big and the stock market would get eviscerated. The only publicly traded companies to survive would be the very leanest and meanest ones who could afford to raise… Read more »
What happened to America in this century is what happened to Russia in the ’90’s: unrestrained looting by the oligarchs. With the similar results including a real drop in life expectancy.
I see no Putin.
Good point that America is ruled by hired men and, increasingly, hired women, with no true investment in their actions, and no consequences for their failures. Queen Victoria New Land an excellent and horrifying example.
However, that’s not the ‘root of the current crisis’. That would be rebellion against God, with the principal manifestation of that revolt the inversion of the male-female order and relationship. From this the other modern ills stem, particularly in America, inheritor of Lady Libertas, leader of all revolutions against God.
You got to fix the male-female thing first. That is what’s dragging the place down.
Can’t you hear Nuland getting the news from her assistant?
Assistant: Yeah Vicky we checked into that and our new Americans we have imported are not going to be able to help much with our munitions production.
Nuland: Don’t tell me that!! We ran the numbers. You only need to have a 90 IQ for most of those jobs!!!
Assistant: Yeah Vicky. That is the problem.
Nuland: Damn it all!! Why to I have such incompetent people like you all around me!!!
Wait until they try to fill the military with migrants.
“Hey! I come here for the firee chit, not to get keel by Chinaman.”
That is already happening. As Matt Bracken asks: “Have you been to a military base lately?” Chock full of tiny foreigners, many of them women.”
She like to be called Toria. When I said ‘Queen Victoria’ it wasn’t poetic speech. Mama’s name was Goulston. Family dropped the ‘h’ for cosmetic reasons. :O) NYC product, who could know? Another rich, snotty, fat, apostate Jewish hag — empowered to the gills — leading the Monstrous Regiment against Father God. And towing the nations down with her rotting bulk. Toria born into dildo daddy’s money, started at ultra-elite Choate Rosemary Hall, then Brown you get the idea. Began life in mondo-privilege, slated from getgo for high office in the gynarchy, has never known want, discomfort, or refusal of… Read more »
Last name is Nudelman.
“You got to fix the male-female thing first. That is what’s dragging the place down.”
Agreed. That’s why they freaked out so much when the swaggering, arrogant, macho, braggart Trump pimp-slapped Hillary in 2016.
But the Fempire struck back and arrested Trump on over 70 felony charges and got a $5 million award for some fake “rape” allegation.
The problem does not lend itself to any easy solutions.
Correct. Obvious but not easy.
Trump enraged the empowered feminine in America and threatened the covert matriarchy. Big, male, white, conservative, feisty and unapologetic. The very embodiment of what American women both fear and despise. Worst of all, as the Pink Wave rose to crest everywhere in America, the big male white conservative hater stole the Presidency away from the global Champion of Bitchdom, Kankles Klinton. Outrageous, inexcusable, and the sisterhood does not forgive, hounding him every moment of his tenure and undercutting every policy move, often via Ivanka. Kathy Griffin with the head was their rallying totem. Donald wasn’t indicted because of war opposition,… Read more »
It was even bigger than that. 2016 was supposed to be the ‘end of history’ electorally speaking. The mouth breathing clingers forever vanquished as we marched hand in hand into our bright progressive rainbow future.
That rug was pulled in one evening. They remain consumed by the horror to this day.
Consumed by horror and rage, it is true. Still. Never will forgive, can only be vanquished.
They knew damn well that President Hillary would stamp out the last of the resistance in the U.S. and elsewhere. Stamp out me and mine for the offense of our existence, and for the America we once valued.
“Big, male, white, conservative, feisty and unapologetic.”
Not only that, but RICH enough to buy smoking-hot model-quality foreign wives — and rich enough to kick them to the curb when they got old and bitchy and pay them enough STFU money while he went out and got new ones even younger and hotter.
That’s why the ugly old bitches like Hillary lost their minds when he won.
Agreed. It always comes back to sex, every time.
Remember during the campaign, what enraged the sisterhood the most? It was the ‘grab by the puzzy’ line. Not only was Donald not grabbing the rotting puzzys of DC hags like Clinton and Pelosi, Donnie could pull young, hot chicks left and right who were, as you note, disposable.
THAT is unforgiveable in a gynarchy. The hate still burns in their hearts this very moment, because of the attraction/non-attraction thing. The political stuff is secondary.
It always comes back to sex.
“…and no consequences for their failures”
Other than a raise and a promotion.
On the religious aspect, this is a long read, but well worth it:
https://www.agonmag.com/p/the-demon-in-americas-sacred-narrative
Just imagine the Ace of Grillers brigade reading it and struggling with the idea that *they* are just another facet of Jihadistan… al-Weber Tribe FTW.
It’s no coincidence that offshoring happened at the same time as the explosive growth of the regulatory state and the even worse explosion in litigation and liability. Labor costs are trivial relative to these.
Although that is also an example of time preference. Had congresscritters wanted to stop that, all they needed to have done is rein in those elements who were making businesses unprofitable.
For all the guff unions take, only some of it rightly, Detroit and Gary, Indiana were not mortally wounded despite a century of unions. It would take lawyers and g-men to bring them down.
If capital can incorporate, labor should be able to, also. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Opponents of labor put down unions as Marxist but said nothing about corporations, did nothing to stop offshoring and financialization.
Marxist unions… who’s pushing woke these days?
Sorry. Not what I meant. I have nothing against unions per se. Well, except for government unions. If you are drawing a paycheck from the government, then both sides of the “arbitration” have an interest in stealing more from the taxpayers.
But what we have are privileged unions, with government laws and regulations supporting them. To the extent they do get supported, I mean. It’s always to the benefit of the exceptional to seek to avoid being unionized with slackers.
Are there any unions supporting their white, blue-collar employees? Any that are advocating for no more DIE, no more worship of the alphabet people, no more lectures and trainings designed to push an anti-white agenda? I haven’t heard of any.
No I’m sorry! I wasn’t disagreeing with you, just riffing on what you said. A lot gets lost in text lol.
Unions definitely have their problems.
Unions are practically irrelevant these days. Labor, like religion, is cucked. Consumption and immorality (or at least amorality) rule, and we see who benefits.
Ironically, only a different kind of regulatory state could have protected those exported jobs.
On second thought, if the business owners cared about their people, then a regulatroy state wouldn’t be necessary, but we are a long way from that.
Management sets the tone—why kill yourself trying to implement the owner’s vision when the owner will not share the rewards with you? Why suggest a more affordable or efficient process when there is no benefit to you but only to the owner? I’m not surprised at all that so many real workers are simply marking time, dragging the anchor, working to rule etc, because they don’t feel valued at all, and forget about the “we’re all a team” bs! As far as most managers go, I wouldn’t walk across the street to spit in their hair.
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If the problem is the creation of a vast regulatory state, and of a legal system built on the wrong incentives, why would reducing that regulatory state and redefining the incentive structure of the legal system be a different regulatory state?
“if the business owners cared about their people” The owner of the company I work for is German. He’s high-handed at times, but he takes care of you, because he knows who’s making money for him. Otoh, you’re expected to be a good soldier. I suspect that’s a German characteristic. I also suspect what’s seen as exploitation is an Anglo characteristic. I don’t suppose that’s necessarily bad, but it requires the little guy to stand up for himself. Look at America. We’re supposed to be mistrustful of government, a little uppity, a little rebellious. Which of course means the government… Read more »
“You also see this in how the people in a business think. The person who has been with a company for a long time will often take the long view. This is exclusive to privately held companies, where the owner is directly involved. Those long-term employees take on the owner’s time horizon. The people who move from job to job are opportunists, making what they can from their current situation and then moving onto the next opportunity in which they make little investment.” It’s the MBA mentality. You can see that most executives these days move from one corporation to… Read more »
This is true. America can only be understood by realizing that it started out as a pirate outpost of the British empire and has been a lawless province ran by criminal gangs ever since. There never has been a real country here. I know some commenters will disagree with that, but it’s a big part of the reason why they feel like they have no representation. What they thought of as “their country” was more of an incipient country-idea than an actually existing reality. Many American children, just like many other children in the world, are born with a normal… Read more »
“ If only the regime would sanction us too!”
The regime need not take the lead, it is already underway courtesy of BRICS. Once we can’t print money to pay for crap we don’t need, austerity will naturally follow. We’ll need to produce goods and services others need and will pay for.
Insane McCain called Russia a gas station masquerading as a Country.
The US is a Whorehouse with an ATM.
The ATM is running low on twenty’s.
“What they thought of as “their country” was more of an incipient country-idea than an actually existing reality.”
This was a very astute comment about the evolution of America. It lasted about 10 years until they put down the Whiskey Rebellion with force.
The world sanctioned Russia
The ZOG sanctioned Russia. Some big players ignored the sanctions (China), others found ways around it, some mindlessly obeyed. But it is true that Russia had something the rest wanted. The ZOG doesn’t really have much to offer in way of real goods, thus must resort to force.
But without China giving the middle kingdom finger to the ZOG sanctions, might have turned out different.
“There never has been a real country here. I know some commenters will disagree with that”
That’s ultimately true, but the effort’s been made, though never finished.
I imagine part of it has been the restlessness of a young nation, but most of it is probably the tide of history. It’s an age of globalization and commerce, hostile to nations.
A small ray of light as the new Nigerian president has the secret police arrest the head of the central bank, possibly over their currency devaluation and CBDC rollout fiascos:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nigerias-central-bank-governor-suspended-and-arrested-after-waging-all-out-war-cash
Become ungovernable.
Says mucho when Nigeria is more sane, based, and masculine than the U.S.
Still, I’m sticking with Nayib Bukele for president. Yes, of the U.S. He can run Salvador too if he wants. Ted Nugent for V.P.
Bukele’s handling of the crime situation in El Salvador has been magnificent.
Imagine that kind of tough policing here in the US.
Careful what you wish for: the January 6 (Epiphany) protesting the Biden installation and the Canadian Covid truckers had a good taste of tough policing.
A policeman may not be your “enemy”, but that won’t mean much if you are rotting in jail without trial.
Yes, the system is broken and we are being led by the corrupt and the useless. And no, we cannot vote our way out of this mess. No messiah is going to arrive in 2024 to save us. It will be just more of the same. Since WW2, we have been coasting on momentum and rape of foreign resources, which has resulted in prolonged affluence, loss of robustness, and decadence growing like a cancer. But with the defeat of the Ukrainian puppet state, the party is about to end. Hardship will arrive like a sledgehammer and a lot of deadweight… Read more »
Woke up to read the local rag praising the mayor for caving and agreeing to set up “designated camping areas” in the city. Suggestions are for them to go in the most beautiful public parks, because water/toilets/they deserve nice places to stay too, because apparently fentanyl is better when you’re ruining public spaces you don’t pay for. Every city above 1 million residents attracts a “professional managerial class.” Their primary goal is to trade-up to the next position. City leadership, state senator, national Congressman/Senator, then the bully-of-them-all, POTUS. Go as far as you can, then cash in. Rule 1: Never,… Read more »
Designated camping areas used to be called hobo jungles.
And vagrancy would result in a night in a cell and then a trip to the city limits with a warning to never come back.
Perhaps “managerial class” should be replaced with “sociopathic/psychopathic personality type”. The aspect of using people to obtain personal goals is a hallmark of these types of personalities. In this case these folk are attracted to government and their entire electorate is used to further personal gain. And no, these folk do not necessarily stand for election, but they surround those who do.
The beneficiaries of short term thinking indeed. Notice that the managerial elite are only just now waking up to the fact that their war making machine is broken. They exported nearly all of the infrastructure necessary to wage war with China or Russia. I am sure the neocons never considered such a possibility, their pointy little heads being so stupid and evil. So now they threaten with nukes. Lavrov responded to that by basically saying if the nukes start flying the U.S. should not think they will be spared the consequences. The missiles can fly to America as well. I… Read more »
I remember during the first gulf war, Saddam’s SCUD missiles started falling in Tel Aviv. At the time Is rael was not at ‘war’ with Iraq.
Right?
Of course not. Israel has their vassal state America to do it’s wars.
A proxy^2 war.
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Russia could also state: Well it seems as though you in the West no longer want to play by the non-proliferation rules. So in the interest of stability in the Middle East will be be suppling Iran with some nukes. Maybe Syria as well.
What was it? They sweat and we think I believe Friedman said. I remember when that mentality and statement didn’t garner the bat of an eye. It wasn’t the statement that was ominous, it was the lack of denouncement and the level of applause for it.
What I wouldn’t give to see the Friedmans and world flatteners sweat.
“Designed in Palo Alto”
“Made in… F#@! you. We got ours.”
And @#$% them too.
I was in the Hong Kong IFC Apple Store yesterday briefly to look at the new MBA15″. On a whim I opened up the photos app loaded with demo sample pics and videos.
As you might imagine, couldn’t find a normal looking straight white male in there. Plenty of female diversity enjoying outdoor activities and a bunch of other weird sorts.
The goal of the flurry of rearmament programs in the West will result in the US and Europe producing, by the end of ’24 half as many 155 mm shells as Russia produces today.
And then there’s China…
Brian Berletic’s New Atlas is good on this.
This NY Post article is encouraging for the simple fact that it’s yet another few inches gained as the tide comes in. Watching the Tuesday circus in Miami and listening to media poohbah pronouncements about the gravity of the moment, I recalled a conversation with a friend about the indictment of Donald Trump. He repeated a phrase he had heard recently: “We’re not voting our way out of this.” “This,” of course, is a reference to the great divide tearing America apart, and Exhibit A is a Democratic president’s willingness to use the Department of Justice as a weapon against… Read more »
TINVOWOOT needs to become so ubiquitous that it’s prosecuted as hate speech.
Sir,
The NY Post is America’s Newspaper of Record. 🙂
Actually, they are the only paper covering any of the Biden scandals.
I think that it’s a bit more nuanced. The group that (for the most part) rules us today did, indeed, take the long the view. They don’t call it the “long” march through institutions for nothing. Generation after generation worked to increase their influence over society and their ability to control politicians through money, media, blackmail, etc. And they were incredibly successful – and a lesson to the DR. But unlike the business owner, their goal wasn’t to build something that would last and would benefit the world. Their goal was to protect their people, which they believed could only… Read more »
That wasn’t “long term” though, if they were thinking long term they wouldn’t have imported a bunch of Indians to supplant themselves. The fact that they all sang from the same hymnal was their strength, even though the hymnal just had the banana phone song in it.
Agree. They should have realized that importing Mexicans and Central Americans was one thing, importing Indians and Asians was another.
I put that to hubris. They assume that they can manipulate anyone. They’re wrong, as they’re finding out right now in foreign affairs.
You would think they would have learned from the Amsterdam diamond trade.
Exactly. The usual suspects don’t usually fare that well when they go up against other similar groups.
The usual suspects’ success over the past 500 years is mostly a combination of 1) having the field to themselves in Europe and America and 2) the success of whites, which the small hats feed off.
The group that marched a long ways to gain power had a long view, but not a long enough view. They’re known for their high IQ, but weren’t smart enough to realize how good they had it in America, surrounded by high-trust, low outgroup-preference White people.
They pushed too far, opening the country to the clannish, low-trust, more violent Third World, who this group will now live amongst and compete with.
While it seems like long-term thinking, really it’s short-term thinking.
They evolved in the low trust bazaars of the middle east, which is one reason that their ethnocentrism is so strong. Low trust is normal for them. It only feels wrong to us.
Correction to my post: I meant to say “low ingroup-preference White people”, or I could say, “high outgroup-preference.”
It’s a little of both.
Like so many before them, they brought in mercenaries to defeat their hated enemy only to find that the mercenaries are beginning to realize that they can take over themselves.
That’s the next chapter in the country’s history.
The current goals of those who rule us are to vanquish their ethnic enemy, poach his women, force what remains of the country to accept the degeneracy that is part of their collective character, and rule over imported brown people whose cognitive abilities are strained by Marvel movies.
“Be careful what you wish for” applies here. They have to live in this new society. Although I suppose they can always escape to that New Jersey–sized country on the Mediterranean Sea.
“They gnaw away at the assets of the owner but resent that the owner exists.”
Ultimately, the Left/ Bolsheviks/ Vikings/ Normans/ Turks/ Mongols/ Huns/ Vandals get their wish. The enemy is conquered and Alaric/ Bonaparte/ Stalin/ Truman sits upon the imperial throne.
The only question remains is if the new ruler eats until the host is nothing but bones and ash or if they get off their bum and, heaven forefend, treat their new realm like an owner.
There’s a tragic irony in that the nations where individuals have the best long term planning abilities also have the lowest fertility rates. A more impulsive national character, however, results in at least a sustainable population, and often growth and expansion into conquest. The owner/operator class was the nobility, those born into power rather than hungry for it. This was overthrown by the bourgeois who could always imagine being ruled by aspiring talent, never cheaters. Shockingly few ever question the motivations of those interested in certain jobs. They never notice the Department of Defense is full of warmongers, and the… Read more »
“The modern mind might just come to an end when someone who wants to see the world burn gets a job managing the nuclear weapons, and that will be that.”
That is now. Yesterday Z linked a piece from some AEI psychopath who wanted to give the Ukies nukes. He is not an outlier and just said the quiet part aloud. The only reason the hideous madness in Eastern Europe has not gone nuclear is due to Russian restraint. Anyone who lived through the Cold War notes the bitter irony in that.
“Anyone who lived through the Cold War notes the bitter irony in that.”
There is no “Bitter Irony” in that. The USSR didn’t fly halfway around the world to start wars in Korea and Vietnam, and incidentally murder 3mm Lao and Cambodians just because.From Wilson onward the only check on Washington’s militarism has been economic disaster.
Happened in the ’30’s and ’70’s and is about to happen again.
Well, that restraint on the part of Russians worked to our advantage during the Cuban Missle Crisis as well when a Russian submarine, under depth charge assault, refrained from torpedoing their US Navy attackers for fear of setting off WWIII.
“Of course, the real reason Japan and China rose from the ashes to challenge American industry is that connected people in the United States saw a profit in helping these countries at the expense of America”
China yes. Japan no. Japanese companies, mostly, beat out American companies by building a better product. The Japanese are a very very different animal than their other asian cousins.
“We” did sell a lot of real estate to Japan (since resold to China and miscellanous Arabs), and management did try to further sell out the workers by importing goofy foreign ideas. Old guys will remember the movie Gung Ho, a comedy about a factory taken over by Japanese managers. In world release it was called Working Class Man because the title only made sense to Americans. The Japanese management fad quickly passed because it turns out that the only part of their business culture that’s compatible with American management *attitudes* is the part where employees work forever for nothing.… Read more »
Funny that “gung ho” is taken from the Chinese language. (Means “work with”.) Hollywood always confused East Asians.
Speaking to the differences between Japanese and Chinese work cultures, the Japs (as far as I’ve gathered) are much more “drone-like”. Japs are like the British of East Asia, with their tea and their quiet desperation. The Chinese are the Continentals…diverse, quarrelsome, and prone to mass psychosis.
False analogies and ellipsis are not the hallmarks of an intelligent thinker.
The British are not drones and the Germans are not Greeks. Really dumb to pretend that the Dutch are just like the Spanish.
The confidence with which you spout this nonsense is the only impressive aspect of your commentary.
The Japanese drone worker is a phenomenon worth noting, but also worth noting is that Japan did not rise from the ashes of WWII simply by working harder or longer than any White man. Look up and read the history of W. Edwards Deming. In 1950 he was invited to Japan to talk about his ideas (rejected in the US) concerning quality control in production of goods. What got Japan where is was in the 1980’s was their decision in the 1950’s to build back better and produce the best products obtainable in whatever field Japan competitively entered. It worked.… Read more »
And not only were Deming’s ideas accepted by the Japanese as the foundation of their indusrrial strategy, but they were grateful to him, granting him awards.
> The Japanese are a very very different animal than their other asian cousins.
The Japanese *are* very different from their other east asian cousins, but they most certainly did benefit from and rebuild their post-war economy due to the widespread availability of cheap labor producing goods for export back to the west. You might be too young to remember the time when all the cheap, easily broken and highly disposable trinkets all said “made in Japan”, just like they now all say “made in China” (or Vietnam, etc.)
It was so bad, that Datsun rebranded to Nissan. Improved quality had something to do with it, but also no labor unions.
And all the beads we made by hand/
Are nowadays made in Japan.
In the corporate world, unlike the government, the short-sighted managerial mindset is reinforced with periodic layoffs.
About 5 years ago I was laid off from a company I had worked at for 12 years with 4 promotions.
Looking around during the process saw several others like me – people who had soldiered for that place through good times and bad to build it up. All cashiered to save a few bucks and make room for our diverse replacements. Made us all feel silly for working that hard and not constantly looking for the better external opportunity.
“At GloboCorp, we are a family.”
“At GloboCorp, due to market conditions, Uncle Fred has to leave because he is too expensive, someone with a weird accent will replace him and young Sally is being sold to a neighbor.”
As I wise swordsman once said, “…you keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
Correct. It is why I have zero loyalty for my company. I participate in nothing. I do not attend all hands meetings, I do not participate in social activities or any DIE related things. I couldn’t give two shits about my company. I care only that my skills can continue to develop through the work I do and that my check clears every two weeks. When each check clears, it buys them another two weeks of my commitment to them. At the end of that two weeks it completely expires until the next check. Once I’m gone the company could… Read more »
You realize those two week checks are from the previous weeks you already gave? Once the check clears, it’s not that you now owe them nothing, but they just now stopped owing you.
For better or worse (seems like it’s some of both) the younger generations are the ones who have finally seen through the bs en masse. They have zero loyalty to their corporate masters, nor should they.
I don’t believe our corporate masters are worried. They have an “App”, Mexican or subcon for those roles.
Over the last 10 years, GloboBank has eliminated or offshored every single entry level job in my department and laid off the most productive Boomers. At least the new manager is a lesbian, so that’s nice.
This is the old IBG YBG problem: No one in business cares about consequences five years down the road – the manager tells the subordinate that within that time frame, everyone will have moved on. “I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone.”
Mike Pompeo is the perfect example of the hired man who escapes the chain. Tucker nailed him in episode 3 last night.
It’s worth looking up Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Servant When He Reigneth”. Much truth therein.
It is no small irony that the largest problem is a small subset of self-hating white people. They are the managerial state and jealously defend their right to be so. That is going away now as the demographic replacement they engineered starts to consume them along with everyone else. Gavin Newsome can degrade and debase himself all he wants but it is highly unlikely any puppet in the Oval Office, especially one from Team D, will be white. That might happen one more time but seems a stretch. And those who will replace the white managerial class will be even… Read more »
Some of them are self-hating whites. And some of them look white but belong to a different ethnicity that truly loathes whites; these people have modeled anti-whiteness for actual white people and taught the later to hate themselves.
> A Spanish or Han-speaking Jackson, Mississippi, is the future and that assumes the psychopaths don’t ignite a nuclear holocaust.
“How would you have governed if we hadn’t experienced a nuclear holocaust?”
“What do you mean? We did experience a nuclear holocaust?”
Don’t forget the (((whites))).