Let’s Talk About Politics

The ouster of Kevin McCarthy is one of those things that quickly gets internalized, despite its novelty, because the media machine operates like a hype man for a professional wrestling operation. It turns everything into trashy daytime drama, so even an important thing becomes just another poo-flinging contest between professional media partisans. As a result, it loses all meaning.

In the fullness of time, we may look back at it as one of those cracks that appeared in a system that was about to collapse. Think back to the downfall of Speaker Jim Wright in the late 1980’s and what followed. Like McCarthy, Wright was not very popular, but he was a system man who would not rock the boat. The trouble was the old system was no longer sustainable as the world outside was changing.

In the case of Wright, there was a new generation coming along and there was the final leg of the political realignment that started in the 1970’s. In the case of McCarthy there is a generational change and the radicalization of politics. The days of playing the old Republican Party tricks are coming to an end. McCarthy’s “say one thing and do another” approach is no longer going to work for the GOP.

The thing not getting enough attention is the fact that the Democrats were willing to let him swing rather than cut a deal. Maybe it was pure partisan spite or just incompetence, but they left money on the table in order to avoid being seen by their donors and voters making a deal with the other side. Even the dumbest Republican had to notice the unanimity of their “friends across the aisle.”

This McCarthy business suggests Washington may be reaching one of those inflection points like 1994 or 1974. The baby boomer generation is about to leave the stage just as the world is changing rapidly. When Speaker Wright was toppled, the boomers were ready to take over as the Cold War was coming to an end. As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.


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Libdis
Libdis
1 year ago

I read a thread on Twitter that hit it out of the park, Understand what time it is in America. I have said for decades the hard left will do anything to win, including stealing an election, jailing the opposition and even murder. People rolled their eyes. After Obama got elected I said he was going to spread the model of Chicago politics nationally which includes stealing elections, jailing the opposition and murder. People rolled their eyes. I said the Democrat party was taking its cues from Goebbels. People rolled their eyes. I said Trump was the last hurrah, when… Read more »

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Libdis
1 year ago

Yes, we get it, you get to pull a “I totally predicted thith”. So did a lot of people. Now’s not the time to use your tweezers to jerk off about it. The biggest concern should be (for you and all the “predicted thith” folks) – what are you doing to prepare for it?

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Libdis
1 year ago

“Escape” is not the answer—unless used to reposition one’s self to a better advantage.

There is no escape. As Templar sagely observes. Prepare, as in prepare for them when they come for you and yours.

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

““Escape” is not the answer—unless used to reposition one’s self to a better advantage.”

Yeah that’s literally exactly what escape is for. So it totally is an answer. The ONLY or CORRECT answer? Dunno. Neither do you or anyone else.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Libdis
1 year ago

Darn those Democrats! They’re the real Nazis!

“America won’t survive unless Republican politicians get serious!”

Republican politicians won’t get serious because they are paid to lose by the same people who fund the Democrats.

Consider the possibility the source of our current turmoil is deeper than the ideology of Democrats versus Republicans.

Who funds the uniparty and what do they want? Their motivation is not ideological but racial.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Per some of the comments below, looks like Our Greatest Ally is having a good time:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-state-war-hamas-after-palestinian-militants-launch-unprecedented-incursion

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

I’m sure Israel dindu nuffin.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

There is lots of kick ass footage on Telegram channels like DD Geopolitics and Intel Slava Z.

In terms of numbers there are estimates that the Pals have already destroyed 14 tanks, dropped 4 helos, and inflicted 4 or 500 casualties.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Thanks, I’ll check it.

If only Our Greatest Ally had embraced diversity, none of this would have happened given how strong it would have made it. Along those lines, I’m certain Tel Aviv has noticed the traditional boot licking has declined among the American populace.

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of fellas.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Seems pretty convenient right when the Goblin King is trying to neuter their Supreme Court and needs a 9/11 to shut the liberal goblins up.

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Yeah, the U.S. (((media))) is conveniently forgetting to tell you that on Thursday, 800 Jews stormed the al-Aqsa mosque and defiled it by performing Talmudic rituals in it.

Nothing to see here, kids, move along. The Palestinian attack on the innocent Jews happened for NO REASON:

https://www.newarab.com/news/over-800-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-compound-sukkot

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/4/israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-complex-on-fifth-day-of-sukkot

Carl B.
Carl B.
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

I hate the effing ragheads.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

They would enslave and rape you at their first chance. And they did this to Europeans for many centuries.

With that being said, there is a respect amongst the dissident right for them as well. They move to the West and remain in their own enclaves, retain their culture, and successfully resist being pozzed like Christians have to globohomo. There are lessons to be learned from them.

Carl B.
Carl B.
Reply to  The Greek
1 year ago

If the “Dissident Right” wants to support filthy ragheads then the DR are fools.

Left Coast Inmate
Left Coast Inmate
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago
3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

Carl B.: Neither side is “your people.” Neither side would support you in your time of need. Why not say a plague on them both? Granted, the standard image of the Arabs dancing around with children on their shoulders while waving their rifles in the air is (at least to me) reminiscent of Africans. As I said, these are an alien and anti-Western people. But so are the Israelis. They spit on foolish and deluded Christian tourists. Their crimes against Whites may be a bit more subtle and long-term, but they are just as lethal and share the same goal.… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

Left Coast Inmate: Said “German” tattoo artist is not an ethnic German; she is juice. She was pierced, tatted, and mutilated. She was attending a ‘peace’ rave in Gaza. Why/how does her death affect you?

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

Who said anything about support?

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

That woman was also the enemy. Dual citizen goblin plus “30 year old tattoo artist” means level 99 shitlib.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

This may be a case of “the enemy of my enemy…”.

However, quoting from Netanyahu—“sometimes the enemy of your enemy is still your enemy”.

Perhaps better is from Shakespeare, “a pox on both your houses”.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

Has it occurred to you that we may not have a dog in this fracas?

george 1
george 1
Reply to  The Greek
1 year ago

The usual suspect are calling for war on Iran. Of course by implication that means Syria as well. So they want war with Russia, China, Iran and Syria. The neocons with their little brains probably don’t understand that we cannot win a conventional war against any of those countries at this point. If you liked the Iraq and Afghanistan wars then you will love a war with Iran. Maybe the neocons realize they can’t fight the Russians so they think they can save face by beating up Iran. That would be the military mistake of the century. It would rival… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  The Greek
1 year ago

I’d respect them a whole lot more if they stayed in their own dam’ Stans.

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

Fucking OK Boomer take there. Do you have a Dick Cheney poster on your wall? There is something to be said for enemies who directly tell you they hate you. I’ll take that over the one that’s been slipping the knife between our ribs from behind for a century.

We don’t have a dog in that fight Conservatard, let it play out.

Carl B.
Carl B.
Reply to  Apex Predator
1 year ago

Your stupidity notwithstanding, I still effing hate ragheads.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Carl B.
1 year ago

I instinctively recoil from the arabs because they display the same pack animal frenzy that blacks do, but I have to admire the skill and stealth required to plan and carry out the attack.

“Unprecedented raids by land, sea, air…”

Impressive. I’m not defending the subsequent savage behavior.

Although I don’t like the palestineans, our situation resembles theirs. I hope that we can be as crafty and resourceful.

SanePalestianGunman
SanePalestianGunman
Reply to  LineInTheSand
1 year ago

In sportsball idiom, “There is never an upset without a great collapse”

I don’t mean Pearl Harbor takes about self-fragging (both factions inside Israeli gov’t now shamed completely), rather, that Hamas Etc. must have learned from the Mexican cartels that 2023 diverse pink-haired Leviathan has “pies de cerámica.”

But while snaggle-toothed British hacks can instantly spin out Whither Empire and Knock-On Effects press clippings, I think they have fewer inklings about the other “Problem From Hell,” to wit, diverse pink-haired tax-eaters. Honestly I’m unhopeful that Arab desperados have the answer.

Tumult
Tumult
Reply to  SanePalestianGunman
1 year ago

Hard to fathom your problem: are you mentally ill or just plain illiterate?

Weirdest/dumbest writing style I’ve encountered outside Youtube comments.

Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse
1 year ago

I think Russia withstanding the Empire’s supposedly infallible weapon – economic sanctions – has produced a paradigm shift, as you say. I remember a similar effect when the Soviet Union failed to conquer Afghanistan in the 1980s. Up until then, there was a mythos about the Red Army; it seemed to be an inexorable, unstoppable force. Wherever it went, it overwhelmed its target and then STAYED. The best we could hope to do was to build moats and barriers around our safe areas, because if they ever breached the defences it was game over. When they failed to hang on… Read more »

Götterdamn-it-all
Member
Reply to  Dr. Mabuse
1 year ago

We can only hope.

houska
houska
1 year ago

All I can say is: Vi-vek ,Vi-vek,Vi-vek. Let us embrace are new Indian overlords!

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  houska
1 year ago

Be careful about embracing their left hands.

Vxxc
Vxxc
1 year ago

“ As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.”

I hope this is so- the end of GAE.
I’m not confident the machine is finished.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
1 year ago

“When Speaker Wright was toppled, the boomers were ready to take over as the Cold War was coming to an end. As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.”

More to that quote. Not mentioned, but one might also notice Jewish power is starting to break.

Not looking to kick the hornet nest, just sayin’, that could clarify and connect some dots re: strong anti-boomer sentiment out there. For better or worse, fair or not.

Demographics really are destiny!

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Paintersforms
1 year ago

“Not mentioned, but one might also notice Jewish power is starting to break.”

If you think so try uttering the two words “jewish power” in any public forum under your own name… and see how fast you get fired (or worse).

It’s so complete, forget questioning it, youre not even allowed to REFER to its existence without devastating penalties.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

I haven’t gotten as far in life as I could’ve because of that, I’m sure. Anyway, I don’t think speaking frankly about real things should be an issue. People are strange.

Arthur Metcalf
Arthur Metcalf
Reply to  Paintersforms
1 year ago

That comment seems a bit prophetic given the events of the past eight hours.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
1 year ago

Talk about politics!
That clip of Ilhan Omar, curled up in her seat, restlessly licking her chops while staring down Matt Gaetz’s butt- yeah, there’s definitely some whitebread on the menu tonite!

Vinnyvette
Vinnyvette
1 year ago

Good on Matt Gaetz for putting his boot on McCarthy’s throat, and keeping it there until he crushed his wind pipe. Also… fuck Newt the Grinch for calling for the ouster of Gaetz. The good guys finally have a win.

Joe Davis
Joe Davis
1 year ago

Another thing that Russia has shown is that Western weapons and military might are grossly overhyped. The U.S. empire has always relied on military force when economic sanctions didn’t do the trick, and most countries rightly feared that. Russia has shown that its cheaper and more reliable weapons are at least the equal of anything the West can offer, and that their industrial base for war is far superior to the West. It’s no accident that the multipolar world is merging a lot faster now, because the empire has been shown to be far weaker than anyone expected.

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Joe Davis
1 year ago

This is true of most empires — they expand by beating up on weaker opponents.

The British were pretty impressive when they were shooting nonwhite, primitive Subcontinentals and Zulus… their record was not nearly as successful against Americans, Boers and Germans.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Xman
1 year ago

XMan: “The British were pretty impressive when they were shooting nonwhite, primitive Subcontinentals and Zulus… their record was not nearly as successful against Americans, Boers and Germans.”

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The Elites were pretty impressive when they were v@xxinating White unitardians, quakers, wesleyans and jesuits… their record was not nearly as successful against n!ggers and messicanz and White crackers.

[AT THIS POINT, NOTHING MATTERS EXCEPT V@XXINATED VERSUS PUREBL00D.]

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Bourbon
1 year ago

This is what the kids call schizo posting

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

This is what sober minds call Armageddon. On the only question that mattered in the last century [arguably in the last millennium], the Schizo assessment of the situation was uniformly correct & truthful, whereas the Normie assessment of the situation was catastrophically existentially false & wrong. Your only hope is that utterly insouciant & incompetent Obama voters in the distribution channel were tasked with handling the particular vial, the contents of which were thrust into your very own triceps, and that those Obama Voters had left that particular vial out long enough in the heat of the warehouse for the… Read more »

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

If you think I or anyone in my household are normies or took any shot you really are loony.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

We in the Dissident Right are still viewing the socio-political/politico-sociological landscape through the eyes of Daniel Patrick Moynihan & William F Cuckley & Ed Rollins & Lee Atwater & James Carville & Paul Begala. We simply have to jettison the 20th Century nonsense. If we are to survive, then our mindset must wander 1500 years into the past, to the great plague of Justinian, circa 541 to 549 AD. During that plague, the southeastern Mediterranean lost so many White Christians that the Muslims waltzed virtually unimpeded right into theater dominance for the next 1500 years. The V@xxpocalypse is an epochal… Read more »

Eugene
Eugene
Reply to  Xman
1 year ago

The British beat the Americans ,Boers, Russian, Dutch, Danes,Spanish, French,Germans,Austrians,Italians..

The British expanded by beating up on the Spanish,Austrians and French who had larger economies and populations.

Try reading some history books. Any history books. Just start with Wikipedia articles and build up your reading skills over time.

Götterdamn-it-all
Götterdamn-it-all
Reply to  Eugene
1 year ago

Yeah, they really came out of WW2 with flags flying, didn’t they? Brits are VASSALS of the GAE. When we’re gone, so are they.

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Eugene
1 year ago

Wow the british must have a really mighty and vast empire with all those costly wars they won!

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Joe Davis
1 year ago

Oh, don’t tell the normie engineers I work with that.

They’re totally convinced that the stealth coating that peels off the F-35 is a +5 cloak of invisibility straight from Dungeons & Dragons.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Even if it’s all they think it is, there’s not a whole lot for it to do in a theater like Ukraine, other than fly around and look pretty

Barnard
Barnard
1 year ago

It would be good to hear someone with a lot of knowledge do a show on what all happened between Gary Hart getting thrown out of the Dem primary in 1988 and Clinton getting the nomination four years later. In between the two was Anita Hill which makes the about face on these issues even more abrupt. AWFLs went crazy defending Hill and then turned around and voted for Bill Clinton 13 months later. James Carville went all in discrediting the Clinton accusers, remember his “this is what you get when you drag $100 bill through a trailer park” line.… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Barnard
1 year ago

One very notable difference: Hart dropped out. Nobody made him quit (far as I know). Evidently he had shame, unlike Clinton, who just didn’t care.

And if Hart had stayed in, and benefited from a 3rd party guy siphoning votes from Bush like Clinton did, then he too could have won with 43% of the popular vote, just like Clinton.

Barnard
Barnard
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Good point, people forget Clinton’s popularity waxed and waned for his two terms and in 1992 the only state where he won 50% of the vote was Arkansas. There were also a fair number of white Southerns who were easily duped into voting for a ticket they saw as made up of “their guys.” No one in 1988 was getting a significant percent of the vote as a third party.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Barnard
1 year ago

That reminds me of a new thing I noticed: Libertarians are the only Democrats who still bring up Bork. Normal Democrats don’t have to remember anything that happened before today, but people pretending not to be Democrats do. Wherever a “right libertarian” thanks the Republicans for keeping Garland off the Court—as if giving a wannabe Beria the job of running the nation’s law enforcement apparatus is better—a Real Libertarian will arise to feign agreement and remind the straying sheep to thank the Democrats for sparing us from Bork, who was just as bad “from the other side.” All but two… Read more »

steve w
steve w
Reply to  Barnard
1 year ago

My longstanding assumption is that when a major Democrat goes down in flames, it is because the real puppet-masters want him purged. The Media, under orders, bring down their full weight: so, buh-bye to Jim Wright, Dan Rostenkowski, Gary Hart, John Edwards, Anthony Wiener, maybe Menendez?, Andrew Cuomo… Cuomo is a tell for me, as a subject of the NY State satrapy. During the Covid hysteria, he was riding too high, he was gaining serious national attention; then someone upstairs saw him as a threat, maybe not as manageable as a Biden, who – events show – had already been… Read more »

NYC
NYC
Reply to  steve w
1 year ago

They sacrificed Cuomo because people were starting to ask questions about the nursing homes. Funny how that has all disappeared now.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Barnard
1 year ago

Jeffrey Zoar: “One very notable difference: Hart dropped out. Nobody made him quit (far as I know).” The obvious explanation there is that Hart was not a CIA guy. The CIA had already long since examined & approved the personality profiles of both Bush & Clinton; both were known assets with reliable personalities. But apparently Hart/Hartpence had the wrong personality type. As did Ross Perot. Hart & Perot were personalities which were too unpredictable for the CIA to allow them to get too close to the Throne Room. Clinton’s sojourn in England, monitoring his fellow students for subversive behavior [likely… Read more »

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
1 year ago

Yeah I’m pretty sure the Dems let McCarthy dangle because he supported the Biden Impeachment hearings. I think they would have gotten behind him had he not given the go-ahead. That said, you have to wonder about the system producing all the midwit Republican Congressman we see these days. I mean, Gingrich, Dick Armey, David Stockman and Ron Paul and a whole generation of guys from the post- Reagan Era were giants compared with McCarthy and Scalise and even Jim Jordan, who seems like a good guy but is no intellectual. And Pat McHenry is bright enough, but is wholly… Read more »

steve w
steve w
Reply to  Captain Willard
1 year ago

All this sounds terrifying and true to me. Masks are dropping, and fast. The GOP is nearing or has reached its ‘sell by’ date. Those of us in hostage states such as NY understand that the “2-party system” myth no longer requires maintenance. Hochal is a monster, of course, but it was Cuomo who declared that all of us ‘deplorables’ not on board with the progressive agenda were not proper New Yorkers; my family, on my father’s side, settled here in the 1800s as farmers, which makes our homeland, right? Wrong! We are aliens and miscreants. New York would be… Read more »

Steve
Steve
Reply to  steve w
1 year ago

Mine have been here since 1687, so you have a sympathetic audience.

Snoot
Snoot
Reply to  steve w
1 year ago

When Cuomo said there was no place in New York for conservatives he was on to something. More precisely there’s no place in the New York Democrat party for white men.

miforest
miforest
1 year ago

as if things weren’t interesting enough, looks like china is slowly collapsing

bob sykes
bob sykes
Reply to  miforest
1 year ago

China is hurting, because all its customers, the US and EU, are in recession due the sanctions on Russia. Germany is near collapse. on the bright side, nowadays most of China’s is with the Global South.

Bristol Tigers
Bristol Tigers
Reply to  bob sykes
1 year ago

I’ve been to Germany and America. If you think Germany is the country nearest to collapse…

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Bristol Tigers
1 year ago

I think if youve been vassalized by a country nearing collapse youre clearly winning the first down the toilet race everyone has entered

miforest
miforest
Reply to  bob sykes
1 year ago

they are having a real estate apocalypse. their banking system makes ours look stable

Zaphod
Zaphod
Reply to  miforest
1 year ago

OK, Gordon Chang.

miforest
miforest
1 year ago

you are completely mistaken in thinking that the parties don’t represent the voters wishes . the absolutely do . the actual voters, the dominion machines, are getting exactly what they want. anybody else going into the polls is just pretending, and have no real say.

Krustykurmudgeon
Krustykurmudgeon
1 year ago

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1710170459981926720

How much of domestic events post 11/9/16 had her involvement? Maybe in a few decades we’ll learn the truth, not unlike paperclip/mockingbird

c matt
c matt
1 year ago

1974
1994
2024 (roughly) about a decade late.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

44:00 “…they would like to see manufacturing come back… not all of it, you can’t go backwards…” Right now, we’re doing the really low value stuff like cotton and corn and the extremely high value stuff like machinery. But it’s nowhere near enough. We’re running 60 billion Dollar a month trade deficits. 2023 will mark the first time in US history that we will be a net importer of food (though I’m not sure this is $ or tonnage). We must stop doing this voluntarily or we’re going to stop involuntarily because we will be priced out of the market.… Read more »

Vxxc
Vxxc
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

Reshoring; your information is inaccurate. There were 364.000 manufacturing jobs reshored to the USA this year alone.

Here’s the link. I can post a library.

https://www.imts.com/read/article-details/Why-Reshoring-Shifted-Into-Hyperdrive/1822/type/Read/1

The manufacturing is returning to the USA.

Stop Dooming or at least OverDooming it.
Even the Z blog can have good news.

Mycale
Mycale
1 year ago

The gap between the Republican party and Republican party voters continues to grow, and unlike the Dems, they have no way to bring them back. You can tell the Republicans are getting desperate as they are angry that voters are not supporting the politicians (which, of course, is a total inversion of what this system of government is supposed to be) and furious that people are fine with the idea of not passing these massive CRs or shutting down the government or hitting the debt ceiling. . People on the right are happy to see the chaos and want to… Read more »

WhereAreTheVikings
WhereAreTheVikings
Reply to  Mycale
1 year ago

Voters aren’t supporting the politicians? Could’ve fooled me. Here in so-called Trump Country, the reddest of the red, not a one of our Congressewes voted to kick McCarthy out. And Mullins, our junior Senator (indulge me – I can’t bear to put Senator in front of his name), was trotted out by Mitch McConnell to accuse Gaetz of confessing to sins that would make Bob Guccione blush. After many years of practice performing unnatural acts on Paul Ryan in Congress (heck, he may trot over to Fox once in awhile for old times’ sake), he is now scratching Mitch’s Itch.… Read more »

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  WhereAreTheVikings
1 year ago

Taleb talked about this in one of his books, maybe Antifragile. In any situation, the vast majority will go with the flow, that’s just reality. It does not take many people, a tiny significant minority, to make significant changes. I mean, look at the past 10 years – what percentage of people do you think see themselves as “nonbinary” or were “born in the wrong body” and look at what they have done?

In this case, we have an actual number – 8 Republican reps wreaked havoc on the party with 213 on the other, “establishment” side.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Mycale
1 year ago

I’m against the soldiers and proud of it. The imperial storm troopers can twist in the wind.

Baker Shakey
Baker Shakey
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

Agreed … if I hear “thank a veteran!” or “our heroes!” one more time I think I’ll puke. When a person signs up, they are doing a job just like everyone else and they know what the deal is. So give me a break on the soldier crap.

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Baker Shakey
1 year ago

Criticizing the US military is homophobia

navy vet
navy vet
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

Ouch, but it’s still funny.

JerseyJeffersonian
JerseyJeffersonian
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

Navy Vet,

Yeah, whatever happened to the days of “no friggin’ in the riggin'”?

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  NoOneAtAll
1 year ago

You say that as if it’s a ‘bad’ thing.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Baker Shakey
1 year ago

“My dad was in the Air Force!” (or whichever branch) is the one that reliably sets me off, when spoken as a preface to some opinion about geopolitical military events.

Xin Loi
Xin Loi
Reply to  Mycale
1 year ago

About 60% of the citizens (voters + non-voters) are either to the left or the right of the Uniparty.

The Uniparty product is making very sure those people don’t get what they want.

jkliop
jkliop
1 year ago

My favorite part is the explanation of the subservience of the republicans to democrats, sucking their dick since the new deal. Not just speakers but senators like McConnell and that traitorous shit McCain. Never fighting to upend and set a new path. Some people thought Reagan was upending the order but was subsumed by the dem control of the house. Honestly wonder where the contry would be if country club shit republicans like romney’s daddy were pushed out of the way and Taft actually got the nom for 40 instead of that loyal opposition scumbag line Wenke.

Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Somewhat related to this show, I am now advising any friends/acquaintances to sign up for social security at first eligibility, age 62. You’ll take a significant reduction in monthly benefits compared to what you would receive if you wait, but at this point social security reform is inevitable within the next few years, and it will involve: (1) higher taxes; (2) lower payouts; and (3) higher retirement age requirements. I suspect it may also involve reduced payouts based on income and/or wealth status. It may also involve enhanced payouts or lower retirement age requirements based on diversity goals. If you… Read more »

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  Guest
1 year ago

Social Security should be means tested and eligibility age raised. Social Security is not a “problem,” it is a “predicament.” “Problems” have solutions and can be avoided if detected early enough. 40 years ago, Social Security was still a problem. I believe SS is the main reason for the open borders business. Europe has the same problem. There are all these unfunded pensions and old ages schemes like SS that are funded from current taxes. Without massive immigration, there simply are not enough workers to deliver on the promised benefits. But all these 3rd worlders do not solve the problem,… Read more »

Winter
Winter
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

Means testing is a dangerous thing, and here’s why. Like the federal income tax, it would begin by targeting only the very wealthy. It would end by targeting everyone who works for a living (aka white people). Soon, only welfare recipients and brown bodies (but I repeat myself) would be receiving social security benefits. Any white person who advocates for a reduction in social security is playing right into their hands. We should never voluntarily give up our benefits. No other group does. They demand more gibs regardless of the cost. Until we cut foreign aid, welfare for layabouts, health… Read more »

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  Winter
1 year ago

The anti-white GAE depends on Whites being “reasonable”. The best example of this is affirmative action, they expect Whitey to be “reasonable” and check the “White” box in any government form or job application, even though that relegates him to second-class status (as we saw in that Bloomberg report). The time to be reasonable is over. Social Security is still universal because the recipients and future recipients are extremely unreasonable about this. Likewise, gun advocates keep getting wins in court because they are completely and totally unreasonable, in spite of the opposition that says that “the majority are in favor… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Winter
1 year ago

Winter: Interesting take, and one I hadn’t really considered before. In general I am opposed to Social Security and any other legacy Ponzi scheme from fdr. My husband wants me to wait (I have been eligible already for a few years) because most of it would go to taxes due to his current income. But your points are valid, and you’re right – it is one of the few ‘bennies’ available to Whites. You’ve made me reconsider my position, although I hate dealing with the fedgov for anything (still dragging my feet on Medicare as well).

bob sykes
bob sykes
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

Your husband is wrong. You will more income per and more over your lifetime if you enroll now.

Also enrollment in Medicare A and B is mandatory at age 65.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

Bob Sykes: F**k anything “mandatory.” Or “for my own good.” And we’re still checking into the details, since my husband is still working and I’m covered under his health insurance (although we chose a high-deductible HSA to save money instead of the insane monthly cost of the standard ppo).

Yes, it’s all technically ‘my’ money they deducted the years I worked, but the hoops I have to jump through to get it, and the idiot bureaucrats I will have to talk to, and the obscene amount of money it all costs . . .

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

Sykes, unless you know your exact date of “death” you can not make the statement regarding immediate enrollment or waiting until age 70. As it is now, the typical expected mortality figures for a white woman pretty much balances out the loss of early retirement amount. Of course, you can make a judgement as to your own health and life expectancy.

What you do gain is that the surviving spouse will get to choose between the higher of the two SSI checks.

cg2
cg2
Reply to  Winter
1 year ago

Guest wasn’t making a value judgement on what should or shouldn’t happen, but what is likely to happen whether we like it or not. It’s a situation I’m considering now, and a bitter pill.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  Winter
1 year ago

I’m not saying to be reasonable. I’m saying SS will collapse if it is not reformed. If it’s collapsed, nobody gets it. This would leave a lot of White seniors, who paid into it all their lives, destitute and living in abject poverty. There are negatives to means testing Social Security and I have serious doubts that the government can do this well. However, you act like the choice is means test and cheat whitey out of his benefits or don’t and help whitey. That isn’t the choice being presented. The choice is reform it or it collapses. The government… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

Again and yet again (it seems like forever), I am correcting this group wrt SSI. Really folk, simply read the law or visit the SSI website. Tars you are only partially correct—and that’s being generous. SSI has a source of funding—employee’s currently working! Yes, their deductions (SSI’s current income) does not fully cover (pay out) what is currently allotted as benefits, hence the monthly dip into the trust fund for the difference. Trust fund? There is no trust fund Tars says. Yes there is, it’s T-Bills! SSI cashes in whatever they need at the end of the month. This fund… Read more »

ArthurinCali
1 year ago

‘U.S. Will Build Stretch of Border Wall and Begin Deportations to Venezuela’ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/biden-border-wall-waiver.html This is a feint. The latest hand-wringing coming from mayors in the big cities up north is all for show. NYC Eric Adams has no reason to fly to Latin America to ‘explore’ the issues of illegal migration. NY Governor Hochul is not having an actual struggle against the state’s biggest city’s leadership. No. This is more political kabuki theater orchestrated by the Left. Re-starting a pithy section of the border wall? More theater. THEY DON’T CARE. “Why do you say that?” Simple Machiavellian/Sun Tzu/ or name… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
1 year ago

Since going with the worst possible option seems par for the course, I’m going with Reaper Drones Over Houston:

War with Mexico Cartel would mean the end of the United States

Island fortress no longer, our intelligence community f*ckery in distant lands would now come in a tidal wave to our shore

https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/reaper-drones-over-houston

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
1 year ago

Another potential white pill: demographic winter being a GAE policy raises the possibility that it goes with GAE. So much money and effort has gone into it that’s it’s hard to reckon what would’ve happened organically. If, otoh, the policy is a symptom of GAE’s collapse, we’re as screwed as the Romans were. I’m not sure which case is true, but being that our rulers almost unanimously hate us, and being that the policy benefits various shortsighted interests, I lean towards the former. Also, being the product of shortsightedness, one might reasonably expect it to be short lived. Going out… Read more »

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Paintersforms
1 year ago

Our rulers did actually believe, for a long time, that an expanding population meant an expanding economy meant more prosperity for all. On top of that, our rulers believed in “magic soil” theory. Or that being in the presence of whites (er, I mean living in a Democracy!) or operating under white systems (er, I mean practicing Liberalism!) made everyone effectively white. Lefties say that white supremacy is non-white people suffering under a white-built system, but it is in fact the opposite: white people graciously offering their life-ways to non-whites and then expecting non-whites to magically act like Bob and… Read more »

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  Marko
1 year ago

Those ideas have been around since Babel, and they’ll end the same way. Whites’ graciousness turns out to be pride, and Pride goeth before destruction, an haughty spirit before a fall. Or something like that lol.

TomA
TomA
1 year ago

My contribution to the Black Pill Friday podcast is that even Dan Bongino is starting to crack. He is now full-on F-bomb expletives all the time, ranting that the police state is already here, and that if Trump is not elected in 2024 all is lost. He acknowledges that the national debt bomb will likely explode next year when short term Treasury Bills must be rolled over at significantly higher interest rates. Can the Fed bail them out once again by printing endless fiat? No way or hyperinflation. Take your pick. The first domino fell in Slovakia with the election… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  TomA
1 year ago

I’m pretty sure the crazies in charge are thinking,

“Who needs icky engineers and industrial plants when you can just nuke everything?”

Marko
Marko
Reply to  TomA
1 year ago

Bongino is part of the Irish Right. (Or if you will, the Irish-Italian right, AKA the populist right. Beck, Bannon, Bongino, you get it.) At some point, they all go bonkers. They think voting for the guy who fires guns in campaign commercials will save us. Then they think that if enough outrage is generated, there will be a people’s revolt worthy of Norman Rockwell. When none of this comes to pass, they start getting apocalyptic. Because they don’t see a way through except via Christ or QAnon.

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Marko
1 year ago

“Because they don’t see a way through except via Christ or QAnon”

By modern standards half right aint too bad.

Karl Horst (Germany)
Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

Interesting times indeed. Between the rapid decline of the American empire, and the complete and utter irrelevance of Europe, it will all be turned over to the globalists soon enough. Forty-plus years of liberal immigration policies and refugee ideology have tipped the demographic balance which will forever change the faces and politics in the west. Our so called “social contracts” are practically meaningless on all levels of society. Sweden and Norway currently lead the way for cashless societies while Italy is already experimenting with a watered down form of social credits. World governments used the pandemic to test their ability… Read more »

george 1
george 1
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

If Germany had a real leader who would put their country first he/she might save the entire world. A good leader would get on a plane to Russia and make a deal with Putin. Rebuild the NS Pipeline and ask the U.S. Military to go back to France or Britain.

The U.S. committed a catastrophic act of war on Germany. The German people should not forget that.

Karl Horst (Germany)
Karl Horst (Germany)
Reply to  george 1
1 year ago

America and the allies did what they had to do. We all understand that. The current situation across Europe was a well orchestrated and mutually agreed to suicide that started shortly after the war ended. It’s nothing new, but only new to people who don’t know the history of European immigration. Germany encouraged 14 million guest workers from Italy and Turkey to come here and help rebuilt the country but never forced them go return. France and the UK are victims of their own colonization as they invited their commonwealth citizens to bring their culture and religions to the mother… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

Karl Horst: There is ample blame to go around, but I have read that Germany was quite reluctant to invite in Turkish guest workers after the war, correctly protesting that they were too inherently different. The US was insistent, however, and saw it as a means of keeping Turkey a happy member of the ‘west’ in good standing. And even then, the US doing the encouraging was heavy on a certain group of people who had filled the Roosevelt administration.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

That’s right, the Turkish “labor” was used on American bases, a reward to our Turkish allies during the Occupation.

Worse irony, Turkey was a German ally in Lawrence’s time.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

Yeah, the same US that just shot down a Turkish drone over Syria.

It would be a hilarious paradox if Erdogan invoked Article V against the US, but I don’t think he has the stones.

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

America and the allies did what they had to do. We all understand that.

No. No they didn’t. Lindbergh, Fr. Coughlin and Patton were right, and the USA of WW2 should forever live in shame.

steve w
steve w
Reply to  c matt
1 year ago

Ok, so the worst of those three was Patton, whose Third Army ran roughshod over the Germans. It’s not like he led like McClellan, fighting indifferently against an “enemy” he sympathized with.

The USA of WW2? Ok, I get it: We all hate and reject the American mythos, the “Greatest Generation” bullshit, etc. But “it should live in shame?” Why? Can you tell me which major country in that war should NOT live in shame? Are you saying – as Coughlin did, and Lindbergh (who changed his mind, by the way) – that fighting the Germans was a bad idea?

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

France and the UK could send the wogs back from whence they came if they had the will to do so. Such measures have been undertaken by various nations in the past. But, alas, the past is a different world.

Bader
Bader
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

This colonization means unlimited immigration only applies to European countries.

Colonization ended so the immigration will be reversed?

It’s all just fake arguments to justify the agenda.

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

“America and the allies did what they had to do. We all understand that.” Bullshit. America allied itself with the communist Soviet Union of Josef Stalin to destroy and occupy a country that never did and never could attack it. America allied itself with the monster Josef Stalin to take down a democratically-elected German leader who was trying to save his people from Bolshevism and to reunite a country that had been partitioned at Versailles. I know it’s probably illegal in Germany for you to admit that, so I don’t expect you to agree, but the facts are the facts.… Read more »

Weedfarmer
Weedfarmer
Reply to  Xman
1 year ago

America allied itself with the monster Josef Stalin to take down a democratically-elected German leader who was trying to save his people from Bolshevism and to reunite a country that had been partitioned at Versailles. Mmm … he was democratically elected once, never had to go through the nuisance of an election again. As for the rest of it, true, but he was still evil in other ways, even if only a runner-up compared with the Red Monster. It’s very unfortunate we had to ally ourselves with the Commie regime, but it took both American and Soviet might to overcome… Read more »

Götterdamn-it-all
Götterdamn-it-all
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

Gee, Karl. How far up our asses can you get your nose?

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  george 1
1 year ago

Ask? The GAE military should be evicted and all installations and equipment confiscated without compensation. Actually, this should have been done directly the GAE sabotaged the Nordstream.

Xin Loi
Xin Loi
Reply to  george 1
1 year ago

“Rebuild the NS Pipeline and ask the U.S. Military to go back to France or Britain.”

Or just rebuild NS.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Karl Horst (Germany)
1 year ago

Widespread grid outages are going to stop the digital panopticon.

I really need to get down to the rez and load up on tax-free cartons of cigarettes while it is still possible.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

I’m down for splitting a pallet. Good ol’ Seneca Nation!

I wouldn’t worry too much about the digital.
There will be plenty of human informers- see East Germany, Iraq, China, South Africa, the DEA…

1 in 6 is the usual ratio, innit? If you want to receive your ration card, that is.

RealityRules
RealityRules
1 year ago

The millenials who will be from, “the elite”, who will be positioned to do something, will not have a clue as to why what is happening is happening. It isn’t just that the boomers didn’t develop a bench. It is that they did develop a bench. They developed more ardent and delusioned social cause warriors and spineless individualists pursuing their own self interest to the point that they act against it. Moreover, those who played by the rules of the upward mobility escalator, and in some cases bubble economy wealth transfer rocket, will have never known an economic system based… Read more »

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  RealityRules
1 year ago

Make no mistake. The events, and the environments that will emerge from them, will provide pain and suffering for some, and opportunities for others.

Filthie
Filthie
Member
1 year ago

Spectacular show, Z!

I am a Canadian and don’t know the ins and outs of American politics… but that gong show with your house speaker left me vapour locked. To me it has the feel and atmosphere of a “beer hall putsch”. But then again it’s been feeling awfully 1939-ish for the last couple years.

Something is going to give.

Soon.

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  Filthie
1 year ago

From your mouth to Gods ear.

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Filthie
1 year ago

Not really. It’s much, much less of an event than a PM losing a confidence vote in the Commons, because the PM is both the party leader and the executive.

The putsch is a bad example, it happened in 1923, not 1939 and Uncle A went to prison for it.

Filthie
Filthie
Member
Reply to  Xman
1 year ago

Yes I suppose you’re right X. I just feel that it was an event signalling a huge tectonic shift is imminent… like the remors that come before a major eruption or earthquake.

I look at it this way: I think of how PISSED OFF A I am with the left… and I am pretty easy-going by nature. I’m betting that on the rage spectrum, I’m probably right in the middle. Those to the left of me are just starting to Notice Things. Those to the right are probably planning targeted assassinations and drawing up accountability lists…

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Filthie
1 year ago

I get that people are pissed off, but the brilliance of the American system is that it diffuses power so much that people can vent their frustrations without making the entire government fall as can happen in parliamentary systems. Not so much in Canada’s Westminster system, but in multiparty parliamentary systems you can have fragile governments that continually fall again and again when no majority coalition is possible. You saw this in France in the 1950s, and you see it in places like Italy. Small parties of unhinged radicals can hold a coalition hostage to their demands. I am 100%… Read more »

george 1
george 1
1 year ago

GAE coming to an end indeed. Assad just completed a visit to China. He was given close to a hero’s welcome. Syria will no doubt be part of the belt and road initiative together with Iran. BRICS plus membership soon. Since it will be difficult for Erdogan to do without the Chinese at this point, I suspect he will have little choice but to at least partially calm tensions with Syria. Not working out at all like Mr. Netanyahu had hoped. I guess the quality of their vassal states is not what it used to be. The Kagan cult must… Read more »

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  george 1
1 year ago

Yes. And Erdogan goes to China with cards to play in terms of his loyal colonists that the indolent European ruling regime has willingly imported. To think that they did it to gain a sense of superiority and by foolishly listening to the quants of international finance who say more bodies equals more wealth.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Speaking of inflection points, HRC just floated the “formal deprogramming” of the “MAGA extremists” aka “cult members,” which all of us here would be classified as (by them), regardless of the inaccuracy of that categorization.

She’s become like Bill Gates in that practically every single day I see some new pronouncement from her in my news feed

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-floats-formal-deprogramming-trump-supporters-suggests-gop-base-bigots

Filthie
Filthie
Member
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

I’d take it with a couple grains of salt. The old bitch is in cognitive decline like most first gen boomers. She can say stuff like that and the younger folks around will laugh indulgently… but they know also they will bleed and die too if they ever try it. Gawd I love Americans and their second amendment…

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Filthie
1 year ago

Never underestimate your enemies. She sounded quite sane as I heard her. Often such people are used to float “trial balloons”. They move the Overton Window sort to speak. This gives cover/rationale for enforcement of such recommendations. Enforcement being increased scrutiny of MAGA affiliated groups of folk, followed by prosecution for seditious activities—probably initiated by FBI plants. What I heard her say was even more inclusive than just MAGA in that she segued into election denial and such. In other words, if you’re in any way critical of the last couple of elections, you are an extremist and a danger… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

What has been going on in America for roughly the past 30 years puts the Red Scare to shame. We have long been beset by literally hundreds of thousands of anti-white Joe McCarthys and they’re in command of every node of power in the country. Joe McCarthy never had such control. Perhaps that other Joe–Stalin did.

Vinnyvette
Vinnyvette
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

Joe McCarthy was right and a damn good Americahero.

Xin Loi
Xin Loi
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

The Brown Scare didn’t really get going until after the Patriot Act gave the State the power to combat “terrorism” in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

Quite right, OK. The so-called “Red Scare” was based on real events. Despite the antihistory promulgated by leftist academics that the whole thing was ginned up in the bigoted minds of the Birchers and the Midwestern rubes, it’s not as if the Rosenbergs didn’t actually give the USSR the nuclear secrets, and the Communists hadn’t actually taken China and Korea and actually tried to take Greece.

steve w
steve w
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

Yeah, but a black list of 75 million people? Plus their families, which might push the figure to 150 million? To achieve a complete solution to the MAGA problem would require either nuclear weapons or some aerosol-delivered pathogen of 100% mortality. Maybe something along the lines of those bubonic plagues cooked up and deposited on Chinese villages by the Brain Trust at Unit 731. It’s not like the USG doesn’t have all this information or that it hasn’t refined it at Ft Dietrick or in some labs in Ukraine, China, etc. Which will work fine, but first, arresting, transporting, concentrating… Read more »

Filthie
Filthie
Member
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

Always good advice, C. But what we have to remember is that as chaotic as things are on the right…they’re ten times worse on the left. They have never really been punched in the face before, over there either. They are alienating themselves from more people every day. I had to laugh… the other day Putler told Klaus Straub that he was a terrorist POS and that his days were numbered. Do not sell us short… we are very VERY powerful enemies to make too. Cankles, Obutthole, Biden… they are all just a caress of the trigger away from assuming… Read more »

Drive-By Shooter
Drive-By Shooter
Reply to  Filthie
1 year ago

Read the “Militia” amendment with a careful eye. It says that the ruling class, aka a “free State”, won’t deprive itself the use of the organizations which were effectively centralized by Articles I and II. The idea that it protects petulant gun nuts with private arsenals is merely read into it, mostly by chumps who believe the big lies told in the Declaration of Independence and the preamble. The imperialists who conceded to the “Militia” amendment took care to allow text which could serve their interests. This is why the USA has a “National Guard” which stands ready to be… Read more »

Vinnyvette
Vinnyvette
Reply to  Drive-By Shooter
1 year ago

We don’t take kindly to trolls in Z country… get lost.

Weedfarmer
Weedfarmer
Reply to  Vinnyvette
1 year ago

Vinnyvette, I don’t agree with Drive-By Shooter, but he or she has taken the trouble to make a serious case. That isn’t “trolling.” And “get lost” isn’t an argument.

PrimiPilus
PrimiPilus
Reply to  Drive-By Shooter
1 year ago

Do you even know of the legal (and historical) distinction between the “organized” and “unorganized” militia? Try taking a look at 10 US Code Sect 246 …..

But, yes, there are some real drawbacks to the Dick Act.

PrimiPilus
PrimiPilus
Reply to  Drive-By Shooter
1 year ago

(re-written as initial attempt seemed to disappear ….)

For Drive-by

Have you read 10 US Code Sect 246 ….? There is more to the legal and historical structure than you seem to understand.

But yes, there were some real problems with the passing of The Dick Act.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Filthie
1 year ago

You’re right to love the second amendment. “Americans,” not so much. We’re a degraded, stupid, cowardly lot. No better than any other people of the Anglosphere.

Vinnyvette
Vinnyvette
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

second amendment. “Americans,” not so much. We’re a degraded, stupid, cowardly lot. No better than any other people of the Anglosphere.

Speak for yourself!

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Vinnyvette
1 year ago

I speak of 80% of the whites living in the country that continues to call itself the United States of America.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

I can imagine the liberals in my family, who LOVE Hillary, smiling more in sadness than in anger when they hear her plan. They will think of me and conclude “it will be for his own good.”

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  LineInTheSand
1 year ago

I can understand why shitlibs back her. But I’ll never understand how they could love her.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Protecting and promoting abortion is their highest religious value and they revere Hillary as a beloved warrior saint.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  LineInTheSand
1 year ago

The women are feminists and the men are environmentalists focused on overpopulation. Both see abortion as the single most important issue in advancing their causes.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  LineInTheSand
1 year ago

Although they don’t conceive of their position in this way, the men in my family who are environmentalists focused on overpopulation, want to lower the world’s population by reducing white births.

For example, if I were to suggest to them that we stop our aid to Africa, or to mothers who are illegals, they would probably faint from horror.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
1 year ago

Your observations are especially interesting given the absolutely vapid effort the GOP is putting into it’s presidential campaign effort, vapid to the point that an East Indian and a fat guy from New Jersey got their fingers rapped by the pussies in the party when they openly wondered what the point of the exercise was. I mean if they have trouble keeping an absolute tool like Chris Christie on script then party disintegration is imminent (hopefully).

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Hakeem Jeffries is like Barack Obama: a hate-filled lawn jockey who does what ol’ massa tells him to do. For whatever reason, the actual Establishment that runs the Empire and makes Jeffries dance wanted McCarthy taken out. Are they looking for an off-ramp for Ukraine? Just throwing that out–maybe they want to cut off the Ukraine funds and blame the GOP for the Russian victory. Also, Jeffries did reach out to his friends across the aisle to his. Gaetz is the future of the Republican Party, which doesn’t have much of a one, as it transitions into a populist white… Read more »

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

I think Putin caught Washington with its pants down the way he caught the global Amero-Judeo plutocrats with theirs down. I agree with your closing part and the inevitable transition of the Republican party. The most significant story of the recent days was Biden giving a report and a political dual speak, promise/threat to his backers at ProPubblica and any dissenters from the dispossessed majority. The most significant issue before Congress from our perspective is Tuberville’s suspension of the JCOS nomination. Tuberville knows the stakes and is to be lauded for it. If that nomination goes through, the armed forces… Read more »

Guest
Guest
Reply to  RealityRules
1 year ago

With respect, that purge will not be necessary. Obama purged the military brass thoroughly and replaced them with Obama loyalists, most of whom are still there. Trump’s fatal error was failing to purge the government that had been stacked with Obama loyalists, beginning with the military. In 2016 I told my wife that if Trump didn’t purge the government he would end up in prison, exiled, or dead. I’m no genius. If it was obvious to me I can’t fathom how Trump missed it. Vox Day has been dismissive of Trump for failing to cross the Rubicon, but that is… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  RealityRules
1 year ago

Purged? And replaced with aspiring “immigrants”?

Opportunities will indeed exist for…some.

p
p
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Regarding McCarthy, I am reminded of a scene on the original Godfather, a conversation between Frankie Five Angels, who was in protective custody for potentially being a witness against Michael Corleone, and he has a visit from the Corleone consigliere Tom Hagen, and they discuss hypothetically, when a Roman Senator has erred, he is allowed to honorably “open his veins” and his family can keep their estates. This sounds like McCarthy, he was used then allowed to depart intact.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Jack: Excellent and frighteningly prescient comment. It really is up to us to connect the dots, to combine the regime’s seemingly random and obscure pronouncements and predict their intended actions. I saw that Hilary headline. Sure, maybe they’re just using her to float a trial balloon, but you know that they regard us as either ignorant rubes or dangerous, inbred notsees. We also know they’ve been experimenting with drugs that they claim have made conservatives more liberal thinking. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-a-drug-that-makes-people-more-compassionate I also saw that juice judge’s strategy and intent to seize Trump’s property under asset forfeiture. My husband doesn’t think they… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

The flawed definition is that giving people free stuff = compassion

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Something tells me compassion toward white people doesn’t count; destruction of white people does.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

I suspect asset seizures will become commonplace in leftwing jurisdictions in the near future and attempts to nationalize them for various “infractions” will start real friction with states that resist enforcement orders. I wish your husband were right. He isn’t. The problem will be less ham-handed that outright grabbing in most instances but the end game will be the same: they take, laughing at anyone who believes the Fifth Amendment or any law is still a thing. People also need to be cognizant of where investment firms and so forth are headquartered and think along those lines. Property seizures become… Read more »

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

The people in charge are not nearly as in charge as they think you are. They have plenty of smart guys but plenty of other guys too and even their smart guys believe a lot of insane nonsense. There’s only so much competency possible given that. We should quit crediting these people with omniscience… they are malignant, cunning and unprincipled but it should be obvious enough to anyone here that they nonetheless roll from screw up to screw up and would have run out of gas long ago if they didnt steal the accumulated cultural fuel built up by our… Read more »

Jannie
Jannie
1 year ago

Note that it was only a handful of GOP rebels who swung the vote, with Gaetz being the most well-known. Most of the party still went with the establishment.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Jannie
1 year ago

Yes. This indicates the actual Establishment, which does not include the GOP other than as a Potemkin opposition, made the decision to take out McCarthy. I don’t know the reason, but speculate it may be to provide an off-ramp for the Ukraine insanity and grift.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Jannie
1 year ago

That’s the way it is with anything, most people will go along to get along even when the “go along” is objectively not in their long term best interests.

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Jannie
1 year ago

That does make for interesting speculation. Maybe the establishment saw McC as damaged goods, so need to replace him with another goy who is more presentable. While the Dems were OK to get rid of him, doesn’t mean they would support a real replacement. And with only 12 (was it?) “Rebel” Rs, doesn’t look like much will change.

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Jannie
1 year ago

Also a very good example of the enemy (Dems) of my enemy (RINOs) is not my friend – but I may be able to work with them.

heymrguda
heymrguda
1 year ago

The republicans are kind of like the Palestinians — they’re damned if they do and equally damned if they don’t. If they upset the apple cart by replacing the speaker, there’s this big hue and cry from the establishment right like the WSJ and NY post, as well as the left, about how the move will be seen as extremist and damage what’s left of the republican brand. If they do nothing it’s business as usual. It’s tough to do much when every institution in the nation is against you.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  heymrguda
1 year ago

Failure is funny that way. Sometimes there is no “winning” solution. You have two options, accede to your enemies and fail—or fight your enemies and fail. I believe the public (me anyway) is tired of failure to fight. I can accept loss if I see a good fight. Never have I believed more in the old adage: “Dem’s want change yesterday, Rep’s want it in two weeks.” 😉 What we are seeing here is a desperate attempt for the Rep’s to maintain their position of “Washington Generals” to the Dem’s position of “Harlem Globetrotters”. Hence the term we hear to… Read more »

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
1 year ago

“As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.”

Throwing out a potential white pill, the end of the Cold War was a moment of tremendous optimism. 30 years later, it’s soured completely.

Maybe the end of GAE, looking like THE END, turns out OK. I realize that sounds incredible, but saying we were marching into dystopia, I imagine, was just as incredible back in the 90s.

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Paintersforms
1 year ago

Actual progress is a slow, slow grind and the last ten years pissed away whatever legit progress had been made in the previous forty.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Paintersforms
1 year ago

The GAE is ending but that may be a good thing, to elaborate on your point. The economic horrors still will be horror. Post-Soviet Russia is a good illustration of what can happen.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

I still believe and maintain that things get better in the end, but we’ll practically go through hell getting there. Hopefully we’re starting to hit bottom.

Optimistically, it’s a grind for a generation, but if I live a full life, I might get to see things get better. Hope springs eternal!

James Proverbs
James Proverbs
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Any book recommendations for the post-collapse era of the USSR?

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  James Proverbs
1 year ago

I have a LOT of problems with the politics of the book, but THE FUTURE IS HISTORY by Masha Gessen really is a brilliant look at Russia in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union. The novel is better than the histories along with the contemporaneous news accounts I have read. The story is seen through the eyes of ordinary people who are trying to survive day to day life in the rank gangsterism that erupted under Yeltsin. While not the author’s intent AT ALL, the novel explains why Russians hold Putin in such high regard and why they justifiably… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

14 million dead, about 10% of the population, babushkas selling used shoes on the sidewalks, Russians selling their homeless children to EU pedophiles.

And all we had to do was open our arms and say “we have always loved you, our brothers,” while the Usual Vultures carped about how corrupt their own revolution had made these Scythians.

Anything, anything to keep our people from uniting.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Alzaebo
1 year ago

Hear, hear. The failures there at least were as bad as what happened to Germany after Versailles…and they were intentional.

Herb Jones
Herb Jones
1 year ago

The only change I can see is the the powers that be implementing a modern day Denazification program.

I live in a university town and rub shoulders with many of the professoriate and associated people. The consensus is that there is a sizeable but still minority of white men in the country that are causing all the problems.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Herb Jones
1 year ago

The other problem with the university system is that they are all sitting on ungodly amounts of wealth while producing very little of value.

Other than tradespeople doubling their book rates and markups for those types, I have few ideas for removing that misallocated wealth.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Most of the professoriate Herb referenced is white, and the university itself is viewed by non-white leftists as “white.” You are not the only one looking at the wealth stored in the uni system, and when it comes time to strip mine and eat the seed corn, there are tribes lurking in the mist ready to liberate that racist lucre.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Yes. They are fools sitting on a foggy night in a forest patting themselves on the back for being so cool and edgy for a midnight glass of wine beneath the moon. They sit smack dab in a den shared by jackals, hyenas and rabid stray dogs.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  RealityRules
1 year ago

That’s the funny part. Most of the white liberals believe that they have support and love of the non-whites and the non-whites will spare them from their wrath. They are in for a very unpleasant surprise. A liberal white friend of mine was defending a liberal white chick that we both know after I had harshly criticized her for her support of anti-white causes. The argument ended when I said, “there is no group that black women hate more than liberal white women.” He was speechless because he knew it was true but he was too much of a brainwashed… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  RealityRules
1 year ago

LITS-

That lib fool who just punched his ticket to the big dirt nap at 4 AM in Bed-Stuy found out exactly how much support he had from his pets.

“B-b-b-but I’m on YOUR side!?!”

Luber
Luber
1 year ago

One thing I think is sus af about the dissident right…

They loves to promote how the empire is ending, right after complying with the empire’s **global** enforcement to lockdown, mask up, and vaxx (to varying degrees of participation, but a majority of such, on the right, respectively).

At least that’s the unified narrative for this audience. How many here would support Thiel/Yarvin for our next aristocratic techno God-emperors?

Please, sir, can I have some more?

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Luber
1 year ago

Sure, but note how the GAE’s current attempt to restart the health hysteria is not going all that well.

Luber
Luber
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Tough to say what’s going on with the health hysteria. A good part of it came from Alex Jones, who’s clearly a poison-the-well type figure. I wouldn’t be surprised if half the viral freakout on the right from his show “leaking it” was astroturfed too.

They’re probably just flexing how they can do it all again when they want. Plus get the right upset over nothing happening so when it comes again they’re sapped of energy already. Common tactic in info control.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Luber
1 year ago

Vaccine casualties at about 3%,
or 1 in 800, depending on who/what’s the count.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

Many people, me included, despaired when we saw how quickly the cowards among us fell into line over Covid. It wasn’t all downside, though. Many states flipped off the federal government, and some local jurisdictions even flipped off their state governments. That scared them, and it should have. I imagine the trial balloons for Covid, the Sequel got shot down pretty quickly. If there was a silver lining with Covid, the response increased the many schisms in society.

Luber
Luber
Reply to  Jack Dodson
1 year ago

I don’t totally disagree but you’re delusional. “Free red states” is a counter narrative to keep you in-line as we march forward. Conservatives, including here, who believe in “free red states” are part of the problem.

See this example:
https://rumble.com/v2q3j3k-2020-desantis-threatens-to-suspend-small-business-licenses-for-violating-so.html

Cord The Seeker
Cord The Seeker
1 year ago

“The thing not getting enough attention is the fact that the Democrats were willing to let him swing rather than cut a deal.”

A Republican Speaker who retained his Speakership on account of Democratic support would be seen as a fraud. Yeah, I know, McCarthy already was that, but he was only worth saving if he could help keep up the pretense. McCarthy was, to the end, willing to sell out, but the day came that he was no longer worth buying, which is the eventual fate of the GOP.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Cord The Seeker
1 year ago

Wasn’t the rumor that Pelosi was going to back McCarthy if he let her keep her office? Seems petty, but also believable.

If they were even slightly clever they could have swung it though, let a dozen “purple” Dems peel off to support McCarthy in order to protect “Our Democracy™” from radical MAGA terrorists in the GOP, etc.

Alex
Alex
1 year ago

Great show as it is a completely different way of thinking about the events of this week. Thanks for this.

Brandon Laskow
Brandon Laskow
1 year ago

OT: One of these weeks Z Man should use this 1968 sunshine pop paean to Lagos on the Chesapeake as his opening theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1a1kAezqIM

Alex
Alex
Reply to  Brandon Laskow
1 year ago

Ha that’s great. The dude in sunglasses on the far left is my vibe right now.
Maybe use this as the intro/outro music for his last show in Lagos?

RDittmar
Member
Reply to  Brandon Laskow
1 year ago

This one is probably more representative of today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz1orhaHPk0

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
Reply to  RDittmar
1 year ago

I think we’re heading into Country Joe and the Fish territory…

RDittmar
Member
Reply to  pyrrhus
1 year ago
steve w
steve w
Reply to  RDittmar
1 year ago

Musically, my favorite Randy Newman song; but damn, he paints with a very broad brush! Baltimore was slipping in the 1970s, for sure, but in this song Newman – an LA guy, after all – makes Baltimore sound like Calcutta. In those faraway days, I – an Oriole fan – used to drive (often alone) into the ‘hood around old Memorial Stadium from DC for night games, and never had a problem with anyone; they played “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” at the 7th inning stretch. Sometimes I’d park in a guy’s front lawn for $5 to avoid the… Read more »

John Seitz
John Seitz
1 year ago

McCarthy did have the Speaker’s suite of offices. Pelosi had a hideaway office, not sure which floor in the Capitol, but as you know, those are unmarked (often have oddly-shaped wooden doors, leading one to believe it’s a janitor’s closet), and usually only the top 25 or so members of Congress have them. That’s where the real business used to be conducted when I was up on the Hill. That’s what they took away from her.

John Seitz
John Seitz
Reply to  John Seitz
1 year ago

Frank Luntz is his roommate, by the way. And Renee Ellmers was the promising congresswoman from Virginia whom McCarthy had an affair with (before MTG) and when it started getting around back channels, she retired.

He likes blondes, so Frank’s red wig is safe.

FNC1A1
Member
1 year ago

The generational churn angle probably explain a lot of current politics. As a “boomer”, I have watched my contemporaries wreck much of what was good in the society we inherited. Now, in our declining years, many refuse to let go of the powers and privileges they earned in the harshly competitive social environment they lived through. However, our time is over. To all my fellow boomers, especially those claiming “it’s my turn”, I say, in the words of Oliver Cromwell: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have… Read more »

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
Reply to  FNC1A1
1 year ago

Cromwell was not one to mince words! And when the Presbyterians started making trouble, he sent General Monck to deal with them…

McLeod
McLeod
1 year ago

“As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end”

My fellow GenXrs are always the bridesmaid never the bride. Meh, they can have it.

Fakeemail
Fakeemail
Reply to  McLeod
1 year ago

GenXers were proto-millenials. They were all in in feminism and diversity. Hostile to the ( white) man like boomers.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Fakeemail
1 year ago

About half right.

The partial (there aren’t many of us) boomer-to-X generational change in the management of America and its satrapies was the shift from “liberation” and NAMBLA to genocidal anti-whiteness and child eunuchry. Civil rights—conservatives can’t say “Jewish lawyers”—didn’t bring us “wokeness.” A generation of maladjusted psychos, many of them my friends and colleagues, did. The glaring clue is the official uniform: blue-haired, poorly tattooed, crookedly pierced, etc. That’s *our* yearbook.

Millennials are retarded children imitating our “innovations” with heightened emotion. They’re not merely post-philosophical, as we are. They have a strictly maintained *anti-capacity* for thought.

Winter
Winter
Reply to  McLeod
1 year ago

“My fellow GenXrs are always the bridesmaid never the bride. Meh, they can have it.”

Screw that. Speaking as a fellow Gen-X, we’re the only generation with the historic perspective to realize what went wrong, but tough enough to consider strong solutions. Sure, it’s probably a losing battle, but I still say we’re the best contender out there, generation-wise.

This is nothing against later generations. They’re getting royally screwed by the system, and many of them don’t even realize it because they’ve been awash in intense, anti-white, pro-deviant propaganda for all of their lives.

NoOneAtAll
NoOneAtAll
Reply to  Winter
1 year ago

Maybe… but one of the strong solutions we’ve considered is raising rock hard kids. It took a lot of us years to see through the nonsense, plenty of kids now know the deal as early as they can talk.

This is the cadre and the future

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  McLeod
1 year ago

Right?

Today I saw an article titled, “Why Millennials are Destined to be the Forgotten Generation”

They can’t even permit us (de)GenXrs to have that distinction.

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Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
1 year ago

“Say one thing and do another”. And in many cases, the exact opposite!! I confess I haven’t listened yet, but I got warm and fuzzy when that asshat got bounced. Will it mean anything? Who knows, but at least SOMEONE said NO! That’s a big reason why we are in the state we are in. Open border? NO Continuing resolutions? NO Hairy guys in dresses can us the girls room? NO Folks (and people) can steal at will? NO I’m glad he’s gone. As for Orange Man being speaker, while that would be “entertaining “, I don’t think it’s gonna… Read more »

3 Pipe Problem
3 Pipe Problem
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivner
1 year ago

BOM as SoH would be, [sorry B&B] the Greatest Show on Earth–evah!!!. The carny metaphor Z writes so much on, fully realized. The yin, the yang of all carny. The epitome of trash talking, freak-show-promising, Incitatus-in-charge, shitshow that is our democracy. Please God, make this happen, and give me a lifetime supply of popcorn.

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivner
1 year ago

“Say one thing and do another”.

Next step: “Say one thing, do nothing.”

Maybe in another 30 years we’ll move up to “say one thing, do one tenth of it.” TBF, doing one tenth of what Vivek’s saying would be a vast improvement.