Dreams Of Purges Past

Yesterday, internet activist Christopher Rufo posted on Twitter a long post denouncing, disavowing and anathematizing someone named Chris Brunet. Apparently, Brunet used to work for Rufo or maybe they were friends, but Rufo now finds that old association inconvenient to his current relationships and career choices, so he decided to do the predictable thing and denounce Brunet. It is a weird form of public piety that the conservatives inherited from communism.

For those of a certain age, this is familiar stuff. While the format is different from the old days of conservatism, the act is the same. That post reads like a Twitter version of Bill Buckley’s denunciation of Pat Buchanan thirty years ago. Interestingly, that famous essay is nowhere to be found online, but the book version is still available. Imagine someone writing a forty-thousand-word essay denouncing someone then being so proud of it that he turned it into a book.

That is the first notable thing about this bit of drama. Those familiar with the history of conservatism recognize this performance. The person putting on the show is doing it for an audience that is never named, but always assumed. The stated audience is either credulous, incredulous or confused by the performance. Everything about this age is a reboot, especially the stuff that emanates from the political class, so the “new right” is just a low-budget reboot of the old right.

There is a Little Rascals quality to all of it. They put on the costumes of the past and reenact events as they think they happened, but in a high school musical sort of way, which makes it feel small and petty. Thirty years ago, Buchanan and Buckley were towering figures fighting for the right to define a sociopolitical movement they helped create, while Rufo and Burnet are two guys on the internet. To his credit, Burnett seems to appreciate the absurdity of it.

The resulting drama brings up another notable aspect. Then as now, the people doing the denouncing always couch their denunciations in moral terms, when it is obvious that they are motivated by money. Buckley knew there were loads of cash waiting for him if he denounced the paleocons. The neocons, Zionists and the Israel lobby were as flush with cash thirty years ago as they are now. They hated the critics of these things as much as they hate them today.

There is nothing wrong with currying favor with rich people. The “American experiment” is pretty much an institutionalized version of this habit. The market economy, after all, is nothing more than people with something to sell chasing after and flattering people who have money to spend. Democratic politics is the art of flattering wealthy interests so they will back your candidacy. There is a reason that one of the highest paid people at every Washington think tank is the fundraiser.

In theory, the one group most comfortable with this reality should be the conservatives, as they boast of being the most free-market of the bunch. Yet, they are the ones most ashamed of being men for hire. They cast all their actions in moral terms, often making it seem like they are engaged in the greatest of moral struggles. David French has made a career of nailing himself to the cross. So much so, in fact, that he has attained what all conservatives seek, a place at the New York Times!

It is a strange quirk of conservatism. Read the comments of that Rufo post and you see the phrase “moral clarity” turn up often. It is as if these people have a strange form of Tourette’s that only comes out when they are finking on one another. It brings to mind the famous quote from Emerson, “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” Whenever a conservative begins speaking of moral clarity, get ready for a load of arrows in your back.

The reason for this is the central contradiction of conservatism. They start by agreeing with the central premise of progressivism, which is that all people are equal and infinitely malleable. Hierarchy is therefore a construct. You cannot oppose an egalitarian ideology like progressivism by first agreeing with its central claim, so conservatives can never admit that they are simply doing the bidding of their patrons. That means they must invent other reasons which they call principles.

That aside, the sense that this is just recycled drama from a bygone age is due to progressivism becoming a backward-looking phenomenon. It evolved to its logical endpoint only to find nothing there. The modern progressive must content himself with refighting old fights with old enemies reimagined for this time. The new Nazi is the guy opposed to Israel carpet bombing civilians. The new Bull Connor is the guy wondering why the FBI is faking crime stats.

The new right is now following suit. They search around for someone to play the Pat Buchanan role or the Joe Sobran role. It will not be long before these guys pick a fight with the Birchers, which is still around, amazingly enough. Conservatism has always been the slow version of progressivism, so as progressives become a strange sort of antiquarian society, conservatives will slowly join them in the project. The left-right debate is about who hates the past the most.

Of course, what they truly hate is the future. Both progressivism and conservatism are artifacts of a bygone age. They reached their peak in the twentieth century at the zenith of the Global American Empire. That was an empire built for a world that not only does not exist, but the memory of which is fading into the past. Imagine conservatism and progressivism as two old ships engaged in battle as they slowly slip over the horizon, and you have a good sense of it.

In the meantime, they will continue to engage in their mock battles with each other and with themselves, pretending to believe that things have not changed and will never change, while terrified by the sense that they are changing. Like science, politics advances one funeral at a time. As the codgers of the old politics march off to the cemetery, they will be replaced first by their imitators and then by their replacements, who will create a new politics for their age and challenges.


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Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Rufo is the latest in a long line of colorblind CivNats who decry identity politics for every group except Jews. According to him, Peterson, Sailer and others, everyone – except Jews – should be individuals, never acknowledging that we are literally a product of our ancestors and their culture and that we should fight to preserve both. Rufo and the others then attack anyone who points out their hypocrisy, even as they take money from Jewish interests. I dislike the Jewish elite but I understand them and what they’re trying to do for their people. I truly hate Rufo and… Read more »

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

“color blind”, like civ nat, is an older version of leftist angry that they have “gone too far”

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Yes, they’re race traitors essentially no different than Quentin Tarantino and Eric Swalwell.

Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

What I hate is that they wrap their treachery in a moral cloak.

There is no group that defies and undermines colorblind civic nationalism more than Jews. Yet, none of these guys notices (even the self-described great noticer Steve Sailer), much less criticizes Jews.

Guys like Rufo and Sailer are either fuc$ing liars or fuc$ing stupid.

Arthur Metcalf
Arthur Metcalf
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Win one for the Kippa, Pat Buchanan staffers used to mutter under their breaths back in the 1990s.

Tars Tarkas
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Never attribute to stupidity that which is explained by malice.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

I am not following politics but I do scan headlines and YT videos and comments. May just be limited to places I look, but I’m seeing a LOT of the standard talking points being pushed by both left and right of late. The usual “we’re all murkans” and it’s ‘stupid’ to divide people by race. Lots of pious posing on both sides, but even the Lugenpresse seems to have been instructed to push the ‘unity’ message. They are desperate to keep Whites from rediscovering that self-interest and tribal identity are innately tied to human history.

Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
Reply to  3g4me
5 months ago

Yes. Oct. 7 made Jews realize that the Left’s identity politics, which they supported, wasn’t “good for the Jews.” As a result, they’re letting their Left minions know to tone that down.

The Right minions continue their idiotic colorblind civic nationalism.

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Did anybody really think that Europe solving it’s Jewish problem by vomiting it onto the people of Palestine would end well?

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  3g4me
5 months ago

They are shocked by the predictable effects of demographic change. The discomfort is aesthetically enjoyable and while it always is heartening to see the wicked suffer, it doesn’t do us a helluva lot of good.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

It’s much easier to weave a tissue of morality than a cloak of facts. Deploy the shibboleths that activate the key emotional impulses and, viola, you’ve wrapped yourself in a chatoyant Civ-Nat flag with a lovely star-of-David-bedizened kippah that nets you a sack of sheckels and praise from the Leftist-Right. Pointing out unpalatable truths, on the other hand, puts one on a much stonier, obscure and threadbare path.

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Bilejones
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Sailer has apparently come lately to the conclusion, based on DNA tests that he may well be a Yiddistani.

Hokkoda
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

Everybody claims that one personal exemption…

As I often joke, everyone thinks their personal application of racism is just fine. It’s yours that they object to.

Mycale
Mycale
5 months ago

A year ago, when elite universities were allowing students to protest Israeli genocide, Bill Ackman, a Jewish billionaire, claimed his eyes were awakened to the anti-White bigotry rampant on college campuses. Ackman needed a shabbos goy to give his campaign the air of legitimacy, and he chose Chris Rufo. Chris Rufo waved around Claudine Gay’s bloody scalp and idiot conservacucks cheered it on, claiming that yes Ackman may be a Jewish billionaire, but look right here, he said he cares about White people and we need allies! Well, look at this, Rufo is throwing one of his own people under… Read more »

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Neoliberal Feudalism
5 months ago

I think Rufo’s is a fair and honest letter: he’s putting his cards on the table that he just supports Jewish interests period and that’s a red line item for him. I think that’s a position that isn’t tenable — the way in which anti-semitism is manifesting now is due to over-the-top deleterious Jewish behavior (look at Mayorkas, Blinken, Nuland, etc.), and circling the wagons is only going to make it worse. Confronting bad Jewish behavior is necessary if one hopes to lower the rising temperature, but that would require some deep introspection and some very hard questions. The Jewish… Read more »

Alan Schmidt
Reply to  Neoliberal Feudalism
5 months ago

Having a few rich Jewish guys fund you means you play ball. He put it in moral terms, but that was the crux of what he was saying.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Neoliberal Feudalism
5 months ago

I’m thinking a Trump win might be bad for the New Right / D-Right. If Trump pulls this off, all these e-influencers will be dancing like Israelis on 9/11 and thinking that everything is saved, much thanks to themselves of course. The “clever” ones will start pivoting to “maybe Kamala wasn’t so bad” like Spencer did and Hanania and Fuentes are primed for doing. Then Twitter stops being fun again as stupid takes sides. Meanwhile, the adults with money will still be sending theirs to Heritage and Glenn Beck and the purple-haired leftists will be planning a counter attack. Israel… Read more »

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

I’m wondering about the same. Trump saving the system from itself could turn out to be a disaster in disguise. But it might also unmask it further. In turbulent times there is no clear answer

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Moran ya Simba
5 months ago

Trump would definitely end up as the fall guy if shit gets sideways — economic collapse, war for Israel, etc.

He’d be vilified as a latter-day Herbert Hoover and it would be a one-party state for the next 80 years…

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

If he does somehow manage to win next month, then that’s my 100% expectation. But I continue to believe he won’t be allowed to.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
5 months ago

Trump having another election stolen is perhaps a blessing in disguise for the DR. Converts always being welcome.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

I suspect demographic change—now baked into the recipe—will produce a one party system for the next 80 years. Little to nothing from the Rep’s can change this. Trump is the last hurrah.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

“Changing demographics” and the propaganda suited to them have produced a one party state already. Trump sends the system into outright madness by being somewhat uncontrolled opposition, the feeblest revenant of the defeated people. Before him it wasn’t a real possibility. The regime’s ghost-story villains, fascism and nazis and etc., of course never appeared except in fantasies and hoaxes. Then suddenly, actual vampire. (They can’t see that he’s not one. The “jump scare” is too intense.)

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

It is very melancholic to think about demographics these days.

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

The GAE doesn’t have 80 years. I suspect it might be a fraction of that, but otherwise, yes.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

Thirty years may be pushing it.

ray
ray
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

Certainly not 80 years. These matters already are coming to a close.

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

I can see his new memoirs already: “From Hitler to Herbert in four years”

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Moran ya Simba
5 months ago

The epic leftwing chimp out would be worth it, especially if, even though unlikely, a few states seceded.

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

The chimp out will be epic if he’s allowed to win

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Moran ya Simba
5 months ago

Properly put. While I didn’t think so initially, apparently the 2020 election actually was stolen and likely to prevent a chimp out. This time a calculation may have been made the chimp out is worth it, probably to benefit Israel. Either way, our votes will not decide the election.

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

The election is a rigged game of uncertain importance. We shouldn’t obsess over it

Spingerah
Spingerah
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

In chaos there is opportunity.

Pozymandias
Reply to  Moran ya Simba
5 months ago

That’s about 60% of my support for Trump. I want to see the purple haired land whales screaming at the sky and throwing themselves off tall buildings.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Pozymandias
5 months ago

Woe betide the poor schlub who happens to be in the path of one of those plummeting land whales…

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Pozymandias
5 months ago

May your wish come true

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Moran ya Simba
5 months ago

True. And because there’s no way of knowing, why not just delight in four years of Leftists wailing and rending their garments? Not that I think Trump has much of a chance, of course, unless he’s promised the Power Structure a buffet of Levantine carnage.

1660please
1660please
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

“unless he’s promised the Power Structure a buffet of Levantine carnage” That could be a key factor, sadly. Academic Agent believes that the Ruling Class is divided into two factions: the “Techno-Globalists” and the Zionists. And he sees signs that the Zionists have had the upper hand recently. If he’s right, and if they currently favor Trump, and if they have the ability to affect the election, Trump might get in there. I’m hoping that Trump wins, at least to somewhat slow down the damage that we’re currently seeing at the border and elsewhere. To give a bit of a… Read more »

Last edited 5 months ago by 1660please
3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

Whatever one’s views of Trump and his presidency overall, I think it’s difficult (and disingenuous) to argue – as many do – that his presidential pardons were not a talmudic disaster. Lots of crooked Jews like Rubashkin and now Philip Esformes. So yes, I agree some of the Zionists are backing him, and think another Trump term would be a disaster for White racial interests. A Kamala win would be a catastrophe, but I think we are going in that direction regardless of electoral playacting.

I.M. Brute
I.M. Brute
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

I see a Trump win as merely delaying the inevitable. Sorta like pulling the band-aid off the scab slowly.

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

Agree, unknown effect beats guaranteed malice

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

Trump win will validate “Trump without Trumpism” which is even better for the oligarchs than the “Trumpism without Trump” they were trying to set up with DeSantis.

PrimiPilus
PrimiPilus
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

Trump, for us, is about maneuvering room. Respectfully, regarding the phrasing below by MyS, it’s not about “…saving the system from itself ….” If the Left / Elites / Ruling Class (whatever) gains full possession again of the formal seats of power, they will likely move quickly to ensure their position can never be challenged again. I believe that, if they do order into action the Big Cheat, they will simply accept any pushback as a cost of doing business. Who’s going to administer any real repercussion? The Republican Party? The courts? Congress? Academia? …. Media? None will, and if… Read more »

1660please
1660please
Reply to  PrimiPilus
5 months ago

You’ve described it as I see it also. If the Ruling Class wins this year, they will keep the borders open with impunity, encouraging as many future Dems to migrate in as possible, along with doing all kinds of other things to consolidate their power. I liked very much how you described Trump as the man leading us to the river. I still think he can fill that role.

Xman
Xman
5 months ago

I’m not a “conspiracy theorist” but let’s not forget that Buckley was CIA, like current “conservative” radio host Buck Sexton.

The CIA of course ran Operation Mockingbird. You can’t discount the possibility that “conservatism” has been controlled opposition for sixty years… hence the “purges.”

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

I thought Buck Sexton was some kind of space ranger

Eloi
Eloi
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

I thought it was some kind of gay porn name.

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  Eloi
5 months ago

You’re thinking of Buck Naked aka George Costanza

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Eloi
5 months ago

“My name is Buck and I’m here to capitulate.”

Mr. House
Mr. House
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

Yeah and then you had the Church hearings, which was the beginning of we acknowledge we “screwed up” but nobody goes to jail, nothing changes except for promises to do better

Arthur Metcalf
Arthur Metcalf
Reply to  Mr. House
5 months ago

Look into the Pike Hearings, held in the House at the same time. Very few have ever looked into it. Pike, like Church, was chased out of office shortly thereafter.

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

Maybe but I subscribe to Z’s greed motivation. If you look at the very early National Review, assuming it hasn’t been scrubbed, and you find a lot of what would now be called “anti-Semitism” and “racism.” Buckley was a staunch defender then of the right of association and was staunchly opposed to “civil rights.”

Buckley threw Buchanan under the bus the nanosecond the price got right. Drag $10,000 bills down a Greenwich thoroughfare…

ray
ray
Reply to  Xman
5 months ago

America has been a cryptocracy for sixty years, at least. The intel agencies have far more power than the Demoncraps or Repugnicants, per se. The old families and old money were invested in the Ivy League societies and sub-groups. The Identity Totalitarians slowly are taking over, even as the rank-and-file of, say, the CIA morphs from patriotic white men to women/feminists and the of-color brigades.

RealityRules
RealityRules
5 months ago

They aren’t conserving anything. They are clinging to an ideal that is used to destroy its manifestation. They aren’t conservatives. Nor are they on the right. They are leftists. The right and left are terms that have a specific meaning that comes from the French Revolution. The Left were the supporters of the egalitarian order and/or opposed to the dissolution of the Ancien Regime. The Right were the supporters of Tradition and its Order. Does Rufo support Tradition in the classical sense with a time horizon of thousands of years? No. He has one toe in the 90s and the… Read more »

Lineman
Lineman
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

If we don’t become Crusaders we won’t have any Traditions left because we won’t be here…

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Lineman
5 months ago

That’s a classic with a capital C, Lineman.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

If any post can be “important,” this one is. Well done.

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Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

Conservatives pay lip service to tradition while participating in the revolution, just like the French right of that time. Prevent a runaway— the purpose of both.

Didn’t work for France, they got Napoleon. Table being set here, doubt it’s a fit for our politics.

Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

Rufo can’t (seriously) answer the fundamental question: Who are your people? (He’d say Americans, which is why he’s a child or a liar.)

His Jewish patrons can answer that question.

Dutchboy
Dutchboy
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
5 months ago

A while back Rufo was asked by a black interviewer what was so great about being white. What should have been a slam dunk for Rufo flustered him instead. White people created Western Civilization, philosophy, modern science, classical music, classical art and architecture, etc., all of which have been extensively imitated by non-white people in the sincerest form of flattery. QED.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Dutchboy
5 months ago

That answers the question of what makes the white race great. However, that’s not the same thing as how great it is to be white. Right now, with our lands being overrun by dusky savages and our civilization being subverted by race traitors and Jews, it is decidedly not great to be white.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

“Western Civilization for Western Man.” Exactly this.

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

Spot on.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

“Traditionalist.” I like it, I can wear it with pride.
There’s a reason ‘conservatives’ are despised.

I like to be modern, and ‘with it’, but at heart I’m a traditionalist.
Nationalist? F**k the Empire.

Moran ya Simba
Moran ya Simba
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

Outstanding comment. We are traditionalists to the bone. We think the West should be overwhelmingly white to name one important issue. France should be overwhelmingly ethically French and so on and so forth. Men and women should not compete with each other, excessive aberrations especially in the sexual domain have probably been forcefully been marginalized for very good reasons in the past. And generally we don’t think our ancestors in olden days were idiots or savages so their customs probably made sense even if we don’t always see why immediately. And important things should not be changed without compelling reason,… Read more »

Alan Schmidt
5 months ago

Brunet has had a tendency of attacking people to gain clout for himself. In the past he has went after Martin and Auron MacIntyre (who made a comment that boiled down to “Brunet is an emotional retard and Rufo’s tut-tutting over Israel is ridiculous”). Also, a Hanania endorsement is a kiss of death. Simply put, we can’t take these e-celebs seriously as any leader of a movement. The best ones understand this and stay in their lane. While some are good at persuasion and optics for our message, and watching the monkeys throw poo can be fun, nothing is going… Read more »

Barnard
Barnard
Reply to  Alan Schmidt
5 months ago

MacIntyre’s explanation was much better than what Rufo wrote. The Zman’s line about the narcotic of minor celebrity is probably at play with both of them here.

Daniel Bernard Respecter
Member
Reply to  Alan Schmidt
5 months ago

I also don’t know much of anything about these guys but I think DeSantos made positive noises about Rufo. I did check out comments on The Denunciation. Brunet replied with a poll. Fun results.

ProZNoV
ProZNoV
5 months ago

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on it.”

Faux News is full of men and women like this.

Would you rather be right or would you rather be rich?

Until you’re in that situation, you don’t really know the answer. So it is with all temptation.

“I’d never cheat on my wife!”, said the man who could barely attract that one woman in the first place, etc.

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  ProZNoV
5 months ago

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on it.”

Almost

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

usNthem
usNthem
5 months ago

These old ex-hippies (plus a smattering of silent gen goats) can’t shuffle off the stage fast enough as far as I’m concerned. I’m sick of their progressivetard and conservatard bulls***.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  usNthem
5 months ago

Try visiting The Villages right now. Most are Conservatard, of course, but the retard is on full display on both sides. The letters to the local paper are hilariously out of touch. I try to be sympathetic to old people as I will be old one day, sooner rather than later, but, my goodness, it’s hard not to grab a pillow.

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KGB
KGB
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

That letter, Jesus wept.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

People flee shitholes, not thinking they carry shithole in them, and they wonder why it keeps following them. Not just Nicaraguans, either.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Marko
5 months ago

You can see dozens of the same in comments at Gayway Pundit, and any cuckservatard site. I’m well into pillowable age, but damned if I won’t off myself before I become so steeped in decrepitude.

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  3g4me
5 months ago

Stupidity > senility with those types. Age may amplify this, but it always was there.

Anglo-Welsh
Anglo-Welsh
5 months ago

“Moral clarity” was one of the turns of phrase beloved of the neocons c. 2002. I suppose it was only by using a mountain of dead bodies as their vantage point that they could see all of humanity’s problems clearly and so offer their tender counsels. Oh what wisdom, what benevolence.

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Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

The left-right debate is about who hates the past the most. That’s truly profound and it had the side effect of making me laugh. I won’t diminish the prominent role of raw greed, but moral and ethical cowardice along with a pronounced form of Stockholm Syndrome animate quite a bit of the goy grovel. In addition to digging the shekels stuffed into his pocket, Buckley loved the admiration of those who put it there and winced at their criticism. As you point out, he was a larger-than-life figure while Rufo is basically a sad footnote on the internet; Buckley also… Read more »

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
5 months ago

“Two ships engaged in battle as they slip over the horizon.” The two current parties are slowly, then to be quickly, becoming irrelevant to the dirt folk. I honestly forgot about the interview Cameltoe was scheduled to do last night. I heard that she reinforced everyone’s perceptions of her. Just as the people in the wake of Helene are rebuilding their lives without the help of the G, the rest of the dirt people are developing parallel groups that will help people to survive the ever increasing shit show. I don’t know who Rufo is, but he sounds like a… Read more »

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Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivner
5 months ago

Rufo is the one-trick-pony who puts together plagiarism charges against the “intellectual left”. He’s erroneously credited with taking down the former diversity-hire president of Harvard (so that the people who actually got her canned could continue to hide behind a curtain).

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Evil Sandmich
5 months ago

Nailed it. Rufo provided the cover and became the target so that those with the gold could threaten Harvard in the shadows. Take note that Gay was a beloved anti-white racist beloved by the same donors right up until she refused to take a truncheon to students who said unapproved things about Our Greatest Ally. A Tribeswoman was inserted into Gay’s slot, and it is likely the anti-white shenanigans are gearing back up. There is no way Gay’s ineptitude as a DEI hire, if not her plagiarism was unknown until October 7th.

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

Based on what we have seen over the years, plagiarism is rampant in these minority academic circles and likely approaches 100%. Of course, nobody really cares about plagiarism, when these people submit their work it can be checked for plagiarism like it is for high schoolers, everyone knows it is going on. Yet… this is useful for the elites as they have this person on a very short leash and can yank it at any time, similar to the petty corruption from all these minority politicians (like Eric Adams, putting his mayorship in jeopardy over some first class flights to… Read more »

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Mycale
5 months ago

Thanks for the gender correction. Yeah, the Right Rev. MLK was busted for plagiarism long after his Semitic masters used him like a crack whore. The history is indeed long and rich.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Mycale
5 months ago

Exactly. Seems most or all these faux pas’s we seem to hear of, like for the current Dem VP choice, are easily discoverable in the age of the Internet. Therefore, the logical conclusion is that they *were* discovered and pocketed for future use. Purpose is to control/blackmail the individual who obtains power when necessary.

It’s as old as J Edgar Hoover when he remained in office waay past mandatory retirement through repeated Congressional extensions/waivers.

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Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Jack Dodsen
5 months ago

Heh. Gay was Harvard’s Kamala.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Evil Sandmich
5 months ago

If I am correct, she didn’t get canned in the sense that we would understand it. She stepped down from her post as President, but she is still employed in her other role(s) and collecting her $900,000 annual salary. She was never punished for the intense anti-White, anti-Occidental, anti-American iconoclasm she engaged in during her reign as President. Nor was any of the institutionalized anti-White curriculum and moral foundation repudiated and made illegal when Ackerman and his buddies came in. This connects with an earlier comment about how it would be wise to lower the temperature on the part of… Read more »

1660please
1660please
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

Another good example of how these people are never held accountable. The institutions currently still have a lot of money to throw at those like Gay whose incompetencies and evils are revealed, and are forced out of one position or another, only to land on their feet somewhere else. I wonder how long it will take for that money to dry up, and what will happen then.

And it’s not just in the USA of course. One of the most stomach-churning examples for me is the former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern.

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Lineman
Lineman
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

Why would they be held to account when both sides are owned by the same group of people… It’s all theatre for the masses and yet everyone wants to continue to watch the show and laugh when the clown says they are all going to burn…Feel like the clown most days…

1660please
1660please
Reply to  Lineman
5 months ago

My Christian faith tells me that they will be held accountable ultimately, in a way that’s not to their liking. But that sure doesn’t stop me from wanting to see justice done in this world! And you know what?–with the way so many of those people are so far out of touch with reality, I sense sometimes that they will come crashing down from their big heights for all of us to see. Maybe not, but this web of lies which they live on can’t last forever. Tucker Carlson recently interviewed a journalist Mark Halperin who thinks, from his own… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Lineman
5 months ago

Lineman: Spot on. It’s all a show, and while both sides point and sputter at each other and the latest impiety, everything continues to degrade. I honestly do not give a sh*t who wins in November – regardless, the coming implosion is still the coming implosion. Trump’s old-style civic nationalism is based in the same fundamental lie which animates the left, and I reject it wholesale.

ray
ray
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

Jacinda Ardern, the Gretch ‘the Wretch’ Whitmer of NZ.

1660please
1660please
Reply to  ray
5 months ago

Both seem to be demons in human form.

ray
ray
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

In all seriousness, I think both women are demonically possessed, or at minimum overwhelmingly influenced by malevolent spirits. It shows particularly in the face.

Seemingly this is becoming a requirement for high office in New Amerika.

1660please
1660please
Reply to  ray
5 months ago

I agree completely. Others will laugh, but we’re in a spiritual war.

ray
ray
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

Yes.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

“…like Gay retaining her $900K sinecure(s) after being, “fired”)”. Every academic (as opposed to non-academic, non-PhD) taking a high level academic administrative position accepts a tenured appointment within an academic department as well as the administrative position. This is a de facto “golden parachute”. Most often, when the academic serves his “time” in the administrative position, he resigns and takes up residence at his tenured department—without pay cut! In my former university, this happened all the time, especially at department head level, with college Deans, University Presidents, and the like. It was somewhat of a scandal when the newspapers and… Read more »

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

“There is also the aspect of her race (which is why she got to be President), so docking her pay would simply raise the ire of Blacks. $900k is a cheap price to pay for silence on her part and to put the scandle to bed.” Bingo! This is a racial patronage network with traitorous Whites in a very strange position in the sordid coalition. This was more theatre. I still think this angered blacks who want to not just be at the head, but run the entire show. The interesting part of the coalition culling came in the primaries… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

So as a practical matter, I’d say it would be the local trade associations, co-ops, civic and private clubs to hobnob with, in building up a Grange coalition of interests.

Them’s the customer list to cold call.
They have things they want to get, and have things they can offer. As well, it would offer parallel economy opportunities for /our people/. These are mature, established orgs operating under the radar.

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Bilejones
Member
Reply to  RealityRules
5 months ago

This is one of many reasons why “not for profit” and therefore tax exempt institutions should be abolished.
A little more than cursory glance usually reveals whose profit they are for.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

$900K is extremely good advertising.
Yo! Negro, work with us, we be makin’ you as rich as Beyonce.

red October
red October
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivner
5 months ago

Left and right are slowly being ignored into extinction. “Where have they gone? I must hurry after them, for I am their leader..”. and to think it was the illegal immigrants who opened our eyes. They drive with no license, no insurance, if arrested, prison is a vacation for them. They do what they want and the authorities cannot interfere. Once you realize you can do without most things the government provides, it’s very freeing.

TomA
TomA
5 months ago

An example if I may. Dan Bongino loves Jesus. Just ask him. He will tell you that . . . often . . . and with visceral verve and an impassioned exclamation. And then in the next sentence, he will praise Israel for exterminating the vermin Amalek demons known as Palestinian women and children. It matters not that IDF snipers shoot children in the forehead as sport or burn patients alive in Palestinian hospitals or kill off entire civilian neighborhoods in Beirut. Dan is as morally pure as the wind-driven snow in January. Praise Jesus, Dan the Man.

Ploppy
Ploppy
Reply to  TomA
5 months ago

It’s been my experience that every single Christian who loudly tells you how much he loves Jesus is just doing it as a mask because he’s a pedophile, malignant narcissist, psychopath, or just a regular old asshole.

Wasn’t there something Jesus said about people who pray loudly in the streets instead of silently at home?

Dr_Mantis_Toboggan_MD
Member
5 months ago

These internet personalities and their silly feuds are entertaining to some, but it’s just feminized slap-fight ridiculousness to me. If they generally have a gripe, they should go to the Thunderdome, “two men enter, one man leaves” and settle it like gentlemen.

But they won’t. It’s all about the fake world online where people talk smack in a way that lets you know they’ve never been hit in the mouth and would cry like little female dogs if they were struck.

Anglo-Welsh
Anglo-Welsh
5 months ago

Rufo is also the classic ‘civic nationalist’ type who tub thumps for the world of the 1990s. Best to bracket him with Sohrab Ahmari as someone not to be trusted in the slightest.

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Dutchboy
Dutchboy
5 months ago

Ironically, the stuff Rufo fulminates against (DEI/transgenderism) are basically Jewish ideological creations. Pointing this out will get you exiled to the fever swamps of the internet and Rufo knows this. I suspect he is trying to create some cover to deflect the Jewish hostility his work would normally create. I am skeptical that this strategy will work. Normally, opposition to Jewish ideological efforts (e.g, DEI, transgenderism, Zionism) automatically makes you an anti-Semite and saying nice things about Jews will not absolve you.

1660please
1660please
Reply to  Dutchboy
5 months ago

Agree 100%. At the moment, Rufo seems to be comfortably part of the Manhattan Institute/City Journal, which features such wondrous intellects as Claire Berlinski. God knows what else he has done to ingratiate himself with them. He will minutely have to watch his vocabulary from now on.

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Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

I like Heather MacDonald, though. She’s one of those who cozies up to our side of the electric fence occasionally, and then retreats. To maintain her post, she cannot cross over, even if she wants to.

1660please
1660please
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

Yes, MacDonald has done some good work. One reason I highlighted Berlinski is because she seems to have clearly risen because of nepotism, and she has offered some howlingly awful conclusions over the years. And she’s not the only one there like that.

Zaphod
Zaphod
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

Haven’t read City Journal for I guess a decade now. Has Berlinski bugged out from Istanbul where she was under highly effective deep cover pretending to be some kind of flaneureuse cum deep thoughts scribbler for the obvious Israeli no such people? Hopefully she tripped over a rune in Haggia Sophia and skedaddled screaming back to Brooklyn. Ah no… A peek at Wikipedia puts her in Paris. Well, it *is* Cosmopolitan. Actually given that she left Turkey just after an attempted Turkish Spring and has also along with her brother done a stint living in Thailand (*) there’s a strong… Read more »

1660please
1660please
Reply to  Zaphod
5 months ago

HA! You seem to have a good grasp of La Berlinski. I vividly remember her making grand, penetrating conclusions some years ago about Turkey, based on what all of her Turkish associates were telling her, who, she let slip, were all pseudo-intellectuals (my term) that she met with in the Istanbul or Ankara cafes. Supposedly they had deep insight into what was going on all around the country, but she, and they, were obviously off base, and out of touch with people outside the big cities. There was also her rant about how the German rock group Rammstein was the… Read more »

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Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  1660please
5 months ago

They’re going to the Blowjob Bar in Phuket.
Sit down, buy yourself a beer, and…

Yeah, you don’t even have to look.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Dutchboy
5 months ago

Number one on that ideological list is mass migration, the Kalergi plan.

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
5 months ago

I think these beefs are a pretty standard aspect of the emergence of a new movement. On the Israel thing, I think Rufo is pro-Israel, Brunet is anti-Israel and McIntyre is steadfastly “not my fight” regarding Israel. The future belongs to the young people. Eventually, when the largely pro-Israel Boomercons fade away, the Millennials will speak. Not surprisingly, a lot of smart Jewish money is backing Rufo. He’s a businessman. So it fits. But I’m guessing the long-run center of gravity for Millennial “conservatism” will be McIntyre’s view. Our foreign policy is an expensive failure. “Morality” aside, we cannot afford… Read more »

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Captain Willard
5 months ago

The movement will evolve totally naturally into what about it suits the regime: neoreactionary obedience to tech/intelligence executives, upper middle class replacement by “high IQ” immigrants—a retvrn to meritocracy after the madness of DEI!—and as a sop to the white religious a repeat of the left-feminist “Christian right” boomer censorship campaigns of the ’80s-’00s (which will just happen to ban fascism and hate as well as free teen boobs and two rap videos).

MacIntyre is indeed our future.

Vizzini
Member
5 months ago

Rufo: It does not require a complex calculus to conclude that, in terms of both national interest and basic moral reasoning, America should support Israel over Hamas.  The entire purpose of statements like this is to short-circuit the process of doing a complex calculus regarding the issue, to shut down debate. I’m with George Washington, who, in his letter to the Hebrew congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, established America’s friendship with the Jews, in beautiful terms: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants;… Read more »

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Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Vizzini
5 months ago

moral reasoning His tweet has the word “good” in it something like ten times, so he’s moral. And good and rational are synonyms. Q.E.D., racists. Join antifa! A conservative who favors Israel for whatever reason has available to him a variety of arguments from history, religion, race, etc., even libertarian-economic “imperial realism” if you’re feeling super American—expansively reductio. Real Anglo-conservatives know all this and ignore it. Their claim is that the Isrealis are, to a decisive degree, “us,” creedal brothers in Western Civilization. Of course they aren’t. Ask them. But it’s a conservative claim—not of goodness but of sameness, of… Read more »

Schlomo Pines
Schlomo Pines
5 months ago

Rufo is a leftist by nature. Civnat who worships MLK. We see his nature now with this Stalinist denunciation. So predictable. So tiring.

ray
ray
5 months ago

‘They start by agreeing with the central premise of progressivism, which is that all people are equal and infinitely malleable. Hierarchy is therefore a construct.’ The truth is that nowhere on Earth, or in heaven, is anybody equal. Nobody is ‘equal’ to anybody else. Equality is the foul great-grandson of the Jacobins, which they termed egalite. It is the fundamental Lie. Hierarchy is the way of all Creation, but the inferior hate hierarchy, because naturally they come in last in the face of it. So both the Left and the Right cling to the lie of egalitarianism, because both the… Read more »

Dutchboy
Dutchboy
5 months ago

The attack on Buchanan was one of the things that started my move off the conservative plantation (I subscribed to both National Review and Human Events in those days).

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  Dutchboy
5 months ago

As did I.
No more
I’ve taken all the money I spent on those subscriptions plus Economist WSJ, local paper and a few more and spend on individuals I read.
Our host included. of course.

Major Hoople
Major Hoople
Member
Reply to  Bilejones
5 months ago

As John Rivers once said, support the media that supports you.

ChrisZ
ChrisZ
5 months ago

I’m not an avid follower of Rufo (although he seems like a decent guy who’s doing worthwhile work), and I’ve never even heard of the other guy. So this column is the first I’ve heard of their “controversy.”  I’ve noticed, however, that whenever the anti-Israel charge arises, conservatives trot out Washington’s Letter to the Hebrew Congregation like it’s a slam-dunk endorsement of unequivocal American support. But the letter is much more temporizing than they pretend. Here’s the concluding paragraph (which Chris Rufo quotes in the tweet to which Zman linked) with some usually ignored clauses emphasized: “May the Children of… Read more »

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
5 months ago

Once the “conservatives” in their various forms conceded American politics to the absurd doctrine of egalitarianism pushed by Harvard communists, and with it the fundamental right to freedom of association…the only question left was what kind of lipstick to put on this ugly pig…
Maybe when enough planes fall out of the sky and basic infrastructure collapses, what’s left of America may rediscover the fundamentals of civilization….But I’m not holding my breath….

Jack Boniface
Jack Boniface
Member
5 months ago
Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Jack Boniface
5 months ago

There are other versions that aren’t pay-walled:

The BRICS group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa expanded in January to include Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Egypt

Imagine thinking that holding any of those currencies for any length of time was a bright idea.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Evil Sandmich
5 months ago

This is the crux and the paradox of the current global arrangement.

As terrible as GAE management has been for the past twenty-plus years, the USD is still the cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper by quite a margin.

The extremely difficult problem for the individual is positioning themselves in advance for the day the USD is no longer the cleanest dirty shirt.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Evil Sandmich
5 months ago

Ethiopia? That’ll rock the GAE to its core.

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  Jack Boniface
5 months ago

I’m skeptical of BRICS. First of all, it’s a creation of American bankers, who started classifying these countries in this way to identify “emerging” markets in the 2000s. There’s not really that much right now that ties most of them together at the moment, although certainly American incompetence and belligerence has done much to tie Russia and China together. Secondly, as of now, most of these countries are basket cases. South Africa is in total collapse. India is… India. Brazil is turning into some weird judicial oligarchy and is still very much under the thumb of the Monroe Doctrine and… Read more »

Gideon
Gideon
Reply to  Jack Boniface
5 months ago

Arguing that BRICS is the future is about as valid as claiming the West has a future. Both ignore demographics. Brazil is a largely Africanized/Indigenized nation with a European minority most evident in the south of the country. Russia following the Soviet break-up has a declining Slavic supermajority somewhat analogous to America of the 1980s, and seems equally oblivious to its being in any way significant. India is a jumble of ethnicities whose inherent contradictions were once mediated by a strict caste system, but which since independence has undertaken to uplift its lower castes by affirmative action. China is an… Read more »

Zaphod
Zaphod
Reply to  Gideon
5 months ago

BRICS at the bottom of it is simply resource extraction, an export market for PRC manufactures, and a currency in which to transact both of these without Shlomo taking his customary cut. The PRC (and to a lesser extent, I suspect, but non-zero extent nonetheless) Russian ruling elites are smart enough to say one thing for public consumption whilst doing another for realpolitik considerations. The only danger would be that they come to believe their own BS in time and open their borders to the Brown Hordes. I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Meanwhile they can use the public-facing… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Zaphod
5 months ago

Yup. Even the dread BIS was a way to keep countries at war that hated each other accepting each other’s currency, as a ‘neutral exchange’ (that ever-so-luckily controlled the exhange rates.)

Arthur Metcalf
Arthur Metcalf
5 months ago

Buckley knew there were loads of cash waiting for him if he denounced the paleocons As did the Most Reverend Dick Neuhaus at First Things, who had fought with Tom Fleming at Chronicles a few years before and gotten into arguments over keys to buildings, etc., etc. He didn’t have to worry about that after his spat with Fleming. Cash Money Productions cut him a check. These clowns spent incredible amounts of energy helping Bill Clinton and the New Left into office in the US. Those of us from that era, I hope you spit at the mention of these… Read more »

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pecosbill
pecosbill
Reply to  Arthur Metcalf
5 months ago

After the impeachment of Cliton in 1998, the republicans held their house and senate majorities.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
5 months ago

A friend gave me a book to read, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, by Arthur Herman. Fascinating stuff. Earlier, less famous figures of the Scottish Enlightenment presaging the woke, the soft, the polite, the locust, even Marxism, according to the author.

My friend asked me, “Did we do this?” Yeah, I think we did— by mistake, by assuming our ideas are universal. I think it’s the Anglosphere take on civilization, still being worked out.

Anyway, good book. Don’t know if it’s well-known, and I’m only about 100 pages into it, but I recommend it.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Paintersforms
5 months ago

Mark Steyn pointed out that Scot engineers, a niche population, erected nearly all the large-scale infrastructure in the world. That’s why Scotty the starship engineer was a spot-on stereotype.

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Zaphod
Zaphod
Reply to  Alzaebo
5 months ago

Once steam got going, they were the stereotypical ship’s engineer too.

Hokkoda
Member
5 months ago

I opened this essay genuinely hoping to read about how regimes in the past systematically exiled or killed their enemies in the government and broader society after rising to power.

This was good, too. So consider this a reader suggestion.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Hokkoda
5 months ago

In search of a blueprint? (-;

Hokkoda
Member
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

Hard to believe they won’t try to stop Trump from taking office. But, if he somehow prevails, a purge is going to be needed.

Democrats are big on the reeducation camps and gulags. I’d like thought on how our side could do this since our value system is different.

Zaphod
Zaphod
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

A new word for the New World: κρυπτεία.

That Molon Labe sticker belongs on the Popcake machine at ye 3-star breakfast buffet.

Whiskey
Whiskey
5 months ago

I’d never heard of the other guy, Rufo I have heard of, he is useful in collecting some scalps. No, Rufo is not a savior. But we need to be realistic about our situation and our goals as non-Elite Whites. Our nation is gone. America is never coming back. There will be no ethno-state as mass third world immigration has irrevocably changed places like Springfield OH and Charleroi PA to a third world hellhole. And chain migration will only make it worse. There is enormous money to be made by subsidized third world labor on your tax dollar, so it… Read more »

Jack Dodsen
Jack Dodsen
Reply to  Whiskey
5 months ago

Reasonable take, but I suggest there is one huge fly in the ointment. California has had the rest of the United States act as a brake on its worst impulses. When the United States falls officially (vs. the unofficial version now), whether this time, 2028, 2032, whenever, there will be no brake to safeguard the van down by the river. It seems likely there will be de facto separations or whatever at that point as survival mechanisms. If you listen closely to Musk and to a lesser degree Ackman, they acknowledge as much. They at least pretend it can be… Read more »

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  Whiskey
5 months ago

The liars, cheats and frauds who start their most solemn religious rite with this can have no place in Western Civilization “All vows, and prohibitions, and oaths, and consecrations, and konamei and kinusei and synonymous terms,[5] that we may vow, or swear, or consecrate, or prohibit upon ourselves, •from the previous Day of Atonement until this Day of Atonement and …• ♦from this Day of Atonement until the [next] Day of Atonement that will come for our benefit.♦ Regarding all of them, we repudiate them. All of them are undone, abandoned, cancelled, null and void, not in force, and not in effect. Our vows are… Read more »

Bilejones
Member
5 months ago

So is it Burnet, Brunet or Burnett?
Just who is being anathematized?
Inquiring minds want to know, I’d hate to hate (or not) the wrong guy.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
5 months ago

So a new politics is coming. Perhaps. But it’s difficult to imagine what that may be outside of the centuries-old Left/Right dyad. If anybody has a clue, I’d be interested in hearing it.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
5 months ago

Heh. Stan Lee, who wrote the comic books, forsaw the Emperor of Earth: Kang.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Alzaebo
5 months ago

As in, “We wuz Kangz!”

trackback
5 months ago

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Greg Nikolic
5 months ago

The Soviet purges were actual, hardcore, no-bullshit purges. Then, they killed you outright or dragged you off to the gulags. Americans have a ways to go to match that feat. Let’s imagine, for a moment, a future liberal purge of conservatives … *** The sun sets over the mountains. FEMA Camp 15 is open for business. A train pulls up at the station, disgorging prisoners. These are the white-collar political prisoners of the second Kamala Harris term of office. Cameras are recording this for posterity. A 40ish man, who looks like a banker, has a giant letter “J” pinned to… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Greg Nikolic
5 months ago

Still pimping your blog I see….

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

He’d be better off flogging his log…

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Compsci
5 months ago

“All P’s, assemble over here!”
Face the wall, citizen. Pimpery is a capital crime.

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Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Greg Nikolic
5 months ago

**

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