One of the weird things about how the American empire operates is that there is a long waiting period between the presidential election and the installation of the winner, if the winner is not the incumbent. In most countries with elections, the transition happens within a week or two of the election. In America, the new president has months to wait for his turn at the wheel and the outgoing administration has months to do their worst, often with the goal of hobbling the next president.
The latter was on full display after the 2016 election. The last months of the Obama administration were used to set up the Russian collusion hoax, along with other schemes to prevent a smooth transition. The Trump administration was crippled right out of the gate, forced to go through the absurd theater of a special counsel to investigate what everyone knew was a political dirty trick. Between November and January, the fate of the Trump administration was sealed.
That is something to keep in mind this time. Like 2016, the political class was sure they had fended off the invisible army of orange Hitlers, only to find that their blue wall had crumbled once again. Unlike 2016 there was no way for them to claim it was fraudulent or illegitimate, since the results were conclusive. This may explain the relative quiet this time compared to 2016. By the standards of presidential elections, this was a trouncing in both the electoral college and popular vote.
It is possible that the energy has run out of crazy land. People want to think the madness set in during the 2016 election, but it started way back in 2000 when the people we call the left went nuts over the Florida recount. It has been a steady decline into madness for over two decades. That is a long time to sit in the pumpkin patch waiting for the conspiracy theories to be proven true. Perhaps they got tired of waiting and are making their way back to the fringes of sanity.
It is impossible to know, primarily because it is impossible for the non-ideological to understand the mind of an ideologue. The former group tends to the practical, while the latter tends to the fanciful. Most people think half a loaf is better than no loaf, while the ideologues look at such a compromise as a conspiracy against the tides of history and a justification for violence. It is why normal people are always surprised by how the ideologues react to events.
The best we can do is look for clues around the issues of the day. Project Ukraine, for example, has been central to the usual suspects for a decade. Trump is no fan of this project, and he is no fan of Ukraine. People tend to forget that Ukraine was central to his first impeachment. The people responsible for Project Ukraine are the main players in the anti-Trump stuff going back to 2016. They are also something like a drug-resistant virus that never stops trying to kill the host.
At the moment, what we are getting is the usual stuff from the usual suspects laundered in regime media as news and analysis. This Wall Street Journal story tries to frame the Trump plan as a choice between Russia surrendering or Russia giving Ukraine time to regroup and restart the war after Trump. This is the same narrative they have been shopping in one form or another for a year. In other words, the usual suspects may not have a scheme ready for Trump 2.0.
Another place to look for clues is in the antiwhite subculture. They have been weirdly muted for the past year. One reason is the backlash to DEI that took down a few prominent people. These were financed by members of the economic elite, which might mean money is drying up for the antiwhite bigots. This tweet from New York Times rage head Ida Bae Wells reads like a resignation letter. In 2016 these bigots were enraged by Trump winning, but this time they are despondent.
The antiwhite race rackets are worth billions, so there is no reason to think their relative quiet this time is a sign that they are about to fold up their tents and get jobs down at the local Home Depot. It is worth noting that crying “white nationalism” has lost all its punch over the last few years. In other words, their muted response could be part of a longer downward trend or simply part of a regrouping. Like the neocons, how these people respond over the next months will provide some clues.
Another area to watch to get a sense of what is happening is the media. Crazies like Rachel Maddow were slightly less nutty this time, but other nodes on the media rage machine were strangely sober. Again, the decisive victory this time might be the issue as there is no easy bogeyman for them to blame. On the other hand, the Biden debate performance and the aftermath may have broken whatever spell had kept these people within the narrative.
It feels like a lifetime ago, but the night of the Trump – Biden debate, it was clear that the chattering skulls were stunned to see that desiccated husk of Joe Biden drooling on himself and staring into the nothingness. It is possible that there was some sort of awakening among some parts of the media. These people are sociopaths, so no one should be optimistic, but how they react over the next months will provide some clues as to what is happening behind the scenes.
There are plenty of other places to look, but the reason it feels like there is an eerie calm over the battlefield is everyone expected the orcs to keep fighting, despite the results of the election. Instead, they have retreated over the hill and are murmuring amongst themselves. The thing to accept is they never quit. They will be back, so the question is in what form will they return? What path back to perfidy will they take in the coming months to continue the fight?
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To piggy back on your comment about the anti White machine slowing just a bit – I’ve noticed that at my company, we see less of this stuff. I remember getting emails about combatting hate when the Buffalo shooter thing happened, but then they stopped sending those after a number of negro shootings happened. I also noticed that our HR department has been strangely quiet during the election cycle. 4 years ago there were a lot of emails about recommended opinions. I’ve also noticed that board room promotions still have mostly Whites getting them, albeit more women unfortunately. I have… Read more »
I want to see the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ gutted and reformed into an agency that attacks view point discrimination. Go after corporations for firing employees who hold unpopular opinions. Facilitate class action suits against banks for cutting off dissidents. They can even go after state AG’s who use lawfare.
Trump should go after university endowments, which are nothing more than printing presses used to promote Marxist indoctrination and provide a cushy support system for Marxist parasites.
These endowments also permit universities to hugely distort their local economies. Between these endowments and gov’t subsidies there is no such thing as a recession in a college town.
Another idea would be a requirement that a certain percentage of the endowment must be spent every year on students and faculty…Harvard has obscene amounts of money, yet still charges a high tuition, albeit the lowest in the Ivy League…
There is a common misperception that endowments are without rules for expenditure—this is incorrect. You can easily look these rules up. I can even list them, but it’s long, varied, and complicated. In addition, most all endowments are under supervision by a Board of Governors, here in AZ A Board of Regents. That one does not like the rate of expenditure or what expenditures are made is another story. Harvard for example has perhaps the largest endowment of all. They charge tuition because they can, no because they have too! That is a value judgement you have made. I’m not… Read more »
It’ll be interesting if Vance or Miller understand this. I’d suspect Trump doesn’t.
Now, Trump does understand certain kinds of lawfare, but viewpoint discrimination probably isn’t on his radar.
Reform of Banking regulation should be a top priority (one of many admittedly)…Both the Federal Reserve and the Treasury should make it clear that de-banking is not permitted for any non-banking related reason…That could be accomplished by Executive order…
Or, Trump could simply stop the incessant rules and regulations that cause “debunking” in the first place—such as reporting/monitoring smaller and smaller cash transactions and the like.
“And,” not “or.”
Part of the puzzle of the Regime’s quiescence might be the realization that the Bad Orange Man, unlike last time, does not have to rely on the Vichy Right, and has a small but growing elite backing combined with a popular mandate, both missing in 2016, and might be Serious about purges to the Apparat, in which case the “Resistance” that they were so enamored of performing might carry consequences this time around besides mean Tweets. They’re truly afraid in 2024’s interregnum in a way they were not in 2016, because this Trump just might possibly have learned a thing… Read more »
Combine that with the rumor — which I believe — that Trump was literally a vanity candidate in 2015: Obama made fun of him at that correspondent’s dinner, and he got mad, and decided to avenge himself on the Magic Negro. The man has a dismaying ability to avoid learning in a lot of fields, but he understands revenge. If they don’t manage to roll out another shooter or five, the Dreaded Private Sector might be looming for more than a few people in the Swamp.
Trump learned one really big lesson: they will kill or imprison him at the drop of the hat. That focuses the mind.
I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s comment section. It is always educational and entertaining.
I just wish everyone on Trumps team(including Trump),would stop telegraphing to our(their) enemies what they have in store.
And make no mistake, they are our enemies.
Just shut up and do what you can.
Guess no one on his team ever read Sun Tzu……
Trump ran on a platform. Same platform as 2016. Horse has been out of the barn a long time. How bout you STFU.
I was talking about actions; (Firings, prosecutions, executive orders).
I wasn’t aware that was part of his 2016 platform, but thank you for the clarification.
Solid point. Political strategists seem to not have aptitude for strategy. Larger issue is – as you note – whether quiescent or not, the anti-western civilizational left remains the left. The civnats are out in force, reminding everyone “we’re all Americans.” That irresistible urge to kiss and make up, to trust the untrustworthy, will continue to damn the ‘nice guys’ to defeat. Because really, all they need to do is wait. Another 4 years, another few million Whites dead or demented, another few million non-White births. While some ‘silents’ like Biden and Polosi still cling to a simulacrum of life,… Read more »
I’m still puzzled by the Harris/Walz ticket. As the smoke clears from the battlefield, it’s hard to imagine a more hapless campaign. Was the DNC trolling its own supporters? As with everything that happens in AINO, something smells fishy about it.
I don’t expose myself to the MSM, but I am curious to know if they are doing any hard soul searching regarding that disappearance of ten million votes, or if – because reasons – that is something better left undiscussed,
My assumption has been that the “stronger” potential VP candidates caught the stink of Loser on Harris, and didn’t want to be associated with her, and thus diminish their personal ambitions. Walz, then, was the only guy who’d come onboard—he had nothing to lose, everything to gain, and (crucially) little in the way of self respect. It’s at that point that the characters in command of the party arrogantly figured they could troll their voters, and the country, with a certifiable weirdo. After all, they were already doing it with the ho at the top of the ticket. Good riddance… Read more »
But Walz just disappeared from the campaign in the last month…Perhaps didn’t want to chance questions about him sleeping with teenage boys, which is documented…
Agree, Walz was probably third choice. No one with plausible future political ambition wanted anything to do with that race. Harris is trash, her staff is trash (some personal knowledge here), and Walz will be an unperson in a week.
They were completely out of touch. They arrogantly and condescendingly thought the voters were stupid enough to buy their transparently fake bullshit. They actually thought that white men would identify with Walz because he was a National Guard grifter and REMF and that his fake pheasant hunting act would get the gun bros to vote for him. They actually thought that Howard University was the best place for their 25% black, 25% white, and 50% Subcontinental candidate’s election night HQ. One look at Harris’s campaign manager tells you everything you need to know about how out of touch they were.… Read more »
That pic should be in the Urban Dictionary next to “Karen.” Let all dispute end; that is it.
Lol, all the pics of left-tards in wikipedia should be ones of them wearing masks!
Another one of Hillary’s ilk.
These types are all over the State Department.
That scrunt burned through one billion dollars in October and now the Harris campaign is in debt $20 million. She’s as corrupt as Zelensky.
Both Harris and Walz were the worst candidates for high office in American history…it does like they were trolling the electorate…
I saw a tweet about those missing 20 million voters – guy jested he thought perhaps he missed the rapture.
All this is consistent with the Team B victory. (Team A wants White genocide immediately, while Team B is fine with White genocide, but became gravely concerned that Team A’s incompetence about everything would lead to America losing its power an ability to deliver Team B’s other priorities. Thus, Team B installs Trump.) The pause in vote counting in PA & GA, as well as the strange hesitancy to call those races, indicate that the media weren’t sure if Team A would get their ballot machines cranked up again. Unlike 2020, Team B were not going to allow it, so… Read more »
Both Teams A and B only need to wait. The replacement is proceeding at quite a good clip.
I think that surprises me the most (and I expected Maximal Fortification, so that’s saying something). I figured we’d have the equivalent of the Rodney King riots by now, if not Kent State. One wonders if, in the fulness of time, St. Kyle of Kenosha’s acquittal might not have been the turning point. If they think for a hot second that the people they usually thump with the full connivance of the cops might be allowed to defend themselves…
It’s literally the only thing that matters. Self defense has been illegal (de facto) for decades. If it were not illegal, all the cities would not now be controlled by those people.
One thing I am grateful for is that my acquaintances with Trump derangement syndrome are saying nothing about the election. The calm and quiet are much needed relief from the litany of regurgitated MSM shrieking about how Orange Man Bad!!! Especially since I’m in Canada, and it’s NOT OUR ELECTION. I hope they put a tenth of the energy into cleaning up the mess at home that they put into hating President Trump.
I see Biden is attempting to send 6 billion more to Ukraine. How much of this is really about sustainable support or just one more money laundering scheme for another corrupt cash grab kick back by Biden and his cronies.
Mostly the latter, with the money going to Raytheon etc…
Exactly. Most all the money goes to replenish US weapons stockpiles through US companies, while the remainder goes to pay Ukraine government salaries since they no longer have a functioning economy.
Zman, you’ve said before that the ruling class and its obedient servants only think one move ahead, and I think that’s at least partially in play here. Regarding the Biden debate: the entire commentariat had long before signed onto the role as uncritical Biden boosters, because that’s where the power was. When he befouled himself in the debate, the press reacted hysterically because it was an embarrassment to THEM: a clear exposure of their lies and gullibility, and thus an indictment of their credibility going forward. After the Biden panic, they eagerly switched gears to Harris because following power is… Read more »
Incidentally, we were given a window into this process in the final week of the election season. During the panic about how Trump had supposedly called for the execution of Liz Cheney, neocon Jonah Goldberg (formerly of National Review) denounced Trump (for the umpteenth time) on some televised panel. It was clearly a pro-forma denunciation, just following the herd (and probably following orders). But a day later, he tweeted a retraction, apologizing that Trump had obviously NOT said what Goldberg’s colleagues and he himself were alleging. So what happened here? Obviously Goldberg had never even heard the original Trump quote… Read more »
Unlike Napoleon, Trump won his Waterloo and did it in fine style.
The green hairs across the hall from me were REEE-ing last night.
Reading up on Grover Cleveland, there are some interesting parallels between him and Trump.
The most amusing coincidence is that Cleveland also married a much younger, very attractive wife. He was 47, which is also the number of Trump’s upcoming term.
Trump is now 47th to take the office, but remains the 45th person to be President as was decided with Cleveland:
”Due to this non-consecutive service, Cleveland is counted as both the 22nd and 24th president, while the total number of individual people who have served as president remains one less than the total number of presidencies.”
Confusing, huh?
I think Z’s ending metaphor is apt (glad to see he is taking the Blackpill again – a.k.a. facing reality 🙂 ). The anti-Trump hysteria is eerily lacking, but we can be sure the anti-Trump and anti-White sentiment has not disappeared. I would venture a few possible reasons. 1) Like a spoiled child being ignored, they recognize this tactic has lost effectiveness, so they are recalibrating. 2) Reality (slightly) knocked – they cannot fully project their Hitler fantasies, for they already had four years of Trump where nothing happened. To clarify, they still believe he is Hitler, but reality has… Read more »
It’s a pitch black night and two veteran soldiers share a foxhole somewhere on the front lines:
“Sarge, it’s awful quiet out there tonight” . “Yes, yes it is, private. Too quiet” . “Keep your eyes and ears open and your weapon close”.
The ability to gatekeep society with their HR mores is wearing thin but religious fervor like that only goes one way so it will be interesting to see what happens
Harris got beat so bad that FEMA sent her a $750 check.
If the rumors are true and Massie is going to head the Department of Agriculture with Salatin as an advisor, I’m more excited about this than anything. It’s the basic stuff that can prove to revolutionize a country.
I hadn’t heard that – truly would be potentially revolutionary. Would someone please gut Tysons and its mestizo pipeline asap? And someone needs to get rid of the womyn who’ve taken over the Forestry Service.
Extradite every Five Eyes operative involved in Russiagate all the way back. Make clear the Five Eyes are being gouged out.
Half of the crazies suicided as the election results were coming in and the other half is now on the way to Canada. With only sane people left, America has a very bright future.
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A small sample of friend/family anecdotal evidence is that TDS is still alive and people are still in a hysteria. Of course, these people are the blades of wheat that blow in the wind. If the wind blew the other way they would follow. As you say, what the leaders of the grifts do is another thing. They are not going away. The Trump speech was the usual economy economy economy. The economy doing well will unite us is his view. Same old mercantilist sentiment. With full bellies the plebs won’t fight. But what about the system that fills bellies… Read more »
More on topic, the excessive waiting period between Presidents is odd.
I believe it is an oversight on the part of the Founders. All of the Founders were moral, high-trust, well-reasonrd people who had bonded through their prevails during the Revolution. Those bonds were ironclad because their options were, “win or die.”
Because of the bonds they forged, I believe that the Founders simply couldn’t imagine a time as polarized as ours, with low trust between Presidential factions that would intentionally sabotage each other.
They would have recognized that once things got to the point where one president was sabotaging the next, it wouldn’t matter what the words on paper said about the interregnum.
It was a function of the travel times and communication delays of the day. Even in original 13-state format, the US was a very long country — people traveling from as far away as New Hampshire and Georgia, shuttling messages and mail back and forth, turnaround time was days long. It took time to put an administration together. It would be completely sensible to have an amendment to move the inauguration day to late November.
In the time of the Founders, there was a concept of “honor”. Indeed, men fought duals over insults to their honor. One’s word was one’s bond so to say. In any event, a person considered dishonorable was shunned and not allowed into “the club” of high status society. Sounds quaint in our day and age. As far as the wait between assuming office and election, it was even longer in those days as there was no “mass transit” and communications were via currier on horseback. ”The time between the presidential election and the inauguration was shortened with the ratification of… Read more »
You are overlooking the fact that Trump is Israel’s candidate. He is a staunch, maybe fanatical, Zionist, and he will give Netanyahu a free hand in his genocide and Iran war plans. Harris and Walz, however, are suspected as being closet Palestinian supporters. So the Israeli lobby would not support another stolen election, like 2020, and their support of Trump led to his victory.
Expect a very large Middle Eastern war, which could easily go global.
I agree Trump might give Israel a free hand vs the Palestinians but he does want a Saudi-Israel deal so that might temper his Zionist impulses. I am not so sure about Iran. He does not want any major wars. We will probably know when his cabinet picks are made. If he brings back neocon nutters….
Regarding Iran, the Pentagon likely will let Trump know that a war with Iran isn’t a choice anymore. Iran can hit back too hard. Effectively, we’d lose. Trump doesn’t like to lose.
Trump knows how to make deals where he wins and avoids deals where he could lose – and potentially lose very badly. A war with Iran very likely could result in $120 oil and/or a US Navy ship or two burning at sea after being hit by Iranian missiles.
As usual, American jewry gave Trump very little love back.
To Bob Sykes: There IS a very large Middle East war: Israel fights Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen and rockets flying from Iran and Iraq. The border with Syria is somewhat quiet, as Russians control Syrian airspace, while Putin has a well known sympathy to Jews thanks to his own history.
What if Israel picks a fight with everybody and nobody shows up?
Agree. I suspected that Trump would be allow a fair fight to win in the aftermath of Oct. 7 and the Left’s reaction to Israel’s attempted ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. The Jewish elite saw that they couldn’t trust the Left. Sure, they control the Left, but they had to watch their minions too carefully. The GOP and Trump, on the other hand, could be trusted completely to be 100% pro-Israel That said, I also suspect that the Pentagon is going to have a talk with Trump about our capabilities, Iran’s capabilities and how things might not go so well… Read more »
Not that they wanted it, but Trump’s victory offers the Democrats some opportunities, in a silver lining sort of way. DEI won’t be thrown under the bus, but it will have to go to the back of the bus (heh). Same with the worst of the tranny shit, although the GOP is already showcasing “sane” trannies like Jenner. Still, just keeping them out of women’s sports will turn down the heat, and diffuse the politics somewhat. Republicans will carry Israel’s water, so the Democrats cans hand wring over Palestine all they like, at least until 2028. That may cause problems… Read more »
I question if the president really has power to do much about trannies. It was a movement that grew mightily during Trump’s first term, kind of like DIE and BLM, which didn’t need his approval either.
“They will be back, so the question is in what form will they return?” Z’s point here is a bullseye. The communists were revolting in many places in Europe after WW1. Russia had already been conquered, the JudeoBolshevik (Trotsky) led Red Army was poised to conquer Poland and fully expected to sweep through Europe all the way to Lisbon assisted by communist uprising in Germany and elsewhere. However, the European working classes didn’t buy in. The Poles fought bitterly, intelligently, and successfully, and uprisings farther West failed. This was a huge psychological blow to communist luminaries. They basically carried out… Read more »
It’s revisionist history to say everybody saw through the Russia hoax from the beginning. I can speak to this from the perspective of a relative normie who was brought over the great divide to the DR by this very thing. Perhaps the DR recognized it as such from the beginning, I wouldn’t really know, but I can tell you most people were taken in by it to some degree or another, or were at least open to the possibility of it being true, and it’s what tilted the 2018 midterms in favor of the Ds. It wasn’t until after Mueller’s… Read more »
TRUMP 2024… I told you so!
🤣🤣🤣 All the nay sayers jumping on the Trump train “AFTER” Z gave the green light. 🙄🤡
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i never understood who this is supposed to be, little help!
Juice.
The liberal elites like confirmation from the people. They like to be cheered on. America is a perennial popularity contest, so it’s public figures like to bathe in the warm whisky fumes of approval. Situated between the coziness of TV and the fantasyland of movies, the average liberal fumbles a bit without public approval. This is a good part of the reason they try so hard to master the media. The liberal, born a loser in high school, wants to be one of the cool kids now. That explains their deafening silence vis-a-vis Trump. They have been rebuffed. — Greg… Read more »