Despite living in the age of universal deceit, people still tend to believe that our political system works as advertised. This is most obvious with Europeans who comment upon American politics. They can be terribly jaded about how the world works, but still insist that Joe Biden is the guy driving administration policy. They may even acknowledge that he is a vegetable, but still insist he is the shot caller.
We just went through an election and people are stunned to learn that no one in Washington noticed it. It is business as usual in the imperial capital. The only change is they will have to throw sand in the gears of the Trump transition, but the purpose of which is to make sure it remains business as usual after January. Exactly no one cares that the people have spoken.
The main reason for this is elected office holders have little say in how anything is done, not even in how legislation is passed. This is done by an army of staffers, agency people, lobbyists and the semi-permanent political class. The people in charge are the people you rarely see on television or in the news. They are the people who make up what Sam Francis called the leviathan.
That is the show this week. The stuff we learned in school about how our political system functions has been reduced to nonsense. It sort of worked that way decades ago, but the full flowering of the managerial state has put the system in the control of the army of people who make their living running the leviathan. Elections are just something they now hold to distract us.
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We sort of ran a giant experiment since 2017 to assess the power of the nominal president. Trump 1.0 was a president who actually wanted to govern, that is to set the overall course. The result was incredible friction, rancor and resistance from the permanent bureaucracy that actually governs. Kind of like engaging the gear in manual transmission without clutching out first. Every sprocket screamed. The second experiment was a vegetable “president”. The system ran almost without a hitch. Together these two experiments were very conclusive; the president is like the king of England. He has very little to do… Read more »
A comfortable lie trumps an uncomfortable truth every time. However, I’d add that how the government was designed to work—and perhaps used to work—and how the government now works has a basis in the concept of understanding. Man’s innate need to understand. How the government is supposed to work can be explained to most people in a few paragraphs. Indeed, we were taught such in the 8th grade if I recall. It was a comforting fairy tale. How the government now works is unfathomable to just about everyone and lack of understanding is a horror all to itself. I don’t… Read more »
We don’t know who actually calls the shots. Sullivan, blinken? Maybe but maybe they have handlers too. It’s increasingly reminiscent of the Mob or maybe spy games. And I think the spy agencies are central to what’s going on
Though things were never as simple as an 8th grade civics class would teach you, it was much closer to the truth before FDR. FDR fundamentally changed the way the government ran. He massively increased the size and scope of government in the US, especially leading up to the war and the war years. Unlike previous wars where the government would shrink at the end of hostilities, there was no real dismantling of the war state at the end of the war other than reducing the number of enlisted men. We live with this to this day.
FDR was a piker compared to the foot in the door that was the Administrative Procedures Act. This is what gave us the federal agencies able to do their rule-making almost behind closed doors. Sure, they have to post in the now ~75,000 page per year Federal Register and allow for comments, but are under no obligation to read these comments, and until the internet, it was only accessible in Washington, DC and certain of the regional depositories. It also gave us the rubber stamp that is administrative court, which decides not whether you have violated some law, but rather… Read more »
I taught introductory American Politics for years, and when you teach the fundamentals of the Constitution to kids year after year, after a fashion you begin to realize that the actual government of the United States is so profoundly antithetical to what the Founders created in 1787 they would be shooting at it if they were alive today. The power structure of 1787, which created a federation of semi-sovereign states and a national government of limited and enumerated powers, was inverted 180 degrees by force of arms in 1865. Whereas the Bill of Rights begins with the phrase “Congress shall… Read more »
“Wickard v. Filburn… “ Isn’t that the wheat case from like 47? That is one of the most insane court cases I have ever heard of, but granted, I’m not a lawyer and don’t spend time perusing SCOTUS decisions. I was watching an interview with a lawyer and he said he had a conversation with a federal cop and the lawyer asked the cop, could the feds enforce prostitution laws in a city. The federal cop answered, of course. Prostitution involves condoms which are made in one state and sold in another. So there’s the interstate commerce justification number one.… Read more »
Yep. 1942, actually. Upheld the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act under which the government set farm commodity prices and imposed penalties on those who exceeded crop quotas. A guy who grew an “excess” amount of wheat on his own private property and used it to feed his own livestock was fined. The wheat never left his property nor was sold across state lines. The Court ruled that his refusal to buy wheat on the open market had an “effect” on interstate commerce and the penalty was upheld. Wickard turned the “Interstate Commerce Clause” into a blank check for federal power.… Read more »
I guess Roe vs Wade had, as Z-man pointed out, a moral underlaying which the public could get behind—pro or con. I’d say the solution/decision of the SCOTUS was in reality a compromise. SCOTUS did not decide on the issue as in yes or no, just punted to the States knowing that most all would allow abort in one degree or another. And so is was.
The Court simply applied the Constitution as written in the Dobbs case. Regulation of abortion is a Tenth Amendment issue pertaining to the “police powers” of the several states to deal with as they see fit. Roe held that the Constitution mandated that all states legalize it, which was simply absurd.
It’s incredible how many people don’t understand the categories in the 10th Amendment and how they were supposed to apply to the Constitution.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution…” Article I, Section 8.
“…nor prohibited by it to the States…” Article I, Section 10.
Easy peasy. In language a first or second grader could follow.
True, That’s how the Court got out of the original decision. But one must note that the original decision ignored the 10th and discovered a heretofore new “Constitutional Right”. There was nothing requiring the Court to change its earlier opinion. Hence it can be justifiably stated that the Court tossed the decision power back to the State.
When I think back to Wilson, ran on keeping us out of war. We go to war. Fed, income tax, and we are supposed to believe this narrative that his wife Edith ‘ran’ the place while the old man was a drooler. Right, is that story any more believable in hindsight than all the other fairy stories we were fed? I think not. The 19th Amendment, also during the ‘Wilson’ administration. So quite a hat trick of destruction for the United States. The first vegetable president to boot. FDR was bad, when combining Emperor Franklin and Woodrow Wilson, you can… Read more »
FDR was Wilson’s Navy military governor (de facto) in Haiti, there for the palm oil. He was lambasted as ‘the Butcher of Haiti’ at the time. Made a name for himself and was judged suitable to the task.
What the Euros also don’t and probably don’t want to suss is that they are living in heteronomy to the Blackberry Fruitcake Empire. Our power structure is their power structure.
I remember reading Charles Krauthammer in late 2016 who said that Trump was a “stress test” for Washington. I remember thinking much the same thing; Trump was a needed test for the complacent classes in Washington.
Of course, Kraut saw Trump as a threat and by “stress test” he meant that this would test Washington to how well they could contain a “threat”.
Once Biden “won” the election, we saw them breathe a sigh of collective relief, championing the return to “normalcy”. But it really wasn’t, these people spent four years getting high on their own supply, and came in with this sense of urgency to punish those who put them through that and implement as many zany schemes as possible to cement their control. Like they were making up for lost time. Hence the massive gibs packages, the green new deal masquerading as infrastructure, war against Russia, freaks like Levine and Brinton in the bureaucracy, total disenfranchisement of European descended people, State… Read more »
I think that actual government belongs to the permanent Bank. The bureaucracy are happy to obey What they have no choice but obey, and enthused by disobeying whom they can disobey to.
Once I saw that the CIA and Mossad rolled out ISIS yet again, just another way to throw sand in the works for Trump, I felt like I was actually the living embodiment of the “it’s all so tiresome” meme.
This is why I keep coming back, Zman. You obviously recognize all the lies and know how DC actually operates. At least half the civnats and cuckservatards who urge people to write or call a congresscritter must know that the letters are logged (and trashed) and the phone is answered by some bright young aide from podunk U. The laws are written by senior aides and advisors, and most of the time the congresscritter has no clue what’s in the text. He’s busy making deals and doing lunch and profiting off insider trading and wealthy lobbyists. The government is run… Read more »
Well written.
The collapse is the cure. The populace will have to have their lifestyles degraded to get them off the couch. I will probably not be here for the show, but I work with my kids and grandkids to help them get ready.
Burn it down indeed.
Had the opportunity to spend 2 days in DC for the first time since 1991. Hiked the monuments. The ominous presence of the Capital Police is ever present. The vibe is Police State and corrupting evil. No need to ever return under the present regime. Ozymandias writ large.
Bill on Capitol Hill was some of the best agitprop ever produced, in large part due to its timing. Just as the managerial/intelligence takeover of fedguv was finally succeeding, or you could say had just succeeded, late 1970s, this cartoon appeared on tv to teach a whole generation a completely false and contrary reality, a fantasy, about “their” government, as if the previous half century had never happened. It was most certainly deliberate, since nobody at the network could have possibly been that naive about the way things worked. It ran every Saturday morning for years and years, indoctrinating millions… Read more »
I completely disagree. This had been accomplished 30 years before the late 70s. Almost all of it happened under FDR. But I do agree with you that it was a masterstroke of propaganda. All those jingles are still in my head 40 plus years later.
“A nouns a special kind of word,
it’s anything you’ve ever heard,
I find it, quite interesting,
A nouns a person, place or thing.”
…damn it
“Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?”
“Hookin’ up words and phrases and clauses and complex sentences like, “In the morning when I am usually wide awake, I often go to the park and down to the lake, where I see the duck and the drake and sometim….”
Double damn it.
I wonder if Conjunction Junction was also agitprop…
AFAIK, there is a subtle distinction between agitprop and propaganda. While propaganda largely came from the Soviet state and Pravda, Agitprop was a different type propaganda spread by word of mouth from citizen to citizen. It might have originated in the state, but that was not the primary way it was supposed to spread. A kind of peer-to-peer propaganda.
The first two syllables of agitprop stand for agitation. Therefore, agitprop is propaganda intended to agitate the intended targets to action against the desired foe. Most history as it’s taught in AINO seeks to agitate non-whites to the destruction of all things white including the people themselves. The history, therefore, is agitprop.
If they did it today, there would be a singing potato named Pronoun Pam teaching the kids the importance of asking people their pronouns before talking to them. Perhaps they would add a cartoon villain named Miss Gender.
No different than Xiaoping in Beijing, which was the Chinese version given to students in the 1980s. Except in that version there are no bills, just really boring edicts delivered by various cadres. Chinese Socialism! The music is far less groovy too.
The bicentennial season of Schoolhouse Rock was the one with all the patriotic songs in it. A relative of mine worked on it. It was a hire-your-loser-friends project, since it was effectively anonymous. So I had one-sided records of a few of the songs, maybe test pressings for the albums that were never released. (My mother sold all my stuff while I was at college, and those have never turned up for resale.) I remember being told that one episode of the show was controversial with the FCC, but I don’t know which. They interpreted some will-of-the-people stuff as anti-bureaucracy,… Read more »
Dot is the craze, feather is passe. I think feather is inconvenient when all the emphasis is on immigration.
https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Our-Immigrants-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B0796XBPMS/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1K7G5Y2CDASUI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.24wdgUGkmz27E8325MffpajRqha1djzJj2_JmBG-oxCUphqUy4LWfvIF1X7VfE4q1cqRi2ttZ96OMMllLurNCxiCQrSXOkmGAjEZKjwdBs5uPcpokCzz88XgCIx9eWKpH89N1uh32_O6LR4o7fHSk2aP1HHhL4CA-Z-nRKhvQ9GK2M8gziMNMwKmeVTPuQcZCGX49G2sH4iQpajcY8huZlQWfaX-R7uwSC7lGWtQxZY.aQNWUl0i0pxTs0xmfDxeLPNtQdBqEv2fs8Q6BcH4qo4&dib_tag=se&keywords=this+land+is+our+land&qid=1733516893&s=books&sprefix=this+land+is+our+land%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-2
Read the excellent memoirs of Pat Buchanan, “Right from the Beginning,” and Robert Novak, “The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington.” They remember D.C. in the 1950s as a medium-sized Southern city, like Richmond. Then with LBJ’s Great Society and Vietnam War it metastasized into today’s Leviathan.
Yup. Presto Change-o baby, welcome to the Great (Welfare) Society, CRA ’64 and the ’65 Immigration Act. Phoenix rising from the alchemical retort. The ‘solve’ phase of the American Crucible, the great dissolution into warring tribes, races and sexes. Eminently manageable. Also, it was LBJ (Entered Apprentice, October 30, 1937, Johnson City Lodge #561, Johnson City, Texas) who captured the Executive for the mason/jacobin elements. That office has been either collusive or compromised since, and intel has called the shots for the nation. 1950s America truly was another country, bearing little resemblance to the ant farm being stage-managed now via… Read more »
I’d argue Medicare/Medicaid of ’65 and the rest of the Great Society had an even bigger effect. That’s what institutionalized a permanent dependent class of useless eaters, and inventivized immigration. How many border jumpers would we have if they all had to make it on their own? How many ghetto rats would we be tossing in prison if they had all starved because their deadbeat dads wouldn’t get a job?
Certainly Medicare/Medicaid is a major cause of the US being in the financial situation it is.
Goodwhites will get the gibs to the darkies somehow or another, even if they live across the ocean on another continent. And if we ever experienced a negro shortage they’d have imported some.
So long as they are giving away their own stuff, while I’d rather that not happen, I guess I’m OK with it. Don’t let them do it with tax money and call it a day, I say.
“Certainly Medicare/Medicaid is a major cause of the US being in the financial situation it is.”
Hell, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Us Boomers have not even started to use Medicare. Wait til I post the cost of my upcoming quadruple bypass surgery—and if that don’t work, my heart transplant!
You do that and the rest of us will need heart transplants.
I have less problem with Medicare than with absent-father welfare, which annihilated the inner cities and the black family a decade before feminism began in earnest to nuke the, well, nuclear family. (Meaning, dad gets to have his house ‘n family.)
Long before Sixties feminism and identity politics doubled the workforce and slashed wages, influential persons and groups regarded the Global Village as the goal to be attained.
The extended family, then the nuclear family, were broken. So elder care fell to those what broke it: the Federal Government and allied entities. Medicare is the corporate and bureaucratic answer.
Oh, I know. It’s going to be an absolute train wreck. I don’t know that there is any way out of it other than kicking government out of medicine entirely. Not just Medicare and Medicaid, but also VA, Tricare, Obamacrap, HMO and insurance laws, FDA, etc. Everything. Maybe even banning health insurance as it exists now entirely. There is no way that can possibly be made fiscally sound, because the customer is not the payer.
Good gods, yes to all of that, it’s breaking us.
I still think of the medical malls I heard about in Thailand. Not sure if it’s true, but apparently you can walk in and get everything from dental work to an MRI for really, really, cheap, since it works on a cash basis.
Med care should be like car repair; it used to be that the repairman would come to a sick person’s house with his black bag, rather than forcing the sick to travel to the big, infectious, inhumane, bureaucratized corporate profit center.
Alzaebo—old bastard here—that’s the way it was when I was young and grew up in NYC. Exactly that. Our family doctor lived a block down the road in his private home where the front rooms were made into an office for drop in patients. He actually made “house calls” and carried that little black bag. I hated/feared the guy since those house calls often were for my vaccinations. Doorbell rang, he came in and I ran to the bedroom to lock him out. Brings back memories. Saw him last when I was a young teen and visiting the old neighborhood.… Read more »
That was true into at least the late 60’s, @Compsci. Not the home office, maybe, my dad had joined a group in a professional building, but he had his little black bag and made house calls as late as ’68.
In these respects, I’m selfish. I don’t know where this is going, but I don’t want to be forced to go along with it. Socialize medicine any damn way you want it. As long as there is an option for me—as there will be for the wealthy class—to opt out or buy extended medical insurance to top off the government sponsored insurance. Right now, I pay for my own doctor, and I pay for an extended medical plan to subsidize (top off) Medicare. If I “wait” for treatment or diagnostics or a specialist, it’s voluntary on my part. But in… Read more »
Agreed. I just think insurance needs to go back to being insurance. Briggs had a short article outlying in concise terms what my dad explained to me in ’73, when the HMO law went into effect. Dad said if that law didn’t get repealed, going to a doctor would become unaffordable in my lifetime.
What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t – William M. Briggs
When the first born developed complications after birth—liver deficiency—common in premature situations, the hospital kept both mother and son for the required 24 hours, then *released* both of them with the admonishment to wife watch and see if the infant’s “jaundice ” gets worse. They sent over a nurse practitioner a couple of days later who declared an “emergency” and the infant was admitted as a patient for treatment of liver disease, although the infant was basically unchanged from release. We of course were concerned, but never paid a penny due to insurance. Years later I was made “wise” to… Read more »
The system will not reform itself and will resist any external attempts to do so as the immune system treats a germ. This is why BRICS and dedollarization are important. It will take decades, but without slowly starving the beast of financial oxygen, nothing can change. Competent white men shrugging off the military, et.al. is the most that can be done domestically. Trump is there to open normie eyes and rustle establishment jimmies, and that will have to be enough. Once things are bad enough one of two things may happen: the mob will rush in and re-enact the French… Read more »
It’s like Skynet in Terminator. It’s its own entity and nobody can control it. It’s self-aware, and it attacks anybody or anything who tries to control it. This is not the government they taught us about in high school.
Black pill here. There is another possible alternative. Trump is treated by the system as a stress test, or vaccine. Trump is successfully fought off and the body is strengthened against another bout of “Trump”. (i.e., reform)
I’m not sure if I agree with the “dedollarization will take decades” part. A slightly leftish trader vid pointed out China’s response to Trump’s threat of 100% tariffs to any BRIC dedollarizing: they’ll simply sanction us back. They’ll cut off most of the essential metals used in electronics, gallium, antimony, copper, etc., and then dump our Treasuries on the secondary market. Not just the manufacturers but the replacement parts for control systems will be affected, and our dollar will be a scrap of paper. They’ll exploit the rest-of-the-world market they’re trying to reach anyways, while we’ll need to work through… Read more »
The dollar only goes to crap if Trump follows through on his silly threat. Silly because even if we could bring all that manufacturing back on-shore, it would take years. And in the meantime, everyone is either doing without, including spare parts to keep whatever we already have functional, or is paying at least double, which means they have that much less for anything else.
All the dollar really loses is the ability to force inflation on the world. Congress’ deficit spending would impact Americans here and now, which is the only way to rein them in short of nukes…
Yep. In short you are saying dedollarization is in our own interest. I tend to believe this as well. If Congress had spine or true power, perhaps the pain might be lessened. If reform can not come from within, it must be imposed from outside.
Reminds of when people were saying that Obama was calling the shots over whether Biden stays or goes and who would replace him. It was ludicrous, but people believed it.
Hear, hear. The belief that Obama is anything other than a lawn jockey for the Ruling Class simply reflects a wildly misplaced belief that somehow the system works and elections matter. Obama’s Step ‘n Fetchit Act is quite transparent. The only reason to vote is to force the system to further discredit itself by ignoring the results if not outright fixing the outcome.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. What if the eight years of Trump are all just an exercise in letting them expose themselves? Trump trolls them with something a broad cross-section of the American public wants, they ignore him, cynicism builds. Rinse, wash, repeat. Maybe that’s what this is all about.
I suspect it is inadvertent but that’s the end result. Young white males refusing to degrade and debase themselves with military “service” is one early positive outcome. My fear is Trump was allowed to win to lure that demographic back into the meatgrinder, but that seems unlikely to work, fortunately.
I started to suspect that Trump would win in the wake of Oct. 7. The Left establishment couldn’t fully control their brown hoard and young liberal whites.
The GOP was rock solid for MIGA. (It’s also when the big money decided that identity politics was bad and colorblind civic nationalism was good. Funny that.)
Yes. Also note the UK and continental European governments are making similar moves back toward CivNattery. The Great Replacement/white genocide remain the endgame, but the GAE and its satrapies are going the kinder, gentler route and begging young whites to please, please die for aliens and corporations. It seems they got scared, so Claudine Gay and
Co. had to be sacrificed while attached to their Golden Parachutes.
Yep. The media always trots out these party “leaders” as though they have any real power. Don’t get me wrong. They do have surface level, day-to-day power over many people, but they don’t get to make the real decisions.
They’re like a beat cop. He can push around kids in the neighborhood, but when he stops the mayor’s car on accident, he apologizes and lets him go.
Listening to this gives me a big end-of-empire feeling. The imperial capital has become too bloated and corrupt to be reformed or to change. Eventually it just collapses spectacularly.
There might be some lessons, or at least an example, given by the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s. People left without pensions. Military not paid for months. Rampant looting of State facilities. Zombies going through the motions of a functioning State, which included a functioning—of sorts—State Duma. The difference here however would seem the local/indivdual US States, which have all the trappings of a complete and independent nation state. I assume they will step up and retain order within their borders.
Some of the oblasts managed pretty well. The better of the oblasts did about what I would expect from a median US state. Cali and Illinois and Mass will likely suck big time Wyoming and South Dakota might not even notice DC is gone for quite a while. Other than locals might notice a lot less personnel in the towns near Ellsworth and Cheyenne Mountain.
“Wyoming and South Dakota might not even notice DC is gone for quite a while.”
Don’t kid yourself. They’re all on the teat from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior.
Farmers and rural white people were the first people to get hooked on the New Deal government teat… they paved they way for the blacks to get on it thirty years later.
Fun fact — well over 90% of the “Farm Bill” goes to SNAP. What used to be called Food Stamps. The most recent one has an estimated 10-year price tag of around $1.4 trillion, and SNAP is around $120 billion a year. Do the math on that with just the baseline budgeting of 8% and see how much that leaves.
Almost all of the “Farm Bill” goes to keeping the useless livestock in the blue cities pacified.
Oh, and my dad remembered the days when the feds came around and shot most of their livestock under the auspices of what was probably the Agricultural Adjustment Act in order to keep food prices high. Yeah, my grandpa was ex-fucking-static about how great it was for ranchers.
just FYI. Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) is in Colorado.
Oops. Never really looked. Figured it was in those mountains west of Cheyenne.
Shoot, do they have anything other than Warren then? Have a BIL who contracted there a couple decades ago. I’m drawing a blank on anything else. Other than they are probably littered with missile silos, like SoDak is.
Whimper or bang…
I wonder too. A big external crisis like the war they’re trying to start could push the whole mess over. Or, just leave it alone and let the debt, corruption, and diversity deadweight eventually make everything buckle internally.
OT: If you believe the media, a white guy in a hoodie and with a smile on his face took out a corporate heavy-hitter parasite in NYC. Is that the beginning?
It just doesn’t really compute that the CEO of a half trillion dollar company didn’t have any kind of security detail. Which is the norm for folks like that. Even if all the customers are happy, they are still prime kidnapping targets.
At a lux hotel in NYC? They’re a dime a dozen there.
How do we know that incident wasn’t the system cleaning up a loose end?
Maybe the guy was going to get up in front of a room full of investors and reveal where a bunch of bodies were buried?
TomA was the first thing that came to mind…cheers!
“Exactly no one cares that the people have spoken.” This subject is worthy of the bully pulpit Trump has used to move the Overton window to the right in so many areas. People simply don’t understand the nuts and bolts of how our federal government works and how little of a voice we have in it. It’s a runaway freight train that does what it wants and nobody can do a thing about it, especially since people of our mindset are represented by cucks who stab us in the back at the first opportunity. (See the recent Mitch McConnell statements… Read more »
‘especially since people of our mindset are represented by cucks who stab us in the back at the first opportunity’
Ain’t that the damned truth.
As Napoléon rightly noted – “I do not run France; a thousand bureaucrats run France.”
Paul Simon sang about half a century ago: When I think of all that crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all But my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall “Crap” would certainly include what was variously called Civics or in my school, U.S. Government class. I had the unfair advantage of growing up in the DC suburbs and while my family was not even Outside Party connected, even a teenager could learn by osmosis via neighbors’ gossip or even the local media,… Read more »
He also wrote:
And I dreamed I was flying
High up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
I highly recommend reading “The Ethnostate” by Wilmot Robertson https://christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Ethnostate.pdf It’s part of the excellent Colchester Collection: https://www.colchestercollection.com/subjects/white-identity.html p. 201 “We must learn to filter noise through our consciousness in such a way that we hear the sense of what is being said without the pejorative trimmings, much as encrypted television signals destined for home satellite receivers have to be descrambled before we see the picture. We must somehow build an inner audio and video receiver that immediately recognizes and automatically tunes out false news. A first step is to amplify our skepticism. Nothing that emanates from a columnist, an… Read more »
Well stated. My response has been for a long time to listen and to play a mind game. The game is to analyze—almost simultaneously—the factual and logical inconsistencies in what is being said and the position taken. This knife “cuts both ways”. Conservative babble also is more often than not inconsistent or illogical itself. It is the pleasant lie that I spoke about above, however nonetheless deceptive and therefore corrosive.
Not everybody has all the information and reasoning skills to do that. The easier rule of thumb is to just assume everything is a lie until proven otherwise.
“The easier rule of thumb is to just assume everything is a lie until proven otherwise.”
True, but is this not the/an inconsistency I spoke of above? How does the average “Joe” know the truth to disprove the lie? So we’d seem back to the point of critical thinking skills of which, “Not everybody has all the information and reasoning skills to do that.”
I am not trying to be a clever Sophist here. Your point is spot on. I have no good answer and only expressing my own frustration. Those with better understanding should enlighten me.
You’ve either got a first-class bullshit detector or you don’t. The vast majority of people don’t. And that’s why soothing or flattering propaganda works.
Folks can get quite upset when you tell them something they cherish is bullshit.
One has to be kind of an a-hole to break the news.
Nobody broke the news to me. I just kind of figured it out myself, against my own will, by the by.
Not to mention the Jab. Slated to depopulate the Earth in due course.
The most difficult first step in applying critical thinking skills is identifying the unspoken assumption upon which the rest of the argument rests. Not an easy thing at times.
Alphabet is a perfect example of the bribery and corruption of the federal government. I’ve been having a problem with my adblocker on youtube. So I keep seeing scam ads. Just one scam after another. Google/youtube is being paid to run these scam ads to me (these are not youtube videos by a channel, they are the ads that run before the video plays. This also means you cannot link the ad and send it to a congressman or the FCC or any consumer protection agencies state or federal). WHY is this allowed to continue? Youtube/google/Alphabet should be financially and… Read more »
Probably true. If they have the ability to review and censor the, I don’t know, millions? of hours of video uploaded every hour, they certainly have the ability to review the vastly smaller number of ads they sell.
Just listening to this on Saturday morning but I have to say that P.J. O’Rourke, as much of a civ-nat as he was, was very capable of writing funny stuff. The National Lampoon of the late 70’s is a treasure of American humor. If reading “Foreigners From Around The World” doesn’t make you at least giggle, if not bust a gut, you’re probably bereft of a sense of humor.
Listening to Lavrov with Tucker, I do know one thing: the greatest goal of our Enemies dire has been accomplished.
The White world will never unite. The ties between East and West, potentially the greatest land (and sea) pan-White ummah are sundered.
As Lavrov said, they cannot trust us. The Union of the penultimate race has been killed dead in its tracks.
Note that this is the strategy behind Western warmaking for all of the 20th century: block any competitors from forming.
The overturning of Chevron by SCOTUS was perhaps the first glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel…Now we will see whether the lower courts will enforce that major precedent…
Well, I guess the short take is the blob needs to be eliminated somehow, someway…
A friend of mine sent me a meme with the top dog at the Pz company.
He’s Greek
And Jewish
What are the odds??
The Tennessee presidential candidate with the flannel shirt (who also took “six months off” to live down under) was Lamar! (with an exclamation point).
Probably was an East TN Howard Baker minion. . . but I am not going to look it up.
Has any presidential candidate who prominently used an exclamation point after their name ever won a presidential election? Jeb! (“Please clap.”) Bush is another notable example.
I always called him Jeb Factorial.
Jeb! is either 0 or undefined, since Jeb=0.
Wasn’t he the scumbag whose brother made a fortune building prisons (that is, corporate contract labor at 24 cents per hour) during the great privatized prison expansion of the Clinton years?
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/let-s-not-forget-how-lamar-alexander-midwifed-the-private-prison-industry/article_85cf6feb-a5b6-58a4-8716-bdb612df0fb0.html
Lamar! was deeply involved with the privatization of the Tennessee prison system.