For a long time now, there have been people on this side of the great divide arguing that the real source of power in American society is the media. The media has power because they control the moral framework and the discourse within it. If the media declares a set of facts unacceptable, then no one talks about them, unless they have a desire to be hurled into the void. The media controls what is allowed to be said, so they control how things are done and by whom.
On the surface, this was true, and it was always true to some degree. A popular political quip from the analog days was that “You should never pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel.” If the New York Times decided to declare a fatwah on you, there was a very good chance you were going to lose. This was why so-called conservatives and Republicans would crawl on their bellies to talk with the press, even though the media treated them as the official punching bag.
The model for this was Watergate. If not for media pressure, the political class would not have done anything about Nixon. The reason for that is they had no reason to hate Nixon, even if they disagreed with him. It was the media that made Nixon into a villain and then demanded the political class do something. Congress did not force Nixon out of office because they hated him or they believed he violated the rules of politics, but because they feared the media.
Ever since, the name of the game in politics has been to make sure you manage the media, which meant hiring an army of media consultants. Often, these people came out of the media. Of course, the media was an extension of the managerial class, so this new relationship created good jobs at good wages for people long on credentials and short on practical talent. This peaked under Obama when hundreds of media members got jobs in his administration.
This is why politics shifted from backrooms and onto the pages of the media, where narratives, narrative management and narrative collapse became the defining features of the public debate. The point of politics was to create a story, in which the hero defeated the villain and everyone clapped. This was to herd the managerial class into the hero side and paint the enemies of the managerial class as the villain. Politics was all about good guys and bad guys, as determined by the media.
In the end, American politics was like a Greek drama. The players on the stage were cast in their roles not by their actions, but by the commentary provided by the chorus, which was the media. It reached the point where in the Obama years, people truly thought “healthcare” was a thing that existed in unlimited quantities, but needed to be freed from the grasp of the monster called the insurance companies. Healthcare reform was a bizarre pantomime for the entertainment of Washington.
In the digital age, it went beyond the parlor games of the political class so that media power became the tip of the spear in the cultural revolution. Every activist declared herself a journalist and dedicated her life to finding heretics. Her job was to “report on the heretic” but her hope was that major media would pick up her “reporting” and have the heretic hurled into the void. Like every political terror in the ideological age, what started with the politicians was visited on the people.
This is when ideological and theological fevers break. People can suspend their disbelief and accept even the most bizarre moral framing, when it is limited to the action on the stage. They know it is just entertainment. Even when in the form of a lecture or sermon, they believe they can take from it what they will. When the directors of the moral drama begin dragging the people onto the stage, or off to the gulag, then the people can no longer suspend their disbelief.
The natural questions of all moral disputes then begin to appear. Those questions are “Who says?” and “So what?”. These questions crept up on the managerial class over the last ten years and they were never able or willing to answer them. This became obvious in the runup to the election. The media kept screaming, “Trump is evil!” and the people kept wondering, “Who says?” When they yelled about his alleged crimes and indictments, the response was, “So what?”
A great man once said that you will know that the revolution is upon us when a conservative waddles onto the stage muttering about the various “isms” and “who we are” and the audience remains silent. Then someone giggles, then another laughs and suddenly a wave of laughter sweeps the room. The great preference cascade is unleashed as everyone all at once seems to realize that everyone else thinks what they think about these ridiculous fools.
It is what we are now witnessing. Team Trump has started smashing up the managerial system in ways thought impossible. The media rushed to their pulpits to give their sermons, but the audience just laughed. The Wall Street Journal did the point and shriek at one of the DOGE kids and the audience not only laughed but turned “Big Balls” into a hero of the cause. The Vice President now goes on Twitter and mocks reporters who do the point and shriek.
There was a scene in the movie Braveheart in which William Wallace kills a group the king’s soldiers in an effort to free his wife. The last of them is the magistrate, who had killed Wallace’s wife. Wallace initially lowers his eye when he confronts him, then looks him straight in the eye and slashes the man’s throat. It is a great scene because it reflects the reality of power. The man had power over Wallace, as long as had moral authority, but he had squandered it.
That is what is happening in the United States. The media and the managerial class they represented held the moral high ground and people accepted it. This was the real power of the media. Then they squandered their moral capital on the cultural terror of the last decade. Their excesses not only damaged their credibility but also discredited their moral claims. They are now on the same level as the rest of us and we are cheering as the DOGE kids put them against the post.
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The media’s moral authority was doomed the minute the internet arrived. As the Derb once said, if there’s any hope, it’s in the comments section. As soon as people could comment on stories, they started pointing factual and logic errors in stories and opinion pieces.
Readers quickly realized how slanted or outright stupid reporters and pundits were. Twitter made it worse as we could see how these people thought and what they said about various topics, showing their bias and vapidity even more. The MSM can never regain their authority. It’s gone forever.
as are comment sections on msm sites!
The removal of the comment section from the dinosaur sites was the tell. “We decide, you agree” always had a limited shelf life.
Yep. It was capitulation. But it just made their sites even more irrelevant.
One of the early, kind of “dissident” sites I frequented was Takimag. When they ditched the comment section, that was it for me – and they had some pretty good writers.
indeed…and best commentariat ever (imho). when the horny old goat left the emag in the lap of his misbegotten daughter – that was The End.
Same here. Once that hissing harridan of a hussy, Mandolyna took charge and muzzled the site’s readers, I scrammed and haven’t been back a single time. To hell with her and her kind.
Cheese, forgot all about that site – just goes to show you, like Sportsball, that groupthink exercise, once you leave … it’s out of sight out of mind.
And good riddance.
Yes. AmGreatness had a comment section. At one point people starting getting chased out for violating rules. Talking explicitly about anti-Whiteism got you in the moderator’s purview. Then if you brought up, why is the ADL training the FBI and for what and violating the rules of power you would get chased out. Shortly after people saw that happening they closed their comment section to un-registered to chase out anonymity. At the time it caused people concern and despair. Clearly AmGreatness was/is there as a neocon gatekeeping operation. Prager could rant and rave on with his very explicit and belligerent… Read more »
Ah, “10/7” — outed a gaggle of these ‘conservatives’ as bloodthirsty keyboard killers. Prager, Kuntsler, Ace of Spades guy … braying for the blood of children.
Yeah, I think Ace of spades went looney tunes during Covid as I recall and quit that one as well.
Same here.
The best part of the old Heartiste site wasn’t the blog post, but the food fight comments.
Where are commenters such as Whorefinder when you need him?
Gannett papers have back door comment sections through Facebook these days. It’s not perfect, but the stories on our local paper are fairly active, comment-wise. People seem to behave better on Facebook as well.
Interesting. I have no exposure to Facebook, but it is particularly interesting that Gannet of all companies allows commentary there. It was the OG Woke.
The problem I found with Facebook before I left (years ago) was that commentary was overwhelmed by the numbers of comments. Most comments adding nothing to the discussion except to say “me too” or “I’m here”. Any posting of interest would, within hours, have 10-15k comments—making it impossible to weed through to find substantive thought and insight. The reality is that the “common man” really is not that interesting in his thoughts. With 2B+ users, you get my point. Perhaps it was just me and a misunderstanding of the tools available to weed through the commentary, but I gave up.… Read more »
Yep. Facebook also has a goofy way of displaying things. It’s hard to find your bearings. But my point still is that those comment sections may still be out there in some form and when you have stories that generate two or 300 comments, you can still get a sense of things by scrolling through them.
This I acknowledge, but the response of a learned audience to one’s commentary is priceless in improving oneself.
Comment sections on the MSM sites were always heavily selected/edited. What you saw was the small percentage deemed “acceptable” commentary. We still have such today on the Internet. Example, YouTube. Other media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, you are familiar with. I won’t comment on them as I don’t follow them, but are skeptical of their new found openness to commentary against TPTB.
The “Media” has always been a business, first and foremost. The Internet broke the traditional Media’s business model. From that point, the Media needed a new business model – so it adopted the Infomercial (from Ron Popeil and the Thigh-Master). This worked until the Coof vaxx, as opposed to the benign Thigh-Master, started killing folks. Had it just stuck to Lockheed Martin’s infomercials on killing foreigners, they probably could’ve made it work for another generation.
Popeil’s Pocket Fisherman!
If not for the internet, we wouldn’t know who Zman is, along with commenters like Citizen or Jack Dobson, Ostei etc. My daily stop here has replaced the editorial section in the newspaper. The same newspaper that purged Joe Sobran for wrongthink in the early 00s and demanded uniformity of opinion, which I’m sure they thought at the time was “settled” opinion.
“If not for the internet, we wouldn’t know who Zman is, along with commenters like Citizen or Jack Dobson, Ostei etc.”
Precisely. What I am finding is that for folk like Z-man, Substack is making a pretty good stab at being an accessible platform for outreach and commentary. Saves the work of maintaining one’s own blog.
“If there’s any hope, it’s in the comments section”. What a great comment by The Derb, and as usual, right on the money. Every story now is broken on the alternative media and developed and spread by lots of great commenters.
“The media and the managerial class they represented held the moral high ground and people accepted it. This was the real power of the media. Then they squandered their moral capital on the cultural terror of the last decade.”
I think the Managerial Class had the moral high ground because standards of living rose until the GFC of 2008-9. The nonstop incompetence since – stupid wars, mass immigration, government waste, corporate regulatory and legislative capture – has become too great for the public to ignore because living standards are clearly falling.
The GFC decimated the middle and lower classes and led to mass bailouts for the rich, it was followed by Obamacare that destroyed health insurance for most rank and file employees. Then it was followed by the Great Awokening that turned Whites into the greatest villains of all time that needed to be eradicated, the necessity of open borders (“One Billion Americans”), and “The Future is Queer” degeneracy. When you look at it in this context, it’s no surprise that we voted for a disruptor in 2016, but of course the managerial class doubled down.
Americans did vote for a disruptor in 2020 and 2024. But in 2016 I don’t think all that many of them did, relatively speaking. That year, Trump just managed to miraculously squeak by one of the worst candidates ever seen (up to that time), not so much because he was a disruptor, but more because she was so awful. Which caused the “deep state” to expose itself, which inspired people to vote for the disruptor. That’s my read on it anyway.
Trump (1916) proved that “it could be done”. He was the equivalent of the “bizarro” politician. He also proved—through failure—that the system was not to be negotiated with nor changeable through negotiation. And here we are today, a President with no illusions as to the system and backed by a similar thinking populous.
Americans voted for a disruptor in 1980, 1984, 1988 (Reagan’s coattails), 2000, 2004, 2008 (Change!), 2012, 2016 and 2024. They only got one in 2024.
I think that one reason, at least, that Trump won in 2016 was that the world had reached/passed a turning point. That year, we saw Trump in the States, Brexit in Britain, and the French electorate reject *all* political parties in favor of the unknown Macron, who ran as the candidate of an “Association” rather than a political party b/c French law makes it *much* easier to do that and b/c the political class had to scramble to find a candidate that the disillusioned, angry electorate were willing to vote for even if–and likely *because*–nobody had ever even heard of… Read more »
I don’t want to BE like them, I don’t want to be Mexican, or Muslim, or Hindu or homo. I like cowboys and Christmas carols, bacon and Bruce Willis.
Alas, I imagine Bruce Willis doesn’t like bacon…
I know someone whose insurance premium shot up to over 1000 Dollars a month with a 10 grand deductible. Paying North of 12 grand a year for insurance you cannot use for most things. Unless she has a heart attack or something really serious, she might as well not have insurance.
Depending on where you look, the standard of living started started falling in the 1970s, but accelerated greatly in the 2000s. If you lived in Pittsburgh or Ohio, it began falling in the 70s. If you lived in and around Detroit, it started falling in the 80s. Kensington is internet famous for the zombie drug footage, but Kensington was a working class stronghold up until the 70s. Kensington is loaded with shut down factories. So is Frankford (next to Kensington) and Juniata also next to Kensington. Philadelphia was a manufacturing hub. Manufacturing was a key industry in Philadelphia. We went… Read more »
Of course, the standard of living in northern cities began declining directly the great migration from south to north occured in the postwar years. The so-called “civil rights movement” radically accelerated the decline.
Well written Z. But for myself and millions of others – the guilty have been judged. I want sentences now, not just mere resignations and firings. These people must be made to pay for their crimes.
Filthie: Agreed, but surely you know by now there is no true justice here on earth. What will be sufficient (for me) is when the children of ‘the guilty’ – groomed since birth to have the right opinions, the right credentials, and the right friends – find their career trajectory to have taken a permanent dive. When all those princesses who got jobs at NGOs and charities in Europe find their ‘careers’ defunded and suddenly realize they were never more than cat ladies playing dress up. May all the politicians and journalists and ‘thinkers’ find themselves, in the last days,… Read more »
You know as well as I that the biggest punishment for these types is being ignored. They could care less about children and have access to wealth (albeit perhaps not enough to live abroad lavishly without the grift in many/most cases). They cannot endure and will not endure lack of attention. No matter how inconsequential these people may be, and most areutter irrelevancies, they think their “work” is important and that people hang onto every word they utter. The punishment is coming, and it is something that wouldn’t concern normal people, but it is devastating to them. You can see… Read more »
All true. Off topic but I wonder though… I’ve watched or read of the executions of corrupt leaders in other countries. We’re told that such things are merely political hit jobs where the incumbents eliminate their competitors and that the trials that preceded them are just shows and theatre. What if they’re actually legit? What if shitty grifters, murderers and fraudsters ARE being rightfully eliminated? Our leaders wag their fingers and scold that no one is above the law. It’s supposedly Part Of Who We Are. The narrative starts to crumble. What about the purges? Where hundreds of old order… Read more »
As an interim measure, a formerly alternative, now mainstream, elite is putting people into place to try to oust these monsters. Of course, the old boss same as the new boss thing is true. I think this new cabal is not necessarily hostile to us, and got scared by the types you described, but who knows? There are some aspects of them that are disturbing–neuralink, and so forth. But what you described is in fact underway sans the violence (so far).
Works for me.
They best get some religion along with those kitties, because hell calls their names.
Take heart! That is exactly what happened right after Vance smacked the Eurocrat crowd. The German got up to the stage and burst into tears, realizing their entire lifestyle is now poof. Everything they ever trained for is kaput. The crowd, in 101% solidarity, first applauded him, hugged the little man-boy, then stood like the clapping seals they are. Then they met in Paris the next day to start their long “resistance” campaign.
Harpy: a foul demented creature, half female and half bird, who can neither love nor breed, and who delights in tormenting caged males
The West is infested with them.
That would be ideal. But is it possible to have 14th-century justice in the 21st century? I’m not sure.
Do not lose hope: Human nature does not change! There is no lack of people who intend to get justice. It will happen because it must. It’s the way of all flesh.
Bingo! It’s just not enough for justice to be done; justice must be *seen* to be done.
Jim Acosta getting pushed out or demoted at CNN is a portent. Now he is calling for a press boycott of Trump because of Trump’s dismissal of the Associated Press. So much to enjoy here.
An emasculated anti Trumper trying to rally his colleagues to battle that they surely won’t enjoin. Good times.
Maybe join hands with that pathetic noodle boy David Hogg for reinforcement. Speaking of Braveheart, how about the scene where the King returns and throws that homo counsel of his son out the window?
Jim Acosta is to CNN as Aaron Rogers was to the Jets – an aging avatar of failure discarded because he was expensive and ineffective. The new “Acosta” will be a cheaper draft choice and is in training camp now.
AR will land with another team.
I imagine David Hogg as the geek in the freak show tent, biting the heads off chickens..
He can’t run from his name. Or his face.
defenestration at its finest
Defenestrated the depraved, he did. There’s a good lesson in that. Would that Trump discover his inner Longshanks. Come to think of it, he’s coming reasonably close to doing just that.
An epic scene. The sons wife telling him his line dies with him while she is prego with the Wallace child is also memorable.
It’s amusing to see how, when Bernie, AOC and so many others shriek about the audits hurting poor kids in Africa, or whatever, people ask: “Why are you defending billions in waste?”
The inexplicable wealth of so many politicians always was low-hanging fruit for people who claimed to be investigative journalists. The avoidance of these juicy apples is all you need to know about “media.”
The media’s handling of Big Balls was comically bad. They should have just ignored it. ‘A 16 year old kid did something silly and juvenile’ is not news. They just made themselves look ridiculous by repeating it over and over (while trying not to laugh) and salting it with a bit of ‘he said something racist too’
It also shows how evil they are. They didn’t learn their lesson with the smirking teenager Nick Sandman. They try to ruin the lives of young white guys for coin or political points. They should all be arrested.
The CNN segment with the three Karens discussing Big Balls was priceless. One of them even struggled to keep a straight face.
My guess is they all struggled to keep their panties dry, as well…
We are looking them in the eye, yes. This is an actual revolution rather than the intended Thermidorian Reaction. I expected best black employment numbers ever. What is not in question is that what we call the “Left” and their little helpers, “conservatives,” were utter media creations. Without a cordon sanitaire and deceptive packaging, what they are unfiltered is glaring and obvious and ridiculous. As examples of their ludicrous reality, look at the tiny European leaders gathering to discuss put ’em up, put ’em up, Putin, and the Democrats defending massive fraud to help themselves and their intended future voters.… Read more »
“It is hard to decide which analogy is best–the Emperor Has No Clothes or Freddie Krueger melting down.”
I’m partial to the breaking of kayfabe for WWF; or the whole audience realizing it’s all fake.
You can’t stop what’s comin’…
“Nightmare on the Naked Emperor’s Street” is an inspired bit of comedy gold in an otherwise serious and insightful post. The old liberal-democracy thing is indeed on its last legs. People have not yet figured it out, but they will sooner or later: One of the many things that democracy brought into the world is *total war* or what was sold as “People’s War,” where entire peoples–entire nations–went to war-to-the-death, with slogans for mass consumption like “Fighting evil” or “defending our way of life” and so on. Gone was the limited warfare of dynastic ambitions for this crown or that… Read more »
This is the whole point of the “Gulf of America” rebrand.
Of course it’s nonsense. So we’re the Army base change names, Mt. McKinley name switch, and ridiculous statues to criminal drug addicts in public squares.
It’s a power flex. Under Uncle Joe and Barry O we were told “it’s no big deal, what’s your problem? Are you a bigot?”
Same stuff here. It’s a marker to see who is on board and who is actually stupid enough to challenge power publicly over trivialities. (Plenty, apparently)
“Point deer, say horse.”
I love it.
Symbols are of absolute importance.
Symbols are indicators that positively define your program and give your followers something to believe in.
Correct. And the replacement of normal, white symbols by deranged and negroid ones, was a manifestation of the Africanization of America. We were being symbolically colonized and eradicated. Anything but trivial.
The fact that the standard of living has eroded around the country except for the counties surrounding DC has also not gone unnoticed by many proles. You go around DC and NOVA and it is clean and booming while the rest of the country is falling apart. Then you read stories about how it is impossible to fire a federal worker, none of them show up to the office anymore, and Brandon is hiring tens of thousands of people to make sure you get an audit. The media has tried to run cover for their outer party brethren in the… Read more »
Creeping enshittification of everything is the collapse.
90% of the country is running the Red Queen’s race only to find themselves falling further and further behind.
Of course I have empathy for the people who got let go before their probationary period ended, but . . . when life kicks you in the teeth you have to get up and move on. Anybody else here ever have to do that? I get the feeling that we are moving into a new serious perception of reality. People will adapt or get shoved to the side. The nanny state is unravelling.
I read an article about one guy who was a park ranger, and it’s funny that CNN chose him of all people to write an article on, considering he’s young, White (they’ve long boasted that the federal and state government was the backbone of the middle class for blacks), he’s a father, he’s not in DC but in like Idaho or Iowa, he seemed to care about his job, so yea this is probably the most sympathetic person you will find, but still it’s like… Our system is totally unsustainable and I don’t see anyone whining about the firings putting… Read more »
You won’t unless they can demand their own child gets the job
Mel Gibson was iconic in Braveheart, but that was a movie and the action was fiction. Luigi was the real deal. The former was entertainment. The latter was tangibly impactful. We’re not out the woods yet. Yes, Trump is making a big difference; but don’t get cocky, it may not be enough.
Anders Behring Breivik was/is the real deal. he left a perfect blueprint…
Who knows what’s in store; I just found out about so called realIDs.
‘They are now on the same level as the rest of us and we are cheering as the DOGE kids put them against the post’ It is a beautiful thing. I’m particularly fond of the screeching and railing. But this is to rid oneself only of Morgoth’s mouthpieces. Media is ruled by six corporations. D.C. intel oversees U.S./global media and entertainment. Both the wood and leaves of holly — Hollywood — are considered magical and are primary occult implements of pronounced antiquity. James Frazer’s Golden Bough, after all, is an enchanted wand hovering over the bloody rites described in his… Read more »
This right here. Excellent take. The need to zoom out like this is very real, critical. The Globohomo Empire has gone nowhere; it’s not been destroyed in the slightest. Nobody has “owned the libs,” at least not the ones who really count (actually demonic/psychopathic central bank owning, global ruling families). While hearing the screeches and seeing the squirm of the most visible and obnoxious of the central bank owners’ lackeys here in AINO is somewhat enjoyable, this ain’t anywhere near over. I believe it to be a serious mistake to overemphasize the importance of the kabuki, or Greek drama style,… Read more »
I can’t prove it, but I have this notion that Trump was Nixon’s revenge. Remember, Roy Cohn and Roger Stone were also Nixon people and close Trump associates.
Kool! a great man will always defeat any idea of social or government progress.
The media isn’t all bad. I’ve burst out in laughter at several NPR stories.
I have to admit that I was wrong about Trump 2.0, he’s going balls to the walls (I hope the momentum continues). As for the rest, it’s always a matter of ‘who’ rather than ‘why’ or ‘how’. Neither US nor EU have free speech. So it always boils down to ‘who’ is running the circus.
The Trump Crowd, during their 4 years in the desert and the nearly-fatal election campaign, finally discovered the Friend/Enemy Distinction. Obama jamming it up their butts for 8 years wasn’t sufficient apparently. This is the major change. The Mike Pence/Jonah Goldberg crowd is off in a $20/seat auditorium muttering about their “principuls”.
The Principles-Fest is nothing short of hilarious.
Yep. Exhibit One, Schumer trying to act like Vaclev Havel.
I believe Schumer is a reptile.
Not an alien, woo woo other galaxies. Just a reptilian.
Am I the only one here who thinks that Trump being cheated out of victory in 2020 was actually a good thing in retrospect? If he’d won, he would have been a lame duck second-termer and we’d probably be run by Madam President Kamala or some GOPe puke. Those 4 years made him good and angry and gave him a chance to “reculer pour mieux sauter” as we say over here (take a step back so you can jump further. As for Pence/Goldberg and the whole East Coast Rino crowd, they are even more irrelevant than the Wokies.
Many here have that view from what I’ve read.
Steve, you are definitely not the only one who realizes now that the stolen 2020 election was a blessing in deep disguise. The Lord works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. As recently as late summer 24 I was confessing Trump wasn’t very good at being president, but he was a thumb in the eye to all the worst people.
And backed by an army of deplorables. For now, at least.
Ben Rhodes famously said that the current generation of journalists literally know nothing and journalist just lapped up whatever they said without thought.
Journalists have always been whores, but once knew how to give the pretense of objectivity and play their role more believably. Now they’re the cheap hookers on the side of the street as opposed to the expensive callgirls you could at least pretend were proper ladies.
Cronkite, Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather were always cheap hookers to me.
The funny part is most of the media hacks still don’t realize their time is over and the figurative (and hopefully literal) gulag awaits. That said, there are plenty of jackoffs among the hoi polloi who lap up the “media” slop. On my way home yesterday, I passed an anti Trump/Musk protest of several hundred, sporting signs like “democracy dies with doge”, “president Musk was not elected” and “fascism has no home here”. Sigh…
“president Musk was not elected” Neither was Anthony Fauci “fascism has no home here” You’re right. Go home where you came from. Speaking of fascism (and the legacy media), over the weekend 60 Minutes aired a story where they did a ride along with German State Police raiding a home and confiscating a phone and laptop because someone posted a “racist” cartoon. X Link here: https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1891282314899910910 Two thoughts: 1) 60 Minutes is still around? Who knew? 2) German State Police raiding a home because of something they said, posted, or printed? Damn, do you idiots understand OPTICS? Do Gestapo or… Read more »
The Media/Deep State complex is desperate. Thus the all-out campaign to enforce censorship.
But “how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?”
As to item 1) 60 Minutes is still around? Hanging on ala SNL. Who knew? …and who cares? If this latest episode doesn’t put the final nail in their coffin as …ahem…serious journalism – I don’t know what will.
High time the Trumpwaffe descend upon 60 Minutes studios and arrest them for what they’ve been saying the last 50 years. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander…
“If not for media pressure, the political class would not have done anything about Nixon. The reason for that is they had no reason to hate Nixon, even if they disagreed with him. It was the media that made Nixon into a villain and then demanded the political class do something.” This is not untrue, but there is much more to the story. The insiders of the political class were driving the crusade against Nixon. The Watergate burglars were CIA assets. Woodward was a former naval intelligence officer who was handed the largest story in US history as a green,… Read more »
Right. I have even read that the reason the CIA decided to get rid of Nixon via Watergate was that he had said–in the Oval Office where he tape-recorded everything (except for 18 minutes, of course)–that he knew who had killed JFK, but it was too soon after that assassination to do another one, so they did Watergate and used the press instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_NughDXxf0&ab_channel=DocumentaryCentral
Good point. It will be interesting to see if the FBI’s JFK files reveal anything new. I find it hard to believe any relevant documents haven’t been shredded by now. Occam’s Razor would point to the CIA and/or the Mossad.
The ideological conformity enforced by the prep school to Ivy to MSM pipeline was/is a major weakness of the MSM. Whether that was deliberate or just emergent. Some of both probably. There is no one there who is capable of thinking outside the regime’s ideological frame even if they wanted to, which they almost certainly don’t. Which still wouldn’t have been a major problem if the regime’s primary interests weren’t 180 degrees counter to the largest demographic over which it ruled. That is the crux of the problem. There is only so long that such a regime can maintain legitimacy.… Read more »
Demography is still destiny. Trump may slow the Great Replacement, but he is unlikely to reverse it, almost certainly not in a four year term. That will take decades of persistent, consistent work, and it will be viciously opposed every step of the way, often by those ostensibly on our own side. The real danger is to be deluded into thinking that the Colorblind Meritocracy is viable because of marginal gains among nons in the last election. That had more to do with sex than race, and because TPTB only turned the fraud machine up to 7, rather than 11.… Read more »
It will require going after the businesses that employ illegal aliens and in general making life unsustainable for the illegals. I don’t know if Trump is willing to do this and it will certainly be opposed by the GOP establishment. We will never be able to make much of a dent in the illegal population with immigration raids only.
That is already happening.
Great schisms indeed.
And will the rebalancing of Western demographics take place in a few years or will it be spread out over several decades? Or will there be bloodshed?
the trouble with the media’s grand plan is it blinded the movement’s cadres with lies. the end result being an inability to recognize and adapt to the herd’s change of direction
True. They fell for their own propaganda. That’s the danger for all purveyors of propaganda. They too end up believing their own lies.
I will believe, deep in my gut, that we’ve truly turned a corner when no one speaks or comments (here or elsewhere) using “Hitler” “Gestapo” “Nazi” as terms of comparison for anything (speech, press, education, int’l relations). Most people today cannot remember what happened 10 years ago. In 1940 the US was 90% White. That damned war ended 85 years ago and I am beyond tired of people acting as though it was yesterday, or in any way relevant in 2025.
Indeed, the whole leftist argument seems to hinge on “we should do <i>X</i> because it’s nice”; to which we ask “Who says it’s nice? Who is it ‘nice’ to? Not me.”
Formerly they could appeal to authority on this (“The Regime says that it’s nice”) which while somewhat effective, also removed credibility from the Regime Bank each time it was used. Now they have <i>nothing</i>.
The Left’s ultimate authority is the professoriate. Once you conclude it is populated largely by deranged cranks, the authority vanishes.
Honestly, I can’t blame the media for removing comment sections.I used to troll on them myself and I’ll be the first to admit that some of the comments many of us made were over the top. (Especially when it involved black crime or some Darwin Award contestant who died in some tragic death.) We were pretty bad but it was a lot of fun. There were several occasions where we would mock some accident victim and then get in fights with family or friends in the comment sections. In hindsight, I wish I could take those moments back, but they… Read more »
whole time is that they are pathetic. That’s how they should be seen by us and they deep down know it too. They are a low race. And that’s ok. its some creepy weird alchemy that gripped the mind of the Anglo that he had conquered the world and now he can conquer human nature by turning these low people into us. there was a serious debate among serious people when the Portuguese first discover these people as to whether they were even human. This was a Christian world too; with serious people. No one is serious now and that’s… Read more »
My only contact with the MSM is on Memeorandum. Are they really being laughed at? I have a hard time believing that the majority of politics enjoyers are an AJAB belittler one month into Trump’s term.
Worse than ridiculed, they largely are ignored now. Irrelevancy is worse than laughter, although there is quite a bit.
Yep. As the saying goes, the opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.
That’s something I never liked about “Conservative Media” like Rush, Ben Shapiro, Breitbart, and Alex Jones. For 35 years they’ve said that the media lies and is libtarded, yet they paid attention to that same media all the time. Analogy: If you complain about the hot girl all the time, you pretty much want to be the hot girl.
Yes. These types are/were reactionaries, so it made sense for them to play video and audio clips and express outrage. The New Right is proactive in deed as well as spirit. Conservatives always were fakes, sometimes unconsciously so.
The Trump team should quit appearing on their shows. It’s long overdue; ignore them and starve them of oxygen.
Precisely. When Leftists warble on about the ostensible plight of negroes and pervs, my response is simply to give a Gaulic shrug and say, “Meh. So what?”
I really couldn’t care less what happens to them.
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