In every human organization there are things that are true but for one reason or another, everyone agrees to ignore them. It may be that these things are just annoying, like the personal ticks of the boss. In other cases, they are things that would put the organization at risk if people tried to address them. Human systems often must ignore things that contradict the logic of the system.
The American political order as established by the Constitution has holes that the Framers chose to ignore because they had no choice. The final results were a compromise between thirteen states that often had serious conflicts on things, conflicts that could not be reconciled, so they were ignored. The most obvious one is the issue of slavery that was resolved at a later date.
The managerial system that is under assault by Trump was made possible by ignoring things that were essential to its existence. The creation of executive agencies and who controls them is a good example. For fifty years everyone in Washington pretended that these agencies were a fourth branch of government. Trump has stopped pretending and is challenging a core assumption of managerialism.
That is the show this week. It is yet another way of looking at how we got to this place and why Trump can do what so-called conservatives had promised for decades but were never able to do. At the heart of managerialism was mokita, things everyone knew were true but agreed not to discuss. Like a body, the truth can only be hidden for long until it bobs to the surface.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Mokita
- The Political Mokita
- The Constitutional Order
- The Managerial Mokita
- The Trump Challenge
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The EO abolishing affirmative action could have been done by any of the GOP administrations before Trump but wasn’t. Kind of makes you think that the GOP wasn’t all that opposed to discrimination against white people at all, except rhetorically.
“Jobs Americans won’t do” wasn’t a GOP invention, but their voters fell for it much harder than the other side’s. They invented a race-unrealist mythology in which everyone but white people is diligent and hardworking, eternally gratification-deferring, devoted to the cause of Our Job Creator—and of course “naturally conservative.” The left calls non-whites our moral betters, because they’re not white. It’s axiomatic (made up). The right maintains, equally without evidence, that they’re all just better. It started plausibly, with the Japanese worker cast as our superior and inevitable replacement. (Remember?) They are marginally smarter than us, probably, and they’re nice… Read more »
I remember back in the day Republicans used to say in response to critics of globalist “free markets” something like, “Our American workers can compete with anyone in the world!”
Talk about a back-handed compliment. Instead of protecting the livelihood of its citiezens, an elected official exhorts them to work harder and at cheaper prices than EVERY worker in the world! And the reward for victory is, as always, LESS MONEY!
The idea was that America could always outcompete because it had people smart enough to run cutting edge capital machinery. Largely, we still do. But companies have taken their capital elsewhere. Why? America became a bad place to build capital. The ratchet effect.
Hard to believe that in the wake of atrocities committed by the judicial system to the likes of NRA, VDare, Alex Jones, and Trump, there is a single person who doesn’t realize the same kinds of forces have been brought to bear against business.
I know someone who works for Giganticorp. If he wants to promote someone, he has to create a new job, post it on the careers page, and (in theory, at least) make his outstanding worker compete for that new job.
The reward for an excellent worker is to compete with the world for his reward.
Yo do not hate them enough.
Yep, and go to Reddit’s depressing job hunting pages and see the other side of this. You’ll see all kinds of people complaining about being ghosted by companies that probably already decided to move an existing employee into a spot but had to post it online first to jerk around a bunch of desperate job seekers and then ghost them all. I’m sure this whole rotten game is due to some sort of diversity rules that say they need to recruit outside people if the company staff is too White or male or both. It’s hard to work up much… Read more »
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The term “free market” like nearly anything must be placed in context. If freedom means the absence of government regulation, the US has rarely had anything resembling liberty of markets. Consider the fairly simple cases of trade quotas, tariffs and the like. There’s a reason that, say, sugar costs many multiples per pound in the US as it does just south of the border. Avocadoes cost $1 each here; you can probably buy ten for that price in Mexico (at a guess.) Yes, I know there are arguments – many of them valid, I would even concede – for regulations.… Read more »
“I’m under no illusion that those laws are crafted to reflect the interests of the wealthy, and not of the average citizen.” I think you meant that the absence of those laws reflect the interests of the wealthy. We used to have such restrictions and they were actually enforced. The current neoliberal orthodoxy, advocated by the “Left” and “Right” alike, is why we no longer have such laws or just don’t enforce them. Whether the change in focus of the Left from worker’s issues to their support of the whole forest of pomo perversions and feminism was deliberately engineered by… Read more »
Grilling the pets Americans won’t eat!
More accurately, it’s jobs blacks won’t do: deli man, field hand, laborer, etc.
Before he was slapped into line, the last of the Old Lefties, Bernie Sanders, opposed increased immigration. He said, correctly, that “Open Borders” was a right wing position. The Wall Street Journal always advocated the free movement of labor as well as capital. Its always surprising to find woke people surprised that heavily Laitino border counties voted for Trump. Cesar Chavez railed against the wetbacks who were brought in by (Republican) farmers as scabs to break his union. Since the time of the robber barons employers have understood that diversity means disunity and a disunited work force is exactly what… Read more »
The sell-outs across the board then accelerated. There probably were far more earlier than we know.
Sanders was right. And not just him, even Clinton understood that illegal immigration lowered wages and undermined unions. Immigration has always been about importing cheap labor, going all the way back to bringing in Irish drunks who were paid in whiskey to dig the Erie Canal. In the past, poor immigrants were needed to line the pockets of the capitalists. The new wrinkle for the modern age is that today, the Democratic Party needs poor immigrants to keep the welfare state grifts running. They need constituents who vote for gibs to keep their bureaucrat-administrator CSEA constituents employed and to maintain… Read more »
The GOP is trash; I thought everyone had figured that out TEN YEARS AGO when Trump first ran.
It’s been trash since the conclusion of the Cold War. That’s when they abandoned their constituents and threw in with the Dems. Voila–uniparty.
It’s been trash since that monster Lincoln.
“For fifty years everyone in Washington pretended that these agencies were a fourth branch of government. Trump has stopped pretending …” ….. Those administrative agencies were unaccountable to elected officials. By being unaccountable, that meant that our votes had no meaning and couldn’t change the course of our government. It was impossible for this situation to go on and the entire impeachment spectacle, where Colonel (((Vindmann))) essentially proclaimed that the president was subordinate to the “interagency consensus,” hammered that home. Imagine that. Your vote means nothing. The people you vote for are subordinate to civil servants and that’s how they… Read more »
Obama signaled this at the end of his term. When discussing the horrors of Orange Man Bad, he said that the American “institutions” are strong enough to withstand attacks on it. That was the first time I remember hearing a government person talk about institutions like this, but this was the attack line they went with and continue to go with to this day. The entire Democrat party fell in line and that is why they are now in love with the FBI and CIA, because those agencies declared their fealty to the Democrat party and were handed the now-important… Read more »
Like everything else, I think the reasoning behind the establishment of these institutions was solid. You can’t run this government on a shoot from the hip basis, so there needs to be some kind of a baseline just to be able to deal with the rest of the world. They just didn’t think through all of the pitfalls and how to make sure that there were appropriate checks and balances on their power. I’m glad Trump is smashing them to bits.
Institutions (bureaucracy) rises to fill in the gaps for weak leadership at the top. In the case of Congress and the Executive branch, this was inevitable given the quality of our elected candidates and the massive size of the Federal government.
Yes, something’s got to give, but in reality the size and complexity of government must be reduced for any lasting change.
‘Obama signaled this at the end of his term. When discussing the horrors of Orange Man Bad, he said that the American “institutions” are strong enough to withstand attacks on it.’
Good catch.
Mycale: “Obama signaled this at the end of his term. When discussing the horrors of Orange Man Bad, he said that the American “institutions” are strong enough to withstand attacks on it.”
‘Divorcing’ Barack and Michelle Obama ‘Already Dividing Up $70 Million in Assets’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4299882/posts
“It’s far from easy to untangle a life of three decades with someone, but maintaining the illusion of a happy and stable marriage is no longer a solution. They both are of the mind that they will be better off on their own.”
So he’s going back to being gay I suppose. It’s a start. Maybe he can go back to Kenya next.
A new fascinating, but not surprising, twist to the DOGE drama is the Republican counterattack against it. DOGE is showing that the Federal government is primarily a money laundering scheme so what do the Republicans do? They vote to increase the budget. That is just who we are as a people! What we don’t do is return any money to the people in a rebate, whether 5k or 1 dollar, because our brand is built on fiscal responsibility. Think if all those poor. bureaucrats, lobbyists, families of politicians who need high paying jobs, etc! Protecting them is the true meaning… Read more »
I will say it’s not all Beltway scum. A lot of people getting fired by DOGE work in the hinterlands, think of say the Department of Agriculture, and a lot of those jobs are in red states and red districts. And those jobs are, relatively speaking, much better for people than government jobs in say New York or California from which there are many more options. I feel like Republican Congresspeople who represent these states and districts actually do have a duty and obligation to stick up for their constituents, and I also think that DOGE needs to understand this.… Read more »
Only about 15% of direct federal employees work in the DC area. The sometimes stated desire to scatter them throughout the country already happened. That 15% doesn’t include “NGO” employees though. Those are the ones who really need to go. However, the new hires, the “probationaries” who are being let go, well, if they are new and probationary that means they were hired in the last year or 2. Which means they aren’t white and aren’t men, and in overwhelming likelihood are not anything resembling “conservative.” So that politically, nothing is lost by letting these people go. Although I’m not… Read more »
This is an old ploy, best illustrated by the MIC. The military deliberately spread itself out into every State such that it built a constituency dependent on its local spending. Whether through bases, or production factories, every State will lose $$$ when the inevitable cutbacks occur. This given us an almost untouchable military budget, which we are seeing has produced little in the way of strength against our enemies. Pain will be felt everywhere. We cannot avoid the pain, only spread it around as fairly—and proportionally—as possible. Cut first, fill in the excesses later. Otherwise we’ll be in the same… Read more »
To some extent, it’s an old ploy, but you actually need, say, park rangers working at the park, and the parks are more in red states than blue. You need meat inspectors at the meat factory. It’s not quite the same thing as putting a weapon parts factory 200 miles away from the other parts factory when they could and should be next to each other, but it just so happens that each part factory is in a different Congressional district. I understand that we are all going to feel pain from the necessary restructuring. I also understand that Republican… Read more »
Park rangers – yeah, about that . . .
Ready your tiny violins and tissues, boys and girls.
I’ve seen lots of stories about essential employees who have devoted their lives to whatever agency, or they were doing life-saving research. I don’t think anyone is moved by the sad stories anymore.
Our local ranger on the river got promoted to a new position last month and got caught up in the layoffs. She’s a pretty girl, ought to find herself a husband.
We will still see her on the river, she told the news she’ll have more time to hike and float. She’ll be fine.
Yeah, like putting a Navy base in Indiana…
Or how about West-by-God Virginia? I shit you not; it really existed until 2015. Google Sugar Grove if you disbelieve.
Robert Byrd’s doing…
NTC Orlando closed up completely just at the end of the last century. This was recruit training – had pretty modern facilities and also had the nuclear power school. My friend was a LT who taught nuclear power.
Never really understood it – except that it was in a district that, politically, must have been punished for something.
Back when the libs were snickering about how red states were sucking more from the federal teat than blue ones, my response was to compare the situation to carpetbagging in the Reconstruction era. All that money came with strings attached which overrode local culture and interests, and the people getting it were essentially an army of occupation.
Maybe it was a dumb idea on my part, but no one ever offered a reply. I still think I was on the right track.
Even more so on the private side. Goldman Sachs placed their operations center (10s of thousands of of personnel) in Salt Lake City and helped turned the place from conservative to liberal overnight via the a massive transplant of libs, Jews and queers from New York City. Defense contractors and consultants in the far DC suburbs would be another example…turned Virginia from red to blue with not even a perfunctory rest at purple. On the international side, look at Ireland. Ireland circa the 1990s was a poor and parochial country, but also proud and traditional and Catholic. Then came the… Read more »
Lots of truth there. Missile bases and bomber bases are heavily skewed into the Great Plains and high desert. So are Indian reservations. So are “federal” lands. And don’t forget all those miles and miles of interstate highway that get damaged by trucks bearing freight from one coast to the other. Not many stop in the middle, since there’s so few people there.
Slashing the DoD (in charge of aggression) and the intelligence agencies (in charge of spying on the American people and toppling foreign governments) makes sense. Slashing the Forest Service (in charge of protecting our wildlands) not so much. I hope the DOGE boys and Trump start finessing their game a bit. The Forest Service is mainly staffed by white males, not girls or soyboys. N.B.: my son works for the FS as a geologist (he has not been slashed).
Have you met any of the forest rangers lately? Purple hair and armpit hair? Think i saw one the entire week i was hiking. This is just deflation people, its been put off since 08. We’re broke, its gonna hurt.
I worked for the Forest Service awhile. Decades ago. It was loaded with girlbosses. The smokejumping and technical gigs mostly were filled by white men.
Anywhere else they can hire a female, they do, just like the rest of fed and state gov. And like everywhere else, Team Woman controls the office environments, organizes speech ‘improvements’ (political codes) for Service-wide adoption, and all the rest of the woke totalitarianism.
Why doesn’t he try and get a job with an oil company eh? They always need geologists
Two separate issues here (I agree with you on both, btw): 1. cost-cutting; and 2. rebates. Johnson and the congressional cucks dislike both because they eliminate graft opportunities. As far as the rebate proposal, which is politically genius, it involves direct payments, which are difficult to skim. The only way to make rebates politically palatable is to tie them to something that can be skimmed and/or laundered: military increases, “aid packages” to Israel and Ukraine, and so forth. Johnson is a beta male, weak and pathetic and treacherous, possibly gay and blackmailed due to his so-called “black son,” but he… Read more »
‘Johnson is a beta male, weak and pathetic and treacherous’
Yup. Most men in Congress are of this sort, the type of male that women want in power, not the type of male the nation needs.
I totally oppose this rebate. The money should be used to pay down the debt and more importantly, not borrowed in the future.
It is likely this would cause another round of inflation. The government is borrowing like a trillion Dollars a quarter!!
seconded!
Who are we paying this debt?
If we are paying off bankers, I would just as soon dispatch the bankers.
I have no clue who is holding the bonds. But a large chunk of it is probably being used for collateral for something else. To what extent foreign central banks and foreign banks have the bonds either clear or as collateral, I also just have no clue. But if we start failing to pay the bonds, new buyers will probably not show up. The simple fact of the matter is the gov budget is way larger than the total taxes collected. There is nothing to “refund” since every single penny tax payers paid was spent. Even if they found 2… Read more »
DOGE can cut $1 Trillion of future spending annually and all it would do is cut the deficit by 40-50%. That’s how bad it is. As of now all it would do is send less money to the bankers going forward. We don’t need a DOGE dividend we need DOGE to stop the government from spending in this out of control way.
Conservatives seem unanimous about tax refunds from DOGE “savings”: NO DON’T GIVE IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE IT’S TAKEN FROM, GIVE IT TO THE BANKS!
Inflation is when the government doesn’t rob you to pay its friends. Econ 101.
Yes. Inflation is caused by giving money back to the people it was stolen from. Or so they claim. Never by spending fit anything that they can get a piece of.
This might be out of context for the post, but since somebody posted a link to JD’s posts on X and since this is a managerial debacle …
What most people are missing is that Ukraine to Russia is like Canada to the USA, but with a far longer history. There is no way we would allow a hostile power to pull off a takeover in Canada like what the USA tried to pull in Ukraine. Would we stand for Russian and Chinese soldiers on the Canuck border?
Not only soldiers, but also possibly nukes. We saw how America responded to a similar possibility in 1962.
Yeah, but the lefties argue that we didn’t invade Cuba. We just strangled them economically. I maintain that if Cuba was directly on our border and as large as Canada, we would have invaded at some point.
As we attempted to do with the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
The leftwing faction of the CIA stabbed JFK in the back on that one, so I suspect they were just setting him up to lose in the first place.
Maybe that answers my question above. The Cold War was not only the lifeblood and career of many an apparatchik, it was also a stable balance-of-powers.
Besides FDR and Stalin being socialist finks, that is.
Cuba was a marker to keep the Cold War intact. It ended, and Islam took its place. (But still, post 1990…?)
We’ve come full circle. Russia is once again the mortal threat to all that is good and holy in this world.
Well, we pushed the world to the brink of thermonuclear destruction. I dare say that was every bit as bold a response as Russia’s invasion.
Why didn’t we swat Cuba though? That’s been the daily bread for our overt/covert force projection since Smedley Butler. I really don’t get that one. Bautista had strong unions, universal healthcare, schooling, hospitals, investment-friendly, all the usual things the Left calls fascism.
Bautista just wouldn’t suffer Communists was probably the problem.
The Cuba question never really added up. An “agreement”? With whom?
Don’t forget the US bio labs in Ukraine. I’m sure their purpose was completely benign.
if we were going to take Canada, wouldn’t we be doing what Trump is doing? clearing the deck, but also establishing a major power precedent (via ukraine to russia).
Obliquely. However, for most of the Ukraine’s history it was either Russia itself (Kievan Rus’) or part of Russia/USSR. There is, therefore, a rather power irredentist argument to make for Russia annexing the Ukraine. Canada doesn’t have that sort of history with America/AINO.
uhm, canada and the US used to be parts of the same nation. i think the two situations are very similar, ri8ght down to shared culture and language.
Shared culture?!?!
Never seen anyone pooping in the streets in Canada.
FDR did pack the court, he just did it in a different way than he wanted to do in 33. By the time FDR died, all 9 judges were appointed by FDR, plus hundreds of judges across the US. All of the judges wrote the most important decisions which were taught in law schools. They all had clerks who would go on to be judges and lawyers and law professors. FDR corrupted the law far more than is recognized.
The “switch in time that saved nine.” The Court had a come-to-Jesus moment and decided the New Deal was constitutional after all…
‘A carnival of subversion’ is an apt description of America in the late sixties and seventies. Pedal to the metal for intel elements guiding media, especially television. We lived through an inundation, a saturation, of Prog and Feminist propaganda.
Now it is the cultural air we breathe, mostly unconsciously.
‘You can’t have multiple religions and also have a religious people.’
You cannot. It is the ultimate tribalism and cannot last. When Christianity (at the popular level) ruled the towns of the U.S., the nation was a far better place. Much more insulated from the widdershins paganism of D.C.
Ha, caught the new show you’re doing with Paul. Man, you’re looking pretty good and mich better than we talked IRL at Amren so long back. 57? 58 now? I got 20+ years on you but man, I started looking liked hammered crap around 60. You’re good to go, just keep doing what you’re doing (and it better include bicycles). Good show, I hope you and Paul keep it going for awhile.
On Twitter, I suggested to Paul that he call the show, The Ram-Z Show.
But thinking about it, I realized that the name had another meaning that might not be so great.
“But thinking about it, I realized that the name had another meaning that might not be so great.”
That is funny and the last thing I like to see 🙂
And there is another slightly off-color association.
An ironic name for a condom, seeing that Ramses II had something like 100 children. Talk about a father of his country! Everyone in Egypt must be one of his descendants by now.
I guess those goat bladders weren’t too effective…
Don’t discount they were effective. RII was Boss.
Many Kangs.
Is it a sign of a thaw that Mr man is peeping his head above ground?!?!
The vast majority of these agencies exist for the purpose of being glorified welfare handouts & shylocks. Its hilarious when environmental agents show up to do compliance checks on construction sites in the ghetto. You got bantu subsidized by taxpayers who destroyed the infrastructure that’s being fixed, there’s litter everywhere & they’re sitting on their porches barbecuing, fornicating in broad daylight & shitting in the street. That’s the backdrop as these agents stroll up to make sure there’s no oil leaking from the machines & dump trucks aren’t overweight. It doesn’t matter if you’re pristine as far as the regs… Read more »
Your reminder that these administrative agencies have deformed into judge, jury AND executioner. Z was far too kind in his description of what has transpired. Also, unless the reversal of CHEVRON becomes reality, they literally write the rules these thugs enforce, so lawmaker, judge, jury and executioner:
Criminal Enforcement: Special Agents | US EPA
“these administrative agencies have deformed into judge, jury AND executioner.” Yep, there’s no shortage of examples of this from the ATF in particular though thats no doubt because of the subject matter drawing eyes to it. USDA loves showing up to farms with SWAT teams & I only know that because I know a lot of farmers & both former & amish still in the community. Every one of these agencies is armed to the teeth with even less oversight & transparency than regular cops- ATF doesn’t wear body cameras, for example. When they kick in someone’s door & kill… Read more »
There was no turning back once the individual agencies had separate armed SWAT squads and itchy trigger fingers. It is so ghastly that we cannot wrap their heads around it. Yes, the “Right” is there, but there is no small chance that one administrative agency attacks another administrative agency’s thug team and a firefight breaks out between them. It is a miracle it has not happened already. The likelihood is an outlier agency’s goons rub up against a “Right”-cleansed one. How in the hell did this even come to such a point? I think as enjoyable as the last month… Read more »
“but there is no small chance that one administrative agency attacks another administrative agency’s thug team and a firefight breaks out between them”
You gotta admit that’d be pretty hilarious to see happen.
I could definitely see thoroughly rotten institutions like the FBI & ATF going off the reservation & doing something like this.
There’s a caveat to the slavery issue…Slavery was a BIG issue with a relatively small minority in New England..But what caused CW1 was the power of the Northern industrialists, who inflicted the punitive Morrill tariff on Southern imports and exports, mainly to and from England, to protect their own markets..Lincoln blockaded the Southern ports, which was intolerable to the rural agricultural South…Most people in the North did not want blacks moving there, because of the competition for jobs between the existing labor force, Irish gangs, and blacks…Lincoln said that the South could keep slavery forever if it paid the tariff….but… Read more »
The sharecropper system that emerged, first described by Tacitus, also proved to be much more profitable for the landowners, who had no fiscal responsibility for the welfare of independent blacks…
I was reading the comments regarding people who have lost their jobs. The week after my twins were born, I got booted from a maintenance job in a public high school. Good pay; supposedly hard to lose. The reason? The person in charge of the whole operation needed a job for his “Uncle”. I was the last one in, so I got cut. When I pleaded with the guy, explaining I had just had twins, his response was,”You’ll figure it out”. I did. Somehow, someway, my family and I survived. We laugh about it now. The crybabies who are weeping… Read more »
My list of things for Trump to accomplish: 1-stop the chemtrails 2-stop outgoing remittances or tariff them 3-free the farmers from the chokehold that Syngenta, Monsanto et al have on them, requiring them to only purchase seeds from the big corporations and fining them if they attempt to grow anything else on the land that used that seed. 4-stop all Federal ag subsidies, no more paying people to grow or not grow or raise or not raise things. No subsidized school lunches, no money for sugar growers. 5-Term Limits, appointed positions, 8 years lifetime total, elected positions 12 years lifetime… Read more »
If you could point in a direction I could get info on regarding your #3 point, I would appreciate it.
The biggest court case in the United States between a grower and agricultural biotech company was Bowman vs Monsanto. Bowman is a farmer from Indiana who, according to the court documents, “appreciates Roundup Ready soybean seed”. He bought Monsanto’s seeds and planted them for the first crop of the season. However, for the second and more risky crop of the season, he bought seeds intended for human or animal consumption from a grain elevator and planted these in his field. He then applied a glyphosate-based herbicide, effectively ensuring that the entire crop consisted of Roundup Ready soy plants. Monsanto discovered… Read more »
Hmmm
A dick move by a mega corp.
What are the odds?!
Thank you for the explanation.
And lookie here;
Justice Thomas was a former counsel for Monsanto.
How convenient….
Part of this dovetails with something I once heard from Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfieffer, who I remember is being something of a populist Republican. Some law student asked him about the Constitutionality of something and he just rolled his eyes. He scoffed, “Constitutional? If ‘they’ want something to happen it’s constitutional. If they don’t, then it’s unconstitutional.” Pretty accurate assessment. When “they” liked what was happening in the administrative state, the court gave the administrative state a lot of leeway. Now that the administrative state has been going too crazy for too long, the courts are going to… Read more »
I never heard a briefer or more accurate synopsis of constitutional law. What a grift that people go to school for 7 years to major in it.
Excellent show.
How did trump get so smart this time? Who helped him figure out these concepts?
I’ve often wondered how much of of this wisdom Trump has obtained through Melania, Ivana and the people in his circle he collected through them over the years.
As much as I respect those you name, they are not of the quality to advise at the level we see.
What Melania is and Ivana was, are cosmopolitan. They speak several languages, not just the Wokespeak of the East Coast political class. They know people who know people.
I once had palm read by Ivanka, very wise woman. The wisest. I can hook you up, for a price. But first, would you consider investing in this new crypto currency I’m starting?
Exactly. How do you think Martha Stewart elbowed her way into the in crowd. Or Trump, for that matter.
No, they aren’t. But many of the people who were able to get to know Trump through them probably are. Melania probably has a second cousin who is high in the Slovenian government and Ivana also has high placed family friends and relatives and whatnot as well. I bet he has heard an earful since Clinton decided to bomb Serbia. Don Jr. used to spend his summers in Czechoslovakia. I bet there are a few people in the government who have them on speed dial if they need something. And in those families, a lot of them discuss these sorts… Read more »
Excellent question. Who are these new advisors? Were they there during Trump 1 and now Trump 2 listens to them. Or is there a new cadre? Really fascinating question. Whoever they are, they are wonderfully hidden from public view. This seems even better as I am always suspect of those who like the limelight.
The obvious name to start with is Susie Wiles
Doubtless working her feminine wiles on Trump…
It was so bad in 2016 that Trump couldn’t find a Trump person to run his office, so he had to turn to conservacuck Reince Priebus. The fix was in from the start.
I don’t know what lurks in Susie Wiles’ heart, but she has spent a significant amount of time working for Trump and seems to be on board, and Trump also wisely kept her around after he “lost” in 2020.
She kind of scares me. The iron lady does get revenge on people who snubbed her. As in, making sure they lose elections or don’t get appointed.
Still, all pro and a tight ship. Nobody gets past her. People were freaked by the Zionism of Trump’s picks, but that, I think, speaks to a positive: everybody on the team is ideologically aligned.
(Plus, the techno cabal backing Trusk is Jish. Powerful friends.)
Effective. Tight. On the same page. Lethal if backstabbed.
I’d say you’re spot on that choice.
Maybe I should have put “start with” in italics. I’m not suggesting she’s the power behind the new regime. But if we’re looking for the organizational chart, we could do worse than start with her and branch out from there. She being a key face that was absent 8 years ago.
Wiles and her father, Pat Summerall, in a 1960 photo taken in their New York apartment when her father played for the New York Giants. “My children grew up without me,” he wrote. “I failed them as a father.” | Courtesy of Susie Wiles
She was the oldest of three children and the only daughter of a father who was an alcoholic and a mother who stayed with him, worked to keep order around him — and ultimately got him to make changes he could not make on his own.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/26/susie-wiles-trump-desantis-profile-00149654
She worries me.
I assume the advisors are attorneys Trump met during the years of lawfare.
OT Non-Mokita:
Z, you’re the best political essayist on this here internets. But you have some real competition from #48:
JD Vance on X: “This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say. For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn’t have started if President Trump was in office;” / X
PS – the new show with Ramz worked. Maybe next time lead with the cat…
The funny thing is I had a back and forth with a bigfoot account the day before and I used the exact same language.
Yeah, I saw that Vance post and thought those ideas sound pretty familiar. Vance people must be reading Z. Apparently, they’re doing more than reading Z.
I have to say that I did love the target of Vance’s attack. Ferguson is such a pompous D-bag. He’s the globalist’s court historian.
A country has no friends, only interests. – attributed to Charles de Gaulle
That conniving Frog dick gave his people the gift of black Algerian Muslims. Screw him and that attitude most of all.
Fook yes we have friends. White countries first. They are our friends, our family, our people. Reward your friends, punish your enemies, defend and hire (!!) your family.
I’m talking the White Trading Bloc. Everybody else, you gotta pay a ton extra just for us to notice you exist. Fook “fair”.
Fook Mammon, too, those ‘lost’ profits are the price of keeping a society worth living in. Not worth their cost.
Ah. A white comity-prosperity sphere. Lovely idea. But if it ever happened, it would be the first time in history. In general, we’ve been at one another’s throats rather than passing ’round the frothy tankard of white solidarity.
Can you imagine Mike Pence going on the attack like this? I mean, that man couldn’t give you a straight answer if you asked him what color the sky is. He’d start rambling on about our founding fathers and waxing romantic about the Constitution. 3 minutes later, you want to shoot yourself in the head.
JD doesn’t have to do that because he is speaking truth and he doesn’t have to tap dance to whitewash over unpopular positions.
Great show Z, and an important idea whether you coined it or someone else. The most revolutionary part of the past month for me has been the realization that for the first time in my life, my government is being run by a leader who is an actual human being, not an egregore created by a bunch of managers and bureaucrats. As hard as the problems facing us are, it is…heartening each day to know that someone is going to try and do something about it, rather than just hoping for am act of God to save us all from… Read more »
Is that what the Ft. Knox brouhaha is about? I think Zerohedge did a bit on how the LBMA, London’s gold repository, might be depleted as well.
I doubt more than a few people know for sure what the plan is, he seems to have learned that lesson term 1.
But when I see billionaires and governments making a bank run for their gold coins the way they have been since the inauguration, it tells me that as a peasant I should be looking for cover.
Yes. Intriguing… the physical gold moves. It hasn’t officially been part of monetary system for well over half a century.
Z! I FOUND IT (EUREKA!). Kivala language of Papau New Guinea. You are welcome, sir!
It was a good show, Z. I and I’m sure pretty much everyone else has seen a lot of it for ourselves… but sometimes it’s a great way to clarify and simplify so that you can articulate it. Simplified further, it’s a power struggle.
Could this current power struggle trigger a civil war?
Trump, either by conscience plan or not, has been careful to carve out massive exceptions for the military in cost cutting. I’d say it’s lessoned generally. Plus, this is an issue where most people who doesn’t have a government job are fine with the cost cutting. It’s thousands versus millions.
A good insight. Griller McNormie of course is as much an unabashed supporter of muh Defense as he is of muh Israel. A few things are currently off limits to Doge and I’m guessing those are two biggies. Nevertheless all power to them for rooting out and at least exposing the vast corruption elsewhere.
Ah, Mokita! I recall reading your post on this subject many moons ago and, following a futile ramble, typed it into the search bar at the top of the page and, bingo! So I look forward to listening to this podcast.
Sounds like a mosquito that got drunk on a mojito…
I was listening early this morning and heard “BOHICA” and that it was a term from the South Pacific. I thought instantly that it was a term used throughout the Navy, not just in WESTPAC. I really need hearing aids.
Lots of strange terms creeping into the Tradissident lexicon. Baizuo–a favorite of Zoar’s–is another.
I use Bai you. White right vs Bai zuo (white left)
Baizuo goes down well with a bit of baijiu and batsoup.
Bend Over Here It Comes Again
Given that you showed your face for the first time on RAMZ, I wish the two of you had promoted the reveal better.
You know, like the time KISS revealed their faces.
Great show nevertheless.
He was doxxed some time ago by the usual suspects. There’s a big hit piece on him, IIRC, at the ADL. Bunch of scumbags.
We’re all a bunch of hateful haters on the most hatiest hatesite.
Dear, oh dear, oh dear…
Saw you with RAMZ, So that’s what the Z Man looks like…
1) You have the archetype of the ideal enforcer; broad shoulders, thick neck and the physiognomy that says you could end someone’s life with your bare hands. Every group needs one.
2) The beard carries the mystique of an ancient Slavic wisdom-giver.
Would Z have shown his face if Kamaltoe was in office? Perhaps we owe this revelation, like so many other positive developments, to the Trumpening.
As someone who thinks elections generally do not matter, these little touches of reality make me realize how overstated that is in many respects. Political arrests would have exploded, no doubt, although I have nothing against them when “my” side is doing it to “them.”
We are now at the stage where both sides are okay with arresting the other side. Hard to picture a “republic” like that enduring for very long. Perhaps Trump admin/Republican reluctance to do so is the only thing still holding it together.
I expect multiple indictments and arrests as a direct result of the massive fraud being revealed. A republic with elections only can last as long as one side thinks if it loses the worst-case scenario will be the winner imposes its will via policy sans imprisonment and murder. That has ended. DOGE probably is a disguised way to extract revenge via very real crimes that would have been ignored a few years ago. Make no mistake that this has nothing to do with Republicans outside of someone under that banner being a victor. This is a revolution disguised as a… Read more »
I’m more than OK with arresting the political opposition for real crimes. I would be angry (but not exactly surprised) if it did not happen. Fraud, corruption, malfeasance, arrest away, sez I.
I’m sure he could intellectually handle seminary for Orthodox or Greek Catholic priesthood.
As long as he doesn’t paint himself blue with woad, stiffen his hair with lime, and run screaming naked into battle with his spear.
A Constitutional Crisis is the name we give an event that makes us discuss the thing we had all agreed not to discuss.
Mokita is good, but I prefer DeWalt.
Uno: Jesus don’t do Mokita.
Duo: I had a Mokita Drill once. Ran like a champ.
Is “ignoring the elephant in the room” the same as Mokita?
I agree that it is not one word.
We generally look at “ignoring the elephant in the room” as an error or defect in our reasoning. Mokita looks at it as a neutral or positive thing.
Delusion rather than an illusion, then, and that’s exactly right. We live in a nation built on a delusion that has become untenable due that rotten foundation. Some people did some things and some people with lots at stake woke up, probably too late but hope springs eternal.
Not sure if it was a good show?
The revelation of chancery courts, and that the role of Houses and Senates, are to resolve first the hierarchy of actual power is amazing. Society must have structure to function as society. The war on aristocracy was born in the war to replace monarchies.
The 17th Amendment replaced the hard merit system of already rich men being able to gain a stake in their society.
We replaced a natural elite with prostitutes who get rich after election, a guaranteed way to corrupt the entire system making it suitable for outsider control.
I have been a fan for years but was not expecting the Rasputin look
“The tariffing is going to be interesting,” Ain’t this the coolest time ever?
First time I saw Z Man.
Would.
And I’m a straight male.
j/k
Have a great weekend!