One way to look at the last ten years is as the struggle of the United States to finally close the books on the Cold War and the 20th century. The reason Trump exists, and the managerial system has reacted in such a violent way toward him, is that he represents the end of the conditions that made it all possible. The return of a strong executive and the normal functioning of government is the end of the managerial system and everything around it.
The comparisons to the late Soviet times are compelling because the Russians went through a similarly violent process to escape their own managerial system and the ideology that controlled it. Like the Soviets, America is now run by old people trapped in the past, lacking the talent to adjust to new realities. Like the Soviet system, the American system barely performs basic functions. Like the Soviets, American political actors can only break things.
That last part is important. Reform by its very nature calls into question the legitimacy of current processes. The reason for reform is that the system is not working to the satisfaction of the users, so it must be changed. Good reformers, however, do not attack the core logic of the system, but focus instead on the parts of it that implement that core logic to maintain the legitimacy of the whole. Maybe it means new people or possibly changes to parts of the system.
Reforms in the late Soviet period undermined the core logic of the Soviet system, resulting in poorer outcomes. We see the same thing in America. The response to Trump in 2016 by conservatives and their party only served to sap the legitimacy of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Trump started as a vanity candidate, but by January of 2016 he had become the champion of the party voters against the ossified party leadership.
Similarly, the behavior of the media cratered trust in the media. Their efforts to cajole, convince and intimidate people into going along with the managerial class eroded all trust in the media. By the end of Trump’s first term, trust in the media had collapsed to the point where only regime toadies trusted it. The same could be said for the people it was defending. Trump won in 2024 because the main tools of his enemies had been delegitimatized by his enemies.
We are now seeing another phase of this as district judges claim authority over vast parts of the executive branch. The last month has seen these inferior court judges claim to have power over the hiring and firing of personnel, the budgets of executive agencies and the conduct of foreign policy. A judge just ordered the military to enlist mentally unstable people. To stop the future, the managerial class is now destroying the credibility of the courts.
Public trust in the courts was already at a nadir because of the abuses we saw in the Obama years and then the Biden years. When the court ruled that mandating medical insurance was right there in the constitution, the rule of law took a sharp turn into absurdity, but when the Supreme Court ruled that two men sharing rent and bed is the same as your parents, then trust in the law was in free fall. It only got worse in the Biden years with the lawfare against Trump supporters.
What we are seeing from the courts now is the breaking point. No one would dare poll on it, because they fear the result, but there is certainly a majority in favor of the Trump administration telling the courts to pound sand. The whiffs of Sulphur the usual suspects are always sure they detect are not real, but rather they are the floral aroma of Caesarism in response to the reckless behavior of the courts. When the rule of law fails, the people always choose the rule of men.
While this may feel like a positive omen, there is another lesson from the end of Soviet Russia to keep in mind. Russia at the end of communism was a poor country, but a lawful country. It had rules that the people tried to respect. It then entered a period where it was a poorer country and a lawless one. When trust in the system collapsed, trust in the rules collapsed with it. It was only when a new elite emerged to impose a new system and new rules that lawfulness returned.
In other words, this dip into lawlessness we are seeing could very well portend a general descent into lawlessness. Like post-Soviet Russia, we could very well be entering a period where we get poorer as the rule of law collapses. Unlike Russia, America is not a homogenous society with a thousand years of history. America is a diverse country which is a polite way of saying it is a collection of people who would just as soon not share a country with one another.
If the elites backing Trump’s reforms wish to avoid a terrible end to their reform effort, they are going to need to deal with these hothouse radicals on the bench who cannot grasp the danger of their actions. The challenge, as with all reforms, is in dealing with the problem while not undermining the legitimacy of the system. These judges think they are heroes defending the system against the monster, when in reality they are a cancer threatening the last functioning part of the system.
It is not an easy task, which is why most reform efforts fail. In the end, it turns out to be easier to scrap the old and replace it with something new, but the problem is no one can predict who will win and who will lose in that process. It is why the reform is always the safe choice, despite the dismal record. It promises predictable winners. If today’s reformers want to be winners, then these judges need to be made into losers, without making the rule of law a loser as well.
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And why are so many of these judges foreigners? This alone should be a deal-breaker. If someone wasn’t legally born in the United States to American parents, they shouldn’t be sitting on any bench, period.
Institutions are downstream from culture which is downstream from biology.
Imagine a hypothetical Judge Williams on the 2nd Circuit in Hangzhou, China, ruling that lawless Nigerian gangs must stay in Hangzhou. Justice Williams would be removed or killed and Chinese would be racist against white people forever.
JK, the Chinese would never allow a white man to be a judge, even if he was a Chinese citizen and spoke perfect Mandarin.
Exactly. And luckily for China, this also rules out (((fellow Chinese))).
This could not happen in China. Why? Because China is not a “democracy”, but rather rule of an elite body, or rather the CCP. A country of 1.4B ruled perhaps by a clique of a few dozen people. Example, the ruling political body, the PSG, constitutes *7* people.
So, like the US but just more obvious and up front about it.
That has been the biggest surprise in all this, as bad as I thought things were, I didn’t know we so many judges who are in no meaningful way Americans. The biggest reason I think Roberts will try to defend the judges as best he can is that they are members in good standing of the blob and he has devoted his life to defending the blob. The one judge’s wife was praised by the Biden Admin for opening an abortion mill in Virginia and is on various boards in the area. Every time a blob member does something like… Read more »
It’s a nightmare to imagine what they have on that mush. It will take ignoring the courts to move the ball forward.
Nobody has anything on anybody. Roberts acts how he acts because that’s how he is.
The ruling class isn’t bullied into hating and mistreating you. It is hating and mistreating you. That’s the vocation.
And they knew that this was how it would go, that it would end in Trump (the people) vs. the judges. In preparation, “kritarchy” was made a white nationalist antisemitic trope—in 2019. Timely! Remember?
This. I do not understand why so many assume someone ‘has something’ on someone else to account for their anti-White or anti-right stance. It’s yet another cope. How about accepting these people hate you? They don’t give a f**k about your supposed ‘rights.’ They value the system that has enriched and empowered them – they always have. That’s why they will do anything to ensure they and their children remain part of it.
Projection. If you wouldn’t cave on a matter of principle, why would you assume someone else would?
As a hardened cynic, I have the opposite problem. Until proven otherwise, I assume everyone is pulling a “It depends on what the definition of “is” is.”
Because I don’t assume other people are just like me – I know for a fact that they are not. And what most people call ‘principles’ are convenient delusions they will jettison at the first challenge or difficulty. If one of my boys had come to be and said he was a trannie or luvved a non-White, my principles would have come first. Not so for most people – I’ve seen it repeatedly.
This is indeed true. From experience, I’ve come to the same conclusion. Even as it refers to me. I ought to avoid such people as you describe, but more often than not would bite my lower lip to keep dissension within the family down and tolerate their presence at gatherings.
The right thing to do of course is to shun them. Toleration in these matters is not a virtue.
Upper class whites have embraced a religion of hating lower class whites.
Higher education communicates that a precondition to joining the upper class is accepting the religion.
The civil rights revolution as promoted by the media anathematized traditional white americans as racists. I remember being convinced of this in many classes starting in junior high school in Seattle.
Did anyone else watch Roots in class? I remember a scene in “Great Santini” of racist good old boys bullying an angelic black man, which they also made us watch.
I was in college when Roots premiered, and I did not watch tv. I was still largely a shitlib, but I had already taken the first steps towards race realism. I recall a beloved neighbor – who had been a mother figure to me – gushing about the show when I was home on break, and even then it rubbed me the wrong way. Prescient of where she and her family went culturally and politically.
The “Great Santini” was even worse than simply idolizing an “angelic” Black man. It taught a subtle lesson to naive Whites—that redemption (from the “original” sin of slavery) could only be achieved through active “anti” racism in one’s actions and words. In short, you had to be “woke”.
This lesson was being taught at least a 30 years ago before it went mainstream in the literature under the rubric of “critical whiteness studies” ala Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist) and Robin DiAngelo (White Fragility),
Agit-prop, straight from Langley to your home via Hollywood.
If you guys are right, and you most likely are, reform won’t ultimately work, thus something a lot worse will need to happen in order to root these bastards and bastardettes out, permanently.
‘Every time a blob member does something like this, look up the spouse and consider the possibility he cares far more about avoiding uncomfortable conversations at home or with friends than anything else’ Man did you hit the nail’s head with that comment. You describe the invisible — make that carefully hidden and ignored — part of government and the Uniparty Regime. Folks are gonna be amazed when the truth comes out that most of these Distinguished Men of Congress etc. do exactly what wifey says to do. Or else. Not what God says, not what the nation needs, but… Read more »
Yes. Recently there was a state government official arraigned for taking bribes from China. The official was Chinese. The arraignment took place in Brooklyn and the judge was a Chinawoman who threw the case out.
People do not realize how far gone this thing is in certain jurisdictions. The task of the moment is finding and building your own jurisdiction.
When you get down to it, the J6 trials and prosecutions were little more than nons punishing whites for racial reasons, and the same applied to the failure to go after the Floyd rioters. If people did not understand the racial implications of the courts then, will they now? The Chinese thing, btw, is of a piece with Hans in the US military caught spying recently for their actual countrymen. That story has been memoryholed, of course.
Who decides is all that matters. What is happening with the courts is no surprise. Unless the executive and legislative branches can muster the will to gut the courts, and they have shown no ability to do so, who/whom will reach the breaking point in short order.
“Kritarchy” is probably the worst form of government ever devised, and we have been living under one at least since Brown, which is nearly seventy years. Of course, the kritarchs have aligned with the managers to enforce their edicts against both the Executive and Legislative branches, which is how they get around Jacksonian contempt. Going after the bureaucracy is fine, but the real enemy is the kritarchy. My hope is that Trump will launch a full scale assault on the judiciary, including disavowing Marbury, the root of all this poisoned fruit (Jefferson was right about that). My fear is that… Read more »
Bukele, who lived through it in Salvador, correctly called it a “judicial coup.” It presents an opportunity, though, to neuter the courts. Will anyone take the initiative, though?
In the Old Testament God thought the Hebrews were idiots for wanting to move away from the rule of judges and have a king. He warned them against it, but then when they continued to be stupid he said, basically, “Fine. Have it your way. You can get what you asked for, good and hard.” Kritarchy isn’t a “bad” form of government any more than any other. The problem comes down to who the judges are and from whom they derive their authority. The judges in our system are generally globalists and they derive their authority from the ruler of… Read more »
A gripping read from Zman today. Clearly, Trump is going to have to “drain the swamp.” The question is how? I think the answer is lying right before Trump’s eyes. It comes in the form of a surprise gift — Elon Musk’s DOGE. Trump can pretend to be saving taxpayer money 💰 while in reality he is taking the sharp blade of a shovel to the gnarled roots of the Cypress trees (Deep State) in the swamp. In a glorious turnaround, the Mainstays of the managerial class will be vanquished. The only danger? That the civil society of the United… Read more »
Stop shilling your blog, boomer.
I see this and think of the stuff I’ve read about the bureaucratic makeup of the post-revolution USSR. There weren’t that many Russians in there, especially in the organizations that did the nasty work.
Trump needs to say that these are not judges but political actors and thus they, and their family, friends, and associates will now be receiving intense unending scrutiny. You know there are a lot of people close to these leftist judges that were feeding at the illegitimate NGO troughs. Arrest anyone associated with at least the slightest bit of impropriety. Let their sweet little blue haired princess daughters rot in jail for years without trial. The precedent was set with the J6rs.
Bingo!
I don’t know what the answer is, but these damned judges HAVE to be dealt with. No reform at all will be accomplished if they are allowed to continue to jam it up. Further, the legal system in this country is a joke. The number of lawyers, judges and laws need a serious culling.
As Zman notes, these judges really are playing with fire. It’s only a matter of time before some red hat whose relative got run over by a drunk illegal, or some blue hat who thinks the judges aren’t doing enough to thwart the orange man, decide to make a Mario Bros statement on one of the judges similar to that CEO in NYC.
Musk has posted frequently that the rogue judges need to be impeached, but generations of pussification has made Congress too weak to do even it’s most basic functions. As Z points out though, they’ll need to “man up” if they have any desire of saving the system.
Impeachment and conviction are impossible. Just ignore them.
You can impeach, just can’t convict. But what you can do is turn the process into punishment. And against the right targets shred their credibility publicly. These judges are used to operating in the shadows…a few months under the klieg lights would like frighten the others from the same behavior.
In other words, this dip into lawlessness we are seeing could very well portend a general descent into lawlessness. Like post-Soviet Russia, we could very well be entering a period where we get poorer as the rule of law collapses. Unlike Russia, America is not a homogenous society with a thousand years of history. America is a diverse country which is a polite way of saying it is a collection of people who would just as soon not share a country with one another. There is much to unpack there, and it is true in part and wrong in part.… Read more »
“The Constitution and Rule of Law were eviscerated years ago”
1865 to be exact.
A good case can be made for 1795, and also for 1788. Marbury was just the fat lady singing.
Although Madison and the founders were careful architects, the conflict exposed by Marbury seems to be something that they overlooked (like citizenship for whites only). Can the court declare legislation unconstitutional?
Chief Justice Marshall’s ruling established the Court as the most powerful branch of government. The only problem is that, as Old Hickory said to Marshall, the Court has no army.
Steve, would you have decided Marbury differently?
HEY Z MAN, perhaps the topic is too wonky for you and RAMZ, but you should do a show on Marbury versus Madison!
“The United States is fragmenting now. It isn’t formalized, and likely will not be for several decades out . . . .” The USA will fragment “officially,” if you want to use that word, by 2032 b/c so many people still believe that there are political solutions to … well, everything. I expect the Dems to retake the House next year and probably the White House in ’28. They will go for revenge–literally revanchisme. Those who still believe in voting will still believe in voting, so they will hang on until 2032, and then there will be a breakup; a national… Read more »
As far as the welfare of our people, from your lips to God’s ears, but I suspect it will take much greater economic pain–which is coming eventually–to formalize the divorce. I also think, from a political standpoint, if the Left thinks it will be shut out of absolute power for much longer it might very well take the lead in the separation. That probably would be the most peaceful way about it if we are so lucky. I’m sticking with “decades,” though. We have the de facto version even now and that is somewhat of a release valve while houses… Read more »
The US has already TRIED to fragment via “Sanctuary Cities,” which the right has pretty much ignored until recently.
The problem with this “soft” assertion of States’ Rights is it’s only allowed one direction.
The Feds have been openly dumping human refuse into non compliant states for over a decade now in order to take them over via the ballot box.
That started to change with Covid, which is why I think it was brought to an end. The reputed other side actually refused to follow federal Covid mandates and edicts and that scared the hell out of the Regime. More than just tried, fragmentation is well underway.
For this to work they will have to drop the Boomer Truth Regime in its entirety. This will require open defiance and then dismantling of its pillar that we call Civil Rights and that legal regime. For what good is moving the capital and setting up a new civilization if you bring all of the problems and albatross populations with you? I don’t think the current regime even believes in doing that much less wants to do it. Maybe more light bulbs went off during Connor MacGregor’s visit on St. Patrick’s Day. There have to be open and frank discussions… Read more »
“The United States is poorer now.”
Yep, but such is subtly masked even today. An example, housing. My first home in 1980 was $90k at 13% interest. Median home price was $40-50k at that time. In 2020, the median home price exceeded $300k! Median income in that time went from $20k to $50k.
I’ll let you run the numbers, but no matter how you run them, you can see that one of our time honor American tenets of “home ownership” has vanished for the middle class—even at 3-4% mortgages. Our Trump 1 years of 2% interest merely masked the decline.
It is interesting to see the way these institutions just trundle on like nothing happened. For example, to name two, the media and the public health authorities torched all the trust people had in them. But I will read articles from WaPo and the New York Times where the NIH/CDC/etc. and doctors whine that people don’t listen to them anymore. The fact that people dont listen to them because they proved themselves to be not just untrustworthy but malicious does not factor into it. It’s just a weird dynamic. Likewise, we are told by these scoundrels that guys like Judge… Read more »
I knew some Russians in the 1990s. They had some crazy stories about how Russia was like then, and how shocked they were about the general societal trust and respect for the law they saw in suburban USA. For example, American stores would often put products OUTSIDE the stores, not locked or watched or anything. Удивительный! Then later when I lived in Estonia, the native Estonians told tales of roving gangs of Russians in the 1990s, as Estonia was getting back on its feet, who were stealing and raping. This could have been an exaggeration, but I don’t think so.… Read more »
Although this is fiction and a great read, I have been assured nothing better captured the zeitgeist of the post-collapse Soviet Union:
Let’s Put the Future Behind Us (Jack Womack): Womack, Jack: 9780802135032: Amazon.com: Books
“If today’s reformers want to be winners, then these judges need to be made into losers, without making the rule of law a loser as well.” Depends on what is meant by the “rule of law.” The rule of what law? If it’s the law as an outgrowth of the common sense of the majority white population, that makes sense. If it’s the present convoluted garbage concocted by the Kosher Nostra, where we’re all supposedly committing three felonies a day, forget it. It’s not just the crooked judges that are causing the contempt for the law — it’s current law… Read more »
Rule of law has a meaning. It is not the same as nation of laws pap. Though apart from paleos and libertarians, or at least those who passed through one or the other, I don’t think many are aware of the difference.
Since 2016, we’ve seen the collapse in trust of one managerial class institution after another. First, it was the media and Con Inc. Then, with Covid, it was the health experts – and, once again, the media. BLM and Covid caused many normies to no longer trust the police who kneeled to BLM rioters whiles arrest pastors for holding church services. Biden and Harris fully destroyed trust in the Dems. Now, it’s the judiciary’s turn. Sure, people on our side of the divide have known it for decades, but normies didn’t. They’re learning. Really, the only thing left, to some… Read more »
We are outliers in our opinions, and it always is best to keep that in mind, but the masses are slowly learning. The Regime apparently forgot, if it ever knew, that the American system relied very heavily on trust; this is particularly true of the judiciary. The Regime can and has used the force of arms since that trust evaporated, but after a point bullying and terror are countered. And make no mistake, the judicial tyranny being imposed is bullying and terror beneath a thin veneer of procedural niceties. There are elites with enough money now to raise armies and… Read more »
“Gates’ Guerillas”? Soldiers for Soros?
I’ve already submitted my app to join up with Musk’s Marauders…
The whole Covid thing was like a gigantic Milgram experiment. The entire governmental and corporate apparatus engaged in a massive torture experiment and millions went along enthusiastically. It is amazing that the system retains credibility with so many after this disaster.
I’d just add two points to a great essay. First, Congress is to blame for overspending and forcing the Executive to jump over hurdles to rein it in. The crooked judges then frame this as a conflict between the Executive and Legislative branches requiring their intercession. Amazingly, the President can bomb whomever he wants (unconstitutional) but is forced to use trannies to drop the bombs if a judge says so. Second, legislation from the bench is completely out of control. If the Regime wants something, like abortion, gay marriage, domestic surveillance or Citizens United (corporate speech/campaign finance), they just rig… Read more »
This thang with the judiciary, er, the j00-dish-iary, this thang can’t go on like this much longer. Even Gorsuch, er, GoreSucks, defected the other day and voated with the sh!tlibs. With Roberts & GoreSucks & Amy Homely Barrett stabbing us in the back, and voating sh!tlib, we’re looking at the potential for a sudden & very ominous & very ferocious Civil War. The weird thing, though, is that, this time around, I feel like Heritage Amurrikkkuh might finally be up to the task. That Heritage Amurrikkkuh is ready to welcome the bloodletting. Because once the Council of the Sanhedrin gives… Read more »
There is a reason that the new regime is suddenly trying to gin up a war with Iran on behalf of the beloved ones.
I think Amy is kind of cute, but what worries me about her is that I suspect she is a cat lady. But instead of cats, she collects kids.
Amy has crazy eyes. Beware.
Comment understood by the tone in which it was intended. But to be serious – any woman who prioritizes an alien race’s children over her own is profoundly broken – and dangerous. This goes for all those who adopted Han girls, and Guatemalans. A cuckservative example is Laura Ingraham. All the women who have ‘fur babies’ instead of real, White babies. We are a profoundly sick society.
100%
Feminism deforms women and men on a societal level. I don’t care how smart broads like Ingraham are, she and we’d all be better served if they stayed out of schools/work and just got married and had kids.
Yes. And rather than adopting children, a highly intelligent Nordic woman like Ingraham should be selecting an alpha chad and having children with him – using her intelligence to raise a stronger future for our people.
I never liked her. She has a history of fighting with her brother another family members. I think some tips she had with her brother has been in the news lately. She reminds me and her mannerisms and the way she talks of a woman attorney I grew up with who is extremely annoying. Even my sister-in-law agrees that this woman attorney is extremely annoying, so I’m not the only one.
I don’t disagree with any of that.
I hate Amy 3 names. Looks like a shrill and brittle wench.
“But instead of cats, she collects kids.”
Pickaninnies are like alligators: cute when they’re little but they get big.
That’s what a buddy of mine used to say about cats. They’re just like little black kids, cute when they’re small … 😂
Any White woman that adopts negro pets is not to be trusted.
Just look at the kids who ACB adopted. Trump should have disqualified her based only on that. Her ‘evolving’ views on the Court were entirely predictable. And now she’s likely to be the deciding vote that hands Trumps a bunch of losses on key issues.
I think that was Z’s point. Courts were supposed to issue decisions, not rulings. I don’t know when we decided that lawyers wearing dresses are the ultimate deciders of all that is true and just, but here we are.
Until we see judges as the corrupt, vile crossdressers they are, there is no path forward.
Long past time judges were ignored. Back in the 90s, CA was still fighting to remain great and the people overwhelmingly voted for a proposition to NOT allow illegals welfare or education.
With one stroke of a pen, a judge overruled millions of people and killed the state. It’s time to realize we are in a WAR; the other side must be ignored and destroyed. If Trump is unable to summon the power to ignore these unelected judges, then it’s just all for show.
Boasberg and his whole family have made destroying America their life’s work. And Roberts put Boasberg where he is. Which tells you everything you need to know about Roberts, which tells you everything you need to know about the federal judiciary. Big surprise, when asked to make a ruling that diminishes their own power, the courts refuse to do so. The real mystery is how Alito managed to get up there. Who screwed up and let him in? They haven’t made that mistake again. And won’t, as long as they remain in power. Trump shouldn’t be afraid of ignoring the… Read more »
You can see the dissolution most out here in California. We have a clown governor who keeps boasting of the law he passed censoring political speech on the internet. Now he’s running a podcast displaying his idiocy. He’s the likely next Democratic presidential nominee.
The sad thing is he will get a lot of votes.
This is also the problem. The system is corrupt, but atleast 50% of the people are degenerate morons and spiteful mutants. how does this ever turn out ok?
The courts have been politicized since the Eighties, when I worked in court admin. The Great Gyno Wave rolled in from law school and begin filling judicial appointments. Even worked for a chick chief justice — decent person but deluded about the world, and about human nature, as females tend to be. She was All The Rage in the nation tho! lol Watched the ‘family courts’ gleefully be weaponized by women, starting with separate created sections at the level of Administrative Offices for Judicial Councils. I neither trust nor permit a female (i.e., feminist) ‘judge’ to sit in rule over… Read more »
Women judges – a travesty. They shouldn’t even be on juries. No long term fix is possible without restoring the natural order.
I must say you are far more right about this than I am. (Plus, your scholarship is tighter, your observations more immediate and practical.) How do we walk this cat back? I say remove the Pernicious Influence and the many social maladies it has brought to us (nearly all of them, btw); yours is a more practical “get through the defensive line before trying for quarterbacks”. I blame those who radicalize any group and exploit their foibles; as you have shown, the fact that women have had and will always have such foibles is what makes them, as the Zman… Read more »
This is heavy hitting today Z-Man. You captured something that gets lost in the absurdity of the post-2016 reaction. That is that Trump initially was as much a revolt against the GOP establishment as the DNC. I heard Trump say a few weeks ago that that old Republican party is dead. It is easy to forget that at the same time Clinton was cheerleading TGR, offshoring, service-economy and incorporating foreign predation … … Bush/Cheney/Neocons were upping from the Cold War to Full Spectrum Dominance and massive military belligerence. This thing was way off the rails in the era of the… Read more »
One of the “justices” ruling against Trump yesterday footnoted the musical “Hamilton” as a source.
We’re a week away from the theatre kid justices overturning Presidential EOs and citing Harry Potter.
Absolutely ProZNov. A while back some judges in Hawaii cited a TV show to support nullification of the 2nd Amendment. I think it was The Wire and the citation was of the criminal mastermind in that series.
To say this thing has been taking on water is an understatement.
i never read those damn books, but i like how rowling is anti-trans. would i be correct in assuming the books are just faggot pussy sjw bullshit?
I took them as a metaphor for a plethora of power structures hiding in plain sight. Was that what she meant? No idea.
they already have Puke Skywalker leading the Ukrainian rebellion…
The old GOP is alive and well in Congress. They helped to sink Trump in his first term and they will try to do the same this time around.
As Jack Dobson wisely noted a few hours ago, many of the premises in today’s essay are not true. The US is already poorer and far more lawless than a homogeneous citizenry would have tolerated in my youth. All the complaints about the disappearance of ‘common’ courtesy, of competence, of cheerful and capable service – attest to the degradation of the public square. The dollar is essentially worthless. The government (yes, even the magic ‘local’ one) is sclerotic and/or alien. The ‘rule of law’ has been a fiction for at least 25 years (yes, I personally would go back much… Read more »
3g4me – spot on. You tell it, girl! The fairy tale of American history that “we” are always the good guys and the world’s moral compass is especially sickening. The US govt, not “we” is now and has been the true Evil Empire and it will assuredly,as all empires do, fall. The sooner the better.
This a compelling post – I agree that the managerialism of the 20th century is coming to an end, and that this is very confusing for the (small) portion of arrogant old people still trying to cling to a system and world view that has not been relevant for a while. The reason it’s coming to an end is technology. Social media has destroyed the 1-way I speak-you-listen communication channels of the old way of talking to the public, and a different kind of elite (with different talents) is selected in response. The Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri… Read more »
I lack enthusiasm for AI. Elon’s description of the future with AI sounds like a particularly detestable dystopia. Robots and AI do the work and the government sends money to all those who are no longer employable. It sounds worse than communism, where at least people still worked. It’s the sort of thing that appeals to billionaires (no more wages to pay) but is otherwise nightmarish.
Respectfully, I disagree. I don’t think work automated by AI and robots is inherently noble, and in the long run it’ll be a relief that humans no longer need to perform such work (similar to work that was automated in the past and no longer needs to be performed by humans today).
If done right, I think this latest wave of automation will lead to a future where many less humans are needed – which works well with current demographic trends and eliminates need for mass migration.
A super intelligent entity like an AI controlled robot is bound to get tired of making burgers and fries 24/7. The terminator scenario is inevitable.
It’s only tangentially related to the topic, but there is a book called The Five Stages of Collapse that is well worth the read if for no other reason than its anecdotes about living through the collapse of the USSR.
Most Americans have so many assumptions about the way things work that are going to be radically challenged if the USA goes through a period of systematic collapse.
Author is Dmitry Orlov. Everything he writes is great.
Orlov used to live in Boston for most of his life, but about 6 years back, he packed up and moved to Russia. He noticed a collapse in intellectual environment in US and could not take it any more.
Orlov also says that the Soviet-style collapse already underway in US, but is happening in reverse order as of USSR. Therefore political collapse may come last, whereas in Russia it was the first step.
Oof, sad but true: For Orlov, attempting to effect political change in a collapsing society is more than futile. Not only is political collapse unavoidable, but as resources further deplete, the methods of communication on which we have relied for so long will eventually vanish. He suggests that we could make better use of our time by learning some effective ways of communication that do not rely on the Internet. Of this he says: “And so, if you want to achieve a serious political effect, my suggestion is that you sit back Buddha-like, fold your arms, and do some deep breathing… Read more »
Those assumptions have been or should have been radically challenged long ago.
The parallels with the Soviet Union are indeed similar in many respects, though we should bear in mind that bankrupt evil system staggered on for decades before finally collapsing under its unsolvable contradictions. The United States is well on its way to the same fate, the bridge is oscillating wildly now, the camel is staggering under the weight of so many straws, but as has been noted before “there is a lot of ruin in a nation”. We are the richest most powerful nation ever seen, so that’s a lot of ruin to work through. The big question is whether… Read more »
The collapse already happened and we haven’t acknowledged it, like in movies where the protagonist “doesn’t know she’s dead” and the increasing implausibility of her surroundings is the world trying to tell her it’s over. It’s almost always a woman, because not many filmmakers can make the audience care what happens to a man. The great exception is Jacob’s Ladder, which never makes it onto anyone’s list of the fictional dystopias we currently inhabit. (The twist makes people forget the rest of the movie, ironically.) There as here, the world ended in 1971. If our collapse started then, as some… Read more »
Is what we have been living through since 1954 the inevitable outcome of Marbury v Madison?
I’d say Hylton. That was when the judiciary decided the Constitution did not mean what it said, that pretty much everything is a valid federal power, even though the words on paper say the exact opposite.
A couple of things maybe off topic, but interesting/amusing:
1. The French media said it, then Candace Owen said it and now Tucker Carlson is kind of confirming it: Brigitte Macron is a man. Emmanuel Macron was groomed.
https://youtu.be/N2tzUhrW8e0&t=6400
2. Somebody posted this graphic on another page and this is the sort of thing that must drive the managerial class crazy about the internet. They just can’t control the narrative anymore.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AtHqnFH2OmrRDSrFyztJe0E3R5g2XBPA/view?usp=drivesdk
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmaDC_ZWIAANrX_?format=jpg&name=900×900
Except the repukes are not genuinely nationalist, nor many of the other positions attributed to them. I believe it is important to distinguish between ‘patriotism,’ which now means supporting and defending the existence of the US bureaucratic state and its laws and mechanisms, and genuine nationalism, which means supporting and defending the heritage American people. I was a ‘patriot’ back when I was a conservatard. I am no longer. But I am a full-on nationalist, because so long as the people survive, they can build another (and hopefully better) state. The whole “notsees are . . . ” is tiresome.… Read more »
It seems so crazy what these judges are doing, basically telling the citizens yes, we don’t care who or what you vote for, we will take your money and enrich our families and friends with USAID/NGO monies (probably the tip of the iceberg), and we will flood your towns and cities with foreign gangbangers, and give them your money, too. While the citizens suffer more and more every year and many can’t buy a house or even a car or afford to go to the dentist or doctor. It’s almost like some of these judges are purposely exposing themselves, maybe… Read more »
The missing link, only recently provided courtesy of Musk et al, is just how much free cash is sloshing around the DC system to fund the Leftists. Now those rice bowls are being broken. Already seen how many of these judges are connected to that spigot via wives, children, siblings etc. They ain’t going to go softly into the night…and would gladly burn it all down to rule over the ashes. One (among many) reasons why I’m relocating into the mountains in an area with almost zero “vibrancy”. Heads on a swivel, folks.
Sad, but true. They’d rather burn the whole world down than have to move to a lower-class zip code. (As Trump would probably make a deal with some of them to not even have to go to jail.) I guess they want to make these rich neighborhoods of taxpayer money eaters while the taxpayers live in constant financial struggle. Third-world heaven to them, I guess. Americans probably pay for these type set-ups all over the world and these thugs see that it works there so why not here. They are invested in it working out in America, too, it seems.… Read more »
“The challenge, as with all reforms, is in dealing with the problem while not undermining the legitimacy of the system. These judges think they are heroes defending the system against the monster, when in reality they are a cancer threatening the last functioning part of the system.” Sage words. However, these judges are part of the problem. They were appointed in the absence of “merit”, they are political appointees/apparatchiks. No more, no less—except that they now operate according to rules not normally found in politics, but rather the old “rule of law” where meritocracy and judicial independence was protected against… Read more »
Yeah, but the Judicial branch would prefer to rule over the ashes, so… The best they can do it probably something like what they’ve done so far: ignore the rulings while claiming to adhere to the rulings and point out that a ruling that is an overreach is not a ruling at all. It won’t work, because it turns out Roberts is really an idiot (or else blackmailed by Team A, but that’s the same thing). Here. We. Go. If Trump has the stomach for it. Patel thinks he does have the stomach for it and is changing his security… Read more »
It’s good to see Trump go halfway Andrew Jackson, now go all the way. I want all of these communists in black robes frog marched exactly like the Venezuelan gangsters directly into gitmo, or better yet flown halfway there pinochet style. As far as rule of law breaking down the bastards did it to themselves by imposing unconstitutional edicts as legitimate law. I have decided for myself I will no longer follow any nonsense. I will instead obey the golden rule And the constitution as the founders intended. No one needs a lawyer or politician to tell what you what… Read more »
The only people who care about something like a high trust judiciary are right of the divide White people, mainly the men. The only thing anyone else cares about, including fellow Whites, is whether these rulings help them. Flooding the country with people from low trust societies was brilliant. Of course, in the long run it will prove to be a disaster but in the meantime it frees the elite up from acting in a legitimate manner. These judges will never rule against anything helpful to Israel so they provide a check on anything that Trump wants to do that… Read more »
Imagine a Democratic president is finally elected after 20 years of conservative rule and appointing of their own judges.
“A new fast train? Sorry, I find that unconstitutional.”
Roberts and Comey-Barrett are “conservative judges.”
I wonder what Clarence Thomas would have been like on the Court if they wouldn’t have personally trashed him the way they did. Maybe he would have been exactly the same, but there is no way George HW Bush would have appointed him knowing he was going to be this far right. As with Trump it may have been another case of the left’s lack of restraint backfiring on them.
Dunno. ACB and Kavanaugh seem to have Stockholm Syndrome as a result of their abuse. Thomas’ pugnaciousness may be a genetic reaction.
The adopted Haitians should have disqualified ACB, she was always going to go that way. I don’t get Kavanaugh other than he clerked for Kennedy and may not want to disappoint him on some issues.
Go back and watch Thomas’ showdown with Biden.
Thomas clearly states that at that point all he cared about was defending his reputation and that the committee could go to Hell.
They confirmed him to the bench as punishment for his insolence.
GHWB was just looking for a negro republican who they could sell as being qualified for the scotus. Probably weren’t all that many to choose from.
The message is: you can vote for whoever you want…we may even let him win…but nothing will change. “Democracy.”
They are hellbent on radicalizing normie. He might even be moved to turn off the game and get off the couch. One can dream…
Spot on re the ‘message.’ But as you know, don’t put your trust in normie. He will back the strong horse, or whomever best protects ‘his’ social security and 401k. He will tolerate just about anything as long as it maintains the pretense of rules and order. When pushed too far some normies may lash out as a mob – but they are never an organized force for dramatic and systemic change.
I wonder if Trump will take a page from the FDR playbook and threaten to (or actually do) pack the court.
where’s the Parallax Corporation when you need them most?!