Sunday, March 17, 2024

PUTIN SWEEPS TO VICTORY, MSM PUNDITS HUNT FOR DISTRACTIONS

       The self-appointed 'expert' class of American pundits and academics are dining on crow again this weekend. Beginning two years ago, and up until just recently, the smart boys were assuring us all of the imminent Russian economic collapse and the downfall of President Putin. With the polls nearly closed in Russia, Putin routed his opponents and currently has around 88% of the popular vote (contrary to popular belief, Russia actually does have multi-party elections). The results were no surprise to anyone reading Media outside the influence of the US Corporate Deep State. Polls in Russia were showing Putin's approval ratings at between 81 and 89 percent: higher than both Biden and Trump combined. 

     I'm anticipating listening to Putin's victory speech tonight. Putin is one of the few world politicians who actually talks to, rather than down to, the people and understands the issues. That's why he wins by landslides while the best our candidates can do is to pose as the least objectionable alternative.


    The jackals in the Media are flummoxed by these developments, but not so much because they were exposed as complete fools yet again. The Corporate Media can spin the narrative to the polar opposite of what they promoted only days before, and the public buys into it. In our last presidential 'election' for example, the Media cracked down upon and dismissed anyone who questioned the results only a few days after they were hyping Congressional hearings and producing documentaries about the alleged 'Election Steal' in 2016. The Media's main problem is diverting attention from the Russian Elections in case people start questioning why Putin is so popular and what his Party is doing for Russia that keeps winning elections by wide margins. 

    Thus, the Media this weekend seized up some remarks made by President-in-Exile Trump during a campaign speech in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump referenced a "bloodbath" if Biden were re-elected, and vowed to save the US auto industry from China. 

   “He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge!" proclaimed a spokesxhe for the Junta---as if they wouldn't turn Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs loose on the public again if Trump wins. Trump's team responded on CNN by saying "Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign are engaging in deceptively out-of-context editing,” which is true, but context deserves some consideration here. 

   The strange context to my mind was Trump's apparent beliefs that American Elections are actually fair; and that America actually still has an auto industry. The Controlled Opposition would prefer us all to forget that previous Republican politicians allowed their corporate masters to sell off the auto manufacturing industry to countries like China. Nearly all auto parts are manufactured abroad and merely assembled here in the US, Canada, and Mexico since Bush, Clinton, and GOP Congresses gave us NAFTA, GATT, fast-tracked China into the WTO, busted unions, and repealed laws that protected American jobs and industries. As an interesting contrast here, but one of Putin's campaign themes was that Russia had become more economically self-reliant after the imposition of sanctions.

   Vandalia, where the speech occurred, has seen its population growth crash since the 1980s, and its population steadily aging. Its major auto component plant, Delphi Automotive, was sold off to German industrial conglomerate Mahle GmbH about a decade ago. Among auto manufacturers still with brand names, Ford motors is owned about 8% by WEF linchpin BlackRock, which also owns about 10% of General Motors. Chrysler is not even owned by Americans any longer

    Trump vowed during his speech to bring back manufacturing jobs, although where the skilled workers or needed infrastructure to accomplish this are going to come from hasn't been explained. It seems much like Congress' recent grandstanding about Chinese-made cranes, which was supposed to be about bringing back American jobs but ended up benefiting foreign consortia instead

   Talking about rebuilding America's manufacturing base sounds good and plays into the fantasies of the Electorate, but it isn't simply a matter of re-imposing protectionism and hoping that industries will sprout up again out of thin air. 40 years ago, we still had schools producing engineers and managers, a trained workforce, factories and facilities, and a modern industrial and transportation infrastructure. We lost all of things too when the Robber Barons on Wall Street sold industrial workers out and the Media told us how to learn to code.

   It is possible to bring an industrial base back, as Russia has done. But it will take decades of investment and determination which, unlike the Russians, Americans are unwilling to do. The whole point of American politics today is to sell illusions and disturb the public too much with hard facts---and certainly not to impress upon them the necessity of hard work for the benefit of the Nation as a whole. That's why Russia will continue to triumph on the global stage as world leaders, while we sink further into the clutches of the Corporate Deep State. 

ARROGANT US DEEP STATE HUMILIATED AGAIN IN AFRICA

    Things haven't been going especially well these days for the Deep State and their overlords on Wall Street in the continent of Africa. Our brave xhes in uniform have failed ignominiously trying to defend their commercial and smuggling efforts in the Red Sea. Sanctions leveled against various countries have borne no effect; in fact, popular efforts to boycott Western-owned commercial cartels have intensified. The African churches are revolting against the 'woke' edicts coming out of the Vatican and elsewhere. Egypt and Ethiopia became members of the BRICS coalition in January.

    Frustrated by these developments, the Pentagon's head of US Africa Command, Michael Langley fumed last week to our equally impotent Congress that "Russia was actively seeking to broaden its influence in African nations, with several countries nearing a critical juncture where they could come under its sway." Obediently, the House appropriated an additional $332 million to counter this 'threat,' although they never seem to find available funds for issues in the United States. Nobody really knows where any of this money is actually going to go; or even why we have a 'US Africa Command' in the first place since we have no territory on that continent. These days, however, the phrase national security operates like an open sesame to the US taxpayers' wallets. 

    Langley, however, did not meet with the same success in Africa on Saturday when he and an entourage of Beltway bureaucrats stormed into Niger---without even bothering to inform the local authorities---to negotiate US presence at an obscure fort in the Sahara Desert which the Nigerien Government intends to close. The President of Niger snubbed the Junta's henchmen, sending them home empty-handed. Today, their official spokesman announced that all previous military agreements between Niger and the United States were cancelled. Apparently, Nigerien politicians have a little more self-respect than their American counterparts and don't simply jump when ordered. 

  "The government of Niger therefore strongly denounces the condescending attitude combined with the threat of reprisals by the head of the American delegation against the government and the people of Niger,"  Col. Amadou Abdramane said, in an official statement yesterday. The Beltway bullies apparently even accused such officials who met with them of making a secret deal to supply uranium to Iran. A fabricated story about Nigerien uranium was employed as pretext for invading Iraq by the Bush Administration in 2003.


      Incidents like these typically have the Controlled Opposition lamenting that other countries don't fear the International Bully as obediently as American citizens do; and that just proves that the Democrats are weak. The truth is, that this wave of anti-American sentiment currently sweeping Africa would have happened no matter which faction of the Uniparty occupied the White House. Other peoples haven't had decades of cultural erosion imposed upon them like Americans have; consequently they still insist upon being treated like human beings instead of human capital for the so-called Elites to manage like so much livestock. Eventually, people who still retain a degree of character feel they have nothing to lose by fighting back, and they take action. The situation in Niger---like Ukraine and Palestine---was bound to occur once Corporate Deep State hubris and Cultural Imperialism had reached a saturation-point. 

    As we've seen throughout the 21st Century, Americans long ago lost any will to assert their rights, and the tactical mistake that our Establishment makes in Foreign Policy is assuming that other peoples are as dispirited and deflated as their domestic subjects are. Langley's failure in Niger was a perfect example of this attitude in action. Anyone in a position of authority in America never need concern themselves with things like asking permission from those they consider their inferiors and feel at perfect liberty to impose on them without consequence. The Elites have proven time and again that, here, they can order people to accept the most degrading humiliations and insults to their intelligence. Accustomed as they are to dealing with such people, they are completely stunned when they encounter even the smallest show of self-respect from anyone abroad.

    They then make the mistake that all bullies and thugs invariably do: they double-down and behave even more forcefully and arrogantly. As recently as December, the Biden/Harris Junta announced that "withdrawal from Niger was not an option," apparently without much concern for what the Nigerien people actually want to do. 

    Contrary to what the would-be Alphas among the Controlled Opposition say, it is not perceived weakness that is driving this trend. This trend of resistance is coming from the abuse of power and resorting to force with no regard to the interests or desires of the other parties concerned. Rule by fear is the policy of terrorists---the very thing that the Pentagon is supposedly in Niger to prevent. We've spoken here before of the blessings of American Exceptionalism which drove Niger to revolt against its Western masters in the first place. Niger was the sort of place that the Great Reset crowd and the Beltway Deep State would like to bring to everybody. 

   Ultimately, the Junta probably will slink away quietly from Niger and their media parrots will go on to new distractions. However, the inevitable loss of any American influence in Africa will go on; and given the current state of affairs in the US, that is probably the best outcome for the African people. 

    



Saturday, March 16, 2024

OF LAWFARE AND SOAP OPERAS

    One of the most common misconceptions about the degenerate Postmodern American culture is that we are a sexually libertine people. The reverse is actually the case: the United States is probably one of the most sexually repressive cultures (and consequently the most sex-obsessed) on the planet. That, of course, only applies to heterosexual behavior---anything that the Rainbow Crowd wants to engage in is fair game. 

    Americans are also obsessed with real-life courtroom dramas---we have more lawyers per capita than any other country and are by far the most litigious of all the human race. Americans hold their black-robed courtroom kingpins presiding over these performances in the most reverential awe: despite the fact that both the intelligence and character of most American judges is beneath those of the people over whom they pass judgment. Being able to read and behaving with arrogant, condescending contempt towards the common herd are about all of the qualifications one needs today to be a judge at any level. Thus, whenever a legal case and that nebulous formula of sexual impropriety can be combined, it is a bonanza for the Infotainment Industry, which has supplanted both our once great legal system and our once highly professional news media. 


   
The Media Circuses and Courtroom Extravaganzas surrounding the President-in-Exile have been paying high dividends for the Media and Legal Establishments, although accomplishing very little else. Since Americans today have little interest in anything deemed newsworthy unless it involves sex, these performances have to be interlarded with as many lurid allegations as possible. One trial somewhere accuses Trump of having had an affair and paying his mistress to keep quiet about it---something we're sure that no American businessman has ever done before---and that, naturally, to the Liberal Hive-Mind is worse than anything they accuse Trump of doing (e.g. trying to overthrow the government). The Controlled Opposition has responded in kind, by accusing the District Attorney and Prosecutor in another case of having an affair---that, naturally, to the Conservative Hive-Mind is worse than anything that they accuse the Left of doing (e.g. weaponizing the Legal System for political gain). 

    This latter incident, which happened in Georgia, caused a diversion during the legal proceedings and the local District Attorney and County Prosecutor were obliged to go through the same humiliation ritual that the former President endured in New York: much to the satisfaction of the media slime hyping such national embarrassments for higher ratings. What was troubling was the ruling in the Georgia---not because it was a ridiculously stupid sham to begin with---but because His Honor the judge played along with cultural hysteria and made a ruling at all instead of throwing out the case and sanctioning the people who brought it up as he should have. 

    Judge Scott McAfee arrogantly fumed “As the case moves forward, reasonable members of the public could easily be left to wonder whether the financial exchanges have continued, resulting in some form of benefit to the District Attorney, or even whether the romantic relationship has resumed. Put differently, an outsider could reasonably think that the District Attorney is not exercising her independent professional judgment totally free of any compromising influences. As long as Wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist.”

   His ruling didn't disqualify the District Attorney, but only on the condition that the prosecutor (Wade) not remain on the case. The question here is: where do these pompous judges get the authority to dictate to anybody what they do in their private lives?


       It's bad enough in our society that we have Corporate and Academic HR Departments issuing encyclicals about what it is and isn't 'appropriate' behavior between persons of the opposite sex; not to mention the informal militias of various trolls snooping into every corner of people's private lives without judges intervening too and issuing decrees. There are plenty of cases in the United States where people lose their jobs, are exposed to public shame, and even charged criminally and jailed for things like this, no matter how consensual the relationship is. 

     This is truly a sick society. Once upon a time, if an individual whose attitudes towards human sexuality were anything like what's now considered the new normal, he'd be sent to a psychiatrist for treatment. I strongly suspect that a major reason that the Homo Agenda is received with such tolerance in America directly comes from our collective horror and loathing of heterosexuality. This horror, I also believe, ultimately is rooted in envy. Today's culture is essentially a narcissistic and predatory one; and under such circumstances a mutually satisfactory heterosexual relationship is bound to excite nothing other than jealousy and contempt. The suppressed libido involved in this degree of sexual jealously drives us collectively to a fanatical degree of open malice driving us to destroy any 'appearance of impropriety' and expose any 'bad errors in judgement' as the judicial swine Scott McAfee expressed it.

    The Judge's ruling sums up the state of our social attitudes towards sexuality and relationships: it's inappropriate and an error in judgement. It's a matter that, when it occurs, is something to be dragged out as a spectacle for the public to gawk at and make salacious gossip about; and ideally even brought before judicial hearings. It isn't any wonder that younger Americans are turning to homosexual perversions or dropping out of pursuing normal relationships altogether. They've been educated in a culture where acting upon such natural inclinations is considered dirty, shameful, and subject to exposure, humiliation, and ridicule. 

    A Dead White Male whom I had occasion to re-read this week said: "Civilizations sometimes perish because they are forcibly broken up by the armed attack of enemies without or revolutionaries within; but never from this cause alone. Such attacks never succeed unless the thing that is attacked is weakened by doubt as to whether the end which it sets before itself, the form of life which it sets to realize, is worth achieving. On the other hand, this doubt is quite capable of destroying a civilization without any help whatever. If the people who share a civilization are no longer on a whole convinced that the form of life which it tries to realize is worth realizing, nothing can save it."

    American Culture was built on a culturally ideal foundation expressed in mainstream Christianity by St. Paul as Faith, Hope, and Love. All three of these things imply complimentary social relationships---obviously the opposite of the narcissistic and exploitative social values which prevail universally throughout American Culture today; and for that reason our Culture is effectively doomed so long as we collectively hold to such values. This is why the Political Right's abandonment of social issues has been such a crucial failure, and their attempts at superficial top-down solutions are only going to lead to further tyranny unless they address the responsibility of the public in acting upon such beliefs. As it is, the Right wants to have it both ways: they want values legislated without having to practice them in their own lives. Such a position is only the antipode of the Left, which seeks to legislate tolerance and force everyone else to accept it. Hence, our schizophrenic attitudes towards human sexuality where some activities are above criticism while others are brutally suppressed and micromanaged---and, of course, that little detail about a Right to Privacy is not even a factor open to consideration or debate. 

    The absurdity of all of this is reflected to a shameful degree in our current electoral-year theatrics. We have two candidates accusing each other of being dirty old men while their respective partisans are digging up scandal-sheet gutter-level allegations on each other; and the main topics of discussion are about immigrants raping White Women and banning Tik-Tok because some men might be viewing women whom legislative fiat has declared 'minors.' In better times, these kinds of things would be beneath the notice of anyone with any degree of self-respect, but today they are regarded as serious national issues while the real facing us go on blissfully ignored. 

    

   

    

      

Thursday, March 14, 2024

ANOTHER STUDY FINDS UNSAFE ELEMENTS IN FOOD SUPPLY

      Robert Kennedy's organization, Children's Health Defense Network, which previously exposed the potential harmful chemicals being pushed by the Corporate Oligarchs with no Government oversight, has published the results of another study which shows that many products consumed by Americans is laced heavily with the chemical compound, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate. This particular compound is allegedly used as a leaving agent and stabilizer in baked goods and is used widely as well in processed cheese. It has been linked to reproductive damage in both males and females. 

    "The prevalence of sodium aluminum phosphate in school lunches and fast food items, such as pizza dough and hamburger buns, is concerning," Dr. Naomi Wolf said. "This is what your child is eating. This is what you are putting inside your body when you eat muffins, fast food, hamburger buns, frozen pizza, cereals and almost any kind of processed baked good.”

    Of course, the typical American parent of today is a lot more concerned with new and more potent strains of recreational marijuana than about whatever his kids might be eating at school. Despite the fact that another recent study showed that nearly one-third of American girls in their teens and twenties consider themselves bisexual, and studies showing that the average 20-year old male today has lower testosterone levels than 70-year old men had as recently as the 1980s, or that even the UN has warned our health agencies about our declining fertility rates, or that we've hit rock-bottom among Developed Nations in infant mortality, nobody seems to have noticed that maybe our young people are in trouble. Just because gender dysphoria is running rampant and over half of young adult men are living at home and not even seeking a relationship, it doesn't seem to have occurred to anybody that something may be wrong.

   Fertility issues and our looming demographic crisis are not even on the radar-screen of any major politicians this year, which is unsurprising. The Corporate Oligarchs are pursuing a depopulation agenda, and the USDA---which should be regulating food supplies---is wholly captured by interests connected with the Great Reset, and has been for some time. As is with the current moral philosophy of the United States, most parents want a top-down solution, because, after all it takes a village; and so far the Controlled Opposition has responded by banning and clamping down on social media outlets (so younger people have even fewer opportunities to meet); and restricting immigration because that, supposedly, is tainting our national blood---which doesn't seem especially healthy to begin with


     Sodium Aluminum Phosphate was last reviewed by the FDA in 1977, which is roughly how long it's been since the US has had an Agricultural Department not controlled by Big Ag or Big Pharma. It's use has been banned in several other countries, most notably Scandinavia. A Democrat Congresswoman from Illinois recently proposed a review of the chemical's use, which is unlikely to see the light of day given the Corporate stranglehold that Big Ag has over the GOP leadership, or the influence of woke NGOs seizing American farmlands have over the Democrats. 

    The important thing that we as individuals can do is be aware of these potentially harmful additives, what the objectives of the people promoting them are, and take appropriate precautions. No top-down solution is likely forthcoming; but sadly, most Americans will continue on blissful ignorance while our young people sink further into degeneracy and decay. 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

THE RIGHT'S COLLAPSING MORAL FOUNDATION

      Neocon blowhard Victor Davis Hanson, who is an example of what passes for a deep intellect in Postmodern America, penned another troubling article this week. Titled The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left, Hanson's article is ostensibly about abuses of the Legal Establishment committed by the Democrats. As of typical of most of Hanson's writings, it is mostly simply a laundry-list of crimes committed by the Junta heavily punctuated with declamations about how 'Things have never been this bad!' and 'Never before in history has this happened!' and 'OMG things were so much better under Bush!' etc. 

      It seems to escaped Hanson's notice that most of the unprecedented Lawfare and abuses of the system have been committed by the Republican-controlled House, which has exceeded every Congress in history in impeachments, censures, removals, expulsions, inquisitorial hearings, forced resignations, and the like, but we digress.

     


     The problem with Hanson's article is not that his complaints are factually incorrect. The problem is with the presuppositions and inferences liberally salted throughout it. This a fairly typical technique that he uses in most of his writings: he states facts, but in such a way that it leads to dangerous conclusions. For example, the header and conclusion of his piece reads, "the defense of those destroying democracy is that they are doing it to prevent others from doing what they would do, should they have been on the receiving end of exactly what they are now doing."

     While it is true that despots typically do live in fear of retribution, the idea implied here is retribution is the goal of the postmodern Conservative movement. It is not a traditionally Conservative position. Our Founding Fathers, for example, weren't interested in owning the Royalists and making it payback time for the Tories; their goal was to free the American Colonies from tyranny and establishment a Government of Laws which would ensure that such tyranny never happened again. If we had a real Conservative Movement, that would be the goal of removing the Democrats: to re-establish a Rule of Law and institute reforms to keep such abuses from returning.

    In contrast, the 21st Century's version of 'Conservatism' is simply to replace the Liberals while leaving the apparatus of abuses intact, and dishing it out upon their former overlords. In a previous post, we analyzed the degraded thinking and low morality involved in such a position, but it may not hurt to repeat a wise observation from a Dead White Male again here:

   "They have given the world the classical expression of the slave's ideal: the ideal, I mean, by which the crushed and cringing servitor would like to live if only he were strong and free. The power to get or do the things that he wants to do or get is every man's desire; but sheer Power---hard, empty, hectoring Power---is the daydream of the downtrodden. To such, the real meaning of Liberty is veiled; they neither understand nor want that equal fellowship of mutual consideration, courtesy, and self-respect which among themselves the free-born take for granted. What the slave longs for is to be, still more to feel himself to be, the kind of man that he thinks that his master is."

   That is the dynamic driving far too many minds in the Postmodern Right, and it explains in large measure the complete lack of concrete substance to their whole political orientation. Since Hanson mentioned the January 6th Protest, let's look at a widely-circulated photo of that day of notorious Red Pill 'influencer' and provocateur Anthime Gionet, a.k.a, Baked Alaska, who was stirring up trouble at the event:


    Here we see him with his feet propped up on Nancy Pelosi's desk, chatting on her phone while one of his toadies is taking selfies in the background for social media. A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. It was a foolish thing to do and publicity stunt and yes, the Junta over-reacted on Gionet like everyone else; but what we would like to observe is what it symbolized in Gionet's thinking. He wanted to be in Pelosi's shoes, 'to be the kind of man that he thinks that his Master  is.' 

    While I certainly don't condone the January 6th inquisition, the last thing that America needs is 4-8 more years of some new group launching assizes against its own perceived enemies---which easily could include anybody reading this article. The actions of the US House since the rather anemic Red Tsunami of 2022 shows us exactly the direction which they intend to take: very little about restoring democracy as the likes of Hanson and Gionet assert and a lot to do with putting the lash in somebody else's hands to use as freely as he likes. 

   Simply replacing the Junta isn't going to solve anything if we are unwilling to replace them with anything better. It underscores the unspoken issue again that there is no political solution, it is at root a collective spiritual and moral problem---and that our problems are fundamentally of our own making. Shifting responsibility for our collective failures as a society onto a political movement will accomplish nothing in the end, but only potentially delay the inevitable descent into tyranny. 

    


Monday, March 11, 2024

BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE TIK-TOK BAN

   These days it's a rare phenomenon when legislation crashes through the Federal Government with little to no resistance. This week, a move to 'ban' the popular social media app Tik-Tok won unanimous support in an otherwise useless House Committee. Nominal Head-of-State Biden gleefully chortled“If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” and one of his spokesxhes told the Corporate Media, "We welcome it, Obviously, we've been working with [lawmakers] on it. And we would want to see this bill get done so it can get to the president's desk." 

   Usually, these unusual displays of bipartisanship never happen unless it involves money for Israel or expanding the Security State. They can't even pass Border Security or Ukraine aid---even though both parties agree on the same things---for political reasons. Wisconsin GOP Congressman Mike Gallagher---an anti-China fanatic---spent six months crafting the Bill. His former boss, California GOP Congressman Kevin McCarthy remarked: “The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party.” These people have argued, without evidence of any kind, that the Chinese-owned network is harvesting data on American users on behalf of the Chinese Government---ignoring the mountains of evidence that our own Government is doing exactly that.


      The Neocons' flying monkeys in the Controlled Opposition Press likewise have celebrated the move, which---in typical Neocon fashion---is disguised as a matter of choice. Gallagher said, “This is not a ban. Think of this as a surgery designed to remove the tumor and thereby save the patient in the process."  The Bill would force the divestiture of Tik-Tok from its owner, ByteDance. If the sale doesn’t happen within about six months, the bill calls for the app to be blocked on U.S. app stores and websites.

  “Tik-Tok is the top search engine for more than half of Gen Z, and about 6 in 10 Americans are hooked on the app before their 17th birthday." Gallagher further proclaimed, "This is worrisome because Tik-Tok is controlled by America’s foremost adversary, one that does not share our interests or our values: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” As if, our course, Wall Street-run Big Tech really does share our national values. Also as typical of the postmodern family values Conservatives, parents aren't competent to limit social media access, so it's up to the State to take action.

  Gallagher and other GOP lawmakers came to the conclusion that the U.S. must ban Chinese ownership of Tik-Tok: “We are ceding the ability to censor Americans’ speech to a foreign adversary,” he said—suggesting that censorship isn’t altogether wrong. It’s only wrong when committed by someone other than the Neocons. 

  Washington Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers---who, along with the aforementioned Kevin McCarthy makes the Top 25 of total Congressional recipients of lobbying cash---said this in much the same pro-censorship vein: “Earlier today, we heard from members of the intelligence community about the dangers posed by applications, like Tik-Tok, that are controlled by foreign adversaries and who are determined to exploit and weaponize Americans’ data. We also witnessed firsthand, in real time, how the Chinese Communist Party can weaponize platforms like Tik-Tok to manipulate the American people. This morning, prior to our hearing, Tik-Tok used its influence and power to force users to contact their representatives if they wanted to continue using Tik-Tok. This is just a small taste of how the CCP weaponizes applications it controls to manipulate tens of millions of people to further its agenda.” (Emphesis mine: note how now this fake Conservative considers soliciting public input on an issue an enemy operation). 

   Why do we suppose that both the Republican and Democrat Establishments are scrambling to get the Bill passed? While Big Media is focusing on the potential ban, the operative part of the Legislation is contained in the phrase: "The Bill would force the divestiture of Tik-Tok from its owner, ByteDance." Now, let's look at who are the top contenders to buy this valuable resource at a fire-sale price: Microsoft, Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), and Amazon---all of which are WEF Top 100 Strategic Partners. According to Open Secrets, these four companies spent a combined total of $64 million in lobbying last year alone; maintaining a phalanx of 398 lobbyists, 310 of which constitute a very bipartisan contingent of Revolving-Door former federal officials including a number of ex-Congressmen and Senators.

   Isn't it an amazing coincidence how all of these pressing national issues always seem to lead back to the same people?


    President-in-Exile Trump, who once supported a Tik-Tok ban, has seen better of it and denounced the proposed Bill as giving too much power to the Tech Lords. Of course, Trump's right: hence the scramble to get Tik-Tok seized and sold off before November while the Republican Establishment is still guaranteed a more sympathetic Administration with which to deal. 

    Trump aside, all of us good Conservatives are supposed to pretend that this Bill isn't just another wealth-transfer and encroachment on our Civil Liberties. We're to believe instead that China is the real threat: that the Chinese are harvesting data on millions of Americans with which information they could do absolutely nothing; while believing that opening the app to Corporate Crooks and Deep State spies and perverts poses absolutely no threat to anybody. We're to go on pretending that a Republican victory in November really is about saving us all from Democrat excesses and not just an attempt by the Neocons to seize the same powers and emoluments for themselves. It's all a fake---just like everything else in this managed democracy of ours---and when the hysteria fades, we the people will end up as we always do; with less freedom while the Corporate Oligarchs end up rioting in the spoils and laughing in their sleeves at us. 


   

      

Thursday, March 7, 2024

WHAT STATE OF THE UNION?

     So, as we're writing this, our nominal Head-of-State is putting on a show to tell us all how he's saving the world and all of us Americans from ourselves. It's about as exciting as the last Hollywood/Madison Avenue performance on Tuesday. Remember all of those polls that said that Americans want neither Trump nor Biden in 2024? Well, who won their primaries and secured their nominations?


    It's truly astounding how anybody believes that any of this Electoral stuff is any more real or relevant than the Super Bowl or the Academy Awards, but millions watch those too, so there we go. 

    It's really no argument to pretend that because the President-in-Exile got nominated that this somehow going to save the country. Trump was obstructed and sabotaged just as much by his own Party when he was in office (and still has been during his entire campaign). Right now, they've been angling to choose an Establishment/WEF operative for Trump's Vice-Presidential nominee in the unlikely event that he wins in November. That opens up an interesting possibility for the Deep State. They have become so frustrated with the Junta's continual bungling that they allow the President-in-Exile to win: but recall that Trump is now 77 years of age and that accidents can happen to elderly gentlemen. 

   Most likely though, the current Head-of-State will remain in office. Without or without cheating, the Republican Party as a whole is so incompetent and void of any substance that 2024 will in all probability end up as much of a washout as it has been for the last three years. 

   For example, having learned nothing from the resounding defeats of the likes of Larry Elder, Bruce Jenner, Dr. Oz, and Herschel Walker the Republicans are still trying to win key races with celebrity appeal. Neocons can never admit to being wrong about anything; which is why they continually make the same strategic blunders in everything they do. 


     Steve Garvey, a former professional baseball player and current head of a marketing firm won 32% of the vote and finished second in the California Senate race---laughably because his opponent Democrat Adam Schiff funneled money from his own PAC to Garvey's campaign because he saw Garvey as less of a challenge than his closest Democrat rival. That small detail hasn't stopped the Controlled Opposition from coronating Garvey as the next savior of the cause.

   Not to be outdone, a Congressional committee today passed a Bill approving Republicans' long-standing obsession with banning Tik-Tok. I'm certain that this move is really going to win support from younger voters. Tik-Tok currently has around 113,000,000 subscribers in the United States alone, over half of whom are between 18 and 35 years of age. Of course, the real objective here is to force to Chinese owner Byte Dance to sell the app to some Wall Street consortium rather than ban it outright---because, of course, the Tech Lords and Big Media don't already control enough of the American social media market; and because the Conservatives totally oppose Cancel Culture. 

   There seems to be this strange dissonance in the thinking of the Postmodern Right. They all (so they say) oppose 'woke' Corporatism and Globalism generally, but seem to think that giving more power to the Oligarchs is the way to contain them. Their foreign policy positions are a perfect example: they think that securing the entire region from the Black Sea to the Red Sea for international High Finance and the WEF plutocracy will make the world a safer place---evidently because they need control of more oil, more shipping, and more cheap labor to outsource our jobs to than they already have.

   Congress also earlier this week quietly slipped into their so-called 'Budget Deal' a proviso to sell off the entire New England Oil Reserve to their Corporate cronies. House Speaker Mike Johnson is deeply hooked into the Energy Cartels. According to Open Secrets, the largest industry supporting Johnson since his first federal campaign in 2015 is the oil and gas industry, which has infused $338,000 into Johnson’s campaign coffers. Of that amount, $30,000 came from the Koch Industries PAC. Much of that Oil Cartel cash came from WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, Chevron, which also is a leading contender for the contracts in the Gaza Oil Fields. Not surprisingly, the Zionists are also major donors to Johnson. Let's see who Chevron's top stakeholders are---do we suppose any of them have WEF connections?

    

   But let's all just keep pretending that all of this malarkey about the "most important election of our lifetimes" really is what it claims to be. Let's all keep pretending that voting the Democrats out will change everything; that the Republicans really aren't working in collusion with them for the benefit of the same vested interests. The persistence of these illusions are what the Neocons count on, and it seems to work for them every single time.