Blogger Insanity Bytes had a good article yesterday exposing further hypocrisy from the Red Pill Cult. Dalrock, one of the ringleaders of that movement, wrote yet another article attempting to discredit traditionalist Conservatism and Christianity. The focus of his anger this time was a piece in the National Review encouraging men to consider marriage.
The Red Pills' version of 'Christian Marriage' is one wherein the wife is essentially the husband's chattel. They consider women inferior to men and advocate that wives must tolerate abuse and other unchristian behaviors from their husbands. Most of them believe that the wife must worship her husband as an earthly god; though they often don't come out and say so directly. Their typical motif is to hide behind Conservative and Christian trappings while preaching doctrines opposed to both.
The Red Pills' Male-Supremacist philosophy finds a natural ally in White Supremacy and Neo-Naziism. True Conservatives and Christians have nothing to do with any of these ideologies. President Trump, for example, yesterday condemned Anti-Semitism as un-American. For those who missed his remarks due to Corporate Media blackouts, the story can be read here.
Many believe that the Red Pill Cult is merely an echo chamber and isn't effecting churches at large. Not so. A Red Pill blog called Goodbye America had an article today with a photograph of an 'offensive' icon in a Michigan Catholic Church. The article was titled Jesus Cucking Christ; the term cuck or cuckservative being the Red Pill neologism for Traditionalists. It's a term they throw around to disparage Conservative Christians, much like whackos on the Far Left throw around terms like 'Christofascism'.
Here's the statute that has the Red Pills so outraged:
"There's a psychological undercurrent subtly conveyed by this artwork," the Red Pill warily explains, "You'll notice that the chocolate imp is sitting in (presumably) Jesus' lap, while White children gather around Jesus almost like they are His Apostles. Everyone stares lovingly and attentively at the Black baby. The message is that the African orphan is a charity case through which empathobesic White Christcucks may demonstrate their virtue. It's Captain Save-a-Fro as Church policy, and you will only ever see this sort of thing in all-White churches."
Now isn't that statement the very sort of Politically-Correct drivel that one would expect on any Far Left Cultural Marxist blog? (Minus the racial slurs, of course). But the Red Pills have fully embraced this kind of Identity Politics.
A commenter at Goodbye America who writes under the name of Sigma 7, submitted this photo, from a church where he was ostensibly attending a funeral but took time to be offended at statues of Christ preaching to children. He's a frequent commenter on Manosphere sites like Dalrock, and had this to add:
"The ceremony for my father was simply awful. The priest was weak but all my female family loved it because it was touching. They had some lady playing s----y keyboard and singing with all the awe, reverence, and wonder of a month-old loaf of bread. All doughy and moldy. My dad's corpse had more 'T' in it a week after he died than that priest. I understand why men are no longer interested in church. I see why those vibrants/muzzies are so welcome. Dalrock is correct, the church is poison."
We highlighted the last sentence, because therein lies the point. These are the kinds of attitudes people are coming away with after immersion in Red Pill Philosophy.
This is why pastors, priests, and other Christian leaders need to address the Red Pill Cult more aggressively. It's actually more dangerous to Christianity than Cultural Marxism. With the exception of the 'Rainbow Church' types, the Far Left is typically unashamedly anti-Christian. The Red Pills counterfeit Christianity by appealing to vulnerable men with their False Doctrines disguised as traditionalist thought.
For the second time in the last six months, the American Psychiatric Association has spoken out against Trump Derangement Syndrome among its membership. The APA issued a general warning today to its members to desist from feeding the Corporate Media trolls with fake diagnoses of President Trump's sanity.
Section 7.3 of the APA Code of Ethics specifically forbids mental health professionals from offering a diagnostic opinion on public figures whom they have not examined personally or without the public figure's consent. The rule was instituted in 1964 after a candidate successfully sued the APA for libel (hint to Trump legal team).
The legal issues aside, the provision in the Ethical Code is a sensible one. The same gullible Corporate Media who denounced speculations from qualified physicians as to Hilary's Clinton's medical during the Campaign eagerly began pouncing upon the guesswork of psychologists concerning Trump. This led to another APA disclaimer in August. Without proper diagnosis, including an in-person interview and evaluation, these speculations really only amount to opinions. But when one puts a professional certification to that opinion, it carries more weight among the general public than coming from a non-professional.
Professor Peter Kinderman, the head of the APA's British counterpart, told Sputnik News that political positions are not fit subjects for psychological speculation in any event.
"Attempting to use a diagnostic approach to understand and confront President Trump is wrong on many levels." Kinderman said. "I am skeptical of the validity of such psychiatric diagnosis per se, and I especially condemn arms-length celebrity pseudo-diagnosis."
Kinderman is correct: in traditionalist academics, national political policy more properly belongs to the scientific domains of Sociology and Law. It should be taken for granted that a current political leadership---especially in a democracy---is the sum total of a nation's social trends and legal history.
Nonetheless, however, Trump Derangement Syndrome is such a powerful affliction that many American psychologists are ignoring their own leadership; heedless of the damage they may do their own professions and careers. We've seen this phenomenon in action ever since Trump won the Republican nomination. Prominent public figures have lost their positions for making threats against Trump, or going berserk in public venues. Media figures have had on-air breakdowns; pillars of Academia have been caught in acts of political violence; athletes sabotaging their own teams with political statements; the list goes on.
Among American psychologists, a group calling itself Citizen Therapists Against Trumpism has been fomenting a campaign among their peers--- in defiance of the APA rules---to spread allegations that Trump is mentally ill. They've even gotten up a petition among themselves to have Congress declare Trump mentally unfit for office.
Granted, some of this may be nothing more than a publicity stunt. The Smart Boys in the psychiatric profession have no doubt noticed too that Trump Derangement Syndrome seems prevalent among Liberals with deep pockets, and so these worthies are using the Media for free advertising in hopes of attracting wealthy Liberals traumatized over the Election. But we're equally confident that many others are genuine Fanatics, suffering from the Syndrome themselves.
The APA would be well-advised under the circumstances to begin an investigation of those professionals engaging in this bizarre behavior. In the interests of science, they should also investigate the Trump Derangement Syndrome phenomenon as well. But if what many of us suspect is the case---that there's a correlation between TDS and over-prescription of psychiatric drugs---the APA would probably prefer to let sleeping dogs lie on the latter issue.
We've made a few new changes here at this site, which we hope will better serve our readers. Among things we've done is added a few new feeds to new sites and plan to upgrade our Links section with access to more useful information. Some of these changes have come about because of the change in political administrations in the US which have made us alter our former approach.
One we've added is called MAGA Ireland which aims to bring the political paradigm shift in America to the Emerald Isle, and post-BREXIT. It's a new blog, but deserves your support.
Today, we added a feed to the Blogroll directly from the White House Press Room. We'll see how well it works as a feed, (otherwise we'll move the site to Links). The purpose in adding this site is to allow readers direct access to the Trump Administration's activities. We've found since January 20th that much of what President Trump actually does or says is either completely by the Corporate Media altogether or presented in distorted form.
Under the Obama Administration, the Corporate Media worked hand-in-glove with the White House, so basically the MSM and DNC positions were identical. We tried to counter that here by relying heavily on foreign news sites. The problem with the foreign press relative to American news is that the foreign press gets its news feeds from the US. The foreign press may do more fact-checking and have more objective editorials; but they have limitations. The kind of widespread Corporate Media blackouts effect the foreign press like it does American audiences: they simply not cover a story because they are unaware of it.
Linking directly into the Trump Press Room will hopefully help readers to circumvent MSM blackouts and fake-news. We cannot rely on the Corporate Media to report any positive initiatives coming out of this Administration; so by necessity we must get our information directly from them. As the White House Press Room is obviously a government-controlled information source, we do offer the same caveat that we do with similar foreign news outlets: trust but verify.
As for our foreign news links, we will keep them going and intend to add more in the near future. A new addition this month has been a link to India Today. Our blog has an interest in geopolitics among other things; and probably has a more global perspective than typical Conservative writings. However, we believe that if the US is to be a global power, Conservatism needs to take a more geopolitical approach. This is especially true in international trade and suppressing Jihadism and fighting international crime. The Pax Americana approach of the last three decades has failed; emergent superpowers like Russia, China---and to a lesser extent India and Iran---have proven that bilateralism is a more effective approach.
To that end, we are hoping to add news feeds from Israel, Pakistan, and South Africa within the coming month. And of course we'll add domestic 'alternative' sites as good ones come to our attention as well.
It's always interesting---and in many ways reassuring---that as we travel through our film archives each Friday to realize that our contemporary social issues are not unique to our times. We are not alone in the great scheme of human history. We often find in these representations of popular American culture of the past parallels to our own situations.
Our recommendation for this weekend's viewing is the story of a group of 'lost boys' who find redemption in a cause greater than themselves. The film is a very underrated Western from 1972 titled A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die. The heroes are played by James Coburn and Bud Spencer.
The story is set during another politically-divided time: specifically the US Civil War. Colonel Pembroke (played by James Coburn) a Union officer has built an impregnable fortress in the American Southwest. At the beginning of the film we learn that Pembroke surrendered the fort to the Confederate Major Ward and is court-martialed. Pembroke escapes from prison with his friend Eli Samson (played by Bud Spencer). Captured, he offers a plan to recapture the fort and clear his name; along with five other soldiers sentenced to death on the gallows and Samson.
The men form an uneasy alliance from a variety of motives as the plan to take out the fort unfolds. We learn that Major Ward and the Confederates are planning to carve out a personal territory of their own once the Union has collapsed. And we learn the reason why Pembroke surrendered the fort.
We say that this is an underrated film because it is a much deeper, thinking-man's than critics seem to realize. The storyline of condemned men on a suicide mission is nothing novel; but the character development and the sense of redemption for a greater purpose, is. In the aftermath of the 1860 Election, there was a literal rebellion against the government. The Confederacy was composed of an Oligarchy which kept half of the South in slavery and the other half in poverty and economic dependence. They were the Cultural Elites of their day: defenders of an unsustainable status quo that had paralyzed the country for decades---simply to uphold their power and privilege. Ironically too the Confederate leaders were all Democrats. They had been using their positions to undermine the government for years previous to Lincoln.
And like the Conservatives of recent years, the generation just prior to the Civil War had grown complacent. We see this in Pembroke's character when we learn the reason for his surrender of the fort: he put a personal issue above his duty to the country. Ward's treachery brought Pembroke back to reality. He realized that the injustice he suffered would be multiplied to infinity if the Union collapsed and men like Ward were to take over. His mistake was a human mistake, but a costly one.
In this aspect, A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die is not simply a revenge-themed Western nor is it a matter of a disgraced soldier reclaiming his honor. Pembroke's goal is to wipe out the wrong he did to society at large by undoing his mistake at whatever cost. This is why he selected other condemned men---most of whom seem to realize this as the story progresses. There is some foreshadowing of this when he debates with a religious zealot over the verse "Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord."
The idea of redemption through atonement is one that is lost on the enemies of Freedom, but it is a vital one for understanding the character of the men who made America great, like Colonel Pembroke. The godless Left and the Neo-Pagan Right both agree that mankind is flawed---but neither believe that Man is redeemable. That perspective is the basis of their Authoritarianism; logically if there is no redemption or possibility of atonement, Mankind can only be controlled and never given freedom of choice.
There is definitely more substance to this film than what's on the surface. It tells us a lot about human nature, both for good and evil. A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die is available on Youtube as of this writing; and also on DVD. Besides its considerable action and entertainment value, it certainly gives pause for reflection.
The Chinese Media reported today that they had concluded a nearly three-month investigation of two factories which produce Ivanka Trump's line of designer women's shoes. Their press roundly denounced US Corporate Media outlets for promulgating fake news and stated as well that these same outlets committed crimes on Chinese soil.
The investigation apparently began in late December after the Moonie Cult-affiliated The Daily Beast published a series of articles and photos claiming inhumane working conditions existed in the two factories. This story, of course, coincided with the Far Left's boycott of Ivanka Shoes. However, the Xi Administration in China has been cracking down on sweatshops during the last few years and takes such accusations quite seriously.
The full Chinese report can be read here for those interested. There are several points in the article worth highlighting however. For example, this statement by one of the factory executives:
"These reports have deliberately distorted our image as a manufacturer, so some workers involved in that reporting and image shooting have been fired."
Those who understand the dynamics of doing business in China recognize that this executive is implying that the employees were probably bribed to lie the Corporate Media. This is further suggested by his statement that:
"Employees at the factory stated that foreign reporters trespassed on factory grounds late in the evening and took some photos in a darkened workers' dormitory."
This is such typical behavior for the American Media these days that there's no reason to doubt China's claims here. Faking news to attack President Trump or his family is standard operating procedure among the press today. What's sad about this incident is that many of us would like to see greater Freedom of the Press in China; but activities like these will likely only deepen the Party's distrust of an independent press.
The other factory involved in the investigation also produces women's shoes for companies like Gucci. They displayed to the investigators that most of their system is mechanized and produces 1300 pairs of shoes per day on each production line.
Chinese Government officials concluded by warning the factories and their employees to be on guard against duplicity by the US Media; stating that our media was interested only in smearing Trump and by extension hurting Chinese business.
So once again, the American Left have made fools of themselves in front of the world. And the chumps in our Media Establishment have been again humiliated by a foreign State-controlled news source. This is twice now in one month that China has slapped down Ameroboob Anarchists attempting to use China's factories as a foil to attack Trump.
And it's also further indicative of the depths to which the American Corporate Media will stoop in its fanatical obsession to undermine Trump. They've demonstrated here that they have no regard for sabotaging even our 1st Amendment's image abroad in the pursuit of defeating democracy.
Anti-Democracy extremists gathered at the University of Chicago yesterday to protest free speech. Former Trump Campaign official Corey Lewandowski was speaking on the campus that day---which, of course, can't be tolerated.
The extremists took an interesting new twist to their usual dramas. They hung up a piñata of Donald Trump and cheered children on to beat it with sticks. "Tear him apart!" "Off with his head" the adults shouted. The peaceful protesters let out a loud roar of applause when the effigy was decapitated.
We've all wondered where these mask-wearing bat-wielding thugs at anti-Trump rallies come from: now we know. A decade from now, these little bastards will be in college themselves beating up supporters of President Pence.
It's really difficult to imagine that there are parents out there who are actually this sick. But we have to face the reality that parents like these really do exist in effete and degenerated Left-Wing parts of the country. Those who support Traditionalist families often have a difficult time wrapping our minds around this fact. We tend to assume that Anarchists and such were children from broken homes and bad schools. It's hard for us to believe that often these people come from relatively stable families and were taught their deviant behaviors by their parents. In this Chicago example, we see the parents actively encouraging them.
Parents have instinctual drive to protect children. Part of childhood education is teaching the young to defend themselves. Thus, we can conclude that these types of parents are motivated by irrational, but very intense fears (like paranoia). Very likely a high percentage of them have had even their genetic survival instincts blunted by years of ingesting dangerous narcotics. Others have never experienced any of the world outside the Liberal social circles in which they live.
This is why we need public education reform so desperately. The original purpose of our public schools was to correct educational deficiencies like these. The founders of that system realized that traditional American values must be taught through a public venue. Some parents---like poor or immigrant parents---lack the ability and experience to educate productive Americans and need the school's help. Others---like these parents in Chicago---are too whacked-out to do the job and their children deserve exposure to the truth. But our schools today are failing; and the burden falls heaviest on poor and immigrant children, as well as those from dysfunctional homes.
Simply put, organizing children's games where they beat and behead effigies of the President of the United States is not acceptable behavior. Parents and educators need to call out the adults involved and shame them for what they're doing. This is not how we operate in a civilized world premised on self-governance and the Rule of Law; and these protesters should be taught so by their adult peers.
As we've all heard, General Flynn has resigned from the Trump Cabinet. I had a few issues with Flynn to begin with; and Flynn's son was fired by Trump before the Inauguration. So this was probably expected; and actually I think that General Kellogg would have been a better choice to begin with.
So, when President Trump stated that Flynn was let go because he no longer had Trump's or Pence's confidence, our position was that we should accept it as that and ignore whatever the Corporate Media said about it. This affair is hardly going to be the downfall of the American Union---however much the Media Elites hope that it will.
But there may be more to this story. Julian Assange---who's actually more reliable than the US Corporate Media combined---had this to say following Flynn's announcement:
"Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigns after destabilization campaign by US spies, Democrats, and the Media. An amazing battle for dominance is playing out between the elected US Government and the Intelligence Community who consider themselves a permanent government."
Assange also appealed for information disclosing the alleged contents of the Flynn communique. This leads us to suspect that Assange already knows---or strongly suspects---that solid proof exists to corroborate his assertions. British journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is an associate of Edward Snowden, made some similar observations in The Intercept:
"That Flynn lied about what he said to Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak was first revealed by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who has built his career on repeating what his CIA sources tell him."
Now things are becoming interesting. And they got even more interesting after John Schindler, a former NSA analyst reported to The New York Observer that Establishment apparatchiks within the Intelligence Community are in open revolt against Trump.
"Now we go nuclear," Schindler gushed effusively on Twitter, "Intelligence Community war going to new levels. I just got an e-mail from a senior IC friend, and it began, 'He (Trump) will die in jail.'" Schindler, like many anti-Trump types, grew more unstable in the ensuing Twitter feud; suggesting that whatever happened to Trump would be his own fault, making hysterical comments about Russia, suggesting a false flag, etc.
Is there reason to believe that the Elites are plotting a coup against Trump? More to the point, there is no reason to disbelieve it. Their words and actions of the last few months demonstrate clearly that there is no crime that they are unwilling to conscience to overthrow the Trump Administration.
Whether they can succeed or not is another issue. The weakness the anti-Trump conspirators face is that they overestimate themselves and underestimate the Power of popular government. And their own fanaticism is their Achilles' Heel; they are too blinded with raw hatred for Trump that nothing else actually unifies them.
The Intelligence Community is another swamp in serious need of draining. It has already been rumored that Trump is organizing a select committee to do just that.
