SOME POST 'ELECTION' ANALYSIS

         There is some good news and some bad news about the outcome of yesterday's voting ritual. The good news is that several Neoconservatives were removed. The bad news is that they were replaced by Neoliberals. Basically, the American public behaved predictably and projected its collective frustrations on the Government by replacing one wing of the Uniparty with the other. Chuck Schumer, who headed the last two Democrat Senates will come back; while Hakeem Jeffries---Nancy Pelosi's hand-picked leader of House Democrats---will be Speaker of that body. Yes: that's some real change you voted for, folks.

         

            Granted, there were a few members of the Conservative-Industrial Complex ousted whom nobody is going to miss; specifically Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Lindsey Graham's sock-puppet in South Carolina. Clearing the field of this kind of rubbish should provide an opportunity for actual Conservatives in Texas, Ohio, and South Carolina to rebuild the Republican Party without Bush Machine and faux-populist reactionaries gumming things up. That should happen, but we're not holding our breath. More likely, the RNC will put a stop to such goings-on, and simply wait 2-4 years until the American public's atrophied civic sense is stimulated by enough media-generated outrage to install another Red Wave. 

          The same can be said for the US Congress: what should happen is passing of meaningful reform Bills, doing things like reining in the out-of-control powers of the Executive Branch, abolishing lobbying and other Corporate influences, investing in infrastructure, and reforming some of our captured institutions like healthcare, education, and the legal system; and strengthening things like the family, the Middle Class, as well as rebuilding our hollowed-out agricultural and industrial base. We're not holding our breath expecting that to happen either. 

         Instead, what likely will happen is more Political Theater; holding useless hearings, impeachments, witch-hunts (which these people already know will go nowhere) while the Uniparty keeps rubber-stamping anything and everything that benefits their Globalist Overlords. If anyone doubts this, note that we've had divided Government before recently: 1994-2000; 2006-2008; 2010-2016; and 2022-2024. Does anybody remember any of those Congresses passing Bills that were vetoed? Of course not. Congress has become little more than a Rump Parliament that exists to pretend that the populace has some representation while carrying out the will of the Globalist-appointed cabals in the Executive Branch. Writing legislation and braking Executive over-reach is something they don't bother with much these days; besides, they might want all that power for themselves at some point. 

        The bottom line here is that---despite all of the Media hoopla---nothing actually is going to change. If our Society actually wants change, it's going to have to work on changing itself first. 

         

THE 2026 MIDTERM SPECTACLE WINDS DOWN

         So today is 'Election Day' in the Exceptional US: like voting in the season finale of some Reality TV show, Americans are rushing out to "make their voices heard." The jackals in the Corporate Media have been hyping the whole farce as "the most important election of our lifetime," knowing that their target audience will fall for it while the leaders of the Uniparty and their WEF overlords laugh in their sleeves and make post-election adjustments to their propaganda programs. 

        Until recently, Midterms weren't given the same hype that general elections were; but seeing a great opportunity both for personal profit and to keep the public divided on a more regular basis, Midterms have proven an effective tool for the Oligarchy to maintain its position.

         Congressional turnovers formerly were fairly rare in the United States. From the US Civil War to the New Deal Era, the Congress was dominated by the Republican Party. From FDR's landslide win in the 1932 Elections until 1994, the Democrats had a fairly firm grip on House and Senate. Turnovers in the Legislative Branch during these periods typically were short-lived regardless of which party held the Executive Branch. The reason for this was because, in our earlier history, voters tended to choose the man rather than the Party, and those who voted a 'straight ticket' were regarded with some suspicion. That all changed in the era of Mass Media and Mass Marketing and today voting is more an exercise in people either venting their personal frustrations on the candidates or projecting their selfish desires on them like a blank screen. Blank screens seem to define most candidates perfectly these days too.

         There were warnings about the dangerous trends corrupting the Electoral process going back to the 1950s. Some studies showed that President Eisenhower's popularity was lower among television viewers than among those who followed affairs in newspapers and radio. In the famous first televised presidential debate in 1960 between Kennedy and Nixon, polls showed that TV viewers overwhelmingly thought that Kennedy had won; while those who listened to the debate on radio were decidedly in favor of Nixon. Mass Media and Mass Marketing won out in the end, though, as political advertising was also shown to be more profitable in visual media. Besides, reading and listening actually requires thought, and the advertising industry and the political class both well understood that thought is dangerous when selling either commodities or candidates.

        Thus, it's probably no accident that the succession of Congressional turnovers began in 1994 when satellite television and the Internet were really beginning to gather steam. It was shortly thereafter that Corporate consolidation of Mass-Media and the Internet really got going: the continued degeneration of political discourse that experts warned about in the mid 20th Century turned into a juggernaut in the 21st.

         

      

          For those who still doubt that we have a Uniparty and a sensationalist media, consider how our Midterm turnovers have played out since the 1990s.

           1994: Republicans swept into office promising reform of the tax code, stopping Clinton's moves toward gun control, repealing NAFTA, stopping the hollowing out of our economic base by outsourcing, and promoting school choice initiatives as well as reversing the politicization of our schools. Not only did none of these things happen, the GOP joined Clinton and pushed them all more aggressively.

          2006: The Democrats came in as a reaction to Bush's expansions of the Police/Surveillance State, illegal expansionist wars, and growing wealth inequality. These things expanded under the Democrats and accelerated after Obama was installed on a Hope and Change narrative.

         2010: Republicans regained Congress as a reaction to Obamacare, the Snowden Revelations, Obama's illegal wars, and his general tyranny. Not only did the GOP not repeal Obamacare, they put bounties on Snowden and expanded the Police/Surveillance even more than before.

        2018: Democrats resumed control of Congress and spent most of the next two years investigating allegations that the 2016 Elections were stolen. All of the talk about Electoral interference went out the window and the Official Narrative completely changed after their party was installed in the Presidency in 2020. Likewise, these same people who were calling the violent rioters who tried to storm the January 2017 Inaugural Ball "political prisoners" and praised the BLM and Antifa thugs who engaged in violent riots during the Summer of 2020 labelled the January 2021 pro-Trump protests as an "insurrection" and "an attempted coup." The same Democrats, which had initially opposed Scamdemic restrictions, accusing Trump of using them as a pretext to grab power, quickly changed sides once Big Pharma's and the Insurance Cartels' lobbying cash came into play and became even worse tyrants than the Republicans.

        2022: Americans reinstated the Republicans, who promptly spent the entire first year of Congressional control fighting over leadership positions. The remainder was spent on useless hearings, impeachments, and other grandstanding while off-camera, they dutifully voted for all of Biden's policies and nominees.

       What do we hear for 2026? "Change parties again! It will be different THIS time!!!!"

        When the dust settles on Wednesday morning, and Americans are watching the news reports while waiting for their morning drugs to take effect, we'll go on to the next stage of mutual finger-pointing and who-knows-what-else; that is, until the Thanksgiving sales at the 420 stores, the NFL Thanksgiving extravaganzas, and Black Friday sales season start, and public attention will be diverted as both wings of the Uniparty go back to business as usual and their Corporate Overlords laugh all the way to the bank. 

GULF WAR 3.0 AND THE ALLEGED AMMO SHORTAGE

          While the American Public has been distracted with Election Year nonsense for the last month or so, Gulf War 3.0 continues, albeit at a slower pace. The Globalists are continuing to lose assets---three tankers in the last few days alone---and there have been reports that everyone is bracing for another round of military action. Iran has gone on high alert, as have the Zionists and the Gulf monarchies. There have also been a few probing raids from both sides and there is a definite shifting about of military assets in the region. 

         There have also been some movement here in the US domestically. The Pentagon has ordered preparation for mass-casualty events and put bases on a 90-day regimen to prepare for self-sufficiency if cut off from normal logistical support (something that they should have been doing anyway, but that's another story). Hegseth recently removed the top Pentagon strategist; there have been a lot of rumors floating around as to why: but given the recent strategic failures in both Ukraine and the Gulf we can't, in all fairness, say that any other pretext was really needed for a change.

        Another interesting development is that air defense systems, including interceptor missiles have been deployed near the White House and Mar-a-Lago. They've also been deployed at other key governmental installations and probably elsewhere though the Media would rather not discuss such things. Which brings us to another interesting point.

       Where is all of the equipment for these maneuvers coming from? Throughout the Media we've been hearing for months that there "is a critical depletion of our weapons stockpiles." That's not only coming from Democrat squawk-boxes either; sites which have had a legitimate opposition to the war have featured a continuous line of various pundits claiming the same thing. This story is something we've been skeptical about from the beginning. 

        The Administration also has beefing up weapons supplies to the Zionists and (behind the scenes) to Ukraine. When asked about these deployments and weapons-sales, the pundits roll their eyes and say something like, "Well, I don't know if Trump is all that rational," or "Trump is listening to sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear," and so forth. While some of that may be true, the numbers don't lie. We can't be moving this much ordinance around if we didn't really have it. Apparently, the Iranians don't believe it either, or else they wouldn't be digging in and conserving their own munitions unless they expected to need such precautions. 

       As we pointed out in the above-referenced article, this narrative began last Summer and originated with Corporate Media outlets CNN and the Washington Post whose source was the ultra-Deep State think-tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). It's interesting to note, too, that a number of the pundits promoting the story had long careers in the CIA, the Pentagon, or other Deep State operations before they suddenly turned whistle-blower---and all around the same time, at that.

       Regardless of Gulf War 3.0's legitimacy or immorality, it can't be gainsaid that attempting to deceive the opponent by planting fake stories about weapons shortages isn't a good strategy; although I think that the Pentagon underestimated Iranian Intelligence Services badly on this point (note that the same pundits have been spreading stories about China and Russia assisting Iranian Intel with no proof of that happening because they can't admit that a nation whom they consider their inferiors is capable of defending itself against them alone). 

      From the cynical Realpolitik perspective of America's ruling Oligarchs, the strategy has a political side. I doubt seriously that there really is going to be any Blue Tsunami next Tuesday---their election stories are no more believable than their war reporting---and if that's coupled with a massive military sortie against Iran, the Controlled Opposition will be thoroughly discredited. 

      As far as how well another military action against Iran will play out in actuality; let's not forget that Iran may well be understating its own capabilities too. The Pentagon, too, wouldn't be making all of these deep-level preparations unless they had at least an instinctual fear of what the Iranians could accomplish. The next few weeks will tell.

 

       

WHY THE MIDTERMS ARE IRRELEVANT

         So, this morning while going through the Top Headlines and social media posts, I decided to take some snippets of what actually influences the American Public to make informed decisions about the future of our 250-year old Republic. For those who still believe that voting matters here is a montage of what other voters think matter:

          The demographic which is responsive to this kind of nonsense and sensationalism is the one to which the Madison Avenue shylocks, the Media Moguls, and the Uniparty's campaign managers are counting on translating into votes. The candidates dutifully follow this kind of a script and pander to the Lowest Common Denominator. As citizens, we really should ask ourselves what kinds of people would want the support of the most ignorant and most fanatical elements in society, but that is another topic.

         Back during the 2000 Elections, the Bush Machine decided to throw Social Conservatives under the bus. The punditocracy back then (many of whom are still with us) chimed that "we can't win on social issues" and scoffed at anyone who thought otherwise as "content with losing on principle." In the 2010s, the Red Pills took up the same line, adding to it that "controlling the narrative" was the important thing, regardless of the truth, and scoffed at anyone who thought otherwise that "facts don't care about your feelings" and theirs' was the realistic approach as opposed to all of us "impractical idealists." Thus, winning became an end in itself, and the end justified the means---now we're seeing the results. The family, which is the basis of any stable civilization has been hollowed out; our schools little more than regimented political youth camps; our religious heritage supplanted by theater; the Middle Class is being reduced in favor of an Oligarchy. In other words, family, education, economic independence, and moral values---the very things that underpin a viable self-governing Republic were sacrificed and we wonder why we keep moving in the direction of Authoritarianism a la the Great Reset.

         In a system such as the New Right has created (and basically they did little more than adopt the strategy and the ideology of the New Left), brute force becomes 'strength,' merit and virtue is measured by wealth and status; influence is the measure of truth; 'facts' are determined by consensus; society is divided between 'winners' and 'losers'; sales-pitches replace academic expertise and sensationalism becomes public discourse. 

        This is why elections ultimately don't matter. A corrupt and debased culture can't produce anything other than a corrupt and debased government. 

CHINA'S NEW AI POLICY SHAMES U.S. ROBBER-BARONS

          Since Artificial Intelligence (AI) burst upon the world's economies and societies in 2023, the US and China have taken widely divergent paths in its application. The Chinese have applied AI at first mostly to socially useful functions but since have introduced it into the general population in a limited way. The US, in contrast, has more or less turned over complete control to Big Tech which has flooded our degenerate culture with pornography, online gaming, cut-and-paste punditry, and other distractions. Any practical applications of AI in the US has been mostly employed to bolster the Security State and allowing Big Tech and the Financial Cartels greater abilities at social control. Meanwhile, in our exceptional Republic, the Tech Lords---largely through a completely captured Interior Department, a new bureaucracy established by Executive Order under Big Tech control, and Musk's DOGE purges of any civilian oversight---have seized large portions of American land to construct AI Data Centers while displacing thousands of jobs. 

          China, in contrast, recently released an updated policy on AI application within its nation. The full account can be read here; but here are some important points: 

          "China has rolled out a set of policy measures to create more jobs through artificial intelligence (AI), improve employment quality and mitigate the impact of job displacement resulting from AI applications, helping build an employment-friendly development model, amid the rapid development and growing use of the technology. The guidelines, issued by the General Office of the State Council and made public on Friday, outlines 18 major tasks across six areas, covering AI-driven job creation, employment-friendly AI adoption, workforce training, employment services, labor rights and social security protections, and employment risk monitoring and response...

          "In terms of employment services, the document calls for using AI to facilitate the implementation of employment policies, improve the intelligence and efficiency of employment services, and strengthen support for workers transitioning to new jobs or occupations. The guidelines also emphasize improving labor rights and social security systems to keep pace with technological changes. Measures include improving labor rights protections to accommodate human-AI collaboration, improving social security arrangements for flexible workers and those in new forms of employment, and refining income distribution mechanisms to adapt to AI development.

         "To address potential employment risks arising from AI applications, the document proposes strengthening employment risk monitoring and early-warning systems related to AI applications, stepping up research into AI's impact on employment, and improving mechanisms to respond to emerging employment risks."

         Of course, suggestions that actual planning should go into AI proliferation with the objective of protecting the labor force and preventing abuses of the technology---especially coming from China---meets with degrading silence or knee-jerk outrage because the American Media and Punditocracy somehow sees a heavily-subsidized Corporate Oligarchy filled with unaccountable and unelected globalist bureaucrats as superior to Communism. Despite this, China has emerged as the world leader in AI and robotic technology, while their Wall Street counterparts fear an 'AI Bubble' and the US struggles with surging unemployment. 

       There has been some backlash in the US about the Globalist Tech Lords and their potential overreach; so to forestall any activism, and to take control of the Official Narrative, a few of their number started warning about potential (but very unspecified) dangers of AI. To that end, six of the top globalist Tech Titans went to the White House late September and secured from their political puppets an Executive Order essentially granting these Corporations a de facto monopoly over AI regulation. Present at this meeting were representatives of Google, Meta, and Anthropic (WEF Top 100 Strategic Partners); WEF Young Global Leader and shadow US President Elon Musk; and WEF-adjacent Tech firms NVIDIA and OpenAI. Musk also assumed control of a secondary package setting up a new division within the Pentagon's Intel Bureau to apply AI to enhance the powers of the Security State. This program is part of a set of objectives outlined by the WEF during the Summer of 2024. 

         Now, sadly, most Americans will see these facts and put their heads in sand or brush them off as "baseless conspiracy theories" and turn their attention towards issues that are really important to us, such as seen in today's headlines:

           Wealth and power grabs by Globalist Corporations, the expansion of the Surveillance State, the disregard for displaced workers or the disruption of communities: focus on that, and you're suspected of being a China bot. No: what's important are the latest sexual allegations and gossip. This probably shouldn't be surprising since, as we noted above, the first use Americans put to AI was pornographic or sexual in nature. As long as Big Tech doesn't interfere with that, Americans won't care what the Tech Lords do. Meanwhile, while our culture and quality of life continues to decline, China, though, will go on rising. 

          

LESS THAN A WEEK LEFT OF THE ELECTORAL CIRCUS

          Thankfully, we are now less than a week away from Election Day, which here in the Prozac Nation ranks with the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, and other of our Trash Culture's iconic collective rituals. Even Gulf War 3.0 has been postponed (at least on our end) until this farce is over with. 

         We're not thankful because we believe that the 'elections' actually will change anything: we're thankful that all of this media-driven spectacle finally will be over and done with. These dramatic races have left their sleazy mudslinging and attack-ad phases and gone into the stage where both sides of the Uniparty are already preemptively (and hypocritically) accusing each other of voter fraud. Despite all of the polling and trolling, the Party bosses must not have quite as much faith in the outcome as they pretend; because they're already working on the 'Stolen Election' narratives.

          This isn't to argue, of course, that American 'elections' aren't stolen or rigged: it's simply that the people doing the stealing and rigging are the ones who own both Parties. The Post-Election patterns are familiar. One side is allowed to present significant evidence of cheating; the other dismisses it; nobody looks into any of it too closely---the objective here being to keep the little people occupied fighting among themselves while the Uniparty goes on doing the bidding of their Commercial and Financial Overlords. 

         There are two other phenomena that appear during these spectacles, usually during the Midterm Elections. The first are phony 'alternative' movements led by allegedly dissenting pundits or politicians. The only purpose such people really serve is to give the illusion that there is a genuine Populist sentiment still vibrant in America, and that 'our Democracy' still functions. All of their plans typically are pie-in-the-sky programs or simplistic initiatives disguised as Common-Sense solutions. Invariably, these are all 'growing movements' setting a course to be achieved at some unspecified date in the future. Meanwhile, they tell us, stay the course until their plans mature and reform the political process from within. Also just as typically, these movements never survive more than one or two election cycles and they fade into history rather quickly.

       The other phenomenon is one which has been happening regularly during the last three or so decades: the general belief that Elections will be suspended and Martial Law declared. This is actually a genuine possibility---one that we've been building up to for some time. The rhetoric about it has been escalating nearly every electoral cycle and we saw serious proposals about it (mostly coming from the Democrats) during the Scamdemic. The Democrats then deflected attention from themselves---suddenly scrapping all of their 'Russiagate' nonsense and Media documentaries about the ease with which voting machines could be hacked---and proceeded to frame a protest as an attempted 'insurrection' founded on the baseless allegations that elections could be stolen. The current Administration with its sheer lack of transparency and its Surveillance State arsenal propped up by the Tech Oligarchy and the bands of armed fanatics and detention camps they've created easily could declare Martial Law and make it stick.

      That the Americans would roll over and go along with Martial Law was proven during the Scamdemic. Whether it will happen this year or not remains to be seen: but it will happen eventually. It will happen when the Oligarchs decide that maintaining this carnival of Managed Democracy is no longer cost-effective and when they are confident that the Ameroboobs will pose no more than a token resistance to them grabbing absolute power. 

       When we look at the state of our culture today, combined with the well-documented ease with which the Elites have imposed some of the most stupid and transparent shams on the public to the expense of both our civil liberties and our national character, it's difficult to argue that we haven't reached that stage already. The Elites may allow the Democrats to regain Congress---which is emasculated and deeply compromised anyway---so that when the time comes to seize power both parties will get a piece of the pie. Or they may pull the pin this year and throw the Controlled Opposition under the bus as expendable now that they've served their purpose. There are other possible scenarios, but one way or another, they'll do it at some point. 

      

            

ON OUR FAILED SOCIETY AND WEAPONIZED ENVY

           Typically, we don't put much faith in polls, but occasionally an informal one pops up on the Internet via news feeds, Youtube, etc. One came up yesterday and I voted in it. The question was "What should matter the most when exposing a politician's alleged private conduct?" Here are the results: I don't think it's any surprise to anyone which option I chose:

          While I'm certainly not unaccustomed to being in the minority in most such exercises, this particular question and the responses were quite troubling. The first problematic issue is the question itself. Note that it specifically refers to "alleged behavior." There's really no "exposing" anything here: to put it in plain English as opposed to postmodern Newspeak, what they're really saying should be "repeating gossip." The reaction of people to "what matters most" should also be to question the Media's integrity in spreading rumors instead of what's being said about the politician.

         The second troubling issue is of course the answers chosen by the overwhelming majority. "Holding politicians accountable" was the top response: but the question that should follow is: "Accountable for what?" Although it wasn't specified in the question, I think that we can all guess that sexual innuendo is what the Media thinks ought to be exposed: which boils down further to "allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior." This further boils down to however the neurotics and perverts in the press corps and HR departments define as"inappropriate."

          In a sexually repressive culture like ours, sexual jealousy is weaponized easily, in fact it has reached the levels of outright Paranoia. The mere fact that the media thinks that ferreting out whatever salacious details they can find on anybody in order to discredit or destroy them is proof in itself that envy---and not reason---are the motivations behind these kinds of witch-hunts.

         The really troubling thing is that---according to this poll at least---91% of the respondents are willing participants in this kind of sleazy behavior (because answers #1 and #2 are really just rationalizations for answer #3). Let's consider this for a moment: 

        American infrastructure is breaking down. Our agricultural and industrial base has been outsourced. Nearly half the population is living at or near the poverty level. Corporate Oligarchs and unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists dominate our political and economic systems. Drug overdoses and suicides are among the leading causes of death in America. Infertility and illiteracy rates are a national disgrace. Our healthcare system, our legal system, and our educational systems are disasters and probably incorrigibly corrupt. Our Military has been exposed as a Paper Tiger and is no less corrupt than any of our other institutions. The Police/Surveillance State is out of control: workers and students are treated in workplaces and schools no better than serfs and slaves. 

       Yet, what is more important to most Americans? "What dirt does he have on him?" "What skeletons are in his closet?" "Are the rumors about his private life true?" "Oooo! Oooo! Tell us more! Tell us more!" All that we have to do is witness the furious public reaction when deprived of the lurid details contained in muh Epstein Files for a recent example.

       This is an example, too, of why it can't be stressed enough that the root of our national problems is cultural. The political, institutional, and economic failures that we are experiencing currently all---without exception---stem from that. A saying from the New Testament says something like: "A good tree doesn't produce corrupt fruit." We're reaping the fruits of our own social and moral decay, as surveys like this one show.