Going through the usual articles by the Postmodern Right, I've become convinced that the Conservative Movement needs a new slogan. Forget these quaint and outmoded phrases like "Make America Great Again." We're dealing with a new generation that doesn't remember when America was great, and isn't taught about it either at home or in schools. Or, calling ourselves "The Party of Principle." Sure faith, family, and freedom are nice things to have: but who actually believes in them anymore? As Based and Red Pilled writers of the Vox Day sort have been telling us: winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, and the ends justify the means.
We need a new slogan, because---as these same writers assure us---winning is only about controlling the narrative. By extension, whatever solutions our side comes up with are leaving intact everything the Liberals do, only more Alpha. Our new slogan should be a variation of the Left's highly-successful Orange Man Bad meme. Thus, we suggest: "It's only bad when the Democrats do it."
Take, for example, the New Right's hero of social media: Elon Musk. Sure, he's a total weirdo who hangs around with Tiananmen Trudeau's favorite cult leader, Aga Khan and his Corporate Boards are teeming with WEF shills. And maybe he did give fat donations to Leftist politicians like Steve Sisolak (who thanked Musk with a new Tesla plant near Las Vegas); or Gavin Newsom and Jay Inslee (who signed legislation phasing out gas engines in favor of electric vehicles); or Rahm Emmanuel (who promptly hired Musk to construct a new all-electric train tunnel). No: Musk is based because he fought woke social media by buying Twitter and letting a few Conservatives back on. Of course, none of this solves the problem of too much Media concentration in too few hands: but who cares as long as one of ours is running the show? It's all about owning the Libtards; and the way that one owns Libtards is by giving them a dose of their own medicine.
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We might recall that before last year's Red Tsunami ended up a Red Backflow, there was endless howling on the Right about Big Tech censorship. So now that McCarthy and his confederates have control of the House: what's the first piece of legislation they've proposed to address the problem?
They want to ban Tik-Tok.
For those who don't know, Tik-Tok is a platform mostly of very short videos and mostly used by younger Americans. An average perusal of Tik-Tok has things like clips from people who think they live in a haunted house, girls doing make-up tutorials, and short clips of people doing ordinary things. But Tik-Tok is an American subsidiary of a Chinese-owned company, and the Junta doesn't like that. And it's up to House Republicans to prove that they are Alphas and not weenies like the Democrats who only want Tik-Tok banned in government offices. They want to go all the way and ban it nationwide.
Of course, they have no issue with Davos/WEF-affiliated Media conglomerates (which actually control the vast majority of American social and commercial media). As usual, the Free Market has to step aside in the interests of national security (because obviously the Communist Party of China shouldn't have access to 20-second videos of American girls showing off their latest dance moves); and of protecting our children (because a few Darwin Award candidates have done things like eating laundry detergent when dared on Tik-Tok).
The more cynical among us might note that Oracle, WalMart, and Microsoft have all made clear their hopes to buy Tik-Tok's operations---however, we're certain that the desire to ban the app has absolutely nothing to do with the $12 million that Oracle spent on Beltway lobbying last year alone. Oracle's 87 lobbyists include former GOP Congressman Bobby Livingston and former GOP Senator Don Nickles---certainly that has no influence on an upstanding and disinterested patriot like Kevin McCarthy. Nor would it have anything to do with GOP Senator David Perdue holding by far the most Oracle Stock in Congress. Crony-Capitalism is only bad when the Democrats do it.
Not to be outdone, some based and Red-Pilled figure in the Florida State Senate has proposed a Bill which would require bloggers to register with the State if we write about Florida politicians.
Yes, you read that correctly. Florida Senate Bill 1316 "would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics...those who write an article, a story, or a series of stories, about the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature, and receives or will receive payment for doing so, must register with state offices within five days after the publication of an article that mentions an elected state official.If another blog post is added to a blog, the blogger would then be required to submit monthly reports on the 10th of each month with the appropriate state office. They would not have to submit a report on months when no content is published."
On a personal note, this would be kind of an interesting challenge. To enforce this law, they'd have to doxx us first---and so far we've withstood Owen Benjamin's Bear Cult, Vox Day's Legal Legion of Evil, the trolls at Websleuths and the Red Pill Subreddit, among many others. It would be fun to watch the stormtroopers in the Florida so-called Commission on Ethics have a go at it.
But on a wider and more important issue: can anybody explain how forcing writers to register with the government is a Conservative policy? Especially ironic because, as mentioned above, the Republicans in the Federal Legislature are complaining about China---which actually does require writers to register with the State. In China, one can't write a blog unless he's a member of the Communist Party; how is this Bill any different from that?
It doesn't matter: it's only bad when the Left (including China) does it. Like Vox Day once said: "We are not Conservatives. We are not Constitutionalists. We are the Alt-Right." Apparently, this is the New Normal among Republicans too.
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You sound rather cynical.
ReplyDeleteDon't know much about Tik-Tok, but I am surprised you don't want to ban it. The rapacious nature of our domestic corporations is a separate issue.
When we vote, we vote for the best candidate, not the perfect candidate. DeSantis would be better than Biden, and we will probably get a choice that is no better than that.
That bill is kind of silly. DeSantis has not said anything about it. Not sure what it would accomplish. I can observe this much that is positive about it. We don't have a right to speak anonymously. Thomas Paine did that when he first published "Commonsense," however.
I don't favor banning media at all. I do favor enforcing antitrust laws and breaking up media combines, but the companies that are big media now would still exist and probably still be woke, but they'd have to compete with others.
DeleteAs far as national elections go: the candidates are put up by the same people. That was even true to some extent with Trump: I don't think that Trump was controlled but the RNC & DNC agreed to let him be nominated because they thought that he was the only candidate that Hillary could beat. They just miscalculated and won't let it happen again.
I forgot to add one point: you say that "we don't have a right to speak anonymously." we actually do. The Supreme Court has ruled on this several times. Journalists don't have to reveal their sources, and people can publish anonymous work. The only time it doesn't apply is when doing so breaks other laws like libel, slander, etc.
DeleteI have a headache logging on with my Google account from Microsoft edge. Hence the anonymous post.
DeleteChina is a hostile power. Our business relationship with them is not good for us. It is cutthroat competition for real. Allowing the Chinese to operate social software in the USA is probably not a good idea. No telling what they will do with the information they gather.
I think it is obvious that the so-called mainstream news media wanted Trump to win. I doubt the RNC had a role in that. That said, as a Republican I tend to focus on the local organization. State organizations tend to be suspect, and the national organization tends to be rather useless.
The RNC had almost no power to decide who got the nomination. That was decided by the primary elections. The RNC is a fundraising organization. Ideally, they would help Republicans get elected by helping to purchase and organize campaign personnel and resources. In addition, they would provide additional funding in close races. Unfortunately, the primary system has rendered membership in political parties somewhat toothless. That is especially true of the RNC..
To speak out as anonymous source through a journalist, we have to get the permission of a journalist to front for us.Think about that.
Our economic relationships with China have been badly managed for a long time. Our first mistake was throwing Taiwan under the bus during the Cold War. If we'd held the line, China would probably have collapsed like the USSR did a long time ago. Unfortunately, it's a mistake that can't be undone, and we're going to have to deal with them.
DeleteIt has to be understood though that our business dealings with China haven't always been them doing all of the underhanded and duplicitous things. One example is the farmland controversy. Trump signed a huge trade deal with China that would have helped American farmers; then the Scamdemic led to massive Corporate takeovers of US farmland. China started buying land here to protect their investments and now legislators are trying to strip them of their holdings.
Our side has also backed the Color Revolution in Hong Kong, stirred up trouble in Tibet and Sinkiang, and provoked problems on the Indian Border, the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, and sabotaged a movement in Taiwan to negotiate a peace deal. We've also put sanctions on China which make no economic sense and blocked trade proposals that actually would have benefitted us. On top of that, we've covered up our own complicity in the Wuhan Lab Leak.
Sheesh, some people have just gone off their rocker. Nope, registering if you plan to criticize the gov and reporting your blog posts by the 10th of every month is not a conservative value.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that these guys in Florida are famous for is that they often go so extreme that the Courts end up declaring things like this unconstitutional. DeSantis has tried to pack the Florida Supreme Court, and even they've been known to veto what he does.
DeleteThe thought of this guy in a position with the federal police, a nuclear-equipped military, and the Executive Branch of Government under his thumb ought to make Americans choke on their marijuana brownies. Maybe we have a president now who gets lost on his way to raid the refrigerator at night; but having a president with armed drones and the ability to find your house if you criticize him doesn't strike me as a better option.