President Trump issued a statement this morning saying, "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. It has been going on for a long time...there is no place for it in America."
The President's statement represents the real Conservative position. For weeks now, Red Pill cultists; among the loudest Vox Day, Andrew Anglin, and Richard Spencer, have been inciting their disciples to "make Charlottesville the turning-point in the Alt-Right movement." Sort of like the Beer-Hall Putsch of 1923. Of course, Anglin and Vox stayed far away the scene themselves although Spencer, David Duke, Nathan Damigo and several other notorious fanatics were there.
The President also spoke with Governor McAuliffe who has ordered the Virginia National Guard to the scene. The extent of today's violence is unknown as of this writing. One person was killed and several injured after what appeared to be a vehicular attack on a relatively peaceful group of anti-Trump. Two policemen were killed when a helicopter crashed---for reasons as of now unknown.
The ostensible purpose of this rally, dubbed Unite the Right by its promoters, was to radicalize the Conservative movement. Demonstrators marched on Lee Park carrying the flags of the Confederacy and the Third Reich---both states which fought wars against America. And so the 'counter-protestors' brandishing Anarchist and Black Lives Matter banners. Some very early Tweets from the Leftist gangs state that they were attacked with torches and many suffered burns. This hasn't been verified; but it's very likely true.
But President Trump is right; it's not especially important which side started this disaster. Both sides came to Charlottesville eager for a fight. Now three people are dead and many others injured---and for what? Here's the answer:
People like Vox Day, Andrew Anglin, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are always instigating these acts of violence, but are never around when the fighting actually starts. No, instead they sit in their studios sipping cocktails and laughing in their sleeves. Charlottesville is going to mean book deals, interviews, and speaking fees for these people, while their minions rot in jail or lie in hospital beds. As the legendary Texas Ranger 'Lone Wolf' Gonzalez used to tell suspects, "The Penitentiary is full of people who are there because 'somebody told them to'".
Our Constitution is set up to change government leaders and policies through peaceful means. Again, President Trump is right. There is no place in America for this; although it has been going on for a long time. What is different today is the pointlessness of the violence. Earlier political violence was still wrong, but those acts had ostensible motives: tax polices, abolition, labor unrest, civil rights, the military draft, etc. The political violence of recent years---including Jihadist attacks in America---seem to have no other purpose than to take action for the sake of taking action. Both sides want a Civil War and neither has the slightest idea what they'd do if they actually won.
There will be more discussion of today's upcoming as more details are made known. But on a note of optimism, the real winner in today's battle was neither the Far Left nor the Alt-Right; but the forces of Law and Order. The Charlottesville Police, the Virginia National Guard, and the US Government came out on top---and that's how these events are bound to end. Despite all the revolutionist rhetoric from both sides, they learned the hard way that our Government is a long, long way from being overthrown. If the revolutionaries couldn't take over Charlottesville, we can assume that the rest of the country is pretty safe.
The US Justice Department announced that a Senior Manager of Volkswagen USA pled guilty in Federal Court today to charges of Criminal Conspiracy against the US Government; Wire Fraud; and Violations of the Clean Air Act. Five other VW executives are on trial in absentia for roughly the same offenses; but are believed to have fled to Germany.
Oliver Schmidt, a German national, was arrested earlier this year after investigators discovered that Volkswagen diesel engines were being equipped with an emissions detection software that also detected emissions testing equipment and falsified the results. The investigation that Schmidt was behind this scheme and that knowingly misrepresented VW engines to Federal and State regulators. The DOJ estimated that unwitting consumers lost around $150 million.
Whatever objections many may have with the EPA, CARB, and the Clean Air Act in general, it certainly doesn't justify foreign corporations coming here and violating laws that American corporations have to follow. Schmidt's actions were obviously designed to gain unfair competitive advantages over domestic producers.
For its part, Volkswagen is employing the leverage of its considerable US advertising clout to keep the Corporate Media from reporting the scandal. The Justice Department, however, has issued a warrant for a manager of Audi, and believe that VW, Audi, and Porsche were all equipping diesel vehicles with the same illegal software. Giovanni Pamio of Audi was arrested in Munich and is awaiting extradition to the US on the same charges as Schmidt. The official narrative is, however, is that this was the handiwork of "a few rogue engineers." Yet, behind the scenes, VW has agreed to pay over $4 billion in federal fines.
Hopefully this will lead to import bans against these companies. The EU countries rarely ever face any consequences for these kinds of behaviors and it is time for that to change. While the Deep State was swift to impose embargoes and sanctions on other countries, EU offenders are usually given a fine and the whole affair swept under the rug.
This policy seems to be changing under Trump. European media pundits are genuinely shocked that the US is throwing their executives in jail and Volkswagen's official reports to European stock exchanges indicate that they didn't expect much more than a slap on the wrist. No wonder the Elites over there hate Trump. They don't get the wink and a nod that they've gotten under previous administrations.
The clear message that Trump and Sessions are sending here is that if Corporate CEOs want to play in the 'swamp', they're going to get drained along with the rest.
David Binkle, formerly Food Services Director for the Los Angeles Unified School District was indicted this week after the California OIG concluded that he had embezzled at least $65,000 in federal school lunch program funds. According to The Los Angeles Times, Binkle funneled the cash into his private business and personal bank account. He is charged with 15 counts of Embezzlement, Conflict of Interest, Misappropriation of Public Funds, Forgery, and Perjury.
Such a sterling role model for American youth. Fairly typical of modern Academia, though.
In 2014, Binkle was invited to the White House to help Michele Obama craft a proposal for new Federal School Lunch guidelines. The shameless hypocrite actually wrote an article on the former First Lady's website complaining of the supposed economic disparity "between the elites and the majority of students whom I serve."
Beside his association with the Obamas, Binkle was also considered an expert on the school lunch program by the Corporate Media. He was regularly interviewed on CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Here is an example of his culinary innovation in his own words: "Today we no longer serve items like flavored milk, chicken nuggets, corn-dogs, pizza, and nachos. Today what we do serve are atypical 'kid-friendly' items: edamame, jicama sticks, teriyaki chicken bowls, turkey and vegetarian burgers..." No wonder LAUSD has such a problem with truancy.
Regardless of the quality of the food, the Federal School Lunch Program has a long-standing reputation for corruption. School districts typically farm out the contracts to shady food distribution rackets which buy inferior quality foods for pennies on the dollar; then gouging the taxpayers for the full market price. These politically-correct allegedly healthy regimens promoted by Obama and Binkle are the biggest scams of all since the market price for these exotic foods is much higher than hot dogs and potatoes.
Obama's and Binkle's excuse for killing the taste-buds of a whole generation of schoolchildren is that American children are suffering from an epidemic of obesity. While the obesity epidemic is real, blaming school lunches is a lie. Obesity among schoolchildren is a direct result of Politically-Correct academic bureaucrats ending the mandatory physical fitness requirements that President Kennedy introduced in 1961. It seems only logical that children who don't exercise end up getting fat. While meals like Binkle introduced do kill one's appetite, it's not enough to stop an after-school rush to the nearest Burger King.
Another good idea might be that parents could start preparing lunches again and send kids to school with lunchboxes. That way, the parents would actually have some control over what their children consumed. But that would defeat the purpose of Modern Academia which is bitterly opposed to teaching self-reliance.
Binkle's case is illustrative though of the kind of swamp-draining that public schools need---and need desperately.
Yesterday, we spoke of attempts by fringe elements to incite a Second US Civil War. Now there's been a lot of tocsin-beating---mostly from the same group---who want to fight the Korean War all over again. The difference is that in this case, they want to fight with atomic weapons.
Another difference is that RINO James Mattis and his Pentagon merry-men seem to be itching for such a conflict too. Mattis---who hasn't replaced a single Obama appointee or changed even one Obama-era policy---hopes to justify his value to the Deep State by sacrificing a few million Koreans. Soros and Podesta, etc. have long had their eyes on North Korea. They need a base of operations in East Asia for their criminal activities and there will be lucrative contracts involved in rebuilding after a nuclear war.
But for rank-and-file provocateurs the prospect of obliterating a country the size of Pennsylvania is thrilling enough in its own right. It's not even a question with such people whether the war is morally justified or not. What justifies it in their minds is that might makes right. We've been living for too long in a culture where bullies are regarded as supermen. And they resent the fact that a small nation would dare defend itself against an international bully like Obama was, and Mattis is.
Let's cut through the bloodthirsty rhetoric and look scientifically at just what these people are advocating.
To "turn North Korea into glass" as these pundits gleeful fantasize about would require probably a dozen or so atom-bombs. So one dropped on Pyongyang---because after all we want regime change---would target about 3 million people. Within one mile of Ground Zero, nothing would survive. A 1-megaton bomb exploding in the atmosphere would generate a shockwave and a nearly 500 MPH hurricane with temperatures not unlike those produced by a microwave oven. Structures would be leveled. In city the size of Pyongyang, this would occasion about a million casualties. Men, women, and children. Nor would that be the end.
Three miles from the blast radius, the flaming winds hit at about 300 MPH. At this range, wind does more damage than the blast; collapsing structures and blowing debris (including human bodies) into other objects. Men, women and children again: bombs don't discriminate. At 5 miles, the winds are reduced to 180 MPH---the size of a Category 5 hurricane. Military and other reinforced buildings would be severely damaged; most houses would be destroyed and people in the open probably killed. The damage gradually decreases out to a range of 12 miles. Probable loss of life in Pyongyang, about 2 million from the initial blast alone.
Many more however will die from fires spread by the explosion and within 10 days about 1/3 of those survivors will have died from radiation poisoning. Many others will die of starvation, untreated injuries, exposure, and other problems related to the aftermath of the blast. Multiply these scenarios by about 12 and you get an idea of what these hawks actually hope to accomplish.
Atomic weapons have their place in modern military strategy, but they obviously are not things to be thrown at anybody simply to show off. Unwillingness by nuclear powers to use these weapons are not signs of weakness; there has always been a tacit understanding that a country launching the 'First Strike' is automatically going to be considered a rogue regime that will be opposed by whatever means necessary. This is not where we want to go as a people.
Brooks Jennings, an official in the Chester County Pennsylvania Republican Party was gunned down at his home late Monday night by a neighbor, one Clayton Carter. Reports say that the Jennings family was harassed and threatened by Carter on numerous previous occasions---as were other neighbors. Jennings is survived by a wife and son.
ABC-6 News reported that Carter's yard is "crowded with handmade anti-Trump signs." Police say that he had a history of neighborhood disputes and there are some indications that he may have participated in some of the violent anti-Trump rallies in the Philadelphia Metro Area.
The Media and local authorities have been downplaying the obvious political motivation in this murder. They want to deny the existence of another festering social problem in the United States. We've seen since the 2016 Elections onward---and a few even before---of politically-based violence. Last month's attempted mass-murder of the Congressional Republican leadership should have been a national wake-up call. Instead, the story was buried under a morass of anti-Trump propaganda and pop-culture fluff; as were stories of violent anti-Trump riots, assaults and threats against Republican officials, ambushes and murders of policemen, etc.
There's been a measure of Far-Right violence too, much of it racially as well as politically charged. There's been some discussions around the Internet lately in so-called Alt-Right circles about a "coming Civil War." Anti-Catholic bigot Michael Savage recently spoke of such a possibility on his radio show recently. Such talk though has been floating around on extremist blogs for some time; most notably Chateau Heartiste, Vox Populi, The Daily Stormer, and Return of Kings.
Despite many people's concerns, it is very unlikely that we will have anything like a Civil War in the United States. If we look at the bigger picture, the denizens of the Deep State are on the defensive---although the MSM tries to cultivate the opposite impression. Trump is not going to be brought down, nor are there any imminent coups, though there's plenty of political intrigue and internal sabotage going on. What Conservative activists need to do is stop worrying about another Fort Sumter and start getting behind the President and backing candidates who support his policies.
The larger social problem is though that there's a bloodthirsty element on both the Far Left and Far Right that desires political violence from a variety of motives. On the Left there are people like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow; on the Right people like Michael Savage and Vox Day---all of them putting out hysterical rhetoric that's designed only for one purpose. Their goal is to reach those teetering on the brink on mental breakdown like Clayton Carter and goad them into action. Then when violence happens, they wash their hands like Pontius Pilate and declare "I am innocent of the blood of this man."
There needs to be a serious debate in this country about re-elevating the level of political discourse. Pope Francis so far has been the only world leader who's really made an issue of it. We don't need new laws, but what we do need are more leaders and writers willing to condemn these kinds of inflammatory words and behaviors. Society needs to push them back to the fringes where they belong and our legal system needs to make examples of people like Carter.
Andrew Anglin, a self-described MGTOW and hero of the Alt-Right Manosphere has written an article both denouncing 'cuckservative' views on gender relations and explaining to his disciples why---despite being manly Alpha leaders---some White Girls prefer dating men of other races rather than the likes of them. It isn't because the Red Pills encourage men to treat women like this:
Or run and hide like cowardly little sneaks when they're sued for harassing women and their kids like this:
Anglin explains that the real reason is instead:
"Women are stupid. They have the brains of children, if the children were possessed by some demonic desire to destroy everything around them. They are not something that should be treated as 'people' but should be treated as property."
Men like Anglin are the reason why handgun sales and gun permits are being issued to women in record numbers. If a female relative's boyfriend ever said something like that to a red-blooded father, brother, or even grandfather, he'd be fortunate to escape without a beating. But Anglin explains the rationality of his position (which he presumes is self-evident):
"The good girl/bad girl dichotomy is absolutely valueless in any discussion of women or women's rights and obfuscates the fact that every woman, if fully 'liberated' will behave in the exact same way, which is the most destructive way possible: which involves a lot of sex with Brown people, making all sorts of outrageous demands, tearing down everything that white men have built, etc."
"The Alt-Right agenda is not simply about reclaiming our land" Anglin continues, "It is about reclaiming every aspect of our civilization, an important component of which is our women. Women are the possession of their fathers, who should be given away to men whom the father believes would be good caretakers...This is because women are incapable of regulating their own behavior in any sphere at all---not simply in the sexual sphere."
This is quite a statement coming from a guy whose readership has been connected to 13 murders and hundreds of harassment complaints. If we're talking about people's inability to regulate their own behavior, the Red Pill/Alt-Right really can't argue from the moral high ground. But back to the original point: The reason that White women are dating men of other races is because they mentally equate White men with creeps like Anglin. The same reason that many Liberals are afraid of Conservatism and Christianity: people like Anglin are the face of the 'Right' that they see.
The way to 'Make American Women Great Again' might be to give them gentlemen as role models again.
But gentlemanly behavior is against the principles of the Red Pill Cult. Anglin tells his followers that sadly, minority males' behavior is "more violent and aggressive than the now neutered and sissified White man; and that White women in particular have a fixation with violent and aggressive men." So his solution therefore is that the Alpha Boys should become more aggressive bullies than they already are; and engage in things like publically harassing mixed-race couples. "We must acknowledge that the behavior of women is the biggest and most immediate threat to Western Civilization" he solemnly concludes, "Because women are the Jews' foot-soldiers in the War against White Men."
We've quoted some long extracts from Anglin's article; mostly because the ignorance and stupidity displayed in his own words are illustrative of why real Conservatives need to distance our movement from these kooks. And women will learn nothing about the real nature of masculinity from reading their absurdities.
The two genders are designed to be complementary, so it's absurd for either Feminists or Red Pills to speak of 'liberation' like they do. Neither sex can wholly be 'free' of the other. Laws don't change biology. The cultures of arranged marriages which Anglin praises were rife with adultery; as anyone with a knowledge of Classical Greco-Roman Literature will attest. Adultery and divorce were remarkably low in the US until a few decades ago. This is because our society always accorded women a measure of freedom in choosing their marriage partners. Marriage today is breaking down because the Trash Culture promoted by Media and Academia encourages sexual anarchism. It's the culture that needs to improve; not freedom being restricted.
There's been some considerable arm-flapping this week in the Prozac Nation over the fate of a Harvard and MIT-educated software engineer named James Damore. Damore was fired from Google today after being exposed as the author of a 10-page Manifesto that was circulated first through Google as an unauthorized and anonymous corporate memo; then later leaked to the Internet at large. Most of the manifesto, which bore the title Google's Ideological Echo Chamber has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with say, designing software.
Instead, this memo was really an exercise in trolling. Not surprisingly, the whackos on the fake Right---with Vox Day and Jack Posobiec at their head---are screaming about censorship. And of course they agree with Damore's premise: that women are unsuited for tech fields. Carly Fiorina and other Conservatives might disagree, however.
Before taking sides in this non-debate, let us examine only a few simple, basic facts:
1. Google is a huge corporation with thousands of employees; and their success as a company rests upon getting these thousands of people to work as a team.
2. An employee circulates an unauthorized memo that causes a disruption in the corporate environment---wholly unrelated to Google's purpose as a Technology company.
3. Someone---probably the same employee---leaks the text of this memo to the press, causing damage to Google's image. It should be noted that Google is currently also involved in a controversy with the US Labor Department over alleged wage disparities between genders.
4. The same memo openly accuses Google management and executives of sabotaging the corporate good and arrogantly makes demands upon them to change.
So what does one suppose that any corporation would do with an employee like that? Give him a medal for speaking out? No, they would fire him, as they did Damore. The bottom line here is that Google is a business. Software engineers don't dictate company policy to CEOs; and they especially don't disrupt the entire organization from within and without. They design software: that's what they're paid to do. As an employee, Damore's actions were completely unacceptable.
And that is really the issue here. This not a censorship or free-speech issue because Damore was fired for his actions, not his words. Vox Day, in his usual dishonest way, ran a poll on Twitter asking whether or not respondents thought there was an problem with Google's diversity policy. That's not even a relevant question to what Damore did.
It's time to get a grip on reality. Damore is no martyr; he did something stupid and got fired for it. Think of this: did Damore face losing his job before he published this manifesto? Of course not. Google didn't care about his opinions as long as he produced software---nor should they have cared. But Damore used his opinions to harm the company and that's another matter.
Anarchists and Communists believe in Labor overthrowing company leadership from within: Conservatives do not.
