So polls are closing in a Montana Special Election to replace Ryan Zinke, who became US Secretary of the Interior in March. The Corporate Media is supporting the Democrat, of course: an aging hippie named Rob Quist who recently did a photo-op with Senator Sanders. The Media has been framing this election as 'a referendum on Trump'; but the election is actually rather meaningless in the overall scheme of things. Montana voters typically vote the man rather than the party.
Also, the Republican candidate is Greg Gianforte, a RINO who was a 'Never-Trumper' in 2016, but has picked up a few of Trump's memes and sound-bites to repackage himself. About the only thing this election really means for 2018 is which party will lose the seat that year.
But things turned interesting yesterday when Gianforte lost it in front of the press and beat a reporter from the British press, one Ben Jacobs of The Guardian. Alicia Acuna, of Fox News witnessed the outburst and stated that Gianforte began screaming at Jacobs, took him by the neck, threw him to the ground; punching and kicking as well. Shamefully, Jacobs did nothing to defend himself (the British Press just isn't what it used to be).
Gianforte claims that the incident was blown out of proportion; and that he was being set up by the Liberal Media---although Alicia Acuna is hardly a Liberal and the Gallatin County Sheriff, who donated to Gianforte's campaign, saw enough evidence to file assault charges. The altercation probably won't change the outcome of the election, since Montana has early voting and about 70% of votes were cast before this happened. Quist has always trailed in the polls by significant margins.
The whole affair speaks very ill of Gianforte's character, especially his attitude towards a free press. It is one thing for President Trump to choose alternative means of informing the public and physically attacking or intimidating reporters. Trump's way still respects Freedom of the Press, Gianforte's does not. In fact, Gianforte has had a history of this kind of hostility. In withdrawing its endorsement of Gianforte, The Helena Independent Record noted:
"In the past he has encouraged his supporters to boycott certain newspapers, singled out a certain reporter in a room to intimidate him, and even made a joke about choking a news writer. These are not things that we can continue to brush off."
Our Founding Fathers had issues with the Media in their own day, but President Thomas Jefferson once famously said that "newspapers without government are preferable to a government without newspapers." We don't want to live in any kind of society where the press fears the government. The problem with our Corporate Media in recent years has been its servility to the Deep State, not its fear of challenging it. Thus we can't criticize Trump for identifying the press as part of the problem; Trump's issue with the Media is that it lacks freedom and objectivity.
But as to Gianforte, The Billings Gazette said it best: "We hope that this incident will cause us all to look in the mirror and take a few deep breaths. This incident is not Montana. It is not America. It's not who we are and attacking---literally---those with whom we disagree cannot be justified nor explained away."
Exactly. But the Republican Party has a bigger problem of its own with kooks on its fringes who are applauding Gianforte. Vox Day, for example, praised the beating and denounced Republicans who criticized it as Cuckservatives.
"We're not Conservatives. We're not Republicans," Vox said truthfully for a change, "We are the Alt-Right and both the Left and the Cucks are terrified of us, because unlike the Cucks and Cons, we are trash that not only punches back, but punches back twice as hard."
Trash Culture defines Greg Gianforte and Vox Day perfectly. What a future the Far Right and the Radical Left offer: the privilege of being kicked with the left or right jackboot while pretending that getting to choose makes us free.
Conservatives are not weak because they don't beat up opponents. That's for our enemies to do. Take a lesson from Trump and just say 'no' to the Corporate Media. Who looks stronger? Trump, who doesn't fear standing up to the Media, or Gianforte, who jumps on a guy half his size and beats him while he's down? If people can't see the difference, we've lost our way as a culture for certain.
President Trump and his family arrived in the Vatican today for some much-needed spiritual refreshment after a week in the sewers of Riyadh and Tel Aviv. Melania again shone, wowing the European Press. The First Lady was truly in her element here---as a daughter of Europe she related to the public well. Pope Francis was so charmed that he had the Vatican chefs prepare a traditional dinner from Melania's native Slovenia and presented her with a specially-blessed Rosary. Melania also made a pilgrimage to the Vatican's most famous children's hospital.
The meeting between President and Pope went well. Francis released a press communique afterwards stating that the Pope felt "satisfied that good, bilateral relations exist between the Holy See and the United States of America; and that we have a joint commitment in favor of life, and freedom of worship and conscience." The exact nature of the discussions were not revealed, but in an especially poignant moment, the President shook hands with Francis while departing and was overheard saying, "Thank you, and thank you again. I shall never forget what you said."
It was really a picture of how many of us have longed to see the White House again. But then the Reality struck. The fake Conservatives and Red Pill Cultists on the Alt-Right showed their true colors again; and were as busy as termites undermining the values for which the Holy See and America stand.
First, there was this. Red Pill Cultist Vox Day writing paeans of praise to Anders Breivik; and inciting (from the safety of his villa in Italy) his disciples to commit violence on American streets in a similar fashion. Then there was this. The day before Trump's meeting and the day after the Manchester bombing, the Red Pill Cults commemorated the anniversary of the Isla Vista Mass Murders; blasphemously calling Elliot Roger a saint and a martyr.
The commenters had some salient remarks about the Manchester Bombing. These are typical of the sentiments of the fringe-Right whom Conservative and Christian leaders prefer to deny exist.
The Red Pill blog The Daily Stormer had a headline lamenting "Trump Meets the Evil Pope Queer." Catholic-hating radio host John B. Wells repeated slanders against the Church in general; accusing them of idolatry and inability to assimilate into American Culture.
Our enemies are not all on the Left. One real Conservative Christian leader knows this and addressed this subject last week at a graduation ceremony for prospective priests at St. Charles Borremeo Seminary. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told seminarians:
"What should we then do? My faith gives me an answer. It would be terrible to think that life has no meaning, that we are going nowhere, and that what we do until we die is a matter of indifference. That is what tortures so many today.
"Faith is instilled by the family, and there is nothing more important to us than families. Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental rights in the United States. Our Founding Fathers saw a vital connection between faith and the character needed for republican self-government. What the Founders understood more than 200 years ago is just as true today; though there is much cause for concern at the present time."
The Neo-Pagan, New-Age cultish Alt-Right denies faith, family, and freedom and makes heroes out of common street-thugs and mass-killers. Justice Alito is right: without the values that the Far Right seeks to destroy, we become no better than a Leftist, atheistic society without any meaning other than destruction for its own sake.
Rex Tillerson and H.R. McMaster---the duo responsible for flooding both the Boy Scouts and US Military with homos---are feathering the nests of the terrorist Bahraini regime with taxpayer dollars. In March, Rainbow Rex waived an arms embargo and released billions of military hardware to the regime. Today, the Pentagon announced a $90 million upgrade to the US Naval base on the island, awarded to shady defense contractor Kellogg, Brown, and Root.
Bahrain is an oil-rich island in the Persian Gulf which was once an exotic tourist destination. The country gained its independence about the time the US did, in the 1770s. It's been ruled by the Al-Khalifa Dynasty ever since. The Al-Khalifa are Sunni Moslems and the majority of Bahrainis are Shiites, but the two co-existed peacefully until the Bush Junior Administration established a major naval base there. Under Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari pressure, the Al-Khalifa came to embrace the radical Wahhabi Cult. The Wahhabis regard Shiites as heretics and Bahrain's human-rights record went from one of the better Middle Eastern states to one of the world's worst in a very short period of time.
During the Arab Spring, Bahraini Shiites began demanding reform, and Hillary Clinton responded by turning her back as the Al-Khalifa imported Wahhabi mercenaries to butcher the opposition. The situation has gone from bad to worse since 2011; and by 2016 had gotten so bad that the Obama Administration was forced to put a temporary weapons embargo on Bahrain. DNC polls actually showed that Clinton was losing Moslem votes because of her support for the Al-Khalifa Regime.
That was the embargo that Tillerson recently lifted, and the grateful Bahraini government responded by putting the city of Diraz under martial law. They dispersed Shiites holding a vigil with riot shotguns and armored vehicles, killing at least one person and critically wounding several others. Troops have laid siege to the home of Ayatollah Qassem, Bahrain's top Shiite cleric.
The sad part of this story is that the Bahraini people actually welcomed Trump's election. Despite their naturally affinity to Iran, the Bahrainis are not inherently anti-American. They saw Trump's victory as a potential change from the treacherous Obama Administration and looked to America with hope of liberation. Trump's victory emboldened the Shiite Opposition which has led indirectly to the current crackdown. Thanks to Trump's Neocon advisors, the Bahrainis' hopes were dashed.
The Al-Khalifa Regime---which represents profit to oil barons like Tillerson---supports ISIS and other militants. Their rule is just about as brutal as any other Wahhabi-run area. Like other Wahhabi governments they traffic in white slavery, narcotics, and other criminal enterprises.
This is not the kind of policy we elected Trump to perform. Trump needs to abandon these evil advisors and conduct foreign policy as he does on domestic issues---doing what he thinks is right.
The BBC is reporting that the suspect in the Manchester Arena bombing is named Salman Abedi. Abedi was 22 years old, was born and raised in Manchester. His parents according the BBC were "of Libyan descent." Abedi is believed to have had connections to ISIS.
The day before the bombing, Maryland police arrested 22 year-old Sean Urbanski for the racially-motivated murder of Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins. Urbanski was from the Baltimore area and his parents are bureaucrats. Urbanski was a frequent visitor and contributor to Red Pill and Neo-Nazi blogs and websites.
Last Thursday, 26 year-old Richard Rojas went berserk and drove his car at over 100 MPH into a crowd at New York's Times Square, killing one and injuring 22 others. Rojas was born in the Bronx and served time in the US Navy. Rojas was involved in the Scientology Cult and held several anti-Government conspiracy theories. By some reports, he was present at various anti-Trump demonstrations in New York and had previously been in jail for threatening to kill police.
All of the suspects in these cases fit the same pattern we have observed in nearly all outbreaks of mass-violence. Alienated young males who have convinced themselves that Western Civilization has failed; and that by striking a violent blow against it, they may redeem their otherwise meaningless lives. They fall into extremist movements where their views are validated and reinforced until---in too many cases---it all ends in innocent people being harmed.
Effete Postmodernism marginalizes men and denigrates masculinity. Abedi, Urbanski, and Rojas all had their characters formed in a social context wherein men are regarded as useless and expendable at best and as subhumans at worst. While men by their instinctual nature strive for significance through protecting and providing for society and family; they are rebuffed and rejected by a perverse Cultural Marxist Elite striving for androgyny and a debased version of social equality.
Into this vulnerable void of isolation and exclusion steps the Jihadi, the Red Pill/Alt-Right demagogue, the Communist, or the Anarchist. They tell the alienated young man that Western Civilization---faith, family, and freedom---have failed. But the man can be part of a new and better society that these visionaries are building. "There's a place for you here," they say. And the young man follows; because for probably the first time in his life, he is among others who accept him and who recognize his potential.
What these men fail to understand is that all of these extremist movements advocate ideologies that play into the hands of his enemies. Most of these converts don't see this because the extremists give him a whole new batch of enemies: the Jew, the female nature, White Patriarchy, the Capitalist, the Infidel, and so on. And they add into the mix a strong sexual component: the Jihadists and the Red Pills believe in forcible rape and enslavement of women; the Communists and Anarchists offer no-strings-attached sexual libertinism. Unrestrained power and easy access to sex are antidotes---these men are told---to the false conventions of Civilized society where problems are solved through political processes, teamwork, and social responsibility.
Western Civilization does not fail men: men built and maintained it for millennia. The failure has come about because apathy has enabled unscrupulous criminals and pathological neurotics to become cultural elites. Western Civilization doesn't need to be overthrown; it needs capable men to operate it again. That's how male radicalization will be stopped---when men take back their natural places in society---work to make it better, and stop seeking instant gratification and change without effort.
Today we witnessed the kickoff of this year's Summer of Rage with a suicide bomb attack on Manchester Arena in England. Ariana Grande, one of our country's most beautiful celebrities, had just finished a performance when a massive explosion killed 22 people and seriously wounded an unknown number of others. There are also many people reported missing. Ariana escaped the carnage, and issued only a brief statement saying that she "was heartbroken" and was in shock like the others.
Ariana's fan-base is mostly tween and early-teenaged girls and that demographic was the majority of the crowd at Manchester today. The British authorities are calling it a terrorist attack and indications seem to point to a shrapnel-bomb detonated outside the auditorium as the fans were leaving. Prime Minister Teresa May activated high-terror alert procedures.
At this point we know nothing of the attacker or motive; or whether May's actions are precautionary or based on actual information. Shrapnel-bombs are especially hideous weapons because they tend to cause even more permanent injuries than fatalities. This was the type of device employed during the Boston Marathon Bombing. The explosion sends projectiles at hundreds of miles per hour through a crowd like Grapeshot.
The American Corporate Media has been keeping its audience of drug addicts amused while we await details. "Multiple confirmed fatalities at Manchester Arena." 'reported' CBS' David Leavitt, "The last time I listened to Ariana Grande, I almost died too!"
This guy is almost as hilarious as Stephen Colbert.
"Honestly for a year, I thought an Ariana Grande was something you ordered at Starbucks!" Leavitt further quipped.
In fairness to Leavitt, most males employed by the US Media aren't the types who are attracted to lovely young women, so they may not have noticed Ariana. Also, CBS News' audience is mostly made up of morons even stupider than Leavitt.
While American 'journalists' are making fools of themselves, the BBC has set up hotlines to locate the missing and organize blood donor stations. Area hotels are donating space for shelters and triage centers. The Bishop of Manchester has called on the people to pray and stand firm. Manchester's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins cautioned the press not to jump to conclusions but to wait for facts from the investigation. Which would be a wise policy for us to follow as well.
Remember that very recently in the United States there was a wave of anti-Semitic threats---that turned out not even to be politically motivated, but the handiwork of two nutcases. Mass-shootings are always blamed on Conservatives---usually it turns out that the shooter was anything but Conservative. Immigrants have been blamed for violence at Trump rallies when White native-born Liberals are responsible. And so on.
Right now we should be debating how best to help the people of Britain, instead of hunting scapegoats like the many on the Web are doing---or yukking it up like the Corporate Media is doing. But coming to the aid of friends was something we used to do as a culture. Screaming, pointing fingers, and vulgar snark---that's the new normal in the Prozac Nation.
Southwest of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro Area lies the village of Belle Plaine. The town has about 6,500 residents and is really distinguished for absolutely nothing other than some interesting geological features from the Ice Age. That is, until recently.
Belle Plaine last year faced an attempt by militant Atheists to remove a Cross from the Veterans' War Memorial. Frustrated in that attempt, the Town Council has now approved a plan to erect a Satanic monument on the site.
The new monument is called the Baphometic Bowl of Wisdom and is a jet-black steel cube with inverted Satanic pentagrams etched into the sides and a black upside-down soldier's helmet planted on top. Nothing like High Art in the Prozac Nation.
As it happens, the US is in the middle of some iconoclasm. Memorials dedicated to the Confederacy are being pulled down all over the South. A statue of General Lee is offensive, whereas statues of Satan are considered enlightened and progressive. Regardless of what one thinks of the former Confederacy, it wasn't exactly wholly demonic and did reconcile with the United States after the Civil War. The Devil has never stopped trying to destroy America.
These kinds of contradictions though don't occur to the postmodern Ameroboob. Currently, for example, the President is visiting a State Sponsor of Terrorism after bombing a country which has given more fighting the Jihad than other. Trump and Tillerson spoke in Riyadh of religious toleration before a government which two days before had destroyed two Shiite mosques.
It's illegal in Saudi Arabia to practice Christianity; in fact Saudi forces have ethnically cleansed Christians in parts of Yemen, as well as in Syria and Iraq via proxies. The President also stated that countries like Saudi Arabia are partners in fighting terrorism in spite of the fact that every Jihadist terror attack against the US since 1993 has been connected to Saudi Arabia. Iran was denounced as a world threat although Iran hasn't attacked the US, protects religious minorities like Christians, and has been recognized by the UN as a leader in fighting terrorism and organized crime.
In such a cultural milieu, it's unsurprising that Satan should become an object of public worship. This is a country after all where the nation's most famous Catholic school stages a disgraceful protest during a commencement address by the Catholic Vice-President of the United States. Trash Culture has affected even Notre Dame.
Luckily for most Americans though, Saudi Arabia is also a major exporter of illegal Methamphetamines. While it may still be a downer to have a statue of Satan in the town square, after a few pills nobody really cares.
As the Syrian Army today buried six more soldiers murdered in cold blood by the US military, some interesting discussions arose on various discussions about Allied reaction (or lack thereof) to this latest affront. Specifically Russian response. Foreign Minister Lavrov denounced the attack, as per usual; but the Kremlin has announced no action so far.
Russia is the dominant power in the Alliance by far. The world is looking to Putin for leadership, which---while effective against ISIS---is increasingly being seen as weak in the face of Western aggression. This was made even more clear today as Washington signed a nine-figure arms deal with the Saudis; in spite of the fact that Saudi Arabia is State Sponsor of Terrorism that ethnically cleanses Christians in Yemen. The Saudi Deep State is intertwined with our own and made up of the same kinds of people.
Putin has stood tall as the defender of Christians in the Middle East---a position that the West forfeited long ago. In fact, Western Liberalism is as great a threat to the Middle East as Wahhabi Jihadi movements. This is why perverts like John Kerry and Rex Tillerson can work so well with Wahhabi fanatics like the Saudi Royal family. Their mutual hatred of faith, family, and freedom, and their mutually degenerate characters make them natural confederates.
The issue here is though whether or not Russia's pacifistic policy is enabling the Deep State thugs to continue undermining world peace. The US was in a similar situation a century ago. President Wilson was a Christian gentleman, opposed to military intervention, but supporting the victims of Imperial aggression in Europe. The German Kaiser and the Central Powers took Wilson as a weakling and provoked the US with numerous outrages---violating the Monroe Doctrine; sinking and detaining American civilian ships; intriguing with Mexico; planting spies and fomenting dissent inside the US. Wilson responded as Putin is now doing---launching formal protests, assisting the Allies, etc. The Central Powers were only emboldened to provoke the Americans even more until, in 1917, Wilson backed up his words with actions and our military chastised the arrogant Kaiser with a blow from which his government never recovered.
Putin needs to consider Wilson's example. The US didn't want to enter WW1, the Germans drove us to it. We also tolerated Japanese aggression until they finally bombed Pearl Harbor, and so we entered WW2. Since 1945, global geopolitics has shifted and today it is the American Deep State waging aggressive wars and Russia among the countries standing for Civilization. Russia must act.
It is understandable that Russia should attempt to avoid WW3. What the Russian Government seems unwilling to recognize is that the war is already on. Their Allies are being bombed, shot, and occupied. The West is planting troops on the Russian border and ships near Russian waters. A Russian show of force might start WW3. But Western aggression is going to continue regardless of whether Russia reacts or not.
The gauntlet has been thrown and Russia can't pretend it didn't happen. Either Russia is the defender of Syria or it's not. It's time for deeds and not words.
