John Horvat of the America Needs Fatima blog wrote an excellent article recently which all interested in social issues should read. He speaks in this article of the need for social safety valves; ways in which people can unite and forget their political differences. The Cultural Marxists have been breaking down these types of institutions for decades. This is especially true on the larger scale with men: all-male institutions and social networking venues have been co-opted by Feminists and homosexuals. But women have suffered too, because women traditionally found a cause outside themselves in the family or community works. These institutions, too, have broken down.
Some may wonder why something as seemingly insignificant as the NFL protests are actually important. As Horvat notes: "The Left sees these calming safety valve issues as expressions of an oppressive regime which must be overthrown. Even the slightest recourse to safety valve traditions is decried as intolerable oppression that must be eliminated. The Left understands that importance of the safety valve to social stability. That is why they are using safety valve issues to advance their cause."
Yes---Horvat gets it. He understands what many Conservatives do not: that what is being done in these types of Leftist attacks has nothing to do with the Left's concern for scouting, football, bathrooms, marriage, or 'gun culture'. It has everything to do with destabilizing society.
Thanks largely to our dysfunctional educational system, most Americans don't understand that fomenting social instability and dividing society through Political Correctness has been a Leftist tactic since Karl Marx' day. The purpose of doing so---as practically all Marxists have said openly---is to create such social chaos that the tyranny of Communism seems desirable and benign to a populace desperate for law and order. The first modern Communist government came about in the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 after the humiliating French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war and the chaos that ensued in Paris afterwards, for example. Most Marxist and Socialist regimes came into power in such ways.
Horvat also makes this prescient point: "Pressures build in such a climate and can lead to radical social shifts. Indeed, life becomes impossible without social safety values."
He touches on a point which we have brought up often relative to Men's Issues. In fact, most of the issues which Horvat mentions are deliberately and specifically aimed at men. The Boy Scouts, the Military, professional sports, all-male clubs, politics, first responders, etc. were all constructive ways for men to assert themselves in constructive ways and make a difference. These avenues have been closed by Political Correctness. Even statues of heroes are torn down; men's literature is removed from schools---and most degrading of all, men are being forced into unisex bathrooms: as if even relieving themselves is some act of 'patriarchal oppression'. Fathers and husbands are considered irrelevant in marriage.
Men are psychologically designed---by God or Nature---to defend and maintain a society. In the Old Testament, God's first command to Adam was to "defend the Garden and maintain it." This is a man's natural calling and the greatest fear of any male is failure and insignificance. As an example, recently I observed two city street-bums fighting over who got a position on the sidewalk for begging. That's how strong the fear of insignificance really is in males---even in that degraded condition, one bum couldn't stand the thought of being a lesser bum than the other.
When men are shut out of constructive ways to assert themselves, it follows that they're going to take destructive paths. Some stop fighting and become male feminists or part of LGBTQ/Liberal culture. Others join cults like the Red Pills and pretend to be 'Alphas'. Others turn on society and become mass killers or join gangs like Antifa or Al-Qaeda. Many turn to crime. Many also turn to drugs, alcoholism, and suicide.
Nature is always going to take its course, whether would-be social engineers like it or not. But what course it takes depends upon us as a society. As Horvat says, it's a mistake to believe that an election, or an economic stimulus, or legislative action will turn things around. To undo 3-4 decades of cultural destruction, we are going to need some systemic social changes.
The San Francisco 49ers, an NFL team which managed to go from producing national icons like Joe Montana to producing social dregs like Colin Kaepernick within a single generation, is reportedly donating a half-million dollars to gun control and anti-police activist groups. After the announcement, Jed York, the team's owner huffed indignantly to fake-news outlet ESPN that people were "painting him as a Leftist."
But it actually doesn't take too much paint. Open Secrets shows that York donated thousands during the last election to Hillary Clinton and to Democrat California Senator Kamala Harris. York himself is related to the DeBartolo family, who founded the team. He is one of several trust-fund babies who make up much of the NFL leadership in whom generations of inbreeding has taken its toll. He was appointed by his mother to head the 49ers in 2008. Sports Illustrated writer Michael Rosenberg wrote in 2014 that York's leadership "has created a culture which encourages selfishness, weakness, and back-stabbing" within the 49ers organization.
Needless to say, York is completely supportive of NFL players protesting President Trump and taken to social media to egg the protests on even further. It's not surprising either that York favors disarming citizens and disabling police. The 49ers have numerous players who've spent a lot of time in jail since York took over. Former San Francisco end Aldon Smith---the most frequently arrested player in NFL history---was also a 49er. Aside from Smith, 10 other San Francisco players have run afoul of the law since 2009.
Most recently, these crimes include assaulting a 70 year-old man and domestic violence. Others include DUI and drug offenses. In 2014, corner-back Chris Culliver ran over a cyclist while speeding and threatened a witness with brass knuckles. There's some real high quality folks with whom York associates.
It's hard to believe today, but once the San Francisco 49ers were the epitome of excellence. They had a reputation of being a tough, 'blue-collar' team who won games without a lot of grandstanding and celebrity hype. The aforementioned Joe Montana once scored five touchdowns in a single game despite having a broken rib-cage.
But that was then and this is now. Today the 49ers are the epitome of Trash Culture---just like the rest of the NFL.
Prior to the 2016 Election, how many of us ever thought we'd see the day again when Government officials would admit wrongdoing and propose restitution for the aggrieved citizens? Well, it's happened. Today Attorney-General Jeff Sessions offered an out-of-court settlements for two class-action lawsuits. The lawsuits were brought by representatives of hundreds of non-profit organizations---mostly affiliated with the 'Tea Party' and other populist-conservative groups---who claim that they were unfairly targeted for special scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service at the Obama Administration's orders.
Sessions hasn't released the amounts of the Settlements as of yet. But he had this to say: "It is now clear that during the previous Administration, the IRS began using inappropriate criteria to screen applications for 501(c) status...The IRS' use of these criteria for heightened scrutiny was wrong and never should have occurred. It is improper for the IRS to single out groups for different treatment based upon their names or their ideological positions. An entitlement to a tax exemption should be based upon the activities of an organization and whether or not they fulfill the requirements of the law---not the policy positions adopted by the members of the group nor the name they choose to reflect those views. There is no excuse for this conduct. Hundreds of organizations were affected by this conduct, and they deserve an apology from the IRS. We hope that today's settlement makes it clear that this kind of abuse of power will not be tolerated."
There isn't much to add to this except a round of applause. If anyone still doubts that the Beltway culture is changing, this should dispel such doubts.
Today's settlement is also important for the legal precedent it establishes. By extension, this should also call into question all acts of discrimination based on ideology; such as is reportedly being done in college admissions. At any rate, this is a huge victory rejecting anti-Conservative bias in the bureaucracy itself.
On Monday, President Trump righted a decades-long oversight by awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to Captain Gary Rose for his heroic services during the Vietnam War. Captain Rose himself was in attendance. A presidential aide gave this statement to the Corporate Media, which promptly buried the story:
"From September 11th to September 14th, 1970; while his unit was engaged against a much larger force deep in enemy territory, then-Sergeant Rose ran repeatedly into the enemy line of fire to provide critical medical aid to his wounded comrades, using his own body on occasion to shield a wounded American soldier from harm." (As a side note here: the North Vietnamese routinely used to shoot wounded Americans to draw other soldiers like Sgt. Rose out into the open where they could also be shot.) "On the final day of the mission, Sgt. Rose---although wounded himself---voluntarily exposed himself to enemy fire while moving wounded men to the extraction point, loading them onto helicopters, and helping to repel an enemy assault on the American position. As he boarded the final extraction helicopter, intense enemy fire hit the helicopter causing it to crash. Again, ignoring his own injuries, Sgt. Rose pulled the helicopter crew and members of his unit from the burning wreckage and provided medical aid under fire until another helicopter arrived."
Therein is quite a contrast both to today's military personnel and to what passes for masculinity today. Rose didn't need to read Red Pill blogs to tell him how to be a man---he simply was one. Rose is a hero to be sure and thoroughly deserved this long-delayed recognition. But this what defines a man---not the number of his sexual conquests; but how he behaves when the chips are down. Surrounded by a gang of Communist savages, Rose's only thought was for his fellowmen. He didn't run for a safe space as Generation Snowflake would do; nor he decide to save his own skin and leave the chumps and suckers to their fate as most Manosphere writers would advise.
In a recent post, we discussed how our contemporary culture is failing men. As recently as 1970, we were producing men who rescued people from burning helicopters under fire; today we produce males who beat up girls at White Power rallies. Let us just say for now that the latter's behavior is more reminiscent of the Viet Cong's than of American forces' during that conflict.
How did our culture's attitudes shift so radically in one generation? Cultural Marxism, which is rooted in the same kind of envy and narcissism that prevailed in North Vietnam, is largely to blame. The draft-dodgers and drug-addicts who evaded military service during the 1960s and 1970s hid out in universities and later graduated into Academia, the Media, and Government. The Left-Wing domination of our Cultural Elites and the political divisiveness of our society can be traced straight back to the Vietnam War Era.
We don't have to go many years back to the root of the decline, and thus the problem is not insolvable. But we do as a culture need to be made aware of the impact that our social decline has had on men. As President Trump said to Captain Rose during the ceremony: "Your will to endure, your love for your fellowman, your devotion to your country inspires us all. Nations are forged out of the strength and patriotism that lives in the hearts of our heroes." That is the attitude that we need to build in men again today.
After a little over three years, the ISIS Caliphate went down in final defeat yesterday with the fall of their capital, Raqqa. Raqqa was the last major city held by the ISIS gang. Iraq is now totally liberated from ISIS control and Syria is 95% free.
Most military sources predicted that the Battle of Raqqa would be a protracted and bloody fight like Aleppo or Fallujah. Instead, it was probably the most anti-climactic battle since the Battle of Atlanta during the US Civil War in 1864. Raqqa went down with very little resistance and not even to Allied Forces; but was overrun and occupied primarily by Peshmerga (Kurdish) militias. There are unconfirmed reports from the Kurds that only about 650 ISIS fanatics defended the city at its end---based on enemy casualty-counts.
President Trump issued a congratulatory statement to the Peshmerga leaders, whom the US more-or-less alone supports. The Peshmerga followed up on their victory by capturing a nearby oilfield from ISIS. Some Allied leaders fear that Trump is planning to follow Obama's cockamamie scheme to create a Kurdish State, but these fears are probably groundless. The Kurds are probably accumulating territory as a bargaining-chip in the postwar reconstruction.
As for Raqqa itself, the scene is a tragedy. The city is such terrible condition that it's really questionable whether or not rebuilding is possible. The pictures are a graphic illustration of what Wahhabi fanaticism and Western Liberalism actually accomplish.
The following are images of the same neighborhoods circa 2012:
The city previously held approximately 225,000 inhabitants and had one of the largest Christian populations in Syria, numbered at around 30,000. As of this writing, the Peshmerga have reportedly found 7 Christians still alive after three years of ISIS rule.
Whatever the geopolitical fallout from the Fall of Raqqa will be, the important issue is that ISIS is dead. Only a few years ago, Obama and General Mattis fled from Iraq and RINOs like Senator Lindsay Graham were cowering at the prospects of ISIS invading South Carolina. They grossly underestimated what a more virile population than what inhabits the Beltway Swamp can actually do.
True, ISIS operatives have fled and will create other disturbances in other parts of the world. But their base is gone; most of their leadership is dead; and their numbers significantly reduced. The Fall of Raqqa was the organization's final lethal blow and it will never---it must never---be allowed to rise again. Like other terrorist regimes, ISIS' invincibility was an illusion and as of today, they have passed into history.
So there was another incident lately at an Alt-RINO rally in Florida. During a speech by Richard Spencer, some gunplay occurred in the crowd and three yahoos were jailed as a result. No one was injured in the incident, although it caused considerable panic. According to authorities, the trio was taunting some counter-protesters with Nazi salutes and slogans; words were exchanged and then the guns came out.
The Miami Herald reported the suspects' names as Tyler Tenbrink, and the Fears Brothers, William and Colton, all from Texas. They are a thoroughly Red-Pilled lot; William Fears refers to himself on social network sites as "the charismatic leader of a White breeding cult." He and Tenbrink were hobnobbing with the other Alphas up in Charlottesville during the riot last August. And like many of the other Red Pills, the trio are no strangers to jails.
William Fears also describes himself as an 'Internet Troll'. He boasted to the Corporate Media that he was radicalized by reading Red Pill sites. Although he didn't specify which sites, the fact that he was arrested in June for a violent confrontation with Oath Keepers is strongly circumstantial evidence as to which ones. He was also jailed in 2009 for kidnapping a young woman at knife-point and also served time for drugs, trespassing and assault.
Tenbrink has been spotted at several Neo-Nazi and Alt-Right events in between his "extensive" jail terms. The most recent was another Felony Assault in 2014, meaning that the firearm he wielded in Florida was illegally possessed.
We see here once again specimens of radicalized men such as ex-President Bush spoke of this week. When we read their interviews and writings, Tenbrink and the Fears Brothers spout most of the Red Pill talking-points common on Manosphere websites. As a society, we need to do some serious soul-searching as to why these radical movements are appealing to so many.
Ex-President Bush spoke of defective education; President Trump has elsewhere stated that the breakdown of family and religion are responsible. Pope Francis has addressed the issue too, pointing out that young men are losing their moral compass. All of these are true to some extent.
The problem that we really need to address is how we, as a society, discriminate against men and have been closing all avenues for healthy masculine expression. The Boy Scouts and the Military have been pushing men out and allowing girls and homosexuals in. Sports have become corrupt; the business field encourages gender-competition, as does the media. Even marriage has become so anti-male---at least on a legal and social level---that many men eschew it altogether.
We need to reverse these kinds of social trends. Men are biologically and psychologically built for achievement and their energies need to be channeled into socially constructive ends. Our society though is bent on deconstructing masculinity; i.e. social emasculation. If men don't find outlets in constructive ways, the gangsters, the revolutionaries, the cultists, and others like them will offer them plenty of less constructive outlets. And it's not too hard for them to recruit men when so many males have come to believe that Civilized Society has turned their backs on them.
Enlisting in radical movements, however, because what is needed is faith and patience. Faith that things can be turned around and the patience to do so. But as a society, we need to be doing much more.
Former President Bush delivered a speech on Thursday outlining some of the issues that he feels currently face our society. It wasn't long before the Corporate Media picked various pieces of his speech out of context and used them to attack President Trump. Bush's speech said nothing about President Trump; and in fact, much of what Bush said was in agreement with the current Administration.
The fake-news outlets have been focusing on a particular section of Bush's speech which in actual context warned that the polarizing politics in the European Union should not become normative here. Bear in mind, these remarks followed a nationalist victory in Austria just a few days before and also that Bush is a supporter of the European Union:
"America is not immune from these trends. In recent decades, public confidence in our institutions has declined. Our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs. The American Dream of upward mobility seems out of reach for some who feel left behind in a changing economy. Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan politics. Bigotry seems emboldened. Our policies seem more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication."
All of this is true: but the Media leaves out the most important qualification: Bush admits that these trends have been continuing for decades. In fact, many can be traced back to the Administration of his father. The Clintons played largely on these divisive themes to win the 1992 elections. And doubtless Bush well remembers the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories circulated by the Whacko Left from 2001 onward.
Right after this paragraph, Bush adds the following, which the Corporate Media discreetly ignores:
"There are some signs that the intensity of support for democracy itself has waned, especially among the young, who have never experienced the galvanizing moral clarity of the Cold War, or never focused on the ruin of entire nations caused by Socialist Central Planning. Some have called this 'Democratic Deconsolidation'. Really, it seems to be a combination of weariness, frayed tempers, and forgetfulness."
Does this sound like an attack on Trump's policies? When has Trump ever advocated 'Socialist Central Planning'?
What Bush is addressing here is an issue that we've spoken of several times ourselves: the radicalization of the young. Especially on both the Far Left and the Far Right---which, as correctly noted---are not American ideals at all, but imports from the political sewers of Europe. Europe has a history of Communism and Fascism: we do not. These old theories are being resurrected by malcontents over there and funneled into the United States to gain American sympathy (and money) for them. George Soros is not an American. And we've also shown that neither are the leaders of the American Far Right. Richard Spencer, Andrew Anglin, Matt Forney, Paul Ramsey, and Vox Day are in regular contact with European radicals and some of them have also relocated to Europe.
"We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty." Bush continues, "At times it seems like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge others by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions---forgetting the Image of God that we should see in each other."
Isn't this the very root of Trump's Make America Great Again agenda? The idea that we should be American again and not playing Identity Politics?
Bush goes onto advocate strengthening American defense, reclaiming global economic leadership, and educational reform---all things that Trump is also advocating. While some of Bush's and Trump's specific policy approaches differ, their general goals and sentiments seem to be fairly closely aligned.
"Our democracy needs a media that is transparent, accurate, and fair." Bush concluded, "Our democracy needs religious institutions that demonstrate integrity and champion civil discourse. Our democracy needs academic institutions that are examples of truth and higher learning."
Thus it can be seen that, once again, the lying media hyenas will distort anything said or done by anyone and employ it to attack the current Administration. Trying to read an attack on President Trump into Bush's speech is absurd. But the Media degenerates thrive on absurdities, which is why growing numbers of Americans are tuning them out altogether.
