Yes, Eisenhower warned us against the Military-Industrial-[Congressional] Complex in his Farewell Address in 1961. I have been a fan of Eisenhower for decades (and I am old enough to have met him as a child) … but I’ve changed my mind.

If the damage to the country from the MIC+ was evident to Eisenhower during his administration (his focus, I’ve read, was the dangerously close relationship of Senator Symington of Missouri with government aerospace contractors), why did he wait until the end of his administration to raise the issue? Why didn’t he raise the issue of the MIC+ when his influence and reputation might have made a difference? Why did he leave the problem for someone else to solve?

Regardless of his insights, I now see Eisenhower as an adroit bureaucrat rather than a world-class leader, which is consistent with his role of “making nice” with the Allies in WWII.

Thank you Hans Vogel. You helped fill in the missing pieces of an interpretive History of Contemporary Europe. Below is an outline of that history:

Three events redefined Christianity and the political order in Europe: the crowning of Charlemagne as the new Western Roman Emperor in 800 AD, the Vatican’s break in 1034 AD with the Eastern Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire as an outcome of a Vatican attempt to seize control of Christianity, followed by the 1075 AD coup-de-tat against the elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire founded by Charlemagne by declaring him subservient to the Bishop of Rome.

All of this ended in 1945 AD when the last remnants of the Roman Empire were superseded by the Anglo-Saxon Empire. Soon after, Europe reorganized itself as the European Union as an imperial province of the Anglo-Saxon Empire.

The coup-de-tat in 1075 AD on the part of the Pope eventually incited the Protestant Reformation, the Hundred Years War, Vatican II, and the post-WWII implosion of the Roman Catholic Church as the United States replaced the post-Roman European order with the Anglo-Saxon Empire. Of interest, the current standoff between the Anglo-Saxon Empire and Russia can be seen as a centuries-old continuation of the contest between Eastern and Western Christianity, albeit this time between the champion of a “woke” Protestantized Europe (the United States) and the champion of traditional Eastern Orthodoxy (Russia).

The German magazine, Der Spiegel, recently ran a telling expose on Britain’s decline to Third World status with slim hopes for a political, economic, or social recovery.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c

Der Spiegel could pen a similar expose on the United State’s “race to the bottom”. Indeed, the United States and Britain appear to be competing for the “Booby Prize” for the most rapid and vapid political, economic, and social decline in human history.

Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Portland, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans, and more cities too numerous to count … hopeless!

“The End is Nigh!”

I once found myself at a dinner sitting next to a government official from Taiwan. Our conversation drifted onto why Taiwan businessmen picked easily remembered Western first names for themselves. The reason was obvious: Westerners tend to lack the ability to pronounce much less remember Chinese names.

The official added that his Taiwanese associates use their adopted English names among themselves so often that they often forget their associates’ Chinese names.

I would add Sikh names to the list. Years ago I was mixing with a group of boys and girls in our neighborhood playing with our grandson. A Sikh family had moved into the neighborhood. I asked a boy what his name was; it was unpronounceable. I asked him how to spell it; it was unintelligible. Then, one of the girls popped in with, “We can’t pronounce it either. We call him “Gavin”.

“Gavin” stuck. Even Gavin’s younger sister started calling him “Gavin”. Then, I discovered that he had enrolled in school as “Gavin”.

A Ukrainian factory producing the latest German Panther tank would not last a week if that. A perfect target for Russian hypersonic weapons.

Recall that the Soviet Union had to move military production to the Ural Mountains, to Siberia, and to the steps to the south to escape German air power. This was the secret that allowed the Russian mass production of T-34 tanks, ammunition, and other weapons. 1941 Soviet tank production: 6,274. 1942 Soviet tank production: 24,639.

By comparison, the entire Ukraine and its logistical systems are under continuous Russian “fire control” by one weapons system or another. There is no escape … therefore, there will be no Ukrainian factory producing German-designed Panther tanks or any other major armaments within Ukraine proper.

Mark this off as a flight-of-fancy … a morale booster (propaganda) for the Ukrainians that will disappear down the memory hole within a week.

Thanks, iSteve!

“Liberals draw generalized conclusions from exceptions to generalized cases … while conservatives draw generalized conclusions from generalized cases.”

If I recall Logic 101 the university, the conservative approach is the definition of Inductive Reasoning … while the liberal approach is the antithesis of Inductive Reasoning.

An example: Liberals note that they found someone with four fingers on a hand. Therefore, it isn’t normal to have five fingers. Indeed, as an element of scientific prediction, it is normal to have any number of fingers on one’s hands … or perhaps no fingers at all.

So, people who have been taught to think like liberals have been trained to draw and value conclusions that are logically described as the reductio ad absurdum … the “reduction to absurdity”.

QED … quod erat demonstratum. That which was to be proven has been proven!

I think it’s a step backward for Amerindians to depreciate their history, lineage, and reputations as courageous warriors and advocates for the environment. In this, they had visibility and respect with an enviable history that was celebrated rather than forgotten. So, what’s the point of making them disappear within a whirlpool of white faces in the name of equality? If so, there will come a day when Amerindians become invisible peoples lost to our national consciousness and history.

A prediction: Without this historic connection to warriors and protectors of Mother Nature, Amerindians would be too easily dismissed as being (as one white resident near an Indian Reservation related) “drunks living in shacks at the edge of town”.

Sexually deviant communities are hard to comprehend or understand. An example:

My parents rented a basement apartment to five female soldiers from the local army post. They finally figured out that the five consisted of a “husband” with “four wives”.

One day the five had a brawl; a baseball bat materialized in the mix. Ambulances and police cars were called to the scene. My parents surmised that this had been a lover’s quarrel. My parents are now more careful about whom they rent to.

Pepe,

You may be wrong that Norway does not have any operations P-8 Poseidon airplanes. Five were on order. The first one was delivered on November 18, 2021.

See the link below. It includes a photo of the first airplane in Norwegian livery with the inscription, “Royal Norwegian Air Force”, on the side of the plane. The bay doors designed for the P-8 to drop buoys are open in the photo.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/boeing-delivers-first-p-8a-poseidon-mpa-to-norway/

You missed my point. Yes, the EU is controlled by German and Germany is a vassal of the United States. Germany controls the EU at the US’s behest. We know the extent by looking at the way the EU has obediently coalesced behind the US hybrid war against Russia. The United States militarily occupied Western Europe at the end of WWII … and nothing has apparently changed in the intervening years.

Therefore, for the Irish to fly the US and EU flags are a testament that Ireland is also nothing but a US vassal state … via the EU if you will. Both the United States and the EU (via Germany and the “common values” imposed on the EU by Chancellor Frau Merkel and now EU President von der Leyen) represent the GloboHomo agenda.

Notice the power exerted by Germany over the rest of the EU. Merkel violated the EU Schengen Agreement over border controls and immigration when she invited 1.5 million immigrants to Germany to, as she later admitted, cover a deficit in industrial workers. The other states in the EU got the message. However, no EU country dared voice opposition to Empress Merkel.

Now, no EU country (except Hungary and Croatia … but perhaps for only a period of time) dare voice opposition to the United States’ hybrid war on Russia even if it means the deindustrialization and ruin of the European Union.

Ergo, Ireland is expected to have become an obedient “woke” state that follows the directions of the global hegemon even when that entails its ruin. Ireland is not an independent state and does not exercise national sovereignty.

Hence, Ireland’s independence and sovereignty are illusions. Ireland traded domination by the English for domination by the state that inherited the British Empire. What changed? Nothing changed.

As for Ireland and the rest of the EU: “RIP (Rest in Peace) … a platitude afforded the dying and the dead.

Was the Fight for Irish Independence Pointless?

Yes, the Irish fight for independence was pointless. Ireland joined the EU … and, like the other countries in the EU (except Hungary which resists) lost its sovereignty and independence. It was a fatal mistake.

Ireland exchanged being subservient to the English for being subservient to the Germans who dominate the EU. Ironically, Britain left the EU to avoid the same outcome; that is, subservience to and economic absorption by the Germans.

We toured Ireland a few years ago. I’m Irish so it was like coming home: 23&Me had traced my genetic legacy to County Cork, County Kerry, County Mayo, and County Galway … all in the shade of the Great Famine. We saw the physical legacy of the English occupation, especially in abandoned Episcopal churches … even on the Aran Islands. This was fitting as a declaration of Irish independence.

We saw three flags flying together everywhere we went in the Irish Republic: the Irish flag, the EU flag, and the United States flag flying together in trifurcate as perhaps both a hope and a plea for Ireland’s future.

S0, let’s be honest: better to fly the flags of the Irish Republic, Germany, and the United States together as an ironic but accurate testimony regarding where Ireland has buried and abandoned its sovereignty.

Given its benefactors, is it any surprise that Ireland is now a “woke” country that has replaced its Catholic religion for the GloboHomo globalist agenda?

The Deep State uses Twitter to distribute its “talking points” …!

Now I get it. This is why Twitter was worth $44 billion to Elon Musk as well as why so many elites threw tantrums when he bought it. Twitter was the Deep State’s equivalent of TASS. It kept the party faithful up to date about what they should believe and why they should believe it. The Deep State lost its voice when Musk bought Twitter.

Recall the G. W. Bush presidential advisor who infamously said, “We’re in a ‘reality-based’ community that believes that solutions emerge from a judicious study of discernible reality. But that is not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality … judiciously, as you will, we’ll act again creating other new realities which you can study, too. We’re History’s Actors and all of you [plebs] will be left to just study what we do.”

The presidential advisor was on to something. With “reality” changing so often (“Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia!”),” something like Twitter would have had to be invented to announce and sort out the ever-changing “realities”.

I’ve had a life-long interest in the study done decades ago on the Kennedy clan. The upshot? Children do not compete for social roles and identities in a family (I’m guessing that it would cause too much turmoil). Instead, they choose roles not yet taken.

There’s a pattern. The first son is usually the “performer”. The second son is usually the “charmer”. The third son has a harder time of it; perhaps he becomes the family “buffoon”, etc.

This was the case in our family. I was the first-born son … the “performer”. My younger brother folded into the role of the “charmer”. These roles have persisted over decades without change.

The same pattern was observable in my wife’s family. The first-born son was the “performer”, eventually becoming a VP in a major corporation and the CEO of another. His younger brother was a “charmer” … although at times we thought he confused that with being the family “buffoon”. These roles have persisted over decades without change.

There is a similar pattern among girls. My mother comes from a family of six girls. The first daughter was “beautiful”. The second was “smart”. The third was “bashful and warm”. The fourth (my mother) was “sickly”. The fifth was “batshit crazy”. The sixth was done with the lot. She became a chronically unhappy feminist and lesbian.

Other patterns I’ve noticed. When a father doesn’t have a first-born son … or has a first-born son who’s a disappointment, there is a good chance that he will raise a daughter as a performing “son”.

This happened decades ago to one of my girlfriends. This is also the case for one of our daughters-in-law, who is career oriented in extremis with a senior position in a major IT company. Nonetheless, she eventually had a daughter (one for the experience, I suppose). She insisted that to follow in her mother’s footsteps, all presents for our granddaughter had to be “boy-toys” and all of her clothes had to be “blue”.

I could go on and on with examples of families and children following similar, predictable patterns in adopting life-long roles. But readers might object that this no longer applies in the “modern” world in which ALL women are encouraged to be “masculinized performers” at the expense of maternal dispositions. Today, anything goes!

Consider: the craziness associated with the “trans” movement might be the outcome of the lack of meaningful roles for females as today’s families struggle for survival against feminist memes. This long-sought goal of abolishing womanhood was definitively expressed in a recent statement made by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken:

“The Supreme Court has eliminated an established right [to abortion] that has been an essential component of women’s liberty for half a century – a right that has safeguarded women’s ability to participate fully and equally [qua men] in society.”

The biggest surprise! Women tolerate this lack of toleration in everything maternal in the face of realizing that, regardless of their efforts, they can never become “men” … as radical feminists so haplessly prove on a daily basis.

The next major population study on the docket should be the behavioral impacts on children who attended “woke” schools encouraging, celebrating, and collaborating with children to choose new “Selective Sexual Identities” (SSI) as part of the New Age assumption that the human personality is infinitely malleable. Sexual deviance is evidently the new moniker for celebrating one’s newfound freedom from God and Nature. But wasn’t it Nietzsche who concluded that if one proposes that God does not exist, then he (or she) is posing that he (or she) is God? This has always proved an impossible burden to bear. It’s tempting fate.

I recall the term “SSI” was popularized by the billionaire clan of Pritzer transvestites from Chicago who evidently can’t get over the “soft pillows” that fate has given them to fall on when they screw up by the numbers. But, again, they’re tempting fate. I’ve had relatives who “transitioned”. Their road back has been difficult and their psychological and often physical damage appears permanent when they realized that their presumptions of God-like powers were fleeting chimeras beyond their reach.

Nonetheless, it should be a given that most people (and especially children) do not have “Pritzer Pillows” to fall on when they are encouraged by their teachers to engage in deviant sexual behaviors before they’ve even reached puberty. It’s time we start cataloging the damage.

“Putin did not object to EU membership. He did not like NATO (America) threatening to base troops in Kharkov.”

Then Putin realized that NATO and the EU are one and the same. Both are complementary parts of the same “hive mind” of technocrats who are equally susceptible to bribery and threats from the United States.

The new Russian policy:

“The Russian “special military operation” will continue until there is nothing left for NATO to defend or for the EU to acquire. Yes, this will take a long time since Russia is not “conquering” Ukraine. It is slowly absorbing it into the Russian Federation which requires Russia to maintain as much goodwill as possible with the current population of Ukraine … especially the suppressed Russian demographic.”

This means that Russia will “eat” Ukrainian oblasts one at a time until there is nothing left of the country except the parts that constituted Polish eastern Galicia centered on Lviv that were awarded to Stalin in the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. This territory is historically Polish and would constitute a demographic existentially hostile to Russia and everything Russian. Let Poland and the EU deal with the NeoNazi “Banberites”!

As part of the Russian systematic disassembly of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the dismemberment of contemporary Ukraine, expect Moldova (Bessarabia) and Northern Bolkavina to return to Romania, northern stretches of Ukraine to Belorussia, and parts of Transcarpathia to Hungary and Rumania.

What gives credence to this scenario is that, according to one source, when present-day “Ukrainians” are given the opportunity to fill out Ukrainian government forms in Russian, 70% of the population exercise this option. Russia is perhaps betting victory in the Russian-Ukrainian War on this sentiment.

As some Russian pundits describe it, the new territorial arrangements constitute a belated conclusion to WWII … or as others describe it, the final chapter of the war that started in 1914 that may go down in history as the second “Hundred Years’ War” in Europe.

The millions of innocent children lost to abortion in the post-WWII United States, as well as Western Europe, would require one, I would think, to reorder the list of the traditional “purveyors of evil” in the world based on the raw numbers killed. The US numbers alone are more than 63.6 million unborn babies killed since 1973 … and this does not include the statistics from chemical abortions nor the abortions performed in New York and California that are not reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

In this reordering, the Germans would no longer be anywhere near the top of the list of “purveyors of evil” based on, let’s say, the 27 million Russians plus the 6 million Jews killed in the “holocaust” at their hands in WWII. Likewise, a reordering is in order for Europeans in general when measured against the estimated 55 million indigenous peoples killed by Europeans during the European conquest of the Americas from 1492 through 1600 as well as the estimated 12.8 million Africans enslaved and shipped across the Atlantic over a span of 400 years.

The result: Neoliberal America takes the award for organizing the largest-scaled massacre in human history.

Capitalization is not the only standard for writing styles that are changing. The Unz Review and other blogs have their fair share of young people (I’m presuming) who have dropped capitalizing the first letter in a sentence and have likewise done away with paragraphing and punctuation.

It’s impossible to sort out sense from nonsense since their thoughts are arranged into incomprehensible sequences of sentence run-ons one after the other.

Is this another aspect of individualization run amuck in our society; that is, part of a “clown show” that passes as culture?

I make it easy on myself when I run across one of these “clown shows”. I don’t bother with them; I move on.

Peter, come back. You’re missed!

I accept that Polish nobles, like the Russians, decided to import populations to make up for cultural deficits, especially people with the numeration skills to manage rural estates, and manage trade between estates and towns, between towns and cities, and between one country and another.

However, I believe iSteve has his geography confused. Northern European Jews immigrated westward from Kazakhstan to Ukraine and later to Poland. Indeed, at one point in time, Ukraine had been part of the Kazak Empire. Closer to our historical era, in the 19th Century Poles and Jews migrated further westward to get jobs in newly industrialized western Germany. In the late 19th Century, Germany was subjected to mass migration on a level currently being experienced by the United States and Western Europe today. As in our current society, there was a miasma of issues between locals and foreigners who did and those who did not assimilate. Many of these alien communities in 19th Century Germany (including Prussia) assimilated to the point they considered themselves “German”. In many cases, they became “more German than the Germans”.

Three examples:

* My relatives on my mother’s side are Volga River Germans. Many Volga River German communities migrated en masse to the States in the 1870s. My grandmother spoke German and my great grandparents were born in Russia. “Deutschland uber alles!” However, when I bought a DNA test in 2014, I was surprised that I did not have one German gene in my body. My genetic profile identified nothing more than a generalized Slavic profile from Eastern Europe. Hence, my relatives from their centuries in German-influenced Eastern Europe and later in Russia became “Germanized Slavs”. I’m glad this was not brought to their attention. They would have been very, very upset to learn they had Slavic origins.

* I ran across a well-documented article that claimed that the German Chancellor Frau Merkel’s family were Polish Jews who “Germanized” circa the 1850s. Frau Merkel seemed to know her heritage. In a speech to the Israeli Knesset, she allegedly gave part of her speech in Hebrew and claimed it was her native tongue.

* If I am to believe sources on the Internet, the UknoNazis from Galicia and western Ukraine conversely believe that they are “Slavisized Germans”, which is why they sided with the Germans in WWII, continue to idolize the Nazis, and disdain the Russians. Hence, they believe the Russians and other Slavs are “Untermenschen”. Similar to the Nazis, they want a racially pure homeland.

To further confuse the issue, at one time 23&Me identified Poland as “the genetic homeland of the Jews”. Hence, as with my genetic heritage (tracking my mother’s genetic travels), the generalized migration pattern was the east to the west from central Asia to Ukraine, to Poland, and then on to Germany and Western Europe. Of interest, that map is no longer displayed. It mysteriously disappeared.

Regardless, Eastern Europe appears to be a mishmash of cultural and genetic migrations. It is a nightmare; it is impossible to sort it out. But in any case, Jews with the last name of “Kagan” (i.e. Victoria Newland-Kagan (her grandfather was from Odessa) or Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan) have their origins within the Kazakhian – Urkanian – Polish – German nexus. They have nothing to do with the Middle East, Israel, or Palestine.

iSteve, I believe, has the cardinal directions driving this aspect of human history completely backward.

We need to be careful about Elon Musk’s perception regarding what is acceptable speech and what is not.

The United States is unique in having a Constitutional right to “free speech”. The citizens of the UK, Australia, Germany, and the rest of the EU do not have this constitutionally protected right. They call it “democracy”, but they function as legislative dictatorships. The Prime Minister (or Chancellor) calls the shots and can suppress whatever speech he or she considers contrary to the ruling party’s interests.

To wit, the new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz (not known for his intelligence), recently justified criminalizing public support for Russia and criticism of Ukraine with … “Free speech ends where the law begins” And he should have added, “Remember, we make the laws.”

These “legislative dictatorships” masquerading as “democracies” would be quite willing to impose nationwide government-sponsored censorship through their versions of the new DHS “Disinformation Governance Board”. Indeed, many of them have already done so during the Covid pandemic by criminalizing “anti-science” and broad ranges of “hate speech”. This includes any claims hostile to the “global warming agenda”, mRNA vaccinations, or the “transgender” movement.

Stalingrad was an abject lesson on both sides regarding modern siege warfare and what happens when an army engages in urban warfare. The Soviets destroyed the German 6th Army within the rubble of Stalingrad … but that is the point: the battle destroyed the city and the Soviets suffered 1,100,000 casualties in the process.

Perhaps learning from this experience, the Allies forbade its forces from engaging in “city busting” as they plunged north toward Nazi Germany. Yes, the Allies took Rome and Paris (both without much damage), but the generals in charge had disobeyed direct orders when they did so. Indeed, the decision to avoid participating in another “Stalingrad” was perhaps behind General Eisenhower’s decision to let the Soviets take Berlin. The Soviets turned it into rubble but suffered almost 340,000 casualties for the privilege of taking the city.

The “Stalingrad” lesson about urban warfare is unquestionably behind the excruciatingly long time it took the Russians and DPR forces to finally take Mariupol. The Russian/DPR forces now control the city, but the fear of unacceptable casualties is the declared reason that the Russians and DPR forces are currently “waiting out” the Ukrainian forces hold up in the Azovstal iron and steelworks rather than digging them out of their underground bunkers.

The Russians taking Kyiv and Karkov would be orders of magnitude more costly in time and military and civilian casualties than taking Mariupol. It won’t happen. The Russians and DPR forces finally took Mariupol but, as expected, it was wrecked in the process. I believe that Mariupol was a special case for the Russians as the headquarters for the UkroNazi Azov forces. Taking Mariupol was considered worth the cost as a key element of the Russian “denazification” program. Russia and the DPR now face the burden of rebuilding the city.

The Lesson of Stalingrad: Urban warfare is costly. Avoid it whenever possible. Wait them out, starve them out, or negotiate terms … but do NOT attempt to dig them out.

I held back on this for fear that my comments would be perceived as a cheap bromide. My real take:

The Blacks, in their relationship with Whites, are a “Cargo Cult”. After WWII, Polynesians raised up wooden “antennas” and made clearings in the hope that the DC-3s would continue to land with goodies. These were”totems”. In the new world order, Black RIOTING and LOOTING are the new “totems” that time and experience have proven to Blacks that CAN bring back the DC3s.

My conclusion: there is no possibility of reconciliation between White culture derived from the Greco-Romans, the Middle Ages, the Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and the technology that took humanity to the moon … with a culture that only became familiar with the reading, writing, and the wheel in the 1850s. The cultural and perceptual gap was too large. What were we thinking?

A prognosis: it is hopeless to expect Blacks, as a demographic, to aspire to or integrate into White (European) culture. The recent Black female appointment to the Supreme Court is all that need be said. Ketanji Brown Jackson … oh, my God! It is clear from her testimony and record that she has no interest in Western Civilization, the Constitution, or the rule of law. Her interest — her only interest — is to formally establish legal “totems” that give the DC3s permission to land.

A feature of “Black Reparations” is estimating how long $300,000 handouts will last. My guess is that a goodly number of recipients will be financially destitute in a year … and that most of the demographic will find their cars and homes repossessed within two years. (Recall the 2008 housing debacle based on “liar loans” for minorities … recall the financial grifting on the part of the Black Lives Matter leadership.) The reason is that conservative financial management is a function of culture … a culture foreign to most of the Black community.

I’m reminded of the story about the Amerindian tribe in Oklahoma that was the wealthiest demographic in the United States in the 1930s. The tribe sat on top of the oil find that put Phillips Petroleum on the map. They bought nice houses and cars and otherwise lived extravagant lifestyles. Price was no object. If the car battery died, they wouldn’t replace the battery. They called the dealer and told them to send them a new car. In short, the wealthy Amerindians attracted every crook in the region hoping to quickly hustle them out of their newfound wealth. They succeeded. Then, one day the oil (and money) stopped flowing!

Many have voiced this concern about reparations for Blacks. They fear that reparations will create a permanent custodial population so dependent on handouts that reparation payments will (of necessity) become a lifetime sinecure; that is, a social program that requires permanent payments designed to keep Blacks from again rioting and looting to secure unrestrained access to consumer goods for themselves and their progeny once the reparation payments are gone.

I agree. Covid-19 was a “plandemic” to test the Deep State’s social control mechanisms. We now have a new THING in the West (the Five Eyes + the EU … otherwise known as the Anglo-Zionist Empire or ZOG) that warrants aggressive censorship … and that is DISINFORMATION. Disinformation is whatever the ZOGs declare it to be at the time. “Follow-the-science” is a euphemism for “Shut up and do as I say … or else!”

How effective have the lockdowns and censorship been? Very effective! My 11-year-old grandson says that he is so used to wearing a mask at school that he feels uncomfortable without it — compliance. My doctor is close to banning me from his practice because I refuse to queue up to get the latest mRNA vaccine or boosters that, as we know, don’t protect you from catching any of the Covid variants. My grandson’s stepmother has voiced her decision to get her newborn vaccinated as soon as the vaccines are approved for babies. [?]

iSteve rarely drops a comment because (I speculate) he is judged by his superiors on the aggregate number of comments he receives for a given blog posting. It’s a popularity contest.

iSteve does what the MSM does: he posts what he considers dodgy content in the inside pages that are rarely read. I’ve had postings pop up days after I posted them … never lost but rarely read by most of the commentariat.

The Russians and Chinese just signed an agreement for another natural gas pipeline from Russia to China. Capacity 10 bcm/year for 30 years. The gas is expected to flow in two-to-three years.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-russia-china-agree-30-year-gas-deal-using-new-pipeline-source-2022-02-04/

Baxter,

I think you are acknowledging that the historical Catholic Church is now irrelevant on the world stage. The German Catholic Church is in schism from the Church over homosexual marriage. The Dutch and Belgium Catholic Churches are in schism over abortion and euthanasia … and the Catholic Church in the United States is in total disarray. Most telling, a Marxist Jesuit sympathetic to the GloboHomo agenda (including homosexuality, abortion, and extramarital sex) reigns as “Pope”.

It tells us everything we need to know about the state of the Catholic Church in the United States by remembering that Joe Biden is allegedly an “Irish Catholic”. Same for Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, who graduated from Santa Clara, a private Jesuit university. Both Biden and Newsome are subject to automatic ex-communication from the Catholic Church based on their activist pro-abortion politics … but there has been nothing but silence from the Church.

My belief is that the rot in the Catholic Church started with Vatican II. The Vatican sought to make up for its “sins” (aggravated by a felt need to made theological and political adjustments for finding itself on the losing side in WWII) by joining the Protestant Reformation. As could have been expected, the Catholic Church now has no more influence on the world stage than the Swedish Lutheran Church, which recently declared itself as “trans”.

Come on, Steve! Your brilliance aside, what are you trying to say?

What is the point? The difference between “minimal upfront context” and “reasonable upfront context” left me baffled. Could you help with a little more context?

And are you arguing the right point? What if providing “minimal upfront context” is (in some contexts) reasonable?

The worse things get, (((they))) will need another war. WWI and WWII were not accidents. Wars, like Covid X, create “emergency conditions ” that easily justify, they presume, emergency financial and authoritarian social instruments.

The United States is like a wounded predator struggling for survival. It will fray and posture to create the illusion of impotence, and recklessly strike at anyone or anything that questions its narrative.

The recent Ukrainian crisis is a case in point. It was a predetermined stage play. The CIA pulled out the prewritten storyline and gave each actor its instructions and lines. Ouch, the stage play even included predetermined reasons to force the Russians in the Space Station to isolate in their module. [?] An instantaneous pushback on all fronts. It was embarrassing!

I’m a pessimist. I was involved in NATO exercises in Europe in the 1970s. How can Americans, British, French, Dutch, and Germans pretend to launch a unified front against the Soviets, a.k.a. Russians. It was absolute chaos! My German friend in the Luftwaffe related that the NATO plans included blowing up the bridges in the face of the Soviet onslaught before the West Germans forces had retreated across the bridges … and the West Germans constituted the core to the Allied response.

We once ran an air defense exercise with American, German, and French air forces. It went like this: we had to find an American who spoke German and a German who spoke French in the hope that the intermediary could communicate speed, altitude, and target information from the American radar site to the French fighters. Things did not go well!

Now NATO believes they can coordinate effective combined operations consisting of forces from 30 countries speaking a babel of languages against the Russians? FANTASTICA … DEMENTIA!

Rittenhouse “Not Guilty”

https://www.rt.com/usa/540288-kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-verdict/

Standby for riots …

OT — Loudoun County (VA) students at Stonebridge High School are walking out as I post this in protest against the “woke” school board’s handling of the rape of a female student in a restroom by a male “transgendered” student wearing a skirt. Newsmedia, helicopters, and police everywhere!

The walkout is apparently county-wide.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/loudoun-county-students-walkout-in-protest-of-sexual-assaults-reports/ar-AAPYEYa

German houses built since the 1970s are already “thermos” bottles: cinder blocks faced with foam insulation, faced with stucco. I have watched a German friend heat a very large room with two small pieces of wood in a fireplace where the flue laced back and forth across an entire wall now hot to the touch. From experience, it usually takes two or three days to heat a German house due to the cinderblock/foam construction, but then thereafter it remains relatively thermally constant with a small energy input.

Please understand that the Germans and especially the French have been forced to deal with outrageous fuel prices since the end of WWII. We lived in Germany for four years. They pay more for fuel oil to heat their homes than we pay for premium gas in the United States. In France, I have roamed four-lane highways with virtually no cars on them. The price of gas was evidently so high that casually touring the countryside on a weekend is out of the question.

Germans also heat rooms rather than houses like we do in the United States with our open architecture. The man of the house’s job is to follow the family from room to room in the evening opening and closing doors and radiators. Then, at the end of the day, the family drops the Rolladens (rolling shutters that tightly seal the house) and huddle and sleep under down quilts … surely one of the most unique experiences an American can have whether staying in a Gasthaus or living a German-style life.

Compared to Americans, asking Western Europeans to reduce their energy consumption is similar to believing that one can suck blood out of a turnip. I know Greta would try … but there reaches a point of diminishing returns.

Have men ever pushed for [involvement] in knitting or embroidery competitions? If not, why not?

Yes, they have. Although usually in the background, men are all over the landscape where women quilt, knit, sew, and embroider.

My wife and I frequent quilting conventions (truly awe-inspiring work). I have always been surprised at the number of men who display their quilts, as well as the number of men who make a living one way or another from quilting. We have also run across men who hand knit, evidently to relieve tension after a hard day at the office.

My wife solved the puzzle. Most of the men who make quilts or design and sell quilting patterns or make similar ventures into the “woman’s world” have engineering backgrounds. The complexity of quilt design and production evidently appeals to them. Same for knitting. Hand knitters are constantly counting against a pattern … and machine knitters have to learn something akin to coding. Other men with engineering backgrounds ease into hobbies repairing quilting, knitting, and embroidery machines in one-man shops that keep aging and out-of-production models working.

My wife is a “full-spectrum” woman who quilts, knits, sews, and embroiders. At any given time, she has up to three sewing machines, four knitting machines, and one embroidery machine in active use. She spends a lot of time at a large screen computer “digitizing” her embroidery patterns. She even hand knits while watching TV or waiting to be served in a restaurant.

But of note, all of the sewing, knitting, and embroidery machine “repairmen” we have encountered across the decades have been men. We value these people. The women, including my wife, just want their damn machines to work. They apparently have no interest in opening the case to troubleshoot a problem or tweak the machines by mastering their design and function.

The differences between men and women? As the noted feminist Camille Pagalia once said,

“If civlization has been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.”

Thank God for women! And, as an answer to an obvious question, I admire the work but I’m not an engineer and have never thought of quilting, knitting, sewing, or embroidery. I justify my existence by solving my wife’s computer problems and, where possible, repairing her machines 🙂

Twitter may be frivolous, but it has become a major (albeit vacuous) source for validating the “woke” narrative. Reporters, narrators, and teleprompter readers in the (((media))) have a habit of quoting Twitter comments in vain, self-referencing attempts to justify their twaddle. Indeed, it is strange for someone to admit they Twitter.

Perhaps Twitter should rename itself Twaddle. If that doesn’t do the trick, there are other synonyms for idle or ignorant talk … none of them complimentary:

prattle, blather, chatter, babble, gabble, jabber, blather, ramble, natter, drivel …

These Taliban were having a good laugh. They just defeated the Empire. It’s weird to see these academics question the virility of this group of men who’ve been part of a military order for up to 20 years. Running a country is no easy thing, however.

Not so sure. There is nothing to run in Afghanistan … which is best described as a collection of clans and tribes living in remote mountain villages as if they were still in the pre-industrial age. These collections are euphemistically called a country by outsiders.

This is why the debacle in Afghanistan was so easy. Normally, if an enemy, let’s say, takes Paris, they’ve taken France. Or if they take Berlin, they’ve taken Germany. Those are our rules, not theirs.

In Afghanistan, if an enemy takes Kabul, they’ve taken Kabul … and little more. We took Kabul and erroneously thought we had conquered Afghanistan. We had conquered Kabul and its airport.

This reminds me of a story. Allegedly, the British sent a team to India to assess the impact of the British leaving the subcontinent after almost 200 years of colonial rule. In village after village, the reply was, “Who are the British?”

Lost in the UNZ database is a comment that a Black professional made to one of my inputs. He said that he never knew how hard Whites worked for what they have until he got a job in a corporation.

“You Whites make it all look so easy!”

But notice, it’s still the White man’s fault. We’re fooling and “dissing” Black people by making the corporate grind look so easy. There is a logic to this. The Black perception is that Whites get what they have for doing nothing … so equity requires that they should also all get what they want for doing nothing.

Affirmative action, “undocumented shopping”, reparations anyone? Things change, but will this ever change?

I’m so tired of all of this that I need to take a nap!

Although I can be competitive and intimidating when it MATTERS, I have a different reason for disliking competitive games and sports … precisely because THEY DON’T MATTER. Lacking a reason, I feel uncomfortable with the feelings aroused in undoing my competitors … or occasionally finding myself similarly undone FOR NO REASON. Hence, no chess, card games, or competitive sports in my life. Racing against the clock as a measure of performance when riding my bicycle or swimming is a completely different matter.

Carrying this further, I find it puzzling how the French, let’s say, can identify with a soccer team that consists wholly of African players. What connections do the Africans have with the French? (I increasingly find the same void with American NFL teams.) I grasp for connections … but always find that the connections suggest pathologies of one kind or another.

There always seems to be a reason why Jews do what Jews do. This is anticipation; this is a cultural picadillo that never disappoints.

In this case, Jews clamoring to exonerate Leo Frank 100-years after the fact establishes the precedent that goyim will and always have gone to extraordinary lengths to frame an innocent Jew for raping and murdering a 13-year old white girl. Indeed, they will even exonerate the guilt of a vile Black man who obviously killed the girl to get at the Jew.

In this, the ADL is perhaps trying to baseline different levels of goyim prejudice … a wall of obfuscation behind which Jews can hide regardless of the vileness of their schemes and crimes.

Consider the reasoning: Whites hate Blacks as already established by Critical Race Theory. Therefore, everything that Blacks do that is suspect must be interpreted and excused through the lens of that prejudice. Even worse than that, whites hate Jews with an even more virile prejudice … as evidenced by the Leo Frank frame up and lynching. Therefore, whenever a Jew is at risk for anything, attribute it to antisemitism in extremis on the part of goyim society. Remember the Holocaust when Jews were allegedly massacred across Western and Eastern Europe for no apparent reason at all!

Jews, as the developing narrative goes, have a historical experience of victimhood at the hands of goyim that exceeds anything and everything done to Blacks, including slavery, segregation, systemic racism, and lynchings. As with the Jewish-created narrative for Black victimhood, any fault found with Jews should be exonerated with the same prima facia assumption of white prejudice … or racism or whatever you call it.

Hence, if you notice what Blacks do, you “be racist”. If you notice what Jews do, you “be antisemitic”. End of the story … end of the discussion!

The above suggests a hidden agenda behind the recent Jewish-sponsored and funded Critical Race Theory, BLM, demands for reparations, and the “defund the police” movements. These are Jewish attempts to defang the goyim using Blacks as “stalking horses” on the way to an oligarchical world government controlled by Jews. Throw in the political repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic for good measure.

This has been a long time in the works: the philosophical and conspiratorial roots of Communism, Fabianism, the European Union, the sacralization of Blacks as a tool to devolve Western Civilization, and the “build back better” infrastructure associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. They all inexorably focus on one goal.

It was really stupid for the RINOs in Congress to vote for “Juneteeth” as a black holiday for a number of reasons:

(1) It officially incorporates “ebonics” and illiteracy as part of our national heritage.

(2) It supports the “Critical Race Theory” supposition that the history of the United States did not really start until the enslavement of BLACKS ended when the last, isolated population of illiterate slaves were informed they were FREE … which in reality did not actually occur until later with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Notice: It is all about “Blacks, Blacks, Blacks”. Whites and white lives are worth nothing!

Oh well, anything to support the narrative: NARRATIVE! NARRATIVE! NARRATIVE!

Who is driving this narrative?

My God! That I could take back that “w”. You are correct in exposing my errant spelling. Only in English … “wreckless” versus “reckless” and my spellchecker didn’t catch it the first time.

Once upon a time I was assigned to the Pentagon. There was a civil servant at the end of the hall. The story was that no one knew what did … but they were sure he did it well.

Then, he retired; he just walked out the door. The rest of the story: the people assigned to clean up his mess said that he apparently did nothing the last year in the office. The office had stacks of photos from the Internet of condos in the Caribbean; it appeared he had spent his last year planning his retirement. Next to the stacked photos of condos were stacks of porn photos apparently accessed and printed on a government computer and printer. The horror of it all!

I retired from the military. I eventually landed a job as director of marketing for a state government in “flyover” country. There was a civil servant in a cube at the end of the row. The story was that no one knew what he did … but they were sure he did it well. Besides, his father was a “big deal” in the state’s preeminent newspaper … “Leave him alone!”

I left the state government a year later. The guy theoretically worked for me, but I never did learn what he did.

I since have learned about the “sinecures” at Permex in Mexico and the school system in Puerto Rico … being paid for little or no work that, in some cases, can be inherited by family members. My suspicion is that this is also occurring and is more widespread than we realize in a broad brush of civil servants in the United States.

But perhaps this new emphasis on “equity” instead of “equality of opportunity” will help us achieve our goal as a country … and that is to hasten our debauchery as we race to the bottom to more quickly achieve the Third World status we so desperately crave.

The effect and impact of shame on the part of Africans thrown into the midst of a more advanced and intelligent Western Civilization has not received much notice.

I have often thought about how I would see the world if I had been an African living in the United States. I would be ashamed of my race; I would be ashamed of my clan; and I would cringe everytime I glanced through a National Geographic magazine, watched a documentary on sub-Saharan Africa, or watched news shorts on events in sub-Saharan Africa.

How do Africans feel when they “notice” that there is not one well-managed or successful Black city, large corporation, university, or country on planet earth? Sub-Saharan Africans are not only a custodial population in their relationship with Europeans in the United States, they are also a custodial population amid the human race living off the largesse of Western nations and the UN. Think western medicine, food aid, and other foreign aid that is driving the population explosion in sub-Saharan Africa.

I would be perpetually angry as an African American male. I would project my feelings onto others as I sought to purge these demonic thoughts from my life. I would be violent because I would be living a comparison I cannot stand and cannot change.

Sub-Saharan Africans and Europeans mix like oil and water with no prospect of emulsifying into one people. We have experimented with “integration” for over 57 years. It has been an abject failure in the United States and everywhere else it has been tried. South Africa anyone? Hostility has reached a point that even the Africans appear to want racial segregation from a culture and civilization that shames them at every turn.

Below is a quote from one of the commenters on Fox News associated with the killing of a 10-year old black boy in Queens. The commentator has insight …. and he is presumed to be black.

“Growing up I lived through true systemic racism. Trust me when I tell you, it is real. The problem is, it is not coming from white people. American black culture was born out of rebellion and resistance towards an unfair system at that time. Yet, it has failed to change with the changes in society. It’s not a culture that can mix with other cultures because it is, by design, rebellious and resistant. Everything from language to appearance is almost the direct opposite of “white culture” for lack of a better term. Asking white people to accept or adapt to the American black culture is not practical or even possible because it is in direct conflict and geared to rebel against white people. This really isn’t hard to understand. In American black culture, white people are the enemy from the start. That has to change before anything else can. Naturally, a culture that is inherently rebellious is not sustainable, even for its own people. Once the rest of society distances itself from the culture, the same rebellious qualities will turn inward toward each other because that is all you know.”

The author has a point: “Afro-American culture is contraposed to white European culture … it makes pains to be the polar opposite of white European culture.” Perhaps this explains why blacks enjoy breaking “whitey’s” laws as a way of life (including burning down their own neighborhoods). But at some point, as the author notes, their wreckless behaviors become a way of life that they turn on themselves.

Put another way, blacks tend to want nothing to do with white society except to destroy it (with a little looting on the side). THIS MEANS BLACKS DO NOT WANT TO ASSIMILATE INTO WHITE SOCIETY … become part of it. They have opened the seacocks on a sinking ship and appear willing to do down with the ship. “Affirmative Action” was, therefore, dead on arrival.

That’s why blacks and their white leftist apologists get such a kick out of BLM, Critical Race Theory, and DIE. The joke, at this stage, is on us, White People! There is no resolution, accommodation, reparation, or reconciliation that can meet black (or BIPOC) expectations.

But, if the above is true, using blacks (and BIPOCs) to destroy our current civilization fits perfectly into the socialist/communist agenda to destroy Western Civilization so they can “built back better” from the smoldering ruins.

The joke, at this stage, will be on the blacks and BIPOCs. Wreckless, impulsive, anti-social behaviors as a way of life will have no place in the regimented, authoritanian, oligarchical, socialist paradise of the future.

The CIA has the “black” budget required to finance these shenanigans … and acquire the brightest minds to do so. (The CIA has an estimated 20,000 employees.) Indeed, it has been their “stuff “since the end of WWII: foreign coups and “color” revolutions … why not one at home?

The open question: Who does the CIA work for? The first directors of the OSS and CIA were Wall Street lawyers. Is it an accident that people on Wall Street seem to always have advanced knowledge of terrorist attacks. i.e. 911?

In the name of equity, the “Plaques for Blacks” program in education will shortly be extended to everyone in the US educational system … first grade through graduate school.

Ron,

If what you argue is true, our national Covid-19 crisis would fall into the same category as public exposure that the Kennedy assassination was indeed planned, organized, and executed by Israel aided by rogue elements in the CIA and Pentagon. The truth would bring down the US government and perhaps presage national disintegration … ergo, the end of the Anglo-Zionist Empire.

Hence, given the consequences of exposure, it makes sense that the power structure would engage in systematic prevarication, obfuscation, dissimulation, evasion, deceit, and lying to muddle things to the point that the public remained ignorant and confused about what was happening. Researchers hot on the trail of the guilty parties and insiders who “blow the whistle” would be systematically doxxed and canceled: “wokeness” intentionally fabricated as a form of political control.

Besides using Covid-19 to hobble a National Socialist China, perhaps we should add the current systematic and otherwise inexplicable attacks on white culture, Western Civilization, and the nation-states they created to the list of targets to be eliminated on the road to the “Fabian/Frankfurt” quest for a globalized, oligarchical world government overseeing consortiums of socialized economies (really monopoly capitalism) controlled by small cabals of wealthy elites.

Is this preposterous? H. B. Wells, 1920:

Big Business is in no means antipathetic to Communism. The larger big business grows the more it approximates Collectivism. It is the upper road of the few instead of the lower road of the masses to Collectivism. Ellis, Clare, “The Blackening of Europe,” Arktos Media Ltd., Kindle Edition.

Both the Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic Magazine have featured the Tulsa race riot’s 100-year anniversary in their latest editions, although they call it the “Tulsa Race Massacre”. Coincidence? Or is all of this preplanned and coordinated (((by whom?))) using blacks as a stalking horse for our reeducation and induction into the New World Order?

For a balanced narrative, I wonder if the MSM will ever feature the “1791 Haitian Massacre” of white men, women, and children. From Wikipedia:

“Guillaume Raynal attacked slavery in the 1780 edition of his history of European colonization. He also predicted a general slave revolt in the colonies, saying that there were signs of “the impending storm”.[43] One such sign was the action of the French revolutionary government to grant citizenship to wealthy free people of color in May 1791. Since white planters refused to comply with this decision, within two months isolated fighting broke out between the former slaves and the whites. This added to the tense climate between slaves and grands blancs.[44]

Raynal’s prediction came true on the night of 21 August 1791, when the slaves of Saint-Domingue rose in revolt; thousands of slaves attended a secret vodou ceremony as a tropical storm came in—the lighting and the thunder was taken as auspicious omens—and later that night, the slaves began to kill their masters and plunged the colony into civil war. The signal to begin the revolt was given by Dutty Boukman, a high priest of vodou and leader of the Maroon slaves, and Cecile Fatiman during a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman on the night of 14 August.[46] Within the next ten days, slaves had taken control of the entire Northern Province in an unprecedented slave revolt. Whites kept control of only a few isolated, fortified camps. The slaves sought revenge on their masters through “pillage, rape, torture, mutilation, and death”. The long years of oppression by the planters had left many blacks with a hatred of all whites, and the revolt was marked by extreme violence from the very start. The masters and mistresses were dragged from their beds to be killed, and the heads of French children were placed on spikes that were carried at the front of the rebel columns.”

I have a PDF copy of Solzhenitsyn’s “Two Hundred Years Together”. I can’t recall where I got it. But the point is that it is available as “Samizdat” literature on the Internet.

It is a pity that this is how degenerate we have become in the West … that we have to secret documents exposing the truth among ourselves as if we lived in the most degenerate period of Bolshevik terror to avoid being doxxed and canceled.

None of this is new. I recall Internet “hits” decades ago that detailed Bill Gates sexcapades while still young, precocious, and autistic. Then, he married a seemingly normal woman who purported to deal with being married to one of the richest weirdos in human history.

At the time, I asked myself the question: “How can an autistic workaholic who “chills” on weekends with his software development team with hookers and whores all of a sudden transition into a model “family man”? The answer: He didn’t!

As the saying goes, “A leopard can’t change its spots!”

I have always pushed back on the idea of racial privilege along with other ridiculous liberal fantasies. After a few years in the Air Force in the early 1970s, I had to fill in a blank regarding my racial heritage. I entered “Quamanian Alute” … that is, an Eskimo from the island of Guam. That followed me through a 20-year career in the Air Force. Making all promotions on schedule suggests my playfulness had no negative impacts on my career. If anyone bothered to check, I hope they had a chuckle.

On second thought, it might have helped me. An Eskimo from the island of Guam would have suffered terrible racial abuse. Right?

Later, in the early 1990s, I was helping my oldest son fill in applications to a number of universities. He did moderately well on the SAT … but nothing worth celebrating. I suggested that he check that he was an Amerindian. Wow! The mailbox almost collapsed with acceptance letters offering full scholarships. But this was a joke from the beginning. At the time, my son and I knew he was en route to a private engineering school without a scholarship. I pained for every penny of his education. It was worth it. He is now a senior program manager for Google. But let’s move on …

Today, the British, in an admirable reductio ad absurdum, are working toward allowing people to change the gender on their birth certificates for five pounds. Imagine the social and legal impacts of crowds scrambling to the counter to change their gender, making an absurdity and a mess of the whole thing. All of this would be a joke of course. The impact of crowds scrambling to change their gender would be all it would take to expose this as the nonsense that it is.

Not being Jewish, I have a question. Is a Jewish female who aspires to be whatever properly addressed as “rabbi”. “rabbis”, or “rabbid”?

I have the same kind of question for Episcopalian “priests”. I understand that there are more female Episcopalian “priests” than male priests these days. I don’t get it. If I was a woman and an Episcopalian minister, I would want to be called a “priestess”.

What am I missing in all of this?

Minutes ago, United Airlines send us an email reaffirming its “values”. Going forward, they will only hire women and BIPOC pilots. We noticed its president is “black … so these “values” are not unexpected.

But United asking white males to DIE demanded a response. Going forward, we consider United Airlines UNSAFE. We just cancelled our United Credit Card. Although United had been our airline of choice, my wife and I will never fly United again.

I had the same response to Guillette’s anti-male advertisement in 2019. I had used Guillette’s products for 54 years. I haven’t used Guillette products since. I understand that add cost Guillette $4 billion in lost revenue.

May we hope for the same for United Airlines.

How bad is the Baltimore school system?

My pulmonary doctor placed me with a “black-owned” startup company in Baltimore specializing in resupplying people on Medicare with CPAP supplies. The following is an exchange with a so-called “sleep coach” in the company. I’m assuming the young woman had a high school degree and lives in Baltimore. You’ll have to provide the heavy ebonics accent for yourself.

“I need your birthday. The form says I need your birthday.”

Provided …

“No, the form says BIRTHDAY. I need the day you were born!”

The “slaves” that arrived in Virginia in 1619 were not slaves. They were indentured servants and released after their indentures expired. The progressive legal process of enslaving Africans covered the rest of the century. It was the white reaction to the “back-to-Africa movement” related to what the Africans did after they were freed; that is, reverting to their African ways … kind of like today.

How long did the practice of indenture last? In 1901, my wife’s grandmother was indentured as a servant for seven years to a family who owned textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. She signed the indenture in return for her passage from Sweden. After her indenture expired, she married a Swedish lumberjack in Minnesota whom she had known in Sweden. They were so committed to becoming “Americans” that they forbid their children from learning or speaking Swedish. Their two sons both earned PhDs followed by successful careers in industry and academia.

My how times change …

Tessica Brown looks like she has an IQ of 84, which would account for the problem … a limited ability to assess the risks and consequences of one’s choices in life. However, we know what it means to be PC: it’s always “white supremacist” and “racist” when anything goes wrong.

Ironically, Tessica is also a “walking” advertisement for Gorilla Glue. Got to get some … “Incredibly Strong … 100% Tough!” The company didn’t lie to her. She is just … well, I guess we don’t have a PC word for that anymore either.

I suspect that Tessica can expect more of these kinds of events in her life. Instead of a lawyer, perhaps she needs a mother, a mentor, or a custodian to help her navigate the vicissitudes of life.

This matches the “polygamy push propaganda” you mentioned in your December 9th entry.

You see, children brought up in polygamous households live perfectly normal lives and can aspire to “woke” selection as Time’s Guardian of the Year … for giving BIPOC women more hair extension options. If “Diversity is our Strength”, it makes perfectly good sense to press for diversity in family formation. This is an excellent follow-on to recognizing two homosexual men adopting a young boy from foster care as a “family”.

Who knows … before this is over, we may find the need to recognize up to 384 variations in family formation to accommodate the miasma of genders these days.

I once marketed Germany for a state-level department of commerce. The task was to find and assist German companies wanting to establish a presence in the state. We found a few “takers”. One had a long-range plan to establish a subsidiary in the United States and then relocate the company and his family to the States. He mentioned something I’ll never forget:

“In Germany, it used to be that everything not forbidden was allowed. Now, everything that is not allowed is forbidden. We’re leaving.”

When you think about it, the difference in the above is being between free versus political apparatchiks having a stranglehold on your life. With our new “woke” world of political correctness, “cancel culture”, and deplatforming dissidents, this political pandemic (the real pandemic) has without question reached our shores, too. “Freedom of Speech” and the rest of the Constitution are now nothing but historical artifacts.

I’m not sure whether we should identify the phenomenon as the “Nazification” or “Sovietization” of American culture. It doesn’t matter. The totalitarian results are the same.

Women do not drive “cool”. Guys thinking up and doing cool stuff drive cool. Girls can definitely *be* cool, if they are fun and sexy.

Women are “cool” and sexy because of what they ARE. Men are “cool” and sexy because of what they OWN … their Alph Markers. Women perceive that their ability to attract male power and wealth will determine their place and status on the male dominance matrix, the only one that counts in life.

So, nothing changes in the sociobiological “engine” that ensures the continued existence of the human race … even in the face of feminism, homosexuality, and transgenderism as momentary distractions played out in the lives of the rich and famous for our amusement.

I find it interesting that we landed on the moon in 1969 … yet 51 years later we can’t accurately count ballots in democratic elections. My suspicion is that certain interests in the United States don’t want to accurately count ballots. Obfuscation allows them to routinely manipulate results.

This is personal. In 1970, my wife and I participated as canvassers in a congressional election. We were given the voter registration rolls for the Democratic Party. We were AMAZED! Voters registered at addresses that don’t exist; voters registered in houses located in the middle of alleys; voters registered in vacant lots. How widespread is this? We assumed it was commonplace.

Yet, we hear pronouncements by public officials, the MSM, friends, and family that there is no such thing as voter fraud in the United States. Trump, as it were, REALLY lost the election. No question about it! Yet, but we saw voter fraud first hand. Yes, it was years ago, but what would have changed?

If the above degree of voter fraud existed in a moderate-sized city in 1970, imagine what happens today in, let’s say, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia in the era of electronic voting machines where recounts are impossible … or the new phenomena of mysterious bounties of mail-in ballots arriving just-in-time to turn elections.

One definition of insanity might be to deny the obvious. What do sociologists call this when this involves large demographics … mass hysteria? If so, the current legitimacy of the Government of the United States might be described as the result of a mass psychogenic disorder. There are precedents:

Dancing manias in the Middle Ages …
The Dutch tulip bubble hysteria in 1637 …
The Salem witch trials in 1692 …
Russiagate in 2016 …
The Presidential election in 2020 …

Rob,

A great book! I can’t cover it all in a blog post. You will recall that both Churchill and Roosevelt do not bode well in Keith Rowe’s book when compared with Stalin. Stalin understood power … the extent of his military power over Eastern Europe and his lack of power in countries occupied by American, British, and Canadian armies. This is to say that Churchill and Roosevelt did not understand brute power in this way. They thought they could charm Stalin into cooperation and that Stalin, as a result, would honor his agreements.

But, as you say, the irony: Britain started WWII to “save ” Poland as defined by the Treaty of Versailles 20-years earlier, and then gave Poland to the Communists gratis after being on the winning side in WWII.

I would be inspired to look for a different reason … the real reason … for Britain declaring war on Germany in 1939.

I find current events an attempt at a classical leftist/communist coup. As a reference, Keith Rowe in his new book, “Savage Continent,” details how the Communists took over governments in Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria … and tried to take over the governments in Greece, Italy, and France after WWII. It is a stepped, well-thought-out process. We are in the midst of that process in the United States.

I voted for Obama twice … even though I’m a lifelong Republican. I acted on knowing the difference between the Republican Party and the US Chamber of Commerce. Perhaps this was poor judgment when the truth about Obama’s past and his administration leaked over the decades … but compared to what was known at the time? John McCain and Mitt Romney! Both RINOs. Who in their right mind would run a Wall Street M&A guy for president? There was also the hope that Obama could at least put to rest the perception that we were a racist country.

Obviously, that’s not what happened. Turns out that the MSM had been suppressing and censoring Obama’s biography and past just as it is now suppressing and censoring the the Biden family’s corruption.

None of this is new. In fact, it is SOP for the Deep State. I’m reading, “The Savage Continent,” by Keith Lowe. It is an expose on the carnage that happened in Europe after WWII. Millions languished for years in slave labor camps; and millions more were murdered in ethnic cleansings as ethnic groups took advantage of the breakdown of law and order to settle scores. All of this happened across Eastern and Western Europe after WWII. The period between 1945 and 1949 is a blank slate for a reason.

Almost everything taught in the schools about WWII is garbage … wartime propaganda reincarnated as history. What is left out is most often more important than what is glossed over. The current “woke” reincarnation in our K12 schools, universities, corporations, and government is likewise a corruption of the truth. It is nothing but Marxist and Communist propaganda “recooked” and relabeled for new, gullible generations.

Thank God for the Internet! We at least have the rudiments of an alternative media that provide us a fleeting window on reality.

P.S. Keith Lowe’s description of the Communist takeover of Romania in the late 1940s maps almost perfectly to what happened in the “Maidan” that brought down the Ukranian government in 2013 … and is currently being acted out in the streets and media in America for the same end.

It’s clear where this is leading. We need to start canvasing the Amazon jungle to find an underrepresented tribe that has had no contact with (I mean being contaminated by) white, European, racist, supremacist, Nazi, misogynist … men (I’m sure I missed something so please feel free to append additional explicatives).

The newly sanctified indigenous people need not have a written language, no experience with anything but the most primitive slash-and-burn agriculture (hunger/gatherer would even be better), no knowledge of “zero”, and find that 10 digits are sufficient for their most demanding mathematical problems … but maybe five digits on one hand are sufficient.

What a find! Choose one of them. We will have found the perfect candidate to make amends for past “sins” by reserving a Harvard professorship for the fellow. He’ll be exuberant over having indoor plumbing … but, I’m afraid, he won’t understand the need. It doesn’t matter. The more problems he has assimulating constitutes more evidence regarding how underserved this demographic has been in our white, male, racist, supremacist, Nazi, misogynist society.

Of course, there will be dissenters. Some will say: Why embarrass the fellow with a Harvard professorship? Why not plan for success? Lower expectations and certify him to work on HVAC, jet engines, and other advanced technical systems? I know … this is where the problems start. I don’t have a “woke” solution for this problem. But I’m sure my “woke” friends will find somewhere to cast the blame.

The tired and bitter epilog: “But we already do this. It’s called affirmative action.”

Looters miss the point. They should be stealing printer ink in the computer isle. It’s more valuable per ounce than perfume. Definitely more valuable per ounce than alcohol. The same result when measured by volume-per-sneaker.

Since it is a good presumption that most of what is looted is bartered after the fact, perhaps a grocery cart full of loot is replacing fiat money as the new monetary standard.

At least there is progress in not identifying someone as “black” when commiting a crime. No pokemon points for that. See below:

“The suspect has been described as a medium built man with dark skin who was wearing a light knit hat with a blue face mask …”

Once this becomes the new Associated Press standard, blacks can no longer be singled out in crime statistics. “Black” crime will magically disappear because perpetrators will be verbally incorporated into the large, amorphous demographic that includes everyone who is not pale white with freckles.

Why didn’t the “woke” community think of this before?

Are you sure anyone would want Seattle or Portland? The “carrying costs” would be astronomical.

The decline of “everything” on your timeline appears to coincide with the Civil Rights movement, Affirmative Action, and the end of colonialism in the 1960s.

Perhaps in the next Ebola outbreak in Africa we will hear a clarion call for more White Privilege to be redirected their way to cure the disease.

Oops, we already have …

Sigh, sometimes people are their own worst enemy.

This just might work …

Let the People’s Republic of California pay reparations to Amerindians, Blacks, Japanese, Chinese, and all other “capitalized” racial and ethnic collections for slights and insults seen and unseen. But we can’t forget the 33 million Irish whose ancestors built the railroads and cleaned the homes of upper-class WASPS … or the 14 million Italians whose ancestors suffered decades from Mafia-mania.

However, given recent immigration, this is not the end of people that the United States has insulted or slighted in some way. The final bill will include and cancel the sins and oversights stretching from the present to 1619 to include 330 years of US history, including those who recently got off the boat, descended the gangway, or snuck across an unmarked boarder. I’m sure the 61-million member Hispanic community is preparing their vitaes as I write to queue in line for compensation.

Let’s see. The above list would include at least 150 million people, which does not include the slights and oversights inflicted on white women, homosexuals, and the handicapped. Include them … and where are we now? 329 million give or take a few. That’s close to the current population of the United States. What a burden to bear!

A radically “woke” and bankrupt California paying reparations to the entire population of the United States is a welcome ticket to finally eliminating California as a political and economic force in the United States of America. The plague would be over!

This is is farce … but we can hope and pray.

P.S. We used to live in California. We’re political, economic, social, and moral refugees who escaped first chance we got.

“Anyway, he said it did sound kind of like a cat squalling because of Affirmative Action, which I didn’t know what was. He said it was a newfangled law in Washington, that’s the Yankee capital, that says if you want somebody to do a job, you have to hire someone that can’t do it.”

I don’t know what to say, Fred. It’s hard to find something to laugh about these days. It’s even harder to laugh about the nonsense surrounding Affirmative Action. I laughed!

Thank you

While you can certainly have a career after you have children, interestingly enough it seems most women are much less interested in a career after motherhood.

Large numbers of professional women appear to be more than “less interested” in careers in spite of having no children. Many appear to “want out”! In my experience, a popular lament on the part of professional women in the corporate office and in our neighborhod is that they can’t wait until early retirement at 62 … and they don’t know if they can last that long. As men are apt to say, they call it “work” because it is work. Many career women are disappointed to discover that fact.

Once upon a time a career woman politely requested that she and I work together on class projects on our corporate-sponsored masters program. Time passed; she finally pressed her interest. She was unhappy in her current division, and she hoped I would hire her for an opening in my division. Sorry, but I couldn’t help … no openings. Her reply, “I’m tired of working. I guess I’ll find a rich man to marry.” Sigh!

I finally retired at age 70 and it was age that made the decision, not the work. I grieve for career women who “have had it” at age 40, recognizing that at that age they are just as unlikely to find a “rich man to marry” as they are to have children.

I’ve repeatedly run across aphorisms that men reach their prime in their 50s … while women reach their prime at 18. Nature is a “bitch”! Best we learn to live with it.

RBG appears to me to have been a very unhappy women. Nature is a “bitch”! And she couldn’t deal with it.

There is a positive to cancelling Western Civilization … which is the end result of all this. We’ll have to start over at this critical moment in history when all blacks, People-of-Color, and women (apparently) aspire to university educations. It would be racist and sexist, would it not, to deny them this hitherto cisgendered white privilege.

The problem: People used to go to the university to study the development of Western Civilization starting with the ancient Egyptians, through classical Greece and Rome, through the Age of Faith, through the Enlightenment, to the development of rational science, math, medicine, and engineering, to the industrial revolution. It is this collective, as it were, that conquered Nature and took humanity to the moon. It is this collective that people went to the university to study and learn. It was hard work. Ah, remember the days … reading 200 pages of Kant a week for a semester. I never understood the hulabalo over David Hume’s “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” but I still had to drill my way throught it.

But, sans Western Civilization, there won’t be much to study in the new “woke” universities that now, it appears, include Oxbridge, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc. Indeed, there won’t be admission standards and there won’t be racist and sexist grading standards designed to emotionally distress students beyond their capacity to cope.

A syllabus for the new “woke” universities: Blacks, feminists, and People-of-Color hang around the Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and other “studies” departments for a year or two before being awarded ornamental plaques. Where classes actually take place, they will be taught in a wide range of local argots such as ebonics (def. words and expressions used by small groups of people and that are not easily understood by other people). In great anticipation, the new graduates (plaques in hand) can look forward to affirmation action slots in academia, corporations, government, health care, and the military where they will be guaranteed secure, lifetime sinecures with the proviso that, similar to the university, they occasionally show up with (and this is essential) the right “woke” attitude.

God, I’m going to miss Western Civilization!

It seems you are saying that the 737 MAX worked exactly as designed … with everyone at Boeing from engineering, to safety, to corporate “weenies” crossing their fingers in the hope no one would notice.

I love this phrase:

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick

In searching for ultimate causes, could the 737 MAX fiasco be blamed on the dramatic requirement for CONFORMITY at all levels in our society due to the political correctness rigidly enforced by HR departments in governmental, corporate, and academic institutions?

Remember when we had an annual Federal budget with GOP politicians clamoring for a “balanced budget”?

Did anyone notice? It’s been years since we’ve had a Federal budget. The country has been run on continuing resolutions and stuffing pork into off-budget war appropriations. Now, for good reason, no one even mentions “balanced budgets”. How can a country have a balanced budget when it doesn’t have a budget?

The “cat is out of the bag”! A country printing fiat money (or hitting the right keys on a computer) doesn’t need a budget, so there is nothing to balance. And fiscal restraint is so blasé! We have precedence: the Federal Reserve now drops Mana from Heaven on emotionally destitute, grievance-based populations euphemistically called underserved communities.

“Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; and knock, and it will be opened to you …” Matthew 7:7. Yes, it’s that easy. No wonder Central Banks have replaced Christianity in the Western world. Central Banks deliver!

But there is no cause for alarm. As Covid-19 proved, the Federal Reserve can print as much money as it needs to keep Wall Street banks solvent … or for Congress to fund its “pork” programs. $14 trillion to fund the Covit-19 lockdown! Why not an additional $10 trillion for AOC’s greenhouse programs … or, trillions more for reparations for anyone with a drop of sub-Saharan African or Amerindian blood?

Astronauts on Mars, Open Borders, Medicare for All, Universal Basic Incomes. The possibilities are endless! It boggles the mind.

Fred,

I never know what you are on … but please let me know. I’ll buy a case.

I have a diabalical use for your essay (I apologize … I know it’s not an essay because it’s “nobody” reminiscing about “nothin’). I’d suggest that universities make your essay required reading to slip humor back into our culture. At that point, feminists, BLM, and their “woke” allies will explode into a fatal paroxysm of politcal correctness … a “Nirvana-of-Nothingness” only accessible through the vacuous conformity found in “safer spaces”.

That’s all right. That’s a lot of punch for “nobody” reminiscing about “nothin’”. Kids at universities might actually learn something.

The culture that I, a classically eduated cisgendered white male, represent took us to the moon and conquered polio. The culture that BLM and other “woke” democraphics represent cannot take us to the edge of town. If we follow or acquiesce to them, we become the new South Africa.

Is this edgy? No, one has only to look and see.

Evidently, the cisgendered white male’s “can-do attitude” has been added to list of cultural approbations that make the “woke” world feel bad about their relative lack of accomplishment. It’s part of the plague of “systemic sexism and racism” that makes them feel bad about themselves and, based on that, they condemn Western Civilization.

Perhaps the “woke” demographic will feel different when there is a pandemic … and there is no vaccine. There is a famine … and there is no food. There are barbarians at the gates … and there is no defense.

At times, I feel we should let this happen to teach these people a lesson. Darwin would approve. At the end of the day, they would no longer be in the gene pool. The plague infecting Western Civilization would, hopefully, be over.

Why would anyone think Kamala Harris is “Black” or even a POC? See photo of Kamala next to an authentic black woman:

https://spectator.org/?utm_source=LibertyNation&utm_campaign=Top20ConservativeNewsSites2020

There is strong evidence that much of what we consider “The History of WWII” is Allied propaganda that was so often repeated that it found its way into academic and popular post-war accounts. This includes the saga of the Nazi “death camps” … allegedly British/Soviet propaganda designed to cause rebellions in labor camps (leaflets were dropped on the camps). After the war, there was no reason not to keep the ruses going to avoid exposing Allied duplicity.

One can see this in operation by watching British documentaries on WWII produced into the 1950s and 1960s. In short, the evidence is readily available on Nexflix and The History Channel.

I’m a history buff, but I often cut a documentary short after five minutes. The historical inaccuracies are blatant … even if narrated in a “high-brow” British accent.

The “George Floyd” reaction was pre-planned. It all happened too quickly in too many places around the globe to suppose otherwise. Can you believe that the media from the Costco Magazine to the Smithsonian Magazine to my local credit union had all black advertisements in place within days? I didn’t know we were a Bantu nation with a small population of aging whites on Medicare?

Then, our local supermarket chain had Bantu warriors checking people out within a week. They looked awesome and hostile in their hairdos. Upfront were posterboards cataloging the encomiums about all of the good things that the chain had done for its black customers … and all of the blacks they employed. Were they worried about being burnt out at the outskirts of Washington DC suburbia if they didn’t genuflect to BML?

Oops, a week later, the Bantu warriors were gone. They were replaced with equally hostile black girls in the middle of a premium, high-priced white suburb. My wife reflected that the Bantu warriors probably decided that showing up for work was not part of their culture. Going to work, as it were, was another example (along with impulse control, time management, reason, future orientation, mathematics, and science) of “white supremacists” imposing their racist, colonial culture on West Africans.

This is not going to turn out well …

I think we’d all be better off if blacks did better on standardized tests. I do not know when or if that will happen in America though.

It will never happen. If you haven’t heard, a black youth who takes academics seriously is called an “oreo” by their own kind … “black’ on the outside and “white” on the inside. As a generalization, blacks disdain white culture, industry, and accomplishments. “Oreos” are dispised in black culture and punished for trying. Assimilation, therefore, has proved impossible. Finding white culture incomprehensible, the only thing blacks value is the”stuff” produced by white industrial and white post-industrial societies. The terminology now accepted worldwide for this phenomenon is the welfare-based idiom expressed by black populations expecting “gibs me dats”.

Recall that sub-Saharan Africa was introduced to the wheel by the so-called imperialist as late as the 19th Century. Some blacks may have been enslaved and found emancipation, but, in toto, they remain a primitive, indigenous population. Blacks in the US (or Africa) are as unlikely to participate in industrial culture or take anyone to the moon than the Amerindians on the Sioux reservations in the US, the Aztecs in the mountains of Mexico, or the primitive Amerindian tribes in the Amazon jungle.

We have been trying to uplift American blacks for 70 years … without result. Recall the aphorism for insanity attributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over and expecting different results.”

It’s about time we tried to bring a little sanity in these matters.

Dear Ben,

Enough is enough! Please … standard English punctuation. Although I suspect, I can’t be certain where you are from nor your facility with English, but people in the English-speaking world typically use non-standard English to show how “woke” they are … going against conventions just to show they disdain conventions. This informs people regarding who you are, but, in a significant way, it stands in the way of communicating and understanding what you are trying to say. Indeed, this suggests that you are not interested in communication but something else.

You knew going in that the Unz Review was not a “woke” website. From your comments about Fred, I detect that you are “woke” … and you might just be a paid troll. “Harbarah”? Lots of “Hasbarah” these days to trash the Unz Review and in the hope that it will drive people away from the website.

And Ron Unz wonders why the Jews are not attacking his website. They are! Given the right subject, “Harbarah” swarm like locus.

Back to Ben: Given the hurriedness of your composition and your carelessness in punctuation, I do suspect you are one of them. And I suspect you are not paid well for a reply, which accounts for the carelessness of your comment. Your quest: “How much invective can I cram into a 60-second reply before moving on to the next website and my next “customer” … I mean comment in the hope that no one notices?” Please, don’t be so obvious.

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Note to Fred: This is getting tiring. Fred, please filter the comments on your blog. You have the right to do so. Hasbarah is trying to “swarm” your articles to discourage people from reading and/or appreciating what you are trying to say by discombobulating the comments into nonsense. You might find that a compliment, but there is just so much time in a day to sort through the commentariat in search of gems.

What?

“It’s not even clear where their long-term supranational loyalties lie. In 2018, for instance, a satellite town of Makhachkala (capital of Dagestan) installed a monument to Turkish soldiers who fell fighting against the troops of Lazar Bichekharov in support of the the Azeri-dominated Islamic Army of the Caucasus, which ethnically cleansed Baku of Armenians upon its capture and fought the Red Army for an independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. That is, not just against Russians per se, but against the Soviets whom the RF considers itself to be the successor of.”

I’m a serious student of history with a special bent for exposures that show us that history as we know it is wrong. However, I find it impossible to follow what you just said. We need more parsimonious simplicity here, Karlin … not the truth, which appears to be incomprehensible.

But, maybe, that’s your point.

It’s all a misunderstanding … ships passing in the night!

Notice that the focus of BLM, reparations, and the Democractic platform is all about equal outcomes with respect to consumption … that is, “stuff”. There is nothing (outside of white culture) about “production” and the antecedents within a high-performance culture that creates the possibility of excess production at a level that creates the illusion that everyone can and should have whatever they want. P.S. Issues about liberty, freedom, and the right of free association don’t register in this discussion.

I get what BLM is saying: “We want $reparation$ so that we can buy “stuff” rather than being humiliated into having to steal it … or better yet, looting the place and then burning it down to cover our tracks.”

Will sociologists in the future trace the riots, looting, and burning the core of America’s cities to an excess of consumer marketing?

Come on! I see advertisments all the time of young “fairytale families” black families living in multi-million dollar mansions. I have an income of $245K and can’t afford to live where they live. Hence, it’s no wonder that blacks, who watch more TV and have more TVs in bedrooms than white folks, are mad! Every day, they can see the “stuff” they presume other people have. They want their share of “stuff”. Now, they’re demanding their share of “stuff”… or else!”

The problem is simple:

“Whites have their “stuff”; and mulattos have their “stuff”. Now, we want our “stuff” … or we will burn you out!

People-of-Color of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the indignity of having to steal a $200-pair of Michael Jordans because you can’t afford to buy them.”

But what about production? It seems that only whites and Asians worry about production. POC worry about consumption. “You miss the point, man!”

Ships passing in the night: POC of understand consumption … but not production. It’s foreign to their experience and their culture.

I’ll go back to my thesis that BLM and other black and minority organizations demanding reparations and equal outcomes with respect to consumption are “cargo cults”. “Where’s our share of “stuff”? Ante up, white man … and we don’t care where it comes from or what we have to do to get it!”

I had Wilson in mind when I brought up the issue of a Biden “regency”.

I did a little math. The Wilson “regency” lasted 1.4 years from the time he was immobilized by a stroke on 10/2/1919 until he left office on 3/3/1921. Only Wilson’s wife and doctor had direct access to Wilson during the “regency”. If affairs of state demanded a decision, government officials and people of note would whisper in Wilson’s wife’s ear. She would disappear, work out the issue with her disabled husband, reappear, and announce the result.

Some historians consider Edith Wilson as the first female president of the United States.

If wondering why nothing works in society, let’s remember that “Jide Zeitlin’s” are now everywhere as affirmative action hires “slide” to the top in government, corporations, the military, academia, and professional organizations … including medical school.

When at the Pentagon in the 1980s, a black Lt. Colonel wandered into the office. He bragged that, since he was black, he could go anywhere and do anything he wanted in the Air Force. This was at the same time that a friend, a white female Major, was given the task to teach three (3) freshly minted black Lt. Colonels how to be “action officers” so they could function in their pretigious Pentagon assignments … something they should have learned as Lieutenants, Captains, and Majors on their way up the chain-of-command.

I retired and went to work for a major defense firm. I immediately became familiar with what was called the “lifestyle or work/balance” career track. Only women, it seemed, dared declare the career track; it was designed for them. The “lifestyle” track allowed women to come to work when they wanted and go home when they wanted without the need to makeup time. They could take the afternoon off to watch their son’s or daughter’s soccer practice. Most telling, they were exempt from the all-nighters associated with meeting proposal deadlines. However, to ensure the firm was free of gender prejudice, the women on the “lifestyle” career track suffered no repercussions when it came to salary increases and promotions. Indeed, the firm bragged about equity in these areas to demonstrate its commitment to equal opportunity and diversity.

We should keep in mind the gross disparities in capabilities and qualifications surrounding the original 1978 Bakke case in which the Supreme Court, in a verbal slight-of-hand, banned quotas but legalized “goals” for hiring protected classes of people to reach affirmative action objectives.

“Bakke [applied to medical school at] UC Davis in 1973 … Bakke received 468 points out of a possible 500 on the admissions committee’s rating scale in 1973. Earlier in the year, a rating of 470 had won automatic admission with some promising applicants being admitted with lower scores. Bakke had a science GPA of 3.44 and an overall GPA of 3.46 after taking science courses at night to qualify for medical school. On the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), Bakke scored in the 97th percentile in scientific knowledge, the 96th percentile in verbal ability, the 94th percentile in quantitative analysis, and the 72nd percentile in general knowledge. Bakke’s MCAT score overall was 72; the average applicant to UC Davis scored a 69 and the average applicant under the [affirmative action program scored] a 33.”

“About two months later in May 1973, Bakke received notice of his rejection.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v._Bakke#Allan_Bakke

These affirmative action hires and the gross disparities that define them are everywhere. They are a cancer that is eating the heart out of our culture and our civilization.

Colleges still teach, and students still need, reading, writing, and arithmetic. You read too much right-wing spin.

Obwandiyag,

Disagree. I think I know what I’m talking about with two master’s degrees and course work completed for my doctorate … and having taught at three major universities and one of the military academies.

The point is that both high schools and universities are failing miserably at teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic to their students. Do I have stories to tell? At many major universities, up to 25% of entering freshmen are enrolled in remedial English and math to give them a chance at succeeding in a university-level curriculum. Many university graduates today cannot manage a bank account nor demonstrate that they know the rudiments of English punctuation … things that used to be mastered by students in the 8th Grade.

You could educate yourself with a little “right-wing spin” as you call it. Try punctuation first.

Mao said it best: “Let a thousand flowers bloom …” at diversity training sessions. Then use the short illusion of openness and tolerance to identity and remove the bad thinkers resisting the Four Olds (old customs, old culture, new habits, new ideas) so they can be more easily replaced by the Four News (new customs, new culture, new habits, new ideas).

Bye, bye to our Constitutional Republic, Western Civilization, and Christianity. Welcome to a new society being systematically cleansed of all anti-social elements by the political commissars firmly ensconced in HR departments and universities throughout our country.

As Christopher Caldwell points out in his seminal book, “The Age of Entitlement”, the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 was deliberately intended to “reconstruct” the South via unconstitutional means. (I guess the South didn’t get their original 1865-1877 “reconstruction” right under the boot of Federal martial law … time for a second go at it.)

But the supporters of the Act didn’t anticipate that suspending democracy, the Constitutional rights of free association and free speech, and legalizing reverse race-based discrimination found in “affirmative action” quotas would soon be forced on the rest of the country by the courts. The Act became the model for a grievance-based society open to any group that felt marginalized by nature or circumstances. Indeed, the courts now automatically assume “bias” wherever social or economic disparities exist. “Equality of opportunity” (one of the Four Olds) has been replaced by the need for “equal outcomes” (one of the Four News) … regardless of differing circumstances, values, or causes.

Let’s not wonder how we got here. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “backdoor” to the Socialist Utopia envisioned by Karl Marx, Lenin, and the Jewish Kabbalah. But utopias are incompatible with the democratic process. They require dictatorships to implement them.

The United States is now functioning under de facto martial law. We are now being “reconstructed” to condition us — all of us — for life in the unfolding socialist paradise being prepared for us.

If Biden wins the election, his administration will be our first Regency. Biden will serve as a senile figurehead. As with child-kings of old, a “regent” (or a “collective regency” similar to the Soviet Politburo) will rule in his name.

The American Politburo will consist of representatives of the Coalition of the Fringes that won the election … a smattering of Jews, Communists, Anarchists, and Feminists along with representatives from Black, Hispanic, and LGBTxyz activist and other underserved communities. Lobbyists from Wall Street will be omnipresent in all levels of the administration to ensure that the Regency (and Biden) stay on message:

“Globalism is Good … Diversity is our Strength … China and the United States have always been at War!”

Occasionally Biden will address the unwashed masses still struggling to survive the “state of emergency” declared for the duration of the pandemic. The Regency will take Biden out of bed, dress him, disconnect his oxygen tank, put him in front of a teleprompter, and feed him simple slogans to mouth to the public. This will, however, be a scripted performance. Before going “live”, there will be time for his handlers to edit out Biden’s gaffs or otherwise insert “deep fake” content to maintain the illusion of competency and control.

The Regency has no doubt that this modernization of the American political establishment will work. They own GOOGLEFACEBOOKTWITTER and the MSM. Therefore, they own the narrative. That’s how they won the election. That’s how they will rule.