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  1. A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed a 1954 novel set in a future America (of 1990!) which is effectively ruled by the ‘social engineers’ of the Communications Administrative Department. The political system now in place is called Democratic Rule by Consent, and the business of the social engineers is to ensure that the people consent to what they’re supposed to consent to.

    A little too close for comfort.

    https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/64491.html

  2. Ummm…. “I originally published on 11/11/2020, a little over a year ago”

    11/11/2020 is a bit over TWO MONTHS ago.

  3. I would encourage everyone to follow Chris Rufo’s posts on Twitter, and to read his chilling reports (available at City Journal) on the lamentable state of K-12 all over the nation. By background, he is a film-maker, but no journalist anywhere has done more important work on the corruption of the education of America’s youngsters (some still in grade school) by BLM/CRT/1619 race-baiting propaganda. His latest pieces concern the indoctrination of young children in Silicon Valley and in Missouri; what is frighteningly apparent is that this cancer has metastasized throughout the entire body politic, and, of course, the teachers’ unions are fully behind Harris/Biden and their obsession with so-called “equity” and “racial justice”.

  4. It’s the economy, stupid.

    Republicans gained seats in the U.S. House and would have likely held the Senate if not for Mitch McConnell.

    Now imagine what’s going to happen as gas returns to $3 and up as the “new normal” and even big business struggles to find barely competent employees.

    The political pivot point is that the top 1% may be insulated from the disastrous consequences of the Biden regime, but those folks between the 2% and 20% who think they’re insulated are about to find out how wrong they are.

    I doubt they’ll ever admit how wrong they were about Trump, but I suspect it’s going to become damn hard to find many suburban white folks willing to admit voting for Biden in 2020.

    Mike

  5. “Icons for Liberty: The Radicalism of Political Place Naming Tradition Since The American Revolution and How Imperial Conquest Was Defeated.”

    THIS thesis is my contribution to Truth telling, that I am too old and too ill-equiped to carry out, but which opens up a new set of neglected data points to identify and with which we can evaluate our Civilization as well as others.

    The neglected data to be studied are political toponyms.

    The idea is classical, simple, and direct. Everywhere any new regime takes power, it must establish hegemony. In order to secure its legitimacy, it needs to wipe out old memories and connections with place and the past to achieve this. If it fails, rebellion is sure to follow.

    Thus, new names are imposed upon the lands and the people who live there. New memories replace the old one.

    But what the American Revolution uniquely achieved was the setting of a new and different standard: instead of erasure (as seen in the 13 colonies), all new states (Except Washington state) are all named for French, Spanish, and especially native peoples’ names.

    Why valorise the local names? Why remember them? Because here The People Rule, not the Monarchical, Aristocratic or Oligarchic Masters far away.

    The American Revolution did not win in Canada. But it did change the Provincial naming process in the interior of the continent of the nation.

    The findings of this thesis is a direct contradiction to the grandiose moral indictments claimed by the fatuous Left radicals.

    This new subject matter means that offical documents and maps and gazetteers can all be re-investigated in order to research the historical reach of this radical change. Let the facts come out! Let the Truth be told!

  6. VDH identified the election choice in 2020 as one between American tradition and a Revolutionary future:

    “The choice in reductionist terms will be one between a growing, statist Panopticon, fueled by social media, a media-progressive nexus, and an electronic posse. Online trolls and government bureaucrats seek to know everything about us, in Big Brother fashion to monitor our very thoughts to ferret out incorrect ideas, and then to regiment and indoctrinate us to ensure elite visions of mandated equality and correct behavior—or else!”

    If so — and recent event tell us that it’s true, then where does the New American Social Credit System stand compared with the original Communist one in China?

    We live in an Information Age of social management. Is ours better or worse?

    Felix Rex finds that ours is worse, more evil and unforgiving and dysfunctional than our planetary rival’s.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-IODzScgM

  7. ““white folks” adds nothing.”

    Sorry, but it does. This crisis is not one with roots in American minority communities. Until you recognize that this is about some white folks trying to assert their moral superiority over other white folks, you cannot understand the problem. If you can’t understand the problem, you can’t fix it.

    Mike

  8. Voters, not race of the voters, or is it all about melanin? Some people are aholes no matter what their color.

  9. MBunge:

    You are correct. Very simply put, this is a class war.

    Oligarchs + their Managerialist Minions (= 90% GoodWhites™ + Opportunistic High Functioning Far Right Tail Immigrant NonWhites) vs. The Rest of us Whites (= BadWhites™)

    The great chance that has come over Western politics since the end of the Cold War is that the GoodWhites™ have become Class Aware; they now see themselves as an entirely different people from the BadWhites™ and will say/do/perpetrate literally anything to convince themselves and their peers that they are not BadWhites™. This bodes very badly for the BadWhites™.

    Immigrant Fellaheen Hordes + American Blacks are merely weapons unleashed by the GoodWhites™ to belabor and punish the BadWhites™ with. They have little real input into the strategizing and by virtue of who /what they are, are incapable of doing anything more than increasing local entropy wherever they go.

    Not terribly interested in how the West got here today. It’s Complicated™. Plenty of blame to go all around.

    Since Class War is interested in us, whether we like it or not, it’s time to think like we’re in one. And so the only question becomes that hoary old re-run:

    What is to be Done?

  10. “Voters, not race of the voters, or is it all about melanin? Some people are aholes no matter what their color.”

    Stop focusing on how much you dislike me and think.

    Trump did better with minority voters in 2020 than in 2016, yet lost by a great percentage of the popular vote. Trump lost because a greater percentage of white people voted against him. Trump the supposed white supremacist did better with minority voters and worse with white voters.

    Those are the facts. Facts are what you have to grapple with if you want to understand and change the world. Your unthinking and reflexive rejection of these facts actually sort of demonstrates what I’m talking about.

    Mike

  11. Folks, do as the good man says please. No unpleasantness!

    https://www.jns.org/opinion/its-time-to-stop-counting-jews-in-the-cabinet/

    While I find this amusing in the extreme and would not consider developments post Moses Mendelssohn and Napoleon to be entirely upside for all concerned, it *is* a bit of a sideshow in the Current Year.

    There’s plenty of Jews who are going to find themselves lumped in with the BadWhites™ come what may. Everyone has decisions to make.

    Many of us here could also don GoodWhite™ Garb easily if we so desired.

  12. Mind you, with reference to my post agreeing with MBunge above, make no mistake there *is* a Race War coming, like it or not.

    But won’t be hyper autistic Black and White (ha) clear cut boundaries. There will be some exceptions. But, given that the GoodWhites™ are hell bent on punishing BadWhites™ using Diversity as the bludgeon there are going to be strong racial issues shall we say going forward.

    But, never forget that a segment of the White Population consciously willed and brought this thing upon us. It may be necessary to fight and cow the dusky hordes, but it is the GoodWhites™ we need to ultimately defeat. It’s them or us.

  13. I hate to tell this author this news but federal courts struck down the practice of all black dorms nearly forty years ago. His comments implied that this is an ongoing practice. I’m sure the Civil Rights Division of DOJ would like to know if that’s the case.

  14. Mr Bunge:

    Think before you write and consider that your opinion is not the same as a fact. Trump got 10 million more votes in 2020 than 2016. Creepy Joe got 80 million votes? Otay Buckwheat. Both are “facts” to you. One of those things is not like the other.

    We are stuck with Creepy Joe and the Ho, that is not an opinion. You can blame that outcome on the “white suburban folks.” I’ll look at Democrat practices in PN, GA, MI, WI, and AZ. Which do you think will produce a better result next time; fixing the voting process or blaming the melanin? It’s black and white. One of those things can’t be changed by the way, IMO.

  15. “fixing the voting process or blaming the melanin?”

    I’m sorry. I forget sometimes that you genuinely aren’t that bright. Let me dumb it down further for you.

    I’m not suggesting a greater percentage of white people voted against Trump because they were somehow genetically predisposed to do so. I doubt anyone else reading what I wrote would have been stupid enough to assume that, but there’s always you. Let me again try by rephrasing things as though I were dealing with a dim-witted and overly emotional child.

    If you want to win elections and, in the most recent one, your preferred candidate running for re-election did BETTER with population subgroups B, C, and D but lost by doing WORSE with population subgroup A, it’s really important to understand why that happened. That’s because the goal is to keep doing whatever attracted more support from population subgroups B, C, and D while trying to address whatever diminished support from population subgroup A.

    It’s impossible to do that, however, if you are intellectually paralyzed when someone uses the term “suburban white folks” instead of “population subgroup A.”

    Mike

  16. @Om:

    I’m only repeating a Jew asking Jews to please stop mentioning that Jews are all over the Biden Administration. Why he would do that is anyone’s guess. I couldn’t possibly speculate. He points out the same was true of the Trump Administration. Plus ca change.

    If you bother to actually *read* me rather than knee-jerk, you might begin to grasp that I do not see Jews as being some malign Man Behind the Curtain. Jews just gonna do what Jews are inclined to do for both plenty of good and some bad. Their motivations and interests may not always coincide with those of Legacy Americans, but that’s not to say that they’re totally incompatible. To pretend that they don’t exist and don’t exert disproportionate influence in American politics / Wall Street / Silicon Valley is disingenuous. Slapping down anyone who mentioned the Jews actually just helps breed fever swamp conspiracy theorists — something I am not.

    Jews need to be just like the BadWhites™ illuminated from all sides and studied from top to bottom and viewed Warts and all. Doing the ‘You’re Hitler’ thing on anyone who tries to limn the Jewish Milet in the USA’s whacked out Ottoman Milet System Lite just helps divert attention from the fundamental Oligarchs+GoodWhites+Fellaheen vs. BadWhites battle. Also making Jews unmentionable and uncriticisable just further encourages fever swamp nutjobbery amongst a small fraction of the BadWhites — further helping the other side.

    It’s complicated. You need to be too. Dig into your DNA and grab ahold of some of that supposed subtlety.

  17. As a further contribution to the Melanin Debate going on above.

    We don’t want this to be about Skin Colour.

    But if this thing is forced upon us, like it or not, Skin Colour will become one’s uniform. In civil war there is no time to ask for a statement of beliefs and intent every time you meet a new face.

    It will be hard enough for GoodWhites and BadWhites to identify friend or foe. Everything other opportunity for cognitive short circuiting and chunking will be jumped at.

    Not very nice. But that’s how it goes. Exigencies.

    Smart people don’t want to go there. Our Overlords sure think they are smart. Never a good sign.

  18. Apposite Post here from Z Man about Becoming Ungovernable:

    https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=22596

    The more obsessively scrupulous amongst you BadWhites who have been carefully (*) taught to hate the idea of Being White, could perhaps imagine that you’re Gandhi engaging in more or less passive resistance to the Raj. Would that work for you? 😀

    Interesting song, ‘You have to be carefully taught’… Gets the arrow of causality completely backwards and is itself an example of Very Carefully Designed and Administered Pedagogy. Hmm… 🙂

  19. Zaphod:

    Your magic DNA to the rescue again like your Magic Dirt, or just code to cover flimsy thoughts? Try substituting “people” for “Jews” and magic “Legacy Americans.”

    How many generations does it take to become a “Legacy American?” Do you get a Legacy American certificate and special privileges? Come sir, explain more. Does the magic Zaphod DNA have any non-Legacy American contamination, shudder? Does Legacy American status extend to offspring if you mate with a non-certified Legacy American? Don’t be shy, serious people want to know how to live into the Legacy future.

  20. Mr Burge:

    I forget, you get insulted when someone doesn’t agree with your profundity. Oh to be an unrecognized genius must be a constant irritant. But enough about you. You can’t dumb down a dumb idea and make it not dumb. Clear enough for you to grasp?

    Have a good day and

    Keep on the sunny side of life, always on the sunny side of life, it will help you on your way ,,,, you know the song.

  21. Om:

    The Magical Zaphod Uebermenschliches DNA is an ungodly misch-masch of Anglo (ho-hum) / Celtic (can’t win ‘em all) / (quelle horreur!) Litvak.

    So you might imagine I score low on Big 5 Trait Agreeableness. Bolshie *and* Stiff-Necked. Who woulda thunk?

    Therefore you might want to consider just how much of a valuable investment of your time it is to belabor me with ad hominems.

    Personally I’m more interested in finding ways forward from where we are now.

    Pax.

  22. Anyone finding me too much to stomach could always head over to National Review to read a Bengali by name of Avik Roy lecturing us on how to Restore the Conservative Conscience. YMMV.

    Still, he did work for Bain Capital and JPMorgan Chase, so you just know he’s got your interests at heart. Now you might think from preceding sentence that there’s a chance that he could be Mitt Romney’s Bitch… and you would be right. But then again if you can’t stomach the clear eyed view of what’s coming down what pike, probably best to go snuggle up to Mitt anyway.

  23. “The commission reminded us that the founders were equally worried about autocracy and chaos. So they drafted checks and balances to protect citizens from both authoritarianism, known so well from the British Crown, and the frenzy of sometimes wild public excess.”

    The parallel to today is blatantly obvious. The american Left in its moment of triumph is vigorously imposing the ‘seeds’ of its own demise.

    “Stabbing Hector’s Corpse”
    “Americans hate one thing more than a sore loser, and that is an arrogant, vindictive—and bullying—winner.”
    By Victor Davis Hanson

    https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/20/stabbing-hectors-corpse/

  24. MBunge,

    “Trump lost because a greater percentage of white people voted against him.”

    That is a factually untrue assertion. Which begs the question, do you actually believe that to be true?

    I confess to being uncertain as to whether you’re that foolish or simply so biased that you’re unable to see past it. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and vote for the latter…

    As to my claim that your assertion is factually untrue, when you see a massive amount of smoke rising up just over a hill, but out of sight… count on it, something is burning.

  25. “I suspect it’s going to become damn hard to find many suburban white folks willing to admit voting for Biden in 2020.” – MBunge

    I think the key adjective is “suburban” not “white.” Plenty of other middle-class racial groups are not going to be happy with Biden’s EOs — it’s a class war, remember?

    https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/01/21/political-strategist-explains-why-he-loves-president-bidens-executive-order-on-trans-women-in-girls-sports/

    On his first day in office, President Biden signed more than a dozen executive actions, such as the one mandating the wearing of a mask on federal property unless you’re the press secretary speaking from the White House or you’re Biden or his relatives and you’re celebrating because it’s a special day for you. The new administration is off to a bang-up start.

    Another executive order issued Wednesday night will extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people. As Biden said during the presidential campaign, “Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time,” and there would be “no room for compromise,” not even when it came to trans women competing on girls’ sports teams. “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports,” the executive order reads.

    You get what you voted for, and political strategist Seth Weathers explains why he loves Biden’s executive order.

    I LOVE the Biden Executive Order forcing biological males to be able to play female sports & share locker rooms in school

    Can’t wait for the crying & moaning from the dumb —- parents so upset by Trump’s tweets, they wouldn’t vote for him

    I look forward to their radicalization

    — SETH WEATHERS (@sethweathers) January 21, 2021

    The moronic center of right parents who voted for Biden are going to make some amazingly reliable Republican voters in the years to come!

    — SETH WEATHERS (@sethweathers) January 21, 2021

    Suburban moms gonna watch their daughters all lose at state now and yeah I am here for that. You get what you vote for. https://t.co/UHk6ZqpSey

    — Cerno (@Cernovich) January 21, 2021

    Yep, this is going to be hilarious to watch. Feel for the girls but maybe this will be serious red pilling situation.

    — Working Class Schleb (@AdamFromTexas2) January 21, 2021

    This is good. I now embrace the coming insanity. It is the only way for people to weigh the real cost of their political choices.

    — shoe fairy (@shoefairy4) January 21, 2021

    Yes, elections have consequences.

    But so does casting a vote without paying attention to what you’re actually voting for.

    — One of several Jeff Goldmans (@TheJeffGoldman) January 21, 2021

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/01/21/are-the-suburbs-having-fun-yet-n314135

    Because of all these moves by Biden, gas prices are already rising, with electricity and natural gas prices sure to follow. In my city, we’ve seen a 10 cent jump overnight. Over 11,000 jobs have been tossed due to Keystone’s cancellation. With illegal immigration sure to explode again, the market for American workers also just got way tougher to navigate.

    Given all this, I’ve got one question for the suburbs: Are you having fun yet?

    Those formerly Republican areas are who handed Biden the election. We started to see movement to Democrats there in 2018, and it happened in an even greater way in 2020. We were told it was because Trump was just such a turn-off personality wise. That was probably true, but perhaps valuing policy over rhetoric would have been prudent?

    Will a lack of mean tweets pay your electric bill when it’s 25% higher next year? Will it give you a paycheck after you lose your high paying union job because Biden signed some executive order? Will it keep you safe if you live near the border after caravans of illegal immigrants start arriving? I’m gonna guess no, but no mean tweets!

  26. Zaphod:

    When you cite magic DNA and Legacy Americans don’t tuck your tail and claim ad hominem. Some of my ancestors were in VA in the late 1700’s, some got off the boat from Sweden in the early 1900’s, so much for Legacy Americanism.

  27. AesopFan:

    It *is* a class war. Still, how many (dot) Indians do you realistically imagine ending up in a foxhole with you? How many do you interact with personally/professionally? Based on my experiences I’d predict very @#$#@ing few of them will side with BadWhites. They’ll mostly pile on. Ultimate striving opportunists… these are people who have managed to take over the Antwerp Diamond Quarter in a generation. When you think about who they took it from and how long *they* had been running that show, better quake in your boots.

    More luck with the East Asians perhaps. Wouldn’t write them all off.

    Everyone gets to pick a side. Once. Won’t be many second-chances.

  28. Looks like a good thread for this example (h/t PowerLine)

    “How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’
    ‘Four.’
    ‘And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?’
    ‘Four.”

    https://spectator.us/topic/terrifying-scourge-multiracial-whiteness/?utm_source=Spectator+USA+Email+Signup&utm_campaign=e5b4e390e9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_8_31_2020_19_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_edf2ae2373-e5b4e390e9-154751589&mc_cid=e5b4e390e9

    by Cockburn

    Somehow, on their way to launching a neo-fascist takeover of the United States, the white supremacists ran out of whites. Simply looking at video of the Capitol riot, or looking at the FBI’s wanted images afterwards, makes it obvious that the mob of Trump die-hards were multiracial. The two most famous members of the Proud Boys, America’s premier ‘white nationalist’ group, are an Afro-Cuban and a Samoan. ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer Ali Alexander identifies as black and Arab. And of course, there are November’s famous exit polls, which showed that Joe Biden was carried to the White House by improving on Hillary Clinton’s support with white voters, while faltering with Hispanics and blacks.

    Yikes! When you read those facts a few too many times, you start to wonder: what if the white supremacists aren’t white supremacists? What if they’re just a sundry array of people with different political beliefs and a tragic, delusional belief in Donald Trump?

    Uh oh. That won’t do. Too much of that and you’re at risk of having an unapproved thought. Too many of those and Amazon shuts off your website.

    Fear not, though! The Washington Post is here to explain all the bad think away. Over the weekend, the paper ran a piece by NYU history professor Cristina Beltrán: ‘To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness.’

    Multiracial…whiteness? Aren’t those antonyms? Not at all, you fool.

    Even if you have read other commentary on the WaPo article (because we don’t give them clicks by reading the original), check out his masterly fisking.

    BONUS post, just because it came up on the search for the Orwell quote:
    https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/seventy-years-later-its-still-1984

    The main lesson of “1984” is not “persistent surveillance is bad,” or “authoritarian governments are dangerous.” These are true statements, but not the most important message.

    “1984” is at its core a novel about language; how it can be used by governments to subjugate and obfuscate, and by citizens to resist oppression.

    Orwell was a master of the English language and his legacy lives on through some of the words he created. Even those who haven’t read “1984” know some of its “newspeak.”

    “1984” provides English speakers with a vocabulary to discuss surveillance, police states and authoritarianism, which includes terms such as “Big Brother,” “thought police,” “unperson” and “doublethink,” to name a few.

    The authoritarian government of Orwell’s Oceania doesn’t merely punish dissent severely—it seeks to make even thinking about dissent impossible.

    After Smith finally claims to see five fingers, O’Brien emphasizes that saying “five” is not enough. “?No, Winston, that is no use. You are lying. You still think there are four.”

    Orwell’s own name inspired an adjective, “Orwellian,” which is widely used in modern political rhetoric, albeit often inappropriately. It’s usually our enemies who are acting Orwellian, and it’s a testament to Orwell’s talents that everyone seems to think “1984” is about their political opponents.

    Orwell was not a prophet, but he identified a necessary feature of any successful authoritarian government. To control you effectively, it can’t merely threaten death, imprisonment or torture. It’s not enough for it to ban books and religions.

    As long as the state doesn’t dominate your consciousness, it’s under constant risk of overthrow.

    We shouldn’t fear the U.S. turning into Orwell’s dystopian nightmare just yet.

    But at a time when political dishonesty is rampant, we should remember “1984’s” most important lesson: The state can occupy your mind.

    Not yet – we may have a couple of more weeks to go before the Bidenistas really get rolling.
    They seem to have hit the ground running, with their pre-prepared Executive Orders ready to go on Day One.

  29. “I forget, you get insulted when someone doesn’t agree with your profundity.”

    So…you actually DO understand what I was writing now and are embarrassed that I had to dumb it down for you in such a public way.

    Just to complete the lesson, when I referred to you as an example of what I’m talking about, what I mean is that your kneejerk reaction pretty much proved that you’ve internalized the idea that “Good people don’t talk about race.” Now, while racial discussions and ruminations can turn very ugly very quickly, pretending race doesn’t exist foolishly limits your capacity to comprehend the world around you.

    And when I write “race doesn’t exist,” I mean exists as a cultural, psychological, historical, societal reality. Race from a scientific/biological perspective is, of course, a bunch of bunk.

    Mike

  30. I scrolled through the comments at PowerLine about the Multiracial Whiteness idiocy, and found (as always) some very astute observations and one very appropriate anecdote.
    This is for the people who keep claiming that conservatives didn’t ever push back — they did; the idiots are just too numerous to overcome.

    JimInNashville
    Back in the 1990’s, when I was publishing attacks on the then-current versions of liberal inanity, people told me I was “over-reacting” or even “unbalanced.”

    I remember after one department meeting, at which I was one of 2 (out of 40) people who spoke against an inane leftist agenda item, a colleague came up to me and said, “Jim, that was great. You made some terrific points.”

    “Well, then, why didn’t you give me any support?” I asked.

    “Oh, Jim, these people are crazy…they’ll never get anywhere.”

    Less than a decade later, they were running the show, and I had left for greener pastures.

    Martin said:

    I am going to start work on my first academic paper:
    “The Foundations of Multi-racial Whiteness:
    How White People of All Races Bring About Systemic Racism in Society.”

    Some “journal” would certainly publish it, and many fools would believe it.

    Of course, the kernel of truth is that white people of the misnamed “liberal” faction ARE practicing systemic racism against actual non-white people.

    Martinaz: “I guess Oreo is kind of limiting.”

  31. Mr Bunge:

    You seemed to have missed this concept:

    Dumbing down a dumb argument doesn’t make the argument wise (correct, profound, insightful) even when it is your argument.

    As Aesop Fan noted there are more than just white voters in the suburbs now.

    Try to check the insults, or not. That’s your choice.

    Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, always on the sunny side of life, ….

  32. “Race from a scientific/biological perspective is, of course, a bunch of bunk.”

    Put your money where your mouth is when it comes to medication dosages, organ transplants, etc.

    Good Luck.

  33. Mike Bunge – your 4:37 post is spot on “I doubt they’ll ever admit how wrong they were about Trump, but I suspect it’s going to become damn hard to find many suburban white folks willing to admit voting for Biden in 2020.”

    Just like people saying they voted for Carter starting in 1979. That is why I will always remind them. “You voted for it.”

    I live in Oakland County Michigan and Biden did better than Hillary with the 1%-20% economic strata by about 20K looking at Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills as a proxy. Many of them are not white. In and of itself this did not win Michigan for Biden because Trump stomped his 2016 numbers in Macomb and Kent counties that overcame his 2020 Oakland county deficit. Only in Wayne Country where I was a personal witness to voting fraud did Biden win. To state otherwise is to spout the corporatist line. You are smarter than that.

    It is just not feasible that Trump got a minimum of 10M votes more than 2016 and that the 1%-20% upper strata turned out in such numbers for Biden to have 15M more on a gross basis. It was fraud by the deep state, coordinated and planned.

    This is a very erudite and thoughtful board. If people have trouble with your arguments step back and examine how you put them together. That is what I do.

  34. “Come on, man! You can’t go into the White House without a slight Corn Pop accent.”

    Or callused knees, a pillow, and some elbow grease.

    I’m short Cornpone futures and long Chapatis.

    Naan but the Lonely Heart, opening soon at a drive-by near you.

  35. AesopFan,

    Re: “at a time when political dishonesty is rampant, we should remember “1984’s” most important lesson: The state can occupy your mind.”

    A mind grounded in principles consistent with logic and reason cannot, short of compulsion, be ‘occupied’ by an ideology that rests upon a deeply flawed rationale.

    Enough torture can break anyone but a mind so coerced has not been persuaded. There’s a great deal of difference between compulsory acceptance and zealotry.

  36. Would you like paneer with that, White Boy?

    (Shakes Head)

    Oops.. you just said Yes in Keralese.

    The Stranger within my gate,
    He may be true or kind,
    But he does not talk my talk–
    I cannot feel his mind.
    I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
    But not the soul behind.

    The men of my own stock,
    They may do ill or well,
    But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
    They are used to the lies I tell;
    And we do not need interpreters
    When we go to buy or sell.

    The Stranger within my gates,
    He may be evil or good,
    But I cannot tell what powers control–
    What reasons sway his mood;
    Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
    Shall repossess his blood.

    The men of my own stock,
    Bitter bad they may be,
    But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
    And see the things I see;
    And whatever I think of them and their likes
    They think of the likes of me.

    This was my father’s belief
    And this is also mine:
    Let the corn be all one sheaf–
    And the grapes be all one vine,
    Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
    By bitter bread and wine. <<— Naan and Arack, you peasant!

  37. My 2nd attempt at posting on this; not sure how the 1st attempt got lost?
    I found the 1776 report here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

    Another link was provided by a Hillsdale College email to their site, but maybe its URL was so long that that is why my 1st posting did not go thru?

    Authoritarians never seem to learn. By deleting and denigrating this report, it will now be downloaded for safe keeping by more people, and presumably read by more people, than would have been the case if they had just “let sleeping dogs lie.”

  38. R2L:

    I scan Chapter 4 in table of contents and I don’t see anything about an Immigration Moratorium for a generation or three.

    Is there something in there? Or can I just TL;DR it as being irrelevant because will do nothing for addressing demographic drift?

  39. “This is a very erudite and thoughtful board.” – Spartacus

    Not flattery, just facts! 😉

    On the demographics of the election (IF we take the results at face value), Trump did win the “white” vote, just at a lower percentage than in 2016.
    I used the Guardian to set the overall context.

    “Results” are presented differently according to how the reporters grouped the demographic categories.
    “Margins” changed for some groups in some states, but the overall totals showed white support for Trump over Biden.
    You have to make sure you are not only comparing apples to apples (not oranges) but apple buckets to apple buckets.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/05/us-election-demographics-race-gender-age-biden-trump

    More than 150 million American voters turned out for Tuesday’s election, marking the highest turnout in over a century. But as the country – and the world – await a complete result, what do we know about who voted for each of the candidates?

    While knowledge at this stage is limited – polling data can be unreliable and national exit polls do not take into account geographic differences within demographics – experts say that some broader trends among those who voted for Joe Biden and Donald Trump are apparent.

    So far, the picture appears to be strikingly similar to what it was in 2016, said the political science professor Charles H Stewart, founding director of MIT’s Election Data and Science Lab.

    While evidence is lacking in exactly who voted, he said the increase in turnout probably came from young people and the Latino community, who he said “historically have been significantly underrepresented in the electorate.”

    Contrary to what some polls predicted, Stewart said, exit polls do not show a “dramatic exodus from Trump” among older people. While in 2016, they showed 52% of voters aged 65 and older voted for Trump, in 2020 he said that figure was 51%.

    In terms of race breakdowns, Louis DeSipio, political science professor at the University of California, Irvine, said nationally Trump was estimated to have won about 57% of white votes – with huge state-to-state variations linked to factors such as education and age – and that African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans voted strongly for Biden.

    An area where he believes Trump did not do so well among white voters is Arizona, where the Associated Press (AP) has called a Biden win.

    I note that one now-unfindable post attributed “all” of Biden’s popular vote win to new voters, in the same way that Hillary’s popular vote total topped Trump’s by the population of Los Angeles.

    https://www.brookings.edu/research/2020-exit-polls-show-a-scrambling-of-democrats-and-republicans-traditional-bases/

    While whites continued to favor the Republican candidate in 2020—as they have in every presidential election since 1968—it is notable that this margin was reduced from 20% to 17% nationally. At the same time, the Democratic margins for each of the major nonwhite groups was somewhat reduced.

    It is clear that white voting blocs start at different levels of Democratic or Republican support. In fact, there was a modest decline in Republican support in a key Trump base: white men without college educations. This group showed a reduced Republican advantage from 48% to a still sizeable 42% between 2016 and 2020.

    Yet among white voters with college educations, there were notable shifts in Biden’s direction. White male college graduates reduced their support for Trump from 14% to 3%. At the same time, white female college graduates boosted their Democratic support from 7% to 9% nationally. Moreover, in key battleground states, white female college graduates generally registered greater support for Biden in 2020 than they did for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

    The three crucial northern battlegrounds of both 2016 and 2020 are the relatively “white” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Each one flipped for Biden this election.

    Exit polls in all three states indicate that more Democratic-favorable (or less Republican-favorable) margins among different white blocs between 2016 and 2020 contributed to Biden’s wins.

    I think some of those numbers are interesting but counter-intuitive.
    Blue-collar white men, major beneficiaries of Trump’s economic and social policies, liked him less this year? Hillary had fewer WFCG voters than Biden?

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-made-gains-in-every-demographic-except-for-white-men/ar-BB1aJ1Rs

    According to Edison Research’s exit poll, the Republican incumbent is up with Black men and women, Latino men and women and white women.

    With white women the increase was three percent, from 52 percent to 55 percent.

    White women were seen as a key focus for Trump in his campaign, with him having spoken of the “suburban housewife” previously and suggesting those he deemed to be in that bracket would vote for him.

    However, despite these rises he was down with white men by four percent. Though he still took a majority, according to the exit poll, this was down to 58 percent from 62 percent. Meanwhile Biden’s share was at 40 percent compared to 31 percent for Hillary Clinton in 2016. This shift meant the gap cut from 31 points to 13 points between the Republican and the Democrat candidate this time out.

    This also reflected an overall loss with not college-educated white voters, down from 67 percent of the vote to 64 percent.

  40. “We don’t want this to be about Skin Colour.
    But if this thing is forced upon us, like it or not, Skin Colour will become one’s uniform.” – Zaphod

    The whole idea of “multiracial whiteness” cuts across that theory, at least for the Left’s useful idiots.
    Going one direction, they can’t assume every black or Hispanic or (choose your ethnicity / religion now designated as race) is “on their side.”

    Going the other direction, with all the “woke white liberals” teaching CRT and supporting (commandeering?) BLM, could we not argue that we now also have “multiracial Blackness”?
    So some melanin-challenged people are actually “on their side.”

    And, of course, since we now have a growing number of black and Hispanic conservatives / Trump supporters, as shown by Republican gains in those demographics in the 2020 election and by increasingly prominent non-white pundits, conservatives also cannot use skin color as a distinguishing characteristic of the two (or more) sides.

    “In civil war there is no time to ask for a statement of beliefs and intent every time you meet a new face.” – Zaphod

    That’s why armies have uniforms, and guerrillas and terrorists usually don’t — keeping allegiances ambiguous plays to their advantage.

    Closing thought: if both blackness and whiteness are multiracial, then Black Lives Matter = All Lives Matter.

  41. Geoffrey – here is someone who doesn’t seem to be giving in to coercion.

    (H/t PowerLine)

    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0121/bershidsky012121.php3

    Seen from the outside, developments since Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny boarded a Moscow-bound plane in Berlin on Jan. 17 resemble the cruelest, crudest form of slapstick.

    If your eyebrows tend to rise with the level of weirdness, they’re probably close to the top of your head by now. But that’s only if you’re an outsider. What’s been happening to Navalny has its own highly predictable logic – the logic of a contest of wills between Navalny and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russians appreciate and respect power plays. Both Navalny and Putin know it. And for both, a lot is at stake.

    The unsuccessful poisoning last August propelled interest in Navalny into the stratosphere; attempting to ignore Navalny would be the kind of mistake Putin has avoided throughout his abnormally long tenure.

    Putin’s response was to try to make Navalny irrelevant by forcing him to emigrate. This tactic worked for the dictator once before:

    So, as Navalny recovered from the poisoning in Germany, he received a barrage of bad news from Moscow. A new criminal case awaited him there, for allegedly embezzling the funds he’s collected for anti-corruption investigations, and he was wanted for supposed probation violations. He knew full well he’d likely be detained as soon as he came back. It would also be impossible for him to rule out further assassination attempts, especially in prison.

    Emigration has worked for my family – but the Navalnys were firm that whatever happened, their work and their fight were at home.

    The courage they showed had no undertones of martyrdom or self-promotion; rather, it felt like a casual but unbending sense of purpose. It was as matter-of-fact as it was shorn of any false hope. It was the kind of courage of which I don’t think I’m capable.

    This calm courage in the face of death itself is what Navalny brings to his gladiatorial fight with Putin. The Russian ruler, for his part, brings something else: infinite resources.

    The absurd moves against Navalny the world saw in the last few months sent a message to everyone tempted to imitate him that they won’t have the book thrown at them; instead, they will face an authoritarian state’s full power to bend, grab, maim, poison.

    It’s a powerful message.

    Navalny got it, and decided to ignore it, long ago – but no one in Russia at the moment is equally capable of raising the stakes.

    Navalny isn’t strong because he’s supported by Western leaders; his strength comes from being able to jettison the round-the-clock protection he got in Berlin courtesy of the German government – and fly completely defenseless to Russia, where he’d just barely survived an assassination attempt. There, the world can do nothing for him, if only because of Putin’s endless arsenal of dirty tricks. There, he stands only because he won’t kneel.

    Zaphod – Navalny seems to know this as well as Kipling did:

    The men of my own stock,
    Bitter bad they may be,
    But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
    And see the things I see;

    NOTE: “wanted” in your transcription should be “wonted”
    https://www.bartleby.com/364/308.html

  42. “In civil war there is no time to ask for a statement of beliefs and intent every time you meet a new face.” – Zaphod

    So, as I called up Not the Bee out of the Internet Aether, what was the very first post?
    If you said, “knitting clubs” you were close.

    Here are some more of those multiracial white supremacists and their evil twins!

    https://notthebee.com/article/mommy-wars-are-back-and-theyre-getting-political

    There are accounts dedicated to activities for toddlers, tips for sleep training, emotional awareness, picky eating, and all of the other topics that mothers of young children spend every waking (and should-be-sleeping) hour pondering.

    Yesterday, one of the more influential accounts in this space was exposed for committing the unpardonable sin. The creator of the popular TakingCaraBabies reportedly donated to Donald Trump’s campaign with *gasp* her and her husband’s own money!

    TakingCaraBabies is an account dedicated to, um, Taking Care of Babies. The founder of the brand & business, Cara Dumaplin, is a Neonatal Nurse and Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant. She has 1.3 million followers on Instagram and many Instagram-famous (and real life famous) followers sing her praises for helping them survive the little years.

    It’s truly mind blowing to consider how a woman who has dedicated her life to the wellbeing of parents and babies, as a NICU nurse and a sleep consultant, could possibly support a pro-life candidate.

    What incredible hypocrisy, Cara!

    [quoting an embedded post]
    Excuse me, “I’m sorry I recommended a business without checking and asking,” asking what?

    “Wow, thanks for being so kind and helpful and encouraging to me…but before I tell anyone how great you are as a person and as a sleep consultant, you aren’t by chance a Republican, are you?

    The insinuation that Cara and her husband (who happens to be from the Philippines, by the way) must be racists since they donated to Trump’s campaign are predictable—not to mention incredibly cringey since they’re coming from other white mommy bloggers.

    Next time you need advice on teaching your small children how to address their “Big Little Feelings,” remember nothing says emotional health like “canceling” your personal friend publicly before your 1.2 million Instagram followers for the grave sin of voting for Donald Trump.

    Now go rub some salt in the wound.
    https://notthebee.com/article/welp-here-it-is-the-most-truly-awful-thing-youll-see-on-the-internet-today

    https://notthebee.com/article/this-is-a-real-article-from-the-new-york-times

    https://notthebee.com/article/antifa-dot-com-now-redirects-to-the-white-house-website

    https://notthebee.com/article/hey-jack-this-should-get-this-guy-banned-from-twitter-yeah

  43. Remember my first post from The Spectator?
    “what if the white supremacists aren’t white supremacists? What if they’re just a sundry array of people with different political beliefs and a tragic, delusional belief in Donald Trump?” – Cockburn
    Okay, that last phrase was sarcastic.

    Here we have a hero of multiracial-whiteness.
    Or maybe just a guy with standards, principles, and values.

    https://newsla.localad.com/2021/01/21/jason-whitlock-tells-tucker-carlson-i-compare-black-lives-matter-to-the-kkk-i-really-do/

    Whitlock made his statements during an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, who had just noted that Democrats apparently have abandoned the faith-based opposition to racism espoused by the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement and instead seem intent on enforcing the right way of thinking through power and intimidation.

    Carlson then asked Whitlock what he compares Black Lives Matter to, given that it’s become an influential sociopolitical force.

    “Well, I compare Black Lives Matter to the KKK. I really do,” Whitlock replied. “And some people don’t understand it, but if you go back to the 1860s, after the Emancipation Proclamation, the KKK was started, and it was the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. And what’s the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party right now? Black Lives Matter and Antifa. They will come to your home and violate your home, try to intimidate the people in your home if they disagree with you politically.”

    He continued: “Black Lives Matter [is] a Marxist organization. Marxism is hostile toward religion; that’s why I’m glad you went there today. These are atheist values being expressed from our leaders, demonizing individual citizens here in America, branding them as white supremacists … because we disagree with their opinion about something.”

    Whitlock added that “this is lunacy, and it’s dangerous.”

    It occurs to me that some readers may not know that Whitlock is black.

    Here is another powerhouse interview from last November.
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/jason-whitlock-tucker-carlson-media-racism

    Sportswriter Jason Whitlock appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show Friday where he tore into the media and liberals for manipulating language in order to get black Americans to “live up to our skin color.”

    While speaking with Carlson, Whitlock made it clear why he thinks it’s problematic for the media and liberals to give such special attention to the word “black” — and why the problem is much bigger than the mere capitalization of one letter.

    “It is a way of defining to black people that your most prized possession, your greatest asset, your most defining characteristic is your skin color,” Whitlock said.

    What’s worse, Whitlock said, is that the media and white liberals — citing comedian Chelsea Handler, who recently said she had to remind rapper 50 Cent that he was black because he said he would support President Donald Trump — take it upon themselves to define what is and is not “black.”

    “We are not even in control of that, so we are actually trying to meet standards defined for us by other people, live up to their standards, and they are defining blackness as a lot of things that just aren’t healthy for us,” Whitlock explained.

  44. AesopFan @ 12:48 am “Navalny isn’t strong because he’s supported by Western leaders; his strength comes from being able to jettison the round-the-clock protection he got in Berlin courtesy of the German government – and fly completely defenseless to Russia, where he’d just barely survived an assassination attempt. There, the world can do nothing for him, if only because of Putin’s endless arsenal of dirty tricks. There, he stands only because he won’t kneel.”

    It reminds me of Solzhenitsyn quote. “You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.”

    Amazing from Tolstoy to Dostoyevsky to Chekov to Pasternak (if you believe he wrote Dr. Zhivago) to Solzhenitsyn the Russian authors deal with the human condition at such a spiritual level and the struggle between good and evil. Something about that Russian Orthodox outlook drives that creative tension.

    By the way in Russian High Schools they are required to read the “Gulag Archipelago” according to Jordan Peterson. Looking what dreck our high schoolers have to read and wonder why we are so behind.

    I have the 3 volume Gulag set and intend on reading them after I read “Satan and Marxism”. Reading Cicero at the moment. A man who was killed at the end of the Roman Republic. Getting kind of morbid aren’t I.

  45. @AesopFan:

    Navalny may well be a saint. I have no idea. But what he represents and what his success would bring to Russia is more of the Poz. More Pussy Riot throwing menstrual fluid around Orthodox Churches, more depravity, more of everything which the West sinks under. There seems to be some flaw in Western Liberalism which inevitably ends us up in that sewer no matter how pure our intentions at each step along the path. I wish it weren’t so. But seems to be that way.

    Now, in my wildest youthful dreams I never thought I’d wake up one day to find myself an obscurantist authoritarian Slavophile… but here I stand. Putin is just a despot with a bunch of cronies. Least Bad Option. He doesn’t want or represent that which would in time erase his people and his country.

    As for why Navalny is so popular in the West and why Putin is so demonised, I can only speculate. The world is full of impenetrable mysteries. Another such mystery being why Solzhenitsyn kind of became unpersoned in the West after his 1978 Harvard Commencement Address (he saw the Poz early on with far-seeing eyes) and why his later work Two Hundred Years Together hasn’t appeared in the West in an English language translation. *puts on best inscrutable Yul Brynner expression* It is a Puzzlement.

  46. I’d also posit that anything involving Germans and Russians and the batting back and forth of the most famous Russian dissident du jour almost certainly involves some very cynical calculations about Russian Natural Gas. Russia has Europe by the balls thanks to the treachery of Gerhard Schroeder and later Merkel.

    I don’t think the Germans think that Putin would knock Navalny on the head in broad daylight now. If Navalny could by some remote chance win out, he’d end up richer than God, and the Germans might sleep better at night — especially in Winter. Also Merkel would get to pocket the slush that Schroeder is getting now. She’s up for retirement soon. Not that GloboHomo Elites ever retire from sucking our blood.

  47. Is totalitarianism nearly around the corner? Yes — it does take Big Government, Big media, and Big Tech.

    But doesn’t it require overt control to make this power oppressively strangling? That’s not how it needs to work.

    All that’s needed is an alignment of ideology and compatible coordination, and viola! So say the political experts interviewed by Peter Svab at the Epoch Times:

    The formation of a totalitarian state is just about complete in America as the most powerful public and private sector actors unify behind the idea that actions to stamp out dissent can be justified, according to several experts on modern totalitarian ideologies.

    While many have warned about the rise of fascism or socialism in “the land of the free,” the ideas have largely been vague or fragmented, focusing on individual events or actors. Recent events, however, indicate that seemingly unconnected pieces of the oppression puzzle are fitting together to form a comprehensive system, according to Michael Rectenwald, a retired liberal arts professor at New York University.

    But many Americans, it appears, have been caught off guard or aren’t even aware of the newly forming regime, as the idea of elected officials, government bureaucrats, large corporations, the establishment academia, think tanks and nonprofits, the legacy media, and even seemingly grassroot movements all working in concert toward some evil purpose seems preposterous. Is a large portion of the country in on a conspiracy?

    The reality now emerges that no massive conspiracy was in fact needed—merely an ideological alignment and some informal coordination, Rectenwald argues.

    Despite the lack of formal overarching organization, the American socialist regime is indeed totalitarian, as the root of its ideology requires politically motivated coercion, he told The Epoch Times. The power of the regime is not yet absolute but it’s becoming increasingly effective as it erodes the values, checks, and balances against tyranny established by traditional beliefs and enshrined in the American founding.

    The effects can be seen throughout society. Americans, regardless of their income, demographics, or social stature are being fired from jobs, getting stripped of access to basic services such as banking and social media, or having their businesses crippled for voicing political opinions and belonging to a designated political underclass. Access to sources of information unsanctioned by the regime is becoming increasingly difficult. Some figures of power and influence are sketching the next step, labelling large segments of society as “extremists” and potential terrorists who need to be “deprogrammed.”

    While the onset of the regime appears tied to events of recent years—the presidency of Donald Trump, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, the Capitol intrusion of Jan. 6—its roots go back decades.

    MORE frighteningly MORE “Ideological Alignment Pushing America Toward Totalitarianism, Experts Warn”
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/one-party-rule-ideological-nexus-of-big-tech-big-media-big-government-is-totalitarianism-experts-say_3664663.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-20-5

  48. People are getting what they voted for.

    If you voted for Blue, you will get Blue

    If you voted Trump/Q, you get Q/Trump.

    Standing orders from your President is still in effect. Shelter in place, maintain food/water/power supplies for 2-4 weeks or 3 months if you are more religious, and develop some spiritual wisdom.

    Humans are learning what humility means, that is all.

  49. Zaphod on January 22, 2021 at 12:07 am said:
    I am drawing a blank on your reference to Chap. 4 and immigration. My comment concerned the 1776 Report, which does have a Chap. 4 that I just now scanned. It is pretty benign 1950’s or early 1960’s American History, but if immigration was mentioned there I missed it during my quick scan.

    Perhaps you meant to address another commenter?

  50. “On his first day in office, President Biden signed more than a dozen executive actions…”

    “Another executive order issued Wednesday night will extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people. ”

    This story is conflating Executive Actions with Executive Orders. They are not the same.

  51. MBunge and om duke it out. Does race matter? Or not at all? Or does it matter sometimes in some ways?

    “And when I write ‘race doesn’t exist,’ I mean exists as a cultural, psychological, historical, societal reality. Race from a scientific/biological perspective is, of course, a bunch of bunk.”

    I’ll defend the third part of my trichotomy. Namely, race matters to strongly genetically driven characteristics like genetic diseases, eg, Tay Sacks among Jews; Sickle Cell Anemia among black people.

    And it matters with IQ and criminal behavior. The Twins Raised Apart study at the University of Minnesota is the source of science, that is the behavioural genetics, that got Charles Murray into trouble in the mid-1990s (and almost ever since).p, in “The Bell Curve.”

    But my classmate’s father, David T. Lykken, founded and led this study to re-do earlier efforts only longer, deeper, with better assessment tools. And the longitudinal study goes on, studying twins raised apart over most of their lives. (Hence my interest is longstanding.)

    The key finding is this. Human inborn traits correlate between 0.2 (low) and 0.8 (high). When the twins raised apart research reached 100 subjects, the IQ positive (criminality negative) correlation was 0.7 — which is unusually high.

    That was what Murray’s “The Bell Curve” reported on two pages of one very long book. Those were their findings at around 1990.

    When the study reached 400 subjects, the correlation had increased to 0.78.

    Somehow, when co-investigator Nancy [last name] published a general study with Harvard University Press (2008 or 9, I think), the settled correlation reported was 0.75.

    Another finding is that IQ varies among classically defined races, and that these results are stable through the decades measuring this trait. And that this cardinal ordering — Sephardic Jew, East Asian, White, black, native or aboriginal — as we’ve seen reported in the past remains with us today.

    Finally, it is worth adding that EVERY human emotional trait also exhibits some (ie, more or less) genetic loading (or determination).

    This, therefore, constitutes an omnipresent noise among humans wherever we hope to find reasonableness.

    Thus for me, race matters sometimes and in some ways — but not others. Sweeping generalisations only muddy the truth.

    Confusion is understandable. But conflation or dissimulation about the evidence ought not to be excused.

  52. TJ:

    Context is a useful thing: “suburban white folks” started this contention. As it played out it seemed that one must not question whether “white” added value to the argument. The important thing is not to question the authority?

    As to your comment at 3:51, that ground has been well plowed by many on this blog.

  53. TJ, humanity’s understanding of genetics is still at the first grade level, if not the kinder garten level.

    TJ and Zaph, can anyone here help out Om from their mental and emotional breakdown? I am skipping past them to adhere to my own banishment execution, so I can’t do much about it now.

  54. https://www.amren.com/features/2021/01/an-open-letter-to-trump-supporters/

    In many ways, Q (Qanon=fake news) was countering and pacifying the Alt Right’s white nationalism and “race supremacism” reaction to the Left’s POWER is in racism antics.

    Now that people want to get off the hopium, they now choose the Amren (alt right) black pill. Q was and is a multi national, multi patriotic, world wide movement. That somehow converged with T Red’s conservative movement. Just like the ALt Right although from another direction.

    Interesting.

  55. A Panopticon is a perfect image for the relationship between government and it’s citizenry that the left wants to build. Thank you for that reminder of VDH’s excellent piece.
    I think that a shorthand way to identify where one stands on issues of freedom and equality is incapsulated in whether one holds to the 1776 or the 1619 Project. There the two roads diverge and one, IMHO, leads off the cliff!

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