Now, we’ve got reporters trying out the meme that Walz has “a different kind of masculinity” *

As one commenter noted in response to this meme, “He has that Richard Simmons masculinity vibe.”

* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/not-onion-liberal-reporter-suggests-tim-walz-has/

The New York Times floats a story about Biden’s having consciously and expressly thrown in with his party’s progressive wing, rather than just being the guy they gave papers to sign. Joe, in this version, resented the way he had to play second banana for Obama and the way he was bypassed in favor of Hillary Clinton, so he hitched his wagon to the party left, in spite of his reputation as a moderate.

But of course, picking the team that tells you what to do is a lot different from actually telling them what to do. So the country’s on autopilot, with staffers and bureaucrats deciding what to do. It’s just that the front man is out of the picture.

I recall Sarah Hoyt on her blog telling us the useful skills of “reading between the lines” — the news left out by implication. Useful again.

She came by this skill in person — witnessing Fascism from the Right, and then Fascism from the Marxist Left in her native Portugal during the 1970s and after.

To cicero and Niketas, I’ll only add Clairemont Institute fellow and Boston University prof, Angelo Codevilla in late January, 2021: we are no longer a self-governing Republic — we are ruled by an Oligarchy.

We are ruled by the rogue Deep State bureaucrats who tip the scales of policy through the IC or Intelligence Community.
But the defacto Fourth Branch of US government also includes the Generals of the (senior Executive) Civil Service, who follow Dear Leader’s voice. An undoubtedly leaked with approval recoding of an early May 2020 phone call to them from Obama confirms this. “I’m still here” for you, was the message delivered and received.

Codevilla mention the inly saving grace of our new Post-Constitutional Oligarchy. It won’t last long.

As per Aristotle, the essence of Oligarchy is a gang of mutual but temporary interests — interests that conflict when the base case facts change. And the players must be changed or gulled or bought off.

We’ve seen the post-debate Biden conflict this summer exposing the Deep State connections

Another is coming: just bet on it.

The likeliest two have heen mentioned: drop in the dollar because Trillion Dollar debt Service forever demands debasement of the dollar (to pay it off with cheaper dollars — watch interest rates). Or else an international crisis abroad, which might dictate a Biden-Harris switch out at POTUS. Or both.

I suspect the anticipated Antifa Black Shirts will stay in their quarters this election fall (the Pale-Hamas faction already viciously occupies that activist lane). So useful in the past, they are no more useful to Ds managing the criminal anarcho-tyranny state where us plebs live, given the suburban mom voters fears it would roil.

Both of the above points are very likely true. However, I think that the deep trust that many of these left-wingers have in the Party and State is the most crucial. They don’t even know much about those important policy issues that they are trusting them to bring forward and implement. Oh, these are my people who are right thinking like I am; therefore, I trust them.

Biden did promise to phase out fossil fuels, for us, China and India, can continue to consume sweet crude, although Sudanese and Iranian crude is probably more labor intensive to refine, Nigerian pipeline fires anyone,
of course more electric vehicles put more strain on an even more fragile powergrid, we have seen how this works out in Europe, where the individual countries have a fraction of our power demands, as they continue to eliminate Nuclear, the French are not as
stubborn on that issue, but the Germans are,

the whole WEF Open Society archipelago, the structure is important not the man, the Dems took out Mellon Scaife and largely turned the Koch brother they went after the Mercers, just because, this is part of what the attack on Bannon was about,

Trump is one guy, Vance is one other guy. They can’t even fire people without underlings willing to carry out their instructions. Most of the Federal government cannot be fired anyway, but the Cabinet and the next level or two down would have to be staffed by people who thoroughly know the bureaucracy–meaning they know who the key people are and their relationships–and are committed to root-and-branch reform.

I don’t think there are any such people available. I think the only people willing to serve in a GOP administration are going to be Swamp Things, or Sir Humphreys if you like a nicer term. Washington outsiders might be committed to reform but won’t know the key people or their relationships in order to carry it out. Insiders will know, and defuse any attempt at real change.

I’m losing faith that working within the system will change anything. Some other big change is required: the states gaining more power, Congress getting interested in something besides appropriations and reelection and reining in the executive, I don’t know what. But the country didn’t get like this in four years and it won’t stop being like this in four years even if Trump is reelected.

What I’m really afraid of is a catastrophe that breaks it all for us: a big war, financial implosion, hyperinflation, I don’t know what.