Mister Roboto
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@Mr. House: I do think it’s very likely that Raul is in some sort of pronounced health distress right now.
I wasn’t able to finish the Tablet magazine article from yesterday until just now. The stuff about Israel and Iran at the end was clearly the raving of an imbalanced MAGA Zionist that really detracted from the earlier, more insightful part of the article. Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was certainly very crucial, but I think the big reason Obama’s Mighty Wurlitzer fell apart was the way it overplayed its hand during Covid. The author of the article does discuss this but not at length.
I think the supposed reappearance of the “deflationista” account in 2021 was a case in point of this. Whether that poster was some shadowy manifestation of the Deep State trying to influence the lurkers into conformity with the globalist goals around Covid or simply a libtard rando with a neurotic personality disorder, their eight-month long crusade here to badger the pliable reeked of some of the most pitiful desperation I have ever seen on the Internet. The overreaching of the Covid psyop caused visible cracks to form in society’s contrived consensus about the pandemic, but the best the supporters of this psyop could apparently do was engage in even more of the behavior that was making these growing cracks so big and visible. And while I was always dubious about the idea that the latter-day deflationista poster was really a Deep State agent in disguise, I couldn’t help but find it weird that they very suddenly vanished around the time it became clear that Democrats would lose control of the House of Representatives in the upcoming election.
Merz has already refused to share power with them, leaving the CDU as pig-in-the-middle, squeezed between the failing SPD, which lost the most voter share, and the AfD and Der Linke, another firewall outcast, which, like AfD, gained voter share, especially among the under-45s.
Die Linke or “The Left”, interestingly enough, is the closest thing there is in Germany to a successor-party to the Socialist Unity Party (formed by a Soviet-arranged shotgun marriage between the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party) that ruled East Germany during the Cold War Era.
The link to the “Prepare for War” article doesn’t actually go the article, it goes to the TAE homepage.
Just an interesting historical note on PCR’s epithet of “Unready” to describe Vladmir Putin: This is taken from the name of the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred The Unready. This historical description of that king is a play on the intended meaning of his name which is “well-advised”. “Unready” in this context meant poorly advised. So history remembers this king for his misbegotten reign over England by calling him “Well-Advised The Poorly-Advised”.
Another Nation Absorbed Into The Blob Of The Empire by Caitlin Johnstone.
And yet there’s still a bit of a taboo in mainstream western discourse around calling this a regime change operation backed by the US and its allies. We’re all meant to pretend this was a 100 percent organic uprising driven solely and exclusively by the people of Syria despite years and years of evidence to the contrary. We are meant to pretend this is the case even after we just watched the US power alliance crush Syria using proxy warfare, starvation sanctions, constant bombing operations, and a military occupation explicitly designed to cut Syria off from oil and wheat in order to prevent its reconstruction after the western-backed civil war.
People get mad if you say this, but it’s true. It’s just a fact that major world events do not occur independently of the actions of the major world powers who have a vested interest in their outcomes. If my saying this makes you feel uncomfortable, that discomfort is called cognitive dissonance. It’s what being wrong feels like.
I just read Escobar’s article on the fall of Syria. Escobar also just posted this very interesting item on X:
THE ART OF THE – SYRIAN – DEAL
Old-school former Deep State high-level source. Never failed me:
“There was a deal. Washington gets to do what it wants in the Middle East, Russia gets Ukraine. The new Washington has shown exceptional skill.”
Facts will confirm it – or not.
From Paul Craig Roberts:
With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear.
I don’t know if that last sentence is necessarily true, but with the recent change in Russia’s nuclear-weapons doctrine, any such massed attack on Russian territory wouldn’t necessarily have to be nuclear for Russia to respond with her nuclear arsenal. For once, PCR’s heated rhetoric may be completely justified. I can only hope these discussions of an attack on Russia are merely a feint by NATO to possibly trick Russia into doing something rash and ill-advised.
Another thing about the QTR “Sigh Of Relief” Substack article: I think a lot of us voted for Donald Trump because we were being told that we are expected to just accept living in an increasingly insane world, and so the voting booth presented us with the closest thing we will ever have to an opportunity to say, “You know what? Fuck that with a rusty chainsaw!”
From the “Quoth The Raven” substack article:
This will be like a snowball rolling down a hill: the more people that come out and embrace Trump publicly, the more who will follow. Put simply, Trump is just winning people over.
I think it also helps Trump that the Trump Derangement Crowd are increasingly coming off as a bunch of shrieking freaks, what with the head-shaving and posting videos of unbecoming emotional spazz-outs, just to name two things I can name off the top of my head.
So Paul Craig Roberts suspects that Trump has made a deal to facilitate a war with Iran on Israel’s behalf. I usually take PCR with a large grain of salt. But there is the fact that the Deep State tried to kill Trump at least once, possibly twice, just a few months ago, and now they’re just letting him accede to the presidency without much in the way of incident. That really makes you wonder what changed between then and now. Yes, the Democrats are trying that “shadow cabinet” nonsense, but until I have reason to think otherwise, I am inclined to dismiss that as a bunch of Fantasy Island stuff on the part of delusional Democrats.
That and this business about attacking into Russia with long-range missiles really make me think that war is coming one way or another, and it won’t be a good thing for the people of this country. Ever since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, I have been praying every day that we may avert global thermonuclear war. I guess all I can at this point is just keep praying that prayer every day and hope that it amounts to something in the grand scheme of things.
And yet, even though no one has yet been open about precisely what happened in the White House in March 2020 to cause Trump to greenlight the lockdowns, there is a widespread belief that it was never really his choice. It was some kind of coup – egged on even by his closest advisors and the VP – that he either could not stop or lacked the personnel to marshal effective resistance. Regardless, he has been forgiven because, implausibly, the next administration not only owned the worst of it but added even more on top of that, including the wicked combination of mask mandates, forced injections, and continued school closures.
I think one of Donald Trump’s flaws is that he is too easily influenced by other people sometimes, and this was certainly the case in 2020. Later on, he used his Twitter account to encourage states to undo their lockdown policies.
Another thing that was so weird about the Covid response, though, was that the left seemed to have a deep psychological need for Covid to be an apocalyptic catastrophe on a par with the Black Plague of the Middle Ages, even though it very clearly wasn’t once you shook off the mainstream media’s hypnotic spell (which, unfortunately, took some of us a while). Why was this? I think that the Myth of Everlasting Progress that is the primary existential motivator of urban liberals was clearly failing, and Covid authoritarianism was a sneaky if not very subtle way of keeping the power of this existential myth propped up. (“And then the people bowed and prayed, to the Covid God they made.”)
only it was from election day, with commenting about “Redacted” who covered a LOT of Pennsylvania shenanigans. Like openly closing Red voting at 2pm,
I think this makes a case that early voting at City Hall via absentee ballots is actually a good thing. In the wake of the 2020 shenanigans, there were quite a few wheezing, harumphing denunciations of early voting from various MAGA curmudgeons. (“Back in my day, we had three hours to vote by scratching a mark on a rotten potato, and we liked it!”)
Mainstream media is now reporting that Trump’s 2024 votes are higher than his 2020 votes, which seems plausible with all the fired-up support Donald seemed to be getting as Kamala’s opponent.
Yes, the latest vote tallies have me revising my cautious estimate as to how many Biden votes were fabricated ballots in 2020 back down to ten million, which still beggars the imagination, quite frankly.
@Doc R: The cheating was so blatant in 2020, I think a lot of people became discouraged and disillusioned about voting. I know one friend of mine who didn’t vote in 2022 for the first time in his adult life on account of this disgusted disillusionment resulting from 2020.
Speaking of liberal Democrats and what=not, I thought I might interject that when I take online political alignment tests, I continue to scan as a very leftyish social democrat, despite the fact that I have consciously moved more towards the center on some things and try to make my answers to the questions in these tests reflect this.
Rural conservatives already have a remarkably higher Total Fertility Rate than urban liberals. It’s a little puzzling that the liberal female long-term strategy is to reduce the urban liberal TFR to close-to-zero. “Let’s make our demographic group not exist anymore, that will show them!”
The “Boycott All Men” 4B Movement Going Viral After Trump’s Victory
The only thing I can think of to say is, “Good fucking riddance!”
I’m way beyond the point of tolerance being called toxic male, racist, phobic and whatever label they try to slap on…or here, being called a slave owning rapist abuser of women. Fuck off with that libtard talking point narrative.
Well, you are clearly a rage-a-holic who will likely have a stroke or a heart attack from that at an early age. So don’t say nobody tried to warn you when it happens.
@Mr. House: News about Pennsylvania state politics isn’t much in the news with all the focus on the national elections. Did the Republicans succeed in flipping the lower house of the state legislature in their favor, or no?
@Dr. Day: You are correct in talking about the past when women lacked the vote and the legal rights that they now have, but we’re not talking about those days, we’re talking about the Twenty-First Century. And I think it’s a pretty well established fact of late that young white men are being treated like shit on a stick. There’s an African proverb that Rudyard the WhatIfAltHistory guy likes to quote that goes something like, “If the young men of the village don’t have a place in it, then they will burn it all down to feel the warmth.”
Also, being opposed to an all-powerful, over-reaching administrative state and saying “screw that” to any group of people being demonized 24/7 for being that group, really isn’t necessarily moving right. In fact, it comports perfectly and comfortably with my 1986-model Midwestern liberalism.
…OR YOU COLLAPSE. So? They made the gambit to force this Worldwide Totalitarian Technocratic State, and twice as fast and hard. …And lost everything.
And it’s so freaking funny that I suspect the Spirit is punishing me for the Schadenfreude I’ve been indulging lately by bringing back my gout. I guess I’ll have to get used to clomping around in a surgical sandal, because my Schadenfreude ain’t going away!
The Amar article in RT really did provide a lot of important perspective on the international angle of the US “Trumpquake”.
I just the article by Simplicius that Dr. Day linked, and it would appear that a better cautious estimate of the amount of votes fabricated out of thin air in 2020 for Biden might be more like fifteen million than ten million.
@aspnaz: I think they probably gave him an extra big shot of whatever it is they fill him up with to make him sound more coherent. And they probably deliberately injected him with a placebo during that infamous debate last summer that he flubbed so badly.
How the fuck are you respectable if you rape someone? You’re an idiot
Dr. Day will have to verify this as I can’t read his mind, but I think he meant the word respectable in a way that really should have had quotation marks around it.
This essay by Paul Kingsnorth, Donald And The Pincer, provides an important cultural context to Donald Trump’s unprecedented political comeback.
As long as we’re arguing about abortion (sorry for the double-post, Illargi, my attempt to edit 173684 was too tardy), even though I think that aborting a fetus in anything but the harshest of circumstances such as rape or incest, is a very serious spiritual error, I remain committed to being consistent about the principle of bodily autonomy. And this means whether it is about how a woman chooses to deal with being pregnant or about having a medical treatment whose effects cannot be undone forced upon someone. And the Issue should belong to the states. Abortions are generally illegal in Wisconsin and are expected to remain so. It remains an option for women here with the means to do so to get an abortion in neighboring Illinois, where that is legal.
And as an addendum to my post on Wisconsin, it would appear that the turnout for this most recent presidential election that Donald Trump won in the state might possibly be as high as 73%. That did happen once recently, in 2004, when feelings were running high on both sides of the issue of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. John Kerry won the state in a very squeaky squeaker. Talking to a lot of working-class people, I later learned that quite a few people might have voted for Kerry instead of George W. Bush if it weren’t for the long-standing American civic tradition of voting for the incumbent president whenever US troops are committed to a military action somewhere outside the country.
As I’ve said recently, I do realize that fraud on a truly massive scale took place in the 2020 Election in many states, but putting the results for Wisconsin under a microscope, I have my doubts that the Badger State was one of those states. You see, the result was a very typical Wisconsin result, with Biden winning by less than the total population of my hometown of Stevens Point. One thing that was a little off was that a high turnout presidential election turnout percentage is typically about 70%, and 2020 was about 72%. (2016 was a typical low-turnout year at about 67%.) But considering what a polarizing figure Donald Trump was from the get-go, 200,000 more people showing up to vote than you would normally expect, isn’t terribly sus. I suppose the fixers could have put some votes in Donald Trump’s column to make it look good, but it seems hard to believe that competent fixers would take that much of a chance.
Maybe I just want to believe that good, old Wisconsin is one of the few places remaining where we still believe in fair play and following the law, but I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we do make an effort to keep our elections from becoming too dodgy. Feel free to disagree, I won’t get butthurt about it.
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1854144250562429081
@Dr. D: If the graphic in the post on X is accurate, you may have been correct in your rebuttal to me when you said that Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College in 2020. When you said that yesterday, I just had difficulty believing they could do something as audacious as stuff the ballot-box with ten million fabricated votes!
So I have another theory as to why that didn’t happen this time. One needs the support of the Deep State to pull of such an utterly audacious steal, and a new faction now dominates the Deep State apparatus, and this faction has decided that Trump is someone they can work with. This may not be good news, because this faction of the Deep State may be the one run by Zionist Jews who want to let go of that Ukraine lost cause and instead unleash some real whoop-ass on Iran. We’ll see what happens, I guess.
I think the fraud blitzkrieg that happened in 2020 couldn’t be replicated this time because too many people now are watching too closely. A blitzkrieg is a lot more likely to happen and to succeed when it has the element of surprise on its side. (That’s a big reason why people who make threats don’t impress me. If you really want to get the drop on someone for an act of violence, you don’t warn them.)
What also helped the fraudsters in 2020 is that so many people, including myself, were successfully psy-oped by Covid. A lot of people, including myself, have well and truly woken up from that particular trance.
Of the ten states I was watching the most closely, Harris only won Virginia, and that’s mostly because the extended Washington, DC Metro Area now takes up a lot of real estate in the Dominion State.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I know my jubilation will be very short-lived, so I intend to enjoy it while it lasts. 🙂
@jb-hb: I am probably one of the very few around here who identifies as seriously left-of-center, and what you described makes even the likes of me want to puke up my breakfast all over my keyboard. I believe in that old-fashioned kind of liberalism where prejudice is prejudice, and it’s ugly and not okay no matter who is perpetuating it against whom. This kind of liberalism is also very suspicious of anything that would tell you to see the world in black-and-white absolutes.
Also, as a gay white guy, I have pretty pronounced tendency to be attracted to young straight white men (not entirely healthy, I know, but it’s pretty hard to change your leopard-spots once you reach a certain age), and I’m getting really sick and tired of watching the demographic I appreciate the most getting dumped on when in fact things are very difficult for them right now because of this fucked-up climate, and I hope they rise up *en* *masse* and vote for Trump today if only to give a hearty extended middle-finger salute to what you just described.
As a certain troll who was here for a few months a while back demonstrated for us, Covidian Cultism and Trump Derangement Syndrome tend to go hand-in-hand with one another, so for that reason, and because Trump at least respected individual people’s choice about taking the vaccine, I want to see Trump win the election handily while the purple-hairs shriek and scream and I’ll be going BWAHAHAHAHA!
