Darkstream: why you don’t talk to the media

From the transcript:

It doesn’t even matter what you do or what you say, the narrative is already written, the story has already been laid out. All they’re doing now when they talk to you is getting kill quotes and getting words that they can then spin to claim that they’ve given you a fair shake. You see, when they contact you, what they tell you is that they want to give you your chance to tell your side of the story, and the thing is, the clear implication is already there! You know, they’re already signalling what they’re  going to do to you because the other side of the story, the story that is not your side of the story, is the narrative.

The way they portray it is, well, so-and-so has said something about you, or there is this belief that X or Y or Z is true about you, what’s your version of that? And what they want you to do is they want you to play defense to their prosecuting attorney. That’s the whole idea! You are there to be the subject of the interrogation and they are the stars who are prosecuting you. Now, of course that’s why they want to talk to you! They don’t need you to verify any facts, they will completely ignore anything that you say if you manage to somehow miraculously defang and conclusively disprove an assertion that was part of their narrative.

At most what they will do is simply omit that part. They will never make the false charge and then allow you to disprove it, so it’s a situation where you literally cannot win because the deck is stacked. You’re in a courtroom of public opinion where the arresting officer, the judge, the prosecuting attorney and the defense attorney are all the same person, they’re all the reporter.

And here’s the other thing that you need to understand: it usually isn’t the reporter who dictates the narrative… so the best way that you can defang them, the best way that you control them, is to simply not talk to them! Because they need content, they need your comments, and the stories that they are writing do not do not work without your participation, that’s why they’re always looking for your participation.

Prelude to war

Patriot Prayer didn’t have too much trouble putting Antifa on the run, but it’s clear that they weren’t actually ready for trouble on the basis of their nonexistent tactics.

Remember, a small, well-organized core is always going to be much more effective operating together than a large, ragtag mob. Especially because as it operates, others begin to follow their lead. But it is certainly interesting to see the scenarios being portrayed in Alt-Hero actually playing out on the streets of Portland and other cities.

It’s also interesting to see that with Trump in office, the local pro-Antifa politicians are considerably less confident about their ability to use the police against the Right with one-sided law enforcement and strategic stand-downs than they were under the Obama regime. Regardless, if you haven’t read The 4GW Handbook yet, you probably should. Get the paperback so you can share it more easily.

A good clip of an Antifa thug getting KO’d with a single punch at the same showdown. Of course, the guy promptly shows he’s not a real fighter, as he backs off rather than fight the Antifa thugette who runs up and kicks him. That’s the hapless white knight mindset that has permitted the invasion of the West. If you’re not prepared to take on anyone who takes the field against you, then don’t go out there at all.

What is your business?

Restaurants are learning the hard way that they are not in the business of politics. Not for long, anyhow:

Reviewers flooded the Yelp page of a Canadian restaurant with one-star reviews after a manager was fired for kicking out a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

The Teahouse in Vancouver’s Stanley Park has come under fire for the incident, which occurred less than a week after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of a Virginia restaurant.

The negative reviews came from both sides of the aisle, with some critiquing the restaurant for kicking out the patron, and other tearing into the restaurant for firing the manager.

“As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headwear while in my former place of work. Absolutely no regrets,” the former employee told CBC News. The restaurant owners said they fired the employee because his actions did not align with their policy of hospitality and inclusiveness.

It’s about time the Right joined the Culture War. 50 years of constant retreat haven’t worked out so well, after all.

The science of Q

It will not be Gowdy.
Q

That’s not even remotely opaque. Now, it will obviously not prove that Q is reliable if the Supreme Court nomination turns out to be someone other than Trey Gowdy. But if the hypothesis is falsified, that will demonstrate Q’s fallibility.

US out of Germany

This would be most excellent news indeed. Having noticed that WWII is over and the Soviet Union is no more, the God-Emperor is talking about shutting down the US bases in Germany and bringing the troops home.

Donald Trump is considering scaling down or withdrawing the US military from Germany, according to a report ahead of the NATO leaders’ meeting. The US president has blasted allies for chipping in too little to the bloc’s budget.

The decision to explore the option of pulling 35,000 US troops out of Germany came after Trump floated the idea during a meeting with White House and military aides, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The president was reportedly frustrated by the fact that Germany and other NATO allies don’t pay their “fair share” into the budget of the alliance.

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
 ….Germany pays 1{0ce1a054466f479f1fb0ac20b94979d66b3386d5b658fff7ef3ba76c38796cd5} (slowly) of GDP towards NATO, while we pay 4{0ce1a054466f479f1fb0ac20b94979d66b3386d5b658fff7ef3ba76c38796cd5} of a MUCH larger GDP. Does anybody believe that makes sense? We protect Europe (which is good) at great financial loss, and then get unfairly clobbered on Trade. Change is coming!

Except the US obviously is not protecting Europe from anyone. All those expensive troops on location didn’t help Germany avoid invasion by 1.6 million migrants, so obviously there is no reason for them to be there anymore.

Review: Quantum Mortis Issue #2

Bounding Into Comics reviews QUANTUM MORTIS A Man Disrupted #2: Zero Zero Tango:

The second issue of Quantum Mortis picks up where the first issue leaves off and finds our heroes continuing their investigation of the murder of Arpad Vladislaus Jagaelleon (that’s his real name). Tower and Hildreth get more to do here and we are introduced to a plethora of colorful characters, which is a nice change of pace from issue #1. Characters are better fleshed out and the mystery continues to build in intrigue in a follow-up issue that while still isn’t a perfect five-star hit, manages to improve on its predecessor in every way.

Things start out oddly contemplative. Tower enjoys a nice, long conversation with his augmented reality implant, Baby, about the nature of life and death. They bring up some deep questions and even mention being “saved by the Blood of the Lamb” which is a distinctly Christian phrase that I’m not used to hearing outside of my church walls. It’s not a Christian book by any means, but it’s nice to see something like Christianity mentioned in a comic book and it not being used as a joke or demonizing it, as seems to be the popular route to take these days.

It’s great to see that they liked this one even better than the first one! Read the whole thing there. In other Arkhaven news, we have signed an agreement with a movie producer, about which more anon, and we will have an announcement about a major new comic campaign that we will be supporting soon.

And just because I have been asked this several times, we will not be doing another Alt-Hero comics campaign until we have published at least six issues of Alt-Hero, six issues of Chuck Dixon’s Avalon, and sent two omnibuses out to backers. There is no point in building up more of a production backlog, especially when we have barely begun to assemble our sales infrastructure, about which we will have a significant announcement next week.

UPDATE: I am very pleased to be able to announce that QUANTUM MORTIS A Man Disrupted #2: Zero Zero Tango is now in print and is already available at the Castalia Books Direct store for $2.99. It should be available on Amazon by the end of next week. This is the gold logo edition, which is being produced in a limited quantity of 2,500.

World Cup: Round of 16

France vs Argentina is approaching the half. Ugly, stupid late challenge and an obvious penalty vs a beautiful, flawless shot from well outside the box. 1-1 and it could easily go either way.

UPDATE: France won a very entertaining game 4-3. Next up is Portugal-Uruguay, and it’s hard to imagine Uruguay stopping Cristiano Ronaldo and his 10 merry men.

Don’t listen to your patients, Doctor!

California disciplines a doctor for doing what doctors are supposed to do:

In a decision that could signal how California’s fierce vaccine debates will play out in the coming years, the Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.

In 2016, the board threatened to revoke Sears’ medical license for wrongly writing a doctor’s note for a 2-year-old boy that exempted him from all childhood vaccinations. This week, the medical board settled on a lesser punishment.

Sears can keep practicing medicine but will be required to take 40 hours of medical education courses a year, as well as an ethics class, and also be monitored by a fellow doctor. He also must notify all hospital and medical facilities where he practices of the order and is not allowed to supervise physician assistants or nurse practicioners.

Sears found himself in hot water because, according to the medical board, he wrote a vaccine exemption for a young boy without obtaining even basic medical information, such as the child’s history of vaccines. He took the boy’s mother at her word when she said her son lost urinary function and went limp in response to previous immunizations, according to the filing.

They’re going to have to revoke every medical license in California if listening to a patient and taking them at their word is no longer considered proper medical practice. Especially since if a restaurant simply ignored a mother telling a waiter about her child’s nut allergy, they’d probably prosecute the owners.

Run, Kamala, run!

CDAN dabbles in national politics:

It is well known that this female politician who is being talked about as a possible future president started her career by having a relationship with a married senior politician in her state.  For this, she was appointed to a number of part-time boards with hefty salaries.  What isn’t so well known is the senior politician she had an affair with used to take her to swinger parties which were basically glorified orgies where she would engage in sex with large numbers of men and women. What not even she knows is there are compromising pictures of her at these orgies which is why senior leaders from her party are quietly trying to discourage her presidential ambitions and the leader of the other party, the current president, is very excited about running against her, her being her party’s nominee. 

From Wikipedia:

In 1993, Harris started dating California Speaker of the Assembly, Willie Brown, who introduced her to many powerful individuals in the California and Sacramento political and campaign management establishment. She was highly active in Brown’s 1995 campaign for Mayor of San Francisco and introduced publicly as Brown’s girlfriend, even though Brown was married. 

What a pity. The God-Emperor would have beaten her in a landslide to make Reagan-Mondale look like a squeaker. No matter. The Trumpslide cometh.

Mailvox: Blue-collar wakeup call

White Americans are gradually learning that their good intentions don’t mean a damned thing when they interfere with an identity group’s self-interest or objectives.

This isn’t news to you but is interesting for me to watch. I work in a foundry. We have [hundreds of] employees. Around 90 percent are men. All of the older workers, engineers, and upper management are white.

HR says they deal with 27 different first languages. Many employees are Mexican, SE Asian, and Africans (even fewer black Americans). English is sometimes their 3rd language. We used to have more eastern European & Russian but most have moved on.

The department I work in is all male, over 40, and white. A few of them are California and Nevada transplants. One of the transplants recently was called racist, by a dark-skinned Mexican, for not mounting a fan on his forklift as soon as the Mexican complained about being hot to HR. Only the office & lunch room areas, in [very large] facility, are air-conditioned. The Mexican’s old white female manager is backing him on the racist label and escalating the situation. Last fall HR hired two new people. Both are textbook SJWs. Your books have been very helpful in learning what to look out for.

The transplant is a friend of mine. He’s a nice guy to work and hunt with but a cuck in the culture war. Multiple of his biological grandkids are White-Mexican mixed. I talked to him about the southern border invasion a couple of years ago. He got angry over what I said. After a couple of days he realized it was the truth. He lived in California for over 45 years. He saw the changes that happened there. He moved due to the rise in crime.

Unfortunately he hasn’t taken my advice to buy your books and read them. So now he finds himself pissed and confused.  I told him to quickly contact the other places that have recently offered him a job and run out of here. This company is collapsing again. It’s SJW-infiltrated. He won’t win and if he fights it here he could get a racist label stuck on him, which will kill any chance of a decent blue-collar job at any company with an HR department in the area. Especially if they also have any SJW infiltration.

I hope he gets a new job fast and learns his place in the culture war. Especially before it goes hot.

Don’t let this happen to you, your friends, or your family. Read SJWAL and SJWADD instead of learning your lesson the hard way.