Championship Day
Aaron Rodgers’s heroics notwithstanding, I think the Pack’s run stops here. They were one strip sack from going out last week, and the Dallas rush didn’t put anywhere nearly as much pressure on him as the Falcons will. The Vikings showed the way to contain and control Rodgers, and the Falcons have the same sort of speed and power in their front seven that the Vikings do. And the Packers defense does not match up well with the powerful Falcons attack, so I don’t think it will be particularly close.
New England-Pittsburgh will be a good game, but I expect Brady to continue his dominance there. I expect Belichick to let Bell get his yards, but shut down the Steeler passing game.
My prediction for the Super Bowl remains what it was before the playoffs. New England-Atlanta, with Brady and Belichick claiming one more ring together.
Lock them up for 10 years
One of the first tests of the Trump administration’s resolve will be whether his prosecutors follow through and jail the rioting SJWs for 10 years. The Left relies heavily upon the Right’s lack of resolve to hold them accountable, so locking the little bastards up and making them serve the full term for their crimes will be the fastest way to dissuade other SJWs from committing similar crimes in the future.
Most of the 230 rioters arrested after violent protests erupted in Washington D.C. following Donald Trump’s inauguration will be charged with felony rioting, federal prosecutors said on Saturday. The charge carries a punishment of up to ten years in jail and a $25,000 fine. Thousand of protesters launched a violent rampage just blocks away from the White House as anti-Trump demonstrators smashed store windows, set fire to cars and threw bricks at police.
The same strategy should be pursued across the country. The protesters are operating under the assumption that they will not face any serious consequences; they will have lots of expensive lawyers and all sorts of people attempting to negotiate negligible penalties on their behalf. The God-Emperor will be wise to direct his Justice Department to ignore any and all negotiations, settlements, and requests for reduced charges, throw the book at every single one of them, and lock them up for felony offenses.
And as a bonus, none of those convicted will ever be permitted to vote again.
There is a time for showing mercy. This is not one of them.
“We are two nations, maybe more.”
Definitely more, Peggy. Definitely more. And that is why war is on the horizon that no longer feels quite as distant as it once did. But at least one nation, the American nation, has a leader worth his salt.
We are two nations, maybe more.
Normally a new president has someone backing him up, someone publicly behind him. Mr. Obama had the mainstream media—the big broadcast networks, big newspapers, activists and intellectuals, pundits and columnists of the left—the whole shebang. He had a unified, passionate party. Mr. Trump in comparison has almost nothing. The mainstream legacy media oppose him, even hate him, and will not let up. The columnists, thinkers and magazines of the right were mostly NeverTrump; some came reluctantly to support him. His party is split or splitting. The new president has gradations of sympathy, respect or support from exactly one cable news channel, and some websites.
He really has no one but those who voted for him.
Do they understand what a lift daily governance is going to be, and how long the odds are, with so much arrayed against him, and them?
The USA now contains considerably more than two nations. That’s why it is no longer any more viable than the European Union. It’s been held together by force, easy credit money, and sleight of hand for a long time, but not for much longer.
For all his strength of will and civic nationalism, the God-Emperor cannot save the political entity, but he can put the American nation in a much better, much stronger position before the growing rifts become borders. He should take those who say he is not their president at their word, because they are neither the Posterity of the Founders nor We the People.
Darkstream: winning at the moral level
Tonight’s Darkstream will be at 7:30 PM Eastern, and in light of recent events, will address 4GW and winning at the moral level. Sign up here to catch it. My intention is to turn it into the 10-minute equivalent of the last post of the day, leaving you with something to discuss until the morning.
Also, we’ll be having the first Brainstorm of 2017 next week. I hope to have all the final details we discussed at the last one wrapped up this weekend; invites will go out Monday evening.
UPDATE: The replay is available here for the next 24 hours.
Making Europe Great Again
Marine Le Pen addresses European nationalists in Germany:
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on Saturday told a European gathering of rightwing populists in Germany that a string of high-stakes elections in 2017 would blow a wind of change across the region.
Emboldened by the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s US presidential victory, the far-right National Front leader said voters in France, Germany and the Netherlands would be next to reject the status quo.
“2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. 2017, I am sure, the people of continental Europe will wake up,” she told a cheering crowd at a conference hall in the western city of Koblenz, on the river Rhine.
“It’s no longer a question of if, but when,” she added in a speech that railed against migration, the euro and open borders.
We’re not going to win them all. But the trend is clear. Europe is waking up. The winning will continue. Europe will be great again. Europe will be European again.
Attack, but politely, please
The cucks are trying, so hard, to wrap their heads around how one can fight back successfully against the Left. And yet, they are still failing, because they are intellectual cowards more concerned with means than ends:
We ought to take a page from the playbook of Trump, who has almost singularly provided us with a golden opportunity to redefine the terms of battle, no longer fighting on leftist ground. For Republicans and conservatives has been liberated from the PC thought police. We are free to fight back when vicious charges are leveled at us designed to instill fear and chill dissent.
As former speaker Newt Gingrich has perceptively noted, Trump has been a masterful media manipulator, getting media members to chase so-called “shiny objects” — “Can you believe Trump said X!?” ad nauseam.
Mr. Trump’s version of stray voltage has a number of effects beyond just causing chaos and distracting his opponents. When everything is an outrage, nothing is an outrage. And when everything is an outrage, you expose yourself as a purely partisan actor, turning off large swaths of the American public.
Trump’s lack of fear of touching politically incorrect third rails that millions of Americans felt, but which had not been articulated so bluntly by a national politician, served him well. Incidentally, it also allowed him to shift the Overton Window on critical issues like immigration and Islamic supremacism.
When attacked for taking these positions, unlike those to come before him, Trump did not avoid the fray. Rather, he jumped into it, counterpunching.
Lulled into a false sense of security by Republicans who fought with their hands tied behind their backs, constrained by suicidal rules of political engagement for decades, the Left did not know how to react when hit.
Leftists could not believe that a political opponent had the gall to actually fight tooth and nail.
Trump does not give an inch to his critics, and neither should any other Republican. He defines the rules of engagement, and so should all on the Right.
Watching the confirmation hearings to date, we see many on the Left jabbing as if we are in a pre-Trump world. Their questions all hew to the same old narrative that if you are not a racist, sexist, or bigot, then you are an out-of-touch plutocrat or a shill for some special interest or other.
Like Trump, Republicans should challenge these charges head on. They should take issue with the Left’s premises from the start, showing that it is the Left who is projecting when it tries to discredit those who believe in capitalism, the power of the individual, and the sanctity of the individual’s rights, the rule of law, national sovereignty, federalism, and the Judeo-Christian morality on which the country is based.
When leftists attack an attorney general designate because he is a white male from the South, they should be attacked for judging based on color of skin (rather than content of character) and for trying to bruise an appointee who will not stand for open borders, selective law enforcement, and politicized justice.
When leftists attack a secretary of education designate because her family is wealthy, they should be attacked for their anti-capitalism and hypocrisy, and their real desire to bloody an appointee because she believes that the Left’s own constituents — and indeed all Americans — should have the opportunity to send their kids to superior schools, rather than being doomed to a subpar education because it mollifies a teachers union.
These attacks are designed to put not only the appointees, but also all right-thinking people on the defensive — to fear reflexively a false premise because those premises have prevailed among the progressives who dominated media, academia, and government for decades.
We should no longer live in fear — for the Left thrives when we self-censor and accept its baseless premises.
They ought to take a page from Trump, but they won’t, because they STILL accept the baseless premises of the Left. Consider the cucking on display even in this exhortation to be bold and fearless and willing to fight:
- The Judeo-Christian morality on which the country is based. There is no “Judeo-Christian morality”. Nor is the country based on the nonexistent concept. The USA was founded by Christians on the basis of predominantly Protestant values. Judaism, which is considerably more than the Mosaic Law, had, and has, nothing to do with the American nation or the founding of the USA. These appeals to the teachings of Judeo Christ rather than Jesus Christ are the certain sign of the cuck.
- they should be attacked for judging based on color of skin. Dems are the real racists! Cucks never learn, they only project their fear of being accused of racism on everyone else.
- they should be attacked for their anti-capitalism and hypocrisy. Call them commies! And hypocrites! Because that has worked so well for the last 50 years, right?
The ironic thing is that Donald Trump NEVER utilizes these feeble forms of limp-wristed hand-waving. He goes after them where it hurts, in a direct and aggressive manner that inevitably make the cucks complain that he is rude and boorish and hurtful.
Forget conservatism. Conservatives don’t fight. Their failure to do so, their inevitable failure to conserve anything, is why the Alt-Right exists in the first place.
Pursuant to the previous
One shot at MILO event at the University of Washington:
A planned speech by controversial Breitbart.com editor Milo Yiannopoulos was delayed Friday evening before a man in the crowd outside the University of Washington venue was shot in the abdomen.
Seattle police announced an arrest in the shooting early Saturday and called the man a “person of interest” who was being questioned after turning himself into UW police. The university had tweeted a description of a possible suspect as an Asian male, 50 years old, 5-foot-7, 190 pounds, no facial hair, wearing a yellow cap and a black jacket.
Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Gregg told The Associated Press that the 32-year-old victim, previously identified as 25, arrived at the hospital at 9 p.m. and that he was in surgery. After the shooting, the university urged people to avoid that area of campus near Red Square, which had seen a large police presence much of the night. By 11 p.m., all but a few stragglers had left the large plaza.
The shooting and accompanying violence outside the Yiannopoulos event marred what had been a long day of largely peaceful protest in the streets of Seattle.
Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole told a late-night press conference that there had been “no arrests, no serious injuries, very little use of force by police and several successful demonstrations of free speech” before the UW incident.
“Seattle has a long, proud tradition of speaking up and speaking out, but we will not tolerate violence of any kind, against any person,” Mayor Ed Murray said in a written statement Friday night. “Thousands of Seattleites, including myself, will speak up and march peacefully throughout this weekend.”
The shooting came almost an hour after officials stopped allowing entry to people with tickets for the Kane Hall lecture by Yiannopoulos, a leading white nationalist figure who has been banned from Twitter for harassment. The event had been oversold, as Yiannopoulos’s supporters and detractors scrambled to pack the speech.
Red Square. Indeed. Anyhow, as I wrote previously, be prepared. They’re working themselves up to more serious violence.
Fascinating to see how MILO has been transformed into “a leading white nationalist figure”.
An acceptable tactic
Apparently the Left isn’t taking Breitbart’s warning seriously about punching back twice as hard. It’s strange, but none of them have ever tried to punch me or Mike Cernovich despite many threats to do so over the years. Of course, if one of us hits you, you’re not only likely to go down and stay down, based on past experience, something is probably going to get broken in the process.
That being said, it’s long past time for the Right to be prepared for these petty attacks at public events, with at least four martial arts-trained bodyguards armed with street-legal melee weapons, and, in states with carry laws, two or more concealed-carry licensees. I always anticipate the possibility of street violence from the Left at public events; when we hosted GGinParis, I hired a number of martial artists to cover all entries and patrol the immediate vicinity. I also had a reasonable supply of legal weaponry on hand and made contact with the police station one block away so that they would know who we were and that we were minding our own business.
And when doing an interview in public, be sure to have at least one spotter keeping an eye out for potential trouble approaching. Two is better. Also, don’t ever leave your back exposed. The reporter is going to distract you from people moving around you, so first position yourself with your back to a wall if possible, or a car if not.
This article, Days of Rage, goes into some detail concerning the political violence of the 1970s that is potentially relevant to today’s troubling environment, except for one thing. We are not our parents or our grandparents. We are not only willing to fight the Left, but are willing to fight them effectively, and within the constraints of the law, when they attack us. We are not unarmed and we are not unprepared. Far more of us have training and many vets even have combat experience. And there is absolutely nothing “Nazi” about self-defense.
If at any point in 2017 Trump supporters are harmed or harrassed like the rally in Chicago, expect Righties to get very interested in forming street defense leagues: goons and headhunters to make Black Bloc spit teeth. And they’ll be purely defensive. For a while. But they’re human. So then they’ll think about getting proactive.
Bluntly: this is dangerous. The people who do it for the Left are literal Communists. What kind of Righties will it draw? Oh, I dunno, I’m guessing people who’re comfortable with violence, who don’t mind breaking norms or being arrested…
…if you’re now thinking, “Oh shit,” well, guess what? So am I.
If streetfights start happening on a regular basis on American streets, our democracy will corrode very quickly. We’ll see rapid radicalization at both poles, meaning normalization of political extremists.
The usual story American politics tells of how extremists get politically normalized is, to say the least, inaccurate. “Extremists get normalized bc the mainstream says things so beyond the pale it invites extremes.” ie, “Republicans make Nazis.” Bullshit.
How extremists really get mainstreamed: because the extremists have organization, logistics, and manpower that the mainstream finds useful.
Mainstream Lefties happily go to protests they favor that are organized by the literal Stalinists of ANSWER & the Worker’s World Party. Why? The commies are really good at getting people signs and making sure there are enough port-a-potties. When you’re great at organizing signs & port-a-potties, Lefties overlook that you’re into an ideology that murdered a hundred million people.
So how far would this go? Would mainstream Nazi-hating Righties be ok w/ literal Nazis on the streetfighting squads that keep them safe?
I dunno; how’d you feel about folks who voluntarily get their bodies between your peaceful gathering and a crowd trying to intimidate you?
Lefties could keep that very human thing from happening. But they’d have to de-escalate. And they won’t. Mellow out on college campuses? Quit disrupting righty events? No chance. It’s too much fun. So the hard Left is going to do more to normalize literal Nazis in America than anyone since Charles Lindbergh.
Get fit. Get hard. And always be prepared.
Inaugural Darkstream
I’ll be doing a ‘scope tonight to discuss the inauguration of the God-Emperor at 7 PM Eastern. If you want to tune in, comment, and ask questions, be sure to follow me here so that you’ll be alerted when it goes live.
This is the open thread to discuss the ascendance of the God-Emperor to the Cherry Blossom Throne today.
UPDATE: All right, we’re on in 10.
UPDATE: If you’d like to watch the replay of The God-Emperor Ascends, in which I discuss the 10 points that most struck me about Donald Trump’s speech today, you can do so here.