What is wrong with America?

According to the Men of the West, that is the wrong question for most of us:

Once our homes were changed, it was only a matter of time before everything changed.  But if you think this is a defeatist message, you are mistaken.  No.  It could not be less so.  Because as we look at all the problems of America and we ask ourselves, “What can I do?”  I want you to know that you can save it all.  You can fix it.  All of it.   Because you and I are what is wrong with America.   Our homes are what is wrong.

Now… you can’t fix the federal government.  You can’t fix the crime rates.   You can’t fix the school system or the justice system.  You can’t fix any of that.  That isn’t under your control.

But your home is under your control.  You can fix your home.   And if you fix your home, and I fix my home, then all of these other problems?  They fix themselves.

The battle is right in front of you.  The war for civilization is your family.

Do not ask what is wrong with America.

Ask what is wrong with your home.

Or to put it another way, the journey of a thousand leagues starts with a single step. Don’t worry about the destination for now. Take the first step.

And I have to admit, while I have contemplated the decline of the West from an architectural perspective – I utterly loathe all glass, steel, and box design – I’ve never once thought about it with regards to the single-family home.

In any event, before you can make America great again, you have to make yourself great again. I’m told Mike Cernovich has a few thoughts on how to go about doing that.

The Men of the West also identify what is wrong with most modern Christianity:

It is interesting and somewhat amusing to me that a vast majority of so-called Christians miss the most fundamental aspect of Christianity. And when you tell them what that is, many of them go off on indignant rants or flat out refuse to “believe” it.

They will sooner accuse you of lying or being wrong than bother to verify this simple fact, which takes ten seconds on google or using any Bible you may have at hand.

And what is this fundamental fact that is so shocking to these faux Christians? Simply this:

This planet, and in my opinion the entirety of what we refer to as the material, physical universe, falls under the domain of the Prince of the Air. The Father of Lies. The Prince of Darkness. The Serpent in the Garden of Eden. The Enemy. The Eternal Psychopath. First of the fallen Angels. Satan. Lucifer. Take your pick, after all, his names are Legion.

They are absolutely correct. There is no Problem of Evil with regards to Christianity. Quite the opposite, actually. Christianity is the explicit answer to the philosophical Problem of Evil. And there is no other religious or philosophical or scientific answer that even begins to address it as coherently, or as completely, as Christianity.

That, of course, is why the rational atheist, or indeed, any other logically consistent thinker who is not a Christian, has to deny that evil exists.

It all comes together

In one glorious, feminist cuckservative anti-racist dyscivilizational Churchian heresy:

An old friend of mine has a sister who decided to go back to college and get a degree in “ministry.” This was on her hard-working husband’s dime, obviously. She has four young-children at home, including one she adopted from Africa and uses as a virtue signal all over social media.

Anyway, she “preached a sermon” at an area church last Sunday. Of course, she plastered it all over the various relevant social media apps so she can emotionally masturbate in the “Christian” feminist echo chamber. My wife showed me the title of the sermon:

“Exploring the justice of the Holy Spirit, which often shows up as a holy disruption and upsets the status quo of an unjust empire.”

The thrilling frontier of female preaching.

Satan is fortunate to not possess a material body, or he would be at regular risk of rupturing something inside, seeing as how much what passes for the modern Church regularly provides for him to laugh at.

William S. Lind is right. The West really needs to revive the practice of burning witches.

Infogalactic update

I haven’t said much about Infogalactic lately, mostly because things are proceeding well. A few notes:

  • Traffic has increased to the point that we needed to up our server resources by thirty percent. 
  • We now have 540 registered Galaxians. Not a single edit war yet.
  • We reached our initial goal of 100 subscribers. Thank you, Burn Unit! Our annual goal is to reach 1,000 subscribers.
  • Redirect extensions have been created for all the major browsers.
  • An extension that provides a default search engine for Chrome has been developed and will be submitted to Google later this week.
  • We will be making an announcement of significant interest to Alt-Tech fans later this week.

The performance is the major issue at the moment and is our top dev priority. If you’re interested in keeping up on this sort of thing, you can read more about it at Infogalaxians later today.

As always, if you’d like to support Infogalactic, you can do so through a monthly subscription, a one-time donation, or by buying a t-shirt from CryptoFashion. We’re planning to do a monthly newsletter that will go out to subscribers every month. Nothing fancy, just early updates about the dev process, our current perspective on the roadmap, and a little inside information.

Speaking of donations, this email between Jimmy Wales and a former Wikipedia donor was sent to me yesterday. I tend to doubt it will be the only exchange of its kind. And I particularly enjoyed the egregious MAGA shiv at the end.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:15 PM, jimmy@wikipedia.org wrote:

    Dear [REDACTED],

    Two years ago, you donated $[REDACTED] to keep Wikipedia online for hundreds of millions of readers. We are deeply grateful for your past support, and we need your help again this year.

    Please renew your donation today.

    We are the small non-profit that runs one of the top websites in the world. We only have about 300 staff but serve millions of users, and have costs like any other top site: servers, power, programs, and people.

    If all our past donors gave again today, our fundraiser would be over within an hour. We’re not there yet. Please help us end the fundraiser and improve Wikipedia.

    Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind, a place we can all go to think and learn.

    To protect our independence, we’ll never run ads. We are sustained by donations from our readers. Now is the time we ask.

    If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it online, ad-free, and growing another year.

    Thanks,
    Jimmy Wales
    Wikipedia Founder

Dear Jimmy,

You will not be receiving any further donations from me.

Wikipedia has become social justice converged. I now use and support Infogalactic, The Planetary Knowledge Core, and I couldn’t be happier about my decision. I hope you folks at Wikipedia take a moment to reflect on the consequences of allowing convergence to take place within your organization. You lost sight of your mission. You became political and you censored those who disagreed with your politics. Sad!

Please visit Infogalactic.com if you would like to see what Wikipedia should have been. Onward and upward. MAGA

Sincerely,

[REDACTED]



“… and finally, that Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them:”


Thomas Jefferson
Statute for Religious Freedom
1777

Two police ambushed in Des Moines

The price of vibrancy is always white corpses:

Two metro-area police officers were shot and killed in apparent “ambush style” attacks early Wednesday. Police from Urbandale and Des Moines departments responded to a report of gunfire at the intersection of 70th Street and Aurora Avenue at about 1:06 a.m.

The first officers arriving on the scene found an Urbandale officer shot. The officer, whose name has not been released, died, said Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek in a news release. At about 1:26 a.m., a Des Moines police officer was shot and killed near the intersection of Merle Hay Road and Sheridan Drive while responding to the scene where the Urbandale officer was shot.

Both officers were gunned down in their patrol cars.

The police departments are wary of officers’ safety, as the attack appeared targeted at officers.

Their families will, no doubt, be consoled by the thought that no one will be able to call them racist.

UPDATE: The suspect is not a BLM activist, but a bearded white man. It looks like BLM isn’t to blame for this one.

Bill, Hillary, and the Lolita Express

So, in light of the pretty serious claims the guy is making, I looked him up before posting a link to this video. Based on his Infogalactic page, he’s a pretty serious guy, albeit a controversial one. The highlights:
  • Harvard psychiatrist
  • MIT PhD
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker.
  • Former Council on Foreign Relations member
  • 9/11 and Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist.
In other words, he’s Deep State and a genuine, if rogue, member of the intelligence community. So, if he’s now willing to make open claims about Hillary being a lesbian pedophile with ties to Epstein and the Lolita Express, this is a pretty strong sign that the NYPD and the FBI already have the evidence of her crimes.

The rumors are getting crazier and crazier, and yet remain somehow consistent:

There are three files that are in the folder labeled “Life Insurance” , one of which is called ‘DNC Nuclear Arsenal’. The second file is labeled ‘Intimate XXX’, which contains naked pictures of Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton, and a teenage girl having sex.  The Third file was not mentioned.

The FBI set up a sting against the Department of Justice (DOJ).  The sting set up Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Phoenix, Arizona which they had a secret meeting on the tarmac of Mrs. Lynch’s airplane.  FBI workers leaked information to Bill Clinton that Loretta Lynch was going to be at the airport in Phoenix.  This is how Bill Clinton knew that AG Lynch was going to be at the airport at that specific time and date.

Speculation now is that the FBI and Department of Justice are now in an internal war about the leaks of the new emails found on Huma’s and Anthony Wiener’s computer.   Many people are connected with the latest email scandal as the Obama administration personnel were using private emails servers outside of the sanctioned government servers.  They were passing classified information though private emails.  Senators, Representatives, and lobbyists, including John Podesta, and Huma. The emails revealed that they were communicating with media broadcast companies NBC, ABC, CBS for the purpose of denying the American people from using the Freedom Information Act/ FOIA Requests of the private emails from Hillary and Huma’s computer.  The whole thing is setup under a code name called “SOCIGA3301”.

Obviously, I cannot vouch for any of this. I am not privy to the files. I am not saying it is true. I am simply conveying the information that others are now reporting. 

Migrant nightmares in Sweden, Germany

Back in September, Breitbard reported that 80 percent of Swedish police were considering quitting. Two months later, Sweden is hemorrhaging police and now has more than 55 no-go zones where the Muslims rule:

SWEDEN is on the brink of becoming a lawless state as the police force is losing the battle against unprecedented levels of crime and violence amid a growing migrant crisis.

The Scandinavian country is facing an existential crisis with on average three police officers handing in their resignations a day. If the alarming trend continues, and police officers continue to resign more than 1,000 officers will have quit the service by New Years.

Since the migrant crisis began last summer, Sweden has been hit by a series of brutal crimes and violent incidents. In 2015 alone Sweden, with a population of 9.5million, received over 160,000 asylum applications and the country is expected to take as many as 190,000 refugees, or two per cent of the population, by the end of 2016….

Currently there are more than 6,000 suspected crimes that are unsolved in the area and 400 of these cases are suspected to be rapes, murder or attempted murder.

Mr Stjernfeldt said the figures are alarming and police officers are constantly forced to work overtime  in an attempt to solve the reported crimes. The Police Association admitted it fears the public will lose faith in the force and their ability to protect citizens if the situation is not resolved.

The Swedish public shouldn’t lose faith in the police force, but in the politicians. Electing the Sweden Democrats followed by the 100 percent repatriation of every migrant and Muslim in the country is the only answer that will avoid massive violence.

Things are little better in Germany, which has also descended into lawlessness, as the police now say “We are losing control of the streets”:

Germany took in more than 1.1million migrants in the past year and parts of the country are crippled with a lack of infrastructure. Now the true reality is hitting home ahead of next year’s elections as the far right surges in the polls threatening to topple the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Mrs Merkel.

According to a report by the international policy council the Gatestone Institute, local police in many parts of the country admit that they are stretched to the limit.

The report states: “The rape of a ten-year-old girl in Leipzig, the largest city in Saxony, has drawn renewed attention to the spiralling levels of violent crime perpetrated by migrants in cities and towns across Germany.

“During the first six months of 2016, migrants committed 142,500 crimes, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office. This is equivalent to 780 crimes committed by migrants every day, an increase of nearly 40 per cent over 2015. The data includes only those crimes in which a suspect has been caught.

“Thousands of migrants who entered the country as ‘asylum seekers’ or ‘refugees’ have gone missing. They are, presumably, economic migrants who entered Germany on false pretences. Many are thought to be engaging in robbery and criminal violence.”

According to Freddi Lohse of the German Police Union in Hamburg, many migrant offenders view the leniency of the German justice system as a green light to continue delinquent behaviour, says the report.

He said: “They are used to tougher consequences in their home countries. They have no respect for us.”

Meanwhile a female police officer has admitted that officers are under attack and that the courts are a “joke.”

Americans should not be smug about this. The challenge is posed to the entire West, as in addition to being invaded from the south, tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants have been permitted entry to the USA in 2016.

The Center for Immigration Studies, which favors lower levels of immigration, estimated in a report released Tuesday that more than 3 million foreigners moved to the United States in 2014 and 2015. The total foreign-born population in the United States in 2015, 43.3 million, was an all-time high. At 13.5 percent, immigrants now make up the largest share of the population in 105 years.

Forget the Global War on Terrorism and fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here. The orcs have invaded the Shire.

ABC/WP has Trump +1

Donald Trump has leapfrogged over Hillary Clinton in the newest national ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll. Trump is now 1 point ahead of his Democratic rival, earning 46 percent of likely voters’ support, compared to Clinton’s 45 percent. This is a shocking reversal from just nine days ago, when Clinton was 12 points ahead. – Daily Mail

Amazing how all those independents and undecideds are suddenly making up their minds. Trump is already up in FL and OH. And as I said, once the polls show Trump up in PA and NC, the Trumpslide is on.

UPDATE: Speaking of North Carolina:

With a week to go until Election Day, Republican Donald Trump has seized control of a tight presidential race in North Carolina, according to an exclusive WRAL News poll released Tuesday. SurveyUSA polled 659 people statewide Friday through Monday who have already cast their ballots or are likely to vote in the election and found Trump with a 51 to 44 percent lead over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points. In a WRAL News poll released three weeks ago, Clinton led Trump 46 to 44 percent.

UPDATE: A second NC poll has it tied, 44 Trump, 44 Clinton, 4 Johnson. This is also a significant change from polls which had Clinton +6 less than a week ago.

The last days of #NeverTrump

No matter how the election turns out, the #NeverTrump crowd have permanently discredited themselves:

Now that we seem to be having a non-stop stream of evidence (as if we needed it) that the Obama and forthcoming Clinton administrations are basically a crime syndicate, stretching from the Department of Justice, through the FBI, and into the IRS — and an international one at that, with tentacles, via the Clinton Foundation, all the way to Moscow and Riyadh — it’s time for the NeverTrumpers to take a final look at their position.

Do they want to enable such a crime syndicate to be running the U.S. government? And if so, how do they expect it ever to end, if not now? Through litigation? Under whose auspices? Do they not think, if Hillary is elected, that the paramount goal of her administration will be to further entrench the syndicate, making it impermeable to change, turning the USA into the ghost of itself? These things happen in history.

Not simple, is it?

If I were writing my book on moral narcissism today, I would have to add a chapter on the NeverTrumpers, because — like it or not — their stance, while once idealistic, at this point seems rather too substantially based on self-regard. They want to have “clean hands” to avoid any tarnishing by the unseemly Mr. Trump.

Well, fine. But where does that leave the rest of us? Where does that leave the country?

I don’t know how it is going to be possible for anyone on the right to take the cucks and neocons seriously again. I certainly hope conservatives will show better sense than to listen to them or give them credence in the future.

“Meritocracy” in America

Thomas Frank at The Guardian observes the way the Podesta emails reveal how America’s ruling class really operates:

This genre of Podesta email, in which people try to arrange jobs for themselves or their kids, points us toward the most fundamental thing we know about the people at the top of this class: their loyalty to one another and the way it overrides everything else. Of course Hillary Clinton staffed her state department with investment bankers and then did speaking engagements for investment banks as soon as she was done at the state department. Of course she appears to think that any kind of bank reform should “come from the industry itself”. And of course no elite bankers were ever prosecuted by the Obama administration. Read these emails and you understand, with a start, that the people at the top tier of American life all know each other. They are all engaged in promoting one another’s careers, constantly.

Everything blurs into everything else in this world. The state department, the banks, Silicon Valley, the nonprofits, the “Global CEO Advisory Firm” that appears to have solicited donations for the Clinton Foundation. Executives here go from foundation to government to thinktank to startup. There are honors. Venture capital. Foundation grants. Endowed chairs. Advanced degrees. For them the door revolves. The friends all succeed. They break every boundary.

But the One Big Boundary remains. Yes, it’s all supposed to be a meritocracy. But if you aren’t part of this happy, prosperous in-group – if you don’t have John Podesta’s email address – you’re out.

I don’t so much mind the corruption and nepotism. It has always been thus, in every human culture. Francis Fukuyama has even coined a term, repatrimonialization, to describe the process, and in his excellent The Origins of Political Order, argues that one of the chief challenges of a society, and one of the causes of the rise and fall of civilizations, is the never-ending battle between the aristocratic class to increase its wealth and privileges at the expense of the common people, and pass them on to its children, and the state, which attempts to interfere with that process.

In the USA, the state, and the people, have clearly lost that battle, because the financial aristocrats captured the throne, which has historically allied with the common people against the aristocracies.

3.1 million

For nearly 10 years, I didn’t think much about the traffic statistics, until in 2012, a few Scalzi fans began trying to taunt me with McRapey’s supposedly massive traffic at Whatever. (Key word: supposedly). So, it now gives me a sense of satisfaction every time a new high-water mark is reached. October 2016 marks the first time I’ve hit three times the all-time peak for the former most popular blog in science fiction, which was recorded in May 2012.

Of course, it’s around 6x Whatever‘s current traffic, but no one cares about that anymore.

Anyhow, October set a new traffic records for both VP – 2,615,169 Google pageviews – and VP+AG – 3,112,416. It will be close, but it now looks like the combined blog total will exceed 30 million in 2016, up considerably from last year’s 20,776,969 pageviews.

A lot of that is the election, of course, but there was no dropoff at all after November 2012, so perhaps the newly come Ilk will become the foundation for the next ramp up to 50 million annually. Who knows?

There is a deeper point to this post, however, beyond the petty ball-spiking. Past performance can be indicative of future performance, but that is not always the case. For example, I have a pretty good statistical model that predicts traffic growth with a reasonable degree of accuracy. It can be so good that it predicted 1,990,883 pageviews in January 2016. The actual number was 1,982,034. That’s precision to within half of one percent! It also predicted 27,682,865 pageviews for 2016; we’re presently at 24,247,801 with two months to go. Not bad, right?

That, you see, is why I take dh very seriously when he discusses the election in terms of the historical poll analyses. His perspective is not irrelevant. Far from it. On the other hand, one also has to be aware that these statistical trends, however reliable they tend to be, are not determinative. One also has to pay attention to potential outliers, and recognize the scenarios when they are likely to be in play.

For example, my impressively precise traffic model predicted 2,019,930 pageviews in October 2016. The actual result, previously mentioned, turned out to be 54 percent higher.

TL;DR: Thank you for visiting. Feel free to join the discourse. And please to enjoy the incipient Trumpslide.