The Consequences of Stupidity

Watching the Vikings implode against a mediocre Chargers team last night would have been painful if I was still capable of feeling anything in that regard. Fortunately, we children of the late, great Bud Grant all have ice in the place where our hearts should be.

The Vikings are in a bind at quarterback.

And they deserve zero sympathy for the dilemma because it is of their own making. This is, so far, a botched situation in which the Vikings sabotaged the Vikings.

The Vikings, you see, could have any of three other quarterbacks starting for them right now and all of them – Sam Darnold, Daniel Jones and Aaron Rodgers – are playing very well elsewhere.

All of them wanted to play this season for the Vikings.

All of them.

I’m absolutely fine with letting Sam Darnold move on to the Seahawks. He’s a good quarterback, but he’s not a great one and he hit his ceiling last year. His price-to-value ratio was just too high. I think, and I thought at the time, that letting an extremely affordable Daniel Jones go instead of telling him that the quarterback job was closed and no competition would be permitted was not only reprehensibly stupid, but indicative of a fundamental problem with whomever was responsible for making that decision.

It was a classic Smart Boy mistake in which no deviation from the plan can be tolerated, a mistake which reliably leads to failure. If I were the Vikings owner, I would fire the individual responsible, because it is a mindset that is very, very unlikely to ever succeed in a world of variables and probabilities.

The Jones mistake was compounded by the Rodgers mistake; who cares if the new star-to-be has to wait a second year before getting his shot, especially when he’s now missed 22 out of the 24 games in his short and thus-far unimpressive career. Rodgers sat for three years himself and Jordan Love sat for three years behind him. Both observably benefitted from their long launch ramps.

The signing of Carson Wentz as a theoretical backup completed the trifecta of stupidity. His decision-making is observably too slow at the NFL level. Sure, the offensive line is terrible, but that means you know you cannot wait to throw the ball! Even an average NFL quarterback would avoid at least half of his sacks and interceptions. And if you know you need two quarterbacks, then why aren’t you signing Jones in the first place?

Now, perhaps JJ McCarthy will show up next week as the second coming of Tom Brady and lead the Vikes to a rout of the Lions, but that’s highly unlikely. And an unnecessary, so-easily avoidable disaster of this magnitude absolutely calls for consequences at the end of the season.

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Clown World Knows It’s Falling

A leaked report about the UK police shows they’re not even trying to uphold the law anymore because they know that the immigrant populations will respond with violence that will likely cause a reaction that will overturn the system.

SENIOR POLICE OFFICERS ADMIT THEIR BIGGEST FEAR IS “MUSLIMS KICKING OFF”

A leaked discussion among senior UK police officers has revealed that their greatest fear when handling sensitive cases is “Muslims kicking off.”

  • Officers admit they tread lightly to avoid “community backlash”
  • Fear of unrest now shaping law enforcement decisions
  • Britain’s policing priorities have shifted from justice to appeasement

“And then their other fear is that a lot of us now are refusing to go along with the ‘multiculturalism has worked out brilliantly’ and they are now afraid of people pointing that out.”

It’s interesting to see how Clown World has recreated the situation that plagues the USA in the European countries. A significant minority of the native populations now aggressively opposes all forms of multiculturalism and multiracism because the failures of immigration, diversity, and equality are so obvious and undeniable.

And that minority will become a majority within the next decade.

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The Name is Bezos. Jeff Bezos.

Amazon bought creative control of the James Bond franchise, and for a lot less than you’d probably imagine:

Sooner or later everyone has a price, but in the case of James Bond ‘s former paymasters it’s significantly lower than the incredible sums being reported as recently as last week. After 25 films, six 007’s and countless foiled attempts at world domination, long-term producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael C Wilson sold the hugely popular spy franchise to Amazon MGM for a widely reported £1 billion, in February.

But a recent earnings report from Wilson and Broccoli’s Eon Productions suggests the true figure is notably less than initially thought.

‘On 20 February 2025, the company entered into an agreement for the sale of its interest in the Bond franchise, all associated assets as well as its subsidiary companies, B24 Limited and B25 Limited,’ reads the report, published by Variety. The total consideration for the sale amounted to $20 million (USD).’

The deal gives Jeff Bezos and Amazon MGM full creative control of the franchise going forward, while forming a joint venture with Wilson and Broccoli to manage intellectual property rights.

If Amazon can do for Bond what it did for Lord of the Rings, it should be available for a lot less in the not-too-distant future. Sure, it’s possible they learned their lesson, certainly a lot of other film studios did. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

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Isolation, Nietzsche, and Politics

Friedrich Nietzsche was a lunatic and his philosophy was little more than pompous Gamma self-inflatery. But one of his observations was not merely cogent, it explains Clown World’s tendency to enervate its allies and

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Japanese literature is full of the talented samurai who leaves his liege lord, either voluntarily or dismissed under a cloud of social disapproval, disappears into the mountains or the small villages of the western provinces, and spends several years teaching poetry or performing menial labor in order to survive as a masterless ronin. Eventually, he is summoned back into martial society by someone, where his talents, strengthened and hardened by his years of solitude, allow him to win success on the battlefield and in the courts.

In like manner, those of us who were banished by mainstream publishing houses have prospered considerably more in the era of ebooks and artificial intelligence than the hothouse flowers who are wholly dependent upon the publishing infrastructure to sell their books for them.

And the world of German politics is proving no different, as the repeated attempts of all the mainstream parties to shun, slander, and even legally outlaw Alternative für Deutschland have only resulted in AfD becoming the obvious future of Germany.

The last ten years of German politics have been one unending nightmarish festival of failure and stupidity. All the establishment parties have taken turns implicating themselves in this amazing shitshow, while religiously sparing the AfD any association with their unprecedented failures. The firewall lends truth to the AfD’s name; it has allowed Alternative für Deutschland to become the only conceivable political alternative in Germany. As things get worse and voters grow more desperate for alternatives, the AfD just becomes stronger. The firewall is an AfD-maximising machine.

The firewall is only really bad for the people who invented it and who alone have the power to end it. I speak here of the centre-right Union parties, the CDU and the CSU. They maintain the firewall not because it helps them or because it is a good idea or even because the AfD are evil fascists, but because the firewall has been endified.

In 2018, when the CDU first set up the firewall, it had a coherent purpose. It was supposed to be a means of keeping the AfD small by dissuading CDU supporters from defecting to their upstart rival. CDU leadership had seen how the rising Green Party ate into the support of the SPD after reunification, and they thought they could prevent the same thing from happening to them. They would have been better off doing nothing at all, because after seven years of firewall the AfD are stronger than the Greens ever were. The whole thing has become a lesson in why you should avoid heavy-handed interventions in complex systems.

Sure, it hurts and it’s scary to find yourself banished from the castle and forced to scrounge, scratch, and claw for survival. But the self-discipline that comes from the experience is absolutely invaluable in the long term.

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Immigration and Military Power

As we know, Martin van Creveld has demonstrated that immigration is simply another form of war, and an invasion is an invasion regardless of whether it is a peaceful, unarmed, and disorganized one that is welcomed by a governing elite or an armed and organized one that is resisted by the governing elite.

But one of the lessons demonstrated by Sir Charles Oman in his The Art of War in the Middle Ages is the way in which immigration and the reliance upon foreign troops is intrinsically deleterious to the nation’s military organization and will inevitably weaken even the most dominant military power. And this weakness is distinct from the separate problem of foreign military commanders whose loyalties tend to be outweighed by either their ethnic interests or their self-interests.

As he demonstrates in the first chapter of his excellent essay, now being serialized at Castalia Library, the Roman Empire suffered both of these negative effects.

The morale of the Roman army was no longer what it had once been: the corps were no longer homogeneous, and the insufficient supply of recruits was eked out by enlisting slaves and barbarians in the legions themselves, and not only among the auxiliary cohorts. Though seldom wanting in courage, the troops of the fourth century had lost the self-reliance and cohesion of the old Roman infantry, and required far more careful handling on the part of the general. Few facts show this more forcibly than the proposal of the tactician Urbicius to furnish the legionaries with a large supply of portable beams and stakes, to be carried by pack-mules attached to each cohort. These were to be planted on the flanks and in the front of the legion, when there was a probability of its being attacked by hostile cavalry: behind them the Romans were to await the enemy’s onset, without any attempt to assume the offensive.

This proposition marks a great decay in the efficiency of the imperial foot-soldier: the troops of a previous generation would have scorned such a device, accustomed as they were to drive back with ease the assaults of the Parthian and Sarmatian cataphracti.

It should not be a surprise that the US military is in observable decline, having lost its global superpower status and has been surpassed in several areas by the Russian and Chinese militaries, given the fact that the percentage of foreign-born U.S. veterans rose from 2 percent in 1990 to 4.5 percent in 2022. And, of course, this doesn’t even count the much larger number of foreigners who were second- or third-generation immigrants whose interests do not necessarily align with those of the native population.

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The Death of Conservatism

It’s not just in the USA. Conservative parties all over the world are dying because they have betrayed their nations and conserved absolutely nothing of value:

The most noticeable feature of politics in the West in recent years has been the swift and irreversible demise of traditional conservative parties. The disappearance of these parties has been dramatically illustrated by the grim fates that now await the UK Conservative Party and the Liberal/National Party coalition in Australia.

The Conservative Party governed the UK from 2010 until last year. The Coalition government held office in Australia from 1996 to 2007, and from 2013 until 2022. Both of these parties were soundly defeated at the polls by ideologically unified social democratic parties that were led by uninspiring and pedestrian politicians – namely Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese.

This suggests that voters rejected the conservatives, rather than warmly embracing their social democratic opponents. UK Labour’s rapid fall from grace since last year’s election victory and the party’s current unpopularity confirms the correctness of this view.

More troubling for conservatives in the UK and Australia is the fact that both of these once dominant parties – so shortly after losing office – now find themselves in such acute states of internal disarray and that they have no realistic prospect of regaining office in the foreseeable future. In fact, it is clear that neither party has a viable long-term future at all…

These conservative parties – although in power for most of the past two decades – have resolutely refused to implement the kind of radical economic and social reforms necessary to remedy the serious economic inequalities and social problems that continue to bedevil all Western liberal democracies. In fact, despite their professed commitment to traditional values, conservative parties have – just like their social democratic counterparts – enthusiastically embraced and implemented the economic, cultural, and foreign policies of the new and now dominant global elites.

However, the death of the conservative parties is just the harbinger for the main event, which is the death of Western liberal democracy itself. The only question is if the global elites will somehow manage to hold on to power once their vehicle fails, or, as is much more likely, the new model nationalists will replace them in the West as they have already done in Russia, China, and elsewhere.

It’s telling that none of the self-styled champions of democracy ever advocate genuine direct democracy despite technology that obviously permits it, but instead, always exert their utmost efforts to prevent any and every aspect of direct democracy with the excuse of stopping “populism”.

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Destruction or Diversity

It’s really rather remarkable to observe how many people, even today, when faced between a clear, stark, and unavoidable choice between the collapse of society and diversity, will genuinely prefer complete societal ruin to accepting the reality of their moral and material obligations to prioritize the survival of their families, their religion, their nation, their language, and their culture.

However, the younger generations increasingly reject the Boomer ideals of integration and so-called “civil rights” because, unlike the Boomers and Generation X, they have grown up in an increasingly dystopian reality that has proven to be considerably different than the rainbow utopia previously conceived by the elderly demographic idealists who preceded them.

They are literally a rot that is killing every one of our cities. And most of the population lives in cities. Cities are the beating heart of a nation. It’s where the economy runs, where people are educated, where careers are built, where the entertainment is. If the people live in the cities, if a country is its cities, and if they are killing the cities, they are literally killing America. It is a death spiral.

It’s depressing. Paris, one of the world’s most beautiful cities, ruined—by this. Same with New York, same with LA. Look at what they’ve done to them. All because we’re afraid of being called racist. Well, I’m part of the new generation, and I can assure you I don’t give a single fuck about being called racist. I want our countries back. If that makes me racist, so be it. And increasingly, that’s how people feel about this.

We tried integrating. It didn’t work. This is the result. Who wants any part of it? Not even them. What’s the first thing they do when they make a lot of money? They get the fuck out of the ghetto. Why all the fuss about education? So they can send their kids to White schools. They want to live near us because they want our tax money. They want reparations because they want our money. It’s a toxic relationship. We want out.

Honest to God, what’s the benefit? What is the positive? All I see is a heavy net dragging in the water behind us, full of risks, resentment, and a constant storm of chaos and danger we can’t escape. They’re inflicting it on us, and we’re expected to tolerate it, and we’re being penalised for having an issue with it. We’ve argued, pleaded, bent over backwards, sacrificed our own to keep it together. For what? The weight on our backs is too great, and we’ve carried it long enough. The water’s up to our necks, the storm’s already here, and no one’s coming to save us. Either we find the courage to fix what’s broken, or we cut the net loose. Otherwise, we drown with it.

Because history doesn’t reward the timid. And if we don’t carve out our own future, far from the storm, we’ll be nothing but bones beneath their boots, mourned by no one, forgotten by all.

My suspicion is that most people who prefer societal collapse to segregation do so because the former is both a) in the future and b) comprehensive while the latter is a) in the present and b) personal. It’s not so much that they prefer the former to the latter as that they don’t believe the former is inevitable because they are incapable of seeing anything beyond their current personal perspective. Although this isn’t always true, as we’ve seen far too many mealy-mouthed Churchians dutifully mouthing the diversity dogma over the dead bodies of their children.

And this Churchian response underlines both the subversion of organized churches and the way in which Churchianity is actively contributing to the decline and fall of the Western civilization formerly known as Christendom.

I am reporting this post because it spreads hate and promotes racial stereotypes that are false, harmful, and dangerous. The content dehumanizes an entire group of people based on race and encourages fear, division, and segregation. It goes beyond expressing an opinion about crime or public safety; it scapegoats an entire community and normalizes prejudice as a survival strategy. As a Christian and someone who values personal responsibility, truth, and the dignity of every individual, I cannot allow content that encourages hatred to remain unchallenged. The post conflicts with the principles of justice, love, and moral courage that are central to both faith and a strong, free society. Reporting it is an act of standing for truth, community safety, and the protection of innocent lives from the toxic influence of racism.

Somehow, I don’t think the wagging fingers of outraged Boomers and self-righteous Churchians are going to impress the furious younger generations at all. Seldom has a society more deserved its inevitable fate than the post-WWII USA. The same is true of all the converged Churchian organizations, from the Roman Catholic Church to the Southern Baptist Conference. Neither the society nor the faiths, such as they are, will survive the 21st century. Some may not even make it to the halfway mark.

Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz has suggested ‘anyone with daughters’ would support his call for mass deportations of migrants from German cities. The conservative leader implied Germany faces a growing problem of sexual attacks linked to migration – remarks critics branded ‘dangerous’ and ‘deeply irresponsible.’

Those remarks may or may not be “dangerous” or “deeply irresponsible” but the only question that matters is if they are true or not. This, of course, is the question that the anti-American Nationalist Christian side now assiduously avoids.

The great irony here is that regardless of what the sum total of everyone’s professed preferences turn out to be, the end result will be pretty much the same. Because what follows ruin will look very similar to a nationalist authoritarianism instituted through political or military means, only it will come about after a long period of violence, economic catastrophe, and war.

Carthago semper cadit.

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The Mediocrity was Inevitable

The modern sacralization of democracy is one of the intellectual abominations of Clown World. And the reasons why the great writers of the past disdained democracy and had such low expectations for it have been more than demonstrated by the rise and fall of the Western democracies. Such as, for example, Zeno of Elea:

The genius of a nation strikes but once in its history. It is its glory and its immortality in the annals of men. It is aristocratic, discriminating, radiant and selective, and abjures all that is mediocre, plebeian and mundane. It is regnant. It is spiritual. It is the flame emanating from the core of the Universe, which is the generation of life. It is the lightning which sets fire to the small spirits of men, and raises them above the field and the plow, the house and the hayfield, in a sudden revelation of grandeur. It is, above all, masculine, for the aristocracy of the soul is purely masculine and never feminine, which is concerned only with petty matters and insistent trivialities. It transcends the humbleness of daily living and stands even the least important of men upon Olympus for a brief hour. It is never democratic, for democracy is a destructive thing, conspired in the inferior minds of envious men.

If that nation which would survive in glory would cultivate only the masculine principle its name in history will be written in gold and blaze through the centuries.

Even real democracy is destructive, so imagine how much worse is the USA’s pseudo-democratic model of “representative democracy” where a fraction of the people participate in rigged elections that pretend to let them choose between one AIPAC-funded candidate and another AIPAC-funded candidate who will then represent the interests of a foreign people and other foreign invaders at the expense of the nation.

It’s no surprise that the so-called “authoritarian” models of Russia, China, and even Iran are proving objectively superior over time as the pseudo-democratic model has not only become sclerotic, but rapidly approaches complete collapse everywhere from France and Germany to the UK and the USA.

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The Post-WWII Moral Order

Since 1945, World War II has been the basis of Clown World’s civic religion, but with the observable decline of the West, neither the native masses nor the foreign invaders believe in it anymore:

Every civilization rests upon a sacred order, something that transcends the merely mortal and provides the framework through which value is arranged and meaning conferred. It is not a fiction but a sacred order that defines good and evil, memory and destiny, and determines what may be preserved and what must be condemned.

For the modern West, that faith is the Second World War.

It is remembered not as a conflict among nations but as the moment in which a new moral order was born. The war is treated as revelation, the event from which the moral legitimacy of the Western Regime descends. From it emerged a political theology that shaped institutions and public life, binding the Western world to a moral interpretation of its own survival.

Within this framework, Hitler ceased to be a historical figure and became a moral archetype, a new antichrist whose memory must be condemned. He stands as the emblem through which modern virtue is defined and the warning through which conformity is maintained. His image serves as the foundation of the postwar faith, a reference point invoked to justify authority and to police the boundaries of thought.

Through this transformation, a human tragedy was elevated into doctrine. The victors fashioned from their triumph a permanent narrative of righteousness that turned history into morality and memory into commandment. The faith endures because it explains the modern West to itself, granting coherence to its institutions and meaning to its exhaustion. It teaches that virtue lies in suppressing national will, that peace depends upon the renunciation of power, and that remembering the past too fully risks exposing the myths on which the present order rests.

The cult of the war did not remain confined to remembrance. It grew into a civic religion, woven into the structures of power and instruction. Its language pervades public life, where law and policy alike are judged against its moral vision. The past is recalled less to understand than to admonish, and history itself has been moralized into a sermon.

From this grew an orthodoxy that defines the limits of permissible thought. Nations may exist only as administrative zones and marketplaces, peoples as abstractions, and tradition as surface decoration. The religion grants the ruling order its moral immunity, for to question it is to profane what has been declared sacred.

As I pointed out to Louise Mensch, no one cares about World War II, the Nazis, or the Holocaust anymore than people cared about the Boxer Rebellion in 1939. Events that took place more than 80 years ago are simply not relevant to their lives or to their experience in any way, shape, or form.

This wasn’t true 30 years ago. When Spacebunny and I bought our first house, the man from whom we bought it was nearly brought to tears when meeting my grandfather, a Marine who fought in WWII, because he’d lost his brother in Normandy on D-Day. And an elderly British man of our acquaintance could barely hear the word “Israel” without his lip curling in disdain; he’d lost a brother in the Irgun’s bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946.

But nearly everyone with personal experience of WWII is now gone and the false moral order that was imposed in its aftermath is not only fading, but obviously bankrupt. We don’t know exactly what will take its place, but we do know that the post-post WII period is going to be very different than what preceded it. And we can be certain that the nations will rise again.

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