The tip of the iceberg

It is increasingly apparent that these bizarre “impeachment” theatrics are an attempt to distract from the gathering Storm. From 4chan:

Hunter Biden is placed on the board of Ukraine’s most corrupt energy company, owned by (((them))), he has no knowledge nor experience for the position, one of the last acts of the Obama presidency was to send $1billion in aid to Ukraine, the entire deal was Joe Biden’s idea, the money was used to buy aid related things for the people of Ukraine, but the money went to fake corporations registered in Cyprus, the people never got any aid, the fake corporations were created by the energy company Hunter Biden is a board member of.

The US taxpayer money disappears, no aid is delivered to Ukraine, Trump becomes president, no one asks any questions where the money went nor why until now.

Before Hunter’s position as board member for the Ukraine company, he was one of the top guys at a company called Rosemont Seneca. The entire company was a scam, a front for legalized bribery. Chinese corporations that were fronts for the Chinese government invested heavily multiple times into Rosemont Seneca, hundreds of millions of dollars, and in return Joe Biden, along with John Kerry whose step son was in the company too, negotiated softball deals over US-China relations. Biden basically sold out the US, the American people, and the American military by allowing Chinese corporate expansion all over the world via sea routes, the interesting thing about Chinese corporation sea routes and ports is that their placements don’t make logical sense, unless you look at from a military point of view.

If Trump is actually going after Biden for his billion dollar scam, that may be the tip of the iceberg. The reason why politicians are beginning to call for Trump’s execution is because the Obama administration has done things that warrant that exact thing.

There are probably dozens, if not hundreds of similar scams to be uncovered. No wonder they are beyond desperate to delay the day of reckoning. Although “desperate” may be an understatement.

MSNBC cut from President Trump’s press conference on Wednesday, claiming the president was repeating lies about his political rival Joe Biden as a “deflection” from the impeachment inquiry. “We hate to do this, really, but the president isn’t telling the truth,” MSNBC host Nicole Wallace said as the network cut from Trump’s speech. 

Remember the third law of social justice. What is it that SJWs always do, besides lie and double down? Exactly. The fact that they connected “Joe Biden” and “deflection” tells you everything you need to know about the rationale for their actions.

Did every previous US President always tell the truth? Of course not. And did the media organizations covering them ever cut away from the broadcast on the basis claimed? There you have it.

Mailvox: are they that stupid?

Mystic on Main puts his judgment on the line:

That aside here’s what I’m thinking. The Dems must have seen the transcript of the call and they must not only know who the whistleblower is but also have talked to them. There’s no way Pelosi would have endorsed impeachment hearings without seeing there is something to grab on to. Which makes me think there is something they can run with.

Surely the Democrats couldn’t be that stupid, right? They couldn’t POSSIBLY be THAT stupid, right? They’re not THAT desperate about 2020 ALREADY, are they?

I guess we’re going to find out soon.

UPDATE: Yep, it looks like they really are that desperate and stupid.

The president’s phone call — made from the White House residence to Zelenskiy — began with Trump congratulating Zelenskiy on his election victory. Later, Trump veers into the Biden issue.

“I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down, which is really unfair,” Trump says on the call, according to the transcript. Trump then says, “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, what Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great.”

“Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, It sounds horrible to me,” Trump said on the call, according to the transcript.

Zelenskiy replies that he’s appointing a new prosecutor who will “look into the situation.”

That is the only mention about Biden in the transcript of the call. The call transcript is five pages.

UPDATE: Democrats SAY they have their majority. But even the media doubts that they actually mean it:

Two hundred and eighteen House Democrats and one independent — a majority of the chamber’s 435 members — now favor some kind of impeachment action against President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News tally.

House Democrats reached the milestone a day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into the president following claims that he might have withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure officials there to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.

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That nearly all House Democrats support some kind of impeachment action represents a significant development in the chamber’s push forward with official impeachment proceedings.

But that doesn’t mean they will all vote to impeach the president.

It’s rather amusing to see Democrats behaving like Republicans traditionally do. They initially claim to want the same thing, then proceed to fight over the details on how to do it and end up doing nothing as a result. The God-Emperor really has them spinning in circles.

Leather-bound books

We’ve been looking into the possibility of making sets of leather-bound Junior Classics available, which raised the obvious question: are there any Castalia House books that people would like to be able to buy in a leather-bound edition? They wouldn’t be cheap, so we probably wouldn’t make more than four or five books available this way.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

UPDATE: Please note that I am only interested in hearing what books those individuals who have already expressed interest in deluxe leather-bound editions would be most interested in having produced. That’s why we’re looking into the various possibilities in the first place.

If that doesn’t describe you, that’s fine, but then this conversation doesn’t involve you.

Let it burn

It’s always interesting to speak to a Boomer or to a Millennial about my allegedly controversial status. Relatively few of the former and a minority of the latter are able to grasp my total disinterest in obtaining mainstream approval or authorization. More and more are beginning to get it, it must be admitted, but I do find it intriguing to observe how fellow Gen Xers and the younger Zoomers seem to be naturally less inclined to play along with the Narrative.

And as it happens, SNL hasn’t quite completely lost its fastball. Most likely because this is a topic that touches the younger generations across the political spectrum.

PARROT HEAD BOOMER: $8 MILLION IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. SO OF COURSE I’M TAKING THE SOCIAL SECURITY.

CARRIE THE MILLENNIAL:  I’M SORRY. I CAN’T. YOU ARE TAKING THE SOCIAL SECURITY? BITCH, YOU ARE RICH!

SHOW HOST: OOH, SORRY, CARRIE. YOU DIDN’T KEEP YOUR COOL.

CARRIE THE MILLENNIAL: IT FEELS SO UNFAIR.

SHOW HOST: MAYBE YOU CAN TWEET ABOUT IT. THAT WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING. MY GOODNESS. I’M JUST PLAYING. I’M GEN-X. I SIT ON THE SIDELINES AND WATCH THE WORLD BURN.

The impeachment trap

The Democrats took the bait:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.

The probe focuses partly on whether Trump abused his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign government to undermine Democratic foe Joe Biden and help his own reelection. Pelosi said such actions would mark a “betrayal of his oath of office” and declared: “No one is above the law.”

The impeachment inquiry, after months of investigations by House Democrats of the Trump administration, sets up the party’s most direct and consequential confrontation with the president, injects deep uncertainty into the 2020 election campaign and tests anew the nation’s constitutional system of checks and balances.

Trump, who thrives on combat, has all but dared Democrats to take this step, confident that the specter of impeachment led by the opposition party will bolster rather than diminish his political support.

The fact that the God-Emperor appears to be prepared to spring the trap tends to suggest that he is right.

The White House is preparing to release to Congress by the end of the week both the whistleblower complaint and the Inspector General report that are at the center of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, according to a senior administration official, reversing its position after withholding the documents from lawmakers.

The move shows the level of seriousness with which the administration is now approaching the House‘s new impeachment proceedings, even as President Donald Trump publicly tried to minimize the inquiry as a “witch hunt” or “presidential harassment,” or a move that will help him win his 2020 reelection campaign.

The administration official stressed the decision and timing could change over the next few days, but as of Tuesday evening the White House was planning give the information to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The format of presentation, or process of viewing the documents,remained up in the air. The president has agreed to the move, the official added.

Mailvox: Boomer tales

A reader tells a familiar tale of Boomer entitlement:

A couple of regulars at the bar/kitchen I work came in the other day with a pack of friends. One of their friends was a girl who had been previously eighty sixed so a bartender calmly informed her she had to leave. Immediately the leader of the pack went berserk and started pacing up and down the aisle barking obscenities before storming out with her little birthday clan, trying to take as many people she could with her.

This person is a school administrator for the district. She knows all the bartenders since they were kids. Her and her husband are well known in the community. Where the hell do they get off acting like that?

The most demoralizing fact is just to think of the ungodly salary she makes comprised entirely of tax loot. Loot collected from the service industry, from the oil field, my family’s bread and butter. Then she comes into my workplace and when even slightly contradicted flips out and tries to rob customers and tips right out of me and my coworkers’ pockets. The Boomer “education” aristocracy at its very infantile finest.

It will not surprise me if one day in the not-too-distant future, there are bounties paid for people like that.

The noble savage

How can you not love the God-Emperor? He’s the best comedian on Twitter.

The Gretard: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words…. People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing!”

God-Emperor Trump I: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”

Pure savagery. I sincerely hope the Democrats nominate the Gretard next year. What? It’s not as if it would be the first time the Democrats decided to run an ineligible nominee.

It’s amusing to see how quickly Fox News cucks these days. It’s now beyond obvious that they’ve fully merged with the ABCNNBCBS hive mind.

“The climate hysteria movement is not about science. If it were about science, it would be led by scientists, rather than by politicians and a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left.”

Liberal podcast host Chris Hahn, who was also a guest on the show, told Knowles he should be ashamed of his comments.

Knowles replied: “She is mentally ill. She has autism. She has obsessive compulsive disorder, she has selective mutism. She had depression.”

But Fox News apologized for the comments and said the network had ‘no plans’ for Knowles to appear as a guest in the future.

What sort of moronic media whore wants to be on Fox in the first place? I was turning down their invitations back when Hannity and Colmes were still a team. Anyhow, it’s true. The Gretard is mentally ill and that fact should be thrown in her retarded face every time she opens her stupid mouth, just like it should be thrown in the face of every mentally ill individual who dares to tell normal, functioning human beings anything at all about how they should live.

And yes, that is a Jordan Peterson reference, just in case you weren’t absolutely certain.

I’m all for leaving retards alone to make stupid faces and take their pills and chew on their tongues in squalor if that’s what makes them happy, but I draw a very hard and bright line at pretending to take their low-IQ moaning seriously.

4GW goes geo-strategic

I’m not the only one who has noticed that the Yemeni drone attacks on Saudi Arabia have significantly changed the geo-strategic situation as well as the prospects for future war:

The devastating attack on Saudi oil facilities by drones and missiles not only transforms the balance of military power in the Middle East, but marks a change in the nature of warfare globally.

On the morning of 14 September, 18 drones and seven cruise missiles – all cheap and unsophisticated compared to modern military aircraft – disabled half of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production and raised the world price of oil by 20 per cent.

This happened despite the Saudis spending $67.6bn (£54bn) on their defence budget last year, much of it on vastly expensive aircraft and air defence systems, which notably failed to stop the attack. The US defence budget stands at $750bn (£600.2bn), and its intelligence budget at $85bn (£68bn), but the US forces in the Gulf did not know what was happening until it was all over.

Excuses advanced for this failure include the drones flying too low to be detected and unfairly coming from a direction different from the one that might have been expected. Such explanations sound pathetic when set against the proud boasts of the arms manufacturers and military commanders about the effectiveness of their weapons systems.

Debate is ongoing about whether it was the Iranians or the Houthis who carried out the attack, the likely answer being a combination of the two, but perhaps with Iran orchestrating the operation and supplying the equipment. But over-focus on responsibility diverts attention from a much more important development: a middle ranking power like Iran, under sanctions and with limited resources and expertise, acting alone or through allies, has inflicted crippling damage on theoretically much better-armed Saudi Arabia which is supposedly defended by the US, the world’s greatest military super-power.

This is potentially very good news for humanity, in much the same way and for much the same reason that Minutemen defeating British regulars with cheap, readily-available musketry was good news. Historian Carroll Quigley observed that the democratization of weaponry tended to expand human freedom, while the monopolization of it tended to reduce it.

Today, it is the common man who has to fear the SWAT raid or the drone strike ordered by the rich and powerful. Tomorrow, the rich and the powerful will be every bit as vulnerable to the common man who is wronged by their actions.

Big Brother in America

So much for the Land of the Free propaganda. Only the Chinese and the British are as spied upon as Americans:

CNN HQ-host Atlanta was the US city to make the top ten list, with 15.56 cameras per thousand residents. Cities in China dominated the top 10 ten, with 8/10 spots. Cities in China averaged 39.93 to 168.03 cameras per thousand residents. London, England, was No. 6 on the list with 68.40 cameras per thousand residents.

The five other US cities on the top 50 most surveilled places in the world were all Democratic party bastions, including Chicago No. 13 with 13.06 cameras per thousand residents; Washington, DC, No. 28 with 5.61 cameras per thousand residents; San Francisco No. 38 with 3.07 cameras per thousand residents; San Diego No. 42 with 2.48 cameras per thousand residents, and Boston No. 46 with 2.23 cameras per thousand residents.

Kenneth Johnson, former Chicago Police Department commander of the Englewood district, told the New York Times last year that residents shouldn’t be worried about their privacy because the cameras are in public places. “This isn’t a secret. This isn’t an Orwellian ‘Big Brother.’”

Atlanta Sgt. John Chafee told Route Fifty that surveillance cameras “play a vital role” in keeping the public safe and the city is expected to expand its more than 7,800 cameras in the next several years.

Cameras keep the public safe? Despite the cameras, Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington DC are all in the top twenty cities with the highest murder rates in the USA. They’ll need to produce a better excuse for erecting the American Panopticon.