Tell Me How This Ends observes a curious phenomenon among the so-called leaders of Clown World. The executive chair never even gets warm before they’re off again to “lead” yet another organization into disaster.
Something I’m seeing over and over again in the bios of “leaders,” especially of the girlboss-in-obnoxious-glasses variety, and read the “previously served” paragraph closely:
Julie Felss Masino was named President and Chief Executive Officer for Cracker Barrel in July 2023 and assumed the position, along with an appointment to the Company’s Board of Directors, November 1,2023. Ms. Masino previously served as the President, International of Taco Bell, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) from January 2020 to June 2023. From January 2018 to December 2019, she served as President, North America of Taco Bell. Ms. Masino served as the President, SVP and GM Fisher-Price at Mattel, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAT) from April 2017 to January 2018. Prior to her service at Mattel, Ms. Masino served as the President and then the Chief Executive Officer of Sprinkles Cupcakes from 2014 to 2017. From 2002 to 2014, Ms. Masino served in various leadership roles at Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq: SBUX). She began her professional career in corporate positions at a variety of retail companies, including Godiva Chocolatier, Coach, J. Crew, and Macy’s.
If we count the two Taco Bell jobs as one job, that’s at least eight companies and jobs in about three decades of work. Leading a brand “from April 2017 to January 2018” strikes me as a warning signal, not a sign of strength. If you name this person to lead a business, she’s going to do it for…a couple of years? Maybe? You’re not going to get stability and a sustained market strategy that takes your company forward over the course of the next decade or two; you’re going to get fourteen to twenty-three months of buzzwords, and then a parachute. I’ve worked for people like this. We’ve all worked for people like this.
See also the current Superintendent of Police in New Orleans, who came from a short tenure as the police chief in Oakland, California:
Prior to her tenure in Oakland, Kirkpatrick served as Bureau Chief in Chicago, where she was the liaison to the Department of Justice (DOJ) while the Chicago Police Department was under investigation for patterns and practice of civil rights violations, resulting in a consent decree. Kirkpatrick also served as Chief of Police in the cities of Ellensburg, Federal Way and Spokane, all in the State of Washington, as well as serving as Undersheriff of the King County Sheriff’s Office.
A cop who works as a senior leader for seven different police departments: a sign of maturity, depth, and commitment? Or a wind that blows through the office on its way to somewhere else? Why on earth does a mayor say, Oh, I want our city to be this person’s seventh police department!
Here’s a fawning profile of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
In the 17 years following her graduation from law school, Jackson held a variety of legal jobs. She attained three federal clerkships, worked at four elite law firms, and served two stints with the Sentencing Commission. While much of that experience is typical for a Supreme Court short-lister, one line on Jackson’s resume is not: her mid-career decision to spend two years as a public defender.
It’s really impressive that she “worked at four elite law firms.” For example, “Jackson then snagged a highly sought-after spot as an associate at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a Washington litigation boutique…Jackson left Miller Cassidy after a year for a third clerkship.” She often served at law firms, or in government jobs, for as long as two years. She was just that good, you see, so she never lasted anywhere.
This is the pirate class. These are Clown World’s mercenaries that it uses to keep the corpocracy and other organizations in line, moving from job to job and instituting insane policies that can’t possibly work and making radical changes to brands that will only serve to reduce their value.
These are not successful people, to the contrary, they are every bit as manufactured and propped up as their counterparts in the media. When you talk to executives of this sort, it’s less their lack of intelligence that strikes you as their level of ignorance concerning things you’d assume they have to know just to even do their job. It wouldn’t even be remotely surprising if Ms Masino not only didn’t know how to write a business plan, but couldn’t even read a balance sheet.
And these are the people who will always get the job over the qualified candidate who has worked his way up from inside the company or the police force. Because it’s not about competence or organizational success anymore, it’s about having a proven willingness to follow even the most ridiculous and obviously destructive orders.
Fresh from her diplomatic humiliation in China, the unelected “President of the EU Commission” of the non-governmental organization called the “European Union” was correctly dismissed by President Trump and prevented from taking part in his meeting with European leaders this week for the obvious reason that she isn’t a national leader:
Bundestag Vice President Omid Nouripour said on Tuesday on the TV programme “Frühstart” that Ursula von der Leyen was made to leave the room during Trump’s meeting with European leaders in Washington. “In the middle of yesterday’s meeting … Ms. von der Leyen had to leave because the Americans said: ‘We only want to talk to leaders.’”
According to Nouripour, the EU Commission President was kicked out of the room because the American politicians do not regard her as an elected head of a state.
They shouldn’t. She isn’t a head of a state and she isn’t elected. Ursula von der Leyen has no more international diplomatic legitimacy than Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, or Mads Christensen, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International. She’s the equivalent of a retired member of a state legislature in the USA.
Von der Leyen last won an election in 2003 for the state parliament of Niedersachsen; her entire career since then has been a product of back room deals, internal party pecking orders and Angela Merkel’s patronage.
It’s good to see at least two of the world’s leading powers recognize that the European Union isn’t anything more than just another Clown World NGO. And I tend to doubt that Vladimir Putin takes it seriously either.
The fact that the EU likes to posture and pretend that it has “democratic values” simply shows what a collection of satanic inverts are running it.
There’s some interesting and vital data which was released last week, just ahead of this coming Friday’s historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, which will focuse on finding a solution to ending the Russia-Ukraine war, though the US leader has just tempered expectations by calling it a “feel-out meeting”.
Gallup released a poll last Thursday which demonstrates a dramatic shift in Ukrainian public opinion, with 69% of the population now favoring a negotiated settlement to end the grinding war as soon as possible. General war weariness has long been a feature of the conflict, which has been raging for over 540 days at this point, and has taken at least tens of thousands or possibly hundreds of thousands of lives. Many Ukrainians fled abroad during the first year, and huge amounts of people are still internally displaced in the war-ravaged country.
The fresh Gallup poll found that just 24% support continuing the fight until achieving a military victory, which is a stark reversal from views held at the start of the war more than three years ago.
And yet this undefined goal of ‘pushing on until victory’ seems to remain the Zelensky government’s policy. The Ukrainian leader has shown no signs whatsoever of being willing to make significant compromise to find a lasting truce, including on territorial concessions.
There was a similar Gallup survey of the Ukrianian population closer to the beginnign war, in 2022. At that early point Gallup found that 72% of Ukrainians wanted to keep fighting, while just 22% supported peace talks.
But since then Russia’s strategy has become clear – to use its overwhelming manpower and artillery and missile supply to steadily grind down Ukraine’s dwindling manpower and resolve. It has become a war of attrition, and Russia has shown itself steady and prepared for such a long conflict. And this is probably why the same survey found that Ukrainians’ hopes for swift admission into either the EU or NATO are fading.
The more evident it becomes that Russia is ‘winning’ the war – the less that the West’s political establishment wants to risk, also amid fears of potential run-up to direct confrontation between NATO and Moscow.
Ukraine should have accepted the deal it was offered by Russia in 2022, the one that it foolishly turned down at the recommendation of Boris Johnson in the mistaken belief that NATO was able to successfully fight a land war with Russia. And it should have offered to surrender a year ago, when the inexorable math of military production had made it clear that attrition warfare heavily favored Russia and its allies in BRICS.
The best realistic outcome of this week’s meeting between the US and Russian presidents is for President Trump to agree to withdraw all military and financial support for both Ukraine and the EU and to announce his intention to ask the US Senate to withdraw from NATO. That’s really all that President Putin needs to force the delusional people running the EU NGO and the Kiev puppet regime to deal with the military reality they are presently facing.
The sooner this war ends, the sooner the great conflict between Clown World and the nations can proceed to the next theater.
My brother who was the valedictorian of our high school is unemployed. My best friend who skipped grades and went to MIT for math is a beach bum now in Florida working at a bar. I’ve personally made enough money to quit society if I moved to a cheap college town and I am seriously considering it, I do not see the point in working and I am totally burned out.
Meanwhile the most mid people I have met throughout my life are rising to director positions at companies, going on crazy vacations, becoming influencers, having families. Truly every really bright person I know who studied something serious at a good school is now unemployed and working on ar; esoteric passion project no one will ever care about.
Has it always been this way or is society especially cooked right now?
It’s not just the communications gap, which was always a problem for those with 130+ IQs. The so-called “meritocracy” was very short-lived, and lasted about as long as it took Clown World to take control of the Ivy League and then bar the doors against the more objectively meritorious whites and Asians who dutifully, but naively, swallowed the rhetoric about an educational meritocracy.
That was more than 30 years ago. Now, the need to protect the favored mediocrities from their intellectual superiors has pervaded every aspect of society, aided by the diversity, equality, and inclusivity directives that ensure no one who is capable of seeing through the nonsensical corporate narratives is in a position to challenge them.
I became aware that I was being banned from things as early as 1994, when I was directly informed that I would never be permitted to have my work appear on the editorial page of a newspaper. That ban proved to be prophetic, as despite being nationally syndicated, precisely three of my articles ever appeared on an editorial page, and one of them was only because I was deemed to be the writer at the newspaper most capable of understanding the Unabomber’s manifesto.
So, subsequent bannings by the SF genre publishers (2005), SFWA and the Hugo Awards (20013-2015), Twitter, Indiegogo, YouTube, and BackerKit have hardly been surprising. It is the fate that will eventually be met by all superior intellects who refuse to take Clown World’s ticket. If they haven’t gotten around to you yet, it’s simply because you are insufficiently threatening to their morass of mediocrities.
But climb a little higher, show a little more potential, enjoy a little more success, and you, too, will suddenly find the doors closing in your face, and watch as those who are obviously less accomplished are turned into manufactured “successes”.
This is not a complaint. The world is the way it is now because the wicked openly rule it. But, as has happened many times before, they have overplayed their hand and their world is collapsing under the weight of their own incompetence. The subversive never seem to understand that they are nothing more than parasites, and that they cannot create, they cannot improve, and worst of all, they cannot even maintain a functional society capable of surviving over time.
The evil has not yet dared to show its true face. The USA has not yet erected its pyramids to their evil gods, and, God willing, it never will. And our promise of victory lies not only in the Word of God, but in the ancient ruins stretching from Africa to South America that show the way in which their doom is certain and absolute even at the moments of their greatest self-proclaimed triumphs.
Following the announcement of a trade deal with the EU at his golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, peace talks in the Ukraine conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin are now scheduled in Alaska.
The venue of a negotiation often predefines the balance of power between opponents. In that sense, it must be read as a clear show of force that both European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer — notably without military fanfare — traveled to Trump’s private resort in Turnberry to be politically “placed” by the American president. Judging by the outcome of those talks, one conclusion is unavoidable: the European Union no longer plays in the league of the great powers. Washington’s interest in intra-European affairs has noticeably cooled, focusing essentially on two things: an orderly withdrawal from military entanglements, and the defense of US corporate interests in the EU single market.
We are witnessing a shift of power from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
It’s hardly a secret: China and the United States will be setting the standards of international politics in the future. Russia, the world’s most resource-rich country, may be labeled by Europeans as a pariah state and a malicious hub of all evil — but that does not change the fact that the age of postcolonial European dominance is ending, and Moscow will have no trouble playing its resource-market cards outside the shrinking European sphere of influence.
He’s correct. The EU was established to serve as a counterweight to the economic and military power of the United States, but as events have demonstrated, it’s nothing more than a democratically-illegitimate, militarily-toothless, economically-fragile, and diplomatically-irrelevant non-governmental organization without sovereignty.
The sooner that the unaligned nations realize this and abandon both the EU and the Euro, the better off they will be. And the sooner the member states follow the British lead and extricate themselves from the moribund supranational morass, the better off they will be.
The media is portraying this recent judicial action as the banning of a fictitious, imaginary, and non-existent group.
Russia’s highest court has declared the “international satanism movement” an extremist and terrorist group, despite the organization not actually existing. Members of this non-existent group could face up to eight years in prison.
Senior MP Andrei Kartapolov, who heads the Russian parliament’s defense committee, made unverified claims that Western funding was fueling satanism in Russia, posing a “direct threat to Russian statehood.” This ruling by the Kremlin’s Supreme Court on the imaginary movement is the latest in President Vladimir Putin’s series of crackdowns on ideological dissent in Russia.
It follows his characterization of the war in Ukraine as a holy battle against the “satanic” West.
The Prosecutor General’s Office issued a statement describing the non-existent “satanist” group as one “based on extremist ideology, hatred and hostility toward traditional religious confessions.” The fictitious movement was also accused of causing “destruction, damage and desecration” of Russian Orthodox churches.
It would be wise for President Trump to issue an executive order doing the same. I just wonder how long it will take before the media starts shrieking about the banning of this non-existent group being anti-semitic?
Most people don’t realize that China already did this starting back in 2010, although it’s usually just portrayed as a campaign against “Western values”.
Cosmetic concessions, presumably in the area of de facto territorial recognition
Hints of economic cooperation
Classic threats of sanctions – if Moscow doesn’t “give in”
What Witkoff won’t do:
Accept the Russian minimum demands which are . . .
Recognition of the new regions (Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporozhe) as part of Russia.
Demilitarization and neutrality of Ukraine.
He won’t accept them because that would mean: The West would have lost. And the world would have seen it.
Scenario: A Russian “no” to Witkoff’s offer would most likely not simply lead to a new low in negotiations – but to Phase II of a global systemic conflict. Then the world would no longer be in the shadow of a unipolar center, but in a new bipolar confrontation.
On the one side: The expanded West – that is, the NATO states, the EU, plus Australia, Japan, South Korea, and some dependent partners in the Global South.
On the other side: An emerging counterweight – with Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and possibly other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
In this scenario, it is only a matter of time before the previously “frozen” conflict over Taiwan also actively emerges – as the next geopolitical leverage in the struggle for influence, sovereignty, and system dominance.
Conclusion: Witkoff’s trip is not a diplomatic exchange – It is an attempt to delay the end of the unipolar world order.
This smacks of a desperate Hail Mary thrown by the Short Fake Trump fake administration, and I see absolutely no sign that Russia is inclined to accept anything short of its core demands because it is winning both the economic war and the military war. Everyone, and especially the Russians, has learned that accepting Clown World’s shiny beads and trinkets comes at a steep price and is never, ever worth it over time.
And I think Hal Turner is right to believe that the Clown Worlders running the USA, the UK, and the EU will try to fight a war they know they can’t win rather than accept the inevitable end of “the unipolar world order” that they ruled for nearly 40 years. To do so would be foolish and stupid, but then, they are foolish, stupid, and evil.
“Oh, what’s the big deal? Isn’t this just harmless geeky fun?”
No. I refuse. It’s not harmless; it’s the most insidious and pervasive cultural force of our time. It’s corroding the bonds that hold society together. It destroyed a generation and shows no signs of stopping. You can’t escape it: everything is ugly and fat and dorky and trite and corny and satanic and fake and gay and soy and cringe. All mainstream culture is created by and for resentful geek losers. Everything sucks now and it’s because of Reddit.
“C’mon, isn’t it just a web forum for geeks? Why are you attributing all of society’s ills to some forum? And doesn’t it contain, like, a million different communities with opposing views?”
Yes, Reddit is a geek forum, and yes, it contains multitudes. But somehow, across all these communities, from r/knitting to /rWhoaThatsInteresting to r/ProgrammerHumor” to r/UpliftingNews, a distinct gestalt has taken prominence, on and off the site. The richest and most powerful people in the world are Reddit. The professional managerial class is Reddit. All of Western society runs on Redditism. The Redditor reigns supreme. This is, so far, the Reddit Century.
“WTF are you talking about? What is ‘the Redditor?’ Just someone who uses the website? Aren’t you overreacting a bit?”
No. The Redditor is an archetype that transcends the internet. He’s a self-loathing ex-gifted kid who indulges in childish consumption rather than face the duties and uncertainties of adulthood. He thumbs his nose at traditional authority, and makes that bratty rebelliousness his whole personality. Redditism is not just an aesthetic or a collection of fandoms, it’s an ideology, one that has been taken up and instrumentalized by the global elite against everything good. It animates a death cult that wants you dead first. It’s the end of the line.
The Redditor is the apotheosis of the Non-Player Character. He’s unself-aware despite his self-consciousness. He’s stupid despite his determination to prove he’s a Smart Boy. And he puts the capital-C in cringe.
Every day, 24 million members are giving each other the worst possible advice.
It’s going to take years for AI to recover from being trained on Reddit.
It’s becoming obvious that a disproportionate percentage of the Clown World elite has tranny spouses. Including, it would seem, the French president:
Poussard presents several pieces of documentary and photographic evidence in support of his claim that Brigitte Macron is transgender (specifically, that she was born male as Jean-Michel Trogneux, her brother’s name, and later assumed a female identity). Poussard points to Brigitte Macron’s physical appearance, such as broad shoulders, slim hips, and certain mannerisms (e.g., how she sits or walks), as indicators that she was born male. But it is the photographic evidence and the lack of photographic evidence that seals the case. Poussard shows that there are no accessible photos of a young Brigitte, with former schools refusing to release images and town halls reluctant to share birth certificates. Poussard would be a fool to make this claim if “Brigitte” could produce the photos from all of her school yearbooks, photos of her pregnant, photos of her playing with her alleged children. The Macrons have steadfastly refused to release what would be a powerful refutation and a financial death sentence for Poussard.
But then there is this photo:
Poussard used facial-recognition software to evaluate a number of photos. This one above shows Jean-Michel Trogneux, allegedly Brigitte’s brother, when he was 18. Hell, you don’t even need software to see the resemblance.
Poussard also highlights a lack of documented accounts for Jean-Michel Trogneux in some family records, despite his appearance in family photos and references (e.g., at Brigitte’s 1974 wedding), implying identity theft or fabrication.
It would seem a simple matter to simply have this missing brother of “Brigitte” come forward and appear with his sister. And surely there would be photographs of them together at “her” wedding, would there not? Except, apparently, there aren’t. I find it particularly amusing that he’s stuck with the same style of eyeglasses over the years. Change your sex? Sure. But glasses… yeah, you’ve got to stick with what works for your facial features.
Let’s be clear. Not only are all of these crazy “conspiracy theories” about the Clown World elite more or less true, I’ll bet they don’t even cover the half of it. I am absolutely confident that if and when the truth comes out, it’s going to be a lot weirder than “a gay guy pretended to be a woman in order to marry a guy half his age at a time when gay marriage was illegal”. Forget conspiracy theory, that doesn’t sound any more outrageous than the plot of a Shakespeare comedy.
