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Definitely Fake, Usually Gay

When Clown World and its manufactured talking heads are dismissed as fake and gay, this is not merely metaphorical rhetoric. In far too many cases, it is the literal truth.

Conservative Host Leaves Longtime Wife to Marry Gay Lover

Robby Soave, a well-known political commentator and co-host of The Hill’s Rising, has become the latest subject of D.C. chatter after revealing his engagement—to a younger gay partner—shortly after parting ways with his wife of nearly a decade. The 36-year-old, who also appears regularly on Fox News and serves as a senior editor at Reason magazine, proposed earlier this month to Jie Jung Shih, a medical student at Georgetown University.

I’m sure you’re all absolutely shocked by this totally unexpected turn of events. And Soave is hardly the only one. More than a few credible allegations have been made about “conservative” opinion leaders whose names you would definitely recognize. They’re all constructed of pure astroturf.

Trust only the great books and the ideas that have stood the test of time. Trust only that which is Good, Beautiful, and True. Stop paying attention to people simply because they are capable of mouthing one or two phrases with which you happen to agree. Any actor is capable of doing the same. As a general rule, if someone appears on television or is permitted on YouTube, they are almost certainly fake, probably gay, and definitely irrelevant. And while there are, of course, exceptions to the rule, that doesn’t change the fact that the rule is far more reliable than your easily-manipulated emotions.

Witness the total ineptitude of GOP Inc.’s Charlie Kirk replacement in trying to address the most basic aspects of the problem of legal immigration. He even tried to appeal to Israel Zangwill’s concept of “the melting pot” coined 290 years after the arrival of the Mayflower, as America’s founding doctrine.

And consider how Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, could only draw 150 viewers to a recent stream after selling her very valuable blog to Paramount for $150 million. All success in Clown World, be it financial or just fame, is not only fake, but formulaic.

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The Weirdness Escalates

Donald Trump and Tony Blair are going to govern Gaza. Which presumably is a new use of the word “govern” with which I have hitherto been unfamiliar.

Donald Trump dramatically announced that he would rule Gaza with Sir Tony Blair if Hamas accept his 20-point peace plan.

The US President declared at a press conference at The White House it was a ‘big day, a beautiful day’ and ‘potentially one of the greatest days ever in civilisation’.

Mr Trump quashed rumours that the former British PM would oversee control of the territory – revealing it would instead be him.

He said a ‘board of peace’ would be ‘headed by a gentleman known as President Donald J Trump of the United States’.

He insisted this was ‘not at my request’ but said it’s ‘what I want’ as ‘it’s so important that I’m willing to do it’.

He said the board would have leaders from other countries, including Sir Tony, who he described as ‘a very good man’.

The plan, which the MAGA leader has circulated to Arab leaders, was released after Mr Trump met the Israeli PM in Washington.

The two leaders arrived at the press conference late, after discussing the terms of the deal, which has yet to be finalized with Netanyahu, Arab leaders, and Hamas.

‘Let’s call it eternal peace in the Middle East,’ Trump said triumphantly. ‘This is far more than anybody expected, but the level of support that I have had from the nations in the Middle East and neighbors of Israel has been incredible.’

Nothing would surprise me at this point. Aliens, the Second Coming, Q taking down Clown World, the EU surrendering to Yemen, I mean, at some point you have to simply sit back and acknowledge that it’s not even possible to make any sense of world events.

Clown World is certainly the most apt apellation, but doesn’t even begin to do the full extent of it justice.

FULL RELEASE BY WHITE HOUSE:

1. Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.

2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.

3. If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended, and battle lines will remain frozen until conditions are met for the complete staged withdrawal.

4. Within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages, alive and deceased, will be returned.

5. Once all hostages are released, Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1700 Gazans who were detained after October 7th 2023, including all women and children detained in that context. For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.

6. Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.

7. Upon acceptance of this agreement, full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip. At a minimum, aid quantities will be consistent with what was included in the January 19, 2025, agreement regarding humanitarian aid, including rehabilitation of infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage), rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and entry of necessary equipment to remove rubble and open roads.

8. Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from the two parties through the United Nations and its agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party. Opening the Rafah crossing in both directions will be subject to the same mechanism implemented under the January 19, 2025 agreement.

9. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump, with other members and heads of State to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. This body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. This body will call on best international standards to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people of Gaza and is conducive to attracting investment.

10. A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East. Many thoughtful investment proposals and exciting development ideas have been crafted by well-meaning international groups, and will be considered to synthesize the security and governance frameworks to attract and facilitate these investments that will create jobs, opportunity, and hope for future Gaza.

11. A special economic zone will be established with preferred tariff and access rates to be negotiated with participating countries.

12. No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.

13. Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning, and supported by an internationally funded buy back and reintegration program all verified by the independent monitors. New Gaza will be fully committed to building a prosperous economy and to peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.

14. A guarantee will be provided by regional partners to ensure that Hamas, and the factions, comply with their obligations and that New Gaza poses no threat to its neighbors or its people.

15. The United States will work with Arab and international partners to develop a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) to immediately deploy in Gaza. The ISF will train and provide support to vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza, and will consult with Jordan and Egypt who have extensive experience in this field. This force will be the long-term internal security solution. The ISF will work with Israel and Egypt to help secure border areas, along with newly trained Palestinian police forces. It is critical to prevent munitions from entering Gaza and to facilitate the rapid and secure flow of goods to rebuild and revitalize Gaza. A deconfliction mechanism will be agreed upon by the parties.

16. Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza. As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the Unites States, with the objective of a secure Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel, Egypt, or its citizens. Practically, the IDF will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF according to an agreement they will make with the transitional authority until they are withdrawn completely from Gaza, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.

17. In the event Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above, including the scaled-up aid operation, will proceed in the terror-free areas handed over from the IDF to the ISF.

18. An interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.

19. While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.

20. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence.

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The Selling of Burrito Mussolini

This is an astute and well-informed analysis of the objectives of the Little Nicky show, with one very important omission:

There are scores of unique ideolectual movements that can be accurately categorized as “rightward,” and each of them has their own set of elites, which in turn have their own leaders who themselves have a retinue of commoner followers. To the outsider and/or normie, these distinctions and competing hierarchies may seem inconsequential, but to the denizens of the Sphere, knowing who stands where, what for, and with who, is requisite to participation. More work needs to be done to catalog, analyze, and understand this ideolectual ecosystem, and I hope someone eventually does put in the time and effort. For our purposes, we are only going to look at one specifically: Fuentes and his “America First” gang. Like Mao, he is a jilted elite, deprived of status and station he feels he deserves. This deprivation is one of the drivers of both his behavior and the rhetorical viscera, by which I mean the connective tissue that between the consolidated memes5. Like Chinese communism prior to the 1950s, his gang may seem powerful regionally, but it is dwarfed by Greater Liberalism, the collection of liberals, progressives, leftists, and their thralls that compose the status quo in the academy, industry, commerce, and society.

I have to assume some part of Fuentes thought about taking on Greater Liberalism, at some point at least, but that’s a real battle against a dangerous enemy. Fuentes, like Mao, found far more success in attacking fellow travelers who differ in outlook by mere degrees. Like Mao’s battles against the various disparate and similar factions, these tiny and largely inconsequential victories serve to drive expansion of the gang and feed the bloodlust of its members. It must be said that it’s not a waste, it isn’t really counterproductive, because the ostensible Right Wing thought & principles of America First are little more than window dressing for the real goal: expanding the Fuentes gang. Everything is about recruitment; use the principles when they serve the purpose of bringing in more gang members, and abandon them when they stand in the way of bringing in more gang members.

So, Fuentes is pro Trump when it is getting him more adherents, and he is pro Harris when it gets him more adherents. He criticizes blacks when it drives engagement, then plays slap ass with negroes when it drives engagement. Take this lens, “recruitment as the only principle,” and apply it to the history of his “movement,” and the whole thing makes a lot more sense. He’s not a hypocrite, he’s not a traitor, he’s not a fair weather friend; he’s a gang leader existing in an ecosystem where quantity is the only quality that matters.

For the principled Right Winger, this behavior is despicable. It reeks of selfishness, greed, and shortsightedness. But it’s inaccurate to say it is unique to Fuentes. It is, in fact, the rule and not the exception. True, it would be more honest for the gang to be called “Fuentes First,” but honesty in the postmodern media market is the fastest path to irrelevancy.

What is the important omission? What is left out is that none of it is real. Fuentes is no more seeking power than he is interested in any of the various contradictory principles that he has, at one time or another, espoused. What he’s been doing is simply an audition, putting on a test show in order to establish a baseline price for his next gig, which is the replacement for Jordan Peterson as the Voice of the Disaffected Young Men in order to serve as their gatekeeper, keeping them away from Christianity, Nationalism, Family, and the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.

He’s just the latest in a long line of Men With a Secret, beginning with William F. Buckley, who has been hired to play a role and protect Clown World from its natural enemies.

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You Heard Right

Pursuant to last night’s impromptu The Dark Lord’s Happy Fun Hour on the Owen Benjamin show, the number of times that someone says “Harry” in the Harry Potter movies is both insane and maddening.

Harry Potter’s full name occurs 134 times in total.

17 times in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
26 times in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
6 times in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
12 times in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
6 times in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
21 times in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
19 times in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I
27 times in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II
and

The word “Harry” appears a grand total of 695 times.

The word “Potter” appears a grand total of 265 times.

It’s an audio form of the old Chinese Water Torture. I have absolutely no doubt that being forced to listen to the audio track of the Harry Potter movies would qualify as a serious violation of the Geneva Convention.

Also, as far as that whole “everyone is welcome back on YouTube now” theme that’s been going around, well, that does not actually appear to be the case. Here is what I was greeted with when I attempted to sign in to my channel. Remember, I was never even accused of violating any rules, guidelines, or policies.

Your channel won’t be put back on YouTube

We’ve taken a careful look at your channel again, and confirmed that it violates our Community Guidelines policy. We recognise that this is disappointing news, but our goal is to keep the YouTube community safe and supported.

I know, I’m just shocked too. Now let’s hear Burrito Mussolini tell us how he’s the Most Cancelled Man in America again on his YouTube channel…

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Oh, Sweet Nicky

This appeared on CDAN. And while CDAN is not as reliable as /pol/, which, of course, is always right, it is just reliable enough to make this seemingly bizarre rumor a little more credible than one might otherwise assume it to be.

The hateful podcaster just gave us a look into his sexual fantasies and it sure does sound like that when he eventually leaves the public sphere, it’s unlikely that he will choose to remain a male which was very interesting considering his guest for said episode.

The thing about gatekeepers is, they’re picked out and elevated so that they can be taken down at will. This means it is only those who are sufficiently corrupt, or broken, who are chosen for the parts. See: Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro.

Anyhow, I’m not posting it here because I’m interested in the endless drama, I’m posting CDAN’s public prediction here for the record.

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It’s Not a Theory

The media likes to dismiss the idea that the governments of the West are largely comprised of corrupt Satanic pedos as a “conspiracy theory”. The problem with that dismissal is that it’s just not a theory at all:

A Labour MP has been arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. Dan Norris, a former Labour minister who ousted Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP for North East Somerset at last year’s General Election, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home on Friday.

They were later seen removing boxes of Mr Norris’s goods from the property.

Mr Norris, who trained with the NSPCC and worked as a teacher and child protection officer, has been suspended from the party pending the investigation.

According to Wikipedia: Norris has a particular interest in child safety and regularly campaigns against child sexual abuse, having co-written a free booklet on its prevention. He also co-wrote, produced and distributed a booklet, Don’t Bully Me, giving practical advice to children across the United Kingdom on dealing with bullying.

Never trust a man who is excessively interested in children. Children just aren’t that interesting and predators always go where the prey is.

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Mailvox: A Tale of the Tubcuddler

A reader writes to share her experience of Neil Gaiman as a teenage fangirl.

I met him when I was in college at his book reading of one of his books: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and after meeting him, that was the last book of his I ever had any desire to read. It took me a month to read his American Gods book. I had to keep putting it down. At the time, I attributed it to some deficiency in my own ability to crack into his prose, but given what we know now, it was my brain’s way of informing me that I was reading shit. For comparison, I was able to read War and Peace in a week.

But I was a sixteen year old goth girl at the time, so I dutifully brought a copy of that goddamn awful book along for him to sign. The red flag of an unoriginal mind was that he signed every copy of AG with the tagline of “Believe,” and all copies of Sandman with something along the lines of “never stop dreaming.’

When I reached the man himself, things just got worse. I noticed too his preferential treatment of female fans. I was a big B5 nerd at the time, and wanted to discuss the screenplay he had written for it; it became evident during our very brief conversation he had NEXT TO NO IDEA what was in the script. The script he purportedly wrote. I had assumed he’d be happy to discuss a script that was the ONLY episode from seasons 3 to 5 to be written by anyone other than the showrunner. He, on the other hand, sought to change the subject as quickly as possible, and was a complete wet blanket to my projected hopes of mental stimulation with a man up until that point I had respected. He signed me quickly and I was on my way.

There is more at r/NeilGaimanMemes if you’re interested. She also added this:

By the time my cohort reached him (we were a group of four) he was complaining about his sore wrists. I had time to read his entire little shitty novella, in the auditorium he had given a self-congratulatory speech, because of the hold-up for him to rest his wrists for stretches of time. Now, my friend was an osteopath and offered Neil Gaiman full access to his services for free. He gave him his number, which Gaiman behaved as if he was extremely grateful for, and he promised he would avail my friend of his services.

You already know that my friend never heard from the pervert. I thought it was due to the vagaries of the parasocial contract, but now I know better:

He just wasn’t tubcuddly enough!!!!

I have to admit, I find it both ironic and amusing that certain people still, to this day, pine over a parasocial predator like Neil Gaiman, while simultaneously attempting to deplatform, ban, and otherwise ostracize me, an author who rejects both parasociality and social predation, disdains all public appearances, and whom even my die-hard critics in the media have admitted to be gracious, polite, and impeccably well-behaved.

Which is to say I have now been banned by X, YouTube, Blusky, r/NeilGaimanUncovered, and r/NeilGaiman. And I will wager that not one of those places have banned Neil Gaiman despite the gravity of the sex crimes he is credibly accused to have committed. Note that despite what has been publicly reported about his alleged behavior in the presence of his young son, still no one has even begun to investigate any link between that and his obvious association with his co-editor Ed Kramer, the convicted SFWA pedophile.

Contemplate the significance of that, if you will.

UPDATE: The BBC reports that Coraline: The Musical has been cancelled.

A new musical based on Neil Gaiman’s book Coraline has been scrapped following sexual misconduct allegations against the author. The show had been due to open at Leeds Playhouse in April before being staged at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, the Birmingham Rep and Manchester’s Home. In a joint statement, the theatres said: “After careful consideration, we feel it would be impossible to continue in the context of the allegations against its original author.” It was announced last May and had been due to be a major production for the four theatres, but its cancellation will leave a major hole in their schedules and finances. However, the theatres said they had no option after further allegations emerged in recent weeks.

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Dark Horse Drops Gaiman

This isn’t news to anyone here since Fandom Pulse covered it last week. What makes it noteworthy is that Neil Gaiman’s favorite newspaper, which has fawned all over him for literal decades and has regularly featured his contributions, actually reported on the news, and did so without waiting for months this time.

A US publisher of comics by Neil Gaiman has announced that it has cancelled plans to publish future works by the author who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. Dark Horse Comics “takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works,” the company wrote in a statement on X.

“Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled,” it added. Dark Horse Comics began publishing the Anansi Boys series, an adaptation of Gaiman’s 2005 novel of the same name, in June last year. It was intended to be an eight-issue series, but has now been cancelled following the seventh issue, published 15 January.

Nine women have now accused Gaiman of sexual misconduct. On 14 January, the author published a statement on his website saying that he had “never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone”. Gaiman’s representatives did not respond to a request for comment on Dark Horse Comics’ statement.

HarperCollins, which publishes many of Gaiman’s books in the US including Coraline and American Gods, told Publishers Weekly that it does not have any new books by Gaiman scheduled. WW Norton, the US publisher of Gaiman’s book Norse Mythology, said that it will not have projects with the author going forward, though did not say whether this was connected to the allegations. Marvel Comics has no new works by Gaiman in progress, according to the New York Times.

Other publishers of Gaiman’s work – including Bloomsbury, Penguin, Hachette, DC Comics and Titan – have not yet made public statements about whether they will continue to publish the author, and did not respond to the Guardian’s requests for comment.

Given that Dark Horse was historically inclined to NOT take action in similar circumstances, the fact that two institutions whose natural inclinations were to cover things up are instead distancing themselves from the accused serial rapist is a fairly strong indicator that the other publishers who are more heavily invested in their business relationships will eventually follow suit, however reluctantly.

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Auditor 202

The extent to which the Church of Scientology supported Auditor 202’s career and perceived success is gradually coming to light, despite his very public and apparently untruthful denials.

Neil Gaiman has consistently stated that he is not a Scientologist, despite his family’s deep ties to the Church of Scientology. In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, Neil addressed rumors about his involvement with the church, suggesting that he had not been a practicing member since becoming an adult.

However, some documentary evidence has surfaced which appears to directly contradict this claim, especially since he appears to have still been completing Scientology courses between the ages of 26 and 28, and to have been a donating member in good standing at the age of 49.

  • Neil Gaiman’s name appears in graduate lists in The Auditor Worldwide (published by AOSH UK copyright 1986) as Auditor #202. Neil is listed as completing three courses: the Hubbard Senior Sec Checker Course #222 (1988), the 21 Dept Org Board Course #227 (1988) and the Hubbard Basic Art Course.
  • Cornerstone Newsletter, November 2009: List of Members in GOOD STANDING: MARY AND NEIL GAIMAN ($35,000.00)

It would also appear The Simpsons saw through Neil Gaiman all along. While some might think that Gaiman being in on the joke would tend to exonerate him, that’s not the way imposters play the game. It’s just what the psychological operators call Revelation of the Method, or blown cover as cover.

“The Book Job” is the sixth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 20, 2011. In the episode, Lisa is shocked to discover that all popular young-adult novels are conceived by book publishing executives through use of market research and ghostwriters to make money. Homer decides to get rich by making a fantasy novel about trolls, with help from Bart, Principal Skinner, Patty, Moe, Professor Frink, and author Neil Gaiman. Lisa does not think writing should be about money, and decides to write her own novel.

However, when Lisa opens a copy of the book, she discovers that Gaiman is listed as the author, not her. It turns out that by slipping a third flash drive with his name onto Lisa’s possession with his secret co-conspirator Moe’s help, Gaiman has heisted his way to the best-seller list “once again” despite being illiterate. During the credits, Gaiman and Moe celebrate with a toast at Shelbyville Beach, but Gaiman double-crosses Moe and poisons his drink.

Whether Gaiman is, or is no longer, a Scientologist remains an open question. The more interesting question, of course, is what percentage of those 50 million books Gaiman has reportedly sold were purchased by members of the Church of Scientology. Because Gen Xers will recall another erstwhile Scientologist who wrote science fiction novels that appeared even more often on the bestseller charts, and for much longer periods of time, an author by the name of L. Ron Hubbard.

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