Second Term Same as the First?

The rhetoric has certainly improved. But President Trump hasn’t convinced everyone that he actually means business, as one new policy after another has dissipated before actually achieving any significant results. Simplicius suspects this is one reason the absurd ceasefire offer, which would appear to be an obvious non-starter, was presented to Russia:

The ceasefire agreement comes just a day after Ukraine launched the largest drone attack on Moscow of the entire war, with an estimated 400-500 drones, almost all of which were shot down, the remainder hitting civilian apartment blocks.

It appears to have been made for no better reason than scoring much-needed political points for Trump, who now wallows in a post-euphoric doldrums phase of his floundering second term, when virtually every one of his campaign promises has faltered or flopped. No Epstein, JFK, or 9/11 lists, no Mexican wall, no Fort Knox audit or UFO disclosure, no mass deportations, with ICE raids rumored to have halted, no promised US troop withdrawals from Syria, Europe, or elsewhere. Every other boastful attempt to capture Greenland, Canada, Panama, and everything in between has likewise fallen flat on its face, with countries no longer fearing nor taking the US seriously.

Desperate for a razzle-dazzle to slap points on the scoreboard, Trump’s team tipped this rushed ‘ceasefire’ deal for being just the trick. Except, it’s about the most nonsensically absurd ceasefire attempt imaginable, a veritable charade by another name.

  • It comes a day after Ukraine’s massive drone provocation, meant specifically to spoil the ceasefire by making Russia look like the bad guy, after Russia rightfully rejects the deal.
  • It comes in the midst of one of the largest frontline collapses of the war, as Ukrainian troops are being battered, decimated, and driven out of Kursk.
  • It comes with zero ‘concessions’ or offers to Russia itself, but huge reward to Ukraine in the form of the reactivation of all weapons shipments, aid, and intelligence sharing.
  • It comes when Ukraine still controls some Kursk territory, which is an obvious common sense non-starter for Russia.

I wouldn’t be quite so dismissive of the God-Emperor 2.0’s remarkable achievements in his first two months in office. But it is readily apparent that Trump needs to talk less and deliver more or he’s going to start losing at least some of the goodwill and popular support that he has amassed as a result of his aggressive executive orders.

I have no idea why he agreed to this ceasefire proposal or why he’s shown hesitation on cutting all support for Ukraine and exiting NATO. Russia is going to win the war even if the entire EU, UK, and the USA formally declare war and open direct hostilities tomorrow. Military power is all about who can get there first with the most, and no one is going to defeat the Russian military its own backyard on the basis of logistics alone. If this were a war for Mexico, or even Canada, the equation would be different, but given the geographic location of Ukraine, the inevitable outcome is not even potentially in doubt.

And certainly, I doubt that threats of adding a few more sanctions to the current 21 thousand or so already in place are going to impress or intimidate the Russians into doing anything they don’t see as being to their advantage.

Donald Trump threatened ‘devastating’ trade and economic consequences on Russia if President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine. Trump issued the threat – which included a considerable hedge – while discussing administration efforts to bring an end to Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, which Trump again said could lead to World War III.

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Yes, English IS Our Official Language

The God-Emperor 2.0 finally establishes de jure what has always been the de facto case. But it’s official US law now, and all the press-2-for-Spanish apologists are free to voluntarily remigrate themselves and their objections.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, have all been written in English. It is therefore long past time that English is declared as the official language of the United States. A nationally designated language is at the core of a unified and cohesive society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenry that can freely exchange ideas in one shared language.

In welcoming new Americans, a policy of encouraging the learning and adoption of our national language will make the United States a shared home and empower new citizens to achieve the American dream. Speaking English not only opens doors economically, but it helps newcomers engage in their communities, participate in national traditions, and give back to our society. This order recognizes and celebrates the long tradition of multilingual American citizens who have learned English and passed it to their children for generations to come.

To promote unity, cultivate a shared American culture for all citizens, ensure consistency in government operations, and create a pathway to civic engagement, it is in America’s best interest for the Federal Government to designate one — and only one — official language. Establishing English as the official language will not only streamline communication but also reinforce shared national values, and create a more cohesive and efficient society.

Accordingly, this order designates English as the official language of the United States.

And the winning continues. Still not tired.

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Our World Has Changed

John Carter explains why we’re going to have to change our mindset now that the latest iteration of The Empire That Never Ended appears to have fallen and we are the hunters:

It isn’t only the left whose world has come undone, practically overnight. Our world, too, has changed irrevocably. For long, desperate years we have been as hunted animals in the wilderness, partisans hiding in the badlands of the Internet, launching culture jamming raids to harry the enemy at his points of weakness. We have become accustomed to our role as outsiders locked in permanent guerrilla war with the Regime. We’ve taken horrific casualties, yes – careers destroyed, lives ruined, in some cases even lives lost: millions of young men have died deaths of despair, and while only a few of them were direct combatants in the meme war, the civilian casualties must be counted towards the enemy’s grim toll.

Infuriating as the meme war could often be, there was also a sense of comradeship within the Society of Frens. When your account got banned, or your friend got doxxed, people would come together, offering solidarity, even helping out financially. We were all in this together, after all. More, the meme war was fun, and over the years we became expert in our trade. There’s a thrill to piling into the replies of a hapless libtard, a fierce joy in dismantling their pseudo-intellectual paramoralisms to the point that they ragequit the interaction by blocking you, a grim pleasure in taking some piece of hackneyed focus-grouped public relations slop and reformatting it into counter-propaganda that leverages the system’s own words and imagery against it, a quiet satisfaction in seeing the ideas germinated in your anonymous shitpoasts being laundered through the mouths of high-profile personalities.

By and large that’s over now. The legacy media is simply irrelevant to the public discourse now. The libs are mostly shocked into silence. Our hungry frogs are so starved for prey that they’re falling on squishy centrist conservatives, who stupidly stepped into the role vacated by the shitlibs when they fled X for the great hugbox in the (blue)sky. We’ve won. We’re not partisan raiders, but an occupying force. We aren’t being hunted, but are the hunters. We are not at war with the Regime, because we are the Regime. It will take time to adjust to this, and many will not adjust well.

There was a Taliban soldier who, after the fall of Kabul, lamented that he missed the good old days of sleeping under the stars with his brothers in arms, playing a lethal game of hide and seek with the US military. Hard and uncomfortable as that was, in retrospect it had been a lot more fun than sitting in an air-conditioned office dealing with the administrative minutiae of parking regulations.

That’s us, now, and we haven’t really come to terms with it. The enemy has collapsed. Decades of preference falsification have come apart, as they always do, in a preference cascade – people admitting that they don’t actually believe the things they pretended to believe because everyone else was pretending to believe them and they didn’t realize everyone was pretending, only now they do know, so they’re saying what they really believed all along, and so is everyone else. It’s an Emperor’s New Clothes moment, a Fall of the Berlin Wall moment. The invulnerability conferred by the appearance of monolithic consensus has been cracked; the illusion having been dispelled, the spell is impossible to cast again. They’re done.

We’ll be dealing with the fallout for many years to come. There are so many secrets to be revealed, so many ugly little scandals to be uncovered, such a depth and variety of mendacious little conspiracies and corrupt petty grifts that have permeated our society at every level, paralyzing it so it could be parasitized. Clearing out the organizational, financial, cultural, and psychological wreckage will take decades. These people have been running their sick social engineering experiments for generations; we’ve all grown up in their MKULTRA world, and have no real idea just how fake and gay our kayfabe Truman Show society really is. But I think we’re going to find out, and it’s going to shock a lot of people – both those who, though ‘redpilled’, didn’t really know just how bad it really was, but especially those who, because bluepilled, had no idea that their entire identity is a psyop. People’s minds are going to shatter from that; many will never come back (how do you come back from surgically trooning yourself, or worse, your child?), and we’ll be carrying that burden of walking wounded for the rest of our lives.

And, here’s the annoying thing: it is you, yes, you, the person reading this right now, the rightist dissident that set himself against the powers of the Earth when the risk of doing so was greatest, who is responsible for doing all of this. Or at least whatever your small part in it is. You’re not on the outside looking in anymore: you’re the Regime, now. For years we’ve contented ourselves by pointing out the injustice, incompetence, and inefficiency of the demented ruling class and its army of flying rainbow butt monkeys. Mere critique is no longer enough. The worldsoul has heard us, and it has decided to give us exactly what we said we wanted: power. We have said for years that we know better than the fools in charge. Now we’re the fools in charge. We’ve talked the talk, now we have to walk the walk. It is put up or shut up time.

It’s not over, though. It’s not even close to over. I’m still banned from YouTube, from X, and from Blusky. Unauthorized is still recovering from last year. There are still no shortage of people, even so-called “conservatives” who conspicuously disdain to work with us even when it makes obvious sense for them to do so. We have a reliable crowdfunding site now, or rather, a reliable and friendly crowdfunding site now. We even have what is rapidly becoming the leading news site in cultural entertainment with Fandom Pulse, and refugees from the Great Comics Collapse of 2024 are contacting Arkhaven on a regular basis; we’re already beginning to work with former DC and Marvel illustrators. We have a working bindery. The Legend has a movie coming out next month and there is a very good chance it is going to hit the top spot on the box office.

But speaking only for myself and our teams, we’re not going to get complacent and cruise. We fought too hard and too long to forget the lessons that we learned while struggling to financially survive to take the foot off the gas or remove our protective armor.

Don’t relax. Don’t let up. Don’t give any quarter, because they never gave any to us. It’s easy to be frosty when being frosty is necessary for survival, it’s not so easy when the sun is shining, the champagne is flowing, and the beach is beckoning. So stay frosty, don’t hesitate to say things, take advantage of this reprieve to become even stronger, ignore the charlatans who were never part of the parade who will seek to jump to the front of it, and don’t ever forget the frens who stood by you when no one else would.

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They’re Not Independent

Clown World’s propaganda organs in Ukraine and Russia are going under because the USAID money pipeline has been cut off:

The suspension of USAID has had a dramatic effect on both Ukrainian and Russian independent news outlets that relied on the grants to operate and produced work often critical of their governments.
The program that provides billions in U.S. assistance internationally is better known for its humanitarian and medical work, but the funding has also been used for democracy promotion as well as supporting journalism.

Ukraine’s independent media, a collection of small regional outlets, muckraking investigative websites and internet news platforms, have been reeling since the announcement, with some organizations saying that they are just weeks away from slashing staff or closing down entirely.

“We risk losing the achievements of three decades of work and increasing threats to Ukraine’s statehood, democratic values, and pro-Western orientation,” Detector Media, a journalism watchdog, said in a statement on its website last week.

In the immortal words of Chuck D from Public Enemy:

Shut ’em down. Shut ’em down. Shut ’em, shut ’em down.

Shut ’em down. Shut ’em down. Shut ’em, shut ’em down.

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