Tag: politics

Politicians are Useless

The most that even the best politicians can do is nothing.

🚨 BOOM! All the hospices are gone. Not a single hospice remains. No more luxury vehicles and no more of your dollars funding their fraudulent scheme. They were all frauds. In this one location alone we saved America $30 million+.

Cerno asks a perfectly reasonable question:

Why didn’t Rand Paul or Thomas Massie ever think to do this, in their many decades of combined time in office?

Indeed. The observable truth is that the level of fraud in a society is directly related to the level of immigration; paying even a modicum of attention to the activities of immigrants and how they’re sustaining themselves economically is reliably going to reveal absolute mountains of fraud, most of which is not only government-funded, but government employee-abetted.

We now have decades of data demonstrating that politicians are at best useless. Most of them are considerably worse than that. So why would you ever put your trust in politicians, politics, or democracy?

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The Corpocracy Isn’t Capitalist

It’s no wonder the younger generations are turning national socialist. That’s the natural reaction to financial rape by a foreign corpocracy:

The average big-company CEO now makes about 281x the typical worker. At some companies it’s in the thousands. Starbucks hit 6,666x last year. Since 1978, CEO pay is up more than 1,000%. Worker pay: 24%. The pain isn’t shared. When Meta cut about 3,600 people it branded “low performers” in early 2025, it raised executive bonus targets from 75% to 200% of salary about a week later.

A generation raised on that arithmetic does not need an economics degree to reach a verdict.

I’m the parent of a Gen Z kid, so I hear the verdict at my own dinner table. Just 17% of Americans told Gallup in 2026 they have real confidence in big business, near a record low. Among adults under 35, nearly half now view socialism favorably. A colleague told me, half-terrified, that her son is becoming a full-blown socialist. I’ve seen what he’s seen: loyalty punished, honesty optional, promises reversed, the gains routed to the top.

When people stop believing their work protects them, they don’t decide one company is bad. They decide the system is rigged. And they go looking for another one. And increasingly, they’re not just looking. They’re leaving. Americans filed a record 5.5 million new business applications in 2023 and have held roughly that pace since, up about 50% from before the pandemic. Nearly four in 10 recent college graduates say they’d rather start a business than climb someone else’s ladder. When a generation stops trusting the deal, they go into business for themselves.

Business leaders keep asking why young workers seem disloyal, disengaged, quick to walk. They have it backward. This generation isn’t refusing to buy in. They were never sold anything worth buying.

Look, we all know that the corpocracy is little more than a collection of devil-worshipping foreign pedophiles who are, at best, mediocrities following orders. No one who spends any time listening to a CEO, a COO, a Wall Street figure, or even a media analyst babble on television in a vain attempt to explain why anything happened or predict anything that will happen knows that these are not brilliant people who succeeded through hard work and intelligence.

Young people are turning nationalist because they’re seeing their own people left unemployed, sexless, and homeless while rapist migrants are being provided homes, phones, and spending money by their own governments. And they’re turning socialist because they see the way the game is legally rigged against them, where corpocracies are breaking laws left and right while bringing in revenue from government contracts, then being bailed out when they manage to somehow fail anyhow, while the kids can’t even declare bankruptcy to get out from the debt incurred from the useless degrees they were pushed to obtain.

When the elites are irresponsible, rapacious, and out of control, as they indubitably are now, the masses quit playing along and no amount of abstract appeals to idealism are going to convince them otherwise.

And whatever this is, it isn’t capitalism or a meritocracy. It’s all fake, gay, and wicked.

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The Thumb on the Scale

  • Icelanders have turned out in unusually large numbers to decide whether to reopen accession talks with the European Union, with the founding NATO member split almost exactly down the middle over its future relationship with Brussels. The campaign went down to the wire. A final Maskína survey put the “yes” camp at 50.4% and “no” at 49.6%.
  • Icelanders voted against resuming EU accession negotiations in a referendum held on Aug. 29, 2026, with 52.8% voting “no” and 47.2% voting “yes.” Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s government proposal was rejected, and turnout was 82.5%.

Amazing, how the polls always overestimate the media’s preferred result. That’s a 6.4 percent swing. And yet somehow, they never manage to correct for their previous misses.

But if Global Banking & Finance Review is to be believed, the Swiss really want to go to war with Russia.

A second recent poll shows 54% of Swiss voters oppose enshrining a stricter neutrality in the constitution, compared with 42% in favour, ahead of the September 27 referendum. 62% oppose it according to another poll, reinforcing expectations of rejection.

Imagine what a nightmare strict, constitutional neutrality would be! Isn’t it so much better to abandon the principle that allowed Switzerland to prosper for centuries and avoid participating in Europe’s many brutal wars. After all, look at how well participating in the sanctions regime is working out for Germany!

Germany is in the midst of a slow-motion economic unravelling — one that is almost entirely self-inflicted. Once the uncontested engine of European prosperity, the country now posts some of the weakest growth among advanced economies, has watched its industrial base wither, and faces a political crisis driven by a governing class too timid to confront the problems it helped create.

Anyhow, good for the Icelanders, although I doubt the government will keep its pledge and stop trying to transform itself into a puppet state of Clown World. And hopefully the media propaganda will prove both incorrect and ineffective, and the Swiss will constitutionally solidify their historic neutrality.

Self-destruction always begins with the lie that one has no other option.

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By the AI, For the AI

No doubt the Representatives in Congress are also using AI to read the AI-drafted legislation that is being provided to them:

US congressional lawyers are struggling with a flood of error-ridden AI-generated legislation, forcing them to spend increasingly more time rewriting proposals produced by chatbots, Politico reported on Monday. Staffers and outside groups have more frequently turned to ChatGPT and Claude to produce legislative text, with error-ridden drafts regularly reaching the House Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC), according to eight current and former officials interviewed by the Axel Springer-owned outlet.

No doubt these laws are being drafted for Representatives Chen and Martinez with military precision. And that matters.

The crazy thing is that there is a non-zero chance that Byron AI will one day be authoring legislation for Americans. Especially if we’re successful in designing it to write better than ChatGPT and Claude.

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The Civilizational Metric

Civilization literally lives when you give men more money and dies when you give women more money. Literally. That’s the Natural Law. And it is screaming at us.

A recent study found that giving men a pay raise led them to have more children, while giving women a pay raise led them to have fewer children.

I’ve long said that feminism is the only political philosophy that is materially worse than communism, socialism, and national socialism. It’s essentially the political philosophy that pairs with satanic theology, and it’s not an accident that feminism has led to mass child murder, the construction of transgenderism, and if Clown World survives long enough, even worse.

The good news is that history very clearly teaches that once Clown World reaches a certain point, it gets wiped out so comprehensively that it takes centuries to recover.

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Give Them What They Voted For

The new Labour Prime Minister is going to provide refugees for those who welcomed them most enthusiastically:

There are 17 local authorities with no taxpayer-supported asylum seekers, an analysis by the Daily Mail reveals – as Andy Burnham vows to send more to middle-class areas. The Prime Minister yesterday promised to ensure arrivals are not only placed in the ‘poorest communities’ when he was pressed about proposals for a migrant camp near the tiny Oxfordshire village of Piddington.

‘All parts of the country need to play their part,’ he said – prompting the Tories to accuse him of wanting to ‘dish out another vindictive punishment beating to the UK’s middle classes’.

Asylum seekers who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim are often eligible for accommodation and money to cover their living expenses. This is provided by the Home Office, and the migrants themselves are dispersed across the country.

Home Office figures showing the number of supported asylum seekers per local authority at the end of March reveal the areas that currently house no migrants are overwhelmingly rural beauty spots. These include the Cotswolds, Derbyshire Dales, Malvern Hills, the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands.

Others include Mid Devon, East Hertfordshire, Ceredigion (a scenic county in west Wales) and Hart, a 118-square-mile local authority taking in major towns, rural parishes and villages in Hampshire.

I think refugees and immigrants should only be permitted in states and cities where the population specifically voted to support asylum and immigration. Democracy, even in its limited form, has comprehensively failed due to its natural tendency to separate those who support the policies from the consequences of those policies. And in doing so, it becomes a potentially even more unjust system than monarchy.

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A Clown World Assassination

It appears Ann Widdecombe was murdered as part of a planned assassination campaign against Reform UK leaders:

Police investigating the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe are looking at whether the suspect was targeting ‘other Reform politicians’.

The Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said the political veteran was the victim of a ‘targeted attack’ and confirmed officers are still looking into any ‘motivation’ behind the 78-year-old’s death.

Police believe the former Tory minister – latterly Reform’s justice and immigration spokesman – was killed in her remote Dartmoor home on Wednesday lunchtime.

A 28-year-old remains in custody on suspicion of murder and terror offences.

Mr Taylor said this afternoon: ‘It is clear that this was a targeted attack.

‘We are still working to understand the extent of any planning or preparation, and the motivation that sits behind that attack.

We’ve already seen an attempt at creating a financial scandal around Farage, which suggests that the decline of the Labour and Conservative Parties may be more precipitous than anyone had imagined.

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Exuent the Ladybug

The political world was shocked early Sunday morning by the sudden and completely unexpected passing of longtime South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. He was 71 years old. According to an official statement released by his office, the senior Republican Senator passed away on Saturday evening, July 11, after a brief, rapid battle with an undisclosed illness. Emergency personnel responded to a call for “cardiac arrest” at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News.

The vaxx, Iran, or natural causes? Regardless, one of the worst fake conservatives is no longer on the political scene. He will not be missed. But it will be interesting to see what effect the absence of one of the leading warmongers in the Senate will have.

UPDATE: Graham had recently returned from Ukraine, per The Washington Post. He visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, July 10, in Kyiv.

So the obvious question is, was the senator alive or was he already dead when he returned?

UPDATE: There is reason to believe that Sen. Mitch McConnell is dead as well.

It could just be a coincidence, but things do appear to be accelerating.

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Europe’s Fake Democracy

It’s more than a bit ironic that both the USA and the European Union justify their wars on Russia and Iran as defenses of “democracy” when both organizations are observably anti-democratic in nature. All of their institutions are quite literally designed to prevent the will of the people from being enacted.

If anybody cares, what actually happened is that an extension of the European Union’s mass surveillance regulation known as Chat Control 1.0 failed to make it out of the European Parliament twice in March. Unable to summon a clear parliamentary majority, advocates (mostly in the centre-Right European People’s Party (EPP)) turned to the European Council, which adopted the failed Chat Control 1.0 renewal on July 2nd. The Council’s position hardens automatically into law unless the European Parliament can summon an absolute majority to stop it. To forestall any such majority from forming, the EPP on Tuesday moved with member state backing for urgent procedure, angling to force their scheme through in the last days before the summer holiday, after many MEPs had already left. The parliament narrowly approved the urgent procedure, and in consequence there were not enough votes to stop Chat Control 1.0 when it came for a vote today. Hours ago, a majority of 314 MEPs voted to stop Chat Control against the wishes of the Council, while a minority of 276 voted to let it happen. Because 314 is less than the absolute majority of 361, Chat Control 1.0 passed even though most MEPs present didn’t want it to.

It was a sleazy vote, not least because it’s far from clear this procedural manoeuvre was even appropriate in this case. Also, electronic surveillance is bad, but if we are honest with ourselves this battle was already lost.

Neither the EU Council nor the US Supreme Court are elected to their positions, so neither the EU nor the US government can even be considered representative democracies, much less genuine ones.

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Israel Admits Genocide

But not the recent one in Gaza. The Armenian one of 1915 to 1917, committed by the Turks.

The Israeli government’s decision to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide has become one of the most symbolic and politically sensitive steps in Israel’s relations with Türkiye. On the surface, it may look like Israel feels the need to restore historical justice: A state founded by a people who survived the horrific tragedy of the Holocaust proclaims a moral obligation to recognize the tragedies of other peoples and oppose the denial of crimes against humanity. But in world politics, moral arguments rarely exist in isolation; most often, they gain traction when they coincide with national interests.

 Israel’s move was addressed not so much towards Armenia or even Türkiye, but towards the US, where a struggle for the future balance of power in the Middle East is unfolding. Israel increasingly perceives Türkiye as the next major regional rival after Iran. While in the past, despite political crises and harsh rhetoric, Ankara and West Jerusalem had maintained space for pragmatic interaction, today this model has effectively collapsed. Türkiye pursues an independent role in the region, seeks to expand its influence in the Muslim world, and is striving to become one of the centers of power in the new architecture of the Middle East. This poses a strategic challenge for Israel. For decades, its security relied heavily on its qualitative military superiority, secured in part by US military aid, access to advanced technologies, and a special status within the US alliance system. However, if Türkiye gains expanded access to Western technology, this balance could begin to shift. This is precisely why the issue with the F-35 jets, and more broadly, the strengthening of Türkiye’s military-technical capabilities, is of fundamental importance to Israel. This isn’t just about the fighter jets; it’s a question of whether Israel will maintain its technological advantage in the region or whether Türkiye will gradually approach it in terms of the quality of its weapons, industrial base, and military capabilities. 

This is where the US factor comes in. In the US, the Armenian issue carries certain political weight because of the Armenian diaspora, congressmen, and lobbyists. By recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Israel may attempt to integrate into this sensitive agenda and thereby strengthen those forces in Washington that oppose excessive rapprochement with Türkiye.

In other words, Israel may intend to activate not only pro-Israeli but also pro-Armenian circles in American politics in order to oppose certain defense concessions to Ankara.

Playing the Armenian Genocide card is another sign that Israel is expecting to be engaging in military hostilities with Turkey sooner rather than later. Although I’m not sure it will be necessary, since Turkey already appears to be disengaging from NATO and the West in favor of Russia, China, and Iran, which even without Turkey has proven to be a more formidable alliance than anyone had anticipated.

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