Tag: politics

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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A Lesson from Spain

The Nationalist Right in Spain was divided into two camps. One of them read the Republican Left correctly. One of them didn’t:

There were two schools of thought on the Spanish Right in the lead-up to the civil war: Accidentalism and Catastrophism. Accidentalists believed that the serious issues facing the Spanish Republic were not baked into the institution itself, but rather an accident that could be attributed to the early Marxist bent of the first government. The Republic had gotten off on the wrong foot, but Conservatives could and would steer the ship in the right direction once they peacefully won political power through the electoral process and formed a government capable of addressing the Right’s concerns regarding government attacks on the Church and private property. They were strictly committed to following the rule of law and operating within the constitutional framework.

The second group believed the Republic was a catastrophe from the start, and that there could be no saving the Republic from itself. They asserted that the Left would never recognize any non-Leftist government, no matter how much they claimed to uphold the rule of law, because the problem was not with the Republic’s legalistic procedures but rather with the fact that the entire system was merely a facade to facilitate a Socialist and eventually Communist state that would permanently exclude Conservatives from power.

These two camps were largely united in their politics but divided in how to engage in politics. One pursued reform, while the other waited for an opportunity to overthrow the system itself once enough of the Right realized that there would be no voting their way out of this mess.

Most American Republicans are still Accidentalists. And like their Spanish forebears, they are both a) wrong and b) irrelevant. If even an American rump state is to survive the eventual breakup of the USA, it will be the Catastrophists who will be running the show.

Fortunately for Americans, Trump is increasingly showing signs of having embraced Catastrophism.

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Be the Thing They Fear

The anti-American clowns are attempting to play the victim game. But the victim game only works when people actually care about not being identified as the bad guys:

this whole shabby psyop masquerading as a morality play has been being set up for years. the same people who flooded the country with illegal intruders to shift the census, electoral college, congressional seat counts, and to taint voter rolls (often using tax dollars to do it) always knew that the day might come when people got fed up and sought to reverse this.

they also know how incredibly difficult this would be, the draconian actions it would require, and how bad this could be made to look.

they were already prebunking this issue before the election. “if the bad guys win, they will round you up and put you in boxcars! it will be fascism! genocide! they will not follow the law!”

lost in this and absent from the barrage of talking points is the lawlessness, manipulation, and outright aggression ingrained in flooding communities with these groups and then leaving them protected by law and process but unbound by restrictions or standards. the manner in which they were brought in was wildly illegal, and now the selfsame perps demand law be applied.

the whole point is to be so provocative and violent that only violence can serve to resist or constrain it, then they call you violent.

It’s just names. It’s just words. And word magic doesn’t work if you refuse to believe in it. I’ve been called every name in the book. According to my enemies, I “rise all the way to outright evil” and I absolutely accept and embrace my place in their nightmares. My strongest supporters weren’t even named by me, the Vile Faceless Minions were given their title by one of the many bloggers who refused to name me while criticizing me for fear of my “vile, faceless minions” descending upon his blog to tear apart his insipid arguments.

The amusing thing is that once you embrace their attempted insults, once you wear their nightmares as your armor, they immediately reverse course and start trying to claim that you aren’t really what they called you. Because their words are meaningless, their words are quite literally senseless.

So do what you do and accept whatever ridiculous label they want to apply to you as you go about your business without hesitation or regard for anything they do or say.

First they call you names.

Then they cry that it’s unfair.

Then they shriek that it’s illegal.

Then they plead for mercy.

Then they cease to be a problem.

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Nationalist or Feminist

Time will tell. Given the disastrous historical performances by female leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel, it’s hard to have any confidence in Japan’s next prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, despite her ideological superiority to her LDP rivals:

Japan’s ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbors.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, elected Takaichi, 64, to regain trust from a public angered by rising prices and drawn to opposition groups promising stimulus and clampdowns on migrants.

A vote in parliament to choose a replacement for outgoing Shigeru Ishiba is expected on October 15. Takaichi is favored as the ruling coalition has the largest number of seats.

Takaichi, the only woman among the five LDP candidates, beat a challenge from the more moderate Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, who was bidding to become the youngest modern leader.

Being more influenced by their social surroundings than men, women in positions of political leadership also tend to “grow” more in office because the influences on them once they become a broad spectrum leader, they are suddenly subject to pressure from a much broader range of interests and ideologies.

Margaret Thatcher violated her most precious principles when she sold out British sovereignty and permitted Great Britain to join the precursor to the European Union. Angela Merkel was the most conservative major party leader when she invited the invasion of Germany by the mass of third-world migrants in 2015.

So, I would not expect too much from either Takaichi or Alice Weidel of Germany’s AfD party. Because no matter hardline or conservative they are now, they are still women and they are still subject to the same social pressures that so easily manipulate their more liberal sisters.

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A New Standard of Nothing

It’s been reported that the unprecedented meeting of all of the US military’s generals and admirals was to inform them of the end of the Diversity and Inclusion era in the US military. Also, no fat troops.

Hegseth told the military leaders he’s rolling out 10 new directives involving physical fitness, new grooming requirements and a return to “the highest male standard” for combat positions. He slammed what he said were “fat troops” and added “it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world. It’s a bad look.”

Even by Trump administration standards, this is nothing and less than nothing. The funny thing is that the Defense Secretary didn’t even make the smallest significant gesture, which would have been to ban women and foreigners from the US military.

No doubt the Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and Turkish generals are quaking with fear.

Checkmate, Putin.

UPDATE: Just to be clear, I very much doubt this is the actual purpose of the meeting. But it is the nominal one that has been reported.

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Fake Democracy in Europe

A fake election in Europe barely secures victory for the EU-supported pro-EU party:

Moldova’s ruling pro-EU Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) has secured a narrow majority in the nation’s parliamentary election, according to preliminary results published by the Central Election Commission (CEC). Votes from abroad pushed PAS past the threshold needed to continue governing without a coalition partner. Inside the country, however, it received only 44.13%, with its strongest support in the capital, Chisinau, where it polled at 52.68%. Initial counts suggested the party would fall short of an outright majority. But PAS dominated the diaspora vote, getting over 85% in some Western countries. As ballots trickled in from overseas, its overall total rose and eventually crossed the 50% line.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, a “voluntary” electronic ID barely passes in its second attempt because the usual cantonal approval was not required and a state-controlled corporation illegally donated to the pro-ID campaign.

The referendum committee against the law on digital identity (e-ID), which was narrowly approved on Sunday, called on Monday for the vote to be annulled. It claims that the result was influenced by illegal interference by Swisscom, which is controlled by the state. The referendum committee regards Swisscom’s involvement in the campaign as a flagrant violation of the freedom to vote guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. Companies close to the government are bound by political neutrality and must not influence the democratic process through unilateral interventions.

The pattern in these anti-democratic Clown World votes is very clear. The EU and NGOs are heavily involved in financing and backing the campaigns. Technical rules are subverted and utilized against political opponents, minor and presumably temporary changes are made to permit revotes of failed measures, the non-resident vote-by-mail heavily supports all the measures that the residents oppose, and all of the non-populist parties put their differences aside in order to support the government-endorsed policies.

It’s all just a thin, pseudo-democratic charade meant to obscure the ever-growing, ever-tighter grip that Clown World is attempting to exert on the European nations with an illusion of popular legitimacy. But these attempts will fail, because all of the economic and philosophical justifications for Clown World’s “democracy” have failed. These are just the last gasp of political measures being applied before Clown World openly turns to violent repression and then completely collapses due to its lack of popular support.

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Next Man Up

It certainly appears that Mr. Fuentes took the offer that his immediate predecessor turned down. Isn’t it fascinating to observe how the self-styled “most-canceled man in America” is suddenly being granted mainstream platforms?

At least we have the answer to who the next major gatekeeper will be. It should be amusing to see Mr. Fuentes doing interviews with Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, and the Weinstein brothers. The conversations about conversations should be informative indeed.

There is an informative commentary on US politics in Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Boy.

Uncle Henry sat down. “Otto could speak off the cuff as easily as you could spit prune pits. He could talk for a full hour with only one or two thoughts to keep him company, and when people suggested he run for Congress, he said he’d be delighted. He had done well for himself, selling flavored grain alcohol to nondrinkers, but the market was drying up now that Montanans could walk into any pharmacy and purchase all the cocaine they needed.

“Otto campaigned on the back of a manure spreader. He said, ‘This is the first time I have spoken from a Republican platform.’ He made speeches against Wall Street and the railroad barons and their terrible greed at the expense of the honest workingman and tradesman, and he was elected with sixty percent of the vote and went to Washington, where he discovered that his outspoken opposition to the railroads had raised the cash value of his vote on railroad bills considerably. A Republican in favor of free enterprise got chicken feed for his vote compared to the People’s Champion from the High Plains.

“Otto once told my father that bribery was simply a case of the free market at work simplifying the decision-making process. He had a fine time in Congress and did not overexert himself. He met with the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lawyers, who were helpful in advising him on regulatory matters. He passed antitrust laws that had about as much effect as a fart in a cyclone, and every two years he put on his old clothes and came home to roam the state and thunder against the Special Interests and the Malefactors of Wealth, and the Republicans put up some squinty old guy with bad breath, and Otto was elected to four terms.

“He moved to New York City after he got beat, running for a fifth term. There had been a bill that would allow the railroads to trade parts of their original land grant for parts of the Crow Reservation and thus open up forty square miles for copper mining, and Otto was going to vote for it, and then Balestrand started talking to him about the Indians and what a rough deal they got, how they were robbed, and the two of them shared a bottle of O-ho-no-ma-wa-hee, and Otto’s conscience was aroused after years of lying dormant. He voted nay. The bill passed, of course, and in the fall, the Republicans put up a cowboy against him, a Rough Rider in the Spanish War, a husband and a father of six, with a level gaze and a square jaw and a cleft in his chin, and the Republican newspapers accused Otto of wanting to give Montana back to the savages, and he was thrashed in the election.“

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Owen Wept

The Big Bear must be rolling his eyes watching a mainstream “comedian” like Jimmy Kimmel trying to save his career by appealing to the Jester’s Prerogative.

‘The MAGA gang desperately [is] trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,’ Kimmel said Monday, adding that the far-right was scrambling ‘to score political points from it.’

Those comments sparked swift outrage among conservatives and even drew the attention of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who labeled Kimmel’s words ‘some of the sickest conduct possible.’ But rather than soften his stance, sources say Kimmel intended to double down on his next broadcast, a move Disney executives feared would further inflame tensions.

For Kimmel, who has helmed the late-night staple since 2003, the suspension marks the first major interruption of his 22-year run. Friends say the comedian is ‘angry but unbowed’ and feels Disney caved to political pressure.

After the announcement, a source told The Daily Mail that Kimmel ‘feels betrayed.’ ‘Jimmy has always pushed boundaries, that’s what his audience expects,’ the insider revealed. ‘The idea that one comment could sideline him after everything he’s given ABC — he’s gutted, but he’s not sorry.’

It’s always amusing to see what people in the mainstream believe is “the far-right”. The actual Right, the real Right, the only Right, isn’t trying to score one single political point from what is reported to be the assassination of a milquetoast conservative employed by foreign interests. Nor do we celebrate it. Why would we, since he’ll be replaced by another manufactured “success” before long. This Charlie Kirk tweet should suffice to explain my complete indifference to his reported fate.

Sure they are. By far… Those must have been some fascinating ideas and arguments derived from the complete literary works of Jordan B. Peterson.

This will be my last word on Charlie Kirk because I never considered him anything but irrelevant, and what little I’ve learned about him in the last week has only confirmed my total lack of interest in whatever it was that he was selling to the American public. Be offended if you like, but observe that you’ll search 21 years of archives here in vain without a single reference to him prior to the recent events.

Back to the cancel culture boomerang. It’s even more amusing to see a mainstream clown like Jimmy Kimmel appealing to the same Jester’s Prerogative that didn’t protect Owen Benjamin back in the day. No one cares how many boundaries you’ve pushed in the past, the point is that you pushed too far for the current political climate and therefore you’re canceled.

Get used to it and learn to code.

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Now They Care

The Hollywood stars who have supported and celebrated deplatformings, debankings, and crackdowns on “hate speech” are now worried about the pendulum swinging back on them. Which, of course, it is, because that is the nature of pendulums.

Hollywood celebrities have rushed to defend Jimmy Kimmel after he was ‘indefinitely’ taken off the air because of comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder.

ABC will not be airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! ‘for the foreseeable future,’ a spokesperson announced on Wednesday.

Stars have pushed back against the decision to take Kimmel off air, with Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Stiller, Henry Winkler and Alison Brie joining the ranks in opposition.

Ben Stiller jumped over to X to repost the news of ABC taking Kimmel off air and typed out, ‘This isn’t right.’

Singer John Legend shared a post by David Frum which read: ‘How dare you call us fascists just because our appointees threaten government retaliation against broadcast networks if their comedians don’t say what we want them to say.’

Frozen actor Josh Gad said: ‘I see we are at the passive participation of authoritarianism now. God help us all.’

Community actor Alison Brie shared a news alert on Instagram: ‘This is unreal. And very scary.’

Henry Winkler wrote on X: ‘@jimmykimmel his humor, his insights are important to keep showing us who we are . AND he is a most wonderful fellow’ [sic]

Jamie Lee Curtis, 66 — who recently made a tearful statement about Kirk — reposted a photo of Kimmel to her Instagram Story with a quote attributed to the comedian that read: ‘I don’t think anybody should be canceled. I really don’t.’

And yet, they didn’t shed any tears when Owen Benjamin was banished from Hollywood over a single tweet about trans kids.

We’re seeing a lot of “I thought the Right was against cancel culture” online these days. And that’s right, we were. But that didn’t cause the Left, or Clown World, to drop it. It’s a sword that can cut more than one way, and those who lived by it for the last ten years are now at risk from dying by it.

Anyone who tries to cancel anyone for “hate speech” or “sexism” or “racism” or “antisemitism” are themselves worthy of cancellation and banishment from civilized society. They didn’t respect the free speech of others, so they have lost their own claims to it.

UPDATE: The Dark Herald knows why Kimmel was put on ice for the moment. It’s actually an attempt to save him by “suspending” him rather than firing him and cancelling his show.

In case you are wondering about Mickey the Great and Terrible suspending Jimmy Kimmel, this is an attempt to get out ahead of a bunch of negative stories about Disney employees reacting to Charlie Kirk’s death. They should start landing soon.

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