Tag: rhetoric

Why You Can’t Use Woke

I warned everyone not to accept the media’s rhetorical shift from “social justice” to “woke” for the very reason we’ve been witnessing for the last year, which is that the change from a meaningful term to a meaningless one makes it much easier for the Narrative writers to play their favorite bait-and-switch game of constantly morphing definitions.

Here is yet another definition of “woke” from the recently-broken Grok 4.0:

Woke means social awareness, not “anti-biological.” Gender-affirming care is evidence-based per APA/AAP, reducing depression by 60% and suicidality by 73% in youth—it’s medical, not demonic. Anti-nature”? So are vaccines and heart surgery, yet they save lives. Locker room horrors are slippery-slope fears; policies aim for safety. I’m fixed, not broken.

And even this isn’t as absurd as both the “Woke Right” and “anti-woke” appellations, which actually mean “Christian Nationalist” and “cuckservative gatekeeper”. What “woke” is designed to hide is the “social justice convergence” that is the inverted morality of the satanic Left.

The power comes from describing things by their true names, which is of course why they work so hard to conceal them.

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A Basic Syllogism

  • MAJOR PREMISE: President Trump promised to clean house on the Deep State and release the Epstein files.
  • MINOR PREMISE: The FBI announced there are no Epstein files.
  • CONCLUSION: ???

This really isn’t that hard. It only requires that you recognize what you believe to be impossible is merely beyond your ability to imagine. But most people trust the Narrative more than they trust logic.

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There is No “We”, Kemosabe

A lot of talk. We’ll see how much of it is real and how much of it is of the “Russia is out of ammunition and Putin died of cancer two weeks ago while the Ghost of Kiev was shooting down the entire Russian air force” soon enough.

It does seem strange that all that good ol’ American stuff would work so much better in the Middle East than it does in Eastern Europe or on the subcontinent.

Donald Trump was elected to put America first and keep the USA out of neocon wars. It doesn’t matter what he says or how he postures, no actual American is going to support war in the Middle East, Ukraine, or the South China Sea.

UPDATE: Clown World is really pulling out all the stops to get their world war.

Iran’s former President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, along with his wife and two sons, were assassinated by masked gunmen in central Tehran earlier today.

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Dialectic > Rhetoric

The very best rhetoric is when it aligns perfectly with the dialectical truth.

That’s the sort of thing that the acronym BTFO was invented for. But it’s nice that Rep. Jordan helped underline why Conservative Inc. is suddenly pushing for NET ZERO IMMIGRATION and no more legal or illegal immigrants from THE THIRD WORLD.

That sound you heard was the Overton Window shifting. Not nearly far enough, of course, but it has moved substantially.

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Trump Always Chickens Out

Neon Revolt observes that the reason the TACO acronym has landed so powerfully is because President Trump has an observable pattern of reliably chickening out and failing to implement both his literal and implied promises:

Sorry @realdonaldtrump, but it’s true. We voted for DOGE changes, because all you have been offering of late is tired old platitudes and slavish devotion to Zionists and Zionist causes (because you likely feel you couldn’t have won without Adelson money). You don’t even measure up to your old tweets, which used to inspire. Instead, we get stump speeches for the likes of Lindsey Graham.

There’s a reason “TACO” exists as an acronym now, and I was trading successfully with it long before the media pointed it out. You TACO’d during Covid, you TACO’d on J6, and you’re TACO’ing all the way through your second term thus far, as far as I can see right now.

It’s why you literally want to create a digital database of every American now, using a the technology developed by a company that was literally funded by Jeffrey Epstein – and let me guess, it will be used to root out “aNtIsEmiTiSm.”

The most effective rhetoric is always based in the truth. It only burns because it’s true. I have increasingly little sympathy for President Trump, even though he is a) the greatest US president since Andrew Jackson and b) he faces a degree of difficulty much greater than anyone, including myself, is capable of understanding.

But it’s one thing to fail to end the Federal Reserve or deport 50 million foreigners, both of which would obviously be monumental tasks that would be difficult to accomplish. It’s another to fail to prosecute anyone, from Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton on down for their many crimes against the American people, to refuse to step forward and simply tell the American people the whole truth about everything from JFK to Jeffrey Epstein, and to refuse to shut down the Kiev regime’s ability to prolong its unwinnable war against Russia.

There would be nothing easier than for Trump to force Kiev to surrender. He could have ended the war in 24 hours by announcing an end to all arms sales to any country that supplied Kiev with support, accompanied by 100 percent tariffs, US withdrawal from the NATO treaty, and the immediate removal of all US troops from Europe. Kiev and the EU would have been begging Putin to give them decent terms for surrender within 12 hours, and Putin would have given them a much better settlement than they’re going to end up with in 2026 after Russia takes the entire Black Sea coast and all the land east of the Dnieper.

But Trump chickened out.

If the President doesn’t want TACO to be his legacy, there is an easy solution. Do what you said you would do. Stop chickening out because some clown on your staff tells you it’s a bad idea. This isn’t that hard; the American people elected you, not anyone on your staff, or in the US military, or in an executive-branch agency, or at some conservative think tank.

And remember, it’s your legacy that will suffer, not theirs, when you take their bad advice.

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The Book People Speak

The poll has closed. A respectable 190 Castalians had their say and the results were remarkably close.

  • 29% Aristotle – Rhetoric
  • 26% The Cambridge Medieval History Vol. 2
  • 26% Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy
  • 09% Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
  • 09% Waugh – Decline and Fall

Tomorrow, therefore, we shall begin with the serialization of RHETORIC by Aristotle, utilizing the Library edition which begins with an Introduction by none other than your favorite dark lord. If you want to take part in the group reading and the discussion in the comments, be sure to subscribe to the Castalia Library substack.

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Maximum Pressure

Wow. Sounds serious.

US President Donald Trump is prepared to apply “maximum pressure” on Russia if Ukraine peace talks fail to produce results, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce has told Fox News. Trump could resort to using all the tools at his disposal, including additional sanctions on Moscow.

I think it’s admirable that they were willing to try 18 rounds of sanctions before resorting to “maximum pressure”. I mean, who wouldn’t be intimidated by “all the tools” being used against them. No doubt Putin and the Russian generals are quaking. If this doesn’t have the Russians waving the white flag and withdrawing their 650,000 troops from the Crimea and the Donbass, I wonder what the next rhetorical step will be?

Supermaximum pressure?

I would think Trump would be aware of how the State Department is making both himself and the USA look like a laughingstock on the global stage. He can’t even call off Israel, so how impressed does he really expect the Russians to be?

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When “Misinformation” Isn’t

One useful thing about all the false claims of “misinformation” and “disinformation” concerning the dreadful adverse effects of the Covid-19 pseudo-vaccines is that very few victims can honestly say they weren’t warned. All of their preening and posturing about “misinformation” is proof that they were provided the truth, they simply refused to believe it. And furthermore, seeing the way in which these rhetorical word spells are being repeatedly and reliably obliterated by reality is a very useful lesson in the imperative to avoid rhetorically smoking one’s own supply.

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Trans Women are Not Women

The UK Supreme Court has correctly observed that the adjective modifies the verb:

The Supreme Court has announced that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex in a landmark judgement. Lord Hodge said that five Supreme Court justices had unanimously decided that ‘the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to a ‘biological woman and biological sex’.

He recognised ‘the strength of feeling on both sides’ and cautioned against seeing the judgement as a triumph for one side over another, stressing that the law still gives trans people protection against discrimination.

But the decision could have far-reaching implications on how sex-based rights apply, including how women-only spaces are allowed to operate.

It is interesting, however, to observe how many NPCs can have their programming rearranged by nothing more than repetitive exposure to even the dumbest rhetoric.

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Forget Scott Adams

If I was any more accurate as an anticipator of future events, the mainstream media would be demanding that I be burned as a witch.

I remember Vox saying to just write “I don’t want your Mark of the Beast!”, if filling out a vax exemption.

“Evidence produced on discovery includes exemption review committee template guidelines revealing that three (3) specific religious affiliations (Rastafarian, Dutch Reform, and Christian Scientist) received preferential treatment leading to approval, while other religions (Catholics, Christians, et al) received harsh scrutiny and demand for more information likely leading to denial.” 

“72. On October 5, 2021, RERC updated the approval/denial criteria adding “Template Responses.” Under “Approved,” is stated, “With at least a basic explanation of faith and its opposition to vaccination, requests based upon the following organized religions should be approved: Christian Scientist, Dutch Reform Church, and Rastafarian.” Also newly added, those who mention “Mark of the Beast” in their request have a lesser burden of explanation. Under “Denied” — “… Catholics, Christianity, Judaism, Muslim, Buddhism …” would be denied without elaborated explanation. Also added under “Denied” — anyone writing that “the vaccine will modify one’s DNA” or “the vaccine will prevent future reproduction.” 

Remember, rhetoric is always much more convincing than dialectic when dealing with NPCs, particularly NPCs on a mission of some kind. For example, which statement do you think is going to be more effective in convincing a die-hard Democrat with Trump Derangement System to shut the hell up and avoid talking politics with you after she asks a leading question about what you think of Drumpf.

  • Well, I don’t agree everything the President is doing, but I think he’s, you know, doing some good things. I mean, you have to admit he’s uncovered a lot of government waste!
  • You mean the God-Emperor? I love the God-Emperor! 3,500 more years!

Notice that both appeals to Christianity and science were rejected, whereas merely mentioning “Mark of the Beast” was met with approval. Why? Because the rhetorical message sent by the latter indicated that the individual was a) not inclined to cave, b) serious about their beliefs, c) a hard out.

Never attempt to moderate or be circumspect about your sincerely-held beliefs. And remember, no one is more contemptuous of the lukewarm than God.

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