Friday, July 5, 2024
We're All Living in Amerika... and its' Vundevahr!
Globalist Visions:
J.A. Frascino, "Democracy, Democrat style"
Democrats love to incite fear in voters that a Trump/ MAGA/ Republican takeover of government imposes an existential “threat to democracy!” They base their fear campaign primarily on the report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, citing Trump as the leader of an insurrection.
But was the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol an attempt to overthrow a duly elected administration? Not really. It was a protest against what was believed to be a corrupt election process. In that sense, it was an action taken to preserve a democratic process, not to subvert it. The committee should have been charged with determining if the event were indeed an insurrection, not with prejudicially defining it as such and proceeding with prosecution. (The committee consisted of seven Democrats and two Republicans —- Adam Kinsinger who endorses Biden for 2024, and avowed Trump hater Liz Cheney.)
If elected, Trump will be a fascist dictator who will never rescind his position as president. He will wreak revenge — even death — on his political opponents (….and you may be next!). He is an agent of Putin. If we want to preserve our democracy, he must be defeated. Biden, at a NYC fundraiser in Sept. ‘23: “And let there be no question. Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy.” Exactly how Trump might execute such an historic upheaval in permanent Washington has yet to be divulged.
And how, by contrast, is the Democrat Party defending and upholding democracy? Let us count the ways:1. Embracing judicial activism by establishing a DOJ guided by personal and political bias. Utilizing contrived legal arguments to incarcerate a political opponent. Railing against the Supreme Court for adhering to Constitutional restraint rather than yielding to leftist ideology. Openly espousing the goal of stacking the Court with liberal justices.The Democrat Party’s idea of “democracy” clearly is one of attainment of one party totalitarian control of government. In their self-designated and disingenuous role as champion of the oppressed, the victimized, the subjugated, they are entitled to employ any means possible to attain that end. Now THAT’s democracy!
2. Supplementing closed ballot voting on Election Day with corruption-prone mail-in and absentee ballot harvesting to combat “voter suppression”.
3. Contriving to replace a presidential candidate already chosen by popular vote in primary elections with one nominated by the party elites at the DNC.
4. Stacking Congress with Democrat politicians by promoting the granting of statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, establishing a permanent Democrat majority.
5. Perpetuating D-I-E, providing academic and career advancement for favored groups based on race and gender rather than ability and achievement.
6. Indoctrinating the young with anti-American, anti-religious, anti-family rhetoric, disconnecting them from all traditional values to become dependent upon the state for security and purpose.
7. Opening the border to unskilled immigrants so as to expand their voter base.
8. Employing identity politics, dividing the nation into oppressor and oppressed groups and attacking the oppressors as the root of all “social injustices.”
9. Eliminating the Electoral College to weaken the influence of rural, red states in presidential elections.
10. Utilizing the media as a Ministry of Propaganda.
"Humanity as an end in itself!"
Kant argued that rational beings can never be treated merely as means to ends; they must always also be treated as ends in themselves, requiring that their own reasoned motives must be equally respected.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Why the Mooch Will Be President of the US Come 2025?
Popularity + Ballot Harvesting Operation = Electoral Victory
Michelle 11% Ahead in Head-to-Head Polls
Barrack LOVES it when a Plan Comes Together! Imagine the Down-Ballot Coat Tails...
Democrats Panties in a Wad, Try Shifting the Overton Window thru Sheer Hyperbolic Paranoiac Force
Eppur si Muove
Who knew that the Unitary Executive Theory of the Constitution had never been considered valid by the legal system BEFORE Trump's 1/6/21 Insurrection? And now the "theory" has unexpectedly become "reality" through settled case law and acquired the power of stare decisis? More likely, they're doing the bureaucratic cover-your-own-ass shuffle, trying to cover THEIR OWN unethical and immoral POLITICAL weaponization of the government against Donald J. Trump as evidenced by their lack of thorough legal analysis as to "official acts" and their ever pressing determination to drive their cases to judgement before the November 2024 POLITICAL election.
"Pop Smoke! Pop Smoke! What other Obscurants do we have?"
Right Gains Seats in France's Round 1 Elections
Labour Likely to Gain a Majority of seats today in the UK:
On the Likely New PM Keir Starmer:
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Who's Running Ukraine Now?
The Rise of the Azov Brigade
The Security Service of Ukraine said the group plotted to seize the country's parliament.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s security service said Monday that it foiled a coup that would have “played into Russia’s hands” as his Ukrainian forces battled their Russian counterparts in the east of the country.
News of the plot emerged ahead of the visit of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s only European allies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, to Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with Zelenskyy.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a Telegram post Monday that a group of people were preparing “a series of provocations” in capital Kyiv.
It added that the group was led by a co-founder of a public organization known for its “anti-Ukrainian actions” since 2015, although it did not name either the individual or the group.
After calling for a public gathering in central Kyiv on Sunday, the suspects were planning to announce the removal of the country’s military and political leadership from power, the SBU said. Then they plotted to seize the building of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, the statement added.
The perpetrators “hoped to stir up the social and political situation within our country, which would work in Russia’s favor,” the Security Service said, although it did not explicitly say whether the Kremlin was behind the group or its plans.
The SBU did not identify the suspects or say how many people were detained. But it said they are facing charges of calling for and trying to overthrow the constitutional order and seize power. If convicted, they could face up to 10 years in prison, the SBU said.
In a separate statement, Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General said Monday that the head of the group sought out members of the military and private security guards to help them carry out the plan.
It added that the leader rented a hall in Kyiv that could accommodate 2,000 people, although it did not specify what the hall was to be used for. It also said that four people had been detained.
NBC News could not independently verify the details of the alleged coup, one of several purported attempts to topple the Ukrainian leadership since Putin launched his invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian investigators said in May that they foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan.
And ahead of the Russian invasion, Zelenskyy claimed to have intelligence and recordings of a coup plot involving Russians and a Ukrainian billionaire oligarch.
News of the latest plot emerged two days before Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, arrived in Kyiv for talks with Zelenskyy.
Orbán, a self-described “illiberal” leader, is known to have a close personal relationship with Putin, and while he and his government have condemned the invasion of Ukraine, they have refused to criticize the Russian leader.
He has also routinely blocked, delayed or watered down European Union efforts to extend assistance to Ukraine and to sanction Russia over the war.
He has also accused Ukraine of infringing on the rights of an ethnic Hungarian minority in the country’s western region of Zakarpattia for years, complicating relations between the two neighbors.
Orbán’s visit comes the day after Hungary took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, a position that has little real power but can be used to set the tone of the 27-nation bloc’s agenda.
Referencing the presidency in a news conference after meeting with Zelenskyy, Orbán said he chose Kyiv for his first visit “because peace is an important question” and the war was affecting European security, according to the translation of his comments posted to the Ukrainian president's official Telegram account.
“I asked the president to think about whether we could reverse the order, and speed up peace talks with making a ceasefire first,” Orban said. “A cease-fire connected to a deadline would give a chance to speed up peace talks. I explored this possibility with the president and I am grateful for his honest answers and negotiation.”
Zelenskyy did not respond to those comments. Instead he mooted the possibility of a broad bilateral cooperation agreement between Ukraine and Hungary.
Separately his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said that an "important conversation" about the future of Europe, security, international law and the Peace Formula, Zelenskyy’s 10-point plan for ending the war, had taken place.
Elsewhere, in eastern Ukraine, fierce battles between the country's forces and their Russian rivals continued. However, Moscow’s counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region appeared to stall as newly committed U.S. military supplies have started to trickle in.
On the quiet lifting of the US weapons ban on arms to Azov.
Denys Prokopenko (Azov Commander)
Kabuki Theatre Debuts in America...
... in the form of the 2024 Presidential Election!
...brought to you by Barrack Obama, James Clyburn, John Brennan, and a host of players.
So Sit Back Now, and ENJOY THE SHOW!
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
We Need to Have a Family Meeting....
Pending DNC Sponsored and Endorsed Kabuki Power Transitions
Step 1 - Joe Biden withdraws his candidacy for the sake of the Nation. He then happily retires to his beach house and Corvette in Rehoboth Beach, DE.
Step 2 - Kamala Harris inherits the nomination, but steps down for the sake of the Party. In return, she becomes Michelle Obama's Attorney General (AG).
Step 3 - Michelle Obama, the ONLY candidate agreeable to James Clyburn and Barack Obama, agrees to run in Kamala's place, once again for the sake of the nation (preventing Trump from trouncing Kamala in the general)
Step 4 - Jill Biden, consigliere and now chief protector of the Biden Crime family, is appointed by John Carney (Governor of Delaware) to the US Senate to take Tom Carper's empty seat, who steps down to become Michelle Obama's Secretary of Defense.
Win-Win-Win-Win-Win-Win
The formula of the Party-State, as the defining feature of twentieth-century Communism, thus needs to be complicated: there is always a gap between Party and State, corresponding to the gap between the Ego-Ideal (symbolic Law) and the Superego, for the Party remains the half-hidden obscene shadow which redoubles the State structure. There is here no distance, its organization embodying a fundamental distrust of the State organs and mechanisms, as if they need to be continually kept in check. A true twentieth-century-style Communist never fully accepts the State: there always has to be a vigilant agency outside of State control, with the power to intervene in the State's business.
- Slavoj Zizek, "Living in the End Times"
Poor Leadership in Action: "Fake It 'til You Make It".. Is Joe Running for President, or Internet Influencer in Chief?
A massive political, PR and personal campaign is underway to reject calls for President Biden to drop his re-election race — and rally Democrats to move on from public debate about age and his future, top officials tell us.
Why it matters: Biden has zero interest in stepping aside — and First Lady Jill Biden and key family members and friends agree, according to people who talk regularly with them.
The intrigue: Biden, who has ducked tough interviews and avoided no-holds-barred press conferences, is now considering both. Look for a town hall or big one-on-one interview this month.
The latest: During a family gathering at Camp David on Sunday, Biden family members, including Hunter, went through with a long-scheduled session with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. The Bidens insisted the president stay in the race, we're told by people close to them."They're all-in, and want him to stay in," a Biden source told us, adding that the campaign is "charging ahead."Behind the scenes: Some Biden friends and family blamed longtime aides who had prepped Biden. They complained about everything from data-heavy answers to his makeup to his briefing on camera angles.But the president smoothed it over: He called former chief of staff Ron Klain, who led the team, and one of the things they talked about was that neither he nor the family blames the prep.Campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz told us: "The aides who prepped the president have been with him for years, often decades, seeing him through victories and challenges. He maintains strong confidence in them."State of play: Biden's inner circle argues that one bad night of a scratchy voice and a few mangled answers doesn't warrant ending it all. So they're unleashing the full power of the White House and top Democrats to resist the loud calls for him to give up the race.
Klain, who is expected to lead Biden's prep for the second debate — on ABC on Sept. 10 — told us: "In 38 years of working with Joe Biden, we've had many successes and some failures. I'm always happy to share in the good results and assume my share of the responsibility for the times we've come up short."The biggest argument will be that Biden won the Democratic primaries overwhelmingly, and that result is final."You guys don't get to decide," a source close to Biden said, referring to high-profile Democrats now second-guessing Biden as nominee. "That's not how this works. We don't have smoke-filled rooms.""They just have to cool down," the source added. "We live in a democracy, at least for now."Based on our weekend conversations with top officials and advisers, here's the Biden survival strategy:Dismiss "bedwetting." The official White House and campaign line is this is much ado about nothing — that Biden works so hard it drains his young staff. This attitude is driving elected officials and donors — basically any top Democrat not on the Biden payroll — nuts. They feel it's delusional. Nonetheless, Biden allies are cranking out data and pushing out surrogates to insist he had one bad night, mostly because of a scratchy voice and over-preparation.
Squeeze polls for juice. Biden allies are circulating polls and focus group results showing the debate did little to change the dynamics of the race. They're ignoring contrarian results — like a CBS/YouGov poll out Sunday that shows a surge in voters who think Biden is not up for the job. If you're to believe the polls: Voters thought Biden lost the debate and seemed too old. But there's little evidence they're moving fast to Trump. Both seem true.
Warn of chaos. Biden allies are making plain in private conversations the perils of an open convention — and the risk of picking a Democrat even more unpopular than Biden, namely Vice President Kamala Harris. They know Biden just needs to make it to the Democratic convention in Chicago, which opens eight weeks from today. After that, unity is the only choice.
Limit dissent. Biden allies helped orchestrate the supportive tweets by former Presidents Clinton and Obama. Those happened after furious back-channeling by allies. Truth is, that was the easy part.
Keep elected leaders close. The White House knows Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries are deeply concerned that an unpopular Biden could cost them seats on Election Day. Their members in tough races are scared, and several plan to run away from Biden. Former Sen. Tom Harkin, who served with Biden in the Senate for 20+ years, said in an email to supporters that the debate was "a disaster from which Biden cannot recover."
Get the donor class to chill. Jeffery Katzenberg and other top Biden backers are working the phones to reassure the deep pockets, while the campaign and DNC keep turning out fundraising appeals and highlighting successes. Some donors are blaming the staff — not the man on stage. John Morgan, a Florida personal-injury-law magnate who's a top Democratic donor, tweeted Sunday that Biden's debate-prep team is guilty of political malpractice: "Format was a disaster for him and a plus for Trump. He over practiced and was drained."
Prove vitality. Words can't capture how elated top officials were that Biden was as vigorous as he was at a rally in North Carolina the day after the debate. They're looking for as many opportunities as possible to show that he's still on his game and not too old for the gig. They know words are useless — they need vitality in action.
Ignore/engage the media. On the one hand, Biden allies want everyone to ignore the prominent columnists who loved Biden and are now calling for his resignation. On the other, the campaign and White House are deeply engaged with reporters (like us) writing about presidential fitness.
What's next: Biden's kitchen cabinet sees a recipe for a narrow victory that includes a grand-slam speech at the Democratic convention in Chicago + a strong showing in the next second debate + positive economic news in the fall (maybe a Fed rate cut).
The bottom line: Biden's camp believes voters will give more weight to Biden's judgment and record than to his grandpa gait or fading debate dexterity. It's one of the greatest gambles in the history of politics. Once again, Biden's team is telling Democratic voters:You just have to believe.
Whereas Good Leaders eschew such "belief systems" by De-MONSTRATING leadership through empirical ACTA NON VERBA! means:
"Step Up and Take Charge""Take Responsibility""The Buck Stops Here""Take the Bull by the Horns"Directly and Immediately "Address ALL Issues and Concerns"
...while good leader wannabe's hide in their basements and wait for their followers to forget the issues... while they re-direct responsibility for failures onto opposition Orange Men and lower tier subordinates (scapegoats of last resort)
Ye Shall Know your leaders by their demonstrated instincts
Monday, July 1, 2024
Examples of Poster Children for POOR Leadership...
Framing the current problems of society as one of having "too many USELESS people" and NOT framing it as one of "certain people having excessive capital who are replacing people with 'ownable' computers and machines, as the 'modern' means of capital (Re)-Production"
The same hold's true of the Government's typical classification of workers as either "Essential" or "Non-Essential". It trivializes human "worth", especially under Capitalism where commodities typically mediate "social relations". "Useless people" connotate "valueless (non-essential) people" unworthy of interacting with and conducting amicable social relations with. They (Non-essential workers) are given the appearance (branded with a label) of something (or some people) that one (an essential worker) should avoid or eliminate contact with in a functioning 'Society'...
American Pathologies to Breakdown and Collapse
When Owners of an Achievement Society Preclude all Paths to Future Successful Achievement and Regress to Attempting to Impose "Disciplinary Society" solutions through "legal/ law enforcement means" and not through grants of further "access" to "REAL opportunities" for true Achievement. There's a limit to Democratic Party patronage (DEI/ Affirmative Action)... and we've crossed it.
So why are so many immigrant "Achiever" wannabes dying to join the Achievement Society? Answer: unlike the Nativist drop-outs and burn-outs, they simply haven't been here long enough to recognize the ever-higher Successful Achievement Ceiling that's receding before them like in a gallery inside Disneyland's Haunted Mansion... all they've heard of are the opportunities America promised for past immigrants.
...whilst the Nativists currently with 2-3 Side-Hustles in the Gig Economy... they KNOW! Depression and despair are NOT mental health issues owned by individuals that more healthcare can solve. They're the result of a societal problem imposed upon individuals by their leaders. It is a Psycho-Political problem resulting from bad governance.
America needs Small Business OWNERSHIP opportunities, NOT MINIMUM WAGE JOBS! Higher Floors won't fix Receding Ceilings!
Kamala cynically "selling patronage dreams" to gullible immigrants...
"Knowing What Can Be
Unburdened by What Has Been"
Sunday, June 30, 2024
No Democrats, Sorry to Say, this Last-minute Fiasco has Always been the Plan
👀 Chamath Palihapitiya & David Sacks on What the Biden Debate Revealed
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) June 29, 2024
"The mask has come off. The whole shell game has been revealed. It's obvious that Biden was always a puppet for these interests who were hiding behind him and now it's all being exposed."@chamath… pic.twitter.com/c7EUGhFyvW
The Table has been Set, the Reflexive Environment is now here. The Democratic Candidate is The Current Thing. What remains is to unwrap the alchemical ingredient... that brings home Operational Success. Psycho-Politics 101.
...all that Remains is for Michelle Obama to Step Forward, and for Barack to Peek Out from Behind the Stage. Let the 4th term commence! The Hunter behind the collapsing stalking horse may now be revealed.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Blacks Will Never Be Equal...
...so long as Democrats Continue to Assuage their White Guilt-Pride (Vain attempts to achieve "Moral Superiority" through a "secular confession of sins" achieved through virtue signaled acknowledgement of historical guilt) with Patronizing Formal Gestures like DEI and Affirmative Action that Distort, Undermine, and Otherwise Preclude the Possibility of Actual Racial Performance Reaching a Measurable Achievement level either at, near, or even close to approaching 'Equality'. Such an 'Experiment' will likely never be attempted, so comfortably guilt-pride ridden are the white Democrats.
Instead of perversely enjoying our guilt (and thereby patronizing the true victims), we need active solidarity: guilt and victimhood immobilize us. Only all of us together, treating ourselves and each other as responsible adults, can beat racism and sexism.
A Collective "A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-c-k!!!!!!!" is Heard from Inside the DC Beltway...
No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to be eternally shocked by what has been obvious for years.
The press and pundits are coming off an embarrassing couple of weeks where the Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated in federal court as real. This occurred in the trial of the president’s son almost on the anniversary of a debunked letter of intelligence officials claiming that the laptop appeared to be Russian disinformation. Biden then repeated the claim in the last presidential debates to avoid answering questions over the massive influence peddling scheme of this family revealed by the laptop.
After the story was suppressed before the 2020 election, it took years for the media to admit that, oops, the laptop is surprisingly real.
For years, the press and pundits piled on experts who suggested that Covid 19 escaped from a Chinese lab. The New York Times reporter covering the area called it “racist” and implausible. Now, even W.H.O. accepts the lab theory as possible and federal agencies now believe it is the most likely explanation.
The response: surprise and spin.
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Justice Department has unlawfully charged hundreds of people with obstruction of an official proceeding after the January 6th riot. For years, objections to the excessive treatment of these cases were dismissed as the view of the radical right. Now, even Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voted to toss out these convictions.
Surprise.
Whether it was the false story about agents whipping migrants in Texas or the photo op claim in Lafayette Park, false stories were disproven only to have a collective shrug from those who spread them.
For years, the press and pundits have repeated like gospel that Trump had called neo-Nazis “fine people.” At the time, most of us noted that Trump condemned the racists and neo-Nazis and made the statement about fine people on both sides of the controversy over the removal of historic statues.
Six years later, Snopes finally decided to do a fact check and, surprise, found that Trump never praised neo-Nazis as fine people. The only person not surprised was Biden who repeated the false story on Friday as true.
Heading into the presidential debate, the White House and the media attacked Fox News and other outlets for “cheap fake” videos designed to make the President look confused and feeble. For months, politicians and pundits have insisted that Biden is sharp and commanding in conversations even after Special Counsel Robert Hur cited his decline as a reason for not charging him criminally for the unlawful retention and mishandling of classified material.
On MSNBC, Joe Scarborough stated “start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. And F— you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I have known him for years…If it weren’t the truth I wouldn’t say it.”
After the debate, there was total surprise, if not shock, on CNN and MSNBC. Suddenly, it is not a cheap fake but reality.
Just seven days before the debate, the New York Times was running cheap fake articles on how Biden was being wrongly portrayed. The day after the debate, it was calling for him to withdraw from the race after expressing shock at his appearance.
On CNN, Biden biographer and CNN contributor Evan Osnos admitted that many Americans were likely “shocked” by Biden’s appearance: “I don’t think there’s any other way to put it. This was clearly a person who was diminished from where he was on the debate stage four years ago.”
Pro-Biden columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that he was floored by what he saw and that “heartbreaking” appearance of Biden made him “weep.”
Washington is now full of surprises. It is a city of people who display that practiced faux shock that you adopt when you learn in advance that your friends are throwing a surprise party. The key is to look stunned and then mingle.
It is a city of Claude Rains: The laptop is real, the President is really old, and Washington is really really phony.
The only thing that would be more surprising is if pundits and the press started being a lot less shocked and more honest.
Farage: Britain's "Trump"? Or Handy Political-Class Implement?
The British establishment media has pivoted to full assault mode against Brexit’s Nigel Farage this past week, scrabbling to prevent him from achieving escape velocity at the UK elections on Thursday.
The central point of this piece is simple, so let’s get it done with right at the top. The legacy media in the United Kingdom love Nigel Farage because they see him as a weapon they can use to destroy the real enemy, the long-hated Conservative Party. Yes, you may hate the Tories now, and well deserved that is too. But for senior journalists in most of this country’s news media, this has been an ambition longer than many of us have been alive.
They see Mr Farage, with whom they profoundly disagree on absolutely everything, as a hot water faucet that can be turned up and down as desired to damage the legacy right.
At the beginning of this election cycle, Mr Farage faced what may have been the friendliest media environment of his life. The metaphorical faucet of allowing him media exposure was turned up high, pouring down scalding water on the heads of the Conservatives with weeks of barely critical reportage and endless –absolutely endless – polls showing his Reform UK on the up. Cynical perhaps, but remember Peter Hitchen’s view that the true purpose of polling may not be to measure opinion, but to influence it.
Mr Farage is a canny operator, almost certainly one of the most effective British politicians of modern British history. He knew what was happening, is apt at playing the media at their own game, no doubt happy to be used and reckoning he could break free of this abusive relationship by achieving escape velocity before the MSM had time to react. And now, they most certainly are reacting.
The question is whether he can break the media domination now the faucet is being aggressively, urgently shut off. Like the Democrat grassroots after this week’s debate, the British left is having an ‘oh shit’ moment as they desperately try to put Farage back in the box they’re making for him.
Make no mistake, to the British legacy media, Farage has now served his purpose. The Conservatives have been catastrophically damaged by their own incompetence in the first instance, and finished off by the media telegraphing to the voting public it’s OK to vote for an alternative in the second.
Consider Nigel Farage’s BBC appearances this campaign so far. Two weeks ago he was given totally free reign to dominate a seven-way debate. There is no question he comprehensively won that. Indeed, I’d argue this was a more impressive performance than President Trump’s this week. Mr Farage’s opponents in the ring weren’t asleep, for one thing.
Then the BBC interrogations of Mr Farage two Friday nights in a row, now, coming after the sudden day to night switch engaged everywhere from Farage as useful to serve the agenda to Farage a dangerous extremist that broadcasters have a responsibility to destroy.
There was astonishingly little talk of policy last night on the BBC’s Question Time special. And little wonder, it was 30 minutes of Mr Farage being repeatedly told by host and studio audience alike that he is a racist and should go away. The evening started with host Fiona Bruce explaining the show format to Mr Farage and that he wouldn’t be interrupted. Some hope.
Farage and the Reform campaign has now, realistically, lost a whole week of campaign time being stuck on the defensive. It isn’t like the attacks coming now – that Farage made comments in 2014 and the unexpected snap election gave him no time to hand pick quality candidates – are new information. The broadcasters knew all this when they were in ‘use Farage’ mode three weeks ago, it simply wasn’t expedient.
It looks like Reform needs an urgent reset. The last five days of the election can’t be dancing to the BBC’s and Channel 4 News’ tune, stuck perpetually on the back foot.
Mr Farage makes much of his friendship with President Trump. So here’s the best possible time to take a leaf out of his book: when the spotlight of intense attention is turned on you, as it is now, go on the attack. Go absolutely buck wild. Prefacing every speech you give for five whole days with an apologia for a decade old prediction that war was coming for Ukraine really achieves nothing but keep a distracting and energy-consuming story alive.
This is important stuff because this election really is a stars-aligning moment. If Mr Farage can achieve escape velocity on Thursday, get a Parliamentary group big enough that he can’t be ignored, then he’s on track to build his national team and prepare for the next election in 2029. The opportunity to fundamentally change Britain’s political landscape really only comes once a century but for Farage, somehow, it has come twice.
Thanks to the vagaries of Britain’s electoral system, it is conceivable the outcome of this vote is a big city, middle class, left wing party – Labour – forming the government and being held to account by a small city, middle class, left wing party. That’s the Liberal Democrats by the way, and no fault to you for not having heard of them. Small and otherwise inconsequential as they are, their ground campaign game is good and this void-to-be-filled stars-aligned election could just as well benefit them.
The Conservative party has already surrendered any claim to be the centre-right opposition in this country. They did that themselves with cynical calculation so effective it’s hard to believe it isn’t deliberate. This country needs an effective right-wing opposition. The crown is in the gutter, Mr Farage. Please, God, pick it up.
Friday, June 28, 2024
A Public Service Message from Dr. John Campbell
Thanks Dr. Campbell, we'll all be on the lookout for further Symptoms. :)
The Democratic Party's Lame Kabuki Theatre Creaks On...
Last night:
...this afternoon:
“I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job.”
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) June 28, 2024
Exactly the right message.
pic.twitter.com/zpAHRgox0p
...they Upped the Dosage!
Targeting Nigel Farage... Just How Shameless IS the UK Establishment?
Vote Reform UK!
Alistair Smout, "UK's Sunak hurt and angry over Reform volunteer's racial slur"
STOCKTON-ON-TEES, England, June 28 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was hurt and angry that a supporter of Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party had been recorded making a racial slur about him, saying it was too important for him not to speak out.Sunak, Britain's first ethnic-minority prime minister, was responding to comments broadcast by Channel 4 News, by a man named as Andrew Parker calling Sunak a "fucking Paki" - a British racial slur for people of South Asian descent.Sunak was born in the southern English port city of Southampton in 1980 to Hindu parents of Punjabi Indian descent.
"My two daughters have to see and hear Reform people who campaign for Nigel Farage calling me an effing Paki. It hurts and it makes me angry, and I think he has some questions to answer," Sunak told broadcasters on Friday."I don't repeat those words lightly, I do so deliberately because this is too important not to call out clearly for what it is."Parker provided a statement to Channel 4 News, in response to them saying they would broadcast the video that was taken without his knowledge, saying that no one at Reform was aware of his personal views on immigration."I would therefore like to apologise profusely to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party if my personal views have reflected badly on them and brought them into disrepute as this was not my intention," he said."I offered to help the Reform Party on their canvassing as I believe that they are the only party that offer the UK voter a practical solution to the illegal immigration problem that we have in the UK."In the Channel 4's video, Parker says: "I've always been a Tory (Conservative) voter but what annoys me is that fucking Paki we've got in. What good is he? You tell me, you know. He's just wet. Fucking useless."Farage said in a statement late on Thursday, when the comments were first broadcast, that he was dismayed by the language. On Friday he said on Twitter: "We now learn that he is an actor by profession."This whole episode does not add up."Reuters could not immediately reach Parker for comment. Channel 4 News said in a statement that they covertly filmed Parker and did not know him before they met him as a Reform volunteer.Get the latest news and expert analysis about the state of the global economy with Reuters Econ World. Sign up here.
A SERIOUS Question for the UK (and US) Establishment:
The Gr8 (D) Bait...
Memetic Politics (Round 1)
"the book shows various memetic lines of transmission"
...after the debate was over:
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
On the Imminent(?) Demise of the Neo-Liberal Elite's Luxury Beliefs
Hic Iacet Homo-Davos - Requiescant in Pace
On the Failed/ Failing Woke Identity Synthesis of Left-Elite Intellectuals
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Trudeau's Canadian Poofter-Pals Arrest Tommy Robinson on Trumped-up "Immigration" Violations????
The Canadian version of Beria's "Show me the Man and I'll tell you his crimes!"
Julian Assange Forced to Attest to US Just-Is Department Mischaracterizations and Lies in Exchange for his Freedom
Lawfare Uber Alles!!!!
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” -Tacitus
Lawfare Uber Alles!
Sunday, June 23, 2024
What's the Blobjective Now, WWIII?
Jacob Heilbrunn, "How the War in Ukraine Is Reviving the Blob" (5/6/22)
Biden’s escalation against Russia underscores the revival of Washington’s hawkish foreign policy mindset.
When Joe Biden was elected president, the Washington foreign policy establishment assumed that he would usher in a return to normalcy after the tumult of the Donald J. Trump era. But it didn’t quite turn out that way. Trump had put isolationism back on the American political map, or at least a less interventionist approach to the rest of the world, and Biden initially left it intact. He vexed the liberal hawks, not to mention unrepentant neocons, by reaching out to Russia and infuriated them by exiting Afghanistan. It seemed that his true focus was building back better at home, with foreign affairs a distinct afterthought.
Then came Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Almost overnight, Biden rediscovered his inner Cold Warrior and landed upon a fresh purpose for his presidency. Despite initial signs of restraint — and perhaps because of Ukraine’s surprising military success — Biden has shifted into a more pugnacious posture. The administration wants to leave Russia “weakened” from the war, in the words of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The New York Times reports U.S. intelligence is helping Ukraine target Russian generals. And Biden is seeking $33 billion more in aid for Ukraine from Congress that would deliver huge amounts of weapons and equipment and help rebuild Ukraine’s industrial base. Ukraine is already a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia, but step-by-step, Biden is moving closer to a policy of trying to defeat Russia, or to put it more bluntly, to fuel regime change in Moscow.
It’s an approach that has some worried about the possibility of a nuclear confrontation. But for the Washington foreign policy establishment, or, in former Obama administration official Ben Rhodes’ more evocative term, the Blob, the battle over Ukraine has come as something of a deliverance. The Blob is composed of both Democrats and Republicans — a disparate group of elite think-tankers, lawmakers, journalists and others in official Washington — who coalesce around a hawkish foreign policy, championing the old-time gospel of American leadership on the world stage.
Russia’s aggression has allowed the Washington mandarins not simply to resuscitate their credo, but also to storm the beachheads of their own adversaries, where the realists and non-interventionists who stress the importance of prudence and caution and the perils of military adventurism have dominated the terrain for a decade or so. No longer. As Andrew J. Bacevich, who has led a one-man crusade against militarism abroad, put it in The Nation, the Washington elites are at it again: “Virtually overnight, the acolytes of American power were hailing the war in Ukraine as signaling the coming restoration of a global Pax Americana. As for Afghanistan: Fuhgettaboutit!”
Already the traditional, hawkish wing of the GOP is mobilizing to once more promote the idea of American supremacy overseas. On Monday, the National Review Institute, for example, plans to host a forum on foreign affairs at the National Press Club with the Reaganesque title “Recommitting To Peace Through Strength.” The speakers will include stalwart Republican hawks such as Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep. Mike Gallagher and Elliott Abrams. It’s intended as a counter-blast to the recent “Up From Chaos” conference at the Washington Marriott that featured J.D. Vance, Sen. Rand Paul, Michael Anton and others on the Trumpian right who are averse to foreign entanglements in Ukraine and elsewhere. Meanwhile, GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger is proposing a bill to authorize Biden to deploy troops in Ukraine to restore its “territorial integrity” should Putin use chemical or nuclear weapons.And as during and immediately after the Cold War, the push is bipartisan. Former Obama Defense Department official Evelyn Farkas, for example, has just been appointed executive director of the Washington-based McCain Institute. Farkas has declared, “We must not only condemn Russia’s illegal occupations of Ukraine and Georgia, but we must demand a withdrawal from both countries by a certain date and organize coalition forces willing to take action to enforce it.” She added, “Americans, with our European allies, must use our military to roll back Russians — even at risk of direct combat.” Sen. Chris Coons, a close Biden ally, has stated that America should contemplate “when we are willing to go the next step and to send not just arms but troops to the aid in defense of Ukraine.”
Another sign that the Blob is regrouping comes in the form of the regular hour-long phone meetings on Ukraine and Russia that the Biden administration has been conducting since February with leading Washington think-tanks, including the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Atlantic Council, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), and the German Marshall Fund. The briefers from the administration have included National Security Council official Eric Green and Defense Department official Laura K. Cooper.
What’s the aim of these sessions? According to one participant, it’s possible to ask pointed questions, but “the whole point is to carry water for the administration. They’re buttering up the think-tank community. They want it to defend them publicly. They send follow up emails that reinforce the cycle of affirmation.”
NSC official Amanda Mansour is responsible for email blasts to the participants that contain what is called “notable commentary” relating to Ukraine and Russia that fortifies the administration’s stances. These Washington think-tanks — in particular the Atlantic Council and CEPA — play a role in both influencing administration policy and the public perception of it. The Atlantic Council, for example, has a number of former ambassadors, including Alexander Vershbow, John Herbst and Daniel Fried, who are frequent public commentators about events in Russia and Ukraine and in contact with Biden administration officials at the NSC and State Department. In late December, the Atlantic Council issued a statement signed by establishment worthies such as former Clinton administration Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott demanding that the Biden administration bolster American forces in Europe in the face of the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then, it has been at the forefront of pushing Biden to move faster and harder on arming Ukraine with heavy weaponry against Russia, an approach that the administration has begun to embrace.
Herbst explained to me, “The administration still needs to do more. It’s moved faster over the past several weeks because of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley. That’s been essential.” He added, “we are policy people, and, yes, we have been in touch with the administration, leading the charge publicly on this. We also get a lot of interest from Congress on this.”
The driving force behind many of the opponents of Russian revanchism is a desire to return to the 1990s, when America stood tall and proud in the face of tyranny, before it all became discredited during the George W. Bush administration’s chimerical crusade to transform the Middle East into a bastion of democracy. Now, as Putin flounders in Ukraine, the Blob is becoming stronger than ever as it senses victory over Moscow.
Nothing symbolized the enduring sway of the Blob more vividly than the memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral last week for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. As U.N. ambassador during President Bill Clinton’s first term, Albright was a thorn in the side of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and then-national security adviser Tony Lake, both of whom blanched at the thought of American military intervention in the Balkans to stop Slobodan Milošević's war of ethnic cleansing. In his impassioned eulogy, Biden drew an implicit parallel with the 1990s, when the democracy crusade flourished in the Balkans against Milošević, and today, when a renewed push to defend freedom is taking place in Ukraine against Putin.
“It was not lost on me that Madeleine was a big part of the reason NATO was still strong and galvanized, as it is today,” Biden said. He went on to call her a “nexus of the foreign policy community.”
Albright was a charter member of the Washington establishment — a former professor at Georgetown University, an aide to former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski during the Carter administration, and a former wife of Joseph Albright, a scion of the Medill-Patterson newspaper dynasty. And the establishment came out in full force for her ceremony. The contrast with an earlier service at the Washington National Cathedral, in September 2018, for John McCain, an inveterate cold warrior, was instructive. McCain had expressly decreed that the sitting president, Trump, should not be invited. At the service, his daughter Meghan wept that it marked the “passing of American greatness.”Albright’s ceremony, which was attended by numerous foreign democrats, including Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who met everyone from USAID Director Samantha Power to Secretary of State Antony Blinken during her trip, suggests a different outcome. The crusading vision for democracy abroad that Albright represented wasn’t being interred. It appeared more vigorous than ever. The new Polish ambassador to Washington, Marek Magierowski, who attended the ceremony, told me that it evinced the vitality “not only of pro-democracy thinking, but also pro-NATO and pro-collective security.”
If the 1990s have served as a touchstone for the Washington foreign policy establishment — a singular moment when, as James P. Rubin, a former Albright spokesperson, recently recalled, America was “respected, admired and feared around the world” — then the assembled 1,400 guests demonstrated that pretty much everyone in Washington foreign policy circles wanted to associate themselves with her. It was Albright, after all, who predicted in her last column for the New York Times on Feb. 23 that entering Ukraine would be a colossal blunder: “Instead of paving Russia’s path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin’s infamy by leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger, more united Western alliance.”
She was right. The war in Ukraine has not only revived NATO but also the broader impulses that she represented. After playing defense ever since the misbegotten wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the “acolytes of American power” aren’t just winning. They’ve won.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Urgently Needed: A New PUBLIC Corporate "Green List" for Shadow-banned Trump Supporters and Conservatives
from Brainly:
Victor H. Green's "Negro Motorist Green Book" listed hotels, restaurants, clubs, and other businesses that were friendly to black people. It was a guide created to help African Americans navigate through the widespread racial discrimination and segregation during that time. The Green Book served as a resource for safe and dignified travel for black individuals.
Welcome to America (TM), Your New Society of Control.
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