Politics turned Parody from within a Conservative Bastion inside the People's Republic of Maryland
Friday, April 17, 2026
Trump Begins Shoring Up His Crumbling TPUSA MAGA Gatekeepers
Success Has Many Fathers...
...but Failure is an Orphan!
Ben Shapiro Takes a Bow and Victory Lap for Backing Trump in Trump's Iran Gambit. Little Does he Know that He'll Soon be Under the Bus with All those other MAGA Who Criticized Trump for Following Israel's Lead in Executing the Surprise Attack. Shapiro No Longer Has Any Leverage (All Used Media Gatekeeping for Israel) in the Endeavour, as Israeli Recalcitrance towards Ending the Greater Israel Project becomes a Liability in Executing Trump's Construction of a More Lasting Regional Peace. Keep up the Kayfabe with Israel Ben, Lest You End Up a Heel for Trump, instead of a Mere Tweener Tool!
America Didn't Need Israeli Help to Crush Iran. It Just Needed to Decide to Do it (which is what Trump Did)
New U2 Anthem Is Cuckoo for CoCo-Pufters and CosPlay Revolutionaries
How a band that once honored the victims of 9/11 is now distorting what victimhood means.
Twenty-five years ago, in the first Super Bowl halftime show after the Sept. 11 attacks, popular rock band U2 did something that sent chills racing through an entire nation — maybe the world.
They opened with “Beautiful Day,” that soaring anthem of hope and resilience.
Lead singer Bono emerged from the crowd on the field, singing the first verse straight to the fans before stepping onto the heart-shaped stage. The music lifted the Superdome like a fragile promise that light could still break through darkness.
The tone shifted. When “Beautiful Day” ended, the music fell away — and Bono began singing “MLK” a cappella. It sounded like a prayer. Behind the band, a massive black scrim spanning the entire stage fell from the ceiling like a solemn veil.
As Bono sang, names began scrolling upward in bold letters: American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, FDNY, NYPD, and the ordinary office workers who had simply shown up for a Tuesday morning. Nearly 3,000 names, grouped by the horror that claimed them.
Then the backing vocalist, known as Edge, struck the first chords of “Where the Streets Have No Name,” and the stadium roared — a deep wave of sound you could feel in your chest. The names kept scrolling as the music built. As the song surged toward its climax, Bono yelled “America!” — a raw, defiant cry that pierced straight into the soul.
When every name had been honored, the scrim fell. Bono opened his jacket to reveal the American flag sewn into the lining. No speeches. No slogans. Just raw, unifying grief and quiet respect.
I still watch that performance whenever I feel my world starting to shake. It hits me like a wave every time — goosebumps rising, heart pounding, tears coming fast. It pulls me straight back to those months after 9/11 — when the country was steady on its feet but broken open with grief.
In those same moments, I reach for reminders of how fragile life really is — and how lucky I am to still be here.
One of them is the documentary One Day in America: 9/11. You see people watching the towers burn — some frozen, others screaming, others running. Survivors tell stories of smoke-filled stairwells, floors on fire, people moving as fast as they can without knowing what they’re running from or toward. Firefighters haul heavy gear up endless flights, knowing they may never come back down.
One group of FDNY firefighters paused in the chaos, shook hands, and told each other what a pleasure it had been to work together. One survived — the one being filmed. The rest died that day.
Then there’s the mother of Mark Bingham, whose son called her from United Airlines Flight 93 to say the plane had been hijacked before the line went dead. She called back and left a voicemail — her voice steady but breaking — telling him the plane was most likely going to be used as a weapon, urging him to find others and fight to take back control of the plane. “I love you, sweetie. Good luck. Bye-bye.”
I can’t listen to that voicemail without my throat tightening.
That was the America I remember. Flags on every car, fluttering until they frayed. Yards lit red, white, and blue. Flight 93 passing over my hometown before crashing just 80 miles away. Funeral after funeral for fallen firefighters.
The brief talk of canceling the Super Bowl lasted only minutes. The decision to play was made — and U2 rose to meet the moment. They started with hope and delivered something sacred.
At the time, my own life was scraping by. That spring, after four long years of poverty, I graduated from Duquesne University. My blind, diabetic mom and I knew the fear of the heat being shut off in a Pittsburgh winter after my father died when I was 14. Instead of taking a full-time job with just a high school diploma, I fought to fulfill his wish that I go to college.
I was making $35 a night as an agate clerk at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review — and $35 for every article I wrote. It wasn’t enough.
To surprise me, my mom skipped paying bills one month to buy me tickets to see U2. After being a superfan since the early ’80s, I finally saw them the day after graduation, on May 6, 2001. It felt symbolic.
They played “Beautiful Day,” and it felt like a promise — that life would get better.
Now, in 2026, U2 has released “American Obituary,” a song about Renée Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three who was shot and killed during a federal immigration operation.
They frame her as a victim worthy of the same kind of moral weight they once gave the innocent dead of Sept. 11.
They are not the same.
The people whose names scrolled behind U2 that night had no choice in their deaths. They were murdered at their desks, on hijacked planes, or in collapsing buildings — blindsided by evil.
By contrast, this was a volatile, active law enforcement situation. By all available accounts, she made the decision to insert herself into that confrontation.
When U2 honored the innocent that night — and Bono cried out “America!” — they honored people simply living their lives.
Turning that moment into a lens for modern political narratives feels less like tribute and more like reinterpretation.
Nothing compares to the moral weight of 9/11. Nothing.
True victims deserve remembrance. But so does clarity about what we are remembering — and why.
U2 once understood that distinction. It's sad they no longer do.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Monday, April 13, 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Trump (Inadvertently) Passes the Mantle of Leadership On to His Successors...
On the Dangers of 'Guiltily' Embarking on a Journey of Unabashedly Affirming Jewish Race Essentialism
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Academia Reaping the Consequences of Race Essentialism
Friday, April 10, 2026
Iran Calls Trump's Bluff...
Fonzie Brags About Jumping the Shark... and Taunts His Critics
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Ripley's "Believe It or Not!" - Iran Edition
Just How "Less Racist" does Essentializing Race Make your Political Party?
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Trump Falls into the US Neocon / BRICS laid Thucydides Trap
The Thucydides Trap, coined by Graham Allison, describes the high risk of war when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, a concept derived from Sparta’s fear of a rising Athens in ancient Greece. Historical studies indicate that in 12 of 16 cases over the past 500 years, such structural stress resulted in conflict, not peace.
Key Elements and Context
The Origin: The phrase stems from Athenian historian Thucydides, who wrote that "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable".
Modern Application: The theory is primarily applied to the current tension between the United States (ruling) and China (rising)
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Key Drivers: Conflict arises from structural pressures rather than immediate provocation, where the dominant power fears losing its position, and the rising power feels entitled to more influence.Potential Consequences and Criticism
Consequences: If not managed, the trap can escalate trade disputes, proxy wars, or minor accidents into full-scale, devastating war.
Criticisms: Critics argue the theory is overly deterministic, ignoring human agency, diplomacy, and the inhibiting factor of nuclear deterrence. Some argue the historical cases are not directly comparable to modern Sino-US relations due to high economic interdependence.Avoiding the Trap
The trap is not inevitable; Allison notes that 4 of the 16 historical cases did not lead to war. Avoiding it requires conscious efforts from leaders to:Manage Rivalry: Engage in competition without resorting to violence.
Establish New Systems: Develop new international relations frameworks (similar to China’s "new type of international relations" goal).
Recognize Miscalculations: Avoid the misinterpretations that characterized the Peloponnesian War, as highlighted in studies on the Thucydides Trap File.
Breaking Away and Cutting the Strings: The Rising Influence of the MAGA Cancelees
The Iran vs Israel/ US War Will NOT Take Place...
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (French: La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu) is a collection of three short essays by Jean Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Libération and British paper The Guardian between January and March 1991.
While the author acknowledges that the events and violence of what has been called the Gulf War took place, he asks if the events that took place were really as they were presented, and whether they could be called a war. The title of the first essay is a reference to the play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux (in which characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows is inevitable).
Essays
- Part 1, "The Gulf War will not take place" (La guerre du Golfe n'aura pas lieu) was published in Libération on January 4, 1991.
- Part 2, "The Gulf War is not really taking place" (La guerre du Golfe a-t-elle vraiment lieu?) was published in Libération on February 6, 1991, and
- Part 3, "The Gulf War did not take place" (La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu) was published in Libération on March 29, 1991.
The essays in Libération and The Guardian were published before, during and after the Gulf War and they were titled accordingly: during the American military and rhetorical buildup as "The Gulf War Will Not Take Place"; during military action as "The Gulf War Is Not Taking Place", and after action was over, "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place". A book of elongated versions of the truncated original articles in French was published in May 1991. The English translation was published in early 1995 translated by Paul Patton.
Summary
Baudrillard argued the Gulf War was not really a war, but rather an atrocity which masqueraded as a war.[1] Using overwhelming airpower, the American military for the most part did not directly engage in combat with the Iraqi army, and suffered few casualties. Almost nothing was made known about Iraqi deaths. Thus, the fighting "did not really take place" from the point of view of the West. Moreover, all that spectators got to know about the war was in the form of propaganda imagery. The closely watched media presentations made it impossible to distinguish between the experience of what truly happened in the conflict, and its stylized, selective misrepresentation through simulacra.[2]
Uses of the argument
2015 Paris attacks
Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University, wrote a comment about the November 2015 Paris attacks on Aljazeera.com entitled "The Paris attacks did not take place", in which he criticized how global media outlets like BBC had made up a hyperreal simulacrum of Paris. He believes that after the bombardment of Arabian countries by the West, refugees had flooded into Europe, changing its geography. While what used to happen in the East was eventually experienced in the West, shattering the imaginary "West–East" dichotomy, the global media outlets, however, focused overwhelmingly on Paris itself, as though it was independent of the rest of the world. He believes that the terrorist attacks did happen, but not in the hyperreal way depicted by the media like BBC.[3]
Russo-Ukrainian war
Jarryd Bartle, a lecturer of social context, and Kong Degang, a literature and art scholar, cited Baudrillard's argument that "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" and compared it to the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine.
Jarryd Bartle published his essay on UnHerd. He said that Baudrillard's opinion, once too postmodern to be accepted, was more relevant than ever in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Amidst the "spectacle" (as in The Society of the Spectacle) of the newsfeeds, people consumed information by piecing them up and fabricating their own virtual perspectives. Some even started imagining an outbreak of "World War III". He pointed out that while many commentators criticized the spread of misinformation, most lost sight of the harm of information overload and virtualisation.[4]
Kong Degang, a Chinese scholar, compared the defense of Sihang Warehouse as featured in the Chinese film The Eight Hundred, the Gulf War as written about by Baudrillard, to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. He analyzed that in The Eight Hundred, the battle against the Japanese invaders was depicted as a "performance" intended to be watched by Shanghai citizens and the international community. From the audience's perspective, the Japanese invaders won the battle but lost the war in the "performance" due to their unrighteousness. Yet this was not the exact historical truth since no one witnessing it could predict the war's outcome merely by a battle. The Russo-Ukrainian war, on the other hand, unfolded quite differently from both the defense of Sihang Warehouse and the Gulf War. The latest media technologies generate real-time simulacra dwarfing those of the Gulf War in realism and virtuality, leading to information overload. Unable to (in)validate the war updates, many dismiss the war's reality—as if it "did not take place"—yet eagerly fight in a "cyber simulacra war" that is "constantly taking place". Both sides perform their "justness" and declare their victories. Meanwhile, the real casualties—civilians in Ukraine and Russia, and even the forgotten warzones like Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan—remain overlooked by the international community.[5]
Gaza war
In November 2023, writer Kubra Solmaz argued that Baudrillard's writing about the creation of a hyper-reality through the replacement of the real situation in the Gulf War with representations that do not show the reality could also be applied to the Gaza war, which had started the month prior.[6] She argues that the media reality around the war is fundamentally different from the material reality, using the dissonance between the media produced by Western media outlets, and that produced by the Palestinians within Gaza as the chief example.
This is an aerial view of CAA's HQ in Los Angeles, CA.
— Robbie Jaeger 🔎 (@RobletoFire) December 28, 2019
I'm sure there's nothing to see here. pic.twitter.com/rb1UvUzzW3
Hidden in Plain Sight
Baltimore City Mayor Resurrects Democrat's Old Tammany Hall Political Patronage System
Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine in 19th/20th-century New York City, used a vast patronage system to secure loyalty and votes. By exchanging jobs, contracts, and social services (coal, food) for voter support and election rigging, the "machine" maintained power, with infamous leaders like Boss Tweed.
Key Components of Tammany Hall Patronage
The "Spoils System": Tammany controlled municipal government jobs, appointments, and public works contracts, awarding them to loyal supporters to ensure, and rewarding, political loyalty.
Social Services to Immigrants: The organization acted as a social safety net, providing immigrants with food, coal, jobs, and assistance with housing or citizenship in exchange for their votes.
"Honest Graft": Tammany officials, such as George Plunkitt, often used insider information about city projects to profit financially, a practice defended as "honest graft".
Control of Elections: Tammany used its resources to influence, and often outright steal, elections through organized voter turnout, fraudulent ballots, and intimidation.Structure and Influence
The Boss and the Wigwam: The organization was overseen by a "boss" or "Grand Sachem" at its headquarters, nicknamed "the Wigwam".
Ward Leaders: The machine functioned through local district leaders who knew the needs of their community and secured loyalty through personalized assistance.
Influence on Elections: By rewarding supporters with government positions and contracts, Tammany insured its candidates won, allowing the cycle of patronage to continue.Decline
Reform Movements: Progressive-era reforms in the early 20th century, including civil service exams (which replaced political hires with qualified applicants), challenged the machine's power.
Loss of Power: The rise of reform-minded mayors (e.g., Fiorello La Guardia) and changes in social policy (the creation of a formal government safety net) significantly weakened Tammany's influence, leading to its decline in the mid-20th century.Tammany Hall was infamous for corruption, particularly under William M. "Boss" Tweed, who exploited the system for personal gain before his downfall in the 1870s.
"Ye be a Crazy Anti-Semite...." @@ UK Government Oligarchical PMC Lackies Exacting Its' Pound of Flesh
Rapper had been booked to play at festival in London, prompting outcry over his past antisemitic remarks
The Wireless music festival has been cancelled after the artist formerly known as Kanye West was banned from entering the UK amid a deepening political row over his previous antisemitic statements.
West, who is legally known as Ye, made an application to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation on Monday but it has been blocked by officials.
A spokesperson for the festival confirmed it would no longer go ahead in July after the government decision was announced, and said refunds would be issued to those who had already bought tickets.
The statement read: “The Home Office has withdrawn Ye’s ETA, denying him entry into the United Kingdom. As a result, Wireless festival is cancelled and refunds will be issued to all ticket holders.
As with every Wireless festival, multiple stakeholders were consulted in advance of booking Ye and no concerns were highlighted at the time.Antisemitism in all its forms is abhorrent, and we recognise the real and personal impact these issues have had.
“As Ye said today, he acknowledges that words alone are not enough, and in spite of this still hopes to be given the opportunity to begin a conversation with the Jewish community in the UK.”
It is understood that the application was initially granted online but was rescinded by Home Office ministers, after review, on the grounds that his presence in the UK would not be conducive to the public good.
The rapper has been criticised for making antisemitic remarks, including voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler. Last year he released a song called Heil Hitler, a few months after advertising a swastika T-shirt for sale on his website.
Ye took out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal in January apologising for his antisemitic behaviour and attributing his inflammatory actions to his bipolar disorder. In a statement on Tuesday, he offered to “meet and listen” to members of the UK’s Jewish community.
Over the weekend, Keir Starmer, joined criticism of the festival, saying it was “deeply concerning” that Ye had been booked to perform “despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of nazism”.
The decision to ban Ye left the Wireless organisers with three slots to fill with just three months’ notice. The ban came on the day presales began for this summer’s events, which were already competing in a busy field of London day festivals.
The organisers’ approach of using one A-list name to headline three back-to-back days meant options for a new artist were limited. Many artists will have had their summer schedule sorted months ago, so finding a replacement would have been complex.
On Monday evening, Melvin Benn, the managing director of Festival Republic, which promotes Wireless, said Ye “intended to come in and perform”, adding that organisers were “not giving him a platform to extol opinion of whatever nature, only to perform the songs that are currently played on the radio stations in our country and the streaming platforms in our country and listened to and enjoyed by millions”.
Downing Street faced pressure on Tuesday afternoon to say whether Ye would be allowed to perform. Asked to clarify Ye’s visa status at lunchtime, the prime minister’s official spokesperson said: “We’ve been clear that his permission to enter the UK is under review as we speak. All available options remain on the table.”
He added: “Decisions are taken on a case-by-case basis in line with the law and the evidence available, but where individuals pose a threat to public safety or seek to spread extremism, the government has not hesitated to act, and that includes cancelling permission to enter this country for extremist preachers and far-right figures.”
Speaking before the ban was publicised, Phil Rosenberg, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the group would be willing to meet Ye if he pulled out of Wireless.
“It has been less than a year since Kanye West released a song entitled Heil Hitler, the culmination of three years of appalling antisemitism. He also made a number of deeply offensive comments about the black community, saying that the 400-year experience of slavery was ‘like a choice’,” Rosenberg said.
“Even while claiming remorse today, his latest album includes a track first released last year with the abhorrent title Gas Chamber.”
The rapper joins a list of American cultural figures to have at times been banned from entering the UK.
Snoop Dogg was denied entry in 2007 after an incident a year earlier at Heathrow, which involved members of his entourage. He had to cancel a tour with P Diddy as a result. The ban was lifted in 2008.
In the same year Snoop Dogg’s ban was lifted, the television personality Martha Stewart was barred from entering the UK because of her conviction in 2004 of several offences related to an illicit share deal.
Tyler, the Creator was banned for four years in 2015 by the then home secretary, Theresa May, because of his lyrics. May used anti-terrorism legislation to block his entry, claiming his music “encourages violence and intolerance of homosexuality” and “fosters hatred with views that seek to provoke others to terrorist acts”.
The restriction was lifted in 2019, and he told the Guardian he felt as if he had “won some invisible fight”.
Monday, April 6, 2026
Exorcizing MAGA Easter+ Demons - Trump Purifies His Movement... Again!
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Dervish Sanders, Mass Man and Fan of Kayfabe Team Blue Oficialista Propaganda
Friday, April 3, 2026
Dawn of USA's Techno-State Inc.
Prairie populism was a late 19th and early 20th-century agrarian movement in the U.S. Great Plains and Western Canada, pitting farmers against urban, corporate elites, railroad monopolies, and bankers. Driven by economic hardship, it favored government regulation, cooperatives, and monetary reform to combat rising debt, low crop prices, and high shipping rates.
Key aspects of prairie populism include:It was a significant, albeit often short-lived, challenge to the established two-party system, driven by the belief that the economic system was rigged against rural workers.
- The Populist Party (People's Party): Particularly strong in Kansas and Nebraska, this movement mobilized rural communities to fight for farmers' interests and against the influence of Eastern finance.
- Agrarian Radicalism: Populists aimed to "raise less corn and more hell," advocating for policies such as the free coinage of silver, government ownership of railroads, and a graduated income tax.
- Widespread Mobilization: The movement included active participation from women, such as speaker and writer Mary Elizabeth Lease, who organized campaigns and challenged the political status quo.
- Regional Differences: While strong in the Plains states, this form of populism faced different receptions elsewhere, with Iowa, for example, remaining less receptive, as shown in studies by Jeffrey Ostler.
- Canadian Context: In Canada, agrarian populist sentiments similarly fostered the rise of cooperatives and social movements in the Western provinces, notes this Springer Nature Link article.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Donald Trump Jumps the MAGA Shark...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
On the King of Hip-Hop (Ye) or the King of Political Kayfabe (DJT)?... You Decide
Sunday, March 29, 2026
How Do We Restore Politics After Its' Complete Devolution into Kayfabe Media Spectacle/ Entertainment?
Woke New Leftists + NeoCons = Forever Wars: Palestine as Perpetual Thorn in Neoliberal Globalism's Side
Ye (Kanye West) has integrated professional wrestling into his creative endeavors—specifically for his "Bully" album listening party in March 2026—as a form of artistic spectacle, incorporating lucha libre masks, live wrestling matches, and performance art, following his previous fascination with the sport at a Japanese wrestling event in 2024.Why Ye is Engaging with Wrestling:
- Artistic Spectacle: Ye turned his "Bully" album listening party into a wrestling spectacle, utilizing the ring to create a theatrical atmosphere.
- Performance Fusion: He has merged his music with the wrestling world, performing at a Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling event in 2024 and featuring live matches at his recent events.
- Visual Aesthetic (Lucha Libre): The use of Mexican lucha libre masks, including classic masks like El Santo, suggests an interest in the iconic,masked persona of wrestling.
- Fan Fascination: Reports suggest Ye is a "huge fan" of the sport, bringing together the worlds of hip-hop and pro wrestling.
This integration appears to be a deliberate effort to create an avant-garde experience that blends music, performance, and the theatrics of wrestling.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Galt's Gulch Relocates to New Albany, Ohio...
5 Reasons Why American Globalists Be So Woke
0:00 1.) Wokeism is Go(o)d for the Imperium4:38 2.) Wokeism is a (but not the) Civil Religion6:19 3.) Guilt-Pride is at the Heart of Wokeism9:22 4.) Academics Are the Priests of Wokeism10:49 5.) Wokeism is Militant





