Hand...SALUTE!
Friday, June 19, 2026
Thursday, June 18, 2026
The Israel Lobby and Their Paid US Agents are Trying to Get Us to Reneg on Trump's Iran Deal...
...but are they Spinning the Truth about it (ONCE AGAIN)?
More Crackers with Cheese?
Selwyn Duke, "Two Americas: Black Rednecks and Karmelo Anthony — and Civilization"
Simply put, society-wide disgust with ghetto culture and its values must intensify
hen thinking about poor Austin Metcalf, I sometimes wonder about his reactions during those last fatal moments on April 2 of last year. When murderer Karmelo Anthony drew that knife, could he not, being young and athletic, have avoided at least a deadly strike? Perhaps Anthony was just too quick. But then I realize something:
The two boys were from vastly different worlds.
Austin occupied the world most of us inhabit. It’s a place where, among other things, proportionate force is instinctively understood. Sure, boys and men, being boys and men, will sometimes have physical conflict, and we understand that part of manliness is standing up for yourself. But we also reflexively know that a shove is to be met with a shove, a swing with a swing. This norm, reflected in Queensberry rules, is necessary for preservation of life and civilization.
Anthony’s world is clearly different. Egos are as big there as virtue is small; touchy and prideful to the hilt, the instinct can be that if you feel “dissed,” you can smoke the other guy. This is why it isn’t unusual hearing about ghetto altercations in which an “offended” party departs, returns with a gun and shoots multiple people. It’s why so many rappers (e.g., Tupac) suffer violent deaths.
So Austin, perhaps poorly acquainted with this world, might understandably have been completely shocked at the drawing of a knife amidst an adolescent locking of horns. It’s not something civilized people may expect. (Perhaps such warnings should be in an updated version of “The Talk: Nonblack Version” — the article that got commentator John Derbyshire canceled.)
Whatever the case, Anthony’s world is reflected in his reprobate supporters, too. Out protesting and uber-emotional, they generally speak as if a shove among youths can warrant deadly action. Yet they don’t just reject proportionate force, a foundational principle in Western law and something operative in all 50 states.
Such people also reject the other laws, rules, social codes, traditions, and customs of the wider and polite society. They’re self-righteous about it now, too, because they identify such limitations as “white.” (Even punctuality has been called a “white norm.”)
Make no mistake, however. Someone rejecting proportionate force and civilization's strictures generally is described in one obvious way.
Uncivilized.
You could also call such a person a barbarian (a word we should make fashionable again).
Or you could call them, as the great Professor Thomas Sowell has, “black rednecks.”
As Sowell pointed out in his 2005 book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, what’s now called “black culture” is largely just appropriated redneck culture. You can, too, trace its roots back 500 years to England, and even then such people were called “rednecks” and “crackers,” the professor noted.
Thus is it no coincidence that redneck and “black” culture share similarities beyond the obvious speech patterns. Just a few that Sowell noted are: aversion to steady work and lack of entrepreneurship; neglect of education and anti-intellectualism; sexual promiscuity and degraded family norms; and, relating to killer Karmelo, proneness to violence and pride-induced touchiness.
Whatever you call it, however, something’s for certain: “Black culture” has got to go.
More and more people of all races are realizing this, including an increasing number of black Americans. Commentator and podcaster Jason Whitlock says that ghetto-mentality blacks should be given the AIR option: assimilation, incarceration or reservation (that is, American-Indian style. Note: I don’t believe in creating more reservations.) And the young black woman here is so disgusted with redneck-black culture that she uses the n-word to identify those epitomizing it.
It’s these people’s desire that the black community shed this black-redneck culture, just as white southerners did ages ago with white-redneck culture. But this hasn’t happened and won’t anytime soon—and this is for good reason.
White redneck culture mostly disappeared because we didn’t exalt it. We didn’t put white rednecks in entertainment, singing stupid, decadent “songs” and getting filthy rich in the process. We didn’t portray their sub-culture as cool and desirable. We didn’t claim that because it was “their” culture, we had to respect it. We didn’t give their style of speech a respectable name and blather on about how language norms are just social constructs, anyway. We didn’t witness them give their kids inane names, as if the child is a new pet ferret, and then wink at their “creativity.” We didn’t recognize their own national anthem. We didn’t elevate “redneck pride” to ethnicity-like status so that maintaining it became a matter of perverse principle. And we wouldn’t have had one of its representatives co-host the Olympics.
Yet we do all this and more with black-redneck culture. We make the aforementioned rap disgorgers rich before someone makes them dead. Today you can monetize ghetto-rat status—and what you reward you get more of—though, of course, only a select few benefit materially. Virtually all are more likely to end up like Karmelo.
This is demonstrated daily, too. Activists wanted police wearing body-cams, and we all have video recording devices. The result: Endless footage reveals that blacks are rarely victims of non-blacks. What is common is to see black rednecks acting like barbarians. And this has all led to a “condition,” affecting all races, dubbed “black fatigue.”
This phenomenon is good, too, because getting fed up with a cultural norm is the first step toward changing it. And here’s what must happen to reform black ghetto culture (again, lamentably, I don’t expect this to occur anytime soon).
The greater mass of people must say, in no uncertain terms, that if you embrace this culture, we’ll have nothing to do with you. We won’t do business with you or hire you; you’ll be scorned and ostracized. Leverage is necessary to this end, and thus should anti-discrimination law be rescinded. (I’ve advocated this for decades for other reasons; e.g., such law violates freedom of association and invites government tyranny.)
Just as significantly, we must shed the affirmative-action mentality. This means that in response to studies showing that people with “black” names are less likely to get job-interview callbacks, our only response will be, “So what?” When parents name their child De’Quan, La’Teesha—or Karmelo—that screams out, “My mission in life is to oppose ‘white’ [read: mainstream] culture.” And they almost invariably transmit this hang-up to their kids; hence the profiling.
We’re also not going to worry about racial disparities in academics, income and general accomplishment. (These exist between whites and Asian-descent Americans, too.) White rednecks didn’t fare so well in those areas, either.
Another prerequisite is purging ghetto culture from entertainment. To this end, we’d need a traditionalist version of the NAACP to arise and, along with other groups, pressure corporations to cease monetizing black-redneck culture. This is much as how the NAACP and allied entities successfully pressured CBS into canceling black sitcom Amos ’n’ Andy in the 1950s. The kicker, too, is that today’s rap-thug imagery reflects infinitely worse stereotyping than anything on that show. (In fact, Amos ’n’ Andy placed its goofy main characters inside a very well-functioning black world in Harlem, NYC.) I can only imagine how embarrassing some black Americans find it.
Simply put, society-wide disgust with ghetto culture must intensify. We must say, pull up your pants and pull out your ego by the roots. Shed the gold chains and mind chains of imagined oppression. Focus not on victimhood but virtue, not on race but righteousness, not on taxpayer-handouts but Truth, not on gripes but God. You, black-redneck culture, are a dinosaur, and that asteroid with your name on it has finally struck.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Monday, June 15, 2026
What's YOUR Brand?: The Kayfabe Political Capitalism Playbook
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro00:48 Edward Bernays01:45 Elites & Engineering Consent02:25 Bernays’ “Torches of Freedom” Campaign03:31 From Marketing to Politics: How it Works06:11 The Shift from Belief to identity07:06 The High Stakes of Identity Politics
Consumer (and Identity) Choice IS Freedom!
The Archeology of Consumer Identity
From Belief to Identity
From a System of Consumed Objects to a System of Identity Beliefs: (D) or (R) or (I)
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Kayfabe Shooting from the Right
from Google AI:
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit investigative research organization. Its funding comes primarily from conservative, free-market philanthropic foundations and high-net-worth individual donors, operating mostly through "dark money" channels that obscure the identities of specific contributors.
Primary Funding Sources & BackersFinancial Profile
- The Mercer Family: The hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer (who has served as the board chair), have historically been among the largest financial backers of the organization.
- DonorsTrust: The institute receives funding via DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund that funnels contributions from anonymous right-of-center mega-donors.
- Other Philanthropic Groups: The organization's historical financial disclosures show grants from conservative foundations such as the Capital Research Center.
- Operating Budget: GAI typically operates on an annual budget in the low single-digit millions (averaging around $2 million to $4 million, though its revenue fluctuates depending on book and project releases).
- Tax Records: As a registered tax-exempt entity, the institute files Form 990 disclosures with the IRS, which can be reviewed on platforms like the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Leftist Totems and Taboos are Okay...
...but Rightists should never be Dogmatic Kantian Universalists (ie - Race Non-essentialists or believe that 'All Racism is Bad')
Apparently Racial Universalism is Eurocentric White Supremacy because Leftists deem Race/ Tribe Proportionality "Essential" (ie - BLM) and Socio-Cultural Integration a Sin.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Party Gerry Pandering in the Name of "Muh, Democracy!"
Anna Pingel, "The Real Victims of Gerrymandering: Independent Voters"
The political parties are currently at war over redistricting. Red states are shaping district maps to become redder. Blue states are entrenching themselves more deeply blue. Legislators, party operatives, and lawyers are battling over the lines. The conversation largely revolves around control of Congress, and which political party will come out on top; however, there is an overlooked category of citizens in this process – political independents.
A staggering 45% of Americans identify as political independents, yet, due to the electoral systems in the United States and the dominance of the two-party system, they must watch from the audience as the parties duke it out over political control. Now, independents can hardly be grouped as all believing the same political ideology; rather, they usually lean left or right politically but have enough of a philosophical divergence from the party platform that they don’t feel comfortable registering with that party, or they are fed up with the status quo of either side and just want something different. Or they don’t feel sure which side they believe.
Gerrymandering (the partisan drawing of districts during redistricting) leaves independent voters out of the equation. For independent voters, the prospect is especially difficult, because the entire exercise is designed around a world they reject: one divided into rigid red and blue camps.
More blue, more red
The redistricting wars are simply pushing states further apart on the political lines. When a state becomes more politically leaning, it often loses accurate representation of the political electorate residing within. In the past two years, a handful of red and blue states have pushed various gerrymandered maps, with mixed results, and more states are now in process as well. This tug-of-war still ends up generally balancing congressional representation, because both political sides are participating rather than just one. But the unseen consequence is that as states become more partisan, they leave behind the vast segment of the electorate that rejects standard party platforms.
My parents are registered independent voters in Maryland. The state of Maryland has just over 4.3 million voters, with 51% Democrat, 23% Republican, and 24% Independent/Other. That’s almost a quarter of the state’s voters who don’t fully align – or don’t align enough to register – with one of the two main political parties. Maryland has eight congressional districts, with one Republican and seven Democratic representatives. Just this past legislative session, the state legislature sought to redistrict in a way that would gerrymander even further, completely eradicating the Republican seat.
Maryland is a blue state trying to become even more blue, reducing representation for the ideology to which my parents hold, because the result of gerrymandering is that independents in heavily gerrymandered districts often find themselves represented by legislators who have little incentive to appeal to the political middle. Safe-seat lawmakers answer primarily to their most partisan primary voters, not to the independent swing voters who might otherwise hold them accountable in a competitive general election.
In a fairly drawn district, an independent voter wields real power. Close elections force candidates to earn votes across ideological lines and to appeal to independent voters. Gerrymandering eliminates that dynamic. When a district is drawn to guarantee one party an untouchable majority, the general election becomes a formality. The real decision happens in the primary, where independents in many states cannot legally participate.
The party entrenchment that gerrymandering feeds is precisely what drives many voters toward registering as independents in the first place. They leave the parties because they are frustrated with the status quo, only to find that the maps drawn by those same parties have made the status quo structurally inevitable.
Independent voters are the largest and most rapidly-growing segment of the American electorate, yet redistricting processes are almost universally controlled by the two parties that do not fully represent them. At the very least, policymakers on both sides of the aisle would do well to actually listen to independent voters, whether or not they represent a gerrymandered district. Gerrymandering has been in place for decades and probably is not leaving anytime soon. In the meantime, it is absolutely incumbent upon policymakers to consider the independent constituents who have been sidelined. As states move rapidly toward partisan entrenchment, independents are the ones bearing a disproportionate cost.
Gee, I wonder what's responsible for the increasing partisam political divide in America. It IS a puzzlement!
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Systemic Neo-Racist Hypocrisy on Full Display
...because Race Non-Essentialism is White Supremacy! @@
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Woke Progressive Plans to De-Colonize the Democratic Party
On Neoliberals Reaping the Consequences of Going Woke for DoS/ USAID "Capacity Building" Purposes
"Go Woke, Go Broke" in Spades!
"Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitic!:"
"Double Down on Woke and Broke! Cancel the Neolibs!"
LOLs!
Monday, June 8, 2026
Argentina, the New Techtopia
The billionaire’s new roots in Argentina are said to be partly motivated by concerns about the future of the United States and shared beliefs with Argentina’s right-wing leader.The Saturday tournament at the Buenos Aires chess club hosted its usual lineup of players, including an accountant, a college student and schoolchildren. But this time, hunched over the club’s tiny wooden tables with them, was a new entrant: Peter Thiel, the right-wing tech billionaire and Trump donor.
Mr. Thiel — who, according to one of the participants, “did not play badly” and came in third — had recently decamped from his homes in Los Angeles and Miami to establish a foothold thousands of miles away in Argentina’s capital.
Over the past two months, Mr. Thiel has met with the country’s president, Javier Milei, and his ministers; purchased a mansion in one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive neighborhoods; and hosted a dinner with local economists where he discussed the Antichrist, one of his favorite conversation topics, according to Argentine officials and people familiar with Mr. Thiel’s activities.
Mr. Thiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B, according to two people familiar with his thinking. Born in Germany and raised in the United States, he received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011, and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022.
His new roots in Argentina are partly motivated by his concerns about the direction of the United States, the people familiar with his thinking say, particularly California, where an initiative on November’s ballot could lead to a significant tax on billionaires.
Argentina, a nation relatively insulated from potential conflicts in the Northern Hemisphere, also fits as a potential escape hatch from other risks that Mr. Thiel has publicly warned about — nuclear war and runaway artificial intelligence.
But Mr. Thiel has also been energized by what he’s discovered in Argentina, finding harmony with Mr. Milei’s libertarian slash-and-burn governance and becoming enamored with Buenos Aires’ vibrancy, the people said. They, and others familiar with the billionaire’s activities and discussions about the country, spoke on condition of anonymity to share private conversations.
Mr. Thiel did not respond to a request for comment.
Underscoring his belief in the country, Mr. Thiel, 58, has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina and enrolled his children in a local school, two of the people said. The Argentine government has also explored offering the billionaire permanent residence or even citizenship, a person familiar with Mr. Thiel’s plans said, though it’s currently unclear whether he would accept.
A spokesman for Mr. Milei denied such an offer had been considered. The Argentine government is currently working to establish a “golden passport” program that would allow people who make large investments in the country to obtain citizenship.
“All billionaires of the world who want to flee countries increasingly regulated, with higher taxes and governments that persecute their citizens, are welcome in the Argentine republic, the new land of freedom,” Manuel Adorni, Mr. Milei’s cabinet chief, said last month before congress, answering a question about Mr. Thiel.
Mr. Thiel, he added, was “interested in the deep reforms that we are bringing forward.”
An ideological ally
Argentina may be an unlikely place for a billionaire looking for stability. The country has careened through nearly a century of instability, marred by military coups and spectacular financial collapses epitomized by triple-digit inflation.
But in Mr. Milei, Mr. Thiel has an ideological ally. The two men share an aversion for taxes, socialism and “wokeness” — a negative label critics use to describe progressive politics.
Since becoming president in 2023, Mr. Milei has sought to overhaul Argentina’s economy, pushing sweeping deregulation and government spending cuts. He has sought to attract foreign investment in the country’s natural resources, including oil, lithium and rare earth minerals.
Mr. Thiel and Mr. Milei first met in person in 2024 in a meeting brokered by Alec Oxenford, a former tech entrepreneur who is now Argentina’s ambassador to the United States, according to a person familiar with the meeting who requested anonymity to share private details publicly.
Mr. Oxenford, whose online marketplace company, OLX, received funding from Mr. Thiel’s venture capital firm more than 15 years ago, had been encouraging the then-new Argentine president to meet with influential American business people.
Mr. Thiel, who has vehemently opposed taxes in the United States, grew more interested in Argentina after California political groups began discussing a voter initiative that would apply a 5 percent tax on the assets of the state’s billionaires. By the end of last year, Mr. Thiel was considering cutting ties with the Golden State, and started exploring living outside California.
Mr. Thiel first started seriously considering Argentina as a place to live, at least temporarily, about a year ago and began looking at Buenos Aires real estate, the two people familiar with his thinking said. They said he also hired a local art dealer to furnish his home.
Since arriving in Buenos Aires in April, Mr. Thiel and his husband, Matt Danzeisen, have dined at the home of Argentina’s deregulation minister, Federico Sturzenegger, a person familiar with the dinner said. Mr. Thiel met separately with the economy minister, Luis Caputo.
The billionaire and an associate from his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, also spent time with Mr. Milei last month at the presidential house. In an interview with a streaming channel following that meeting, Mr. Milei said that the meeting was one of two like-minded individuals and that Mr. Thiel asked how he would ensure that libertarianism endures in Argentina beyond his presidency.
“It was an anarcho-capitalist who met another anarcho-capitalist who is bringing things to life,” Mr. Milei said.
A backup country
Mr. Thiel’s interest in Argentina is not solely because of his alignment with Mr. Milei’s policies.
Mr. Thiel also appears to be enjoying Argentine life. He attended Argenna’s most storied soccer game — between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors — and traveled to Bariloche, a lakeside mountain resort in Patagonia.
Last month at a candlelit dinner at Mr. Thiel’s Buenos Aires mansion, influential economists and Argentine intellectuals gathered with the billionaire to discuss the country’s history and economy, before the conversation turned to the Antichrist, according to three people familiar with the gathering.
Some in attendance were unsure of what to make of their host’s apocalyptic musings, on an entity which he has warned in lectures could establish a totalitarian world government, but they listened intently.
The chess tournament this month in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almagro was a more upbeat affair. Mr. Thiel, who was the highest-rated player in the competition, posed for photos while wearing his third-place medal and stayed to play chess with a child, said Rafael Jabie, a therapist, who finished second.
Mr. Milei and his supporters have been quick to embrace the billionaire as one of their own.
“He is already more Argentine” than left-wingers, Juan Pablo Carreira, who runs the Argentine presidency’s digital communications, wrote on X, using an offensive term for his political opponents.
Daniel Parisini, a right-wing pundit close to Mr. Milei, posted an A.I.-generated picture of Mr. Thiel sitting in front of a parrilla, the quintessential Argentine barbecue, while others online created images of Mr. Thiel eating milanesa, a traditional breaded meat cutlet, inside an Argentine home.
In a polarized nation, rapidly changing under Mr. Milei, Mr. Thiel’s presence has been viewed starkly differently across the political spectrum. Government supporters see the venture capitalist’s presence as proof that Mr. Milei is successfully turning Argentina into a haven for foreign investors. Mr. Milei’s critics, however, see it as another example of the country being sold out to unbridled capitalism.
“What Peter Thiel is doing is terrible,” Elisa Lilita Carrió, an Argentine politician, wrote on X, mentioning Palantir, the big-data firm he co-founded and now chairs. “His settling in Argentina is even worse,” she added.
Others have spread theories that he was coming to meddle in next year’s presidential elections, build large data centers or seize Argentines’ personal data with Palantir, which has deep relationships with the U.S. government.
Mr. Thiel’s only known investment so far has been in personal real estate. Aside from the Buenos Aires home, across the street from a house owned by one of Argentina’s most famous actresses, Mr. Thiel has also bought a plot of land in neighboring Uruguay, a person familiar with the purchase said.
The Uruguayan property, on sprawling grasslands studded with ranches, is near Punta del Este, a glamorous tourist destination on the Atlantic Ocean that people call the Hamptons of South America. Some observers have speculated that it could include a bunker to shelter from nuclear apocalypse.
He would not be the first member of the global elite to think about the southern cone as a place to shelter from nuclear Armageddon. Martin Varsavsky, a Spanish-Argentine tech entrepreneur close to Mr. Thiel, has built a ranch in the Argentine city of Mendoza, which he has said he sees as a potential shelter in case of World War III.
Mr. Varsavsky has hypothesized that Argentina would be completely unaffected if the northern hemisphere were wiped out by nuclear war.
“The moment China takes Taiwan or Russia takes Lithuania, I’m in Buenos Aires,” he said. “It’s good to have a Plan B for civilization.”Lucía Cholakian Herrera contributed reporting
Emma Bubola is a Times reporter covering Argentina. She is based in Buenos Aires.
Ryan Mac is a Times reporter who covers corporate accountability across the global technology industry.
"Please Sir, May I have some more?"
Friday, June 5, 2026
Internews: Global Architects of Progressive Awokening Grand Narratives & Colour Revolutions
...Creating Dissident/ Dissent "Permission Structures" for Rapid Onset Political "Enlightenment" and Performative Street Reactions.
Can Anyone Here Spell K-a-y-f-a-b-e?
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Black Lives Matter: The Reaping of Seeds Sown
...Henry Nowak: Say his name!
Why did the police handcuff Nowak:
from Google AI:
Their arrival occurred exactly seven minutes after Vickrum Digwa's brother, Gurpreet, called 999 to report a false claim that Vickrum had been "racially attacked". One minute after the police arrived, at 11:38 PM, officers handcuffed the dying victim, Henry Nowak, based on those false allegations
Gurpreet Digwa has not been charged with a hate crime or accessory to murder. He has instead been charged with 4 weapons charges. Apparently killing white people isn't considered "hate" in the UK.
Philanthro-Capitalists for Open Borders and Cheap America Labour, Part II
This Time the Labour Costs Tax Free AND Government Subsidized (Welfare/ SNAP/ MediCAID)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Sunday, May 31, 2026
The Self-Enslavement of the Capitalist Miser and His Society-Destroying Fake Philanthropic Liberation
from Google AI:
Bataille's concept of sovereignty as it relates to the part maudite
For Georges Bataille, sovereignty is not a legal or political authority, but a radical, anti-utilitarian state of being characterized by freedom, play, and loss. It is defined in opposition to the modern world of work, where life is reduced to a series of means-to-an-end.
The General Economy and 'La Part Maudite'
In The Accursed Share (La Part Maudite), Bataille argues that the universe operates on a "general economy" of overflowing energy. Driven by the sun, life produces an inevitable surplus of energy that must be expelled. Because this excess cannot be fully absorbed by productive growth or reproduction, it becomes an "accursed share"—a surplus destined for waste.
Sovereignty Through Loss
Societies and organisms process this unavoidable excess through either productive expansion (war, colonization) or non-productive expenditure (luxury, sacrifice, art, and eroticism). Sovereignty is achieved only when we embrace the latter. To be sovereign means to exist beyond utility, necessity, and the fear of death. While a "servile" life is entirely dedicated to work, survival, and accumulation, the sovereign individual or society actively asserts its freedom by lavishly and unproductively wasting their excess energy in the "miraculous reign of unknowing".
Key Mechanics of Bataille’s Sovereignty
Bataille explored how this concept manifested historically and anthropologically:
- Sacrifice: The deliberate, symbolic destruction of life or wealth, best exemplified by the Aztec sacrifices or Native American potlatch ceremonies. These acts waste the accursed share to achieve a transcendent, spiritual connection with the sacred.
- Unproductive Expenditure: The pursuit of luxury, art, and eroticism. Because the ultimate end of all "utility" is uselessness, engaging in purposeless spending is the ultimate realization of freedom.
For further reading on how Bataille contrasts "general economy" with modern capitalism, you can explore the full text of The Accursed Share.
Real Sovereignty Disdains Rational Utility!
It's the SuperEgo NOT the Ego!
Friday, May 29, 2026
Fake News
Sundance, "Media Source Changes Story - DoJ is Not Investigating Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll"
CBS has rewritten their storyline as they now claim their “source” has reversed position. Originally, CBS claimed the U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois was investigating the mentally unstable E. Jean Carroll, the woman who falsely accused President Trump of rape sometime approximately 30 or 40-years ago, she’s not sure.
Now CBS is reporting their source changed the story and the DOJ investigation is actually into the American Future Republic PAC, which is a non-profit run by Reid Hoffman, the man who funded the fraudulent political lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll. A substantive difference in narrative.(Via CBS) – […] “On Wednesday evening, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News that the investigation was focused on whether Carroll had committed perjury during a deposition in connection with her civil lawsuits against Mr. Trump in which she alleged he had sexually abused and defamed her.
On Thursday, however, that source followed up and said Carroll is not the target of the investigation, which is focused on funding that Hoffman’s nonprofit, American Future Republic, provided to help cover some of her legal team’s expenses.
[…] Carroll accused Mr. Trump of sexually abusing her in a New York City department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and she published an account of the encounter in New York Magazine in 2019. Mr. Trump subsequently denied assaulting her and said Carroll wasn’t his “type.” In 2019, Carroll sued Mr. Trump for defamation, but the case stalled in court.
She then filed a second defamation lawsuit in 2022, adding a claim of rape under ¹New York’s Adult Survivors Act
Carroll sued Mr. Trump in two civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse and defamation. In 2023, a jury found Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation for comments he made in 2022. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages. (read more)¹The New York Adult Survivors Act was written by NY legislature specifically to create a legal mechanism for E Jean Carroll to file the lawsuit.
The Adult Survivors Act (ASA) is a New York State law that created a one-year window, from November 24, 2022, to November 24, 2023, allowing adult survivors of sexual assault to file civil lawsuits even if the statute of limitations had expired. {source}
The entire purpose of the ASA was to give Ms. Carroll a window to file the lawsuit against President Trump. Her lawsuit was the only one filed during the one-year window. That’s Lawfare in action.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Why Leftist Liberals Always Lose...
...they're Ideologically Compelled to Forever Sacrifice their Queens for Pawns.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Monday, May 25, 2026
Memorial Day Ritual Orations Past... and Present
Civic Religious Ceremonies
Religion - "A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden- beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them."-Emile Durkheim
Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs. It seemed to them a worthy thing that such an honor should be given at their burial to the dead who have fallen on the field of battle. But I should have preferred that, when men's deeds have been brave, they should be honored in deed only, and with such an honor as this public funeral, which you are now witnessing. Then the reputation of many would not have been imperiled on the eloquence or want of eloquence of one, and their virtues believed or not as he spoke well or ill. For it is difficult to say neither too little nor too much; and even moderation is apt not to give the impression of truthfulness. The friend of the dead who knows the facts is likely to think that the words of the speaker fall short of his knowledge and of his wishes; another who is not so well informed, when he hears of anything which surpasses his own powers, will be envious and will suspect exaggeration. Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others so long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous. However, since our ancestors have set the seal of their approval upon the practice, I must obey, and to the utmost of my power shall endeavor to satisfy the wishes and beliefs of all who hear me.
I will speak first of our ancestors, for it is right and seemly that now, when we are lamenting the dead, a tribute should be paid to their memory. There has never been a time when they did not inhabit this land, which by their valor they will have handed down from generation to generation, and we have received from them a free state. But if they were worthy of praise, still more were our fathers, who added to their inheritance, and after many a struggle transmitted to us their sons this great empire. And we ourselves assembled here today, who are still most of us in the vigor of life, have carried the work of improvement further, and have richly endowed our city with all things, so that she is sufficient for herself both in peace and war. Of the military exploits by which our various possessions were acquired, or of the energy with which we or our fathers drove back the tide of war, Hellenic or Barbarian, I will not speak; for the tale would be long and is familiar to you. But before I praise the dead, I should like to point out by what principles of action we rose ~ to power, and under what institutions and through what manner of life our empire became great. For I conceive that such thoughts are not unsuited to the occasion, and that this numerous assembly of citizens and strangers may profitably listen to them.
Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit. Neither is poverty an obstacle, but a man may benefit his country whatever the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private business we are not suspicious of one another, nor angry with our neighbor if he does what he likes; we do not put on sour looks at him which, though harmless, are not pleasant. While we are thus unconstrained in our private business, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts; we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for the authorities and for the laws, having a particular regard to those which are ordained for the protection of the injured as well as those unwritten laws which bring upon the transgressor of them the reprobation of the general sentiment.
And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; our homes are beautiful and elegant; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish sorrow. Because of the greatness of our city the fruits of the whole earth flow in upon us; so that we enjoy the goods of other countries as freely as our own.
Then, again, our military training is in many respects superior to that of our adversaries. Our city is thrown open to the world, though and we never expel a foreigner and prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to an enemy might profit him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. And in the matter of education, whereas they from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face. And here is the proof: The Lacedaemonians come into Athenian territory not by themselves, but with their whole confederacy following; we go alone into a neighbor's country; and although our opponents are fighting for their homes and we on a foreign soil, we have seldom any difficulty in overcoming them. Our enemies have never yet felt our united strength, the care of a navy divides our attention, and on land we are obliged to send our own citizens everywhere. But they, if they meet and defeat a part of our army, are as proud as if they had routed us all, and when defeated they pretend to have been vanquished by us all.
If then we prefer to meet danger with a light heart but without laborious training, and with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the better for it? Since we do not anticipate the pain, although, when the hour comes, we can be as brave as those who never allow themselves to rest; thus our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful in our tastes and our strength lies, in our opinion, not in deliberation and discussion, but that knowledge which is gained by discussion preparatory to action. For we have a peculiar power of thinking before we act, and of acting, too, whereas other men are courageous from ignorance but hesitate upon reflection. And they are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense both of the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger. In doing good, again, we are unlike others; we make our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would rather by kindness keep alive the memory of an obligation; but the recipient is colder in his feelings, because he knows that in requiting another's generosity he will not be winning gratitude but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state. For in the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries is superior to the report of her. No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the reverses which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject complains that his masters are unworthy of him. And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment, although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. For we have compelled every land and every sea to open a path for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity. Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died; they could not bear the thought that she might be taken from them; and every one of us who survive should gladly toil on her behalf.
I have dwelt upon the greatness of Athens because I want to show you that we are contending for a higher prize than those who enjoy none of these privileges, and to establish by manifest proof the merit of these men whom I am now commemorating. Their loftiest praise has been already spoken. For in magnifying the city I have magnified them, and men like them whose virtues made her glorious. And of how few Hellenes 1 can it be said as of them, that their deeds when weighed in the balance have been found equal to their fame! I believe that a death such as theirs has been the true measure of a man's worth; it may be the first revelation of his virtues, but is at any rate their final seal. For even those who come short in other ways may justly plead the valor with which they have fought for their country; they have blotted out the evil with the good, and have benefited the state more by their public services than they have injured her by their private actions. None of these men were enervated by wealth or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life; none of them put off the evil day in the hope, natural to poverty, that a man, though poor, may one day become rich. But, deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things, and that they could fall in no nobler cause, they determined at the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged, and to leave the rest. They resigned to hope their unknown chance of happiness; but in the face of death they resolved to rely upon themselves alone. And when the moment came they were minded to resist and suffer, rather than to fly and save their lives; they ran away from the word of dishonor, but on the battlefield their feet stood fast, and in an instant, at the height of their fortune, they passed away from the scene, not of their fear, but of their glory.
Such was the end of these men; they were worthy of Athens, and the living need not desire to have a more heroic spirit, although they may pray for a less fatal issue. The value of such a spirit is not to be expressed in words. Any one can discourse to you for ever about the advantages of a brave defense, which you know already. But instead of listening to him I would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it, who in the hour of conflict had the fear of dishonor always present to them, and who, if ever they failed in an enterprise, would not allow their virtues to be lost to their country, but freely gave their lives to her as the fairest offering which they could present at her feast. The sacrifice which they collectively made was individually repaid to them; for they received again each one for himself a praise which grows not old, and the noblest of all tombs, I speak not of that in which their remains are laid, but of that in which their glory survives, and is proclaimed always and on every fitting occasion both in word and deed. For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war. The unfortunate who has no hope of a change for the better has less reason to throw away his life than the prosperous who, if he survive, is always liable to a change for the worse, and to whom any accidental fall makes the most serious difference. To a man of spirit, cowardice and disaster coming together are far more bitter than death striking him unperceived at a time when he is full of courage and animated by the general hope.
Wherefore I do not now pity the parents of the dead who stand here; I would rather comfort them. You know that your dead have passed away amid manifold vicissitudes; and that they may be deemed fortunate who have gained their utmost honor, whether an honorable death like theirs, or an honorable sorrow like yours, and whose share of happiness has been so ordered that the term of their happiness is likewise the term of their life. I know how hard it is to make you feel this, when the good fortune of others will too often remind you of the gladness which once lightened your hearts. And sorrow is felt at the want of those blessings, not which a man never knew, but which were a part of his life before they were taken from him. Some of you are of an age at which they may hope to have other children, and they ought to bear their sorrow better; not only will the children who may hereafter be born make them forget their own lost ones, but the city will be doubly a gainer. She will not be left desolate, and she will be safer. For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger. To those of you who have passed their prime, I say: "Congratulate yourselves that you have been happy during the greater part of your days; remember that your life of sorrow will not last long, and be comforted by the glory of those who are gone. For the love of honor alone is ever young, and not riches, as some say, but honor is the delight of men when they are old and useless.
To you who are the sons and brothers of the departed, I see that the struggle to emulate them will be an arduous one. For all men praise the dead, and, however preeminent your virtue may be, I do not say even to approach them, and avoid living their rivals and detractors, but when a man is out of the way, the honor and goodwill which he receives is unalloyed. And, if I am to speak of womanly virtues to those of you who will henceforth be widows, let me sum them up in one short admonition: To a woman not to show more weakness than is natural to her sex is a great glory, and not to be talked about for good or for evil among men.
I have paid the required tribute, in obedience to the law, making use of such fitting words as I had. The tribute of deeds has been paid in part; for the dead have them in deeds, and it remains only that their children should be maintained at the public charge until they are grown up: this is the solid prize with which, as with a garland, Athens crowns her sons living and dead, after a struggle like theirs. For where the rewards of virtue are greatest, there the noblest citizens are enlisted in the service of the state. And now, when you have duly lamented, every one his own dead, you may depart.
- Pericles Funeral Oration (per Thucydides)
Friday, May 22, 2026
Jesse Goes Electric...
...so Who's Masks Have Slipped Again?
History Repeats, First as Tragedy and then Again as Farce.
9/11/01 - The Day the Masks Began to Come Off of Neo-Liberalism, Every Dissent Against the State Became an Act of Terror, and Its' Perpetrator, a Terrorist!
"Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions- Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols"
Main Stream Media (MSM) Theory of Relativity
Terrorism:Media Spectacle::Suicide Bomber:SSBN
...an I.E.D. collapsing the Post WWII Consensus Built Neoliberal International Rules Based Order upon itself.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Ghost Paychecks for My Baltimore City Homies...
Democrats - Doling Out Political Patronage since the Anti-Federalist Tammany Hall went Democrat!
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Is Israel De-Colonizing Kentucky...
...as Fast as Keir Starmer is De-Colonizing the British People from the UK?
Never Again! (Jews Only) = Affirmative Action/ DEI (But only for Minority [Victim & Not Victimized] Groups Only)
The Woke Cultural Grievance Industry Exposed
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of hid own heart?"
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"De-Colonize the Europeans with Post-Colonial Guilt-Pride and then Colonize their Homelands!"
Trauma Therapy Culture Hypocrisy Runs Wild!
Monday, May 18, 2026
It Begins...
Mr. Biden has experience in public service and foreign policy. He is a director for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, The Center for NationalPolicy, and the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute. Having served as a Senior Vice President at MBNA bank, former U.S.
President Bill Clinton appointed him an Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination under Secretary of Commerce William Daley. Mr. Biden
served as Honorary Co-Chair of the 2008 Obama-Biden Inaugural Committee.
Trauma/ Therapy Culture
Jonathan Alpert, "Is Therapy Tearing Us Apart?"
Therapy promised Americans greater agency and insight. Instead, it delivered a more satisfying story about why someone else is to blame.A patient recently came to see me, saying she was furious with a friend. What began as an ordinary disappointment—a canceled dinner and a text returned too late—had become something far larger and far more charged. The friend was now “toxic.” The exchange had become a “violation of boundaries.” The hurt itself had been elevated into “trauma.” She had screenshots and a polished story about what the episode revealed about her friend’s pathology.What she didn’t have was introspection. She was no longer asking the most psychologically useful questions: Could this have been carelessness rather than ill intent? Was the reaction intensified by other things that may have been going on? Had she contributed in any way to the conflict? The language she brought into the room gave her something powerful: certainty. But certainty is often the enemy of insight.This scene has become one of the defining features of my work as a psychotherapist, and it sits at the center of the argument in my forthcoming book, Therapy Nation: Too much of modern therapy culture keeps people stuck, reinforcing grievance, externalizing blame, and turning everyone else into the reason their lives are so miserable.The problem begins with my own field. For years, my profession has trained clinicians to elevate validation over challenge, affirmation over interpretation, and emotional fluency over the harder work of behavioral change. What has followed is the rise of grievance culture dressed up as psychological sophistication. Too many therapists now function less as clinicians than as reinforcers of the most self-protective interpretation available, teaching patients to locate the problem everywhere but themselves. Of course it is your boss’s fault. Of course your colleague is toxic. Of course your ex is a narcissist. Of course the world keeps wounding you. In this softened therapeutic frame, frustration is rarely something to examine; it’s something to assign.The patient doesn’t gain greater agency, but instead, a more polished story about why someone else is to blame. If you feel injured, the injury must be real. If you feel unsafe, the threat must be there. If a relationship creates discomfort, the relationship itself becomes the problem.I recently saw the aftermath of this in a new patient who came to me after months with another therapist. Every difficult interaction at work had been interpreted through the same frame: the boss was toxic, the co-workers invalidating, and the environment unsafe. By the time we met, the patient could describe every slight in flawless therapeutic language but had never once been pushed to consider whether avoidance, defensiveness, or fear of criticism might be part of the pattern. And she was never given constructive advice on how to bring about changes. The therapy had made the story clearer without making her stronger.Too much of modern therapy culture keeps people stuck, reinforcing grievance, externalizing blame.This is how therapy can quietly become an engine that keeps people stuck. Patients leave not more capable of tolerating frustration, ambiguity, or ordinary disappointment, but less. They become more fluent in explaining why they feel the way they do while becoming less practiced at changing what they do next. And therapists are largely responsible for this phenomenon.While it may feel like growth, it functions as avoidance. And that is corrosive. The patient becomes good at explanation, more sophisticated in the language of harm, and more certain about who is to blame, but no closer to actual change. Grievance becomes part of identity.That same emotional habit doesn’t stay confined to the therapy office. People carry it into marriages, friendships, workplaces, and, eventually, politics. Ordinary frustration becomes proof of mistreatment. Ambivalence becomes danger. Disagreement becomes evidence of harm. Once enough people are trained to interpret discomfort this way, coexisting with others starts to feel impossible.The political consequences follow naturally. A citizen trained to experience ordinary conflict as evidence of harm will eventually bring that same mindset into public life. We’ve seen this dynamic play out vividly in the Donald Trump era, when members of my profession moved from helping people navigate political differences to legitimizing family estrangement as a sign of psychological health. On national television, prominent therapists and psychiatrists suggested it might be essential for mental health to avoid Trump-voting relatives during the holidays.The same therapeutic scripts that encourage patients to pathologize difficult bosses and disappointing partners now teach citizens to reinterpret ordinary democratic differences as evidence of danger. The result is a society less capable of living with differences, less able to tolerate friction, and more likely to retreat into emotionally curated silos and echo chambers.This is where therapy culture ceases to strengthen people and starts quietly weakening them. The person becomes increasingly protected from scrutiny, and increasingly fragile as a result.Social media has been uniquely fertile ground for this corruption. The algorithm doesn’t elevate the most psychologically accurate interpretation. It elevates the most emotionally satisfying one. Hence the ecosystem of so-called mental-health influencers: Endless posts diagnose narcissists, decode toxic bosses, and turn ordinary disappointment into proof of pathology. Social media rewards certainty, speed, and self-protection—precisely the instincts real therapy is supposed to challenge before turning them into conclusions. The result isn’t a more psychologically sophisticated society. In many cases, it’s quite the opposite.We are becoming emotionally articulate while growing psychologically brittle.My own field should be willing to say this plainly: We helped create this culture. The original promise of therapy was never that life would stop hurting. It was to help people become stronger in the face of pain, clearer in the face of conflict, and more honest about the role they themselves play in the conflicts they keep re-creating.Real therapy should make people more capable of dealing with reality, not less.
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