But why do they hate you? I recently appeared on the 2 Bit Podcast. At the end of the show Jason asked me why the Regime (‘They’) hate us. This essay is an edited version of my response. I intended to just post a transcript but it turned into a essay all its own. Check out
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Civil rights laws killed the Constitution A minor panic has broken out among the chattering class after a few conservative commentators showed an interest in questioning the civil rights revolution and its accompanying legal framework. Liberal and conservative publications alike have expressed grave concern that anyone might question the need for an oppressive bureaucracy that has
POSIWID and the Moderate Liberal Melt-Down "The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does" Recently, several interesting Twitter controversies ran together and I felt it might be useful to do a write-up on SubStack. The initial thread concerned the concept of “POSIWID” or, put fully, “The purpose of a system is what it does". This
Social and Emotional Patronage I recently spoke to BogBeef from The Good Ol Boyz on my podcast. If you’ve heard Bog talk at all, you’ve probably heard him speak about patronage. He certainly did not originate this idea, but he is responsible for spreading it on the right. At the most basic
Heroin liberals and cocaine conservatives "The difference between conservatism and cocaine is that you can OD on cocaine." Political orientations in present America are best regarded as fundraising narratives. Democratic politics proper—the contest for sovereign power by organizations or individuals with massive support, decided by counting heads—is basically dead. In the present American
As Alternative für Deutschland approach 40% support in East Germany, a right-leaning CDU faction announce plans to break away from the Union and found a new party that will cooperate with AfD In September, three East German states – Saxony, Thüringen and Brandenburg – will hold elections for state parliament. Alternative für Deutschland are now by far the strongest-polling party in each of these states. In Saxony, for example, they are polling at an-time high of 37%: The SPD – the party of federal Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Bob Wachter, Deranged UCSF Dept. of Medicine Chair, explains what he is doing "Covid-wise" & why he masks in elevators but not restaurants in Day 1,371 of his Covid Chronicles When we last encountered Prof. Dr. Wachter, whose blood estradiol levels must be several hundred times those of the average pre-menopausal female, he was recovering from a mild case of Covid that had escalated into a serious case of Covid after he took a shower, fainted and hit his head
Claudine Gay, Plagiarist Claudine Gay is a pseudointellectual who specializes in being a Diverse Black Female Academic. She first served as a Diverse Black Female Academic at Stanford University, before leaving to become a Diverse Black Female Academic at Harvard University. In 2018, Harvard decided it would be even more Diverse of them
An inquiry into Fuggalu, or: How the guardians of German democracy aim to protect our democratic constitution by punishing those who argue that the pandemic response was anti-democratic Something has gone very wrong with the way establishment politicians and journalists talk about “democracy” “Democracy” and the various concepts associated with it have acquired a mysterious new semantic range that nobody will acknowledge or discuss. This problem has grown so obtrusive that whenever any politician or media personality begins
"RSV Wave Underway" screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends Now that the EMA has approved new RSV vaccines, journalists have another virus to stir anxiety about. During the pandemic, journalists discovered a new occupation, one which was particularly appealing for the small effort it required. This occupation consisted of consulting any of the numerous Covid dashboards and weekly virus
The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League. Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the
Is Karl Lauterbach replacing two-thirds of STIKO, the "independent" German vaccine advisory body, to ensure the approval of shiny new RSV jabs from Pfizer and AstraZeneca? German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is working hard to restructure the entire German public health bureaucracy, according to the lessons our rulers have derived from the Covid pandemic. The purpose of his reforms are hard to work out, and ominously, nobody at the Health Ministry will explain them. A little-known
The Incompetent Authoritarianism Of The Irish State On the curiously incompetent Irish State and the Empire's Celtic Problem Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent migrant stabbing spree in Ireland that resulted in fiery but peaceful scenes erupting on the streets of the capital, Dublin. The following day I went in search of ‘‘takes’’ that
Infighting and internal divisions intensify among German climate activists and their patrons in government, as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Political movements derive cohesion from the momentum and energy they command. With the wind at their backs, adherents are willing to overlook their divergent interests and fight for a common cause. As these movements lose momentum and face hardening opposition, they suddenly find themselves rent by infighting and factionalism. Being
Why were German politicians so eager to vaccinate children, and why are they lying about it now? Here is a riddle: Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination? Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on
Ampeldämmerung: Scholz government in crisis after doubtful budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional For my entire life, German governments have lit money on fire with great abandon. The pandemic was a particularly insane period of spending. Among the final acts in this spree was a supplementary budget pushed through by Merkel’s government in April 2021, allocating an additional 60 billion Euros for
Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck's Green energy policy, causes up to THREE TIMES more emissions than coal Let us review some recent history: In 2021, Germany owed 27% of its total energy supply to natural gas. We imported over 40% of this natural gas from Russia. Then the Ukraine war happened, and by September the gas had slowed to a trickle. To compensate, we increased imports from
Why the migrant crisis is a self-inflicted catastrophe for the European political establishment The mass importation of regime clients from the third world, under the pretence of high-minded liberal values, has become a runaway phenomenon threatening the very political order that authored it. Some valued readers objected to my remark in yesterday’s post that the political establishment appears “completely powerless” to stop
Mechanisms Toward Local Sovereignty Made possible by the abundance of land available, America’s European founding stock sought denominational freedom in the New World. Entire congregations of Christians traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on ships such as the Mayflower to establish colonies that were closely tied to their religious beliefs, as well as the
An Uncanny Valley At The Cenotaph On peculiar unreality of British Political life. The somewhat modestly named “Behavioral Insights Team” carries this passage on their website in which they “face up to the challenges” of climate action: Prioritizing actions. Some behavioral barriers will be tougher to address than others. In one project, we found that encouraging
Why Daylight Saving Time is Stupid The twice-annual clock fiddling ritual is a pointless pain in the ass and it should be abolished everywhere On 29 October, the superstitious annual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time ended in Europe, and for my American readers it will end this coming Sunday, on 5 November. For half or
As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses, Karl Lauterbach begs Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab From the erstwhile vaccine propagandists at Der Spiegel, who I think are also tiring of the insipid autumnal vaccination liturgy and its noxious political enablers: Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has again called on people to get a booster vaccination. “Despite the pandemic and awareness campaigns, the importance of the
Christian Drosten, enduring virologoid villain, demands mass livestock virus testing and scientific truth panels to enhance pandemic preparedness and marginalise people who disagree with him Christian Drosten, the malevolent virologoid at Berlin Charité who achieved international prominence in 2020 as court virus astrologer to the Merkel government, and who acted for years as the public face of hygiene restrictions in the Federal Republic, is one of the great villains of the pandemic. From lockdowns to
State elections in Bavaria and Hessen show the establishment parties to be in decline as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Yesterday was election day in Bavaria and Hessen. Just over 23% of the entire German population had the chance to express their political preferences at the ballot box. The results were not only a slap in the face to the parties of the federal coalition, but also yet another sign
Welcome To The New Current Thing My initial thoughts on the new conflict in the Middle East and what will surely become the new Current Thing Well, folks, it’s official — The New Current Thing is finally here. The New Thing arrived on my social media feed in the guise of a mutilated corpse of a
On Social Conformism It’s been a while, so let me write down my thoughts. This will be a bit different because it’s an attempt at something a little more stream-of-consciousness, the sort of thing I think about driving my car. I wrote this all in one paragraph and then when back
In act of divine retribution, equestrian statue of Angela Merkel collapses spontaneously under its own weight Certain natural events – however seemingly insignificant – achieve so perfectly a higher symbolic meaning, that it is hard not to see in them a divine message. Such is the case with the only equestrian statue erected to honour former German chancellor Angela Merkel, which yesterday collapsed spontaneously under its own weight.
On Fact-Checkerism and the Mythology of Disinformation Thoughts on what our discourse police are even trying to do and why they are so stupid. Nobody in our corner of the internet could fail to notice the antics of those yapping bouncing frenetic chihuahuas who call themselves fact-checkers. Mostly they work in obscurity, misunderstanding internet jokes, recycling the
AfD candidate poised to win head mayorship of Nordhausen (Thuringia); Sahra Wagenknecht announces plans to form her own protest party As the German ruling establishment continues to alienate voters and lose ground, a new kind of politics is taking shape beneath them. Candidates of Alternative für Deutschland continue to win high political office in East Germany. First, it was Robert Sesselmann, who won the office of Landrat in Sonneberg, Thuringia.
Activism, agency, and the escape from mundane domesticity: The curious case of Judith Beadle, 43 year-old mother of two, climate vandal and self-gluing street activist Meet Judith Beadle. She is a dead-eyed 43 year-old Letzte Generation activist from Berlin who first came to the notice of the German public for gluing herself to a Munich street last November. The action won her nearly a month of preventive custody in Munich-Stadlheim, where she reports her vegan
Centrist Caesars, Twitter X And The ADL On the competing visions of liberalism at the heart of Twitter X vs ADL war There’s an interesting exchange in George RR Martin’s Clash of Kings in which Varys, the scheming eunuch, and Tyrion ruminate over the ethereal nature of Power. The question fundamentally is where Power actually
East Germany and the Failure of Liberal Democracy As AfD becomes the dominant party of the former DDR, East Germans find themselves slandered as antidemocratic by a ruling establishment that has systematically excluded and subjugated them As with Covid infection statistics, so with political preferences: You can easily identify the former DDR on a map of support for
Dispatch: The Mug Shot Apotheosis of an Antihero “History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.” —Ian Fleming The Mug Shot Last Thursday Donald Trump was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on felony charges, marking his fourth indictment of the year. A former
The Great White Psycho A quick take on the media feeding frenzy over Lucy Letby and Great White Defendants The British media is currently in frenzy mode over the jailing of Lucy Letby, a nurse who Sky News tells us will ‘‘Die in jail after receiving 14 whole life sentences’’. Letby has been found
On the self-inflicted political crisis of the German ruling establishment, and why banning Alternative für Deutschland will deepen their failures For the soft authoritarian regimes of the post-liberal West, political repression is both a considerable risk and a very limited resource. Some responded to yesterday’s post with the argument that banning Alternative für Deutschland is the best thing for the German political establishment. They see this as a power
German media and political establishment ponder whether to ban the political preferences of a fifth of the population free, text Since 19 June, polls have consistently placed support for the right-populist party Alternative für Deutschland at 20% or higher, making them the second most popular party in Germany – slightly ahead of government-leading SPD, and behind the CDU/CSU. Last week, Thomas Haldenwang, the head of the Federal Office
DeSantis Puts The Woke Away free, text Why does Elon Musk shill for DeSantis? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1662193436684951556 Musk and his ilk want unlimited, unrestricted business with whomever they want and as many immigrants as they want to import for cheap labor. During Trump’s campaign, he always talked about the economy, trade,
The Boomer Cruise: Day of the Pillow A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of traditionalism. All the powers of GloboHomo have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and President, Managers and intelligentsia, French Radicals and German police spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as regressive by
Official Endorsement for President Concrete Block 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2023 ALPENA, MICHIGAN – These years of upheaval are trying times for our nation, and painfully uncertain for American families. In this moment what America most needs is steady, unwavering leadership. Which is why I am pleased to transmit the official announcement of
GPT-4 invalidates the Turing test "You never anthropomorphize your Apple Watch, even if it can beat you at chess." Neighbors these days often ask me about “AI.” What does the ChatGPT phenomenon mean? Will it take over the world? If not—what will it do? Neighbor: there is no “AI.” There are large language models
Of Course NPR and the BBC are State Media More accurately: they're Party-State media… Yesterday National Public Radio (NPR) announced that it is leaving Twitter, after the platform “falsely labeled” it as “state-affiliated media.” This is the “the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries,” the indignant NPR huffed. Twitter CEO Elon
THE REALITY OF REPARATIONS Well, there is not much to say. It’s finally happened. I remembered conversations had with people coming on a decade ago now on the topic of ludicrously effeminate liberals screeching at the top of their lungs for reparations on Youtube. The white man, in their world, was the primordial
Get Sertified A guest post by Don Baton Recently Don Baton, pseudonymous author of the great unwoke classical music newsletter The Podium , sent me an amusing (but also not so amusing) account from New York, and I felt it was worth him turning it into a short satirical piece for publication. That
Dispatch: No More Apologies Pandemic amnesty and its discontents Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, calls for a “pandemic amnesty” in a recent piece for the Atlantic. The first year of the pandemic was a time of “tremendous uncertainty,” Oster writes, and “treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked
Tom Harwood: Establishment Shill Who’s team is he on?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE? On March 23, 2010, the United States President, Barak Obama, signed into law the Affordable Care Act, or as it is more fondly referred to as ‘Obamacare’. It was such an important and inspiring bill that its chief advocate in the US legislature, the Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi, encouraged members of