One hopeful sign of a rising consciousness of what’s really going on – the sign that the public’s eyes are turning from the distraction to what the prestidigitator is actually doing – is when “respectable” sources begin to cop to it: Christianity Today published a curious piece by Paul Miller on Thursday calling …
Category: Establishment
May 12 2023
The Shell Game Part 2
Friends of mine – yes, I have a couple – have returned to a hopeless task: persuading me to re-engage with electoral politics, possibly (ulp) even as a candidate for office. They been saying some of the most incredible things: “If you want to change the system, you have be part of it.” …
Apr 27 2023
Recent Revelations
“You still haven’t got over the idea that politicians are important because the newspapers tell you so.” – Sir Frederick Hoyle It’s become critical to our individual and social mental health that we draw a firm distinction between two categories of vermin. The first of these, the politician, runs for elective office. If …
Apr 24 2023
Aspects of This Are Worth Cheering
Do you see why? Note how this recent(?) video becomes more significant after Tucker’s abrupt firing.
Mar 19 2023
Allegiances And Alliances
It takes a bit of investigation to puzzle it out, but the facts are there for anyone who makes the effort. The United States has only one set of treaty obligations at this time: those that arise from the North Atlantic Charter, which created NATO. There was once a comparable SEATO, which created an …
Mar 18 2023
Peak Lawlessness
According to this article, Donald Trump, the 45th president of these United States, expects to be arrested on Tuesday: Numerous leaks have reported Trump will be charged next week in New York City in the Stormy Daniels case where he has been accused of paying Daniels as part of a confidential settlement before …
Mar 17 2023
Right But Ignored
I was once given a gift subscription to a weekly periodical – one that arrived on pulp paper rather than as an email – that aggregated the writings of prominent conservative opinion writers. That started arriving in my mailbox in early 1990, if my memory is accurate. Among other things, it provided my introduction …
Mar 08 2023
The Lies Are Coming Apart In Glorious Technicolor
…and we’ve got front-row seats: Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired the first set of previously-unseen surveillance video captured by Capitol police security cameras on January 6, 2021 that undermines several aspects of the reigning narrative about what happened that day. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last month gave Carlson’s team “unfettered” …
Feb 26 2023
The Longest Long Con
I ran across this graphic only a few minutes ago: It’s at the center of my thoughts for a reason upon which I’ll rant a bit later in this piece. For now, I’d like to remind you about an old song, and an old practice far too many of us followed in our …
Feb 21 2023
That Look Of Indifference
You’ll find it on many a face in our political Establishment. To what are they indifferent? Why, to you, of course: How many Americans support this war for democracy? This war for democracy that Americans for some reason can’t vote on? Why don’t we have a national referendum on all this as long …
Jan 31 2023
“Give Me A Ho! Give Me A Hum!”
It’s time to exercise our arithmetic skills: A group of two dozen Senate Republicans have signed a letter vowing to oppose any increase in the nation’s debt limit unless Congress agrees to spending cuts to help pay down the national debt. “We, the undersigned members of the Senate Republican Conference, write to …
Jan 25 2023
Yeah, Right
Are we really expected to believe this? A former Las Vegas Judge committed suicide a year after she resigned from her position after facing an ethics investigation. Per the Clark County coroner’s office, Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Here’s what happened, in chronological sequence: Andress-Tobiasson’s sixteen-year-old daughter …
Jan 20 2023
Can They Possibly Be That Blatant?
It seems incredible…but their shamelessness might just be our best weapon against them: The World Economic Forum—an annual meeting of international business leaders, political figures, and other elites—is well underway in Davos, Switzerland. One of the topics of discussion on Monday was “The Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation,” presented by former CNN …
Jan 14 2023
Crisis!
Help, Gentle Reader! I’m in a crisis. Yes, a new one. It’s not categorically new — I’ve been here before — but it’s unprecedentedly intense. You see, I don’t know what to fear. The choices are too many. The fear-peddlers have overwhelmed my ability to apportion my fear energy. I’m starting to “thrash” …
Nov 17 2022
Los Peones Y Las Haciendas
In his book The Bell Curve, co-authored with the late Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray reminded his readers that there’s more than one kind of “conservatism.” The American version, which emphasizes individual liberty and responsibility, contrasts sharply with the Latin American version, in which a heavily privileged, propertied class holds itself above and aloof from …
Nov 04 2022
The Ongoing Firestorm
Emily Oster’s saccharine-saturated column in The Atlantic, in which she argues – unpersuasively – for a “pandemic amnesty” has ignited a blaze that, so far, has refused to go out. Indeed, it seems to be mounting as the days count down to the midterm elections…and that’s a good thing. I’ve already said my …
Oct 26 2022
Establishment Politicians Want You Not To Read This
Courtesy of the esteemed Mike Hendrix, we have this highly significant story from Big Country Expat: Now here in the Untied Staatz, we still pretend that elections matter. In truth, the only elections that actually -do- matter are the local ones…school board (need to fire ALL of them fuckers nationwide IMO, Jes’ Sayin’) …
Oct 02 2022
Is it Safe? Part 1
The wannabe despot is a coward. Before he acts he needs to feel the environment has been well prepared before he makes the next move. The title of this series comes from the line endlessly repeated by the Lawrence Olivier character as he tortured the one portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. Well, in …
Aug 22 2022
The Church Under Attack
Political matters can go hang for the moment. Just now, my focus is on more permanent things…some of them eternal. *** Surely this piece is not so far in the past that my Gentle Readers will have forgotten it. It may have drawn more giggles than sober ponderings, but the true import of …
Aug 12 2022
Agents Of The Status Quo
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. – a misquote of Eric Hoffer Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a …
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