No, I didn’t watch or listen to it. I have a very low tolerance for political blather from anyone…well, other than myself, of course. But from the snippets I’ve been reading, it was at least as bad as We the Normals® expected it to be: America, ladies and gentlemen, is under attack and …
Category: Usurper Regime
Sep 01 2022
Still Not Convinced We’re At War?
If you don’t believe me, believe him: Joe Biden made a bizarre and passive aggressive comment targeting “brave right-wing Americans” Tuesday, during an political rally in Pennsylvania touting his latest gun grab…. Rather than attack Republicans in Congress who might oppose the initiative, Biden mocked all conservative Americans who support the Second …
Aug 30 2022
They Who Make War…
…shouldn’t be surprised if they get war in return. Consider the implications of Usurper figurehead Joe Biden’s declaration of war on American conservatives: Here’s what the president told a Democratic Party fundraiser near the White House on Thursday. “What we’re seeing now is either the beginning of the death knell of the …
Aug 28 2022
Third-Party Forgiveness
Joseph Sobran once composed an instructive parable that went something like this: Davis is listening to Jones speak of some injustice done to him by Smith. Davis waits until Jones runs down, and then says, “Oh, that’s all right. I forgive Smith for what he did to you.” How do you suppose Jones …
Aug 10 2022
Torch Song Elegy
I’m on an “Internet retreat” at the moment, in case you’ve been wondering where the interminable essays have gone. But I want to post a quick word before returning to my fiction labors. Perhaps it will serve to explain why I’ve absented myself. You don’t need me to read the news to you. …
Aug 03 2022
And Now For Something Completely The Same
(Apologies to the greats of Monty Python.) It is a terrible mistake ever to trust a government agency that has a medical or “public health” ambit. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy applies to such agencies with lethal force: Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be …
Jul 30 2022
The Pacification
My thoughts are more scattered than usual this morning, for a bevy of reasons my Gentle Readers would probably find uninteresting, excessively personal, or both. But when I sense that the floor of our national handbasket is being ripped away by flesh-eating zombies, such that the lake of bubbling lava below is plainly visible, …
Jul 26 2022
The Rulers
To learn who rules over you, simply look to those you are not allowed to criticize. [Multiply attributed, most often to Voltaire.] The above seems sound. Certainly many aristocracies treated the criticism of the rulers — lese majeste — as a serious offense. In some such lands it was treated more harshly than …
Jun 09 2022
Are The Usurpers Planning To Complete The Coup of 2020?
I try to restrict myself to only one fit of screaming fury per day, but the Usurper Regime has been evoking more outrage than I can vent with just one. The Imbecile-In-Chief has a gift that way: President Biden in an interview broadcast late Wednesday predicted a “mini revolution” in November’s midterm elections …
Jun 09 2022
“We Are The Ultimate Power”
If you still don’t believe that the U.S. has a ruling class, have a few pointed words from Washington Commanders’ defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio: “I can look at images on the TV, people’s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dust-up at the …
May 20 2022
Decline And Fall
At each election we vote in a new set of politicians, insanely assuming that they are better than the set turned out. And at each election we are, as they say in Motherland, done in. – H. L. Mencken Among the things I’ve been missing lately are the penetrating and erudite essays of …
May 19 2022
The Normalization Of Fear
Are you afraid? You’re meant to be. Influential people in many high places have decreed that you shall be. And they’re putting a lot of effort into getting you there. One of the most important enduring features of the American milieu – for virtually the whole of our history – has been …
Apr 27 2022
Perhaps Nothing Could Have Prevented It…
…but whatever the case, actual government censorship has arrived: The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new board designed to counter misinformation related to homeland security, with a focus specifically on Russia and irregular migration. The board will be called the “Disinformation Governance Board, and will be headed by executive director …
Apr 06 2022
A Prediction That Drips Blood
If you haven’t yet viewed last night’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the first fifteen minutes of it, at least, are very much worth your time. Carlson is forthright in predicting the imminent removal of “President” Joseph R. Biden – by his own party. His analysis of the reasons for foreseeing this unprecedented event are simple …
Apr 02 2022
Celebrate Their Achievements! (UPDATED)
I’ve come slowly but firmly to the conviction that, while our political class is generally vile, nevertheless its members display certain talents for which they should receive the credit due them. Some of those talents are demonstrably world-class. Consider, for example, the ability of the underappreciated Kamala Harris to speak at length, and entirely …
Apr 01 2022
The Liability In The White House
Concerning the recent concessions from the Usurper Regime’s media handmaidens about the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop, people of all political leanings are asking “Why now?” After a year and a half of nonstop denials, deflections, and dissimulations, why are they ‘fessing up’ now? The questions and speculations are widespread. For example, consider …
Mar 28 2022
Unrealized Income?
I won’t speak for anyone else, but when I call a development “unrealized,” I know what I mean by it: it hasn’t happened yet. And of course, something that hasn’t happened might never happen. So what shall we say, Gentle Readers, about this resurrected notion of unrealized income? Many billionaires can pay far …
Mar 25 2022
We Won’t Get A Clearer Warning
Sorry, Gentle Readers, but time is up: Earlier today, the hapless president of the United States emerged from one of his NATO huddles to answer questions from the reporters he had been instructed to call upon, as per his SOP. One of them brought up the potential for food shortages, and Biden’s answer …
Mar 23 2022
Outsourcing Tyranny
Many Gentle Readers are already acquainted with this subject, owing to the rise of cancel culture and the impediments the giants of Big Tech have dropped upon our freedom of expression. Mind you, while there are many persons ready, willing, and able to offer opinions about what should be done, the subject is considerably …
Mar 12 2022
Painful Remedial Lessons
If you’ve seen Tucker Carlson’s show of last night — I catch it on YouTube – I hope you paid close attention to his exposition on inflation. The Usurper Regime and their media handmaidens are doing their damnedest to persuade Americans that the cause of today’s inflation, which we experience as price increases in …
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