Island Boys

Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands

Travis LeBlanc over at CCP does a really good job mechanically picking apart the notion, which has become the conventional wisdom of ontological certitude in much of the sector, that Epstein Island was a Mossad honeypot to blackmail American politicians into staying pro-Israel.

My problem with this conventional wisdom is one that I started having from the first moment I heard the theory; even though it suffers the logical problem of being an argument from incredulity, I’m going to say it anyway.

The problem with the notion as Epstein Island as Mossad honeypot is this:

Why would anyone steal a cow when they’re already getting the milk for free?

Are we to think that the Mossad was actually worried that the American body politic that matters, which was 99% pro-Israel at the time that Epstein Island was in its heyday, was in any real danger of not being pro-Israel anymore?

Sure, because of The Squad, the American body politic that matters is now only 98% pro-Israel. However, back in Epstein Island’s heyday, The Squad didn’t exist.

Here’s what I think it is:

So many in the sector are of the attitude that the American body politic that matters and America in general isn’t really that pro-Israel, and that, left to its natural inclination and left unimpeded, it would be at least far less intensely pro-Israel than it is now, or maybe flat neutral, or maybe somewhat anti-Israel. And that the only reason it is as pro-Israel as it is is because of Mossad honeypots and AIPAC brib…er, lobbying.

The hard truth of the matter is that, even if you take Mossad honeypots and AIPAC lobbying out of the equation, the American body politic that matters would still be 98% pro-Israel right now. And I don’t see that declining that much that soon.

And yes, the pro-Palestinian street goons running around. But they’re not affecting the institutions that matter.

What it is is that the sector is falling into post hoc propter hoc a priori a posteriori traps of logic and reasoning, and therefore jumping to the assumption that Epstein Island must have been a Mossad honeypot.

Note: It is my assessment that AIPAC is rather lame as far as D.C.-intensive lobbying outfits go, a lot of big hats and small cattle.

Looks Like Germany’s Got Itself a Convoy

Berlin; Wiesbaden; Etc.

I went to the events today here in Wiesbaden, to observe.

—

The reason for the official political hysteria over today’s farmer protests is I think for much the same reason for the same relating to two years ago with the Canadian truckers. It’s not really about any left-right conventional politics, or “right wing extremism,” as such.

It is apropos therefore that truckers and also barge operators joined in with today’s protests.

It’s because the official world, the left, the establishment, whatever you want to call them, realize three things on at least a subconscious level:

(1) The “Nine Meals to Anarchy” doctrine, that the modern logistics system is just that precarious.

AND

(2) That the modern left/establishment/etc have as their fundamental and perhaps ultimately decisive weakness that, in terms of geography and territory, they don’t control that much, only a small percentage of the total footprint of civilized territory. Combine (1) and (2), and it’s easy to see how, if events like today, and Canada two years ago, had just a little more organization and willpower, that they could drive urban centers to the brink of disaster.

AND

(3) This is also a fundamental clash between the kind of people who compete against the laws of nature on the one hand, and the kind of people who seek status among and competing with other people on the other hand. A dichotomy that even the ancients understood. Both in ancient times and now, the latter group is instinctively fearful of the former group. This perhaps more than anything else is the fundamental razor between the left and the right in our current epoch. It’s also why Official Germany worrying that today’s events would be “hijacked” or “infiltrated” or “converged” by “RWEs” is a misnomer.

Pawning the Credit Off

Cambridge, Mass.

You can tell that the Current Year is Bizarro World, when, instead of fall guys to take the blame, Official World looks for fall guys to take the credit.

I concluded a few weeks ago that the Harvard Corporation was in a Catch 22. They could neither keep her nor fire Claudine Gay. The reasons for both should be self-evident.

I bet on that the way it would work out is that she would “resign” but only after Obama had Biden arrange a cabinet job for her. So that it would seem like a step up in her eyes, but save face for HC.

I don’t know if her “resignation” of yesterday means she’s going on the Biden cabinet, but I also don’t think she would have done this if there wasn’t something at least as prestigious promised to her behind the curtains.

But there’s something else that has suddenly popped up.

The American news media are strangely giving most or all of the credit for the fall of Claudine Gay to conservatives, either in general, or by individual names.

It’s easy to see what’s wrong with this. First off, the American right of center, extreme, normie or anywhere in between, has zero sway on the business affairs of HC. Second, the lamestream media aren’t ordinarily in the mood to credit anyone on the right for anything.

So what’s really going on?

Then I remembered that credit and blame are the same thing, depending on which side you’re looking.

So it’s not that the media are really crediting cons for Gay’s fall, they’re blaming them.

The reason they’re doing it is because they know that the real reason for Gay’s fall is that the Jews beat the blacks. However, they want to create the false narrative that conservatives drove Gay out, in order to prevent yet another food fight between Jewish letter groups and black letter groups. IOW, get the black letter groups and BLM style influencers mad at Christopher Rufo and Elise Stefanik, instead of mad at the Jewish letter groups and individual large Jewish donors to Harvard.

The American left have been so so so desperate to stop their BIPOC-Jewish internecine war since 10/7.

Fasten Belts

2024.

You can’t stop it.

You can only hope to contain it.

Buckle up tight.

Here comes nothing and everything.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Guest post by Puggg

Hey, you’ve already read the title!

I hope to bring you some good news from the personal life front after Christmas. If it’s the good news I hope it is, when you add some of the good news coming that I already know, I guess I could say that next year is going to be a big change year for me as well.

Real Housewives of Cologne, Episode 29

“RED RUBBER BALL”

The Terrible Twos were just that terrible. And potty training didn’t exactly go that easy, either.

As you all know, we were expecting even worse when we started platooning between Wiesbaden and Cologne back at the end of July, because it was going to be the first time in their lives that they would spend extended time away and apart and relatively distant from their beloved grandfather.

While they did raise a requisite fuss at the time of the separation for the first time, less so with each successive time, they weren’t anywhere as bad as we were expecting. In fact, they weren’t obnoxious at all about it. We eventually came to figure out that the “new” in their lives made them forget that they were supposed to be fussy and throw tantrums over the “trauma” of being separated from Opa. Furthermore, it wound up totally ending their Terrible Twos.

We made a soft landing. Round of applause.

And now, with their third birthday tomorrow, I really do like the human beings they’re turning into, even decoupled from the fact that I’m biased towards my own sons. Not that they fully cognitively verbally know what a birthday is, but this is their first birthday in their lives that they sense that and behave like there is something personally special for them as individuals about an imminent day.

Probably still too early to tell for sure. But their cognitive development overall is coming along nicely. Their personalities, too. I’ve been the “bad cop” all along, and, while they’ve generally acted afraid of me until recently, when they suddenly snapped out of their TTs, they also lost their innate default fear of me. Now it’s more of a friendly respect. They still have the sense that I can bring the hammer down, but at the same time they’re increasingly curious about what I’m doing.

Since the soft landing, the better half and I have made the educated guess that combined they have spoken more words with me than her and have spent more time speaking with me than her.

They might be turning into daddy’s boys rather than mommy’s boys way sooner than we were expecting.

To top it all off, here in the last month and a half, they have, in their own way, sensed that there is something “different” or “not quite usual” about their father, (like I said, under the vest), and also, in the best way that nearly three-year old boys can, have tried to console and comfort me. God bless their little hearts.

And thank God for kids.

Tomorrow, Year Four begins. The 366 days between their third and fourth birthdays, which will almost perfectly correspond to 2024 the calendar year, will be a reckoning for me in several ways, and a reckoning for the greater world that matters to me. We will finally be able to do St. Louis this coming July. And then there are the other things…again, under the vest. I’ll just say that on their fourth birthday, their father will be doing something much different in his day to day life compared to now, or will be on the imminent precipice of such. That much is all but totally guaranteed.

One more thing: The sister-in-law, soyboy-in-law and my nephew have been a whole lot of out of sight out of mind in recent months, mostly due to our new two-city reality. But now that I’ve been able to see more of all three of them in the past few days, one thing that has jumped out at me is that something has clicked in both of them and they have done a lot of growing up and becoming more serious people all of a sudden. My nephew himself turned two back at the end of August, and he himself is now doing the TT/PT thing. So I am told, his TTs are rather moderate, not as bad as their two and only cousins.

First Order of Business

Denver

Now we know what Trump’s first executive order will be on January 20, 2025:

Moving the United States Air Force Academy to Utah.

Let’s call this an almost Christmas open thread.

Too Soon Old

Your Blogmeister’s German Desk

Brief “get off my lawn” rant before we call it a day and night.

My new car has almost 500 hp, weighs almost 5000 lb, and does 0-60 in 4.3.

That sounds sobering enough on paper.

It’s even more so IRL, now that I’ve had it for almost a week.

But it makes me realize something else:

I’m glad cars like these are so expensive.

They would be anyway based on all the predictable factors.

But even if the economics could mean that they would be cheaper, I could still justify artificially inflating their retail price.

Because these kinds of cars are only for people who can afford a car that expensive in the first place.

Meaning they have some sort of personal reputation, standing in the community or world, and/or a lot to lose.

Which means that that they/I are not and never going to be jackasses and clowns in 490/4900/4.3.

Imagine if young people who have nothing to lose and no real stake or standing could afford cars like these.

And, all I need to do is remember that it was a compact low power car that came close to ending my life six years ago.

Imagine if he would have been driving the car I own now.

Reason For Being

Margraten, Netherlands

As you know, Margraten has become for me the new Jefferson Barracks. My new Memorial Day protocol. I was about to write “tradition,” but it sounds too cheery especially in light of the day. Memorial Day “tradition” comes off as the same kind of ignorant as saying that one “wins” a Congressional Medal of Honor. It’s not some carnival prize.

This was in the process of being built when I was there back in May, and now it’s open. Only now, I know what it is, that it’s now ready for viewing, and has a link back to the native state. Which means it will be my ultimate destination starting next May, serving as the substitute for the five final resting places at JB that I would be visiting if I was still in St. Louis.

Triangle Offense

Berlin

This is just for the record of posterity. This will make more sense to those of you who follow my social feeds; Everyone else can just skip and keep scrolling.

Now I see what’s really going on here.

It wasn’t obvious at first, because I only had two points to work with.

Like I have been saying, and I still believe, all this hot air yammering about “ban the AfD” is just that, and has zero chance of actually happening. I then have followed that up by saying that the real threat is agenda co-option, and a lot of that has been going on for a few months from various fronts.

But something happened today which has provided me with the third point. Which means a triangle, the most stable shape in geometry, and of course three points define a plane.

Now I see the whole plane.

What happened today was that Angela Merkel quit the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the CDU’s think tank. Every major German political party has one, and they all get public funding. Except for the AfD’s, the Desiderus Erasmus Foundation, which was supposed to get public funding when the AfD first entered the Bundestag in 2017. Except all the other parties have ganged up to keep on moving the goalposts to the point where the AfD still isn’t getting public money for the DES even though it’s now in the Bundestag for two elections in a row. But that’s a whole other story.

Just a few days ago, the CDU released its manifesto for the next election, which everyone and their brother can see is Ctrl+F Shift+INS of the AfD. One can easily figure the co-option in that.

So how does Angela Merkel qutting the KAS fit into this? Either she is genuinely not interested in it anymore, or this is part of a fan dance dog and pony show in which she is actively participating. Either way, the spin that’s going to come out of it is that the CDU is are leaving Merkelism behind.

There are your triangle points: (1) ZOMG BAN THE AFD LOL~!!!!11!1 hot air, (2) CDU and Union blatantly copying the AfD as part of agenda co-option, and (3) “Hey look, Merkel and the CDU just aren’t that into each other anymore, the CDU is ditching Merkelism and becoming right wing.”

See the plane? This is how it’s going down. The CDU is pretending to adopt the AfD agenda, and pretending to ditch Mutti herself or vice versa,, and helping to peddle the “ban” noise. It goes like this: “We in the CDU can give you the AfD’s agenda without the AfD’s ‘problems’ which are the basis of a ‘serious’ effort to ban it.”

The response from Team Blue is obvious: Continue pointing out how the CDU, even the “post-Merkel” CDU, is lying, by providing a side by side of its actions versus its newfound rhetoric.

Under the Vest

Palm Beach, Fla.; Washington, D.C.

Barefoot or archived.

Both myself and most of the rest of you have already read at least a dozen versions of this same story.

I’m just going to say this for now, all while leaving the best parts under the vest:

Trump could do everything he can to surround himself with “drones” and “sycophants” that he thinks agree with him 100% for Trump 2.0.

And doing that would solve most of the “personnel is policy” problems from Trump 1.0 that were a result of foolishly trusting people that never wanted any part of him. A really long list of names.

But…

Once he does that, and Trump 2.0 swings into action, he’ll wind up learning the hard way yet again a hard lesson about the psychology and the human nature of political people that he never had to learn in his younger years because he was always in the business world and not the political world:

Two words:

Herding cats.

Even a Trump 2.0 fully comprised of drones and sycophants would have a lot of cat herding.

We’ve all seen it over and over and over again — You get people who agree on everything into a real or virtual room, and it won’t take long for them to start fighting with each other.

That kind of thing would be even more pronounced in a Trump 2.0 that is 100% Trumpified. It’s because a lot of people who would be part of it would have an obvious incentive to jockey themselves to the top of the news and attention cycle. It’s because Trump 2.0 would be a lame duck, and then of course there would be the ever present possibility of him dying during the term. What it means is that a lot of people right under Trump’s nose will be fighting with each other over who’s got next.

It’s because everyone has an agenda. Including…

Like I said, under the vest.

What’s the Matter With Kansas (City)?

KCMO

Everybody is missing the important moral with all this.

It isn’t anything that anyone is talking about.

It’s that the current year left is even making a BFD and a holy crusade over a boy and his football game costume.

As if they don’t have any real problems, issues or concerns anymore.

Or, there’s what I’ve been saying for quite a few years.

The book that Thomas Frank should have written is What’s the Matter With Seattle?.

The current year left fires all four barrels at a boy because that’s one of the many distractions that TPTB wave in their face so that they don’t deal with income inequality.

Or, like I like to say, in spite of their rhetoric, today’s leftists would gladly and willingly sell themselves into slavery as long as their masters use the right pronouns. Or, here in this country, they’ll waltz right into gas chambers as long as their executioners use gender asterisks.

In the Hands of History, Now

Fürth, Bavarian Franconia; Washington, D. C.

Turns out he got a bonus six months.

We all know the dictionary definition of history. Yadda yadda, blah blah blah.

But, keep it a whole buck. The real definition of history is what living people using whatever motivation and agenda choose to recall about the past.

Plain words, it’s not about what actually happened, it’s about what people want to remember. Unless the given people doing the remembering have dispassion as their motive.

What history will remember of Heinz Alfred Kissinger will depend on who is doing the remembering.

If our cause ultimately wins, I predict that what our peoples’ historians of the relatively distant future will choose to recall is that he dangerously fucked up by picking China over Russia in 1972.

If the Chinese win the battle for everything, then their future historians will consider him to be the biggest useful idiot working in their favor that ever existed.

Off Label

Your Blogmeister’s German Desk

Thought for the year.

The good news is that those blue colored pills do what they need to do.

The bad news is that that’s all they do.

They don’t create desire, mood, energy or time, and they don’t assuage your concrete or abstract worries or your career work load and flow.

Found out the hard way.

Open thread.

When Irish Eyes Stop Smiling

Dublin

The straw that broke the camel’s back.

What is happening right now in Dublin is the first time since Boston and the deseg riots in the mid-1970s that some white people in the West have rioted on behalf of their genuine racial interests vis-a-vis something to do with non-whites.

Note the common denominator between Boston and Dublin.

The Significance Of Yesterday

The Hague

Yes, I was there, etc etc. In fact, I’m still here right now, getting ready to ride on out and back home.

No need to be verbose here.

The reason yesterday was significant was that, for the first time in our relatively current epoch, a pop-nat party finished in first place in a European country that is both north of the Alps and west of the former Iron Curtain, and not currently in a state of significant economic recession.

Which means that the official analysts can’t do what they usually can and do do, which is, write this off as “volatile Mediterraneans” or “economically destitute Eastern Europeans” or “reacting to a recession.”

This is all diversity, 10/7, and the farmers-truckers matter.

I also see that the world media are treating Geert Wilders finishing in first place as a shock and a surprise by itself. In reality, he and his party have been hanging around first place for the past several weeks in the polling, and actually in first place in some of them. No, what is the real surprise is the margin of his first place over the second place party, that there is quite a bit of daylight and distance between them.

I figured that there was a really good chance that first place could happen, from what we found out early yesterday, that Geert Wilders and his party won the nationwide straw vote of U-18 students.

1980 not 2016

Buenos Aires

Curb your enthusiasm.

He’s way more Reagan than Trump.

That just might be what Argentina needs right now. But it’s not why we do what we do in the current year.

The Talk

Your Blogmeister’s German Desk

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After seeing this, and seeing how good AI is getting, I now realize something else:

When they get older, I’m going to have to have The Talk with the two bosses.

I’m going to have to break it to them in easy small digestible chunks…

…That there was once this thing called “reality.” That I experienced it, their mother experienced it, their grandparents experienced it, and even their aunt and uncle experienced it, even if those two goofballs didn’t pay that close of attention to it even when it existed.

I already know they won’t believe me.

Instead, they’re going to go running to the better half and say, “Mutti, Pappi macht sich wieder einmal Illusionen über die Vergangenheit.” (“Mommy, daddy is being delusional about the past, yet again.”) Then she’ll respond with “Nicht verzweifeln. Ich werde dafür sorgen, dass sein Arzt die seiner Medikamentedosierung erhöht.” (“Don’t worry. I’ll see to it that his doctor increases the dosages of his meds.”)

Big Headache

Leverkusen; Olivette

Heads up back there in the native city.

Bayer bled out € 4.6 billion in 3Q23.

Talk is of lots of spinning off if not a consummate corporate breakup.

Which means Monsanto might soon be Monsanto once again.

Remember that I made the trans-Atlantic move right at the time Bayer consummated the Monsanto buyout. So I knew that some of you thought that that was in fact the reason for my move. I can assure you not, no chemical engineer am I.

It’s just that Bayer got all up in its corporate-jingoism feelz, and wound up buying an American lemon. Worse, to make the regulators happy, Bayer had to sell some prized assets and send them upstream to its long time hated rival, that being BASF in Ludwidgshafen, because they don’t make most of the things you buy, they make most of the things you buy better. BASF, doing better than ever financially these days.

Balanced Diet

Your Blogmeister’s German Desk

I’m so old that I remember when it was called “playing hooky.”

Now it’s called “work-life balance.”

OPENIVUS THREADIVUS.

Then and Later

Decoupled from everything we know and the entire back story on all levels.

Judging this just based on neutral dispassionate cut it down the middle mentality.

It’s just a late career project from an act whose hottest period is well in the past. One that everyone knew was probably neither sell nor chart that well, but be appreciated by the act’s loyal and remaining fans.

Meaning it’s not really that good of a song.

Responding to Der Bild’s Fifty Point Manifesto

Berlin

Along with German, they also did original versions in English, Russian, Turkish and Arabic. Meaning you don’t need GT or me for the English translation.

I’m not really impressed.

It’s almost entirely a normiecon egalitarian colorblind rant combined with proposition-values nation reductionism combined with polyannish self-delusion. Not once does it come that close to the really necessary, as they put it around here, “Volkisch” or “Blut und Boden” mentality. And until now, that sort of colorblind normiecon ideology was and in fact still is dying. But I predicted right here a few days ago that it would be astroturfed back to life.

Responding to some of the points.

2. For us, there are no infidels! Everyone can believe in whatever they want – even Santa Claus.

Believe that the Holocaust didn’t happen. I dare you.

3. Anyone who considers our constitution and our legal system as a collection of non-binding recommendations should leave Germany as soon as possible.

Well, then, Auf Wiedersehen, Angela und Olaf. Two people who during Covid considered the Basic Law to be an idle list of suggestions.

4. Anyone who wants to live here permanently must learn German. Only when we speak the same language will we understand each other.

They give the drivers’ license written test in many languages.

5. Everyone can demonstrate peacefully in Germany for their convictions. Free speech does not include threatening people, assaulting them, throwing rocks, burning cars, or celebrating murderers.

But burning cars is a job description for Antifa.

6. We don’t wear masks or veils; we look each other in the face (unless it’s Carnival or Corona).

Or Antifa.

8. Against the backdrop of the darkest chapter in our history, Israel’s security is a matter of German national interest! This means: Standing up for the security of the Jewish people is non-negotiable. Criticism of Israel’s politics is, of course, allowed.

So that’s why so many natural enemies of Jews have been imported since 2015.

9. We say please and thank you.

Except in Berlin.

10. We gladly shake hands as a greeting or farewell.

Except in Frankfurt.

11. We see the police as “friend and helper,” not as a repressive force or an enemy.

Antifa could not be reached for comment.

13. The state has a monopoly on violence. Apart from the state-appointed agencies, nobody has the right to use violence against people or things.

Again, Antifa.

14. We accept that our freely elected parliament sets the rules for our coexistence, which can be checked by independent courts.

Independent courts LOL.

15. Men are allowed to love men and women women. Whoever has a problem with that is the problem himself. Love and let love!
16. Even if someone feels neither male nor female, they are not persecuted or punished. In our country, citizens are allowed to think freely and live queer.

MRRHT (Muslims R Real Homophobes and Transphobes)

18. We respect the judiciary because it judges without prejudice.

Maybe in some theoretical alternate universe, somewhere.

19. Women wear bikinis or bathing suits in the swimming pool. And if someone wants to swim naked in the Baltic Sea – that’s okay too!

All the easier for when certain kinds of young men suddenly experience a sexual emergency.

20. Women and men are equal in every respect.

Biology disagrees.

21. Equality also in payment for work (we still have to catch up there)!

Uh, no you don’t.

22. We discuss controversially and passionately, but we don’t insult those with different opinions.

Unless they’re AfD or further right.

24. And we have no tolerance for intolerance!

You do realize you just obviated your whole manifesto?

25. We only use fireworks on New Year’s Eve, so when it’s allowed.

And some of “us” even aim them at cops.

26. We don’t burn flags of countries we dislike. That’s a crime!

But we do stomp on and throw aside German flags, because Angela Merkel dislikes Germany.

27. We respect every religion, but we clearly separate religion from state.

But not much the other way around.

28. Women who have affairs are not ostracized, let alone beaten or stoned! In the event of a divorce, joint custody applies to the children. It doesn’t matter who caused the marriage to fail.

Germany’s family court system in this regard is roughly every bit as crazy and anti-man/father/husband as America’s.

30. Those seeking protection from political persecution or war in Germany will find it.

Julian Assange never believed that, thankfully.

31. And men can’t have more than one wife.

“After all, this isn’t France.”

34. Knives belong in our kitchens, not in our pockets.

Correct, I recommend something a little more potent.

38. There is compulsory schooling in Germany. We believe in the importance of education and learning.

And look at what this country’s official school system has delivered. How’s that workin’ out for ya?

39. We give up our seats in buses and trains for the elderly and disabled.

And them throw them onto the railroad tracks at train stations where they might even get hit and killed by oncoming trains.

42. Those who cannot tolerate the caricature of politicians, celebrities, gods, or prophets are not in the right place in Germany.

Which means a good percentage of German politicians are not in the right place in Germany.

43. The media question politicians, but we generally trust that the elected officials decide truthfully and for the people’s welfare.

Speak for yourself.

45. Respect and appreciation are just as natural in social networks as they are in supermarkets or offices.

That’s not saying much.

46. We try to protect the environment and conserve resources. Sustainability is the future.

So are sky high energy prices.

47. Germany has a heart for children. They are not beaten but promoted.

The few German children that there actually are.

50. We love life, not death.

Strange coming from a country that has become depressingly death obsessed and death cultist in the last handful of years.

Squad vs Squad

Clayton

Now this is interesting.

I have inferred through reading between the lines of certain gossip that Team Blue in the United States has really wanted to dump The Squad since and because of 10/7.

But I wrote in this very medium through 2018 that since Squaddies and establishment Dems are pretty much alike, so it would seem, that there were actually issues and schisms brewing beneath the surface and not obvious to the naked eye, that was causing the Squad Insurgency that started that year. And that the two biggest of those issues were Israel and military spending.

When the Squaddies starting winning primaries and then elections and taking office, that was while Trump was still President. There were some minor outbreaks and skirmishes on Israel and Jewish issues between Squaddies and establishment Dems during that time, but they mostly kept it mum and muted while the imperative was to stay united against Trump.

But now, no more Trump, for now, and 10/7 happens. All hell has broken loose.

August 7, 2018 was the last election day in St. Louis and Missouri that was there to see. That was in that weird six week intermission between returning from the great voyage and then going back for what by then was the job offer I accepted.

On that day, both on the same day, a previous nobody named “Cori Bush” came closer than anyone ever had to toppling either father or son Clay. Of course, two years later, she would punch it all the way through. But back to that day, another unknown named “Wesley Bell” shocked the world by toppling Bob McCulloch, mainly because the latter rested on his laurels. Bell’s upset out of nowhere win that day was thought of as Ferguson revenge.

Fast forward to now. Like I said, Democrats suddenly want Squad gone. With the exception of AOC, who has “evolved” into a system shill anyway. And Cori Bush is Squad.

Turns out that Wesley Bell is going to be the challenger, the way the empire strikes back.

I read this, and think to myself: Isn’t he Squad, too?

The other possibility is that he too has “evolved” in the last few years.

Otherwise, a Bell vs Bush primary would be Squad vs Squad.

I Hope They Have Enough Plutonium For This Trip

Washington, D.C.

The past 19 days have shown the Parentheticals that they’re in a real bind, a Catch-22, stuck between a rock and a hard place, in terms of domestic politics in America and the Occident.

I have a prediction about the near future.

Parenthetical political energy is going to do a quick pivot. It’s going to try to rebuild and reinvigorate the colorblind secular center-right political space. A sector that was dying because it itself was caught between the rock of Woketardness and the hard place of the Alt Right, because it was increasingly bereft of a constituency.

To put it another way, the Parentheticals are going to try to astroturf a Reagan without the Religious Right and without philo-Semitism political space back into viability. In order to “triangulate” between our sector on one side and the Woketards on the other, who the Parentheticals have suddenly realized are beyond the pale. All so that Parentheticals can have a safe space for their own selves.

If they try, I have my doubts to whether it will succeed. After all, as the old saying goes, you can’t go back to the future again.

Here We Go Again, and Again

Lewiston, Maine

Our sector recognizes that as a big immigration town, especially Eastern Africans.

So it’s probably going to be one of two things:

(1) An Eastern African.

Or:

(2) One of our people, who is a lone wolf accelerationist, and upset over the mass immigration.

Trust Is Hard to Earn, Easy to Lose, and Very Hard to Regain

Soulard

Most of the chatter about the Bud Light/UFC deal is involving throwing shade at the UFC.

But, being a native St. Louisan, and one who has had five relatives within the second cousin family tree work at A-B, my first instinct was to look at this through A-B’s angle.

I think they’re starting in on what will be an excruciatingly long road to regain trust and rebuild the Bud Light brand reputation. If that’s possible at all.

All because certain people thought that their niche sector of social media was representative of the whole world.

That last sentence is an inward admonition as much as it is an outward one.

How Stuff Works

Europe

Various cities, regions and whole countries place prohibitions on pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian street protests and rallies. Yet, they happen anyway, and have big turnouts.

It’s because the legal prohibition against them that is pronounced ahead of time is empty rhetoric meant to comfort the masses, and the authorities know it. They also know that their own cops are politically scared of the kinds of people that showing up to these things, and that the cops’ politician bosses pander to these people for votes.

That, and these people have a much greater will to power. Even if they didn’t already know that the bans were empty rhetoric and unenforceable.

Remember, back on New Years Eve, the cops in Berlin basically stood around and let more or less these same tribes of people throw fireworks and firecrackers at them, and even take pot shots at them. Meanwhile, fast forward to today same city, the cops had to defend themselves against accusations that they fired water cannons, and they provided proof that they did not. Even though these same cops in this same city did fire water cannons at Covid lockdown protesters, attending protests that were not legally prohibited.

A Voiceless for the Voice

Canberra, Australia

“The Voice” in Australia is going to lose, by around a 3:2 margin country wide.

It has been defeated by an even bigger margin than the 1999 “Republic” referendum was, 55-45.

“The Voice” was always and ever nothing more than white liberals and mostly white “Aboriginals” grifting and rent seeking using the plight of real Aboriginals as the excuse.

I predict that when the granular geography and demographic data are examined, that it only carried high SES white areas, university and college areas, and Aboriginal areas. I also predict that non-whites other than Aboriginals will have rejected it.

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There’s another, hiding in plain sight, spike the football lesson in this, that matters to your ever-lovin’ Blogmeister.

Mainstream social media heavily put its fingers on the scale for the Yes side of the referendum.

Yet, it lost anyway.

Boys and girls, what is the proper conclusion?

I’ve only been saying it for more than a decade now:

Mainstream social media don’t matter that much when it comes to swinging the outcomes of elections.

My classic essay from November 4, 2021, to lay it all out for you if you’re new ’round these parts.

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Guest post by Puggg

Win Either Way

Gaza

So the world has a new Current Thing.

“How could the Mossad have not seen this coming?”

The more I see, understand and examine in a thorough sense, the more I conclude that national intel operations, even the best ones, aren’t as competent and capable as a lot of people, including the agencies’ own propagandists, think or would like people to think. Overrated with a capital O. It’s just that they’re in an enviable position to where both their successes and failures are used as imperative to increase their budgets.

Naturally, here in this part of the world, the vibrants, in combination with sympathetic native left wingers, are in a celebratory mood, and by “celebratory,” I mean “riotous.” Overnight in Berlin, attacks on cops, a very heavy and large stone thrown off an overpass and onto a cop car. Because of what’s driving this, this is going to have staying power.

And perhaps some chain reaction effects on domestic politics in countries we care about. That of course is the real big thing on my plate this afternoon and tonight.