The contrast between Roland Fryer and Claudine Gay is a case study of class warfare. He grew up in the hood with no parents and worked fast food jobs to put himself through state school, then became a rock star economist at Harvard. She had rich parents who sent her to Exeter, rose through the DIE commissar ranks with plagiarism, then suspended him from Harvard after his research found no correlation between police violence and race. Hope Colbert gets more boosters after his all time cringe segment shilling for the Vax-Sceeene.
Fani Willis’ father is a Harvard educated attorney. Yet she claims that she always keeps large amounts of cash in her home and pays her friends in cash because daddy told her that’s how black people do. It has nothing to do with scrupulously avoiding a paper trail, mind you. You would think she spent her life on the run from the klan, and yet she’s just another entitled brat spawned by the bourgeoisie. Oh the humanity.
I particularly liked the part about, "I always keep a large sum of money at home, not right now, but I am building it back up".
Do you think she was more afraid that the court would demand to see her secret nest-egg or that her own people would show up at her door to relieve her of it?
“I do it, I think it’s a good practice, I think everyone should do it”. The statement of someone so enamored of the smell of their own farts that they can’t tell when their shit stinks.
Isn't that the same excuse Memendez used for the cash and gold bars? Sidebar to the Menendez story is that they had the goods on him for 18 months and waited until he opposed the Iran deal before indicting him again.
I have extended family, as well as some friends, who spent the Cold War in the DDR. You know, Stasi and all. As a result, much of my family - even those with no first-hand experience living behind the Iron Curtain - deeply distrusts government and banks and so keeps cash, won't use credit cards, for the very reason that it precludes a paper trail. None of us is wealthy (not even close) nor has gotten that money from illicit sources, but we consider it none of the government's/banks' business what we buy. The younger members of the family, more removed from hearing about the reality of life under communism, do dabble in electronic payment methods.
There are good, solid, reasons to prefer cash over plastic, and not all of them are nefarious. That said, I'm inclined to agree with you in Fani Willis' case.
I should have known better but I clicked on that Colbert link. Camera right in his face as he rants about how obscene it is that everyone is sure Trump is guilty but we have to go through the formality of convicting him first before he can be executed.
I used to hope for them to come to their senses. Now I hope to live to read that “when the revolution came, the people everyone said should be the first with their backs to the wall, were indeed the first with their backs to the wall. And there was much rejoicing.”
All this talk about "white supremacy/nationalism" is cover for when white, middle class Americans finally react to the outrages they've endured. They are deliberately trying to provoke a violent reaction in order to remove the velvet glove from their iron hand.
It sickens me to see how far we've fallen after we "won" the cold War.
They should be scared, we vastly outnumber them and are extremely well armed. Seriously, when it all comes apart for them, and it most definitely will, they will be begging for quarter and will receive none. And by none I mean their entire bloodline will be extinguished.
"'F**k Around & Find Out': Truckers Warn Loads To NYC Will Be Rejected Starting Monday"
This seems to be in response to the obviously political fine handed down to DJT this week, as truckers are generally Trump supporters. Plus driving a tractor trailer in NYC has to be a massive headache to begin with. Not a job I'd do.
It'll be interesting to see if this has legs, if it makes a difference. If nothing else, it could serve as a warning to TPTB.
The lack of accountability is what brought it to this point. We stopped rewarding success and punishing failure in our leaders. We let idiots stay in office because they were useful idiots. We let DEI take over the military. We stopped acting as a serious country that has many rivals and enemies throughout the world.
You can only live in the bubble for so long. Reality … finds a way … 🦖
Obama and Brennan and others should be on trial for their subversion of the 2016 election. Then we can examine the roles of Biden, Garland, Jack Smith, Feni Willis, Alvin Bragg, E.Jean Carroll, Leticia James and Arthur Engoron in the 2024 version.
That piece is not really just about Germany. All of the western “ruling class” are following the exact same playbook. Americans reading it and thinking that’s not happening in the good ole USA would be catastrophically wrong.
Watch Tucker Carson’s interview with Mike Benz to hear an insider describe how the same things being done in Germany are being done here. It may actually be worse here. Perhaps Germany is copying the USA.
In the Carlson interview, Mike Benz claims Germany (and nearly all of our European allies) was coached and taught by the sprawling DOD western censorship project to censor and program the populace starting in the 1990s. What our military dictatorship taught our western allies began to be applied here in 2019 and gained warp speed in Covid and for the 2020 election.
And yes, the class Chris Bray describes are fully on board and like a cancer entangled within every aspect of this project, including all of our intelligence agencies, FBI, DOJ, State Department, mainstream media, social media, Big Tech, Big Pharma, FinTech and U.S. colleges and universities. This is literally a fight to regain our freedom. It has already been lost.
Read that piece by Eugyppius. Go to sleep. Read it again when you wake up. Repeat. Read it until every last shred of meaning and understanding has been gleaned from it. Then realize that although this piece is Germany-specific, the same kind of thing is happening all over the world right now - tailored to each different jurisdiction.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here Chris - call it what you will, there's a new priestly class who are the possessors of The One True Way™. The rest of us? We're just the altar boys hoping it isn't our turn this week.
Very incisive sir. I work “high” in pharma but what is really high are not the salaries, it is the open political alignment that managers spout I guess in hopes of being recognized as upper class. There are cracks in the facade though. The fake pandemic is known to be fake, especially by people with half a brain in pharma. The soul selling has sickened many with self loathing. And for those it hasn’t, we’ll they are openly despised clowns. Or they are over 70.
The incentives in the pharma business are just so counterproductive. Everything is about getting new drugs approved and thus under patent, or finding a slight tweak in the formulation that will allow an extension of the existing approval.
The people in R&D and Quality that I’ve worked with have always been highly professional and dedicated. But the higher up the organization goes, the more you get into the jungle of the patent cycles and always needing to be setting up the next big kill, lest you be devoured yourself.
Spot on. I live in Chevy Chase, am a law partner married to a surgeon, and have a sizable net worth. Yet I am conservative, own guns, and evince my working class roots—so am a total outsider to the true insiders described here. Well they can have it…I will take my great family and our country place with a smile on my face, while these miserable pricks can have their Atlantic, MSNBC, and organic plant-based cocoons for themselves.
This is an interesting assessment of our current political class. I have witnessed this kind of polarization in real life living in affluent mountains of the west for 35 years. In mountain towns, you have the athletes, the service workers, real estate agents, etc. that typically are hanging on because they love the geography of the town, or the wealthy people living in multi-million dollar mansions. The only thing the wealthy like more than money and prestige is complaining about how long it took them to get a glass of Pinot Grigio at the local wine bar. The wealthy contribute very little to these communities except paying taxes, but expect to be worshipped. Years ago, a friend that was a waitress was conversing with some wealthy visitors to the area, and the guest inquired about what it was like living in the mountain town. My friend said it was great, but housing was very expensive, which the visitor replied, "that's good, it keeps the riff-raff out." My friend replied, "I am the riff-raff."
It stands to reason that this has trickled down (up?) to politics.
Silicon Valley ran into the problem that all of the service workers they need to clean, cook, and maintain property for all the rich tech bros couldn't afford to live anywhere near SV.
Naturally, there was strong resistance to building affordable housing for service workers and their families. You know, because then they might send their kids to school with rich kids.
This is undoubtedly a problem. Except I've never seen the elites show any signs of concern. They either spend their way around the problem, or move on to a new community to start the process all over again. No matter how hard the minions work, or how successful they become within their own strata, the elites always look down on them for not being as smart or rich as the upper echelon. Making concessions for lowly service workers is simply not part of their DNA. But, they will post up a "Love is Love" sign in their yards to show their virtue.
Your description of the Über-class’s disdain for Trump because he’s a landlord (but also the contempt it feels for the productive generally) reminds me of the scene in “Casablanca” where Captain Renault closes Rick’s because he’s “just discovered” gambling in the back, only to be given his winnings seconds later.
The Über-class (which contains no first generation business builders) exists on (a) dividend flows and capital gains from businesses they despise that were built by their forebears, or (b) “performatively radical adjunct professors with a $32,000 salaries in Fresno” who are funded indirectly thru “foundations.”
Hubris magnifico. That article by Codevilla is great- America New Ruling Class- if I remember right. There are 2 types of intellectuals, those who deal with things with consequences, engineers, doctors, etc., and those who just talk. Heinlein had the idea of only military veterans being allowed to run for office. The Russian tsars made all princes in line for the throne to spend a year living alone on a wilderness island. Could we do that?
Starship Trooper is brilliant. When Rico meets with a recruiter and asks about the K9 service. He chastises (appropriately IMHO) him for not letting his dog inside and sleep on his bed. "You kept your dog outside in the rain BECAUSE YOUR MOM TOLD YOU?@?@?@ YOU ARE NOT FIT FOR THE K9 CORPS!"
100%. I could not even get through the movie. It was SOOO BAD. Such a crime to Heinlein's legacy. That kind of lazy art should have criminal consequences...😉
The movie is a parody of militaristic perpetual warfare states. All the bad propaganda playing in the background. The big celebration at the end “they! Are! Afraid!!! “. The whole thing is satire.
Thanks Scott, I'll check it out again. I could have been in one of my 'high-brow, I'm an educated man, I read the book mode' and completely missed the satire...because I was too busy patting myself on my back for being so smart and discerning...there are times I want to go back in time and kick my own ass.
This smugness, this class warfare is ubiquitous. It is everywhere, all the time.
A few years ago I was selected for a leadership program. Apparently it is supposed to be nation wide, but I think there are only 8-10 chapters--my community is one of them. Kinda a big deal...kinda...gotta be nominated. 24 each year out of 350ish nominations. All the local big-shots are alumni, especially the local politicians, non-profit leaders, or govt employees.
Our (wife and I) strategic goal is to build a no-kill sanctuary in our community. We have an event to raise money for this. Getting tied in with this community is/was a smart strategic move for me. There is actually a by-law that alumni have 48 hours to return any combo from another--basically they are required to help each other.
Long intro, sorry. In my class of 24 there were 14 women, a broad mix of ethnicities. Of the remaining 10 men, three were white. One of them is gay...of course. I was one of two people who didn't work for the government or a non-profit. I was the only entrepreneur...and the only Veteran even though JBLM has over $1 billion in payroll for us...and about 60K people who work on base each day.
The very first day I heard mentioned by some of the alumni who came to speak to us about the year long program, as well as the executive director, at least 4-5 times..."...white male patriarchy...." laced with utter disdain.
Uh, isn't your boyfriend a white male?
Uh, have you looked at the demographics of our own class?
Don't let facts get in the way of ideology.
The class distinction that Chris so ably describes might be described as those who hold 'luxury beliefs' and those who know from experience.
Competence is dismissed, even frowned upon.
I'm beginning to believe so much of this warfare is rooted in a sublimated and then projected self-hatred the "new elite" feel about themselves but turn on the producers.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote back in 2009 about the 'Depression Among Us'. He used a phrase I love and have tried to use as often as possible.
VDH was commenting about how we could never build the Golden Gate Bridge or the Interstate Highway system these days. Too many of the 'new elite' mucking things up.
He said that what we all long for, deep in our hearts, is the 'unapologetic doer'. Hear, Hear!
100%! I first heard of him in 2008 at a conference with the Utah Army National Guard. Those folks are a class act. Their 2-star (every state as a 2 star, called The Adjutant General or 'TAG') led this OPD (Officer Professional Development) for about 50 field grade officers.
This General was legit. (My experience in the ARNG is GOs are often a photographic negative of legit...)
It was a leadership discussion, and this General quoted VDH. They knew each other. I was so impressed with this General, especially in comparison to ours (Until 2015...not one of the Generals in my state's Guard had deployed...slick sleeves, no combat deployments....in fact, this is the height of buffoonery, our current TAG made a comment that it is more dangerous to be on a rooftop than combat. Statistically I'm sure he's right...but HOW WOULD YOU KNOW SIR?!?!?! YOU NEVER FBOMB DEPLOYED!!!)
Anyway, I looked him up immediately, and have been a fairly regular reader of his content since then. He's brilliant. He's the example of why a Classics Education or Humanities Education (Jordan Peterson also makes this argument very well) is so important for Western Civ.
Ahh, I just tried to find the article....will take longer. But I LOVE the 'unapologetic doer'. Love it, love it, love it.
I had the unfortunate extra responsibility of helping coordinate our company's United Way partnership. We had a main coordinator whose responsibility it was, but she didn't actually want to do any of the work, naturally, because she was just so busy coordinating with the national office. (As far as I could tell, this bitch didn't do anything resembling work at any point in the three years I worked with her)
I had to go around reminding all the teams on the ten floors of our office building that our United Way campaign was ongoing and our organizational goal was 100% participation. I was one of the office support guys, by the way. Absolutely bottom of the totem pole.
So a month goes by and the campaign is wrapping up, and this lady asks me to come to her office. She gave me her best "Mother is very disappointed" look and voice and asked why we were at 98% participation but my name wasn't on the list of donors. I was honest with her and told her that unlike most of the accountants and consultants who worked there, I wasn't making very much money and didn't believe in donating to United Way due to so much of their funds going to marketing and a very swanky office space.
She couldn't process the concept that I didn't want to donate, even though I wasn't really in a position to. All that mattered was the 100% participation, because she really wanted to be able to say she had achieved that...even though I was the one tasked with haranguing the employees to donate.
I can't help but think her useless, but influential within the organization, ass was very likely responsible for me not ever being able to get promoted there. I didn't play the role of obedient and fearful peasant.
I’m using Siri, so please forgive any typos, or spelling mistakes.
Your post makes me wanna grind my teeth into powder.
I know the CEO of the United Way where I live. She makes at least $250 K, and that was pre-Covid, in a city with less than 300,000 people. Basically, she was/is in the one percent.
I was reprimanded by our JAG a$$hat for Sending an email on the military system about the first Ted X show in our community.
I happened to be one of the speakers, but I honestly thought many many people would be interested in attending. I’ve rarely watched a TED talk that I found boring.
Anyways, this hall monitor attorney said I broke Army ethics.
It appears this guy and your United Way leader are cut from the same cloth.
They only care about metrics that reflect on them directly.
Soulless bastards… and yet they are so confident of their own righteousness. 2000+ years ago we would have called them, the Pharisees…
They can almost all be characterized by the importance they place on unimportant bullshit.
Donate to United Way because we want our 100% badge!
Okay, but what will these donations be used for? More sweet office space and upper-middle-class salaries for white girls who don't know how to work? Why does this 100% badge matter?
It matters a lot to the United Way coordinator, and hell hath no fury like a white liberal woman being told that her selfish pet cause has no relevance or importance to you.
Mike Benz: "From [Western governments'] perspective, if the military did not begin to censor the internet, all of the democratic institutions and infrastructure that gave rise to the modern world after World War II would collapse. So you could imagine their reaction when, five months later, Donald Trump won the 2016 election."
Yes, this is perfectly apt. Excellent and key to understanding our conundrum. The battle lines are drawn between the criticism class, who are all sneaky wimps, and the practitioner class. The contemptuous and contemptible who make up the criticism class can’t remove a brain tumor , make a payroll, or
create anything of lasting value. They are parasitic in multiple dimensions. Which is in great part why they loathe people who actually do something. These are not strictly intellectuals, because once in a blue moon an intellectual develops a useful concept. These are the people who hang around to see if they can make money and gain influence from somebody else’s hard work and talent. A statesman like Churchill was a renaissance man - a gifted orator, writer, artist, who liked to fight like a man and get his hands dirty. Most importantly he could connect to the people. JFK was an addict, but he wasn’t a pussy. We now have sneaky degenerates like Obama and the Bidens, who make the scheming royal families of old Europe look like virtue personified. We have phony effete commies and used car salesmen without respect for anybody.
And the crap we produce here gets aped around the rest of the West. It’s a sleazy feedback loop of ever magnifying dreck. Which is why they fear and hate Trump, Netanyahu, Orban, Millei. For all their limitations, these are recognizable as men. And men are 😱.Can you say that for the leaders of our country? Georgia Meloni has bigger balls than any of the other leaders in Western Europe.
My one thought this morning about the line between the criticism class and the practitioner class is that doctors seem to be transferring their allegiance to the new class, as we saw during the pandemic with the lockstep praise of the "vaccines." My guess is that the ACA, transforming a bunch of doctors from small business owners to employees, helped to do some of that, but I couldn't prove that. I avoid doctors more than not, lately, but my experiences over the last decade have been a lot of "I don't know what's causing that, but here's a prescription." It seems like the profession, naturally a highly practice-focused and hands-on, high-responsibility way of life, is changing. Or, rather, being changed.
This is a longer conversation perhaps than can be had here, but the doctors have been subjugated by the corporatists, and the medical regulatory apparatus has been captured in much the same fashion as the rest of the government. In this case the co-conspirators have done their best to create a cookbook environment where physicians follow the book. If you have a problem with that, then you end up with all sorts of obstacles to practice at the level of the hospitals and insurers. But if you follow the cookbook and a patient has a complication, then you’re still on the hook for it. I opted out of that system because I just couldn’t take the managerial c-suite suits and the insurance hoops and the disrespect. We’re not doctors. We’re “providers”. We work with a team, but half the team has their finger up their nose and they fiend their time on TikTok. No thank you.
Perhaps ironically, I can provide better care to my self pay patients than I could to my insurance patients. Everything is up front. They know the cost. They get good service. They get in right away if they have a concern. They talk to a human in the phone when they call. If I need to see them on a weekend, I come in and see them at the office. Try getting in to see your family doctor if you’re sick but not dying. Doesn’t do you much good if the appointment is 3 weeks out.
But as you’ve probably intuited, there’s something else going on here and that’s what you mentioned above. Doctors are generally extreme conformists. They don’t like to be the outlier, the independent thinker, and that’s how they are trained. Thus DEI crap is unfortunately something a lot of them will soak right up. Same thing with the Covid situation. See no evil , hear no evil, speak no evil. It varies somewhat by specialty as well. Those of us who are surgeons see the world differently from the “cognitive” specialists in internal medicine disciplines. The regulatory burden has gotten so great that a lot of practices just give up and sell out and the docs become employees. That doesn’t translate into great care. People perform better when they have a sense of ownership. It’s been a very shameful and sad thing to see the deterioration of the profession over the last 40+ years.
"Democracy" is whatever the insider elite say it is, and they will do whatever it takes to keep control. Turn the subterfuge strategies perfected after WWII by the military, intelligence agencies, NATO and sundry pick of acronym groups used internationally onto domestic "extremists" populations, who refuse to be compliant and blind, and you can wield all the powers of the state. and their "entitled to power" partners to squash the troublemakers like roaches. Use any means necessary as the ends justify the means, ethics invented as needed, including declaring pandemics at a moment's notice and the suspension of constitutional right, countermeasure poison jabs, censorship, election rigging, etc.
All the liberals I know are in a fever state about Trump. They are not just blind, but openly supportive of an authoritarian response to him, not even flinching if I mention the likes of what is going on in Germany.
I know a lot of dissidents who disparage the vote. I keep telling them, the 2020 election changed everything, If Dems control DC after 2024, it will become increasingly illegal to not be a Democrat, which means we dissidents will be silenced or worse.
I've given up on my liberal buddies. Best I can do at this point is to text them shit about RFK in hopes that gets Trump elected. it's been moderately successful.
Mine are impervious. My ex used to get a kind of zombie look in her eye before she would berate me like an automaton for half an hour. A similar thing happens with liberals any time the name Trump comes up.
Thanks. It worked out for the best. I woke up and did not marry her.
Agreed too, on that phenomenon. It makes me concerned about how much authoritarianism they are going to excuse. I'm starting to feel like my liberal friends would get that look in their eye as i am dragged away.
It's not a question of them excusing it; that would assume/presume they share your values and principles on some basic level.
What the blank-eyed kind of people you and Ryan talk about do under a real and openly totalitarian system is, they demand /more/ totalitarian control.
They do this for a couple reasons, that may seem weird to you or me:
Totalitarians always promise to allay your fears, right? So people flock to them to be made "safe". But virtually all humans feel ill at ease on an instinctual level when someone seems to "own" them, so that fear that was promised would go away is still there.
And as it is the system they support that cauaes the fear, yet to the believers promises to remove the fear, they just deepen their support of the system.
(Parallels to some religions or abused spouse-syndrome may be apropos but it's parallel, not the same thing.)
As people like you or Ryan or or me over here challenge their emotion-based (fear) belief, causing uneas since their intellectul mind actually recognises facts, they experience cognitive dissonance and the corresponding emotional frustration, and since the problem cannot be solved internally except by accepting the conflict in the first place, they instead lash out.
Remember, there were germans in 1945 who for real thought they were winning the war. Not many, but they existed. That is how far this conflict between emotional identification vs. intellectual realisation can take an otherwise perfectly normal human.
Or closer in time: in 1988, hundreds and thousands of communist-sympathising academics all over the West wrote congratulatory letters to Erich Honecker, wishing him good luck and another 50 years of succesful state socialism.
Despite all the data they could have accessed would have shown them what was about to happen.
They would look sad, but they wouldn't speak up if they felt there was even a hint of repercussions for doing so.
Then they'd rationalize it by internalizing the belief that you got dragged away because you're a bad person. After all, the government wouldn't just arrest people for their political opinions!
I read eugyppius's article earlier and was horrified. This is exactly how our leaders here in North America speak. It's indeed a quiet totalitarian coup.
The contrast between Roland Fryer and Claudine Gay is a case study of class warfare. He grew up in the hood with no parents and worked fast food jobs to put himself through state school, then became a rock star economist at Harvard. She had rich parents who sent her to Exeter, rose through the DIE commissar ranks with plagiarism, then suspended him from Harvard after his research found no correlation between police violence and race. Hope Colbert gets more boosters after his all time cringe segment shilling for the Vax-Sceeene.
A great example.
Fani Willis’ father is a Harvard educated attorney. Yet she claims that she always keeps large amounts of cash in her home and pays her friends in cash because daddy told her that’s how black people do. It has nothing to do with scrupulously avoiding a paper trail, mind you. You would think she spent her life on the run from the klan, and yet she’s just another entitled brat spawned by the bourgeoisie. Oh the humanity.
I particularly liked the part about, "I always keep a large sum of money at home, not right now, but I am building it back up".
Do you think she was more afraid that the court would demand to see her secret nest-egg or that her own people would show up at her door to relieve her of it?
“I do it, I think it’s a good practice, I think everyone should do it”. The statement of someone so enamored of the smell of their own farts that they can’t tell when their shit stinks.
Isn't that the same excuse Memendez used for the cash and gold bars? Sidebar to the Menendez story is that they had the goods on him for 18 months and waited until he opposed the Iran deal before indicting him again.
Maybe she just hasn’t had any recent campaign fundraisers in order to “stuff her boot” with.
If she isn’t investigated for campaign fund misuse (which she admitted to under oath!), it’s another example of a two tiered “justice” system.
She’s just playing the race card, of course. Such a load of crap.
I write in defense of cash. Cold, hard, cash.
I have extended family, as well as some friends, who spent the Cold War in the DDR. You know, Stasi and all. As a result, much of my family - even those with no first-hand experience living behind the Iron Curtain - deeply distrusts government and banks and so keeps cash, won't use credit cards, for the very reason that it precludes a paper trail. None of us is wealthy (not even close) nor has gotten that money from illicit sources, but we consider it none of the government's/banks' business what we buy. The younger members of the family, more removed from hearing about the reality of life under communism, do dabble in electronic payment methods.
There are good, solid, reasons to prefer cash over plastic, and not all of them are nefarious. That said, I'm inclined to agree with you in Fani Willis' case.
Fani and her lover boy just dug their own graves. What a clown show. I hope she ends up disbarred and sued in civil court, as she so richly deserves.
I should have known better but I clicked on that Colbert link. Camera right in his face as he rants about how obscene it is that everyone is sure Trump is guilty but we have to go through the formality of convicting him first before he can be executed.
I used to hope for them to come to their senses. Now I hope to live to read that “when the revolution came, the people everyone said should be the first with their backs to the wall, were indeed the first with their backs to the wall. And there was much rejoicing.”
Isn't that repulsive? My theory is that it would still be disturbing if you turned down the sound and didn't know what he was ranting about.
THEY. ARE. SCARED.
Because WE. ARE. ANGRY.
Unfortunately there may come a point when we have to take them up on their provocations.
We shall see....uggh.
All this talk about "white supremacy/nationalism" is cover for when white, middle class Americans finally react to the outrages they've endured. They are deliberately trying to provoke a violent reaction in order to remove the velvet glove from their iron hand.
It sickens me to see how far we've fallen after we "won" the cold War.
That’s the absolute truth that most don’t seem willing to see.
They're relying on straight white males to be their iron hand...all while doing their best to disparage straight white males.
Bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out.
No, we're not. We're sitting on our couch watching the circus waiting for our next box of free stuff.
Enjoy your pasture, but many people are working to provide for their families and their futures.
They should be scared, we vastly outnumber them and are extremely well armed. Seriously, when it all comes apart for them, and it most definitely will, they will be begging for quarter and will receive none. And by none I mean their entire bloodline will be extinguished.
Let's massacre them with mockery first...cuz we always have the fallback plan to exercise if it gets to that point.
But boy are they just begging for it.
Witching hour is gettin' uncomfortably close though.
You don’t need to waste bullets. Just stop fixing stuff for rich people.
This headline from Zerohedge:
"'F**k Around & Find Out': Truckers Warn Loads To NYC Will Be Rejected Starting Monday"
This seems to be in response to the obviously political fine handed down to DJT this week, as truckers are generally Trump supporters. Plus driving a tractor trailer in NYC has to be a massive headache to begin with. Not a job I'd do.
It'll be interesting to see if this has legs, if it makes a difference. If nothing else, it could serve as a warning to TPTB.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fk-around-find-out-truckers-warn-loads-nyc-will-be-rejected-starting-monday
True
Could you imagine a complete boycott of trucking in nyc? That would be about a week before the cont hochul screamed uncle.
It would literally be an apocalypse for the limousine liberals
Why should they be scared. No one is ever held accountable.
The lack of accountability is what brought it to this point. We stopped rewarding success and punishing failure in our leaders. We let idiots stay in office because they were useful idiots. We let DEI take over the military. We stopped acting as a serious country that has many rivals and enemies throughout the world.
You can only live in the bubble for so long. Reality … finds a way … 🦖
That is why they are scared.
Games up. That's why they're acting hysterical...we're getting to them.
But I understand your point...very frustrating.
Obama and Brennan and others should be on trial for their subversion of the 2016 election. Then we can examine the roles of Biden, Garland, Jack Smith, Feni Willis, Alvin Bragg, E.Jean Carroll, Leticia James and Arthur Engoron in the 2024 version.
The list is long. Hope there isn't rope shortages
Yes, that is absolutely criminal what she did to him.
I just read his story. Wow.
That piece is not really just about Germany. All of the western “ruling class” are following the exact same playbook. Americans reading it and thinking that’s not happening in the good ole USA would be catastrophically wrong.
Watch Tucker Carson’s interview with Mike Benz to hear an insider describe how the same things being done in Germany are being done here. It may actually be worse here. Perhaps Germany is copying the USA.
Saw it. Wow.
In the Carlson interview, Mike Benz claims Germany (and nearly all of our European allies) was coached and taught by the sprawling DOD western censorship project to censor and program the populace starting in the 1990s. What our military dictatorship taught our western allies began to be applied here in 2019 and gained warp speed in Covid and for the 2020 election.
And yes, the class Chris Bray describes are fully on board and like a cancer entangled within every aspect of this project, including all of our intelligence agencies, FBI, DOJ, State Department, mainstream media, social media, Big Tech, Big Pharma, FinTech and U.S. colleges and universities. This is literally a fight to regain our freedom. It has already been lost.
Perhaps they're copying history?
I don't understand how this long interview about tech companies' pervasive censorship is up on *youtube*. It's completely self-contradictory.
Yep. Operating in lockstep.
You mean goose step, right?
Yes
Read that piece by Eugyppius. Go to sleep. Read it again when you wake up. Repeat. Read it until every last shred of meaning and understanding has been gleaned from it. Then realize that although this piece is Germany-specific, the same kind of thing is happening all over the world right now - tailored to each different jurisdiction.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here Chris - call it what you will, there's a new priestly class who are the possessors of The One True Way™. The rest of us? We're just the altar boys hoping it isn't our turn this week.
I believe George Carlin said it best - it’s a big club and you ain’t in it
Very incisive sir. I work “high” in pharma but what is really high are not the salaries, it is the open political alignment that managers spout I guess in hopes of being recognized as upper class. There are cracks in the facade though. The fake pandemic is known to be fake, especially by people with half a brain in pharma. The soul selling has sickened many with self loathing. And for those it hasn’t, we’ll they are openly despised clowns. Or they are over 70.
The incentives in the pharma business are just so counterproductive. Everything is about getting new drugs approved and thus under patent, or finding a slight tweak in the formulation that will allow an extension of the existing approval.
The people in R&D and Quality that I’ve worked with have always been highly professional and dedicated. But the higher up the organization goes, the more you get into the jungle of the patent cycles and always needing to be setting up the next big kill, lest you be devoured yourself.
Spot on. I live in Chevy Chase, am a law partner married to a surgeon, and have a sizable net worth. Yet I am conservative, own guns, and evince my working class roots—so am a total outsider to the true insiders described here. Well they can have it…I will take my great family and our country place with a smile on my face, while these miserable pricks can have their Atlantic, MSNBC, and organic plant-based cocoons for themselves.
This is an interesting assessment of our current political class. I have witnessed this kind of polarization in real life living in affluent mountains of the west for 35 years. In mountain towns, you have the athletes, the service workers, real estate agents, etc. that typically are hanging on because they love the geography of the town, or the wealthy people living in multi-million dollar mansions. The only thing the wealthy like more than money and prestige is complaining about how long it took them to get a glass of Pinot Grigio at the local wine bar. The wealthy contribute very little to these communities except paying taxes, but expect to be worshipped. Years ago, a friend that was a waitress was conversing with some wealthy visitors to the area, and the guest inquired about what it was like living in the mountain town. My friend said it was great, but housing was very expensive, which the visitor replied, "that's good, it keeps the riff-raff out." My friend replied, "I am the riff-raff."
It stands to reason that this has trickled down (up?) to politics.
I resemble that remark (I am the riff-raff).
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Silicon Valley ran into the problem that all of the service workers they need to clean, cook, and maintain property for all the rich tech bros couldn't afford to live anywhere near SV.
Naturally, there was strong resistance to building affordable housing for service workers and their families. You know, because then they might send their kids to school with rich kids.
This is undoubtedly a problem. Except I've never seen the elites show any signs of concern. They either spend their way around the problem, or move on to a new community to start the process all over again. No matter how hard the minions work, or how successful they become within their own strata, the elites always look down on them for not being as smart or rich as the upper echelon. Making concessions for lowly service workers is simply not part of their DNA. But, they will post up a "Love is Love" sign in their yards to show their virtue.
It's utterly amazing this is all happening at the same time.
Geez Louise you'd think there were 60 + elections happening worldwide this year!
By gosh, does any of this sound familiar?!...
Your description of the Über-class’s disdain for Trump because he’s a landlord (but also the contempt it feels for the productive generally) reminds me of the scene in “Casablanca” where Captain Renault closes Rick’s because he’s “just discovered” gambling in the back, only to be given his winnings seconds later.
The Über-class (which contains no first generation business builders) exists on (a) dividend flows and capital gains from businesses they despise that were built by their forebears, or (b) “performatively radical adjunct professors with a $32,000 salaries in Fresno” who are funded indirectly thru “foundations.”
The hypocrisy is Brobdingnagian.
You Swiftian!
Hubris magnifico. That article by Codevilla is great- America New Ruling Class- if I remember right. There are 2 types of intellectuals, those who deal with things with consequences, engineers, doctors, etc., and those who just talk. Heinlein had the idea of only military veterans being allowed to run for office. The Russian tsars made all princes in line for the throne to spend a year living alone on a wilderness island. Could we do that?
Starship Trooper is brilliant. When Rico meets with a recruiter and asks about the K9 service. He chastises (appropriately IMHO) him for not letting his dog inside and sleep on his bed. "You kept your dog outside in the rain BECAUSE YOUR MOM TOLD YOU?@?@?@ YOU ARE NOT FIT FOR THE K9 CORPS!"
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The book, not so much the movie. Removing scumbags from politics is a tough one.
100%. I could not even get through the movie. It was SOOO BAD. Such a crime to Heinlein's legacy. That kind of lazy art should have criminal consequences...😉
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“KNOW! YOUR! ENEMY!” newsreels. Watch it again you’ll love it.
The movie is a parody of militaristic perpetual warfare states. All the bad propaganda playing in the background. The big celebration at the end “they! Are! Afraid!!! “. The whole thing is satire.
Thanks Scott, I'll check it out again. I could have been in one of my 'high-brow, I'm an educated man, I read the book mode' and completely missed the satire...because I was too busy patting myself on my back for being so smart and discerning...there are times I want to go back in time and kick my own ass.
Thanks again.
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Lolol. Me too.
Like for the year I thought the Patriot Act was a good thing.
Such a dumbass!
For the record, I read the book multiple times as a kid, and played the Avalon hill board game based on it 😊
Didn't the Romans insist on bonafides? Weren't all Roman politicians described in terms of their service?
This smugness, this class warfare is ubiquitous. It is everywhere, all the time.
A few years ago I was selected for a leadership program. Apparently it is supposed to be nation wide, but I think there are only 8-10 chapters--my community is one of them. Kinda a big deal...kinda...gotta be nominated. 24 each year out of 350ish nominations. All the local big-shots are alumni, especially the local politicians, non-profit leaders, or govt employees.
Our (wife and I) strategic goal is to build a no-kill sanctuary in our community. We have an event to raise money for this. Getting tied in with this community is/was a smart strategic move for me. There is actually a by-law that alumni have 48 hours to return any combo from another--basically they are required to help each other.
Long intro, sorry. In my class of 24 there were 14 women, a broad mix of ethnicities. Of the remaining 10 men, three were white. One of them is gay...of course. I was one of two people who didn't work for the government or a non-profit. I was the only entrepreneur...and the only Veteran even though JBLM has over $1 billion in payroll for us...and about 60K people who work on base each day.
The very first day I heard mentioned by some of the alumni who came to speak to us about the year long program, as well as the executive director, at least 4-5 times..."...white male patriarchy...." laced with utter disdain.
Uh, isn't your boyfriend a white male?
Uh, have you looked at the demographics of our own class?
Don't let facts get in the way of ideology.
The class distinction that Chris so ably describes might be described as those who hold 'luxury beliefs' and those who know from experience.
Competence is dismissed, even frowned upon.
I'm beginning to believe so much of this warfare is rooted in a sublimated and then projected self-hatred the "new elite" feel about themselves but turn on the producers.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote back in 2009 about the 'Depression Among Us'. He used a phrase I love and have tried to use as often as possible.
VDH was commenting about how we could never build the Golden Gate Bridge or the Interstate Highway system these days. Too many of the 'new elite' mucking things up.
He said that what we all long for, deep in our hearts, is the 'unapologetic doer'. Hear, Hear!
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VDH: a real man of the earth, literally. He is a national treasure.
100%! I first heard of him in 2008 at a conference with the Utah Army National Guard. Those folks are a class act. Their 2-star (every state as a 2 star, called The Adjutant General or 'TAG') led this OPD (Officer Professional Development) for about 50 field grade officers.
This General was legit. (My experience in the ARNG is GOs are often a photographic negative of legit...)
It was a leadership discussion, and this General quoted VDH. They knew each other. I was so impressed with this General, especially in comparison to ours (Until 2015...not one of the Generals in my state's Guard had deployed...slick sleeves, no combat deployments....in fact, this is the height of buffoonery, our current TAG made a comment that it is more dangerous to be on a rooftop than combat. Statistically I'm sure he's right...but HOW WOULD YOU KNOW SIR?!?!?! YOU NEVER FBOMB DEPLOYED!!!)
Anyway, I looked him up immediately, and have been a fairly regular reader of his content since then. He's brilliant. He's the example of why a Classics Education or Humanities Education (Jordan Peterson also makes this argument very well) is so important for Western Civ.
Ahh, I just tried to find the article....will take longer. But I LOVE the 'unapologetic doer'. Love it, love it, love it.
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Now you understand why Western Civ had to go.
'luxury beliefs' - brilliant!
Thanks K2, but I bootlegged it. I've heard it numerous times on podcasts, but I also read that Rob Henderson (https://www.robkhenderson.com/?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Frob%2520henderson&utm_medium=reader2&utm_campaign=reader2) actually coined the term.
Funny...I am subscribed, but haven't yet read an article of his. 😳
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Dealing with NGO people scarred my soul.
I had the unfortunate extra responsibility of helping coordinate our company's United Way partnership. We had a main coordinator whose responsibility it was, but she didn't actually want to do any of the work, naturally, because she was just so busy coordinating with the national office. (As far as I could tell, this bitch didn't do anything resembling work at any point in the three years I worked with her)
I had to go around reminding all the teams on the ten floors of our office building that our United Way campaign was ongoing and our organizational goal was 100% participation. I was one of the office support guys, by the way. Absolutely bottom of the totem pole.
So a month goes by and the campaign is wrapping up, and this lady asks me to come to her office. She gave me her best "Mother is very disappointed" look and voice and asked why we were at 98% participation but my name wasn't on the list of donors. I was honest with her and told her that unlike most of the accountants and consultants who worked there, I wasn't making very much money and didn't believe in donating to United Way due to so much of their funds going to marketing and a very swanky office space.
She couldn't process the concept that I didn't want to donate, even though I wasn't really in a position to. All that mattered was the 100% participation, because she really wanted to be able to say she had achieved that...even though I was the one tasked with haranguing the employees to donate.
I can't help but think her useless, but influential within the organization, ass was very likely responsible for me not ever being able to get promoted there. I didn't play the role of obedient and fearful peasant.
Dancing,
I’m using Siri, so please forgive any typos, or spelling mistakes.
Your post makes me wanna grind my teeth into powder.
I know the CEO of the United Way where I live. She makes at least $250 K, and that was pre-Covid, in a city with less than 300,000 people. Basically, she was/is in the one percent.
I was reprimanded by our JAG a$$hat for Sending an email on the military system about the first Ted X show in our community.
I happened to be one of the speakers, but I honestly thought many many people would be interested in attending. I’ve rarely watched a TED talk that I found boring.
Anyways, this hall monitor attorney said I broke Army ethics.
It appears this guy and your United Way leader are cut from the same cloth.
They only care about metrics that reflect on them directly.
Soulless bastards… and yet they are so confident of their own righteousness. 2000+ years ago we would have called them, the Pharisees…
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They can almost all be characterized by the importance they place on unimportant bullshit.
Donate to United Way because we want our 100% badge!
Okay, but what will these donations be used for? More sweet office space and upper-middle-class salaries for white girls who don't know how to work? Why does this 100% badge matter?
It matters a lot to the United Way coordinator, and hell hath no fury like a white liberal woman being told that her selfish pet cause has no relevance or importance to you.
I’m cutting and pasting your last paragraph and taping it on my computer monitor! That’s pretty damn funny! Accurate as well.
Mike Benz: "From [Western governments'] perspective, if the military did not begin to censor the internet, all of the democratic institutions and infrastructure that gave rise to the modern world after World War II would collapse. So you could imagine their reaction when, five months later, Donald Trump won the 2016 election."
Yes, this is perfectly apt. Excellent and key to understanding our conundrum. The battle lines are drawn between the criticism class, who are all sneaky wimps, and the practitioner class. The contemptuous and contemptible who make up the criticism class can’t remove a brain tumor , make a payroll, or
create anything of lasting value. They are parasitic in multiple dimensions. Which is in great part why they loathe people who actually do something. These are not strictly intellectuals, because once in a blue moon an intellectual develops a useful concept. These are the people who hang around to see if they can make money and gain influence from somebody else’s hard work and talent. A statesman like Churchill was a renaissance man - a gifted orator, writer, artist, who liked to fight like a man and get his hands dirty. Most importantly he could connect to the people. JFK was an addict, but he wasn’t a pussy. We now have sneaky degenerates like Obama and the Bidens, who make the scheming royal families of old Europe look like virtue personified. We have phony effete commies and used car salesmen without respect for anybody.
And the crap we produce here gets aped around the rest of the West. It’s a sleazy feedback loop of ever magnifying dreck. Which is why they fear and hate Trump, Netanyahu, Orban, Millei. For all their limitations, these are recognizable as men. And men are 😱.Can you say that for the leaders of our country? Georgia Meloni has bigger balls than any of the other leaders in Western Europe.
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My one thought this morning about the line between the criticism class and the practitioner class is that doctors seem to be transferring their allegiance to the new class, as we saw during the pandemic with the lockstep praise of the "vaccines." My guess is that the ACA, transforming a bunch of doctors from small business owners to employees, helped to do some of that, but I couldn't prove that. I avoid doctors more than not, lately, but my experiences over the last decade have been a lot of "I don't know what's causing that, but here's a prescription." It seems like the profession, naturally a highly practice-focused and hands-on, high-responsibility way of life, is changing. Or, rather, being changed.
This is a longer conversation perhaps than can be had here, but the doctors have been subjugated by the corporatists, and the medical regulatory apparatus has been captured in much the same fashion as the rest of the government. In this case the co-conspirators have done their best to create a cookbook environment where physicians follow the book. If you have a problem with that, then you end up with all sorts of obstacles to practice at the level of the hospitals and insurers. But if you follow the cookbook and a patient has a complication, then you’re still on the hook for it. I opted out of that system because I just couldn’t take the managerial c-suite suits and the insurance hoops and the disrespect. We’re not doctors. We’re “providers”. We work with a team, but half the team has their finger up their nose and they fiend their time on TikTok. No thank you.
Perhaps ironically, I can provide better care to my self pay patients than I could to my insurance patients. Everything is up front. They know the cost. They get good service. They get in right away if they have a concern. They talk to a human in the phone when they call. If I need to see them on a weekend, I come in and see them at the office. Try getting in to see your family doctor if you’re sick but not dying. Doesn’t do you much good if the appointment is 3 weeks out.
But as you’ve probably intuited, there’s something else going on here and that’s what you mentioned above. Doctors are generally extreme conformists. They don’t like to be the outlier, the independent thinker, and that’s how they are trained. Thus DEI crap is unfortunately something a lot of them will soak right up. Same thing with the Covid situation. See no evil , hear no evil, speak no evil. It varies somewhat by specialty as well. Those of us who are surgeons see the world differently from the “cognitive” specialists in internal medicine disciplines. The regulatory burden has gotten so great that a lot of practices just give up and sell out and the docs become employees. That doesn’t translate into great care. People perform better when they have a sense of ownership. It’s been a very shameful and sad thing to see the deterioration of the profession over the last 40+ years.
Tuckers interview yesterday covers this perfectly.
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039?s=20e
"Democracy" is whatever the insider elite say it is, and they will do whatever it takes to keep control. Turn the subterfuge strategies perfected after WWII by the military, intelligence agencies, NATO and sundry pick of acronym groups used internationally onto domestic "extremists" populations, who refuse to be compliant and blind, and you can wield all the powers of the state. and their "entitled to power" partners to squash the troublemakers like roaches. Use any means necessary as the ends justify the means, ethics invented as needed, including declaring pandemics at a moment's notice and the suspension of constitutional right, countermeasure poison jabs, censorship, election rigging, etc.
All the liberals I know are in a fever state about Trump. They are not just blind, but openly supportive of an authoritarian response to him, not even flinching if I mention the likes of what is going on in Germany.
I know a lot of dissidents who disparage the vote. I keep telling them, the 2020 election changed everything, If Dems control DC after 2024, it will become increasingly illegal to not be a Democrat, which means we dissidents will be silenced or worse.
I've given up on my liberal buddies. Best I can do at this point is to text them shit about RFK in hopes that gets Trump elected. it's been moderately successful.
They're gone.
Mine are impervious. My ex used to get a kind of zombie look in her eye before she would berate me like an automaton for half an hour. A similar thing happens with liberals any time the name Trump comes up.
My conversation with my younger brother (from Northern California):
Him: “Trump is a dictator! He wants to destroy democracy!”
Me: “Give me an example of Trump being a dictator.”
Him: Uh, uh, you know, uh, gubba splotz potzrebie!”
Him: “He just is! You watch too much Fox News!”
And then we open another beer and talk football.
A friend of mine just told me, "Trump already said he is going to be a dictator!"
"Yeah, did you listen to the conversation, or did you just see him say that with no context, or someone else talking about it?"
"He said he is going to be a dictator!"
"Have you ever heard of the Censorship Industrial Complex?"
""What?"
"Democrats working with big tech, media, the intelligence community, NGOs etc working together to silence anyone questioning the government."
He was saved by someone else coming up to talk to him.
We are literally watching two different movies on one screen.
A thousand years from now TDS will be the explanation for homosapiens speciation.
It's as if we've been separated by mountains or sea, like old world monkeys.
I know it's the most bizarre phenomenon I've ever witnessed.
Sorry that shit happened with your ex.
Thanks. It worked out for the best. I woke up and did not marry her.
Agreed too, on that phenomenon. It makes me concerned about how much authoritarianism they are going to excuse. I'm starting to feel like my liberal friends would get that look in their eye as i am dragged away.
It's not a question of them excusing it; that would assume/presume they share your values and principles on some basic level.
What the blank-eyed kind of people you and Ryan talk about do under a real and openly totalitarian system is, they demand /more/ totalitarian control.
They do this for a couple reasons, that may seem weird to you or me:
Totalitarians always promise to allay your fears, right? So people flock to them to be made "safe". But virtually all humans feel ill at ease on an instinctual level when someone seems to "own" them, so that fear that was promised would go away is still there.
And as it is the system they support that cauaes the fear, yet to the believers promises to remove the fear, they just deepen their support of the system.
(Parallels to some religions or abused spouse-syndrome may be apropos but it's parallel, not the same thing.)
As people like you or Ryan or or me over here challenge their emotion-based (fear) belief, causing uneas since their intellectul mind actually recognises facts, they experience cognitive dissonance and the corresponding emotional frustration, and since the problem cannot be solved internally except by accepting the conflict in the first place, they instead lash out.
Remember, there were germans in 1945 who for real thought they were winning the war. Not many, but they existed. That is how far this conflict between emotional identification vs. intellectual realisation can take an otherwise perfectly normal human.
Or closer in time: in 1988, hundreds and thousands of communist-sympathising academics all over the West wrote congratulatory letters to Erich Honecker, wishing him good luck and another 50 years of succesful state socialism.
Despite all the data they could have accessed would have shown them what was about to happen.
I get the feeling that some of them might line us up in a firing squad if we get between their 3 meals and 4 manacles.
Seriously
They would look sad, but they wouldn't speak up if they felt there was even a hint of repercussions for doing so.
Then they'd rationalize it by internalizing the belief that you got dragged away because you're a bad person. After all, the government wouldn't just arrest people for their political opinions!
I read eugyppius's article earlier and was horrified. This is exactly how our leaders here in North America speak. It's indeed a quiet totalitarian coup.