I read a thread on Twitter that hit it out of the park, Understand what time it is in America.I have said for decades the hard left will do anything to win, including stealing an election, jailing the opposition and even murder. People rolled their eyes.After Obama got elected I said he was going to spread the model of Chicago politics nationally which includes stealing elections, jailing the opposition and murder. People rolled their eyes.I said the Democrat party was taking its cues from Goebbels. People rolled their eyes.I said Trump was the last hurrah, when his term is finished leftist hell will be unleashed. People rolled their eyes.I told people I changed from Republican to Independent and permanently closed Facebook because Republicans will be hunted. They rolled their eyes.There is no one fighting for you. There is no one fighting for your children. You live in a Nazified style oligarchy and it is not going to get better. If the 2024 election is lost they will accelerate the persecution. If it is won it will only be a temporary and partial reprieve.And just yesterday, Hillary Clinton called for the mass reeducation of Republicans. This is not hyperbole, it is Amerika 2023. If they can find a way, they will open camps, be it for another covid, or any excuse the sheep will support.It is time to make your plan of escape.From Twitter:@robbystarbuckUnderstand what time it is in America:• Trump is being prosecuted by Biden’s regime + multiple state level Democrats• Every agency in government has been weaponized to investigate because he’s trying to level the playing field online to empower citizens• Newsweek just broke the story that the FBI is both investigating Trump voters and treating them like terrorists by using the same types of tools they used against ISIS• DHS and CISA used proxies to censor influencers like me and for opposing Democrats too effectively • Grandma’s (including one with cancer) who thought they were allowed in the Capitol after police waved them in were thrown in prison over January 6th despite zero violence• Soros DA’s are releasing pedophiles and criminals to carry out record crime• Over 7 MILLION illegal immigrants have entered our country under Biden — Only 14 states have populations > 7.4M• Schools are grooming kids about so called social justice, gender identity and sexual topics (including books with porn in them) while hiding all of it from parents• People fear saying they vote Republican despite Republicans winning the 2022 popular vote because they know they can lose their jobs over it or be ostracized• Doctors are giving kids sex changes with the full support of the White House including on children of our troops• Doctors lose their licenses over disagreeing with the narrative of the Democrats• Banks, Big Tech and online transaction services have banned prominent influencers for the crime of being conservative• Inflation and interest rates are destroying our economy in ways that we’ll be dealing with for over a decade • 80-90% of Congress represent their own interests and lobbyists instead of people• Big Tech companies manipulate what the public sees to sell the Democrats narrative• Soldiers were fired by the thousands for being conservatives who didn’t want the COVID jab — They even denied chaplains religious exemptions• People are put through public struggle sessions if they say men can’t be women• The DOJ and Democrat DA’s are deploying lawfare to bankrupt prominent Trump officials and supporters — “the process is the punishment”• College kids won’t get into schools if they express any conservative views and many will be failed in classes if professors find out they’re conservative• Parents were treated like terrorists by Merrick Garland and the DOJ for protesting school boards over COVID and the sexualization of children• Professional programs to become doctors and nurses are adding steps to screen for ideology to eliminate conservatives: Many do it in sneaky ways (doctors do this with requirements to get the COVID vax in order to get a residency)• Some states passed laws to take custody from parents who don’t affirm the new gender identity of their kids and even legalized kids running away to their state to get an abortion or sex change• BLM and Antifa members received multi million dollar settlements after burning down cities with riots and looting for a year because they’re modern day brown shirts that the Democrats had to reward to ensure they do it again in the futureOur future is closer to Russia under Stalin, Cuba under Castro, China under Mao or Venezuela under Maduro than we are to the ideals of our constitution. We’re living through the intentional destruction of the country we know and love. Why? Because communism never becomes reality without chaos, destruction and separating kids from their parents.America won’t survive unless Republican politicians get serious and recognize how far down the road to hell we are. It’s not time for Fox News hits where you get the one liner off that you hope to fundraise off of. It’s not time for another hearing that goes nowhere. It’s time to use EVERY lever of power you have to crush these new age communists and yes I mean communists.It’s time to be ruthless.I disagree with his last sentence. The time to be ruthless has passed. We have lost. Look for self defense. Look for escape.

Per some of the comments below, looks like Our Greatest Ally is having a good time: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-state-war-hamas-after-palestinian-militants-launch-unprecedented-incursion

I think Russia withstanding the Empire’s supposedly infallible weapon – economic sanctions – has produced a paradigm shift, as you say. I remember a similar effect when the Soviet Union failed to conquer Afghanistan in the 1980s. Up until then, there was a mythos about the Red Army; it seemed to be an inexorable, unstoppable force. Wherever it went, it overwhelmed its target and then STAYED. The best we could hope to do was to build moats and barriers around our safe areas, because if they ever breached the defences it was game over.When they failed to hang on to an invaded territory, it was a big shock – they WEREN’T invincible after all! The defeat didn’t happen all in one day, but when they finally exited Afghanistan, the end of the Soviet Union itself was imminent. We could be facing a similar collapse on this side now.

All I can say is: Vi-vek ,Vi-vek,Vi-vek. Let us embrace are new Indian overlords!

“ As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.” I hope this is so- the end of GAE.I’m not confident the machine is finished.

“When Speaker Wright was toppled, the boomers were ready to take over as the Cold War was coming to an end. As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.” More to that quote. Not mentioned, but one might also notice Jewish power is starting to break. Not looking to kick the hornet nest, just sayin’, that could clarify and connect some dots re: strong anti-boomer sentiment out there. For better or worse, fair or not. Demographics really are destiny!

Talk about politics!That clip of Ilhan Omar, curled up in her seat, restlessly licking her chops while staring down Matt Gaetz’s butt- yeah, there’s definitely some whitebread on the menu tonite!

Good on Matt Gaetz for putting his boot on McCarthy’s throat, and keeping it there until he crushed his wind pipe. Also… fuck Newt the Grinch for calling for the ouster of Gaetz. The good guys finally have a win.

Another thing that Russia has shown is that Western weapons and military might are grossly overhyped. The U.S. empire has always relied on military force when economic sanctions didn’t do the trick, and most countries rightly feared that. Russia has shown that its cheaper and more reliable weapons are at least the equal of anything the West can offer, and that their industrial base for war is far superior to the West. It’s no accident that the multipolar world is merging a lot faster now, because the empire has been shown to be far weaker than anyone expected.

It would be good to hear someone with a lot of knowledge do a show on what all happened between Gary Hart getting thrown out of the Dem primary in 1988 and Clinton getting the nomination four years later. In between the two was Anita Hill which makes the about face on these issues even more abrupt. AWFLs went crazy defending Hill and then turned around and voted for Bill Clinton 13 months later. James Carville went all in discrediting the Clinton accusers, remember his “this is what you get when you drag $100 bill through a trailer park” line. 1990s AWFLs really believed that generation of Republican leaders were outlaw abortion which shows how insane they were and still are.Other politicians around the same time as Hart either survived scandals or had them ignored by the press. George H.W. Bush had cruelly cheated on Barbara for years up until he ran in 1980 and the story didn’t get widespread attention until long after he left office. You have to wonder if someone gave the press the green light to hit Hart and why they would do that?

Yeah I’m pretty sure the Dems let McCarthy dangle because he supported the Biden Impeachment hearings. I think they would have gotten behind him had he not given the go-ahead.That said, you have to wonder about the system producing all the midwit Republican Congressman we see these days. I mean, Gingrich, Dick Armey, David Stockman and Ron Paul and a whole generation of guys from the post- Reagan Era were giants compared with McCarthy and Scalise and even Jim Jordan, who seems like a good guy but is no intellectual. And Pat McHenry is bright enough, but is wholly owned by Bank of America.I would venture an explanation: As the Corporate Overlords have basically gone Woke and have chosen to co-opt the Democrats, since they obviously have nothing to fear from the GOP, their need for bright, articulate GOP henchmen has plummeted. So the talent has drained out of GOP politics into lobbying, Wall Street and the MIC.

as if things weren’t interesting enough, looks like china is slowly collapsing

you are completely mistaken in thinking that the parties don’t represent the voters wishes . the absolutely do . the actual voters, the dominion machines, are getting exactly what they want. anybody else going into the polls is just pretending, and have no real say.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1710170459981926720 How much of domestic events post 11/9/16 had her involvement? Maybe in a few decades we’ll learn the truth, not unlike paperclip/mockingbird

197419942024 (roughly) about a decade late.

44:00 “…they would like to see manufacturing come back… not all of it, you can’t go backwards…”Right now, we’re doing the really low value stuff like cotton and corn and the extremely high value stuff like machinery. But it’s nowhere near enough. We’re running 60 billion Dollar a month trade deficits. 2023 will mark the first time in US history that we will be a net importer of food (though I’m not sure this is $ or tonnage). We must stop doing this voluntarily or we’re going to stop involuntarily because we will be priced out of the market. Either way, we will stop these massive trade deficits. All the US manufacturing being pulled out of China isn’t being brought home, it’s going to India, Vietnam, Mexico and other foreign countries.These trade deficits are one of the major reasons we have 30 plus trillion Dollars of unpayable debt. Now it’s not just manufacturing, even Amazon and other retailers are losing to foreign competition. We have these import bans from certain regions in China. But the ban has the exception of small shipments, which are allowed. So now temu and aliexpress can ship these items to Americans tariff free and bypass the ban. Our retailers cannot import these items and sell them, because they don’t buy 1 or 2 at a time, they buy by the multiple containers. That volume is banned.While there is certainly a lot of Dollar denominated debt that is outside of America, three is a limit to the Dollar market. Outside of Dollar denominated debt, there is little use for Dollars outside of the US. You can’t buy much with them. All you can buy is this machinery. Then you can use that machinery to make anything America could theoretically sell you. This is why our land, real estate, stocks and bonds are being bought up. Next time you look at a million Dollar fix-er-uper, blame our gutted industry.

The gap between the Republican party and Republican party voters continues to grow, and unlike the Dems, they have no way to bring them back. You can tell the Republicans are getting desperate as they are angry that voters are not supporting the politicians (which, of course, is a total inversion of what this system of government is supposed to be) and furious that people are fine with the idea of not passing these massive CRs or shutting down the government or hitting the debt ceiling. .People on the right are happy to see the chaos and want to see Republican scumbag grifters like McCarthy squirm and fail. It’s funny. At the same time, Gaetz says something like, “if you’re worried about paying military veterans, then write a bill paying military veterans”, and that makes intuitive sense. So it’s not just that people want to see the world burn, but that the “outsiders” are just making more sense than the scumbags who are demanding we need to pass this $3T boondoggle that just got finalized 10 minutes ago and if you don’t you are against the soldiers.

My favorite part is the explanation of the subservience of the republicans to democrats, sucking their dick since the new deal. Not just speakers but senators like McConnell and that traitorous shit McCain. Never fighting to upend and set a new path. Some people thought Reagan was upending the order but was subsumed by the dem control of the house. Honestly wonder where the contry would be if country club shit republicans like romney’s daddy were pushed out of the way and Taft actually got the nom for 40 instead of that loyal opposition scumbag line Wenke.

Somewhat related to this show, I am now advising any friends/acquaintances to sign up for social security at first eligibility, age 62. You’ll take a significant reduction in monthly benefits compared to what you would receive if you wait, but at this point social security reform is inevitable within the next few years, and it will involve: (1) higher taxes; (2) lower payouts; and (3) higher retirement age requirements. I suspect it may also involve reduced payouts based on income and/or wealth status. It may also involve enhanced payouts or lower retirement age requirements based on diversity goals.If you are already in the system at age 62 you stand a much better chance of being grandfathered into the existing rules, which are going to be far more beneficial to those of us here. If you keep working, then you will lose a portion of your social security benefit, but at this point I believe the benefit of being in the system far outweighs the risk of essentially letting your bet ride on the politicians in DC. Take the money and run.

‘U.S. Will Build Stretch of Border Wall and Begin Deportations to Venezuela’https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/biden-border-wall-waiver.htmlThis is a feint.The latest hand-wringing coming from mayors in the big cities up north is all for show. NYC Eric Adams has no reason to fly to Latin America to ‘explore’ the issues of illegal migration. NY Governor Hochul is not having an actual struggle against the state’s biggest city’s leadership. No. This is more political kabuki theater orchestrated by the Left. Re-starting a pithy section of the border wall? More theater.THEY DON’T CARE.“Why do you say that?”Simple Machiavellian/Sun Tzu/ or name your favorite strategist tactics are headed our way. What will probably happen will be some light, meaningless concessions that MSM and Leftist Pols will tout to the heavens as a part of their make-believe solution to the manufactured crisis they created.Don’t misunderstand, they aren’t experts in 4-D chess, this is more of the ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’ mentality.Think Federal imaginary dollars funneled into surrounding states to help spread the migrants around. To be sure, the towns and cities designated will be in rural areas that could use some more diversity as our ruling class desires.Does anyone still believe that the GOP/RINO loyal opposition are going to fight the Prog-Left wing of their bifactionary R/D uniparty? No.

Since going with the worst possible option seems par for the course, I’m going with Reaper Drones Over Houston: War with Mexico Cartel would mean the end of the United States Island fortress no longer, our intelligence community f*ckery in distant lands would now come in a tidal wave to our shore https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/reaper-drones-over-houston

Another potential white pill: demographic winter being a GAE policy raises the possibility that it goes with GAE. So much money and effort has gone into it that’s it’s hard to reckon what would’ve happened organically.If, otoh, the policy is a symptom of GAE’s collapse, we’re as screwed as the Romans were.I’m not sure which case is true, but being that our rulers almost unanimously hate us, and being that the policy benefits various shortsighted interests, I lean towards the former. Also, being the product of shortsightedness, one might reasonably expect it to be short lived.Going out on a limb with that, but I don’t feel too badly about it lol.

My contribution to the Black Pill Friday podcast is that even Dan Bongino is starting to crack. He is now full-on F-bomb expletives all the time, ranting that the police state is already here, and that if Trump is not elected in 2024 all is lost. He acknowledges that the national debt bomb will likely explode next year when short term Treasury Bills must be rolled over at significantly higher interest rates. Can the Fed bail them out once again by printing endless fiat? No way or hyperinflation. Take your pick.The first domino fell in Slovakia with the election of a sane president. Soon it will be Poland’s turn. What does the GAE have up its sleeve to stem the tide? Flashpoint on the horizon. False-flag in the wings. WW3?May you live in interesting times.

Interesting times indeed. Between the rapid decline of the American empire, and the complete and utter irrelevance of Europe, it will all be turned over to the globalists soon enough.Forty-plus years of liberal immigration policies and refugee ideology have tipped the demographic balance which will forever change the faces and politics in the west. Our so called “social contracts” are practically meaningless on all levels of society.Sweden and Norway currently lead the way for cashless societies while Italy is already experimenting with a watered down form of social credits. World governments used the pandemic to test their ability to suspend human rights, shut down businesses and impose martial law on a global scale as never before seen in human history.Connect the dots. It’s all a primer for what lies ahead.It’s not a question of “if” it will end badly, but “when”. And that “when” is approaching faster than a Maui wildfire – with a similar outcome.

The millenials who will be from, “the elite”, who will be positioned to do something, will not have a clue as to why what is happening is happening. It isn’t just that the boomers didn’t develop a bench. It is that they did develop a bench. They developed more ardent and delusioned social cause warriors and spineless individualists pursuing their own self interest to the point that they act against it. Moreover, those who played by the rules of the upward mobility escalator, and in some cases bubble economy wealth transfer rocket, will have never known an economic system based on reality, and their success will be wholly due to the broken system that they rode to great success. In other words, they will be trapped inside the successful Boomer’s bubble with no ability to see outside of it. They will double and triple down.I think prepared GenXers and the tiny cohort of awakened Millenials and Zoomers may have a window of opportunity. Let’s see.

Spectacular show, Z! I am a Canadian and don’t know the ins and outs of American politics… but that gong show with your house speaker left me vapour locked. To me it has the feel and atmosphere of a “beer hall putsch”. But then again it’s been feeling awfully 1939-ish for the last couple years. Something is going to give. Soon.

GAE coming to an end indeed. Assad just completed a visit to China. He was given close to a hero’s welcome. Syria will no doubt be part of the belt and road initiative together with Iran. BRICS plus membership soon.Since it will be difficult for Erdogan to do without the Chinese at this point, I suspect he will have little choice but to at least partially calm tensions with Syria. Not working out at all like Mr. Netanyahu had hoped. I guess the quality of their vassal states is not what it used to be.The Kagan cult must be furious. Look what their 20 year plus foreign policy of war first has gotten them. Eventually a military alliance of: Russia, China, Iran, Syria, N. Korea and possibly Saudi Arabia and maybe others.If the U.S./NATO foolishly escalate to WWIII in Ukraine there will for sure be a Syria front in the war.

Speaking of inflection points, HRC just floated the “formal deprogramming” of the “MAGA extremists” aka “cult members,” which all of us here would be classified as (by them), regardless of the inaccuracy of that categorization. She’s become like Bill Gates in that practically every single day I see some new pronouncement from her in my news feed https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-floats-formal-deprogramming-trump-supporters-suggests-gop-base-bigots

Your observations are especially interesting given the absolutely vapid effort the GOP is putting into it’s presidential campaign effort, vapid to the point that an East Indian and a fat guy from New Jersey got their fingers rapped by the pussies in the party when they openly wondered what the point of the exercise was. I mean if they have trouble keeping an absolute tool like Chris Christie on script then party disintegration is imminent (hopefully).

Hakeem Jeffries is like Barack Obama: a hate-filled lawn jockey who does what ol’ massa tells him to do. For whatever reason, the actual Establishment that runs the Empire and makesJeffries dance wanted McCarthy taken out. Are they looking for an off-ramp for Ukraine? Just throwing that out–maybe they want to cut off the Ukraine funds and blame the GOP for the Russian victory. Also, Jeffries did reach out to his friends across the aisle to his. Gaetz is the future of the Republican Party, which doesn’t have much of a one, as it transitions into a populist white minority party for whatever time the nation has left.The United States, separate from the GAE, doesn’t have much of a future, either. There is lots of back and forth here about how long that is, and while we don’t know and it could be decades, a sudden, Soviet-style implosion cannot be ruled out due to the economic decline. The D.C.-based war machine actually could linger longer than the former country where it sits.As you point out, the long-term lesson of the Ukraine War is that the world no longer is beholden to the Western economies. I personally think the war was aimed at keeping Europe within the GAE and to a lesser extent putting the screws further to Heritage America and consolidating control over both. If that read is correct, it came at a very high price.For a preview of what is intended for us, take a look at not so much the criminal prosecution of Trump but the intended seizure of his fortune. As whites decline in number and America becomes poorer and poorer, the assorted other tribes still will demand gibs and Heritage America is scheduled to be strip-mined. That is when the ongoing dissolution and fragmentation will leave to an exodus from the country, de facto at first, de jure as the years go by. You even can argue the de facto separation has started.

Note that it was only a handful of GOP rebels who swung the vote, with Gaetz being the most well-known. Most of the party still went with the establishment.

The republicans are kind of like the Palestinians — they’re damned if they do and equally damned if they don’t. If they upset the apple cart by replacing the speaker, there’s this big hue and cry from the establishment right like the WSJ and NY post, as well as the left, about how the move will be seen as extremist and damage what’s left of the republican brand. If they do nothing it’s business as usual. It’s tough to do much when every institution in the nation is against you.

“As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end.” Throwing out a potential white pill, the end of the Cold War was a moment of tremendous optimism. 30 years later, it’s soured completely. Maybe the end of GAE, looking like THE END, turns out OK. I realize that sounds incredible, but saying we were marching into dystopia, I imagine, was just as incredible back in the 90s.

The only change I can see is the the powers that be implementing a modern day Denazification program. I live in a university town and rub shoulders with many of the professoriate and associated people. The consensus is that there is a sizeable but still minority of white men in the country that are causing all the problems.

One thing I think is sus af about the dissident right… They loves to promote how the empire is ending, right after complying with the empire’s **global** enforcement to lockdown, mask up, and vaxx (to varying degrees of participation, but a majority of such, on the right, respectively). At least that’s the unified narrative for this audience. How many here would support Thiel/Yarvin for our next aristocratic techno God-emperors? Please, sir, can I have some more?

“The thing not getting enough attention is the fact that the Democrats were willing to let him swing rather than cut a deal.” A Republican Speaker who retained his Speakership on account of Democratic support would be seen as a fraud. Yeah, I know, McCarthy already was that, but he was only worth saving if he could help keep up the pretense. McCarthy was, to the end, willing to sell out, but the day came that he was no longer worth buying, which is the eventual fate of the GOP.

Great show as it is a completely different way of thinking about the events of this week. Thanks for this.

OT: One of these weeks Z Man should use this 1968 sunshine pop paean to Lagos on the Chesapeake as his opening theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1a1kAezqIM

McCarthy did have the Speaker’s suite of offices. Pelosi had a hideaway office, not sure which floor in the Capitol, but as you know, those are unmarked (often have oddly-shaped wooden doors, leading one to believe it’s a janitor’s closet), and usually only the top 25 or so members of Congress have them. That’s where the real business used to be conducted when I was up on the Hill. That’s what they took away from her.

The generational churn angle probably explain a lot of current politics. As a “boomer”, I have watched my contemporaries wreck much of what was good in the society we inherited. Now, in our declining years, many refuse to let go of the powers and privileges they earned in the harshly competitive social environment they lived through. However, our time is over. To all my fellow boomers, especially those claiming “it’s my turn”, I say, in the words of Oliver Cromwell:“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

“As the millennials are taking over, the Global American Empire is coming to an end” My fellow GenXrs are always the bridesmaid never the bride. Meh, they can have it.

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“Say one thing and do another”.And in many cases, the exact opposite!!I confess I haven’t listened yet, but I got warm and fuzzy when that asshat got bounced. Will it mean anything? Who knows, but at least SOMEONE said NO!That’s a big reason why we are in the state we are in.Open border? NOContinuing resolutions? NOHairy guys in dresses can us the girls room? NOFolks (and people) can steal at will? NOI’m glad he’s gone. As for Orange Man being speaker, while that would be “entertaining “, I don’t think it’s gonna happen.