I have one question though, are there any white women who actually dating a white guy? All of these social media, movie, television only displays white girl dating other ethnic group while hating white race

Mediocrity isn’t a bad deal. You don’t get the highs, sure, but you don’t get the lows, either. The trouble starts when you try to be something you aren’t.The bell curve is reality. Otoh, the bell curve also says the world needs more stable, competent, self-sufficient (if unspectacular) people than it needs great men or basket cases. There’s only so much extremity of living to go around.I’d guess the systems and managing thing is middle man leadership— bit of a contradiction in terms, probably can’t work in the long run. Not to say we need autocrats and serfs. That isn’t our thing, but somebody’s got to take the lead.I do think telling people they can have what they lack is good for business, but it’s probably just exploiting something that’s there to begin with. Maybe the idea of history as progress, an arrow pointing in one direction rather than a cycle, or merely this iteration. On a mission from God.Even destruction must be creative, but what if you win the game? What if it’s the End of History? Is that The End? Doesn’t seem like anybody thought that through. Seems like you double down so your world doesn’t fall apart, but it might anyway.The great and the small both know fate well. Middle man never gets the full draught, so I doubt he knows what he’s messing with.

I don’t understand the way the term ‘manager’ is being used here. I thought in the Burnham theory ‘manager’ was an abstract term that could refer to anyone involved in managing the economy. For example the CEO of JPMorgan Jamie Dimon would be a ‘manager’ in this reading. But this analysis of managers as basically Ayn Rand villains who hate honest, successful, hard-working practical people applies more to actual managers. As in, the literal management of JPMorgan who hate Trump for being what they are not. What am I missing?

Stellar show Z… However I will quibble with you over Trump later…What people like to forget about Trump is, his old man made him start at the bottom. Shoveling truck loads of stone and running a back hoe.Which had him working with the regular blue collar Joes.Trump is wealthier than 99% of Washington, and he became wealthy on his own. He doesn’t have to bend over to grift off the political donor class to have even the meager wealth they have. He’s never had to kiss anyone’s ass! They resent this.Trump is complete juxtaposition. He enjoys the bright shiny things and markers of status, but also enjoys his dirt people, simple pleasures like McDonalds and Chick Fillet.He also puts ketchup on his steak…Oh the freaking horror!All this enrages them, because it breaks down the elite facade that they are better than the dirt people.I disagree that Trump is merely a symptom. He is not just a bull in a China shop. He has real ideals that he believes in. If he had HIS WAY, a wall would have been built. He would have manufacturing brought back to the U.S. He immediately issued executive orders to stop illegal immigration. Yeah he still issued HB1’s, perfection is the enemy of progress. He got us into no new wars. He appointed 3, three so far conservative judges to SCOTUS. They over turned Roe, doesn’t matter where you stand on the issue. That is the biggest kick in the balls to the left and feminaziism you could ever hope to accomplish. It is a crushing blow to their psyche.Victory is won on the battlefield first and foremost by getting into the enemies heads. Trump did that and continues to do that.He accomplished all that with his own “team” his supposed allies fighting tooth and nail. against him. Non stop harassment from the deep state.Unrelenting hectoring from the media. Now they are trying to jail him and confiscate his wealth having committed ZERO crimes.1/4 of what Trump has faced would have had some of the greatest men in history biting a bullet.Trump belongs on Mt Rushmore just for that!

Have you ever watched recent tv show called fallout?Show introduces moldaver, female leader merciless acts as her communist ideology She is Modern-day Rosa Luxemburg,  kill anyone who disagrees with herJust like your typical American deeply influenced by JewsAnd this tv show normalized act such as murder, because anyone who disagrees with you deserves deaths problem is this kind of logic is nothing like the west, it’s closer to east

You know what else? I have a friend, a construction guy from backwoods Michigan. He loves erecting big walls. He read Art of the Deal and wanted to be Trump.You see, that’s Trump’s huge appeal. He talks and acts like or normal joe; people can look at him and hear an echo of the old American Dream. They could be a Trump too. Maybe even have a glitzy casino or a ritzy girlfriend of their own some day.And, still bump into him at their local Chik-fil-a. We don’t have to be weird or dirty to succeed in Trump’s America.

And this is why the feminist media just can’t get enough of Trump.It’s like partner dancing; the guy spins her and twirls her, because partner dancing is about showing off the girl. You don’t twirl the guy.So with Trump, the girlies can strut and preen, prattle and declaim; they’re always waiting for him to say something interesting and outrageous for salacious gossip.Biden or the drones? Who cares? Whatever the mainstream is going on about, it’s boring and pretentious, about as fun and sexy as being in church. War, economy, courts, climate, covid- all just background scenery.Activists and street protests, like newsreaders, just want to play dress-up, do parties, and be seen on camera. Everybody’s the star of To Kill A Mockingbird. looking towards the opening gala and awards dinner.It’s the tool guys who think laying a trench, erecting a bridge, riding a crane, sailing a boat, running a combine, tuning a dish- or even, honing their military kit- is kind of fun and cool. That’s just big noisy stupid machines to the Panem girls. There’s nothing to talk about!

I agree with everything Z said. The one reservation I have about Trump is that he doesn’t seem like someone who can “drop character”. Like I feel he can’t be heartfelt or what not. Even Roosh, the notorious PUA guy (although to be fair he had given up the PUA lifestyle by that point) wrote a very nice eulogy about his sister (and somehow I can’t find it but it was on his blog).

Fantastic description/encapsulation of the Trumpster, who he is and what he represents – especially to the tards in charge. He is, flaws and all, a leader of men. Another of the really good things about the special tards in charge (among many others) will be their absolute inability to take apart a firearm, clean it and put it back together so it actually works AND understand why that is important. Their lack of basic technical skills will be their ultimate undoing…

My favorite example of a German maker using a plastic part that should be metal is the infamous BMW, “Mickey Mouse flange,” that sits between the cylinder head and main coolant return hose: https://youtu.be/UFnwMoCP6Tg Thankfully it is not difficult to replace, and the aluminum replacement part is not that expensive.

Echoing many others: terrific show today. Not because it was about Trump, but because of what Trump represents.I’m not a mechanic and don’t claim to be, but when my son and daughters were younger, I refused to fix things for them. They were required to fix their own computers, for example. My son built his own computer and helped his sister build hers. When her computer failed, she came to me for help and I said “no” until she reached a point that was technically and financially beyond her. Then I helped get the new hardware piece and she took over from there. Her friend put an SUV into our ditch and busted the tire. I made her friend pull it into the garage (it was snowing), put on the donut, and drive it to Discount Tire to get a new one. I just pointed at things and where necessary demonstrated how to do it. I used to randomly hand things to my son to figure out, like the battery-saver for the tractor. “Just go figure it out.”“Just go figure it out” is lost on millions of people today.My oldest made the mistake of complaining that her boyfriend’s parents had helped her move (she lives in AZ and we live in CO). I just laughed and said, “It’s not our job to help a grown woman move to a new apartment.” That was 2 years ago and she hasn’t asked us for money since, including when her battery gave out in her car. We’re now down to paying for things that benefit us, like flying her home for her sister’s graduation ceremony. As parents, we benefit from this, and it gets her home, so we will kick in.Anyway, you covered a lot of ground, but the “fix it” part really resonated with me.I work around a lot of government people, especially military, but contractors, “civil servants”, etc. They really do live in an alternate universe. We are going to get our asses kicked in the next war. Especially INITIALLY. A lot of the worst troops will be killed. If we win the next big war it’ll be the people who came in next to save the day. I was at a memorial service for a retired military man who took his own life recently. One of the Air Force officers was a woman about 5′ tall who was, I estimate, at least 200 pounds. She was two people wide and butt ugly. WTH is this person going to do of value in a conflict except run and hide while competent people fight?

The problem with Trump is that he’s still a k*kesucker. Even though they attack him relentlessly and call him Hitler, he’s still trapped in that Boomer truth regime. Four years of looking into things and not pardoning dissidents and letting Israel enact their final solution isn’t all that appetizing.

Great podcast, Z.One aspect of this argument that really needs to be elaborated more is that Trump’s “testicular fortitude,” “git’ er done,” take-charge persona is an existential threat threat to the managerial/political class is because that class is so thoroughly feminized.It is females who emphasize credentials, knowing people, committees, and consensus over a step-up-to-the-plate-and-hit-a-home-run attitude. It is females who resent with intense fury being exposed as fraudulent, stupid, and incompetent.Let’s not forget who Trump defeated: the archetype of the brittle, fake, bitchy female manager whose claim to fame rested entirely upon her association with her husband. Could there be any person anywhere more uncomfortable and more unnatural talking to workers in a Chick-fil-A than Hillary? Could there possibly be a less natural leader and a less accomplished candidate? Is there anyone who has spent more time dissembling, blaming others, scheming, and deflecting criticism than Hillary? There is no Hillary Tower in Manhattan and she knew it and hated Trump for it with the intensity of a thousand suns.Yet it was a fait accompli that She would be installed as the First Woman President and all the Good People knew it… until Trump came along and laughingly urinated in her punch bowl.The hatred for Trump on the feminized Left, and the devotion to him on the working-class Right, is an extension of this writ large across the country. No-bullshit guys who operate backhoes and drive trucks and get things done instinctively fall behind Trump as a natural leader, while the feminized, credentialized managerial class of female politicians, female professors, female lawyers, and female media types were terrified that when he exposed Hillary as fake and incompetent, he would by extension expose all of them as fake and incompetent as well, and they were so threatened they went berserk, literally donning pussy hats and screaming in the streets like children.Trump was a reminder that everything of value in this country was created by white men, and the “equality” of women is entirely dependent upon browbeating men with tantrums and histrionics until they concede a share of the wealth and power.

I loved this podcast. It summed things up perfectly. I loved Trump for a long time. Couldn’t see his flaws (would not, in fact) because the effect he was having on the worst people in the world was just too much fun (“I promise not to do this to Greenland!”, etc.) He was so out of place amongst the Skeksis in DC. The people who made him necessary were forced to expose themselves. Supporting him felt subversive and rebellious; the waves of goodwill between normal, decent people made the times feel like days of old in some odd way.I’ll never forget the outpouring of support for him before the 2020 election. Flotillas, convoys, Amish buggies carrying Trump flags, dozens of Vietnamese ladies in matching red white and blue lining a road in Florida, tens of thousands of MAGA hats at rallies, and on and on and on. I’ve never seen anything like that in my lifetime. That wasn’t normal.The disenchantment set in fully after J6 and the pardons list, and for a long while I wished he would just go away. But he’s become something else, now. He’s not just a man any more – he’s a symbol. He stands for something – defiantly.I’m under no illusions about him, either. But when a person takes that much punishment and just keeps getting up again, well. It takes on a life of its own.

A good show, Z. And for me, captures why – even though he is not aligned with my politics – I enjoyed his tenure as Prez.Indeed, he does seem to just like being rich. He does seem to not give a hare’s hind leg about being seen as a manager. And, in his vulgar mannerisms, he reveals the managers contempt not just him himself, but for us also.As I say, I’m under no illusions about Trump, but some of the things he did were moments of jaw-dropping honesty (recall, he frequently would point at CNN journalists and say “You are fake news!”).You got another thing right: heisa brave man.

A Journey through mid-America.I wasn’t going to start this but there’s enough overlap between Z’s podcast and my observations that yes I will go ahead and cover some highlights of our trip to see the total eclipse. And I know I’ll get ridicule for driving hundreds of miles to see it. I also have to say that the total eclipse itself was disappointing. We saw the one in 2017 near where we live. The thing I discovered is once you’ve seen one total eclipse, you’ve seen them all. It’s like your first kiss. The bloom is definitely off the rose. But the trip itself was actually worth it.I’ll try to be as brief as possible. We left the Denver area on Saturday trying to make Topeka by nightfall. But then they closed the highway in western Kansas because of a dust storm with 45 mph gusts. You couldn’t see twenty feet it was so bad. It took three hours to clear the highway of all the accidents. We were at a truck stop so we went into the IHOP for lunch. I havent’ been in an IHOP in decades. The only thing different is IHOP’s don’t feature pancakes on the menu anymore. When we finally left we made good time and got to Topeka around 11pm.The next day we went to the Nelson-Atkins art museum in Kansas City. I’ve taken up oil painting in recent years so that’s why I’m interested in seeing the best and this is one of the top museums in the country. And it’s free admission. We spent about an hour and a half there and then headed for St. Louis.Before we got back on I-70 we pulled into a McDonald’s. The wife said let’s go in. I said under no circumstances. She asked why and I said don’t you see what’s going on? She hadn’t. First of all there was a meth-head loitering around the entrance to the drive-through. He was the only white person around. When I pulled up to order, a deep snarly black voice said “Whuchu wont?” I placed the order and he called it back. I thought he said 3 Big Macs instead of one. I decided to let that go for the time being. At the pay window the girl called out the order again and I said ‘And a bottle of water.’ She nodded sullenly. At the pickup window a large hostile looking black man — perhaps the one who took the order — handed me the bag. As I checked the bag, he snapped his head around at me so I slowly crept forward. The meth-head had by this time migrated around to the pickup window. Beyond him out on the street a prostitute was pacing up and down the sidewalk. She wasn’t wearing any clothing to speak of except a gauzy thing that was flipping around in the breeze. Under the overpass was another druggie mooning the cars. He was going through some violent contortions as well that it’s impossible to describe. As we drove onto the highway, I gave the wife a lecture on why you always need to be observant of your surroundings in a city you don’t know. We drove east to Independence, MO before stopping to eat our meal. Then we drove on to St. Louis.We got up well before sun-up the next day and headed south from St. Louis on I-55 for Sikeston, MO. We stopped around sunrise in Cape Girardeau, which is about 30 miles north of Sikeston. Cape G is the boyhood home of Rush Limbaugh. The plates in the parking lot were from everywhere. I could see it was going to be a clear day for the eclipse even though there was heavy fog that morning. I wanted to go down to see the river but there was a solid bank of fog through the opening in the seawall so we didn’t get out of the car. Going back up the hill through downtown Cape G, I saw something that made me laugh, thinking of one of Z’s favorite lines. Striding angrily out of the fog came a bearded man wearing a bright green sundress. Or maybe it wasn’t a sundress, maybe it was an evening gown. I don’t know. I figured he was probably headed for the local library. This sh*t is everywhere, even in Rush Limbaugh country.We stopped at another IHOP for breakfast. Run by an Indian couple. The waiter said he had moved here from Ft. Lauderdale, FL several years back and everyone is friendly here. I found this to be true. Culturally, this area is part of the South. As he took our dishes, the waiter kind of complained that I didn’t eat my pancakes. I laughed and said, Yeah, and this is the International House of Pancakes. He didn’t think that was funny. We went on to Sikeston and checked into the hotel. The lady at the desk said everyone was gathering at the rec center at the park. She looked a lot like Sarah Palin.We went to the park which consists of a main building next to a 6 or 7 acre lake. Beside the park is an airfield. They were setting up tables and giving out freebies such as eclipse-viewing glasses.We met a couple who drove over from west Tennessee. I could tell within 5 minutes I wasn’t going to get on with this guy. I love the South and the Southern people. Heck, I’m one of them. But there’s this thing in the South where some people have a way of laying a guilt trip on you that you might not even notice it’s so subtle. That waiter at the restaurant is an example. So anyway, by this time the wife had made friends with some people sitting at some picnic tables under a pavilion. So I was hauling the ice chest over to the pavilion and I told the guy that’s where we would be sitting and he said Alright. Just in that one word by the way he said it he was guilting me. Imagine saying Alright with a long drawn-out sigh. This was a pattern because he had a few minutes before pulled this stunt over something else. I figured him for the chair of his county Republican committee. Also, his wife said they were season ticket holders to the theater in Memphis and they had recently seen the musical ‘Wicked’ so that spelled it for me.I fell into conversation with another man at the pavilion. He was a local and had just recently sold his business. I don’t want to give too much away but I’ll say a few things. He was there with his wife and three daughters and their husbands and all their grandkids. We talked about all kinds of things. He said that the airfield was from WWII for pilot training. He said this land used to be nothing but farmland and that it was all underwater when the river flooded. He told me about the topography of all this land hereabouts from the hills to the flatlands. He said the locals called Cape Girardeau, Cape Ji-RAR-duh, or Ji-RAH-duh (I wasn’t sure which.) Only outsiders say Cape Ji-rar-DO. He said he had driven every gravel road in the Mississippi Delta and he named all the towns. I told him about the Red Dog mine in Alaska, and the haul road going out to the Arctic ocean. We commiserated over the early demise of Rush. Then he said something that struck me.It was about a business decision he had had to make. He said he had had to turn down the contract because his employees were backing away from it when they found out how long they’d be away from home. And that’s the difference between a big corporation and a small business. I remember my father operated the same way. The interests of the owner and employees have to line up or it doesn’t work.So I walked around the lake three times and sat around. At one point I could swear a restored C47 took off from the airfield. I’m not really much on aviation so I can’t be sure but I think that’s what it was. At another point I saw something high up glittering and flickering moving across the sky. I texted my son about it and he replied They’re out there Dad. But I figured it was probably just a stray Chinese weather balloon. Another thing I saw not just at the park but at rest areas along the way is that no one knows how to throw a football anymore in terms of technique. Or maybe they never did. But there was one father and son who could throw the football like nobody’s business. They just had natural talent. They didn’t need technique.Finally, we had the eclipse. The birds started to roost and the streetlights came on. The wife nearly keeled over backward and I ran up and grabbed her just in time. As I said, the eclipse was a bit of an anticlimax.We headed back to St. Louis the next day and stopped at the St. Louis museum of art. Another freebie. They asked us if we wanted tickets for the Matisse exhibit but I said no, let’s just walk around. They had a couple of portraits by Zorn that I admired. Then at one point I was looking at this wall-size painting by Gainsborough when this fat girl ran up to me saying Sir, Sir, I saw you, I saw you pointing. You were over the line pointing. I have found that the best policy in situations like this is to be as noncommital as possible. So I just grunted at her. Then it was as if she had vanished into thin air. I got a little hot under the collar and was looking all around so I could tell her off. For one thing, just after she scurried off, there was this Latino woman who was practically crawling up another wall-size painting. She definitely left her DNA on that painting. Well, it’s been said before on this comment section but you kinda get the feeling that you’re marked if you’re a white man. But I couldn’t find that girl, she was nowhere to be found. My wife told me it’s not worth it so we left. We got back on the road and stayed at Independence, MO for the night. Oh, and another thing you notice at art museums is that almost all the people — visitors and staff alike — are mutants.When we were driving across Missouri I saw a billboard that asked the question, Are you Having Trouble with Buzzards on your Farm? And darned if I hadn’t seen a lot of buzzards flying around. I said to the wife, I didn’t know buzzards caused property damage on farms. She said, oh yes, she saw on the news where this one farm was plagued with buzzards somewhere in Colorado to the point where they had gone through all the rubber hoses and stuff. Colorado outlawed billboards years ago. There are pros and cons to that. I can see both sides. There was this one guy between Fountain Creek and Pueblo on I-25 who lost a lot of income because of it. Finally, he started putting up a lot of anti-government messages on his billboards and then finally he died and the billboards came down.We had an argument over whether we should stop at the Arabia Steamboat museum in Kansas City. I wanted to keep going but she was pretty insistent on it. The problem was her friend had raved about it, so she had to see it too. She didn’t say that in so many words but that was the problem. So we stopped. It was interesting. A team of amateurs dug it up out of a cornfield. It was buried 40 feet down. The river had changed course which is why it was in a cornfield. They recovered hundreds of artifacts from the 1840s while bound upriver to supply the needs of the pioneer families. We got into a conversation with a son of one of the men who did the recovery. I asked him how they made a business out of it. He said it was strictly ticket sales. He said the city of Kansas City had made them a sweet deal to occupy their building which is an old warehouse in the bad part of old St. Louis which at that time was controlled by the Pendergast machine so the city wanted to revitalize the area. I made a comment about Harry Truman but he didn’t get the reference. Anyway, the museum’s lease was up in two years so they had to move because it would cost a fortune to stay there. He said they had their sights on doing another recovery of another earlier steamboat wreck that was loaded with supplies for the indians and fur trappers and they wanted to do a national steamboat museum.So we had to extend our car rental an extra day. We made Salina that night. But before Salina, we stopped at the Kansas state capitol building in Topeka because why not, we’d already lost that day. At the security desk I told the security guy I had a knife but he said just keep it in my pocket. That place is another one of these structures that they couldn’t build today at any cost. I would recommend it. We saw the senate and house chambers. In the rotunda are a lot of impressive murals. There’s one that’s famous of John Brown with a twister in the background and him holding a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. It reminded me of when my father would want to cuss about something but he would say ‘I’ll be John Brown!’ instead of “I’ll be g-d!” As I mentioned, I’m Southern.The next day was uneventful driving back across Kansas and eastern Colorado. I apologize for the length of this post.

You know who else stopped at McDonald’s? Hitler.

Great show!Trump is like a middle clas guy who happens to be a billionare.The clouds disdain for the middle class may be their undoing. The middle class aka dirts, keep the system running. Part of Rome’s collapse was a lack of maintenance. We have been foolish to allow the infrastructure to degrade in order to pay for social progams.The destruction of the middle class may be the end of the modern complex society. Casual dismisal of what you can not do is a common theme in the modern beauracracy. The leadership lacks the ability to cut their own grass. That’s “funny/scary”.Hope you all have a good weekend.

One of the things that the managerial elite has not considered is frustrated ambition. Regular black folk like Trump because he represents to them, the ability to make more money in their lives. Making more money makes life a LOT easier when you are on the margins and black voters while they may not vote for Trump seemed poised to stay at home. Latinos, likely will mostly vote for Trump.And young White men, they are going to be Trump in the extreme. I think it was Instapundit that noted the other day that only 15% of Stanford’s new class is White, and of that only 9% White Males. [And 100% of that 9% is ((()))].Ambition denied creates incentives. Charlie Munger (the late side man to Buffett) noted that incentives drive human behavior in ways that surprised even him. The Managerial Class has built every incentive of Young White men to destroy the system so they can advance. There is literally no way for them to advance within the system.What happens AFTER Trump? To young White men seeking advance. To non-White people wanting more money? Where do they go and what do they do? There is no other figure than Trump and the Managerial Elite comfort themselves that after Trump one way or another, there will be no challenge.

One small quibble with the incapacity of the managerial class to DO anything useful. A distinction ought to drawn between ignorance of a skill and unwillingness to use it. I’ll just use your lawn mowing anecdote as the illustrative example. First, I’ll credit that some simply lack knowledge of how the mower operates or even how to start it. Maybe that’s generational, like your intern and using a screwdriver. I’ve got nephews who were never required to do chores as children. This didn’t just arrest their moral development, but left them void of certain tool-using skills. They’re not stupid, since they readily mastered computers and musical instruments. They just weren’t taught or directed by their parents, who also shielded them from the influence of other willing mentors, including me.On the other hand, I mowed my fair share of lawns as a teen. Our’s, as an assigned chore, under the watchful tutelage of my father. And neighbors’, to make a little pocket money. But I don’t mow my lawn today or for the past twenty years. At first this was a matter of choosing to spend my time in a more rewarding way, either working on more profitable projects (bill $200 an hour versus pay $25 to gardener) or to relax after an entire week of just such stressful (if not laborious) work.I agree entirely that a man should know how to do a host of similar problem-solving tasks; but sometimes the wiser course of action is to pay someone else and thus free up that time. YMMV

It would be an interesting poll to see if Europeans and Americans would feel safer or less safe with Trump in office.After watching the events under Biden starting with Afghanistan debacle and now the US State Department openly supporting Hamas, another four years of this decrepit imbecile in the White House can only endanger Europeans, and Americans even more.European leadership and the combined efforts of our respective militaries under NATO will do nothing to make us any safer. More tanks, cannons and jet fighters are pointless since European military personnel readiness and effectiveness is nearly zero with basically zero confidence in the men and women under arms who are supposed to “protect” Western Europe.The average German on the street has no fear of Russia becoming the old Soviet Union one day and heading west. No one is having fanciful delusions of Russian tanks once again rolling through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.Our greatest fear is exactly what Americans are experiencing first hand; out of control immigrants committing crimes against the civilian population in their towns and cities and local governments unable or unwilling to put a stop to it.

Trump the BarbarianPeople have had it with Dementia Joe and hence Trump will get a huge vote this November if not assassinated first. This means that the cheating required to steal the election will be epic and obvious. The new Covid con won’t mask this and nobody listens to the MSM anymore, so selling the Lie won’t fly this time. What comes next?Genuine efforts toward soft secession will begin, largely at the southern border. DC won’t try a Federal interdiction because the Texas National Guard would kick their ass and half the US military would applaud. So that leaves Shooting The Moon, Go For Broke extremism. National debt will skyrocket and BRICS will kill the dollar, double digit inflation will finally get normie off the couch. Mass protests, rioting, and pleb-on-pleb mayhem is a certainty. Biden’s corpse will order a crackdown and then things will get interesting. Great Fun for all!

Some of this podcast sounds like what I wrote yesterday that didn’t get a lot of upvotes and at one point got a ton of downvotes. You hit the same things I said about politicians being actors, but only from the side of their donors telling them what to do and how to vote. The administrative state is just as much at fault for our situation as donors are and controls just as many of those puppet strings. There is even symbiosis between the two, as Soros was supposedly a frequent visitor to the State Department back in the old days.(Repeating again: Ukrainian Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vindman said Trump should be impeached because he ignored the “interagency consensus.” I called him the Ukro-Khazarian Minister of Defense yesterday, but I’m being nice today.)The disconnect between people who shuffle papers and make decisions and the people who actually do things explains why the Smart set always fall for these scams like global warming, green energy, the sexual revolution, kumbaya immigration, etc. They just don’t know how the pieces of society fit together because they don’t work in a world where they have to make practical things work. They think they can create their magical world just by sending a few emails out and waving their magic wand.This is the biggest problem with the world we have today. The so-called creative class just doesn’t know how things really happen. It always has been that way, probably, but these people didn’t have as much power over society as they do now in the past.

This was an outstanding show. This adds a dimension for how to think about and understand Trump and the reaction to him. What is remarkable is how the NPC class of The Regime mimics the power-player Managers in The Regime. A hive of drones.I’ve seen video footage of Eyepatch Dan being hounded by some independent journalist guy putting the screws to him. It was one where Eyepatch Dan eventually pushes and walks over someone in the crew and then gets a huge smile on his face. More interesting is the entourage of staffers that he kept around him. They were all smoking hot Asian women with porn hair, nails, heels, lashes and wearing tens of thousands of dollars head to toe. At some point, just like the footage of over the table butt sex in the Congress leaked, look for footage of Eyepatch Dan banging his staff of Asian hookers, (Chinese honey-traps? Tel Aviv honey-traps? Indian honey-traps? Mexican honey-traps? One of each?), to emerge.Eyepatch did get through SEAL training. Even if the standards are lower that is no small feat. That said, if he represents what remains of our best men we are finished.I have a new appreciation for Trump after this podcast. He is doing something Messianic even if he isn’t our guy. He is to be commended for standing up to and taking on pure evil. For that, he is a legitimately heroic character.

And right on cue, some cultural / media clown named Seth Meyers is rolled out to fire on TrumpMs Chick-fil-A stop:— He for sure didn’t pay for those milkshakes and the chicken;— He doesn’t know how to talk regular folk;I confess I have no idea who this guy Meyers is. I checked out of the media / cultural circus about two-plus decades back. But his comments seem especially ironic coming from a guy who likely never leaves the impregnable bubble of weirdness and fantasy that covers NYC, or whatever cultural madhouse he inhabits.I imagine he has been selected for his role due to his ability to connect with similarly wired urban sophisticates, and cannot see beyond the limits of their delusional, solipsistic worldview.Another jarring irony —Trump being tried for classified document mishandling, when President and the absolute and final classification authority;Hillary and Bill show up at the White House as select guests for the state dinner with Japanese prime minister — looking ever so relaxed and even jovial in the publicity shot released. Not a worry over her real and massive violation of document security law, regulation and practice.Who are the favored people, and donthey just love rubbing our faces in it?

Off topic: Get away from cities and suburbs and stop paying the diversity tax, in social researcher speak: “Revealed preference indicates that Westerners dislike actually-existing immigration so much that they are willing to take large pay cuts to escape it. In immigration-heavy countries, people move away from economic opportunity! . . . Here, local emigration is driven by newcomers’ behavior. In the United States, this is often called white flight, but it is not limited to white people or America. The exodus is often motivated by concerns about crime and physical safety, but it doesn’t have to be. Political differences, cultural differences, disagreements about appropriate use of public space (such as littering or noise levels), or simple dissatisfaction with minority status can all cause locals to leave in spite of the economic incentives. For instance, even West Coast Asians, who are wealthy and commit very little crime, drive white flight by greatly increasing5 the grind associated with education (Enjeti, 2017).”https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/fleeing-opportunity

The thing about Trump is despite not being our guy and not really being a solution to our problems, I still cannot help but like him.

Love your final reference to Trump as the “Scourge of God” aka “Atilla the Hun”. THAT is why I keep coming back.

An outstanding post. The “politician as a resentful senior employee” is an incredible mental image and defines the problem, and the solution.

In my opinion this is probably the magnum opus of your blogging career, Z. I often get egged by the Dissidents for being overly optimistic about the future and maybe rightfully so. People don’t understand that I am thinking in the long term. I am looking at least one generation, possibly two – down the road. All empires rise and fall, and we are at least two generations into the fall of the American Empire. Most of us here will probably live to see it collapse. But after that, there WILL be redemption.One of the fatal flaws I see in Dissident thought that worries me is the attitude toward our kids. “They’re stupid, they’re lazy, they have no idea how things work…”. Let us hold that mirror of yours up to ourselves: whose fault is that? Are we so lazy and short sighted ourselves, that we will write off an entire generation? Again – the reason our sons are faggots and incels living in the basement is because WE allowed obvious crazies and disturbed women bring it about without so much as a complaint. I saw this in my own family – I was accused of being unsuportive of my kid when I insisted that she get good marks in school, keep her nose clean, and learn to be helpful and useful. It got me cancelled and shoved out the airlock eventually and to be truthful… after much heart ache and soul searching and self doubt… I have managed to become oddly proud of it.You did well in teaching that kid how to un-jam the paper copier. These kids are not worthless or deficient; they are products of a system created largely by females that will excuse them and insulate them from their own deficiencies. Mothers will be mothers. Cucks will be cucks and they will try to wrap this idiocy up by putting on fake airs of nobility and pose as protectors of children. If I had my way, a cornerstone of Dissident thought would be to mandate proper teaching and training of our kids. The proper way to forge good adults from bad children is to expose them to their deficiencies in a constructive way and patiently help them to overcome those deficiencies. Not all kids can be helped but we owe it to them to try. A lot of those deficiencies in those children are just our own being reflected back at us.Another desperately needed skill amongst the Dissidents is good humour and cheerfulness in the face of adversity. Dissidents tend to be contemptuous of coping mechanisms… but they are actually useful tools when the SHTF. Perhaps our life skills are deficient in ways too?Have a great weekend guys.

D.C. is a weird, insular, anachronistic place, the eight-track player of capitols. As a young man, I had to interact with two congressional staffers, long-timers who had dutifully served various elected corporate whores. They got into an interminable discussion about who had attended which political hump’s fundraiser/soiree with recollections of other parties hosted by obscure although important-to-them characters. My impression was this banal nonsense marked defining moments in their lives and also bordered on the insane. It is hard to imagine things have gotten better in the last three decades. I formed an opinion of Washington then and there and everything since has confirmed that assessment. It is hard to believe the Clouds who make those types’ lives possible have anything other than pure contempt and disdain for them (I’m certain this also applies to the propaganda whores in their employ).Lower tier hangers-on like those two and the people they served have been isolated from reality and have created their own world, which is totally divorced from reality. Trump, along with the Empire’s rapid decline, represent things that should not be possible, therefore they are not real to them in the sense of being anything other than fleeting inconveniences.When Trump was ousted in 2020, the visual that stuck with me was footage of working class, decent people crying over it, realizing at some level the world they had known and the country they had loved was dead. I’m certain the network producers who televised it had full erections. As pathetic as that was, think what will happen when those inside the D.C. bubble realize their worlds also are over. As we see with the open border, they are borderline suicidal already. It would surprise no one if they decided to take out humanity with nuclear weapons at that point.It is hard to imagine the Imperial Russian and German and Austrian families or their courtiers willing to burn down the world in such a way. It is difficult to imagine Washington’s version doing anything else.

Say what you want about BMWs and those who drive them, but: “Consumer Reports named BMW the top overall pick in its 2024 Brand Report Card rankings, with the German automaker becoming the first back-to-back winner since 2017. It cements BMW as one of the few luxury brands owners can count on for overall satisfaction — something unusual in CR’s rankings.” Yahoo Finance

“Trump is the scourge sent by the gods to punish the managerial class.” Yes, this. And who the gods would destroy they first make mad. The trick for the dirt people will to ride out the storm. This means not being where it will be worst (big cities), staying away from those who will act the worst (you know of whom I speak), and being prepared for “that will never happen!”.

It’s a war. You need warriors.D.T. is an eighties-era liberal, with a feminist daughter who often controls him (and thus, everyone around him), and plenty of old mafia connections because you don’t build in NYC without them. Donald’s a real estate developer, entertainer, and financier.Last time out he tried to glad-hand D.C., gladhanding always working for him before. Heh. First act upon victory: wave off any consequences for that insect queen, Hilarious. After that nobody in the beltway took him seriously, so Lady Columbia booked him for a jolly four-year Vexation Cruise.In the closing act, D.T. backed the poison vax, told his supporters to get mad at the election theft . . . then tipped on out to Mar-a-Lago. Not exactly warrior-material.We shall see if he has learned anything by his prosecutions, and by the failure of his first term.

think they hate Putin for similar reasons And I’d figure they hate Russia because they fixed a major bridge in two weeks. And they are cranking out fighter jets now at a rate the kid makes hash browns at Waffle House. That has to be driving them insane.

Fun show! Thanks !

Trump is useful. Either as a boogeyman, very effective at uniting various nutcases into one front, or as a sedative for grillers, who think that owning the libs is what it’s all about. Or as a way to get Whites fight for Israel, which is what “they” are hoping for if he is allowed to win.

Class is a touchy subject we’re not supposed to talk about. Poor people think it’s money and stuff – the richest man in the world (Bernard Arnault) got there by selling “luxury goods” to poor people who think an overpriced, cripplingly expensive handbag or a nice watch will fool people into thinking they’re now part of the high class club.David Brooks (vomit) does an excellent job describing actual class: education pedigree, parental lineage, degrees on the wall, awards given to them by their self-licking professional ice cream cone mills.Definitely not just money: Musk and Trump will never be “high class” and the fact that they don’t care drives some people nuts.The failure of our “high class” today is this: Why would anyone want to aspire to it? What function do they serve? If they vanished tomorrow would anyone even notice?Pre-French revolution vibes.

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On a wintry day in New York, as Donald Trump was debating whether to run for president for the first time, it must have occurred to him that his life would be irrevocably changed by the event — bent out of shape the way light is twisted when it enters a prism. Now, applying for his second chance at the office, Trump is a changed man, scarred inevitably by his experiences in the shark-eat-shark world of the national political arena. The media loves to broadcast his image as much as it loves to pile on top of him. Half the country thinks he is the devil; internationally, he is feared and reviled. What to do, what to do?It is not Donald J. Trump’s fault that he is a polarizing agent. His brash New York upbringing guaranteed more than a big mouth: it guaranteed he would step on toes. You need steel-toed boots when you’re walking around the Trump ideological forklift. Trump will cut you if he can — he refuses to take slights lying down.The media reaction is like a day in the African scrub. There’s an inviting watering pool on a hot sunny day. The wind sloughs through the underbrush. The water looks still, harmless. This is the media presentation of itself as harmlessly neutral, unbiased. A gazelle (a politician) comes to the shoreline to drink.Suddenly the media crocodile lunges out of the water, seizing the gazelle by the neck.The Donald has been fighting crocodiles all his life. His career in the tabloid newspapers has left scars on his bunched fists. He just refuses to yield.When a lying bitch accused him of raping her in a public store, antipathetic New Yorkers on the jury went Unh-huh, Unh-huh. He is a man so hated in his own home territory that they are willing to bend Justice to get him — like light bending through a prism. There is a darkness about the whole affair. Covered in a hard plastic done and shielded from the sun, the American flag stops waving long enough to curse the nation.In the end, Trump is a Rorshach test. What you see in him tells as much about you as him. What I see in Donald Trump is a highly intelligent man, caged by buffoons and made to dance to get another shot of a lifetime at a lifetime dream. May the political gods smile on his auspices.— Xloveli (dark.sport.blog)

Re: Jonah Goldberg being proud of not being able to fix things around the house.My wife and I had lunch with a retired couple a few months ago. When the subject of home repair and maintenance came up, one of them said, “We’re Jews. We don’t know how to do that kind of stuff!” The other nodded in agreement. At the time, it struck me as an odd thing to be bragging about. The guy had been a pharmacist, not some middle-manager drone. He’s also fairly based on covid and skeptical of the medical business generally.