I wonder who everyone thinks is the best example of a Con Inc person. I nominate Victor Davis Hanson. This fool just came out with a book talking about how civilizations are wiped out completely and the people annihilated. Of course, this book is not designed to warn us about the most serious and impending threat(s) of our annihilation. No. It is designed to gin up a war fever and mobilize the population to fight against the foe that the GAE wants to use us as tools in its global imperial machinations and ambitions.Were it a serious book, it would highlight the alarming demographic situation that we face. It would underscore this by showing how this existential danger is coupled with the almost fatal state of our culture and its near total breakdown in its ability to preserve itself through healthy cultural transmission mechanisms. It would show how this is further threatened by the presence of hostile, alien tribes that are dispossessing us and openly advocating for our annihilation. It would show how these tribes are enabled and supported and funded by the very system he wants us to rally to and, “defend”, against the least of our threats.We have been invaded by alien peoples and our cultural pillars eaten away by a vast infestation of termites. At the same time, the imperial culture and financial system has incentivized our low time preference future thinking nation, those who built and maintain this country – its nation, into below replacement fertility and a frightening demographic winter. The Regime he is calling us to rally toHe incites The Nation to rally to The Regime to fight China – our great threat. Yet, the President of Mexico openly threatens The American Regime with using mass propaganda on its invading population to sway our elections. It plays both sides, calling them US citizens when it suits and Mexicans when it suits. The GAE can’t even deal with tin pot presidents directly to our south because of the invasion they are facilitating that fills our country with interlopers and demographic replacements of our workforce and our polity.By all four measures of how species go extinct, The GAE Regime has openly abetted all four of them, (loss of territory/habitat; hybridization; infertility; invasive species/competing predators), and is accelerating and seemingly gleefully executing a willful plan to annihilate Our Nation.And what does VDH do? He writes a book at the peak of the crisis and mobilizes the Con Inc. mediasphere to discuss that China is an imminent military threat when we have 2500 ICBMs and them invading and destroying us in our homeland is a practically non-existent threat. It is truly astounding. Were I to have nothing to lose I would travel the country and heckle him with this information at every Q&A session he does. It is breathtaking how the best minds deeply entrenched at our most august institutions are so conveniently clueless.Hey! Look over there Johnny! Look at that thing over there and turn away from your real threats! Absurd doesn’t begin to describe this collection of Deluded Losers.

That’s twice in a week that Z has used the word “slither” to describe the movement of members of the Regime.In the Garden of Eden,The Great Deceiver was also a snake, so the description is accurate.

I agree totally with Z-man’s description of the “Conservative Movement” as it stands: a closed, self-funding circle of insiders, mostly impervious to influence by normal conservative citizens. It’s sad how many millions of Americans are involved with this movement in one way or another, their well-intended energies spent promoting other peoples’ agendas. They cannot see it for what it is.Unfortunately there is a lack of good historical scholarship about how this situation arose. Z-man and others dangle hints but scholarly, book-length treatments are lacking.For my part I believe, but cannot prove, that the post-WWII “Conservative Movement” was largely invented top-down (“astroturfed” in political slang), by anti-communist businessmen coordinating with US intelligence. Some organizations, National Review for instance, may have been CIA ops outright. Or maybe the spooks just brought influence and networking. But clearly there was a nexus. ( I don’t deny the existence of genuine popular elements too, but they were manipulated and co-opted just as they are today ).I think the founders of the “Conservative Movement” saw ordinary Americans as insufficiently willing to keep America on permanent global war footing. There was the usual business grift too (e.g. Koch). But I think enthusiasm for the security state has always been the main thing for the “Conservative Movement.”To be sure, anti-communism in the 1950s was justified: we know now the government was full of communists. However, like Islamism today, communism soon became more of a cartoon bogeyman, politically useful, than a real threat.The aim of the new “Conservative Movement” was to undercut the old conservative movement: to channel the energy of ordinary conservative citizens into causes useful to the funders, and to discredit the anti-war conservatism that was the majority American position right up to Pearl Harbor.At some point in the 1960s, there was further evolution. (1) Zionism became more openly assertive in US politics, eventually insinuating itself into the heart of the “Conservative Movement” via the neoconservatives, then completely taking it over circa the late 1990s. (2) racial/sexual/abortion politics were inflamed deliberately by intellectuals and jurists. Put some extra parentheses around “intellectuals” and “jurists” if you like, but lots of gentiles were involved too.Item (2) is an essay in itself so let’s stick to item (1).Sadly, at this point, the crazies on our side enter the picture and start muddying the waters, trying to connect everything and everybody to an imagined central cabal. Nonetheless, keeping two feet on the ground, it’s still clear that the military complex, ideological Zionists and the intelligence community have a mostly unified agenda. Slavish, fawning, unquestioning support for Israel is the most obvious manifestation.Subordination to a foreign agenda isn’t conservative or patriotic in the least, but support for Israel has now become an article of faith in the “Conservative Movement” to an extent previous generations would have regarded as weird and distasteful. It’s reached almost self-parody now but remains unmentionable. Pat Buchannan was the last major figure I know of to discuss the problem outright. Bernie Sanders and the left wing talk about it to a point. Ilhan Omar and clowns like that talk about it but they are obviously controlled opposition. I think the campus protestors also know the score (hence the Jewish donor class losing their heads over these protests) but they’re too unlikeable to make an appealing case and their minds are otherwise scrambled by the racial/sexual politics aforementioned.There are some court histories of the “Conservative Movement” but very little sober scholarship addressing the theses above because anybody who tries seriously to discuss illegal domestic operations by US intelligence or Israeli/Zionist influence in America immediately leaves polite society. If he achieves any success or popularity its even worse because then his physical safety may come into question.

Heritage, otherwise a typical example of the Con, Inc., grifting complex, actually is an exception to O’Sullivan’s Law (“all organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing”). The backstory to that is delicious.Heritage appointed a Bushie Deluxe and magical negress, Kay Cole James, as its president late into Trump’s term. True to form, she also was on the take from all the usual suspects, Google looming large among them. As a direct result, once ensconced as Heritage poohbah, James predictably advocated for transgenderism, open borders and threw around racism accusations. During an interview with Tucker Carlson, I think it was, she claimed he was one of the Evil Ones.Heritage donors immediately and shockingly revolted, James activated her Golden Parachute, and Heritage became part of the Faux Right. Heritage now acts all based and stuff and takes positions that a few years back would have caused a staff member to be hurled into the void. In this sense it is an infinitely richer version of Charlie Kirk or Matt Walsh as far as trajectory goes.Other Con, Inc., fraudsters such as National Review were far too slow on the take because the current staffers are far more stupid than their founders. People forget the context, but “The Conservative Case for…” crashed on the shoals of so-called “transgender rights” movement. Google, of course, stuffed hundred dollar bills into National Review’s G-string to get that one printed. AEI, which is more or less a hostile foreign intelligence operation, suffered a similar fate. Look for the Koch roaches to seek out a more deceptive Trojan horse than these old and faded whores, who work their mattresses in the very same way Buckley and that type trash did for decades but with less subtlety.Either True Conservatism has never been tried or it is a more failed and corrupt ideology than Marxism. I know where I’m placing my bet.

Just saw where the US is pledging Russian-owned $-backed assets for “loans” to Ukraine. This is the equivalent of rifling through little brothers pockets for spare change, and marks the end of the money pipeline spigot to Ukraine. As Zman points out, things will play out toward the end of the summer. This was the best scheme they could throw together after the House’s spiteful flag waving drama and due to election countdown. How inspirational it must be for a place like New Palestine OH to see the spiteful mutants in Congress pull out all the stops for Ukraine.

I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but this is what Nick Fuentes has been talking about the past couple weeks (and what Z mocked him for in last week’s pod). The conservacuck operation not only did not change in response to Trump’s victory and the obvious winning playbook that emerged from it (roughly, the Sailer Strategy), they acted as the first line of defense for the regime against Trump. They did it very well, because of Trump’s lack of understanding of DC as well as his weakness for flattery (something a lot of people, like Netanyahu, also exploited, and also something that the shitlibs failed to). In 2020 they openly worked with the liberals to steal the election, as outlined in Molly Ball’s TIME article. In 2024 they are doing the same thing, except Trump seems more willing to play ball than he was back then, maybe because he is older, more tired, and has real personal stakes here in a victory.

When money controls politics the deepest pockets always win. It is always thus in the decadent phase

My own Congressman is a f–ing POS. He used to be the state GOP chairman but resigned to run for an open seat in a super-Republican gerrymander in what is otherwise a very deep Blue state. He’s a total Zio-shill and Israel/Ukraine bootlicker. His hand-picked “conservative” predecessor resigned rather than vote against gun control.Same thing with my State senator. Tells the rubes what they want to hear to continually get re-elected in his Republican gerrymander, but is 100% impotent in the statehouse, which is controlled by the radical left 2:1.Cashes in his state paychecks and pads his state pension to go through the motions.Ka-ching. Total grifters.

All I know is that I’m sick and tired of the Israel BS. All Israel all the time. Israel! Israel! Israel! Massie did a valuable service explaining what’s going on in his interview with Tucker. This podcast was a good follow-up.

Yes, the Borg is real. Yes, it dominates DC and rules us from the shadows. No, voting harder will never fix this. The only cure is collapse because that begets the fog of chaos and provides the necessary camouflage for remedy. They are aiming for a managed collapse in which the plebs go crazy and Jim Bob starts offing his woke neighbors. This would then justify a jackboot reaction and enable transition to a techo-tyranny. What beats this? Anonymous antibodies does. A lot of oligarchs took serious note of Prigozhin’s fate. Just sayin’.

Fascinating, thank you for this. At least those of us who are shut out of this system can keep a relatively clear conscience. Imagine going around day to day with that desperate fear of wrongthink which you described, which results in such craven behavior by these people, who are so desperate to maintain their position. The same process, in a far-left context, is at work, of course in the educational system now. I agree that it doesn’t appear that this system can be reformed somehow.I’ve wondered for a long time why the quality of leadership has been so low for so many years, in a country with such a huge population. Why have no Clay, Webster, or Calhoun appeared, or even a TR, Robert Taft, or Eisenhower, whatever their faults might have been. Why Cuomo, Bush, Clinton, Trump, Paul and other dynasties keep arising, (not to mention the Podhoretz’s, Kristol’s, etc.) when there are so many other good minds and hearts out there. This helps explain it.On a slightly related tangent, I’ve been reading the recent book Big Intel, by Michael Waller, about the transformation of the FBI and CIA. Horrifying stuff.

The first one who comes to mind is Eric Ericsson from Red State, but he’s really a wanna-be. I remember the 2nd year of barry’s first term and there was all furor over another proposed amnesty.I was perusing the boards at Red State on this subject and a user there posted a link to a series of graphs and tables showing how if we removed the illegals from our country, everything from violent crime, to the overcrowding of the schools, to the bankrupting of the social safety net would drop dramatically.Ericsson responded by saying, “We don’t need your anti-hispanic racism here, you’re banned!” I remember thinking that it was no wonder we can’t win, these people refuse to call a spade a spade.

Cliff Asness is an odd character. He’s one of the founders of AQR, which is a monster mutual fund company. I believe that AQR was a general hedge fund before transitioning to retail.Anyway, Asness is your classic NYC Jew. He proclaims to be more or less a libertarian but is also a (quiet) Zionist. So, yeah, open borders and individualism for thee and nationalism for me. He also, of course, hated Trump. Why? Who knows. It’s why he loves Goldberg so much.Like his fellow NYC money changer Ackman, Asness was shocked, shocked to discover after Oct. 7 that college campuses were filled with people who hated whites and was on a rampage to get his alma mater Penn back in line. He blocked me on Twitter for pointing that he never cared when those same types were calling for whites to die, but now he cares because they’re attacking Jews.Funny thing about Asness is that I believe he married the Midwest daughter of a pastor or something like that, which, now that I think of it, is also pretty typical of Jews.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair

The money tied up in these operations is obscene. They provide nothing of value to the health of the republic or its polity.

The “cock” brothers – love it.As far as the CIC – conservative industrial complex/libshit industrial complex – I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure. There is absolutely no way to reform the system.While I do support the NRA, it’s just basic. The column in their mag where they have short stories of joe/jane normie defending him/herself, home or others from intruders/attackers never identify the perps other than “a man, two men etc.”, when we all know it’s jigs. Come on assholes, just tell it like it is. Whoops, I guess donations might be impacted…

Z seems to be using the verb “slither” a lot lately…

Somewhat related, the Conservative Industrial Complex only works in a stable system. Introduce chaos and it starts to break down.Trump in 2016 was the first sign of the breakdown, as he was driven by mostly young White male gamers outraged that their games were gayified and diversified by the Kathleen Kennedy rule. As the core voters and mass donors, their money and mobilization easily outpaced the mercenary donor system the way Napoleon’s mass levies of national armies outpaced the aristocratic regimes of mercenaries.While Trump is the only one to successfully defy the Conservative Industrial Complex, others will follow based on charisma and patronage to a much wider group than the Conservative Industrial Complex can scale towards. At most, Con Inc can only support a tiny few, no more than say 20,000 tops. There are a lot more White men than that, frozen out of the Fortune 500, University System, Military, NGO-istan, etc. wanting/needing a leader and patronage.Zerohedge is reporting that the House passed the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which mandates AUTOMATIC registration of all males 18-26 for the Draft. Supposedly, service will be four years. Yep, Draft is coming. War with Russia in Ukraine is coming.So, JUST as I predicted, White guys (no way gays, diverse etc get sent) will be fighting and dying on the Russian front. We can expect the mother of all draft riots and other things as this progresses. [The other shoe to drop is forcing older White guys into unpaid defense work as demanded]

From today’s / yesterday’s Zerohedge article, there is a link to a US Army War College Article discussing the Ukraine War and essentially, what a fight with Russia and/or China would look like:https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3240&context=parameters“The Russia-Ukraine War is exposing significant vulnerabilities in the Army’s strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand and replace casualties.11 Army theater medical planners may anticipate a sustained rate of roughly 3,600 casualties per day, ranging from those killed in action to those wounded in action or suffering disease or other non-battle injuries.12 With a 25 percent predicted replacement rate, the personnel system will require 800 new personnel each day. For context, the United States sustained about 50,000 casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In large-scale combat operations, the United States could experience that same number of casualties in two weeks.”So in two weeks, 50,000 US dead or badly wounded (unable to fight) or MIA.All that Forever War nonsense required: A. no serious peer or near-peer adversary. B. Casualty rates in a volunteer military at 200+ a month, more or less. C. No serious imposition to the way of life of ordinary people.Neither Con Inc nor Leftism State can survive the manpower losses, let alone the material losses, of such a war. It looks to me that the Military has been telling the Hard Left and Con Inc (the unholy marriage of Mao and Blackrock) that this path is unsustainable and the leadership Jonah Goldberg up to Hillary and Obama just are not listening because the corporate media paints the Russians as Iraqi-Saddam lite.Expect full war by August.

You had better update your gun laws knowledge concerning Vermont. Vermont is being overran by wokes from NYC, Mass. & NJ. Their gun laws are changing accordingly.

Conservative Inc. will be a lot different in 30 years.Think of Conservative, Inc. in 1990. It was the last gasp of the stuffy Reaganite-Libertarian, common-sense, WASPy, anti-Soviet, big-business-barbecue-and-football Conservatism, with a tinge of benign racism, which had dominated since the 1960s.Prior to 1960, most Conservatives (Democrat and Republican) were self-made, God-fearin’, hell-bent on beating Communism and gub’mint programs, and segregatin’ the races.By 2020 Conservative Inc. was a mere echo, a last gasp, of the immoral crony Conservatism that started with the W. Bush years. It had become the bloated, irrelevant husk of a political bloc that didn’t know how to win nor who its voter base was. It had money, and Boomer eyeballs, but not much more.In 2050, I suspect Conservative, Inc. will be diverse and populist…imagine Tuckers, Don Juniors, Ramaswamies, and other lightly-based blacks and browns. There’s no way Mitch McConnel types will remain in our turbulent future.

You didn’t mention the Hoover Institute. Those guys were the original Con. Inc. back before it was cool. You could roll all the “conservative” organizations you mentioned into one group and those people would fit comfortably within the Hoover Institute.

One positive step would be to disperse the bureaucrats.MoveInteriorto the west, say, Denver or another city.They would be closer to their assets, meaning all that Federal land, and closer to the constituents who benefit from or more likely suffer from their acts.Next, move other departments, or abolish them. The favorite for the latter isEducation.They don’t educate. Student performance is declining. They suck up resources and suck up to the proggie notions that accelerate the decline. Return their functions to the states.Some departments could be more responsive and accountable with some broad policy steps like eliminatingDEI. All those whodidn’tearnit, and their under-qualified supporters in the government and those NGOs would have to earn an honest living. That is another step in reducing the money-laundering, too.Develop a dashboard for Congress to show who gets paid how much by whom, and factor in the pro and con for citizens in all that grifting and self-dealing.The voters would probably say that there isn’t much value added by all that federal employment in and around DC and NoVA. Incestuous actions by compromised PMC and MIC elitists to preserve their grifts don’t help the country but rather destabilize it.

I would guess a big share of Z-man’s listeners work inside the system described.

Came to this post a bit late after a busy weekend. Just want to say that in addition to the Z-Man’s great job in describing the Elephant, the quality and quantity of epic rants in the comments this time is off the charts. Warms the cockles of me heart, it does! And short of the smell of napalm in the morning, there’s nothing better than good folks dumping on VDH. I mean it.

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If the right-wing think tank was a corporation board room, it would go something like this:CEO: We’re here to win an election. Who has an idea on how to do that?Yes-Man #1: Imitate the platform of our opponents?CEO: Excellent idea! Mark that down, Jones.Yes-Man #2: Cave on everything except gun control and low corporate taxes?CEO: I’ll buy that for a dollar!Yes-Man #3: Fight tomorrow’s “culture wars,” conveniently forgetting that we lost yesterday’s “cultural wars.”CEO: (sad face) You had to bring that up…— Greg Nikolic (www.dark.sport.blog)

The problem with the legacy right wing is that it is constantly on the defensive. If you want to lose a battle, fight with “on the defensive” on the brain.The notions of the right are couched against the leading contender, the liberal Left, because reaction, not proaction, is the preferred mode of being.Consider abortion rights. The right managed a major victory with the help of its allies on the Supreme Court, and it is prepared to squander this victory to make nice with the liberals. You can see it in their faces. The liberal slate of politics is the preferred order of the day, and to be part of acceptable society, the right’s standbearers go along with the preferred order of the day.It is said a shark must go on swimming to get the oxygen it needs to survive. If the right wants to survive, it should act more like a shark, seeking aggressive action, and less like a jellyfish getting poked at by sticks from the cool kids on the seashore.— Greg Nikolic (www.dark.sport.blog)