A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss a recent post on X by Bronze Age Pervert (BAP). Below is a screenshot of his post.

And the community note:

Here is a link to BAP’s tweet: https://x.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1898073885884731702 and a link to my response: https://x.com/DanielDHumor/status/1898777504610992421.

BAP is doing a lot in this post. The word “almost” is doing some very heavy lifting when he claims that “almost all the girls at Epstein Island were 18 or over.” Then BAP straight up lies when he claims that “there’s no evidence of anything under 17 or of abuse.” As the Community Note says, “Epstein was indicted for sexual abuse of girls as young as 14.” We’re talking middle-school age girls. And these weren’t girls who came from stable, intact homes where a father or even an older brother was looking out for them, helping them to avoid psychopathic predators, like a 50-year-old Israeli spy who pimped them out to powerful American oligarchs and public officials.

Then there’s the sneaky rhetorical push BAP gives his readers to send them careening down a slippery slope. It starts with a screenshotted tweet in which someone criticizes 30-year-old men who are in relationships with “18 to 23 year old” women. Is that kind of relationship inappropriate? Maybe, maybe not. That would depend a lot on the facts and circumstances and whether the woman is on the older side of that age range. But regardless, there is a vast difference between what Jeffrey Epstein and his clients did to middle-school aged girls, and a 30-year-old man dating a 23-year-old woman. BAP’s rhetorical sleight-of-hand is like an abortion activist saying, “Well, since we can’t point to the precise moment that an embryo becomes an actual baby, there’s no difference between killing a nine-month-old viable fetus and aborting a nine-day-old embryo, so we should just go ahead and allow all of it.” Chesterton fences exist for a reason!

Why might a smart guy like Bronze Age Pervert bust out his rhetorical spellcasting to minimize the evils of Epstein Island?

I wonder if BAP made a similar case to minimize the harms done by the UK’s Pakistani rape gangs? “Oh, come on, you prudish, Puritannical Brits! Almost all of these white girls were 18 or over! This is just hysteria over natural attraction to fully grown women! You Limeys need to lighten up!” Why would people like BAP want to mollify everyone’s outrage about Epstein Island, but not the Pakistani rape gang scandal in the UK? To borrow a phrase from BAP (Bullshitter Apologist for Pedophiles), “Wut means?”

Basically, BAP is to the dissident Right what the Sackler family was to healthcare. He’s trying to sell you poison to make a fast buck while promoting degeneracy and the destruction of your civilization. He’s trolling for clicks and book sales and has no moral principles that he holds sacred and no commitment to America as a nation or to Americans as a people. BAP is a contrarian, but there are interesting limits to his contrarianism. For those with eyes to see, there are dots to connect and patterns to recognize. I see the game BAP is running, and I detest him for it.

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My guest on this episode, Mr. John Carter of Postcards from Barsoom, needs no introduction. We had a fun and free-flowing conversation covering all kinds of topics related to understanding the current state of the culture war, how we got here, and where things may be heading. So much has changed so fast, that it can be challenging to put it all in perspective and get a sense for what it all means.

Here are a few of the posts and Notes and people that we mention in this episode:

Some of John’s evergreen pieces from not that long ago, like They say they want their sons to succeed (But they do everything in their power to ensure they fail), are worth rereading now to remind ourselves of what things were like when the gay race communists were running amok and rubbing our noses in DIEversity.

Then there’s Billionaire Psycho’s excellent post (a guest post on Postcards from Barsoom), Crocodile Tears and the Conservative Movement (Why Conservatives encourage bright young men to waste years flipping burgers — while holding up 'reformed' prostitutes as tradwife icons).

There’s a Note from Prester John Andrews that succinctly describes the current state of intra-elite competition:

And at a couple of points, we discuss Neoliberal Feudalism’s recent critique of John Carter and his (Carter’s) post The Blitzkreig Through the Institutions. I think Neoliberal Feudalism raises some important warnings, especially in light of Trump’s statements about America taking over Gaza and the ridiculous preponderance of Zionists in his Administration, but I disagree with his assessment of John Carter’s motives. As for whose interpretation of the Trump 2.0 phenomenon is correct, I guess time will tell.

Once again, much thanks to John Carter for joining me on this episode. We ran out of time long before we came close to running out of things to talk about, so we will hopefully have a Part II soon.

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After being in office for less than a month, Trump has already done a lot of good … but there are definite warning signs that we should not ignore. Recently, Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Our Greatest Ally and 4 ever BFF Israel, and announced that America will be cleaning up Bibi’s mess in Gaza. Israel broke it; we buy it (and then clean it up, secure it militarily, ethnically cleanse it, and redevelop it). Trump has since doubled down on this pledge.

This has provoked some interesting reactions on the Right. It is true that nothing unites people like a common enemy, but once your people start winning, it can be easy to forget that your common enemy is still there, still scheming, and still very much committed to your destruction.

Why do I say that whites are acting like blacks politically? Well, listen to this episode to find out! We discuss the following questions:

* What does “black” mean as a political identity?

* What does “white” mean as a political identity?

* How has the politics of “blackness” been used to manipulate blacks?

* How might the politics of “whiteness” be used to manipulate whites?

At the end of the day, it’s PsyOps all the way down (and all the way up), but at least our side is in power now, right? Well, it’s complicated. There’s a good aspect of identity politics — the current administration is rolling back and repudiating the anti-white, anti-male, and anti-normal-and-healthy-sexuality agenda of the Obama/Biden regime — but when it comes to identity politics, there’s also the bad and the ugly. And Trump’s recent announcements about his plans for Gaza are a warning that things could get really ugly for us, if we’re not careful. I hope not, but history does not encourage optimism here.

In this episode, I reference Neoliberal Feudalism’s latest post about The Paradox of Zionism Wrapped Inside White Nationalism. Although I would certainly urge caution about impugning anyone’s motives — people can be sincere AND well-intentioned AND mistaken for a variety of reasons, and this is very different than being a paid shill or consciously acting as a COINTELPRO agent — nevertheless, when it comes to the bigger picture of how an incoming PsyOp appears to be shaping up, I believe these alarm bells need to be rung very often and very loudly. Maybe it’s a false alarm (I hope to God it is), but maybe it’s not, and if not, then we’d better not ignore or underestimate the enemy who is behind it. The Tree of Woe post analyzing the strategy of evil is pertinent here. This enemy is playing the long game and will gladly allow us to win some seemingly big battles in order to ensure that we ultimately lose the war!

Some folks have said, “Hey, this is just Trump’s style — he says something wild and crazy and uses it for anchoring! It’s just a negotiating tactic!” Okay, but who is Trump negotiating with when he stands next to Bibi and announces that we Americans are going to make Gaza our responsibility? Is he negotiating with the Israelis? Or is he negotiating with us Americans who will be the ones paying for it (up to and including paying for it with our lives and our children’s lives)? We need to advocate for our own interests here, rather than blindly trusting Trump to do that for us. As Kulak’s latest post warns, trusting the plan and meekly being a good team player and contenting ourselves with getting some, but not all, of what we want, is a recipe for defeat. Don’t despair, but don’t ignore the very real warning signs either.

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After doing a post about the spiritual importance of optimism, I realized the logical way to follow up that post would be to do a podcast interview featuring one of the bleakest of blackpillers, Rurik Skywalker, because obviously I should immediately alienate all the people who subbed in order to get uplifting hopium from me, right?

Well, if you’ve followed me for any length of time, none of this will be surprising, because I’m all over the map in terms of my spiritual journey and artistic explorations, and the content of this blog and podcast reflect that wandering spirit. Also, I don’t think my optimism is as incompatible with Rurik’s pessimism as might appear at first glance: I think we both agree that the god of this world — who connives people into worshipping him/her/it as the ultimate and universal God and who has managed to skinsuit pretty much all of the major religions and cultural institutions — is evil and anti-human. I believe there is an ultimate God who is good, that there is a pantheon of lesser gods who are aligned with that real God and who are benevolently disposed towards us, and that it is possible for at least some of us to connect with those benevolent gods (and even the ultimate God) and thereby alchemize our experience of being in this material realm. I think Rurik would generally agree with that 30,000-foot view. Of course, things get more confusing (especially for me) as you zoom in, and when it comes to understanding or explaining how it all works practically or historically or scientifically or theologically, I have no idea. Rurik articulates some pointed challenges to my own beliefs that I honestly do not know how to answer. I’m still very much a work in progress, and so is my worldview.

Anyway, Rurik is one of those people who always has meaningful insights about a variety of important issues. If you haven’t already, you should subscribe to his blog and podcast at The Slavland Chronicles.

And of course, if you somehow still haven’t subscribed to this blog/podcast, you should do so ASAP.

And if you want to listen to a another (subsequent) guest appearance from Rurik, check out Hacking Away at the Roots of the Regime Narrative (recorded Wednesday, March 12, 2025).

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Things have been getting really weird lately, with some strange and sophisticated PsyOps that appear to be laying the groundwork for something bigger. People’s OODA loops (“Observe Orient Decide Act”) are being reset with each new breaking story in the news cycle. I have no idea what it all means, or where it’s all heading. All I know is, caution is warranted.

Matthew Livelsberger, a Green Beret, was supposedly desperate to alert the American people to the clear and present danger posed by China’s super-advanced drones (i.e., Weapons of Mass Destruction!!!), and he was paranoid that the alphabet agency spooks were tracking him, so logically he decided to rent a Tesla cyber truck (exactly the kind of vehicle you would want if you’re being monitored), load it with high explosives, drive it to a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, shoot himself, and then blow up his own corpse. Miracle of miracles, his Military ID survived the explosion, intact, just like the hijacker’s passport on 9/11, and this enabled federal law enforcement to identify him immediately.

A few hours before that, an ISIS-sympathizing jihadi, Shamsud-Din Jabber, went on a rampage in New Orleans to glorify Allah and remind Americans that the Global War on Terror (GWOT) never really ended. To make sure we got the message, law enforcement granted a New York Post reporter full access to the jihadi’s home the very next day, to give the curious public an inside look at a bomb-maker’s workshop. Nothing strange about that!

So two very strange terrorist attacks, both happening on New Year’s Day, both involving soldiers or former soldiers who had been stationed at Fort Bragg, and each of them implicates (in some way) a different “enemy,” one China (by way of Livelsberger’s purported email about the existential threat of China’s super-scary drones — a.k.a., WMDs), and the other Iran (supposed sponsor of ISIS, a jihadi terrorist organization operating all around Israel that has magically never attacked Israel). The more I learn about these two incidents, the more bizarre they seem.

A few months ago, Mark Bisone wrote an interesting analysis of similarly strange events, like the container ship taking out a Baltimore bridge and the land in Lahaina where all the proles lived, that just happened to be ripe for redevelopment, going up in flames. I’m not saying those disasters are connected to the New Year’s terrorist attacks, but they reveal the same pattern of unusual events coupled with implausible official cover stories. In some cases, the powers that be say, “Keep it moving! Nothing to see here!” And in other cases, they stop and point things out and say, “Everyone get a good look at this detail right here!” And all the while, I feel like I’m watching some wannabe David Copperfield street magician telling me with a straight face that he’s just made the Statue of Liberty disappear while simultaneously trying to sell me life insurance. I don’t know what to make of it. Are we about to be “memetically judoed” again?

On a different (but could it be related?) note, Trump has been trolling the Canadians lately about making their country the 51st State of the USA. Today, he escalated the rhetoric, making some folks wonder whether he’s really trolling them or is he for real? Trump said this:

Note what he says about how Canada would “be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them.” Hmmmm. This is getting weird. China has WMDs (says the Green Beret who allegedly blew himself up outside a Trump Hotel), and Canada is constantly surrounded by these Chinese Ships (which are ostensibly the kind of ship that carries China’s WMDs), so Canada should be subsumed into the American Empire.

And then I saw this poll tweeted out by Elon Musk, asking whether America should “liberate” the British from their tyrannical government:

Now, I do agree that the British are suffering under a tyrannical government. I also like the idea of expressing kinship and solidarity with Europeans, since literally every other demographic practices in-group preference and since all of these other demographics appear to be openly united against us. But … something about this didn’t sit right with me. While I appreciate Elon Musk calling attention to the Pakistani-rape-gang crisis in the U.K. and to the scandalous way the British government has enabled the Muslim rapists and covered up their crimes against the native British, I also noticed multiple big Zionist accounts on X suddenly, now, making similar appeals as Musk — of course, they did so without addressing their own coalition’s significant role in fomenting the anti-white hatred and the open-borders mass-immigration policies throughout the West that created the conditions for these Pakistani-rape-gangs to run amok in Britain in the first place. So NOW the Zionists care deeply about Europeans and about them having their own countries and not being overrun by and replaced with brown Third-Worlders … What suddenly changed? The same folks who only yesterday called us “Freier” and “Goyim” are now championing our causes today? It’s like a pushy, slimy used car salesman suddenly showing up at your home and offering to rake your leaves or cut your grass for free and saying he just wants to be neighborly.

I also couldn’t help but notice that between Trump and Musk, they’re making the case for assembling the Global Superpower of Oceana, from Orwell’s 1984. Maybe I’m just being paranoid. Then again, 1984 is an odd book. In a world where history has been erased and rewritten and the mainstream media is just propagandistic noise, Winston Smith finally gets ahold of a “secret” book that explains how everything *really* works from a supposedly dissident standpoint, only to later learn that, while the book is accurate, it was actually written by Party insiders as part of a grand PsyOp. When you read that, did the thought cross your mind, “Is this what I’m reading now? A book, purportedly from a dissident perspective, that explains how everything *really* works, but that was really written by a Party insider as part of a PsyOp?” Is that just schizo paranoia on my part, or recognition of predictive programming in literary form? 1984 is a great book that explains a lot and which has turned out to be, eerily enough, prophetic. Some wiseacres have quipped (especially during COVID) that 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. Sometimes, though, I wonder about that. Maybe it was written by someone who was more like Obrien than Winston Smith? Regardless, the fact that Trump and Musk are now selling the idea of Oceana as a country we should aspire to create gives me an uneasy feeling.

A caveat is in order: I am not experiencing “buyer’s remorse” over Trump’s election. It was either him or Kamala, at the end of the day, and even if Neoliberal Feudalism and Rurik Skywalker turn out to be correct that Trump made some “compromises” behind closed doors in order to be allowed back into the White House and that he is now firmly under the globohomo regime’s control, I would still rather have “Big Brother” in the White House than “Big Sister Kamala.” But I’m still holding out hope, for now, that some things will go my way (and my people’s way) under Trump’s Presidency, and I am certain that those possibilities would have been foreclosed under a Harris Administration.

But all the same, I’m going to be more circumspect about what I agree to, going forward, especially since our depraved elite seem so hell bent on bamboozling us into voluntarily assenting to their agenda, rather than merely enforcing our outward and unwilling compliance (this, too, was depicted masterfully in 1984). I don’t know why, but getting our consent — even if they obtain it only through fraud or duress — is really important to them. Perhaps this is because of constraints on their power or rules that they have to follow, or maybe it’s only because it adds some extra pangs of pleasure to their psychopathic enjoyment of our suffering. Whatever the reason, I want to withdraw my consent as much as I can from whatever evil they have planned.

I can’t change things politically on a national level, let alone on the international level, where some really big PsyOps seem to be in the works. But I can be more aware of and in control of my own emotional attachments and the agreements I make, directly or indirectly, with the agendas of others, including — no, especially when it comes to politicians and public figures I generally like, such as Trump. I would encourage you all to do the same.

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A couple of recent events may be harbingers of what’s to come: Daniel Penny got acquitted, and Bashar Al Assad got regime-changed. In other words, we’re seeing culture-war victories domestically and NeoCon-artist shenanigans internationally. Some on the dissident Right have pointed to these events as confirmation of their one theory to explain them all: that Zionists completely control the incoming Trump Administration, and that they “allowed” Trump to win election in order to get buy-in from straight white men in preparation for another pointlessly destructive Middle-East war. With this in mind, they conclude that you should be blackpilled about America’s future and about everything else. I disagree.

Obviously, I don’t deny the importance of foreign policy or the dangers of the Zionist lobby. No, you’re not imagining things. Yes, Israel really does have inordinate control over America’s government and public officials. As I’ve said before, if we regular Americans had even half as much influence over our own elected officials as the Zelensky regime (Ukraine) or the Netenyahu regime (Israel) so clearly does, our country would be radically different. Instead, we are subjects of a puppet empire, and our American officials are just franchise managers beholden to hidden powers operating above the level of the nation state. That said, even franchise managers can make a difference in matters of critical importance.

Daniel Penny got acquitted. Some are heralding this verdict as the “end of the BLM era.” Although Kyle Rittenhouse got similarly acquitted during the height of the BLM era, I get their point. The regime could have done a lot more to ensure more public pressure on the jury to deliver a guilty verdict (by allowing details about jurors to be leaked to the media and by allowing credible threats to be made against the jurors and their families and neighborhoods). The regime could have called up its street communists from BLM and Antifa after the verdict was announced, just like it could have engineered an outburst of violent protests after the election. There has been a palpable shift in the zeitgeist. The high water mark of BLM and Antifa is a fading memory, and the cultural currents are flowing rapidly in the opposite direction.

Meanwhile, Bashar Al Assad got regime-changed in Syria. Israel clearly wanted him gone, and the IDF has “defensively” invaded portions of Syria. The NeoCon-artist cabal clearly wanted Assad gone. Barack Obama — the psychopathic war criminal and Nobel Peace Prize winner — wanted Assad gone, and finally got rid of him during the waning days of the Biden Presidency (a.k.a., the de facto third Obama term). Trump isn’t even back in office yet, and the blackpillers on the Right are already pointing to Syria as proof that all the excitement over Trump’s second term is just unhinged hopium doomed to end in soul-crushing disappointment. While I understand the importance of remaining sober-minded about the prospects of Trump’s second terms — especially when it comes to the bigger issues involving the military-industrial complex, the CIA and State Department black magicians, and the AIPAC/Mossad influence — I think the despair is both premature and counter-productive.

Our options are constrained. The liberals got so disconnected from reality because they did not accept the constraints of Human Nature (or even Nature in general). Folks on the dissident Right can sometimes get disconnected from reality because they do not accept the constraints of geopolitical reality. We are not the senior partners even in the government of our own country, let alone in the transnational cabal that controls foreign affairs. If Kamala “the Cackling Commie” Harris had won the election, the power of that transnational cabal would not have been diminished in any meaningful way — the demons who run it would have simply used different tactics to achieve their desired outcomes, but those outcomes wouldn’t have changed. Meanwhile, the public officials of our puppet government would have been openly promoting antiwhite, anti-male, and anti-heterosexual policies and propaganda. Instead, we get a “RETVRN” of sorts to a 1980s-ish state of affairs: Daniel Penny got acquitted, just like Benard Goetz did, and Assad got regime-changed, just like Manuel Noriega did. Same shit, different decade. But I’ll take the 1980s over the 2010s any day. We should see this as a victory, given what the options and potential timelines were. I, for one, would not want to be living through the timeline in which Comrade Kamala’s administration was marshaling the resources of the federal government to import 40 million more criminal invading “migrants” and using them as human bioweapons to destroy what’s left of the social fabric; or promoting even more blatantly antiwhite, anti-male, and anti-heterosexual DIEversity; or unleashing even more anarcho-tyranny and jackbooted lawfare against regular Americans.

Here’s a video of Dafna Yoran, the Israeli dual-citizen and hideously ugly transgender thing that Manhattan’s Soros DA, Alvin Bragg, had sicced on Daniel Penny to destroy him for acting virtuously in the face of vicious depravity. She is articulating a viewpoint that would have been completely uncontroversial in a Harris administration:

We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. The inverse-Dr. Panglosses of the Dissident Right want to prescribe you a spiritually lethal dose of blackpills because we got the least-bad option among various bad options, because in spite of “winning” we still find ourselves sometimes losing. But that’s Life in this corrupt and fallen world — whether it’s the devil or the demiurge, the hidden power that is controlling the world’s biggest institutions is spiritually depraved. We are winning when we are able to make the most of things, form families, raise children, have friendships, foster pro-social norms, build character virtues, develop wisdom and understanding, etc., even if the fallen world we live in is doomed to repeat endless cycles of senseless suffering and evil. As Christ reminds us, this is not our ultimate spiritual home. Celebrate the Good, reject the blackpill, and make the most of the opportunities available to us here and now.

Meanwhile, if you’re concerned about the Zionist agenda, consider the possibility that the Left may be better poised to meaningfully resist it than the dissident Right. Why do you think the Zionists switched horses mid-stream like this? Did they do this because they are omniscient and omnipotent 12-D chess players, or because they, too, are constrained and dealing with imperfect knowledge and ability to control things? The Zionists who are trying to impose their agenda on America using Trump’s Administration will have their attempts backfire in some interesting and unpredictable ways, and this will create opportunities that the dissident Right can capitalize on — but you have to stay engaged in order to seize those opportunities when they arise, and that means, don’t overdose on blackpills!

I am sad to see Assad go. (I will especially miss the “Assad must go” memes, which were always a delightful thorn in the side of the NeoCon-artists.) I know the aftermath of the Syrian color revolution will be a disaster for everyone except the most psychopathic jihadis and their strange Zionist bedfellows. On the other hand, I am happy to see Daniel Penny acquitted. We are probably going to be stuck with the Zionists’ regime-changes and forever wars for many years to come. Meanwhile, for at least the next few years, we will most likely see some important victories in the domestic culture wars — which do have a very real and very profound impact on our daily lives. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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Sometimes I criticize the ADL, AIPAC, or the State of Israel. Usually this provokes a few people to call me a Jew-hating antisemite as they unsubscribe from my blog or block me on Notes. Out of curiosity, I sometimes pull up my past interactions with the aggrieved party, and whenever I do, I notice an interesting pattern: these are almost always the same people who enthusiastically liked and shared and commented on my posts criticizing BLM and black identity politics. Just about every time. They love slogans like, “Facts don’t care about your feelings!,” but only when the object of ridicule is someone else’s ethnic-grievance cartel.

Of course, this is a pattern of behavior that helped red-pill Candace Owens on the JQ:

You can shit on the white goyim; you can shit on the black goyim; but don’t you dare criticize anything even remotely Jewish! It does not matter how carefully you articulate the distinction between (1) Jewish groups like the ADL and AIPAC and (2) individual persons of Jewish ancestry and/or religious belief, they will flip out on you regardless, in the exactly the same way that black ideologues would flip out on you in 2020 if you made even the most milquetoast and nuanced criticism of Black Lives Matter. “What?! You’re saying Black lives don’t matter?! You RACIST!!!” Of course, back when the blacks were doing it in 2020, some of these same Jews and Philosemites were quick to condemn it. They can see the problem with this kind of identity politicking — but only when it’s the other tribe doing it.

This is Narcissistic Personality Disorder operating on the group level. “I’m special! Don’t you dare criticize me! Standards are for you to follow, and for me to enforce against you! Don’t get it twisted, goy! Give me what I want and let me do whatever I want, or I will destroy you and get everyone to hate you and ostracize you. Why are you making me do this to you? Why am I always being victimized?”

You can be Jewish and not embrace that as your identity, just like you can be black and not embrace BLM’s gay race communism as your identity. And if you condemn BLM but think criticism of the ADL should be condemned a priori as “hate speech,” you are either delusional or dishonest or both.

White Americans and Europeans have had our national heroes and founding myths endlessly deconstructed and critiqued, and although this has often been done in bad faith as a power play, some of the criticisms have been legitimate. Our heroes were not perfect angels always acting with the purest of motives. The myths that fed our sense of exceptionalism were, like all myths, exaggerated and one-dimensional caricatures of reality. Having been disabused of our childish naivety about our historical narratives, our nations went to the other extreme of disillusionment and despair, focusing only on the flaws of our forebears. Hopefully, we are now reaching the stage of being able to see them more fully and sympathetically, neither as angels nor as demons, but as men like ourselves, men who were mostly just trying to make their way in this difficult and confusing world, and who were willing to believe narratives that made them feel good about themselves. In other words, men who were just like everyone that is alive today.

To my Jewish friends, I can assure you that we whites have been subjected to this process for decades, and so we can understand how you might feel, when we start critically examining some of your heroes and narratives. You mean to tell me that the Wikipedia entry calling the ADL’s patron saint, Leo Frank, a “lynching victim” might be glossing over some heinous shit that he did to a vulnerable young girl, followed by some devilish machinations on his part to try to frame an innocent black man for his crimes? You mean to tell me that the reactionary movements led by 1930s European fascists might have been reactions to the criminal violence and terrorism of Jewish-dominated communist organizations? You mean to tell me that history is a lot more complicated than the infantile narratives that say, “This group is all perfect and innocent victims, and that group is all devilish monsters and oppressors”? Yeah, I know. These conversations can feel a lot less pleasant when it’s your own group having its crimes and dirty laundry publicly inspected. We white Americans and Europeans are used to it by now, having had our own group’s narratives subjected to this process for the past several decades. Welcome to the party.

Incidentally, when I looked back over the most recent episode of someone rage-quitting my blog because I criticized the wrong tribe’s ethnic-grievance lobby, I realized I had been incorrect about the ADL. I had said the ADL defended the South African blacks’ use of the chant “Kill the Boer.” They didn’t. They minimized it and engaged in a lot of mealy-mouthed “both-side-ism,” but they didn’t defend it.

When video footage emerged on X (Twitter) of an entire stadium of genocidal blacks chanting “Kill the Boer” and “Shoot the white farmer,” the ADL ignored it — until Elon Musk publicly goaded them into addressing it, which the ADL eventually did. I still think their tepid response to the anti-white racism in South Africa is hypocritical, given their dramatically different approach when far less explicit “hate speech” is leveled against Jews, but hey — why should they weigh in at all on this conflict between South African blacks and whites? After all, they’re a Jewish organization, right? Well, they kinda have weighed in on this controversy in the past, and they’ve always done so in a way that minimizes the plight of South African whites and makes them out to be the bad guys. You know, because “blame the victim” is perfectly acceptable when it’s white people getting killed because they are white. The ADL has even gone to the trouble of publicly denouncing American leaders for condemning the anti-white violence in South Africa. And of course this same ADL will shriek like a tantrum-throwing toddler if anyone ever tries to do the exact same thing on issues involving Israelis.

Anyway, I am rooting for Jewish persons, just like I’m rooting for black persons and white persons. You are not your group’s elites. You are not your group’s ethnic-grievance cartel. You are not your group’s psychopaths and criminals. Or at least you don’t have to be. When we criticize them for their psychopathy or malignant narcissism, you don’t have to take it as a personal attack against you — unless you’re also a psychopath or malignant narcissist. If the shoe fits, I guess you should wear it, but that’s 100% on you.

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The morning after Election Day, I read the news that Trump had clearly and incontrovertibly won, and I felt a tangible weight lift from my soul. If America is a cancer patient, Trump’s victory was like getting a report that the treatment appears to have been successful, and that the cancer is now in remission. America may not be cancer free, but our situation is not as bad as it once was — and it’s not nearly as bad as it would have been if Kamala the Cackling Commie had won.

In this episode, we discuss what Trump’s victory means. Worst case scenario? What’s coming our way is still coming, but we now have more time and better circumstances under which to prepare. Best case scenario? Trump’s reelection will prove to be one of those pivotal events that tangibly shifts the zeitgeist towards a better and brighter future. Potentially, the sky’s the limit — literally.

Now that the election is over, it’s easy to be dismissive of pre-election anxieties. Hindsight is really not 20/20 when it comes to appreciating what the mood was just two weeks ago, let alone two years ago. I reference the following posts to put both pre-election anxieties, and post-election sighs of relief, into context:

The Weeks When Decades Happen by Kulak (from October 24, 2024):

And Doomer Optimism: What I See Coming and How I’m Preparing by Tucker Max (from December 29, 2021):

https://www.tuckermax.com/doomer-optimism-what-i-see-coming-how-im-preparing/

At the time they were written, both of these posts expressed very reasonable causes for concern about the future. I picked these two posts, but there are so many others I could have used (like the excellent American Eschaton by Tree of Woe, from September 2023) to demonstrate where we were, not all that long ago. We really don’t know, and will probably never know, just how close to the edge we were.

Certainly, we are not in the clear yet. Inauguration Day is the next big milestone, and a lot can happen before then. But we are in far better position now than we would have been if Harris had won, or if Trump had eked out a doubtful win that the Democrats could plausibly challenge in the courts.

And if all goes well, and if enough of us start believing that we can create something great and glorious as a civilization, then we just might actually do it. God only knows what Trump’s victory could ultimately mean. Truly, as Librarian of Celaeno observed, “The Mandate of Heaven has settled upon him.”

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Kamala Harris is a psychopath. She cares only about seizing and wielding power, and the only power she cares about seizing and wielding is the power to inflict pointless suffering on others.

This explains her commitment to anarcho-tyranny. She doesn’t really care about the “Rule of Law,” or protecting “our democracy,” or supporting the “brave men and women of law enforcement,” or any of the other platitudes she preaches — those are just nice slogans to use as a pretext for seizing and wielding the power to create pain for the people she doesn’t like. And who doesn’t she like? Anyone who isn’t useful to her in her quest for power. And if letting violent criminals run riot inflicts pain on her enemies, then she is happy to scrap the Rule of Law to punish her enemies. Power is all that matters, and the only power that matters is making her enemies suffer.

In this podcast episode, we discuss Kuntala Harris’s psychopathy and her poor acting ability (which makes her contrived emotionalism all the more annoying). This episode also includes audio of Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney, and of Kuntala Harris dishonestly responding to what Trump said. I have embedded videos below of both Trump and Kuntala below, as well as a screenshot of the Tweet from which those videos are derived.

Here’s the video of what Trump actually said:

And here’s the video of Kuntala Harris lying about what Trump said:

Now, I got excited when I heard the Left shrieking about how Trump purportedly wanted to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad. “I only hope her dad is with her,” I said, before adding, “And I hope they livestream it!” Imagine then, my disappointment, when I heard Trump’s actual remarks and learned that he didn’t say that at all. Here I was, happy to hear Trump being so based, but alas and alack, it isn’t so.

That said, I do understand Trump’s point: those who, like Liz Cheney, are all gung ho about war should have some skin in the game; they (or someone very close to them) should also sacrifice for this cause they claim to believe so much in. But they never do. They sit back and get rich off the war profiteering, while leaving the fighting and the dying to all the rubes they hate so much. Fuck the Cheneys, fuck the neocon-artists, and fuck Kuntala Harris.

And while we’re on the subject of Kuntala Harris’s psychopathy, here’s a heartwarming anecdote about how Kuntala oversaw the zealous prosecution of a mother whose seriously ill child had missed too much school. Keep in mind, this is the same cackling commie who raised money to bail out BLM (burn/loot/murder) rioters and whose administration puts up illegal aliens in luxury hotels while American citizens are out in the cold. Watch this video to learn more:

We seem to be suffering from an epidemic of toxic femininity lately, with female psychopaths dropping their masks of sanity everywhere, all at once. Here’s another example. I assume you’ve heard the story of Peanut the Instagram-famous squirrel. When he was just a baby squirrel, his mother was run over by a car. A man rescued and cared for him and raised him to adulthood. He trained Peanut the Squirrel to do cute little tricks for the camera and then put the videos online. Peanut became a sensation. An AWFL Texas woman, perhaps jealous that Peanut was getting more attention than she was, called the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (hereinafter, the “State”) and said the squirrel was being mistreated. To save the squirrel from being mistreated, the State killed him. It was all very humane, though. They gave him a last meal of roasted acorns and rainwater. “You’re safe now, little buddy,” the State’s executioner whispered in the squirrel’s little ear, before administering the poison. “Just go towards the light and be with the Universe or something,” he added, before tossing the body in the trash to make room for the next condemned criminal, a mouse named Mickey (no relation to the Disney mascot). Meanwhile, back in Texas, the AWFL woman cackled, like Kamala Harris, and said, “I got him! Now that stupid squirrel won’t be getting more attention than me ever again!” Unfortunately for her, Peanut the Squirrel has become even more famous in death. Her plan backfired, and now she is seething in envy. (One can only hope.) Here is what the AWFL looks like:

If you want to read a great post about Peanut the Squirrel, what he represents, and what the manner of his execution says about the anarcho-tyranny of the State (they import illegal aliens to replace you, they let violent criminals out early, and they bring the full weight of the Law crashing down on the heads of anyone who rescues baby animals without the proper paperwork), check out John Carter’s post, Squirrel!

And if you’re thinking about not voting because you OD’d on a bottle of blackpills, please read Mark Bisone’s post, A Blackpilled Guide to Voting, in which he applies a version of Pascal’s Wager to the election.

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In this podcast episode, we discuss Kamala Harris’ campaign and whether it demonstrates the absolute limits of astroturfing.

Globohomo Ziobankster Inc has turned mass-marketing and high-tech influence operations into an art. From “remember the Lusitania” to “two weeks to slow the spread,” they have managed to sell some whopping lies to a gullible public over the past century (if not longer). But has their well of PR magic finally run dry?

“Sell the sizzle, not the steak,” is an advertising proverb, but with the Harris campaign, they’re trying to sell the sizzle without any steak — and without any sizzle either. The emperor’s new Yass Queen. And the people aren’t buying it.

Ol’ Kackling Kamala. She has all the psychopathy of Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton, but none of their charm, charisma, or verbal acuity. (Even W was better spoken than Kamala, which is really saying something.) No principles. No concrete plans for cleaning up the Biden Administration’s mess, and no plausible alibi or explanation as to why she should not be blamed for any of that administration’s blunders. Instead, all we get from her is a bunch of obviously insincere playacting, cringey attempts at humor, and histrionic preaching to the girlboss choir. So no substance, and not even any style either. There’s really nothing. She’s just an empty vessel. A pliant ventriloquist dummy eager to sit in the laps of all the banksters and to do and say whatever they want.

Just about the only person more pathetic than Kackling Kamala is her running mate, a bizarre toad-like creature called Tim Walz. Alex Jones said that “they’re putting chemicals in the water that are turning the freaking frogs gay.” Who knows? Maybe they’re also turning the gays into frogs, so now we have gay frogs, like Tim Walz, running for office.

Harris/Walz is the lowest quality presidential ticket in living memory, maybe ever. Even Biden, with all the “rust on the iron pentagon” that his Presidency represented, was somehow better than this. They are really scraping rock bottom now. That alone should make us “Waltzpilled,” as Mark Bisone put it.

But even more abysmal than the product that they’re selling are their attempts to sell it. Every couple of weeks their branding gurus roll out a new slogan. BRAT girl summer. (I still don’t know what that means, and I refuse to find out.) J.D. Vance is WEIRD! (Because Tim Walz is the epitome of normal, healthy masculinity — not to mention all the trannies and cross-dressers in the Biden Administration.) Joy! (So much joy, in fact, that her supporters are sticking their faces in strollers and shrieking at babies.)

In their desperation, they tried to target men, even white men, with their favorite weapon, advertising, but the campaign commercials they created were even more cringe than Kamala when she cackles for half a minute at one of her own bad jokes.

So not only are they running bottom-of-the-barrel candidates, but they’ve apparently got bottom-of-the-barrel marketing teams working on promoting their campaign. We should be doubly Waltzpilled. As Disney has been learning of late, promotion and presentation can only take you so far, when the product your selling is complete garbage. It’s their insane egos that have done it to them. They think they are the best and brightest, and so they don’t even bother to find out why anyone disagrees with them. They’ve been sheltered from reality by easy money, DEI preferences, and a lock on the mainstream media and gatekeeping institutions. But now a viable counter elite is forming, so their monopoly on the public square is crumbling. Their hubris soared to previously unimaginable heights during their halcyon days of 2020-21; they tossed their mask of sanity in the trash, and freely indulged all their worst impulses in full view of everyone; and now Nemesis is knocking at the door, demanding payment.

We live in interesting times. Will they cheat? Of course. Will they cheat enough to win? Unfortunately, they very well might. What happens then? Who knows. But this cannot go on as it presently is, so it won’t. Time is not on their side. They are losing control of the situation, and they know it. There are lots of chickens throughout the world that will inevitably come home to roost, and there will probably be a couple of big black swans among them. Only God knows where all this will lead.

But for now, we should celebrate our wins. They tried to sell the American people a complete garbage ticket, and they used all their usual marketing mojo — and it didn’t work. The Overton Window has shifted dramatically since 2020 on some incredibly important topics — just four years ago, Twitter would not allow the Hunter Biden laptop story to be shared, and people lost their accounts for saying obviously true things like “trans men are not women.” We’re in the process of seeing certain fundamental principles vindicated. We’re a long way from being in the clear, but we’re also a long way from where we were in 2020-21. And that is something to celebrate.

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