We Need More Pain

Must the Beatings Continue?

Clearly there hasn’t been enough pain over the last 4 years, or the last 20 for that matter.

For pain is the ultimate teacher. Whether it’s the hackneyed hot stove or other life decisions that lead to regrettable outcomes, experiencing the first hand the pain of an impulsive or poorly thought out choice reverberates for years to come. Much more than a parent or wise friend telling you “I think that’s a bad idea.”

As someone whose eyes were pried open in the mid-2000s, it’s been nearly two decades of watching the slow motion disintegration of the Republic.

Ideas that history has repeatedly discredited, are recirculated with new labels and dressing to an increasingly less discerning and less intelligent American public.

Further exacerbating this decline is the complete co-optation of what claims to be an 'independent' media by the state and political activists, leaving us without any traditional safeguards—no wise men, no institutional checks—to prevent the nation from abandoning time-tested Lindy principles for the allure of the 'new'.

The advent of smartphones and social media has intensified this process, allowing misguided ideas to take hold and spread like wildfire, becoming entrenched before saner and sterner folk have the ability to effectively challenge this wave of intersectional postmodernism, which is generally some form of Marxism dressed down and made more palatable for contemporary consumption.

The warnings have been clear for decades, yet here we are.

In the 1960s, when leftist radicals were marginalized from mainstream and serious discourse, they found sanctuary in two critical areas: academia and media. Here, their subversive influence could thrive without restraint, and even more troubling, they assumed roles responsible for shaping young minds—those most vulnerable to flawed ideologies and lacking mature judgment or impulse control.

This issue is compounded by the ongoing serious and quantifiable decline of the American education system at the elementary, secondary, and university levels, exacerbated by a rise in single-parent and divorced households (with an assist of escalating racial tensions fueled by Obama and other grifters exploiting racial issues for personal gain).

Now, at a critical juncture, we witness a startling scenario: a figure widely regarded as one of the least competent and lowest-rated Vice Presidents in history—who has been so ineffective in her duties that the administration has essentially concealed her from public view—has inexplicably risen to become a frontrunner in the polls and graced the cover of Time Magazine. This development signals a profound and distressing shift in the political landscape.

The takeaway from all of the above, is there’s still not enough pain.

Despite nearly a 50% price hike in everything over the past 3 years, there are still useful midwits who talk about inflation being at a 4 year low.

Despite multiple global conflicts, each which is only one bad weekend from morphing into a potential global contagion between nuclear superpowers, there is a collective yawn from the voting populace.

Despite a federal debt that has risen farther and faster than any time in history and now exceeds $36T, there are all sorts of new goodies on the door step and no mention that our interest expense alone every year now exceeds any other expenditure including the nearly $1T we spend annually on our military budget.

And now we’re being promised a free $25K for first time house buyers (including the 15 Million+ illegals that have come in during the last 4 years).

We’re being promised the erasure of all medical debt.

And the end of all student debt.

Plus $6000 child tax credits (not a bad idea, if narrowly tailored…the last thing we need is more single, unmarried women having babies).

And free drugs, free tips, and free everything else.

Those with fewer than 7 booster shots have to realize this is akin to a fourth-grader running for class president and promising chocolate milk in the water fountains, pizza for lunch every day, and no homework?

Wonder Woman’s campaign strategy is apparently foregoing any questions from the press but making outrageous promises and writing checks that she (and the US Treasury) are incapable of cashing, and everyone seems to be just lapping it up.

Please, for the love of God, wake the F up.

I warned you about Biden, again and again. If anything, the damage he did to the country and the world was even greater than some of my most dire forecasts.

If you told me 4 years ago, that students would be rioting and protesting in favor of Hamas across hundreds of our ‘best’ universities, and that the Administration would be silent about it….or even implicitly cheering them on, I would have snickered in disbelief.

Add in 2 potential World War 3 conflicts to the mix, $10T in additional debt, the worst inflation in our nation’s history that murdered everyone but the top 10%, 15 million illegals pouring through a non-existent border and costing us $500B+ a year (when a Border Wall for $5B was deemed too expensive under Orange Man Bad) and we’re in uncharted waters.

Yes, the “81M" man and demented corpse surpassed even my lowest expectations.

And that’s where things get really scary.

Because Joe Biden has been in DC for close to 50 years. He’s been on senior Senate committees, and he at least holds a significant understanding of foreign policy and the workings of both the nation and the world. He has access to seasoned advisors who are deeply entrenched in the mechanics of governance, even if they haven’t been doing it very well.

In other words, he’s from a different generation that at least recognizes the inherent limitations of government power.

Kamala may be the dumbest candidate we’ve ever seen run for the Top Slot by a wide margin, but more alarmingly, she’s a true believer who has never legitimately earned anything in her life and who has capitalized on her racial identity to grasp power and empower a younger generation of followers who are also true believers, without the wisdom or experience of actual accomplishment or true earned credit.

These are Red Guard Cultural Revolution type people.

It is no exaggeration to say that if she wins the presidency and secures majorities in both the House and the Senate, the consequences could be irreversible.

Not without great pain and potential dissolution of the Union.

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I’ve written enough about this over the past 3 weeks so I’ll punt a chunk of this issue to a noble guest.

Here’s a recent piece by John Wilder in whole, which reiterates much of what I’ve written recently and sums up much of what the historically literate right is feeling and watching mouth agape.

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“Kamala Harris has invented a new type of presidential candidacy – one based on being absolutely nothing.  Seriously.  She has stated exactly one position publicly:  “No tax on tips” which is precisely the position staked out by Donald Trump two months ago.  I guess we should give Kamala this one, since she’s no stranger to a variety of tips.

Oh, sure, Mr. Trump’s trademark is being “short on details” so that he can leverage a win, but based on 2016, what really outraged the GloboLeft is that Trump actually tried to follow through on many of his positions.  One thing that Trump won’t be to voters is a surprise, but I think Kamala is so unknown as to be a surprise, and not a good one.

Kamala’s first interview question:  “Describe yourself in one word.”  Kamala:  “Vague.”  Interviewer:  “Can you elaborate?”  Kamala:  “Possibly.”

Why?

She’s pulling what I’ll call an “Ultra-Clinton” approach to her candidacy.  Back when Hillary first ran for senate in 2000, I was expecting that, finally, she’d have to address the public.  There wasn’t any way, I naively thought, that she could duck the people for an entire election.  I mean, without killing them.

Whoops.  While Hillary did do carefully staged and vetted “listening tour” events, what she didn’t do was meet with anyone but fawning press.  She successfully avoided all genuine interaction with people so she wouldn’t have to kill time.  Of course, Hillary was well known to be a GloboLeft accomplice, so it wasn’t any surprise when the New York machine churned out a senate seat for her to launch an eventual presidential campaign.

Kamala Harris, though, is another matter.  She is the ultimate in vapor.  What, exactly, does she stand for?  Apparently, no taxes on tips.  But beyond that, she is a ghost.

Is she Indian or black?  Yes, though my guess is that more of her ancestors owned slaves than were slaves.

I guess if she doesn’t owe reparations, nobody does.

Is she for or against illegals scurrying across the border in unending streams?

Yes.  She wants to be seen as “tough on immigration” at the same time she promises to “let every illegal sitting in detention out on day one”.

Is she against inflation?  You bet she is, and on day one of her administration she’ll do something (the something is not mentioned) to stop it.  Why the Biden/Harris administration can’t stop it right here and now isn’t discussed and no one asks here that question, since that would be mean or something.  As usual, the Bee nails it:

If honesty is the best policy, I guess Kamala’s normally uses the second-best policy.

Interviews?  Trump sits down to a multi-hour open and candid conversation with Elon Musk, and sits for interview after interview.  Kamala?  She might sit for an interview sometime by the end of the month.  Maybe.  If they can keep her off the gin for that long.

And Trump’s request for three debates?

Well, there’s just one on the schedule, and that’s enough for Kamala, at least in August.  Heck, in September I’m not so certain that Paperwork American Judge Juan Merchan won’t slap Trump in irons and send him to prison.  Oh, sure, he’ll get out on an appeal shortly thereafter, but don’t count that possibility out.  This election is a circus, and we’re far short of the finale.

They did a study of how often Kamala was drunk.  The results were staggering.

But what is known is that Kamala is really attempting to appeal to a select group of voters:  those who aren’t paying attention and who will vote for a candidate based on what they feel.

Kamala has no need to preen for the hard-core GloboLeftists that want to hang Trump because they don’t like his face.  They’re going to show up for her even if she changes her tune to being pro-life and wants to start distributing AR-15s to every citizen.  They’d vote for her, because what they believe in is based only on what the latest talking points are from the DNC.  These people are Non-Player Characters (NPC) because they’re programmed by the mainstream news or by whatever the talking head night joke men tell them to believe.

What, really, is an NPC?

Since humans are social creature, there is an inherent tendency in many people to follow.  In the past, this made sense.  The number of people, say, a French peasant would have seen in their life was small, and they derived their beliefs by what was presented to them other people, rather than any other source.

This variety of NPC is popular in the UK, and in the United States too!  Talk about diversity!

Women, especially, were subject to this effect.  An example proving that was the number of war brides that American troops returned home with from Germany.  I don’t have the total from Germany, but over 300,000 war brides came from Europe, many speaking little English, to the United States.  These women immediately married men of the armed forces that had bombed and terrorized them for years because everyone said they were in charge now.

See?  NPC.

But as family groups become fractured due to no-fault divorce and a system that gives women cash and prizes for divorcing men, and as people become uprooted chasing economic success in areas far from where they grew up, they became reliant on a different tribe:  mass media.

No one is entirely immune, but some are entirely dependent on mass media for their opinions.  A close-knit family, longstanding friends, family stories and novels and other idea intrusions (like this blog) serve as counter-programming to the NPC soup that many live in.  The more you’re divorced from Infocancer like The View, the greater your immune system, and the less of an NPC you are.

This phrase must have tested highly with the NPC species Karenus Manageriusspeakum.

Kamala is not for you.  Kamala is for the NPC.

Kamala has to appeal (or pretend to appeal) to the middle.  These are the people who aren’t on the GloboLeft, and aren’t on the TradRight.  They just want to grill and enjoy the sunset and consume mass media.  Be aware, this how they were built – to follow.  Immersive multi-media that’s fed from a screen and doesn’t require any critical thought is what they desire.

For the NPC the TV or TikTok™ is their tribal sense of purpose.  Along with a lot of drugs.

How the NPC class copes.

The difficulty for Kamala is that for many of these people the last four years have been hell.  Their businesses have been closed (if they own a business) and their paychecks have dwindled in the face of ever-present inflation.  They’ve seen awful riots, they’ve seen this weird transgender explosion that they don’t much like, and now they notice huge numbers of people who moved into their neighborhood and don’t speak any English staring at them when they fill their gas tank.  They know they’re supposed to like them, but also have a tingling sense that these aren’t refugees or immigrants.  They’re becoming worried that this is an invader class.

Huh.  Wrongly think.  Get on board, citizen!

Kamala has to appeal to those people to win.  She can’t do it on record, so the best option is to run against anything she has ever stood for, or at least pretend to run against that.  She can say anything in front of any group, and will wait for the networks and search engines to run interference for her so that she can fulfill her strategy to win the White House.

How?  Kamala intends to be the first NPC candidate, standing for nothing, with no real substance except a desire for power with the media as her staunchest friend and defender.  Let’s get this woman some more gin!” - John Wilder

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Next week I’ll tackle some of her new ‘economic’ proposals.

This was the Washington Post this week.

And before you catch a fly, close that mouth.

Are they actually giving this so-called ‘Journalism’ thing a try?

More likely, it’s because their owner Jeff Bezos owns one of the largest grocery stores in the US (Whole Foods).

And both Jeff, and every other economist or person with an IQ over 110 understands what happens when you put price controls on sales of food that already has some of the lowest margins out there in the 2-3% range.

Hint: It’s bad news.

Then again, it should come as no surprise when you consider that these are the 2 people now at the top of the ticket.

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It’s Not All Bad News

On the bright side, there are still reasons to be optimistic.

10 weeks is a lifetime in an election cycle. And post Democratic National Convention (which hopefully showcases the shining examples of the Democratic base including BLM, Palestinian Jihadists, Antifa and other stalwarts), Kamala and her pathological liar Stolen Valor running mate Tim Walz will eventually have to answer some questions from the media and not just do tired racial tripes and bad skits about, “White People Don’t Season Their Food” (one would hope, it’s only the most important position in the world she’s running for).

On that note, just to give you another taste how bad Tim Walz is, in the skit he plays the willing white guy dupe who doesn’t season his food. Meanwhile, in the past he has won contests for hot tacos and other spicy dishes.

This further cements his reputation that he will lie about anything for political gain.

He’s a total phony from start to finish and there’s plenty of dirt still out there.

When it comes to the polls and the betting sites, the only thing to do is to watch with a healthy grain of skepticism and keep putting in the grassroots legwork like voter registration and door-to-door campaigning. Additionally, volunteering as poll watchers is crucial.

Republican registrations are robust, indicating a disconnect with many polls that seem intentionally crafted to present an image of an unstoppable Kamala surge—a tactic likely aimed at dampening voter turnout among conservatives.

We’ve even seen articles that claim Florida is up for grabs and now a battleground state.

If you believe that, then you haven’t read a thing I’ve written for the last 4 years and are operating within a highly distorted information landscape.

Florida is a lock.

On the other hand, the polls serve a more insidious purpose than mere measurement—they act as instruments of psychological warfare, designed to craft a public narrative that the race is "close enough." This sets the stage for justifying the anticipated widespread fraud and cheating.

Post-debate against Biden, the discrepancy in poll numbers was too vast to manipulate without raising suspicion—their tactics would be too obvious, and public belief would falter if they turned over their marked cards and no one believed it.

However, facing Kamala, whose numbers hover close to or within the margin of error, the strategy shifts. Why not enable 10 million undocumented immigrants to vote, knowing some attempts will inevitably succeed?

And why not expand mail-in voting, strategically placing drop boxes to potentially harvest hundreds of thousands of additional votes in key swing states?

Especially when past transgressions, such as those allegedly involving ActBlue with significant campaign fraud, were met with no substantial legal repercussions—no arrests, no thorough investigations. It appears there’s little to lose and much to gain in bending the rules.

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What I’m Reading and Watching…..

Peter Thiel and Joe Rogan.

In my estimation, nearly anytime Peter talks it’s worth listening. Unfortunately, this is ‘Rogan big audience’ Peter with Trump trailing in the polls talking…and you can see he is being very careful.

Which is probably smart, as someone of Peter’s intelligence, wealth and power is rarely free to talk openly and candidly at his stage of the game.

But he robs us of the honest and intelligent conversation we desperately need.

Still, Thiel on cruise control is still better than 99% of the people out there.

And this had me rolling.

While I don’t agree with it mostly, I did get a chuckle out of it. Rogan, like Eric Weinstein is one of those people who instinctively knows the right answer.

But his fear of losing his societal position, access and perhaps liberty or life makes him a lukewarm umpire calling balls and strikes.

We need Rogan/Weinstein/Thiel with filter off, and balls to the wall.

The times demand it. Being tactful or careful won’t save you from the Gulag if the Marxists prevail.

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Highlights from a decent WSJ opinion page article.

Note: The WSJ is widely regarded as one of the least partisan mainstream media outlets. The Editorial Board’s analysis directly challenges the narrative from the left and could be a blueprint for Trump’s campaign to counter the economic claims made by Harris, Biden, and many Democrats.

For instance, the article highlights the consequences of their spending, leading to “…$5.8 trillion in deficits during Mr. Biden’s first three years — about twice as much as during Donald Trump’s — and the highest inflation in four decades.”

Since many people do not subscribe to the WSJ, here are the highlights: 

“Kamala Harris plans to roll out her economic priorities in a speech on Friday, though leaks to the press say not to expect much different than the last 4 years. That’s bad news b/c the Biden-Harris economic record has left most Americans worse off than they were four years ago. The evidence is indisputable.”

• Economic Conditions: The economy in Jan 2021 was already recovering from the pandemic, but the Biden-Harris administration's policies have worsened it.

• Excessive Government Spending: The Biden administration's $1.9 trillion spending in March 2021, under the guise of COVID relief, is criticized for fueling inflation and discouraging people from returning to work.

• Inflation: Massive gov’t spending + Fed Reserve policies led to inflation, which peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, affecting housing prices and general consumer costs.

• Distorted Investment: Gov’t spending is said to have distorted private investment, with an emphasis on green energy and other priorities, resulting in slower growth in research, development, and manufacturing output.

• Job Growth Misrepresented: The Biden administration’s claim of adding 16 million jobs is challenged, with the editorial board stating that these jobs mostly backfilled pandemic losses and that new jobs are concentrated in sectors like government and healthcare.

• Regulatory Burdens: The administration is accused of creating uncertainty for businesses through costly regulations, affecting sectors like power plants, broadband, and labor markets.

• Economic Disparities: The WSJ editorial board asserts that socioeconomic disparities have increased under the Biden-Harris administration, with most Americans feeling financially insecure despite some economic expansion.

• Harris's Economic Plans: Kamala Harris’s upcoming economic priorities are expected to continue the same policies, with little improvement for most Americans.

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And AI (Chat GPT Here) Continues to Define a New ‘Truth’

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Best of Twitter

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Memetic Warfare

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Parting Words….

That’s it for this week folks. Hope you enjoyed! And as always, please share it with a friend. There is a strength in numbers.