It was obvious at the time, but it’s no longer disputable that the CIA, Big Tech & corporate press colluded with the DNC to censor true reporting about clear political corruption by Hunter Biden, and serious evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement. rumble.com/vmteq5-new-pro…
Conservatives and Trump supporters will not be surprised by this, but my hope is that any liberal/left-leaning who consider themselves good-faith actors, and not simply win-at-all-costs ideological fighters, will listen to this and consider its meaning & long-term implications.
It is possible to be happy, in a general sense, that Trump is no longer President while still recognizing that what the CIA & Big Tech did w/the Hunter laptop reporting was a perhaps unprecedented perversion our system. It’s the kind of thing that ends republics.
Imagine in 2016: If Big Tech & the corporate press banned any discussion of the Trump Access Hollywood tape. Imagine the execs making the decision were long-time GOP operatives. Imagine the CIA published conscious lies about its authenticity. What would you think?
You might think: This election was stolen. And you’d be right. The CIA, Big Tech & media didn’t do this to protect Biden’s historical memory; they did it to affect the outcome of the 2020 election. The Founders would’ve done more than break a few windows at the Capitol over it.
The FBI spied on the 2016 Trump campaign. The CIA colluded against the 2020 Trump campaign. When these things happen, we no longer have even the fig leaf of a representative government. When these things happen, the government is no longer legitimate.
The next GOP President - assuming one is allowed to slip through the cracks - will have to be absolutely fearless in taking these organizations apart. Total reform of the FBI, and ELIMINATION of the CIA (fold it into DIA) must now be core planks of any conservative platform.
Anyway, if you’re not fully up on the laptop story or why it was such a big story and a massive breach of trust, don’t take my word for it. Please watch @ggreenwald’s video above.
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After the recent episode, many are asking for recommendations on how to approach Dostoevsky. Rather than answering all the emails, I’ll do it here. 1/5
Start w/Notes From the Underground. This is the first book where D finally unlocked the secrets of underground psychology: how pride, vindictiveness, spite, ad masochism disguise themselves as virtue. It’s a book of astonishing honesty. Everything follows from here.
Next do Crime & Punishment. If two is enough for you, make them Notes and C&P. I like to describe this book as the story of the protagonist from Notes From the Underground if he had read Nietzsche as a young man. Real-life examples like Leopold & Loeb make it visceral.
Today is 100th anniversary of the surrender of West Virginia miners to federal troops at Blair Mountain, ending the largest labor uprising in US history, and the most serious insurrection since the Civil War.
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The Battle of Blair Mountain was only the climax in a decades-long battle between mining communities and the coal mine operators who controlled their lives and were intent on preventing unionization.
America was still being built, and regional economics was inextricably tied to infrastructure expansion. Coal mines closer to accessible rail & industry had an inherent advantage over mines in southern West Virginia & Kentucky, and the difference came out of the hides of workers.
Why are liberal urbanites so willing to submit to the any draconian COVID regime? hope Rogan dies? demand irrational measures beyond medical guidelines (eg, masks for vaccinated kids outdoors)? They break the rules when they think no one’s watching, so it’s not fear of the virus.
The thing is, they don’t feel it as a burden because it’s become a game. The game is an old one: identify and punish heretics. There are actual prizes: 15 mins of fame for chasing ppl out of restaurants, rushing Trump on stage, leaking docs, and… harassing COVID rule-breakers.
It’s the gamification of totalitarianism, and there’s a sick brilliance to it. Ordinary liberals actually get excited at the prospect of greater restrictions. They adopt them like a uniform update, no problem, then march out into a newly target-rich environment, locked & loaded.
This tweet explains the vindictiveness of the woke managerial class, their need to “shove it down your throat”, etc. A normal adult doesn’t point to childhood drama as the driver of his politics of resentment. The whole thread (+ most woke politics) is a revenge fantasy.
The most interesting part of the thread is how his political taxonomy emerges from childhood trauma. He codes the dumb bullies from elementary school as red America, and the soft bullied kids like him as blue America. And all of his politics proceed from that.
He describes - brags, really - about how the soft, bullied kids like him fled to ally themselves w/state & corporate power structures and now wield vindictive power over the kids who used to oppress them. Only a deeply damaged man could say these things in public without shame.
Many right-wingers have been so jaded by the left's constant moral blackmail that they make themselves callous & insensitive to protect against it. Many refuse to admit any compassion because they fear that it will be cynically used against them. And they're right, but it sucks.
Not really. 99% of the people I'm talking about hate most Americans, too. They say "America First" and talk about loving "their own people", but usually all they have for "their own people" is venom about how brainwashed, cucked, etc they are.
Really ugly to see such aggressive apathy about the Afghan allies we’re leaving behind. You can have your views on the war or immigration and still recognize that many are regular people w/families who are going to die horribly because they trusted us.
Many of them bought the line we were selling about making their country better. Some risked their lives for our soldiers in battle. It’s not abstract, these are real people. There are networks of soldiers & Marines trying right now to evacuate Afghans who mean a lot to them.
Stop saying “they didn’t fight for their country.” Well over 100k of them were killed or wounded on our side. Their leadership abandoned them, and guess what… They’ll all have posts at the UN or the IMF by next year. That has nothing to do w/the normal people who took our word.