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A line was crossed on January 6, 2021: a large group of what seemed to be almost entirely white Americans marched to the Capitol building in Washington DC in an effort to both express a general displeasure at election fraud and to protest the confirmation of the deeply, hopelessly corrupt and soulless neoliberal Joe Biden as President. They did it beautifully, in a magnificent display of American eccentricity and what used to be called the “can-do spirit.” Anyone who did not tear up, laugh out loud, or howl in joy at some point while watching these events transpire missed out on the most quintessentially American event of our lifetimes.
For the normal American white man, the Capitol protest was inspirational. But from the immediate back-stabbing from supposed political allies to the predictable condemnation from the usual racial enemies, the normal white man likely feels silenced, perhaps in fear for his job or his safety, and alienated (possibly even from his own family) by his private feelings of joy and thus retreats tragically further into his isolated world of secret pride and longing for an irrecoverable past. He needs to see and hear us publicly defend him. He needs to know that he is not alone, that he is right to feel proud, and that White Nationalists are the ones on his side. He needs to know that there is a future beyond demonization, mockery, erasure, and constantly keeping his mouth shut about everything that matters to him.
Besides, there is no going back now and there never is: we either claim this as a victory for our side or we apologize for yet another trumped-up charge forever. Choose now.
Fortunately, the choice is quite easy: it really is more clear than ever that we will triumph over this bloated, corrupt, teetering empire. The rigged election of Joe Biden was our greatest victory yet, and the storming of the Capitol should be seen as a victory party, the beginning of a new era, the official start date of the next phase of Post-America.
The American White Nationalist has always been aware of the occupation of his government by a foreign power. He has always known that behind every “defender of democracy,” with his carefully manicured “shirt sleeves rolled up to get the job done” image, was a sleazy collaborator, eager to sell out his countrymen, happy to vandalize and pollute the very land his ancestors spilled their blood to attain, passionate in his commitment to providing a safe haven for the world’s elite economic terrorists and the world’s street criminals.
It is, however, just starting to dawn upon average conservatives from coast to coast that something has gone seriously wrong in this country, that forces darker than they had previously thought are working to prevent them from having a say in their own futures, that the problem might not be as simple as “Demonrats.”
A large segment of American whites is beginning to feel a growing unease with their relationships to all levels of government. The President, the man they thought would save them, cannot even save himself. The men in blue they so proudly and vocally support arrest them in the streets for daring to defend themselves from violent anarchist freaks. On 1-6-21, the police actually shot in the neck and killed Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed white woman, for engaging in what would have been universally described as a peaceful protest if she had been black or an anarchist or some other sort of system-sanctioned activist. When whites protest an obviously fraudulent election and get murdered by cops for doing so, we are called domestic terrorists by our own government and condemned by the leaders of the party that somehow still manages to get most of our votes.
A similar, though milder and less immediately consequential, trajectory of disillusion is occurring among so-called progressives who are starting to regret having voted for Joe Biden. They too were sold a lie. The hysterical Trump-hatred and extended Cold War director’s cut fever dreams of the past four years have had most of them convinced that Joe Biden was somehow the better choice for Chief Israel Stooge. But instead of whatever it was they thought would happen — who can actually tell? — they simply managed to position a sickeningly ordinary neoliberal for installation into the White House at which time he proceeded to fill his cabinet with the lowest DC vermin he could find, often hiding them in plain sight covered under the carefully crafted moral veil of non-whiteness (the new “get out of jail free card” for Americans dumb enough to still believe anything said by cable news hosts and the permanent television seat-warmer class). They are starting to figure out that “diversity” is a scam but they have no one on their side who is willing or able to lead them any further towards the light. Though their shock is truly bewildering, one can certainly sympathize with their disgust.
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A new generation of progressive American whites, along with their Trump-supporting counterparts, are angry and ready for real change. But who will give it to them? It might be too soon to say. We can, however, make sure that pro-white, anti-immigration, anti-war, anti-capitalist voices are part of the conversation. If we relinquish our role in this very real American political realignment either by continuing to support Republicans and Democrats or by resigning ourselves to permanent neoliberal hegemony then we stand no chance of attaining real power or any ability to acquire lasting benefits for whites.
It is certainly not a stretch to argue that the explicit anti-whiteness which has now become standard among mainstream politicians and news media will start to make many more whites uncomfortable in the near future — and not in the “good” way intended by Jews and other diversity cheerleaders (very few white people are going to come out of this mess with better feelings towards non-whites of any race). Both parties are experiencing an exodus of Americans better able to spot lies and more upset by corruption than their neighbors. This is our audience.
In the days following the events of January 6, the entire Judeo-capitalist class and its political henchmen from both parties have condemned the Capitol protestors in comically hyperbolic terms while agents of its individual corporate tentacles have been busy flexing their censorious muscles and — quite naturally — spitting in the doughy faces of the sad, socially acceptable, and politically impotent half-men who choose principles over power. This works to our advantage: Bank of America, Ted Cruz, Dan “Eyepatch McCain” Crenshaw, Ben and Jerry’s, Chevron, and every bimbo with a degree in meaninglessness have condemned the protestors.
Displaying blatantly anti-white sentiment, profound hypocrisy, and groveling before a legal system now proven to be irredeemably corrupt in the eyes of millions of white Americans could not be better for those of us who have claimed for decades that our system is a rotten and murderous inversion of all that is good and decent. The short-term inconveniences of deplatforming and “no-fly lists” among other things are nothing compared to the long-term gain of total illegitimacy. The empire’s palms are sweating, and they just shook hands with the new year.
Tempting though it might be under the hot interrogation lights, it is important to not distance ourselves from the protestors: do not claim that they were Antifa; do not claim that the police let them in. This not only diminishes their triumph, but it will do nothing to minimize their inevitable individual punishments or the wave of retribution to which we will all be subjected in the form of censorship and lost freedoms. Defend them at every turn as heroes — because they are. Whether they were there simply for the spectacle or for serious political reasons, they were present in a heroic moment, and will suffer the consequences of heroes. The human margins of empire are often messy, and its fall might at times make snobs uncomfortable. So be it.
For those of us who have been White Nationalists or something broadly equivalent for a long time, the coming months and years will require great patience as more people start looking to us in order to figure out what this is all about. The facts and concepts we take for granted will be brand new to most people and the frustrated dismissal of basic questions from newcomers willing to engage us must be suppressed more often than not (although good-natured bullying and mockery are in fact their own particular teaching styles). 1-6-21 showed anyone with a brain who the real resistance is and that it has very little to do with Donald Trump and, like most White Nationalists said from day one, it never did. Both progressives and conservatives have been sold out (even by Trump, which ought to come as no surprise). There are millions of politically homeless American whites whose politics overlap a great deal on important issues but do not yet understand how or why: we can tell them and win them over. We can and we will. And when we do, the next time we protest it can be as one voice, peacefully and with an unprecedented energy borne of solidarity and purpose.
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“Defend them at every turn as heroes — because they are. Whether they were there simply for the spectacle or for serious political reasons, they were present in a heroic moment, and will suffer the consequences of heroes. ”
This is a great sentence and very apt. I have read a few similar essays in the last week with similar conclusions to the above. Will they come down on dissent and freedom of speech in the short to medium term ? Of course they will. Were there Antifa agitators there on the day ? Perhaps, but It doesn’t matter either way. It’s done and dusted. Whatever analogy one wants to use, there can be no going back to the past. When 70+ million Americans (to use the words of Jonathan Bowden “step over” the illusions of a fair and democratic United States, there is no containing the cognitive shift in the populace. This is a time for optimism and steadfastness.
There are also tens of millions of eligible voters who did not vote, many of whom are not even registered to vote. I have read estimates of as many as +70 million eligible voters who didn’t bother to cast a vote in the last election. Regardless of the actual number of non-voters, the point is that most of them, at least as far as White non-voters are concerned, probably didn’t vote because they have no confidence in the current system and consider it hopeless, irredeemably corrupt, irreformable and hostile to them. Many of them are open to the ideas of the Right which have been verboten.
These White non-voters/non-political participants are also never going to support a President Camel Toe Harris government, especially in a crisis when the Government and its Pravda/MSM screams hysterically 24/7 about “we’re all in this together” and “it’s your patriotic duty” etc. Such a crisis seems almost certain regarding China and the contentious situation in Asia regarding Taiwan and other issues. With BLM/Antifa rioting directed against White people at the same time the idiot U.S. Government is demanding White people serve it unto death during a foreign policy crisis, open defiance by nice, normal, liberal, suburban, White people who don’t want to serve up their sons to Moloch’s war machine is guaranteed.
This goes twice for a potential war against Iran for “Our Greatest Ally”.
This is the sort of political crisis with irreconcilable differences that awaits President Camel Toe Harris. Good luck accomplishing anything with her “Coalition of the Fringes” (HT Steve Sailer).
@Stephen…
My wife and I saw these protesters at the capital as heroes, too, and when we saw our Southern flag, along with the politically correct Southern flag (the Gadsden) go over the walls and into the halls of Congress we broke into cheers and spontaneously danced, as if the ghosts of The Army of Northern Virginia had suddenly inhabited us.
As to ‘the misdirection’, or any other aspect about it that you can mention, it all pales to the fact that a large group of Whites demonstrated that same spirit that once was so abundant and constant within us during previous centuries.
No matter what happens, from here on out, I know that the end will be well, because there has been an awakening on a mass scale, and that the outward tremours of that will only increase…
Once communism is established, it is near impossible to get rid of it. Forget about elections, legal lawsuits, basic rights, freedom of speech, and all the rest.
What I fail to understand is how the american army could have stood by and let it happen.
There’s nothing comkunistic about this system. Calling the freaks of the post left communists gives them too much credence.
The establishment neoliberal DNC grift exemplified by the likes of the Clintons, Obamas and Bidens is almost indistinguishable from establishment neoconservative grifters like the Bushes and the Cheneys. They are not Communists or Socialists but wouldn’t hesitate to promote superficial aspects of either to the general public if doing so enhanced can perpetuate their grift. Look no further than woke colorations. It’s good for business thus far. These people are not leaders. They are parasites and they fancy themselves our betters and our masters. In some sense they probably consider themselves our owners, but owners generally tend to at least care for their property… unless it’s entirely disposable. Good news is that as the author stated, even the progressives are smelling the bullshit.
I hope for the system’s appeasement of radical Marxism to ruthlessly bite it in the ass at some point. When the system is bogged down fighting a two-front war between the communist golem it created and some form of organized White Nationalist opposition, its chances of defeat and our chances of victory are greatest.
“Once communism is established, it is near impossible to get rid of it.”
To say that one would have to ignore Russia.
Not to make light of the tragic death of Ashli Babbitt, but her surname is quite an apt symbol for all Babbitts (ala Sinclair Lewis) who can no longer take it.
Great essay! Fiery!
They really should be giving everyone $2000 to just sit home for a month. But they impeach him again. Priorities. This is how a party loses majority status.
20,000 soldiers expected to secure inauguration too. Popular guy eh?
I said the same thing to my wife.
I doubt if he had 20,000 people attend during the entire year he campaigned.
Isn’t democracy wonderful.
This contest is self contained. The enemy is within our own souls – and expresses itself as self-destructive altruism and spiritual complacency. The enemy is within our own hearts and expresses itself through collaboration with foreign ideas and the intoxication of comfort and security. I cannot defeat my external rivals until I can defeat my internal confusion around my purpose and my genetic inheritance.
Very good points. If we’re ever to appeal to normal people we need that genuine deep self confidence that comes from overcoming and mastering our own internal enemies. You’ve reminded me of an excerpt from Bowden’s Western civilization bites back speech –
“… the greatest enemy we have is raised in our own mind. The grammar of self-intolerance is what we have imposed and allowed others to impose upon us. Political correctness is a white European grammar, which we’ve been taught, and we’ve stumbled through the early phases of, and yet we’ve learned this grammar and the methodology that lies behind it very well.
And we’ve learned it to such a degree that we can’t have an incorrect thought now, without a spasm of guilt that associates with it and goes along with it. Every time we think of a self-affirmative statement, it’s undercut immediately by the idea that there’s something wrong, or something queasy, or something quasi-genocidal, or something not quite right, or something morally ill about us if we have that thought. And this extends out beyond racial and ethnic questions to all other questions. To questions of gender, to questions of group identity and belonging, to questions of cultural affirmation, to questions of history.”
https://counter-currents.com/2012/03/jonathan-bowdens-western-civilization-bites-back/
Red pill seeds falling on rocky soil like the urge to believe that whiteness can be great again or that a government based on anything other than race can be just or moral. Believing there is no race except any race except the white race and accepting that as truth even though a racial soul cries out from the abyss – and destroy those who ignore her. Where is my King? A messiah to rule me and express the passions and imaginations of a people….
I remember our last “victory” in August 2017 and this new one feels an awful lot like that previous one.
I am in complete agreement with Mr. Thoresen here.
One of the best parts of this is that we now own the dissident space. As long as we don’t fuck up and lose it somehow, that puts us ahead of the alt-lefties, who are still effectively on the leash and are not cultivating a real alternative; none of their websites are as robust as ours and they will get their plugs pulled if they break too far from the establishment. Because of this it means disaffected white lefties may either come to us now or just wallow in despair and disappointment instead of enthusiastically attacking us (they might be having fun watching the censorship waves right now, but once Trump is out they’ll sober up hard,).
Something I don’t understand, which may have to do with the political traditions of the eternally blue state in which I live, is embodied in a 58 year old, white, male co-worker of mine who, while freely disparaging minorities in private conversations, hates Rightists and votes Democrat and supports Biden. He is also the type of bourgeois white person, some may say “a preppy” that I, as a more blue collar white, have despised my entire life.
To keep things brief, current events have not come close to waking him from his slumber and I am sure there are millions more like him even as the social shaming and financial deplatforming kick into full gear. Such persons cannot make the connection regarding racial realities and appear completely unwilling to listen to our side.
I hate him, perhaps even more than I hate the other “darker” causes of our current predicament.
What is such a person’s basic problem?
Based on his age and your description, he’s probably enjoyed the fruits not a life that may not have necessitated much in the way of conflict or contemplation. A good quote from Connor McDowell’s Fear of Contemplation which appeared here on Monday struck a chord with me:
“Look around you at the materialistic, narcissistic, self-indulging people that you interact with every day. Some, no doubt, are friends and family. They are not all bad people, but most of them are lost souls. If you are afraid to step out-of-bounds and say something controversial, you must know that many of your friends and family are literally mortified by such thoughts.”
Connor McDowell’s, Fear of Radicalization.
I’m disgusted with the Trump and the GOP but I am ecstatic that this was such an optics disaster for the entire establishment. It felt great to watch people finally ditch the idea that law and order means blind submission. This article the best take on it I’ve seen, I have little patience for pooh poohing what happened or moaning that they’ll do what they were going to do to Whites eventually anyway. As bad as things are, and how bad they will get, the last year has been one massive shock after another to a lot of people. Some normiecons I know, who I considered totally hopeless, are foaming at the mouth right now and totally disillusioned. If someone told me things would spiral so out of control that the most bluepilled people I know would be seriously talking about succession I wouldn’t believe it for a second but here we are. There’s a lot of energy and momentum being built up right now, just need to nudge it in the right direction, on a subconscious level it’s already vaguely heading our way. Shame about the ammo prices, though.
The unifying message of this article is a rare whitepill. Great article. I agree there are many Democrat voters who are and will become utterly disgusted by Biden and his cronies, and we should not say to them “I told you so” but reach out to them as brothers and sisters.
I NEVER heard of any National Holiday celebrating FREEDOM that has not been bloody and violent…The storming of the Bastille, The Alamo, Los Ninos Heroes, Pontemkin… etc. are ALL days celebrated as historical landmarks…Jan6th/2020 Babbits Day will become a major historical AMERICAN pivotal moment, the BigBang of a NEW American historical/cosmic course …ELECTION are no longer an option…not for WHITES…
St Babbit’s Day Massacre
Black SJWs have recently been saying : “We need to have a conversation about race and whites may need to accept that the conversation may make them feel uncomfortable.”
The speaker *always* means he intends to make damn sure that whites feel uncomfortable.
What makes me chuckle is imagining said liberal engaging Jim Goad in a conversation about race. We know who would end up feeling uncomfortable!
I remember calls for a “national conversation on race” going back to the Clinton years. Whatever the heck they mean by this tiresome trope, it sure doesn’t sound like they have an actual dialogue in mind, but more of a sermon.
National *lecture on race
There, fixed it for you
They’ve now moved past the ” we need to have a conversation” trope to the more accurate expression of their intentions; “Whites just need to step aside!”
As a Non-American living in one of your many satrapies around the world the whole US election and its various aftermaths are becoming quite tedious. Can we move on now? Please.
This, gentlemen, is the correct take. Thank you for your words.
From 2012 https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/arnold-admits-expressed-admiration-hitler-article-1.1177364
yeah, I loved the Capitol invasion…just totally loved it…a great moment…I would love to see it happen every day of the week…trump? Eh…Qanon? LOL… but jake angeli the shaman? A great american!
I feel like the upcoming war with Iran will be the true test of both the left and the right. If the average Trump voter today supports war with Iran tommorow, because, say, Iran “attacks” an American ship in the Persian Gulf, then we’ll know nothing has changed. But, if there are right wing marches in the streets against it, we’ll know that a great shift has taken place. For the left, particulary antifa and blm thugs, the war will have to be violently opposed because they’ve backed themselves into a corner. The establishment wants war, that’s why neocons were so adament against Trump. His Reagan-esque bomb them from afar foreign policy, rather than boots on the ground, doesn’t fit their Israel-first lusts. Biden is merely a puppet, his kosher masters are salivating at his weakness and susceptibility to suggestions from the “chosen” people. This rotten system cannot take another Iraq, let alone a novel Iran. A military misadventure in Persia will make the capitol march last week superfluous, like yelling at a dead man. The system’s days are numbered, it’s just a question of who will pick up the power left in the ruins.
Well written but I disagree with the underlying premise. I don’t see a win in any way, shape or form.
What I see is more betrayal by Trump against his base and Patriot Act 2.0 on the horizon. But this time the main target won’t be jihadis, it’ll be white males. The media is crafting a narrative of a “violence insurrection”, when all I see is a pathetic clown show. No tactics. No strategy. No organization. They weren’t even smart enough to wear face coverings. “But but but, they even stayed within the velvet rope!”. Like thats a good thing?
Sorry I’m not buying it. I can’t spin this into a win.
Trump was a delaying action at best and his efficacy at that is dubious. The victory is that a minimum of 70 million Americans no longer have faith in this corrupt system. Sure, they’ll pass laws, wring hands and gnash teeth but the image of our “leaders” cowering can’t be unseen. The days of this sham are numbered.
I agree.
The article is very compelling until we are told to ignore facts.
There are proven antifa/blm individuals in nearly every photo and piece of video footage. Why deny that?
There is now ample evidence the Capitol Police were involved with letting people inside. Why deny this?
Denying facts just makes one look like another lying chump. Sorry, not interested.
If 2020 has taught me anything its that people respond far more to emotion than facts. The left knows this well and employs it regularly. We would be fools not to use this any time its advantageous.
We know Antifa wasn’t there because the optics were pristine.
Antifa intentionally causes maximum damage everywhere they go, even when acting as themselves. When pretending to be right-wing, they would make sure to look as bad as possible.
If there were Antifa in the capitol, there would be piss on the walls, fires set in offices, and every single window would be broken.
Instead, we have one of the most peaceful occupations of a government building ever.
Some White Guy: I think BAL makes a good point but there are probably always going to bad actors in any heated political gathering. It seems that some BLM guy was arrested in this case already. This changes nothing I wrote. I would not change a word if it turned out that 50% of the people there were antifa. If this is the case then they did us a favor. And, to be clear, I am not telling you to ignore facts. You are free to document everything for the historical record and write a book for future generations. I am simply no longer all that interested in such things, however, either in a general sense or in this case in particular. I want whites to survive and thrive in North America so my priorities are symbolism, emotion, and developing a positive orientation towards the future and a turn away from the past, each of which will result in a more robust collective political struggle. We need to use this to our advantage. Retreating from it, disavowing these people, and going into defensive mode is the conservative thing to do. These are the things done by history’s losers. Once you and your friends are on your knees, it is really hard to get back up (see the 20th century).
Excellent article. I agree with those in the comments who say this day will be remembered as historic, similar to the storming of the Bastille.
Our people are showing a willingness to fight back. Those who are persecuted for this will be seen as heroes.
Terrific article about the rat’s nest of a system we currently have in Washington, D.C. that is controlled by our internal enemy and their paid political prostitutes. People that were on the fence before the election are more open and receptive to hear our ideas than ever before.
I don’t agree. Being walked right into trap wasn’t a victory for anyone except the Democratic Party and everyone who wants to see resistant whites put to death. Seeing photos taken by the liberal mainstream media of people waiving confederate flags and thinking it was good, is like thinking your face on a wanted post that reads dead or alive is some sort of win. The whole thing created the exact propaganda and narrative your enemy wants to push and you are no match for them, especially now. Because this victory here lead to even harsher crack down on your civil rights. It’s not a win that the face of this clusterfucker is a retard in a silly costume. These Qanon idiots poison the well and what they are fighting is an illusion, not the actual threats we face. It shouldn’t come as a surprise the mainstream media outlets do more stories on Qanon than any respectable right wing outfit.
A cop was killed. After months of the right defending them against negro and white liberal hate. A white female was killed. Kind of convenient they will assure this is how Trumps legacy ends? As a loser, which they did with Hitler.
Also….everyone involved WAS a moron. Because anyone protesting in favor of Trump is an idiot. He did NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY nothing and there is nothing he could have done, even if he wanted to turn the demographic tide in this dying country. He ended his presidency by inviting a mumble rapper degenerate up on stage with him after the only promises he kept were the ones he made to Israel. If anything, after Trump the boot on our necks pressed a bit harder.
Let Biden do his thing. It will only be a matter of time before the love affair between white liberals and their non white puppet masters sour. It’s all or nothing with them and Biden isn’t going to do a damn thing. we need to just lay low in society and let the white liberals wake up after being pushed into a coroner and they realized they are playing a game not rigged in their favor. Watch them run scared when the next negro is killed by police and there is not Trump or racist white men to point a finger at and negroids and Antifa are going after a Biden and his Indian bedwench pretending to be black.
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