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Oh-oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Pretending that I’m doing well
My need is such, I pretend too much . . .
— The Platters, “The Great Pretender”
Who is pretending that the United States of America has any resemblance to what this country once looked and felt like? The “states” are not “united.” The borders are wide open. Voodoo “diversity” priests simultaneously deny and “celebrate” the “Great Replacement” currently underway; the once great achievement of European-heritage American people increasingly resembles a dilapidated, moldering Third World slum.
“My need is such, I pretend too much . . .” Indeed. Looking around, the need to pretend is understandable; the Republic is not “doing well.” Great pretending, of necessity, has become a way of life in the land of the free and the home of the brave, and the form that it takes breaks down into two distinct kinds demarcated by the fault lines of power. The ruling class pretends to govern on behalf of its citizens, and the citizens pretend that the office-holders are responsive to their interests. The former in fact despise the later; some portion of the latter still think that the oligarchs are democrats.
It helps to be reminded that the current regime is one of anti-reality composed of actors who read lines from a script about a pretend world they pretend to govern. All the players — the octogenarian fat cats in the lead roles, the careerist yes-men on the rise and the bureaucrats who fill out the supporting cast — are selected for robotic conformity to groupthink swollen to absurdist dimensions, the practical applications of which puts the “worst” people, “full of passionate intensity,” in charge.
Oh-oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I played the game but to my real shame
You’ve left me to grieve all alone . . .
The second verse of the Platter’s classic captures the woe of white blue-collar and middle-class Americans. They “played the game,” but it has been rigged against them for a very long time.
Yes, we are on our own, adrift, and for those not yet feeling loneliness and grief, there’s the never-never land of pop culture — ESPN, the NFL, tailgating, celebrity worship, Netflix, shopping — bread and circuses provided by the woke entertainment industry. All of it serves as a distraction from the reality of lies, corruption, and the descending immiseration.
The aftermath of the 10/7 Hamas attack on Israel, however, has forced the pretending to rise to a level of absurdity that threatens to destabilize the status quo. As I wrote in a previous Counter-Currents essay:
Hamas’ attack in October against the Israelis has blown a wide hole in American Left-Right, liberal-conservative metapolitics. It has split liberal, Jewish Democrats into hostile camps and exposes Republicans, Jews, and gentiles alike to be cheerleaders for Netanyahu’s current project of ethnic cleansing the Gaza Palestinians.
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For much of the outside world, the Israeli Jews are conducting what looks like a military campaign of civilian extermination fueled by hatred for a population they perceive as inferior. This is a particularly bad “Warsaw ghetto” sort of “optic” for a highly touchy people whose claim to perpetual moral superiority and immunity from criticism rests upon the well-traveled, highly-polished imagery of Jewish innocents — women, children, and old people — herded into extermination camps by brutal soldiers. What do you imagine might be running through Steven Spielberg’s creative mind these days as he plans his next Nazi-horror production? Turning the corpses of Gaza toddlers into dead Nazis will require the kind of imagination you can only find in the folks running Hollywood.
How, then, to pretend that the Jews, engaged in this particularly ugly business of turning Gaza into the world’s largest crematorium, are to maintain their coveted status as the world’s most celebrated victims of murderous racism?
The Platter’s third verse give us a clue:
Yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughin’ and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see . . .
No one is laughing, but what the world is seeing in Gaza is the aggressors pretending to be what they are not — that is, victims. Nevertheless, it’s turning out to be a tough sell and puts undo stress on the Jewish monopoly on ethnic victimhood.
The United Nations, in all its vainglorious, impotent uselessness, has passed eight General Assembly resolutions condemning Israeli aggression. For this beacon of democracy in the Middle East, how could this not be a great affront? The uncouth General Assembly members have failed to respect the victimhood monopoly.
From UN Watch:
“The U.N.’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions, just one month after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, is surreal,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental watchdog organization [established in 1993 by legendary civil rights activist Morris B. Abram, the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva].
This has that distinctly whinny, aggrieved tone perfected by Zionists when someone calls out their depredations, a cry of lese-majesty against those who would dare to impugn the character of the chosen people. To divert the attention of those UN members away from current events in Israel and the Israel Defense Forces’ incursions, let’s focus on what’s much more important: a night 85 years ago and a reminder of Kristallnacht. Don’t they know about the “Holocaust”?
Luckily for Israel, “the U.N.’s assault” leaves no serious bruises because the US regularly vetoes General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel. That’s probably its most important role at the UN. Nothing else comes to mind.
The United States [has] responded to the frequent criticism [of Israel] from United Nations organs by adopting the Negroponte doctrine of opposing any UNSC resolutions criticizing Israel that did not also denounce Palestinian militant activity.
This points to the tail-wagging-the-dog, United States-Israeli relationship and another aspect of “I seem to be what I’m not, you see.” The US governing class may seem to be governing in the interest of the American people, but let’s have the capos speak for themselves as to who is pulling the strings, starting at the top.
President Joe Biden: “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. And I am a Zionist.”
Here is the former Democrat Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi: “US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called Israel’s creation the ‘greatest political achievement of the 20th century’, in a speech to the Israeli parliament.” Why is an American legislator prostrating herself before a foreign parliament?
Here is the current Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, after a recent tour of the Golan Heights: “You hear in the US about how the Palestinians or the Arab people are oppressed in these areas, and have these terrible lives. None of that is true. We didn’t see any of it.”
Apparently, “Potemkin” is not in the Congressman’s vocabulary.
Here is how Mike Johnson earns his campaign money:
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, was the top donor to Rep. Mike Johnson during his most recent campaign, chipping in $25,000 between 2021 and 2022, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of his political contributors. Johnson’s first order of business as speaker of the House is to seek budget cuts in exchange for a $14 billion aid package for Israel.
The purchase of the US Congress by AIPAC, as I noted in a previous post, was copiously detailed by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. Mearsheimer himself personally discovered that any Congressman who entertains the notion that Israel’s interests should not be the American government’s highest priority will be marked by the DC establishment as an anti-Semite.
Israeli ownership of American politicians is a forbidden topic, a fact we have to pretend does not exist. Thus, since the 10/7 Hamas attack “anti-Semitism” has pushed “systemic racism” and black victimhood to the back burner as a guilt trigger for anti-white policies. It gives American politicians moral cover to send the Israelis more weapons and American taxpayer money while proclaiming their undying devotion to Israel. It also serves as a weapon to punish those sympathetic to the Palestinians and to keep a firm grip their exalted victimhood status, which always comes with the specter of another Auschwitz on the near horizon.
Pushing the “anti-Semitism” envelope in this way, however, is turning out to be a bit tricky given that the anti-Semites attracting a lot of attention are on Ivy League university campuses, which are protesting and claiming to represent victims of “racism.” They are accusing the Jews of being racist oppressors. But the Jews can’t be oppressors because nobody is more oppressed than the Jews, of which we are constantly reminded. This turns out to be a huge public-relations problem for the Jewish-owned American political class. “Racism/anti-Semitism” has been the regular war cry of the coalition of the oppressed against white Americans. The Gaza mess has fractured that coalition, and the Jews, now looking like “racist” white people, are pushing the pedal down hard on “anti-Semitism” because political power in America flows to the oppressed at the top of the pyramid, where they are now perched and want to remain.
Now, if you live in a completely pretend world, as do the Republicans and most of the Democrats in the anti-reality regime, then you must work hard to keep the threat of “anti-Semitism” on full boil for the public. That lets the Jews continue to dissimulate their power and retain their cherished victimhood. You put on performances and mini-show trials that feature “suspects” in positions of influence exerting insufficient efforts to repress the unhinged anti-Semites in their orbits. “Hate [is supposed to have] no home in the Ivys.”
Hauling three Ivy League university presidents before a US House Committee on Anti-Semitism on Campuses earlier this month is how this is done, and it showed just what the Israeli paymasters expect from our [sic] Representatives. No? There is no US House Committee on Anti-White Discrimination.
The Grand Inquisitor in this charade was Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York. To get a sense of where Elise was coming from, on November 2, 2023, “Congresswoman Elise Stefanik joined Fox and Friends to discuss how House Republicans are committed to standing like a rock with our great ally Israel and providing the resources necessary for Israel to defend itself against the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists.” These “standing like a rock” Republicans never tell us what we, American citizens, are supposed to get from “our great ally Israel” other than feeling virtuous.
Elise’s interrogation of the three lady presidents consisted of “Have you stopped beating your wife?”-style questions such as, “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?” How about asking the black President of Harvard, Claudine Gay, “Why did you sanction the denaming multiple buildings, including Winthrop House, named after John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his great-grandson, also John Winthrop, a Harvard Professor and President? Are you calling for the purge of ‘whiteness’ at Harvard? Yes or no?” No one in this august body even pretends to care about this.
Every aspect of this sorry spectacle presided over by philistines purchased with foreign money was a farce. Most egregious was the presence of Harvard’s President, a certified plagiarist whose CV is so feeble that were she a white male, she wouldn’t be hired at Eastern Michigan University. Yet in spite of this, and a record of staggering administrative incompetence and malfeasance that included defending university policies that discriminated against whites and Asians, she retained her position.
The fate of the three women after the hearing highlights the current pecking order of victimhood in “our democracy.” Sally Kornbluth, who is Jewish, gets to stay at MIT. Claudine Gay, outed as an affirmative action stooge, still gets a pass for the same reason a moron such as Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States. Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, a white gentile, got the axe. QED.
If there is any silver lining in these dark clouds, it’s the fracturing of the coalition of the oppressed and the unmasking of “anti-Semitism” as a guilt-weapon the keep white Americans from knowing who is in charge. A final nod to The Platters: “Too real is this feeling of make-believe.”
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18 comments
Where’s Jim Trafficant when you need him?
The Tribe did quite the number on him.
Jailed and then murdered. All for opening his mouth about Israel.
Mr. Traficant was murdered? Is that another Michael Colllins Piper theory?
🙂
I’ll rephrase. He was found dead under very mysterious circumstances.
“The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, was the top donor to Rep. Mike Johnson during his most recent campaign, chipping in $25,000”
These campaign donations have little to no effect on political elections. Do you actually think we’re stupid enough to believe a mere 25k somehow manipulated a traitor like johnson, who has put his religious beliefs above the US Constitution and the freedoms of other citizens? Like many, these religious nutcases, reeking of dark ages, in a philosophy that only serves the jews, have no other intention, but to destroy the USA. They aren’t American.
BTW, why nobody speaks about the CHINESE donations, which DID HELP Clinton to became a President for the second time?
Jews must be astonished by how many soulless Gentile weasels there are. Or at the superstitious ones like Johnson. Too much of Gentiledom is filled with such characters. Nation, kinship, and blood ties mean nothing. Money is everything. Politics and corporations are magnets for such people.
There is truth in what you say. But there are also subterranean “sticks” which might not be so apparent as the carrots. Read former congressman Paul Findlay’s book They Dare to Speak Out, for thorough info, as I’m sure all present know of his book and most likely have perused it at least. Over time these combined effects congeal into a culture and a sort of ethics, as people of character simply avoid Congress and upper politics.
Philosemitism is for weak, stupid people. GOP leaders such as Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell put Israel first, not America. In exchange, they get small cash donations from Jews. And the Democrats are worse.
They are all guilty of war-crimes in Gaza. They are all on the AIPAC payroll. They should demand much more for betraying their country and subsidizing genocide. AIPAC pays them peanuts.
There is no possibility of putting ‘America’ first because there is no ‘America’.
One of the key reasons the jews get what they want is that they are organized to get what they want.
In fact, outside commercial interests (who largely align with the jews), virtually every ‘special interest group’ in America is organized and managed by jews.
The fact that Whites might organize in their own interest terrifies them because they know that even a minority of Whites organizing to pursue their interests will create conditions the jews cannot effectively manage, especially not while remaining in the background.
In order to understand American politics, you have to recognize that jews are on every side of every controversy. It’s how they stage-manage controversies to their interests.
The jews were the victors of two world wars. The Second World War cemented their hegemony over America and Europe.
Only pro-White identitarianism or White Nationalism has any hope of getting Whites even the tinest bit of what they want.
I agree with your observations. The Jews have deliberately subverted White nations, in order to destroy us. That explains communism in all its variants, which is a Jewish ideology. That explains their hatred of Russia and Ukraine. That explains the pro-war propaganda from the jew-media.
Whites must start to fight back. Even small numbers of us terrify the Jews – you are right about that. We can’t expect other races to do all the work for us. However, I do admire the efforts of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. He has been quite effective.
I recently read an excellent critique of NOI: If they want to be free of the White man, they could have organized their followers to move to Africa long, long ago.
I’d say that Black Nationalism that does not include African repatriation is simply a con-job.
Hauling three Ivy League university presidents before a US House Committee ...
Here’s an idea: haul the heads of all the Ivy League universities before a committee on anti-White activities on campus.
This is something for which the Dissident Right (DR) can push as a meme. Even if the meme does not result in actual hearings, it will take the issue to the wider public and perhaps influence some DR adjacent public-media figures.
I don’t much care for members of the Tribe. In fact, my attitude is rather more negative than “don’t much care”. But I find it difficult, bordering on impossible, to work up any sympathy for the Arabs. Can they both just disappear?
They had lived on their own lands under the rule of Osman Empire and had not interferred in the European affairs. Until during the Great War the British instigated the “revolt in the desert”, destructed the Osman Empire, promised to Arabs the independence, betrayed them of course, as the English always do, and created all Middle Eastern problems, which we observe today and which resulted i.a. in the Islamic fundamentalism, Jihadism, and mass migration into the West.
Most of the readers of this site are probably to a greater or lesser extent English. In fairness to our most Machiavellian Foreign Office cousins betrayal seems to be only considered when other options are too unpalatable. The Hasemites and the Sauds got their rewards. There was certainly a faction in the Foreign Office against the creation of Israel.
To destroy the fragile balance of power, maintained by Osmans in the Middle East, and to try the nation buildings or self-determination for the peoples who were simply not ready and not developed enough for this, was a big mistake of the UK, someway repeated by Americans in 2000’s in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc. The best way to treat Eastern peoples is just to leave them alone.
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