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When Ted Cruz was running for the Republican presidential nomination against Donald Trump in 2016, what Wikipedia describes as a “right wing street artist” and who calls himself Sabo created a poster of Cruz as a tattoo-covered gangster ready to take on the establishment by hook or by crook. But it didn’t take long for Cruz to meekly roll over and offer up his belly. (more…)
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John Michael Greer
The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2021
In his book The King in Orange, John Michael Greer provides a magical perspective on the 2016 and 2020 elections which is highly pertinent with the 2024 election approaching.
It should be noted that contrary to modern misconceptions of magic (and the eldritch cover art), Greer’s definition of magic is very practical. (more…)
2024’s Democratic candidate for President? (Photo from Michelle Obama’s Facebook page.)
2024’s Democratic candidate for President? (Photo from Michelle Obama’s Facebook page.)
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Joe Biden’s plan to occupy the White House for a second term has most likely been upended by by Special “Emperor has no clothes” Counsel, Robert Hur. He officially opined recently that the President is too old and his memory much too defective to be tried before a jury. Dr. Jill’s husband is visibly decrepit and so demonstrably cognitively impaired that he should not be permitted to testify in a court of law. (more…)
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Once upon a time there was a fairy kingdom that lived inside a place called The Beltway, and was surrounded on all four sides by a land called America. The Beltway was aligned with another kingdom called Manhattan, inhabited by disembodied heads that spoke from the walls of bars, and with yet another closed kingdom called Hollywood, the abode of half-educated narcissists. (more…)
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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)
Ijeoma Oluo has been an up and coming commentator since her breakout moment during the Rachel Dolezal brouhaha. Among a number of topics in her journalistic career, her major specialty is writing about being black. (Of course, right?) Her first book, published in 2018, is So You Want to Talk About Race.
Her brother Ahamefule provided some biographical details in an article with the evocative title “My Father Is an African Immigrant and My Mother Is a White Girl from Kansas and I Am Not the President of the United States.” (more…)
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I had no special access to the inner workings of the National Justice Party (NJP). The higher-ups always held me in contempt, and would have kept me at arm’s length had I attempted to approach the project. I didn’t ask. They didn’t ask.
I remained in my lane and, up until the last few months, kept my mouth shut about the ill-fated project. (more…)
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There were many factors that decided Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 Republican primary and general election: his panache (both figurative and literal), his appeal to independents, and his anti-establishment and national populist attitude all set him apart from the other candidates. But what also stood out and magnified those other aspects were his new ideas, or at least ideas that both sides of the political establishment had tacitly agreed to avoid. (more…)
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The eighth wonder of the modern world might be Hillary Clinton, the “wonder” being how someone with such massive deficits of character, ability, and self-awareness has been taken seriously by enough people to make her so dangerous to the rest of us. Like much of what is presented to us by the professional reality managers as true, the opposite is usually the case. (more…)
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Holy Hannah. This next election is shaping up to be a zoo. We have Biden, a veritable zombie dependent on his ambient ventriloquists and more Adderall than Cornell in exam week. There is Kamala, so close to nonexistent that we could send her home and just keep her nameplate. No one would notice. And then we have . . .
Oh, God. (more…)
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The Rise of Trumpism 1.0
“But we — Communists, the party — will not divide power with anyone.” (more…)
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“Reality”: the world or the state of things as they actually exist.
One succinct way to characterize the Western “democracies” is that they are, in all their various manifestations, anti-reality regimes. For starters, they are not really what they piously call themselves — “democracies” — in any accepted definition of the term. The governments of these countries are cabals of oligarchs who use political parties as fronts for advancing the interests of backroom, money-connected players. (more…)
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[C]onsistently and comprehensively they have been deceived. — Christopher Booker, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union
We gotta get out of this place
If it’s the last thing we ever do.
— The Animals (more…)
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Part 9 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 6 Part 1 here)
In a representative “democracy,” “public opinion” is a fiction. The people have no voice. They are never consulted directly on policy matters, and they are not given any mechanism through which they can express their honest opinion. Instead, an illusion of public sentiment is artificially generated by a small minority of private actors controlling institutions with disproportionate power and influence that can circumvent organic social pressures and coerce people into conforming to their artificially-produced social norms. (more…)