Tag: the deep state

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The confluence of the Trump administration’s sudden reluctance to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and the MAGA base’s understandably hostile reaction has sadly brought out the worst in Donald Trump. His response so far has been to double down, deny that there is anything of interest in these files, and then lash out at his supporters for challenging him. (more…)

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April 30, 2025, will mark the passing of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term. This benchmark refers to the 100 days between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return to France from Elba Island to his final defeat at Waterloo. It also refers to the flurry of legislation Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed just after he took office in 1934. (more…)

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Pete Hegseth. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The deep state effectively weakened Trump during his first term by surrounding him with swamp creatures who undermined his America First agenda. Trump is obviously wiser this time, as indicated by the ire his cabinet picks are drawing. (more…)

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Peter Lynch. Photo courtesy of South Yorkshire Police.

Peter Lynch, RIP

The August rioting across England is being used to snuff out dissent in exactly the same way as the American deep state used January 6, 2021. Absurdly disproportionate sentences have been handed down in the UK for such “crimes” as social media posts and attending demonstrations, and now the Starmer government can congratulate itself on its first kill. (more…)

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If the current regime disappeared, and I were given a free hand to create an ethnostate, this is what I would do. I am going to focus simply on policies and institutions, not practical questions about how we would gain and keep the power to implement them.

1. First and foremost, I would declare that America is the homeland of the American people, a people of European stock. (more…)

Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill (1628)

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I was carrying out a literary exercise of quite a different kind: this was the making up of a continuous ‘story’ about myself . . . — George Orwell, “Why I Write”

 Litera scripta manet.
(That which is written, remains.)
— John Dewey (more…)

Recently-published private correspondence by Matt Hancock, who was the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the Covid lockdowns, reveals that he encouraged the government to “frighten” the public into submission to the measures, and that he found the requirement for travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival “hilarious,” among other revelations.

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The story is not about me, and actually it isn’t about Matt Hancock as an individual. The story is about collateral damage. — Isabel Oakeshott, English journalist

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. — Fleetwood Mac

If there is one lesson to be learned from the recent Covid pandemic, it is that British public opinion is as dirigible as a child’s party balloon on a string. Just as when someone in a crowd looks fixedly up to the sky, followed by the chap next to him, repeated by the family next to him, until finally everyone is looking up at nothing, classic crowd psychology also applies to information. Divert the attention of a few, and you will get everyone’s attention, like aquarium fish following the alpha. (more…)

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At the beginning of the month, I saw a video about a lady who got a bidet, boasting that her toilet paper consumption was merely a quarter of what it used to be. “Why, that’s nothing!” I reflected to my girlfriend, who was playing the video showing that America already has a Bidet installed in Washington. For additive crotch-cleansing power, he doubles as a douchebag. At six feet tall, he’s a very large douchebag indeed. (more…)

From the Apotheosis of George Washington. Are these guys cool or what?

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

What about the Freemasons?

This is where I describe groups often cited as participants in the more conspiratorial aspects of globalism. Feel free to skip straight down to the comments section to throw rocks at me for saying too much or too little about your favorite cabal. (more…)

You’ve got to hand it to this hipster. The slogan is even better than “Nuke the gay whales for Jesus.”

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What are the political dimensions of globalism?

There are various possible implementations of globalism. A Rightist version would be straight up imperialism, but on a worldwide scale. Military conquest of the entire planet hasn’t been attempted, despite what you might’ve heard from certain feverish wartime propaganda that still keeps getting dredged up after eight decades.

From the far Left, Communism has some rather obvious globalist dimensions. (more…)

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There has been much discussion about the New World Order and related topics lately. Some might dismiss the possibility entirely, considering it all to be idle talk. (more…)

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In his first letter to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul wrote, “For now we see through a glass, darkly . . .” As with all things in the Bible, it can be interpreted a number of ways. This is mine.

For months, I’ve been writing about the pending Ukrainian crisis. All of my focus has been on how it impacts America’s internal politics. We have a bunch of insane anti-Russians, many of whom are Jewish, at high levels of government, which has destabilized the situation. (more…)

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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The last episode of Counter-Currents Radio featured Greg Johnson reading from and discussing his essay “Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political,” as well as answering YOUR QUESTIONS, as always, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

The Concept of the Political
A few words on Carl Schmitt (more…)