Trump was, unfortunately, one of the West's last chances to survive. And he blew it. He blew it for a worthless and entirely self-serving 'allied' country (which has always been a one-sided marriage anyway). And the tangible result will be, most likely, the West being engulfed in Wagnerian chaos.
Marco Rubio is Lindsay Graham 2.0. I liked Vance despite concerns over Thiel ties, but Trump ruined Vance's future with this war. The only hope the right has for 2028 is Tucker Carlson, with yet another attempt for an anti-establishment candidate.
I think JD Vance is the biggest wild card in the administration. Some say Peter Thiel placed Vance in the VP position because Thiel suspected Trump would blow it. Vance could be positioning himself right now to replace a fallen Trump. At this point, I think the GOP would welcome it.
The clearest definition is biological determinism, in other words bad DNA. Antisemitism is the belief that Jewish DNA makes you a bad person. To be Christian means you can't be antisemitic since Jewish DNA is obviously not a problem!
By refusing to clearly define the term, anti-semitism becomes a weapon wielded against anyone with legitimate criticism. Like you are attempting with Tucker. Criticism against Bibi, Israeli behavior in Gaza and now across the Middle East, and AIPAC control of the US government can't be waved off with this label anymore.
I make no pretense to first hand experience of Tucker Carlson, I’ve never listened to him. His unwillingness, again a third hand impression, to use his interviewing skills on certain people seems a questionable choice. I have no issue with his, or anyone’s highlighting that the best interests of the western world do not necessarily align with Israel’s interests. In fact i welcome it. It is time to approach the whole subject anew. WWII was a long time ago.
I happen to be half Syrian and half English by my DNA, grew up in an unabashedly anti Jewish environment and have no dog in this race.
I just don’t see him as a statesman. Rupert Lowe is a statesman.
This reminds me of Bari Weiss calling Tulsi Gabbard an Assad toady. She couldn't define toady or provide any support for the claim when asked.
But this is much worse since the label antisemitic is much more highly charged and can still get people fired. And you're using it not just to defame Tucker but anyone that supports him. Incredible.
How much agency does Trump actually have? I´m inclined to think that he made a bargain, his end of which he now has to hold up and that any agency he may have had before is now essentially gone.
Yes, exactly. It is all theatre of some sort. So who really makes the decisions? The financiers in various forms would be my guess. Trump is just a puppet, useful because he can bring the US military to bear when needed.
Remember the glimmer of optimism many of us felt before he came to power? Remember the fear we felt when Kamala emerged as the other option?
The promises to stop the war and seek out the warmongers? We thought Make America Great again would cross the Atlantic and become an agenda for Europe.
Now Starmer has been dealt a get out of jail card by keeping us out of it. At least on the surface. Nigel would have used British troops as fodder for his subservience to the same lobbyists controlling Trump.
Rupert Lowe would have kept us out too but we're not allowed to know about him,yet.
Meanwhile we can look forward to fuel poverty and car jackings as the criminal sub class need to keep their scooters filled. After all, we can't go out and get our own pizzas. It isn't safe out there. Is sarcasm a hate crime yet? What does that jury say??
I believe as per your “elephant on stilts” essay, which was brilliant, that we were going here anyway. This pointless war is a particularly ignominious way to accelerate arriving. Some things are too hard to bear thinking about. Being part of a generation which grew up under the highest living standards in history and seeing what is left for our grandchildren is one of those things.
Israel will be blamed for this, rightly or wrongly, and the consequences of that, whether MAGA cope or reality, will be frightening the way mass movements tend to be. Trump’s declining support has not added anything to the Democratic Party’s popularity. They have lashed themselves to the mast of transgender perversion and communism and aren’t climbing down. Something will fill the vacuum. “What rough beast…slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”
I can only speak for myself and I'm mystified that although you're probably right, it most likely is the big crescendo, I lost interest in the series about episode 5. Learned helplessness? Media overload or just accepting that there's nothing I can do as the world hurtles towards a probable catastrophe. Maybe it's that I accept the inevitability of the Spenglerian cycle.
This is a bit random, but you never know, one day it might be important, our rivers are absolutely infested with American crayfish. You can trap them easily (you need a licence technically), and they taste good.
Great points about fertiliser and fuel as these are real tangible things that will cause massive chaos and migrant displacement in many countries.
I’ve never trusted Trump fully, and agree with whomever it was that said follow his actions (with Israel) rather than his words (promises to his MAGA retard base).
He is a wealthy, inarticulate loud mouth, draft dodging, sexual deviant whose is becoming more like the Iraqi information minister Baghdad Bob / Chemical Ali during the 2003 Iraqi war.
It has been jaw-dropping to watch unfold, especially Trump's normal adversaries and press critics tying themselves into knots to avoid calling out the whoring for Israel everyone sees, explicitly mentioned or not. America's pathologies loom large but will remain unacknowledged until the final curtain falls, a day that draws closer with each painful, nerve-wracking minute, dead soldier and dead civilian, and burning oil field.
It is all the more tragic because the imbecility and insanity were so obvious at the outset and that mattered not in the least. Nothing could have been said or done to stop the trainwreck, and in truth it likely would have been fatal for someone to possess the magical formula to make it not happen. There was no address announcing the onset of war because public opinion was utterly irrelevant, as is so often the case now, and what even could have been said? There is no convincing lie to peddle, and the truth is too repulsive to put on offer. And at least we were ordered to take the vax. This was injected directly into our veins without any consent kabuki whatsoever.
The only issue that matters at this point is The Great Replacement and this will empower the elements who want that completed. I hope the UK and Europe can distance themselves from the mayhem that awaits us here. It is bleak. If despair truly is a sin I am a sinner.
As another commenter suggested, I believe there was a closed-door meeting in which Trump was permitted to retake office, on the condition that he be beholden to Zionist interests. Now we're seeing the fruits of this deal, as we get recruited into Israel's war as their golem.
Israel is making their gambit for regional dominance because time is against them in terms of demographics, int'l support, and military dominance; and that means defeating their chief rival, Iran. They were hoping to cause a swift collapse & color revolution with a decapitation strike (no doubt years in planning), but Iran has proven to be more robust than they expected.
Still, Israel had to either gamble on this war or face certain defeat, so their strategy makes sense at least. The US, meanwhile, is caught in yet another Middle Eastern quagmire which will likely only end as folly.
Trump is great, but as the Greeks tell us, even great men can have fatal flaws.
This entire thing for me could be summed up watching the DieHard Movie. The Idiotic Cops/FBI w all their hardware + operations manuals but low IQ 'theyre shouting at the lights'. The MSM reporter who thinks knowing where Heslinki is shows they are erudite. Then you have Hans Gruber who is intelligent, has a plan + common sense and IQ above that of the entire FBI + LAPD SWAT. There is no John McLain in the real world though
My gut instinct tells me the only explanation for all of this is that Trump is compromised in some way. That in turn makes me wonder has his entire political run been orchestrated by those who have him by the balls in order to create this moment?
I really hope I'm wrong, but I don't see him withdrawing from the war because I don't think he has the power to do so. Either that or this is the single biggest political betrayal of all time.
I was watching an old Pathe documentary last month + they mentioned Greenland. Turns out when Norway joined NATO they gave permission for US to put some bases on Greenland. Unknown to Norway the US took that as greenlight to insert hundreds on enormous subterranean sites w minute men nukes pointing at Russia. When Norwegians found out they went ape shit. The US only ever admitted to building 2 (both side know is BS). If US leave NATO all those sites fall into Norways hands
Trump was, unfortunately, one of the West's last chances to survive. And he blew it. He blew it for a worthless and entirely self-serving 'allied' country (which has always been a one-sided marriage anyway). And the tangible result will be, most likely, the West being engulfed in Wagnerian chaos.
Yeah, like I said to Woes on the podcast, I can understand the logic of wanting Canada or Greenland, and sorting out Latin America.
You are exactly right. He was the last chance and he blew it. His first year was so promising, setting us up for Vance or Rubio in 28. All gone now.
Marco Rubio is Lindsay Graham 2.0. I liked Vance despite concerns over Thiel ties, but Trump ruined Vance's future with this war. The only hope the right has for 2028 is Tucker Carlson, with yet another attempt for an anti-establishment candidate.
I think JD Vance is the biggest wild card in the administration. Some say Peter Thiel placed Vance in the VP position because Thiel suspected Trump would blow it. Vance could be positioning himself right now to replace a fallen Trump. At this point, I think the GOP would welcome it.
Do you think Carlson has ambitions that way? He seems too far out on a limb for appeal unless antisemitism becomes the populist position.
What is your definition of antisemitism?
The clearest definition is biological determinism, in other words bad DNA. Antisemitism is the belief that Jewish DNA makes you a bad person. To be Christian means you can't be antisemitic since Jewish DNA is obviously not a problem!
By refusing to clearly define the term, anti-semitism becomes a weapon wielded against anyone with legitimate criticism. Like you are attempting with Tucker. Criticism against Bibi, Israeli behavior in Gaza and now across the Middle East, and AIPAC control of the US government can't be waved off with this label anymore.
I make no pretense to first hand experience of Tucker Carlson, I’ve never listened to him. His unwillingness, again a third hand impression, to use his interviewing skills on certain people seems a questionable choice. I have no issue with his, or anyone’s highlighting that the best interests of the western world do not necessarily align with Israel’s interests. In fact i welcome it. It is time to approach the whole subject anew. WWII was a long time ago.
I happen to be half Syrian and half English by my DNA, grew up in an unabashedly anti Jewish environment and have no dog in this race.
I just don’t see him as a statesman. Rupert Lowe is a statesman.
This reminds me of Bari Weiss calling Tulsi Gabbard an Assad toady. She couldn't define toady or provide any support for the claim when asked.
But this is much worse since the label antisemitic is much more highly charged and can still get people fired. And you're using it not just to defame Tucker but anyone that supports him. Incredible.
How much agency does Trump actually have? I´m inclined to think that he made a bargain, his end of which he now has to hold up and that any agency he may have had before is now essentially gone.
This. It is very likely any American or larger Western leader has actual agency at this point. We need to learn the who and how of it.
Yes, exactly. It is all theatre of some sort. So who really makes the decisions? The financiers in various forms would be my guess. Trump is just a puppet, useful because he can bring the US military to bear when needed.
Remember the glimmer of optimism many of us felt before he came to power? Remember the fear we felt when Kamala emerged as the other option?
The promises to stop the war and seek out the warmongers? We thought Make America Great again would cross the Atlantic and become an agenda for Europe.
Now Starmer has been dealt a get out of jail card by keeping us out of it. At least on the surface. Nigel would have used British troops as fodder for his subservience to the same lobbyists controlling Trump.
Rupert Lowe would have kept us out too but we're not allowed to know about him,yet.
Meanwhile we can look forward to fuel poverty and car jackings as the criminal sub class need to keep their scooters filled. After all, we can't go out and get our own pizzas. It isn't safe out there. Is sarcasm a hate crime yet? What does that jury say??
I believe as per your “elephant on stilts” essay, which was brilliant, that we were going here anyway. This pointless war is a particularly ignominious way to accelerate arriving. Some things are too hard to bear thinking about. Being part of a generation which grew up under the highest living standards in history and seeing what is left for our grandchildren is one of those things.
Israel will be blamed for this, rightly or wrongly, and the consequences of that, whether MAGA cope or reality, will be frightening the way mass movements tend to be. Trump’s declining support has not added anything to the Democratic Party’s popularity. They have lashed themselves to the mast of transgender perversion and communism and aren’t climbing down. Something will fill the vacuum. “What rough beast…slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”
I can only speak for myself and I'm mystified that although you're probably right, it most likely is the big crescendo, I lost interest in the series about episode 5. Learned helplessness? Media overload or just accepting that there's nothing I can do as the world hurtles towards a probable catastrophe. Maybe it's that I accept the inevitability of the Spenglerian cycle.
So long folks & thanks for all the fish.
It's a good time to fish.
My friend, I've said before, Atlantic Cod straight from the icy sea of Greenland/Iceland is our people's only survivable future now. Hyperborea Ho!
This is a bit random, but you never know, one day it might be important, our rivers are absolutely infested with American crayfish. You can trap them easily (you need a licence technically), and they taste good.
Great points about fertiliser and fuel as these are real tangible things that will cause massive chaos and migrant displacement in many countries.
I’ve never trusted Trump fully, and agree with whomever it was that said follow his actions (with Israel) rather than his words (promises to his MAGA retard base).
He is a wealthy, inarticulate loud mouth, draft dodging, sexual deviant whose is becoming more like the Iraqi information minister Baghdad Bob / Chemical Ali during the 2003 Iraqi war.
It has been jaw-dropping to watch unfold, especially Trump's normal adversaries and press critics tying themselves into knots to avoid calling out the whoring for Israel everyone sees, explicitly mentioned or not. America's pathologies loom large but will remain unacknowledged until the final curtain falls, a day that draws closer with each painful, nerve-wracking minute, dead soldier and dead civilian, and burning oil field.
It is all the more tragic because the imbecility and insanity were so obvious at the outset and that mattered not in the least. Nothing could have been said or done to stop the trainwreck, and in truth it likely would have been fatal for someone to possess the magical formula to make it not happen. There was no address announcing the onset of war because public opinion was utterly irrelevant, as is so often the case now, and what even could have been said? There is no convincing lie to peddle, and the truth is too repulsive to put on offer. And at least we were ordered to take the vax. This was injected directly into our veins without any consent kabuki whatsoever.
The only issue that matters at this point is The Great Replacement and this will empower the elements who want that completed. I hope the UK and Europe can distance themselves from the mayhem that awaits us here. It is bleak. If despair truly is a sin I am a sinner.
As another commenter suggested, I believe there was a closed-door meeting in which Trump was permitted to retake office, on the condition that he be beholden to Zionist interests. Now we're seeing the fruits of this deal, as we get recruited into Israel's war as their golem.
Israel is making their gambit for regional dominance because time is against them in terms of demographics, int'l support, and military dominance; and that means defeating their chief rival, Iran. They were hoping to cause a swift collapse & color revolution with a decapitation strike (no doubt years in planning), but Iran has proven to be more robust than they expected.
Still, Israel had to either gamble on this war or face certain defeat, so their strategy makes sense at least. The US, meanwhile, is caught in yet another Middle Eastern quagmire which will likely only end as folly.
Trump is great, but as the Greeks tell us, even great men can have fatal flaws.
This entire thing for me could be summed up watching the DieHard Movie. The Idiotic Cops/FBI w all their hardware + operations manuals but low IQ 'theyre shouting at the lights'. The MSM reporter who thinks knowing where Heslinki is shows they are erudite. Then you have Hans Gruber who is intelligent, has a plan + common sense and IQ above that of the entire FBI + LAPD SWAT. There is no John McLain in the real world though
Haha true!
My gut instinct tells me the only explanation for all of this is that Trump is compromised in some way. That in turn makes me wonder has his entire political run been orchestrated by those who have him by the balls in order to create this moment?
I really hope I'm wrong, but I don't see him withdrawing from the war because I don't think he has the power to do so. Either that or this is the single biggest political betrayal of all time.
Bush——>Trump——>???
Whoever the American Right sends to the White House next time looks to be a complete disaster based on the trends & trajectory.
Oddly enough this could turn out to be a leverage point. “Give us what we want, or we’re sending this even worse moron”.
Who knows. Either way, I don’t really see us getting blessed with an American Rupert any time soon.
At any rate, apologies for all the global ruckus.
The American right will come to despise the GOP as we hate the Tories. Zero Seats the Republicans.
There. Been there. Whether inadvertently or not, the purpose of Trump was to stop migration to there. That's over.
Bush-->Trump-->national breakup.
It’s a mess. Such a disappointment, but not a great surprise.
I’m keeping things real from now on; tending my vegetable patch and playing golf with white-van blokes.
Perhaps allow myself one last cope in the shape of Rupert Lowe.
Beyond that….
In 2015, Trump came down the escalator to fall flat on his face.
a Shakespearean tragedy in real time.
I was watching an old Pathe documentary last month + they mentioned Greenland. Turns out when Norway joined NATO they gave permission for US to put some bases on Greenland. Unknown to Norway the US took that as greenlight to insert hundreds on enormous subterranean sites w minute men nukes pointing at Russia. When Norwegians found out they went ape shit. The US only ever admitted to building 2 (both side know is BS). If US leave NATO all those sites fall into Norways hands