Nick Fuentes is no genius. His blatant antisemitism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Protestantism (or, any religion that is not Pre-Vatican II Catholic), and xenophobia aside, the other underlying parts of Nick’s core thesis regarding the state of society is not original and even the most politically uniformed person (which is not a sleight by me) already knows what Nick is saying.
That being how society made promises by selling a system (college, houses, constant growth, etc.), yet, that system inevitably consumed and destroyed itself, thus making previous promises and dreams, e.g., the American Dream, more difficult to achieve, despite the seeming ease of making money (e.g., paid partnerships and income from Google’s algorithm).
Nick is essentially pent up white entitlement dealing with the existential malaise of the theorized fall of the American Empire. The only currency he has is cruelty and being a snarky troll.
Nick is just a basic person with eyes and ears who is a byproduct of the economic and political malaise which arose out of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the nearly decade long Global Recession which overlapped and extended from the underlying reasons of what caused 2008. For example, in the USA we had the real-estate crash whereas in Europe you had the Greece sovereign debt crisis and other crashes in Ireland, Spain, Iceland, etc.
This era gave us Occupy (which foreshadowed Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and even Zohan Mandami) but also Tea Party (which laid the seeds of MAGA, Qanon, January 6th, the Obama Birther Conspiracy Theory, Project 2025).
It’s not brain science.
This is why Tucker Carlson is being disingenuous when he claims to not agree with Nick despite both men being racist. Tucker is just snooty about his and yet is seen by Zoomer conservatives are being something akin to a “plant”, i.e., Tucker says the right populist things but still is seen as proxy of the status quo.
However, Nick brings nothing ground breaking to the table as far as his analysis of economics, culture, etc.
It does not take an advanced degree to understand that capitalism sent jobs overseas. It is not a secret anymore that de-industrializatiion hit the white (and, yes, black) working classes of the USA, England, etc. Nick and people like JD Vance (a Catholic convert who bridges the “Trad Bro” community with the “Tech Bro” oligarchs) essentially plagiarized or co-opted Left Wing structural analysis of the ills of capitalism, but both Fuentes and Vance twisted it to appeal to regressive borderline fascist sensibilities and tactics. The same way how the German Right on the 1930s usurped popular Left Wing sensibilities to grow the Far Right.
The only thing Nick brought to Tucker was broadcasting and legitimizing Nazism, no matter how much Tucker denies it. Urchins like Nick Fuentes are essentially the street thugs protecting the elitist racism and WASP nostalgic snobbery of Tucker’s world.
Basically Tucker is just the older, wealthier and more spoiled version of Nick Fuentes, yet, since Tucker is from a “Ralph Lauren, Conde Nast, cardigan wearing, row crew affiliating, late 80s to early 90s Ivy League-esque” world, Tucker simply refrains from publicly being Far Right because in these elite circles such behavior is seen as proletarian and not of “refined”, “established” men of the “classical liberal” tradition.
Tucker agrees with Nick but has to appear to have slight disgust only to save face and disgust is simply a characteristic of the upper bourgeoisie class. Tucker is like powdered wig landowner covering his mouth with a scarf as he strolls through the muck of the everyday person.
Contradictions and irregularities are in part an element of the exclusivity of the rich, because not making sense enables this class to gatekeep, raise the bar, and appear aloof with their tastes which of course the peasants can’t understand.
Tucker Carlson literally could have invited any Joe Smoe to talk because as stated, Nick is not original.
Let me quickly distill Nick’s overrated analysis.
In 2008, the banks crashed the economy and unemployment rose. The US was already fighting an expensive forever war in the Middle East which was funded on US debt considering the Bush Administration cut taxes. The US domestically had already been suffering from unique drug pandemics in the early 2000s such as the rural meth crisis, but by the time of 2008 Crash, the seeds of the opiod epidemic was already established.
When you mix economic crashes, wars, veterans, drugs, etc., you get crime, political unrest and more extremes, but also increased cop altercations because of crime, evictions, for-profit prisons, etc.
Many cop altercations, notably as cell phone camera technology improved, were across racial lines. Protesting against police thus became ripe for exploitation by racist who wanted the civil unrest to appear inherently anti-white (which they veiled under milqtoast calls for Law & Order), so alienated people who felt silenced by society would normalize White Identity politics. White supremacists co-opted Left Wing anti-colonialist frameworks to argue that white people deserved the same sort of special treatments, preservationist policies.
The people promoting this purposely omitted or failed to grasp that minorities were given a sort of unspoken ability to have racial solidarity because past oppression of minorities under white supremacy created the need for the empowerment of minorities to heal and make up for generations of lost opportunities.
White people within the USA have never been and will never be as oppressed as BIPOC people, and even if there were industries that exploited and/or trafficked white people (i.e., indentured servitude), thr scope snd scale will never match black chattel slavery, Indigenous genocide, Jim Crow, the KKK literally running governments, etc.
Sorry to all white supremacists. You’re not oppressed.
White Identity politics which steals Left Wing frameworks is ironic since most of time there is an innate sense and calling for supremacy.
It is funny to me that so many white racists are fearful of being minorities (which is a theory not necessarily a reality) but they expect minorities to be happy in staying minorities. So are racists admitting that being a minority sucks? So…why are they suprised minorities resist or call out their treatment by the majority (notably from a historic perspective).
Even if this isn’t the case entirely, White Identity politics erases and downplays the effects of past racial abuses on current material conditions of minorities.
More irony added, is that the more racist white people are, the more self-awareness and determination that minorities feels as they realize assimilating will never be good enough.
But, back to how the world evolved into what it is, many war veterans became cops in a tumultuous America, thus asethically linking these two careers more so, which enabled further politicization of them, which conservatives capitalized on due to their ability to appeal to patriotism and law & order, while dismissing concerns of police brutality, systemic racism, the blowback of imperialist adventures, etc.
Because of the crash, the rich got richer, and Big Tech took off as being the catalyst of the new emergent economy. The old industrial DOW Jones was now in the backseat towards the hype fueled Tech Sector of indexes like NASDAQ.
Near zero rates enabled those who in part caused the crisis to get cheap loans to buy competitors, bloat their stocks, etc., indifferent to the natural inflation the “Free Money” era created. Capitalism’s propensity to boom and bust, and to seek new paradigms to justify its continued and unfettered existence, creates irregularities between real life and market perception. The crash essentially burned a forest in which society was living off of and got comfortable with, but those who burned it got rewarded and society had to do the slow and painful migration towards new forests (paradigms, systems).
This era gave us the “gig economy”, “porn hubs”, data brokerages, etc., because the physical world was becoming for technological and digital based, yet the efficiency that capitalism creates such as saving on labor, means people struggle to find jobs and the economy itself becomes more reliant on asset investing rather than real production of tangible items. Further, as the developing world becomes more advanced due to capitalism, the more conflict over resources arises, and the utopian ideals of free markets takes a backseat to human barbarism, amoral realpolitik, etc.
The reliance on asset investing, bolstered by cheap money and interests, boats assets thus making homes and stocks pricy while the currency itself fluctuates in its purchasing power.
The general population found themselves in a sort of Japanese Lost Decade situation where it seemed the rich only got richer, previous ideas of college became criticized, homes became unaffordable by the time Millennials and Zoomers had enough capital to put down payments down, and socially the public spent more time in online spaces which in itself can create nihilism from the all the drama, tension, fighting, desensitizing media, competitive online dating, trolls, misinformation and depressing news one is inundated with.
Nick is simply a byproduct of this. He was one of the “basement dwellers”. The revolt of supposed losers against the elites.
Yet, Nick has to grow up. He himself is nostalgic over the Pepe The Frog era of pre-2016 which gave rise to the Charlottesville Riots in which he participated in. The Pepe The Frog era was a counter culture movement of cynical, lonely, Sound Cloud ethereal music listening young people who felt alienated but many saw liberalism (Lean In feminist capitalism, criticism of white male privilege, etc.) as the new establishment and thus went into Right Wing ideology which can first start with YouTuber content creators such as Sargon of Akaad or Jordan B. Peterson but then bleeds into fascist online spaces.
Many Zoomers don’t remember the education of Martin Luther King post-racial education of older Millennials and Gen X (though this post racial education was largely a shallow attempt at solving the residuals of systemic oppression).
Many Zoomers and younger Millennials are Nick’s target audience so all they see is the perceived failure of liberalism and thus are being sold a vision of the past that wasn’t entirely true and ironically by people such as Nick who weren’t around in such past times.
But, regardless, 2008 and all the strife and struggles, did advance the world but interstingly it also unleashed an antiquated and potentially violent force of Right Wing reactionaries. I was born in 1987 and the future I saw as a kid was of post-racial harmony, high technology, egalitarianism, but what I am seeing is the forewarning of postmodernism writers.
That being a world of recycled fashion and anachronism, Zoomer racists who lack an understanding of how much progress was made yet live in online spaces litered with undicpherable memes/intertwined irony and nonsense, and Seig Heil flashing oligarchs like Elon Musk or Kingmaker oligarchs like Peter Thiel (who grew up in a Nazi enclave in Namibia).
Nick isn’t original. We know how he formed so the question is if society has the guts to course correct and send people like him back to the basement. Not only that but having a genuine de-radicalization effort of his influence networks, which can only be done by honesty addressing the concerns of the lost and alienated.
Further, the political left needs more representation in spaces where younger people were recruited into Right Wing ideology, and this means the Left needs to lower its eyebrows and ease up on seeming pretenious or overly Enlightened.
Also, mainsteam outlets and news need full time staff covering online spaces otherwise we risk the rise of more Tyler Robinson situations, in which authorities and elders are utterly lost in understanding modern culture and its ever complex layers and semiotics.
The elites, social programmers, cultural engineers, think tanks, etc., need to understand people are not stupid and being more hyper-aware than ever, people can smell inauthenticity, hunt down and expose “industry plants”, etc., a mile away.
No one quite knows why the shooter did what he did, but both sides of the political spectrum has too turned this murder into a discussion about political violence. The Right Wing media wanting what they consider to be long overdue Civil War and purge of “Lefties”, “Commies”, “feminists”, “migrants”, etc., or, the Left Wing, which seems to be on a type of pre-emptive and defensive campaign to shed light on the possibility that the shooter wasn’t a Leftist, despite possibly being involved with the LGTBQ community, since sexuality and politics aren’t mutually exclusive (I mean look at a gay man such as Peter Thiel, Dave Rubin, etc.).
But still, no one knows why he did it but we have preemptively concluded it is about partisan politics.
Yet, the shooter has reasons we do not quite know yet, and in the mystery, we are all guilty of trying to input or spin the situation; however, there is nothing wrong with thinking this through. It is just that we have to be humble to the fact that we don’t know everything. Randomness does exist and if though randomness goes against our human need to control, the universe at times simply doesn’t care. Nihilists, anarchists, etc. do exist, and we have to factor this in, and the plausibility that this event was a random act of opportunistic violence and infamy seeking.
Even, Andrew Callahan with Channel 5 “station”, or “video-cast” – who I support and respect – has already done a segment exploring this ideas that it is about political differences between the Left and Right, but…we don’t know why the shooter did what he did. However in Andrew’s segment, titled: “The Last Person to Debate Charlie Kirk (Exclusive Interview)“, he does touch upon an important idea that younger generations seem disassociated to violence, which sounds a bit paternalistic considering people said the same about Millennials or Gen X, however, I do think and feel that Zoomers specifically are the most entrench generation of what we can consider (and, I hate to say this word) of “postmodern” irony. But, it is not even a postmodern irony which allegedly afflicted Gen X and elder Millennials at play, but more so an even more advanced, entrenched, realized, and recycled version of ideology that even surpasses the “postmodernist condition”. A post-post or “meta-modernist” type of behavior which seems to instill a sense of hope or sincerity through action (aspiring for the objective truths or grand narratives that postmodernist rejected), while still playing and flirting with postmodern tropes such as irony, being snarky, detachment, punk anarchism, and weaving a playful quilt of high-and-low pop cultural references and anachronisms.
But, what even what I just said is too intellectual likely for the shooter, and all I meant to do there was paint a picture of the sociological conditions in which he operates. He was operating in the digital landscape of gaming, chatrooms, memes, shock videos, etc., which gives a person a sense of connection without actual physical connection, and allows people to operate under anonymity, thus potentially giving a person a false sense of grandeur as opposed to the likely mundane nature of their actual non-digital existence.
This could be a matter of intra-conservative violence, rather than bipartisan violence. Similar to how the Nazis of Hitler beefed with the Strasserism. There is a big policy divide of Zoomer Conservatives (who have been influenced by online movements such as the Catholic Dues Vult movement; Groypers; 8chan; figures such as Lilly Gaddis or Nick Fuentes, etc.) who have turned on Israel and those who are Zionists.
A lot of older people, parents, etc., don’t know what is going on online, and I think there is a kneejerk reaction to blame change on progressive explicitly, i.e., like how parents in the 60s called anything different as being “dirty hippies”. Yet, many conservative parents, who see their children as “God fearing darlings” are a lot more technology adept than what their parents know. Their parents who go these large Evangelical Churches don’t understand memes, racist troll symbols, the irony, the lingo, etc. Tyler Robinson could thus be an example of conservative parents being out of touch, and when presented with the actions of their children, they fall into denial and simply blame outside forces, rather than understanding many of these online spaces are explicitly for conservatives, right wingers, fascists, etc.
I wrote this post a few days ago, but as of 9/15/24, I am adding in a video by Internet Today, which also talks about this online postmodern irony I spoke about above.
And, of course, you have liberal centrists (different from Leftist), i.e., the CNN, MSNBC crowed (not to be confused with the Jacobin crowd), doing their “can we all just get along” campaign, while they inadvertently creating more top-cover for conservatives, but establishing a false equivalence between the Left and Right, as if the Left has the history of violence in the USA as conservatism does, and the Left is generally more financially broke that the Right Wing. Since liberal (modernist liberals) and conservatives (classical liberals) are both guided by a capitalist framework of thinking, liberals simply want to “go back to business as usual”, with no real moral or humanist impetus, so they accidently become conciliatory towards conservatives, and their messaging in suite follows.
I can already see the “Charlie Kirk Foundation” or “Charlie Kirk Society” being created and used to bankroll tax write-offs for wealthy industrialists from the Great Lakes Region, or for their more ruthless, ambitious, and crypto investing grandkids. “Inspiring liberty and freedom from leftist Ideology” will be the motto. The board will be figures associated with Hillsdale College (a school implicated in trying to overturn the 2020 Election), Patrick Henry College, Liberty University, etc.
It will be just another 501(c) in the conservative ecosystem used to move money around. These controlling figures are the old money who controlled factories, farming, brewing, mining, chemical plants, etc. Families no one sees. They are not the endearing father figures such Brian Dennehy from 1995’s Tommy Boy, starring Chris Farley, who owned an auto parts factory. Rather, these seem to be the types of people who may say, “Hitler was bad, but he had some good ideas” at a party.
Such an organization would be a self-aggrandizing fawn-fest of self-awarded accolades, “Fellowships”, and other resume padding efforts to make those associated with it seem like “scholars” or “experts” worthy of Fox News airtime similar to cretins such as Christopher Rufo. It will be just another organization in the vast web of interconnected right-wing “think tanks” such as the Claremont Institute, Cato Institute, Discovery Institute, Hudson Institute, Gatestone Institute, Atlas Network, VDARE, Pacific Research Institute, Seale Freedom Trust, the Federalist Society, Manhattan Institute, etc.
Yet, such experts will be corporate stooges arguing for tax cuts on the rich and trying to convince the public that forever-chemicals don’t cause cancer.
There will likely be exchange programs for American students to visit Israel too.
The Right Wing is already trying to merge the death of Charlie with the unfortunate murder of Ukrainian refugee
Kirk, despite being a father, etc., was a loathsome person, who got paid to divide. Seriously, his portfolio is toxic. Rarely did he present positivity unless vanquishing liberals is the only happiness one gets. He did not bridge the divide but rather he widened it, hoping his ideology – one of exclusion – would win. Though not deserving of violence, his rhetoric could be considered as dehumanizing in nature, thus being violence in and of itself. Stochastic terrorism at its finest. Contrary to Trump’s claim that calling someone a Nazi led to Kirk’s death, I’d argue that Charlie’s toxicity came back around like a boomerang.
Now his wife, who seems like she would not have been with Charlie if Charlies were not famous and well-funded, is threatening an ambiguous group of people for his death. It seems she is supposed to be the mascot, a type of white, Trad Wife, Nashville Joan of Arc for the Civil War that many Christian Nationalists, white supremacists, anarchists, fascists, etc., wants but because the shooter doesn’t fit the intended demographic of their anger, she is only left with posturing towards an ambiguous “they”. Her speech almost seemed scripted, but I don’t want to shame a grieving wife, however, it seems odd she’d make such a scripted response just a few days after his death, where I would think most people would have been too traumatized to have spoken just yet.
Yet, keeping tabs on these conservative people I remember years ago Kirk beefing with Nick Fuentes and racist “America First”, “Alt Right” Groyper movement (look it up if you don’t know this term — but be forewarned that the surface level childishness is intended to conceal the abhorrent fascists that these Groypers are).
Kirk wanted to absorb and harness the Alt Right, i.e., be its establishment linked handler, but they felt Kirk was not racist enough (which is hilarious considering Kirk’s default was the “how can we blame black people?” crutch which most conservative pundits rest on).
Kirk was a Zionist whereas Fuentes is an antisemite and anti-Zionist (I consider those two different things).
Before I go on, it is important to note that both Kirk, and racist America First leader, Nick Fuentes, are both from Chicago. This seemingly random tidbit sheds light on the Midwest’s influence on Right Wing ideology. It is a city with a notoriously segregated past.
For example Nick Fuentes is essentially the modern day, online troll, version of mid 20th century racists such as Wllis Carto (of Indianapolis) and Francis Parker Yockey (of Chicago, IL).
Also, as alluded to previously, there is a group of shadowy Midwest Republican Megadonors who were behind Charlie Kirk. The Midwest has a charming place in America’s heart yet is home to the Rust Belt, was hit hard by decades long crime rates due to deindustrialization, and more recently was in the America’s mind because of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting on Kenosha, Wisconsin and the George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis.
However, this shooter, if truly a Groyper, then he was likely a “troll, 8chan kid” who wanted chaos. 8chan is an unfiltered message board where anonymous users often share controversial material ranging from racist memes, videos about death, etc. Such youth-oriented political and 8chan types of violence is not unheard of, but the allure of 8chan for many is that if it gains attention for the infamous actions of some of its users, then outsider backlash often comes off as “lame”, “parental”, or being taken too seriously. It’s a way for detached or alienated to have a sense of “insider knowledge”.
8chan in a sense is simply a distillate of the cynicism, irony, parody, etc., of our modern times, where morality is really subjective and nihilism ironically makes people attached to a world, they feel alienated or exhausted by (and I say ironically because nihilism is supposed to be the absence of feeling). It’s a place for the blacked pill to trade in craft and fellowship. 8chan is a mirror of the perpetual Holden Caulfield (i.e., The Catcher in the Rye) malaise that seems to have robbed people of optimistic thinking.
According to a basic online search of a headline I remembered, in early 2025, in Waukesha, Wisconsin (where Wisconsin oddly appears a lot in my writing), teen Nikita Casap was charged with killing his parents as part of an extremist plot to fund a white supremacist political revolution. The FBI discovered evidence that the 17-year-old was influenced by neo-Nazism and intended to use his parents’ money to assassinate President Donald Trump.
This seems similar to the Kirk assassination to me. But conservatives can’t admit any possible white supremacist or adjacent type of motives, even if it were a fraction, because the modern conservative movement in the United States is a white supremacist movement, more so than it has ever been. Fox News sounds like something one might have heard in Apartheid South Africa, and the seeming parody of Fox News’ cruelty is really them testing what they can get away with. I heard on a Fox News segment the cast of a show talking about executing homeless people with lethal injections.
Yet, to understand Casap, we have to briefly touch upon the Occult, which is very broad and can make the person explaining it seem odd or looney.
I could go back as far as the Greco Roman world with figures such as Plotinus or Iamblichus, or to Renaissance era with Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, or the Masonic and Illuminus Movement of the Enlightenment, or more recent modern figures such as Madam Blavatsky, but in simple terms, the Occult, notably “magic” or “magick”, seeks to will existence into reality and reach higher levels of consciousness through ritual. According to magic practitioner John Michael Greer, author of “The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power” (2021), he states on page 91, “Magic, as we’ve seen, is the art and science of causing changes in consciousness in accordance with will. If you are denied access to any other sources of power, you can still exercise power over your own consciousness.”
Greer’s thesis in his book sheds light on how a generation of “basement dwellers” who were alienated from society, for which they blame the failings of liberal market-capitalist democracies, started practicing “Chaos Magick” as a means of finding friends in fringe online spaces. Chaos Magick is the Postmodern version of older forms of Occultism where relativity, Discordianism, and subjectivity are keys in willing or manifesting one’s will into being. By postmodern I mean a philosophical worldview which rejects grand narratives and is skeptical of objective facts, and thus sees value in mixing high with low art, blurring lines of morality, distorting time and traditional narrative, and musing over living within the hyperreality which could be summarized as the constant propagation, replication, and recycling of consumer and pop culture within capitalist systems that have reached levels of domination in which every aspect of life is a commodified product. The postmodern condition thus could be defined as people living in advanced capitalist societies which have reached such a level of systemic domination over people, that there is no escape for a system based on an idea that people made up. For example, the irony of having third world poverty in the most wealthy nations, as if this were naturally occuring, rather than the byproduct of a man made system and game that we could alleviate ourselves from, but choose not to simply because we are addicted to the system we created.
Many youth mass shooters are…the afterbirth of the postmodern condition, and they know it, so they are predisposed to reactionary politics, often but not always with a traditionalist or Orthodox bent. This is why so many young people or Zoomers seem to be more open to anti-democratic versions of political organization. It seems in part a mix of their rage against their real-world materialist conditions as isolated youths in a world that seems to be getting worse day-by-day, yet it also seems part of wanting to create a fantasy world where individuals have agency again, no different than characters people play in complex world-building “dreamscapes” in video games.
Chaos Magic, Postmodern Magick, what have you, is simply making up whatever you want with the intention that you are performing a magic working to change behaviors and will existence. If we were to apply a sterile military application or lingo to what I just said, the Chaos Magic and Postmodern Magick are simply… psychological warfare without any qualms of bending morality. In grunt military terms it is essentially… f-cking with people. This thus makes it alluring to snarky and edgy teens and young adults.
By the way, I recommend Greer’s book, notably pages 86 through 107 as a better summary as what I stated above
Greer was saying that alienated young people are playing with “magic” as a means of wanting political change, however I am adding on that certain groups want actual results and use violence as a means of ritual to stir chaos, hopefully to bring on collapse or totalitarianism (i.e. Ceasar, Trump).
For example, Casap was a member or associate of Order of Nine Angles, an online mostly Satanic Neo Nazi cult of lone wolf operators, who do violence including murder, sexual assaults, pedophilia, etc., because they see it as a kind of Alistair Crowley, Hermetic, Occultic path towards Enlightenment and reaching higher “Aeons”, i.e., stages of development, where their goal is a “galactic Aryan civilization”.
Members believe in “manifesting”, so by doing evil acts they feel it opens up new pathways of personal success. It sounds very odd. Your grandmother would have zero clue on how to process this, but the Republican Party’s inability to vet the extreme fringes of Right-Wing ideology has given groups like O9A an almost playful albeit dangerous safe space to operate. Rather than calling out extreme white supremacy, which can only vote modern Republican in a two-party system, the GOP simply blames The Left, to the delight of Neo Nazi anarchist organizations.
Like Casap is Wisconsin, in another case a US Army member was given a 45 year prison sentence for trying to a terror attack on his unit as part of an O9A ritual. According to ABC New, Aaron Katersky (2023), stated, “Ethan Melzer, the former Army private described as “the enemy within” because he plotted with a Satanic neo-Nazi group known as O9A to kill fellow soldiers, was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison. Melzer, 24, pleaded guilty last June to three counts: aiding and abetting the attempt to murder U.S. service members, providing material support and resources to terrorists, and illegally transmitting national defense information. The charges accused him of attempting to plan a jihadist attack on his Army unit in the days leading up to a deployment to Turkey, by sending sensitive details to other members of the U.K.-based Order of the Nine Angles, known as O9A. The attack never came to fruition.” (https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-soldier-ethan-melzer-enemy-sentenced-jihadist-plot/story?id=97616439).
So, we have two cases of O9A members, so it could be possible that Tyler Robinson was influenced by such a group. But this is only a lead I am suggesting.
It goes further, according to a piece by the BBC with Daniel De Simone revealed the larger scale of O9A activity. In the segment, Daniel Hussein was a member of O9A who promised to sacrificed women for power and money, and he was just one of at least 7 men arrested for other O9A inspired violence. Hussein killed two women in a satantic ritual.
But when Tyler Robinson of Utah was arrested it made me think of some research, I did a while ago in which this BBC segment talked about a man, Matthew Lawrence from Utah, who was the cult leader who helped inspire Daniel Hussein. Lawrence convinced Hussein to believe in Lucifuge Rofocale, a supposed demonic entity that Matthew Lawrence told his followers to make a blood pact with.
The BBC segment featured analysis from Professor Matthew Feldman of the Centre for Analysis of The Radical Right who spoke about Left Hand Satanism which he explained as a Darwinist, violent form of Satanism.
So, if my theory is correct, Tyler Robinson could have been a “chronically online person” who was exposed to groups such as O9A, notably because Robinson is from Utah similar to O9A affiliated cult leader Matthew Lawrence. Robinson could have done the shooting to “will existence” such as start general chaos, anarchy, etc. Lawrence was affiliated with the Temple of Blood, which is related to the O9A, and O9A has influenced Nazi groups such as the Attomwaffen Division.
Adding to this Occult angle, is that people are trying to pin Tyler’s act on links to transgenderism or Furries. However, sexual orientation or assignment doesn’t automatically indicate political leanings, e.g., you can have gay Nazis, where in the case of male homosexuality may find arousal in the Right Wing’s emphasis on hypermasculinity, domination, etc. The Christian Nationalist movement would love to pin this on the LGBTQ community, black community, immigrants, Jews, etc., as the impetus for their Holy Civil War. Many see Transgenderism as Satanic and there is a basic thesis, I call it the “Jay Dyer Thesis” which has gain prominence in Right Wing conspiracy theory circles, states that transgenderism is effectively alchemy, in which humans are playing God by distorting the natural order of things. This thesis pushes that the modern world, with ideas such as Darwin’s theory of evolution, Transgenderism, etc., are effectively modern occult practices linked to demonic entities.
Tyler’s roommate may have been a Furry or on the LGBTQ spectrum. However, there is a good video that explains a real case of a Nazi Furry conducting a mass shooting. Conservatives haven’t come to grips that people with conservative or even fascist leanings can be gay, trans, irreligious, etc. But I want to be careful as to not paint these groups as synonymous with each other or as being bad. Of course, being LGBTQ is not bad.
The Cost-Benefit of Kirk gone from the perspective of the shooter is as follows:
(A) Make a statement by taking out a prominent Zionist whom you see as an agent of the “Zionist Occupied Government” where “Z.O.G” is a term often associated with White Supremacist politics notably in the 1980s, due to the book “Turner Diaries”, but hate aside, the non-racist truth is that the Israeli lobby has deeply rooted influence in American politics in which more Americans are aware of. And, the brazen actions of Israel and the apparent desperation of Zionists to sway public opinion in their favor, is making more people suspicious of Zionist Jews, which increases retaliatory threats against Jews in general
(B) Hope that the vengeance of Trump will cause “accelerationism” (a term popular in “Black Pilled” – i.e., nihilistic, communities). They, such as extremist groups such as the Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, and more overtly Neo Nazi groups such as Attomwaffen and Order of Nine Angles (O9A), want societal collapse. Anarchist violence helps figures such as Trump (whether he is aware of it or not) towards pushing more authoritarian ideas. Both A & B are goals of people such as Nick “I’m Half Mexican” Fuentes.
Fuentes is exploiting the fact that US politics avoids calling out Israeli actions, thus Fuentes deceptively appears more authentic, “real”, forthcoming, etc. This “authenticity” seems genuine to younger people online. This new era of Israeli negative sentiment is exciting to many in that the establishment appears like a parent hiding the truths of how things work. And, they were hiding the truth.
The rise of political violence, relating to issues such as Zionism is “blowback”. It is the inevitable “Chickens coming home too roost”, as more people realize they’ve be living in one world, slaving, dying, and spending for it, whereas there’s larger agendas at foot.
A lot of people blame Israel for the Middle East situation, which has caused the USA to lose it’s de facto position as arbiter of democracy, but has also made millions of refugees, where many fleed to Europe and the West, during times of economic uncertainty such as durinh the Global Recession of 2008 to roughly 2014.
This could have all been avoided if the legacy media treated Israeli coverage fairly – both the goods and bads, but media in the US is corporate driven and many corporate leaders have Zionist sentiments.
For example, Zionist Jew, Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has a son, David Ellison, who is the new Chairman and CEO of Paramount Global following the Skydance Media merger that was completed on August 7, 2025. As the leader of the combined Paramount Skydance, David Ellison will oversee a vast entertainment empire that includes CBS, MTV, and Paramount Pictures.
Ellison has already given journalistic reigns to Barri Weiss, an ardent Zionist, to help flip negative coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
But, there is a theory that Charlie Kirk was taken out because HE WAS judging Israel, and I HIGHLY skeptical this.
But to expand further, Charlie being dead makes him more valuable to the Right Wing Movement who will exploit his death.
This situation eminds me of John Birch of the John Birch Society if you know that history. John Birch was a Christian missionary during World War II, and given a commission during the days of US and Chinese “Flying Tiger” operations against Japan. His fluency in Chinese made him useful to American operations assisting China against Japan, but after the war, China erupted in Civil War between Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalists and Mao’s Communists. Birch was allegedly killed by Communist at a checkpoint for misunderstanding instructions.
The JBS was founded by rich industrialists, mostly in the Midwest, such as Harry Lynde Bradley (co-founder of Allen Bradley which is now Rockwell Automation) of Wisconsin. Fred Koch, who helped Nazi Germany refine oil, and whose sons Charles and David, became Republican Megadonors, and founded the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank. Another man Revilo P. Oliver, a professor at University of Illinois, helped found the JBS too but left because he felt it too nice to Jews. He left to join the National Alliance, a hate group founded by William Luther Pierce, an ex Oregon State University professor, who wrote the racist Bible called “The Turner Diaries”, which as a book inspired Tim McVigh to do the Oklahoma City Bombing.
This split of Oliver from the JBS is similar to the Kirk versus Fuentes beef.
The Bradley Foundation gives money to the ultasecret Donor’s Trust who funds Libertarian and conservative causes, including… Turning Point USA of Charlie Kirk. The Bradley’s are inter-married to the Uihlein of Wisconsin. The Uihlein’s owned Uline Logistics, Schlitz Brewing, and General Binding Corporation.
To distill all of my information further, in simple terms, Charlie’s insurance policy expired and his value to the MAGA, the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, etc., yields more benefits with him gone.
It sounds heartless but if this were something more coordinated from MAGA proper, i.e., a grand conspiracy, which seems unlikely, then it is a basic cost-benefit analysis.
(A) Trump can blame the Left with no proof (B) MAGA can drum up its call to purge people on the margins. Trump already pardoned January 6th Rioters, so what else will he pardon? (C) a new generation of people will be loyal to Kirk in memory as they will zee the Left as to blame.
(D) It distracts from all other Trump stuff like his round ups of migrants, his contract awards to Peter Thirl’s Palantir to create a mass surveillance “dragnet” program, but also troops in cities, keeping the media off Israel/Gaza, and no Epstein talk such as the fallout of the botched Ghislaine Maxwell interview, (F) boost before November elections especially with centrists where Republicans are already Gerrymandering in Texas. (G) Justify taking out Leftist in a tic-for-tat scenario
Kirk’s death increases the odds of violence on Left Wing figures, etc., such Mamdami, Hasan Pikeer, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, etc.
Overall, Kirk’s use ran out, especially with Zionists and Republicans furious with the rise of figures like Mamdani in NYC, indicating Kirk has failed a bit to sway public opinion. However, Kirk being killed by an Anti-zionist can help the Zionist lobby clamp down further on anti Israel movements.
So that side had gripes on his failing assignment. Yet, Groyper may have killed him because Kirk was Pro-Israel and his death would cause “the theory of accelerationism”.
It is a basic cost benefit analysis.
Kirk is better off to the Zionist – Right Wing – Trump movement, not being alive than alive, even if they weren’t involvement in a grand conspiracy.
Disclaimer: I enjoy Tim Dillon. I think he’s pretty level-headed and fair in his analysis of politics.
Wow. This post was originally dedicated towards talking about my criticism of Dave Smith but now has evolved into comedians in general.
If this were a book idea, I would call it “Comedians of the bourgeoise & the Jesters Who Hold Court: How Anti-progressivism in comedy supports classical liberal elitism, conservatism and fascism” by Quinton Mitchell.
But I am a busy working-class person, with not much time to do a book now, but for keepers, I am copyrighting that title, just for proof for later if I ever get to it.
This post and idea of a book comes from what I observe with comedians as they rally against “wokeness” (which has some merit), but often ends up eradicating underlying progressive sentiments, and inadvertently or purposefully ends up supporting the conservative status quo.
Comedians, who also moonlight as podcasters, did have some sway on the 2024 US Presidential election. The scope is of course debatable, but to say they had no influence seem flat out false to me. Joe Rogan for example is now under Spotify, which has a net worth of $134 Billion dollars, so of course he, his guests, and others like him have some level of influence.
Sure, comedians/podcasters can dismiss this allegation of helping Trump win, and by dismissing people who allege this it makes it seems like those accusing comedians are just further proof of being “out of touch” or “suffering from the woke mind virus”, yet comedians are also lavishing in the attention that they possibly DID have impact.
What I just said here reminds me of the recent Tim Dillion interview on CNN with Elle Reeve. First off, I don’t hate Tim Dillon, and, I think he has a fair approach to analyzing both sides of the political spectrum, but he does like the finer things in life, often talking with a slight sense of Gatsby-like outsider-peeking-into-the-rich analysis with his stories centering around the “WASP-ey” nature of the Hamptons as juxtaposed against the out-of-touch “white” privilege and dramatics of blue collar Long Island.
Dillon reminds of the something akin to the punk-of-the-elite class-which-therefore-makes-you-not-punk mantra of Brett Easton Ellis (a MAGA supporter), but Dillon is nowhere nearly as elitist and nostalgic as Brett East Ellis in my opinion. Dillon and I are Millennials more impacted in our developmental years by turn of the Millenium events (e.g., 9/11, War on Terrorism, The Great Recessions, etc.), whereas Ellis is true Gen-Xer who was raised in a time of “America not questioning” itself commercialism of the 1980s and 90s. If anything, Dillon still believes in some sort of grassroots hope without being fully nihilistic towards progressive sentimentality, despite his sometimes-dystopian analysis of life under late-stage capitalism. Dillon actually has self-awareness unlike many other Rogan-sphere comedians. I think Dillon stands on his own and I feel bad even linking him to Rogan.
Dillon also seems to be trying to hold court with those in political power such as with RFK, Jr., and his wife, and did have a slightly smug dismissiveness about the allegation that comedians helped Trump win in the interview I referenced on CNN.
Whether Dillon wants to admit or not, I think he – and by extension his comedian “Rogan-sphere” buddies – saw this CNN interview as a crowing-achievement, because A) it must have been personally surreal for himself to be thought off as a serious person to “the establishment”, which lays the impetus for more comedic inspiration for himself going forward because the whole event can thread upon irony and ridiculousness, and B) it gives him a consciousness-like, Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club “Project Mayhem” sense of glee, knowing that he and his comedy buddies are in part sticking it, or capable of sticking it to “the man”.
For example, Dave Smith in a YouTube video titled his video “Tim Dillion Embarrasses CNN” which goes to show how they see the establishment, but for Dave Smith specifically, is his wrath is dedicated more so towards the current “liberal” (i.e., Left Wing) establishment, and I say this because Smith and many other “free speech” comedians, seem to not be attacking the Donald Trump Administration as much as they could, except for maybe on America’s support for Israel in the Gaza War, but this to me is more so a trendy thing to do for them to gain sympathy and appropriate leftist positions (e.g., Theo Von crying about Gaza on his podcast, just to go to dinner with Jared and Ivanka Kushner, where both of them fund Israeli settlements on contested Palestinian lands).
Did he Dave, did he really? And if so, what are you so excited about that, when we have a literal fascist regime in the Trump Administration in power right now?
But, don’t get me wrong. CNN should BE CALLED OUT. CNN can be very embarrassing, considering by proxy it is seen as a type of “left wing” news outlet, but the issue to me is that comedians often in this lingering anti-woke regime, forget to call out the absurdity one can see daily in the conservative media. Tim Dillon, Andrew Schulz, etc., calling out CNN is not bad, and could be coming from a place of wanting them to do better, but even if that we the case, the fact remains that the “focus” is still on what we consider to be Left Wing. I think this is important to call out because not focusing on the conservatives gives them a sort of pass. As a result, I think a lot of people feel they are in this suspended animation of absurdity. Trump’s lies, cruelty, and truth bending seems untouchable while we all still unnecessarily debate the philosophy of “wokeness”. Who cares anymore. The constant attacks on wokeness are really a form of kicking people while they are down.
My observation is that comedians found the Left Wing to be easier targets, but now with Trump in power, doing all sorts of ridiculous things, it seems that many “anti-woke” comedians all of a sudden have “writers block”.
Trump is literally (1) claiming white South African farmers are going through genocide – which is a popular white supremacists’ myth – to distract from the point that his administration is funding the actual ethnic cleansing of Gaza, (2) Trump is hosting Trump meme-coin events, thus selling his title as President and pimping out of the Oval Office, (3) the Jeffrey Epstein Files, which people in the heyday of Qanon lunacy used to attack the political-left – largely because of Bill Clinton’s relationship with Epstein, despite Trump knowing Epstein too- are still not…public despite a disastrous attempt at doing a “public unveiling” featuring stochastic terrorists like Chaya Raichik of Libs of Tik Tok, etc. (4) Trump literally has “slave patrols” chasing down migrants, and whether we agree to disagree about the legality of their status (e.g., yes, coming to the US without permission or claiming asylum is a crime), we should hopefully be able to agree that the heavy-handed “Gestapo” like strategies of detaining people – many of whom are hardworking, tax paying and law abiding – is excessive force, and ironically obfuscates from the fact that capitalism benefits from often low-wage labor.
Or let’s go simpler…with that being that eggs are still high (as if it’s not a joke already that Presidents can’t control egg prices, and the fact that eggs spiked in prices due to an Avian Bird Flu pandemic).
Switching from Dillon to Smtih, I believe that Dave Smith is nothing more than MTV generation Republican who uses libertarianism to sound counter to narratives of power, but the underlying ideology of libertarianism naturally supports the elite status-quo which causes the wars he claims to be about. Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Smith can’t honestly say that Communism has caused any wars. What is causing them is the territorial and self-preservationist natures of nation-states, often ruled by an elite class of wealth people – getting into hot wars or cold wars over influence, resources, etc.
But comedy’s current overemphasis on wokeness forgets that wokeness is really a strategy of progressive ideology but not progressivism overall.
Wokeness in a very simplified definition could be explained as: (1) employing a combination of intersectional thinking which is an analysis of power along the intersections of various identities, (2) having an intolerance towards intolerance – which seems counterintuitive, but intolerance towards bigotry is an effective weapon against the status quo who wield both capital and state-violence, and (3), and has philosophical roots in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, the works of Herbert Marcuse such as One Dimensional Man or Eros and Civilization, with the latter analyzing the subversive nature of capitalism and convenience via socialization, control, etc.
This is very gross over-simplification, but I think these are three core tenants. I didn’t list Marxism because wokeness despite being left-wing oriented in how we understand it in contemporary society, can be distained by people in the Far Left (i.e., those who feel identarian politics erodes class solidarity and, if anything is a weapon employed by liberals to balkanize class solidary) or by the Center-Left (who often see wokeness as counter to the “do what thy wilt” nature of liberalism, often focusing on free speech debates). But wokeness can be defended by from people within both camps. So wokeness is not inherently “communist”. It is really a worldview, framework, strategy, style, mantra, sentiment, etc., rather than an ideology. To be honest, you can allege that many people on the political right are “woke”, and these people are conservatives who simply complain or call-out the actions of the status quo, but don’t actually want it to go away.
Libertarians are effectively…woke conservatives. They’ll talk about “CIA, Operation Gladio conspiracies” here and there, they may smoke marijuana, they may sprinkle in Anti-George Bush and Dick Cheney throwbacks, and maybe, just maybe, might criticize police for excessive force (despite them liking cops as being defenders of property rights), but at the end of the day, they are…conservatives, and Republicans.
But regardless, even if there were flaws in the strategy of wokeness, it doesn’t mean progressive ideology is bad, but the goal of these comedians is to make it seems they are one in the same.
What these comedians are doing, is no different than what conservatives such as Jordan Peterson attempted to do by liking progressivism with “postmodern Neo Marxism”.
Jordan Peterson lazily (and with the help of meatheads like Joe Rogan), pitched the very Nazi-like idea that progressivism was explicitly “postmodernism” in nature, or as he put it “Postmodern Neo-Marxism”. This insinuates that the wants and needs of groups outside of “in-group”-oriented hierarchies as somehow espousing a dangerous “dada” nonsense.
Feminism, LBGTQ, diversity, environmentalism, etc., based on Jordan Peterson’s biased explanation of postmodernism (amplified by Joe Rogan’s platform to millions of listeners), means that these groups and the wants of these groups are unnatural, relativistic, and possibly even a “Jewish” subversion (with the latter being allegations espoused by the Nazis, American Paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan, and the more recent Alt-Right).
To go a little off course, but when thinkers like Peterson revive old tropes of “Cultural Marxism”, which always morphs into the horrid nature of antisemitism which I consider to be Jew hatred and blaming of Jewish people, but not a criticism of the state of Israel. By Peterson opening up the Cultural Marxist pandora’s box, he, even as a Pro-Israel, Christian-adjacent classical liberal (conservative), is able to help the State of Israel, because the antisemtiism they helped unleashed, helps Zionists organizations clamp down on free speech and criticiams against their colonial conquests against Palestinians. It is a very sinister strategy where you (1) promote antimsetimic tropes to help reinvigorate white supremacy though pulling Center Right politics more Far Right, and this Right Wing sphere includes the Evangelical Christiains who want Israel restored for their own religious propgheic reasons, but also, (2) promoting antimsetimsim allows Pro-Israeli groups, companies, think-tanks, etc., clamp down on speech agaisnst ISarel by alleging its antimsemitic. This also allows these Zionist groups to have more of a disporortionate effect on American life such as schools being threatened with defunding if they don’t support Israel, people being fired from jobs, or companies not getting state grants or contracts if htey don’t pledge to Pro-Isreal Anti-Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) laws.
Truly, an evil double whamy, entrendre, what have you, we live under.
But back on course, from Dave Smith, Bill Maher, Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, etc., are “defenders of classical liberal” traditions such as individualism and free speech, yet classical liberalism has been fully assimilated into the existing capitalist structure, thus naturally creating classism, imperialism, wars, etc., despite these comedian’s beliefs that they are countering state power with free speech.
As a result, I consider comedians like this to be Jesters of the Courts of Kings. Court Jesters could be an esteem tradition in the barbaric Dark and Middle Ages if a person was good enough. Not wanting to back to poverty, or get their heads chopped off, they would pander to the rich while at court, helping to justify the system as is, which was a feudalist system where elites were ordained by God to bind people to the land in exchange for “protection”, but a protection ironically from those elites themselves who had the power (with the exception lords may protecting serfs from highway bandits, when they weren’t acting in the capacity of robber barons I suppose).
These comedians’ free speech advocacy, which often centers around making fun progressives who are critical of existing hierarchies, is in a “snake that eats its own tail” feedback loop., because their comedy ends up supporting those at the top, while dismissing the grievances of those at the bottom, and when they do reach down to elevate the grievances of those at the bottom, it is often those at the bottom who still stuck in mental control that favors the rich, conservatism, etc.
Bill Burr is the most famous comedian who taps into true grassroots, blue collar, unintellectual progressive sentiments, which is why conservatives were so terrified of him. He is not only a white, straight guy from a culture ingrained in American lore as being romantically blue collar (i.e., the Irish), but uses his positions in these “privileged intersectional” boxes to call out the conservative status quo. Bill Burr threatens the status quo, no different than how when Republicans lost their minds over “White guys for Harris” during Kamal Harris’ run. The status quo knows that straight, white men are the buffer demographic needed at keeping things essentially the same for a very few amounts of people.
Yet, these comedians I am referring to will obfuscate from the fact that they are doing anything wrong by alleging that grassroots (and often monetarily broke) progressives are the “real elitists” as a means of pitting them against the everyday moderates and conservatives who are still largely living in their own denialism about how the capitalist system is exploiting them.
Comedians therefore can be weapons to help divide the proletariat working classes, so they never develop enough class consciousness to overpower the manager, owner, corporate, and elite classes.
Therefore, these comedians are…jesters holding court. Having made some money off Netflix who took risks on their careers by releasing their so-so comedy specials, but also having made money off pall-wall Patreon accounts or from the YouTube Google Paid Partnership Program algorithm, many of these comedians, who were once average joes, are in the upper middle class to lower rich brackets, and they don’t want to go back to where they came from. So, it seems the more they make it to the top, and I often saw this in Andrew Schulz, is that end up in this increasingly isolated “HBO Entourage” fantasy, where they are now the cool kids, and if they say anything ridiculous which gets criticism, then it is some people hating on them (literally, “They hate us, cuz they ain’t us” saying).
They get close to power, hoping to be let just a bit further into some secretive enclave, that they kind of sell out, but to distract from that fact, they simply base their entire comedic identity around pointing out what they see as “Left Wing hypocrisy).
On Dave Smith’s beliefs, which to me is a good start at calling out what I consider to be this “classical liberal apologia within comedy (which always ends up supporting the status quo), is that Smith calls himself a libertarian, but he that he defines himself as this because “the state represents violence”, which to me is a corny co-opt because one could in reverse provide a counter by stating “uncontrolled humans are innately violent” and stronger people or groups of people will target weaker people.
Also, I am not a pacifist. I aspire to be, but I am not one because peace isn’t something that naturally exists in nature, notably human nature, so taking the high moral ground of calling oneself a pacifist is nice, but in reality, has no substance. If anything – for better or worse – the freedoms of people are in protected by the possibly of violence. Pacifism though a something to aspire to, isn’t how the world is, and if the Dove Left or Libertarians got their way, they would likely create such as power vacuum that things would more violent sooner than later. A problem, with Libertarians and the Dove Left, is that they naturally assume that the United States is to blame for everything, and this often morphs into “Far out Man” “Blame the CIA” for everything arguments as if everyone other nation on earth doesn’t have their own self-preservationist attitude and realpolitik.
Government as a concept is not bad, and yes, government does have a monopoly on state-violence, so we as individual people aren’t exercising vigilante violence, based on our own subjective belief systems.
One could argue (and I admit that am oversimplifying things here for the sake of brevity) that government is one of the oldest human concepts we have as a species, in which humans ceded their personal freedoms to create a truce that was held firm by some sort of higher force needed for the arbitration of issues. Other species have something we could make the comparison to as a government, i.e., a social system of rules and truces that governs behavior.
From elder members of tribes to Kings, to elected representative bodies, we have had some level of government, because government essentially represents consensus, a body to establish truces, and an organ to uphold standards.
Sure, governments being comprised of people can be corrupted, but if anything, that’s a people problem, and not a problem with the concept of government.
Further, Dave Smith’s libertarianism provides him an easy way to win arguments by taking a non-interventionist and pacifist approach, notably by calling out the State of Israel in its treatment of the Gaza Strip in which the IDF is treating the entire area and its peoples as supporters of Hamas. Yet even though what the IDF is doing is unfortunate and is a clear example of what colonialism looks like, and sure, the United States helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia is not out of kindness but rather helping to sustain American hegemony, still, Dave Smith’s libertarianism doesn’t counter state-power, but rather enables the forces of wealth disparity via classism, that eventually hijacks governments to create the wars — often for conquests, market domination, and resource extraction – he claims to be against.
His libertarian ideals emphasize private property rights, which therefore evolves into a society of wealth-disparity since some will always own more than others and eventually monopolize markets and use government to help protect those monopolies.
Libertarianism is essentially capitalism, and capitalism, imperialism, etc., have been the impetus for wars of conquests, resource extraction, slavery, human trafficking, etc. Capitalism does not admit it does these things, because it’s not an actual person, but an idea, but the people implementing and advocating for the idea of capitalism often obfuscate from the negative externalities of capitalism, rather instead giving a “rising tides lifts all boats” Milton Friedman-like cop out.
Dave Smith is also on this bandwagon on anti-wokeness (which has made comedy predictable) and seems to employ what a lot of other current comedians are doing, which is what I call “Gotcha, see, you’re a hypocrite” angel to comedy, notably targeted at Liberals (who do corny things such as performative Civil Rights while continuing to support economic systems, that their conservative opposition benefits from), and the political-left. For example, there is a trend of calling out liberal elites (i.e., your Center Leftists, modernist liberals, etc., who compromise with the political-Right in order to prevent socialist economics undermining private property rights that disproportionately benefits the wealthy) and the Left (i.e., those critical and sometimes fully opposed to liberal economics, i.e., capitalism).
So not only does he have a political ideology that favors the rich naturally, but he also basis a lot of his comedy on calling out the hypocrisy of the only counter to conservatism, where conservatism is unapologetic in its belief in free-markets, hierarchies, etc. Sure, call out hypocrisy, but I don’t think that’s what he’s fighting, but rather he’s fighting for the preservation of the economic system as is, which means there’ nothing really revolutionary about his beliefs at all. Just because you get rid of government doesn’t mean that the majority of people’s lives will get better. If anything, it may get worse. Libertarians are at this point a weaponized ideology of think-tanks and organizations who provide intellectual top cover for elitism and wealth disparity. People like Reagan and Nixon called themselves libertarians to my knowledge because it was the fashionable thing to be in post-WWII America as it became more popular to rally against New Deal Era social programs.
How it is punk to be a libertarian, when people like Reagan would call themselves that? Libertarianism is nothing more than an ideology of apologia for private property which naturally favors the elites, business and mercantile classes. It is the higher-brow, bow-tie Ivy League variant of anarcho-capitalism.
Also, why is libertarianism also the preferred ideology of racial (notably white) supremacy and separatism? Because it provides intellectual layering of people’s internal desires and fears, which is anchored in racism, sexism, etc. Better put many conservatives aren’t libertarian because of the high-brow, debate-club talking points they say, but often it is about maintaining a hierarchy based on race, gender, sex, etc., and they see government regulation and interventionism as counter to their wants. But libertarianism provides a “high horse” position by alleging it is simply about maintaining freedom. Sure, it may be maintaining freedom but maintaining freedom and being a humanist are two different things.
Sure, Dave will probably allege that he is a purist when it comes to his beliefs and that his beliefs have been invaded and ruined by others, but even that would be a cop out.
Generation X and Elder Millennial Libertarians in my view, coming from a person in my late thirties, are what I MTV-generation Republicans. They were raised on Reaganomics and Clinton Neo-Liberalism, but to save face when George Bush Neocons started ruining the planet (destabilizing the Middle East and helping cause a decade long Global Recession), they distanced themselves from standard Republicanism and called themselves libertarians because it was cool to do so. The Tea Party movement and the presidential campaigning of Ron Paul also led a lot of people into libertarian ideals. Paul often seemed like the rational one in a room because he was anti-war but also anti-regulation, yet the flaw still remains…. with that being that power can accrue in the hands of a few even if you get rid of government, and nothing may change for the better, and may get worse, because there’s no government recourse to challenge those with dipropionate power.
Many of these Libertarians were also raised with a pre-existing libertarianism from the mid-20th century hovering the background which included the thoughts of Murry Rothbard-inspired extremism (who was a Jewish man who had odd links to white supremacists), a Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell intellectualism of the 60s and 70s, and also a good dose of American Southern-oriented “State’s Rights” Jeffersonians (i.e., often Southern libertarians who used Thomas Jefferson as the basis for their ideological stances on segregation, states’ rights, etc.).
Figures such as MTV’s Kurt Loder was an example of the “hip libertarianism”. Don’t get me wrong. Kurt Loder who I grew up watching as the “smart guy” on MTV who gave it an air of journalistic integrity, seemed like a nice guy and I want to say him beliegn a libertarian in his heart was coming from a good place, however, I would argue the idealism of libertarianism, simply ends up supporting the status quo as is.
I suspect Loder’s libertarianism was based on the Baby Boomer rejection of the stuffiness of suburban conveniences, which later found existential catharsis is the lyrics of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground during the emergent punk scene, post the failure of the hippie movement, with bands like The Stooges, Television, those of NYC CBGBs, etc. Essentially, libertarianism of Loder’s day could be seen as punk, but really it wasn’t. It felt punk maybe, but how punk could it really have been if Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago was winning a Nobel Prize for basically promoting “Greed is Good” during the same late 1960s to early 1980s timeframe. The wish fulfilment of Milton was the Reagan 1980s.
Loder helped inspire Fox New’s host, Kennedy.
Kennedy therefore leads us to “Republican Comedy” shows such as Red Eye and Gutfeld!
Greg Gutfeld of course calls himself a libertarian too…
Dave Smith has of course been a panelist on Gutfeld’s shows.
The truth of the matter the older I get and the more I get tired of analyzing the system is that liberals and conservatives are the same, and both are the biggest hinderances towards a true progressive future, which I feel can only happen underneath some sort of true Left-Wing ideology.
To me, conservatives are simply “classical liberals”, where what we call liberals in contemporary speech are “modernist liberals”. Both are liberals in that they have a core philosophy centering around private property, markets, individualism, and the “Devine Rights of Man” (inalienable rights), but classical liberals (conservatives) inspired by people such as Edmund Burke still favor classes, traditional, religion, etc., and feel that human nature itself (the invisible hand, i.e., human chaos) will somehow solves things, whereas modernist liberals (liberals in our modern day lexicon) inspired by Oliver Wendell Holme’s “living interpretation of the US constitution”, and the philosophical school of Pragmatism led by figures such John Dewey, have a hands-on (real hand versus the invisible hand) approach. Science, managerialism, psychology, etc., are more so utilized by modernist liberals in applying classical liberal presuppositions.
Yet, both are liberals based on that classical core tenant of beliefs.
My belief is that only true Leftist ideology can reform society at this point because liberalism, and notably neoliberalism has reached its inevitable conclusion, which is corporations replacing the state that represents all peoples in theory such as through privatization of services, and the fact that wealth is already so much in the hands of a few people (the game has been won) that economic mobility for the vast majority of people is either impossible, going to get much harder, or will only be sustained by those in power manipulating from behind the scenes to prop up a system that requires belief in them still holding onto power. For example, as technology and AI literally gloats about replacing people’s jobs, the fact still remains that people still need to pay bills and rents since even living is a for-profit enterprise under capitalism. Captialism running out of things to do, so can only recycle itself to stay relevant (for example, promoting anachronistic fashions to keep consumers interested), promote forced-obsolesce (ensuring things break more easily so you have to keep buying that thing, i.e., reducing quality), promoting subscriptions to unlock extra features in products people already paid for, etc. This is why Universal Basic Income is gaining traction. It is not about creating a post-capitalist utopian state, but rather maintaining the hierarchy as is, but why an agreed upon amount of state generated “play money” to keep propping up belief in the current Monopoly Game we are enslaved to. Liberalism like Marxism are both idealistic utopian ideal, even though Orthodox Marxist won’t admit it because they consider themselves as “true realists” because of dialectical-Materialism, etc.
But liberalism like Marxism posits itself on a belief that their specific idea will lead to a utopian version of the future, where Marxist believe in a collective of the proletariat will get us there, whereas liberals believe that individual will get us there.
The same fallacy that Communists argued when by claiming the state would wither away after the “dictatorship of the proletariat” took over to implement a “classless, cashless, stateless society”, can too be found in capitalism (liberalism) where this fallacy somehow believes that rich people winning the game of capitalism will…somehow give up their wealth for a utopian future for everyone, or, I guess the masses will be better off peasants than previous era of peasants if only a few winners of capitalism stay in power?
If you step back, you notice that the Far Right and Liberals both agree on destroying the only reformist ideology which can be found the Left.
From anti-woke comedians to the liberalism of Cenk Uygur Young Turks or steamers such as Destiny, to the Far Right from literal Neo Nazis to the general and Right Wing with figures such as Ben Shapiro, Jillian Michaels, to think tanks, to bot armies, to God knows what else… is that there is a war against the Left.
I call it full spectrum cross-divisional (both left and right) liberal warfare against the progressive Left.
Was wokeness annoying?
Sure.
But I felt I grew as a better person because of it.
A lot of people hung up on wokeness as the culprit of the world’s problems are those who never cared to really care about what woke progressivism stood for or was trying to do, but tapped into their own sense of victimhood by alleging they got cancelled by the “woke mob”.
Like I can’t imagine being a main in 2025 who still angry and afraid or triggered by feminism, even if an individual triggers you. I say this because even though individuals in the left may be very annoying, rude, hypocrites, themselves…so what? That’s a “them” problem, so I am not going to throw feminism, or LGBTQ, or fellow Black consciousness thinkers under the bus because I get their goal. My support for progressivism is not based on transactional relationships but rather a belief in the transformational nature of it. It’s simply the right thing to do, and yes, I am making a firm objective truth claim on what is right and wrong.
For example, it is the right thing to support women in supporting women, and I have to accept that it may not include me, and if anything, always may be mistrustful of me as a man. It is what it is. Patriarchy has given them every reason to feel a certain way. It sucks. Sure, there will be bridges between us possibly, but maybe me being supportive of their self-determination is the simply the only thing I can do? It doesn’t mean my life is over, especially on matters where emotions may be involved. Sure, if I am accosted by a person on a person-to-person basis, then yes, I will defend myself, but I am not simply going to throw feminism under the bus as being the root scourge of modern problems. I apply the rhetoric to other things to.
The goal of conservatism is to make it seem that what is now is natural and not a construction. It’s easier to be a conservative. It’s safer. It’s tempting as a result. Maybe the Left needs to realize that people have a propensity for simple thinking and easy living, and, yes, we have natural insecurities which sometimes intersectional conflict brings out to people’s dismay? The Left is not perfect, but still there are the only force that can reform their current neoliberal globalist regime we labor under.
A part of me thinks that we weren’t woke enough, if the result was Trump or JD Vance.
Regardless, for example, I admit there was a time where I thought this woke ideology was explicitly Communists, but then I grew out of that because it’s not about the strategy but the underlying sentiment that underrides that strategy. And even if were Communists…so what? Communism has an analytical tool against capitalism is not the same as living under a totalitarian communist regime.
I don’t see the woke era as a bad thing but rather something that push conversations forward, however, a society as a tolerance point, and those who espouse woke ideology (though I support them) should respect that. Wokeness was most so about pushing conversations forwards on the hopes of achieving materialist gains. Sure, we’ve talked a lot, but we still don’t have…. Medicare for All, legalized weed, a fair immigration system, and if anything, rights have been LOST.
Identity politics is not bad, but it’s how much we focus on it. The Left can have both class solidarity while also factoring in intersectionality, but to me it’s how much emphasis at the forefront do we put on identity. Identity is easy to me. Talking about it, analyzing it, etc., is easy, cheap, and often can lead to nothing beside maybe Behavorial modifications to how we treat each other, but often talking on identity all day everyday does nothing but create a few hyper-successful voices who become the leaders of their tribal groups, but nothing is actually changing. If anything, fatigue kicks in, and those who wanted a better world, drop the Left, and go back…to suburbia or the system as is.
It happened in the 70s and 80s after Civil Rights and is a happening again, and this attack on wokeness is a sign of that. Liberalism coopted and destroyed anything revolutionary, and created a newer type of inclusive liberalism. A new update to its software, rather than anything in the underlying code structurally being changed.
This is something the left needs to work out, but you better believe it that the opposition will do as much as it can to promote disunity.
But as I end this, Andrew Schulz, another comedian, interviewed Bernie Sanders. This may seem random, but Andrew has said certain controversial things to some that have gotten him into “hot water” as far as Twitter goes, but Bernie is slightly disappointing fashion was pushing this “wokeness as a problem” trope, to the glee of Schulz and his friends.
I feel Bernie did this being an old guy and little out of touch about the deeper nuances of online conversations and controversies, but I also think that Bernie is unfortunately adopting a liberal and Right-Wing framing of wokeness, as it being some “ridiculous” strategy. And, sure, as I’ve admitted, wokeness was not perfect, but in the case of Schulz is that Schulz was really wanting top-cover for anything he may have said that pissed people off. By getting Bernie to agree with him to varying degrees, it somehow alleviated Schulz from anything he said, because both he and Bernie pushed the ideas that “woke” type of Left are more problematic than good.
Me hearing Bernie on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant 2 Podcast, to me means we need younger blood and this why Alexandia Ocasio Cortez is so important and why the system fears her. She would have pushed a bit more than what Bernie was capable of doing.
I truly think the system is afraid of AOC and if these comedians are truly free speech, I think Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, Theo Von, etc., should host her.
Dave Smith is nonsense to me. I’m writing a longer piece on him and other comedians so treat this like an introduction briefing.
Dave Smith comes off as some anti-war, anti-Zionist intellectual and gets a lot of attention out talking everyone he debates but his underlying philosophy is conservative and I would argue regressive.
I’m not sure if he is a committed idealist with a penchant for stubbornness or a disingenuous person who uses libertarian ideals to sound autuer and above politics, but his politics have always been those of the status quo. Literally.
In this video, he commends Milton Friedman for having sound economics. Really?
“Milton – Greed is Good – Friedman” has sound economics?
The same Milton Friedman, who was heavily tied to the CIAs Neoliberalism, with figures such as the Chicago Boys from Chile, who designed Augusto Pinochet’s economy, while Augusto Pinochet and other Latin American leaders (often harboring Nazis like Klaus Barbie) were waging purges across the South American continent?
That’s your scion Dave?
Libertarians are liberals and liberals emphasizing private property, thus are capitalists, and capitalists always take over and hijack governments, and use government to insure their losses, steer investments their way, and use the military-intelligence apparatus to expand imperialism for market domination.
The “New World Order” has always been the full dominance of capitalism across the globe (despite controlled conspiracy theories alleging the NWO is leftist).
The NWO is a full spectrum agenda including the promulgation of Libertarian ideas thru billionare funded think-tanks (e.g., the CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation, Atlas Network, etc. — who have advanced away from paid intellectuals like Friedman and Sowell, towards podcasters and New Media).
Also, the NWO uses borderless multi-national corporations, regime change, etc. When the capitalist class pushes a society to its brink and near logical conclusions, with that being a land of deep wealth disparity, manufactured “buy the dip” booms-and-busts, de-industrial wastelands, and an economy more dependent upon asset investing (bloated stocks and real estate) rather than manufacturing (where the slivers of remaining manufacturing have been automated), then the elite class (who funds Libertarian movements) drifts towards fascism.
They do this because they know the system is reaching a conclusion but need a nationalistic, militaristic, & nostalgic regime to distract from the fact, so they can extract more wealth while the current version of this game is still around.
Libertarians are in feed back loop, and is equally as idealist as what they claim Communists to be. In other words, regardless of any facts countering to their ideas, they’ll still push forward with a worship of the idea regardless.
Dave Smith is not a revolutionary. And, I’m never going to listen to his comedy to know if he’s funny or not. But, if his political beliefs are anything like his comedy, I suppose I’ll be laughing at him and not with him.
Sure, he’ll go against the “boogeyman CIA” or take the high horse pacifist position – as if peace in natural anyways – but, his libertarian ideals will A) always lead towards a totalitarianism of capital over democracy and is (B) an ideology that comes from elites.
Murray Rothbard, Reagan Milton Friedman are the exact opposite of “anti establishment”.
If anything Libertarianism is just a veiled type of Straussian elitistism, and by that, I am talking about the Rockefeller Foundation funded thinker Leo Strauss of the New School and gee-go-figure, the University of Chicago, who not only hated modernity, but wanted a Plato based Republic, which of course is ruled by “Philosopher Kings”, which in reality ends up being Tech Bros, the old gentry class, billionaires, etc.
There’s no suprise that libertarian movements have often expressed themselves or have found solace in right-wing, often racist, traditionalist, and hierarchical movements, since patriarchy, racism, etc., are effective buffers for protecting the capitalist class.
I don’t trust Dave.
I’m not sure if he’s controlled opposition or just a clown.
His libertarianism is nothing more than Generation X MTV Republicanism in the vein of Kurt Loder or Fox New host, Kennedy. To no suprise at all he’s friends with Fox News figures such as Greg Gutfeld.
Resistance to MAGA seems futile considering how many billionaires, millionaires, disgruntled military and CIA alumni, religious fanatics, etc., it has on its side.
Below are some ad hoc schematics I like to do to track things
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I see MAGA as a phase of history that the United States needs to go through. It is the manifestation of paranoia as old as the John Birch Society, the Minute Men far-right social groups, the racism of people such as Willis Carto, etc. It is the amalgamation of things a lot of ideas, that people won’t be content with getting over until tried. That is the simplest and least wordy way to describe it. Only when we are forced to stare at the results of our actions will we learn. That is it. It seems that all societies decay into some form of fascism at some point unfortunately, notably as the nation, like an organism, becomes insecure about any possibility of waning power and prestige.
So, this will all bleed together and flow like a linear story.
Michael Flynn has been waging a psychological war against the American people, and no one seems to…care.
Flynn admitted to commanding an army of digital soldiers in an insurgency.
To get the point, Michael Flynn was a friend of the late General John K. Singlaub.
Singlaub was a veteran of the WWII having served in Operation Jedburgh, but later spent time observing the Chinese Civil War, managing the Secret War in Laos during the Vietnam War, helped provide guidance to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, and was later implicated during the Iran Contra Scandal for having smuggled weapons – then banned by the Boland Amendment -, allegedly through a place called John Hull’s Ranch in Costa Rica to the Right Wing Contras in Nicaragua (some allege they were nothing more than death squads).
I think it is fascinating that every region that Singlaub was hot in was also interestingly a hot spot for drug activity (opium in Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia) and of course cocaine production in Latin America.
The bank is said to have been involved in drug trafficking since it had offices in places near DEA overseas offices, and this money laundering was likely used to fund CIA clandestine operations across the globe including continental Africa which was seeing conflicts such as Rhodesia, Namibia, etc. The Nugan Bank Scandal mimics other notable shadow banks such as the BCCI Bank and the Banco de Ambrosiano Scandal which had links to the Vatican. This era in CIA history was strongly influenced by William Colby and then later William Casey. Other notable CIA figures of this time, who were connected to Nugan Hand by varying degrees of separation where figures such as Theodore Shackey (The Blond Ghost), Richard Secord, Thomas Clines, Edwin P. Wilson, Frank Turpil, etc. Many of these men such as Shackey were CIA veterans from the days of Bay of Pigs invasion disaster and the assassination of President JFK, and Shackey through his cadre of underlings had links to many Cuban anti-communist radicals, where many of these men had ties to cocaine trafficking in South Florida, mercenary work (some as far as in Congo), assassinations, etc.
As you can read there is a lineage or direct links tracing from figures such as Michael Flynn all the way to deep state figures of the early CIA, yet, the irony is that Flynn and conservatives as weaved this lie that the Deep State is “liberal”, “Democrat”, etc., when the Deep State has always been more Right Wing (pro-elitism, pro- capitalism, etc., but nuanced with a Judeao-Christian, Zionists Millennialism. It’s ardent stance on anti-communism is often a passive-aggressive way for maintaining white supremacy, since most of the traditional wealth in the USA is still owned by white elites. This is why the CIA, when fighting anti-communists forces, often works alongside the extreme Far-Right and by doing so, they create “blowback”, i.e., domestic terrorists, hate groups, rogue veterans, etc.)
William Colby is noted as being one of the creators of Stay Behind Units (along with figures such as Frank Wisner, James Jesus Angleton, etc.) in Europe to fight the Soviets in case of invasion but these Stay Behind Units were often fascists or right-wing organizations including Neo Nazis and European Identitarians. William Casey, who later died from a brain tumor before he was possibly indicted for his ties to Iran Contra, was the creator of the Manhattan Institute, which is a conservative think tank. This think-tank, still in existence today, has hosted figures such as Right-Wing billionaire and Elon Musk associate, Peter Thiel, who has obtained lucrative tracking software contracts from the Trump Administration, but also has hosted figures such as Christoper Rufo.
Hillsdale College is the mother-brain behind America’s charter school movement, offering curriculum such as the 1776 Project which is a rebuttal curriculum to the 1619 Project (a study course detailing America’s history of slavery, Native American conquests, etc.). Hillsdale College is not only the alma mater to ex-Blackwater mercenary group CEO, Erik Prince, but also hosts many notable conservative and Federalist Society connected individual such as Justice Clarence Thomas, who was later revealed to have received money from shadow donor Harlan Crow. Crow is a man known for collecting fascist memorabilia.
The school also has ties through its president Larry Arnn, a Plato fanatic and self-ascribed “West Coast Straussian”, i.e., after neoconservative progenitor, Leo Strauss. Arnn links to another conservative organization called the Claremont Institute.
The Claremont Institute is noted for having started the Obama Birther Conspiracy movement (alleging Obama is not an American citizen), and this organization attempted the same with Kamala Harris. Claremont was run by a man named Michael Pack who was later appointed by Trump to be the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the entity that overseas Voice of America (an organization that Tucker Carlson’s father in the nineteen-eighties ran). While at USAGM, Pack gutted the origination and filled it with Trump loyalists, going so far as having been sued by some of his employees for workplace treatment.
Pack later platformed a man named Guo Wengui, a shadowy Chinese exiled “billionaire”, who is a close associate of Steve Bannon who is an ex-Goldman Sachs manager, ex CEO of Brietbart in which Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is a spin-off of, and a former US Navy officer. Bannon of course was Trump’s former campaign manager and is still a diehard supporter. Bannon is credited with having discovered the armies of angry online male gamers via a scam in which Bannon would pay Chinese sweatshop workers to mine in-game digital goods and then sell these goods for real-world money at high markups, often to underage people. Bannon did business with ex-Disney star, Brock Pierce and his accomplice Michael Collins Rector where Rector later fled the country for assaulting teenage boys. Bannon was introduced to Trump by David Bossie, the President of Citizens United, a conservative non-profit known for winning a federal court case that enables corporations to give funds directly to political candidates, thus erasing any real chance of campaign finance law reform in the United States.
Bannon, a real chaos agent, during the early Trump years, went on a European tour courting Far Right candidates such as France’s Marine Le Pen, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Hungary’s Victor Orban, and Germany’s Alterative for Germany (AFD) Party where the AFD has ties to the Kremlin. Bannon even went so far as to help buy an old Italian monastery to be a “gladiator school” for new generations of Right-Wing activists, though this acquisition was protested by many of the local townspeople.
It is also important to note that Bannon was on the board of Cambridge Analytica, now going by Emerdata or something similar, was the data collection firm who took customer data with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook’s help, to launch targeted political campaigns. Cambridge Analytics also involved Robert and Rebekah Mercer, with the Mercer’s having earned their billions from the Renaissance hedge fund. The Mercer’s were the funders of Brietbart News where Bannon was CEO at. Further, a Hong Kong Billionaire named Johnson Ko was the board and Ko owned a Chinese security group known as Frontier Services Group (FSG) which employed Erik Prince. As you can see this is a closed loop.
But back to Guo Wengui, the Bannon associate and Michael Pack selected mouthpiece, he went on VOA to protests the Chinese government, but he was so unhinged that weary producers cut his segments, which later garnered the wrath of Pack. Pack was later let go by President Biden, yet, Guo was later indicated for having scammed his loyal followers out millions of dollars (some value the fraud as high as a billion).
Guo who courted people such as former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was later discovered to have been recording people in his Manhattan penthouse, and when investigators went back to inquire further, the apartment mysteriously set ablaze from incendiary devices set up in the apartment. Guo was discovered to have fled China for a sexual assault allegation but also fraudulent real estate transactions with corrupt CCP officials. Having fled to the United States, Guo presented himself as a political refugee trying to topple the Communist Chinese but was likely a double-agent working for the Chinese (as a form of probation to ensure his funds weren’t frozen), but his anti-CCP groups were simply a way of spying on dissident anti-CCP voices amongst the Chinese expatriate community. Guo was later found guilty of fraud, similar to his friend Steve Bannon, who was also indicted for hosting private “Build the Wall” fundraisers in which he and others pocketed the money for personal use.
Before I end this tangent on China, it is also important to note that Erik Prince worked for a Chinese mercenary group called Frontier Services Group (FSG) who provided security services to the Chinese regarding their Belt and Road infrastructure project but also security details for their African mineral extraction programs. Prince, a real shadowy player, also met with a Russian banker via a UAE lobbyist, George Nader (later convicted of child sex crimes) while in the Seychelles, and Prince was outed as having broken UN Sanctions by providing military hardware to Libyan warlord General Haftar via Project Opus, where Haftar, a CIA asset, is one of many vying for control of the oil rich region (this meeting was arranged via Trump’s ambassador to Egypt).
Regardless, Michael Flynn in recent years has admitted to having a Digital Army which he admitted at a Young Americans for Freedom event. The Young Americans for Freedom event is a conservative youth organization now under the leadership of Scott Walker, former Governor of Wisconsin who made his fame by going after public employee unions in his state. YAF is notable for having purchased Reagan Ranch. Scott Walker was bankrolled by the secretive billionaire family, The Uihlein Family, and this family also donates to Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Kirk himself has said plenty of racist things throughout his career and seems to have strong ties to Arizona’s College Republicans, an organization which seems to have ties through individual members to the America First movement with figures such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and his Groypers (which I would assume through individual members have ties to groups such as Patriot Front).
The Uihlein Family are intermarried with the Bradley Family, and both have ties to the infamous John Birch Society, which is a right organization so unhinged they claimed that Republican President Eisenhower was a Communist, likely for his support for desegregation.
What Flynn was really saying is that he runs an army of trolls and bots who see politics as insurgent warfare.
Michael Flynn can be seen online with Singlaub at Phyllis Schlafly Eagles event celebrating his 100th birthday. Phyllis Schlafly Eagles is a conservative organization which according to their site are anti-feminists, anti-political correctness, and supports reduced immigration and fosters free market economics. It is important to note that Phyllis Schalfly was a female activists who opposed female rights. Think about that, you have career military and intelligence officers being celebrated at an organization that is vehemently opposed to modern female liberation. YouTube content creator named Intelexual Quickies has a great video titled, Are White Women Voting Against Their Interests? detailing Phyllis Schlafly. Separately as a side note, I find it interesting that the modern Trad Wife movement, which itself could be understood as a sub-set or proxy to Alt-Right politics, could be considered as being a psychological operation in and of itself, and it has roots in the anti-feminism of women such Schlafly. Yet, these ideas of old have been repackaged for a younger generation of Millennials and Zoomers, etc., who are being inspired to be nostalgic, notably as a reaction to the Social Justice theories they were taught in school, but also they are reacting to the lack of economic ease grew up in since 2008 (The Great Recession) until now. For example, many Zoomers were in elementary school during the tumultuous Recession and Social Activism years, largely defined by the Presidency of Barak Obama (and the ardent obstructionism of Republicans at this time to Obama), and despite the assumption that these younger people would be all become progressive, many in rebellious fashion are looking backwards rather than forwards to gain identity. The reactionary nature to be Far Right to me is a reality of an empire in decay and in which the citizens of said empire refuse or cannot accurately criticize the underlying presuppositions of what props up their realities, notably that of capitalism. For example, as home and other assets continue to rise as worker wages stall, and as the wealth of a few balloons to new heights, many people still put their faith and vicarious aspirations into figures such as Elon Musk. A man who is sinister due to the fact that he not only understands that the game is rigged and able to be exploited by the billionaires and tech elites, but he is so cynically aware that he understands people will simply believe whatever he says as long as he says the rights things, even if he doesn’t believe those things or if he is in fact behind the conspiracies he claims others are.
Yet, back to Michael Flynn and his “Digital Army” (which is very real).
Michael Flynn’s brother, Charles Flynn was involved in the January 6th insurrection scandal. Colonel Earl Matthews alleged the Charles Flynn and Lt. General Walter Piatt misled investigators in that the Flynn and Piatt seemed to delay requests for National Guard support. Lieutenant General Piatt, previously a candidate to run the US Army Futures Command (the command that deals in modernization efforts of the US Army) is likely very salty that he was denied his fourth star by President Biden. Piatt is now the CEO of the powerful Wounded Warrior Project organization, which has loyal followers amongst the veteran and POW/MIA community. So not only does Michael Flynn run a digital army of trolls, but a likely associate of Michael via this brother Charles Flynn, runs the WWP. The political left often loses the “war of aesthetics” regarding the military and veterans, largely due to the pacifistic notions such as cutting military spending, thus giving them a massive disadvantage in political discourse. Criticizing the military is often misconstrued with attack veterans, and conservatives us this as a means of controlling the narrative around the military, intelligence communities, etc. Sadly, the Left falls for this hook and sinker because the Left has no tangible realpolitik on military matters besides emphasizing peace – which is something that arguably doesn’t exist in nature- but, also emphasizes a self-reflective and self-critical gaze, which can be easily misconstrued as not being patriotic.
Alex Jones of course is friend to Joe Rogan, who as a podcaster platform a litany of personalities involved in steering the general public more right-wing such as Jordan Peterson (who pushed notions such as “Postmodern Marxism”, which is simply a reinvention of the older Pat Buchanan “Cultural Marxism”, and the even older Nazi term of “Cultural Bolshevism”), Sam Harris (who flirted with studies about Racial IQ and acting through his atheist persona would go onto to push Islamophobia), Stefan Molyneux (a man listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate list who too pushed racial IQ hierarchy studies), Gavin McInnes (founder of the Proud Boys), Graham Hitchcock (knowns for his alternative archeology beliefs notable in conspiracy theory, New Age, and Ancient Alien-like subcultures), etc.
Rogan, who I like to call a “Neoplatonist”, a former actor tied to the Disney corporation, is the cross-roads between the Alt-Right, UFC bloodsport, comedy, and conspiracy theory culture such as UFOlogy, the New Age movement (which included the Human Potential Movement, a movement famously lampooned in the film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, which was inspired by true event such as Project Stargate), Timothy Leary-like “psycho-naut”, i.e., psychedelic drug using subcultures as best typified by the Burning Man festival, MAPS, and The Esalen Institute, etc.
Rogan not only is able to platform and spread “red-pilled” ideas to the masses, but his ability to bleed into the comedy sphere grants him even more authority. Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, Tom Segura, etc., are all part of the “Rogan-verse”.
Rogan, whose politics could be best understood as classically liberal yet syncretic, i.e., splicing elements of libertarianism and some aspects of socialism (if you catch him on day he’s not fuming about the political Left). I have compared his views to that of science fiction author and US Naval officer, Robert Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers and Strangers in a Strange Land. Starship Troopers details a society ruled by a military government where voting is based on military service, yet, for those who wish not to serve, they live a libertarian and voluntarist existence. Strangers in a Strange Land is noted for having inspired both early hippies in areas such as Laurel Canyon and also libertarians, where libertarians through the Cold War became more so synonymous with Right Wing politics and think-tanks, e.g., the CATO Institute, the Atlas Society (a global libertarian foundation). Republicans such as Reagan, Nixon, etc., all called themselves libertarians at certain points, and both were influenced by thinkers such as Milton Friedman, where Friedman led the Chicago School of Economics, a school dedicated to neoliberalism, i.e., unfettered free markets. Friedman trained a cadre of Chilean economists under the fascist regime of Augusto Pinochet, where Pinochet was known for his kidnapping, torture, and disappearances of his opposition.
Tulsi Gabbard, a politician hailed by the Joe Rogan community because she seems to mix both hippy and militarist elements, such as those I spoke about above, is now Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Tulsi herself is the epitome of this nexus between New Age culture and militarism as I alluded to relating to Heinlein. Her youth was largely controlled by the Hare Krishna sect, The Science of Identity Foundation, which is a group known for their anti-homosexual beliefs and also their anti-Muslim stances. She like Michael Flynn is involved in psychological warfare with her meritorious service with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne).
Alex Jones has been hailed by Russian media for his anti-Hillary Clinton stance, and he has links to little known YouTube influencers such as Jay Dyer, author of Esoteric Hollywood. Dyer, a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, has interviewed thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin, who is Vladmir Putin’s ideological architect. Dugin wished to bring back Russian power to its heights in the Soviet Union but instead of Communism he shifted to fascism with an Imperialist Czarist aesthetic. Dugin believed that stirring up as much civil unrest in the USA by fostering racial conflict, ideological conflict, etc., so the USA will implode from within and European forces would leave NATO.
Russian operations have been effective at convincing many in the West that the Ukraine War is explicitly a “money laundering scheme” and that it is the United States’ fault that Russia invaded despite the fact that Russia has had a dictator for over twenty years and was already meddling in Ukrainian politics. For example, the United States borders Mexico in which some security studies organizations deem it a failed narco-state, but the US has not invaded Mexico. Even if NATO was on the door of Russia, Russia had already invaded Georgia and has shown themselves as having a foreign policy which seems to advance themselves at any chance at the expense of the United States.
Dyer often pushes anti-Western conspiracy theories, often disregarding any criticism of Russia, where is Orthodoxy is symbolic of. His conspiracies theories often involve concepts such as “predictive programming in film”, Federal Reserve conspiracy theories, and how science and materialist philosophies have erased God, spiritualism, etc., and therefore enabled an Occultic and Satanic takeover of modern societies. I don’t think Dyer however is a Russian asset, but I think by proxy he leads people down a path towards anti-Western thinking that can be usurped and twisted against the West for the benefit of foreign intelligence agencies.
His remedy is embracing Eastern Orthodoxy, yet the issue is that his feeds into the Kremlin backed information campaigns which seeks to make Russia look the Savior of “Christendom” and the West. Pro-Russia conspiracies have expertly infiltrated the Western and American conservative movements. Fox News hosts such as Tucker Carlson hailed Putin for his stance on LGBTQ issues and his anti-feminist perspectives for example. Yet, a big reason Western conservatives are supporting Russia is because of white anxiety in the both the United States regarding demographic changes, but also in Europe due to Middle Eastern Refugees. The irony about the Middle Eastern refugees is that Russia played a role in helping exacerbate the destabilization of the Middle East such as how Russia stepped in on behalf of President Bashir Assad. Russia used mercenaries in the region and also conducted aerial bombing missions. However, Russia helps send refugees into Central and North Europe often with the help of Russian underling Belarus.
Tucker Carlson currently seems to be undergoing a mental and/or spiritual crisis with his belief he was attacked by demons. Seriously. He said it.
Dyer even connects back to the comedy space, via online troll figures such as Sam Hyde, but Dyer also connects to Alt-Right figures such as Lauren Southern, where Southern also interviewed Russia’s Dugin, but she was also platformed on Rupert Murdoch owned Sky New, where Murdoch of course owns Fox News. Fox News of course has produced Trump cabinet position picks such as Pete Hegseth, Sean Duffy, and Sebastian Gorka, etc. Gorka of course was a liaison to Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, and Hungary and in many ways has been seen by the Western and American Alt-Right as a bastion of hope because of its anti-migrant stance and perceived social conservatism. Hegseth in true “crusader” fashion with Deus Vult and Jerusalem Cross tattoos (slogans and symbols appropriated by the fascists) has been accused of sexual assault.
[Ending Commentary by Author]
First off, I want to say I love my country, the United States of America, and I do not hate Republicans. I hate that they hate their opposition and how they are pretending that they haven’t always. I may not have been Rambo, but I raised my hand and gave a few years of my life to serve the country.
But I am tired, absolutely tired of the Right Wing thinking they own this country. I see their games about how they try to corner, encircle and engulf the very powerful aesthetics and mythology of the military for themselves, and they try to use this to take the high horse position to undermine progressive ideas as not being American enough or not American at all. Though I have many issues with the political left, such as their idealist stance on pacifism and their lack of a realpolitik when dealing with legitimate threats to the United States, I do embrace the inclusiveness of progressive politics and its empowerment of the working classes.
The truth is the Left Wing lost the psychological warfare fight.
The Left does not seem to have full-time armies of trolls online, nor the funding to afford complex bot technology, etc. The Right Wing expertly conducted a shadow war on the American public such as pushing erroneous and dangerous conspiracy theories such as Qanon. Even though the mainstream media seems to be on the Left because they have to be inclusive as a means of selling advertisements to the diverse masses for their revenues, the truth is mainstream media, as capitalist organizations, are not necessarily in alignment with what Leftists actually want, e.g., Medicare for All, universal education, criminal justice reforms, restrained military spending, etc.
Yet, the opposition in Republicans argues or insinuates that this corporate left-leaning liberalism is proof that the media (including social media) is actually controlled by Leftist.
There is a difference between liberal and leftist. Liberals are actually both Democrats and Republicans since they both trace roots to Enlightenment classical liberalism, which fosters private property, inalienable rights, separation of religion from state, pluralism, etc., whereas leftism, is more on the spectrum of Socialism, i.e., a collective view to property to some, or at least a redistribution of wealth within a liberal system for egalitarian means. For example, in the United Kingdom you have a Liberal Party similar to the American Democratic Party, yet they have the Labour Party, which is similar to the Democratic Socialist of America with figures such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. You can be a Left Wing liberal, a Social Democrat, a Democratic Socialist, a Communists (typically but not exclusively adhering to Marxist ideology. For instance, you have socio-anarchist who reject the state), etc. which are all different things.
Yet, the American public with a short attention span, and easily misled by fantastical and escapist conspiracies such UFOs and “animal-human hybrids” rather than focusing on factual conspiracies, have seemed to have already forgotten the real and apparent attacks on democracy that Republicans and their operatives conducted in this MAGA era.
Getting students at Evergreen State University or Oberlin College to develop a comprehensive defense policy relating to manpower, readiness, intelligence, psychological warfare, and nuclear weapons seems a bit of stretch, but with Trump having won for a second time, the Left needs to do some deep thinking about how it lost and why it will continue to lose. A big reason I believe the Left will continue to lose, is that the left has an ideological issue with the military, despite Leftist regimes throughout history having actual militaries.
The military by the Left is always framed as tool for colonialism for the behest of capitalism and spoken about with an explicitly self-critical tone. And even though it is apparent that this colonialist-capitalist animus is fact a reality of the current military, the Left, despite talking, does not have a plan for an alternative system. Peace is a concept often enforced by violence or fear thereof. They don’t have a concept of what I call Patriotic Progressivism. Even being proud to be an American is often left out of discussions. For example, I have said before that a start in this process is to frame the American Revolution – which is often usurped by conservatives – as being a worker revolution against a charter corporation rather than merely a revolution against taxes. 1776 was a war in which human trafficking victims (African slaves), non-unionized contractors (settlers), and Indigenous peoples rose up against a chartered corporation owed by foreign investors of a global empire.
But what is the end game here of Republicans?
It sounds like a mouth-full of intellectual jargon, but the clear agenda of the conservative movement seems apparent to me.
They seek to establish an anti-democratic Republic ruled by wealthy elites, technocrats, and industrialists, as a type of dreams-of-grandeur vision of ancient Plato’s Greece as understood in his treatise “The Republic”. This sort of “Neo-Greco-Roman”, i.e., fasci, i.e., fascist vision, is layered with Christian Evangelicalism, and they see the United States as a continuation of this Greco-Roman tradition as understood through the thinking of figures such as Leo Strauss, Edmund Burke, Ayn Rand, etc.
These Rand-Straussians as I call them wish for a nativist and isolationist world to protect the culture they have designed in their own image, yet see no issue in exploiting, colonizing, and extracting resources from abroad, indifferent to the destabilizing global impacts these may have, such as migration of the impoverished to their borders. Thus, their ideology is ultimately a Darwinist, zero-sum game of eternal struggle of power versus the powerless.
Underneath the veil of modern capitalism, marketing, commerce, and corporations there is an underlying animus akin to medieval and feudalist thinking. A reality of generational lords and knights (business owners, landlords, the officer classes, etc.) ruling over the renting serfs (the general public). Religiously committed to capitalism, they must ensure capitalism’s continual existence.
As technology reaches its logical conclusions, they are left with only investing in over-charging the people on assets such as housing, using forced obsolescence, and turning the entirety of life into a subscription-based model, etc. Many neighborhoods are now owned by corporations. Even automobiles may require people to pay to unleash special features in the cars they already paid for.
The same way how Kings and Popes of old used fear of “witchcraft” and the Occult to violently suppress progress and dissent, modern conservatives use conspiracy theories to engender irrational fear. Irrational fear of “Communism” as a means of ensuring that they can privatize government, cut their own taxes, and deregulate industries. Fear of racial, gender, and sexual orientation equality because they may pose a threat to the existing Western order that traditionally favored European American, straight, males, and maintaining this white heteronormative order, i.e., a type of caste system, the existing capitalist and colonial inspired order which is the foundation of the USA lives on.
I actually wrote most of this before the election, but I had got really busy in my personal life, but things have been good. Also, I would recommend watching videos by The Vanguard on YouTube about what is going on by Ana Kasparian.
She has also been ranting about criticism she has gotten on Twitter, though I suspect Ana…is being a little sly here. I will explain more later.
Maybe her current flare up against the Left will fade away as far as drama with Ana Kasparian being angry at Left Wing commentators and content creators such as the Serf Times (I believe), The Vanguard, etc. I do not have an X account, so keeping up with drama is hard to do, but better for my health.
Ana has been praised by Right Wing commentators who never give any kudos to liberals or the Left such American Justice Warrior, Tim Pool, etc., for her recent flare ups at the Left.
Maybe Ana is playing some sort of “four-dimensional chess” and by having a slight right leaning pivot she knows that any controversy will drive views, clicks, etc., which is vital in a competitive online media landscape. If she gets “cancelled” by the Left (which seems to be a comedian’s wet dream on another note), she will become a right-wing darling.
On a more moderate tangent, even if she courts Right Wing talking points, she is able to grow her own reputation, the audience of TYT, and possibly prep for her own separate audience in the event she goes full solo in the future. Ana blowing up at X (Twitter) comments seems to be her being an opportunist and needing pretext, a false flag, etc., to create top cover for her own and TYT’s business agendas.
Or, maybe Ana is being reactionary and living in her own echo chamber?
Ana is a human, so she is complicated whether she wants to openly admit it or not.
I would want Ana to reach out to other progressive contributors more so. I know she has a good working relationship with Emma Vigeland of the Majority Report with Sam Seder, but I think she should livestream with The Vanguard, The Serf Times, The Humanist Report, FD Signifier, etc. Showing your eagerness to learn is what I think what Ana is missing for herself personally and for her perception. If Ana is tempted at the Dave Rubin or Ben Shapiro models, which are successful in their own right (i.e., they can afford L.A. County home prices), I think this is the wrong decision by her.
I have always wanted to be a firm supporter of Ana Kasparian, but I can only handle her commentary in doses, and this is even before her recent drama with her “leaving the left”. I have witnessed Ana blow up, mispronounce or stutter her away through her segments, and generally make her own personal frustrations with grasping progressive concepts seem like it is a larger issue outside of herself, etc. I believe the frustration part for some on her audience is that the Political Right know exactly who they are whether they admit it or not, but the Left is trying to create a more unified front to combat conservatives, yet, it seems like Ana is airs her frustrations with the Left (embarrassing it) rather than linking up with more progressives that are popular online to learn, converse, share ideas, etc. You rarely if ever hear Tim Pool, Tomi Lahren, Dave Rubin, Candace Owens, The Red Elephant, Charlie Kirk, etc., question conservatism. They are cheerleaders for it. Their unwavering support for conservatism seems to attract more loyal followers somehow.
Yet, I have also seen Ana be one on the most personable media figures, and she has been an advocate and defender of progressive causes.
So, I suspect what she’s doing now is partially personal as she has a slight career crisis about her future and what she has accomplished.
However, personally, she has admitted publicly that all she knows is the Young Turks media outlet, she has no kids, etc.
Ana seems to be going thru a mid-life crisis looking back at her life and asking if she were as productive than she had hoped for. Feeling these feelings of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and probably thinking she is smarter than newer commentators who have benefitted from easier means of making money online (e.g., Serf Times, The Vanguard, etc.). She seems to be throwing the Left under the bus rather than understanding criticism comes with the job of being an activists and ally in order to make a career move. That is, it. She has to asks herself is she a newscaster or a real political activist? I think she wants to branch out on her own but is using criticism against her to gaslight her critics to make her run towards whatever future she sees for herself.
But that is a maybe and I could be wrong. Sometimes it seems she and Cenk seems to be having their Howard Stern and Robin tensions akin those depicted in the movie Private Parts, i.e., there are professional tensions, though there is a deep friendship between the two.
I think the Zodiac is corny and weird, but Ana seems like a bull-headed person.
Also, Ana does possess a level of professional envy such as towards Hasan Piker.
She has said some low blow things towards Hasan to minimalize his success as a political Twitch Streamer. Ana bought into Cenk’s idea of being an online news outlet, yet TYT did not adapt to the new arena of live streaming on platforms such as Twitch, which Hasan ran away with and capitalized on. Hasan is actually in the trenches of where the culture is, more so than where the news is. That’s the difference. Hasan understanding interfacing in real time is what younger people want, and it is the youth who are the ones most politically active now. TYT at this point is from mid-to-late twenties to mid-forties people, with some deviations in both directions. However, will TYT or a TYT host ever be on a panel on live TV asking presidential candidates questions? Is every single politician kicking down their doors to get a brief interview? However, we should be happy to have TYT because they are combating the likes of The Blaze, The Daily Wire etc., yet even these are somewhat obscure compared to mainstream media that many Americans still trust and watch.
Yet, Ana instead of praising and collaborating with Hasan, Ana unleashed her “Tracy Flick” on him. Even Hasan’s uncle in Cenk has helped collaborate with his nephew, though they both seem to understand they have different prerogatives.
Ana in a video titled Cenk Uygur Answers Tough Questions About His Past, published four years ago, stated she has full editorial control of the program now, and this was in the midst of Cenk’s eventual unsuccessful political run. I think Ana was hoping that Cenk would win his race, hand her the keys, and then they establish a direct pipeline network with him in political power and her running the media business. Yet, Cenk didn’t win and I suspect retained his original role of power within the company, likely at the cost of Ana’s perceived leadership amongst the TYT staff. Ana being loyal was maybe hoping to be the Queen Bee of the organization but with Cenk not leaving, her role was essentially reduced to co-equals. Compound this with the stellar rise of Hasan Piker being interviewed by major news outlets about his career. Ana may be asking herself “did I make the right decision for my career”.
This is going to sounds harsh starting off but it is just better to get this out of the way.
Ana seems to be kind of a… daddy’s girl and Valley Girl from a relatively sheltered existence who has a worldview that centers around Los Angeles County. The issue with being from a place like L.A. or even NYC is that these places are so large and layered that it creates the optical illusion that truth, standards, etc., must arise from these places. These are self-sustaining places that suck in resources from everywhere else and then spits back pop culture, media, and entertainment to everywhere else.
Playing detective, Ana (based on her social media activity) wants to be a salsa-dancing, L.A. hot wife, who catches up with Cat Power listening friends over mimosas and brunch, but who also has 2nd Wave to 3rd Wave feminist ideals, i.e., she wants to be an empowered working professional with her own financial security and wants to smash glass-ceilings, but she also does value traditional femininity. And…there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but maybe she needs to be honest with herself and maybe her audience (if she is comfortable with that) that this is who she is.
She and TYT call themselves progressive, but progressive is a sentiment and not necessarily a defined political position. A Progressive can be a person who rejects capitalism outright and wants a world of progressive social sentiments, or a progressive can possibly be a person who has capitalist bourgeoise leanings who wants a world of progressive social sentiments. Ana is more in the capitalist bourgeoise camp, and I would her call a Democratic Capitalist or Social Democratic Capitalist and not a Democratic Socialist, Communists, etc.
I think she is having an existential journey about where she really fits, yet I think she maybe acting reactionary based on Twitter or YouTube criticism, rather than seeing the criticism of her has potentially valid.
I like to say that “being critiqued isn’t being oppressed”
TYT is progressive but that’s broad. But being broad is good for business for them. Cenk however has stated publicly that he isn’t a socialist, but he doesn’t ascribe to conservative allegations that anything social in nature is socialist. But an issue with TYT trying to be the news rather than an activist organization is that at a certain point they will have to grow and scale which means becoming more center.
I believe TYT thinks they can shift the Overton Window more left wing by pulling more Right Wingers to the Left by agreeing with them, so the new center is more far left than what it was, but by doing so TYT faces a dilemma of throwing true hardened Leftists under the bus. Ana’s freaks out furthers the process of making the Left, Social Justice, etc., seem like a failed freakshow.
Better put, Ana, keep your frustrations to yourself in pivotal moments because showing a disunited front on the Left does more harm than good, especially considering TYT likely talks to left leaning yet independent voters who are just one issue away of abandoning the Left. Better put even more, Ana is a role model, so her acting this way insinuates there is more chaos on the Left than there needs to be, when really instead of freaking out she needs to “reach out”. Say it with me. “Don’t freak out. Reach out”.
This moderation of TYT seems noble but I think it actually be detrimental because in order to appeal to moderates, you may have to play into the conservative framing of leftists which insinuates they are cartoonish, dangerous, “postmodern”, etc. Also, can you really trust the conservatives? They are constantly looking for “one of the good ones”, i.e., a black person who spouts condescending talking abouts used by white supremacists about black people, or a woman who decries feminism as means of reconstructing men’s wounded egos.
Back to what I suspect her actual life and upbringing were like, Ana seems like the pre-teen and teenager who watched a little Sex and the City on HBO here and there, but being a 90s and early 2000s kid she was raised on the post-Cold war prosperity of MTV, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, etc., yet the issue with 90s – coming from a black person’s perspective – is that even though we were trained to live in a post-MLK racial harmony-type world (which I was raised in and made many good memories within), the truth is that the 90s was defined by commodifying racial differences. Simply because Raven Simone was the black girl in Zenon Girl of the 21st Century, and youth white girls sang to Destiny’s Child, or non-black people tuned into In Livin’ Color, Martin, or the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, or non-black people knew Tupac lyrics, this does not somehow mean we “solved racism” or that “things were better”.
Reading her blog post about why she is leaving the Left, I noticed a tinge of nostalgia, which interestingly is something I notice as being a key tenant to conservative and MAGA politics. The myth that things were simply better back then because we didn’t question things or “get offended by everything”. Conservatives want to go back to racial jokes not because they’re simply funny, but because they do reinforce differences that were innate to a society built from a colonial and racial caste system. They want to go back to “don’t be so sensitive” so they can reinvigorate F-bomb dropping homophobia and “boys will be boys” get of out jail cards. A big part of why people are voting for MAGA which Ana doesn’t seem to get while see feels sorry for herself is that they are simply voting for him out of spite. It is a middle finger vote to knowing they are losing arguments but want to feel right in being wrong. They don’t want to admit people call the police on black people for simply existing sometimes. They don’t want to admit that society is largely about protecting male’s egos. They don’t want to see how the hot dogs are made but rather want to feel like a King for a brief moment by sending perfectly good food back to the kitchen, simply because they can.
Many are voting for Trump to double down on their first vote for him. They can’t be negotiated with.
They voted because they think they are right and will be right, and even if the data proves them wrong on certain issues, they don’t care. They have shown themselves as easily descending into dues ex machina thinking with conspiracy theories such as Qanon mythology. They voted for Trump not because they want their beliefs to be compromised with, but they want them to be the standard. Contrary to popular belief, is that you can be conservative in a liberal or progressive world, but you can’t be liberal or progressive in a conservative one. Vengeance (cleaning the swamp, purges, mass deportation, locking her up chants), fear, cruelty (e.g., mocking Haitian refugees as voodoo worshippers who eat people’s pets), mockery, and nostalgia are what underlies the logos of MAGA. Period.
And what is interesting is that the last paragraph I wrote above, I did so before the election. And I think I am right in what I said.
[Back to what I wrote pre-election] When we as a society did not get offended by everything was because we as American consumers were not trained to see how the “meat in the hotdogs” were processed, but rather to simply consume things. The 80s and 90s was in part about covering up the radicalism that occurred in the 60s and 70s. For example, I remember thinking back to hippies as being these failed oddballs like the bus driver on The Simpsons, rather than people who had tangible and merited criticisms of the status quo. Hippies, Black Panthers, feminists, etc., were turned into TV show caricatures trying to hurt the delicate balance of Al Bundy beer-drinking-with-hands-down-his-pants America. I am almost forty. I feel like Al Bundy, so when I say that pop cultural quote, I really mean it.
Moving on, Ana being the children of Armenian immigrants, to me means her understanding of the USA is not genealogical [and I would make the same assertion of Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker — where Hasan often has a condescending tone towards Americans].
Her understanding of issues such as race, class, etc., are not nuanced by having generations upon generations of ancestors within the United States who relate to these issues, e.g., the existences and consciousness of foundational African Americans (and many foundational White Americans) being explicitly linked to the questions of race within this country (slavery, Jim Crow, the very founding of the USA, etc.).
She knows racism, slavery, police brutality are bad, but based on her upbringing and background, her understanding of these issues can at best only be described as sympathetic and text-book level rather a deeper level grasp of the issues. I believe this is also a point of frustration for her. As a person who has to talk and ask a lot of questions, she seems to be scared of being in spaces where she has to listen.
For example, even if I were to move to Armenia, my understanding of the historicity and gravitas of the society would be limited, though as a human capable of feeling, I would be able to feel for Armenian people, but I would have to humble myself into not thinking I am an expert on deep cultural nuances, feuds, genocides, etc., that occurred there.
But, also back to her immigrant experiences is, that Ana does come from a literal Caucus Mountain, old world, patriarchal culture. A part of the world defined by ethnic feuds, good foods, and territorialism. I don’t want to minimize her ethnic culture, and I admit that I am making assumptions here, but I can assume that her Armenian heritage probably played a role her worldview such as emphasizing a strong, manly, bravado projecting masculinity in her desired partner, but also with a vocal matriarch who is the keeper of her home. Los Angeles has strong Armenian, Turkish, Iranian, Azerbaijani, and Jewish communities who set up in places like Reseda, Burbank, Topanga, Woodland Hills, North Hollywood, etc.
The world that Ana was raised in while in the San Fernando Valley is akin to the TV show, Cobra Kai being based in The Valley. Strip malls with some great secret find ethnic restaurants, car dealerships, ethnic newsletters in a people’s indigenous language, 1960s or 1970s ranch style homes, dingbat apartments, Cal State Northridge, and rumors here and there about how so-and-so from high school is now making hardcore pornography filmed in the home of a person who moonlights as a production assistant for TV studios down in Burbank where Unsolved Mysteries was made at.
The Valley is true suburban (not exurban which is what most people think suburbs are) existence in a megalopolis such as L.A., where one’s own neighborhood could effectively be considered its own city. These areas are often defined by socio-economic and racial lines.
The LAPD has a budget on par with the militaries of small lesser developed nations. The mayor of LA, the LA Sheriff’s office, the LA Public School Superintendent are powerful positions that would make lower-level federal a bureaucrat blush.
L.A. when Ana was a child was home to the notorious Rodney King Beating, O.J. Simpson trial, the Bloods vs Crypts beefs, Huntington Beach Skinheads, the LA Riots with the “Rooftop Koreans”, etc., but also positive things such the 1992 Olympics, etc. The world of her childhood was likely defined by an insular suburban protection away from the real social unrest affecting late 80s to early 90s Los Angeles. A city defined by real world issues yet glossed over by projecting images of Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210.
I was reading her blog post about why she is leaving the Left and I felt that she was more sheltered than what I had suspected.
Think about everything I have just said and then add on her personality type
I have mixed feelings on Ana Kasparian, but I mostly lean as being supportive of her. She is (not has been), but is an ally of progressive causes, but I wouldn’t call her a Leftist necessarily. However, a big dilemma in most debates centering around politics is that to be Left Wing means to be part of a larger spectrum, e.g., center left versus leftists.
Ana’s freak outs aren’t helping in building consensus on the Left. But building consensus is for activists, not necessarily for newscasters.
Notes: (1) The Russian controlled, International Boxing Association, who may pay Carini reward money after her lost to Khelif, has largely been discredited and was banned by the International Olympics Committee. The IBA in response has banned Ukraine for example. Thus, the IBA vs the IOC is a part of the larger West vs Russia conflict, but conservatives jumping to Carini’s defense so quickly proves the effectiveness of Russian psychological operations and infiltration campaigns into Western conservative politics to the delight to the Kremlin.
According to Greg Beacham (2024) of the Associated Press as published by PBS, stated that the Olympics has tightened rules relating to gender such as since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the World Aquatics (organization), World Athletics, and the International Cycling Union having changed rules on the matter. These new restrictions span from banning athlete’s born male who went through male puberty but transitioned to female after puberty, and to testing testosterone levels of people assigned female at birth who may have more masculine characteristics, e.g., being intersexual, not trans-sexual.
So, we are in an Olympic games where qualifying international organizations clamped down on possible trans-athletes, but…that still hasn’t prevented conservatives from threating the Paris Olympic Games as a showcasing for “the fall of Western Civilization”.
But this paper I am writing is about a theory I have.
The theory being (1) Russia worked a deal with Angela Carini – who outside of boxing is an Italian cop – to be a plant to throw the fight, to help Russia in their psychological war with the West. By Carini being beat by Khelif it would enrage many Christians, conservatives, Right Wingers, etc., and help paint the West as a decadent, immoral, ungodly, woke, etc. The Russia led International Boxing Association, i.e., the IBA, would then pay Carini outside of the Olympics for her throwing the fight and would make it seem like Russia cares about women’s rights and fairness in sports. This is the same IBA that disqualified Khelif from the 2023 IBA World Championship, or (2) Carini wasn’t actively involved but the IBA intended to use her regardless for their own propaganda campaigns.
The only reason why I may suspect the number one theory of Carini possibly being complicit is that Carini did appear to “flop” when fighting against a Turkish female fighter Busenaz Suremeneli (the current defending IBA world champion and Gold Medalist at the Tokyo Olympics) in the 2022 IBA Women’s World Champion Boxing event. So that’s two events that Carini has been caught up in some form controversy, or suspicion by onlookers, etc.
At minute 4:09 you can see Carini slip against Busenaz.
According to Beacham (2024) of the Associated Press, “Kremlev (leader of the IBA) also said he intends to award $25,000 to Italy’s national federation and $25,000 to Carini’s coach after her dramatic opening-round exit against Khelif. Further, Kremlev regarding Carini said, ““I couldn’t look at her tears,””.
Russia, who oversees the International Boxing Association, was disqualified from the Olympics for their invasion of Ukraine and has a gripe with the International Olympics Committee (IOC) for the banning of Russian athletes suspected of doping at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.
Russia has also been proven as having tried to infiltrate American conservative and right-wing politics, e.g., Trump Tower Meeting, Trump Bayrock Scandal, Tucker Carlson & Alex Jones being platformed by Russian State media, Marina Butina with the NRA, the Neo Nazi group – The Base – being in Moscow and ran by an American in exile, David Duke having an apartment in Moscow, etc.
Also, Russia has been doing ongoing irregular warfare campaigns against the United States and European NATO allied nations. By irregular warfare I am referring to online warfare such as troll and bot farms, sometimes posing as American’s and Europeans across the political spectrums to sow unrest, tension, foster culture war, etc. Yet, it is not only the Russians doing this irregular warfare but the Israelis (who have some ties to the Russian state, both politically and culturally), Iranians, Chinese, Cubans, North Koreans, etc. Russia has diplomatic ties with all these nations that are hostile to the United States, and often steps in to be a savior to these pariah regimes when the larger international community condemns their actions.
If Imane Khelif, who beat Italian amateur boxer, Angela Carini, were to be a male, many people are assuming that all men are stronger than females. However, Imane Khelif is a woman who was assigned that birth, and this gender is on her passport, but she has more masculine features. Imane Khelif has lost to women before such has having lost to Ireland’s Kellie Harrington during the Tokyo Olympics and had been on the international circuit for some time now, even having been assigned as a UNICEF Ambassador (according to Beachman, 2024). So, in theory Angela Carini had a possibility of putting up a fight or even beating Khelif, yet, Carini called the fight herself in less than one minute. Currently, Khelif will square off next after the Carini fight against Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamouri who outright said she isn’t scared of Khelif and Khelif isn’t even considered the best in the games.
People’s instant, unresearched reactions are more about instilled implicit biases which paints women as being scared, feeble, and weak and that men have automatic advantages across the board over females, even if the females are better trained, conditioned, etc. In other words, the world is using the scandal to project their patriarchal sentiments and ambitions onto others. The out of shape, balding, middle-aged divorcee can feel a sense of accomplishment knowing that he can beat women no matter how much they accomplish, sort of thing.
To me this means that Carini, may just be…soft. Yes, I said it. If Khelif was beat by other women, then maybe Carini wasn’t as tough for what a female Olympian is expected to be.
Yet, Carini has already been coddle by far-right, Pro-Mussolini Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who as a candidate won on the larger wave or Euroskeptic, Anti-EU, far right politicians that swept over Europe in the wake of the European Financial Crisis (onset by the poor financial management of Greece and others) and the refugee crises of the Syrian War, Libyan Civil War, Arab Spring, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
People are using this boxing “scandal” to be political, with the critics being opportunistic and trying to weave this the woodegy-boodgedy narrative of the “ungodly, Neo-Marxist, Luciferians” who are trying to attack, flatten and distort the godly, hierarchical, traditional order best typified by Western (often synonymous with White, Patriarchal, European) Civilization. This scandal is just shy of the earlier Olympics opening ceremony scandal that featured either a depiction of the Last Supper or the Feast of Dionysius, or a combination of both, that featured gender-bending drag queens, queer people, and plus size models. That scandal had already activated the masses of Christians – many who have adopted a conspiratorial mindset in our post-COVID 19 post-lockdown world – but, now with this boxing scandal the hungry masses were already primed for more blood.
The irony of conservatives jumping on this scandal and pretending to defend Carini is that many Right Wingers, notably the men within it, don’t care about women’s sports. These are the same type of men that you can see on any WNBA post making fun of the WNBA and how it isn’t as profitable as the NBA. These are the same people within the larger contemporary conservative movement who…repealed federal abortion protection under Roe vs. Wade, are pushing the “Trad Wife” lifestyle where women don’t work or control their finances, and admire a leader such as Donald Trump who called Stormy Daniel’s “horseface” (even though he had unprotected sex with her while his wife was pregnant), was civilly charged with sexual assault, and of course was caught on camera talking about “grabbing women” by the p-ssy.
The Right-Wing men often speaking on this boxing controversy are not defending women’s rights to support women in being free or equal but are trying to get women to reject feminism and comeback to the overlordship of patriarchy which requires rigid gender conformance (largely to coddle and inflate the male’s ego and sense of self-worth). The men often commenting on behalf of Carini, first off spoke without hearing all the facts, but that is irrelevant because they already have their agenda in mind. It is fake sympathy with hidden intent. The intent being of convincing women with the tactic of “See, I told you so”, so come back to men protecting women because you (women) can’t protect yourself.
However, there are plenty of women as you can see online commenting that are embracing this patriarchal framing of the matter. These women span your run-of-the-mill, freaking out at PTA meeting, 1980’s -like Satanic Panic Karens, to this new movement of “Biblical Femininity” “Trad Wives” (women who want to live at home and not work despite technology having replaced the duties of domestic work such as microwaves, dishwashers, laundry machines, grocery deliveries, etc. – note, yes, being a stay at home mother is not just about cooking and cleaning), and, of course the Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminists (TERFs). On TERFs, I find TERFs to be nonsensical because they claim to want to “destroy patriarchy” so they’re at odds with conservative men but they are in agreement with conservatives on excluding trans-people, though trans-women specifically have voluntarily given up their male privilege in order to fit into and honor femininity (some going as far as getting bottom surgery). The fact that radical feminists believe in destroying patriarchy, you would think they would ally with someone who voluntarily gives up their male privilege, but TERFs are in theory adjacent to purist supremacist forms of fascism.
But what does this boxing scandal have to do with Russia? The paranoia and backlash feeds into the larger anti-West propaganda in part from Russia to label the West as decadent, liberal, but the Russians as being strong, Orthodox, traditionally masculine, etc. Which is ironic because Putin has tried to pay people to have children. No, seriously. He had to ordain a baby-making day to encourage Russians to have babies. If Russians were as much of a caricature as Putin and Western conservatives wish the Russian people were, then they wouldn’t need any problem pushing out children in a very homophobic culture.
Further, is the fact that Angela Carini is being paid by the International Boxing Association which is now based in Russia. According to Greg Beacham of the Associated Press, as quoted in an online article by PBS on 2 August 2024, “The IBA is controlled by Umar Kremlev, who is Russian and brought in the state-owned energy supplier Gazprom as its primary sponsor and moved much of the governing body’s operations to Russia.” The irony of the Gazprom connection is that Gazprom’s football club, FC Zenit, has been accused multiple times of racism and xenophobia, and was later banned form European competition.
It is important to know that Khelif was disqualified by the IBA in 2023 for “failing unspecified and untransparent eligibility tests for women’s competition from the now-banned International Boxing Association” (Beacham, 2024). Her 2023 disqualification came interestingly after Khelif beat Russian Azalia Amineva in 2023 according to Beacham (2024).
I can’t prove it, and it does seem conspiratorial, but it could appear that Angela was promised to have been paid by the IBA if she threw the fight with Khelif, and by her throwing the fight it would feed into the narrative that Khalif was transsexual and beating up on a “poor, innocent, beautiful” women who trained her whole life just have it taken away by the “woke, Social Justice” mob. This therefore feeds back to the Kremlin’s psychological warfare operation of trying to posit themselves as the saviors of Christendom against the “failed experiment” of liberal democracies where “women have rights”, “white populations are in decline” “LGBTQ+ aren’t forced to live in hiding and are able to get married”, etc.
The talking points regarding the west being “degenerate” are straight from Putin intellectual Aleksandr Dugin, a man who became a key foundational figure of the Western Alt-Right movement (alongside other figures such as Juilus Evola). Dugin has been associated with Right Wing conspiracy theorists, Alex Jones and Jay Dyer, but also former Fox News contributor, Tucker Carlson, and even white supremacist Lauren Southern, who was platformed by Fox’s Australia outlet, Sky News.
According to Thomas Saintourens of Le Monde (2022), Umar Kremlev has ties to Putin, in which Kremlev, a former Russian military man who is a member of the Order of St. George (Russia’s Medal of Honor) used Russian troops for ceremonies for his International Boxing Association. Further, Saintourens (2022) mentioned that Kremlex is part of the patriot biker association known as the “Night Wolves”, and in 2004 and 2006, the former amateur boxer was convicted of violence. “Under the chairmanship of Mr. Kremlev, the IBA hoists the Russian colors high up in boxing rings around the world and defies the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Mr. Putin himself has made the case a personal one in a long-distance fight against IOC president, Germany’s Thomas Bach, in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Russia following the disclosure of a “state-sponsored” doping program after the Sochi Olympic Games (2014). Overseeing amateur boxing, which is a popular sport on every continent, is seen as an opportunity to promote Russia’s soft power.” (Saintourens, 2022).
(Update 9/28/25) Since I wrote this, Javier Milei is taking a $20 billion bridge loan from Trump, which to me strengthens my argument relating to the dollarization of Argentina.
According to Newsweek, “Trump Admin’s $20 Billion ‘Bail Out’ for Argentina’s Milei Raises Eyebrows” (Published Sep 25, 2025 at 03:06 PM EDT, updatedSep 25, 2025 at 04:17 PM EDT0:12), by Mandy Taheri.
“The Trump administration says it is working to provide tens of billions of dollars to Argentina’s President Javier Milei, in a financial bailout that many critics say clashes with President Donald Trump’s “America First” platform.The U.S. State Department told Newsweek Thursday that the America First Foreign Assistance programs must align with administration policies and advance concrete U.S. national interests.Why It MattersOn Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the United States is in talks to provide $20 billion to Milei. The announcement comes months after the Trump administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in an effort to instead support programs aligned with Trump’s “America First” agenda.” https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admins-20-billion-bail-out-for-argentinas-milei-raises-eyebrows-10780604 (End of update).
Is Milei a stooge of the global banking syndicates simply trying to implement austerity measures as a means of handing over the Argentina economy to corporations? Is he a faux populist who is handing Argentina’s monetary policy over to the US Federal Reserve, International Bank of Settlements, etc.? Or is Milei a genius who is making a tough short-term decision in order for Argentina to finally see sustained long term growth?
Disclaimer: I am just writing. I do not think that there is necessarily a direct correlation or grand plan to bring to life the fictional world of the book or movie Starship Troopers. Rather, what is going on in Argentina with their economic woes is likely just the case of the realities of the globalized world which runs on Keynesian economics, where some countries have the power (control of the money supplies, governing institutions, military alliances, etc.), others don’t have power (often being relegated to resource depots for the Industrial North), and those who seem as if they should have more power but just seem to be laggards – but, not necessarily because of their own faults explicitly, but rather it is hard to economically plan in a world with so many uncertainties, variables, wars, environmental changes, etc.
However, what is happening in Argentina does mirror – softly – what appears in the 1997 film of Starship Troopers, even if we are speaking in mere analogous terms. Yet, approaching this post from a literal or analogy standpoint, we can still help to grow our perceptions, deconstruct history, categorize and organize data, etc., particularly pertaining to understanding fascism, racism, imperialism, etc. One thing that is certainly real in our real world, is that there are doubts about liberal democracy, there are demographic shifts where the Anglo post-colonial New World is merging with the Latin post-colonial New World, but there is also the eerie 1920’s or 1930’s rise of autocratic leaders.
When autocrats rise and international institutions collapse, history has shown that there is more dark than light. And, all we can do is pray that light wins out. One of my big ideas on this site is that books such as Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein and the Ender’s Game Saga by Orson Scott Card eerily foreshadowed real world political events or attempts at alliances, etc.
So let’s talk about how Argentine President Javier Milei plans on “dollarizing” the Argentine economy.
According to Valentina Demalde (2/15/2024) of the Business Review at Berkley (BRB), “Dollarization as a potential economic strategy for Argentina presents several compelling advantages. Foremost, it promises currency stability and inflation control, a precious commodity in a nation with a history of hyperinflation and devaluation. This stability can instill trust among investors and the public, offering a predictable economic environment. With a stable U.S. dollar, Argentina may enjoy lower interest rates, a boon for businesses and individuals alike, making borrowing more affordable. Furthermore, adopting the U.S. dollar can attract foreign investment, with investors favoring countries with stable and widely accepted currencies. This influx of foreign capital can stimulate economic growth. Additionally, businesses engaged in international trade would benefit from reduced transaction costs, as they would no longer need to navigate currency exchange. Finally, dollarization can promote financial integration with the global economy, potentially increasing trade and investment in Argentina.“
“Dollarization in Argentina presents several potential drawbacks. Most notably, it entails relinquishing control over domestic monetary policy, a vital tool for governments to manage economic challenges— Milei sees this as an advantage due to a lack of trust in the government’s management. The prospect of dependence on the U.S. economy is concerning, as it would make Argentina vulnerable to U.S. economic fluctuations and shocks. However, Milei’s plan to increase trade with the U.S. aims to address this issue. Dollarization also carries a risk of exacerbating short-term social inequality, as those with access to U.S. dollars may initially benefit, although proponents like Milei argue that the long-term effects of a stable economy will ultimately improve the overall situation of society. The loss of seigniorage, while viewed as a pro by some, poses a significant drawback as it could limit the government’s capacity to fund public spending. Finally, the transition to a dollarized economy could trigger political unrest and opposition from stakeholders invested in maintaining the status quo.” [Source: https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/javier-mileis-dollarization-vision-a-new-era-for-argentinas-economy/#:~:text=He%20emphasizes%20a%20gradual%20approach%20to%20dollarization%2C%20driven,align%20with%20the%20preferences%20of%20the%20Argentine%20population.]
Does Milei’s dollarization effort by proxy absorb Argentina into the sphere of American power and hegemony? Yes and no. American dollars were already in high demand in countries such as Argentina because of their purchasing power, so Milei’s idea could be argued as institutionalizing what people have already been doing out of necessity to survive. Argentines get dollars often but not always from black market currency dealers, but since it is illegal, dealers can sell at higher rates than what banks offer to exchange, yet Argentine banks limited how much currency you could covert thus creating the black market.
Yet, even if Milei’s idea will work, there could be certain ramifications – for better or worse, once Argentina accomplishes full dollarization. Despite having focused on economics in my undergraduate business education, I am no expert economist by any means. However, let’s logically think through somethings.
Argentine Pesos are less valuable that American Dollars, so American dollars are far more expensive to obtain. If you have a lot of something that is near worthless and you’re trying to get something that is far more expensive, you’re only going to be able afford a smaller amount of that more expensive product. So, dollarization seems deflationary in nature. It is essentially the argument of gold standard advocates to go back to the gold standard, but rather instead of using gold, which is truly deflationary. There’s not enough fungible gold in the world to prop up the sheer size of the global economy as well as fund future innovation which is often funded by running government deficits as a form stimulus. Milei is treating the US Dollar as something akin to gold. The USD is relatively stable, people trust America’s banking system (even when it collapses on itself such as post 2008 crash), the US has the most sway over the SWIFT banking system, it has a strong military with fast striking capability that not only has strong air/space superiority but also protects the high seas where global trade happens via shipping, etc. The United States has also affected the world as far as fashion, music, language, art, etc., where everyone on Earth is a little bit “American”. For example, the relatively racial (not ethnic) homogenous Chinese and Russian populations do not have the cultural vigor and gravitas that the USA does (i.e., dynamism as Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of the Grand Chessboard (1997), may have said), since American culture is largely a melting pot glued together with an Anglo English (lingua franca) logos largely defined by pragmatism. India with Bollywood has more sway than any art coming from China or Russia into the West.
Yet, by deflating the money supply, there will be less money as far as volume goes, even though whatever volume arises it will have more value. To have more of something that is worthless, or to have less of something that is worth more?
The goal it seems to have less of something that is worth more because once you get it, you have something people are willing to transact with, thus this move could help promote future growth and investment. It is as if he is whacking down a forest with blight, just to invest in more expensive seed and hope a healthier forest grows back sooner than later.
But dollars just won’t just fall into the lap of the Argentines.
They will have to purchase them or earn them. Or, be gifted them. By earning them, they can sell their products (exports) and demand payment in only US dollars and then not reconvert those dollars they earn to Argentine Pesos or hold those US dollars in bank vaults but peg the circulating pesos to the number of US dollars held in reserve. Or they can take out loans at US dictated interests’ rates and then use those dollars backed loans to stimulate economies, hopefully make money, and use parts of their profit to pay off interests or principal payments; yet, if they do this, it could create a cyclical effect for the better, because if they are able to use those dollar based loans to stimulate economies enough to attached foreign investments, they can dictate those investment also be done in dollars, thus increasing the overall volume of US dollars in circulation, thus increase overall value of the overall economy as a whole. Yet, the issue with borrowing US dollars (taking out loans in US dollars) is that interest rates are not historically low anymore and institutions can add on top of the base federal funds rate, e.g., the Fed sets a base rate, but a bank may add onto that base rate to develop their Annual Percentage Rate/Annual Percentage Yield’s on consumer credit.
The United States since it has so much sway over the IMF (International Monetary Fund) which has a debt plan already with Argentina, it may be beneficial to “give” Argentina dollars since the US can print money.
In the wake of the expiration of the Petrodollar agreement between the USA and Saudi Arabia, the world is relatively calm. I noticed watching certain stock news outlets and programs on TV, that no one talked about it. The only people talking about it were doomsday cryptocurrency advocates, who of course want fear just like gold speculators to bolster their price of their own assets. But, with the petrodollar scheme having expired (assuming the Saud’s won’t want to re-enter a newly negotiated agreement), the US dollar will need other means of propping up its currency in a multi-polar world where once emerging economies are rising powers such as Brazil, India, Nigeria, (outside of China) etc.
The USD is fine. If the Euro is fine, the USD is more than fine considering the global influence the US has, including already established relationships with oil producing countries who can fill the void (diversify the role) where the Saud’s left off. If anything, this move by the Sauds may move them closer to China and thus Russia, but that thus pulls them away from the Western influence they may have had, and pushes the USA closer to friendly and more conducive oil partnership nations with Norway, Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, etc.
The USA is also a net exporter of oil as well itself, and is transitioning to alternative energy sources such as lithium based EVs (which Argentina has lots of as far as lithium), nuclear power, etc. Also, in a dreamworld, the USA would have an improved relationship with Venezuela and get them to play a larger role in a new type of petrodollar role, such as them doing oil transactions in US dollars and investing excess oil into US treasuries in exchange for foreign direct investment, lifting sanctions, and debt cancellation from the USA and other international creditors. It makes no sense that Donald Trump can talk to North Korea and the conservatives don’t lambast him, but the moment someone tries to talk to Cuba, Venezuela, etc., all of a sudden you become unpatriotic.
Milei’s idea may work. Tough times will a happen as the money supply deflates (evaporates) thus hurting the working classes who need…money, even if it’s the less valuable peso. Yet, if Argentina can dollarize, the nation will de facto act like any other US territory. Argentina would likely have to enter into a free trade agreement to make it all worthwhile and better sync its economy from top-to-bottom with the United States which would include correlating its business/trading day to that of the USA; expanding sister city agreements with US cities and establishing exchange programs for students; expanding student visa agreements and entering into comprehensive research agreements with college institutions; voting in favor of the USA on international governing bodies such as the UN; entering in mutual security and law enforcement pacts; implementing more stringent US food and safety standards on consumer goods and foods, and possibly even permitting the US to house troops in Argentina to conduct joint-exercises (which could be a way of bridging any historical tensions between Argentina and the British), etc. We already have Messi in Miami… This sounds cheesy but a big part of diplomacy is sports, culture, etc.
If so, in a weird way, this sort of goes back to my “Starship Troopers” theory I have written about earlier, which is essentially how Starship Troopers is happening notably the Hispanicization of the USA, Argentina’s role in the 1997 film of Starship Troopers (and its real-world history of fascism), the militarization of feminism to support the Military Complex. Also, my Starship Trooper’s thesis involves rising tensions with China, exacerbated by the Trump Administration’s Steve Bannon of the Council on National Policy and this administration’s odd connections to The Epoch Times, Falun Gong, Guo Wengui. Note: Erik Prince, worked for Hong Kong based security company, Frontier Services Group, led by Johnson Ko, where both Ko was a board member of Cambridge Analytica’s successor company, Emerdata, where Cambridge Analytica was used by Steve Bannon with funding from the Mercer Family – owners of Breitbart Media – to help Trump in 2016. Second Note: Tiawan was founded by the Right-Wing nationalist leader Chiang Kai Shek, and Taiwan was later headquarters to the World Anti-Communist League, which was an organization known for admitted ex Nazi war criminals.
Also, there is the Republican Party’s courting of Russia which is an autocratic society (this is similar to the Russian Anglo-American alliance in the Starship Troopers universe). We cannot also forget the rise of Right Wing Kookery as best seen in the social network surrounding pop figures such as Joe Rogan who has invited speakers that span John Birch-like paranoid Right Wingers such as Alex Jones, Theosophists, UFO believers, shamans, Jungian advocates such as JB Peterson….a lot of things which can lead to Neo Nazis.
Robert Heinlein had a syncretic political worldview. It seems contradictory if you get hippies but then also some radical pre-Alex Jones John Bircher’s liking your works. Inspired by both left wing and right-wing thought, his views could be considered 3rd Position or 3rd Way. He was influenced by Upton Sinclair’s socialism, the early basic universal income ideas (social credit) of C.H. Douglas, but the later adopted a more conservative, hawkish worldview. Heinlein was a libertarian in older age but sympathetic to socialism in his youth and he seems to have blended both, which is best viewed in the film adaptation of Starship Troopers in 1997 in my personal opinion. Heinlein to me represents the transition of Socialism’s acceptance in pre-WWII America, which in itself was a response to the Great Depression and embrace of earlier Progressive Era sentiments, to the post-WWII indictment of anything socialism, notably communism. This post-WWII shift of the late forties to early mid-fifties was a time where some very patriotic Americans who were socialist, shifted towards anti-socialist thoughts as hostilities arose with the USSR.
Heinlein’s emphasized personal responsibility and individual rights/liberty, yet did believe in the state, yet seems to have believed more in a populist as opposed to totalitarian type of state.
But Heinlein did support military and certain levels of government force when it comes to national defense and also “protecting us from ourselves” notably in regard to nuclear weapons. It seems confusing, but the best way to try to figure out “Heinlein-ism” as I might call it, is to play with terms such as calling it “right leaning, yet inclusive, global autocracy with an emphasis on the voluntaryist state that blends elements of both libertarianism and socialism, where the right of the franchise (voting) is granted to those willing to die to protect the body politic”. By Right leaning, I mean a devotion to the military and meritocracy, yet inclusive in that the meritocracy transcends notions such as race or nationality. [Note: There is a theory that neoconservatism was created by ex-Trotskyites, which has some basis in reality, but this theory seems more created by antisemitic paleoconservatives best typified by figures such as Pat Buchanan. See article by Bill King, 2004: https://enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0304/0304neocontrotp1.htm)
In 1959, Robert Heinlein published the science fiction novel, Starship Troopers. The book details a world after World War III where war veterans take over the governments of the world and establish a world federation based on meritocracy where in order to vote (the franchise) one must serve in the military. Per the novel form memory, the Anglo-American and Russian Alliance (which oddly reminded me of Trump’s aspirations with Vladimir Putin in previous writings) went to war with China, yet the Western powers essentially lost and settled with the Chinese at the Treaty of New Delhi. Yet, veterans were sprawled across the planet, and many having made it back to their homeland (with feelings of betrayal), found that modern society was decaying. A few veteran groups in order to combat violent crime and lawlessness started taking justice into their own hands (eerily harkening back to the post-WWI German veteran groups of Bavaria, the Weimar Republic, etc., which later evolved into the Nazis and their Brownshirts). Having established a quasi-governmental faction in their own right, this veteran collective eventually overthrew the scientists who were running western democracies. [Note: Blanquism is a form of putschism and it is interesting to note that the Nazis tried their own putsch with the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923]. Yet, these scientists attempted a Blanquist coup against the veterans in the Revolt of Scientists yet were beat. [ After that, the world slowly became a world federalist government ran by veterans, where in order to vote one must service the state with military service. Those who serve are called Citizens and those who do not are called Civilians. Citizens can vote, hold public office, etc. The new government that is established is the Terran Federation where differences of nation, race, gender, etc., don’t seem to matter but rather if a person serves in the military or does not, does matter. After this human world government is established, humans find themselves in conflict with an alien species, i.e., Arachnids from a planet called Klendathu.
In the 1997 film adaption by auteur director Paul Verhoven, is a satire of Heinlein’s presumably serious political treatise laid out in the 1959 book. Paul Verhoven and Ed Neumeier, who both worked together on the classic sci-fi film of Robocop (a scathing indictment of unfettered capitalism during Reagan’s nineteen-eighties), directed and wrote the 1997 film adaptation. The film has the main character Johnny Rico’s backstory (Juan “Johnny” Rico in the book) being based in …. Buenos Aires, Argentina. The film version expands upon the rights of Citizens such as the ability to go to college (at least for free), have children (possibly beyond a dictated limit), etc. Verhoven et al, cast good looking American 1990s TV drama actors of the Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, MTV era. These fitness-like models were cast as a means of Verhoven paying nods (satirically) to the 1935 Nazi propaganda piece Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. My opinion of 1997 film by Verhoven, for which I have been a fan of since I was a child in the fifth grade, is that Verhoven chose these very “whitewashed’ characters as a satire on the spreading of American capitalism, beauty standards, etc., i.e., a nod the colonizing and homogenizing effects of corporate culture, etc. It seems to be the case that the former United States had the most power within the Terran Federation’s establishment, so it’s already strong real-world culture laid the basis of this fictional government. Hence, American Vernacular English, its pop culture, etc., as is the case in our real world would have colonized the rest of the world.
Argentina is also important because it represents an extension of “whiteness” with the context of New World, post-colonial intersectionality. In our real world, the United States for example has a large swatch of the political base driven by fear of “white replacement” by way of immigration, challenges to traditional white male power, etc. This can be heard on cable news by figures such as Tucker Carlson, who dog-whistle to news watchers to inspire a sense of white fear, grievances, etc. Since globalism and cosmopolitanism are a part of our world and not going away, the definition of whiteness is moving the goalpost of what actually is white as a means of retaining statistical and numerical majorities. Hence, the United States as it undergoes the process of “Hispanicization” is shifting the definition of whiteness from the traditional definition of European, notably Northern and Central European (e.g., Anglo-Saxon stock), to include white Hispanics, where Latin America has its own complicated history with racial categorization (where one could say it is more fluid, yet also ironically rigid in certain ways since there is an aggrandizement of Eurocentric values as opposed to Indigenous, Afrocentric, multi-racial sentiments, etc.).
Yet, the film doesn’t address race and racism is not a part of the utopian world of Starship Troopers, nor is gender inequality. The world is a pure meritocracy.
But to expand on the Nazi influences that drove Verhoven’s satirical work, Argentina plays an important role because historically, Argentina as well as other South American nations harbored Nazi War criminals who were able to blend into the existing German and Italian immigrant populations. These Nazis used “rat lines” to enter Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, etc., sometimes with the help of sympathetic Catholic priests assisting. For example, Klaus Barbie was active in Bolivia providing military training assistance to dictators involved in the early cocaine trade, which later assisted the powerful Medellin Cartel of Pablo Escobar via Roberto Suárez Gómez. Barbie was so emboldened that he had his own terror death squad in the country called the Fiances of Death and assisted in coup called the Cocaine Coup in Bolivia. Josef Mengle, the Angel of Death, was in South America. Otto Skorzeny (who later did assassinations for Israel’s Mossad as a means of not being hunted down and killed by them) even provided security detail to Argentina’s Juan Peron, husband of the famous Evita Peron. The infamous cult, Colonia Dignidad, created by Nazi and pedophile Paul Schäfer, was in Chile, and it is important to insert that Chile did have a pro-Nazi element with figures such as Esoteric Hitlerist Miguel Serrano. This cult has ties to the Pinochet Regime, which was a regime supported by the United States, corporations (such as the ITT Corporation, founded by Sosthenes Behn, which was later bombed by the radical Leftist Group, the Weather Underground for their participation in the overthrow of Salvador Allende), Richard Nixon all the way to Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, and the CIA, as a means of hindering Left Wing movements on the continent during the Cold War.
It’s unfortunate but I think Donald Trump is going to win and the inner elite of Democrats may want this. The rich, Zionists, cops, most churches, crypto bros, the gun lobby, Russians, Saudis, corporations, Elon Musk-rats (fan boys), many old Boomers, Neo Nazis, the men of all colors who revolted against feminism, Hoteps, angry bosses who hate telework, right wing conspiracy theorists, anti LGBTQ demographic (TERFs included), and even conservative first generation immigrants, etc., all want him to win.
I suppose he’ll pardon himself and all his buddies. He’ll load the courts with more conservative cleric judges. He’ll ease up on Russia but then increase tension with China, despite Russia and China being allies, so easing up on one just helps the other elsewhere attempt to expand their hegemony.
But…
Perception is everything, but unfortunately not only are Democrats losing the perception battle, they are losing the reality battle as well. The only thing the Democrats have is saving us from Trump, and the unhinged stable of salivating conservatives he will give power from Marjorie Taylor Greene, JD Vance, Jerome Corsi, etc.
Despite, offering amnesty to undocumented peoples or asylum seekers or promising to cancel federal student debt, the Biden Administration despite wanting bipartisanship, are looking like a party that is compounding social issues for the worst ranging from crime, drug use, homelessness, inflation, etc. Further, even to their own party, the Biden Administration seems as if they are placating conservatives. Sure, these aren’t all the faults of Democrats. These are often global issues that have spanned decades, yet, perception is important. Trump for example can’t fix the root causes of immigration.
Democrats are in a rock and a hard place, because they actually try to juggle positions (Israel and Palestine, BIPOC community needs to that of the white working blue collar class, female liberation/empowerment, but notably…capitalism versus progress).
For example, the murders of women by illegal immigrant, aliens, what have you, does sting the public, as it should. Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, Laken Riley, Mollie Tibbetts, Ruby Garcia, etc., were killed by undocumented immigrants.
Do Democrats want to lose? Or, are they more strongly positioned than given credit for?
If they lose, by doing so, corporate democrats will be OK, the Zionist lobby can continue its razing of Gaza and push forward in the establishment of its ethno-state (to the glee of Evangelicals on the Right Wing side of the aisle who want a Tim LeHay “Left Behind (book series)” Doomsday End Times scenario), and then Republicans can storm in and accelerate corporate domination/destroy central government, plus they can blame the Progressive wing of the Democratic party as being the reasons they lost (with people such as Bill Maher on the bullhorn for centrists blaming progressives).
The Democrats losing sets the stage for Democrats to seem disappointed and ready to “put up a fight” (get donations) and continues the Jacobean revenge narrative that is parroted in the mainstream news, i.e., a sort of manufactured beef between both parties though both parties vote with each other on bills that benefits their mutual benefactors.
But, it is wild that Trump can even still run for President.
I like Biden but he is very old, and yes, I know that Biden has a marked past. Yet, I will likely vote for him because, I can’t vote for Trump, because of him just being him, even though I admit that I’m fairly conservative on borders and immigration. Voting third party or not at all is a waste. We are in the “lesser of two evil” options, and voting for him is the best thing most likely.
On Trump, way back before he dropped the Latinos are rapists comments in 2016, I didn’t see much difference between him and Bernie as far as populist candidates – i.e., I admit I thought there was some hope in him, but after that comment it started downhill for me. It’s his ability to be so unfiltered that he ends up proping up opposition.
Trump kept further doubling down on his snarky quest of simply trying to prove his critics wrong, even if it meant endorsing divisive and controversial subjects.
Also, Trump will flood his administration with extremists spanning right wing libertarians, the Christian Right, anti-environmentalists and Climate Change deniers, prayer in school advocates, tax payer support for religious education advocates , Project 2025 advocates funded by the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society endorsed circuit court judges with life appointments, Zionists, etc.
Further I am not voting for him because of the fact I think he did conspire with Russia (which is different than believing in Russia-gate which was more a DC beltway initiative against Trump that likely mixed fact with fiction) and most certainly conspired with Israel in some capacity (Netanyahu, Jared Kushner, Chabad Lubavitch, Republican Jewish Coalition with Eliot Brody, Joel Zamel of Psy Group in Israel, etc.) in some capacity to assist him with the 2016 election.
Note: I think Russia-gate was largely a distraction because if the Feds knew of Russia involvement beforehand, they shouldn’t have said something before Trump won. Yet, I can only speculate that this was the case as a means of springing a trap against Trump which was a way of indicating to foreign intelligence such as the Mossad and Russians, that the American intel community will orchestrate a take down of its own President if it means preserving the USA. However, we can’t ignore the fact that Russians infiltrated the Republican Party such as 1) their strange arrival at the National Prayer Breakfast, 2) Marina Butina’s infiltration of the NRA, 3) the fact that white supremacists during the Unite the Right rally, chanted the song “Russia in our friend”, 4) dozens of Russian spies caught in the USA, 5) Capitol Rioter and Neo Nazi, Riley June Williams attempting to steal Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and send it to Russia, 6) Alex Jones being broadcast on Russia State TV, 7) the writing of Aleksandr Dugin having inspired the Alt-Right such as Lauren Southern going to Russia to interview him, Jay Dyer, etc. The truth too is that hate group, The Base, is located in Russia and was founded by an American defector, and David Duke even had an apartment in Moscow. There seems to have been a concerted effort by Russia post the Fall of the Berlin Wall to shift from trying to infiltrate Left Wing groups and instead infiltrate Right Wing politics, largely by appealing to a sense of connected whiteness, Christianity, etc. Yet, Putin looking out only for Russia, is likely using this strategy as a means of furthering division in the United States (such as promoting racial divisions with bot farms, etc.) in order to help expand Russian power back in Europe (destabilizing NATO, the EU, and conquering buffering states). For example, according to DW (a German news outlet), Putin confidant Viktor Medvedchuk has helped facilitate talks with Germany’s Far Right AfD (Alternative for Germany, i.e., Deutschland) Party.
Also, another reason I can’t handle Trump, is the general vileness of many of his pundits ranging from Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh, Candance Owens, Steven Crowder, Nick Fuentes, Lilly Gaddis, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, etc. Oh, and how can we forget January 6th, the Fake Elector Plot, and him now being a convicted felon….
Trump has been found guilty and is a convicted felon regarding his misuse of campaign funds to pay adult actress and director, Stormy Daniels.
Alex Jones is going bankrupt for his involvement in terrorizing the lives of those who lost loved ones during the Sandy Hook Shootings and may lose is InfoWars empire.
Steven Bannon, a general chaos agent with deep international links spanning Hong Kong to England’s Cambridge Analytica and European Far Right Parties, as being the brainchild behind Trump’s 2016 election and likely a planner of the fake-elector plot during the 2020 election, has been ordered to jail.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager with shadowy ties to offshore banks in Cyprus was indicted for financial crimes and failing to disclose foreign lobbying efforts in 2018. With the assistance of Microsoft Copilot, another campaign manager, Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was hospitalized on an involuntary hold after he threatened to harm himself while armed with a gun at his Florida home. The incident occurred on September 27, 2021, and police released a video of his arrest. Multiple January 6th insurrectionists have been arrested and jailed. With more help from Microsoft Copilot, Riley June Williams, a far-right extremist who was “obsessed” with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, received a three-year prison sentence for her role in storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. And, we can’t forget the MAGA Shaman.
Despite, all of these convictions, conspiracies, etc., it seems….a good chunk of America doesn’t care. Why? Republicans strongly have encircled the aesthetics of Americana ranging from the Stars Spangled Banner, militarism, etc. Also, MAGA does have an appeal to nostalgia similarly to Reagan’s nostalgia of the 1950s during the 1980s, and many older people don’t see the world like younger generations where Millennials, Gen Z, etc., were raised with a critical lens and the ability to deconstruct, notably being critical to American exceptionalism, unfettered capitalism, etc. Yet, despite your average older voters who boil down politics to oversimplified matters of “government bad” “cheap food good” “foreigners scary” “taxes, no-no”, etc., there is a legitimate conscious racist wing of MAGA politics who want a fascist state and the overthrow of democratic institutions.
But, let’s be real…
It seems like Democrats want to lose because the truth is they are liberals and so are Republicans.
That’s what people seem to have a hard time understanding as political pundits play a linguistic shell game throwing around the work “liberal” to explicitly mean the Democratic Party.
Democrats and Republicans are both liberals in that they descend from the liberal enlightenment traditions which advocate for democracy, republicanism, individual rights, separation of church and state, and commerce. Republicans in a very oversimplified way could be considered “classical liberals” with a penchant for traditionalism – hence they have a conservative moral set – and less regulation on business class (where if we apply intersectionality, this naturally comes off as more white, male, etc., since that was the traditional core of economic and political power dating back to colonial times).
Democrats are “modernist liberals” with emphasis on pragmatism (which in part morphed in bureaucratic managerialism to deal with the residual effects of the Industrial Revolution such as child labor, unionism, etc.), cosmopolitanism (the emphasis on cities, immigrant communities, etc.), and negotiating between the business class and the worker class (juggling unionism, wage increases, etc.). Modern Democrats are descended from the goal of expanding the franchise dating all the way back from the Democrat-Republican split during the times of Andrew Jackson’s expansionism, where this era was later heavily influenced by the mid-to-post Civil War Era of Northern political machines who extended the expansion of the franchise to new immigrant groups, e.g., the Irish and Italians in the late 19th and early 20th century, and later African Americans in the mid 20th century. Democrats were also influenced by Progressive Era philosophies of John Dewey and the living document doctrine of Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court.
Yet, since Democrats are still a pro-business and a capitalist party like Republicans (despite Republican linguistic shell-games using terms such as “the far left” to define Democrats), they, i.e., Democrats would rather side with Republicans, even if it means they lose.
This is because Democrats and Republicans both have the same business and corporate donors. In other words, win or lose, the party’s head honchos still win and same goes for Republicans in reverse. By losing, Democrats still get paid by the big corporations to help pass legislation that increases their power over the population, yet they can obfuscate and blame Republicans which is vital in continuing campaign contributions for our American election cycle, helping the news cycle between CNN/MSNBC vs Fox News, etc.
What I am getting at is, that in the upcoming 2024 it seems that either Democrats feel entitled with a sense of Hillary Clinton-esque arrogance into thinking people will simply vote for them because of the “Trump, bad” angle, or Democrats want to lose because they are being paid to lose, and by being paid, I mean exactly that. However, I am not discounting people that are true believes in Biden as being a saving grace against Trump. So, there are really three angles to see.
But paid by whom? Corporations from across the board (notably big Pharma, defense, agriculture, etc.) but also the Zionist lobby considering the Zionist camp likely thinks Trump can push them over the line in their conquest of Gaza, despite Joe Biden doing a decent job of hopscotch P.R., for them as he battles their needs versus the anti-war and humanitarian groups. Democrats as a “big tent” party that incorporates a lot of different visible groups have had to play the hard card of juggling corporate donor expectations with the needs of people, yet Republicans who are anti-welfare, wage increases, etc., don’t have to negotiate with Big Business because they are the party of big business. Republican tenants such as small government, less regulation, and lower taxes may sound good to the individual who has been convince their unique individuality matters, but the truth is that these tenants disproportionately benefits corporations which are legal people with rights such as Citizens United and even being allowed to vote in municipal elections in states such as Delaware.
Democrats have a generally harder job than Republicans. They take the blame a lot more because they have more to balance and juggle.
Democrats if they lose will be able cry about how they lost, but also use liberal grumps such as Bill Maher (an Eastern seaboard elitist with faux nods to the working class, despite still standing up to conservativism) will gaslight the true Left. The true Left are different than liberals (Democrats, Republicans, etc.), because they are critical if not outright opposed to capitalism, i.e., this is when we start drifting towards socialist territory (where communism is a type of socialism, but not the only type of socialism, i.e., democratic socialism or reformist socialism is different than Marx’s theories of Communist socialism).
There’s something sinister relating to Trump’s possible return. Christian nationalism trying to implement Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, MAGA’s links to Neo Nazi groups such as Nick Fuentes Groypers of the America First Movement (which branched off from Charlie Kirk’s mainstream Turning Point USA) and residuals of the Unite The Right rally, Israeli Zionism (note: I support the state of Israel, though there’s a sinister direction that Netanyahu has taken his country on), a world slipping back into right wing authoritarianism, attacks on women’s rights, attacks on LGBTQ understanding, etc.
I’m not sure where our beloved nation is headed
The more fascist it becomes, just means the more insignificant it is. And, a lot of us don’t get this point.
Do, I totally understand climate change, feminism, LGBTQ? No. But I understand hate. And I can see it ooze from Trump’s being.
Being a Black American, I noticed that a lot of the more vocal, fiery, and/or analytical voices within Black Liberation politics often attempt to be at odds with “Western philosophy”, yet, they are indelibly… Western through and through.
Most Black Liberation Politics centers around Continental Leftist and or liberal (in the classical sense onwards) types of ideology centering around concepts such as deconstruction, post-structuralism, Critical Theory, existentialism to many extents, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism, and some degree postmodernism (e.g., hip hop as a late stage capitalist form of music that blurs high art with low art, pastiche, hyper capitalism, the subjectivity of morality, pop culture, etc.).
But, for those within Black Liberation politics, stretching from the Ivory Tower college seminars with the stereotypical dred-locked wise sage professor, to YouTube video essayists with their evermore ridiculous thumbnails to attract eyeballs (yes, I am talking about “Foreign Man in a Foreign Land”, etc.), and all the way to fringe cults pushing antediluvian Black Supremacist origin stories (even throw in a few UFOs or mad scientists, e.g., The Nation of Islam, Nuwabians, Hoteps, etc.), what I notice is…. there is no real black philosophy.
Rather, we what we have is blackness expressed through Western philosophy.
What I’m saying is….is that most of the Black Nationalist or liberation types who are quick to call another person’s “blackness” into question, even going so far as using white supremacist Antebellum slavery monikers towards each other, i.e., house slave, house negro, coon, Uncle Tom, the N-word, etc., but these Black Nationalist and liberation types are….living in the “House”, i.e., the house is the Western civilization including its philosophy.
So, to appear to be at odds with the West, when in essence we are products of the West, including using its language, didactic, etc., is ironic. In other words, don’t pretend that you’re higher or holier or more “organic” simply because you push pro-blackness when we are all living collectively under the roof of the house. The only way to truly alleviate this dilemma is to…leave the West.
Full unplug form the West or rather attempt at establishing a coherent “Black Philosophy” or “Southern Philosophy” that with academic rigor pools various indigenous African philosophies under one umbrella. No conspiracy theory, no anti-white girl paranoid black female nonsense, no toxic masculinity, but literal hitting the books and creating a framework that spans ethics, logic, etc.
I say Southern philosophy because we obviously know that Eastern typically represents Asian and/or Indian Subcontinent frameworks spanning Hinduism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, etc., whereas Western philosophy touches upon everything from the Sages, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Continentals vs Analytics, etc. In other words, we live under a global “Eurasianist” viewpoint, which isn’t bad necessarily, but the problem is that it excludes the philosophical frameworks of other parts of planet, so we can’t have a truly united human specifies until we include other frameworks or test them at least.
My call, yes, Quinton Mitchell is saying, that there should be a Southern Philosophy that emphasis the major categories of philosophy such as Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, and Aesthetics. This could be done my using game theory, Artificial Intelligence, computer regressions, etc.
Mitchell Research Group 