Decline of the Empire

There Is No Middle

A short while ago I got annoyed watch Brett and Heather Weinstein talking about "the purge of social media, free speech and Big Tech collusion" (1st video below). If you don't know who they are, use a search engine. You know how to do that, right?

These almost-useless pedants kept referring to the "red" team—called conservatives—and the "blue" team—called ?????. They were talking about how the ????? is purging conservatives from social media. We know that these social media monopolists have done everything in their considerable power to put the ????? into office. We know that these some of these Silicon Valley oligarchs are going to be part of Joe Biden's incoming administration. One hand washes the other. They are in bed together and inseparable.

If you don't believe me, why don't you use a search engine? Or follow a link. You know how to do that, right?

Well, what do we call the questions marks ?????

We can not call them "liberals" because liberals don't purge anybody. We can't call them "democrats" because purging people from the contemporary social media "public square" is profoundly anti-democratic. We can't call them "progressives" because silencing political opponents is regressive, not progressive.

To be accurate, we call the ????? authoritarians because only authoritarians carry out purges. There are a variety of different authoritarian types. I call them fascists to keep things simple. Everybody has some rough idea about what that word means. JP Sears calls them communists in the 2nd video below. That's yet another type of authoritarian.

So perhaps you can see why I was getting annoyed with these highly intellectual fools the Weinsteins. Because they are muddled. Muddle-headed. I short, they are confused as fuck. And they are not alone. Everywhere I look I see people who are as confused as fuck.

We are long, long past the political squabbles between the political conservatives and political liberals of yesteryear. Such obsolete language ("red" and "blue" teams) only serves to create all this muddle-headed confusion.

We're not talking about disagreements about fiscal policy during normal times. We're talking about preserving freedom of speech. We're talking about not turning into a Western version of totalitarian China.

Now, to the title of this post—there is no "middle" ground between fascists and everybody else. Fascists want to take away your human rights and thus your freedom. Anti-fascists want to preserve those rights and freedom. Therefore there can not be a "middle" because in the middle lies only one thing—compromise to adjust or reform the status quo so as to preserve most of it.

Imagine compromising with fascists. It might go something like this—

OK, I'll give up my right to peacefully assemble if you let me keep free speech.

Well, there's some absurd shit. On several different levels all at once. Here's some advice. Read and re-read this post until you fully understand it, and then pass it on to others, always with the same meme or summary—

Don't Be Confused

The muddled but well-meaning Weinsteins are in the first video below. They even make a few good points, so it is worth watching. The second video is JP Sears having a conversation with Free Speech. Sears is not confused as fuck. He knows exactly what's going on now.

The Elites And The Sheeple

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom of society.

This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.
   — Isaiah Berlin, from Two Concepts of Liberty (1969)

The bottom line is that I am an old liberal.

I am using the word 'liberal' in the old philosophical sense. To prevent people in a large, pluralistic human society from killing each other, to prevent unchecked predation among different groups, humans came up with the idea of generalized tolerance for all viewpoints (political, religious, etc.). To that end, humans established "natural" or "god-given" rights which every individual had as a birthright. These included the right to free speech, the right to peaceably assemble, the right to worship any god you wanted, and so forth.

An old liberal like me thinks this kind of freedom is the best possible solution to the obvious problems presented by human nature. 

Unfortunately, elites in the Western world have lost sight of the wisdom of this best possible solution. Power and unrestrained self-interest have deranged them. These corrupt, amoral elites, who run nearly all of our most fundamental institutions, are now promoting and implementing intolerance through the creation and vilification of scapegoats. The Nazis had first the communists and then later the Jews, the "leftist" neoliberal/globalist elites in contemporary America have Trump and his supporters. It's always the same story historically. 

Yesterday the "wrong-think" purges began on social media, which forms the "public square" in contemporary life. The elites disseminate and strictly control a self-serving "narrative" which is used to control the thinking of the little people. This manipulation is carried out on corporate and social media by those who own and run it.

This works because the vast majority of humans are incapable of independent thought and lack the ability to question authority (the narrative). That weakness (incapacity) is part of human nature, too. It is also paramount to keep people in a continual state of fear to make controlling them much easier (e.g., fear of COVID, lockdowns). Places where free speech still exists must be destroyed (and here). Those being scapegoated must be accused of doing the very thing predatory elites are in fact doing (psychological projection). The weak-minded will always believe these unreal accusations. The little people thus become deranged and full of hated for those scapegoated. This divisive result is the principal goal of the elite's manipulations (via the narrative).

All this is simply Fascism 101 or Totalitarianism 101 (in 2020, the merger of corporate and state power). Try this link.

The predatory Elites and the Sheeple, their prey. An old human trick. Works every time. George Orwell understood all this.

Donald Trump = Emmanuel Goldstein.
Emmanuel Goldstein = Donald Trump.

And now, for comparison, watch this Trump vilification montage, from Calderon Pool. Those carrying out the elite propaganda and disinformation campaign in Hollywood and on corporate and social media have been advocating violence against Donald Trump and his supporters for 4 years now. For the Sheeple, such threats have become normalized, which was the idea all along.

The worst is yet to come. Perhaps you think I've overstated the crisis here, but trust me, it's coming. I tried to warn you in posts earlier this year. I knew those warnings would fail, but I felt obligated to try. In fact, I received a lot of hate for writing what I did. I expected that, too. No good deed goes unpunished here on the Monkey Planet.

As Luke Rudkowski says in the video below,  Orwell's 1984 actually started yesterday, though the groundwork was laid for many years before now. This is an historical podcast and I hope you will watch it all the way through. There are weak moments in this very long discussion, but predominantly you will see young, liberal-minded people trying to come to grips with the terrible and evil fact that they no longer live in a free society.

It is very sad but it is also instructive if you have the awareness to appreciate this well-informed discussion. In 2020, that's a Big If.

For Your Own Good

Some of the dumbest, least aware motherfuckers on this planet have taken it upon themselves to tell you what information you can or can not see. This evil has been going on for some time now. No one seems to be willing to do anything about it.

In their infinite fucking wisdom, the flatworms at YouTube have "decided" that the Triggernometry interview with Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Emeritus Head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany, is not suitable viewing. The Bhakdi video below tells you why the mindless COVID-19 "case-demic" hysteria which rules the world now is mostly fake. A drummed up crisis. Yes, elderly people with pre-existing co-morbidities are dying. A bad flu does that sort of thing. You don't stop the world functioning because of it. Up until now, that is.

All three neurons in their primitive little brains must have been firing simultaneously when YouTube flatworms made this "decision" to censor Dr. Bhakdi. Fireworks! I'm sure they "decided" you could not see this video because it was for your own good. This conclusion follows from the fact that these gatekeeper flatworms have "decided" with great certainly that they have a much better understanding of what's good for you than you do yourself.

(YouTube's rationalization was that Bhakdi's scientific views did not align with those of the World Health Organization (WHO). As if YouTube have the right to pick a winner and silence everyone else. I note for the record that the WHO is also opposed to lockdowns, but that hasn't stopped anybody from implementing them, has it?)

Dr. Bhakdi is clearly one of the most advanced human beings on this planet. He is clearly a man of deep reason and compassion. You will sense this when you watch the video below. He is therefore the polar opposite of the simple no-awareness life-forms who censored his views on YouTube. Humans like Dr. Bhakdi are vanishingly rare. You can find mindless dipshits like those running Google and Facebook everywhere you look.

And I will add that although the Earth's oxygen supply is not currently imperiled, it is nonetheless true that the primitive multicellular organisms running Facebook and Google  are wasting oxygen that more sophisticated eukaryotic life forms like fungi and sponges could use to some advantage.

About three weeks ago, Facebook censored the Bhakdi interview. Why? Look at the image below.

Where it says photo, read "video". Facebook said the video was sexually suggestive or showed partial nudity. Years ago I used to say you can't make this stuff up. Now I don't know what to say because there are countless millions of humans who are ready to believe whatever rationalization these psychotic unconscious assholes come up with.

When you go to the original Bhakdi URL on YouTube (<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnpnBYgGARE>>) you now get the standard black, empty screen and the standard censorship text.

This Video Has Been Removed For Violating YouTube's Terms of Service.

The Bhakdi video was removed after nearly 1 million views.

After Facebook removed the Bhakdi video for being sexually suggestive or showing partial nudity, I downloaded the video to my own computer just in case. Necessity called as I thought it would. Now I have uploaded it to the Typepad server and embedded it here. It takes about 45 seconds to load (it's a big file). If you've read up to this point, it should be ready to go.

Find out the truth about COVID-19 right here.

I will have much more to say about lockdowns, etc. very soon.

America Is Finished, There Is No Way Out

I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave

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To _______

You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs.

 

It's not clear what the outcome will be, but no outcome will be good. America, the powerful colossus which has held sway on Earth since World War II, is now a third-world country. This is what the fascists wanted and this is what they have wrought.

 

I can't even watch this unfold. It's hard for me to watch. It's just too damn depressing. 

 

The other day a "friend" disowned me & abused me verbally because I voted for Trump. She is literally deranged. She has had a psychotic break with reality. There are literally millions of Americans just like her. Many millions.

 

What do we do about that? There is no way out. I feel total despair. 

 

— Dave

The Whole World Is Watching

Perhaps you've noticed that Western Civilization is collapsing. For example, in Paris you need papers just to leave your house because of another useless covid-19 lockdown. I could provide countless examples just like this one at this point. Covid-19 is only a rationalization which hides other, deeper authoritarian impulses. It's a ruse. Humans, especially those with political power, don't know what they're doing or why they're doing it. "Power corrupts" said a wise man. You would think humans would figure this out after 5,000 years of experience. But they can't, they don't. Sigh.

Or perhaps I assume way too much. It is far more likely that you have not noticed that Western Civilization is collapsing because filtering these kind of vague "not my problem" existential threats is what humans characteristically do. You tell yourself "nothing to worry about here, it'll be fine." Go ahead, tell yourself that.

And you clearly you can't respond to something whose existence you can't even acknowledge.

But I see the authoritarian threat. I'm not filtering anything. It's clear as day. As clear as the hand I've put in front of my face.

I am an American. Europe, the United Kingdom. Australia, Canada, blah blah blah. The European Union is a joke. The UK is rapidly falling under the authoritarian boot (another useless fucking lockdown). Australia has something akin to martial law. Canada is just ... pathetic.

America fucking is Western Civilization. If you're an American, don't fool yourself. The whole world is watching.

So we start here.

If we're going to save humans rights, rule by law and strive for equality under the law as general principles, despite the inevitable failures that human nature engenders, we need to start right here in the good 'ole United States of America. And if we can save the situation in America, perhaps we can get confused, docile humans in the U.K. and other places to stand up for themselves too.

Absurd as it may be, saving Western Civilization starts with voting for Donald Trump tomorrow. Absurd as it may be, a vote for the Orange Man is a vote against ruthless authoritarians (fascists). Democrats and the corporations they serve want to lock you down. They want to tell you how to live your life. They don't want you to think for yourselves. They want to think for you. Fascists believe only in power. And power corrupts. For them, wrongthink is a crime and must be ruthlessly suppressed.

Don't believe me? Look at Jack Dorsey (Twitter) Look at Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Pay no attention to what these assholes say. Pay attention only to what they do. If Biden and the Democrats win, monopolistic social media information suppression will never go away. It will simply become part of the way we live. Believe me, you do not want to live in that Orwellian world.

In the Senate hearings last week, Republicans hammered Dorsey for suppressing what he believes is wrongthink on Twitter.  Dorsey believes he knows what's good for you. And he believes he's morally superior to you. These are self-serving delusions born of social success and power.

Do you know what the Democrats wanted in those hearings? They wanted more information suppression. They don't think Dorsey is doing enough to fight against wrongthink.

Is that the future you want? If not, you have a chance tomorrow to do one, simple thing to fight back. In itself it won't be enough, but it's a start.

And what is that one simple thing? Vote for Donald Trump. At least he'll let you live your life the way you see fit and your day-to-day life may even improve.

And you won't have to be totally embarrassed to be a member of the species Homo sapiens as I am every day (video below).

Next Leader of the "Free" World?

Glenn Greenwald Censored At The Intercept, Resigns

Long-time progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from The Intercept, an organization he co-founded. Glenn resigned because the Intercept editors did not want him to publish a story on the corrupt dealings of Hunter Biden and his father Joe, who may be the next president of the United States. (Though not for long, because the plan is to push Joe out due to his obvious dementia and install Kamala Harris, who has been Hillary's choice all along).

Tim wants people to share his video discussing Greenwald's resignation, so here you go (video below). Heaven help us if Joe Biden is elected, says Tim, because then there will be little or no constraint on the behavior of ruthless authoritarians who have taken over our media and most of our other "liberal" institutions.  Because the Biden corruption story threatens their plans to get rid of Trump, there has been close to total silence on the story in the mainstream corporate media. (You know who I'm talking about.) Fox News is reporting it, as are other conservative outlets like Ben Shapiro's Daily Caller, and that's about it.

Controlling the information low or no awareness voters get to see—exercising total control of the narrative—is essential to achieving a fascist takeover of the United States (or totalitarian, Maoist, whatever you want to call it). The Greenwald resignation is just the latest chapter in this sad and oh-so-dangerous story.

I've gotten e-mails over the last weeks and months since I've been writing about this ongoing powerful attempt to take away our freedom and destroy the Constitution. If these authoritarians are successful, they will have brought about the end of Western Civilization. If those emails I've received are representative, I have to say at this point that even people reading me don't have nearly the awareness required to acknowledge, let alone act upon, the threat we are under in 2020. 

Well, at least Tim understands that threat because he reads everything. Tim gets over a 100 million views every month now. We can only pray that he and others (like Tucker Carlson) have convinced enough people to make some kind of last stand against this corrupt and authoritarian onslaught.

Here's Glenn's resignation letter, which he published at substack. You can also find Matt Taibbi at substack. It seems sometimes in the United States that you can count the number of actual journalists with integrity on both hands and still have fingers left over.  Most other "journalists" are really pro-censorship activists.

But of course most people (sheeple) are confused about this, just as they are confused about everything else.

There are now only 5 days until the election. Here's Tim.

Tim Pool Gets It Now

Well, it took a long time, but Tim Pool has finally come round to my position—we are dealing with fascists.

These ruthless authoritarians (my definition) control most of our major institutions (the Democrats, the big globalist corporations, the big social media companies ("Silicon Valley"), the corporate-owned TV/print media, Wall Street, the prestigious universities, Hollywood, the security ("deep") state bureaucrats). This is alarming to say the least.

People are generally confused about what fascism means because of 70 years of biased academic social studies. These studies originated in the Frankfurt school (Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and rest). In the post-war period in the United States, those people were Marxists who escaped Hitler's Germany or Europe generally in the 1930s and early 1940s. Simplifying, to them a fascist was somebody who unquestionably followed a strong nationalistic leader (an "authoritarian personality"). To them, nobody on the political "left" (socialists, maoists, communists) could ever be a fascist because, given their bias, their definitions excluded all those groups.

For example, watch this short video of Jason Stanley, a Yale philosopher and one of the most confused, delusional people on Earth. Stanley is sure that Donald Trump is a fascist, though Trump has never acted in an authoritarian way, even when severely provoked. If he were a fascist, he would have sent the military to Portland, Seattle and many other places to put down the BLM/Antifa riots by overwhelming violent force. He did nothing of the sort. In fact, Trump wants to deregulate the economy to the economic benefit of working people. That's the opposite of what an authoritarian would do. Trump is actually like a 1990s democrat.

As the Stanley video shows, confusion about fascism is still pretty much academic gospel today. Actually, things are much, much worse at universities today. Critical race theory teaches anti-racism, and as with all totalitarian equations, Anti-Racism = Racism (just as War = Peace, Freedom = Slavery, Ignorance = Strength).

In particular, Tim now understands the "duck test"—

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is almost certainly a duck.

Substitute the word "fascist" for the word "duck" and you will understand what you need to know here. Watch below as Tim struggles with his new understanding of the political world we live in.

I love Tim for one simple reason: Tim loves the Truth and hates the Lie. People like Tim are very rare in this world. One identifying characteristic of fascists is that they lie all the time about everything political.

CNN? Lies. New York Times? Fake News. And on and on. Tim often says journalism is dead. He's mostly right. On the other hand propaganda and disinformation is a thriving industry.

And Tim hates that. Tim reads everything, which means that I don't have to. He could perform that service for you too, if you would only take the time to watch his daily reports.

The Good News is that knowing what's going on and having a proper understanding of the existential threat against us is half the battle.

The Bad News is that it's only half the battle. The other half we have to do ourselves. In the video, Tim says (shortly after the 12:00 mark)—

You wanna know who the resistance is?  It's you and me.

Damn right. Tim is King in the North, the tip of that spear. Know the difference. Support Tim and all true anti-fascists everywhere. 

Remember This Date — October 14, 2020

Today Twitter and Facebook would not allow anyone on their platforms to link to the New York Post story which seems to show that Joe Biden lied about his and his son's corrupt connections to the criminally-run Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The story was published yesterday on October 14, 2020. Remember this date.

Let's sum up the meaning of this—

• Facebook and Twitter are interfering in the U.S. election to support the Democrats and making no bones about it — they are daring us to stop them.

• Facebook and Twitter have declared that truth is whatever they say it is.

• Facebook and Twitter have declared their right to apply authoritarian control of what information you get to see on their platforms

• Facebook and Twitter have decided that a well-informed citizenry is antithetical to their interests, but free speech and your right to access the information you need to make informed voting decisions is the bedrock of our democracy.

• Therefore, Facebook and Twitter have officially and arbitrarily decided that some form of authoritarian governance is generally preferable to our current democratic form of government (actually, we are a republic, but we can vote).

Again, Facebook (Zuckerberg) and Twitter (Dorsey) have just spit in your face. They are defiant and unrepentant.

Are you going to take that lying down? Are you adults? Or are you children? Are you free people? Or are you sheep who believe and do as they are told? We will find out right now. If you get your news exclusively from those platforms, you are consenting to their authoritarian rule over you.

Facebook and Twitter suspended the accounts of all those who tried to link-in the NY Post story on their platforms, including the account of Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's press secretary, the Trump campaign account, a Republican senate account and the account of the New York Post itself.

Do you understand the seriousness of this blatant attack on the free press and free speech? I hope you do.

Remember this date because if something is not done about this right now, and I mean this week, then you can kiss our democracy goodbye. I have tried to warn anyone reading here that what I call fascism was coming and the time to act was now.

I define fascism as ruthless authoritarianism. What Facebook and Twitter just did is ruthless authoritarianism in action. This is the message you need to understand right now—

These social media corporations have crossed the line. There will be no going back if we do not reign in these fascists right now. If we fail to act, October 14, 2020 can be remembered as the day our democracy died.

If we do not act now, we are done for. Western Civilization, which can be defined by the recognition of human rights and by the rule of law and equal protection under the law, will be done for. Remember this date.

Here Are Your Choices

I have tried to think about what I should write as I witness the terrible events of 2020, America's great crisis. Fuck it. Here is what's important now.

There's a presidential election on November 3, 2020.

On the one hand, you've got a totally unhinged, fraudulent, and now purely evil political party who call themselves Democrats. They are running a Manchurian candidate named Joe Biden, an old man who has serious and worsening dementia, a man who is utterly corrupt, and a sicko who can't keep himself from shamelessly touching any woman within his pathetic grasp. Still, this hardly matters in so far as Sleepy Joe is only a temporary stand-in for a ruthless authoritarian named Kamala Harris, who is really the immoral autocrat the Democrats wanted all along. That's why she was chosen as Biden's running mate.

On the other hand, you've got Donald Trump.

I'm going to vote for Trump and almost certainly would have done so even if I hadn't felt coerced by Satan's Army on the other side. And in so far as the Democrats are trying to delegitimize the election generally in case Trump wins by pushing fraudulent mail-in voting in the states they control, and I happen to live in one of those states, I am going to vote for Trump both by mail and in person if possible. Who is going to know? (Tim Pool video at the end below.)

I will do this because I would prefer to live in a free country under the rule of law. The Democrats do not want you to be free and, once given power, they will eventually take the law into their own hands at the Federal level, regardless of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They have already done so in my state Pennsylvania and in Democrat-run cities using COVID-19 as their rationalization (see New York City, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis and Chicago). The republic has not been in this much danger since 1861.

I greatly fear what will follow the election if Trump wins. You should too. Because I guarantee you those fascists on the Democrat side are not going to accept that result. And when they don't, there goes the rule of law unless we clamp down on them hard. Really hard. Because they are dangerously deranged. At the constitutional crisis point, after November 3rd, if the Democrats don't accept the election results if Trump wins, anything goes, and that is never a good thing where humans are concerned.

If you believe voting for Biden is the right thing to do because you've been brainwashed and have the awareness of a garden hose, try really hard to think of it this way—you might as well be voting for the Nazis in the German election of 1930, three years before the token 1933 election, after which they seized power and never relinquished it until they were finally crushed by the Allies in 1945. At least 7,000,000 million Europeans died before that happened and many more all around the world.

I assume you see my point. 

Because They Don't Care

NYC mayor Bill DeBlasio's official Black Lives Matter mural, which he recently helped paint in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, was "vandalized" again on Saturday.

It was "vandalized" according to news reports because it's OK to paint the street when that lying motherfucker DeBlasio the dictator of New York City says it is, but it's not OK to do it when it's not politically sanctioned by the tyrant.

Two women "defaced" the mural

• because these phony BLM assholes and the politicians who protect them are "liars!"
• because in reality "they don't care" about black people!
• because all of us need to "take [our] country back!"

And so on. The best part is that one the cops enforcing fascist policy fell down and hurt himself trying restrict this woman's right to protest. Way to go ladies!

Abso-fucking-lutely.

You can find the longer, complete version here.