Decline of the Empire

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.

Understanding The Class War Against You

"You can observe a lot by just watching."
   — Yogi Berra

In his video BLM Supporter Shoots Woman For Saying 'All Lives Matter' And News Tries To Cover It Up, Tim Pool exclaims "I don't know why the media wouldn't tell us the truth about the shooting" (5:50 mark, watch the video up until then). I am going to answer Tim's anguished question in this post—why didn't the corporate-owned media report on this murder?

The answer has profound consequences because if the corporate media silence (cover-up) is successful in this and so many other cases, millions of propagandized, ignorant Americans will maintain the delusional belief that the "Black Lives Matter" riots protests are morally legitimate and therefore nothing to be worry about. Perhaps they will then go ahead and mindlessly vote for Joe Biden, the literally demented and carefully hidden Manchurian Candidate the globalist/neoliberal elites have put up to represent their interests.

If Creepy Joe wins, we will come to understand for real that Democracy Dies In Darkness, where "darkness" is the media silence in this Indiana murder and many other similar cases. This phrase is of course the motto of the thoroughly discredited Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, which is merely another vehicle for elite/fascist disinformation (like CNN, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and on and on).

Should A Liberal Society Tolerate Intolerance?

I've already told you we have a fascist infestation in the United States. People in the U.S. are likely unaware that this authoritarian resurgence is more advanced in the United Kingdom. As I listened to the UK channel spiked podcast today, called it's time to cancel cancel culture, I was reminded of Karl Popper's argument regarding the degree to which liberal (i.e., tolerant) societies should tolerate intolerance.

I will quote Popper, and then give you my answer to this urgent question. You're almost certainly not going to like the answer.

Same As It Ever Was

The crazies have been tearing down statues lately.

They started with slaveholders, moved on to presidents, and now they're tearing down abolitionists who fought and sometimes died fighting slavery. Their next targets are Lincoln (freed the slaves) and Jesus (too white).

All of this is being done in name of virtue and assumed moral superiority.

Throughout human history, political evil always presents itself as virtuous and morally superior. If humans who are currently not so crazy could even understand this one simple thing, all would be made clear to them. These people, the ones who are willing to live and let live, would know what to do to prevent the great suffering to come. 

Unfortunately, humans generally have the awareness of a box of rocks. This is especially true of the crazies but applies to nearly everybody. Most humans can be hoodwinked by a moral tautology ("Black Lives Matter"). 

Even before indoor plumbing and cheap energy from fossil fuels, most human suffering was self-inflicted. That clearly hasn't changed and never will. It's not the virus, dummy. It's you, it's us. More specifically, it was recently those who exploited the pandemic for their own evil purposes. As always, harming you was framed as being for your own good.

Evil is always entirely self-serving and wants only one thing for itself—great and arbitrary power. This allows it to carry out atrocities on a whim in order to constantly remind us of its power over us. There goes Lincoln. There goes Jesus. There goes your neighbor. There you go too.

In 2020, the new evil says that human history, here the history of people with white skin, is full of evil people (Jefferson owned slaves).

In reality, all humans at all times have been and are deeply flawed. That is Human Nature. So the new evil will never run out of targets. Thus the new evil can justify itself over and over again without limit.

The new evil says Human Nature doesn't exist. All things are possible says the new evil. The new things will be good things according to the new evil.

The new evil says that history will be fixed. We will be delivered from the old evil because for the first time in human history genuine virtue and moral superiority have truly appeared. The new evil assures us that we will enter a Promised Land where strife and suffering are abolished. The new evil promises a Utopia.

But of course Utopia does not and can not exist outside the deluded minds of the new evil (the crazies).

Cast from the same mold, the new evil merely replaces the old evil. Thus the horrible and pathetic historical cycle repeats.

Human Nature is not changed. Human history is not changed. We just get a new chapter in a very, very old story. Only the meaningless details change. Once again humans are the cause of most of their own suffering. Only the scale of our self-defeat changes when the crazies take over.

Same as it ever was.

Listen To This

The fascists are still doing the things that fascists do. They will never stop until "normal" people stand up to them. These neo-fascists are like The Terminator.

Listen. Understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.

Tim knows this, but he doesn't think regular Americans will stand up to them (and neither do I). Because modern humans generally and Americans in particular are very well domesticated. Thus they are spineless, are abject cowards. Modern humans wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the paleolithic environment of 40,000  years ago. As an e-mail correspondent said to me about modern life, "you could sleepwalk through it."

And that's what people have done until very recently without penalty. Things have changed. Now there's going to be a big price to be paid.

Tim has been warning people for many years now about the kind of evil fascist threat we're seeing everyday from the big globalist corporations, from the Democrats those corporations own, from the entertainment industry those corporations own, and from the mainstream media those corporations own. It's a class war against you.

Tim is not filtering anything here. He knows what's coming.

Listen to this. Start at about 17:30 for the short version. The part I want you to hear goes from there until almost the 24:00 mark.

Moral Hypocrisy And The Political Crisis

Most of the people I watch on YouTube spend a lot of time calling out moral hypocrisy in those they are criticizing. Let's first try to define moral hypocrisy and then talk about how it relates to the current, urgent political crisis in the United States (here and here). 

Moral Hypocrisy — saying or doing something in one context and then saying or doing something else in another context which contradicts what was said or done in the first; in both contexts the thing said or done expresses a moral preference, but the two preferences expressed are incompatible.

I trust that definition is clear to you. In the definition above, clearly the contexts matter. In the cases I'm interested in, the contexts are political (i.e., they are tribal) and the hypocrite in question is a member of one tribe and not another. This hypocrite expresses a moral preference undermining the opposing tribe in one context and subsequently expresses a moral preference supporting his own tribe in the other context. This is an extremely common behavior, as countless YouTube videos on the subject attest.

In 2006, When Mike Judge Made Idiocracy...

... a film in which 500 hundred years in the future America is run by low-grade morons, he got the timing all wrong. 

In reality, in 2006 that future was only 14 years away.