Elon Musk is the New Pope

Elon Musk is the New Pope. By Krzysztof Szczawinski.

For a thousand years, Europe had an authority above power. Not a stronger army — a higher court. The papacy could not tax, conscript, or arrest the men who mattered, and it did not need to. It could declare: this is legitimate, that is corrupt. Kings defied it and universities disputed it, but nobody could ignore it. That was the civilizational axis — the thing that answered the question every civilization must eventually answer: what is all of this for?

That axis broke, and nothing replaced it. States regulate. Markets allocate. Science explains. None of them can say what a civilization should become. Europe got steadily more powerful in means and steadily more lost about ends.

Then one man, with no office and no mandate, started doing the job.

 

1. Look at what he actually does, several times a day. He does not lobby, does not petition, does not draft policy. He issues verdicts – this is corrupt, this is a lie, this is beneath us, this is what a serious civilization would do. A judgment, in public, with his name on it. That is not commentary. That is the papal instrument, and nobody else in the West is using it.

2. And his profile became the front page. … That front page has not existed in the West for fifty years. It exists again now – one account, hundreds of millions of readers, no editor between the judgment and the public. The civilization got its shared morning back, in the least expected place.

3. He can do this for the same reason the popes could: he cannot be removed by the people he judges. No board can fire him, no advertiser can starve him – they tried, and he told them where to go, on stage, on the record. Independence is the precondition of the office. Every other candidate for this role – the presidents, the editors, the university heads – must first survive the people they would have to judge.

4. Notice what he judges by. Not left and right. Not the polling. He judges by whether a thing builds or destroys: does this produce more life, more children, more energy, more capability – or does it produce process, dependency, and decline? That is a hierarchy of ends, stated plainly enough that ordinary people can apply it themselves. Which is exactly what an axis is for.

5. The reaction proves the function. … The fury directed at him is the same fury directed at Rome by every prince who found himself declared in the wrong and could not make it stop.

6. He did not seek this. It fell to him because the seat was empty – and it was empty because we emptied it, and then spent a century discovering that a civilization without an axis keeps its wealth and loses its purpose. Reality does not tolerate the vacancy. If no legitimate authority says what is corrupt, the position gets filled by whoever has the reach and the nerve.

7. But one man is not an institution, and that is the whole problem. The papacy lasted a millennium because it was a structure, not a person – it survived bad popes, mad popes, captive popes. What we have now is the function without the institution: a single mortal, a single account, a single platform. This works exactly as long as he does.

So the task is not to find a better man for the job. It is to build the thing that outlives the man — a public council, transparent, with a published hierarchy of values and the nerve to issue verdicts under its own name. Musk proved the seat is not obsolete. Now we have to build the chair.

You broke it, you fix it

You broke it, you fix it. By Tom Dusevic in The Australian.

Australians want fewer migrants. The political class has absorbed the message but, as yet, has not faced up to the barbarous trade-offs to achieve that without causing an economic calamity. …

In December that year, O’Neil released Labor’s migration strategy … According to those inside the rescue job, Albanese had demanded: get the numbers down and stop talking about migration. After all, just before the strategy was announced, NOM had hit an all-time high 556,000 and Labor was being hammered by the Coalition for running a “Big Australia policy by stealth”. …

Given the quick descent into toxic politics, scant expertise about the system, and the government’s refusal to explain its migration story, there has been little serious discussion beyond numbers. … More of Labor’s bewildering selective mutism and delay will only imperil social cohesion. …

Henry Sherrell and Lachlan Vass … warn. “The days of quiet bipartisanship are gone.” …

“The immigration system is complex and the trade-offs are sharp. The social, economic, and political risks of change are genuine but pale in comparison to the stakes for our society.”

It’s the biggest issue, even slightly bigger than the economy, and it’s not going away. It is existential. It can no longer be hidden by the ruling class, who must now explain what on Earth they were thinking.

Insurrection in Dover

Insurrection in Dover.

Inevitable West:

A massive number of blacked out men in balaclavas have taken control of roads in Dover right now to protest to the illegal migrant invasion

They are REFUSING to move, with more protesters beginning to arrive.

 

Tommy Robinson:

Simultaneously at different locations across Dover patriots have mobilised to close down the port . There are 3 plus locations that patriots have shut down so far with many more planned to be closed . People wanted action I’m guessing there are 100’000’s of men willing to fill their shoes.

 

David Atherton:

For 70 years we have been ignored, Tony Blair even “rubbed our noses in diversity.” The worm has turned with the blockade in Dover.

Steve:

In 1381 Wat Tyler and John Ball led an army of peasants into London. They dragged the elites from their homes and offices and beat them to death in the streets with farm implements. The elites took notice.

THis kind of thing probably won’t have much effect on the ruling class or its policies, yet. But no one — apart from those who only follow the MSM — can be too surprised that it’s happening, or that it will grow. The Northern Irish showed an effective way.

Meanwhile, here in Australia, the Labor Party, the Greens, and the media mention immigration as little as possible. Can’t imagine why.

UN adopts a new world map

UN adopts a new world map. By Aleksandra Michalska in the SMH.

The United Nations has voted to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting countries’ true size, a resolution sponsored by African states to counter perceptions that the continent is peripheral.

Togo led the initiative to further the African Union campaign to limit use of the Mercator map, which distorts the relative size of land masses by expanding those nearer the poles. It makes Greenland appear roughly the same size as Africa, though Africa is about 14 times larger. …

The resolution passed in the UN General Assembly on Friday (US time) by a vote of 164 to 1, with 6 abstentions.

The US, the only country to vote against the resolution, said it promoted an “ideological agenda” and was a distraction from the “genuine problems of international peace, prosperity or good relations”.

The old map was the familiar Mercator map. Designed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help seafarers navigate the world, it preserves local angles and directions. A straight line on a Mercator map corresponds to a constant compass bearing, which made it invaluable for marine navigation.

It also preserves small-scale shapes reasonably well. A coastline, city street grid, or country outline looks locally familiar rather than being visibly squashed or stretched. That is one reason the projection became deeply entrenched in atlases and navigation.

It it works very neatly with rectangular map tiles and zooming systems.

 

The new map is called Equal Earth. It preserves area while trying to make the shapes not look too squished. Introduced in 2018, it was deliberately designed as a more aesthetically pleasing equal-area alternative. “Equal Earth” doesn’t mean it reproduces the globe without distortion — no flat world map can — but it guarantees equal area, while sacrificing some combination of shape, distance and direction.

 

For navigation or interactive street maps, Mercator is very useful. For comparing the geographic size of countries and continents, Equal Earth is much better.

Mercator stuck his home, Flanders, in the center of his map 🙂 Which required leaving off Antarctica and putting the equator about two thirds down the map.

What Australia’s real Nazis are like

What Australia’s real Nazis are like. By Alexandra Marshall, who infiltrated their chat group and has been listening for a year.

Sat in on one of the N-zi spaces last night for many hours. It’s part of my job that I hate but you have to learn what these people say privately versus what they’ll admit publicly.

 

After the National Socialist Network (NSN) was banned, many of its members migrated to the White Australia Party

 

The handful of N-zis and ‘nationalists’ took a brief interlude from the discussion to call each other ‘fa—t’ for a while and dared each other to meet in person so they could beat each other up over ‘p–y’. Behold the level of intellect trying to lead a revolution. …

The whole thing was hosted by Australia but headed by a self-declared Canadian N-zi who kept whinging that the NSN guy who normally led the space couldn’t because they were in jail and others were banned from social media.

There was all the usual H-r simping. They really are obsessed. …

There’s no way ASIO and the AFP aren’t listening to these spaces. The problem is — ordinary Australians are NOT and so they don’t know what these people really think versus the polished propaganda they promote to the public.

Here are the main take-aways from half-a-dozen people who run around claiming to be ‘patriots’ and ‘just nationalists’ and ‘not socialists’ who ‘just love Australia’ and try to con well-meaning conservatives into their cause.

NOTE: None of these people are to be confused with actual patriots who just love Australia and want it to return to the land of our childhood.

1. They are desperate to tie One Nation to the White Australia Party court case because — to paraphrase them:

‘If One Nation isn’t banned along with the WAP then this will be the end of the N-zi movement in this country.’

Which goes a long way to explain why they keep demanding to bring One Nation into every conversation about the WAP… If One Nation distances themselves completely, this fringe group is f—d and they know it. One Nation is only in danger if it allows these creeps to stand in their shadow.

So they are happy to sacrifice One Nation — and everything that has been built and worked for — to save their little extremist cult….

2. They said they are grooming more young men ‘who don’t know it yet’ to be the next frontmen for their cause after so many were arrested, deported, or banned from social media.

3. They are fascists. Openly so. They described fascism as the ‘cure to racial conflict’ because fascism represents ‘racial harmony’. And then they went on about the need to educate people into the virtues of fascism. Let me repeat that. They are proud fascists and they want fascism for Australia.

4. They are also socialists. After drooling in the chat over the power of communist China and other historical regimes, they insisted that their vision for Australia was socialism, that they are socialists, but that it will be a different kind of socialism because anyone not of their race would be deported and only their women would be helped to stay home and have children. They described democracy as oppression and a system that doesn’t work without ethnic purity — and that it was never meant to be for non-ethnically pure states.

5. They cautioned each other about criticising new digital security, surveillance, and AI because ‘we would definitely use it’ to — as they put it — weed out the subversives and ‘cucks’ from the nation. In other words, these so-called freedom lovers who try to present themselves as conservative want to use big tech to hunt down their ideological opponents and subdue them.

6. When asked what they would do with people who refused to convert to this world view — they admitted to the tough decision of … well … you know that their favourite historical dude did. They complained that making decisions to do that is what ‘weighed on them’.

7. They explained that while Marxism has been normalised, N–ism has never been part of the Australian narrative …

8. They claimed their new narrative is that Australia of the 80s and 90s ‘was socialist’ because Qantas and Auspost were owned by the state along with other things. So they are going to lean in on nostalgia for the Zoomer and Millennial childhood and try to re-write history as if that was ‘the socialist utopia’. And because those people were only kids — they might believe it.

Banning them was counter-productive:

Banning the name of the movement did not make this ideology go away. They changed their name. Changed their phrasing. And now they have become more subversive than ever. At least before they were banned, ordinary people knew who these online accounts were and what — exactly — it was they stood for.

Now, ordinary Australian conservatives see a flag or see a sign about ‘free speech’ and assume these are ordinary people. They are not. …

Reject them:

It’s never occurred to them that none of this is a conspiracy against them. Australians just f-ing HATE the N–s, National Socialism, Fascism, and losers who want to enslave other people to give themselves ‘purpose’. …

Demanding deportation of criminals, a migration pause, and the restoration of cultural systems is completely different to the fascist ethno-state promised by the fringe.

One Nation has a real and serious chance to replace the Coalition and to FIX THIS COUNTRY and RESTORE AUSTRALIA. But it can’t be done with this group hanging off the side, lusting after a long-dead psycho and fantasying about fascism. That’s not an Australia anyone wants.

Wow! Real journalism. Well done Alexandra.

Public-space culture

Public-space culture.

Glenn Reynolds: “Nothing is more radicalizing than pictures of the old America.” New York subway in 1968:

58 years ago. Arthur Ashe takes the NYC subway the day after winning the US Open… and no one notices him.

Laura Ingraham: “Also note how clean the subway is and how nicely dressed everyone is. A shocking decline across society.”

Commenters:

The subway has become lawless. Hoodlums everywhere with backpacks filled with drugs and stolen electronics. Nobody says a word anymore. God help our cities. …

Where’s all the graffiti and crazy loud people? It’s like another world. …

No twerking or panhandling.

I’ve heard of place out east like this. Mystical Land of Japan. …

Obviously it was because [Arthur Ashe] was a black man “acting white”. Today, some Marxist would call him out as a “Tom” and push him onto the subway tracks. …

And just seven years later, after disastrous left-wing governance, the city went broke and descended into a hellhole.
Now it looks like we’re heading for a repeat

And in China:

 

China is putting scientists on public screens and treating them like national celebrities. We are so fucked.

Eric Weinstein:

Remember when we did that in the U.S.? Made our scientists rockstars?

Ignore me at your peril billionaires. We *MUST* cut our own scientists into “the upside” that they created.

“Capitalists” are giving the golden goose to Communists in China. This is madness.

Mark my words.

Commenters:

I remember when the US used to elevate achievement above grievances. I hope we can go back to that someday. …

These aren’t just scientists, they’re significant figures in the history books and every Chinese person knows them. One of them for example is someone who created a type of rice that was much easily grown and stopped a widespread famine. They’re all heroes.

The past is as foreign as China.

What Sort of Party is One Nation?

What Sort of Party is One Nation? By Loiuse Clegg in The Spectator.

The One Nation constitution names Pauline Hanson as party president for as long as she wishes. When she resigns, she appoints her successor. The national executive can disband branches and remove office-holders. State leaders, even candidates, or local branch executives do not emerge victorious from a vote, preselection or party-room vote. They are simply announced by Hanson.

 

 

We have watched some of this unfold at close quarters in our region. New One Nation supporters have attended meetings intended to establish something resembling federal and state electoral conferences. One Nation flying squads have arrived from Queensland with kooky speeches and zero knowledge of the electorate. A local executive was formed, only for its members to resign within weeks when they realised Queensland headquarters demanded total control. The complaint from a few who attended several meetings is that, for a so-called grassroots party, it has no interest whatsoever in the grassroots. …

None of this means One Nation will fail at coming elections. It may succeed spectacularly. A tightly controlled party is agile: it can move quickly and enforce a message the majors cannot because of internal processes. The cracks will appear in time, when locals don’t get a say, centralised vetting is a disaster, disagreements become public and rogue members of parliament leave the tent.

This is a party that promises to return power to the people, yet is conspicuously designed so that its own people — leaders, MPs and members — have no power. Long term, this is not strength. It is a house of cards.

Lack of staff, from Adam Creighton.

One Nation is criticised for ‘lack of policy detail’.

This is the 2026 allocation of Personal Staff to parties and leaders. (Allocated at Anthony Albanese’s discretion). Outrageously biased against ON.

 

Read David Archibald’s experience with One Nation here.

What happens when a narrative of lies becomes embedded in our institutions?

What happens when a narrative of lies becomes embedded in our institutions? By Krzysztof Szczawinski.

Within systems built on institutional falsehood, something happens to people that goes far deeper than political disagreement or economic hardship.

A process of demoralization sets in – and this word must be understood in its fullest sense. Not merely disappointment. Not discouragement. But the systematic erosion of the moral infrastructure that holds a person, and a society, together: trust, integrity, the shared assumption that truth is real and that it matters.

Truth is penalized, loyalty to the lies is rewarded:

People learn, through accumulated experience, that honesty costs. They watch colleagues who speak plainly get passed over, demoted, or destroyed. They watch those who perform loyalty — regardless of whether they believe a word of it — advance. The lesson is absorbed not as ideology but as survival knowledge: say what the system wants to hear. After enough repetition, this stops feeling like compromise. It becomes instinct.

Negative moral selection:

The result is one of the most destructive and least discussed phenomena of institutional life under such systems: negative moral selection. The term deserves to be used widely, because the process it describes is precise and devastating.

In a healthy institution, the qualities that get rewarded — competence, honesty, independent judgment, willingness to deliver unwelcome truths — are roughly the qualities that make institutions function well. The selection pressure, however imperfectly, tends to elevate people worth elevating.

Under a system of institutionalized lying, the selection pressure inverts. What gets rewarded is the willingness to subordinate truth to narrative, to signal loyalty over competence, to manipulate rather than inform. And crucially, those most willing to do this — whether out of opportunism, cowardice, or genuine ideological capture — rise. Those least willing to do it are sidelined, pushed out, or in harder cases, destroyed.

 

 

Over time, the institution fills, top to bottom, with people selected specifically for their unreliability. The honest are gone. The competent who refused to play along are gone. What remains is a self-reinforcing culture of cynicism and mutual complicity — everyone knowing, at some level, that the whole structure rests on a lie, and everyone invested in maintaining it because the lie is now the source of their position.

This is not merely inefficiency. It is institutional rot at the genetic level.

The social aftermath:

Beyond the institutions themselves, something corrodes in the broader social fabric.

  • Public life becomes performative theater.
  • Language decouples from meaning — words are uttered not to convey reality but to signal allegiance, deflect suspicion, or accumulate social capital.
  • Truth inverts: the more emphatically something is proclaimed, the more suspicious a rational person learns to be.
  • People adapt. They develop a kind of split consciousness – participating in the public rituals because refusal carries costs, while privately withdrawing all genuine trust from the system. They say the words. They attend the meetings. They sign the statements. And inwardly, they check out entirely.

This is doublethink, not as a dramatic Orwellian act of self-violation, but as a mundane daily habit. A way of moving through the world. And like all habits, it shapes the person who practices it.

The bad habits die slower than the lies:

When communism formally collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, there was a widespread assumption in the West — and to some degree among the people themselves — that the pathologies would dissolve along with the system that produced them. Remove the oppressive structure, introduce free markets and democratic institutions, and the culture would normalize.

It did not. Or at least, not nearly as quickly as hoped.

Because the damage was not located in the ideology. The ideology was the occasion. The damage was located in the people — in the habits of mind, the social reflexes, the deeply internalized assumptions about how the world works, that decades of living inside a system of lies had produced. …

The negative moral selection continued … The people most skilled at institutional maneuvering, at cultivating networks of complicity, at navigating power through loyalty-signaling rather than competence, were precisely the people who had been selected into positions of influence under the old system. They remained. They adapted their language. They learned to mouth the new words — democracy, market, civil society — with exactly the same fluency and exactly the same hollowness with which they had mouthed the old ones.

The cynicism persisted. The corruption persisted. The distrust persisted.

A generation of virtue-signalers and liars, practiced at ignoring certain truths, for social and professional survival. Look what it did for the Soviet Union — what will it do for the West?

The economic climate just changed for Australia

The economic climate just changed for Australia. By Robert Guy in The Australian.

Australia spent the cheap-money era convincing itself that expensive houses, bloated government, lousy productivity and asset prices amounted to an economic model.

Global bond markets are calling time on the fantasy.

Money has a price again. Australia’s 10-year bond yield is at levels last seen in 2011, well above 5 per cent. It does not set mortgage rates — the RBA cash rate does — but resets the cost of capital beneath government borrowing, corporate debt, infrastructure and equities.

With gross debt above $1 trillion, refinancing turns yesterday’s choices into tomorrow’s interest bill.

The uglier discovery is how little growth Australia can now generate without above-target inflation. … Australia can barely grow above 2 per cent without above-target inflation. …

Australians are carrying more public debt, paying more for capital, housing, energy and services, and getting little in return from productivity or per-capita growth. The economy still functions, but increasingly on worse terms. … This is enshitification at a sovereign scale: the platform still works, but the user pays more for less. …

Australia’s place in the world economy:

The AI economy continues to outpace Canberra’s thinking. … Australia is down the bottom pouring the concrete. …

Australia risks mistaking AI infrastructure for AI power.

We know this model: dig it up, ship it out, let someone else add the value, then buy it back at a premium. AI could be the same old bargain in digital form. We supply the land, power and concrete. Silicon Valley owns the margin.

Forty years of decreasing interest rates ended in 2022, globally. It’s not widely appreciated yet, but history suggests we have now entered the back leg of the cycle, with several decades of upward-trending interest rates ahead. Rolling over loans will get more expensive, so capital will have to be repaid.

Many western borrowers, and governments in particular, will simply not be able to afford to keep paying interest on their debts. Japan will spend all its tax income on servicing its current debt when interest rates average 7%, the US 14%, and Australia 21%. In the 1970s, to stop inflation, interest rates had to rise to 20%.

So, governments will be forced to use their only escape hatch — devalue their paper currencies, i.e. allow a controlled inflation to run to whittle away the real value of debts, a policy called financial repression. (Is it just a coincidence that everything in finance has an obscure or misleading name?) Borrowers love it, lenders lose. This policy was last run in the 1970s. (Btw, got gold? The gold price went from 35 USD to well over 400 USD per ounce in the 1970s.)

The Albanese Government, like the Whitlam Government in the early 1970s, just “happens” to be in power when global stagflation hit. A high-welfare, big-spending government that was elected at the end of the easy times, just as the festival of cheap credit was drawing to a close. Bad timing, yes — policies appropriate for the time they were elected quickly became very inappropriate as time changed. But unlucky again, not really — elected governments always get pretty free-spending towards to the end of easy times.

And like the Whitlam Government in 1975, the current government is quickly going to become very unpopular.

The Albanese Government Begins its Doom Spiral

The Albanese Government Begins its Doom Spiral. By David Pearl in The Australian.

Chalmers has changed his tune. Until recently he was saying that achieving net zero was the biggest economic prize on offer. In March last year he called it his “obsession” and “reason for being”.

But with the public’s faith in this particular utopia now crumbling after two decades of rising power prices, the government needs another one. And AI fits the bill ideally, since this revolution has barely begun. It is a kind of Rorschach test, allowing us to project our hopes and fears as our inclination strikes us. …

Sadly, the government’s grand ambitions suffer from a rather serious flaw. It is committed to policies that are hostile to any positive technological revolution, whether linked to AI or otherwise. Indeed, if you asked a properly trained AI bot how best to kill off AI in this country, it would refer you to the government’s energy, industrial relations and tax policy settings.

The government’s commitment to high-cost and intermittent energy sources that cannot meet the growing demands of AI data centres is made worse by Canberra’s bizarre insistence (until recently) on the kind of energy that is unsuited to data centres.

The government’s likely demand is that AI not replace a single union member’s job in this country or undercut their conditions. And its 2026 budget assault on savings and investment, as we know, will penalise high-risk and high-return investments across the economy, with the government and its bureaucrats to police a narrow carve-out for some start-ups.

Where does new technology come from? For people like Jim Chalmers, it just happens. In reality, it doesn’t happen without the right backing and motivation structure:

But technological change is a by-product of innovation and risk-taking by entrepreneurs in search of profits, with investors and consumers — acting through free markets — the ultimate judge of their success or failure.

A government that is hostile to entrepreneurs and believes bureaucrats rather than markets should allocate resources will only stifle, rather than foster, this process. Yet Chalmers believes “we” — meaning our politicians and bureaucrats — can somehow micromanage the AI revolution to maximise its productivity benefits and eliminate its costs and risks altogether.

This is rubbish. I don’t pretend to know whether the AI revolution will prove to be a big bang or a whimper. But if it proves to be the former, it will – like every previous positive structural shock we have experienced – cause considerable economic pain.

Labor people — with precious few exceptions — are not knowledgeable about economics. Worse, they are not even interested. So, Labor Governments inevitably end up hurting the economy. Not out of malice, but because they simply do not know how to care for it.

The once exception was when Hawke was PM and Keating was Treasurer. Keating, bless him, promptly leaned economics from the Treasury officials in his Department, and he implemented what they suggested! Australia blossomed! (Btw, apart from what he learned from Treasury, Keating shows the usual leftist confusions — justifiably earning him his “Captain Wacko” nickname.)

Now that the economy has demonstrably turned downhill, Albanese’s Government is doomed politically. The economy will just get worse until it is gone, because it will reliably make mostly bad economic decisions.

I am a persecuted human rights icon — Milo Yiannopoulos

I am a persecuted human rights icon. By Milo Yiannopoulos in The Spectator.

You may have heard: Milo Yiannopoulos was deported from the United States to the United Kingdom on August 28, 2026, one day after being arrested by ICE at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana.

At 41, in ICE detention

According to the Department of Homeland Security, he legally entered the U.S. on a visa in May 2019 but overstayed, and an immigration judge issued a final order of removal on July 22 after he failed to appear at his hearing. Notably, Yiannopoulos had been a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and had called for even stricter enforcement.

Very amusing. Despite being provocatively funny and very early at pushing against the globalist narrative in 2015 – 2018, Milo went kind of nuts after that.

In his heyday

But there’s more to the story, as he explains in The Spectator.

Thursday night, New Orleans. I have flown in from Los Angeles for work and am walking off the jet bridge, thinking about dinner, when 15 men in vests coalesce around me. I have never been arrested before. …

I am ever so nice about it all. They take my belt, wallet, every piece of identification, my rosary and Missal, cash. They put me in chains. Real chains. Every man they arrest, whatever he has done, ends up garlanded in steel like this: wincing, hopping, clattering. It hurts more than they make out on TV. … Yes. I am being deported.

Somewhere in Miami, at hearings nobody told me about, a judge has ordered me removed. My work permit has been canceled without a word. The notices were sent to a Florida address I left ten years ago, which, I realize, must have been on purpose. The same agencies have been writing regularly and without incident to my new address for years.

Three of the five warning letters were even returned, marked “addressee unknown.” The arresting agents told me so. When I said I could not find my lawyer’s number, an agent read it to me off his computer screen. But somehow my lawyer had never been informed about any of the past year’s developments. I am stripped, starved, shipped between three detention centers in 12 hours.

Must have pissed someone off:

A few of the agents knew my face from 2016, when I was Donald Trump’s biggest fan. Back then, I called him Daddy. …

The last pair, who drove me to Houston for the flight, said they were getting “calls from Washington” every 20 minutes. They agreed that none of this was normal. “You must have pissed someone off.” …

The irony:

I spent years demanding this agency be let off the leash. And so it is. Yet, I am torn about the fact that I am the only person arrested by ICE in August who has not killed or raped anyone. I might be the only person arrested by them at all: In each new jail, I am the only prisoner. Long corridors of empty cells. Gleaming 2026 SUVs in the parking lot. Agents on steroids in virgin tactical gear. They’ve spent the money. But I don’t think they’ve done much deporting.

Yep, Trump:

Well-connected friends confirm a few days later that this theatrically cruel performance is my punishment for turning on Trump. On air with Candace Owens, I’d accused him of betrayal, cowardice, and capitulation to warmongering Israeli psychopaths.

Like it or not, this makes me a political prisoner, a persecuted human rights icon. I am Mahatma Gandhi. I am Nelson Mandela. I’m not exactly sure who Aung San Suu Kyi is, and can’t be bothered to look it up, but, yes, I am him too.

They keep moving me to keep ahead of my lawyers, who, when they call, are given the name of wherever we just left. I am handed a note and told it’s where I am being taken next; this is a lie. I am promised a phone call, a nurse, medication, a chance to be heard by a judge. All lies. Twenty-four hours without food. Longer without sleep.

No sign of my lawyer. But — of course! — there is a photographer. He, at least, has been given truthful directions. I mean to stare into his lens with defiance and stoicism, but I am fat and covered in filth and stains and drool and I am crying and even border czar Tom Homan can’t bring himself to tweet this one. But he does go on on television to say I have “had my due process.”

The gods must be laughing.  But he’s still a great writer (more at the link). And someone, presumably Trump, has overstepped the mark into selective enforcement against a political inconvenience.

The Third World Is Forever Chasing the White Man

The Third World Is Forever Chasing the White Man. By Brandon Smith.

We’re only supposed to say “colonialism bad”. I don’t care about that, I just want to know what the realities are. …

I came across an interesting video featuring a black South African man who presented the race issue and the South Africa issue in a way that was simple but it brought impressive clarity. In summary he said:

“Africans are forever chasing the white man.”

 

 

What he means is, African culture, some elements of black culture, the third world in general, all of them are constantly trying to co-opt what white western culture builds. He argues that wherever the white population in Africa shrinks or migrates away, the country “becomes a shithole”. So, Africans chase white people.

When white people in Africa relocate to Australia, or Canada, or the US or Europe, the Africans try to follow. Instead of building up their own communities and nations they use and then eventually tear down the infrastructure that whites already built. They never replace it with anything else. Then they immigrate overseas to where the white people are because their own nations are in disarray. Eventually, they start tearing down those countries.

Leftists will call this a “racist” argument rooted in “white supremacy”, but this is a black South African making the point. It’s not racist, it’s just an observation of concrete fact.

Zimbabwe:

When Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and the whites were ethnically cleansed, the country collapsed and the black people starved to death.

South Africa:

South Africa systematically oppresses (or kills) the white citizenry because they want the land the whites own (they chase the white men). The Afrikaners are 7% of the population but make up around 70% of all agriculture and food production. Instead of seeing the white populace as a valuable asset to the country, they treat them as a foreign enemy. And so, the country falls deeper into economic despair and they are now on the verge of their own collapse.

When Matamela Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, sauntered into the White House with his big grin and his large entourage, he was there to get money. He wasn’t there to explain how he was going to improve conditions in his country. And, he certainly wasn’t there to debate the finer details of the ethnic cleansing of whites in his country or the government confiscation of their land. No, he was a black African leader petitioning a white US President for handouts.

In this case he believes his country is entitled to that money, so it doesn’t come off as begging so much as it comes off as arrogant conceit. If his country could build on its own, it would. If they had the ability to construct and innovate and maintain on their own, they would. Instead, they travel halfway across the world to the US. They chase the white man.

They’ve had over 30 years to get their system to work, and instead everything is broken. They can’t even keep their electrical grid and water functioning.

Africa, much of the third world:

And it’s not just South Africa, this is true for much of the third world. In Europe the populace is far more familiar with Africans chasing them, but we see a similar trend with Central and South Americans chasing whites in the US.

Wherever the west builds and creates and improves, the third world demands a piece. They arrive in vast caravans that stretch for miles. They arrive in boats on beaches in the night. They slip across borders and enter illegally like invaders because they see the west as something to be pillaged. They do not want to build their own thing. They don’t even know where to begin. They simply see what we have and they want to take it. They chase us wherever we go because they can’t emulate, they can only confiscate. …

Leftism is nuts:

Leftists will claim that white people are the “real invaders” that exploit and steal from the third world. In other words, we are “chasing the brown man”.

But, if this was the case, then why aren’t white people rushing to migrate to Africa? Why is the western industrial presence in Africa in steep decline? Even black Africans leave Africa in droves when they get the chance to do so. No one is chasing the brown man. This is not a thing. No one covets what a beggar society has.

Culture, culture, culture:

Now, I see this not as a race issue but as a cultural issue (I’m sure there are people who will debate that sentiment). If you look at countries like Japan or South Korea, they don’t chase white people. They build their own societies and fuel their own progress for the most part. They don’t need white culture or western culture to feed off of (China does, but that’s a whole separate article).

There are societies in the Middle East that remain relatively self sufficient, while others in the Middle East view the west as a target for conquest. The difference is in the culture, not the skin color. And what do most third world cultures have in common? The first thing is an oversupply of AK-47s, the second thing is they tend to be socialist or communist. These are beggar cultures with a beggar mentality.

 

Sheer coincidence? Does IQ influence culture?

The US:

In the US we can see this same mentality bleeding into parts of our own society. Every time leftist black American’s demand reparations or special privileges in employment and schooling or handouts through DEI programs, they are, in essence, chasing the white man. They want what the white man has and they’re not really shy about saying it. They didn’t build it or earn it but they want it, and if they can’t have it they will just as happily tear it all down.

The phrase “black fatigue” comes to mind, but again, it’s far more about culture than skin color. It’s something that white people like me aren’t supposed discuss.

Zimbabwe and South Africa, especially, are warnings of what might happen when white people cease to be a majority in their own countries. The discrimination didn’t stop when “equality” was reached. Why should it? There might be more to plunder. Likewise, feminists used to complain when less than half the people at universities were female. Now they are 60% and increasing, and do we hear a peep from anyone about how unfair it is or about “remedying” the situation?

Is it already happening here? Australian Senator Mehreen Faruqi (who was born in Pakistan, by the way) recently said that “I can’t trust white people making decisions all the time”. No one bats an eyelid. Now imagine the uproar if Pauline Hanson, or anyone else for that matter, had said “I can’t trust brown and black people making decisions all the time”? Really. How ridiculous. It’s like “black lives matter good, white live matter bad” all over again.

Alan Kohler explains why everyone in Australia feels so poor right now

Alan Kohler explains why everyone in Australia feels so poor right now. By The Daily Mail.

ABC finance guru Alan Kohler has warned Australians suffered a ‘great, quiet disaster’ in the wake of the pandemic, with workers effectively taking a massive pay cut as inflation surged. …

‘By March 2023, an average wage earner was $5,000 a year behind.’

He said workers were unlikely to simply make up that lost ground as inflation eased.

 

All that printed money for covid is paid for by lower real wages. “A great, quiet, disaster.”

 

‘That was a permanent loss — real wages stopped rising after 2022 and flatlined.

‘The result is that for three years, real per person disposable income has been going negative.‘ …

‘On top of that, up to a few months ago, house prices have been rising faster than incomes for 25 years, locking a generation out of owning a house,’ he said. …

Most of the printed money went into asset prices. Source.

 

Those born in the 1990s are the first Australian generation in history to not do better than those who came before.’ 

 

 

Comparisons with other countries? Not good:

How Woke Communism is different from 20th-Century Communism

How Woke Communism is different from 20th-Century Communism. By Krzysztof Szczawinski.

Communism no longer comes for your property directly. It comes for your reality. …

The twentieth century version required tanks, gulags, and the literal seizure of property — crude, visible, and ultimately self-defeating, because it destroyed the productive base it fed on.

The twenty-first century version is more subtle and pernicious. It does not confiscate. It destabilizes. It does not seize your business. It makes owning it too costly, too regulated, too risky — until you comply or collapse. The transfer of power happens without a single deed changing hands by force. …

Woke communism thrives in the chaos created by systematic lies:

Its instrument today is not confiscation but chaos — deliberately manufactured, strategically amplified — because chaos is what communists thrive on, what they use for control, and what they convert into profit and power for themselves.

The mechanism that makes this possible, the fuel that runs the entire engine, is the Systemic Lie. That lie is not a feature of communism. It is its core. …

Every manufactured crisis — racial, climatic, epidemiological, institutional — follows the same structural logic: disorder is produced or amplified, fear is maximized, and in the ensuing panic, transfers of power occur that would have been politically impossible in calm times. Emergency powers. Regulatory capture. The slow erasure of the boundary between public and private. You do not notice the expropriation because you are too busy surviving the emergency they built for you.

This is not coincidence. It is rational strategy. Chaos redistributes – not randomly, but toward those who anticipated it, positioned for it, and in many cases quietly produced it. Some benefit in absolute terms: assets acquired at collapse prices, power seized in the vacuum, information asymmetries converted into control. Others benefit only relatively — they simply outlast the rivals who the chaos destroyed. Both kinds of beneficiary draw from the same account. Yours.

 

Beyond ordinary propaganda is … the narrative:

The Systemic Lie is what holds the mechanism together. Not ordinary propaganda — something more total: a managed reality in which the categories of thought themselves are corrupted.

  • Productivity is renamed exploitation.
  • Order is renamed fascism.
  • Resistance is renamed hate.

The Systemic Lie does not merely mislead — it destroys the conceptual tools by which people would otherwise identify what is being done to them. A population that cannot name extraction cannot resist it. …

Big picture:

This is why communism survives every empirical refutation. It was never a falsifiable theory. It doesn’t care about the truth — it only seeks power.

It is a coordination technology for extraction, wrapped in moral language sufficient to paralyze its opponents. Strip away the egalitarian vocabulary and what remains is a system perfectly engineered for the few to live at the expense of the many – while the many are kept too confused, too divided, and too guilty to see it.

Create a crisis with a lie, then never let a crisis go to waste. Repeat.

See How to Defeat Communism 2.0.