The upcoming fall of the symbol economy is already rearranging political fault lines

The upcoming fall of the symbol economy is already rearranging political fault lines. By Samuel Thawley in The Spectator.

The rise of symbol manipulation:

My grandfather was a civil engineer. He built things for a living — first in wartime England, then in Tasmania — and in the whole of his working life there was no such creature as a middle manager. There were engineers, and there were the men who dug or put together, and above them all a thin layer of owners, whether public or private. The thick, heavy slab of individuals whose job it is to manage other people who in turn manage other people had not so far been invented.

My parents went to university in Australia in the late 1960s, when — as my former boss keeps reminding me — going to university was a faintly eccentric thing to do; relatively few did at the time.

Within two generations both oddities — the middle manager and the graduate — became unremarkable. We treated them as progress. Indeed, even today it is hard to think of them as otherwise… They do, in fact, form a bubble which will come to represent this era in time, and the relative decline of these two unremarkable elements of the modern age is precisely what should worry us.

The symbol manipulators:

For 50 years, the great growth industry of the Western world has not been mining, energy, or manufacturing, or even finance. It has been the production of people who work with symbols rather than things: the graduate, the manager, the official. Call it the symbolic economy — the side of the modern workforce which processes information, administers, credentials, advises, reports.

It expanded on an unexamined assumption: that cognitive labour would stay scarce, and so valuable, indefinitely.

On that assumption an entire civilisation rebuilt its idea of the good life. Get the degree, join the firm, climb the ladder, and if all else failed there was always the security of the expanding state. …

The upcoming fall of the symbol manipulators:

Four pressures are now converging on the symbolic economy, and it is their convergence, not any one of them, that makes a crash rather than a correction.

The first is overproduction. … A credential that confers status only works if not everyone holds it; a credential everyone holds is merely the new minimum, and confers nothing. We have spent 30 years manufacturing aspirants faster than the economy manufactures the chairs they were promised. Peter Turchin calls the result elite overproduction, and the bill is arriving. …

The second pressure is [that] a pyramid can only lift everyone toward its apex if you keep building new pyramids — new firms, new divisions, new layers needing new supervisors. For decades growth obligingly supplied them. Now, the movement has reversed. Organisations merge, flatten, delayer, consolidate; the apex slots disappear even as the queue of the qualified lengthens behind them. … There is no promotion at the top of a stable pyramid, let alone one that is shrinking. … The single most stall-prone field of all was public administration, the credentialed bureaucracy itself, with nowhere left to promote anyone. …

The third pressure is political, and it is the oldest. To one set of parties the public wing of the symbolic economy is not a workforce but a swamp — a blob, a self-interested administrative class that votes for its own expansion and calls it service. The conviction that government is too big is now shared by new forces such as MAGA, Reform, and One Nation, as well as by a substantial part of the legacy right. …

The fourth pressure is artificial intelligence. Consider what happened before AI:

Washington has just run the experiment for us. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) delivered one of the largest peacetime cuts to the federal workforce in decades — something close to a tenth of the administration, gone inside a year. Yet federal spending kept rising — revealing almost no break where the cutting began.

The reasons are twofold. Salaries are no more than a rounding error compared with transfers, pensions and, increasingly, government interest. And across the agencies managers quietly rehired, because the work was still sitting there when the workers had gone. That is the lesson the next reforming government will absorb. You cannot shrink the state by removing people while leaving their work behind; the work simply summons the people back. …

But now with AI:

If the task itself can be done by a machine, as in the era of Victorian industrialisation, then the specific task stays cut. …

Fewer human symbol manipulators, and the blob will shrink the most:

The crash will fall across the whole symbolic economy – the graduate without the salary, the manager without the promotion – but it will fall hardest on the public servant.

The official sits at the purest node of the bubble: the part least disciplined by any market, most swollen by debt, most resented by a major part of the political spectrum, and most exposed to machines, because rules-based processing of information is exactly the work artificial intelligence learns first. …

The end of a trend:

Nothing grows forever, and the symbolic economy that was sold to us as the shape of the future was in truth the shape of a single 50-year expansion that is now passing its apotheosis.

When an expansion so large reprices, it risks creating something that is politically combustible: a large, credentialed, downwardly mobile class promised status as well as comfort and then handed an ordinary stall. They were offered a lounge — but ended up sitting like everybody else on the hard seats in the main concourse. …

Labor is the flagship party of the symbolic economy –- the graduate, the city professional, the official are at once its base and its self-portrait. They rejected the worker for the intellectual; so much that the worker has had to dress up as an intellectual to feel acceptable. So the crash does not merely cost the party votes, it dissolves the world that made the Labor party what it currently is.

This opens up a new, ugly political front. In the US, the new downwardly mobile symbol manipulators who missed out on good jobs have taken over the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and are currently on course to takeover the Democrat Party:

[Jesse] Watters saved his sharpest criticism for the people making up that socialist wing itself. They’re candidates who have never worked a real job, whose parents bankroll them, and who rack up debt while producing nothing. “They’re professional students,” he said. “They’re all in debt. They don’t earn anything. A lot of them don’t even own anything.” Their answer to that self-inflicted mess is to declare the entire American system rigged.

Watters wasn’t buying it. “It’s actually not rigged if you work,” he said. He described grinding through cramped apartments and lean years before earning success the old-fashioned way, contrasting that with a class of Democrat candidates barely into their careers who insist the American dream is already dead. “They haven’t even tried,” he said. “What are they talking about?”

He rattled off examples, from Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D-Texas) to Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner (D-Maine) to the socialist candidates in Colorado and New York, calling the current slate “all pathetic people.” Watters argued that their appeal comes precisely from that shared lack of accomplishment.

The producers will need to escape their entitled grasp.

Assimilation, immigration, and race.

Assimilation, immigration, and race. By Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

Moroccans in the Netherlands decided to celebrate by rioting after Morocco beat the Netherlands at the World Cup, even if many are 4th or 5th generation, born and raised here.

If they don’t regard themselves as Dutch, why should we?

Perfect candidates for Remigration I’d say.

 

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Why We Don’t Care That the Amish ‘Don’t Assimilate’

Why We Don’t Care That the Amish ‘Don’t Assimilate’. By Mark Tapson at Front Page.

Leftie Joshua Reed Eakle: “The Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society. And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.”

Spoiler alert: contrary to what Eakle was undoubtedly implying (because “liberals” make everything about race in order to demonize their opponents rather than debate the merits of their actual position), the reason has nothing to do with race. The Right doesn’t have a problem with the Amish “not assimilating” not because they’re white, but for the following reasons, which are self-evident to any honest observer:

The Amish are not from a culture that is incompatible with and even hostile to Western civilization. Their beliefs and values may not be wholly mainstream but they are largely Christian, American values.

The Amish don’t have an ideologically supremacist imperative to overthrow the Judeo-Christian, capitalist West and to subdue non-believers.

They don’t fly hijacked planes into the World Trade Center or massacre nightclub patrons.

They don’t behead or knife random non-believers.

They don’t stone adulterers to death or hurl gay people from rooftops.

They don’t view the sexual assault of non-believers as their right.

They don’t establish “Amish Learing Centers” as fronts for defrauding American taxpayers of billions of dollars.

The Amish do have their own communal moral and legal code – the Ordnung (German for “order” or “discipline”) that has historically put them in occasional conflict with federal law: for example, the Ordnung forbids relying on government public assistance. The Amish view this as a failure to trust in God’s providence and a violation of the church’s duty to care for its own elderly and sick, so Congress granted them an official federal exemption to waive their Social Security taxes – which meant the Amish gave up any right to receive future benefits. This is hardly a burden on their fellow taxpayers.

But their default stance is to respect civic authority and pay their taxes. Most importantly, they don’t try to impose the Ordnung on non-believers.

They also don’t view themselves as an oppressed victim class and demand special government privileges. They don’t demand the establishment of prayer rooms in schools, airports, and hospitals or demand that nonbelievers around them participate in their fasting.

There is more, but I rest my case. …

Conclusion:

In truth, the Amish actually are assimilated. There simply are some areas in which they choose not to participate in mainstream culture, and who can blame them? Many Americans could actually learn, for example, from their wariness of the dangers a degenerate culture poses to their children, their community, their spirituality, and their way of life.

I hope that clears things up for Joshua Reed Eakle and his fellow race-mongers. As much as they want to make the issue of unassimilated migrants throughout the Western world about race, it is not.

If you have a grudge against your country, how can you destroy it?

If you have a grudge against your country, how can you destroy it? By Tony Abbott in Quadrant.

Blackening a country’s history is one of the most effective ways to undermine the morale of its people. …

The most recent academic history of Australia, published last November, opens by declaring that the traditional notion of settlement, as a largely peaceful expansion, is no less than the “founding lie” of modern Australia, masking what the author claims was a brutal conquest. Even though it was always official policy — albeit imperfectly observed — that the Aboriginal peoples of Australia should enjoy all the rights and protections of British subjects. …

What then, might those persuaded that their country’s history is shameful do by way of atonement? Well, in Australia, they could:

  • Seek to amend the constitution to give people with some Aboriginal descent more say than others over the government of the country.
  • Delegitimise the national flag by flying it co-equally with indigenous flags on all government buildings and at all civic occasions.
  • Begin all public speeches by acknowledging the traditional owners of “what always was and always will be” un-ceded land.
  • Change the school curriculum so that every subject, from maths to Latin, is taught from an indigenous perspective.
  • Invoke a climate crisis to close down our main exports and to hobble heavy industry.
  • Defund the armed forces now, while claiming to boost them in the far distant future.
  • Insist that gender is a social construct, rather than a function of biology, to confuse and subvert troubled adolescents.

 

 

The big one:

But for those with a grudge against their own country, it’s sustained mass migration, especially from countries with quite different cultures, that’s the surest and swiftest way to change and punish a place that’s irredeemably tainted by unforgivable sin.

This is done in order to dilute and eventually to extinguish the Anglo-Celtic core culture and the Judaeo-Christian foundational ethos (which is actually what attracts migrants to the Anglosphere) that today’s left-establishment finds so suffocating and judgmental. And it’s to encourage migrants to “other” themselves by funding ethnic activism under Orwellian slogans like “our diversity is our unity” or “our diversity is our strength”.

In this regard, migrants from Islamic countries are especially useful, because belief in a global caliphate, and the conviction that it’s the Koran rather than the legislature that validates law, starts to make pluralist democracy unworkable.

 

To green-left, cultural-Marxist governments, mass migration from the “global south” is not a problem; it’s the plan. It’s the way for supposedly unjustly rich countries to atone for their white privilege and to apologise to poorer ones by becoming more like them.

Pointing this out is not to attack immigrants, nearly all of whom come to countries like Australia to join us, not to change us. But in enough numbers, change us they do, and not always for the better.

It’s Time To Stop Pretending That Migrants Are Entitled To Equal Citizenship

It’s Time To Stop Pretending That Migrants Are Entitled To Equal Citizenship. By Brendon Smith at Alt-Markets.

Yet another civil conflict is brewing this week as the Supreme Court tackles a number of foreign citizenship debates, including Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and Birthright Citizenship. The court has ruled that hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants residing in the US under TPS are no longer safe from mass deportations (a win). But, they have also ruled in favor of migrant anchor babies (a big loss). …

 

 

I find it mind boggling that this debate has been ongoing for so many decades. Frankly, foreigners should not have any citizenship rights under the constitution until they have demonstrated assimilation. Until that time, there should be a separate set of rules handling newcomers (and invaders).

When it comes to TPS and the Haitians, the leftists are raging. Despite this status supposedly being “temporary” (the Obama Administration originally claimed these people would only be in the US for 18 months), many of these foreign transplants have been enjoying the benefits of unearned American citizenship for 16 years or more. Yet, when Haitians protest the TPS decision, what flag do you see them flying? That’s right – They fly the Haitian flag, not the American flag. This tells us everything we need to know.

Moderate left:

The liberal position on this issue is crystal clear: They believe that the constitution protects foreign migrants and their cultures from overt scrutiny. Meaning, foreigners don’t have to prove themselves worthy of citizenship, they get access regardless. Liberals also believe that it should be extremely difficult to remove migrants once they enter the country.

Keep in mind, this is the LIBERAL position. The woke position is far worse.

Woke:

The radical left argues that western borders should not exist at all. For other countries, borders are fine. For the US and Europe, borders must be erased. Furthermore, they assert that the American economy must be treated as an open marketplace rather than a closed system. In other words, foreigners should be allowed to feed on the system whenever they please, transfer that wealth back to their third world hovels, and then come back for more.

Melting pot myth:

The “empathetic” liberal position creates the foundation for the militant woke position. It’s rooted in a propaganda narrative created in the early 20th century: The claim that America’s entire identity is a “melting pot” of cultures and nationalities and that there is no original source identity. This false origin story was produced by New York socialists and it’s been spread by Hollywood for decades. …

The melting pot is not our identity and never was. Historically speaking, America has always had a guarded relationship to immigration and we operated on “origin-based rules”. Meaning, Europeans from the north and west were welcomed, everyone else was limited. There was nothing wrong with this model.

America’s source identity is western civilization and European influence. There is no cultural melting pot.

 

 

The notion that the US is somehow legally required to accept everyone from everywhere regardless of their beliefs or background was not a thing until after the liberal era of the 1960s – 1990s. Until this time period, America had numerous regulations on who was allowed in. After the 1990s, the melting pot ideal became sacrosanct, as if it had always been a part of our constitutional legacy.

George Washington instituted the Naturalization Act of 1790 which restricted immigration to people mostly from European nations. John Adams instituted the Alien Friends Act 1798 which allowed the quick deportation of migrants found to be initiating civil disruption and sedition. He also enforced an extended probation period of 14 years before any migrant gained citizenship rights (instead of the original five year period). …

Teddy Roosevelt enforced the Immigrant Act of 1907, which banned the citizenship of any foreigners from cultures that practiced polygamy (which included Muslims) and focused on migration among groups that could easily assimilate into American society. Once again, this is perfectly acceptable and rational. There’s nothing wrong with enforcing logical standards.

Some groups are too dangerous:

Even in a republic, there are certain groups who cannot be allowed to exist because they represent a clear and present danger to the very framework that our country is built on. They are at war with our culture. To give citizenship to the barbarians at the gate is suicide.

By extension, one could argue that Muslim ideology is much like communism in that Muslims have a tendency to seek dominance and authoritarianism rather than integration. Their presence in the US is an obvious threat to the Bill of Rights. Therefore, we may have to make exceptions for them, just as we made exceptions for communism (globalism is also another important target for removal). …

As we’ve witnessed over the past decade, some groups tend to sabotage everything they touch. They don’t view American life as a privilege, they see it as something that can be pillaged, and liberal movements are enabling this behavior. …

If the government isn’t allowed to remove these threats, then make no mistake, the American people will eventually do it themselves. The film “Citizen Vigilante” is not fiction, it’s a warning. It’s wildly popular for a reason.

Every Single Haitian Migrant is Going Back to Haiti Under Trump

Every Single Haitian Migrant is Going Back to Haiti Under Trump. By Steve Watson at modernity.

White House Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller delivered a clear and forceful message: every Haitian national on Temporary Protected Status [TPS] will be returned to Haiti under President Trump. …

Miller called the deliberate importation of these migrants into places like Springfield, Ohio, one of the most heinous acts the government has ever committed.

Miller laid it out without hedging:

“There’s an earthquake in Haiti. So she’s (Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano) announcing TPS for a few months while they’re recovering from an earthquake. That was in 2010, 15 years ago. Then the Biden administration in its last year extends TPS to every single illegal alien from Haiti while they are flying them en masse into Springfield, Ohio, across the Midwest.”

He continued, “It was a formal policy of replacing the communities that lived in, settled, and sustained these communities for generations. It was one of the most heinous things this government has ever done.”

“And yes, under President Trump, let me be very clear, the illegal alien Haitians are going back to Haiti. They can build their country there,” Miller further urged.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration has full authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from specific countries, effectively allowing the President to undo these protections without judicial oversight.

This directly follows the Trump administration’s earlier termination of TPS protections for 353,000 Haitians, with those designations set to expire. …

Springfield became the most visible example of the fallout. Local residents watched as federal policies funneled large numbers of Haitian migrants into their city, straining housing, schools, and public resources.

Americans reported being priced out of apartments while migrants received housing assistance. Parks saw geese and other wildlife targeted

Haitian immigration was an issue in the 2024 election:

Haitian in Springfield caught town ducks to eat

Cat on the bbq — multicultural cusine!

In 2025, net US immigration was negative for the first time ever.

Putin Seeks Ways To Describe Failure In Ukraine

Putin Seeks Ways To Describe Failure In Ukraine. By StrategyPage.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is trying to explain to the Russian people that Russia has lost its war against Ukraine. …

Putin’s main aim is to avoid exposing the Russian people to the sudden shock of defeat after more than four years of fighting and all the media coverage that followed. Sudden shocks tend to spark popular revolutions. Putin wants the news of the Russian defeat to arrive slowly and smoothly to avoid any sudden realizations that Putin’s war failed and all the losses were for nothing.

Putin is trying to rewrite history as it is being made. … The current defeat generated articles like Amazing Defeats: When Geopolitical Losses Can Be More Useful than Brilliant Victories. …

Russian government media officials counseled that in Russia defeats are quickly forgotten and are often followed by a period of reforms and revitalization of the economy, government and military. As the old saying goes, what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. …

Will the Russian make another attempt at conquering Ukraine?

Ukrainians are uneasy about all this because the primary use of a reformed, rebuilt and revitalized Russian military would be the conquest of Ukraine….

Everyone understands that what follows the Russian defeat is a period of rebuilding the military before another attempt to conquer Ukraine. As long as Putin is alive, he will be seeking a military victory, preferably against his arch-nemesis, Ukraine.

Europe chose left bureaucracy, and is now being crushed by the US

Europe chose left bureaucracy, and is now being crushed by the US. By Michael Arouet.

The biggest economic story of the last decade isn’t China.

It’s America decoupling from Europe.

Innovation follows the free market. Talent follows innovation.

Europe will get economically irrelevant, not because the U.S. abandoned it, but because it follows the wrong policies. …

Europe chose regulations, overtaxation, and left redistribution, while the US chose free market, entrepreneurialism, innovation and progress.

With AI the gap will keep growing.

 

And what is the European response to all that? They blame capitalism and scream “tax the rich.”

It will end in disaster for Europe. They will lose the prosperity their fathers and grandparents worked so hard for.

The only people in Europe who want degrowth are those who have never worked in a real job or run a business and assume that “the state” will keep feeding them, not the hard-working taxpayers.

Alluha Akbar, comrades! Less carbon dioxide and more 3rd world immigration!

Iran and the Straits of Hormuz — like the Barbary Pirates and the Mediterranean

Iran and the Straits of Hormuz — like the Barbary Pirates and the Mediterranean. By Michael Oren at Fox News.

1776:

Writing to his trusted ally, the Marquis de Lafayette, after the War of Independence, George Washington believed it “the highest disgrace” that Americans were “tributary to such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the Earth.”

Those “banditti” were the Barbary pirates of North Africa who preyed on American merchant ships in the Mediterranean, enslaving their crews and endangering the nascent republic’s economy.

But lacking the naval power to protect its foreign trade, the United States paid monetary “tribute” to Barbary, inducing it not to attack. The practice sparked a visceral debate between John Adams, who favored giving in to extortion over using force, and Thomas Jefferson, who preferred to “raise ships and men to fight the pirates into reason [rather] than money to bribe them.” …

2026:

To what degree should Americans defend the freedom of navigation through a vital international waterway? Should they stand up to or pay off a Middle East power threatening it? Instead of the Mediterranean, at stake today is the Strait of Hormuz, and in place of Barbary is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Muslim attitude:

The ayatollahs’ worldview is almost identical to the pirates’. In a 1786 meeting with Jefferson and Adams in London, Tripoli’s ambassador Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja insisted that Barbary was sovereign in the Mediterranean and that no nation could traverse it without paying a massive toll.

He further explained “that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their [the Muslims’] right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners.” Any Muslim killed in battle, Abd al-Rahman assured the two stunned Americans, “was sure to go to Paradise.”

How did America solve it then?

The encounter convinced Adams that Americans must avoid what they now call endless war with the Barbary states. “We ought not to fight them at all, unless We determine to fight them forever,” he wrote. Such a conflict, moreover, would be “too rugged for our People to bear,” and, given the loss to U.S. shipping, rising insurance rates, and the vast national debt, entirely too costly. America had no choice, Adams counseled, but to continue to pay tribute. Better to send the pirates “one Gift of two hundred Thousand Pounds” than to risk “a Million [in trade] annually.”

Jefferson, though, reached a radically different conclusion. “An angel sent on this business… could have done nothing” to pacify the pirates, he reported, and opposed further efforts to assuage them monetarily. Americans, moreover, with their “erect and independent attitude,” would never succumb to blackmail. Peace with Barbary, Jefferson held, was only attainable “through the medium of war,” a course which would also deter other hostile powers. “It will procure us respect…and respect is a safeguard to interest.”

Jefferson nevertheless realized that all talk of war was frivolous as long as the newly independent America lacked a navy. All negotiations with Barbary should cease, he recommended, until the country adopted “measures… which may correct the idea… of impotency in the federal government.” Needed was a credible military option. …

Under its new Constitution, the United States authorized the construction of six frigates especially designed to fight close to Barbary’s shallow shores. What ensued was America’s first foreign and longest war, lasting until 1815. Only then was Barbary decisively defeated, and American merchantmen guaranteed safe passage through the Mediterranean.

The victory was a source of immense national pride. The country erected its first war monument, to the triumphant Barbary War, on the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. No less than 17 American cities were named for the hero of that campaign, Commodore Stephen Decatur. And the Marines still sing of their landing “on the shores of Tripoli.”

Trump?

The Trump administration, by contrast, has pursued both policies, first waging war against Iran and now inducing it with the possible infusion of billions. Still unknown is whether Iran – unlike Barbary – can be trusted to comply with the agreement and whether the peace once won by the United States can be replicated today.

Who were the Barbary Pirates? And why are they always omitted from woke versions of history?

Barbary pirates, more accurately described as state-sanctioned privateers or corsairs, operated from the Barbary Coast of North Africa (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) between the 16th and 19th centuries. These raiders, often under nominal Ottoman suzerainty, terrorized Mediterranean and Atlantic shipping, plundering goods and capturing Europeans for the Barbary slave trade.

Key aspects of their history include:

  • Operations: Based in cities like Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, they targeted vessels from Europe and the Americas, extending raids as far north as Iceland and Newfoundland.
  • Slavery and Ransom: They enslaved an estimated 1 to 1.25 million Europeans, forcing many into galley slavery or hard labor, while others were held for lucrative ransoms paid by families or governments.
  • Tribute System: To avoid conflict, many European powers and the early United States paid substantial tributes for safe passage, a practice that fueled U.S. naval expansion.
  • Decline: The pirates’ power waned following the Barbary Wars with the U.S. and British/Dutch naval interventions in the early 19th century, ending with the French conquest of Algiers in 1830.

The French only invaded and occupied Algeria to prevent Muslim raiding. Likewise, the British only conquered and occupied much of Africa in order to close down the slave trade — how else could they stop the black slavers from capturing and selling their fellow blacks?

“The Americans were the fist to seek a solution other than paying protection money” [20:30]. Is history going to repeat in the Straits of Hormuz?

The woke miracle: how basic truths became extremism

The woke miracle: how basic truths became extremism. By Flopping Aces.

America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.

They took the most basic truths in human civilization … crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites … and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”

Incredible work, really.

Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.

What a beautiful system.

Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”

  • Lock up predators? Cruel.
  • Deport illegals? Hateful.
  • End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
  • Punish fraud? Complicated.
  • Restore merit? Problematic.
  • Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.

A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.

That’s America’s real crisis. Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel. Consequences.

Follow the money. So long as those on team big government get lots of taxpayer-funded good jobs, rather than having to provide goods and services for the rest of us at prices we are willing to pay. It’s a moral thing: do you get paid via coercion (government, NGO, or welfare, by and large) or voluntarily (private industry, by and large)?

For the work, a big part of the attraction is replacing merit with “equity,” thereby giving the less able a bigger share, and even running the place.

Commenters:

How did this happen? Politicians decided that staying in power and looting the treasury was their primary purpose. Forget about governing “by and for the people”. It became buying votes to insure they stayed in power and using the tax payers hard earned income to make themselves wealthy. Everything became “it’s government money” as if someone didn’t have to work for that money to be spent.

The amount of fraud that has been uncovered is truly astronomical. It’s so bad that it’s really beyond belief for some. How can those here illegally manage to scam the system for hundreds of millions, for years, without being caught? Think about it. If you have $10 million and you spend $1000 per day, the money won’t run out for 27 years. We are finding out that there are illegal scammers that stole hundreds of millions! HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS! And the politicians that represent these districts are defending the fraudsters! What does that imply? Maybe that they’re in on the scam? And not ONE politician has been arrested. Not one! …

Look at this quote from John Tooby , an evolutionary psychologist. He explains why the “with-it” crowd constantly flips the meaning of truth and beauty, among other things, into distorted — sometimes opposite — versions of their plain meaning.

That soft justice, replacing competition and merit with “equity”, and the developing longhouse generally, all sounds a bit female, doesn’t it?

‘Citizen Vigilante’: The Film About Muslim Atrocites That Is Opening Eyes and Terrifying the Globalists

‘Citizen Vigilante’: The Film About Muslim Atrocites That Is Opening Eyes and Terrifying the Globalists. By Kevin Downey at PJ Media.

As a 37-year comedy veteran, I believe I’m pretty good at “reading the room,” and I believe the room, in this case, Western civilization, has turned a corner: we’ve finally had enough of the Islamic rape and murder epidemics terrorizing mostly white Christian girls and women in the West.

We’ve seen a series of events — and heinous crimes — unfold in the last month that are shaking the world and scaring the globalist, New World Order lizard people to their Godless core.

Here is a timeline of crimes and victories we’ve seen in the past month: …

Let’s skip the recounting of the worst atrocities of the last month. It’s bad. The Internet is now inundated with reporting of atrocities by third world immigrants in the West. The stories used to be once a month or week when we started in blogging 2016, or maybe they weren’t being reported. Now there are many per day being reported. For example, a few from today’s feeds (omitting the worst):

Turkish Muslim Murders Six In Germany. 6 people were shot to death in Stade, Germany today at a youth facility. Authorities have now confirmed the shooter was a Turkish Muslim. Absolutely horrific.

Glasgow is going through a rape epidemic

Someone jokes hat the 5th horseman has arrived in Scotland:

Due to immigration, Girls & Women are now being raped so often in Glasgow, Scotland that the rape crisis centre had to close its waiting list as they can’t keep up.

A 20 year old French man accidentally bumps into a North African man coming around a corner then apologises. The North African chases after him & stabs him in the neck then casually walks away.

 

Back to the article, which moves on to an event that has now reached political significance:

The film Citizen Vigilante, a movie about an American in Europe who goes to war against Muslim savagery and those who allow it, is released in U.S. theaters. …

The movie, written and directed by German filmmaker Uwe Boll, is an inconvenient truth that the globalists don’t want their people to see: an accurate portrayal of Muslim atrocities against white Europeans and, worse (to them), with a hopeful ending.

GRAPHIC WARNING: You can see a clip from the movie here. [Warning, it’s bad.]

There is no greater promotion for art than banning it, and Germany did just that.

Germany refused to grant the movie an age rating, thereby preventing its theatrical release. That’s when Elon Musk stepped in.

Musk, whom some of the 21st century’s most brilliant political pundits believed saved free speech and was instrumental in President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, posted the film on Twitter/X for free this past weekend.

Twitter has exploded over Citizen Vigilante. It was viewed at least 15.5 million times in the first 48 hours it was released on Twitter/X. …

Did the film cause the tide to turn, or was it just fortuitous timing?

Two days after Musk releases Citizen Vigilante, 4,000 rape and “grooming” cases are magically “discovered” in London, despite Mayor Sadiq Khan claiming repeatedly they had never occurred. …

June has been an eye-opening month for England and the world. People have finally had enough of the religion of “peace.”

The movie is harsh but accurate. I do not in any way support or condone “vigilantism,” but this movie kept me cheering. I won’t give away much other than to say I watched it three times in one day. The movie left me angry and yet optimistic. The left will call you a “racist” for watching a feel-good movie that stands up to true Muslim aggression, rather than bending a knee to it. …

I hate when people give away too much information about a movie I haven’t seen, so I will end with this: watch this movie before it disappears or, worse, before it’s too late.

Pauline Hanson vs Paul Hogan

Pauline Hanson vs Paul Hogan. By Alexandra Marshall.

 

When was the last time Paul Hogan caught public transport in Sydney or Melbourne?

When did he last stand in line with 60+ people for a rental and realise he’s the only English-speaker in the queue?

When did he take his knife to a Melbourne machete fight at a shopping centre?

When did he go for a job only to find it outsourced to cash in hand workers?

When did foreign gangs try breaking into his home, like they do in Queensland?

One day the Marxists will delete his films and call them racist colonial propaganda and his legacy will be destroyed as well.

And on that day, he will realise Pauline Hanson was right.

Because the Australia Paul enjoyed in his youth has been taken from the Australian children of today.

And another thing:

Every time an aging Australian cultural icon comes out from their mansion or private jet to tell the plebs that they’re ‘wrong’ about culture — the disconnect becomes more obvious.

EXTREMELY RICH ‘stars’ living in another country praising an Australia they remember rather than experience does nothing but enrage the poor.

And yes, every day more Australians become poor.

The middle class is slipping to the working class and the working class is slipping to the welfare class.

Now look, we all expect the ‘stars’ to be idiots. They haven’t lived in the real world since the 70s.

But they represent a more extreme version of our political class — who enjoy huge salaries, security, Commonwealth cars, taxpayer-funded travel, and a life-long pension.

They don’t live on the ground with us either.

And it shows.

Instead of telling voters to ‘touch grass’ — politicians should spend a week in the suburbs with the highest levels of migration — catch public transport at night – and see what it’s really like.

Commenters:

The ideological and institutional capture of celebrities, news outlets, and politicians is Orwellian.

How media attacks and establishment sneering are fuelling One Nation’s resurgence

How media attacks and establishment sneering are fuelling One Nation’s resurgence. By Chris Mitchell in The Australian.

This column reckons much of the activist media class misunderstands One Nation supporters.

People moving to One Nation know exactly what they do and don’t want.

Like populist movements in the US and the UK, they are part of a backlash against the censorious sneering of the political establishment, freed by Donald Trump’s rejection of woke pieties on immigration, gender and climate.

In Australia, they may not approve of Trump’s handling of world affairs, but they feel they can now speak openly against foolish ideology in favour of common sense.

Journalists Sarah Ferguson on the ABC’s 7.30 on Wednesday and Sally Sara on Radio National breakfast on Thursday railed against Hanson’s words on radical Islam, multiculturalism, speaking English at home, criticism of late-term abortion and support for biological truth over gender ideology.

The pair is only helping One Nation — just as surely as GetUp!’s stunt of unfurling an anti-Hanson poster in the middle of her speech at the National Press Club in Canberra helped her. …

Hanson admitted her party would need to face media scrutiny as its support grew. But scrutiny is not the same as adversarial political activism by reporters. …

The left cannot talk about it:

Despite all the cogent economic analysis from pollsters and political editors about the effects of the cost-of-living crisis on working class Australians, it’s clear the real spurt to Hanson’s political fortunes was the murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach in December during a celebration of Hanukkah.

Whose fault, politically?

The massacre makes up the entire first part of the new One Nation ad, and it’s powerful. The implication is clear — this attack is the fruit of multiculturalism and high migration.

 

 

Australians, Hanson said, should be able to discuss radical Islamism. Yet such discussions are seldom had openly, even though they have been in Europe for more than a decade.

The instructions to the left:

ABC global affairs editor Laura Tingle on December 16 told her colleague Patricia Karvelas on the Politics Now podcast that the actions of the Bondi gunmen had “nothing to do with religion”. …

Reality:

Months earlier ASIO boss Mike Burgess had warned that the war in Gaza was firing up Muslim anger online, especially among young males.

Many journalists have tried to deny the link between high immigration, high house prices and housing shortages. Common sense tells voters the link is obvious. …

Scrutiny is fair. Finger-pointing accusations of racism not so much.

Alexandra Marshall isn’t debating anymore.

UPDATE: Radical Islam imported into Australia all in the name of votes:

Who is responsible?

Rod Lampard:

Being able to buy Chinese for dinner or a kebab for lunch isn’t multiculturalism.

The denial of the right to criticise any culture other than White, Anglo/Celtic European Western civ is.

Forced speech that demands we cower in fear of being called a racist if we point out that “all cultures are NOT equal” is.

Caldron Pool:

What are they here for?

Our culture? Our religion? Our laws? Our customs? Our way of life?

Check out all the Australian flags.

hat-tip Stephen Neil