Normies strike back

Normies strike back. Cory Bernardi’s maiden speech in the South Australian Parliament with comments by George Christensen.

Well said.

More:

Calling for accountability on covid:

“They locked us down, they silenced dissent, they imprisoned citizens, and they forced people to take dangerous and experimental injections. … The slogans were pure political propaganda, and our political class trampled on our freedoms and ruined our economy because of the flu. It was all BS.” …

Naming the “midwit managerial class”:

“The midwit, of course, is the most dangerous person to be in charge of anything… the midwit is of average intelligence, but believes themselves to be a genius and exceptionally insightful.”

The bureaucrats. The policy consultants. The government-funded experts. The professional class that never misses a paycheck while lecturing everyone else about sacrifice.

Bernardi’s critique wasn’t simply about intelligence. It was about arrogance detached from consequences.

The modern obsession with race, sexuality and grievance:

I make no apology… for being tall, straight, white, and a traditional man. …

“Most people don’t care about what colour your skin is until you start blaming those with different skin for your own problems.

“Tolerance of that celebrated difference became exploited for political gain.”

The political class insists people are endlessly divided by race, sex and identity. Ordinary Australians mostly just want competent government and affordable electricity.

Gender ideology:

“Men can never be women, or vice versa. …

“The media are silent while the government allows doctors to mutilate children in the name of gender affirming care.”

Bernardi is willing to say in parliament what many politicians are too frightened to say publicly. And that matters politically because the public mood is shifting.

Conclusion:

His broader argument was unmistakable:

  • Government has grown too large.
  • Bureaucracy too powerful.
  • Citizens too controlled.
  • Truth too policed.

And he believes Australians are reaching breaking point.

Albanese has a solution for people whose speech he doesn’t like

Albanese has a solution for people whose speech he doesn’t like. Listen to this Australian’s story:

 

Will One Nation be next? The laws are so ill-defined that the Minister can ban any political party for “hate”.

Didn’t Anthony Albanese used to define himself as hating Tories? Yes he did: “I like fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”

Walking boosts creativity, but sit down to nut out a problem

Walking boosts creativity, but sit down to nut out a problem. By Ihtesham Ali.

Stanford psychologist [Marily Oppezzo] spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting. …

Emphatic result:

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas. …

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves.

On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

It’s the walking, not some other factor:

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision.

She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Stanford courtyard

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

Walking not as good for convergent thinking:

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it.

Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

When to walk and when to sit:

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking. …

Wait, there’s more!

The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The [creativity boost] lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state. …

Examples:

Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it three times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path.

Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet.

Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed.

Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky.

Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot.

What not to do:

Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to.

A View of Australian Politics from the US

A View of Australian Politics from the US. By Daniel Greenfield at Front Page.

In March, Australia’s ruling Labor regime censured Senator Pauline Hanson for opposing bringing ISIS members to Australia. According to the senate censure resolution, Hanson’s “inflammatory and divisive comments seeking to vilify Muslim Australians, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people” who are supposed to love ISIS.

The censure bid had been a desperate effort by the left-wing regime to slow down the rise of Hanson, who started out as a barmaid and working in a fish and chip shop, and her patriotic One Nation party which had been polling higher and higher as the public becomes disgusted with PM Anthony Albanese’s corrupt failed government, its lies and its surrender to Islam.

 

 

After the latest round of condemnations, Hanson said that she’s sorry if she “offended anyone out there that doesn’t believe in sharia law, or multiple marriages, or wants to bring ISIS brides in, or people from Gaza that believe in a caliphate… but that is what they want — a world caliphate. And I am not going to apologise … I will have my say now before it’s too late.”

Despite, or perhaps because of, the censure resolution, One Nation scored the second highest number of votes in an election in South Australia, giving it a number of candidates. In May, One Nation won its first lower-house seat and polls now speculate that it might be able to form a minority government. Some are describing the populist rise of One Nation as marking the end of Australia’s two-party system.

Thirty years after the more conservative Liberal Party had disavowed Hanson over her opposition to affirmative action for supposed ‘aboriginals’ (quite often white people falsely claiming aboriginal ancestry, much like Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the United States, leading to the bizarre preponderance of ‘fair-skinned white aboriginals’ in academia) and mass migration from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other neighboring parts of the Islamic world, Liberal voters are choosing One Nation much the way that UK conservatives are looking for options.

Islam good, Christianity wrong:

Penny Wong, the Malaysian gay immigrant serving as Anthony Albanese’s Minister for Foreign Affairs (representing a joke that no one is allowed to make) had championed Hanson’s censure, contending that she was “sending a message to the people of faith in this country” that “condemning an entire religion is not acceptable.” Unless of course it’s Christianity.

Wong had previously ranted about Christian ‘religious fundamentalists’, complaining about “the application of religious belief to the framing of law in a secular society” and accusing Christians of “deploying the power of the state to enforce one set of religious beliefs”. …

Sen. Mehreen Faruqi, a Pakistani Muslim migrant, had mocked the mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, sneering “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples”.

Faruqi had also responded to the expressions of sympathy after the brutal Islamic massacres of Jews on Oct 7 by hatefully tweeting, “One colonial government supporting another. What a disgrace.”

Despite that, Faruqi wasn’t censured for siding with Islamic terrorists, but Hanson was taken to court and accused of ‘Islamophobia’, censored and fined for responding with “piss off back to Pakistan”. Then Penny Wong backed Faruqi’s censure of Hanson while whining, “it’s triggering each time you hear it. I’m the Senate leader, I still get triggered.”

“How long do you have to be here and how much do you have to love this country before you’re accepted? How long?” Wong demanded, while speaking in support of the hatred of a Pakistani Muslim who had denounced England and Australia as the products of an evil “racist empire”.

Wong had also backed Islamic terrorists over Israel just as she did in Australia. Hanson, by contrast, had worn an Israeli flag and sided with the non-Muslim victims of Islamic terrorism. …

Waking up:

The polls show that the public increasingly is with Hanson and One Nation, not Wong, Faruqi, Albanese and the rest of the foreign lobby selling out Australia and killing its future.

And much like President Trump, Hanson has been effective at bypassing a corrupt incestuous media operation to get her message directly out to the public. Last year, she wore a burka to campaign for a ban on burkas. The media hate her, but can’t stop quoting her.

As housing prices soar and Muslim migrants get everything while natives get nothing, the winds of political change are blowing towards Australia. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, like his carbon copies in the UK and Canada, Keir Starmer and Mark Carney, appears ready to fall.

London’s Major Visits Mecca — on Pilgrimage

London’s Major Visits Mecca — on Pilgrimage. By Gabriella Swerling in The Telegraph.

Sadiq Khan has travelled to Mecca to perform the annual Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj.

The Mayor of London, who is the first Muslim to hold the position, shared pictures of himself at the Kaaba in the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. …

In a statement published on social media, Mr Khan who has served as the Labour Mayor since 2016, said the pilgrimage was “profoundly life-changing”. …

 

Caliphate HQ

 

The 55-year-old who was born in London to Pakistani parents, last went to Mecca in 2022 to perform the Umrah, which is a pilgrimage that can be performed at any time of the year, unlike the Hajj which takes place during the 12th month of the Islamic calendar.

The DEI Business Case Is Falling Apart

The DEI Business Case Is Falling Apart: diversity quotas weaken performance, lower morale, and cause operational decline. By Lipton Matthews at The American Spectator.

The supposed advantage of DEI was all non-replicable ideological BS:

The studies that are most frequently cited to support the business case for diversity provide little meaningful support for it, while rigorous academic research points toward unintended and often damaging consequences.

Replication finds no advantage:

Much of the modern enthusiasm for diversity as a performance enhancer traces back to a series of influential reports published by McKinsey. These reports claim that companies with more racially and ethnically diverse executive teams earn higher returns. Their charts, rankings, and headlines have been repeated in boardrooms around the world. But when researchers attempted to reproduce the findings using transparent data from the S&P 500, the alleged advantage of diverse executive teams largely disappeared.

The replication study found no meaningful difference in profitability between firms with highly diverse executive teams and those with little diversity. … The researchers also showed that McKinsey’s study design pointed in the wrong direction: the data could just as easily suggest that more successful firms hire more diverse executives later on, not that diversity drives financial success. …

In the boardroom:

One major study of almost 2,000 American firms finds that when boards increase gender diversity, they impose noticeably stronger monitoring of executives. While oversight is necessary, too much of it slows decision-making, restricts managerial autonomy, and makes firms less responsive to changing conditions. The study concludes that the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative and can reduce value in well-managed firms because heightened monitoring becomes a burden rather than a benefit. …

Research shows that markets responded by marking down the value of companies forced to replace experienced board members with individuals selected primarily to satisfy demographic quotas. These findings suggest that rapid, mandatory diversification weakens board quality by reducing the emphasis on experience and expertise. …

In the workforce:

Emre Kuvvet’s 2025 study offers one of the most detailed examinations of how diversity initiatives influence workplace safety, consumer satisfaction, and employee morale.  …

  • Companies with higher Diversity Scores experience dramatically more workplace accidents. Moving from the 25th to the 75th percentile in diversity commitment corresponds to a 52.9 percent increase in total reported workplace accidents.
  • These firms also show substantial increases in lost workdays …
  • This decline in safety is matched by a deterioration in customer experience. Firms with stronger DEI commitments face more consumer complaints, more controversies relating to customer health and safety, and lower overall customer satisfaction.
  • Product recalls, quality controversies, and delays are also more common in these firms.
  • Such problems point to a drop in average employee competence and operational discipline. …

 

Meritocracy suffers, obviously:

When organizations feel pressure to meet diversity targets, they often expand their selection criteria in ways that shift the balance away from strictly merit-based hiring. … As demographic goals take precedence, the average skill level can decline. In settings where even small lapses can lead to injury or customer harm, the consequences of lowered hiring standards are amplified

DEI policies also reshape the internal culture of organizations. The same study finds that companies with high Diversity Scores suffer from lower employee satisfaction and higher management turnover. Employees increasingly believe that hiring and promotion are not based on competence or effort but on demographic traits. When workers feel that merit no longer governs advancement, trust in leadership erodes. The loss of morale and cohesion contributes to weaker performance across the organization and accelerates the departure of experienced managers.

Follow the money — to people who didn’t earn it on merit.

Stefan Molyneux:

Meh “diversity” just means hatred of Whites.

Nothing more, nothing less.

White males vs DEI

White males vs DEI.

White Males, By Kyle Becker.

Western Civilization didn’t flourish because “white males” stopped other groups from succeeding.

The West thrived because of rational thought, individual rights, and free enterprise.

“White males” that invented the steam engine, electric generation, the combustion engine, flight, and space exploration did not do so because they “stole” the ideas of minorities.

These inventions helped lift mankind out of ignorance and hardship, improving the quality of life for all of humanity.

“White males” didn’t oppress the entire world, they helped make it a better place.

“White males” didn’t oppress everyone’s rights, they invented the idea of rights and paid in blood to liberate tens of millions of people.

“White males” didn’t invent slavery, they ended it.

“White males” didn’t invent tyranny, they devised a form of government to end it.

Destroying Western Civilization isn’t about empowering groups that were “oppressed.” It is about tearing down civilization itself so that globalist parasites can rule over all of us.

DEI, by Robert Sepehr.

DEI is not about representation. DEI is about appropriating and rewriting history for purposes of social engineering and implementing a woke Marxist political ideology. It is not about inclusion, it’s about dismantling traditional power structures, conquest and anti-White racism.

 

 

Nancy C:

Why isn’t dismantling white male focused societal conventions not a good deal? Why isn’t giving groups, such as women and no -whites more opportunities to maximize their potential. Why is aiming for diversity in groups making decisions bad, as they clearly come up with better

Robert Sepehr:

Because civilization itself was established and diffused by White men. Instead of suggesting the replacement or eradication of White men, why can’t other demographics create a viable civilization on their own. Why can’t 600 million in Africa create running water and electricity?

The Sunset of the Uniparty

The Sunset of the Uniparty. By Tony Abbott in Quadrant.

As the smoke from budget week clears, one thing is obvious: the era of the uniparty is over. And not before time, as it’s been the Liberal Party’s political timidity that’s driven the rise of One Nation, with conservative voters despairing of ever again having a champion to vote for.

Until now. Because by committing a future Coalition government to ending bracket creep — taxation by stealth — Taylor has made the next election wealth creation versus wealth redistribution, thereby pitching the Liberals as the party of aspiration rather than the party of resentment.

I doubt Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers have quite grasped the scale of their blunder, especially after stressing how much this budget is a reflection of “Labor values”. Higher taxes on property and heavier taxes on wealth creation are not just broken promises with no redeeming policy feature (and no exculpatory circumstances beyond their control). They’re an assault on the Australian dream that people who strive to get ahead should not be punished for their efforts and that people who “have a go” should get a “fair go” from government.

After pretending in 2022 to be “safe change” and in 2025 to be protection against cost of living increases, Albanese Labor has revealed its class war instincts as the party of ever bigger government set on redistributing wealth from owners to workers — as if workers have no aspiration to become owners too.

Finally both parties are showing their real colours after a decade when they mostly tried to be a slightly more attractive version of the other side, with the Coalition just a little less enthusiastic than Labor for big government, climate action, and mass migration.

Unsurprisingly, it was the Coalition’s inability to decide whether it was for or against the politics of climate and identity; being against, then for, and then against Net Zero; and being concerned, then indifferent, before being concerned again, about record migration, that’s fueled the rise of political alternatives.

Especially after the Bondi massacre confirmed to many Australians that the country we thought we knew was quickly slipping away; and which seems to have triggered the sudden surge in poll support for One Nation from single digits to roughly that of both major parties. …

Taylor has declared no more “Labor lite” Liberals…. His pledge to cut all of Labor’s Net Zero spending and his willingness to restrict welfare payments to Australian citizens shows a seriousness about spending discipline, plus the fighting spirit the Liberals have largely lacked since the Turnbull coup in 2015.

But on immigration Tony, will the Liberal Party finally do what Australian voters want, after so many squandered opportunities?

And what about all those uniparty people in the Liberal Party machine? Where are they going to go?

Is Taylor really going to staunch the wealth loss and corruption that goes on under the fantasy of net zero?

The diploma divide is replacing wealth and income as the primary division in western politics

The diploma divide is replacing wealth and income as the primary division in western politics. By Samuel Thawley in The Spectator.

Many Western democracies are going through the same political realignment. The diploma divide – the sorting of electorates by education, specialisation, and institutional disposition – is replacing wealth and income as the primary cleavage. Australia arrived later. However, it will resolve faster – with preferential voting as the accelerant rather than stabiliser. The structural earthquake here will be shorter, sharper, and – if the data hold – largely complete in the span of the next two to three elections. …

Trump saved the Republican Party:

The standard narrative across the Western commentariat — left and right — is that Donald Trump degraded the Republican Party. He trashed its norms, alienated its professionals, and turned it into a personality cult. This is the story told over glasses of wine in Toorak and over flat whites in Balmain.

The structural story is the opposite.

Almost every centre-right party in the Western world today is facing the same centrifugal force: the diploma divide is tearing its coalition apart. The professional wing — the university-educated, socially progressive, economically liberal urban voter –is departing in one direction. The non-graduate wing — culturally conservative, economically interventionist, institutionally hostile — is leaving in the other. The leaders have failed to hold both simultaneously because the interests have now become too disparate. …

The Coalition in Australia is losing voters simultaneously to teal independents on its left and One Nation on its right.

The only traditional, majority right party to survive has been the Republicans in the US. The reason is obvious: Trump’s arrival. His structural function was not to ‘ruin’ the Republican Party but to resolve the tension destroying every comparable party elsewhere. He captured the party machinery via the presidential primary system, fused the populist insurgency into the major party, and expelled the professional wing rather than allow the non-graduate wing to split itself off. …

He didn’t persuade the Republican machine – he bypassed it, going directly to voters in a system which permitted exactly that. Westminster systems do not have open primaries. The preselection process is the institutional gate.

Trump’s Republicans are unique. Everywhere else in the West, the main right wing party is dying as it splits:

The leader who best understands the emerging electorate is precisely the person the machine cannot tolerate, because the qualities making him or her effective outside the party — directness, conviction, disruptive energy — are the qualities threatening the machine’s internal equilibrium. …

Almost no party instance across the Anglosphere since the start of politics has succeeded long-term by expelling the rebel or coopting the outlier. … The institution almost always fights back and the propagation ultimately fails. …

Trump is the sole possible counterfactual. He succeeded in capturing the party because the primary system exists — and this has given him a particular strength that earlier hopefuls have not enjoyed. However, the question remains for 2026 and 2028 — and for the long-term: will the Republican party and its leadership continue his legacy, or will Trumpism join the Thatcher-Abbott class, and Trump see all his work undone? …

One Nation may become the main conservative party in Australia:

The addressable market is defined not by self-identity, not by geography, but by status or social position. It is the non-graduate, the tradesman, the self-employed contractor, the outer-urban family priced out of the inner ring, the regional voter who has watched institutional trust drain out of every authority that used to speak for him or her. The constituency is not a niche – it is now the largest single voting bloc in Australia that no establishment party currently treats as its primary constituency.

One Nation’s ceiling is status-bounded and diffuse. … So is Reform UK’s in Britain. These are once-fringe parties whose potential constituency is larger than the party they are seeking to displace because the group they represent is now bigger than the established electorate that the incumbent, devotedly centrist, party, has decided to prioritise. …

What’s in a name?

The National Party, as one of the longest-serving political organisations in the country, has the benefit of incumbency. It also has the benefit of a name that most precisely fits the emerging voter demographic.

The Liberal Party has a complicated name, reflecting an ideology that no longer aligns well with the electorate it needs to win.

Meanwhile, One Nation — whose name enjoys a solid historical pedigree — sounds more like a multicultural welcome and, ironically, a certain openness to immigration.

The Nationals have the potential:

Moreover, the National Party is already well-positioned to leverage distinctive elements of the Australian electorate that mix hints of the MAGA movement in America and the Reform movement in Britain. …

The only realistic opponent One Nation faces is the National Party, but — as the defections of Barnaby Joyce in one direction and Jacinta Price in the other both hint — the party has decided not to fight. …

The likely future of the Australian Liberal Party:

Under Australian preferential voting, the Liberal Party’s realistic forward path might be more like Germany’s SPD under repeated grand coalitions: declining by five to nine primary-vote points in each grand-coalition cycle, never quite collapsing, never quite recovering, becoming a party whose continued existence is structurally necessary to the system but whose paradigm-carrying role has ended.

The Teals have removed the professional-class left flank. One Nation is removing the non-graduate right flank — something that the Nationals could do as well if they wanted. What remains is a rump constituency: economically liberal, socially centrist, institutionally attached, declining as a share of the population in every election cycle.

The West’s rivals hobbled western industry and are now targeting data centers

The West’s rivals hobbled western industry and are now targeting data centers. By John Hinderaker at Powerline.

For many years the Soviet Union, and then Russia, financed the environmental movement in the United States. Their purpose was to suppress American production of oil and gas, and they succeeded to a considerable degree, to their own great benefit.

Today, we are in the midst of another kind of race with Communist China — the race to develop superior systems of artificial intelligence. The Chinese Communist Party knows that if it wins this race, it will contribute greatly to its dreams of world domination, while if it loses, China, with its rapidly shrinking population, could be on the way to the garbage dump of history. So the stakes are enormous.

To develop superior forms of artificial intelligence, massive quantities of computing power are required. This mostly takes the form of data centers. So America’s tech titans are trying to develop data centers (referred to by some as “intelligence factories”) across the U.S. Yet wherever they go, opposition arises, seemingly from the grass roots. Bad arguments are made against data centers — they will raise electricity rates, they consume vast quantities of water, they make noise — misinformation is spread, and opposition is organized. In many cases, such local opposition has been successful.

Observers have wondered where this opposition — seemingly grass roots, but also remarkably well-organized, consistent, and well-funded — comes from.

Kevin O’Leary put a data science team on the question, and came up with startling conclusions: the opposition to data centers comes largely from the Communist Chinese Party, laundered through liberal American NGOs:

 

 

From a new report:

Power The Future’s new report “Manufactured Outrage: How National Environmental Activists Are Spending Millions to Elect Democrats, Block Data Centers, and Undermine President Trump’s Pro-Growth Agenda” exposes a coordinated, billionaire-funded and potentially foreign-backed campaign to obstruct data center and Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure development across the United States. …

The report finds the anti-data-center movement is not grassroots, but a coordinated national campaign fueled by massive political spending and activist organizations aligned with partisan goals. Among the findings: …

  • The report exposes a coordinated campaign led by national eco-left groups such as the Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch, Earthjustice, and the Southern Environmental Law Center, backed by dark money networks to stop data center projects across the country.
  • More than $150 million was spent by these same environmental groups to elect Democrats in 2024, before pivoting to target data center development nationwide.
  • The Arabella/Sunflower network disbursed approximately $1 billion in grants in 2023, funding advocacy campaigns while shielding donor identities. …
  • More than 300 anti-data-center bills were filed across 30+ states in just six weeks, demonstrating a level of coordination far beyond local opposition.

Interference by a foreign power:

In 2016, the Democratic Party generated hysteria over supposed (but almost entirely fictitious) interference by a foreign power in our election.

What is going on now appears to be real, not fabricated, and it likely will impact our country’s future far more than a single presidential election. The influence of the Chinese Communist Party on local, supposedly grass roots activism needs to be investigated and, as appropriate, exposed.

Never stand between a leftist and a source of funding.

Anti-male bigotry rampant in order to reduce western population

Anti-male bigotry rampant in order to reduce western population. By Thomas Harrington at Brownstone.

Imagine the following message in a public space: Caution: Area of Frequent Attempts at Reputational Destruction by Females

I have never seen a sign bearing the above message in any public space, nor do I want to.

Similarly, I have never seen a sign near a heavily African American neighborhood that says, “Caution, entering an area in which your chances of being the victim of a violent crime are statistically proven to be much higher than in other places.

And again, I do not want to.

My reasons for not wanting to ever read these things are, or should be, self-evident to any reasonably thoughtful person: it is never permissible in a society that purports to be democratic to have the state apparatus cast moral aspersions upon an entire subset of the culture on the basis of that subset’s immutable characteristics.

But men are now fair game for such bigotry in the West:

And yet, in many municipalities in the US and Europe there is a trend toward posting signs in public transport that, in various levels of explicitness, point toward all men as being gropers and harassers in potencia.

For example, on a recent ride on the transport system of the Catalan Government I was informed, via messages on the wall of the rail car, that public entity will have “Zero tolerance with male violence” in the public areas it administers. …

How do they demonize men?

How might you gain a preemptive victory against increasing legions of often quite justly pissed-off males?

Easy. Use the culture-planning tools at your disposal as a member of the ultra-elite to systematically denigrate the “toxic” nature of traditional male attributes.

And there is no better way do this than to do this than to seize upon one of the more ugly manifestations of traditional male behavior — sexual violence — and use it as a cudgel to discredit male attributes in general, including positive ones like the setting of hard limits, physical bravery in the face of hardship and unjust governance, and the desire to protect valuable social norms and traditions against the erosive forces of planned or unplanned social entropy.

Why do they demonize men? Why is this particular form of bigotry ok with the globalists? What is intended to achieve?

For some time now, it has been clear to anyone who has taken the time to look, that our current super-elites have an enormous disdain toward the vast majority of the human beings with whom they share the planet …

For example, Curtis Yarvin … has spoken openly about the coming “dire problem” of what to do with what he calls the “mindless mass,” which is to say the excess of useless human beings …

His solution? To house and feed them but keep them enclosed in a virtual world, supported by high quality virtual reality …

But, of course, an even better approach than this one would be to ensure that most of these useless eaters never get born in the first place.

They want to reduce the birth rate so they share the planet with fewer “useless eaters”. Here’s how they are doing it:

One [approach] is to run campaigns designed to convince confused and/or mentally ill teenagers that mutilating their sex organs is a lasting solution to their current unhappiness. Another is to rhetorically elevate abortion from the status it has had in all virtually healthy cultures up until now — a regrettable but perhaps occasionally necessary evil — to that of an unmitigated cultural good.

But perhaps the simplest one of all is to convince one or the other side of the male-female dynamic that their would-be partners in procreation generally cannot be trusted to safeguard their own well-being or that of their would-be children.

Hence, the current effort on public transport and in other public spaces to cast doubt upon the ability of the men in those places to act in a civilized and dignity-supporting manner.

And it is working. And if you don’t believe me, take the time to speak to the 16–35-year-old cohort of women in your life, especially if they attended a “prestigious” institute of higher learning.

Just as sure as they “know” that in every generation previous to their own queer-beating was a widely accepted and widely enjoyed sport among most straight men, they are “sure” that a happy and respectful complementarity of function in relations between men and women rarely, if ever existed in the past, and that the reason for this was that most men simply could not control their inherent need to dominate women and prevent them from becoming happy and fully developed individuals.

Is it any wonder that births are reaching historically low levels in most Western countries?

Yes, economics has a good deal to do with this phenomenon. But blaming it all on that obviates the fact that people have tended to reproduce through thick and thin throughout history. …

Young females are notoriously the most amenable to propaganda. Hence the anti-male bigotry:

And so here we are, with government-financed signs in public places that subtly but clearly suggest that people born male should be viewed by women not as noble protectors or carriers of wisdom or the many other positive things they often are, but as lurking vectors of violence.

Who wins with that message? It’s certainly not most men, nor for that matter most women.

It does work, however, for those super-elites who for reasons related to their obsessive drive to control resources as well as the comportment of their fellow human beings would like to see more social atomization, weaker families and communities, and ultimately fewer useless eaters to contend with.

And it is practiced on western populations, not African, Muslim, or Asian:

The deepest class divide: Hard work in a treadmill versus understanding money and assets

The deepest class divide: Hard work in a treadmill versus understanding money and assets. By SightBringer.

The deepest class divide is no longer between workers and non-workers.

It is between people who understand the monetary game and people who donate their life-force into it without understanding the rules.

Hard work inside bad money becomes a treadmill.

A person can be disciplined, honest, useful, productive, and still get quietly harvested if their savings sit in a melting unit while assets, housing, equities, land, gold, Bitcoin, and monopoly businesses absorb monetary expansion.

Here is the game you need to learn:

The system rewards proximity to scarce assets more than raw effort.

That is the hidden insult beneath modern capitalism: labor remains morally praised while ownership captures the compounding.

The average person is taught income. The elite understands balance sheets.

The average person asks how to earn more. The elite asks what unit to hold wealth in, what assets reprice upward when money expands, what debts get inflated away, what tax structures protect capital, and what scarcity claims cannot be printed. …

Society runs on the labor of people who work for the money needed to live:

It needs most people running. Working, borrowing, consuming, refinancing, paying taxes, chasing credentials, holding cash, fearing volatility, and calling financial literacy “risky” while their purchasing power gets diluted in slow motion. …

Lesson:

The real formula is: produce value, own scarce assets, understand the unit. That is the escape path.

Final compression: the modern trap is not laziness.

It is productive obedience inside a monetary system designed to transfer time from workers to asset owners.

Got gold? The money system is breaking down under the inevitable corruption of the ability to print money, as evidence by the monotonic and accelerating debt build-up.

Gold is the asset most likely to benefit next (and since 2022). If you’re interested, subscribe to GoldNerds and mention this post, and I’ll email you my current portfolio (which is not financial advice, but what I’m doing in my circumstance).

The Narrative on Multiculturalism has Changed

The Narrative on Multiculturalism has Changed. By Alice Smith.

The old, romantic view of multiculturalism was food, festivals and colourful clothes.

The new, realistic view of multiculturalism is grooming gangs, cousin marriage, polygamy, child rape, self-imposed segregation, tribal feuds, honour killings, and filth.

Those on the left (who benefit from immigrant votes) pretend not to have got the memo, but they knew all along (by Zarathustra):

Commenters:

There’s no way Obama was sincere about this. …

Maybe. It’s more interesting as a historical thermometer of where Democrats were, and how radically they’ve shifted. Saying this today would be career-ending. …

I feel like the Obamas have really gone the way of the Clintons as far as their reputation among left leaning voters. They were once poster children and are now bordering on disavowed. …

There is a long list of quotes that major Democrats said in the 2010s to the 90s which are now considered far right extreme talking points. …

Then they realized mass migration was the only way they could win elections

Iran War Update

Iran War Update. Three interesting points of view.

AG:

I hope people understand what’s happening because it’s been the same story over and over again.

The Islamic Republic and their allies leak their preferred details as if they are agreed to western sources. Then when U.S. refuses to agree to those absurd terms and insists we stick to the deal that had already been under discussion, they claim the U.S. is backing out of the deal.

Then they blame America or Israeli influence for the lack of a deal instead of The Islamic Republic making unreasonable demands for a settlement after they lost the military fight and are facing an economic crisis.

We saw the same thing with Gaza repeatedly.

Gerard Baker in the WSJ:

Let’s start with the most important point about the agreement President Trump is apparently about to sign with Iran. There were no good options. …

That’s what you get when you launch a strategic expedition on a tide of hubris and ignorance, a “little excursion” you insist will end in “four to five weeks” in “the unconditional surrender” of your enemy — an enemy so obdurate that it values its own existence far above the lives of its own people. …

It’s unfair to blame Mr Trump alone, because this strategic failure is not new for the US. It’s also what you get when you embroil yourself in another conflict in the greater Middle East based on a bleakly familiar combination of misjudgments: a massive underestimation of the enemy’s defensive capabilities and will to resist, and a massive overestimation of your own offensive capabilities and will to prosecute a costly war to a conclusion.

So, yes, negotiating the best deal was the right choice. What were the alternatives? Maintain the state of blockade and siege? That would have done greater harm to the US and world economy, with limited chance of success. Return to the bombing campaign? More costly depletion of munitions, jeopardizing our other military commitments, in exchange for reparable damage to Iran’s military infrastructure.

Escalation? That might have promised a more conclusive outcome. But how likely was it and at what cost?

Howard Kunstler:

The news media apparently forgot what it broadcast a couple of weeks ago: Iran’s oil storage capacity was nearing the red-line. If the wells have to be shut-in, such is the geology that it would wreck the oil fields themselves. Perhaps this is happening now. Nobody is reporting on it. But the news media doesn’t really report on anything. It opines. It spins. It constructs story-lines for advantage, it gaslights, it perverts the consensus about reality out of existence, it just plain lies.

If Iran is jerking the US around again, this will be the last time. They will prove to be negotiation-incapable, as the Russian phrase goes. They will punch their own express ticket back to the 12th century, lights out, bridges down across the rugged terrain, back to donkey carts, magic lamps, and vizeers instead of mullahs.

Outside of the participants, who knows?