Our democracies have been hacked

Our democracies have been hacked. By Brivael Le Pogam.

Not the voting machines. Everything around them. The hack has five layers.

  1. NGOs. Organizations funded by private fortunes and public grants that litigate, lobby and shape policy without a mandate from anyone. When the vote says stop, they take the vote to court.
  2. Think tanks. They write the ideas before politicians say them. Whoever funds the ideas sets the menu before you get to order.
  3. Political money. Campaigns cost more every cycle. The candidate who reaches you is the one donors chose first.
  4. The new electorate. Instead of winning back the voters they lost, parties started betting on the voters they expected. In 2002, American strategists announced that demographic change would deliver a permanent progressive majority. In 2011, a French think tank close to the Socialist Party advised the left to build a new coalition of graduates, youth, minorities and urban France, rather than fight for the working class it was losing. When a party stops trying to convince the people and starts waiting for a different people, the contract is broken. …
  5. Supranational bodies [Europe only]. Rules written in Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg that no national parliament can undo. A law voted by your representatives can be struck down by judges you never elected and can never remove.

None of these layers is illegal on its own. Together, they form a system that decides, before you vote, what you are allowed to vote for. That is the hack. The machine still runs, but someone else wrote the code….

Why did she believe that?

Immigration is where the gap is widest. Two countries, same disease, two different outcomes:

  • In France, for years, around six in ten citizens have said there are too many immigrants, and seven in ten that policy is too lax. Law after law is passed. Nothing moves. The anger stays, and it grows.
  • In the United States, in 2024, 55% of Americans wanted less immigration. They voted. Policy changed, fought in court at every step, but it changed. Two years later, only 29% still want it reduced. When the vote delivers, the anger falls. …

The hack does not rig the count. It shapes the menu. But as long as the vote can still punish whoever is in power, the code can still be rewritten. …

Losing its legitimacy:

A system that has lost its legitimacy cannot stay in between for long. It has only two exits. Both are dictatorship.

  1. Soft: Power that no longer needs your vote eventually stops asking for it. Speech gets regulated for your own safety. Inconvenient parties get sidelined, inconvenient candidates disqualified, inconvenient results overturned. Elections remain, the way the Senate remained under the emperors: as decoration. Tocqueville saw it coming in 1840. A tutelary power that does not break wills but softens them, until a people of citizens becomes a flock to be managed.
  2. Hard: When people realize their vote no longer counts, they stop believing in voting and start looking for a man. Someone who promises to smash the system that ignored them. Rome lived it. A republic that stopped listening to its people ended with Caesar. …

The only exit that avoids both is the one in the middle: give the vote its meaning back. … The way out is to reconnect power with the people. Referendums on what actually matters. Full transparency on who funds whom: NGOs, think tanks, campaigns. Decisions brought back to those who answer to voters. And a civilization that dares to say again what it is.

The vote is a civilization’s pressure valve. Close it, and the pressure goes somewhere else.

Votes must have meaning again (particularly in Europe where they are especially meaningless):

So let me be clear, because almost no one else will say it.

There is no soft landing. A people whose vote no longer counts will not stay quiet forever. A power that no longer needs the people will never hand itself back. One of them will win.

  • If the managers win, you get the soft dictatorship: rules without consent, elections without consequence, citizens without a say.
  • If the anger wins, you get Caesar.

History has never written a third ending for a captured republic. The only thing that ever stopped it was the vote, and the vote is exactly what has been hacked.

France:

France has one election left to prove its vote still means something. Maybe two. After that, the question will no longer be whether this ends in dictatorship. Only which one.

Mass migration increases GDP. But is it a financial benefit for the people already living in the country?

Mass migration increases GDP. But is it a financial benefit for the people already living in the country? By Elizabeth Nickson at Absurdistan (who was European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine, and wrote for Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail and the National Post).

Governments and banks reckon that any migration is a net financial benefit, because the immigrants must be fed and housed, which adds to GDP:

The migration storm that hit us post Covid? … Migration is calculated to be a net positive in the balance sheet of every country. They pay some tax, they contribute to GDP. Therefore numbers are guestimated and added to GDP.

Because migration is believed and is calculated to be a net positive in the balance sheet of every country. … The central banks, hedgies and funds “believe” it and besides, they love lowering labor costs.

Hmmm. Really?

Countries need billions of new dollars to pay for migrants. So when a country is catastrophically broke, like Spain this summer, bang! a hundred thousand new migrants and the economy can stumble forward by borrowing money allowed by the European Central Bank, which sees migrants as a positive.

Canadian example:

In the demented Dominion, calculations have hardened around an annual spend of $80,000 per migrant in their allowance, medical, dental, housing and food needs. That is not considered to be a cost by the government. It’s counted on the growth side of the budget….

In the demented Dominion we pay for their “jobs” too, either directly hiring them in the public service, bulking it out unnecessarily, or financing their small businesses. Add another $50K per to the bill. Annually. Because few ever get on their feet. …

If mass migration from the third world really increased GDP so everyone became richer, you’d think we would have noticed by now:

The U.K. after Thatcher, according to [British ex-PM] Truss, median income was equivalent to that of the U.S. Today? Fifty percent of U.S. income. … That’s what globalism has done to the U.K. …

In the demented Dominion, our upper middle class earn ONE-THIRD of that of a member of the upper middle class in the U.S. That is what globalism has done to Canada. Made growing your family impossible. …

Recently in Australia there has been a public recognition that mass migration has lowered GDP per capita, even while slightly increasing GDP. Surely a massive red flag.

To go off on a related tangent, fast growth seems not to be “allowed” any more in the West. It would require reversing some favorite narratives of the globalists, and it would also require many small banks making local decisions about creation of credit (i.e. money, in today’s system), which upsets the current banking monopoly by a few large banks:

What was Truss’s crime? It was growth. She wanted growth. She wanted an end to Net Zero, she wanted fracking and drilling in the North Sea. She wanted tax cuts for corporations AND people. She wanted Investment Zones all over the U.K., where green, DEI, ESG regulations were over-ridden by the Need for Growth. Her plan abolished tax on tourist purchases, and stamp duty, which is a tax on transactions like buying land, houses etc. It reduced employer contribution for state benefits. It was a classic growth budget. It opened the economy for growth.

Same as Trump. Same as every conservative head of state. Common as mud, typical of every single leader since time immemorial. …

That very day, the day she announced a mini-budget for growth, the entire financial system hunted her to exhaustion and killed her off…. Within a couple of weeks, they forced her resignation. That is what they do to every head of state that wants to grow.

Is going for growth a root cause of TDS? What role has the monopoly on money creation played in all this? I’ll bet this never could have occurred under a gold standard — because it never did.

Assimilation versus multiculturalism

Assimilation versus multiculturalism. By Handre:

Rome grew for five centuries by absorbing outsiders on one condition: they had to become Roman.

Trajan came from Spain, and Septimius Severus came from Libya. Newcomers learned Latin, served in the legions, took Roman names, and became citizens of the empire.

Emperor Trajan, 117 AD

In 376, the Goths [settled] inside the empire as an autonomous people, the first time Rome admitted an entire Germanic nation as a unit. Nobody asked them to become Roman. They kept their own leaders, warriors, and church.

Alaric, a Gothic commander holding a Roman military post, sacked Rome in 410, and in 476 a Germanic general, Odoacer, deposed the last Western emperor. …

Lesson learned the hard way:

A society absorbs newcomers as fast as it can teach them its ways. Beyond that rate, newcomers keep their own ways, and the host culture shrinks into a minority within its own borders. In both cases, rulers made the decision, and the provincials who lived beside the newcomers paid for it.

Either they assimilate into the host culture, or the host culture falls to the newcomers.

Now, increasingly as their numbers grow, Muslims in Australia vote for Muslims, Indians for Indians, and so on.

Commentary Australian Greens:

“We are giving vote to him because he is in Tarneit [a suburb in Melbourne’s west]. We will like you to support him because he is in Tarneit… He is the best person I know him from the last 20 years.”

This is what the Greens have reduced politics to.

Utter incompetence and zero ideas. It has become about the mass migration of voting blocs who only vote for their own.

There are entire blocs now where Muslims vote for Muslims, Indians vote for Indians, and so on. And that is not how we maintain social cohesion as a society. This fragmentation has to end.

The battle for control of AI begins: money and total control

The battle for control of AI begins: money and total control.

Bernie Sanders:

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

 

Stephen L. Miller (NOT the WH Chief of Staff, but the other one):

Mostly the concern I see on the political right over AI is cultural because there’s nothing more that the political left and the Democratic Party wants than to get their claws into AI.

Because once an AI is programmed to tell people that boys can become girls it’s the death of truth.

Data centers being built isn’t the problem, the data in those data centers is.

David Sacks (silicon Valley tech investor and Co-Chair of Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology):

I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right. …

What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.

The blob’s control will greatly increase:

There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward.

Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.

We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).

That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian.

AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.

America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.

Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

On the one hand, AI can be used to give a leftist blob near total control over our lives. On the other, AI can be used to fully understand government spending and fix the leaks and fraud, thereby crimping the style of the party of patronage.

In any case, now that someone else has built it, Bernie and the lefties want to own it.

Albanese growing public servants wages ever faster

Albanese growing public servants wages ever faster. By Thomas Henry in The Australian.

Fresh figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the commonwealth public service headcount has swelled by 14.7 per cent since the Albanese government came to power, almost double the rate of the rest of non-public sector workforce, while its wages bill has blown out by 35 per cent over the same period.

Notice that the wages bill grew at over twice the rate of the headcount.

Team big government looks after its own. Maybe Fukuyama was right, and history ended when the Berlin Wall came down. The ideological tussle over, that’s when the left started a new life as a party of patronage.

UPDATE:

Young men of the far-Right are the danger, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission

Young men of the far-Right are the danger, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission. By The Civilisationists.

Islamic religious and political belief should be overlooked, because it is not as great a threat to our society as young socially conservative men, says the AHRC.

The taxpayer-funded commission is demanding that more attention must be paid to the anti-female, anti-homosexual and anti-transsexual prejudices of young men. It argues that an online world of men, called the ‘manosphere’, is radicalising young men towards extremist Christian views and the far Right.

Allies:

The submission by the AHRC to a federal parliamentary committee echoed the demands made by Muslim imams in this country and the Islamophobia Envoy.

Several commenters consider this intervention from the AHRC to be a far-left assertion and ideologically motivated. The AHRC cited extreme left-wing academic research papers to support their arguments.

Fighting obvious truths:

The AHRC told the government that modern research reveals that there is a dangerous belief that feminism and gender equality have disadvantaged men and that traditional gender hierarchies are best.

The commission stated that such ‘harmful narratives’ should be fought against. Equally important was fighting against Islamophobia, and therefore religious motivation should be removed from Australia’s terrorism laws.

Reality:

The submission to parliament by AHRC is in total contrast to submissions made by Australian security and intelligence agencies, which see terrorism as the potential product of extreme religion and ideology.

The opposition home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam decried the advice of the AHRC. He said “It passes as very strange that the religious and ideological convictions driving violent extremists should somehow be regarded as secondary considerations. You cannot effectively combat radicalisation if you are reluctant to confront the beliefs and ideologies that motivate people to commit acts of terrorism.”

Borderline censorship. You can so see the censorship they want to impose.

US election, more short takes

US election, more short takes.

Young white men went from being Bernie Bros in 2016, to Trump soldiers in 2020 and 2024, and then turned against Trump in 2026 because he did little to end their persecution in the job market:

 

Immigration won Trump the 2024 election, but wasn’t a big factor in 2026 because he’d largely fixed the problem. Come 2028 however, when the presidency is in play again, immigration might resume its place as the biggest issue.

 

Surprised?

 

20 million more votes than in 2022:

In 2020 Biden got 20 million more votes than Obama ever did. Perhaps those extra voters sat out 2022 and 2024, but came back in 2026?

Is AI the solution to stopping the woke left?

Is AI the solution to stopping the woke left? By Brivael Le Pogam.

Mr. President @realDonaldTrump

You want to drain the swamp? Then stop doing it by hand.

The West’s problem isn’t the left or the right. It’s that public money has become the only money in the world nobody really watches. Trillions flowing through grants, government contracts, nonprofits, NGOs, subcontractors of subcontractors. And at every level, a leak.

Audits show up three years too late. Inspectors are overwhelmed. Fraudsters know it. Corruption isn’t a bug in the system. It’s the system running at cruising speed. …

AI can watch the public money carefully:

Plug Palantir into every dollar that leaves a public account. Every elected official, every senior bureaucrat, every agency that signs a check with taxpayer money. Total traceability, in real time. Every anomaly flagged in hours, not years. Fraud doesn’t become riskier. It becomes impossible.

Note the direction: we don’t watch the citizen. We watch power. Whoever spends other people’s money gives up the right to opacity. That’s the deal.

 

 

What will happens if the current corruption continues:

You’ve already started. Finish the job. Because if you don’t, there are only two outcomes.

The first: the state becomes a patronage machine. Public money buys loyalties, communities, votes. The Islamo-leftist alliance settles into the cracks, collectivism wins by exhaustion, political Islam pours through the breaches, and at the bottom of the slope there’s a caliphate. Not through war. Through subsidies.

The second: the right, fed up, seizes total control and turns those same tools against the population. Mass surveillance, checks and balances dismantled, a techno-authoritarian state that solves corruption by abolishing freedom. Just as dystopian. Only more efficient. …

No wonder the globalists are afraid of AI:

The technology is ready. All that’s missing is political will.

Musk was onto something. No wonder the left went berserk over DOGE. The left has essentially become a coalition of people who use the state for money and power, at the expense of ordinary people. Milking the cracks in the system that no one is noticing, living off the leaks of money, living high on the hog while bleeding the state in countless little ways.

The only way to stop that coalition of parasites is to watch public money carefully. And, because the government has become so big and complicated, that requires AI.

Democratic whiplash — The Globalist Empire fights back

Democratic whiplash — The Globalist Empire fights back. By Joanne Nova.

Right now, President Xi will be happy. …

Trump won’t be able to appoint cabinet members or judges after January 3 when the new congress is sworn in. He certainly won’t get legislation passed, but then it appears he hardly got anything passed anyway — like the SAVE AMERICA ACT, even when Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. It would have ensured voter ID but apparently some Senators on both sides didn’t want that. …

The Democrats can investigate and impeach but unless the can get to 60 votes in the Senate, nothing will stick. And attacking Trump always seemed to make him stronger. But the Democrats have won 54 seats and two seats are yet to be decided. … If the Democrats [had reached] 60 they [could] overcome a filibuster. But they would need 67 Senators to agree to break Trump’s Veto, or to convict him and remove him in an impeachment.

One man was never going to be able to roll back globalism in two years:

Ultimately the Globalist Blob has had 30 years to create this mess, and they worked together to try to stop him succeeding at every step. The EU, China, Iran, foreign bankers (some domestic bankers), the deep state, most of the media, the ivory tower academics, and the corporate giants that profit from Big Government — they all need the MAGA movement to fail.

Some argue the GOP wanted him to fail too and barely lifted a finger in the midterms. They’d rather lose elections but keep their sinecures and benefits and rule over the carcass. …

Whither AI?

One large side-effect of the midterm elections is that suddenly the AI revolution has brakes it didn’t have last week. Many of the candidates promised to slow AI development. And there were also separate votes on AI measures in some states … Of the 46 proposals that were voted on, voters chose to limit AI in nearly every single instance. …

It’s another point that will make the Chinese Communist Party very happy. In the existential race to reach the Superintelligence singularity first, this was a great result for China.

Who benefits?

How far left will the US now go?

How far left will the US now go?

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes:

– Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court
– Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons
– Defunding the Pentagon
– Mass amnesty for illegals

 

Jonathon Turley:

Various sites are running lists of targets as influencers such as Hasan Piker is posting on “WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The conditions on the Hill are only likely to make such rage politics more appealing with the new Congress.

Glenn Reynolds:

Now we have prominent Democrats talking about throwing their opponents in jail, seizing Elon Musk’s companies — after throwing him in jail for, I dunno, the crime of being in opposition I guess — and enacting various changes, like packing the Supreme Court, adding Puerto Rico and DC as states, and opening the borders to ensure that no election can remove them from power again.

That’s “late democracy.” Very late. …

A moral and religious people doesn’t crow about imprisoning or executing its political opponents, or locking politics down to ensure that they reign forever.

And people who do that sort of thing lose the protecting cloak of legitimacy (though they will try to cling to it). If norms don’t protect their opponents, what’s the argument for not seizing power by force and stringing them up? The paper walls of court-packing and state-adding are no protection against the universal political solvent, force.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon and took Rome because his political opponents were going to subject him to sham trials and probably take his life. The last residuum of the old Republic couldn’t stop him, and Rome became a less lawful place. …

Just a few election cycles ago, Mohammed Abdulrahman El-Sayed and James Talarico would have been utterly unelectable. Now they’re winning candidates. In this world, much conventional wisdom based on politics in the old world is no longer valid.

 

The insane cult of Russell Brand

The insane cult of Russell Brand. By Brendan O’Neill at spiked.

The lanky, slimy git has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault. The man who hoodwinked the liberal elite with verbose bollocks about revolution before becoming the God-botherer-in-chief of the crank right will now only have a cellmate to dump his word salads on. Thoughts and prayers for whoever that turns out to be.

The Brand case was both horrible and entirely unsurprising. The court heard how he pinned women down, mauled them in hallways, ignored their pleas to stop. He used the ill-gotten stardom showered on him by TV stiffs and liberal editors — fools paralysed with awe by his windy charlatanism and sixth-former word-vomit — to surround himself with young women. Then he preyed. He now faces a hefty jail sentence.

Yet is anyone shocked? JK Rowling put it best when the charges were first brought against him: ‘It’s always the ones you most suspect.’ He had serious sex-pest energy. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but you should if he’s 37 and still wearing spray-on jeans and 17 necklaces. …

He might have titillated the posh left and later the batshit right with his salacious gibberish, but there wasn’t a normie in the land who’d let their daughter within a mile of him. …

It’s time to turn the spotlight on every Oxbridge muppet who fell for the grift of a man whose only skill was stringing together five-syllable adjectives in a chimney-sweep accent. Long before he became a digital John the Baptist for Tucker Carlson and incels, he was the dahling of Britain’s liberal (sic) intelligentsia (sic). Looking back, it was completely mental. The BBC lapped up his drivel like a cat at milk. He was hardly ever off Newsnight, chewing the cud with Jeremy Paxman and Emily Maitlis about ‘revolution’ and whatnot. …

The right was just as bad. When the left was done with Brand — finally realising he wasn’t actually the messiah in low-crotch jeans — the right lapped him up. He converted to Christianity and became a garrulous fixture in MAGA-adjacent circles. …  As recently as September, he appeared at a conference with RFK Jr and JD Vance.

The Cult of Brand really was insane. The midwits and lightweights of both left and right built an altar to this one-trick carnival act.

Russell Brand Convicted In UK Court On Charges Of Raping While Not Muslim. By The Babylon Bee.

“Everyone knows the rules,” said Mr Justice Joel Bennathan. … “If you had just been a Muslim when you had done these things, we would simply look the other way, of course.”

At publishing time, Brand had petitioned to officially change his name to “Muhammad Brand” in hopes of receiving a more lenient sentence.

I can’t help wondering if he was allowed to behave badly while he was proselytizing the left’s narrative, but once he switched away from the left they found misbehavior from ten and twenty years ago and shut him up. No one on the left ever has to answer for this sort of bad behavior.

Lesson for rapists and pedos: Be prominently of the left, and you might never be investigated or prosecuted. Jimmy Saville springs to mind.

Islam is way ahead of the modern left on this. The sentence for apostates is death.

Australian multiculturalism encouraging separatism

Australian multiculturalism encouraging separatism. By Stephen Chavura.

I don’t think I’ve seen a clearer example of the sense of ethnic entitlement and contempt for Australians our governments are encouraging. Behold, the Victorian election campaign:

  • Graciously invited into Australia but immediately complains that Indian and Punjabi people don’t feel welcome enough and wants to know what the government will do about that.
  • Labor Premier Ben Carroll is eager to agree that Australians are a problem for Indians and they need to be censored with vilification laws and hate speech laws (i.e., fining Aussies and putting Aussies in prison.
  • Although India is literally one of the most racist countries in the world, complains that Australia is too racist.
  • Identity is solely Indian and his concerns are solely for what Indians and Punjabis can get out of Australia.
  • Premier Carroll says that Victoria’s high education outcomes are because of Indians and Punjabis — i.e., eager to encourage contempt for Aussies if it gets votes. …

Basic message is that Australians need Indians to succeed and therefore our governments will revolve around the demands of Indians while Aussies keep their mouths shut, lest they want to be fined or imprisoned.

Many incompatible nations in one country, acting tribally. Not sustainable. Why did out ruling class do this to us? On whose instructions? Who benefits?

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Young white men were the swing demographic, switching back to Democrats because Trump did little to ease their persecution

Young white men were the swing demographic, switching back to Democrats because Trump did little to ease their persecution. By John Carter.

The usual uniparty cycle:

The new party assumes office, commences gorging on the corruption machine, fritters away its time and political capital on trivial nonsense, and steadfastly refuses to take action on even the most popular 80/20 issues.

The outgoing Republican House and Senate are a case in point. They outright refused to pass the overwhelmingly popular SAVE Act [which would require voting in person with ID, eliminating most online and mail-in voter registration], for instance. I don’t think they passed any meaningful legislation at all over the last two years. They were very enthusiastic about bombing Iran, however.

What achievements?

Have Trump or the GOP made much difference in daily life? Trump’s done some good things over the last two years. Gutting USAID, clearing out hundreds of thousands of federal bureaucrats, closing the border, deporting a million or so illegals and motivating the self-deportation of a couple million more. There’s been a chilling effect on DEI, the so-called ‘vibe shift’, which in practice has mostly meant that large institutions are pretending not to do DEI anymore. All of that’s been great, but it’s been like one percent of what’s actually required.

Deporting a few million people is a drop in the bucket compared to the many tens of millions in the country illegally. Getting woketards to turn down the volume on woke was a nice reprieve, but they remain in control of every institution that isn’t the executive branch of the US government, and they’ve carried right on refusing to hire young white men. …

Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity:

When Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a trantifa terrorist, a wave of rage washed through the country, not only at his death but in revulsion at the glee with which the left greeted it. Trump’s administration had every excuse it needed to bring down the hammer. It started well enough, with Antifa being declared an international terrorist group. And then, nothing. …

There was every excuse to go after the NGOs and foundations that fund Antifa and Antifa-adjacent groups, bring the hammer down on universities that provide them with a safe place to operate, and put serious pressure on foreign governments (Canada, for instance) which provide funding for Antifa-adjacent left-wing ‘research organizations’. Instead we got Candace Owens wittering on about how it was really all a Mossad plot or something. The result of all this lack of serious action was that the left felt quite comfortable celebrating the Kirkaversary.

One young Brazilian woman went so far as to recite a vicious little death threat in the form of ‘Night Before Kirksmas’ doggerel to a Turning Point USA representative, who for some unfathomable reason was on campus still doing the Debate Me Bro routine a year after the Debate Bro got shot in the neck for debating. There’s some talk that she and her family might get deported, but, call me cynical, I wouldn’t count on that.

Young white men got more of the same:

Friends have been sounding the alarm for several months now over Trump’s refusal to do anything to ameliorate the plight of young white men in America. They’ve languished under woke for a decade, now. It has absolutely hammered them economically. Six years of that decade have been under Trump, by the way. He didn’t do anything about it during his first term, and during his second what little he did do was mostly performative, things like castigating the universities for not following meritocratic admissions policies and allowing anti-semitism on campus.

He tried to freeze research funding to Harvard and a few other universities, sure, but that got blocked in the courts. They got their money and ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action, carrying right on with discriminatory admissions as though nothing had happened.

In the private sector the toxic confluence of HR girlbossery and AI filtering at the recruitment level, along with an entrenched preference for H1B over American labour within the tech sector, has made it basically impossible for anyone to get a job, but particularly impossible for young white men. There was a study recently which found that something like 98% of new jobs had gone to women, or maybe women and foreigners; either way, young white men have been left out in the cold.

Young white men were Trump’s strongest soldiers:

This matters, because the young white men were Trump’s strongest soldiers. In the last election they swung harder for Trump than any other demographic.

Much more importantly, they’re the political radicals who push the envelope, make the memes, record the podcasts, write the blogs, and conspire together in secret group chats.

They went to war for him in three elections in a row … Many of them sacrificed careers to do that. The social and therefore professional consequences of being a MAGAt, a Trumptard, a member of the Trump Jugend, can be crippling. Nevertheless they were the ones pushing the envelope, hammering away at the Overton window to widen the permissible boundaries of discourse. And they succeeded. You can say things in public now that would have been absolutely verboten just a few years ago. …

No thanks, no relief, no help:

What is of course genuinely, deeply, epochally, unfathomably retarded is that the reward bestowed upon young white men for their successful decade of service has been … nothing.

Nothing at all. No patronage jobs. No grants. No lawfare against the universities refusing to let them in the door, no sanctions against the corporations using H1Bs to replace American tech workers, no ICE raids against blue collar employers undercutting American citizens with illegals, no serious effort to reduce the cost of housing …

So, say goodbye to the Republicans:

So, this election, apparently, the young white men swung by 40 points, from something like +30 for Trump to +10 for the Democrats. …

The young men are embittered and furious. I don’t know how much of that swing is in actual political alignment and how much of it was just the zoomerwaffen saying nah, fuck it, Imma stay home and play Age of Empires tonight, but there’s more than a whiff of what happened with the Bernie Bros in 2016. The Dem establishment shat on them, so they defected to Trump, bringing all of that energy to MAGA….

Antisemitism among young white men is mostly just a character test to make sure you are against the establishment:

Trump took the enormous heap of political capital he’d accumulated and squandered it on another war that no one but Israel and its domestic American Ziocons wanted. You could feel the wind coming out of the sails as the first missiles struck Tehran.

It’s hardly a secret that young right-wing men harbour an intense dislike for the Israel lobby. They’re generally pretty open about that. Cuckservatives like Rod Dreher have been wringing their hands about ‘antisemitism’ amongst the ‘groypers’ for several months now. In their world there is nothing worse than making Jews sad, no, not even losing your country, not even the reduction of your people to servitude, the extinction of your very civilization, and the onset of a long Stygian darkness. …

Performative ‘anti-semitism’ serves the same cultural function as performative racism, performative misogyny, performative homophobia. It’s a shibboleth. Young white men in the Western world have been systematically emotionally abused for their entire lives by a culture that holds white men to be presumptively evil. …

They go looking for frens. Ah, but who is a fren? How do you know who you can trust? Much as you can distinguish a clanker from a real human being by asking it to write a slur, signalling that you can laugh at racism and so on is a way of telling others that you don’t hold those things sacred which your oppressors revere, and in whose name they abuse you. Those who can blaspheme against the civic religion are apostates to the civic religion, and therefore potentially trustworthy. The actual vitriol is quite limited. Half the time the kid making gas chamber jokes is a mischling. …

For Jews, the anti-Israeli turn amongst American youth, and youth across the West, is doubtless nerve-wracking. The young right has become deeply suspicious of and reflexively hostile towards Israeli influence in their domestic politics, again I think primarily out of frustration over foreign influence generally rather than any genuine hatred for Jews specifically….

My sense is that a fair number of young white men, correctly understanding that their boomer elders will never stand up to Israel, have instead made common cause with left-wing anti-Zionists, and for the record I think this is a gigantic mistake. …

Quite different to the Left’s antisemitism:

Leftist youth have turned on Israel ferociously in the aftermath of the 10/7 attacks and, in particular, Israel’s savage response to those attacks. …

The left doesn’t care about foreign influence per se, the left after all essentially is foreign influence, the left’s entire raison d’etre at this point is foreign influence-maxxing to the point that foreign influence is the only influence. It’s just that the left wants foreign influence to be exclusively third world.

For the left, Israel is hateful not because it interferes with America’s domestic politics, but because it is a white settler-colonial state engaged in genocide against an innocent population of brown people, while they see Jews as just a variety of white people who anomalously and very annoyingly retain sufficient privilege to keep them at the top of the progressive stack, where no white person should be.

Attacking Israel is a way of assaulting the last bastion of white privilege. It’s a proxy for attacking Western civilization as a whole, which is why the Palestinian flag has become the battle banner of the third world horde intent on razing the West to the ground. …

The uniparty establishment in the GOP threw the election to wrest back their party from Trump:

It looked like the GOP was angling to intentionally throw the midterms. A resounding defeat could be used to blame MAGA for alienating the voters — too hateful, too aggressive, too ugly …

Armed with that narrative, the old guard of Ziocuck neocons, chamber of commerce grifters, and sanctimoniously longhoused evangelitards could purge the radical youth element and thus shore up their own comfortable positions. Better to rule a defeated party than to be sidelined at the victory party.

Everything that’s happened since has been consistent with that. The Republicans ran a lazy campaign, ground game was weak, and some of their picks were absolutely shocking. What were they thinking putting forth Vivek Ramascammy for Ohio governor? Vivek’s Christmas crashout during the H1B War demonstrated that he had the political instincts of a dodo bird, and a grasp of American cultural norms on the level of a sacred cow’s understanding of multivariable calculus. Surprising absolutely no one, and one of the few silver linings of the midterms, Vivek lost resoundingly to Jane Normalson. Ohio, along with a majority of other states, now has a Democrat governor. …

Texas’s white population share plummeted from 58% to 46% in just a few years, a precipitous demographic decline that puts even Canada’s headlong dive into the abyss to shame. Indians, of course, like every other group of non-whites, vote overwhelmingly for the left. In their eagerness to look ‘not racist’, and their craven appeasement of business interests hungry for cheap labour, Republican traitors have turned Texas into a California with worse weather, uglier cities, and fatter women. But hey you’ve still got the Constitution, right. टेक्सास से पंगा मत लो! …

Now that the Suicide Party have successfully thrown the midterms, the establishment narrative will almost certainly be that this was the fault of Trump and MAGA, and they will use this to attempt to purge Trump’s influence from the Republican mainstream while tacking back towards the Democrat-defined centre. …

Socialism and the polarization caused by mass immigration:

For the Democrats, on the other hand, the DSA will now be able to credibly claim that the midterms demonstrate that the people want full communism. …

America First is immensely polarizing: white men love it, married white women like it, but single white women and non-whites despise it passionately.

Non-whites genuinely do prefer socialism. The norms of liberty that Americans still delude themselves that their country embodies are simply baffling to brown people. ‘Freedom’ in the way white people understand it is a very culturally specific Anglo thing, all but unique to the ‘WEIRDest people in the world’. …

On the DSA side, full communism is as hateful to white Americans as MAGA is to non-whites. In the afterglow of victory the DSA probably won’t meet much resistance from the Democratic Party, and they and their supporters will therefore feel license to go full blast with Woke 2.0, which will generate enormous societal friction and thus erode their remaining cultural hold over the white populace even more quickly. That would be a very stupid thing for them to do, but they tend to be very stupid people. …

JD Vance tweeted:

Another pollster — one of the smartest people I know in politics — … saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

  1. End the war
  2. Focus on cost of living/inflation
  3. Put America First
  4. Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. …

The reason we lost is the war …

John Carter’s advice for JD Vance:

  • Spend the next two years doing everything in [your] power to materially improve the conditions of young men.
  • Recruit the energetic and talented into patronage positions, into the civil service, into the security services, and make sure this is visible.
  • Raid employers using illegals, in order to put pressure on them to hire young Americans.
  • Deport millions, if not tens of millions of illegals in order to put upwards pressure on wages and downwards pressure on housing prices.
  • Forbid large tech companies from employing H1Bs, and force them to hire American engineers at good salaries.
  • Openly call out the universities not just for vague ‘discrimination’, but specifically for discriminating against white boys, and then force them to stop doing that.
  • Set up training and apprenticeship programs, modelled on the Palantir fellowships, to help talented white youth skip university entirely and go straight from high school into lucrative, high-status careers; work with Elon Musk and Palmer Lucky on that, to implement similar programs at Tesla, SpaceX, and Anduril.

I don’t think promises or intentions or whatever will cut it anymore. There’s been too much betrayal already. They need to see actual results.

Ron DeSantis is Back

Ron DeSantis is Back. By Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unleashed a blistering attack on Republican leadership following Tuesday’s disastrous midterm elections, accusing GOP lawmakers of squandering their opportunity to deliver sweeping conservative reforms while Republicans controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress.

During an appearance with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, DeSantis ripped into Senate Republicans for failing to pursue an aggressive immigration agenda, codify President Donald Trump’s executive orders, and confront federal courts that have obstructed the administration’s deportation efforts.

His message was unmistakable: Republicans were handed a historic opportunity to reshape the country, and they blew it.

Conservative things:

“If you’re going to do huge conservative things that are going to reorient the country for a generation, fine. But I saw no indication that the current group of Republican senators were interested in doing that type of bold conservative change.” …

DeSantis’s remarks represent a direct challenge to the Republican establishment, particularly Senate leadership under John Thune, which has repeatedly pointed to procedural obstacles and insufficient votes as explanations for its inability to advance major conservative priorities.

The governor was having none of it.

“… You’ve never shown that you’ll do conservative things even with 50 votes. ” …

“A lot of our voters … stayed home because they were frustrated with the lack of productivity from Republicans in the House and Senate.”

ZeroHedge:

Vice President JD Vance’s odds of winning the 2028 Republican nomination tumbled overnight [because he is part of the Trump Administration].

On Polymarket, Vance slid from about 37% to 31.4%, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rocketed from around 3% to 15.5%. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vance’s closest rival in the polls, barely moved at 19.2%, roughly where he sat before polls closed.

Kalshi shows the same shuffle: Vance at 32% and Rubio at 22%, both down slightly, while DeSantis is up 14 points to 19%.

Rod Dreher:

True, DeSantis is not a riveting speaker, but I think we’ve all had just about enough of entertaining pied pipers who lead the GOP off a cliff.

DeSantis is a Republican who, despite lacking charisma, lives in reality. …

DeSantis is not tainted by the failures of Trumpism.

Not especially smooth or articulate, but Ron got conservative things done in Florida.