“Fascism is the organized attempt to introduce socialist planning with the consent of big business.” – Edward Conze (1934)
So, on the Fascist scale of 0 (September 17, 1787) to 10 (Nazi Germany, 1940), where do you think we stand today?
I’d put us at 7, maybe 8.
As the Year Of The Biden Shitshow rumbles on, I find myself in the curious situation of caring deeply about people getting shafted in, for example, Afghanistan, and not caring a shit about it all.
The reason for my glee is that I think the country is realizing — finally — that the Left has no clue. No clue about how to govern, about how to manage foreign policy, about formulating any kind of social policy that isn’t a rehash of failed socialist dogma not only of the past but of the recent past, and absolutely no clue about how to fight and win a war.
As a single individual, there’s pretty much nothing I can do about any of it, really. Al I can do is to chronicle and comment on the depths of scorn with which one can describe their flailing and ineffectual attempts to manage… well, everything.
Over the weekend, I read this article by Erik at No Paseran! in which he states:
[T]he members of the Biden administration, like the drama queens in all Democrat administrations, knows that the true enemies of America, of the planet, and of all mankind are not the Taliban, the Islamists, the Chinese, the Russians, the Soviets, the communists, etc, etc, etc.
The top pressing issue is to turn the United States government and the United States military against those whom all leftists, both in America and abroad, know are America’s, are humanity’s, true enemy — the Republicans, i.e, the American people who still believe in the country, in the flag, and in the Constitution. Also known as fascists, as Nazis, as Adolf Hitlers, and — to this administration — as “insurrectionists” and as “domestic terrorists.”
Of course, we conservatives have known about this forever — the principal weapon of the Left is to dehumanize and demonize their political opposition — so Erik’s comment is accurate indeed.
But for the first time in a long time I feel okay about it. And that’s because I just know that the Left is going to fuck that up just as badly as they’ve managed the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
(In passing, I see that the Biden Bunch have banned imports of Russian-made ammo and -firearms for a year. It’s a little late for that, assholes. Just about everyone who wants an AK-47, AK-74 or Dragunov already has one; there are shitloads of said guns still in people’s houses all over the U.S., and ditto for the various Russkie ammo calibers. The guys at Prvi Partizan, to name but one ammo manufacturer, must be ramping up production and hiring extra shifts.)
If what Erik says is prophetic, i.e. that after pulling us back from all “foreign entanglements”, the Democrat Administration and even the Democrat part of Congress will be devoting all their attention to suppressing conservative America, I’m just laughing.
Their attempts to jigger voting procedures in their favor have stalled or failed, and let us not forget they have to do it all before most of them get tossed out in the mid-term elections of 2022 (15 months, and counting down).
The other thing that makes me gleeful is that even if these assholes are successful in suppressing their domestic political opposition (unlikely), the Great Reset they’re always talking about is not going to turn out quite the way they expected. But by now, the Left should be quite used to the concept of unforeseen outcomes — the word “unexpectedly” is by now very familiar to them.
Bring it on, fuckwits.
Here’s the incomparable Jordan Peterson, talking about a frightening statistic. I urge you to watch it first before continuing to read this post. Read more
This is the best socio-political essay of the past 50 years, because it describes irrefutably what has happened to our so-called leaders (he calls them the Permanent Managerial Class, or PMC) as Afghanistan has reverted to a Muslim emirate.
It’s not too long — and even if it is, it will be the best time you’ve spent all day, perhaps all year. It’s impossible to summarize (like all good essays), but here’s my favorite part:
How long it will take for their institutions to disappear, or before they end up toppled by popular discontent and revolution, no one can know. But at this point, I think most people on some level now understand that it really is only a matter of time.
Go there now, and read all of it. I’ve read it three times. (Thankee, Insty)
Over at the Treehouse, Sundance outlines how We The People have become the enemy of the governing class:
The United States Department of Homeland Security made a quiet and alarming announcement yesterday, creating the official position of the United States Government under the Joe Biden regime. [SEE DHS STATEMENT HERE] According to the statement, if you question the orthodoxy, mandates, or COVID-19 response from the U.S. government, you are now considered a “terrorist”, specifically a “Domestic Violent Extremist” (DVE).
You know, if you treat people as the enemy long enough, and provoke them often enough, they will eventually become exactly what you accused them of at the beginning.
Just sayin’.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range.
Over the past couple years, I’ve taken a lot of guff from people when I’ve stated my implacable hostility towards the Internet Of Things [spit] intruding on my private life, and specifically when it comes to my car.
“Oh but Kim,” the response comes, “think of the convenience of not having to drive!” , etc. etc. My retort to giving up control of one’s vehicle is usually, “Giving up control to whom, exactly?”
Well, here’s a little example of what I could see was coming down the pike:
The bipartisan infrastructure bill includes a provision that would require auto manufacturers to equip “advanced alcohol monitoring systems” in all new cars.
Buried in the massive proposal—which is already longer than 2,700 pages—is a section titled, “ADVANCED IMPAIRED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY,” which mandates new vehicles include “a system that … passively and accurately detect[s] whether the blood alcohol concentration of a driver of a motor vehicle is equal to or greater than the blood alcohol concentration” of .08, in which case the system would “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation.” Automobile manufacturers would have a three-year grace period to comply with the regulation.
Here’s another prognosis to this already-ghastly invasion of our privacy: it won’t stop at “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation”. Given the all-pervasive network of operations from Skynet, what is to stop the government (federal, state, local or a combination thereof) from levying a fine for drunken driving (to be deducted automatically from your bank account), as well as sending your car’s GPS coordinates to Officer Friendly at Hometown P.D.?
Tell me I’m exaggerating or overstating the thing, I dare you.
But it’s all for our own good, isn’t it? So why would I be so upset about this? After all, seatbelt mandates have saved countless lives, so why not apply the same rationale for car immobilization and punishment for intoxicated driving?
By all means, let’s all get upset when the government suggests implanting computer chips into guns so that they can be controlled by law enforcement during times of emergency — “That’s like totally beyond the pale, dude.”
This car nonsense is precisely the same thing, being suggested for all the same reasons.
I foresee a rush towards the purchase of older cars which don’t contain computers of any description — until, of course, the government outlaws ownership thereof.
Once again: tell me I’m exaggerating or overstating the thing, I dare you.