Victory, if you want it.
Thoughts on the Second Trump era
Dear Reader, I had planned to write this a few weeks before the election. I was mostly sure Trump would win, but even as I sat down to write this after the election, I again got cold feet. However I felt about this election - which, I am ambivalent - an echo of 2017 caught my ear, and I decided to delay further. It is now January, on the Eve of the Inauguration. The source of this echo - the cause of my cold feet - was a memory when Elon Musk and Robert Iger resigned from Trump’s advisory council after much disagreement over the Paris Climate Accords. I figured that whatever arrangement was made to win the election, let’s see if it survives the Antebellum. I can make predictions, and they do generally come true - however, there’s always a lot of noise during an Antebellum period, and it’s generally best to wait for a signal to emerge - actually, I might have a far more grotesque, yet accurate, image to use here…
To use crude imagery, times like these are like the moment of ejaculation. You cannot bet on which sperm will get to the egg and fertilize it. It’s entirely possible none do! However, the closer you get to the moment of conceptualization (sic), the more clear it becomes. Eventually, you’re down to a few you can count on your fingers. At that point, you can make a few reasonable guesses.
To be blunt, Dear Reader, American Democracy recently had an abortion.
The Foetus Obamae was terminated at 192 Months. Cause of termination was elective, due in small part to an unexpected auto-immune condition.
After some deliberation, the patient immediately fornicated and became pregnant with the Foetus Trumpae. She expressed confusion and regret.
Ok, this imagery isn’t clear-cut. I’m skipping over the whole first term, but was it really? Obama’s government effectively operated through the first term of Trump. Let it slide.
However, that’s my take on this election. This long diatribe, Dear Reader - longer than can fit in an email - this is something of an overview of my feelings on this abortion, and subsequent re-impregnation, of America’s Democratic Womb - her body, our choice, it would seem. What an awful state.
However, again, this is an attempt at an objective-free analysis. Material proof matters more than wishcasting for le monde d’baste - and oh how those wizards have found themselves defaulting on their net worth!
The general overview is in the following categories, if you’d like to crtl-f to a preferred focus.
Overview of the Win
Musky Goths
Zion Don
Courting the Giants
The Overton Window
Overview of the Win
On the 5th of November, Year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four, Donald Trump officially won his second presidential election - the second president to have done so non-consecutively. Those with ears to hear were not particularly surprised, and some of those with eyes to see would say it was his third time winning. When I initially returned to this article, roughly a month after the election, some areas were still counting for God knows what reason. However, I have long-term memory - unlike most. I recall in 2020, it took into mid-December for all votes to be counted. It appears the same course has occurred this time, and I can’t be bothered to look up when counting finished. “It is finished!” will have to suffice.
Perhaps the most starking aspect of this election are the financial brass tacks. Kamala Harris spent $13.46 per voter, while Donald Trump spent $4.49 per voter. Simply put, Trump beat out a Hollywood blockbuster with a really good indie flick - and what a flick it was! From arrests, to assassinations, to the kino edits, and many more - Kamala was pretty much out-noised by the Trump signal’s endless impact. Democrats will be studying this election closely to deal with the financial mismanagement, no doubt. But let’s be honest here: Even most of the war-chiefs over on the Blue Tribe were expecting a Trump win, with some seemingly looking forward to nice tax write-off from this one. Don’t think this is particularly odd.
Being a filthy New Yorker with a family heavily involved with the Democrat party, I happen to know some insider trading points here. I can tell you all the top Democrat bosses knew this was going to be a Trump win. People like Schumer and Co. were already making deals with Trump back in July right after the assassination attempt. They could see the propaganda win of that one and more-or-less threw in the Towel. However, I also happen to know quite a few Democrat paypigs here in Manhattan - hell, I’ve designed some of their homes! I found it rather shocking that none of the prestigious donor class seem to have gotten the memo that the Democrat war-chiefs got - that Trump was expected to win. I’ve been in meetings with these people, and they were all so confident Kamalamania was inevitable - and yet at the bar, the Inner Party boys would talk about the dreadful internal polling. I cannot legally tell you how many of these wealth paypigs blew their wallets over it, but I can legally inquire: What the hell was this breakdown in communication?! I’m not sure if it’s that they simply didn’t listen and the war-chiefs were more than happy to take their money regardless, or if their passions simply got the better of them, or the war-chiefs simply couldn’t resist a nice tax write-off on the eve of a looming financial crisis. My little birdies couldn’t fly that deep into the Democrat mines to get more intel - the gas, you see. Rather toxic…
Whichever it is, or elsewise, the paypigs took a massive L on this. Kamala blew a billion and I suspect this will be a big contention point going into 2026, whereby these pay pigs will want to actually know where their money is going. This will have quite a lot of ramifications in terms of what the paypigs will be willing to spend on, and it may bring them back to sanity a bit. Think about it, Dear Reader. There is no real equal to Trumpmania in the Democrat camp. Bernie is too old, Newsom’s reputation is up in flames, and nobody gives a rainbow-painted arse about Elizabeth Warren. I can’t even be bothered to think of any of the sad cast of sad clowns hitchhiking home - broke, broken, and evaporated of all will to fight. Despite near-schizophrenic levels of fear-mongering that there would be riots in the streets and full-on revolutions if Trump won, all we got was a couple of hundred folks walking around Chicago and New York - matter of fact, I bet you’ve already forgotten that even happened. Here’s a photograph to jab your memory noodles:
I don’t particularly like Trump one way or another, but let’s pause the the Objective-Free Analysis and render a bit of judgement here:
Look how old those losers are? Are those recycled cardboard signs? Is this the best they can muster?
From these factors, I fully expect a return to centrism of some sort if they cannot find anyone decent. Of course, that means there’s also a wide open door for a Democrat Trumpian figure to enter, if he or she has the balls to do so - pun intended.
Verily, the nation showed a Trumpian shift, and I’ve heard that Kamala failed to flip a single district - though I haven’t researched much into this. However, pause right there my Dear Reader. Don’t assume. It’s worth noting this shouldn’t be confused as a rightward shift. Trump clearly aimed for a sensible centrist approach. As Dr Neema Parvini has called it, “Back to Bel-Air”. A return to Glorious America, the 90’s utopia that echoes in our minds like the 50’s echo in the Boomer’s. People want their high tech post-war chill back, and Trump’s shift to the center is why they went for it. Despite my distaste for figures like Nicholas Fuentes, he was one of the first ones to note this back before the election, and despite all our Crystal memes and “You have _ months” wardrumming, he’s been proven right on this - though I would argue only partially. It’s important to note that with this push to the center, some issues considered “Far-Right” or “Far-Left” have likewise drifted into the center with it. Mass Deportations are now a centrist viewpoint. Everyone from Fetterman to Fuentes wants this. Meanwhile, issues like abortion have drifted out of center and are now considered far-left worries.
-Actually, to leave a small note on Abortion, Who Cares? The issue is entirely dead in US politics now. Abortion has been aborted-
However, this is where Fuentes is wrong. Trump will have to deport millions of illegals, because it’s centrist. However, he will certainly have to expand legal immigration, because it’s centrist. Rest assured to Mr Fuentes, however, I suspect the inevitable failure of legal mass migration will move the argument for a total immigration memorandums into the center in four years’ time, and let me be bold here: You shouldn’t be surprised to find Democrats picking this issue up by then. It may seem impossible, now, but so was Trump back in 2014. However, this shift will require them to fully amputate the progressives in favor for a little bit of red meat, but if it means winning you can bet the left will entertain Stalinist immigration policies. Sure, they will never call it “protecting the white majority” like a Far-Right guy might, but keep a look-out for the Dog Whistles. Even now, they are starting little research groups to study what are the appropriate ones to use.
Thus, the reason for Trump’s victory is fairly straight forward: Once the Democrats went with a progressive, and once the paypigs stopped asking questions, it was easy for Trump to court the centrists. Tulsi, RFK Jr, Union boys, and schizoid wiles. Likewise, his post-election positive polling comes down to a simple fact: Trump has kept his promise and appointed these centrist Democrat turncoats to his administration, thereby solidifying this new coalition. To quote Elon Musk, “This new Republican Party doesn’t really look very Republican” - don’t ask me where I heard that, you can guess it yourself.
From forcing the Republican Party to drop any support of traditional marriage as a party policy, to the softening on Pro-Life puritanism, this Republican Party is a lot less Right-Wing, and as such, more depoliticized - despite the transformation requiring the party to become something of the personal fiefdom of the very politicized Trump Family. It’s a fascinating contradiction. However, it clearly worked - for now. We can already see some strain on this coalition. A smart Democrat could stick a wedge in it and blow the whole thing up. However, the smart democrats all joined Trump this year. So that’s that.
Exactly why those centrist Democrats left isn’t hard to determine. The Democrat coalition of the past 30-odd years was an horrendous Frankenstein monster. What started with the cadaver of white working folk had the unfortunate graphings on of academic leftists and their bashful underlings of minorities, both sexual and racial. This stitch-up job was not stable, but at the time most of those academic elitists had connections to Israel, and the funding was good enough for everyone to hold their noses. This passive catering to Israel’s lobbying compared to the active seeking of it in the GOP was sufficient to support a broad tent of anti-Zionists who could ignore the Zionists paying them. But a stitch-up job like this required constant whipping at the base to ignore the scars, and so every few months they needed to sacrifice someone to the gods of Zion in order to keep the whole base submissive - and such is what they thought they could maintain ad infinitum. In reality, this coalition had multiple bleeding sites that simply would not heal, and this was getting harder to ignore over the decades. A new generation of Students came, predominantly foreign. Along the way, the elder Academic Leftists departed and were replaced with a likewise predominantly foreign body. Both wore the clothes of anti-White hatred, and the White Working base was growing less and less tolerant. Tie in Musk’s capture of the Twitter castle, and you had all the ingredients for a consensus among White Working men to walk away from the Democrats. All the while, the the Zionist funders began asking if they were funding their own genocide in the future. The ideological possession of these graphed on limbs was leading to organ rejection. Worse, this grotesque beast thought that stitching on new limbs would help distract from the ones falling off - in came the Neocons, the Antifa goons, and many a sworn enemies forced to pretend like they were really always great friends - Orange Man Bad, after all! It was quite clear by October 2023 that any nudge too far off the maximum deflection at these points would cause catastrophic failure, and the coalition was inevitably going to fall apart at any rate - and fall apart it did. Hamas’ attacks on Israel seem to have been the start of this breakdown, but there were other reasons. Watching the campus riots attacking Jews led to the Zionist financiers to cut off funding. The shift to Ukraine over Israel to cater to Neocons cemented this break. Within weeks, wealthy Jews announced their support of Donald Trump. The open racial tribalism by Minority mayors split the White Working class next. Why vote for your own destruction? I imagine they had hoped the coalition would crawl to some manageable win come November 2024, but it was shocking it managed to crawl into the election season at all. The loss was both predictable and expected.
The Republican coalition between abortion and sexual moderates, Right Wing extreme puritanism, Tech Bros, and Whit Working Men, similarly, has some pretty obvious points of failure. None of these are quite so existential yet, but the recent hullabaloo over H1b visas shows two things. Firstly, that all members of this coalition are extremely sensitive to even the hint of betrayal. Secondly, that the White Working class have created a primitive class consciousness that will protect itself. This second point is worth exploring deeper ahead.
Musky Goths
-and now, for a detour.
If you’ve read me before you know I have a special interest in the Goths of late antiquity. There is something fantastical about a band of 10k-20k men walking into an empire of tens of millions and taking it over in a few short years. It speaks to the Northern European biospirit and the kinds of deeds they would go on to do many times over around the world - for better or worse.
In 410 AD, when Alaric marched into Rome, the Goths were not some disorganized biomass seeping through cracks in Rome’s collapsing border on the Rhine. They were a well organized minority with a clear hierarchy and, if one reads the letters they left behind, a very distinct racial and class consciousness. When the Romans faced the Huns in the years to come, they addressed the Goths in terms that would shock Augustine. Observer this letter from the Imperial Court to the Gothic Court:
"Bravest of nations, it is the part of prudence for us to unite against the lord of the earth who wishes to enslave the whole world; who requires no just cause for battle, but supposes whatever he does is right. He measures his ambition by his might. License satisfies his pride. Despising law and right, he shows himself an enemy to Nature herself. And thus he, who clearly is the common foe of each, deserves the hatred of all. (188) Pray remember--what you surely cannot forget--that the Huns do not overthrow nations by means of war, where there is an equal chance, but assail them by treachery, which is a greater cause for anxiety. To say nothing about ourselves, can you suffer such insolence to go unpunished? Since you are mighty in arms, give heed to your own danger and join hands with us in common. Bear aid also to the Empire, of which you hold a part. If you would learn how such an alliance should be sought and welcomed by us, look into the plans of the foe."
Emperor Valentinian III to the Goths
What Roman Emperor would write to a German in terms indicating co-ownership of the empire and equal in valor?
How did this happen?
How did a disorganized biomass become an organized minority? How did Rome go from looking down upon them as subhuman, to a kind of co-citizenry?
Like so many instances, the ethnogenesis of the Goths formed in response to abuse. When the Goths first crossed into Roman lands in 376 AD, they were indeed a disorganized biomass. At the time, much of Eastern Europe was being genocided by the Huns and other Easterlings. Desperate for refuge and protection, they begged the Grecco-Romans for any terms to escape certain death. The Greeks looked upon this request as an opportunity to fill labor shortages. They took advantage of the Goths.
The Comes Militaris of Thrace, Lupicinus - along with his Dux Maximus - disarmed the Goths at the border, plopped them on frozen Danube clay, and swindled them for food and labor. It is said that the Romans would trade one sack of dogmeat for one slave boy, and given the frozen wastes were practically impossible to farm on, the ability to work it was minimal and essentially designed to decrease their numbers. All this culminated with the Romans offering a peace feast to the Gothic tribal chiefs. However, as they sat down to eat, the Romans brought out soldiers and slaughtered most of the chiefs and nobles of the Gothic mass - whatever organization they had coming in was gone. They were now a weeping biomass.
A few they took hostage to swindle more out of the masses, but one managed to escape - Fritigern, whose name means Peace Maker. He became intimately aware all this was effectively a slow genocide of his people, and recognized the reality of the situation: Death could be offered quickly at the tip of Hunnic swords, or slowly at the pen tip of Roman laws.
Collective resentment and survival-based unity are two forces that time and time again throughout history have quickly fashioned a people into a standing militia. For the Goths it was no different. A different fate would require direct action by the Goths, and they could no longer trust anyone to help them. They were on their own. The one unique factor was that nobody knew just how weak Rome had become at the time. Fritigern, the sole survivor of the Redfeast, was going to find out. He had already been somewhat well known by the Goths from their battles with the Huns. Now, he would become the folk hero of the expat Goths in Roman lands.
Fritigern had been watching the Romans, and studying their tactics and military formations. He also appears to have been somewhat of a technological innovator. Although by and large the armies between the two were of similar size, Fritigern pushed these qualities to give his people an edge. Fritigern turned the disorganized biomass of refugees into an army that could stand equal to the Legions. He raided Roman Barracks to rearm his people, and most curiously, they seem to have invented tanks. I’m not joking here.
The Goths took all the equipment they had brought into Roman lands and started recycling them to build large armored wagons that could hold dozens of men. They likely stood about 2-3 stories high and were likely oxen-drawn. The Oxen were placed within the wagon for protection. The Goths militarized these wagons with steel wheels and armor and applied a tactic that will be familiar to Americans: Circling the Wagons. They would lure the legion into a charge, then role out the “Wagonlagers” In this way, the Goths did not need to build forts. They simply moved their forts with them in the form of these large tank-like wagons. Below you can find medieval depictions of a similar machine in the later medieval era. The Gothic ones would likely have been larger.
Fritigern launched one of the most devastating and successful revolts in Roman History with his victory at Adrianople, or at least that’s the best I can reckon from it - because whereas nearly all revolts in the empire ended with the mass crucifixion of participants, this one ended with the Goths securing better terms - despite battles after Adrianople not going as well.
Fritigern drops off the historic record after this, but through this great ethnogenesis-by-trial, the Goths had begun the process of developing a kind of class and racial consciousness to defend themselves within Roman laws and institutions. Out of the fires of war, another cult leader arose - Alaric - who would go on to not only sack Rome itself, but settle the Goths throughout the west as a distinct aristocratic court with which Rome - and later the Papacy and Franks - would have to deal with as equals.
Within a few short decades, the Romans went from mistreating the Goths as a new slave population, to treating them as an aristocratic court to barter with to maintain their shared empire, even holding equal claim to the empire as themselves - and from this point forward, letters between Roman and Goth carry this sense of brotherly kindredness.
Pause there and think for a moment. Today, the Federal government of the United States treats its “Legacy” populations as slaves at best, or someone to blame all their problems on at worst. Imagine, for a moment, if a time traveler gave you a letter from the 2060s in which the President and his DC “Deep State” had written a letter, like the aforementioned one, to these Legacy Americans. A letter in which rather than worshiping the foreign as the solution to all their problems, they treated the historic population as such. That is the kind of shift we are talking about, and the goal that one ought to have when dealing with the so-called “Deep State” today. More specifically, the entwined unelected bureaucratic machine that runs American institutions.
-Detour over.
Dear Reader, when I initially started writing this I was going to propose that Musk is a modern Goth - our very own Fritigern or Alaric. However, as I mentioned in my introduction section, I decided to let that idea sit and bake. Back then, he had risen to the rank of folk hero and, like Fritigern, was famous for his funding of new and marvelous technologies to fight asymmetrically - the government’s reliance on him for orbital operations meant he couldn’t be directly taken down. In these winterly Biden years, he had taken quite a number of enemy castles and proved himself a capable strategist - the theft of Twitter and the lesser-known AI drive castrated the regime’s justification for replacement migration. These are the acts of a warlord carving up a dying empire. However, as we live in an era ruled by merchants instead of warriors, the carving up was by pen, rather than sword. A lesson for you, Dear Reader - the tactics remain when the medium of warfare change. You can take that to the bank - Sun Tzu is an excellent finance bro.
Of course, Musk has recently run afoul to some degree. He is still - or rather, increasingly “was”, and needs to regain “is” - a cult hero for America’s legacy population. However, the recent Hulla-baloo around H1-b visas put him on the shitlist of many in the Commentariat and he will have to re-earn their favor. Now, I have it on good authority that Musk isn’t that inclined to import Indians - he simply wants slaves for he, not for thee. He would be perfectly ok if all immigration was stopped except for him and his companies. In this regard, he is a ruthless capitalist. We can expect these contradictions to bubble over here and there. Hell, personally I wouldn’t mind a “Royal Charter” style immigration system whereby only the friends of the President get to use foreign labor, so long the foreign labor is sent back at the end of term.
The contradictions in this argument are too glaring for Musk to have missed. How can one want H1b importees to build AI? Inevitably, the AI would make the importees redundant. Musk is smart enough to see this, and I can only assume there is some kind of rearguard action at play. I will pause my fears, for now.
Now, there are still problems with this. For the Romans, the Goths they brought in had an awful habit of legally importing even more German hordes to manage other parts of the Empire. By the Second Sack of Rome in the 6th century, the Goths had invited in Vandals, Franks, Lombards, Alans, Saxons, and a whole traveling circus of barbarians of every kind. They were great at managing things when they got into power, they just had a strong sense of ethnic in-group preference - much like Musk’s beloved H1-bindians.
Take, for example, this letter of the Gothic ruler of Rome written to another German tribe he was welcoming into the Empire:
You can see here, a preference to get the best of Roman Technology over to the German homeland. They were ruling Rome, yes. They were also looting Rome. Yet still, these Goths also collected taxes to rebuild roads and docks and get the situation under control. So it cannot be said the Romans suffered worse pangs than under their native rulers.
Like so many Gothic warlords in antiquity, Musk can never be president, but he can rule by proxy much like many later-day Goths did. Much like Fritigern, he has built his coalition off desperate people, uncouth tactics, and wild technological innovations. Just as many later-day Goths bought themselves an emperor to manage affairs from the background, Musk has effectively done this with Trump. Of course, the terms of this purchase are not clear yet. We will learn, but the past here may not be informative. In 2016, the relationship soured after just one year. This time around feels different. Most importantly, Musk has shifted a bit on climate change closer to Trump. Climate change was the issue that divided them before. Without this divide, the relationship could go longer.
However, I must state the obvious: History doesn’t repeat, it only rhymes. You can make connections between the Gothic kings of yonder years, and Elon Reeve Musk, but Musk is the product of another 1500 years of civilizational development from his Gothic ancestors. The question you should ask is, will the Gothic biospirit re-emerge, or is this just another soulless automaton produced by modernity - wearing a Dutch skinsuit to trick the biologicals.
Zion Don
This, I believe, is the one I’m most happy to have waited to write about. It’s been a real roller coaster ride attempting to evaluate Trump. Back in the summer, I figured he would be basically your standard GOP Zionist. As we all know, the GOP is functionally a Zionist prostitution ring, where the politicians who can render the most pleasure per dollar rise to the top. However, Trump also tolerated Antizionist voices, and his Vice President pick certainly drank beers with the sort. The noise making when he was picked, however, did not drown out the signal from the base that this whole Zionist Colony life ain’t it anymore. Later, we got a sense Trump could be different from the Grand ‘ol Prostitutes - Trump knows how to deal with whores, after all. We saw that his cabinet would be the least Zionist in history compared to Biden, which may have been the highest degree of Zionists - which was also hilarious to witness them balance the Antizionist base with the strong Zionist donor class. However, whatever was going on behind the scenes made it look like Netanyahu would come to the inauguration after he was elected - to which, he promptly pulled out. The back and forth was getting quite hectic. Then came this weekend - Netanyahu forced to the signed peace deal before Trump is even sworn in. However, at the last minute, Netanyahu says it’s all part of the plan and that he and Trump really are BFFs and all that. Rather odd. The signals are all very contradictory - which means it’s not signals at all. It’s noise. So, this begs the question, what is the real signal?
This calls for some Objective-Free Analysis.
Past it all, I would like to use some cold, hard, numbers. Reality operates on numbers, and these numbers stand as facts no matter how much money you throw at it: The average age of a Boomer, today, in 2025, is 70. The average age of death in the US is 76. Actually, 73, if we’re talking about men only - the stuffy old men that run the defense industrial complex. The hard mathematical reality is thus: Israel only has 3-6 years before their money and power is irrelevant in US politics. Because Gen X certainly didn’t give a shit about the October surprise of 2023, and Anyone younger certainly gives less than a shit about it - in fact, many of them actually cheered it on.
Netanyahu has to sign this deal, even if it ends him politically, because the people who put him in power can see the writing on the walls. Donald Trump, likely, can also see it. He’s not stupid. He sees the memes. Maybe he’s even laughed at a few. He knows the GOP’s youth couldn’t give a shit about the desert, and neither does team blue’s kids. It’s a dead issue on life support. Pretty soon, Israel is going to have to compete for US attention like any other country. The Boomermagic is dying.
I think it’s rather clear, as well, that the Donnie still hasn’t forgiven the Yahoo for his quick congratulations of Biden’s 2020 win while he was still filing cases to protest the results. Trump never forgets such things, and he has taken sideswipes at Netanyahu in the in-between of Election Night to Inauguration Morning. Trump is ambivalent or soft at best on Israel, but he really hates Netanyahu. This seems to me a bit of personal vengeance he can do from outside official responsibilities, while that twilight exists. Who Knows? We may even see Trump install his own puppet in Israel, of his choice, turning the power dynamics of this troublesome relationship.
I would propose that Netanyahu’s quick video saying nothing is wrong and everything is going according to plan is the Israeli equivalent of a Qtard stuck in his copium den. Netanyahu has a host of trials aimed at him for Corruption charges. He’s going to be paying lawyers for years dealing with this. Also, unlike Trump, he does not have popular support to magic himself back into office - he already did that once, barely. Now, reality is hitting hard. A year of war and he hasn’t defeated any enemies nor managed to return many hostages. He’s lost Israel a tangential future of guaranteed free money, and he’s crashing in the polls - he’s sunk to 41% approval and it looks likely to sink into the 30s pretty soon. The man is done, politically. If Israel does want to preserve its international reputation, they have to end the war and put him up on trial. If not, well - there is that looming Curse of the 8th decade aligning with the Great Dying of the Boomers. Coincidence, I’m sure. Oh, and if you don’t know about the curse, look it up in your own time.
Moving past an objective-free analysis, I can put my own two shekel’s worth of thought on this. Maybe conjure up some blood memories from my minuscule Semitic ancestry, I dunno. I’ve been fairly openly anti-Zionist for most of my life - it’s one of the main reasons I can’t ever get involved with American politics - everyone worships Israel. From the baby-sacrificing Demonic democrat, to the holier-than-thou Blue-Eyes White Dragon Republican. Everyone worships Israel. However, at the end of the day, I do not like Israel. I do not like the influence Israel has over my government, I do not like the things Israel does, and I do not like the goals Israel has. I do not like Israel, no not at all. However, until that unswaying loyal Boomer dies out in the next decade, I do not expect much change of course outside Millennials ad Gen X distancing themselves from the topic. Politicians need the youth vote to win, so as AIPAC money starts stinking worse and worse, there will eventually be a point where politicians advertise they are AIPAC-free. This feedback will self-amplify.
Fun fact, dear reader. An ultra-left feminist I know works for the state. Her brain broke when she realized one day that she had issued a fine to a Jewish owned business, every day, for two years straight. Her entire world view crumbled from dealing with the incredible corruption of this community.
This is not an isolated incident.
These happenings do have feedback loops, and they will come to the inevitable consequence of US voters dropping Israel when it’s just not worth it to prop it up anymore - as the Good Lord said in Matthew:
"Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read in the Scriptures: "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes"? Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.'"
Courting the Giants
“Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
-Anton Chekhov,
Politics is a blind giant with two heads. One head faces backwards and pretends “this was why all along”. One head faces forwards and projects “This is why we are doing this”. However, neither has any idea where it is going, where it came from, or where it is right now. As the blind two headed figure stumbles through time, feeling but never seeing, it can only comment on these things it senses by secondary means. This self-justifications create structure to the otherwise random happenstances in its life, and thus becomes that fabled term: Narrative.
However, the creature has a flaw. Were a man ever to engineer what the creature stumbles upon, he would hold power over what the creature uses to self-justify itself. The otherwise random events can become controlled to shape a narrative the man wills.
This is what the Ancien Régime called corps-état. The Body Politic. It is how aristocrats of that venerable state guided the masses. It worked very effectively for a thousand years - until the beheading of the king.
In nature, such relationships with instinct like this can create shockingly destructive results after the death of a leader, or the failure of a leader to re-conceptualize a new setting. Deer will circle around in circles chasing their own instincts until they starve to death, in what is known as a deer cyclone. This usually starts from a defensive instinct, but the run instinct gets into a loop and the herd slowly starves running in circles. Ants have this too, though with chemical signaling rather than mammalian instinct. People, of course, develop mental loops which trap them into a stagnant state until someone intervenes.
In the case of our Two-Headed Giant, a very rare phenomenon can occur when there is no one herding them. Two of these two-headed creatures can become aware of each other’s existence, and begin to attempt to control each other instead! Forming a loop of never-ending narratives that circle around, wasting each other, until one or both drop dead.
Forgive me, Dear Reader. This is all symbolic. There are no such Two-Headed creatures. But I trust you understand.
The United States has been trapped in one such loop between it’s so-called Progressives and Commoners. Two body politics, with totally incompatible views, have been trying to control each other’s narratives for decades - and both are wasting away from starvation. The poor are addicted to drugs as much as the rich. The middle is being gutted with no rich or poor to engage with. The whole of the two bodies keeps telling themselves beautiful little lies, even as they sweat and starve while tripping over each other’s stumbling blocks, dropped at each other walking around in circles. Curious onlookers have started contemplating how to capture one, or both, of these foolish giants. The suave Chinese onlooker sees an opportunity to turn the whole of America into a Brazil-like market to feed shitty microchips to. The haggard European onlooker sees the possibility of being free of these giants entirely. The curious eyes of the African onlooker sees, perchance, a new income flow. The Brahman sees a very nice opportunity, though he hasn’t decided what that is yet. All, silently, suspect it may be best to simply let the two giants die, rather than steal one, or both, to control.
This is the reality of America’s body politics. Two giants chasing each other as the world laughs.
Some have said it and I will repeat it. “Woke”, was nothing more than a stumbling block dropped by the right-giant for the left-giant to form a narrative against. The left-giant is now rationalizing how woke is dead, and will find something to drop for the right-giant to stumble upon. Who knows what. My point is, don’t join in this pathetic race to die!
As the opening quote to this section notes, when you read a narrative you are reading a cherry-picked scene description designed to create said narrative. A crime scene narrative never talks about irrelevant scenes at the crime. A romance narrative pays no attention to non-romantic scenes of the crime. When you read American Media, understand you are reading a narrative. The things it describes are designed to be focused on. Never forget you are reading a narrative. It is not a full-description of events. That’s for the decision makers. You are not a decision maker. You are the one being told about the decision. Being aware of this fact is vital to comprehending the situation you are in, Dear Reader. Vital.
Can Trump break the death-loop? That’s what both giants want you to think. Will he? That’s what both giants hope. However, they are still marching in a circle to their doom. Getting these two giants to break their loop and go find some food together will be quite a task. We’ll see what happens.
The Overton Window
My final note from this election is how much the Overton Window has shifted among the commons. Don’t fool yourself that it’s actually shifted in politics. It hasn’t. Trump is simply 90’s multiculturalism reinforced - with far less post-war capital to enforce it with compared to 30 years ago. It will be rather amusing to see how this goes, as the hard math of the situation insists this will be a discount version of the 90s. That’s not at all unprecedented. Emperor Justinian had his discount Western Empire. It can happen. Just don’t forget, it’s discount value.
You, Dear Reader, have four years here to build a high-class A-grad project. Will it be artistic? Some other Cultural foundation? A company or business? The world is your oyster. Just, please, make it something that will outshine this discount 90’s crap.
Will you?
That’s all I’ve got for this Election meditation. I had originally intended to write about Ukraine, China, Europe, and other topics. But they’re less known at this time, and did not reveal themselves in the Antebellum. Tomorrow, Donald J Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, inside closed doors of the US Capitol. He joins the ranks of only Seven other Presidents who had no grand ceremony to crowds outside. This rank enjoys historic figures like Monroe, Wilson, and FDR. Perhaps that’s the Holy Spirit hinting at historic times, or maybe there’s a security concern we don’t know about. Or maybe it simply is just too cold.
Then again, maybe they’ll just stab him to death, Caesar style - behind closed doors.
I wish you well, Dear Reader. My apologies for not writing very much in 2024. I will try to rectify that for 2025.
Quick question: what’s the source for this: Kamala Harris spent $13.46 per voter, while Donald Trump spent $4.49 per voter.
This is some first rate stuff. Like the Israel section especially.