It’s an “Emperor’s New Clothes” event for America and perhaps for the rest of the West too, an overdue recognition and repudiation of the regime of oppressive insanities we have been subjected to for a decade or more.

The fancy new items of invisible attire that our nation’s rulers have made us wear for too long include these:

The idea that people who have stolen into this country illegally should be showered with all the rights and benefits of citizens, that it is immoral to deny them those rights, and that they should instead be treated as victims of persecution and given “sanctuary” in our crowded and fiscally strained cities.

The idea that a nation that sits atop one of the greatest reservoirs of natural energy resources on Earth should forcibly restrain itself from exploiting them to “save the planet” on the basis of politicised science, while other countries are free to do much more damage to the global environment.

The idea that after a century and a half of progress in expiating America’s original sin of racism and making the country more equal, we are suddenly obliged to believe that America is as oppressive as it was in 1619, and that the best way to right the past wrong of treating people based on the colour of their skin is to treat people based on the colour of their skin.

The idea that children should, without parental consultation or consent, be free to choose their “gender,” be assisted by the state in committing acts of self-mutilation to do so, and all on the understanding that we have repealed millennia of science and just discovered that there is no such thing as biological sex.

The idea that democracy and freedom are best protected by denying people the right to express certain views that the authorities deem “misinformation” and by weaponising the law against political opponents lest they weaponise the law for political purposes.

Ambitious elites in business and civil society went along with the fictions. Politicians on all sides, including Republicans, declined to dissent for fear of being called out. It took a man with some of the instincts of a child, a political ingénue lacking the sophistication to participate in the sham, to call the whole thing out for what it was.

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Here’s what I am optimistic about: Four years from now, there’s a good chance that the nonsense we have had to endure will be buried, that important things will have become normal again.

It will have become normal to tell people who have no right to be here that they must leave, and that in the process people around the world will have been made to understand that they don’t have an automatic right to live in the freest and most prosperous country on earth.

It will have become normal for the nation to exploit its enormous energy advantages for its own economic benefit and know that the planet won’t explode as a result.

It will have become normal again for children to be helped to respond to the inevitable strains and traumas of growing up not by having their genitals cut out, but by receiving loving guidance and care from family and society;

that people will be judged on the basis of their talents and ability, not on their claims of oppression by ancestors six generations in the past, and it will not be automatically assumed that because you are white you should be punished for your supposed persecution of others.

It will have become normal to be able to say what you think — on university campuses, in the media, on technology platforms — however unpalatable some people may find it.

And that, to my mind, is progress.

Gerard Baker in The Wall St Journal


Amen to that.

mothra wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 9:53am:




It is an old piss-take on the po-faced NYT and Granuiad and their ilk that fence in your intellectual horizons.

aquascoot wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 1:14pm:

So, he'll be doing no different, then... Not so much MAGA as KATS - Keep America the same.

Everybody knows that they love their slavery... it's admitting it they hate.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 2:55pm:



oh he'll talk tough

but why do anything?

the left will cop the blame

if an illegal rapes another riley lakin  then the left get the blame, not trump

the border is the gift that keeps giving

aquascoot wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 3:28pm:

So he's all bullshit, then.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 3:36pm:


Here's hoping.

However, if I have to read too many more of aquascoot's word salads today I might have to think about slashing my own wrists. 

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 3:35pm:



jesus christ man


trump is a salesman

he is the best salesman i have ever seen

and he is selling to willing customers who want to kill leftie woke ideology

he identified a market and tapped into it

but dont think trump lies in bed at night worrying  about the chodes who vote for him!!

(not that any of the others in politics do ).

Trump sees his customers the way maccas see their customers  or netflix see their customers

does the CEO of maccas lie in bed at night worrying about nutrition ?

they are selling to a willing customer

no moral judgement

just the reality

if the customer is harmed , well he is an "entity with agency" who got what he asked for



if you worked in business and studied dan kennedy, you would know this

the customer is like an animal. the customer is deeply flawed, stuck in the cultural hypnosis, driven by ego and biological drives.  putty in the hands of someone who understands him much better then he understands himself

as a businessman you cant change him

he doesnt want to change !!!!

he loves his pain and he is addicted to his anger or his victim status

if you try to change him he will turn on you

now i find it disgusting but thats the reality

trump as a guy with world class powers of persuasion, saw a market opportunity and pounced

kudos

he is winning the game by the rules of the game itself