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This most recent incident that's being talked about in the thread took place in Springfield, Illinois. Given the convention is in Chicago there may well be some kind of protest there. On a side note I would love it if they got into an all out brawl with the anti-Israel protestors.
That's when it started. It's since been largely coopted and controlled, at least to the extent that in can be.
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That's just redundant. How would you sodomize them with a knife, WITHOUT it being up their ass, I wonder.
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Technically, oral counts as sodomy.
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Kamala only got where she's at,
because she knew how to blew
Violets are blue,
Kamala only got where she's at,
because she knew how to blew
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It's literally a heavily modified 747
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Maybe if he tackled the police corruption that allowed Antifa and BLM to run wild he wouldn't have been killed by them.
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He is looking great, maybe Paxlovid is a miracle drug
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They're beyond fucking hated. Even things like the pipe fitters unions have infighting between HVAC, plumbers, and welding dudes. Now imagine having a bunch of unions for fucking actors, directors, "sandwich artists", pilots, rail workers, and professional wops all under one roof. Fucking racket should be shattered and all their leaders arrested yesterday.
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Here's the full article:
FACT FOCUS: A look at false claims around Kamala Harris and her campaign for the White House
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Melissa Goldin and David Klepper
2024-07-22 23:14:27GMT
The announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris will seek the Democratic nomination for president is inspiring a wave of false claims about her eligibility and her background. Some first emerged years ago, while others only surfaced after President Joe Biden’s decision to end his bid for a second term.
Here’s a look at the facts.
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CLAIM: Harris is not an American citizen and therefore cannot serve as commander in chief.
THE FACTS: Completely false. Harris is a natural born U.S. citizen. She was born on Oct. 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, according to a copy of her birth certificate, obtained by The Associated Press.
Her mother, a cancer researcher from India, and her father, an economist from Jamaica, met as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.
Under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, anyone born on U.S. soil is considered a natural born U.S. citizen and eligible to serve as either the vice president or president.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” reads the amendment.
There is no question or legitimate debate about whether a citizen like Harris is eligible to serve as president or vice president, said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School.
“So many legal questions are really nuanced — this isn’t one of those situations,” Levinson told the AP on Monday.
Still, social media posts making the debunked assertion that Harris cannot serve as president went viral soon after Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the race and would back Harris for president.
“Kamala Harris is not eligible to run for President,” read one post on X that was liked more than 34,000 times. “Neither of her parents were natural born American citizens when she was born.”
False assertions about Harris’ eligibility began circulating in 2019 when she launched her bid for the presidency. They got a boost, thanks in part to then-President Donald Trump, when Biden selected her as his running mate.
“I heard today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” the Republican said of Harris in 2019.
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CLAIM: Harris is not Black.
THE FACTS: This is false. Harris is Black and Indian. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Black man who was born in Jamaica. Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, was born in southern India. Harris has spoken publicly for many years, including in her 2019 autobiography, about how she identifies with the heritage of both her parents.
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, social media users are making erroneous claims about Harris’ race.
“Just a reminder that Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris isn’t black,” reads one X post that had received approximately 42,000 likes and 20,400 shares as of Monday. “She Indian American. She pretends to be black as part of the delusional, Democrat DEI quota.”
But Harris is both Black and Indian. Indeed, she is the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. This fact is highlighted in her biography on WhiteHouse.gov and she has spoken about her ethnicity on many occasions.
Harris wrote in her autobiography, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” that she identifies with the heritage of both her mother and father.
“My mother, grandparents, aunts, and uncle instilled us with pride in our South Asian roots,” she wrote. “Our classical Indian names harked back to our heritage, and we were raised with a strong awareness and appreciation for Indian culture.”
In the next paragraph, she adds, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters.” Harris again refers to herself as a “black woman” in the book’s next chapter.
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CLAIM: Harris got her start by having an affair with a married man, California politician Willie Brown.
THE FACTS: This is missing some important context. Brown was separated from his wife during the relationship, which was not a secret.
Brown, 90, is a former mayor of San Francisco who was serving as speaker of the California State Assembly in the 1990s when he and Harris were in a relationship. Brown had separated from his wife in 1982.
“Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago,” Brown wrote in 2020 in the San Francisco Chronicle under the article title, “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what?”
He wrote that he supported Harris’ first race to be San Francisco district attorney — just as he has supported a long list of other California politicians, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Harris, 59, was state attorney general from 2011-2017 and served in the Senate from 2017 until 2021, when she became vice president. She has been married to Doug Emhoff since 2014.
Harris’ critics have used the past relationship to question her qualifications, as Fox News personality Tomi Lahren did when she wrote on social media in 2019: “Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown.” Lahren later apologized for the comment.
Trump and some of his supporters have also highlighted the nearly three-decade old relationship in recent attacks on Harris.
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CLAIM: An Inside Edition clip of television host Montel Williams holding hands with Harris and another woman is proof that Harris was his “side piece.”
THE FACTS: The clip shows Montel with Harris and his daughter, Ashley Williams. Harris and Williams, a former marine who hosted “The Montel Williams Show” for more than a decade, dated briefly in the early 2000s.
In the clip, taken from a 2019 Inside Edition segment, Williams can be seen posing for photographs and holding hands with both women as they arrive at the 2001 Eighth Annual Race to Erase MS in Los Angeles.
But social media users are misrepresenting the clip, using it as alleged evidence that Harris was Montel’s “side piece” — a term used to describe a person, typically a woman, who has a sexual relationship with a man in a monogamous relationship.
Williams addressed the false claims in an X post on Monday, writing in reference to the Inside Edition clip, “as most of you know, that is my daughter to my right.” Getty Images photos from the Los Angeles gala identify the women as Harris and Ashley Williams.
In 2019, Williams described his relationship with Harris in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
“@KamalaHarris and I briefly dated about 20 years ago when we were both single,” he wrote in an X post at the time. “So what? I have great respect for Sen. Harris. I have to wonder if the same stories about her dating history would have been written if she were a male candidate?”
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CLAIM: Harris promised to inflict the “vengeance of a nation” on Trump supporters.
THE FACTS: A fabricated quote attributed to Harris is spreading online five years after it first surfaced.
In the quote, Harris supposedly promises that if Trump is defeated in 2020, Trump supporters will be targeted by the federal government: “Once Trump’s gone and we have regained our rightful place in the White House, look out if you supported him and endorsed his actions, because we’ll be coming for you next. You will feel the vengeance of a nation.”
The quote was shared again on social media this week. One post on X containing an image of the quote was shared more than 22,000 times as of Monday afternoon.
The remarks didn’t come from Harris, but from a satirical article published online in August 2019. Shortly after, Trump supporters like musician Ted Nugent reposted the comments without noting they were fake.
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CLAIM: A video shows Harris saying in a speech: “Today is today. And yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. So live today, so the future today will be as the past today as it is tomorrow.”
THE FACTS: Harris never said this. Footage from a 2023 rally on reproductive rights at Howard University, her alma mater, was altered to make it seem as though she did.
In the days after Harris headlined the Washington rally, Republicans mocked a real clip of her speech, with one critic dubbing her remarks a “word salad,” the AP reported at the time.
Harris says in the clip: “So I think it’s very important — as you have heard from so many incredible leaders — for us, at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.”
NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights nonprofit whose president also spoke at the rally, livestreamed the original footage. It shows Harris making the “moment in time” remark, but not the “today is today” comment.
The White House’s transcript of Harris’ remarks also does not include the statement from the altered video. Harris’ appearance at the event came the same day that Biden announced their reelection bid.
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Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck.
Here’s a look at the facts.
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CLAIM: Harris is not an American citizen and therefore cannot serve as commander in chief.
THE FACTS: Completely false. Harris is a natural born U.S. citizen. She was born on Oct. 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, according to a copy of her birth certificate, obtained by The Associated Press.
Her mother, a cancer researcher from India, and her father, an economist from Jamaica, met as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.
Under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, anyone born on U.S. soil is considered a natural born U.S. citizen and eligible to serve as either the vice president or president.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” reads the amendment.
There is no question or legitimate debate about whether a citizen like Harris is eligible to serve as president or vice president, said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School.
“So many legal questions are really nuanced — this isn’t one of those situations,” Levinson told the AP on Monday.
Still, social media posts making the debunked assertion that Harris cannot serve as president went viral soon after Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the race and would back Harris for president.
“Kamala Harris is not eligible to run for President,” read one post on X that was liked more than 34,000 times. “Neither of her parents were natural born American citizens when she was born.”
False assertions about Harris’ eligibility began circulating in 2019 when she launched her bid for the presidency. They got a boost, thanks in part to then-President Donald Trump, when Biden selected her as his running mate.
“I heard today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” the Republican said of Harris in 2019.
___
CLAIM: Harris is not Black.
THE FACTS: This is false. Harris is Black and Indian. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Black man who was born in Jamaica. Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, was born in southern India. Harris has spoken publicly for many years, including in her 2019 autobiography, about how she identifies with the heritage of both her parents.
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, social media users are making erroneous claims about Harris’ race.
“Just a reminder that Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris isn’t black,” reads one X post that had received approximately 42,000 likes and 20,400 shares as of Monday. “She Indian American. She pretends to be black as part of the delusional, Democrat DEI quota.”
But Harris is both Black and Indian. Indeed, she is the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. This fact is highlighted in her biography on WhiteHouse.gov and she has spoken about her ethnicity on many occasions.
Harris wrote in her autobiography, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” that she identifies with the heritage of both her mother and father.
“My mother, grandparents, aunts, and uncle instilled us with pride in our South Asian roots,” she wrote. “Our classical Indian names harked back to our heritage, and we were raised with a strong awareness and appreciation for Indian culture.”
In the next paragraph, she adds, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters.” Harris again refers to herself as a “black woman” in the book’s next chapter.
___
CLAIM: Harris got her start by having an affair with a married man, California politician Willie Brown.
THE FACTS: This is missing some important context. Brown was separated from his wife during the relationship, which was not a secret.
Brown, 90, is a former mayor of San Francisco who was serving as speaker of the California State Assembly in the 1990s when he and Harris were in a relationship. Brown had separated from his wife in 1982.
“Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago,” Brown wrote in 2020 in the San Francisco Chronicle under the article title, “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what?”
He wrote that he supported Harris’ first race to be San Francisco district attorney — just as he has supported a long list of other California politicians, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Harris, 59, was state attorney general from 2011-2017 and served in the Senate from 2017 until 2021, when she became vice president. She has been married to Doug Emhoff since 2014.
Harris’ critics have used the past relationship to question her qualifications, as Fox News personality Tomi Lahren did when she wrote on social media in 2019: “Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown.” Lahren later apologized for the comment.
Trump and some of his supporters have also highlighted the nearly three-decade old relationship in recent attacks on Harris.
___
CLAIM: An Inside Edition clip of television host Montel Williams holding hands with Harris and another woman is proof that Harris was his “side piece.”
THE FACTS: The clip shows Montel with Harris and his daughter, Ashley Williams. Harris and Williams, a former marine who hosted “The Montel Williams Show” for more than a decade, dated briefly in the early 2000s.
In the clip, taken from a 2019 Inside Edition segment, Williams can be seen posing for photographs and holding hands with both women as they arrive at the 2001 Eighth Annual Race to Erase MS in Los Angeles.
But social media users are misrepresenting the clip, using it as alleged evidence that Harris was Montel’s “side piece” — a term used to describe a person, typically a woman, who has a sexual relationship with a man in a monogamous relationship.
Williams addressed the false claims in an X post on Monday, writing in reference to the Inside Edition clip, “as most of you know, that is my daughter to my right.” Getty Images photos from the Los Angeles gala identify the women as Harris and Ashley Williams.
In 2019, Williams described his relationship with Harris in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
“@KamalaHarris and I briefly dated about 20 years ago when we were both single,” he wrote in an X post at the time. “So what? I have great respect for Sen. Harris. I have to wonder if the same stories about her dating history would have been written if she were a male candidate?”
___
CLAIM: Harris promised to inflict the “vengeance of a nation” on Trump supporters.
THE FACTS: A fabricated quote attributed to Harris is spreading online five years after it first surfaced.
In the quote, Harris supposedly promises that if Trump is defeated in 2020, Trump supporters will be targeted by the federal government: “Once Trump’s gone and we have regained our rightful place in the White House, look out if you supported him and endorsed his actions, because we’ll be coming for you next. You will feel the vengeance of a nation.”
The quote was shared again on social media this week. One post on X containing an image of the quote was shared more than 22,000 times as of Monday afternoon.
The remarks didn’t come from Harris, but from a satirical article published online in August 2019. Shortly after, Trump supporters like musician Ted Nugent reposted the comments without noting they were fake.
___
CLAIM: A video shows Harris saying in a speech: “Today is today. And yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. So live today, so the future today will be as the past today as it is tomorrow.”
THE FACTS: Harris never said this. Footage from a 2023 rally on reproductive rights at Howard University, her alma mater, was altered to make it seem as though she did.
In the days after Harris headlined the Washington rally, Republicans mocked a real clip of her speech, with one critic dubbing her remarks a “word salad,” the AP reported at the time.
Harris says in the clip: “So I think it’s very important — as you have heard from so many incredible leaders — for us, at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.”
NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights nonprofit whose president also spoke at the rally, livestreamed the original footage. It shows Harris making the “moment in time” remark, but not the “today is today” comment.
The White House’s transcript of Harris’ remarks also does not include the statement from the altered video. Harris’ appearance at the event came the same day that Biden announced their reelection bid.
___
Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck.
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If that "having anxiety about a dinner speech" post a while back is anything to go by, that's probably why she doesn't want to do shit.
Which brings up another question.... why the fuck is she even doing this in the first place? Usually people with anxiety don't want attention and would rather do things that make them feel comfortable because once they start to panic, the only thing going through their brain is "GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!"
Of course, that could also explain why she's always got an IV drip of wine taped to her arm. She's probably so fucked mentally and possibly emotionally that she can't do anything public without some "help"... which is more sad than anything.
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kek. They're just flying his corpse around, panicking, while Kamala stalls the public.
"Imagine the smell."
We call him Beagle Eye.
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Whoops. That dumbass cop is getting manslaughter at the minimum. Fucking dumbass.
He was running out of patience with a semi obviously mentally unstable woman.
When she went off about rebuking him the CORRECT response would have been to up and leave and either wait for her to calm down or drive away.
Instead he goes from 0 to 120mph and starts shooting less than 10 seconds after she started saying some out of pocket shit.
She's actually not. I've said this before here and elsewhere but Harris is a blank slate. Very little real baggage and what baggage she does have can be put on Biden for not "giving her sufficient resources".
Again, she's a LOT better at reading a teleprompter than Biden has been in the last 4 years and she's up against ORANGE MAN, not 5 other Democrats.
Ehh she's already polling a bit better than Biden and the Dems are just salivating over Trump to say something stupid or inflammatory and then they'll have their media lapdogs attack him 24/7 for 2 months straight over it.
This is going to be a CLOSE race
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JD Vance's reading material for the evening
More reflections on the Kamala Koup - Curtis Yarvin
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He loses me about halfway through, and modern Yarvin is always trying to do some gay Straussian shit where he writes to hide his true meaning on different layers instead of outright saying what he thinks/means, but I think his point regarding the weirdness we've been experiencing since the debate is spot-on. We're seeing past the narrative, we're seeing real history.
@C. Cactus there is precedent in US history of the federal government running itself while the sitting president has had smuckers grape jelly for brains and hiding this from the public. FDR and Reagan are the two best examples. The government can and does run itself, Trump's first term was replete with examples of recalcitrant bureaucratic managers defying his dictates despite being under his formal authority. Congress can hold hearings, the president can be alive or literally be a corpse (I think Joe is probably still alive at this point, though), the agencies continue their work and the show goes on. Formalities like the constitution are more of an afterthought, something you pay lip service to like communism in China.
You're right that it if they are doing this right now it is completely treasonous and illegal. Unfortunately, US democracy does not work as it says it does on the box. Its been a managerial state since at least FDR, although Trump may soon be in a position to remedy that. Either way, I'd argue that we're splitting hairs if we say the treason began after they hid his stroke/major health event last week. He's been demented enough to be 25th'd for far longer.
You are also correct, however, that if this is ever revealed it would be a Watergate-esque scandal and utterly shatter the modern Democratic Party.
More reflections on the Kamala Koup - Curtis Yarvin
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Americans are still reeling a little bit from the reality that their “democracy” is a place where an aging “leader” is hustled out the door like this:
What you are seeing is history breaking through the movie. Does all this make you feel like you are on drugs? You are not on drugs. You were on drugs. You are coming down. This is reality breaking through the trip. It’s painful, a little, but it’s a good feeling. Unfortunately, you may not have much choice but to learn to enjoy it.
You thought you weren’t in history—for reasons. You had reasons. They were good reasons. White was black, two plus two was five, and all men were created equal. History had ended. All power belonged to the workers and peasants. Democracy was the worst system of government, except all the others. Movie logic. Poetic logic. Empsonian ambiguity of the seventh type. Wonderful stuff. But—
But—guys, I gotta tell you—history is full of this stuff. And you’re definitely in history. Just roll with it a little. If it feels like you took a little too much acid—cut back on the Twitter a little—but first and foremost, you have to learn to relax and enjoy it. Later in our conversation, you’ll meet Jesus. I mean, not Jesus. Lewis. But—you’ll see.
Because my feeling is, it’s only starting to get weird. See: we still haven’t seen the President. That’s the one power a hustled-out frontman still controls. Now the tables are turned. Biden is a stubborn Irish bastard. He can be mean. Now, he is in a position to be mean.
Before that terrible debate, he had no reason to hurt them, and they had no reason to hurt him. Then someone spiked his Aricept-Dexedrine drip with saline, lost him the debate, and changed the world—because the incentives diverged between the Biden entourage and the rest of the Democratic Party.
After the debate, he could do nothing to hurt them—except do nothing. They could do everything to hurt him. Having started with the easy way, they were about to try it the hard way.
Evidently the hard way was too much. The President, earlier, had observed that God could get him to step down, but no one else could. Maybe it turned out that Nancy Pelosi could make that happen? That little chat with God? That conversation?
But now, they can do nothing to hurt him, except—well, we’ll get to that. But by doing nothing, he can still hurt them.
President Biden has to not only surrender to the Koup, but cooperate enthusiastically with it. Otherwise, things get weird. Things are already weird. But excuses time out. While I refuse to be drawn into the graphology debate on Biden’s supposed signature—a priori, I would not expect the Joe Biden I see on TV to be able to sign his name at all—sure. He has Covid. Okay. People get Covid. People get Parkinson’s…
There is simply no good reason for the President not to be able to talk to the press. Especially if he is staying President! But.. there are… plenty of weird reasons…
If they are ready to lie about his Parkinson’s, or whatever—could it become—long Covid? Could the President—die of Covid? People die of Covid… Could the President… die? Take a sudden turn for the worse? A tragedy! The thing is—people already feel a little… misinformed… about his health—why not be hanged for an ox? Weirder and weirder. Scalia’s pillow is already hanging on Chekhov’s wall…
The longer President Biden fails to appear, in person, not AI, in public, and explain—the weirder everything gets—the more real history, which is reality, starts breaking through your little movie. Who are these people, actually? They are human beings—they have parents—they come from somewhere—well—
“The easy way or the hard way.” No one ever talks about the fact that Nancy Pelosi is literally the Meadow Soprano of Baltimore—to be exact, the daughter of Thomas D’Alesandro, the old Mafia mayor of Baltimore.
See, before Baltimore, the—uh—(checks notes)—“Charm City”—was controlled by Black criminals, it was controlled by Italian criminals. (Thomas Aquinas used to call this the “Great Chain of Being.”) As Wikipedia explains:
Unsubstantiated! Here, John F. Kennedy gives Ms. Soprano a quick mammogram:
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She seems unfazed. One suspects that growing up in the D’Alesandro household taught Nancy one or two things about doing things “the easy way or the hard way.”
And when you get these late-Soviet vibes, Americans (frens keep recommending Iannucci’s Death of Stalin, but I will have to wait for AI to dub it into Russian with English subtitles)—don’t be like, OMG, how bad is it, when did it start happening?
Guys: it never “started happening.” It was always happening. Your wife was cheating before she met you. You were her second date that night. That magical night! Not out of three. Out of four. When you write the new history of your marriage—it has to be a history in which this woman, this female person, who you thought you really knew, who you really, deeply, truly loved for many, many years, was—always a whore. Sorry. You don’t have to do it. You can choose to keep living in the black-and-white movie.
In good Alex Jones terms: what is happening is not that the system just started lying to you. What is happening is that the system’s system for lying to you is suffering a system error. The longer the current weirdness continues—the more damage is done to the system’s credibility.
That was the thing about the late Soviet Union—the post-Soviet period was not just the result of imposing the Western legal system on the East. It was—but it was also the result of the late Soviet period, in which security services and organized criminals were already becoming increasingly indistinguishable—portending the 21st-century Russian siloviki state. And yet that late Soviet state still had to flap its lips about the “workers and the peasants.” The Biden entourage makes the Clinton entourage look clean. Just wait for the Harris entourage! It, too, will flap its lips…
Here are the ugly stakes in the current Biden standoff. He has to cooperate. Or things get weird. Since he stepped down, they have no way to escalate—except punishing him.
How can they punish him? Well, they can prosecute his family. They can prosecute him. If the story isn’t that he stepped down like a wise old statesman—a statesman who is certainly not too busy with for one or two last fatherly chat with the American people, if not the straight-out Kampaigning for Kamala marathon the Party would hope for—the story could be—that he is bad?
That would be seriously weird. At a certain point—it might be the least weird thing? I dunno. As Hunter’s namesake put it: when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Or is it getting weird? Again—maybe—in a way—it’s getting less weird. Historically.
So much for geotemporal exceptionalism. Our time and place, it turns out, is just another time and place. As Carlyle predicted: eventually Americans would find out that their country is just another country. Their government is just another government. Their regime is just another regime.
Look: when you have to hate the only system of government that actually works, this is what you get. Yes, democracy is pretty. When you want a pretty ideal whose reality can never be real—what you get is an ugly reality you were never supposed to see. But—now you have to see it. Bummer, dude. Sorry about the whole Truman Show vibe.
Americans: do you want to understand how government is supposed to work? After this latest charade, are you finally ready to admit that there are no secret magic beans in your beautiful old pieces of paper? That your history is just history? That your country is just another country? Can you hear this with your jimmies yet unrustled?
Can you take a step up the catwalk and, like Truman, look back on the movie set of your old public reality, when you still thought it wasn’t? When you still thought your time, your place, was somehow an exception to history, was better than history, just naturally an improvement on all other times and places? At least in its governance?
In retrospect, in hindsight, wasn’t thinking in this way narrow, parochial, even bigoted in the old dictionary sense of this word? Don’t you want to discard all this smallness? Don’t you want to grow? Don’t you want to change? Don’t you want beautiful women who “just got out of a relationship” to be shocked, then amused, and then enthralled? Then try being a monarchist! As Anais Nin put it: “and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
The thing is: monarchism is not a belief. Monarchism is an absence of belief. Are you ready to throw away all the stupid sacred principles you believe in—accept that they are all just Western variants of “the workers and the peasants”—take a deep breadth and admit that, by historical standards, your government, your system of government, even your idea of government, is not just not necessarily excellent, let alone superlative or even exceptional, but perhaps—not even good?
Are you ready to admit that your country is just another country and your regime is just another regime? Ready to learn the true principles of government from scratch?
Why mess with the rest? Go straight to the best! Learn from the “Sun King.” What’s great about Louis XIV’s instructions for his son is that they were never meant to be published. They may or may not be fully authentic—but they are certainly plausible. (They are also surprisingly hard to find—they haven’t been translated since 1806, and Claude decided to hallucinate the name of the anonymous translator, who decided to call his subject “Lewis.” Library science is hard.)
As the Sun King explains:
Imagine if Democrats learned to love monarchy! Just from all this Game of Thrones stuff! I think the President, even detained as he seems to be in his Delaware dacha—could still strike back—if he had a plan. If only he had a plan…
Let me give him a plan. The name of the plan is: Hunter. I think it’s too much to ask to put Hunter at the top of the ticket. But what if the President’s price for cooperating was—not Biden-Harris, but Harris-Biden? We have a young Biden—tried and tested by the hardest of experiences—emerging, like George W. Bush, from addiction—put this crown prince up against J.D. Vance! Now there’s a debate America really needs to see. “And it would clear up a lot of this legal BS, too. Come on, Nancy. Let’s be reasonable.”
“The easy way or the hard way!” Don’t you keep getting this “am I in a movie?” vibe? You are not in a movie. It’s the opposite. You thought you were in a movie. But now, it turns out you’re not. You’re just in history.
What you are seeing is history breaking through the movie. Does all this make you feel like you are on drugs? You are not on drugs. You were on drugs. You are coming down. This is reality breaking through the trip. It’s painful, a little, but it’s a good feeling. Unfortunately, you may not have much choice but to learn to enjoy it.
You thought you weren’t in history—for reasons. You had reasons. They were good reasons. White was black, two plus two was five, and all men were created equal. History had ended. All power belonged to the workers and peasants. Democracy was the worst system of government, except all the others. Movie logic. Poetic logic. Empsonian ambiguity of the seventh type. Wonderful stuff. But—
But—guys, I gotta tell you—history is full of this stuff. And you’re definitely in history. Just roll with it a little. If it feels like you took a little too much acid—cut back on the Twitter a little—but first and foremost, you have to learn to relax and enjoy it. Later in our conversation, you’ll meet Jesus. I mean, not Jesus. Lewis. But—you’ll see.
Because my feeling is, it’s only starting to get weird. See: we still haven’t seen the President. That’s the one power a hustled-out frontman still controls. Now the tables are turned. Biden is a stubborn Irish bastard. He can be mean. Now, he is in a position to be mean.
Before that terrible debate, he had no reason to hurt them, and they had no reason to hurt him. Then someone spiked his Aricept-Dexedrine drip with saline, lost him the debate, and changed the world—because the incentives diverged between the Biden entourage and the rest of the Democratic Party.
After the debate, he could do nothing to hurt them—except do nothing. They could do everything to hurt him. Having started with the easy way, they were about to try it the hard way.
Evidently the hard way was too much. The President, earlier, had observed that God could get him to step down, but no one else could. Maybe it turned out that Nancy Pelosi could make that happen? That little chat with God? That conversation?
But now, they can do nothing to hurt him, except—well, we’ll get to that. But by doing nothing, he can still hurt them.
President Biden has to not only surrender to the Koup, but cooperate enthusiastically with it. Otherwise, things get weird. Things are already weird. But excuses time out. While I refuse to be drawn into the graphology debate on Biden’s supposed signature—a priori, I would not expect the Joe Biden I see on TV to be able to sign his name at all—sure. He has Covid. Okay. People get Covid. People get Parkinson’s…
There is simply no good reason for the President not to be able to talk to the press. Especially if he is staying President! But.. there are… plenty of weird reasons…
If they are ready to lie about his Parkinson’s, or whatever—could it become—long Covid? Could the President—die of Covid? People die of Covid… Could the President… die? Take a sudden turn for the worse? A tragedy! The thing is—people already feel a little… misinformed… about his health—why not be hanged for an ox? Weirder and weirder. Scalia’s pillow is already hanging on Chekhov’s wall…
The longer President Biden fails to appear, in person, not AI, in public, and explain—the weirder everything gets—the more real history, which is reality, starts breaking through your little movie. Who are these people, actually? They are human beings—they have parents—they come from somewhere—well—
“The easy way or the hard way.” No one ever talks about the fact that Nancy Pelosi is literally the Meadow Soprano of Baltimore—to be exact, the daughter of Thomas D’Alesandro, the old Mafia mayor of Baltimore.
See, before Baltimore, the—uh—(checks notes)—“Charm City”—was controlled by Black criminals, it was controlled by Italian criminals. (Thomas Aquinas used to call this the “Great Chain of Being.”) As Wikipedia explains:
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Unsubstantiated! Here, John F. Kennedy gives Ms. Soprano a quick mammogram:
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She seems unfazed. One suspects that growing up in the D’Alesandro household taught Nancy one or two things about doing things “the easy way or the hard way.”
And when you get these late-Soviet vibes, Americans (frens keep recommending Iannucci’s Death of Stalin, but I will have to wait for AI to dub it into Russian with English subtitles)—don’t be like, OMG, how bad is it, when did it start happening?
Guys: it never “started happening.” It was always happening. Your wife was cheating before she met you. You were her second date that night. That magical night! Not out of three. Out of four. When you write the new history of your marriage—it has to be a history in which this woman, this female person, who you thought you really knew, who you really, deeply, truly loved for many, many years, was—always a whore. Sorry. You don’t have to do it. You can choose to keep living in the black-and-white movie.
In good Alex Jones terms: what is happening is not that the system just started lying to you. What is happening is that the system’s system for lying to you is suffering a system error. The longer the current weirdness continues—the more damage is done to the system’s credibility.
That was the thing about the late Soviet Union—the post-Soviet period was not just the result of imposing the Western legal system on the East. It was—but it was also the result of the late Soviet period, in which security services and organized criminals were already becoming increasingly indistinguishable—portending the 21st-century Russian siloviki state. And yet that late Soviet state still had to flap its lips about the “workers and the peasants.” The Biden entourage makes the Clinton entourage look clean. Just wait for the Harris entourage! It, too, will flap its lips…
Here are the ugly stakes in the current Biden standoff. He has to cooperate. Or things get weird. Since he stepped down, they have no way to escalate—except punishing him.
How can they punish him? Well, they can prosecute his family. They can prosecute him. If the story isn’t that he stepped down like a wise old statesman—a statesman who is certainly not too busy with for one or two last fatherly chat with the American people, if not the straight-out Kampaigning for Kamala marathon the Party would hope for—the story could be—that he is bad?
That would be seriously weird. At a certain point—it might be the least weird thing? I dunno. As Hunter’s namesake put it: when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Or is it getting weird? Again—maybe—in a way—it’s getting less weird. Historically.
So much for geotemporal exceptionalism. Our time and place, it turns out, is just another time and place. As Carlyle predicted: eventually Americans would find out that their country is just another country. Their government is just another government. Their regime is just another regime.
Look: when you have to hate the only system of government that actually works, this is what you get. Yes, democracy is pretty. When you want a pretty ideal whose reality can never be real—what you get is an ugly reality you were never supposed to see. But—now you have to see it. Bummer, dude. Sorry about the whole Truman Show vibe.
Americans: do you want to understand how government is supposed to work? After this latest charade, are you finally ready to admit that there are no secret magic beans in your beautiful old pieces of paper? That your history is just history? That your country is just another country? Can you hear this with your jimmies yet unrustled?
Can you take a step up the catwalk and, like Truman, look back on the movie set of your old public reality, when you still thought it wasn’t? When you still thought your time, your place, was somehow an exception to history, was better than history, just naturally an improvement on all other times and places? At least in its governance?
In retrospect, in hindsight, wasn’t thinking in this way narrow, parochial, even bigoted in the old dictionary sense of this word? Don’t you want to discard all this smallness? Don’t you want to grow? Don’t you want to change? Don’t you want beautiful women who “just got out of a relationship” to be shocked, then amused, and then enthralled? Then try being a monarchist! As Anais Nin put it: “and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
The thing is: monarchism is not a belief. Monarchism is an absence of belief. Are you ready to throw away all the stupid sacred principles you believe in—accept that they are all just Western variants of “the workers and the peasants”—take a deep breadth and admit that, by historical standards, your government, your system of government, even your idea of government, is not just not necessarily excellent, let alone superlative or even exceptional, but perhaps—not even good?
Are you ready to admit that your country is just another country and your regime is just another regime? Ready to learn the true principles of government from scratch?
Why mess with the rest? Go straight to the best! Learn from the “Sun King.” What’s great about Louis XIV’s instructions for his son is that they were never meant to be published. They may or may not be fully authentic—but they are certainly plausible. (They are also surprisingly hard to find—they haven’t been translated since 1806, and Claude decided to hallucinate the name of the anonymous translator, who decided to call his subject “Lewis.” Library science is hard.)
As the Sun King explains:
Forget everything you know about history, government, and political science. Learn that. Read the rest of the book, maybe. You’ll understand the “state of fermentation”—and maybe even learn to enjoy it. Text the link to all the new art hoes you’re meeting. Make bets with your new bros on whether they read it. Living in reality can be good! “The risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Imagine if Democrats learned to love monarchy! Just from all this Game of Thrones stuff! I think the President, even detained as he seems to be in his Delaware dacha—could still strike back—if he had a plan. If only he had a plan…
Let me give him a plan. The name of the plan is: Hunter. I think it’s too much to ask to put Hunter at the top of the ticket. But what if the President’s price for cooperating was—not Biden-Harris, but Harris-Biden? We have a young Biden—tried and tested by the hardest of experiences—emerging, like George W. Bush, from addiction—put this crown prince up against J.D. Vance! Now there’s a debate America really needs to see. “And it would clear up a lot of this legal BS, too. Come on, Nancy. Let’s be reasonable.”
He loses me about halfway through, and modern Yarvin is always trying to do some gay Straussian shit where he writes to hide his true meaning on different layers instead of outright saying what he thinks/means, but I think his point regarding the weirdness we've been experiencing since the debate is spot-on. We're seeing past the narrative, we're seeing real history.
This could be it.
@C. Cactus there is precedent in US history of the federal government running itself while the sitting president has had smuckers grape jelly for brains and hiding this from the public. FDR and Reagan are the two best examples. The government can and does run itself, Trump's first term was replete with examples of recalcitrant bureaucratic managers defying his dictates despite being under his formal authority. Congress can hold hearings, the president can be alive or literally be a corpse (I think Joe is probably still alive at this point, though), the agencies continue their work and the show goes on. Formalities like the constitution are more of an afterthought, something you pay lip service to like communism in China.
You're right that it if they are doing this right now it is completely treasonous and illegal. Unfortunately, US democracy does not work as it says it does on the box. Its been a managerial state since at least FDR, although Trump may soon be in a position to remedy that. Either way, I'd argue that we're splitting hairs if we say the treason began after they hid his stroke/major health event last week. He's been demented enough to be 25th'd for far longer.
You are also correct, however, that if this is ever revealed it would be a Watergate-esque scandal and utterly shatter the modern Democratic Party.
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I do, Harding made a brilliant and unexpected choice picking Calvin Coolidge to be his VP and it was a decision that lead us into the most prosperous time in our nation. Maybe someone like Martin Van Buren is a better example of a forgotten president since he was a democrat that lead us into a depression Like Biden did
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i have the answer to this gordion knot
they have no fucking idea what they're doing
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I'm a product of the american education system. Who the fuck is Martin Van Buren?
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Yeah this one was pretty bad. People on the e-right and libertarian space were pretty upset when it came out. Same with the stoner in Texas who got flashbanged and shot in his own bedroom. You really expect us to cry a river over a dead crackhead because a drunk white guy got executed a few years ago?
We already have socialized healthcare. The niggress you're crying about couldn't make it to adulthood without handouts and Medicaid.
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