“You can fit in. Or you can change the world. You don’t get to do both.” Robin Sharma
Just how much of modern life in the past four years has been a pantomime? And how many beliefs have we been obliged to espouse that are simply not true? I would suggest the answers to those questions are “most” and “a multitude”, but presently there is much talk of a 'vibe shift' in sentiment. The premise is that there is pushback against the blob's agenda, which takes the form of “the speaking of previously unspeakable truths, the noticing of previously suppressed facts;”(1). Musk's takeover of Twitter/X is alleged to have been the catalyst, because his restoration of free speech (however circumscribed that might still be in reality) shattered the censorship industrial complex. Suddenly,
“...the thought criminals were freed, and the window of acceptable discourse broadened until it broke — a total Overton collapse. Now, for better and for worse, there is no more curation, there are no more fake trends, there are no more Washington Post-employed state sock puppets propped up artificially, and there is no more political censorship.”(2)
And so, in the new spirit of the age, BlackRock finds itself increasingly defunded as red states take their pension investments elsewhere (nine and counting),(3) Big Business is ditching ESG and DIE,(4) the public is giving the climatistas the middle finger by refusing to buy exorbitantly expensive, mobile fire hazards (5)(6)(7) and there is even a smattering of heterodox opinions on the 'vaccines', 'climate change' and the trans agenda (among other hot-button topics) that have been allowed to gain a little traction.
A recognition of Reality is, seemingly, making a comeback. Third rails are being deactivated. In short, we're winning. It's certainly the case that the Overton Window, on matters cultural and political alike, had been forced further and further Leftward, as all manner of abuses became normalized. Perhaps a course correction was, therefore, always on the cards eventually. In this reading of the zeitgeist, the insurgency is ushering in a new world, in which the Great Pretending is banished – along with “old world of Ivy League diplomas and carefully curated “color inside the lines” public image” -(8) and the Truth is embraced once more. Perhaps the overriding question is whether our new heading can be maintained.
There are elements of this theory that accord with what we know to be true. The personnel, those that might drive and steward such a renaissance, have been standing ready for some considerable time. And it wasn't as though there wasn't already a cohort of critical thinkers prior to March 2020, which I'm going to take as the ruling class' jumping off point for the final summit push. The attempts to derail Brexit and the obvious scam that was the global warming cult had already made a cynic of me and I imagine that I was later to the party than many, as it was only when I was able to spend longer mining the rich seam of alternative media that the scope of the establishment's perfidy started to become clear.
Come the onset of the 'pandemic' I had, therefore, lost the ability to believe pretty much anything I was told by authority. I was in the neighborhood of 'distrust, then verify' and finding it to be an agreeable location. Moreover, the patterns of previous debacles were immediately apparent – what Christopher Booker identified as the anatomy of a scare:
“The source of the supposed danger must be something universal...the danger it poses must be novel...the scientific basis for the scare must seem plausible...society's response to the threat must be disproportionate.”(9)
I was far from alone in my skepticism. Yes, there were the legions of the purportedly credulous, clapping like seals on their front doorstep every Thursday evening at eight sharp in celebration of NHS carers who, after Midazolam Matt's initial homicidal flurry, were spending more time practicing their TikTok dance moves than they were treating patients. But social pressure is a powerful force; it can easily obscure the true picture and I wonder what proportion were genuinely taken in. A good number, I suspect, but perhaps less than we thought at the time.
Because many of the people that I spoke to were instinctively suspicious of the narrative. They weren't, perhaps, able to pinpoint precisely what it was that triggered their spidey sense, but they knew something was off – not that they were prepared to do anything about it at the time. However, any resort to forced compliance is guaranteed to amplify the fears of those who are merely uneasy about the direction of travel, a mistake that that the progressive types are destined to make time and again.
And while I imagine that the proportions of doubting Thomas's varied according to the nature of the regime whose yoke they were under, those of us in Western Europe and the Anglosphere were subject to such meticulously choreographed, near-identical privations that it became difficult to avoid the bigger picture.
As a result, it's a racing certainty that there were more heretics than officially acknowledged. Some no doubt kept their powder drier than others, especially once it became apparent that anybody with the stones to pop their head above the parapet would be double-tapped in short order. But the 'vaccination' rates, whilst almost certainly exaggerated (pour encourager les autres), told the story. It's likely that between 20% and 30% defied all blandishments, which is suggestive of significant resistance, given how insistent the establishment was.
Nonetheless, the blob's narrative was baked in and while there was acquiescence to it, fealty to the ruling class' version of events was sub-optimal. Then, when the lies began to be exposed, unapproved private convictions were solidified. But while the fake pandemic may have been the primary catalyst, the realization that the establishment was being economical with the actualité prompted further reflection for many (but not all) and the more enlightened members of the recently red-pilled took matters a step further and asked the obvious follow-up – if they're lying about Covid, what else are they lying about?
And this line of questioning is causing the ruling class problems, because to pursue it sedulously can only result in one outcome – an understanding that the 'pandemic' is simply one of many fabrications that have been sold to us. This, in turn, degrades our ability to hold fast to the incompetency defense; that all politicians are stupid or nominally corrupt. Once we have grasped the fact that Net Zero, CBDCs, the WHO's pandemic treaty, digital IDs and the entire panoply of the Great Reset are, in combination, the framework for our enslavement, it becomes impossible to give anybody who pushes these plans the benefit of the doubt.
This is likely where you are at if you're reading this. But it's not where the 'vibe shift' is at because, much though its proponents would insist otherwise, the “previously unspeakable truths” and the “previously suppressed facts” (reality with a capital R) are still somewhat vanilla in nature. The assertion that the Feds were heavily involved in January 6th isn't really much of a shocker. Drawing the logical conclusion and stating that the riot, in combination with the stolen election, constituted a genuine coup and that the Biden administration is, therefore, entirely illegitimate is more like it.
Lambasting Pfizer for the 'adverse side effects' caused by their version of the jab isn't in the same league as declaring that the 'vaccine' was never intended to benefit anyone, but was specifically engineered to kill and maim, and that the damage done isn't a side effect – it's the intended outcome. Making much of the impracticability and unpopularity of EVs is all well and good, but pointing out that the blob doesn't care, because it has never been about the environment anyway, but about curtailing the public's freedom of movement instead (in which case, making EVs expensive, unreliable and then unavailable, because no-one's making them any more, is a feature, not a bug) is still not permissible in polite society. In short, the 'vibe shift' is still framed by the Overton Window, because:
“The mission here is always to let considerations of strategy run alongside – perhaps even ultimately prevail in the short run – over issues of principle and truth, all in the interest of being not merely right but also effective. Everyone in the business of affecting public opinion does this, all in compliance with the perception of the existence of this Window.”(10)
This is the wrong strategy, which is not to say that its adoption isn't understandable. In other, less perilous times it might even be more effective than launching one depth charge after another. After all, reasonable people prefer to mediate and compromise. But we're not dealing with reasonable people. We're dealing with bullies and the way to deal with them is fundamentally different.
Bullies must be resisted at every turn, as they won't compromise. If they get a taste for winning, they won't stop. If the reasonable person doesn't recognize who they're dealing with and doesn't therefore push back hard the first time, the bully will form the impression that they have encountered an easy touch that will never push back and they will be relentless. And we didn't push back, did we? Because the price was too high at that time, when the fever was upon the sheople, too. And they are relentless, aren't they?
So, those members of the resistance who are being given the time of day by the enemy – defined as the blob and its minions in the mockingbird media – aren't the types to declaim the brutal truth. They are malleable advocates who work within the frame provided:
“To be aware of the Overton window, and fit within it, means to curate your own advocacy. You should do so in a way that is designed to comply with a structure of opinion that is pre-existing as a kind of template we are all given. It means to craft a strategy specifically designed to game the system, which is said to operate according to acceptable and unacceptable opinionizing.”(11)
This is where we still are. The powerful among us are still not bold enough to say it like it really is (which is at least part of the reason why they are powerful in the first place). If that were to happen, it would mean that the regime's strong-arm tactics had become ineffectual. It might even mean that these people no longer cared what the regime thought of them and that scenario would rightly be viewed as a dangerous threat. If we don't care what somebody thinks of us, they lose power over us; power that we have ceded to them in the first place. This means that, when they are unreasonable, we cease compromising, we stop making allowances and we no longer spare their feelings. We stop pretending that all is as it should be.
I accept that this is far easier said than done – people have livelihoods and social and familial structures that they wish to retain. But there's no getting away from this fact either – soft soaping matters is still pretending and pretending is weakness. It's an abnegation of self. It means that the other party is still in the ascendancy, that they control us and that they retain the ability to force acknowledgement of a make-believe world.
“Those who get to impose fresh irrational indignities on the rest of us are the upper caste. Those who object, or even have reservations, are lower.”(12)
If the 'vibe shift' was a genuine threat to the blob, its officeholders would be going beresque, but they're not. Because, as I have said many times, politics is downstream from personality. And there is a certain type of person who has absolutely no shame. Who never backs off. Yes, sometimes they conduct a tactical retreat, but they always come again. Leftists are Leftists because of their personality type; if you wish to see the progressive mind in all its glory, just tune into the YouTube coverage of US House Committees and see how they behave when they aren't in possession of the gavel.
The Democrat members are deeply unpleasant, mendacious, intolerant and wholly unconcerned with the truth. Everything revolves around their precious narrative – their behavior demonstrates their character flaws in glorious technicolor. They just don't seem to be able to help themselves, nor do they seem to have any understanding of how they appear to others, although I don't suppose they really care.
The Democratic Party (in common with every progressive movement in the West) are the party that has surrendered itself to the tyrannical ten percent.(13) This is not to excuse the milquetoasts, cucks, neo-cons and controlled opposition in the RINO ranks, that make up the other wing of the Uniparty. Nor does it mean that nominally conservative parties cannot be captured by the collaborators, as is the case in the UK, but those groups, while a collective waste of skin, aren't generally openly hostile or prone to supergluing themselves to motorways, which isn't to say that they aren't capable of inflicting just as much damage.
But progressives are different - whatever headwinds they encounter, whatever opposition they may be confronted with, matters not. Doubling down is their default setting. They are also amoral. Their capacity for lies and obfuscation is seemingly bottomless and, now that we are clearly approaching the end game and they've been racking up the wins, my guess is that they are starting to feel unassailable. They don't then feel the need to bother camouflaging the contradictions any more. They don't have enough respect for us and they don't have any fear of us.
This analysis of the progressive mindset has been arrived at by personal observation, but it is also corroborated by the academy. A 2023 study “investigated the relationship of left-wing authoritarianism with the ego-focused trait of narcissism.” The researchers expected to find that there would, indeed, be such a connection, but they also (in my view, somewhat naïvely) thought that the Lefties would be “positively related to prosocial traits” because of their social justice warrior proclivities. They weren't:
“The results ... showed that a strong ideological view, according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate ... was associated with antagonistic narcissism (Study 1) and psychopathy (Study 2). However, neither dispositional altruism nor social justice commitment was related to left-wing anti-hierarchical aggression. Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs.”(14)
For their part, most prominent 'conservatives' are consciously living in the past; mostly, I suspect, as it is feels like a more comfortable place and, partly, because they lack the requisite qualities to take on what is now the opposition. Back then, there genuinely were opposing political philosophies and the argument was generally about what to conserve and what needed to change so that the rich/poor, powerful/exploitable dynamics didn't get too far out of whack. There were often reasonable people of all political hues who were capable of working together in the service of those they represented, notwithstanding the fact that it has become increasingly clear that this happy state of affairs hasn't existed for decades, at minimum.
It's definitely not where we are now. Liberals are an endangered species and the Left is dominated by extremists. The issues that have traditionally animated politics are now only to be heard in minor keys. Instead, the collectivist/hectoring/we know best mindset has been turbo-charged and then focused on a seemingly endless deluge of woke nonsense, on the one hand, and the construction of a digital prison, on the other. 'Socialism' is no longer the Left's credo – instead, it's totalitarianism, leavened with great dollops of their oppressor/oppressed construct.
Regrettably, however, the character-type that dominates the conservative movement has not learned the necessary lessons and is no longer fit-for-purpose. Moderation and a pedantic adherence to decorum and 'the rules of the game' are attributes that will inevitably prove ineffective when opposing ruthless, amoral sociopaths.
“Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments.”(15)
And so, for the avoidance of doubt - if we cleave to the belief that we need to demonstrate willing, operate in a spirit of bipartisanship, let the less egregious things go unchallenged, we will continue to lose. It's the difference between being in a healthy relationship with somebody, and an unhealthy one; in the former, compromise is mutual. Sometimes straightforward, sometimes messy, but a thing, nonetheless. In the latter, if the other party doesn't compromise, ever, and yet we do, where do we think we'll end up?
Probably talking about ephemeral vibe shifts while being betrayed at every turn because, between them, the abusers and the abused have cobbled together a political universe that claims to be democratic in character, but is anything but. And they mean to retain control of it, come Hell or high water. They absolutely have to, because there is no turning back now. As a result of their pathology, they are prone to psychological projection:
“With psychological projection there are no gray areas in the belief structure: The other person is ALL BAD. There is no circumstance in which a person (or political party) is understood to possess a combination of both good and bad features.”(16)
It is my impression that, for the most part, we don't understand the Left in those terms. We are guilty of some projection of our own, because we impute our reasoning to our enemy. We have a tendency to assume that the Left is playing political games when they compare Trump to Hitler, or trample all over 237 years of Senate precedence (as they did this week by refusing to hold an impeachment trial and dismissing the charges instead),(17) but they aren't – they just don't think the way we do. If the other party/person is all bad, they reason that they are justified in using any and all means at their disposable in pursuit of righteous victory. All that they do is built on this bedrock. The answer to “they wouldn't, would they?” is, therefore, always “yes, they would”.
This pathology renders them incapable of pursuing genuine democracy, as that would entail giving a voice to those they despise and, incredible as it may seem, they would view that course of action as morally wrong. So, they are not only allowed to impose their version of 'democracy', they are obligated to. And there are two main ways of achieving the desired result; either the covert Uniparty approach, or the fake centrist coalition/cordon sanitaire method, seasoned with as much fraud as may be necessary.
They are, after all, working with pliable material. In present times, the odds of any politician (or commentator) being a person of genuine integrity are vanishingly small. The spectrum appears to run from zealots to opportunists, with pragmatists – aka colluders and invertebrates – and Fifth Columnists in the majority. Even the firebrands operate within guardrails and any that refuse to do so are spat out of the system or rendered persona non grata. Everyone else is, to a greater or lesser extent, playing a role.
I appreciate the fact that simply asserting that the political class are, almost uniformly, shysters of the highest order doesn't simply make them so. It is, however, demonstrably true. None of the issues that really matter are spoken of, or addressed. A brief list might include the aforementioned Net Zero, inflation, censorship, excess mortality, the undermining of religious freedom, the restless tsunami of wokeism and, if one is a resident of Western Europe, the increasingly tyrannical agenda of the EU. But there is no political entity that will sip from any of these poisoned chalices. Their existence is studiously ignored.
Those that earn their living commentating on the charade must also self censor if they are to retain access and/or get published – even those who we might consider to be authentic almost certainly have feet of clay, because they too are obliged to be functionaries of the system. Their sense of identity and their worth to others are dependent on their access to that system. If they don't play the game;
“...the institutional leadership, those functionaries in control of the compartment (silo), can block access to the silo thereby devaluing the career currency of other functionaries...”(18)
In this way, the vast majority of bases are covered. The outliers, the Trumps of this world, are given special treatment because, if anyone embodies ALL BAD, it is he. But, invariably, the system works just fine. We hold it in general contempt, but I suspect that we have also been assimilated – desensitised to the abuse. And it's the Uniparty model, with one or two tweaks, that is the method of choice in the Anglosphere.
Over the past four years, governments nominally of both the Left and the Right have held power in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, although whether Trump was still 'in power' once the 'pandemic' hit is arguable. In the UK, the Tories have held sway for the entire duration and, in Canada, Trudeau's Liberals have been in the ascendancy. Yet life has gone on with no discernible change no matter who was in the hot seat.
The UK Conservatives, the party of two unelected Prime Ministers in Truss and Sunak, are advertised as being right of center. The Liberal/National Coalition government of Australia, defeated at the ballot box in May 2022, was also allegedly conservative. Ardern's Labour Party ruled the roost until November 2023, when it was given the bloodiest of noses by the incoming Right and Trudeau's Liberals have been kept in power by the Leftist New Democrats. We all know who's nominally running the show in Washington DC.
But they all followed the lock-down script, they've all suppressed dissenting voices, they have all either passed (or are attempting to pass) draconian free speech laws, they will all sign up to the WHO's upcoming treaty and they are all full steam ahead with Net Zero. In short, they are all globalists, which means that the vote in the Anglosphere has the approximate value of the square root of bugger all. If you want a conservative government, strong on immigration, patriotic and proud to espouse traditional Judaeo-Christian values, which will let you get on with your life, there is nobody to vote for. There are just different versions of authoritarianism, dressed up as something they're not.
In the EU, for the most part, the same result is achieved by slightly different means – at the national level – but with an extra layer of irrelevance and a healthy dose of forced compliance. Instead of a two party system (with the occasional walk-on role for a third cog in the wheel) there is, almost uniformly, coalition governance. Special interest groups and regional parties are allowed to wield ministerial power, because it is rare that a single major party musters a majority. The sheer volume of entities is something to behold and most, if not all, win seats.
In the recent Spanish election, six parties managed to get on the scorecard. This year's Portuguese election topped that with eight and the Dutch election of November 2023 resulted in 15 parties being represented in parliament. None of the major parties achieved an outright majority and were therefore obliged to enter coalition talks with the minor players. However, as was also the case in the Polish election, the right of center party with the most votes was, in every case, prevented from forming a government. This is par for the course in the EU.
The tactics are much the same across the entire continent. Firstly, deliberately misrepresent your party's position on the political spectrum. This usually means that you claim to be 'Centrist' or 'Center-Right' when you are, in fact, Leftists. Voters tend not to notice this sleight of hand because they have been conditioned to believe that nationalism is now Far Right and that cultural conservatism combined with economic liberalism is right of center when it is, at best, socialism minus the woke obsessions.
Designations like 'Social-Democratic' and 'Christian Democrats' get bandied around and routinely abused. By way of example, Mutti Merkel, the ex-Communist Party apparatchik, EU enthusiast and open-borders supremo, was allegedly a Center-Right Christian Democrat. The execrable Mark Rutte, head of the VVD party – another EU fanatic, who is attempting to collapse the Dutch farming sector (the second most productive in the world) because 'climate change' - is also Center-Right.
Not forgetting the mandarin's mandarin, Donald Tusk, the man tasked with making the UK's exit from the EU as painful as possible, who recently jailed two Opposition members and shut down public news channels that weren't sufficiently obsequious –(19) he is the leader of the Civic Platform, a big-tent Center to Center-Right party, according to legend.
The Polish election was a masterclass in Leftist tactics. The Law and Justice Party, a Right Wing nationalist party had been in power since 2019 and had managed to win an outright majority on that occasion. Whilst guilty of a handful of missteps, it appeared probable that it would win again in 2023. Enter Third Way, a political alliance comprised of a Centrist party and a party of the Center-Right formed six months prior to the election, which promised to be an alternative to the two main parties. Voters were entitled to think that this alternative was right of center.
Come the day, the Law and Justice Party won again, but lost their majority. Third Way gained, the Far Right fringe parties also gained,The Left lost half its seats and, while Tusk's party made moderate advances, it was still a distant second. The voters' intentions seemed pretty clear; the ostensibly right of center parties registered 277 seats, with only 231 needed for a majority. Third Way likely picked up the bulk of the defectors from the governing party.
And there was the rub, because all was not as it seemed. A stitch-up was in the works and, despite attempts to govern as a minority government, the Right was defeated in a no-confidence vote and Tusk, The Left and Third Way formed a new government. The latter had split the conservative vote and then betrayed those that trusted it by going into coalition with the socialists. The public was suitably admonished and there was to be a return to business as usual:
“When Globalist and Euro-fanatic Donald Tusk was again elected Prime Minister of Poland, it was no secret that he was on a mission to enact all the failed Brussels policies: climate alarmism, unchecked mass migration, LGBT indoctrination… and, of course, abortion.”(20)
When voters got it wrong in Portugal, in another of those populist surges we keep hearing about, the cordon sanitaire was dusted off and put to use. The ruling Socialist Party had received an impressive shellacking in the election, surrendering a third of its seats, and the Center-Right Democratic Alliance emerged as the largest single party. But the big winner was Chega, of the Right, which quadrupled its representation and, with 18% of the vote, was now the king-maker.
Except it wasn't. Rather than even negotiate with Chega, the Democratic Alliance formed a minority government. Not just a tiny bit minority – they only have 80 seats out of 230. But Chega, accorded the honor of the 'Far Right' moniker by the usual suspects, is far from extreme in its views. It's strongly anti-corruption, isn't enamored of Islamic extremism, believes that illegal immigration is, in fact, illegal and is (unforgivably) moderately Eurosceptic inasmuch as it objects to the EU's meddling in the member states' national decision making. This stance gives Leftists the vapors and there are clearly plenty of them within the Democratic Alliance, a party that gives every impression of simply craving power rather than espousing any consistent political philosophy.
The Spanish were also displaying troubling tendencies in the run up to the July 2023 national election. The socialists, comfortable winners in 2019, had done what Leftists always do and rapidly disillusioned the voting public. The conservative People's Party (PP) had overcome a seven point deficit and were leading by 6% in all the major polls.(21) Together with Vox (another collection of Deplorables whose beliefs mirror those of Chega), they were odds-on favorites to form the next government. But then we were treated to the spectacle of yet another conservative tsunami transforming into a trickle - à la 2022 mid-terms in the US.
The PP lead narrowed to 1.4%, the socialists held their ground (increasing their share of the vote) and Vox somehow lost over half their seats.
“Despite the PP gaining 48 seats and increasing its vote share by over 12 points, its result was well below expectations to reach above 150 or 160 seats and insufficient to secure a right-wing majority to govern. Conversely, the PSOE overperformed polls by improving upon previous results, gaining almost 1 million votes—the most votes gained by the prime minister's party in Spain after a full first term in office...”(22)
The result is hugely implausible. The other three Leftists parties all lost seats and, just two months prior - in nationwide local elections – the Left had fared considerably worse. Somehow or other, the unpopular incumbent picked up 3% of the vote before the national election. The answer to the conundrum may lie in the revelation that a record 2.4 million ballots were deployed;(23) voter fraud claims were viral before the ballots had even been counted. According to the wholly impartial print media:
“Days before Spain holds a pivotal election, misleading claims about mail ballots and election fraud are spreading on social media. The allegations, amplified by supporters of the centre-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox Party, bear striking similarities to the baseless claims spread by then-President Donald Trump ahead of his 2020 US election defeat.”(24)
Whenever “misleading claims”, “far-right” and “baseless” are found in close proximity, the author has clearly been in receipt of the blob's group email. The Right was, nonetheless, given the opportunity to form a government. Inevitably, they failed as none of the minor parties – separatists and Leftists – were of a mind to break bread with a conservative. And so, rather than call another election, the ruling socialists formed a coalition government with parties whose entire raison d'être is secession – six of them.(25) That's how desperate the Left is to cling to power.
They're engaged in yet another attempt to thwart the will of the people in the Netherlands, too. Rutte's ruling VVD, again professedly Center-Right - but in coalition with Leftists, as well as moderate socialists – received a toweling, as did D66, a laughably self-proclaimed Centrist party consisting of Radical Democrats and Progressive Liberals who are all over the Green agenda and in favor of same-sex marriage, prostitution and euthanasia. The big winner was, once again, a Right Wing populist – the PVV in the person of Geert Wilders. This being the Netherlands (home to the fifteen political parties), the PVV did not achieve an outright majority, but was still in pole position with regards to forming the next government.
However, as in Poland some months later, a Center/Center-Right party formed at the last minute proved to be the spoiler. Sixty per cent of the public now favor a four party coalition, comprised of Wilders' PVV, the vanquished VVD, the new boy on the block (NSC) and the farmer's party (BBB), also a winner at the election, all nominally of the Right - ish.(26) Conversely, a partnership between many of the smaller parties, excluding PVV, was notably unpopular (24%-26% approval), not that it prevented the Leftists from proposing it anyway. One might think, given public opinion, that the putative junior partners would have thought it their duty to come to terms with the PVV but, five months later, they are still hell-bent on denying Wilders a government.(27)
That's how the EU rolls. In the words of that noted libertarian, Recep Erdogan: “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”(28) Even the alleged renegades are usually brought to heel. Giorgia Meloni was slated to be the latest populist firebrand, possessor of all the verboten opinions, but has turned into a pussycat. She can't even win on illegal migration, because she plays within the guardrails.(29) The only true fly in the EU ointment is Viktor Orbán and the Commission bureaucrats, Soros and the colour revolutionaries at the NGOs have been doing their best to rid themselves of that turbulent priest for years.
It cannot really be any other way as the European Commission is, on its face, profoundly undemocratic. It sets the rules that national parliaments follow. It's designed that way and it's hiding in plain sight, the Voldemort of institutions. The EU is simply a mechanism that cements the collectivist project in Europe and it prefers to be able to do so without drawing too much attention to the fact, which is why supine, Leftist national governments are to be preferred.
But not entirely necessary, as the Commission has other strings to its bow. MEPs exist to give the Commission the veneer of accountability by rubber stamping legislation that they do not author (and the collectivist Left has an overwhelming majority, in any event). In addition, there are usually around seventeen member states which are net recipients of EU monies, while ten are net contributors. Of these ten, by far the biggest are Germany, France and the Netherlands, who are responsible for 80% of the disbursements to the poorer members of the bloc. The takers, who may be in receipt of as much as €11 billion per year,(30) have a powerful incentive to toe the Brussels line.
Tusk's push for 'reproductive rights' in Poland, for instance, has earned him the €6.7 billion that had been frozen when the previous administration had allegedly violated the 'rule of law' (code for enacting any legislation that EU progressive's object to).(31) Orbán netted Hungary €10 billion that had also been withheld by not exercising his veto on a €54 billion aid package for Ukraine.(32) Money buys compliance with the EU's federalist agenda.
Then there's the euro. Twenty of the twenty seven member nations now have the euro as their official currency. If EU funds are the golden handcuffs, membership of the euro is the leg-irons, as Yanis Varoufakis realized when the prospect of Grexit reared its head as he attempted to break the debt/austerity cycle that Greece had been forced to comply with. His idea was to launch a parallel payments system while the drachma was being recreated in the background - a process that would take a considerable time - and that during that time, the ECB could (and almost certainly would) do its utmost to weaponize the euro against him.(33) For this reason alone, the currency was, and is, a gilded cage for all. The prospect of leaving it is likely to be too awful to contemplate.
There are no real clouds on the immediate horizon. Yes, in the medium term, there is trouble brewing in Germany, where the hapless Scholz and his traffic light coalition enjoy a favourability rating in the mid-teens,(34) particularly if the new CDU splinter group can partner with the AfD and render them a more acceptable choice to the faint-hearted, as the latter's popularity continues to soar – they've even floated the idea of a future referendum on continued EU membership -(35) but the election isn't until mid-2025 and the EU Commission's top cover will ensure that most populist manoeuvres will be nipped in the bud. Scholz just has to follow orders, hang on in there and pretend that the pounding he will undoubtedly receive at this year's regional elections is a mere bagatelle.
The helicopter view reveals, therefore, that most of Europe is also well and truly captured by the globalist blob and anyone commentator who tries to assert that the inevitable rightward lurch in the upcoming European elections will “send a message” to Brussels should be sent to the stocks for authoring dreck. At best, the Left's majority will be somewhat reduced, but the Commission won't care a jot. They won't heed the tide of opinion, because they are right and their enemies are ALL BAD – remember?
And so the globalist Eye of Sauron can focus elsewhere and, whilst there are over 60 other national elections this year, the only one of any consequence that is not already in hand is the most important one of all; the US election in November. It is there that they are in greatest jeopardy, but if they can pull of another heist they are politically home free for the next four years. To that end, they have plans – several of them. They are going to need them because they haven't a prayer in a fraud-free election. Not only is Biden himself an electoral liability with approval ratings that are heading towards Scholz territory (-26 at present);(36) support for the Democrats in general is tanking in key demographics – such as the non-white vote.
Figure 1
That's among those that can be bothered to turn out. 41% of the black vote aren't even sure if they'll bestir themselves come November,(37) although those in the swing states are defecting in droves. Overall, Trump is up somewhere in the region of 6%.
Figure 2
So, Trump must be taken out and this past week, in a court-room in New York, the only trial that is certain to conclude prior to the election got under way. He will surely be convicted, just as he was in the two recent civil cases also tried in New York. In those, the judges took it upon themselves to perform double-duty as judge and jury and duly fined him enormous sums of money for offences that he didn't commit. But this latest effort to kneecap the 45th President is a criminal case, which is much more to the Left's liking as jail-time is on the cards.
The case involves hush money paid to Stormy Daniels by Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen. Daniels was apparently threatening to reveal details of a sexual encounter with Trump. Somehow or other, the Manhattan DA has invoked campaign finance laws and ratcheted up out-of-time misdemeanors into federal charges, alleging that the former president made used false business entries to “commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof” ,(38) without so far identifying what that crime might be. In addition, both Trump and Daniels have denied that there ever was an encounter (Daniels, in writing), although that fact doesn't seem to matter now. The only thing that does is a guilty verdict.
Figure 3
And it seems as though the fix is in. Why else would a House Democrat lawmaker (this week) introduce a resolution to strip Trump of Secret Service protection in event of his conviction? The rationale could not be more transparent:
“It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality. Therefore, it is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment —and that those who are sentenced to prison will indeed serve the time required of them.”(39)
I would imagine that any appeal would eventually wend its way to the Supreme Court, whereupon the conviction would be dismembered. But, by then, several outcomes might have been accomplished. In the first instance, the judge may jail Trump, pending his appeal – a fate that his ex-adviser, Peter Navarro, recently suffered.(40) Secondly, blue states might once again remove him from the ballot, citing some non-existent constitutional justification, as they have already attempted to do.(41) Lastly, ensuring Trump is vulnerable may result in an attempt on his life, which would be met with Leftist glee – especially if it was successful.
Convicting Trump, then, and parlaying that conviction into his removal from the ballot looks to be Plan A. And I sense other, subtle elements of it being constructed. Getting rid of Trump wouldn't, necessarily, mean victory for Biden if the Republican VP pick is also a threat, and the Leftists absolutely must win in November. The momentum provided by the 'pandemic' has already been largely squandered. They cannot countenance four more years of drift, nor can they allow the sheople time to potentially awaken.
So the task is to depress support for the Republican Party, while gaslighting us into believing that the Democrats are surging. The Left has now learned that persecuting Trump only enhances his support, so they won't now expect him to lose it when he is recast as a felon. The Republican arm of the Uniparty is, therefore, rising to the occasion. The House Speaker now routinely passes legislation that large numbers of his own caucus vote against and is governing with the support of both the opposition and the RINOs in his own party, breaking commitments at every turn. The MAGA base is far from amused (although also far from surprised).
Were Trump to be taken off the board, the Democrats may think it possible that a significant chunk of the America First movement would not turn out to vote for representatives who routinely betray them. And even if they did, it's the perception that matters. If the media spend weeks hammering the point, claiming that MAGA is disillusioned, manufacturing polling to evidence same, enough people will likely fall for it and won't be outraged when another Big Steal lurches into view. January 6th and that word 'insurrection' will also be front and center, for reasons that will become apparent shortly.
Leftists will also have to artificially inflate their own support. I would expect them to do this by pretending that certain issues are way more important to voters than they actually are and that the GOP is on the wrong side of history on everything. Chief amongst them will be abortion. Democrats don't seem able to stop talking about their enthusiasm for killing the unborn. They are reluctant to place any restrictions on it whatsoever, even attempting to pass legislation which states that it “shall not be limited or infringed”, which would “enshrine in federal law a virtually unlimited right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states”.(42)
In truth, 66% of Americans oppose late term abortions, with only 17% (in all probability, already Democrat voters with green hair and an array of placards) in favor.(43)(44) A whopping 63% of those polled believe that abortion should either be illegal or only available in certain circumstances.(45) The election isn't going to won or lost on the topic of abortion, but the Left is going to harp on about it nonetheless. Further, commentators from across the political divide will also devote gallons of ink to the fiction.
Not that the Left is actually going to campaign in any meaningful way. They could, of course – they could lie endlessly about Bidenomics, climate change and whatever else takes their fancy, but they didn't in 2020, nor did they in 2022 and I don't suppose they will this time, for four main reasons; they don't think they should have to, they don't care what we think, they don't need to if they can simply claim the prize by cheating and they know it would be pointless, anyway;
“...the hard-left Biden agenda is completely underwater. Not a single Biden administration issue or policy—the border, crime, inflation, energy, foreign policy, race relations, education—polls even 50 percent. Worse, Biden never addresses the inflation created by his massive spending program, the lawlessness in our streets since 2021, the spiking cost of gasoline, or the humiliation abroad, from Kabul to Kyiv to the Chinese balloon.”(46)
So, they'll attempt to take Trump out and otherwise they'll keep on trucking, relying on their colleagues in the GOP to abuse their own voters and using regime favorites to game the polls to make it appear that the race is tight, while bloviating about issues that have little to no resonance with ordinary voters. But this time, after the debacle in 2016 and the farce in 2020, there's also a back-up plan that is already in motion.
When the Republican's were allowed to retake the House in 2022, they were only permitted a slim margin of nine seats. At the time, it looked like they weren't going to win at all, but it appears that the Leftists ran out of fake ballots, as several very late election calls (after a week or so) went against them in atypical fashion. The usual MO calls for a substantial Republican lead to be gradually overhauled after several days of counting the mail-in ballots, with victory secured by one to two per cent. But the final push was lacking in a handful of races.
The Republicans were therefore able to strut the committee stage for the past year or so, huffing and puffing performatively while accomplishing very little, as dictated by both their DNA and their Democrat masters. But now, circumstances have changed. The hoped-for take-down of Trump was mistimed and the Leftists' gluttonous appetite for revenge has allowed him to play one trial off against another, delaying all but the current farrago. It is now conceivable that the other trials won't kick off before November and that is most inconvenient.
So, the GOP has been ordered to hand over the reins. At least, that's what appears to have happened, as they are hard at work eroding their majority. First, they dispatched George Santos, a latter day Walter Mitty from New York, who was censured and then dismissed for telling whoppers on the campaign trail and replaced by a Democrat.(47) Then it was Rep Ken Buck's turn, effective immediately,(48)(49) followed by a turncoat called Gallagher (in a solidly Republican district) who timed his own departure to ensure that there could be no Special Election to replace him before November.(50) As a consequence, Republicans currently lead Democrats by 217-213 in the lower chamber and can only afford a single defection on a party-line vote. If Buck's seat is won by a Democrat in June, the majority will be down to three
But ensuring that procedural votes and legislation are kiboshed isn't the game that's being played, as the Speaker is already doing the blob's bidding. I think the plan is to actually surrender all control of the House to the Left; whether that is achieved with defectors or via a further flurry of Republican resignations, I know not. But if the Democrats are in the ascendancy by the time of the election, the very first thing the lame duck House will do, if it is under the control of the Left, is refuse to certify Trump as president if, by some miracle, he wins the election.
The Republicans, no longer in the hot seat, will then be given the opportunity to reprise their hackneyed battered spouse role, throw their hands in the air and wail “Woe is me!”. Notably, the majority of Democrats-at-large will support their proxies’ stance,(51) although they only amount to a third of all voters. But the will of the majority is no longer relevant – at least, not in that instance.
But there is another scheme, running parallel, that is unfolding synchronously, while attracting little attention. It's called the National Popular Vote (NPV) interstate compact and it constitutes a remarkably simple end-run around the democratic process, which blue states are (naturally) enthusiastically embracing:
“Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the Democratic governor’s announcement Monday that she’s letting the proposal become law without her signature. Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president, regardless of how individual states voted in an election.”(52)
States with a total of 209 votes have already signed up and another seven states, accounting for an additional 79 votes, are listed as “pending”. All are blue states or swing states. The claim is that the compact won't be activated by November, but talk is cheap – especially when Our DemocracyTM is at stake. Here's what could happen. Trump wins the election with 270+ of what ought to be Electoral College votes, but Biden wins the popular vote, boosted by the by now all-too-familiar epidemic of ballot fraud.
The House, now under Leftist control for the last two months of its session, refuses to confirm Trump as 47, due to the fact that, in their view, he is both a felon and an insurrectionist. The interstate compact, which now boasts enough votes to decide the election, casts its votes for Biden, et voilà; the world's newest banana republic is magicked into existence.
Think it would never happen? I don't, I'm afraid. They're already preparing the ground – this is the Democrats' House leader:
"It's hard to have a democracy, where repeatedly, you put the minority in the control of the government. That's a problem. Now, we all know why it is, we have the Electoral College. that was a compromise they made in 1789, we know that. So we gotta work around it. It is what it is. We have to work around it, we will work around it."(53)
The psychopathy of the Left can justify any act if it's committed in pursuit of victory over evil and, for the progressives that now control the Democratic Party, anyone that opposes them is, by definition, evil. It wouldn't take much for the “pending” states to become “enacted” states, especially in a constitutional crisis engineered by the Left. Of the seven, four have Democrat governors; only 28 votes are controlled by Republican governors – so 260 votes are locked in - and who's to say that their hand wouldn't be forced if (and when) the Leftists refused to back down? It would only take one (Virginia) to cave and that would be that.
Moreover, it's exactly the kind of scheme that I would expect the Democrats to attempt. They are going to have to circumvent the system somehow and it may be that they have calculated that, despite their best efforts, they might not be able to manufacture enough ballots in the states that matter. If they adopt this plan instead, they simply need to go wild in the big cities that they control. It simplifies matters considerably.
If I were them, I'd find it difficult to resist – certainly as a back-up and possibly as the main weapon, although I'd still be desperate to put Trump behind bars, mind. Whatever the final plan looks like, the outcome will be the same; neutering Trump. If they succeed, they will have the West sown up – for now, at least – and there will be no reordering of Reality.
And it feels, increasingly, like this year is the year that matters. The US branch of the blob has its mitts on all the levers that matter; the IMF and World Bank, the WHO (it was the Americans who proposed the upcoming treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations), NATO, the dollar reserve currency and many others besides.
Turmoil in the States would, therefore, be consequential and it isn't going to be possible to mount a second coup and instigate the ruling class' Great Reset without a great deal of resistance. Unless.... unless they create a dynamic that they can control, which forces compliance, which distracts from what they're really trying to achieve. Something really big, something that we are all actually waiting for, even if we don't realize it. The current status-quo cannot hold, mostly because it isn't real.
Politicians have become demob happy, brazenly ignoring their base. This week alone, Republican leadership has re-authorized the law that enables the intelligence community to continue its warrantless spying on Americans, in direct contravention of their Constitution. They also passed funding bills for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan without making any attempt to secure their own southern border, this time in direct contravention of their commitments to the voters.
Additionally, Biden has just revoked Title IX, thus forcing any educational establishment that accepts federal funds to allow males to compete on female teams and change in female locker-rooms.(54) And in Germany, the Transport Minister, warned of an “indefinite weekend driving ban”,(55) so that the state may meet its self-imposed climate change targets. We are approaching the point where the preposterousness of the demands that are made of us is impossible to ignore. So, we will be forced to avert our eyes. There are a number of possible options available to the blob. I'll set them out in my next offering, unless events overtake us and make such speculation redundant.
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(12) https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/
(14) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-04463-x
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(25)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Spanish_general_election#Government_formation
(26) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024_Dutch_cabinet_formation
(27) Ditto
(28) https://www.turkeyinstitute.org.uk/commentary/democracy-like-tram/
(29) https://www.politico.eu/article/giorgia-meloni-eu-approve-final-plank-migration-reform/
(30) https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/
(33) Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room My Battle With Europe's Deep State, Penguin Random House UK
(34) https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/
(35) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/dexit-germanys-soaring-afd-mulls-future-referendum-exit/
(36)https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/prez_track_apr19
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(42) https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/barbarism-in-the-senate/
(44) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-opinion-poll-analysis/
(45) https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
(46) https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/15/gaming-the-2024-campaign/
(48) https://twitter.com/LangmanVince/status/1767648662308413719
(50)https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mike-gallagher-you-left-us-behind
(52) https://apnews.com/article/maine-national-popular-vote-compact-2a345dc04d7e3937c4857577523a3a11
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(54) https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf
Figure 1 https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639
Figure 2 https://mishtalk.com/economics/swing-state-poll-shows-black-voters-abandoning-biden-in-huge-numbers/
Figure 3 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/president-trump-drops-bombshell-letter-stormy-daniels-i/