Late Night photog

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photog – Welcome back to the show.  During the commercial break Senator Spekanaty had to leave to catch his flight back to DC.  But our next guest will be sure to please.  Of course, after his tour de force performance at the fourth Republican 2024 presidential primary debate he needs no introduction.  Give a big welcome to Great Old One, Cthulhu.

Off to the side of photog’s desk a large video screen lights up and shows the six-hundred-foot-tall squid-headed dragon seated on his throne inside his lair.  At his side is a hundred-foot-high glass bowl containing about forty live humans cowering at the bottom.  While speaking to the late night tv show host the eldritch god would occasionally reach into the bowl and pop one of the people in his mouth, much as one of us would eat a peanut from a bowl while speaking on the phone.

CTHULHU – Thank you photog.  You’re much too kind.  I merely provided a much-needed clarification on how to ensure civility and avoid confusion during these political debates.  If a pathological liar like Christie is allowed to continuously muddy the waters with misinformation about the possibility of reforming the federal government, why, people are liable to lose faith in the basic goodness of public servants.  In good faith I couldn’t allow that to continue.  Also, I was feeling a might peckish and he looked juicy and delicious.

photog – But weren’t you afraid that devouring the former governor of New Jersey would strike the wrong note when you were trying to represent Donald Trump to the audience of that debate?

CTHULHU – Why photog I don’t see how that could be.  For weeks everyone has been complaining about how candidates like Christie and Pence were wasting space on the stage that the front-runners should be using to explain their platforms to the Republican voters.  Pence had the decency to bow out.  Since Christie refused, I merely gave him an assist.

photog – So you feel no remorse?

CTHULHU – Remorse?  No.  Maybe a slight gall bladder attack.  Chris really packs a punch when it comes to the triglycerides.  Woof!  But look, we’ve got to get our message out.  Lots of people have lost faith after the events of 2020.  We’ve got to show we’re serious about reforming the federal government and clearly working within the bureaucracy’s rulebook is only going to result in the same failures we saw before.  Clearly bold and innovative methods are necessary.

photog – And eating up thousands of employees of the administrative state is that method?

CTHULHU – Hey look.  I’ve been restructuring dysfunctional organizations for a couple of billion years now both within this space-time continuum and without.  And I’ve never seen anything that gets the job done faster and better than chowing down on the dead wood that are standing in the way of progress.  And in fact, think of how this method also works to decrease the deficit and debt situation.  Every civil servant I eat is one less parasite drawing a salary and eventually a pension from the US Treasury.  It’s clearly a win-win.

photog – But couldn’t you just fire them?

CTHULHU – How cute!  You think that Washington works that way.  Trust me, you’ll be dead and buried before any FBI, IRS or State Department hack gets fired by the next Republican administration.  No, it’s eat them or nothing.  There’s no third way.

photog – Well, I guess you know what’s best.  But can you tell the audience of any other innovations that the Trump administration is planning to unveil before the election?

CTHULHU – Certainly photog.  After paring down the bureaucracy by 80 or 90%, I intend to make it my priority to reform the tech industries.  To that end I will be spending several weeks visiting the headquarters of Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and various other social media companies.  I think I should meet face to face with Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates and their peers.  I have a few “suggestions” that I want to bat around with them.  I have this theory that if I show up looking in the 50th story window of their C-Suite offices that good things are bound to happen.  Now granted, I’m fairly sure that these fellows will end up lodged in my alimentary canal.  But we all need a dream.  And my dream is that one day these people will take a hint and do what I want them to do and avoid being eaten.  Sure, it won’t happen tomorrow or even ten years from tomorrow but eventually if I eat enough of these people Darwinian selection will lead to a better class of tech giants.  And that is my dream.

photog – Well, all I can say is may your dream come true.

CTHULHU – Sure, sure.  But hopefully not anytime soon.  With the skyrocketing price of meat in Biden’s America I have to eat as many dead-enders as I possibly can.  A Great Old One’s gotta eat.

Anyway, photog, I’ve got to cut this short.  I’m due in Brooklyn for a rally by the Pro-Hamas coalition of ethical hipsters.  I figure between the craft beers and the hummus dip I can eat a swath through them and really clean up most of Park Slope.  I hate hipsters.  I love eating them but I detest their annoying illogic.

photog – Well thanks Cthulhu for your time.  And come back any time.

The image of the Great Old One folded his front claws together in a sign of humble farewell and the screen went dark.

photog – I guess that’s all the time we have left.  I’d like to thank our sponsor Soylent Green for their patronage and add my personal tribute to their delicious line of energy products.  Remember, “When you want to feel keen, remember to eat green!”  Good night, everybody.

Anarcho-Tyranny in the Spotlight

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As I’ve mentioned many times in the past, I may not agree with all of the conclusions that the dissident right draw but without a doubt many of the observations and inferences they make about the world around us are completely correct.  For instance:

Sam Francis (April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005) was a paleoconservative whose views would put him solidly amongst the dissident right today.  He coined the term anarcho-tyranny which refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.  Commentators have invoked the term in reference to situations when governments focus on weapon confiscation instead of stopping looters.

This concept has been discussed very often on the ZMan’s site and it seems transparently clear that the current federal government and many state and local governments use this policy to punish some of their constituencies and reward others.  Essentially it sets up two separate systems of law.

In the recent past there are many examples of this concept in operation.  And in fact, it is the hallmark of the post George Floyd policing and prosecution strategies in most American cities.  Basically, blacks can commit an assortment of violent and non-violent offenses with impunity.  While if white people attempt to resist these crimes, they will be prosecuted with extreme severity.  The most well-known case was Kyle Rittenhouse who defended himself from Antifa attackers in Kenosha WI.  He was charged with murder but miraculously was exonerated in court.

I’ll give a few other examples.

I guess the general case would be to compare the government’s treatment of two groups.  The groups that were given preferential treatment would be the BLM and Antifa rioters during the 2020 riots.  These people were allowed to riot, loot and commit arson and even murder without the police or FBI using their considerable powers and capabilities to either stop it or arrest the perpetrators.  For weeks and across most of the large cities in the United States a reign of terror was permitted and in some cases like Minneapolis encouraged by government officials.

The contrasting group would be the January Sixth protestors.  For what amounts to peaceful trespass these United States citizens have been denied due process, imprisoned in some cases for years without trial and tried in kangaroo courts with sentences sometimes measured in decades of prison time.

Now if we were to look at specific cases, I think the case of subway good Samaritan Daniel Penny and the homeless lunatic he subdued is a perfect example.  Penny was on a subway car when a deranged homeless man named Jordan Neely began threatening random women passengers because they wouldn’t give him the money he demanded.  He went so far to make death threats.  Penny restrained Neely in a chokehold and unfortunately Neely died from this action.  Penny is a marine veteran and white, Neely was black and a homeless mental patient who had been arrested 42 times and punched a 62-year-old woman in the eye, and broke her eye socket.

So here we have anarcho-tyranny incarnate.  Jordan Neely was a creation of a system that would not arrest a black man who had broken the law over forty times.  They just released him to continue creating fear and hurting innocent people.  And when a white man protects the public from this menace he is charged with murder when what he was doing was defending himself and the weaker individuals being harassed by Neely.  He tried to do the job the prosecutors refused to do.

And so, this individual case showcases the intended effect of this anarcho-tyranny.  The law will defend those it favors who break the law and at the same time will force those it dislikes to suffer the crimes being allowed without even the chance for self-defense.  They just have to suffer and take it.  Or be sent to prison where even more of their humanity will be stripped away.

The dissident right gets a lot of things right.

QAnon Shaman to Run for Congress in Arizona

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I guess it was inevitable.  He is a shaman so no avenue should be closed to his healing powers.  I’ve always wondered how someone becomes a shaman.  Is there a course?  Do you have to pay a licensing fee?

I will say he’s an improvement over 90% of the congress-critters out there.  But I just wonder if he’ll wear the horns on the floor of the Capitol building.  And will Nancy Pelosi let bygones be bygones?  I heard she was pretty upset by the buffalo chips she found in her shoe closet.

Revenge Term

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I was reading an article in the Guardian (I know, I know) called “A revenge term: what would another four years of Trump look like?”  It contained such lines as,

  • “I think it would be the end of our country as we know it,” Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, said on the ABC talk show The View this week. “And I don’t say that lightly.”
  • “Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University in Washington, said: “It would be a disaster for America. He’s already made it very clear that his second term is going to be a revenge term. He’s going to use the power of government to persecute and prosecute his enemies and to cement his own power, or at least the power of his allies and cronies.”

It really was a great read.  All the talk of revenge and firing the Deep State was wonderfully exciting.  And it was just funny that they can’t see that revenge is exactly what the Justice Department has been engaged in for the last three years.

But then I knew I had to get back to the real world.  Well, sort of.  After another meaningless Republican debate, Senator Tim Scott has ended his campaign.  That makes sense, I guess.  I don’t think he ever got higher than 4%.  The amusing part of the primary is how excited the establishment types at Fox News get about Nikki Haley, “She’s surging in the polls.”  What, from 3% to 6%?  And they talk about how well she’d run against Joe Biden.  They’ve got to be kidding.  If Nikki Haley is the Republican candidate none of Trump’s 60% will even bother to show up to vote.  Haley may be a Republican.  In fact, she’s a Jeb Bush Republican.  But conservative she is not.  And to be fair America already had a chance to vote for that kind of Republican in 2008 and 2012 with John McCain and Mitt Romney.  But eight years of George W Bush back at the turn of the century showed us why RINOs aren’t a good idea.

But they’ll keep pushing her as if it’s some kind of brilliant idea, “She’s a woman!  She’s non-white!  She loves abortion!  We’ll get the woman and black vote, right?”  Ah, if only she were a lesbian, then they’d have the trifecta.  Well, half a loaf, right?

But I think the Republican debate thing is just about played out.  Ramaswamy is doing the Trump act, and give him his due, a lot of what he says is true but let’s face it.  He’s not going to be Trump’s VP.  I did hear that talk that Tucker Carlson would make a good VP pick.  And maybe he would.  Not that I think he’d accept.  I think he’s smart enough to know that his life would become much less fun if he became Vice President.  But in terms of who would be preferable I think that would be Ron DeSantis and from what I can tell Trump can’t stand him.  Hopefully this time Trump picks someone more courageous that that empty suit Pence.

Well, I won’t belabor the current situation in the 2024 race.  This is a check-in.  We’ve got a whole year for Joe Biden to fall below 25% in the polls.  No need to rush it now.  We can savor it later.  “Revenge term,” I like the sound of it.