Most likely what will happen is this: Trump’s incompetence and malevolence will essentially be the end of the GOP’s electoral chances, and Trump will be WASP America’s last stand. Even if Trump wins reelection, the GOP is demographically and culturally doomed. Meanwhile, the state, capitalism, and totalitarian humanism […]
Lol, I can’t imagine why people in Waco would be protesting against the police state. By Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed News Dorian Miles arrived in Havre, Montana — a windy farm town, population 9,700, along what’s known as Montana’s Hi-Line — just five months ago, a young man […]
By Sam Dorman FOX News Nearly 300 New York police officers have been injured amid the ongoing protests following George Floyd’s death, Fox News has learned. The 292 figure provided by police gave some initial context to the fallout of how the protests, lasting over a week, have impacted […]
By Scottie Andrew CNN (CNN)There’s a growing group of dissenters who believe Americans can survive without law enforcement as we know it. And Americans, those dissenters believe, may even be better off without it. The solution to police brutality and racial inequalities in policing is simple, supporters say: […]
By Hannah Knowles, Brent Griffiths, Miriam Berger, Brittany Shammas, Meryl Kornfield, Candace Buckner, Samantha Pell, Derek Hawkins The Washington Post Cities and towns across the United States faced an outpouring of protests Saturday amid the national outrage over law enforcement excess sparked by the killing of George Floyd […]
“We’ll invade dozens of countries and kill thousands of people but we’ll be ‘woke’ when we’re doing it!” By Jenny Gross The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday issued detailed directives about removing and banning public displays of the Confederate battle flag at Marine installations — an order that […]
One set of scumbags say they might not vote for the Scumbag-in-Chief. Oh well. By Jonathan Martin New York Times WASHINGTON — It was one thing in 2016 for top Republicans to take a stand against Donald J. Trump for president: He wasn’t likely to win anyway, the […]
The main critique I would have of the liberal/left/BLM approach is not that their perspective is “too radical” but that it is not radical enough. Much of this kind of activism is focused solely on police killings and the racial disparities involved. Fair enough. Murder by cop is […]
People side with their own tribe. It’s what people do.
By Ryan Parry Daily Mail A Black Lives Matter leader has declared war on the police and plans to release a blueprint for change that involves Black Panther style armed ‘patrols’ monitoring the behavior of officers on the streets, DailyMailTV can reveal.
The murder of George Floyd is a real issue. The police state is a real issue. The racial disparities associated with the police state are real issues. The rebellion against the police state is long overdue. The fact that the ruling class is trying to co-opt the issues […]
Tech-oligarchs and sweatshop-mongers for social justice! By Mike Murphy and Andrew Keshner Market Watch As protests stemming from the death of George Floyd wrack the nation, a number of leading tech companies have offered their support for demonstrators and funding for social-justice organizations.
Conservatives shouldn’t be in favor of Trump sending out the army to suppress the insurrection because, if for no other reason, it might set a precedent where President Kamala Harris will send out the army to suppress a pro-life demonstration or NRA convention in a few years. Be […]
Kyle Kulinski has an interesting rebuttal to Carlson’s Hobbesian-Burkean perspective. In his more serious and intelligent moments, Carlson is simply making the Hobbesian argument that order must be maintained at all costs in order for civilization to exist with considerations of “justice,” whatever their merit, being a secondary […]
When a pig kills a black person, most (though not all) other blacks take it as a personal threat/affront that is a representation of institutionalized oppression, and correctly so. Even many white liberals and leftists, who view themselves as black allies, take such a position. But when a […]
The discussion between Saager and Max Alvarez on the relationship between class and the uprising is interesting, along with their discussion of ruling class co-optation efforts. I have long argued that the modern left’s primary emphasis on race, gender, gay, etc. identity politics outside the context of any […]
The effect of the civil rights movement was to co-opt the black middle class and integrate it into the system, while altering the civil religion/ideological superstructure of the state to include a “racial redemption” narrative. Meanwhile, post-1968, the state launched a counter-offensive under the guise of the “war […]
There are plenty of Antifa, boogaloos/accelerationists, “white supremacists,” “anarchists,” etc. involved in this but there is not anywhere near enough of them to make an insurrection this large happen. All of these “extremist” groups are just a side issue that is barely relevant at all. This is a […]
Trump always struck me as the Red Tribe’s last stand in terms of trying to reclaim their former position of hegemony. In fact, one “conservative” commentator called the 2016 election a “Flight 93” event. Recent events seem to have sealed the deal in terms of rising Blue Tribe […]
This is why we have anti-police riots.
Saager is wrong when he says that Trump’s “base” is 33% of the US. He was elected with the votes of only 19% of the US population, and 26% of eligible voters. His hard-core loyalists are probably a much smaller group. Krystal and Saagar react to Joe Biden’s […]
Ironically, these FOX News guys have become the biggest publicists for the “defund the police” movement. There is a “defund the police” banner hanging on the building next to my residence.
As an anarchist who is anti-police and pro-gun rights, I’d say this is a win-win situation.
Regrettably, wars produce casualties. The present situation is not yet a conventional civil war, but it is more than simply a series of riots or a crime wave. It is a genuine insurrection, albeit one that is largely spontaneous, decentralized, and uncoordinated which is both an advantage and […]
On one hand, Carlson is correct that there is a dangerous totalitarian element on the margins of the insurrection, and that such elements are motivated by the ambition of riding the wave of a popular rebellion to power, only to set up a tyrannical state of their own […]
The Popo seriously fucked up this time. Even the deep red zones are turning against the police state, which is actually not surprising because a lot of those places include radicalized gun owners who are distrustful of law enforcement. Many people in these areas have been victimized by […]
A “stimulus” or “bailout” of their own. “Yes, we can,” lol. By Maya Lau, Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Matt Hamilton Los Angeles Times The young man flanked the shattered entry of a ransacked CVS in Santa Monica, where people had swept the shelves clean of everything from diapers to detergent. […]
For some time, I have largely regarded ideological conflict as a conflict between what I have called “psychological tribes” featuring groups of people with different personality types and psychological makeups, with these personality differences probably being rooted in genetics. In order words, people are genetically predisposed to have […]
So Kyle now favors Hubert Humphrey Biden over Richard Nixon Trump? A Biden victory will result in the neoliberal class and Deep State collectively trying to consolidate their position while a Trump victory will likely result in more fragmentation. Krystal and Saagar respond to Kyle Kulinkski’s pivot […]
I am sometimes asked how I, as a radical-anarchist-extremist, can have a parallel interest in conservative or right-wing thought. But I simply utilize “conservative thought” as a supplemental means of correcting the limitations of “radical thought.” Here is an illustration: A correspondent offers what is essentially a Burkean […]
Conservatism, Inc. has vacillated between embracing faux wokeness and law and order rhetoric, sometimes trying to do both at the same time (see Sean Hannity). Hilarious.
There is a lot of interesting information in this segment. Apparently, Chauvin was actually in charge of training new officers. Krystal and Saagar discuss developments in the George Floyd case as three former officers charged in Floyd’s death make their first court appearance.
Conscious Resistance Network Things that all co-exist: – Racism – Racism within police departments (obviously not all cops) – A growing police and surveillance state that will kill anyone in the way
This is an interesting discussion. When Rogan asks them what their preferred solutions are to current economic problems, they both have what I consider to be a “reactionary” (turn black the clock) position. Saager’s ideal amounts to the dominant paradigm in the 1950s of New Deal welfare statism, […]
John Whitehead is one of the very best critics of the police state out there. The System’s response to the insurrection has been interesting. Clearly, substantial sectors of the rising ruling class (the techno-oligarch/financier/new clerisy alliance) are trying to co-opt the insurrection, perhaps most of them. Lower to […]
This article is a year old, but it’s relevant to current events. Here we have not only the ruling class but the banskters no less trying to coopt opposition movements and use “wokeness” as a marketing gimmick. Private prisons are constantly blamed by liberal and left opinion for […]
By Lucy Diavolo Teen Vogue A week of rebellion in Minneapolis has followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. The uprising there crescendoed to the burning of the police department’s 3rd precinct, on Thursday, and continues to escalate with an expansive rollout of heavily […]
Fragmentation? The CIA and the Pentagon were actually funding opposite sides in the Syrian civil war.
Whoa! This is good. I think police misconduct is far more pervasive than what Saager seems to acknowledge, and that racial disparities are far more significant than what he claims (see the Radley Balko article I posted earlier today). I also disagree that deploying more police much less […]
This is funny. The upper strata of the new clerisy at the Voice of the Ruling Class threw a hissy fit because MIC/Sunbelt corporatist/Zionist-stooge Tom Cotton wanted to ensure everyone he has a big dick.
By all accounts, these guys are scumbags. But they’re just the attack dogs. Where are the mugshots of the masters who let them off their least? The Minnesota attorney general on Wednesday upgraded charges against the ex-Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck and issued arrest […]
Are “lawmakers” getting the message? By Catie Edmundson New York Times WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats in Congress have begun a new push to shut down a Pentagon program that transfers military weaponry to local law enforcement departments, as bipartisan urgency builds to address the excessive use of […]
…corporations whose properties have been destroyed will get a nice payout from insurance companies, banks that have experienced losses will get bailed out, corporations will get lucrative government contracts to “rebuild,” large companies will buy up the properties of small businesses that went under due to the quarantine […]
The perfect solution? This is what I have said all along. Let the people who want the monuments have them and let the people who don’t want the monuments do without them. The mayor’s comments about Lenin and Stalin statues are interesting as well. “Under” pan-anarchism, a Confederate-themed […]
The difference is that not only are blacks more likely to have negative experiences with the police relative to population size, but blacks are accustomed to having an “outsider” status. When a cop harms a black person, many other blacks take it personally and see it as an […]
Conservatives/Republicans like Tucker Carlson are often very good at lampooning the silliness and excess that is found among liberal and left opinion, which is easy to do because there is certainly a lot of it. However, having watched and read these kinds of commentators (the Rush Limbaugh types, […]
By Tucker Higgins CNBC Three former Minneapolis police officers will be criminally charged Wednesday in connection with the death of George Floyd, Sen. Amy Klobuchar wrote in a post on Twitter. In addition, Derek Chauvin, a former officer who had already been charged with third-degree murder in the […]
Bernie is just as weak a leader as Trump. He proved that by allowing the DNC to swindle him out of the nomination not once but twice without raising a peep. Krystal is right when she says there is no “trusted national leader” on the scene. But that’s […]
Zuck is apparently insisting on maintaining his autonomy while claiming a leadership role in the techno-oligarch/new clerisy alliance of which he is a part.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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