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How is it possible that Walz doesn’t know what a whoopie pie is?

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The following is a video of J.D. Vance ordering donuts. According to the dead-enders, there’s supposed to be something wrong with the way that he’s ordering donuts. Let’s see if you can spot it.

What I like about the phrase “it’s worse than you even think” is the admission that normal people wouldn’t see anything amiss, but this isn’t hateful enough for leftist self-supposed intellectual superiors. What they want you to find disqualifying is how non-specific his order is.

Give me some glaze, sprinkle-themed stuff, some of these cinnamon rolls … yeah, whatever makes sense.

Which is exactly how you’d expect someone to order donuts if they don’t eat the stuff, but are buying them in quantity for other people, such as for a major event. But when you understand how litigious the hyper-left is, then you’d understand why they’d tend more towards specifying exact quantities of each variety of donut, even when it doesn’t make much difference. After all, they’re donuts. Who the fuck cares?

In an apparent jab at Vance, VP candidate Tim Walz stated at a bake shop, “Look at me, I have no problem picking out donuts.”

Yes we have receipts, and here you go. Just be warned that the audio quality is not great, and you might have to turn your volume up to hear him. It’s at about 1:26 that the line comes, though you’re free to watch the rest for context.

Okay, did you see the donuts that he picked out? Me neither:

Those are whoopie pies. Tim Walz’s attempted pwn just proved that he can’t tell a donut from a whoopie pie.

I get that the hyper-left is so disconnected with the typical voter, and therefore don’t understand why anyone would vote for Trump. But that doesn’t mean that they should get so full of themselves that they could just nominate anyone in their party and expect an undeniable, slam-dunk victory. If they’re going to take campaign donations, they have a moral obligation to put their best forward, and Harris-Walz is not it.

When someone picks out whoopie pies, and seconds later proclaim their brilliance in their ability to pick out donuts, that should give you an idea of the kind of illusory superiority that we’re dealing with, here.

But it gets worse, as Walz’s fan base on the very same post are not much better, as illustrated by these cherry-picked examples:

It’s sobering to think that Tomer’s vote counts just as much as someone who can tell the difference between a whoopie pie and a donut. But on the bright side, he’d probably get lost on the way to the polling place, anyway. So he’s probably not going to have much effect on society, after all.

Prior to filming, he probably already knocked a few back. But how much would it take to not tell a donut from a whoopie pie? I once drank to the point of throwing up, but wasn’t that impaired.

Could never what? Mistake a whoopie pie for a donut? Is this really what H.A. Davis considers firing on all cylinders? Because if Walz were to call an alligator a gecko, that’d probably blow her mind.

Okay, now I know that these people are trolling. Just how many people out there would mistake a whoopie pie for a donut?

Do I have to spell it out?

If space aliens were to abduct a few of us, and then stick them in some simulation that crudely apes our culture in the same way that a hamster cage crudely apes a hamster’s natural environment, I’d understand if they’d make this mistake. However, for a human being that was born and raised on earth, to mistake a whoopie pie for a donut would be totally unacceptable, just like how it would be unacceptable to mistake linguine with ramen, or grape juice with pinot noir. If you’re from this planet, you don’t make that mistake.

Oh yeah, Walz knows his donuts. You know what? Screw it. I’m giving Phil the benefit of the doubt. He’s trolling.

Desperate for any amount of intelligence, I scrolled through the comments, and finally found some:

Why did that take so long?

I know what you might be thinking, “What does one’s ability to tell a donut from a whoopie pie have to do with how to run a society?” And the answer is, if someone can’t tell the difference between the two, the expectations aren’t high. To see a whoopie pie and think, “donut”, doesn’t suggest the ability to convey their economic philosophy beyond just saying “capitalism”, “communism”, or “socialism”. You might expect such a person to attempt to sell bicycles by insisting that they can do everything that cars can do. From a position of sincerity.

It doesn’t take a Rhode scholar to comprehend that something is wrong.

Absolute Bombshell: DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Reveals That Charges Against Trump Were Motivated by Politics and Alvin Bragg’s Personal Ambition

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For months, you or a friend you know has been saying that the charges against Trump were politically motivated and not legit. Now, you get to say, “I told you so.”

The DOJ Chief of Public Affairs has admitted that the indictments against President Trump were, in fact, politically motivated, and that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, was motivated by personal ambition in bringing charges against the President.

And it was all caught on camera.

This fine act of investigative journalism was made possible by the Steven Crowder team. And if you’re only just now hearing about Steven Crowder, he’s someone who does what investigative journalists used to do.

Crowder’s presentation can be viewed here:

Crowder has also made the complete recording available.

Leftists are some of the most smug and self-righteous pompous assholes that I’ve ever seen, and I’d take great relish in seeing their carefully constructed denial of reality come crashing down. And now, it’s become harder than it ever has for them to deny the blatant corruption that is evident to anyone outside of leftism’s hermetically-sealed echo chamber.

Whether they’ve had fun or not as they’ve enabled the castration of children, the delusions of perverts, the murder of infants before they could breathe a breath outside their own mothers, and numerous wars to make the wealthiest among their own just a bit wealthier, and far more than these, the time has come for them to be knocked off their high horses.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s against a former President or some guy who does not have the means to resist, a DA that brings charges against anyone while motivated by either politics or personal ambition is not a legit DA, and is a disgraceful individual on top of that.

Alvin Bragg is an absolute disgrace.

It’s apparent to me the only permissible course to remedy this injustice. For one thing, Alvin Bragg should be promptly dismissed from his duties, and permanently barred from any office with any connection to the administration of justice. Also, all charges against Donald Trump should be dismissed, an act which is necessary to restore confidence in the legal system.

The next course of action would be more extensive, but also necessary. A commission must be formed to thoroughly examine every case Alvin Bragg has been involved in, in the interest of finding every instance of his mishandling of justice. This is necessary, as people may be in prison on likewise illegitimate charges. In fact, if Bragg is bombastic enough to bring illegitimate changes against a former President, it’s almost certain that he’s brought wrongful condemnation against many others.

I understand that the last course of action suggested would take a substantial expenditure of resources. But it’s called for, as the nature of Alvin Bragg’s failure is catastrophic to the justice system, and to confidence in it.

If you’ve been following the developments involving the illegitimate trial of Donald Trump, either as a Trump supporter or from a position of impartiality, the only thing surprising about this development is that an explicit profession from the DOJ Chief of Public Affairs was added to all the evidence and proof that the trial is not legitimate.

The people that I expect to be surprised would be centrists or the relatively-uninitiated who weren’t following closely, or those left-leaning who weren’t paying attention. But as for the dead-enders, we know that they’re going to divert their attention away, unable to face the reality that they’ve already been laboring diligently to avoid. They wouldn’t be able to spin this as anything other than what it is, and if made to face it, any honest assessment would be to interpret it as an undeniable defeat for their tribe.

I’ll leave this with one more thought: This isn’t football. It’s not soccer, and it’s not even women’s tennis. This is no game. Leftists literally are ruining this country, and the dead-enders among them are deliberately doing it because they hate one man who, among the current choices, stands the best chance of making things any better.

Least Attractive Bar Graph on Social Media

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Okay, is anybody actually falling for this? Let me know.

What I’m talking about is a graph that started trending on X, which shows a bar graph of what is supposedly the most unattractive hobbies for men, “according to women”. The chart is as follows:

I ignored it at first glance, but seeing as people kept giving it attention, I’ve decided to take it behind the shed. Spoiler alert, it’s coming back with some teeth missing.

First of all, Online Trolling is listed among the hobbies. That should be a powerful indicator of what’s going on, here. Hopefully, I don’t have to spell this out. Okay, I’ll do it anyway, because no reader left behind.

It’s bullshit. Someone came up with this graph just to mess with people. And it worked.

But it’s not the first indicator that someone is messing with you. That would be the fact that there’s no citations. And if there’s no citations, this means that there’s no study, no survey, no polling, or anything of the sort. If someone wanted their study to be at all respectable, there would be a citation, so that a person could look into the methodology to ascertain that the data has any value. There’s no citation, so there’s nothing of value.

Instead, every indication is that someone just pulled all this information straight out of their ass, and posted it on social media knowing that it would push some buttons.

Notice something else about the data? Conveniently, every data point on the bar graph decrements by five. Sure, it’s possible that if you survey thousands of people, it’s possible for the data points, when arranged in the form of a bar graph, would form a neat decrementation by fives. But it would be strongly unlikely.

Having said all that, the point that really pushes people’s buttons is the one about playing video games. I call BS, because women I’ve met play video games. In fact, the last woman I was with played video games. She had a big stack of them. But she hid them from me, even though she didn’t have to, and I ended up finding them accidentally.

Look, I remember a time when video games were the pastime of hobbyists who frequented Radio Shack. Back then, I would’ve understood if someone regarded them as some nerd hobby. But a lot has changed since then, and now it’s something that pretty much everybody does. It’s been decades since it’s been regarded as a nerd hobby, and if anyone today said that they didn’t play them, I wouldn’t believe them.

People need to stop falling for this stuff.

They’re late to the party.

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It’s becoming increasingly evident that DEI is coming for anime, and it’s coming at a time when voice actors in anime-style games like Genshin Impact are threatening boycotts and meaningless online petitions (but I repeat myself), and manga localizers are crying foul because they could be replaced with AI.

Okay then, I’ll throw my opinion out there. DEI is really late to the party. I mean, really, really late. The party’s already over, everyone has already thrown up, and no one would have been interested in the Bud Light that DEI brought with them, anyway.

The anime boom is over. It has been, for a long time. Prior to it, it was the nineties, anime was really hard to get ahold of for cheap, because it had to cross an ocean to get to us, and translating it to your native language was not easy. Then the internet happened, and at that point, decades of anime started flooding over, and a person could easily go to Suncoast (remember Suncoast?) and pick up volumes of Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, and lots of less mainstream stuff that’s been in Japan for decades.

That was the west’s anime boom. But then, releases of new anime slowed to the point of what was new to Japan. And, as it so happens, anime is something of a fringe hobby in Japan. So, in the west, anime is starting to settle down as a niche entertainment option, though not as niche as it was in the eighties.

I get that DEI might be going for anime to spite people like me who has long considered it an alternative to the polluted bullshit that western entertainment like Disney has become. I understand just how fun it can be to put a disproportionate amount of resources into what is basically just spite. It can be a fun sport. But oftentimes, it’s just a cynic’s quest. And in this case, the party is pretty much already over.

And what’s more, alternatives will pretty much always exist, and people will always tend more towards entertainment options that will take them away from the world’s problems, rather than remind them of those who are only making things worse.

At this point, there’s pretty much just one manga and one anime that I have much interest in. And if a bunch of astroturfed localizers set out to ruin it, then I’ll just seek out fan translations and perhaps even the Japanese versions, as they’ll be much closer to what the author originally intended when they wrote their story.

Even though I’m not Japanese, I understand that it’s the tendency of Japanese audiences to care more about the author’s original intent, than the agenda of a committee with creative control over the IP. And when you understand that, it will make intuitive sense to you why DEI is going to fail miserably to gain a foothold in Japan. When it comes down to it, while an American audience might not give much thought to the person or people who wrote The Powerpuff Girls, those who read Naruto are likely to care whether it’s the Naruto that Masashi Kishimoto wrote. Just the same, if creative control of Made In Abyss were taken away from Akihito Tsukushi, it’s easy to imagine that most of its fans would be done with it.

If the DEI investors were aware of this, and they’re probably not, then it’s hard to imagine that there’s anything behind their willingness to go after anime and manga than an attempt to destroy it.

But at this point, it’s too late for that. The best manga that has been made over the course of decades has already been localized, most of it about two decades ago. The boom is pretty much over, and the main stuff to go after would be new stuff that trickles out of what was a fringe industry in its home country.

Alternatives will always exist, and they will always be simple for people to find. And it will be because of the connected nature of today’s world, which was what caused the anime boom, to begin with.

When it comes down to it, the general population has a trait that the ideological dead-enders of DEI lack, and that’s the adaptability of mind that enables us to thrive in changing circumstances. The world is changing, fads come and go, and that’s exactly why DEI will eventually be a byword of times gone by.

Mihiyo doesn’t care that you’re offended.

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It’s time for another dose of basic observation of reality. And today, it’s needed because a bunch of professionally-offended social media losers are throwing a fit over the creative decisions of a Chinese video game company.

Recently, the game company Mihoyo revealed a new Natlan setting for their Genshin Impact mobile game. It was recently revealed that the setting for the region has elements of inspiration from the African and South American continent, and even though the game is a few years old and has been played by millions of players, people are just now realizing that there aren’t any black characters in the game.

Even though the number of African tribesman who give a shit about skin tones in a game that they’ve never heard of is probably precisely zero, a bunch of Reddit and Twitter users have proceeded to flood Mihoyo with complaints, because that’s pretty much all they can do.

What they didn’t count on is that Mihoyo is based, and stated that Genshin Impact is just a video game, that any character can look the way that the game’s makers want them to look, and that, because it’s a work of fiction, nothing about Genshin Impact has any bearing on reality.

Basically, a Chinese game company told them what their parents should have told them back when their ages consisted of a single digit. They probably also quickly figured out what was going on by sorting complaints by IP address, and finding that hundreds at a time are coming from the exact same device. And, having been at this for years, they’re probably aware that, when you work in customer service, you’ll encounter a bunch of people with mental illnesses who hide behind sockpuppet accounts, and are so crazy that they think media contains hidden messages from the government/simulation intended specifically for them.

Ask me how I know.

One could easily point out that if there were black characters in the game, then the perpetually-offended will instead complain about cultural appropriation. One might even get the idea that one just can’t win with them. But you can win. When one of them starts getting offended on someone else’s behalf, just don’t engage with them. Let them bang their pots and pans together, where they’ll accomplish nothing.

And while you’re at it, savor the sad irony of the fact that, even though they are connected to the summation of human knowledge, if they had spent even half the effort that they put into being offended instead learning to do something useful, they might have self-taught themselves a skilled trade, and our generation may even have already cured cancer. Or at least learn how to make their own video games. Or even learn to draw in the anime style, so they can beat off to something which they drew, rather than relying on other people to draw it for them. Instead, they are actually dumber than they would be if they had never discovered the internet.

I don’t know what an African tribesman would think of Genshin Impact if they were to learn about it. It’s easy to imagine that such an experience would be their first brush with the technology needed to run the game. Their typical concerns would more likely involve whether a neighboring tribe would invade them while they slept, forcibly remove their genitals, then sell them into forced labor (something that a dumbass neighboring chieftain may attempt to do just because he had a bad dream). There’s also the question of whether they can get enough to eat, something that a person who is aware that mobile games exist probably never has to worry about. An African tribesman cannot possibly give a shit about the skin tones of imaginary characters in a mobile game that they’ve never heard of, and if they had somehow heard of it, they’d probably join the Chinese in wondering just what the hell is wrong with anyone who would give a care. To become offended on behalf of an African tribesman is supremely pointless.

Genshin Impact is just a game, and nothing about it has any bearing on the real world. In that respect, it’s like any video game ever. If you don’t have fun playing that game, your solution to that problem is to not play that game.

If Mihoyo is going to be based concerning this matter, I might just support them. And not just because I want to add Nilou to my roster.

Some voice actors came out against Mihoyo on this matter. This is pretty brave, considering that it’s easier than it’s ever been to replace them. Also, it’s probably true that they’re under contractual obligation to not lay a steaming, fiber-rich loaf all over their employer.

One of them went as far as to call Mihoyo’s actions “unforgivable”. I get that people use that phrase to be dramatic, but they should think about what that means. If someone calls anything that I do “unforgivable”, what they’re saying is that I cannot possibly be reconciled to them, I don’t see any reason to waste any energy trying to impress them.

I look forward to the contributions of the replacement VAs. And if Mihoyo goes the AI route, that would go to show how impressive that the technology has become.

People don’t seem to know how differently things could have gone.

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You should be thankful that you’re alive, too. Because if things had gone just slightly differently, you’d be fighting for survival instead of reading this.

I’m hearing a lot of stories about what people think happened with the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump. As less speculative information comes to light, the Secret Service and local law enforcement looks worse and worse.

But as bad as things might be for some of the most infamous dodgers of accountability in all the world’s history, if any of the bullets had hit square with the failed shooter’s intended target, we’d be in an entirely different country, right now.

Let’s talk about it. And be warned, this will get graphic.

If you really wanted to see something sad, then picture the immediate aftermath of any of the missed bullets hitting their mark. The assembled crowd and the viewers on live television would have been treated to an exploded head.

At that point, the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump in the last election would have thrown their hands up, and said “I guess we don’t have a leader anymore, or a cause.”, then go back home, where they would then just consume product, and decide to study Marxism.

Except that wouldn’t have happened. Not even close. What would have happened instead is that America would have exploded into unbelievable violence.

If you want advice on how you could survive in such a scenario, I could say this: stay inside. Hopefully, the food you’d have on-hand would be enough to last you a while. Prop furniture against the door, and don’t open it unless you recognize the voice of your family. And pay attention for the sound of alarms.

I know that this might sound like I’m describing the worst-case scenario for dramatic effect. But I think most people have no idea how bad things could have been. The number of people who voted for Trump in the last election numbered around 75 million. Imagine if even half of them decided to go door-to-door in a huge game of find the leftist.

There would have been unimaginable carnage.

Emergency services would not have been able to respond to all calls. They might only be able to respond to a few, thanks to the few remaining with sufficient normalcy bias. But they too would have families and a sense of self-preservation, so the police, ambulances, and firefighters would be largely out.

Stores would have been raided, and with supply lines disrupted, you’d have been left with whatever you have on hand. Would it be enough to last you for weeks?

Just based on that, large cities would have become real-life Battle Royales.

At that point, you’d probably care less who the president is, as government probably would have little impact on your life unless you lived in the few areas where martial law could be successfully established.

Then there’s what would have happened on an international stage. With the United States being preoccupied with its own affairs, rogue states would proceed to do as they please. Ukraine would be taken by Russia immediately, and Israel and Taiwan would likely be invaded, too. The world would quickly fall apart as the U.S. would lose any capacity to intervene. That some rogue states might have deployed radiological weapons would have been a possibility.

The question of how long it would be before the United States would have returned to being any sort of organized society would have been difficult to determine, but it’s possible that maps would have needed redrawn, and skylines could have changed.

And thankfully, we don’t live in a world where this scenario came about. This is because three bullets all missed as Trump moved his head to the side at just the right moment.

A fraction of an inch and a fraction of a second was just how close we were to a different world, one that would have been brought about by a defective boy who managed to elude an incompetent security apparatus.

It gets me to thinking that it’s likely that Trump benefited from divine intervention. If that’s true, we all did. Most of us might not have even considered how bad things could have been. We might have even gone from fretting over frivolous things like whether our shoes match our shirts, to fighting for our lives.

And when it comes down to it, there’s no telling when that might happen, anyway. The fact is, we live in a dangerous would, and our society might be hinging on a tenuous factor.

Interestingly, it was only days beforehand that current president Joe Biden was passionately defending his decision to stay in the race. In an interview on live television, he even stated that he’d remain in the race unless God himself told him to withdraw.

I don’t know whether Trump narrowly surviving an assassination attempt would have been the sign that he was looking for. But what I can say is this: if you’re going to invoke the greatest name in Heaven over something you might do, you’d better be ready to do it.

When a Pokémon Bears a Stronger Resemblance Than Intended

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A few years ago, I pointed out that a Pokémon resembling Donald Trump has been added to the Pokémon franchise through the Sun and Moon versions.

According to GameFreak, the makers of the Pokémon games, the Pokémon, named Yungoos, was not intended to bear a resemblance to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, as you’re likely well aware, was nearly assassinated just days ago, the gunman only having succeeded in removing a chunk of Trump’s right ear.

Yungoos has an evolved form, named Gumshoos, which bears a stronger resemblance to Trump. Notice something about its ear?

Yeah, it’s got a notch in its ear.

To be fair, both its ears are like this, and some small mammals do have bifurcated ears. So, I feel inclined to say that this is just a coincidence. After all, why would GameFreak be able to see the future?

But I expect some people to point to this as evidence of the simulation glitching out.

Trump survived an attempt on his life

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That came as a surprise. As you’ve probably already heard, an assassination attempt was made against presumptive Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump as he was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which is about a dozen miles north of Pittsburgh.

The event was a shock. But when the dust settled, the presidential candidate escaped with an apparent minor injury. At least two people are confirmed dead, one of which was an innocent event attendee, and the other was the presumed gunman.

About Trump, I have never seen one man win so hard in such a short amount of time. It was only last month that Trump defeated current president Joe Biden in a debate so convincingly, that Biden’s own party, and the leftist information media, started expressing a strong desire that Biden withdraw from the race. To put that into perspective, the same establishment forces have conspired for the last three years to try to convince us that everything is fine, even though the buying power of our money has plummeted, and the cost of energy, food and rent have soared.

And, shortly before that, Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in what was obviously a politically-motivated show-trial, and an attempt to deny the American electorate a preferred candidate and a voice.

Just yesterday, seconds after an assassination attempt, Trump saluted with his fist in the air, with a fresh, undressed bullet wound in his ear.

If the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would easily win over 500 electoral votes.

As for the attempted assassin, I could imagine what was going on in his mind after firing the first shot, and Trump only looked mildly annoyed, like he was swatting a fly. The gunman had to have realized with horror that his final moments would come with the greatest failure of his life.

The shooter has since been identified. He was the kind of guy you might have imagined: a noodle-armed wussie. The guy had a family and a cause, and his final actions brought shame and disgrace to them all. Not only that, the guy just handed victory to the man he attempted to kill. It’s hard to imagine failing so immensely.

A short while ago, I finally decided to buy a MAGA hat. I viewed it as a piece of political memorabilia. But now, I’m wearing it, even as I’m typing this.

As I see it, the attempt on Trump’s life was yet another in a long line of attempts to deny a return to the presidency for a candidate who deserves to win, and yet another attempt to deny the American people the candidate who we prefer, and yet another attempt, whether by a corrupt establishment or by a fringe actor, to defeat this constitutional republic while pretending to save democracy.

At this point, you’re probably wondering what you can do. For one thing, and this should be obvious: Don’t resort to violence. There’s way too much potential for it to backfire, as we’ve seen just yesterday.

Also, you probably don’t need anyone to tell to you to vote for Trump, because you’re probably already going to do it. As of this writing, Americans would turn up in droves to vote for Trump, and polling places might need extra staff to prepare for the influx of voters. Considering recent events, along with the failures of the current administration, the average American voter would vote for Trump, even at the risk of being fired upon, themselves.

The obvious aside, what I suggest is to pursue virtue. Invest in yourself by trying to be a better person. This can be done by working out and getting into shape, tracking caloric intake (there are apps that can help immensely with this), and studying to become better at your career. Avoid self-destructive behavior of any sort. If you drink alcohol, keep it in moderation. If you smoke, or otherwise abuse drugs or other substances, try to quit. If you build yourself up, the result will be a better you. A sound body and a sound mind contribute to each other, so be virtuous in both respects.

You’d certainly be better able to handle the challenges that are ahead.

Hold on… Do they actually believe this?

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I know that we’re well beyond the point of taking old media seriously. But I would have imagined that The New Republic would have been one of the publications that would have preferred that we go back to the good old days. You know, the days in which people were less connected and less informed, and willing to take old media seriously with big stupid grins.

It would seem otherwise, unless they were really sincere with their new cover, which depicts the man you’re voting for this November with a toothbrush mustache:

Wow, depicting Trump as Hitler! What a stunning and brave move, especially in the current political climate!

I would have thought that “American fascism” would have involved propagandizing the American people, but it seems like the American Hitler has a Jewish daughter, three Jewish grandchildren, authored a peace treaty between the Jewish state and a handful of formerly antisemitic states, and was the only president in the last few decades to not start a new war.

Intellectual dead-ends have been accusing their political rivals of being fascists for so long that it’s just become background noise, like the old music you hear at grocery stores. And I have little doubt that they believe it, because I know that stupid people actually exist.

What I’m starting to wonder about is whether their intellectual betters who have been propagandizing them are actually intelligent, as disingenuous as they may be, or whether they actually believe what they are saying.

Communism survivors have relayed that the point of struggle sessions was to get them to declare their loyalty to the state, whether they were sincere or not, because the very act of making such a declaration had a psychological effect on the one making it, where they eventually believed what they were made to say.

In the same sense, did the propagandistic arm of the establishment finally succeed in convincing someone with their pure, untreated verbal sewage? That is, did they finally succeed in convincing themselves?

What’s especially worrying is that if people can be convinced that someone has been doing something grossly immoral, it becomes easier to convince them to commit acts of violence against them. In light of this, such blatant defamation and dehumanization is not a harmless crime. Left-wing violence has long been a problem, but with the propaganda arm of the left egging them on, I fear it’s only going to get worse.

If the U.S. is heading toward a civil war, media pundits will have played their part in bringing it about. But trust me when I say that nobody should want it. Because the cost would be way too high, even for the winner.

Considering this, irresponsible journalism should be subjected to the ridicule that it richly merits. And with its new cover, The New Republic has certainly earned it.

The Emperor Has No Clothes.

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I sometimes find myself thinking that I have to explain old fairy tales, because it’s apparent that most of the people around us are yet to glean the subtle lessons behind them.

Such is the case when it comes to the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes. To sum it up: A conman went to the emperor and sold him a new set of clothes. He was able to convince the emperor that the clothes were something special, when in reality, they were nothing, and when the emperor wore them, he was completely bare.

The emperor was so enamored with his new clothes, that he decided to parade about while wearing them. At no point did any of the emperor’s servants or advisors correct him, and he set out down the streets wearing his new “clothes”. And, for that matter, none of the assembled crowds questioned what they were seeing, either. They agreed with assent that the emperor’s new clothes were magnificent.

But then, one guy spoke up. “Why is the emperor naked?”, he asked. Though one might think it was the most obvious thing in the world, only one guy either noticed or cared to acknowledge what was really going on.

While we might like to imagine that the guy was praised for his insight, the people around him “corrected” him, saying that the emperor wasn’t naked, he was wearing new clothes. They were either saying this because they were just that ignorant, or because they were just that dead-set against gainsaying the emperor.

And when the emperor heard what the man was saying, the emperor was angry, because if he was right, then this meant that the emperor, who was supposed to be the wisest and most insightful man in all the land, was duped by a con artist.

The specifics of the story will vary depending on who is telling it, possibly blunting the intended moral of the story to various degrees, and diminish it’s commentary on society and human psychology. But the main takeaway is usually either that there isn’t much benefit to being the one person who sees what’s wrong, and speaks up about it, or that if no one else in the room is pointing out what’s wrong, that makes it your duty.

If you’re wondering where I’m going with this, I’ll get right to it: The emperor is bare-ass nude. He has been for a long time, and the corporate establishment and much of the body politick refused to acknowledge it. His peepee is showing, and rather than squint to be sure, they instead turned and said, “Nuh-uh! Stupidhead!”

But then last week’s debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden had taken place. And Biden failed miserably. Not only did people finally start to notice that the emperor was naked, there was his willy, on full display.

Some people coped. There were those who pointed out that Biden had to have had a cold, because his voice was raspy. But I think we’ve all had the cold at some point, and we know that the cold doesn’t cause us to lose our train of thought in mid-sentence, nor does it cause us to ramble incoherently.

We got this routine for years, especially the few of us left who still trust the corporate press to be something besides the propaganda arm of the establishment uniparty, or its controlled opposition. “Biden is actually spry, I’ve seen it behind closed doors!” they’d tell us (and themselves), but it was hard to tell whether it was legitimate ignorance or cope. I know that the political left tends to be more algorithmically segregated, but imagine ignorance to the degree that a person sees someone like Joe Biden, and thinks “lucid”.

Imagine how terrifying and confusing that the world must be to someone who is that isolated from reality. None of us have to labor our minds to imagine a world where the costs of rent, food, and utilities have been skyrocketing, because that’s been our reality for the last few years. But there’s a difference between those who are so ignorant that they’ll circumvent the part of the brain that’s supposed to be inquisitive, and end up attributing price increases to “rich people being greedy”, and those who know that the cost of energy and taxes on property are going up, resulting in higher overhead costs of running businesses, necessitating increases in prices to the end of survival. The difference being, the latter have been actually paying attention.

A basic understanding of economics also helps. And I maintain that that’s the bare minimum to having a political opinion that’s worth anything.

But now, with last week’s debate between the presidential frontrunners, those who have succeeded in isolating themselves from the reality of the matter are now experiencing the kind of dread that’s comparable to the existential horror that comes with the contemplation of souls disappearing when people die. Joe Biden is not all there, and with only about four months until the presidential election, is replacing him as the nominee something that can be realistically accomplished?

Then there’s the way that Trump handled himself. While his typical poise was there, he was able to rein in his usual bombastic tone, and was surprisingly well-behaved. Whether you agree with him or not, he was able to manage a level of decorum while on stage.

Up until that point, Trump was the left’s Hitler, considering him completely incapable of saying anything that could be construed as reasonable, and whatever he might have said that might have been reasonable certainly wouldn’t have passed through the occluded lens of the left’s algorithmic isolation, and into their hermetically-sealed echo chambers.

But, if they tuned into the debate, then they would have actually heard him speak, and even if they weren’t convinced, anyone who was reasonable among them would have had to admit that there were compelling reasons for the convictions of his following. And when you realize the potential for this happening, the left’s insistence on not listening to the other side speak naturally suggests itself.

However, last week’s debate made his insight difficult to avoid. While that may have been revealing depending on who you are, last week’s debate showed us something even more revealing.

The emperor has no clothes.