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So, here we are, just hours away from Trump turning the world into a primrose garden full of earthly delights and faery folk. By the way, I have a gorgeous ocean-view lot for sale in the Pacific Palisades. Only burnt once.

I live in the most optimistic country on the planet, and it makes me wonder if there’s something in the water that I’m not getting. Clearly Indonesians aren’t paying attention, but to be fair, all the ASEAN nations lead the whoopie wagon. This leads me to suspect it’s the durian fruit warping their minds. In some places (looking at you Aceh) unmarried couples are forbidden to eat durian alone, which would certainly make me a pessimist.

Japan being at the bottom of the list I can understand. If I had to work 15 hours a day and scream my loyalty to the company in front of my boss every morning before I was allowed a bowl of rice and some raw fish, I’d be pretty down on the global situation too.

Will Trump change the world? Well, no. No human in 6,000 years has achieved Übermensch status. Don’t get me wrong, I like Trump in the way that I like Loki (the Norse demigod, not the Marvel character). He’s a spoiler, a deus ex machina, but he is aware of his role and that spoils the fun. The great harlequins of history are not conscious of the roles they play.

Nevertheless, I am enjoying watching the procession of unwise men to Mar-a-Lago, begging forgiveness and seeking dispensation. They are inconsequential reeds at the river’s edge that will bend whichever way the political currents flow. They are not worthy of respect.

If I were a child penning a list of consumeristic desires to Santa Trump, my missive would have one line: get rid of the Bumbledicks. That’s all I really want for Christmas. I am so tired of the entrained microminds infecting the public sphere with their peculiar brand of insanity.

The Bumbledicks have destroyed the culture, which was highlighted by two recent and incongruous events: the passing of one of America’s greatest cinematic talents, David Lynch; and Trump appointing a porn star, the father of Angelina Jolie, and a Catholic madman as “ambassadors” to Hollywood, recognizing that Hollywood is a foreign entity in its own country. Mel Gibson, who lost his Malibu house to bumbledickery, was heard to quip, “Does the appointment come with an official residence?”

I’m concerned that Trump is a reincarnation of Augustus Caesar. After the turmoil of the Roman Republic’s collapse and the end of the civil wars, Augustus established the Principate, a political system that maintained the outward appearance of the Roman Republic, while centralizing power in his hands.

In other words, I like Trump for his entertainment value, but I don’t trust his motives as far as I can spit into the wind of a typhoon, while pissing uphill. There’s a certain schadenfreude watching the cultural dictators of the past decade get face-planted, but I have to wonder what the price will be for the gloat.

Pendulums (or is it pendula) swing both ways.

As we stand on the precipice of history, ready to leap into the shadowed realm at the map’s edge, we would do well to recall that novelty does not imply improvement. It’s like when the pain in my shoulder abates, only to have my knee go out — the net effect is different, but not better. At least with the shoulder I could still run a marathon, if I was ever so inclined.

A new era brings a different set of weirdness, and there’s something to be said for that. At least there’s the honeymoon period where fantasies are given free rein, before the make-up comes off and we squarely face the consequences of our choices.

As they say down Nawlins way, “Laissez les bons temps rouler!” We’ll worry about the hangover when we get there.

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Those of you who have read my recent essay on retribution in statecraft, will know that it is not the lack of accountability that I was describing. Indeed, in that essay, I make a clear distinction between sin and forgiveness, and crime and punishment – “if you do the crime, you do the time.”

It is also true however, that those who would wish to rule over us and take away our liberties and freedoms, are themselves well versed in the dark art of divide and rule. Having lost the American Presidential elections and on the eve of the start of a new era in American life and politics, the enemies of freedom are licking their wounds and constantly planning their next diabolical moves – and chief among these is their knowledge of the historical destruction of societies and demise of nations brought about by ideological and actual civil wars resulting in a fractured, quarrelling, weakened nation that then becomes easy to subdue.

Only a few weeks ago, the “MAGA” movement in America was divided on the question of H1B visas (actually, the question of the abuse of the H1B visa) and there was a vicious back and forth between groups within the movement. (For my readers around the world who are not in North America, the “H1B visa” is a special American visa which is designed to bring exceptional tech and information technology/engineering talent to America, together with a path to American citizenship for these immigrants. It has undoubtedly been abused – and used for example, to give this visa to thousands of computer programmers from India into America, who are then paid much less than comparable American programmers).

One side of this debate within MAGA wanted to shut off the H1B visa stream completely; another, wanted it to remain as it is; and a third, wanted to severely clamp down on its misuse. The temperature of this debate kept rising – and like the electric kettle in our homes, started with a rumble of discontent, then agitating bubbles of anger and very soon, a crescendo of exploding agitation accompanied by hissing steam. The water is quiet now, but still hot!

Without ruffling too many (already very dishevelled) feathers, I wish to make it very clear that I believe that if you immigrated to America (or Canada or anywhere else) a generation or two ago, you should at least show enormous respect and even a little deference to those who are descended from the Jamestown immigrants (early 17th century) for example – and are 15 (or more) generations old in America. It is after all to the America that the latter built, that the former are immigrating to – and but for the latter, the nation would most likely not have been successful and prosperous enough to attract the former.

And so, even very rich billionaires and tech titans (including Elon Musk) should perhaps have deferred to or treated gently those ordinary, largely blue collar, multigenerational Americans protesting the misuse (or even the use) of the H1B visa to bring in thousands of immigrants, who then take American jobs and perpetuate the chronic underemployment and unemployment of American youth. But on all sides of this debate, there were vicious words exchanged – and if words could kill, there would be many thousand MAGA dead on all sides of this debate, over whose graves the enemies of freedom are waiting to advance.

There will be many more challenges to the MAGA movement. This should not surprise us, since MAGA is poised to challenge, disrupt and displace the demonic and anti-people left. As President Trump said two days ago, January 20th cannot come soon enough!

The tyrannical and demonic leftist leaders, academics, think-tanks and politicians who have been dominating American life may be called the “woke left.”

But there is also who I would call the “old left.” This type of leftist believes in helping the poor and giving a hand up to the disabled and discarded of society; they work (often tirelessly) for peace and nuclear disarmament; they believe in feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and housing the homeless stranger; they frequently love animals and are environmentalists; they do many of the things that Christ asked Christians to do for our neighbours and fellow men and women. And millions of them (not necessarily the majority of them), almost certainly voted for President Trump. One of them was the erstwhile Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The other, another erstwhile Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard. The latter are also part of the President’s cabinet.

Since I am an eternal optimist, I shall not make pessimistic predictions of the internecine warfare that may well break out between the right and the old left of the MAGA movement (the demonic woke left is recognized as an enemy by both groups). But I do predict that this will probably be the next target of the instigators of chaos and the enemies of freedom. It would be a futile and unnecessary battle, that will sap the energies of the MAGA movement and distract from the urgent tasks ahead.

Only a determined, unshakeable unity between the new and old right, and the old left will effectively challenge and overcome the considerable forces at work against us – and advance freedom, truth, liberty and the values of the Kingdom of God.

The MAGA movement is important not just for America; it is a make or break moment for the world. The world watches breathlessly as the 47th President takes charge in less that 48 hours. Generations to come will regard this Presidency and this time as one of the most consequential in America’s miraculous history; perhaps in the history of all nations. What a time to be alive! God bless America! God bless 47!

This originally appeared on Francis Christian’s Essays.

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One year prior to his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” decrying the United States’ genocidal war on the people of Vietnam.  King eloquently linked the state-sanctioned oppression of blacks with the suffering that the Vietnamese were enduring in the face of a genocidal onslaught at the hands of the US national-security state. The mainstream media denounced King for speaking out against the war when they should have praised him for speaking truth to power.

MLK declared, “As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so — what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”

Thankfully, the Vietnamese people heroically resisted the genocidal onslaught and defeated the US national-security state and its puppet South Vietnamese regime.  We should appreciate King’s courage to speak out against the crimes committed by the US national-security state when it would have been easier for him to have stayed silent.

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Writes Gail Appel:

Americans suffer from amnesia of convenience.

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Thanks. David Martin. 

It comes down to this:

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1880979821901332773?s=46

with further explanation at Congress is Sold Out

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Writes Gail Appel

Anthony Fauci, America’s Mengele.

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Writes Gail Appel:

If Pence were  “Pro-Life”, he wouldn’t be shilling for Fauci, Bill Gates, Mueller, Pelosi, Biden, Cheney and the Ukraine/Russia War . He wouldn’t have thrown Gen. Flynn to the wolves when Flynn was negotiating with Kislyak to detangle from Iran and normalize relations with the West.

If Mike Pence were “Pro-Life”, he would be jumping for joy that RFK Jr was an advocate for children’s health, proven safe vaccines.. RFK Jr. has eleven children. Pence has two. RFK Jr. is pro-peace. Pence is pro-unwinnable war.

Pence is a snake. Period.

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Writes Gail Appel:

Another day, another massive betrayal of America.

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Thanks, Rick Rozoff:

US deploys modernized nukes in Europe

The United States has completed the modernization of its primary thermonuclear weapon, according to NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby, who indicated that the B61-12 variant of the gravity bomb has already been deployed across military bases in Europe under NATO’s nuclear weapons-sharing program.

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“The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully forward deployed, and we have increased NATO’s visibility to our nuclear capabilities through visits to our enterprise and other regular engagements,” Hruby said in remarks at the Hudson Institute on Thursday.

While Hruby did not elaborate on the term “full forward deployment,” previous B61 variants have been stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Türkiye under NATO’s nuclear sharing program. Moscow estimates that at least 150 such bombs are deployed across Europe, lowering the nuclear threshold.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

Many voted for Donald Trump because they saw, in the words of Archbishop, “a glimmer of hope” in the presidential candidate. But we must face the reality that Trump has a vision of the future that is technocratic and Zionist. Investigative journalist Derrick Broze does a very good job laying this all out (warning he likes the f word). At the beginning of this clip, Broze is joined by Ryan Cristian, host of The Last American Vagabond.

See here.

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Click Here:

Ben Bartee

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Thanks Johnny Kramer:

The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

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Writes Tim McGraw:

Palisades Fires: Saying Goodbye to Our Home and Neighborhood.

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Writes Wayne Goodfellow:

With the Trump inauguration to take place tomorrow, the world is about to discover who Trump really represents…the American people or powerful interest groups. My sense is that a lot of patriots are in for a major reality check when they discover that they have been deceived once more. We will see. ]

See this.

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The real Robert E. Lee, not the one the Marxist historians and their Straussian neocon ideological comrades defame.

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Tim M, writes:

Some essential reading for LRC readers:

“One Nation Under Blackmail” by Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb’s articles at Unlimited Hangout: https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/whitney-webb/

“The Final Pandemic” by Dr. Samantha Bailey and Dr. Mark Bailey

“Virus Mania” by Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Kohnlein, Dr Samantha Bailey, Dr. Stefano Scoglio

“Dissolving Illusions” by Roman Bystrianyk

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Writes David Martin;

A truly great finish, but heavy duty stuff and very funny all the way through.  

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This presentation is particularly important to watch and review before what will happen tomorrow in Washington, DC on Monday with the inauguration of the populist President Donald Trump, champion of the anti-elitist MAGA movement. Trump achieved an unprecedented, presidential mandate with his monumental victories in both the popular and Electoral College voting.

The presentation is a summary statement on how traditionally the elites have viewed the non-elites throughout American history.

The great disparity in America lies between the professional managerial elites in government, academia, media, and business versus the middle/working classes in their fundamental attitudes, values, lifestyle choices and associations, and how they see themselves and the world about them.

Since the beginning of the Progressive Era (1900-1920) the dominant ideology or world view of the professional managerial class of court intellectuals, opinion leaders and editorial directors of the elite mainstream legacy regime media, bureaucratic functionaries and staff of the administrative state, the federal judiciary, members of Congress, and those persons who comprise the top echelon of the military industrial/security complex and the deep state, has been a synthesis of what has been described as corporate liberalism or proponents of the welfare-warfare state.

The Progressive Era saw the birth of the cult of efficiency, with the new administrative state’s apolitical credentialed experts gingerly guiding public-policy instead of the archaic rule of political bosses and their ethnic urban political machines. Or, at least that was what was supposed to happen according to Progressives such as Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Robert LaFollette, Jane Addams, Richard Ely, Lincoln Steffens, Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.

Their Progressive progeny such as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton still employ demeaning, mean-spirited vituperative terminology in this class war against their non-elite opponents – “garbage,” “deplorables,” or as Obama summarized it:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

The insightful attorney and political analyst Robert Barnes in a celebrated “daily brief” at VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com brilliantly encapsulated this reality of elite rule in America.

“Charles Murray’s Coming Apart was like a sequel to the brilliant book The Big Sort. Lived experience now varies as widely and wildly as ever: working class Americans see, feel, and remember a very different narrative of life than the professional-managerial upper middle class who govern us. Who is this class? Those with certifications or licensures, college or more degrees, in a job that manages others. They dominate those with a post-college degree especially. They claim the right to govern others due to those degrees and certifications and licenses, as the credentialed class claims credibility from those credentials.

“Consider what is typical or atypical of this professional managerial class. Most spent their lives amongst other upper middle-class professionals. Quite literally. Their neighborhoods were professional class dominated neighborhoods. No risk of a Mr. Rogers’ or Mr. Robinson’s neighbor. Their schools were professional class dominated institutions. Their churches or organizations are professional class dominated. Their cultural outings are usually professional class dominated. Their parents and siblings and cousins were professional class dominant. They often never lived in a small town. They often never employed in a working-class occupation involving physical labor. They often never served in the grunt units of the military. They know few firemen, cops, or frontline workers. They never experienced poverty or dramatic loss of status. They don’t own guns, smoke or dip tobacco, or even ever walked on a factory floor or construction site. Evangelicals are freaks to them. Swamp people means neither DC nor the excellent reality series; it’s those folks who live in the scary backwoods.

“They see their status as deserved, as they define deserts by professional class standards: approval from teachers in school, and approval from authority figures in life, measured by grades, degrees, credentials, licenses, and public acclaim from approved authority figures. Their over-achieving, teacher-pet mindset surrounded themselves often with like-minded individuals, often not even knowing the kids for whom school was not a match.

“Now, add to that surrounding themselves with other professional class sources of information: medical “experts” approved by the state, judges in courts of law, professional politicians in representative government, professionalized credentialed journalists in big institutional media, and teachers of themselves and their children. Of the professional class, by the professional class, for the professional class. Then add to that censorship of dissident opinions, deplatforming dissidents, taking away their licenses, removing their credentials, defaming their reputation, and picking friends by political alliance and allegiance.

“Middle America ain’t like these folks. For many in the professional class, all of the following is absent: Pickup trucks, cheap beer, old school action films, proud patriotism, all kinds of fishing and hunting, chain restaurants, the local Kiwanis or Awanas more than art galleries and lefty parades, riding the dog, dream vacations to Dollyworld or Branson still await, folks smoke (and not just weed), work that might require a uniform, friends and family in protective services at the grunt level of police, fire, medical, or military.

“In other words, we are governed by an insular elite acculturated and educated to intellectually incestuous intersectionalism at the moral and practical effect of disastrous public policy. Any platform of change must do all it can to reallocate political capital from the professional managerial class to the people as broadly as achievable. Populism provides part of that answer to any problem: reallocate power to the people whenever and wherever you can.”

For over a quarter of a century I taught in what was once an affluent suburban high school. In May 2020 I retired from this position. Because of major demographic changes in student clientele the institution has transformed into a inner city school. This transformation has also resulted in substantial changes in attitudes and perceptions of the students.

Most students today have very little knowledge or interest to historical events that happened before they were born. Their willfully ignorant attitudes on contemporary events are emotional responses, not ones based on real world historical knowledge. Sloganeering for free health care, free college, halting climate change and saving the planet, just sound “fair’ and “equitable.” Fairness and equality are the primary values they see stressed in the greater culture and media. Someone who does not share these mandated “politically correct” values is unfair, mean, and a “racist.” They have virtually no knowledge of how over time Americans attitudes towards social and political equality have dramatically changed. All they know is that in the past everyone supported slavery and racism. They can’t tell either chronologically or by other ways of historical evidence when this occurred or why and how it changed. To them 1865 (when the Civil War ended) and 1965 (when the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts had become law) are not separate but blend into one amorphous thing called ancient history, of which they have no interest, and do not see how these past events affect their lives today. They are trapped in the perpetual present, not caring about the past or future.

It is five decades since Edward Banfield’s highly controversial The Unheavenly City was published, and the sequel, The Unheavenly City Revisited, four years later.

I have been championing this volume for over 50 years since first encountering it. Murray Rothbard loved this book and devoted a substantial portion of his For a New Liberty, to a detailed examination of it.

Banfield had many brilliant observations on race, crime, and other hot topics in his book.

However it was his innovative redefinition of the concept of social class that is most memorable, and which has drawn the most controversy.

Banfield carefully defined class membership, not in terms of income status, such as government statistical poverty levels, but in terms of orientation toward the future, or time preference.

The more pronounced one’s “future orientation” was, the higher one’s social class.

Multicultural critics of this idea now claim it is “cultural racism” to value or promote “future time orientation.”

Known to economists and other social scientists as “low time-preference,” this is what is called setting goals or encouraging purposeful “middle class values” such as punctuality, thrift, foresight, deferred self-gratification of needs or wants, and self-discipline as opposed to “underclass values” or “high time preference” behaviors such as improvidence, hedonism, purposelessness, immediate self-gratification of needs or wants, and capricious spontaneity or irresponsibility.

The Unheavenly City continues to define the real class struggle in America.

In an extremely perceptive essay, Riots—Not Fun or Profit for the Rest of Us, Lew Rockwell draws upon and cites this seminal work and cogently relates it to the current series of destructive riots sweeping across America in its major metropolitan urban areas and densely concentrated cities.

Here is the actual text from Banfield’s book which still remains the most precise explanation for the riots, crime and turmoil America is undergoing in its major cities today.

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Writes Gail Appel:

Where the hell are is our “ vaunted” electorate? Oh yeah! Scheming to keep RFK Jr, Jay Battacharaya ,Marty Makary and Kash Patel  from being confirmed.

See here.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

Do angry letters between JFK and Israel founder Ben Gurion prove the Mossad killed the former US president? Link: 

https://rumble.com/v29k7jc-author-martin-sandler-discusses-possibility-that-mossad-assassinated-jfk.html

Rumble summary: 

Martin Sandler, editor of “The Letters of John F. Kennedy,” discusses the possibility that Israel’s Mossad was behind the assassination of JFK. Sandler was speaking at the John F. Kennedy Museum in Hyannis, Massachusetts on November 6, 2013. His talk was broadcast on the program “Book TV”: https://www.c-span.org/video/?316163-1/the-letters-john-f-kennedy – The clip about the Mossad is at https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4547313/user-clip-jfk-gurion-mossad-dimona

Sandler is an award-winning author of numerous popular books and textbooks on American history. He taught at the University of Massachusetts and Smith College. https://biography.jrank.org/pages/1629/Sandler-Martin-W.html

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