Posted by: NotPaulHollywood | Oct 9 2025 12:54 utc | 2
Some browsers have a dark mode (e.g. Firefox).

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 9 2025 12:58 utc | 4

Posted by: NotPaulHollywood | Oct 9 2025 12:54 utc | 2
 
That’s a browser or OS appearance issue. I’ve had dark mode at MoA for 6 years. Come on…

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 9 2025 13:13 utc | 6

The IRS has always been a well-funded division of the federal government, and Collective Biden not only expanded it but actually militarized it, permitting IRS agents to carry guns—40,000 newly hired agents strong. Was this newly stood-up force designed to going after the oligarchs who might be hauling in countless billions in undetected income-? No: the intent was to go after small business Venmo citizens who were raking in, like $7000 per year, undeclared, or the occasional waiters & waitresses who were failing to report tip income of $3000 per year.
 
Joe deputized the IRS to scrutinize the tax returns of Bread & Circus normies, not the white-shoed elite, in other words.
 
When Collective Biden was in office, the MSM was such a booster of his policies that the newly weaponized IRS agents seemed the most respectable and unassailable of all federal employees, absolute angels w/ green eye shades and calculators. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents were sidelined, perhaps accorded less respect, since the policies of Collective Biden tracked toward open borders: it is said that 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. between 2021 and 2024.
 
The federal government has the right to enforce deportation laws. Congress passed the laws, and if politicians oppose them they can seek to rescind the laws via the democratic system: by voting them down. Where Collective Biden, favoring Open Borders, preferred to slow walk enforcement of the deportation of illegal aliens, DJT, for whom immigration was & is a core issue, began authorizing ICE to fulfill its mission in all its parameters soon after his inauguration.
 
Nothing shifted from Joe’s admin to DJT’s regarding the legitimacy of ICE—-it’s simply that DJT privileged & emphasized their mission. But ICE agents, confirmed & codified under the same Congressional procedure as the IRS agents, are not free to pursue their federal aims because they are vilified as thugs and stormtroopers.  In cities like Portland, Oregon and Chicago, ICE agents often need a security detail in order to do their job.  
 
DJT sent nearly 5,000 National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles, for instance, after protests broke out over ICE’s deportations. The National Guard and Marines protected ICE agents while they fulfilled their federal mandate. It’s inconceivable that IRS agents, for example, or other federal employees could be thwarted for long in their efforts to do their jobs by protesters without another element of the justice system stepping in to intervene. It’s inconceivable that a functional government, intent on prosecuting its laws as legitimized by Congress, would simply roll over and say, “Okay, we’ll quit pursuing our objectives” simply because protesters have amassed against them.   The Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker is declaring portions of Chicago ICE-free zones, an exacerbating move:  think if a state governor declared certain areas IRS-free zones.  I think we know how that effort on the part of a state to subvert a federal law would fly.
 
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has charged two men with knowingly transmitting threats to injure a Department of Homeland Security and ICE deportation officer and his wife. “Federal agents deserve to perform their duties free of harassment or bodily harm,” said U.S. attorney Theodore Hertzberg. “Threatening law enforcement officers and their families is illegal. These are direct attacks on the safety and integrity of our justice system.”
 
Identifying the anarchic movement Antifa as central to the attacks on ICE agents, DJT has designated it a terrorist organization, elevating it to the status practically of ISIS-K within the U.S. He convened a summit on the topic on 8 October. Independent journalists including Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Jonathan Choe, Andy Ngo, Katie Daviscourt, James Klug, Savanah Hernandez, Nick Shirley, Brandi Kruse and Julio Rojas joined him in the White House. Associate DoJ director Harmeet Dillon is tasked w/ mapping out strategies for tackling Antifa.
 
The independent journalists assembled for the summit moreover have documented Antifa doings over lengthy periods, some of them like Andy Ngo since 2019, so they come w/ a depth of experience: front row witnesses. They’re not members of the legacy who drop in for a quick live-feed, proclaim the protests peaceful and then vacate.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 9 2025 13:35 utc | 8

Yup the pivot to Venezuela is fucked also. Empire retreats back to its ziofascIst ‘safe place ‘ the North America’s / Canada soon to be without California and a few other states that will revert to Spanish as their main language. 
The strategic partnership is ratified – the weapons systems and ew are in place already. 
‘ @Kathleen_Tyson_

23h

The Iran-Russia Strategic Partnership and Venezuela-Russia Strategic Partnership are now in force, and Russian An-124 cargo planes are airborne to harden both countries from USreal aggressions. The gold reserves are almost certainly flown out to secure foreign vaults in Russia and/or China. Air defences, detection, and EWP are being deployed. Iran and Venezuela will be sovereign, hardened targets.

@MyLordBebo
Oct 8
🇻🇪🇷🇺 Venezuelan President, Maduro, signed decree on the entry into force of Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia on Putin’s birthday Oct 8, 2025 · 2:22 PM UTC ‘

 
 All depends on which way Lula jumps now. We know Argentina and Ecuador and a few others are tightly controlled ziofascist banana republics. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 9 2025 13:42 utc | 10

 too scents (1).
 
Yeah – I read online that gold has passed the $3,000 dollars an ounce mark – just think,  if Fort Knox wasn’t empty – it would be worth a fortune, meanwhile the USA is illegally holding Afghanistan’s gold in New York, whilst Britain is doing the same to Venezuela holding it illegally in London.
The one time PM of Britain Gordon Brown sold off Britain’s gold – rather cheaply years ago, if it hadn’t been sold so cheaply it would’ve been worth an extra £35 billion quid on top now, well according to the media that is.
 
France has a fair bit of gold – but no gold mines – it stole most of its gold from Mali which has umpteen gold mines, but possesses no gold itself.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 13:48 utc | 12

Lets see which country has the balls to do it first, and of course this is  a two-way street.
 
“The European Parliament pass a resolution calling on EU member states to shoot down Russian aircrafts in their airspace.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 13:50 utc | 14

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 9 2025 13:37 utc | 9
Hello Chat, that vid was short and pointed. 
 
quote…“until that fundamental issue is sorted out”  – yes.
 
Farage is also opportunist fake oppo.
 
 

Posted by: Noirette | Oct 9 2025 13:52 utc | 16

It won’t bring back the unfortunate souls who perished on the plane – at least compensation and an apology has been offered and accepted.
 
“Russian President Putin has finally publicly apologized to Azerbaijan over the AZAL plane crash in a meeting with Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev. Putin said Russian air defenses were tracking three Ukrainian drones, and fired two interceptor missiles, which exploded near the plane while in air. Putin has offered his condolences, and will pay compensation to the State of Azerbaijan.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 14:10 utc | 18

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Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 9 2025 14:17 utc | 20

@too scents | Oct 9 2025 12:56 utc | 3

Install “darkreader” https://darkreader.org/

Seconded! I am using that as well. It works very well for MoA and lots of other sites.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 9 2025 14:36 utc | 22

One face the Turkish president Erdogan.
 
“Turkish President Erdogan: ‘Israel has “surpassed even Hitler in crimes of genocide” in Gaza.”
 
And another face.
 
“A Turkish activist from the Steadfast Fleet, detained in Israel, says he personally saw Turkish cargo ships docking at Ashdod port loaded with goods for Israel.”
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 14:44 utc | 24

Netanyahu doesn’t like the Russians arming Iran.
 
During Putin’s phone call with Netanyahu yesterday, the Israeli Prime Minister asked Russia to ‘reconsider’ its weapons shipments to Iran, reportedly threatening that if Russia doesn’t stop arming Iran, Israel could intensify its military aid to Ukraine in the future

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 14:52 utc | 26

He missed out the bit where the Jews also had him crucified.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
 
“Look at Christ himself. I mean, he was a Jewish teacher from the Galilee. He wasn’t a Palestinian teacher. He was a Jewish teacher with a Jewish name, Yeshua. It was the birth of Christianity, which came from Jewish teachers who moved to Christianity, but they were Jews, and they came from Jewish traditions.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 14:54 utc | 28

Macron will be raging at this.
 
“Burkina Faso has generated $18 billion from gold mines since Ibrahim Traore took office.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 15:03 utc | 30

Marine le Pen looks for a bit of payback – after being blocked for five years from holding public office.
 
“Veteran right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen has vowed to block any new government action, after President Emmanuel Macron promised to appoint a new prime minister within two days amid a deepening political crisis.
Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) is the largest single party in parliament. On Wednesday, she urged Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call new elections, or step down himself.
”I vote against everything… This joke has gone on long enough,” the three-time presidential candidate said.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday after criticism of his cabinet choices. With France’s debt at a record high and debate over the 2026 budget ongoing, Macron has asked him to remain in office as caretaker until midweek. On Wednesday evening, Macron said he would name a new premier within two days, a move aimed at avoiding the dissolution of parliament and forming a compromise coalition government capable of passing the budget.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 15:20 utc | 32

The cuts in social welfare spending notwithstanding, the current administration is a massive deficit maker, due to the insanely high levels of military spending as well as the fact that regressive taxation, which falls disproportionately on the poor, disproportionately fails to bring in as much revenue. Additionally, private debt issued by banks is quite large, it’s called financialization. The result is asset bubbles. The AI bubble is acknowledged to be one. But so is the gold boom. Gold: what’s behind the boom? – Michael Roberts Blog
 

Where does all this end?  First, it ends if the US dollar does not continue to fall – and actually since July, the dollar index against other currencies has stabilised at a level that is close to its historic average. 

Second, it ends this time if the world economy goes into a slump.  That would kill inflation and so boost the dollar.  In slumps, the gold price can rise as an asset to hold (hoard) in crises, waiting for better times.  But in its current boom, gold is increasingly driven by speculative demand.  Such speculation will collapse in a slump and so will stock, bitcoin and gold prices.
 
The point about the relative levels of the dollar and other currencies is very relevant. Despite the daily optimism about how the fall of the dollar is automatically the fall of the empire,  the dollar is like every other empire, it doesn’t so much fall as get replaced, by something else. (Roberts’ article does make the elementary historical error of forgetting that silver was the money metal for many countries and many periods of time.)
 
I would further add that a rise in hoarding, whether it’s purchases in Treasuries or gold, are not investments in the sense of making money: They are hedges to preserve money. A massive increase in hoarding in an economy reflects a dearth of profitable investments, i.e., the prospects of massive deflation and depression. The perception that gold is a hedge against massive inflation typically assumes that only state budget deficits can be inflationary (which has never been justified in a comprehensible way) and that hyperinflation can strike without defeat in war, either military or a financial war by a vastly superior power. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:32 utc | 34

The ACP’s Eddie Liger has issued a video on the Candace Owens leaks re Charlie Kirk. Now I cannot see that there is any reason to suspect any conspiracy. The leaks purport to show that Kirk was in fact turning away from Israel and Liger’s video seems to make much of that. I must note that secret discussions and group chats in recent days don’t give any Israeli agents much time to prep an assassination. So this is intrinsically improbable regardless. And playing around by taking all this stuff seriously is merely opportunistic.  I got an impression Liger was trying to paint Fuentes as a tool, pretending Fuentes must be a liar if for denying the existence of a group chat member he wasn’t a member of. That does not actually follow, Owens is not an  unimpeachable source. Of course I didn’t listen to it all, being a waste of time. 
 
But I wanted to highlight something here that should have stood out to a would-be leftist about the group chat. The real point is not that Kirk was thinking about turning away from supporting Israel, much less whether Owens is a reliably honest source.  The real point is that Charlie Kirk was selling something that rich people wanted to pay two million dollars for, influence, and he was for sale. The fact he drew a line is not very important. What’s important, again, is, Charlie Kirk was selling to rich people. What he was selling of course was his audience, which seems to mean, some of you. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:43 utc | 36

Lastly, a general observation: The snobbery of the upper classes and the would be upper classes is obnoxious indeed…but it is not exploitation, it is not power itself but a mere personal idiosyncrasy of the powerful. But even if snobbery, looking down on the lower classes, elitism, were the substance of class rule, power, oppression and tyranny? Reverse snobbery has never cured any of it. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:48 utc | 38

Project Esther, when Zionists and influencers got together, because social media wasn’t toxic enough:
Israel Secretly Paid U.S. Influencers to Manipulate Public Opinion
 

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 9 2025 15:57 utc | 40

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:43 utc | 36
 
Boy, you’re mighty concerned with protecting the reputation of the Zios this morning.  To me, they never deserve the benefit of the doubt.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 9 2025 16:03 utc | 42

A moment of peace.  
 
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 9 2025 15:57 utc | 39
 
Glad you appreciate it … 

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 9 2025 16:15 utc | 44

More from Carney’s Canada…
 
Sean Foo: ‘Stunning: Even Canada…’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lajg6NeVE
 
“Canada sells record $57.1 B in US debt as global financial reset begins.”
 
 
Canada Could Become a Police State by Christmas
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2rmakvExpc
 
“If Parliament passes Bills C-2, C8, C-9…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 9 2025 16:37 utc | 46

(I noticed that it seems that the, what I would call, “Double Carrigae Return” problem has been solved. See my previous post where I used a double CR to make my post more readable. Thumbs up for MoA. 😉 I hope I am right. Fingers crossed).

Posted by: WMG | Oct 9 2025 16:49 utc | 48

Glenn Diesen – few minutes ago …
 

Alastair Crooke: War Against Iran is Imminent, Peace Through Subjugation

 
Alastair Crooke: War Against Iran is Imminent, Peace Through Subjugation  [ 55 mins

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 9 2025 17:15 utc | 50

He missed out the bit where the Jews also had him crucified. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Look at Christ himself. I mean, he was a Jewish teacher from the Galilee. He wasn’t a Palestinian teacher. He was a Jewish teacher with a Jewish name, Yeshua. It was the birth of Christianity, which came from Jewish teachers who moved to Christianity, but they were Jews, and they came from Jewish traditions.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 9 2025 14:54 utc | 28

—————
Serious biblical scholars, i.e. not those affiliated with any particular sect, have shown that biblical Jesus was a composite of various charismatics, teachers, psychics and seers from antiquity, mixed with folklore and mythology from other cultures and regions.
 
That the Jews murdered someone who exposed their crimes, money grubbing and other excesses is hardly news. It’s standard operating procedure.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Oct 9 2025 17:32 utc | 52

If Jesus was a Jew (and not a Galilean) then why did the Pharisees need a Roman to Judge Jesus ? In Roman Palestine, every tribe was able to try its own tribal members. 
Therefore, Jesus was not considered a Jew neither  by the Romans nor by the Jews themselves
 
 

Posted by: exile | Oct 9 2025 17:39 utc | 54

Posted by: natrat | Oct 9 2025 17:28 utc | 51
 
RE:  dude, you need to go back to bot school…
 
<<
 
Journalist Savannah Hernandez has reported extensively on Antifa since 2020, especially in Portland, Oregon but in other venues too. She was reluctant to return to Portland in 2025, because she had been beat up there several times in the past, had her cameras smashed, etc., but in order to document how Antifa had surrounded the ICE headquarters in downtown Portland, she had to go back.
 
Per her testimony during the Antifa Summit @ the White House on 8 October, what she discovered is that in the Antifa dominated areas, which downtown certainly is, Portland has a police force in body only—that is to say, the officers are physically present but they appear pre-positioned merely to stand-down while Antifa reigns supreme.  Occasionally they will arrest an anti-Antifa agitator as a means of protecting the agitator from Antifa’s wrath.  It’s as if they have cleared the decks for Antifa.
 
The local government does not effectuate commonplace laws & municipal ordinances in those Antifa-dominant areas.  For all intents & purposes, the local government has abandoned its citizens.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 9 2025 17:59 utc | 56

If you are interested in the Nobel Peace Prize, the 2025 prize will be announced tomorrow (Oct 10) at 11:00 CET (Central European Time). You can watch it live at Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize  
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 9 2025 17:59 utc | 57
 
Thanks for that. Expect to be annexed simultaneously with Greenland over the weekend!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 9 2025 18:09 utc | 58

As for Jesus and the crucifixion, not much about the live of Jesus has been firmly established. However the ultimate jewish punishment for blasphemy was stoning. Crucifixion was a Roman punishment for rebellion. So Jesus was most probably a leader of a jewish resistance group against Roman occupation. And a proto-socialist at that, calling on his followers to renounce their possessions, and give them to the community of believers.

Posted by: Ronald | Oct 9 2025 18:39 utc | 60

Posted by: Ronald | Oct 9 2025 18:39 utc | 60

The Roman governor actually was prepared to release Jesus because lack of any clear crime, but the Jews wanted to kill him anyway. When the governor offered them two prisoners, Barabbas and Jesus, they demanded Barabbas to be released, because they wanted to kill Jesus. Barabbas was a murderer, a Roman soldier at that and an advocate of violence for freedom.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 9 2025 18:46 utc | 62

How do you stage a cover-up?
 

US justice department launches inquiry into First Brands
New York prosecutors’ probe into bankrupt company is at an early stage and described as a fact-finding mission
 
The US Department of Justice has opened an inquiry into the collapse of bankrupt auto supplier First Brands Group, as federal prosecutors look to untangle how investors and creditors have been left with billions of dollars in potential losses, according to people familiar with the matter.
The probe is being led by the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, the Manhattan unit that often handles large, complex white-collar cases, the people said.
continues ==> https://www.ft.com/content/9eec3cbf-264b-4cae-bf5e-311b83fef7fc

 
Ahh Yess.  The same office that buried the Epstein case.
 

Posted by: too scents | Oct 9 2025 18:51 utc | 64

‘Ahh Yess. The same office that buried the Epstein case.’

And crushed the 9/11 victims road to legal discovery with Alvin Hellerstein on the bench on the inside and Shiela Birnbaum working from without as ‘mediator.’

Interestingly, Nick Bryant, who has done excellent work on both the recent Epstein case and the now distant ‘Franklin Scandal’ – in one of the early videos I watched before he became the household name he is now, Bryant acted surprised that the Southern District ‘screwed up’ with the Epstein case and he said that they ususally do very good work for justice.

I was floored by that statement because anyone ‘in the know’ knows the Second District is where important cases against those in power go to quietly die and certainly an investigative muckraking journalist the likes of Nick Bryant ought to know.

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 9 2025 19:19 utc | 66

The warning comes as the S&P 500 hit a record high on Tuesday, up 14 percent year to date. The BoE noted in its report that 30 percent of the S&P 500’s valuation comes from just five companies at the top, which is the most concentrated the index has been in 50 years. These companies include chipmaker Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook parent Meta, all of which have invested substantially in AI development.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/

Posted by: Keme | Oct 9 2025 19:24 utc | 68

Recommended video-commentary (in praise of my girl Candace) from one audibly angry sonuvagun blogger calling himself Liberty Lockdown:
 
Charlie Kirk Provably Betrayed: Candace Owens’ BOMBSHELL Texts | My reaction to Dave Smith & Fuentes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHBD7d-78C4
 
Instead of being televised, this revolution is being streamed.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Oct 9 2025 20:01 utc | 70

Posted by: natrat | Oct 9 2025 17:28 utc | 51
You are retarded.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 9 2025 20:07 utc | 72

The Germans haven’t learned anything from their Nazi past.  Many of us, however, have. And now we know for certain  that  the Germans can not be trusted.Someone once said to me – I don’t believe a thing from the Germans, and I strongly objected. It turns out the person was right.

Posted by: JB | Oct 9 2025 15:22 utc | 33
Well, as far as I’m aware, Germany is currently occupied by the USA, with US military bases on its soil, the Chancellor Act, and CIA blackmail. There is debate as to whether the US is owned by Israel or England or the other way around, but one thing is clear: non-sovereign, non-independent Germany has no agency, and can’t so much as fart without the USA’s permission.
Moreover, the host B is German. How would he react to what you and that other guy said? Given the previous paragraph, would it be no less objectionable to say that the Anglo-Saxons can’t be trusted either?

Posted by: Digby | Oct 9 2025 20:34 utc | 74

@74 Digby

There is plenty of that …Anglo-Saxons, Whites, whatever nation, etc.

But yes, it seems a mistake or a definition lacking statement, because ‘the Germans’ can mean as a collective (i.e. state) or ‘the german people’.

‘That other guy’ would be persiflo ? Who would be German memory serves.

With germany and “Israel” and US and EU etc. … it is a realm of cognitive dissonance and I think many recognise that .

Germans are ok though, a bit misunderstood and so not giving the results others are accustomed to in own society, which is not anyone’s error really.

Anyway, I don’t imagine b needs ‘victim status’ applied …I think most Germans are much more savy of the intricacies of their position than those outside are.

Good to be polite though, no point offending others unnescessarily.,. I think it was just JB not being careful how he wrote.

As for distrust between people’s of different nations, it is standard. People are often friends, but when it comes to reliance there is usually a barrier of some kind…which usually just gets resolved on ‘nation basis’ when different nationals are involved, probably because that is just easiest.

Foreigners also get to criticise other nations where nationals feel inhibited to, sometimes this might be considered a service.

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 9 2025 21:38 utc | 76

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:32 utc | 34
 
Nowhere dd you mention or even hint at why Gold is rising against the US buck.
 
Countries are buying Gold and selling US junk. Countries like Russia and China. Hardly speculators.
The US has shown the world that it will put its hands on your ‘reserves’ on a whim. The US is using the reserve currency of the world as a weapon.
 
That is why it keeps taking more of those green pieces of paper to buy a coin sized piece of Gold, not the blarney you spouted.
 
 

Posted by: arby | Oct 9 2025 22:22 utc | 78

We get that they hate Trump, but at some point the grown-ups have to start trying to implement the law. Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 9 2025 22:33 utc | 79

Apologies, but are you claiming the fat clown who is the American president is a ‘grown up’? How very amusing, but I suppose standards are different over there.
Strangely, I feel fortunate to not have a ringside seat for the upcoming implosion of the USD. 

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 9 2025 22:44 utc | 80

Its going to be amusing when Ameribros start to finally figure out that Team Red and Team Blue have the same boss. Its amazing how intelligent people get suckered into this pantomime conflict they call domestic politics. To be fair, its no better in most Western countries but I hoped for better from America, what with its traditions of rugged individualism.and rebellion. Ah we..

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 9 2025 22:48 utc | 82

@Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 9 2025 13:03 utc | 5
 
I gave up on Aurelien a while ago, he writes very well but its all superstructure and no political economic base. He makes the basic mistake of so many writers of assuming that the Professional Managerial Class are the rulers when in fact the are just courtiers of the bourgeois oligarchy. All philosophy and social commentary needs to be grounded in materialism and political economy, otherwise it just becomes clever people throwing around clever observations with no depth. He also uses an awful lot of words to say relatively little.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Oct 9 2025 23:04 utc | 84

‘if DJT does indeed invoke the Insurrection Act, it will not be the first time such a thing has happened.’

It’s also not as bad as suspending Habeus Corpus which Obama sort-of set precedent for in the sneaky Obama way of not really doing it officially all the way but doing it nonetheless via the NDAA and, importantly for those Obama and Trump serve, setting precedent for more to come in the future.

This what Chris Hedges et al sued Obama for in 2012.

So Trump will get to the suspension of Habeus Corpus eventually. I’m sure they have someone working on it as we speak.

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 9 2025 23:16 utc | 86

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 9 2025 22:33 utc | 79
 
RE:   the Insurrection Act would give Trump more legal tools to force Blue State governors and mayors to start enforcing the law and cooperating with federal law enforcement (FBI, ICE, etc.) instead of their futile resistance charades.
 
<<
 
It’s weird to imagine that isolated states can refuse to enforce federal law. 
 
Regardless of the narrative spin given to such resistance, including in a media which supports globalist aims, it’s crazily nonsensical.  States cannot simply freelance their ideas about what it means to be America.  Congress sets the laws of this nation.  That’s what legislative power is all about.
 
In the case right now regarding ICE in Portland or Chicago or Memphis or Los Angeles, the executive branch—as embodied by DJT, as the president—is merely following the laws as laid down by Congress.
 
A contrary media, hellbent on carrying water for an Open Borders mind-set and perhaps even an implosion-from-within concept of America, is boosting and fortifying the DJT-as dictator narrative as a means of staining & sullying his efforts to pursue immigration controls.
 
Those of you for whom this is not your first rodeo when noticing how the legacy media unifies starkly & staunchly against DJT and of course rthen eflexively deploys words like “authoritarian” and “dictator,” please note the similar tactic now.
 
The ones who are pushing this the hardest are the same ones who pushed Russiagate, J6, vaccine mandates, lawfare against DJT, debanking measures, censorship on old-Twitter, etc.  A globalist element in particular has a steep investment in keeping the U.S. destabilized over issues like immigration. 
 
In fact, there are those who would insinuate that a globalist element was instrumental, under Collective Biden, in implanting on U.S. shores a high number of immigrants in order to do just such a thing.  There are those who would claim that Collective Biden was in fact aligned w/ such an effort.  As DJT begins to unwind those gains, it’s no wonder there would be push back.
 
Consider this:  if you left the U.S. in order to become a citizen of the Russian Federation, seeking a better life for your family, would you immediately begin engaging in anti-VVP rallies on Pushkin Square-?  Would you churlishly try to grit it out with the Rosvgard on the pavers of Tsverskoye-?   Or would you keep your head down and just take care of Body & Soul-?
 
Some of the people protesting ICE are no doubt normies.  But the more strenuous long-lived among the opposition are not.  The more strenuous and long-lived among the opposition are the ones who get funded, and they rely on the normies to provide the cover ornamentation for a compliant media.
 

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 9 2025 23:26 utc | 88

 Reverse snobbery has never cured any of it. 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:48 utc | 38

 
Madam Guillotine was a top class cure for Elite Snobbery. Time for a Renewal of Common Sense. 
 
Only Death cures the Dark Triad Pathologies currently ruling our planet. 

Posted by: dodger | Oct 9 2025 23:31 utc | 90

‘States cannot simply freelance their ideas about what it means to be America. Congress sets the laws of this nation. That’s what legislative power is all about.’

This is incorrect in both theory and in practical application i.e. how things really operate.

States can go their own way to certain degrees under the existing system and they certainly should go their own way if the federal law they are asked to abide by is in no way shape or form congruent with their own citizens’ values.

Each side of the coin has recent victories that are directly attributable to states going their own way. The right rid itself of roe v wade this way and the left has just about gotten marijuana federally accepted in this same manner:

By ‘freelancing’ their ideas – to use your language – into policy.

This is why ‘the founders’ didn’t want too strong a central government – ideas they got from the Haudenosaunee among other indigenous groups.

But they just couldn’t stray too far from their almight god-king, so an ultimately all-powerful president and executive branch had to be created and maintained.

Really, a true constitutional republic would just have a house of reps. No executive and it certainly shouldn’t dress lawyers up in silly costumes, appoint them for life and call them ‘supreme.’

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 9 2025 23:50 utc | 92

The real point is that Charlie Kirk was selling something that rich people wanted to pay two million dollars for, influence, and he was for sale. The fact he drew a line is not very important. What’s important, again, is, Charlie Kirk was selling to rich people. What he was selling of course was his audience, which seems to mean, some of you. 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 9 2025 15:43 utc | 36

 
Yes, but not only “rich people” but to everyday people too he was “selling his wares”. The whole internet ecosystem operates this way …. loser know it all commentators selling the version of “sermon on the mount ” to other losers who cannot think for themselves nor act independently or cooperatively in coordinated political pro-social anti-elite psychopath action groups to change things for the better such as replacing both fake gop/dem tory/labour political institutions everywhere (or however they manifest as in the other countries-they are all the same “Mega Elite Group” of psychos) 
 
Youtube Substack Twitter/X etc is full of them. It’s what the losers crave. Every day spent listening spinning wheels of verbal diarrhoea online imagining they are heroes ahead of the curve. And being paid for it. Or paying for it. Nah. 
 
In Idiocracy, Joe proposes using water on crops to solve the problem of their lack of growth, despite Brondo’s claim that it has electrolytes and is what plants crave.

Posted by: dodger | Oct 9 2025 23:53 utc | 94

Complementing the Emanuel Todd thread, in better English Aurelien’s latest is a good read:The Cult Of Can’t.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 9 2025 13:03 utc | 5
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It sure was and reflects my view of the state of the world better. The author is English and has a really good take on history, including that of the Afrikaners and the influence of the Netherlands Reformed Church on Dutch colonialism.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 10 2025 0:01 utc | 96

Complementing the Emanuel Todd thread, in better English Aurelien’s latest is a good read:The Cult Of Can’t.Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 9 2025 13:03 utc | 5————————————————————–It sure was and reflects my view of the state of the world better. The author is English and has a really good take on history
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 10 2025 0:01 utc | 96

 
I agree, worth a look and a deep think. For those who missed the Todd revision to 2025 
https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/the-dislocation-of-the-west-what 

Posted by: dodger | Oct 10 2025 0:14 utc | 98

Cynic @ 93
Cool story bro. Great chat.
 

Posted by: Suresh | Oct 10 2025 0:19 utc | 100