Great Darkness Foretold
A tightly-wound progressive gentleman offers lifestyle advice:
It all sounds terribly exciting.
Leftist shares his plan if Trump wins this election. This is a whole new level of delusion… pic.twitter.com/BYYqVAL8T9
— Amala Ekpunobi (@amalaekpunobi) October 26, 2024
Update, via the comments:
Martin D adds, not unfairly,
Ah, yes, but there’s a sweet role to play, a self-flattering psychodrama to enact. Or as Mr Muldoon puts it,
And regarding the prospect of Our Betters being forced into some terrified silence, Eagle quips,
That was, I think, the bit that really strained credulity. The idea that Agitated Chappie and his radical comrades could ever inhibit their compulsion to announce their own superiority at every opportunity. It was a stretch, even compared to the implication that the streets would soon be patrolled by some Trumpian Sturmabteilung.
I mean, despite the alleged peril, the risk of being chased into the sea or imprisoned in a camp, Agitated Chappie couldn’t resist videoing his latest commands and then posting them on social media, where his oppressors might discover them. And should Mr Trump win the election, do we think Agitated Chappie will follow his own advice – his emphatic advice – and delete all of his social media accounts?
How would he signal his superiority then? How would we know how much better than us he is?
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Did he just forget Trump was in office for four years and none of this happened?
I could only guess at what’s happening in the gentleman’s head. I was, however, intrigued by the keep-your-mouth-shut part. Though I suspect that might be a challenge. A bridge too far.
Laughed, not sorry.
Heh. I did like the nesting dolls thing. And of course, “Hitler… and joy.”
Do help yourself to bar snacks.
They’re savoury.
None of this happened to him.
Charles Murray, Jordan Peterson, Janice Fiamengo, Kelly “Posie Parker” Jay-Kean and no doubt dozens of others I could name – and hundreds or even thousands I can’t – have all had variations of this treatment at the hands of what are presumably the intended audience for that video.
[ Slides dish of savouries to Nikw211. ]
As ever with progressive activist types, they operate on the assumption that everyone else thinks, behaves, and acts exactly as they do.
They apparently just cannot imagine that other people think differently, or even could think differently from them, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
And it’s in that they reveal themselves.
Hmm! Why thank you barkeep!
[ Mumbling to self while attempting to take polite enough portion ]
It’s just a carrot, it’s just a carrot, it’s just a carrot.
It is a carrot, right?
As Wanye Burkett has often illustrated, despite all the guff about empathy, progressives do seem quite bad at understanding other people’s minds. And I suppose that if your political persona relies so heavy on an elaborate demonology – white supremacy, everything is racist, trans genocide, literally Hitler, etc – then the outpouring above is hardly to be a surprise.
Oh, meatier than that.
[ Extends finger, pushes bowl tantalisingly close. ]
As a personal illustration, I’ve often had the sense that my middle-class, left-leaning acquaintances – whose motivations I think I understand, at least to some extent – seem baffled by me. As if I were something imponderable and mysterious, an inexplicable phenomenon. At best, merely contrarian.
I was recently asked, on two occasions, and somewhat incongruously, who I would vote for if I could vote in the upcoming US election. My answer, which could not have been much of a surprise, was nonetheless met with something like shock. A non-plussed silence. As if I’d suggested that I could levitate, or spontaneously turn a luminous purple.
Which made me wonder why the question had been asked, if one of the two possible answers was already inconceivable and seemingly could not be processed.
I don’t think I’ve seen a dog more embarrassed . . .
Empathy!
Purity test?
To be fair, we’re baffled by you, too.
Well, it was a little odd. I’m not in the habit of asking people how they vote, but if I were to, for some reason, I don’t think I would be left incredulous and spluttering if the answer were one of the two mainstream options. As if the other person had just announced that they’d been probed by aliens while walking the dog.
[ Pushes dish of savouries towards Ted. ]
As if I’d suggested that I could levitate, or spontaneously turn a luminous purple.
Wait, what? You can’t? We always figured that was SOP for you. I am so chagrined.
As I get over my bitter, bitter, disappointment, back to the topic, I am down with these morons shutting the hell up (as if that would ever happen) but their need to see themselves as Oppressed Martyrs of Petrograd™ is both laughable and pathetic.
That did strike me as the least plausible aspect of the tirade.
As if the other person had just announced that they’d been probed by aliens while walking the dog.
I think the response to that among a random gathering of people would be an invite to the support group, not incredulity.
This obviously pampered young man working himself up into a lather of fury reminds me of this quote. If President Trump wins, he will be so depressed when none of this happens.
@VeryBadLlama
Well as an assumption, in the absence of much evidence to the contrary, are they really wrong? We are all are steeped in a culture, the overwhelming predominant culture of leftism. Of the Overton window being permitted to move in one and only one direction. And conservatives…”conservatives” don’t/won’t speak up to say much differently. When conservatives, or even just non-BSC leftists* do, no matter how solid their foundational evidence (Trump told people to drink bleach for example) they are mocked. Not even their fellow “conservatives”, no matter how much they agree, will offer public support. Oh, they’re great in private though.
*I actually find a couple of my leftist friends from my college years being more willing to speak up than most “conservatives”. One even got canceled by many people he knew simply for defending free speech about ten years ago.
I would guess, having been asked somewhat similar questions myself, that the spluttering was pre-planned. Not knowing your exact relationship to the parties involved, I would venture a guess that they were 95% sure of the answer you would give and were really only asking to try to intimidate out the 5% chance of a proper response.
Bar snacks…
Hem. David Does Finger Food?
I think I see a mushroom…
Pig tails?
Amazing how trust in the media is at an all time low.
They look like wieners to me. Not sure what kind tho.
[ Slides intriguing dish closer. ]
[ Washes hands thoroughly. ]
It’s a strange feeling, to simultaneously want and not want to know what that is.
James Damore, Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, Amy Wax.
Tamara Lich and the Canadian truckers’ protests.
All the climate scientists who were defunded for questioning the catastrophic global warming narrative.
All the teachers and professors who were demoted or fired for disputing the merits of DEI.
All the people who objected to mandatory pronouns, or queer grooming in schools, and child “sex reassignment” surgery. And so on.
He is saying that Thanksgiving will be different this year?
Multiple reasons:
1. Seeking comforting personal affirmation that everyone agrees with them.
2. Attempting to subtly pressure everyone they meet into publicly declaring their support for the Right Opinions–or at least to be intimidated into silence.
The problem is not “institutional racism”, it’s an evil culture that needs eradication.
Again, that was the bit that really strained credulity. The idea that Agitated Chappie and his comrades could ever inhibit their compulsion to announce their own superiority at every opportunity. It was a stretch, even compared to the implication that the streets would soon be patrolled by some Trumpian Sturmabteilung.
I mean, despite the alleged peril, the risk of being chased into the sea or imprisoned in a camp, Agitated Chappie couldn’t resist videoing his latest commands and then posting them on social media. And should Mr Trump win the election, do we think Agitated Chappie will follow his own advice – his emphatic advice – and delete all of his social media accounts?
How would he signal his superiority then? How would we know how much better than us he is?
… an evil culture that needs eradication
Speaking of which…
[ Post updated. ]
The Agitated Chappie reminds me that when Amazon Prime turned The Man in the High Castle into a series, I oddly found myself rooting for the American Nazis because the “resistance” was just so whiny and annoying, especially Juliana.
Mind you, having Rupert Sewell as a Nazi piece of eye candu didn’t hurt none . . .
And sorry – Rufus Sewell.
[ Rummages under bar, sprays Stephanie with cold water. ]
Fftt, fftt, fftt.
Don’t make me fetch the hose.
[ meme of Salma Hayek in a bikini, quoting F A Hayek ]
I still have not seen one comment from the left or right regarding what to me was the biggest surprise from that rally, the appearance and endorsement by Dr. Phil. I watched Trump and RFK, Jr. do interviews with Dr. Phil. I would love to see Kamala or Tampon Timmy do that. Or Biden. Or Jake Tapper. Or Dana Bash. Or…on down the Jeenyus MSM/chattering head line.
Why are the Left horrified at the MSG rally? Because there was talk about stopping illegal immigration. To their minds, any criticism of brown people, such as suggestion that one should screen immigrants for criminal records or serious illness or saying that we can only absorb so many immigrants, is exactly the same as saying all brown people are bad. It is like abortion: only 100% right to abortion is acceptable, no consideration that aborting nearly full-term babies might be wrong. They cannot make distinctions.
Not entirely unrelated.
I have known leftists who fervently declared that the United States has an absolute moral obligation to provide welfare benefits to the entire third world. Medical care. Universal basic income.
EDIT: And some of these leftists were graduates of “elite” universities.
Oh, if only.
If Harris wins, that guy is getting prosecuted like Douglas Mackey … or maybe the next time a Democrat wins. Also like Mackey.
I can’t tell if there are any toenail clippings.
[ Passes bowl, nail clippers. ]
Sausage in a bun! Made from genuine pig! Get em while they’re hot!
I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying this man’s fear and loathing. There is not doubt that he is living in fear and misery. He imagines horrors that are figments of his imagination. Suffer fool … When Trump is back the Oval … life will be much better.
The gentleman has a very punchable face. Guys like that are the reason I never speak to young men with well-kept beards in Toronto, I fear my self-restraint might come up short.
*passes tin foil hat*
Might also be prudent to give him a package of Depends.
It’s un-Christian of me, but I too am enjoying these meltdowns: A number of libtard women who I never un-friended on Facebook are ranting and spewing in a very entertaining way, soiling themselves over the prospect of a Nazi Trump presidency. And yet these same women have, for many years, made it clear to me that they approve of the suppression of conservative viewpoints.
Ye gods man – I’m pretty sure lefty politicians have held rallies there in the interim – I know one or both Clintons did. And even if they hadn’t, Donald Trump has been a New York City fixture for decades. He has cameoed in movies set in New York City – like Home Alone.
These people have lost their teeny-tiny minds – completely forgetting all the years Trump was in New York City, hanging with the New York Glitteratti and donating to reliably Democrat causes/pols (like Hillary Clinton). He got awards from the NAACP for pete’s sake. The boxing guy with the weird hair – Don King – was a big friend of the now EEEEEEvil Don Trump. Good grief – Donald Trump has been a known entity for decades – out there for all to see, love him or hate him: his marriages and affairs in all the gossip rags, the IRS combing his books every year, on TV doing the chat circuits, heck even had his own TV shows.
You’d think the guy who rode down the escalator in 2015 with an R after his name came down the ramp of an alien spaceship and was a completely different being than the one who for decades before had a D after his name.
F@#$ these people. I am so sick of the fever-pitch pants-wetting hysteria over this one guy who has been in the public eye for longer than most of them have been alive.
I saw someone post the excuse for that was his first term advisors prevented a bunch of bad actions. Or flat out celebrating obstructionist and treasonous behavior.
I admit to hoping he can execute on his proposals, but I am primarily interested in seeing him be a sharp stick in the eye of the system.
TDS is real.
They always imagine that their enemies intend to do what they themselves want to do.
How you know that is something I don’t want to know.
<sigh>
Remember the good ol’ days, when it was “…the love that dare not speak it’s name…”?
I rather wish that all of these mentally deranged dysfunctionals kept to themselves, shut up, and left the running of things to people with demonstrated capacities to “Just Make Things Work(tm)”.
What’s sad is that I’m rapidly reaching a point where I no longer care whether or not they’re shut the f*ck up by brute force and/or terror. They’ve had their run of tolerance and decency, abused it and proven that they didn’t deserve either one, and I’m quite tired of it all.
I started out as a Classic Liberal, a true believer in all that I was ohsoverycarefully taught by the preening jackasses. After some forty years of actual lived life, in amongst their creations? My politics could best be described as somewhere to the right of that which Ghengis Khan professed.
What’s ironic as hell? They’re the ones responsible for it, nobody else. All you have to do is examine their works, and despair. That’s all it takes; the realization and recognition that they’re full of shiite.
hahaha Freud was right about projection. Who exactly has been doing the following the past 4 years?
Trying to (and succeeding in some cases–Steve Bannon) in imprisoning political opponents
Conducting false flag operations (Patriot Front)
Riling up their base to conduct assassination attempts
Having their thugs attack attendees at opponents rallies (2020 Trump rallies and Antifa)
Censoring the opposition
Stuffing ballot boxes
Having media in their pockets
Trying to control private industry (min wage laws, forcing auto makers to sell EV cars, ban on exporting petroleum, rent controls)
But since they are doing it, they assume their opponents will do it too.
WTP:
Uncircumcised
I encourage you to watch the video at this link and see for yourself the interviews with the vile, fascist, misogynist, racist scum pouring out from MSG last night. It’s frightening.
Ah. So like, European. I guess.
Telling everyone you’re going to shut the Hell up if Trump is elected doesn’t seem likely to dissuade people from voting for Trump.
Just the opposite I’d think.
Geoducks (or related critter) without the shell?
@Smallish Bees, who shared:
I’ve no idea where you found that, but it perfectly encapsulates a bunch of people I’ve met over the years. I would really like to know where you found that or what it was part of…
I think this speaks to a certain set of issues with the modern world. We’ve drastically over-educated and mal-indoctrinated a huge swathe of the population. We reap what we’ve sown, because this crap has been going on in plain sight throughout our “mechanisms of cultural transmission”, and without any effective pushback.
The current dysfunction is downstream of the Gramscian capture of the institutions. And, right in line with the essential blindness of Gramsci, who presupposed that by capturing those institutions, they would automatically remain pre-eminent in the world. What he missed, typical of his ilk, was that the moment those institutions ceased fulfilling their age-old functions, they’d lose any and all legitimacy.
The left captured the media, made it theirs, used it… Now, several generations on? Does anyone believe a single thing that the media blathers on to itself about? There may be a few grandparents out there that wait on the pronouncements of MSNBC and CNN, but the majority? They’ve identified that the organs of mass media are captured lying liars that do nothing but lie. So, tell me again, Mr. Gramsci… How does all this accrue to the benefit of your programs?
What Gramsci and his ilk failed to recognize was that you can have your long march through the institutions, but… When they cease to actually, y’know… Work?
Then, you’re left with no functional institutions, a vacuum, and even less power, because now that your ideas have been tried out in the public sphere, and everyone can see how well they don’t work, you’re screwed as a “mover and shaker”.
Note well how much influence Pol Pot’s successors have in modern-day Cambodia. If things don’t work, if your promises don’t deliver…? You will eventually lose power.
@pst314, who said:
Ya wanna know what is hysterically and stygian-darkly funny?
None of those yahoos advocating for infinite unrestricted immigration seem to grasp the very obvious and mandatory extension of it all, namely that if you’re to open the borders to all the world, then… You must, perforce, go into the world-conquest business. You’ve no other choice; if you accept that you’ve the only functional nation around, then you must also accept that you absolutely must begin a program of converting the rest of the world to your administration. You’ve no other choice, because you have to have those resources, in order to make it possible for your world-view to triumph.
Today, let in the world; tomorrow, perforce, you needs must go out and make the world yours.
This, I fear, is the logical extension and end-state that these morons fail to see in their make-believe little ideal worlds.
Or, maybe they do. I don’t know; every time I’ve pointed this out to one of them, they just get this thoughtful look on their faces.
Update to the Chicago shooting I mentioned in the previous post:
The shooter is Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi.
No surprise that a Muslim would shoot an unsuspecting Jew in the back.
Jerry Pournelle, is that you?
@pst314,
I don’t remember that quote being something I’d associate with Pournelle, but if it was good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.
TBH, I may have heard that somewhere in passing, or read it. I had thought, up until just now, that I’d come up with that construction sometime during my military career, when someone asked me what my politics were about the time Clinton won his election…
I think Ghengis gets a bad rap, honestly. If you read his biography, he really wasn’t setting out to be an all-conquering empire builder. It just sorta happened, what with his revenge on them that done him wrong… Nearly every step on the way for him was the result of delivering overdue justice to people or parties that had done naughty things to his tribe.
At least, you can read it that way, if you’re of a Mongol-charitable mind.
Hey dummy: If you can see the camera, the camera can see you.
From the far south side of Chicago, NOT an illegal immigrant. Once again, initial anonymous blog comments were not correct. #72HourRule.
@pst314,
I would submit that this loser is actually an illegal immigrant of the mind, having imbibed a bit too much of the usual loser religion BS from sources unknown. TWANLOC, in other words.
More and more to be seen… Particularly around the supposed institutions of cultural transmission.
Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam is on the far south side–73rd and Stony Island.
And NOI members are about as TWANLOC as one can be.
Remember the NOI nutjob I linked to recently, who was ranting against “A-rabs with their A-K’s” preventing blacks from looting their stores?
I haven’t seen an actual link to NOI; I suspect that could be likely, but since this idiot named himself after an actual Mauritanian politician…? I’ve no idea. Lotta weird cultish stuff on the internet, which is looking more and more like a really bad idea. Sure, its a gateway to the wonders of the human mind and all of its creations, but… Dear God, are there some downsides to it all. Never before have there been so many nutjobs able to link up and synergize.
‘Ramadan m—–f—–s’ was the term used if memory serves.
… it’s a gateway to the human mind.
Both, I think. But it was a long rant.
Don’t take that as an insinuation that the shooter has connections to the NOI.
My only intent was to note one of the shitty Jew-hating aspects of the far south side.
Far south-side Chicago is a wondrous place; in my personal lived experience, I observed the locale to have managed the feat of turning black Chicago PD cops into people that would have had the Grand Kleagle of the KKK standing in slack-jawed amazement at the demonstrated racism they casually displayed, and having to say “No, no… That’s going too far…” at what came out of their mouths.
Swear to God, the absolute worst racists towards blacks I ever encountered in the United States were black Chicago PD officers. The majority of the ones I encountered cheerfully advocated for doing things on the south side of Chicago that would have had German einsatzgruppen looking on in stupified horror.
Important to remember that it’s not just projection – it’s justification. They are talking themselves into revolutionary violence.
And now I’m reading that he IS an illegal immigrant. From Northwest Africa.
ComputerLabRat, who asked, Geoducks?
I would bet more strongly on the side of some version of the undersea plant called Dead Man’s Fingers…they are sort of edible, I guess, and flexible so they might do ok in a pickling bath. A further sort of plausible candidate might be the land fungi of the same name. Me, I can’t get past the ick factor, so that’s about the limit of my research.
This. The projection and justification reinforce each other.
That other people think differently without being despicable [Nazis | fascists | bigots]. They know we think differently. They think it’s because we’re monsters.
@pst314, who said:
Early days, yet. Give the media time, and they’ll discover he’s actually a white Republican from Utah, or something.
I love the malleability of the new reality.
Speaking of appetising meals…
Chappie above reminded me of the no less radical young lady named Margot, a “nutrition counsellor” who is “root-cause and system focussed,” and whose profound thoughts include “What do we eat during the revolution?” Because you can’t agitate the proletariat without a solid meal plan.
While her comrades “break capitalism” and “abolish” prison, Margot envisions herself “coaching people in how to eat from a revolutionary and resistance standpoint.” A task that involves instructing the little people on how to wash foraged bin scraps in vinegar in order to remove any trace of those capitalist pesticides.
Our Betters. Born to lead.
Also, Godless Utopia Imminent. “Artists and visionaries” required.
An interview with Billboard Chris.
Billboard Chris, and activists’ reactions to him, have been mentioned here before.
Most likely they’ll just look for “reasons” to dismiss Islam as a motivating factor, and then quietly forget it even happened. The trial will pass without national news attention and the illegal immigrant angle will be ignored. They’re already reporting the suspect’s Muslim name and the fact that the victim was a Jew walking to synagogue (and in that neighborhood almost certainly dressed in a visibly “Jewish” manner, ie in black clothes and fedora.) I’ve seen multiple reports on the CBS, NBC, and ABC websites, and of course the New York Post and Fox News are likely to give full coverage.
Each other? 😀 But truly, when leftists cause mass starvation it is moral for starving people to eat leftists. One pudgy commissar can feed a family for many days. Much better than trying to survive on David’s bar snacks.
On a lighter note, I give you . . . scholarship.
Seem familiar, comrade? Everyone is afraid to be the first one to stop clapping.
Isn’t the solution for the person being applauded to signal enough is enough? Or did the celebrities in question actually believe they deserved all 17 minutes of it?
It is Hollywood, so anything is possible.
Dunno, seems kinda niche.
I’m tempted to wonder how it compares with Dr A. W. Strouse’s dissertation titled Literary Theories of the Foreskin. A colossal work that not only “investigates a school of thought in which the prepuce, as a conceptual metaphor, organises literary experience,” but also “demonstrates that, within the school of preputial poetics, the male anatomy queerly embodies the plasticity and multiplicity of rhetoric.”
And in which the preputial connotations of aluminium cans are pondered at length.