The phrase usually runs, Enemies foreign and domestic. However, the third and final video of the discussion between Michael Vlahos and Douglas Macgregor ends with reflections on the wars at home and abroad, and the relationship between the two. I’ve transcribed—not summarized—the final 5 minutes of a 30 minute video. It’s all interesting, but the last 5 minutes really get to the heart of The Way We Live Now here in America.
Question for friends, Substack comments have begun trying to autocomplete my words. Any way to turn that off? Can't find it in settings. I know we are all here to feed an AI learning beast, but this is annoying!
There was a pseudonymous commenter at Richard Fernandez's old Belmont Club blog who called himself Subotai Bahadur. Subotai (c. 1175–1248) was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. Many years ago (10? 12?) this fellow was the first person I saw to use the acronym TWANLOC (those who are no longer our countrymen). With far more clarity and prescience than I can claim, Subotai Bahadur suggested back then that there would be only one way out of the hell we had allowed our culture and country to become: we must go through it.
Speaking of the need for domestic regime-change (as opposed to merely changing administrations or congressional majorities), Kunstler’s recent diatribe really drove home to me, at long last, that the KGB had nothing on the FBI with regard to monitoring and controlling the population. Vlahos is right. This collective “mind-f*ckery” (to use a Kunstlerian term) has been so effective that nothing short of some kind of Revolution will turn the tide.
"Revolution." "I think that's where we're headin." I wonder. It is true that "you can't permanently marginalize and reduce to a kind of serfdom the majority of Americans." But what will it take to prove that true? When? And what will be the result?
When so many people are "living off the government" (welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, disability payments, Social Security, Student Loans, Federal and State pensions, civil service jobs, government contracts, and on and on) how much will it take for them (us) to willingly give up their (our) livelihoods and potentially their (our) lives against the authoritarian technocratic surveillance and financial control state now headed by the Uniparty? Then there are the U.S. citizens who don't know Russia from Mexico and Ukraine from Greenland (yes, video interviews showing this exist). Will they really see the light about our supposed masters when the truth about the Ukraine is revealed? Who, by the way, in the mainstream media will reveal that?
Whether or not you subscribe to Alexander Tyler's stages of civilization - and I'm quite sure most reading this blog are acquainted with it - I thought this to be a particularly good commentary on it and on where we are in it:
It seems we are somewhere in #7 or #8 (if you accept the paradigm). But is the fall of our civilization inexorable? I will say that in my opinion in the absence of a common understanding of our dependence on God, of His morality, of our own nature, and of the salvation he has provided to us, the outlook is not good. That said, I particularly appreciate the Tyler commentary author's conclusion and I greatly appreciate Mark's commentary about these issues, with which I agree.
That answers the question I posed in my earlier comment: what happens next? No one has had the nerve to say that. Thomas Jefferson said it was necessary every “X” number of years. I don’t remember his “X” in the quote.
Question for friends, Substack comments have begun trying to autocomplete my words. Any way to turn that off? Can't find it in settings. I know we are all here to feed an AI learning beast, but this is annoying!
There was a pseudonymous commenter at Richard Fernandez's old Belmont Club blog who called himself Subotai Bahadur. Subotai (c. 1175–1248) was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. Many years ago (10? 12?) this fellow was the first person I saw to use the acronym TWANLOC (those who are no longer our countrymen). With far more clarity and prescience than I can claim, Subotai Bahadur suggested back then that there would be only one way out of the hell we had allowed our culture and country to become: we must go through it.
We seem to be at that point.
Speaking of the need for domestic regime-change (as opposed to merely changing administrations or congressional majorities), Kunstler’s recent diatribe really drove home to me, at long last, that the KGB had nothing on the FBI with regard to monitoring and controlling the population. Vlahos is right. This collective “mind-f*ckery” (to use a Kunstlerian term) has been so effective that nothing short of some kind of Revolution will turn the tide.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-tool-of-tools/
What impact will Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter have?
The other censoring entities - mainstream media and other internet giants are ignoring / censoring the revelations.
The left / Democrats and Europe are attacking Musk, since the censorship helps them.
Some advertising boycott of Twitter. I was surprised Apple and Amazon returned. Smart move to avoid controversy right now.
Which revelations will have the most impact?
I expect the revelations to have a huge impact on the lawsuit.
And Florida is mumbling something about Covid big pharma jab liability.
I’m sure there was / is a huge amount of censorship of jab side effects.
The state lawsuit on the covid censorship is moving forward with discovery.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/elon-musks-new-pronouns-prosecutefauci
I have low expectations of the congressional GOP doing anything meaningful.
Interesting ex fbi people at Twitter:
https://www.independentsentinel.com/twitters-still-a-rats-nest-filled-with-government-agents/
And why weekly meetings with FBI, homeland security, and dni?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/notes-on-the-twitter-files-contd.php
Strange. Leslie Podestra, niece of John Podestra, was on Twitter trust and safety panel / council. I don’t know her background.
Was it her Father that had all the disturbing child umm, art?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/09/23/married-with-art/dee9a0d0-0f0d-4505-b0ef-2f0e1bd1e0e0/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-twitter-child-porn-failures-crime
Fauci’s daughter was also at Twitter
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Twitter was Wormtongue to the World
Wars Foreign And Domestic:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
"Revolution." "I think that's where we're headin." I wonder. It is true that "you can't permanently marginalize and reduce to a kind of serfdom the majority of Americans." But what will it take to prove that true? When? And what will be the result?
When so many people are "living off the government" (welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, disability payments, Social Security, Student Loans, Federal and State pensions, civil service jobs, government contracts, and on and on) how much will it take for them (us) to willingly give up their (our) livelihoods and potentially their (our) lives against the authoritarian technocratic surveillance and financial control state now headed by the Uniparty? Then there are the U.S. citizens who don't know Russia from Mexico and Ukraine from Greenland (yes, video interviews showing this exist). Will they really see the light about our supposed masters when the truth about the Ukraine is revealed? Who, by the way, in the mainstream media will reveal that?
Whether or not you subscribe to Alexander Tyler's stages of civilization - and I'm quite sure most reading this blog are acquainted with it - I thought this to be a particularly good commentary on it and on where we are in it:
https://blog.adw.org/2016/10/eight-stages-rise-fall-civilizations/
It seems we are somewhere in #7 or #8 (if you accept the paradigm). But is the fall of our civilization inexorable? I will say that in my opinion in the absence of a common understanding of our dependence on God, of His morality, of our own nature, and of the salvation he has provided to us, the outlook is not good. That said, I particularly appreciate the Tyler commentary author's conclusion and I greatly appreciate Mark's commentary about these issues, with which I agree.
That answers the question I posed in my earlier comment: what happens next? No one has had the nerve to say that. Thomas Jefferson said it was necessary every “X” number of years. I don’t remember his “X” in the quote.