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RINOs: What is Left for Them
I gotta say, reading the after-action reports on the Cornyn defeat, that I don’t really get it. I don’t really get why the GOP leadership in the Senate is so reluctant to go MAGA. And I don’t really understand why Sen. Cornyn would have gone with a bipartisan gun control bill back in the day.
I would have thought that, any Republican with half a brain would demand a king’s ransom from his Democratic friends in return for any teeny-weeny bill advancing the Democrats’ gun control agenda.
I would have thought that Majority Leader Thune would be extracting all kinds of concessions from Democrats for every hour that he kept the SAVE Act off the floor of the Senate.
Instead it seems that Thune is reluctant to put his GOP colleagues like Alaska Sen Murkowski and Maine Sen. Collins on the spot. Really? For a bill that has over 80 percent support from the American people, and even a majority of Democrats? I don’t get it.
Unless. Unless Thune & Co. are really living in a DC bubble. Or — and surely this cannot be true — the IC knows too much about every public figure in Washington for anyone to dare to step out of line. Maybe each of them have $40 million in gold bars stashed away like that CIA chappie. After all, why should the CIA get all the goodies?
Maybe it’s simple as wanting to stay in the middle and not get led into that terrifying wilderness inhabited by hard-right extremists.
But then it seems pretty clear to me that Sen. Schumer, although he would like to be more moderate, knows that he has to go left-wing to keep his Minority Leader position.
So Schumer has to shift left and Thune can’t shift right? It just does not compute for me.
Maybe I’m too naive. Maybe it’s just not obvious to the Beltway crowd that the middle-class populist movement is not just Trump but an organic movement that goes back at least to Nixon’s Silent Majority, and getting stronger with every iteration.
After all, the Euros are beside themselves with the populist nationalists from Britland to Hungary.
And I would think that all the political big game hunters in the US would have seen, for a decade or two at least, that the Democrats are utterly compromised by their terminally corrupt and hard-far-left-woke NGO Industrial Complex.
And yet it took a nobody like Nick Shirley to mainstream the whole Somali fraud thing and get the Vice President to head up a fraud committee.
But how could I get it and Nick Shirley could get it and they don’t? I’m just an amateur; they are the professionals “in the arena.”
Un bel di, vedremo. One fine day, we’ll see the man behind the curtain. But that day is not yet.
| Fri, 29 May 2026 02:31:44 GMT |
Women Aren't Carefully Taught
Remember the song in South Pacific? “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught.” To be a racist. That was back in 1949, when liberals were luxuriating in their glorious campaign to end racism — and Jim Crow.
Not really, Oscar Hammerstein II, old chap. Hate and fear don’t have to be taught; they are basic instincts in all humans — and apes too, I dare say. It’s in the jeans; it’s about survival. But let’s take a look at the lyrics.
You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
Back then of course, it was liberals who were taking the high road — except for the ones spying for the Commies. Today, not so much.
Be that as it may, as a sexist, I say that the South Pacific doctrine doesn’t apply to women. You don’t have to “carefully” teach them anything. Women believe exactly what they are taught and what they pick up from the Zeitgiest.
So when mental health counselor Josh Slocum, who is gay, says that “Men are fed up with female insanity,” I get it. Says he:
Men have a big problem these days: the women in their lives.
Simply put, their wives, mothers, sisters, co-workers, and other female friends have become unbearable.
Why is this? Because women have been taught to be unbearable. By the feminist culture and its “lived experience” and its “safetyism” its marginalization of men as “misogynists” and “patriarchs.” And there is no way to challenge an accusation of misbehavior by a female co-worker, not at the feminist dominated HR department.
Then there is the CEO of Bolt that fired the entire HR department.
Now I believe that men are hierarchical, as in: “lead, follow, or get out of the way.” But women are egalitarian, as in “she’s no better than me.” So when egalitarian women show up in the hierarchical world of work, they don’t like it. And the result ain’t pretty.
I say: “women expect to be protected.” But they don’t appreciate that protection means a macho man like Donald Trump. They live with the instinct that protection is already taken care of.
So what do we do about it? Nothing.
I believe that, in due course, women will decide that liberation, girl-bossing, careers, is not for them. Look for it to start in the upper classes. Career, after all, comes from the French “carrière” or racetrack. The upper-class snobettes will decide that domestic life, neighborhood life, committee life is where it’s at. And they will be right, because that kind of life fits much better with the feminine jeans.
Will we go the Muslim way, with women kept covered and indoors?
No. I have a faith that in due course, the arc of feminism will come back to Earth and women will say to their friends: “I can’t believe they said that” and women will revalue their instincts for love, for marriage, for children, and for community.
I go back to Georg Simmel and his century-old prophecy that women would transform the public square to suit a more feminine sensibility. I believe that the current public square has been transformed to suit a feminist sensibility rather than a feminine sensibility. And most women don’t like that.
They won’t have to be carefully taught. They will talk to each other and say that “my sister says” and “My friend agrees” and discover that they can’t believe what the feminists have done to them, and what’s the point of a career anyway.
| Wed, 27 May 2026 22:28:44 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
When the left ran out of real victims to patronize it started inventing “fake” victims.
The moral is the distinction between good and evil — Carl Schmitt
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Analysis of Prophecy
