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MILITARY CHOW
This from a Navy fellow, we gather.
VETERANS'/REMEMBERENCE/ARMISTICE DAY
Today, the Consulate joins our host nation (and many others) in the yearly observance of that single day on the calendar set aside, among all of the English-spea... View MoreVETERANS'/REMEMBERENCE/ARMISTICE DAY
Today, the Consulate joins our host nation (and many others) in the yearly observance of that single day on the calendar set aside, among all of the English-speaking peoples, to commemorate . . .
. . . OPIUM.
REPORT From The ASYLUM
Things have been a bit quiet here on Wimkin - what with the election-related(?) 'technical issues' driving off participation - so we have spent a bit of time trolling on Gettr... View MoreREPORT From The ASYLUM
Things have been a bit quiet here on Wimkin - what with the election-related(?) 'technical issues' driving off participation - so we have spent a bit of time trolling on Gettr.
Sheesh.
The level of delusion there . . . It's over Nine THOUSAND!!
One of the currently fashionable sperges on those parts is comparing total votes cast in a given State to the census results for citizens.
Do you see the issue?
That's right; the census data is 6 years old.
So a state with a growing population - especially one growing from refugees from, say, California - could easily return a vote total higher than the last census. And a decidedly 'Blue' one, to boot.
But you can't tell them that. Most of the denizens there, even ones with their hearts mostly in the right places, just repost whatever the carriers of their preferred narrative Post, with no critical thought applied.
This is kind of sad, because I think this sort of echo chamber is a model for the internal conversations going on around in President Trump's inner circle, and as long as those narratives stay afloat in there, he (and quite possibly the rest of the Republican Party) will not feel the need to address his failings.
Why Evolution Made Humans Smell So Bad (Other Animals Don’t Do This).
#HumanEvolution #EvolutionaryBiology #ScienceDocumentary
Why did human evolution make us smell so bad when wild animals never need deodorant? The secret hides inside a 60-million-year-old microbe.
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SELECTIVE SKEPTICISM
> b fringey right winger
> repeatedly post memes skeptical of number of Jews killed by Nazis
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> b fringey right winger
> repeatedly post memes skeptical of number of Jews killed by Nazis
> Also unquestioningly repost references to 100 million immigrants in the US
(*shrug*)
A BLAST From The PAST
The Consulate has a buck that says we are the only ones here who get this reference (at least, without looking it up).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c95zeTkSOIs
Save Jeanie | Jennifer Grey & Charlie Sheen Reunite 40 Years Later | Home Instead
Forty years after Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen reunite in Save Jeanie, a new holiday campaign from Home Instead.
Jeanie Bueller is still the responsible sibling. Only now
A JOKE TOO FAR?
Chappelle & Kirk
If you haven't heard, there is a lot of unhappiness just now about a reference veteran funnyman Dave Chappelle made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Chappelle & Kirk
If you haven't heard, there is a lot of unhappiness just now about a reference veteran funnyman Dave Chappelle made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Given the specal place comedy has in Kekistani culture, the Consulate feels entitled, even obligated, to weigh in.
History
The core of the argument seems to be this: "Murder isn't funny/not a suitable subject for humor".
Oh Really?
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
That's an old joke. Probably not composed close to the event, but old.
Given that counter-example, any claim of blanket unsuitability would have to turn on special pleading. In other words 'Charlie Kirk is special/sacred'.
He wasn't.
Charlie Kirk was an ideologue. A peaceful one, as they go - much like Mrtin Luther King Jr. - but an ideologue nontheless: He had a point of view that he wanted to promote, and he spent a lot of energy in public doing so.
And it was a point of view that was controversial to many, and upsetting to some.
To expect those unsettled by his popularity to not be relieved by his departure, and to celebrate it less with humor than the nation did the death of a man who is literally on its money, displays an ignorance of human nature.
If you were a fan, by all means, mourn. But do so stoicly, to the extent you may. You do your 'team' no favors by performative outrage (which your opponents will enjoy), and it betrays a weakness they will remember.
CONGRESSIONAL PORK
A Version we can All Get Behind!
https://gettr.com/post/p45ks7wa327
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EDUTAINMENT
A Timely Bit of History
The midterms have got some people upset, and others celebrating, so we thought this might be a good time to Share this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLAjaaH... View MoreEDUTAINMENT
A Timely Bit of History
The midterms have got some people upset, and others celebrating, so we thought this might be a good time to Share this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLAjaaHsnM
TL;DR is, this is no big deal.
Can a Major American Party Die?
Can a major American political party die? It has happened twice: the Federalists and the Whigs. After the 2026 midterms, two Republicans used the word "extinction". So what killed the parties that rea
THE TERRIFYING FIGMENT
Why I do Not Fear "One World Government"
Humans are potent critters, so when misfortune comes for us, it usually needs to arrive by stealth, to take us by surprise.
And so i... View MoreTHE TERRIFYING FIGMENT
Why I do Not Fear "One World Government"
Humans are potent critters, so when misfortune comes for us, it usually needs to arrive by stealth, to take us by surprise.
And so it is that the disasters we prepare for, more often than not, are Not the ones that befall us.
The spectre of a "World Goverment" is a perfect examplar.
The Conspiracy
Not that there isn't a plan. Oh, no - the aspirations are there, have been for some time. Soros, Schwab - the cheerleaders are not shy.
It's the execution I doubt.
There is a slogan, popular lately on the Right, that goes "When they tell you who they are/what they want to do - Believe Them!"
And sometimes, in hindsight, this looks like really good advice. October 7 comes to mind.
But not always. Sometimes, that advice will have you keyed up over nothing, wasting precious resources on phantom threats, jumping at shadows.
And there is a pattern to the timing of the difference.
History's Hidden Engine
As Shakespeare observed, "There is a tide in the afairs of men": A cycle, an ebb and flow of social mood, between excesses of optimism and pessimism. As near as the science of Socionomics can tell, this is based on the intersection of human herding instincts, and our inability to maintain emotional states idenfinitely. But it drives a great deal of historical phenomenon, in finance, economics, and politics.
The short version of the relevant bits is, in times of rising optimism, allegiance circles expand, boundaries and limits (of geopolitical structures, definitions, and behaviors) blur, and forgiveness comes easier. In a word, Inclusion. In times of declining mood, allegiance circles shrink, boundaries harden, and old scores demand settling. Exclusion.
And if there's one sort of project that would require extreme inclusion, it's World Government.
Application
Okay, how does that insight help? What's the predictive power?
Financial market tops (and attendant manias) tend to mark peaks of social mood - and the most extreme peaks tend to be violently retraced.
We are just off highs in financial markets, which are pretty clearly not going to be matched again for awhile.
And judging by those recent financial market extremes, and coincidident popular trends (trannies and such), this was one heck of an extreme - likely of a degree not seen for 300 years. So the reversal can be expected to be similarly extreme.
And that means internationalism, ANY sort of internationalism, is doomed.
Not that the tyrant wannabes will no longer be interested. Oh, no. They'll just be unable to agree on enough to propel their agenda forward. Their leadership will fragment over ethnic, cultural, and national lines.
The UN will fragment. The EU will fragment. Russia will fragment. China will fragment. Heck, the USA might fragment. We will be (re-)entering a period of a default to, not political aggregation, but DISintegration.
All of which will bring its own sort of challenges. But Not those associated with potential planetary tyranny.
So all those people warning of One World Government are preparing for the wrong war.
A MIXED BAG
Election Post Mortem, Part III
Play Stupid Games . . .
Turns out that Russian agency in the US Congress took a serious hit on Tuesday. ... View MoreA MIXED BAG
Election Post Mortem, Part III
Play Stupid Games . . .
Turns out that Russian agency in the US Congress took a serious hit on Tuesday.
https://malcontentnews.substack.com/p/anti-ukraine-congressional-caucus
Fallen Champions
But some babies went out with that bathwater. Ukraine also lost somesolid allies.
They are:
Susan Collins of Maine, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
Darlene Graham, fill in for her late borther Lindsey's Senate seat,
Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick of PA, Lawler of New York, Bresnahan of Pennsylvania, Carey of Ohio, and Kiggans of Virginia.
The Consulate thanks these men and women for their service, and wishes them the best of fortune in future endeavors.
Anti-Ukraine congressional caucus crushed in US midterms
A summary of the events that happened on day 1,715 of the Russia-Ukraine War.
A (Lesser) VILLAIN
Election Post Mortum, part II
We here at the Consulate are not particular fans of John Thune.
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Election Post Mortum, part II
We here at the Consulate are not particular fans of John Thune.
If you don't know, he is the current Republican Majority Leader in the US Senate, and is in some disrepute among Republicans for failing to use his authority to bring elements of President Trump's agenda (for example, the SAVE Act) up for a vote. Many have cast this as due to disloyalty to President Trump.
It occurs to us, in the aftermath of the midterms, that he may have had a perfectly sensible reason for those delays, not motivated by any sort of disloyalty to his party.
Saw It Coming?
Pretty much everyone who was paying attention saw the Republican route coming, and we see no reason to believe that Thune didn't.
To the extent he foresaw President Trump was leading the party to disaster, as a senior officer of that party, he would have an interest in establishing a visible alternate 'pole' within the party, to be seen as not in full harmony with President Trump. This would give the party a way to retain appeal to those alineated by Trump.
And we notice that some other Republicans, most notably Vice President Vance, are suddenly falling all over themselves to distance themselves from various parts of Trump's agenda. So Thune's 'disloyalty', if that is what it is, was merely ahead of the curve.
A DARK HORSE
Election Post Mortem, part I
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Election Post Mortem, part I
Here in Tennessee, we got a very interesting result in the Governor's race.
As we have mentioned in a previous Post, Tennessee ballot access laws are now very loose, and there were manny Independent candidates.
Refusing to reward bad behavior, I determined to vote for an Independent this time, and settled on one that had been the subject of an aggressive smear canpaign.
And he did very well.
In the local precinct count, the Republican cadiate got 393 votes, the Dmocartic one 311 . . . and my Independent got 113.
So just that one Independent's vote count (out of a dozen or so) was over the margin of victory!
County wide, he got almost 11%.
State wide, the final count was 45.5% Republican, 43% Democrat . . . and over 9% for my Independent! Several Times the margin of victory.
Achieving "margin of voctory" is a big deal for Independent candidates, as it reminds both parties that there are voting demographcis that are nto satisfied with either party - and could be courted with better policies, in the future.
We hope all those people who can't understand/accept the results of these midterms will see this as an exemplar of electoral disatisfaction.
TACTICAL ADVICE
Proven in the Field
Here we see an example that the way to dodge jail time for a possession charge is to bring your girlfriend along on your caper.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/... View MoreTACTICAL ADVICE
Proven in the Field
Here we see an example that the way to dodge jail time for a possession charge is to bring your girlfriend along on your caper.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16259473/Man-caught-car-14-000-cocaine-heroin-lamb-named-Pablo-ate-chips-seat-avoids-jail.html
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