The rebellious insurgent, known as Joe Dan Gorman, has surfaced long enough to transmit another broadcast in a coded frequency only receivable by patriots with a funny-bone. This natural filtration process ensures communists and leftists are incapable of receiving it. The message comes from deep in the bunker of the underground network.
The distant eyes and slack mouth, the befuddled shuffle off the walkway, recurrent unexplained schedule gaps and public disappearances, and off-the-wall comments finally make Joe Biden a pale copy of his hero, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In wrapping up a war and realigning the world order, the first eight months of Biden as president resemble the last years of Roosevelt—except that FDR was on the cusp of victory against an avowed enemy.
The medical condition of an American president can affect the entire nation and the world for generations. Now, as then, one wonders who is really in charge of what.
FDR appeased Stalin on practically every major point leading up to the notorious Big Three Yalta summit with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945.
Biden has surpassed Roosevelt by simultaneously accommodating Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Communist China, state sponsors of terrorism like Qatar and Iran, and the global jihadist movement—in ways that will change the world for generations.
For the moment let’s not look at the actual policies, but at the conditions of the presidents themselves. Roosevelt at Yalta purposefully excluded wise visionaries like Loy Henderson and George Kennan in favor of others. As Afghanistan shows, Biden has not surrounded himself with the best and brightest.
Roosevelt had shown a certainsoftness toward Stalin since 1933, when he became president and recognized the Soviet Union. He rejected top diplomats’ advice that, among other things, a quid pro quo be attached to prevent the Kremlin from interfering in American internal affairs.
The president’s later extended illness would allow others to exploit that softness. In the last few years of World War II, FDR’s doctor put him on a four-hour-a-day work schedule with long vacations. Roosevelt hadlittle time to devote to his duties as president. The issue wasn’t the paralysis that confined him to a wheelchair. It wasn’t mere overwork or loss of focus. Roosevelt’s cognition was degrading sharply. He delayed major decisions and ignored key responsibilities.
During a dinner with Churchill and Stalin at the November 1943 Tehran “Big Three” conference, Roosevelt collapsed. Stalin saw the American president’s condition firsthand.
New York Times reporter Turner Catledge recalled a March 1944 interview he had with Roosevelt. “He was sitting there with a vague, glassy-eyed expression and his mouth hanging open,” Catledge wrote years later in a 1971 memoir. “He would start talking about something, then in mid-sentence he would stop and his mouth would drop open. . . and he sat staring at me in silence.”
Democratic Party insiders knew of FDR’s feeble condition during the 1944 campaign for a fourth term. At the Chicago convention they carefully chose a reliable running mate, dumping incumbent pro-Stalin Vice President Henry Wallace in favor of the stable Harry Truman. Roosevelt did not attend. He dithered about Truman until almost the last day, and addressed the convention by radio.
After his acceptance speech, FDR took a therapeutic five-week ocean cruise to Hawaii to confer with General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz about the war in the Pacific. MacArthur noted, “I predict that he will be dead within a year.”
As many ailing people do, Roosevelt seemed to have good days and bad ones. As the war dragged into 1945, preparations began for a post-war world order. But FDR wasn’t there. “The president had made little preparation for the Yalta conference,” wrote future Secretary of State James Byrnes, then a Roosevelt confidant at the Big Three meeting, in his memoir Speaking Frankly: “I am sure [this] was due to the President’s illness.”
As chronicled by two seasoned writers whom I will credit in a future article, Churchill’s physician at Yalta, Lord Moran, observed that Roosevelt “sat looking straight ahead with his mouth open, as if he were not taking things in.” Sir Alexander Cadogan, a top British diplomat, noted, “Whenever [FDR] was called on to preside over any meeting, he failed to make any attempt to grip it or guide it, and sat generally speechless, or, if he made any intervention, it was generally completely irrelevant.”
Roosevelt had already lost his filters. At the Tehran Conference, Stalin’s toast to shoot 50,000 captured Germans outraged Churchill, but FDR countered with a jovial compromise to execute a mere 49,500. The president’s son, Elliott, explained it away as FDR’s humorous effort to make Stalin like and trust him.
At Yalta, Roosevelt got worse. When discussing the “Zionist problem,” Stalin asked FDR what concessions he might make to Ibn Saud, also known as King Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. The official State Department account expunged FDR’s response from the record.
Other official records, including the minutes of the meeting archived at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, preserved what was said. Roosevelt told Stalin that “there was only one concession he thought he might offer and that was to give [Ibn Saud] the six million Jews in the United States.”
Yalta 1945. iStock/Getty Images
And then there were the actual policies.
FDR’s policies determined the fate of the entire world. At times Roosevelt didn’t understand the directives and strategies that he was signing. He admitted he had no recollection at the second Quebec Conference, in September 1944, of giving the OK to a summary of theMorgenthau Plan, a Soviet-backed postwar strategy to impoverish Germany forever by depriving it of its industry and transforming it into a permanently poor agrarian country.
After being handed a policy for the Western Hemisphere, presidential interpreter Charles Bohlen said, “Roosevelt signed the document without understanding its contents.”
FDR’smedical records show the president in the later war years was “gripped by clinical depression.”
The entire American policy at the height of World War II was in the hands of often anonymous presidential aides and bureaucrats. Churchill sent cables to the White House urging aid to anti-Nazi (and anti-Soviet) resistance fighters in Poland. They went unanswered.
“I was no longer being heard by him,” Churchill would recall.
The Roosevelt-Stalin new world order ratified at Yalta, much of it over Churchill’s strongest objections and widely seen as a sellout to the Kremlin, would determine the aftermath of 1945: an institutionalized Soviet empire, the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, Communist China, Soviet-inspired Marxist penetration of Western educational and cultural institutions, the rise of globalist organizations and elites, and so much more.
It was at Yalta that FDR dubbed Stalin “Uncle Joe.”
Today’s Uncle Joe sits in the White House. Like his hero, Joe Biden is severely diminished and declining. Biden was never the grand strategist or foreign policy genius he pretended to be as a senator and later as Barack Obama’s running mate and vice president. Now, Biden’s worst instincts have metastasized as his appointees run the show.
Biden’s entire political history is one ofweird gaffes. But inunscripted remarks as president, Biden fairly has admitted his staff is running him. Aides have urged him not to take questions from reporters. The president has conceded that he is “going to get in trouble with my staff.”
But, as with Roosevelt, terrible policies are different from bizarre comments.
Biden is a ghost helming the ship of state. His vice president, Kamala Harris, isn’t up to the task.
Policies are being made now, as they were under FDR at Yalta, that will determine the future of our country for generations to come.
It’s time to look at who precisely is running the ship, why they are doing what they are doing, and for whom.
Happy Sunday! Not only do we have a big week ahead of us, but for me, my shows start coming back this week!! Also, I have an announcement: Starting October 3rd, I'm taking my 1st trip out of my homestate! I'm driving down to Florida with my mom for 2 weeks. I'll still be making these articles, though. They might be a bit late depending on how I feel or if I'm busy. :)
On to tonight's news (additional articles from TGP):
Brussels will not tolerate conservative Christianity, particularly when expressed as pro-family values and a rejection of sexual deviancy in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary and Andrzej Duda’s Poland. London will not tolerate little Englanders’ resistance to the destructive hedonistic cosmopolitanism of the kind criticized by both G. K. Chesterton and recently by Victor Davis Hanson. Ottawa will not tolerate the western Canadian provinces’ industrious, independent spirit and their antipathy for ecosocialist interventionism or for Quebec-favoring redistribution schemes. Washington will not tolerate Texas’ refusal to sanction the murder of unborn children with Down syndrome by predatory eugenicists or its fight to defend its own borders. The mainstream media will not tolerate the speech of the duly elected president of the United States, but will extol the virtues of a treasonous general who usurped civilian powers over the military, and behind closed curtains, formed a military dictatorship.
The same people who argue that diversity is our strength, that hate has no home here, that love trumps hate,and favor greater tolerance in Western nations, tend to be the same who will not tolerate any ideology but their own; the same who see democracy as functional only if it is achieving their ends. These people reject as authoritarian or insurrectionist any democratic effort, institution, or person advancing an alternate view to the Left’s.
Contradictions abound. The intolerant Left calls for tolerance. The conformist Left calls for pluralism. Those leftist, global elites ruling by fiat call for more democracy. The Left, and members of their statist subset, appear to be contradicting themselves or are at the very least guilty of hypocrisy, assuming they mean what they say or that they intend to act in accordance with their prescribed behavioral norms. Alas, they don’t and they won’t.
As was argued by a handful of the maladjusted French neo-Marxists whose insidious works inspired the Red Khmers to stain Cambodian fields with one-third of that nation’s blood in the late 1970s, existence is reducible to power, its imposition, and its exchange. What are power exchanges but battles, and that series of exchanges but a war?
As the forces of leftism have made clear, having murdered over 100 million people in the 20th century alone, all is fair in war. The gulag, the gas chamber, the concentration camp, Castro’s paredón, the Killing Fields, Katyn forest: the leftists behind these crimes against humanity reckoned that they would be judged not according to the antiquated bourgeois morality of yesteryear but on the basis of the progress they might secure towards their version of the Left’s utopian end—a purely eschatological justification.
Granted that the Left’s chief proponents understand that they are fighting a war—against norms, against faith, against family, against all obstacles to their exercise of total power—living in contradiction is child’s play. Hatefully persecuting their opponents while sloganeering “hate has no home here” or championing tolerance while tearing down alternate viewpoints, or going to a salon maskless while forcing everyone else to wear one and stay home is par for the course. There is nothing they cannot or will not say, do, or destroy to win, and upon winning, there is no law they will not break.
They’ll tear down your statues. They’ll rewrite your history. They’ll burn your books. They’ll shutter your church or your synagogue. For the Left, there are no limits and there are no universal rules.
While the Left takes no issue with massacring innocents, the path of least resistance—which is to say, the easiest way and not a route elected for its relative humanism—in the West runs along a cultural vein. After all, why would you bayonet what you could alternatively convert? The form this cultural warfare has taken could be called (and has been called) cultural imperialism. Unlike past forms of imperialism, for the most part, here swords remained sheathed and, so as not to excite those targeted whose lives and lifestyles are being gutted, pounds of flesh are taken but no blood is leaked.
In most definitions of cultural imperialism, there is the suggestion that the culture promoted or enforced derives from a dominant nation or source; and that the population targeted is weaker. In the case of the Left’s culture, it is the least of all: a bastard spawn from the French Revolution at war with the good and with the truth, and constantly at war with itself; a Luciferian catch-all for the rotten ideas of murderers, eugenicists, blood-soused utopians, and madmen. Why it spreads and why it catches is important to touch upon.
What, for instance, has Biden not done in the past several months that President Trump was accused of and threatened with impeachment over? The Right has (and has always had) the moral high ground, but that altitude will never be recognized, except when there is a slip downhill, which will be construed into a landslide by the Left’s apparatchiks. Meanwhile, those election-stealing, warmongering abortion profiteers, tirelessly incentivizing the destruction of the nuclear family and lording over slums like their forebears’ slave plantations, feign superiority and paint themselves as the guardians of humanity’s flame. The Right tries to play it straight and keep score, but the Left makes up the rules of the game as it sees fit.
The second part about what makes the Left’s cultural imperialism particularly effective is the strategic benefit their hive-mind has over their nebulous foe(s). The self-professed conservative arch-liberal Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn noted that “all political or social forms that are inspired by the idea of equality will almost inevitably point to the concept of identity and foster the herd instinct, with subsequent suspicion, if not hatred, for those who dare to be different or who claim superiority.” Of course, here he is not referring to equality before the law, but spiritual equality, physical equality, intellectual equality; to all those things that cannot be made equal but through coercion, and even then only cosmetically. In Grimm’s retelling of Basile’s Pentamerone, Cinderella’s wicked step sisters hacked away pieces of their feet in order to fit into her glass slipper. That is what striving for equality beyond legal recognition looks like: bloody and unnatural (two words we can also use to describe the Left).
The equality that the Left pursues, like the equity it seeks to impose via social engineering, legal coercion, and political force, concerns chiefly equality of vision: where one vision is the same as the other, such that all visions are aligned or all are made equally blind.Sure, the left—like the Ouroboros—is constantly eating itself. The Jacobins ate the French Revolution’s Girondinist tail. The Bolsheviks ate the Mensheviks. POUM was devoured by Stalin’s NKVD. The key here is not that the Left has trouble with purges, but that it purges perceived foes with such ease, caprice, and swiftness. That is to say the Left has no trouble drawing arbitrary lines and destroying everything opposite, whereas the Right does better drawing meaningful axes and crosses.
Fight fire with fire is a popular idiom, one that should not be applied here. After all, if the Right emulates the Left to weather and withstand its cultural imperialism, that imperialistic effort will have proven successful. The Right must instead dig in its heels, reaffirm its underlying beliefs, buttress them financially and socially, and recognize that the Left plays by no rules. Moreover, the Right needs to recognize this for what it is: a war. Clausewitz said “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” Cultural imperialism is the continuation of war, killing what bullets and bombs cannot: the memory, will, and spirit of a free people.
The EU’s assault on Hungary and Poland is cultural imperialism, as is Washington’s attack on Texas, Ottawa’s attack on the western provinces, the pink mafia’s attack on normalcy and the family, and Silicon Valley’s attack on Main Street USA. The Left’s goal here is not a better world and it’s certainly not a world without hate or intolerance. It’s a world without difference. It’s a world without dissent. The goal is simply a world of and for leftists.
If men and women of conscience are keen on preserving diversity of thought, liberty, and the greatest civilization ever to grace this planet, then they must recognize that the only equality the Left can or will ever produce is equality of vision, and that’s tantamount to mental slavery and submission. Furthermore, they must recognize that the leftist pressure to live by lies and to conform can come from anywhere: from Big Government, from Big Tech, from Big Business, from Big Pharma, and from your neighbors. You are unique and made in the image of God. You have inestimable value, not as a node on some dehumanized collective, but as an individual. Your voice is worth being heard and your ideas engaged, not policed or censored.
The world is better with essential—not incidental—diversity. Therefore, you cannot allow yourself to become the cement for some unholy monolith of undifferentiated flesh. Don’t aid the Left in dynamiting mountains to fill up the valleys such that there are only plains left. Resist sameness sought for the sake of sameness, and when you see good people making a positive difference, thereby differentiating an institution, a city, a country or a state, question and or combat Leftist efforts to stop them.
I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself. 1/x
Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they're not particularly attached to them. 2/x
Here are the facts - actual, confirmed facts - that shape their perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc). 3/x
These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them. 4/x
Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew. 5/x
This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff - who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't - all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake. 6/x
At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their gov't when it didn't happen. 7/x
We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign, b) The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op, c) Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious, d) they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying. 8/x
Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year. 9/x
Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin. 10/x
This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper. 11/x
GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election. 12/x
It's hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. 13/x
They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because they feel most betrayed by them. 14/x
The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period. 15/x
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. 16/x
They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots. 17/x
They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine, whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. Now they don't. It's a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. 18/x
Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution. 19/x
Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins (they lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now. 20/x
Re: "fake impeachment", we now know that Trump's request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden's $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. 21/x
Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a "mistake" - but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares? 22/x
Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr's laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn't have been banned. 23/x
Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information. 24/x
The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, "no fair!" That's how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. 25/x
And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew. 26/x
Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. 27/x
Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange - the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc - but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!). 28/x
Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would've been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof. 29/x
Even the courts' refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They'll say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house? 30/x
It's a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too. 31/x
Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. 32/x
They knew it was unconstitutional, it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct. 33/x
a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from social media. 34/x
They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov't is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might've kept him alive. /end
