Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Looking at America From France


So, I had to go to France for a week for reasons that aren’t important. I’m kind of done with Europe because I’ve lived here a lot, several years during the Cold War and then a year in Kosovo in 2005. America is always cleaning up Europe’s messes, and I feel like I’ve been a janitor long enough. However, it provides an interesting perspective, especially when America is going through such a consequential election. And it’s also kind of a preview of what we may see in America. It’s not exactly what I expected.

We didn’t spend much time seeing the sights but had some adventures. We had an Uber driver with no sense of direction who would’ve taken us to Luxembourg instead of the Arc de Triomphe if we hadn’t stopped the car. Bizarrely, we had trouble finding a decent meal anywhere – in Italy, it’s hard to find a bad one. We finished the complete tour of the Museum of Great French Military Victories in about 15 minutes.

As for the French, they were remarkably nice. And they were remarkably thin. Everybody walks here. Every time I get to Europe, it takes me a minute because, not to put too fine a point on it, a lot of Americans are huge. And they dress well here. They dress like I used to think New Yorkers or people in Vegas would dress – stylish and with care. But New Yorkers dress like bums now, and everybody in Vegas is in cargo shorts and tats. But they look nice here. I had to step up my fashion game. But of course, you can still tell an American male just by looking at him.

More people spoke English than I remembered when I was in Paris. What was interesting to me was that I had heard that immigrants flooded the city, but that wasn’t what I experienced. Yes, there were a few diverse folks, but generally, it looked like a Mitt Romney family reunion. 

Maybe things are different in other parts of the city. We stayed in the nicer areas and didn’t make an attempt to hit any of the ethnic enclaves, but the idea that Paris has been handed over to the Third World is simply not so. There didn’t seem to be any ethnic tension where I was. A mixed group of people would sit at the cafΓ© with a little wine or coffee, usually smoking and chatting. I didn’t get any kind of hostile vibe or threatening sense. I know that’s not exactly what the narrative is for us conservatives, but I’m telling you what I observed. Frankly, it was very pleasant. Everybody seemed cool, though a little aloof. I found it weird that Parisians get edgy when you try to pet their dogs. The dogs are aloof, too. Not always – we met a very nice terrier named Jazz, whose owners were quite friendly. They were very interested that we were from Los Angeles and when Trump came up, they didn’t point, scream or run.

Now, we didn’t talk politics with a lot of the French. I’m not particularly interested in what foreigners think, and I wouldn’t presume to tell them what to do about their own country. There was a recent election. It was pretty traumatic, but there’s no evidence of it. There’s no tension in the air. I saw several gendarmes on foot, and none with the automatic weapons you often see in Germany or Britain. However, there were cops escorting limousines everywhere with those obnoxious wah-wah, wah-wah sirens. A lot of them were ambassadors. I saw a couple of cops escorting one Mercedes with a Romanian flag. I saw another with a Palestinian flag and flipped it off.

The French are not known for their efficiency. They’re known for being French. If you want efficiency, go to Germany. I made that observation with the French, and they loved it. Things would happen that we foreigners couldn’t understand. Random things would be shut down. Stuff would stop working. Poor Irina got trapped on the metro because the ticket app failed. By the way, the metro, just like the city itself, was immaculate, and there was none of the sense of menace you get on public transportation in an American city. And, of course, the buildings were designed without the benefit of any kind of building codes. But that’s part of the charm, I guess.

Some of the most interesting stuff we noticed had to do with the fellow Americans we encountered. Most of them were like us, a little older, successful, and used to traveling overseas. Many of them came from California or other blue areas. Basically, you would expect a substantial number of them to be Harris voters. Well, that wasn’t necessarily the case. As we talked, we did the usual tentative probing that one does when one lives in a blue state to make sure of who you’re talking to, and most of them turned out to be conservative. Most of them turned out to be Trump supporters. I’m sure some of them weren’t, but it was kind of surprising to see in this demographic the number of people who were going to vote Republican. I’m not sure any of them were outright MAGA, but they didn’t have any love of Harris. We didn’t talk politics a lot, but it was weird to get a sense from people who you would expect the Democrats would own that they aren’t owned.

The bottom line is there were many things I didn’t expect here. I’m not going to pretend that I got deep into the culture or that I understand it, but it wasn’t the total hellhole we sometimes hear about from our own side. I wasn’t in the more challenging areas, but the fact is that Paris may constitute a kind of bubble where the promise of a prosperous and secure life exists. The question is whether it exists all through France or just for the ruling class, and I can’t answer that. But I know you can go to Washington DC and New York; parts of them are hellscapes, but other parts of them are wonderful. They’re very nice. And that’s where the people responsible for allowing the hellscapes to be hellscapes live.



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Disinformation: The Dark Sword of Tyranny


We hear that misinformation is wrong information, disinformation is deliberate wrong information, and malinformation, a newly coined Orwellian term that hasn’t yet weaseled its way into the dictionary, is true information that goes against the regime narrative and thereby does ‘harm.’

Example. Biden is a strong president -- clearly misinformation. The Hunter laptop is Russian propaganda -- disinformation. The Hunter laptop story is true but runs counter to the Biden narrative, so it was suppressed -- malinformation.

Disinformation is a powerful tool for wannabe tyrants. Those who practice the disinformation dark arts wield a double-edged sword. With one edge the government apparatus claims their critics and opponents are spreading harmful disinformation and use their considerable power to censor and eradicate dissent. Much as the term “hate speech” opens the door to the suppression of free speech, “disinformation” is the skeleton key of modern domestic propaganda and censorship. With it, the regime can target political movements, specific politicians, and prominent voices on the grounds that they are influenced by or in thrall to foreign “disinformation.” The goal is consensus. Silencing all opposing views creates by default an apparent unity of thought. The climate change crisis is a prime example of censorship creating false consensus.

The grain of truth is that the effective techniques of disinformation were honed by our intelligence branches in foreign arenas, against other governments and peoples. However, putting parents who talk at school board meetings, Catholics who pray with rosary beads, pro-life protesters and Americans who disagree with transmania, vaccines, climate crisis, or war on government lists of potential terrorists, is beyond the pale.

The other edge of the disinformation sword is the government directly pushing false narratives. The direct assertion of lies requires more coordinated support, especially from the media. A prime example was when the government wanted to spy on Trump and his campaign in the phony Russia collusion hoax. The FBI hired operatives to write false reports, leaked stories to media outlets they controlled, and then packaged it all together as the ‘evidence’ to obtain spy warrants. Safe and effective vaccines is another example of a false narrative. No one in government speaks of these, presumably because the government never lies.

Pushing lies out broadly is a form of brute force attack, where the lie is replicated many thousands of times on hundreds of channels until the lie solidifies in the minds of the target audience. The sometimes hidden, sometimes overt, coordination of academics, journalists, and public intellectuals to push a regime-backed political line is justified as the needed counterbalance to all the “disinformation” narratives out there.

Anyone can use this double-edged attack on truth, but the government has an overwhelming advantage because it controls regulation, the police branches, and the courts, which together provide tremendous force and leverage no outsider can match.

Who manages the American government’s disinformation apparatus? The DHS, FBI, DOD, NSA, CIA, to name a few. The DHS included a list of 374 search words to be tracked in the department's 2011 Analyst's Desktop Binder used at their National Operations Center. A senior DHS official claimed the manual “is a starting point, not the endgame in maintaining situational awareness of natural and man-made threats” and denied that the government was monitoring signs of dissent. The talk is always about threats, but the real threat to regime power is dissent. The manual even instructs workers to identify media reports that reflect adversely on DHS.

The U.S. government issues secret “keyword warrants” to Google for anyone who looks up certain phrases and names, allowing police and other spy agencies to dig through Google’s search history database to identify innocent people merely based on what they might have searched and use that for further intrusions, despite the complete violation of Fourth Amendment protections.

The July 2021 Guardian article with the headline, “Majority of COVID misinformation came from 12 people, report finds,” claimed these 12 villains were responsible for lies about COVID-19 and the vax, much of the COVID pandemic, and many deaths. The Disinformation Dozen was created by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a left-wing censorship NGO based in the UK with ties to both the UK and U.S. governments, used as talking points by the White House and their shills, and reverberated by all of mainstream media.

It is 2024 and, oh, how things change. We know COVID-19 came from a gain-of-function lab, lockdowns and masks didn’t work, the COVID vaccines were not effective, and have caused and are still causing great harm. Far from the villains they were made out to be, the so-called Disinformation Dozen are consummate professionals who were simply telling the truth. That didn’t protect them from being censored, railroaded from their professions, and ostracized from general society as crazy conspiracy nuts who push disinformation.

European governments are leading the disinformation charge, arresting dissenters under vague and arbitrary hate speech laws that are thinly veiled censorship decrees allowing them to quash dissent and criticism. The EU has demanded that X censor content or face prosecution. France arrested the Telegram founder for refusing their demands for censorship.

The U.S. isn’t far behind. A U.S. federal court ruled that the FBI and DHS pressured social media companies to remove content it deemed as disinformation, including posts from accounts that originated within the United States. When a court injunction threatened their operation, the censorship apparatus panicked. They got a reprieve when the Supreme Court, in a terrible act of cowardice, lifted the injunction and refused to address the government’s attempt to destroy the First Amendment. The DoJ announced indictments on two Russians in an attempt to smear several conservative media influencers. The assault on free speech has accelerated and the means to do it are being hardened into place.

Accomplishing the dark days of tyranny in the U.S. requires trickery. Trick number one: redefine democracy not as the people choosing their government, but as the government institutions themselves. When you hear the attorney general bleating about people criticizing the DoJ being a threat to democracy, he is attacking the actual exercise of democracy.

Trick number two: declare broad areas of society, like the internet and elections, to be part of national security. This gives the federal government the immediate right to interfere using censorship, surveillance, or even prosecution, all in the name of protecting national security.

Trick number three: confuse the subject of information with terms like misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and hate speech. Redefining the very words used is part of the disinformation campaign.

The darkest deed of any tyranny is claiming its own lies are truth and its opponent’s truths are lies. Disinformation, misinformation, and mal-information form a shapeless, shifting bog that underlies the government disinformation program and threatens to pull anyone under who might fall into disfavor with the ruling regime. Censoring what you don’t like to hear is the end of free speech and the death of a free society. When the regime narrative can be completely devoid of truth, no one is safe.

What is true for you is what you have observed. No government can be the arbiter of truth, nor can it censor its way to the truth. The only solution is more free speech, and one by one, removing those from power who insist on throttling the free exercise thereof.




The Final Week of American Independence?


It’s not overly dramatic to suggest this could be the final week of true American independence. There are growing, dark forces aimed at shredding our Constitution and individual liberties. Freedom and slavery are on the ballot, even though one candidate, Kamala Harris, is too stupid to make that choice clear to voters. Her part, on the other hand, has done well, making itself the anti-family, pro-abortion, pro-child genital mutilation, and all-around weird party. Whatever common sense position there is out there, Democrats take the opposing stance. The good news is that this side has lost momentum until Election Day. 

It shouldn’t be this close, but there are many lefty anti-Trump clowns who despite hating their selections for president—will happily vote for them to keep Trump out of the White House. It’s the double-edged sword: Trump jacks up our base to the max but also animates liberals. You see that with Kamala’s poll numbers. She is quite possibly one of the worst candidates to ever run for the presidency, but the anti-Trump hysterics are keeping it close. 

Yet, even after $1 billion in the war chest, Kamala can’t break away from Trump. She’s underwater with blacks, Hispanics, and independents. The vice president will be the worst-performing Democrat with working-class and union voters, and now she’s seeing her favorability numbers dip—she lost nine points in a month. Two-to-three points will likely underestimate the Trump vote. If the race is tied, Trump will be in a solid position. The private polling has been atrocious for Kamala, who is at risk of losing most of the swing states. It doesn’t mean it’ll happen, but it’s giving liberals heartburn. 

In Nevada, early voting shows a red surge that was never seen in the Reid Machine era. Cardinal rule is not to use these figures as gospel, but a historic and unseen surge is at least something to keep an eye on, especially in a state that’s favorable Democratic Party ground. Like Biden, after the June debate, we’re seeing a trickling of unnamed Kamala staffers and Democratic lawmakers who are privately admitting that this election is over. 

Again, vote early and often and don’t get comfortable, but Trump is in the best position to win this election. He’s never been more popular or polled better with voters. Meanwhile, all of Kamala’s media hits have blown up in her face, her rallies have become spectacles where white women yell at babies in strollers, and she’s all-around not good being in front of the camera. 

Freedom is on the ballot next week. Sanity is on the ballot next week. If we lose this election, it’s over—literally. Vote as if your life depends on it because if these people view us as Nazis, which we saw in the aftermath of Trump’s MSG rally, expect a censorship regime on steroids. These people lose their minds at the prospect of losing influence 



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Tucker Carlson Nails It When Discussing the Issue Around 'Accepting Election Results'


A lot is being made over whether or not the election results will be accepted if Donald Trump loses. A lot of Trump supporters, and even Trump and JD Vance themselves, have been asked this. The reason being that many people still have trouble accepting the results of the 2020 election based on a lot of unanswered questions and odd circumstances. 

As such, Republicans, conservatives, and Trump supporters alike have been accused of being "election deniers," a supposedly grave sin against the United States of America, which is funny to hear from Democrats, seeing as how denialism made up quite a bit of the foundational beef against Trump when he won in 2016. 

The difference between the Trump victory in 2016 and Joe Biden's victory in 2020 is that a lot of weird stuff happened during the election process that raised alarm bells in the minds of many. As time has gone on, it's become clear that voter fraud is a real problem in this country. 

Tucker Carlson recently addressed this on the Jesse Kelly show on "The First." 

"What do I think about this election, specifically?" Carlson said. "I think Trump's going to win, and I think if they tell me on November 6 that he didn't win, that Kamala Harris won because she's a historic black lady, or whatever, and that she got 85 million votes because people love her, they're going to have to prove to me that's true." 

"I'm not going to accept that at face value," he continued. 

"Why would I? They've lied consistently for decades. We now know that. They're liars. They'll say anything to win. They will kill people to win. They allowed Trump to get shot in order to keep control. That's a fact, and so, it's not going to be as simple as saying to me, 'No, no, no, she's more popular than we ever imagined she was. There was just a groundswell of support for Kamala Harris because she's so enlightened and great and competent.' Like, you're going to have to show me how that happened."

Carlson said that he is an equity owner in this country and not an employee, saying that he needs to be shown the books and that this is an entirely fair thing to ask.

 "It's not that I won't accept the outcome. It's that I won't accept fraud," Carlson said. 

Kelly made the point that we aren't peasants, and that ordering us to just accept something without proof isn't something we should do. 


Carlson's take isn't an unreasonable one. Accepting election results, even if they don't come out the way you wanted, is a civilized way to go about things. However, so is asking for proof that everything was done on the up and up. We cannot be commanded to just accept things on faith. That's not the way this country operates. 

Even if the Democrats didn't do anything to illegally sway or defraud the election in their favor back in 2020, the idea that we shouldn't be questioning election results in the face of unanswered questions and odd occurrences isn't something they should be doing anyway. For a people who supposedly care so much about democracy, the attitude of criticizing and mocking anyone who asks questions about the results isn't very democratic. 

Moreover, fraud should be, at its core, unacceptable. If a vote is proven fraudulent in any way, it should be tossed out and discounted. Period. Full stop. 

If you are not an American citizen, your vote doesn't count. If your name appears on a ballot despite the fact that you've been dead for a while, your vote doesn't count. If you show up to a voting location and you don't have a state-issued ID, you don't get to vote. 

These aren't huge asks. 

There shouldn't even be an argument about any of this, but there is, and if you're trying to argue that elections shouldn't be safer, then you can't get mad when people smell fraud and refuse to accept the results. It's just logic. 



New Intelligence Rules Let The U.S. Military Help Kill Americans, But Not Directly

New Intelligence Rules Let The U.S. Military Help Kill Americans, But Not Directly

BY: CYNICAL PUBLIUS


The directive is authorizing military intelligence assets to surveil, monitor, and evaluate U.S. citizens so civil authorities may kill some of those same citizens.



American politics has turned into a gladiatorial arena of battling hoaxes. Whether it is “Trump-Russia collusion” or “very fine people” or “the laptop is Russian disinformation,” our politics and our society have been shaped by a cascade of lies, at least since 2016, and probably a lot longer than that.


While Democrats have mastered the art of doing this through major media sources, the Republicans are no slouches at doing the same through new media. One such case relates to a recently revised U.S. military document called DOD Directive 5240.01, “DOD Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities and Defense Intelligence Component Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies and Other Civil Authorities.” 


Before I dive into this “DODD,” I’m going to take a step back and explain why we on the right need to be consistently accurate and truthful in what we say and what stories we choose to believe.


If you (like me) are an addicted consumer of political discourse on X, formerly known as Twitter, you know who the “Black Insurrectionist” was. This was a now-deleted X account that also went by the X handle “@docnetyoutube.” The person behind this account was responsible for two massive hoaxes, one of which gained traction at very high levels inside the GOP. One of these hoaxes was the infamous “ABC News whistleblower” affidavit claiming ABC gave the Harris campaign preview copies of the questions for the Trump-Harris debate. The other hoax involved claims by a purported former high school student of Tim Walz that Walz had sexually abused him. Both of these hoaxes have been thoroughly discredited, and I maintain that these hoaxes did far more damage to the right than to the left.


To wit, we all saw the ABC News presidential debate. We all saw how one-sided the questioning and “fact checks” were. This was a reality. However, the “ABC News whistleblower” hoax served to discredit and diminish our legitimate complaints about ABC News.


Further, we all know Walz has a history that gives many conservatives pause: getting arrested for drunk drivingspearheading an afterschool LGBT club, and taking high school kids to China to learn about the joys of Maoism. These are all realities. However, the “Touchdown Timmy” hoax (as it came to be known) served to discredit and diminish our legitimate complaints about Walz.


This brings me back to DODD 5240.01, a government document that provides for objectionable and potentially illegal things, but also a document which a hoax has grown up around regarding the wrong objectionable and potentially illegal things.


Let me start by saying this: DODD 5240.01 does not authorize the U.S. military to kill civilians on U.S. soil. Period. But it does do some other awful stuff I’ll get to.


Unfortunately, the DODD 5240.01 hoax has taken root at some very high levels, as RFK Jr. (someone I admire) has himself stated that the Pentagon now has “power — for the first time in history — to use lethal force to kill Americans on U.S. soil who protest government policies.” 


That’s just incorrect.


The beauty of examining this issue is that it is all self-contained. All anyone needs to know is right there in the actual text of the DODD. What that DODD actually says lies in the title of the document itself: “DOD Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities and Defense Intelligence Component Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies and Other Civil Authorities.” The title is talking only about DOD intelligence assets being used in support of civil authorities. “Intelligence assets” means human analysts in a cubicle, satellite imagery, signals intelligence, written products, surveillance drones, etc. 


Just intelligence assets. Assets that are non-lethal in their own right. Not infantry. Not tanks. Not rifles. Not F-15s. Not artillery. Not door-kickers. None of that. 


Realizing what the actual subject matter of this DODD is, let’s look at the section that has everybody in a twist: 


Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DODD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.


That use of the word “lethal” has people scared. But understand more context: This is a sub-paragraph of a bigger paragraph that explicitly lists things the secretary of defense must approve in order for it to happen. That’s it. That’s all this paragraph is referring to. Also understand that the “lethality” is lethality done by civil authorities, not U.S. military troops.


So let me tell you what this paragraph is saying in much simpler terms: When civil authorities (i.e., police and other law enforcement agencies) are engaged in operations where Americans might die, and those civil authorities request the help of military intelligence assets (those non-lethal assets I listed above), approval authority for such request must come directly from the secretary of defense.


That is all it says. That’s it. Nothing more.


I’m sorry that RFK Jr. got it wrong, like so many others, but the truth must win out. Go read the whole DODD yourself if you don’t believe me.


Having debunked the hoax, let me tell you the actual scandal hiding within reality. This DODD is authorizing military intelligence assets to track, surveil, monitor, and evaluate U.S. citizens so civil authorities may kill some of those same citizens. That is not an exaggeration. This is a highly unprecedented use of military assets that likely violates the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and is an egregious misuse of assets designed solely to defeat foreign military forces and not U.S. citizens. 


DODD 5240.01 is something all patriots should be upset about. Write your senators and representatives. Write a letter to the editor. Protest — but don’t let your protest be obscured by complaining about what that DODD does not say. It does not say the military can kill U.S. civilians. It says the military can help the police in killing U.S. civilians. 


The truth is bad enough, isn’t it?


It’s Not Just Trump They’re Calling A Nazi. It’s You



Democrats are closing their campaign of “joy” this election by desperately smearing their political opponents as fascists hellbent on igniting an American Third Reich. It’s the same tired playbook from a political party that’s been projecting its own authoritarian impulses onto Republicans for years, and they ramp up the projection every time the GOP threatens the leftist regime’s grip on power.

Case in point: Former President Donald Trump held a sold-out rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden Sunday night after surviving two assassination attempts and a lawfare crusade designed to bankrupt and imprison him. After efforts had failed to illegally thwart Public Enemy No. 1’s return to the ballot, Democrats and their deputy surrogates in the press hysterically depicted the Manhattan rally as a racist convention for a wannabe dictator. Apparently Trump forgot to play autocrat when he was first elected president eight years ago.

Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg published his latest hit on Trump several days before the New York City rally to defame the ex-president as an admirer of Adolf Hitler. In an article based almost entirely on anonymous sources, Goldberg said that Trump apparently mused that he wanted the kind of generals Hitler had. The story dropped just as Vice President Kamala Harris’ favorability ratings fell underwater in the final weeks of the election. The vice president’s lead in the RealClearPolitics aggregate of surveys has now been erased, with Trump leading Harris in the national polls and a majority of key battleground states.

As Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden neared, failed 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton compared the event to a gathering of American Nazis that took place in 1939.

“One other thing that you’ll see next week, Kaitlan, is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden [Nazi] rally in 1939,” Clinton said on CNN. “Neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.”

In other words, Clinton — who infamously called Trump’s supporters “deplorables” in 2016 —called not just the Republican nominee a Nazi but all of his supporters Nazis for rallying where a bunch of Nazis had gathered nearly a century ago. Would she say the same thing about former President Jimmy Carter who rallied there in 1976 and 1980?

Democrats and the press, however, would follow Clinton’s lead and dramatize their worst imaginations of what was actually an unapologetically patriotic event complete with all the “joy” and fanfare of a major political movement on the cusp of victory. Corporate media outlets called the event with black and Jewish Trump supporters in attendance racist, while Democrats attacked the event as a 21st-century reincarnation of Hitler’s rise.

“They knew the story they were going to write before the rally,” said independent Substack journalist Michael Shellenberger on X.

The Lincoln Project even translated out-of-context quotes from Trump into German, while MSNBC aired clips of the 1939 Nazi rally at the venue to draw a parallel between that rally and the 2024 event that saw Republican voters and celebrity Trump supporters flooding into the venue in deep blue Manhattan.

After Democrats have gone all in to declare that their political opponents are synonymous with German Nazis, it remains to be seen whether a Vice President Harris will actually accept the election results and certify a so-called modern-day Hitler as commander-in-chief.