Duterte has been arrested by the ICC. Duterte was Mayor of Davao in the Philippines. He was Trump 1.0 before Trump came down the escalator, and I supported him back when he was Mayor of Davao. Every decent person in Davao supported him. Only very wicked people opposed him. He made Davao from a third word hell hole to safe and prosperous, and then went on to become President of the Philippines, in which he had limited success for the …
Category: politics
The Trump Zelensky confrontation
Obviously, the Ukraine needs to sign on to the peace deal, if there is to be a peace deal, and Putin insists that only a plausibly legitimate government can sign, therefore Zelensky needs to be eliminated. So this confrontation serves Trump’s goals. And, because the US is out of ammo, it also serve’s Thermidor’s goals, or at least those of the less insane part of Thermidor. At minimum, they need a break so that they can rebuild weapon industries, improve …
The Trump Revolution
Hat tip Yarvin’s butterfly revolution. 1. Get the oligarchs on side, and threaten any Republican traitors with big money primary opponents ✔ Done. 2. Defund the left. Under way. Notice how, once Musk seized the inner sanctum at USAID, the Democrats found themselves unable to put a river of meat on the streets. It looks like the microphone for which a thousand shills were the loudspeakers was located there. Their street protests have been hilarious. Their shrill outrage has been …
Autogolpe
I generally do not report on, nor pay attention to, the latest news of the day, because it is best understood years later, or centuries later. And I tend to discourage conversation about such news, because it is noise. The shills send in piles of links to latest noise, and I silently delete them. But the meaning of Trump 2.0 now becomes apparent. So this post is going to be a pile of links to the news of the day. …
Trump thunderbolt of 2025 January 27
With two hundred thunderbolts coming from the president in a week, it is easy to overlook this one in the noise, but he has just struck the heart of the enemy. OPM, the HR of all HR, from which all HRs everywhere in the Global American Empire ultimately derive their power is, as they say in their post on r/fednews, being dismantled. “The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit …
Marc Andreessen does not get it
The progs believe that Marc Andreessen is the primary ideologist of the tech oligarch wing of the Trump coalition. This is an odd delusion. Under the New York Times new policy of listening to their enemies for a change, the New York Times interviewed Mark Andreessen. Andreessen is a natural born Havel’s Greengrocer. There is not a political thought in his head. Political thoughts continually explode out of Musk, who not merely very good at tech priesting, but is a …
Days of Thunder
Trump’s inauguration was shock and awe. In his speech he echoed Oliver Cromwell’s address to the Long Parliament, the first Thermidor in the history of English speaking people against the first left singularity. Did he know he was echoing it? Has he been at the history books? Probably at least some of those around him have. But Oliver Cromwell’s coup against the long parliament was only the beginning. Cromwell had the upper hand, but the government just kept on getting …
How to deport eighteen million illegals
I saw Vance accepting the defeatist frame that it is hard to deport eighteen million illegals. No it is not hard. Tony Abbot in Australia faced a smaller but similar problem, and here is how he handled it: Everyone has interactions where you have to present your ID: Cops, welfare, hospitals, and so on and so forth. And they then run your ID through their computers. Which in Australia, if you are an illegal immigrant or have an expired visa, …
The Crisis and Coup Thermidor
The most cohesive faction within the left wants to burn down the world in order to immanentize the Eschaton, and the kleptocracy does not want the world to burn. The kleptocrats want to steal it, not burn it, and are upset that their plan for stealing Russia and then China came unstuck. The old Clinton/Bush/Obama normal is heading towards an iceberg. Since the point of stealing the 2020 and 2022 elections was to restore the old uniparty normal, there is …
AI winter, plus mindless skynet.
It now becomes obvious that the trouble with Artificial intelligence is that it is not intelligent and there is no one at home. When they first came out, I said to myself. “Wow. Passes the Turing test.” No it does not. If you actually try to make use of it, it then proceeds to fail the Turing test. They are just really great search engines with a wonderfully compressed and very large database. They do a pattern match on the …