Desperate times call for despicable measures.
From Germany to Romania to Britain to California to the hallways of “civil society” foundations to, of course, DC, something is spinning up.
For the first time in years, the socialite socialist statists who run the planet seem afraid, afraid to the point of panic, afraid of the dawning realization that their time may be coming to an end.
While the election of Donald Trump was a key event and has unquestionably ratcheted up the despair-o-meter, the process actually started many moons ago.
The main tactic of the elite had been to push the public past its breaking point and then pulling back just enough to quiet discontent. And then to do it again, each time permanently moving the power needle just a bit, or, in the case of the pandemic response, a lot.
The wheels started to wobble – Orban stays in power in Hungary, Meloni gets Italy, Biden becomes a shell game of a president, Elon buys Twitter, the public lying becomes a bit more obvious, China (where so much of the money, public and private, comes from now) started to see cracks in its economy – in 2022.
But with the media and security apparatus of every developed state still playing along, each of these things could be ignored and/or controlled.
Then the disintegration process got faster and faster and the globalists started to panic, like an addict knowing he either gets more of his substance – in this case unchecked power – and on a permanent basis or things will go very very bad for him very very quickly if the tap is shut off – a very twitchy death becomes a distinct possibility.
Hence the recent activities, the throwing of everything against the wall to either see if it sticks or at least makes “other” people duck for a moment. The desperation afoot is palpable as the world inches ever closer to the elite “Battle of the Bulge” moment.
One last big push, one swing for the fences, one last doubling-down on the bet, eleven last martinis just in case is what is happening now.
Let’s start with the most recent example, the “continuing resolution” (CR) spending bill that – terrifyingly to the powers that be – failed, in large part due to Trump’s intervention.
Even though it was a spending/budget bill, it did not fail primarily for monetary reasons. It failed because, seeing what was coming next year, the DC blob packed it with absurdities meant to protect themselves.
Free gender mutilation surgeries? Sure, if just to shut the lunatic trans lobby.
Exempting Congress from due process discovery by declaring its emails and such completely and utterly and permanently private and exempt from subpoena? Very important for anyone hoping to stay out of jail.
A congressional pay raise? We deserve it (note – why congressional pay isn’t permanently set and then increased via COLA, like Social Security recipients, is beyond me, especially because of the stipend they created themselves to pay for the cost of living in DC.)
Allowing gain of function research? Yes and it really has nothing to do with creating bio-weapons, it can be helpful in the future. Actually, no it can’t and it never has been and the only thing it can do is create bio-weapons or cause a very fortuitous - for the global power elite - worldwide pandemic.
Continuing to fund the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, its controlling entree into the global censorship effort? Never more important.
Allowing for things like “vaccine passports” and other egregious “public health” measures in case of a future pandemic? Of course – this last one was too chaotic; the next one, and there will be a next one, has to work better for us and the public’s being able to question experts does not help that at all.
Along with ensuring the legality of mask and “vaccine” mandates and expanded emergency powers to government, the other ancillary bits – the bits of the 1,500 page bill people were not supposed to notice before voting on it – all serve one purpose: the protection of the deep globe.
Of course, Trump has been called an agent of chaos, a disruptor, for stepping in and putting a stop to the bill. Right now in DC, the word “disruptor” is more of an insult than - to steal a line from the cable sanitized version of “Snakes on a Plane” - to be called a “MondayFriday.”
The response from the DC blob has been a massive “how dare he?!?,” essentially acknowledging the fact that this bill was their last chance to embed, ticklike, themselves and their ideas.
Clearly, even though he is not yet president (Kamala is off sulking and trying to decide if being governor of California is beneath her and Joe is trying to remember if he still is president) of the government shuts down it will be declared Trump’s fault. And if it stays shut for a few weeks, if things like “inaugurations” will be declared “essential functions”?
Internal update note – As of right now (Thursday evening, eastern time) the CR is some form or another seems to be back on the table, though its contents still seem fluid and whether or not the above issues have been addressed is not quite clear.
As noted, this is not a confined matter.
In Romania, an entire presidential election “first round” vote– a vote that could have resulted in a “far right” candidate winning in the end – was tossed out because TikTok interfered.
The contention was Russia used TikTok to support a candidate it liked so the entire election was tainted and has to be done over.
Whether or not Russia really did create a bunch of TikTok bots is not really the issue – that’s just advertising and the decision is like saying an election doesn’t count because X ran more ads on radio that Y.
Additionally, even though this time it might be more plausible, the boogeyman of “Russian election interference” that was used in other elections (cough Trump cough) hasn’t typically quite panned out to be true.
In Germany, a similar situation is evolving. Earlier this year, the AfD (Alternative for Germany) started to actually win and/or come very close to winning elections throughout the country. Because the powers that be have declared the AfD “far right” – and we all know that should be enough – all of the other parties have made sure to keep them out of power, despite the fact that they could very well win the “snap election” to be held in February.
So what makes AfD far-right? Well, it wants to limit immigration, it is critical of the European Union, it does not think climate change is an “existential threat” but it does think the government’s hyper-green reaction is an actual threat, and it thinks Germany is, well, a country that should protect itself and its economy.
Heaven forfend.
The anti-AfD mania is so off-kilter that in Thuringia (a German state) the new government has excluded the AfD from the holding any ministerial seats despite it being the largest party inf the parliament. This has led to an absurd coalition that includes – really, literally, a former Stasi (the East German state secret police) official being made a minister in said government.
People we call fascists, even though they are not – OUT!. People who actually really literally were enforcers in a totalitarian state – IN!
And no matter what happens in February, even if the AfD places first in the elections, every other party has created a “cordon sanitaire” around them, meaning everyone has agreed – from the establishment conservative to the former communists to the greens and everyone in between – to keep them out of government. One can see here the downside of “proportional representation” – despite representing more than a third of the public, the rest of the cronies can keep them out (oh, the other problem is that bureaucrats love proportional representation and ranked choice voting, for that matter, because it ensures they remain in power in the background.)
Oh, and now there is futzing with the court system to try to crush the AfD.
In Britain, things are a bit different, but since being elected earlier this year the Labour party has seen a massive drop in public support (quite the opposite of what is happening in the US, with Trump’s approval numbers now being higher than ever.)
Labour won easily, like landslide easy, at least seat-by-seat, ending up with about 63% of the spots in parliament despite only taking about 34% of the popular vote, the largest difference in modern British history.
Despite that – and the fact they ran against a Conservative Party that is neither conservative nor a party anymore – Labour claimed a mandate to do unspeakable things.
People are now getting arrested for tweets, power costs are skyrocketing, the economy is tilting rather lazily, taxes are increasing, and the climate religion is now utterly ascendent.
It is true they will remain in power for at least four more years, but it seems that Labour is already a smidge worried about what will happen when their policies take full force soon.
And they need it to be soon if they are going to have enough time to acclimatize Brits to the new permanent sub-standard standards they must deal with. In other words, Labour knows that what they are doing is damaging, but if they do it fast enough maybe people will be so accustomed to the pain they forget who started it and re-elect them in five years.
Lest us forget the World Health Organization’s attempt to re-write its member guidelines, which included it giving itself the right to declare global pandemics, which, thankfully, have largely been pushed back…so far.
Outside of DC, very blue states are trying to “Trump-proof” their own status quos from interference:
Of course, California -where almost every terrible political idea over the past 20 years has been blurched from – is garnering the most attention. Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special legislative session to consider bills to preemptively allocate money to the state Attorney General’s office to pay to sue Trump.
They are not quite exactly sure what they will sue him for yet – cutting off federal funding for the laughable high speed rail project might be a topic or refusing the grant authority to the state Air Resource Board to mandate “green” transportation technology that does not exist or any number of border and benefit issues will be thrown at the legal wall to see if they stick.
Lastly, of course, we have Canada.
Like so many of the Commonwealth members, Canada – that happy calm polite place – outdid itself during the pandemic response. It’s essentially where the government ordered “de-banking” of critics started, let alone other vile impositions of iron fist/velvet glove force.
Justin Trudeau is the epitome of a beta male.
He is a suit in search of a body, a politician blurched to the forefront by his lineage and his ties to the globalists.
There is no there and that is something it seems the world is discovering…finally.
While Justin’s current political woes – his finance minister resigned, his government is teetering on the edge of a no confidence vote, etc. – are real and have been growing because of his government’s absurdly woke policies, they are now being blamed on Trump’s tariff proposals.
This claim is merely a prelude to what will happen in the next few years as the globalists fight with all of their tin heart to stay ascendant. Trudeau is in trouble because of Trudeau, because of a stagnant economy, because of things like trying to expand assisted suicide to let sad people off themselves, and by aggressively controlling what is allowed to be discussed in the public square.
He will fall – soon. The question is whether Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre will be allowed to replace him.
But this will not be the fault of the globalist system…or so they will try to say.
All of this – and many other examples – add up to a very dark night of the soul for the planetary overlords and 2025 will be – they clearly believe – make or break for them.
Hence the recent speed of action, the attempt to make sure that even if things seem to change they really do not.
Faster, faster, more, more, embed, embed , hide the bottle, double down, threaten more, deploy every possible resource we control, then maybe we can at least save something.
The global elite once dismissed the humans they lord over - now they are terrified that their well-deserved comeuppance is just around the corner.
We can only hope that that fear comes true.