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Democratic elites and the reporters who clerk for them were effusively approving of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech last Thursday evening—not so much for what he said, which came nothing new, as for the demeanor of our enfeebled president. Never mind that Biden reduced an occasion intended to address all Americans as to the condition of their nation to a cheap stump speech. He avoided falling down for his hour at the podium while stringing coherent sentences (mostly) together in the cause of his political survival. That is what counted.

“This was not Old Man Joe,” Peter Baker fairly ejaculated in Friday morning’s New York Times. “This was Forceful Joe. This was Angry Joe. This was Loud Joe. This was Game–On Joe.”

Wow. I seemed to have missed that, Joe.

I saw Joe who trades in hollow appearances. This was Joe urging both houses of Congress and 32 million television viewers to join in making believe we still live in the 20th century. This was Joe pretending America’s global primacy is intact. This was Joe refusing to recognize the emergence of new poles of power and the high cost this refusal exacts.

“A nation that stands as a beacon to the world. A nation in a new age of possibilities”: You wouldn’t believe an American public figure, to say nothing of a president, would still trade in this kind of exhausted pabulum. Denial of this kind, we must not fail to remind ourselves, does not come cheap.

You have to wonder who is driving the bus after listening to a speech as vapid as Biden’s, and I will attempt an answer to this question in due course.

Here is the passage in Biden’s speech that most aroused all the Peter Baker liberals eager to see him reelected in November:

My fellow Americans, the issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are, it’s how old are our ideas…. [Y]ou can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back. To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done.

These remarks—Biden rehearsed them severally in preceding days—bring us to some very difficult recognitions, even if Biden’s speechwriters intended them otherwise. No recent president I can think of has proven more abjectly bereft of new ideas than Joe Biden.

The reckless support of “the Jewish state,” the proxy war in Ukraine, the obsessive Russophobia, the provocations across the Taiwan Strait, the covert operations in Syria and elsewhere, the sanction regimes imposed on too many nations to count, the vassalization of Europe: There is no new thinking in any of this. These are ideas so old they leave the U.S. in a state of ever more extreme isolation in a world eager to get on with the 21st century. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., is the face of the American imperium as it insists on prolonging itself. This is not a role with any originality or vision to it.

Biden gave the houses of Congress and the millions who watched him on television a performance Thursday evening, just as Peter Baker and numerous others celebrated it. And his speech was performative in precise proportion to its vacancy. Presentation has always been important in politics. But those purporting to lead us, having nothing new to say and much to obscure as to America’s conduct, lead us into what we may as well call a culture of appearances. These are all that matter as the imperium gets on with its frequently criminal business.

We come to one of several disturbing recognitions now facing us. This nation’s leaders, and the West’s altogether, have succumbed to a state of paralysis that leaves them incapable of the one thing our moment requires most of leadership. This is the capacity to make the bold decisions that are necessary if we are to set ourselves on a new course and do well in a century of historic transformations.

Who was the last president to prove unafraid of new thinking and decisive action? Kennedy as he resolved the Bay of Pigs crisis? Or when he called for a new global order and world peace—“a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived yet it is the most important topic on earth”—in his famous speech at American University in the spring of 1963? Nixon when he opened to China?

Put this next to Biden’s response to the savagery in Gaza, to take a single example of many. Instead of declaring the new policy toward apartheid Israel these atrocities require, he sends more than 100 weapons shipments to Israel since Oct. 7—covertly to avoid asking for congressional approval, as The Washington Post reported last week, while airlifting virtue-signaling pallets of “prepared dinners” to a starving population of 2.3 million. Using its typical cotton-wool language, in its Sunday editions The Times termed this “the delicate position the United States has found itself in.” “Rank hypocrisy” would have been shorter and better. There is no change in Biden’s stone solid support for a regime whose conduct more than casually resembles that of the Reich—only another performance in the service of facile appearances.

U.S. support for the genocide in Gaza, the proxy war it spent many years provoking in Ukraine: These disasters reflect the Biden regime’s mistaken assumption that America lives in an unchanged world. These policies have profoundly alienated the vast majority of the world’s people—this as measured by population or a count of nations. This majority is no longer with America as it once might have been. The “international community,” that ever-hollower phrase, now comes down to the Group of 7 and a few clients and G–7 hangers-on. This is what I mean by the costs of denial.

ORDER IT NOW

There are many other miscalculations to note in this line. The Iraq invasion, Afghanistan, the ongoing covert ops in Syria, the destruction of Libya—all failures reflecting an overestimation of U.S. power in the 21st century and an underestimation of its accumulating weaknesses. The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines two summers ago counts a success as a well-planned covert operation. As an expression of American foreign policy it is a measure either of Washington’s bankruptcy in the way of new thinking or of its desperation, if not both.

Economic vitality is essential to the conduct of empire, as history shows plainly enough. Those purporting to lead the U.S. appear lost as to how to address this matter as it grows too evident to ignore. There is no need to elaborate on the increasing desperation of many working Americans in direct consequence of

America’s imperial overstretch. The national debt, now at $34.5 trillion, is 129 percent of gross domestic product. This compares very unfavorably with China, Brazil, Egypt, Sierra Leone, and numerous other developing and middle-income nations. As a measure of America’s decline, its debt-to-GDP ratio averaged half its current level from 1940 to 2022 and compares with a low of 32 percent as recently as 1981.

You don’t hear much about globalization anymore, do you? This is because America can no longer compete in numerous cutting-edge sectors. Economic nationalism and straight-out protection is the new economic ideology. The Biden regime is midway in erecting export controls and other barriers intended to damage China’s high-technology industries. Late last month it announced that it intends to block Chinese-made electric vehicles from the American market—this on the pretext that they represent a security threat.

Pitiful all around.

It is not difficult to explain this (very partial) list of political, diplomatic, military, and economic policy misjudgments. One need look no further than President Biden’s SOTU performance, wherein the fundamental impediment is plain. He is unwilling to acknowledge the emergence of non–Western powers, notably but not only those forming the BRICS group. And in consequence he is unable to act sensibly, wisely, imaginatively to 21st century realities, the two most evident of which are the rise of the non–West and America’s relative if not absolute decline.

Think once more about that speech and the all the cheerleaders who shouted into megaphones afterward. These people are no more than nostalgists, and I have long considered nostalgia a form of depression that grips those unable to face the present. As denialists they are directly responsible for inhibiting any chance America may have of genuinely altering course to find a new direction forward.

We are not, to put this point another way, incessantly creating and recreating our world in the fashion of a vibrant civilization. Ours is a diminished world devoid of that élan vital Bergson thought essential to any dynamic society: There is no forward movement in our present circumstances. Our leaders instead enforce an eternal present, a “what is” from which there is no escape because there is no one to lead us out of it into a dynamic new future.

We had better be careful as these failings lead us to conclude there is no one driving the bus. Biden’s ineptitude certainly encourages the thought, but this obscures a larger reality that seems yet more daunting than these others. Joe Biden is symptom, not cause, in the final analysis.

Many presidents before Biden were guilty of selling American foreign policy to those who proposed to buy it. In the case of Israel, this derives from a lobby that has grown grotesquely powerful and thinks nothing of using its wealth to destroy America’s political process, silence critics of the Zionist state, and so dismantle altogether what remains of our democracy. As to Ukraine, it is merely the latest in a long line of conflicts waged, like money-laundering schemes, to benefit the military-industrial complex.

Capital, to finish the thought, drives our bus. And of all the things that must not come in for criticism in the nation we have made of ourselves, the power of capital is surely near the top of the list.

Josep Borrell, the plain-speaking Spaniard currently serving as the European Union’s foreign minister, made some observations late last month that are singular for their unvarnished honesty. These appeared Feb. 25 on the E.U.’s foreign affairs website, External Action, where Borrell reprised for the general public his presentation at the just-concluded Munich Security Conference.

In his Munich speech and subsequently in his External Action essay, Borrell identified “the four main tasks on E.U.’s geopolitical agenda.” Three of these are easily anticipated: support for Ukraine, ending the Gaza crisis, “strengthening our defense and security.” Any European technocrat could have ticked off this list. It was the remaining “task” facing Europeans—the third as Borrell ordered them—that catches the eye. This concerns “our relations with the so-called ‘Global South’ countries.”

Here is the forthright Borrell on this topic:

If the current global geopolitical tensions continue to evolve in the direction of “the West against the Rest,” Europe’s future risks to be bleak. The era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended. While this has been theoretically understood, we have not always drawn all practical conclusions from this new reality.

… Many in the “Global South” accuse us of “double standards.” … We need to push back on this narrative but also to address this issue not only with words: In the coming months, we must make a massive effort to win back the trust of our partners.

Borrell has been all over the place on the question of the West’s evolving relations with the non–West since assuming his E.U. duties five years ago this coming July. Addressing an audience in Bruges two years ago, he famously blundered into an indiscretion the match of any Joe Biden gaffe:

Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the [sic] humankind has been able to build—the three things together.

The rest of the world is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.

Borrell quickly apologized for his remarks and seems to have come a considerable distance in the intervening years if we are to go by his speech in Munich and the essay he wrote afterward. And for all his inconstancy, he is one of the few people in positions of influence—the few Western leaders, I mean—who understands that the Atlantic world has reached an inflection point, a moment of historical magnitude. And he is right about what brought the West to this point. Post–Gaza and post–Ukraine, it is already becoming clear, the West will find that it has redefined its relations with the wider world. But to set a new course requires a certain surrender Western leaders—all of them, not just Biden—cannot yet accept.

When the U.S. finally succeeded in provoking Russia to intervene in Ukraine two years ago last month, when the Biden regime led the whole of the Atlantic alliance into unqualified support for Israel as it began—or resumed, better put—its siege of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the West still rested on a presumption of global superiority that we can date to 1498, when Vasco da Gama arrived on the Indian coast. This has been construed ever since as material superiority, certainly, but it has also extended to the cultural, moral, and institutional spheres. There is the West and the rest, as Borrell noted, the garden and the jungle, the lawful and the lawless, the first world and the third. To become modern requires becoming Western.

It has been some years since this paradigm began losing credibility. We might date this to the liberation struggles of those post–World War II decades known as the Independence Era. Being cautious, the West’s claim to superiority in all things has certainly looked ever emptier since the Berlin Wall fell and people and nations were freed from the Cold War binary the U.S. imposed on the planet. Unless you are given to primitive charlatans such as Robert Kagan, you must count this a very excellent turn in the human story.

The Atlantic alliance’s dramatic failure in Ukraine and its craven support for Israel’s Old Testament barbarities in Gaza (see, e.g., Numbers 31: 1–54) have together shredded whatever remained of the West’s pretenses. No claim to superior morality or the rule of Western law is any longer possible. All that remains is material superiority, primarily by way of the weaponry of war, just as it was when da Gama got to southern India.

As many have remarked, there is no coming back from this for Israel and no coming back for the U.S. I would add there is no coming back for the West altogether. We are in consequence face to face with many realities from which most of us in the West have long flinched. This has many implications.

High among them, I would say, is whether the beleaguered West can continue to cohere. At this point Europe exhibits two contending impulses. One is to make the Atlantic wider, so reclaiming some of the independence it gave up in the early postwar decades. There is no assumption among Europeans that America’s turn from globalization to economic nationalism will not bear consequences for them as well as others. The Nord Stream operation was in large measure driven by geopolitics, but the U.S. also had an economic motive not lost on Europe. There are, conversely, many Europeans—Borrell among them—who advocate drawing yet closer to the U.S., so continuing the Continent’s long, unfortunate habit of sheltering under the “American security umbrella” at the cost of its sovereignty and sense of self-worth.

One question that is shared on both sides of the Atlantic implies the greatest task the Western world has faced in long time—maybe centuries, depending on how one counts. I have already suggested it. It is the task of surrendering those claims to superiority from which the Western consciousness has drawn its identity for the past half a millennium. To do this would be an immense positive for the West and everyone living in it. It would mean not defeat but an immense unburdening; it would open up many true possibilities—these as against that “land of possibilities” Biden conjured of thin air Thursday evening.

But the West’s leaders, America’s above all, have no clue of the surrender our moment asks of them. To surrender as I mean this term will require leadership of a kind Western nations have rarely before seen, and there is none in sight at this point.

(Republished from Scheerpost by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Some speeuclate that was Amphetaime Joe, shouting his way through the first bit like a crazy man, then slurring his words once again.

    “A psychiatrist who has worked with elderly dementia patients said President Biden exhibited signs of stimulant use to mask cognitive decline in his amped-up, aggressive State of the Union speech on Thursday.

    “Speed and volume of speech can be a sign of using Adderall or another amphetamine, said Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist based in Beverly Hills, California.

    “If you look at how Joe Biden usually is — slow and stumbling — compared to how he was during the State of the Union — fiery and angry — these are signs that are typical for someone taking Adderall or any amphetamine,” she said.

    Article at https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/8/dr-carole-lieberman-forensic-psychiatrist-sees-sig/

  2. Nico X [AKA "Damien X"] says:

    These Presidents have all been Jew puppets since at least Ape Lincoln & the Civil War. Its as if ZWOG is testing the degree of degradation & abasement of the white race with this Biden farce. But now these masses of white-wing ‘conservatives’ (aka Trumptards) in the USA are faced with an existential dilemma. Since ZWOG made it quite clear the elections are rigged vis a vis Biden’s ‘victory’ in 2020 & that voting is futile, they don’t seem to understand that the nation is finished. Instead, according to the popular definition of insanity, they’re going to vote again expecting a different result, not even realizing that the Zionist (R) Party & Trump are in on the bunko scheme too. The only alternative is revolution, but how do you get a people corrupted by the egalitarian teachings of rabbi Jesus, simian sports viewers, golfers & wine drinkers to revolt?

  3. Solutions says: • Website

    Only the stubbornly brainwashed amongst us (and are they many) continue to seek out the genius within that which is plain to see complete insanity now on full display by the West’s political elite.
    When the clowns finally take down the entire circus with them (the plan), it will be highly cathartic for the rest of us.

  4. anonymous[139] • Disclaimer says:

    Biden doesn’t write his speeches, they’re written by professional writers who try to bat for the rhetorical heights. He just rehearses them and reads them off, trying to sound dramatic like another Lawrence Olivier. It’s all fake. This is a person who not only plagiarized from a British politician’s speeches back in the 80’s but also his biography (son of a coal miner, up from humble beginnings). What sort of a mentally defective person would do that when everyone knows their biography could easily be checked? The man is an incorrigible serial liar, a total embarrassment for the US. It’s obvious to anyone that he’s slipped into Alzheimer territory and yet all these paid shills out there in media land are clapping and claiming you don’t see what you’re seeing. Can any of these people just stop lying for just a few minutes?

    • Thanks: Gallatin
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    , @cousin lucky
  5. Joe Biden vision of himself is the great commander leading the U.S into a bright future.

    But we can all delude ourselves but most of us only hurt ourselves, Biden is hurting humanity with his delusions.

    • Replies: @lavoisier
    , @chris
  6. smetana says:

    Democratic elites and the reporters who clerk for them

    Let’s clarify – various politicians may or may not be elites, but the media and academia are the true elites, for whom the Democratic Party is a political wing.

    As Curtis Yarvin formulated it, what if instead of a state-controlled media, we have a media-controlled state?

    • Replies: @Bill H.
    , @Madbadger
  7. James J. O'Meara [AKA "Peter D. Bredon"] says:

    “Biden’s stone solid support for a regime whose conduct more than casually resembles that of the Reich—“

    Citation needed.

    • Agree: Hinz
    • Thanks: Justrambling
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  8. Why insult the Reich by comparing it to 2024 America?

  9. Biden secretly flew in 320,000 illegals from overseas to reduce problems at the border. They all got work permits so unskilled wages are falling in the USA. Walmart recently cut entry level pay.

    Video Link

    Israel will not allow aid trucks to enter Gaza via Jordan, but is helping the USA build a pier for American ships to bring in aid? I have no doubt this will be used to evacuate sickly (starving) Gazans who will be flown into American cities. We won’t know until cities complain about the tens of thousands of Palestinian “refugees” dumped off by ICE.

    Once Gaza and the West Bank are ethnically cleansed of millions of Arabs, Netanyahu will be a hero in Israel and Biden praised for this “peace deal”.

    • Thanks: Agent76, RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @Davy Crockit
  10. @Observator

    Some speeuclate that was Amphetaime Joe, shouting his way through the first bit like a crazy man, then slurring his words once again.

    You beat me to it.

    Sounds like a plausible theory to me.

  11. NotAnonymousHere [AKA "Anonymous.com"] says:

    Far too long, spare us your plain speaking Spaniard detours.

    • Replies: @ThreeCranes
  12. Ghali says:

    This is war criminal Joe who should be on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity women and children. If the U.S.-led Westhave any morality left, the should deploy their troops to protect Palestinian women and children from the Nazi Jewz. Israel’s war on the Palestinians is “a war on children,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini has declared. More children have been killed by Jewish forces in Gaza since October than have died in every global conflict between 2019 and 2022 combined, according to figures released by the UN on 12/03/2023 . More than 12,300 Palestinian children have been reported killed in Gaza by Jewz since October 2023, Mr Lazzarini said, citing data from the UN and Gaza’s health ministry.

    • Disagree: TKK
    • Replies: @TKK
  13. Pablo says:

    The Forces that own Biden–and the rest of the US Government, Republicans too–are fully aware that all is not well in the US Economy. They have to lie about the Economy because a.) they would have to admit their policies are a failure if they did and b.) the Government would be expected to fix the problems. Neither of these are going to happen. Too much corruption.

  14. 22pp22 says:

    Alot of Westerners forget that the Chinese and Indians have their own deeply rooted sense of superiority.

    • Replies: @Anon
  15. 22pp22 says:
    @anonymous

    I don’t comment enough to use the Agree button.

    AGREE

    • Replies: @David Bartlett
  16. Hinz says:

    when we go by the palastinian view of gaza being a concentration camp
    then isreael could be seen as america in the 2 ww
    owning and bombing camps

  17. Ghali says:

    Joe Biden is war criminal Joe who should be on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity women and children. If the U.S.-led West have any morality left, the should deploy their troops to protect Palestinian women and children from the Nazi Jewz. Israel’s war on the Palestinians is “a war on children,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini has declared. More children have been killed by Jewish forces in Gaza since October than have died in every global conflict between 2019 and 2022 combined, according to figures released by the UN on 12/03/2023 . More than 12,300 Palestinian children have been reported killed in Gaza by Jewz since October 2023, Mr Lazzarini said, citing data from the UN and Gaza’s health ministry.

  18. Anonymous[169] • Disclaimer says:

    True, it was terrible, but it could have been worse. Check out this from the UK.
    https://rumble.com/v14kxae-queens-speech-deep-state-translator.html

  19. Joe Biden is just meet ‘n’ greet.
    I at times think that he was selected as the meet ‘n’ greet man**.
    **one reason being that he had been willing to corrupt himself and his family in the Ukraine context – years ago. – For a bundle of reasons (lots of them rather ugly).

  20. Anon[286] • Disclaimer says:

    Josep Borrell, the plain-speaking Spaniard ……Who spent summers on a kibbutz

    ( fixed for you )

    • Agree: Anonymousrgc
  21. maskazer says:

    In about two years time Joseph Borrell has been transformed from a flag bearer of the European standards into a run of the mill philosopher and humanist all due to the ongoing Russian victories against NATO in Ukraine. In reality, he’s just another opportunistic technocrat trying to line his own pockets as circumstances change.

    • Agree: Arthur MacBride
  22. Thank you for an excellent review/analysis, Patrick Lawrence.
    Surrendering the now ludicrous idea of moral superiority has to be primary, and sitting down with other nations in equal status.
    Europe can more easily do this than USA. But for us to do it, the zio-masonic “leaders” have to go. Micron, Ursula fond of Lying etc. incl Borrel. They are all compromised in support for judeo America.
    This has been/is a disaster for our Continent, and many of us hope for a working relationship with BRICS especially Russia.

    Thanks for a positive mention of JFK, the last American President.
    Btw the Reich was beneficial for its people before being destroyed by judeo masonic power. National Socialism can be validly adapted today.

    Hoping to see more essays from you.

    • Agree: maskazer, HdC, JR Foley
  23. Shably says:

    He was a typical usa-ian buffoon; the us empire was a pile of shit.

    Why america Failed by Morris Berman.

  24. Anon[334] • Disclaimer says:

    Well too bad for those who did not like Joe’s performance ! I enjoyed it very much.

    I remember the days when the circus came to town. The elephants, the freaks, the trapeze artists, trick monkeys. There was even one where a dude rode a motorbike round and round a huge barrel until he was circling close to the top. I particularly liked the seals.

    Unfortunately my Papa had to stump up the dollars for all this plus the sodas, pop corn etc. I enjoyed Joe’s speech particularly the trained seals who rose and clapped their flippers every time the ring master shouted. All the other ingredients were there.

    Although there was no trick biker, Joe went round and round the barrel the same way. AND, I got to see all the freaks and monkeys for free.

    Nothing like crashing the circus ! Who could complain ! You cannot go to the circus and expect the ring master to whisper !

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  25. @NotAnonymousHere

    Agree.

    And the best part:

    “Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the [sic] humankind has been able to build—the three things together.

    The rest of the world is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.”

    he ruins with his followup:

    “Borrell quickly apologized for his remarks…”

    Dang! And I was just beginning to hope.

  26. Anon[334] • Disclaimer says:
    @22pp22

    Alot of Westerners forget that the Chinese and Indians have their own deeply rooted sense of superiority.

    You are right. However I must also add that every race feels superior. If you ever travel to Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa you will find that even an unemployed Zulu with an elementary education feels himself vastly superior to any White Man with a Harvard education. A Japanese man feels superior to any Chinaman and visa versa.

    I once spent a year among the Xavante tribe in Brazil. My “superiority” was soon demolished. Could I make a fire without matches ? Could I climb a 90 foot tree ? Could I build a house ? Could I walk 40 miles over blistering savannah with a 60 pound animal on my back ?

    “You are just a boy”, I was told. I was laughed at and mocked until I came up to speed !

    However to your point. Every race feels superior to every other race. It amazes me that that the woke crowd has persuaded whites they are somehow inferior and should be ashamed. In my experience so far, no one can convince any other race that they are inferior.

    I dont blame the woke salesmen for selling this drivel. I blame the whites who buy into this shit.

    • Agree: Commentator Mike
    • Replies: @ThreeCranes
  27. tyrone says:
    @Observator

    typical for someone taking Adderall or any amphetamine,

    What we used to call a speed freak……burning question: is he allowed near “the button”?

    • Agree: John Trout
    • Replies: @Lurker
  28. werpor says:
    @Observator

    Of course! Biden’s handlers are our handlers too! He surely ought to be given an Academy Award for his performance. Orson Wells could not have done better. Best Picture should go to the Zionist World Syndicate — an incredible production, one has to admit. The world truly is a stage!

    Biden was a little stiff in the role — suggesting Holly wood animatronics still has some work to do. The hand gestures were remarkably well synchronized I thought. Still. …The billions the DC academy spent on production means the show is ready to go on the road. Beltway Productions mined every performance going back at least to President Wilson — was there a trope you never heard before? No!

    I loved the choreography — both the entrance processional performance and the post speech clutch could not have been better. Hair and makeup — yowser! Every wig perfectly coiffed. Every foundation garment fitted to perfection — every imperfection perfectly camouflaged, perfectly concealing, impermanently altering the wearers body shape; virtually melting the years away. Wardrobe and makeup captured the late 20th Century’s false front political decadence at its climax.

    Really! The inimical ‘let them eat cake moment.’ Joe Biden’s performance perfectly caricatured a man oblivious and indifferent — given the events he presumed to effect; a world he had no capacity to comprehend — his insouciant reflexes could not have been better portrayed.

    Joe Biden’s World — what a performance! His world in complete disarray, he contrived by every nuance to convey otherwise. There are no homeless people in Joe’s World. There is no graft, collusion, grift or grifters, no bribery or collusion, no drug addled masses, no mind altered zombies, no senseless support for genocide, no tolerance for peace, no fixed elections — no false front America.

    The real State of the Union was never mentioned.

    • Agree: Bro43rd
    • Thanks: JWalters, Z-man
    • Replies: @ThreeCranes
  29. Yes, the Old Man was shouting from the podium and no, he didn’t impress many independent minded people in whatever he was selling. But his puppeteers aren’t any different from those of the red-headed bully down in the Florida swamp turned resort. And at 129% debt to GDP ratio is high but to compare it to those of Sierra Leon and China et al is a folly, for they’re not as large in terms of excess food production, minerals etc. Most of all we’re not crowded like a sardine can which is why everyone from China and Africa wants to come here. Let’s not compare apples to oranges and say they’re both fruits to confuse people.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  30. anastasia says:

    Giving Ukraine a loan is like the banks before 2008 giving mortgages to people who they knew could not pay it back, if the variable rate went up 1/2 percent point. I saw a guy on the telephone negotiating a loan with a bank for almost one million dollars. He had holes in his shoes and was dressed in a dirty shirt. It was during business hours when he should have been working, but wasn’t.

    That and so much more of what I was observing about people getting mortgages, caused me to ask a banker once “why are you giving loans to people who probably can’t pay it back if the variable rate goes up 1/2 point, and maybe can’t even pay it back at the rate you gave them.” He answered me, “because there is plenty of money.”

    What kind of reputable mortgage loan officer would give people like this a mortgage?

    Fr. William Fahey said in 1948 that eventually there would be only a few banks, and they were going to own most of the private property in the world.

    After 2008, I had wondered how much private property the banks owned. Many banks went bankrupt after 2008; some were bailed out. How fewer were left standing?

  31. There is no genocide in Gaza, there is payback for the never ending attacks on Israel for years. Solutions have been offered, a government of Hamas was elected to run Gaza and they continued to plan war against Israel. Hamas spent millions of dollars thst were meant for the civilians and spent it on bunkers, tunnels, rockets and weapons of war to attack Israel. How many times does Israel have to accept or expect attacks from the “peaceful” innocent people of Gaza? What’s going on is not genocide it’s roach control.

  32. Z-man says:

    It’s amazing sleepy, corrupt, Genocide Joe is still in office. Hell, it still amazes me that he was elected, even if he had all his faculties. He was the face of ‘the Swamp’ in DC for decades. Trump’s performance the last year and the manufactured PANDEMIC helped. Counting fake votes in 5 or 6 inner cities also helped.
    The funny thing is he and his handlers (and doctors) are still better than Kamalawala Harris. Bizzarro World, no?
    I’m hoping Donald comes back and gives sleepy Joe a beating in November. This will hasten the Second Coming, God willing. But, watching Donny a little, in his rallies, he hasn’t been that impressive. Maybe he’s starting to get dementia also. What a world!
    And I’ll be vilified for hoping for Jesus Christ’s return. Think again heathens.

    PS.Biden’s wife should be arrested for elder abuse even though genocide Joe deserves it.

  33. Nat X says:

    Old ass yts have fucked this country up! Don’t worry though incels; after Black Crom counts the dead us dindoos gonna fix amerikka.

    • Replies: @AKINDLE
    , @TWS
  34. AZTK21 says:

    Wait, you doubt America’s moral superiority, enforced with endless wars and sanctions and invasions and lies and backstabbing and murder of foreign leaders?

    HOW DARE YOU!

  35. Agent76 says:

    Mar 8, 2024 Biden Calls Laken Riley’s Killer “Illegal” As Donald Trump Slams SOTU Speech As “Worst Ever”

    US President Joe Biden sparked controversy during his State of the Union address on March 7, when he referenced the death of a Georgia nursing student. Appearing to go off script, President Joe Biden sparred with Republican hecklers during the State of the Union. Biden referenced the death of student Laken Riley and described the Venezuelan man accused of killing her as an “illegal”.

    Video Link

    Feb 10, 2024 Joe Biden makes ‘number of gaffes’ during nationwide address

    Sky News host James Morrow says the White House is “running for cover” after US President Joe Biden made a “number of gaffes” following his nationwide address.


    Video Link

  36. In his critique of Biden’s SOTU speech Lawrence cites Vasco de Gama but refuses to mention jews. Standard American journalistic double talk and cowardice.

  37. lavoisier says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    Don Quixote is an order of magnitude smarter–and nobler–than Joe Biden.

    • Agree: Notsofast
  38. Panadechi says:

    Russia and China are the two big stones in the shoe of the Anglo-Zionist globalist beast.

  39. @Solutions

    No, it will likely be terrifyingly violent and involve widespread prolonged poverty, fear, and then totalitarian control for those of us still on the territory of the current USA.

    Buy a home abroad ASAP. Get the kids or grandkids learning Spanish and if possible a third language to the point of proficiency, then fluency.

    Start moving savings out of the dollar and out of US banks now.

    A man can stay in the USA and go down with the ship if he makes that choice for himself. But should he force his children to stay and suffer, even be assaulted or killed, or starve?

  40. NotAnonymousHere [AKA "Anonymous.com"] says:
    @dixonsyder

    #31 dixonsyder says:Next New Comment
    March 14, 2024 at 12:58 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago • 100 Words ↑
    There is no genocide in Gaza, there is payback for the never ending attacks on Israel for years.

    Payback for the United Nations backed, never ending cum soaked invasion of European zionists and, as in their Scriptures their slaughter of the actual inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and now the Palestinians.

    The real question is what did Hamas think would happen? They drove down MLK Avenue with their polo shirt collars popped blasting Duran Duran looking to score some H. Arabs are idiots and apparently suck at war. I won’t go so far as to call them effete, but if the esshoe fits… Do you ‘member that the Ottomans? I ‘member. Do you ‘member? ‘Member Berries, we need ’em now more than ever. Where was I? Oh yes, the point is that the Ottomans who ran one of our top-notch empires were Turks, not stupid Beverly Hillbillies of the sand.

    “O’Henry. That’s one of our top selling candybars. It’s got chocolate, peanuts, nugat. It’s delicious, scrumptious, outstanding!”

    People make a big deal about Abraham Riley’s subhuman murderer being “an illegal”. True, he came here illegally but being from Venezuela he was allowed to stay here legally due to the policies/programs of … wait for it America …. President Joe “Shit For Brains” Biden.

    Let me drive that point home. Joe Biden is responsible for Abraham Riley’s murder.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  41. @Carlton Meyer

    I have no doubt this will be used to evacuate sickly (starving) Gazans who will be flown into American cities. We won’t know until cities complain about the tens of thousands of Palestinian “refugees” dumped off by ICE.

    Once Gaza and the West Bank are ethnically cleansed of millions of Arabs, Netanyahu will be a hero in Israel and Biden praised for this “peace deal”.

    I don’t know if all that is true… But you are starting to think like the Jews that run the Biden administration. Jews aren’t feeling quilty… They aren’t trying to save Palestinian babies. No, they are thinking they need an even greater sham-scam to get them out of this. E.G: What’s the solution to the intifada? Build a massive apartheid wall and charge it to American tax payers.

  42. JFYI
    The Achievements of IDF.
    “Best Army in the World” say Fagan and Shylock, military consultants.

    🇺🇲🇮🇷🇮🇱 The United States and Iran almost simultaneously made statements that the IDF’s actions in the Gaza Strip were completely ineffective from a military point of view.

    No one thought that after 140 days of fighting in Gaza, Israel would be able to kill only less than 35% of Hamas fighters, and there is a lesson to be learned from this situation (c) Chairman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

    Somewhat earlier, Ayatollah Khamenei said that, according to his data, Hamas was able to retain up to 90% of its military potential.
    In fact, both assessments indicate the inability of the IDF to achieve its political goals of destroying Hamas, despite internal Israeli propaganda.

    The IDF’s inability to solve problems in Gaza is pushing Netanyahu and his circle to escalate in Lebanon in order to prolong the war with all their might. It is obvious that after the ceasefire, Netanyahu and others from the current government will very quickly lose power, so war is their only way to retain this power.

    Future of the shitty little country.

    Yemeni armed forces have successfully tested a hypersonic missile with high destructive capability, amid escalating tensions over the targeting of Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea.

    The missile can reach speeds of up to Mach 8 (6,200 miles per hour) and is powered by solid fuel, an unnamed military source told Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Thursday.

    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/14/721864/Yemen-armed-forces-test-hypersonic-missile-attack-targets-Red-Sea-Israel-Palestine-Gaza-war

    “A regime that does not value international humanitarian organizations and their missions and services, and even the lives of their employees, and has killed about 9,000 Palestinian women and 12,500 children in the last five months, does not have the qualification to be a member or remain in any of the human rights associations and international mechanisms related to the rights of women and children.”

    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/14/721875/Iran–Israel-not-qualified-for-membership-in-any-intl--mechanism-

  43. Bill H. says:
    @smetana

    The media and academia are stenographers, writing what they are told by the oligarchs to write.

    • Agree: Anonymousrgc
  44. Lurker says:
    @tyrone

    Doubtful. Probably someone else changes TV channels for him.

    • Replies: @tyrone
  45. Jews

    • Thanks: Agent76
  46. @Anon

    “I dont blame the woke salesmen for selling this drivel. I blame the whites who buy into this shit.”

    Yup.

  47. Lurker says:
    @dixonsyder

    How many times does Israel have to accept or expect attacks

    Until its wiped off the face the Earth ideally. Any survivors can be shipped to Siberia.

    • Replies: @neutral
    , @RadicalCenter
  48. AKINDLE says:
    @Nat X

    Yeah, Old ass yts fucked up by paying negroes to breed and importing more like you

  49. @dixonsyder

    There is genocide in Gaza. Eastern European thieves and murderers are murdering Palestinians and stealing their land and property.

    • Agree: Cloverleaf, JR Foley
  50. ld says:

    here’s a new idea ole joe…
    scape zionism off your jackboot

  51. Dr. Rock says:

    Great essay and a wonderful piece of writing in general.

    “The West” has lost it’s mojo! We are stuck in the past, and by extension, mired in “the now”. With no vision of the future except to try, desperately, to maintain the status quo. But history won’t tolerate complacency! “Static” is not the natural state. Sure, in the longer lens of history, a few decades can pass by without great change, and they have and we are now at the end of that period of stasis.

    The world is changing, now faster than ever, and we (the collective West with our ZOG emperors) are clod down with feet of stone.

    You know what we are? We’re some aging rock band, still touring on the music of our young and vibrant days, played on repeat, but the bright lights blind us to the reality that our audience is no longer screaming fans of vibrant teenagers, but instead, a bunch of geriatrics, tapping their feet to the groovy tunes of yesteryear. We haven’t put out a new album in 5 decades, and we wonder why nobody is buying our greatest hits anymore.

    We’re the fucking Rolling Stones! “Hey people, here’s a hot little number you might remember from our 1965 record, Time Is On My Side, so grab your girl, and jump and shout as we introduce you to some rock and roll!”

    Seriously, it’s geriatric, stale, coffee table dogshit, on endless repeat!

    We have no leaders, no vision, no grand ideas nor a path to the future. We’re just trotting out the same old garbage, year after year.

    Example: Did Biden talk about a 10 year plan? 5? 2? NOPE! Nothing! We’re just living “one day at a time” like recovering alcoholics! “I just gotta make it thru today without drinking and further destroying my life…”

    We’re like a football team that built up a big lead in the first half, and now, we are just playing “not to lose”, instead of trying to win. We just run it right up the middle on every down, gain a couple of yards, punt the ball away, and hope our defense can keep the other team at bay, while we plan our next series of downs; Run it right up the middle again.

    These failed wars, this anemic economy, these empty social initiatives… this stupid country has done anything “new” or exciting in decades. NASA, the last hope for anything, eventually collapsed into worrying about the fucking weather, and farmed-out the space race to the private sector, because they couldn’t get out of their own way. Now, half the country believes we never even went to the moon, because the current incompetence, belies any accounts of past greatness.

    Worse still, we have intentionally mired ourselves in so much contemporary sludge, that every mind with potential, is too concerned with getting us out of our endless swamp, to think anything of tomorrow, much less next year, or the next decade.

    We, the collective West, don’t even talk about “the future” anymore, and maybe that’s precisely because we know that “we” don’t have one. Everything in our world is just the day to day struggle to survive the garbage heap we’ve buried ourselves in, and how to make it for just one more minute.

    Our government budget is a perfect metaphor- We don’t have a budget, we just live from paycheck (CR) to paycheck. And every time we run out of money, we get a new credit card, so we can charge it up to it’s limit, and then start another, and another, and another…

    We often wonder why we are losing. It’s because the rest of the world is looking to the future, and planning, and laying groundwork, and pouring the foundation… and we’re just wondering why we can’t fix the fucking roads, or have cities without homeless niggers every three feet, or drug addicts, or insane faggots, or non English speaking 80 IQ third world mutts every where.

    Basically, we royally fucked ourselves, and there is no path forward, just an endless downhill slide into complete collapse, and this is the part of the flight when the stewardess tells you to put your head between your knees, and brace for impact.

    This plane is in an uncontrolled descent, with no thrust, no controls, and no airfield on the horizon. We are fucking doomed, and just like passengers in a plane, there isn’t one goddamned thing we can do to stop it; Just hope that we either die instantly, or somehow survive the metal grinding impact, and get thrown clear of the fireball and wreckage.

  52. neutral says:
    @Lurker

    No, there can be no survivors, all jews must die, why should the future generations have to suffer from these abominations?

    • Disagree: RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @Sarita
    , @RadicalCenter
  53. TWS says:
    @Nat X

    One ‘Tiny Duck/Ebony Obelisk” is enough. You’re not bringing anything more to the party.

  54. @22pp22

    Same here. Apparently, one must learn the secret handshake before one is even allowed to ‘agree’ with a comment, much less post one’s own comment without sitting in “moderation” for hours. Heck, it’s easier sneaking a peek inside Skull and Bones than it is commiserating with the cognoscenti here at Unz.

    So, alas, do I concur with your concurrence with respect to the above O.P. blah blah blah.

    • Replies: @ThreeCranes
  55. Sarita says:
    @neutral

    “all jews must die”
    Not necessarily, if they are so smart they should build a place in the moon 🌙 instead of dreaming of stealing a fucking desert like Sinai, Gaza or Saudi Arabia to start the so called “Greater Israel”.
    Scavenging SOBs

    😂

  56. chris says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    The emperor has no brain!

    (nor soul, for that matter)

  57. “American Empire”? What empire? Where is it? Out the back door across the alley? Do American presidents talking about “empire” discomfit you as well as me?

  58. tyrone says:
    @Lurker

    Probably someone else changes TV channels for him.

    Oh, great, maybe I will sleep better tonight…….of course I was thinking of a different button …..or is it a football.

    • Agree: Lurker
  59. Hadrian says:

    The competence crisis and lack of buy-in to American institutions like the military will cause American power to shrink (in relative terms if not absolute) over this century. The only lingering question is whether America will be stupid enough to believe their own propaganda and engage in open warfare over something like Taiwan or Ukraine.

  60. Joe Biden is a treasonous Geezer Puppet Rat politician whore for the evil and demonic JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire.

    The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire is using mass immigration as a demographic weapon to attack and destroy the WHITE EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN ANCESTRAL CORE of the United States of America and all other nations under the sway of the American Empire.

    Sam Francis On White Genetic Endowments As The Civilizational Core Of The West(1994):

    The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people, nor is there any reason to believe that the civilization can be successfully transmitted to a different people. If the people or race who created and sustained the civilization of the West should die, then the civilization also will die.

    A merely cultural consciousness, then, that emphasizes only social and cultural factors as the roots of our civilization is not enough, because a merely cultural consciousness will not by itself conserve the race and people that were necessary for the creation of the culture and who remain necessary for its survival. We need not only to understand the role of race in creating our civilization but also to incorporate that understanding in our defense of our civilization. Until we do so, we can expect only to keep on losing the war we are in . . .

    https://www.amren.com/news/2011/02/sam_francis_in/

  61. Madbadger says:
    @smetana

    You must be confusing intellectual elites with those who have the power to control the universities and the media. On the other hand you might just be a troll trying to misdirect and confuse. We do not have a media controlled state. The media is out in the open and public with everything. Those who have the real power and control are not even mentioned in the mainstream media. Many but not all of them wear small hats and are loyal to Israel. They control the universities, the media, the banks, Big pharma, and most of all the government.

  62. TKK says:
    @Ghali

    Working class White deaths in service of more brown people?

    No wonder Whites are doomed.

    You are a traitor to Whites. You are the reason America is doomed. The Sand Box is a death trap.

    No White person should be involved.

    • Disagree: RadicalCenter
  63. chris says:

    As to Ukraine, it is merely the latest in a long line of conflicts waged, like money-laundering schemes, to benefit the military-industrial complex.

    Capital, to finish the thought, drives our bus.

    Let’s not forget the white elephant driving that bus! If Gaza has made one thing clear it’s who is in the driver’s seat of that bus.

    It’s a little too simplistic to focus on the most visible beneficiaries and ignore the primary movers of the entire policies of the West.

    In its complicity in the genocide perpetrated by Israel, the West has scuttled all of the values it had sanctimoniously paraded over the last century. So let’s not misidentify the the bus driver as Ralf Kramden.

    Russia, the possessor of the largest amount of natural resources in the world, is not by coincidence the chief target of neocon focus. To claim that this is only about selling weapons, is to willfully miss the forest for the trees.

  64. @Proteus Procrustes

    Many parts of the USA are quickly becoming overcrowded or are already — at least if you like things like adequate water supplies, adequate fish stocks, forests, open space, quiet, relatively clean air, and efficient non-stressful rides to work, shopping, and everything else.

    Vast stretches of that sparsely populated US territory that you tout, are miserably cold, such as Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana. This is not just a matter of comfort or preference: as energy prices rise, more and more families will find it hard to afford proper heating for their homes and businesses in those places.

    Tell people in California, the Northeast and midAtlantic regions, coastal Florida, and dozens of cities elsewhere that the USA isn’t crowded.

    Being less miserable, noisy and polluted than horrible sardine-human places like China, India, Pakistan and Egypt isn’t much consolation.

    We deserve better and can do much better. But only by imprisoning then deporting tens of millions of illegal aliens, and imposing a moratorium on mass immigration for decades.

    …….

    You refer to excess food production in the USA. And?

    How does this help working Americans who are increasingly struggling to pay for groceries?

    Are there laws reserving enough of that abundant food first for US citizens to ensure that prices go down?

    • Replies: @Dave Bowman
  65. George Galloway calls out Israeli interference in US elections today on Rick Sanchez’s RT show!
    Must see. BASED

    https://www.rt.com/shows/direct-impact/594190-galloway-victory-future-gaza/

    • Thanks: JR Foley
  66. It’s impressive that an island off the coast of a peninsula(Europe) of the Eurasian land mass managed to create the English Empire.

    The Angles, Danes, Saxons, Scandinavians, Celts and other Island People kept expanding their reach till they damn near had the Oceans and the major important global coastal points all to themselves.

    The Dutch, the French, the Spaniards and the Swedes had their moments too.

    But now the Chinese and the Russians and some of the others are starting to reconsider the hegemonic horseshit pushed by geezer rat puppet whore Joe Biden and the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire.

    CHINKS KNOW AMERICAN EMPIRE/NATO UKRAINE PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSKIES IS PART OF IMPERIAL ANGLO-SAXON WATER NIGGER PLANS TO CONTROL THE WORLD ISLAND OF EURASIA

    The Chinks are right that NATO is an instigator and a tool the American Empire globalizer plutocrats use to try to keep control of the World Island or Eurasia. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire controls NATO.

    The Russkies responded to the Ukraine Proxy Weapon aggression of the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire by using military force.

    The Russkies know history. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire has pulled the proxy weapon stunt numerous times on the Russkies. In the 1890s and the early part of 20th century the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire was using the Japanese as a proxy weapon to poke the Russian bear. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire cooked up some crud about a “Slav Menace” and they nudged the Nips towards war with Russia.

    Back then the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire was wary of Russkies flowing down the Chinese coast out of the north and they used the Nips to halt the Russkies.

    Now it’s about oil and natural gas and keeping the Germans down and the Russkies down and the US military in.

    Let the Krauts have a nuke deterrent; get the US military out of Europe; and be done with it.

    Let the Nips have a nuke deterrent; get the US military out of Asia; and be done with it.

    Italians should get a spaghetti nuke and the Australians should get a Foster’s Lager nuke, too.

    ABOLISH NATO NOW

  67. @NotAnonymousHere

    The Palestinians are effete? Who the fuck are you kidding. Most westerners, including you and me, would have a hard time to keep going while being starved, bombed, tortured and left with nothing but corpses of our children and parents and siblings and neighbors.

    Same for most “israelis”, as we’ll eventually get to see.

    Those effete Palestinians would make short work of you and I’d love to see it, in sha Allah.

    • Agree: Bruce In Texas, JR Foley
  68. @Lurker

    Yes, with this caveat: anyone who helped inflict the torture, carpet bombing, and agonizing starvation of Palestinians as members of the “idf” or “iaf” must be charged with war crimes, convicted and lawfully executed.

    Since we are not vicious savages like most “israelis” and their supporting diaspora:

    — the executions should be quick and painless

    and

    — no “israelis” under age 18 should be harmed or punished

  69. NotAnonymousHere [AKA "Anonymous.com"] says:
    @Dr. Rock

    Sounds like you could use several rounds of drinks from your favorite imaginary pre-law stripper waitress!

    • Replies: @Dr. Rock
  70. JWalters says:
    @Observator

    I once had a friend who had dementia. He could not carry on a normal conversation. He could come up with a good short answer to a question, but only after a long delay.

    One day I gave him a magazine article on a topic of interest to him. To my astonishment he read the article aloud with perfect pacing, perfect tonal fluctuations, and perfect emotional contours. Just listening to him read the article I would never have imagined he had any sort of cognitive impairment.

    But there is no way he could have handled the amount of information that would come across a president’s desk daily. And the top people in most organizations only get the most difficult decisions; easier decisions are made by subordinates.

    Biden demonstrated that he could read a speech, and slur his words forcefully. Biden’s incapacity makes him a perfect puppet for the Jewish Mafia.

    • Agree: cousin lucky
  71. @Observator

    OBSERVATOR, Drugs destroy cultures, legal or illegal. They destroy people. People don’t even know what drugs are or why they “seem” to work. They don’t understand the difference between drugs and medicine. They were used (opium) against China long ago. They are being used against the USA currently. We are all on the bus. What if????? What if there is not just no one driving, but it is being driven by an automaton killing machine? The chances of surviving diminish. Time to get on a better bus and turn the country around. Join the human race.

  72. Dr. Rock says:
    @NotAnonymousHere

    Ha ha, well, it couldn’t hurt!

    Cheers!

  73. A number of western neolib scumbags have been spending their time lately trying to shore up confidence in the western world. Guys like Paul Krugman or Will Stancil. It’s a case of “protesting too much.” The defensiveness is itself a sign of decline. Healthy societies don’t need propagandists constantly reassuring people how healthy they are because in a truly healthy society it is just manifest for everyone to see. On a deeper level, they are really trying to convince themselves and their colleagues in the managerial caste, to police then and maintain ideological uniformity so as to prevent defections from the party line.

    • Agree: Bruce In Texas
  74. @Dr. Rock

    I actually enjoy it when a man stands up on the tables and bellows at the moon. We all do. Thanks. It puts hope in all of us. “If he can fricking do that, then maybe we’re not doomed after all. And if we are, we’ll go down defiantly!”

  75. @David Bartlett

    To get around it, post a comment—it can be on word e.g. “comment”—and then hit the edit button. Delete the comment, confirm the deletion. Now you’ll find that your buttons are activated. Whenever you hit the Safari “Clear History” command (or Microsoft equivalent?) you lose your status in Unz as having commented, so your use of buttons is wiped clean.

  76. jobiden, this is his name JOBIDEN. The only puppet where you can see the cable running through.

    Are there s till people watching this clown?

    32 millions? That makes 10% of completely lobotomized morons. I guess they are the ones waving Ukie flags, getting covid booster every 6 months, still wearing face diapers and supporting the zionist nazis.

    It’s less than 10% of the US population.

    Thank God, we have better things to do than listening to an old pedophile whose mouth serves as a megaphone for Obama’s ass eructations.

    What jobiden’s pimps wanted to tell you by ‘new ideas’ is that the great reset/agenda 2030 needs new ideas like destroy the USA, remove borders, change religion to satanism, legalize pedophilia and replace the white population among other evils.

    In November i will not vote jobiden nor Trump, I will vote for Bobby Kennedy Jr., at least he fought against the covid cabal and calls for bringing the boys back home.

  77. Speaker Johnson should have torn the speech in half and tossed it at Biden, after all there is precedent.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  78. Very sad but very true!

    Why the United States Is Not a Democracy and Can Not Be Reformed by Richard Hubert Barton!

    https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/14/why-us-not-democracy-cant-be-reformed/

    In its decisions like Buckley versus Valeo and Citizens United versus FEC, the Supreme Court stated that political donations and spending on lobbying were a form of free speech and therefore constitutionally protected. What a clever way of giving too much power to the very rich! In practice, one can hardly see any checks and balances.

    • Agree: HdC
  79. @anonymous

    They have to keep on telling lies to us and to themselves. If they stop; their world ( the bubble that they exist within ) busts and crumbles.

    Our country is full of freaks addicted to their fantasies; if you take them out of their coma they will cease to exist!

  80. @Dr. Rock

    Thanks for that; it is really sad that we are swirling down the toilet to hell.

  81. I’m afraid this article is just a meandering and unthoughtful quasi-Joe Biden. Just a lot of gobblygook IMO.

    Where is the elephant in the room? Biden is a nothingburger, a dried-up bitter old man wanting to be relevant. Little does he know, at the moment he is nothing more than a used condom! Thats the sideshow unfortunately and its quite entertaining to many. I don’t have enough fingers to count the number of distractions in a day.

    Its the rank in file zionist and their blackmailed cronies who have other plans for this country and the people. That’s worth more than anything a Biden could conjure up. Americans really do not know or understand evil, raw bolshevism evil. And its not looking too good for you and I unless…

    They, the evil fcks who need their throats ripped out to stop them from lying and deceiving, have just killed and maimed millions around our world and the only weapon was a needle. Of course stupidity and passivity demonstrated (and predicted) by many of us made it oh so easy for this genocide.

    There are only a few solutions my friend. Its the lies, the deception and the fraud. How can one not be enraged to the point of exacting a final solution?

  82. @TKK

    Working class White deaths in service of more brown people?

    Working class Whites are in service to their own demise and not by choice.

    Democrats to working class Whites: Your crass racism must be the reason our why our protected races have problems. We should replace you with kind third worlders that will create a new utopia. If it doesn’t work then we’ll blame you again and bring in even more. Oh and one more thing…f-ck you.

    Republicans to working class Whites: Doing anything to help you would be socialism. We must serve our corporate overlords. Looks like we need laborers so I guess we will look the other way on the border for a few years. You know what we’ll just move the factory to China anyways. Oh and one more thing… f-ck you.

    Working class Whites pretty much have to choose their form of rape. All fours or on your back? You have choices.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  83. @Anonymousrgc

    Speaker Johnson should have torn the speech in half and tossed it at Biden, after all there is precedent.

    Over what exactly?

    Speaker Johnson wants to send Israel a check for 14.5 billion dollars while the world (including US citizens) wants a ceasefire and an end to the ridiculous aid blockade.

    It’s currently the only legislation where he will allow an up or down vote.

    He is stalling on Ukraine support which is why a coalition of Democrats and Republicans are trying to go around him. He doesn’t want to hold a vote.

    Speaker Johnson supposedly talks to God and that is how he reaches these decisions. Not kidding, just search for his interviews on youtube.

  84. Anonymous[587] • Disclaimer says:

    Get your eyes on the WESTERN CENTRAL BANK OPERATION owned and operated by the most wealthy zionist pigs who have ever pillaged the planet.

    Biden is but one more in a LONG LONG LONG list of TREASONOUS SHABBOS GOY who do the bidding of their masters to drag this country, screaming and kicking into the DUMPSTER OF HISTORY.

    Focus instead on the GLORY & POWER of those who ascribe to the ROTHCHILD’S dictum….

    “Give us control of a nation’s money, and we care not who makes the laws”.

    YOU are doomed, goy.
    Blind and dumb, waiting for the slaughter.

    YOUR slaughter.

    Shalom.

    • LOL: Anonymousrgc
  85. Sarita says:
    @dixonsyder

    Hush hush go away zionist witch!

    • Thanks: RadicalCenter
  86. XinXengo says:

    He meant — The American Empire… woud be sinking… (“If I will be re-elected”).

  87. A Fan says:
    @Anon

    Good God! A well timed and well needed comic relief. Thank thee for such relief from the somberness of this insane and nonsense of the what we are seeing..

  88. Sarita says:

    This is a bit off topic but it’s important!
    I just read this at press tv:
    “Yemeni armed forces successfully test hypersonic missile with high destructive capability”.
    Oh man, 😱 if they get a nuke the whole Yaffo will be gone!
    I dunno, I feel this issue might get resolved before the upcoming American civil war.

  89. JR Foley says:
    @Observator

    Amtrak Joe was doing his pro wrestling ranting and raving –shouting and yelling like some possessed ringside announcer introducing —-The Undertaker —-Kamala ( the real one) –or perhaps Doink and Dink —the remainder of this shouting session was devoted to mundane matters ( his Attends were now leaking) etc etc Gong Show Rating C-. on Tik Tok.

  90. @neutral

    I understand your anger. But if we talk about murdering all people of a race or religion, we’re no better than the majority of “Israelis.”

    How about disarming and disbanding “israel”, then trying them under international law and lawfully executing everyone who worked in their military and police for murder, starvation, and other crimes against the Palestinian people? That will apply to hundreds of thousands of “israeli” butchers, perhaps more than a million.

    Unlike what they’re doing to the Palestinians, there must be no torture. The executions should be as quick and painless as possible.

    Above all, no “israeli” under age 18 should be punished or harmed. We are not genocidal evil people like their parents.

    • Agree: NeverTrustaWizard
    • Replies: @Abhuman
  91. @TKK

    It’s far too late for the IS to be “uninvolved” or neutral. This US regime helped to create, recognize, arm, aid and strengthen the mass-murderer, torturer and terrorist “israel.”

    Now the US vetoes resolutions even to condemn “israelis”, let alone hold them to account.

    The US parks its aircraft carriers and troops nearby to deter other peoples from rescuing the Palestinians from starvation and extermination.

    The US sends some of the weapons and shares technology used by “Israelis” to cage and now murder unarmed civilian Palestinian children and women and elderly by the tens of thousands.

    How convenient (and heartless) to say that we “shouldn’t be involved.” That horse left the barn decades ago.

    Pull our troops out of Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, etc. and close those bases. Deploy them instead to stop the genocide and destroy the “israeli” military in toto.

    You don’t need to be “brown” or Muslim to want “our” military to do good for a change — and try belatedly to make amends for our major role in this evil. I’m neither.

    You just need to be human.

    FREE PALESTINE
    DISARM AND DISBAND “israel”

    • Agree: Sarita, Bruce In Texas
  92. @John Johnson

    Excellent comment, JJ. But whites in the US thug forces are a different matter.

    Millions of amoral white Americans proudly VOLUNTEERED to murder for this regime in aggressive wars, thousands of miles from our border, against peoples who were not attacking us or about to attack us.

    There hasn’t been a single even arguably defensive war by the US in our lifetimes. White Americans who are not mentally retarded can see that. Yet they volunteer to murder, terrorize, mail, displace and further impoverish those people and their children anyway. They even buy books by people like sniper Chris Kyle boasting how many women, children and other innocent people they’ve murdered for pay, pension and accolades. I received one as a “Christmas present” from a (former) friend years ago. Sickening.

    White Americans who are still signing up to perpetrate this horror on innocent people, deserve what they get. They are no “racial brothers” or countrymen of mine.

    • Replies: @Abhuman
    , @John Johnson
  93. Abhuman says:
    @RadicalCenter

    How about no more killing, whether we think its justice or not. If we really want to do better than Israelis, we cannot permit any more violence, full stop, save in self-defence. I fully agree with the disarming and disbanding idea. Even mass sterilisation may have to be contemplated as a last resort, but for the time being I want to pursue a policy of openly declared cultural genocide. Jewish Israelis will have to renounce Jewish identity and be absorbed into surrounding populations. For this to work, they will have to be closely monitored to make sure that they aren’t continuing to network in the shadows.

  94. Abhuman says:
    @RadicalCenter

    I want to disagree, but I agree. I really don’t feel much kinship with the Breitbarters. I don’t like it their casual talk of violence and contempt for the lives of the enemy du jour. People on the “far right”, like myself are always being identified with murderousness (because Holocaust!), but the people on the mainstream right are always the ones actively involved in real murder. Doesn’t openly wishing that bombs be dropped on people count as being actively involved, even if you’re not one of the individuals actively doing the bombing? Yeah I doubt I would ever trust these people ever. People you cannot trust cannot be allowed freedom. Slavery is all they’re good for and they have become enslaved. I just wish that they weren’t dragging everyone else along with them.

  95. Sarita says:

    I really wish all whites were like Mel Gibson because he always says like it is regarding Jews and all the shit that happens in the ZOG governments.
    And he likes other races, he isn’t a racist.
    I just watched a movie about a jail in Mexico; shootings, gangs, corruption, etc and at the end he ends up with a pretty Mexican woman, speaking Spanish, drinking beer and enjoying a sunny beach.
    If all white men living in ZOG were like him, Jews would eat shit and disappear otherwise they would risk getting their asses smoked just the corrupt Mexican guards.

  96. @dixonsyder

    Really practised Orwellian truth inversion and projection. Like so many Zionazis this swine would have given Goebbels a run for his money. As their great, if embarrasing patron, Adolph H. recommended, when lying they tell a Big Lie (thousands in fact) to impress the stupid. Seven Big Lies, ending in TYPICAL Zionazi race hatred. Homo judaiensis, c.2024 BCE to the present.

  97. @James J. O'Meara

    Use your eyes, troll-that’s ‘citation’ enough.

  98. @RadicalCenter

    Excellent comment, JJ. But whites in the US thug forces are a different matter.

    Thanks and I guess that means you won’t call me a Jew today.

    Millions of amoral white Americans proudly VOLUNTEERED to murder for this regime in aggressive wars

    That’s not true. There hasn’t been a single desert war where servicemen were given a checkbox Yes or No if they wanted to go.

    But I fully support requiring that the acting president must have his son in a position of direct combat. It actually used to be considered a shame for a Western leader to not have his sons in the military. If you want to start a war then show us the importance by having your own children in it. No more wars where the sons of the poor are sacrificed while the sons of the wealthy not only flaunt their exemption but take part in degeneracy.

    White Americans who are still signing up to perpetrate this horror on innocent people, deserve what they get. They are no “racial brothers” or countrymen of mine.

    Well you certainly live in the same country.

    I snicker at White nationalism and White unity in America. I’ve had White men try to screw me over since around age 5. I had Gud Christian White relatives trying to take me down a notch in elementary school. Then I later had Gud Liberal Whites fill my head with lies. Working class Whites screwed me over the least. Poor Whites have some of the most honorable people you will ever meet.

    This country is filled to the brim with Gud Whites that want to control your mind and around 15-20% of White men would prostitute their wives for the newest truck or SUV. I will stick up for Whites and their contributions to the world but we have waaaaaay too many White men thinking they know it all and then get pissed when you point out how their religion or political view has problems.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  99. “There is no coming back from this for Israel and no coming back for the U.S. I would add there is no coming back for the West altogether. We are in consequence face to face with many realities from which most of us in the West have long flinched. This has many implications.”

    An ominous statement, and though I wish I could, I cannot disagree. But what will the consequences of US foreign and military policies be, how severe will they become, and how long will it take for them to be felt in ways that cannot be brushed off or denied?

    Everyday I wonder how much longer things can continue as they are …

  100. Stoll says:

    Maybe it’s just a cohencidence about Teva acquiring Duramed in 2008. Another manufacturer of Adderall’s chemical combination has been Takeda, which is providing the dengue fever vaccine to Brasil, following the GMO bug release there causing an outbreak.
    Japan was way into amphetamines during WWII.
    “Amphetamines, the quintessential drug of the modern industrial age, arrived relatively late in the history of mind-altering substances—commercialized just in time for mass consumption during World War II. In fact, the introduction of what is now Japan’s most popular illegal drug began as a result of the state promoting its use during the war.”
    A fleabag like Biden was probably hyped up like a Kamikaze pilot to go on a mission bombing Gaza, Ukraine, and his own borders.
    Japanese called the war stimulants “senryoku zokyo zai” or “drug to inspire the fighting spirits.”
    Orwell missed the role of amphetamines in modern history but he got the backstory right-
    “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects …”

  101. @John Johnson

    They volunteered to join, knowing full well they they must obey “orders” or be imprisoned and possibly executed. No excuses.

    As for “you live in the same country”, you know or should know that i meant i do not trust or respect them or feel part of the same community of decent, loyal, fundamentally likeminded people.

    And in any event, we now live part of the year outside the USA — and are taking steps to make that more and more of each year.

    As for calling you a Jew, where did I do that? I comment here a lot, perhaps I’m forgetting one.

    Your last point accurately describes my experience with both white men and more so “conservative” and “christian” white American women. No longer much in touch with my own brother, a sister who won’t even respond to me and my wife or even our children, and two supposed friends because they expect to attack us personally while getting nasty as Hell and sarcastic and unfair if we dare ask for logic, evidence or the slightest attempt at objectivity from them. With exceptions, most of them know little about the issues that they’re surest about — such as Palestine and “the ukraine” and even the text of their own bibles —and get the most insulting when asked to discuss and justify their views.

  102. @RadicalCenter

    Bravo !! A completely brilliant comment – Thank you so much ! Jesus ! I never thought the human race would be crying out this badly for a dose of simple sanity ! Thank you for “keeping it real”.

    Best of all was…

    We deserve better and can do much better. But only by imprisoning then deporting tens of millions of illegal aliens, and imposing a moratorium on mass immigration for decades.

    Please God, come to the UK and tell the spineless, traitorous, Jew-scared multi-culti bastards in Parliament that this is what we need to do also. If they won’t, the people themselves eventually will – and it won’t be pretty.

  103. @dixonsyder

    Before you argue with a Zionists

    Give it up Zionists, you lost, the gazacide is the beginning of the end of Israel. You’re not going to gaslight, bluff and bullshit your way out of this when Israel officials are bragging about it.

    The other positive that came from this is that you lothsome zips exposed yourselves for the scum you are.

    And no, the Samson option isn’t going to save you even if you have nukes.

  104. @Solutions

    Can’t happen too son if there is any chance for the Western paradigm to survive.

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