Happy Pride Month 2024

[LexEtLibertas]

Once upon a time...a darling of Reason.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLiqWObu3k

Hi, Brian4Liberty. Here's the Hayek-themed song referenced in the above interview:

* "I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video)", DORIAN ELECTRA ( youtube.com/channel/UCsR4LtDt0kYyLwKT9cYyQbg ), Dec. 19, 2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20151001...?v=psosLpDALuA , https://web.archive.org/web/20240604...oe/u9ezvm.webm , https://www.freezepage.com/1717463693XMROVQNCZM .

[Anti Federalist]

At 9:00 in, you can hear the queeer Texas rep, who brought kids to this, express his opinion that the border needs to be more open.

https://x.com/i/status/1797735523253137620

[Brian4Liberty]

https://x.com/i/status/1797634875572523020

"Um, Israel is Islam, right?"

They have no clue. They're all just trend-seeking attention whores making a Soros buck.

Back in 2008 I camped at that campground the friend of a member set up on his farm, which was downstate an hour or so. If you'll remember, the RNC convention was happening too. Half the people camping were professional protesters.

Professional protesters. Probably paid, at least in part, by taxpayers like you and me. It's a full service government. It even protests itself for you.

These people vote. Probably has a corporate job where she makes important decisions...

[Anti Federalist]

[Voluntarist]

Gay frogs, in other words.

And all the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were female.

[ClaytonB]

[LexEtLibertas]

* "Q[]ueer Planet | Official Trailer | Peacock Original", Peacock ( youtube.com/@peacock ), May 16, 2024

Mirrors: https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/GikfSszcBHE , https://web.archive.org/web/20240604...moe/d5k60j.mp4 , https://www.freezepage.com/1717529437VAOXGIFRIO .

[jmdrake]

I'll start...

https://x.com/i/status/1797390814181720226

That's appropriate.



J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, out on the town in drag with his second-in-command, Clyde Tolson, 1940.

[oyarde]

And all the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were female.

LOL , explains all being killed and eaten

[Anti Federalist]

https://x.com/i/status/1798022324438138964

[Dr.3D]

[Anti Federalist]

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1798335225761837322

[Anti Federalist]

Fagggotry is sexualized Marxism.

[Anti Federalist]

Time, and the passage of it, is transphobic.

https://x.com/i/status/1798415044574867489

[Anti Federalist]

[jmdrake]

What countries on a war footing have their boys doing.



We will be overrun if it really comes down to it.

[Anti Federalist]

https://x.com/i/status/1798368671662018936

[Anti Federalist]

We will be overrun if it really comes down to it.

Without a doubt.

All this $#@! I'm doing, that any of us are doing, is just leaving footnotes to a future that does not care.

[ClaytonB]

Without a doubt.

All this $#@! I'm doing, that any of us are doing, is just leaving footnotes to a future that does not care.

Put down the black-pill and back away from it slowly...

It is evident that the wicked have seized power in an absolutely unprecedented fashion. As Jeff Tucker recently tweeted, the biggest and most important (and unanswered) question in the shadow of the COVID tyranny is how did they do it? That is, how did a bunch of mid-level bureaucrats suddenly have the power in 2020 to simply push a button and lock 330+ million Americans in their homes, overnight? That can't happen by some organic process arising out of piecemeal bureaucratic response to an apparent national emergency. There exists some mechanism which has been constructed on our soil, but out of sight of the American public, by which the bureaucracies of this country have a power that exceeds the capabilities of the US military in the sense that even the military couldn't lock down the whole country, overnight, short of cutting the power-grid, bombing interstate bridges, or something drastic like that. And given that this power exists, the question is: where was it born? Who created it? How long has it been alive? And why is this alien entity in our country? How do we dismantle it?

That we are talking about it puts us lightyears ahead of, say, a North Korean worker. It's not because they haven't tried to impose North Korean-level tyranny on US soil. That this was their objective with COVID is beyond all doubt. But they failed. And if they can fail, then they are not gods, no matter how narcissistic they are.

Wokism is an ideological nexus for the global Marxist power-grab that became apparent to many Americans during COVID. Pride is the "culture" of this hive of evil. But what "culture" is this?! It is not a culture at all, it is an anti-culture. And that's why Internet memers are able to take on the multi-trillion-dollar censorship-industrial complex. It is a gigantic house of cards, run by cowards and sodomites. The idea that these people control "the future" is the biggest and silliest black-pill of all. Nostalgia has its place, but too much nostalgia can blind a generation to the strength and resilience of their own children. Don't let the Wokists pull the wool over your eyes, and don't take the black-pill. Read the Book: WE WIN.

[fisharmor]

All this $#@! I'm doing, that any of us are doing, is just leaving footnotes to a future that does not care.

Put down the black-pill and back away from it slowly...

AF, that's not all you're doing.

I don't know what you learned during RP's runs for president. This is what I learned.

1) People are capable of waking up.
2) More people than we expect would wake up, actually wake up when they have the information.
3) It's now possible, in a way that has never existed before in history, for the newly awakened to find each other. And the ways to find each other keep increasing and morphing faster than the evil powers Clayton mentioned are capable of dealing with.
4) Revolutions are not won by a majority. They are won by an irate, tireless minority.

I don't know your history prior to 2008 or so. My history is that I used to be a statist, and I used to be fairly supportive of the gay agenda. Now I'm neither of those things. I have changed really radically in the last 15 years. It's possible. When you act like it's not possible, you're saying what happened with me, didn't happen.

Am I enough? Are the other "me"s enough? I don't know - but what I do know is, if you're ever in the DC area and need help, and you let me know, I'll help. And I expect the reverse is true if I was in New England. We're forming a network that didn't exist prior, and without those networks, we have a lot less of a leg to stand on when we're talking about smashing government networks.

Just last weekend I met a guy with nine kids (I think it's amazing how many families I know like that now) and let's be honest, if you have nine kids, y'aint got time for this trans $#@!... and we talked at length about how the hell he found a 15 passenger van these days, because lack of van availability is actually a very serious problem being caused by the deep state, and so passenger vans are the lowest priority for auto manufacturers.

That's what it's about. It's not about finding a way to smash everything that they've spent a century setting up. Well, it would be nice if it was, but it's not. It's about everyday interactions that make our lives better without using the state.

I didn't come back here after a long hiatus to talk black pills. I came back here because there's nothing positive on the big social media, and the people I enjoyed talking to on FB most were Pete and HeavenlyBoy, and since Pete passed, this is the place where I'm going to continue to create those connections.

And now, if I can avoid getting worked to death today, I'm gonna look into these decentralized networks I've been hearing about.

[Anti Federalist]

AF, that's not all you're doing.

I don't know what you learned during RP's runs for president. This is what I learned.

1) People are capable of waking up.
2) More people than we expect would wake up, actually wake up when they have the information.
3) It's now possible, in a way that has never existed before in history, for the newly awakened to find each other. And the ways to find each other keep increasing and morphing faster than the evil powers Clayton mentioned are capable of dealing with.
4) Revolutions are not won by a majority. They are won by an irate, tireless minority.

I don't know your history prior to 2008 or so. My history is that I used to be a statist, and I used to be fairly supportive of the gay agenda. Now I'm neither of those things. I have changed really radically in the last 15 years. It's possible. When you act like it's not possible, you're saying what happened with me, didn't happen.

Am I enough? Are the other "me"s enough? I don't know - but what I do know is, if you're ever in the DC area and need help, and you let me know, I'll help. And I expect the reverse is true if I was in New England. We're forming a network that didn't exist prior, and without those networks, we have a lot less of a leg to stand on when we're talking about smashing government networks.

Just last weekend I met a guy with nine kids (I think it's amazing how many families I know like that now) and let's be honest, if you have nine kids, y'aint got time for this trans $#@!... and we talked at length about how the hell he found a 15 passenger van these days, because lack of van availability is actually a very serious problem being caused by the deep state, and so passenger vans are the lowest priority for auto manufacturers.

That's what it's about. It's not about finding a way to smash everything that they've spent a century setting up. Well, it would be nice if it was, but it's not. It's about everyday interactions that make our lives better without using the state.

I didn't come back here after a long hiatus to talk black pills. I came back here because there's nothing positive on the big social media, and the people I enjoyed talking to on FB most were Pete and HeavenlyBoy, and since Pete passed, this is the place where I'm going to continue to create those connections.

And now, if I can avoid getting worked to death today, I'm gonna look into these decentralized networks I've been hearing about.

How is HB? Tell him I said hello if you are still in contact with him.

Yeah, yer right and I vacillate between positive and "black pill" territory.

The death of Scott, (A Son of Liberty) was real kick in the gut for me.

I did and do still feel terrible about that and for his family.

As to where my head is at, I guess I have come full circle. I started out as a America First, Pat Buchanan "conservative" decades ago, and have pretty much come back to that position.

Like you I was as laissez-faire as it comes when talking about "gay marriage" and so on.

I have moved so far away from that as to now view the queeer Marxists as so many demons, intent on corrupting and poisoning and butchering children.

So I hope you are right that we can push back on this, in any way possible.

There is a template to use: the guns rights movement.

When I started this "journey" as a young man of 18, it was the excessive red tape and bull$#@! associated with exercising your rights in a state like NJ, that prompted me into trying to "do something".

Well, here we are over 40 years later, and over half the country has "Constitutional Carry", the Supreme Court has affirmed, over and over, that the 2nd protects an individual right, gun bans have fallen all across the country, and even with the violence associated with the George Floyd incident, violent crime is still far beloiw what it was thirty years ago.

So it can be done I suppose...it just takes decades of endless work.

[Anti Federalist]

Put down the black-pill and back away from it slowly...

It is evident that the wicked have seized power in an absolutely unprecedented fashion. As Jeff Tucker recently tweeted, the biggest and most important (and unanswered) question in the shadow of the COVID tyranny is how did they do it? That is, how did a bunch of mid-level bureaucrats suddenly have the power in 2020 to simply push a button and lock 330+ million Americans in their homes, overnight? That can't happen by some organic process arising out of piecemeal bureaucratic response to an apparent national emergency. There exists some mechanism which has been constructed on our soil, but out of sight of the American public, by which the bureaucracies of this country have a power that exceeds the capabilities of the US military in the sense that even the military couldn't lock down the whole country, overnight, short of cutting the power-grid, bombing interstate bridges, or something drastic like that. And given that this power exists, the question is: where was it born? Who created it? How long has it been alive? And why is this alien entity in our country? How do we dismantle it?

That we are talking about it puts us lightyears ahead of, say, a North Korean worker. It's not because they haven't tried to impose North Korean-level tyranny on US soil. That this was their objective with COVID is beyond all doubt. But they failed. And if they can fail, then they are not gods, no matter how narcissistic they are.

Wokism is an ideological nexus for the global Marxist power-grab that became apparent to many Americans during COVID. Pride is the "culture" of this hive of evil. But what "culture" is this?! It is not a culture at all, it is an anti-culture. And that's why Internet memers are able to take on the multi-trillion-dollar censorship-industrial complex. It is a gigantic house of cards, run by cowards and sodomites. The idea that these people control "the future" is the biggest and silliest black-pill of all. Nostalgia has its place, but too much nostalgia can blind a generation to the strength and resilience of their own children. Don't let the Wokists pull the wool over your eyes, and don't take the black-pill. Read the Book: WE WIN.

I agree, and I do try as hard as I can, sometimes gloom overcomes me.

But to answer an important question you posited in your post regarding COVID lockdowns: how did they do this? What was the mechanism they used?

It's very simple: they used the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act

This is yet another bastard child spawn of 9-11. Composed in less than three months from the attack on 9-11, it gave the states and the feds HUGE new powers and systems of control. It's thousands of pages long and almost incomprehensible to an average citizen.

People like me, at the time, jumped up and down and raised holy hell about it, we warned people that it would be used for tyrannical lockdowns, arrests, seizure of property and so on.

We were mocked, dismissed and ignored as "conspiracy theorists".

But that was the tool they used in United States.

[Anti Federalist]

Meanwhile, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Srcewgle's "Doodle" for today is honoring some unknown hack queeer feminist poet.

[Occam's Banana]

Revolutions are not won by a majority. They are won by an irate, tireless minority.

https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/1382888851216216066

That's what it's about. It's not about finding a way to smash everything that they've spent a century setting up. Well, it would be nice if it was, but it's not. It's about everyday interactions that make our lives better without using the state.

https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/1318389049514655744

[fisharmor]

How is HB? Tell him I said hello if you are still in contact with him.

will do!

When I started this "journey" as a young man of 18, it was the excessive red tape and bull$#@! associated with exercising your rights in a state like NJ, that prompted me into trying to "do something".

Well, here we are over 40 years later, and over half the country has "Constitutional Carry", the Supreme Court has affirmed, over and over, that the 2nd protects an individual right, gun bans have fallen all across the country, and even with the violence associated with the George Floyd incident, violent crime is still far beloiw what it was thirty years ago.

So it can be done I suppose...it just takes decades of endless work.

I actually think this is a perfect of example of "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".

The early 2000's is when we all started to hear people saying the NRA was actually responsible for all the gun control we were living under. Then when Heller was happening and pro-NRA goofballs all tried telling us it was likely we'd end up losing even more rights if we went that route, everyone pushing the case said, essentially, look we've tried about 150 years of doing nothing and that got us where we are. You're right - it wasn't a huge improvement right away, but it was progress. Good men did something and that led to other good men being able to do something.

Just keep doing something.

[ClaytonB]

1) People are capable of waking up.

Exactly. My own story is an example of this. I was raised (small-government) conservative and I (naively) believed that the R party was actually standing for small government. Then the R's under Bush passed the prescription drug bill, the single biggest spending bill ever in history until that time and that's when I started to wake up. I realized they're lying to us, and these are not just little-white-lies, these are big, bold, iceberg-sized lies. In 2007, I read Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics, and that's when I started to wake up to the fact that government ruins everything. Most conservatives understand that government is culturally bankrupt and cannot contribute to causing people to become positively upright (it can only punish wrong-doers to restrain evil), but they still see government as foundational to economic activity. Sowell's book opened my eyes to see how government only ever makes things worse except in the most basic elements of property-rights (and, even there, less government is almost always better). From there, it was just a never-ending march through Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe, Ron Paul, and many more. Even though I was raised a small-government conservative, my mind had been shackled under miles of ideological chains whose purpose is to inculcate blind obedience to Caesar. Chain after chain was shattered by nothing more than observing the basic facts of the world, organized by clear thinking and rigorous logic. My case is not typical for a thousand reasons -- I'm not a typical sample of the American public, or anything close to it. But my "outside perspective" helps me see even more clearly the chains on the minds of my fellow Americans, and how those chains can be most effectively broken. The short answer is the Gospel. The longer answer is that we have to start the spade-work of changing hearts & minds by budging people loose from what "they just know", the things that are considered "obvious", such as "more guns means more gun crimes." And so on. Ultimately, the change must begin within each of us, so that we will not be found to be hypocrites when we call our fellow Americans to follow our lead out of the slavery that has secretly crept into this once-free and once-great nation. We must free ourselves, and the final destination of that path is the Gospel.

If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed. (John 8:36)

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you. (Galatians 5:1)

[ClaytonB]

I agree, and I do try as hard as I can, sometimes gloom overcomes me.

But to answer an important question you posited in your post regarding COVID lockdowns: how did they do this? What was the mechanism they used?

It's very simple: they used the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act

This is yet another bastard child spawn of 9-11. Composed in less than three months from the attack on 9-11, it gave the states and the feds HUGE new powers and systems of control. It's thousands of pages long and almost incomprehensible to an average citizen.

People like me, at the time, jumped up and down and raised holy hell about it, we warned people that it would be used for tyrannical lockdowns, arrests, seizure of property and so on.

We were mocked, dismissed and ignored as "conspiracy theorists".

But that was the tool they used in United States.

But the bigger lesson here, is that they have 1,000 tools just like that, and worse. That happened to be the scalpel they reached for in 2020, but there were 1,000 other legal alternatives they could have reached for, instead. And, next time, it will just be some other scalpel, very similar, but slightly different in name/purpose/etc. If we want to compare tyrannical legislation, the Military Commissions Act is far and away the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed not only in US history, but in the entire history of the Anglo-American sphere since the Magna Carta. That is because the MCA rescinds the writ of habeas corpus even for American citizens. There are just two words standing between each of us, and disappearance into Guantanamo Bay (or some other black site): "enemy combatant". Any Federal agency need only utter those two magic words, and, with the snap of the fingers, you are an un-person. Not only do you have no rights as an American citizen, you are not even human. You are just a slab of meat that happens to be above room-temperature. That's what writ of habeas corpus was all about... that anyone with a pulse and who is breathing necessarily has the right to a court hearing where the conditions of their charges can at least be put on record. Habeas corpus made disappearing people illegal. The MCA undid 1,000 years of legal precedent and plunged the US into pre-Magna Carta tyranny.

But leaving that aside, I think it is obvious that if the MCA were ever brought before SCOTUS, it would be instantly axed. So it's an instrument that they cannot use on the broad American public, as they did COVID. It would only actually be used for their most hated political opponents (e.g. someone like Trump), and only in a manner that would effectively make any form of appeals process impossible.

So, it's not really about the laws. It's about something more sinister, something more tangible. We throw around that ill-defined term "Deep State" but rarely stop to define our terms. As best I can work out, the original meaning of "Deep State" was in reference to the Obama-era expansion of Continuity-of-Government, which many Republicans at the time feared could be (and would be) used to stage a permanent coup of the US government. I think this has a lot more to do with what happened in 2020 than the superficial legal constructions they used, which is merely the particular scalpel they happened to reach for in that case. Until we (conservatives and libertarians) start thinking realistically about how the machinery of tyranny is actually deployed within our country, we have no hope of ever exorcising it. It is true that our citizenry has many moral failings -- we are lazy, we are fat, we are narcissistic, etc. etc. But the fifth-column in our midst is just happy to keep us divided over that, too. That is, as long as you're mad at your fellow citizens for being so lazy and apathetic, you're not directing your anger where it will do the most damage: at them. The Deep State is just the first layer of the onion. And when you peel all the layers all the way back, you will find Adam and Eve, eating the forbidden fruit, on the advice of none other than Satan himself. There, that is the innermost core, the conspiracy of all conspiracies. It's not a metaphor. It's not just a moral lesson. It's not just a spiritual tale. It's the factual back-story of our current predicament.

[RJB]

[Anti Federalist]

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1798835202153959581

[sparebulb]

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1798835202153959581

Was Danke the election judge?