Eh?

The very people who are yelling about (for instance) the head of ICE Tom Homan being the new Himmler because his organisation has deported some 300,000 people absolutely fucking cheered when Obama gave the very same Tom Homan a ‘Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service, which is bestowed to leaders who’ve achieved sustained extraordinary results’ for deporting 920,000.

This Chris Bray piece is well worth a read too:

…the new standard is that All Things Orange get more dramatic language.

The result is OH GOD A COP HAD A MAGAZINE WITH BULLETS IN IT, WE’RE AT WAR. The result is stupid and tedious. Using heightened language to depict nothing much has the opposite effect, except on people who want to feel alarmed and choose to pretend the dumb images are scary.

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A bunch of fairly ordinary things are happening. They’re being greeted with panic and hysteria. When you watch for the mismatch, for the heightened language that represents ordinary reality, you become permanently immune to it.

Snap back to reality, ope, there goes gravity
Ope, there goes Rabbit, he choked, he’s so mad
But he won’t give up that easy, no, he won’t have it
He knows his whole back’s to these ropes, it don’t matter
He’s dope, he knows that, but he’s broke, he’s so stagnant

Recent exercises in taking stock after one year of Trump 2.0 – for many an eternity of terrifying news and political traumas – tended to leave something out: the fact that, a mere 12 months ago, plenty of pundits (and politicians, for that matter) were instructing us to accept that a global “vibe shift” in favor of the right had taken place. And that, in the face of what supposedly “felt” like a landslide, resistance was pointless and “cringe”

Through this word salad apparently people assumed Donald Trump, running counter to decades of Leftwing control, had achieved ‘lasting victory’, even had people made such assumptions we were fortunate to have the likes of Time continually profiling the likes of Richard Murphy (for example) and various other retarded liberals. Such people’s commitment to evil is eternal. I never once doubted they would keep coming back. Anyone familiar with the behaviour of parasites in nature would have been able to predict it.

Well, it doesn’t feel like that today. But understanding why observers not generally in the pro-Trump propaganda business rushed to portray the spirit of the age as effectively far-right is important. A way of thinking occasionally dubbed “reactionary centrism” plays an important role; it could yet again become influential in hindering or at least holding up post-Trump radical reforms which US democracy desperately requires.

That notorious ‘Far Right’ – that would be the one wanting every Jew in the world murdered which ran rampant across those notorious Hotbeds of ‘Far right’ activism, US universities for every day since October 7th – that ‘Far right’?

This perceptive observation was inadvertently vindicated in thousands of columns that contributed to a moral panic about “wokeness” and “identity politics”. It convinced readers that, sure, Trump was horrible, but what was happening “on campus” (translation: anecdotes from one or two elite places, endlessly recycled) was also putting US democracy in peril.
The point is not that what progressives do must never be criticized; the point is that the relentless drive to find fault with both sides equally results in a sense of (false) equivalence among those taking cues from supposedly trustworthy centrists.

I actually find this reasonably compelling albeit for diametrically opposite reasons. There is no equivalence between Right and Left wing. The latter wants to eliminate billions of people as surplus carbon. They want to control every aspect of individual’s lives. They molest children, whether through Big Trans or the rest of the Alphabet soup experiment. They waged biological warfare on the entire world with a synthetic virus as a ‘dry run’ to implement a system of social control. They are racist, sexist, anti-human and have murdered millions, whether that is through active Socialist regimes, through abortion on demand and increasingly through legalized euthanasia. There is no equivalence whatsoever.

Germans do tend to be the most pathetic of progressives. We should bomb them again.

 tended to leave something out: the fact that, a mere 12 months ago, plenty of pundits (and politicians, for that matter) were instructing us to accept that a global “vibe shift” in favor of the right had taken place. And that, in the face of what supposedly “felt” like a landslide, resistance was pointless and “cringe”

That is called . . . democracy. The losing side ACCEPTS the loss, and allows the winners to proceed. The losers re-evaluate their positions before the next election.

Democrats demand resistance. The exact opposite of democracy.

The basic idea is that self-declared moderates claim equally to oppose extremes on the right and on the left – but hard-hitting criticism is reserved almost exclusively for the left (partly, perhaps, because the presumed audience is expected to already know how bad things are on the right).This perceptive observation

Herr Müller suggests equivalence in Left/right extremes. Completely bogus. He puts on a cloak of decency. “Everybody knows how bad the right it.” Leftie extremism gets the criticism because it’s really stupid and evil. In a word, ‘extreme.’