I promised you one more little bit on the gossipy RBN v. Marianne thing, and I’m delivering, but with a caveat.
The post-mortem of the feud itself was the least interesting part of this video.
Jay Fauntleroy, aka jaybfaunt, is technically a member of the RBN, and he generally shares most of their views. But stylistically he couldn’t be more different from his compatriots, like Rome, and like Nick Cruse, who took point for the network in going after Saint Marianne. He’s black, very poor, very humble, decidedly gay, lives with his mother, and apparently has Medicaid-funded dialysis treatments three times a week to keep himself alive.
He may love the nice white jewish boys of Due Dissidence, Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular, even more than I do. They definitely gave him a reason to during this interview. While I normally prefer Keaton’s takes on their own show, during this guest appearance, Russell was a pure fire that just burned hotter the longer it went on.
I’m going to need to watch it again (and I will) to get the full impact of what he said, but the theme was an ironclad defense of the black pill position. A big middle finger to electoralism of course, but beyond that … the machine is a lying machine, and we’ve grown up in the lying machine fog from birth, and we can barely make out what’s a lie for the same reason a fish doesn’t see water.
My favorite part was his observation that the post-war period in America was the greatest florescence of actual democracy that the world has ever known. Not to say it was perfect–JFK and many others got killed by anti-democratic forces working behind the scenes halfway through it–Vietnam happened–but that for the average person, the society was one of real opportunity, relative prosperity, and an actual voice about how they were to be governed.
He didn’t say this, but it’s dovetails nicely. The Voting Rights Act was 1964. Meaning that a greater percentage of the population than ever before in history could actually even have a real vote. He did say: More than ancient Greece. More than at the writing at the Constitution. More than white women getting suffrage earlier in the century. Maybe not everyone, but pretty close.
Russell goes on to say that by the election of Reagan in 1980, all that was already behind us, and it was straight downhill from there for the next forty-plus years. I’m not a huge fan of reactionary good-old-days philosophies. But I think in this narrow case, just talking about the health of democratic values, he has a good case.
This was about the same time that the Dems decided consciously to step away from their support of the working class, and things like unions, in favor of becoming just a slightly prettier party of Wall Street and endless war. By the time Obama appointed his cabinet per a list he got from Goldman-Sachs, the demos was a joke and the transition to Uniparty rule, and an ever-spiraling gap in equality was complete.
Even a lot of traditionalist black people know it now, and that comes first on the long list of reasons why Hillary lost. Why would the country unite to legitimately elect that fool of a game show host to the highest office in the land? Because at least he wasn’t The Betrayer of all we once held dear.
And, in raw numbers, millions more people voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016 when he won. The reason the Biden puppet got in had little to do with ‘democracy’, and everything to do with being a little better at playing the rigged game.
You can blame me in part for it too, even though I did do my best for Bernie, who turned out to be nothing but a sheepdog herding the lambs back into the Uniparty’s Dem wing.
Which is what the actually woke, like DD and RBN, are fearing that Marianne will be in the end too. Woof!
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In contrast to Russell’s black pill, I also heard a real anarchist talking today about white pills and red pills.
Michael Malice on the Jimmy Dore Show
Red pill is a big broad term taken from The Matrix. You took the red pill if you wanted to wake up to the horror of reality. (You took the blue one if you wanted to go on living the dreamy lie. Irony?)
Best I could tell, Mr. Malice offers a white pill which is virtually identical to the black pill, but with a third less nihilism and pessimism.
He and I would probably disagree on whether a Solution is even possible, much less likely. But we agree on one thing, and that is that if a solution exists, its name is Anarchism.
You might like what he has to say, because he is both Ukrainian and a devoted critic of Russia–even of Marxism itself. He prefers Bakunin to Marx, and that is a fine indicator that he’s a real smart guy.
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I have some short bits on tangents from this one big theme about the Fog of the Lie, and waking.
Adam Schiff’s Endless Petulance Over Removal from House Intel. Plus, Matt Stoller on DOJ v. Google | SYSTEM UPDATE #29
Even for the average blue-no-matter-who intellect, it’s pretty trivial to see that Adam Schiff (D-CA) is a real piece of shit. Glenn Greenwald explains why, and has some good fun at the Adam’s expense.
I’m eventually watching pretty much everything GG is putting out five nights a week now. I would especially recommend the last ten minutes of his most recent interview with Matt Taibbi, in which Matt suggests that only the surface of the Twitter files has been scratched, and that the archive may well yet prove to contain what he calls “a whole alternative history of the United States buried in these files”.
Speaking of waking from the Matrix.
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Live with Jimmy Dore! Viva Frei Live!
JD is of course a real American ‘leftist’. Viva Frei is a moderate Canadian populist, and the sometime sidekick of the even more conservative, and even more brilliant Robert Barnes. I first learned of him during the Ottawa convoy protests, and he and Barnes are also tight with the guys that run The Duran podcast. Spoiler alert: JD and VF agree on far more than they disagree about.
Will The U.S. Invade Haiti Just To Stop Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier?
If you’ve heard of Mr. Chérizier at all, it will have been a characterization of him as a gang leader and maybe even terrorist, on Vice News or some similar chunk of deep-state, ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ media. The US has already shipped tons of military shit to the puppety Haitian government in an effort to barbecue the Barbeque. One brave journalist brings you the other side of the story.
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More than enough for now.
I posted a video earlier too. It’s not great like the ones linked above. It made me happy anyway. Because what matters is the Work.