As a matter of policy I’ve always kept this blog’s topics about intersexual dynamics and left direct issues of politics, religion, economics, race, etc. to other blogs. The only time I cross into these issues is when they relate to inter (or intra) sexual dynamics, and usually when I do it makes for some heated discussions about whatever ideology seems to be the most “Red Pill”. In these circumstances I’ve learned (the hard way) that it’s wise to wait and reserve my opinions until all the cards have hit table. With respect to the gender-social landscape of a Trump presidency I think that time might be now.
If you’ve listened to any of my recent interviews over the last year (and American campaign cycle) you’ll understand my take on how I believe Red Pill issues have colored the last campaign. With the first real shot of a female president on the table I could hardly not be asked about what I expected. If you follow me on Twitter you’ll also know I made a prediction that it would be Red Pill issues, from the intersexual perspective, that would be a defining catalyst of the campaign. I was not disappointed.
While I’ve never been an ardent Trump supporter, my political decisions were made for me with the campaign of Hillary Clinton being his opposition. I didn’t vote for Trump, I voted against Hillary, and I don’t think I was alone in that assessment. As far as I’m concerned the jury’s still out on a Trump presidency, so I’ll reserve my skepticism, but one thing I am eminently thankful for is that Hillary was denied the presidency. From a socio-sexual standpoint, and being a Red Pill writer for some time, my analysis of this being a campaign rooted in Red Pill dynamics, those the manosphere has been sussing out for going on 15 years, centered on the fact that Hillary was the Feminine Imperative’s best hope for the First Female President®. I think it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that it wasn’t Hillary herself who was running, but the ideal of the first real hope for a woman in the White House.
As a long-time Red Pill author, the feminine-primacy narrative in her campaign was blatantly obvious to me. Even ‘Obama-the-feminist’ carried the Fempowerment water for her. That was to be expected, but what I found equally predictable was the pro-woman narrative using many of the Social Conventions I’ve detailed for a decade now. Naturally, there were the feminist tropes, but the feminine-primary ‘Village’ couldn’t just pander to women, it needed some outreach to men. So, the predictable appeals to “real manhood”, the Male Catch 22 and the ever-present shaming of conventional masculinity had to follow. Men needed to declare, “I’m with Her”. It was a ham-fisted hope that male Hillary supporters would ostracize other men into supporting her – or at least they might self-police men’s vocal opposition to her.
Again, as expected from the Feminine Imperative, any dissent, any criticism, any doubt or about Hillary (no matter the issue debated) was tantamount to misogyny. This has been the spoken and unspoken presumption of any man who might be critical of anything pro-female for sometime now, but the Bitter Misogynist narrative needed some freshening up to remind women and men about their duty as responsible members of a feminine-primary social order to elect the First Female President®. This played out on a larger scale in the Clinton campaign’s late-game efforts to dig up the endless words Trump might’ve said that proved his misogyny. However, it didn’t matter what Trump did or didn’t say; the fact that any man would oppose the First Female President® made him a misogynist by default.
He versus Her
From my Red Pill perspective, the campaign wasn’t about Hillary and Trump, it was about the Feminine Imperative vs. conventional masculinity. I believe the feminine-primary hope was to definitively defeat all vestiges, all semblances, of conventional masculinity. I’ve written on numerous occasions about feminine-primacy’s efforts to remove men from all aspects of our collective thought, but a Hillary presidency was to be a decisive victory over the mythical Patriarchy and the symbolic defeat of all that is men. Hillary and Trump were mere caricatures, effigies, placeholding representative of the ridiculous extremes we’re meant to presume of women vs. men – Trump, the living image of Patriarchy and Misogyny, Hillary, the pinnacle of exaggerated female empowerment that’s been culminating since the time of the suffragettes.
It was the school yard, boys-against-girls, battle of the sexes writ large on a geopolitical scale, and the end-game victory of the First Female President® was all but a given certainty. I will admit myself, I thought Hillary had it in the bag. That’s what anyone plugged into the narrative was certain above all doubt would happen. She was supposed to win. On countless female-supremacist blogs the mantra was “Its Her turn” – it wasn’t specifically Hillary’s turn, it was Her turn, it was women’s turn. That was the foregone conclusion and anyone could see it. Even the polls who we’d later wonder “how could they have gotten it so wrong?”, even they just knew it was “her turn”. If you believed Trump ‘His‘ would win it was just a sign of your stupidity in the face of such overwhelming surety.
In fact, such was the surety of the First Female President® that companies, social organizations, advertising agencies, publications of every ideological stripe, all banked on Her winning the White House – and all prepared to be ready to welcome the First Female President®. With the surety of a woman president came the surety of an ushering in of a new Era of the Woman. It was simple pragmatism to prepare well in advance for what everyone was convinced would be the zeitgeist of the next 4 (and likely 8) years of the First Female President®. Him winning was inconceivable, so it made sense to get advertising, commercials, corporate policies, special events, preliminary legislation, etc. all in readiness and in line with the coming Era of the Woman. The smart money was ‘being on the right side of history’, especially given the certainty of it and the idiocy you’d be accused of for betting against it.
But then Election Day came, and with it came the inconceivable, the unbelievable. ‘He‘ won, not ‘Her‘.
We were then treated to the tearful videos of young women in disbelief, sure that their efforts to elect Her were wasted and the certainty of their empowerment left in doubt. Their part in ‘history in the making’ was to be denied.
We had the hurriedly written concession speech only after a day or so, such was the hubris there was no need to write a ‘concession’ speech prior. Then came the existential cries of soul-destroying anguish when He was sworn in. And we were introduced to protests of a hostility never before exhibited by the followers of Her. His character was no longer about misogyny so much as it was converted to fascism. A vote for Him was considered a hate-crime, mirroring much of the same fluidity and ambiguity applied to the definitions of ‘rape’ and ‘consent’, before He came along.
With the inconceivable Trump presidency those pre-bought ad campaigns, those forward-thinking companies had to switch the narrative from a feminine-supremacism victory lap to one of ‘we shall overcome’ in spite of the same old sexism we’re supposed to presume is lurking under every male CEO’s desk. You can see this in stark contrast when you look at any of the multi-million dollar Super Bowl commercial spots that are shot a year well in advance of their air-time date. Audi’s commercial being the most glaringly evident of the presupposition of a woman president.
Turning Over Stones
What His victory has really exposed for us as a society is a condition of feminine-primacy I have been writing about for well on 14 years now. When I wrote Fem-Centrism and The Feminine Reality I was attempting to bring to light the ways in which we exist in a feminine-primary social order. I caught a lot of flack for those posts back in the day, but they’ve served as a keystone understanding for many of the social paradigms and the intents of feminization efforts I’ve written about over the years. For several generation we’ve been conditioned to believe “it’s a man’s world” and we accept notions of the evil Patriarchy to be a settled truth. Along comes Rollo Tomassi and he turns over the stones to reveal that it is in fact a feminine-primary social order men serve in – gynocentrism, gynocracy, misandry – and all pretense of ‘Patriarchy’ is really part of one more operative social convention to sell men and women on the idea of female victimhood.
All of that changed on Election Day, 2016. All of the preplanned victory lap celebrations, all the feminist triumphal marches scheduled to follow in the wake of the First Female President®, were converted to protests marches, riots, violence and demonstrations against the prospect that He might potentially remove Her rights. All of the pretense of our feminine-centric, feminine-primary social order being a social undercurrent has been, and will be tossed to the wind now. The Empress has no clothes (often literally), and all she wears is a knitted pink-pussy hat; the new uniform of female supremacism. In the span of one election cycle virtually every premise I asserted about the validity of the Feminine Imperative has been confirmed. But moreover, that imperative, so angered by the denial of the First Female President®, is comfortable in its existence being laid bare.
For years I’ve addressed the comfort women now have in openly acknowledging their Hypergamy. Open Hypergamy and Open Cuckoldry are not just embraced, they’re celebrated among women and among the feminine-primary social order to the point that we make commercials and sitcoms based on women’s sexual strategy. Now that we’ve achieved Peak Hypergamy the final step is casting off all pretense about the designs on Female Supremacism. His victory appears to be the catalyst for this.
The jig is up and the Sisterhood Über Alles has revealed the true nature of the Feminine Imperative. Even the pretense of a desire for ‘equality’ among the sexes is now replaced with a visceral contempt for all things male. More attempts to remove the man from all language is the first initiative in both the military and on campus. No longer does the femosphere feel a need to hide or sweet talk its agenda; the intent isn’t lofty dreams of gender-equality, it is, and always has been Female Supremacism and the complete erasure of anything conventionally male or masculine. If it is male and can be replaced with a female proxy, so be it. If it cannot, its complete destruction is preferred.
The Women’s March on Washington last January was the most glaring confirmation of everything I’ve ever written about the Feminine Imperative. My timing of publishing this post with tomorrow’s Day Without Women international protest is no coincidence and I have no doubt that the embrace of feminine supremacism will offer increasingly more evidence of what I’ve asserted about the Feminine Imperative. Men, Red Pill or otherwise, need to be aware of this embrace of Open Female Supremacism and their complicity in it. The Era of the Woman has now shifted to one of a blatant, naked, power grab that likely would’ve been made all the easier had the First Female President® not been denied “her turn”.
Had Hillary won the presidency I have no doubt we’d still hear platitudes of how feminism is really about ‘equality’, and how it really benefits men too. Instead we have open contempt for all that appears masculine. Even the protests themselves are converted into programs meant to emasculate men. Instead of notions of ‘equality’ we get further atomization between the sexes in the name of Fempowerment. And instead they will openly make masculinity a disease to cure.
In the coming year(s) I predict we’re going to see more of the “women-as-oppressed” in advertising, in our cultural narrative, in or social dialog, because this is what a feminine-primary social order believes will resonate with damn near every demographic. And for those whom it doesn’t, then those who disagree will have to deal with those it does. It would be easy to dismiss all of this as over exaggeration; after all this isn’t really anything new to Red Pill aware men. I’ve been writing about for almost 14 years. What is new is an increased social urgency combined with the denial of the feminine entitlement the Red Pill community has been talking about among individual women for a decade.
It’s as if women everywhere were promised the First Female President® and then had her snatched away by the living embodiment of misogyny they’ve been taught to exaggerate for generations. They were ‘entitled’ to her winning – so much so that they would change the rules of the game in order for that certainty – but He took it away. He stole it, he cheated, he,…did anything but legitimately win it. That is a very BIG hit to the collective ego-investments of a feminine-primary social order. Thus, we will see in the years to come even grander displays of this entitlement, yes, but also the stripping away of all pretense women ever had of coexisting with anything looking like masculinity.
Masculinity is misogyny now. If you thought intersexual Red Pill awareness was derided before, it will be reviled as a hate-crime in the coming era. I once joked that if things kept going the way they were socially, The Rational Male would need to be secretly smuggled to groups of men to read by firelight like Bibles in Mao’s China. I’m not laughing about that these days.
KFG
I recall some stat that like 30% of wartime (+9 months) British births were from US Servicemen.
@Blaximus
Lol’d.
I feel a wee bit more in control of my own fate in an automobile.
Now if the day ever comes when, despite my extreme vetting of my bitchin new ride with Insurance Institute ratings, and, despite driving on a wide, pin-straight desolated road while polishing my dashboard in a fuzzy moment of oneitis – only to have my ass blown to smithereens by a remote finger push of a red button by the manufacturer, will I cease to step foot into another vehicle, my good sir…
@kfg Per your last comment. Figured you will appreciate this counter, based on your own proclivities, heh. “Kim Robert Koscki, a stuntman and stunt coordinator who doubled for Mike Myers on the three Austin Powers films and recently worked on Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman, has died. He was 51. Koscki, in the stunt business for more than three decades, suffered cardiac arrest while riding his bicycle near his home in Valencia, Calif., and died a few weeks later on Oct. 20, his wife, Kate, told The Hollywood Reporter. The busy Koscki recently worked on Nickelodeon action series The Thundermans… Read more »
When do we hear that the CIA has been hacking pacemakers?
http://www.alphaphiwisconsin.com/templates/AlphaPhiIota/Assets/1240133_10151899620906639_1899122795_n.jpg
“University of Arizona… Full Athletic Scholarship”
worth paying to go tbh…
@kfg wrote
“When do we hear that the CIA has been hacking pacemakers?”
They made sure we didn’t by first hacking kidneys in 2011”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/wilson-greatbatch-engineer-who-invented-implantable-pacemaker-dies-at-92/2011/09/28/gIQAKEtp5K_story.html?utm_term=.54792f64804e
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How is an abundance mentality cultivated?
@Sentient wrote
“American Passports, Money and Teeth are still sexy “over there”.”
So the rumor is true.
That, according to a lost patent, our ubiquitous *toothpaste* was invented in Wales.
Otherwise they would have filed it as *teethpaste*?
Grabber by tha Pussi.
Do 70% of people who buy cars made after the year 2000 get in fatal accidents like that one?
LOL @ the open hypergamy in Orbit gum ad. Expect more of that to come, because Grrl Power.
But really that’s just a pale, pale imitation of the genius of the Kihnspiracy from the 80’s.
This is how it’s done.
Is this “Open hypergamy,” Hats Off To The Bull,” or “Transitioning”?
More Brits Cars and Alpha
They do say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Do 70% of people who buy cars made after the year 2000 get in fatal accidents like that one?
Only if they run into my truck
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@Lost Patrol
@SJF
This perfectly describes my wife once the primaries started.
What I thought was interesting though was that she seemed opened to Hillary as POTUS before the primaries. This changed quickly when she saw Trump (Alpha male) running. Also against the backdrop of all the betas in the GOP primary making him stand out even more as the only Alpha in the game.
90% of the political talk in my home during the election was her slamming Hillary and praising Trump.
I have an interesting data point about male looks from last night…I was dancing as usual, but I had eaten pizza after leaving home and forgot to floss afterwards, so there was cheese in between my teeth…I also had cut myself shaving…I looked a mess…girls danced with me a lot anyway…maybe I was a “hot mess” lol…I remember one 20-something in particular who gave me a DTF vibe…can’t really explain why…maybe it’s the “I wanna fuck you” ™ way that she looked at me. A cute ginger spinner. Definitely bangable.
Shit, I wish Mrs. Gamer had been for Trump…she was at the end after Cruz lost to Trump.
@Sentient
Is the girl in the middle trying to mimic labia?
Three of those girls look hot.
Rollo
http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-03-17/get-paid-12000-dollars-to-travel-and-drink-beer?mbid=nl_031117_Daily&CNDID=39152372&spMailingID=10601041&spUserID=MTMzNDg1Mzg4NDMzS0&spJobID=1120897344&spReportId=MTEyMDg5NzM0NAS2
http://edlatimore.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef1962eb46697805d9fa2476a&id=69c5847267&e=920ba0a911
Creation and destruction
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Creation and destruction
http://wp.me/p10w4n-4MZ
” If you thought intersexual Red Pill awareness was derided before, it will be reviled as a hate-crime in the coming era.”
First, they ignore you.
Then, they laugh at you.
Then, they fight you.
Then, you win.
Phase two draws to a close. Welcome to phase three.
I’m going to keep playing the devil’s advocate because it seems like my initial comment made some people salty and it’s always beneficial to be exposed to other perspectives. Thank you to everyone who is contributing here. Yes I did read the essay. I completely disagree with this whole conventional masculinity is now misogyny idea. Develop yourself, learn from the great men of history, implement game, calibrate skilfully, and watch as all kinds of women begin to adore your conventional masculinity. Bernie’s accomplishments: http://addictinginfo.org/2016/02/19/heres-a-long-list-of-bernie-sanders-accomplishments-with-citations/ Trump’s baseless voter fraud lies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/24/recidivism-watch-trumps-claim-that-3-5-million-people-voted-illegally-in-the-election/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.d3db0ea5bedd @scribblerg Btw what did Donald Trump score on his GRE?… Read more »
Using twitter “like a teenaged girl” isn’t terribly alpha behavior in and of itself.
But it’s a very effective way to get a message out clearly and directly to a massive audience in a very succinct and timely manner. Which has been an age-old problem for high ranking leadership in very large agencies/communities.
“Trump’s baseless voter fraud lies: Yeah…irrespective of what the Washington Post might believe, our electoral system is extremely vulnerable to voter fraud. People I know who have seen formal elections all around the world (to include the third world) confirm that elsewhere voter identification is required (in parts of Africa, biometric data is used for identity confirmation, this is set up in a tent….but we can’t expect a photo ID?), and voters have to prove they are citizens. The rub is, the very system that makes us vulnerable to voter fraud ALSO makes it difficult to prove. Until someone does… Read more »
Believing communist lies is stupid and non-Alpha. Thinking that rich people need to have their money taken shows prejudice and is non-Alpha. Having a skull full of mush is non alpha.
I must admit it has always struck me as very odd the way US voting laws don’t generally require valid government ID. to be able to participate. Even for a municipal election in Canuckistan I have to present valid gov ID, plus a current utility bill or some such thing to prove I actually live where I do and I am who I say I am (Or at least the government thinks I am who my ID says I am). As a registered voter, I go into my designated polling station, I show my registration, I get my ID validated,… Read more »
“Using twitter like a teenage girl is non-Alpha.” Twitter circumvents an openly hostile media. His words are not filtered, ignored, manipulated before I read them. As upthread, first they ignored, then mocked, now fight. If his policies usher in ostensibly better social, economic conditions, if only from a cyclical nature and/or easing regulatory burdens…that would directly threaten the leftist collective narrative. Then it’s work, work, work for the anger merchants on our universities, media, bureaucracy. Thats the ill-fitting the leftist agenda. For it to work, like the FI, men must willingly reject self-sustaining behaviors for inefficient, top down control. Re:… Read more »
With capitalism, you are blissfully unaware of the sniper a thousand yards out…. With a gun to your head.
Where I am I had to prove my identity, citizenship and residency to be issued a voter ID.
When I appear to vote I have to sign a legal document and my signature is checked against my official signature on the voter record. If someone has already voted in my name I know it instantly and can protest. No one can vote in my name after me.
The election workers also know me on sight.
I can’t just show up out of the blue and say,” I want to vote, Thanks.”
“With capitalism, you are blissfully unaware of the sniper a thousand yards out…. With a gun to your head.”
If you didn’t get there first.
Laws for identification vary by state.
In most cases, California voters are not required to show identification before they cast ballots.
It’s true, Rollo.
One of the things about women, that i have understood first was that women are NEVER
satisfied !!
It’s never enough.
They want more and more and there is always the “what if” question.
Strong frame is not just important. It’s vital for a man nowadays.
Keep it going, Rollo!
I fucking love this Blog. Can’t say that often enough.
“What do women want?”
“More.”
“It’s never enough.”
Whatever you did as a favor yesterday is a minimum obligation today. No cookie.
US voter election laws by state: https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state Those foreign nationals who serve in the U.S. military for one year are eligible to become US citizens. These new citizens are young and have no understanding of US politics, but they get to vote. For liberals, of course. (Enlisted tend to vote liberal.) Government by the stupid. This needs to change. Give foreign nationals who provide military service green cards after three years, but don’t let them become citizens until they have lived in the US as adults through at least one election cycle and have paid US income tax during that… Read more »
@kfg
If you didn’t get there first.
I.e., with capitalism you get to own a gun, generally. With communism and socialism you get no gun and are at the mercy of the govt. Which is run by crooks and incompetents.
Liberal leaders are very Nietzschean. Gotta hand it to ’em. Fleece the sheeple. Not decent, tho.
Note that my state is a “No voter ID required” state, and that this is very different from being able to vote unidentified.
@kfg
I’m sure that your state has adequate protections against ballot boxes being stuffed by dems in urban centers. [wry grin]
@ASD:
I enjoy the “benefit” of living in an urban center where that isn’t even vaguely necessary. I can, at least, be out of the urban zone in a matter of minutes by bicycle.
And during the brief period when I lived in Albany the democratic machine obtained their votes fairly, the old fashioned way: they paid for them.
during the brief period when I lived in Albany the democratic machine obtained their votes fairly, the old fashioned way: they paid for them.
Expensive. No graveyards in Albany? Chicago has plenty.
“Expensive.”
Going rate was five bucks cash or a turkey. Family people generally took the turkeys, winos and hookers the cash. Of course even if the votes weren’t stolen, the money certainly was.
“No graveyards in Albany? ”
Well, ya know, if the entire Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families all the way back to Philip and Stephen was voting, that wasn’t fraud, just tradition. Nobody paid it no nevermind.
Chicago used to send journeyman operatives to Albany to learn how it was done right. “Uncle Dan” O’Connell ran a tighter ship than were ever able to in Chicago:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Daniel_P._O%27Connell
“With capitalism, you are blissfully unaware of the sniper a thousand yards out…. With a gun to your head.”
That’s SJW, OWS drivel. Capitalists don’t liquidate whole populations to achieve social ends, it’s bad for business, ya know.
“Capitalists don’t liquidate whole populations . . .”
Neither do snipers.
Nonetheless, I call the Irish Potato Famine to your attention.
Life is for living
Hence the Alpha Re-Frame Job:
http://thefw.com/files/2012/03/whatdowomenwant.jpg
The truth is, if any of us (as individuals) were in control of the system, facing a growing global population and dwindling resources, we would employ the feminine imperative and feminism to put downward pressure on birthrates.
It’s social engineering, with a view to solving a problem. Only war and disease has ever cured.
So what do we think about this one?
A man signs off on work emails using a female name for two weeks and finds people treat him dramatically worse, even when he’s working with the same clients and giving the same advice as when he was using his name to sign off (common team email account).
Is it as clear-cut a case of sexism as it seems?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/what-happened-when-a-man-signed-work-emails-using-a-female-name-for-a-week_us_58c2ce53e4b054a0ea6a4066
“So what do we think about this one?”
I think the handle @NickyKnacks is less likely to be taken seriously than @SchneidRemarks.
And if she’d had the handle @Hallbergerthoughts he’d had the handle @MartyMcDong the results probably would’ve likely been reversed.
“Fear is not part of the acting equation for me. I know how to pretend to be afraid and fearful, or to give a character a reason or an insecurity that allows him to be afraid of certain things, or facing certain kinds of things. That’s just part of the joy of being able to explore the human condition.”
Just reading nickyknack’s twitter feed. This person has a serious shoulder chip.
Since what was once seen as rich parody is now taken seriously…
I’m going to launch a line of protest armbands with mudflap silhouette girls wearing pink hats
(numerous sizes and shapes, of course)
This is a million dollar idea.
Nicky is not a woman’s name.
Schneid is not a man’s name.
“This person has a serious shoulder chip.”
And a pussy hat: https://www.instagram.com/nickyknacks/
@anon
Get right on that gif before someone else does.
Not a field report but not relevant but funny. A married man I’ve been working to red-pill told me yesterday all of a sudden his wife has taken up baking again. A pie, some kind of strudel, last Friday something with a lot whipped cream – real cream, not stuff from a can. He’s all happied up, because she’s being ‘nice’. I lol at the newer, subtler testing, he stares. So I told him he’s clearly displaying higher value, doing well, because his wife is trying to DHV girl style and also to re-betaize him. Yeah, all those sweet calories… Read more »
Is it Married Red Pill where a running joke is to tell men about to Up the Alpha to, “Enjoy the cookies”?
The family alpha
http://wp.me/p6OxfZ-cR
Does it count if they ask you to make the cookies (pies, cakes)?
So I told him he’s clearly displaying higher value, doing well, because his wife is trying to DHV girl style and also to re-betaize him.
He’s doing well at checkers now, maybe feeling pretty good about himself.
But she’s already playing chess.
I found this comment about National Steak and Blowjob Day:
Today is national Steak & BJ Day. My boyfriend is getting a ham sandwich and a high five.
She doesn’t know that he’s also getting a new girlfriend.
@Rugby Thanks for the link. “What would you say to yourself if you were to die today? Who would you apologize to? How long would your name and legacy carry on?” That was a good run. And no apologies. As long as the life insurance and wealth lasts after I’m gone, the legacy will last. I feel comfort in my legacy I leave if it ended tomorrow and have no fear when the time comes. I read Denial of Death by Ernest Becker in the 70’s and didn’t create barriers to really living. And another h/t to KFG for leading… Read more »
@ Blaximus “He talked about jobs. He talked about the shitty trade agreements the country was involved in. He talked about how the country gets taken advantage of. He talked about reviving American manufacturing ( everybody can’t work in offices ). SHIT!!! Really??? All I’d heard over a decade from politicians and presidents was that the jobs were just gone, and they were never coming back. Ever. America had to become a lean participant in a wider Global Economy. I had to compete with Jardish in India, who earned 8 dollars a week. New World Order y’all. Then Steve Bannon,… Read more »
“America has never signed a trade deal that hasn’t benefited her. Why would she?” For starters, “America” is comprised of a lot of people. A trade deal that might benefit a portion (even a very very small portion) can simultaneously be catastrophic to everyone else. And then there are the decisions that are marginally beneficial to some in the short term but catastrophic long term for everyone. This is easily observed, and was easily foreseeable. We sacrificed our industry to a nation that is responsible for over 90 percent of the counterfeit products that flood the international market. That whole… Read more »
@Ollie
“America has never signed a trade deal that hasn’t benefited her. Why would she?”
You’ve never heard of bribes, have you?
@Ollie
Once the economic potential due to massive wage discrepancies vanishes (and it will over the long term), then manufacturing and other industry will return.
“Once the economic potential due to massive wage discrepancies vanishes (and it will over the long term), then manufacturing and other industry will return.”
Yeah. When the rest of the world’s lifestyle matches ours (or, more accurately, ours matches theirs) industry will return! How awesome is that?!
I’ve always wanted my kids to live like a Chinese factory worker!
Perot foresaw this back in the early 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls
Perot on trade agreements.
As early as 1593, the cure to scurvy was found. We have records that during a voyage to the South Pacific, Sir Richard Hawkins recommended the following treatment: “That which I have seen most fruitfull for this sicknesse, is sower [sour] oranges and lemons.” In 1601 Captain James Lancaster performed a controlled study of lemon juice as a preventive for scurvy. His fleet of four ships departed an April 21, 1601, and scurvy bagan to appear in three of the ships by August 1 (4 months after sailing). By the time of arrival, the other three ships were so devastated… Read more »
@anon
The Chinese middle class is fueling the US economic boom.
I wasn’t aware that we were experiencing an economic boom. Some industries (airlines) maybe. I believe that if we were truly in the middle of an economic boom (whatever the cause), the population at large would not have voted for a changing of the guard.
@anon
The stock market is at record levels. I see lots of advertising for labor. The auto dealers had a boom. Real estate is taking off.
The Chinese export class is fueling our real estate bubble, or boom.
@theasdgamer “Once the economic potential due to massive wage discrepancies vanishes (and it will over the long term), then manufacturing and other industry will return.” The Chinese won’t allow their currency to appreciate. This is why successive U.S. presidents have labelled the Chinese authorities ‘currency manipulators’. Appreciation of their currency would hurt Chinese exports, but it would also mean a part of the trillions of dollars the Chinese hold in reserve, would be recycled back to the U.S. treasury. Trade agreement always favour the U.S. as it has the world’s reserve currency. A country must have dollars, at hand to… Read more »
” . . . the petrodollar standard.”
Which is why Saudi Arabia is the tail that wags the dog.
@theasdgamer The high stock market isn’t a sign of prosperity, it’s a sign the Federal Reserve has printed more money and loaned it out to banks, who have brought corporate bonds and this is reflected in the stock price of listed companies. The auto dealers are living off the TARP money it received and any subsequent backroom deals it has with the U.S. treasury department. The automotive industry as a whole is a heavily subsidized industry. Real estate is benefiting from the same asset price inflation, as the stock market. Yet again with massive amounts of fiat currency. I don’t… Read more »
The Chinese export class is fueling our real estate bubble, or boom.
Lots of American exports go into China–especially wheat. China imports lots of oil and oil is paid for in petro dollars and petro dollars are exchanged for wheat.
China, Japan, and India import lots of coal and guess who they buy from?
The US is the 2nd largest exporter, after China. We export electrical components, fabricated metal, medical equipment, computer and electronic goods, machinery, chemicals, transportation equipment, and, of course, food.
The middle class, Chinese and otherwise, is gonna be our main market.
Real estate is benefiting from the same asset price inflation
Spec homes are being built again. Credit is good. This isn’t just asset price inflation. I see commercial development as well.
Our exports are highly desirable. Have people forgotten how the Russian oil pipeline was shut down by US export controls and this led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Chinese telecom giant ZTE was hit hard for violating US export controls.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-fines-chinas-zte-1-2-bn-violating-160122509–finance.html
Our exports are only 7-8% of our economy, but that little bit helps greatly with discretionary spending.
Oh dear…..
@Blax
Yeah. Well, hmm.
Get any snow? Looks like another panic attack at the weather service and airlines.
Tindr trolling, anyone?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-13/women-troll-on-dating-apps-just-as-often-as-men/8349734
Rent a virtual friend?
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/03/13/japanese-company-offers-fake-friends-photo-service-to-help-customers-look-popular-on-social-media/
Hey, it’s Spring Training. How about them Cubs?
Careful Liz, keep hanging out with mean and angry people and you’ll end up like that yourself.
“Get any snow?”
Here upstate, nothing to talk about, only a couple of feet . . . so far. And hey, they say it will stop in only several more hours, if you don’t count the fact that it will actually be snowing all day tomorrow, just not as much as today.
And yesterday I had spring flowers.
Re: Blax’s nonsense. “With capitalism, you are blissfully unaware of the sniper a thousand yards out…. With a gun to your head.” Does that make you feel cool? Care to have an actual economic and political philosophy based conversation, instead of BS hyperbole? I’m sick to death of the faux sophistication of people with their throwaway lines about capitalism. Even the term is obnoxious. We have free markets cuz we are free people (sort of). We inherit the right to trade as we see fit from the idea of individuals being sovereign, essentially owning themselves. The first property one has… Read more »
it was about the Feminine Imperative vs. conventional masculinity. I loved the CNN pre-election masturbation fest on how Hillary was going to run the board… Then reality hit… I had told my girls – “Don’t believe any of the polls. When Reagan kicked Jimmy Carter’s ass they were saying Carter was going to win by 10 points. Don’t pay any attention to the media. Now tell me who is going to win.” They all said “Trump” and when I asked why, they said simply – “She’s a lying bitch.” That night I had all of my girls over for a… Read more »
“In the coming year(s) I predict we’re going to see more of the “women-as-oppressed” in advertising, in our cultural narrative, in or social dialog, because this is what a feminine-primary social order believes will resonate with damn near every demographic.” I saw evidence of this a few months back in an episode of Longmire. An abused woman goes to Longmire’s daughter (Cady) for help, from her estranged partner. The abuser tracks her down to the law practice. He proposes marriage to her and she like some gushing teenage agrees to take him back. But days later she returns with bruises… Read more »
The ultimate frame control battle outlined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK7n_XA40V8
@Scribblerg Don’t look on social media for the neocons. The working class neocons are out serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Best to look where they’ll most likely to be found. Who are the CEOs of today who will succeed Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney to become secretary of defense and vice president to a future administration? I didn’t know who Michael Cernovich was until I read your post. But the way you dismissed his inability to provide for himself, harks back to an age where men were what they worked for. It’s easy to impugn a man’s character when… Read more »
@scrib People often forget that long term contracts are an asset and that a nation increasing tariffs often throws those assets down the crapper. Goodwill is also thrown in the crapper when govt. starts changing the playing field because risks increase substantially. Let’s play with the tariff idea a bit. Nation increases tariffs. Foreign suppliers for resellers change/dump contracts. Resellers are hurt. That’s both distributors and retail. Jobs are lost. Domestic manufacturing may take up the slack. Depends on risk and availability of capital and cost of doing business. Domestic manufacturing jobs may be created. Maybe the manufacturer will find… Read more »
“If there’s a need to depict women as oppressed, then it screams for attention” Herself! hoisted the now conventional strawman: “Confront violence against women. One in five women in America is sexually assaulted while in college. Twenty-two percent of women experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.” Miranda Lambert, Underwood, Dixie Chicks normalize overt violent misandry. (She just burned his house down! She just smashed his car! She murdered that son-o-bitch! You go girl!) Hell and gone from Tammy Wynette’s Good Lovin’: “If you don’t believe what I’m telling you is so, /… Read more »
Holy hell
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@fox
It’s called sexual tension. The “alpha” bitch wants you to fuck her face–hard. She wants to be dominated and in the most humiliating way.
When I first encountered such behavior from the occasional woman, I didn’t understand it because most women adore me. It was another woman, a retired plate, who explained it to me.
How you go about this is up to you. Remember, that to an Indian woman, getting a real white man is the holy grail
Bump
“What is money?”
a promise to complete a trade
“How is wealth created?”
by exploiting competitive advantages to obtain a trade surplus
@fleezer
Money is potential commerce.
Wealth is created by labor => what is wealth?
Wealth is Goods & Services…a contract to deliver in the future is a good itself…intellectual property is a good…the creation of a market is a service…the accumulation of capital by a bank is a service
“Wealth is created by labor”
forcing people to use a currency with interest attached at inception is not labor and it has created amazing wealth.
“what is wealth?”
the ability to manipulate your environment to the fullest extent that the laws of physics will permit
@fleezer
forcing people to use a currency with interest attached at inception is not labor and it has created amazing wealth.
Not based on my def of “wealth”. Redistribution of wealth is itself not creating wealth. Theft, surely.
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/842000259438006273
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/842020877596262400
https://twitter.com/RobertGreene/status/842090044194205696
@Fleezer:
I can wander into the woods alone and create both money and wealth while I am there.
“forcing people to use a currency with interest attached at inception is not labor and it has created amazing wealth.”
a) non sequitor
b) false
“I can wander into the woods alone and create both money and wealth while I am there.” it’s only money if at least one other person agrees that it is. you can force him to agree, but you can’t complete a trade with yourself. you can definitely create wealth alone as you can exploit natural resources, hunt and gather more calories than were required to obtain them and you can preserve the surplus fruits of your mental and physical labor for future use. “a) non sequitor” if I don’t pay my taxes with their currency, they use their government thug… Read more »
“I can wander into the woods alone and create both money and wealth while I am there.”
If you create (or find) something that people will accept as payment for goods/services.
Still requires the ability to trade (aka make a transaction). Donit?
If I weave myself a Longaberger basket from shavings in the woods, or find and collect Elvis’ toenails, or shoot a squirrel it’s all worth whatever someone is willing to buy or barter for.