We Laugh, They Rule

No columnist’s cleverness could do justice to the absurdity of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s opening prayer for the 117th Congress on Sunday. Cleaver, a Methodist pastor, closed his prayer for national peace “in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and ‘God’ known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and awoman.” No doubt the assembled members afterward went to work on awomendments to important bills.

The wisecracks write themselves. But I wonder which of two modes of laughter we are dealing with here: Do we laugh with confidence that the American people will, in time, overcome such manifest lunacy? Or is it, rather, the bitter laughter familiar to peoples long accustomed to enduring absurd rule? As recently as two or three years ago, I would have picked the former; these days, I’m inclined to think it’s the latter.

That is to say, I worry that this, too, shall not pass—not within my lifetime, anyway. We laugh, they rule.

The absurd regime of woke-ism, with its linguistic mutilations and stark denials of reality, might just consolidate and extend its rule, notwithstanding our confidence that reason must break through and awaken the people. As Adrian Vermeule quipped on Twitter, “People who’ve watched the absurd ‘Latinx’ be normalized and propagated, in real time, by multiple elite institutions are shocked by ‘Awomen.’ Coming to your dictionary soon!”

Indeed. Tellingly, the House’s Democratic majority matched Cleaver’s prayer with a proposal to eliminate all non-“gender-inclusive” language from house rules, not least “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister.” They are to be replaced with terms like “parent, child, sibling, sibling of parent,” and so on. The nonsense from those 1990s critical-theory seminars on “queering the family” is now influencing official policy in the lower chamber of Congress.

Conservatives and those formerly known as mainstream liberals used to laugh at the incomprehensible prose and conceptual gibberish peddled by the likes of Judith Butler; now we live in a sex-and-gender culture more or less designed by Butler types and their lower-brow minions in media and Hollywood and human resources departments.

It could be that liberalism in its current iteration is turning ever more aggressive and woke, accelerating its revolutionary pace and intensity, precisely because it feels itself insecure: vulnerable to its own absurdities and internal contradictions and to the global backlash movements of left and right. That’s a thesis I’ve long entertained. But even if it’s true, it needn’t exclude the possibility of a prolonged woke regime—one powerfully capable of insulating its elites from criticism from below while punishing dissent within elite ranks.

In this scenario, it doesn’t matter if the masses rage or laugh at awoman and the canceling of “Mom,” “Dad,” and “Uncle” in the House of Representatives: Vast wealth inequalities and corporate dominance (on hyperdrive since the COVID-19 lockdowns) mean the balance of forces is too lopsided for any meaningful mass opposition. The economically precarious working middle will scrape by with the help of government checks and find solace, of a kind, in porn and legalized drugs.

Elite opinion, meanwhile, has proved itself thoroughly ductile to Silicon Valley censorship and the “peer pressure” to which elites are always especially vulnerable. Witness this fall’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden muckraking. It wasn’t just that Twitter and Facebook barred circulation of a major news story on false pretexts: The shocking part was that most journalists cheered the censorship as necessary for “democratic” health.

The woke-approved blue-check Twitterati can one day proclaim masks to be worse than useless in fighting the novel coronavirus—and the next day insist vehemently on the opposite position, with outlets like Vox going so far as to delete their earlier anti-mask coverage. Mass gatherings are tantamount to murder—except when it comes to Black Lives Matter protests, which are “practically mandatory as a matter of public moral hygiene,” as Jacob Siegel recently pointed out. Gender is a social construct—but also, some people have an innate sense of their “true” gender that clashes with their bodily sex.

Communism demanded its adherents uphold similar absurdities, of course, which is a point in favor of Ryszard Legutko’s (and, before him, Solzhenitsyn’s) view that communism and liberalism are twin children of the same worldview. Some might find consolation in that fact; Soviet Communism, after all, collapsed after about seven decades. A more pessimistic take is that seven decades is a long time, and the Politburo lacked the wealth and technological prowess of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.

Here is a FAIRYTALE I wish would come true !

Is Epstein The “Kraken?”

On first thought it may sound far fetched and almost too good to be true, but it is always a possibility, and I wouldn’t pass it by Trump having thought of this ingenious maneuver as an insurance policy against his crooked adversaries, and before long we may find out if it is true or false. It certainly would be nothing short of a riot should it turn out to be true. Should it turn out to be true and would help to put some of these hypocrite scumbags in our government behind bars, and put President Trump back in office, it certainly would be worth celebrating with a bottle of champagne.

When Michal Flynn’s former lawyer, Sydney Powell, announced on 23 November that she would soon release the “Kraken,” Trump supporters hoped the mythical beast would transform into a trove of evidence proving Joe Biden and his friends from the Deep State’s dirty tricks division had stollen the election. Since then, Trumps’ election campaign has suffered a string of colossal loses, disappointing supporters awaiting their president’s imminent vindication.

At first Trumpists suspected that the “Kraken” was a cache of secret documents or a computer server hidden in Venezuela; however, recently unearthed information, along with a cryptic tweet, now reveals that the Kraken is a person, and that person is none other than convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the child molester who allegedly committed suicide while incarcerated at New York City’s Metropolitan Correction Center. The bizarre circumstances surrounding his death led many to believe he was murdered by the Deep State, to stop him from naming high-ranking Democrats who often visited Epstein’s orgy island.

But on New Year’s Eve, attorney Lin Wood dropped a MOAB, disclosing that Epstein is alive and well, and, it turns out, in the government’s Witness Protection Program.

Shortly after Epstein’s imprisonment, Trump’s people told Trump that the notorious sex offender had documents and computer records that could cripple the Deep State and Democratic establishment. Trump’s strike force also learned of a Deep State plot to assassinate Epstein in prison. Before the villains had a chance to enact their foul agenda, Trump’s team rescued Epstein from prison and placed him in witness protection in a non-extradition country, where the Deep State couldn’t touch him. The person killed in prison was a body double, our source said.

“The real Epstein is alive right now, and he’s blabbing away to Trump. He’s spilling the beans on every one of them. He’s implicated the Clintons, the Obamas, and the whole Biden family. He has records and picture and video of Joe and Hunter Biden visiting Epstein Island seventeen times in the last five years. There’s video of Joe and Hunter double-teaming a…never mind, I can’t even say it. Trump is getting all the info he needs to show Congress who Joe Biden really is. Even if the election was legitimate, these revelations prove that a person like Joe Biden can never be president,” our source said.

Asked why Epstein cooperated, our source said Trump promised the infamous sex offender a full pardon in exchange for dirt on every Democrat who had ever set foot on Epstein’s isle of debauchery. Trump will issue the pardon on 19 January to forestall political backlash from persons who might object to the sexual predator released back to the streets. The administration also promised to return Epstein’s assets and properties, except for Lolita

Before that happens, Epstein’s evidence must be compelling enough for congress to invalidate the 2020 election and for a military tribunal to either execute Biden or ship him off to GITMO for the rest of his natural life.

“There’s a reason Trump brought back death by firing squad,” our source said.

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