Après Trump, le delúge
The final impediment between the Combine and their ambition of enslaving the working population of the world was Donald J. Trump.
A friend sent me a recent tweet of a former leading Irish politician, attacking President Trump. Nothing new there, but the tweet is telling insofar as it displays the level of ignorance and ignorant spite inculcated in Irish culture on this topic by media mendacity and selectiveness. For reasons of decency, the politician shall remain nameless; suffice it to say that, were you to commence writing on the back of an envelope the names of those most culpable for the destruction of Ireland in recent years, you might, on tripping across his name in your mental search engine, safely leave down both envelope and pencil and rest easy that the job was at least three-quarters complete.
In the wake of the events in Washington DC on the Feast of the Epiphany, this former clown was urging the Irish Government to send signals that a visit by President Trump ‘upon his exiting the White House’, was ‘not welcome’. This sentence alone was sufficient to demonstrate the ignorance and malice of said individual, for it is not within the gift of the Irish Government to prevent or forbid private citizens from visiting Ireland, as amply evidenced by their refusal to man Ireland’s borders for many years. The politician then went on to accuse President Trump ‘and his acolytes’ of sedition, storming ‘the Capital’, subverting democracy, and attempting to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden. He ludicrously ended his tirade: ‘The Irish State should not become a safe haven for a rogue President nor be centre stage in an international extradition controversy.’
There are many things you might say about this self-important rant, but let us, again in the interests of decency, confine our remarks to just one: This tweet was a summary of the media version of what had transpired in Washington a couple of days before, and had absolutely nothing about it resembling truth or honesty.
This is a real problem, perhaps the realest problem we have right now: that there is no reliable source of truth in our public discourse, that all the chief instruments of communication have given themselves over to lies, and that these lies have become unassailable in culture to such an extent that they threaten not just our freedoms and our democracy, but the very future of our civilisation.
The idea that President Trump is guilty of sedition is an absurd lie. If you examine the articles and reports in which the allegation is endlessly repeated, you will not find a single quoted word of President Trump to substantiate the charge. Secondly, the people who stormed the Capitol (it’s Capitol, with an ‘o’) were mostly not ‘acolytes’ or even followers, of Donald Trump, but members of Antifa masquerading as such who were bussed in by the Democratic Party and its allies precisely for that purpose. Some naive Deplorables were caught up in it, including one military veteran who ended up losing her life. The same thing has happened repeatedly in this country, in no small part due to the machinations of the politician who released the aforementioned tweet: Antifa thugs working hand-in-glove with An Garda Siochána to prevent unapproved groups or viewpoints from holding public meetings, fighting elections or even speaking in a public place.
It was obvious to any observer who knows how these things go that the march had been infiltrated by activists from that notorious terrorist organisation, very likely in collaboration with members of the police. Just six months ago, the same media outlets who have tried to crucify President Trump for this episode were describing Antifa/BLM demos around locked-down America as ‘mostly peaceful’, even when the Soros-funded goons were smashing plate glass windows and hurling Molotov cocktails at the cops. Not just lies, but barefaced, industrial lying.
A friend asks what I think essentially happened in Washington on the Feast of the Epiphany. I reply: Same old problem — lack of men. Just like the GOP has for the past two months failed to step up in defence of President Trump, the men on that rally should have recognised the infiltrators and dealt with them in the old-fashioned way before the cops came on the scene.
It was all painfully predictable. Over the past few days, I couldn't help identifying a tone of naïveté in the Deplorables’ anticipation of an imminent victory/vindications through sense, reason and truth. One of the problems is a high-class one: that the people who support Trump are mostly honest, decent, hard-working people, who turn out for rallies to support their President and have an enjoyable, good-humoured time. The other is that the channels of communication are now — all of those belonging to the legacy or ‘mainstream media, as well as the Big Tech-controlled platforms — utterly, irredeemably corrupt.
In a sense, the Deplorables walked into a plot that was much bigger than they have dared to fear. This has slowly been emerging into view in the past ten weeks, as the media put up the shutters on the clear criminality being exposed as having characterised the presidential election. This was barefaced in a way no one had ever seen before. This was something beyond all principle, all morality, all decency, all law. It was like the Deplorables believed that, once the facts of the steal became clear, the media and all the other corrupt entities would stop being corrupt and exclaim, ‘Oh wow! Why didn't you show us this stuff before?’ Even Steve Bannon fell into it, repeatedly assuring his War Room viewers and listeners that Trump would be inaugurated for the second time at high noon on January 20th. It was just a matter of producing the receipts.
It seems implausible that such experienced warriors fall short of a complete understanding of how bad all this has become. And yet, it's the same problem I've run into for many years with people who start debates with me about legal issues and initiatives: They always think that knowing about the law is the way forward, that it's a matter of arguments and procedures, and having a neat theory about the Constitution (any Constitution). Time and again, I've said to them, ‘Yes, but what court are you thinking of making this argument to?’ My point being that, on the basis of what we have seen of recent times, every court, every judge, everywhere, must be regarded as at least potentially dishonest, or irredeemably cowardly, which amounts to the same thing. Unless the law is consistent and dispassionate, there is no law — and it is nowadays, for reasons of ideology and fear of the ideologues, demonstrably neither consistent nor dispassionate. In Ireland, America or anywhere else, there is no constitution other than whatever of it judges are prepared to vindicate, which often — as in the present Covid cult — means that there is no constitution at all.
Gemma O’Doherty and I went into our legal battle last April knowing this full well, with the objective — or hope — of dramatising the problem so that all delusion might be dissipated, so that people might observe and be educated. There may have been a certain naïveté in this position also, since it implies a faith in the media to tell the public the truth. A forlorn hope, these darkening days.
The Americans — salt-of-the-earth Americans, I mean — mostly still don't get it: There is no Constitution anymore; there is no law. These have for some time been fig leafs to camouflage the existence and machinations of the Combine, the real, concealed world government, which has now finally, with the Covid cult, bared its fangs. (‘Combine’ was the word used by Chief Bromden in Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; he used it to describe the force, a kind of evil syndicate, that bears down on humanity, seeking to oppress and re-set its behaviour. The Combine runs everything using technological and human agents like Nurse Ratched and her vicious orderlies. I use it here to denote the hidden government seeking to do precisely that in 2021, specifically using the Covid cult.)
Something else that was predictable was the funking out by Vice-president Mike Pence of his constitutional duty as President of the Senate. The corrupt media, predictably, reported this issue in terms of the Deplorables’ alleged anger with Pence for failing to toss Biden’s electors in favour of Trump’s. This too is bogus: the issue that annoyed people was Pence’s failure to declare a ten-day reprieve to refer the question of tainted Biden electors back to the individual states, some of which clearly wished to revisit the issue. This was signalled earlier by President Trump when, in his speech to the crowd, he expressed the ‘hope’ that Pence would ‘do the right thing’, but without any sense of optimism. Notwithstanding the still-to-be-decided court actions concerning the outcomes in several states, that appeared to be the end of the Trump presidency, not to mention the political career of ‘Pontius Pence’.
When ignorant Irish politicians jump on the bandwagon to accuse Trump of sedition, they do so because they can mouth what they know to be lies in the full knowledge that they are protected by the air-cover supplied by corrupt media, not just in America but in Ireland and every other corner of the world. This represents a far greater threat to freedom than any politician who ever ruled or misruled.
In truth, the election ended a month ago, when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) voted 7-2 not to take the case put together by the State of Texas and 17 other states, in which was alleged a failure by the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin to uphold their own laws in the conduct of the election. Like Mike Pence, the three SCOTUS judges appointed by President Trump are ‘Christians’, appointed in the forlorn hope of shoring up an originalist view of the Constitution for the next 20 years. These are not weird evangelical Christians. All three come from avowedly Catholic families. Neil Gorsuch, appointed by Trump in 2017, was born and raised a Catholic, and educated at a Catholic school, though he latterly worships at the liberal St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder, Colorado. Brett Kavaunagh, appointed by Trump to much hoo-ha in 2018, is a practicing Catholic, of Irish descent on both sides of his family, having derived on his father’s side from a Catholic family in County Roscommon, whence his great-grandfather immigrated in the late 19th century. Amy Coney Barrett, appointed just three months ago, is a descendent of Catholics from County Cavan, and remains strongly Catholic in outlook, in practice and by reputation. All three voted with the liberal coterie to deny the Texan case a hearing, while two judges who owe Trump nothing voted the other way. Like Pence on Wednesday, the ‘SCOTUS Three’ bottled it (and interestingly, just a couple of days after the UK SC bottled in on the Simon Dolan case).
Trump might as well have appointed three rabid liberals — at least one or two of them, on the laws of averages, might have desired to show some gratitude. He appointed this threesome to safeguard the Christian underpinnings of the American Constitution, though this concept is nowadays generally reduced — not least by Christians and Catholics — to a single-issue journalistically-insinuated shorthand: abortion. So far none of these judges has had an opportunity to take a stance on that question, but, so far also, all three appear to be interpreting their roles as implying no responsibility of stewardship with regard to other civilisational questions — such as the rather fundamental matter of the integrity of the voting system.
There is visible here some of the key symptoms of a disquieting tendency to be observed in high-profile Christians in our time: the tendency to run away from issues that cannot be expressly defined as ‘religious’ concerns. Yes, when the issue is religious liberty, or the right to life, such people tend to have a view and a willingness to state it. Otherwise, they seem to think that the world and its concerns — even the most urgent ones — are not the kind of thing Jesus would have an opinion on.
Thus, we find ourselves approaching the dark centre of the most ominous moment Western civilisation has experienced for at least the 75 years since the end of World War II. That moment we are facing is, essentially, courtesy of the instrument of Covid, the final and irreversible looting by the Combine of the resources of the world, in the sense that the purpose is to appropriate the benefits of the creative skills of the human populace, to ensconce all remaining humanly-developed skills in technology so that they will in future belong to the Combine, thus disinheriting and disenfranchising the world’s working population of any claim to a dividend of the fruits of the onset of what is called Artificial Intelligence (AI). Donald Trump may have been the last impediment standing in the way of the Combine in achieving this objective.
A preliminary equivalent of this moment occurred about a century ago, when Frederick Taylor published his book Principles of Scientific Management, in which he set out how such looting might best be conducted. Taylor’s systems were applied to the transfer of functions from men to machines. The role of managers, he wrote, was to gather together ‘all of the traditional knowledge which in the past has been possessed of the workmen’, and subject it to deconstruction, atomisation, tabulation, codification and classification. The point was to extract all the craft-and skill-based elements of each process and vest the knowledge in machines and their operators. This enabled consummate craftsmen to be replaced by low-paid, unskilled workers. For example, up until about 1908, all cars produced by the Ford Motor Company were built by hand; within a few years, they were manufactured completely on assembly lines, and many of the old tradesmen, like upholsterers and wheel-builders, had become surplus to requirements.
The moment we are now approaching is analogous but radically more significant for the human species. This will be the moment of the final looting, the clearing out of the creative reservoirs of the human imagination and the transfer of their contents to the data banks of the Combine. At that point, most of the human race will become surplus to requirements, and will be first of all consigned to a new kind of reservation, perhaps (if we take our cue from Klaus Schwab) to tiny cubicles apartments in ‘smart’ cities, where they will be harnessed biometrically for their physical and mental energies, fed a small dribble of funds to keep body and soul together, but otherwise deemed obsolete, ‘useless eaters’, to be kept in check using methods honed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Over the past seven or eight years, the world has been sucked into a vortex of lies as a consequence of synergies between the upward mobilisation of the Combine in the direction of its own advantage and the plummeting media sector approaching from the opposite, downward direction. We were in the vicinity, then, of the optimal moment for the seizing of the Combine’s vital interest in harnessing what remained of the legacy media to enspell huge sections of the population using a form of — literally — hypnotic trance. The Big Tech operators, being part of the Combine, were able to harness the legacy media to their train of wickedness, as if they already owned the presses and broadcast masts.
For this level of propaganda to work, it requires to be unremitting and consistent of content, communicating the same message across multiple platforms and channels all at once. It also requires a high emotional quotient — the most effective emotion being fear. In this particular instance, there was a specific requirement to target older people, since they were likely to manifest the strongest responses to fear porn directed at health insecurity. For all that the legacy media were headed for the garbage chute, they had a relatively high degree of residual penetration with this constituency. They were also, by virtue of their precarious economics, likely to be easily — and cheaply — bought off.
The world may be in the final days of mass communications in the old sense of universal platforms that unite people who also share geographical locations. In the future, on present trends, people will be united in media terms by commonality of outlook and interest rather than membership of civic, geographic or cultural communities in the old way. In these circumstances, the Combine was approaching possibly the final opportunity to impose its final Great Lie upon the general population, before the communications market fragmented into a tangle of narrowcasting networks that, left to their own devices, should almost certainly preclude the possibility of conducting such an operation in the future.
But the legacy media have been making serious hay out of this final opportunity, not merely seeking to capitalise on the demand arising from the Combine’s agenda but, not accidentally, pushing for the fulfilment of their own pet agendas before they finally give up the ghost. The last five years have stood witness to the total abandonment of every last vestige of journalistic principle and morality, as the world’s media shamelessly sought to resist the popular movements rising instinctively to resist the Combine’s move to effect its own final agenda. In a series of onslaughts on human consciousness, the media, under direction of the Combine, had over several decades softened up the resistance of the public realm by provoking new and completely artificial conflicts between men and women, straight and homosexual, black and Caucasian — creating a moral inversion in culture by manipulating imposed identities to insinuate evil as good and good as evil. In response to this, a new and — this time — naturalistic divide opened up across Europe and the Americas — the Able men of Greek legend versus the soyboys of the Virtual classes, the Deplorable versus the Woke.
The Deplorables’ spirited fightback manifested in a series of shocks to the system — Trump, Brexit, Gilets Jaunes — that spurred the Combine to retaliatory action and offered the corrupt and dying media a chance of time-added-on.
In the attempts to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump in the US, and the democratic decision of the UK to leave the European Union —both events occurring in 2016 — the legacy media of virtually the entire Western hemisphere broke new ground under the headings of mendacity and corruption. But it is inadequate to describe what they achieved as mere lying. In truth, the media constructed a wall of lies around the public realm and its culture, turning the lies into virtual realities with the appearance of actuality. This process was so unremitting, so hard-nosed, so total, that it became impossible to expose or even persuasively critique. Every potential mode of opening it up to scrutiny was already booby-trapped by prejudicial characterisation and semantic landmines. Those who protested had been categorised in advance as ‘the far right’ or ‘conspiracy theorists’ — spell phrases that cast a cloud of dubiousness around their targets — so that the objections of those seeking to defend humanity bounced off the wall of lies and ricocheted back to immobilise them.
As a result, in less than a fortnight, America may inaugurate as its President a man who has hidden behind the Combine and its mob to steal an election and, by virtue of the debt so incurred, hand himself body and (what is left of his) soul into the service of the Combine. This, if brought to completion on January 20th, will amount to a scandal unprecedented in the modern ages, casting a cloud of shame over the largest democracy in the world that may never again be dissipated, instigating a loss of freedom that may never be reversed, and almost certainly escalating a related contagion of moral decrepitude throughout the former Free World.
These are the costs of cowardice. These are the costs of failing to understand that the phrase ‘Christian Civilisation’ is not a lazy or felicitous alliteration, that there is a profound connection between its constituent words. To be Christian is to be connected umbilically to the civilisation built upon the myth or legacy of Jesus Christ. To be ‘civilised’ in this connection means to be immersed in the truths and teachings of the Church, which is to say predominantly the Catholic Church, for all its recent decrepitude. To be Christian is also, in the purest political sense, to struggle, fight for human freedom from oppression and tyranny. Once, Christians took to the road each day with a constant openness to becoming martyrs for their beliefs, embracing the plagued and leprous along the way. Now they slither about in face masks, afraid of being attacked by their own shadows.
I'm guessing: The Christian ‘SCOTUS Three’ didn't want to appear 'partisan'. They wanted to prove they were 'objective' judges, not like the other guys! But that's a position from the old reality, the one that's been falling apart in plain sight for much of the past decade, and crumbling relatively quietly for the past half-century. They just don't get it: There won't be a safe place for anyone if the filth is allowed to have its way.
Now it's all but too late. The US is on the cusp of allowing into office a President whom at least half of the population (maybe a lot more) understands has stolen the election, and thinks this a bad thing. The corrupt media have constructed the plot, and the Deplorables have walked straight into it as the bad guys, the ones now rioting and marauding. The Deplorables protest: ‘But you didn't say anything when it was BLM — now it's us, you've stopped turning a blind eye!’ What did they think was going to happen? Did they think the press was suddenly going to get honest and stop trying to fix things for Joe and go back to ‘reporting the facts’?
Disgracefully, Gorsuch, Kavaunagh and Coney Barrett have demonstrated that they value respectability more than truth, and imagine it's possible to defend their values in a nice, civilised way, without all the crudeness and rudeness of that terrible Trump fellow. The ‘SCOTUS Three’ think: ‘Oh but we're eminently qualified to be members of SCOTUS, and would have made it anyway, even if Trump had never existed! Our talent and genius was visible to all! We owe that vulgarian nothing! Once things settle down, we can get on with preserving Christian values, and it'll be easier when Trump is no longer around to embarrass us!'
Haha! I hope it stays fine for them for a little longer so they can make their escape. They have no idea that what's actually unfolding is the staged ending of Western civilisation, that the clock is being put back 600, if not 2,500 years. That there won't be a world afterwards for them to conduct themselves as reasonable, sober Christian democrats in. That there won’t be a civilisation in which to posture as civilised. Après Trump, le delúge.