Some years ago, a friend of this writer observed during some marathon debate or another that I had a nasty habit of taking two sides in an argument, and he derisively called me Janus from then on.
Each contributor here represents distinct personalities in the mind of one man:
Janus
When of one mind, Janus' views
form a composite of his two main sides. He attempts to consider issues with care and thoughtfulness, though he remains biased towards Christianity and Western
traditions. Outsiders might call him a Conservative, but in fact he is a Fundamentalist in that he promotes the Christian values that raised Western civilization to its peak.
At times, Janus possesses two minds on a given subject. Sometimes these thoughts oppose one another; sometimes they
merely differ. At other times, one mind will take interest in a matter while the other will not. The two sides might even agree, but for different reasons.
Patulcius
One of the faces, looking to our right and called Patulcius, is the headstrong and determined side of Janus, tending to authoritarian ideals. Patulcius looks to history and upholds the traditions of
Christianity and Western civilization, and the well-being of Western nations. Patulcius sees world events as a struggle between divine and demonic
forces.
Clusivius
The other face—the easy-going, more open-minded, left-facing Clusivius—dislikes authority and prefers a more individualistic outlook. Clusivius looks to the future and contemplates changes. While
Christian, Clusivius takes an interest in the well-being of other civilizations as well as the Western. Clusivius tends to believe that elitist conspiracies play a major part in world events.
Concorditas
When possible, the complete Janus seeks to form a synthesis of the two sides when making a decision. At other times Janus allows any differences to stand without resolution. But now and again the two sides must battle one another until one side wins Janus' acceptance.
Other Contributers
C. F. van Niekerk
Tending to sensationalize, and sometimes to hyperbolize, C. F. van Niekerk over-analyzes any number of subjects from mundane minutiae to the great philosophical questions of life itself.
Barzillai "19th Century" Bozarth
Barzillai Alpheus Bozarth claims to be a 19th Century man marooned in the 21st Century after a failed experiment in inter-dimensional travel. Not at all impressed with the wonders of our time, he would give just about anything to return to his beloved world of "horse manure and civilized etiquette". Barzillai writes historical observations and pores over old books and documents.
Concussus
Nature can be cruel to mankind.
If Concussus had his way, nature would be crueler yet. Concussus tends to arrive at the blackest of times, when humanity seems the most despicable.
Diabolus
Diabolus, the devil's advocate. Sometimes we are tempted to embrace the evil world that we despise. Diabolus is there to encourage us in this folly. Fortunately a rare visitor here.
I display this flag in solidarity with white Southerners, whose heritage today's decrepit society strives to erase; and as a sign of resistance to the globalist elites, their agents, and their agendas.
He didn't like ungrateful blacks, so it's the blacklist for this American icon.
An American hero for generations, today's zer-gendered freaks want to eradicate all traces of Andrew Jackson.
Vilified for decades, Leftists are demanding the end of Columbus Day and monuments to the God-fearing man who opened the Americas for Europe.
Liberals once heralded Woodrow Wilson's progressive social policies. Now modern Leftists intend to erase all homages to America's 28th president because he supported segregation.
Anti-fascist mutant terrorists would remove all monuments to Texas founding father Sam Houston because he was a slaveowner and a Southerner.
Roger B. Taney, the 5th Chief Justice of the United States, upheld the Constitution and the laws of the land in the Dredd Scott case of 1857. For that decision, his statue was recently removed from his home state of Maryland, a slap in the face to all of his contributions as a public servant.
Monuments to Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln are now attacked. We have quickly descended to the point where the enemies of our people will vilify any white historical figure if he upheld his people, his religion, his body of knowledge, and his civilization. We must annihilate these forces of barbarism or they will shortly annihilate us!
As overpaid, over-valued black athletes refuse to honor our flag because they believe police treat them unfairly, the NAACP demands that our nation change its historic anthem to something that represents the new, anti-White USA. Because Francis Scott Key's lyrics mentioned slaves without condemning slavery.
With historic monuments of founding-stock America tumbling everywhere, the neo-Jacobins have set their revolutionary sites on the remnants of the biblical Christian churches.
I display this flag, not in support of the traitorous US government, but in support of the European-descended people who built this country and bled for it, a people once known simply as the Americans.
I have wondered just how many of the roughly forty percent of Americans who have so far resisted the infernal Covid “vaccine” would cave in the face of losing their jobs or their monetary benefits. I had hoped that anywhere from ten to twenty percent would actually resist and lose their jobs.
As usual in these days, my hopes seemed naive and optimistic.
About 99% of the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s 38,000 employees have complied with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, including about 760 who got exemptions or deferrals for medical or religious reasons.
Less than 1%, or about 380, were fired or quit rather than get the shots.
Indiana University Health announced Thursday that 125 employees have been terminated after choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
A spokesperson provided the following statement: “Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1. After a two-week unpaid suspension period ending Sept. 14, a total of 125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization.”
The hospital system has about 36,000 employees.
So about 2% of the University of PA’s medical workforce got exemptions and deferrals, with another roughly 1% quitting or getting fired. IU Health didn’t report exemptions and deferrals, but the less than 1% figure is consistent between the two stories.
These figures suggest that when it comes down to it, less than 1% of the population is likely to resist this tyranny when threatened with the loss of their livelihoods.
I have to consider that these stories could simply be total propaganda, but I suspect there is at least some basis of manipulated facts here.
It’s possible that these reports are hiding some attrition that happened before the mandates took effect. Also, these particular employees almost certainly don’t represent a typical American company (medical industry, liberal university employers, disproportionately female staff, etc.)
Still, a lot of these are people who could presumably see, firsthand, whether the Covid and vaccine psy-ops had some basis in truth or not. They would see whether the hospitals were flooded with dying Covid victims or people suffering from Covid shot complications, or not. (Yet that’s giving dumb, unobservant, uncritical Americans too much credit, perhaps.)
I’m guessing that the 1% figure is going to be pretty close to what will end up happening. 1 – 5% non-compliance, I’m thinking, when all is said and done.
The 40% of the public who has no interest in taking this shot will almost entirely cave under the pressure of losing their jobs and sacrificing their comfortable lifestyles.
On top of that depressing figure, I wonder what percentage of that presumed 1 to 5% has the fortitude, after losing their jobs or livelihoods, to face arrest and imprisonment in isolation camps? Less than half, I would guess.
That’s quite a bit of guessing. More data will come in during the next month or two, and then we’ll know. But at the end of the day, the American “resistance” looks like it’s going to be quite manageable for the globalist elites.
Neutered and declawed housecats freak out when they see the naked sky, too terrified to even move when they leave their cushy homes. The fat, stupid, spoiled, amoral, American people are even more domesticated than that.
Bullies suck. They often ruin people’s lives, they hurt the innocent, and they make a mockery of justice, but they are also an essential part of life, and they unwittingly perform some useful functions. Like rats or jackals.
Not many years ago, the supposedly liberal and egalitarian dystopia that rules over us rolled out a public campaign against school bullying. On the surface, this campaign appealed to the parental horror at bigger kids teasing and abusing their own children, and it also took advantage of the tragic wave of cyber-bullying that led some kids to commit suicide. But even though the campaign addressed those issues, its main focus wasn’t really about protecting regular kids from getting beaten up or from online harassment. It was about giving societal cover to gays and other sexual deviants in school and society, and to further break the spirit of normal white boys so that the system can more easily bully them into silence! Bullying the bullies to spread deviance and weakness. And the program has worked splendidly for the Satanic regime. It helped usher in the scourge of “non-binaries” and school trannies.
As unpleasant as bullying may be for children and their parents, childhood bullying does serve a useful and even necessary societal purpose. The fact is, bullying is a part of life and always will be till Christ returns. It is a tactic of any society to impose conformity and cohesion. It is a tactic of the powerful to impose obedience. And certainly, yes, in many cases it’s a tactic of the cruel and the insecure to gain petty power over those who are weaker.
While the bully so often represents the worst elements of society and the most brutal means of control, in a healthy and vigorous society (the opposite of what we have today), the childhood bully in particular serves some useful functions.
[For decades, Hollywood has maligned the stereotypical bully in order to neutralize organic moral policing and otherwise weaken white male authority.]
In persecuting odd or especially weak behavior, the bully teaches other children to avoid doing some very stupid things, most of which would contribute to these childrens’ inability to cope with strife and survival. For instance, historically a bully would tease or even beat up another boy if he were to wear girls’ clothing to school. The lesson: little boys shouldn’t wear girls’ clothes in public, nor should they be sissies. And mentally this behavior keeps little boys from even having the inclination to wear little girls’ clothes; the very idea will properly repulse him. Such bullying creates a conformity of thought towards healthy values. In this case, it prevents sissy boys.
Even in cases where a bully is simply acting as a senseless terror, he teaches other children—for better or worse—how to deal with such aggressive people. It used to be almost a rite of passage for a boy to stand up to a school bully, an act that would so often free him from the abuses of his tormentor and any tormentors in the future. At the very least, the school bully taught other children different means to avoid his abuse. Some learned not to stick out from the pack. Some learned to ignore him till he found another target. Some merely received the useful experience of a beating or two (which so often taught the victim that a beating wasn’t the end of the world, and—as mentioned—eliminated some very foolish behavior.) Sadly, some bullied children even learned to grovel and crawl on their bellies to survive (which is the worst survival lesson.)
Sometimes the bully unintentionally teaches his victims to gain strength, or to give mercy and compassion, though also the bully scars people for life and they become bitter victims or cowards or bullies themselves. But even the existence of these scarred people in a society that tolerates bullies is better than the broken, over-medicated apathetic tranny Otherkin wasteland that exists today!
But the greatest lesson of the bully is to learn to stand up to him.
[But even in Hollywood a few decades ago, the moral lesson for the bullied was more often to learn to fight his white oppressor than to appeal to authority for help or to use subversive trickery.]
The suppression of bullying in our society, the deliberate spread of the “live and let live” attitude among the common people, allowed the Democracy of Satan to spread amoral filth and atomized individualism everywhere it reigns. The “live and let live” attitude, which is the very opposite of bullying, neutralized any collective pushback against the spread of Satanic influences in society. More and more freed from persecution, people adopted increasingly dysfunctional, unproductive, and anti-social “lifestyles” to suit their carnal whims. Potheads. Tattooed freaks. Buddhists. Homosexuals. Wiccans. Trannies. Bronies. Etc. All grew unchecked partly because of individualism, and partly by the active suppression of brawling and public shaming and, yes, bullying.
The local community traditionally used moral policing (bullying) to keep people in line, and it worked organically. But modernism spread across the culture, and people transferred the duties of moral policing from themselves to professional institutions (like they did with so much else.) So while everyone was living according to their individual fancies and letting everyone else live “as thou wilt,” Satanists of various stripes collaborated to take over these institutions. They used the powers of the culture and the state to break the old moral hierarchy. They imposed social libertarianism on the dominant white culture while fostering anti-white cohesion among non-whites and while feeding the growth of different white sub-cultures (like the gays and feminists.)
One noteworthy exception to rise of institutional live-and-let-live society was the social campaign in the 1990’s against cigarette smokers. Yes, the system attacked the cigarettes themselves and the cigarette companies (“Big Tobacco,” they ominously called it), but the system really focused their ire in the smokers themselves. At a time when the culture really started pushing political correctness, where people were silenced in their criticisms of any ‘victim’ class, the system used the popular culture to encourage the public shaming and bullying of smokers, blaming them for second-hand illnesses and high medical costs. And denied the ability to express public prejudice against almost every other class, the impressionable upscale types used snobbery, shaming, moralizing, and shunning to bully the smokers into hiding their habit or quitting. The smoker—sometimes denied jobs or health insurance, and forced to smoke outside and then away from entrances, then aggressively taxed—became an officially-sanctioned oppressed class, and they still are. States continue to raise cigarette taxes without resistance, and the feds just absurdly raised the smoking age to 21 (while working to legalize pot and drop the age of consent for sex.)
[The system has encouraged the public shaming of smokers for decades. This prepared the way for today’s shaming of ‘anti-vaxxers.’]
So now that the Satanists have sufficiently broken down the formerly dominant white society (derided as having “white privilege”) into atomized individuals, displacing us with a sweeping diversity of minorities and sexual identities; and now that that technologies cheaply allow mass surveillance and control of every individual on Earth; the system has cast aside “live and let live” libertarianism and has embraced absolute societal bullying on a mass scale under the cover of the Covid 19 psy-op and its subsequent “vaccination” campaigns.
Now that the Satanic system has gained supreme moral authority in the West, they are now free to bully the public into submission or shut them out entirely. People who fall out of line with the system are censored, sued, beaten, imprisoned, and blocked from working or conducting business with no justice, and even murdered. Just like the anti-smoking campaign, the ‘woke’ and ‘tolerant’ can abuse and spit on the ‘fascists’ and ‘haters.’ The “vaxxed” are free and even encouraged to abuse the ‘unvaxxed’ as a virtuous act of social pressure.
In effect, mass bullying.
One way or another, bullying will happen. We can have bullies who promote strength, purity, and common decency. Or we can have bullies who promote sexual filth, mental illness, self-genocide, family dysfunction, and Satanism like we have now.
The Democracy of Satan is bullying those of us who adhere to traditional Christian values and norms, who respect our history and heritage, and they expect us to submit or die. We are the silent schoolboy whom the bully has targeted, and under his oppression we have a decision to make.
In the schoolyard as in the workplace as in the Thanksgiving meal as in the prison yard, there is only one way to assert one’s freedom and humanity in the face of sneering bullies: by fighting back.
Preferably, we can resist and push back and fight as a group in solidarity, but we can fight alone if we have to. The tactics will vary according to circumstances, but the system is fast removing the incentive to lie low and hide. They are drawing us out. To survive, we need to find others like us and band together.
“Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?
“Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.
“What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
“Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth.
“For a nation has come up against My land, Strong, and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
“He has laid waste My vine, And ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away; Its branches are made white.”
Joel 1:2-7
[“You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.” Deuteronomy 28:38]
At the end of the day, the notion of community solidarity for typical white Americans does not exist. It’s a pipe dream. Modern Americans just aren’t wired for it.
Not in the small towns. Not in the vast majority of churches. Not in the special interest groups, nor political action groups, nor social clubs. Not even within their families. In the end, modern Americans will never, for very long, sacrifice a significant portion of their time and energy into community or group interests. The individual triumphs over the collective. That is America.
Individualism made the United States, and individualism is breaking the United States.
Several statesmen over the past few centuries have said some variant of British Prime Minister Henry John Temple’s quote, “Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.” Well, if we’re speaking of individuals in the United States, instead of nations: typical Americans have no permanent friends or enemies, they only have personal interests. And those personal interests are ephemeral, based on the circumstances of their lives at a given time.
[“You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity. The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground. The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.” Deuteronomy 28:41-43]
In America, on the one hand, there is only the distant and all-powerful state handing out benefits, order, and direction from above like a fat and ruthless god (and in fact usurping God), and on the other hand, the atomized individual with his self-centered pursuits. Typical Americans are not permanently tied to a local community, church, family, or even friendships, not in the sense of long-term group cohesion. The notions of long-term loyalty and commitment and duty are fluid and situational rather than solid and permanent.
This may sound very critical of typical Americans personally, but I don’t mean it as personal criticism. It’s just acknowledgment of the fact. As people in America are so fond of resignedly saying: “It is what it is.”
But I do criticize the system itself that has created a dismal situation that has forced even community-oriented people into coming to terms with an “every man for himself” reality. I don’t fault Americans personally, but I do fault us collectively.
Almost since its inception, the United States has emphasized the individual over the collective while rejecting past traditions in favor of progress.
[“They fell down and worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like (as great as) the beast, and who is able to wage war against him?'” Revelation 13:4]
The scale and power of the state and large businesses have steadily grown at the expense of local authorities and small business.
As technologies have advanced, so has our physical mobility within a vast country, and people don’t or even can’t put down roots in a given place.
Capitalism run amok creates the mindset of “what’s in it for me?”
Soft-living and overall affluence have created a population that constantly lowers standards of behavior towards the casual and anonymous and the mediocre.
The American system rewards the grasshopper and punishes the ant, at least for those culturally atomized multitudes who historically comprise the “Americans.”
And unless you are some kind of Anabaptist, or Mormon (maybe), or some other close-knit religious unit that requires personal sacrifice to the group, or you belong to some cohesive ethnic minority group, if you are an American, you (and I) are grasshoppers whether we like it or not.
[“Beware of the false prophets, [teachers] who come to you dressed as sheep [appearing gentle and innocent], but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15]
Of course, among us grasshoppers, some of us are more grasshopper-ish than others. Some typical Americans are more atomized than others. Some do still give more than they take, while a growing number of other Americans give or produce almost nothing at all.
So, to the idealist American who thinks he can turn grasshoppers into ants through the power of his sacrifice and persuasion, beware! The grasshoppers will unthinkingly take everything that the would-be ant will give, and they will not reciprocate.
Good luck building a community in America of like-minded people who will work collectively for long-term survival. It will never happen, not until outside circumstances force it to happen. Not with family. Not with political allies. Not with your gun club. Not with more than a friend or two, and probably not even then. And not even between Americans who are aware of what’s going on!
You might have the finest group of church people trying to act with the best of community intentions, consciously trying to survive the coming desolation, but if the group is composed of your standard Americans, then you can’t really count on them to act outside of their short to medium-term personal interests. They are modern Americans. You might as well build a doomsday fortress out of empty McDonald’s cups.
Ultimately, a country of spoiled grasshoppers cannot stand for long. A system that punishes the producers in favor of the takers, that has lost its group cohesion, that has cut itself off from strong moral traditions, such an empire will not stand. It’s breaking down before our very eyes.
[“And just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the time of [the second coming of] the Son of Man: the people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, [they were indifferent to God] until the day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:26-27]
So what to do?
For the would-be American ant to survive this scourge of American grasshopper-dom, he’s unfortunately got to apprise his situation and take note.
First, he should look around and figure out who his true friends and allies are. Some people who appear to be friends, or who are technically family, won’t stand by him when the time comes. They will use him, or they will betray him. Maybe both. They aren’t on his side, and they never really were.
And he should count himself very lucky if he has a group, community, family, or friends who are truly on his team.
But, if the would-be ant is blessed with allies, chances are these allies will still be Americans and thus grasshoppers, more or less. So the American has to be careful, lest the grasshoppers, even his teammates, leave him in the lurch.
If he’s a giver, he should never give more than he can tolerate losing. At the end of the day, he must survive.
The giver should assess those who take from him. Do they reciprocate? How much do they reciprocate? A consistently lop-sided arrangement is a fool’s errand. He should back off from those who take too much and give too little. And he shouldn’t give much more than the other consistently reciprocates. He should achieve a social balance.
[“Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14]
Also, the giver shouldn’t attach himself to sinking ships. To some extent, this situation might be unavoidable. America is one colossal sinking ship, after all! But if the giver’s tight-knit group is incapable of survival, and refuses to act as a unit, or otherwise presents more of a threat to survival than a benefit, then the giver should back away from this group as much as possible and seek better units.
As far as seeking better units, as I said, there are no good ones to be had in modern America, unless the giver can find a cohesive religious or ethnic group that will fully accept him. That’s why, even if the giver’s group isn’t very good, he should try to avoid burning his bridges altogether if he can. Sometimes even a lousy group is better than no group at all. Emphasis on sometimes!
For most of us givers, the best we can do is place ourselves in an environment where the most ant-like of grasshoppers live, an environment that is reasonably distant from the worst of the takers, and among our own kind as much as possible (ethnically, religiously, politically, philosophically, etc.) in the hopes that when the United States does break down, we can participate in organizing a more-or-less functioning community.
But that organization will never happen until Americans are forced into it.
[“…and that no one will be able to buy or sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:17]
While the giver waits, he should continue to seek out other like-minded, giving, relatively sane people wherever they congregate, then get involved with them in some way. But he should only give slowly and see how much the others reciprocate as he gives. It takes a long time to build trust, so it’s important to start this process as soon as possible.
And the giver should recognize those in his life who are already loyal and giving and on his team, not throwing them away unless those people themselves are a hopelessly sinking ship that will pull him under.
In the meantime, while he waits and seeks our Lord, the would-be ant has to make do with grasshopper America as best as he can.
And always remember that God is in control, even in the midst of this whole nightmare mess, and He wants every grasshopper to become an ant in the safety and beauty of his Hive.
That is the best that fighting, discerning, unyielding Christians can do in the Empire of Grasshoppers.
May the Lord have mercy on us all!
“But you, believers, [all you who believe in Christ as Savior and acknowledge Him as God’s Son] are not in spiritual darkness [nor held by its power], that the day [of judgment] would overtake you [by surprise] like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day.
“We do not belong to the night nor to darkness. So then let us not sleep [in spiritual indifference] as the rest [of the world does], but let us keep wide awake [alert and cautious] and let us be sober [self-controlled, calm, and wise].
“For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.
“But since we [believers] belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope and confident assurance of salvation.
“For God has not destined us to [incur His] wrath [that is, He did not select us to condemn us], but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died [willingly] for us, so that whether we are awake (alive) or asleep (dead) [at Christ’s appearing], we will live together with Him [sharing eternal life].
“Therefore encourage and comfort one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:4-11
[Ill-tempered end-note: And for any of you nit-picking Asperger asswipes out there, I totally understand that worker ants are females who work for their queen, rather than men working for a patriarchal God, so my use of generic male pronouns doesn’t quite work in the analogy. But I am addressing all Americans anyway, male or female (but most assuredly NOT some imaginary gender variant thereof.) So try to look at the big picture for once! Sigh!]
Speaking at a briefing in Washington on Thursday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the US will reduce its staff numbers in Afghanistan down to a “core diplomatic presence” in Kabul.
Hours earlier, the embassy in Kabul warned all Americans remaining in Afghanistan to leave “immediately,” offering them assistance in purchasing plane tickets and securing visas for family members if necessary.
Two US officials also told Reuters that a “significant” number of Americans would be evacuated from the embassy, with Pentagon spokesman John Kirby later telling the media that 3,000 US troops would be sent to the embassy and to Kabul airport to aid with the evacuation. Despite the reinsertion of thousands of troops, Kirby insisted that the deployment did not represent a reversal of the American withdrawal, but was intended to get US embassy personnel securely out of the country.
Amid the apparent scramble to get Americans out of the country, Price insisted that “our embassy remains open and our diplomatic mission will endure.”
However, US diplomacy has apparently fallen on deaf ears in Afghanistan since American troops began their withdrawal from the country in May. Despite ongoing US-supported peace talks in Qatar, and appeals from the White House, the Taliban’s blitzkrieg campaign to retake control of Afghanistan continues unabated.
Shortly before Price’s briefing, the militants claimed control of Kandahar, the country’s second-largest city. Earlier on Thursday they took control of Ghazni, 150km (95 miles) from the capital, and around the time of the briefing they reportedly seized Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest urban center. If reports of the Taliban’s success at Kandahar and Herat are true, the group now controls 12 Afghan provincial capitals, and more than two-thirds of Afghanistan’s territory.
Without US support, Afghanistan’s military has struggled to counter the Taliban threat. Troops stationed near the country’s borders have been driven out into neighboring countries, and earlier on Thursday, the US embassy in Kabul reported that surrendering Afghan troops have been executed and their military and civilian leaders unlawfully detained by Taliban forces.
The US embassy in Kabul described the alleged executions as “deeply disturbing,” adding that they “could constitute war crimes.”
American weaklings crying about war crimes as they flee the rightful rulers of this country, conveniently ignoring the fact that we killed thousands of their innocents over twenty years of invasion, occupation, and perversion of Afghan societies.
The Taliban represent the tenacity of resistance, the power of common-sense belief in moral order versus materialist moral relativism. They stand for their local peoples, for their traditional faith, for their ancestors who have paid with their lives—generation after generation—fighting against one invasion of their lands after another, ultimately outlasting the petty geopolitical whims of their adversaries.
These are real men fighting for everything that is dear to them against the mercenary pawns of degeneracy and nihilism. Now those pawns are turning tail like licked dogs.
And I don’t care that the Taliban are heathens. Are they greater heathens than those who impose homosexuality and feminism under the disingenuous guise of freedom?
During the five years of Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, the “Islamic Emirate” eliminated the opium trade and punished child rapists. Since 2001, the so-called freedom that the Americans have imposed has restored both these vices and then some.
Today, the Taliban control most of the country without help from foreign governments. This proves they are popular and have the support of the population. In 2019, NATO fully admitted the mission was a failure and the US began “negotiating” with the Taliban without the Kabul state.
The US military openly state that the Afghan Army raises money through the sale of children. Child molestation (called bacha bazi locally) is a part of the “army culture” there. British and American Marines have stated over and over again that child molestation is endemic. This is part of the reason the Taliban are so popular. They have every right to be. They shoot child molesters and drug dealers while the US and ANA welcome them or at least tolerate them. The Taliban legislate the death penalty for this crime. The Kabul government uses “Chai Boys” on every base without exception. Those complaining or escaping are shot.
In the same article, Johnson quotes an angry American Marine:
I did 3 combat deployments to this very area as a Marine and you have no idea how corrupt these people are. Not once did I ever go to an Afghan police/army checkpoint and not find little boy sex slaves. We even had one police officer shoot and kill one of these boys because he got raped by another officer. Shit’s fucked up. The media knew about all of this and never said a fucking thing until that Green Beret got kicked out of the Army for beating the shit out of one of these rapists. Not to mention I’ve lost more friends to these assholes in “isolated insider attacks” than to Taliban! Fuck our “Afghan allies.” In my opinion, we’re shooting the wrong Afghans. This shit takes a toll on you having to sit back and watch this shit first hand and not being able to say or do a fucking thing about it (emphasis in the original).
It’s amazing how, these days, the US government’s definition of “freedom” always amounts to sodomy, drug addiction, and every other perversion of God’s Order that Satan can push.
So hooray for the Taliban! Hooray for tenacity and justice against foreign invasion and filth!
Afghanistan has been called the “Graveyard of Empires,” as the British and Soviets so recently and pathetically demonstrated.
May calloused Taliban hands shovel ancient Oxus dirt upon the extra-wide casket of this latest sick and bloated pig, the Zionist-infested American Empire.
Sitting here in mellow enchantment with my good friend that happens to be a cheap Missouri Meerschaum pipe, I can only lean backward with amusement (with a subtle flavor of contempt) as South Africa continues its downward spiral:
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed the military Monday to restore law and order after days of violent protests and mass looting following the imprisonment of former leader Jacob Zuma. The latest round of social unrest is some of the worst since the mid-1990s.
The widespread looting and social unrest were triggered by last week’s incarceration of former President Zuma.
Last week, Acting Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe issued a forceful ruling, ordering a prison term because it would be “the only appropriate sanction” after Zuma repeatedly refused to appear when summoned for hearings at South Africa’s Constitutional Court. The court was responsible for overseeing an investigation into corruption headed by Raymond Zondo, South Africa’s deputy chief justice, according to the BBC.
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Protests and looting which started Thursday in KwaZulu-Natal and spread to Johannesburg on Saturday continued early Monday with major malls and shopping centers being ransacked.
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Zuma, 79, started serving a prison sentence for contempt of court in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday night, and ensuing protests had so far largely been restricted to the coastal province.
I’m no expert on South African politics these days (I’m no expert on anything these days), but Jacob Zuma more or less represented the Zulu nation within South Africa rather than the country as a whole, when he served as president. It’s the Zulu who are rioting in South Africa, and seemingly no one else.
The Zulu people represent about a quarter of the total population of South Africa, the vast majority of them living near their native land in the eastern part of the country, in and around the province of KwaZulu-Natal. They are the country’s largest single ethnic group, and they have always functioned as a distinct nation within South Africa.
Zuma earned the ire of the globalist elites who control South Africa by his flamboyant corruption and, more importantly, by his fanning the flames of Zulu nationalism to cement his political power. They never really supported his presidency. He was kind of a South African version of Trump, just more competent.
Jacob Zuma with supporters.
With the standard of living in the country continuing to decline, it was easy to justify his forced removal from power. After a few failed attempts, the elites succeeded to force Zuma’s resignation in 2018.
But (with typical, if restrained, third-world vindictiveness) South Africa’s political elites under Cyril Ramaphosa continued to see Zuma as a threat and decided to arrest him, finally doing so on July 7.
Don’t get me wrong. I could give a rat’s rare-cooked rump roast about whichever black African elite gets to play Manager of South Africa. My point is that the country called “South Africa” is a farce, a group of disparate ethnic groups all squabbling for control of a single, increasingly dysfunctional, ruling entity. And this dysfunction is just the way that the global elites like to run things these days.
South Africa, having disposed of fairly coherent and competent minority white rule in 1994, is steadily sliding towards the “developing world’s” dyscivilizational mean. (That is, the Iron Age.)
Yet the elites within the country enjoy more power and prosperity than ever.
And South Africa is merely a microcosm of the world.
French President Emmanual Macron gives creepy embraces to shirtless St. Martin islanders while the guy in the blue shirt slumps in humiliation.
The struggle for the elites is to hold onto their power long enough to establish all-encompassing, techno-tyrannical control. Tagged and micro-chipped (and—most especially—“vaccinated”) cattle in our pens.
And they’re almost there….
So put that in your pipe and smoke it!
(But the rutting Satanist pigs do sure seem rather desperate these days, don’t they?)
One of the faces, looking to our right and called Patulcius, is the headstrong and determined side of Janus, tending to authoritarian ideals. Patulcius looks to history and upholds the traditions of
Christianity and Western civilization, and the well-being of Western nations. Patulcius sees world events as a struggle between divine and demonic
forces.
The other face—the easy-going, more open-minded, left-facing Clusivius—dislikes authority and prefers a more individualistic outlook. Clusivius looks to the future and contemplates changes. While
Christian, Clusivius takes an interest in the well-being of other civilizations as well as the Western. Clusivius tends to believe that elitist conspiracies play a major part in world events.
When possible, the complete Janus seeks to form a synthesis of the two sides when making a decision. At other times Janus allows any differences to stand without resolution. But now and again the two sides must battle one another until one side wins Janus' acceptance.
Tending to sensationalize, and sometimes to hyperbolize, C. F. van Niekerk over-analyzes any number of subjects from mundane minutiae to the great philosophical questions of life itself.
Barzillai Alpheus Bozarth claims to be a 19th Century man marooned in the 21st Century after a failed experiment in inter-dimensional travel. Not at all impressed with the wonders of our time, he would give just about anything to return to his beloved world of "horse manure and civilized etiquette". Barzillai writes historical observations and pores over old books and documents.
Nature can be cruel to mankind.
If Concussus had his way, nature would be crueler yet. Concussus tends to arrive at the blackest of times, when humanity seems the most despicable.
Diabolus, the devil's advocate. Sometimes we are tempted to embrace the evil world that we despise. Diabolus is there to encourage us in this folly. Fortunately a rare visitor here.
