Him and the rest of parliament all standing and cheering green t-shirt guy like he was the second coming of Christ. I've actually never seen so many seats filled in our parliament. Even at critical moments 2/3rds is the best you can hope for. Even the French language press lauds this pathetic imposter. I guess they don't realize the Russian language has been banned from all public offices in Ukraine. Try that in Quebec and see what happens.
I swear, even Franz Kafka couldn't make this shit up.
You are right on all counts. The non-western world is simply tired of being stolen from. Weaponizing the USD was the stupidest strategy possible. Western "leaders" behave exactly like spoiled children when they don't get their way. The rest of the world is sick of the games and is choosing simply not to play, so now the schoolyard bullies are chasing them down the street.
I'm surprised the US blowing up the Nordstream pipeline and the utter silence of Germans to their economy being sent back to the stone age wasn't mentioned.
I suppose civilizations have died before the same way. Why did my Grandparents tell me when I was very young (in 1965) "don't think you're better than others". They were trying to prevent something they had seen before. They had already lived through WWII and had come to USA from Germany.
"Don't think you're better than others." Western "leaders" today are the opposite of that. We've allowed the most poisonous people to spread and dominate. The suffering is going to get worse. My Grandparents warned me.
A few years ago I stumbled on a strange and weirdly intimate video clip of Justin and Sophie. It seemed to have been shot at a private boxing club. Justin was in sweats and I think already wearing the gloves. In the background the ring and a bout underway. There is an audience. The couple are standing with foreheads touching. She is the perfect enabler. He is clearly quite nervous and tense. She is telling him soothing things. And he responds, very very seriously, “I was _born_ for this.” As if he is about to go for the World Heavy Weight Title.
Down in the comments people claimed that Justin, then in his early thirties (I guess) and looking quite fit (what the hell else did he have to do with his time?) typically only fought men 20+ years older than himself.
Anyway, this behavior and attitude seems to fit the profile of a narcisist as the article describes it. Instead of having fun with a hobby and laughing at himself, the guy turns it into an Epic Olympian Struggle.
Now that Sophie abandoned ship, I wonder who is stroking that vast ego….
I also remember seeing Justin in the boxing ring against a much shorter, older guy who was carrying some extra weight, but the older guy obviously had some skills and was showing Justin who was boss. I must see if I can find it again. It was very entertaining.
Perhaps the mysterious SPECTRE is nothing more than the previous generation of brainwashed narcissists, who inherited the movement when their mentors retired, and are now grooming the next generation. On the bright side, they seem to have degenerated into incompetent lunatics - which makes them unlikely to succeed.
To the best of my knowledge, this represents one of the boldest and most original analyses of the current state of geopolitics and the covert agenda of the globalist elites. They need to foster a collapse within Western nations as a means of justifying the imposition of a tyranny. And their plan is quite insidious and well thought out. Open borders imports lots of struggling peoples with diverse loyalty and endless need. Add in a financial recession/depression due to overspending and debt overload, and desperation will explode into violent unrest as resources become scarce or non existent. Chaos, mayhem, and unrestrained mob violence then triggers a repressive crackdown and further elimination of civil rights. When the smoke clears, the new Junta is in firm control and its Soviet Russia redux.
Please don't forget to include the narcissist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in your list of stupid western leaders. Last week he and his Deputy were gleefully applauding a Waffen SS Nazi in the House of Commons.
Funny…not long ago I started thinking that maybe Ian Fleming was actually basing the James Bond novels on a real threat he had knowledge of…..it just seemed to me too coincidental that so many things around the world were happening, all intended to hurt us…..so the obvious conclusion I came to, was that there must be someone/something behind the scenes pulling the strings…..so I concluded, that yes, SPECTRE or something akin to it, was real…..and here you have come to the same conclusion….good for all of us, put it front and center….great write….thanks.
One has to understand that there is a vicious, malevolent spirit at work in the world. One can be unhappy and out of sorts over how one's has been progressing but the malevolence and viciousness we see everywhere in Western government can only be created by souls motivated by a terrible hatred. It is someone's sacred doctrine.
The Talmud's vision of Jesus boiling in excrement for eternity is all you need to know about who savors and nurtures that malevolence and viciousness.
While I very much agree with the sentiment of the article and indeed see many examples of leaders with those characteristics - it always gets me. Articles like this. Someone else in in control (maybe) but they are NEVER identified - no essay on the SPECTRE. Why? It really dilutes the argument.
This idea that there is someone or a cabal is in control like a Bond villian is simply too much. Any such group will not be able to be successful, in any case, - precisely because they too are human. (One presumes)
I'm 65, and grew up w/ James Bond, both films and a lot of the books. IIRC, SPECTRE stands for Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
They're the 'bad guys' in Bond stuff.
In current pop culture, many, many people have drawn comparisons b/t the resemblance and behavior of Schwab and the fictional leader of the SPECTRE. SPECTRE was headed by a character named Biofield, and you'd be surprised at how much that character's bio tracks to either Schwab and also Soros. Wikipedia probably has more on the character, and it's an easy search.
HOWEVER...
I get Gaius' comparisons so readily b/c I'm an old fart and grew up w/ James Bond being a huge part of the culture during my formative years. (Especially the Sean Connery Bond era)
I'm kinda in your boat on this one, insofar as the 'not being successful' take. But that doesn't mean:
1. They ain't trying to succeed. I read a part of 'The Great Reset' and found it frightening. The WEF has been in existence for a hella long time, and they do a lot of their stuff out in the open, yeah. However, their goal is, in fact world domination. Yeah, yeah, that sounds incredibly sophmoric, I know, I know...
BUT
It's happened before. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity dominated the western world, and for centuries the New World. Prior to the Reformation, all the rulers of Europe 'bent the knee' to the Pope for about 500 years if not more.
2. Secondly, they've made tremendous headway so far. Gaius' description of how so many movements have been co-opted is just scratching the surface. And the counter to it is just rising- as every effort is being made to strangle this opposition in the crib.
The potency of the ideology is staggering, both in its breadth of scope (science, education, social policy are but a few examples) and the depth of its power- anti speech laws in sooo many nations is but one example- that I'm not sure it will be defeated.
And if it does get defeated, it will be bloody. At least, that's what history has shown so far.
Unless they are psychopaths, who are human, yes, but their mental processes and worldviews are so unlike a normal person with a conscience that they seem like aliens from another planet. Maybe that's where the "lizard people" conspiracies come from. Without a conscience the lizard brain takes over.
Excellent description of a narcissist, which I had not really understood before. I knew the term was about massive self-depiction - Normal Finkelstein once declared Obama to be a "stunning narcissist" - and then of course we had Trump - but didn't realize it was about massively low self-awareness. Makes perfect sense, though. I would say they not only have low self-awareness, but low awareness of reality at all. Thus they don't need much actual brainwashing; all they need is some manipulation into another version of their alternate reality.
The phrase about some psychopaths actually have principles describes me fairly well. :-) Probably why I don't go along with these ruling "elite" clowns. My "principles" are extreme individualist anarchism, atheism, and misanthropy.
You lost me at CO2. Common sense tells me that we're releasing millions of years of accumulated carbon into the atmosphere. Technolgoy is real and its effects are big, it seems to me.
I jsut subscribed to this substack, because I liked your previous contribution at sonar21 on Crimea, and I believe your thesis here has merit.
The argument is not that industrial man is "releasing" accumulate "carbon" -- CO2 presumably -- but that he is generating it by the burning of hydrocarbon fuels.
Dude, I would appreciate an 'about me' page here. This is only the 3rd one of your posts I've read- the prev one I'm still working on- it's sssooooo long!
But.
AH SAY BUT! (lol)
The clarity of your writing is akin to Glenn Greenwald, no shit. No, not just clarity; there's a passion to get at the truth that flows under every sentence.
Look, I'm NOT an easy guy to impress. I'm reasonably intelligent, life has taught me the value of skepticism, and I've been around the block a buncha' times. So when I tell you that you blow my hair back; well, not a lotta people can say they've done that. (God, I'd love to get drunk w/ you! lol)
OK, Fanboy'ing is over...
Now, IDK if you've read Chris Hedges. Like you, he's super well read and insightful. I mention him b/c he's the first person in my life who pointed out that politicians come from the pool of society's mediocre.
You've described the process from a cognitive perspective, and in so doing strongly supports that tenet.
Having said this, I think there's one aspect of these people that warrants further investigation:
These people are wicked smart.
While I agree w/ you that they're coping w/ many, many unforeseen consequences of their actions- they actually believed that the Russian Federation would fall to its knees, for example- for them to achieve and maintain their positions of power in such a cut throat environment they have a powerful intellect.
So my question is, does their narcissism overpower their empathy? Does it preclude them from seeing the results of their actions?
And finally, how will they be stopped? (We're now in spitballing territory, I know...but still...)
Sublime and to the point. Here in Ireland the alleged prime minister Leo Varadkar is a perfect example of the specimen you just outlined.
What? I was absolutely certain he was drawing a portrait of our Justin.
Him and the rest of parliament all standing and cheering green t-shirt guy like he was the second coming of Christ. I've actually never seen so many seats filled in our parliament. Even at critical moments 2/3rds is the best you can hope for. Even the French language press lauds this pathetic imposter. I guess they don't realize the Russian language has been banned from all public offices in Ukraine. Try that in Quebec and see what happens.
I swear, even Franz Kafka couldn't make this shit up.
Pierre’s idiot son.
Little Justin inherited his mother's brains and not his father's.
Dim little boy
Oh and yes, sublime describes this essay perfectly.
Think I will have to paid-sub this guy.
You are right on all counts. The non-western world is simply tired of being stolen from. Weaponizing the USD was the stupidest strategy possible. Western "leaders" behave exactly like spoiled children when they don't get their way. The rest of the world is sick of the games and is choosing simply not to play, so now the schoolyard bullies are chasing them down the street.
I'm surprised the US blowing up the Nordstream pipeline and the utter silence of Germans to their economy being sent back to the stone age wasn't mentioned.
I suppose civilizations have died before the same way. Why did my Grandparents tell me when I was very young (in 1965) "don't think you're better than others". They were trying to prevent something they had seen before. They had already lived through WWII and had come to USA from Germany.
"Don't think you're better than others." Western "leaders" today are the opposite of that. We've allowed the most poisonous people to spread and dominate. The suffering is going to get worse. My Grandparents warned me.
A few years ago I stumbled on a strange and weirdly intimate video clip of Justin and Sophie. It seemed to have been shot at a private boxing club. Justin was in sweats and I think already wearing the gloves. In the background the ring and a bout underway. There is an audience. The couple are standing with foreheads touching. She is the perfect enabler. He is clearly quite nervous and tense. She is telling him soothing things. And he responds, very very seriously, “I was _born_ for this.” As if he is about to go for the World Heavy Weight Title.
Down in the comments people claimed that Justin, then in his early thirties (I guess) and looking quite fit (what the hell else did he have to do with his time?) typically only fought men 20+ years older than himself.
Anyway, this behavior and attitude seems to fit the profile of a narcisist as the article describes it. Instead of having fun with a hobby and laughing at himself, the guy turns it into an Epic Olympian Struggle.
Now that Sophie abandoned ship, I wonder who is stroking that vast ego….
The halls of power eventually become halls of masturbation.
I also remember seeing Justin in the boxing ring against a much shorter, older guy who was carrying some extra weight, but the older guy obviously had some skills and was showing Justin who was boss. I must see if I can find it again. It was very entertaining.
Pantoufle, he has his gay lover to comfort him
Brilliant explanation of the idiots who are at the top levels of western governments.
Perhaps the mysterious SPECTRE is nothing more than the previous generation of brainwashed narcissists, who inherited the movement when their mentors retired, and are now grooming the next generation. On the bright side, they seem to have degenerated into incompetent lunatics - which makes them unlikely to succeed.
To the best of my knowledge, this represents one of the boldest and most original analyses of the current state of geopolitics and the covert agenda of the globalist elites. They need to foster a collapse within Western nations as a means of justifying the imposition of a tyranny. And their plan is quite insidious and well thought out. Open borders imports lots of struggling peoples with diverse loyalty and endless need. Add in a financial recession/depression due to overspending and debt overload, and desperation will explode into violent unrest as resources become scarce or non existent. Chaos, mayhem, and unrestrained mob violence then triggers a repressive crackdown and further elimination of civil rights. When the smoke clears, the new Junta is in firm control and its Soviet Russia redux.
You forgot the CBDC we are the saviours UBI.
Please don't forget to include the narcissist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in your list of stupid western leaders. Last week he and his Deputy were gleefully applauding a Waffen SS Nazi in the House of Commons.
That was a major oversight on my part! He deserves an entire essay.
Funny…not long ago I started thinking that maybe Ian Fleming was actually basing the James Bond novels on a real threat he had knowledge of…..it just seemed to me too coincidental that so many things around the world were happening, all intended to hurt us…..so the obvious conclusion I came to, was that there must be someone/something behind the scenes pulling the strings…..so I concluded, that yes, SPECTRE or something akin to it, was real…..and here you have come to the same conclusion….good for all of us, put it front and center….great write….thanks.
They are all Zionists. It's the only ideology that aligns with what's happening in the west
One has to understand that there is a vicious, malevolent spirit at work in the world. One can be unhappy and out of sorts over how one's has been progressing but the malevolence and viciousness we see everywhere in Western government can only be created by souls motivated by a terrible hatred. It is someone's sacred doctrine.
The Talmud's vision of Jesus boiling in excrement for eternity is all you need to know about who savors and nurtures that malevolence and viciousness.
SPECTRE - what is this (A ref to James Bond?)
While I very much agree with the sentiment of the article and indeed see many examples of leaders with those characteristics - it always gets me. Articles like this. Someone else in in control (maybe) but they are NEVER identified - no essay on the SPECTRE. Why? It really dilutes the argument.
This idea that there is someone or a cabal is in control like a Bond villian is simply too much. Any such group will not be able to be successful, in any case, - precisely because they too are human. (One presumes)
I got this-
I'm 65, and grew up w/ James Bond, both films and a lot of the books. IIRC, SPECTRE stands for Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
They're the 'bad guys' in Bond stuff.
In current pop culture, many, many people have drawn comparisons b/t the resemblance and behavior of Schwab and the fictional leader of the SPECTRE. SPECTRE was headed by a character named Biofield, and you'd be surprised at how much that character's bio tracks to either Schwab and also Soros. Wikipedia probably has more on the character, and it's an easy search.
HOWEVER...
I get Gaius' comparisons so readily b/c I'm an old fart and grew up w/ James Bond being a huge part of the culture during my formative years. (Especially the Sean Connery Bond era)
Now, you said:
𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓪 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓸𝓻 𝓪 𝓬𝓪𝓫𝓪𝓵 𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓵 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓑𝓸𝓷𝓭 𝓿𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸𝓸 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱. 𝓐𝓷𝔂 𝓼𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓹 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓬𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓯𝓾𝓵, 𝓲𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮, - 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓼𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓽𝓸𝓸 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷. (𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓮𝓼)
I'm kinda in your boat on this one, insofar as the 'not being successful' take. But that doesn't mean:
1. They ain't trying to succeed. I read a part of 'The Great Reset' and found it frightening. The WEF has been in existence for a hella long time, and they do a lot of their stuff out in the open, yeah. However, their goal is, in fact world domination. Yeah, yeah, that sounds incredibly sophmoric, I know, I know...
BUT
It's happened before. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity dominated the western world, and for centuries the New World. Prior to the Reformation, all the rulers of Europe 'bent the knee' to the Pope for about 500 years if not more.
2. Secondly, they've made tremendous headway so far. Gaius' description of how so many movements have been co-opted is just scratching the surface. And the counter to it is just rising- as every effort is being made to strangle this opposition in the crib.
The potency of the ideology is staggering, both in its breadth of scope (science, education, social policy are but a few examples) and the depth of its power- anti speech laws in sooo many nations is but one example- that I'm not sure it will be defeated.
And if it does get defeated, it will be bloody. At least, that's what history has shown so far.
Thanks for the SPECTRE definition.
Unless they are psychopaths, who are human, yes, but their mental processes and worldviews are so unlike a normal person with a conscience that they seem like aliens from another planet. Maybe that's where the "lizard people" conspiracies come from. Without a conscience the lizard brain takes over.
PJ I share your concern - too much - but nonetheless find the author quite interesting and brilliant
Excellent description of a narcissist, which I had not really understood before. I knew the term was about massive self-depiction - Normal Finkelstein once declared Obama to be a "stunning narcissist" - and then of course we had Trump - but didn't realize it was about massively low self-awareness. Makes perfect sense, though. I would say they not only have low self-awareness, but low awareness of reality at all. Thus they don't need much actual brainwashing; all they need is some manipulation into another version of their alternate reality.
The phrase about some psychopaths actually have principles describes me fairly well. :-) Probably why I don't go along with these ruling "elite" clowns. My "principles" are extreme individualist anarchism, atheism, and misanthropy.
You lost me at CO2. Common sense tells me that we're releasing millions of years of accumulated carbon into the atmosphere. Technolgoy is real and its effects are big, it seems to me.
I jsut subscribed to this substack, because I liked your previous contribution at sonar21 on Crimea, and I believe your thesis here has merit.
You might want to read The Hockey Stick Illusion. It might change your mind about the extent of technology's effect on climate.
The argument is not that industrial man is "releasing" accumulate "carbon" -- CO2 presumably -- but that he is generating it by the burning of hydrocarbon fuels.
Best article I have read in a very long time! Your clarity helped me.
Thank you.
Dude, I would appreciate an 'about me' page here. This is only the 3rd one of your posts I've read- the prev one I'm still working on- it's sssooooo long!
But.
AH SAY BUT! (lol)
The clarity of your writing is akin to Glenn Greenwald, no shit. No, not just clarity; there's a passion to get at the truth that flows under every sentence.
Look, I'm NOT an easy guy to impress. I'm reasonably intelligent, life has taught me the value of skepticism, and I've been around the block a buncha' times. So when I tell you that you blow my hair back; well, not a lotta people can say they've done that. (God, I'd love to get drunk w/ you! lol)
OK, Fanboy'ing is over...
Now, IDK if you've read Chris Hedges. Like you, he's super well read and insightful. I mention him b/c he's the first person in my life who pointed out that politicians come from the pool of society's mediocre.
You've described the process from a cognitive perspective, and in so doing strongly supports that tenet.
Having said this, I think there's one aspect of these people that warrants further investigation:
These people are wicked smart.
While I agree w/ you that they're coping w/ many, many unforeseen consequences of their actions- they actually believed that the Russian Federation would fall to its knees, for example- for them to achieve and maintain their positions of power in such a cut throat environment they have a powerful intellect.
So my question is, does their narcissism overpower their empathy? Does it preclude them from seeing the results of their actions?
And finally, how will they be stopped? (We're now in spitballing territory, I know...but still...)
Fantastic work, man.