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Remorse: A Useful Tool for Those Who Want to Manipulate You

Permalink 07/06/25 08:43, by OGRE, Categories: Welcome, News, Background, In real life, On the web, Politics, Elections

There’s that word again! Remorse. It keeps creeping up every time I hear about Marxism/communism. "Guilt" is good for tricking people into doing your bidding ? in the short term ? but for long-term results, you'll need "remorse."

There are notable differences between "guilt" and "remorse."

Guilt and remorse are two emotions often experienced in response to wrongdoing or regrettable actions. While they are closely related, there are subtle differences between the two. Guilt is typically associated with a sense of responsibility for one's actions, often accompanied by feelings of shame or self-blame. It is a more cognitive emotion, focusing on the recognition of one's wrongdoing. On the other hand, remorse is a deeper emotional response, characterized by genuine regret and sorrow for the harm caused to others. It involves a greater level of empathy and a desire to make amends. While guilt may be fleeting, remorse tends to linger and can lead to personal growth and a commitment to change.

We've all heard the saying, "Pack your bags, because you're going on a guilt-trip." Well, this same kind of manipulation bleeds into the political realm as well ? and it's very effective on those unwilling or unable to recognize it.

I use AOC as an example ? because she's particularly bad at making people feel remorse or guilt. She's just not believable, and she tries to scold people ? but she looks too young to be doing it ? it’s not very effective.. People like AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) don’t believe in anything they are selling. We know this, because they are literally complaining ? about how they became successful. If she wasn’t here [in the US] she couldn’t complain about “being a minority in a racist country” ? that elected her to high office.

However, all of this is carefully scripted. AOC was chosen to make people feel not just guilty, but remorseful. Always with the remorse. “See, you have it so much better ? and you should feel bad about it ? you must atone for your sins, and relinquish power to the elites, so they can level the playing field. Because, let’s face it, you’ve had it good for ‘long enough.’”

That’s the entire message of AOC wrapped in a bow. “Lay down and surrender you greedy capitalist scum. Oh, excuse me, I’ll have another mimosa.”

All of this staged nonsense is insulting to those who see it for what it is. It's like slight of hand, when performed by a bad magician.

It’s the precise reason that Netflix and Disney have to make every White character Black and oppressed. It’s not to reflect any kind of reality ? it’s to enforce a false sense of reality. As young minds soak up all this propaganda, that false reality becomes “normalized.” When older people (like me) tell them that it’s nonsense, they say, “You just don’t understand what it’s like.” Only we do, because we grew up before it was cool to whine constantly about fake oppression.

What’s that phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” These clowns are trying to create an entire generation of suckers! And it has gained quite a bit of traction ? now that it’s racist to point out reality. To quote Joe Biden, “We choose truth over facts.” That’s code for, “Believe what we tell you, not what you see with your own eyes.” It was not a mistake, or a gaffe, other than he said it out loud.

Consider, most of the people in the US, who are whining about oppression ? are not oppressed ? they’re oppressing themselves. They’re wasting their life for someone else’s cause. Someone that doesn’t care whether they live or die, because those heading the cause are the manipulators ? and the manipulators don’t feel any remorse for people too stupid to figure out that it’s all a game ? they’re just directing the suckers. The term "useful idiots" comes to mind.

Now that Barack Obama is no longer president, what has he done for “the African American Community” ? other than brow beat Black men because they don’t want to vote for a half-Indian fraud for president ? even though she, “...grew up in a middle-class family.”

Barack Obama is still complaining about racism ? after he was elected ? because his election was largely associated with "White guilt," which could better be described as "White remorse." Obama knew, or at least believed, that his election was the result of manipulation, and it's for that reason that he was constantly complaining about racial tension, because he didn't feel that he was elected on merit. Obama didn't earn it and you can sense that he feels that way.

Hopefully people will start becoming more attuned to actual reality, and start dismissing these people, like AOC, Kamala Harris, and Barack Obama as the frauds they are. They were literally chosen to make people feel bad about themselves and their heritage, with the idea in mind that they can be manipulated, so as to vote for candidates who don't have their best interests at heart.

Have you ever seen a White candidate who has effectively pushed the oppression (remorse) narrative?

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America’s Criminal Problem (It's not external -- it's internal)

Permalink 06/04/25 21:34, by OGRE, Categories: Welcome, News, Background, History, Politics, U.S. Economy, Elections

America Is Ruled By A Criminal Elite

Everyone knows what’s wrong [in the United States] and everyone knows how to fix it. There are endless books on the subject, there are even internal government agencies that have published what is wrong at any given point in time.

The question is, who has the will or want to fix it?

To fix it means to imprison those responsible for the current state of governmental affairs ? because voting is not going to fix this. That’s what the 2020 election was all about. The installation of Joe Biden was a message to all those people out there who were working to get Trump elected.

“Your efforts are and will be worthless ? because we will install whomever we like, capture the judiciary and maintain an effective majority in both houses [RINOs]. We are in control, not you.”

It’s just like Boss Tweed in New York City. Or Joseph Stalin in Russia.

Another grave mistake made by many, is the idea that we’re going to end up in some “Constitutional Crisis.” There is nobody in Washington who truly cares about The Constitution. At this point, The Constitution is a document used to give people a sense of false hope ? that there is a backstop to the tyrannical actions of the federal government.

The Constitution is like the rules of a card game, where everyone is watching to see who can win within the agreed upon framework? only everyone at the card table has cards up their sleeves (which is against the rules). But they’re all cheating. It’s like steroids in baseball ? when everyone is doing it, is it really against the rules? Hell, what are the rules anymore.

This has been exemplified by a fake president [Biden], fake impeachment trials, complete with fake evidence, a fake Jan. 6th Committee [fake insurrection], fake representation [Congress], real USAID payments to fake NGOs ? which are really money laundering operations ? the list goes on endlessly.

Right now, nobody within government has the will to fix it. That is to say, nobody within government has the will to go after those very people ? who are buttering their bread. Everyone is getting paid!

Cheering = Voting

The problem with American politics is that it’s become a sport ? in the literal sense. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase:

“Politics is America’s #1 sport.” - Unknown (I looked but can’t find who said it)

or

"Politics in America has become a spectator sport, where the players are less interested in governing than in scoring points for the highlight reel." - George Will.

These quotes paint a grim picture for those wishing to enact real change. When fans cheer at a sporting event, they know that cheering doesn’t increase the skill level of the players. It doesn’t have a measurable effect on the outcome of the game ? otherwise no sports teams would win away games. Of course, it might be fun to imagine cheering helps, but we know it doesn’t.

Politics has literally taken on the same general feeling. There are all these candidates (our man) the person who is supposed to enact the will of the people which elected him. But it never happens. New politicians get to Washington and talk a good game, for a while, but then, nothing.

Soon after the lies start, they say things like, “It takes a long time to affect change in Washington, everything takes time. We’ll be able to do this next year. We’ll be able to make these changes once we have the majority.” This is true to some extent, but then it also takes money. Fundraising quickly becomes the primary goal of all politicians.

As for fundraising, I have my own quote, “Politicians raise money based on the things they claim they’re going to do, but never actually do.” - OGRE.

After all, you can’t keep raising money for problems ? if you solve those problems.

It’s always going to get fixed “next time.”

The Belief in Representation

In Western nations people are taught that they don't have rulers, instead they have "representatives." However, those in positions of power stopped representing those who "elect" them a L-O-N-G time ago.

Voters are just now starting to realize this ? as they were all sold a bill of goods, openly lied to! Not only that, they based their entire lives and livelihoods ? and the lives and livelihoods of their children on this lie. That’s right, the lie of “representation" spans generations.

It’s not just that their (effective) "rulers" are screwing them over ? they're doing it with money collected from the people being screwed over!

This is not insulting, it's maddening. People are realizing that they have funded their own demise. They are also realizing that they are not now, and likely never were, in a position to do anything about it.

The result is what we are seeing now. Citizenship didn’t grant citizens access to the system they paid for, the system was used against them all along. The laws that they follow were not designed to benefit citizens, laws were designed to limit the upward movement of citizens. Keeping citizens in a “manageable” position.

The only response from the citizens that I can see as a viable way to “win” would be noncompliance. Citizens collectively deciding that they are no longer going to operate under the current set of rules, and start living outside of those rules.

An example of this, although extreme, would be Sharia courts in some areas of the UK. There are entire areas that are not considered under British Control [or law], because there are Sharia courts operating in those areas. Those people are policing themselves as they see fit.

After a generation, many of the people within those communities are naturalized British citizens. There are large enough groups of citizens agreeing to live outside the system, so as to make it nearly impossible for the British government to enforce their laws [or project their will] on those populations. And so, without serious military action, there is no way for the British government to enforce British law, in any meaningful way ? within their own borders.

As a result, those communities are operating, more or less, outside of the system. That’s not to say that they don’t benefit from the system. Of course, they are using the welfare state to further their goals, but they are not living within the broader system that most British citizens are. Eventually they will become the majority, and begin changing the existing system to match their current system. Effectively stripping power away from the indigenous citizens.

In Western nations, non-Muslim citizens need to adopt a similar methodology. Start finding ways to avoid government services, and begin starting their own organizations that cover those functions.

While that’s not easy, it’s necessary. Once enough people begin to operate outside the current system, the system will incrementally lose control ? just like it incrementally gained control. Mimic those Muslim communities that have become “self governing” only do it without Islam or Sharia Law.

Other than that, I’m not sure how this ends well ? anywhere.

Are There Alternatives

Off-grid living isn't possible for most of the population. People live where they live because the current infrastructure allows for it.

As for what happens next I have no idea. I just know that the WEF goons want the majority of people to live like the people in "The Hunger Games."

Global elites are trying to walk western civilization back ? one home appliance at a time. First gas stoves, now dishwashers. Next it will be refrigerators. They'll want people using food dehydrators and gathering rain water for drinking.

However, technological advancements allow people to have more free time. And with more time they can achieve more, learn more, invent more.

It seems the elites want people busy simply "staying alive," that way there is little advancement, and people are too occupied to worry about much else.

I believe that religions like Islam work in that manor. They keep people so busy with the required rituals, so that there is little time left to ponder the necessity of what they are doing. After all, do they really think that the religious leaders, or politicians in Muslim countries all follow the same rules as the commoners? Of course they don't. Those rules are for the underclasses.

In today's Western societies, more and more people are less religious (in general). They aren't as easy to convince to follow whatever path is laid before them, as a result, another type of control mechanism is needed to keep the classes controlled. The end result is a system that forces people into a [lower] class in order to survive.

That's where I think this is going.

Christians are at the bottom of the list. Elites do not like Christians. Christianity teaches us that all men are equal under God. And the elites can't have that.

Any religion that supports class separation is viewed as a plus because those people are already "trained/raised" to accept that reality.

The people who are most valuable to the elites, are people who are the least individualistic, and by extension, the easiest to control.

Trust in The Wrong People

People in Western nations, who believed that politicians were going to fix things ? are how we got here in the first place.

How is it that we keep hearing from people about how much better things were ? in the past? How did technology advance, and everything societally degrade? Now that we have the ability to quickly analyze massive datasets, nothing good has resulted from this advancement. What has advanced are increased levels of manipulation and control.

Those in power now can’t be trusted with our future, because they have a track record of gross mismanagement for the sole and well documented purpose of self enrichment. The DOGE commission exposed this on a scale never before seen.

We must determine our own future. If we don’t, the future being offered us is not one worth living in.

Whatever the final solution(s) are to getting the US back to where it once was, I know this ? it is not going to start from the top. It can’t, the entire political and government system is captured to the extent that those in positions of power are just getting what they can while they can.

Long story short - US politicians, those few whom Americans are expecting to “fix things” ? have already given up! That’s why everything is upside down.

However, we can’t give up!

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Cool shell formation on my beach walk - James Comey

Permalink 05/15/25 23:32, by OGRE, Categories: Welcome, News, Background, History, Politics

By now I'm sure you've heard that former FBI director James Comey found a "Cool shell formation" on his beach walk -- and couldn't wait to post it on Instagram.

I'm also sure that you know what it means to "86" someone, and that Trump is the 47th president of the United States of America, -- and Comey's former employer.

There is one thing that is rather odd though. Someone pointed this out.

So, what does it all mean?

It means that James Comey would like for Trump to "go away."

What is the significance of 8,647 days from 9/11/2001? Comey might be a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them. The date that the Instagram post was made is significant only in that it can provide cover, should any criminal charges be brought.

Because of these "coincidences" it would be very hard to prove any kind of "intent."

I predict that nothing is going to happen to James Comey, and that this was really more of a stunt to distract from the more important news -- that Trump has been making pro-America progress the Middle East.

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There's Only One Thing The American Left Hates More Than MAGA

Permalink 05/12/25 21:45, by OGRE, Categories: Welcome, News, Background, On the web, History, Politics, Illegal Immigration, U.S. Economy

I recently came across this Axios article, and it exemplifies what's wrong with the American left.

The article is comprised of bullet points. Each point carefully worded to make anyone who supports Trump some kind of woman hating, racist Christian patriarch.

The article is titled, "Inside MAGA's fight for "Western civilization."

  • The MAGA movement is no longer just fighting for President Trump. His most fervent loyalists are now engaged in what they see as a battle for "Western civilization" — a rallying cry for the modern right.
  • For MAGA loyalists taking this long view, "Preserving Western Civilization" is the new "Make America Great Again."
  • They proclaim America as a Judeo-Christian country that's the successor to the great European civilizations of Greece, Rome and the United Kingdom. They see a modern "Western civilization" as one that prizes freedom, the rule of law as they interpret it, meritocracy and the nuclear family.
  • Trump policy attacks on asylum-seeking immigrants, and on programs benefiting historically marginalized communities, help reinforce that image.
  • The period of U.S. history the movement heralds included subjugation of women, segregation, and discrimination against non-Whites, those in the LGBTQ community and many others.
  • The growing pro-natalism movement encourages conservatives to have large families. Articles in far-right media tout marriage and children, and even advice for women on ways to be more "marriageable."
  • In recent years, conservative activists have blasted college English departments for adding courses that focus on racially diverse writers, instead of staying focused on Shakespeare and Chaucer.

The author focuses on a few things in particular, but the list is rather innocuous. It's only when you combine all of the points in the list, including those that literally nobody is advocating for, that someone might think there's an issue. The article is written as a list of American leftist grievances.

I won't waste your time running through each point. Just a few are worth noting.

People who long for the 1950s are doing so, because it was a time of prosperity. You could support a family on a single income -- without a 4-year college degree. People were able to purchase a house, and start a family at a much younger age. These are the things that people want to see.

Large families are not a bad thing. Muslims often have much larger families than native-born Americans, nobody on the American left is complaining about large Muslim families.

There's nothing wrong with Christianity. Aren't we supposed to have freedom of religion?

Those who were championed by the American left, such as Bill and Hillary Clinton have made the same points Trump has made as it relates to immigration and deportations.

There is literally nobody calling for the discrimination of non-Whites.

The simple question is this, "How much of American Society would the author be OK with keeping?" This is an important question indeed -- because to change the country based on the above listed grievances, would result in an America that most people would not recognize -- nor would they want to live in.

On to The Second World!

el gato malo on Substack has done a spectacular post on the second world. Not many people understand this concept. It was more popular during the time of the Cold War.

if a society of low trust people adopts rules designed for high trust societies, it simply fails. none of the systems can function or establish themselves. it is only by first becoming high trust people that these sorts of structures may find foundation. the direction has to go that way.

so where then does “the second world” lie if not on the path from third world to first world?

i would posit that second world exists as a post 1st world stage and that you basically cannot get there without first having been first world. it’s not a transitional stage so much as a form of post achievement decline, a sort of senescence and degradation, a once lush garden gone to weeds. the second world is a trap and a truly nasty one from which extrication once caught is very difficult because the second world is, in many ways, the worst of all worlds, it’s first world systems that have fallen into hands and practices under which they cannot function, technology, technocracy, welfare systems, and systems of trust that work (or at least that can be managed at tolerable costs) by a certain sort of society but that become ruinous albatrosses around the necks of everything and everyone once they fall into disfunction, disrepair, and abuse.

This is true, placing people from low-trust societies into high-trust societies will not work. High-trust systems are not designed to deal with large amounts of people (trying to screw over other people) or perhaps just trying to survive in a system that they can't relate to.

Assimilation into a high-trust society is essential if the society is going to continue to function.

Read the bottom part first:

Otherwise you go from this:

To this:

And it can happen much faster than people might imagine.

Yuri Bezmenov on Substack did a brilliant article about a documentary that covers the struggles of two men Yang and Eddy, Yang's interpreter. The pair are working for the China Railway Engineering Company (CREC), in an attempt to build a road -- not a railroad, but a road for trucks.

Lao Yang is the modern day based Confucius - here are some of his greatest hits:

“You were governed by a European country for so long. You should have learned how things work…. Experience should be passed on. Only that way can you develop. You went backwards instead of forwards.”

“Look at your railways. High technology from the 1930s. We didn’t have it in China back then... You neglected the things others had left you. What’s more, you completely destroyed them. It will take generations to put things right.”

“They first constructed this road in 1954. More than 50 years ago. Since the Belgians built it you guys did nothing to maintain it…. Unbelievable. You can’t imagine the effort it took to built it. The infrastructure has gone to waste. It hurts to see it.”

“With regards to money we Chinese differ from the Congolese, who learned from the Belgians. Money or not, they spend it. No stress... On pay day the men go crazy. Two days later they come asking to loan them money. They don’t hold their drink that well. They just like drinking. They stand at the bar drinking beer. And then start shaking their behinds. It’s wonderful.”

“The government here isn’t efficient. We’ve been negotiating with them since the New Year. Half a year of talking without any results."

“People here don’t have any sense of time. It’s hard to adapt to life here. They waste time in almost everything they do. So we go back and forth.”

“I feel sorry for them. But sometimes I also hate them. Especially the thieves. They steal fuel and act all innocent.”

People from a high-trust society struggle to operate in a low-trust society, like Congo. People just steal the fuel, and go about their lives as normal.

"After all, if you wanted that fuel, why didn't you lock it up? And what made you think you could trust me with it anyway?"

Yang is operating in The Second World. Congo, a country that was rather developed, at least up until its independence in 1960.

The Second World is Already in The US

Consider California, once the downfall starts, it accelerates quickly from there. Once it has been determined that voting, or other peaceful means to slow or reverse the downward spiral (into The Second World) have failed -- people with the means to leave will do so.

California -- long ago -- decided to prioritize people -- other than its citizens. The tax-payers were put to the back of the line. You can only keep people hypnotized for so long, before they snap out of it, and realize that the walls are closing in on them. California is a failed state. As lawlessness increases, people leave.

It's not likely that things will turn around there in California in just one generation. Once the degradation starts, it accelerates, and attracts those who will accept those living conditions.

San Francisco:

Would you have believed that San Francisco would look like this in 2024?

Remember the movie "Back to The Future?" We were supposed to have flying cars by 2015, instead in 2024, we have giant homeless encampments -- because of "progress."

Granted they have moved a lot of the homeless off the streets very recently, but that was at a cost of 24-billion dollars. Keep in mind that these people are living in one of the most expensive places in the entire country. The median home price in San Francisco is 1.4 million dollars.

No matter what is done to "provide for the homeless," the situation is not sustainable. Getting homeless people off the street by paying for them is not a solution, it's only going to attract more people who are comfortable with that lifestyle.

Does Race Play A Role

Aly Dee on Substack did a very eye-opening post recently "Growing Up Anti-White."

She goes on to cover a range of issues, but these I found rather profound.

White Americans, for the most part, do not understand this because they do not believe similarly that other ethnic groups are the reasons for their failures. People speculate this is the case online, that there are many downtrodden White nationalists blaming blacks and browns for their struggles; however, your average White person is not terminally online on X (formerly Twitter) and still believes in a colorblind meritocracy.

What Whites do not understand about blacks and browns is our lore. I will not at all suggest that mainstream media hasn’t had its hand in brainwashing the ethnic masses; it has, but with our televisions off, we have a paradigm of the world that we are the underdogs. I speak from memory, so forgive me for some inconsistencies when going back and forth between past and present. I no longer believe the things I am describing to you, but as a young girl, I did to fit into my culture or because I took what my parents and educators said as gospel.
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Subtly through the years, I was told by the adults around me that they weren’t successful because they were being discriminated against for being Black or Latin at their jobs. I thought, “Oh, well, that must mean the same thing is happening to me at school because I am Latina.” Never mind that I had gotten into the college I applied to and had a full-ride scholarship.

This is why I say White Americans give Black and Brown Americans too much credit by blaming neomarxism for their ideology, it’s not like that. It’s this simple:

Ethnic minorities with a lower intelligence and/or an external locus of control blame White Americans for everything wrong with their lives, and the ethnic and White people around them corroborate this.

How do different races of people view each other? This is critical to understand what we're seeing in this country right now.

Perhaps this can bring a bit of understanding as to how things have progressed so far.

In all groups people have a more positive response to their own race, this is not a bad thing. In fact, in low-trust societies, it might just save your life.

Many people from low-trust societies can’t afford to look at people as "individuals" because the risk is too great. They necessarily profile, or be taken advantage of, robbed, or possibly killed. You don't want to trust the wrong person(s). In a low-trust society, a collectivist attitude is acceptable -- in fact it's expected.

A Twofold Problem

  1. The people being brought here, are not coming here because they want to assimilate -- they're being brought here -- because they will not assimilate. Why might you ask? Consider which group of people is easier to control. American citizens -- who know their rights, or people from countries with drastically different legal and societal norms?

    Consider all the people who have decided to self deport. They are doing this for one simple reason -- the Trump administration is upholding -- existing law -- and cutting off free benefits.

  2. As the article from Aly Dee makes abundantly clear. A large percent of the people being brought here -- by NGOs and the Biden administration -- feel as if the problems in their home country are the fault of White people -- the world over.

White American leftists in the US have added fuel to the fire, by constantly screaming "racism" at every turn. White people, or those who are considered White, are getting fed up with it, and that's why the whole attempt to pile on the Shiloh Hendrix ordeal failed miserably. People are tired of being told they're racist by people who illogically blame all their problems on White people.

Bringing people into the US who do not wish to assimilate, and who blame the indigenous population for their shortcomings, is obviously not a good idea. Most Americans are concerned with those who skip the line, and come here illegally, and still receive benefits -- for years -- leaching off the American tax-payer. All this, as the country goes deeper and deeper into debt.

People who come here on their own -- because they agree with American values, and respect the legal system -- and enter legally, is another story, but that's not what anyone is concerned with.

The American left portrays every Trump voter as looking for, a literal return to Rome.

This is a simple trick, an attempt to mischaracterize the serious concerns of American citizens who see the country that their relatives and ancestors fought and died for, being dismantled.

There is literally nothing that the American left is proposing that will benefit American citizens. This has never been more evident than it is now. American leftists flew to a foreign nation in an attempt to bring back a deported wife beating gang member, who was ordered to be deported twice already -- so he could be brought back the US -- then deported to somewhere other than El Salvador. More "progress."

Meanwhile, when American citizens were in need of help due to natural disasters, the American left was nowhere to be seen. And in fact, there was one person within FEMA that was denying help to people with Trump signs in their yard.

The Goal of American Leftists

The American Left cares not for the average US citizen. You are not them, and they do not want to try to convince you of anything. They want to rule, and they want free reign to implement their will upon others. It’s that simple.

The American left is through trying to convince you, trying to persuade you into seeing things “their way.”

The American left has realized that the American people are too smart to fall for the same tricks. They have pushed too hard, and shown their hand early. Now that their mask has come off -- the American people are rejecting the American left's plans entirely.

They have realized that people can’t be convinced to live in 15-Minute-Cities, in an Amazon box-sized apartment, with walls that all resemble an IKEA chest of drawers -- which more closely resemble a giant tackle-box.

If the American left has their way, they would gladly rule over an empire of dust. American leftists don't want citizens, they want serfs.

The only thing the American left hates more than Trump supporters, is American citizens.

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Shiloh Hendrix “Straight Outta Compton” Rush Limbaugh and What Really Matters

Permalink 05/08/25 21:27, by OGRE, Categories: News, Background, In real life, On the web, History, Politics

By now, everyone has heard about the whole Shiloh Hendrix N-word fiasco.

The issue is not that Shiloh Hendrix used the N-word.

What those who claim to be offended truly care about is the fact that the N-word -- gives them power. The N-word is not offensive, because to those who claim to be victimized by it, gain massive power when it's used. They get an excuse to do whatever they want in its presence.

The reality is that it's just a word. Sure it might hurt some people's feelings, but then so might calling someone any racial slur.

It's not that there is really a major divide, it's that without the perception of a major divide, certain people lose their power. That power is illegitimate, and those who wield it instinctively know this -- that's why there's a constant drumbeat through media, music, and movies, to remind people of how divided we are. It's why people, both white and black, are not allowed to question the N-word in any way. It must not be discussed.

Does anyone remember the movie "The Village?" There were monsters that lived just outside the village in the woods, "Those We Don't Speak Of."

"The Word We Don't Speak Of"

You cannot speak The Word We Don't Speak Of, because to do so, could potentially result in a logical discussion, and that's not allowed. To remove a word from use -- for a specific group of people -- is quite literally to stop all discussion.

Discussion, and realization are the enemy of such arguments, those arguments might be exposed as illegitimate. Keep that in mind, this applies to anything that people want to stop you from talking about.

The Word We Don't Speak Of is a form of social engineering and subversion -- designed specifically to cow people into submission. Although, not everyone accepts this programming, as we saw with Shiloh Hendrix.

There are many on both sides of the argument who disavow this plan to sow racial division. Consider this episode from the Rush Limbaugh show from 2016.

This particular episode does not deal with "The Word We Don't Speak Of" specifically, but it gets to the heart of the issue. The fact that the racial divisions in this country -- are driven -- by those who benefit from them.

Here's a link to Rush's site.

Here's a link to the audio.

A Young Black Man’s Brilliant Insights Inspired by Straight Outta Compton

Jul 29, 2016

RUSH: This is Curtis. Curtis is from Boca Raton. We had him yesterday. He was the last caller and we didn’t have enough time for him. He’s a young African-American. He saw Straight Outta Compton and he’s not comfortable with what he’s seeing here regarding all the rhetoric about cop killing and so forth and I think rap music. I think that’s what it was he wanted to talk about. We didn’t have time so I asked if we could call him back and he said yes. Curtis, thank you for letting us call you back. In your own words, what was it you wanted to say yesterday?

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush, I really appreciate it. Honored to speak with you. I got one main point, Rush, as a culture — and I’m black. I didn’t grow up with “African-American,” if you will. I’m just a black guy. As a culture, a people, I think we need to examine one of the main credos of gangsta rap music and its influence on the black community. Like I said, I saw Straight Outta Compton the other night. One of the scenes really touched me — and I’ll be really quick.

The rappers had signed a deal with a manager, they’re sitting on the stoop out on the street and eating lunch just innocently, two cops came up, overtly racist, overtly abusive. It was obvious. They made ’em get face down on the ground. Long story short, they got up after their manager’s help, went back inside, Ice Cube, who everybody knows is a main, famous rapper, stared the guy down, stared the cops down. The cops are just cursing him and degrading him. Went inside, and he penned one of their famous song songs, NWA, F’ the police.

RUSH: Hm-hm.

CALLER: And in the scene it was, you know, at that point of the movie I didn’t watch even the rest of it, at that point of the movie I was like, okay, he handled it as a man, he took the high road. He had an outlet, a creative artistic outflow, that’s great, but one of the things in this music or in this culture that is killing black people and inner city people is the fact or this credo of street cred. Now, any rapper will tell you, any rapper worth their salt will tell you, I live what I do, I’m real with this, that’s the work.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: I’m not just fronting.

RUSH: When they have been questioned about this, I remember all this, the group NWA, I remember back in the early days of this show when examining cop killing lyrics and so forth, we had debates on this program about to what degree, if any, do lyrics like that in pop music influence cultural behavior and there were some people: “Come on, you can’t say that because there’s too much of it. It would be constant anarchy if that stuff was that influential.” And it is not just that stuff. I mean, you have all kinds of reprobate behavior in every movie you look at these days and yet —

CALLER: Well, the difference, Rush, excuse me, the difference that I see — and I’ve heard that argument, but I never saw Denzel going out and saying after a violent movie, “That’s how I roll.” I never saw Laurence Fishburne or Don Cheadle get up and say, “Yeah, that’s right, I keep it real.” We have this thing and it perpetuates the poison that’s in the minds of our young people, and they’re just like the poisoned minds of, you know, foregone generations who thought, you know, they walked up to somebody and say, “Hey, boy, hey, you black Negro.”

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: And now it’s the opposite, black kids can get away with walking up to people — and I witnessed it as a kid, I’m black and white — I witnessed people walking up on the basketball court to white people saying, “What up, white boy.” Or you hear in the movies today, people talking about, “What kind of white stuff is this?” It’s a double standard. It’s the same evil, bitter racist hate that’s infecting our youth today, and if we don’t confront it culturally from within and from without, it’s no better than racism coming from white lips or white people. It’s the same poison, Rush.

RUSH: You’re profoundly correct about this. But let me ask you about it from the standpoint or the context of what I believe is a genuinely divided country. I think there are two countries now. On the side that you were just talking about, if you have a genuine sit down with them, you learn that with them it’s a chicken-or-egg thing.

They will not deny that they have that attitude about the cops, but they will tell you that they didn’t start it. That the cops’ behavior towards them is what started everything, particularly the cops’ behavior toward innocent neighborhood blacks and that that music is simply the result of the culture and the music is the art that expresses how they have been forced to live and what their life experiences are.

And so when you talk about solutions, you eventually get, okay, well, where does the ultimate blame lie, because whoever is really responsible has to acknowledge it and either apologize, pledge not to do it anymore, and with neither side admitting that they had anything to do with starting it, how does it get solved?

CALLER: Well, I think it gets solved the same way that slavery got solved, the same way racism from white people got solved. We confronted it. We said, “This isn’t right how you’re treating people. This isn’t right how you’re raising your kids and teaching them and perpetuating this stuff.” We have to look at ourselves and say, look, there’s a real choice. Yeah, slavery was disgusting. Yeah, some police are bad apples and they do abuse kids, that’s disgusting, we need to stop it and stomp it out. But there’s a real choice that’s at hand, Rush. Everybody has to make it. One can just succumb to all this hate and lead one’s life — you know, the Palestinians do the same thing.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: The Israelis do the same thing. When they’re, you know, imbued with hatred and taught to hate Arabs for no reason, Arabs taught to hate Jews for no reason, we have to stop and make a choice. We can succumb to all this hate and lead one’s lives like a script of bitterness with low aspirations or with too many excuses. Or we can overcome, we can fight, we can claw, we can dig, we can prevent all this perpetuating hate.

RUSH: That’s the most intelligent answer to this I have ever heard in all the years that I’ve been talking about this.

CALLER: Thank you.

RUSH: And as I listened to you say it and I imagine it being implemented, the people that actually try to do that, I’m thinking, you know, you naturally think okay, what will some of the obstacles be? And one of them is that, for whatever else is going on, there are a lot of people who have gotten really rich, I mean, really wealthy as a result of this art form, hip-hop, rap, whatever you call it. And you’re gonna be asking some of them to basically throw away their vehicle to financial independence and wealth by asking them to get rid of that kind of lyric line in their art or in their music.

CALLER: I don’t know that it’s necessary to get rid of it. It is expressive just like a Mafia movie or an action movie, but I would challenge them and those listening, anyone who perpetuates that stuff. I would challenge them this way, Rush: “If you really care about black people, about inner city people, about the ghetto, about the ‘hood — if you really want solutions — then at least admit that though you might have ‘slung rock’ in the past, been a dope dealer, been a bad boy in the past, that’s fine.

RUSH: Well.

CALLER: “But listen, kids, we can’t continue this. This is just entertainment.” Because the kids aren’t hearing it. They emulate these guys because these guys portray the reality of it.

RUSH: Amen.

CALLER: And, you know what? All the other charlatans who’ve gotten rich, too, if they really care, let’s get down to Chicago. Let’s hold arm in arms with the soldiers that are marching in the streets and helping — trying to help — the community bridge the gap with gangs and all that stuff. If these rich artists and rappers really care, which I believe some of them really do, then let’s get back to the community in a real way instead of this.

RUSH: That inspires another question. How many…? I guess we don’t know, but how many of them really want a solution to it? I can… You know, my understanding (some would say “fear”) is that there are a lot of people — not rappers, but I’m talking about race-business executives — making a lot of money on the basis that this strife and conflict is never ending.

CALLER: Because they keep the cycle of victim going, Rush.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: And that’s —

RUSH: So if some of these people don’t want a solution… I’m sorry to keep throwing up obstacles to you, but the reason I am is because you’re really… You’ve got brilliant answers here. I’m imagining I’m not going to be able to stump you on anything.

CALLER: I think most black people, white people, all people, Americans, we need to stand up and say, “Listen, Jesse Jackson, listen Al Sharpton, listen race-baiters, whoever you may be — of whatever political stripe you may be, I don’t care — if you’re gaming the system and if you’re perpetuating hate in our kids’ hearts, I don’t care if you’re a rapper, you’re a politician, you’re an Action Coalition, you’re a street organizer. Whatever you call yourself, if you’re perpetuating this in our children’s hearts, stop.

“Because if you don’t stop, it’s just showing them that they can be bitter, they can be bigots, they can call people ‘white boy.’ They can be racist, and because they’re black…” And enough of this stuff, too, Rush, with the, you know, “Black people can’t be racist.” That’s baloney. And they say they can’t be racist because they have no power? So how can Little Johnny White Boy be a racist if he has no power? It’s a sham, Rush.

RUSH: Yeah. It is.

CALLER: And I’m tired of it. I’m sick of it. It pains my heart for black people, for America —

RUSH: It does mine, too.

CALLER: — for kids who are really struggling.

RUSH: It pains —

CALLER: Exactly.

RUSH: Nobody wants an America like that. Well, I say “nobody.” Most people, it pains their hearts. It certainly does mine. Every one of those cop shots, every… The whole Ferguson thing, the fact that it happened, the way it went down? Nobody wants this.

CALLER: That’s right.

RUSH: It seems so senseless. Can you hang on through the break? I’ve gotta take a break. There’s one other question I have for you.

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: Okay, good. You see why when we only had a couple minutes yesterday, my instincts said it was not enough time? So he let us call back again today.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Back to Curtis in Boca Raton. I wanted to ask you a personal question. What do you do? And you don’t have to answer it if you don’t want to.

CALLER: I’m a manager at a Financial Services Company.

RUSH: And have you…? You’ve thought about this, obviously extensively. Have you —

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: Have you any aspirations to do anything to actually help implement some of this? Do you have political aspirations?

CALLER: Yeah, absolutely. Between the day job and, you know, just making a living, I just got married about eight weeks ago. Absolutely, Rush.

RUSH: Congratulations, by the way. (clapping)

CALLER: Thank you, sir.

RUSH: Happy to hear that for you. Well, we wish you the best here, and I really… It’s fortuitous that you got through here yesterday; it’s fortuitous that you let us have your phone number to call you back when we didn’t have time. ‘Cause, Curtis, I’m telling you honestly: You had some of the most insightful and intelligent answers to this that I have ever heard, primarily and spectacularly your answer when I asked, “How do you deal with the fact that for some of these people, that’s their reality?”

It’s a chicken-and-egg thing. Look, who started it? There is a definite thing to blame and if they won’t blame it, your answer was we just have to face it head-on like we faced slavery. Anyway, it was interesting because it highlights all the obstacles that are in the way. And one of the obstacles is personal wealth. There are a lot of people… This not a criticism; it’s an observation. It’s kind of important here. There are a lot of people who have gotten incredibly wealthy with these lyrics and that art form.

And there are other people getting incredibly wealthy claiming to have some sort of solution to this strife, but in truth don’t want any solutions because the strife and the conflict is how they have become known. So it’s a… But it is ripping the country apart. It’s also… By the way, Curtis, it also has political sponsorship. That’s another thing. We didn’t even get into that aspect of it. But when you ask who benefits from all this, there are certain people in a certain political party who’ve made sure they benefit from it. But I hope that people with ideas like yours ultimately prevail.

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