When a nation’s established ruling order is overthrown or subverted, the new regime’s first goal is to cement its authority. That means memory holing any evidence of a change from one form of government to another. It also entails silencing those who question the new rulers’ legitimacy.
Revolutionaries learned a long time ago that you don’t have to gag every opponent of the revolution. Most of the time, making examples of the most prominent and outspoken troublemakers suffices.
In America, half the people think the 2020 election was a hamfisted color revolution, while the official narrative insists it was business as usual. A helpful way of discerning the facts is to look at the election’s outcome. Protestors used to demonstrate outside and inside the capitol for years without ruffling official feathers. Now, some who protested the election are rotting in solitary under torture. Post-January 6 2021, we live in a country that takes political prisoners.
Our rulers’ latest paranoid response to questions about their validity includes issuing congressional subpoenas to college-age kids.
Stalin’s infamous finger man Lavrentiy Beria famously said, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” America’s effeminate ruling class can’t even be bothered to fabricate criminal accusations. The mere act of challenging their claims is now grounds for federal investigation. The Leftist revolution that began with college kids with bullhorns flooding Washington and burning draft cards has led to secret police.
Past revolutionaries also learned that silencing campaigns carry risks. The choice of targets and punishments must be handled with delicacy to avoid a backlash. Making martyrs of the opposition is the last thing the regime needs.
In the case of paleocon firebrand Nicholas J. Fuentes, the regime appears to have chosen poorly.
Fueled by news of the congressional witch hunt, Nick’s show surpassed 11,000 viewers last night. That viewership would make the front page of the biggest streaming sites, and Nick did it on a homemade platform put together by a few Zoomers.
And even jaded Gen Y streamers are taking notice.
The regime’s goals with the Fuentes subpoena are transparent. By mentioning the cryptocurrency Nick got from that French millionaire in the same breath as the capitol protest, they want to pluck a thorn from their side while creating a pretext for placing crypto under government control.
It’s the same play we’ve seen our rulers run since 2017: Associate the target with shady characters in the media. Use the media hatchet job to declare the target guilty in the court of public opinion. Associate a new target with the old target. Crypto is just the latest link in the daisy chain.
In this instance, the hirelings employed by our elites to pretend to govern may have gotten carried away. This time they’re not hauling costumed weirdos out of trailer parks into show trials. Boomers watching the proceedings at home will see clean-cut, articulate kids getting grilled by billionaires’ bagmen. They’ll flash back to the HUAC hearings and imagine their grandkids on the stand.
Not to mention that the circus troupe who’ve set up shop in Congress aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. The groypers have run rings around congressmen before. They will humiliate the clods on the committee.
The regime have painted themselves into a corner. They can air the groyper trials and be pantsed in front of the world, or they can keep the hearings secret. The latter option rather defeats the point of making examples, though.
Whatever the hearings’ outcome, it’s vital to internalize that America is over. The tyranny we live under now is worse in some ways than the iron boot of the Soviet Union. At least soviet subjects knew the rules and how to stay under the radar. Liberal democracy has created a panopticon where everyone spies on everyone else.
Such an unnatural arrangement cannot stand. Be prepared for chaos.
Happy, hopeful, and practical
It’s been memory holed now, but don’t forget that for months after the elections the capitol was surrounded by barb wired fences patrolled by national guardsmen. And the fence has returned at least once since it was taken down.
After the “most secure and transparent” election, the seat of our country looked like occupied territory.
I didn’t realize they’d ever taken the fence down. Now they’re building one around the White House.
If I were in charge of organizing the groyper trials, this is what I would do.
I would rig the trials to ignore established protocols such that neither Nick nor Patrick Casey would ever have the chance to speak. They would essentially turn into hours-long marathons of Nick and Patrick being told that they’re bad people who are guilty of everything but actually breaking the law—and if either would become emboldened and would try to speak, he would be tazed and would be told that he may not speak out of turn in a deliberate display of federal hypocrisy.
Behind the scenes, I would also begin to organize the media. Leftist streamers would be instructed to stream the trials and to react to the groypers’ humiliaton with applause, tears, and random anecdotes about stopping hatred, and the streaming platforms themselves would be instructed to discretely prevent access to streams that could be hosted by anyone who isn’t a hard-lined death cultist. I would also prime Snopes and mainstream news networks to run another gaslighting fact-check campaign about congressional subpoenas and federal laws in general.
The cherry on top would be that neither Nick nor Patrick would be incarcerated at the ends of the trials. Rather, just as conservatives would breathe sighs of relief, I would organize mobs of clean-cut, white collar leftists and libertarians to surround Nick and Patrick and to beat them to death upon their return. Naturally, the police would be bribed into protecting the perpetrators, and the mayors would be bribed into delivering teary-eyed speeches about how thankful they would be that such hateful men would be brought to anti-bigoted justice.
If I were just a little more clever, however, I wouldn’t let things escalate to that point in the first place. I would brainwash all of the groyper streamers, such that they would renounce their America-first patriotism, and I would convince them to proudly marry themselves off to various immigrants, legal or otherwise: Somalis, Mexicans, and Filipinas. And their devastated followers would blog, “But that isn’t really Nick Fuentes! It’s just a deepfake!”
Brian
When I read that Nicolas Fuentes was being hauled before the Star chamber, it merely sealed my conclusion, the elites had lost their minds. It’s obvious the elites are so desperate to delegitimize any backtalk about the 2020 elections, they blindly lash out and intimidate people who had nothing to do with the Capitol riots.
Such a laughable show of strength
xavier
It does indeed look like they’re moving in on cryptocurrency. I am still rather skeptical. One reason is because it’s essentially printing money, for instance dogecoin was supposed to be worth $85 billion in May of last year, but there’s no way all the dogecoin holders could really cash out that amount of money. But now that governments both inside and outside the West are cracking down on it, it makes me think there’s probably something in it.
In addition to banning and vilifying cryptocurrency, another step will be to co-opt it and make fake cryptocurrencies that aren’t really secure. That has probably already happend, but I’m not sure which ones those would be.
Venezuela’s failure of a government is already trying to make a state-backed cryptocurrency. I find it very plausible that other governments might try the same.
“Printing money” is only half of the picture. They were netizen currencies that were supposed to exist beyond the regulation and the inflation of physical nations and banks, so they tried to fix the wounds of human nature with silicon Band Aids.
The only think sillier than trying to bandage a spiritual wound with a physical band-aid is trying to bandage a spiritual wound with an imaginary band-aid.
The word ‘netizen’ is also a clue. The sheer ugliness of that neologism should have been a huge red flag, but it was taken at face value because the geeks and nerds who pride themselves on their rationality are often more rationalist than they are rational. The Internet isn’t a country, as the complexities of international data ownership and privacy laws illustrate. It isn’t even a place. ‘Cyberspace’ was never more than a metaphor, and a silly one at that. The Cloud, as I remind my students, is actually someone else’s hard drive. Thus, there is no such thing as a citizen of the Net. We can’t even really be denizens, because one cannot live here.
Perhaps in some silly, Gnostic way, the folks who thought the Internet would fix everything expected it to unite humanity in mutual understanding the way the Holy Spirit unites the Church in fellowship.