This is encouraging and unexpected. I didn’t think they had the balls to do this.
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Indeed. It’s high time “protesters” became a tad more cautious in blocking roadways.
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I read that the shooting at Kent State was overwhelmingly supported. The lefties lied so long that it is commonly referred to as the Kent State Massacre. The indiscriminate and brutal killing of large amounts of people.
Just like referring to Jan 6 as an insurrection.
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A thougthful x thread on this topic:
Joscha Bach (@Plinz), Jan 2, 2026:
There are two wildly different news universes now, one in which a massive Somali crime syndicate defrauds the state with fake daycares for many billions of dollars, and one in which that’s an invention of rightwing influencers and the Trump administration to harm immigrants.
The active antagonism between the two groups of reality maintainers delays the colllapse of the superposition, even for intelligent, educated audiences. We are used to lasting disagreements about interpretations of facts, now reality itself is elusive.
We have enough precedents (Covid created with US funding in the Wuhan lab, January 6 as a coup attempt, George Floyd dies from fentanyl), but it becomes harder to resolve ground truth, since the bastions of public fact checking (academia, high end media, wikipedia) are partisan.
I don’t think that an open, liberal society can be run on partisan disinformation. We need a force that actively opposes tribal epistemology, and gets us back to rational epistemology. Otherwise, the reality superposition may be a symptom of the demise of our political order.
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My YouTube feed fed me a video of Mike Wallace interviewing Ayn Rand in the 1950s.
it is obvious to me from the interview that disinformation, a made up word for deception or deceitful, has been the methodology of the mainstream media for a very long time. Almost everything that came out of Mike’s mouth was deceitful.
He says all intellectuals and all industrialists agree ….sound the horn. In many cases, he tries to put words in her mouth. You believe… or The industrialist you so idolize or something similar. If you are against democracy…
It is an interview dude, you don’t have to say what she thinks. You can just ask her what she thinks. That assumes you are not deceitful.
He uses the standard slaver technique of deception made up straw man arguments. If there was only one source of uranium, that industrialist could endanger national security by not selling to the government.
There certainly is deceitful people on all sides of nearly every issue, but since the Canadian band Rush was often inspired by Ayn Rand books, I will use their lyric from the song Closer to the Heart.
And the men that hold high places
Must be the ones to start
To mold a new reality
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Here is the interview:
Now in retrospect, we should ask, did the industrialist jeopardize the nation by monopolizing uranium production or did the slavers?
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Of course. That is, it is obvious to all but some rando ‘genius’ on X/Twitter who thinks he’s discovered something new about the universe. Arguably, it is easier to get a handle on reality now that the legacy media oligopoly have become irrelevant. Only the aged and the clueless get their ‘news’ from that source. Meanwhile, Mike Wallace’s son, Chis, follows in his old man’s footsteps. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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IMM the difference has been the total invasion and control of media that the Progressives enjoyed for such a long time. The Kent State photo that is so famous occurred while I was in Nam. It was posted on the Company door, with a magic marker note: “4 CONFIRMED KIA”. That was a reference to enemy body count, not friendlies.
In Revolutionary times, there were no less contentious newspaper opinions. The difference was that the issues were debated, not ad hominum attacks on the opposition, as if they were evil for proposing an alternative idea. We have had a long and unglorious history of being lied to by the Progressives, in order to get their way. That is changing and they are not happy about it.
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I’m not so sure about that. During the 1800 election campaign, Jefferson and Adams called each other names through proxies. Adams got the moniker “His Rotundity.” Adams’s surrogates had equally insulting to say about Jefferson. These guys weren’t exactly debating the issues. Fast forward to Kent State; the progs were lying and appealing to emotion, not making reasoned arguments.
Whenever the stakes are great, the rules are few. All’s fair in love and war, including political war. The muh principles Republicans don’t seem to get that, which explains why they are losers.
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On that note, there’s the notion of radical centrism. It deserves more attention. It’s a realization that there is sometimes a state of war when you need to afford yourself more instruments so that the civilization ends up winning.
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Maybe what is different today is the penetration of digital media. It has become like the air we breathe, reaching into every space. I fear it has a significant subconscious effect. For example, my stepdaughter, who does not follow politics or current events closely, nonetheless despises Trump (and has since he surfaced), merely because she is - albeit dilutely - bathed in continuous background MSM venom.
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Looks like no more government contracts for Hilton:
Hey @HiltonHotels — why did your team in Minneapolis cancel our federal law enforcement officer and agents' reservations? pic.twitter.com/xuoBvfcPkV
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 5, 2026
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The ad hominem attacks between Jefferson and Adams were funny at least
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Raid the kitchen and cleaning staff at Hilton Hotels.
Set up camps in their lobbies and take over the concierge desks.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5677541-walz-minnesota-national-guard-ice-shooting/
Prediction: Insurrection Act invoked tomorrow
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) January 8, 2026
President Trump has stated he is considering it.
Now Minnesota is approaching open revolt w/ Walz threatening to use the MN Guard against federal officers. pic.twitter.com/r606XucsaB
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Just another example of FAFO.
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Blackhawks circle a city of Somalians as unrest grips the streets below.
— Dissident Soaps (@DissidentSoaps) January 7, 2026
It’s like that movie. https://t.co/lBmyCNwoHR
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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70578979/united-states-v-munoz-guatemala/
WATCH: Noem says ICE agent involved in MN shooting was hit and dragged 300 feet just 6 months ago https://t.co/UCVilby9WU
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) January 8, 2026
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