Prelude to the Apocalypse

[Sengoku Strider]

I think I've completely lost track of wherever the US Overton window went, but conservative America's fight against whatever communism is rages on.



This guy's radio show is carried by a mass media corporation called 'iHeartMedia,' because of course it is.

[Koa Zo]

(re: Jesse Kelly)
This guy's radio show is carried by a mass media corporation called 'iHeartMedia,' because of course it is.

I'd typed up a post about this guy just last week - but then couldn't find the source for what I was trying to reference, so didn't post it.
I listened to a segment where Jesse Kelly was blathering about "this war is not going to end soon" ..."this is your children's war, your grandchildren's war" ..."because they are trying to destroy everything you believe in" ... "they will not stop until they control everything in your lives and your children's lives" ... "that is why we must kill them" ... "they are coming to destroy us so we must destroy them first." ... "the communists must be destroyed" ... "you must be prepared to give your life and your children's lives to destroy the communists" ..." They want to kill us we must kill them."
That was the gist of what I listened to. Previous Jesse Kelly shows I've listened to focused largely on purporting that all pandemic precautions are communist, all social justice efforts are communist, all liberal policies are communist, anyone who is not with us is communist.
I was a little stunned hearing him openly calling to kill communists - how is he broadcasting such calls to violence against fellow Americans ...
oh, wait, my bad, Jesse Kelly clarifies - the Chinese, the Russians. Those are the communists he is talking about preparing to go to war with.
Then after the next commercial break he goes right back to proclaiming about Fauci and covid precautions being communist.

I'd then looked up his webpage and wondered if the broadcasts were available there. Of the ones I listened to online I could not find the segment where he said to prepare your children for war and that they must kill the communists. Did a producer actually recognize that as too extreme and scrub that from the record?

iHeartRadio owns a lot of the airwaves in the USA, and they seem to broadcast the most misleading, divisive, and bombastic material of any media corporation.
After the Trumpist's attempts to overthrow our government, a local restaurant (among others) was complaining on facebook about not feeing safe to open for fear of further pollical violence - they actually posted a picture of their restaurant boarded up. (we're in the PA state capitol and there was concern that insurrectionists were going to try to seize or make a presence at the state capitol on inauguration day. Months earlier; protesting covid lockdown, radical nutjobs did come and occupy some streets with weaponry of all kind.)

For years I've heard this restaurant's advertisements on the local AM conservative political and conspiracy talk radio station. When I pointed out to the owners with their years of advertising support, they have been directly funding the broadcasters calling for the overthrow of the election (as well as anti-BLM and anti-LGBT programing - which this restaurant otherwise vocally supported), they claimed to have never heard of the radio station, WHP580.
When the owners responded again, they said they had no idea their restaurant was being advertised on that station and it was because they paid for a package advertising deal with iHeartRadio. They thought they were going to be advertising on the local adult contemporary rock station - and they are, but they also funded shows like Jesse Kelly etc.

edit: just looked up what "Overton window" means. had never heard of that.

The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, describes the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse.

That is exactly what was striking me when I was hearing Jesse Kelly directly say to kill communists and implore his listeners with urgency that their children are going to be fighting this "war". - like, "people tolerate this kind of talk on nationally broadcast radio?!!" Episode after episode Jesse Kelley riles and weaves an allusion that liberals are communists. Now he and other conservatives are (and iHearMedia) are crossing the threshold of calling outright for the murder and prolonged war against "the enemy". Sean Hannity opens his radio show with a count of "days under siege" by the "Biden regime". These are major broadcasters (Jesse Kelly on the come up?) pushing this discourse, it's shocking to hear so openly how they're priming and marketing civil war.

[BulletMagnet]

"people tolerate this kind of talk on nationally broadcast radio?!!"

One other thing to keep in mind in connection with the whole Overton window thing is that, according to conventional wisdom, when either the left or the right goes too far off the rails the "center" will abandon it and force it to moderate in order to stay relevant; it's the reason people like me are constantly being told to be grateful that Manchin and Sinema are refusing to allow us to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for health care. Somehow, though, when not just the fringe but mainstream rhetoric on the right is arguing for both violence against and (even more worringly, IMO) open electoral disenfranchisement of their opponents, somehow that is not considered beyond the pale, to the point that the right is projected to clean up in the upcoming elections; all the while, nobody is grabbing the swing voters by the collar and demanding an explanation - "you call yourself a centrist, yet seriously still consider this a viable option?"

Just keep that in the back of your mind the next time someone tells you that conservatives are "persecuted" and "under assault" in the USA.

[Sengoku Strider]

He's just standing up for freedom in the face of Stalinist mask mandates.

[Randorama]

Finally, someone who invokes "communists" as a bogeyman for lovers of freedom (well, bogeymen, bogeypeople...whatever it is).

As someone who complained about USA's obsession with the more vanilla concept of "socialism" and its mildly flavoured association to PRC, I feel that "we" are making progress.

Whoever the "we" may be about.

Off to go some bottles of "Stalin" merlot for the new year. Great balance between price and flavour, and works a charm with red meat (christian children, of course!). Anyone wants pictures?

[BryanM]

Hello fellow accelerationists. It is around day 2,190 of our accelerationism. How is increasing the rate you increase your velocity at going?

edit: just looked up what "Overton window" means. had never heard of that.

Like all things, this is manufactured top down. Like I said, we're groomed constantly from birth and television has taken the role of church in that respect: the mechanism the dictators use to quell dissent and wrong-think. It's completely arbitrary - if those in power wanted to raise the minimum wage it'd be an acceptable thing to think and speak about out loud, but instead it's in the same bucket as molesting trees or something.

Always amazed me people can laugh at North Korea's propaganda about their emperor king never having to poop, but never spare a critical thought to the relentless grooming we ourselves are subject to. We all live in giant cults of one kind or another. The simulated reality inside of our heads, the true place that we all live in, can be molded into almost anything.

The number of times a liberal called me a coo-coo bird for pointing out the Manufactured Consent, sigh..

Somewhat distressingly this post-nine eleven 24/7 news cycle was a tool they stumbled onto by accident. No one would want to spend all day watching the news, a sane functional person thought. But it turns out tons of us have no lives and can be mobilized as a reliable vanguard for capitalists/popes/kings/whoever it is at the top of the hierarchy pyramid.

oh, wait, my bad, Jesse Kelly clarifies - the Chinese, the Russians. Those are the communists he is talking about preparing to go to war with.

Always reliable scapegoats and boogiemen, those are.

[Specineff]

Speaking of boogiemen, isn't it astounding how easily the agents of the deep state manage to poison attendants of MAGA-related rallies, with Anthrax?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-vax-pod ... 07384.html

(Not an ounce of sorrow for retards like that guy. May Ivermectin have mercy on his soul, because thoughts and prayers surely won't do what a mask and some common sense would have)

[Randorama]

oh, wait, my bad, Jesse Kelly clarifies - the Chinese, the Russians. Those are the communists he is talking about preparing to go to war with.

Always reliable scapegoats and boogiemen, those are.

Oh, OK. Though I must say that the party representative for my faculty is a stunning beauty of a woman, well-read (OK, she cites Chomsky) and with an absolutely killer volley and serve, apparently. What kind of "war" these fellows would like to wage (*nudge nudge, wink wink!*)?

...On a vaguely serious note. Uncle Vladimir and his subjects seem currently to sit to the right of, dunno, the talibans and the NSDAP. Did anyone notify this Kelly lad?

[Sengoku Strider]

Finally, someone who invokes "communists" as a bogeyman for lovers of freedom (well, bogeymen, bogeypeople...whatever it is).

As someone who complained about USA's obsession with the more vanilla concept of "socialism" and its mildly flavoured association to PRC, I feel that "we" are making progress.

Communism had a rough go of things for a while after local mom discovered this one weird trick.



Exorcists hate her.

[brianhill87]

At school I loved to study history. Remember that in all ages people believed that the end of the world would soon be. Personally don't believe in the end of the world.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

This thread isn't about a literal apocalypse. The title's meant to be tongue in cheek; it's a thread about politics and the overall lamentable state the world's in as a result.

[EmperorIng]

This thread isn't about a literal apocalypse. The title's meant to be tongue in cheek

for everyone except Bryan

[Sengoku Strider]

This thread isn't about a literal apocalypse.

It is for those of us who are awake to the truth of the coming storm.

Spoiler

[BryanM]

R.I.P., Dees. You were a fun and interesting one..

for everyone except Bryan

Yeah, it's funny how no one believes in collapse until it's already over and done, even with a straight line to the iceberg in front of us. Global warming has gotten to the point that political cartoonists can't even do the "it snowed so global warming is a hoax" comic anymore, since it never snows where they live now.

So their kin has moved on to the "it's happening, but it's great" line of defense. I, too, enjoy never having to wear pants.

It's the uh, what comes after this that's fun to think about..... The Postman.... ok it's not fun to think about.

The shittiest apocalypse man.

Also lol @ people calling the George W. administration "rock bottom". smh, People still had food and oxygen, somewhere. Compared to the great depression and various wars, all that was a picnic. There's always more and it's always worse!

When everyone else is ready to accept it, I'll remove the "prelude" part from the title. You'll all wish you watched those youtube videos I linked to about eating tree bark, by then!

[Sima Tuna]

Some good news, at least Covid Variant Unicron is relatively mild.



It seems to be highly infectious but not very highly dangerous.

[BulletMagnet]

So yeah, we could just call it this week's episode of "Just When You Thought Rand Paul Couldn't Be More of a Horse's Ass" and call it a day, but seriously, have a gander at the Washington Examiner article he references: even putting aside the spectacle of the right getting upset over private money in politics (they go so far as to call it "laundered"), the mere act of attempting to make voting more accessible to more people in the middle of a pandemic is "stealing", "ballot harvesting", a "shadow campaign". And they are attempting to encode this entirely good faith interpretation of events into election law.

If you'll pardon me beating the same drum again, while the "moderates" are freaking out over critical race theory, they are fully prepared to allow mass electoral disenfranchisement to occur without so much as a second glance. Frankly, I'd love to have any one of them attempt to justify this state of affairs.

[BulletMagnet]

Time for another round of "imagine the reaction if a Democrat said this".

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, this might honestly go better in the "cancel culture" thread.

[Sengoku Strider]

R.I.P., Dees. You were a fun and interesting one..

When you're the type of guy who closes his eyes and sees visions of three-headed John Kerry monsters shaking cloven hooves with an android Bibi Netanyahu wearing an "ISIS=MOSSAD" button who is staring at a being wearing three stars of David that has the Federal Reserve with missiles on top for a head offering up a contract to destroy the Earth as the "Enemies of Israel" while the ghost of J.P. Morgan looks on and CNN plays videos of beheadings in the background all taking place in front of M. Bison's evil control room from Street Fighter V except with the Earth in the coils of the most prominently Jewish snake of all time...

...I'm not sure "fun and interesting" really quite covers things.

Spoiler

[Mischief Maker]

Bring it on, 2022!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhD7o7fct4E

[Vanguard]

This thread isn't about a literal apocalypse.

Amai!

[Sengoku Strider]

#TeamLiteralApocalypse

[BIL]

I see Dubya's gurning catamite ghoul Blair has finally received his knighthood. Don't get me wrong, he's only one of several Iraq war actors I'd be A-OK seeing executed via pavement saw. Your current pantywaist-in-chief is another. But holy fuck, this shit-eating cunt has aged like syphilis. Visceral disgust all over my lovely newsstand this morning. :[

Ah, I feel a great (cover of a great) song comin' on.

[Sengoku Strider]

Even The Guardian's getting in on the American sky-falling craze:

The Guardian: US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian Professor Warns

Psh, that's being a little alarmist, don't you thi...



...#TeamLiteralApocalypse

[BryanM]

So how about that Ghislaine Maxwell conviction huh? Isn't it funny she did all this illegal stuff but there's somehow ZERO customers that were buying it?

Isn't that funny?????

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...I'm not sure "fun and interesting" really quite covers things.

Yeah, he was anti-semitic as fuck and made Ben Garrison look like a harmless toddler.

It's pretty typical of the "we've got the wrong type of capitalism" crowd. Capitalists are richer and more powerful than ever, what could they possibly mean by the "wrong type" when it's working better than ever. We all know the general gist of what their problem is. They'd be Huey Long types, otherwise.

I love Dees because he didn't hide that shit behind metaphors and cliches - he was his honest self and didn't partake in the bullshitting that makes up the entirety of our public discourse. 45% of the electorate, represented in perfect crystal clarity.

#TeamLiteralApocalypse

Man.

You know that old quote: "A reasonable man changes himself to suit the world. The unreasonable man changes the world to suit himself. Therefore, any change for the better must come from an unreasonable man." I think the observation that applies to the average person of our generation is: if you can't change yourself or change the world, all you can do is look away from it.

Accepting the doom and embracing a Huxley type dystopia beats resisting and personally experiencing an Orwell style one.

Smh at my former self from seven years ago. Like it could have ever ended any other way but this.

[BIL]

ISN'T THAT FUNNY????!

Bryan I was surprised it even went to trial, and will be moreso if the vile thing actually sees meaningful time.

Maybe we'll get Andy as a consolation prize?

https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/ ... 4143252480

Well, at least the noncing cunt has taken a public shelling. I hear one of his legal stratagems is to attack the New York Child Victim Act. Can you imagine, lmao!

It's not quite a pavement saw going through a knee joint, but reasonable men have to take what they can get on the nonce-bashing front. Unreasonably, you might expect to see certain places in England, like Rotheram and Telford doing a roaring trade in roadwork power tools, steel cabling and boltcutters. If you can't get the ones at the top, how about the ones down the street?

[BryanM]

You were surprised? I always assumed they're just doing cleanup.

Like with Assange, Manning, Snowdon - if someone falls out of line they need to be made an example of in the town square. She and Epstein were supposed to be suppliers, not a problem.

Hmph, feels gross putting them in the same sentence as them. But to the rulers' point of view, they are similar.

[BIL]

Oh no, I do get the tokenistic angle ("Wow folks! We got 'er! YAAAY"). It's just a different kind of slap in the face, opposite nothing at all. Nobody higher up answers, either way. They might as well suicide her too while they're at it.

...a conviction technically is a more conducive outcome, I suppose. Maybe there'll be a couple more sacrificial heifers, besides just the pimp and his madame.

Still, what a joke that a mansized louse like Andy is the only party facing any semblance of heat. -_- Like burning off a scab while leaving the underlying gangrene intact.

[BryanM]

Yeah, Gates got asked about it once out of the blue and was forced to be uncomfortable for all of fifteen seconds. I guess his divorce made him uncomfortable for about a minute or two.

You have to put on your Dees hat and start thinking like a lizard person. From their point of view. This isn't about "justice", or appeasing the rabble whatsoever. Watch my math:

1. Epstein is not their only dealer. Obviously.

2. They don't want their dealers to cause them problems. Such as bringing attention to what they're doing. Or blackmail, etc. What happens in the dark is to stay in the dark.

3. Therefore, they need to make an example of someone when they cross the line. Pushing them down the stairs or whatever is insufficient - the dim might assume it might really have been an accident. There's no room for subtlety when it comes to discipline: they need to be so clear and obvious about what happened and who did it, that only an absolute pants-shittingly, poop-eatingly stupid person could miss it.

They're gangsters, just like drug lords. Gotta keep up the fiction that they're more than human. Can't let anyone think they can step on you.

One of the more disturbing thoughts about all this: You know Epstein's singularity fantasy? The one where he's god and inseminates everyone like cattle? To at least a couple of these lizard people, that was his greatest sin. That's their fantasy, and this little guy was getting uppity. "Know your place, little guy."

That Punished Bernie video Mischief posted is barely hyperbole for how these people are.

[Mischief Maker]

One of the more disturbing thoughts about all this: You know Epstein's singularity fantasy? The one where he's god and inseminates everyone like cattle? To at least a couple of these lizard people, that was his greatest sin. That's their fantasy, and this little guy was getting uppity. "Know your place, little guy."

That Punished Bernie video Mischief posted is barely hyperbole for how these people are.

https://youtu.be/2XsSQAtxVA4

[Koa Zo]

Pre-emptive "sorry for wasting your time" if you read all of this. just an exercise in recapping what is on the afterwork radio:

Ken Matthews, right wing newsertainment propagandist, tells his story of coming home from church on Sunday: if he behaved, the family would stop at Little Caesars for a “$5 hot and ready pizza.” He explains how his dad couldn’t afford the high-end place; “Red Lobster”, they went to Little Caesar’s. (Good work on implying his religiosity and his everyman meager upbringing.) Ken then reports that the price is being raised for the first time ever in the company’s 25 year history (which is incorrect) immediately he sing-songs the “Let’s go Brandon” chant.
Matthews then says “Of course, if you’re “woke” it won’t matter.” What an odd tie-in, that “woke people” and Biden are to be derided because the price of pizza has gone up. Oh wait but he’s not done yet, “If you’re Nancy Pelosi you have a refrigerator full of ice cream” (huh?) “What’s 55 cents?” he tells his audience “Nancy” will say.
Then Ken goes on about Dollar General stores and how they are raising prices to $1.25, further establishing his claim; with no evidence or factual relation to policy, that this is all the liberals fault. You have libruls, “Brandon,” Nancy, and "woke people" to blame for your pizza and dollar store prices.

I turned it off at that point to type up this nonsense. A few holes in his story; not that it matters, Little Creasers did not sell “Hot & Ready” pizzas for $5 back when Ken was coming home from church. Funny he had a segment earlier in the show about liars - but of course this is just "comedic" license, I'm sure. And what was that 25 year claim? Little Ceasers was founded in 1959 and the Hot & Ready came out in 2001. Well accuracy isn’t the point I guess. The point is you need to hate libruls and woke people and transgender people. Transgender people?, don’t worry he’ll get to that.

I googled Little Caesars to check that 25 year claim and find a People Magazine article that exactly covers what Ken made his segment about: Little Caesars and Dollar General. Of course he omitted Little Caesars’ spin that they are just meeting customers’ requests to add more pepperoni – so the pizza has 33% more pepperoni and that’s why the price is going up (what a gross commentary on the value of peperoni. 55 cents for more ass cancer, hooray!). Yeah that’s "Brandon" and Nancy’s fault. Good enough to keep his listeners keyed-into who they should hate.
I knew this “story” would be rippling through the right wing idiotsphere, and here Ken wasn’t even the first on the wave.

So then, 15 minutes later after typing most of this I turn the radio back on, and Matthews is concluding his show... A transgender person won on Jeopardy. Ken exclaims “wait a second, that’s a guy in a wig!” ...a bunch of gibberish about transgender people and wigs and then something about being “a real man or woman aviator” and he salutes you. Obviously, I missed what led into transgender and aviators, but the important part is Matthews’ is patriotic and salutes them! Oh yeah, and that transgender people are to be reviled and devalued.
Then signing off with some statement about “…If I’m on the air tomorrow..." calling back to his great refrain of “they’re silencing us!!!”
This guy is nationally syndicated as the “drive-time” programming from 3-6pm; a major talk radio timeframe, and he's apparently growing in popularity after his brief stint filing in for dead Rush Limbaugh. Yeah sure is being “silenced and censored” as he claims repeatedly in every show.

I drop this slop here just as a time capsule – a slice of what is considered important prime time discourse for the conservative right media. We are fucked. That this guy and scores of broadcasters or “personalities” like him have rapt audiences for such simple-minded subterfuge propaganda day after day, hour after hour - could there be any more stark indicator of what we are as a nation and a species - a bunch of dipshits. What a waste of society.