Tuesday, May 5, 2026

NOBODY HEARD THE BUGLE CALL

 It is kind of sad that almost nobody heard the call last week that announced to all that could and would hear that the Southern Poverty Law Center was really just an enormous scam preying on the feeble minded liberals that make up the power elite of this crazy place. All they had to do to make a good living out of their own racism was fund the dimwitted remnants of the Klan and a few other losers and in that regard they are no different from the other scams that people pretend are honest and forthright. That's right, the SPLC is no different from the FBI, CIA and NSA who all exist and provide a damned good living for elites and gives them enormous power over others by convincing them that a country that spends 1/10 of what we spend on military stuff is some kind of existential threat to US.

If you think back to the Governor Whitmer kidnapping scam back in 2020, it looks like ten or twelve of the conspirators involved in the so-called plot were FBI or FBI informants and all the money and equipment was purchased by the FBI. The sheer totality of ineffective bungling by the FBI is probably best summed up by all the progressive who must despair of them because after 12 years of endless digging, the FBI has completely totally failed to find even one single crime to pin on President Trump. It's driving them all quite mad. 

I think we all have a pretty clear idea of just how fiendishly competent the SS is by now but this isn't about competence it is about altering reality enough to make a good living scaring people to death with fabrications and lies and thus maintaining control. All of the intelligence agencies are in it up to their eyeballs and so is the State Department and by now many people have some idea of just how corrupt all of those NGOs were. Mark this, not one single NGO has any record of actually doing good work. Not one.

The news carefully trumpets the facts they want their followers to hear and to believe and thus we still have endless loud denunciations of President Trump claiming he committed crimes for which there is not a shred of evidence OR THE MAN WOULD BE IN JAIL OR DEAD.

Can you believe I was once a fairly steady consumer of the news? I put a picture here a few months ago of a nice coffee/restaurant in Del Mar where every Sunday I would arrive with the Sunday New York Times and read it cover to cover and consider myself somewhat well informed minus what I picked up every working day from taking a Peek-in-the-Well on the SIPRNET in my office.*

I also subscribed to the Wall Street Journal and read most of it every day for years. One might say that I have a thirst for news of the world. Of course as I saw more and more of what went unreported and took part in a good deal of it, I lost the somewhat naive belief that there was value in reading the news and stuck to sources in the office.

I find it interesting that our whole entire vaunted news has not honestly or faithfully reported a single word of truth out of the entire Middle East in over 30 years. I would say that is some kind of record but then again, the Cold War lasted even longer and you'd never know we won it based on what the news reports. You'd think we are still in an almost hot war with Russia and on the brink of one with China.

There was an interesting little video put on X by a school student at some Charter School where he asked his high school classmates to read aloud about an 'extraordinary silhouette and something looking a little guache' and none of those high school students could read it aloud. They're all graduating in a month or two and they cannot read. That would just about meet the needs of a feudal state and their role is pretty clear in that place.

I used to wonder about how those ancient texts were preserved through the long night and who chose to keep Thucydides, Aristotle, Plato, Polybius and the others alive to us for all those generations only to see them end sometime in the near future, unread, unmissed and unnoticed. 

I asked Grok for a comparison of the New Deal with National Socialism and oddly enough it returned something completely unlike what I remember learning as a boy. I may now have to read those damned speeches that were Hell to track down and see just what the differences were between FDR's totalitarian impulses and those of the German Chancellor. On the other hand, there must be scores of scholarly works that already did that and all I have to do is track them down.

I will bet you it is not a simple trivial matter of going to the library and poking around or looking online with the expectation of getting anything like real scholarly work. On the gripping hand, I did run across a book at the Library the other week written by the man who led our delegation to Germany to try to straighten out the agonizing bits of the Treaty of Versailles. I'll see if it's still there but what are the chances anybody would buy a book written by an unknown back in 1938? 

13 comments:

boron said...

I hope we're discussing a reveille call.
Kids can't (aren't interested in?) reading:
they're not being taught to read? easy to put the blame on the teachers, educational system.
there's no understanding of what they read.
Shakespeare was a white man.

Anonymous said...

The only place lonelier than a church on Sunday is a public library Monday thru Saturday.

Anonymous said...

Give us title and author of that book you found in the library? I collect history books, and that sounds worthwhile.

Dan said...

The typical American...and virtually all leftist voters...are the proverbial ostrich. Existing with their heads buried in the ground so they can't, and don't, see the massive corruption of everything in politics. If you can't see it you can't be expected to do anything about it.

HMS Defiant said...

I can't say it is any kind of surprise or alarm to me that kids cannot and do not read. They never have. I did. My sisters did. My brother did not read a book until he was in college. We all attended different schools and let me say that not one of us ever shared the same teacher. 'Army brats' we moved about every 2 years and we were all about 2 years apart. We must have experienced every style of teaching/or not teaching reading that there was.
One of the upshots though is who doesn't read now? It is exactly the same people not reading as it was 50 years ago and 80 years ago and 100 years ago. Reading simply is not for everyone.
I'll say this though, it is a curse not to be able to read. That is what our education system has done for us. How many of you know or have run up against people your age who cannot read anything?

HMS Defiant said...

Except in Berkeley. I remember when I lived in Emeryville one of the branch libraries in Berkeley tried to put out the homeless foul smelling vagrants even as the main library was trumpeting the right of bums to watch porn on the library's computers and one was shut down by Court order and the other was upheld. You'll never ever guess which was which.....

HMS Defiant said...

I looked yesterday and damned if the Friends of the Library did not remodel the entire area. I looked everywhere for the 'old dusty white people history' books section but it was gone. So were all the audio books and coffee table books....

HMS Defiant said...

I was almost stunned when my little sister informed me that both she and my sister-in-law (notable powerful smart extremely liberal women) were going to vote against the ballot measures arguing for an increase in the school levy in Albany and in my manse. I could not believe it but they finally figured out that it was all a huge scam. Took them all their lives but you can say that about everybody at some point....

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

Robert Lansing's The Big Four and others at The Peace Treaty?

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

In 2921, when I turn 70, I shall retire, and I plan to spend most of my time reading, surrounded by Stitch, Mugwump, and Tom, my three tomcats.

HMS Defiant said...

It is, Ambassador Dodd's Diary 1933-1938. He was appointed Ambassador to Germany by FDR and wrote about his experiences there as the 3rd Reich grew and bloomed. I am kicking myself for not buying it since it cost all of a $1.00.

HMS Defiant said...

No, it was Ambassador Dodd's Diary of his years in Germany as FDRs ambassador there.

HMS Defiant said...

I'm ahead of you but we have just the one Maine Coon to keep company.