America's Still Trapped In Suspended Animation (As The GOP Runs America)

 

 This is obviously a strange time to be alive. It's even stranger if you started a blog in 2005, called The Macho Response, that predicted the cultural shift we're now experiencing, including - and probably especially - the defeat of the Democratic party. In hindsight, it wasn't that hard to see coming, because TMR was analyzing the deeper reasons America's been failing, not just moaning how bad it is to be where we are. And those underlying forces - like a love for NewAge cultism - still aren't being anywhere near fully addressed. If they were, we wouldn't have the husband to a "reiki master" and homeopath in charge of Medicare. 

Oh well. At least cartoons, today, better reflect our cartoon lives.

  

While the "6-7" meme is cute (and definitely not some "Satanic Numerology bullshit") it's also illustrative, in the wake of "Rapture" claims and the shooting of Christian grifter Charlie Kirk, because it reflects how easy it still is - even in 2025 - for seemingly-educated and intelligent people to get swept away by low-calorie ideas. South Park's contrast (of kids enamored by "6-7," with something equally powerful but invalid that adults are into, like Peter Thiel and the Christian concept of an Anti-Christ) nails how dangerous this cavalier treatment of beliefs is: as school authorities are coming down on innocent kids over nothing, for religious reasons, the powerful also decide they also see threats to us all. 

The difference is, the kids know the idea they're playing with is nothing, while, by the time they become adults, they're treating all of it like it's very real. And - except for kids having fun for a while - no good is coming from any of it. As everyone takes action.

    

Today, contradictions, of all kinds, are starting to pile on top of one another. When Democrats were in power America saw encroaching fascism. Now, the GOP was complaining that people are shooting at them, before the Young Republicans were caught admitting they're Nazis who love them some Hitler. And this led to JD Vance - who, at the start of the administration, made it known he'd punish anyone being so antisemitic as to criticize Israel's genocide - now claiming these ultimate of antisemites on the right are just kids (in their 20s and 30s) having fun. 

You know, like 8-year olds, on South Park.

 

Mystic Mayhem™ Amid The Luminance Of Our Lunacy

 

If the Nazis returned, the only thing about a Whole Foods, that Adolf Hitler would object to, is it's staff diversity. 

Himmler would see all the yoga studios and feel totally validated, knowing any nation - attempting this much de-stressing - must be killing a lot of innocent people (and we are). 

Hess would be over the moon after hearing of RFK, Jr's appointments. 

Reinhard Heydrich would think, if President Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception, that makes sense. 

Our fleet of B-2 bombers - and, especially, using them to hurt poor people - would leave Goering wondering where he and his crew went wrong. 

And Joseph Goebbels would find the American government's almost-complete control - over the world's public - most impressive. 

 

They'd all be able to see their influence on America, clearly, but America can't see anything. Not in our super-religious, militarized nation, that educates it's citizens so well a married man can think he's "Jesus" and yoga-promoter Jennifer Aniston is his "Queen," but nobody (beyond his wife who speaks, Oprah-like, of something "manifesting") can spot much is out of order, until he's ramming Aniston's gate with his car.

And it's not just us gone batty - or, rather, Blavatsky. In 2025, Helena could've been an editor for Britain's Daily Mail, approving headlines like this:

Diana Nostradamus who foresaw her death reads Royal charts and makes stunning predictions about a Meghan 'reality check', 'lost' Harry... and their marriage

This is "news," People. As we, currently, starve Palestinians to death, instead of out-right murdering them. The world's lost its stomach for it. The Nazis, too - from top to bottom - found their own actions distasteful, when finally directly confronted with them. That's never stopped anybody from anything, then until now. The Third Reich's ultimate legacy - obviously - is we just keep marching on.

 

Crack's Big Hits (Hot Takes)

 

DOUGLAS MURRAY IS AN ASSHOLE: Rebel Against the Cult of the Expert 

   

 IT'S NOT VERY "SPIRITUAL" OF INDIA TO BLAME PAKISTAN FOR A "TERRORIST" ATTACK: India and Pakistan accuse each other of attacks, tourists flee 

   

AMERICAN MADE: Source: Houthi missile shot down by Arrow after US THAAD missed for 2nd time this week

AMERICA FIRST: Detroit automakers fuming after Trump’s first trade deal gives preferential treatment to imported U.K. cars over their own 

   

 HOPE I DIE BEFORE I GET OLD: The Who retiring as Pete Townsend says 'Everyone needs to know the truth'

 

NOTHING RACIAL - OR REPELLENT - ABOUT THIS ADMINISTRATION: First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S. 

   

 BUT NINE INCH NAILS WILL NEVER BE GOOD: Al Jourgensen Shares Honest Opinion on Trent Reznor's Success as Industrial Musician: 'He's on the Cover of Rolling Stone, and We're Still Slogging in the Trenches' 

   

 THAT MEANS SHE'S A BAD DOCTOR: RFK Jr.: Casey Means ‘walked away from traditional medicine because she was not curing patients’ 

   

 LET'S GIVE THE GUY A SHOT: New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans 

   

 AMERICAN VALUES: “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College”

TRUMP'S A BUFFOON: FACT FOCUS: Trump claims the US subsidizes Canada. Experts say the numbers don’t add up 

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 THE BLUES AND THE LIMITS OF FREE SPEECH: KANYE WEST'S 'HEIL HITLER' REMOVED FROM ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS

Sigh: Nobody Listens To Me

You can't get from whatever NewAgers think they're doing - to Madame Blavatsky who made it up - without going through Adolf Hitler 

   

 Like Voltaire said, you gotta believe some crazy shit to wind up putting Jews in ovens

We're in one of those crazy periods now, when people are retreating into madness, rather than relying on reality, so anything can happen - and will - if you don't count slaughtering Palestinians as anything unusual for the Oprah-loving United States of America to be part of

 

For Your Convenience

The zionists are going to wipe out the Palestinians, at all costs, just like the US tried to do to the Indians, and the Nazis tried to do to the Jews, following America's example

America's helping the zionists - fully - in this endeavor

Which means Hitler's no longer history's bad guy, but it's icon

 

Don't Explain

 

 It's impossible to say anything to a world that just wants to hear affirmations. It's almost impossible to speak. It's almost impossible to have an urge to speak.

 

 

Hitler used many arguments, to attack Jews, that Zionists now use to attack Palestinians. And the media say nothing. You remember the media, don't you? Those fine folks who are upset after CBS News fired a journalist who investigated the Biden family...violating her First Amendment rights, but have been absolutely delighted since the day Jeff Zucker, the former head of CNN, leaked a tape of Donald Trump saying "grab 'em by the pussy"? You know, that media. Our good ol' ethical media.

I don't know how anyone can be saved from a grinding disillusionment today, after reading stories like "Priest arrested for operating illegal Viagra trafficking operation from his home". With so much corruption, an outlook that's burnt around the edges just seems to come with the territory. Consider this statement on the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton's largest, and most successful contributions to American society, and the world: 

  The NCCIH has managed to spend more money on SCAM than any other institution in the world. The NCCIH has wasted precious funds on plenty of dubious studies; arguably, this is unethical. It has misappropriated its role from testing to validating SCAMs. And it has validated none. 

   

 Does anyone else recognize how easy it would be, to shut down the whole Clinton operation, if activists - instead of screraming about Gaza - would just press them on wacky NewAge scams? Not recognizing that fact shows how weak America's mainstream, and independent media are, as institutions, today. And it was the Clintons who weakened them. Or do you think Bill Clinton endorsing Theranos, in front of an adoring crowd of reporters, was an accident?

   

 It was 10 whole days ago that TMR posted "‘The Soulmate Trap’: Why Utah researchers believe the notion of soulmates is ‘harmful’" but, still, here's Your Tango with "12 Powerful Soulmate Messages Your Kindred Spirit Sends Before You Even Meet. " 

They must not get out much.

 

Prepare For Take-Off (We're About To Go Down)

 

 Why would I listen to Coleman Hughes talk about race when he was born in 1996? 

   

 I'd rather listen to Louis CK talk about what life was like in 1986, instead. He's more informative. 

   

Listening to people ignorantly talk about cultists, cults, and cultism, when I've got actual experience with cultists, cults, and cultism, is weird, too. 

   

 They're so underwhelming, like hearing an Adolf Hitler speech in english for the first time. 

   

Joe Rogan's been gaslighted into thinking female cult leaders are "rare," when we live in a time that not only features Love Has Won, but OneTaste, and JZ Knight, and Shirley Maclaine, and Oprah, and many, many more. 

   

Hearing Glenn Loury, trying to escape his restraints,...is bizarre. 

   

(He immediately reminded me of the "World Record" segment of the Animatrix.) 

   

 All I know, for sure is, we've been swallowed-up by this bullshit. 

   

 And, what feeling is, now we go numb.

 

It's Not Quite Christmas

 

 Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank 

   

 The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

The San Francisco pro-yuppie prank that tricked reporters, police and protesters

"Those who advocate homeopathy don’t know what it is, while those who know what it is, don’t advocate it."

 

All You Ever Wanted

 

 15 Stars Who Threatened to Leave the Country Over Politics 

   

 Female 'sect leader', 76, is jailed for life for murdering four-year-old 'reincarnation of Hitler'

The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience

A Huge Dump (But So Clean You Don't Have To Wipe)

Michigan State apologizes for Hitler image on videoboard 

   

 "On Truth Social, Trump posted a courtroom sketch of him sitting next to Jesus, because - if there's one guy whose trial famously ended well - it's Jesus."

New Trump ad claims Hilary wanted to brainwash voters 

  

Dave Chappelle slammed Hamas attacks on Israel, Israel for cutting off water to Gaza and said pro-Palestine students should not lose job offers

Madonna given extra security after calling for peace with the Palestinians

'Maybe it's something to do with me being Pisces, one fish going this way, the other that way. There are periods when I can't stop chanting, and other periods when I turn into a demon again.' 

(Maybe it was something to do with him believing bullshit,...)

Daily Wire’s New ‘Anti-Disney’ Kids’ App Is Shockingly Lame

Lesbian detransitioner with multiple personality disorder who escaped cult sues medics who prescribed testosterone

Police arrest man who pretended to be a mannequin before stealing jewellery

Officer who boasted about loving her job sold ‘top quality’ fentanyl, heroin — on duty

Transgender singer, who 'beheaded' JK Rowling sings 'kill a TERF today' at San Francisco club

Killer known as the Zombie Hunter says life on death row is cold, food is "not great"

When I Get To The Bottom I Go Back To The Top Of The Slide

 

Adolf Hitler, high on speed 

 

 David Bowie, high on coke 

   

 An American housewife, high on LSD

 

Male Or Female: If You Ever Met Someone Claiming To Be God (You Met Him)

The first NewAge Nazi.

 

After What The Democrats Have Done, Now Trump Really Is The Worst "Hitler"

"Nothing says, 'This was a perfectly normal election, and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,' like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt."

- Glenn Reynolds

 

White Americans Want The Same Thing Communists Did And Will Insist It's Our Common Cultural Heritage

"And so it was necessary to teach people not to think and make judgements. To compel them to see the non-existent, and to argue the opposite of what was obvious to everyone." 

 - Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago 

 With this background, it doesn't surprise me white Christian America partnered with Stalin to fight Hitler, as they were also lynching blacks back home with no outcry.

America's love for the NewAge, today, fits in quite nicely as well,...

 

Defeating White Racism Always Comes At A High Price

Hitler's way out will be white's collective response when their racism is fully exposed 

As usual, it looks like white Americans have something to hide, and (as usual - or as in Apartheid South Africa) they expect everybody else to pay for it: 

 ”Bureaucrats in Ferguson, Missouri, responding to requests under the state's Sunshine Act to turn over government files about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, are charging nearly 10 times the cost of some of their own employees' salaries before they will agree to release any records.”  

Why, oh why, doesn't anybody like or trust white people? 

 It's the most difficult question to answer in the country,...

 

Chained - To Humanity's Only Serious Cultural Anchor

If you 've ever wondered how 256 years of slavery became one chapter in school text books

"The unfortunate people to which I belonged, were both sentimental and callous. It was not interested in being shaken by events and any know-thyself."

That was the writer, Stephan Hermlin, on how Adolf Hitler changed European morality. But it also explains white America, too - in relation to this country's treatment of blacks - because this same behavior (along with a daily dose of snideness and ridicule) is what they show us, about themselves. Neither introspection, nor any sign of human kindness, shall bind them. 

 It's hard to believe in anything surrounded by such "people"...

 

TMR's Racist Republican List: Idaho? No, YOU Da Ho!

"If I could have talked to Hitler"

It's so gratifying to learn The Lion Of Idaho, Republican Senator William Borah, "remained personally popular among Idaho voters" after declaring:

“You Southerners are not the only ones who lynch Negroes,...we in the Northern states lynch them just as quickly as you do,....” 

Trying to find safety is still the issue

Why do I like it? Because his statement, emanating as it does from the Senate floor, re-affirms so much I already know about the country - especially that no place in America has ever been "The Promised Land" for blacks - including the North. AND that Republicans were never our friends either.

It's election time again! Y'all come on out!

William Borah works to, at least, make my continuing disappointment in whites less disappointing. 

This is one ugly trajectory

He's historical reality, matching up with lived experience, exactly,....