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.

 

Same-Same (It Just Feels Different)

[Trump's] failed on almost every count. We used to call Joe Biden "Genocide Joe" when he was in the White House. We could easily call Donald Trump "Genocide Don." 

- Prof. John Mearsheimer, today, on how the new administration disappointed him

"Trump's in-charge, but he lied, too / so we've traded one form of fascism for "Fascism Part II" 

- The Crack Emcee, two weeks ago, on how the new administration disappointments

 

A Fourth Of You Lie Reminder (For Liberals Out There Suffering Under Trump)

Like with Naziism in the 1920s and 30s, as Fascism arrived in Germany, for the late 20th century, the Democrats opened the door for Donald Trump by adopting NewAge in America. (This is why Oprah spoke at every DNC and even got Obama's honors after peddling The Secret). Trump left the Democrat Party, but kept RFK, Jr. and Dr. Oz, so the connection to NewAge quackery - which, clearly, the left and right seem to immensely (and stupidly) enjoy - stays obvious.

Voltaire warned you: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

So, it should come as no surprise that, here we are in 2025 - long after Vietnam - celebrating the birthday of a nation known for killing babies again.

 

"I'm A White Man. You Can't Even Hurt My FEELINGS!" - Louis CK 15 Years Ago

 

It looks like the word's out, that Kamala Harris wasn't doing everything she could to stop the genocide in Palestine, as AOC said. For a country that's fully wired, that's an incredible amount of lag-time, between when a lie is spoken and the truth is exposed.

We should work on that. 

 

 Speaking of lag-time, NewAge as a diluted form of Nazi fascism still hasn't sunk in very deeply, yet. Nobody tell Oprah. Let's see how long it takes for a "journalist" to catch on to her own self-deception.

Speaking of self-deception and forms of white supremacy, according to MSNBC, "MAGA world helps raise over $600,000 after woman hurls racist slur at a child in Minnesota," potentially saying a lot about "MAGA world" and how they handle free speech. But first, I'm curious about the woman in question, Shiloh Hendrix - who thinks she's been put in a dire situation - not that she made one for herself. She claimed "I called the kid out for what he was" after the 5-year old took a toy from her diaper bag:

So what would a white 5-year old have been?

So, speaking of self-deception, forms of white supremacy, and free speech in the United States today - for those of you keeping score at home - in Trump's America, you can raise money for calling kids "niggers," and we hate DEI (though the entire country is now a "safe space" and/or a "sanctuary city" for zionists) but any visitor who says anything against Israel can get kicked out of the country. Oh, and universities are also the playthings of Trump and rich zionists. And don't forget the rich South Africans running things, here now, raised under apartheid and acting like it. 

It's all making MAGA's potential for "greatness" feel very elusive.

 

Asking Crazy People To Fix Things (How's That Supposed To Work?)

Drifting from the fascism of the Democrat's NewAge spirituality, to the fascism within the Republican's Christian theocratic version SHOULD be a whiplash, but - instead - it's going as smooth as silk, due to electing a Trump administration full of former Democrats 

 Now we get Jesus AND "alternative" medicine! The Prosperity Gospel AND newscasters who talk to "psychics." It's the "best" of both insane worlds, for the worst of all possible outcomes 

 The US is still in decline

 

The NewAge Is When Whatever Happens "Happens" (And That's Never Good)

   

Palestine, getting Candace Owens fired from The Daily Wire, should remind readers of TMR that (since "the tension between prescribed roles and the individual mindsets of post-Civil Rights Era blacks is one of the greatest shows in American culture") as "a veteran of some of San Francisco's most politically outspoken groups" we, too were blacklisted - after being known to "articulate,...those truths we hide from or can't find the words for" - so this blacklisting began a long, long time ago.

  

No one should miss that our dismissal, too, wasn't over anything political, but something also quasi-religious-in-nature - and fascist - though not Zionism. 

Nor should they forget how few came to help. Unlike with Owens, who began commenting as someone married to a millionaire, and can now start parlaying that into even more money now, being brave enough to have an opinion - when you're a not into anything unscientific, pseudoscientific, or rooted in faith, and your name's not Neal deGrasse Tyson - is isolating, dangerous, and financially ruinous. TMR paid the price, while millionaires can profit.

 

Last week, The Wall Street Journal noticed 25 Years Later, We’re All Trapped in ‘The Matrix’, agreeing with part of TMR's underlying thesis. But - we go on to say - even the addition of The Animatrix couldn't hint at how many crazy stories have been spawned, after all this futuristic technology was in the hands of a population, so stuck in the 19th Century, it's not uncommon to find a hypnotist ‘used insidious tactics’ to steal and sell women’s intimate photos. 

   

Forget The Matrix series, it's much more accurate to call this is the Oprah/Burning Man Generation. Now completely lost, after decades of insisting not only that they were totally on top of things, but better than the rest of us. When they so-totally were not. 

   

The difference, between TMR's world and their delusional one, is deadly.   

 

TMR is "woke," and that means we've known this is fascism, and are learning how it really works.

 

But, it also means - for self-preservation - we've stopped even trying to fight it. Why? Because, as we said, we know how this fascism works. But "John Doe's got the upper hand."

And women, especially, just seem to love that guy,...

It Isn't Like You Have A Choice

 

 "You weren't even creative enough to come up with your own cult." 

   

  Why disturbing leaks from US gender group WPATH ring alarm bells in the NHS 

   

  Why bishop is calling for £1bn in Church of England reparations for slavery 

   

  Why people are reluctant to call themselves atheists 

   

  The California ranch tied to Gillette, a cult and 'The Biggest Loser' 

   

  Riot at Ivy Ridge finally helped close cult school after students sick of solitary confinement & restraints fought back 

   

 "People who have a spiritual understanding of life in the absence of a religious framework are vulnerable to mental disorder." 

   

  Was your last sandwich made by a cult? 

   

  How A Man Overdosed On Homeopathic Medicine After Manufacturer Error

The Conversation, Part II

 

 You know when Hell's veil is pulled aside: "These people will eat a scab off a dog's knee."

 

Continued from Part I 

Dylan Mulvaney wanting to pair-up with Meghan Markle, an idea that's so Hellish, spiritually-speaking, the public should be reminded of the Nazi philosophy of self-promotion: "Find out what people HATE and make them hate it MORE" 

So, in the late, great Carl Sagan's 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World, he expressed a specific fear - an atheist's vision of Hades. It was that, in the current day, we'd read a story like "Missouri pastor Rick Morrow resigns from school board after claiming that children with autism are possessed by a 'DEMON'" not long after a major publication was asking for our opinion on the question: "The mayor thinks New York gets ‘special energy’ from crystals. Is he right?"

How, in 1995, did Sagan predict that this would be happening? (Was it that obvious?) And why, in 1995, did Sagan fear these specific things, specifically happening now, in 2023, when everybody knows autism isn't a 'demon' but the MMR vaccine, as Oprah Winfrey, Jenny McCarthy, and Jim Carrey assured us - in their fight against misinformation - all the way back in 2007? 

  

   

As Sagan explained, collectively, talk of demons and belief in crystals are evidence - that society's already in Hell - or, at the very least, on the edge of a black hole before entering. He said the culture is getting totally stretched-out, as "we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." He totally predicted people, today, trying to fill a bucket full of holes with imaginary water. Literally, coming undone.

And, even worse, we can do nothing to stop it. In Hell, we're too smart for that. For instance, tell people that doing yoga 'for exercise' doesn't change the fact the practice itself is religious, and they don't care. NewAge arrogance, and ambivalence are doing the real stretching - but of society's fabric: They become more fanatical, rigid, and insist on the practice, never noticing the Modi government - that has been promoting yoga worldwide - is also doing the same: by all accounts, becoming more fascist by the day. 

America's going through it, but all we talk about is how partisan everybody is now. In Hell. That's our bullshit: focussing almost exclusively on politics, as politicians encourage us to find a religion to guide our lives. No one asks what influence, say, Oprah has had over Obama. Like - except for the fact we're in Hell - how'd she win the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, after promoting The Secret, John of God, and making "America's Doctor" out of a quack named Oz? Aren't those NewAge "achievements" that could only win rewards in Hell, from a (formally-assumed) "Lightbringer"?

The best we can hope for, is that one step-forward, two steps-back, contradictory force of nature called "The Human Condition" to pull us out of all this. Like when Dave Chappelle, and a French Doctor, both notice "a cavity is not a vagina." That's a glitch in the Matrix. And thank goodness for them, because we need all the glitches we can get.

 

 

Or else we're about to lose it.

 

Reading Material (For A Wasted Education)

"I don't know how to heal religious trauma." It just attacked me.

Click here and destroy what little trust you had left in the world

"It took 50 years for the French state to acknowledge that Vichy’s crimes were also France’s crimes." It will take them another 50 to admit they were lying for the first 50: they're French.

Springtime for Yurp’s fascists - Strike a pose, Guys.

Cobras, Clowns and Psychics. That's all I got: Cobras, Clowns and Psychics.

The story of San Francisco - minus the NewAge movement's embrace, which seems pointless

And 'China Has 10 Years Left' to,...not take over the world? Well boo-fucking-hoo for them.

 

TMR: Lizzo Shouldn't Feel Too Bad (They Even Went Bananas At Apple)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Politics Today noticed something happening in the world that, I'm sure, will be a shock to TMR readers. And no, it's not that Lizzo's making her back-up dancers eat bananas. 

Here it is:

"Cults Continue to Cause Death in the 21st Century"

I know, I know [slaps forehead] you can't believe it. [Slaps forehead again] Neither can I. What happens in this big ol' homeopathic world of ours boggles the mind.

I mean, sure, you hear about the occasional psychic offering remote healing who removes her advertisement after complaints from sceptics, but, mostly, what you see is a world rewarding people for becoming little tyrants, which is how the we end up with so many cult leaders to begin with. When given the chance, some people just can't resist telling other people what to do. And, when given the chance, some people just can't resist doing as they're told.

So, people want to know, has Miley Cyrus joined a cult? I can't say. A member of Fleetwood Mac did, and they're all into gender pseudoscience and the erasure of parental boundaries, so maybe there might be something to it. 

Amid Indian nationalism, pseudoscience seeped into academia like yoga took over American progressives, just before they started acting like fascists, too. Connection? You be the judge.

All I know is, a self-proclaimed psychic recently got more than 9 years in a twisted $1 million scam, and people are still asking if they're real? Fuck yea,h they're real: Real enough to take your shit.

And, in the NewAge, that just might mean your life.

 

Back To The Future (Of Fucking Shit Up)

A woman sexually abused by a "cult" leader when she was a girl has told an Adelaide court she was made to feel like "a piece of meat purely for his pleasure" and that she was required to serve the group's "god", or she would be punished. 

Which is such a typical story of The NewAge Movement, you'd think a GOOP or NXIVM would never stand a chance of ever getting off the ground. But, instead, they're encouraged - by women - as a rebellious act. Against what, they don't say. It's just blind rebellion. Dressed as a quest for power.

Or a will to it.

 

Conservatives Now Hope France Will Fix "Woke" Culture - That Conservatives Blame On Blacks (Though Everyone Keeps Telling The Racists It IS French)

“The peculiar aspect of this wave is that censorship was historically associated with right-wing authoritarianism, while for the first time in our generation it comes from the left.”

Even more peculiar was that I was in France when Oprah started campaigning with Obama, so - unlike the American news media - I couldn't ignore the 30+ years she had been spreading conspiracy theories, misinformation, pseudoscience, and race-based historical inaccuracies - just like they were doing in France when I was living there. That sidelined me, early, when I got back: I was the first man "canceled" over being aware of this transmission.

Now, today - also unlike the American news media - I don't focus much (if at all) on the year and a few months QAnon has been around, after all the Jim Jones-like evidence, of the left's mystical malfeasance, abandoned for anyone who wants to find it. All I can do is wait - until the world "wakes up" to the similarities, between what we're seeing, today, and how France has always been living.

Or, at least, wait for this idiot to see it - who (as usual) lays the blame on blacks - but A) ain't black and never will be B) never been to France, so knows little about it or them, and C) still wantonly spreads misinformation about both subjects, like he knows something, he seriously can't claim to have a clue about.

 

Everybody's Hopping Mad (On The Socials These Days)

Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court

Why NewAgers LOVE "Midsommar"

 

"Oh, shit - it's fascism!"

 

It's Happening Here

The Crack Emcee · The Democrat Party Is A Cult

"The Democratic Party, which now controls the House, the Senate and the White House genuinely believes they have a monopoly on objective truth. They believe they're the party of science and rationality, and that the only way to disagree with them is if you're either a deranged conspiracy theorist or a seditionist, somebody who is engaged in criminal conduct or terrorism. 

 And therefore, they genuinely believe, it's not a show. It's not a pretext. They all have convinced one another through this echo chamber that they've created, essentially, the entire media except this network, which is why they want to shut it down, that if you disagree with their orthodoxies and their consensus, you are a threat and a danger. 

 And it's so ironic they spent four years claiming they are fighting fascism and authoritarianism, and what are they trying to do now? They're trying to harness corporate and monopoly power to silence everyone who disagrees with them, the very hallmark, the epitome of the fascism they claim to be fighting, but which in reality they embody." 

 - Glenn Greenwald 

 But it's not a cult. It's just "the party of science and rationality" - featuring OPRAH, MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, DR. OZ, DR. PHIL, GWYNETH PALTROW, ETC.

 

Thank God, The Left Are A Bunch Of Fuck-Ups (Or I'd Be Scared)

Remember: they don't believe in reality, so they'll always be shocked when the blowback hits 'em.