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The political adage “If you cannot beat them, join them” has been well-known for centuries. So, the Left made one extra step and arrived at the “if you cannot beat them, lead them.” The Left has been trying (unsuccessfully) various methods to eliminate capitalists and private property. Eventually, Leftists learned their lesson and decided to preside over private property instead of confiscating and spreading it around. Lenin used it (the so-called “New Economic Policy” in the Soviet Union 1921-1928), Mussolini used it, Hitler used it, and Mao Zedong used it (his campaign is still alive and well in China). It...

The timeline of what happened to the DEI-intoxicated Harvard president is well-known. However, the question of why it happened somehow eluded the commentariat. To answer the “why” question requires a deep dive into the fundamental issue of private property and its theft. While conservatism and leftism do not touch the subject (it is considered a secondary, not a primary dispute), for the proletarianized strain of leftism – Marxism -- it is a fundamental, existential core belief. Since the Marxists’ takeover of the Ivy League institutions at the end of the last century, detailed analysis is impossible without an excursion into...

The first UFO term in the title means, of course, “Unidentified Flying Objects;” the second means “United Fakenews Organizations.” Why suddenly are UFOs trending everywhere? Previous UFO eruptions occurred in 1947, 1952, and 1965. However, the UFO furor of 2020-2021 differs from all others because it is the first substantial UFO scare after President Carter created the Department of Education in 1979. Formally, it all started six months ago, when the requirement for U.S. government agencies to reveal what they know about the UFO had been sneaked into the massive COVID-19 relief bill with significant bipartisan support. The support was...

May 10 marks exactly 88 years since the Bibliocaust – the first mass burning of unwanted books in the Third Reich. By that date, the National Socialists did not yet have full unrestricted power. Only one, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany just a few months before the events described, and he was directly subordinate to President Hindenburg. This bright event – and not only from a political point of view – became possible thanks to the President of the Reichstag, Hermann Goering. In the elections of March 5, 1933, the National Socialists, although they became the largest faction...

It looks like leftist forces, without question, represent a much more advanced civilization than the unwashed Trump supporters. Apparently, nowadays, intellectual superiority lies with the knights of social justice, commissars of post-Marxism, and neo-Maoist intelligentsia. We were all not fair-minded when we said that Americans' new generation didn't contribute anything to human, huwoman, and huit civilizations. We complained about the Soros-Jugend folks using cell phones, computers, and the Internet invented by previous generations. However, the well-educated anti-Trumpist intelligentsia has, beyond any reasonable doubt, demonstrated a remarkable ability for time travel. Ladies and gentlemen, we were wrong, period. Firstly, the 2020...

One of the most invoked pearls of wisdom of the Internet era, Godwin's Law, states that in any discussion, regardless of topic, the probability of introducing a Nazi argument or counterargument approaches 100%. As a rule, it marks the end of a discussion. Of course, the Nazi theme used in the original Godwin adage is just a particular case of a more general principle: whoever of whatever at present personifies evil the best could be used as a discussion-stopper. Whoever or whatever is perceived now as the ultimate bogeyman will do. There are numerous examples of such phenomena. Reductio ad...

That is the question. To be precise, that is the $50,000 question, or whatever amount Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, is making per hour. To brin: a verb meaning to break under the torture of censorship and/or cancellation, or, as Hamlet put it, “to take arms against a sea of troubles /And by opposing end them.” Should we struggle against dorseynization and zuckerberging? Or should we comply with the ruling party orders and brin into submission? We all know that “net neutrality” has nothing to do with the internet or neutrality. “LGBT” has nothing to do with sexual preferences. “Black...

Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, the presidential election of 2020 was a colossal political disaster, a catastrophe on the level of Dunkirk. However, the Dunkirk 1940 fiasco quickly turned out to be a Dunkirk miracle. Do conservatives, whose "root and core and brain" are currently in disarray, have a chance of performing a similar marvel? When the Dunkirk saga concluded, Prime Minister Churchill had occupied 10 Downing Street for a little less than four weeks. When the fiendishly clever (and practically undetectable for the untrained eye) 2020 election steal happened, President Trump was occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a little less than...

On election day, Fox News betrayed President Trump, and this has puzzled many patriots. The confusion vanishes if one assumes that this episode could be just a small part of the process of China's colonization of America. China has already colonized some countries in the Pacific region, South America, and Africa for all practical purposes. Add to this list the de facto colonization of northern Italy and a large part of Russia in Eastern Siberia. Also, communist China greedily devours real estate and businesses in the United States. Therefore, the 2020 presidential election should be seen as an integral part...

How unique is Donald Trump? Trump's supporters are impressed by his politically incorrect manners, and his opponents are annoyed. His supporters are attracted by his achievements and deeds, and his opponents do not like his words. The vast majority of people worldwide agree that Trump is a unique political figure in spite of any misgivings about him. Ryan Detrick of LPL Financial has published a study that analyzed the potential political implications of movements in the stock market. The results were stunning. It turns out that some stock market indices — such as the S&P 500 — can predict the...

The reaction to a positive coronavirus test by Donald and Melania Trump is a typical example of mass psychosis associated with the coronavirus. The fact is that both the President and the First Lady are practically asymptomatic. They are not sick in the conventional sense of the word, although they could still potentially transmit the virus to somebody else. They have little or no fever, no headache, or other severe symptoms, but they do have symptoms of a mild cold. They might develop severe symptoms later on, but at the moment, Trump continues to work as usual, even in the...

In 1933, Hermann Goering was appointed Minister of the Interior (i.e., Police Commissioner) of Prussia. One of Goering’s first innovations was a radical change in the priorities of police, including specific restrictions of police activities. The novelty of Goering’s approach was that he departed from the socialist tradition of demanding the abolition of the police, which was first proposed by Vladimir Lenin a quarter of a century before the described events in his article “April Theses” of 1917. Another radical proposal of Russian socialists – the closure of prisons and the release of all prisoners – has been partially implemented...

<...> Many Americans are well aware that in their cities, the power belongs not just to leftists, not only to outspoken communists but also fanatics, ideological whackos with ideas of the world revolution. What will American citizens do? They, in fact, have already done, and have already decided this. America has gorged its fill of decapitated and mutilated statues, looting and marauding left-wing barbarians, and demands the restoration of order. Democrats already seem to know who won this year’s election, and the pathetic attempt to revolutionize America is simply an instinctive collective reaction of leftism to its future loss. But...

When you come to another country, the standard recommendation concerning language is to learn a few phrases in advance that you will definitely need. For instance, a traveler to France would need to know what Bonjour means, and a traveler to Germany would benefit from learning Guten Tag. Without these basic language skills, they are bound to find themselves at a major disadvantage. To the same extent, this applies to the modern language of Leftists – Newspeak. Newspeak, widespread among American socialists (in Newspeak, they call themselves Democrats), differs from all other languages in that it has a strikingly high...

Let's start with a series of rhetorical questions related to the upcoming presidential elections: – Does a broken storefront add votes to the Democrats? – Does a burning car add votes to the Democrats? – Does a killed or wounded policeman add votes to the Democrats? – Does a toppled statue add votes to the Democrats? – Does an "autonomous zone" add votes to the Democrats? – Does a demolished synagogue or a destroyed church add votes to the Democrats? Simple human logic suggests that the answers to all these questions are negative. Why do Democrats do all of this?...

This new Glazov Gang episode features Gary Gindler, a conservative columnist at Gary Gindler Chronicles. Gary discusses The Russian Origins of Black Neo-Marxism, revealing how a white American of Russian origin became one of the founding fathers of the communist revolution in America. Don’t miss it!

“White” does not mean white. “White” in radical parlance means anyone of any race, creed, nationality, color, sex, or sexual preference who embraces capitalism, free markets, limited government, and American traditional culture and values.”This philosophical concept belongs to Noel Ignatiev, a white American of Russian origin, who is the ideological founding father of numerous radical black movements in America. The author of this concept was even lucky enough to see his best students -- Black Lives Matter (BLM) -- in action. Research into the work of this former Harvard professor finally answered the question of why BLM proponents are so...

From 2016, fast forward to 2020The first half of the year 2020 was too eventful. A lot of extraordinary things have happened and will probably continue to occur in the second half of this year. Nevertheless, it will be useful for all of us to recall what the primary reason was that led to political turbulence on American soil again. The root cause of the 2020 events was the refusal of the Democrats to accept the results of the 2016 elections.Had Princess Hillary ascended to the throne, all the prerequisites for building an American version of the Gulag would be...

Do some people really think that the impeachment, the corona-gulag, and the pogroms all occurred in America one after another in a completely random pattern of events? Why did pre-planned and synchronized riots and looting suddenly arise? Because the adventure with the coronavirus hysteria failed. Why did the coronavirus hysteria suddenly lead to a corona-gulag being created? Because the impeachment failed. Why did impeachment suddenly arise? Because "Russiagate" (or, rather, Obamagate) failed. Why did "Russiagate" arise? Because leftism was defeated in the 2016 elections. The preparatory work has been well done, comrade Democrats! In 2020, the Democrats managed to simultaneously...

The more we learn about coronavirus epidemics, the more it convinces us that pseudoscience is now accepted in all countries of the world as legitimate. Many articles show an unpleasant picture of not just the pandemic of the novel coronavirus, but the pandemic of massive, Orwellian politically induced psychosis. We've just begun analyzing the role of political preferences of various authorities in dealing with the epidemics. The initial response of United States governors to the coronavirus was quite dissimilar, depending on their party affiliation. The phenomenon was also independently discovered by Prof. James R. Rogers and is currently gaining traction....