Category: Politics

Of course Presidential debates have long been a exercise in demonstrating that the documentary “Idiocracy” was indeed fact and not fiction.

This exchange was no different.

If one is looking for the long and the short of it, this debate did not move the needle in the least in terms of the overall landscape of the debate. If Nate Silver’s reputable “538” polling website is correct then Trump is winning by a landslide and nothing that Camel Toe Harris does herself will change that though I have no doubt that she will still win via the same kind of cheating that was accomplished in 2020 and is going on even now again.

The real story of this debate was not the candidates so much as it was the Lügenpresse and the weak minded people who are so easily and readily influenced by them. The earworm meme presented by the Lügenpresse after the debate was how angry Trump was … how unhinged Trump was … how mean and belligerent Trump was. Blah Blah Blah. They just kept saying it in different ways ceaselessly. Naturally enough, what then happens is I get the brain dead hoi polloi texting me and emailing me commenting on “unfortunately President Trump was angry tonight.”

Honestly, as I viewed the debate I did not see Trump as angry. I saw Trump being Trump. I saw him defending himself on stage against his three opponents. The most effective opponent for Trump during the debate was not Harris. She was her usually idiot self, spitting out generic platitudes while denying that her values have changed even though countless of her policies have changed. No, Trump’s most effective opponents were the ABC moderators. Repeatedly, they inserted themselves into the debate, landing blows for Camel Toe Harris. Repeatedly Trump had to verbally parry with them while Camel Toe looked on in her smug imperious persona. (One wonders if that smug imperious stare was natural or did she practice that in a mirror for days on end? There was even one point when the wench looked like she was posing for a photo-shoot as she brought her hand to her chin and gave the smug imperious glare.)

The moderators “fact-checked” (never was there such a concept so full of fecal matter) Trump on his claim to pet eating Haitians in Springfield Ohio. They fact checked Trump’s statement that he was really being sarcastic when they quoted him as saying “I lost that election by a whisker,” with a moderator  interjecting… “I didn’t hear any sarcasm when you said that Mr. President;” as if anybody cared about their opinion on whether Trump was being sarcastic when he said that. They fact checked Trump on abortion when he was exactly correct on what he said about the desire of Democrats to be able to murder babies who are born alive — an idea floated by former Virginia Governor Northam

They fact checked Trump on his being cheated out of his victory in the 2020 election… a fact so well substantiated only someone who is severely retarded or in the condition of Joe Biden could possibly deny. Trump did win in 2020 and the leftist denialism on that subject will never change the fact that Joe Biden and Camel Toe Harris were and are illegitimate occupiers of the Executive Branch. In 2020 a coup was achieved and all the media fecal gas in the world won’t convince rational people to the contrary.

So, once again, the Lügenpresse rides in like the calvary to rescue their candidate. As far as the candidate herself goes (Camel Toe Harris) she clearly lacked substance. She offered to spend other people’s money in order to give huge tax breaks to what will turn out to be immigrants and minorities. After that it was airy non specifics. The woman is an empty shell. Previously she has repeatedly said … “No more fracking.” Now she is saying “Frack away.” Previously she wanted to “Defund the Cops,” now it is, “I would never defund the Cops.” She had no answer for her role in baling out the George Floyd protestors once they had been arrested. She had no answer for her total and complete incompetence as the “Border Czar.” Never was a candidate who so was inept and utterly empty so filled with helium bull shizer by the media to the end of making her look like something besides an aged out Bimbo who slept her way to the top.

As for Trump, well anybody who has been around Iron Ink knows I am no Trump fan. I have never voted for the man and never will vote for the man. I remember his role in “Operation Warp Speed,” wherein he was rolled by the Pharmaceutical industry to the end of unnecessarily killing countless number of Americans including several of my family and friends. No man can be forgiven for that kind of mistake. On the debate stage Trump revealed his true affection for abortion by thinking that allowing the states to kill the unborn was some kind of moral victory. While President, Trump blew up the national debt, acting like a typical Democrat in his lack of fiscal restraint. He’s on record supporting IVF which kills countless children for every child conceived. Trump, like Harris, is a maniacal killer. The fact that he does so with a patina of reserve means nothing.

Having said that, I thought Trump did well for having to debate three people at the same time. I thought every correction on his part of the three people’s outrageous lies against him were warranted both in substance and in tone. If I fail Trump at all, I only fail him for not pausing and saying something like, “You two moderators have fact checked me when I told the truth when are you going to fact check her as it pertains to her repeated lies? Oh… what was I thinking? I forgot you are working together here.”

I thought Trump was especially effective when hanging the immigration problem around Camel Toe’s neck. I though Trump was least effective when he went after Biden. Biden is irrelevant. There was one exception on this observation and that is when Trump was getting to the issue of “who’s running the country because we sure know it isn’t Biden.” This implicates Harris because she is letting this continue. I thought Trump was also effective when talking about what a dangerous place we are in this country right now. Trump is right on that score, unfortunately even if he somehow manages to actually be seated as President (which I seriously doubt) he will not be able to do anything that will reverse the arc of disintegration that this country is now on.

In the end if you were jazzed for Harris going into this debate you are by definition brain dead and so after the debate you remain jazzed for old Camel Toe. If, before the debate, you were a MAGA person then nothing happened during the debate that will make you reconsider your vote.

Really, all that is left to happen in this election cycle, in terms of the Presidential race, is to observe how incredibly creative the Democrats will be in stealing this election because the numbers testify that Harris can’t win without cheating.

Here CNN tries to convince the low information voters that the US is a Democracy. They do so by mocking voters who understand, at some level, that the US is not a Democracy, though being low information voters they can not articulate why.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/17/cnns_donie_osullivan_some_trump_supporters_say_america_is_a_republic_not_a_democracy.html

Let’s see if we can help CNN and these low information voters out.

We are NOT a Democracy. Democracy is a leveling political system that is characterized by a strict majority vote. It is the rule of the mob. Democracy is always first and foremost concerned with equality and is a system that guarantees the rule of those who always serve the interests of the lowest common denominator in the population. Democracy is the aristocracy of the bad, the false, and the envious.

We are a Constitutional Republic. A Constitutional Republic is system whereby the mob cannot rule, limited as they are by the strictures of the US Constitution and by the inherent checks and balances within the system. A Constitutional Republic is always first and foremost concerned with liberty for the man who walks in terms of the law and constraint against the man who walks contrary to the law. A Constitutional Republic is the aristocracy of the meritorious – a meritocracy.

The Founders warned gravely against Democracy. Edmund Randolph, delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Virginia said;

“The general object of the Convention was to provide a cure for the follies and fury of Democracies.”

Elbridge Gary and Roger Sherman, delegates from Massachusetts and Connecticut urged the Constitutional Convention to create a system that would eliminate the evils that flow from the excess of Democracy.

Alexander Hamilton, Constitutional delegate from New York said;

“We are now forming a Republican Government. real liberty is not found in democracy. If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.”

John Adams said;

“Democracy will envy all, contend with all, endeavor to pull down all and when by chance it happens to get the upper hand for a short time democracy will be revengeful, bloody, and cruel.”

The Constitution itself requires a Republican form of government for all states. This indicates that originally we were a Republic of Republics.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked ” “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied; “A Republic if you can keep it.”

Now to be sure our Constitutional Republic had a touch of democracy in it with the direct election of House members by voters but that was where the democracy impulse ended. Originally, there was no direct vote of US Senators, no direct vote for US Presidents and no vote at all for SCOTUS appointees.

The US was never a democracy though the lugenpresse and the lying Politicians (but I repeat myself) constantly talk about how “We are a democracy.”

We were never formed to be a democracy. However, that is indeed where we have matriculated over the course of years. The US Constitution is no longer a check on the vicious use of raw power. The 17th amendment inched us more towards a direct democracy. The stripping of state’s rights also pushed us towards a direct democracy. The 9th and 10th amendments, which were bulwarks against democracy are completely irrelevant.

So, while it is true that according to original intent these united States were never intended to form a democracy, that is largely where we have come to. Indeed, one might be inclined to observe that we are a democratically elected Kakistocracy — that is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.

Because we have been a Kakistocracy for so long now, all that is left to choose from to elect to governmental office are derelicts, mountebanks, and perverts. Because we, as a people, have been in a Kakistocracy for so long all of our Institutions have become corrupt, feeble, cancerous and unprincipled. Living in the US now is like living among Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the One Hundred Twenty perverts.

Even the visible Church is now a Kakistocracy. It weeds out the best men, or, failing that so intimidates otherwise good men they dare not lift their voice against the ecclesial Kakistocracy less they lose their livelihood. Just ask Michael Spangler, Ryan Turnipseed or Bret McAtee and they will tell you that the intent of “accountability” that church government was suppose to foster is now simply a mechanism whereby good men can be held accountable to wicked or small men and so be squashed.

However, lest we stray to far from our original intent, this nation was never intended to be a democracy and if CNN ever sticks a microphone in your face to mock you, you now have the ammunition to mock them right back… mock them for being so stupid that they could possibly ever suggest that US was founded to be a democracy.

Finally, after reading this, perhaps the next time you hear Joe Biden or the Democrats bleat about how if we elect Trump to be president we could “lose our democracy,” your response will be,

“Dear God, I hope so.”

“Stephen Wolfe’s disagreement with James White and Wilson (and Joe Boot too) reflects precisely what I’ve been talking about for years: the inability of modern political theologies to properly understand the function of the Political within the paradigm of civil society.

Read: the magisterial reformers (Turretin, Hooker, Vermigli, etc), Paul Gottfried, de Jouvenal, Carl Schmitt, James Burnham, the Paleoconservatives, and even people like Edmund Burke, the counter-revolutionaries, and the Federalists. They understand Power and it’s function to craft the souls of men and societies far better than most moderns.”

C. Jay Engel
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1.) First, I think it profitable to emphasize the proper definition of culture here since Engel posits that theonomists and liberals posit that politics reflects culture. If we understand that culture is the outward manifestation of a people’s inward beliefs or, more succinctly put, culture is theology externalized, then we have to understand that it is indeed the case that politics reflects culture.

2.) Now, we must note that while Engel may indeed be correct observing “the fact that society always reflects the vision and ethos of its elites.” However, it is simply the case that the vision and ethos of the elites is itself a result of their theology being externalized into the political order. So, the theonomist would argue that if one wants to see change in a given culture it is not so much mass conversions that are required but rather conversions of a people’s elites. This fits well with the accounts of early Christian mission efforts where we read that the early Christian missionaries would go to the King, Shaman, or tribal wise man knowing that if conversion could be made among these then the whole people would follow.

So, despite Engel’s denial “that society springs forth out of the heart of man:” it remains the case. The difference between myself and chaps like White, Wilson, and Boot is that I am insisting that it is not the heart of mass man out of which society springs, but rather society springs out of the heart of the ruling elites or even in some cases one ruling elite in the case of someone like King Alfred or Oliver Cromwell.

3.) So it remains true, despite Engel’s denial that “the integrity of the political order at large is downstream from the conversion of souls.” Our difference is on whose soul’s conversion are necessary in order to have the integrity of political order. Engel rightly protests that the likes of Wilson, White, and Boot who think that there needs be mass conversions in order to effect this change. I enter the same protest but without denying that politics reflects culture — the culture of the elites and so society at the same time reflects the culture of its rulers.

4.) I quite agree with Engel that the “Political serves the role within civil society of ‘Society making.’” However, I insist that theology/religion serves the role within civil society of ‘Elite Making.’ This is a Theonomic observation and demonstrates that Theonomy remains the only model that can consistently provide relief.

5.) Having read many of Engel’s recommendation, I remain on solid ground.

In a 31 minute video Stephen Wolfe says he does not want to immanentize the Eschaton while at the same time saying he wants to order the temporal things after the eternal. This is doublespeak. If one orders the temporal things after the eternal then one is immanentizing the eschaton to some degree.

I do agree that there is a danger with a philosophy that goes overboard in trying to immanentize the eschaton for the reason that such a project, when not constrained, denies the fallenness of man and original sin. When not constrained, immanentizing the eschaton, does not understand that in this life we never get all the glory now.

Having said that, immanentizing the eschaton is an inescapable category. All men will seek to build the present based on their idealized future. It would be insane not to pursue that. Of course, our problem is, is that those outside of Christ have a very different vision of the idealized future.

On this matter consider that our Lord Jesus taught us to pray that His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. Now if we, as God’s people, not only pray that but also live in terms of that prayer then we will be working, to some degree or another, on immanentizing the eschaton.

Finally, do keep in mind, that the dangers occurring from seeking to immanentize the eschaton have chiefly come from the Christ haters seeking to immanentize their humanistic vision of the eschaton. It is the Stalins and the Maos and the Pol Pots, and the Bela Kuns who have been those who bloodied the planet with their attempt to build humanist Utopias that were reflections of their Christless vision of the immanentized eschaton.