PS: "Rush Limbaugh used to frequently refer to The Obama Regime ... funny that it took the controlled opposition at Faux News more than a decade to play along."

Maybe they wanted to wait until people forgot - can't be associated with El Rushbo...

I'll check out the parody song when I'm in a quieter place. Thanks.

PS

Rush Limbaugh used to frequently refer to The Obama Regime ... funny that it took the controlled opposition at Faux News more than a decade to play along.

Parody of Free’s ‘All Right Now’ : ‘Alt-right Now”

https://youtu.be/-7INjwj7XIE

I recently heard a better version truer to the original, but don’t yet have a link.

PS: That one may have to wait a while, Mr. Kief. Thanks for the link.

PS - OT

Mod. et al. - about your inquiries into high altitude clouds and energy-transfer - - - Sabine Hossenfelder...

#Climate
New (!) Findings About Water-Vapor and the Thermodynamics of Clouds


https://news.mit.edu/2024/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-0423


How does that affect the arguments of Boris Smirnov, Richard Lindzen, Steven Koonin und Thomas Allmendinger against the Climate-Change Orthodoxy?

PS: About Tucker and the Grateful Dead. Yes, he mentioned that he was a Dead Head somewhere in his "Ship of Fools" book, reviewed here in 3 parts.

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=962
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=967
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=969

Man, I write some LONG reviews. Gotta learn how to do it better.

From that 3rd post of mine:

"How about that!? I just read the last few pages of Tucker Carlson's book (the 2-page Epilogue and the Acknowledgements) and guess what? This guy's a Dead Head! A fellow Grateful Dead fan who Tucker works with is a Dead Head, hence the book's title (Peak Stupidity, way ahead of the game, had the song featured back in the initial "review of the reviews")."

PS: I meant to continue from there, Mr. Hail. So my usage was from as late as December 17th of '21. I really like the idea of making it very clear the separation of Americans from the US Gov't. It's in no way "our government" anymore, and I don't use that except sarcastically.

You were way ahead, then, of your blogger here.

"Some time in the early 2020s, a few Fox News types began using "the Regime" or "Regime media" to refer specifically to the Democratic Party. I believe this is wrong and misleading. But it may be right in part. There is a non-Regime or anti-Regime element within the Republican Party of the ca. 2020 period. We see this symbolized in part with Tucker Carlson."

I agree that with this completely. I didn't know FOX News used this, as, of course, I have no way of watching them, thankfully! The Regime encompasses a lot, including most of that media, say FOX News itself, I'd say.

PS: Mr. Hail, the first mention of "Regime" in my own text in a political sense (not as in "flow regime") was in the following article, but it was in the a link to a John Derbyshire article.

"I pity the pundit..."
"https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1987

Then, I see that it's a post here that featured one of your comments as the main body of the post. Makes sense. Here:

"Mr. Hail on the Arizona '20 election fraud"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2054


I used "the Regime" to apply to the US Feral Gov't first here:

"Kyle Rittenhouse pretrial hearing - assailants are not 'victims'"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2087

Again, here:

"Brazen Biden Border Bullshit - Replacement AND Bankruptcy!"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2083

Finally, I introduced "The Potomac Regime here:
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2138

That was taken from James Kirkpatrick of VDare, though I don't know if he was the first to use that. From that post of mine:

"I had never run into the term "The Potomac Regime" for the heart of the US Feral Gov't in Washington, F.S. before reading VDare's James Kirkpatrick's article An American Warns Eastern Europe: The Potomac Regime Is Not Your Friend (Or Ours) a couple of days back*. I really like this terminology.

As a Chinaman in Mao's Red China, a regular subject citizen of the USSR or anyone whose life ends up being lived under a terrible regime through no cause of his own would have, I hate that the Invade-the-World aspect of the US Government makes all of us look to be the bad guys. "It wasn't my damn idea!". Therefore, rather than "the US Government" which could includes a whole lot of decent people at the Post Office, on the Border Patrol, etc., let's leave out "US" or "American".

I also explained why I like it better without the "Washington" in there, as that'd be a slur at this point that the Father of our Country doesn't deserve.

PS

When we use the word "Regime," what do we really mean? (Often styled here, in the hallowed halls of Peak Stupidity, as "the Potomac Regime").

I remember specifically when it occurred to me to start using this word. It was either the very week after the 2016 election, or one of the few weeks shortly afterward. Observing the response to the election of Dernald Jay Blompf, the thought arrived fully formed into my mind: "The Regime still exists intact." A lighting-bolt. It didn't matter that this character -- who claimed this-and-that about walls and immigration-restriction and (implicitly) White revival and survival in this ever-mutating ongoing political project in North America -- it didn't matter that the man had been elected, because "the Regime still exists intact."

That may sound like a trivial insight now, but I remember it, as I say, like a lighting-bolt at the time, a sudden insight.

I had a similar sudden insight one day early during the Corona-Panic: a sudden flash of visions of violence and mayhem and long-term destruction, came to me as a lightning-bolt flash. I don't have the date of that, but it would be mid-March 2020. Around that time I began to lose faith in Steve Sailer (a kind of long-term hero to me) for the first time. (I have had a hard time fully restoring my faith in the man, Sailer, who was so important to me younger days of the 2000s and into the 2010s. Even though he essentially never cheerleads for lockdowns or tries to do justifications for them or such.)

Anyway ---- "the Regime." What do we mean by it? It's always used in a deliberately semi-obscure way. It doesn't really announce itself. There aren't people who go around with oversized flashy nametags that say "inner-Regime member," "outer-Regime member"; "Regime supporter." The people who control and guide it are more un-elected than elected. And, to the extent that it has elected members, that they are elected is not particularly important. The Regime absorbs people, as the Peak stupidity entry here points out. Or it does something that you hear referred to as "co-opting" people.

Some time in the early 2020s, a few Fox News types began using "the Regime" or "Regime media" to refer specifically to the Democratic Party. I believe this is wrong and misleading. But it may be right in part. There is a non-Regime or anti-Regime element within the Republican Party of the ca. 2020 period. We see this symbolized in part with Tucker Carlson.

(Side-note: Tucker Carlson recently did a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan, in which he, Tucker, confessed to illegal underage driving in the early 1980s and experimentation with psychedelic drugs, that during his period following the Grateful Dead. He says he has never used any drug except coffee since age 32 or so; Joe Rogan also spent the first half-hour pressing him on his belief in aliens and their true nature, which Tucker seemed to want to say were spiritual beings of the kind reported in religious texts of past ages.)

The Regime sets the agenda and the outlines of the possible. The Republican Party itself is part of the Regime. Of course this sounds like an obvious insight. But it's worth not being disappointed in the Republican Party, rather viewing them in this way.

The Republican Party is a loyal opposition, like in the Soviet-bloc regimes and other such regimes of the 20th century, it is a loyal opposition. Trump is not a true opposition, and I have long lost any real confidence in him. He is more like an old-tyme court jester who somehow attracted a religious-like following by claiming to be a prophet in addition to being highly entertaining, and co-opting one or more of existing court factions, and riling up some peasants along the way.

It's interesting to see that thousands of pro-Palestine protestors have been arrested across the USA. Few if any of the rioters and looters of the mid-2020 incidents in honor of George Floyd were ever prosecuted. But of course we have the twelve-hundred "January Six'ers" in jail and several thousand more cases said to be in the pipeline, in addition to intimidation-visits by suited men to others. So that is a clue on Regime priorities, of course. Anti-Israel protestors of any kind, even members of the Regime coalition, will be crushed and absolutely not allowed to push their message. There are many other clues to how the Regime works like this.

PS: Alarmist, now that I think of it a couple of hours later, I meant to add that it could be both the carrot and the stick. Thanks for the reminder.

I remember that line, Tarheel. I'm surprised Schumer had to even worry about it. The intelligence community probably supports all his "work".

PS: On your 2nd paragraph, I'm not so sure, O.S. I think the MAGA people at least, which is now a big portion of the vote-GOP electorate are wise to the BS out of the Dems. They have noted the lies from Mayorkas especially and (hopefully) that the Senate "border" bill was going to allow 5,000 illegals to legally enter - wait, what? - each day. That's 1.7 million a year without even having to sneak in!

But, then, you've got your Mike Johnsons, and even with a big GOP win all over, is that gonna help us?

PS: " Wide open US borders...continuing huge deficits...mandated child mutilation...rampant antisemitism and a host of other major problems all take a back seat to the desires of foreign countries and domestic revolutionaries as funded by Congressional Republicans like Speaker Johnson. His America HATE campaign knows absolutely no end."

Right, O.S. As for the money here, pick a couple of hefty sums, say $5 million for an individual and $25 million for some small "consulting" corporations (the big guys of the MIC get paid off well already). You take just 10% of this money, $10 Billion, and you can pay off 1,000 individuals with half of that and 200 of these small consulting firms that "are paid to liaison* with the folks in the Ukraine to properly distribute the funds."

Then, maybe it'll be only 50% of the money that ever gets to these places to keep the wars going.


* Not supposed to be a freaking verb, but they do that now.

PS
Schumer: "...let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you...”

PS

“Mike Johnson - Bribed, Blackmailed, or Threatened?”

A: Yes.

PS

In DC, Congressional Republicans continue to pour money into the Ukraine war trough (i.e. the "US Congressional kickback trough"). Wide open US borders...continuing huge deficits...mandated child mutilation...rampant antisemitism and a host of other major problems all take a back seat to the desires of foreign countries and domestic revolutionaries as funded by Congressional Republicans like Speaker Johnson. His America HATE campaign knows absolutely no end.

Democrat campaign ads this fall will focus on Republicans' funding of foreign wars and Republicans' inability to defend this country's borders. Democrats will have a field day with these "lawn chair Republicans" who are always willing to fold at Schumer's demand. This is classic Republicanism: talk or write "strongly worded letters" expressing outrage to the bureaucracy while never doing anything to improve this country (lest they offend Schumer who petrifies EVERY Republican). It's a lot safer to whine and raise money than to actually do something productive, right Speaker Johnson?