The Media was Always Fake

Politico is going under because it’s no longer being propped up by USAid. This is the biggest scandal in news media history: No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis. Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last […]

https://voxday.net/2025/02/05/the-media-was-always-fake/

NFL Referees Confirm Suspicions

The NFL referees practically confirm that certain games are being rigged on the orders of the league office in their very suspicious non-denial denial of their own corruption. On Monday, Commissioner Roger Goodell pushed back on the suggestion that game officials favor the Chiefs. On Tuesday, the union representing game officials issued a statement expressing […]

https://voxday.net/2025/02/05/nfl-referees-confirm-suspicions/

I got SOURCE?!?!'d over on Blue Sky, so here it is: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_H79SM089507_7522

On American expansionism.

The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.

In this context, it makes perfect sense for the US to increase pressure on its vassals. I am not using the term in a pejorative sense. The US does not have “allies” in the traditional meaning of the word. It has vassals with different levels of feudal obligations and elite integration, and different tasks. Extracting more value from vassals -- whether through tariffs, increased NATO budgets, meddling in local politics or potential territorial concessions -- is an absolutely logical step in cementing and renewing America's position as overlord of its sphere.

There are three ways America's European vassals can react to this: look for protection outside of the sphere, try to make themselves more useful/necessary & advance integration, or take it on the face. Were we in, I don't know, the 19th century, Denmark would just ask Russia for military support in Greenland in exchange for mild economic concessions and never worry again. As it is, the Royal Danish Army does not have any artillery anymore because they gave it all away for the purpose of firing cluster ammunition at Russian children in Donetsk. They did not receive anything in return for that and it did not help any Danish purpose. They cannot defend themselves if push comes to shove and they can't ask anybody to help because most of their fellow vassals have done the same. The most likely option is that they'll just take it on the face. Not just for pragmatic reasons, but also because they genuinely enjoy being dommed geopolitically.

America has no obligation to treat its vassals better. I've seen Danish people complain on here about supporting the US after 9/11, participating in the American wars in the Middle East, etc. That's ridiculous. You know how a colony is rewarded for sending troops to its overlord's wars? It doesn't get beaten. That's the reward for a lackey. Any person who takes any of the NATO democracy liberalism pilpul seriously is just not a serious person, it was never real, it was always just voluntary submission to be absolved from existing in History.

The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

It's not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It's not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.

The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this -- and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.

Doooooom! https://open.substack.com/pub/wmbriggs/p/on-various-new-values-of-pdoom

NEW - Putin says that the Germans should stop feeling guilty about what happened during World War 2 and that the current and future generations have nothing to apologize for.

https://x.com/RusBotschaft/status/1886777610216112379

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There's a 1.2% chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth along that red belt just before Christmas of 2032.
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The Media was Always Fake

Politico is going under because it’s no longer being propped up by USAid. This is the biggest scandal in news media history: No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis. Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last […]

https://voxday.net/2025/02/05/the-media-was-always-fake/

"The Canon Cat is a task-dedicated microcomputer released by Canon Inc. in 1987 for $1,495. Its appearance resembles dedicated word processors of the late 1970s to early 1980s, but it is far more powerful, and has many unique ideas for data manipulation.

"I find it interesting to observe that not only was Jobs proven spectacularly correct due to his focus on what he believed the customers would want rather than what he personally preferred, but that Raskin wasn’t even able to keep the price below $1,000 in the end."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156594369?autoPlay=false#:~:text=The%20Canon%20Cat%20is,1%2C000%20in%20the%20end.

USAID has been very beneficial for Axel Springer's Politico media company and for very many others.

"It has been one Victory after another since. The Death of DIE (in government). No “birthrate” citizenship. Deportations of those who broke the law. The 51 intelligence Officials and Experts who swore Biden’s Son’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” (in Trump’s effort to “steal” a second election) banned from entering Federal buildings. “Climate change” purged from government websites. Acknowledgement gain-of-lethality experiments by mad scientists caused covid. No more serving children debilitating drugs in service to a lunatic theory. “Gender” banished and sex restored. CDC removes transgender lunacy from their sites. Women crying now brings only scorn, not angst and surrender.

"No men allowed to play women’s sports. Forcing Trudeau to behave. Cutting off USAID and purging the Expertocracy. South Africa called out. Panama dug out. Withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. Going after NPR for pretending to be non-profit. Dismantling the Department of Education.

"Those are only a few of the victories. There were so many in so short a time that it’s hard to recall them all. It has left Experts and the woke reeling, or dispirited.

"For now. Only for now. History teaches one thing, and that is that politics are endless. All victory is fleeting. But they are to be enjoyed. And extended in length and scope as far as humanely possible."

https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/the-path-to-victory?post_id=156582431&r=lp6h7&utm_source=substack#:~:text=Science%20Is%20Not,as%20humanely%20possible.

Trump will rename it Mar-a-Gaza

According to RFK, a researcher named Dan Olmsted "was very curious about unvaccinated populations, and the Amish are one of those populations, so he went and he did a study of the Amish."

"Following the national trends, there should have been about 2,000 autism cases. And they were able to find three."

"And all of them were children who had been adopted by the Amish after receiving their vaccines. Of the Amish in general, they could not find any."

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📊 Number of large icebreakers and ice-going patrol ships as of November 2022 by country.

"Crimean students and educational institutions help soldiers protect frontline communications

"The idea itself was born spontaneously - a soldier I knew approached me with a request to help provide communications at his positions - enemy electronic warfare systems were suppressing their communications, and switching them to lower frequencies made it possible to restore them. Together with the guys, we happily made such examples and decided that if this is useful, we can expand production and help other soldiers," the developers say.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/merussiatg/27276