The Unz Review Digest - January 15, 2021
Unsurprisingly, the raucous protest by Trump supporters in the DC capital and its consequences entirely dominated our most popular featured articles this last week, taking not only the top six spots but five of the next six as well, with the future trajectory of American democracy possibly having been permanently altered.
Placing first was Gregory Hood’s discussion of the tragic death of Ashli Babbitt, a zealous but completely unarmed Trump supporter who was shot dead by a security guard as she attempted to climb though a window in the Capitol building, with the widely-distributed video of the incident marking her as the most clearly defined fatality. Under different circumstances, our media would deify her as a martyr to democracy, but they have instead either minimized her death or denigrated her as a “conspiracy theorist.” Well over 350 comments totaling 35,000 words discuss the story.
Two columns by Paul Craig Roberts occupied the second and third spots, suggesting that the Establishment has implemented a “Color revolution” in our country, and the very possible consequences may be a civil war, with the tens of millions of ardent Trump supporters resisting by force what they regard as a stolen election. Taken together these two pieces quickly accumulated almost 850 comments totaling over 100,000 words.
Three pieces were next in a photo-finish. The Saker argued that the ruling elites of our country showed their dishonest hand by using their media control to transform the reality of a vast public protest into claims of a violent attempt to seize power. Israel Shamir noted the similarity to some events of the last years of the decaying USSR, and pointed to obvious evidence of widespread voter fraud used to defeat Trump. And John Morgan compared the media portrayal of the brief presence of unarmed but angry protesters in the Capitol building with the many months of riots, arson, and looting across so many American cities, with our dishonest Congress and media presenting the former as a “violent insurrection” requiring sharp suppression but the latter as “mostly peaceful protests” worthy of respect and commendation.
Finally, not yet in the top group but coming up extremely strong after less than a day was my own article focusing on the exceptionally slender nature of the officially-reported Democratic victory, where I noted that if just one vote in 7,000 had been changed, Trump might have been returned to the White House.
Anyone can see the footage. Ashli Babbitt was a young woman at Wednesday’s protests. She had no weapon, not even a stick. There were armed police in front of her and behind her. She posed no danger to anyone. Still, a police officer, apparently black, shot and killed her. I never thought I’d say this,...
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As a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up....
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Pandering to the Establishment Now Ubiquitous
The Establishment has imposed a color revolution on the American people. Ekaterina Blinova is a journalist who reognized that a color revolution has occurred in America under the guise of a presidential election. The Establishment used the Democrats for their purpose, because Trump was in office under the Republican banner. Trump, of course, is a...
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The mob did not win! This is how the supposedly conservative FoxNews celebrated the supposed defeat of a supposed mob. See for yourself: FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that Trump had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis materialized. It is now...
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President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in, permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker’s office,...
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The Capitol Occupation & Post-Trumpian Populism
As an American observing Wednesday’s “mostly peaceful” protest at the Capitol from abroad, I admit I was taken by surprise. Foreign acquaintances had been asking me for months if anything dramatic would happen in relation to the election. While I was sure that a Trump victory would have led to BLM and Antifa violence on...
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So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores “normality” throughout the world, or at least attempts to restore “normality,” or the “New Normality,” or the...
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Now that we’ve had the luxury of a few days to digest things, let’s take a look at the January 6th “event” in Washington and see what we can reasonably and logically conclude. There is much that we don’t know, much that we can’t know, and yet much that is certain, or nearly so. We...
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Power can only be checked by power, and because President Donald J. Trump and the Conservative Movement ™ didn’t oppose the emerging Totalitarian Left when they had the chance, the Historic American Nation is about to suffer real tyranny under the boot of our corporate and political rulers. The good news: the Capitol Hill protest...
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Joe Biden has the people who took over the Capitol on Jan. 6 figured out. In just two days, he had them pegged for “a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites, and it’s not enough.” Not enough? He also said they were “domestic terrorists.” Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer,...
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Interventionists dominate Biden national security team
What occurred at the United States Capitol last week was surely reprehensible, but to my mind the real enduring damage that was done to our form of government took place in a basement in Wilmington Delaware where president-designate Joe Biden was putting together some of the final pieces of his foreign policy and national security...
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Respectable political opinion in the West is mostly nonsense. Sometimes, even race realists become so used to the stupidity that we are like the fish who never notice water. Sometimes it takes China, a self-respecting civilization-state, to expose our elites’ silly beliefs and shameless hypocrisy. American journalists and politicians are in a moral panic over...
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The new US Senator from Georgia, a 33-year-old who received the most campaign donations for a Senate candidate in US history, began his political career in 2006 helping to defeat Georgia’s first Black woman to be elected to Congress. She had been targeted for removal by the Israel lobby… Jon Ossoff, the 33-year-old Democrat who...
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Although hardly suggested by our mainstream media, the officially-reported results demonstrated that our 2020 presidential election was extraordinarily close. All the regular pre-election polls had shown the Democratic candidate with a comfortable lead, but just as had been the case four years earlier, the actual votes tabulated revealed an entirely contrary outcome. According to the...
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It is given to few countries to face a future without any bright sides. Those that have done so in the past, have usually confronted overwhelming external challenges, perhaps compounded by internal difficulties. In the case of the United States today, that is not the case. To be sure, there are external challenges with both...
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The European Union and China have agreed “in principle” to a deal on investment after seven long years of negotiation, pointedly ignoring the concerns of the incoming Biden administration. The economic consequences of the so-called Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) remain unclear, but the political signals are telling: the EU is following an essentially German...
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It’s nearly impossible for me to write here. The streets beckon, and I’m a street rat, for sure. Right this moment, I could be in that bitsy Bab Al Louq café, having my first cup while watching people and traffic swarm by, or I could be on the subway, heading to Al Azbakiyyah, with its...
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In newspapering, in which your scribe slaved for many years, great weight was placed on factuality. The rule was verify, verify, verify. (“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”) The reasons were several, such as integrity, avoiding embarrassment, and fear of libel suits, which can result in judgements of millions of dollars....
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Thousands storm Capitol as GOP takes action Shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the locked King Street entrance to the Capitol, chanting "Break down the door!" and "General strike!" Moments later, police ceded control of the State Street doors and allowed the crowd to surge inside, joining thousands who had already...
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Previously on SBPDL: Her Name Is Ashli Babbitt: Unarmed White Woman (14-Year Air Force Veteran) Gunned Down By State During "Stop the Steal" Rally at Capitol in Washington D.C. Chris Evans, the actor who portrays Captain America in Disney's The Avenger movies, decided to interject himself into the debate surrounding the events of January 6,...
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