Things have been getting awfully interesting in a very big hurry with the FUSA this week. We have now seen 25 State Governors joining Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in basically telling the US Federal government to perform an anatomically impossible act. This is already getting uncomfortably reminiscent of the mood before the firing on Fort Sumter, which preceded the War Between the States of 1861-1865.
My American readers may more easily recognise it as the American Civil War – though there was nothing particularly civil about it. That war split the country apart, and killed over 600,000 Americans, in a conflagration that pitted brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour.
The American South STILL, to this very day, has never fully recovered from the devastation wrought by the Northern armies upon it.
Lest anyone be under any silly illusions from their adolt edjoomuhcayshun in high school and university, let us be very clear about one thing:
The War Between the States was NOT about slavery. It was about the rights of states to determine their own destinies, and their right to resist overweening Federal power.
The War Between the States settled that question – or so it seemed – for over 150 years. Today, though, the ruptures in American society are FAR worse than they were back then. At that time, it was a war between two effectively different countries. Today, there isn’t even a single American society to split in two. It is more like 5 to 7 different societies, all filled with hatred toward each other, all itching to lay the hate.
White people – the very people who built America – are the ones caught in the middle of it all, hated by literally everyone else.
For those of you with a macabre streak, who want to try to understand what that laying of hate will look like, I rather recommend this book, The Coming Civil War by Tom Kawczynski:
It makes for profoundly depressing, yet highly necessary, reading. The coming war will not be simply between different groups of Whites. Blacks will make war on Whites, and Hispanics will make war on Blacks, and Asians and Whites will make war on each other and against the rest, and then the LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT will get involved, and in the middle of that fustercluck, you will get the immense waves of immigrants that have utterly destroyed the fabric of White America.
Let us be very clear in our minds about this. Most of those immigrants who came over, did so for economic reasons. That is fine, up to a point. But they brought with them all of their old cultures, ancient hatreds and problems, and racial resentments. And they transplanted those same hatreds into America – and those were just the LEGAL immigrants.
America has undergone, and continues to undergo, the largest invasion in human history. Literally MILLIONS of lawbreakers have streamed across America’s borders, and have suffered virtually no consequences for this.
Do Americans really believe this can continue without something breaking? Are Americans really that blind to historical and political realities?
To put things into perspective – India has a border force of over 200,000 people, and those who actively patrol the border between India and Bangladesh are authorised to use deadly force to shoot dead those who try to sneak into India.
The Japanese are perhaps the most homogeneous ethnic monoculture in the entire developed world. They are more than 98% ethnically Japanese. They do not permit mass immigration of any kind. While their population faces a severe crisis, one cannot fault them for trying to preserve their own culture and way of life.
In Russia, you have to learn the language, pay taxes, adopt Russian culture, and live in the country for years, just to qualify for citizenship. Your children do not automatically become Russian citizens. If you abuse those rights, they can take your citizenship from you – and will do so gladly.
America, like most Western countries, refuses to learn from the examples of other nations, and continues to believe it is “exceptional”. The forces of history put that to the test once, and America failed that test, but managed to recover from it.
This time, I fear there will be no recovery – because there is no America to recover.
For the record, I do not believe this particular situation, on its own, will trigger the Second Civil War that I have written about with such foreboding for years. (That being said, my record of making predictions is extraordinarily poor, so take it with a giant helping of salt.) But I do think this is yet another straw added onto the back of an already groaning and shaky camel.
It will not take much more for things to devolve past the point of no return. And when that happens… may God have mercy, because men will have none.
Anyway, that’s all for today. Let us get on to the lovely lady of the week.
The candidate this time around is Valeria Kovalenko (Валерия Коваленко), age unknown but probably in her early twenties, and probably from Moscow, Russia. She currently spends a lot of time in Dubai with the Mavrin Models agency, which means she is quite familiar with the Russian thot-set that frequents the city – many of them have ended up in this weekly segment over the past 7 (!!!) years that we’ve been running this particular show.
Beyond that, we can say very little, other than that she seems to like her glass of sparkling wine. (Champagne, apparently, is sparkling wine produced in a VERY SPECIFIC region of France, but is otherwise indistinguishable from most other kinds of the stuff. It’s Marketing 101, really – create artificial scarcity through branding.)
That’s all for today, folks. Enjoy your weekends, and try to keep your hands off your trigger fingers – there will be plenty of shooting in the days to come, to my immense sorrow and regret.
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Nice tracts of land she’s got.
Have you seen that this year’s Miss Japan is actually Ukranian? Not even half-Japanese, just the step daughter of a Jap dude who married a divorced Ukie and imported them to Japan. Plenty of Japanese are not happy about that.
Oh yeah, I saw that. It was all over my Telegram feed. The whole thing was just absolutely hilarious, considering how mono-ethnic the Japanese are. Indeed, many of them are seriously PISSED – and rightly so, because Ms Carolina Shiino has not one drop of Japanese blood at all.
Back in the War Between the States, Abraham Lincoln noted: “No matter our present differences, we all read the same Bible, and we all pray to the same God.”
This is going to be a very different war indeed.
No, the war was about three things, slavery, slavery, and – not to be underestimated – slavery. No, it was not about states’ rights. if it had been about states’ rights the south would not have cheered when Dred Scott v. Sanford took away northern states’ rights not to permit slavery on their own soil. Indeed, the only states’ right the south ever showed it cared about was slavery. Yes, every set of articles of secession mentioned slavery as the sole cause.
No, it wasn’t about tariffs. The south had its way with tariffs start to finish. For example, the “Tariff of Abominations”? Yeah, it was designed by southern legislators to be abominable…to New England. New England just fooled them by accepting it. They’ve nothing to bitch about. And the Morell Tariff only became possible AFTER the south seceded.
No, whether or not secession was constitutional is a moot point. There are only two possibilities, it was or it wasn’t. If it wasn’t, the Constitution permitted putting down rebellions. If it was, then the sovereign USA was perfectly entitled to wage war to extinguish the sovereignty of the CSA. And, no, after what the southern states led us into stealing from Mexico extinguishes their right to bitch about it.
The Corwin Amendment says otherwise, everything a slave owner could have wanted with regards to legal protection of the institution was granted, with the full backing of Lincoln and his cronies. Proposed in 1860 it would go on to win a two thirds majority vote in both the house and senate, Lincoln even saw fit to say he had no objection to it in his inaugural address.
In brief the Corwin amendment granted three things, the absolute right for states to manage their own domestic institutions (guaranteed in the amendment by not permitting the congress to make any laws regarding said institutions), secondly the amendment prevents congress from making any new laws regarding slavery, and third it forbids the ratification of any amendment that would nullify the Corwin amendment.
If everything was about slavery Kratman then why did the South not jump on the Corwin amendment like an incel muzzie spying a female goat?
Oh, for fucks sake; a proposed amendment, passed AFTER the Deep South had seceded, doesn’t refute in the slightest that they seceded over slavery, it affirms that they did.
Ironically that points to the war not being about slavery, think about this logically, the only ones who could vote for the amendment were Unionists. The southern representatives and senators (with one exception, Andrew Johnson) had already packed up by that point. With a two thirds majority vote in favor of the amendment by both the House and Senate (combined with Lincoln’s approval) this points to something.
Abolitionism (until the Gettysburg address) was a political fringe movement, one greatly similar to gays/SJWs in the late 1990s to early 2000s, a wing of the political party (democrat) that were given only lip service (pun, fully intended) in order to wring votes out of them. Lincoln had only one objective, the preservation of the Union at any cost, by whatever means (fair or foul) required to do so.
His actions speak to this, he paid lip service to the abolitionists in order to curry their votes, he was perfectly willing to override them if he needed to. Note that if you examine all of Lincoln’s quotes a pattern clearly emerges, he uses antislavery rhetoric in his early and late career (1850-1859 and late 1862-1865) to score political points and drive Union war fervor, respectively.
Despite his personal disdain for slavery old Abe was willing to throw it under the bus if it meant restoring the Union.
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.” Letter to Horace Greeley, 1862
Which still means that, yes, everyone at the time understood that secession was about, wait for it….slavery.
Shocker, I know, but house and senate cannot amend the constitution. 2/3ds of them but 3/4ths of states, and the support wasn’t there.
Sorry, but every other motive brought up is nothing more than lost cause mythology, created as a justification post war. Lincoln’s reasons for going to war, to preserve the union, were in the context of secession…over slavery.
By the way, what makes you think nine states couldn’t have been found to block the Corwin Amendment? The six of New England would have, along with probably all six of the northwest ordinance, as well as California. So why, being able at least to count on their fingers, should the seven seceded states have jumped on an amendment that was, at inception, dead in the water?
Moreover, in Mary Chestnut’s words, “We had come to hate each other so.” But what had the two sections come to hate each other over? Slavery.
Simple Kratman, because Lincoln would have just kept twisting arms until he got enough northern states to ascent to the deal. Honest Abe suspended habeas corpus and restricted freedom of speech and of the press (basically anyone who criticized his actions). He had full military backing in doing so, witness legislator John Merryman, despite the supreme court telling Lincoln to issue a writ of habeas corpus he refused to do so.
And the military went along with it, refusing to release John Merryman. The short of it is this, a dictator with full military backing can get what he wants, the most hardcore of abolitionists can be made moderate by the rigorous application of rifle butts to the head.
There was never time for that, either.
Allan Nevins, in his monumental work on the Civil War, cites to a letter from an Alabama legislator claiming that latent pro-union sentiment would soon see the state out of the CSA and back into the USA. He ended with the words, “Strike a blow!”
Of course that it precisely what they did. In other words, in no conceptual universe was the lower south going to come back in. Because, as Mary Chestnut wrote, “We had come to hate each other so.” Over slavery.
No, the war was about three things, slavery, slavery, and – not to be underestimated – slavery.
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you mean, abiding by the Constitution?
I said “slavery” and I meant slavery.
By all means list for us those violations of the constitution the federal government engaged in with regard to slavery. Take your time, I am patient.
Like the proverbial dog that finally catches the car, having vanquished the South and freed the slaves, what was the game plan for both the South and the former slaves?
The North needed a free ride on the value of Southern agriculture, which at the time could only still be possible at scale with the labour of the freed slaves, so rather than granting them reparations in the form of boat rides back to Africa, it was preferred to leave them in the South, with no clue whatsoever that the freedmen were now free to migrate to the North’s cities.
There’s a kind of poetic justice there. Slavery didn’t build the USA, but the destruction of the USA is in its wake.
WANTED a free ride. England had already eliminated slavery decades before the Civil War, and had done so peacefully AND LAWFULLY.
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so which is the “moral” system? the one that murders more than a half million of your supposed fellow citizens? or the one which disposes of Slavery peacefully, calmly and without major issue?
she looks both natural and implausible at the same time.
She really does. Russians clearly are wizards at genetic engineering…
If the Russians are wizards at genetic engineering then what does that make the Armenians and Persians? I’ll be honest, if I was going by looks exclusively (and ignored religious insanity) I would go for one of those two (who are closely related at the genetic level, if I remember rightly the former are an offshoot of the latter).
There was never time for that, either.
Allan Nevins, in his monumental work on the Civil War, cites to a letter from an Alabama legislator claiming that latent pro-union sentiment would soon see the state out of the CSA and back into the USA. He ended with the words, “Strike a blow!”
Of course that it precisely what they did. In other words, in no conceptual universe was the lower south going to come back in. Because, as Mary Chestnut wrote, “We had come to hate each other so.” Over slavery.
And you claim with a straight face that the civil war was not absolutely, positively, sparked by more then just some foaming at the mouth abolitionists making the south uncomfortable? That it had nothing to do with the Northern tariffs that impeded the south’s main source of trade and machinery (the British Empire)? You cannot just put a man in a vice grip and expect him not to struggle, and the South was being strangled economically by the North.
What is remarkable is that civil war didn’t break out in 1832 (well before the abolitionists had become a political factor), it was only averted thanks to Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay.
As for lost cause “mythology” let us ask what is its central premise: “That the Union only overcame the South via superior resources and manpower. That the war was chiefly fought not concerning slavery but over the unanswered question of state vs federal authority.”
The first premise is without question truth, the Emancipation Proclamation and other various edicts designed to cause dissent and slave revolts within the South failed. Morality did not win the war for the North, Grant and Sherman did. The former by simply being smart enough to realize that he didn’t have to outwit Lee, all he had to do was grind him down (a fact that General Lee recognized, stating that Grant was the enemy he feared the most owing to his relentless nature). The latter simply bled the South white, finishing the job the naval blockade had started.
The second claim is more open to interpretation at first glance, yet the historical record points to one conclusion. The nullification crisis of 1832 did not concern slavery at all, it was a conflict between a state and the federal government. Given that event nearly triggered a civil war we must ask, were the underlying causes of the nullification crisis solved? The answer is no, indeed the compromise of 1833 was effectively dismantled with the tariff of 1844. Then the tariff of 1857 came along, which seemed to harken back the tariff compromise of 1833, then in 1861 the Morrill tariff came into effect, bringing us back to the crushing tariff rates the South hated.
Incidentally the Civil War started in 1861, ever heard the term “fuck it, enough is enough”? The South at this point was the bull in Mexico, enduring the economic spears of the Northern matadors, eventually the bull decided the only option left was to charge.
In short the lost cause “mythology” isn’t a myth, it is the historical truth. A truth that our mutual enemies seek to suppress with every fiber in their being. Who are primary proponents of lost cause “mythology” today? Conserva-cucks and liberals, that’s who. Why do they support it? Because they cannot stand the idea of America being for the progeny of its founders (i.e. White Europeans), owing to this hatred of us they take every opportunity possible to denigrate us. They act as if we committed the worst crime imaginable…yet they never speak of the fact that the Arab and intra-African slave trade exceeded everything we had ever done, both in time (we were doing it for roughly 250 years, the Arabs and Africans meanwhile had been doing it for millennia), cruelty (ask yourself, where will you find more Black people today, USA or Middle-East?), and numbers.
Indeed, no, it was sparked by nothing but slavery, slavery, and slavery.
The nullification crisis came about largely from the Tariff of Abominations and its successor which, as I mentioned, were crafted by the south to be abominable to New England. It’s a preposterous stretch to tie them to the civil war, especially as the south got its way completely after that.
It does, however, illustrate something important. In 1834, William Lloyd Garrison had only founded his paper, The Liberator, a few years prior. He had, as yet, no great following. Abolitionism, in the north, was a non-factor. Indeed, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was murdered by an anti-abolitionism mob, in 1834…in Illinois, a free state. Andrew Jackson could, moreover, threaten South Carolina with invasion in the sure knowledge that SC would have stood alone. Why? Why because abolitionism was a non-factor, hence there was nothing to push all or most of the slave states together.
By 1860 this had all changed. And the big change was abolitionism, which drove most of the slave states top stand together in defense of…wait for it….SLAVERY.
Interesting? I just came to look at the young lady, and admire her very nice God-given figure. Didn’t expect to be debating over a civil war that ended (checks notes) 158 years ago. I have bigger concerns about today’s toxic societal environment, and how I will have to manage, survive, and thrive in the coming years.
Lolyer Kratman has a bit of Lincoln fetish. you know, being as they’re both lawyers who enjoy punishing people and violating the Constitution in order to attack people who were following the law.
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but i wouldn’t say that the discussion is entirely pointless. the primary message of the Bible, both OT and NT is the necessity of repentance. and i don’t see any real possibility of making the foundational corrections that are necessary unless we can repent of the sins of the Progressive and Radical Republicans of the mid-19th century.
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otherwise, we’ve no chance of reversing the policy that every male citizen is now, functionally, a slave of the federal government.
The discussion isn’t pointless. Many of your points I agree with, because most if not all wars start for many issues. Was slavery an issue of that time, yes. But your points also mattered. I also agree, I am a tax and debt slave not only to fed.gov, but also local and state gubmints. “Land of the Free,” uh huh. At this time, I am just waiting, planning and preparing for what comes next in the FUSA.
“And the big change was abolitionism”
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that is to say, with an artificial moral panic. as is the basis of most Leftist revolutions.
I came here for a comment war, and then a thot broke out