I just spent a week and a half in Alaska, the first vacation I’ve taken in many years.
Substack posts and Company Reports were scheduled in advance along with relevant emails and handoff of critical work to the team. Everything was set, people were prepared, and I looked forward to some important rest and reflection ahead of this autumn’s inevitable chaos.
Naturally, my very first full day of “vacation” saw former President Donald Trump subjected to an assassination attempt that killed one and critically wounded others. Then President Biden excused himself from the nomination and disappeared. China brokered a diplomatic negotiation to bring all the Palestinian factions under single authority. Ukraine began to issue statements about negotiations with Russia.
It’s a rather marvelous and bloody gallop through the new age, isn’t it?
There’s a crazed feel to most public and political communications right now, especially from the Left. Wherever you turn, there’s exhortation and pronouncements, screams and challenges, snark and ridicule. Very little that takes place is characterized with sensibilities of objective analysis, critical thinking, or even dispassionate reason.
This is a wonderful thing for us on the Hard Right.
Chris Bray from Tell Me How This Ends has a lancingly accurate characterization of the current state of narrative on the Left, in Yas Girlboss Slay:
We mostly don’t have politics, debate over the limits of government and the proper role of policy in shaping society and the economy. Ahead: a hundred days of amygdala punching. Fear fear fear humiliation. Jimmy Kimmel probably says Trump just wants to call in sick and spend the whole day in sweatpants in front of the television!
Trump’s probably gonna eat a whole quart of ice cream while he watches The View for like the third day in a row. That’s so typical of him! Kamala is SO STRONG, why am I crying again, anyway I CAN’T WAIT TO VOTE FOR HER she’s amazing she probably never feels humiliated and exposed THE WAY TRUMP DOES but anyway I think I’ll try cookies and cream tomorrow
I have seen this myself, at places like Democratic Underground where the dizzying parade of content careens back and forth between anguish and malevolent, screeching laughter at wholly invented triumphs. It is disturbing and unpleasant to witness; yet within the gap of these sobbing and cackling tantrums lies some very useful advantages for us.
Napoleon Bonaparte famously advised to never interrupt an enemy who is making a mistake; that bears repeating today as the Left spirals into ever more absurdly incoherent flails.
In these dwindling days leading up to the U.S. presidential election the Hard Right must fulfill its own responsibility to avoid descent into the tandem decoherence of assumed victory.
It is critical to not only forgo interruption of the suicidal self-immolation of the Left; but also to advance pitilessly with sharp focus and competent penetration into new and valuable noncooperative arenas.
Let us examine the matter from that perspective.
What chinks in the armor of the Left are exposed, where they may be held down and run through with cruel effectiveness?
Where can the Hard Right take advantage of the incandescent trigger response of the Left to force them to into fighting for unsustainable positions?
What fears can be inflated and amplified?
What terrors can be injected with appalling immediacy?
What dysfunctions can be bitterly reinforced?
How can you drive them into the ground?
Recently there has been a growing debate on Substack among the Hard Right authors regarding the reprisal use of tactics such as “cancellation” that have been predominantly employed by the Left in the last half-decade.
John Carter of Postcards from Barsoom raised the matter in Right Wing Cancel Squads, following up with a sharp conclusion in Cancelling Cancellers vs Cancelling Cancellation:
But for now, we do not live in a culture in which respectful disagreement is generally possible. We live in a cultural wasteland overrun by the spiteful, shrieking mutants of the psychotic left, and despite everything that has been said, I do not think that pity is a vice that we can currently afford to indulge.
We at the Company concur.
From our perspective, both as assets engaged in the broader culture war, and more directly as the chief executive manager and officers of the Company - charged, after all, with the work of Tribunals and organized, militant seizure of critical continuity assets from the Left - there should not be any illusions on the utility of pity.
Do not engage in pity!
The Left has pushed and celebrated the slaughter of millions of innocent unborn, going so far as to enshrine abortion of up until birth as religious prerogative.
They engage in ceaseless murder, and you entertain pity?
The Left has overseen and encouraged wave after wave of devastating illegal migrations from the Third World into the West with planned and predictable result.
They engage in cultural genocide, and you contemplate pity?
The Left has advocated and advanced the death of humanity and futures for our young people by medical ideologues driving sexual evisceration, vivisection, and sterility.
They are monstrous and unrepentant, and you advertise pity?
I have shared the Company values often in this Substack.
I am going to remind you how to correctly handle evil.
You cannot negotiate with evil.
You cannot offer pity to evil.
You cannot permit evil.
You must liquidate it.
Do you understand?
No parley, no quarter.
Grasp well that refusal to wage war when demanded by the collapse of the age does not bring you moral probity; more reliably, it leads to extermination and erasure.
That’s just how it is; how the world has always worked.
You will submit or you will fight.
Your important task when returning fire is not to focus on parity of targets, but to scale your return fire on the Left as capably as possible, in full coherence across all fronts, and with cruel competence that leaves no room for hostile survival.
Let the Left turn back from their misdeeds, and compassion will be extended fairly.
Let the Left cease their monstrous horrors and crimes, and civic sobriety will return.
Let the Left repent of their evil, and they will no longer deserve ending solutions.
Let them surrender and show their backside, and we will forbear execution.
They have forced upon the Hard Right the very choice of our existence.
We would not be necessary in our savage discipline and intent of ferocity, had not generation after generation been herded towards the calamitous, dreadful carnage of brutally masticated civilization at their hands.
We would not be coming for them, otherwise.
But we are, and that is that.
You can straggle, or you can get up and walk.
You can hesitate and die, or prosecute advantage.
You can pretend to moral ascendancy, or you can win real survival.
Not just for yourself, but for the generations that come after you.
I am Ivan Throne.
I tell you that your vacations from duty and consequence are over.
You will fight without pity for your descendants, or you won’t have them.
Understand the reality of the Age of Militants.
Absorb carefully what I deliver in this Substack, and subscribe.
You’ll want this knowledge, this perspective, and this cruel determination.
Do what you need to do. Cease useless hand-wringing over facts.
Join the Movement and take firm grasp of the future.
Or the Hard Right will have no pity for you.
Grand rising!