The better question – in response to Trump’s recent statement during a Pod Force One interview – is who cares who rigged the 2020 election? Because the system is rigged. Put another way, it ought to be obvious by now that it does not matter who wins these elections because we always lose. That is to say, run-of-the-mill Americans who would like the federal government to act at least vaguely in their interests – as opposed to the interests of corporations, big money donors and Israel.
Many of these run-of-the-mill Americans believed (for the last time, probably) that the 2024 election of Trump would result in a change for the better; that is to say, a change that would benefit them. To say it hasn’t is an understatement on par with saying Stage 5 pancreatic cancer really isn’t so bad.
There are still a few run-of-the-mill Americans who remain fixated on the corruption of the 2020 election, who remain mired in the tragic belief that if only the election had been above-board all would be well. Put another way, they remain mired in the tragic belief that the centralized leviathan state isn’t irremediably and inherently corrupt. They do not grasp that it exists not to protect rights but to grant (and withhold) concessions. That is to say, to dispense patronage. To take from A to line the pockets of B. It is the mechanism of the political means – as Albert Jay Nock explained in his book, Our Enemy the State – that is at odds with the economic means. The latter being the generation of wealth by individuals producing things of value freely exchanged. As opposed to the coercive, redistributionist, favor/patronage granting wheedling of the state, which pits every man against every other man in a hyena pack-like feeding frenzy to get theirs (at someone else’s expense) or (at best) to try to protect theirs from the hyenas.
Elections merely determine which faction will control the political means – the power of the state. It is thus inevitable – whenever greed is rewarded – that the greediest people will be the ones that are on the ballot. Worse than that, actually – because merely being greedy isn’t necessarily evil. It does become evil when that greed is paired with force. When a greedy aspirer to office is financed by greedy people who finance the aspirant because they expect him (or her, nowadays) to reward them if elected. There is no money in not taking any, is there? Without money, it is nigh impossible to aspire to office. Ipso facto, you end up with aspirants who take money. Put in honest language, aspirants who are bought and paid for. Getting elected to Congress transforms the aspirant into a millionaire. The onetime barrista AOC is now a very wealthy woman. So also the turban wearing Congresswoman from Mogadishu. What is their source of their sudden wealth? Did they create it? Or did power confer it?
Elections confer power. That power will inevitably be used to enrich those who have it and that enrichment can only come from mulcting those who lack it. This back-and-forth is the only thing that elections determine and it is why elections do not matter if you are – as H.L. Mencken put it a century ago – among the ranks of “well-disposed, industrious and decent men.” Elections only matter to such men to the extent that the outcome has an effect on to what degree they will be exploited, abused and put-upon.
Not whether.
It will never be never – so long as anyone’s rights are up for a vote. So long as elections are (Mencken’s words, again) a “kind of advance auction of stolen goods.” Which is what they necessarily are. Aspirants promise to do and get things for their supporters. But who will do the actual “helping” and “supporting”? It will not be the winner of the election, except insofar as he orders that others are forced to “help” and “support.” The aspirant – once elected – will not roll up his sleeves or open up his wallet. He will command the apparatus of the state to open yours.
The state, accordingly, depends hugely on people believing that elections matter. That the problem – per Trump and the people he’s duped – is corrupted elections. Not that elections are corruptions. 
But how will things be decided in the absence of elections? How about by each of us, for ourselves? And everything else by explicit, consensual agreement among the individuals involved. This is (per Nock) what government is, by the way – as opposed to the state. Married couples govern their partnership; there is no coercion (except in the instances of abuse but the abused party always has the legal right to get out of the marriage). Families are governed; so are friendships. Communities can be governed, also. The cancer of the state forms when healthy social arrangements metastasize – via coercion – into the state, which manifests as a sick and perverted parody of government. It feigns respect for the individual while emasculating and terrorizing him, by micromanaging and threatening him to obey (or else) at every turn.
Worst of all, perhaps, it demoralizes him by disempowering him – via elections. This ludicrous business of letting him believe that he has a part to play in the operations of the state. It is something like the way menial workers in a corporation are often referred to as “associates,” as if they were junior partners in a law firm. The “associate” – like the voter – knows deep down he’s as nothing to the corporation, just as he is to the state. That is why the state – per Trump – wants people t vote. Wants them to get mad about “corrupt” elections.
Because it keeps them in the role of “associates.”
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The Internet Robot says, “The government often maintains its structure and functions regardless of who is elected, as it operates within established systems and laws. This can lead to a perception that the interests of the government prevail over those of individual voters.”
…Ya think?
A.k.a. no matter who gets elected, the goobermint Always wins.
One thing I’ve wondered about with respect to the 2020 election is why The Bad Orange Man never suspended the 2020 election in the name of Saaaaaaaaafety! and Stopping The Spread.
He could have said, “Voting is just too dangerous to do right now. Besides, we need continuity of leadership in this crisis, and we can’t afford to change horses in midstream…” And people would have gone along with it.
The fact that The Bad Orange Man didn’t makes me think he’s more incompetent than malicious.
It was Mike Pence who held the Constitutional authority to certify the election. Pence is a snake who should have invalidated the 2020 election but refused to do so.
He was following the dictates of his jewish masters…
Pence? I thought he was Race Bannon from Johnny Quest!
Lol. Good one!! I remember watching that back in the day. Speed Racer too.
Here at the lower-case car company, we’re not refered to as associates but “team members” lol
Is Mary Barra dyslexic? One suspects that she reversed the order of ‘t’ and ‘m’ in team.
Talk about objectifying the opposite sex! 🙁
Now that you say it……..lol
Moshe Trumpstein’s children used the market manipulation money and bought a new Epstein Island for Cheeto.
Vote all you want, the controllers have selected their leader actors for the next 100 years.
Hymie will toss Cheeto aside like a used condom now that he has delivered bomb bomb Iran.
Masterfully stated, Eric. I’m sure Nock, Spooner and Mencken would be proud.
Keep bearing the torch of Liberty.
Exquisite article, Eric.
In Az, there are ads currently running that tout our Gov. Hobbs’ plebian roots. Apparently she drove for Uber to ‘get by’. But Uber isn’t so old, and she rose to her station from being their driver in that time.
Talk about aspirants. She must’ve aspirated someone nicely to rise so quickly.
Thanks, BaDnOn!
And: What are you doing up this early? I thought I was the only weirdo around here?
Nope, sorry, Eric, there are a few of us. Besides, who can sleep this time of year? It is just before 1 AM, and it is still light out. Ha ha.
Good stuff, Shadow!
I’m hoping I can play hooky for a few hours and get a hike in later today!
Haha, that was actually a very late comment, just before bed. You truly are a flipside weirdo, man. 😉
Kudos, Eric! Excellent! You DO get it!
Off-duty cop arrested for doing 134 mph in traffic in his Maserati
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2026/06/01/tampa-police-officer-speeding-arrest-jason-brown/
I guess he didn’t get “professional courtesy” this time…
I think Eric’s one of those who host the retarded opinion that if you try to put pressure on Trump or the establishment then you are some sort of sellout. “Hurr you’re sucking Trump’s dick” if you point out any good news and “You have no say and there is no answer” if you point out bad news. Most of the types who respond as such are just bots.
https://www.alexjoneslive.com
Huh? It’s like you didn’t read or comprehend the article. The point being you can’t put pressure on Trump or the establishment, in that they are responsive only to the donor class. No one can point to good news because to the extent it exists, it exists in spite of the Orange Douche Bag and not because of him or his policies.
Dude,
Dang/Mang…..You still haven’t RSVP’d about hosting that Molotov Cocktail party in your mom’s
basement……
Just give the address…and you’ll be “In like Flint”..Honest Injin!! I’ll pay for the gas…
Can’t wait to party Dude!!…Oh yeah ..I’ll bring the marshmallows.
Drudge is linking to this opinion piece on YNET:
6.4.26 “Trump’s new Middle East order could turn Israel into a regional superpower. Opinion: Most commentary about Donald Trump remains surprisingly childish; his critics are still looking at the world from ground level, while Trump is already operating far above it, and if the process now underway reaches its conclusion, ISRAEL could emerge as the SECOND-MOST POWERFUL NATION in the Eastern Hemisphere, SECOND ONLY TO CHINA.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/bjo7ogybmg
Guess that’s why we have to keep the war in Ukraine going and going and going…
Guess that’s why the Epstein sodomite pedophile “north star” is destroying the USA, robbing us blind, giving the Israelis “control of the congress,” and embedding them into the US military–maybe before Trump leaves office he will sign an executive order annexing the US to Israel because after all 1/2 of world Jewry resides here so it’s only fair Israel should govern the whole 350 million of us (just like in the Middle East). First the USA, then the world!
Apparently YNET is going by Medhurst — Israel is going to control Gaza and Lebanon’s oil and gas reserves and they are going to supply Europe and the Global South while the Gulf States, Iran, Russia, China and Cuba are blockaded.
https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-pulled-off-an-armed-robbery
Peak hubris, isn’t it? Israel can’t be the second most powerful nation in the eastern hemisphere with only nine million people — about the population and area of New Jersey.
Hubris is the prelude to Nemesis. Let us hope that the delusional Jizzraeli degenerates actually believe their self-aggrandizing chest-beating!
They’ll never know what hit them. 🙂
The system is rigged. I actually found this out back in the 1976 election. My dad, a manager at a large SP500 company, came home from work and told me that Jimmy Carter would be the next president, he said to me the FBI came into his office and was briefing managers and higher ups in industry the plan to put in an honest man, because it would be the best for the country.
This had to happen between the Democratic selection of the nominee and the the election in Nov.
“The 1976 Democratic National Convention took place from July 12 to July 15, 1976.”
I didn’t care, I was in high school, I was interested in hunting, trapping, motorcycles, and girls. I gave no fucks whatsoever for politics. But like dad said, total unknown outsider, a peanut farmer from Georgia, did get elected. Thus, being a critical thinker, when I became eligible to vote, I did not vote, because I had learned the system was rigged.
Since then I have never voted, and now looking back to 1976, that was the correct decision. The system is rigged, and the politicians are lying scumbag criminals, and pedo raping weirdos.
I would like to add politicians do not deserve our votes, they deserve our scorn and contempt, not to mention a hail of lead when they come to town.
You all tell me if I am wrong, does not the entire political class, with a couple of exceptions, which is guilty of treason for selling out to Jews and Israelis, deserve death by hanging or even better, by military firing squads.
And does not Israel deserve to be destroyed for the USS Liberty attack, for doing the 911 attack, for assassinating JFK, for bribing our politicians, for putting in sold out whores and causing the deaths of our soldiers?
I believe Israel to be an existential threat to the survival of the United States, and the proper course of action, is to launch an all out nuclear attack on Israel and completely eliminate the state, it’s military, and it’s Jewish inhabitants for what they have done to us and the people that live there.
I do not believe in mercy, I believe in justice for our people.
AGREE 100%!
Not only does israel have to cease to exist, every zionist jew and zionist supporter must be put on notice that we are aware of their criminality and are watching them.
1. Abolish recognition of ALL israel passports. Make them null and void both for identification and travel.
2. Every USA politician or appointee who holds an israel passport must be summarily removed from office without exception. This applies to federal, state, and local political office-holders and appointees.
3. Revoke USA tax-exempt status from ALL organizations who support zionism in any form. This includes Christian zionist-supporting churches and other organizations as well as jewish synagogues, yeshivas (which are jewish terrorist training grounds) and every other jewish organization that interferes in the USA political process. Any synagogue or other jewish organization participating and facilitating the sale of Palestinian property would also be subject to revocation of tax-exempt status.
4. Prosecute every jewish and non-jewish supporter of zionism and the (illegal) state of israel for TREASON.
It’s a start…country 110 is on the horizon.
I agree 100% as usual. The JFK assassination and 911 are two Israeli false flags which led to the complete cucking of the USA to Israel.
Trump came to power because Jews killed our real president, now we have a fake Orange asshole who is selling us out every day. Trump is the biggest traitor in our history, he should be treated as a criminal.
I turn on the TV to the 700 Club, and these cocksucking conservative Evangelical ASSHOLES are slobbering over Israel all day long. It is so pathetic I laugh, you can not make this shit up – and they are doing it to get into heaven.
Apparently God is fooled by their warmongering for Israel and will give them a free pass into heaven. Yes Virginia, the God of Justice is going to let all these Evangelical warmongers cheerleading for Israel doing genocide past the Pearly Gates.
Now tell me, do you want to go to heaven and be with these assholes? I don’t, I do not want to be with them now. If I end up in heaven with these Zionist lunatics I am going to ask Saint Peter to give me a baseball bat so I can beat their skulls to a pulp.
I do not give one shit about Israhell or Jews or the Holohoax fable. I do not feel sorry for Jews. I do not like people who think they are chosen, I think such people are deluded assholes. I think people supporting Israel are not going to heaven, I think they are making hell on earth.
Religion should be outlawed as a dangerous memetic mind virus that makes people mad.
If you had to gobble a knob, wouldn’t you rather it was circumcised?
Hear hear. I second these motions.
It is unfortunate more do not embrace this view. We cant seem to get above 10% of the population on a vibrational wavelength that could allow us to overthrow this cabal. Was hopeful after the Great Sniffle Psychosis, now, not so much. People are letting their TDS distract from the bigger issue. The parasite class has succeeded in Zugzwanging us at almost every direction.
I love Mencken’s line about elections being an advance action on stolen goods. You’ll hear no animas from me toward those still pissed about 2020. Many of us were shouting, before, and right after that election that if nothing is done, this will happen again, and again. As it will in exactly five months from now. As it is happening now in California. That Mail-in voting is allowed at all, that it now takes weeks to figure out the score, is irrefutable proof that something is foul in our government and managerial class. The saying All Wars Are banker Wars, holds true to this day, even when it is applied to elections.
Haven’t voted since 2018, will probably never bother again. That being said, even knowing what a colossal POS Trump is, Knowing that the two sides share the same coin I don’t understand how anyone can prefer the over the top faggotry of the Ds as opposed to the closeted faggotry of the Rs. I still love America. Will always hold out hope, for what she was, for what she could have become, and, for knowing her in her younger and brighter days
“The oil industry is warning the Trump administration that a Hormuz-sized hole in the world’s petroleum market is steadily draining inventories to levels that are likely to send global energy prices surging in the next several weeks…”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/oil-price-spike-white-house-hormuz-00949435
Thanks, Zionists. You bastards are willing to wreck the global economy for your little Land of Milk and Honey while the rest of us get fucked.
“as Albert Jay Nock explained in his book, Our Enemy the State”
An excellent read, free out there on the webz.
“But how will things be decided in the absence of elections? How about by each of us, for ourselves?”
Problem is, people with an eye to power and wealth will, in the absence of government, form the equivalent of government – gangs of thugs with money, weapons and monopolies on land, rights-of-way, resources, etc. There is no chance of this not happening, which is why governments keep on happening, in hopes of ameliorating such outcomes. There’s actually precious little difference.
The founders tried to gain an intermediate position – government okay, but small. That has failed. I don’t see a solution.
Hi Cobblestones,
Jefferson had some ideas re this. He wanted government decentralized and devolved to the smallest unit feasible beyond that of the family; i.e., the local community. He thought almost everything that’s up for a vote ought to be decided at that level, with a very few and very clearly defined things delegated to a larger authority. While no system will ever be perfect, I think this one could come damned close. It largely existed for the first “four score and seven years,” too/
Jefferson’s big mistake was wanting the decentralization and devolvement of government to the “smallest unit feasible beyond that of the family.” Anything beyond that of the family brings in authoritarianism — which will persistently grow — every single time.
Cobblestones is right; there’s no way around this. As Americans, we have inherited the cultural DNA of our British ancestors, who are inveterate monarchists. What the Founding Fathers set up was a pale imitation of that monarchy. Is it any wonder it has grown into the totalitarian monstrosity it is today?
The solution devolves to the individual to break away from the corrupt system as much as possible and create his own family-style government (as God intended) while avoiding the tyranny of the State.
A solution which is entirely unpossible now, given the defenstration of dads and men that’s been going on since at least the ’80s.
It’s probably the best solution ever devised, but is it possible to maintain it? History shows every system eventually succumbs, tyranny always rears its ugly head, and eventually civilization goes down.
I intend to sit back, disengage, snipe at the system from the sidelines whenever possible, but mostly try to enjoy my small local life to the greatest extent possible.
There’s no stopping this train, I think. But a lot of goodness and joy can still be found in life.
The problem that is greatest is how to deal with the ~5% socio/psychopaths in our midst.
Erecting a governmental structure to give them a career path isn’t working out.
In other words, how do we, who wish to live in productive peace, keep these savages in check? After all, the vast majority doesn’t want to engage in predation so let’s find functional defensive measures to deal with this small minority.
“After all, the vast majority doesn’t want to engage in predation”
Sorry, I just haven’t found that to be true. One on one, most any person can be reasoned with and gotten along with. As soon as you put them in a group, pack animal behavior starts. They gossip and plot and jockey for position.
The British almost had it right, have a hereditary nobility which mostly fights among itself, with lesser nobles down to the tribe and clan level playing a role and most ignoring petty crap like the modern bureaucratic cop/lawyer/judge won’t.
The US attempted to replace that hereditary ruler with a legal machine. Unfortunately a machine is (mostly) limited to the purposes for which it was intended, and not for the infinite variations of human perfidy.
Monarchies have functioned quite well in at least some instances, as have republics, democracies, functional dictatorships (eg Singapore) and even ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ if you can get past the endless Epoch Times/Falun Gong-generated propaganda.
But they all end up in the same dustbin. So what’s left? Choose a hero’s path if you’ve got what it takes to do that (few do), or disengage and withdraw, which is the path many young men seem to be taking. There are still plenty of worthwhile endeavors within that paradigm however, enough to make life worth living.
Something that is irritating are people who think they’re morally superior to everyone else BECAUSE they “Vote Democrat” or “Vote Republican” during elections, given that BOTH political parties are scum to some degree and clearly look out NOT for “the people”, but special interests, be it the political class, the Military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, NGOs, the billionaire elite, or something else.
The author of this piece keeps pointing the finger of blame at “the gun industry.” In the same breath she mentions the NRA, But the NRA does not make or sell guns.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5846418/brady-sue-atf
The only Fourth of July event I would consider attending is a mass hanging of the president and his entire cabinet — for treason.
That would be America’s greatest day since July 4, 1776. 🙂
JH,
How about July 14, 1789…..Hmmm perhaps , a “let them eat cake moment”?……
How many “Yachets” does a Billionaire require????
Hey kids, I’m an old fart but Given the “Present Parasitic Pig ” environment..
Let’s bring back ” The Guillotine”….
I’m ready to storm “The Bastille”!!.. the pig assholes exploited it…I’m ready to do my part to stem this metastatic cancer…
Just saying.. Semper Fi!
Second that Jim,
Can set up a row of gallows in the reflecting pool that Treasonous Trump has conveniently drained for his painting grift. I would watch that on Pay per View.
What if they burned Hillary at the stake?
They should use Manchineel tree wood…That would teach that Evil Bitch a lesson..
Breathe deeply.
I’d absolutely participate in that! There is really nothing to celebrate this July. I plan to spend it zeroing in my rifles.