I suspect we are currently witnessing the catastrophic end of this metaphysical power of legitimacy that has shielded the managerial ruling class for decades. Anyone even briefly familiar with the historical record knows just how much of a Pandora’s box such a loss of legitimacy represents. The signs have obviously been multiplying over many years, but it is only now that the picture is becoming clear to everyone. When Michael Gove said ”I think the people in this country have had enough of experts” in a debate about the merits of Brexit, he probably traced the contours of something much bigger than anyone really knew at the time. Back then, the acute phase of the delegitimization of the managerial class was only just beginning. Now, with Afghanistan, it is impossible to miss.
It’s why you keep coming back to SDA — to read think pieces on questions I raised five years ago.
What they really think of the sheep.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/tyranny/the-stupid-will-believe-it-and-ask-to-be-treated-pandemic-to-depopulate-1981/
The number one goal of the “experts” who brought you the 20 year – multi-trillion dollar – thousands dead – tens of thousands critically wounded – genius war/occupation of Afghanistan was to impose GENDER EQUALITY on the hapless natives.
Ridiculous but true. Here’s a must-read twitter thread that goes through the Afghan war documents to prove it:
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1367146062868226049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1367146347493646338%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailystormer.su%2Fif-theres-any-confusion-as-to-why-i-support-a-zog-defeat-in-afghanistan-i-dont-understand-it%2F
They’re definitely experts at losing, it’s what they do.
From the thread, USA grrrl power vs. the Taliban
“There is no Dari or Pashto word for the terms ‘gender’ and ‘gender equality.’…Afghans often simply use the English word without any translation.”
Obviously, the US will need to help change the language, maybe introduce new pronouns to accomplish its mission
US working to “bring about changes in attitudes, behaviors, roles and responsibilities at home, in the workplace, and in the community.” Are Pashto men doing enough housework? How could American forces leave without knowing for sure?
US places itself in a long historical tradition of fighting for feminism in Afghanistan. The Soviets tried it, which led to rebellions and violent resistance. US hopes to take Afghanistan back to the good old days of Soviet occupation
US in Afghanistan has adopted a policy of “gender mainstreaming, in which the design and implementation of development programs are required to be sensitive to gender norms and disparities.” Imagine this in previous wars, FDR thinking about the disparate impact of D-Day.
Some US programs involve enlisting Afghan men in the the cause. They gave “trainings to 1,105 Afghan men in which they could discuss their own gender roles and examine male attitudes that are harmful to women.” One initiative is called the “National Masculinity Alliance.”
US report mentions that the Taliban has never sent a woman to the peace negotiations. When a woman from the Afghan gov delegation recommended the Taliban send a woman to one of the negotiations, “they laughed immediately.”
The issue of women has become the fundamental disagreement to ending the war. So much so that “Whenever you talk about women’s rights, you get tagged as a person who is against the peace process.” Report warns this is a troubling narrative that must not take hold
Flashback to the Afghan papers. USAID official talks about how US made gender central to their policy and it caused the people to revolt
I have been screaming that our 20 year mission to “change the hearts and minds” of the Afghan people is Mission Impossible. Gender Equity? You are honestly trying to teach that to men who live in mountain caves and are Allah’s soldiers against the ROTTED Western civilization. You honestly believe you can KILL Islam’s 7th Century morays as easily as you destroyed American Christians? Well, given that example … I suppose it did seem reasonable for someone to throw $800M at “changing the hearts and minds” of nomadic goat herding religious zealots.
Here’s an idea!! Why don’t we have our military load helicopters with an ARMY of LGBTQwerty activists … and let them negotiate the EXIT of our 10-40,000 civilians left behind in Afghanistan? I hear that LGBTQwerty people are more sennnnnnnsitive than cisgendered straight males. Let’s send our BEST trans-translators … the ones we were told would degrade our fighting power if we banned Trannies from the US military
As I say … the girls and boys anointed with the holy water of a Harvard (and Georgetown) education have FAILED. Their theoretical view of an imaginary world constructed in the hallowed classrooms of New Haven or Georgetown … is completely and utterly WRONG. These Bourgeois Kings and Queens of the Bureaucrat Class should all be drinking Hemlock today. That scrawny FUCK from the State Dept. Ned Price should, himself, be sheltering in place awaiting rescue … a fate equal to what he has doomed 10,000 Americans to face.
It’s actually kinda sad that Western civilization has moved past beheadings. If there were ever a time for the guillotine or the gallows to return … it’s now. I dare say, The People would use it wisely. It’s not too drastic a measure to RID our civilization of the Termites eating at the Foundation of our GREAT Republic.
It’s time for The People to start holding someone accountable for the systemic sabotage of our Nation. NOW !!! And, no … serving up President non compos mentis’s head on a platter is no more than symbolic nonsense. We must clean far deeper than the figurehead.
Like I have been saying for months. Pancho Villa had a solution, a wall and a blindfold.
Many walls, many blindfolds.
Still requires the end of confederation, I’m afraid.
Yes the Queeny Thingy has to go. Canada has always just been a Penal Colony run on a bluff and bullshit. Grease and Graft.
It at no time ever was it a Democracy or a real country of Free Men and Women.
First Canada was a Colony of England, and now the Provinces are Colonies of Ottawa.
Tear It Down
Watcher, that is bordering on poetry.
…. bluff and bullshit, grease and graft ….
Wow.
A Ceausescu moment would benefit many western countries.
” It is not just that the elite class is incompetent – even kings could be incompetent without undermining belief in monarchy as a system – it is that they are so grossly, spectacularly incompetent that they walk around among us as living rebuttals of meritocracy itself. It is that their application of managerial logic to whatever field they get their grubby mitts on – from homelessness in California to industrial policy to running a war – makes that thing ten times more expensive and a hundred times more dysfunctional.”
Great stuff. As the essay states, Afghanistan was full of NGOs spending rivers of money on gender equality carbon neutrality yadda. It’s of a piece with the covid clown car. Is a serious economic crash next? We live in interesting times.
Y’know…it was only two months ago the LGBQTI flag was hoisted over the U.S. embassy in Kabul, that right there shows you where their heads were at.
As Cernovich pointed out yesterday…”America’s elite are trash”.
Interesting as well that the author referenced 1450’s Germany, the very year they noticed a dangerous shortage of Teutonic Knights. So what did the governing body do? Lowered the bar for entry. “Problem solved”.
Nothing’s changed.
None of the talking heads on the media are experts at anything other than spin.
Real experts exist, and one should listen to them, but you won’t find any in any MSM outlet.
Still a few on youtube, though.
Another great thread over at Instapundit re: Afghanistan, worth the read IMO.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/468442/
“Of course, I blame President Biden for the disastrous retrograde operation still unfolding. But let us not allow that to deflect us from heaping even more blame on military leaders. They stonewalled President Trump rather than beginning deliberate preparations to exit the country when he told them to. They thought that they could outlast him and then talk sense to his successor. Then after the inauguration, they pressed the new president to reverse course. He wisely chose withdrawal. Then and only then did the generals begin their preparations in earnest. But it was too late to do it well.”
The above excerpt can’t be emphasized enough. Think what they would have done to Trump, if he had proceeded. I know most of you believe he would have dodged this bullet, but I am skeptical. In addition to being disdained by the Deep State Intelligence Services, the DOS was hostile and the Joint Chiefs antagonistic. We know they deceived him and obstructed his efforts. In a way, it is a good thing he is not presiding over this debacle. If even 10% of Biden’s catastrophe had occurred under Trump, the media would be calling it the End of Days.
Just as an aside from me: I cannot fathom the bizarre obsession with Trump.
“I cannot fathom the bizarre obsession with Trump.”
The one thing a snivelling sychophant hates most of all is being shown up by a competent constructive person.
TDS is a real disease,of the Liberal Mind.
Progressive like Rust.
The boasting by current military leaders as to how they lied to and ignored the orders of President 45,sure makes one sure they will perform so well for 46.
That they were not court martailed for those admissions says all a constitutionalist needs to know.
Treason most foul,particularly against the enlisted men.
Apparently the definition of expert in Libtard World,is one willing to say whatever the mob wishes to hear.
“Our Expert Says” is from the same narrative as “The Science”.
Each is anything except the identifier used.
Like Open and Honest when used by Canadian Liberals.
Whats bizarre about “obsessing” about Trump? The Demon- crats are shit- scared of him and the rest of us want him back as President – because – he is NOT a politician! He spent his life in reality! Worked hard – dealt with scum and came out winning.
I love the guy! Dont know how he keeps going with all the knives out for him – but God Bless the man!
Great article. Thanks Kate.
You know, as Nigel Farage has just reminded everyone, Afghanistan is sitting on a trillion dollars worth of Lithium, as in the Green New Deal lithium. If only our experts were as smart and shrewd as the Russian and Chinese experts
Thanks Kate. I read this earlier today. It is truly amazing how delusional these people are. Everything they do turns to sh…#! but they will never admit it. If they did, it would be an indictment on them all. And none of them can resist the opportunity to enrich themselves courtesy of the taxpayers. Trudolt is a great example. He truly believes that because he has the “right” name, the “right” education, the “right” connections and is of a particular economic class that he and his cohorts are more intelligent than the rest of the population. Never mind that he has never produced anything of value and has no discernible skills other than to put a bomb under the economy and to divide citizens. His ridiculous verbal diarrhea (i.e. she-cession, etc.) is absolutely embarrassing to normal, common sense individuals. I could go on indefintely, pointing out his narcissim and his puerile, juvenile attempts to be accepted as part of the “cool kids” group. Unfortunately, these types are so entrenched within our system that I don’t see them going anywhere unless there is a massive revolt by the electorate. Not going to happen anytime soon.
Former Spook Warns One Of the Most Dangerous Times In History.
Our ELITE Are Trash. Inbred Trash.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-spook-warns-one-most-dangerous-unpredictable-times-history
Thanks for posting this Kate
It puts into words something that has been a train of thought and obvious for sometime, whether its Covid, AGW, Carbon, CO2, Fait money, budgets, Gender, Law and order, electrical supply or building regulations our so called governing classes/ bureaucrats/ “intelligentsia” are wrong, hopelessly corruptly and criminally wrong, in almost every aspect. Institutional bankruptcy is coming hard.
I am sure Its to do with power, which is why no government, no institution should be allowed to grow, in most cases they just shouldn’t exist. We as people should not and do not need a government/ bureaucratic class in our lives and as this collapse of institutions starts to accelerate more people will realise the charade that has been foisted upon “We the people”.
I watched a Viva Frei Sidebar with Duran this afternoon. Youtube’s Viva Frei channel presents David Freiheit (Canadian Atty, and political candidate) and Robert Barnes (American Civil Rights Atty).
It reminded me of this quote by Robert Conquest as an apt description of the Biden administration:
“The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.” or it’s a clown car.
Brought to mind Robert E. Lee’s withdrawl/retreat after his defeat at Gettysburg. Sixty miles in enemy territory and knowing he was in trouble…Lee evacuated 55,000 troops out of harms way and if that wasn’t bad enough had to cross the Potomac river where he knew he’d be the most vulnerable.
Keep in mind there were mule trains 20 miles long of ambulances full of dead and critically wounded, chuck wagons, blacksmiths, carpenters and any trade you can think of along with acres of cows used to feed soldiers that had to be pushed South, all the while being chased by Gen. Meade.
An absolute master class of logistics and coordination. The war could’ve been won had they captured Lee but he outsmarted them all.
Lee would have hung Gen.Milley.
The wagons that Jeb Stuart found came in handy during the retreat.
There’s a story there I’m sure. Do tell.