Behold

 

Such glory. Too bad HRH doesn't have any heirs.

Defeat and crush the Marxist snake,

LSP

UKRAINE WAR DRUMS

 

Why would the Western Powers, NATO, go to war over a strip of Ukrainian territory, Donbass? How does that, in any way, shape or form threaten our national integrity. It doesn't, obviously, but even the most myopic observers might note that it threatens our ruling elite oligarchs.

How much money has been siphoned off the Ukraine to the Big Guy via his Burisma crack head son? Did Hillary benefit, and how many more. Good questions and we have to ask are they still getting the Ukrainian paycheck or are they scared their perfidy will be found out.

Imagine. Putin launches a "lightning raid" into the territory and seizes Kiev, where he installs a pro-Russian ruler, the kind of guy we got kicked out in our Fascist color revolution. What then? The new premiere exposes our rulers' snouts at the trough corruption. 

Point being, are we beating the war drums, and it is us, the Western powers, the US in particular along with its poodle UK, in a massive attempt to cover up the mafia-like crime of our leaders. Good question.

Perhaps we really think Russia, with a GDP <California is going to start WWIII and we have to protect the "free world," a world in which we're so free you're not allowed to leave your country, buy or sell or work without State permission, what a GloboCorp utopia, is somehow at stake in the Ukraine.

Maybe it is, along with our rulers' malfeasance, skulduggery and corruption.

That's my call and I'm sticking to it.

Your Pal,

LSP

Monkey On The Loose

 

There's a monkey on the loose in Pennsylvania and readers of this influential mind blog are urged to shelter in place or shoot the deranged beast on sight.

The crazed simian, a cynomolgus monkey, escaped from a wreck on Pennsylvania's infamous I 80 in Montour County on Friday, when a truck carrying 100 monkeys crashed into a dump truck. Four monkeys escaped and three were captured after the breakout, leaving one monkey roving loose across the Keystone State.

According to Troopers Andrea Pelachick and Lauren Lesher the monkey should not be confronted:

There is still one monkey unaccounted for, but we are asking that no one attempt to look for or capture the animal. Anyone who sees or locates the monkey is asked not to approach, attempt to catch, or come in contact with the monkey. Please call 911 immediately.

Yes, do not approach, try to catch or contact the monkey. It might very well hurt you. We know this, here at the Compound, and we pray you do too.

Make of this short parable what you will and while we're at it, guinea on the monkey and twice as fast, eh?

Bets on,

LSP

Long Way Up Short Way Down

 

A foreign Captain's been roving around the Specialist's area, provoking a snappy salute and, "Sir, I'm sorry, I thought you were a Three Star!" let the reader understand, whilst beholding the brazen impudence of youth. "Far too young, mate,"  came the commissioned reply. Well said that Captain.

As I pondered this curious tale of military life in the candlelit glow of the DLC Mess and a delicious late night curry, it seemed right to up the ante, "Tell you what, fella, next time you see your new friend offer a different kind of salute. Long way up, short way down, you know the form," which he does, from Canada, "Make the Captain feel at home, what?"

The Specialist seemed impressed by this line of reasoning and fell upon his curry like an ME 262 on a bomber formation. Boom.

In related news, what's with the war drums beating on Ukraine and Russia? Serious question, what's it all about and we know it's been about for quite some time, starting, perhaps, with the risible PR stunt lie that Trump's a Russian spy.

There's just something about Ukraine and Russia which makes our overlords get all warlike. What, we have to ask, are they afraid of and what opportunity do they sense. Or are they simply driven by demonically insane greed and hubris? Like beasts. You'll note a senior German naval officer's resigned over it all.

But as always, you, the reader, be the judge.

Secret Treaties,

LSP

Our Church and Our Elites

 

What's with the Church and our elite rulers? Here's Anthony Esolen at the Catholic Thing, via Dad of Six:

A few years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates, winner of a MacArthur genius award, and a popular writer on race in America, admitted he had never heard of Saint Augustine. Many people rushed to point out the irony, that an African American who makes much of Africa – he has named one of his sons for an African fighter against French colonialism – should be unaware of the greatest writer ever to come from the continent.

But that was not the real trouble, the real cause for disappointment. Coates, I am sure, is but one among the millions of our American elites whose education violates the law of flowing water, and manages to be narrow and shallow at once. He hadn’t heard of Saint Augustine – but who has?

Can we be sure that the professors hanging about in the faculty lounge at State College have heard of him, let alone have read or at least opened the Confessions?

Go to Silicon Valley, and visit a cafeteria at Google. Which is more likely, that the people sitting at a table can have a boisterous conversation about the latest Marvel Comics movie featuring Spider-Man, or that they can even drop one or two sensible comments on Cervantes and the Knight of the Woeful Countenance?

Go to the House of Representatives, and drop the name of Tocqueville. It falls like a pebble into a deep well, with hardly a ripple or a sound.

I don’t think I am exaggerating. We suppose our schools serve at least the rich and powerful, but in crucially important regards it is not so. Their graduates can scramble up a half-literate essay, they can learn science and medicine and mathematics and what passes for law, but they are hardly less ignorant of the great heritage of western arts and letters than are the children of the slums.

And they have this additional disadvantage. They are unlikely to have darkened a church door, so that the spiritual heritage of Christendom is for them at best an uncharted territory, an unknown continent, and at worst, a monster of the post-Christian imagination, a bugbear to frighten secular toddlers.

They need not go to Marvel or MIT for a message from another universe. Opening the Imitation of Christ will do.

Elites tend to be arrogant and to spin roulette with the moral law. But at least the ordinary man might expect from them good manners, polished taste, a certain noble reserve, a willingness to be first to bear the burden of war, and education fit for ladies and gentlemen. Our elites are as arrogant as any French courtier in the last days of Louis XVI, and they lead in spreading diseases of moral corruption; but we get from them nothing compensatory – they are ill-mannered, slovenly, loud, timorous, and ignorant.

Well, what do we do about it? I know what we at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts do about it. We teach students who read and discuss, not just for a section of one special class, Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, Shakespeare and Cervantes, Michelangelo and Rodin. And not because we want to show off, but because we love them, because they have searched for the truth, and they have strained their muscles and nerves to bring beauty into the world.

When the young Augustine was at Carthage studying rhetoric among other young men who strove for power and influence in the world of law, he happened upon a book we have since lost, the Hortensius, by Cicero. That book changed his life, because it kindled in him a hunger for wisdom, what the Greeks called philosophy. I guess that in a bad world, we need a Hortensius now and again.

The good news is that we have them, thousands and thousands, more easily available to the hungering mind than ever been before. Many of these are rightly in the keeping of the Church: Augustine’s Confessions, for one, and Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, two works without which I would not have become a professor of Renaissance literature, and, more dreadful to consider, without which my Catholic faith might not have made it across the secular desert called Princeton, but starved along the way.

Many other works belong, so to speak, to all the world, but the world has cast them aside, or slandered them, or mangled them beyond recognition. The world will have to turn to the Church not only for Christ, then, but for Cicero too, not only for wisdom regarding the things of Heaven, but for human wisdom about human things, not only for Paul, but for Plato. And more.

The elites have been in the vanguard of cultural evisceration, in all kinds of ways. Only the Church can recover the abandoned land, and till it with love. By comparison with what people still within living memory once took for granted, there are now no dances, no socials, no local ball leagues, no community singing, few parades – and those but exercises in garishness and obscenity. And no genuine common life.

The Church can still do for man what man once did for himself. She must do so, too, or we must be condemned to preaching not to bad men but to half-men.

Which brings me back to Mr. Coates. He is a man of great inborn talent. He ought to be evangelized. Before he can be – I am speaking of the general case – the subsoil of humanity must be enriched.

Let those who have heard of Christ only as a curse, and who, not coincidentally, can no longer conceive of the beauty of those human things, glance our way and see merriment, marriage, good manners, lively conversation about great and good artists, composers, and poets, and children everywhere.

Let the elites learn from us, the foolish and the deplorable, and almost the only people left in the world who can tell what it was like to be that lost soul in Carthage, long ago.

I love all of this but you may not. There's no rule. But here's the thing, the Church is led, massively, by a miserable, apostate satrapy of secularist quislings. Fear, pontiffs, the wrath to come. And yes, I'm speaking about you "Welby," if that's your real name, which we doubt.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

Riding A Raid

 

Don't say you weren't warned.

Vindice,

LSP

A Bit of This And a Bit of That

 

Sometimes pictures speak louder than words

And sometimes they go together.

But look at this! Impossible? Hardly, here it is today at a Walmart in Texas.

So daring!

Yes indeed, in the New World Order you will not eat meat because you won't be able to afford it, serfs. You will eat plant based products and, owning nothing, you will be happy. Davos and the WEF demand nothing less, in the name of health, the environment and justice.

You'll note that in this equation all animals are equal but some far more so than others. Don't say private jet and mansion in the Vineyard or Soylent Green. Instead...

Obey Your Rulers, 

LSP

Try Not To Be Sick

 

You know the old saying, "I support the science!" and its answer, "No you don't, you support the Democrat party." Point being, it's remarkable to me that so many cling with such religious fervor to the two party paradigm of yesteryear. And they do, old habits die hard but what's the reality?

Being in power and coining it off the asset-stripping globalization of America. The two party myth is just that, a myth. LL puts it succinctly:

This is no longer about Democrat vs Republican. We’ve been well past that for a long time. When President Trump was elected, it threw a monkey wrench into the systemic globalization of America. That’s why the Republican leadership of the House and Senate (Ryan and Boehner) turned on him and stifled his agenda when Republicans owned majorities in both houses of Congress. The people have turned on Brandon/Ho and the numbers show it – but can they keep the momentum going long enough? It all remains to be seen. Will Nipah be released to disrupt the 2024 elections? Don’t underestimate our masters.

Remember that? Ryan and Boehner doing their damndest to sabotage a President who had the brazen, literal temerity to say he wanted to make working class Americans more prosperous and, while we're at it, throw out the gravy train trough our rulers were/are swilling from.

How dare 45 impact the bottom line. What. A. Nazi. And corporate sponsored rainbows will make everyone richer as migrant labor floods the country. Hands across the aisle, let's keep the serfs down and ourselves high on the hog. Martha's Vineyard mansions all 'round and don't mention central banks, debt at interest and war.

Note US Javelin in Fascist Ukraine

That in mind, one savant in the oil and gas industry put it like this, "The problem with debt is that someone, eventually, wants to get paid back." Or, in the late Thatcher's words, what happens "when you run out of other people's money?"

I suggest, influential international readership, that the people with guns will take over. In the UK that'd be a small but select crew, unless Latvia, Belarus or the Ukraine takes you over, which they might. Big vodka, not a bad result. Here in the US? Things might be more... complicated. OK, I'm apocalyptic, but hey, ESCHATON.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

AAAAND IT'S GONE!

 

And just like that, in a desperate bid to save his cratering career flash of Etonian brilliance, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ended the UK's draconian COVID laws. No more nonsensical masks, no more vax passports, no more jab mandates, unless you're a health worker, and on.

Here's Zero:

Restrictions including COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home requirements will be removed in England, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday. Johnson also suggested that self-isolation rules may also be thrown out at the end of March as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic becomes endemic.

Effective immediately, the UK government is no longer asking people to work from home.  The COVID pass mandate for nightclubs and large events won’t be renewed when it expires on Jan. 26. And from Thursday, indoor mask-wearing will no longer be compulsory anywhere in England.

The requirement for secondary school pupils to wear masks during class and in communal areas will also be removed from the Department for Education’s national guidance.

Roaring cheers from lawmakers could be heard in the House of Commons following Johnson’s announcements on masks.

 

Wow. So all these desperately important, vitally important because without them you'd die restrictions aren't necessary after all. What changed in the course of a week, the virus? Did it somehow become magically less deadly or does political opportunity affect immunity?

BoJo, You Are A Cockwomble

Stay tuned for the US to follow the UK's lead as the deadly killer virus becomes as 99.9% survivable as it always was. Don't say Midterms, scam, corruption, deceit, profiteering and brazen GloboCap iniquity.

Your Buddy,

LSP

And She's Back!

 

It's her turn, again. Democrats are so worried by the massive unpopularity of the Doddering Old Crook and the Whore that they've turned to the BEAST, Hillary.

Maybe she will rescue 2024 because so good looking and not corrupt. Just look at her fine figure! And everyone loves her voice, remember that? So mellifluous.

But maybe she will lose again, to President Trump. Second time unlucky, and get lost onna beach in the Hamptons. Such utter seaside misery!

Or not. Perhaps she'll win and get the total, absolute power she's always craved. At which point we'll have to ask, what is this horror film we're living in? Think, punters, when there's no more room in Hell the damned shall walk the earth.

Out Demons Out,

LSP

Great Art

 

We love great art at the Compound.

Sometimes it comes from the street.

Even the streets of DC.

Comply? But of course, great art has a message.

Sabo's been busy too, on another coast.

Cheers,

LSP

Calm. Down. Or Don't

 

Calm down, everything's normal. All's well. This is totally not the end of Western Civ amd we're not living through a massive GloboCap PSYOP. So don't get overexcited, and above all, fellow serfs, take the vax. Surely you want Pfizer to get richer. 

That in mind, we hope you've all got the vax because that'll save you from the killer virus with a 99.87% recovery rate. And the famous booster, which really saves you from the killer plague.

Dear readers, have we ever lived in a time of such deceit, outright corruption and low skulduggery in high places? I challenge you, yes, challenge you to equal such an era of in your face, brazen malfeasance. Like take stock, Hillary's touted for a '24 run because Doddering Old Crook and Cackling Whore just don't cut it.

Listen up team, Crush the Marxist Snake Underheel.

Your Old Pal,

LSP