On today’s episode of The Overton Window we discuss Biden’s embarrassing bout of dementia during last week’s Presidential debate and whether this election truly has the apocalyptic stakes that Aleksandr Dugin claims.
I’m deeply researching into Project 2025 for an upcoming article, and I’ll give my initial thoughts. Each of you is essentially right, from what I can tell. Project 2025 is ambitious, but the only way it does what is advertised, replacing a significant amount of the Deep State, is with Congressional legislation. I’m blackpilled on Comprehensive Civil Service Reform via Congress in the next 4 years. Compromise is impossible in this environment, the Republicans aren’t going to blow up the filibuster since it is an inherently conservative institution, and the Republicans are not getting 60 senators.
They do have more modest goals they are likely to achieve, namely instituting new rules and regulations and replacing key political appointees with effective bureaucrats. I think there is a lot one of these bureaucrats could accomplish. The best people for these jobs are recent graduates and early career folk that have no obligations and are willing to take a major risk, and late career folk that want to capstone their career with a massive accomplishment.
Early career folk will likely be eligible for policy drafting positions that don’t pay well, but are extremely impactful, either in the White House or in the central offices of various departments. This could lead to promising positions in think tanks or the RNC, or you could get blacklisted if you piss off the wrong people. Late career folk can get high paying jobs managing huge departments and effecting massive change. These jobs are also almost all in DC, which is easier to live in when you are young or wealthy.
Mid career folk like me are in an awkward place where we would have to take a high risk position with little potential upside. They could get middle manager positions managing the policy people I mentioned, but it will be for the same pay, and after you’re done, you can’t work for the government for 5 years. Hopefully you will land in a Think Tank or RNC position, but those orgs are top and bottom heavy, without a huge need for middle managers. I’m probably too risk adverse and selfish to throw my hat into Project 2025, and will wait until I’m late career to try and be a political, hopefully with a more stable President.
Well, I mean, sure, but being poor and constantly being fed 'meaning' and 'inspiration' instead of promotions by your employer while they continue to overwork you is a worse hell. Or else, being paid $200K a year, but living in place where rent is $2500 per month and homeless tents are all around you.
If you're an actually competent / intelligent young man, and you have some experience under your belt, why wouldn't you take the opportunity (at least for a while) to do three different remote jobs that each only require 3 hours per week of genuine effort, and collect a $90K+ salary from each of them? It is preferable to work only one in-person job in a city that only pays you $50K and holds you under threat of permanent cancellation for saying, "I think white people are okay,"?
This is not meant to be a terminal lifestyle; it's meant to siphon funds away from the corporate mega-beasts who are anyway siphoning funds from the average American through taxes and DEI bureaucracy. And use that income to build personal patronage networks (or buy a house, or start a family, or gentrify a neighborhood, or start a think tank, or right-wing art school, or other important things).
I'm talking mostly about using income and wealth from job-stacking (which can translate to real material power) to gentrify cities and make them habitable again. People who want to live in peace and comfort can stay in the rural areas. Those who actually want to do interesting things in life have to do so in cities, which means confronting the decay head-on, not 'running away'.
"Those who actually want to do interesting things in life have to do so in cities..."
The 1950s called they want their urban dependence back.
Hint I make paper cuts with lasers based on AI art, and it would actually be harder to do this very cutting edge thing in a city do to environmental regulations. Out here in the country there are basically no zoning regulations, and no one gives a crap if there is a little smoke coming out your window when everyone has bonfires at night. In a city some Karen would complain about the smoke, and snitch, I am sure I would have to pay an onerous fine that would make my art business impossible.
You do know what "gentrification" actually means don't you? It means pricing the traditional working class Catholic families out of an urban neighborhood, and replacing them with loft work spaces, 750K "co-op" apartments and "cool" breweries, cafes, and art galleries. And no, it's no better if the pretentious cafe has drawings of Evola and Junger on the wall, and "fash" poetry readings, it would still be post modern ways of life displacing actual traditional ways of life.
If this isn't what you mean by gentrification, then you need a new word, and a better explanation of your stance, because that's what that word actually means.
Are you going to just replace pretentious woke cafes with overpriced hot drinks, with "fash" cafes? If so you are utterly underestimating the degree of social rot we are dealing with, and the magnitude of real change required.
Right wing gentrification within the current social milieu isn't going to cut it. I address this here:
Have you ever actually been to Detroit? I have lived on the outskirts of Detroit and currently am in northern Michigan. Saying you are going to take back Detroit, is like saying you were going to take back Rome after it was sacked by the barbarians. Shitlib cities are over, they are too massive, and there is too little to work with there to revive them.
There is more than one way to escape this. I live in a rural area and bought a house and land outright 5 years ago for 29K, I now work less than 10 hours a week remotely, you jel?
The goal can't just be 'to escape'. Escape should only ever be a temporary measure to collect one's composure, allies, and resources. At some point, one must use these things to go back and do battle against the Hyper-egalitarian Ideology turning everything into ash.
Taking a Benedict Option to move out of cultural centers and cede all power to others is not automatically the morally better option. Sure, it personally gives you and your family comfort, but does very little to confront the actual problems in mainstream society.
I also live in a rural area right now, specifically because of the low cost of living, after a number of years in the corporate world building skills. I intend to use this time to generate multiple incomes streams, get my personal business off the ground, and then start making moves to reward friends and punish enemies.
What does owning a single property in the middle of nowhere actually award you in terms of concrete power and voice?
What exactly is even left of "civilization" that is worth saving, being overworked so you can barely afford a shitty apartment and strip mall Thai food? Your upper middle class boomer con managerial class hatred of beautiful rural wilderness areas bores me, tell me something new?
Get your business off the ground now, don't wait for old fashioned crap like a business plan and startup capital. I started an art business with a 200 dollar laser cutter, and you can too.
LOL, at "concrete power and voice," like these are worthy goals for a spiritually evolved person. You need to read more Thoreau, and less whatever self help crap you are reading that is undergirding your banal worldview.
Yes I disagree with it. If the media and the elites are not following the 'woke reversal' plan I described, but instead have a different plan of replacing biden and still supporting a democrat (Newsom), then many things dont make sense.
1. Its a desperate, risky plan
2. All the anti-China, anti-Russia buildup would be pointless, because Newsom cant motivate people to fight (remember there are huge shortages and a lack of will to fight)
3. They wouldn't need to praise Trump (calling him disciplined) or embarrass Biden so badly. They could just quietly have him step down.
4. I dont think Biden has to forfeit, and I dont think he will. He's too greedy and arrogant and he has worked his whole life for this.
We know they hate China and Russia and we know they are worried. We also know they are aware of military shortages. We also knowYes I disagree with it. If the media and the elites are not following the 'woke reversal' plan I described, but instead have a different plan of replacing biden and still supporting a democrat (Newsom), then many things dont make sense.
1. Its a desperate, risky plan
2. All the anti-China, anti-Russia buildup would be pointless, because Newsom cant motivate people to fight (remember there are huge shortages and a lack of will to fight)
3. They wouldn't need to praise Trump (calling him disciplined) or embarrass Biden so badly. They could just quietly have him step down.
4. I dont think Biden has to forfeit, and I dont think he will. He's too greedy and arrogant and he has worked his whole life for this.
We know they hate China and Russia and we know they are worried. Unz says Covid was a botched biowarfare attack on China and I agree. We also know they are aware of military shortages. They have even discussed how a draft would go in America in the
Military Times. We also
know there have been a bunch of victories on the right, seemingly out of nowhere. Assange goes free. Macron calls a super
early election just so he can
get crushed..? White men
start appearing in ads
suddenly. Twitter becomes conservative. CNN is suddenly fair. Its not genuine. Maybe some but not all. In England they want Sunak replaced by Starmer, but are worried about Farage taking advantage of the opening.
I’m deeply researching into Project 2025 for an upcoming article, and I’ll give my initial thoughts. Each of you is essentially right, from what I can tell. Project 2025 is ambitious, but the only way it does what is advertised, replacing a significant amount of the Deep State, is with Congressional legislation. I’m blackpilled on Comprehensive Civil Service Reform via Congress in the next 4 years. Compromise is impossible in this environment, the Republicans aren’t going to blow up the filibuster since it is an inherently conservative institution, and the Republicans are not getting 60 senators.
They do have more modest goals they are likely to achieve, namely instituting new rules and regulations and replacing key political appointees with effective bureaucrats. I think there is a lot one of these bureaucrats could accomplish. The best people for these jobs are recent graduates and early career folk that have no obligations and are willing to take a major risk, and late career folk that want to capstone their career with a massive accomplishment.
Early career folk will likely be eligible for policy drafting positions that don’t pay well, but are extremely impactful, either in the White House or in the central offices of various departments. This could lead to promising positions in think tanks or the RNC, or you could get blacklisted if you piss off the wrong people. Late career folk can get high paying jobs managing huge departments and effecting massive change. These jobs are also almost all in DC, which is easier to live in when you are young or wealthy.
Mid career folk like me are in an awkward place where we would have to take a high risk position with little potential upside. They could get middle manager positions managing the policy people I mentioned, but it will be for the same pay, and after you’re done, you can’t work for the government for 5 years. Hopefully you will land in a Think Tank or RNC position, but those orgs are top and bottom heavy, without a huge need for middle managers. I’m probably too risk adverse and selfish to throw my hat into Project 2025, and will wait until I’m late career to try and be a political, hopefully with a more stable President.
Thank you for responding to my question on what to do while in university.
Gen X "slacker," here, job stacking sounds like hell, the last thing I want is more stress and more serving the technocracy.
BTW thanks for not pay walling the comments, or content.
We love our Gen X listeners! Thank you for listening and engaging. Also your art is really cool, Mr. Raven.
That's the spirit, lol!
Well, I mean, sure, but being poor and constantly being fed 'meaning' and 'inspiration' instead of promotions by your employer while they continue to overwork you is a worse hell. Or else, being paid $200K a year, but living in place where rent is $2500 per month and homeless tents are all around you.
If you're an actually competent / intelligent young man, and you have some experience under your belt, why wouldn't you take the opportunity (at least for a while) to do three different remote jobs that each only require 3 hours per week of genuine effort, and collect a $90K+ salary from each of them? It is preferable to work only one in-person job in a city that only pays you $50K and holds you under threat of permanent cancellation for saying, "I think white people are okay,"?
This is not meant to be a terminal lifestyle; it's meant to siphon funds away from the corporate mega-beasts who are anyway siphoning funds from the average American through taxes and DEI bureaucracy. And use that income to build personal patronage networks (or buy a house, or start a family, or gentrify a neighborhood, or start a think tank, or right-wing art school, or other important things).
LOL die in a tire fire if you are neighborhood gentrifier, you people are moving into my nice out of the way rural area, and fuck you for it!
I'm talking mostly about using income and wealth from job-stacking (which can translate to real material power) to gentrify cities and make them habitable again. People who want to live in peace and comfort can stay in the rural areas. Those who actually want to do interesting things in life have to do so in cities, which means confronting the decay head-on, not 'running away'.
"Those who actually want to do interesting things in life have to do so in cities..."
The 1950s called they want their urban dependence back.
Hint I make paper cuts with lasers based on AI art, and it would actually be harder to do this very cutting edge thing in a city do to environmental regulations. Out here in the country there are basically no zoning regulations, and no one gives a crap if there is a little smoke coming out your window when everyone has bonfires at night. In a city some Karen would complain about the smoke, and snitch, I am sure I would have to pay an onerous fine that would make my art business impossible.
You do know what "gentrification" actually means don't you? It means pricing the traditional working class Catholic families out of an urban neighborhood, and replacing them with loft work spaces, 750K "co-op" apartments and "cool" breweries, cafes, and art galleries. And no, it's no better if the pretentious cafe has drawings of Evola and Junger on the wall, and "fash" poetry readings, it would still be post modern ways of life displacing actual traditional ways of life.
If this isn't what you mean by gentrification, then you need a new word, and a better explanation of your stance, because that's what that word actually means.
Are you even a native English speaker "Rajeev?"
we're not going after polack neighborhoods or some shit, we're taking back Detroit
Are you going to just replace pretentious woke cafes with overpriced hot drinks, with "fash" cafes? If so you are utterly underestimating the degree of social rot we are dealing with, and the magnitude of real change required.
Right wing gentrification within the current social milieu isn't going to cut it. I address this here:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-144571152
Have you ever actually been to Detroit? I have lived on the outskirts of Detroit and currently am in northern Michigan. Saying you are going to take back Detroit, is like saying you were going to take back Rome after it was sacked by the barbarians. Shitlib cities are over, they are too massive, and there is too little to work with there to revive them.
There is more than one way to escape this. I live in a rural area and bought a house and land outright 5 years ago for 29K, I now work less than 10 hours a week remotely, you jel?
The goal can't just be 'to escape'. Escape should only ever be a temporary measure to collect one's composure, allies, and resources. At some point, one must use these things to go back and do battle against the Hyper-egalitarian Ideology turning everything into ash.
Taking a Benedict Option to move out of cultural centers and cede all power to others is not automatically the morally better option. Sure, it personally gives you and your family comfort, but does very little to confront the actual problems in mainstream society.
I also live in a rural area right now, specifically because of the low cost of living, after a number of years in the corporate world building skills. I intend to use this time to generate multiple incomes streams, get my personal business off the ground, and then start making moves to reward friends and punish enemies.
What does owning a single property in the middle of nowhere actually award you in terms of concrete power and voice?
Says you.
What exactly is even left of "civilization" that is worth saving, being overworked so you can barely afford a shitty apartment and strip mall Thai food? Your upper middle class boomer con managerial class hatred of beautiful rural wilderness areas bores me, tell me something new?
Get your business off the ground now, don't wait for old fashioned crap like a business plan and startup capital. I started an art business with a 200 dollar laser cutter, and you can too.
LOL, at "concrete power and voice," like these are worthy goals for a spiritually evolved person. You need to read more Thoreau, and less whatever self help crap you are reading that is undergirding your banal worldview.
Can you guys post a link to the Napoleon Dynamite voice filter that Sunshine uses in the show notes?
*Criticism*
https://breakingnewground111.substack.com/p/the-gears-of-war-are-turning/comment/60486875?r=1bt0wh&utm_medium=ios
Yes I disagree with it. If the media and the elites are not following the 'woke reversal' plan I described, but instead have a different plan of replacing biden and still supporting a democrat (Newsom), then many things dont make sense.
1. Its a desperate, risky plan
2. All the anti-China, anti-Russia buildup would be pointless, because Newsom cant motivate people to fight (remember there are huge shortages and a lack of will to fight)
3. They wouldn't need to praise Trump (calling him disciplined) or embarrass Biden so badly. They could just quietly have him step down.
4. I dont think Biden has to forfeit, and I dont think he will. He's too greedy and arrogant and he has worked his whole life for this.
We know they hate China and Russia and we know they are worried. We also know they are aware of military shortages. We also knowYes I disagree with it. If the media and the elites are not following the 'woke reversal' plan I described, but instead have a different plan of replacing biden and still supporting a democrat (Newsom), then many things dont make sense.
1. Its a desperate, risky plan
2. All the anti-China, anti-Russia buildup would be pointless, because Newsom cant motivate people to fight (remember there are huge shortages and a lack of will to fight)
3. They wouldn't need to praise Trump (calling him disciplined) or embarrass Biden so badly. They could just quietly have him step down.
4. I dont think Biden has to forfeit, and I dont think he will. He's too greedy and arrogant and he has worked his whole life for this.
We know they hate China and Russia and we know they are worried. Unz says Covid was a botched biowarfare attack on China and I agree. We also know they are aware of military shortages. They have even discussed how a draft would go in America in the
Military Times. We also
know there have been a bunch of victories on the right, seemingly out of nowhere. Assange goes free. Macron calls a super
early election just so he can
get crushed..? White men
start appearing in ads
suddenly. Twitter becomes conservative. CNN is suddenly fair. Its not genuine. Maybe some but not all. In England they want Sunak replaced by Starmer, but are worried about Farage taking advantage of the opening.
https://youtu.be/kWP4toURaDE?si=UJIX3wnKbowvEBpI