Based Safety vs. Cringe Propaganda #31

This week in based and cringe...

BASED SAFETY

What could be more based than an innocent young man NOT being sent to prison for 30 to life over trumped up charges brought to a politicized sham trial that had absolutely no constitutional basis? Rittenhouse is acquitted on ALL CHARGES! In an earlier period of liberalism, the Rittenhouse case would have been an open and shut trial. The video of the Rittenhouse incident in Kenosha during the racial grievance psyop riots of 2021 clearly depicts a situation in which Rittenhouse defended himself against the attacks of three men, all of whom proved to be violent felons (most notably Joseph Rosenbaum, a child rapist, you really can’t make this shit up). Nevertheless, under immense pressure from politicians and media, the jury took three days to reach its correct decision. The left, of course, is smoking obscene amounts of copium in the wake of Kyle’s acquittal. They’re saying that the deceased pedophile died because he was “defending black lives.” They’re saying the judge was paid off or in the bag for the defense. They’re posing hypotheticals in which Kyle was black. I’ll tell you what would have happened if Kyle was black: he’d still be labeled a white nationalist, and the media and liberal order would attach a bunch of offensive “self-hate” rhetoric and Uncle Tom allusions. Because at the end of the day, when these people say “blackness” they aren’t referring to ethnicity, they are referring to what 1619 Project’s lead history distorter Nikole Hannah-Jones calls “political blackness.” They’re enforcing a top-down progressive ideology. Kyle was really on trial for not being a liberal. For, possibly, his youthful idealism against a culture devoid of morals and values. The Rittenhouse trial was the attempt to equate the rejection of liberalism with murderous intent. All of us who are committed to actual liberal values — due process, freedom of expression, the right to defend oneself — should find reprieve in the acquittal. Glenn Greenwald here offers some of the more sober-minded and difficult to disagree with analysis of the trial.

Conor Friedersdorf critiques the hybridization of leftist rhetoric with medical policy, finding that the former has diminished the objective rigor of the later. Well, yeah, no fucking shit! Nevertheless, it’s interesting that The Atlantic is starting to address the elephant in the room. As poetically as ever, Daniel Miller deconstructs the nature of the psyop and the psyopped, respectively. Anti-NYT crusader Ashley Rindsberg answers the question: “Why does the paper of record rewrite history?” Contextualizing the paper’s record against the ascent of its aforementioned celebrity dullard journalist Hannah-Jones, Rindsberg writes: “Just over two years since 1619 was launched, all that threatens to come tumbling down: the Project has become tainted by a series of errors and inaccuracies — some of which seem to have been committed willfully.” Most of us know that Hannah-Jones is a liar, but it seems likely she’ll continue to succeed so long as her lies are beneficial to the chaos of our contemporary politics. Fuck it.

Friend of SP Jack the Perfume Nationalist gets interviewed by Sean Kilpatrick and tells the story of how he came to understand and despise the left’s war on beauty and decency. The dirtbag left gets due evisceration for its simultaneous correct assessment of the decay of liberalism and cowardice and capitulation to half-measures. “Bernie Sanders acted as this mask where people who were smart enough to recognize that something was deeply wrong with the Democrat Party in the 2010s, by claiming to be Bernie Sanders supporting socialists they could critique liberalism, and make fun of Hillary Clinton while still differentiating themselves from the bad guys.” Nothing is worse than dirtbag leftism folks. NOTHING! Moving on, Aimee Terese appears on I’m So Popular and shouts out the astute political comprehension of art critics, namely me, Adam Lehrer. Thanks Aimee! On the occasion of his first solo show in the US at the Swiss Institute, the great contemporary artist Tobias Spichtig talks to Spike Magazine about his evolution from flight attendant to artist of intrigue and mystery. More over in contemporary art, Kaleidoscope interviews Paul McCarthy, who I wrote about here, about his recent film work. Brian Evenson, the obscenely well-read novelist and short story writer who produces some of the most terrifyingly delirious entries in the horror fiction genre these days, is interviewed by another great writer of horror inflected genre fiction David Peak in the otherwise unreadable Bookforum. Discussing his much anticipated new short story collection The Glassy, Evenson shuns political discourse to focus on the aesthetics of apocalypse: “Since the mood of my work is closest to horror, I think often that speculation ends up moving toward worst-case scenarios and what might possibly go wrong.”

Though I rarely listen to Mike Connelly and Greh Holger’s noise podcast Noisextra — I just have little to no tolerance for music nerding it bores me to tears (no offense fellas) — I enjoy this interview with John Wiese, because John Wiese is one of the most enduringly intriguing artists in American noise. On his excellent hip-hop and booze-themed radio show Drink Champs, N.O.R.E., formerly of Capone-n-Noreaga, interviews the greatest rap duo in the history of the art form, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, who discuss the legacy of the Wu, rivalries they’d like to explore, and the memory of Ol’ Dirty Bastard. On SP’s audio misinformation arm System of Systems, I interview philosopher Nina Power and Morbid Books editor Lev Parker about both of their respective new books.

RIP to Sylvère Lotringer, founder of Semiotexte, who left behind a complicated but mostly positive intellectual legacy. The publisher is largely credited with introducing French postmodern theory to the American market, for better or worse, all while launching the careers of some very interesting American writers, from Kathy Acker to his ex-wife Chris Kraus (I’ll take second wave feminists over today’s third/fourth wave nut bags, any day).

CRINGE PROPAGANDA

Freddie DeBoer, one of the final bosses in American leftism with his ability to both critique the excesses of the left while reifying its underlining false premises and lies, asks DSA to look hard in the mirror and ask itself if its policy proposals are as popular as they think are. While the point he’s making is obvious — these guys consistently lose, and when they win they almost unanimously do so in well-educated, high income urban areas (bourgeois socialism is alive and well) — he still seems to regard DSA as an ally that just needs a little help. Fuck that. DSA is the enemy of decency, of ordinary working people, of the world. It must be rejected.

Artist Kandis Williams, who currently has a solo show at David Zwirner’s new and clunkily and unsettlingly branded “all black” art gallery, talks to Mousse about her collage and video work. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the artist is all-to-keen to pin her work on the BLM movement and ideology. “When I heard the three words ‘Black Lives Matter’ together for the first time, it was probably right around that moment in winter 2015, and it just exploded so many concepts that I had previously felt reined in by physically,” says the artist. Now, perhaps Kandis sees BLM as a continuation of the Black Panthers, and understands her work to be in commune with it in the way that, say, Romare Bearden’s was with the Panthers. But all the Panthers who meant what they said were either killed (Fred Hampton) or driven insane by the feds (Huey P. Newton) while its race reductionist liberal faction (Kwame Touré) got rich and were embedded within the establishment. BLM, which has accomplished nothing besides pervasive racial paranoia and the occasional election of Democrats, is the penultimate example of these degenerative trends. Quite simply, I don’t get why people would want to shackle their work to a movement that has been incorporated and endorsed by the world’s most reprehensible rulers. This interview feels like it’s from five years ago, so far behind the actual political moment we’re in.

Somehow the people that told us they want to abolish the police last year are cheering on the harsh punishments for the wild and crazy boys who “stormed” — that is, walked around after being let in by members of federal law enforcement working undercover — the Capitol in January. One of the day’s best memes, the QAnon Shaman aka Jacob Chansley, has been sentenced to a harsh 40 months. Abolish prisons for violent inmates but keep prisons for neuro-divergent right wingers who dare to walk on public property. Yeah that makes fucking sense! Idiots. Oh wait, we’re not done with harsh prison measures yet. I nearly forgot. Here’s this liberal psychopath advocating for the imprisonment of people who refuse the Covid-19 vaccine that, for the vast majority of people, they don’t need at all. Stranger than fiction, all around!

One of the absolute worst libtards in mainstream media, Charles Blow[s], calls Rittenhouse a, “white vigilante hero,” which is slanderous and possibly open to libel suits. Vigilante is defined as “a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.” Thus, for Kyle to be one, he’d have had to of purposefully gone to the Keonosha riots looking to kill people or otherwise take it upon himself to enforce the law. He was there putting out fires and giving first aid. There’s video evidence of this. These media people are dangerously unhinged, and their total lack of ethics never ceases to surprise me, even though it shouldn’t. Insane level of hypocrisy from Zach Beauchamp who argues that the right wing is dedicating itself to the dismantling of American institutions, which is hard to take seriously given that the left has owned nearly all our institutions for a couple years now and has spent every moment of that time dismantling or eroding faith in those very systems. Insane!

Bill Gates spends $120 million on positive media coverage, wonder if this has anything to do with his trying to socially engineer the entire world? Alexandra Weiss, apparently running out of random things to attach asinine feminist analysis too, wonders if “sex tech” is the next “feminist frontier”. Yeah, that’s what people need: more alienation, more solitude, more technology, more time disconnected from fellow humans and reality. Sounds great. In this last piece of cringe, I don’t even want to add any pithy remarks. Natasha Lennard isn’t a good person. She’s a fear mongering propagandist financed by Pierre Omidiyar. That’s it, really.

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. collage by Adam Lehrer
2. Ghostface on Drink Champs