All Hallows Eve, that annual cosplay parade, is nearly upon us. Long a boon to the confectionary industrial complex, this year's receipts may not be so promising. While this may not rise to the level of a calamity, it will be as any other loss examined through the lens of "why did it happen and who is to blame". In the case of some 40 million, give or take, this blame will be saddled upon HHS Secretary RFK Jr. By removing the eligibility of candies and junk food for SNAP purchases, the Halloween candy budget for holders of EBT cards has been greatly curtailed. Factor in lingering inflation and the prospect of these benefits being suspended in November, there may be at least a 15% decline in year over year sales. Perhaps more.
I'm fairly certain that most of our audience is already familiar with the history and evolution of Halloween, so we'll not spend any time on that. Instead, we'll focus on that tradition of trick or treat, a more recent addition to the day's observation. The trick or treat tradition, in the American experience, can trace it's origins to the 1920s. The early iterations of this would appear to be a culmination of several old world traditions brought from Scottish and Irish immigrants. These were the practice of souling and guising, the latter of which is the root of our modern Halloween costuming. The trick part of the equation, pranking, would seem to trace it's lineage from the medieval custom of mumming.
This first generation of the American interpretation was not a nationwide phenomenon as it is today. As the American tradition evolved, it seemed to borrow more from mumming, at one time marking the day more for it's mischief and vandalism than candies and costumes. During the Great Depression years of the 1930s these pranksters grew more widespread and malicious in their expression. There are some who posit the idea that the organization of community "beggar's nights" was a response to this trend, with a view toward curbing these more violent forms of pranking. It was just as this began to develop that the second World War intervened, placing the brakes on the path to becoming the custom we know today.
It was only in the post-war prosperity, and the nascent baby boom generation, that the modern American version of trick or treat took root. In the seventy or so years since this has become a stable fixture in American culture. There isn't a generation alive today that is not familiar with the annual ritual of beggar's night, with it's parade of costumes and bags of candy. It was sixty years ago now that the modern trick or treat experience became enshrined as an icon, with the animated feature It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. While Halloween celebrations have become an increasingly adult affair, trick or treat has remained a kid's game. That is, until now.
The trick or treat tradition has, for the most part, become about the treats. In many communities the beggar's night, in the interest of safety, has been relegated to trunk or treat events held in church or civic center parking lots. The mostly benign pranks of egging houses, soaping windows or TPing lawns are taken away with these more controlled settings. In the past these pranks were most often triggered when a household failed to deliver the goods when little goblins came calling. Now there are some adults who apparently mean to horn in on the child's game, albeit with a new angle.
Linguistically this is a fairly simple "either/or" proposition. "Would you like a trick, or are you going to give me a treat?" When one considers this proposition, it would seem a bit awkwardly stated. The choice that is presented at the doorstep is generally understood as this: "You either give me a treat, or I'm going to play a trick on you." Stated in this manner, it carries a bit of a thuggish tone. Perhaps the greeting was revised to sound more polite, more along the lines of the facetiously implied threat: "Sure is a nice place ya got here. Would be a shame if somethin' was to happen to it." One should think that this may actually be modeled after the Huns: "Bring us your tribute, or we will lay waste to your village!" I may be overthinking this. This inversion of the word order may be the result of nothing more than enabling the famous rhyme "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat."
Chuck Schumer has been playing at trick or treat for a month now. His mantra seems to be: "Gimme a trillion dollars, or I'm gonna shut this whole bitch down!" Not getting what he asked for, he has carried out the threat, but he won't leave the doorstep. If cast in the mode of the Great Pumpkin tale, Schumer would be Charlie Brown, the inept putz who can't even cut two eye holes in a sheet without fucking it up. This would, of course, cast the President as the Great Pumpkin. And why not? Because orange man baaaad. If this thing isn't resolved by Halloween, ironically, the vote would then roll over into November. Maybe the democrats will all show up next Wednesday, all donning their Guy Fawkes masks and lighting a sacrificial bonfire under the capitol rotunda.
OR.....maybe, Chuck Schumer isn't inept at all. Maybe it's all an act to cover the REAL plan...
Seven years ago, in another forum, we exposed the truth of the Mueller investigation in a feature titled Beware when Axolotls frolic. It was there that we reported the truth about former FBI Director James Comey, or as we like to refer to him, St. James the Pious. In October 2019, again in another forum, we provided our concluding word on the Mueller report and the man himself in the feature Agent Mueller's last ride. An excerpt of the latter feature follows below:
In Beware when Axolotls frolic, I reported the abrupt and bloody end of St. James, and it was indeed true. I have long known that the James Comey seen on book tours and on film, twitter or any other medium, is in fact a hulking Golem with James Comey skin stretched across it's mocking imitation of life. Whatever Mueller's personal disappointment in his once star pupil, it was predetermined that Comey should be destined for Sainthood. Anything less would reflect ill upon that most sacred of institutions, the Bureau, and by extension all of it's servants past, present and future. In some lab, buried deep within the rock of West Virginia, the U.S. government has gone all Frank Herbert with the remnants of the original. Like the legendary soldier, Duncan Idaho in faithful service of House Atreides, St. James the Pious has been genetically replicated in ghola form that he may too continue in faithful service of the house of Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. Don't be surprised if one of these abominations does not appear on CNN or MSNBC.
Every lie, every leak, every unscrupulous act is no accident and all with malice aforethought. Saint James learned everything he knew at the knee of Agent Mueller. He carried on in his footsteps capably until he made one fatal error. Jimmy let it become all about him. He forgot the cardinal rule: if you want the Bureau to look out for you, you have to look out for the Bureau. Mueller was right to shoot him in the head. Had I been in his shoes I'd have done the same. Agent Mueller needed to tie up loose ends. He needed Comey's silence, but could not afford for him to disappear entirely. Fronting the report that bears his name was just a further gathering of loose ends. Andy and his crew did the best they could with what they had to work with and Mueller presided over it all as a desperate rearguard action for his beloved Bureau. He bought them time, but was it enough?
In the unlikely event that any indictments are handed down the ghola Comey will be paraded before the cameras and sacrificed on that great altar of convenience. And none will be the wiser. The Deep State is real, my friends. It's not a swamp, rather it is a barren heath, overgrown with weeds. Like one giant thistle, many agencies comprise it's parts, but the FBI is the taproot of it all. Even if none of these bad actors see a day in prison, the American people deserve to be told the truth. Prison is too good for these people. That would be the result of the legal process, which as we all know has fuck all to do with justice. Justice would entail these people meeting an end like Mussolini.
It would appear that we have arrived at that unlikely event. St. James was indicted in Federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, but instead of a warrant only a summons to appear was issued. The eagerly anticipated perp walk was not to be. Answering this summons on 8 October, Comey is reported to have entered his plea of not guilty to the court in Alexandria, VA. The ghola Comey was stealthily admitted and released through a back door, out of view of prying eyes, lights and television cameras. It is being reported that this was done out of "security concerns". That's the official story.
The fact that this is but a mere facsimile of the original is known to only a precious few in Washington. Those precious few desire that this should remain a secret. They have enough troubles on their hands at the moment. It wouldn't do to add yet another line of questioning. There is next to nothing known about this mysterious cloning program, and even less of how the finished products are managed. There are some things I do know about the program, things which I am confident are the real reason for the secrecy.
To begin, I can say that I have knowledge of at least three Comeys having been produced from this lab. There may be more, but I can attest to only three. There is first the Filipino version, a necessary cover of the original bailout plan before, in exasperation and cocaine fueled mania, Agent Mueller snuffed out the life of the original. We'll call this one Comey 2.0.
Comey 2.0 is in Mindanao, in the Philippines, where he performs as a rap artist under the banner of Stretch MC and the Altar Boys. In one of his last lucid acts, Agent Mueller had been sure to retrieve the Cardinal's robes Comey had donned for their long weekend in the desert. Stretch MC wears these as part of the act, rapping the gospel of salvation through sodomy. The Philippine authorities frown on this, of course, but the act enjoys the full support of the local Diocese.
Comey 3.0 lives in a small village on the Baltic coast of Estonia, where he is employed as a quality control inspector for a boat varnish manufacturer. Aside from his freakish height and chronic halitosis, there is little about this Comey that has attracted any attention at all. It is unclear to what purpose a Comey has been placed here, except perhaps to serve as a saboteur. This was likely at the behest of a well-connected Lithuanian rival in the volatile Baltic boat varnish industry. That is admittedly only conjecture. We have not been able to confirm this.
Then finally, we come to Comey 4.0, the domestic edition. This Comey is the direct substitute to the original St. James the Pious. Each and every ghola is imbued with those traits inherent from the source material. After a ghola is "released", their conditioning and the environment where they are placed determine the degree to which those traits are developed. There are several distinct behavioral characteristics of the original St. James that have become the dominant traits of edition 4.0.
1) Narcissism
2) Roman Catholic fetishism
3) Repressed latent homosexuality
When placed into the circus of the Washington media orbit, it is a perfect storm that brings out the worst in the attention whores of the world. It gives them power and that endorphin rush they so desperately seek. The boys in the lab did not foresee that their creation would grow to be social media savvy. In this new media landscape, the X or TikTok account are a breeding ground for drama queens. The moment that 4.0 posted, waxing eloquent over the Tau of Tay-Tay, the handlers knew they had a problem. Of course there were other signs. Collecting seashells on the beach. Seriously?
Perhaps the original St. James fell prey to some parochial pederast. Indeed, I contend that this is rather likely. The tall, geeky kid with the mulish face, practically screaming out "pick me! pick me!". This spawned a life of clergy cosplay and denial, at once self-aggrandizing and self-loathing.
Comey 4.0 is adhering to this legacy, a product of his conditioning. In the hyper-woke environment emerging since the demise of the original, these qualities have become supercharged. The clergy fetishism has easily morphed into transvestitism. And it has even gone beyond this. You see Comey 4.0 has gone over the top to full trans. The boys in the lab blame the Swifties. I say they should have known.
In any case, the decision was taken somewhere that it simply would not do for the new Comey to appear before the cameras in Alexandria. Even after four years of depravity from the biden residency, it was considered that America was not ready to see a nearly seven-foot-tall drag queen, in a sleeveless gown with hairy beeftits flopping around. If this thing ever does actually come to trial, they will have to remove 4.0 and insert another. My money is on the Estonian.
On November 8, 2024 Midnight and other beasts published our post-election analysis, titled End of the Mutant Republic. In the nearly a year since, I find no cause to revise any of the conclusions therein. Any are welcome to review this feature, just look here:
The events of the past month require that we revisit this post. Not the conclusions, rather a specific point cited in the feature. Here is an excerpt from End of the Mutant Republic that will be our focal point today:
After the Nazi surrender in 1945 the Allied Commander, Dwight Eisenhower, was appointed as the Governor General of the western zone of occupied Germany. He was given the daunting task of simultaneously working to restore a functioning society while also expunging the Nazi influence from same. Even before President Truman issued a very detailed program for the administration in October 1945, Eisenhower had already made it a policy to confront the German people with the enormity of the Nazi regime's crimes. It was not too long into this process of de-nazification that a sobering discovery was made. The tentacles of this totalitarian regime were so far reaching into German society that the complete removal of each and every Nazi would result in the nation simply left huddling in the rubble.
The American administration in post-war Germany was not spotless in it's execution, but Eisenhower was a man eminently suited to the task. He had a firm grasp of the broader vision of the policy while deftly navigating the tactical challenges on the ground. He fully understood that they were dealing with a people who had known only a dysfunctional, ersatz republic, followed by twelve years of totalitarian, one party rule and total warfare. This great intellectual race had spawned genius in countless disciplines of both art and science, yet in only a generation had been so awash in state propaganda as to have lost their ability to think critically for themselves. Eisenhower was convinced that it would take a full generation for this to be corrected.
I am going to share with you a couple of lines excerpted from Eisenhower's correspondence with a Master Sergeant Meccner, stationed at Wright Field, 9 March 1946:
fr. paragraph 2 - "In general our policy on German re-education is founded on the concept that re-education must ultimately come from Germans themselves..."....we can not forcibly re-indoctrinate the Germans if we are to obtain the desired results."
fr. paragraph 4 - "This program does not simply concern itself with German educational institutions in the narrower sense, but is to a large degree concerned with the media of public information in Germany such as the press, radio, film industry, and similar means of contacting large groups."
I believe that these lines best encapsulate Eisenhower's thorough understanding of the nature of the problem and how to best address it. The Nuremberg Trials were the reckoning. Eisenhower's longer term administration (and that of his successors) were the reconciliation.
All that madness from only twelve years of state indoctrination. Still, amidst the enormity of tragedy, it must not be lost that this did not occur to a society of stupid people. Even in the post war misery of the shaky Weimar Republic, the Germans were a well educated and highly advanced society. Just imagine the monstrosity they would have created if they'd had fifty years to implement their program.
Of note in Eisenhower's quote above, there is in paragraph 4 reference to Germany's educational institutions. Ike had already designated this as a first order of priority. It is in this response to Staff Sgt. Meccner that he expands upon the breadth of institutions infected, and thus needing purging of their Nazi influence. We will, by varying degree, address those other institutions, but for the moment let's remain with the field of education. Not German education, but our own, which has for the last fifty years been infected with sick ideas. Just like the Nazis had sick ideas.
The American university has become a pesthole of sick ideas. I don't mean sick in any moral sense. Others often make their arguments on this basis, and I'll leave them to it. I don't have to resort to that in order to make my point. When I say an idea is sick, I mean it in the sense that the idea is unhealthy. Try to think of an idea as an organism. For an organism to survive it must remain healthy. So too with ideas. Sick ideas are unhealthy ideas that will not survive prolonged exposure to reality. These ideas may only survive and propagate in an insulated environment, one which does not face the rigorous daily challenges of reality. As an alternative, one might obtain similar results in a society where the state holds complete authority over every single aspect of daily life. I mean, I suppose that would work? For a while. Maybe.
These unhealthy ideas have escaped their university incubator, going viral and taking the public at large as their host. Like any smart virus, they behave accordingly, keeping their host in a perpetually weakened state, whereby the virus continues to enjoy the hospitality. The virus has been able to mutate, adapt to different settings. It has found a means of infiltrating disciplines which are typically considered immune from the infection of such unhealthy ideas. Fields like science, security and defense, but more than anywhere in education. All levels of education, both public and private. Smart viruses love to attack the young, as their immunities are not yet fully developed.
The Nazis recognized this. The formation of the Hitler Youth predated their ascent to power. By 1939, on the eve of the war, Hitler Youth membership was compulsory for all youth of Aryan parents, ages ten to nineteen. This was in addition to the party redirecting all school curricula with their assumption of power in 1933. From the elementary through secondary education, and of course the universities. It was easy in the case of universities, simply by barring admission to non-party members. In some quarters this technique would be referred to as "seeding the mine".
The Nazis enjoyed a set of circumstances which allowed them to fully implement this program. Not by stealth, but out in the light of day for all to see. There were doubtless many who simply accepted this out of a fear of what should happen to them if they were to raise the objection. There were also considerable numbers of Germans who wholly embraced these things and lent their support to it. The regime was not concerned with popular support; thus, it was in this Garden of Evil that sick ideas took root and thrived. While the program launched upon our education system may be less overt in it's sinister character, it is indeed an insidious poison, tailored for the long game. It is in part by design, and perhaps nearly as much by accident. Irrespective of motive or intent, the results are the same and they are undeniable.
University campuses enjoy a certain degree of autonomy in how they conduct their affairs. Included in academia'sself-governance is a preference for the peculiar phenomenon we know as tenure. Now, while I can think of some other institutions that have a de facto tenured regime, in no other is this codified as in academia. It's like a monarchy, only without the hereditary element. Each department becomes it's own little politburo, bearing the imprimatur of their tenured gatekeepers. Over time, the gatekeepers ascend the ranks within the universities' administration, then what had been limited to a malignancy within the social sciences, ends up becoming the dictated orthodoxy for the entire institution. It is thereby that the fruit of these institutions has grown irreparably tainted.
This taint has infected public and private sector alike. In the private sector this has been accomplished by legions of HR personnel, a field which has metastasized from it's infancy a little over fifty years ago. These modern day kommissars are the woke tip of the spear in the workplace. They have served as the vehicle for the insertion of critical race theory and DEI into corporate HR policy. It is one thing to indoctrinate college students, but what of all the great unwashed out in the workplace who have not got the memo? If they had the backing of a complete authoritarian regime, they could just establish re-education camps. Don't think for a minute they wouldn't like to. In the absence of this, the HR regime will work. It has been working, to a large degree. It just takes longer because of the push back, but no worries. They have a solution for this too. Just call anyone who opposes these sick ideas a nazi. Echoed thousands fold there will be enough who will believe it or, at the least, be cowed into raising no objection.
That echo chamber takes form in those other institutions that Eisenhower identified in his 1946 correspondence: "... the media of public information... such as the press, radio, film industry, and similar means of contacting large groups." The media of public information is quite changed from 1946, except that it is just as easily infected and is hundreds of times more potent in it's power and reach. It is somewhat ironic that radio has largely become the domain of the right. I believe that the main reason for this is because radio is a medium that requires a certain level of engagement. One has to actually listen. Television is a passive medium by comparison, filled with mindless and banal content. One need only stare at the screen and drool. The film industry? Disney? Netflix? Are they purveyors of sick ideas? Go ahead. Try and defend them.
What of the "similar means of contacting large groups"? That rather sounds like social media, doesn't it? That one is the real game changer. Place a communications device and a platform upon which to opine into the hands of indoctrinated herds, then one has a force multiplier of some millions to amplify and reinforce the orthodoxy. It's like something from a propaganda minister's wet dream. Even before the revelations of the "twitter files" it was obvious to most that the social media companies were acting as agents to perform a function of censorship that was not permitted to government. Do not be swayed by their protestations of innocence now that the winds have shifted. Their claims that they were somehow strongarmed into their policies are tantamount to those police officers who served under Bull Connor saying that they didn't want to turn the dogs and fire hoses on those negroes. They were just following the lawful orders of duly elected officials.
Faced with the de-nazification dilemma, it was necessary to prioritize the application of the policy. Eisenhower rightly identified those institutions which required a strict application of the policy. He also rightly identified that it was a generational task, and one that "ultimately must come from the Germans themselves.... if we are to obtain the desired results." While it may be simple to identify the parallels in the problems posed by these two points in history, we are then left to find a like parallel in the solution.
In 1945, having won the war in Europe, our task then was to win the peace. It was determined that ridding German society of the scourge of nazism was to be a large part of defining that win. Today in 2025, having won the election, this administration needs to clearly define winning the peace and begin that program. The left does not want peace. They have made that abundantly clear. They've shown us who they are, and we must act accordingly. Call them the left or call it wokeism... call them whatever you like. It does not matter. Sick ideas are sick ideas, regardless the name or banner they march under. We might do well to just call them nazis. Why else would they call us nazis, unless they themselves are the nazis?
We know what the problem is. We know where it lives. We can treat it like a never-ending whack-a-mole, or we can treat it like any other pestilence. If one wishes a pestilence to end, one must find it's source and squash it. Mark E. Smith once posed the question in song: Who makes the nazis? Who indeed, Mark. Who indeed.
