Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

When A Society Has Reached Its Limits, Reforms No Longer Fix What’s Broken

The most difficult part of my framework to grasp is the keystone: our system has reached its limits. The difficulty is that this is impossible to understand if one is embedded in the system’s beliefs of how the world works and wedded to the system’s sclerosis via self-interest.

Once self-interest dominates, it locks the system into its current configuration because attempting to change anything rouses resistance from whatever interests depend on that part of the status quo for their piece of the pie.

The sustainability of the entire system is of no concern because the only thing that matters is keeping our piece of the pie intact as-is. Nothing can change because that threatens somebody’s share of the pie, i.e. how the system distributes income, gains, power and risk.

Everyone from the super-wealthy to low-income households fears any change that might reduce their security. Beneath our everyday awareness, a balance has been struck: if we just keep this exact arrangement as-is, everyone accepts the status quo.

This rigidity leads to sclerosis: the system has lost the flexibility and nimbleness needed to adapt. Any proposal that actually changes the socio-economic system is immediately struck off by those whose interests are threatened.

This leads to the substitution of artifice for authenticity – the other core concept that is impossible to understand if one is wedded to the status quo by self-interest and the fear of losing what we have.

Once a system has reached the point where authentic change becomes impossible because it disrupts the delicate balance of self-interest, it has reached its limits, and is set on run to failure, for a system that has lost its adaptive flexibility is doomed once conditions change.

Rather than face this disruptive reality, everyone wedded to the existing balance becomes dependent on expediencies that keep the system glued together, but at the cost of system stability. As self-interest and sclerosis dominate, the focus narrows to doing whatever it takes to maintain the increasingly unsustainable balance of interests.

This is how we’ve reached the point where the federal government borrows $2 trillion a year – 27% of its entire outlays – to maintain the precarious balance of every interest group. That this is unsustainable is obvious, but since real change is impossible because of the system’s limits, everyone approves of expediencies that only add to the destabilizing momentum of run to failure.

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Detroit Voters Elect a Disgraced Judge Barred from Serving Due to Misconduct

Detroit voters elected a defrocked judge to serve another term despite her being unable to be seated on the bench for another three years following a six-year suspension for misconduct.

Judge Kahlilia Davis, 50, won her election to Detroit’s 36th District Court on November 3, but will not be able to put on her robe until her suspension is over in 2029.

First elected in 2016, Davis’s tenure was “marked by scandal as she faced a number of allegations of abuse and misconduct, including wrongfully jailing defendants and throwing out legitimate cases,” the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Davis was also accused of intentionally ignoring instructions from the district’s chief judge, tampering with and disabling courtroom recording equipment, displaying an unauthorized disabled parking placard, and using Bible verses to threaten colleagues, the Mail and Click On Detroit reported.

According to the Mail:

She was initially suspended in 2020 and left the judgeship in 2022, and in 2023 the Michigan Supreme Court suspended Davis from serving on the bench for six years due to the allegations. In 2024, the Michigan secretary of state’s office was ordered by a judge to keep Davis off a future ballot, but Davis successfully sued to reverse that ruling earlier this year.

Davis received almost 84,000 votes in the election.

Due to the low-profile nature of judges, voters told news outlets that they were not aware of Davis’s alleged antics on the bench or her suspension by the state’s high court.

“They didn’t advertise that,” Detroit voter Jeffrey Williams told Click on Detroit.

He continued, “They should have let us know that she was suspended and wouldn’t be able to serve as a judge — and then we could have made a decision whether we wanted to vote for somebody else.”

Davis is not the only jurist in a major U.S. city that was elected to office despite a questionable record on the bench.

As Breitbart News reported last week, Chicago voters re-elected a Cook County judge who gave a pretrial release to a career criminal with more than 70 arrests — overriding prosecutors — only for him to allegedly set an innocent young woman on fire as she rode on a commuter train.

University of Chicago political science professor John Mark Hansen explained how the judiciary is not often held accountable for bad behavior or decisions.

“Judicial elections are what’s known in the political science business as ‘low information elections,’” he told CBS News, adding that most voters have little time or motivation to learn about their records.

When Davis was suspended, the state’s Supreme Court found she “engaged in a series of misconduct incidents that ‘besmirched the judiciary’s reputation and prejudiced the administration of justice,’” the Mail reported.

Davis’s inability to don a robe raises questions of how the court will operate without one of its judges being able to sit on the bench for another three years and whether Davis will receive pay during her suspension.

District Court Chief Judge William McConico told news outlets in a statement that the court’s status would be determined by the State Court Administrator’s Office but offered no immediate solution.

“The Court respects the decision of the people of Detroit to elect Judge Davis, just as we respect and recognize the authority and decision of the Michigan Supreme Court to suspend her,” she said in the statement.

She continued, “Both decisions must be acknowledged, and our responsibility is to ensure that the Court continues to fulfill its obligations to the public in the interim.”

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Joe Biden Claims His Disastrous 2024 Debate Against Trump Was “Not Very Consequential”

Joe Biden claimed that his his disastrous 2024 debate against Trump was “not very consequential” during an interview with People.

Joe Biden absolutely bombed during the 2024 presidential debate against Trump nearly two years ago.

Biden crashed and burned during the highly-anticipated presidential debate against Trump after he spent several days holed up at Camp David preparing for the event.

The whole world saw Biden’s cognitive decline in real-time. The Democrat-media complex has gone to great lengths to hide Biden’s feeble state.

That all came to an end as a doped up Joe Biden was unable to make a cogent point and needed Nurse Jill to guide him off stage.

Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race a month later and Kamala Harris stole all of Biden’s delegates.

Jill Biden earlier this year said she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during the debate.

Hunter Biden said his dad was impaired and dosed up on Ambien during the debate.

Biden reflected on the disastrous 2024 debate and told People that it was not consequential.

“Look, I don’t know anybody who hasn’t made a mistake in a debate. To me, it was not very consequential,” Joe Biden said.

“First of all, I thought there’d be another debate, which there wasn’t,” Biden said.

“But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn’t another debate, it didn’t disturb me because it wasn’t consequential,” Biden added.

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Who checks the police when police collect the banned guns?

Regina Police Chief Lorilee Davies says her force is not “sweeping anything under the rug” after charging one of its own officers over a banned rifle.

Const. Sheldon Kowalchuk, a seven-year member of the Regina Police Service, is charged with breach of trust and unauthorized possession of a firearm. He allegedly kept a Bushmaster XM15-E2S, an AR-15-style rifle, that a member of the public surrendered during a 2022 provincial amnesty.

None of it has been proven in court. He is suspended with pay and due in Regina Provincial Court on December 15.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government made that rifle prohibited in May 2020. Owners have since been told to dispose of or deactivate guns like it, and the amnesty deadline for them was extended to 90 days after the Supreme Court rules on the ban.

During the 2022 amnesty, officers collected surrendered guns from homes. Police no longer do that job. Davies says that amnesty might have been one of the last.

She has declined to say how the rifle ended up with him.

Davies says the Saskatchewan Firearms Office, the province’s own body, brought the rifle to police attention in the spring of 2026. How the office learned of it has not been reported.

Regina police say the charges followed an investigation by their Professional Standards Unit and consultation with Crown prosecutors.

The surrender was in 2022 and the flag came in 2026, four years on.

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House Democrat Leaders Threaten Companies That Did Business with Trump Administration

House Democrat leadership on Tuesday came out swinging, threatening companies and government officials.

House Democrat Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar threatened to go after companies that did business with the Trump Administration.

“Americans sent Democrats to Washington at historic levels so we would help make their lives more affordable,” House Democrat Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said.

“We are not shy to use accountability,” Aguilar said.

“We’re going to hold the companies, government officials, and Trump admin accountable for making life harder. Our committee chairs will have the tools to investigate corruption,” he said.

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Ottawa asked Parliament for another $24.4 billion the day after the budget

One day after Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget projected a $62.3 billion deficit, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals asked Parliament for another $24.4 billion in spending authority for the current year, through Supplementary Estimates (B), its second request this year for money beyond the main spending plan.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali tabled the estimates on November 6. They seek $22.1 billion in voted spending, the part MPs must approve, for 71 organizations, plus $2.3 billion in statutory spending, which existing laws already authorize.

The voted request alone is 9.2 per cent more than Parliament approved in the Main Estimates and the spring supplementary round combined. With this round, planned federal spending for the year reaches $538.3 billion: $263.7 billion voted and $274.6 billion statutory.

The Hill Times reported the $22 billion request the day it was tabled and highlighted the defence items.

The largest single line is $2.4 billion for Employment and Social Development Canada, described in the estimates as funding “to address short term funding gaps” in the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system. The document does not say what the gaps are or why the $10-a-day program needs the extra money.

National Defence follows with $1.9 billion for the Program Icebreaker Project and $1.6 billion for the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project, Polar. Crown-Indigenous Relations seeks $1.2 billion for “the Federal Indian Boarding Homes (Percival) litigation” and $760.3 million for the Specific Claims Settlement Fund.

Seven regional development agencies share $841.2 million for the Regional Tariff Response Initiative. Health wants $821.6 million more for the Canadian Dental Care Plan, whose benefits the Auditor General found $1.1 billion over budget in its first two years, in a report tabled October 29. VIA Rail gets $615 million for operating and capital needs, and Canadian Heritage and Telefilm Canada get $600 million for “Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors.”

Ukraine draws $403.4 million for Operation UNIFIER across National Defence, Global Affairs and CSIS, plus $300 million in “military aid to Ukraine” at National Defence.

Canadian Heritage asks for $4.4 million “to establish the Digital Safety Commission of Canada,” the regulator that Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, would create. Parliament has not passed that bill. It cleared second reading in the House of Commons on October 29 and is now before the Commons Canadian Heritage committee.

The Interim Federal Health Program, which pays for health care for refugees and asylum claimants, would get $349.8 million more. That single item raises Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s operating budget from $2.05 billion to $2.40 billion, a 17 per cent jump. The department is also moving $2.5 million to the Courts Administration Service “in recognition of immigration litigation pressures.” Separately, Employment and Social Development Canada asks for $69.9 million for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The Vaccine Impact Assistance Program would get $15.7 million in new funding, plus another $5.5 million moved over from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s grants budget. The agency took over the program, formerly the Vaccine Injury Support Program, on April 1.

Public Safety Canada asks for $75.8 million more for the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program, the gun buyback, and the RCMP asks for $39.3 million for the Canadian Firearms Program, paid as contributions to provinces, territories and communities.

Canadian Heritage’s grants and contributions budget rises 41 per cent, from $1.75 billion to $2.47 billion. The Treasury Board’s transfer payment listing shows $441 million going to the Canada Media Fund, $67 million to the Canada Music Fund and $51 million to the Indigenous Screen Office. Heritage also asks for $30.1 million for Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy. Crown-Indigenous Relations asks for $1 million in “Funding to address Indian Residential Schools denialism.”

Veterans Affairs gets $34 million “to stabilize and modernize service delivery for Veterans and Royal Canadian Mounted Police current and former members.” Its $6.36 billion grants budget, which pays veterans’ benefits, is unchanged. Natural Resources Canada asks for $75 million for the Woodfibre LNG Limited Partnership contribution agreement, and Transport Canada for $91.9 million for the Electric Vehicle Affordability Program.

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Rachel Maddow of MSNOW Suggests Trump Will Start Putting Americans in Concentration Camps

During a recent appearance on the Daily Show, Rachel Maddow of MSNOW suggested that Trump is going to start putting American citizens into secret prisons with no access to lawyers or due process. In other words, concentration camps.

Even lefty Jon Stewart seemed a little put off by this suggestion, mumbling something like: You don’t trust the administration.

The left has spent years calling Alex Jones a dangerous conspiracy theorist. What is the difference between Alex Jones and Rachel Maddow? Other than the fact that the media takes Maddow seriously and that she makes a gazillion dollars a year for doing next to nothing, what is the difference between them?

FOX News has details:

Stewart argued that those detained for immigration violations were being held “for things that are generally considered in our society, civil issues. These are not the worst of the worst.

“These are people who overstayed a student visa or are here on a green card but got a parking ticket, like ticky-tack s— that normally would be treated civilly,” he said.

Maddow acknowledged that other scenarios were possible but suggested that concerns about Trump’s new detention centers should extend beyond immigrant advocates.

“No, I’m sorry, with a president like this, if you give him seven to ten prisons around the country that hold 10,000 people each, where he can hold people without trial, without access to lawyers, indefinitely, you think he’s only going to leave immigrants in there?” she asked.

“I just don’t,” Maddow concluded. “I think that what they first do to immigrants, they want to do to the rest of us.”

White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital, “Jon Stewart is a talentless hack who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain and ruined his life to the point he has to compensate for his embarrassing inadequacies.”

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Trump Concedes Deportation Policy Was ‘Too Tough’ in First Post-Midterms Interview

President Donald Trump said his administration’s immigration policies “both helped and hurt” Republicans, following a monumental loss for his party in November’s midterm elections.

In a post-election interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes with Ross Douthat, Trump described his immigration strategy as “too tough.”

“I think it both helped and hurt,” Trump told Douthat on Sunday. “I think I got an A+ for closing up the border, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation . . . there is a large part of the country that thinks they should be put out, and there’s a large part of the country that thinks that they should be allowed to stay.”

The president also said, going forward, one issue he is willing to work with Democrats on is immigration, following Democrats’ gaining control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterms.

In discussing the possibility of an immigration deal with Democrats, Trump acknowledged the removal of illegal immigrants who had been in the country for years and held jobs. He floated the idea that those who have established themselves in the U.S. could be allowed to stay under some new form of legal status, calling a compromise of this type “doable” with Democrats.

Trump said people in the Democratic Party have already “called [him]” to say they would be interested in working with the administration to make a deal like this possible for these types of illegal immigrants.

“In some cases [these illegal immigrants are] paying taxes,” the president said. “There’s a large group of people that think they should be allowed to stay. . . . When you go into a hotel and you have a woman who has worked there as a maid, a cleaner, a waitress, a lot of good jobs. And all of a sudden they are being taken out of the country, it’s tough.”

The president conceded that many people on the “pretty far right” still support deporting every illegal immigrant in the U.S.

The Trump administration has long touted its aggressive deportation strategy, particularly through a pointed media campaign and hype videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers deporting illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Since the president took office, more than 605,000 people have been deported, with another almost 2 million more self-deporting, according to the administration’s numbers. For the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. is experiencing a net loss in migration.

Upon initiating widespread deportations across the U.S., thousands of Americans began protesting ICE, especially following ICE’s deployment to sanctuary cities. These protests, and the related violence, increased the controversy of the entire operation.

During the 2024 presidential race, 41 percent of Americans said immigration was an “extremely important” issue, while today the number is 31 percent, according to Gallup.

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Attempted Forced Abortion in Washington Leads to Three Arrests

Three people in Bellingham, Washington, have been arrested in connection to the alleged secret drugging of a pregnant woman in an attempt to kill her baby in an abortion.

The Bellingham Police Department opened an investigation on October 20 after a woman reported that her former fiancé, 32-year-old Jean Brando Zintz, drugged her with abortion pills while she was sleeping to try to end her pregnancy, the Bellingham Herald reported.

Zintz was upset when he found out in March that the woman was pregnant, the report states, citing court records. His mother offered her $10,000 to have her baby aborted, and Zintz encouraged the woman to accept the offer, but she declined, per the report.

The woman began experiencing major medical complications early in the pregnancy, including prolonged bleeding and dangerously low blood pressure, court records show.

The woman told police she was so “out of it” at some points that she was unable to walk. She also told police she woke up several times with a white, chalky substance in her mouth.

In early October, Zintz’s brother, 30-year-old Michael Moises Montano, contacted the pregnant woman over Facebook Messenger and told her that Zintz “poisoned [her] baby” and drugged her by replacing her prenatal vitamins with abortion pills, court records allege. Montano alleged that Zintz would give her benzodiazepine, which can have a sedative effect, and then put the abortion pill under her tongue.

Montano told the woman his brother ultimately failed at causing an abortion because he only gave her the first of two pills needed to cause a medication abortion, according to the report.

In a medication abortion, mifepristone blocks the action of progesterone, which the mother’s body produces to nourish the pregnancy. When progesterone is blocked, the lining of the mother’s uterus deteriorates, and blood and nourishment are cut off to the developing baby, who then dies inside the mother’s womb. The drug misoprostol (also called Cytotec) then causes contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from the mother’s uterus.

Montano alleged that his girlfriend, 30-year-old Ciara Miller, obtained the abortion pills and was paid by Zintz.

“Just know the truth,” Montano wrote, according to court records. “He tried killing your baby, and in the end your (sic) lucky because he failed and was planning something else entirely once and for all to get rid of you ‘the problem’ before it was to (sic) late and destroyed his life for good.”

Police arrested Montano on Friday. He is facing charges for complicity to attempted first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault.

Police arrested Miller on Sunday afternoon, and she is facing charges for two counts of second-degree assault.

Police searched Zintz’s apartment on October 29, where they found drug-cutting agents, labeled containers for choline supplements with multiple pills, packaged and labeled misoprostol tablets, sleep aids, and drug paraphernalia, according to the report. They also found lab equipment, including a magnetic mixer and laboratory glassware.

Law enforcement, including the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Zintz in Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday. He is awaiting extradition to Whatcom County, according to the report.

He is facing charges for first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault. He is also facing charges for a protection order violation assault because there are two active domestic violence no-contact orders between him and the pregnant woman.

“The pregnant woman stopped communicating with Zintz in July, and her health has since improved,” according to the report.

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SOUR GRAPES: Florida Loser Angie Nixon Blames Her Loss on Lack of Funding From Democrat Leadership and Racism

Angie Nixon of Florida was not part of the blue wave election last week and she is clearly not happy about it.

She ran to the Don Lemon podcast to complain about the lack of funding support she received from Democrat leadership. She also blamed racism, because of course she did.

It can’t possibly be that people disagree with her ideas, or don’t believe she has the right skills for the job.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

ANGIE NIXON (D-FL), FORMER SENATE CANDIDATE: It is so wrong and disrespectful for people to not invest in black leadership. Like we, there were no, you know, I’m just going to say there were no black flip seats on the Senate side, like none. If [Mississippi Senator-elect] Scott Colom could have gotten a million more dollars early on, we would not be waiting right now for him to quote unquote win. We know he’s going to win.

If [Louisiana Senate candidate] Jamie Davis would have gotten 50, 500,000 to a million dollars, like in September, he would have won outright.

And so again, I don’t think, I think people want our labor. I think people want our labor. They don’t want our leadership. And we need to have a real long, hard conversation about how we show up, how we continue to time after time at the time show up for the party. And they don’t like in leadership, they don’t show up for our leadership.

I even, I even think about like, people are saying that I like statewide, I came in last as far as statewide, but that is because, you know, there’s racism within the Republican Party and there’s racism within the Democratic Party.

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