You shouldn't be able to pull off an IPO and a pogrom in the same week
White solidarity as social blight — clips, thoughts, and actions for Episode 75 of Next Comes What
A generation ago, the country was caught in a fever that’s apparently always with us to some degree. For no particular reason other than he got fooled into it, a fortunate son president, who tends to lose the popular vote, is flailing through a war of aggression in the Middle East. The right, with no good arguments in their own defense, looks for some way to feel their hollowed power.
On a stage in London, The Chicks said they were ashamed George W. Bush was from Texas. Republicans, who never miss a chance to be offended while carrying out the most offensive acts they are capable of, respond by inventing Cancel Culture. They blacklist The Chicks from country radio — a ban that, in practice, never really lifted.
Now, since Cancel Culture cannot exist in a world where artists have direct access to their fans, the Chicks prevailed anyway with a Grammy-dominating hit. They performed “Not Ready to Make Nice,” that song they wrote after being “canceled,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, on the 20th anniversary of the release of the album that featured the track. It was still, unfortunately, an act of bravery — by the Chicks, by Kimmel, by ABC, all of whom our current regime would gladly cancel for real if it could.
Meanwhile, at almost the same moment, Elon Musk was busy, or not busy at all. Since he didn’t need to do any extra fraud for the SpaceX IPO, since the scheme was already plenty ponzi-ed, he focused on his greatest passion in life, making Earth hell for non-white people. As Wall Street’s largest financial institutions prepared to shovel unconscionable wealth to him, he was inciting a pogrom in Belfast. Families fled burning homes after Musk amplified calls for anti-immigrant violence to 240 million followers. Masked mobs set neighborhoods on fire, and researchers counted more than 3,900 calls for lynchings in the replies.
The Chicks were too right about the war and paid for it for two decades. Musk condemned millions of the poorest people on earth to death and got a trillion dollars.
So let’s just articulate it: the low-grade agony becomes impossible to ignore when Donald Trump is president: There is no built-in justice in this life. Karma is a con, at least on this spiritual plane.
Musk didn’t just get more zeroes than any other human has ever had lined up behind his name: he got fantasies that would have made the Nazis cream with jealousy.
Take the $100 million taxpayer-funded Klan wet dream that Andrea Pitzer uses as the spine for this episode of Next Comes What. Every single “refugee” admitted to the United States in May 2026 was white and South African. The regime rejected vetted asylum seekers from everywhere else — people who had waited years for this — and left them to die. A study co-authored by UCLA researchers and published in The Lancet projects USAID cuts could cause more than 14 million deaths worldwide by 2030, including 4.5 million children — overwhelmingly in the Black and Brown countries that have relied most on that aid.
The man who threw those people into a wood chipper just became a trillionaire off an IPO that is likely the greatest fraud in human history.
Andrea Pitzer — coming through a decade in the archives of concentration camp history — arrives at something remarkably close to what George Lakoff mapped from cognitive linguistics and brain science, work that changed my brain and sharpened, I hope, my understanding of politics. Lakoff’s conservative moral hierarchy runs God above Man, Man above Nature, the Rich above the Poor, and — not as a footnote, but as a core pillar — Whites above Nonwhites. It’s what unites supporters of the flat tax and firing squads. It is one worldview, and exclusion is the foundation. Andrea finds the same architecture in who gets expelled from society and who gets to stay. The Democratic candidates offering toughness on immigration and alpha energy aren’t pushing back against that hierarchy. They’re strengthening it; they’re acting as the lowest rung for the angry-daddy-minded to step on.
White solidarity as a primary political principle is having one of the best weeks in the history of a country built on it — maybe its best week of the 21st century as a whole, a week whose total potential body count and ungodly spoils are beyond human conception. If you spent a hundred dollars every second, it would take you 317 years to spend a trillion dollars, somehow avoiding interest and capital gains.
That might even make Hitler blush.
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THE CLIPS
Most of the clips used in this episode, in order of appearance.
Trump administration eyes changes to longstanding asylum policy.
CBS News gets the scoop that the regime wants to essentially exclude certain people from seeking asylum without asking them a single question. You can guess based on which criteria.
Trump Resettles White South Africans at “Record Pace” While Blocking Refugees from Everywhere Else
Democracy Now! with context for how and why we’re in the business of importing eugenicists. Dr. Lebohang Liepollo Pheko of the Trade Collective connects Musk, Thiel, and David Sacks to a strain of white nationalism dressed up as libertarianism and surveillance capital, which is the most expensive costume in American politics right now.
The Truth About South Africa’s Refugees — Afrikaner Farmers Crisis —How the right was spinning this when it was just a few dozen farmers with Lara Logan still being too wacky for even Fox News.
BONUS: Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for “Remigration Summit”
The word “remigration” is doing a lot of lifting for people who’d rather not say what they mean. Here’s Charles R. Davis, whom I recently interviewed, talking to Democracy Now! about how the neo-Nazis have stopped hiding.
Jeff Merkley Puts The Shame On Marco Rubio Over USAID Shutdown Causing Estimated 500K Child Deaths
Just lying to justify the deaths of millions. “I was just following orders” becomes “Don’t believe your lying eyes.”
Released tape features Ronald Reagan using racist slur
Reagan calling African leaders “monkeys” on a call with Nixon in 1971, then Nixon getting in his own dig — the original strict father party line, on tape, when it had to be done in private.
Trump Attacks Kaitlan Collins Right To Her Face: ‘She’s A Young Beautiful Woman And Never Smiles’
The misogyny that undergirds the whole project, stripped to its briefest and most revealing form: a man who needs women’s unquestioned joy as proof of his power.
Tucker Carlson uses bizarre analogy of Donald Trump a dad of children who need a ‘vigorous spanking’
“Some people need to be loved more than others,” is a killer Pitzer line, and connecting it to Tucker was a pleasure.
In Conversation: George Lakoff | Robert Reich
Lakoff on strict father morality and the hierarchy it produces: God above Man, man above nature, rich above poor, whites above non-whites — every line of Republican legislation since Goldwater, diagrammed by the guy who came up with the whole model.
Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race (Part I)
Ian Haney Lopez on strategic racism as cold, calculating, and considered — racism not as pathology but as a business decision, which has paid off to Musk with a trillion dollars.
A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan
This episode is a delicious Andrew Sullivan diss track, too, and just try to take him seriously after Andrea dismantles his contention that eugenics is conservative, not fascist; you can’t!
Rahm Emanuel on How Dems Lost Their Way and Trump’s Immigration Success
Rahm explaining that if Democrats were smart they’d say they’re “good with you on illegal,” which is a sentence that tells you everything about why TV bookers love him, and Democrats hate him. But not enough. Never enough.
Sen. Slotkin says Democrats need to get ‘Alpha energy’ and fight for middle class. Slotkin thinks she’s making the case for Slotkin, but it’s a recipe for nothing white dudes ruling forever.
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Gutting the Voting Rights Act isn’t just a Black rights issue. Hannah-Jones on how the civil rights movement democratized America for everyone, and what it means that the people dismantling those protections have decided that was a mistake—patriotism without patronizing.
‘Trump has engaged in corruption more than other presidents’ as ‘slush fund’ criticism mounts
German TV gets it straight.
How Do You Do Fellow Kids? | 30 Rock and Am I So Out Of Touch? (The Simpsons) The go-to cultural shorthands for being old and out of touch. Perfect for oldsters like Andrea and me to feel in touch, somehow.
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