https://youtu.be/WFKXJ091Ed4

Chris Stapleton absolutely killed it last night singing the National Anthem at the annual Super Bread & Circus display, there’s really no denying that. Especially if you’re a traditional Country Music respecter. They laid it on extra thick this year with the performative patriotism.

I haven’t checked but I’m sure the standard conservative explanation will go something like “See?!! Get woke go broke! The NFL has finally realized that the BLM stuff doesn’t fly with REAL America! The free market hurr durr duh durr hurr!”

The real explanation should be obvious to anyone who has been even casually paying attention. The regime is wheeling out the big guns of patriotic/Americana aesthetics and motifs to reel back in and mollify the heartlanders.

They’re hoping that by showcasing the troops saluting in their dress blues, the coaches and players brought to tears by Stapleton’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner and the overall “America, Fuck Yeah!” atmosphere, that the right leaning “normies” will find it in their hearts to plug back in to the regularly scheduled programming.

Of course if you’re an American with even a modicum of self respect you will take this as an insulting display of whatever the word is for whenever someone is trying to feed you a line a bullshit, and they know YOU know they’re trying to feed you a line of bullshit, but they keep right on trying to feed you the line of bullshit.

The Stapleton performance was an instant classic imo. There’s no shame in enjoying it, but it’s best to take it for what it’s worth (something we can use to undermine them) than what it actually is (their attempt to undermine us).

Thomas Steuben reviews The American Regime, the new book from Antelope Hill by an anonymous January 6 detainee that offers an overview of the problems facing the Right today. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/the-american-regime/

Here are a few words of Valentine's Day greetings from Counter-Currents, as well as links to some resources pertaining to relationships from our vast archive. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/happy-valentines-day-from-counter-currents/

Émile Durand's "Faustian Civilization and the New Patriarchy" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/faustovska-civilizace-a-novy-patriarchat/

Counter-Currents is pleased to premiere a new video presenting Greg Johnson’s classic essay “American Ethnic Identity,” which argues that the American melting pot has in fact created a unique new white ethnicity rather than a generic, nondescript white man, as some critics assert. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/american-is-an-ethnicity/

Petr Hampl on several current political narratives that make no sense, and the importance of examining one's own reasoning to make sure that it's consistent. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/on-the-importance-of-logical-consistency/

Travis LeBlanc makes a triumphant return to Counter-Currents with an in-depth interview with occasional Holocaust revisionist, Taki's columnist, and all-around maverick David Cole. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/an-interview-with-david-cole-part-1/

Mark Gullick on Henry Mayhew's classic account of life among London's poorest during the nineteenth century, London Labour and London Poor. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/henry-mayhews-london-labour-the-london-poor/

Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s essay “Blaming Your Parents,” about why it’s a bad idea to blame your misfortunes on your upbringing or genetic heritage. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/dont-blame-your-parents/

Jim Goad on the recent murder of a 16-year-old boy, Brett Ghey, in the United Kingdom, but who no media outlets can refer to as Brett because he had decided that he was actually a girl named Brianna. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/a-fake-ghey-murder/

Travis LeBlanc's interview with David Cole continues, discussing the future of Holocaust revisionism but also atheism, the as-yet unnamed prominent people who have praised his work, zombie movies, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/an-interview-with-david-cole-part-2/

Alain de Benoist's discussion of the problem of how to balance identitarian concerns — both among the natives and immigrants — with individual rights in a multi-ethnic society has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-populist-moment-chapter-10-part-2/

Beau Albrecht on some simple and inexpensive preparations anyone can make to ensure one's basic needs are covered in a supply-chain emergency. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/how-to-prepare-for-an-emergency/

The broadcast of The Writers' Bloc with Leonardio Heredia explaining the racial and demographic situation in Argentina and offering his speculations on the Scythian origins of white people, a link between Basques and Armenians, and the presence of Norsemen in pre-Colombian Argentina has been paroled from the paywall. Also, V calls in from Brazil and gives a report on the Brazilian presidential election fraud and the response from Bolsonaro’s supporters, specifically the occupation of government buildings in Brasília on January 8. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-519-an-update-on-south-america-on-the-writers-bloc/

Stephen Paul Foster on Big Pharma's complicity in the Great Replacement. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/big-pharma-the-great-replacement-the-jews/

The audio and transcript of Bowden’s lecture “Bill Hopkins and the Angry Young Men,” which he gave to the New Right in April 2006, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/bill-hopkins-and-the-angry-young-men/

Spencer J. Quinn finds some surprising parallels between Greg Johnson's The White Nationalist Manifesto and Robin DiAngelo's anti-white screed, White Fragility. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/white-fragility-the-white-nationalist-manifesto-a-comparative-analysis/

Cyan Quinn looks at all the ways in which the response to the Ohio rail disaster shows the signs of anti-white racism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/is-the-response-to-the-ohio-train-disaster-anti-white-racism/

The audio and transcript of Bowden’s lecture “Robert E. Howard and the Heroic,” which he gave to the New Right in April 2010, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/robert-e-howard-and-the-heroic/

Steven Clark's essay on The Secret of My Success, a forgotten black comedy from the 1960s about the dangers of being too trusting, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-secret-of-my-success/

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