I know a sh*t test when I see one—in fact, I’ve been on the receiving end of more than my share in recent months, courtesy of the so-called fairer sex—and that’s exactly what this whole Gulf of America business is. A great big public sh*t test.
Of course, that’s not the only thing that it is—it’s a genuinely earnest statement of intent, saying “America is back, and it’s thinking big”—but, yes, it’s also a sh*t test. And a valuable one, at that.
Before we go any further, a definition. What is a sh*t test? In basic terms, it’s an artificially contrived test or series of tests, usually set up by a woman for a man, to see how much he’ll tolerate. Or not.
No woman truly respects a man who won’t establish firm boundaries, who will allow himself to be pushed and pushed and pushed—without ever pushing back himself.
A typical sh*t test might simply be a sudden bout of erratic behaviour, or it could be an offhand comment about “opening up” the relationship and engaging in “polyamory.” (Hint: if she says that, gentlemen, she just as likely wants to find out whether you’re a spiritual cuckold as an actual one.)
With her subtle, feminine brain—the product of millions of years of evolution in cunning and alternative, non-physical, strategies for conquest—she tests and prods, consciously or otherwise, weighing his suitability as a protector and mate.
In the case of the new White House, this sh*t test isn’t about sexual politics. It’s just about politics, full stop. The White House is putting its foot down because it—Donald Trump—wants to know if the mainstream media, which has grown fat and complacent and used to getting its own way, is prepared to accept the new state of affairs.
Will the mainstream media come to heel?
This approach is already bearing fruit.
Yesterday, Axios issued a statement saying it would indeed now refer to the former Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The sensible folks at Axios obviously want to avoid the dreadful fate suffered by the Associated Press, which, in doggedly clinging to the previous appellation, has now been banned from the White House and Air Force One. An AP journalist was forcibly prevented from entering the Oval Office on Friday afternoon.
AP failed the sh*t test—and let that be a warning to the others. No doubt we’ll see further concessions in the coming days and weeks.
Much of the commentary on this saga has focused on the policing of language. We’ve seen some very smoothbrained takes, especially from “conservatives” and “centrists,” who say the right has gone too far this time and it’s behaving just like the left and I thought we were better than this!? Haven’t you read George Orwell!? It’s like 1984! The woke right—we warned you about them!
Nonsense, all of it.
This is nothing like the years of intimate tyranny waged by the Democrats and their radical left acolytes across virtually every institution, public and private, from the universities and schools to corporations and charities and government. Not even the Thanksgiving table was safe. Neither side of the aisle has a monopoly on the manipulation of language, history obviously tells us that, but in recent years, with its long cultural and political hegemony, the left has made wordplay and redefinition one of its most powerful tools to subvert the established culture and bring ordinary people into line with its insane war on nature.
Making people say things they don’t believe is a ritual of submission. The discomfort and shame is the point. If you make people do it all the time, they’re basically slaves, dancing to your sick tune.
Journalists may not believe the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America, but actually it is. Because Donald Trump says so. And he’s the President of the United States, with the power to make it so.
This isn’t the same as some diversity commissar telling you a man with a gaping axe wound between his legs is a woman. He isn’t. You know that. I know that. (He knows that too, which is why he reacts with such force—and often real violence—if you tell him so.)
On the other hand—the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America.
So don’t get twisted. This is nothing more than a test. It’s not a full-scale war on ordinary speech and common sense, like the left has been waging, and will continue to wage, for as long as it exists. This is just a simple exercise in the new realities of power now that Donald Trump is president and not—thank God—Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Under President Harris, we’d all be saying far more stuff we don’t believe than “Gulf of America.”
It’s basic friend-enemy politics, actually. As I wrote for INFOWARS recently, Donald Trump has returned to the White House with a newfound appreciation for Carl Schmitt’s famous maxim that “The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.” Simply put: Reward your friends, punish your enemies.
This time around there will be no pandering to disloyal RINOs and journalists who hate the President’s guts. You want to continuing spreading lies about the President and his policies? Say goodbye to your cushy government office space and privileged access. Pete Hegseth recently announced that the Pentagon’s Press Corps would be undergoing a radical shakeup, with established players like The New York Times being forced to make way for Breitbart and OANN.
Good. That’s how it should be. Reap what you sow.
So say it, journo: Gulf of America.
See, it’s not that hard, is it?