The bridge collapse was probably just an accident; nothing specifically nefarious was done. That said, my bet is that maintenance on the bridge was skimped in favor of paying out graft…and those hired to maintain the bridge were deeply infected by DEI hires who weren’t skilled in bridge maintenance. Also, my bet is the merchant ship crew is also substandard. The world doesn’t really make sailors any longer – that is, people who really know how ships operate given all the variables they encounter in a voyage. The real problem here is that we are rapidly losing the ability to maintain an advanced society – all up and down the line and all around the world considerations of ability are swept aside in a quest for the “correct” social outcomes and squeezing the last penny of profit out of any activity.
This has happened before. The Romans are justly famed as great builders, both in terms of art and in practical things but by the third century the skills were starting to atrophy and it became a long, slow decline into ruins. Keep in mind that later generations of Romans didn’t have to create the infrastructure – it was already there. Aqueducts sufficient to supply a city of a million people with fresh water. Sewers to carry away waste. Art and architecture which stands with the greatest achievements in history. Just maintain it. They couldn’t. They lost the ability – the skill, that is. We, too, are losing our skills. So, too, the entire world.
The actual racists like to complain that you can’t make Americans by getting foreigners on to the “magic dirt” of the USA. This is true; but then the racists go on to say that a functioning society is an outgrowth of being white. This is patently untrue. The flip side of this is the anti-white racists who are asserting that all good things white people have done were actually done by black people and the fruits of that labor was stolen. The actuality is far more prosaic: over a thousand years with often painful trial and error, European thought was applied to the problems of life. Now, all human history is the application of human thought to the problems of life but the difference for the Europeans is that as they emerged from the Dark Ages (say, 500 to 1,000 AD), they were deeply Christian and so were the first widespread people (the Jews were always insular and confined to a very small land) who believed the world was intelligible. That is, it was created by a God who was Reason; that every riddle we encountered had a solution. That it all fit together into a logical whole. Because of this the quest became not one looking for a pat answer to all problems (which, in any case, for a Christian was resolved by the Resurrection), but incremental answers to individually small problems. Presto – as it were, because it took a thousand years – the modern world came to be and Europeans found themselves possessed of skills far beyond any other people on Earth. The difference is that in 732 Charles Martel had to fight a desperate battle in central France to keep the Moors out. In 1757, Robert Clive with 750 British soldiers and about 2,000 Native allies defeated an Indian force of 50,000 troops and secured British mastery of India for two centuries.
And now we are losing all that. The bridge is down and we all know it’ll be many years before it is back up again. The nation that built 50 Casablanca class escort carriers between November, 1942 and July, 1944 is going to have some trouble building a bridge. Just as we have trouble building a jet that doesn’t fall apart in flight. Or getting a rocket ship to the Moon when we did that once in less than 7 years back in the 1960s. Think about that. Shepard’s sub-orbital flight was in May of 1961. Say what you want about JFK, but it took some real brass to look at that barely-a-spaceflight and say, “hey, we’re going to the Moon” in September of 1962. But, we did it. With time to spare. We established the Artemis program to return to the Moon in 2017 and we’re hoping for an Apollo 8-style Moon flyby in 2025. If everything goes very well. We hope to land on the Moon with Artemis 3 in 2027. Maybe. With luck. Guys: we did this before. We know how to do it. We should be able to do it with a year’s prep, tops. We won’t because we can’t.
Civilizations die very slowly and then all at once. If you were a Roman in, say, 390 AD you probably felt pretty good. The Empire was still massive and seemed to stand tall. Twenty years later, Alaric sacked Rome. We’re just about at the end of “slowly”. “All at Once” is right around the corner. Unless we change. Unless we get very serious about things and start compelling civilized behavior and standards. It is our choice. We will choose to live, or we will choose to die.
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America has added $30 trillion in debt in the last 20 years (think about that one for a minute), our infrastructure is crumbling, good paying jobs are scarce, our manufacturing base has been sold out, our elementary school children are scholastically behind all other developed nations, poverty and crime has increased dramatically, our media no longer holds the powerful to account, our justice system is now arbitrary, and all of our career politicians are multi millionaires, as are their children. Ironically, the country founded on smaller government now has the largest, most destructive, and most grifting government in the world.
If this current government is validated and reelected in 2024, the American experiment is over. And make no mistake about it, this is the “fundamental transformation” Barack Obama campaigned on in 2008. The Kenyan killed the country.
That is about as concise a description of the damage that Obama inflicted on America as I have ever seen, my friend. Isn’t it horribly ironic that the guy of whom Obama said, “never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up,” is finishing what Obama was either unable or unwilling to do. To call these people evil is an insult to evil people.
I know I keep harping on the same thing, but that’s kind of what we do here. Cluster goes back over his litany of what has gone wrong and I go back over mine about the ineptitude of the Right in its failure to get out of its pattern in internal bickering and learn to develop and deliver a coherent message.
This latest post by Cluster is a great example. But what do think are the chances that the GOP candidates are going to be able to use this information? What are the chances that a nationally coordinated campaign will be put together, echoed by every Republican candidate in every race, with graphics showing what COULD have been done with 30 trillion dollars and then what was not done?
What are the chances of the GOP putting together a coordinated national campaign based on the question WHERE DID IT GO?
We can yammer on all we want about INFLATION INFLATION INFLATION but none of it had the impact of a simple graphic showing a gas pump and prices of four years ago next to a photo of the same pump today. I’m sure some IT and/or graphic artist could put together a graphic of what things would look like if that money had been spent on them, showing new bridges and smooth highways and so on, next to a graphic of what we did get for that thirty trillion. Or what we should have gotten for ten trillion next to photos of the disasters that are our major blue cities, or the figures showing the costs of subsidizing illegal immigration after encouraging it.
A national campaign of such contrasts could be used in every single state election for the House and Senate, merely by having each state then add
“Representative (blank) voted twelve times for bills to spend this money, which was never used to make the country better or help its citizens”. That kind of campaign would cut the costs of individual state campaigns. A national campaign based on this approach could have campaign speeches that essentially say “there are a lot of reasons you will decide who to vote for in November but if any of them include who you LIKE more, who you DISLIKE more, who has the better hair or the better way of speaking or that person’s skin color or who that person has sex with, or maybe just represents the party you always vote for, these are all wrong reasons for your decision. The worst reasons to vote for anyone are personality or allegiance to a party or affinity for someone’s race or gender, because what really matters is how that person has voted or will vote when it comes to spending our taxpayers’ money. My opponent, (blank) has voted with the Democrat Party (blank) times, voted yes on every single bill that raised the spending in this country, yet when we try to find out where that money went we can’t. It’d didn’t rebuild crumbling bridges so people don’t die in bridge collapses, it didn’t fix our highways, it didn’t clean up our cities, it didn’t go to fight crime, (details). So where did this ten trillion dollars go? Show graphics of crumbling bridges, damaged highways, decrepit buildings, the filth of blue cities, crime statistics, etc. ” WHERE DID IT GO?
We still haven’t learned that state politics ARE national politics. We still haven’t learned from the Left that any campaign is, at heart, a national campaign with a national theme.
So we will continue to have each GOP candidate running against his or her opponent and not against the system the opponent represents, enables and supports. It will always be reduced to asking voters to choose between which poopy-head they like least or most, and never about the impact of how that poopy-head is going to vote.
Even—and especially—the presidential campaign will be run exactly the same way, the way it has been run so far. It will be this guy against that guy. That’s the way the Dems want it, because they have spent decades building up a fantasy image of their guy that is still accepted by millions of its brain-dead base, and an even more vivid fantasy image of our guy which is so much worse. And we will continue to play their game, by their rules, running Donald Trump against Joe Biden instead of one political system against another. We can’t even catch on to the idea that the Left is still letting Joe out there to be a fool because it distracts people from looking at the reality, the facts, the details, of what his administration is responsible for and what it represents as a political model.
As I was coming back from the dentist this morning (had to get a crown repaired), a bit of this thought suddenly came into my head; you crystalized it out.
To take it out of current controversies, lets take a look at the 1976 election. Ford, of course, carried the burden of Nixon and Watergate into 1976. This is something that can’t be ignored – while Ford had no direct connection to the events, he was a Republican and GOPers were in a bad light post-Watergate. It just was what it was. But the excruciatingly close result shows that this wasn’t decisive. 20,000 votes going the other way in Wisconsin and Ohio and Carter would be a Trivial Pursuit question. And keep in mind that at the start of the general election campaign, Carter had a 33 point lead over Ford. So, why did Ford fail?
I think the moment of his failure was after the Vice Presidential debate between Dole and Mondale: in that debate, Dole had pointed out that the wars of the 20th century were Democrat wars and we were always unprepared for them. This was, naturally, condemned loudly in the MSM because the official word by 1976 was that Vietnam was “Nixon’s war”. But Dole spoke the truth…and rather than he and Ford backing away from it, they should have doubled down. 58,000 Americans died there for a Democrat failure. Just as 33,000 had died for Democrat failure in Korea. The Battling Bastards of Bataan were such because FDR had simply never provided the means to defend the Philippines…all the while he was fishing in troubled waters trying to provoke an Axis attack on us.
The point would have been to show that it had all been a waste, that it had all gone wrong; that the super-genius Democrats had spent blood and treasure like water for nothing…and left America weaker. So, too, with your concept of asking where the $30 trillion went. What did we get for it? Who was running the store while that money was spent?
We don’t go for the kill – we’re too nice. We want to heal and unify. Democrats don’t. They want to salt wounds and provoke division because it is in those hate-filled divisions that they can tease out an electoral majority most of the time. And when they don’t they rest in supreme confidence that the temporarily successful Republicans won’t actually change anything. We’re fighting Liberals; Democrats are fighting Nazis. There are upper class white women out there who are so filled with hatred for the GOP that they’ll vote Democrat even as their neighborhoods collapse into a Mad Max dystopia. Democrats did that. On purpose. Just to get that result. We have to hit back the same way.
We have to hit back the same way.
One thing I have noticed about the Sky Is Falling Republicans is that they look at this massive problem hanging over our heads and just get overwhelmed by its sheer size. We/they forget it didn’t happen all at once. It is there because the Left understands incrementalism, so it built its strategy on incrementally taking over bits and pieces of our society and government until the balance was affected. The thing is, even after all of that they have not managed to get to the tipping point. Another four years will do it, but they aren’t there yet. Their inability to accomplish this has less to do with right-wing political focus than on the sheer stubbornness of the American citizen and a handful of equally stubborn officials. And when the balance is that precarious, it can take a relatively small shove to push it one way or the other.
We keep hearing “Joe Biden did this, Joe Biden did that.” Well, Joe Biden can’t even tie his own shoes, but the Executive Branch did all these things in his name. What I find so interesting/amazing/depressing is that the Executive Branch did what it did in defiance of the Constitutional restraints on federal power—and so far it has gotten away with it. Why are so many acting as if a new administration couldn’t accomplish the same amount of change but within the boundaries of Constitutional restraints—even in the name of RESTORING Constitutional guardrails.
What the naysayers are forgetting is that what the Executive Branch delivers the Executive Branch can take away. Some actions of the Executive Branch require Congressional ratification, but some don’t. So a tough stance by a president who isn’t worried about being reelected and who just might be totally pissed off by the time he gets into office can affect that balance very very quickly.
In Trump’s first term, the Executive Branch did amazing work, but it never had the support it needed from Congress or the public. A lot of that was due to the stranglehold on information held by the Complicit Agenda Media, but a lot of it was because on the right we are so utterly stupid about how to get a message developed and then disseminated. There were a couple of passing comments, for example, about Trump telling Congress “Do your damned job” but I don’t remember ever seeing an explanation for that—that he was rescinding the extra-constitutional regulations imposed by the Bureaucratic State without the participation of the only legal legislative body in our government, and then he needed that body to step in and take over. Which it didn’t do, meaning those same regulations could be reinstated by a Leftist president. He didn’t get the backing of Congress and he didn’t even get any voices in any of the media to explain what he did and why, what he meant by what he said to Congress and what the outcome of rescinding those inhibiting regulations would mean to the American economy. The Right couldn’t even build on what he did, couldn’t even explain it and defend it and support it, because it happened in an information vacuum.
In 2020 something like 15% of Biden voters canvassed said they would not have voted for him if they had known the facts about the Hunter laptop. The election ended up being decided by something like 40,000 votes spread out over three states.. But these nuggets of important information just don’t seem to penetrate the determined pessimism of so many on the Right. The poll of Biden voters tells us how vital communication of information is, and how it can swing an entire election and in so doing swing the entire fate of a nation. But I don’t see any focused efforts to change the dynamics our party’s communications efforts. How many voters have to be shifted from D to R to make a difference?
So I think we should do what the Left has done, and attack from many directions at once, working on incrementally peeling off a few votes here, a few votes there. As a Republican I have a slight twinge at citing the old saying “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”. I don’t want our elephant eaten, but the same thing is true of a jackass and Leftist leviathan. One bite at a time.
Polls tell us what Americans are concerned about are the economy and the swarms of illegals swamping out systems. But I haven’t seen any focused efforts to tie those into a coherent campaign. I would suggest starting off with a mass mailing of bumper stickers saying ” 30 TRILLION DOLLARS. WHERE DID IT GO?” If not bumper stickers, then big glossy postcards sent to Democrat voters. Then another mailing with the same caption but showing billions of dollars going to subsidize illegals, maybe with the caption “Did you vote to spend your money like this?”
Big visuals, and plenty of them, on billboards and in ads. Think about ads and how many times an effective ad repeats the phone number and/or website address. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Same message, just slightly different content. Forget about hammering Biden’s corruption. Everyone who is capable of understanding something that contradicts the narrative already knows. Ditto for his dementia. Those are established, and won’t matter if he is replaced. Go after the system and the members of Congress that support it.
I’d do the same thing with race. On one side of the visual equation would be MLK and his “I have a dream” quote, and on the other the ugliest of the BLM photos and the caption “Nothing matters but race” or “respecting character is racist”. If we are brave enough to really stir the pot, have an old quote I have seen about how black children can learn as well as white children if given the same opportunity and on the other side of the postcard have quotes about how we need to dumb down our standards for black kids.
But pictures, graphics, lots of color, and visual messaging.
After I posted this I saw this article:
Victory Or Defeat In November Comes Down To Visual Communication
It makes some of the points I made.
We, and many other, have commented that we no longer contribute to the RNC. I believe that people like us would love to contribute to an arm of the RNC focused on effective communication. I wrote about the graphics of a gas station sign from a few years ago next to one from today. Another good one would be how far $100 goes at the grocery store: One shopping cart nearly full from ten or so years ago, one with six or so bags in it from six or seven years ago and then today’s two-bag total. Another with a photo of the same home-cooked meal with the costs of buying the ingredients listed at the side, then and now.
What are the chances of the GOP putting together a coordinated national campaign
The chances of that are zero. Truth is, 90% of the GOP is on board with the dismantling of America. They have aided and abetted the Democrats for the last 25 years. And the truth is, our elected politicians do not run the country … the CIA, the FBI, the DHS, and the Military Industrial Complex are the ones pulling the strings, and all of them have abandoned the interests of the American people. They are globalists, and there is a hell of a lot more money to be made with global adventures than domestic adventures.
The Cloward-Piven strategy has been fully engaged. By ushering in 15-20 million illegal immigrants, by dumbing down our education, and by no cash bail, the Ruling Class is creating mass chaos and overwhelming the system, and 90% of the GOP is silent, so I don’t expect anything from them. My move to Mexico is becoming more real by the day
What I am hearing you say is that there is no solution, there is no hope, the nation is lost and at least you have found a solution for you personally as the rest of the nation sinks into irreparable disrepair.
You say 90% of the GOP is on board with the dismantling of America. Is that 90% of the Republican population in general, or just 90% of elected officials? What is the ratio of elected GOP officials to the overall number of Republicans in the country?
Are you saying a strong president could still not have much if any effect on the FBI, the CIA, the DHS and/or the Military Industrial Complex? These agencies are under the control of which branch of the government? Who makes the financial decisions that define the Military Industrial Complex? Does the Commander in Chief have anything to say about these decisions? How about the Secretary of Defense?
I know I keep harping on the same thing, but that’s kind of what we do here. Cluster goes back over his litany of what has gone wrong and I go back over mine about the ineptitude of the Right in its failure to get out of its pattern in internal bickering and learn to develop and deliver a coherent message.
Amazona, you know I love you, and I LOVE your ideas about what needs to be done to put the country back on the right path. The problem is that, if you forced every single voter in this country to read what you just wrote, the majority would say things like “I don’t see anything in it for me,” or “we’d lose our power if we did what Amazona suggests,” or “that would be TOOOOOOOO HAAAAARD, or “that would involve re-electing Trump, and I hate Trump.” I don’t profess to know what the solution is. I’m not sure there even IS a solution other than to let everything collapse and try to salvage something out of the ashes. As Cluster notes, the rise of the Uni-Party makes any significant change virtually impossible.
I love you too, Spook, but I disagree with your implication that because a majority of the public in general would not be convinced this would mean the message was ineffective. Since “every single voter in this country” would have nothing to say about how the campaign is run, their fluttering and muttering wouldn’t matter. They would be observers of what a small group of people decided to make the focal point of the campaign.
I am talking about a political campaign, which is of course designed and run by a small group of people within the governing body of the national party. So this is the only group that might think “we’d lose our power if we did what Amazona suggests” and their power lies in their ability to change the trajectory of the GOP campaign strategy to get Trump elected.
So what impact would the other groups you mentioned have if the RNC issued an ad campaign starting with a full-color graphic comparing gas station signs from two different years reflecting two different administrations? And if, in a few weeks, they did the same kind of comparison with some other economic metric that would apply to the largest number of voters, such as food prices? And if there is a parallel full-color graphic based on the “$ 30 trillion spent—where did it go” showing millions of illegals and graphics showing the cost of subsidizing them?
We see these comparison charts all the time here on the net, because we go to sites that publish them. I’m talking about putting them in simplified graphics form with lots of attention-getting color, in a format that is easily and quickly read when driving past a billboard, for example.
When voters themselves tell us they would have voted differently if crucial information had not been kept from them, I think it is foolish to refuse to consider a shift in campaign strategy that is based on getting that kind of information out to that segment of voters.
And if we could find a few charismatic talking heads for the Right to go on talk shows and so on to explain that what matters is not who is the head of the party at any given time but what the party stands for, this radical idea might start to percolate a little in some brains. We need to start nudging some thinking processes, and hearing some attractive pleasant people say that what really matters is the attitude of a party toward things like increasing the debt, encouraging people to come here illegally and then subsidizing them when they get here, etc.—that this is a far more important metric for making our voting decisions than the personality of whoever is at the top of a party’s ticket because that can change at any time, sometimes quite rapidly. Most of our voters are completely ignorant of the concept that any candidate for any party is there because he or she is considered to be someone who will carry the party flag and enact the party’s belief system so voters should have a long-range view of what they think is best, not just focus on the individual right in front of them. So what if the Bill Kristols are watching this interview and seething because it might help elect Trump? They weren’t asked and don’t have any say in the matter. This would be part of an overall campaign strategy put together and implemented by people who want to get Trump elected.
This is the kind of thing I am talking about making more public:
In a statement to Florida Politics, AHCA said the dashboard “highlights the $566 million dollar burden that illegal immigration has had on our health care system, which is designed to serve the citizens of the United States. Ultimately, taxpayers should not be forced to bear the cost of any amount of uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and this dashboard well documents just how big that burden has become.
What is interesting is not just the amount of uncompensated care, but the strident reaction of the (presumed) Leftists. the agency was “not able to find any obvious correlation” between the amount of uncompensated care provided by hospitals and the level “of illegal aliens” who were treated at the facilities. and The report submitted to the Legislature also notes that “high levels of uncompensated care are more associated with rural county status than illegal immigration percentages.”
Yet if you get deeper into the story you see that the $556 M amount is based solely on calculations of the percentage of illegals being treated. In 2022, there was more than $2.6 billion in care provided by Florida hospitals that was not covered directly through Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance or self-pay.
That number was multiplied by 0.82% — the percentage of migrants seeking care at Florida hospitals who self-reported that they were not legally residing in Florida — accounting for the $566 million figure.” So, while “The legislative report also includes a finding that “high levels of uncompensated care are more associated with rural county status than illegal immigration percentages.” That total number is ‘more than $2.6 billion of which the $556 million is directly attributed to ‘self-reported illegal aliens”.
But I don’t see any focused efforts to change the dynamics our party’s communications efforts.
I think that’s the point that Cluster and I have been trying to make. There are really only two possible explanations, GOP leadership is incredibly stupid or they’re complicit in attempting to destroy the country. If there were a small faction of GOP candidates for national office or even ONE Congressman or Senator who has adopted your ideas in his/her platform, I might have a glimmer of hope.
What Spook said. And you’re not all wrong in wondering if I feel there is no hope …. because that’s pretty much where I am at. America is on the path Venezuela was in the early 2000’s. Look where they are today.
Our problem is wide spread .. the Left owns the DA’s, the Judges, the AG’s, the Federal bureaucracies, the media, the teacher unions, and most of the GOP. We can’t turn this around simply by electing constitutional GOP representatives with a cohesive message … it will require far more than that.
What Spook said would be 100% accurate if I had been talking about asking the entire Republican Party membership to decide on and implement a campaign strategy. But as the campaign strategy, whatever it might be, will be decided by a handful of upper level officials in the party and by people who want Trump to win I don’t think it is relevant to what I said. It’s unusual for me to disagree with Spook but in this case I think he and I are thinking of different demographics within the party.
And I think there is a difference between turning something around and completely solving the problem. Turning it around just means getting it going in a different direction, which would depend in the short term more on a new president than a different Congress. Once the Executive Branch starts flexing its muscle and doing what it can, it will be up to the legislators to step up to the plate and ratify his decisions with legislation. That’s why a VP with strong relationships within Congress and deep understanding of its processes is essential, someone who can take these Executive Orders back to Congress and get them codified into actual law.
We also have to consider the fact that not all who march to the Left’s drumbeat are ideologues. If your boss and the upper echelons of your agency have and demand allegiance to Leftist ideology you might just go along to get along, do your job and keep your head down. But if they are excised and a new attitude is at the top you might not fight them to maintain your prior Leftist leanings, but will just shrug and say “new sheriff in town” and go along with it. Cutting off the heads of the snakes can be done swiftly and efficiently, and then there will be the attrition phase where the lower levels get sorted out—those who can’t stand the new regime and leave, those who fight it and get fired, those who are happy about the change and those who don’t care and just stay uninvolved and go along with whoever is in charge.
DOJ AGs are appointed. Obama fired all of them when he came into office, and then rehired the ones he wanted to keep. Someone else did this as well—-it might be common. Some state AGs can be fired—-DeSantis has fired one or two for not doing their jobs.
One bite at a time, or just give up say “it’s just too big”.
And no, it would not be easy. There are innumerable legal pitfalls along the way. Trump couldn’t just fire Wray and appoint someone else—he would have to appoint the next guy in line as interim head of the FBI, and jump through many hoops. This is why it is so important for him to have super-qualified advisors each of whom has an assigned area of responsibility, as well as that group being trusted to keep its collective mouth shut.
For example, if I understand the Federal Vacancies Act correctly, if Trump were to fire Wray the interim head of the FBI would have to be its Deputy Director, Paul Abbate, at least until a new director was appointed and confirmed. The same is true of all the other federal agencies. Then there are limits on how long an interim director can serve.
However, the good can accomplish almost as much as the perfect. As an example, if the Deputy Administrator of the EPA were to be a hidebound raging Progressive, she still might balk at moving to Muleshoe Texas if the agency were to be relocated. And/or she might just not be able to deal with a flurry of Executive Orders undoing pet issues and projects. A lot of thinning of a herd can be done by attrition as people resign for various reasons.
So what impact would the other groups you mentioned have if the RNC issued an ad campaign starting with a full-color graphic comparing gas station signs from two different years reflecting two different administrations?
What are the odds of the RNC issuing such an ad campaign? I’d wager pretty close to zero. That’s the problem.
And that is the key. With a new head, though, with Lara Trump as co-chair, we might see all sorts of innovative campaign ideas. And mine are not all that radical, just expansions of other campaign efforts and a slight shift in focus away from people. Think of all the campaign ads we have seen that tell very short stories. Most are from the Left, like pushing Grandma and her wheelchair off a cliff, but it’s not totally new territory. It says a lot about the Right that the only one I can remember from the GOP was the “new day in America” one from Reagan.
Every campaign latches onto a theme. Trump’s has always been MAGA but there is plenty of room for bumper stickers saying $30 Trillion—where did all the money go? or something similar. I am not suggesting some wild departure from any campaign ever mounted, just a decision about a focus and a visual approach to it. I am suggesting paying attention to polls and focusing on the economy, because it is so easy to visualize with pictures and graphs, and the border, partly because the costs to the nation tie in with the economy. I would use the word “subsidize” a lot to describe our expenditures on illegal aliens, for example.
Poor sad NPR–no matter how hard they tried to paint the shakeup of the RNC in a negative light it still looks pretty good. They were reduced to whining, in their last line, Trump has spent the last four years focusing on the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen, a message that several of his allies have also taken to voters. It’s almost as if the attention paid to the complicity of the media with the Left is making them a little gun-shy about flaunting their bias.
So they had to print a pretty decent article, for a change. As Trump continues to remake RNC in his image, new memo outlines what that looks like
RNC Chair Michael Whatley sent a three-page memo to staff Thursday night emphasizing the organization’s new and continued focus — voter turnout, creating a united front with the Trump campaign and election integrity.
While you have the other side campaigning on finding or maintaining as many ways as possible to cheat. Pretty stark contrast.
Rasmussen asked these liberal voters: “Suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught. Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”
Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. But that number rose to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day.
THIS MUST BE STOPPED!
We HAVE to ban assault knives. As we have seen in mostly gun-free United Kingdom, they are responsible for thousands of deaths
There are reports the assailant also tried to run people down with his vehicle, yet another example of Assault Vehicles posing a danger to the public. Something must be done.
While police have not yet confirmed that (the suspect ) Soto used his vehicle as a weapon, there are multiple tire tracks with evidence markers all over the scene including one person’s front yard.
Parker Stuckey said he witnessed a man driving a truck was trying to run his neighbor over
“He was in his underwear,” Stuckey said. “Covered in mud. And just I don’t know if he got hit by it at all but he was on the ground trying to get away from the truck.”
Just this week in my town, a man was arrested for drunk and disorderly, slamming his wife’s head in the car door, and fighting with the police. Now you think to yourself, wow this is pretty bad, but when the litany of past crimes this gentleman has been engaged in was detailed in the article, you have to wonder, what kind of society allows this. This 45 year old man had a record as long as a Walgreens receipt including burglary, DUI’s, assaults, etc. and yet he was a free man .. and of course a minority.
Unless and until, we hold people accountable, this country will never heal. Media people are allowed to lie everyday, politicians are allowed to grift everyday, teachers are not teaching our children, doctors are not practicing responsible medicine, and single issue voters continue to destroy the country. America is in a tailspin.
This is but one example of just how messed up the world is:
A Calgary judge has ruled that an autistic, non-terminally ill young woman can be put to death via euthanasia despite objections from her father, claiming that inhibiting her death could cause her “irreparable harm.”
I wonder what “irreparable harm” the judge was referring to that “could” happen, that somehow trumps killing her? How catastrophic where people like this are in positions of power.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/calgary-judge-rules-against-father-opposing-euthanasia-of-autistic-non-terminally-ill-daughter/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-03-28&utm_medium=email
They love death; it really isn’t any more than that.
We have to seriously understand that they feel a sense of delight and accomplishment when they are able to facilitate death.
No doubt the Complicit Agenda Media in Canada will refrain from the Mengele comparison.
Good ol’ American entrepreneurialism at work.
An interesting fledging business opportunity. I wonder what means they will use that gets around “the law” that strangely protecting squatters? As I understand it, the law that gives squatters any legal protection was only meant for protection of legal renters. One article I read in this effort was, a son wrote a contract with his mother to become the renter in one of her properties where squatters took residence. He then proceeded to enter the property when the squatters were temporarily away. When they squatters returned they called the police. Upon reviewing the contract, the police said there’s nothing they can do to remove the son as he, like them, is now protected under the same law. The squatters left shortly after.
Federal Court Makes Major Ruling on Ballot Verification in Pennsylvania
As a result of an appeal filed by the Republican National Committee, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 late Wednesday that mail-in ballots without dates or with unqualified dates cannot be counted in Pennsylvania elections.
Ok…. That only took 3 ½ years. So nice to see how expedient the courts were to do their job with an issue so important (/sarc). Any guesses as to the party affiliation of the holdout?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/03/28/rnc-notches-victory-in-pennsylvania-election-lawsuit-n2637084?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&recip=26664402
Now do signatures
Russia begins crackdown on LGBT propaganda after landmark court ruling
On Friday, March 22, government agency Rosfinmonitoring added what it called the “LGBT social movement and its structural units” to its list of extremist and terrorist organizations.
Unlike most Western nations, Russia has steadfastly resisted pressure to succumb to woke ideology. In 2013, a bill banning homosexual propaganda directed at minors was signed into law. In 2022, that measure was strengthened and expanded upon to prohibit LGBT messaging to Russians of all ages. Voters similarly supported a referendum in 2020 that recognized marriage as between one man and one woman.
Interesting how Our Lord works. The communist country Russia has instituted laws banning gay relations & institutions and at the same time strengthens (true) marriage. How far will the West fall in their quest for false freedoms?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/russia-crackdown-lgbt-propaganda/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-03-29&utm_medium=email
In 2013, a bill banning homosexual propaganda directed at minors was signed into law.
Hard to believe that they had make this issue a law. Decent people would think this issue was common sense but that’s the problem, these are not decent people. Anyone involved in that absurd alphabet movement is not trying to constructive, positive, or inclusive … they are radicals and political animals. And unfortunately, too many decent people still think they should be treated with respect … they should not.
To win this battle, conservatives have to fight for what is acceptable and what is not, and never back down and never apologize. Case in point, a female US Soccer star felt compelled to apologize to Megan Rapinoe for disparaging the LGB movement … and that’s how we lose. Anyone who lives their life based on their sexual identity is not a decent human being and the more they push their sexuality on anyone else, the more disparagement they should receive. WE HAVE TO STOP BEING NICE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13251253/USWNT-midfielder-Korbin-Albert-apologizes-Megan-Rapinoe-criticism-backlash-admits-post-anti-LGBTQ-content-insensitive-hurtful.html
Hard to believe that they had make this issue a law.
True, but without laws with real consequences to curtail the actions of evil people, it will continue to grow unabated. These people have become slaves to things like money, acceptance, ego, hedonism… they don’t even recognize it, or if they do, they simply don’t care. Those who don’t recognize the fallacies of their idealism can at least be enlightened – if they are so inclined to listen. Those who don’t care have actively chosen to discarded any moral compass and should be opposed at every turn.
West is promoting “sheer Satanism” for, among other things, allowing homosexuals to adopt children and for permitting “sex-change” operations, which are illegal in Russia. At the World Youth Festival in Russia this month, he remarked that everyone is equal because they are born to a “mother and father… it is always a male and a female parent.”
How strange that these truths are so evident to a communist, but not to the so-called experts & leaders of the “free” world.
TBF, the Communist bloc suppressed homosexuality until the collapse of the USSR. Putin may be just following along with what he was told as a kid. Or, maybe he’s become a believer? I don’t know.
Here’s something to think about: Pope Pius VIII had to deal with Napoleon. This was a very difficult operation which resulted in Napoleon eventually arresting the Pope (which Napoleon in exile admitted was a very stupid error). Pius was very patient with Napoleon…giving him as much leeway as he could without violating Church teaching. Pius was asked why and he said words to the affect of, “Napoleon is not, perhaps, a believer; but we pray that his faith may be restored to him.”. What Pius recognized in Napoleon was that his victory, if that were possible, would be the victory for a Christian State…as opposed to a victory for the secular State (UK) or the schismatic State (Russia). Pius was confident that in the long run a Napoleonic France would be on the right side.
Putin is, also, not perhaps a believer – but a Russian victory over Ukraine will long term work out to a victory by believers over practical atheists.
Well, faith has certainly stood up to the efforts of the Left to destroy it in Russia
Yes, it truly is odd to see the reversal of morality. But it seems that there is a historical pattern of unlikely heroes of civilization. There was a fascinating book about how the Irish saved Western civilization when, during the Dark Ages it was the monasteries of this little island nation that were responsible for saving Bibles and other works from destruction. I read, a few years ago, that Western civilization might depend on South and Central America, as North America was no longer upholding the values of faith, family and love of country. Now we see Russia standing up for values the squishes of the West reject.
But before we get all swoony about how great Russia is on these values we need to remember that it is the Left which worked so assiduously for so long to undermine and erode those values in our country to give it a leg up on gaining power.
So is Megan Rapinoe now the official face and representative of gays? Why apologize to HER and not to Ellen DeGeneres, et al?
And yet another absurd warning from Americas “scientific community”. Issues like these are simply designed to instill fear among the populace and to demand compliance to big government control. Watch what they do and not what they say … all of these elites own coastal properties and none of them are for sale
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13249883/coastal-cities-flood-DISAPPEARING-2025.html
There was a fleeting reference to “heavy skyscrapers” but little to nothing about the phenomenon of soil compacting under heavy weight.
Gee, who woulda thunk it?
Well, except for all the real economists who tried to explain this to the starry-eyed economically illiterate virtue signalers of the Left.
How many times have all of us here mentioned the consequences of such actions? Too innumerable to count, but this does come at a time when AI is set to take those jobs over, so in a few hours, I suspect all fast food and other simple service jobs, will be all AI … not one human being in sight. So congrats leftists, you’ve really helped everyone out /sarc
Another enlightened socialist experiment destined to fail and ruin the very ones they pretended to help. With so much help we’ll be broke as a country in no time. But then, that’s the plan all along.
And back to my old refrain of “….and then what?”
So the Left brings our economy crashing down, through a series of planned efforts, including Cloward and Pivens sped along by importing people to increase the demand on our resources. The goal, as far as we can tell, is to make us dependent on the government. But without production, the government can’t provide much of anything.
Even Communists have to admit that the old Soviet-style economic model was a failure. So, once the Left has everyone turning to it—-then what?
So, once the Left has everyone turning to it—-then what?
Quite frankly, I don’t think they’ve thought that far ahead. The modern Left has never quite mastered an understanding of unintended consequences. Fear not, though; they will come up with a government program to fix whatever unintended consequences result from destroying the economy, causing the government to grow bigger and more intrusive, and I think THAT is really the “and then what.”
That’s the point exactly. When it comes to figuring out how to gain power the Left is brilliant at the long game, so it carefully builds local frameworks like owning school boards to control education while the Right is focused on the bigger pictures of Congress and the White House. But—and this may be due to the economic ignorance that is the basis of Leftist ideology—-the essential element of Magical Thinking that drives it is going to collapse. That somehow, in the midst of all this coercion and imposition of Leftist dogma, food will still be grown and processed and make it to stores, so the only change will be the government paying for it instead of people spending money they were able to earn. Their thinking only goes as far as making us dependent on them to pay for everything, but stops far short of how, when they have wrecked the system, there will be anything to buy.
It’s like Jenga. You can pull out the part that is the economic driver of the petroleum industry and the whole economy, while damaged, is not likely to collapse. Then you undermine the auto industry, which affects many segments of the economy, putting millions out of work as cars are made in Mexico with Chinese steel and, no doubt, Chinese electronics and so on. But you want people to change to driving electric vehicles, which cost more, in a nation with a damaged economy, an outmoded electrical grid, opposition to expanding it and resistance to spending money to fix it.
This attack on the trucking industry is a perfect example. From a purely ideological perspective, it might make sense, especially if you are have a coercive approach: “They don’t have to WANT to change to electric vehicles if we can MAKE them do it”. So they concoct a scenario designed to force the transition to electric trucks. Of course, this is totally oblivious to realities of long-haul trucking, such as how compensation depends on keeping wheels rolling, not sitting around waiting for a slot at a charging station and then waiting for a charge to be completed. Or the economics of having to buy new and much more expensive trucks. Or the geography of the United States, in which trucks make deliveries to remote places which don’t have and probably won’t get charging stations. Or the cost of implementing the infrastructure of charging stations plus the change to mechanical repairs of a different kind of propulsion system. Or how the electricity will get to the charging stations.
These are just details that are dismissed by the Big Giant Heads thinking Big Giant Thoughts about how to force all those little people into compliance with the Big Giant Ideology.
I’ve driven across the country east to west and north to south and to British Columbia and Edmonton in a big truck—not a semi, but what the military calls a “Deuce and A Half” or a 2.5-ton heavy duty truck, with fuel tanks on each side, so refueling calls for using the same fueling stations as the big boys, with fueling taking place simultaneously on both sides of the truck. So I know there are literally thousands of big truck stops along major highways, and every one of them has trucks lined up to refuel. And they can do this quickly and efficiently, and get back on the road. Anyone who has seen a big rig take on hundreds of gallons of diesel in a few minutes and hit the road, with a dozen trucks just like him to his left and his right, can imagine the absolutely impossible task of replacing this system—even if the Magical Thinking included a Magic Wand that simply replaced all the diesel trucks with electric vehicles, regardless of replacement cost. Then factor in the longer wait time to take on enough electricity to equal the power of the hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel.
It is so insane only a Leftist could come up with it.
So, once the Left has everyone turning to it—-then what?
I would like to think there are enough Faith based, red blooded Americans in the military, in the federal bureaucracies, and of course in fly over country who will rise up and say … “give me liberty, or give me death”
I count myself as one of them
Yeah, I know. You’ve mentioned your willingness to die in opposition to the Left a couple of times already.
But that wasn’t my question. I’ll rephrase it: When the Left manages to gain control by promising people everything they want and need, and in so doing destroys the sources of what the people want and need, what will they do then?
They can print paper money till people have to take baskets of bills to the store to buy bread, but they will still have to figure out how to get the bread baked when they have cut off supplies of wheat. They will be left with illusions of generosity, but with nothing to back it up. Even the Socialist model of “allowing” private enterprise and then just taking most of the profits won’t work if products can’t be manufactured or shipped.
What I’m getting at is that they, in their shortsighted ignorance, are backing themselves into a corner.
I think the American Left is proving to be a problem for the International Left, because it is so fragmented that its various discrete elements tend to fight each other. An example is the Renewable Energy faction, pushing us toward mandatory use of electric vehicles in spite of their very limited applicability, while the NIMBY faction won’t let transmission lines be built to carry all that precious green energy to where it is needed to power those electric vehicles, much less putting wind turbines or solar installations where they might impair the scenery. In the meantime the dogmas of the Environmentalists and the Climate Change hysterics are bumping up against the reality that their sacred idols of solar and wind power are more polluting than nuclear and even most petro solutions, while electric vehicles pose their own unique pollution problems. While all these various factions are playing political bumper cars down on the floor the power brokers who just want power no matter what are having to deal with the confusion and the contradictions and the reality that they might be in the position of the dog that has spent years chasing cars and suddenly catches one and doesn’t know what to do with it.
Note the lack of legislation by the only legally allowed legislative body for federal laws, the United States Congress. No, this “rule” which will have the power of law was instituted by a federal agency, run by unelected political appointees. Yet if allowed to be enacted it will have a major impact on the economy, while having only a symbolic effect on “the environment”. In the guise of fighting “climate change” this is really just another step in foisting off electric vehicles on the public.
One comment stated: “People have no idea that our entire economy rides on a diesel-powered trucking industry,” commented the US Oil and Gas Association. “An election-year truckers strike would educate them real quick…”
BTW, when candidate Donald Trump talked about “draining the swamp” in DC one of the areas he was talking about was this de facto fourth branch of government, that of the Bureaucratic State, where laws are made completely outside the boundaries of Constitutional governance, not by elected legislators but by political appointees.
So what’s the difference between what the EPA did and fascism? I don’t see any difference. So in reality, leftist fascism is already here.
Of course it is, and has been for quite some time now.
How else could you describe the Covid-based insanity of 2021/22 and even 2023? How else could you describe the Central Authority of the federal government, by the stroke of a pen and not by legal legislation, forcing American citizens to inject experimental drugs as a condition of keeping their jobs, their military positions or the ability to travel freely? How else could you define the monstrous relationship between the federal government and Big Pharma as the government simultaneously protected the drug companies from liabilities for damages from their products, forced people to use their products, and used taxpayer dollars to pay for the products? Has there ever been a more blatant exercise of fascistic government/industrial collusion?
However, I’m not sure that the assumption of legislative powers by a federal agency/unelected bureaucrats actually fits the definition of “fascism”. Of course, “fascism” is a tricky model to define. I think the basic definition is that it differs from communism in that it allows private industry, but with government relationships and controls, so the “private” part of that equation is often illusory.
The three main models of Leftism—–Socialism, Fascism and Communism—-often overlap in their definitions and applications, sometimes shifting back and forth, particularly between Socialism and Fascism. But they all depend on a massively powerful Central Authority with power consolidated in the hands of a few elites who then impose their wills on the nation.
Maybe we could ask Kammy to do a Venn diagram for us!
NY Gov Kathy Hochul was turned away from the funeral services for the slain NY police officer, which is a thing of beauty. We need more of this … ostracize and shun leftist Democrats at every opportunity, and I mean all of them
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Gets Round of Applause — for Leaving Slain NYPD Officer Diller’s Funeral New York Gov. Kathy Hochul quickly wore out her welcome at slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller’s funeral as her photo-op went horribly awry. NYPD make it clear that her presence was none-too-appreciated. When Hochul left, there was scattered applause from several mourners. According to video evidence of the event, an unnamed man in a black suit made animated gestures towards the Democratic governor before she abruptly left the solemn ceremony. Hochul had requested attendance from the NYPD, the NYPD Police Benevolent Association, and the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association in advance of her appearance. She arrived at the Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island at p.m. for the second day of viewing, according to the New York Post. One witness said that Hochul had engaged in an “animated” chat with Diller’s 29-year-old widow Stephanie during the funeral before leaving. “[It looked] like she was telling [Hochul] off,” the witness said of their exchange. “It didn’t look like the widow had a kind word to say.” It looks Kathy Hochul will have to look elsewhere for a photo-op to boost her declining approval ratings. But to those who asked the governor to leave the funeral out of respect for the family, they too deserve a round of applause.
I loved seeing Hochul humiliated and sent packing, just as I loved seeing the whole police department turn their backs on the mayor.
The piece of shit who is currently the illegitimate American President has proclaimed Easter Sunday to the be Transgender Day of Visibility. This act alone should be enough to permanently remove him
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/biden-issues-white-house-proclamation-declaring-easter-be/
Yeah, Super-Catholic Joe sure seems confident in his ability to get the Pope’s approval, or at least careful indifference, to every single anti-Catholic anti-Christian thing he says or does.
And seriously, who is more visible these days than the “Transgender” movement? Does the Left really need to pander even more to this very small demographic by insulting all Christians and dumping on the holiday most revered for its spiritual significance?
The White House is hosting an egg decorating contest to celebrate the overtly religious holiday, Easter.
The egg designs will be submitted by children of National Guard members and are prohibited from presenting ‘religious symbols’ or ‘overtly religious themes’ if they are to be displayed in the residence of the ‘devout Catholic’ president, Joe Biden. I guess it’s no surprise to see an actual overt declaration that religion cannot be linked to Easter in this administration.
This, of course, follows this:
Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.
(Just curious–can anyone direct me to the law, or the part of the Constitution, giving the president the authority to cancel Easter? As Cluster would say, asking for a friend.)
One of the great responses: Tomorrow is the day where many Americans, following the WH, will solemnly worship, praise their deity, cling with comfort to their dogma, intolerant of criticism of their religion. Many others will celebrate Easter.
YOU ARE AMERICA Oh, puhleeze! You may be symbols of what the Left wants America to become, but you are still a very tiny segment of the population and suffering from a mental illness.
The double insult was entirely intentional – and designed to provoke a response that will justify oppressing us as violent extremists. OTOH, it doesn’t really matter what we actually do, does it? Someone painted the back of their truck to look like there was a bound Pudding Brain in the back of it and I saw many on the Right condemn it. But, why? Before anyone did that they were calling us racist, sexist, homo- and transphobic Nazi traitors. Nothing short of our abject embrace of the least Leftist position will satisfy them…and even that wouldn’t really do it. Like all Leftists they would just get on us about not being ideologically pure soon enough. The Left must have enemies to destroy as that is the justification for Leftism. ‘
Had a long discussion the other day with a gay communist and it was quite pleasant as an exchange of views but I did gently shut it down after a while because I could tell he was reaching a point of frustration. That is, he was getting mad that after he carefully explained to me that under real Communism everything would be cool, I remained adamant that it wouldn’t be. That, in fact, his whole worldview was based on a flawed line of thinking and no matter how hard you tried, you could never construct a “from/to” society without eventually resorting to force. I could tell that one statement hit home in that he couldn’t refute it and clearly hadn’t thought the matter through: if everyone gets what they need, then what does everyone need tomorrow? He went on a bit about how we’d all be sharing and so whatever needs would be met by someone who didn’t need passing along to someone who does…but he couldn’t really get around “so, if we need 9 pairs of boots tomorrow and there are only 8 pairs, who gets left out?” Why?”
I could seriously feel the frustration coming through and that’s why I gently deflected the conversation away and left it with something we could both agree on: super rich people shouldn’t be able to buy government. And I valued the exchange because it was a peek into the mind of an ardent young Leftist who hadn’t yet been poisoned to the point of wanting people dead. And I did agree with him that it sucks that some people get the short end of the stick. I further agreed that passing out that short end based entirely upon money is also bad. But what he couldn’t comprehend is that there’s always going to be a short end and someone was going to get it. It really frustrated the poor guy – even though he had his pat argument that under Communism people would happily make/provide whatever was needed without any motivation of personal profit. There was still going to be a time when something was needed in a certain quantity and it wasn’t going to be available at that time – so, someone had to go without and there had to be some means of deciding who gets it in the shorts.
But it was in that frustration that we find the genesis of Leftist anger and violence. They can’t really handle someone who challenges them to think – so, they demand the destruction of anyone who challenges. Pudding Brain is just a senile puppet, but those controlling him are hard-core Leftists (no surprise as Jill probably controls hiring and her “education” background would lead her to the most extreme Maoism) and they are determined to not have anyone around to challenge them…so, things like supplanting Easter with trans drivel.
I simply don’t believe for a moment that they believe any of this “trans drivel”. They have merely identified a demographic, small but loud, and decided to pander to it. I can’t believe any “trans” people are truly appeased by it, it is so transparently smarmy and a**-kissing. It is condescending, a cursory pat on the head to a few freaks hoping to build some cred in a tiny dysfunctional ‘community’ where a significant number bail out when their brains clear and they realize it’s just a scam.
What I find fascinating, in a sick and rather morbid kind of way, is the failure to understand that sucking up to a small percentage in such an obvious fake, ass-kissy way, is going to alienate a far larger number of people.
I hope you’re right. What Biden proclaimed for Easter Sunday is just unforgivable.
I don’t think anyone is better at analyzing and summarizing facts than Victor Davis Hansen.
I read this excellent article last night. While I can understand the sentiment of people like Candace Owens who are upset and have spoken about the death of innocent lives in Gaza, that however is just one of the ugly facts of war. And in this case, one they did not start. While I don’t doubt innocent lives are lost in the push into Gaza, I believe the claim of Israel’s intent to extract indiscriminate destruction on anyone who gets in their way, is totally false and only used as means to regroup for another offensive by Hamas. When war is declared on you and efforts were taken to deliver the greatest impact against you, there is no such thing as “only as much force as necessary”, if you want to win, where winning not only ensures your survival but also extracts enough damage against the perpetrators where they are unable to attempt such insane acts again.
The adults living in Gaza know, or ought to know, Israel’s history in retaliation when attacked. Yet they made the choice to support Hamas, knowing this was going to result in attacking Israel. They poked the bear several times, just out of primitive tribal hatred, and got thumped a little, and now that the thumping has gotten more severe they are whining about it. They clearly expected Israel to continue indefinitely with losses met by half-hearted response, and this determination to end it once and for all seems to have taken them by surprise.
Tough.
It is not Israel’s fault that no Arab country wants anything to do with these particular Arabs. Every nation that has taken them in has regretted it and said “never again”. That’s on them, not on Israel.
These people have known that Hamas was using aid money to build tunnels and they had to know why. They essentially volunteered to act as human shields for savages they chose to run their country. They tolerated letting Hamas hide behind their sick, their elderly, their children, all in the name of hatred of Jews. And now we are supposed to feel sorry for them? I don’t think so. As far as I am concerned these are feral, tribal creatures who are now complaining because they are being held accountable for what they supported, enabled and cheered. And they’re not being gang-raped, they’re not being tortured, they’re not being starved—they are just being dislocated and told that there are some rules.
If I had a magic wand I would remove every child under the age of 6 from his or her family and place those children in homes of normal, sane people, to give them a chance to grow up to be decent human beings. I would force every Arab nation to take in a few thousand adults, but never let the refugees congregate and live near each other, so they could not form little Palestines in Jordan, Egypt or anywhere else. Maybe forced integration with normal, decent human beings would dilute some of the blind hatred, and at least keep it from becoming organized again. Nothing else has ever worked with this mentality. When given land the Israelis had developed, with irrigation and greenhouses and homes and roads, they destroyed it all. When given material like irrigation pipes and water pipes so they could improve their land and homes, they used the pipes to make weapons to attack Jews.
There is no such thing as a tame rattlesnake, and it is starting to look like there is no such thing as a sane Palestinian.