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The Republican Midterm Convention happens September 9th and 10th – never been done before. People thought it was a bad idea – partially just on the fact that Trump wanted to do it, partially on the theory that the incumbent party never wants to nationalize the midterms. That is, make them a referendum on the person elected two years previously. To date, that conventional wisdom probably had some merit in it…but I don’t think it does now.

As I’ve been saying, I’ve been rewatching the election night coverage from 2016 and 2024 and I’ve noticed that both in 2016 and 2024, Team Trump put the word out, fairly early, that it was over and their man had won. 2016 was really remarkable because it was Kelly Anne Conway putting out the word at about 9:30 pm Eastern that it was all over but the shouting…while most of the MSM still clung to a Hillary victory for at least 90 minutes after that (and some until close to midnight, Eastern). That was a bold statement for Conway to make – unless she knew. And it looks like she did. Similarly, Team Trump was feeding Sean Hannity the straight scoop in 2024 and he estimated while still very early (I think around 8:30 or so Eastern) that it was all over. This goes along with something I’ve known for a while – most campaigns know how its going, and sometimes a while before show time.

I got this first by watching an interview with Jimmy Carter’s campaign manager some time in maybe the late 1990’s (though it might have been early 00’s) where he told the story of how he informed Carter a week before the election that it was over. He had crunched all the numbers – real numbers, that people paid money for – and there just wasn’t any way Jimmy was getting another term. This is why Carter was so quick to concede on election night – there simply wasn’t any point in dragging the matter out. As one TV show put it very succinctly once, “if you’ve got to eat a sh*t sandwich, do it all at once: bite, chew, swallow”. The only reason Mondale held out until a little later in 1984 is that the networks had decreed they wouldn’t officially call an election until after the polls closed in California. Point blank: Mondale knew he wasn’t going to win. In his case, he probably knew all along he had no chance. Since then, the Democrats who lose just never want to eat that sandwich. This is why Gore reneged on his concession (he knew he had lost Florida all along). Why they always put it off to morning or some drivel. The networks now don’t wait for California to close: they wait for the Democrat campaign to give permission to call it. What I’m saying is that in both 2016 and 2024, the elections should have been called by, latest, 11 pm Eastern.

And, so, Trump is making this a national election. Deliberately putting himself out there as the central motivator for the vote. Knowing that this will fire up Democrats. But it also fired up Democrats in 2024. Didn’t matter. There was no time in 2024 that Trump wasn’t going to win. Harris’ own pollster admitted it after it was all over: she never had a lead. The polls aren’t mistaken: they’re lies. But the campaigns commission real polls which tell them where to go and where to spend money. They don’t let those polls go public; don’t want to give away info to the other side. I think Trump already knows how it is going to go.

Of course I could be wrong – but a lot of people in this world have ended up looking like total idiots by figuring Trump has it wrong.

If you subtract the oil Iran used to export through the strait then what you get is oil transiting is now back to pre-war levels. We’re not letting Iran export. Iran’s tankers are now in hiding off Sri Lanka and I hope we take them as Prizes. Bottom line, it just gets worse and worse for Iran. Don’t know how long they’ll hold out. Don’t care, either. If we need to blow them up some more, we will. But the days of the Mullah regime throwing weight around are over.

Gloria Steinem died. We do pray for the repose of her soul but she was an absolutely hideous, anti-human person. Pure poison to every decent impulse humans have. The world would have been much better off if she had never lived.

There’s been a 206% increase in arrests of repeat offenders in New York City. Because they keep releasing them. Just more anti-human Leftist policy. The Left says we have to go soft on black crime because racism caused it. This is stupid, but for the sake of argument, let us say it is so: by the time a man is on his sixth of seventh felony arrest the problem isn’t the racism, it is that the man has utterly failed in the “being a member of society” effort. There are black people – presumably just as much victims of racism as any black person – who go their whole lives without an arrest. Let alone multiple. You might be able to argue in favor of a Mulligan. Maybe even two. But after a while there’s just nothing left to do.

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The push against data centers is just a Chinese op. I mean, you all see it, right? It is so obvious – who would want us to not lead the way in AI? Duh.

We really need to be on these ops – someone on X brought up the atomic bomb where Victor Davis Hanson was calling it a bad bomb to bring a good end to the war…the comment on that, it was a good bomb to bring a good end to the war. And I’m firmly in that camp. Know what would have stopped Chinese intervention in the Korean War? A Mark IV atomic bomb dropped on Antung, Manchuria right around October 1st, 1950. That was where the Chinese army was massing prior to entering Korea. Literally boom, done.

Seriously think about it – what could China or Russia do? China had no nukes. Russia only had a few and no real means of delivering them to the United States. Plus, why risk the total destruction of your own nation over the fate of Korea? At the time, North Korea was already defeated – China was set to begin a totally new war, confident that they had numbers to match against firepower and that the USA would not seriously attack Chinese territory. Switch it about and make it suicide to challenge us…the world changes. There would have been no Korean stalemate. No Vietnam, either (after such an event, telling North Vietnam in 1965 to withdraw all forces from South Vietnam or suffer serious consequences would have got the job done). What I’m saying is that since WWII (and even during it) we have suffered one op after another all designed to prevent the full development and use of American power. Time to ditch that. First step is no longer falling for the ops.

Saw a video of an unruly mob of Brits assaulting the police after yet another British person was stabbed by a foreign invader. What was key – to me – is that they were really rioting. Throwing things at the cops…and the cops backed off. That is what is needed in Britain and the rest of Europe (been a bit of it in Cueta, Spain as well). These police – and the armed forces – of Europe are not trained to fight and die…they are trained to mindlessly enforce political conformity. And they are used to their people supinely accepting it. It only works as long as everyone rolls over. As soon as someone actually uses violence against it, the whole edifice will crumble. As I’ve been saying – 10,000 determined British patriots could overthrow the government in an afternoon. Nobody is going to fight for King and Country if that means fighting for a King who’s at least half Muslim and a Country being destroyed by its own Ruling Class. We’ll see if this spreads. The more the better.

In order to advance Women’s Liberation from the Cruel Patriarchy New York Governor Hochul donned a hijab while meeting with Muslim men. I called it years ago – the Feminists will go Muslim and say the burka is to protect from The Male Gaze.

Hearing some stories that the Nepalese flood might have been triggered by China building a hydroelectric plant upstream…if so, China will order the Western MSM to keep a lid on it (they’ll do anything to keep access to the Chinese media market).

Meanwhile, I think some are catching on to the DSA scam…

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Goodbye, Dolly! Passed away at 80 – and one of the few remaining universally beloved people in the USA. I figure she leaned a bit Left, but she never made a thing about it…and that is the key to keeping that universal love. Of course, maybe if she was younger it would have proven impossible? These days, just to keep your gigs coming, immense pressure is brought to bear on you to toe the Leftist line. By the time that came in about 25 years ago, Dolly was so established she could just ignore such things, had anyone attempted such pressure on her. We probably can’t have anything universal across American culture any longer – and until we destroy the Left, that is how it shall be. For goodness sake, the Left pitched a fit about America 250 just last month.

The economic pressure being put on Iran is immense and destructive. We’ll see if it works – that is, will it convince the Iranian people (cowards, for the most part) to rise up? They don’t want freedom – they’ve made that clear by supinely allowing themselves to abused by dirty-necked Islamists for decades. But they might be just materialist enough to want their stuff…said stuff now being denied by the US blockade. We shall see. If it doesn’t work, then I suspect it will be bombs away for one more sustained campaign to cripple Iran for a generation.

Trump is also upping the pressure on Canada – which has been getting a free ride since WWII. They have had essentially free access to the American market while carefully protecting their own from us. Now they are saying they’ll let China use Canada as a means of getting around our tariffs on China. Screw them. Nothing against those Canadians who are what I’m now calling Old Canada – allies in two world wars and great people all around. But New Canada is filled with Leftist bigotry and hatred…stupidity as well. We do not need a thing from Canada while their economy collapses without access to our market. Either conform yourselves to our desires or go jump in a lake.

Trump is set to revoke the visas of 200,000 people who are here on business or tourism visas but are claiming asylum. Think about that – they were able to get visas to come to the USA but are now claiming asylum status. Just insane we let this sort of nonsense go on. If you can get a visa, you’re probably not oppressed. Asylum is for people who will die if they don’t get out of their home country…and you get asylum in the first country you can. Essentially, asylum and TPS have been used – by Republicans and Democrats – to back-door amnesty. It is good that Trump is ending this but it can also be un-ended by his successor. We need laws clearly laying out asylum. I mean very specific…actually listing social categories of people and countries of origin we’ll accept asylum applicants from (like, say, a gay person from Iran, Christian from Pakistan, white person from South Africa). If you don’t meet one of the legislatively decreed categories then you can’t even try. We also need to change the laws so that asylum is not a fast track to a green card. It is your life that is at stake – you just need a place to hide from those trying to kill you. We’ll forward you to some other country if at all possible…if you get asylum here, you’re in some sort of holding camp until you find a country to emigrate to or are able to return home.

The Cowardice of the West

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In 2025, about 41 million Americans received SNAP – food stamps, as we geezers remember it being. Of these, about half had worked in the month previous to receiving benefits. This would indicate that a significant portion of those on SNAP are just people who are going through a rough patch and need a little help. But it also means that a significant portion hadn’t worked in the month before. That is, we do, indeed, have welfare bums. People who are drawing funds without contributing.

This is simply wrong.

Unless one is a child, physically disabled or elderly, there is a moral obligation to work. To do something for your daily bread. This is true whether you believe in God or not – it is a universal that nobody may be allowed to skate. To be sure, some people will be able to skate out of this because they are born rich and so get to live in indolence. They shouldn’t. But, what of it? It doesn’t cost the taxpayer anything and I’ll guarantee you the number of rich layabouts is tiny compared to the number of welfare bums we’ve got. I couldn’t get a figure on how many on SNAP hadn’t worked in the previous six months but lets say it is merely 20% of all SNAP benefits – those are the bums. And there are 8 million of them. And they probably pull down other benefits as well (housing/utility subsidies, internet/phone subsidies, Medicaid, what they can cage from food banks, etc, etc, etc). I bring this up because we are told that we must continue to accept immigrants – and must go gentle on deportations – because we need these people. That is, to “do the work Americans won’t do”. In other words, to replace the 8 million bums we’ve got sitting on Welfare.

Nope. That isn’t being sensible – it is simply being a coward. You’re refusing to make the bums get to work because that would be hard and, in the minds of the infantile, make you the bad guy. You’d rather take the Cartels importing quasi-slave labor to build homes and mow lawns – and then talk yourself into thinking your the smart, good guy who is all reasonable and stuff. You’re leaving fellow human being to wallow in the indignity of being a beggar (and, worse, a fat, illiterate and barbarian beggar) while assisting in the cruel exploitation of Third Worlders. You’re degrading your country, spreading crime and urban squalor and pitching Western Civilization down into the gutter.

It is like that all through our society these days – everyone simply afraid to do what is right, and so goes along with a horrible, anti-human and destructive expedient. Don’t make welfare bums work: import illegals. Don’t abolish the public schools: do a voucher program so at least your kids can escape. Don’t arrest the homeless and put them in work camps: just make certain they are contained in certain areas of town we don’t go to any more. Don’t flog miscreants who disturb the peace: just stay away from them. On and on and on like that. Every time we’re confronted with a hard, adult choice – to prove we can, indeed, govern ourselves…we slide away. Hope it all works out. Place a band aid on a bleeding artery. If the Republic dies it will be because of this – whether a Communist tyrant or a Caesar takes over, it’ll happen because we, the people, were too chicken to rule ourselves.

I’m not saying there’s an easy fix. I am saying that men and women with courage can fix it all. And not just our social pathologies; the whole raft of problems in the world today can be eliminated or at least rendered nearly harmless if people will just screw up the courage to do what needs to be done.

And do keep in mind that failure to flog is the cruelty. That is, failure to impose the harsh punishment is the evil thing to do. When faced with a barbarian who has the social skills of a spoiled six year old, it is for the civilized to make sure that person is instructed. Failure to do so harms both the barbarian and the larger society. It is required of us that we make the lazy work. The boorish behave. To insist everyone in the public square is at least clean, decently dressed and has basic respect for others. Drive through the bad areas of town – see that bum? That filth? That’s on you. You didn’t do it, but you allowed it to happen. The bum swilling cheap booze or taking drugs made his choice…and it is your moral obligation to punish him for that choice. To take away his booze. Get him cleaned up. Put him to work. It is better for him. Better for you. Better for everyone.

We can’t survive if we forever think all of this is Someone Else’s Problem. Are we free men and women or are we not? Do we say we shall govern ourselves? Ok. Then we’d better get on to it. Show a little courage. Do the right thing. Or become slaves, ourselves.

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The Federal workforce is at its lowest level since 1966. Think about that – this was before the Welfare State was fully built. Some of this reduction is simply not replacing people who leave, some of it is firing people. The main thing is that each person reduced is one less person who can pester us…one less button for the Ruling Class to press to gain our compliance. Sure, if a Democrat gets in they can hire a lot…but that does take time, and the precedent has been set that the President has broad powers to fire Executive Branch employees.

Democrats made a huge mistake in taking Trump to court on a lot of issues, but taking him to Court on grounds that he’s not really the President has been the most bone-headed. Again and again, the Courts are forced to rule the obvious: Trump is, indeed, President and the President is the sole person vested with Executive power under the Constitution. We haven’t quite got to the ruling all the way. We won’t while Roberts is Chief Justice…but if you read the Constitution properly, the President cannot surrender Executive authority. It is vested in that office. Even if an Executive signs a law limiting Executive power, that law is completely unconstitutional. There is one person in the entirety of the USA who holds Executive power: the President. We will get there…and the Democrats will have made it happen.

Here’s the real kicker in all of this: had the Democrats told Hillary to go jump in a lake and simply let Trump be President then he would have sailed through eight years ending in 2025 – to be sure, making some lasting changes (most notably in immigration and trade) but no real fundamental shake up of the system. Trump is, after all, a moderate man – he’s a New Yorker, ya know? He’s no more far right than Ed Koch or Nelson Rockefeller. They could probably have got a lot of things they have long desired but no Democrat could ever get enacted into law. But, no; they decided to indulge Hillary’s temper tantrum and now its snowballed into opposing Trump 100% of the time. Resist!

Ok. But you just resisted your way into President Vance exercising power a President hasn’t used since FDR. Good luck, Democrats. You won’t be able to take him to court. The cases have all been decided. You’ll have no recourse at all – even if you take Congress there’s nothing you can do other than refuse to spend money (ha!). It is so very crucial that we win in 2026 and 2028…the stage is set, the ball is rolling…if we can just keep things going for another 5-10 years, we’ll have won for good. Personally, I think we will win – polls are not just mistaken, they are fabrications designed to warp the political system (mostly, this year, to get GOP money to flow into sure-things rather than being spent on good opportunities). Outside of polls, everything is coming up roses for Trump and the GOP…Trump will nationalize the election and then spend a billion dollars telling people what a great job he’s done and how it will all be lost if the Democrats get in…MAGA will show up.

I’ve heard about the lady who is alleged to have killed her kids but I haven’t paid remotely enough attention to render any sort of judgement. But it is bizarre there are women out there cheering the accused. Seriously? What if she really did it? What the heck are you cheering for? Has Moloch really captured that much of upper class white women? Geesh! It betrays a deep sickness in our society, even if the lady is acquitted. No matter what, children are dead. Someone murdered them. Even if she’s particularly innocent of this, she’s guilty of being part of a social dynamic that murdered children. This is an event to provoke a desire to confess our sins to God and amend our lives. Not to make some sort of social media sensation…and all of this before all the facts are presented in Court.

Trump is going to bankrupt Iran. It is an interesting strategy – and one that hasn’t been tried since the WWII blockades of Germany and Japan. But this will be much worse because Iran has only limited domestic capacity. For instance, in the USA we have about half a hectare of arable land for each one of us…in Iran, they’ve got less than a quarter of a hectare per person. Hard to feed 92 million people like that – especially as Iran is in a severe drought (Iran has floated some plans to move its capital from Tehran as there simply isn’t enough water to sustain the city). They don’t make much of anything. So, throttling their economy – already a basket case – is going to hurt. A lot. And very soon. My bet is this is a gambit to get the Iranian people off their cowardly butts and overthrow the regime. If a desire to be free won’t make you fight when you have IDF and American air cover, maybe running out of food will get you to move? We’ll see. I don’t see this going beyond November. The oil flows out of the Gulf. Iran’s military capacity is gone. Economic pressure is being applied…and in November there will be no political concerns to restrain Trump from turning Iran into a junk heap.

Allies?

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Yesterday, Trump posted that he was ordering a reduction in our participation in a joint military exercise with South Korea – at the same time saying a few kind words about the dictator of North Korea. It seems to have passed without much a ripple in the MSM, but it has caused some consternation on the right. How could he? What is Trump thinking? South Korea is a close ally!

Yeah – a close ally which has refused to help us in our battle to secure the Straight of Hormuz, vital for South Korea’s energy needs. Trump did point that out in the post. This, my friends, is actual diplomacy. Everyone is a League of Nations man as long as someone else is the patsy.

Mark, just what the heck are you talking about? Glad you asked!

The concept of some sort of League of Nations showed up in the late 18th century – a sort of last gasp of the Enlightenment (so-called) which had asserted that private judgement would be great only to have it finish up in the September Massacres. What was needed, it was asserted, was a body of some sort where all the nations of the world could come together and compose their differences in a spirit honest give and take. Just about everyone agreed with the idea…but it didn’t get anywhere because while the theory was excellent, the pragmatic facts of life is that there had to be an enforcement mechanism. Someone who would be willing to underwrite the military defense of the agreement and the members of the League. For a long while, no takers – not even when the thing called a League of Nations was made in the aftermath of the First World War. It was only at the tail end of World War Two that the world found its sucker – more accurately, its Uncle Sucker.

There is absolutely nothing better than having a Protector who also isn’t a Ruler. In fact, this is the first time its ever happened – one nation, the most powerful on Earth, allowing itself to be financially bled white (and some times actually bled) so that everyone else can abdicate their responsibilities while still getting a say in how things are done. Don’t worry, guys, America will protect you! Vote against us in the UN! Trade with America’s enemies! Call American soldiers war criminals! It doesn’t matter – America will still be there for you! Paying for your defense. Heck, in some cases paying you for the privilege of defending you! You can massively expand your welfare state. Cut your defense to the point your military is a pathetic joke. Indulge in all sorts of crackpot social experiments which unman your own people so that a few foreign savages can take over…go ahead! Uncle Sucker will be there for you!

Until now. Trump has decided to end this farce – and it is way past time. An alliance must be a two way street. If I agree to send America’s sons and daughters to defend the 38th parallel, then Korea’s sons and daughters better be available at need. And it isn’t a big ask. We’re not asking Korea to send an army to occupy Tehran…but a bit of assist in securing the Straight. No, Korea, you don’t get to make back room deals with the Mullahs…trying to play both sides of the street. You picked a side. Ours. If you wish to switch sides, fine. We’re ok with that, too. But no more free ride. Trump is also doing in with our European “allies”. Put up or shut up.

And it will make for a far more rational world where US interests are advanced…as well the interests of those who are friends. After all, it might be a tough thing to swallow for South Korea. Their politicians get a lot of domestic political mileage out of denigrating the United States. But that isn’t in Korea’s interest. Korea really does face a hostile power to the north which is backed by the second most powerful nation in the world, China. Unless South Korea wants to become a conscript ally of China, they’d better decide to be America’s ally. That means helping us when we ask. Being on our side in global conflicts. A cessation of cheap shots at American honor. Be an ally. Or be an enemy. I don’t really care. But don’t be a two faced sack of…stuff.

So, too, all the rest of the nations of the world. Vietnam needs us as an ally against China. Poland needs us as an ally against Russia. Russia needs us as an ally against China. Israel needs us as an ally against the Islamists. Greece needs us as an ally against Turkey. There are lots of things the USA can do with other nations which are beneficial to both parties…but it can only be beneficial if it is honest and if both sides ante up their blood and treasure for the other. The world will be a safer and freer place if we insist upon real alliances – as Trump is doing.

Why Lie?

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I’ve yammered on endlessly about the evil of lies – how they poison our society and will lead to our destruction if not stopped. But I don’t think I’ve gone over much just why people lie. Why would people dishonor themselves by uttering lies? What do they hope to gain by it?

Everything they want.

The purpose of the lie is to serve the malevolence of theft. The liar lies because he wants something he does not have title to. Whether its a man trying to trick an old lady into giving up her savings or a man trying to trick a people into making him their god, the universal is that the effort is to obtain what is not owned. I bring this up because there’s a video going around of this slob of a Commie woman ranting about how nobody should be locked up for stealing a tube of toothpaste; essentially claiming that our unjust society – one that doesn’t have endless free toothpaste – is the cause of the theft, which is justified against an unjust society. It is a mere rephrasing of Lenin’s “loot the looters”…the call to theft, rape and murder he issued to the Russian underclass in 1917. And like our tubby Commie today, Lenin was lying to gain power. He was quite ok with middle class people being savagely attacked if he gained him the power to enslave everyone – that is, Lenin was trying to steal power he could not earn (in the only free election Lenin’s Bolshevik’s competed in, they got 23% of the vote; and this after Lenin’s October coup gave him the ability to suppress opposition parties – the Russian people voted for a Populist, semi-Socialist Russia…Lenin stole it and gave them an inhuman tyranny).

If you really boil it down, every war in human history stems from just that – a desire to steal. Somebody wants something that isn’t theirs and they cook up a series of lies to give a plausible excuse to steal. Most times it is one side lying, but very often it is both. If everyone would just rest content with what they earn, war would be exceptionally rare. As would theft of any type. Nobody forcibly prevents someone from earning their keep, after all. Only in times of actual famine (very rare in the modern world) is there really not enough to go around. All other times, it is a simple matter of working. Maybe not pleasant work: but if you work, you eat. If you work, you’ve got a place to stay. If you work, you’ve got clothes. If you work, you’ve got toothpaste. If you work, you don’t really dream up a scheme whereby you become the infallible leader of the people. But if you don’t want to work…well, then you steal.

To be fair, there are those rare birds – thieves who don’t try to justify it. They freely admit they just don’t want to work and so they steal so they can avoid working. But they are very rare. Most thieves will say they had no choice and the person who they stole from had more than he needed and life wasn’t fair and daddy was mean and mommy’s boyfriend was a jerk and so on and so forth. Packs of lies to justify the desired end: getting without earning. Stealing.

After war, the rest of the ills of our society. The plague of single motherhood: men wanted sex they didn’t pay for via “doing the right thing”. The plague of illegals in our society: businesses wanted labor they could steal via sub-market wages (and, of course, politicians want the votes of those who can’t vote so they could cancel out the votes of those who could). The massive welfare fraud: people wanted to live well without working hard and so worked up the idea of “helping the poor” via programs which not only don’t help, but positively encourage the poor to remain ignorant and impoverished. On and on like that – people want an easy life…a life of little or no work but plenty of wealth. They want to steal. And so they lie.

This still puts lies as the worst thing, but it is important for us to understand the purpose of the lies. You think about all the call for more education spending by groups which presided over the dumbing down of education. We often think such people are stupid. Maybe even wicked. But we don’t comprehend that what they are after is wealth they don’t earn. They don’t want to grind away teaching Johnny to read. They don’t even care if Johnny lives or dies. But they do want money. Lots of it. High wages. Gold plated benefits. Lots of time off. So, they lie so that they may steal. Honest teachers could produce a generation of geniuses for half the price we’re paying now…but if anyone even tries, those who are stealing will do all in their power to destroy them. They might even put an ideological imprint on it (like Lenin did) but the main thing is to keep the cash rolling in. All else is subordinate to that…and no lie is too outrageous.

We have to start seeing these people for what they are – the scumbag con artist trying to get Granny to give up her social security check. The pig trying to sucker a poor girl into giving it up in return for a promise of later greatness. They are still human, but they are the scum of humanity. We can pray for their redemption, but they have to be washed out of our society as you would clean a latrine to ensure public health. If you can’t go with me on severely punishing lies, then at least go along with punishing the liars for their theft.

Side note: it is true that petty theft should not land you in jail. It should get you flogged, instead. Rely on it, we won’t even have to flog 10% of the petty thieves before the rest get the message.

Open Thread

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More documents regarding the origins of Russia, Russia, Russia have been released – nothing we didn’t already know but now we’re getting some names of who started it all. This helps map out the picture of Team Obama getting the ball rolling…what we don’t have is confirmation that Obama, himself, was aware and/or ordered it done. I doubt that Obama has the courage to put his name on such a thing…probably was more of a nod as DOJ ran the whole thing by him. What is clear is that they sought to destroy Trump during the 2016 campaign and then amped it up after he took office. Crucial: it was during the campaign they sought to destroy him.

If you rewatch the MSM coverage of election night, 2016, it just gets funnier each time. They were so sure (heck, I think we were all so sure!). It was supposed to be a short night ending in Hillary’s victory speech. If you watch the coverage you can see the happy faces slip into fear and then despair. But given that they were all so sure, why try to destroy Trump during the campaign? You start to suspect that someone decided to do a deep dive into the polling and found Trump had a real chance. Do you realize what level of panic that would generate in the highest reaches of the Establishment? It is the only explanation for why they started this at a time when, officially, Hillary was cruising to victory. That takes things like the CIA director…and at least tacit approval of the sitting President. And once you start you keep going – because you have to. If the target obtains power and finds out, you’re doomed. The 2020 result was mere follow up. The assassination attempts…follow up on steroids.

And keep in mind, the FBI and CIA swung massively into action in 2020 to hide the Biden family corruption – the fact that Biden was bought and paid for by foreign interests. Why? Well, sure: TDS. But more importantly – Biden was never high enough up in the food chain to get the really good payoffs. He wasn’t getting Obama money, nor Pelosi money. He got relative peanuts. Protecting Biden in 2020 was only partially about getting Trump…it was mostly about making sure the scale of foreign money buying Americans was kept out of sight.

Abdul El-Sayed has scrubbed his social media accounts – having to delete things like a desire to ban Fourth of July fireworks and abolish the Second Amendment. Do keep in mind that this doesn’t reflect a change of heart…just a pack of lies designed to get him over the electoral finish line. Personally, I think he’s just way too Commie – and way too stupid – to make it. We’ll see. But the coalition of Islamists and upper class white women in Michigan will, I believe, prove too small in November. And, yes, he’s as much a fraud as you suspect – the man played polo as a kid. As one jokester put it – Abdul El-Sayed is ready to seize the day and the means of production in a $10,000 suit.

Looks like the insane commie in Wisconsin – Hong – will lose her bid to be nominated for governor. And it looks like the Democrats manufactured some late votes to ensure she did. I wonder if she’ll wake up a bit, now? She’s been a good, little commie foot soldier for them for years and here they come to knife her in the back. She could expose a lot if she wanted to.

But she’ll probably settle for some media gig and/or book deal. They are always so easily bought off.

Nixon, the Pre-Trump

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Someone pointed out that it was 52 years ago today that Nixon resigned. While I have memories that stretch back to the 1960’s, it was Watergate that became the first connected Narrative of my life: while I was a child and didn’t remotely have full understanding of it all, I saw it unfold (mostly against my will: Dad watched every minute of the hearings even though cartoons were, indeed, showing on a different channel) and it was comprehensible to me. And I remember this day and Dad watching Nixon depart the White House for the last time. “Well, they finally got him,” he said quietly to himself. I didn’t really understand that at the time – because the Narrative was Nixon Bad. Do Bad Things. Nixon Crook. Must Go. Bad Bad Bad Nixon. But, as per usual, Dad’s understanding was vastly superior to most.

There has been quite a rehabilitation of Nixon of late. It was started, of course, by Nixon himself. He wasn’t going to let those who destroyed his political career have the last word on what Nixon was about. So, he self-selected himself as our Elder Statesman and put in the hard work to actually be an Elder Statesman. It it my view that Nixon might have been the most intelligent man to ever be President. Perhaps to even lead any nation, ever. His ability to analyze situations and figure out the crucial points was amazing. This doesn’t mean he didn’t make some mistakes. He made a couple quite fabulous mistakes…but in the context of the times, within the limitations of a Deep State nobody fully understood until Trump, you can understand why he made those mistakes.

First off, he was flat wrong – via Kissinger – to stop the Israelis from destroying Egypt’s Third Army during the Yom Kippur War. At the time of the USA/USSR imposed ceasefire, Third Army was only two or three days away from abject surrender for lack of water. Should have allowed Israel to bag that Army – and then demanded a peace deal which would have been, essentially, Egyptians for peace…give a peace treaty (with Israel retaining part of the Sinai) and get your boys back. This would have been a better solution to the war and would have cemented not “land for peace” (which is why we have “from the river to the sea” these days) but “some land for peace”…in other words, when you get beat by the Jews, the Jews get part of your land, forever. So, don’t fight Jews. Like, ever.

Second was playing “the China card”. This was Deep State nonsense based upon drivel intel assessments that the USSR was as strong as the USA and getting stronger…that is, we needed China as an ally to counter the USSR. This wasn’t based upon any fact, ever. Just the biggest bit of nonsense imaginable. I figure it was Soviet moles in the CIA who put such intel together. But given that intel – which Nixon could not have known at the time was nonsense – at the time opening up to China seemed a good idea. Long term, we’ve seen it has been an utter disaster. Right now, Chinese money is being spent to undermine the political stability of the USA – those DSA groups are often orchestrated by Chinese agents.

But, still, Nixon remains an historic person. A man of wide education and deep understanding. Capable of both great sentiment and cynicism (you have to have both to be a great leader). And he was destroyed, ultimately, simply because Nixon had played a big role in exposing Alger Hiss. That act had got Nixon in the Establishment’s crosshairs…how dare this nobody from a working class family dare trip up Hiss! For goodness sake, Hiss was a Harvard man! Nixon graduated from some low-rent school in California! It really is a club and you ain’t a member. Neither was Nixon. So they went after him and after him and after him…finally managing to get him via Watergate where, we find, Nixon did nothing except discuss the possibility of trying to make the whole matter go away.

What we can most learn from Nixon is that we can’t let the Establishment take even one trick. The other day Todd Blanche was finally confirmed as Attorney General. The usual TDS/RINO suspects are deploring the fact that Blanche used to be Trump’s personal attorney. “He should recuse himself!”. Why? On what grounds? I mean, on what grounds in a world were Obama’s AG declared himself Obama’s wingman? In a world where Trump’s first AG recused himself just so the Deep State could cook up the Trump-Russia nonsense which plagued Trump’s first time? No. Nope. Ain’t happening. Blanche by all available knowledge is a first rate lawyer who is honest. I don’t care that he used to represent Trump. Will he carry out Executive Branch policy which is set by the President? That is all that matters – because there is no independence at Justice. The President is to see to is that the laws are faithfully enforced. The President is the person vested with all Executive authority. The President sets the policy…the cabinet implements it…not going off on a tangent in response to some nonsense in the MSM about how Bad the Orange Man is. Bottom line, if Nixon had rigidly opposed the whole Watergate effort – not letting his staff testify – it would have gone nowhere. Lesson learned: don’t cooperate with those who are looking to get you.

And Trump does get this. Not just from the Nixon example, of course; he’s also learned some harsh lessons in the first person. But the Establishment is just as keen to destroy Trump as it was Nixon – and for largely the same reason: daring to challenge the Establishment’s man (though in Trump’s case, it was the Establishment’s woman – Hillary). It doesn’t matter what policies Trump pursues. He could come out in favor of the entire DSA program tomorrow and they’d still hate him and work to destroy him…he’s a low class nobody! He’s not supposed to be there! That is Hillary’s spot!!! All that really matters. And we must understand this. Outside all the lies and theft, all the killings and brutality, all of the grifting and freakishness…the only thing that really matters to the Establishment is being the Establishment. Being in charge. Not being questioned. Having a semi-divine aura about them. Anyone who disturbs this must be destroyed. They got Nixon. I don’t think they’ll get Trump.

And their next target is Vance.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan9 Comments

British media is reporting a “rise in racism” among patients of the National Health Service. Allegedly, white Brits are using derogatory terms towards Medical Personnel of Color…of course, same Brit media will say that a POC should be able to ask for a non-white doctor because that makes them feel more comfortable. But a white guy does the same? Racism!!!!

Or the fact that foreign-born medical personnel are 1.8 times more likely to be hauled up on malpractice charges than native British medical personnel. Could be that, ya know? And you know it is – and that is why the Brit media is putting out “racist white Brits” here…to forestall complaints about non-white medicos. Make a complaint and the police might pay you a visit to see if you’re violating Britain’s anti-racism laws. With evidence that you are being, well, you’re white. The twists and turns the global Ruling Class will make just to sustain their views.

What I like to point out is that Mumbai (which is really Bombay…a city founded by the Portuguese, not the Indians, later ceded to Britain…the name change is just a lame Indian attempt to pretend the Raj never happened) is the richest city in India and yet you can easily find pictures of Bombay like this:

Granted, this was probably taken after a storm or some such and is likely the worst you’ll ever see the beach…but, still, what a dump. In India’s richest city. Fully functional societies don’t have this. India has always had squalor, of course…but I’ll bet any amount of money that when Mumbai was Bombay, this sort of thing was never seen. If these Indians are so brilliant that we have to import them by the bushel, why does India look like it does? I think someone is trying to sell us on a con, guys.

Oh, the Lefties are out there saying that El-Sayed is this totes brilliant guy with doctorates n’ stuff…and I’m over here going, “can we check?”. That is, let’s have someone do a deep dive into just how he and the rest of these Leftist clowns are getting their credentials. We know it has all been massively dumbed down…how much dumbed down to get our first Muslim health director in Michigan? A little? A lot? We should find out.

More people are starting to understand that 2026 is a binary choice – you’re voting GOP, or you’re voting for the Communist destruction of the United States. And this is dawning on people before Trump and the GOP put that message on steroids heading into the Fall. The Left which was allowed into the Democrat ranks in 1972 has completely taken over and with that the mask is off…their underlying insane ideas are now front and center. We’ll see how it plays out.