No More War! But if We Have to…

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It does appear the Iran war played at least some role in our midterm defeat – it is hard to exactly quantify, but it is there, no doubt about it. In a lot of ways, Trump did it right – and it did have to be done, political consequences be damned. We didn’t go through the monkey show that is the UN, we didn’t bother consulting with our useless “allies”. We never planned on sending any significant ground force. We hit, from air and sea, very hard and essentially eliminated Iran’s military capacity along with vastly downgrading Iran’s nuclear program. But we didn’t get a surrender. It is still out there – and the Left and the Islamists (BIRM more and more these days) kept up a drumbeat about the economic costs while pretending that Iran has the capacity to control events.

We needed that surrender. And now we now perfectly what to do: we’re all peaceniks, now. No more war! All we are saying is give peace a chance!

But if peace really can’t be secured? Well, then it will have to be a really full exposition of the “war is hell” maxim. What we did in Iran was devastating but not quite devastating enough. In my opinion, this is how it should have gone.

  1. Jaw/Jaw – basically tell the Iranians (or any future insignificant power which thinks it can fight us) that we’ll come to a peace deal which leaves them alone provided no more nukes and no more Islamist proxies around the world. Fair deal. No more threat, Iran fully rejoins the global community and is able to spend its oil money on Iran rather than Islamist nuclear dreams – and we help them with financing and skills to build their economy.
  2. Given how very stupid and corrupt Iran’s leadership is, they would not have gone for this. We then say you have X number of days to agree to this deal. Failure to do so will unleash hell on Iran until unconditional surrender.
  3. Unleash hell. Sure, start it like we did – hitting Iran’s military and nuclear capability but without the slightest pause go right on to power plants, bridges, rail lines, telecommunications, industrial capacity…on and on and on until Iran’s entire capacity to survive is ruined. And here’s the key to really making this work: we explicitly tell them that if they don’t surrender, the last wave of attacks will be nuclear. And we don’t tell them which wave is to be last. But one of these days, Iran, that B-52 overhead will not drop conventional but a B61 nuclear bomb…and that we’ll keep dropping them until they’re all dead, or they surrender (essentially give them Japan’s choice in 1945).

Horrific, I know. But if we’re going to war, it is going to have to be the way we do it. And, thing is, it is the way we should have been doing it since the Japanese surrender delegation was escorted off the Missouri. This concept that we have to be nice and fair to weaker adversaries has led to an ocean of blood being spilled and a much worse world than it has to be. We fought in Korea and Vietnam against Third World barbarians who we could have defeated in a few weeks if we simply applied full force…and if we had to do it once, we wouldn’t have to do it twice. We nuked Japan. Had we nuked North Korea do you think China would have intervened? Heck no! But if they were really that thick headed…then so long, Shanghai. After that, you really think North Vietnam would have disregarded a US ultimatum to evacuate its forces from South Vietnam in, say, 1963? Zero chance. But if they really wanted to see what living on the surface of the Sun is like…

Wars happen because someone wants to steal something and they think they can get away with it. Everything the US has done since 1945 has convinced Third World barbarians that they can steal anything they want and even if the USA reacts, we’ll stop short of killing them all. This is why we have wars today – we have the power to impose peace and we refuse to use it because that would be mean or some really stupid nonsense the Left – which hates that we have this power – imposes on us, as if the Left has any moral code to begin with.

Once again, time to join the real world. A world in which law is just force reduced to habit and hiding its claws. You want international law? Then you have to impose it. Brutally. But the key here is that once you brutally impose law, as long as everyone is convinced you’re serious, you’ll keep it. We could usher in a century of peace for the world…if we want to. If we give peace and chance and make war really terrible.

Maybe We Should Try Socialism?

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What? Has Mark lost his mind??? What the heck is going on here????

Relax. There’s a reason I wrote that. You might recall I’ve said that I work with a bunch of youngsters. I’m talking people who are 30 or more years younger them me. A great bunch of kids. Hard working. Intelligent. Nice. Very much products of modern America. Like most young people, they swung heavily towards the Democrats on Tuesday. They are the future of America.

And that is what one bright, young man said to me today: maybe we should try Socialism?

I, of course, said “no”. I didn’t, at the time, mention my preferred method of dealing with Socialists (it involves helicopters) but I did gently push back – but I also realized that I’m old. I do remember the USSR. I also have a fund of knowledge America’s youth simply does not have…nor was I primed from preschool to be receptive to collectivism by the public school system. In other words, the kids are thinking this because they don’t really know anything else.

Earlier today I noticed a post on X where it was noted that Capitalism giving you 2% annual growth is great – on a thirty year time line. You don’t really see the benefit…it shows up over time. But it shows up so gradually that even many of those who benefit don’t see the connection between a free market and higher wealth over time. And far less do young people see it. They lack basic knowledge. They lack experience. But they do see that buying a home is getting increasingly difficult. That cars are very expensive. That living the life I live (house w/pool, two cars, two vacations per year) is out of reach…and they can’t see that if they just continue to work steadily in a free market system, they’ll get it. They wonder why can’t they have it right now? The Socialists, after all, promise it right now.

And it isn’t just the young who have this sense that what we have isn’t working. Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024 were based entirely upon a conviction that is isn’t working. And the Democrats victory on Tuesday was also just that: a sense that it isn’t working. The policies which Trump has implemented, if carried through, will make America a free, prosperous and safe nation. But on a time scale of decades, not next week. Democrat’s promised stuff that will arrive next week. We promised nothing concrete – except Trump’s $5,000 which GOPers should have run with and hammered on 24/7 but they sort of left it out there…ridiculed and then ignored. Trump knows you have to tempt – you have to sell. You have to offer a reason.

Keep in mind that Florida bucked the blue wave – it was close but the GOP remains in total domination of that State. Why? Well, DeSantis made sure property tax relief was on the ballot. That got people to the polls – even if they were mad over Iran or gas prices, they wanted that property tax cut. DeSantis sold it – to put it bluntly, he bribed the Florida electorate to stick with the Republican Party. It was crude politics – and it worked like a charm.

Gas prices are too high. Food prices are too high. Mortgage rates are too high. In the immediate, there’s no much that can be done about that. Trump’s policies will eventually bring all that down. But we needed to offer something today. Trump’s $5,000.00 was the offer. State and local GOPers should have been making offers. Congressional GOPers should have sweetened the pot. How? Just off the top of my head today I came up with:

  1. Make 25% mortgage principal payments tax deductible.
  2. Make the purchase of American made cars tax deductible.
  3. Make the purchase of American made electronics tax deductible.

And then make all three retroactive back to January 1st, 2025. And you sell it on a program of “paying back our workers”. Think about it: we who work pay for the whole edifice of America. We pay for the military, the Learing Centers, the Islamo-Commie NGOs…all of it on our dime. The Democrats hardly pay for any of it – they “work” in the places we’re paying for. What do we get for it? Hardly anything at all. So let’s campaign on paying back those who paid in. And long term it isn’t inflationary – it isn’t printing money, it is just letting people keep their own money and the stimulus it would have in home building and American manufacturing would rapidly eclipse the temporary hit to revenues.

The people are not great thinkers pondering theories of government – they are highly distracted, low-attention-span regular folks who want peace and an easy life. They don’t want to have sticker shock every day. They don’t want to wonder if they can make it. And they want it now; not thirty years from now. Is this ideal? No. But if we want to preserve an America where speech is free, we’d better get these people to vote for us…and they won’t vote for us on a theory nor on a promise that decades from now things will be great.

As I’ve been saying for years, we have to think anew and act anew. The old GOP died when Trump rode down that escalator. MAGA is not committed to any particular party. To build a new GOP for freedom we’re going to have to convince people to go with us and stick with us for decades. We can’t win if we lose every other election. We need a generation of power – and we’re not going to get that generation by quoting Reagan to people born after he died. The core principle has to be America First. No more wars unless we’re directly attacked. No more sending money for other people to fight wars (this includes Israel – I am a stout defender of Israel as a Jewish State but if Israel wants to celebrate her centennial in 2048 they’re going to have to totally destroy their Islamist enemies in short order). The whole of economic policy is to make America secure and living here cheap. Clean up the crime. Keep the border closed. Push back against the weirdos. All of these policies were actually supported on Tuesday. It is just that a lot of people who support them also voted Democrat for political office because they were justifiably disgusted with a GOP not just being lousy, but actively sabotaging Trump. You will not talk these people into being with us – you have to show them the money; the benefit of being with us.

Or, lose. Our choice. We can stick to so-called principles and just keep losing until the Democrats pack the Court and they rule we’re illegal. I’d rather not have it come to that – especially as it would very likely spark a very violent Civil War. But we won’t avoid it by hoping people will suddenly realize that Adam Smith was right. We’ve got to make it cheap to buy gas in a peaceful America where people can just mindlessly go about their business not worrying about it. We have to make people vote for us and stay with us – because there’s no reason to change because its all going well. That is how Democrat political dominance happened…because from 1944 to 1974 things were just going well. No need to shake things up. Just coast along. It wasn’t a deep seated conviction that Keynesian economics were great. Ninety percent of the people who voted Democrat didn’t even know who Keynes was…but they kept voting Democrat because it was all ok. Free market economics is the way to go – but we can’t win talking about it. We just have to make it ok.

Election Day!

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Here we are, waiting for the results! At this time in the morning we start to get stories of lines and problems in polling places…and pundits on both sides start to hedge a bit. But it all comes down to votes – who votes and where. This contest was deliberately set by Trump to be a battle between MSM DNC lies vs his ability to get MAGA to the polls. We’ll see how it comes out!

It isn’t over no matter what happens – Blue Tsunami to Red Wave, this is still very early in the battle to save our country. We have a long – decades long! – slog in front of us. The entire Establishment remains against us. The MSM is still permitted to lie for the DNC. I do believe we’ll win but there will be defeats along the way. This will not be easy.

Personally, I think worst case scenario for us to day is to hold the Senate with 52 seats and lose the House. Rosiest is 54 and 220 in the House. Yes, if the Democrats gain one or both houses of Congress they will go on an impeachment-fest. Doesn’t matter: they won’t have 67 Senators and Trump will simply ignore their whines about “accountability”. There is nothing to hold us accountable for – the Democrats came in with nothing but lies and that is all they’ve got. Plus, we already know that on the way out, Trump is going to pardon every last person who worked for him.

Stout hearts!

Update: We’re getting destroyed! Some bright spots – we’re holding total control of Florida but only narrowly and the Dems look to have an easy Congressional majority out of this. Still votes to count so we won’t know for sure for a couple hours but, face it, we got spanked!

It was gas prices. It was food prices. It was the unfinished (in the public mind) Iran war. It was a feckless GOP Congress refusing to press the MAGA agenda. Trump did everything he could and if he hadn’t done it, this would be a lot worse. But he’s also a very controversial President doing very controversial (and necessary) things. This is always high risk and things just didn’t come together for us.

Remain stout hearts! The plan has to be:

  1. More deportations
  2. More arrests for fraud
  3. Get gas to $3 a gallon by September of 2028.

The Will of the People

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De Gaulle was brought back to power in France in 1958 because it was felt – almost certainly correctly – that the weak and faction-ridden government of the Fourth Republic was planning on scuttling French Algeria so they could concentrate on obtaining/retaining power/money in metropolitan France. The idea was that De Gaulle would have the prestige to form a government strong enough to complete the war in Algeria – which was functionally won but just needed a bit more push, though that bit of getting rid of the last of the Islamo-Communist fanatics was going to be nasty, bloody work. The people who wanted a powerful France crowned with victory worked a coup in Algeria as a preliminary to ushering De Gaulle back into power…and, it worked. The government of the Fourth Republic – mostly made up of Leftist cowards and sundry crooks – threw up the sponge and allowed De Gaulle to assume office and create the Fifth Republic.

And then De Gaulle proceeded, step by step, to scuttle French Algeria. Took him only two years to completely undo what French soldiers (and large numbers of Algerians) had fought and bled for over a four year period before De Gaulle came back into office. Essentially doing what France had by and large rejected doing in getting De Gaulle back into power. And in the process allowing the people who had wrecked France during the Fourth Republic to retain power and position within the French system. As a last insult, it was these people who would eventually force De Gaulle out and set France firmly on the path which led to Third World Islamo-Communist savages rioting in French cities.

Real will of the people stuff there, huh?

There is a real problem in the West of the people wanting certain things – and even at times massively voting in favor of certain things – and simply not getting them because the people in power simply refuse…and very often do the exact opposite of what the people want.

Enoch Powell gave his “Rivers of Blood” speech on April 20th, 1968 deploring mass Third World migration and it resulted in a surprise Tory win in the 1970 elections – the Tories and every other party in Britain remain committed to mass immigration of Third World barbarians.

Nixon never promised us the EPA nor the removal of our currency from the gold standard.

Can’t find a stump speech where Johnson said we’d go to full scale war in Vietnam shortly after the 1964 election.

Reagan didn’t run on the 1986 amnesty. Kinda came out of nowhere, as I recall.

Anyone remember “no new taxes”?

Did anything Bill Clinton ever say as a matter of policy ever actually happen?

W, to his credit, did run on Social Security reform in 2004 but the whole of the GOP leadership torpedoed the effort…even though they had won on the basis of W winning in 2004.

McCain famously ran his last campaign for Senate on repealing Obamacare and then became the decisive vote preventing repeal.

Don’t think Paul Ryan ran on a platform of going along with Democrat efforts to undermine Trump after the 2016 election.

Getting the picture? We just don’t get what we want. The will of the people is simply ignored when it can’t be manipulated into going along with the preconceived notions of the Elite.

Until Trump.

That is the secret of his success – not just promising things, but actually trying to do them. We really don’t want an open border. He closed it. We don’t want people stealing welfare money. He’s arresting thieves. We do want Iran removed as a problem. Trump is removing it. We don’t want to keep the Ukraine war going. Trump is trying to stop it. We do want cheap energy. Trump is doing everything he can on this score. On and on and on like that – he’s clearly trying to do what we elected him to do. And that is why he’s hated. Had he just blathered away at us telling us what we wanted to hear and then coming up with excuses for why he had to do the opposite, the Elite would have fallen in line behind him…that he’s doing what he said he’d do is what infuriates the Elite, and energizing the common people for Trump.

We’ll find out Tuesday just how well (or poorly!) this is working out. But what can’t be denied – no matter the particular results – is that Trump has given the people a taste of what its like to have a government responsive to the will of the people. There’s no going back from this – except by the means the Democrats are floating: packing the Court and abolishing the Senate. In other words, setting up a system where there are no checks upon government power and so they’ll just do whatever they want and arrest us if we complain. If the Democrats can’t get that – and it would take a trifecta to do – then they are doomed, and they know it. The people don’t want what they’re selling and they can’t successfully lie to a majority.

I hope the will of the people triumphs on Tuesday and into 2028 and beyond. People can be stupid and perverse and all manner of bad things…but in a system where government is limited, if you consult the broad mass of the people on their desires, you’ll usually find that they mostly want sensible things. Popular passions rarely go awry – the Elite would have us believe, of course, that if the people really rule we’ll destroy the world. But that is just a lie the Elite tell themselves to justify their theft and degeneracy. If we can get through these next two years without the Democrats winning total power, then they will never again win power as they are currently constituted. It is all on the line. It doesn’t end Tuesday win or lose – but it does end soon, and once and for all as far as the United States is concerned.

Open Thread

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Polls as late as a week ago had Likud getting as few as 18 seats in the Israeli elections. Kalshi had Netanyahu at a 16% chance of returning. Exit polls as the polls closed showed Netanyahu defeated. The reality? 28 Likud seats as of this moment and the consensus is the most likely Prime Minister remains Netanyahu. We’ll see how that shakes out, of course – still a lot of votes to actually count. Israel is also famous for very factional politics with alliances shifting like sand. But the bottom line is that the polls, Kalshi and the exit polls were lies. Not mistakes. Lies. Bald faced, egregious lies designed to obtain a certain result…in this case to demoralize Netanyahu’s coalition in hopes that a surrender caucus of some sort would emerge in charge…some Left-infected group which would figure that just a bit more Israeli surrender would stop the Palestinians from wanting to murder every single Jew in Israel.

Just keep that in mind in this last week before our elections. Also, try to remember how you felt a week out from 2024 – I’ll bet you were nervous. I was. And I had long ago figured them all for liars…but even I wasn’t immune to the relentless barrage of lies. They were so pervasive that they sink into everyone. The Communists learned this a long time ago…just keep lying and lying and lying and never telling anyone even remotely what is going on or what people are thinking. Even the stoutest heart and the most independent mind is caught up in them…as for the mentally weak…well, they’re going to vote Democrat. We don’t know what will happen – but, guys, we’ve already won.

As Kurt Schlichter points out, we’re forever rid of Cormyn, Thillis, Massie, Bacon and Cassidy. Oh, sure, we’ve got a few left in our ranks, but we’re rapidly disinfecting ourselves from the RINOs. The Democrats who only ever ran as Republicans because voter registration showed that was the path to power and to the gravy train…and the means to backstab the base at every opportunity. They’re gone. Even if we’re in the Congressional minority come January, the caucus that represents us will fight a heck of a lot harder against the Democrat than any previous GOP caucus. We won’t have but one or two who will on “principle” vote in favor of the Democrats next clown show impeachment. And this much stronger party will head towards 2028 far more united and willing to battle it out.

But, side note, I don’t think we’re going to lose.

Brazilian patriot Flavio Bolsonaro has obtained asylum inside the United States. The Left in Brazil clearly cheated the Communist tyrant Lula into another term – like our 2020 election, there is just no mathematical way he got as many votes as claimed. And, also like ours, there was gross chicanery in the fact that Lula’s judicial poodle ordered voting extended hours after the polls were supposed to be closed and the ballot boxes all sealed…that is, there was no legal way for anyone to vote by the time the judicial order came down…and all the extra votes poured in from areas controlled by the Brazilian Left.

We’ll have to see how all this plays out, but it looks like we might have to “Maduro” the Lula regime.

The Royal Sonesta is a first rate hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon. I looked at some pictures – it really is quite a fabulous place. Probably, in normal times, way outside my price range. In 2016 it was purchased for a bit more than $108 million. It just sold again for just over $6.8 million. A 93% decline. Why? Because Portland is now a third world garbage dump of crime, drugs and commies. This is what the Left does – it hates and so it destroys. Nobody who destroyed Portland cares that it is destroyed – they are still able to siphon money off the city…to get paid for not working. And being Leftists they have no idea of what beauty is so living in a dump doesn’t seem so bad.

But most of us aren’t Leftists. As I’ve said for some time now, the Constitution requires the federal government to ensure each State has a republican form of government…I am ever more of the opinion – because no free and fair election could result in a government that destroys the political entity it rules – that the Leftist States and localities do not have such form of government. We might eventually have to brace ourselves to reduce the deep blue States to territorial status and create new governments actually responsive to the electorate.

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Both the British and Australian governments are going after their special forces troops – accusing them of war crimes. Usually based upon very badly constructed Islamist propaganda but the Left in each country runs with it – and the process is the punishment. They are making sure no capable person joins the British or Australian armed forces.

This should make conducting a coup in both countries rather a breeze. I just wonder if the guys will do it? Easier by far to just claim asylum in the United States. But special forces troops are not noted for taking the easy way out.

This does – for the zillionth time – show that the Left all across the West is motivated primarily by hatred of the West. They want the whole system which can produce a man who sacrifices himself for others to be destroyed. Mostly because no Leftist is capable of self-sacrifice. You think about the USSR during WWII…it wasn’t the Communists at the front. Nope, not them. They stayed in the rear – employed as political officers or as NKVD operatives. Solzhenitsyn pointed out how enraged such cowards were at the end of the war when, during the sack of Germany, the Commies always got there after the best stuff had already been stolen…and so they often cooked up cases where they could steal from the Russians who had been in the front lines. That famous picture of the raising of the Red flag on the Reichstag was faked – the actual Russian heroes who fought through the building room by room to get up there weren’t sufficiently Commie for such a thing (and Leftist racism also played a role – one of the men was Asian)…so, they found themselves some properly reliable Commies to do a staged flag raising after the battle was over. Leftists are just generally garbage people. Incapable of sacrifice, of devotion…of any of the finer human qualities. And they are determined to destroy anyone who shows them up for the weak, useless people they are.

I can’t see the Democrats letting Steve Hilton win the governorship in California – they will just stuff the boxes as much as necessary to get the job done. Becerra is a nonentity who is also a lousy retail campaigner. Hilton is out there every day hustling for votes, pointing out just how bad it is in California and that mere common sense requires some political balance in Sacramento. Hilton deserves to win and in anything resembling a fair political system he would win. And just maybe a miracle can happen? It would take just that.

El Salvador’s Bukele is on the warpath against Haitian gangs who have kidnapped four Salvadorans. El Salvador’s military is small but it seems well trained and equipped – with the real difficulty getting it from El Salvador to Haiti. They have no military planes capable of the distance (though they could probably easily lease the necessary aircraft and they do have an airborne unit) but they do have some old USN “mike boats” which could deposit soldiers anywhere you please in Haiti. On the plus side, Haiti doesn’t have an actual government nor army so the Salvadorans could operate at will. I hope we assist in exterminating the Haitian gangs if Bukele decides to move. It is – and always has been – the first step in civilizing Haiti. Ever since independence, it has just been one set of gangs after another competing for primacy in the ability to steal.

Why don’t the French fight back? Well, in the cities they don’t – but out in the French countryside, it would appear that the citizens are arming themselves in their Great Fear II (the first Great Fear was in 1789). We should, for once, put the CIA to some good use – start arming the Rurals in Europe. It can be done – the IRA did it for decades (and some antique IRA members are still alive…and saying they are rebuilding to fight off the new foreign invaders). Heck, we can even secretly give them training inside the United States. As I’ve been saying, 10,000 determined patriots could overthrow any government in Europe. Their military forces are sick jokes while their police forces are made up of cowards only good for arresting teenagers over social media posts. But they don’t have guns.

Open Thread

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To quote from the RINO/Never Trump/NeoCon wing: “aaaahhhhhh! We’re all gonna die!!!!”.

That is the sum total of their election analysis.

Guys, as per usual, we don’t know the future. It will be what it will be! But it is very useful to keep in mind that the people who are telling you Trump is catastrophically unpopular are known and egregious liars. All of them. To a man/woman/xir – none of them have any relation with the truth. They lie. They lie all the time. They lie about everything. They even lie when the truth would work better for them. Could it be possible that this one, miraculous time they’re telling the truth? No. Liars are just that: liars. Unless they publicly repent of their public lies – naming the lies and apologizing for them – they can’t do other than lie. Anyone listening to such people is just being a fool – or part of the op to depress GOP turnout.

And from what I have seen, except for North Carolina and Pennsylvania, GOP turnout is great. The latest election analysis out of Texas had to exclude all the Trump +20 counties to get Democrat turnout into a position to say that Talarico has a shot. Yes, they are lying that brazenly. But the reality is that Talarico is being kept afloat by one Democrat billionaire who seems to have been an Epstein client though for some strange reason the MSM is silent on that – the Democrats aren’t actually putting any serious money into Texas. Because they know it is a pipe dream. That is, not the Blue Tsunami we’re being promised.

I see us with 54 Senate seats and 220 House seats after the election. The House could easily flip the other way because it is so narrow. On the other hand, the recent actions against illegals voting is going to make a lot of ballot box stuffers nervous. Sure, you’re safe from California law enforcement, but not the Feds. And even if the Democrats win Congress, Federal law enforcement is still under Trump for more than two years. Essentially, by going after fraud, Trump is going to depress Democrat vote totals…the reverse of what Democrats are trying to do with GOP voters via psy-ops.

In the end, it is a contest between liars and Trump – can the liars stop Trump from getting MAGA to the polls? We find out on the 3rd. If MAGA shows, we win – and might win by some rather spectacular margins.

Side note – the DNC entered October with a net of $4.2 million in hand. The GOP? $97.3 million. House and Senate campaign committees (which have a lot of different funding sources) are more even.

Regarding that voter fraud case – the State of California admitted it has no mechanism to determine if a registered voter is a citizen. This means (as we all already knew) that the claim that voter fraud is rare in California is simply ridiculous. On the results of elections in California hundreds of billions of dollars (federal, State and local) flow. Thieves will not let that money flow honestly if they can in any way divert it – and the best way to divert is to ensure only the most stupid and/or corrupt people are elected, regardless of who votes.

I doubt California has had a truly honest election in the last twenty years.

The Battle of Algiers II: a Warning to the West

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That is the town hall of Limoges, France in flames – set on fire by foreign barbarians and their Leftist French allies. A magnificent building that the savages and Leftists could never build, destroyed in a day as a means of spitting on France and the West. It is, in the end – and as it has always been – fight or die. Keep in mind that when Alaric appeared before the walls of Rome in 408 AD, there were close to a million people living in the city. Far more military manpower than the barbarians could ever hope to deploy…and the Romans just let the barbarians in and suffered having their women raped, their men killed and the stored wealth of a thousand years stolen. The French – if there are any French – can stop this in a week. All they have to do is start shooting.

I’ve written before about what a disaster the surrender in Algeria was in 1962 – with the dismay over it doubled as it was engineered by De Gaulle who damned well knew better. He bought France a short period of peace but at the price of now finding the battle in their own cities. He looked around France and the world in 1958 and calculated that if he scuttled part of France – and Algeria was an integral part of France – he could cut a great figure on the world stage and make up for it by thumbing his nose at the Anglo-American alliance in a bid to make it look like France was a free agent. I guess it can be partially forgiven…after all, we were helping to scuttle French Algeria. But a man with a true measure of the needs of his nation and his civilization wouldn’t have retreated – he would have said that the future of Algeria cannot be dictated by barbarians.

By the time De Gaulle came to lead France, the war in Algeria was already four years old…and it had been largely won by the French military and the people of Algeria (which included huge numbers of Muslim Algerians who wanted nothing to do with the beasts running the Front de libération nationale; cruel, wicked men who lived for the chance to be cruel). But the FLN savages knew what to do – go on rampages of rape, torture and murder amongst defenseless people, wait for the French reaction and then count on the French Left to make the issue not FLN savagery, but French military response. In the end, all De Gaulle did was help the FLN to power…and now the grandsons of the FLN are burning Limoges.

Never, ever, ever make a deal with barbarians. People who use rape and murder as a means of warfare are to be hunted to death, not asked to form a government.

France now truly stands at the crossroads – if it wants to remain French, it is going to have to kill the enemies of France. Without regret and without remorse. Kill until the savages give up and agree to exile from France. Leftists, too. No political system can survive if it carries within it people who will ally with foreigners to destroy the system. We’ll see if there is any courage in France – because anything less than an exceptionally violent response is a death knell for France. Even if they paper it over and bribe the barbarians to a temporary truce, France will die if the barbarians and Leftists remain.

And let this be a lesson for us – these French Leftists and foreign savages have been coddled by the Republic. Money and forbearance has been poured out on them and this is their answer: burning buildings, looting shops, spitting on France. This is what the American Left and our domestic Islamists want as well – they, too, hate this country and live for the day when they can burn it down. Doesn’t matter that the Islamists will butcher the Leftists…neither side even cares about that prospect at the moment. They are unified by what they hate: us. America. Every decent impulse in the world. We are not backs to the wall like the French…but we will be if we left the Left – in the form of the Democrat party – back into power.

Open Thread

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Zelinskyy has made his choice – and he wants his Democrat friends back in office. Things are going very well in the USA with the only jarring note being persistently high gas and diesel prices. Those prices kept artificially high by refinery shutdowns in the USA, Europeans buying a lot on the world market…and Ukrainian attacks on Russian diesel production. It is the high gas prices which allow Democrats to pretend they are upset about high prices (Democrat policies would deliberately propel us towards permanent $10 a gallon gasoline). In service of his Democrat friends – who will turn on the money supply with no questions asked given how much money Democrats were helping themselves to – Zelinskyy has decided to hit even harder a diesel production, even after Trump asked him not to.

Fine. That’s the way he wants it, that’s the way he gets it. Trump is now squeezing money flowing to Ukraine and, in apparent cooperation with Musk, restricting Ukrainian ability to target the Russians.

Putin is a fairly despicable person and, like almost all Russian nationalists from past to present, has zero understanding of Russia’s strategic needs. For probably half what he’s spent fighting Ukraine he could have freed up the Russian economy (still wearing a lot of Soviet-era shackles) and rebuilt hope in the Russian people to the point they wouldn’t be dying out. 1.1 and 1.4 are the crucial numbers here – that is Ukraine and Russia’s respective total fertility rate. Ukraine and Russia are currently fighting over which people will die out in the Donbas by 2100. Ukraine could have given up the Donbas as a lost cause (the front has not moved more than a mile or two in either direction for a couple years now) and similarly rebuilt their economy to give the people some hope and thus some prospect of actually having kids, which is the only thing that truly matters for both countries.

But, they keep fighting. Putin locked into that Muscovite attitude that more land means a better country. Zelinskyy knowing that as soon as the war ends, he’s out of office and at the mercy of a lot of people he’s pissed off for years. As I’ve said from the beginning, I don’t care who governs the Donbas. It is not remotely a strategic interest of the United States. And as for defending Europe and Freedom – Russia can’t move their army from Rostov to Kiev so they’re not going to Warsaw, Berlin or Paris any time soon…and as Europeans can get arrested for simply saying they don’t want Third World savages for neighbors, not seeing much for America to defend there. Truly, screw all of them. But we do need our diesel…and anything else we might need and I’m prepared to whack anyone who gets in the way of us getting on.

Trump is now in complete campaign mode and is doing rallies all over the place. This is a man who simply does not quit – and we’d better not quit on him. He’s not doing this for himself – he’s got all he’s ever wanted. He’s rich. He’s famous. He’s got a great family. A wife who clearly loves him (third time the charm, I guess). He’s President and proved that 2020 was stolen from him. He’s implementing policies that are making America great again day by day. But it is all for us – and if we falter, then it will be all for nought. Those idiots out there saying Trump isn’t doing enough or not doing it fast enough or not in the preferred sequence are either complete morons or paid operatives. There is a gigantic psy-op going on – lead by polls but seconded by endless social media voices…but they all say the same thing: lose. Quit. Surrender. I don’t think it’ll work – but we’ll find out in just a few weeks if it does.

The Netflix version of Narnia is already on the rocks – test screenings are turning out very badly and they are already having to reshoot scenes because audience reaction is so bad. Pro tip: don’t mess with someone else’s story. This has been billed as a reimagining of Lewis’ story. You can’t do that. Not successfully. It is Lewis’ story. He wrote it to tell a certain tale. Maybe you don’t like it. Maybe you think you can take the basic idea and make it better. Fine. Proceed. But don’t take his story and change it into something it isn’t…it looks like an insult. I’m no great author – but I like the Mirrors series. Maybe its bad. Heck, maybe its the worst literature ever written. Doesn’t matter. It is my story. I wrote it to say certain things. Anyone trying to take my story and make it say something else is only insulting me…and anyone who does actually like my story. Write you own, dang it.

Jack Smith’s fascist investigation of Trump went to far as to look into who was buying MAGA hats. This is what is coming for us if we lose.

Don’t lose.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan8 Comments

Democrats are mighty upset that Ilhan Omar’s DC home got raided today. Couple things:

  1. You Democrats set the precedent when you sent agents to rummage through Melania’s underwear.
  2. All we’re doing is looking into a Settler-Colonizer on Indigenous Peoples Day, so chill.

It really is an outrage that we allow that woman to serve in the Congress of the people of the United States of America. I don’t care what her paperwork says, she isn’t American. She’s a foreign invader, and a massive ingrate. Reminder: we saved her life. We saved the lives of untold numbers of Somalis. And how did they pay us back? By shooting at us in Somalia and setting up Learing Centers to steal money from America’s poor people. In general, I want every Somali in the United States deported – any we allow to stay better be able to prove their more patriotic than George Washington. We must not permit people like Omar to remain here – stealing our money, calling us racists and telling lies about America. They can do whatever they want back home – in Somalia.

A retired Royal Marine has caused some controversy by saying the way to handle the migration crisis in the UK is to machine gun migrant boats. All I can say regarding Major-General Julian Thompson’s plan is that you’d only have to do it once. Twice, tops. The message would be widely distributed in an exceptionally rapid manner and you’d simply have no boats to shoot at in short order. Naturally, the Tories are joining in with Labour to condemn the patriot’s comment. This is why the Tories are finished in British politics except explicitly as Labour’s poodle. All British patriots are now forced to vote Reform or, even better, Restore Britain.

Given that it looks as if every woman coming in is raped in transit and that a large number of people die along the way and, additionally, the number of British people who end up raped and murdered by the migrants, machine gunning a couple boats will cost far fewer lives and cause much less suffering that not machine gunning them. The thing about crude but effective plans is that they are, well, effective.

It is, of course, Columbus Day. I always like to bring this up: 50 feet.

That is how long the Nina was. This is about from my front door to about 4 feet out my back door. Her beam (width) was about 16 feet. About as wide as my living room. Twenty six men lived in that space for weeks traveling thousands of miles in the open ocean with no hope of rescue if disaster struck.

That takes guts. That makes all complaints about Columbus trivial. He and his crew were incredibly brave men who did something that had to be done – explore the world. No: there aren’t places humans aren’t supposed to go. There aren’t places where if someone else got there first, nobody can even visit. The New World wasn’t off limits.

Furthermore, the highest civilizations of the New World were horrific, anti-human empires that needed to be destroyed (and were destroyed with the eager help of oppressed Natives). Who knows what depths of depravity they would have plumbed had they been left undisturbed? As for the deaths from disease: eventually the Eurasian/African disease environment was going to arrive at the shores of the Americas. And disease killed vastly more (orders of magnitude more) than direct or indirect actions of the Europeans. The social devastation was going to happen at some point – there was no stopping it. Had it not started in 1492 then it would have started in 1517 or 1609 or something…there would be a ship load of Europeans, Africans or Asians who arrived…and, whammo, the diseases would be there. The only way to prevent the rapid population loss was to hold off until after the disease theory was known…but that theory would probably never have been known except for people working in the Americas with the results of the diseases brought in from outside.

And even with that, the Natives now live better than their ancestors could have ever dreamed – even the most impoverished Natives in the Americas in 2026 have access to knowledge which their ancestors in isolation could never have achieved. The best thing to ever happen to the Native population of the Americas was the arrival of Europeans.

So, say a prayer for Columbus and his crews – they did a great service for all humanity on this day, 1492.