More About Lies

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I had a short conversation with someone who identified himself as a fellow independent author. As it turns out, we both write in the Fantasy genre and he asked me what is the worst thing people can do. My answer: lie. The primary sin of my Bad Guys is that they lie. The primary glory of the Good Guys is that they don’t lie, ever.

The guy vehemently disagreed with this and essentially called me a dunce for thinking that. His view? Hatred is the worst thing people can do. This, naturally, means he’s on the Left – though politics never explicitly came up. We can tell that because it is absurd to consider hatred, of itself, a bad thing. To be sure, God orders us to love our enemies (and most people don’t fully understand what that means), but it is clear there are things we’re supposed to hate. Among these things are lies. Only a Leftist would think that hatred is inherently bad – as we’ve also noticed the Left considers discrimination inherently bad…even though you couldn’t have, say, a football team unless you ruthlessly discriminate against anyone who can’t pick up a blitz and then do something about it.

To me, this was a bit of an interesting look into the fundamental divide in the modern world. And there’s no better way to put it than a battle between the sane and the insane. When we’re dealing with the Left, the primary problem we have is they are raving lunatics. They believe things which are not only untrue, but are obviously untrue. Things like: there have been times when atmospheric CO2 was five times (or more!) higher than today and yet life flourished on the planet…and the planet had absolutely no ice…so vastly warmer than today. So, me running a lawn mower is not going to doom the Earth…nor will my cessation of lawn mowing save it. It is simply insane to think it is something to bother with…and this presuming we’re actually in a genuine warming period rather than a mere inter-glacial warming period (I lean towards this being the case – keeping in mind that its an Ice Age as long as there’s any polar ice). But the Leftist lunatics think it is so and their real demand – and I’m not kidding – is the complete ban on oil, coal and natural gas. And they think we’re all gonna die – just a few years from now! – if we don’t do this.

Insane.

But, also, entirely built on lies. People have been lying and lying and lying – whole industries have been called into existence which now make money off the lies. Lies have a gigantic constituency and the lies are spread with great skill to ensure that those who are making bank off nonsense never have to stop…no matter how destructive it all is to actual life on Earth: We are forced to recycle plastics which have zero value…so, we drop them in the bin (which is paid for via graft dollars) so that they can be picked up (more graft) and then sold to a recycling outfit (yet more graft) which then pays China (more and more graft) to ship it outside the USA where it can be ground up and dumped into the ocean. All because of lies which are earnestly believed by insane people. If we had just kept to glass bottles, none of this…if we wanted a genuine green regulation then when corporate America decided to save 5 cents on a glass bottle, we should have said, “nah, guys; stick with the glass”. Which, you know, can be melted and remelted and, if unbroken, and be cleaned and reused endlessly. But there was no graft to be had in that…no lies needed to sustain such a logical thing.

And I’ll keep saying it – nobody agrees with me but I am 100% right: we have to punish liars. Severely. Confiscation. Proscription. In some instances, with violence (a DA who lies and thus lets a felon off who then goes on to kill should be, well, killed; or at least life at breaking rocks). We’re going to have to do it. Trump broke down the door on this – by merely saying “fake news” he exposed it all. But we don’t win until the liars lose. And lose everything.

Open Thread

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Bill Cassidy is out – didn’t even make it to the runoff; came in third, so two other GOPers will vie for Cassidy’s seat this November.

The Usual Suspects are out there deploring this – “just because he wasn’t loyal to Trump!”. News flash: it wasn’t Trump who overwhelmingly voted Cassidy into history’s dust bin. It was the people of Louisiana. Seventy three percent of primary voters voted against Cassidy. That is a complete rejection not by Trump, but by the people.

The proximate cause, of course, was Cassidy voting to impeach Trump in 2021 – voting to do so based on what was a transparent Deep State op on January 6th. In other words, Cassidy wasn’t standing for Law … he was merely cooperating with a Dem op. And that is why he was punished. The GOP base – increasingly MAGA – is fed up with Republicans who help Democrats. It wasn’t the actual vote…it was why he voted like that.

The bottom line is that we’ll no longer tolerate weak-kneed Democrats in GOP clothing…people who only run as Republicans because that is the only way to power in their State or district. If you are to take GOP votes, we want a GOP result. Nobody has to jump on a grenade for Trump. You can be in opposition to this or that Trump policy. Plenty of GOPers are and Trump isn’t saying a word against them…because they aren’t cooperating with Dem ops. Trump doesn’t mind fair give and take – and he knows that the battle is some times knee to groin. He’s ok with that. In fact, he seems to enjoy that. But don’t backstab…don’t get out there repeating Democrat talking points – which are always lies.

The result also shows that MAGA is vibrant – the two advancing are, from what I can tell, MAGA and More MAGA, at least in rhetoric. The base is still with Trump. And if Trump and the MAGA GOP can get these people to show up in November, the result will be amazing. Reminder: all models are based upon the Trump 2024 voter not showing up. Could it end that way? Sure. But Trump and the GOP have a billion dollars in hand to remind these people how important it is to vote.

In 1859, the State of California passed the Pico Act – named after Andres Pico who led the effort. What did it do? Per the Constitution of the United States, it split California into two States – that is, with the consent of the State in question. This Act has never been repealed – it is still on the books in California. It was never completed because the Secession Crisis came on right afterwards and there simply wasn’t any time or desire to deal with it. Post Civil War, it was simply forgotten. But it is a law – and it is still in force. And Trump could do the funniest thing ever by sending the Pico Act back to Congress for their vote on it.

Iran might have thought Trump had forgot about them, but Trump hasn’t – earlier today he issued another warning to them: make a deal or else.

Robert Stacy McCain notes that a good starting point in discussing the odd ideas out there is to check, as it were, the browsing history of their advocates.

Looks like what we all suspected was correct: Omar knew all about the corruption. We need to indict, convict, denaturalize and deport this foreign agent.

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Trump is now in China with quite the retinue – including Musk. And he’s talking up Xi as if he’s the greatest guy, ever. Almost like there’s some big deal already worked out and this summit will merely announce it. We’ll have to wait and see, of course. But do keep in mind that Xi has to make nice with us right now.

A few days ago, two of Xi’s hand-picked military leaders were given suspended death sentences (which works out to life in prison) for corruption – and a host of other lower level military officials are being prosecuted. The Chinese government is corrupt – nothing gets done in China save via bribes, so convicting those two men of bribery merely means they fell out of favor. Why? Can’t say for certain, of course – but you gotta figure that the total failure of China’s weapons to protect Iran is playing a role here. Xi has spent vast sums to build a military capable of challenging the USA and the equipment is a complete bust. It might as well not be there as far as the US and Israeli air forces are concerned.

That, in turn, put a huge squeeze on China. For all the talk of China leading the way in green energy, they still massively rely on oil – cheap oil, provided at a deep discount from Iran. Said oil has not been forthcoming of late! And we still control the spigot…and will continue to control the spigot for a long time to come. At the moment, China can’t engage the USA in direct confrontation – until they manage to build a military force which can challenge us on the seas and in the air, they are entirely dependent upon our good will for survival. As I noted some years back, China is like Germany was back in 1910…very powerful, but still second rate because at the snap of fingers, the British could shut Germany out of the world’s markets. Makes sense for Xi to make a grand deal with Trump and hope that in later years another cowardly, traitorous Democrat will get into the White House and gift China world power.

Side note on this: while China ended the one child policy 11 years ago, Chinese couples still aren’t having a lot of kids…and at the moment the whole Chinese military is made up of the sons of one-child families. That is, the family line goes extinct whenever any Chinese soldier gets killed. This is very sensitive in Chinese culture. China has a military…but it is manned by men whom the Chinese are loath to sacrifice. Used to be, China could always count on endless waves of men for warfare…not so much any longer. Too many Chinese soldiers die and the families of the remainder might decide its time for a complete policy change before their sons – their family lines – are also wiped out.

The Ruling Class is trying to work up the hantavirus as the next Covid pandemic. Don’t know why they’re bothering – none of us are going to fall for it a second time. Until we start seeing people dropping dead right in front of us, we’re going to assume that any “pandemic” is a mere fraud designed to control us.

Democrat Senator Van Hollen tried to ambush FBI director Patel by bringing up the rumor that Patel drinks a lot – this rumor is, by the way, completely unsourced to named witnesses – and Patel responded by bringing up Van Hollen’s recent $7,128.00 bar tab. Van Hollen tried to get out of that by saying it was for 50 people, but that still works out to nearly $143.00 per person…and even in a DC bar with inflated prices, it means everyone pounded down at least 5 drinks. To be fair, that isn’t nearly what me and the shipmates used to do on a 72 hour liberty…but we also weren’t United States Senators…

Nolan’s upcoming Odyssey is rumored to be extremely woke – like woke on SSRI-strength steroids. If so – and it does appear to be the case – then I’ll be disappointed. Nolan has done some really good movies over the years and, in fact, over the past while has made about the only watchable movies. From what I understand, the problem isn’t just a Nolan thing here – in order for any film to get Oscar consideration, you have to check off lots of DEI boxes. If your cast and crew doesn’t, then it won’t matter how good the movie is, it can’t be Oscar nominated. There is a slight hope that Nolan just checked off the boxes and let the story alone, but the word is that he’s using a recent feminist re-write of the epic as his source material (it is claimed as a translation, but if you look into what this lady did, she re-wrote the story with modern Leftist ideology at its core). It looks as though we have another big-budget flop in the works here.

Open Thread

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I’ll just say it: the Martin Luther King model has turned out to be a catastrophe for both America and the black population. It taught that political activism is the way ahead. Straight line from Du Bois to King to the race hustlers of today. Keep in mind that Du Bois – founder of the NAACP – was the son of an immigrant who lived a middle class life in an integrated, American community which gave him so much opportunity that he obtained a PhD from Harvard…but he rejected the ideology of Frederick Douglas which urged integration and became a Pan-Africanist…a black nationalist. This man, who had no connection to American slavery or Jim Crow, used both of those to attack the nation which had given him a great life. And it has simply lead to disaster.

A couple days ago an old man in New York was murdered – pushed onto the subway tracks by a random attacker. The attacker was there because a couple weeks before that, he had assaulted a random woman who refused to press charges because she “didn’t want to see another black man in jail”. This is where race-conscious political activism leads…to complete insanity. Had we kept with Douglas things would have been better. Here is George Washington Carver’s – a man strictly in the tradition of Douglas – eight points of the true Lady or Gentleman:

Be clean both inside and out.

Who neither looks up to the rich nor down on the poor.

Who loses, if needs be, without squealing.

Who wins without bragging.

Who is always considerate of women, children and old people.

Who is too brave to lie.

Who is too generous to cheat.

Who takes his share of the world and lets other people have theirs.

Nobody can improve upon this – it is all anyone needs. If everyone followed these precepts – even if haltingly and with mistakes – this world would approach Paradise. But it was abandoned – and largely so because the white upper class in the USA paid for it to be abandoned. They paid for political activism…because they simply could not imagine a world where black people were their actual equals. I know that sounds weird, but it is so – for all the trouble Klan racism caused, the worst was that of upper class whites in the big cities. It was they who essentially decreed that black Americans could not make it…and so they were going to pay off political radicals who would keep a welfare-dependent black America in line for them. This all needs to be reversed…and the means are now in place. The end of race-based districting is the door being kicked in…the end to racially set-aside political power at the beck and call of urban white liberals.

The media is barely reporting it but the US Navy is winning the battle for the straight decisively – and if this were normal times, we’d now have national heroes to celebrate. But it works out well for Trump so the MSM prefers to ignore the fact that the Iranians tried their best to attack our ships and got totally destroyed without even causing damage. And the blockade continues…Iran is desperately trying to get empty tankers into their ports because they’re running out of storage room for oil…and I guess that if you shut down production you can’t just whistle it back up. That is, once it is cut off, there’s a significant time and effort cost to get it back up and running again…time when you have to spend a lot of money while not making any. I honestly don’t know what game the Iranians think they are playing…Trump will resume strikes if there’s no deal. And as we’ve now got past the War Powers Act time line, he can resume strikes at any time without having to invoke the Act.

The redistricting fight has ended in catastrophe for the Democrats. Do think about it: in response to Democrats massive gerrymanders (which, among other things, shut the GOP out of New England even though 40% of the voters there are GOP), the Republicans did a modest gerrymander in Texas (nowhere near as byzantine as the districts Democrats draw in their gerrymanders). In response, Democrats went flat out…and in Virginia tried to draw a 10-1 gerrymander in a State Trump got 46% of the vote in. To do this, they had to violate laws that they had written! It was Democrats who got Virginia a “non-partisan” redistricting commission. It was theirs – it had already drawn districts overly favorable to Democrats. And there were strict provisions in their own law to prevent redistricting outside the commission structure (this to prevent a transient GOP legislative majority from writing districts!). Democrats ignored all that, forced through their referendum (at the cost of $70 million)…while the GOP just waited for it to be done, got an injunction against the results and then a SCOVA ruling on the obvious…it was against the law for Democrats to do that. Now its at least even money for the GOP to hold the House (personally, I think it’ll be 222 or better GOP, but we’ll see)…because in response to the Democrat outrage in Virginia and the SC ruling that race-based districts are unconstitutional (mostly because they are), Red State after State is redrawing districts. Florida already has their new districts…and we’re going to get 4 more GOP reps out of the State.

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Just astonishing – MSMers who slander Trump on the regular are still so obsessed with him that they’ll make up stories of being close to the man. Look, if I don’t like a man, I stay away from him. Why in heck would I want to spend my time with or fussing over someone I don’t like? But these insane liars seem to feel some need to be TDS 24/7. It is clinical by now.

We’re getting more immigration sob stories – this one related to an India guy here for 20 years on a temporary (!) visa who was allegedly sad that he couldn’t get home to see momma die. But if you dig into it, you see that it is Indian bureaucracy which is the ultimate source of the lag time on paperwork…what he’s really upset about is that the USA wasn’t basically waiving all the requirements because India’s bureaucracy has been massively downhill since the end of the Raj.

And, of course, we used to just waive it all – GOP, Democrat, didn’t matter. Come on in! Take an American job! Live the life that an American family was supposed to have! Trump changed all that. And now we’re supposed to weep bitter tears over it. But, guys: if you immigrate, you are living kith and kin. That’s the thing about this. He wasn’t forced to miss his mother’s death…he abandoned her twenty years ago. His choice. His desire. His result.

I admit that I did have some concern that the sob stories would work. That is, as Trump ramped up deportations the sob stories would convince the American people to abandon the project. I’m really rather impressed at how well we’re all handling it…the usual comment on the sob stories range from “good” to “deport them all”. I think we’re at last fed up with this – the idea that we’re the world’s refuse tip and everyone gets to get in here, wreck our world and demand we feel sorry for them. Nothing doing. I’ve got the solution for every foreigner worried about mommy – go back home and look after her. We’ve been lied to just a bit too often.

And that gets me over to political prognostication. Sure, its a mid-term with our guy in the White House. The normal snap-back from a Presidential year is a thing. It happens almost all the time. But not all the time. Some times intervening events give the White House party the win. Back in 2002 it was W riding high in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Here in 2026, I think we also have a deeply disturbing, national event which will help shape the November vote:

Democrats are insane.

Remember that Clinton – and even Obama – would pretend to a moderate view. Neither of them were in any way moderate, but they could pretend. They would speak the sweet, soft words while the Maoism was deeply buried in the bowels of Democrat think tanks and other institutions. Not any longer – the crazies are out in force. It is said that Barney Frank – now on his death bed, and do say a prayer for him – has warned the Democrats they are going to far Left. If Frank is saying this – and he’s pretty kook Left, himself – then you know its gone ’round the bend. They are seriously committed – I’ve seen the ads! – to stopping ICE. They want impeachment on Day One. They are openly opposing the Laken Riley Act. People are already turned off…and Trump and the GOP have combined about a billion dollars to put all of this front and center starting after Labor Day.

As long as Trump remains firm and the economy continues to improve (and its already on fire – the MSM isn’t reporting it but we’re surging), then I think we can win…definitely hold the Senate and 50/50 we hold the House (it is such a narrow majority that just a couple votes breaking different ways might decide it). I rooted around and found my posts from early August, 2024 on X…yep, I was saying Trump was going to win. Why? Objective factors. Not polls! I was looking at things like voter registration trends…and they almost all favored the GOP. The still almost all favor the GOP. If Trump is as unpopular as the MSM makes out, the GOP would not be gaining these new voters. Simple as.

We’ll find out soon enough!

Time to Enforce Civilization

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In Delta State, Nigeria, allegedly during something called the Alue-Do fertility festival, gangs of young men were caught on video assaulting women. Broad daylight. Girls stripped of their clothes and manhandled. This has sparked outrage around the world and a criminal investigation by the Nigerian government…but as local leaders are denying it happened (in spite of ample video evidence that it did) my expectation is that it’ll all be swept under the rug.

We’ve all heard of the horrific Islamist attacks on Nigerian Christians and Delta State is predominantly Christian so this is surprising…until you realize that “predominant” doesn’t mean “everyone”. Quite of lot of paganism survives in the area – and this festival, whatever it actually is, stems from pagan practices. This is just more proof that it takes a while – a long while – to get people to be civilized. And from what I can glean from reports about the area, it seems that the traditional – pagan – social structure is politically dominant. This is not surprising as Christianity is always a bottom up social movement…that is, the poor and oppressed are usually the first people to get baptized…the rulers come last and usually fight a desperate, rear guard battle. Because, of course, the prime mark of a Christian society is that everyone has to be treated with respect. You know: no gangs of men roaming the streets and assaulting women with impunity.

What this means is that, once again, if we are to have immigrants from this area, they have to be carefully vetted. I know, personally, some Nigerian Catholics and they are as Christian, educated and civilized as you can want. Far more so than that section of the American population which is rapidly barbarizing under Leftist policies. It is just the vetting that the Left doesn’t want – because, in the end, they don’t want civilized Nigerian Christians coming in. No more than they want civilized Boers coming in. They want the savages…the descendants of those whom Garnet Wolseley whacked very firmly back in the 19th century – and who very much deserved that whacking. Just as their savage progeny need a whacking today. The Left wants barbarism because the total destruction of the Christian West is their goal – has been since the first, fevered Leftist imaginings of Robespierre and Danton during the French Revolution.

To fully get where we need to be, we must stamp out the idea that all cultures are equal. They aren’t. Not by a long shot. All humans are created equal – all of us are equally God’s children – but the social structures of the world are not all equal. Some are good. Some are bad. Some are downright evil. It is an evil culture which has gangs of men assaulting women in broad daylight. I don’t care that some of that culture are claiming the assaults aren’t what it is all about – the damned culture still created bands of young men brutally assaulting women in the streets. Whatever that culture has which led to this outcome is a bad culture and it needs to be changed. It is results which ultimately matter – every last human being on Earth has an absolute right to be in the public square without even a hint of violence being directed at them. If there’s a culture out there that isn’t doing this, then it is time for some changes. Compulsory changes if they aren’t voluntarily forthcoming.

As President Bukele of El Salvador recently pointed out: what about the human rights of the victims? We have entirely lost sight of that – orchestrated by Leftists who hate us, we have fallen into the habit of being solicitous of the well being of the robber, the rapist and the murderer. Sure, they have rights – but so does everyone else. And the robber, rapist and murderer are out to violate rights…we must not weep too many tears if the bad guys are in for a bit of rough treatment. They made their choice. It was a bad one. They will now have to pay – and pay a high price. We must whip the barbarians back into their caves – simply because we all have a right to peace.

Reality Emerges

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Watched Trump and King Chuck give their speeches before the State dinner – Trump was in good form, clearly enjoying himself. And Charles also seemed pleased as punch. This ultimately stems from both men simply knowing who they are and further knowing that nobody can take it away from them. I have many disagreements with Charles and I’m horrified at his going along with Islamists in the UK…but he has that self-confidence which is supposed to be the supreme mark of the gentleman. Trump has it, too. It is a crucial aspect of leadership – knowing who you are. Not having to pretend and not wanting to, either. People like Biden and Clinton have faked it their whole lives. Obama, too. They have to say the enormous lies because it is their way of establishing dominance…to lie to our faces and defy us to do anything about it. Charles may be wrong about things – heck, Trump may be wrong about things – but they’re going to say what they want to say and not try to bamboozle us. It seems clear that Charles and Trump get along – because they recognize each other.

And that is the way it is supposed to be. We will not all agree. Not ever. At least, not this side of every knee bending and every tongue confessing that Jesus is Lord. But we’re supposed to meet each other on the level. Even war with each other on the level. That is what is really missing in modern society – it is so stuffed with cowards and cheats who lie to cover up that the whole world stinks. Everything is a crisis. Nothing gets solved because the liars and cheats won’t let us – fearful that if we fix things, we’ll start to ask why the liars and cheats are living so well.

But that is changing. Sure, Comey’s indictment might not lead to any jail time – but it is an indictment. It is a statement that a lying weasel is just that – and should be treated as such. We’re going after the fraudsters. We’re exposing the liars. We’re bringing reality back…and in reality, those who are truly worthwhile start to emerge, as from the shadows..and at times in quite terrifying forms because we’re simply so unused to it.

You think about the great leaders of the past – Caesar, Napoleon, Lincoln and Bismarck…towering figures who dwarfed all those around them. But, also, not terrifying because they rose out of reality. Napoleon beat Francis II time and time again…but never once did Francis lose his nerve or throw in the towel…he bided his time, built his army, forged his alliances and went to work with a will when the time came. Because Francis was as real as Napoleon. Grant as real as Lincoln. But who is as real as Trump? Vance. Hegseth. Rubio. But keep in mind these men, too, were initially dismayed by Trump…they, too, had bought the fraud that to be great was to be to at least some degree a liar and a cheat…all the liars and cheats said so. But under Trump’s auspices, these men – and many others – have come to firm ground, and they are becoming real, too. All of us who haven’t gone insane with TDS are simply better at it than we were pre-Trump. Less afraid to speak. More willing to risk. Quickly penetrating the fraud. We might disagree with each other. We might be mistaken. Even gravely so. But we’re all real – we’re all thinking and doing and trying to get to the truth as best we can.

I, for one, am glad go be in the real world.

Crucial Times are Coming

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The Democrats have placed their bet on people hating Trump in sufficient numbers to get them back into power – in their world, what is on the news is real. The protests are real. The polls are real. The endless articles and talking heads saying that Trump is doomed and MAGA is dead are real.

Could they be right?

Infinite universe: anything is possible.

But now that SPLC has been indicted for essentially funding the KKK for years, we really do see that the opposition is manufactured on all levels. We know the votes are fake – the Democrats only have significant national power because they have One Party control over quite a lot of America. Forty percent of New England voted for the GOP in the 2024 House elections and yet not one of New England’s 21 House members are GOP. Any sort of fair and honest system and the GOP should have six to eight of those seats. We got thirty nine percent of the House vote in California but only seventeen percent of the House seats. Should have 20. Think of that – Democrat corrupt politics have denied us at least twenty six seats just in those two States. Sure, there are some Red States which might have got a few more Democrats in but the GOP hasn’t been nearly as ruthless in gerrymandering as the Democrats plus we don’t cheat. That is, we don’t find votes weeks after election day to make sure our guy gets in. Democrat cheating over 2022 and 2024 probably cost is four or five Senate seats as well. And with the fake votes giving Democrats power they have not earned so, too, fake protests against us. All ginned up via Democrat money to give the appearance of actual opposition. Same with the lawsuits – Democrats under Obama and Biden stuffed the federal courts with rank partisans of the worst sort; people who know their job is to rule in favor of Democrats no matter how absurd and illegal the argument is. Just do it. Don’t care. You’ll be protected.

For many years this fraud has given the Democrats power and they are confident it will continue to do so. But here’s the real weakness of the One Party State – it moves itself into increasing insanity. Without any check on power, the most stupidly extreme rule the roost. The Democrats are expecting a snap-back in November because people hate Trump. But if people don’t hate Trump – at least, not in sufficient numbers – then the driver of the vote will be how insanely stupid the Democrats are. Illegals. Criminals. Welfare and Medicaid corruption. They’re defending all of this – and promising a Day One impeachment of Trump. Do the American people want to vote for a two year impeachment drama in DC? We’re going to find out – but my expectation is that they’ll reject it. Especially as Trump and the GOP are floating on money while the Democrats are broke. Not for nothing was Trump’s first target NGO funding…because he knew that Democrat donors are also fake. It was all just kickbacks…get the grant, kick back a percentage of it to the DNC. The grants have dried up and so has Democrat money. And that means as we get into September Democrat insanity will be playing on a loop on TV while the Democrats simply don’t have enough money to counter it.

Don’t get me wrong – they do still loom up powerful in front of us. Trump still doesn’t have 100% control over all federal agencies…Democrat moles plus lawfare have curbed Trump’s ability to gain control of the Executive power which is solely vested in him as President. Every national institution is still dead set against us. We still have RINOs sabotaging us…and attention-hound Righties willing to sell us out for a few Democrat dollars. Against all of this is Trump and MAGA. Are we strong enough? We know Trump is, but are we? Will we let the Democrat pysop get to us? Depress us? Convince us to stay home? We’ll find that out, too.

2026 and 2028 will be the crucial elections in the life of America. If we can hang on to Congressional power in 2026 and get Vance or just about any other GOPer in for 2028, then we’re going to win all down the line. The Democrats will have less and less money. More and more criminal investigations will grind forward. More and more DNC moles in the Executive branch will be booted. We’ll reach the tipping point probably in 2030 as the census comes in and the shift of House and Electoral College power to the GOP will start a stampede for the exits on those who support the Democrats. The Democrats won’t be the Establishment any longer. We will be. And one thing Establishment people demand is to be part of the game…they’ll make their peace with us and turn with fury and scorn upon those they backed the day before. And even though most Republicans don’t know this – and most Democrats don’t, either – the Democrat leaders do. Oh, they know. They know how only corruption keeps them in power. That the longer MAGA remains in control the more of their scam will be revealed. They know they are doomed if they don’t win it all by 2028 – they need a trifecta in order to undo Trump’s legacy, pack the Court and simply rule being American unconstitutional. Forever. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent this.

Personally, I think we’re going to win – that there is just enough patriotism left in America to prevent us from falling into the death spiral of Europe and Canada.

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Trump pretty much said what I’ve been saying – there is no actual government in Iran; just various factions striving for control. We, of course, want the faction that will deal with us to win…and my guess is that, for now, that faction is back door asking us to hold back – and so Trump has extended the ceasefire while still keeping up the blockade. This is because the faction which hates us the most is the one that needs money the most…that is, you can’t pay your goons without cold, hard cash.

I’ve been saying forever that you can’t take our enemies at face value. They don’t actually believe it. I mean, sure: there are always fools who can be suckered into believing just about anything. But those who call the tune never do. As Hitler’s armies approached Moscow in 1941 the whole Soviet leadership took off running…except for Stalin, and that because he knew if he fled he’d be killed almost immediately by the rest of the leaders. So much for being Communist stalwarts…they weren’t: they were sucking Russia dry to live better than the Czars and when it looked like the game was over, they ran (with sacks of money and fake identities). So, too, with the Nazi leadership. Most of it just took off running or, if cornered, killed itself. True believers would have crawled out of the rubble and insisted on having their say – proud of what they had done and ready to defend it against all comers. But what it did was Himmler…shave off the mustache, grab the fake ID (made months before because he knew it was over) and try to make to a cache of cash and gold so he could get the heck out of Dodge.

The fanatic faction in Iran is lead by men who know they have no way out – if there isn’t a Mullah regime under their control, then they’ve got nothing. No place to hide. No money, either. Nothing. So, might as well keep it up and hope for the best. But they will run for the hills if the end really does come…because they don’t believe it. Never have. It was just a rationale for obtaining money, power, what have you. This does make for a rocky ground for Trump to go over…but he also holds every last advantage. There is nothing Iran has that the world needs…it is even finding out that it doesn’t need Iranian oil. Time is very much on our side here.

Democrats managed to get their gerrymander through in Virginia – via mail in ballots which went +45 for the referendum in a State that looks like it went overall +4 for it…meaning that without those sacks of mail in ballots, the measure would have gone down to flaming defeat. And, of course, the Democrats held back their reporting until the rest of the State was in…because they weren’t sure just how many votes they’d need. Trump’s DOJ should open an investigation into it – I’m sure it is rotten to the core. But it is also going to spur Florida to just take those seats away.

Meanwhile, we simply must win 2028 so that we have control of the 2030 census. An honest census is going to lock Democrats out of the House and the Electoral College for a generation. It is the win it all election. For both sides.

Trump’s DOJ indicted members of the racist hate group, SPLC. And about time. But what is coming out is what we suspected all along – the SPLC was paying for “racist right wingers”. The Charlottesville protest was their op…and we’re now all betting that most of the BLM/Antifa actions were bankrolled the same way. And there’s more than an even money chance that this is how the J6 riots originated.

The Mets are now 0-12 since Mamdani gave their mascot a hug. And 45-71 since the raised the Pride flag at the start of a game last season.

Something, something about not being mocked…

America 250 Must Be About America

Mark Noonan27 Comments

Aboard the SMS Von Der Tann on the afternoon of May 31st, 1916 was one really good gun grew. Nobody will ever know for certain which actual gun did it, but in one of her dual 11 inch gun turrets, the crew managed to hit HMS Indefatigable right into the top of her A turret causing an near-instant detonation of Indefatigable’s magazine, blowing the ship into literal pieces – so bad that only two of her 1,019 officers and men survived. Now, we don’t know the names of the men in Von Der Tann who did the actual deed, but suppose one of them was, say, Swahili. This would, aside from surprising the rest of the gun crew, be an utterly insignificant fact. In today’s world, though, we are told we have to concentrate on the odd man out. If we don’t, then we’re “erasing history”.

This is not to denigrate the effort of our odd man – in any human event, it is all the people who participate who matter. In the major human events – good and bad – it is the collective effort of many which makes the thing happen. And if the deed is honorable and the people involved did well, then we honor them – perhaps even to raising statues in their memory. But the individuals of the mass are not historically significant. What was going on that May day in 1916 wasn’t a man or a group of men laying a gun just the right way to totally destroy an enemy whip – the event was the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval engagement of World War One.

There are a host of things to consider about the Battle of Jutland. The commanders. The ships. The training. The equipment. The positions over time. Any student of history could spend a whole life time just studying this one engagement and still be pulling nuggets of useful and/or interesting information out of it. But what no historian needs to know is if any particular person aboard any ship was gay, or non-white, or any other thing. It doesn’t matter. What matters is what people did collectively under the leadership of the two fleets engaged. It is important for us to study deeply the life of John Jellicoe – the British commander – because that can give us insights into why he might have made this decision rather than that at a crucial moment. That Class II Stoker Nigel Farmsworth aboard the HMS Defense might have been secretly bisexual is entirely irrelevant.

I bring this up because we’re now in the run-up to America 250 and we’re getting demands that we stop paying attention to trivial things like George Washington and start paying attention to this or that odd person. What black people did. What Natives did. Yadda, yadda, yadda on and on. Just can’t stand this nonsense. It isn’t important that Prince Estabrook was a black man – what is important is that he and a bunch of other men stood up to Royal tyranny at Lexington and Concord. It mattered that Estabrook was there – as much as it mattered that the rest were there. But in the deep tides of history, that he was black simply does not matter. And if we’re going to study the Revolutionary War, our first task is to fully understand Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, etc…the people who led the way…the people who took the sublime heroism of Estabrook and his fellow patriots and forged a nation with it.

It is time to take our history back – to stop this looking for the DEI entry in every historical event. It probably just insults the memories of those who were there as they would be stunned that we even care about such trivial things. My bet is that if Estabrook could talk to us right now, he’s modestly say he was just doing his part…like all those who were there would say. Because that is what they were doing…not making a point for us in 2026. The American Revolution – the creation of the United States of America – is the most important purely human event in history. It created the freest, most powerful nation to ever be – and likely ever will be. It was a distillation of human history into its finest form – the end of all argument about what a civil society is supposed to be. The creation of the standard by which all over nations are to be judged. What is the skin color or gender of any participant compared with that? Nothing at all.

This great and glorious America is worth preserving – but it can only be preserved if people remember how it came to be and why. Who moved the world. Why did we decide on this form. That is what needs to be told…not some nonsense designed merely to please someone in 2026 who hates America anyways.