The State of the Union.

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Now that we’ve had most of 24 hours to sort of absorb it all and think it over, gotta say I think Trump’s SOTU was an unqualified triumph. He’s really getting very good at this – he even managed a bit of Reaganesque rhetoric in there, especially at the end.

He laid out a vision of a powerful, growing America…finally ditching Jimmy Carter’s “era of limits” which, to one degree or another, had been adopted by everyone, Right and Left, in the United States. The idea that we’ve peaked and all we can do is manage the decline and, hey, enjoy the time you’re in because the successor generations will have it worse. It doesn’t have to be like that. Never has to be for any nation.

People choose to decline – as Will Durant put it, no nation is destroyed from without: it is only from within that a nation can die. You think about the Poles and the Irish…for centuries under hostile, foreign rule. With their national identity often made illegal. But they endured and waited and worked and fought, and once the hostile foreign power withdrew, there was the nation. To be sure, Ireland over the past twenty years has opted for national suicide, but that is the choice of the people now…the people of the past felt the nation was worth preserving. The peoples we see today entering national degradation have chosen it as the easier course of action. No longer having to fight for their daily bread, they are ok with their nations dying as long as there’s free food in the fridge and something mindless to watch on TV or the internet. It is sad, but it is a choice – and they can choose at any time to reverse course.

What we did when we voted Trump in 2024 was reverse the course. 2016 was more of a last effort to just stop the decline – we’d allow things to be as they were as long as they didn’t get any worse. We found out that our Rulers insisted on things getting worse…and we also found that we can’t stand still. It is either advance, or retreat. In 2024 we chose to advance. The Left often asks us “is this what you voted for?” as they show us something that is supposed to make us feel bad. But we’re over here going, “I didn’t vote for that, exactly, but some months back Team Trump stopped doing what I voted for and started on things I wish I had voted for.”

The Democrats were walked to the chopping block by Trump in his SOTU and they eagerly did exactly what he had scripted for them. They could have easily taken the wind out of his sails had they just stood up and applauded when Trump said the primary purpose of our government is to serve the American people, not the illegal aliens. They didn’t. They couldn’t – or, at least, they felt they couldn’t. Everything they have done in their lives – all the lies, the insanity, the theft – compelled them to sit on their hands…or even shout their disapproval over this sentiment, which is probably a 90/10 issue among the American people. It was their chance to actually fight back against Trump…but it would also be good for Trump, so they refused: and set themselves up for defeat here in 2026 and 2028.

We’ll have to see how the vote goes, but I just can’t imagine a world where the American people vote into power those who clearly show they hate the United States. There is no offer of a better tomorrow from the Democrats…just a return to the past, but made worse. They promise us more illegals. More fraud. More freakish sociological experiments. More hatred. More death – all accompanied by spreading poverty as they sell the last of our capacity to China. The Democrats lack the physical capacity to cheat their way to victory…they have already secured all the power they can with voter fraud. If they don’t have a message that resonates, they’ve got nothing.

Having shrieking, hate filled aliens who are clearly on the take as the face of the Democrat party also doesn’t help them. The United States is not that – we don’t care about your homeland’s stone age barbarism and the complaints they make about being treated like barbarians. We see you up there, clearly hating our country and we know: you aren’t legitimate. You didn’t secure power by merit or by the vote…you were engineered into office by a corrupt political system which feels it must reserve a certain number of seats to your like. The broad majority is repulsed…and will punish the party which thinks it is good to have anti-Americans in Congress.

This still won’t be easy – the Democrats are still hoping their rhetoric will set off so many lunatics that one will be able to do the deed…both to Trump and Vance. The Democrats will still use their bogus federal judges to defy the law. They will still have the MSM lying for them 24/7. But I do believe we will win – that we ripped the bandage off in 2024 and we’re now healing, with the true America gaining strength and confidence by the day. We now know that we don’t have to just put up with it…we can actually stop it, reverse it, replace it with something better. And I believe the American people will just want more of this as time goes on.

Mexico and the World of Make Believe

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When Zachary Taylor marched his army into Mexico in 1846 along with finding Mexicans to fight, he also found Mexicans who wanted nothing to do with Mexico. That is, plenty of people in northern Mexico were desperate to be annexed to the USA – anything to get out of Mexico’s clutches. And even among the Mexicans who fought, it wasn’t particularly well. At Buena Vista, Taylor was outnumbered about four to one and he totally crushed the Mexican army – don’t get me wrong, Mexicans are as brave as any and there were some attacks pressed home with determination…but at the end of the day, the Mexican army at Buena Vista – fighting deep inside Mexican territory – was fought to a standstill and then had to be withdrawn because its commanders sensed that the men were about to desert en masse. In other words, it wasn’t a national army of patriots…but a conscript force of peasants who simply would not grit it out in defense of a country – and Ruling Class – they cared nothing about.

I believe this was because Mexico was a mistake. How did Mexico become independent? Well, Augustin de Iturbide – the commander of the Spanish army in Mexico – switched sides. It would be akin to us winning independence by putting Cornwallis in command of the Continental Army. In other words, pure farce. Why did Iturbide switch sides? Because he had been dismissed from command for cruelty and corruption. He got past that via influential friends but once reappointed to command, he looked for his first chance to betray Spain. After independence, he tried to set himself up as Emperor of Mexico but was swiftly overthrown and forced into exile. Returning a few years later, he was arrested by some of his opponents and shot after a bogus trial. But this doesn’t really get down to the nitty gritty – the fact that Mexico wasn’t fighting for independence in the manner the thirteen colonies had.

It wasn’t a matter that not everyone was on board (like here in the USA), but that people were fighting for completely different things…and it boiled down to various factions fighting for personal advantage. It was all just one very big mess and it was a ghastly tragi-comedy which persisted in Mexico until Diaz put down everyone and installed himself as President from 1876 to 1911. And in that period of stability he sort of crafted a story of Mexico and imposed it on the people – nothing like a couple generations of power to convince people that your justification for remaining in power is the actual story of your people. And then even that all fell apart and Mexico was consumed by ten years of civil war until the people who eventually created the PRI won control and set up a system to perpetuate themselves indefinitely in power under the guise of Democracy but with the elections fake and the outcomes predetermined. When the PRI started to fall apart in the late 1990’s there was a brief glimmer of hope that Mexico would finally get a government of consent…but then the rise of the Cartels in the early part of the 21st century nixed that.

And here we are – now there’s apparent Cartel war in Puerto Vallarta with the backdrop of a Mexican “government” which says it won’t use the army to fight the Cartels because that might violate human rights. In other words, the “government” of Mexico is no such thing – just a facade for the various Cartels who now battle it out to control territory and income…with the problem being the massive reduction in Cartel income following Trump’s closure of the border. My bet is that the Cartels, feeling the pinch, are now fighting over domestic income streams – and Puerto Vallarta with its huge influx of tourist dollars is a plum worth plucking…if you have the power to oust the current Cartel owners (don’t worry too much over stories that it was the Mexican military that zapped the Cartel boss…think of the Mexican military as yet another Cartel…it is certainly controlled by Cartels).

Why bring all this up? Well, outside the fact that we might have to intervene in Mexico for our own security needs, I think this needs to be said – and said again and again. That is: stop living in the world of make believe. We’ve maintained this pretense that Mexico has a legitimate government that we can deal with on the square. Never have we had such a thing. Now, this doesn’t mean we can’t be expedient about things, but let us have no illusions about it. We’re dealing with a clique, not a government – there is no legitimacy in it…it was engineered into power via shadowy forces and it will be replaced by the same sort of machinations.

So, too, it goes all around the world. Nigeria isn’t a country – its a colonial leftover encompassing at least five distinct peoples, most of whom hate each other with a passion. It is like jamming together France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Greece and calling it one country. The raids against Christians are carried out by Muslims…with the Muslims and Christians having distinct national identities, neither of which are “Nigerian”…but the fiction is kept alive – mostly by the Muslims – because the Christians hold the most valuable real estate (ie, that which has the oil). South Africa – not a country. Syria – not a country. Algeria – not a country (its borders and national identity are leftovers of French rule). And even some genuine countries – that is real peoples who’s borders roughly coincide with them – don’t have real governments; just like Mexico doesn’t. Iran – not a real government. Zimbabwe – not a real government. Sudan – not a real government. As for the EU – definitely getting deep into “not a real government” there…so much manipulation and fraud that we’re getting to the point where we can’t be certain any government there reflects the will of the people.

The world is not civilized any longer. I’ve seen posts on X from Canadians who went “elbows up” and decided to vacation in Mexico instead of the USA…to teach us Yanks a lesson. Hey, I used to love going to Mexico…but I haven’t been in about twenty years. Why not? Because when they start finding the bodies of dismembered people and nobody is arrested for it, I decide that place isn’t a good vacation destination. You’ve got to think about the people who go to Mexico – they’re betting their lives that the Cartels will keep them safe. To be sure, most of the time it is so…but if the Cartels decide its time for some death, then death is coming and there is no power in Mexico which can protect you from it. So, I’ll just have a taco here at home and keep Mexico as a fond memory of the past. I wouldn’t travel outside the USA these days if you paid me to do so – heck, even here at home barbarism is spreading, but at least here I’m on my own ground…I know the rules and can navigate my way through it. To be a foreigner? Heck no. Not even for a minute. There is no law out there – just power; and if power decides I gotta die, then dead I’ll be.

We need to take a long, hard look at things. These days, only a few foreign nations are in any way reliable – Japan, Argentina, El Salvador, Israel, UAE…maybe a half dozen others among the whole bunch. The rest of the world is a series of corrupt, cruel and increasingly incompetent factions fighting for control over dying societies. We are now faced with a battle to save ourselves – to Make America Great Again – and this will absorb the next twenty years. Our main foreign policy goal is to enforce as much peace as possible – mostly by a mix of force and persuasion. You know: sometimes kidnapping a foreign potentate who got on our nerves, other times offering them a deal which keeps them alive as long as they stop funding Hamas. But the purpose is to keep things as quiet as possible – as cheaply as possible – while we set our house in order and restore civilization here at home.

In light of this, what Trump will do with Mexico must be – and I believe it will be – in line with our needs. We don’t want a chaotic Mexico. But we can’t live with a Cartel Mexico, either. Something has to give…and it can’t be done with worries over offending Mexican national sensibilities which we can’t be sure even exist outside rent-a-mobs waving Mexican flags. So, too, our dealings with all nations comes into focus…and the Trump Doctrine emerges: we want peace. We will make a deal even if you’re just a mafia which took over a country. If you don’t take the deal…things will go badly for you.

Open Thread

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The Chicago Bears may become the Gary, Indiana Bears soon – part of this is just the usual pro sports team looking for taxpayer handouts for a new stadium…but part of it is that Chicago is becoming unlivable. The Bears, as an organization, want a first rate stadium which is in an area where families are happy to come watch a game.

Gary is, of course, part of the large Chicago metropolitan area but as it is in Indiana, it has a government run by sane people. Huge difference! Add in lower tax rates and you get a massive incentive to bail out of Chicago. We’ve mentioned this before – Democrat governance is getting worse and worse and people are starting to notice…and I mean really starting to notice. The failures of the Blue model are becoming an albatross around the Democrats’ neck. New York City will simply put this perception of Democrat insane failure on steroids.

Both the Canadian and European militaries are working up plans to recruit large numbers of foreigners into their armed forces. The official reason is to increase diversity – the actual reason is they want a new Waffen-SS which will have no problem with shooting Europeans and Canadians who get out of line…and who will have a vested interest in making sure the regimes they serve never fall. Things like this plus Spanish and French plans to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegals so they can vote give the game away – the Western Ruling Class knows it is doomed unless it can find some way to oppress Western people. It is sad. I hope the Canadians and Europeans rise up and overthrow their governments…but as they are unarmed and sunk into sloth and cowardice, I don’t think they will.

On the other hand, Rupert Lowe has founded Restore Britain – a new political party explicitly committed to kicking the migrants out and making Britain British again. Naturally, everyone is calling him a racist – including the guys over at Reform. Gotta keep in mind that when the MSM called Reform “far Right” they really meant “not totally Leftist insane”. Reform does have some good elements in it – but like the Tories, they are still Labour-lite. That is, like the old line GOP, merely committed to slowing down the death of the country. Restore is the British MAGA. They are growing by leaps and bounds as they are actually speaking what has been on British minds for decades (the British people never, not even once, voted for the foreign invasion of their country)…what we’ll find out at the next election is whether or not there are enough patriots in Britain to form a government…or overthrow the current one if voting fails to get the job done.

Former Prince Andrew got arrested – and I really can’t imagine why. The British government just refused to investigate foreign grooming gangs because it would cause offense…so why do they care what Andrew was up to? I can only figure they want this as some sort of distraction from how catastrophically unpopular the Labour government has become.

The 79th person was just indicted in the “feed our children” welfare scam…Trump Time is bizarre and one thing crowds out another…but always keep at the back of your mind that Team Trump is remorselessly grinding away even when the cameras are pointed elsewhere.

Open Thread

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Democrats, MSMers and RINOs are all in Campaign Mode. You know – “it is OVER! The GOP has Lost! There is nothing that can stop the Democrat juggernaut in November! Trump has failed!” And they trot out the same polls which got 2024 wrong as proof of it all…spliced together with articles like “you know, I was like totally talking to this construction guy in south Texas and everyone is going to vote Democrat because Trump is deporting the illegals who worked the jobs”. Oh, and guys, the events in Minnesota are seared into the public mind and they all hate Trump for it.

Hey, we’ll see how it comes out – if the American people want the illegals to stay, the boys to keep playing in girls sports and carbon taxes on being normal, then that is what they’ll get. But I have my doubts about that – especially as Team Trump/GOP is already starting to use their vast campaign funds to advertise. Those videos we had of Leftist rioters waving Mexican flags? Yeah, that’s gonna start showing up on the TV…it’ll probably show up a lot for the World Series. Democrats are still for “they/them” and the GOP is for you.

Here’s what it is: the Democrats are playing the Wizard of Oz like hours after the curtain has been pulled back. We know it is all fake. But they keep pushing the buttons and working the controls as if we aren’t right there, watching them lie while pointing and laughing at them. Twenty years ago, the scenes in Minnesota would really have been seared…because there was no force to question the MSM Narrative and no GOPer with the guts to stand up against the Narrative. Now we have X and Trump…it just doesn’t work any longer.

Zeek Akram appears to be a black guy who doesn’t have a problem with MAGA. Personally, I only just recently encountered his account for the first time but he’s been there for six years. Anyways, whoever he is, exactly, he captured the truth perfectly with this:

The old charge of racism just doesn’t work on us. FFS, my granddaughter is mixed race. I don’t know anyone among my friends who doesn’t have at least some mixture added to the cracker. Who do I want my granddaughter to eventually marry? Of course a steely-eyed missile man of supreme courage and good looks with buckets of money…but the reality is that as long as the guy is sober, hard working and kind…we’re cool. Beyond that it doesn’t really matter.

The crucial thing the Groypers don’t get is that you don’t have to be white to be civilized. You just have to be civilized. Thomas Sowell is exceptionally civilized. More so, indeed, than some Groyper moron out there thinking the Jews had it coming in 1933. But the Left also doesn’t get it on the other side…to be civilized you have to be civilized. You can’t be eating rice with your fingers or taking a dump on the street…nor can you engage in “honor killing” of your wayward daughter, nor clog a street with prayer in the middle of the day. It doesn’t matter what skin color the barbarians have…if they are barbarians, they have to be kept out. As I’ve said before, I’ll trade an uncivilized American white person for a civilized Nigerian Catholic farmer any day of the week. I like the Mexicans who live behind my house much better than the drunken white people who used to live there.

I think we are on the cusp of really resolving the race issue in the United States. Sure, for the next few election cycles the Democrats will race-bait in the most cruel ways imaginable. But I don’t think it will work – that, in fact, we’ll start to see a larger and more durable shift of non-white voters to the GOP. In the end, the battle is between the Useful and the Useless. A “studies” professor is as useless as a welfare bum…and they vote the same way. But what does the black working man have in common with the black welfare bum? Nothing. He’s far more like the white working man. The Latino working man. The Asian working man. The key is “working man”. The men and women who actually get things done in the USA are all of one class…color blind and gender neutral. They just want to be able to work in peace, keep what they earn and raise their families in safe neighborhoods. Some of them are poor…some of them are billionaires. But they all want the same basic things…and I think they are about to win, over the next two or three cycles, complete power in the USA.

Open Thread

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The latest wrinkle Leftist federal district judges have come up with – if you are illegally in the USA for some undetermined period of time and “put down roots” you now have a legal interest in remaining in the USA and can’t be deported – or even detained – without due process of law. This is entirely in violation of the law as written. There is no “if you get away with it long enough” exception to immigration law. Sure, the appellate courts will eventually strike it down but then these judges will just try the next thing…because the law doesn’t matter to them. They are in place simply to impose Democrat policy preferences regardless of what the law says, or the people vote for.

We have to arrest them – we have tens of thousands of federal statutes on the books and these judges are in violation of some of them. Sure, pretty much all of us are to one degree or another…but the law is the law and if we find the violation, we can bring the charges. It is the only way I can think of to curb these people…to let them know we’re serious. Impeachment won’t work because of the 67 vote requirement in the Senate. So, we must find some other expedient to stop these ridiculous rulings from fanatics in judicial robes.

There’s a new STD floating around out there – Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype. No, I had never heard of it, either. But, then again, I don’t get out much these days. It is a fungal infection which seems to have originated among sex tourists in Asia and it is commonly spread via sexual activity among “men who have sex with men”…which is the CDC’s way of not saying “homosexuals”. Apparently there is now a large outbreak in Minnesota…so, we wait for word on where the male officials of the State government have been vacationing of late.

Side note: that we have something called “sex tourism” is an abomination. People who do that should be flogged within an inch of their lives.

I’ve seen a lot of Right influencers – including some major Catholic accounts – on social media moving towards overt anti-Semitism. This, my friends, is the lure of cash…there are people who will pay you a lot of money to toe a line. The Left, of course, does this – you can’t really think these Leftist accounts which repeat the most absurd lies actually believe it. But some people will sell their soul for money. Now it is happening on the Right. Keep in mind that I blog and post on X and I’m just this guy…I’m doing ok, but suppose someone proposed to double my annual income at the stroke of a pen and all I had to do was lie about Jews? It is chump change to the person buying the influence…it would be life-changing for me. To be sure, I believe I am morally strong enough to reject such an offer (and, in fact, will never get into a position to have the offer made…those who are bought are cultivated over time until the offer is made)…but no matter what, there will always be people who will give into temptation.

It is everywhere, my friends. Latest revelation is that Code Pink is apparently heavily funded by the Chinese Communist Party. Why wouldn’t they? An organization made up of people who hate America and who want it destroyed? Of course you kick a couple bucks over to them. Qatari money. Saudi money. Russian money. EU money. All of it filtered through various dark money organizations and passed out to people who will hew to a propaganda line no matter how absurd it is…because it is propaganda directed at an American population increasingly ignorant of basic history (read that in Philadelphia public schools they don’t mention things like the Civil War or WWII but they will tell you that Settler-Colonialism is evil, while Islam is good). That is, you can say really rather stupid lies and hardly anyone out there will have the knowledge to call you out on it.

There’s an article in New York Magazine which laments that the historically black neighborhoods of NYC are demographically changing…you know, the local population being replaced by outsiders. This is, I gather, bad…but apparently only if its a black neighborhood.

Side note on that: NYC is becoming a place where you can live if you are desperately poor or fabulously rich…but if you just work for a living, you can’t stay. This is same in California, Illinois, Washington, Massachusetts…and we can take a guess why these areas are like that.

Rebels With a Cause

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It is kinda funny how political labels get made but, anyways, the Liberal Democrat Party in Japan won a landslide victory in yesterday’s snap election – picking up 316 out of 465 seats in the Diet, where Japan’s political power resides. This is a supermajority which will allow Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to remake Japan as she sees fit. Back to that label – the Liberal Democrats are the Conservative-Populist/Nationalist Japanese party. Among the Party goals are a restriction on immigration and a build up of Japan’s military – that is, not allowing Japan to be turned into something Not Japan via immigration, and building up a force which make China think twice about disturbing the balance of power in east Asia.

I don’t know if this will mean Japan builds nuclear weapons – probably won’t. But I think Japan should. I’m sure they’ve got the technical know-how to build a credible nuclear deterrent within 10 years of the word “go”. But it is a sensitive issue in Japan, for obvious reasons. On the other hand, if Japan wishes to remain a fully independent nation, she’ll have to look after her own defense. I support our continued alliance with Japan and I can’t imagine a set of circumstances where we would refuse Japan aid in case of war…but no nation should place its chips on someone else riding to the rescue. The Europeans did this and look where it landed them.

What I am confident it will mean is the low-key rebuilding of Japan’s fleet air arm will be turbocharged…as well Japan’s development of first rank attack subs (and Japan is also helping Taiwan build first-rate submarines). Basically, Japan is going to back to being a Great Power. And in my view, we should mostly leave east Asia in Japan’s hands. There is strategic risk in this because maybe a future Japanese government decides it is time for Round II. This is a low-risk possibility and so worth it for us. An alliance of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam and Australia ultimately backed by us is vastly strong enough to curb Chinese ambitions. But I would like to ultimately see the US 8th Army out of Korea as well as withdrawing American ships from permanent basing in Japan. Our main Pacific base remains Hawaii and our forward base is Saipan (I have come to loath having bases on foreign soil – just too much diplomatic friction…I’d only agree to it if the base is ceded to the US either permanently or on a century-long lease). Long term, this starts to restore a normal world where powers and regional groupings look after themselves rather than to a globalist UN paid for by tax dollars extracted from Americans. Maybe one day we will have a one world government…but it can only happen in a sane way if the peoples of the world chose it. Not have it chosen for them by elites who then lie to the people to get it done.

Meanwhile, over in Aragon, Spain, the socialist government coalition got whacked in the regional elections. Supposedly Aragon is the bellweather for Spain…as it goes, so will the nation in the next national election. Don’t know enough about Spanish politics to judge that…but here’s the thing about both Spain and Japan: it was the youth vote in both places which propelled the Right to victory. The youth of the civilized world have had enough of it…enough of their future being stolen by an aging, dying Ruling Class. And think about this: the kids have been subjected to relentless Ruling Class propaganda since they were born. In schools, in media, in pop culture…everything has told them that their own countries are bad, their own people second rate, that they have to stop being what they are if they want to be good people…and this is now being rejected. Probably on instinct. It is also what happened here in 2024 and is happening in country after country…the youth is rebelling.

The Ruling Class will not go without a fight. In Spain, for instance, faced with its increasing unpopularity, the socialist government is going to legalize 500,000 foreigners living in Spain and allow them to vote in the next election. France is set to do this as well – and the reason why there’s a Labour government in the UK is because they did this years ago. The Ruling Class is electing a new people as the old people reject the Ruling Class. I don’t have much hope for Europe because of this – the demographics have been changed too much for there to be a non-violent way back and as all European peoples have been disarmed, there’s no way to fight the Ruling Class. But the rebellion is still there – and in nations where the demographics have not been fatally altered, the rebellion is winning.

It is ok to be what you are. I would never dream of going to a foreign land and telling them to be something they’re not. And this goes even for rather despicable peoples with really lousy cultures. Hey, I used to think differently – I used to believe that most people wanted to live in peace and freedom under law with everyone minding their own business. Found out in the War on Terrorism that some peoples appear to enjoy being rat bastards and will put up with poverty, disease and oppression as long as there’s someone lower than themselves to s*** on. Hey, more power to ya. Live as you want to live. And I, an American, will live as I want to live. Just as I expect a Japanese to live as a Japanese wants to live. And Argentine like Argentine. So on and so forth. I do believe my American civilization is the best – at least, it is the best for me. I want to keep it. Because of the peculiarity of American development, I don’t completely oppose immigration…but I refuse utterly the immigrant who doesn’t want to be American. I don’t want to see people wandering around my streets dressed in bizarre, foreign garb and speaking foreign languages with all the local signage unreadable…melting pot, not balkanization. Become American. Ditch all that Old Country nonsense that doesn’t fit in…and if you’ve got something on the Old Country’s menu that tastes good, lets have at it. In English. Wearing common American clothes. With it cooked up to food safety codes and served with forks and knives. Yeah, and we don’t just dump our trash on the streets or in the local river…we’re not like that here in America.

I do think our youth rebellion will work. That they will sort this out – and with just a touch of guidance from use geezers, they’ll be able to restore America over the next couple decades. I guess there really is a limit to what people will put up with…and we’ve at last reached it.

Our Indecent Modern World

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Saw a story out of Pakistan and it is similar to many stories I’ve read over the past years – teenage Christian girl (13 in this case) is kidnapped by a Muslim man, sexually assaulted, forced to convert to Islam and then “marry” the man. In a rather sad, last echo of British rule there was a court case about it: going through the motions, as it were. The court ruled for the Muslim. These cases are usually decided by a few things:

  1. How intimidated the court is (the man brought something like 150 male friends to let the court know how it would go if it ruled incorrectly).
  2. Statements allegedly from the victim claiming she’s happy with it (this is coerced and the girl can’t actually testify in a Muslim court).
  3. Because this is what you can do if you’re a Muslim male when dealing with non-Muslims in a Muslim-majority country.

But don’t get too hung up on the Muslim aspect of it. What happened here is the common run of humanity. The strong take what they can, the weak endure what they must. This is what the world is like – except in places where Christianity is the majority worldview. This is what Christianity suppresses when it waxes strong.

You can look up the Amritsar Massacre and you’ll find that it is a very big thing in India. It happened in 1919 in the Punjab, then under British rule. The dislocations caused by World War One had lead to unrest all over India – riots, attacks on Europeans, destruction of property. In Amritsar, an elderly British schoolteacher was manhandled by a mob and the local military commander decided to teach the locals a lesson. With eyes clear, he ordered his troops to open fire on a large crowd of Indians – nobody to this day knows how many were killed. Lowest estimate is 200, highest is 1,000. Times two or three injured. Remember: the British commander wanted a large number of Indians to die. He felt is was the only way to control an increasingly unruly situation and bring peace to the Punjab. Of course, when word got out of what happened, the whole world was shocked and outraged – including the British Establishment…and including Winston Churchill who was an ardent opponent of anything like independence for India. Post-Independence, the massacre has become part of the integral story of India’s rise to independence – they’ve got a huge memorial to the slain and it is ingrained into Indian national consciousness. The justification, as it were, for throwing off the British yoke. And, of course, Dyer – the British commander – is roundly condemned as an insensate brute…a racist imperialist oppressor.

But, here’s the thing, Reginald Dyer was born in the Punjab. He was fluent in many Indian languages. He commanded Indian troops in battle – very successfully on multiple occasions. In short, the man knew India – and Indians. Perhaps not as well as a native, but as well as any outsider can know another people. It was with his deep knowledge of Indians that he gave the orders to fire – and the firing was done by Gurkha and Pathan troops under his command. It is when you actually look at this that you realize that maybe the kindergarten history we’ve been spoon fed about the end of the European Empires is leaving off some crucial details. He wasn’t some monster – he was a highly educated man who lived and worked with the people of India his whole life.

So, why did he open fire?

Because the sort of people he was governing included the very sort of people who here a century later kidnap Christian teenagers, assault them and force them to marry their captors. Whatever brutalities the British Raj visited upon India, it is nothing like the brutalities that Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis visit upon themselves. Dyer wasn’t trying to kill good people…he was trying to make sure that the sort who kidnap little girls – or manhandle elderly British women who devote their lives to educating poor Indians – didn’t get the upper hand. We can dispute whether the action was right or wrong – but we cannot, we dare not, just go for a cartoonish view of the event. There was a reason – and we must know the reason before we render judgement. And we here in 2026 have the luxury of hindsight. We’ve seen what happens when the barbarians are able to take control.

Good to keep in mind that while the British Establishment condemned Dyer, the British people handed him the modern equivalent of about 1.5 million dollars via voluntary subscription. Almost as if even way back then, there was a divide between People and Rulers…and it was the Rulers who were undercutting the People no matter what the People wanted.

Why bring all this up? Because there’s been a lot of talk about decency of late. Most recently sparked by Trump accidentally including in a video post a couple second clip showing the Obama’s looking like apes. From what we can tell, that last bit was entirely inadvertent. Trump – or Team Trump – was posting a video indicating the fraud in the 2020 election and whomever posted it simply slipped up and picked up a couple seconds of the next video in the stream. Poor editing! But we were immediately told by the Left that it was indecent and a host of so-called “Conservative” voices rose to condemn Trump.

Meanwhile, a 13 year old girl in Pakistan was just legally handed over to her abuser.

Armed bandits “kidnapped” 150 Catholic students in Nigeria – I put that in quotes because they weren’t kidnapped…it was a slave raid. Those poor kids are being sold.

An illegal immigrant truck driver killed 4 people in Indiana.

Up in Canada a woman was killed by the national health service against her will – sorry, lady; but two out of the three MAID ghouls agreed it was time for you to go!

Decency, huh?

Meanwhile, these Democrats who say Trump is indecent are in favor of federally funded abortion on demand to the moment of birth. They cheered with Trump was shot. Cheered when Kirk was killed. They are fighting tooth and nail to keep illegal alien criminals in the USA – and are inciting violence in our street to protect Democrat voting and financial fraud.

Spare me the whines about decency. Our world is very indecent right now – and the only way we can get back to decency is to get back to whacking the barbarians. And not fairly. The barbarians must feel more pain than they ever caused us. It is the only way barbarians learn. We have very much lost something – the will to live, as it were. We fuss so much about any perceived error on our part that we have no time to spare for the massive crimes against humanity our opponents commit on a daily basis…with the promise that if they ever get back on top, they’ll jail us for merely disagreeing. There is nothing quite so true as the old phrase that you sleep peacefully in your bed at night because rough men stand watch, ready to do violence on your behalf. Like the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings, we are sheltered, but have ceased to remember it…we think we’re safe because being safe is the norm. It isn’t. And the areas of “safe” in the world are rapidly shrinking. If we don’t let the rough men get back to work – and soon – we’ll be overrun with savagery.

Open Thread

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Homan is drawing down federal officers in Minneapolis…because he’s getting ever more cooperation from local law enforcement. The bet is that Minnesota business interests are putting pressure on the government there. Keep in mind that the State legislature is very evenly divided so Democrats are not all-powerful. They do hold the State-wide offices but only via fraud in Minneapolis…and Trump’s actions have already heavily cut into their ability to carry that out. Basically, everyone is running for cover.

Keep in mind that the Democrats had hoped to have continual violence all year long in Minnesota: to hide and preserve the fraud, weaken Trump overall and goose Democrat turnout in November. Trump refused to play along – he actually did lower the temperature, while increasing the pressure (those federal fraud investigations are still ongoing and uncovering more of it all the time). It is very important to keep in mind that while Democrats do have power they are, for the most part, pretty stupid people…the smart people who built the machine are long gone…what is left is people who managed to get into power because of the machine, but who have no real clue how it works…nor that the most important part of it is keeping the cities livable. Trump is playing them like a fiddle.

The Washington Post fired a huge amount of staff. Bezos could keep them – the financial losses at the Post are chump change to him. But Bezos lives in the real world – and a money-losing enterprise doesn’t appeal to him. Nor does endless Democrat propaganda. Sure, Bezos is a big Liberal…but he appears to want a news outfit that, you know?, some times reports the news. One of the fired people put out on X a series of recent articles…they seem to deal with health care and I suspect that was the reporter’s beat. Ok. Fine. Health news is useful. But in all the articles I didn’t see one looking into the massive amount of healthcare fraud. You know: like how Los Angeles has more hospice care facilities than Florida.

Look, guys: you can be Liberal, if you like. It is pretty dumb – you have to believe some utter nonsense. But, hey: live as you want to live! What you can’t be is, well, evil. And it is evil to ignore all the money being stolen simply because reporting it would look bad for Democrats. You should still report it. Heck, you should want to report it. Long term, it would help your side if you hammered the corruption. That you don’t cover the corruption means you’re part of it…not reporters at all. Mere regime propagandists. I don’t think Bezos wants that and after some efforts to simply get the Post to start being a news outfit, it looks like he’s decided to dispense with the propagandists. For crying out loud, the money being stolen is supposed to help the poor you Liberals claim you care so much about.

Israel appointed Major General Ghassan Alian to head up their Druze affairs bureau. Not much: except Alian is a Druze. You know: not a Jew. Who is a Major General in the IDF. That right there is why we stand with Israel. Is Israel perfect? No. Does Israel make mistakes? Oh, some quite fabulous ones. But they are the only decent nation in the Middle East…and one of the very few decent nations in the world. We’re not owned by Israel…we simply recognize our kin even across the water.

The Insidious Erosion of Civilization

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If you’re of a certain age, you remember this movie – and it is a good one. You can easily rate it as one of Newman’s best as well as one of the best of the 1960’s. George Kennedy’s Best Supporting Oscar was well earned while Strother Martin completely nailed the role of “the Captain”. But it is also rather horrible and was definitely a piece in the gigantic pysop which essentially talked us into giving up civilization.

What is the story? Well, Luke is a dishonorably discharged WWII veteran who in a drunken haze destroys public property (parking meters) and so gets sentenced to a chain gang. As the story goes on, we find that Luke really doesn’t like rules! He heroically resists the rules! Damn those rules! And, to be fair to Luke, he is treated unjustly – when his mother passes way, the Captain puts him in the box to discourage him from any escape attempt to attend his mother’s funeral. This is wrong. On the other hand, it isn’t exactly the worst thing that can happen to a man.

Step back a moment before that box event and remember that Luke’s mother had come to visit him shortly before her death – and in the scene we find that Luke has a brother who is married, with kids, working the family farm and taking care of his ill mother. We’re supposed to instantly dislike the brother when he hands Luke his guitar and says, “now there’s no reason for you to come home”. Cruelty! But…the brother is taking care of mom and the farm and is supporting a wife and kids and did take time out of his life to make sure his mother could say goodbye to her ne’er do well son in jail. So, maybe not cruelty? Maybe exasperation? A man who could have used some help running the farm and taking care of mom and has just had it with his brother’s pointless antics?

Can’t say – because it isn’t explored in the film, which is a paean to the anti-hero – the man or woman who simply refuses to fit in and live up to the expectations of others. We’re focused in the film on Luke and only get enough of the backstory to understand why he’s in jail…but not why he did a thing which would get him in jail, other than a general sense that he’s a rebel…and a long-time one, too. When mom visits, she talks up about his rebel ways and the one time he almost gave it up to get married to a decent women, but he wrecked that, too. The end of the movie has Luke being unjustly shot and allowed to bleed out but still showing his defiance to the end. Which, was the end of a pointless existence that was very costly to society which not only didn’t receive any benefit from Luke’s existence, but had to pay a lot of extra money simply because he had been alive.

The sum total of the movie is to make people feel that being like Luke is a good thing – that rules are just made up things that the strong impose on the weak. It is, of course, quite the other way around – the rules are to ensure the weak can withstand the strong. End the rules and you get…well, Mexico; where there are no rules in any real sense and the strong take what they want and kill with impunity. But if your goal is to erode Western Civilization – to end Christendom as it used to be called – nothing better than well-written, well-acted movies which subtly but insidiously talk people into thinking that rules are bad…as long as said rules are those of Western Civilization. Bottom line, Luke is the villain. His mother the weak-kneed enabler of the villain. His brother the heroic defender of family. The Captain is the man who has to keep a lid on the villain to prevent bad from becoming outright evil. And there really was a failure to communicate…all through the life of Luke, nobody could ever convince him that being a man requires the courage to subordinate oneself to others.

I’ve written before about how effective advertising is. Propaganda, as it were. The one thing that Hitler really did hit upon – and from Toland’s biography, he hit upon it while he was a down-and-outer in Vienna – was the fact that if you say something with conviction over and over again, people will come to believe it, no matter how absurd it is. The Big Lie works exceptionally well. This is not to say that all advertising is a lie, but that if you advertise a lie often and effectively enough, people will believe it. What movies like Cool Hand Luke were doing – and it just got worse as the decades went on – was telling a society that the sober, the hard working, the honorable were the bad guys…just a bunch of rotten, hypocritical rat bastards preventing freedom. There is a straight line from movies like this to people figuring they can attack cops for merely enforcing the law…the people who jump on cars, set things on fire, loot shoe stores are the descendants of Luke…free to run wild because the Captain is now a career civil servant who figures his pension is more important than decency. And the rest of us pretend it is normal – you see? It didn’t just affect the miscreant…it also affected us. Infected us. We’re not shooting the people who set up roadblocks and set things on fire because…we’re somehow convinced that it’s ok for savages to impose upon us. We don’t want to be seen as the Captain, right? He’s the bad guy! So is the brother! Luke is the hero! Grab those nike’s!

It is going to be a long road back to civilization – and it will take some very tough people making some very hard decisions. I don’t see a completely non-violent way out of this mess. The only debatable point is how much violence there will be…because if the Left wins, they’ll impose violence on us of the most horrific sort, and all we can do is decide how much violence we’ll apply to them to prevent this. We have to stop being so weak – so cowardly. Civilization is a necessary thing for anything above the existence of brutes – and sometimes civilization has to destroy the barbarians…even if they appear dressed nice and speaking sweet words.

Human Rights and the Operation of Law

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Hate to link to Tik Tok but its the best video I can find on it. I hesitate to post it because I’m afraid Amazona will decide to move to El Salvador just so she can have a President who is clear, concise and doesn’t play stupid games with the overall Left. Go ahead and watch it, though – because President Bukele makes a point which is blazingly obvious but has remained unmentioned for decades as the Left has destroyed the world:

Sure, we all have rights. Even the very worst of us do…but everyone has rights. Everyone. Do you understand? Every last person on Earth has human rights…included in these rights are the rights to not be beheaded, raped, beaten and robbed by criminal gangs. Bukele is just a man who looked at the situation and arrived at the only possible conclusion: rights are being violated all to heck and gone in El Salvador and I must do everything I can to ensure the maximization of secured rights…and this meant rounding up every person he could find who had a gang tattoo or other obvious marker for being a criminal.

Sure, he almost certainly swept up some who didn’t need to be taken in – on the other hand, you don’t get a gang tattoo by accident. You get it for the very specific purpose of letting everyone know you’re in the gang, with all that entails. The main thing is that it was the only way to get it done – to turn El Salvador from a happy hunting ground for murders into a peaceful, free place where families can go out at night with zero fear. And it was an operation of law – it was, indeed, law in its purest form.

We are an over-lawyered society and so we tend to equate law with lawyer. We watch our tense, courtroom dramas and think that is law. It isn’t. It is a means of achieving law. And for the most part, it works very well. But not always. In El Salvador, under the old regime, the first thing a gangster would do when arrested was squeal like a stuck pig about his “rights”. And then the lawyers would swoop in, funded by drug money, to tie things up in knots and if that didn’t do the trick, just bribe and/or intimidate the cops and judges. It was downright impossible to punish anyone who was in a gang – and they ran wild. And don’t just think it happens in El Salvador – our own judiciary is corrupted. I am confident that some of it is bribery and intimidation, but most of the corruption is political…that is, huge swaths of our justice system are in the hands of people who are in it to protect the Left and harm the Right, as well as to harm America and our civilization at every turn. You think a man arrested 20 times for violent crimes is let out by accident? No. The judge who released him to go stab a girl on a bus did so on purpose – with the full intent that the violent criminal would go and do something horrible…go out, in the Leftist judge’s mind, and punish AmeriKKKa for its racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

The law isn’t there to make sure forms are filled out correctly – that your warrant is perfect. That your evidence is collected properly. It is there to ensure, as far as imperfect humans can, that justice is achieved. That, in the main, people are able to live their lives as they see fit, under no threat from others and able to retain the fruits of their labor. We have the forms and the warrants and the evidence collection procedures in place to ensure, as far as possible, that everything is on the level and everyone gets a fair shake. But while all that is going on, the primary purpose must be kept in mind: I should be able to walk down the poorest street in the city in middle of the night, tipsy after a few drinks with a hundred dollar bill sticking out of my pocket and make it safely to my destination 9,999 out of 10,000 times. We shouldn’t have to lock our doors. We shouldn’t have to get a concealed carry permit. We shouldn’t have to spend money on burglar alarms. A murder or armed robbery should be a shocking rarity which rates blazing headlines in the news. That is law. That is what law is for. And if they say we have law but murder, assault and robbery are common enough that you’re taking defensive measures against them, then you don’t have law. You have anarchy.

To be sure, “round ’em all up and sort ’em out later” must never become the norm. On the other hand, the intense levels of criminality we see in certain parts of the USA must never be the norm, either. Abnormal circumstances require abnormal actions. You do what you have to do to secure justice…to ensure that you live in a lawful society. And I do believe we’re getting to the point where we here in the USA will have to take a page out of Bukele’s book. Trump is doing a fantastic job – and in spite of critics, I think Bondi and Patel are doing well, too. This is our last chance to just use the regular tools…but we’re already seeing signs that it might not be enough. Mostly in things like that Luigi character having the death penalty taken off the table via suppression of evidence by a clearly Leftist judge. Also when we see juries in Left areas simply not convicting obviously guilty Leftists. On and on like that – but we can’t live in a society which has a host of lawyers, judges and cops but no law.

The securing of human rights is not a theory – it is the purpose of government. It is, as our sublime Declaration states, the reason why governments are instituted among people. If I can’t be safe and free and in possession of my property, then what purpose is the government? How is there law if I can lose my life and property on a whim? There isn’t. And if making sure I can hold my life and property means that those who would take both need to be treated harshly, then so be it – the criminal does not lose his rights, but by the abuse of his free will he compels us to restrain him…and in doing that, we can’t be too fussy about whether or not every form was filled out just right.