Open Thread

Mark Noonan4 Comments

Starmer is going to resign his office. Doesn’t really matter as his replacement will be a carbon-copy. There isn’t a dime’s worth a difference between anyone in Labour. Heck, between anyone on the global Left. They’re all liars. They’re all cruel, greedy and stupid. Starmer and his Party – in conjunction with the Tories – allowed the rape gangs to flourish in the UK and are still trying to sweep it under the rug…but what do you expect from people who think that abortion and “assisted suicide” are good? Who think that hordes of foreigners are great? Who believe that if they just impoverish their own people it will cure “global warming”? And, of course, as they push these anti-human policies they’re all stealing as much as they can.

Labour does look like its heading for a trouncing but an election doesn’t have to be called until 2029. And with Labour holding an absolute majority of around eighty seats, there is little chance anyone can force an early election. In other words, lots of time to set things up – mostly by imposing censorship to ensure nobody hears how bad it is and, of course, grant yet larger numbers of migrants citizenship so they can vote in another Labour government with 34% of the vote. The Tories are completely craven. Reform is showing itself unwilling to actually tackle the immigration issue…and Restore Britain will be lucky to get 5% of the vote…which is indicative of how many actual patriots still reside in the UK. Just the sad and pathetic ending of a great nation…the Ruling Class, starting with the next King, will convert to Islam and that will be the end of it (and you just watch the feminists say the burka is feminist as it saves women from the perils of the Male Gaze).

The Left is so lunatic here in the USA that they are actively vandalizing the reflecting pool in DC – tearing up the material and dumping algae into the water. These are people who will kill us all in an instant if they had the power.

Still lot of back and forth on the Iran thing. Its a process, guys! Patience. Trump will bomb if he has to – and even bomb quite a lot if necessary. The Iranians have nothing but bluster – and an army of social media bots. They can’t close the strait – it takes a Navy and Air Force to do that. They haven’t got one. Some are saying Trump doesn’t realize the sort of people he’s dealing with – the reality is the Iranians still don’t know who they’re dealing with. Trump isn’t just another American President who will roll over just to get something signed. It is either do as you’re told, or lose out. Meanwhile, the oil flows, gas prices drop and the whole world starts to adjust to getting oil through any channel but the strait of Hormuz.

People are going to serious extremes to paint it all bad. I mean seriously quoting known liars because they’re saying the Orange Man is Bad. It is like we’re going to have to draw pictures explaining that the side which can bomb at will is the winner. But, not really: they know we’ve won. They just hate Trump – and need to somehow prove to everyone that they hate Trump.

RNC came into June with $125 million on hand. Democrats? Negative $3.5 million. And the GOP number does not include the gigantic amount Trump and his various PACs have. There is no way the polls are right given then – they aren’t wrong; they’re lies. Not even within ten points of reality.

Understanding War and Peace

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I think I see the problem some are having with Trump’s Iran negotiations. I’m not talking about the lunatics on the Left, nor the pathetic Never Trumpers, worn out Neo-Cons and assorted grifters. No: I’m talking about those who want victory and fear Trump is throwing it away. Here we go:

They neither understand what constitutes victory, nor understand why we lost all of the post-WWII wars.

The first part is easier: most people, on the whole, don’t understand military or foreign affairs (this is especially true among senior military and State Department personnel, until Trump II). Lacking such knowledge, they feel that there should be an abject surrender ala Reims or Tokyo Bay. Gotta tell ya: these are not usual. In fact, they’re nearly unique. Of course, total war is nearly unique…the world approached it in WWI and went overboard on it in WWII, but such is not the norm. Usually the enemy quits before all resources are exhausted – that is, the leadership weighs things and figures that continued fighting is more costly than peace, and so peace is made.

In my view, the demand for unconditional surrender was a gigantic strategic and moral mistake. The Germans and Japanese were already determined enough to fight hard; that demand just fused their peoples into a determined mass willing to fight to the last man. Had we offered a way out, the voices of ceasefire would have been able to rise to the top. We should have offered peace to a non-Nazi Germany on basis of her 1938 borders. Peace to a Japan willing to surrender all post-1932 conquests. Heck, we should have worked Germany to overthrow the Hitler regime and place Rupprecht of Bavaria on a new German throne (thoroughly Royal, despised the Nazis, wanted to curb Prussian militarism – just perfect, actually). The demand for unconditional surrender probably extended the war at least a year longer than otherwise…with untold millions being killed as a result. Plus half of Europe in Soviet hands with no major Continental Power able to stand athwart Stalin’s ambitions. It is not a good idea to totally destroy your enemy…you might need him as a friend. Often very soon. Look how quickly we actually needed a powerful Germany after 1945. Japan, too. Didn’t have them, so we had to take the whole burden upon ourselves.

So much for the easy part – that is, people just not knowing that you can win a war and leave your enemy alive. Now, to the second part: why did we lose all those wars?

Quite simple: we held back the full application of our power against an enemy who was supported by outside powers we deemed off limits to retaliation. It is really nothing more than that. Or do you really think some Korean and Vietnamese peasants could do what the Waffen SS and Japanese soldiers failed to do? Sorry, no: they didn’t beat us in a stand up fight. They didn’t, in fact, beat us at all. We beat ourselves. Failure to apply power. Failure to take the steps necessary to victory. Allowing the conflicts to drag on for years, causing dismay among the American population. What we have done since 1945 is set ourselves up for defeat. Rather insane. Stupid, too. And you do wonder if we had people in our government deliberately setting this up? That’s for a later time. Suffice it to say that if we allowed our enemies to script our moves, it could not have ever come out worse.

Until Trump.

Trump is not a man of war. He takes a businessman’s view of it. That is, its bad for business. Why shoot when you can work a deal beneficial to both sides? This sort of view can get you into some trouble (it fails to take in to consideration the simple passions which war can cause), but on the whole it is the best way to go about it…because war is a business. A nasty one, to be sure. As the old saying goes, amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. Business, that is. Not the glorious charge or the clever flanking move…but how can I get this many troops there by this day? How long can I supply them? How large are the enemy’s supplies? Who can produce more supplies over time? These are the questions which real generals ponder. And Trump seems to instinctively know this – and so his plan, when he put it in motion, was two fold: hammer the leadership in hopes of an uprising and hammer Iran’s economy so that even if there wasn’t an uprising, whoever was in charge would have to come to the table. We haven’t engaged in that sort of warfare since 1945. There was no uprising…but Iran’s economy is in shambles. They came to the table because if they couldn’t start selling as much oil as the market can bear, there would be an uprising because the Iranian people are running out of food.

Iran also has no outside power willing to bankroll them. Russia and China are friendly, but neither want to tangle with us over Iran. Plus we just demonstrated that Russian and Chinese military hardware is worthless on the battlefield against us. Just as they had to after the first Gulf War, they are now pausing to rethink their whole strategic worldview. They are once again unsure they can actually fight us – so, time to lay low. A year ago the Chinese might have been thinking they could send a naval task force to contest our control of the Arabian Gulf…but not today. All they’d be doing is providing excellent naval scrap. Without a patron, without the ability to endlessly kill Americans, with their economy on the verge of collapse…they really had to come to the table.

Can we trust them? Of course not! But peace doesn’t require trust. No more than alliance does. It requires shared interests. Right now, Iran has a vested interest in a calm middle east. A time for it to recover a bit. Build a bit. Reconsider strategic choices. Argue amongst themselves who gets to be in charge. We, too, need a calm middle east and an Iran no longer sabre rattling all over the Middle East. We need time for the peace efforts to really take hold and encompass the entire region. This is why Trump was so mad at Israel for bombing terrorists in Lebanon: for very small returns – killing a few more terrorists – Israel nearly upset the apple cart. Hey, I get it: Israel would like all her enemies dead. But Israel, herself, refused to do this in Gaza. For the most decent and humane reasons, to be sure, but it totally undercuts bloodthirsty demands about Iran…as well Hezbollah creeps in Lebanon (who probably haven’t been paid in months given Iran’s troubles). Both sides need peace – and so we’re going to try to make it. And even if the Mullah regime survives, that isn’t a defeat. It is, in fact, a victory – because Iran’s whole thing has been to disturb the peace.

War and Peace With Iran

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War is a continuation of politics by other means, Von Clausewitz famously said. Lot of people forget, though, that politics is a continuation of war by other means. They are, ultimately, the same thing – a person who truly understands war understands politics and vice versa. I bring this up because we have a lot of people dooming over the pending deal with Iran.

First off, we don’t really know the details yet. It hasn’t been released. Trump has outlined (for months) the broad outlines of what we’re after: no Iranian nukes, no threats to commerce, Iran ceases using proxy forces around the Middle East. Trump says he’s close to a deal to get what we want. Ok. Lets wait and see. If you really think that Trump will throw away our overwhelming victory over Iran then I just don’t know what to say: I can only assume you’re just so filled with hatred of Trump that you’ll swallow any nonsense fed to you by known liars.

Secondly, just what do you want? That is, what is your post-war?

It is a serious question and one which hasn’t been asked for a very long time. And, in fact, it is rarely asked during any war. But it is the most crucial thing to ask. In fact, if you don’t ask and find your answer, you really shouldn’t engage in war. There have been so many wars in human history and for most of them people don’t even ponder what is next – and this is true for both just and unjust wars. But if you are in any way a serious person, you have to know what you want at the end of it. I do believe Trump knows what he wants.

In any war you can have your idea outcome in mind but you must also have your merely acceptable outcome ready. You can never know what is going to happen once the guns go off. The enemy, after all, does get a say. Trump’s ideal outcome in Iran was the Iranian people overthrowing the Mullahs. I thought it would happen. I think almost all of us did. Trump certainly did. But with the Mullah regime decapitated, its remaining leaders in hiding and their goon squads running the Iranian people simply did not move. They didn’t want to risk their lives. Had they done so, US and Israeli air cover would have been available. Nothing happened. They took videos and then went home. Given this, our ideal outcome became out of reach. We will not usher in the end of the Mullah regime short of a US invasion and no sane person in America wants that. It isn’t that we wouldn’t win it is that in the post-war we’d be responsible for rebuilding Iran and you just know the Iranians would take pot-shots at us as they vie to be more anti-American than the next guy. No, thanks.

So, given that the Mullahs truly gauged the quality of their people, what next? It has got to be a deal. We could keep bombing. But to what purpose? It is still an option and Trump has repeatedly said he’d resort to it absent a deal…but, for goodness sake, you’re not supposed to want Iran reduced to rubble. Whatever else they are, they are your fellow human beings. If necessity requires you to kill them, then so be it – but if you can abridge the slaughter and still obtain your minimal requirements then it would be a crime to keep killing. Right now, Trump says he can make the deal – presumably no nukes, open seas, no proxies. Lets see if it can be done.

Will Iran break the deal? They might. You can’t trust them any further than you could throw them. But they also just found out that 25 years of military build up using untold amounts of money turned out to be a complete waste of time. They couldn’t even slow us down. That is a lesson which only a fool ignores. Might they all be fools? Could be. But, I doubt it. Given that at least some significant faction of the mafia running Iran is talking, there are at least some people there who know that it is time to lay low, rebuild and try again down the road. Long down the road. So far down the road that by the time you get there, attacking the USA might not remain a priority. In other words, it is time for peace. War might come again. War might always come again. But it is time for peace. The Mullah dream of conquering the Middle East is over. And outside some potential fanatics, everyone understands it. But, meanwhile, Iran still carries great weight. They can have strong influence in the area…if they make a deal and thus are able to rebuild. Their choice, ultimately.

But right back to it: what do you want? What do you think is best for America? In my view, what we want is us exiting the Middle East. That is, peace is secured to the extent that we don’t need to be deeply involved over there. I don’t care if some random Islamist nutter sets off a bomb – that is for the local people to deal with. What I do want – and I think America should insist upon – is the free movement of oil combined with no attempts by any Middle East party to export their lunacy to the rest of the world. Remain 7th century savages for all I care – as long as you don’t export it to the USA. I don’t want us to have to fuss every time some idiot does something stupid. I want our forces to withdraw from the Middle East. I want good relations there – especially with Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I want to have in place various protocols for what to do if some idiot decides to set the place on fire…but I don’t want us deeply involved in the day to day. Let the people there sort themselves out.

I doubt that those pre-condemning Trump have any idea what they want. Other than to take exception to any Trump action, that is. If we hadn’t hit at all they’d condemn. If we kept hitting they’d condemn. If Trump’s deal works, they’ll still condemn. But as I’ve been saying for a while now, it is time we rejoined the real world…and in that real world we don’t have to be eternally engaged in warfare. We can make peace. Even with people we hate and who hate us. Peace isn’t love. Peace isn’t trust. Peace is…peace. It is a state where we’re not shooting at each other and are unlikely to do so any time soon. I think Trump is going to get us that – and that is good.

Update:

Open Thread

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On again, off again with Iran – but I saw some of the video of yesterday’s bombing and it was ferocious. Trump now says the Mullahs again are ready to talk. We’ll see – but also for the first time he indicated the next step is taking Kharg Island. Though, keep in mind, that could be a decoy to have the Mullahs move their remaining assets there to be bombed while we move somewhere else. Bottom line, Trump just showed the Mullahs – and the world – that we have absolute military supremacy. Whatever amount of pain we want to inflict will be inflicted and Iran can’t even slow it down. Oil futures are down under $87 a barrel … which makes me feel the people most in the know figure Iran really is ready to deal; that is, the Iranians, themselves, might be telling the oil market that they’re quitting and thus oil will soon flow very freely (Iran desperately needs this – they haven’t made money in weeks and Goon Squads don’t work for free).

Irish and Brit politicians who knelt for Floyd of Fentanyl are upset that some people in Belfast are rioting against the migrants…anyways, the protests are mostly peaceful, right? The disgusting part of the pols is that they’re straight faced telling us that it is wrong to riot because of injustice right after they told us people must riot because of injustice. We’re used to such disgusting acts…but that doesn’t make us any less disgusted. I still don’t think the Brits – or the Irish – have the guts to really do what is necessary…that is, after a few are picked up by the police, the rest will quiet down. There is no way out for the UK without violence…it is the only way you can possibly get the government to listen. Only if Whitehall fears a lynch mob will they concede that a policy change is necessary. But, I do have some hope – maybe they really have had enough? It wouldn’t take much. Been saying that for a while – you don’t need 69 million Brits to rise up. Ten thousand would do in a pinch. One hundred thousand would make it a walk over. The British Army is about 75,000 strong, has a massive manpower shortage and is shot through with DEI leadership…I doubt they’d stand and fight as they almost certainly haven’t been taught how to do that. Get ten thousand rebels marching on London and you’d probably see half the government flee to France. Reminder: our opponents are stupid cowards; not men or women we actually have to fear.

Vance is going on The View – and, honestly, I can’t imagine why. Clearly he thinks it is a good idea. I mean, sure, he’s intellectually miles above the hosts on the show…but the problem here is they’ll say stupid things and when the applause sign lights up, the mindless crowd in the seats will cheer. I get taking the fight onto enemy territory…but, still.

Black lady I follow on X is just furious about the reaction of some black people to the Anthony verdict – pointing out the egregious lies being spread such as the jury was all white (it wasn’t; not even close) or that Anthony was the victim of a mob attack…which allegation was not raised where it would matter most: in court. This is because it didn’t happen. What clearly happened was that Anthony was somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be, got into some hot words with a man there, and then like a lunatic barbarian stabbed him over nothing. Out the gate this was a bare minimum second degree murder. The jury came back with first degree murder. But there really never was any doubt that it was felony murder…Anthony should have plead out. But, he didn’t. And he didn’t because he clearly has the idea in his head that his skin color excuses him from civilized behavior. He was taught that he’s of a Master Race…and it was in the public schools and pop culture where he got this message. Seriously: Goebbles’ efforts were weak and pathetic compared to what our public schools and pop culture shove into the minds of Americans. Anthony simply felt that no white man should ever so much as talk back to him…he’s actually worse than the Klansmen of old who at least looked for some genuine offense (even if made up) to justify their actions…Anthony just didn’t like someone taking exception to him.

But it is crucial that we don’t get drawn into the race aspect here. It doesn’t matter what skin color Anthony is. What matters is that he’s a barbarian. He shouldn’t be getting mere jail time – he should be whipped within an inch of his life. And then get jail time. And then he hauled out once a year to again be whipped within an inch of his life. It is how you instruct barbarians. They won’t learn any other way. Hey, I get it: he’s what he was taught to be. Sorry ’bout that. Wish he hadn’t been taught to be a savage. But, he was – and now we civilized people have to apply the corrective. He took a man’s life – his life – over nothing. He wasn’t defending himself. Wasn’t defending others. He wasn’t even doing honest crime – trying to steal and fighting his way out of the jam. He just…saw a guy giving him some lip and decided in an instant that the man had to die. You can’t fully atone for that in a human justice system. The crime is so entirely disproportionate to anything rational that we can’t really get to justice. Killing him in return doesn’t balance the scales.

But whipping him and having him break rocks, would go a long way – and provide a bit of instruction to the barbarians out there that if they can’t control their emotions then some really bad things will be coming their way. In a generation, the problem is cured.

If you want to have a bit of fun, look around X at the foreigner accounts which are here for the World Cup…so many of these guys are just astonished at how great America is. The German account Freddy is the best.

I Implore You, Stop Being Idiots: the Democrats are Cheating

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Ramen conceded on election night. She knew she had been beaten and wouldn’t advance to the general. And then, miracle of miracles, she got an absolutely massive share of the mail-in ballots and surged ahead of second-place Pratt.

This does not happen in an honest system. The mail-in ballots might very well favor Democrats but they would favor all the Democrats, not just the one the Democrats need to get into second place to guarantee no non-Democrat can win in November. But that is what happened – it was an all-Ramen all the time voter surge…a massive number of Angelenos saved their votes for her and dropped them in the mail just in time to make sure she’d advance.

Statistical improbability is proof of fraud.

And it doesn’t matter how you spin it, it is fraud. Even if it legal under California and Los Angeles law, it is fraud – it is altering the election to favor the Ruling Class. But here come the Never Trump Republicans: “sure it looks bad, but we don’t have proof of fraud”. These morons still don’t get it: our opponents would eat us alive if they thought it would give them power and wealth. There is nothing they won’t do for power – no lie too ridiculous, no skullduggery too low. How are Democrats responding to GOPers still giving the benefit of the (non-existent) doubt? They’re working on axing Hilton from the November contest. They are cheating right in front of us and laughing at us while they do it…Never Trump: “Gee, guys, this looks really bad”. Implying that if the Democrats can make the cheat look a little more honest, it would be ok.

A Republic cannot survive cheating. It just can’t. If the people don’t feel that things are on the level, then they will opt for whatever Caesar comes along to who will at least give them their due…or at bare minimum destroy those who cheated their way into power and money. We cannot endure the fraud we see in California – it is not just a California problem: it threatens the life of our Republic. I do hope Team Trump is looking at this – rumor is they are; what I’d like to see is all of the election workers in Los Angeles arrested on civil rights violations…by participating in a crooked system, they are violating the rights of the people. I do think the laws already on the books would cover this…because, remember, you don’t necessarily have to be a conscious part of the cheat to be guilty of participation in it…if a reasonable person would suspect, then you have to suspect.

But outside of that, our side has to stop giving in to it…not in any way, shape or form. Call it out. Call those defending it liars (because that is what they are). Stop trying to find legal loopholes for them…they won’t find one for you. In fact, they’ll indict you in a heartbeat on totally false charges if they think it’ll help their cause. The Democrats are not normal people – they are insane, dishonest, ignorant and cruel. It doesn’t matter if they fully understand how destructive they are – we must understand it, and act accordingly. They are out to totally destroy us on the false notion that we’re all little Hitlers in the making…we have to destroy them just because of this, lest they destroy us.

Open Thread

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Democrats are actually complaining about the Reflecting Pool being restored. Aside from those merely chimping out over it, the basic complaint is that Trump didn’t go through regular channels on it. He just awarded a contract to a company he felt could do the job. Think about this. What they wanted wasn’t a clean Pool, but a years-long effort around the Pool which would, if anything, fail in its purpose…but would have provided huge amounts of graft for the connected. That is seriously their objection once you strip it down…nobody was able to steal! Or call the Pool racist! Or any of the nonsense the Ruling Class wants.

To give a real flavor for what is wanted we could look at Newsom’s choo choo in California – infinity over budget and still not functional on even a basic level. All the money got spent, though! Huge numbers of connected people are sleeping on piles of money. But that doesn’t quite capture it. Here’s the real deal: the Biden people in October of 2024 awarded millions of dollars to Native “healers” to deal with drug addiction. They were going to use “traditional remedies” to help…guys, I’m not aware that the Natives pre-Columbus were dealing with addiction. And given that “traditional remedies” flopped in the face of smallpox and malaria, not sure applying them to drug addiction is going to get the job done. But the job wasn’t supposed to be done – it was just supposed to be paid for. A lot. And over and over again. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could at least apply for it and, using traditional Irish remedies (whiskey and potatoes, I guess), get paid. But, none of that. I’m not the right skin color/gender/ethnicity…I can’t get paid for that. Though if I were properly connected I could, perhaps, rake off 10% for facilitating the theft.

Empires don’t die of disease, or poverty, or low birth rates or any of the things offered. Nope: they die of the one thing nobody mentions: bureaucracy. Rome and China – eaten alive by bureaucrats. They both ended up with government fully staffed and nothing getting done…not education, no infrastructure, not defense…just a bunch of bureaucrats arguing over who got to steal what…until Alaric (Rome) or Mao (China) comes along to kill them all.

Henry Nowak was murdered in the UK for the crime of being British. This is where “you must be actively anti-racist” gets you: a system which allows crime against whites as some sort of reparation for alleged sins of the ancestors. Note that they don’t say “you must actively fight for justice”. Because justice is the last thing they want. They want revenge. The foreigners for the fact that their ancestors were easily conquered (very, very easily, actually) by the Brits, while the British Ruling Class hate those of the past who actually did things…monuments to Nelson and Wellington point out, in stark relief, just how useless the modern British Ruling Class is. I guarantee you that in the minds of these people, Nowak’s death was punishment for Plassey. And, so far, the Brits are mostly just rolling over for it…a few fits of anger here and there, but the general run of the public seems apathetic. It is so very sad. And to fix it would be so easy: just apply justice. Don’t even have to deport all the new arrivals…just treat them on an equal basis with the British. In five years, all the really bad elements would be gone…in jail or back home.

Battling the Insane Barbarians

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There is a video out there where a black woman in Los Angeles is asked why she’s voting for Bass. The answer: because she’s black. We’re at that level of third world tribal idiocy. Nothing in that city is functional…the whole thing is dying. “But I’m voting black because I’m black”…even though, if successful, it’ll mean a worse life for that voter. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t think. She’s a barbarian…a barbarian carefully curated by our Ruling Class to do just that: vote for the tribe no matter what.

Isn’t the first time this has happened in the modern world – Lenin did it in Russia and Hitler did it in Germany. Get people to become savages and then tell them that the only thing that matters is the tribe…for Lenin is was class. For Hitler, it was race. Here in America it is the upper class fostering the barbarism so it is all about race (or gender, yadda, yadda, yadda). We’ve got upper class white people rioting in front of ICE facilities in favor of foreign criminals because the Ruling Class says the criminals are part of the tribe. It was sad, now it is simply disgusting.

We still have to tread a little carefully here. We are winning, but we have not won and a misstep could convince the mushy middle to opt for the barbarians. Those rioters at ICE should be hit with a water cannon, clubbed senseless and then put on trial…resulting in ten years for each of them. But the power for that isn’t there – it isn’t that we’re worried about what they’ll call us (we don’t care what they call us) but that to get what we want will take time…Trump Time. Vance Time. A MAGA Congress. The ability to pass laws and ensure they are enforced…a termination of the ability of federal district judges to interfere in the Executive Branch (they have no such power – there is nothing in the Constitution which says a district judge can enter an injunction against the Executive Branch). But once we do win, then we really have to set to work.

We’re dealing with idiots – and we’ll have to treat them like the idiots they are. They’re right now boosting Talarico as some sort of moderate candidate…the man is insane. But no more insane than anyone else on the Left. He’s better at hiding in than some, but his worldview is built upon a series of very stupid and obvious lies – and if he, and they, get their way then civilization dies…in a horror of barbarism combined with twisted application of science. Once we do win, we have to start thinking in terms of breaking up the Blue States, disenfranchising the Blue voters and setting guardrails in place which will make it essentially illegal to enact Leftist policy. No more getting lunatic policy by calling it the Everyone Gets a Puppy Act. Policies which are insane and based upon lies must be banned.

In the end, it is a question of whether we’ll protect the normal, human elements of life…family, faith, property. Cleanliness. Manliness. Femininity. Order. Peace and quiet. The Left wants all of that gone – they want us living in filth, fighting each other over the scraps accompanied by a cacophony of simian shrieks. No loyalty. No honor. Nothing beautiful or true. A truly Orwellian nightmare.

We can’t win this by being nice. In fact, we’re going to have to get mean – pitiless, in fact. Watch their tears flow and still take things away from them, and then punish them for crying. For weeping over the fact that they are no longer allowed to destroy. We have to turn insane barbarians into sane citizens and this won’t come easy. Or quick. It’ll take a couple generations of get rid of the Leftist poison…to get to a point where nobody would dream of voting for someone based on their skin color or gender. People who wouldn’t dream of getting paid for not working. Who won’t tolerate dirty streets. Who abhor wastrels. Sane people. Civilized people – that is what we have to make.

Open Thread

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There is no way we get the Texas primary result if Trump is at 40% or less approval.

There was a poll not long before the vote which showed Cormyn slightly up over Paxton. This wasn’t a mistake: it was a malicious lie. It was an attempt to depress Paxton’s turnout – an attempt to interfere with the election. The rest of the polling is pretty much just that: a lie. Lies designed to make it seem like Trump is unpopular and the GOP is doomed if it sticks with Trump. Both the Democrats and the RINOs want this to be true – they need this to be true. And they are trying to propagandize their desire into reality.

But the vote shows it isn’t working – not one little bit. Cormyn was humiliated in the primary. Losing by nearly two to one. Plus GOP turnout has been high – lost in the shuffle is that the GOP won all three Georgia Supreme Court seats up for grabs last week. That Court now stays with us for the long term. It was crucial for Democrats to win those so they could start to Californicate Georgia. They won’t be able to, now. Far from being a swing State, Georgia now will start to shift back to reliably Red. Over and over again over the past few months it has been like that – endless polls and analysis showing we’re doomed, results showing we’re surging. And this is before gasoline prices start to drop.

The people are tired of liars – the Democrats latest attempt to lie their way into office, Talarico in Texas, is going to fail miserably. The man is a complete freak – totally out of step with Texas. But the Democrats thought they could nominate him – a white man – and use smooth words to convince Texans to send a man to the Senate who utters blasphemy on the regular. Ain’t gonna work. It won’t even be close. The race is called for Paxton on poll closure.

And the GOP base is tired of electing Republicans who always find the time to help Democrats and never find the time to advance core GOP desires. The SAVE Act is backed by at least 80% of the people. It is a slam dunk. Paxton said he’d back out of Cormyn got it passed. Trump clearly would have endorsed Cormyn if it had been passed…but the GOP Senate leadership figured they are untouchable and this whole MAGA thing will just blow over once Trump is gone. That isn’t happening. Hopefully Thune will now wake up to reality and ride the wave…a GOP Senate that now passes the SAVE Act – or at least puts a real effort into trying – will roll up huge victories in November.

Idiots At It Again

Mark Noonan16 Comments

Yesterday as Trump started indicating there might be a deal with Iran, social media was flooded with accounts saying we were surrendering to Iran – giving them billions, allowing them to control Hormuz, paying them reparations, withdrawing all US forces from the Middle East…on and on and on like that. This was then seconded by a whole chorus of voices from the anti-Trump Right.

And it was all nonsense – none of it came from Team Trump. It was all clearly an op. Attempting to set a Narrative of Trump being defeated. The sources, from what I can tell, were Iranian revolutionary guard accounts and, of course, American and global Leftist accounts. The uniformity of the information on the alleged deal shows that they were talking points cooked up in advance (coordinated between Democrats and the Mullahs?). Once a hint that a deal might be possible, out the memo went…and the barking seals went with it. We expect this from the Left…but it was infuriating to see it from the Right. And not just the deranged, TDS right. You’d think by now they would have learned – that Trump isn’t an idiot, he’s working from a plan and he’s not out to scuttle the USA.

Now that some real details are starting to emerge, we can see the shape of what Trump wants to accomplish: complete termination of Iran’s nuclear program along with freedom of navigation through Hormuz. The crux of it seems to be that Iran doesn’t get anything until those two things are accomplished (this would include the US taking possession of Iran’s enriched uranium). But even now, we still don’t know – there has been no official word. But this does make sense.

You might ask: what about regime change? Well, what about it? During the bombing the Air Force and the IDF were targeting mullah security goons…they were hiding under bridges and such to keep out of sight of our aircraft. The entire leadership of the regime was dead or in hiding. This was the moment, guys. If the Iranians wanted to be free, it was theirs for the taking. Sure, the mullah’s goons would have fought…they’d have to, because any successor regime is going to kill them. But freedom must be fought for and the Iranians had the perfect opportunity. Might have cost them some thousands of lives, but that would be it and it would all be over. The Iranian people remained in hiding. They’d take a video of a bomb explosion. Cheer it. And then go back inside…no risk taking. At least, not by anywhere near enough Iranians to matter. This is the Iranians choice – to be cowards. As far as I’m concerned, they just voted in overwhelming numbers for the mullahs. Exile groups were putting up pictures of the Iranian crown prince and saying now was the time…but I guess in all the press of events they forgot to sneak into Iran and actually fight the mullahs. I didn’t care much about the Iranian people before…care absolutely nothing about them, now. They were clearly waiting for an American army to show up and liberate them…after which they would, of course, compete with each other to be more anti-American than the other guy…probably start taking shots at our troops to prove how anti-American they are. No, thanks.

And I’m not even particularly concerned about navigation through Hormuz…as long as American-flagged ships aren’t molested, I now don’t care at all. You think of that the Indian ship which went into a panic over some goon on the Iranian coast firing an AK-47 at it…bullets ain’t gonna stop a 400,000 ton tanker. Harmlessly bounce off the side. If you’re worried about it, hire some mercenaries to man some .50 caliber machine guns aboard the tanker: out in international waters you can kill anyone attacking you with impunity. But the Indian ship ran away…and the rest of the world’s merchant fleet also chickened out, even though it is clear that the mullahs have no capacity to actually impede navigation. The world gets its oil from there, not us. If you’re such a coward that you won’t cruise past some guys taking pot shots at you, then that is a you problem, not an American problem.

I’m rather tired of the world – bunch of greedy, lying cowards. I do have a little respect for the Ukrainians these days as they’ve stood up to Russia. The Israelis get my respect, as do the Japanese. Heck, even the Chinese get a measure of it. Rest of the world? I hold it in utter contempt. The other day some Indian tourists defaced some ancient Native carvings here in the USA…get the danged foreigners out of my country – every last one of them. They don’t add any value to the USA. And if the world burns down then as long as our Navy and Air Force are second to none, we won’t catch fire. I’m honestly of the opinion that if the world wants our help, then they’re going to have to pay us for it – gold, raw materials, territorial concessions. You’re having a civil war and want us to end it? Sure. We’re taking your primary export port. Kicking all of your nationals out of it. Making it American territory. Now you have to export through us. Forever. And you can’t immigrate to US territory. Ever. So on like that.

And I’m tired of the traitors in our midst, as well – the people (and includes people on the Right) who are willing to sell us out just so they don’t have to admit they were wrong about anything. That is really the crux of it – a pig headed unwillingness to merely at error. The rest of us have – we on the MAGA side are repentant and humble. We know we participated in helping to screw everything up. We were wrong about a lot of things. Sometimes honestly wrong in that we didn’t realize we had been deceived, but still wrong…and when you find your error, the only thing to do is own up to it and fix the problem. Not whine about “norms” and get all pissy that the person you hate turned out to be right.

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.