Some Russian dissident gets offed in prison and we’re supposed to get all weepy-eyed about it.
Know what? Father Petros Mwale, a parish priest in Malawi (that’s in Africa, for any of you liberals who learned pronouns rather than geography in college), has been asking for our prayers for the farmers of Malawi as they endure a terrible drought. I do hope you will pause for a moment here and offer up those prayers.
The people there make $579.00 per year per capita. You know: your monthly car payment. They’ve got lots of problems, of course, just like the rest of post-colonial Africa and they have struggled to chart a course. Not nearly as bad as some African countries have had it. They work: 80% of the population engages in subsistence agriculture. They are pretty much free though there are abuses and corruption, just like everywhere. But, its mostly ok because they are pretty traditional and most issues are settled by local councils. And here’s the thing: the country borders Lake Malawi; its 11,400 square miles of water area with an average depth of 950 feet; so, big lake. Holds 2,000 cubic miles of water.
What I’m pointing out here is that Malawi has water. In, fact, quite a lot of water. Yes, other countries border the lake so it isn’t all Malawi’s, but they get their fair share right? Now, imagine if for a moment we had spent 10% of the Ukraine budget helping Malawi build a first rate water retention and irrigation system? The poor farmers there would have access to water even when the rains don’t come.
But, hey: nobody in Malawi passes out $50,000 a month no-show jobs to Westerners.
It is crucial to remember that what is a crisis in the world is usually what the Ruling Class wants to be a crisis because they can rake off money or power over it. There’s no rake-off helping hard working dirt farmers feed their families.
But, do get weepy over a dead Russian if that floats your boat.
I guess the latest thing for the Cartels is just to toss the drugs over the border wall where they are immediately picked up and driven off. We’ve talked about this before: you can’t stop a criminal cartel. Here’s a Wikipedia list of them – if you dig through it, you’ll note that Cartel follows Cartel. As soon as we take one down, another immediately steps in…because you can’t take them down. Not really. We might get the boss of a Cartel, but there’s a whole system of moving drugs from production to user. It probably employs hundreds of thousands of people and there are billions of dollars to be made. You can’t stop that by knocking off a boss.
OTOH, if we could catch the driver of the truck that picked up the drugs and hang him, that would stop it.
So, too, hanging the street pusher. The guy who is buying money orders to transmit them south. In short: the small fry. We can stop them because we don’t have to stop all of them: guarantee you the supply of small fry to actually move the drugs and money dries up when you start hanging them. To be sure, it won’t stop it entirely: even Singapore’s draconian laws against drug trafficking don’t stop it. But Singapore arrested a bit more than 3,000 people for drugs in 2023. New York City had that many deaths just from drug overdoses. Additionally: Singapore isn’t plagued by drug addicted zombies defecating on the streets.
Here’s your choice: execute 300 street pushers or have 3,000 addicts die next year. Choose.
How’s the election going? Well, Pudding Brain’s people are now starting to push a ceasefire proposal at the UN to stop Israel from taking the southern part of Gaza. In other words, what they’re trying to do is save Hamas. Why? Michigan: has a large Muslim community which has been rock solid for the Democrats. Plenty of Muslims are upset that Pudding Brain hasn’t taken a forcefully anti-Israel stance. Recent polling shows that Michigan in play, with some polls showing a Trump lead. So, screw the Jews: we need Michigan!
But think about it: Democrats encouraged the migration of a large population of anti-Semites in order to get their votes and now they’re moving to being overtly anti-Israel in order to retain the anti-Semitic votes.
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Tucker’s interview with Mike Benz may be the catalyst to wake people up to what the government has been doing to us. I haven’t seen the latest numbers, but as of a couple of day ago it had 25 million views. I’ve had a half dozen friends email or text me and ask if I’ve seen it. I’m thinking about watching it for a second time because Benz talks pretty fast, and virtually non-stop for an hour. He covers a lot of ground, much of what I suspected, but it’s terrifying to actually have it confirmed by someone who knows what he’s talking about.
America has political prisoners too. And Americans have died at the hands of the security state because of their politics, think: Ashlii Babbitt as just one example. At this point, America is no different than Russia.
Hard to believe that in the absence of white people, Africa is not flourishing. What exactly is the problem?
The Ukraine war is the only war I can ever remember where no on-going peace talks were being held. And there’s a reason for that. Conversely, America needs Hamas to survive because the “Palestinian conflict” is an important political football for Americas elite. They DO NOT want peace in the Middle East.
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, in Wyoming’s Cowboy State Daily online newspaper:
Rush was a visionary. I remember Rush talking about the “feminization of America” back in the mid 90’s. Today we have men who want to be women, so just another thing Rush got right.
Can anyone guess what the unintended consequence is of the ruling against Trump in New York
According to NY Governor Hochul, there won’t be any unintended consequences, such as businesses leaving New York for places where the state government is not going to target them for political reasons, because the only target the state ever had in mind was Trump.
So if you’re “different than Donald Trump” you’re safe. Oh, she tries to link Trump to illicit behaviors bringing the wrath of the state down on him, but every business runs on the same basic tracks that Trump’s do—-they need financing, they present their own financial statements, the lenders do their due diligence and decide which figures to accept, and loans are made. No matter what she says, everyone knows that when a judge can arbitrarily declare a financial statement to be inaccurate, even when experts testify that it is not, and can then rule that this constitutes fraud, and can then rule to destroy the business, any NY business is in potential danger.
It’s a lesson learned under any tyrant, anywhere, at any time—-when one person, or a cabal of elites, can rewrite the law and make up laws as they go along, no one is safe and everyone is at risk.
“his behavior” were the key words in that statement. If the elites in NY don’t like you or approve of you, you’re in trouble. Has nothing to do with the actual law, because as we have seen, they can distort that quite easily. And this should have every business owner considering leaving NY. And I hope they do.
The other day I was skimming a comments section of an article about the NY ruling and many of the anti-Trump comments said that of course he should be punished, look at his history. In other words, they were coming right out and admitting that even though the charges in this case were not right, he still “should be” punished for “something” because history.
This is the mentality of the Left—-dismissal of objective fact and dependence on emotion and the conviction that might makes right. So it comes as no surprise that a Leftist felt comfortable in admitting that Trump was being punished for “his behavior”—just as J6 defendants have been . Not for the actual existence or severity of their acts, but because they violated some sacred Leftist rule of how the non-Left should “behave”.
The ruling says, blatantly, that if a business owner were to upset the Leftist masters of New York an officer of the court could blatantly announce an intention to prosecute him for his “behavior” and another officer of the court could simply dismiss objective fact and evidence and redefine standards and rules to bankrupt him and destroy his business. The message could not be more clear. It’s a message that pleases the fellow travelers in New York, because they think this is the way it should be, and as long as they think their membership in the club protects them they will be quite happy to see it happen to “others”.
That statement by Hochul sounds like something that might have been inadvertently caught on an open mike, not a purposeful public statement. The lady is not very bright.
I’m certainly not going to argue with your perception of Hochul’s intelligence, but I also think the American Left has become so arrogant, so smug, that it no longer feels it needs to hide or disguise its agendas or its strategies. Why should it? When ordinary Americans with no history of violence or anti-American sentiments are sentenced to decades in prison for mild offenses during an emotion-charged protest while masked professional rioters move from state to state, well funded and supported by anti-American entities, and openly march carrying signs announcing their intent to destroy the country and and don’t get the slightest attention from our “law enforcement” agencies, why shouldn’t they keep escalating their rhetoric? It’s not as if anyone is going to do anything about it.
For one thing, they know that the Complicit Agenda Media have their backs, and will never publish any of the kinds of information that might make people start to think about what is going on. I was visiting with a neighbor last night who told me about a conversation he had had with a seemingly bright young woman in her mid-20s, who had never heard of Benghazi and admitted that “9/11” sounded kind of familiar but didn’t really know what it meant, but who knew every detail about Ellen DeGeneres. We live in daily proof of the accuracy of GIGO, but it’s also NINO—Nothing In, Nothing Out.
America has a war problem and I, like many other Americans, have become staunchly anti war over the last two decades. I was a full throated supporter of the Iraq War following 9/11 but after years of fighting with zero progress being made, I began to question everything. Today, I realize that war is just a game played by Americas Military Industrial Complex to the detriment of Americans who have gained nothing from decades of “interventions”. In fact, life in America has measurably declined since the 1960’s Vietnam excursion. If America is to be restored, we have to begin to act like adults again and realize, we can’t change people and we can’t impose democracy. Many countries don’t want democracy, and that’s ok. The article on Gateway Pundit today is exactly the way I feel about this issue … curious what others think
No conservative America-first American should ever be voting for scoundrels like Thom Tillis. For that matter, no Democrat who is anti-war should be voting for weasels like Ben Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, Chuck Schumer or Chris Murphy. These Uniparty warmongers are all feeding at the trough of the military-industrial complex.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/bipartisan-group-us-senators-flies-hungary-bully-orban/
I agree. but…
I think we need to define “war” or at least the kind of war we find acceptable. It’s not as easy as just saying “no more war” because that can easily lead to suddenly being threatened, as England was in the late 1930s, with total subjugation by a massive war machine no one had stopped. There are times when such a machine needs to be stopped, and when the biggest and most powerful country in the world announces it will no longer fight in wars that is pretty much the same thing as declaring a gun-free zone. That is, stating that this is a place (or a country) which poses no threat to invasion or attack, and will not intervene as nations around it fall to tyranny.
The stated reason for the Viet Nam conflict was our honoring our commitment to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, by which we promised to come to the aid of any nation being attacked and threatened with conquest by a Communist enemy, I know there are many arguments disagreeing with this, claiming it was not the real reason and so on. But setting all that aside, I have no problem in joining with like-minded nations in pacts of mutual assistance. or in honoring those pacts.
I also believe that the best deterrent to attack is being too big and mean and powerful to make it worthwhile to try. It’s a strategy that works in nature and on the schoolyard, and it works on a larger scale as well. A nation that states its refusal to fight is stating its vulnerability. So it seems to me that the real issue is having good leadership, rather than a broad philosophy of not fighting in wars. That is a very complex calculation, and one that is easily corrupted. Only a few flag officers and/or bad presidents and/or too-influential arms manufacturers can lead a country down the wrong road. It would require constant vigilance and oversight.
Having said that, I do think that we should use our power and advantages, as we train our military to be effective if and when called upon, by helping people. Not by trying to impose our form of government, but by understanding that there are times when a show of brute force is required to maintain civilization. A major conflict like the Ukrainian invasion is one thing, but there are so many other situations in which the American military could make a difference, such as in wiping out the Janjaweed in Sudan and freeing helpless people from their brutality and mass murdering.
One supporting theory for something like this goes back to the insularity and intellectual isolation of today’s Americans. Our young people no longer read books, so their lives are bounded by their personal experiences and whatever Hollywood deigns to serve them in the name of “entertainment”. Reading “To Kill A Mockingbird” was to see, in a graphic way, the casual racism of the Deep South. To read “The Diary of Anne Frank” was to occupy, for a while, the actual world of Nazi brutality and control over a nation. Without the exposure to different lives and cultures we used to get from reading, our young people are growing up thinking that “poverty” means not having the latest cell phone.
Military training is, in and of itself, dangerous. People die during training. We can’t use dangerous tools without being in danger. I think we should train our military and then dispatch it, as called for, for humanitarian aid around the world when this aid calls for killing and breaking things and maybe blowing things up—-because we would be using our might, and at the same time teaching our young people the realities of life outside the privileged bubble of American life. It would make them stronger, make them wiser, and make them more fit to defend out nation if it ever comes to that.
How would this situation fit into a “no war” philosophy?
The international system is testament to America’s inattention to it. The Red Sea crisis is a lesson for sea power. Beyond the obvious economic implications, the ongoing crisis in the Red Sea is a direct challenge to the status quo; it reveals the parlous state of America’s role in maintaining the international order. As the world’s principal naval power, America’s natural role is to protect both the global balance of power and also global commerce. Both activities require keen attention to sea power; the current vulnerable state of power—one that both U.S. policymakers and the U.S. Navy should learn immediately.
Sea Power
The Houthi rebels are teaching the world an object lesson in sea power: As one of us has written previously, “the United States must take commerce interdiction and protection seriously,” because global economic stability and prosperity are fundamentally tied to U.S. naval primacy. Though Americans often fail to realize it, their national survival and prosperity depend on access to maritime commerce. Nevertheless, the lack of a serious challenge to American naval supremacy appears to have bred complacency among both the Navy and the American people who fund its existence. The interruption of maritime transport in any form is not only a threat to global stability and security, but is a matter of national security and domestic economic—and ultimately political—stability.
Nikki Haley keeps saying “we can’t change America unless we win” … but the truth is, Nikki does not represent change. Nikki would govern exactly like Bush, Obama, and Biden. Endless wars, increased migration, and continued lower standard of living for Americans.
Dennis Prager has a very good article today about the Left and Chaos. While I agree with it for the most part, I think he is saying that Leftism results in chaos, whereby I think the Left needs and creates chaos, because Leftism only gains power and influence in unstable and chaotic environments. When a country has not fallen into chaos through its own actions, setting up a opportunity for the Left to swoop in and take advantage of it, the Left has learned that it can accelerate the process by creating the chaos it needs.
Prager asks “…why does leftism seek chaos?” He answers his own question with “Because the Left hates the opposite of chaos: order.” And I agree, but not for the reason he gives, which is that “….order ultimately represents a religious view of life. Order represents divine order.” I think the answer to his question is far more basic. The Left seeks chaos because chaos serves it. Chaos creates uncertainty and fear and confusion, all of which make the absolutism of the Left more comforting and appealing. Chaos blinds people to the dangers of losing their liberty as it makes them more open to the promises of the Left that “We’ll take care of you” and oblivious to the corollary unspoken “and that means we’ll be making decisions for you”.
I also disagree with his willingness to accept the Left’s hijacking of the word “liberal” as he tries to explain it. He says:
“Leftism and liberalism have only two things in common:
One is belief in big government, which, given that individual and societal liberty decline as the state grows, is a significant similarity.
The other Left-liberal commonality is antipathy to the Right.“
I think he is very wrong in this. True liberalism has nothing at all to do with a belief in big government, or antipathy to the Right. The only reason the word “liberal” is linked to the Left is because the Left, seeing that the word “socialism” was becoming toxic, needed a kind and gentle word which conveyed intellectual wisdom, and so latched onto the word “liberal” in spite of being a political model that is the antithesis of liberalism. This is why I, and many others, only use capital-L Liberal when talking about the Left, to differentiate between the true meaning of “liberal” and the political creature that calls itself “Liberal”.
This is what happens when we accept a premise of the Left, even when it is so blatantly false. Once accepted, we try to explain it, when the only real way to deal with it is to reject it. Liberalism has nothing to do with Leftism, period.
A web site called Political Science has a very interesting article on liberalism, including this: “….we can say that as a political ideology liberalism means to pursue policies of freedom in political and economic spheres and clear restrictions on the activities of state authority.” Clearly, this and all the other explanations and examples of liberalism in this article, and many others, show the total lack of shared philosophy between liberalism and any form or degree of Leftism.
Only Merriam-Webster, in its shameful pandering to the Left, disagrees, claiming that “One of these definitions we provide for liberal is “a person who believes that government should be active in supporting social and political change”. And even this is very far from Leftist political theory.
I don’t know if it is acceptable to quote anonymous posts in comment sections, but this one is so brilliant I am copying it in its entirety as well as adopting its “sneer quote” comment. It refers to the excuse given for the acts of the Super Bowl Parade shooter, one of merely being an element of his “culture”. I also love the “That’s an idea so stupid you have to learn it in college” comment
It’s intolerable, and thinking it needs to go doesn’t make you a bad person. Believing it’s okay for people to live that way because they are black does.
That won’t quite fit on a bumper sticker, but it needs to be repeated over and over and over!
But it works so well for the Left. It works to convince black people that they have a special and unique “culture” that not only sets them apart from whites but means they are not held to the same legal and cultural values of white people. This leads them to act in ways that further alienate them from other cultures and races, leading to the increasing emphasis on expressing this “black culture” leading to more disdain for black people. and so on.
The manipulation of black people in the United States is the most callous yet brilliantly and successfully executed of all Leftist strategies, creating different layers of distrust and rage and self-isolation from mainstream culture and all of them working to advance its “divide and conquer” philosophy.
When “The Bluest Eye” was made mandatory reading in Common Core and people were outraged by the graphic and explicit parts of the book, especially the long, detailed and loving description of a young girl’s genitals by a man (her father) prior to raping her, the Usual Suspects rushed to defend this filth, on the grounds that the book provided a necessary insight into the “black experience”. The lack of self-awareness of these people is truly astounding—-do they even HEAR themselves explaining that the “black experience” is one of accepting and even approving of incestuous rape? Do they even HEAR themselves as they earnestly explain that valuing and striving for competence is alien to the “black culture”?
The Left has been imposing its own brand of slavery on blacks in America, indoctrinating them into the concept that they must define their entire race by its lowest denominators and that anyone who expects more of them is just racist and in so doing making them mindless servants of a tyrannical political system.
I’m at a loss for words to describe repugnant this is (Hat tip – Jeff Childers)
I’ve been saying it ever since the Polis Posse took over the state government—Colorado is in a rapidly accelerating death spiral.
Another nail in Democrats’ coffin.
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New York Mayor Warns Migrants If They Keep Attacking NYPD Officers, They’ll Be Downgraded To 4-Star Hotels https://buff.ly/49oN3Hy
America has a Democrat black woman problem. From Fani to Letitia to Cory Bush, to Ayanna, to Kamala … black women are terrorizing the Democrat Party and I pray that continues
‘I wanted to blow it. I wanted to have some fun’: DC mom given $10,800 taxpayer-funded lump sum as part of scheme to help poor families spends $6,000 on luxury trip to MIAMI
After pausing her degree in social work to focus on her growing family, Miller was accepted onto the program – a bonus that turned her mind straight to planning a holiday.
Gee, that makes her sound so responsible, doesn’t it? “Paused her degree”. She dropped out. I noticed the tiny mention that the children’s father was along on this trip, yet he evidently never contributed a penny to the family. So that “black woman problem” often includes a “black man problem”. This guy sounds like a pimp. He might not be selling his woman for money, but he’s sure enjoying what she can scam.
This story isn’t so different from those of SNAP cards being cashed at casinos, to buy steak and lobster. We need to get back to the days when welfare was just a safety net, the days of “government cheese” when poor families were given food every week, including vegetables, powdered milk and big blocks of cheese.
True … think Alvin Bragg and then of course the King of disruption Barack Obama. America has a 1619 Black problem. Time to elevate Hispanics and Asians. They are much more reasonable, family oriented, and personally responsible. Blacks have taken their oppression olympics to destructive levels.
I once read a comment that said “Where you have Africans, you have Africa”.
Kind of makes you wonder what all of those “reparation’s” would be used for.
The left are so far down the mental road in spending OPM that they can’t even fathom what it means to be self-reliant. That would take too much effort and far too long to achieve, especially when big gov. is standing there with constant handouts. Just another chunk of our national budget being thrown in the trash. Seems the cloward-priven strategy is moving along at rapid speeds, thanks to our elected officials.
A lot of the $6 trillion that was printed in the last three years went to NGO’s, which they use to pay human traffickers who have brought us the current invasion we are experiencing. All those well fed, nicely clean immigrants with cell phones were paid by someone.
Your link to the statement by the Colorado state representative shows where and how these human traffickers can work. When a state refuses to jail people who sell infants and children for sex you know this is a market for this human sex slavery. We had an inkling of the end result of the Left’s hysterics about trying to make sure that children and infants brought to the border were with legal guardians, which was an effort to stop the practice of buying, renting or stealing children and babies to serve as props at the border to enable Obama’s Bring A Kid, Get In Free policy. Why, we wondered, would anyone object to this effort to protect children? (Of course we also wondered why they would demand to have sexually graphic material made available even to very young children, in schools where they should be safe.)
And now it’s out in the open! This is part of a legislative proceeding! Now elected officials are refusing to pass laws targeting those who buy (and, I assume, sell) babies and children to be used sexually. Now state legislatures, or at least the Dem side of the Colorado state legislature, is openly voting to create and protect a market for sexual slaves, even very tiny and helpless ones. And pedophiles are excused because maybe they were abused when they were young—so, by deranged Leftist “thinking”, they should be free to create more victims who then turn into abusers themselves.
Until we get a grip on our common sense and start prosecuting these kinds of things, and I mean vigorously prosecuting and demanding the maximum sentences, our nation will not be able to slow its rapidly accelerating decline.
One of the most fascinating things about the Left’s blatant move to flood the nation with illegal aliens is its open flaunting of federal laws—evidently confident that they will not be enforced.
So we have elected officials encouraging Americans to illegally hire illegal aliens:
8 U.S. Code § 1324a – Unlawful employment of aliens
(a)Making employment of unauthorized aliens unlawful
(1)In general
It is unlawful for a person or other entity to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment…..
…………………………..
Criminal penalty
Any person or entity which engages in a pattern or practice of violations of subsection (a)(1)(A) or (a)(2) shall be fined not more than $3,000 for each unauthorized alien with respect to whom such a violation occurs, imprisoned for not more than six months for the entire pattern or practice, or both, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Federal law relating to fine levels.
But why not feel confident in violating these laws, when these same government officials (state, city or local) are violating other federal laws regarding the harboring of illegal aliens: Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who — knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation. I don’t know where the transporting of busloads and planeloads of illegals falls under this law, but it certainly seems obvious that cities and states are illegally harboring illegals. Openly, blatantly harboring them, putting them up in luxury hotels, school gyms and so on.
This is all on top of essentially inciting illegal immigration through our de facto Open Borders policies.
I read an article a few days ago about 2024 being the year of corporate lay offs and so far they have been right, which is weird considering the Ruling Regime and their propaganda media keeps telling us the economy is great. But this isn’t just a layoff … this is an assassination of journalism
CBS News fires journalist who investigated Bidens and ‘SEIZES her personal notes and research’ with union accusing network of violating her First Amendment rights
Truth is deadly to the Left.
“There are tens of millions of people out there who are screaming from the rooftops, saying that after they had the vaccine, they have suffered from just basic symptoms, or not that basic, but not as severe as this, but symptoms that have impaired their activities of daily living.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/chris-cuomos-personal-physician-destroys-covid-19-safe/
I hope Catherine Herridge had all her files backed up to the cloud.
Coffee & Covid this morning is dynamite from top to bottom.