Open Thread

We’re supposed to be upset about the arson attack on the Pennsylvania’s governor’s mansion and…I just can’t work up anger. I mean, sure, the guy who did it should have the book thrown at him but ’round about the time Democrats were saying that Antifa/BLM just “needed space to destroy” I kinda lost my sympathy for Democrats under attack. Of course, the primary way to end political violence in the USA is to cut off the funding for it – and we’re already finding that the termination of USAID is a massive hit to Leftwing funding.

A lot of people on the Right are just now realizing that the invasion of illegals was largely funded by the American taxpayer via NGO’s. To me, it was obvious all along that the invasion was being paid for and quite a lot of the money was ours. What happened under Biden was a fast-track of what happened in the EU over a 20 year period – demographic replacement in order to secure the power of a dying Ruling Class. Bottom line is that if it weren’t for the recent immigrants in Europe, the governments of France and Britain would be different right now – both are sustained by the overwhelming votes of the recently arrived. The Democrats could see the writing on the wall – the political shifts in Florida and Pennsylvania have been going on for years and if not countered will just continue. Democrats could counter it by jettisoning the far Left but that was also risky as if the far Left formed a Party commanding 10% of the nationwide vote, Democrats would fall to permanent minority status…and, so, the choice was made: bring in people who would vote Dem no matter what (even if by only filling out a voter registration form which would result in bogus absentee ballot).

The funds for it are now cut off and the passage of people north has dropped to nearly nothing. Seems there isn’t this actual wave of people who want to uproot themselves from kith and kin to move north. Someone had to pay for it – and now I go on to the next part of this: none of the movement of people during the past 4 years would be allowed to happen without Cartel cooperation. Thing about criminal Cartels is they aren’t made up of nice people…they fleece everyone to the maximum amount possible and they don’t care how harmful it is to the victims. The passage of millions of people north was not a target which would be passed up. In fact, with all that NGO money floating around to get people north, it would be easy for the Cartels to realize that the more people moved, the more money they could steal from the process. I’m pretty confident if we look into it we’ll find quite a lot of people who had to come north with their family remaining at home under threat if they didn’t.

And all of this would mean that the NGO’s involved moving people north – and the government officials in the USA who facilitated the money for the NGO’s – had to work with the Cartels to get those people north. This, by the way, would be illegal. Like very, very illegal. Like 20 years in a federal penitentiary for each person moved north. That is what I think Team Trump should look into.

Some MAGA influencer types are starting to pitch a fit that 10,000 Democrats haven’t already been arrested. First off, we need to stop falling for click-bait. Social media accounts with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers are money-makers for their owners…and they need a continual stream of clicks to keep making money. Last year just by being pro-Trump and anti-Democrat they got all the clicks they could want…here in 2025 with Democrats out of power this isn’t enough to generate lots of clicks. Saying that Trump is doing well and complaining about powerless Democrats just isn’t all that click-baity. So, on to why hasn’t Trump perp-walked Schiff and “did you know this person in the Trump Administration is a neo-con Globalist spy?!?!?” Best way to answer this sort of thing is to point out it hasn’t even been 90 days yet. Sure, it seems like a lot longer but we’re not even 3 months in. Huge amounts have been done but, also, a lot of what has been done is still very preliminary work…you can’t just arrest 10,000 Democrats. You first have to get your key people in. Then weed out the clearly partisan hacks. Then start the investigation with a mind to it all might wind up in front of a Democrat judge so better make sure it is air tight. On and on like that – it will not happen overnight.

Arizona has begun the process of cleaning up their voter rolls – it naturally took and extended lawsuit to get this done because Democrats can’t survive with clean voter rolls. Estimates are that 50,000 or more bogus voters could be removed…which, curiously, is pretty much the Democrats routine margin of victory in Statewide races. Funny, huh?

Trump has authorized the US military to take control of a strip of land along the US/Mexico border – heavy emphasis on New Mexico, Arizona and California. This is necessary because the Democrat governors of those States aren’t exactly helpful in this matter and, also, there is likely some percentage of our border security people who are in Cartel pay. The mass flood of people has stopped, but that doesn’t mean the drugs and other contraband has.

11 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster April 14, 2025 / 4:54 pm

    We not only paid for the border invasion, but we greatly enriched the Mexican Cartels in the process, and they are currently putting that money to work trying to circumvent the new rules. We know where the Cartel leaders homes are, and we have a good idea where the labs are … it’s time to take them out.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona April 15, 2025 / 7:56 am

      You touch on what might be the most important aspect of the Democrat support of multiple violations of federal laws regarding immigration. That is, that these egregious violations of the laws were not due to passive failures to enforce laws but active enabling and support of illegal immigration. That is, the United States government represented by the Democrat Party became an active part of a coordinated attack on the rule of law in this country. It designed and funded various mechanisms to illegally import people in direct violation of properly legislated law while openly inciting foreigners in other lands to flood our poorly protected borders, offering legal protections, money, lodging, food and medical care to those who accepted the implicit invitations to invade our nation.

      To put it bluntly, the Democrat Party advertised its intent to reward those who accepted its invitation to illegally enter this country. It’s time to prosecute violations of US Code 1324:

      (A)Any person who—
      (i)knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;
      (ii)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, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
      (iii)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;
      (iv)encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or
      (v)
      (I)engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
      (II)aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
      shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

      They think they can avoid this by making many of these invaders “legal” by inventing definitions for words like “asylum” and permissions that exist only by Executive Orders and not by legislation.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan April 15, 2025 / 2:10 pm

        And if even one person knowingly gave a dollar to a Cartel member, look out – then it becomes RICO with gangsters and everyone involved can go down.

  2. Amazona's avatar Amazona April 15, 2025 / 10:54 am

    “…after twenty-five years of federally subsidized pediatric speed, an eye-watering 23% of boys —nearly 1 in 4— are now taking Ritalin or Adderall for the “condition.” (Hyperactivity)

    The article discusses the fact that this “condition” is never cured, that “…by 2022, 18 million 30+-year-olds were also hooked. Presumably, it’s even more now.” and that Ritalin and Adderall, pharmaceutical-grade stimulants from the amphetamine family, also inhibit growth in young patients taking the drug—“At the end of a 36-month study, patients who had consistently taken stimulant medications were, on average, more than an inch shorter than ones who had never received medication.”

    That is, as the article pointed out, a difference of “more than an inch” in only three years on the drug.

    But this is what makes this study relevant to those of us concerned about school shootings and other incidences of juvenile violence:

    Last year, a study in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that even a medium-strength daily dose of Adderall more than tripled a patient’s chance of developing psychosis or mania. A higher dose rocketed the risk to an astonishing 500%.

    And, addressing other discussions we have had about the general lack of ability in so many younger people going into the workplace, there is this:

    Worst of all, a 2023 Australian study gave half the kids Ritalin and tested both groups on something called a “knapsack test.” It’s a computer game in which the kids drag digital items in and out of a knapsack trying to maximize the contents’ dollar value, making tradeoffs for weight and size.

    The Ritalin kids did worse than the unmedicated students, even though the drugged children looked busier.

    “Their choices didn’t make much sense — they just kept pulling random items in and out of the backpack,” the Times said. “To an observer, they appeared to be focused, well behaved, on task,” the paper reported, “but in fact, they weren’t accomplishing anything of much value.”

    All of might lead to the same question that occurred to me: Is the emphasis on using this drug a genuine effort to deal with true and serious behavior problems but just with unexpected side effects, or (cue ominous music……) something else ?????

    Alone it is one thing. But coupled with Cloward and Pivens, purposely flooding the nation with illegal aliens including bad actors/criminals/terrorists, “graduating” millions of students who are illiterate in areas of reading, writing, spelling, math, geography and what we used to call “civics”, it kind of starts to look a little like (cue even scarier ominouser music…) a Conspiracy Theory !!!

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan April 15, 2025 / 2:29 pm

      In his Goodbye, Darkness autobiography, William Manchester noted that his former-Marine father believed strongly in corporal punishment for childhood offenses…including getting bad grades in school. Manchester was a thorough mid-20th Century Liberal and so clearly didn’t like this manner of correction…but he was honest enough to point out that next term he passed all his classes with flying colors…showing that he could have always done it. And he also noted that it was this discipline as a child applied to himself and his WWII Marine comrades played a role into turning them into men who would keep fighting suicidal Japanese defenders until they were all killed. In spite of units suffering casualties so high that the unit should have been reduced to combat-ineffectiveness. Every child has ADHD – it is called being a child. Maybe in some rare instances there is a strong physical imbalance that some medication is needed to keep a young man focused…but for most of them what is needed is a strong hand. Not to brutalize but simply to get an overactive child’s mind to pay attention to the matter at hand. It is how human being have been raised since humanity first arose…we’re born Little Barbarians who need to be taught every last thing just to be moderately useful to society.

      This, to me, is what MAHA is all about – to cease looking for the easy way out. Medicines in our bodies and preservatives (or chemical substitutes) in our food are supposed to be rare. They are sometimes needed – but not as the norm. An undisciplined child (ie, all of them) needs to be disciplined. A fat person needs to eat less. Work out your store supply chains better so I don’t need preservatives in there to ensure freshness when I purchase. Why not just use sugar as a sweetener? Maybe instead of looking for a pill to get your heart working better, take a walk?

      We need to, once again, get back to the Real World. Our bodies are designed a certain way – by God or Nature, take your pick as in this instance it doesn’t really matter – and need certain things to function properly. We’re not built to be sedentary. We’re not built to be gluttons. What the heck are you sitting there worrying about things for? The assist of a doctor is sometimes very necessary, but don’t use medicine as a crutch…or as an excuse for being lazy. All of us get very sad at times. All of us get very frightened at times. All of us worry a bit. Death is stalking us all! Get busy. Do something. You don’t have to be one of the fools spending 24/7 fussing over food and exercise (that is a disease just taken to the other extreme) but you know that you should take a smaller slice of cake and it wouldn’t kill you to have some veggies with dinner tonight. And if your day to day doesn’t give you a lot of physical movement, then just move – I was feeling a bit too flabby as I pushed towards 60 so I started doing 20 pushups every day. It has helped a lot. Not talking about training for a marathon but everyone knows that little exercise goes a long way.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona April 15, 2025 / 7:02 pm

        I once hired a guy who had gone to a private school in South Africa where the students were disciplined by caning, and he said he was grateful for the discipline and what he learned from it.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan April 15, 2025 / 7:54 pm

        “Now was this Caesar wondrous docible and apt to learn”…so goes the ancient chronicle of Gaius Julius Caesar. But the fact that this was written down indicates it is rare. Most boys are the opposite of docible! I was also pretty docible and apt to learn – not at all comparing myself to Caesar but I was always quiet and interested in learning for its own sake. This caused me social issues as a child because, well, why would anyone want to read when there’s a ball game to play, right? What kind of idiot was I? So, in my case, I didn’t need a smacking…the other problem came in later in where my interest was not engaged, I would simply refuse to learn. But I also wasn’t disruptive…so, still no need to smack.

        But, as another ancient chronicle attests, “boys listen with their backs”. Some of the more vigorous males will only be controlled by a literal strong hand…and will greatly appreciate those who applied it later in life.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan April 16, 2025 / 7:23 pm

      It is just astounding – they are some very, very stupid people…first off, they’re going to need that money for a first-rate defense attorney. But even if they didn’t blow their bail money at the track (which is basically what they’re doing), do they think the money is going to come in forever? That the world will just shove money at them endlessly? Absolutely garbage people.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona April 17, 2025 / 11:31 am

        Every donor to this murderer has staked out certain positions:

        That there is nothing wrong with capital punishment
        That “disrespecting” someone is now a capital crime (and so is being an employee of a certain kind of company)
        That it is fine to execute people accused of crimes like this without any pretense of due process
        That people who administer ad hoc capital punishment should be celebrated and rewarded
        That the rule of law now depends on the emotions of people at any given time
        That the donor accepts and advocates these beliefs and furthermore supports them financially

  3. Amazona's avatar Amazona April 16, 2025 / 9:24 am

    ” it was obvious all along that the invasion was being paid for”

    When people in far-off countries somehow get the message that they can go to the United States and bypass all the usual immigration laws, then be given transportation to the border where they can show up obviously clean and well-fed wearing matching Biden T-shirts, there is no other conclusion but that their presence was solicited and funded. And the Left prefers to use OPM, which has been made pretty easy by simply funding NGOs with taxpayer money.

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