I’ve read some articles which assert that Democrats believe they have a winner in the Maryland Man issue – they figure they can move off from defending the man but garner support by pointing out the procedural error which got him back to El Salvador.
No. Serious! They seem to really think this. That the American people will rise up in outrage over deportations because the forms weren’t filled out correctly.
At first glance we just laugh – but then it dawns on us: the Left are the people who run the bureaucracy, public and private. All they’ve ever done in their life is check off boxes and make certain forms are filled out. They consider this an accomplishment and the height of intellectual achievement. Think about every issue: the Experts says it is so and so and with this report from the Experts there is nothing further to discuss. Just check off that box and move on! And heaven help you if you don’t…because they love to find the clerical or spelling error…makes them feel smart.
We are, as I’ve said, dealing with some very stupid people. And we really should have figured this out a long while ago – we thought the Green stuff was Secret Communism…and it is but it is also very, very stupid…anyone can see that if your goal is to reduce CO2 you’ll build nuclear plants by the dozen. Nope: place mirrors in the desert that don’t work! Student loans – how often do you hear anyone suggest making them dischargable in bankruptcy? Hardly ever, if at all – and it is the simplest solution. If the grad simply isn’t making enough money post-college to carry the freight, file for bankruptcy and be done with it. But they don’t want that – they want to annul the debt. After the forms are filled out, of course. This is the dumbest way to go about it. But the Left is wedded to it (to be sure, this could also stem from a lot of well-off grads just not wanting to pay the bill…if the solution is bankruptcy but you make too much money for that, then where’s the advantage for you?).
I’ve seen a lot of Doomers on X – people who are saying it is all over, Trump has failed, the GOP is finished…and it all would have been better if Trump had done Y instead of Z. We are on Day 92. Just past three months. The Doomers are getting irritating. Sure, maybe the whole Trump experiment fails…but it’ll take a couple years for it to happen. And even if we get whacked in 2026 that doesn’t mean Trump has failed…Reagan got whacked in 1982, after all. Keep in mind as we go forward that there is money to be had in clicks…and hate clicks pay as much as love clicks. Some people will just say things to get clicks. As for me, when I see a Doomer on X or other social media, I hit the mute button. Won’t engage. Not going to give them money for poisoning the well.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard appears to be wary of engaging in military action against Iran. This, and her unwillingness to go to war over Ukraine, is upsetting a lot of hawks. Anyone who has hung around the blog knows that I want no war with Russia but have long figured we should go to war with Iran. These are my opinions informed by my understanding of the facts. Others can come to different conclusions. That’s ok. It is possible for honest people to look at the same set of facts and conclude differently. Nothing doing with some people – because Gabbard doesn’t want war with Russia she is now a Putin stooge and because she’s wary of an attack on Iran she’s also a Mullah stooge.
Stop it, people. Gabbard may be right or she may be wrong – but she’s not a traitor. She’s an honest, patriotic American citizen. She also doesn’t call the shots – Trump does. She gets to say what she thinks and then Trump decides. And only fool would want Trump to only receive one point of view on policy matters. Lets hear every honest opinion and try to sift through them to the best result – understanding that there might not be an actual good choice in a situation…some times it is just picking the least bad option.
Got into an argument on X yesterday. Surprise! Anyways, it started with someone noting a Leftwing account arguing that every Confederate should have been tortured and killed post-war. Naturally, this clickbait was generating a lot of outrage (as was its intent) but I noted that the real problem wasn’t that we didn’t mass murder Confederates, but simply that Johnson pardoned them all. And he did this because he was trying to curry favor with the former Planter Class (whom he despised) for an 1868 Presidential run as a Democrat. It didn’t work – they wouldn’t forgive him for remaining loyal to the Union and being Lincoln’s running mate. But that, really, was the entire post-Civil War failure…it created the whole problem. Which wasn’t the Klan (insane violence is always only a temporary problem) – the problem was we let the Confederates vote themselves back into power and, by outnumbering black Americans in the South, vote black Americans into Jim Crow. If the former Confederates were disenfranchised for good, it never would have happened. The race issue would have resolved itself in a generation or two – by 1920 at the latest.
This, in turn, got me a bunch of “how dare you!” from the Right…the usual blather about how the Confederacy was spotlessly honorable and the men who served her needed to be reintegrated back into civil life. Balderdash – the Confederacy came about because the Planter Class had lost power at the Federal level and wanted to keep stealing the labor of black Americans. There were decades of propaganda built up for it – keeping in mind that the idea of the Confederacy was born under Jackson’s Administration – playing upon racial fears, disdain for Northern tradesmen (greasy mechanics, the South considered them), prospects for conquest south of the Rio Grande and a rather hypocritical view of States Rights (ie, they wanted their States Rights…except in the case of the Fugitive Slave Act which essentially made every State a slave State), the Southern Ruling Class got their war.
And it was a catastrophe. The least justified Civil War in history and then they botched the execution (Washington could have told Lee that his job was to remain in being and free to maneuver; not being tied down to defending one city while the rest of the war was lost out West). A million or so people ended up dead (war, disease, hunger-related illness and so on). They got their arrogant, upper class, Plantation butts handed to them on a platter. Repent? Offer reparation? At least admit it wasn’t such a great idea? Nothing doing – they started working up justifications for themselves, lobbied for pardons and then recaptured the political system they had failed…the worst aspect of it was the fact that the Union was merciful. Nothing is quite so American as Grant’s “let ’em up easy” policy. This should have lead to that repentance (it did in some, most notably James Longstreet, but there were others), but the mercy was spat upon…with a spasm of Klan violence and laws mandating smaller water fountains among other ridiculous indignities.
Look, I get it – great-great-grandpa who served in the Alabama 5th Infantry was a good man who fought for what he thought was right. No, we don’t need to be tearing down statues. There was a greatness in Lee, and the sublime courage Confederate soldiers showed even against hopeless odds still shines across the ages. But lets also not kid ourselves about what happened. Lets keep in mind all those corpses and only say the war was justified if we could go to them and say, “it was good you died for this cause”. It was good for Billy Yank … Johnny Reb? Not so much. He shouldn’t have had to show his sublime courage in a lost cause. Wiser heads should have prevailed. And so it goes with most wars – and that it the primary point I make these days. Sometimes you do have to fight – but only because someone else is doing something so egregiously immoral that there is no other way to stop them.
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The Left, in general, has always been thuggish and violent and dependent on intimidation and retribution to terrorize opposition. In the United States, in an effort to tone down this characteristic or at least public understanding of it, this has been a relatively quiet part of the Democrat Party. But in its panic at seeing its foundations undermined the thin disguise has been abandoned in favor of open, overt, threats of violent retribution for opposing it and public support for and adoration of vile and murderous thugs.
A few years ago it would have been unthinkable to print and sell T-shirts featuring the face of an admitted stalker and back-shooter killer (at least not without a lengthy build-up of propaganda reinventing the murderer as a folk hero, like the treatment given Che Guevara) but now we see not just a middle-aged middle-class woman approaching and assaulting people in public because of their apparel but the sight of this woman wearing a T-shirt flaunting the image of Luigi Mangione. This started with T-shirts featuring the wannabe queer basher stalker Trayvon Martin and included the sanctification of criminal and drug addict George Floyd, but at least these two heroes of the party had stories that could be manipulated to generate some sympathy in the weak-minded. This is not even remotely true of the murderers Mangione and Anthony.
A few years ago it would have been unthinkable to see hundreds if not thousands of people sending money to support cold-blooded murderers or members of violent brutish gangs, yet we see hundreds of thousands of dollars lavished on Karmelo Anthony and Kilmar Garcia and Luigi Mangione as rewards for their crimes.
A few years ago no member of Congress would openly court publicity for trying to do an end run around the president and engage in personal international diplomatic relations with a foreign head of state. A few years ago no member of Congress, as a member of Congress (as opposed to simply speaking as a private citizen) would openly threaten retribution for any nation that cooperates with the President of the United States.
A few years ago not even the Democrat Party would support vigilante vandalism of property just because it, to small minds, represents a citizen’s work for the government and his support for the president.
Saw a brilliant comment on X … “if you bypassed due process when you came in, you don’t deserve due process when you leave”
The Democrat Party is exactly the way Barack Obama left it … racially enflamed and void of American ideals. Obama is the reason for all the current discord. He was truly a Manchurian candidate for the global elite who did “fundamentally transform” America by weaponizing the federal agencies and poisoning the culture with racism. Additionally, because of his massive ego and inexperience, Obama did nothing to cultivate a younger generation of Democrats, preferring instead to soak up all the admiration and Nobel Peach prizes for himself. His narcissism and inexperience, and their devotion to him, has destroyed the party … and now they are becoming violent.
The runner up to Obama is of course Nancy Pelosi who is just as narcissistic as Obama is, but who was much more accomplished at getting things done. The problem is, Nancy always worked on what was good for her and Democrats, and not the country.
Democrats are where they deserve to be. An increasingly minority party comprised of freaks, narcissists, and criminals.
Saw a brilliant comment on X … “if you bypassed due process when you came in, you don’t deserve due process when you leave”
Reminds me of another brilliant comment I saw recently:
“I’d prefer to contribute to the greater good instead of sacrificing for it.”
Your comment touches on, or at least hints at, the Great Unspeakable—that is, the racial component of most of the violent rhetoric from politicians and media guests and personalities.
While White Middle America has been sucked into the vortex of mild violence, in the shape of petty vandalism targeting a company founded by a newly identified Enemy Of The Left, the more public declarations of intended and/or hoped-for violence comes from People Of Color, many of whom are agitating for and even trying to incite violence from their positions as members of Congress, with that implied level of credibility and authority.
They are taunting Congress to take action, thereby setting up yet another escalation of claims of racism, hoping to feed conflict and division.
Yep – on a news report about Yale students blocking access to Jewish students yesterday I noted that the main element of the Left is hatred – they are not nice people. They are not merely mistaken. They are evil. They enjoy evil. They think that when they are being evil they are being good – and all their talk about “justice”, “freedom” and such is a mere disguise – and they know its a disguise – to hide their naked quest for absolute power…power that will be used to destroy all of us if they ever obtain it.
They are trying to incite more violence…so there will be a response to it…so that they can justify more oppression, more violence and so on. “Loot the looters” shouted Lenin…not because he wanted poor Russians to get stuff, but because he knew that when the poor Russians went after rich Russians, it would provoke a response, which would justify more violence and more control.
They do this because it works – even in the places where it initially failed (Spain and Chile) it still eventually worked. The Left still eventually came to power and started oppressing everyone non-Left as they undermined the foundations of civilization. We can’t compromise with these people – and we do have to start jailing them on civil rights violations. For decades. It is either that or eventually get pressed to a kill or be killed situation.
I would edit your quotation ““I’d prefer to contribute to the greater good instead of sacrificing for it” to read ““I’d prefer to contribute to the greater good instead of sacrificing it” because it is the greater good that is at risk.
That works as well.
“We repeat what we don’t repair.”
Kaeley Triller Harms writes a powerful essay on the transgender scam of this century and its victims:
As We Celebrate the Return of Sanity, Never Forget How We Lost It
I try to stay somewhat knowledgeable about current US and world affairs but generally limit my exposure to not allow my self to get tossed into the emotional washing machine where hope becomes ragged. That article, while only touching on only one of a multitude of problems we face, was enough to regurgitate my disgust with Marxist communism and all of its off shoots along with those who push it. Our Blessed Mother told us many years ago (and repeatedly since), communism will spread its errors, good will be called bad and bad will be called good, and “Many cardinals, many bishops, and many priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them.”
As mentioned in a response about Pope Francis, it is these things that I see as the catalyst for many people, especially the young, who are returning to the church. While some people only look upon this evil with total dread and lose hope, it is also a means by which God uses to inspire a reconnection with Him.
If you haven’t read about Klaus Schwab yet, do so. He “abruptly” resigned due to financial malfeasance, and good riddance to the piece of shit. They are all dirty. All Leftists are corrupt. Every single one of them.
My assumption is that anyone who has risen to the top in the global Establishment is compromised…gotta keep in mind that they’re not really intellectuals.
In his novel 1914, Solzhenitsyn has a scene of two young Russian men – college students – who have decided to join and fight and on their way out they stop to have a conversation with one of their professors. The man was held in a bit of awe by the boys and they were a bit surprised he agreed to come down to their level and just chat over some beer and sausage. The conversation turned to what was wrong with Russia and the old professor asked them just what is meant by the word “intelligentsia”. The boys gave the standard, Liberal answer – those who have education and are opposed to the system. Fine, says the professor…but what about that highly educated but reactionary supporter of the regime? Nothing doing – not a member of the intelligentsia. The professor goes on – “but that third year blockhead who has to trot just to keep up, he is?”. And the boys realize that they hadn’t actually thought the matter over at all…just blandly accepting the Narrative. That is all the global Ruling Class is…people who accepted the Narrative. No intellect, no thought, not even any real ability…they just exist in a void where all questions are answered.
Leftists have migrant mentalities. They simply want accommodations.
Conservatives have settler mentalities. They simply want sovereignty.
Excellent analogy, and it’s the main reason the Left will never prevail.
Whenever I see or hear the word “intellectual” I think of Thomas Sowell’s definition of the word.
“…intellectuals are people whose end products are intangible ideas, and they are usually judged by whether those ideas sound good to other intellectuals or resonate with the public. Whether their ideas turn out to work — whether they make life better or worse for others — is another question entirely.” But whether these ideas work or not, the label of “intellectual” remains.
We have been trained to respect “intellectuals” and “experts” and the past five years, in particular, have taught most of us that this is not only foolish but destructive.
Sowell pointed out that “Scarcely a mass-murdering dictator of the 20th century was without his supporters, admirers, or apologists among the leading intellectuals — not only within his own country, but in foreign democracies, where intellectuals were free to say whatever they wanted.” I believe that it is the attraction of the word “intellectual” and its associated implication of advanced intellect and wisdom, that has attracted so many Jews, coming from a culture that reveres education and status. Fascism was almost entirely the arena of “intellectuals” who flocked to it despite Mussolini’s explanation that with fascism everything was the State and the State was everything—because it was marketed as the political philosophy of the intellectual elite.
“Intellectuals” will establish think tanks and engage in endless debate over various kinds of wheat, the best soil for growing wheat, the ideal climate for growing wheat, the pros and cons of fertilizing wheat, various methods of harvesting wheat, even the ethics of growing a crop that might deplete the soil, as they slowly weaken and die, while the ordinary citizen just plants wheat, harvests it, grinds it and makes bread, and provides the only sustenance the intellectuals are likely to get–while they look down their noses at him for not being “intellectual”.
The only “experts” and “intellectuals” I have any use for are the Elon Musks who apply their intellect to productivity.
And they’re not very bright…I mean, I’d be much more accommodating to the Experts if I came across any who knew more than I do.
I don’t know how the writers managed to capture it, but in Tombstone the first confrontation between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo after a bit of Latin is exchanged, Holliday notes that Ringo is an educated man…because that is what it used to mean. In fact, “illiterate” didn’t used to mean “couldn’t read”, it meant “doesn’t know Latin”…the language of law, theology and science. Just couldn’t figure that anyone outside of me and a few other weirdos would know the sense in which the Holliday character spoke. But, mainly, the “educated” these days are just wearing the skin suit…they don’t really know much, and what they do know is invariably false. But because they have the credentials issued by dead institutions, they get to decide for us.
I know a woman who did home schooling for her three boys, and she had a classical approach, including Latin. The parents of the kids I have mentioned who graduated “with honors” who had never read a book and couldn’t tell time on an analog clock were bumfuddled—“why would anyone study Latin?” There was no way I could explain it without sounding condescending so I just said I had benefited from spending hours every week in Mass reading Latin next to the English translation and it always helped me with reading and spelling, and I just got blank looks. Which, I guess, is consistent for people who place absolutely zero value on reading.