In a little bit of a follow up to the last post: people on our side are getting ok with responding to violence with violence. Even saw a guy on X who suggested flogging for the more minor offenders…including, outside politics, those who shoplift and such. This is the way we’re going to have to go. Mostly because just like those attacking ICE, it is the stupid people who shoplift and vandalize.
If you catch an 8 year old trying to lift a candy bar from the store you understand the whole sequence: he saw the candy bars. How many of them! It is just one. And, wow, a candy bar would be nice right now!
The 8 year old doesn’t understand the amount of labor that went into getting that candy bar onto the store shelf. How razor thin the profit margins are on each candy bar sold and how the owner of the store has to sell quite a lot of them just to make ends meet. And we don’t get too angry with the 8 year old – sure, some punishment is warranted – and must be done – but an 8 year old lacks the knowledge and wisdom necessary to fully understand the action taken.
By the time we’re talking about a 28 year old, a different set of parameters come in. To be sure, that 28 year old shoplifter or vandal still might not understand the full ramifications of what is being done – but if that is so, it just means our actions must be even sterner than we might initially contemplate. A 28 year old should fully understand it all – if a person after nearly three decades of life doesn’t understand it, then we’d better make darn sure that they at least understand risk/reward and how very, very painful its going to be if they get caught.
The bottom line is that someone stupid enough to steal from a store or think that ICE should be attacked isn’t someone you can reason with. Such people are all impulse and emotion. They should have been taught very young to control that sort of thing but they weren’t. In fact, here in 2025, they were more than likely taught that impulse and emotion are the way to go. That the whiny shout is how you get your needs met. In a lifetime of shouting and grabbing and having a temper tantrum they’ve never once met someone who will say “no” and make it stick. We’re going to have to do that.
Right now the DOJ is applying current laws to the problem – with some success. You might note that its been a while since a Tesla was set on fire. But I’m concerned this is mostly due to people finding out that Teslas have cameras all over the place – that they haven’t learned their lesson so much as just shifted their target…to now throwing rocks at ICE agents figuring that masks and numbers give a good shot at getting away with it. Plus the MSM Propagandists aren’t talking to much about Musk and DOGE of late and the target audience has the attention span of a gnat. I suspect we’re eventually going to be forced to extreme measures.
This is because illegal immigration is the lynchpin of the whole Leftist operation. This is why right now the Democrat-paid “MAGA” influencers are going ape about the Epstein issue. Which we all do care about very much and would like to see unraveled but everyone paying attention realizes that Trump really hit the nail on the head with his emphasis on illegal immigration. The Democrats would love to have us talking about anything else but immigration and would also love to get MAGA fighting itself over the Epstein case. But here’s something to chew on: Trump repeatedly promised to release the JFK, MLK and RFK files…but he didn’t actually get up there and make a specific promise regarding the Epstein files. He alluded to the issue, but it was never central to his transparency program. And, of course, file releasing of any type was never as big a Trump campaign issue as illegal immigration.
Why?
I think we were all a little blind on the matter – we were all just thinking it isn’t good to have millions of foreigners wandering around. We knew about lots of other things involved – for instance, I have repeatedly said that Cartel involvement (and bribery of US officials) is a major aspect of it all. But Trump made it very central and we’re just now starting to see why.
Announced today is the termination of a Clinton-era (!) program which allowed taxpayer funds to pay for trade school for illegal immigrants. Think about that for a moment…since Clinton we’ve been forking over money for illegal immigrants going to trade schools. When did this happen? When was it debated on? Passed through Congress? Why didn’t W stop it?
It just sort of happened – Clinton ordered it. No debate. The funding was just included – year after year – in those omnibus bills of thousands of pages. Did W even know of it? Did anyone other than the people involved in dispensing and receiving the money? Who the heck knows. Main thing, the money flowed out – and has been flowing out for decades. All based on a self-perpetuating Executive order by Bill Clinton. And then the light goes off in your head: how much of that money actually made it to helping Jose from Chiapas learn how to be a plumber? We Americans didn’t know about it – how in heck would an illegal immigrant know about it? Oh, sure, there were people enrolled and money was dispensed…but how much – what percentage of it – actually educated an illegal immigrant? What percentage just went to line the pockets of politically connected individuals? What percentage eventually wound up kicked back to the Cartels who traffic the people into our country?
Start to see it?
Trump didn’t just see the millions flowing across the border – huge as that issue is – he saw it as a gigantic system of misappropriating tax dollars into the pockets of the criminals and the connected (often same/same). Untold billions – probably trillions over the years – has gone through this. Money for “trade school” is only a small part of it but it just one of ten thousand spigots tapping into the US Treasury…and it all has become an ATM for lots of people…from Senators to Mexican drug lords. And they’re big mad that Trump is threatening the gravy train. Now we also see the connection to USAID – cuts to which sort of caught us all on the hop but Trump new all along what he was doing.
And this is why we’re probably going to have to get very stern – and I think we’ve got the stomach as a people to get that stern. People who have access to hundreds of billions of misappropriated dollars per year will not give up on that without a fight. They’re around the edges of violence right now…but if Trump keeps going, they will get actually violent, with the stupid being the cannon fodder. And so we’ll have to treat the stupid very, very harshly. Making up for what they lacked in childhood…someone to knock some sense into their heads.
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I immediately thought of Amazona when I saw this:
And the enunciation apocalypse is only going to get worse as we become more and more dependent on voice-to-text. I have mentioned my disappointment to learn that I didn’t have a jester on his way to my house, but just an insurance adjuster. This week I had to remind myself to not be insulted when a friend texted me about a suggested alternative to those “cheap” patio chairs I want, realizing (and later confirming) that what she said was TEAK chairs.
Then we can add semi-literacy to this. My example of a problem stemming from lack of knowledge of homonyms is of someone in a nuclear facility storing components of explosive materials that have to be kept apart to avoid unintentional detonation, reading the directions that that “material must be placed discretely” and then putting the components right next to each other but tucked behind a potted plant.
I just posted a comment referring to Orwell’s “1984” from another site giving examples of real fascism, and this is appropriate here: “The influence of language on people’s ability to think is one of the book’s most enduring themes.”
A poster named Francis X. Carmody posted this comment today on TownHall, responding to yet another example of inanity from Justice Jackson.
“I’m really very interested to get people to focus, and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government,” Jackson said.
Perhaps Jackson wasn’t paying attention during the past few decades as our country moved closer and closer to realizing Orwell’s 1984 dystopia. Here are a few examples of what actual Fascism looks like:
Psychological Manipulation using fear:
+ Brownshirts burning Teslas
+ Fear: White supremacists! Traitors! Domestic terrorists! Oh my! And don’t ignore the oh-so-scary Global Warming! (Cue the dark and scary music).
+ Intimidation. (Deploying agencies to spy on “domestic terrorist” parents.)
+ Intimidation. (Labeling traditional Catholics “potential terrorists.”)
+ Intimidation. (Harassing Elon Musk for daring to enable conservatives to express their views.)
+ Intimidation. (The Department of Justice filed criminal charges against a whistleblower after he exposed a Texas hospital that was allegedly secretly conducting gender-affirming care on minors.)
+ Intimidation. (The California Coastal Commission voted 6-4 to reject SpaceX’s proposal to increase Falcon 9 launches from 36 to 50, citing in part the political activities of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on X.)
+ Intimidation. (Hillary Clinton called for criminal charges against Americans engaging in what she calls “propaganda.”)
+ Intimidation. (R.F.K, Jr was charged with a crime that is 20 years old. Could it be because he was supporting Trump? Was this a warning?)
+ Intimidation. Biden’s DOJ started an investigation of NYC Mayor Eric Adams shortly after he criticized Biden’s border disaster.
+ Intimidation. In 2012, several democrats, including Schumer, signed a 2012 letter to the IRS demanding they be more aggressive against conservative organizations.
+ More intimidation. (On the same day journalist Matt Taibbi testified before Congress re FBI-Twitter collusion to silence conservatives, an IRS agent visited his home unexpectedly.)
Totalitarianism and Oppression:
+ A two-tiered “justice” system
+ Relentless Lawfare
+ Soviet-style show trials
+ Attempts to disenfranchise Trump-voters by removing Trump from the ballot. (Because nothing says “safeguard our democracy” like a government that disenfranchises citizens who support an opposing candidate.)
+ A ruthless Deep State. “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.” ~ Chuck Schumer.
+ Gas stove mandates. EV car mandates. “Formal deprograming” for MAGAs.
+ Anti-democratic actions. Disenfranchising legit voters by enabling fraud-prone, ballot box stuffing schemes & opposing any measure to ensure the person who checked the box is a legit voter.
+ Anti-democratic actions. “After Musk bought Twitter with the intention of restoring free speech protections, [Hillary] Clinton called upon the European Union to use its infamous Digital Services Act (DSA) to make Musk censor her fellow Americans.” ~ Jonathan Turley, Apr 24, 2025
+ Anti-democratic actions. “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win…the right to govern by hopefullywinning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.” ~ John Kerry, 2024
+ Anti-democratic actions. A former aide to President Joe Biden said White House staff felt justified doing “undemocratic things” in order to stop the “existential threat” that was Donald Trump.
Anti-democratic actions. Obama pines for a social media Ministry of Truth: “We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts…it will require some government regulatory constraints.”
+ More anti-democratic actions. “Maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.” ~ Hillary Clinton
+ More anti-democratic actions (inactions). Biden’s admin ignored the will of the people when it refused to enforce the border laws that the duly elected representatives of the people passed.
+ Even more anti-democratic actions. “Democrats proudly announced in March that they had hired an army of the big elitist corporate lawyers to throw their competition like me off the ballot, and they are doing that. … They’re dredging up any reason to challenge us, to drain us of our resources, and basically to shut us down,” ~ Jill Stein, third-party candidate
+ Arrogant nanny state, Big Sister tactics. “… just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” ~ Kamala Harris in 2007 as DA
+ More arrogant nanny state, Big Sister tactics. Kamala Harris complained that the government has no oversight or regulation on what’s being posted on X.
+ An IRS that harassed & suppressed conservative orgs
+ A DHS that essentially opened the border to increase EC representation for Dems
+ DAs and AGs that ran on “getting Trump.” “Show me the man …”
+ An FBI/KGB that colludes with Twitter & FB to silence conservatives
+ A White House staff that pressured Amazon to censor 43 anti-vax books
+ A DOJ that authorized the use of deadly force during the Mar-a-Lago raid. (Who are they going to shoot … Secret Service agents?)
Surveillance and Loss of Privacy:
+ A Treasury that monitors citizen purchases
+ An NSA that spies on political opposition
+ A Dem-controlled congress that in 2021 considered requiring banks to report to the IRS annual aggregate inflows and outflows for accounts with at least $600 in transactions or value
Manipulation of Truth and History:
+ Removal of statues
+ Renaming military posts
+ CRT
+ The 1619 Project
+ Attempts to install a truly Orwellian Ministry of Truth
+ 51 intel leaders who interfered in an election by casting doubt on the validity of Hunter’s laptop. (What would it say about our “intelligence” community if they didn’t know it was real? What would it say about them if they did know and still lied? Which is worse?)
+ DEI re-education camps, euphemistically renamed “sensitivity training.”
+ An FBI/STASI that lies to FISA and loses emails & text messages
+ An FBI that released a photo of document covers (office products) to fool people into believing they were seeing classified documents. (Why release photos showing “evidence” of nothing?)
+ An FBI that first reported a 2.1% drop in violent crimes in 2022 but now admits there was actually a 4.5% increase. (Election interference)
+ An FTC that deleted records responsive to a congressional request
+ A USSS that deleted text messages from 5-6 Jan
+ A Dem-run 6 Jan committee that deleted 117 records
+ A CIA that bribed analysts to conceal lab leak truth
+ An NPR CEO, Katherine Maher, who said in 2021, “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.” [Yeah, truth can be such a pesky thing.]
Individual vs. Collective Power:
+ Leftists favor a large central government, with the size, scope and power to control the disarmed masses. There simply is no way to escape Dem policies. The State is supreme. Government is always the answer. More government is always the answer when government fails. Even more government is always the answer when more government fails. Still more government is always …
+ An elitist DC establishment that pushes excessive regulations to control & restrict business
+ Taxes and more taxes to tax away the public’s freedom to decide how they want to spend their own money
+ Alienation, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Loss of Humanity:
+ A DHS that labels Trump supporters, veterans, and religious folk as “domestic terrorism risks”
+ Pitting the anointed ones against the “rubes,” “garbage,” “Deplorables,” “Threats to democracy,” and, of course, the taut that never gets old (or does it), NAZIS
+ Dehumanizing unborn babies using terms such as “tissue mass” or “parasitic organism”
+ Blurring the differences between men and women
+ Pitting race against race, children against parents, women against men, class against class.
+ Language as Control: Languages change slowly over time. For example, today’s English speakers would not recognize Old English. These natural changes are bottom-up, gradual, and unplanned, which is quite different from the Left’s contrived, top-down attempts to purposefully concoct new terms to manipulate the population into accepting their dogma.
+ “No worries” and “mate” are examples of natural, bottom-up Australian phrases that are heard more
and more in the US as we pick them up from shows and integrate them slowly into our lexicon. On the other hand, “Mentally challenged,” “birthing person,” and “transwoman” are examples of contrived, top down, manipulative euphemisms meant to push The Party’s agenda. (see Newspeak)
+ Wherever the Left has power, they will use that power to force others to live The One True Way of Life.
+“Eliminating traditional words from the English language and replacing them with Party-approved concepts will rob English speakers of the ability to express concepts that counter the Party’s ideology. The influence of language on people’s ability to think is one of the book’s most enduring themes.” ~ http://sparknotes.com regarding Orwell’s book, 1984
+ The Left twists both logic and words to manipulate others. A few examples:
+ Violent gangs are “organized groups of folks”
+ Pedophiles are “minor attracted persons”
+ A jungle is a “rain forest” (how soothing)
+ A re-education camp is “sensitivity training” (sounds pleasant)
+ A mother is a “birthing person” (don’t try this one at home)
+ DEI is “Patriotic Pluralism.” (you gotta admire the linguistic gymnastics)
+ A homosexual transvestite is a “transwoman”
+ Illegal aliens are “newcomers”
+ A Leftist mob is just a “large gathering.”
+ Punishing or otherwise silencing for using the “wrong” pronoun or for “dead naming.” Fail to use the Dem party-approved pronoun, and it’s off to The Ministry of Love for a session in Room 101.
Four more years of Dems at the helm and we would have been living in an oppressive country somewhere between Venezuela and 1984. Happily, Americans were disgusted by the tyranny we saw coming from the Left. And, thank goodness, we demonstrated that disgust on 5 November 2024.
Yep – and Trump is cutting at the roots of it all. The money.
I had thought that USAID was a major factor – and it was – but now that he’s hitting at illegal immigration the scale of the corruption is really coming into view. It touches everything. I even read a story that the Cartels are smuggling cattle into the USA. Used to be they’d just hide drugs inside the cattle but now it is cattle, as such (with the drugs, too, of course). Huge money maker for them – they essentially extort the cattle away from Mexican, etc ranchers and then have them driven across into the USA and folded in with US herds…but without any health or safety checks. This beef then eventually works its way to our store shelves. Was thinking that we’re getting a lot more recalls of beef than we used to and I had thought it was just overzealous health inspectors (and that may well be part of it), but if we’re getting substandard foreign beef, that would explain it as well. But think of all the people who have to be bribed or intimidated to make this work…its a freaking cow! Not something easily concealed. And if its a thousand head? That’s a major logistical operation…and here they come just sliding into the USA like no problem at all.
The ICE raid at the dope farm in CA – legal farm but employing illegal aliens. Like a lot of them – including unaccompanied minors. Weed ceased being a major cartel income source once they got into coke because there’s just no comparison between the per-pound profit of weed against coke. And now that CA had legalized it (as have other States) smuggled weed probably doesn’t exist in any significant amount…but that doesn’t stop our wonderful Cartels! Seriously, arrest these guys and put them into a prison think tank just working up business ideas…for every legal billion of profit they turn, a year off sentence. They’ve clearly now figured out how to profit off the legal weed trade…I’ll bet dollars to donuts that is essentially a Cartel-controlled operation. The guys from the Sinaloa Cartel got a California business license…and this, of course, also makes it easier to bribe California pols…the front company’s officers can donate at Cartel direction.
And and on and on it goes like that…and no aspect of America is immune to it. And that is why we’re approaching armed insurrection against Trump’s efforts to merely enforce our immigration laws…the whole house of cards collapses once you take out the illegals. Its all dependent upon millions of illegals living in the USA…doing the work, tapping into government benefits, sending money back to Mexico to be siphoned off…
“sending money back to Mexico to be siphoned off…” And here you touch on a very sensitive subject and a potential lever.
Under the old Bracero program, people could legally work here under special visas for a certain amount of time per year, to allow for agricultural labor from Mexico. This worked out great. Young men, and sometimes young women, could come here to work in ag and they would save all their money, live very frugally, and then go home with the ability to improve the lives of their families and communities. They could buy farms or ranches, build homes, start businesses, etc. The economy of Mexico benefitted, and the culture was preserved, with intact families who could remain in their homes.
I think we should reinstate this or a similar program, and allow for those people to remit their earnings, but put a hold on most if not all other remittances. People have no idea how much money, American dollars, flows across the border every week. Stand in line at Customer Service in any grocery store and watch tens of thousands of dollars being sent out of the country, every payday, every week, in every store that allows people to send money abroad. Without the ability to send money home a lot of those who are here illegally, faced with the loss of that ability coupled with the threat of forcible deportation, will self-deport.
At the very least sending money out of the country should be restricted to legal residents.