Some people are in a bad way today and it got me thinking of a passage in the upcoming (promise!) Book X of the Mirrors series:
It is never time to be depressed – get out there and, well live. And if that gets us a bullet in our brain, then at least we didn’t crawl.
One of the smartest people I follow in X has pointed out that if we dispense with the filibuster we’ll soon find ourselves in a cold civil war…which may then become hot. And, he’s right. There is a dreadful risk in such a thing but there’s dreadful risk in all action, and even inaction is fraught with danger. We’re rather on the knife edge here.
You see, the Democrats just elected in Virginia a man who has fantasized about killing Republican children. The Democrat leaders did not distance themselves from the man. This indicates two things, both bad:
- The Democrat base is horrifically violent and ready to kill.
- The Democrat base is incapable of the basic due diligence of being a citizen.
Whether any particular Democrat want us dead or is simply very stupid it all works out the same…because those who want us dead count on the votes of the stupid for power. The whole Democrat edifice is a standing threat to our lives, our fortune and our and sacred honor. We have to start behaving accordingly. And, actually, Trump has – certainly since Butler. The thought you might be killed any moment by these lunatics does concentrate the mind wonderfully. But at the moment most of us don’t feel like we’re in the crosshairs so our minds aren’t as concentrated as Trump’s. But we are in the crosshairs. It is time to concentrate.
If we dispensed with the filibuster we would have at least 14 months in which to enact laws without any hindrance by Democrats. We could do quite a lot which would gut their power. Trump already is, but if you do it legislatively then it is a very deadly blow. And, sure, if the Democrats win a trifecta before the Left is destroyed this will go badly for us…but if the Democrats get a trifecta and we’ve never struck a blow, then that just goes worse for us. Might as well do what we can.
I am reminded that the anti-Communist forces in Russia in 1917 didn’t lift a finger to save the Provisional Government. They all pinned their hopes on this, that or the other thing happening after that government was gone. But the trouble was that once Lenin kicked out the Provisional Government and assumed power he had the ultimate levers of power in his hands. The time to stop Lenin wasn’t after his October coup, but before. Even if that meant a few norms were tossed aside. Nothing that could have happened in getting rid of Lenin was worse than what Lenin was going to be. And, so, like that, nothing we do to hit the Democrats is worse than what they’ll do if we don’t hit them.
So, hit them.
And be happy about it – be a happy warrior. Our goal in life is to have a tenured Harvard professor struggling to make ends meet bagging our groceries. To bring down the Ruling Class. To overturn the system. To have a revolution. They must lose – and lose, in the end, everything. No power. No money. No position. No prestige. Ridiculous, useless relics of a dead past that will never return. We do that, first and foremost, by taking away their access to government money.
Not for nothing did a Democrat Senator float the idea of funding the government merely on Trump’s promise that he won’t fire any more government employees. It is that crucial to them. It can’t be overstated how utterly dependent the Democrats are upon essentially laundering taxpayer money into DNC coffers. How much they depend on their ability to get useless people well paid government sinecures. How if they don’t have access to money, nobody will pay any attention to them. Their whole existence since the 1930’s has been based on passing out government cash. And this is our best chance to take that way – we have the trifecta. If we don’t have to get 60 Senate votes to cut spending…if we only have to get 50 plus Vance, we can gut the Deep State.
And, sure, with a risk that the Democrats – facing total destruction – will provoke a violent civil war. That is always in the cards with them – especially now after they’ve been fed for ten years on the lie that Trump is Hitler and they are the Brave Resistance. These lunatics are already killing based upon lies…won’t take a lot more to get them killing in droves. But it will go better for us, should it come to blows, if we’ve already cut off the funds. If they are on the outside trying to overthrow, rather than on the inside pretending they are defending America.
So, let’s do it. Risks and all! Better to have it out right now rather than desperately trying to undo things after a future far Left Democrat victory at the polls (however engineered). My bet is that the Democrats simply don’t have a lot of people willing to kill for them – that is, not enough to pose an actual threat to a heavily armed MAGA population. That even if they try violence, it will end badly for them and pretty quickly. But we’ve also got the hope that if we just cut off the funds, this all ends…the Left vanishes in a puff of intersectional smoke…and we all look back and wonder how those people ever were in power.
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My bet is that the Democrats simply don’t have a lot of people willing to kill for them – that is, not enough to pose an actual threat to a heavily armed MAGA population. That even if they try violence, it will end badly for them and pretty quickly
I think they may have more than you know, but “willing” and “able” are two different things. Unless Soros or some such Leftist billionaire has been secretly stockpiling weapons and training a secret army, they aren’t going to pose much of a threat to Conservative gun owners. I personally hope I don’t live to see them try.
I could see the possibility of a small cadre of lunatics being armed and trained and convinced they could start an armed revolution, but that would be purely for the propaganda result of being able to show their bodies to stir up even more discord. There is no way any meaningful rebellion can be mounted by the Left—-not a physical rebellion, anyway.
And why should they? They still have the press and the schools, so they are getting their revolution with only the token bloodshed of a few scripted riots to appeal to a small segment of their base.
And, it would seem, cheating – turns out in NJ the GOP turn out was through the roof. It is why we all thought we had a chance – just big numbers of GOP votes pouring in and then all of a sudden and out of nowhere come 400,000 votes from the deepest Blue urban parts of the State. It is very much shades of 2020 – the GOP does better than anyone else has ever done…and then the Democrat comes in and does massively better than that. Look, I get that there’s a GOPer in the White House and off-off year elections tend to go badly for the party that won the previous national election. This is why even on my best day I only figured the GOP had a 40% chance to win in NJ. But that the GOPer gets more votes than any previous gubernatorial winner means that the GOP is not as unpopular as the MSM says…that we have a message resonating with voters even in Blue areas. But the Democrat sees massive voter growth only in the deepest Blue areas.
Sorry, that was ballot box stuffing.
It was cheating … another reason why we go nuclear.
Destroy these motherfuckers.
” If we don’t have to get 60 Senate votes to cut spending…if we only have to get 50 plus Vance, we can gut the Deep State.”
And this might be what we need to do. Of course, it would mean having a coordinated Republican Senate, which we can’t count on. Murkowski, in particular, could be counted on to spike any effort at unity.
But a flurry of well-crafted bills, not massive omnibus bills but short, precise, focused bills, debated and passed, would set the stage. The first of these should be a bill to get rid of omnibus bills. A bill should be specific, short, written by its sponsor, and must be read by anyone voting on it. Not read by an aide, not read by someone in the Senator’s office, but by the Senator.
The thing is, this would be handing Congress to the Dems in the midterms if we did not accompany this with a massive, focused, effective PR campaign. People are ignorant. How many people understand the problem of the omnibus bills, the problem of folding billions of pork into an important piece of legislation? We need to get that information out there, loud and clear, and explain the need to strip this vehicle of corruption out of our legislative process.
I have paid zero attention to Nick Fuentes, registering that the name seems familiar but that’s been it. Then I read this and started to understand the furor over him.
Nick Fuentes is an ego maniac sensationalist and should be completely ignored. I have as much disdain for people like Nick as I do with extreme leftists. Now is the time to be resolved and confident in our efforts and to silence the extreme noises on either side of the isle. And have no fear !! Despair is a sin.
While I hesitate at the notion of ending one of democracies best guard rails, the filibuster, now is the time to do exactly that. Current Democrats are a direct threat to the American way of life and my grandchildren’s futures so let’s do it. I can guarantee you that if these current Democrats gain power, they will dismantle the filibuster and all of us in the process, so it’s best to be proactive. Full steam ahead and if they put up a fight …. Put them down. We are not playing with them anymore. We are no longer debating tax policies with democrats, we are debating whose preferred way of life will win …. And I will not live under their governance. Give me liberty from democrats or give me death.
And here’s the difference between R’s and D’s. The R’s are independent, responsible adults who respect norms, but sadly that could be their downfall. Democrats on the other hand march in lockstep and don’t respect anything other than raw power.
Thune says we don’t have the votes to end the filibuster …. He still doesn’t know who Democrats are. They are not your “colleagues” John
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/11/05/john-thune-filibuster-donald-trump/
OT, but something I thought I’d never live to see.
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It was a link to a CNBC story about Pelosi retiring. A lot of young guard Dems are demanding the old guard retire now that Pelosi has started the ball rolling. I hope so, because the power of incumbency is an extremely strong factor in elections. And if you thought the current Democratic Party was far Left; you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. It’s going to be the moment of truth for the country. I’m highly skeptical that America is ready for an entire party of Mamdani wannabes. If I’m wrong, well then adios America.
As long as we allow the Dems to represent their “ideology” as merely anti-Trump they will continue to win, because we do such a pathetic job of informing the general public of the reality of the Trump administration. As long as the Left controls the narrative, the Left controls the country.
I think it is great that the Right is focusing on getting things done, but we are taking our eyes off the ball when we let the Left invent strange fantasies, present them as fact, and use them to control the voters. Look at the loony-tunes in VA who is thrilled now that the nearly-transparent White Phantom is going to be governor and might “restore” all those rights “lost” to women in the past few years. Yes, there are people stupid enough to believe the Left when told that they have lost freedom, rights, etc. And what do we do about it?
Not a damned thing.
Look at the “No Kings” charade. The only pushback I saw was Trump’s tweet about how we still don’t have a king. We should have spent months establishing the concept that the issue is not a “king” per se but a form of government in which the government controls everything, and that an infinitely expansive federal government assuming control and powers never granted to it by our Constitution is the same thing as a monarchy, just with a different name. We should have been pointing out that this administration has been focused on reducing the control of the federal government and returning it to the voters.
It’s not too late. We could use Mondami’s speech bragging that there is “…no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about” as a perfect example of a monarchy, though this time calling itself Socialism. We should point out that underneath the flowery rhetoric of his speech touting an alleged renewal of government “for” the people what really happened is that those people turned over their power to the government for the promise that the government will then take care of them. They have volunteered to become supplicants, begging for food and housing and health care and “free” bus rides. That is, they have bent the knee to a king, under a different name.
With “millions” (allegedly) marching in opposition to “kings” we need to point out that a king is merely the symbol of a form of government like that espoused by Mondami and voted on by New Yorkers—-a controlling Central Authority, whether it is called a monarchy or Socialism or Communism. That is, it is impossible to march against “kings” while supporting a system that merely uses a different word for its control over every aspect of life.
But we won’t.
At best, America is a center right country, at worst, center Left. I don’t believe there is a plurality much less a majority that wants a Socialist or Communist form of government.
Not with those names, perhaps. But given the political illiteracy of the American public they will vote for socialism or communism because IT ISN’T TRUMP!!! totally ignorant of the fact that a massively powerful Central Authority with control over every aspect of life is the same thing, with a few differences, no matter what it is called.
Look at what just happened in NYC. People turned over control of their food, their housing, even their transportation, to the head of an ideology which he calls Socialism but which could just as easily, with a few tweaks, be a monarchy or communism or any other Leftist “ism” in which power is consolidated in the hands of a few elites who control everything under them.
And since no one else acknowledged it, I’ll say rest in peace Dick Cheney. I liked him before I didn’t.
So did I. He started out as an electrician in little Casper, Wyoming, and on sheer intelligence and ability rose to the vice presidency. I’m still not sure that what I don’t like about him is legitimate and what is Leftist smearing.
He gave good service to our nation and was an essentially decent man…but I do note that after we spent 8 years defending him against all comers, he didn’t reciprocate.
At the end of the day, Youngkin and Sears both took MAGA votes to get into office in 2021 and while both of them did good things in office, they didn’t reward MAGA for their votes, nor ask MAGA to come out for them in 2025.
Bottom line is that Virginia was a forlorn hope for us in 2025 – under the best of circumstances, having Trump in the White House was going to make the Democrats living in NoVA go ballistic. With the best of campaigns, we’d probably come up short…but we might have eked out a victory, too. But that would take going MAGA. There’s no doubt about it, the rural MAGA voters who turned out in 2021 did not show up in 2025. Because they were given no reason to show up. Sears did hit correctly against the boys in girls sports thing, but she didn’t really tie it all together and kick the Democrats in the nuts with it, like Trump did in 2024. She objected to it…Trump loudly said he was going to destroy it. Sears tried to appeal to people who hate her…Trump appealed to people who love America.
That said, of course the Democrats cheated. Their vote total was swelled in both NJ and VA by fake ballots. Democrats have always cheated – they’ve been cheating since the party was created by Van Buren to usher Andrew Jackson into the White House after he engineered the Presidential election into a series of State-wide popular vote contests (the popular vote went from a total of about 355,000 in 1824 to more than 1.1 million in 1828…not all of those votes reflecting actual voters). All they’ve been doing over the past century is progressively turn it up to 11 again and again.
There is no way that voters are returning Democrats to power in California, Illinois, Chicago, Detroit, etc, etc etc. They are decaying garbage dumps getting worse year by year…but the Democrats keep winning! The people (allegedly) love that California beaches are overrun by drug-addled bums and gangsters. Can’t wait to get more of it!
No. They cheat. They cheat on a grand scale. And everyone involved knows they cheat. What 2025 showed us is that they are now completely shameless about it…they’ll just manufacture whatever they need. Any place where they feel that law enforcement won’t crack down on them, they’re going to produce as many votes as they can via the printer. This will keep the deep Blue areas Blue in 2026…but outside those Blue areas, where the law is GOP, they won’t be able…and they’re going to get destroyed.
Well, we have three answers to how they cheat. One is mail-in ballots, one is refusal to clean up registration rolls, and one is denying Voter ID.
If Congress can legally impose those standards for federal elections, leaving state and local elections up to the locals, the presidential elections will start to be respected. And then if a state like California or Virginia wants to have a separate set of election laws for state offices, let them try that, because nothing would more clearly illustrate their dependence on The Cheat.
Force the Dems to defend their opposition to basic rules to vote for the president:
Must be a citizen
Must have a state-issued photo ID and present it to vote
Must be legitimately registered in only one district, where the voter actually lives (confirmed if necessary by quantum computing)
Must vote in that district
Can only vote once
Must vote in person
If the hysteria over that last one is too strident, give them mail-in voting, but:
Ballots must be requested: No mass mailing of unsolicited ballots
No ballots can be sent to any address unless and until that address is verified as a legal residence and the residence of the registrant
Ballots must contain the full name, address and identification number on the photo ID issued by the state.
Ballots must be received by midnight the day of the election
Ballots must be available for physical examination if questioned and will be discarded if not legitimate
Ballots will be cross-referenced with registration information
Drop boxes will be limited in number, with surveillance and in-person physical monitoring, and be removed by 10:00 every night, and the number of ballots in each box must match the number of ballots recorded as being delivered
Ballots delivered by anyone other than the voter must be accompanied by a signed statement naming the person delivering the ballot(s), the name(s) of the voter(s) and his or her relationship to the voter(s)—under penalty of perjury for lying
What reasons could be given for objecting to any of these?
Any state refusing to comply with these rules or enforce them will lose its electoral college votes
No state can certify a vote count if there is proof of enough irregularity to affect the outcome of the vote (margin of victory or loss). Failure to certify will result in losing the electoral votes of that state.
Drugs and gangs on California beaches.
Seriously, is the fact that Mark picked a beach in California that was not over overrun by drug-addled bums and gangsters to take his family to the most important thing you could think of today?
And lol – Yep, the uber Liberals of Del Mar and La Jolla aren’t about to let their particular stretch of beach be wrecked…but if you go north of Aliso Beach you’ll just get to ever more drug and gangster infested.
But one of these days those sacrosanct areas of privilege WILL be invaded, and then maybe some pushback against the lawlessness and chaos of Planet Newsome will begin. It’s that old saying, everything depends on whose ox is being gored.
If you’ve got the money to live with the taxes, if you’ve got the private security to keep the riffraff at bay, you can tolerate watching the rest of your state go over the cliff. You still have your Pacific sunsets and your Whole Foods and beach clubs. But let your life be disrupted with the ugly reality of the Little People and there will be a class war like none seen before, as the well-to-do square off against the voting blocs of illegals and entitled youth and generational dependents and discover that they are too outnumbered to have much of a voice.
Mamdani’s election inspired some great socialist memes:
Pretty funny!
It drives the Left crazy (crazier) when we make fun of their insanity. Did you see what Pelosi said about Trump? That he is a “vile creature” who is “the worst thing on the face of the Earth“. (And this is from a woman who presumably owns a mirror!)
How can we not ridicule such overblown insanity? Especially when she can only “explain” his awfulness by complaining that the House is in recess and has been for a long time. After passing through the wine fog of Boxwine Nan’s fuzzy brain, the House waiting for the Senate to act on bills it has passed is Trump “ABOLISHING the House of Representatives!” (The Executive Branch can’t control the Legislative Branch, but her decades-long stint in Congress doesn’t seem to have contributed to her understanding of the Constitution or the construction of our government. But then, this is Nancy Pelosi, shameless serial liar and pimp for the radical left.)
I purposely chose to link to the HuffPost for the article on Screeching Nan and the Voices In Her Head, because that page also illustrates some of the more blatant lies told by the Left.
For example, its link to her claim that Trump has somehow “created a rogue Supreme Court” is allegedly supported by this: “The court has overturned 77% of the injunctions placed on Trump administration policies by lower court judges.” Again, this illustrates ignorance of the role of the judiciary. In these cases the Court has basically sent the message that the role of the judiciary is not to assume authority over the Executive Branch, which of course distresses the Left no end. But some mindless Democrat reading this pap is going to be quite indignant about Trump and run down to wave some Soros-printed signs about “No Kings”.
One of my favorite distortions by the Complicit Agenda Media is this, regarding the Department of Education, whining that its operations are “required by law”. Naturally, the HuffPost knows that its mouthbreathing base is not going to actually READ the law establishing the agency, because if they did they would find this:
Oh, no! We don’t want the public to learn that the Act specifically delegates the responsibility for education of children TO THEIR PARENTS and that the role of the State and local authorities is “responsibility for supporting that parental role;”. Wouldn’t that mean that parents have not only the legal right to question government intervention in the education of their children but that the government is breaking the law if it interferes in these efforts? Gee, doesn’t that mean the government is breaking the law when it identifies parents trying to participate in the education of their children as “domestic terrorists” and supporting their arrests?
And so on. Typical of any legislation during the Carter years, the Act is a masterwork of argy-bargy dense legalese and mumbo-jumbo, but the goal of the Left is to criticize Trump for seeing through its many defects in both construction and execution and to just howl that he is violating it, avoiding specifics that let the public know how much power was transferred to this one agency through this Act.
And it goes on, and on, and on. Few people understand the scope of this benign-sounding “Department of Education” but upon reading the Act it is clear that it, in the best Leftist tradition, consolidates massive power in the hands of a very few administrators with control over many aspects of life in this country.
No wonder the Left is freaking out at the prospect of losing this vital weapon in its relentless pursuit of power.