Open Thread

Trump may be playing a much deeper game than even his supporters suspect – that the Iran conflict is just one piece of a global puzzle designed to make NATO useful, or no more while at the same time imposing American dominance not just in the Naval sphere, but in the whole of global maritime commerce. Think about what he’s concentrating on – Panama, Greenland, Hormuz…some of the major choke points for global seaborne trade being taken under American power with a US President who wants a massive revival in American shipbuilding (once again, all true strategists concentrate on logistics…the movement of people and goods…Trump wants us in control of it). The NATO aspect is, crudely, poop or get off the pot…is NATO of any worth at all? Can NATO do something as simple as control a maritime trade corridor? If it can’t or won’t do that, what is the point of it?

And what, then, the point of the UN?

Things are moving on a deep level here…and I’m interested to see how Trump wraps it all up. The war with Iran will probably finish up to at least the main elements in the next seven to ten days. But the long term ramifications of it might be quite surprising and take some months to shake out.

There’s a non-zero chance that in the California jungle primary it is two GOPers who face off in November for governor. Naturally, Democrats will do all they can to ensure against this – but the seven Democrats in the race are all morons and egotistical…they might not be able to get enough of them to back out.

Latest propaganda line out of Tehran is that the more Mullahs we kill the stronger Iran gets. This is like me winning a fight by letting the other guy bash my face in. Its a bold strategy, we’ll see if it pays off.

The late Cesar Chavez – of United Farm Workers fame – appears to have been a guy who liked to abuse young girls. It isn’t all confirmed but it does look pretty bad for his reputation…and if it is true, then we have to keep in mind that everyone – and I mean everyone – around him must have known it was going on and kept their mouths shut because, at the time, Chavez was doing the Ruling Class’ bidding. Why tear him down now, years after his death? Because he was opposed to illegal immigration…and so the Left is unpersoning him posthumously.

Biden’s CIA identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators or racist extremism.

But it wasn’t just a brand new thing – essentially, since 1945, the things of the West have been considered by our Ruling Class as the markers for evil. They’ve been at war with them since the end of World War Two…it is just out in the open now.

21 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 19, 2026 / 12:36 pm

    Turns out it wasn’t Iran that closed the Straits of Hormuz after all, It was the maritime insurance companies who cancelled coverage on ships transiting the Straits. And, BTW, the closing of the Straits has virtually zero effect on our oil supply, but a significant effect on the oil supply of our adversaries. I found it telling that our supposed allies (NATO) refused to help protect their own supply of oil. Trump played them like a fiddle, and in less than 48 hours they’ve gone from “not our war” to “what can we do to help?”

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 19, 2026 / 1:54 pm

      And as they indulged in a chance to poke Trump in the eye (or so they thought) they just gave him exactly what he wanted—-proof that he has always been right about NATO and its claim of being an alliance of mutually supportive and defensive nations. Now when we pull out of NATO (which I hope we do) their very words will explain the reason and justify it.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 19, 2026 / 8:26 pm

        And now….they are back, tails between legs, licking Trump’s boots and hoping he will overlook their pathetic sniveling.

        🚨 BREAKING: After pressure from President Trump, six American allies just PLEDGED SUPPORT to secure the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes

        “That’s COUNTER to what they previously said!” 🔥

        They are: Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands

        KEEP PUSHING, 47!

  2. Amazona's avatar Amazona March 19, 2026 / 8:42 pm

    Finally, there might be some action regarding the immigration fraud by Ilhan Omar.

    Republic of Somaliland Drops Some CRAZY-DAMNING Receipts About Ilhan Omar 

    Receipts: Ilhan Omar’s original last name was Elmi before it was changed. This evidence was available, but the Obama Justice Department refused to investigate. Her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and their father, Nur Said Elmi (also known as Nur Omar), used multiple names across different countries. Part of the family fled to the United Kingdom, while Ilhan Omar and others entered the United States under their father’s assumed name, “Omar.” These name changes and split identities were used to conceal the father’s true war crimes and identity. Marriage details: • Groom: Ahmed Nur Said Elmi • Bride: Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (real name Ilhan Elmi)

    Ilhan Omar’s Father and the Isaaq Genocide: The Truth Revealed

    Between 1981 and 1991, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father, served as a senior officer executed a brutal and systematic campaign of genocide targeting the Isaaq people of the modern day Republic of Somaliland.

    This dark chapter in Africa’s history, which was known as the Isaaq Genocide, was a merciless military campaign that resulted in the killing of over 200,000 Isaaq civilians. It also involved widespread forced displacement, scorched‑earth destruction of the second and third largest cities (Hargeisa and Burao), aerial bombardement of almost every other single city, town and village in Somaliland, and two decades of large‑scale red-terror style tactics against the civilian population of Somaliland.

    It was carried out through relentless aerial bombardments – planes repeatedly strafed fleeing refugees – summary executions, burning of entire villages, deportations, land‑mining of water sources and homes, Holodomor style government enforced man-made famines (the Dabadheer Drought) and the use of paramilitary units such as the Somali Armed Forces’ “Dabar Goynta Isaaqa” (The Isaaq Exterminators), composed exclusively of non-ethnically Isaaq soldiers, to enact mass killings under Somalia’s military direction.

    Eyewitness testimonies documented “mass executions by firing squad, forced disappearances, looting, mass torture, mass surveillance, rape used as a weapon, curfews and mass killings of civilians even in areas with limited resistance or lawful liberation movement activities, such in Berbera where thousands of government soldiers were stationed. Isaaq civilians across what was then the Somalia Republic, were detained and executed en-mass by Somalia government execution squads led by Colonels like Ilhan Omar’s father.

    Across the country civilians were forced from their homes into dehumanising conditions, including many kept in dungeons, underground prisons and pits. Even famous Isaaqs such as Somaliland’s most renowned poet ‘Hadraawi’ did not escape this torture and years of detention under the most brutal and unsanitary conditions imaginable. Even in Mogadishu, deep inside neighbouring Somalia – and almosr 1,500KM from Somaliland’s capital of Hargeisa – Isaaq civilians were being killed in their homes, in the city and on Mogadishu’s beaches. The Jazeera massacre of 1989 is a particularly brutal example that is etched in history. 

    At the heart of this brutal military regime was Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father. His rank, authority, membership of the regime Daarood clan, and 10+ years of having climbed the hierarchy in Somalia military to the rank of Colonel, placed him squarely in the Somali military’s command hierarchy during and at the height of its Isaaq genocide campaign. Based on his position, loyalty to the regime, and his role in the military, it is virtually certain that he had intimate knowledge of and involvement in the planning, conception, direction and execution of the genocide. 

    By both legal and historical standards, despite Ilhan Omar’s team’s spin in numerous recent articles which have been placed in left-leaning online publications, the logical conclusion that Ilhan Omar’s father was almost certainly intimately involved in the Isaaq Genocide is unmistakable. It is supported on the balance of probabilities and the totality of circumstantial and inferential evidence available indicates, more critically, that it meets the threshold that this was the case ‘beyond reasonable doubt’

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 20, 2026 / 9:27 am

      We have allowed the snake in the tent and we had better stay vigilant or the infestation will continue. Muslims are like cockroaches … they play the long game and they’re insidious and toxic and should never occupy our government. 25 years after 9/11 …. Prayer rugs and a Muslim lead NY. Who would have that? The Democrat party is a clear and present danger to America

      A very childish moment happened in the Senate yesterday during the Markwayne Mullin hearing …. Rand Paul apparently had his ego bruised and he decided to take his entire time confronting Mullin on the “names” he called him. Who TF cares Rand???? This is what is wrong with our government … IMHO, nearly every single member there has lost sight of their job, and instead think they should be glorified for their “service and sacrifice”. I am glad these two had a confrontation … it’s about time. I am sick and tired of all of them debating and calling each other “my friend and colleague”. I don’t care if my Congressman or Senator is “friends” with any of them, I elected them to do a job and if that means getting in someones face, then so be it. I am not interested in negotiating with people who I have nothing in common with. And just for the record …. I could not give two shits what other people think of me or what names they may call me. Never have, never will.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 20, 2026 / 9:59 am

        But the real problem with Rand Paul’s temper tantrum is that he then used it as the basis for voting against Mullin.

        BTW did you happen to see the clip where Mullin talked about his son having a brain injury and being on the verge of death and Trump going to the hospital to visit him? This was during the campaign and Trump spent a lot of time with the unconscious child, “loving on him” and then called Mullin every single day to check on him. It’s not like Trump had anything else on his mind, just running for the presidency, but he kept that injured little boy in his heart and in his mind—and his visit and the attention he gave the child was the beginning of the boy’s regaining some of his short-term memory.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 20, 2026 / 10:02 am

        I did see that and it was heartwarming. NO OTHER politician would have done that, or did that, and it shows the character of people we are up against. Trump is genuinely a good man and we all need to start confronting those who slander him. Violently if needed.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 20, 2026 / 10:05 am

        This is what Mullin said about Rand Paul, in context, during a speech in Tulsa:

        “Rand doesn’t ever vote with [Republicans] when it comes to appropriation bills. I had to vote against it because if that would have passed, not only would it have killed the bill, but it would also have killed the farm bill which is tied to social programs. If you change the ratio (about 70/30) you must redo the entire farm bill.

        What Rand was trying to do was trying to kill the farm bill because he’s trying to legalize hemp for drinks in Kentucky because of tobacco industry shifts. There is always a backstory.

        I respect Bernie Sanders because he’s an open socialist, and you know that he’s a communist so you know what you’re getting. Rand Paul’s a freaking snake. And I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did. And I told him that to his face. ”

        So Paul tries to act like the whole thing is about him being called a freaking snake, with some whining that Mullin advocates physical violence, not even addressing the meat of the statement, which is about Paul trying to sacrifice a bill to advance an advantage for his state.

  3. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 20, 2026 / 9:20 am

    Love the headline on Malone’s Friday Funnies.

  4. Cluster's avatar Cluster March 20, 2026 / 9:59 am

    When has more taxes ever made things better??? Kathy Hochul is out there today excoriating high income earners from leaving NY, saying they should stick around and support her “generous welfare system”. Hochul thinks that she just needs more money and everything will be good. This is the same Kathy Hochul who thinks billionaires and white supremacy are the greatest threats to America. Yes, that’s right, she personally attacks the same people who she is now begging to help her out and she doesn’t understand why they refuse. This is the level of people we are dealing with in the Democrat Party. There is something very wrong with all of them

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 20, 2026 / 10:09 am

      Talk about missing the point! That “generous welfare system” is what is driving people away! These people are telling her to be “generous” with someone else’s money because they are tired of her taking theirs.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 20, 2026 / 10:14 am

        And here’s a thought … how about if Kathy shows the benefits and progress that has been made over the last couple of decades with that “generous welfare system”. In the real world, accountability matters.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan March 20, 2026 / 12:22 pm

        They’re like toddlers – absolutely no conception of cause and effect…just believers in magical incantation and temper tantrums.

  5. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 20, 2026 / 11:59 am

    Rest in peace Chuck Norris.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan March 20, 2026 / 12:21 pm

      Pure legend and universally beloved.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 20, 2026 / 3:31 pm

      Legend. True American. RIP Chuck

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 20, 2026 / 4:10 pm

      Definitely one of the good guys

  6. Amazona's avatar Amazona March 20, 2026 / 10:02 pm
  7. codymccoy720's avatar codymccoy720 March 21, 2026 / 12:48 am

    Mark, March 10: “For very minimal losses, we have completely destroyed the enemy’s ability to impact the course of the war.”

    Today, March 20: Per the Wall Street Journal, Iran targeted Diego Garcia with two ballistic missiles.

    Diego Garcia is 4000 kilometers from Iran. One missile failed in flight. The other was intercepted by a US warship using an SM-3 intercepter. Nevertheless, if Iran can hit Diego Garcia, they can also reach London, Paris and every other EU capital. This would be a catastrophic failure of US intelligence on Iran’s capabilities.

    I guess Iran’s ability to “impact the course of the war” isn’t quite “completely destroyed.” But I’m sure this is all part of the grand Trump plan…

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