I know it is still Easter but this is getting to me a bit and I want to write about it now.
Something I posted on X earlier:
Reminder: Bill Clinton left our boys hanging in Somalia.
Obama left them hanging in Libya.
Biden left them hanging in Afghanistan.
There isn’t a foul enough word to describe a CinC who does that.
As of this moment its got 1,000 reposts, 5,000 likes and nearly 31,000 views. That’s in under 5 hours and, keep in mind, I’m a minor account on X. Not an “influencer”! So, I struck a real nerve here. There are Lefties and Never Trumpers commenting – all coming in with stupid lies. So, a second nerve was struck.
The first nerve is that Americans – actual, patriotic Americans – are tired or losing. We’re tired of our boys and girls going into harms way and being hung out to dry…left to die, allowed to be killed…and if they do manage to win, being hauled up on war crimes charges. The worst of the three events I posted was the infamous “black hawk down” incident. Keep in mind that was a carefully planned event by our enemies. They were looking for exactly that – shoot down one of our ‘copters so they could jump up and down on it and drag American bodies through the streets. In the savage mind, that is victory. Our response should have been to inflict punitive damage on the city and people of Mogadishu. Let them know that while they might at times get a lucky shot in, the response by us is so horrific that it isn’t worth it.
Instead, Clinton pulled the plug – not just giving the enemy a propaganda victory, but an actual victory. That is what set the stage for all which followed. Reminder: we had just won the Gulf War in 100 hours of ground combat. The Elder Bush, IMO, wrecked that a bit by not compelling the Iraqi army to unconditionally surrender but there was still no doubt in the global mind: going toe to toe with us just kept graves registration busy. Mogadishu changed all that – it inserted into the global mind the concept that if you kill some Americans and make it difficult, we’ll cut and run. The whole plan that Saddam had in 2003 was to have his forces fade into the crowd and then create a score of Mogadishus until we quit. The Younger Bush was a bit more stern in that he wouldn’t just bug out like Clinton did, but he also went along with the “don’t hit them too hard” concept which had been prevalent in American military thought since Korea. This lead to the morass, the collapse of Bush’s support…and the ushering in of Obama who not only showed he’d cut and run, but he’d actually bend over backwards to help our enemies grow stronger.
Americans aren’t afraid of casualties – we’re just tired of forever wars ending in defeat. We will pay any price and bear any burden…but only if it gets us somewhere. Keep in mind that we won’t always be able to do what we did yesterday – devote massive resources to get one man out. Sometimes the exigencies of combat will prevent us from doing that. But by doing it – and whacking the heck out of the Mullah’s goons in the process – Trump let the world know that you won’t Mogadishu us into running away. That when Trump says we’re fighting to win, then we are, indeed, fighting to win.
And that is the other nerve – the Left and Never Trump nerve. Make no mistake about it, if they believe in any sort of a god, they were praying all day for our man to be killed or – even better – captured. They were hoping for an American defeat. For our humiliation. For one our sons to be paraded around like a trophy – alive or dead. And if alive, tortured until he agreed to make an anti-Trump statement on TV. Don’t get into an idea that they wanted a good outcome for America…they wanted a bad outcome for America. And, sure, a lot of it is animus towards Trump but keep in mind why they really hate him: he’s a brash, American patriot. That is the key to understand TDS…it is actually ADS. America Derangement Syndrome. A lot of people have for so long supped on garbage lies that they really think that America should be defeated. Should be humiliated. They hate my comment because the stark contrast between Trump’s muscular Americanism and the cowardly retreats of their heroes infuriates them. It punctures their bubble. It lets them know that we know they’re the bad guys in all this…and that is something they can’t stand; they want to be the good guys…but they can’t be. Not without repentance and admission of error…something no Lefty or Never Trump will ever do (except in rare instances).
The divide is really between Patriot and Traitor. Not that Trump symbolizes America – you can hate Trump and remain a Patriot – but that what Trump is doing, rebuilding American greatness, is something all Patriots support, even if they take exception to the methods Trump uses. The Left and Never Trump don’t just hate Trump, they hate America. They want an America hollowed out, drug addicted, flooded with illegals and at the beck and call of a Global Elite which is increasingly enthralled to Chinese Communists and Islamists. They want us depressed, impoverished, weak and frightened. They believe the world is a better place when America is degraded…and they hate Trump for trying to restore American greatness because they hate American greatness.
We are winning a decisive victory over the Mullahs – their regime will soon be no more. The Gulf States, faced with Mullah insanity, are finally lining up with us. For all the money we give to Israel, it is a pittance compared to what we give to NATO, and in Israel we have brothers and sisters in arms who are every bit as good as America’s warriors. The world is learning the lesson forgotten…the lesson of World War Two: we’re not just a Great Power, we’re the only true Great Power. As long as we are patriotic and lead by Patriots, we can’t be defeated. Ever. By Anyone. We will leave the Traitors on the ash heap of history. We will Make America Great Again…and the world peaceful and prosperous as we do it.
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Watching some youtube debates between sane individuals and leftist, it’s astonishing and sad how utterly inept some of these “adults” are. Their cluelessness becomes all the more obvious when asked simple questions for which they have no answer. How many stars are on the American flag? What is the closest star to earth. If a dozen eggs cost $3 how much does each egg cost? When was the war of 1812? These are the same people pushing to lower the voting age to16. Besides showing proof of citizenship perhaps we should also mandate a competency test.
I think it is even more depressing to read social media meltdowns over the SAFE Act. I wonder if the bizarre misconceptions are fed to these morons or if they just leap to their wild and insane conclusions. One of the biggest seems to be the conviction that this will mean people have to physically produce their birth certificates to register, and/or vote. Another is that the name on the voter registration has to be the same as that on the birth certificate, though these are mixed in with whines about how hard and expensive it would be to come up with proofs of legal name changes.
A couple of years ago I wanted to change my official residence from Colorado to Wyoming, and I had let my Colorado license expire. After a house fire a few years ago I had no documentation, so I had to apply for a new birth certificate and marriage license copy. I had my Social Security card. I had not renewed my passport so I couldn’t use it. Was it kind of a pain? Yes, but not complicated, not crippling, not expensive, not life-disrupting. If I had kept up with my passport renewal it would have been negligible. And I ended up with my documentation all in the same name (Colorado had screwed up my middle name and I was finally able to get that fixed) and I have a REAL ID with a star on it. Over and done. The documents are now filed, and all is good. I survived what is portrayed by so many (mostly women) as a nearly unsurmountable ordeal, a challenge that cannot be endured much less justified.
My end take on this is that if these people can effectively be removed from the voter registration rolls because they are too stupid or lazy to prove their eligibility to register or vote, the IQ of the voting population will go up by several points.
I looked up the document requirements to comment, after seeing several whines along the lines of “I don’t see why I can’t just use my passport”, and wonder if it would be worth it to do a mass mailing to all registered voters with the actual text of what will be accepted as proof of citizenship to get the ID, and an explanation that once this is done the ID is all that will be necessary.
One of my favorite question/answer sequences, repeated many times on a college campus in interviews with students, was “how many minutes are in a quarter of an hour?” (Everyone said 25 minutes.) That, and “name X countries”. Answers always included Europe and Africa.
We are dealing with some remarkably ignorant people – who are very sure of themselves.
We must restrict the franchise…my personal preference is that you can vote if you can write out the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
And these are supposedly our prestigious college educated intellects, the mental elites who sneer at those uneducated factor workers, waiters / waitresses, garbage pickup people, farmers, etc. The multitude of questions that stump them could be answered by many grade school kids. What is 100 divided by 4? What galaxy do we live in? What is the capital of the US? And yet, they feel their voice needs to be heard in protest of some perceived injustice. When pressed to define the specifics or evidence of their position, their response is either vague, highly irrational or “I don’t want to talk to you anymore”.
But hey, it’s easy to understand their lack of basic knowledge when as kids in primary school would get a passing grade just for showing up to class, often lacking reading / math skills and later if they go on to college they’re often faced with abysmal incompetent professors, who simply want to indoctrinate rather than teach.
These “intellectuals” often can’t read cursive or tell time on an analog clock face. I worked with a bright young woman who graduated from high school with honors, who had never read a book, who could not tell time or read a note from me that was not in block letters. Her father, a college graduate, simply makes up words for things because he has no core knowledge outside what he needs for his job—when he said he preferred living in an “A-frame” house I had to do a little digging to realize he didn’t mean an A-frame but just a pitched gable roof. (The pointy part looks like an “A”…) I was always saying “I don’t know what you mean” when they would come up with an invented term for a tool, for example. The whole family refers to the lower part of a window as the “window seal” (not “window sill”) because, well, that’s where the weather is sealed out, and “rod iron” instead of “wrought iron”.
The thing is, people have a certain level of native intelligence, so they can process what they are told and remember it and react to it. So we see passionate detailed posts about how the SAVE Act will require people to carry their birth certificates around with them, and how they can’t register to vote if the name on their IDs is not the same as the name on their birth certificates, and how the Act requires every state to submit its entire voter registration rolls to the feds every single month, where any registrant can simply be struck off the rolls for any (or no) reason without notice to the registrant, and how we will have to resubmit our documents every year to remain registered, etc. and the sole purpose of the Act is to suppress voting and disenfranchise women. They can incorporate vast amounts of detailed lies, but lack the intellect to analyze what they are told, or abandon pure emotion for actual thought.
And in the meantime they don’t know how many states are in the Union, or the difference between a country and a continent, or how to divide by 10 by moving the decimal point, or how many minutes are in an hour.
OTOH I knew a man who was born in a tiny Andes village so remote it was a full day’s walk from the point on the highway where a weekly bus would drop people off, who explained to me that when the Spanish Viceroy to Peru was publicly involved with a mistress who was of mixed blood and known as “The Perra Chola” or “half-breed bitch” an opera, “La Périchole” , was later written about her. He could also convert Celsius into Fahrenheit and vice versa in his mind, and had extensive knowledge of geography, geology and archeology, and loved discourse about politics and philosophy, among other talents. I know college graduates who don’t have a tenth of the knowledge he had, from what we would think of as a primitive village education before going on to a college degree in a Third World nation.
As usual, Dr. Malone has an interesting article: Geneva Convention and Forever Wars
Yep – the Geneva Conventions originated in the aftermath of the 1859 Battle of Solferino. A Swiss businessman present at the battle was horrified at the lack of facilities for the wounded and so he set about working with governments to provide a treaty for such aid, resulting in the First Geneva Convention of 1864. Fine and dandy. But the purpose was to get civilized people to behave well towards wounded soldiers and prisoners of war. Works great as long as everyone is civilized. The moment you go to battle against the uncivilized, the whole thing becomes a worthless scrap of paper and the only guiding principles are your side’s conscience and the other side’s fear of what you’ll do to them if they’re defeated. Personally, once we got past provision for the wounded, I think the whole concept was ridiculous – as Jacky Fisher put when attending the Second Geneva Convention, “humanize war? Might as well try to humanize hell!”.
We must, of course, be guided by our conscience – our clear understanding that we will one day render accounts to God and so must do our best to be merciful and just, even in war. To avoid war if at all possible. To ameliorate its effects as we can. To, as Lincoln put it, “…strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.” But to bind our side by written words the other side will never obey is just stupid. Anyone who ever fights the USA will torture our prisoners. It is not a possibility, it is a certainty. Any female servicemember captured by an enemy is expected to be raped, probably repeatedly. Our enemies will hide in schools and hospitals. They will put women and children out in front as human shields. They will take aid for civilians and apply it to their military forces. They will lie, cheat and steal as much as possible to get at us. This does not give us permission to be like them – but it does mean that it is licit to apply extraordinary force against them to compel their surrender…and we aren’t to detain ourselves long over the fact that the enemy deliberately sets up civilians to be killed. We will still try to avoid such casualties, but we won’t let their prospect deter us. This is what our enemies want – and as we do not start wars, all the results of the war lie squarely on the heads of the enemy.
Just to give you an idea of how unhinged and vitriolic Democrat voters have become, I posted the following (Eleanor Roosevelt quote) on a Trump bashing page and received over 700 hateful, violent comments. Democrats have become emotionally unhinged and dangerous, and probably should be monitored at this point.
Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Guess which category Democrats fall into?
And, just to clarify, before one of our trolls chimes in that, by discussing Democrats, we’re discussing “people.” Sorry, at this point I don’t even consider most Democrats “people,” certainly not normal people, and they’re certainly void of ideas except maybe bad ones.
Anti-gun Chicago Mayor Spends Astronomical Amounts of Tax Dollars on Armed Security
The hypocrisy is nothing short of astounding.
A robust protection squad is apparently one of the perks that comes with being Chicago’s top elected official. Johnson’s immediate predecessor, Lori Lightfoot (D), had a special police security detail created to protect her and her home and office, and to “oversee her personal bodyguard detail.” “Unit 544” consisted of approximately 71 Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers in addition to the mayor’s “separate personal bodyguard detail” of 20 officers. Interestingly, Unit 544’s creation coincided with Lightfoot’s proposal to cut the CPD budget by $80 million as part of addressing a citywide budget shortfall.
Johnson, another anti-gun progressive Democrat, has reportedly been guarded by a security detail dwarfing that of Lightfoot’s, at up to 150 CPD officers. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Johnson’s equivalent of an army company in personal protection costs taxpayers around $30 million annually, an amount that would clearly be unaffordable on his salary of $221,052.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20260406/anti-gun-chicago-mayor-spends-astronomical-amounts-of-tax-dollars-on-armed-security
They do love the perks of power – it is why they get into it. Politics is said to be Hollywood for ugly people, but it is also just as much Louis XIV for the untalented. People who simply could not make it in the real world go into politics. You look at people like Lightfoot and now Johnson and you can easily see that they’ve never accomplished anything…not one thing of measurable result, ever.
Johnson – dad was a pastor of some sort who also skimmed money via foster parenting and working at a mental health center. Johnson’s degrees? I’m not kidding here:
Bachelor in “Youth Development”
Masters in “Teaching”
With these completely useless degrees there was only one thing for Johnson to do – go into teaching. Except, ya know?, those degrees didn’t teach him anything so he was likely next to useless in class…plus, given the Left bent of Chicago, it probably wasn’t even at all fun…the worst kids always set the tone and anyone complaining about them was racist. Johnson lacked the connections, it would seem, to get into a senior administrative gig (roles like that a precious commodities in One Party States like Chicago and you’ve gotta have Don Corleone-type influence to get one) so he did the next best thing – union organizing! Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach – those who are totally useless, organize. He leveraged this activity – which worked out to fleecing Chicago taxpayers for every higher pay and benefits for the completely worthless Chicago public school system – into political office…and here he is…a man who knows nothing, who has accomplished nothing outside massaging a corrupt political system yet he’s in charge of America’s second city.
Remember way back many years ago (for those old enough) when a “million” seemed like an awful lot of money? And then multi-million was an even bigger number to comprehend. Today… not so much. We’ve shifting into using billions and now trillions where the reality of that staggering amount of money is difficult for the average person to really comprehend. Yet, the US government spends and moves so much money to so many different places, many which aren’t even directly related to running the government, that even DOGE has taken lots of time and resources to uncover only a fraction of it. The design of this is without question, to cloak this vast financial wealth stripped from the very citizens who fund all of this, where a significant amount ends up in nefarious places. It isn’t a matter of “if” politicians are stealing, the question is, how much and by what means that theft is taking place, how to bring it to light and then shut it down. The problem is magnified when that theft occurs in indirect ways. When foreign entities dump piles of money into higher education institutions, it’s simply not done for benevolent reasons. They’re getting something much bigger in return. And that return is likely a combination of intellectual property, indirect access to a variety of other institutions and access to the student body itself. Communists are well versed in methods of indoctrination and financial access through greedy administrations are likely more prevalent than most suspect.
https://bigleaguepolitics.substack.com/p/elite-colleges-caught-taking-billions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=560996&post_id=193473129&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=15i322&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I understand there’s a process to acquire & verify details of deceit & wrong doing in order to strip individuals whatever level of approval they’ve received for being in the USA, but the process sure seems to walk at a snail’s pace. And even then, their actual removal seems like a longer eternity. What is it about certain foreigners who wish continued residence in the US but at the same time feel compelled to complain and protest endlessly about the very country they reside in? As Mark stated in a previous post, immigration without assimilation is a destructive force.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/06/slain-iranian-generals-niece-and-grandniece-in-ice-custody-after-state-dept-strips-them-of-legal-status/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=
When does the call to defy an illegal order dressed as a constitutional duty actually become an act of treason? TDS / ADS has become so pervasive and repugnant that some people are willing to do whatever necessary to reverse course even at the detriment of the USA. When those people inciting this are politicians, elected to serve “THE PEOPLE”, they should suffer severe consequences.
https://pjnewsletter.com/merkley-military-leaders-refuse-trump/?utm_source=actengage&utm_medium=email
Its ok – all the people saying Trump was about to commit War Crimes are now saying he chickened out.
They’re just insane liars, the lot of them.
These poor people are so screwed up they literally can’t keep track of their own narratives.
“We won’t tolerate a king” howl the people who meekly bent the knee to the man behind the curtain and his unilateral edicts requiring them to leave their aged relatives to die alone, be impoverished by loss of income, and inject experimental drugs just to be able to work or travel.
“We won’t tolerate Trump acting like a king” though they also excoriate him daily for failing to exert control over gas and grocery prices and the cost of health care.
Look at their real messages, only thinly hidden inside their howling:
We want the country openly dedicated to destroying us to have the weapons with which to do so.
We want to turn over the control of our government to non-citizens by making sure there are no impediments to them voting, after demanding that they be allowed to live here
We demand mob rule and the ability of mobs to deny the authority of the government and assume its powers in the areas of immigration law and enforcement. (BTW the actual definition of “insurrection” is “the effort to overthrow a government and assume its powers.”)
18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Again, what with me being somewhat simple-minded and linear of thought, this does seem to say that rebelling against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof is actually a crime. And, in the same linear-thinking vein, it seems that refusing to acknowledge that authority, and acting to thwart it, is an example of that crime.
For some reason (I blame lawyers) we seem to be intimidated by the prospect of enforcing out own laws, instead (as the Brits say) constantly overegging the pudding with nitpicking, over-analysis, etc. What is so complicated about it?
Words have definitions, and the law (usually) depends on these definitions.
Authority = “the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience” / ” the moral or legal right or ability to control”
Law = “a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a society behaves…” / “the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties”
So we have the authority of the Constitutionally elected legislature, properly exerting its authority to legislate specific rules to regulate the actions of others which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties. I don’t find this confusing, or even complicated.
Yet in real life, when people rebel against that authority and those laws, we flutter and fuss as if there is nothing we can do about it.
This may come as a surprise to people who have been reading my posts for a few years, but I have An Opinion.
I watched nearly every minute of the OJ Simpson trial, and came to the conclusion that it was a masterwork of psyops. The State’s prosecutors, while bright enough to a point, were after all probably government employees because that was their level of skill. Not to sound too snobbish, but in general public service doesn’t always attract the brightest and most talented, except maybe for the few with a genuine calling to public service. To put it bluntly, they were outclassed. Actually, they were less “outclassed” legally and intellectually than they were psyched out.
I watched it happen. I watched the prosecution being intimidated by the alleged firepower of the defense and its PR campaign, its “Dream Team” image, etc. and I watched it develop what no doubt seemed like a good strategy of anticipation of arguments and pre-empting of those arguments. So instead of just proceeding in the orderly and linear fashion of most successful prosecutions and dealing with details as they arose, they got caught up in (and controlled) by the self-imposed mechanism of second-guessing what they thought the Other Side was going to say or do and then being diverted down the path of pre-empting those anticipated arguments before they could be made, leading to massive confusion, a trial that went on so long its true purpose was lost in the sheer volume of information generated, and the entire thing got out of control. The defense just had to hint at a strategy and the prosecution acted like the dog who is sure he saw that ball being thrown, haring off in the direction of the assumed argument to pre-empt it, head it off so it could not be made and cluttering up the proceeding with detailed arguments about things that just might be brought up.
Coming back to my original point here, about 18 U.S. Code § 2383 (and I always intended to do this) I am seeing this same panicky idea that it is necessary to anticipate every single possible objection, every single potential argument, and address every single detail in advance before taking action. Leading, of course, to paralysis, and the eventual illustration of my own adage, which is that a law without a penalty is pretty much the same thing as no law at all.
So I think we should just say, for example to a governor who announces that his state is a “sanctuary state” that will not comply with federal immigration laws: “Hey, Governor, by this statement you are rebelling against the authority of the United States and its laws thereof, and you are under arrest.” Let him make his own arguments, and address them as they come up, but stop fretting about what arguments MIGHT be made.
And I would not stop with the governor. If the state legislature voted to flout federal laws, arrest them too. Every one who voted for it. Every single open rebellion against the authority of the government. Then deal with the responses. They would get due process, they could make their arguments for why they thought it was OK to deny the authority of the government and its laws. But make THEM do it, don’t do it for them.
Ditto for every single person trying to block enforcement of the law. For one thing, this is federal law, outside the purview of state or district courts. So bust ’em. Arrest every single person who is stating the intent and showing the effort to rebel against the authority of the government and its laws thereof.
Why do we have to make it so complicated? Set up a detention center. Arrest “protestors” not for exerting their First Amendment rights to act like morons but for rebelling against the authority of the government. Detain them until arraignment and setting of bail. It’s what we do with criminals. Set bail, set trial dates and move on. Then it is up to them to get legal representation (and pay for it) while we sit back and watch other state legislatures sit up and take notice and start to have special sessions where they vote to follow federal laws and comply with the authority of the government in passing and enforcing those laws.
Stop being Marcia Clark.
That is a good point – I add my layer to it: it is not established that States like California and Illinois have a “republican form of government” as required by the Constitution. That is, can we say with certainty that the political power in those States (and others) actually reflects the will of the people? I mean, how can such will be truly assessed if the system has now built into it the ability to engage in massive voter fraud? But I like your line of thought on it…because while the Constitution requires the federal government to ensure there is a republican form of government in the States, it doesn’t provide any mechanism for doing that…but that US title seems to fit the bill. Attacking on both those front – you’re not a republican government and you’re in rebellion – seems to be the way to go. It’ll knock them on their heels.
re: Merkley, et al: We don’t need to go as far as “treason” as the Constitution actually defines treason: “Article III, Section 3 reads: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” So these morons are not actually, in Constitutional terms, committing treason. They are not levying war against the United States, and simply not bombing Iran might not qualify as giving Iran “aid and comfort”, besides which Iran has not yet been officially declared an “enemy” as seen in a formal declaration of war.
But they ARE violating 18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or insurrection
“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof..” The authority of the United States is defined in many places, including the Constitutional authority of the Commander in Chief. A rebellion against that authority is clearly defined as a violation of federal law, and furthermore (of possible interest to the Senator and his fellow members of Congress) that law states that violators “shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Remember, in law the word “and” is an imperative. It MUST be included. It is not “OR” or “MIGHT”—-it is “AND”.
Merkley, et al, are also engaging in that beloved Democrat fantasy of thinking they are the arbiters of what is legal and what is not, based on their feelz. Nope, it doesn’t work that way.