Tucker Carlson has been getting a lot of play of late – the most recent outrageous thing he’s said is that there was essentially no point to Britain fighting Nazi Germany. His contention being that given Britain’s current condition, the effort 1939-1945 was wasted. To you and I, this is absurd – but to a twenty five year old who doesn’t really know history, but does know what Britain is like these days, it makes some sense. The person Tucker was interviewing during this dismissed his assertion – but he didn’t confront it. He didn’t refute it. Probably on grounds that he believes it isn’t worthy of refutation. But it is.
I’ve mentioned before that the two world wars were fought over one issue: that no nation may be allowed to alter the politico-economic system via violence. That all adjustments between nations and peoples must come about via fair negotiation between all interested parties. To be sure, this is a little bit of pie in the sky – but it is an ideal and a good one. And the first step towards any sort of rational policy is to set your ideal and then do all you can to approach it, knowing you’ll never get it exactly right.
Such an ideal is true even if never attempted before – and certainly prior to World War One violence dictated a lot of the world’s affairs. In fact, the Great Powers of Europe had used violence to create themselves as Great Powers. But we are supposed to live and learn and by, say, 1890, the world understood that the destruction and sheer social disruption of a major war wasn’t something worth doing. This is why in 1899 we had our first attempt at a world peace conference. Called into being by the new Czar of Russia – Nicholas II – it met at The Hague between May and July and, basing itself upon Lincoln’s rules of our Civil War, attempted to set some basic rules of war fighting designed to, as it were, limit the damage.
Certainly, there were skeptics of it. But it was the right thing to do – and the Permanent Court of Arbitration was established to resolve disputes between nations. It didn’t work; but it was a step towards the ideal: that all disputes will be resolved via fair give and take. Just fifteen years later, of course, the whole thing ran up on the rocks. And in that it is good to keep in mind just why it failed – because the German military class perceived in July of 1914 that the moment to strike had come. That is, they felt it was the perfect opportunity to permanently alter the politico-economic system in their favor via violence. Russia was surging towards another revolutionary outbreak. France was riven by political corruption and bitter political faction. Britain was on the verge of Civil War over Irish Home Rule. The Germans felt the opportunity afforded by the assassination in Sarajevo allowed them to engage in what they believed would be a short and totally victorious war…Russia dethroned as Great Power, France reduced to satellite status, the UK forced to stay out of Continental affairs. From there, the German leadership saw itself striding from power to power to ultimate global domination.
It didn’t work. Because the world stood up to it – especially Britain, which held that no matter what, they couldn’t let Germany get her way via warfare. The US, as well, though very tardily and with nonsense from Wilson about making the world safe for Democracy. That wasn’t an issue at all – how people governed themselves was irrelevant. How they conducted themselves towards other powers was the only point. Victory was secured, at great cost, and the principle was broadly accepted – no war. Must negotiate. Anyone who starts a war is a criminal.
The rise of Hitler’s regime threw all that into a cocked hat. The Allied failure to properly punish the Germans left Germany with vast latent power. Hitler’s rank dishonesty in dealing with foreign powers helped the world walk right into his trap. He wanted war. he wanted to use violence to get his way. He felt that anyone unwilling to use violence was a subhuman who deserved extermination. But the ideal was still there – and so France and Britain tried again and again to get Hitler to accept a price for peace. When Hitler showed in Poland that no amount of concessions would move him off his goal, there was nothing else to do but fight. And so the war was fought – once again on the principle that you can’t use violence to get ahead. That the Nazi regime acted with unbelievable brutality towards Jews merely made its defeat even more morally imperative…but the defeat of Germany was necessary even if Germany had never harmed a single Jew. The Germans had to be forced off the notion that they could conquer their way to power and prosperity.
And they were. And in 1945 the principle was solid. And the world could look forward to a long peace – except for one, small problem: the leaders of the victorious West were a combination of idiots and cowards. American. British. French. Everyone. All morons and cowards. They took the victory the people of the West had won and threw it away at the first opportunity. Sure, Communist infiltration played a role in the decisions made…but looking back on it, they’d have chosen no differently even if there were no Communists. They had come to loath their own people. They felt the two World Wars were caused by the common men and women of the West rather than the folly of the Western Ruling Class. They were determined to divest their peoples of power as soon as possible…positively throwing away their territories in a rush to give power to bands of armed thugs in their former colonial possessions.
And while they were doing this, they were busily sapping the moral and intellectual strength of the Western people. Dumbing down education. Denigrating Christianity. Family. Hard Work Sobriety. Thrift. Basic decency. All were eroded away because, it was felt, Western peoples were too dangerous. And here we sit in 2026 with mobs of feral Third World youths rioting in France as the French people cower, more afraid of being called racists than of defending their ancient civilization. Seeing this, an ill educated Western population can easily be convinced that it is such people who are the suckers. The heirs of Christianity. Of Republican ideals. Of hard work, family and being law abiding. What does it get them? A savage beating them while their own police run away. This is where the likes of Tucker get their audience…because nobody actually likes things as they are. But the youths of the West today don’t know their own history – only a sick, lying parody of it, presented to them by a Ruling Class which hates them. But they can see it is bad – and they are looking for some way to respond. Some world view which gives them a place – and a purpose. People like Carlson provide it. Tuckerism being a species of propaganda which is designed – very cleverly – to present itself as the bulwark of the West while actually being a poison designed to kill it.
And this is fueled by people who hate the West. Russian, Chinese and Islamist money is ultimately behind all of it. They want the people of the West to continue to despise themselves – but now to assist the anti-West in destroying the West. Nothing better than convincing the kids that the West was immoral to fight the World Wars. That the Jews had and have it coming. Not to turn back to what made the West great – especially its Christian heritage – but to simply boil over with hatred, and help set things on fire. Most people dismiss Tucker and his like as unimportant. They aren’t. They are very important and must be confronted. And part of that confrontation must be some admissions: most importantly that the West has been fooled. That it was mostly fooled by Westerners doesn’t change the fact of being fooled.
We have to do this because we must give the youth of the West a path to reviving our civilization. A faith in God, a faith in Republican ideals. A faith in family. This will require two simultaneous efforts – getting the foreign savages out of our nations, and hammering hard at those who are being paid by anti-Western forces to subvert the West. We can’t continue to allow the barbarians to remain here…but we also can’t simply allow people to lie in public. I know: I’m once again back on that subject: that lies are the problem. But, they are – they have nearly destroyed us and they are being used to finish us off. We either stop the liars, or we will die. Tucker and those like him cannot be allowed to appear in public to spread lies. What these traitors are saying cannot be first amendment protected. Even if they claim they are patriots – they aren’t, not a one of them – we still can’t allow them to lie. Keep in mind while they are lying – allowed to lie – so, too, are the Communist and Third World enemies of the West. And even if we got rid of the Communists and the foreign savages, if we retain in our public square a pack of liars, then eventually the Communists and savages will be back. Only when all of them are gone can we fully restore America – and the West.
I assume you’re referring to Tucker Carlson when you speak of Tuckerism. I confess I haven’t followed him since he left Fox. I recall reading some things he said a while back that surprised and disappointed me, but I don’t even remember what they were.
You’re right – I did just sort of jump in there assuming everyone was on my same page. I added an introductory paragraph.
Back to the previous thread briefly. I lived in Lahaina in 1982 and 1983 and worked up at Kaanapali. Most magnificent place I had ever been. Lahaina was the most charming village ever … and it’s all gone. People did some things (LOL amazona), and Casper, the rebuild is not the point. The neglect is the point.
After moving to Idaho, our first mission was to find a good Pastor and a Bible based Church, and we did. I love our place of worship and more encouraging is the large number of kids anywhere from 18-28. Lots of them. Faith is coming back in our younger generation and we can thank the Godless Democrats and their cultural bullshit for that return to decency. I am more optimistic than not, but we do still have a battle to fight. People like Tucker are in the minority as are Democrats, but they are loud because they know they are losing. We just need to stay steadfast in Faith and not allow their hate and vitriol to consume us.
It’s alarming to see all the fraud that’s being uncovered. Huge amount of fraud found in daycare, hospice, education, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Virtually every sector in our country has been found to be corrupt … except elections. There is zero voter fraud according to Democrats so that should make you feel better. I am glad they cleared that up
We were there in June, 1984. Sounds like we just missed you. Our favorite restaurant in Lahaina was one that was on a dock over the water – can’t remember the name of it, but they had a dessert called Mud Pie that was most memorable.
I believe that was called Longhi’s. At the end of Front Street.
Sounds right. Great place!
Lahaina was a beautiful place and everyone in the state morns its loss. Former capital of the Maui and latter the kingdom of Hawaii.
What caused the disaster was the result of number of actions over decades. Water resources diverted to large resorts and Billionaire estates. Native grasses replaced by invasive species of grasses that provided fuel for the fire. Roofs made of asphalt and wood shingles rather than metal that caught fire easily. An electrical grid that was above ground that didn’t have the safe guards built in that it should have. Add to all of that there were high winds caused by a hurricane hundreds of miles to the south. It was a tragedy and a loss that all of us living here now and millions of others who have visited over the years mourn.
And every last thing you describe as the problem was created by liberal Democrats who absolutely dominate Hawaiian life. It was your side that did it. On purpose. Because your side hates anything resembling logic, justice or even common sense. When that fire ripped through the town the first thought of the liberal Democrat rules wasn’t to save the people and help them rebuild…but how they could profit off it. Politically and economically. Same thing with the Palisades fire in California. Nothing has been rebuilt in Hawaii or Palisades because the rulers don’t want the people to get their little homes and communities back…no, they want the moneybags who own them to get it…to be able to take over the property at a discount, provide kickbacks to politicians…and some tiny bit of “low income” window dressing to keep people like you thinking – absurdly – that you’re the good guys.
On April 1st, 1946, Hawaii was hit with a major Tsunami. One hundred and fifty nine people were killed in the worst disaster in Hawaiian history. At the time the Territory of Hawaii was completely dominated by the Republican Party. Can we blame the deaths on the Republican Party?
The fire in Lahaina was unprecedented. Certainly it could have been prevented by burying power lines, replacing invasive grasses with native grasses, not shifting water resources and requiring home and businesses to replace their roofs with metal. Would Republicans have done any those things? I think not.
A tsunami from 1946? When Hawaii was a territory? That’s you’re come back? FFS…
But here in 2026 – who has gone to jail? Which Democrat officials have resigned in disgrace? Where are the criminal charges?
None. “Mistakes were made”…the pat leftist answer since the founding days of the USSR. Mistakes, by who? Never answered…and never to be asked. Just go with it…and keep the left in power. Or else.
You probably think the Democrats are about to win fair and square in California when by all metrics the GOP should win every office in that State…it is a complete disaster area and getting worse by the day. But you’ll watch the fake vote totals and be all happy…convinced that a crackhead sh***ing on the streets is nothing to worry about…as long as a woman can get an abortion or something.
“Would Republicans have done any those things? I think not.”
More magical thinking, more crystal ball projecting.
Your story, as irrelevant as it is, reminds me of the conversation between two businessmen about the insurance settlement for a building owned by a third, which had been destroyed by fire. Man #1: “I wonder why that building burned.” Man #2: “Because he didn’t know how to start a flood”.
Both this fire and the Palisades fires were marked by bad government planning followed by inept reactions. Fires are inevitable, more so when nothing is done to mitigate the danger or prepare for dealing with them when they occur. Then, and this has been a criticism of both fire areas, government could ease building restrictions, help with permitting, subsidize financing, and be energetic and proactive in helping the rebuilding process—-not refusing to work with the victims, while many are forced to sell their land to predatory developers and speculators who sweep in to take advantage of the problem.
Quit mincing around and pretending the blame is being focused primarily on how the fires started and not on how the governments bungled their responses.
You’re very tribal Casper, and that’s what is wrong with our country and why MAGA exists. The question is not “what would Republicans do”, the question is “what would a common sense, practical person do”. Trump had been a life long Democrat when he ran as a Republican but more importantly, on a great new agenda, and conservatives embraced him because we were so tired of our pathetic “Republican” leadership. What have Democrats done? Circled the wagons and doubled down on crazy. The Democrat party is just a bastion for angry incompetent people.
the question is “what would a common sense, practical person do”.
I’d add “honest” to that mix, and that is something that most Democrats are not, at least most Democrats who achieve any amount of power. That’s one of the major differences between Democrats and Republicans. I’m not saying Republicans are not corruptible, but power seems to corrupt Democrats more than it does Republicans. Democrats are more ends-justify-the-means driven, and that inevitably leads to “doing whatever it takes, regardless of the ethical, legal, or moral implications. Whoever came up with the term “moral relativism” had Democrats in mind.
Check this article out …
https://archive.is/Acdak
Turns out teenagers are now arming the cartels. Who would have thunk it? But this again is a result of the cultural bullshit the Democrats have created. Note the one teenager said it gave them a “sense of purpose”, which all young men need. It use to come from be valued in society but men are no longer valued. The feminist movement has gone from “we want to be equal to men” to “we don’t need men” to “we are men” and traditional relationships suffer for it. I recently read that the younger generations are having sex far less than previous generations and that’s not good. The man woman relationship is the foundation of civilization and the separate roles they play are critical. Blurring those lines is and has been detrimental. We need to give our younger generations a slice of ownership in this country (thank you Trump accounts), Faith, and a sense of purpose. That’s how we right the ship.
I guess I need to do some more posting so Amazina has something to do.
Meow.
From Trump’s speech yesterday in Ohio.
Trump: “I take an aspirin a day. I don’t know if it works but psychologically I need it. It thins the hell out of your blood I guess. I don’t know if it works or not but I’ve been doing it for a long time. And here I am making speeches. I like Bayer aspirin. And I take the big one. They want me to go down to the 80. I take the 386. I don’t know what the hell it is. It’s a monster. They said, ‘Sir, you don’t need that!’ I said, do me a favor, I’ve been doing okay for 35 years. Leave me alone.”
So inspiring.
We all get to decide what inspires us, and if aspirin is what floats your boat, well then, good for you. But you do pick the silliest things to post about.
You’re just mad that none of your leaders are real – Trump is just talking. Like normal people; person to person. Your side is all scripted, doesn’t dare even hint at having a dissenting opinion, never tells us what they really mean.
Trump is suppose to be campaigning. Instead, it’s all about himself. He does not sound normal. He sounds like someone who is out of touch with reality.
You only think that because MSNow told you to.
“He sounds like someone who is out of touch with reality.”
Says the guy who is all swoony over his belief that Mazie Hirono is “brilliant” and is convinced that Kamala Harris would have been a wonderful president.
I think that because I watch Trump’s speeches and I read the Time interview.
Yet you link to Aaron Rupar, one of the most hate-driven, toxic radicals in the media.
Not that anyone is surprised to learn that this is the kind of “source” you seek out.
And yet you think that Kamala Harris is an intelligent woman. How to you reconcile that?
Casper’s “reality” has always been, shall we say, unique. He has always been an empty vessel, easily filled by the latest nonsense of the Complicit Agenda Media, with the caveat that to impress him it must be negative, petty and hostile to conservatives. It not only doesn’t need to make sense, it can’t be demanding of intellectual vigor. Thin, weak and snide and it is like manna to Casper, eagerly slurped up and so impressive to him that he can’t wait to rush to his keyboard to post it.
He was not only impressed by the quotation he cited, he even thought it clever to state that he found it “inspiring” in his quest to fit in at the Malice Boys table. (His old table at Dean Morgan was the Short Bus table, the vulnerable and marginalized kids who were desperate to feel included so made a fuss over the pudgy middle-aged teacher who would flatter them and play games with them. But he is free of the restraining influences of a conservative environment and a pleasant wife and is now trotting along in the wake of the snottiest and most hostile online bloggers, trying to be establish cred with them.)
“Yet you link to Aaron Rupar, one of the most hate-driven, toxic radicals in the media.”
I didn’t link to him. I copied and pasted a Trump quote from him. Sorry Trump’s words trigger you.
Hint: Peevishness might be your wheelhouse but it isn’t enough to get you into the Malice Club. “Sorry Trump’s words trigger you” is so soiboi, so fluttery, so slap-fight kind of pissy, but it does define you.
And when you say you merely copied and pasted a Rupar quote you admit you read his stuff—and his was the link in your post.
The hatred runs deep in Casper. Trump can’t even talk about aspirin with Casper getting bent out of shape. Trump has broken Democrats.
But hey Casper, the people in LA are running for their lives again because Democrats lose every battle to fire and wind ….
Evacuations are underway on Sunday after a massive wildfire broke out in Los Angeles amid a blistering October heat wave.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/here-we-go-evacuations-underway-after-massive-wildfire/
If only there was a catastrophic fire about a year and half ago that they could have learned from.
I don’t wish misery on anyone, even those with whom I vehemently disagree, but there is a certain degree of poetic justice when people suffer, either directly or indirectly from their own actions. The majority of voters in California consistently vote for people who enable wildfires. Is it masochism? Ignorance? Stupidity? All I know is that I’m glad I don’t live there.
Hard to believe voters in CA put up with this shit. Or do they??? I believe 100% that Democrats rig every CA election. That State is rife with corruption in daycare, hospice care, Medicare etc., and local elections are just as corrupt.
This is also a good time to remind everyone that Trump WON the 2020 election. Democrats cheated. It’s that simple.
But it ended up actually being a good thing that Biden was President. Had Trump taken office in January, 2021, I don’t believe he would have achieved a fraction of the things he has. The pieces were just not in place, and he and a handful of very smart people spent the entirety of Biden’s daytime naps putting it altogether. We survived Biden, and it served as a reminder just how awful Democrats are when they are in power.
I can’t disagree with that
IMO, they don’t. It is all just fraud. No way the voters of Los Angeles are going to actually re-elect the mayor – she’s a complete moron and corrupt into the bargain. LA is a Third World s***hole…the voters would choose anyone but her. But, she’s going to officially win.
“she’s a complete moron and corrupt into the bargain” but I thought these were features, not bugs. Mere resume enhancers.
Trump was talking about aspirin during a political rally. Don’t you find that a little odd? And that’s just one of many weird statements he made. He’s trying to bribe voters to vote for him ($5000 dollars, but only if Republicans win). He’s lying about the economy and the price of gas. He declared the Iran was is over while moving another 10,000 troops into the area.
Then there is this. https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/
Casper—just a hint. All you have to do is post your name and we know you are whining, bitching, moaning, complaining and generally having a temper tantrum about Trump and the Invented Right.
You don’t like him. Fine. You love snouting out ugly stuff and then wallowing in it. Fine. You get off on posting it to people who think you’re a total lemming idiot. Fine. Can we just leave it at that, or does your compulsion mean you must continue to squeeze your emotional pus out of your mental abscesses to smear it on this blog?
“Trump was talking about aspirin during a political rally. Don’t you find that a little odd?”
What’s odd is that this made such a huge impression on you.
I don’t find it odd at all. I find it normal. What I do find odd is a politician who is unable to define a woman.
This is vile. This is Godless. But this is a direct result of Democrat governance
Horrifying footage showing a woman flailing manically on a busy Seattle sidewalk while shrieking gibberish has sparked new concerns about the permissive city.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16183797/Seattle-drugs-homeless-footage-mayor-Katie-Wilson.html
How do you vote for this Casper???????
Casper won’t answer – he’ll just go off on whatever tangent MSNow tells him to.
Homelessness and mental health issues are happening all over the country. I’v homelessness in just about every state I’ve visited red or blue. Saw some of it in Europe and South America also. Didn’t see any of it in any of the Scandinavian countries though.
so it’s just a problem people have to put up with right Cap? Kind of like wildfires that burn houses down. If only there was a way to solve it? Oh well.
You’re not answering the question: did you vote for this? Your Democrats have been in charge of these cities for ages. The problem has gotten worse. Why did you do that, on purpose?
I consider homelessness a national problem. I’ve seen it in every state I’ve visited, red or blue. What has our president and republican congress done to address it?
Come on, “teach” and show off those research skills. That is, give us the facts about homelessness over the past 15 years—-numbers, cities where it is worst, etc. And then tell us what any administration/Congress has “done about it”.
Don’t forget to factor in the restrictions on federal actions described in the 10th Amendment and the dependence on state authority.
Then, when you have caught your breath after this unusual activity, tell us how bleating about not wanting a “king” in the White House complies with whining about how a White House occupant has not barged into city and state government to impose some royal edicts to “do something” about homelessness.
This after you have come up with a solution, of course.
Wildfires have also been happening throughout the country, including states like Nebraska. What has our president and republican congress done to address it?
You really are clueless about how moronic you sound, aren’t you? But once you have finished the homelessness assignment from a prior post, you can go to work on this:
Trace the influx of the pine borer beetle to the big blowdown of millions of pine trees in Routt County, Colorado a few decades ago, and cite the studies done by foresters and biologists on the dangers of leaving these millions of sap-filled trees lying there unable to protect themselves from pine borer beetles. (This would be where you would have a footnote about the way healthy trees react to borer beetles by implementing what is kind of an immune system response and sending additional sap to the site to physically push the beetle out of the tree. You can link to videos of this happening. And you can explain that once a tree is down it no longer has the circulatory system to move its sap.)
Your demand for FOIA emails, reports and recommendations for immediately encouraging timber companies to go into the area to harvest these trees before the beetle population exploded due to the huge increase in food for them will produce plenty of information on how reasonable efforts were made to mitigate the damage.
Then you can produce, cite and collate the vast amount of hysterical responses from the Left demanding that no effort whatsoever be made to harvest these trees, because of various claims ranging from the alleged pollution by logging equipment to the devastating impact of carefully engineered and built logging roads to provide access to the ongoing unlimited sap buffet being enjoyed by the rapidly reproducing beetles to the outrage (OUTRAGE! I TELL YOU!) at the mere idea of allowing any private enterprise to make money off federal lands.
Don’t forget to expand this to the ongoing determination of the Left to halt, block and deny any efforts to mitigate growing problems as the beetles migrated from the downed trees into healthy forests as thinning of diseased trees was disallowed. At this point the research should pick up speed, as did the expansion of forest destruction, until the Left had become responsible for millions of acres and hundreds of millions of standing, dried-out, dead trees across many states. Surely you can find the charts showing the outward spread of the devastation, with the Routt County Blowdown the center and origin.
This should also take you well into this century, and the past few years, as the inevitable fires have swept through millions of acres of tinder, through areas where no firefighting could even be considered because of the danger of these dead trees falling onto firefighters. (Here you could insert warnings to hikers and ranchers about the dangers of even going into what used to be vibrant living forests, due to the danger of collapsing dead trees, maybe with commentary on the sheer waste of billions of dollars of value in lost timber and the destruction of watersheds and recreational land in the name of Leftism.)
This whole appalling dissertation on what happens when the Left has any control over anything should be accompanied by the explanation of the relevant federal agencies responsible for so many of these disastrous and deadly decisions being run by unelected political appointees making rules and regulations with the powers of law, without the participation or even oversight of Congress (our only legal legislative body) resulting in a de facto fourth branch of government which has imposed Leftist agendas and doctrine on the nation.
Then you can just go sit down and shut the fuck up about fires in this country, you ignorant and disgusting advocate of the movement directly responsible for so much misery and damage, while the rest of us document the frantic and hysterical responses to President Trump’s determination to halt this extra-constitutional (and as a brilliant scholar you understand that this means “outside the Constitution”) power play by reducing the size, scope and power of these agencies.
So typical, isn’t it? The thing about forest preservation is that it does not naturally occur. Forests rise and die. If we, human beings, want a particular forest to keep going either because we just like the forest or because we want to exploit the resource, it takes management. Human intelligence applied to a biological process.
Humans have been managing forests for a long time…before the Muslims came in and wrecked everything, the eastern coast of the Mediterranean was thick with trees. Rome and previous authorities had placed various artificial restrictions and requirements on the use of forests so that the forests would survive..to provide wood for people who used wood in just about every activity. The artificial, human designed controls were removed by the Muslim occupiers and over centuries almost every forest along that strip of coast died out. The Jews have started to revive them and are being accused of “eco-colonialism” because, I guess, Muslims like bare hillsides being eroded away by the rain and wind.
The EPA and the Forest Service, along with several NGOs, are directly responsible for the destruction of millions of acres of valuable timber and the damage to the nation and the environment resulting from damage from fires and the loss of benefits of healthy forests. Wildlife, livestock and property have all been destroyed, and all directly due to the actions of Leftist agencies and agendas.
You can’t begin to comprehend the scope of the devastation until you drive through the Rockies, past mile after mile of dead standing trees from road to horizon, until your neighbors have to organize help to move cattle off land suddenly endangered by fast-moving fires and seeing the anguish of those who couldn’t save their horses and cattle. It’s all so abstract until it isn’t, until it’s your daily reality, until you are putting together a go-bag in case you have to evacuate, until you are watching the horizon turn fiery red and sunsets look spectacular because they are filtered through smoke.
And the Lefty lemmings squeal and bleat about losing influence as federal agencies are reduced in size and influence and radical activists are removed, and as they ferociously fight to protect their fraud slush funds.
These things always remind me of the ivory trade. We all love elephants, of course – beautiful, majestic beasts who clearly have more than mere animal consciousness.
But it is also a seven ton, thirteen foot high creature that needs vast amounts of land to ensure it can consume 330 pounds of food per day…its food, of course, being on well watered, fertile land. Which, as luck would have it, is just the sort of land African farmers use. Bottom line, we had a problem – gigantic but well-beloved beast vs African farmers just trying to make a living. The solution was obvious from the start: figure out some way to make the elephant valuable to the farmer. The obvious way to do this was to allow the African farmer to make use of the most valuable thing the elephant has: tusks. Either by allowing the harvesting of tusks from the deceased or allowing some culling of herds, the bottom line was to manage the elephant population so that the local human population had a vested financial interest in keeping the elephants alive.
Naturally, the global Left rejected this idea – opting instead to try for a total global ban on the ivory trade. I mean, after all, its not like some upper class white dork in London knows what its like to have your farm trampled by a herd of hungry elephants. The bans have gone into effect and become more stringent over time…with the West largely dispensing with the use of ivory…but the rest of the world still wants it; for a variety of cultural reasons. Banning the trade just made the ivory more valuable…and brought into the market people who don’t care if they are killing the golden goose. Poachers are putting huge pressure on elephant populations and will hunt them to extinction if they can make one, last dollar off it. Just sheer stupidity…which is what the Left does.
” Didn’t see any of it in any of the Scandinavian countries though.”
Maybe because these countries don’t subsidize homelessness.
Other countries don’t have the kind of Constitution we have, much less the 10th Amendment.
Just out of curiosity I Googled “which states have had the best success dealing with homelessness?” The answer surprised me.
So, a couple of Blue states, a couple of Red states, and a Purple state have had the best success in dealing with homeless.
So then I asked: “which states have had the worst success in dealing with homelessness?” This time the answer did not surprise me.
I think it’s safe to say that a Federal Government one-size-fits-all approach to homelessness would not work. It’s also safe to say that the states that subsidize homelessness get more of it.
Not having stoned bums living on your streets is not a difficult achievement…it just takes a desire to actually get it done. In most Blue jurisdictions, there is zero incentive to actually resolve the problem…too many people have their hand in the “homeless” pie and if the problem is solved, they’re out of a job…and political influence.
IOW states where problems are analyzed with the goal of solving identified areas of need are more successful, while those who employ the Casper strategy of fluttering around and bleating “why doesn’t someone DO something” don’t seem to be effective.
I notice that your citations don’t include government tolerance of or encouragement of public drug use, or subsidizing of drug use. I believe that both Oregon and New York subsidize and tolerate public drug use. California certainly does, as does Colorado.
If we don’t understand why people are on the streets, we can’t address the problem of people being on the streets.
Homeless because of mental health and/or personality disorders? Put them in custodial care.
Homeless because of addiction? Ditto. Provide shelter and nutrition and if possible help to overcome the underlying problem.
Homeless because of circumstance? (Lost job, etc.) Provide interim housing and work on the underlying issue.
Homeless because you don’t want to work? Get rousted from camp sites and arrested if necessary. No benefits, no virtue signaling neighborhood feeding programs, just the clear message that anyone capable of working has to work.
Hey Democrats and European Leftists, tell your cockroach friends to stay the fuck home. We DON”T want them
Police lock down ENTIRE British town to stop anti-migrant unrest as nearly 150 small-boat arrivals use ‘new route’ to land at historic naval port
I read the entire transcript of Trump’s interview with Time Magazine that Casper posted the link to. Pretty typical Trump stream-of-consciousness answers. I can’t imagine either Biden or Harris getting through such an interview.
Interesting info you’ll never hear from the leftist media. Admiral Bradley Cooper provided some testimony before the Arms Service Committee. He stated that he was highly familiar with Iran and their proxies having studied them of the course of 3 decades, acutely over the past 5 years. He then proceeded to state; <i>“In the 30 months prior to Epic Fury commencing, Iran and its proxies have attacked US service members and diplomates over 350 times.”</i>
The left tries to use the harm of US service members since the start of Epic Fury as a reason the US military efforts in Iran should cease, as though this wouldn’t have happened if Trump didn’t begin this conflict. They are either clueless or intentionally deceitful, trying to harm Trump and tear down the US through encouraging her enemies.
In the example you give, the people blaming Trump are not even overtly lying but are simply indifferent to the truth. That could be construed as being clueless, but being purposely clueless by turning away from the truth is a more indefensible form of cluelessness than just not knowing.
It’s amazing how much noise and untruths the media can generate. Currently we are told that farmers in the country are almost destitute. The price of diesel and tariffs have nearly killed their business’s. Well I have a good friend who is a very larger farmer in North Dakota and I called him to catch up.
Me: “Hey Mark, how was the harvest? How was your year?
Mark: “It was a great year. The weather cooperated and the harvest is going well and nearly complete and we are trying to get it to market as soon as we can”
Don’t believe the agenda media. I know that’s redundant.
The only problem noted in the ag news around here (northeast Indiana) is that they got a little too much rain, the most, according to one article, in 134 years. Looks to be a mostly dry harvest season, though, and predictions are for good, but not record yields. I also know several farmers, and none of them are talking doom and gloom.
One topic we talked about a number of years ago that has all but fallen off the radar, is the after effects of an EMP by someone like Iran. There was wide-spread agreement among analysts back when it first became obvious that the Mullahs were working toward nuclear capability, that their most likely way to use it against us was via an EMP rather than a outright nuclear attack. Anyone who has read anything about EMPs knows that the effects would be far worse (90% of the population dead within a year) than a nuclear attack on a handful of major cities, and eliminating that threat (which is what Trump is doing) is worth paying a little extra at the gas pump for a short period of time.
The thing about an EMP attack is that it doesn’t require a missile and warhead. A big enough bomb in a passenger jet with the right credentials to get into our air space could be set off over any area of the United States which would be affected by the resulting EMP pattern. And the damage is not limited to just replacing some transformers or doing the equivalent of flipping a breaker switch–wiring would be fried and would have to be replaced. Everything run by electricity would die and computers would be fried. People don’t think of what this would mean, until they realize this means modern cars would be immobilized. The most depressing book I ever started to read was “One Second After” by William R. Forstchen, a novel detailing the aftermath of an EMP attack.
I had been concerned about EMPs for a long time, easily 25 years or more, after seeing a think tank presentation to government officials which said that our military feared EMPs more than any other potential threat to the country. So I had given enough thought to the consequences to not need the book to explain them.
I used to go around and around about this with a mutual friend of Spook’s and mine. His argument, based on his military experience with nukes, was that the complexity of building and arming a nuke was so detailed it was unlikely that most nations could accomplish it. My argument was that if a country built a bomb that could be set off without the remote triggering or other precision elements that made a bomb so unlikely, it could give it a try, and if it failed no one would know and they could land the plane and work out the bugs. But if it worked…….
I well remember our discussions back in the day.
And anyone who doesn’t think the Mullahs of Iran would use an EMP against us if they thought they could pull it off is myopic to the extreme.
What’s the over/under on how many weeks it will take CA to count their votes?
The sad thing is that they’re not embarrassed about it.
What’s the book on how many more votes are counted than actual registered voters?