Conservative Values

Maybe We Should Try Socialism?

Mark Noonan99 Comments

What? Has Mark lost his mind??? What the heck is going on here????

Relax. There’s a reason I wrote that. You might recall I’ve said that I work with a bunch of youngsters. I’m talking people who are 30 or more years younger them me. A great bunch of kids. Hard working. Intelligent. Nice. Very much products of modern America. Like most young people, they swung heavily towards the Democrats on Tuesday. They are the future of America.

And that is what one bright, young man said to me today: maybe we should try Socialism?

I, of course, said “no”. I didn’t, at the time, mention my preferred method of dealing with Socialists (it involves helicopters) but I did gently push back – but I also realized that I’m old. I do remember the USSR. I also have a fund of knowledge America’s youth simply does not have…nor was I primed from preschool to be receptive to collectivism by the public school system. In other words, the kids are thinking this because they don’t really know anything else.

Earlier today I noticed a post on X where it was noted that Capitalism giving you 2% annual growth is great – on a thirty year time line. You don’t really see the benefit…it shows up over time. But it shows up so gradually that even many of those who benefit don’t see the connection between a free market and higher wealth over time. And far less do young people see it. They lack basic knowledge. They lack experience. But they do see that buying a home is getting increasingly difficult. That cars are very expensive. That living the life I live (house w/pool, two cars, two vacations per year) is out of reach…and they can’t see that if they just continue to work steadily in a free market system, they’ll get it. They wonder why can’t they have it right now? The Socialists, after all, promise it right now.

And it isn’t just the young who have this sense that what we have isn’t working. Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024 were based entirely upon a conviction that is isn’t working. And the Democrats victory on Tuesday was also just that: a sense that it isn’t working. The policies which Trump has implemented, if carried through, will make America a free, prosperous and safe nation. But on a time scale of decades, not next week. Democrat’s promised stuff that will arrive next week. We promised nothing concrete – except Trump’s $5,000 which GOPers should have run with and hammered on 24/7 but they sort of left it out there…ridiculed and then ignored. Trump knows you have to tempt – you have to sell. You have to offer a reason.

Keep in mind that Florida bucked the blue wave – it was close but the GOP remains in total domination of that State. Why? Well, DeSantis made sure property tax relief was on the ballot. That got people to the polls – even if they were mad over Iran or gas prices, they wanted that property tax cut. DeSantis sold it – to put it bluntly, he bribed the Florida electorate to stick with the Republican Party. It was crude politics – and it worked like a charm.

Gas prices are too high. Food prices are too high. Mortgage rates are too high. In the immediate, there’s no much that can be done about that. Trump’s policies will eventually bring all that down. But we needed to offer something today. Trump’s $5,000.00 was the offer. State and local GOPers should have been making offers. Congressional GOPers should have sweetened the pot. How? Just off the top of my head today I came up with:

  1. Make 25% mortgage principal payments tax deductible.
  2. Make the purchase of American made cars tax deductible.
  3. Make the purchase of American made electronics tax deductible.

And then make all three retroactive back to January 1st, 2025. And you sell it on a program of “paying back our workers”. Think about it: we who work pay for the whole edifice of America. We pay for the military, the Learing Centers, the Islamo-Commie NGOs…all of it on our dime. The Democrats hardly pay for any of it – they “work” in the places we’re paying for. What do we get for it? Hardly anything at all. So let’s campaign on paying back those who paid in. And long term it isn’t inflationary – it isn’t printing money, it is just letting people keep their own money and the stimulus it would have in home building and American manufacturing would rapidly eclipse the temporary hit to revenues.

The people are not great thinkers pondering theories of government – they are highly distracted, low-attention-span regular folks who want peace and an easy life. They don’t want to have sticker shock every day. They don’t want to wonder if they can make it. And they want it now; not thirty years from now. Is this ideal? No. But if we want to preserve an America where speech is free, we’d better get these people to vote for us…and they won’t vote for us on a theory nor on a promise that decades from now things will be great.

As I’ve been saying for years, we have to think anew and act anew. The old GOP died when Trump rode down that escalator. MAGA is not committed to any particular party. To build a new GOP for freedom we’re going to have to convince people to go with us and stick with us for decades. We can’t win if we lose every other election. We need a generation of power – and we’re not going to get that generation by quoting Reagan to people born after he died. The core principle has to be America First. No more wars unless we’re directly attacked. No more sending money for other people to fight wars (this includes Israel – I am a stout defender of Israel as a Jewish State but if Israel wants to celebrate her centennial in 2048 they’re going to have to totally destroy their Islamist enemies in short order). The whole of economic policy is to make America secure and living here cheap. Clean up the crime. Keep the border closed. Push back against the weirdos. All of these policies were actually supported on Tuesday. It is just that a lot of people who support them also voted Democrat for political office because they were justifiably disgusted with a GOP not just being lousy, but actively sabotaging Trump. You will not talk these people into being with us – you have to show them the money; the benefit of being with us.

Or, lose. Our choice. We can stick to so-called principles and just keep losing until the Democrats pack the Court and they rule we’re illegal. I’d rather not have it come to that – especially as it would very likely spark a very violent Civil War. But we won’t avoid it by hoping people will suddenly realize that Adam Smith was right. We’ve got to make it cheap to buy gas in a peaceful America where people can just mindlessly go about their business not worrying about it. We have to make people vote for us and stay with us – because there’s no reason to change because its all going well. That is how Democrat political dominance happened…because from 1944 to 1974 things were just going well. No need to shake things up. Just coast along. It wasn’t a deep seated conviction that Keynesian economics were great. Ninety percent of the people who voted Democrat didn’t even know who Keynes was…but they kept voting Democrat because it was all ok. Free market economics is the way to go – but we can’t win talking about it. We just have to make it ok.

The Will of the People

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De Gaulle was brought back to power in France in 1958 because it was felt – almost certainly correctly – that the weak and faction-ridden government of the Fourth Republic was planning on scuttling French Algeria so they could concentrate on obtaining/retaining power/money in metropolitan France. The idea was that De Gaulle would have the prestige to form a government strong enough to complete the war in Algeria – which was functionally won but just needed a bit more push, though that bit of getting rid of the last of the Islamo-Communist fanatics was going to be nasty, bloody work. The people who wanted a powerful France crowned with victory worked a coup in Algeria as a preliminary to ushering De Gaulle back into power…and, it worked. The government of the Fourth Republic – mostly made up of Leftist cowards and sundry crooks – threw up the sponge and allowed De Gaulle to assume office and create the Fifth Republic.

And then De Gaulle proceeded, step by step, to scuttle French Algeria. Took him only two years to completely undo what French soldiers (and large numbers of Algerians) had fought and bled for over a four year period before De Gaulle came back into office. Essentially doing what France had by and large rejected doing in getting De Gaulle back into power. And in the process allowing the people who had wrecked France during the Fourth Republic to retain power and position within the French system. As a last insult, it was these people who would eventually force De Gaulle out and set France firmly on the path which led to Third World Islamo-Communist savages rioting in French cities.

Real will of the people stuff there, huh?

There is a real problem in the West of the people wanting certain things – and even at times massively voting in favor of certain things – and simply not getting them because the people in power simply refuse…and very often do the exact opposite of what the people want.

Enoch Powell gave his “Rivers of Blood” speech on April 20th, 1968 deploring mass Third World migration and it resulted in a surprise Tory win in the 1970 elections – the Tories and every other party in Britain remain committed to mass immigration of Third World barbarians.

Nixon never promised us the EPA nor the removal of our currency from the gold standard.

Can’t find a stump speech where Johnson said we’d go to full scale war in Vietnam shortly after the 1964 election.

Reagan didn’t run on the 1986 amnesty. Kinda came out of nowhere, as I recall.

Anyone remember “no new taxes”?

Did anything Bill Clinton ever say as a matter of policy ever actually happen?

W, to his credit, did run on Social Security reform in 2004 but the whole of the GOP leadership torpedoed the effort…even though they had won on the basis of W winning in 2004.

McCain famously ran his last campaign for Senate on repealing Obamacare and then became the decisive vote preventing repeal.

Don’t think Paul Ryan ran on a platform of going along with Democrat efforts to undermine Trump after the 2016 election.

Getting the picture? We just don’t get what we want. The will of the people is simply ignored when it can’t be manipulated into going along with the preconceived notions of the Elite.

Until Trump.

That is the secret of his success – not just promising things, but actually trying to do them. We really don’t want an open border. He closed it. We don’t want people stealing welfare money. He’s arresting thieves. We do want Iran removed as a problem. Trump is removing it. We don’t want to keep the Ukraine war going. Trump is trying to stop it. We do want cheap energy. Trump is doing everything he can on this score. On and on and on like that – he’s clearly trying to do what we elected him to do. And that is why he’s hated. Had he just blathered away at us telling us what we wanted to hear and then coming up with excuses for why he had to do the opposite, the Elite would have fallen in line behind him…that he’s doing what he said he’d do is what infuriates the Elite, and energizing the common people for Trump.

We’ll find out Tuesday just how well (or poorly!) this is working out. But what can’t be denied – no matter the particular results – is that Trump has given the people a taste of what its like to have a government responsive to the will of the people. There’s no going back from this – except by the means the Democrats are floating: packing the Court and abolishing the Senate. In other words, setting up a system where there are no checks upon government power and so they’ll just do whatever they want and arrest us if we complain. If the Democrats can’t get that – and it would take a trifecta to do – then they are doomed, and they know it. The people don’t want what they’re selling and they can’t successfully lie to a majority.

I hope the will of the people triumphs on Tuesday and into 2028 and beyond. People can be stupid and perverse and all manner of bad things…but in a system where government is limited, if you consult the broad mass of the people on their desires, you’ll usually find that they mostly want sensible things. Popular passions rarely go awry – the Elite would have us believe, of course, that if the people really rule we’ll destroy the world. But that is just a lie the Elite tell themselves to justify their theft and degeneracy. If we can get through these next two years without the Democrats winning total power, then they will never again win power as they are currently constituted. It is all on the line. It doesn’t end Tuesday win or lose – but it does end soon, and once and for all as far as the United States is concerned.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan39 Comments

Polls as late as a week ago had Likud getting as few as 18 seats in the Israeli elections. Kalshi had Netanyahu at a 16% chance of returning. Exit polls as the polls closed showed Netanyahu defeated. The reality? 28 Likud seats as of this moment and the consensus is the most likely Prime Minister remains Netanyahu. We’ll see how that shakes out, of course – still a lot of votes to actually count. Israel is also famous for very factional politics with alliances shifting like sand. But the bottom line is that the polls, Kalshi and the exit polls were lies. Not mistakes. Lies. Bald faced, egregious lies designed to obtain a certain result…in this case to demoralize Netanyahu’s coalition in hopes that a surrender caucus of some sort would emerge in charge…some Left-infected group which would figure that just a bit more Israeli surrender would stop the Palestinians from wanting to murder every single Jew in Israel.

Just keep that in mind in this last week before our elections. Also, try to remember how you felt a week out from 2024 – I’ll bet you were nervous. I was. And I had long ago figured them all for liars…but even I wasn’t immune to the relentless barrage of lies. They were so pervasive that they sink into everyone. The Communists learned this a long time ago…just keep lying and lying and lying and never telling anyone even remotely what is going on or what people are thinking. Even the stoutest heart and the most independent mind is caught up in them…as for the mentally weak…well, they’re going to vote Democrat. We don’t know what will happen – but, guys, we’ve already won.

As Kurt Schlichter points out, we’re forever rid of Cormyn, Thillis, Massie, Bacon and Cassidy. Oh, sure, we’ve got a few left in our ranks, but we’re rapidly disinfecting ourselves from the RINOs. The Democrats who only ever ran as Republicans because voter registration showed that was the path to power and to the gravy train…and the means to backstab the base at every opportunity. They’re gone. Even if we’re in the Congressional minority come January, the caucus that represents us will fight a heck of a lot harder against the Democrat than any previous GOP caucus. We won’t have but one or two who will on “principle” vote in favor of the Democrats next clown show impeachment. And this much stronger party will head towards 2028 far more united and willing to battle it out.

But, side note, I don’t think we’re going to lose.

Brazilian patriot Flavio Bolsonaro has obtained asylum inside the United States. The Left in Brazil clearly cheated the Communist tyrant Lula into another term – like our 2020 election, there is just no mathematical way he got as many votes as claimed. And, also like ours, there was gross chicanery in the fact that Lula’s judicial poodle ordered voting extended hours after the polls were supposed to be closed and the ballot boxes all sealed…that is, there was no legal way for anyone to vote by the time the judicial order came down…and all the extra votes poured in from areas controlled by the Brazilian Left.

We’ll have to see how all this plays out, but it looks like we might have to “Maduro” the Lula regime.

The Royal Sonesta is a first rate hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon. I looked at some pictures – it really is quite a fabulous place. Probably, in normal times, way outside my price range. In 2016 it was purchased for a bit more than $108 million. It just sold again for just over $6.8 million. A 93% decline. Why? Because Portland is now a third world garbage dump of crime, drugs and commies. This is what the Left does – it hates and so it destroys. Nobody who destroyed Portland cares that it is destroyed – they are still able to siphon money off the city…to get paid for not working. And being Leftists they have no idea of what beauty is so living in a dump doesn’t seem so bad.

But most of us aren’t Leftists. As I’ve said for some time now, the Constitution requires the federal government to ensure each State has a republican form of government…I am ever more of the opinion – because no free and fair election could result in a government that destroys the political entity it rules – that the Leftist States and localities do not have such form of government. We might eventually have to brace ourselves to reduce the deep blue States to territorial status and create new governments actually responsive to the electorate.

The Battle of Algiers II: a Warning to the West

Mark Noonan48 Comments

That is the town hall of Limoges, France in flames – set on fire by foreign barbarians and their Leftist French allies. A magnificent building that the savages and Leftists could never build, destroyed in a day as a means of spitting on France and the West. It is, in the end – and as it has always been – fight or die. Keep in mind that when Alaric appeared before the walls of Rome in 408 AD, there were close to a million people living in the city. Far more military manpower than the barbarians could ever hope to deploy…and the Romans just let the barbarians in and suffered having their women raped, their men killed and the stored wealth of a thousand years stolen. The French – if there are any French – can stop this in a week. All they have to do is start shooting.

I’ve written before about what a disaster the surrender in Algeria was in 1962 – with the dismay over it doubled as it was engineered by De Gaulle who damned well knew better. He bought France a short period of peace but at the price of now finding the battle in their own cities. He looked around France and the world in 1958 and calculated that if he scuttled part of France – and Algeria was an integral part of France – he could cut a great figure on the world stage and make up for it by thumbing his nose at the Anglo-American alliance in a bid to make it look like France was a free agent. I guess it can be partially forgiven…after all, we were helping to scuttle French Algeria. But a man with a true measure of the needs of his nation and his civilization wouldn’t have retreated – he would have said that the future of Algeria cannot be dictated by barbarians.

By the time De Gaulle came to lead France, the war in Algeria was already four years old…and it had been largely won by the French military and the people of Algeria (which included huge numbers of Muslim Algerians who wanted nothing to do with the beasts running the Front de libération nationale; cruel, wicked men who lived for the chance to be cruel). But the FLN savages knew what to do – go on rampages of rape, torture and murder amongst defenseless people, wait for the French reaction and then count on the French Left to make the issue not FLN savagery, but French military response. In the end, all De Gaulle did was help the FLN to power…and now the grandsons of the FLN are burning Limoges.

Never, ever, ever make a deal with barbarians. People who use rape and murder as a means of warfare are to be hunted to death, not asked to form a government.

France now truly stands at the crossroads – if it wants to remain French, it is going to have to kill the enemies of France. Without regret and without remorse. Kill until the savages give up and agree to exile from France. Leftists, too. No political system can survive if it carries within it people who will ally with foreigners to destroy the system. We’ll see if there is any courage in France – because anything less than an exceptionally violent response is a death knell for France. Even if they paper it over and bribe the barbarians to a temporary truce, France will die if the barbarians and Leftists remain.

And let this be a lesson for us – these French Leftists and foreign savages have been coddled by the Republic. Money and forbearance has been poured out on them and this is their answer: burning buildings, looting shops, spitting on France. This is what the American Left and our domestic Islamists want as well – they, too, hate this country and live for the day when they can burn it down. Doesn’t matter that the Islamists will butcher the Leftists…neither side even cares about that prospect at the moment. They are unified by what they hate: us. America. Every decent impulse in the world. We are not backs to the wall like the French…but we will be if we left the Left – in the form of the Democrat party – back into power.

Nidal Hasan and the Consequences of Citizenship

Mark Noonan45 Comments

The execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed and people right across the political spectrum are horrified. This is because people right across the political spectrum have, ultimately, no idea what they are doing. We have been living about a century now in a world of make-believe. We’ve pulled the wool over our own eyes. Conned ourselves out of our agency. Abdicated all authority over our own lives. We want to live a coddled existence. We don’t want to know about distasteful things. Except about sex, I guess – give us a good sex story and we’re all ears (and eyes). But about anything else it isn’t so much we don’t want to know but that we want to pretend we don’t know. And yet with all this, we still insist we are citizens and get a say in what happens.

There is no chance Trump will stay the sentence and even if the Courts decide to intervene late, it won’t work – we have a properly rendered sentence according to law and Hasan is guilty. In this, it doesn’t matter if the death penalty is a right or wrong thing to do…the laws in effect now provide for it and the thing will happen. The man will be dead. The horror expressed about livestreaming it isn’t about the enormous thing of taking a man’s life…it is about not wanting to see it taken. So that we can pretend it didn’t really happen. That we played no role in it. Guess what? If you’ve ever voted, you played a role in it. You may as well be on the firing squad. That is the thing about a Republic or a Democracy – all of the citizens are collectively responsible for what the government does. Don’t like this? Then I suggest you get yourself a king – let the king be responsible. You can be the slave and then you’ll have nothing to do with it.

Honestly, not only should his execution be televised, it should be compulsory viewing for everyone who wants a vote.

For us to be citizens, we must take responsibility. We must see what is going on and render judgement upon it, and thus upon ourselves. What do you want? Choose it. Take the consequences or benefits of that choice. Don’t try to pretend you didn’t play a role – even if you’re on the losing side of a political decision, you still participated in it. You decided. You pulled the trigger. You are free to abdicate this authority at any time – renounce your citizenship. Leave the country. Flee far away – go some place where others decide for you. If that’s what you want, fine – but don’t propose to participate along with me in governance if you wish to be free from the consequences of that participation.

As I’ve been saying for a while now, it is time for us to rejoin the real world. The world where actions have consequences. Where suffering is real. Where choices have to be made. Where men and women brace themselves up and do what needs to be done. The sooner we rejoin the real world the sooner our nation and civilization are saved – because that wool over our eyes has allowed an insidious sect of anti-humans to worm their way into the mechanics of our government. While we averted our eyes and pretended we had nothing to do with it, they are busily setting up a system where people can be killed on a whim. Where property doesn’t exist. Where the family is evil. Where God doesn’t exist. You might not like having to decide if a man lives or dies…but if you don’t make that decision, then others will for you…and they might decide it is time for you to die. Slaves, after all, don’t get a say. Citizens do.

Do you want to be a Citizen?

Tuckerism Must be Confronted

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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.

The Cowardice of the West

Mark Noonan6 Comments

In 2025, about 41 million Americans received SNAP – food stamps, as we geezers remember it being. Of these, about half had worked in the month previous to receiving benefits. This would indicate that a significant portion of those on SNAP are just people who are going through a rough patch and need a little help. But it also means that a significant portion hadn’t worked in the month before. That is, we do, indeed, have welfare bums. People who are drawing funds without contributing.

This is simply wrong.

Unless one is a child, physically disabled or elderly, there is a moral obligation to work. To do something for your daily bread. This is true whether you believe in God or not – it is a universal that nobody may be allowed to skate. To be sure, some people will be able to skate out of this because they are born rich and so get to live in indolence. They shouldn’t. But, what of it? It doesn’t cost the taxpayer anything and I’ll guarantee you the number of rich layabouts is tiny compared to the number of welfare bums we’ve got. I couldn’t get a figure on how many on SNAP hadn’t worked in the previous six months but lets say it is merely 20% of all SNAP benefits – those are the bums. And there are 8 million of them. And they probably pull down other benefits as well (housing/utility subsidies, internet/phone subsidies, Medicaid, what they can cage from food banks, etc, etc, etc). I bring this up because we are told that we must continue to accept immigrants – and must go gentle on deportations – because we need these people. That is, to “do the work Americans won’t do”. In other words, to replace the 8 million bums we’ve got sitting on Welfare.

Nope. That isn’t being sensible – it is simply being a coward. You’re refusing to make the bums get to work because that would be hard and, in the minds of the infantile, make you the bad guy. You’d rather take the Cartels importing quasi-slave labor to build homes and mow lawns – and then talk yourself into thinking your the smart, good guy who is all reasonable and stuff. You’re leaving fellow human being to wallow in the indignity of being a beggar (and, worse, a fat, illiterate and barbarian beggar) while assisting in the cruel exploitation of Third Worlders. You’re degrading your country, spreading crime and urban squalor and pitching Western Civilization down into the gutter.

It is like that all through our society these days – everyone simply afraid to do what is right, and so goes along with a horrible, anti-human and destructive expedient. Don’t make welfare bums work: import illegals. Don’t abolish the public schools: do a voucher program so at least your kids can escape. Don’t arrest the homeless and put them in work camps: just make certain they are contained in certain areas of town we don’t go to any more. Don’t flog miscreants who disturb the peace: just stay away from them. On and on and on like that. Every time we’re confronted with a hard, adult choice – to prove we can, indeed, govern ourselves…we slide away. Hope it all works out. Place a band aid on a bleeding artery. If the Republic dies it will be because of this – whether a Communist tyrant or a Caesar takes over, it’ll happen because we, the people, were too chicken to rule ourselves.

I’m not saying there’s an easy fix. I am saying that men and women with courage can fix it all. And not just our social pathologies; the whole raft of problems in the world today can be eliminated or at least rendered nearly harmless if people will just screw up the courage to do what needs to be done.

And do keep in mind that failure to flog is the cruelty. That is, failure to impose the harsh punishment is the evil thing to do. When faced with a barbarian who has the social skills of a spoiled six year old, it is for the civilized to make sure that person is instructed. Failure to do so harms both the barbarian and the larger society. It is required of us that we make the lazy work. The boorish behave. To insist everyone in the public square is at least clean, decently dressed and has basic respect for others. Drive through the bad areas of town – see that bum? That filth? That’s on you. You didn’t do it, but you allowed it to happen. The bum swilling cheap booze or taking drugs made his choice…and it is your moral obligation to punish him for that choice. To take away his booze. Get him cleaned up. Put him to work. It is better for him. Better for you. Better for everyone.

We can’t survive if we forever think all of this is Someone Else’s Problem. Are we free men and women or are we not? Do we say we shall govern ourselves? Ok. Then we’d better get on to it. Show a little courage. Do the right thing. Or become slaves, ourselves.

Why Lie?

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I’ve yammered on endlessly about the evil of lies – how they poison our society and will lead to our destruction if not stopped. But I don’t think I’ve gone over much just why people lie. Why would people dishonor themselves by uttering lies? What do they hope to gain by it?

Everything they want.

The purpose of the lie is to serve the malevolence of theft. The liar lies because he wants something he does not have title to. Whether its a man trying to trick an old lady into giving up her savings or a man trying to trick a people into making him their god, the universal is that the effort is to obtain what is not owned. I bring this up because there’s a video going around of this slob of a Commie woman ranting about how nobody should be locked up for stealing a tube of toothpaste; essentially claiming that our unjust society – one that doesn’t have endless free toothpaste – is the cause of the theft, which is justified against an unjust society. It is a mere rephrasing of Lenin’s “loot the looters”…the call to theft, rape and murder he issued to the Russian underclass in 1917. And like our tubby Commie today, Lenin was lying to gain power. He was quite ok with middle class people being savagely attacked if he gained him the power to enslave everyone – that is, Lenin was trying to steal power he could not earn (in the only free election Lenin’s Bolshevik’s competed in, they got 23% of the vote; and this after Lenin’s October coup gave him the ability to suppress opposition parties – the Russian people voted for a Populist, semi-Socialist Russia…Lenin stole it and gave them an inhuman tyranny).

If you really boil it down, every war in human history stems from just that – a desire to steal. Somebody wants something that isn’t theirs and they cook up a series of lies to give a plausible excuse to steal. Most times it is one side lying, but very often it is both. If everyone would just rest content with what they earn, war would be exceptionally rare. As would theft of any type. Nobody forcibly prevents someone from earning their keep, after all. Only in times of actual famine (very rare in the modern world) is there really not enough to go around. All other times, it is a simple matter of working. Maybe not pleasant work: but if you work, you eat. If you work, you’ve got a place to stay. If you work, you’ve got clothes. If you work, you’ve got toothpaste. If you work, you don’t really dream up a scheme whereby you become the infallible leader of the people. But if you don’t want to work…well, then you steal.

To be fair, there are those rare birds – thieves who don’t try to justify it. They freely admit they just don’t want to work and so they steal so they can avoid working. But they are very rare. Most thieves will say they had no choice and the person who they stole from had more than he needed and life wasn’t fair and daddy was mean and mommy’s boyfriend was a jerk and so on and so forth. Packs of lies to justify the desired end: getting without earning. Stealing.

After war, the rest of the ills of our society. The plague of single motherhood: men wanted sex they didn’t pay for via “doing the right thing”. The plague of illegals in our society: businesses wanted labor they could steal via sub-market wages (and, of course, politicians want the votes of those who can’t vote so they could cancel out the votes of those who could). The massive welfare fraud: people wanted to live well without working hard and so worked up the idea of “helping the poor” via programs which not only don’t help, but positively encourage the poor to remain ignorant and impoverished. On and on like that – people want an easy life…a life of little or no work but plenty of wealth. They want to steal. And so they lie.

This still puts lies as the worst thing, but it is important for us to understand the purpose of the lies. You think about all the call for more education spending by groups which presided over the dumbing down of education. We often think such people are stupid. Maybe even wicked. But we don’t comprehend that what they are after is wealth they don’t earn. They don’t want to grind away teaching Johnny to read. They don’t even care if Johnny lives or dies. But they do want money. Lots of it. High wages. Gold plated benefits. Lots of time off. So, they lie so that they may steal. Honest teachers could produce a generation of geniuses for half the price we’re paying now…but if anyone even tries, those who are stealing will do all in their power to destroy them. They might even put an ideological imprint on it (like Lenin did) but the main thing is to keep the cash rolling in. All else is subordinate to that…and no lie is too outrageous.

We have to start seeing these people for what they are – the scumbag con artist trying to get Granny to give up her social security check. The pig trying to sucker a poor girl into giving it up in return for a promise of later greatness. They are still human, but they are the scum of humanity. We can pray for their redemption, but they have to be washed out of our society as you would clean a latrine to ensure public health. If you can’t go with me on severely punishing lies, then at least go along with punishing the liars for their theft.

Side note: it is true that petty theft should not land you in jail. It should get you flogged, instead. Rely on it, we won’t even have to flog 10% of the petty thieves before the rest get the message.

Nixon, the Pre-Trump

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Someone pointed out that it was 52 years ago today that Nixon resigned. While I have memories that stretch back to the 1960’s, it was Watergate that became the first connected Narrative of my life: while I was a child and didn’t remotely have full understanding of it all, I saw it unfold (mostly against my will: Dad watched every minute of the hearings even though cartoons were, indeed, showing on a different channel) and it was comprehensible to me. And I remember this day and Dad watching Nixon depart the White House for the last time. “Well, they finally got him,” he said quietly to himself. I didn’t really understand that at the time – because the Narrative was Nixon Bad. Do Bad Things. Nixon Crook. Must Go. Bad Bad Bad Nixon. But, as per usual, Dad’s understanding was vastly superior to most.

There has been quite a rehabilitation of Nixon of late. It was started, of course, by Nixon himself. He wasn’t going to let those who destroyed his political career have the last word on what Nixon was about. So, he self-selected himself as our Elder Statesman and put in the hard work to actually be an Elder Statesman. It it my view that Nixon might have been the most intelligent man to ever be President. Perhaps to even lead any nation, ever. His ability to analyze situations and figure out the crucial points was amazing. This doesn’t mean he didn’t make some mistakes. He made a couple quite fabulous mistakes…but in the context of the times, within the limitations of a Deep State nobody fully understood until Trump, you can understand why he made those mistakes.

First off, he was flat wrong – via Kissinger – to stop the Israelis from destroying Egypt’s Third Army during the Yom Kippur War. At the time of the USA/USSR imposed ceasefire, Third Army was only two or three days away from abject surrender for lack of water. Should have allowed Israel to bag that Army – and then demanded a peace deal which would have been, essentially, Egyptians for peace…give a peace treaty (with Israel retaining part of the Sinai) and get your boys back. This would have been a better solution to the war and would have cemented not “land for peace” (which is why we have “from the river to the sea” these days) but “some land for peace”…in other words, when you get beat by the Jews, the Jews get part of your land, forever. So, don’t fight Jews. Like, ever.

Second was playing “the China card”. This was Deep State nonsense based upon drivel intel assessments that the USSR was as strong as the USA and getting stronger…that is, we needed China as an ally to counter the USSR. This wasn’t based upon any fact, ever. Just the biggest bit of nonsense imaginable. I figure it was Soviet moles in the CIA who put such intel together. But given that intel – which Nixon could not have known at the time was nonsense – at the time opening up to China seemed a good idea. Long term, we’ve seen it has been an utter disaster. Right now, Chinese money is being spent to undermine the political stability of the USA – those DSA groups are often orchestrated by Chinese agents.

But, still, Nixon remains an historic person. A man of wide education and deep understanding. Capable of both great sentiment and cynicism (you have to have both to be a great leader). And he was destroyed, ultimately, simply because Nixon had played a big role in exposing Alger Hiss. That act had got Nixon in the Establishment’s crosshairs…how dare this nobody from a working class family dare trip up Hiss! For goodness sake, Hiss was a Harvard man! Nixon graduated from some low-rent school in California! It really is a club and you ain’t a member. Neither was Nixon. So they went after him and after him and after him…finally managing to get him via Watergate where, we find, Nixon did nothing except discuss the possibility of trying to make the whole matter go away.

What we can most learn from Nixon is that we can’t let the Establishment take even one trick. The other day Todd Blanche was finally confirmed as Attorney General. The usual TDS/RINO suspects are deploring the fact that Blanche used to be Trump’s personal attorney. “He should recuse himself!”. Why? On what grounds? I mean, on what grounds in a world were Obama’s AG declared himself Obama’s wingman? In a world where Trump’s first AG recused himself just so the Deep State could cook up the Trump-Russia nonsense which plagued Trump’s first time? No. Nope. Ain’t happening. Blanche by all available knowledge is a first rate lawyer who is honest. I don’t care that he used to represent Trump. Will he carry out Executive Branch policy which is set by the President? That is all that matters – because there is no independence at Justice. The President is to see to is that the laws are faithfully enforced. The President is the person vested with all Executive authority. The President sets the policy…the cabinet implements it…not going off on a tangent in response to some nonsense in the MSM about how Bad the Orange Man is. Bottom line, if Nixon had rigidly opposed the whole Watergate effort – not letting his staff testify – it would have gone nowhere. Lesson learned: don’t cooperate with those who are looking to get you.

And Trump does get this. Not just from the Nixon example, of course; he’s also learned some harsh lessons in the first person. But the Establishment is just as keen to destroy Trump as it was Nixon – and for largely the same reason: daring to challenge the Establishment’s man (though in Trump’s case, it was the Establishment’s woman – Hillary). It doesn’t matter what policies Trump pursues. He could come out in favor of the entire DSA program tomorrow and they’d still hate him and work to destroy him…he’s a low class nobody! He’s not supposed to be there! That is Hillary’s spot!!! All that really matters. And we must understand this. Outside all the lies and theft, all the killings and brutality, all of the grifting and freakishness…the only thing that really matters to the Establishment is being the Establishment. Being in charge. Not being questioned. Having a semi-divine aura about them. Anyone who disturbs this must be destroyed. They got Nixon. I don’t think they’ll get Trump.

And their next target is Vance.

Curing Communist Bums

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Got into a bit of a discussion with a Commie on X and it was interesting in illustrating just how miserably we’ve failed to tell the story of Communism. He was full of the usual “it wasn’t that bad and it was meant to be good and it was better than the Nazis and it is all the West’s fault blah blah blah”. Do have to hand it to the Commies – of all the inhuman things which have come up in modern times, it by far has had the best PR. Of course, they have been helped by the utter destruction of education in the West. Always good to keep that in mind – and you have to consider how truly educated you had to be to get into college unless Daddy was a benefactor or some such. Outside of that leverage, you have to be of a high intellectual level just to be there – but then starting, say, in the late 19th century, the standards were progressively dropped until here in 2026 college grads are barely literate and don’t know what, say, a modestly successful 8th grader might have known 100 years ago. Fertile grounds for Communism!

And that brings up another thing I saw on X a few days back – a young man lamenting the hostility to Communism. Don’t we hidebound geezers understand that sometimes people don’t want to work but want to merely cultivate their own garden in peace? I stayed away from pointing out – as most did – that under Communism you can’t have your “own garden” and instead opted to point out that we have here the primary appeal of Communism: the desire to not work. Somehow or another the Communists assume that “from each according to their ability” will always work out to someone else making sure food is on the table. Plenty of Third World Communist armies were fully staffed with the sons of farmers who’s dream was to be a clerk in an air conditioned office…putting in maybe two hours a day and evenings at a coffee shop discussing the evils of Capitalism and private property. Anything to get out of feeding the hogs, right? And going to Church on Sundays…

And that got me to realize that sloth is, next to pride, the worst sin. The desire to kick back and live on the labor of others – to steal your daily bread. Without even the labor (and danger) of actually robbing someone. Get in and get on is the watchword for humanity unless it is carefully trained out of us. To be decent, one must learn – eventually – that the only things you should have are those you earn. That to live off others – even if it is a freely offered gift – is dishonorable. Better to be the poor worker than the fat welfare bum. Work up a theory which somehow shows that you, the theorist, shouldn’t have to work. Doesn’t matter what you use to justify it as long as you can find and fix someone to take the blame for the fact that injustice exists in the world. All in all, this line of thinking has made me ever more convinced that we’re eventually going to have to create labor camps for the tens of millions who are part of the system of exploitation…real exploitation. Not the so-called Capitalist sort: the exploitation which has an oil field worker turning over 40% of his income so that welfare bums can eat cheetos and a government elite can live in carefully guarded, upscale communities. The HR director as well as the couch potato will benefit greatly spending a few years at hard labor – and we can use this labor to greatly beautify the public spaces of the United States. First by simply cleaning them up, and then by replacing the low-rent construction of roads and bridges with stuff that would make Romans envious. Imagine instead of black lines of asphalt crisscrossing America it was all done with locally obtained paving stones? Bridges made to last two thousand years out of stone rather than steel that rusts away after 100 years? It would be great. And the bums would come back from it healthy…and we would pay them, so they’d also know how truly valuable an earned dollar can be.