Conservative Values

Why Lie?

Mark Noonan3 Comments

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.

Some Court Rulings

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The Supreme Court reaffirmed Sullivan today – keep in mind that Sullivan was a rather tortuous ruling which had really only one purpose in mind: allowing Martin Luther King’s people to lie with impunity about Southern rednecks. The genesis of Sullivan (a government official in Alabama) was that King’s people had placed an ad in the New York Times to bring attention to King’s cause. All well and good: but they had fabricated several of their assertions in an attempt to paint King in the best light and Alabama authorities in the worst. Sullivan, the official most directly concerned sued and won – including up to the Alabama Supreme Court because there was zero doubt that there were false statements in the ad which had defamed Sullivan (and, by extension, the entirety of Alabama government). What the Supreme Court did is take valid First Amendment protections (we can say what we want) and turn them on their head by saying “you can lie about an official unless that official can meet nearly impossible standards of proof of malice”.

Nothing in what Sullivan – the person – did in any way inhibited even the most robust free speech. All he was going after was redress for lies. Not mistakes. Not misinterpretations. Not opinions disagreed with. Lies. Bald faced falsehoods which had no basis in fact. Additionally, totally unnecessary lies…that is, the case for King was strong enough based upon the unvarnished truth. King’s people could have retracted, apologized and then got on with it. But that would have been a win for…you know…those people. The Rednecks. Dirty people without proper credentials. What’s a bit of lying compared to the proper, Progressive outcome?

The Court might not have intended all the knock-on effects…but they have been devastating. The whole culture of lies we have in America today stems from the ruling, which made it nearly impossible to punish lies broadcast over any type of media. It didn’t provide protection for free speech – it just protected lies. It completely negated the reason for the First Amendment…to ensure vigorous debate about policy. Now its just a competition to see who can lie the most brazenly and crudely enforce their lies in the public square.

The Supreme Court also ruled today that it is Election Week, not Election Day – essentially giving States the ability to drag out that vote count as long as they like (ie, until the Democrat wins). Now, there is some basis for the ruling – elections, even to federal office, are under the control of the States. But, on the other hand, the Constitution does say it all has to be done on the same day. Not the same week (or longer). The correct ruling would have been all ballots received before close of polls on Election Day are valid – but while we have a 6-3 Court majority on most issues, it is 5-4 against on any issue which would seriously impede the Democrats. That is, if a Ruling would harm Democrat power in any significant way, we’ll find two of the supposedly Conservative Justices knifing us. That way they can go to parties in northern Virginia and point out that they screwed over those dirty Rednecks. Again.

Ultimately, judicial review is going to be set aside – it is something that the Executive has given to the Judiciary as a matter of courtesy. There is no warrant for it in the Constitution. Can’t stop the judges from issuing their rulings…but whether or not they’ll be obeyed is entirely discretionary. I’d prefer we keep the old way of doing it…but I cannot agree that 5 unelected judges get to make such clearly political decisions for us.

On the good news front, the Court ruled that Trump can fire FTC commissioners at will. This is important as it gets rid of what is called Humphrey’s Executor – a 1935 Court decision which held that Congress may via statute limit the President’s ability to fire Executive branch employees. This new ruling – Trump v. Slaughter – restores proper Executive authority. By extension, it might well get rid of all restrictions on firing Executive branch employees. This means that the civil service protections which have saddled us with liberal bureaucrats to undermine GOP Presidents might be gone. We’ll see how that plays out.

UPDATE: The Court ruled absurdly on the citizenship case…figuring that a person can cross the border illegally today and give birth to a citizen tomorrow. No sane reading of the 14th can sustain this…but the three liberals were joined by Roberts and Barrett who want sooooo badly to let their liberal friends know they’re really cool kids and can they please sit at the table?

Trump does retain tools on this – first off, of course, continuing to deport. Also, cracking down on those who employ or otherwise assist illegals to stay in country. Revoke visas for women of child bearing years. Lots of things…but, now, the Court has made it so that we’ll have to amend the Constitution. Know how I want it written?

Whereas only a complete idiot would think the 14th Amendment secures citizenship to the children of illegals born in the United States, this Amendment states you have to be born to two American citizens within the territory of the United States to be a natural born citizen.

Battling the Insane Barbarians

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There is a video out there where a black woman in Los Angeles is asked why she’s voting for Bass. The answer: because she’s black. We’re at that level of third world tribal idiocy. Nothing in that city is functional…the whole thing is dying. “But I’m voting black because I’m black”…even though, if successful, it’ll mean a worse life for that voter. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t think. She’s a barbarian…a barbarian carefully curated by our Ruling Class to do just that: vote for the tribe no matter what.

Isn’t the first time this has happened in the modern world – Lenin did it in Russia and Hitler did it in Germany. Get people to become savages and then tell them that the only thing that matters is the tribe…for Lenin is was class. For Hitler, it was race. Here in America it is the upper class fostering the barbarism so it is all about race (or gender, yadda, yadda, yadda). We’ve got upper class white people rioting in front of ICE facilities in favor of foreign criminals because the Ruling Class says the criminals are part of the tribe. It was sad, now it is simply disgusting.

We still have to tread a little carefully here. We are winning, but we have not won and a misstep could convince the mushy middle to opt for the barbarians. Those rioters at ICE should be hit with a water cannon, clubbed senseless and then put on trial…resulting in ten years for each of them. But the power for that isn’t there – it isn’t that we’re worried about what they’ll call us (we don’t care what they call us) but that to get what we want will take time…Trump Time. Vance Time. A MAGA Congress. The ability to pass laws and ensure they are enforced…a termination of the ability of federal district judges to interfere in the Executive Branch (they have no such power – there is nothing in the Constitution which says a district judge can enter an injunction against the Executive Branch). But once we do win, then we really have to set to work.

We’re dealing with idiots – and we’ll have to treat them like the idiots they are. They’re right now boosting Talarico as some sort of moderate candidate…the man is insane. But no more insane than anyone else on the Left. He’s better at hiding in than some, but his worldview is built upon a series of very stupid and obvious lies – and if he, and they, get their way then civilization dies…in a horror of barbarism combined with twisted application of science. Once we do win, we have to start thinking in terms of breaking up the Blue States, disenfranchising the Blue voters and setting guardrails in place which will make it essentially illegal to enact Leftist policy. No more getting lunatic policy by calling it the Everyone Gets a Puppy Act. Policies which are insane and based upon lies must be banned.

In the end, it is a question of whether we’ll protect the normal, human elements of life…family, faith, property. Cleanliness. Manliness. Femininity. Order. Peace and quiet. The Left wants all of that gone – they want us living in filth, fighting each other over the scraps accompanied by a cacophony of simian shrieks. No loyalty. No honor. Nothing beautiful or true. A truly Orwellian nightmare.

We can’t win this by being nice. In fact, we’re going to have to get mean – pitiless, in fact. Watch their tears flow and still take things away from them, and then punish them for crying. For weeping over the fact that they are no longer allowed to destroy. We have to turn insane barbarians into sane citizens and this won’t come easy. Or quick. It’ll take a couple generations of get rid of the Leftist poison…to get to a point where nobody would dream of voting for someone based on their skin color or gender. People who wouldn’t dream of getting paid for not working. Who won’t tolerate dirty streets. Who abhor wastrels. Sane people. Civilized people – that is what we have to make.

Time to Enforce Civilization

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In Delta State, Nigeria, allegedly during something called the Alue-Do fertility festival, gangs of young men were caught on video assaulting women. Broad daylight. Girls stripped of their clothes and manhandled. This has sparked outrage around the world and a criminal investigation by the Nigerian government…but as local leaders are denying it happened (in spite of ample video evidence that it did) my expectation is that it’ll all be swept under the rug.

We’ve all heard of the horrific Islamist attacks on Nigerian Christians and Delta State is predominantly Christian so this is surprising…until you realize that “predominant” doesn’t mean “everyone”. Quite of lot of paganism survives in the area – and this festival, whatever it actually is, stems from pagan practices. This is just more proof that it takes a while – a long while – to get people to be civilized. And from what I can glean from reports about the area, it seems that the traditional – pagan – social structure is politically dominant. This is not surprising as Christianity is always a bottom up social movement…that is, the poor and oppressed are usually the first people to get baptized…the rulers come last and usually fight a desperate, rear guard battle. Because, of course, the prime mark of a Christian society is that everyone has to be treated with respect. You know: no gangs of men roaming the streets and assaulting women with impunity.

What this means is that, once again, if we are to have immigrants from this area, they have to be carefully vetted. I know, personally, some Nigerian Catholics and they are as Christian, educated and civilized as you can want. Far more so than that section of the American population which is rapidly barbarizing under Leftist policies. It is just the vetting that the Left doesn’t want – because, in the end, they don’t want civilized Nigerian Christians coming in. No more than they want civilized Boers coming in. They want the savages…the descendants of those whom Garnet Wolseley whacked very firmly back in the 19th century – and who very much deserved that whacking. Just as their savage progeny need a whacking today. The Left wants barbarism because the total destruction of the Christian West is their goal – has been since the first, fevered Leftist imaginings of Robespierre and Danton during the French Revolution.

To fully get where we need to be, we must stamp out the idea that all cultures are equal. They aren’t. Not by a long shot. All humans are created equal – all of us are equally God’s children – but the social structures of the world are not all equal. Some are good. Some are bad. Some are downright evil. It is an evil culture which has gangs of men assaulting women in broad daylight. I don’t care that some of that culture are claiming the assaults aren’t what it is all about – the damned culture still created bands of young men brutally assaulting women in the streets. Whatever that culture has which led to this outcome is a bad culture and it needs to be changed. It is results which ultimately matter – every last human being on Earth has an absolute right to be in the public square without even a hint of violence being directed at them. If there’s a culture out there that isn’t doing this, then it is time for some changes. Compulsory changes if they aren’t voluntarily forthcoming.

As President Bukele of El Salvador recently pointed out: what about the human rights of the victims? We have entirely lost sight of that – orchestrated by Leftists who hate us, we have fallen into the habit of being solicitous of the well being of the robber, the rapist and the murderer. Sure, they have rights – but so does everyone else. And the robber, rapist and murderer are out to violate rights…we must not weep too many tears if the bad guys are in for a bit of rough treatment. They made their choice. It was a bad one. They will now have to pay – and pay a high price. We must whip the barbarians back into their caves – simply because we all have a right to peace.

Crucial Times are Coming

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The Democrats have placed their bet on people hating Trump in sufficient numbers to get them back into power – in their world, what is on the news is real. The protests are real. The polls are real. The endless articles and talking heads saying that Trump is doomed and MAGA is dead are real.

Could they be right?

Infinite universe: anything is possible.

But now that SPLC has been indicted for essentially funding the KKK for years, we really do see that the opposition is manufactured on all levels. We know the votes are fake – the Democrats only have significant national power because they have One Party control over quite a lot of America. Forty percent of New England voted for the GOP in the 2024 House elections and yet not one of New England’s 21 House members are GOP. Any sort of fair and honest system and the GOP should have six to eight of those seats. We got thirty nine percent of the House vote in California but only seventeen percent of the House seats. Should have 20. Think of that – Democrat corrupt politics have denied us at least twenty six seats just in those two States. Sure, there are some Red States which might have got a few more Democrats in but the GOP hasn’t been nearly as ruthless in gerrymandering as the Democrats plus we don’t cheat. That is, we don’t find votes weeks after election day to make sure our guy gets in. Democrat cheating over 2022 and 2024 probably cost is four or five Senate seats as well. And with the fake votes giving Democrats power they have not earned so, too, fake protests against us. All ginned up via Democrat money to give the appearance of actual opposition. Same with the lawsuits – Democrats under Obama and Biden stuffed the federal courts with rank partisans of the worst sort; people who know their job is to rule in favor of Democrats no matter how absurd and illegal the argument is. Just do it. Don’t care. You’ll be protected.

For many years this fraud has given the Democrats power and they are confident it will continue to do so. But here’s the real weakness of the One Party State – it moves itself into increasing insanity. Without any check on power, the most stupidly extreme rule the roost. The Democrats are expecting a snap-back in November because people hate Trump. But if people don’t hate Trump – at least, not in sufficient numbers – then the driver of the vote will be how insanely stupid the Democrats are. Illegals. Criminals. Welfare and Medicaid corruption. They’re defending all of this – and promising a Day One impeachment of Trump. Do the American people want to vote for a two year impeachment drama in DC? We’re going to find out – but my expectation is that they’ll reject it. Especially as Trump and the GOP are floating on money while the Democrats are broke. Not for nothing was Trump’s first target NGO funding…because he knew that Democrat donors are also fake. It was all just kickbacks…get the grant, kick back a percentage of it to the DNC. The grants have dried up and so has Democrat money. And that means as we get into September Democrat insanity will be playing on a loop on TV while the Democrats simply don’t have enough money to counter it.

Don’t get me wrong – they do still loom up powerful in front of us. Trump still doesn’t have 100% control over all federal agencies…Democrat moles plus lawfare have curbed Trump’s ability to gain control of the Executive power which is solely vested in him as President. Every national institution is still dead set against us. We still have RINOs sabotaging us…and attention-hound Righties willing to sell us out for a few Democrat dollars. Against all of this is Trump and MAGA. Are we strong enough? We know Trump is, but are we? Will we let the Democrat pysop get to us? Depress us? Convince us to stay home? We’ll find that out, too.

2026 and 2028 will be the crucial elections in the life of America. If we can hang on to Congressional power in 2026 and get Vance or just about any other GOPer in for 2028, then we’re going to win all down the line. The Democrats will have less and less money. More and more criminal investigations will grind forward. More and more DNC moles in the Executive branch will be booted. We’ll reach the tipping point probably in 2030 as the census comes in and the shift of House and Electoral College power to the GOP will start a stampede for the exits on those who support the Democrats. The Democrats won’t be the Establishment any longer. We will be. And one thing Establishment people demand is to be part of the game…they’ll make their peace with us and turn with fury and scorn upon those they backed the day before. And even though most Republicans don’t know this – and most Democrats don’t, either – the Democrat leaders do. Oh, they know. They know how only corruption keeps them in power. That the longer MAGA remains in control the more of their scam will be revealed. They know they are doomed if they don’t win it all by 2028 – they need a trifecta in order to undo Trump’s legacy, pack the Court and simply rule being American unconstitutional. Forever. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent this.

Personally, I think we’re going to win – that there is just enough patriotism left in America to prevent us from falling into the death spiral of Europe and Canada.

If You Want Peace With Islam, Then be a Crusader

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It is said that only Nixon could go to China. That is, nobody but an ardent anti-Communist could talk peace with Communists. There is some truth to this. Not that talking with China worked out all that well, but the basic concept is correct. For there to be peace there has to be reality – we can’t live in a world of illusions. Anyone else trying to break the ice with the Chi-coms would have been immediately tagged as a sell out. That Nixon did it gave us some assurance that there was reality behind the move. So, too, with Islam – only a Crusader can befriend the Saracen.

I put up a comment on X pointing out that part of the reason for the Church’s soft touch with Islam is the plain fact that anything provocative would lead to bloodshed. Specifically, the blood of innocent and defenseless Christians in the Muslim world. This touched off a firestorm of criticism. I was torched for a whole day! In fact, there are still people dropping by to call me a coward, an Islamist stooge, a traitor, an apostate and so on. I do note, though, with great care that all of those calling for a Crusade against Islam are very unlikely to actually join the effort…that those who want bloodcurdling Papal statements about Islam won’t actually pay the price for same.

Now, to be sure, I do believe the Church should take a far stronger stance against Islamist oppression of Christians. A lot stronger. But what I was trying to do there is put myself in Papal shoes…and in Papal ears. I’ll bet big money that the Christian leaders of the Muslim world are always urging a soft stance. Great issues of the day aside, these people are trying to shepherd very small flocks through very large wolf packs. They don’t want a very difficult task made even harder. People are almost incapable of nuance here in 2026 and so I was flamed on it.

I want the stronger stance not to provoke violence, but to get the Muslims to the table – to be the Crusader who earns the respect of the Saracen, and so can make peace with him. Sorta like Trump is doing. Part of the reason the Muslim world was diddling over Iran was lack of trust in our determination. Why provoke Iran at the behest of the Yanks if they’re going to cut out on you when it gets rough? Trump has shown he has the will to get the job done regardless how much people whine about it. And, so, now we’re seeing real efforts at peace with Israel among Muslim nations and a growing determination to see an end to the Mullah regime. They know they can trust Trump. The President has shown he has the courage of Richard the Lionheart. So, too, I think the Church should become – a bit of Urban II is called for.

I think the Church leaders should issue a firm statement – not just calling for more dialogue, but calling for Christian emancipation in the Muslim world. No more second class citizenship. No more routine denial of Christian rights. No more death penalties based on Sharia law that Christians are not in any way bound to obey. Certainly the statement must also say that Christians in Muslim countries must show deep respect for their Muslim neighbors and not needlessly provoke them…but it must be a two way street, and it must be the foundation of a true dialogue between Islam and the West. We can’t talk sensibly if we’re not talking as equals in all things. We can do this. And we must do this. War and death might seem the easy way out – and getting a pound of flesh after decades of outrages might seem satisfying. But it isn’t the way. A peace between equals who respect each other is what we must have.

And we can see signs of its possibility. The King of Jordan is a decent man. So, too, the King of Morocco. The UAE is a land of decent, honest people. Perfect? Not by a long shot. But people we can work with. And signposts to a better relationship between Islam and the West. I’m not saying we’re going to love each other. I’m not saying we won’t find conflict. But I am saying that we can live in peace. In this, what Trump is doing is crucial – because the Mullah regime is the cancer in the Muslim world. The entity which inflames all hatreds and makes peace impossible. If he can destroy it – or even just degrade it significantly – we will have a window of opportunity. A chance to build so much peace and reconciliation that the purveyors of hatred and death will become a small minority, shoved into a corner, shouting at itself.

Finding the Truth

Mark Noonan7 Comments

It is surprising what you can find in second hand stores if you’re just poking around. I mean, take me with my deep interest in history and especially military history. There I was, wandering around the store and I spot this book: The War Lords. Looks interesting. Edited by Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver. Never heard of him. Picture on the back though looks like a thoroughly English officer of the mid-20th century. Open it: printed in 1976. Cool: way before anything like Woke became fashionable. Flip through it: ah, it is a series of sketches covering the main military leaders of the 20th century – varied from Kemal to Bradley. I buy it, take it home and start to read it – and am immediately enthralled. Why? Not because it is all new – though it does provide some info I hadn’t heard before – but because it isn’t written to make a point…just tell us what the men were like as war leaders. Strengths and weaknesses, all of it given out without any political axe to grind.

That is so very important here in our Age of Lies: just telling it as it is. One of my favorite books about World War One is The Great War written by Cyril Falls. Not that Falls was perfect – no, he was a loyal British officer and he would not stick a knife into the back of his chief – Field Marshal Douglas Haig – just to sell a book. But his book is good because, as he put it, it was written in the sense of a grandchild asking, “tell us about the war, and what they fought each other for”. He just told the story. He didn’t varnish it – but he wasn’t trying to make a point; just tell the tale, and that is what makes it so good. If you want a brief and well written history of the war – by a man who served in it – Falls’ book is the go-to. And I’m thinking that The War Lords will be added to my selection of first rate books and one which I will end up reading multiple times.

We must keep in mind that history is whatever the historian decided to say – and if the historian wants to make a point, then what you’re getting is a point of view. It might be a very well written point of view. It might be a logically sound and well sourced point of view, but it is a point of view. William Manchester was an excellent historian and biographer but no matter how you slice it, he was a mid-20th century liberal (and he would have been the first to admit that is what he was) and his books are written through that lense. He might admit to his bias, but that bias did not prevent him from excluding things which worked against his Narrative. For instance, as a mid-20th century liberal, he was of the view that war is a stupid, tragic waste. It is how he saw his own service as a Marine in World War Two (and there are doubts about the accuracy of some of the war stories he relates…so, even when recounting his memoirs, his Narrative was paramount) – and it is how he views the men who lead the wars. Even the best were, in a sense, bad. Maybe less bad than some, but bad all the same. This is why his contribution to war literature must be taken with a grain of salt. He never got over his fury about how many of his friends died on Okinawa…and this prevented him from telling us, except as an aside, how incredibly brave his friends were. War is not mere glory. But it isn’t merely sordid, either. It is a human activity…and it is therefor a mixed bag and if we’re really being honest, we tell the whole story…even the parts that don’t support our argument.

It is so very important to find the truth. The whole truth. Nothing but the truth. It is also pretty rare…but it is what we must always seek. It is amazing how just a little bit of truth will upend perhaps even decades of settled thought in the mind. And how once you reach a critical mass of truth in your mind, you simply can’t be fooled. You also stop being fearful. Or worried. Once your quest for truth passes a certain point, a certain calmness becomes your main sensation. You can tell the liar a mile away, and you stay away from him – except, perhaps, to point out to others he’s a liar. You can tell instantly when someone is just making stuff up to sell a garbage idea. Even if you’re not an expert on a particular subject, you can tell when someone is lying about it. This, I think, is what was meant by “the truth shall set you free”. Not free in your body – someone might throw chains around you at any moment. But if you have the truth, you are free…you already know what is going to happen and you rest content knowing that no matter how triumphant a liar appears at any given moment, total disaster awaits him because lies are always destructive.

Anti-Semitism: it is Part of the Modern Barbarism

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A Priest-mutual I have on X posted the following:

One doesn’t have to support Israel. I don’t support Israel. I simply refuse to hate Jews.

Which is, of course, simply true. Now, on my part, I do support Israel – explicitly as a Jewish State. One thing the past century has taught us is that even in the most advanced and tolerant societies, Jew-hatred is both easy to stir up and quickly becomes deadly. But the bottom line is that reasonable people can take exception to Israel – both in its actions and in its reason for being. That is, you can think it was a mistake to create Israel…but this doesn’t entail hating Jews.

We’ve talked here before of the genesis of modern Anti-Semitism, which is different from that of the Middle Ages where it was simply thought that Jews were foolishly wrong for not accepting Christ as savior – and this, indeed, could and did often lead to violence against Jews. But in the modern world, anti-Semitism changed…from a dismay to a hatred. And it became tinged with race – that is, Jews are not a religious but a racial group…and no matter how secular a Jew is, or even if a Jew converts, they don’t stop being Jews. This was the baleful ideology which was created by Gobineau, refined by Chamberlain and Schonerer and then wound up given full expression by Hitler. The crucial aspect of all this is that it was plain and simple stupid. Not supported by anything scientific nor the result of any logical chain of thought. It was just idiocy produced by losers to explain why they weren’t on top – later taken up by Hitler and his Nazis and carried out to the detriment of Germany’s own future. You’d think that Nazi defeat in 1945 would have killed it off completely, but it never did.

To be sure, it took decades to get it back on track – surviving Nazis worked long and hard at it, starting mostly in the Muslim world but always with footholds in the West. Everything carefully pitched to catch the ignorant and get them to believe. It is rising to a malignant cancer in the West these days because while the Nazis were lying, the West was destroying the West…that is the educational, religious and moral convictions which were always the strongest bulwark against vicious modern anti-Semitism.

And that brings me to the main point: the full purpose of the modern Left is to get people to be degraded. To be ignorant. Envious. Lazy. Greedy. To pretty much embrace all the cardinal sins and consider themselves superior for doing so. What this has done is make people, well, insane. We see it in a video I saw earlier – some woman was attending an 8th grade graduation and because her child wasn’t called up early on, she threw a temper tantrum. The lady probably knows nothing. I’d bet money that she’s only barely literate. To consider if she’d ever read a book of any sort is to be asking far too much. But she’s fat. Monetarily in good shape. And supremely confident that if things don’t work as she wants, she has a right to mess everything up for everyone else – she is also certain that if there is something wrong, it is the result of a shadowy conspiracy to prevent her from being on top. It is of such clay that our modern anti-Semites, BLM activists and Code Pink crazies are made of.

The problem we have isn’t just one particular type of evil. While it would be great if we could wave a magic wand and make all anti-Semitism instantly disappear, it wouldn’t help us long term – it wouldn’t save our civilization. If the people are still ignorant, lazy, greedy and nuts, then if one particular aspect of insanity is removed it doesn’t help. What we – the civilized – must decide is how long we’ll allow the barbarians to afflict us, and what means we’ll choose to convert them to our ways.

Because make no mistake about it, the barbarians – with rare exceptions – will not voluntarily give up their ways. Why should they? They can take and destroy and nobody stops them. The people starting a brawl in a fast food joint because they didn’t get enough nuggets in their order are never punished in any real way. Until they are, they will not change. We’re going to have to disenfranchise them and then let them know they are the social inferiors who must learn the ways of their betters. Or else. Don’t even for a moment think this is race-based. That is just another bit of drivel – in fact, the modern American racism owed a huge amount to Gobineau’s idiotic twaddle…it was seized upon by pro-slavery people in the USA and used as a justification to continue stealing the labor of black Americans. It isn’t about race – it is about being civilized or being barbarian. There are plenty of white Americans just as barbaric as any morons out there – and they, too, must be instructed in right conduct.

Such things as not being a drunkard. Staying employed. Keeping your house clean. Your yard maintained. Never even thinking for a moment that shoplifting is ok. Being respectful of others. Not picking fights with cops. Getting married. Staying married. Learning to read. All of that – and, as I said, they won’t voluntarily go to the wellsprings of decent behavior. They will have to be compelled. And if we do this, then all of the ills of our society will shrink to very manageable proportions…