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The Catastrophe…and Perhaps the Way Back

Mark Noonan26 Comments

December 7th doesn’t mean much to the younger generation. Remember: we’re nearly a quarter century after 9/11. If you’re under 30, even that date doesn’t mean much. Back to 1941? Eighty four years ago? It is almost out of living memory. Only a few very old people were even alive when it happened – even fewer have any memory of it. Everything eventually gets ravaged by the artillery of time. But it is still one of the pivotal days of modern times.

People still wax misty about 1914 and Sarajevo and, indeed, there is good reason for that – a whole generation of young people singing their way to massacre in the trenches. But for all the destruction of that war, it was the US entry into World Two which was The Event of the 20th century. The First World War was a quick in and out and though Americans largely supported the effort, they weren’t at all keen at staying involved. Good to keep in mind that it wasn’t the Lusitania sinking or the resumption of German unrestricted submarine warfare which got us enthusiastic about the war, it was the Zimmerman Telegram.

That diplomatic note, intercepted by the British and published by them with exquisite timing set America aflame. We didn’t particularly care about who won that war. We figured that if you sailed on the high seas into a war zone, you took your chances – but the prospect of a German-allied Mexico conquering parts of the American southwest enraged us. And so off to war we went. And when it was Over Over There, we came back home, voted in Harding by an astonishing landslide and pretty much acted like the whole thing never happened.

As late as December 6th, 1941 the solid majority of Americans were opposed to entering the war. Keep in mind that the Holocaust was still not generally known about – and wouldn’t really get rolling until 1942. We didn’t like the Nazis but we felt that it was still Europe’s war. Just like Japan’s war in China was Asia’s war. We were sympathetic to China and Britain, and to those laboring under the conqueror’s boot, but we couldn’t see how it mattered to us.

And with good reason – in a very cold and clear light, it didn’t matter to us. Moated as we were by two oceans, with harmless neighbors north and south, with the second largest fleet in the world after Britain (and easily turned into the largest, as we soon saw), with vast territory and wealth untold to be tapped…why go fight in Europe over the difference between the sides? FDR had been doing everything he could to build up a war fever in the USA – and, additionally, the spreading prosperity due to war contracts was whetting appetites – but it just wasn’t working. We remained stubbornly aloof. We could not be conquered. Not by the whole world in arm against us.

But then came the attack. Of course it outraged us. Of course the recruiting offices were jam packed the next day. Of course we swore we’d beat those Japanese SOBs. But while we did that, we also somehow started to unravel the European colonial Empires while lavishing aid on a Soviet Union hostile to every last American ideal. I mean, seriously: we deliberately set about weakening our allies while strengthening our obvious enemy. Sure, in the process wiping out Germany and Japan but, in the end, those two nations never stood a chance. What stood a chance was a global Left standing over the ruins of European Empires and slowly but surely infecting the United States. And here we are. Eighty four years later. Debating over what “woman” means.

This is why I consider Pearl Harbor to be the disaster – the turning point. The one event I’d really like to go back in time and change. It wasn’t that the war was the problem, it was that it allowed the Left to use American power to win the war, claim it as a Leftist victory and then set about over the past eight decades thoroughly degrading everything that the men and women of 1941 fought for.

We didn’t need an NSA. Didn’t need a CIA. Didn’t need a massive standing military. Didn’t need to allow foreigners to dump their second rate garbage in our markets. Didn’t need foreigners to come here and work. What we need was what we had – a nation of sturdy patriots led by people who knew what the heck to do. We needed, in short, a nation that produced Douglas MacArthur and George Patton…not a nation which wonders if a 5 foot tall woman should be in an infantry company.

This is why I’m so enthusiastic about Trump. The past can never be recovered – we won’t ever go back to 1941. But we can certainly try to recapture what we can. And so Hegseth at War. Rubio at State. And Trump, himself, clearly reading and re-reading McKinley and others who built the nation which won the Second World War. We’re becoming American, again. Unafraid. Hard working. With good will towards the world but no desire be immersed in its (often) very stupid problems. Set against us is the world and that section of the American population which has ceased to be actually American – you know the type without even a description. We’re just strong enough to beat them, and the longer we beat them the more people will come over to our side…until all these weirdos on the Left are nothing but a distant memory.

Trump and Mamdani

Mark Noonan12 Comments

So Trump and Mamdani had their meet and everyone is a little bit confused by it all. Trump was nice and Mamdani was respectful. On the Left there are already those calling Mamdani a sellout and on the Right there are those calling Trump a sellout. But there was one outraged comment from the Left that – unintentionally – said it all:

“Look at that, he kissed Trump’s a** and now Trump is being nice to him.”

He didn’t, of course, kiss anything – but he was nice and so Trump was nice in return. That’s the whole problem with the American Left: they’ve simply refused to be nice. Because Hillary was really mad she lost and so tried a post-facto coup against Trump, the Left has internalized total hatred of Trump. That is, Hillary’s op is the core principle of the Left these days. But if the Left had just ignored that old hag and dismissed her fury at not being given her turn, then we’d be in a whole different situation.

Trump is, very famously, a deal maker. Had the Left come to Trump, hat in hand, back in 2017 and said, “ok, Don: we want this, what do you want from us in return?”, then Trump would have sat down with them, talked it out over a period of time, and then – a country united – we would have enacted a series of reforms which would have given all sides half a loaf. You know, like its supposed to be in America. They would have, for instance, got something like Medicare for All but in return for that they might have had to surrender completely their opposition to nuclear power…so, here in 2025 we’d have a very expensive and clunky socialized medicine system (bad, but what the Left wants) but we’d be generating so much nuke energy with resultant economic growth that paying for the Left’s socialized medicine would be bearable. On and on like that on issue after issue. Get. Give. Give. Get.

Abolition of property taxes on primary residences in return for an excise tax on luxury homes.

Deportation of every illegal in return for increasing the number of legal immigrants allowed per year.

Annulment of student debt in return for affirmative action (as it were) for center and right voices in college.

Increased funding for public schools in return for universal school choice.

On and on and on like that. Nobody totally satisfied but everyone getting a slice of the pie. The Left totally rejected that. And now comes Mamdani – a foreign born communist. The absolute enemy of all we hold dear. But, OTOH, he was just elected mayor of our largest city and instantly becomes one of the most influential people in the USA. Just keep hating on him? Or bring him in for a chat? Always the first option is to be “chat”. Maybe the man is totally thick and can’t be reached. Fine. Then we’re no worse off than before. But maybe he’ll listen? The man said he loved New York City. It is the first time I’ve ever heard him say anything positive about any aspect of the United States. All it took to draw that out was a chat with Trump.

It is always important to remember that God forbids us to hate other people. We can hate what they do, but we can’t hate them. To do that is a sin. I absolutely loath Mamdani’s program…but I keep away from hating him. And, indeed, I sort of pity him. He’s the product of the modern American Establishment. He got a degree, but no education. He’s never worked in his life. He’s always been surrounded by the most privileged elite in American society where everyone just agrees and it is always a ratchet moving relentlessly further Left. Point blank: the man simply does not know. But as a man, he is capable of learning. Of growth. Of thinking it over. Maybe for the first time in his life. We know the problem with our Left: they never think. They just receive a propaganda point and run with it forever. So far, all Mamdani has ever done is run with the propaganda. He might go his whole life doing that. If he does, then he’ll remain a pest and a threat to the USA. But if he even for a moment starts to think, then he might become a valuable member of our society. Trump was placing a bet he could get that young man to think a bit. Maybe it’ll work. Mamdani – suddenly thinking – would not be the first person of the Left who shifted sides over time.

And if this effort by Trump falls flat on its face? Fine. We gave Mamdani his chance. What will happen after that is already in the script…he’ll staff up with far Left freaks who are also corrupt as the day is long and Trump – followed by Vance – will simply launch one federal investigation after another that will easily find the graft and the whole Mamdani experiment will collapse in a series of lawsuits and federal indictments. But if Mamdani thinks a bit, we might be able to get some useful things done in New York City which starts to break down the upper class Left’s hold on the city. Let’s see what happens.

Jews: the Canary in the Coal Mine

Mark Noonan5 Comments

First, some reminders that it happened and fellow Americans saw it:

There is absolutely no doubt that under the Nazi regime the Germans massacred millions of people, somewhat more than half of the victims being Jews. When our soldiers entered Germany they found the same things that French, British, Russian and Polish soldiers found…camp after camp after camp with tens of thousands of nearly-starved human beings and corpses lying all over the place. So many corpses that in some places we had to use bulldozers to move the bodies into mass graves.

Even though the Communist body count is higher the Nazi regime remains an unparalleled horror. First off is the time factor: The Nazis only had twelve years to murder – the Communists more than seventy. Had the Nazi regime endured then the corpses would have piled up very high, indeed. But outside raw numbers of dead, there is a special disgust over the manner of the Nazi murders…lining helpless people up – men, women and children – and machine gunning them. Stuffing them naked and screaming in fear into gas chambers. Conducting sick medical experiments on them. In 1945, the world knew – the camps were liberated. The witnesses spoke. The films were made. The journalists investigated and reported. There was no doubt.

So, how did we go from that to the current day where millions of young people in the USA and around the world are falling for Nazi propaganda…or, if not falling for that, getting suckered by Communist propaganda. Once upon a time we also found out about Communist crimes and fully documented them. Now, like Nazi crimes, they’re swept under the rug and both Nazi and Communist promise a heaven on Earth if people follow them…and people are following them. Young people in New York City just elected a Communist as mayor. How did this happen?

It can be found in the one thing that unites modern Communists and Nazis – a vicious hatred of the Jews.

The Nazi hates the Jews on the accusation that the Jews are out to destroy the West. The Communist hates the Jews on the accusation that the Jews are racist colonialist oppressors. Different paths to the same anti-Semitic end. And both paths appeal to young people. A lot of them.

It is in any human being’s attitude towards Jews where we’ll find if they are essentially decent. As a Christian, I believe this is because the Jews do remain God’s Chosen People (of course, theologically, we Christians are as well – baptized priest, prophet and king). That as stiff necked as the Jews can be and as many times as they stray away from the Law, God’s promise to them still holds…and so while you can do very horrible things to Jews, it will end up working out very badly for you. And so, essentially, the more a person moves into hating Jews as Jews, the more the mark of madness and evil descends upon them. It wasn’t being a Nazi or a Communist that got a modern Western youngster to hate Jews…it was hating Jews that got them, step by step, into being Nazis or Communists.

It works very easily and insidiously these days – suppose you’re a twenty five year old and you suddenly get curious, because of a comment on X, about that whole Holocaust thing. You’ve honestly never really been taught about it. You’re only barely literate in the sense of being able to comprehend complex written sentences, so getting a book about it is out – if you’re even fully aware of books as a thing. So, you do a search on Tik Tok (or some such) and you get some video of an apparently reasonable and knowledgeable person who starts feeding you anti-Semitic propaganda. This, of itself, isn’t so bad…but now that you’ve searched and clicked, your algorithm is going to get packed with similar content. Off you go! The Jews did X Bad Thing and depending on how you started your search, it was “killed Christ and perverted the West” or “exploited Capitalism to genocide the Palestinians”, doesn’t really matter and the deeper you go in, the more the streams cross and you become a mish-mash of both sides. You become after a while an indecent person…a person who now only knows how to hate and will hate whatever someone identifies as the enemy. You’ll be happy when an Israeli embassy staffer gets murdered…but just as happy when a Conservative pundit gets shot.

You have become, via the gateway of anti-Semitism, an evil person.

For us who remain decent, that is the question we have to put – and demand be answered. Left and Right: how do you feel about Jews? If the answer has any sort of a “but” in there, we’ve found the evil person. Because, of course, Jews are just people – like you and me. There are good Jews and bad Jews. But what there isn’t is a corporate Jewish body ordering things done. If anyone is saying “the Jews are doing…,” whatever, then that is an evil person talking. The Jews aren’t doing anything. This or that Jew may do this, that or the other thing and that Jewish person is to be judged by their individual actions, but not as a Jew. We don’t say, “the Baptist man robbed a bank” because the religion of the bank robber is irrelevant…but the anti-Semite will say, “the Jews are being bad to Christians” when it is actually just three a**holes whom most Jews – like most people in general – despise.

We have to excise this cancer – and I mean by force, at the end of the day. It must be forbidden to be anti-Semitic. It must be forbidden to be Nazi. Forbidden to be Communist. We cannot endure for long as a free people if we allow liars to pervert the coming generation like this. We must break the chain of evil that was forged in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and led, step by step, to Socialism, Communism, Fascism and Nazism…all of which are in the mix today united by their hatred of Jews (even if merely as a proxy for hatred of the West in general and the United States in particular). It must become socially unacceptable to hold any such views…and anyone propagating such views must be at bare minimum de-naturalized and in the worst cases jailed, exiled…or even executed. I do not propose to debate Nazis and Communists. Ever. I do propose we destroy them.

Fight, Fight, Fight!

Mark Noonan29 Comments

Some people are in a bad way today and it got me thinking of a passage in the upcoming (promise!) Book X of the Mirrors series:


It is never time to be depressed – get out there and, well live. And if that gets us a bullet in our brain, then at least we didn’t crawl.

One of the smartest people I follow in X has pointed out that if we dispense with the filibuster we’ll soon find ourselves in a cold civil war…which may then become hot. And, he’s right. There is a dreadful risk in such a thing but there’s dreadful risk in all action, and even inaction is fraught with danger. We’re rather on the knife edge here.

You see, the Democrats just elected in Virginia a man who has fantasized about killing Republican children. The Democrat leaders did not distance themselves from the man. This indicates two things, both bad:

  1. The Democrat base is horrifically violent and ready to kill.
  2. The Democrat base is incapable of the basic due diligence of being a citizen.

Whether any particular Democrat want us dead or is simply very stupid it all works out the same…because those who want us dead count on the votes of the stupid for power. The whole Democrat edifice is a standing threat to our lives, our fortune and our and sacred honor. We have to start behaving accordingly. And, actually, Trump has – certainly since Butler. The thought you might be killed any moment by these lunatics does concentrate the mind wonderfully. But at the moment most of us don’t feel like we’re in the crosshairs so our minds aren’t as concentrated as Trump’s. But we are in the crosshairs. It is time to concentrate.

If we dispensed with the filibuster we would have at least 14 months in which to enact laws without any hindrance by Democrats. We could do quite a lot which would gut their power. Trump already is, but if you do it legislatively then it is a very deadly blow. And, sure, if the Democrats win a trifecta before the Left is destroyed this will go badly for us…but if the Democrats get a trifecta and we’ve never struck a blow, then that just goes worse for us. Might as well do what we can.

I am reminded that the anti-Communist forces in Russia in 1917 didn’t lift a finger to save the Provisional Government. They all pinned their hopes on this, that or the other thing happening after that government was gone. But the trouble was that once Lenin kicked out the Provisional Government and assumed power he had the ultimate levers of power in his hands. The time to stop Lenin wasn’t after his October coup, but before. Even if that meant a few norms were tossed aside. Nothing that could have happened in getting rid of Lenin was worse than what Lenin was going to be. And, so, like that, nothing we do to hit the Democrats is worse than what they’ll do if we don’t hit them.

So, hit them.

And be happy about it – be a happy warrior. Our goal in life is to have a tenured Harvard professor struggling to make ends meet bagging our groceries. To bring down the Ruling Class. To overturn the system. To have a revolution. They must lose – and lose, in the end, everything. No power. No money. No position. No prestige. Ridiculous, useless relics of a dead past that will never return. We do that, first and foremost, by taking away their access to government money.

Not for nothing did a Democrat Senator float the idea of funding the government merely on Trump’s promise that he won’t fire any more government employees. It is that crucial to them. It can’t be overstated how utterly dependent the Democrats are upon essentially laundering taxpayer money into DNC coffers. How much they depend on their ability to get useless people well paid government sinecures. How if they don’t have access to money, nobody will pay any attention to them. Their whole existence since the 1930’s has been based on passing out government cash. And this is our best chance to take that way – we have the trifecta. If we don’t have to get 60 Senate votes to cut spending…if we only have to get 50 plus Vance, we can gut the Deep State.

And, sure, with a risk that the Democrats – facing total destruction – will provoke a violent civil war. That is always in the cards with them – especially now after they’ve been fed for ten years on the lie that Trump is Hitler and they are the Brave Resistance. These lunatics are already killing based upon lies…won’t take a lot more to get them killing in droves. But it will go better for us, should it come to blows, if we’ve already cut off the funds. If they are on the outside trying to overthrow, rather than on the inside pretending they are defending America.

So, let’s do it. Risks and all! Better to have it out right now rather than desperately trying to undo things after a future far Left Democrat victory at the polls (however engineered). My bet is that the Democrats simply don’t have a lot of people willing to kill for them – that is, not enough to pose an actual threat to a heavily armed MAGA population. That even if they try violence, it will end badly for them and pretty quickly. But we’ve also got the hope that if we just cut off the funds, this all ends…the Left vanishes in a puff of intersectional smoke…and we all look back and wonder how those people ever were in power.

We Need Morality

Mark Noonan32 Comments

So one of the sob stories Democrats are putting out to make us feel bad about their shutdown of the government was this lady – I think in New Mexico – who was whining about how she needs SNAP…and has been on it for thirty years. Thirty! Since 1995!

Have you ever felt like a sucker?

I’m soon to turn 61 – and tomorrow I will get up and go to work. Put in my eight hours. Maybe slightly longer if its busy. I do this so that I can buy my food, my house, my car, my gas, my clothes, my cable service, my phone service…and those small, individually wrapped Reeces cups because I’m trying to keep my weight under control (successfully) and the craving for something sweet after dinner gets its fix with just one of those. You know: all my stuff. My wife works, too. That lady has been sitting on her ass since I was 30! Collecting benefits. And you know it isn’t just SNAP…I’m sure she’s raking it in with a lot of other programs and, of course, is isn’t like anyone checks when you show up at the local food bank for a bit of free grocery shopping.

Yes, we do have an absolute moral obligation to feed the hungry. The clothe the naked. To house the homeless. But it isn’t a one way street:

For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you. Not that we do not have the right. Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us. In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. – 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-10

The poor have a moral obligation to work – and even it is make-work. Some contribution to society…to the people who are getting up each morning, going to work and providing the food, clothes and shelter. No human being physically capable of work and under the age of retirement has a right to receive without giving something back. Enough of this welfare scam. I don’t care what we have them do, as long as they are putting in a solid forty hours every week. Have them sweep the streets if there’s nothing else…but that EBT card only reloads when it is recorded that you did forty hours that week. Period.

And, in the end, this is what will get them off welfare…make them be responsible. There are people who are willing to live on the margins of life as long as it doesn’t require any effort on their part. But these days we’re lavishing so much money on welfare that the so-called “poor” are living as well as people who work for a living…and that’s just wrong. Welfare is to keep you this side of starvation and nakedness…not so you’re at home eating EBT cheetos while others are out working. If we make them do drudge work, they’ll for the most part find some other way to earn their daily bread. And, hey, if some don’t – then at least we’re getting clean streets and they’re getting the knowledge (and pride) that they aren’t just a burden…they’re doing something useful day in and day out. That is basic human dignity, folks.

But aside from that, this has exposed the lack of real morality in our society. It isn’t merciful to let people be on welfare for decades (and in many cases, generations). It is just wrong. It should horrify people that someone is on it more than six months. A year, tops. I related after my Dad died in 2009 that I found his food stamps ID card from 1970 in his wallet…I never knew but he kept that souvenir of the bad times…probably as a reminder. There is no shame in getting help. Dad was out of work and had kids to feed. You do what you gotta do. But you don’t make dependency a life style…or if you are to be dependent for your whole life, then you sure in heck shouldn’t have a say in how society works. That is, if you’re on welfare, no voting.

It is time for us to really get back to knowing what is right and what is wrong. Being on welfare except as a temporary expedient is wrong. Being massively overweight on welfare even more so (and we’ve all seen the overweight people on mobility scooters whipping out the EBT card at Wal Mart). But it is also wrong to be a bum on the streets. To be drunk or high in public. To father children with multiple women you never married. To engage in irresponsible sex in general. To be illiterate. To be innumerate. To be poorly dressed in public. To be loud and boorish in public spaces. To brawl over nothing in a fast food joint.

We have to start punishing this sort of thing. Loss of voting rights is just the start. There also has to be labor sentences for having that brawl at the fast food joint. For being high. For generally being a disreputable person who is making life hard for everyone else. And if a person doesn’t take the lesson the first couple times they are sent to labor to make up for their poor behavior, then the punishments must get progressively worse until they are permanently at work or finally get the message and stop acting like turnip-brained barbarians. We’re all human beings. On average, none of us are smarter than anyone else. I am not some specially gifted person that I have a house, cars, clothes and food. I just work and pay my bills and do my small part to keep things going as best I can. It isn’t a special burden: it is just life. And it isn’t really all that hard…sure, I get up some mornings and wish I could be doing just about anything else but going to work…but I go all the same. It is called being a man. Being civilized. Being truly human.

The world works. It really does. But it only works when we do. When all of us suck it up and get the job done. We can’t sustain ourselves if half of us are living off the other half. Everyone who is at all physically capable must contribute (and none of this “but my back hurts” nonsense – I live with constant pain in my right knee and I still get to work…because you offer up your pain to God and get on with it…when I’m saying “disabled” I mean you have to be disabled. Just not capable of doing any physical labor at all). And everyone who tries to slack or acts like a barbarian has to feel it – they can’t skate on that. It is the little things that matter the most…and for a well-ordered society, the bigger threat is the welfare bum, not the bank robber. A bank robber bets his life that he can steal and not be killed…a welfare bum bets your life that you’ll feed him no matter what. Time for that to end.

Not one person in America should be hungry, naked or homeless. But not one person in America should be taking without giving.

Lies Lead to Communists

Mark Noonan23 Comments

We get Mamdani because the Deep State managed to destroy Joe McCarthy. Simple as. In that action, we ceased any operation to lump the Nazis and Communists together where they firmly belong. We allowed the Communists to essentially call anti-Communism a version of fascism…and while the Left’s Long March through the Institutions – briefly interrupted by McCarthy – took decades to complete, that Long March’s success was guaranteed the moment the Senate censured McCarthy. But here’s the real crux of that – what we allowed was liars to lie.

Keep in mind that McCarthy’s assertion have been abundantly confirmed since his censure. Over the decades as documents have been declassified, Soviet archives opened and memoirs written, it has become an established that the US government was honeycombed with Soviet agents and remained so even after the authorities became aware.

Good to recap that the event that lead to McCarthy’s downfall (the Army-McCarthy hearings) centered on just how Irving Peress managed to get an Army commission and then promoted – even though his service record indicated he wasn’t a good officer and, indeed, was disloyal to the USA. Peress took the fifth over and over again when questioned by McCarthy’s committee (as was his right, of course) and in response, McCarthy urged the Army to court martial him. Instead, the Army rushed through and honorable discharge and tried to make out that it was mere paperwork blunders which lead to the commissioning and promotion. Which, of course, is obvious drivel – Army commissions aren’t just there for the asking and promotions take either stellar service (which Peress did not perform) or someone very friendly up in the chain of command…so, his promotion was because someone wanted him promoted. McCarthy was trying to find out how all this happened and ran into a stone wall. In later years, it came out that Peress was quite the communist (having been so since the 1930’s) and he took the fifth so that he wouldn’t have to name other communists. So, McCarthy was right about him – just as he was always right about who was the communist (because he had the intel reports…which everyone else in leadership also had; especially those who censured him). What McCarthy was trying to do – all he was ever trying to do – was weed out communist infiltration…and to do that, he had to find out not just who the communists were, but who hired and promoted them.

And that is what infuriated the Deep State, even if particular members of it weren’t traitors…they hated this peasant outsider looking into Deep State business. How dare he! The rat bastard! Doesn’t he know that the man he wants to expose went to Harvard with me?!?! Also good to remember that the charge against McCarthy was ordered by Eisenhower and carried to completion by GOP blue bloods (with the 1950’s version of MAGA sticking with Joe…and JFK not showing up to vote for censure).

We see it all now – and realize that these same people hated Nixon, Reagan and now Trump for the same reason…they are all of them not properly Establishment. Among the four of them not an Ivy League degree! Joe washed dishes! Nixon drove a truck! Reagan was an actor! And, good Lord, the Trump’s just don’t fit in at Martha’s Vineyard! It was in this snobbery that the Establishment made its choice – it would rather preside over the communist infiltration of America than align with “those people” to keep the communists out.

And now the establishment is functionally communist. They had to become communist – that’s the way it works. If you don’t fight something, you become part of it. No other way it will go. It goes from politely smiling as your cousin flirts with commies to paying for your daughter to be a full time communist activist in Manhattan. And, of course, to do this, you have to lie. You have to pretend right up to the last moment that you aren’t allied with communists. That those who say you are a traitor are racist, sexist, homophobic Nazi Fascist pig liars. You have to lie and lie and lie and make sure nobody ever pays a price for lying because if anyone ever does, you’re first into the tumbril.

And so the lies spread from family to family, from institution to institution, from generation to generation until you get the governor of New York going on stage with the commies to proclaim that the future of America is communist.

As C S Lewis pointed out ages ago, when you’ve got something that goes wrong, it is no good trying to correct it in mid-stream. You have to go back to the error – no matter how far back that was – and start over again from there. If you don’t, then the original error will persist and turn all your reform efforts to ashes. We have to go back and correct the error – the censure of Joe McCarthy, in a certain sense. That is, we have to go back to where the liars first really got away with lying. The point where they bald-faced lied to the American people about a crucial matter and got rewarded for their lies. We must, as I have said, start to punish lies. Severely. Even with violence if it proves necessary…whatever it ultimately takes to make liars simply too afraid to lie.

It is either that, or our nation dies. Our civilization dies. Our world dies. Because the truth cannot coexist with lies…we must become all truth, or all lies.

Free Speech and Justice

Mark Noonan22 Comments

It is still all about the lies – Kirk was killed by a man who submerged himself in Leftwing lies to the point where he perceived Kirk as a personal enemy who must be eliminated if the killer was to survive. Now, to be sure, this is a weak-minded person – but as I’ve noted again and again, if you spread hate filled lies in a population of 340 million, even if just one tenth of one percent fully believe the lies, that means 340,000 people primed to kill.

That’s a lot.

And, of course, it is probably closer to twenty five percent of our population fully infected with the lies that killed Kirk. So, 85 million or so people. This is shown by an ABC reporter who looked at the killer’s text messages to his partner and found them “touching”. Everyone is torching that reporter but keep in mind: to that reporter – as to tens of millions of others – the killer is the hero. I guarantee there are people right now writing scripts portraying the killer as the hero. You can almost see the Law and Order episode…a “Right Wing Fanatic” gets killed and after our dogged (Liberal) law enforcement officers investigate, they find it was the “Fanatic” who caused it to happen.

It is unshakable Liberal dogma that Kirk was an absolutely horrible person. They’ll literally quote you things Kirk never said (or that are so twisted out of context they work out to bald faced lies) as proof that he was lousy…with the subtext being that he got what was coming. These fools are incapable of turning that about – of thinking of a time when their opponents decide to dish it right back to them. They can’t imagine that because they are stunningly ignorant – they just assume they’ll never be called upon to pay the price they demand we pay. They don’t know how the world works – do not know how people behave when they feel their lives are at stake. They expect to get Kirk killed, get in our faces, yell at us…throw things at us…and we’ll never do anything. They’re wrong. There is a limit – and we’re just about there. The next phase is people on the Right shooting back.

That happens if Team Trump is not able to get a handle on the people responsible for the lies and make them pay for it. And that brings me to this: Bondi is getting a lot of flack for condemning hate speech. There is no such thing as hate speech – we all know that. And, so, her comment about it ignited an immediate fire storm on the Right. But you do need to pay close attention to what she said:

Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), it is a federal crime to transmit “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.” Likewise, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and 18 U.S.C. § 115 make it a felony to threaten public officials, members of Congress, or their families.

You cannot call for someone’s murder. You cannot swat a Member of Congress. You cannot dox a conservative family and think it will be brushed off as “free speech.” These acts are punishable crimes, and every single threat will be met with the full force of the law.

Free speech protects ideas, debate, even dissent but it does NOT and will NEVER protect violence.

She is not saying that hate speech is a crime – but she is saying that hate speech will be a crime if it goes beyond a certain point. This is as close as she feels she can get to my position – that is, lies aren’t 1A protected. Honestly, I don’t know if that’s where she’s heading but if I were AG, this is where I’d start on my path to hauling the Left into court for their lies, as such. Can’t do that – just too much opposition would develop against it, including from the Right. Heck, we’ve seen just the use of “hate speech” set off a ruckus. But it is the way to go about it – it is kicking the Left in the shins. Their terminology is being turned against them…and she’s not promising to drop the hammer on “I hate Trump”…but she will drop it on “I think Trump should be taken out”. And so on through all the rest of the incitements the Left puts out and then pretends weren’t incitements when someone like Kirk gets killed.

Our test case is now the people who surrounded Kirk’s killer – the friends who talked him into believing the way he did. If any of them in any way encouraged violence, we might be able to indict them…and indict them in Utah – a Trump +31 State. We don’t know how this will shake out as its still very early, but the text messages released indicate that the killer had been brooding of this for some time and felt he had the opportunity to kill Kirk and get away with it. We’ll see what Bondi and Patel turn up in the investigation. We’ll see, that is, if we can make the Left pay for Kirk’s murder – because that is the only way to do this. If the killer is executed for the crime and it goes no further, then justice has not been done…it would almost work out to a miscarriage of justice. It would be hanging the concentration camp guard while letting the camp commandant off. The killer was wound up like a clock and set off on a schedule…and the greater guilt resides in those who lied this event into existence.

And our safety can only be secured if we punish the liars. You can see it: they feel no remorse and are not at all toning it down. They are already getting fired up and ready to brazenly lie some more. Why shouldn’t they? They got an effective opponent killed – they certainly hope to kill more and ever higher up the line. And they sit supremely confident that nothing will happen to them. “I didn’t kill anyone!”…no, but you said over and over again that Kirk wanted all trans people killed…that he was a Nazi…a fascist…an existential threat. But if you lie and lie and lie and those lies motivate a killer, then you are morally responsible for the death…now we’re going to find out if we can make such people criminally liable.

Destroy the Left

Mark Noonan25 Comments

It has been noted that if they won’t change because of this, then they’re not going to change. So, as the Left is not changing after they orchestrated the murder of Charlie Kirk, we just have to go on the assumption they never will change. This means we have to think a bit differently about what outcome we want – that is, what is our definition of victory?

It isn’t good enough to simply beat them even for a whole series of elections – we must get to a point where it is impossible for the modern American Left to ever be in control of the destiny of our nation. This is so because they have now absolutely proved that their goal is our death or enslavement. They will not quit, will not change and the only thing preventing them from putting us against the wall at any given moment is the lack of power. Now we on the Right much better understand why Pinochet and Franco did what they did – not out of bloodthirsty cruelty, but because they knew that if they didn’t, then everyone they knew and loved would be killed. Keep in mind that both men only acted when they felt they absolutely had to and both almost acted too late…just a little more time for their opponents in either case and they would have lost forever (it should be noted that Pinochet, like us, was patient – he obeyed Allende’s orders to suppress anti-Allende protests and only reluctantly joined the coup when he perceived that Allende was leading Chile to destruction).

The good news is that the murder of Kirk has opened a lot of eyes – even among middle of the road, Trump-skeptical people. In spite of relentless lies about Kirk since he was killed (in addition to all the lies prior), people do perceive that all he was doing was talking. He wasn’t inciting violence. He wasn’t calling for tyranny. Just talking…and he was killed…and then large numbers of Left people shouted for joy. The man was killed in front of his wife and children…a very terrorist, public execution. A warning to everyone else: don’t talk! And this perception is moment by moment alienating more people from the Left. Whether or not they’ll now all turn out for us is unknown…but it is unlikely they’ll turn out for Democrats. At least, not until Democrats clearly and distinctly condemn what happened without any “but” in there.

The bad news is that no matter what happens, tens of millions of people are totally committed to the Left – their place in the world (at least in their minds) is dependent upon toeing the Party Line. If even they want to change, they feel they can’t – too much to be lost. Position. Wealth. Friends. All gone if they stray even an inch from orthodoxy. In addition, the major media outlets – in spite of some tremors of change recently – have doubled down on lying for the Democrats. Going along with their talking point which is overtly that Trump causes the violence and covertly that Kirk had it coming. That sort of social reach means that if the stars align, an unrepentant Democrat party gets into power…and we already saw Biden’s people making major efforts to criminalize dissent…this will go on overdrive if any Democrat obtains Executive power in the USA.

This is why Trump must really go after these people – and there are signals that he’s going to. The shutdown of USAID and other government programs has massively hurt the Left. But there are still plenty of money-bags out there. Think about how the Army of Bots was out on social media within minutes of the assassin’s arrest telling everyone that the killer was MAGA…it is now dogma on the Left that he was MAGA and no amount of facts will change that. They believe it. The Party has told them to ignore the evidence of their eyes and they are doing so…but the really disturbing thing here is that army of bots which put out the Party Line: someone paid for it. And as the Party Line is that the killer is MAGA based on his background, this means the person or persons who paid the bots knew who the killer was before the arrest. What I’m saying here is that the Leftist Money is paying for a certain outcome…relentlessly putting out the word about MAGA’s evil and Trump’s a Nazi and going on the dark web to tell the mentally unstable that they must kill. And then setting up the talking points in advance as they perceive which fools are most likely to carry out the deed. They’ve tried two times against Trump (that we know of). They’ve now go Kirk. They will try to get others like him and rely on it that Vance, Rubio and Hegseth are in the crosshairs.

It is a huge churn of Leftwing hate mongering going out there…backed by the major media outlets and most popular culture. And it is all paid for – it is all deliberate. And it is also getting very desperate…they know that if youth continues to shift Right then the GOP will win many elections in a row…and it’ll be Trump followed by Trumpsters. Meaning that twenty years from now, America will be a place where the Left can’t win…and those on the gravy train because the Left is dominant will be out in the cold.

But only if we win – and winning now requires us to go after the true malevolent actors…not the fool who shot Kirk, but the wicked people who lit the match. Who has the greater guilt: the man who believed the lies, or the liar? I say the liar. Kirk was killed by a man who apparently submerged himself in a Leftwing swamp on line…but that swamp was built on purpose, and just for this purpose. If we don’t go after the makers of the swamp, then that swamp will just keep sending out killers.

But also keep in mind that Trump is our last chance to save America as we understand her. That is, a federal Republic under our Constitution. If the Left had any sense at all, they’d see it, call a halt and shift a bit to the Right…but they won’t because at this point they can’t…too far down the hate-filled Leftwing rabbit hole. If Trump is not able to uproot the Left’s Ecosystem of Hate, then this doesn’t mean we roll over and die…it just means we go a different route. We go Pinochet or Franco. That is, we refuse to die. We refuse to let our love of the Constitution lead us step by step into Gulag. The only way the Left wins now is with violence…if they can kill enough Trumpsters, they believe they will win. And if we can’t uproot them, they will keep killing…and it’ll come to the point where it is time for us to shoot back. The Left better hope that Trump destroys them…because that will be a lot nicer for them than the alternative.

Our House is Divided

Mark Noonan35 Comments

I didn’t know much about Charlie Kirk. To me he was just one in a series of names pushing the cause forward…but I don’t watch much TV nor, since Rush died, listen to much political radio. Podcasts and such are almost alien to me. But all day I’ve been finding large numbers of people do listen to him…like everyone knows exactly who he is and enjoyed his show. The reason? “He just talks with people and its cool”. My wife is quite devastated over his murder – and she’s the archetype of moderate, Trump-skeptical, decent human being who just wants us all to get along.

This is an exceptionally radicalizing moment in America. The murder of Iryna Zarutska is pretty watershed but this one seems to be striking home a lot harder. Kirk just talked. That’s it. Sure, the Left says he’s a hate-filled neo-Nazi existential threat…but that’s a lie.

It is also why Kirk is now dead. As I’ve said again and again – hardly anyone is swayed by lunatic rhetoric. But some are. In a nation of 340 million people, if even one tenth of one percent are convinced of your insanity that works out to 340,000 lunatics primed to kill. They’ve been told that we on the MAGA side are pure evil and an existential threat. And just what do you do to an existential threat? You kill it as soon as you can. And we likely have millions out there willing to kill…believing they must kill.

We’ve been at this crossroads before:

This is a contemporary depiction of the caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor by Representative Preston Brooks. It was, of itself, a terrible deed but what outraged the North was the overwhelming approval of the beating in the South. Sumner, of course, was a radical abolitionist and so was very much hated in the South…but people, until the beating, figured that most Southerners were reasonable people who some sort of agreement could be made. The applause for Brooks’ attack was a wake up call in the North…a time to realize that the leaders of the Slave Power weren’t interested in compromise but in domination. From that point on, Northern attitudes hardened and there became no chance of another 1820 or 1850 Compromise because the North felt that any such thing was surrender to threat. The murder of Charlie Kirk is our wake up call – they want us dead.

We are, sadly, on the brink of another Civil War. One which won’t have clear battle lines as we started with in 1861…it will be political violence all over the country and all at once. We can, just perhaps, stop it from happening – but as of today, I have little confidence we’re getting out of this without bloodshed. The 340,000 insane Leftist killers are out there…already primed and ready to go…and doubtless being backed by foreign actors who would love for America to fall into chaos. I have no doubt at all that Trump, Vance, Rubio and Hegseth are going to be continually targeted…and if they can’t get close to them, the Left will go after anyone on the Right whom they can reach. And, eventually, our side will shoot back…and shoot back a lot more than they were ever shot at.

I hope we can still get out of it – that Trump and his team can do it. I pray for our poor country.

The Coming Dark Age

Mark Noonan10 Comments

A few years back I mentioned that the Germans had recently finished a new destroyer for their Navy but when they launched it – put it in the water for the first time – they found it has a permanent list. That is, for you land lubbers, she was tilted to one side…I can’t recall exactly but it was significant: like eight degrees or some such. This was the Germans. The people who are superb engineers and workers. Except, maybe they’re not any longer?

That incident crystalized out for me that we do have a serious problem in the world – people just aren’t as good at things as they used to be. It isn’t just the Krauts! Remember, we tried to send up a new space ship to the space station and we couldn’t bring the crew back down because of a design flaw in the capsule. We were essentially doing no more on that mission than we did with Gemini in the 1960’s and it was a total fail. That bridge in Baltimore hasn’t even started the rebuild after it was crashed into by a merchant ship…which apparently didn’t have enough seamanship aboard to avoid a big ol’ bridge right in front of them. See where I’m going here?

A few days ago I was among a large group of mostly young people (I was the oldest there by far) and they were engaged in a serious talk about zodiac signs and how important they are. A few days after that, same thing with people at the grocery store…just happily chatting away about utter drivel as if it is important.

And then this morning at Mass I saw a woman wearing a mask.

My friends, we are in a very bad place right now.

Education is becoming non-existent. Superstition is becoming rampant. Basic skills are declining. This has happened before! Constantine won supremacy in the Roman Empire at the Battle of the Milvan Bridge in 312 and the Roman Senate commission the Arch of Constantine in Rome to celebrate this fact. It wasn’t at all the first triumphal arch erected…others had been built for Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius but here’s the thing: the decorative art on Constantine’s arch was taken from the Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius’ arches. In other words, by 312, the Romans had already lost the artistic skills they had a bit more than a century earlier. I mean, take a look:

Here’s a contemporary statue of Caesar:

And here is one of Constantine:

Big difference in artistic ability here, guys. And it wasn’t restored for a long time. The Byzantines kept a lot of ancient Greek statues on display in Constantinople as a sort of freak show…they just didn’t know how the ancients had been able to create such realistic depictions of the human body. What I’m saying here is that we’re on the precipice of a new Dark Age. That we are very rapidly losing the ability to make things and right behind that loss is the destruction of the capacity to maintain. The Aqua Alexandrina was built early in the third century for Rome and ceased operations in the eighth century…not because Rome no longer needed water but because nobody in Rome knew how to repair it.

It can’t be emphasized enough how fragile civilization is. If it isn’t passed down it simply disappears and then had to be relearned all over again. If enough of it remains to provide instructions to later generations! The future might be guys consulting the stars as they head out to the well to get water because nobody knows how to fix a water pipe.

This can still be fixed! The Romans weren’t able to fix it because their enormous military and stifling bureaucracy preempted so much funding that there was nothing left for the transmission of basic knowledge. We’re not in that bad shape – but we’re going to have to get quite stern. We must start insisting that people learn…and insisting that they work. Some people simply need to know how to build a bridge, forge steel, run electric wiring…and in the end, nothing is more important than this. No great dreams you have will happen if you can’t use the roads, don’t have fresh water and can’t turn on the lights. In the end, if people won’t volunteer to do these things, they’ll have to be compelled. We’d be fools to let the modern world die because we felt it would be mean to make people work.