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Reality Emerges

Mark Noonan21 Comments

Watched Trump and King Chuck give their speeches before the State dinner – Trump was in good form, clearly enjoying himself. And Charles also seemed pleased as punch. This ultimately stems from both men simply knowing who they are and further knowing that nobody can take it away from them. I have many disagreements with Charles and I’m horrified at his going along with Islamists in the UK…but he has that self-confidence which is supposed to be the supreme mark of the gentleman. Trump has it, too. It is a crucial aspect of leadership – knowing who you are. Not having to pretend and not wanting to, either. People like Biden and Clinton have faked it their whole lives. Obama, too. They have to say the enormous lies because it is their way of establishing dominance…to lie to our faces and defy us to do anything about it. Charles may be wrong about things – heck, Trump may be wrong about things – but they’re going to say what they want to say and not try to bamboozle us. It seems clear that Charles and Trump get along – because they recognize each other.

And that is the way it is supposed to be. We will not all agree. Not ever. At least, not this side of every knee bending and every tongue confessing that Jesus is Lord. But we’re supposed to meet each other on the level. Even war with each other on the level. That is what is really missing in modern society – it is so stuffed with cowards and cheats who lie to cover up that the whole world stinks. Everything is a crisis. Nothing gets solved because the liars and cheats won’t let us – fearful that if we fix things, we’ll start to ask why the liars and cheats are living so well.

But that is changing. Sure, Comey’s indictment might not lead to any jail time – but it is an indictment. It is a statement that a lying weasel is just that – and should be treated as such. We’re going after the fraudsters. We’re exposing the liars. We’re bringing reality back…and in reality, those who are truly worthwhile start to emerge, as from the shadows..and at times in quite terrifying forms because we’re simply so unused to it.

You think about the great leaders of the past – Caesar, Napoleon, Lincoln and Bismarck…towering figures who dwarfed all those around them. But, also, not terrifying because they rose out of reality. Napoleon beat Francis II time and time again…but never once did Francis lose his nerve or throw in the towel…he bided his time, built his army, forged his alliances and went to work with a will when the time came. Because Francis was as real as Napoleon. Grant as real as Lincoln. But who is as real as Trump? Vance. Hegseth. Rubio. But keep in mind these men, too, were initially dismayed by Trump…they, too, had bought the fraud that to be great was to be to at least some degree a liar and a cheat…all the liars and cheats said so. But under Trump’s auspices, these men – and many others – have come to firm ground, and they are becoming real, too. All of us who haven’t gone insane with TDS are simply better at it than we were pre-Trump. Less afraid to speak. More willing to risk. Quickly penetrating the fraud. We might disagree with each other. We might be mistaken. Even gravely so. But we’re all real – we’re all thinking and doing and trying to get to the truth as best we can.

I, for one, am glad go be in the real world.

Crucial Times are Coming

Mark Noonan31 Comments

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

Mark Noonan44 Comments

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.

A War Won

Mark Noonan35 Comments

There is a great deal of dishonest stupidity out there. When Trump announced the cease fire a host of voices rose up saying that Iran had won – they controlled the Straight, had Trump over a barrel and were now in a stronger position than ever. There was just one fly in the ointment here: it was nonsense.

The first requirement to control a waterway is to have a navy. Even shore positions aren’t enough. You have to be able to get out on the water and stop the traffic. Iran has no navy. They didn’t have much of one before the fight and after it they had nothing. We had spent weeks systematically destroying anything like a sea going ship. Meanwhile, we have the most powerful navy in the world and a significant portion of it is parked right off Iran. If anyone is going to control the straight, it is us. And easily.

But that didn’t stop the stupid liars – when the Mullah regime absurdly claimed it has ordered a US warship to depart and it had complied, the stupid liars were everywhere going, “see? We told you!”. Except they didn’t order anyone to do anything. They can’t. They lack the capability to seriously damage a US warship…and any attempt to do damage would mean instant death to anyone who tried. That is, opening fire on us just tells us where you are and so allows us to kill you. Fanaticism can get you a long ways but it takes fanaticism of a rare level to press a button which will result in your instant death without any real chance you’ll kill the enemy.

Aside from slick enemy propaganda, I think part of our problem here is that it has been so long since real American victory that nobody can recognize it. Take a look at this:

Thus the American people heard of Dewey’s victory in Manila Bay. If this happened in 2026, we’d have headlines saying Dewey was now doomed because the Spanish army in the Philippines was 30,000 strong and could mine the harbor yadda yadda yadda. But those who bought that paper knew we had won – we controlled the sea. Whatever the Spanish army wanted to do, it couldn’t stop us from coming ashore where and when we wanted. That was the reason Dewey was ordered to attack the Spanish fleet at Manila the instant war was declared…because that was game over for the Philippines. The only thing the Spanish could after their fleet was destroyed was kill people…but, being civilized, they didn’t do that. The Spanish authorities in the Philippines capitulated quickly. The Mullahs are barbarians and so are quite willing to keep killing even when its pointless…but that doesn’t mean we haven’t won.

The bottom line is that the Mullah regime lacks the military capacity to alter the course of events. Even if we decided to, say, take Bandar Abbas to seal our control of the Straight, there would be nothing the Mullahs can do. They can’t stop us from coming ashore and they could not eject us once we are ashore. The Iranian army is some 300,000 strong but it is already heavily degraded (lost in the shuffle was a lot of American and Israeli targeting of Iranian military vehicles and ammunition stores) and if it came out en masse and surged against American positions at Bandar Abbas it would simply be massacred. The amount of intensely coordinated firepower we’d be able to inflict on them would simply kill them all before they could even come to grips with us. The larger risk to Americans would be in the aftermath trying to clear away the bodies before they became a health hazard.

Now, it is clear that Trump prefers not to commit US ground forces in Iran. I don’t want us to, either. And I do want this thing wrapped up quickly. Trump wants a deal – but if the Mullah regime is really that stupidly insane they won’t take a deal, then they’ll be swiftly destroyed. This is not going to be winning the war – that is already won. This will just be getting rid of idiots who won’t admit they’re beaten. Had to do it with Japan and Germany in WWII. They were decisively defeated by late 1943. Any sane person would have called it quits by then and taken the best deal possible from the victors…but they kept at it until we were forced to reduce both nations to junk heaps. So be it. Their choice. What they wanted. If the Mullahs want that, they’ll be obliged.

All Patriots are Happy

Mark Noonan22 Comments

I know it is still Easter but this is getting to me a bit and I want to write about it now.

Something I posted on X earlier:

Reminder: Bill Clinton left our boys hanging in Somalia.

Obama left them hanging in Libya.

Biden left them hanging in Afghanistan.

There isn’t a foul enough word to describe a CinC who does that.

As of this moment its got 1,000 reposts, 5,000 likes and nearly 31,000 views. That’s in under 5 hours and, keep in mind, I’m a minor account on X. Not an “influencer”! So, I struck a real nerve here. There are Lefties and Never Trumpers commenting – all coming in with stupid lies. So, a second nerve was struck.

The first nerve is that Americans – actual, patriotic Americans – are tired or losing. We’re tired of our boys and girls going into harms way and being hung out to dry…left to die, allowed to be killed…and if they do manage to win, being hauled up on war crimes charges. The worst of the three events I posted was the infamous “black hawk down” incident. Keep in mind that was a carefully planned event by our enemies. They were looking for exactly that – shoot down one of our ‘copters so they could jump up and down on it and drag American bodies through the streets. In the savage mind, that is victory. Our response should have been to inflict punitive damage on the city and people of Mogadishu. Let them know that while they might at times get a lucky shot in, the response by us is so horrific that it isn’t worth it.

Instead, Clinton pulled the plug – not just giving the enemy a propaganda victory, but an actual victory. That is what set the stage for all which followed. Reminder: we had just won the Gulf War in 100 hours of ground combat. The Elder Bush, IMO, wrecked that a bit by not compelling the Iraqi army to unconditionally surrender but there was still no doubt in the global mind: going toe to toe with us just kept graves registration busy. Mogadishu changed all that – it inserted into the global mind the concept that if you kill some Americans and make it difficult, we’ll cut and run. The whole plan that Saddam had in 2003 was to have his forces fade into the crowd and then create a score of Mogadishus until we quit. The Younger Bush was a bit more stern in that he wouldn’t just bug out like Clinton did, but he also went along with the “don’t hit them too hard” concept which had been prevalent in American military thought since Korea. This lead to the morass, the collapse of Bush’s support…and the ushering in of Obama who not only showed he’d cut and run, but he’d actually bend over backwards to help our enemies grow stronger.

Americans aren’t afraid of casualties – we’re just tired of forever wars ending in defeat. We will pay any price and bear any burden…but only if it gets us somewhere. Keep in mind that we won’t always be able to do what we did yesterday – devote massive resources to get one man out. Sometimes the exigencies of combat will prevent us from doing that. But by doing it – and whacking the heck out of the Mullah’s goons in the process – Trump let the world know that you won’t Mogadishu us into running away. That when Trump says we’re fighting to win, then we are, indeed, fighting to win.

And that is the other nerve – the Left and Never Trump nerve. Make no mistake about it, if they believe in any sort of a god, they were praying all day for our man to be killed or – even better – captured. They were hoping for an American defeat. For our humiliation. For one our sons to be paraded around like a trophy – alive or dead. And if alive, tortured until he agreed to make an anti-Trump statement on TV. Don’t get into an idea that they wanted a good outcome for America…they wanted a bad outcome for America. And, sure, a lot of it is animus towards Trump but keep in mind why they really hate him: he’s a brash, American patriot. That is the key to understand TDS…it is actually ADS. America Derangement Syndrome. A lot of people have for so long supped on garbage lies that they really think that America should be defeated. Should be humiliated. They hate my comment because the stark contrast between Trump’s muscular Americanism and the cowardly retreats of their heroes infuriates them. It punctures their bubble. It lets them know that we know they’re the bad guys in all this…and that is something they can’t stand; they want to be the good guys…but they can’t be. Not without repentance and admission of error…something no Lefty or Never Trump will ever do (except in rare instances).

The divide is really between Patriot and Traitor. Not that Trump symbolizes America – you can hate Trump and remain a Patriot – but that what Trump is doing, rebuilding American greatness, is something all Patriots support, even if they take exception to the methods Trump uses. The Left and Never Trump don’t just hate Trump, they hate America. They want an America hollowed out, drug addicted, flooded with illegals and at the beck and call of a Global Elite which is increasingly enthralled to Chinese Communists and Islamists. They want us depressed, impoverished, weak and frightened. They believe the world is a better place when America is degraded…and they hate Trump for trying to restore American greatness because they hate American greatness.

We are winning a decisive victory over the Mullahs – their regime will soon be no more. The Gulf States, faced with Mullah insanity, are finally lining up with us. For all the money we give to Israel, it is a pittance compared to what we give to NATO, and in Israel we have brothers and sisters in arms who are every bit as good as America’s warriors. The world is learning the lesson forgotten…the lesson of World War Two: we’re not just a Great Power, we’re the only true Great Power. As long as we are patriotic and lead by Patriots, we can’t be defeated. Ever. By Anyone. We will leave the Traitors on the ash heap of history. We will Make America Great Again…and the world peaceful and prosperous as we do it.

America Comes Back

Mark Noonan24 Comments

We knew, of course. We’ve watched since 1969 how the Democrat party – and the overall American Left – have wanted America defeated. As soon as Vietnam became “Nixon’s war”, American defeat was the Democrat goal. But for the longest while they managed to hide it, at least a bit. They’d make statements about love for the troops or the desire for peace or some such…but what they’ve wanted is our defeat. The Democrat Party wants America to lose.

Some of this stems from the infiltration of the Democrat party by out and out communist traitors: that is, people ideologically committed to our destruction. But most of it stems from a sick calculus on the part of the Democrats – if America loses, Democrats can justify ever more spending, ever more control and, starting with the “boat people” ever more mass migration (though, of course, they picked wrong on the “boat people”…they are ardently anti-Communist to this day, as are the Cubans…and this is why you never hear of Democrat groups trying to bring more Vietnamese and Cubans in). There is more grift to be made, that is. In other words, the Democrats can steal more from a dying, defeated America than they can from a vibrant, victorious USA.

But now the mask is fully off – since the first moment of our righteous war against the wicked regime in Tehran, Democrats have been issuing flat out Mullah propaganda. Whatever absurd lies are issued, Democrats pick up on them. It is abundantly clear that Democrats are hoping for a high US (and Israeli) casualty rate as precursor to ignominious American defeat with a revived and triumphant Mullah regime. Keep in mind that they’re doing this when by every metric the American-Israeli alliance is winning an astonishing victory. That even as the Mullah regime is pushed to the edge, Democrats are still trying to pull their fat out of the fire.

Why?

Because the Global Establishment is a house of cards – with the central support for it being a weak, blind and blundering USA. That is, the whole system is based upon the requirement that the United States not be the United States.

We won World War Two. Not the Russians. Not the British. Not the United Nations. We did. Without American participation, there was no victory coming over the Axis. Without American support, there was no means whereby the UK and the USSR could remain in the war. We not only equipped twelve million of our own, but millions more around the world. This isn’t to denigrate what the UK, Russia and others did – within their very limited means, they did what they could. We did everything. All at once. With no detriment to any aspect of our national power. The Global Establishment (which, of course, including many Americans) looked at this on September 2nd, 1945 and shuddered in fear…what if these American hicks fully understand how powerful they are? What’s to stop them?

To which the hicks would have answered – if they had ever been asked – nothing, but we aren’t going to do anything like that because we’re Americans. The good guys. As long as everyone lives and works in peace, we don’t otherwise care what they’re up to.But the Establishment couldn’t see that…all they could see was Americans from obscure places like Kansas and Alabama ruling over the ruins of their world. They became determined to tie down this leviathan…to drug it. Put it to sleep. Make it doubt itself. Weaken it in every manner possible. Such an America provided two things for the Establishment – cannon fodder to keep the Establishment in power and a ready source of money to steal. And they were determined to keep on going to the end of time…just keep America down.

And my goodness they almost succeeded! At least forty percent of Americans are in favor of American defeat right now (though I’ll be bound that of Americans descended from those alive in 1945, the number is down around twenty percent – the newcomers and their immediate progeny weren’t imported just for the heck of it, after all). We are drugged – literally and figuratively. We are – or at least, were – very much asleep.

But all through this time – right from the start in the late 1940s – there was a restive element in the United States. The people again and again showed they didn’t like what the Establishment was doing. They didn’t want us in the UN. Didn’t really want is in NATO, either. Didn’t want a gigantic military-industrial complex (we hadn’t one in 1941 and it proved entirely unnecessary that we should). Didn’t want mass immigration. Didn’t want welfare bums (differentiated from helping people out through a temporary rough patch). We wanted criminals smacked down. Didn’t want endless wars with no victory. But no matter how we registered our displeasure at the polls – no matter how many times we revolved the doors between Democrats and Republicans – nothing changed…except for the worse as the Establishment just gave us ever more of what we never wanted.

Until Trump.

Is he a genius? We can’t judge: too close to the event. Is he some sort of force of nature? Also can’t know as its too soon. But he’s clearly seen something…he has a vision. He might put it in almost slapstick terms, but underlying it all is the America which launched dozens of fleet carriers over a four year period. That is, an America which only had to envision the goal and then set to work. Roosevelt called for 50,000 planes and everyone in the Establishment scoffed at him…but over the following four years the USA built more airframes than the rest of the world, combined. Something like nearly 500,000 of them. Americans did it. Because they could. Because Americans can do anything. Moonshot in eight years from the word “go”. If they are allowed to be Americans. If they aren’t…well, then, maybe we’ll get there in ten or twelve years…but it’ll be a diverse crew! Trump wants that America back…the America that even in the depths of the Great Depression was still outproducing everyone, was richer than everyone and was still building such impressive monuments as Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Empire State Building. All of which, I’ll bet, cost less than even one Learing Center.

This is why the Establishments wants him dead. Vance, too. Why it has fever dreams of sending MAGA to reeducation camps: if Trump wins – if America wins – then it is all over for them. All Americans will want to do is win some more…and keep on winning and winning and winning. Getting richer and more powerful and more advanced and just enjoying the heck out of being free and happy. While the rest of the world stews in mediocrity…maybe pointing to an ancient monument…which I’ll bet if we can work out the genetics were built by people who’s descendants emigrated to America as soon as they could.

And, hey, don’t get me wrong – as people, person for person, we’re no better than anyone else. But as Americans, we simply are better than everyone. It stems from our attitude towards life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is wound around with our Declaration of Independence…it is sustained by our Constitution, the only one in the world which actually seeks to secure the rights of individuals (even great nations like Israel and Argentina still have those aspects in their laws which allow the government to suspend any and all rights if the government thinks it should – only our laws have the phrase “Congress shall make no law”). Until the rest of the world becomes like us, they can’t compete – and if they become like us then, well, they’re like us and so no problem. Can’t help it if it was our Founders who found the magic talisman or were specially blessed by God with wisdom…I can only see things as they are and realize that my Americans went from subsistence farming to global dominance in well under a century. That’s kinda amazing. That’s proof of our supremacy. And that supremacy is now coming back.

Iran War

Mark Noonan36 Comments

It is getting a little funny, looking at the opposition: they are just shotgunning out every possible justification for opposition.

The 1953 coup!

US keeps bases in the Middle East!

Trump promised America First!

Israel is the bad guys!

Jews control Trump!

We’re running out of missiles!

Iran wasn’t a threat!

We killed a Mullah during Ramadan!

Blah, blah, blah.

The first thing for any American to consider in relation to Iran is this: what is peace?

Nobody in the opposition will answer it – nor even consider it. Because to consider it is to understand, and the opposition doesn’t want understanding…they just want it stopped. But the bottom line is that the Mullah regime is dedicated to destroying the United States. That they can’t and never will have the power to do so is neither here nor there – it is what they want and what they predicate their foreign and military policy on: destroying us. As long as this is Mullah policy, they will never cease to attack us. Sure, almost all attacks are by proxy, but that doesn’t change the reality. So, once again, what is peace? Where’s the compromise point? What is half a loaf for both sides?

There isn’t one. Unless the Mullahs surrender their dream, there can’t be peace. Trump tried to convince them to do so short of war – and with the example of Maduro as a test of both American capability and Trump’s will. The Mullahs ignored it. And probably with some justification – ever since 1979 in every confrontation it has been the USA which climbed down. Republican or Democrat, Left and Right, everyone was always on the side of an accommodation with the Mullahs. They probably expected that whatever Trump decided to do, it wouldn’t cut at the vitals of the Mullah regime. They bet wrong. And now there will be a change in Iran – we can’t say with certainty exactly what will emerge post-war…but it won’t be what came before. Some sort of compromise will be made by whomever emerges as Iranian leadership. Some modification away from “Death to America.”

Personally, I’m confident that Trump has this well in hand. For instance, in the FY 2026 budget was a big increase in missile procurement…after years of this being neglected, we suddenly did a big bump. Now we know why: Trump wanted the means in hand not just to attack, but to sustain an attack over the long term. This shows that Trump is thinking strategically (fake strategists concentrate on military moves…real strategists concentrate on logistics). Given this, I’d be shocked to find that we haven’t already assessed the situation on the ground in Iran…doubly shocked if we didn’t have special forces on the ground there by now trying to find if there are people willing to storm Iranian government offices. In the end, I expect a change in Iran…even if an alleged Mullah is in charge of the transition, it will be a Mullah who got the message and knows its time to wind up the Islamic Republic – sort of like in Venezuela where the regime is still technically in power, but the moves are already being made to allow for a successor government.

It is like waking up from a dream. Or a nightmare. That is, a world where we were a helpless, blundering giant – able to kill but never able to obtain our strategic ends. A world where a corrupt Ruling Class grew fat off of war while the world fell further into barbarism day by day. In a burst of military action, that whole thing came tumbling down. This could have been done at any time – a real, genuine aerial campaign to destroy the regime’s ability to wage war. We’ve had this ability all along. We built it in World War Two…and for all the bombs we’ve dropped since then, we’ve never done what we’re capable of (the closest was in the 1991 Gulf War…but even there we didn’t hit at the regime’s ability to control Iraq; it was still a half measure). The Mullahs never had a chance – our capability is so far beyond what they could comprehend, let alone build. China and Russia are now probably in a funk…realizing that any strategic assets they have only exist as long as we want them to…and that no matter how much they hurry up trying to match us, but the time they can stop us we’ve moved on to the next generation of capability (word is that the Israelis – and, therefor, us – had hacked into Tehran’s traffic cameras…we essentially knew where everyone was in real time…everything is tracked by camera in China…they now know they’ve merely built a system to let us know where everything is).

God bless our troops. God bless President Trump. May our victory be swift and peace restored.

Hitting Iran and Restoring the Real World

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Why? Well, here’s a couple reasons why:

There’s a lot more, of course. The mullah regime has been the focal point of terrorism in the world since 1979. They fund it. Arm it. Train it. Facilitate it across borders. They are a pestilence which needed to be squashed out the gate. But, we didn’t. Jimmy Carter was given full justification for war against Iran on November 4th, 1979 and he chose to negotiate with them…to play a game they set up where they were the aggrieved party and the USA had to offer reparations for its sins. And then President after President let it slide…mounting numbers of death, more and more terror and oppression and yet it was hands-off on Iran.

I don’t know why. Sure, there were bribes. Clearly to this day – perhaps even to this minute if we haven’t blocked all the Iranian bank accounts – people have been getting paid to toe Iran’s line. Also, there was idiocy. People built up a bizarre fantasy world where the West in general and the USA in particular was the cause of all the ills in the world and so any entity standing against the West and the USA were the good guys. I can’t adequately describe the level of insanity one has to have for this to seem like a rational idea…we’re dealing with savages who hang people for being gay and stone women to death for showing a little ankle. People who do this are obviously evil…but wash it through an Ivy League degree and all of a sudden a 73 year old coup in Iran excuses it all. But even with all that, I can’t see why we didn’t just take them out.

We are overwhelmingly more powerful. Not just a bit stronger – overwhelming. We have absolute aerial superiority. Complete command of the seas. Vastly more money, manpower and manufacturing capacity. It doesn’t matter how brave and dedicated the regime’s servants are – power is power and we have vastly more than Iran. There is no negotiation with this disparity of power – it is we say what we want, perhaps give them a bit of what they want (if it suits us) and if agreement is not made, the regime is destroyed. And any fool can easily see this is the outcome…but only if the Iranians know there is an American government which is serious. That has been the missing element. Again and again we have simply rolled over for the Mullahs. Republicans and Democrats, hawks and doves…everyone has been eager to kowtow to mullah bluster.

The mullahs decided we were still bluffing – the lesson of Maduro did not take hold. Just yesterday the mullahs were still full of shouts and threats. But this time, today, it was all different – because Trump doesn’t bluff. He’ll wheel and deal. He’ll move in a complex dance with alternate velvet gloves and iron fists..but in the end when he says “it will be thus”, that is what it will be – and he never demands something that is out of reach. The mullahs could have made a deal. Heck, per Trump the remnants still alive right now can make a deal…but the deal is no nukes, no more terrorism and the Iranian people get to run their own lives. However they want. Trump hasn’t said what sort of new Iran there must be – rightly so because it isn’t our call to make. Monarchy. Democracy. Heck, even Islamic Republic, if the Iranians want it. But it has to be what they want, and must never threaten America or American interests again.

This is yet more of Trump getting us back into the real world. A world where we simply are top of the heap. Hate it all you want, it is what it is. Even in our currently weakened state, we still outshine everyone, and by a lot. Trump is resetting the world: letting it know that you don’t want to defy us. Argue with us all you want. Hit us hard in the give and take of negotiations. Press for every ounce of advantage against us. Fine. And we’ll play the same game. But defy us? Threaten us? Attack us? Not a good idea. You will lose. And very badly.

And how are the Democrats responding? Other than Fetterman, even worse than you’d expect. They are condemning it. That is, condemning the effort to rid the world of a half-century old pestilence. We’ll see what judgement the American people render on it.

The Battle of Minneapolis

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The Democrats – the overall American Left – have chosen Minneapolis as ground zero. This is logical in that the city is entirely under Democrat control in a State where all State-wide offices are held by Democrats. That is, they can control both the State and City response to federal actions with zero chance that anyone on the Democrat side will face criminal charges at the State or local level. There are lots of places Democrats could have chosen – and ICE is operating all around the country, of course – but they chose Minneapolis. What they are trying to do here is to get MAGA to back down – to withdraw. To give up any serious attempt to enforce federal law in Minneapolis.

Their strategy is to use a paid network of activists to track ICE and then vector in people who are willing to block streets, shout, push and shove and generally act like idiots in the hope that ICE will end up killing some of them. Which, of course, is precisely what has happened – with the Democrats all demanding Trump pull back, joined in this by the weak-kneed people on the Right who will only fight until the Democrats tell them to stop.

It can’t be emphasized enough how important this is, to both sides. Do keep in mind that it isn’t just money being stolen in Minneapolis…it is every State-wide office. Trump got 47% of the vote in Minnesota – so, you know, MAGA isn’t radioactive there. It has appeal. Yet not one State-wide office is held by the Republicans. How did Kamala win the State? Because of her 1.6 million votes, more than 500,000 came from Hennepin County – you know, Minneapolis. Without that 70% vote out of Hennepin, Trump would have won the State. That county also provided the margin for Walz and Ellison in their State-wide “victories”. In a nation divided about 50/50, in a State divided about 50/50…it is the one place that goes 70/30 which gives the Democrats power. Absent that, they wouldn’t hold a single State-wide office in Minnesota.

There hasn’t been a Republican mayor of Minneapolis since 1961. The chances that a party retains control of a large political entity for 65 years without fraud are near zero. The only thing that has changed is that the Democrats put the fraud in Minneapolis on steroids and now use it to control the whole State, not just Minneapolis. And if the fraud is at long last exposed and those who carry it out are removed from power…if there is no more money to steal, then it is all over. Turn out the lights. The GOP will win it all next round and if the Democrats want to come back, it’ll have to be by providing something people want…not by merely perpetuating a corrupt system via fraud. And if Minneapolis goes down, then so will Boston and Los Angeles and San Francisco and Portland and New York City and Chicago…on and on and on.

It has been my contention for years that the vote totals out of the deep Blue cities are pure fiction. Just whatever number the Democrats think they can get away with…and in States where the AG is Democrat, the Democrats think they can get away with anything. That 500,000 vote margin for Harris in 2024…it could be, in reality, any number between zero and 500,000…with the higher you go, the more unlikely the alleged number is. You think about places like Minneapolis and Chicago and Los Angeles which get worse year by year…higher crime, spreading poverty, ever more illegal immigrants, ever more flight of native Americans…and somehow or another in these increasing disaster areas, the Democrat margins increase. That is simple absurdity – it is like the PRI remaining in total control of Mexico for like 80 years straight. Doesn’t happen unless people cheat.

So, this is the battleground – and while Democrats decided to go ape in Minneapolis, it is actually the ground of Trump’s choosing. He was going to respond the same way no matter where Democrats did this. And keep in mind, during the Summer of St Floyd of Fentanyl, it was in cities all across the country. Democrats can’t seem to muster up enough people for more than one city at a time…and they are defending the city where billions have been stolen via welfare fraud. Those investigations continue. More and more indictments on that will come down. The Democrats out there thumping their chests about fighting off Trump’s ICE “Gestapo” will likely soon find themselves being arraigned…unless they can get Trump and ICE the heck out of Dodge.

And, so, Trump can’t back down. I don’t think he will. I won’t. I did say prayers for the dead, I did pray for the people of Minneapolis to choose peace. But I am not about to get weepy-eyed over insane people getting killed because they believed stupid Democrat lies about what ICE is doing. We all have agency. We make our choices. We endure our consequences. There is nothing to actually protest in the ICE actions. It is mere routine law enforcement…if you decide to get in ICE’s face, then you just bet your life that nothing bad will happen. Two of these Leftwing fanatics have lost their bet. More probably will. Yes, this could be the “Bleeding Kansas” precursor to Civil War II. I don’t want that. I don’t think it’ll go there…but it might, and if it does, I won’t shed a tear for the Left as we destroy them.

Arrests! We Got Arrests!

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We did get some arrests! More are promised…but Don Lemon’s arrest warrant wasn’t signed because the Judge’s wife is an Assistant AG in Keith Ellison’s office.

Think about that. It isn’t a statement of guilt. It isn’t about evidence. It is merely law enforcement saying they want to arrest a person on alleged charges. Book him, Dan-o. That’s it. He’d be out on bail probably within hours. But the Judge wouldn’t sign…because the Judge knows that the job isn’t about law, it is about protecting Friends and punishing Enemies. He was protecting a Friend.

This is what we’re up against – all up and down the line on every level of government, we have committed Leftist fanatics who’s only loyalty is to the Party. Trump is weeding them out of the federal level and in the Red States serious efforts are being made to get rid of them…but in the Blue areas – which includes the Blue areas of Red States – the fanatics are firmly in power and will hamstring all operations of law if those operations harm the Left. It is going to be hard to get indictments. Hard to get judges who won’t just toss the cases. Hard to get convictions in jury pools made up of Leftist fanatics.

The good news? In the end, we don’t have to get a lot of convictions all at once. In fact, to start, we only need one. Just one person looking at years in jail but holding information which will put dozens in jail. Information to trade for a get out of jail free card. There’s nothing quite like looking at 10 or 20 years in the pen to concentrate the mind…to make one reconsider if loyalty to the Party is all its cracked up to be. These people figure they are immune…that they mostly won’t even get arrested and, if arrested, will be allowed to skate. And even if convicted they figure a Democrat President in 2029 will pardon them. It will be hard to get any of them to flip…but if we can get just one, the whole thing unravels.

And they are all corrupt – every last one from the most minor official to the highest elective offices. They are all on the take. They all have skeletons they must keep hidden. Everyone is at risk if anyone starts to help find the bodies. Once one flips, it’ll be a stampede of mostly lower level miscreants desperate to get out of the way. We can start to unravel it all…backed by the testimony of those who made it all happen. You think some Somali just off the boat can work up a multi-billion dollar welfare scam? No. That takes local talent. A lot of it. The Somali is just the face – the way to call all attempts to stop it racism. If that bit of lead shielding no longer works and if people are facing serious jail time, it will all come out.

And nobody has ever tried this before. The GOP has routinely let slide massive corruption because they are a mix of on the take, themselves, or just too gutless to go after it. Afraid of being called bad names. But not any more. The charge of racism just doesn’t work on us – we know we’re not and, actually, the more they shout it the more angry and determined we become…because we know we’re not and for goodness sake, these people are robbing us blind. Trump is the first man in ages who feels that cheating is bad, as such and must be stopped. It probably was set deep in his soul by how he was cheated in 2020. Nothing like that sort of rip off to make you thoroughly sick of all con artists. Be that as it may, he seems determined to go get it…and if you look at what’s been done, it is clear the Left has been set up…essentially forced to defend the indefensible against a President who is willing to let it all come out because he and MAGA are not at all involved.

We’ll see how it goes – if it works, corruption is rooted out and the Democrats suffer another body blow (the corruption provides most of Democrat campaign funds – nobody really donates to them; they kick back to Democrats some of the swag stolen from the taxpayers).