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No, You Can’t Use my Morals to Kill Me

Mark Noonan37 Comments

The latest effort to derail DOGE has been to have moderate Right (not specifically Never Trump) people write despairing pieces about the failure of Conservatives to deplore Elon Musk’s serial adultery. He has 12 confirmed children, a social media influencer claiming number 13. They tie this into Trump’s sexual past and throw up their hands (a little dramatically) wondering just how we can do anything when those in charge of the movement are sinners? This effort is clearly orchestrated by the Left – which doesn’t care at all about morality but they will wipe their butt with their own flag if it helps them.

Rely on it, if we made an effort to codify morality into law, these same Right voices would rise in opposition to us on Libertarian grounds. The only people morality applies to, in their minds, is us: we have to be perfect and if we ain’t, then we don’t deserve to have power…or, indeed, anything.

To make it clear: adultery is a sin. Fornication is a sin. Horrible, bad sins which can destroy a human soul and condemn it to everlasting damnation.

But so, too, divorce and birth control. Working on the Sabbath. Not going to Mass on Sunday. Do you get what I’m saying? If we are to base our politics upon what is considered a sin in Christian theology, then we’re going to have a very different political organization. And one that won’t win anything. To be sure, winning in politics is not usually the most crucial consideration. We Christians are in the world but we are not supposed to be of it and we are supposed to, as far as possible, meekly live within the political structure trusting to God that things will work out. And for the most part, that is what Christians have done – it has been a long time since anyone really insisted upon any distinctly Christian policy in American politics. But things are different now. We’re not fighting for mere political power. We are fighting for our very lives.

We Christians are to accept martyrdom if it is thrust upon us. We aren’t to seek it out but if we are placed into the position where we can only live by denying God, then it is time for us to die – and joyfully so. But our prime duty here is escape if possible. Just as we are to avoid near occasions of sin, so we should avoid, if we can, situations where the choice becomes apostasy or death. That is what we’re trying to do here. I know it sounds perhaps a bit melodramatic, but it is win in politics right now, or die. If we lose and have to die, so be it – we trust in God. But let’s try not to lose.

We have to fully grasp what we’re up against. Remember, when the Palestinians sent in rape/murder squads to Israel, the global Left supported the Palestinians. They still do. Even today they are still out in the streets waving Hamas flags and calling Israel the bad guy. Think about that. They also sincerely believe that a human being can be born in the wrong body – and that anyone denying this is malevolent. They believe that punishing criminals is wrong. Not kidding about that: they are all in for “alternatives to punishment”…because they have internalized the idea that crime only happens because of injustice. We joke about saying “society made me do it”, but they really believe this to be the case…and so “society” needs to be punished. These are not reasoned, logical positions. They are not just false, but obviously false…and yet tens of millions of people in these United States of America believe it all and given that they further believe the world will die if they don’t get their way, we have the recipe for massacre.

Keep in mind that the whole basis of Nazism was stupidly wrong – ultimately based upon the belief that the Jews were an organized, malevolent force in the world deliberately out to destroy the civilized people – ie, the Aryans. This is no different from the modern Left believing that we are an organized, malevolent force deliberately out to destroy the planet. The Germans bought the Nazi argument and at least 40% of the American people have bought the Left argument. It won’t take much for a solid majority to get behind “born in the wrong body” and “that hamburger is killing the Earth!”. And people who think that the world will end if they don’t prevail are not noted for holding back…once you get that idea fixed in your head that only total destruction of the enemy allows you to survive, you’ll do anything to get your way.

I am not here in this year of 2025 trying to preserve Christian morality – we lost that fight decades ago when we didn’t oppose the completely insane idea of no-fault divorce…when we seriously went along with the idea that a promise made to God and Man can be annulled by a judge. At that point, the slide down into Elon Musk having 12 or 13 children from a large number of women was kinda baked in. And, on the whole, this is actually far more human than the Left which wants to trans kids they don’t abort…and suicide them if they wind up depressed teenagers. At least Musk is making babies and wanting them to get on a path towards a useful life. Better if he wasn’t nailing everything that will sit still for five minutes…but if I’ve got a choice between a world where people are bumping uglies with wild abandon and having buckets of children and another world where they lop off healthy body parts and then suicide the result…I know what I’m choosing. And I did just mention the suicide thing, didn’t I? Really think about that – the Left thinks it is good if people can have taxpayer funded “doctors” kill them if they’re feeling out of sorts. They don’t even call it a necessary evil any more – they call it good. Positive. A great outcome. Yay death!

For my own safety’s sake, I must defeat these people. Because I am not like them, I don’t want them jailed or killed. I will allow them to remain in their personal delusions…but I must do everything I can to remove them from all power and influence in the world. I will go pretty far here, including to eventual disenfranchisement and confiscation of their wealth if that proves necessary to stop these insane people. But for right now, I think that if we can de-fund them that will solve most of the problem…my conviction is that these insane beliefs are only given credence because subscription to them ensures well-paid sinecures for those willing to push the lunacy. Don’t ever downplay the power of a dollar sign in front of a morally and intellectually weak person. Much is written in the history books about how the German generals went along with Hitler even when it was clear his military commands were leading to disaster…much less is written about how Hitler secured and retained that compliance: money. He simply bribed his senior leaders to go along…and go along they did, only concerned about keeping their place at the trough. So, too, the modern American Left. And if we take away the money…if nobody is paying them to be insane, then there’s a strong chance they’ll stop being insane. And Musk is leading the charge in taking away their money.

Do I trust Musk? No. The default position on anyone with a great deal of money and/or power is mistrust. Trump gets trust now because he’s proven himself in the face of terrible odds to be on my side. Musk? Well, he’s doing some good things but so far the chips haven’t really been down…he hasn’t had to choose between his own happiness and the good of the people. The Left is pushing that way and he’s probably going to be forced to make that choice. We’ll see how that goes. But, meanwhile, he’s doing what I want – except too slowly and being far too nice to the Left. I want what he’s doing put on overdrive. Musk is a tool. He’s useful right now. If he remains useful then I’ll keep backing him – but the minute the tool is broken or proves ineffective, I’ll drop him like used chewing gum.

And here’s the kicker: once I defeat these insane people and restore a world where truth is the basis of action, then I can start to revive Christian morality – or, indeed, any moral code. People who think that abortion is good are not going to be converted to Christianity with ease. Heck, just getting them to stop being raving lunatics is a herculean task. But if they are no longer paid to believe that abortion is good then they might stop actually believing that abortion is good…and that will open them up to the prospect of understanding that being a good person requires a strict moral code enforced by law and custom. But this is all for after: after the Left is defeated. I can’t get there from here – I must first get rid of the lunatics. Then I can talk.

The Fire Burns, the Left Fiddles (and Steals; They Always Steal)

Mark Noonan30 Comments

What has been most pronounced to me as Los Angeles has burned is that when the local officials are giving a statement, they don’t actually say anything.

Sure, they tell us they’re sad.

They tell us they are consulting with everyone.

They tell us that everything is being done.

What they don’t tell us is what they are doing. There’s no plan. No effort to map out a strategy.

This all follows along with the fact that they cut $17 million from the LAFD budget and sent LA firefighting equipment to Ukraine. What it tells us is that those in charge haven’t the foggiest notion of what to do. They are failing and they don’t really understand they are failing…after all, they are sad, consulting and “doing everything”! What more is there to do?

For them, nothing. I guarantee you that Bass will believe for the rest of her life that she did nothing wrong…scratch that: not only did she do nothing wrong, she was downright heroic and showed what a WOC can do! Take that, MAGAts!

The truth of the matter is that running large, modern city is more difficult than any other task in the world. Even being President isn’t as taxing. You are responsible for everything – trash, water, fire, earthquakes, roads, public transport, health care, zoning…on and on and on and every issue has a host of interests often not just competing but diametrically opposed and through this minefield you have to get it running so that when disaster happens – and it always will – the damage is at least minimized and people have confidence that the authorities know what they’re doing.

What is Karen Bass’ experience? Well, she started out in life involved in a Cuban Communist front organization. From there, it appears she never looked back. She did get an education when standards were higher so we know she isn’t stupid – but that just makes it worse. If she were a merely incompetent boob it probably would have worked out better…such often will make a decision even if the wrong one. Bass doesn’t make a decision because she feels she doesn’t have to – she’s a college-educated WOC, dammit…and you racist crackers out there should just sit down and shut up!

The danger we have right now is all up and down our system are people like Karen Bass and worse – people who are dead certain they are heroic geniuses but who aren’t fit to run a lemonade stand. They’re blaming climate change not because they really think that climate change caused a $17 million cut to LAFD but because climate change is our fault, not theirs. It is perfect…gets them off the hook, places the blame on us and the cure is to give them more money and power. The people running the show by and large hate us, hate the USA and have no expertise beyond knowing how to work the system to obtain more money and power.

The perfect contrast right now is with Florida – as hurricanes bore down on Florida, DeSantis has 50,000 people ready to go after it passed to get power back up…knowing that power restoration was the key to all other relief efforts. It worked flawlessly and power was mostly restored quickly. Police were ready so there was no looting. Evacuations happened in a timely manner. There was no lack…because there was a plan and an Executive willing to order it and kick some rears if anyone started slacking. That is how it used to be – even the most corrupt political systems in our past still managed to do the things necessary…today we still have the corruption but absolutely no competence.

And aside from property damage, people die. I’m confident that the death toll will go above the official number of (I believe) 5 at the moment. The fire was moving so fast at first that I’m sure some poor people just didn’t have time (if you’ve never experienced a wild fire, let me tell you: treat them with respect. They can move extremely fast and that after it seems like it stalled at some point). Thing is, everyone knows that it has been bone dry in Southern California for nearly a year (bone dry here in Vegas, as well; indeed, most of the southwest has been bone dry due to the weather patterns). The Santa Ana winds never sneak up on you…they develop like hurricanes in the Atlantic. You know you’re going to get them days before they arrive. In other words, everyone in LA knew the perfect storm for massive fires was coming together…there should have been lots of prep, just like DeSantis did in Florida. Reservoirs filled, plans made to bring in outside firefighters, evacuation routes established, stockpiling of equipment at strategic points…and an overall plan of how to attack a fire where ever it started.

The Mayor of Los Angeles went to Ghana, instead.

How much did that cost the taxpayers of Los Angeles? I do know that a military plane was sent to fetch her home…and just who authorized that? How is it justified to use federal assets to move a city official because it looks bad on TV that she’s not home as her city burns? But don’t worry…I’m sure her budget for next year will include plenty of money for DEI…which is basically just payoffs to her particular cronies.

We’re all for federalism here on the Right but we do have to think about things…because a lot of the tax dollars that will rebuild LA will be federal…and that means all of us have a vested interest in how LA is run. Also, is it a republican form of government if one party gets total control of all institutions public and private in a State and then rigs the system so they can never lose? The Constitution commands the federal government to ensure a republican form of government in the several States…we need to consider if there is a genuine republican government in California. We certainly can’t just let things burn.

Evil People Like Being Evil

Mark Noonan17 Comments

People are now really noticing the grooming scandal out of Rotherham, UK and there’s all the “how can this happen?” sorts of statements going on. I refer you to this passage in Book VII: Empress:

This, I think, is what we normies don’t fully realize. A person on X asked is there’s some sort of passage (ritual?) where becoming a child abuser is necessary for advancement in the Establishment. To this I replied, in a way. You see, to really have power with the full backing of the global Establishment, you must sign off on abortion as a positive good. No more of this mucking around with “while I’m personally opposed” drivel from the 1980s…you have to get out there and say and do actions which actively promote abortion as a moral good. Once you’ve passed that Rubicon…well, tolerating the abuse of kids is easy. And, as noted above: fun. Rely on it: the people who covered up Rotherham had a big, old laugh about it…because their ability to cover it up and their current program to just bareface it out demonstrates their power.

“So, now you know we pretty much actively encouraged it. So, what? What can you do about it? Oh, and here’s a Bobby to arrest you for posting about it on social media.”

We aren’t quite there in the USA yet but, as per usual in social disintegration, we’re always about a decade behind the rest of the Western world. Takes longer here because of our federal system and written Constitution. But make no mistake about it, and we’ve already seen it: the government is going to eventually try to arrest us for noticing government corruption. And just like over in Europe, they’ll justify it as a fight against racism or whatever alleged “phobia” they can think of. Trump is going to become a finger in the dyke in 17 days…but if we don’t really dig deep and reform, then he’s just going to slow it down.

This really should come as no surprise – we have seen it before. In the Soviet Commissar forcing his female prisoners to be his sex slaves. In the Nazi camp guard waking up is prisoners with ice water in the middle of the night. Needless cruelty done just because the perpetrator can do it. And they do it because they enjoy it. Having no sense of decency and no real conception of God (whatever they might have started with long since burned out of them), they just do it because they can. Solzhenitsyn theorized that the interrogators of the Lubyanka must have got together to discuss ways and means of being cruel because once it happened to one prisoner, it soon happened to all the rest…as if they were trying out new ways of being gratuitously cruel…with some har, har, hars and back slapping as they decided which prisoner to try it out on first. And then these people went home to their wives and/or girlfriends and acted like they were normal human beings.

But they ain’t. Now, to be sure, as long as we are alive we are all capable of redemption but we also know per the Bible that sometimes hearts can be hardened…that God lets the choice of the wicked be ratified and that’s when they get exceptionally horrid. People who have those hard hearts might, at times, seem normal…they can still put on the false front. But deep down inside they’re just looking for the next cruel thing to do…and the more senseless it is, the better. Remember, the slaves of GULAG and the Arbeitseinsatz didn’t have to be treated brutally…nearly starved and beaten over trivial things. In fact, the Soviet and Nazi regimes would have got vastly more economic benefit out of their slaves had they been well fed and treated with kindness. It actually worked against the regimes to do what they did…Nazi soldiers lacked sufficient weapons and supplies because of it towards the end of the war. But it happened…because, as I said, evil people like to do evil things.

So, what to do?

First thing – call it evil. These aren’t mistakes. These are failures of the system. These are deliberate, malicious acts of evil and those who did them have to be very severely punished.

That is going to be the key to restoring our world. To resume a society of logic and decency – severe punishment inflicted upon the wicked. If we don’t do that, then we’re doomed. I’m hoping that we’re just about to start doing that.

Happy New Year!

Mark Noonan13 Comments

Let me tell you, I got myself in a real jam on Book X of the Mirrors series. It is the final entry in the series (with possible story lines for later books if I want to return to it, but this concludes the main story line). You see, I had James, George, Antaria and Sophia in one group; Matt, Javier, Corran, Johnny and Tania in another; Fred, Tancheri, Aleste, Alyssa, Rodlan, Cronon and Thomas in a third group while back home in Samaton were Celeste, Rossalyn, Bryce and Stanley. And all of these people needed to get to one place where the Bad Guys (Rajan, Usha and Kazanti) were going to be while also bringing in the Queen of Azarad and her people, some True Antaki, some False Antaki and, of course, a gigantic host of Shadow Warriors. Last night I finally figured out the Narrative to do this – the sequence of events and who says and does what…because this is IT, as it were. Still got a lot of writing to do but at least I now know how it goes.

So, that was my New Years Eve! Hope yours was nice!

I woke up to the news of the attack in New Orleans – still light on details but given that we can assume the perp is a Protected Person…had he been a white MAGA guy we’d already know about his childhood friends. Of course the MSM is the MSM – they are reporting it as a vehicle crashed…this is just a lie to obscure the truth. One again, I’ll yammer on about it: you can’t hold that lies are protected speech. Something has to be done about it.

Better news is that Trump is back in 19 days. We’ll at least have a government that tries to give a darn about us. Temper your expectations! There is just so much Trump can do and the Democrats plus RINOs will continue to try and stop him. I personally think he’ll do a lot – I feel more confident than any time since the aftermath of the 1980 election. But there is a lot of work to do against a mountain of lies and corruption. It’ll take some effort, there will be some fails and at times it will seem to be too much. Faith and courage!

Merry Christmas

Mark Noonan8 Comments

In my Mirrors series I have had a little help. I might have mentioned this before but early on in the process I explained the basic outline of the story to my granddaughter and after she heard it I was advised that the story had a fatal flaw: no dragons.

Well, I wasn’t about to just leave it at that so I asked her to tell me about the dragons the story should have. These eventually became the magic Icecrystal dragons – not fire-breathing, but ice-breathing. But, also, of themselves, fairly harmless. They are about the size of a large cat, they can fly and the male, especially, likes to dig into things and see how they work. I inserted the discovery of the Icecrystal dragon eggs into the story without much explanation of what they would be. But over subsequent books the dragons, themselves, started to appear in a small way and in the final book of the series, they will play a larger role…keeping in mind that they are magical and that Celeste’s daughter, Aleste, is a wizard (though still a teenager at the conclusion). Aleste started to be modeled on my granddaughter early on and after she had invented the Icecrystals she also felt that magic dragons would provide something for Aleste…and so the Icewand was created. In all of this, I took the story that the granddaughter created and helped her to write a children’s book based on the Mirrors story line and we’re working on a sequel to it.

So, why tell you all this?

Because my granddaughter got me these bookends for Christmas:

I did not cry! It just got a little dusty in here and maybe someone was slicing onions!

Anyways, thank God for our Savior, Jesus Christ and may your day and year be filled with blessings!

Knowing What You Know. And Don’t Know.

Mark Noonan33 Comments

The discussion in the past thread with Amazona about the JFK assassination brings up the real subject we need to delve into: what do we know for certain? This might seem like a small – and might even seem like an irrelevant – question but in my view, it is the crucial starting point.

First off, let’s dispense with the whole phrase “conspiracy theory”. Yes, we do know there are some clearly kooky ideas about a lot of things out there but when we tag something as a “conspiracy theory” what we’re doing is both dismissing it and warning everyone away from it. “Come on! That’s just a conspiracy theory! You don’t want to be one of those crazies. Right?”. It is very effective propaganda designed to shut off debate and inquiry. And the kicker on it is that it can be used both ways by grifters – some using the accusation to get people to stop asking but the mirror-image of it is used by the other grifters…those who want you to believe nonsense and so they package it up as “they call me a conspiracy theorist but I’ve just found the truth!”…this makes that grift bullet proof the other direction. The most notable recent example of this is Candace Owens who has gone off on anti-Semitic rants of late and she’s keeping her listeners on board (and clicking!) by saying those who disagree are trying to “silence the truth by calling me a conspiracy theorist!”. So, have a little care here – and dispense with “conspiracy theory”. What we have is people making assertions – test them against known facts and your own good sense; only reject an assertion if the facts and your sense indicate against them.

So, back to it: what do we know? That is the first and most important question. As it relates to the JFK assassination what we know is pretty limited. When you really grind it down, all we know for certain is that JFK was shot and killed. Everything else related to it has some questionable aspects. Even for someone like me who asserts that forensics indicates Oswald as the lone shooter I am forced to admit that a good defense attorney could have shot reasonable doubt into the assertion…not enough to have saved Oswald in a putative 1964 murder trial, but certainly enough for a dispassionate observer ten years later to go, “not proved beyond a reasonable doubt”.

The really important aspect here when you ask, “what do we know?” is that assertions by Experts and government agencies are now known to be questionable. There is no neutral arbiter whom we can rely on to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Might there have been in 1963? Possibly – but the seeds of what has come after – complete institutional collapse – were already planted by then. We can’t necessarily impose today’s dishonesty on the people and agencies of 1963 but we also can’t assume that the people and agencies of 1963 who went on to a whole series of now-exposed lies weren’t also lying in 1963.

It is good to keep in mind that in any analysis of the past, we’ll never have the complete picture. For some things we have more data than others, but all historical documents still only amount to what someone thought important enough to write down. For the historian, it is really good if several major players in an event wrote down independent, contemporary accounts because the compare and contrast can provide some real insights…but, still, even that is just what the players decided to write down. It is still incomplete. In fact, it never can be complete. There will be facts not recorded – perhaps not even known at the time by the principle actors. So, you’re never going to look back and get the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. All you’re going to get is part of the story and it is going to be written by people who had their own prejudices even if they didn’t have a specific agenda in what they wrote.

Our saving grace here is that, as God told us, “for every tree is known by its own fruit” (Luke 6:43-45). We can’t know exactly what happened in the past…but we can see what happened and so get some very deep insights into the actual motivations of those who made the decisions. Did a conspiracy kill Kennedy? I don’t know – and I likely can’t know. But what I do know is that after JFK’s death a muscular anti-Communism and a full-throated exploitation American power dwindled to “our long, national nightmare is over” and lets cancel Apollo’s 18-20. Oh, and “ask not” morphed somehow into the Welfare State. Like JFK represented something that our overall Ruling Class didn’t like…and it didn’t like Nixon…and didn’t like Reagan….and now really doesn’t like Trump…all four men being ardent American patriots who view America as the best thing and worthy of building up. If JFK’s assassination wasn’t a conspiracy it certainly worked out to a disaster for the United States…and the primary beneficiaries of the event were contemptible, thieving cowards who have just about ruined the USA.

Just to give you an idea of how bad it is – how low we’ve fallen – I looked up the construction of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). It was an approximately 95,000-ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier that was laid down on February 4th, 1958 and went into commission (that is, a combat-effective warship for the United States Navy) on November 25th, 1961. A little over two years, nine months from laying the keel to sailing off into the ocean blue ready to do battle for the United States. I then looked up the USS Enterprise (CVN-80). It is an approximately 100,000-ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier laid down on April 5th, 2022. Wanna guess when its going into commission? They hope to have it ready in 2029. Seven years! And do you want to bet on us meeting the 2029 date?

On May 25th, 1961 Kennedy laid out the aspiration of going to the Moon in the 1960s. It was an aspiration. We had no idea how to do it other than some theories on paper. As we went into it we found that we not only didn’t know how to do it, we didn’t even know what we had to learn before we could start figuring out how to do it. But everyone went to work and the project was done in a little over eight years. Sheppard only made his suborbital flight twenty days before Kennedy set the goal. We set up the Artemis program in 2017 to get us back to the Moon and the first manned flight of the program is set for 2026. Who has benefited from this? Who’s fruit? What tree?

Kennedy wanted us to do great things. Nixon wanted us to do great things. Reagan wanted us to do great things. Trump is asserting we will do great things. Johnson: here’s some welfare. Carter: the age of limits. Clinton: depends on what the meaning of is is. Getting the picture? Those who want America to be great and get greater are hammered back into the ground…those who go along with decline are rewarded and praised. Did a conspiracy kill Kennedy? It is irrelevant if it did or didn’t – what’s relevant is that everyone the Establishment hates gets raked over the coals. That tells us what has happened even though we don’t know fact for fact how it happened. And, in the end, it doesn’t matter if its a cabal of wicked people or just a pack of stupid crooks…its all worked out the same and very badly for us.

So, in the end, all we really know is if something worked out well or badly. That it was good, or bad. And while we can’t know if the bad things were caused by malevolence or folly, we should treat all bad things as if they were caused by malevolence. Whether a person is bad or stupid, only whacking them about the head and shoulders will get them to stop being bad or stupid. I don’t care if, say, Mayorkas is in the pay of the Cartels or if he’s just stupid – in either case, I want him jailed for twenty years. It doesn’t matter, in the end, why he left the borders open…it only matters that he left them open and I’ve got no time or energy to figure out his motivation. Whether his successor is stupid or wicked won’t matter as long as in his successor’s office is a picture of him in jail.

And in service of this goal of just punishing the heck out of those who do wrong and/or are stupid, we have to stop going along with the Establishment’s demand that certain subjects aren’t open to question. I don’t care if the guy telling me something is wearing a literal tinfoil hat…I want to hear his statement and assess it on my own. And if he’s telling me that lizard people are causing the decline of American farming I’m only interested in knowing if American farming is declining. If it is, that’s bad – and I don’t care if the guys in charge were wicked or stupid, I want them broken.

It is a Long Fight Ahead

Mark Noonan41 Comments

Melania Trump had a short video promo for her autobiography where she said the dread phrase “my body, my choice”. The word is that she does fall on the so-called “pro-choice” side of the abortion issue – which is really no surprise given her background – European who grew up under a Communist system. She’s Slovenian but when she was born Slovenia was captive by Tito’s Communist Yugoslavia. All that woke garbage our kids are subjected to these days? It was being imparted in the Communist bloc decades ago. Not the bourgeoisie-decadent stuff like being sexually non-binary we have, but all the drivel about human life being of only subjective value. So, even though Catholic, it wouldn’t surprise me that she’s in favor of legal abortion (most Catholics in America are, as well – though heaviest support is, naturally, among the more nominally Catholic). But I have my doubts that she’s in favor of the absolutely lunatic, anti-human position the Democrats have – federally funded on demand to the moment of birth…and maybe a little after if the abortion “doctor” botches it.

This has sparked some intense debate on the Right – naturally with the Left gleefully joining in – and I understand the angst. It is just a plain fact that there can be no justice in a system which allows the killing of unborn children. If anyone is innocent, it is the child. If there is any situation where killing isn’t justified, it is when dealing with an unborn child. I get that. I understand it. I believe it to the depths of my being. But we have a problem here: we lost the fight.

While we were busy trying every expedient we could to get 5 Justices who would simply rule on the law and thus dispose of Roe, we didn’t really notice that in the overall culture, abortion was becoming entirely normalized. It is still viewed with distaste by all sane people, but we probably don’t have nationwide more than 25% in favor of a ban. It just isn’t politically possible for us to get anything like a series of pro-life laws enacted across the nation. Even if the deepest Red areas we are finding it difficult to so much as restrict the practice. People are resistant to us – and it is because the Left has successfully couched the issue as one of “choice”. Americans do not like being told they can’t do something. This natural inclination has been ruthlessly exploited by the pro-abortion liars of the Left.

And that brings me, once again and for the zillionth time, back to my main point these days: the lies are the problem. I got into a little debate on X with a fellow Righty who is sure that Trump is headed for a loss and in this debate I put out that if the mere truth were told on a consistent basis, Harris would be lucky to get to 30% of the vote. He felt that even if the truth were told, she’d still score at least mid-40s. I disputed that and I still do. I really do believe that once the lie is exposed, people do reject it. The trouble is getting the lie exposed – it isn’t enough to simply state the truth, the lie must be suppressed. In other words, we can’t have a debate between lies and truth…only truth must be allowed on the stage. And if the stage is held by truth, then people will act according to truth. Let a lie up there and at least some percentage will act on the lie…and if the lies are clever and ubiquitous, then you’ll find majorities in favor of lies. People still might make a mistake with truth, but they won’t do self-destructive things with it. Its the difference between telling a child that boiling water is hot vs telling that while having six other people say it isn’t. The truth will not win – the child will stick his hand in the boiling water.

I’ve talked before about some of the ways and means of crushing the lies but the first step in any such program is to obtain power. Without power we can’t do anything. If we fail to obtain power, then the lies will rule the roost and we’ll be led away in chains by liars. It is going to be difficult to get power. With a horribly bad economy, with the world on fire and with our two main opponents gibbering idiots, there is still a chance we can lose. As I’ve said, I don’t believe we will – I believe all factual metrics point to a GOP victory…but even if it is a smashing GOP victory, it’s going to be 50.5% of the overall vote, a 2-seat Senate and a 10-seat House majority. In other words, even if we win big this year…we’re just going to barely do it overall…and we’ll be faced with nearly half the population united firmly behind liars. To get to this victory and to continue to obtain victories long enough for us to enact real reforms – reforms which will allow us to really push back against liars – is going to require some tactical flexibility.

The Democrats are thermonuclear on the abortion issue. Here in Nevada I’d guess fully half the Democrat ads are about abortion. It is all ridiculous fear-mongering about what we won’t do – and can’t do: ban abortion nationwide. In this fight, Team Trump has decided on tactical flexibility on the Life issue…they’re trying to defuse the Democrats’ most potent weapon and make it, as best, a wash for them. Will their plan work? We’ll find out in a month – but I advise against complaining about it until we see. If it doesn’t work then we’ll have to rethink things…but if it does work and gets us a government that will stop prosecuting us for praying near an abortion clinic, that’s a win, guys. A big win. We must learn to take the win.

It is going to be a long, frustrating and at times very painful march to restore a semblance of American liberty and justice – it took us a century to lose this fight and it may well take another century to win it back. Step by step! The first step is to win.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart – Psalm 19

Mark Noonan13 Comments

You heard that this morning when you went to Church.

Right?

It really struck home…and sort of worked into something that occurred to me earlier in the week: the laws of God are not a ban on fun, but just ten simple rules (boiled down to two by Our Lord) for a sane life. The precepts of the Lord really do give joy to the heart. Think about it. If everyone on Earth just agreed to abide by the Ten Commandments for one week – just seven, little days – think about what a wonderful week that would be? No lies. No murder. No adultery/fornication. No theft. No wrath or jealousy. It would be a week of total chill…and it would cost us nothing. Nobody would lose a thing by it. If we would obey the precepts of the Lord, we’d be living pretty joyfully.

And that’s why the world today is held up by a scaffold of lies. It is all a bunch of drivel designed to really get to one thing – that people don’t have joy in their lives. And that just tells you who the author of the modern world is right there.

Here is Nevada we are inundated with pro-abortion ads. The most sick and twisted is teenage-looking girls (I’m sure they’re over 18 for legal purposes but clearly chosen to look 15-ish) begging us to save their right to an abortion. “Think about us”, they say. We have to make sure they can get an abortion…we have to make sure, that is, they can get their lives ruined as early as possible but at least scrape away the most inconvenient result (and, of course, protect the older men who abuse them…can’t forget that: Question 6 here in Nevada legalizes abortion for minors without parental consent…because we must ensure the degenerates can dispose of the strongest evidence against them). What strikes you about it – aside from revulsion – is how very sad it is. That we’ve clearly got girls of a very young age who are resigned to being sexually used and tossed aside…and abort that kid so you can have your career in a cubicle farm.

If they were just working on obeying the precepts of the Lord, of course, they’d look forward to marriage to a man who will promise and kids growing up and all that normal, sane, human stuff. Can’t have that, can we?

On and on like that. Young boys are also taught to ruin themselves – that their relationship goal isn’t to make a manly promise to a woman, but to skip from one to another because that “respects” a woman’s independence. This has had the effect of making more and more young men have contempt for women…to see them as objects. And irritating objects at that. Useful for only one thing so why put up with her outside of the bedroom? It is causing a real crisis in manhood…men aren’t geared to be like that and talking them into being pigs is causing psychic breakdown in the men as well.

There was a reason we used to stamp on people who lived badly and lied – and it wasn’t because we were anti-fun. It was because we had a little bit of common sense. We were a mature, sensible people – we didn’t believe childish notions about having one’s cake and eating it too. We knew that life was a series of trade offs and that if we wanted a bit of real happiness and prosperity then we had to ensure at least a basic level of morality – that we had a least a little bit of obeying the precepts of the Lord, even if a lot of people did cut corners on that when they could.

We have to get back to that.

It will be difficult.

But it will be worth it.

Our Stupid and Violent World

Mark Noonan18 Comments

I got yelled at on X by an Irish guy. I had made a little joke about having my surname changed as I didn’t want to be connected with Ireland – and this in regards to the President of Ireland sending a congratulatory letter to the new “President” of Iran – you know, the fanatic anti-Semitic thug chosen by the Mullahs to replace the previous fanatic anti-Semitic thug. I momentarily pondered pointing out that his government had expressed condolences to Germany over Hitler eating a bullet in 1945 but I decided I was dealing with a lunatic and so just blocked him. But then I started thinking about it and I came to an odd conclusion: Irish independence has been a mistake.

Don’t get me wrong here: I’m not excusing things like Cromwell’s depredations nor the vicious anti-Catholic laws the Brits imposed on Ireland. Injustice is injustice and is always wrong. But the bottom line is that while the UK – and, previously, England – had made a huge number of mistakes and committed innumerable crimes in Ireland, by the time the Irish rose in rebellion in 1916, the whole cause of Irish independence was a moot point.

The Roman Catholic Relief Act had passed in 1829 so you could legally be Catholic. The Representation of the People of Ireland Act came in 1832, enfranchising the Irish population equally with the rest of the UK population. Ireland had proportional representation in Parliament and, indeed, at times the Irish Members held the balance of power in the UK (that is, nobody could form a government without getting them on board). After the Famine (which wasn’t deliberate no matter what some Irish guy might yap on about) ended in 1852, Irish prosperity grew rapidly with the Irish having access to work and live anywhere in the United Kingdom and the larger British Empire. What all this showed was that for all of the UK’s flaws, it was a Rule of Law State which afforded its people – of whatever background – all the Rights that people should have, even if securing those Rights took some political battling (as it always has everywhere). Just before World War One – indeed, it was a massive political issue in the UK just as the War came in – the Brits had even agreed to Home Rule: that is, setting up an independent Irish Parliament much as Scotland has today. It was delayed by the War but it was still coming. Whatever lingering feeling remained of being “ruled” by the English was coming to an end…peacefully and with Ireland getting the benefits of local rule combined with those of being part of a larger political, social and economic entity. So, what was the fuss about?

Mindless tribalism. The Irish Nationalist leaders simply didn’t want to be part of the UK because it was dominated by the English. Because great-grandpa had been hung for stealing a sheep. In other words, nothing. No real cause. Just hatred – and hatred which was fueled by German arms provided to the Irish rebels while the UK was fighting for her life against those same Germans. They say the Brit reaction to the Easter Uprising in 1916 is what turned the Irish people in broad majority towards independence. If so, that actually makes the Irish out to be pretty lousy people. What they heck did they expect? Britain was losing thousands of men a week fighting the Germans and here comes Paddy armed with a German rifle to start a rebellion in the rear? Yeah. Guess what: the reaction to that isn’t going to be nice.

But it wasn’t all that harsh. Once the Easter Uprising was suppressed, the Brits took about 3,500 prisoners, about 10 percent picked up for looting. Nearly half were released in a couple weeks. Only 187 were put on trial. Remember, this was an armed uprising against the government during wartime that was supported by the enemy! Thousands of Irish participated – 187 went on trial; 16 were executed. That’s it. For armed rebellion during wartime…and rebellion against a government which was equal for all citizens in the United Kingdom. It just wasn’t a totally Irish government. That was the only objection.

And that is the real problem here: mindlessness. People pick their tribe – or are born into one – and just pigheadedly defend their side no matter what facts might say. Chesterton pointed out that saying, “my country, right or wrong” is like saying, “my mother, drunk or sober”. Patriotism isn’t chauvinism. Love of country means, at times, admitting your country is in the wrong and needs to be corrected. The Irish never seem to have got to that point.

The Irish stayed neutral in World War Two simply because they didn’t like the English…as if that mattered. Some credit to the Irish people – especially some Irish soldiers – who joined up with the British, but Irish society and the Irish government were very much “a pox on both your houses” as they pretended that anything other than an Allied victory would save them. Think about that: the most titanic struggle in human history against the personification of evil…and the Irish stayed out because they didn’t like the English. You know, Mexicans do have some cause to be upset with Americans over various historical events…but in WWII the Mexicans declared war and while unable to provide much, did provide something to the Allied cause. It wasn’t like anyone was expecting Ireland to conscript her entire manhood and send them into battle…a just about symbolic declaration and maybe a regiment attached to an American division. Oh, and don’t go getting weepy eyed at the Nazi embassy after Hitler offed himself. Not much of an ask.

And this is why the Irish are, perhaps even by majority, rabidly in favor of the “Palestinian” cause – simple thickheaded hatred. The Irish do see kindred spirits in Hamas and Hezbollah. Keep in mind that even after independence, Irish people were setting off bombs in the UK into the late 1990’s in service of the cause of bringing Northern Ireland under the rule of Dublin. Why? Because in the distant past (like 300 years) the land had been majority Irish. That’s it. Forget that a huge number of events came between, say, 1650 and 1950: it had once been Irish and Irish it must become again. For…reasons. Can’t really think of any. Whatever might have happened in the past, by the time of Irish independence the majority of the population wasn’t Irish and didn’t want to be part of Ireland. That’s an end on it. There was no just cause for anyone to complain about this. But there was the IRA setting off bombs in British pubs in the 1970’s because of some mythical past in Ulster. So, too, the “Palestinians”. Not quite as much time but what happened on 10/7 is that the great-granddaughter of a Jew living in 1948 was raped to death by the great-grandson of a Muslim who tried to kill the Jew in 1948…the modern Muslim trying to annul the last 75 years and make Tel Aviv Muslim…which it hasn’t been by majority population since some time in the mid-19th century. But it was Muslim once upon a time!

As if that matters. It ain’t now. Whatever wrongs happened didn’t happen to the people today (the youngest Muslim who can have a complaint against 1948 is, of course, 76 years old…just figure it out for the youngest adult Muslim who can have a legit complaint: 94 years old). We’re not talking a large number of people even if there was a legit complaint…and the people with a gripe (if there are such) did not take part in 10/7.

And that brings us to a stark realization that we have, for a very long time, allowed very stupid people to disturb the peace of the world for nonsensical reasons. We’re on the brink of a regional war in the Middle East – which could eventually drag in the Great Powers – because of a very stupid concept: that there is some cause “Palestinians” are fighting for. It isn’t a cause. It is an idiocy. It is twaddle. It is infantile nonsense. But we treat it with great respect. We hold conferences about it. UN votes. It is disturbing our own domestic politics. We’ve imported some of the problem so that we can now have “Palestinians” beating up Jews here in the USA. But not just the ridiculous “Palestinians”…time and time again around the world since WWII we have seen these fights emerge as idiots decide to go on murderous rampages in service of stupid causes based upon alleged injustices of the past. Think about the Rwandan genocide as the worst sort of example: Hutu massacred Tutsi…because of some bizarre complaint about who was better off under Belgian colonial rule decades previously. It was just mindless savagery…and the world sat back and watched it happen because for whatever insane reason it has been decided that stupid people acting like lunatics are to be treated with respect.

We have to stop that. Understanding that we live in a big world with lots of different people. Understanding that our understanding of what is true and beautiful might be different from someone else’s. Sure. All that. But nobody can be allowed to act like savages over the past. Did he, that person, do something to you? No. Then shut up and sit down; we have nothing to discuss unless he does. And when some person or group or even nationality decides to go on a violent rampage based on some alleged past action – true or not – then that person or group or even nationality should be punished with exemplary brutality to make sure they – and everyone else – learns the lesson. We will not have any more of this nonsense.

The world is becoming increasingly violent and teeters on the edge of conflagration. We have to call a halt to it. Back in the 19th century, a halt was called to it. The Great Powers simply did not permit lunatics to go on rampages. The British sent a whole army to Sudan in 1898 to overthrow a thug regime which was practicing slavery. Not because it threatened the British – but because it was a thug regime that needed to be overthrown. No worries about national feeling or the pride of the locals…they were selling slaves. Stop that or here comes our army. When the Rwandan Genocide happened the world knew within days what was happening…and the world should have said, “stop it or we’re sending an army in to hang every Hutu caught with a machete”. They would have stopped. Heck, if we had a world where that sort of firmness was common then it probably would not have started. A bunch of Hutu dimwits would have been sharpening their machetes and really, really wanting to dice a Tutsi…but then they’d remember that each time savages go on a rampage the savages all end up hung…so, maybe find something else to do that day.

And this isn’t difficult. It isn’t morally murky. We Americans might get it wrong from time to time but we’re not setting off bombs because Cromwell burned an Irish farmhouse in 1650. Not massacring people because they had a privileged position the past. In short, we’re better than that – and better than any “Palestinian” setting up a rocket launcher in UNRWA school. And that means we get to tell them what they may or may not do and if they act like pigheaded, disobedient savages then they will be punished. The world is on fire and it is time to put it out.

Decent People

Mark Noonan23 Comments

You probably heard of the scandals swirling around Mark Robinson – the Lt Governor of North Carolina and current candidate for governor. Its pretty nasty stuff he’s accused of but he’s denying it entirely. Someone, therefore, is lying – Robinson or CNN which broke the story. CNN does have a history of lying – of essentially being a comms shop for the DNC so I don’t see why anyone should just automatically accept their word on it. Maybe they are telling the truth – but how about a grain of salt here?

That is not how a lot of people on the Right decided to go – Never Trump, obviously, but even quite a few regular GOP/Right voices immediately spoke up to totally condemn Robinson and the overall GOP for nominating him. Based on a CNN story. About something he allegedly did 15 years ago. Isn’t that just par for the course? We’re being lectured again about decency. But what, exactly, is decency?

Robert K Massie in his masterful Nicholas and Alexandra (about the last Czar of Russia) discussed the overall influence of Grigori Rasputin noted that while he was a bad man who did many bad things, unlike other 20th century monsters he didn’t organize the murder of millions nor build a Cult of Personality around himself. He stole, but he also gave away. He’d debauch a duchess, but he’d also send a poor girl to school. He advised badly, but was also against Russia going to war against both Japan in 1904 and Germany in 1914. What this points out is that things can have a bit of nuance in them and that nobody should rush to judgement. We do have to really drill down and decide what is right and wrong. What is decent and indecent.

To our opponents, we are indecent. From Trump on down we’re just these vile people who must be stopped at all costs. We’re deplorable, right? To our opponents, what Robinson is accused of doing just highlights MAGA’s overall depravity. They accept at face value the accusations and have immediately mounted their high horses to point at us and say, “how dare you! How could you besmirch Our Democracy with this man? Repent!”.

Did you know that for 2023, Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio experienced a 91% increase? She’s beating Warren Buffet as an investor. By a lot. But here’s the funny thing, before she entered politics she was just a housewife in San Francisco. Never worked at an investment bank. Since then, she’s been kinda busy, right? I mean with the whole politics thing and rising to become Speaker. Where did she find time to learn to be such a stellar investor?

Of course you know what’s happening here – she, or her third-party cut-outs, are using her inside knowledge to position her portfolio for the best gains. She’s done this all along as far as can be determined. She got into office and the money just started to roll in. She’s continuing to do it. But here’s the thing, her estimated worth is $240 million. Even considering how pricey it is to live in California, that’s quite a bundle. But she’s not stopping. She’s 84 years old and still raking it in as if she’s counting on living to 100. And wants her great-great-great-great-grandchildren born rich.

Isn’t that a little indecent? I mean, as far as earnings go the most she ever made was 223.5k annual as Speaker. She’s worth $240 million. Didn’t someone once say that there comes a point when you’ve earned enough? This wizened crone who has been a barnacle on American politics since 1987 seems to me to have earned enough. But she just keeps at it.

But that’s mere financial chicanery. Not the exact sort of thing Robinson is accused of, right? I mean, the Feds managed to obscure what happened in the Paul Pelosi case and make out that the assailant was some right wing zealot (they are so common in San Francisco, don’t you know?) so we can’t officially categorize whatever Paul was up to with what Robinson allegedly wrote on a message board (writing things on a message board is always far worse, right? I mean, doing something is nothing…it is when you write something that you really get into evil…hey, I’m just trying to understand Decent People Values here).

One thing I do note about our Decent People is that, for the most part, they are ardent supporters of the Ukraine war. Nobody really knows how many have died in the war as both sides are brazenly lying about it but a mid-level estimate would put it at around a million dead between the two sides about evenly split. We’re told we have to keep this up and there’s no possibility of any compromise peace…the Ukrainians must fight on until all of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory is cleared of Russians. How that is to be accomplished when at the moment it appears Russia has 3 to 1 manpower superiority is never explained. But fight on they must! Decent People say so!

Of course, these Decent People never seem to mention the Sudan Civil War. Heard of it? Probably not. But it started about 18 months ago. Nobody really has any clue how many have died but its well past 100,000 for certain while millions of people have been forced into refugee status. There is also massive amounts of just plain murder, rape and robbery going on as all authority has broken down. Not making the nightly news. The leaders of the conflict are not being invited to address Congress. Billions of dollars are not being appropriated. Why is one horrible war demanding our effort but another horrible war not? Can’t say for certain but I do note that no President’s son ever got a 50 grand a month, no-show job in Sudan. In fact, I haven’t heard of anyone in the USA getting paid by the Sudanese…and though our Ruling Class is entirely made up of Decent People (they are dead certain about this), they seem to be a little selective in what they care about…and where cash is placed on the table always seems to command their attention.

Dunno. Maybe I’m being weird here. I mean, if the accusations of Robinson are true then he wrote things. How can I possibly compare that to millions of people fleeing their homes ahead of genocidal enemies? I should be more like Decent People, I guess.

But you make that turn and you set up your shrine to Mitt Romney (once Hitler II, now Revered Republican – I’m sure him being anti-Trump has nothing to do with the switch) and you try to wash all that MAGA off…but then you suddenly remember that the Decent People are in favor of abortion until birth. Of open borders which has created a new slave trade with all its attendant horrors. The Decent People don’t seem to care much about the number of Americans dying each year of drugs. They say they want to solve homelessness but we look at where they’ve poured money into it and see…bums defecating on the streets which are filled with garbage and boarded up shop windows. They are the Decent People, right? They do think its wrong to poop on the sidewalk, don’t they?

Or maybe I just don’t have the wit to understand it – maybe I’ve been wrong my whole life? Maybe Decency is ignoring drug-addled zombies as I make my way from gated home to guarded bistro? Maybe Decency is ignoring pathetic graves in the Ukrainian steppe while greedily following Raytheon’s stock performance? Maybe Decency is saying one thing and doing the opposite? All we can say for certain is that Decency is not writing things on a message board. That is beyond the pale. Of that the Decent People are quiet certain.

I mean, being Decent People is not hard. And look at the rewards you get for being one of them – you know, things like invites to Diddy’s parties.

Oh, wait; scratch that. Been a sudden change. Sure he was given an MTV Global Icon award – but that was last year. I mean, forget that he’s been a star since 1990 and has appeared with just about every prominent person in the USA at one time or another and had honors showered upon by the largest American institutions…absolutely none of the Decent People had any idea what he was up to! Complete mystery! Nobody dropping by Diddy’s house ever noticed the 700+ dildos. He’s now accused of all manner of horrors and looks like he’s going to spend the rest of his life in jail (and depending on how “Epstein” this whole thing is, that might not be very long). And none of the Decent People had anything to do with it! Just like Maxwell being convicted of selling kids, there are no purchasers to be charged! The Decent People are sure of that. Diddy did horrors and nobody but Diddy. Stop looking!

And remember to condemn the guy who wrote down some stuff in 2009 when he was a complete nobody working at a furniture factory. He’s the real bad guy! Not the rich and famous hanging out with the guy facing massive charges. Give the Decent People a break – Mayor Adams’ has revoked Diddy’s key to New York City. What more do you want?

America will be saved when at long last everyone who ever wrote a nasty note is destroyed and the Decent People who didn’t know anything about Cosby, Epstein and Diddy are free to govern America unhindered.

Or, maybe not?