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Mark Noonan4 Comments

Let us modify the 14th:

All persons born to two American citizens, native born or two persons naturalized in the United States according to law are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Persons born to one American citizen are citizens of the United States if they have been continuously resident within the United States for at least ten years prior to their eighteenth birthday and take an oath affirming their loyalty and renouncing all foreign ties. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, nor shall any State provide any aid whatsoever to non-citizens. Violation of a oath made in any capacity shall result in permanent disenfranchisement and is not subject to the pardon power.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective number of adult citizens. No legislative district shall be valid if it is drawn for the purposes of securing a partisan political victory nor shall any district be based upon race, ethnic, gender or religious grounds. If any district is challenged on grounds of validity, seven adult citizens of that district shall be randomly chosen via lottery to gather and rule on the validity of the district. A majority is required for ruling on the district validity. The House of Representatives shall be required to expel members from invalid legislative districts; any Representative or Senator who disagrees with said expulsion shall also be expelled. Any person expelled from Congress is by that act permanently disenfranchised and may never hold any office of profit or trust in the United States or the several States.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in actions which violated that oath.

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred due to fraudulent activity; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Make your own additions or subtractions as you like: but it is clear that if we are to be a serious nation with a future, we’re going to have to start spelling things out. We can’t rely on honesty and good will – too many of our fellow citizens are idiots and crooks. We can’t leave things open to interpretation because the liars will simply interpret them to support lies.

I saw a picture of that Islamist massacre of Christians in Nigeria over Palm Sunday and it is going to stick with me forever – quite horrific. Don’t search for such pictures. This poor kid had his face sliced in half.

But we do need to think about it – these savages hacked the Christians to pieces. Think about the physical effort and time that takes. The perpetrators would have been covered in gore after they were done. Yes, they are still humans and thus endowed with the rights of same – but they are also unreasonable, inhuman savages. We can’t negotiate with such people – they don’t have grievances which we can ameliorate…they have a vision of themselves as eternal brute masters over slaves. There is no half way point between what they want and what any decent person deserves.

In Iran, this is what we’re fighting – the same sort of people. Yes, they are in error. Yes, they are capable of repentance. Yes, if they do repent then they can be welcomed with open arms into the community of people. But first they must be stopped – and that will require violence. You can’t disabuse people of such deep seated evil by careful reasoning…if they were open to careful reasoning, they never would have got to the point where they chop people up. I hope that Trump arms the Christians and provides them support via our Navy and Air Force.

Apparently for Season 3 of Rings of Power, one of the heroes is an orc. It is like they are deliberately going out of their way to be insulting.

Orcs were creatures of Morgoth in Tolkien’s universe. It is never made clear whether they were something made out of whole cloth by Morgoth or captive elves which he ruined. Suffice it to say, the orcs were made in mockery of elves. Entirely evil and entirely enslaved to Morgoth and, later, to Morgoth’s emissary, Sauron. Clever enough to make weapons and do other basic things, they were usually lazy, greedy and cowardly. Unless they had a Dark Lord to impose his will, they wandered in small bands, killing and stealing what they could. Orcs aren’t born – they are spawned. This does imply some sort of female of the species, but orcs are incapable of love or devotion. So, no, an orc can’t be friends with an elf, even as some sort of temporary alliance. That the writers of Rings of Power are doing this means they want to change the entire meaning of Tolkien’s work – and IMO, this was started with the first series for the Lord of the Rings. There were two major parts totally excluded from the movies: Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire. Part of this was time constraints but I believe that most of it was because the people who made the movie failed to understand why Bombadil was in it and why the Shire had to be scoured. Most important, though, was the excising of the Scouring.

Tolkien, himself, said it was an integral part of the story and envisioned from the start. That is, the hobbits after their arduous adventures, would have to return home and set the Shire to rights. Clean out the bad elements – a sort of low-key version of what Aragorn was doing in Gondor. That is, in any people, bad elements slip in and start to erode the good things and if they aren’t called out and expelled from time to time, it just gets worse. The hobbits had grown lazy and overly tolerant…they just wanted to be left alone and thought it was their right to be left alone. But all the while, enemies were gathering…enemies which could have been easily kept out by a bit of vigilance, but laziness allowed them in, causing death and destruction. By not having it in the movies, we are left with the sense that nothing was ever wrong with the hobbits. Nothing needed to be cured, nobody needed to stand guard. It left a hole in the tale…and that hole is now being driven through by people who not only don’t understand Tolkien’s world, but hate it.

It is my hope that eventually the slop they’re doing now will eventually be forgotten and in later years, truer adaptations will be made.


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Mark Noonan19 Comments

The Iran war has been a major revelation showing us how the entire Global Ruling class has a vested interest in keeping the Mullah regime going. Now, just why is that? Well:

  1. A lot of them are bribed. The Mullahs pay them off. Never forget that the Ruling Class is corrupt and greedy – throw a couple bucks at them and they’ll dance to your tune.
  2. Peace in the Middle East would be a catastrophe. Reminder: the continued chaos there justifies the continuation of migration to Europe…gotta get those poor people outta there, right? If there’s peace, there’s no justification for replacing French and British voters.
  3. They really hate Israel. Of all the geopolitical events since 1945, Israel is the one they’ve come to hate the most. It is rich. It is powerful. It has the only growing Christian population in the Middle East. It is the only Middle East nation where Muslims are able to vote in genuinely free elections. It is a standing indictment of not just the Muslim world, but of the entire Third World…showing that starting from war and poverty you can lift yourselves up and very rapidly. You can have a free and law abiding society.
  4. Combined with this, the Ruling Class has been importing Muslims by the million and in order to keep them voting for that Ruling Class, hating Israel is a requirement. Even if one of them would prefer to support Israel, the potential loss of votes – and the turning over of their nations to patriots – is something not worth the risk.

Combine all that and you can see why they are so invested in the Mullah regime. Make no mistake about it, the Mullahs have not closed the Straight of Hormuz. They can’t. They lack the physical means to do so. But the Mullahs said it is closed and the Global Ruling Class went along with it and ordered the ships to stop sailing…because they hoped it would spike oil prices and force Trump to back down. What they didn’t understand was that Drill Baby Drill had already made the USA independent of the global oil market…we have had price spikes, but those really are just people being greedy. Charging the higher price because they can, not because they need to…in the USA, there is no shortage of oil or natural gas. To be sure, lots of countries are running out (I hear that Thailand is already rationing gasoline), but we aren’t. Trump is right when he proclaims we don’t need the Straight – it is Europe and Asia’s problem if it is closed. We can go on like this for a while – and the longer it goes on, the more the USA will be decoupled from the global oil and gas market…that is, our prices will start to drop, rapidly, even if the rest of the world is paying $20 a gallon for rationed gasoline.

Now, how will Trump wrap this up? I have no idea. It won’t go on much longer, though. Don’t pay much attention to alleged statements from the Mullah regime – in reality, there is no regime. No real government. Just various factions – mostly led by third and fourth tier people – vying for survival. Any idiot can put on a dress uniform and appear in front of a camera with a flag in the background to make a statement. What appears to be happening is the continued rapid degradation of every Iranian military asset – including tanks, vehicles and ammunition supplies – while Trump people talk to various Iranian people, trying to find the guy who will cut a deal…that is, bury the Mullah regime and become the transitional government. The continued bombing is important because day by day the various factions have less to bring to the table…and now it appears we’re hitting the ability to censor the internet and television. That is, the Iranian people are now getting access to non-regime news. The longer the factions hold out, the less their leverage…the coup de grace would be US occupation of strategic Iranian territory. Everyone is focused on Kharg Island, but I’m thinking Bandar Abbas and environs. But, that is all up to Trump and his people. We’ll see how he brings this to an end.

A Spanish girl in government care was raped by migrants. Not getting proper help afterwards, she attempted suicide which left her paralyzed. Then the government pressured her in to “assisted suicide” and her organs were harvested. You really need to think about that one – and not get angry at the migrants. To be sure, they all need to be flogged and then hung…but they aren’t the problem. The problem is the host of people – doctors, nurses, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians, orderlies, etc – who made it all happen. The evil of the Nazi regime – or the Stalinist regime – wasn’t Hitler (or Stalin) it was the army of faceless operatives who made it all happen. The clerks who fill out the forms. The officials who sign the forms. The end-use operatives who carry out whatever is written on the forms. There was someone who filled out the form for the girl’s suicide…typing away at a computer screen, making sure there were no typos and all the relevant information was accurate…and what that clerk was doing was having a poor, suffering victim killed…to be harvested for organs and then forgotten about. After all, looking up at the clock, have to get this one done before lunch today!

The evils of the modern world are only possible because people go along with them. With a shrug. And it is just those people who must be severely punished. The insanely evil can’t do it unless (allegedly) decent, hard working people agree to help. We have to figure out some way to make such faceless actors indictable – and then convict them and subject them to something really horrific. It is the only way to drive home the absolute moral requirement that nobody cooperate with evil. Ever. Even for a minute.

UPDATE: All yesterday a growing love between Americans and Japanese flowed through social media. Appropriately it started with a shared love of barbecue. But it looks pretty awesome…some samples:

Japanese version of Country Roads. Very much worth a watch!

Japanese apparently like country music:


Japanese thanks Trump for the Pearl Harbor joke because, in his view, it finally completely buries the WWII hatchet. We can josh with each other, even about the bad things, because we’re friends.

Awesome:

Also awesome:

And more awesomeness:

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Mark Noonan43 Comments

Trump may be playing a much deeper game than even his supporters suspect – that the Iran conflict is just one piece of a global puzzle designed to make NATO useful, or no more while at the same time imposing American dominance not just in the Naval sphere, but in the whole of global maritime commerce. Think about what he’s concentrating on – Panama, Greenland, Hormuz…some of the major choke points for global seaborne trade being taken under American power with a US President who wants a massive revival in American shipbuilding (once again, all true strategists concentrate on logistics…the movement of people and goods…Trump wants us in control of it). The NATO aspect is, crudely, poop or get off the pot…is NATO of any worth at all? Can NATO do something as simple as control a maritime trade corridor? If it can’t or won’t do that, what is the point of it?

And what, then, the point of the UN?

Things are moving on a deep level here…and I’m interested to see how Trump wraps it all up. The war with Iran will probably finish up to at least the main elements in the next seven to ten days. But the long term ramifications of it might be quite surprising and take some months to shake out.

There’s a non-zero chance that in the California jungle primary it is two GOPers who face off in November for governor. Naturally, Democrats will do all they can to ensure against this – but the seven Democrats in the race are all morons and egotistical…they might not be able to get enough of them to back out.

Latest propaganda line out of Tehran is that the more Mullahs we kill the stronger Iran gets. This is like me winning a fight by letting the other guy bash my face in. Its a bold strategy, we’ll see if it pays off.

The late Cesar Chavez – of United Farm Workers fame – appears to have been a guy who liked to abuse young girls. It isn’t all confirmed but it does look pretty bad for his reputation…and if it is true, then we have to keep in mind that everyone – and I mean everyone – around him must have known it was going on and kept their mouths shut because, at the time, Chavez was doing the Ruling Class’ bidding. Why tear him down now, years after his death? Because he was opposed to illegal immigration…and so the Left is unpersoning him posthumously.

Biden’s CIA identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators or racist extremism.

But it wasn’t just a brand new thing – essentially, since 1945, the things of the West have been considered by our Ruling Class as the markers for evil. They’ve been at war with them since the end of World War Two…it is just out in the open now.

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Mark Noonan22 Comments

Our enemies – foreign and domestic – are upset that an American sub sank an Iranian warship. It was sneaky!

Like, do you guys even know what a submarine is for?

For the record: it doesn’t matter if the ship was armed. Doesn’t matter if it was close or far from home. It was a warship – it was a target. It was sunk and that’s all there is to it…if you’re upset about it then I direct you to complain to the nearest Mullah hiding in an Iranian tunnel…they sent that ship to see in whatever condition it was. It should have been fully ready for war – warships are always supposed to be fully ready for war. If they’re not, then the commanders of those ships are the criminals, not the people who destroyed them.

Some people are saying that the Geneva Convention requires us to rescue the survivors of a torpedoing and to that I answer…what the heck are you talking about? The Conventions don’t mention submarine warfare and, indeed, it is the one area of warfare which has practically no treaty or legal coverage. Deliberately so: no nation which employs submarines would ever limit them…they are there to suddenly destroy, without warning and then sail away to find the next target. Warning the target or bringing succor to the survivors merely makes submarine warfare useless. This was disposed of as an argument by the Nuremburg tribunals where we tried to nail Doenitz for unrestricted submarine warfare – no less than Fleet Admiral Nimitz scotched that by pointing out to the tribunal that he had issued the exact same orders right after Pearl Harbor. Maybe subs should never have happened – but they did and in war time, their targets are anything on the seas. Anything. At any time.

We are being treated to a heavy dose of defeatist propaganda. Well, we are if we listen…as for me, I’ve muted most accounts on X which start off with “breaking” because I’ve found that what comes after is 99% nonsense. Merest clickbait unsupported by facts or even by common sense.

How is the war going? We’re sending B-52s. We don’t send B-52s into an environment where the enemy in any way contests control of the air. They are great planes. We’ll probably be flying them into the 2040s…but they are no match for anything like a modern air defense system, let alone a modern fighter. They go in when the skies are clear and we have a large target we want heavily degraded. That’s how the war is going. That is how we know we’re winning.

We’re re-establishing full diplomatic relations with Venezuela if you want a clue about how this thing in Iran will come out. Turns out that being America actually gets results. We haven’t tried to be America since Truman fired MacArthur.

Noem got the boot…and a new job with Rubio’s State Department. So, she clearly upset Trump a bit, but not all the way. She has a clear shot to get herself back into good graces. We’ll see how she does in the new role. Meanwhile, Senator Mullin is named as replacement and he figures that the babies of illegals need to be deported, too. So, Democrats may have semi-collected a scalp here, but they’re not going to like it long term.

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The Chicago Bears may become the Gary, Indiana Bears soon – part of this is just the usual pro sports team looking for taxpayer handouts for a new stadium…but part of it is that Chicago is becoming unlivable. The Bears, as an organization, want a first rate stadium which is in an area where families are happy to come watch a game.

Gary is, of course, part of the large Chicago metropolitan area but as it is in Indiana, it has a government run by sane people. Huge difference! Add in lower tax rates and you get a massive incentive to bail out of Chicago. We’ve mentioned this before – Democrat governance is getting worse and worse and people are starting to notice…and I mean really starting to notice. The failures of the Blue model are becoming an albatross around the Democrats’ neck. New York City will simply put this perception of Democrat insane failure on steroids.

Both the Canadian and European militaries are working up plans to recruit large numbers of foreigners into their armed forces. The official reason is to increase diversity – the actual reason is they want a new Waffen-SS which will have no problem with shooting Europeans and Canadians who get out of line…and who will have a vested interest in making sure the regimes they serve never fall. Things like this plus Spanish and French plans to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegals so they can vote give the game away – the Western Ruling Class knows it is doomed unless it can find some way to oppress Western people. It is sad. I hope the Canadians and Europeans rise up and overthrow their governments…but as they are unarmed and sunk into sloth and cowardice, I don’t think they will.

On the other hand, Rupert Lowe has founded Restore Britain – a new political party explicitly committed to kicking the migrants out and making Britain British again. Naturally, everyone is calling him a racist – including the guys over at Reform. Gotta keep in mind that when the MSM called Reform “far Right” they really meant “not totally Leftist insane”. Reform does have some good elements in it – but like the Tories, they are still Labour-lite. That is, like the old line GOP, merely committed to slowing down the death of the country. Restore is the British MAGA. They are growing by leaps and bounds as they are actually speaking what has been on British minds for decades (the British people never, not even once, voted for the foreign invasion of their country)…what we’ll find out at the next election is whether or not there are enough patriots in Britain to form a government…or overthrow the current one if voting fails to get the job done.

Former Prince Andrew got arrested – and I really can’t imagine why. The British government just refused to investigate foreign grooming gangs because it would cause offense…so why do they care what Andrew was up to? I can only figure they want this as some sort of distraction from how catastrophically unpopular the Labour government has become.

The 79th person was just indicted in the “feed our children” welfare scam…Trump Time is bizarre and one thing crowds out another…but always keep at the back of your mind that Team Trump is remorselessly grinding away even when the cameras are pointed elsewhere.

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Mark Noonan26 Comments

Democrats, MSMers and RINOs are all in Campaign Mode. You know – “it is OVER! The GOP has Lost! There is nothing that can stop the Democrat juggernaut in November! Trump has failed!” And they trot out the same polls which got 2024 wrong as proof of it all…spliced together with articles like “you know, I was like totally talking to this construction guy in south Texas and everyone is going to vote Democrat because Trump is deporting the illegals who worked the jobs”. Oh, and guys, the events in Minnesota are seared into the public mind and they all hate Trump for it.

Hey, we’ll see how it comes out – if the American people want the illegals to stay, the boys to keep playing in girls sports and carbon taxes on being normal, then that is what they’ll get. But I have my doubts about that – especially as Team Trump/GOP is already starting to use their vast campaign funds to advertise. Those videos we had of Leftist rioters waving Mexican flags? Yeah, that’s gonna start showing up on the TV…it’ll probably show up a lot for the World Series. Democrats are still for “they/them” and the GOP is for you.

Here’s what it is: the Democrats are playing the Wizard of Oz like hours after the curtain has been pulled back. We know it is all fake. But they keep pushing the buttons and working the controls as if we aren’t right there, watching them lie while pointing and laughing at them. Twenty years ago, the scenes in Minnesota would really have been seared…because there was no force to question the MSM Narrative and no GOPer with the guts to stand up against the Narrative. Now we have X and Trump…it just doesn’t work any longer.

Zeek Akram appears to be a black guy who doesn’t have a problem with MAGA. Personally, I only just recently encountered his account for the first time but he’s been there for six years. Anyways, whoever he is, exactly, he captured the truth perfectly with this:

The old charge of racism just doesn’t work on us. FFS, my granddaughter is mixed race. I don’t know anyone among my friends who doesn’t have at least some mixture added to the cracker. Who do I want my granddaughter to eventually marry? Of course a steely-eyed missile man of supreme courage and good looks with buckets of money…but the reality is that as long as the guy is sober, hard working and kind…we’re cool. Beyond that it doesn’t really matter.

The crucial thing the Groypers don’t get is that you don’t have to be white to be civilized. You just have to be civilized. Thomas Sowell is exceptionally civilized. More so, indeed, than some Groyper moron out there thinking the Jews had it coming in 1933. But the Left also doesn’t get it on the other side…to be civilized you have to be civilized. You can’t be eating rice with your fingers or taking a dump on the street…nor can you engage in “honor killing” of your wayward daughter, nor clog a street with prayer in the middle of the day. It doesn’t matter what skin color the barbarians have…if they are barbarians, they have to be kept out. As I’ve said before, I’ll trade an uncivilized American white person for a civilized Nigerian Catholic farmer any day of the week. I like the Mexicans who live behind my house much better than the drunken white people who used to live there.

I think we are on the cusp of really resolving the race issue in the United States. Sure, for the next few election cycles the Democrats will race-bait in the most cruel ways imaginable. But I don’t think it will work – that, in fact, we’ll start to see a larger and more durable shift of non-white voters to the GOP. In the end, the battle is between the Useful and the Useless. A “studies” professor is as useless as a welfare bum…and they vote the same way. But what does the black working man have in common with the black welfare bum? Nothing. He’s far more like the white working man. The Latino working man. The Asian working man. The key is “working man”. The men and women who actually get things done in the USA are all of one class…color blind and gender neutral. They just want to be able to work in peace, keep what they earn and raise their families in safe neighborhoods. Some of them are poor…some of them are billionaires. But they all want the same basic things…and I think they are about to win, over the next two or three cycles, complete power in the USA.

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Mark Noonan25 Comments

The latest wrinkle Leftist federal district judges have come up with – if you are illegally in the USA for some undetermined period of time and “put down roots” you now have a legal interest in remaining in the USA and can’t be deported – or even detained – without due process of law. This is entirely in violation of the law as written. There is no “if you get away with it long enough” exception to immigration law. Sure, the appellate courts will eventually strike it down but then these judges will just try the next thing…because the law doesn’t matter to them. They are in place simply to impose Democrat policy preferences regardless of what the law says, or the people vote for.

We have to arrest them – we have tens of thousands of federal statutes on the books and these judges are in violation of some of them. Sure, pretty much all of us are to one degree or another…but the law is the law and if we find the violation, we can bring the charges. It is the only way I can think of to curb these people…to let them know we’re serious. Impeachment won’t work because of the 67 vote requirement in the Senate. So, we must find some other expedient to stop these ridiculous rulings from fanatics in judicial robes.

There’s a new STD floating around out there – Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype. No, I had never heard of it, either. But, then again, I don’t get out much these days. It is a fungal infection which seems to have originated among sex tourists in Asia and it is commonly spread via sexual activity among “men who have sex with men”…which is the CDC’s way of not saying “homosexuals”. Apparently there is now a large outbreak in Minnesota…so, we wait for word on where the male officials of the State government have been vacationing of late.

Side note: that we have something called “sex tourism” is an abomination. People who do that should be flogged within an inch of their lives.

I’ve seen a lot of Right influencers – including some major Catholic accounts – on social media moving towards overt anti-Semitism. This, my friends, is the lure of cash…there are people who will pay you a lot of money to toe a line. The Left, of course, does this – you can’t really think these Leftist accounts which repeat the most absurd lies actually believe it. But some people will sell their soul for money. Now it is happening on the Right. Keep in mind that I blog and post on X and I’m just this guy…I’m doing ok, but suppose someone proposed to double my annual income at the stroke of a pen and all I had to do was lie about Jews? It is chump change to the person buying the influence…it would be life-changing for me. To be sure, I believe I am morally strong enough to reject such an offer (and, in fact, will never get into a position to have the offer made…those who are bought are cultivated over time until the offer is made)…but no matter what, there will always be people who will give into temptation.

It is everywhere, my friends. Latest revelation is that Code Pink is apparently heavily funded by the Chinese Communist Party. Why wouldn’t they? An organization made up of people who hate America and who want it destroyed? Of course you kick a couple bucks over to them. Qatari money. Saudi money. Russian money. EU money. All of it filtered through various dark money organizations and passed out to people who will hew to a propaganda line no matter how absurd it is…because it is propaganda directed at an American population increasingly ignorant of basic history (read that in Philadelphia public schools they don’t mention things like the Civil War or WWII but they will tell you that Settler-Colonialism is evil, while Islam is good). That is, you can say really rather stupid lies and hardly anyone out there will have the knowledge to call you out on it.

There’s an article in New York Magazine which laments that the historically black neighborhoods of NYC are demographically changing…you know, the local population being replaced by outsiders. This is, I gather, bad…but apparently only if its a black neighborhood.

Side note on that: NYC is becoming a place where you can live if you are desperately poor or fabulously rich…but if you just work for a living, you can’t stay. This is same in California, Illinois, Washington, Massachusetts…and we can take a guess why these areas are like that.

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Homan is drawing down federal officers in Minneapolis…because he’s getting ever more cooperation from local law enforcement. The bet is that Minnesota business interests are putting pressure on the government there. Keep in mind that the State legislature is very evenly divided so Democrats are not all-powerful. They do hold the State-wide offices but only via fraud in Minneapolis…and Trump’s actions have already heavily cut into their ability to carry that out. Basically, everyone is running for cover.

Keep in mind that the Democrats had hoped to have continual violence all year long in Minnesota: to hide and preserve the fraud, weaken Trump overall and goose Democrat turnout in November. Trump refused to play along – he actually did lower the temperature, while increasing the pressure (those federal fraud investigations are still ongoing and uncovering more of it all the time). It is very important to keep in mind that while Democrats do have power they are, for the most part, pretty stupid people…the smart people who built the machine are long gone…what is left is people who managed to get into power because of the machine, but who have no real clue how it works…nor that the most important part of it is keeping the cities livable. Trump is playing them like a fiddle.

The Washington Post fired a huge amount of staff. Bezos could keep them – the financial losses at the Post are chump change to him. But Bezos lives in the real world – and a money-losing enterprise doesn’t appeal to him. Nor does endless Democrat propaganda. Sure, Bezos is a big Liberal…but he appears to want a news outfit that, you know?, some times reports the news. One of the fired people put out on X a series of recent articles…they seem to deal with health care and I suspect that was the reporter’s beat. Ok. Fine. Health news is useful. But in all the articles I didn’t see one looking into the massive amount of healthcare fraud. You know: like how Los Angeles has more hospice care facilities than Florida.

Look, guys: you can be Liberal, if you like. It is pretty dumb – you have to believe some utter nonsense. But, hey: live as you want to live! What you can’t be is, well, evil. And it is evil to ignore all the money being stolen simply because reporting it would look bad for Democrats. You should still report it. Heck, you should want to report it. Long term, it would help your side if you hammered the corruption. That you don’t cover the corruption means you’re part of it…not reporters at all. Mere regime propagandists. I don’t think Bezos wants that and after some efforts to simply get the Post to start being a news outfit, it looks like he’s decided to dispense with the propagandists. For crying out loud, the money being stolen is supposed to help the poor you Liberals claim you care so much about.

Israel appointed Major General Ghassan Alian to head up their Druze affairs bureau. Not much: except Alian is a Druze. You know: not a Jew. Who is a Major General in the IDF. That right there is why we stand with Israel. Is Israel perfect? No. Does Israel make mistakes? Oh, some quite fabulous ones. But they are the only decent nation in the Middle East…and one of the very few decent nations in the world. We’re not owned by Israel…we simply recognize our kin even across the water.

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Mark Noonan29 Comments

Walz backed down, Frey is standing firm – both are idiots but my guess is that Walz knows a losing hand when he sees one…while Frey is probably so beholden to Minneapolis corruption that he knows he stands or falls with it. Bottom line is that if Minnesota allows mere federal law enforcement, then the jig is up for the Left in that State…they’ll lose their ability to steal money and elections.

Trump isn’t backing down. The various hand-wringers on the Right went into full Doom mode but were silenced when ICE was seen having beers and watching Minnesota cops clear out the rioters from their hotel. Nobody is leaving. Nobody is slowing down. The illegals are still going to go. All of them.

That this is all an op is shown by the RINOs who immediately jumped out with their pre-written amnesty plans…and the Democrats also came out with theirs. Both are absurd, neither has a chance of passage and if any get through Congress, they face a certain veto by Trump. The Democrats want to make ICE get a judicial warrant for each illegal and they can only get such if the illegals commit a federal crime beyond illegal entry…so, you know, no deportations once you get into the country. Nothing shows better that this whole effort is to keep up the fraud…because Democrats know they can’t win without it. And do keep in mind that if we lose in 2028, then that may be final…Democrats will pack the courts, open the gates and do everything they can to make sure they can’t lose a vote.

This is why the continued insistence on the Right with keeping the filibuster is just plain and simple stupid – there is no upside to keep it, no downside to dropping it. Keeping it just allows Democrats to slow us down in 2026 while dropping it doesn’t matter long term…Democrats will ditch it at their first opportunity. This isn’t the old America – we’re no longer living in a nation where everyone is a patriot. Democrats hate this country. They only see it as something to steal from – with the Leftwing fanatics additionally seeing it as something to kill as soon as possible.

But if we stand firm, we’re going to win. The economy is starting to go like a rocket. Trump is clearly enjoying himself, knowing that he has every advantage. He’s already on the stump for 2026 and he plus GOP have something like a billion dollars in the bank to campaign with. The Democrat policies are downright insane and nobody looking at them will figure they have the better path forward..and Trump will make sure everyone looks at them.

That vile Ilhan Omar was the “victim” of an alleged “attack”…someone sprayed some liquid on her. The pre-made MSM Narrative was her continuing her speech like the Brave Fighter for Justice she is…but, sorry, someone sprays some unknown liquid on my I’m going to immediately wash it off and get myself checked out. This is simple prudence…that she kept talking puts a huge amount of Smollet on this event. There’s nothing I want more than her being stripped of her “citizenship” and deported. She’s not one of my fellow Americans…she’s a mere Paperwork American and if we can find the slightest falsehood in there, out she goes.


Open Thread

Mark Noonan26 Comments

Our top immigration judge has advised that immigration judges are not bound by federal court rulings saying the Executive can’t detain illegal immigrants without bond. This assertion has one really strong thing going for it: the law.

Essentially, all these federal cases against immigration enforcement are absurd: they aren’t federal judicial matters. They aren’t dealing with citizens but with foreigners and the presence of foreigners in the USA is, in law, essentially at the discretion of the Executive. This is how Biden and Obama hand-waved millions in – because the Executive has control of it under the powers of the Commander in Chief. The only time a federal court could get involved is if a detained person asserts American citizenship: that is something for a court to decide. But if you’re not a citizen? The Executive can hand wave you out or in. If we were to go to war with China tomorrow, then Trump could simply order every Chinese national detained – regardless of immigration status – and then deported.

There’s no appeal on this. If ordered, done. The whole fracas we’re seeing is simply stupid – the people getting violent about it are ignorant fools when not wicked.

This also shows that under the radar, Trump is getting a lot done – and a lot done which will have massive long term effects on national policy of all sorts. It is my view that Trump at least sometimes picks an issue to make the Left go ballistic over so that while they are having their hissy fit over it, he can busily do other things.

I don’t think Democrats have any idea of the wind they are sowing. We fought them in 1861-65 when they tried to nullify federal law after losing an election fair and square – and after that, we let them up easy. We swiftly allowed them to rejoin as full citizens. People who had been Confederate officers and senior elected officials were allowed to exercise power in the United States. It won’t be like that after round two – we’re fed up. There’s a video out there of a couple guys duck hunting by a lake in the Pacific northwest and this shrieking woman just walks up to them, shouting foul language and telling the hunters she hates them and wants them to leave. The guys just laugh it off and to really set the woman off, shoot a duck. This is the sort of lunatic the Left is…and our guys are still quiet and laughing it off. But if we do get pressed to the point where it is fight or flight, it will be fight…and we will win…and our mercy will slumber.

Trump, as others have pointed out, is their last chance – if he succeeds then the Republic goes on serene and happy. If they do manage to stop him, then that only means that our being fair and nice didn’t work. It’ll be time to be something other than fair and nice.