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Both the British and Australian governments are going after their special forces troops – accusing them of war crimes. Usually based upon very badly constructed Islamist propaganda but the Left in each country runs with it – and the process is the punishment. They are making sure no capable person joins the British or Australian armed forces.

This should make conducting a coup in both countries rather a breeze. I just wonder if the guys will do it? Easier by far to just claim asylum in the United States. But special forces troops are not noted for taking the easy way out.

This does – for the zillionth time – show that the Left all across the West is motivated primarily by hatred of the West. They want the whole system which can produce a man who sacrifices himself for others to be destroyed. Mostly because no Leftist is capable of self-sacrifice. You think about the USSR during WWII…it wasn’t the Communists at the front. Nope, not them. They stayed in the rear – employed as political officers or as NKVD operatives. Solzhenitsyn pointed out how enraged such cowards were at the end of the war when, during the sack of Germany, the Commies always got there after the best stuff had already been stolen…and so they often cooked up cases where they could steal from the Russians who had been in the front lines. That famous picture of the raising of the Red flag on the Reichstag was faked – the actual Russian heroes who fought through the building room by room to get up there weren’t sufficiently Commie for such a thing (and Leftist racism also played a role – one of the men was Asian)…so, they found themselves some properly reliable Commies to do a staged flag raising after the battle was over. Leftists are just generally garbage people. Incapable of sacrifice, of devotion…of any of the finer human qualities. And they are determined to destroy anyone who shows them up for the weak, useless people they are.

I can’t see the Democrats letting Steve Hilton win the governorship in California – they will just stuff the boxes as much as necessary to get the job done. Becerra is a nonentity who is also a lousy retail campaigner. Hilton is out there every day hustling for votes, pointing out just how bad it is in California and that mere common sense requires some political balance in Sacramento. Hilton deserves to win and in anything resembling a fair political system he would win. And just maybe a miracle can happen? It would take just that.

El Salvador’s Bukele is on the warpath against Haitian gangs who have kidnapped four Salvadorans. El Salvador’s military is small but it seems well trained and equipped – with the real difficulty getting it from El Salvador to Haiti. They have no military planes capable of the distance (though they could probably easily lease the necessary aircraft and they do have an airborne unit) but they do have some old USN “mike boats” which could deposit soldiers anywhere you please in Haiti. On the plus side, Haiti doesn’t have an actual government nor army so the Salvadorans could operate at will. I hope we assist in exterminating the Haitian gangs if Bukele decides to move. It is – and always has been – the first step in civilizing Haiti. Ever since independence, it has just been one set of gangs after another competing for primacy in the ability to steal.

Why don’t the French fight back? Well, in the cities they don’t – but out in the French countryside, it would appear that the citizens are arming themselves in their Great Fear II (the first Great Fear was in 1789). We should, for once, put the CIA to some good use – start arming the Rurals in Europe. It can be done – the IRA did it for decades (and some antique IRA members are still alive…and saying they are rebuilding to fight off the new foreign invaders). Heck, we can even secretly give them training inside the United States. As I’ve been saying, 10,000 determined patriots could overthrow any government in Europe. Their military forces are sick jokes while their police forces are made up of cowards only good for arresting teenagers over social media posts. But they don’t have guns.

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To quote from the RINO/Never Trump/NeoCon wing: “aaaahhhhhh! We’re all gonna die!!!!”.

That is the sum total of their election analysis.

Guys, as per usual, we don’t know the future. It will be what it will be! But it is very useful to keep in mind that the people who are telling you Trump is catastrophically unpopular are known and egregious liars. All of them. To a man/woman/xir – none of them have any relation with the truth. They lie. They lie all the time. They lie about everything. They even lie when the truth would work better for them. Could it be possible that this one, miraculous time they’re telling the truth? No. Liars are just that: liars. Unless they publicly repent of their public lies – naming the lies and apologizing for them – they can’t do other than lie. Anyone listening to such people is just being a fool – or part of the op to depress GOP turnout.

And from what I have seen, except for North Carolina and Pennsylvania, GOP turnout is great. The latest election analysis out of Texas had to exclude all the Trump +20 counties to get Democrat turnout into a position to say that Talarico has a shot. Yes, they are lying that brazenly. But the reality is that Talarico is being kept afloat by one Democrat billionaire who seems to have been an Epstein client though for some strange reason the MSM is silent on that – the Democrats aren’t actually putting any serious money into Texas. Because they know it is a pipe dream. That is, not the Blue Tsunami we’re being promised.

I see us with 54 Senate seats and 220 House seats after the election. The House could easily flip the other way because it is so narrow. On the other hand, the recent actions against illegals voting is going to make a lot of ballot box stuffers nervous. Sure, you’re safe from California law enforcement, but not the Feds. And even if the Democrats win Congress, Federal law enforcement is still under Trump for more than two years. Essentially, by going after fraud, Trump is going to depress Democrat vote totals…the reverse of what Democrats are trying to do with GOP voters via psy-ops.

In the end, it is a contest between liars and Trump – can the liars stop Trump from getting MAGA to the polls? We find out on the 3rd. If MAGA shows, we win – and might win by some rather spectacular margins.

Side note – the DNC entered October with a net of $4.2 million in hand. The GOP? $97.3 million. House and Senate campaign committees (which have a lot of different funding sources) are more even.

Regarding that voter fraud case – the State of California admitted it has no mechanism to determine if a registered voter is a citizen. This means (as we all already knew) that the claim that voter fraud is rare in California is simply ridiculous. On the results of elections in California hundreds of billions of dollars (federal, State and local) flow. Thieves will not let that money flow honestly if they can in any way divert it – and the best way to divert is to ensure only the most stupid and/or corrupt people are elected, regardless of who votes.

I doubt California has had a truly honest election in the last twenty years.

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Zelinskyy has made his choice – and he wants his Democrat friends back in office. Things are going very well in the USA with the only jarring note being persistently high gas and diesel prices. Those prices kept artificially high by refinery shutdowns in the USA, Europeans buying a lot on the world market…and Ukrainian attacks on Russian diesel production. It is the high gas prices which allow Democrats to pretend they are upset about high prices (Democrat policies would deliberately propel us towards permanent $10 a gallon gasoline). In service of his Democrat friends – who will turn on the money supply with no questions asked given how much money Democrats were helping themselves to – Zelinskyy has decided to hit even harder a diesel production, even after Trump asked him not to.

Fine. That’s the way he wants it, that’s the way he gets it. Trump is now squeezing money flowing to Ukraine and, in apparent cooperation with Musk, restricting Ukrainian ability to target the Russians.

Putin is a fairly despicable person and, like almost all Russian nationalists from past to present, has zero understanding of Russia’s strategic needs. For probably half what he’s spent fighting Ukraine he could have freed up the Russian economy (still wearing a lot of Soviet-era shackles) and rebuilt hope in the Russian people to the point they wouldn’t be dying out. 1.1 and 1.4 are the crucial numbers here – that is Ukraine and Russia’s respective total fertility rate. Ukraine and Russia are currently fighting over which people will die out in the Donbas by 2100. Ukraine could have given up the Donbas as a lost cause (the front has not moved more than a mile or two in either direction for a couple years now) and similarly rebuilt their economy to give the people some hope and thus some prospect of actually having kids, which is the only thing that truly matters for both countries.

But, they keep fighting. Putin locked into that Muscovite attitude that more land means a better country. Zelinskyy knowing that as soon as the war ends, he’s out of office and at the mercy of a lot of people he’s pissed off for years. As I’ve said from the beginning, I don’t care who governs the Donbas. It is not remotely a strategic interest of the United States. And as for defending Europe and Freedom – Russia can’t move their army from Rostov to Kiev so they’re not going to Warsaw, Berlin or Paris any time soon…and as Europeans can get arrested for simply saying they don’t want Third World savages for neighbors, not seeing much for America to defend there. Truly, screw all of them. But we do need our diesel…and anything else we might need and I’m prepared to whack anyone who gets in the way of us getting on.

Trump is now in complete campaign mode and is doing rallies all over the place. This is a man who simply does not quit – and we’d better not quit on him. He’s not doing this for himself – he’s got all he’s ever wanted. He’s rich. He’s famous. He’s got a great family. A wife who clearly loves him (third time the charm, I guess). He’s President and proved that 2020 was stolen from him. He’s implementing policies that are making America great again day by day. But it is all for us – and if we falter, then it will be all for nought. Those idiots out there saying Trump isn’t doing enough or not doing it fast enough or not in the preferred sequence are either complete morons or paid operatives. There is a gigantic psy-op going on – lead by polls but seconded by endless social media voices…but they all say the same thing: lose. Quit. Surrender. I don’t think it’ll work – but we’ll find out in just a few weeks if it does.

The Netflix version of Narnia is already on the rocks – test screenings are turning out very badly and they are already having to reshoot scenes because audience reaction is so bad. Pro tip: don’t mess with someone else’s story. This has been billed as a reimagining of Lewis’ story. You can’t do that. Not successfully. It is Lewis’ story. He wrote it to tell a certain tale. Maybe you don’t like it. Maybe you think you can take the basic idea and make it better. Fine. Proceed. But don’t take his story and change it into something it isn’t…it looks like an insult. I’m no great author – but I like the Mirrors series. Maybe its bad. Heck, maybe its the worst literature ever written. Doesn’t matter. It is my story. I wrote it to say certain things. Anyone trying to take my story and make it say something else is only insulting me…and anyone who does actually like my story. Write you own, dang it.

Jack Smith’s fascist investigation of Trump went to far as to look into who was buying MAGA hats. This is what is coming for us if we lose.

Don’t lose.

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Democrats are mighty upset that Ilhan Omar’s DC home got raided today. Couple things:

  1. You Democrats set the precedent when you sent agents to rummage through Melania’s underwear.
  2. All we’re doing is looking into a Settler-Colonizer on Indigenous Peoples Day, so chill.

It really is an outrage that we allow that woman to serve in the Congress of the people of the United States of America. I don’t care what her paperwork says, she isn’t American. She’s a foreign invader, and a massive ingrate. Reminder: we saved her life. We saved the lives of untold numbers of Somalis. And how did they pay us back? By shooting at us in Somalia and setting up Learing Centers to steal money from America’s poor people. In general, I want every Somali in the United States deported – any we allow to stay better be able to prove their more patriotic than George Washington. We must not permit people like Omar to remain here – stealing our money, calling us racists and telling lies about America. They can do whatever they want back home – in Somalia.

A retired Royal Marine has caused some controversy by saying the way to handle the migration crisis in the UK is to machine gun migrant boats. All I can say regarding Major-General Julian Thompson’s plan is that you’d only have to do it once. Twice, tops. The message would be widely distributed in an exceptionally rapid manner and you’d simply have no boats to shoot at in short order. Naturally, the Tories are joining in with Labour to condemn the patriot’s comment. This is why the Tories are finished in British politics except explicitly as Labour’s poodle. All British patriots are now forced to vote Reform or, even better, Restore Britain.

Given that it looks as if every woman coming in is raped in transit and that a large number of people die along the way and, additionally, the number of British people who end up raped and murdered by the migrants, machine gunning a couple boats will cost far fewer lives and cause much less suffering that not machine gunning them. The thing about crude but effective plans is that they are, well, effective.

It is, of course, Columbus Day. I always like to bring this up: 50 feet.

That is how long the Nina was. This is about from my front door to about 4 feet out my back door. Her beam (width) was about 16 feet. About as wide as my living room. Twenty six men lived in that space for weeks traveling thousands of miles in the open ocean with no hope of rescue if disaster struck.

That takes guts. That makes all complaints about Columbus trivial. He and his crew were incredibly brave men who did something that had to be done – explore the world. No: there aren’t places humans aren’t supposed to go. There aren’t places where if someone else got there first, nobody can even visit. The New World wasn’t off limits.

Furthermore, the highest civilizations of the New World were horrific, anti-human empires that needed to be destroyed (and were destroyed with the eager help of oppressed Natives). Who knows what depths of depravity they would have plumbed had they been left undisturbed? As for the deaths from disease: eventually the Eurasian/African disease environment was going to arrive at the shores of the Americas. And disease killed vastly more (orders of magnitude more) than direct or indirect actions of the Europeans. The social devastation was going to happen at some point – there was no stopping it. Had it not started in 1492 then it would have started in 1517 or 1609 or something…there would be a ship load of Europeans, Africans or Asians who arrived…and, whammo, the diseases would be there. The only way to prevent the rapid population loss was to hold off until after the disease theory was known…but that theory would probably never have been known except for people working in the Americas with the results of the diseases brought in from outside.

And even with that, the Natives now live better than their ancestors could have ever dreamed – even the most impoverished Natives in the Americas in 2026 have access to knowledge which their ancestors in isolation could never have achieved. The best thing to ever happen to the Native population of the Americas was the arrival of Europeans.

So, say a prayer for Columbus and his crews – they did a great service for all humanity on this day, 1492.

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Good to keep in mind that Detroit voted for the white lady rather than El-Sayed. Another thing to keep in mind is that El-Sayed, like Obama, grew up whiter than I did. They’re all cosplaying theater kids, after all. But while there is…uh…a little mistrust between the overall black community and Jews, what is happening over in Gaza means pretty much nothing to them. To be sure, it means just about nothing to all of us…the people out there protesting are being sent out by paid agitators and probably 99% of them couldn’t pick Gaza out on a map if you gave them ten tries.

Nobody knows what will happen in a month. That’s the thing about the future: it hasn’t happened yet. But I am growing more and more confident that the DNC/MSM Narrative is 180 from reality. They are simply making it up, hoping to get the GOP into a defensive crouch rather than reaching out to battle Democrats who have nothing to offer the American people.

I guess there is now a push to secularize Catholic hospitals in Canada because the Left can’t stand the thought of there being even one place where they can’t murder a baby or grandma. There are still great Canadians – we see them all the time; but Canada is run by outright wicked people and their electoral system allows a party with 44% of the vote to corner every ounce of political power. This is just like the UK, of course. What “Democracy” actually brings…a system where there are no checks upon power. Keep in mind the battle wasn’t between Monarchy and Democracy back in the day…but about whether anyone could hold total power. Total power held by a King is just as bad as total power held by a transient political majority. Nobody and no group should ever be able to hold all power…our system prevents that, which is why the Left wants to pack the Court and abolish the Senate.

The video out of France is horrific – absolutely nobody has opened fire on the rioters.

No, they aren’t French. They aren’t youths. They aren’t complaining about education. They are trying to conquer France and impose an Islamist ideology. The French better find some guts and right quick.

Trump talking up American shipbuilding. This sort of thing is crucial – and why we simply must win. If we win just a couple more election cycles, we’ll get it all…lose and it is all over.

Nidal Hasan is to die via military firing squad on December 3rd. As stated many times before, I don’t support the death penalty. I don’t have much sympathy for Hasan, of course. But I will say this: execution by firing squad is too honorable an exit for him. He should be hung if we’re to kill him.

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I guess even the New York Times is sorta conceding that we’ve won the war with Iran – someone has ordered the Democrats to pull the plug on that one. Didn’t help their cause that the Mullahs are essentially endorsing the Democrats for the mid-terms. That chart I posted in the previous thread tells the tale – oil is flowing. Except Iran’s oil, because we’re not allowing it…because we control the Strait. Now, to be sure, the Mullahs might try some mad dog attacks in a desperate attempt to keep gasoline prices high in the USA, but they are completely boxed. As I’ve been saying – the side which controls the air and sea has won…the only thing left is figuring out how to tidy it all up. As long as we remain firm – and Trump will – there’s no other ending than Iran conceding to our demands.

Lost in the shuffle of that attempted hijacking/mass murder is that Israelis were flying from a Muslim nation back to Israel. I think that even a lot of Muslims are giving up on the whole Islamist thing – there’s no future in it. Sure, you can keep fighting and dying and hoping that in a century you might make it to Tel Aviv but only an insane person does that. To be sure, there are a high number of insane people in the Muslim world but it is a lost cause. And it has happened before – in the aftermath of the first Muslim advances out of Arabia, they tried for decades to get at Constantinople – fighting with fanatic determination. But after multiple failed campaigns, they did give it up…and Constantinople remained Christian for another 800 years, well long enough for Europe to make itself (until recently) Muslim-proof. I think the defeat of Iran will go a long way towards ending all of this – without them to mobilize and pay for insanity, the well will dry up.

Side note: early on the reporting about the hijacking implied it was just some sort of scuffle between the pilot and copilot. You really can’t hate the media enough. They are claiming that they didn’t know the facts…which is just another idiotic lie as the story came out with the copilot clearly trying to murder the pilot so he could crash a plane full of Jews. The MSM hates you, hates your country, your family, your religion…all decent things of humanity. And so they bend over backwards to protect…what? A lunatic Islamist unfit for decent company of any kind.

Video of a British town taken 50 years ago – it was all very British, and is now long gone. Keep in mind that this was deliberately destroyed by the British Establishment. The Left was in the vanguard but even the British Right eagerly participated. Because the Establishment came to hate Britain. Just as our Establishment hates us. They looked upon that clean, tidy community of hard working, law abiding people and a sense of loathing came over them. It was so boring! Just common people doing common things! Didn’t they know you could be a degenerate? Where was the room for perversion???? How can people live in such a place???? They set about, step by step, destroying it – teaching the youngsters to be degenerates. Putting people on welfare and drugs. Importing foreign savages. Telling them via the schools there is no God. Here, listen to some second rate music which insults decency! Laugh at your history! Don’t get married! Don’t work hard! Sobriety is for suckers!

We’re still within an ace of that happening here – Democrats get back in they’ll impose that while also making it illegal for us to win elections. It will really be a choice between fighting or dying. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I don’t think it will. I do believe we’re going to win – but it will be a close run thing.

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Seeing some video of Episcopal “priests” who are essentially denying not just the divinity of Christ, but His very existence. And I wonder: what is the point? Why even bother? If Jesus is not God – or if He never existed – what is the point of even talking about Him? I mean, other than to just insult the whole idea of Christianity? This is not heresy – it is apostasy. These people could go golf or something on a Sunday morning…going to Church to simply dump all over the very idea of Christ – aside from the risk to one’s soul – seems a gigantic waste of time.

But that is the Left – nothing but hatred. So much hatred that you even go out of your way to hate. There are fallen away Christians – including some who downright loath Christianity – but they don’t dwell on it. For whatever reason, they have rejected grace…and now they go about their lives doing things which please them. Not spending huge amount of time and resources expressing their hatred. But not our Left! Nope: once they hate something they need to let you know – at length – that they hate it.

Just weird. And sad. Pathetic. Kinda stupid.

Japan and the USA sign a rare earths agreement – more work towards cutting China out of the loop on it. Keep in mind that China nearly cornered the rare earths market; on purpose to hamstring us if it ever came down to a fight. American President after American President simply let it happen. Were they stupid? Bribed? Yes. Trump isn’t having any of that – he knows it is crucial and we have to get our own rare earths. This is MAGA – and this is true diplomacy. Working to build up America while also building up our true friends…not our so-called “allies” who routinely stab us in the back and, step by step, turn themselves into fascist tyrannies.

Women in Gaza are being traded for food and being forced to marry rapists. Of course some will blame Israel but I’ll just remind everyone that the Gazans sent rape/murder squads into Israel and every last thing that happens after that is 100% the moral responsibility of the Gazans. That is what sort of people they are – and now that they can’t kidnap, rape and pass around Jewish girls, they are doing it to their own. Completely hideous people. Like all people, they are capable of redemption – but as Gazans, they never will be. As long as they are there and being controlled by savages their chances of emerging into normal basic humanity are nil. I didn’t want Gaza placed under siege, forced to surrender and the population sent into exile to be cruel…it was to give Israel real peace and give the Gazans a real chance to stop being barbarians.

Flock cameras should be banned – here’s a story of a woman who was locked up for 86 hours due to Flock indicating she was involved in a car accident. She wasn’t. I get the idea of having cameras for security…but we’re also dealing with humans not just having the data, but refusing to think. That is, they take what the computer tells them as Gospel. You can’t do that – but people do because it is just easier. Can’t trust humanity with the power that Flock puts in their hands.

Polling says “Blue Tsunami”. But polling also shows Democrats winning more white voters in Texas than they have in a generation. In other words, the polls are lies. I don’t pay the least attention to them. I mean, come on! They’ve always overstated Democrat strength – and they’ve gotten worse. Response bias is where it starts – you and I don’t even answer when a pollster calls or texts. Democrats eagerly answer every last one, thinking that they are somehow Defending Our Democracy by so doing. We’re going to win in November.

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How desperate are the Democrats? Well, they’re playing both sides of the anti-Semitism street. On one hand, they plant anti-Semitic tropes in alleged MAGA accounts trying to get MAGA to hate Israel/Jews, on the other hand they’re trying to claim that Vance is a closet anti-Semite. The purpose here is twofold:

  1. Get Jews to stop voting for an allegedly anti-Semitic GOP.
  2. Divide MAGA so that Trump can’t motivate a MAGA vote this November.

It is all very transparent and clearly the same pay masters are funding both sides of this – and it is because the Democrats have nothing they can campaign on. Oh, sure, they’re also trying to complain about “affordability” but this falls flat because we know that Democrat policies would just make food, housing, fuel and medical care even more expensive – and they’re also using money bags to manipulate things like the gasoline market to keep prices high even though there are simply no shortages of gasoline. But on matters of actual policy, the Democrats have nothing – they want the flood of illegals to resume. They want the criminals to get out of jail. They still want to hobble us with Green ideology. They want us to allow the Mullah regime to survive. They want to return to China flooding our market with low quality goods. It is a disease of the modern Western Ruling Class – it hates the West and it can’t retreat from this hatred without proving itself not merely wrong, but downright evil.

We’ll see how it works out – a money-fueled campaign of lies vs Trump’s ability to motivate a MAGA vote. I’m betting on Trump because, well, he’s simply miles ahead of his opponents and has been since he came down that escalator.

There is a debate about immigration and the phrase “heritage Americans”. My view is that we don’t need any immigrants, at all. There are 340 million people here. We’re the third most populous nation on Earth. We don’t lack talent. Every ounce of talent which the USA might need is already here and in abundance. It is simply a stupid lie to assert that some programmer from India is the only person who can fill an American position. If we are to have continuing immigration, then it has to be very selective. Only the truly highest quality people. Nobody is can possibly be a burden to the welfare system. People who are already fluent in English. People who come here with money already in hand. And then not very many of them. No more than 340,000 per year – and that’s of all types, refugees included (and refugees must be strictly limited to people who are actually at risk – Christians from Muslim lands, whites from South Africa, that sort of thing). I don’t know much about the so-called “heritage American” idea – but my family has been here since the early part of the 17th century. The overwhelming majority of us have ancestors going back a century or more here. This is our land. We are native here. We have a right to preserve our American culture – to not have it swamped by foreigners who don’t want to assimilate.

A related debate is over the intellectual levels of the various peoples of the world. I do believe this is also a Ruling Class op to get people to become racists and thus socially (and electorally) unacceptable. Don’t fall for it, guys. You know – things like the map of IQ by country showing some African countries with an average IQ of like 59. First off, I doubt anyone has done systematic tests of IQ with large enough samples in Africa for us to know. But the implication here is that black and brown people are inherently dumb – inferior. This is an old idea (actually first pushed by the man who became the great-grandfather of Nazism, de Gobineau) and it was drivel when first uttered and remains drivel today.

To be sure, when it was first expressed, it seemed to make some sense – because it was made by Europeans in the 19th century who looked around at the absolute global dominance of Europeans and tried to explain why it happened. They hit upon the fact of being European – of being white. Refined – because of Anglo-Saxon power in the British Empire – into a view that a supposed “Aryan race” is simply superior to all the others.

Sorry, slick, it wasn’t that at all: it was Christianity plus geography. It was Christianity which created the scientific method. Starting with the theological idea that God is the fountain of Reason, Christians embarked on the effort to understand God’s reasonable creation. We no longer just figured it was fate or divine caprice – there had to be a reason behind all events. We started to write things down. Apply logic. Observe. Experiment. We became adept at taking in new concepts – even if the thing wasn’t created by a Christian European (paper money, the compass, gunpowder, etc) and by experiment made them better, and made the foundation for other, later discoveries and inventions. And that is where geography steps in: just look at the map of Europe, especially the western part of it – just stuffed to the gills with natural harbors and navigable rivers. In Europe you could move goods and people around faster than anywhere else on Earth. And the ideas as well. It started to build up in the wake of the Crusades and exploded in the 15th century…inventions and discoveries started to pile up at an increasing pace. Change became the norm. People didn’t just sit back and go “thus it has always been” but started looking for new ways and means. By the 17th century Europe was at the intellectual forefront of the world….while the rest of the world continued to slumber in pagan or fatalistic torpor. By the 19th century mere landing parties of European soldiers could scatter Asian and African armies with ease. White skin had nothing to do with it. Being Germanic had nothing to do with it. Being part of a Christian Europe had all to do with it…and the real pity is that European dominance didn’t last long enough to break the shackles of tribalism, paganism and fatalism in the Third World…and that is why it is still such a depressingly impoverished and barbaric place.

They’re rebooting the Narnia movie series and Meryl Streep will voice Aslan because the creators of the reboot hate Lewis, the stories, the civilization they spring from and any decent impulse human beings have ever had.

I don’t know who Ed Sheeran is but I gather he is an entertainer of some sort and he decided that another performer – a rancid anti-Semite who would make Julius Streicher blush – wouldn’t be his opening act. Since then, the entire global entertainment Establishment has united to destroy him. This is how deeply the anti-Semitic virus has infected the West. It is disgusting and inhuman. You vote for a Democrat, you’re voting for this – this is what, at bottom, the DSA barbarians want.

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There is a study which shows the massive lies the New York Times spread about the Gaza conflict. If you go through it, you’ll see it reached ridiculous levels that would have caused Goebbles to blush. A Narrative was pushed of innocent, long-suffering “Palestinians” being brutalized for no reason by cruel, Nazi-like Israelis. You and I – being free from lies and at least somewhat educated – dismiss such drivel…but the readers of the Times don’t. They are highly credentialed, of course, but almost entirely uneducated. The younger, the more uneducated. When they look at Times articles, they just take it on faith that it’s true…and reading those articles leads them to other outlets where the lies get even more intense. In the end, the consumer of the lies is carrying a “Palestinian” flag and threatening Jews in Brooklyn. And, of course, voting for Mamdani.

And I know what you’re thinking: “here comes Mark to yammer on about lies again!”. But not really. Or at least not just that. You see, ten years ago, Mamdani could not get elected. Al Sayed could not have won a Senate nomination. These rank, hate filled anti-Semitic, anti-American creeps would not have gotten anywhere. It took a whole program of carefully crafted lies to get them to where they are. And the program isn’t just to get some power – it is to get all power. Using the most nasty lies imaginable, the Left proposes to push into power people who hate the United States who will then simply rule that Americans don’t have rights. It will end like Nicaragua – where first the Commies packed the Court and then, at the end, simply announced there would be no further elections…not needed, you see? Democracy had produced the desired result and so no more Democracy was necessary. They will do that here. They’re trying to do it (with a lot of success) in Europe. And the twin pillars of it are mass migration (especially of Muslim males) and lies.

So, yes, I will say it again: Lies must not enjoy first amendment protections. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. We do not have to allow those who would shoot us to hide behind our Constitution as they build the wall we’ll be up against.

Twenty States are suing Trump over his plan to deny welfare benefits to green card holders. Think about that. Foreign bums are draining welfare meant for Americans and the Democrats – it is all Democrats – are suing to keep it going. They hate the United States…and they desperately need those foreign bums to vote for them.

Newsom has hired Abbe Lowell to do his legal work – from what I understand, Lowell is a cracker jack criminal defense attorney in DC. In other words, the person you hire when you’re looking at 20 years in the slammer. He’s in deep doo-doo.

A Florida grand jury has subpoenaed John Brennan, who is also likely in deep doo-doo. But here’s the kicker – the possible charge is conspiracy to deny Trump’s civil rights. Have you looked up our civil rights laws? They have teeth! And they make no mention of an exception for Trump…they cover every last person in the United States. We all have civil rights, guys! I know – who knew?

This is the tactic I’ve been wanting them to take and I hope Brennan is the test case – Trump lives in Florida so his rights, if they were violated, were violated in that State. This means that even if your conspiracy to deny his rights as organized in DC, you’re still going to face indictment in Florida…from a D+ 84 jury pool to R+ 13. Actually way more fair to Brennan than he deserves. And Brennan is just one of probably a thousand people who conspired to deny Trump’s civil rights. And once we get that rolling…do you know that a case can be made that my civil rights are violated when prominent Democrats around the country imply that I’m a racist Nazi due to my Trump vote? I think that is a serious problem and a grand jury of my neighbors – who also voted Trump – should look into that.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan30 Comments

There was a reason the British formed a Protectorate over what we call the United Arab Emirates. Same reason they grabbed Gibraltar and Malta. Singapore, too. Not to be overlords. It was just to have control over vital trade routes. Strategic points on the globe which the safety of Britain’s trade required. Because that was what the British Empire was actually about: trade. To be sure, the British eventually lost the plot. Pitt the Elder and Younger envisioned a commercial Empire where Britain ruled the waves and thus controlled global trade…this to both make Britain rich and to ensure Britain’s independence (an island nation controlling the seas is safe). As time went on a lot of factors combined to get the British into the game of massive land holdings until they ruled a quarter of the world’s land area…that was the real death knell of the British Empire because Britain was simply too small to both rule the waves and the land (they’d have needed a population many times larger than they had).

Basically, the UK got infected by Liberalism – the economic Liberalism which held that trade should be 100% “free” and the social Liberalism which held that you had to both extend the franchise and save people from themselves. A program of controlling global trade became Britain paying a premium to keep global trade free for economic and political rivals. The extension of the franchise brought into British politics people far more interested in getting welfare than defending Britain’s far-flung territories…while “saving” the people under their rule worked out to half-educating a bunch of rebels who undermined British rule. And we can see the end result – the half-educated rebels are now overrunning Britain while the welfare bums are only angry about the former colonial subjects dipping their fingers into the welfare pot. All around, a bad move – but the basic idea was correct. Had it been followed, Britain would to this day be a major player in the world. That, I think, is what Trump is basically after – control of global trade. A commercial empire designed to enrich us and ensure nobody can effectively attack the United States.

This is why we pressured Panama to get the ChiComs out of our Canal. Why we’ve entered into agreements with both Singapore and Malaya to control passage through the Straits of Malacca. Why we’re working with Morocco to essentially make our on Gibraltar in the Western Med. We’re essentially taking over the global movement of oil and natural gas. We’re building up our Navy and working on the means of reviving the American merchant marine. We don’t want anything but the trade – the ability to trade anywhere we want while being able with the snap of our fingers to bar a rival from the global trading system (China’s revived silk road through Asia will never do the trick – you just can’t beat moving goods by sea in terms of speed and cost per ton-mile). Iran is getting hit like it is because it was simply in the way of a larger plan – they don’t fully realize how unimportant they actually are. Neither does the rest of the world…because the rest of the world has been used to the USA standing in for Britain – keeping the sea lanes open for everyone else.

We will keep them open. As long as you cooperate. It is a very new day in global affairs.

How is Trump feeling about the midterms?

Could it be bluster? Well, everything about the future has some bluster attached to it – because we don’t know what will happen. But I’ve never been less worried about the outcome of an election. Partially this is just me getting old – the closer you get to the end the less you worry about how things are going here on Earth. Got bigger fish to fry, long term. But most of it is that the only metric looking good for Democrats is polling – and even in that, there are a few polls out there given zero play in the MSM/Social Media which show the GOP poised to do well. We will see how it comes out. High gas prices are a persistent negative…but employment is up, wages are up, crime is down, deportations are proceeding quickly…we’re doing well. And I doubt the people are ready to toss that all aside because some upper class white women still haven’t got over 2016.

Jaguar is set to lay off thousands while Nike is being delisted from the S&P 100…both companies went completely woke. You might recall the Nike ads showing morbidly obese people and that bizarre Jaguar ad of a bunch of useless freaks telling us to be different. That kind of nonsense. Jaguar cars have a market – upper class men who want to impress the kind of chicks who are impressed by a Jag. Nike has a market – gym bros. Making your main pitch to people who don’t use your product – and likely despise the people who do – turns out to not be a good idea. Who knew?

Been thinking we need to allow people to start taking their SS at 62 without any tax penalty. Right now, if you do that and keep working, they tax most of it away. But, thing is, any person at 62 can start collecting SS – and if they do, the monthly payment never rises. That’s fine – but I don’t think we should penalize the 62 year old if he or she is willing to keep working.

This has nothing to do with the fact that I’ll soon be 62.*

*I might be fibbing here.