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Mark Noonan35 Comments

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.

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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.

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The Republican Midterm Convention happens September 9th and 10th – never been done before. People thought it was a bad idea – partially just on the fact that Trump wanted to do it, partially on the theory that the incumbent party never wants to nationalize the midterms. That is, make them a referendum on the person elected two years previously. To date, that conventional wisdom probably had some merit in it…but I don’t think it does now.

As I’ve been saying, I’ve been rewatching the election night coverage from 2016 and 2024 and I’ve noticed that both in 2016 and 2024, Team Trump put the word out, fairly early, that it was over and their man had won. 2016 was really remarkable because it was Kelly Anne Conway putting out the word at about 9:30 pm Eastern that it was all over but the shouting…while most of the MSM still clung to a Hillary victory for at least 90 minutes after that (and some until close to midnight, Eastern). That was a bold statement for Conway to make – unless she knew. And it looks like she did. Similarly, Team Trump was feeding Sean Hannity the straight scoop in 2024 and he estimated while still very early (I think around 8:30 or so Eastern) that it was all over. This goes along with something I’ve known for a while – most campaigns know how its going, and sometimes a while before show time.

I got this first by watching an interview with Jimmy Carter’s campaign manager some time in maybe the late 1990’s (though it might have been early 00’s) where he told the story of how he informed Carter a week before the election that it was over. He had crunched all the numbers – real numbers, that people paid money for – and there just wasn’t any way Jimmy was getting another term. This is why Carter was so quick to concede on election night – there simply wasn’t any point in dragging the matter out. As one TV show put it very succinctly once, “if you’ve got to eat a sh*t sandwich, do it all at once: bite, chew, swallow”. The only reason Mondale held out until a little later in 1984 is that the networks had decreed they wouldn’t officially call an election until after the polls closed in California. Point blank: Mondale knew he wasn’t going to win. In his case, he probably knew all along he had no chance. Since then, the Democrats who lose just never want to eat that sandwich. This is why Gore reneged on his concession (he knew he had lost Florida all along). Why they always put it off to morning or some drivel. The networks now don’t wait for California to close: they wait for the Democrat campaign to give permission to call it. What I’m saying is that in both 2016 and 2024, the elections should have been called by, latest, 11 pm Eastern.

And, so, Trump is making this a national election. Deliberately putting himself out there as the central motivator for the vote. Knowing that this will fire up Democrats. But it also fired up Democrats in 2024. Didn’t matter. There was no time in 2024 that Trump wasn’t going to win. Harris’ own pollster admitted it after it was all over: she never had a lead. The polls aren’t mistaken: they’re lies. But the campaigns commission real polls which tell them where to go and where to spend money. They don’t let those polls go public; don’t want to give away info to the other side. I think Trump already knows how it is going to go.

Of course I could be wrong – but a lot of people in this world have ended up looking like total idiots by figuring Trump has it wrong.

If you subtract the oil Iran used to export through the strait then what you get is oil transiting is now back to pre-war levels. We’re not letting Iran export. Iran’s tankers are now in hiding off Sri Lanka and I hope we take them as Prizes. Bottom line, it just gets worse and worse for Iran. Don’t know how long they’ll hold out. Don’t care, either. If we need to blow them up some more, we will. But the days of the Mullah regime throwing weight around are over.

Gloria Steinem died. We do pray for the repose of her soul but she was an absolutely hideous, anti-human person. Pure poison to every decent impulse humans have. The world would have been much better off if she had never lived.

There’s been a 206% increase in arrests of repeat offenders in New York City. Because they keep releasing them. Just more anti-human Leftist policy. The Left says we have to go soft on black crime because racism caused it. This is stupid, but for the sake of argument, let us say it is so: by the time a man is on his sixth of seventh felony arrest the problem isn’t the racism, it is that the man has utterly failed in the “being a member of society” effort. There are black people – presumably just as much victims of racism as any black person – who go their whole lives without an arrest. Let alone multiple. You might be able to argue in favor of a Mulligan. Maybe even two. But after a while there’s just nothing left to do.

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The push against data centers is just a Chinese op. I mean, you all see it, right? It is so obvious – who would want us to not lead the way in AI? Duh.

We really need to be on these ops – someone on X brought up the atomic bomb where Victor Davis Hanson was calling it a bad bomb to bring a good end to the war…the comment on that, it was a good bomb to bring a good end to the war. And I’m firmly in that camp. Know what would have stopped Chinese intervention in the Korean War? A Mark IV atomic bomb dropped on Antung, Manchuria right around October 1st, 1950. That was where the Chinese army was massing prior to entering Korea. Literally boom, done.

Seriously think about it – what could China or Russia do? China had no nukes. Russia only had a few and no real means of delivering them to the United States. Plus, why risk the total destruction of your own nation over the fate of Korea? At the time, North Korea was already defeated – China was set to begin a totally new war, confident that they had numbers to match against firepower and that the USA would not seriously attack Chinese territory. Switch it about and make it suicide to challenge us…the world changes. There would have been no Korean stalemate. No Vietnam, either (after such an event, telling North Vietnam in 1965 to withdraw all forces from South Vietnam or suffer serious consequences would have got the job done). What I’m saying is that since WWII (and even during it) we have suffered one op after another all designed to prevent the full development and use of American power. Time to ditch that. First step is no longer falling for the ops.

Saw a video of an unruly mob of Brits assaulting the police after yet another British person was stabbed by a foreign invader. What was key – to me – is that they were really rioting. Throwing things at the cops…and the cops backed off. That is what is needed in Britain and the rest of Europe (been a bit of it in Cueta, Spain as well). These police – and the armed forces – of Europe are not trained to fight and die…they are trained to mindlessly enforce political conformity. And they are used to their people supinely accepting it. It only works as long as everyone rolls over. As soon as someone actually uses violence against it, the whole edifice will crumble. As I’ve been saying – 10,000 determined British patriots could overthrow the government in an afternoon. Nobody is going to fight for King and Country if that means fighting for a King who’s at least half Muslim and a Country being destroyed by its own Ruling Class. We’ll see if this spreads. The more the better.

In order to advance Women’s Liberation from the Cruel Patriarchy New York Governor Hochul donned a hijab while meeting with Muslim men. I called it years ago – the Feminists will go Muslim and say the burka is to protect from The Male Gaze.

Hearing some stories that the Nepalese flood might have been triggered by China building a hydroelectric plant upstream…if so, China will order the Western MSM to keep a lid on it (they’ll do anything to keep access to the Chinese media market).

Meanwhile, I think some are catching on to the DSA scam…

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Goodbye, Dolly! Passed away at 80 – and one of the few remaining universally beloved people in the USA. I figure she leaned a bit Left, but she never made a thing about it…and that is the key to keeping that universal love. Of course, maybe if she was younger it would have proven impossible? These days, just to keep your gigs coming, immense pressure is brought to bear on you to toe the Leftist line. By the time that came in about 25 years ago, Dolly was so established she could just ignore such things, had anyone attempted such pressure on her. We probably can’t have anything universal across American culture any longer – and until we destroy the Left, that is how it shall be. For goodness sake, the Left pitched a fit about America 250 just last month.

The economic pressure being put on Iran is immense and destructive. We’ll see if it works – that is, will it convince the Iranian people (cowards, for the most part) to rise up? They don’t want freedom – they’ve made that clear by supinely allowing themselves to abused by dirty-necked Islamists for decades. But they might be just materialist enough to want their stuff…said stuff now being denied by the US blockade. We shall see. If it doesn’t work, then I suspect it will be bombs away for one more sustained campaign to cripple Iran for a generation.

Trump is also upping the pressure on Canada – which has been getting a free ride since WWII. They have had essentially free access to the American market while carefully protecting their own from us. Now they are saying they’ll let China use Canada as a means of getting around our tariffs on China. Screw them. Nothing against those Canadians who are what I’m now calling Old Canada – allies in two world wars and great people all around. But New Canada is filled with Leftist bigotry and hatred…stupidity as well. We do not need a thing from Canada while their economy collapses without access to our market. Either conform yourselves to our desires or go jump in a lake.

Trump is set to revoke the visas of 200,000 people who are here on business or tourism visas but are claiming asylum. Think about that – they were able to get visas to come to the USA but are now claiming asylum status. Just insane we let this sort of nonsense go on. If you can get a visa, you’re probably not oppressed. Asylum is for people who will die if they don’t get out of their home country…and you get asylum in the first country you can. Essentially, asylum and TPS have been used – by Republicans and Democrats – to back-door amnesty. It is good that Trump is ending this but it can also be un-ended by his successor. We need laws clearly laying out asylum. I mean very specific…actually listing social categories of people and countries of origin we’ll accept asylum applicants from (like, say, a gay person from Iran, Christian from Pakistan, white person from South Africa). If you don’t meet one of the legislatively decreed categories then you can’t even try. We also need to change the laws so that asylum is not a fast track to a green card. It is your life that is at stake – you just need a place to hide from those trying to kill you. We’ll forward you to some other country if at all possible…if you get asylum here, you’re in some sort of holding camp until you find a country to emigrate to or are able to return home.

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The Federal workforce is at its lowest level since 1966. Think about that – this was before the Welfare State was fully built. Some of this reduction is simply not replacing people who leave, some of it is firing people. The main thing is that each person reduced is one less person who can pester us…one less button for the Ruling Class to press to gain our compliance. Sure, if a Democrat gets in they can hire a lot…but that does take time, and the precedent has been set that the President has broad powers to fire Executive Branch employees.

Democrats made a huge mistake in taking Trump to court on a lot of issues, but taking him to Court on grounds that he’s not really the President has been the most bone-headed. Again and again, the Courts are forced to rule the obvious: Trump is, indeed, President and the President is the sole person vested with Executive power under the Constitution. We haven’t quite got to the ruling all the way. We won’t while Roberts is Chief Justice…but if you read the Constitution properly, the President cannot surrender Executive authority. It is vested in that office. Even if an Executive signs a law limiting Executive power, that law is completely unconstitutional. There is one person in the entirety of the USA who holds Executive power: the President. We will get there…and the Democrats will have made it happen.

Here’s the real kicker in all of this: had the Democrats told Hillary to go jump in a lake and simply let Trump be President then he would have sailed through eight years ending in 2025 – to be sure, making some lasting changes (most notably in immigration and trade) but no real fundamental shake up of the system. Trump is, after all, a moderate man – he’s a New Yorker, ya know? He’s no more far right than Ed Koch or Nelson Rockefeller. They could probably have got a lot of things they have long desired but no Democrat could ever get enacted into law. But, no; they decided to indulge Hillary’s temper tantrum and now its snowballed into opposing Trump 100% of the time. Resist!

Ok. But you just resisted your way into President Vance exercising power a President hasn’t used since FDR. Good luck, Democrats. You won’t be able to take him to court. The cases have all been decided. You’ll have no recourse at all – even if you take Congress there’s nothing you can do other than refuse to spend money (ha!). It is so very crucial that we win in 2026 and 2028…the stage is set, the ball is rolling…if we can just keep things going for another 5-10 years, we’ll have won for good. Personally, I think we will win – polls are not just mistaken, they are fabrications designed to warp the political system (mostly, this year, to get GOP money to flow into sure-things rather than being spent on good opportunities). Outside of polls, everything is coming up roses for Trump and the GOP…Trump will nationalize the election and then spend a billion dollars telling people what a great job he’s done and how it will all be lost if the Democrats get in…MAGA will show up.

I’ve heard about the lady who is alleged to have killed her kids but I haven’t paid remotely enough attention to render any sort of judgement. But it is bizarre there are women out there cheering the accused. Seriously? What if she really did it? What the heck are you cheering for? Has Moloch really captured that much of upper class white women? Geesh! It betrays a deep sickness in our society, even if the lady is acquitted. No matter what, children are dead. Someone murdered them. Even if she’s particularly innocent of this, she’s guilty of being part of a social dynamic that murdered children. This is an event to provoke a desire to confess our sins to God and amend our lives. Not to make some sort of social media sensation…and all of this before all the facts are presented in Court.

Trump is going to bankrupt Iran. It is an interesting strategy – and one that hasn’t been tried since the WWII blockades of Germany and Japan. But this will be much worse because Iran has only limited domestic capacity. For instance, in the USA we have about half a hectare of arable land for each one of us…in Iran, they’ve got less than a quarter of a hectare per person. Hard to feed 92 million people like that – especially as Iran is in a severe drought (Iran has floated some plans to move its capital from Tehran as there simply isn’t enough water to sustain the city). They don’t make much of anything. So, throttling their economy – already a basket case – is going to hurt. A lot. And very soon. My bet is this is a gambit to get the Iranian people off their cowardly butts and overthrow the regime. If a desire to be free won’t make you fight when you have IDF and American air cover, maybe running out of food will get you to move? We’ll see. I don’t see this going beyond November. The oil flows out of the Gulf. Iran’s military capacity is gone. Economic pressure is being applied…and in November there will be no political concerns to restrain Trump from turning Iran into a junk heap.

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Mark Noonan6 Comments

More documents regarding the origins of Russia, Russia, Russia have been released – nothing we didn’t already know but now we’re getting some names of who started it all. This helps map out the picture of Team Obama getting the ball rolling…what we don’t have is confirmation that Obama, himself, was aware and/or ordered it done. I doubt that Obama has the courage to put his name on such a thing…probably was more of a nod as DOJ ran the whole thing by him. What is clear is that they sought to destroy Trump during the 2016 campaign and then amped it up after he took office. Crucial: it was during the campaign they sought to destroy him.

If you rewatch the MSM coverage of election night, 2016, it just gets funnier each time. They were so sure (heck, I think we were all so sure!). It was supposed to be a short night ending in Hillary’s victory speech. If you watch the coverage you can see the happy faces slip into fear and then despair. But given that they were all so sure, why try to destroy Trump during the campaign? You start to suspect that someone decided to do a deep dive into the polling and found Trump had a real chance. Do you realize what level of panic that would generate in the highest reaches of the Establishment? It is the only explanation for why they started this at a time when, officially, Hillary was cruising to victory. That takes things like the CIA director…and at least tacit approval of the sitting President. And once you start you keep going – because you have to. If the target obtains power and finds out, you’re doomed. The 2020 result was mere follow up. The assassination attempts…follow up on steroids.

And keep in mind, the FBI and CIA swung massively into action in 2020 to hide the Biden family corruption – the fact that Biden was bought and paid for by foreign interests. Why? Well, sure: TDS. But more importantly – Biden was never high enough up in the food chain to get the really good payoffs. He wasn’t getting Obama money, nor Pelosi money. He got relative peanuts. Protecting Biden in 2020 was only partially about getting Trump…it was mostly about making sure the scale of foreign money buying Americans was kept out of sight.

Abdul El-Sayed has scrubbed his social media accounts – having to delete things like a desire to ban Fourth of July fireworks and abolish the Second Amendment. Do keep in mind that this doesn’t reflect a change of heart…just a pack of lies designed to get him over the electoral finish line. Personally, I think he’s just way too Commie – and way too stupid – to make it. We’ll see. But the coalition of Islamists and upper class white women in Michigan will, I believe, prove too small in November. And, yes, he’s as much a fraud as you suspect – the man played polo as a kid. As one jokester put it – Abdul El-Sayed is ready to seize the day and the means of production in a $10,000 suit.

Looks like the insane commie in Wisconsin – Hong – will lose her bid to be nominated for governor. And it looks like the Democrats manufactured some late votes to ensure she did. I wonder if she’ll wake up a bit, now? She’s been a good, little commie foot soldier for them for years and here they come to knife her in the back. She could expose a lot if she wanted to.

But she’ll probably settle for some media gig and/or book deal. They are always so easily bought off.