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Mark Noonan55 Comments

Congressional GOPers are getting set to approve the latest NDAA which fixes the government spying problem by making it easier for government to spy on us.

I wish I was kidding.

They are such useless twits, aren’t they? Gotta be that they are on the take. At least, I hope they are on the take or being blackmailed. I hope they aren’t consciously this stupid and evil. There is no reason for the GOP to do anything right now. Sure, we can’t enact a single law because the Democrat Senate and Pudding Brain will not agree. But this doesn’t mean we have to do anything. Let them stew and complain. Nobody gives a darn about Ukraine or any of the other things the Establishment is on about. All people care about is gas, groceries and our increasingly chaotic border. Just say no. But, they can’t. They have to “do something” or someone who hates them will hate them even more.

Harvard’s President is being kept on. They have to: she is the definition of the Diversity Hire and if they boot her then it will start the whole system crashing down. Do keep in mind that all of the major institutions of the Western world are now run by people just like her: mindless ideologues promoted because they check boxes and obey orders. Start pulling at even one thread of it and it’ll unravel…that is, the rank incompetence of these people will be revealed. So, she gets to stay. Though given that she booted people from Harvard for plagiarism in the past the coming lawsuits will be enormously funny. As will the lawsuits soon to hit CVS as they were just caught on tape talking about how to exclude white people from the hiring process.

Side note: all our laws about civil rights? No longer in effect. They are just there to beat you down. If your rights are violated, nobody is going to do anything about it. You won’t find the DOJ going after CVS.

But it is past time that in our Red States we enact Civil Rights laws and start vigorously enforcing them. We do control some major powerhouses – notably Texas and Florida. We can make corporate and education America feel quite a lot of heat. And all it will be is just enforcing the notion that we are all equal under the law. Nothing radical or new. Nothing hard to explain. Fairness; that’s all we’ll be enforcing.

Word is that Ukraine will raise the age of conscription up to 40 because that’s what all nations on the road to victory do.

What a mess that is turning into. From what I’ve read up to a couple million military-aged males have fled Ukraine. And if they’re getting ready to conscript 40 year olds it means they are at the bottom of the manpower barrel. Today Zelensky was in DC trying to drum up support for even more money. He’ll probably get it but, seriously, what point is it if there’s nobody to give the arms to? It is way past time to wind this up – ask Putin to name his price and then try to make him back off 10 percent of it.

The Hamas apologists have raised the death toll in Gaza to 18,000. Keep in mind that back in 2002 the Palestinians said that the IDF had killed thousands in Jenin. Turns out it was about 50. They’re lying now as much as then. My guesstimate is about 500 dead…this based upon word that about 100 IDF soldiers have been killed. Figure firepower differential means about 3 Hamas dead to each IDF and then add some more because Hamas uses human shields.

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According to polling nearly a quarter of Americans 18-29 believe that the Holocaust is a myth. Another quarter believe it was exaggerated. I had said some time back that I suspect a lot of people don’t know why the Nazis were bad – they’ve just been told “Nazis bad” and ran with it. But now I’m adjusting that a bit – my bet is that for some time now they’ve been told something along the lines of “Nazis were white, Christian nationalists” and that’s what made them bad. The whole Jew-killing thing has been ignored or downplayed. So, if you suddenly pop up with, “the Nazis killed six million Jews” the kiddies don’t believe it…because if you come at it suddenly and without the lived experience, it does seem way too fantastic to believe. Keep in mind that young Commies simply do not believe that things like Gulag happened, either. As in all generation to generation things, what the current generation believes happened is what the preceding generation told them…and if one generation skips certain details, the next generation just doesn’t have them unless, on their own, they look it up.

You’d think that the Commies who by and large dominate education would want to keep emphasizing the actual reasons Nazis were bad but as soon as you think about it, you know why they wouldn’t. There is, in fact, no real objection to Nazism as it was for a true Leftist. Totalitarian control; destruction of undesirables; rejection of Christian morality…all same/same between Commie and Nazi. And now that Jews have been decreed to be “white settler/colonialists” operating an Apartheid State to keep down “brown” Palestinians (who are no darker than Israels, but details don’t matter), there’s no need to harp upon anti-Semitism as being something bad. The Left needs their bogeyman, of course…but what the bogeyman is bad for is determined by what the Left needs him to be bad for. Right now, the bogeyman has to be white, straight and Christian or at least two of the three at any given time. So, basically, to the Left Nazis are….well, you and me. And anyone Jewish who doesn’t join the Hamas side of things.

We’ve got a real problem, here, guys: we’ve got a rising generation who will vote for Hitler if he promises to annul student debt.

Hunter Biden got indicted – conveniently just in time to make sure no House investigation will be able to call him to testify. Of course, there is a chance the prosecutor – who got burned when Hunter rejected his really sweetheart deal – is now just going to let the process grind out. Hunter, if convicted, is looking at some years in jail even if the judge just slaps him with minimum sentences. It is all pretty much just a drug-fueled orgy – the money almost certainly illegally obtained and what’s tripping Hunter up is that he didn’t declare it on his taxes. And, yes, it is all definitely connected to dear, old Dad. Naturally the Democrats hope that the thing can be kept out of the news (the MSM will cooperate in that) and that it can be dealt with in December of 2024 via pardon – and that is whether or not Joe wins or loses. But the thing about scumbag, drug-addicted degenerates who are protected by indulgent fathers…they tend to be scumbags. I can see Hunter putting massive pressure on Dad to make it all go away long before December of next year…especially as if Dad kicks the bucket, nobody in power is going to give the least damn about Hunter’s problems. This could end up being a major albatross around Pudding Brain’s neck.

Never Trump, Democrats and MSM are all now spending a great deal of time “proving” that the polling is all wrong. We’ve been down this road before, but last time it was GOPers doing it. To be fair, polling is always wrong…but as I’ve also always said, trends are important. What we’re seeing is polls that were favorable to Joe (or at least unfavorable to the GOP) moving strongly the other way. You can always get outliers but they’re easily identified by being out of sync with everyone else…at this moment, even some of the most partisan Democrat polls are showing Trump, RDS or Haley handily beating Biden. And it seems to be fueled by blue collar people moving strongly to the GOP while minority and youth voters are moving a little GOP or expressing total disinterest in voting Biden next year. The only group remaining rock solid for Democrats are college educated white women; as one X friend of mine puts it, to them nothing else matters except their ability to kill their unborn children. What is staring Democrats in the face next year if the polling is even partially right is electoral catastrophe. And all possible GOP contenders are committed to massive reforms and deep investigations of just what the heck has been going on. Meaning: Trump may be revenge on steroids, but any GOPer is going to take a few pounds of flesh. They have to: survival of any future GOP Administration depends on really going after the Administrative State.

I can feel the shift out there. Can you?

They went too far. Too obviously cheated to get Joe in. Too obviously covering up corruption. Too obviously money laundering in Ukraine. Too obviously race-baiting. And too obviously trying to gaslight us about the economy. It all may very well explode in the Democrats face next year.

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On the death of Kissinger: he was neither monster nor genius. He was just wrong. The whole concept of Realpolitik is wrong. You can never – you must never – separate your actions from moral considerations. You always have to try to do what is right even if it is risky and dangerous…because if you instead chose what is expedient (such as torpedoing Saigon as part of a program to talk with Beijing) then what you get is…what we have right now: a China on the rise and growing ever more aligned against us. Had we done the right thing – continue to sustain Vietnam to victory and kept away from the anti-human regime in China, the world today would be a much better place.

Kissinger didn’t invent Realpolitik nor was he responsible for all the American foreign policy disasters from 1917 to 1969 but he kept right at it. With iron determination he kept doing what his fool predecessors did and it kept failing…and his successors also kept making the same mistakes. To put it into current affairs; we must back Israel because it is the right thing to do. We must call for the extermination of Hamas because it is the right thing to do. To call for anything else – a ceasefire – might seem like the realistic thing to do, but I remind one and all that Israel had both Egypt and Syria on the verge of unconditional surrender in 1973 and we forced Israel to pull back. Seemed smart…but the reason Hamas exists and just sent rape/death squads into Israel is because the Arab/Muslim world did not get the humiliating defeat they had earned decades before. People who do wrong things – like start wars – must never get to have a say in how things conclude and what comes after. The wrong must be punished until they beg for mercy. And then they must be shown mercy…but they don’t get a say. They are to be ordered about to the liking of the victors.

Senator Fetterman is surprising everyone – he’s come out with some sensible things of late, most recently his observation that if we’re going to kick Rep Santos out, why not Senator Menendez (D-Egypt)? Is Fetterman playing a game? Is he getting, as they say, “red pilled”? Not sure; I suspect that somewhere deep down inside there is the regular guy who has played the game to get into the Senate…but does still remember that they’re all garbage in DC. We’ll see how long the Democrats let this go on. I mean, think about it: sure Santos seems like a liar…maybe even a creep…but compared to the rest of them? Come on! Congress is awash in crooks, sexual abusers and traitors and Santos is the guy who gets the axe? Before there was even a trial? The anti-Semitic Squad gets to stay? I guess that maybe Fetterman saw that and just went, AYFKM?

Chauvin – who as far as I can tell, didn’t commit anything like a crime – was just stabbed 22 times in prison. Word is the assailant is a former FBI informant. Almost like they want Chauvin gone before the full story gets out.

Other thing heard today – the J6 video is missing. Gone. Nobody knows what happened to it. This is another thing they don’t dare let the full truth come out about.

A trucking company in Tennessee has been fined $700,000. The crime? They asked prospective employees to prove they are legal residents of the United States. You know: like the law says they’re supposed to be. The key thing to remember about our government is that it hates you.

A lot.

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Ok, so who had a Venezuela-Guyana War on their bingo card?

In the latest entry in our World Going to Hell scorecard, there is trouble brewing in South America between Venezuela and Guyana. They’re calling it a border dispute but what Venezuela is claiming is 60% of Guyana’s territory. Ostensibly the Venezuelans say they are trying to right a wrong done to them in 1899 when Guyana was a British colony and Venezuela was forced to agree to international arbitration on the territory in question. In reality, the backwater of Guyana was recently discovered to float on oil – Venezuela is broke because they’ve been Commie for some decades now and so they naturally want to steal some money so they can finance their Socialist Paradise for a little longer.

Guyana, alone, has no chance here – there are only about 750,000 people living in the country against 30 million in Venezuela. Guyana’s total military force – including reserves – is 7,600 troops. Venezuela has about 300,000 troops including Commie bully-boy groups. This would be a short war. Brazil is apparently taking exception to Venezuelan actions and is reportedly moving troops to the area. Here’s the kicker: we are treaty-bound to defend Guyana’s territorial integrity. So, yeah, this goes south and we might be involved.

But do not worry. Pudding Brain is on the job! Side note: he referred to Donald Trump as “Congressman Trump” today…

Israel continues its “pause” in military operations. Gotta say, by now it is no longer a pause…they’ve stopped and I doubt they’ll start up again. Listening to Israeli spokespeople over the last couple days and it becomes increasingly clear that all they want is their hostages back. Hamas will play that desire like a fiddle…and it will remain in Gaza. I hope I’m wrong, but as I suspected from the start – when Israel delayed the start of military action – I believe Israel is defeated. They just don’t have the will to go toe to toe with their enemies. They are, perhaps, too rich these days…the guys of 1948, given Israel’s current power, would not have stopped…their great-grand-children want to get back to the beach. I hope I’m wrong about this.

You might have seen Pudding Brain’s people and the MSM (but I repeat myself) going on and on about how the economy is actually great. This lie isn’t meant for you. They don’t care about you; they know you know what the economy is like. But what they are worried about is upper class, urban white voters. They are just about the only demographic which hasn’t swung away from the Democrats of late. Lies like this are designed to shore them up…to get them to nod along rather than get angry and vote GOP or something.

I guess a BLMer endorsed Trump for 2024 and social media had a heart attack about it. I’ve said all along that BLM has a point. I’ve also said all along that most of the BLM leadership were just paid Democrat operatives. You know: con artists. People getting paid by the DNC (via various plausibly deniable means) to rabble rouse for political purposes. These people are scum. But the rank and file, they have genuine complaints. They are the black version of MAGA – and just as MAGA has been betrayed by the GOPe, so the genuine BLM has been betrayed by the DNC. I think the heart attack stems from a deep fear that working and middle class people of all ages, religions and ethnicities will unite against the Establishment.

The government of Ireland is proposing to make it illegal to complain about immigrants killing Irish kids while the government of Spain arrested people for praying the Rosary outside socialist party headquarters.

Reminder: the Establishment all around the world hates you.

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A few days ago three ethnic Palestinians – two of whom I understand are American citizens – were shot in Vermont. It appears the shooter, while being yet another “known wolf” lunatic, did target them because they identified themselves as Palestinian by wearing a copy of the dishrag Arafat used to wear over his bloated head. Immediately upon news of this breaking, there was universal condemnation of the action. Well, nearly universal. There was at least one person I know who simply couldn’t work up a condemnation.

That person was me.

Don’t get me wrong. I oppose shooting random people even if they self-identify as wicked. I expect the perpetrator to be punished according to law and I won’t shed a tear for him when he gets his due. But what I can’t do is work up anything like sympathy for the victims. I did try; it wasn’t there.

Now, why is that? Well, as I pondered it I realized that myself, my fellow Americans, Christians worldwide, white people in general and, of course and most especially, Jews have spent the last 50-60 years under the threat that at some point some Muslim will decide to kill us just to make a point. Doesn’t matter who you are or your beliefs – if you are white, American, Christian, Jewish or any combination of these things, Muslims have declared open season on you. They do have their reasons for this. Their reasons are drivel – because regardless of what Israel, the USA, Europe has done or is doing, random me – random Jew, random Christian, random white guy – walking down the street is not directly, immediately responsible for it. Furthermore, we randoms are not at the time engaged in a military or political action against Muslims. Almost invariably those who are killed by Muslims are people who are quite literally defenseless and not doing anything to anyone.

And we’ve just accepted it, haven’t we? Muslims attack and one or a thousand of us are killed and then we pick up the bodies (or pieces of bodies), wipe up the blood…and maybe bomb something but we also say we’re willing to talk. We provide aid. We promise that we’ll help them set up a government entirely outside our control. And, of course, if any one of us even looks crossways at a Muslim, we apologize. And this is after they killed some of us – and with the full promise that as soon as they’re ready, they’ll kill even more of us. We’re supposed to put up with this? Forever? And feel sad that some of them were randomly cut down?

I’m afraid I’m quite done with this. And once I realized I had no sympathy for the victims it immediately came into my mind that it really for the same reason I never have had – and never will have – any sympathy for what the WWII generation of Germans and Japanese went through. Any time I hear them whine about Dresden or Hiroshima you always find me saying words to the effect of, “gee, isn’t that just too danged bad”. Why? Because those sons of bitches spent WWII lording it over everyone they got control over. They were the Master Race…and anyone outside their Race was a slave…someone to be beaten, humiliated, raped, murdered. After the Germans and Japanese spent years doing that – and it was common Germans and Japanese who actually did the deeds – I look upon their ruined cities in 1945 and go, “well, you got what you wanted: now, how does it taste?”. The Muslims have that same Master Race disease the Germans and Japanese had – they do think they are superior to all and that God has ordained them to rule over slaves. What angers them about Israel is that there is a corner of the world that someone else runs. That’s what they hate about it. They know very well they could be rich and free under Israeli rule…but the very thought of having someone other than themselves in charge…of having a system where they can’t abuse subhumans, makes them furious.

So, yeah: I’m kinda done playing this charade where I pretend there are two parts of Islam – the good part and the part that blows my people up. No; there is one Islam. It is all the same. That we might find individual Muslims who reject it is fine…but the general run are all of one mind and heart. That is, they are masters and all of us are their slaves, actual or potential. Remember: they do celebrate when we’re killed. After the rape/death squads withdrew from Israel the people of Gaza went wild with joy. They knew their men had just gone in to rape, torture and murder Israelis and they were proud of their men for doing it. They can’t wait for it to happen again. They are enduring the Israeli response in the hope that one day they’ll be able to rape, torture and murder every Israeli.

So, spare me this “we’re better than that” stuff. Sure we are – we don’t send in rape/death squads. And if anyone on our side did send in rape/death squads, we’d kill them, ourselves. I am under no obligation to shed a tear when someone treats them as they’ve been treated. When Islam wakes up from its fever and admits that I as a Christian, white American am their equal, then will be the time when I can express sympathy. Until then, nothing doing.

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Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I did! Bit of family around and a great turkey dinner. Always my favorite holiday.

Given that Pudding Brain emerged to take credit for it, I can only assume the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza was something that his people orchestrated in order to try to spin a win for the Geezer in Chief. Israel probably knuckled under to it for fear of overly angering Biden people and thus putting at risk any aid they need. Other than that, Hamas violated the ceasefire within minutes of it taking place and from what I can tell didn’t even release as many hostages as agreed.

To be fair, there could be lots of complications on that part – the various factions that make up Hamas (all Muslim political groupings are made up of various factions based on ideology/theology/clan/tribe/etc) won’t want to give up their prisoners in general because if Group A gives up the, say, ten they’ve got then when a later settlement is made they get nothing. No bargaining chips, you see? And that is both vis a vis the Israelis as well as competing factions. It might also be they don’t know how many they have – the Israelis have a pretty good idea on the number of people unaccounted for but how many of them survived from 10/7 until today is a complete mystery. Almost certainly some people brought back captives have been murdered after various brutalities were visited upon them (Muslim military forces do not obey the Geneva Convention. Ever. They consider doing such as a sign of weakness). In the chaos of battle it might be that those turned over were all Hamas, as an entity, could get hold of at the moment.

Main thing is that its a mess and if Pudding Brain’s people were thinking we’d be grateful when not a single American captive was released then they’re dumber than we think. And this was a huge mistake which will just make a quick and successful termination of the war more difficult. As I said on 10/7: assume the hostages are dead. If you get any back, bonus; but don’t do anything based upon the idea of getting them back. They were taken precisely to give Hamas a bargaining chip. Tell Hamas that they have no chips while you continue to hammer then and eventually they’ll start giving them up just to not get killed.

So, you’re wondering, “just what sort of people are these Palestinians?”. Well, they just hung from a lamppost (as it were) two Palestinians who were accused of collaboration. Trial? Proof? ROFL. Savages, at most, have some mockery of a trial…these poor bastards probably just offended the local equivalent of a Mafia Don and got zapped. They’re barbarians. They are not people who we as civilized people need to respect. They are to be ordered to obey and punished if they don’t. It takes centuries to turn savages into civilized people – and for all the European colonialism of the past, it didn’t last nearly long enough to get these people to behave decently.

Does that sound harsh? Well, too bad. It is the way the world works. We’ve tolerated barbarianism for 60 years and all we’ve got it more barbarism. It is time for civilized people to put an end to this.

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As per usual, celebrities are lining up to make their “I’m leaving” statements if the GOPer wins – in this case, its still all about Trump but we remember it from past elections. So far, Madonna, Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen have said they’re out if Trump wins. If only. Just one, little vote and we end the long, national nightmare of Born to Run? Sign me up!

The trouble is they never follow through, do they? They stay. And that is a monstrous injustice! Why do they think we vote GOP?

Speaking of the GOP: we do note that the Democrats impeached Trump multiple times and so far all we’ve got out of the GOP House majority is a couple toothless hearings. Some people do figure we could win the White House next year and lose the House. It wouldn’t surprise me if that happened: the GOP has given us no reason to vote GOP down ballot. Heck, in the recent budget deal all they did was cancel some unspent Covid money…they didn’t defund a single aspect of Pudding Brain’s weaponization of government. And there went the new Speaker’s resolve that we won’t have omnibus bills…just about the first he did was pass an omnibus bill. They don’t understand: we don’t want any of it. Just shut it down. We don’t care! Sure, the MSM will have a heart-attack…but we don’t watch the MSM so we wouldn’t even notice. The number of votes we might lose over a shut down are tiny compared to the number gained by having the shut down. But, they don’t see it. Gonna take years to clear out the GOP deadwood.

I guess that in Florida for your government shakedown operation (ie, government employee union) to be certified for bargaining, 60% of the workers have to belong to the union. Now, its been decades since the Supreme Court ruled that you can’t compel union membership but for the most part this has been calmly ignored and various dirty means have been used to keep government employees in the Union. But in Florida, the ability to leave the union has now been enshrined in law and there’s a government which actually enforces that law…and it looks like the teacher’s union in Florida has or will very soon fall below that 60% threshold. In other words, there won’t be a union for the government to deal with in education. Can you imagine the sorts of reforms which will be possible once you have that barnacle scraped off? My prediction: if the GOP shows some guts and retains control in Florida for another ten years, then the Ivy League will be finished as the only place in America to get really first-rate education will be Florida and any other Red States where the GOP has the courage to reform education.

And we do have to get on that education thing. Over the past few days the latest Tik Tok craze has been for youngsters to read Bin Laden’s Letter to America and then they react positively to it and are all, “this is legitimate resistance”. First thing to keep in mind is that a 20 year old college kid was born after 9/11. Time marches on! The rising generation has no memory of that day. My guess is that the Tik Tok craze is a Sino-Iranian intelligence op; they’re trying to undermine American support for Israel. By far, Iran values Hezbollah more than Hamas but it would be a major blow to Iranian prestige if Hamas is wiped out. There is simply nothing Iran can do directly because of distance and the fact that Israel almost certainly has nuclear-armed subs off the coast of Iran right now. But they’ve got to do something – and that “something” is get a ceasefire before the IDF clears Gaza.

Our problem is not the op, but that it is working. Our youth are so astonishingly ignorant that a screed – actually written by a renegade American college kid who converted to Islam and joined al-Qaeda – by a psychopath is considered good. As jokester David Burge put it on X, wait until the kids find out about this vegetarian former art school student who’s anti-Zionist tome ignited a world movement! Our kids are so ignorant they are falling for the most elementary propaganda…and propaganda in favor of anti-human evil. If we don’t fix this then if a real war comes, we’ll find at least a significant portion of our youth will believe the enemy rather than America.

But even beyond that, keep in mind that affirmative action doesn’t just end at some point. You have to affirmative-action them into school. And then into a degree. And then into a job. We’ve seen again and again highly credentialed Pudding Brain judicial nominees fail to correctly answer basic legal questions. We’re seeing doctors who assert that masks will stop a virus. On and on like that – if the education was at least engineering plus commie propaganda it would be bad, but not necessarily fatal…but the education is nothing but commie propaganda. They don’t know anything, really. And they are now starting to be placed in charge. We need a crop of our youth who actually know what they’re doing.

But, do keep in mind, if the Red States start to churn out first class doctors and engineers that won’t do the trick. The USSR could educate excellent engineers…who were then put under the thumb of party hacks. They were arrested as “wreckers” when the hacks loused everything up. It will be like that here in America if we don’t start enacting laws to put some teeth into civil rights. Laws which expressly prohibit law enforcement from doing certain things. Laws which punish oath-breakers. On and on like that.

As for the war in Gaza, the IDF is being very methodical in its approach – this is to keep casualties low; both IDF and Gazan. I worry this isn’t the way to do it. I’ve always favored celerity of movement in warfare. The longer it takes the more imponderables start to have their way. Of course, the IDF isn’t going to call me for advice and I do wish them success…but I worry that if this starts to take too long not only will global pressure for a ceasefire increase, but we may start to see domestic Israeli pressure grow to call it off.

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In the Virginia election last week the GOP got more votes, State-wide, for House and Senate than the Democrats did. The Democrats narrowly won both chambers – ultimately in the crucial districts by just 3,000 or so votes – because of the Democrat gerrymander of the districts. But this shows that Virginia isn’t quite as Blue as we’ve been led to believe. Can’t do much about the district lines until after 2030 and then only if we have at least one of the legislative houses, but I think the votes show that Virginia may yet be in play for 2024.

Of note, the Democrats went nuclear on abortion in Virginia and the national GOP did nothing about it. The national GOP seems determined to let the Democrats win on the abortion issue and then blame pro-Lifers for the losses. This is probably a means of undermining the Populist impulse in the GOP. Make no mistake about it, most of the GOP leadership wants to return to a Romney-like GOP. They don’t like Trump, but they also don’t like DeSantis. Their candidate for 2024 now that Scott has thrown in the towel is Haley. And if they don’t get the candidate they want, they’ll do everything they can to undercut the overall GOP effort in 2024 as much as they did in 2022 and 2020. I do believe that this is because a lot of our leadership is compromised – either directly or indirectly. The Democrats own them. It will be a grind over the next ten years or so to get rid of these people and replace them with people who are on our side.

In Pennsylvania the switch to the GOP continues. The Democrat voter registration advantage stands at about 445k; it was 916k back in 2016. This is an earthquake that just hasn’t quite happened yet. The State is trending Red but is still controlled by Blue. Democrats had thought their new auto-registration system would right the ship but all its done is produce even more GOP voters. The Democrats are now committing massive funds to register voters for 2024 because they do see the writing on the wall. One of these days, regardless of how “fortified” they make the elections, you’re going to see a Red Wave in Pennsylvania.

October 7th has been memory-holed by the Left. They don’t even mention it any longer. No surprise as any mention of it now just brings up that it is abundantly proven that Hamas committed savagery that would have made Attila the Hun blush. But it isn’t just expedience that has done this on the Left – they are very proud of Hamas, after all – it is just that right now their only goal is to make what Israel is doing look bad and make it appear, the longer time goes on, as if it happened in a vacuum. They will keep putting (fake) pictures of Gazan dead up on social media to get Pudding Brain’s people to increase the pressure on Israel to quit. Survival of Hamas is at stake here – and the Left wants Hamas to survive. They don’t just want a repeat of 10/7, they want 10/7 on steroids (apparently Hamas had a much more ambitious plan to also paraglide in from the West Bank but didn’t have the resources to pull that off. This time). But they have a problem – more and more Israelis are seeing the evidence of what Hamas did and they seem to be getting determined to see an end to Hamas, at least in Gaza. There aren’t a lot of voices in Israel right now calling on the IDF to quit. That might come some day, but not any time soon.

Among the dead from 10/7 was a Canadian peace activist lady. From what I read, she’s been in Israel for decades “working for peace”. Naturally, Hamas murdered her. You do wonder if at the last moment she realized her error? We’ll never know – but I will say the hard pill to swallow: of the people of the West, nobody is more responsible for the existence of Hamas and other groups of savages than “peace activists”. They are not good people. They are not wise people. They are not merciful people. They are narcissistic cowards who preen themselves on their moral superiority over the people who fight barbarians to keep them at bay. They are almost invariably white and rich. And for 60 to 70 years these people have stopped the West from squashing the barbarians…so now we’ve got more barbarians in the West than any time since the fall of Rome.

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Yesterday everyone got into a blue funk over losing the abortion fight in Ohio…except all it did was enshrine into the Ohio constitution what was already Ohio law. It was a clever tactic by the Democrats, though, and it will be used everywhere in 2024…get abortion initiatives on the ballot in order to drive turnout because, apparently, nothing is more important to suburban white women than making sure black women can get abortions (39% of all abortions in 2020 were done on black women – who make up about 12% of the female population). But, don’t get yourself in too much of a fret about it.

We scored some big local victories in New York City – in areas carried by Pudding Brain by 30 points. Seems like New Yorkers (outside Manhattan) are finally having enough of this woke garbage. No, NYC will not vote GOP in 2024…but if we’re seeing deep blue areas shift right even a little bit, then it spells disaster for Democrats at the national level in 2024. Just a few percentage points of deep blue areas moving GOP means Democrats will have an increasingly hard time winning PA, MI, WI…and even MN. We also did a bit of this on the local level in New Jersey and while (as expected) we came up short in the PA Supreme Court race, we once again pressed forward with victories at the county and school board level which are vastly more important right now.

Some people are now calling the Life issue toxic – I don’t agree. I agree that we’re losing on the issue, but I disagree that it is a losing issue for us. Our primary problem is that we’re not responding. The GOP is simply hoping the issue goes away. Can’t do that; can’t leave the field to the Democrats. In 2022 here in Nevada we were bombarded 24/7 by pro-abortion advertising on all media platforms and it almost certainly cost us a Senate and two House seats. I’m not saying the GOP response was weak – I was here; it was non-existent. Nobody even mentioned the matter on the GOP side. We lost the Nevada Senate race by 8,000 votes after Democrats spent months and tens of millions advertising on abortion. Just a bit of pushback on our side and we could easily have flipped 4,000+ of those votes. We do need to carefully think about how we want to go forward. It is clear that at the moment we do not have an electoral majority in favor of banning abortion. That is sad but entirely to be expected given overall social conditions. We have to tune our message to reasonable restrictions which are backed by large majorities and they must be coupled with massive help for pregnant women.

As the Gaza war grinds on it has become increasingly clear to me that we have to be very forthright about our views on the matter. No more trying to be nice about it. No more tip toeing around Leftist hate. Call it what it is. As I pointed out on X, you don’t get to crawl off the Israeli girl you just raped and set on fire and claim Geneva Convention protections. Such people are to be shot out of hand and only granted mercy if they abjectly surrender. And any deaths resulting from getting at Hamas are entirely on Hamas. They did deeds which have removed them from any protection of the law. Until they are on their knees they are simply to be killed. And everyone around them should shun them and flee their presence. Better to risk Hamas shooting you in the back then remain in place as their human shields. If you don’t run, it is assumed you want to be a shield.

But more than that, we also need to clearly call out the pro-Hamas people. They are trying to hide it. They have to. But anyone refusing to outright condemn Hamas – personnel and ideology – is an accessory to Hamas’ savagery. No decent person can have anything to do with Hamas, and those who are still carrying their water – by whatever verbal gymnastics – have to called out as the evil people they are. We’re not trying to silence dissent; we are out to completely condemn the evil. It must become that no person, anywhere, will raise their voice in support of Hamas. They must be made as toxic as their actions make them.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan22 Comments

There’s video out there showing Border Patrol agents using a forklift to raise up the barbed wire Texas placed along the border so that illegals can steam in. Need to really understand all that is happening here.

All law enforcement officers take an oath to uphold the law. All persons in the military and law enforcement are instructed in their duty to disobey illegal orders. It is against the law to illegally enter the USA – even if you’re an asylum-seeker, you’re still supposed to present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. There is never any justification for anyone to cross the US border outside of legal border crossings. What the Border Patrol – the agency tasked with defending the border! – is doing is abetting illegal activity. They are breaking the law. Now, they’ll just say they are obeying orders…and you know they are! But that is irrelevant: since WWII “I was just obeying orders” is no defense; nobody is supposed to obey an illegal order. Not under any circumstance.

Understand that our law enforcement agencies will break the law and will obey any order given. While some county Sheriff’s departments might be on our side (especially in deep red areas), I wouldn’t bet a nickle that a city or State (let alone federal) police agency will protect my rights. They are not, at the moment, going out of their way to oppress but they are definitely willing to obey any order to oppress. One thing we need to do is completely revamp how policing is done in the United States. It needs to be very local and very much under the control of the people.

The Biden people are in a funk – they are trying to thread the needle between supporting Israel and pleasing their increasingly anti-Semitic base and it just isn’t working. My perception now is that they’ve decided to lean towards the Islamist side: just more votes and money in it (nations like Qatar provide buckets of money to any institution willing to parrot the Islamist line…if you’re really wondering how America’s prestige universities became anti-Semitic sewers, there ya go). Just as Israel is set to encircle Gaza City, itself, and thus contain (and eventually destroy) the prime area of Hamas power, Pudding Brain’s people are out there saying we need a “humanitarian pause”…you know, a breather for Hamas and more time for Iran and Hezbollah to deploy forces which can strike Israel. Yes, it really is disgusting…but when your internal polls are showing you down in Michigan and that promised “consulting” job paid for by Qatari money is being pulled, you do what you gotta do.

And that anti-Semitism is getting more vile and open, isn’t it?

To be fair, it isn’t all on the Left; there are plenty of Right voices also joining in on it, on the absurd notion that “America First” is undermined by the Jews. These idiots just need to remember – if they know anything at all – that most Russian Jews weren’t Bolsheviks even if a lot of Bolsheviks were Jews (as one Russian Jewish leader put it: “the Trotsky’s make the headlines but the Bronstein’s pay the bills”). Yes, there are Jews in the Globalist groups undermining all Western nations. There are also Protestants and Catholics. For the Globalists whatever ethnic or religious status they might have is secondary to their Globalist ideology. Meaning: that they are Jewish or Catholic or Protestant is entirely secondary. Their nature is Globalist first and foremost. In the end, probably better these vile people revealed themselves to us – we can ditch them and move on; they only make up a very small proportion of the Right.

On the Left, though, it is becoming endemic. To keep your Leftists bona-fides these days you pretty much have to offer support for Hamas; you have to, in one way or another, approve of 10/7. Anyone who doesn’t is a racist, sexist, homophobic, settler colonialist bastard. This is why we get people calling for a ceasefire: it is the easiest way to support Hamas without overtly stating support for Hamas. To the casual observer, calling for a ceasefire seems like a good thing and not in Hamas’ favor; but, of course, it is. It is, in fact, the one thing that can save them now. It is, in the end, a call for a repeat of 10/7 at a later date. And anyone who thinks for a moment or two realizes this…including all those Leftists in the USA who are calling for a ceasefire. They know what they are doing: and they are doing it to maintain their Leftist membership.

They do have a problem, though: most Americans – and at least a plurality of Democrats – don’t like anti-Semitism and broadly support Israel’s right to self defense. This is going to make it hard for Democrats, even with the MSM working overtime to hide the Leftist anti-Semitism.