Open Thread

Open Thread

Mark Noonan21 Comments

I love being a trendsetter! You might recall that back in 2018 I suggested that we need to return to the Battleship concept for the Navy. To nutshell what I said, we should be building a massive class of warships which are heavily armored, fast and packing a gigantic punch. This isn’t to replace the carrier, but to give us a balanced fleet. Right now, we’re pretty much nothing but carriers and destroyers on the surface and while this has a lot of important advantages, nothing dominates better than massive power…especially close in to enemy territory.

I envisioned back then a ship of probably 100,000 tons, about a thousand feet long, low profile, taking full advantage of the new alloys being developed for armor protection and packed with missiles and carrying with it significant guns (to eventually be replaced by railguns if we ever work them out). It would be heavily automated and so probably have a crew of no more than a couple hundred and nuclear powered. Well, turns out I’m not the only person thinking along these lines – so is Trump.

It seems that Trump is dissatisfied with our fleet. Is it something he knows or is it instinctive? I don’t know – but while I discount those who say the era of the Carrier is over I do believe it is time for one of those evolutions of sea power, the last of which ushered in the Carrier as the dominate Naval asset. Do keep in mind that while I call this a Battleship, it isn’t to perform the role intended for those old castles of steel – that is, lines of them coming into conflict, guns blazing until one side is destroyed. The new Battleship is a strategic asset – it is designed to survive whatever you can throw at them and still arrive off your coast…carrying in her train, as needed, an invading army you cannot stop. Carriers can defeat enemy air power. Submarines can destroy your trade. But only a battle fleet can compel your surrender. Five such ships off Shanghai ends whatever point China would be trying to make via war with us.

The government is still shut down. I guess. Nobody cares.

Mamdani says his aunt faced anti-Muslim backlash in NYC after 9/11. Given that Mamdani is a Commie we can assume this is a lie…but even if it isn’t, so what? Who the heck cares if your aunt got some nasty looks after 3,000 Americans were murdered? Mamdani didn’t mention them. Because he doesn’t care about them. To him, the true victims of 9/11 were Muslims…just as he holds the true victims of 10/7 were the Gazans. Its some real sick, twisted stuff in that man…and all those like him (which includes, it should be noted, quite a few upper class liberal white women).

Trump’s plan to kill drug mules on the high seas seems to be accelerating. The latest tactic the Cartel apologists are using is “these poor people are coerced into shipping drugs”…which is probably true to a certain extent. To bad, so sad. Not our problem. As with all bad things, they only happen via cooperation. Sure, you and your family might suffer if you stand up to the Cartels…but by not standing up to them, you’re just moving the suffering around…from you and your family to some poor slob and his family in the USA. And, of course, the mules – under threat or not – are being well paid to make the runs. And that is the real key here.

As I’ve noted before, we can’t defeat the Drug Lords – simply because once you get one, you just get the next…who is probably going to be better at it as he’ll learn from the mistakes of his predecessors (and, indeed, often a major Drug Lord only goes down after someone below betrays him to us so that we’ll remove him, allowing the new guy to take over). The whole thing about this illicit trade is that it is massive amounts of stuff to be moved. Very different from days when we might be talking a kilogram or two…they are shipping tons of the stuff. And the return trip is literal tons of money. This takes huge infrastructure…and apparently we’ve known all along about these shipments (routes, timing, ports, all of it). By hitting the mules we’re doing the worst possible thing to the Cartels – denying them their ability to earn money. The money which, among other things, buys the bully-boys necessary to keep everyone in line (you know: if you threaten to kill a man’s family if he doesn’t cooperate this rings rather hollow unless you have some menacing guys around to back up the threat – menacing guys don’t work for free). We’re strangling the Cartels…and that is why everyone involved is blowing a gasket over it (huge numbers of supposedly honest people are hip deep in the Cartel trade). As per usual, Trump is simply doing what could have been done all along…which shows that all of our problems are actually policy choices.

No King of Open Threads

Mark Noonan16 Comments

The Democrats are out there yapping away about No Kings today – they do this because they’re still dead certain the American people are on their side. Do keep in mind this is a sincere belief…and there’s polling to back it up! No, seriously! Of course, such polling shows Trump minus fourteen on immigration…so, in other words, its a poll of the faculty at Columbia University. But that doesn’t worry our Dems! They have their poll showing that Resistance is working and so if they just keep calling Trump Hitler and keep fighting for illegals, 2026 will be a landslide win for them.

But I think there is a more serious issue for us on our side to discuss: what are we to do with these morons? That is, how can our Republic survive if complete nitwits who believe obvious lies are allowed a say? I’m honestly not sure it can. At least, not as we knew it forty or so years ago. They are just too completely stupid to be fully reformed…someone who’s, say, forty years old and seriously believes that allowing millions of Third World migrants in is not someone who is capable of thought. Because only a moment’s thought would get to the point of “oh, yeah; that’s not good. Even if immigration is good. Even if high numbers of immigration is good – just waving millions through is a really bad idea”. Eventually, I believe, we’re going to have to restrict the franchise and return at least some government power to a body only indirectly elected by the people (you know, the Senate as it is supposed to be).

It will be the only way we can preserve the rule of law, after all. The thing about having a rule of law is that you need those in charge of making and enforcing law to know what a law is, and the various circumstances which those charged with enforcing law are faced with. It isn’t a game. Sure, there is a need for a theory of law – for those who are philosophers of law. Who try to draw out of law its underlying meaning and help us determine what is likely a good or bad law. But we also need very practical people who will ensure that the laws are both enforced but also not a suicide pact. You have people right now who are saying zapping drug boats on the high seas is illegal…and it is lawyers saying it. Which means – unless they’re just flat out lying – none of them have the least clue about how law works.

Guys, we read them their rights when we’ve picked them up on suspicion of bank robbery…we kill them when they’re heading towards our shores with a load of poison. Both are proper operations of law and in both cases all required respect for human rights have been observed. You don’t get to try to import poison – or slaves – into America and then expect us to jump through hoops before we can do anything to you. No: if we catch you in international waters, we treat you like a pirate (but much more efficiently than taking the time to hang you from a yardarm). A man arrested for bank robbery can waive his fifth amendment rights and confess freely to his crimes…a man driving a drug-laden boat in international waters has by the action waived all of his rights. That is, had he stayed in his own nation’s territorial waters or not taken contraband into international waters then we’d have to largely be hands off…but the combination of contraband + international waters = hellfire missile. Per the rule of law.

And here’s our real problem – there are millions of Americans who think we actually are doing something wrong. And not just in killing drug dealers at sea…in the mere process of detaining a person illegally in the USA, they believe our laws say we can’t do that. That we must only arrest such with a specific warrant listing a definite crime and then give the illegal a full trial – at our expense – before we can deport. Only a drooling idiot would believe that. And would you let a drooling idiot vote? Well, tens of millions of them did so last November.

They also believe there is a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment, that “shall not be infringed” means you can infringe all the live long day, that abortion is a Constitutional right…on and on and on like that. Complete nonsense. Twaddle…but it is said not just by some low level moron but by people who hold elective and appointive office. People who can have us arrested. And there is the real problem we have – if these dimwits can vote then they may obtain power again and then we’ll find ourselves faced with morons who hate us having the power to jail. Not something I want to do. And it is not something I think our country can survive long term.

Here’s the kicker: restricting the franchise is also the only way we can ensure ourselves against a King. As others have pointed out, Trump is our Gracchi. If this doesn’t work, then we’ll find a Sulla. But make no mistake about it, we’re not actually going to allow ourselves to be lined against a wall by the functional equivalent of the cast of Idiocracy. In the end, the only way to avoid Caesar is to make sure morons can’t guarantee his arrival.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan18 Comments

I guess we’re all supposed to be upset that some youngsters were crude in a group chat. I guess a lot of people haven’t met young people lately – they are freely profane and deliberately use provocative words because their elders told them they can’t. I know this will cause shock among geezers and calls for the smelling salts, but there it is…young people are, well, young. I mean, not you and me: we were never young and if we were then we were completely what our parents told us to be no questions asked and we never used The Bad Words.

Additionally, its the people who cheered when Kirk was shot who are telling us to mind our manners. So, yeah, I don’t care what some kids said in a group chat. I care what people do in the real world…and I especially care about the “ready, aim, fire” folks on the Left. At least, a heck of a lot more than some 20 year old using the N word in a group chat.

Reminder: the government is shut down! Be sure to panic!

The reality here is that the government being shut down is only a problem if the government makes it one…like Obama did back in his day when he maliciously inflicted maximum pain on the people because he wanted Congress to fund his pathetic little pet projects. Trump is not inflicting pain on us. And unless you are the deputy assistant director of diversity affairs at the Department of Wheel Spinning, the shut downs doesn’t mean a lot. Trump even figured out how to use appropriated money to pay the troops. Sure, this can’t go on forever…eventually, a budget does have to be passed…but nobody on our side has any incentive to cave on Democrat demands.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on the Voting Rights Act – specifically the bit where we have to draw minority-majority districts to ensure a certain skin color gets elected to the House (note they don’t insist upon making majority-minority States so we can have a more diverse Senate). This requirement is, of course, evil and anti-American. It is wrong to draw districts with a mind to making sure a black person can’t win…but it is just as wrong to draw them to ensure nobody but a black person can win. Our Constitution has always been colorblind – and this bit of the Voting Right Act has to go. Democrats are in a panic about it, of course – because they garner 19 House seats based upon these racial gerrymanders.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan12 Comments

You know how it went:

“Time to award the Peace Prize!”

“Cool, who we got?”

“Well, we want to award it to Hamas but the bodies ain’t cold yet.”

“Guess we gotta give it to Trump, then. Darn it!”

“Wait! There’s this lady in Venezuela: María Corina Machado! She’s Latina, South American. You know: Trump hates them! We’ll give it to her!”

“Genius!”

(((And then what happened?)))

They just don’t understand – not anything. I pointed out that shortly after Butler, I saw a video of some kids in the middle of nowhere Africa reenacting the event with Trump as the super macho man…Trump has been a social phenomena for a while…he became a popular hero after Butler. You just can’t get around the fact that the man was shot at, got back up while bleeding and shouted, “Fight!, Fight!, FIGHT!”. He’s certified heroic…and people do respond to such men (and women).

Sure, the entire Global Establishment still hates him and despises his supporters…but if you look around the world today, you can see that Establishment is hanging on by the skin of it’s teeth. Nobody likes it. If more populations were armed like Americans, they’d already be engaged in bloody revolutions. Trump stands against them all – and even if you have this or that exception to what he does or how he does it, you know the choice: it is either Trump or the grifting, slave-trafficking, war-mongering, anti-human scum of the Establishment.

It isn’t a difficult choice.

Bari Wiess is fairly liberal lady and she’s being placed in charge of CBS news…and the MSM is having a meltdown. Why? Well, you see, Bari has this bizarre idea that its ok to hold Democrats to account.

And it is bizarre – and I remember reading the articles in the 1980’s where the Left was insisting that there wasn’t a “both sides” to issues and that everyone had to follow the Leftwing Party Line…and the MSM dutifully followed. But now nobody believes it and its shedding audience and news divisions – never money makers – are now bleeding networks dry. So, it is get rid of news, or get someone in there who might be able to draw an audience. Wiess is the MSM’s last chance…if she can merely make it 25% even handed (just one fourth of the time!) it’ll be saved…if not, then its over.

Trump’s peace deal in on track in Gaza – with Hamas being just what it is: savages. There’s video of them rounding up Gazans suspected of disloyalty and summarily executing them. I do hope the deal holds…not because I think it’ll bring real peace, but because there’s no point in continuing this round any longer. Israel had their 90 day window after 10/7 to kill Hamas. They didn’t do it. Whatever deal is made, Hamas will want to eventually attack again. They can’t do otherwise – their whole existence, their justification for power, is killing Jews. Any deal which concedes a right of Jews to live – anywhere – makes Hamas pointless. But, a peace deal now at least stops the current battle…and with the benefit of Hamas being greatly degraded in power (might be ten or fifteen years before they become a serious threat again). And the end of this does allow more Arab States to come to terms with Israel…and that, long term, is the best way to undercut Islamism…if Jews are visiting a resort in Dubai it is hard to justifying firing a rocket from Gaza.

Team Trump has commenced the Reductions in Force necessitated by the Democrats shutdown. I’m starting to think that Trump is one of the very few people in DC who understand how American government works. In this case, if the money isn’t appropriated by Congress, then the thing simply doesn’t exist. If there isn’t an appropriation for your job, you don’t have a job. Previously Presidents have pretended to furlough the workers and made sure back pay was in every budget deal…but you can’t really furlough someone…if there isn’t money for them, their position is gone.

Trump is now acting upon this reality. And Democrats don’t quite know what to do about it.


Open Thread

Mark Noonan24 Comments

Saw a video of a fairly large crowd of people in New York City celebrating 10/7. As I said in the previous thread: we’re going to have to decide what we do with evil people.

We are not, at this juncture of history, actually trying to preserve a certain form of government: we’re trying to save our lives. And we will be forced – and I believe very soon – to act like people do when their lives are at stake. This is beyond a concern of free speech…this is people telling us they are delighted when we’re killed (and 10/7 isn’t just about killing Jews – it is about killing the whole concept of civilized behavior). I can let them keep on…or I can find a way to stop them.

I said for a long while now that I thought we had a peaceful way out – that the window for a political settlement is still open. As of this moment in time, I want that window closed. I’ll let them start the fight…but I’ll do everything I can, when they do, to ensure we finish it. This time around, no more Grant-like “let ’em up easy”.

The Senate confirmed 107 Trump nominees all at once – and for those who wanted Trump to recess appoint these people: well, you were wrong. Trump knew what he was doing and all of these are now in place until 1/20/2029 (unless Vance keeps them on). In fact, this time around, Trump very much seems to know what he’s doing all the time…he’s running rings around the Democrats and, to be fair, around some of his supporters as well. As I noted early on in the Trump Era: the man plans. You might not like his plan, but he’s always got one…he does nothing actually off the cuff. Everything is calculated and my goodness but has he learned how to do politics…he’s got Democrats going into 2026 defending medical care for illegals and riots in the streets.

Some people are mad that Trump hasn’t fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers here in the second week of the shutdown. I, too, want those firings…but at this point, I’m just going to let Trump cook…perhaps he was waiting for these 107 to make sure some Deep State bureaucrat doesn’t step in as Acting this or that? We’ll find out.

Open Thread

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What if they gave a government shutdown and nobody showed up?

And just how seriously stupid are the Democrats? AOC was out saying she’s ready to negotiate with the GOP at any time…did she forget she’s in the House that already passed the budget bill and thus has no further say in the matter? Its an even money chance that she doesn’t know how our government works…I mean the legislative process. After all, she’s only there to exercise power and grab money…you think she spent any time reading Robert’s Rules of Order? Heck, I wonder what her reading level is? She was born in 1989 which means she attended school from approximately 1994 to 2006…and New York education levels have been substandard (even by today’s dumbed-down standards) for a while. There’s a real chance that if you read to her:

11. A Main or Principal Motion is a motion made to bring before the assembly, for its consideration, any particular subject. It takes precedence of nothing — that is, it cannot be made when any other question is before the assembly; and it yields to all Privileged, Incidental, and Subsidiary Motions — that is, any of these motions can be made while a main motion is pending. Main motions are debatable, and subject to amendment, and can have any subsidiary motions applied to them.

She’d just stare blankly at you for a minute, call Trump a fascist and then demand Medicare for All. We’re dealing with very stupid people who haven’t the foggiest notion of how the world works but are at the same time dead certain they are right about everything and their opponents (us) are pure evil. Its a toxic stew.

We’d pity Chuck Schumer if he hadn’t spent his entire career being a vile liar enriching his cronies while America fell apart…he’s looking over his shoulder at a possible AOC primary challenge and realizes that he hasn’t got a chance against her. He’s vastly better educated and far more intelligent but in order to advance his interests, he allowed people like AOC to take control of the Democrat base…and if he doesn’t drive off AOC’s cliff, he’s doomed.

Team Trump – apparently with the cooperation of the Congressional GOP – is preparing a series of moves which will gut the Deep State…huge numbers of terminations and reorganizations to get rid of the last of the people sabotaging MAGA from within. And there’s nothing the Democrats can do about it – in fact, they are quite out of their depth right now as they learn we simply don’t care what they say. Call us racists and fascists and meanies and what have you…we know we’re not and we’re not interested in surrendering just to get you to stop calling us Nazis for 24 hours. The Democrats had their chance to come to the table and get something prior to the shutdown…now they get to twist in the wind as polling shows the people blaming them for it and their demands for a budget bill are horrifically unpopular.

Investigations in Minnesota are revealing massive immigration fraud – like half the people looked at committed at least some form of fraud to get and/or stay here. This is the sort of thing we need to do…especially to break up these concentrations of foreigners who are taking over segments of the USA and turning them into foreign enclaves…abodes of hostile people seeking our destruction and, worst of all, doing it with stolen taxpayer money. I’ve been saying that everyone who has come in over the past few decades needs to be looked at, and this is why. You don’t get millions of people illegally into the country by accident…to move that many takes a massive logistical support system and the people who provide logistic support for human trafficking aren’t altruists…they’re gangsters who want to get paid, and keep getting paid. My bet is the price for a ticket to the USA was (and remains) quite high and the people sent in have to pay – not only a cut out of any legitimate income they earn, but as much welfare as they can siphon off. I’ve noticed here in Vegas that the beggars seem quite organized…it usually isn’t some drug addled bum with his “will work for food” sign trying to cage the price of meth or booze…it is now more and more an obvious foreigner working shifts on particular street corners gathering whatever is tossed from a car window…I don’t give to such people. In the past, I’d drop a buck or even a fiver on the bum even though I knew it was for drink…these new people are probably kicking back to the cartels to pay for the price of passage.

Open Thread

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Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is pretty much a diktat – there is very much a subtext of “or else” in it. But it is also a very fair deal. In fact, it is far more merciful to the Gazans than they deserve. The nutshell: war is over, Hamas is out, they get totally rebuilt under Trump’s watchful eye and Tony Blair as the Governor-General (in all but name) essentially until such time as we’re confident that 10/7 out of Gaza isn’t going to happen again. Peace, freedom and prosperity are offered to them – all they have to do, ultimately, is reject Hamas and the ideological commitment to murdering Jews.

Not a big ask.

Most of the major Muslim powers immediately signaled their overall approval (with reservations, of course) with the only notable hold out being Iran…but the Mullahs also know they are quite defenseless against Israeli and American power so we’ll see how that plays out…they’ll never officially drop their “kill the Jews” platform but if they’ve got the sense God gave little, white mice they’ll cut off the funds for Hamas and call it a day. The rest of the Muslim world is telling the Palestinians that it is past time to pack it in on that whole “Palestinian Liberation Movement”. It is over. They won’t march on Tel Aviv. Israel is a permanent fixture…and perhaps if they are very nice and behave themselves for a while they might get sovereignty over the Dome of the Rock and maybe a small section of the Old City as the symbolic capital of Palestine. It is time for this stupid war to end – and if the Palestinians prove intractable, then I can only see this ending with their total and permanent exile from the entirety of the Holy Land.

Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma posted on X the picture of a New York State CDL – it was all fine and dandy but the name said “No Name Given”. Yes, the holder of it was an illegal. In fact, Oklahoma found a very large number of illegals driving on their highways. And now I’m finding out that multiple Blue States are issuing “temporary” CDL’s with “No Name Given”…which totally defeats the purpose of having a driver’s license…but is exactly what drug and human trafficking criminal cartels need for moving their product around.

And that is what this actually shows: the governments of the Blue States are in bed with the cartels. There is simply no other explanation for allowing an un-named person to carry a CDL. You only do that if you want to assist organized crime.

Democrats are threatening a government shut down and Trump is proceeding on the assumption that this is threatening him with a good time. Reminder: if the money isn’t appropriated for a position, then that position legally ceases to exist. That is the Power of the Purse, guys. Now, in the past when there was a government shut down, the President has placed those unfunded on furlough and made sure their back pay was placed in the final budget deal…but the President doesn’t have to furlough them. They’re gone the moment the money is gone…and they only get to come back if the President wants them back (that is, makes sure its in the final budget deal). Trump might be able to fire a vast number of bureaucrats.

Which the Democrats know is the case and they hold absolutely zero cards here – because what pain there is won’t be inflicted on MAGA. Trump will make sure of that. Obama made sure regular Americans suffered under shutdown…because he hates Americans and wants us to suffer if he doesn’t get his way. Trump loves Americans…and so all the pain will be inflicted upon the Ruling Class. But Schumer and Co are also looking over their shoulders…Far Left primary challengers are already trying to get started. They’ve called Trump Hitler for 10 years and their base believes it…and you can’t cut a budget deal with Hitler. The Democrat Base wants this fight…and might turn with fury on any Democrat who tries to avoid it. So, Schumer might have to drive over the cliff here – and that’s funny.

Open Thread

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Another Leftwing nut opened fire – this time at an ICE facility. And this was deliberately provoked by the Democrats. They’re calling ICE a new Gestapo and as with Kirk two weeks ago, such overheated rhetoric is having its intended result. Don’t forget that – the Democrats want the violence. They believe that chaos and killing advances their cause…that out of this welter of hatred the people will turn to them in 2026 and 2028. I don’t believe that will happen – but they do, and so they won’t stop.

It had just never occurred to me to check but I looked at the warning label on my generic bottle of Tylenol and there it was: if pregnant or breast feeding, check with a healthcare professional before using. So, RFK isn’t on a flight of fancy here. Then throughout the day people were posting articles – some of them years old – indicating that some studies shows negative effects of Tylenol use during pregnancy. Here’s the kicker: I saw several doctors posting they had never heard of this.

So, what I’m hearing is that some doctors don’t read the label. Which isn’t as surprising as you might think – all professional qualifications have been downgraded over the past few decades in order that we might have diversity…which seems to work out that we’ll lack attention to detail.

Here’s my view:

  1. We’re probably massively over diagnosing autism as well as other maladies which are really no more than parents refusing to impart a sense of discipline to their children. Much easier for some to say “he’s autistic!” rather than admit “look, we’re working two jobs here to keep up a high end lifestyle and I just don’t have time to make sure the kid is on track”. One of my older brothers is autistic so I grew up with it: I know what it looks like. I hardly see anyone claiming autism have any of the outward signs of it.
  2. In our rush to get the next miracle drug out, we’re probably skipping steps in testing…and probably not doing enough long-term testing to see how its really working over time. There is huge money to be made in medications and the pressure is on to get it out and gloss over any problems. This can easily mean a variety of negative health effects are simply not being looked at.

The cure to all of this is to raise standards back to where they were before diversity became a goal. Whatever it took to be a medical person in, say, 1980: that’s what you’ve got to meet now. If you can’t meet it – get out. I want my doctors to be like the doctor I had as a kid – he set our broken bones, stitched our cuts, dealt with our illnesses…almost always just in his office: he was a general practitioner and simply knew how the human body worked and how to restore it to excellent condition. I’d stack him up against the entire staff of Johns Hopkins these days. And we need this reestablishment of standards throughout all professional fields…everyone is less capable than they used to be and it is all starting to fall apart.

Rumor is that Comey might get indicted. We all hope so. And if he is, then it will be outside the Beltway – he gave his testimony remotely…which means he’s out in Trump Country for his jury.

Rep Summer Lee got all shouty about Trump trying to bring patriotism back to education – her rant about how evil the USA is and that being patriotic is wrong. To which I replied: if you’re not proud of your country, why serve in its legislative body? The bottom line is that you can’t fix what you hate – you can only destroy it. If she hates America, she can’t help America. Just go away if you think this country is evil – get the heck out. Seriously. I wouldn’t stay here if I hated it.

But that also got me thinking – it is very sad that people like Lee are now the leaders of America’s black community. And not just on the racial hate they preach so they can live the high life off of misery. It is more than just robbery of money: it is theft of memory.

Agrippa Hull was a black man born free in Massachusetts who joined the Continental Army in 1777 – eventually serving for 6 years and becoming a aid to Polish General Tadeusz Kościuszko who was the Continental Army’s main Engineer. Hull was a man of intellect and education (he had to keep up with Kościuszko who was a superlative military engineer). He knew when he enlisted that most people in America who looked like him were held in degrading slavery…and even a free man of education like himself faced routine bigotry on account of his skin color. And yet he joined – and served honorably (his discharge was personally signed by George Washington). Why would he serve? Because he could see – that is, he could perceive what he was fighting for. Not for degrading slavery in South Carolina, but for the ringing declaration that all men are created equal. He knew – he must have known – that a nation so founded could not forever hold slaves…or, indeed, be the abode of any systemic injustice. That whatever sins such a nation has or had, they would be corrected because the nation was founded just to make that correction. Not immediately, but over time – and so he signed his life over to America and risked his all just to see this thing created.

That is what these race-baiters are taking away from black Americans and, indeed, all Americans. Think about our black Americans…endured slavery and Jim Crow and yet rose to the heights of education, art, science…incredible devotion to their families, heroic bravery on the battlefield. They, too, crossed wildernesses to carve civilization out of nothing. And all that is taken away so that a few race-baiters can live well and get lauded by upper class white Liberals. It is both disgusting and sad. They’d rather stew over some perceived slight in 2025 than marvel at what their ancestors accomplished in the face of genuine adversity. And the demand that white Americans hate America, too…that we tear down all statues, rename all places…do everything we can to show disdain for those who came before us.

The good news is their time is past…they are just shrieking into a void these days. We’re moving on – and we will teach youth of the greatness of America.

The Turning Point

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The MSM is saying 90,000 attended the Kirk memorial and 20 million watched – the reality looks like 200,000 attended (including the overflow) and as many as 100 million watched it live or streamed it via various platforms. It was a gigantic national event – Super Bowl in scope. And for a man who just…talked. I have to admit, I was deeply moved. If you didn’t choke up while Erika Kirk spoke then you simply aren’t human. Trump was, of course, Trump: he’ll never be what he isn’t. And while he seemed to drift at times into a typical Trump speech, he always came right back to the matter at hand: Charlie Kirk and the message of restoring America.

And how did the Left view it?

Well, over on Bluesky they started noting there are three k’s in Erika Kirk and they ran with that. They are some very sick people…pathetic. I do feel sorry for them. Sure, I know they have to be stopped…but to live your life like that, to give up any semblance of truth and beauty just so other twisted people will pretend to like you? I just don’t understand it. It is outside my experience and, indeed, my imagination. It is something I can’t really comprehend.

Pollsters who matter have started to notice a big shift in Party ID among respondents – one pollster has the American electorate at R +6. Maybe that will slip back a bit but I’m thinking it won’t – the Left at long last revealed itself for what it is over the past week: just hatred and lies. It doesn’t matter what high-minded phrasing they cook up, everyone knows they’re just lying…just hating. Just trying to latch on to power and wealth and justifying it by a bizarre (insane, really) belief that they are worthy of it all. This polling shift is being confirmed in the continued increase in GOP registration – the GOP, for instance, had a net gain of 3,000 in Pennsylvania last week. There is an even money chance that PA is a Red State by registration in time for 2028.

Vance really helped himself a lot – his speech was very impressive. While we will have a primary in 2028, it is probably Vance’s for the taking. He’d have to really blow it to fail…and then it will all come down to who is the Veep, with plenty now plugging for Gabbard. I think we all have some doubts about her on policy, but none of us doubt her deep patriotism. As I’m now fully entering into old age, I’ll leave that for the young to decide. I’ll back whomever they pick.

Can we still lose? Of course we can. We’re human. We’ll make our mistakes. Things may happen to derail the train…but with the Left exposed and the GOP shedding the last aspects of Corporate Establishment, I think our side has the edge…that we will prevail, and perhaps for a generation. And this will be Charlie’s monument…a future for his children.

Open Thread

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In response to Kimmell being fired a lot of people on the Right are trying to explain it – that is, squaring it with our disgust with Cancel Culture. I’m not. Kimmell wasn’t cancelled – he’s a disgusting liar. That’s the only reason he’s off the air. If he hadn’t been a disgusting liar, he’d still be on. Simple as that. We didn’t do anything to him – he did it to himself. The only surprise here is that the network kept him on to spew his disgusting lies as his audience collapsed. If I ran the network, I would have ditched him years ago – saying that having a disgusting liar on the air is not what the network is about.

But, of course, that is what all networks have been about – and for a long time. The movie Network (1976) nailed it pretty well in that they’ll do anything to get eyeballs glued to the tube…but missed entirely the depth upon depth of lies the networks would put out if they thought lies meant good ratings. And it isn’t remotely the news that has all the lies – in fact, the news has the least lies necessary to advance the Leftist agenda. The popular culture stuff is where you get down to really nitty-gritty lies…like Law and Order with its bizarre fixation on anything that isn’t a crime problem in the United States. Of course, no production company would ever put out a show dealing with real crime problems…that is, a massively disproportionate number of non-white people committing most of the serious crimes. Better to cook up something which always has a white man as the bad guy…and even better if he’s Christian. I mean, you could do a whole series of criminal procedure episodes just about welfare fraud in Minnesota…but as its massively Somali…ain’t gonna see it! Better to just lie.

As least, until now. Now we have a President who is being totally uncool about that whole drag-him-through-the-courts-and-also-try-to-shoot-him thing the Democrats set up. He’s willing to use the immense power which the Left handed off to the Executive in the firm belief that it would never be turned against the Left. Oooops! Now networks have to worry about licensing and lawsuits and just the President talking about how dishonest they are…absolutely no respect given to them. It hurts – socially and financially. Look for some shows that start to reflect our values pretty soon…especially if Vance or another Trumper wins in 2028.

In my view, Ilhan Omar should be denaturalized and deported. I am thoroughly disgusted with this foreigner who was rescued by our nation deciding to call us the bad guys. If she showed the least bit of gratitude for the immense wealth and position this nation has afforded her I’d be ok – but she’s just a bitter, spiteful woman – as well as being a mindless tool for people who want America destroyed. Enough. Back to Somalia for her…where she won’t be allowed to appear in public, have any position or wealth.

AOC got up in the House to say that the motion to honor Kirk causes pain – which is her way of saying, “we’re glad he’s dead, the operation worked – you’re all Nazis and we’re coming after all of you”. Not at all kidding. She’s a mindless Commie but she also has internalized the way Commies work…everything that helps them is good and the vile hatred which got Kirk killed helped Communism…so, she’s not going to condemn it and, indeed, will continue to encourage it.

Some Democrats tried to block ICE and got treated exactly like those who try to interfere with Federal law enforcement should expect: badly. These actions by the Left prove their utter contempt for the USA. The laws about immigration may be good, bad or indifferent…but they are the laws. They were passed over many years via our representatives in Congress assembled and represent the considered wisdom of the American body politic. They cannot be set aside. That they have been set aside for decades is the blot upon our honor – enforcing them is the only decent thing to do. If anyone doesn’t like the laws – and everyone is free to do so – then the only course of action is to work within the political system to obtain a government which will change the laws…trying to riot in front of ICE is a betrayal of the American ideal. I’m hoping that we’ll eventually get some indictments out of this behavior.