Open Thread

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I think that at least Gavin Newsom’s career is over…sure, he’s still a golden boy of the Democrat party and thus has full protection from the MSM…but if he runs in the 2028 primaries, then Josh Shapiro is just going to run the fire on a loop in his ads and that will be that. And if it is determined that his continued existence is bad, then the Democrat Powers That Be will put out the political hit on him just as the did on Biden after the debate. Side note, the 2028 Dem primary is likely to be brutal…nobody is really in charge over there and there is no obvious successor to Biden. We’ll probably have a vigorous primary, ourselves, but it really comes down to Vance or DeSantis – who are both highly intelligent, good men who will do the right thing.

I am advised this is real, not a parody:

The trouble with the Left these days is that it is harder and harder to make fun of them because whatever exaggerated nonsense you want to say for the joke is quickly overtaken by Leftwing reality. So, even if this isn’t real, it will be next week.

This kinda passed under the radar – Romania had a Presidential election back on November 24th. Their system is that everyone can pretty much leap into the race and among the candidates if nobody gets 50% +1, the two highest vote totals go to a runoff. Fine and dandy, right? There were six major candidates so it was pretty much a given that nobody was getting to 50% and, sure enough, the two highest votes were for Elena Lasconi at 19.2 percent and Calin Georgescu at 23 percent. The second round was due to happen on December 8th and, from what I’ve read, Georgescu was going to win fairly easily. But there was a problem. You see, Georgescu was the wrong guy.

I can’t tell you just how horrific it is to have The Wrong Guy win. I mean, how are we to Protect Our Democracy if The Wrong Guy gets in? Look at what happened here in the USA when we let The Wrong Guy win!!!

So, what makes him The Wrong Guy? Sifting through it all, he’s considered a far-right extremist because…he wants a strong Romanian military and doesn’t want to fight Russia. Other than that, lots of things are said about him but as I don’t read Romanian, I’m not going to call the reports credible…knowing how our own MSM lies all the time about everything, I can’t rely on them to tell me the truth about The Wrong Guy. Maybe he is a nut and a bad guy…but if so he’s a Romanian nut and bad guy and my view is that if the people of Romania (who seem as sane as any other people in the world) want to vote for a nut and bad guy, that’s their business. The global Ruling Class saw it differently – and they managed to get the Romanian Supreme Court to annul the November vote. To protect Democracy, you see? Apparently no actual reason was given by the Court for the annulment but it is darkly hinted that Russian disinformation caused Romanians to vote for Putin’s Puppet, Georgescu. The vote is now rescheduled for May and, as you probably guessed, Georgescu is being criminally investigated by the government which had its term willy-nilly extended to preside over the re-do which will make sure The Wrong Guy doesn’t come in first.

This is very much what they tried to do in the USA and only thanks to our Constitution was it (barely) prevented. Make no mistake about it – the Global Ruling Class does not propose to let the people vote the Ruling Class out of power. They’re already saying that what they did in Romania they’ll do in Germany if the Krauts vote for The Wrong Guy.

It is now my view that we must withdraw from NATO – there is nothing left in Europe to defend and, indeed, a strong case can be made that a Russian conquest of Europe would make it freer than it currently is.

The Fire Burns, the Left Fiddles (and Steals; They Always Steal)

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What has been most pronounced to me as Los Angeles has burned is that when the local officials are giving a statement, they don’t actually say anything.

Sure, they tell us they’re sad.

They tell us they are consulting with everyone.

They tell us that everything is being done.

What they don’t tell us is what they are doing. There’s no plan. No effort to map out a strategy.

This all follows along with the fact that they cut $17 million from the LAFD budget and sent LA firefighting equipment to Ukraine. What it tells us is that those in charge haven’t the foggiest notion of what to do. They are failing and they don’t really understand they are failing…after all, they are sad, consulting and “doing everything”! What more is there to do?

For them, nothing. I guarantee you that Bass will believe for the rest of her life that she did nothing wrong…scratch that: not only did she do nothing wrong, she was downright heroic and showed what a WOC can do! Take that, MAGAts!

The truth of the matter is that running large, modern city is more difficult than any other task in the world. Even being President isn’t as taxing. You are responsible for everything – trash, water, fire, earthquakes, roads, public transport, health care, zoning…on and on and on and every issue has a host of interests often not just competing but diametrically opposed and through this minefield you have to get it running so that when disaster happens – and it always will – the damage is at least minimized and people have confidence that the authorities know what they’re doing.

What is Karen Bass’ experience? Well, she started out in life involved in a Cuban Communist front organization. From there, it appears she never looked back. She did get an education when standards were higher so we know she isn’t stupid – but that just makes it worse. If she were a merely incompetent boob it probably would have worked out better…such often will make a decision even if the wrong one. Bass doesn’t make a decision because she feels she doesn’t have to – she’s a college-educated WOC, dammit…and you racist crackers out there should just sit down and shut up!

The danger we have right now is all up and down our system are people like Karen Bass and worse – people who are dead certain they are heroic geniuses but who aren’t fit to run a lemonade stand. They’re blaming climate change not because they really think that climate change caused a $17 million cut to LAFD but because climate change is our fault, not theirs. It is perfect…gets them off the hook, places the blame on us and the cure is to give them more money and power. The people running the show by and large hate us, hate the USA and have no expertise beyond knowing how to work the system to obtain more money and power.

The perfect contrast right now is with Florida – as hurricanes bore down on Florida, DeSantis has 50,000 people ready to go after it passed to get power back up…knowing that power restoration was the key to all other relief efforts. It worked flawlessly and power was mostly restored quickly. Police were ready so there was no looting. Evacuations happened in a timely manner. There was no lack…because there was a plan and an Executive willing to order it and kick some rears if anyone started slacking. That is how it used to be – even the most corrupt political systems in our past still managed to do the things necessary…today we still have the corruption but absolutely no competence.

And aside from property damage, people die. I’m confident that the death toll will go above the official number of (I believe) 5 at the moment. The fire was moving so fast at first that I’m sure some poor people just didn’t have time (if you’ve never experienced a wild fire, let me tell you: treat them with respect. They can move extremely fast and that after it seems like it stalled at some point). Thing is, everyone knows that it has been bone dry in Southern California for nearly a year (bone dry here in Vegas, as well; indeed, most of the southwest has been bone dry due to the weather patterns). The Santa Ana winds never sneak up on you…they develop like hurricanes in the Atlantic. You know you’re going to get them days before they arrive. In other words, everyone in LA knew the perfect storm for massive fires was coming together…there should have been lots of prep, just like DeSantis did in Florida. Reservoirs filled, plans made to bring in outside firefighters, evacuation routes established, stockpiling of equipment at strategic points…and an overall plan of how to attack a fire where ever it started.

The Mayor of Los Angeles went to Ghana, instead.

How much did that cost the taxpayers of Los Angeles? I do know that a military plane was sent to fetch her home…and just who authorized that? How is it justified to use federal assets to move a city official because it looks bad on TV that she’s not home as her city burns? But don’t worry…I’m sure her budget for next year will include plenty of money for DEI…which is basically just payoffs to her particular cronies.

We’re all for federalism here on the Right but we do have to think about things…because a lot of the tax dollars that will rebuild LA will be federal…and that means all of us have a vested interest in how LA is run. Also, is it a republican form of government if one party gets total control of all institutions public and private in a State and then rigs the system so they can never lose? The Constitution commands the federal government to ensure a republican form of government in the several States…we need to consider if there is a genuine republican government in California. We certainly can’t just let things burn.

Open Thread

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Today the comeback becomes officially certified – and it is enormously funny that Harris has to certify it. Side note: that law they passed governing the VP in counting the electoral vote? Unconstitutional drivel. And even if it wasn’t, totally useless – there’s nothing anyone can actually do to stop the VP from taking any particular action in certification. I’ve always thought that with the obvious questions about the accuracy of the 2020 vote count that Pence’s duty by no later than mid-December 2020 was to announce he could not in good conscience count the EVs of the disputed States – that the House and Senate were going to have to get together and work it out in the manner of the 1876 election. Keep in mind that I figured this would result in Biden getting in after all was said and done…but it would have been said and done via a clear, open and fully Constitutional process (probably via a House vote for President)…what we had was obviously fraudulent votes being shoved down our throats.

And, hey, Liberals: how’d that work out for ya? Feeling positive and happy about it today?

I’d comment about Trump’s upcoming sentencing but its all so very stupid and corrupt and ultimately pointless that its just not worth it.

New York City imposed “congestion pricing” for driving in Manhattan – basically you now have to pay to drive your car into the city. This move was backed by the usual collection of Commie idiots who were all celebrating it yesterday. Its nothing but a “soak the poor” scheme…it won’t affect the rich people (you know: who backed it) because they can afford the freight. Oh, and the rich now get the additional benefit of less traffic as they drive from their vulture capitalist office to the celebratory gala. You could probably challenge the law on equal protection grounds but, meh…I don’t really care as I don’t live in NY and will never once in my life drive myself into Manhattan. New Yorkers keep doing this to themselves…and then wonder why their city is falling apart.

Senator Mike Lee introduced a bill to deny benefits to illegal immigrants…to which most people go, “why are they getting benefits now?” The answer to that is simple – California passed a law to deny benefits to illegals (back when CA was sane) and the Commies took it to Court and, ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled that since the law doesn’t specify you have to be legal to get welfare, everyone gets welfare. This could all have been fixed right after that by amending the welfare laws and at times we have had a GOP trifecta and yet its never been fixed…which lets you know just how our Uniparty government has operated. Let’s see if Lee’s proposal gets anywhere…if he’s at all clever he will be able to generate publicity for this and, in the end, even some Democrats will have to vote to ban welfare for illegals…this is something that will have 85% public support.

Looks like a lot of Trump’s main agenda will go through Congress via one, large bill which is funny as heck because it’ll be passed via reconciliation so Dems can’t even slow it down and we’re using basically their “omnibus bill” garbage against them to enact policies that will save America and wreck Democrats. Democrats and Never Trumpers are trying to stop this by saying, “hey, that’s not fair!” and we’re all just laughing and laughing.

Canadian governor Justin Trudeau will resign in the next day or two – becoming yet another person who crossed Trump and wound up in the dumpster. He’s been just a horrid PM and he’s a bad man and, finally, even Canadians had enough…latest polling indicates that at the next election his Liberals are going to be wiped out. His resignation will probably help Liberals recover some ground – which is why he’s going (and much the same reason Biden went).

Bottom line is that all around the world, the Uniparty Ruling Class is feeling the heat…even people with an overall Liberal outlook are just sick of it all and want things to start working again…we don’t want imported grooming gangs, imported terrorists and imported anti-West activists. And that’s just one of a dozen problems the Liberal global order has ushered in.

Evil People Like Being Evil

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People are now really noticing the grooming scandal out of Rotherham, UK and there’s all the “how can this happen?” sorts of statements going on. I refer you to this passage in Book VII: Empress:

This, I think, is what we normies don’t fully realize. A person on X asked is there’s some sort of passage (ritual?) where becoming a child abuser is necessary for advancement in the Establishment. To this I replied, in a way. You see, to really have power with the full backing of the global Establishment, you must sign off on abortion as a positive good. No more of this mucking around with “while I’m personally opposed” drivel from the 1980s…you have to get out there and say and do actions which actively promote abortion as a moral good. Once you’ve passed that Rubicon…well, tolerating the abuse of kids is easy. And, as noted above: fun. Rely on it: the people who covered up Rotherham had a big, old laugh about it…because their ability to cover it up and their current program to just bareface it out demonstrates their power.

“So, now you know we pretty much actively encouraged it. So, what? What can you do about it? Oh, and here’s a Bobby to arrest you for posting about it on social media.”

We aren’t quite there in the USA yet but, as per usual in social disintegration, we’re always about a decade behind the rest of the Western world. Takes longer here because of our federal system and written Constitution. But make no mistake about it, and we’ve already seen it: the government is going to eventually try to arrest us for noticing government corruption. And just like over in Europe, they’ll justify it as a fight against racism or whatever alleged “phobia” they can think of. Trump is going to become a finger in the dyke in 17 days…but if we don’t really dig deep and reform, then he’s just going to slow it down.

This really should come as no surprise – we have seen it before. In the Soviet Commissar forcing his female prisoners to be his sex slaves. In the Nazi camp guard waking up is prisoners with ice water in the middle of the night. Needless cruelty done just because the perpetrator can do it. And they do it because they enjoy it. Having no sense of decency and no real conception of God (whatever they might have started with long since burned out of them), they just do it because they can. Solzhenitsyn theorized that the interrogators of the Lubyanka must have got together to discuss ways and means of being cruel because once it happened to one prisoner, it soon happened to all the rest…as if they were trying out new ways of being gratuitously cruel…with some har, har, hars and back slapping as they decided which prisoner to try it out on first. And then these people went home to their wives and/or girlfriends and acted like they were normal human beings.

But they ain’t. Now, to be sure, as long as we are alive we are all capable of redemption but we also know per the Bible that sometimes hearts can be hardened…that God lets the choice of the wicked be ratified and that’s when they get exceptionally horrid. People who have those hard hearts might, at times, seem normal…they can still put on the false front. But deep down inside they’re just looking for the next cruel thing to do…and the more senseless it is, the better. Remember, the slaves of GULAG and the Arbeitseinsatz didn’t have to be treated brutally…nearly starved and beaten over trivial things. In fact, the Soviet and Nazi regimes would have got vastly more economic benefit out of their slaves had they been well fed and treated with kindness. It actually worked against the regimes to do what they did…Nazi soldiers lacked sufficient weapons and supplies because of it towards the end of the war. But it happened…because, as I said, evil people like to do evil things.

So, what to do?

First thing – call it evil. These aren’t mistakes. These are failures of the system. These are deliberate, malicious acts of evil and those who did them have to be very severely punished.

That is going to be the key to restoring our world. To resume a society of logic and decency – severe punishment inflicted upon the wicked. If we don’t do that, then we’re doomed. I’m hoping that we’re just about to start doing that.

Happy New Year!

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Let me tell you, I got myself in a real jam on Book X of the Mirrors series. It is the final entry in the series (with possible story lines for later books if I want to return to it, but this concludes the main story line). You see, I had James, George, Antaria and Sophia in one group; Matt, Javier, Corran, Johnny and Tania in another; Fred, Tancheri, Aleste, Alyssa, Rodlan, Cronon and Thomas in a third group while back home in Samaton were Celeste, Rossalyn, Bryce and Stanley. And all of these people needed to get to one place where the Bad Guys (Rajan, Usha and Kazanti) were going to be while also bringing in the Queen of Azarad and her people, some True Antaki, some False Antaki and, of course, a gigantic host of Shadow Warriors. Last night I finally figured out the Narrative to do this – the sequence of events and who says and does what…because this is IT, as it were. Still got a lot of writing to do but at least I now know how it goes.

So, that was my New Years Eve! Hope yours was nice!

I woke up to the news of the attack in New Orleans – still light on details but given that we can assume the perp is a Protected Person…had he been a white MAGA guy we’d already know about his childhood friends. Of course the MSM is the MSM – they are reporting it as a vehicle crashed…this is just a lie to obscure the truth. One again, I’ll yammer on about it: you can’t hold that lies are protected speech. Something has to be done about it.

Better news is that Trump is back in 19 days. We’ll at least have a government that tries to give a darn about us. Temper your expectations! There is just so much Trump can do and the Democrats plus RINOs will continue to try and stop him. I personally think he’ll do a lot – I feel more confident than any time since the aftermath of the 1980 election. But there is a lot of work to do against a mountain of lies and corruption. It’ll take some effort, there will be some fails and at times it will seem to be too much. Faith and courage!

Carter and the End of Decency

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We’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead and I really did try – almost made it 24 hours after Jimmy Carter died. But there’s just too much nauseating hagiography out there…including, to much disgust, from some on the Right. So, something that I might have waited a week for comes out today.

First off, let’s remember how Carter rose to political prominence – by running a campaign in Georgia in 1970 which was overtly racist in messaging. Was Carter a racist? Probably not – or, at least, not a vicious sort of racist. But he played directly to white racism in Georgia (which was still strong) in order to get into office. That is the rankest sort of political cynicism. The Establishment likes to play this like he was just being clever…sorry, that was being evil. That was the indication of the sort of person Carter was: nakedly ambitious and willing to sh*t on his own views if it would get him ahead. That this campaign was after he claimed Born Again status puts a question mark on the sincerity of that…

In addition to being ambitious, Carter was always certain he was the smartest man in the room. Now, to be fair, everyone who seeks power is a little bit insane. You wouldn’t do that if you weren’t a little crazy. But given that, wise people still find ways to work with others. Carter didn’t. He just expected everyone to toe his line even if he did periodic 180 degree course alterations. Because of this, his relations with the Democrat-controlled Congress were just terrible. He was just certain he was right about everything and that any opposition was idiocy when not malevolence.

Because of this, he held anyone who did oppose him in contempt. And this wouldn’t have been so bad if he wasn’t so entirely wrong about everything. He got into the White House and obtained pretty much what he wanted (even Congressional opposition did usually fade away as it was still Democrat to Democrat) and everything went to heck in a handbasket. The two biggest things that took him down were inflation and the Hostage Crisis…and his program was big spending and appeasement of anti-American forces around the world. When we gave him a humiliating defeat because of this did he pause to reconsider? Nope. He felt that an idiot (Reagan) had beaten him because the American people were too stupid to understand how great Carter was.

He hated that loss. And he went around for the rest of his life trying to make it go away. The Habitat for Humanity stuff was marketing – “see, he helps the poor!” But the teeth of it was him going around the world – especially when Republicans held the White House – and directly undermining American policy and lending his support to some of the very worst people in the world. He was a big fan of the Castro regime, Chavez’ regime in Venezuela…and when the Communists in Nicaragua lost an election in 1990 Carter was very grudging in admitting it.

In essence, Carter was the final result of 1968 – that is when the anti-Americans started to take control of the Democrat party and Carter was all-in on that…essentially holding that the reason for the world’s problems is American policy. Unless run by a saint like Carter, of course. In the long term, Clinton, Obama and Biden have just pushed this line ever further…if you wonder why there is this bizarre desire in the Defense and Foreign Policy establishments to appease the Iranian regime, look back no further than Carter…who started it and in the time since then Democrat after Democrat has just hired and promoted people who hold to the anti-American view (with the GOPers never getting rid of such people…though we hope this changes come the 20th).

The indecency of the modern world has many sources and goes back a long way…but we must never forget Carter’s role in making it official American policy to foster indecency around the world. If you wonder why its considered acceptable for horrid tyrannies to get seats on UN human rights councils, look no further back than the Carter year where it became official US policy to bow and scrape before foreign savages to atone for our alleged sins. Carter, with his moralizing tone, ushered in the modern era of tribal massacre and systemic looting.

It is my hope that Trump tears this all our root and branch. A systemic housecleaning of all these children and grandchildren of Jimmy Carter who infest and infect our Establishments. True decency in the world comes with the entire legacy of Carter – including the preening self-aggrandizement – is tossed into the trash.

Making, Mining and Growing America Great Again

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Haven’t yammered on about this issue for a while – but it is time to revisit it.

As everyone knows, I assert that national wealth is only what we make, mine and grow. Tangible goods that allow human beings to live – the more you have, the richer you are. Its the difference between being in a besieged city and having a stack of treasury notes or a stack of pancakes; who, then, is the rich man? In and around our immigration debate – legal and illegal – what we’re not getting is any discussion of what we’re trying to accomplish.

The pro-immigration types are telling us that we must have immigrants to compete in a global market. And there is some logic in this – if India has A Brilliant Scientist then it would be nice if the USA could poach A Brilliant Scientist. You know, like all the physicists we picked up from Europe prior to WWII. This is a “no duh” situation. But are we really doing that? Who are we really getting? A lot of people have dug into the H1B database (which I’m confident they’ll try to make classified so we can’t read it any longer) and found stuff like this:

Fast and Friendly seems to need a lot of foreign employees…to manage convenience stores. Which is an important job – we Americans do depend on our convenience stores – but it doesn’t seem, you know?, crucial to the global success of the United States. And that is before we start thinking it over and realize that a lot of companies are clearly becoming visa mills…and I’ll bet a lot of these “employees” are paying for the privilege and using it as the merest means to skip the immigration line…you know, once in under any sort of legal status it gets hard for us to get them out again.

One thing I’m not seeing in these applications for H1B is things like “farmer”, “miner”, “welder”…you know, people who would actually contribute to increasing American wealth. I mean, we do still have mines and farms and right now they’re beating the bushes looking for welders. But not a lot of H1Bs for these. Why not? Why are our H1Bs for tech workers and, as we can see here, low-rent retail? The claim is that we only do this because out of 340 million Americans we couldn’t find a single person to fill the position and so we had no choice but to import someone.

Sorry, that is just a lie. I get it – there really are some first rate people out there that American corporations would like to hire but the H1B program, whatever it was intended for, has just become a means of importing cheap labor…and likely includes a series of scams designed to rip off the system. It is clearly time to massive reform the H1B system to ensure that there really is a search for American talent and only after that search proves fruitless do we bring in a foreigner…with a proviso that if a foreigner is a stand-out brilliant engineer or doctor or some other solid, scientific discipline we bring them in just because its smart to have as many such as you can get.

And it is also time for us to start getting back to making, mining and growing things. We need to reconfigure the American economy to make it welcoming of the hard worker…the person who is willing to get dirty to make things, mine things and grow things. And in that, maybe we will have to import some foreigners because, lets face it, some Americans are downright lazy (it is a disease of wealth). But however we manage it, we must get back to a productive America…an America that once again builds wealth from the ground up. And, side note on this: if we become a productive America again, then nobody is really going to fuss about foreigners moving in…its the difference between getting an additional factory worker rather than just a lower-wage replacement coder.

Making America Great Again: It Ain’t Easy

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Vivek Ramaswamy ignited a bit of a firestorm today on X.

Let’s start with the obvious: on November 5th we voted to secure the border and deport the illegals. Completely sealed: no more illegal entries. Total deportation: if you’re in illegally, you have to go back. But what we didn’t vote for was the termination of immigration. And so, Ramaswamy:

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

I think most of the anger over this is twofold:

  1. nobody likes to be told that their country sucks. To say that our culture doesn’t promote excellence is to say that our culture is substandard.
  2. the American people, on the whole, are not keen to import workers – not even good workers. This is on the basic truth that American jobs should by and large be filled by American workers.

Ramaswamy does not go on to say that we should just keep importing workers – I think some people are misunderstanding what he said, and some are likely deliberately misunderstanding it because, remember!, there are lots of people who’s whole existence is based on disliking Trump…and this includes a lot of people on the Right. The rest of Ramaswamy’s post is a call to arms, as it were: that we can make excellence our focus as part of that whole Make America Great Again thing.

We do have to acknowledge our flaws. If we can’t, then we’re doomed. Do you know why South Africa is heading towards a Third World collapse? Because the majority doesn’t want to be told that they suck and if they want to get ahead they’re going to have to ask the Boers for instruction. They’d rather wallow in memories of Apartheid as the excuse for all ills with confiscating whitey’s farms as the cure. The only way a person, an organization or a country gets its act together is by acknowledging what’s wrong and then setting about fixing it.

Ramaswamy correctly states that we have been praising the second rate, the unimportant…and I’ll add that we also laud the downright self-destructive. Think about the number of movies and shows that hold up some psycho as the hero. We can’t deny that Anthony Hopkins played the psycho killer excellently in Silence of the Lambs…but the coda of the movie with him heading off to eat the pretentious psychiatrist is hideous. So, too, the end of No Country for Old Men with the bad guy getting away…possibly after murdering a completely innocent woman. Yes, of course, the bad guys sometimes get away with it…but sanity requires that in our story telling they don’t. Lambs should have ended with Starling arresting or killing Lecter…just as Bell should have killed Chigurh to finish up Old Men. This is not to take away the skill or artistry of those involved in those productions…but The Wild Bunch ended up with the bad guys all dead and quite uselessly over nothing. That was the fitting end to violent criminals…and the sort of story that is useful for society.

We need to start holding up the good, the true and the beautiful – popular culture is never a social mirror…it is what you’re aspiring to. And if we’re aspiring to bad guys winning and psychos being cooler than sane people, then we’re going to have some problems. Like, for instance, all the problems we have right now.

In order to Make America Great Again our first order of business is to fix our problems. Deporting all the illegals won’t resolve the fact that about 70 million Americans used illegal drugs last year. That is 20 percent of us. One in five! This does not include those who booze it up too much nor does it really cover marijuana as that is legal in a lot of places these days. We still must deport all the illegals…but the American drug addicts are a huge problem. So, too, things like people having sex before marriage, getting divorced, adultery…with our pop culture pushing these pathologies as positively healthy. That has to stop. No, you can’t say “first amendment!” and call it a day…do you want broken families and drug addicts or do you want sober people in healthy families? You can’t have it both ways – you’re going to get what you insist upon and if you don’t insist upon sobriety you’ll get drunks.

We can’t leave people lying around in the streets. We must do something with them. We must demand that people perform or punish them. Do you realize how tough this is going to be? Kicking out Jose and not letting Patel have a visa isn’t going to Make America Great Again. Its going to take a bit more than that. Do you have the iron in your veins to get it done?

So, yes, I firmly believe that American jobs should be filled by Americans…and that companies should pay wages that Americans want, not what some guy who doesn’t want to live next to an open sewer in Mumbai is willing to take. But this does mean we need Americans who are fit for the task. That means sober, stable, dedicated people who know that life isn’t a free ride. Hindu immigrants to America are doing very well – overall they make more money than white Americans. And its because they are stable, sober and work their butts off. Do you want that? Well, guess what…

Merry Christmas

Mark Noonan8 Comments

In my Mirrors series I have had a little help. I might have mentioned this before but early on in the process I explained the basic outline of the story to my granddaughter and after she heard it I was advised that the story had a fatal flaw: no dragons.

Well, I wasn’t about to just leave it at that so I asked her to tell me about the dragons the story should have. These eventually became the magic Icecrystal dragons – not fire-breathing, but ice-breathing. But, also, of themselves, fairly harmless. They are about the size of a large cat, they can fly and the male, especially, likes to dig into things and see how they work. I inserted the discovery of the Icecrystal dragon eggs into the story without much explanation of what they would be. But over subsequent books the dragons, themselves, started to appear in a small way and in the final book of the series, they will play a larger role…keeping in mind that they are magical and that Celeste’s daughter, Aleste, is a wizard (though still a teenager at the conclusion). Aleste started to be modeled on my granddaughter early on and after she had invented the Icecrystals she also felt that magic dragons would provide something for Aleste…and so the Icewand was created. In all of this, I took the story that the granddaughter created and helped her to write a children’s book based on the Mirrors story line and we’re working on a sequel to it.

So, why tell you all this?

Because my granddaughter got me these bookends for Christmas:

I did not cry! It just got a little dusty in here and maybe someone was slicing onions!

Anyways, thank God for our Savior, Jesus Christ and may your day and year be filled with blessings!

The World is Insane Because We Allow it to Be

Mark Noonan32 Comments

Good post on X – read the whole thing but here’s the crucial part of it:

The “civilized” world has insulated itself in rules and laws and higher-than-thou “morals” that the enemies of everybody simply do not share, don’t care for, and do not have holding them back.

I’ve often thought of writing in depth about the French war in Algeria because it keeps popping back up in my head as the world burns as the turning point…the time when the world decided to stop defending civilization. As I’ve noted before, the primary tactics of the anti-French FLN were the torture/rape/murder of Algerians who didn’t back them and the setting of bombs in French Pied Noir cafes. Faced with this, the French army got a bit vigorous in response…but never got close to the brutality of the FLN. The world took a close look at this (ie, put on a blindfold so they couldn’t actually see anything) and declared that the French were the bad guys…an assertion the French Ruling Class (under De Gaulle of all people!) went along with. Presto – it now became accepted in the world that if you want to beat the West, be absolute savages and they’ll eventually not only quit, but pretend that you’re not savages. They’ll give you money. Seats at the UN. You’ll be placed in charge of human rights commissions!

Do keep in mind that our “higher-than-thou” morals got a woman set afire on the NYC subway yesterday. You’d think that we’d eventually reach a limit that even our Ruling Class won’t go beyond but you’d be wrong – this morning Nate Silver was out with a post saying that, “hey, NYC actually has a relatively low crime rate so what’s the fuss if the odd lunatic thing happens?”. I’m paraphrasing but I’m not at all kidding. They’ve gone so far into “higher-than-thou” that they’re actually saying that a torching or two of a human being is just one of those things that happens…really, really think about that. They only say this, of course, because they are confident they will never be the person burned alive…never be the person who’s child is kidnapped, raped and murdered…never be the person who has to live in an apartment complex taken over by a criminal gang…

Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s intern commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates. The 3 who are still to get whacked? It seems that their real crime – the unforgivable thing – is that their crimes including crimes against Diversity. Murdering two kids, not getting credit for it so you then go and try to murder more? That gets a commutation. The intern put it out that Joe, in good conscience, couldn’t allow Trump to sign the death warrants. Don’t try to make sense of it – there is no sense in it. Whether you’re opposed to the death penalty or not this action was just absurd. They could have been commuted last year if making sure death isn’t applied is right…and if you really thought that death wasn’t appropriate, then you’d commute all 40. Its just raw insanity…it is just what the Ruling Class is like. You know, like Governor Hochul lauding the security cameras for catching the torch-a-passenger guy without mentioning that he’s an illegal immigrant in a sanctuary city and State.

We are so very close to complete societal collapse – it might not seem like it, but keep in mind that these things are always “slowly, and then all at once”. Had we not elected Trump last month, I’m not sure we would have got through the next four years. It is still not certain we will…depends on how effective the new Team Trump is. But Trump is already injecting reality back into the mix. Lot of people made a lot of funny jokes about his statements on Panama, but Trump just entered the real world there…and is dragging us with him. We have pretended since we gave Panama our canal (Panama, as a nation, had nothing to do with the creation of the canal…heck, they didn’t even provide labor for it; all of that came from the USA and the Caribbean islanders) that everything is just hunky dory…but it hasn’t been. There has been massive trafficking across and through it. China has gained footholds. Trump claims that the Panamanians are screwing us on use rates…and while I don’t know this is true, it would surprise the heck out of me if it wasn’t because the USA is everyone’s patsy. Trump, by making his apparently off-the-cuff and outrageous statement regarding taking it back is simply resetting us back to reality…now the Panamanians will have to actually deal with a real United States that is insisting, not asking.

It is so crucial for us to live in reality – a reality where the Mexican government is a charade and everything that happens there regarding drugs and trafficking is Cartel controlled with no reference to Mexican law. A reality where we can’t choose between packs of Syrian savages so we’d better just get out. A reality where continued war in Ukraine helps nobody. A reality where we simply must deport the illegals. On and on and on like that. But four years will not be enough…and that’s is the pickle we find ourselves in. Some of the stuff Trump will have to do is going to be unpopular or at least not understood right off…and J D Vance (or whoever gets the 2028 nod) will have to commit to continuing Trump policies, with the attendant risk that frustration will cause a temporary rejection of same. 2024 was a must-win for us…but so, too, will 2028, 2032 and 2036 be. That is how long it will take just to make sure we don’t die. Let the Democrats back in before 2040 and they will resume the insanity…and place it on overdrive.

Just keep that in mind as we go forward – and make all criticisms of Trump policy with that in mind. Don’t feed the lunatics any easy meals. Make them earn their opposition by coming up with rational complaints…absent such, just dismiss and ridicule them. This is our part – being patriotic citizens. Each of us is small, all of us together are big. And Trump will need us.