United We Must Stand

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Personally, I do believe it is an op – that is, this bubbling controversy on the Right about our proper relation with Israel and our attitude towards the Jews. It is an op because it is out of character – the American Right has been the last bastion of Israel’s defense of decades. Since Obama came to power, no other political entity on Earth had stood steadfast in defending Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish State. Everyone else first abandoned Israel and then slipped, step by step, into the most disgusting forms of anti-Semitism. We did not – but now, quite suddenly, we’re being told that people who are “just asking questions” about Israel and the Jews are the leading lights of the Right and we must not shove them aside.

Nothing doing. This is clearly a Democrat effort to divide the Right and thus reclaim power. They want us fighting over the absurd arguments of anti-Semites rather than pursuing the actual enemy on the Left. That it is orchestrated by an increasingly vile and anti-Semitic Left is neither here nor there – we know the Left will always wipe its a** with its own flag at need. But it is revealing that those who are allegedly Right anti-Semites also follow other Left ideals…including hatred and contempt for Trump. Clearly these are people being paid to make their statements and they’ve been told – because the Left wouldn’t have it any other way – that they must spice their anti-Semitism with a dose of anti-MAGA into the bargain…to essentially get more people on board with opposition to MAGA. That is, to undermine the ability of Vance, DeSantis or whomever succeeding Trump in 2028.

Always keep in mind how much money is flowing out there to shape our politics. And it flows because with control of the US government comes control of $6.7 trillion. Trillion. Every year. And every year that amount grows. That much money is not a small thing – people have massacred whole populations to gain control of far less. Right now, those who did control it are watching it slip away, day by day, under Trump. They are deathly afraid that if things go on for eight or twelve more years they’ll be frozen out of it forever…and without a steady influx of government money, these people are cooked. They have no skills other than a shameless ability to lie and steal. They know nothing. They are incapable of the most basic tasks of human life. They would be seasonally employed agricultural laborers if it weren’t for government. They will leave no stone unturned to get back into control. Including fostering anti-Semitism on the Right – after all, what are the lives of the Jews of Israel compared to control of the Department of Education budget?

What I’m saying is that the voices allegedly on the Right calling on us to tolerate anti-Semitism, to condemn Trump for not doing this, that or the other thing at a certain speed are all paid shills…people who have struck a bargain with the Ruling Class: “pay me and I’ll sow division”.

We will not fall for it.

We defend Israel because it is the decent thing to do.

We avoid endless wars because they give us nothing.

We deport all the illegals because we can’t have a country if we don’t have a border.

We support tariffs because while trade is a boon, being stupid about it makes no sense.

We won’t play their game. Not any longer. We will not be deflected from MAGA. We are the good guys – indeed, we are the only good guys. Everyone else is sunk in sloth, atheism, cowardice and wicked lies. We will save the world, in spite of them. Nothing will stop us now.

Lies Lead to Communists

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We get Mamdani because the Deep State managed to destroy Joe McCarthy. Simple as. In that action, we ceased any operation to lump the Nazis and Communists together where they firmly belong. We allowed the Communists to essentially call anti-Communism a version of fascism…and while the Left’s Long March through the Institutions – briefly interrupted by McCarthy – took decades to complete, that Long March’s success was guaranteed the moment the Senate censured McCarthy. But here’s the real crux of that – what we allowed was liars to lie.

Keep in mind that McCarthy’s assertion have been abundantly confirmed since his censure. Over the decades as documents have been declassified, Soviet archives opened and memoirs written, it has become an established that the US government was honeycombed with Soviet agents and remained so even after the authorities became aware.

Good to recap that the event that lead to McCarthy’s downfall (the Army-McCarthy hearings) centered on just how Irving Peress managed to get an Army commission and then promoted – even though his service record indicated he wasn’t a good officer and, indeed, was disloyal to the USA. Peress took the fifth over and over again when questioned by McCarthy’s committee (as was his right, of course) and in response, McCarthy urged the Army to court martial him. Instead, the Army rushed through and honorable discharge and tried to make out that it was mere paperwork blunders which lead to the commissioning and promotion. Which, of course, is obvious drivel – Army commissions aren’t just there for the asking and promotions take either stellar service (which Peress did not perform) or someone very friendly up in the chain of command…so, his promotion was because someone wanted him promoted. McCarthy was trying to find out how all this happened and ran into a stone wall. In later years, it came out that Peress was quite the communist (having been so since the 1930’s) and he took the fifth so that he wouldn’t have to name other communists. So, McCarthy was right about him – just as he was always right about who was the communist (because he had the intel reports…which everyone else in leadership also had; especially those who censured him). What McCarthy was trying to do – all he was ever trying to do – was weed out communist infiltration…and to do that, he had to find out not just who the communists were, but who hired and promoted them.

And that is what infuriated the Deep State, even if particular members of it weren’t traitors…they hated this peasant outsider looking into Deep State business. How dare he! The rat bastard! Doesn’t he know that the man he wants to expose went to Harvard with me?!?! Also good to remember that the charge against McCarthy was ordered by Eisenhower and carried to completion by GOP blue bloods (with the 1950’s version of MAGA sticking with Joe…and JFK not showing up to vote for censure).

We see it all now – and realize that these same people hated Nixon, Reagan and now Trump for the same reason…they are all of them not properly Establishment. Among the four of them not an Ivy League degree! Joe washed dishes! Nixon drove a truck! Reagan was an actor! And, good Lord, the Trump’s just don’t fit in at Martha’s Vineyard! It was in this snobbery that the Establishment made its choice – it would rather preside over the communist infiltration of America than align with “those people” to keep the communists out.

And now the establishment is functionally communist. They had to become communist – that’s the way it works. If you don’t fight something, you become part of it. No other way it will go. It goes from politely smiling as your cousin flirts with commies to paying for your daughter to be a full time communist activist in Manhattan. And, of course, to do this, you have to lie. You have to pretend right up to the last moment that you aren’t allied with communists. That those who say you are a traitor are racist, sexist, homophobic Nazi Fascist pig liars. You have to lie and lie and lie and make sure nobody ever pays a price for lying because if anyone ever does, you’re first into the tumbril.

And so the lies spread from family to family, from institution to institution, from generation to generation until you get the governor of New York going on stage with the commies to proclaim that the future of America is communist.

As C S Lewis pointed out ages ago, when you’ve got something that goes wrong, it is no good trying to correct it in mid-stream. You have to go back to the error – no matter how far back that was – and start over again from there. If you don’t, then the original error will persist and turn all your reform efforts to ashes. We have to go back and correct the error – the censure of Joe McCarthy, in a certain sense. That is, we have to go back to where the liars first really got away with lying. The point where they bald-faced lied to the American people about a crucial matter and got rewarded for their lies. We must, as I have said, start to punish lies. Severely. Even with violence if it proves necessary…whatever it ultimately takes to make liars simply too afraid to lie.

It is either that, or our nation dies. Our civilization dies. Our world dies. Because the truth cannot coexist with lies…we must become all truth, or all lies.

Open Thread

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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.

The Left is Violence

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Graham Platner is a Democrat running for Senate in Maine – yet another person trying to unseat GOP Senator Susan Collins…who had held the seat since winning it in 1996. She really knows her State – and is the GOPer we don’t mind getting off the ranch because being from a light Blue State, she has to trim a bit to retain political viability. Democrats are thinking that because 2020 was her worst showing (percentage-wise) since 1996, she’s vulnerable.

She ain’t. This was a bit of tilting at windmills in the best of circumstances for the Democrats. But, hey; they’re welcome to try. There is a fly in the ointment, though…in their quest for an alpha-male, us-folksy challenger (he was put up to it by Bernie Sanders, so we know the Commie underlying it all), they didn’t apparently do a lot of vetting. He’s got a lot of problems but the most recent has been the discovery that he has a totenkopf tattoo. A skull and crossbones. Nothing too particular about that but the style he got was a modification of the old Prussian device into a symbol of the SS by Himmler. I guess Platner is a pretty common Democrat – doesn’t know anything. He says he got it while drunk on liberty in Croatia…which is a believable enough story but if he had done a little checking up on Croatian history, he’d see that Croatians (like Ukrainians) hold up people and units from WWII as symbols of national unity and power…trouble is, those people and units allied with Nazi Germany and so their symbols are shot through with Nazi themes.

Sanders is not disavowing his protege. A Jewish commie is ok with a guy sporting the symbol of people who massacred Jews. Nothing better demonstrates that for the Left being Left is all that matters. The Democrats are also not disavowing their Virginia attorney general candidate who fantasized about killing Republican kids. They aren’t disavowing because they don’t want to – they need guys like that. To do their dirty work for them. Most Leftists are craven…but they foster and protect psychopaths who will carry out literally any order. Sanders would piss himself if he ever had to put his own safety on the line…but he’ll help out people who will kill.

We do need to really internalize the fact that the Leftist is just waiting for the day when they can kill their opponents. They aren’t knowledgeable. They have rejected God, and thus mercy and compassion. They are ignorant, hate filled and just chomping at the bit for their chance to make us all pay for…whatever the heck it is they think we’re guilty of at any given time. Remember, they shot the Czar’s teenage daughters. Why? They hadn’t done a thing, ever, to anyone. Didn’t matter. Just as it didn’t matter to them as millions starved in Ukraine and China. Didn’t matter that Che was shooting peasants who simply didn’t want to bend the knee. Didn’t matter that their rhetoric killed Charlie Kirk and nearly killed Trump. They don’t have a sense of shame…their only regret right now is that Trump is still breathing.

We’re going to need to stop these people – under Trump we have the last chance to do it under law.

No King of Open Threads

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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

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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

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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

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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.

What Do We Do With Evil People?

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I noticed that Thunberg and her merry band of morons were picked up by the IDF and ordered deported by Israel. But as I rolled around in my head the whole situation, I realized that it is people like her who keep the killing going. Those who pull the trigger are not even primarily guilty. It is people like Thunberg.

Political terrorism has no definite start date – that is, we can’t say “on such a such date, the first act of political terrorism occurred”. This is because there can’t be a 100% definition of it and arguments about what it is can spin out endlessly. But I was thinking recently of the Carbonari – a shadowy Italian organization which grew out of Napoleonic-era Freemasonry. The group was dedicated to the creation of a unified and Liberal Italy (they loathed the Catholic Church and traditional Italy) – the country at the time being divided into a series of small States, most of which were directly ruled or deeply under the influence of the Hapsburg Monarchy. They managed to start a few unsuccessful rebellions (Italian unification eventually being accomplished by Cavour who used a combination of military force and diplomatic skullduggery to achieve his aim), but they also turned to terrorism to try to obtain their goals – including the unsuccessful assassination of French Emperor Napoleon III (who, in his youthful days of exile, was rumored to have been a member of the Carbonari). And that attempt done in order to push Napoleon into assisting in Italian unification. Whether or not Napoleon made his decision based on this is unknown…but in the event, he provided the decisive support for Italian unification. It is possible to say, “this is where it began: this is where the world started to fall under the influence of terror”.

We are told in history books that the Carbonari were the good guys. As we’re also informed that Garibaldi (another key person in the unification of Italy) was the hero. So, too, those who tried to strike at the Czar’s government in Russia. And the Hapsburg government in Vienna. And the British government in the UK. If you read the books you won’t find absolute condemnation of either Czolgosz (who murdered McKinley) nor of Lucheni (who murdered the Empress Elizabeth of Austria). We’re somehow supposed to feel a bit sorry for the murderers, with an unspoken subtext of “their victims got what was coming to them”. But let us circle back to Garibaldi for a moment – what did he want? A semi-socialist, anti-Catholic Republic governing Italy but with a mind towards “liberating” the whole world…that is, his fight for Italian independence and unity was a means, not an end…a stepping stone. And while he could rouse a rabble very effectively, nothing he ever said or did was aimed at helping Italians be Italian.

You know, like Lenin’s efforts in Russia.

Good to point out here that I think it was Kerensky – overthrown by Lenin’s Bolsheviks – who noted that the only way Lenin could have done what he did to Russia was via a total hatred for Russians. A complete desire to destroy everything the Russian’s were. And that, I think, is a very important point. What is Thunberg up to? The ostensible purpose of her trip was to bring aid to Gaza (totally unneeded as Gaza has more food and other supplies than it knows what to do with)…but always remember that “globalize the Intifada”. That gives the game away – it isn’t about Gaza. Just as Thunberg’s earlier efforts on “global warming” weren’t about saving the world from a hot day…it is always about something else, and that something is always the total destruction of what is…the memory and traditions of the varied peoples of the world and their replacement by a universal ideology.

It must be kept in mind that to be a political terrorist doesn’t require you kill anyone. Of course, those who set the bombs have their own guilt, but the worst actor is the person who justifies it (some times these are one in the same person – but mostly they are very distinct people). And who is the most guilty? Sure, a evil person who does the deed…but why does he do it? Because he’s a weak minded person who has been told that it is both necessary and good. You think about the men who did 10/7 – they are men like any others. They were born like all the rest of us and they are prey to all the same weaknesses…and are called to the same morality. But they went into defenseless towns and raped and murdered completely helpless human beings. To get from the innocent babe to the savage murderer is a lengthy process. Takes a lot of steps…and the most important step is those who keep telling the perpetrator that he is good and honorable in what he does.

And Thunberg is one of those saying, “it is honorable to murder”. She will never utter those exact words. She will claim endlessly she’s against violence. But she will also say in various ways that those who did 10/7 are the good guys…just as one miserable, hate filled son of a b*tch after another has been saying it about all the hideous political murderers of the past two centuries. It is very pervasive. As I said, even we normal people fall for it…in our unwillingness, most of the time, to vigorously condemn it. But, still, the guilt still lies most heavily upon those who find ways to justify it all…to some how excuse and explain it all way and lay all blame on the victims. You know, like the Left has been trying to lay the blame for Charlie Kirk’s death on Charlie Kirk…which efforts, of course, encourage even more people to kill.

We have a choice to make in our society – and while most of us won’t want to make it, we will – very likely – be forced to make it. That choice will be: just how much of this are we going to put up with? How long will we let these people foment violence, justify it and use it as an excuse to go after us? Eventually we have to call a stop to it – because if we don’t, we end up jailed or killed. So, the time is coming – and perhaps quite soon.

In my view, we are under no obligation to be gentle with people who justify murder – no matter what words they use to try to mask it, no matter how well they spin a tale…killing someone who isn’t directly threatening your life is wrong. It is murder. There is never even the slightest justification for it…and while we must take care to punish the actual perpetrators, we’re going to have to start punishing those who say its ok to kill. We’re going to have to stop treating someone like Thunberg as a mere idiot – she is incredibly stupid – and start treating her like as accessories after the fact.

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Mark Noonan5 Comments

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.