America

We Are All Americans (Even the Leftist Lunatics)

Mark Noonan51 Comments

Sure he’s trolling them – but it is also a grand and noble gesture. The hate in America all stems from the Left. They have spent decades dividing people. Saying this group has to hate that. Telling this group they are inherently evil, that other group they can do no wrong. Their lies have bred intense mistrust amongst the American people. But here comes Donald Trump after a decisive victory offering them the olive branch.

While they might end up taking the money, they will reject the peace offer with scorn. Already Democrats are gearing up for another round of #Resist drivel. That is both foolish and wrong of them – it is morally wrong because there is nothing to resist (we aren’t actually bad guys) but it is also foolish. However you may think of Trump, the American people gave him a decisive victory. After nine years of Democrats throwing everything they can at him, the American people considered every point of view and every assertion and awarded a majority of their votes and 312 of their Electoral Votes to Donald Trump. It is done. Over. Finished. Sure, Democrats, start laying your plans for 2026 – that is just politics. But if you go obstructionist on grounds the American people just rejected, you’ll find that the normal mid-term snap back against the ruling party doesn’t happen. The American people want peace and prosperity…not interminable political trench warfare.

Another thing Trump announced as a desire to revive the New York City subway system. After all the evil things NY Democrats have done to Trump, this is something he cares about. Why? Because all patriots want things like the NY subway system to be first rate. If we never, ourselves, set foot in it we want the world to see the vitality and strength of America in our greatest cities. We don’t want it the breeding ground of rats and the abode of lunatics. The majority of the people of New York City voted directly against their own best interests last Tuesday. They are still our fellow Americans and even if they hate us, we want good things for them.

That is the difference between us and our opponents – we don’t hate. It takes too much energy and is a waste of time. We stand amazed at liberals putting up Instagram videos ranting and raving about how much they hate Trump and MAGA. Seriously, you got nothing better to do today? One of the rants becoming common is liberal woman raving about how they won’t have sex with us. This would be a serious threat if most of us weren’t married – and the women in question didn’t make their fashion and makeup choices at the I’m a Raving Nutter Feminist Boutique. I don’t like to comment on women’s looks as it is a sensitive subject: default is that all women are beautiful (and they all are, just by existing). But, woof, some of these liberal chicks would have been passed over at 2 am before the ship has to pull out for a six month deployment. For all I know, they might be pretty girls…but the purple hair, piercings, tattoos and foaming at the mouth kinda blocks that perception.

Yes, we do want our revenge – in fact, we must have our revenge. But not like the Democrats going after Trump and MAGA. We don’t want to falsely accuse people of crimes and drag them through a rigged judicial system. We want miscreants punished. There was a story yesterday about how staff at the Department of Defense is conferring about ways and means of thwarting Trump after he takes office. All of them must first be fired and then, for military, court martialed while the civilians face whatever criminal charges can be made. You can’t do this – that is, you can’t conspire among yourselves to develop the ways and means of undermining the Constitutional authority of the President. We only elected one person to hold Executive authority in the USA – Trump. You might not like it. You might think it was the worst decision ever made – but it was the decision. From 1/20/2025 to 1/20/2029 Donald Trump will be the only person with Executive power in the federal government. All others in the Executive branch can only act on Trump’s authority and may not in any way, shape or form thwart the will of Trump. If he does wrong, blow a whistle. If you can’t agree on the policy, resign. But you can’t refuse to carry out orders.

But that is not the only thing we need to correct. The J6 defendants were one and all unjustly prosecuted. At worst, a few of them should have faced fines or maybe jail sentences up to six months. This is in line with whatever actual law breaking was done that day. The Democrats ginned it up like it was an attempt to overthrow the government – that was just a lie and as the basis of prosecution was false, all convictions are false. Trump has pledged to pardon the J6 defendants and I’m sure he will – but every last person involved in prosecuting them needs to be punished. Everyone involved was engaged in a conspiracy to deny civil rights and everyone involved should go to jail…to sit in the cells they unjustly consigned people to for political purposes. This is done not just to give us satisfaction but because the only way to ensure justice is to make sure that the malicious know the axe comes for them, even if delayed.

We go on: those who organized spying under FISA. Those who thwarted Trump’s orders in his first term. Those who orchestrated social media censorship. People who got a rake off from all the Biden Administration spending. There are very many people who need to be brought into court and punished. This isn’t looking back – it is laying the groundwork for the future. A future in which all Americans know that those who abuse power will not forever get away with it.

But, still, we mostly want to do the joyful things. Securing our border to end the abuse of foreigners in the new slave trade the Biden Administration orchestrated. Sending home those illegally in country. Reviving American manufacturing and energy production so that jobs can become plentiful while prices go down. Returning to the Moon and fostering Musk’s program to get to Mars. You know: start doing the grand, hopeful, American things again.

And we’ll do them for all Americans – including the haters and losers on the Left.

America the Uniquely Free

Mark Noonan66 Comments

Just at the moment we don’t, perhaps, feel as patriotic as we might like. We probably feel that things have gone very wrong and we wonder about the long term survival of our Republic.

It is, after all, simply true that many Americans – and probably most of our current Ruling Class – despise the men in this picture. They also despise what they accomplished – in both making a nation and then, to the everlasting fury of our Ruling Class, setting up a system where the law restrains the government, not the people. And that is why as down as we might feel at the moment, we can’t give in to such feelings.

Never in human history has a government been established which held that the government can only do certain, enumerated things. This past couple weeks, for the first time in nearly a century, the Supreme Court of our land made rulings in accordance with this American dogma – that which isn’t granted to the government, is reserved to the people. The nutshell of the four main rulings is that the nobody stuttered 1775 to 1787. The Founders were men of many backgrounds and divergent – in some cases, hostile – interests. What bound them all together, what made success in War and Peace possible, was their unified conviction that the individual is the measure of things. It was, in a very real sense, a secular version of Our Lord’s command that the Sabbath was made for Man, not the other way around. And, so, the Government is made for Man.

Everywhere around the world today, you find that even is allegedly free nations, everyone still waits for permission. When they vote, all they’re doing is decide who will decide for them – and not just on major issues: the mania for regulation in America is very bad these days, but even our bloated bureaucracy hasn’t reached the suffocating levels of bureaucracy seen in all advanced societies in the world. And there is also this difference, in foreign lands the people grumble but they submit. In America, the Spirit of ’76 still exists. Perhaps a bit attenuated, but it is still there – there still remains the concept, and the desire, that government will do as the people command, not the other way around.

The overturn of Roe is the strongest symbol of this continuing spirit. It took 49 years. it took the electing of four different GOP Presidents. The appointment of 10 Supreme Court Justices. Innumerable legal and legislative battles at the local, State and federal levels before it was achieved. And while the primary motivator was life, itself, we must not discount that the reason the movement started and maintained itself in growing confidence and strength was because in Roe the violation was not just of the laws of God, but of the reason for the United States’ existence. And this was crucial, because while religious believers were the mainstay of the movement, it could not have succeeded absent the crucial leavening of non-religious people who yet saw that Roe was an outrage. And the outrage was some judges telling us what to do. They had no warrant for such action! That was the key: whether or not abortion should be legal is a matter for a free people to debate and decide…not to have it handed down from on high, with only a few lawyers getting a say.

The spirit is also vibrant in the 2A movement which scored a signal victory, as well as the anti-regulation people and, of course, those who care most about free exercise of religion. All did very well, though in these last three, the victory is not yet complete (Roe’s overturn ends the abortion matter, by and large, at the federal level – the Pro-Life movement will now have to work State by State to continue to advance their cause). The main thing here is that people are still pressing the issue – demanding that even now, in 2022 when the State has become a monster out of control that it obey the rules. That the laws mean what they say and even the government must obey. And they’ll keep pressing – in 2A, the forces of reaction in New York went to work immediately, essentially making almost all of New York a gun-free zone. This will be challenged, and the tyrants will be defeated – and just like the Left screwing up by taking Alabama to court, so the Left may have really screwed up in New York…because you can almost see the Justices ruling that “shall not be infringed” really means what it says. We’ll see how that goes, but I feel confident in the long term.

And this kind of freedom – the freedom which demands not just a vote on who is in charge, but control over what is done – is a very American freedom. It, in fact, only exists in the United States. I’ve seen plenty of foreign comments where they seem to sincerely not understand why we even fight over things like abortion and guns. To them, their government decided that guns don’t belong in civil hands and that abortion is a good thing…and that’s the end of it. They can’t conceptualize telling their government “no, you can’t do that”. At most they can only see their way to voting for someone who will tell them what to do more efficiently than the other guys.

We must keep this – we must win the battle with our own who hate our country. And as we do this, we must also expand it around the world. I’m not talking about nation-building…I’m talking about disabling access to America for nations which don’t have a Bill of Rights like we do…and a real Bill of Rights; some definite “Congress shall make no law” and “shall not be infringed” stuff in there. We are, as Reagan said, a shining city on a hill. Even in our current, pathetic state, people still flood in. Sure, some for base motives, but most because the story has spread around the world…in the USA is real freedom and you can make it. It has been, perhaps, the true impulse for humanity all along: a desire to live without permission. To simply do what we want when we want to do it. To make our own way, to pay our own price.

And we must keep it because if we lose, it will never come back. Never again will any government set up a system which limits government. This is a once-in-history experiment. Our unique concept of liberty is the best – in fact, it is the only liberty to be found in the world. Fight for it. Keep it. Pass it on. The people of 1776 look down upon us, right now, and wonder if we have the heart and stomach for it?