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Open Thread

Mark Noonan31 Comments

Biden promised to unify us – and if you click here you’ll see Right and Left both shouting “F*** Joe Biden”. Unity: achieved. Biden doesn’t win with this sort of attitude at large in the Republic. Its not that the Hamasses will vote Trump, but they’ll vote third party or stay home. I remember the Carter years: I don’t recall anyone held in as much contempt as Biden is.

Trump is doing well right now – and we are getting to the point in time where it would take something massive to shift it back to Biden. One can’t predict massive events, of course – they come when they come. But if polling is still tied or favoring Trump by June, then the November result is probably baked in. That said, we are having trouble down ballot. Lots of it. To be sure, special elections are not very predictive of general election results, but we are seeing a general lack of enthusiasm for GOP Congressional candidates all across the country.

Democrats are, naturally, pointing to this as an endorsement of Biden…but its is more that GOPers just aren’t showing up. And I believe this is because there’s no reason for them to. The Congressional GOP has knifed the base in the back over and over again…so what does it matter if the GOP keeps the House? We used to all think that at least we’d get something if we had a majority…now we know we won’t just get nothing, but we’ll get nothing along with egregious insults. If the GOP wants to win Congress, they’d better pick a fight with Biden. A big one. As it stands right now, the only thing that can possibly save them is a big Trump win dragging a few marginal GOPers over the finish line (this is why there’s still a solid shot at the GOP retaining a House majority and gaining one in the Senate). But we could have had a Red Wave year in Congress…if the GOP had just given GOPers any reason to fight for one.

Red State colleges are being brought under control. Blue State colleges are still the home of raving anti-Semites. One funny note – at one college, some frat boys dragged down a Palestine flag and raised Old Glory. There’s now a go fund me to give them a party and last I checked it was over $270,000.00. It is all great and fun – and watching our flag go up was moving. But I think the GOP – and Trump – could make a big impact. They should have the party – and Trump should be there. It just so perfectly encapsulates what is going on…Democrats coddling foreign savages and domestic traitors while we patriots stand tall for America.

It is just terrible what we’re seeing here – Jewish kids being denied access and physically assaulted. As if an American who happens to be Jewish has anything to do with Israel. Even if one wants to say that Israel is the bad guy, what does a 20 year old college kid in New York have to do with it?

Nothing, of course. But, neither did the 20 year old Israeli girl who was raped and murdered on 10/7 have anything to do with Israeli policy. This is the wages of anti-Semitism. Once you start down the road of saying “the Jews” then you’ll become an increasingly evil person…willing to commit and tolerate all manner of horrors. I blocked yesterday a Catholic account on X because they started in on “the Jews”. I know that ignorance is the foundation of it all, but I think, also, there is something more sinister…something deeply embedded within Fallen Man. That is, to find the scapegoat. To relieve ourselves of responsibility by finding someone at fault for our own shortcomings…or even our own cowardice when faced with a difficult problem. It is hard to do things…but blaming someone is easy. And it is an ego-stroke when it presents itself as esoteric knowledge that only the Wise have access. Rely on it: if you confront an anti-Semite and find an unanswerable argument, their response will be “educate yourself” as if it was you, not they, who is ignorant. But that sort of ego boost is what keeps people on the train…and makes them become worse over time as they must either repent or go all the way.

There is a bill now passed by the House which makes anti-Semitism illegal. This is Democrat/Uniparty window dressing – something to do to make it appear they are doing something (and you know darned well that if the law is enacted it’ll be turned against us in a heartbeat). The bottom line is that the Hamas protestors on campus are already violating civil rights laws. If two or more people conspire to deny a right or privilege then that is a civil rights violation carrying a max of ten years for each offense. When a Jewish kid is blocked from access to campus because he’s Jewish, that is against the law. Period. Under US law you are allowed to hate Jews all you want, but you can’t stop them from enjoying the rights and privileges that all have under law. All of these kids are looking at hundreds of years in jail…if they get prosecuted. And that isn’t happening. And nobody in the Ruling Class wants it to happen. Why? Because of Arab oil money – nobody wants to jeopardize that. Huge amounts of it flow through American institutions and it is all predicated upon allowing the anti-Semitic tropes about Israel to persist.

If we do get Trump in, my hope is that he goes after these people – the statute of limitations is 7 years for these offenses. I want hundreds of these rich, privileged white kids dragged through the judicial system for years over this. We must instruct them: you can’t do that. You can’t, that is, sign on to a fashionable cause and violate rights and think you’ll just walk away from it.

The Anti-Semitic Moment

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Candace Owens made a splash a few years ago as black, female conservative but now is branching out – she’s taking up the cause of the Third Reich. Whether as a matter of conviction or because there’s lots of anti-Semitic clicks to be had from the Gaza war is unknown. Superficially, you might think that National Socialism is something black people can’t do but it is actually infinitely applicable. The key isn’t being German, or even white. The key is to be anti-Semitic. If we could dig up Zombie Hitler he’d probably still assert that black skinned people are inherently inferior, but that would only be until he got his bearings and realized there’s room for everyone, except Jews. Hitler, after all, made alliance with the Japanese…and for all his granting honorary Aryan status to the Japanese, this was a violation of strict Nazi ideology.

The first step to Nazism – the gateway drug – is blame Jews for something. Not a Jew, but Jews, as such. The Gaza war has provided ample opportunity for people to blame the Jews. There are now right and left people who have found that in spite of all other differences, a shared hatred of Jews can unite them. And once you start hating the Jews, all sorts of vistas open up for you. For Owens, it was the shocking revelation (to her, at any rate) that Germans in 1945 were treated very poorly. What she mainly found out about was the expulsion of the German population from central and eastern Europe in the aftermath of WWII.

Nobody knows for certain how many people were involved but it was certainly more than 10 million Germans forced from lands Germans had lived in for centuries. In the process, unknown numbers of Germans were robbed, raped, beaten and murdered. Poles and Czechs were especially notable in their brutality but nobody ever exceeded what the Russians did when they got into Germany. Over on the western side, the French unleashed their North African soldiers on the German population with the expected result. The Anglo-Americans were the most gentle but as we went into Germany we were quite savage is suppressing the least sign of resistance, we confiscated huge amounts of undamaged housing (giving the Germans literal minutes to clear out) and there were robberies, rapes and murders of Germans. Candace is shocked by all this. And on her posts about it, a huge raft of neo-Nazis have posted article after article making out that the Germans were the victims. That the whole war was orchestrated by the Jews to destroy Germany.

This is all pure, unadulterated nonsense.

As I’ve noted before, the Germans got off light in World War Two. They started a war they had no cause to start. They behaved with inhuman savagery towards the people they conquered. Their plan was to massacre millions and settle Germans on the lands of the dead; any survivors among the conquered were to be reduced to slavery. As they retreated they gratuitously destroyed as much property in occupied countries as they could. And they did this because they thought they were superior. Hitler didn’t start the concept of Germanic superiority. Oddly, it was started by a Frenchman Arthur de Gobineau. He asserted that the more Aryan you were, the more superior. In his view, France was undone because the inferior, non-Aryan part of the nation had managed to overthrow the superior, Aryan part (of which he was a member). From Gobineau to Hitler is a whole raft of race theorists who built into the German mind this idea that they were superior and that superior people must rule the lesser. Bottom line: the Germans wanted Hitler and his war. They wanted him and it to be a success. They looked forward eagerly to being masters over slaves. Of course, Germans aren’t superior and all the Aryan blood in the world isn’t going to help you deal with 1,000 8th Air Force bombers overhead, Montgomery’s 21st Army Group crossing the Rhine or Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front staffed with men who had their whole families massacred by Germans. The Germans, in the end, were stupid. And what they got in 1945 was what was coming. The Jews had nothing to do with it: the Germans called down the wrath of God upon themselves.

But we also have a population of highly uneducated people. And thus Owens’ being shocked to find that the people who caused World War Two weren’t treated with kid gloves. That’s bad enough: the worst part of it is that its all being worked into blaming the Jews, and this as part of the larger Islamist/Western Leftist program to annul the State of Israel. We’re just a step away from a major portion of the Western world holding to the view that there is a Global Jewish Conspiracy. As noted, blaming Jews is the gateway drug to Nazism – but once you’re through that gate, then its increasingly easy to blame all problems on your target. That is what Owens is doing vis WWII. But you’ll find voices saying that the border invasion, the trans movement, child trafficking, drug addition and on and on are caused by the Jews. And if we could just get rid of these damned Jews, we could fix it all.

It can’t be emphasized enough that we must stamp on this. We cannot permit this line of thinking to grow. Those who are propagating it must have their ability to do so taken away. This isn’t a matter of free speech of anything trivial: the people propagating anti-Semitism are, knowing or not, preparing for a Holocaust. They have to be stopped before they get enough adherents to first massacre the Jews of Israel, then massacre the Jews of the world. We have found that “Never Again” is just words – just saying you won’t have a Holocaust isn’t enough to prevent it. You must stop it – and as we learned last time, it must be stopped early. There are some ideas so evil that they must be suppressed – and one of those ideas is that Jews, as a group, control things. Like your Jewish neighbor goes to the Jew Conspiracy Meeting once a month to make plans. It is just stupid – but just because it is stupid doesn’t mean it isn’t lethal. In fact, an argument can be made the more stupid the idea is, the more lethal it can be. Basically, once someone signs on to be stupid, they usually feel they can’t back away from it for fear of ridicule…so they just double and triple down on it. The SA guy who beat up a Jew in 1929 became the gas chamber operator in 1943.

We do have some means of stopping this. First off would be cutting of the anti-Semitic money. Huge amounts of Arab oil money flows into America’s schools, thus paying for anti-Semitism. Huge numbers of anti-Semitic Muslim students are enrolled in our colleges; expel and deport them. Cut off funding for UNWRA, the Red Cross/Red Crescent and a huge number of other NGO’s who have become overtly anti-Semitic over time. Fire the government and education bureaucrats and professors who have talked up drivel like “anti-colonialism”. Doing all of this might be sufficient to protect the American body politic from the anti-Semitic virus – but we must also keep in mind that an application of violence against the worst offenders might prove necessary. This is that crucial; the future of human decency is at stake. How a person views the Jews is the litmus test on whether or not they are sane, reasonable people. Those who hate them must be ostracized at a minimum, destroyed as a last resort.

Open Thread

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The polls are tightening! Biden is surging!

Or, so goes the conventional wisdom. And, hey, there might be some tightening as the primaries end and everyone sorts themselves out on partisan lines. But, there also seems to be in the latest raft of polls some significant oversampling of Democrats. Maybe the earlier polls oversampled Republicans? Could be. But as we’ve said here for years now, don’t put your faith in polls. 2016 was the definitive year on that – wasn’t it something like a 97% chance Hillary would win based on polls? This, I think, is far more decisive:

Except for a very slight uptick in Colorado (which was probably out of reach for us all along), this is a catastrophic collapse for the Democrats. And keep in mind that this shift happened while the GOP was largely run by anti-Trump GOPers who were diligently trying to finish off the whole MAGA movement. This is registration gains in spite of deliberate RNC incompetence. This is people looking at their nation and saying, “we’ve got to do something!”. Not that the GOP is great, but it is the only way to stop the increasingly insane Democrats.

I think that the Biden vs Trump rematch will revolve around the fact that here in 2024 there is no longer any mystery about Biden. Even discounting cheating to get him into the White House, the thing about him was supposedly boring and conventional. That there would be no massive policy changes and we’d coast along in peace and quiet after the alarms of the Trump years. That might have been the plan – in his lucid moments, it was probably what Biden wanted – but given that he is increasingly senile, his aides are running wild, imposing ever more far Left lunacy without a shred of legal power to do so. Biden can’t hide behind a Narrative any longer – he sucks. And the price of food and gas are through the roof. I expect at this moment a 49% to 47% Trump victory. Keep in mind, of course, that anything less than a 3+ point Biden win in the popular vote works out to a Trump electoral victory. Basically, Biden has to get above 50% to win because I can’t see Trump getting less than 47%.

Team Pudding Brain has pretty much abandoned Israel. They tried for a while to triangulate support for Hamas and Israel but the Muslim voters they count on aren’t having it – they demanded abandoning Israel and that’s what they’re going to get. Nothing matters to the Democrats more than winning and if they have to hate Israel to get a win, they’ll do it. Don’t put too much stock into this for us as a Party – most Liberal Jews are Liberals first and last…they are just Jews by descent for the most part; they’ll swallow the insult. Orthodox Jews were already moving towards us. This will accelerate that and it might mean a House seat or two but nothing decisive for 2024.

And it is just disgusting what they are doing. Hamas already has a plan written up for what comes after they kill all the Jews of Israel. Plans for what happens to Jewish property. All neatly typed up and ready to go. There are genocidal maniacs in this conflict; its just that they’re all Muslims. I do worry that Israel is losing the will to finish the job. Anything short of the total destruction of Hamas will be an Israeli defeat, and perhaps an ultimately fatal one. A nation can’t afford to have something like Hamas as a living enemy. I did hear the theory that they are just hunkering down and waiting for November’s result. This could be true. Biden’s people do have a lot of control over deliveries of war materials to Israel and so can exert a lot of pressure…pressure the Israeli’s know will end with Trump’s victory. But that is also a long time from now. Its all very murky at the moment.

Did you notice that the MSM was 24/7 eclipse for a while? I did. Lots of people did. Personally, I think it was to deflect attention away from Trump’s statement on the abortion issue. This is crucial. What he said did upset some pro-Lifers but the pragmatic facts of life are that a majority of Americans currently want abortion legal, at least through the first trimester. We just can’t get around that. Took 50 years of relentless pro-abortion propaganda to get us here and we won’t undo that in a day. It will take decades for us to build a culture of life – and we can’t do that if for purity’s sake we turn all power over to the fanatic pro-abortion Democrats. We have to take what we can get – that was Trump’s essential message. And it is a message Democrats want to bury because their whole Fall campaign is going to be “Trump wants to ban abortion” as a means of scaring upper class urban/suburban white women. Trump does need to get out in front of this – my view is that our failure to do so in 2022 cost us at least 3 Senate and a dozen House seats. Failure to address abortion squarely turned a Red Wave into a Red Trickle. Trump is doing the right thing here; nobody likes a coward so lets be a bit brave and say what we want.

Team Pudding Brain is also cooking up more illegal plans to annul student debt. You can get mad about it, if you like, but it is what it is. They’re playing to win. Those on our side who are all “pay your bills” are simply not getting it. In 2024, some votes have to be purchased. As I said years ago we should have been out in front on this one – and casting it as “Democrats enslaved you to college debt and we freed you from it”. If not cancellation, then at least make it dischargable in bankruptcy. And put the colleges on the hook for at least some of it. Tax college endowments to pay for low income college. So much we could have done and we just blew it. I’m hopeful that Trump comes up with something along these lines. There’s already indicators that youth is prepared to abandon the Democrats…we just need something to tip them.

Open Thread

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The Crimson Blade goes live on March 10th! You can pre-order Kindle now. Having just done the very last review of it: gotta say, its awesome. There’s a growing conflict in the family, as it were. The Enemy is moving! But in ways that our heroes don’t fully understand. Everyone who likes a bit of history will enjoy the interaction between Fred and Celeste where it comes out, big surprise (/sarc), that Celeste is an ardent Monarchist!

So, the Michigan primary was a blowout win for Trump – and quite impressive numbers rolled up, including in traditionally Democrat areas. That plus the number of Democrat primary voters who voted “uncommitted” has Team Pudding Brain in a panic – that’s why they’re now overtly repeating Hamas lies and putting ever more pressure on Israel to quit. They are desperately worried they simply will not have enough votes in Michigan even given the invariable ballot box stuffing in Detriot.

To me, Israel continues to go far too slowly and carefully. I understand: they want to keep their own casualties low in addition to be chary of the blood of the Palestinians. These are noble sentiments, but celerity is key to success in war. You take too long and you can end up spilling more blood than if you just rammed through. And here’s the cruel truth: in war you must be willing to pour out whatever amount of blood is necessary to win. Nobody was more keen to keep casualties low than Wellington…but if the situation called for it, he would ruthlessly engage in quite bloody actions.

The vileness of our opponents becomes ever more clear, and it is finally costing them support. They were able to hide it for so long with their friendly media and, lets face it, some clever propaganda by Team Clinton and Team Obama…but with a senile Biden in charge, there’s no clear message and so the very worst aspects of the Left keep emerging where a Clinton or Obama would have skillfully hid them. The murder of that poor girl in Georgia is especially galvanizing…the Democrat attempts to sweep her death under the rug are leaving a very bad taste everywhere. We all know: she’s dead because illegals have been blithely released by the people specifically charged with keeping the people safe. You can’t work your way around that.

What Happens When the Gaza War Ends?

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I know that, personally, I have been bloody-minded of late. The horrific actions of Hamas savages being de-facto endorsed by plenty of my own fellow Americans has got me into a dark mood. But, I must not. God commands me to mercy. And I know it is true – and that if I want to be shown mercy, I must show it. So, we take a breath and calm down. They are savages but they are still my brothers and sisters and I must will what is best for them.

Not that the Israeli government will be calling me for advice, but I think there is a logical outcome to the Gaza War: Trusteeship.

The poison of Hamas has sunk very deeply into the population of Gaza. Keep in mind that the Hamas troops took video of their actions and proudly transmitted that video to friends and family in Gaza. By the time they had got back into Gaza, the people there knew exactly what they had done and they cheered wildly. Naturally, no sane person would leave Hamas in charge of Gaza but neither should the people of Gaza be in charge. Of course not everyone there is Hamas – indeed, we’re starting to see some reports of Gazan’s being furious at Hamas for withholding food and fuel from the people – but it is impossible for outsiders to really separate the sheep from the goats. The remnants of Hamas will attempt to retain power and eventually re-assert control and we can’t be sure who is genuinely anti-Hamas and who is faking. So, no Gazan gets to have a say in what happens in Gaza for a while.

Don’t be too shocked about the concept! Many will be – because we’re so used to universal voting rights and other such Progressive drivel that we can’t imagine denying someone power over their own governance. But self governance is an ideal, not a natural state of affairs. It is something to be aimed for, not really fully achieved. Even in the most educated and civilized society there has to be controls because civilization is not natural to the human condition. We’re naturally barbarians – we are instructed to be civilized and maintained in it by law and custom.

What I’m suggesting is not unprecedented. After World War Two both Germany and Japan were essentially placed under trusteeship and not allowed to resume full sovereignty for a significant period of time. In Japan that can be dated to 1971 when we returned Okinawa to Japanese control. For Germany, because of the peculiarities of the four-power post-war occupation, it didn’t happen until 1991. No matter what, the Allies were determined that there not be a resumption of Japanese and German aggression. The old joke was that NATO was to keep the Germans down, the Russians out and the Americans in and there was much truth to that: especially keeping the Germans down. The Brits massively drew down their military power in the 1950’s to the 1960’s but they kept the British Army of the Rhine at strength until German reunification. The Brits did not propose to have a third round with the Germans.

And it wasn’t just an occupation to keep an eye on them – the Germans and Japanese were instructed in new ways of thinking. Heck, the Japanese constitution was pretty much written by Douglas MacArthur. They were told why they had done wrong and what they had to do to repair it. To be fair, many Japanese and Germans voluntarily joined in the effort because they felt ashamed of what their countries had done, but the fact that to this day there are Germans and Japanese who hanker for the old ways shows the necessity of our efforts to impose new ideas on them. Had we not done that – had we done new Treaties of Versailles with them, then they would have just nursed their grudges and their power and tried again.

So it will have to be with Gaza; the people there must be rated incompetent to hold power. This doesn’t mean we go in and boss them around in their daily lives, but it does mean that the broad direction of national effort are taken out of their hands. They can’t control their government, their military/police or their schools. Someone else has to – someone who is committed to at least an idea of peace and justice.

It can’t be the Israelis. There is too much hatred between Muslims and Jews. If Israelis try to reorder Gazan life the people will reject it. They’ll probably stubbornly resist any such efforts from any quarter, but they’ll be in complete opposition to Israeli overlords.

My view is that a multi-power Trustee government should be imposed – with a commission made up of, say, people from Switzerland, Morocco and India (gotta have a Muslim majority power involved; it won’t work any other way and Morocco has long proved itself of a moderate strain of Islam). It would be better to keep the UN out but that is probably not possible; but full authority should be vested in the Trustees – not a penny gets spent, not a law gets made, without their consent. Their primary job would actually be reforming the education system so that the rising generation of Gazans will be told the truth rather than hate-filled Hamas lies. And after that generation rises, a period of transition can begin, step by step, to allow Gazans to resume sovereignty. But it would be at least a twenty year process. Maybe fifty.

Other people can come up with other ideas but the one thing that is certain is that Hamas has to go. Their actions on 10/7 removed them from human society. They still are people, of course, and must be shown mercy especially if they ask for it – but their entire system of beliefs has to be torn down and made unacceptable. Only that way can a path to peace be forged.

Aside: It is Pearl Harbor Day. God bless the memory of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

Open Thread

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot.

Open Thread

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reminder: the Establishment all around the world hates you.

Tired of the Game

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

That person was me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Thread

Mark Noonan57 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are Betrayed

Mark Noonan50 Comments

The savages on the loose in DC yesterday completely outraged me. I didn’t see any US flags; maybe there was one or two, but they clearly weren’t prominent. The participants in that riot – with its desecration of American icons – are not my compatriots. I don’t care what their citizenship status is, they are not Americans. They are not part of me. They are alien invaders.

It wasn’t just here, of course, in many Western cities these packs of lunatic foreigners were causing trouble…in London with the Brit cops telling British veterans not to wave their Union Jacks as that might incite the Islamist hordes to violence. And you think about that and then it hits you: DC since January 6th has been an armed camp in case MAGA shows back up! But last night they were climbing the White House fence and nobody was trying to push them back. If you and I did that we’d be sitting in jail right now, if not in a morgue. This means that the barbarians are considered a protected class by the Rulers of the West.

No surprise; they’ve been abetting their arrival in our countries for decades now. As a mutual on X put it: 20 years after 9/11 the Taliban rules in Afghanistan and Islamists riot in our streets. We lost. And the loss was built in. Thinking about the actual response to 9/11 one can’t escape the feeling that all we were doing was making it look like we were doing something. Thousands of American lives expended in battle, trillions of dollars down the toilet, God knows how many foreigners killed…and all for nothing. Well, nothing for us: what the Ruling Class got was apparently what it wanted: all of us simply tired of fighting uselessly while they imported a huge contingent of our enemies to make sure we couldn’t fight effectively in the future. Oh, and lots and lots of Islamist oil money! Don’t think our guys didn’t get paid!

And that is why they are so desperate to get Israel to agree to a ceasefire; Israel must lose this fight. You see, if Israel does crush Hamas and secure its own safety via a military campaign then it completely exposes our Ruling Class. It lets everyone know that the only reason we didn’t crush the Islamists is because our Rulers chose not to…and that’s when the money will become acutely embarrassing. Where it will be obvious that in return for Islamo-Bucks are Ruling Class crafted a Narrative that as Islam is the Religion of Peace we can’t press too hard and must come to an accommodation with them…or the Muslims will get mad at us. Well, last night showed they are mad at us – and its not over any thing we’ve done. Or Israel has done. Its just us they hate; and like all people consumed with hatred, they simply lie to justify it. They’re claiming Israeli war crimes (naturally) but they’re also claiming that Hamas didn’t do anything (they are seriously saying that most of the Israeli dead on 10/7 were killed by the IDF). It doesn’t matter: they hate and so they lie. They lie in the face of obvious facts.

So, you ask, if they don’t really hate us for anything we’ve done, then why do they hate us? That is simple: Islam holds itself to be a Master Race. Not based on genetics as the Nazis had it, but based on adherence to Islam. But the basic thrust is still the same: a Race chosen (in this case by God rather than Nature) to rule over the entire world. To lord it over the untermenschen. They are the source of all that is good; they have a right to rule.

So, why don’t they? Because of the Jews. And the Americans, who are controlled by the Jews. There is a reason The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf are perennial bestsellers in the Muslim world: it answers their question. Namely, after God gave overlordship to the Muslims and they went on a glorious run of conquest giving them wealth undreamed…they are in the modern era impoverished and backwards. How could this have happened? Hitler provided the answer: the Jews! They undermined Islam from within! Corrupted Muslim youth! They conspire daily to break the Muslim world…they are, therefor, the enemies of God! And just add “American” in there, too; we are pretty much indistinguishable in Muslim eyes from the Jews.

This is how they justify celebrating the rape and murder of Israeli teens at a concert: it was their right to rape and murder those girls. The girls weren’t Muslim; they weren’t performing their proper role as slaves and as they were out in public unescorted by their father or brother, they were whores asking to be raped. To them, this was just the Master punishing the disobedient servant. And make no mistake about it, in Arabic they do explicitly celebrate it. For the West, in English, they downplay or deny it…but amongst themselves it is a feather in the cap! And they can do this because they know that the MSM – which also gets lots of Islamist oil bucks – simply will not translate the Arabic into English for a Western audience. The western MSM is already engaged in telling the West that “from the river to the sea” is merely an aspiration for freedom and is not a call to massacre every Jew in Israel. But if you check directly with the Muslims, in Arabic, they say that is what it means.

What does this mean for us? It means we have to win. We haven’t been engaged in a clash of civilizations, but they have. They always have. Ever since the first ragged groups of Muslim raiders emerged from Arabia in the 7th century the Islamic world has been engaged in a clash of civilizations. The difference was that we, once upon a time, recognized it as such. Now we pretend it isn’t happening…mostly because our Ruling Class despises our civilization; they are, in the end, sure they can remain the same rich, amoral pigs under Islam as they are under our civilization. And they aren’t wrong to think that: they, after all, meet the leading lights of the Muslim world in the guarded resorts where poor boys and girls are abused. The Duke of Blunderwood won’t bat an eye at becoming the Pasha of Al-Blunderwood. Nor will any multibillionaire make much of a fuss at changing his name to a Muslim one. To the rich, a simple religion which makes no real demands on them is best, after all.

But as you and I don’t want that future, we’re going to have to win this war. To do this, our first step is to clear the rot out of our own system. That is, get rid of the Ruling Class which is abetting the enemy. Once they’re gone, we can make clear to Islam that we do have the courage to defend what is ours. We can even become, if not friends, then enemies who deeply respect each other. As Chesterton pointed out, it was very possible for the most ardent Crusader to respect his Muslim opponent, and vice versa, then it is for the modern Ruling Class to respect anyone or anything. Do keep that in mind: I don’t hate Islam. I oppose it. My model for our relationship is Richard the Lionheart vs Saladin. Fight if we must, and vigorously, but always with a respect. But we can’t get to that until we fix ourselves.