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.
In response to Kimmell being fired a lot of people on the Right are trying to explain it – that is, squaring it with our disgust with Cancel Culture. I’m not. Kimmell wasn’t cancelled – he’s a disgusting liar. That’s the only reason he’s off the air. If he hadn’t been a disgusting liar, he’d still be on. Simple as that. We didn’t do anything to him – he did it to himself. The only surprise here is that the network kept him on to spew his disgusting lies as his audience collapsed. If I ran the network, I would have ditched him years ago – saying that having a disgusting liar on the air is not what the network is about.
But, of course, that is what all networks have been about – and for a long time. The movie Network (1976) nailed it pretty well in that they’ll do anything to get eyeballs glued to the tube…but missed entirely the depth upon depth of lies the networks would put out if they thought lies meant good ratings. And it isn’t remotely the news that has all the lies – in fact, the news has the least lies necessary to advance the Leftist agenda. The popular culture stuff is where you get down to really nitty-gritty lies…like Law and Order with its bizarre fixation on anything that isn’t a crime problem in the United States. Of course, no production company would ever put out a show dealing with real crime problems…that is, a massively disproportionate number of non-white people committing most of the serious crimes. Better to cook up something which always has a white man as the bad guy…and even better if he’s Christian. I mean, you could do a whole series of criminal procedure episodes just about welfare fraud in Minnesota…but as its massively Somali…ain’t gonna see it! Better to just lie.
As least, until now. Now we have a President who is being totally uncool about that whole drag-him-through-the-courts-and-also-try-to-shoot-him thing the Democrats set up. He’s willing to use the immense power which the Left handed off to the Executive in the firm belief that it would never be turned against the Left. Oooops! Now networks have to worry about licensing and lawsuits and just the President talking about how dishonest they are…absolutely no respect given to them. It hurts – socially and financially. Look for some shows that start to reflect our values pretty soon…especially if Vance or another Trumper wins in 2028.
In my view, Ilhan Omar should be denaturalized and deported. I am thoroughly disgusted with this foreigner who was rescued by our nation deciding to call us the bad guys. If she showed the least bit of gratitude for the immense wealth and position this nation has afforded her I’d be ok – but she’s just a bitter, spiteful woman – as well as being a mindless tool for people who want America destroyed. Enough. Back to Somalia for her…where she won’t be allowed to appear in public, have any position or wealth.
AOC got up in the House to say that the motion to honor Kirk causes pain – which is her way of saying, “we’re glad he’s dead, the operation worked – you’re all Nazis and we’re coming after all of you”. Not at all kidding. She’s a mindless Commie but she also has internalized the way Commies work…everything that helps them is good and the vile hatred which got Kirk killed helped Communism…so, she’s not going to condemn it and, indeed, will continue to encourage it.
Some Democrats tried to block ICE and got treated exactly like those who try to interfere with Federal law enforcement should expect: badly. These actions by the Left prove their utter contempt for the USA. The laws about immigration may be good, bad or indifferent…but they are the laws. They were passed over many years via our representatives in Congress assembled and represent the considered wisdom of the American body politic. They cannot be set aside. That they have been set aside for decades is the blot upon our honor – enforcing them is the only decent thing to do. If anyone doesn’t like the laws – and everyone is free to do so – then the only course of action is to work within the political system to obtain a government which will change the laws…trying to riot in front of ICE is a betrayal of the American ideal. I’m hoping that we’ll eventually get some indictments out of this behavior.
Saw another clip of a Tucker Carlson interview where the interviewee is suggesting that a case can be made for a US alliance with Hitler against Stalin. Naturally he does point out the horrific nature of the Stalinist regime and also notes that FDR was a relentlessly dishonest man (MacArthur, on hearing of his death, was alleged to have remarked words to the effect of, “he was a man who never let the truth get in the way of a good lie”). Of course, this does leave out the crucial fact that Hitler was horrifically evil – sure, Stalin was, too, but Stalin wasn’t combining homicide with global conquest (Hitler did have a genuine dream of conquering the USA). Our problem here is twofold:
We don’t teach history any longer.
The overall global Establishment has lied so much that it is easy to make anything that disputes the Establishment seem plausible.
I’m not quite sure how we get out of this – the only way out might be by limiting the franchise to people who can pass some basic literacy and history tests. The liars lie because lies work (as I’ve said!). But we can’t have people saying lies like that and allow them to have a say in how we’re governed.
British police recently arrested a man for shouting “we love bacon”. I can’t imagine on what actual charge – and how do you prosecute someone like that without laughing? The Brits are in a bad way – I do admire their “show the colors” campaign where regular folks are hanging out the Union Jack and St George’s banner…but it all comes down to the fact that the Brits gave up their guns but forgot to make sure the government gave up theirs.
The 9th Circuit has cleared the way for Trump to deport 60,000 people who had been under temporary protected status. Temporary. You know: for a little while. Of course, some of these people have been here for decades. It really is a matter nobody enforcing our immigration laws – not for decades. Perhaps not since the 1960’s. Some people might get deported here and there but the basic fact has been to let them all come in and only kick them out when something egregious happens…and under Biden even the egregious were allowed to stay. I keep thinking about how the American Establishment in the late 1800’s decided to import millions…because American labor costs have always been higher than the rest of the world’s and I guess Big Corporation decided to stop that. So, too, the wave since the 1960’s…mostly just a way to place downward pressure on American wages. Its morphed into other things since then, but that was and remains the prime motivator.
I’ve never been to a Cracker Barrel which wasn’t packed with people – and I have eaten there and it has been good, solid food…but now they’ve got some new Corporate Clone boss who took a look at success and decided to kill it. Step by step, going woke. Why? Because these sorts of people hate those who go to Cracker Barrel. You think the CEO wants to go to the Hamptons and tell her friends about how happy MAGAts are with her product? Nope. She wants to go and show them social media posts about how mad the MAGA people are.
Shortly after the IDF mission to rescue the hostages the pro-Hamas propaganda effort settled upon the number of Palestinian dead. It varies a little bit from place to place, but the generally agreed-upon number is 200. Now, there is absolutely no independent verification of this number. It came out within hours of the attack – before anyone could have any idea of the numbers killed (it was, after all, a combat situation). Once that number was fixed, it spread around the world with amazing rapidity with nearly all MSM outfits repeating the entirely unconfirmed – and almost certainly completely made up – number. It was rather astonishing to watch: how rapidly the global propaganda machine operates.
The number was chosen because the pro-Hamas forces (which includes most of the Western media and governments) needed a quite large number which would make the rescue of 4 people seem trivial. Wrong. Not worth the price. And led up to the next part of the propaganda effort: getting everyone talking about how many were killed rather than the fact that “civilians” in Gaza were holding the hostages and treating them quite brutally…as well as using them as slaves (point blank: they were slaves. They were taken in accordance with Islamic law and passed out as rewards for services rendered). Can’t have people talking about that.
And, by and large, it worked: everyone is arguing over the number of dead and whether the dead were worth the benefit. Very clever propaganda effort, indeed. Tip of the hat to the Hamas savages and our Ruling Class: Goebbles would be proud.
I bring it up because what we saw here is precisely what we’ve seen elsewhere. With “climate change”. Covid. And, of course, “election deniers”. A massive, orchestrated system of lies designed to both drown out dissenting voices as well as specifically advance the Ruling Class cause. This is what I mean when I say they lie, they lie all the time, they lie about everything. Even when they have to put some element of truth into a Narrative, they bury it under a mountain of lies. And it is very crude. Not at all sophisticated. It does require absolutely no sense of shame because the lies are so stupid and obviously false. But they are so overwhelming in intensity and extent that people feel overwhelmed by it all. The average Jane and Joe on the streets doesn’t want to concede that they’re all egregious liars: that way lies danger. You can’t let liars go on lying, now can you? So better to pretend they aren’t lying, even though you can often see the truth with your own eyes and in those instances where it isn’t right in front of you, just a little bit of thought exposes the lie.
And that brings me back, once again, to what I’ve been harping on for a while: we must punish liars. Lies are not covered by the First Amendment. We must construct the social and legal mechanisms to make liars pay a massive price for any lie. It is the only way to get it to stop. These people do not fear God – they are alienated from God (and, yes, some of them are priests and pastors). These people enjoy lying. They like to see if they can get away with it – and they very much enjoy the power and wealth they obtain by participating in the lies. They have to lose it all. We must punish them – because if they don’t, they’ll just keep lying until truth-tellers are all destroyed.
Aside from the jokes, one of the things I like about X is its ability to bring random stuff together. First off: how about a picture?
Look closely at it. There is a rather glaring issue and, once you see it, you’ll know the veracity of the text.
What you will notice after a little bit of study is that there are no keyholes on the cuffs. Just a little lever which allows anyone, including the cuffed person, to open them. Not very useful, huh? I mean, not even for dragging away poor, little Native kids.
This is because these aren’t the handcuffs used to drag Native Kids away to school – they are antique toy cuffs. Used by kids back the day to play Cops and Robbers. But even if that aspect of it had been blurred out, another moment of thought would have revealed the lie: suppose you did want to drag poor, little Native kids off to school…why in heck would you cuff them? What is the fear? A six year old grabbing your gun? The whole concept is drivel.
But as was pointed out on X when this picture floated by, a whole rigamarole went into it – including having a Native medicine man exorcise (as it were) the cuffs to remove evil spirits…you know, all the evil of kids being cuffed and dragged away to school…which did not, in the event, happen. But think about that: senior people of Native tribes in modern times fell for the con. Why is that? Because there’s a big problem with Native history: nobody Native wrote it down until decades after the Native way of life ended. Essentially, what we know of, say, the ways of the Plains Indians is whatever some white guy wrote down as he interacted with them for good or ill.
It may or may not be totally accurate, but it is all there is: for the Natives, themselves, it was whatever great-grandpa told them long after the fact. Was it true? Maybe. Who knows? One thing we do know about peoples who don’t have writing is that the oral tradition is altered from time to time by the elders. You know: some dispute in the village and so they go ask the oldest people what was done in the past and the geezers get together and work up a story that solves the problem and solemnly announce this was the way it was done in olden times. Who could dispute it? All the oldsters agree and there’s no document to contradict them. This is the basis for most Native claims about how their old ways were – whatever someone said and there’s no way to check.
I’d have to look it up to be sure but I believe it was an ancient, Sumerian saying which went like this:
“What is the tongue?”
“That which whips the air.”
“What is writing?”
“The guardian of history.”
Which is true – as everyone with any sense knows, the only sure things we know about past events are things which were written down at the time, or shortly thereafter. Even then, of course, we’re at the mercy of the author; if the author missed a detail or misrepresented the facts, we’re rather doomed unless there is something else out there in the record to set it straight. But in all of the 100,000 years (or so) of human history, the only events we know about are those which are written down. I know that some may want to object that pre-writing we do know of some things that went on – yes; like when we find the dwelling of cavemen we can tell a lot about them…that they were humans, what sorts of animals they hunted, plants they ate and so forth…but we can’t tell anything about what their lives were like other than some very basic things. We know that by the time we were writing we already had domestic animals, beer and slaves: all of these things had to be developed over time but we have no idea how because they were all created pre-writing and the first writers took them as a given. Even the art left on cave walls is a mystery to us – gorgeous, vivid pictures obviously of great importance to those people…but we haven’t the foggiest notion as to why they left the drawings. We can guess all the live, long day but as the people who drew didn’t leave us a decipherable script, we’ll never know the story. In fact, whole populations of humans might have risen and fallen over the tens of thousands of years and we don’t know even one thing about them – not even that they existed – because they left nothing on stone for us to find. So, pretty important, that whole writing thing.
But what if someone writes a lie? You know: like calling a child’s toy an implement of White Supremacist Settler-Colonialist torture of Natives who never robbed, murdered or raped until Evil White Men (who weren’t gay) arrived. What do we do with that?
Because that was the other thing that came across the X time line at roughly the same moment: a question. “Just how much of our history is simply made up?”
The answer, of course, is “a heck of a lot more than before”. As I noted before, a book of history isn’t necessarily definitive. A contemporary document isn’t certain to be accurate. This is why the really good historians of the past have carefully sifted the data and were unafraid to acknowledge that different conclusions can be drawn. But even with the best of intentions and copious documentation, it still will never be perfect. It can’t be; humans can’t produce perfection. But allowing for the normal run of human error and bias, what we have today is an avalanche of flat out lies masquerading as history. Mostly, of course, lies designed to undermine the West in general and the USA in particular. Like that absurd 1619 Project which asserted that the original colonists came here simply so they could set up a racist, slave holding society. That has now entered the national mind: millions accept it as a proven fact when not a single historical document or event supports it.
But it isn’t just Progressive garbage like that. We also have other sorts of fake history being made up to suit Narratives. All of it does hook itself on some fact, never complete and always out of context. Like Candace Owens breathlessly relating to the world a little while back that we had been lied to: you see, after WWII, millions of Germans had been expelled from central and eastern Europe accompanied with great brutality! Now we know – and it was those damned Jews who orchestrated this and then suppressed it so we wouldn’t find out what rat bastards they are! Sure…except everyone who has more than cursory knowledge of WWII already knew that and it was done very deliberately by the Allied Powers. Sure, they put in the agreement that it was supposed to be done humanely but nobody gave a damn about that in 1945 because of what the Germans had just put the world through. But to someone as ignorant as Owens – and with our population increasingly uneducated – it seemed like something big and it caused a stir…and it goes on still with many people believing the false Narrative built up around it and using it as justification for not believing other things.
But even beyond wicked people pushing false Narratives, I think we also have a problem in the lack of thought of the modern world. People don’t think. They just accept. This is why in all the years since 1945 there has been no real assessment made of WWII; how it was conducted, why it was fought, how did the aftermath work out? We just accept that there’s a certain story line and never question it: to nutshell it, because the Allies were mean at Versailles Hitler was able to gain office and then Appeasers let him get powerful until the Great and Powerful Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt mobilized the world to defeat the monster after which, via the UN, we created a Rules-Based International Order which has kept the peace. There is a certain amount of truth to all of this – but not all truth. We really haven’t considered the whole matter and so we have not identified the true problem and thus our best course forward.
I’ve discussed some of these issues before: for instance, that far from being too mean to the Germans in 1919, the Allies were far too nice. Germany attacked France, Belgium and Luxembourg with absolutely no justification at all, forcing untold death and destruction on all three nations. Germany owed France for one million deaths which simply would not have happened if Germany hadn’t invaded. Think about that – the potential lost, alone, is incalculable. Who knows how many first rate doctors, scientists and artists perished in the mud of the trenches. How many French children were never born because their fathers mouldered into the ground around Verdun? How could Germany possibly repay that? What possible price extracted would be “too much”? A much harsher, truly punitive peace in 1919 and there simply would not have been a WWII because the Germans would never have been able to mount an attack.
But leave that aside, the primary cause of the First World War was unprovoked attack – and the fundamental reason for the Allies to fight – especially for Britain and the United States – was to enforce the principle that you can’t shoot your way into power and wealth. That no matter how much you disliked the state of the world, resort to arms to alter the position was forbidden. It was the primary cause and reason for World War Two as well. These days, in hindsight, it was all about stopping Nazis from being Nazis. And that, indeed, was a worthy object – but until we got into Germany in 1945 we really didn’t know the magnitude of the Nazi disease. Rumors were rife from 1942 on about the horrors the Nazis were perpetrating but they were just that – rumors. Not much solid, verified fact. It was when the Russians got into Auschwitz and we got into Buchenwald that the full truth came out and turned a just war into a holy crusade. But even with that horror, the real reason for fighting was the same as at the start, and the start of WWI: you can’t shoot your way into power. If the Nazis never harmed a Jew, they still would have been in the wrong because they attacked.
But nowhere in the writings about the war nor about how things were set up afterwards was this principle – the whole point of the fight – made central. Sure, the UN charter forbids aggression, but that was a dead letter the moment it was adopted. Almost immediately after the guns of WWII fell silent, people all around the world were resorting to arms to try to force a settlement in their favor – to grab things they could not win by peaceful means. It was as if the war had been fought for nothing except to create well paid sinecures for diplomats at the UN. Again and again since 1945 the nations of the world have used every means imaginable to justify or explain away someone’s aggression. Sure, the UN managed to plug the gap in Korea, but that is the exception which proves the rule…and even in that, the aggressors (North Korea and China) weren’t punished for their crimes. They remained in place after the war. They are still in place more than seven decades later…and because they were unpunished, they remain a standing threat to the peace of the world. Why shouldn’t they? Their own history books tell how they provoked a war costing millions of lives and nobody ever did a thing about it.
And this all stems, once again, from our fundamental failure to think about what happened and how it applies to current events. We’re stumbling around a world on fire today in 2024 because for nearly 80 years we’ve never really analyzed from a historic perspective the Second World War. We’ve talked endlessly but in circles about it. Never once breaking free from a pre-set Narrative designed, first and foremost, to excuse the Western Ruling Class institutions which failed to prevent it and then let it drag out years longer than it needed and then horribly screwed up the outcome. And now we’ve got people “discovering” that maybe the Nazis weren’t the bad guys – maybe it was the USA. And the Jews. Didn’t you hear what those mean, old Allies did to the Krauts of Silesia after the war?
This is why we have people in the USA blocking traffic for Hamas. These kids almost certainly couldn’t point Palestine out on a map if given three tries. They know nothing of the history of the area. They haven’t been taught to think – they just receive the word and act upon it. Not remotely a class of people who can be considered citizens in any real sense of the word. They were told the Israelis were bad and resistance to bad is always justified. Presto: we’ve got American college girls wearing the flag of people who would rape them to death in a minute when given the chance. Nothing thought out. Had it been thought out – and taught in schools – then everyone would be, “Hamas attacked unprovoked; regardless of their complaints about Israel – some of which may be fully justified – our principle is that you can’t start shooting about it: they are therefor in the wrong and must be stopped”. The fact that they raped and murdered just adds to the justification for wiping them out. Instead, pretty much the entire Western Ruling Class is trying to save Hamas – to keep alive an organization which attacks unprovoked, commits unspeakable brutalities and is pledged to the massacre of every Jew in Israel. Just amazing. But it is what comes from not thinking.
So, Mark, what is our way out? The only way out: punishing liars. I’ve mentioned this before as well. I can’t emphasize enough how utterly impossible it is to have a functioning, rational society if we allow liars to get away with it. We’ve allowed people to lie to us for so long on so many issues that I think most are infected with the disease of lies. Heck, even I am – though to a far less degree than most, or even than I was ten years ago. But the lies are so pervasive that even the strongest mind is influenced by them. The only way to stop it is via force – and the longer we wait, the more brutal the force we’ll have to apply.
Got into a very long debate on X about the morality of the use of the Atomic Bomb. It is seriously gotta be the biggest engagement post I’ve ever had there: as of this moment, 56,600 views, 358 reposts, 3,100 likes and 474 comments. In strict X parlance, I have been “ratioed”. This means you have more comments than reposts and usually means you’ve said something ridiculous. Not in this case. If you clicked on it, you’ll see that my post was a picture of my Dad as a young Marine, the notation that he was waiting on Okinawa to invade Kyushu in November of 1945 and finishes up with a small, editorial comment about those who say that A Bomb was bad.
Some of the comments are bad faith but most, in my view, simply betray ignorance. Some times well meaning ignorance, but ignorance nonetheless. And that actually has me a little worried. If you go through the comments you’ll see that several times I pointed out the four options available to Truman in July, 1945. They are, sometimes very briefly stated:
Blanche at the cost of finishing off Japan either by nukes or invasion and agree to negotiate a peace which would force Japan to surrender their Empire, but leaves in place the Japanese Ruling Class which waged the war…and that Ruling Class now convinced that their suicidal fight to the death got us to blink. That they are our moral superiors and just need better material for Round II. In other words, this end almost certainly means another war – and maybe a nuclear war as Japan did have a nuclear weapons program. So Pearl Harbor Two might have been Los Angeles and San Francisco getting nuked.
Starve Japan to death. The Japanese were incapable of feeding their population from domestic food production. Like Britain, it was import, or starve. Japan had no means of obtaining resources of any sort as our command of the sea was absolute. We could have just stood off and let starvation kill Japanese until they quit. This would have been up to tens of millions…and they might not have quit. Once their population dropped to sustainable levels, they might have still refused.
Invade Japan. This is a very well known option and all post-War analysis indicates this would have been a horrific affair with maybe a million American casualties and untold millions of Japanese deaths.
Drop the Atomic Bombs and so instruct the Japanese that we could kill them with no loss to ourselves; that any future dying would only be Japanese and to no avail.
As I also pointed out at various points, commanders in war, civil and military, are besieged by a host of information arriving all at once from every point of the compass. Some of it is false. Some irrelevant. Some flat contradictory with other information arriving at the same time. Out of this morass of data, the commander must tease out the correct information or lose. This is not an easy task. It is not a neat and tidy exercise as it can sometimes appear in a history book. This is why when looking back, caution must be taken. We weren’t there. We weren’t under those particular stresses. We benefit from hindsight no matter how much we try to set that aside. In my view, Truman made not just the best of a bad situation, but the correct moral decision. The intention was not to massacre Japanese, it was to end the war by the swiftest means…to end the effusion of blood, Japanese as well, as quickly as possible. And it was done; in the end, no matter what else, it worked. And if you want to call it wrong, you simply must come up with an obvious, superior option which was known to the decision makers at the time. There simply wasn’t any beyond these four. None of them were perfect, all of them posed risks: Truman chose the best one.
Do keep in mind that the comments condemning Truman as a monster issued from both Left and Right. People are getting united in a shared insistence that there was simply no justification at all for dropping the Bomb. What this tells you is that the general propaganda line has worked. And, of course, we know that propaganda does work. But this is doubly disturbing this propaganda issued to condemn the Bomb originated in the Soviet Union to denigrate our effort in WWII – to make out that we were bad, and so excuse Soviet actions. This line was picked up by Nazi-apologists as a means of getting around the Holocaust. But now it has morphed into a general belief that America is morally tainted. When added to slavery, it is being used to make out that America is the bad guy in the world. That we’re the nation that has to be destroyed. And the Right is participating in this – going along with it. And from what I can tell, they are doing it mindlessly…just so they can have something they agree with the Left on. A “see, I hate that, too” moment.
When we combine this with the “anti-colonialist” attitude of the Left and the increasing number of people on the Right who are condemning Israel’s war in Gaza, we can see our problem: basically, our entire civilization is in the dock and it is being found guilty. That it is ignorant people making the ruling is neither here nor there: ignorant jurors get a say. And the USA is being found guilty.
This is worrying not just for the fate of our nation, but for the fate of anything resembling civilization. Islamists savages went on a rape/murder spree and that’s in the Memory Hole while college kids riot on campus in favor of the savages. We’re being told we have to save Democracy in Ukraine even though elections have been suspended there. The Free World we defend with NATO arrests people for misgendering. China buys whatever influence it wants – and our open border and drug addiction may very well be a Chinese op. But we’re not allowed to fight against it because we’re the bad guys…the people who held slaves and who cruelly and needlessly nuked Japanese children. You see?
We really have to win this November. Not for Trump. Heck, he’s not even the guy we remotely need right now. He’s just massively the superior of the alternative. But we, the Americans – those of us who are left – have to take control of our country. Or we simply won’t have one – it’ll be falsified out of existence. We must find the ways and means of getting the liars out of all power and influence and simply re-instructing an ignorant population on what America actually was, and can be again.
I have said many times in the past that all education is indoctrination and all law is the imposition of morality: it is just a debate over what dogmas and morality will be imposed. The Left and the Libertarians reject this with scorn and even most on the Right would be uncomfortable in saying it, but it is nevertheless true. Something will always be imparted to the rising generation. We can see this right before our eyes when we see polls showing something like 25% of youngsters say they are something other than straight. The idea that a fourth of humanity would not be biologically geared towards reproduction is both theologically and biologically absurd, but the kids say they are. And they say this because they’ve been told to say this. Like all young people, they want to know what to say and do in order to be accepted into society and the sure-fire pathway to acceptance these days is to be a weirdo…and so weirdo they are.
But there is a follow-on to both my assertions that I’ve only tangentially brought up before: and that is there is always censorship to defend the reigning dogma. I’ve hinted as this before when I’ve discussed things like the Inquisition and pointed out that it wasn’t set up to prevent thought and development, but to ensure that thought and development went in the right direction. Most people these days would condemn such an idea but such it was, and something like it is necessary in any society. These days the reigning orthodoxy is not defended by learned men backed up by the rack but, instead, is defended by ideological gatekeepers backed up by social ostracism. But it all works out the same: heresy is rooted out and those who transgress are punished. With today, in my view, being worse than the Inquisition because our current gatekeepers are not only determined to prevent thought and development but, indeed, to ensure that various obvious falsehoods are asserted by society. At least Torquemada was trying to defend something true; the modern Inquisitors are determined to defend something false. But the main point here is that there is always a mechanism in society to hound those who don’t conform to the reigning orthodoxy.
This is why when I see current debates about free speech I do believe that a lot of people are missing a crucial aspect of it. This is especially true on the Right which almost universally adheres to Voltaire’s “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. Perhaps Voltaire really would have (he was never put to the test), but most people won’t really. It is philosophical boilerplate. But the attitude underlying it has been used to push our civilization to the brink of extinction. Thinking it wise, we’ve allowed all manner of false, evil and downright anti-human speech to be made. And made by people who are bound and determined to exterminate everyone who disagrees with them. Most importantly, those who have imposed the current reigning orthodoxy don’t hold to Voltaire’s dictum for a minute – and they are now busily enforcing their speech codes on us.
There are, after all, things we already can’t say in public. Things we’ll only say in private, quietly and only around people we trust absolutely. And year by year the things we won’t say in public grow – because the new Inquisitors are always listening, always ready to destroy the next person who states a heresy. Don’t be too harsh with them on it. When our views dominated, to even say “damn” in a movie was a shock. Our civilization at its peak had a very strict set of rules of behavior and speech and they were enforced by a mixture of law and custom. We were told (or, actually, mostly told ourselves) that we could dispense, one by one, with these laws and customs and that we would somehow still retain our civilization. We have now found out how false that notion was…and our backs are against the wall as the ideas we let lose are getting ready to destroy us.
To be sure, those who wrote the First Amendment lived during the peak of our civilization. When they wrote those words “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” they weren’t stupid or naive. They just didn’t realize – couldn’t realize – that later generations would assume that the words meant there were no rules. These were educated, responsible men; they were sure that the First Amendment would only secure the right to say things within the rules. De Sade lived when the Constitution was being written and he was writing his vile works…I am absolutely confident that Madison would have led the charge against anyone advocating de Sade’s ideology. In the end, we allowed de Sade and his heirs free reign. How is that working out for us?
There are certain things which must be in order for a civilization to survive. For instance, the Albigensians of the 13th century held that physical reality is evil. This in stark contrast to the orthodox Christian view which asserts that God called His creation good and, of course, became incarnate. In our modern mind we would allow the Albigensians to propagate their ideas freely on grounds of who are we to say who is truly right? Those back in the 13th century didn’t and this is held as a sin against them. But the reason they exterminated the Albigensians wasn’t to stop people from thinking, but to prevent a monster from growing all powerful. A society based on the belief that matter is evil is a very different society than the Christian. It despises life and seeks only the end of all things. On balance, the people then preferred an explicable world ruled by God and eventually to be redeemed by Him.
Were they right? Well, lets take another case: Islam. Suppose it had totally triumphed instead of being fought tooth and nail for centuries. What then? Well, just take a look at the Muslim world in, say, 1823: no real advancement since it had emerged in the 7th century. Ancient nations of once-great prosperity reduced to poverty. A completely stagnant society; once the scourge of Christendom and now the plaything of European buccaneers. The Muslim worldview is different from the Christian. It is much more gloomy; deterministic and, because of this, greedily materialistic…but it is a greed only of taking and hoarding…not the materialistic greed of the Calvinists who at least asserted that one had to build.
The point here is that if you want what you have, you must defend it. If you don’t defend it, then it will be replaced by something else which will then exterminate what you have. It can’t freely compete with other world views; it must triumph, or die. As much freedom as you want, as much as you, personally, want to think and say what you want, there must be a limit. And an enforced limit. Some things that are just outside the pale and may not be openly advocated for in the public square. In short, no matter how much freedom you want, you’re going to need some censorship…just as you’ll have to use law and custom to ensure your dogmas are transmitted in the schools.
Do keep in mind that there is no correct answer. No Euclidean certainty. You’re dealing with human beings so things don’t work like that. What you will determine tolerable is a prudential judgement and may vary over time. But what must be is the hard and fast rules: what you cannot do, no matter what. To give an example: we know that Nazi ideology is evil and has no merit whatsoever. It should, then, be illegal to propagate it. If not in law, then in custom. And, of course, overt adherence to Nazism is banned in our society – you can almost ensure your social ostracism if you proclaim your adherence to Nazism. You might still have some Nazi friends, but forget a career in most avenues and be prepared for routine harassment. Do you see what I’m saying?
Just as the Nazis would arrest us all if they were given power so, too, will what we currently call the Left. The rising reigning orthodoxy. The thing which is already causing us to self-censor and now increasingly demands we overtly proclaim our support for. They don’t have any truck with the idea that speech should really be free. They believe you should only be free to say what they find acceptable. Spoiler: you aren’t acceptable. Eventually you will be squashed.
Unless you squash them, first.
This is what I mean when I talk of us using power to destroy the Left. It is an effort to place their ideas beyond the pale. When I say things like “confiscate their money” that is just a means to an end – a way to get them to stop saying things which undermine civilization. But do note that I go on to say things like, “use their money to educate the rising generation in our views.” I’m not just trying to switch my power for theirs – I’m really in the business of stamping out heresy. Of getting rid of those who assert things which are at defiance of what I consider basic, human decency.
As we brace ourselves for this battle for our civilization it is important that we start to think about things. To really determine who we are, what we believe and what we want at the end of the fight. Just opposing the Left isn’t good enough. It needs to be replaced. What will we replace it with? What will we do to prevent a repeat? What ideas will have a social and legal ban imposed?
And we must do this; because it is the only way we survive.
I saw that in a recent poll something like 67% of 18-35 year olds disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza. To back up this poll, we’ve seen very large mobs of youngsters out at the pro-Hamas rallies where anti-Semitism is rife; so the poll is at least correct in general. This is very distressing – our youth are being consumed by an ideology which is anti-human in every respect. Why is it like this?
Because of lies.
For some time now – probably thirty years – there has been an increasing level of lies about Israel. Like all such things it started small and as a fringe thing but as we know, anything the Left latches on to will move rapidly from fringe to mainstream. We can use the founding of the Boycott Divest Sanction movement in 2005 as the moment when anti-Israel attitudes went mainstream. At that point, Israel routinely was accused of being an Apartheid State which was systemically destroying the Palestinian community. A false history was created to back up the ideology – a history which starts in 1948 with a claim that it was the Jews, without cause, who set upon the innocent Palestinian Muslims in order to commit genocide against them. This is all drivel but that doesn’t matter – it is what was said, endlessly, and by many premier elements of the Western Establishment. As we know, repeat a lie long enough and people believe it. This lie has been repeated well more than long enough…and now after Hamas sent in rape/death squads to commit acts of unimaginable brutality, we’re finding that huge numbers of young people are siding with the rapists.
And its not all on the Left: there are plenty of people on the Right parroting the lies about Israel. The lies about Israel have sunk very deep; our whole debate on this issue is warped by the lies. The pragmatic facts of life are that even if every crime charged to Israel were true, it would still not justify sending out rape/death squads against them. But that is being justified. It is being placed “in context” as the Left demands. We have people who have been so well trained by liars that they can find out that Israel girls were raped to death and it doesn’t outrage them. They see it as justified…and they see it that way because for decades now they have been fed a story about a horrendously anti-human Israel which is just murdering Palestinians by the bushel.
And do keep in mind that a large number of young men from Gaza set out to do these rapes and murders. Like all military forces, probably most of them range from late teens to mid twenties in age. In other words, these are people who were born in this century. If any of them have family who lost something in 1948, it goes back to great-grandparents. You know: people these kids never met. But just as in the West our youth have been fed a steady diet of anti-Israel lies, the kids of Gaza have got it on steroids. They’ve been told endlessly and since preschool that the Israelis – the Jews – are beasts in human skin who engage in all sorts of inhuman cruelty against Palestinians. That is why when these Gazans were unleashed in Israel they took delight in raping, torturing and murdering. To them, they were just getting a pound of flesh back from the Jews.
What is boils down to is that a series of lies, told over decades, brought about October 7th…and those same lies are now hampering the only proper response to October 7th. Lies are not just a theoretical bad thing: lies kill.
And not just in Israel and Gaza. Those same sorts of lies are causing Muslims to attack random people all over the West and in Africa, too. Did you know that over the past fourteen years about 52,000 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria by Muslims? Of course you don’t know that; the MSM doesn’t cover it. The “Bring Back Our Girls” thing was an aberration. And quickly forgotten. And, aside, most of those girls are still being held as slaves. The Muslims of Nigeria are fed anti-Christian lies so they go out to kill…and the world doesn’t do anything about it because of the lie of omission: as anti-Christian violence doesn’t fit the Establishment Narrative, it isn’t talked about. But 52,000 are dead…and Lord only knows how many are now chattel slaves.
Its not just in this type of action, either. We’re fed a bunch of lies about immigration, too, and lots of people die from those lies. The people who are left to die in the desert. The people murdered by coyotes. The people killed in the USA by illegals. It is quite a pile of corpses and it keeps getting higher because there’s a series of lies being told about immigration and border security. Drugs, too, of course; 110,000 died in the USA of drug overdoses in 2021…and it is happening, once again, because a bunch of lies are told both about border security and whether or not there is even a drug problem.
On and on: lies about policing have led to a collapse of policing in the big cities and so murder rates are rising. Lies about race have lead to packs of non-whites attacking whites. Lies about homeless people lead to who knows how many people dying in gutters. Lies lies lies – and they are destructive and getting worse.
It has to stop. The lies must be stopped
And that is where we immediately run into trouble. You see, most people who call themselves Conservative in the West these days are actually Libertarian. It is good that they have a healthy suspicion of government power, but it is entirely unhelpful that they haven’t a concept about what well-ordered liberty means. Your basic Western Conservative just assumes a sane society. They don’t realize that you can’t have a voluntarily sane society – it must be enforced in law and custom. If you don’t enforce decent behavior, you won’t get it. Just today a viral video went around where this guy steals a Christmas tree from another person’s car roof. The thief had his own car. A nice car. It is obvious the guy can pop the $50 for a tree. But he steals one, instead. Because he’s an indecent person. And he’s indecent because he was never taught to be decent and there is no mechanism to force him to be decent.
We have always have liars amongst us – and until Christ returns, they will remain with us. But there’s a difference between a society with liars and a lying society. Right now, we’ve got a lying society. We enforce no standards. We punish nobody for transgressing basic human decency. We’re barely able to convict for rape and murder these days (worse in Europe – a gang of boys, some foreign and some German, raped a girl and only one of them is going to jail…the others are skating; with the reason given that the court wasn’t sure the boys knew they were doing wrong). The whole fabric of civilization is collapsing around us. And it all stems from the fact that we tolerate liars.
I have talked a bit about this before but that 2/3 of the kiddies think Hamas is justified is an eye-opener. We are running out of time. We’ll be lied into total destruction if we don’t stop this. However difficult it is, we must build the mechanisms for punishing liars. And I mean quite severely. Lying is the thing we must take our stand against. All else will fall our way if we can smack down the liars. And all we hold dear will be destroyed if we don’t smack them down.
Our position must be that the First Amendment does not protect lying. That is going to be a hard pill for most of the Right to swallow – once again, because most on the Right are actually Libertarian rather than Conservative. But if you want to retain your freedom you’ll only be able to do it by denying the freedom of liars. Either you GULAG the liars or they will GULAG you. It is that stark – and the danger is not in some far off year; its like three to five years from now. It is snowballing that fast. You may want to stand on the idiotic Voltairean “I will defend to the death your right to say it” and I hope you and your principles enjoy the work camp. As for me, I’d rather not wind up in GULAG – and if that means I have to find the means to bankrupt and/or jail liars, I’m going to do it.
I’ve talked about this before but it is really getting into my mind: just how long we’ve been under a dictatorship of lies. My latest round of thinking about this was a Tweet where the “without the USSR, we couldn’t have won WWII” assertion was made – and not by a Leftist and not by someone unfamiliar with history. It was a highly educated Right person making the statement. It is just an accepted thing: it is the way it was, no doubt about it.
400,000 jeeps and trucks
11,400 aircraft
7,000 tanks
4.4 million tons of food
2.6 million tons of oil
That’s just us, and only a very partial list of what we sent to the USSR. The Brits provided the Red Army’s boots and at least a quarter of their medium tanks (it wasn’t a Soviet miracle of producing the T-34 which got the job done…it was British and American workers: the Soviet films show the T-34’s rolling into Germany…but this is simply because they didn’t film the Sherman’s and Valentine’s which probably made up nearly half their medium tank strength – and on film, especially if moving and a bit out of focus, easy to mistake a Valentine for a T-34). But when you think of all we sent to the USSR keep in mind that at the same time we were raising and splendidly equipping 12 million US service members…and building for ourselves thousands of planes, tanks and ships.
The reality is that the USSR could not have survived without American and other allied aid – and that the USA and Britain vastly outnumbered and outproduced the AXIS powers. And this is even if you take away the fact that we got the Atomic Bomb in 1945 – supposing that didn’t work and the USSR was, say, knocked out in 1943, the Anglo-American alliance would still have rolled into Germany. Might have been 1947 before they did, but it would happen. Germany (Japan, the whole AXIS) has no business going to war with us. It was stupid. Suicidal. And while the USSR killed more Krauts than we did, those Krauts were doomed to die…if not in the snows of Russia, then in the fields of France.
Once you think about it for even just a few minutes and access some readily available information, you can see that it is a lie to say the USSR was vital to Allied victory. It wasn’t. For heaven’s sake, while we were invading Africa, Italy and France and bombing German cities to smithereens and sending massive supplies to the USSR, we were also fighting the Japanese! And while the Japanese never had a command structure like that of the Germans and while on the assault they were often tactically mishandled, we found that one the defense and dug in, the Japanese were harder to fight than the Germans…the Germans would eventually quit. The Japanese kept at it until exterminated. It is like people ignore the Pacific Theater – as if in some way it wasn’t happening at the same time. But once you put Europe and Pacific together and see what the USA did, it is obvious that the USA needed nobody’s help. It was nice to have the help. It ended the war a lot faster and so saved lives…but we never needed a single Russian bayonet on the line.
And when you start to think about it, you just go on: what other bull have we been fed? After a while, you then arrive at your final destination: is anything we’ve been told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
I don’t think so. I believe that our government – our institutions overall – got into the habit of lying to us so long ago that it became entirely ingrained. They lie not as a last resort to deflect blame, but as a first resort to make certain the Narrative supports them no matter what happens. In other words, when they get ready to tell us something, they’ve already thought it out a few steps ahead and so figure out which lie to tell now which will best deflect blame a few steps down the road. Like after 9/11 when we were all told early on that there was no way to prevent it. Well, turns out it could have been easily prevented and the government was presented with chance after chance to prevent it. They knew, of course, that eventually the truth would come out…but they also knew that if they just bald-faced lied about it from the get-go, then by the time the truth emerged it would all be too late. Those responsible would be retired or transferred and “why dig up the past?” would make certain nothing happened.
I mean, for goodness sake, for years we were told that USSR GDP was just a tad behind USA GDP and that they were a serious, first world nation which we had to coexist with. After the USSR fell, we saw what a complete mess the whole thing was with there being a real chance that per-capita Russia wealth was lower in 1991 than it had been in 1913. Right now, Russia’s GDP is on par with South Korea’s…you know, that tiny half-country with no resources and 1/3 Russia’s population.
Fifty former intel people signed a letter stating they were certain Hunter’s laptop was disinformation. You think that was the first time they lied? And, once again, they knew it was a lie when they said it. They didn’t care. It got Team Pudding Brain over the hump and now that Biden’s people are in charge of Justice, nothing will actually happen…and by the time a GOPer gets in, it’ll likely be dropped for statute of limitations reasons and/or “it is time to move on”.
I guess all I can say here is trust nothing. Oh, you can find some facts – they are available. But don’t let anyone interpret those facts for you. And find out which facts they didn’t include. Think about it. Who went to the Moon 8 years after “go”? So how close, really, was that Space Race? Why didn’t we use the USSR’s desperate need to import American grain to force concessions from them? How in heck does a zillion tons of drugs cross our border? Once you start thinking, it really becomes a lot clearer of what has happened – a cabal of the corrupt and stupid have been running a self-perpetuating Oligarchy designed to bind the American people hand and foot. To make us scared. Unsure of ourselves. Unwilling to flex our real power…and all the while allowing the cabal to steal and abuse to their heart’s content.
Starting a few weeks ago and now really gathering steam is a coordinated effort in the MSM to smear the Supreme Court’s Conservative majority. I’m sure most of you have seen at least bits of it but what the stories all amount to is the portrayal of business as usual (the Liberal Justices and families do the same things – and apparently the sorts of activities have been common in the Court for ages with no complaints) in the most lurid terms possible. With the smears comes the Solution: pack the Court for the more far Left voices, enact “ethics” rules for the seemingly reasonable part of the Left.
What it all amounts to, though, is an attempt to de-legitimize the Court as preparation for its emasculation. To make it something of no account in American governance. At least until such time as it regains a Liberal majority, then it will all be Holy Writ again. But, of course, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube…once the Court is de-legitimized it doesn’t get legitimacy back. It either becomes utterly powerless or a mere rubber stamp for the powerful. In neither case do you retain an independent branch of government able to halt unconstitutional actions by the other two branches. To nutshell it, because the Court is no longer a happy hunting ground for the imposition of grossly unpopular Liberal policy, the Liberals propose to destroy the Court…and in the process destroy the Republic.
While most Liberals, themselves, are too brainless to understand what is happening, we on the Right must very much be aware and seek to stop it. But here’s the real problem: just as polls now show majorities are fearful of the climate change hoax, so will majorities eventually hold the Court to be corrupt – if the MSM repeats a lie often enough, it gets believed and thus affects votes. Essentially, the MSM – at the behest of the DNC – is going to lie to the American people until the people say we have to “do something” to fix the Court…and the “something” will not have any connection to the Constitution. And if the Court strikes down the “something” that will be seen as proof that the Court is corrupt. Our problem isn’t Liberal desire here so much as Liberal lies – especially Liberal MSM lies.
The Founders knew full well that there would be lies. They were all men of the world and bleakly aware of the follies of mankind. They wrote the First Amendment so ensure that the truth would also be spoken. That with everyone getting their say, the lies would more often than not be exposed and people would support the truth. But what the Founders never envisioned was 90% or more of the means of speaking being under the control of liars serving one Party. What we can’t do is pretend that the uniformity of lies from CNN/MSNBC/CBS/ABC/NPR/Washington Post/NY Times/etc, etc is something protected by the First Amendment. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Starting on the local and State level and going to federal if as and when we obtain trifecta power, we should enact a series of laws removing all protections from those who lie in the MSM. The Sullivan ruling – made by a Liberal Court to empower the MSM to lie with abandon – must be jettisoned. And I think that we’ve now got a Supreme Court which has a vested interest in seeing it jettisoned. We must not ever get the government in the business of policing speech…but we must restore the pre-Sullivan criteria that if you lie about someone in public, you have defamed them and are liable for civil penalty. Keep in mind that Sullivan held that actual malice had to be shown and it is almost impossible for a person lied about in the press to prove actual malice (who can see into another person’s mind?). What we must restore is a standard of falsehood: if you lie, you must pay. Don’t want to pay? Then don’t say in public anything you aren’t 100% certain is true. I don’t see this as a burden for anyone. And I mean, at all. Tell the truth or shut your trap.
If we can do this, then we will be able to push back against the MSM. Remember, they lie all the time about everything. If they don’t lie all the time about everything then the Democrats will lose in landslides all across the country – including in Blue States. It is lies which sustain the Left, nothing else. Take away the ability of people to lie without fear…and we win.
Jim Cramer says the banking crisis is over. So, I suggest you invest in canned goods and shotguns given Cramer’s record of always being wrong.
Tom Brady reportedly done with dating models. Yeah, Imma call that Fake News. I mean, why do rich, good looking guys date super models? Because they can.
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