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Maybe We Should Try Socialism?

Mark Noonan98 Comments

What? Has Mark lost his mind??? What the heck is going on here????

Relax. There’s a reason I wrote that. You might recall I’ve said that I work with a bunch of youngsters. I’m talking people who are 30 or more years younger them me. A great bunch of kids. Hard working. Intelligent. Nice. Very much products of modern America. Like most young people, they swung heavily towards the Democrats on Tuesday. They are the future of America.

And that is what one bright, young man said to me today: maybe we should try Socialism?

I, of course, said “no”. I didn’t, at the time, mention my preferred method of dealing with Socialists (it involves helicopters) but I did gently push back – but I also realized that I’m old. I do remember the USSR. I also have a fund of knowledge America’s youth simply does not have…nor was I primed from preschool to be receptive to collectivism by the public school system. In other words, the kids are thinking this because they don’t really know anything else.

Earlier today I noticed a post on X where it was noted that Capitalism giving you 2% annual growth is great – on a thirty year time line. You don’t really see the benefit…it shows up over time. But it shows up so gradually that even many of those who benefit don’t see the connection between a free market and higher wealth over time. And far less do young people see it. They lack basic knowledge. They lack experience. But they do see that buying a home is getting increasingly difficult. That cars are very expensive. That living the life I live (house w/pool, two cars, two vacations per year) is out of reach…and they can’t see that if they just continue to work steadily in a free market system, they’ll get it. They wonder why can’t they have it right now? The Socialists, after all, promise it right now.

And it isn’t just the young who have this sense that what we have isn’t working. Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024 were based entirely upon a conviction that is isn’t working. And the Democrats victory on Tuesday was also just that: a sense that it isn’t working. The policies which Trump has implemented, if carried through, will make America a free, prosperous and safe nation. But on a time scale of decades, not next week. Democrat’s promised stuff that will arrive next week. We promised nothing concrete – except Trump’s $5,000 which GOPers should have run with and hammered on 24/7 but they sort of left it out there…ridiculed and then ignored. Trump knows you have to tempt – you have to sell. You have to offer a reason.

Keep in mind that Florida bucked the blue wave – it was close but the GOP remains in total domination of that State. Why? Well, DeSantis made sure property tax relief was on the ballot. That got people to the polls – even if they were mad over Iran or gas prices, they wanted that property tax cut. DeSantis sold it – to put it bluntly, he bribed the Florida electorate to stick with the Republican Party. It was crude politics – and it worked like a charm.

Gas prices are too high. Food prices are too high. Mortgage rates are too high. In the immediate, there’s no much that can be done about that. Trump’s policies will eventually bring all that down. But we needed to offer something today. Trump’s $5,000.00 was the offer. State and local GOPers should have been making offers. Congressional GOPers should have sweetened the pot. How? Just off the top of my head today I came up with:

  1. Make 25% mortgage principal payments tax deductible.
  2. Make the purchase of American made cars tax deductible.
  3. Make the purchase of American made electronics tax deductible.

And then make all three retroactive back to January 1st, 2025. And you sell it on a program of “paying back our workers”. Think about it: we who work pay for the whole edifice of America. We pay for the military, the Learing Centers, the Islamo-Commie NGOs…all of it on our dime. The Democrats hardly pay for any of it – they “work” in the places we’re paying for. What do we get for it? Hardly anything at all. So let’s campaign on paying back those who paid in. And long term it isn’t inflationary – it isn’t printing money, it is just letting people keep their own money and the stimulus it would have in home building and American manufacturing would rapidly eclipse the temporary hit to revenues.

The people are not great thinkers pondering theories of government – they are highly distracted, low-attention-span regular folks who want peace and an easy life. They don’t want to have sticker shock every day. They don’t want to wonder if they can make it. And they want it now; not thirty years from now. Is this ideal? No. But if we want to preserve an America where speech is free, we’d better get these people to vote for us…and they won’t vote for us on a theory nor on a promise that decades from now things will be great.

As I’ve been saying for years, we have to think anew and act anew. The old GOP died when Trump rode down that escalator. MAGA is not committed to any particular party. To build a new GOP for freedom we’re going to have to convince people to go with us and stick with us for decades. We can’t win if we lose every other election. We need a generation of power – and we’re not going to get that generation by quoting Reagan to people born after he died. The core principle has to be America First. No more wars unless we’re directly attacked. No more sending money for other people to fight wars (this includes Israel – I am a stout defender of Israel as a Jewish State but if Israel wants to celebrate her centennial in 2048 they’re going to have to totally destroy their Islamist enemies in short order). The whole of economic policy is to make America secure and living here cheap. Clean up the crime. Keep the border closed. Push back against the weirdos. All of these policies were actually supported on Tuesday. It is just that a lot of people who support them also voted Democrat for political office because they were justifiably disgusted with a GOP not just being lousy, but actively sabotaging Trump. You will not talk these people into being with us – you have to show them the money; the benefit of being with us.

Or, lose. Our choice. We can stick to so-called principles and just keep losing until the Democrats pack the Court and they rule we’re illegal. I’d rather not have it come to that – especially as it would very likely spark a very violent Civil War. But we won’t avoid it by hoping people will suddenly realize that Adam Smith was right. We’ve got to make it cheap to buy gas in a peaceful America where people can just mindlessly go about their business not worrying about it. We have to make people vote for us and stay with us – because there’s no reason to change because its all going well. That is how Democrat political dominance happened…because from 1944 to 1974 things were just going well. No need to shake things up. Just coast along. It wasn’t a deep seated conviction that Keynesian economics were great. Ninety percent of the people who voted Democrat didn’t even know who Keynes was…but they kept voting Democrat because it was all ok. Free market economics is the way to go – but we can’t win talking about it. We just have to make it ok.

The Will of the People

Mark Noonan7 Comments

De Gaulle was brought back to power in France in 1958 because it was felt – almost certainly correctly – that the weak and faction-ridden government of the Fourth Republic was planning on scuttling French Algeria so they could concentrate on obtaining/retaining power/money in metropolitan France. The idea was that De Gaulle would have the prestige to form a government strong enough to complete the war in Algeria – which was functionally won but just needed a bit more push, though that bit of getting rid of the last of the Islamo-Communist fanatics was going to be nasty, bloody work. The people who wanted a powerful France crowned with victory worked a coup in Algeria as a preliminary to ushering De Gaulle back into power…and, it worked. The government of the Fourth Republic – mostly made up of Leftist cowards and sundry crooks – threw up the sponge and allowed De Gaulle to assume office and create the Fifth Republic.

And then De Gaulle proceeded, step by step, to scuttle French Algeria. Took him only two years to completely undo what French soldiers (and large numbers of Algerians) had fought and bled for over a four year period before De Gaulle came back into office. Essentially doing what France had by and large rejected doing in getting De Gaulle back into power. And in the process allowing the people who had wrecked France during the Fourth Republic to retain power and position within the French system. As a last insult, it was these people who would eventually force De Gaulle out and set France firmly on the path which led to Third World Islamo-Communist savages rioting in French cities.

Real will of the people stuff there, huh?

There is a real problem in the West of the people wanting certain things – and even at times massively voting in favor of certain things – and simply not getting them because the people in power simply refuse…and very often do the exact opposite of what the people want.

Enoch Powell gave his “Rivers of Blood” speech on April 20th, 1968 deploring mass Third World migration and it resulted in a surprise Tory win in the 1970 elections – the Tories and every other party in Britain remain committed to mass immigration of Third World barbarians.

Nixon never promised us the EPA nor the removal of our currency from the gold standard.

Can’t find a stump speech where Johnson said we’d go to full scale war in Vietnam shortly after the 1964 election.

Reagan didn’t run on the 1986 amnesty. Kinda came out of nowhere, as I recall.

Anyone remember “no new taxes”?

Did anything Bill Clinton ever say as a matter of policy ever actually happen?

W, to his credit, did run on Social Security reform in 2004 but the whole of the GOP leadership torpedoed the effort…even though they had won on the basis of W winning in 2004.

McCain famously ran his last campaign for Senate on repealing Obamacare and then became the decisive vote preventing repeal.

Don’t think Paul Ryan ran on a platform of going along with Democrat efforts to undermine Trump after the 2016 election.

Getting the picture? We just don’t get what we want. The will of the people is simply ignored when it can’t be manipulated into going along with the preconceived notions of the Elite.

Until Trump.

That is the secret of his success – not just promising things, but actually trying to do them. We really don’t want an open border. He closed it. We don’t want people stealing welfare money. He’s arresting thieves. We do want Iran removed as a problem. Trump is removing it. We don’t want to keep the Ukraine war going. Trump is trying to stop it. We do want cheap energy. Trump is doing everything he can on this score. On and on and on like that – he’s clearly trying to do what we elected him to do. And that is why he’s hated. Had he just blathered away at us telling us what we wanted to hear and then coming up with excuses for why he had to do the opposite, the Elite would have fallen in line behind him…that he’s doing what he said he’d do is what infuriates the Elite, and energizing the common people for Trump.

We’ll find out Tuesday just how well (or poorly!) this is working out. But what can’t be denied – no matter the particular results – is that Trump has given the people a taste of what its like to have a government responsive to the will of the people. There’s no going back from this – except by the means the Democrats are floating: packing the Court and abolishing the Senate. In other words, setting up a system where there are no checks upon government power and so they’ll just do whatever they want and arrest us if we complain. If the Democrats can’t get that – and it would take a trifecta to do – then they are doomed, and they know it. The people don’t want what they’re selling and they can’t successfully lie to a majority.

I hope the will of the people triumphs on Tuesday and into 2028 and beyond. People can be stupid and perverse and all manner of bad things…but in a system where government is limited, if you consult the broad mass of the people on their desires, you’ll usually find that they mostly want sensible things. Popular passions rarely go awry – the Elite would have us believe, of course, that if the people really rule we’ll destroy the world. But that is just a lie the Elite tell themselves to justify their theft and degeneracy. If we can get through these next two years without the Democrats winning total power, then they will never again win power as they are currently constituted. It is all on the line. It doesn’t end Tuesday win or lose – but it does end soon, and once and for all as far as the United States is concerned.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan40 Comments

How desperate are the Democrats? Well, they’re playing both sides of the anti-Semitism street. On one hand, they plant anti-Semitic tropes in alleged MAGA accounts trying to get MAGA to hate Israel/Jews, on the other hand they’re trying to claim that Vance is a closet anti-Semite. The purpose here is twofold:

  1. Get Jews to stop voting for an allegedly anti-Semitic GOP.
  2. Divide MAGA so that Trump can’t motivate a MAGA vote this November.

It is all very transparent and clearly the same pay masters are funding both sides of this – and it is because the Democrats have nothing they can campaign on. Oh, sure, they’re also trying to complain about “affordability” but this falls flat because we know that Democrat policies would just make food, housing, fuel and medical care even more expensive – and they’re also using money bags to manipulate things like the gasoline market to keep prices high even though there are simply no shortages of gasoline. But on matters of actual policy, the Democrats have nothing – they want the flood of illegals to resume. They want the criminals to get out of jail. They still want to hobble us with Green ideology. They want us to allow the Mullah regime to survive. They want to return to China flooding our market with low quality goods. It is a disease of the modern Western Ruling Class – it hates the West and it can’t retreat from this hatred without proving itself not merely wrong, but downright evil.

We’ll see how it works out – a money-fueled campaign of lies vs Trump’s ability to motivate a MAGA vote. I’m betting on Trump because, well, he’s simply miles ahead of his opponents and has been since he came down that escalator.

There is a debate about immigration and the phrase “heritage Americans”. My view is that we don’t need any immigrants, at all. There are 340 million people here. We’re the third most populous nation on Earth. We don’t lack talent. Every ounce of talent which the USA might need is already here and in abundance. It is simply a stupid lie to assert that some programmer from India is the only person who can fill an American position. If we are to have continuing immigration, then it has to be very selective. Only the truly highest quality people. Nobody is can possibly be a burden to the welfare system. People who are already fluent in English. People who come here with money already in hand. And then not very many of them. No more than 340,000 per year – and that’s of all types, refugees included (and refugees must be strictly limited to people who are actually at risk – Christians from Muslim lands, whites from South Africa, that sort of thing). I don’t know much about the so-called “heritage American” idea – but my family has been here since the early part of the 17th century. The overwhelming majority of us have ancestors going back a century or more here. This is our land. We are native here. We have a right to preserve our American culture – to not have it swamped by foreigners who don’t want to assimilate.

A related debate is over the intellectual levels of the various peoples of the world. I do believe this is also a Ruling Class op to get people to become racists and thus socially (and electorally) unacceptable. Don’t fall for it, guys. You know – things like the map of IQ by country showing some African countries with an average IQ of like 59. First off, I doubt anyone has done systematic tests of IQ with large enough samples in Africa for us to know. But the implication here is that black and brown people are inherently dumb – inferior. This is an old idea (actually first pushed by the man who became the great-grandfather of Nazism, de Gobineau) and it was drivel when first uttered and remains drivel today.

To be sure, when it was first expressed, it seemed to make some sense – because it was made by Europeans in the 19th century who looked around at the absolute global dominance of Europeans and tried to explain why it happened. They hit upon the fact of being European – of being white. Refined – because of Anglo-Saxon power in the British Empire – into a view that a supposed “Aryan race” is simply superior to all the others.

Sorry, slick, it wasn’t that at all: it was Christianity plus geography. It was Christianity which created the scientific method. Starting with the theological idea that God is the fountain of Reason, Christians embarked on the effort to understand God’s reasonable creation. We no longer just figured it was fate or divine caprice – there had to be a reason behind all events. We started to write things down. Apply logic. Observe. Experiment. We became adept at taking in new concepts – even if the thing wasn’t created by a Christian European (paper money, the compass, gunpowder, etc) and by experiment made them better, and made the foundation for other, later discoveries and inventions. And that is where geography steps in: just look at the map of Europe, especially the western part of it – just stuffed to the gills with natural harbors and navigable rivers. In Europe you could move goods and people around faster than anywhere else on Earth. And the ideas as well. It started to build up in the wake of the Crusades and exploded in the 15th century…inventions and discoveries started to pile up at an increasing pace. Change became the norm. People didn’t just sit back and go “thus it has always been” but started looking for new ways and means. By the 17th century Europe was at the intellectual forefront of the world….while the rest of the world continued to slumber in pagan or fatalistic torpor. By the 19th century mere landing parties of European soldiers could scatter Asian and African armies with ease. White skin had nothing to do with it. Being Germanic had nothing to do with it. Being part of a Christian Europe had all to do with it…and the real pity is that European dominance didn’t last long enough to break the shackles of tribalism, paganism and fatalism in the Third World…and that is why it is still such a depressingly impoverished and barbaric place.

They’re rebooting the Narnia movie series and Meryl Streep will voice Aslan because the creators of the reboot hate Lewis, the stories, the civilization they spring from and any decent impulse human beings have ever had.

I don’t know who Ed Sheeran is but I gather he is an entertainer of some sort and he decided that another performer – a rancid anti-Semite who would make Julius Streicher blush – wouldn’t be his opening act. Since then, the entire global entertainment Establishment has united to destroy him. This is how deeply the anti-Semitic virus has infected the West. It is disgusting and inhuman. You vote for a Democrat, you’re voting for this – this is what, at bottom, the DSA barbarians want.

Open Thread

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Democrats are stoutly asserting that the discovery of 6,000 illegal aliens registered to vote in New Jersey is proof that there is no fraud. No, seriously: that’s what they’re saying.

But do note: what they said was never happening at all is now admitted to be happening. They’re just absurdly claiming it doesn’t matter. This, by the way, is mere battle space prep – in the wake of Trump’s election integrity speech, they know what is coming…that is, they know DOJ has been looking into this and is likely about to blow the lid off it. This is an attempt to get out in front and implant into the public mind the concept that it doesn’t matter.

It is my contention that the deeper Blue the area, the less the reported votes are real. The deep Blue areas don’t really have elections…the powers that be determine who is going to win and just manufacture the vote totals to match. Think about what happened in LA – Pratt clearly came in second. Now, given how Democrat the city is, this still probably would have been a loss in November…but the Ruling Class in LA wasn’t going to take any chances, so they simply manufactured enough votes to get the Super Commie (who had tearfully conceded on election night!) into second place. And then the Super Commie just stopped campaigning. Bass – the Ruling’s Class’ stooge in office – is going to win by default. And, yes, there will be some votes actually cast in LA this November. And those votes will skew heavily Democrat. But the reported number will bear no relation to the number of people who actually bothered to vote. Nobody really votes in a One Party State except those who have a vested interest in that State. Everyone else gives it up as a useless exercise. Sure as heck the welfare bums won’t bother – and don’t ever bother. Used to be in olden days the Democrats would provide “walking around money” to get street thugs to push welfare bums to vote…these days, they just get them registered and then cast the votes for them. Much cheaper. Easier, too. And no chance at all that the welfare bums will vote the wrong way even by accident. Democrats know all this – and there is a very strong chance Trump is about to expose it all.

Trump continues his drumbeat against Communism. Naturally, his critics are saying he shouldn’t do that. We need to concentrate on “affordability”! Just ask any Democrat or RINO and they’ll tell you so! The American people don’t care about Communism…all they care about is grocery and gas prices. To be fair, we do care about that – we want very much for those prices to go down. But there is also only so much the President can do on that and anything effective takes time…like years of time. Reshoring our manufacturing, spurring American ranching and agriculture and getting the supply chain straightened out is going to take time. And it is already working: inflation is easing. But the existential threat to the United States isn’t $4.25 a gallon gasoline…it is the Communism. Trump is jumping on it because it is the actual issue of 2026…as much as immigration and “they/them” were the 2024 issues (and they remain the issues of 2026, but now Trump is tying them to their source…the Communist infection of the United States). Back in 2024 Trump was advised to stay away from immigration and “they/them” – he ignored those critics and went on to win. Will this concentration on Communism work in 2026? Can’t know. But I think it will.

You see, Democrats have been pushed ever further Left since Humphrey lost in 1968. Year by year, the people who rioted outside the DNC in 1968 have taken more control of the Party and allowed in increasingly Leftist screwballs. People like Carter, Clinton and Obama could mute it – cover it up with soaring rhetoric which hid the inner Maoist. But now there’s no hiding it…its out there, in the open, and being touted for the 2028 nominee. This will probably be Harris, again, because of all the insane people running, she’s the black woman and so will scoop up sufficient early wins to make her nomination a foregone conclusion…and the Democrat leaders will be relieved because if it isn’t her, its AOC or someone even more insane. The Democrats are committed to ending ICE (that is, ending all immigration enforcement), allowing criminals to run free, keeping up the drumbeat for “they/them”…every last lunatic Leftist position is endorsed and advanced. Only a few Democrats (most notably Fetterman) are even mildly objecting to it. The rest are either openly embracing it or keeping silent, lest they be condemned and removed via a far Left primary challenger. What Trump is going to do between now and November is merely point this out – to make this a national election and a referendum on Trump/MAGA. It is the path to victory if there is one at all – trying to hide things and go with the flow is the sure path to defeat. Victory comes with ruthlessly pointing out how insane the Democrats are…and tying the most lunatic Leftist around the necks of every Democrat everywhere.

We continue to whack Iran – they managed to get four of our own, and Trump says they’re going to pay heavily for that. This is what we must do. Eventually we will get to the point where even the most insane Islamist will want to call it quits. Remember, all the drawn-out wars we’ve had since WWII were drawn out defeats because we never seriously went after our enemies. We let them off the hook. We essentially told them that if they just endure for a bit, we’d quit. No more of that – failure to obey our orders means it is just going to get hideously worse for you and even if you can get a few of our along the way, we’re going to get far more of you.

Battling the Insane Barbarians

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There is a video out there where a black woman in Los Angeles is asked why she’s voting for Bass. The answer: because she’s black. We’re at that level of third world tribal idiocy. Nothing in that city is functional…the whole thing is dying. “But I’m voting black because I’m black”…even though, if successful, it’ll mean a worse life for that voter. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t think. She’s a barbarian…a barbarian carefully curated by our Ruling Class to do just that: vote for the tribe no matter what.

Isn’t the first time this has happened in the modern world – Lenin did it in Russia and Hitler did it in Germany. Get people to become savages and then tell them that the only thing that matters is the tribe…for Lenin is was class. For Hitler, it was race. Here in America it is the upper class fostering the barbarism so it is all about race (or gender, yadda, yadda, yadda). We’ve got upper class white people rioting in front of ICE facilities in favor of foreign criminals because the Ruling Class says the criminals are part of the tribe. It was sad, now it is simply disgusting.

We still have to tread a little carefully here. We are winning, but we have not won and a misstep could convince the mushy middle to opt for the barbarians. Those rioters at ICE should be hit with a water cannon, clubbed senseless and then put on trial…resulting in ten years for each of them. But the power for that isn’t there – it isn’t that we’re worried about what they’ll call us (we don’t care what they call us) but that to get what we want will take time…Trump Time. Vance Time. A MAGA Congress. The ability to pass laws and ensure they are enforced…a termination of the ability of federal district judges to interfere in the Executive Branch (they have no such power – there is nothing in the Constitution which says a district judge can enter an injunction against the Executive Branch). But once we do win, then we really have to set to work.

We’re dealing with idiots – and we’ll have to treat them like the idiots they are. They’re right now boosting Talarico as some sort of moderate candidate…the man is insane. But no more insane than anyone else on the Left. He’s better at hiding in than some, but his worldview is built upon a series of very stupid and obvious lies – and if he, and they, get their way then civilization dies…in a horror of barbarism combined with twisted application of science. Once we do win, we have to start thinking in terms of breaking up the Blue States, disenfranchising the Blue voters and setting guardrails in place which will make it essentially illegal to enact Leftist policy. No more getting lunatic policy by calling it the Everyone Gets a Puppy Act. Policies which are insane and based upon lies must be banned.

In the end, it is a question of whether we’ll protect the normal, human elements of life…family, faith, property. Cleanliness. Manliness. Femininity. Order. Peace and quiet. The Left wants all of that gone – they want us living in filth, fighting each other over the scraps accompanied by a cacophony of simian shrieks. No loyalty. No honor. Nothing beautiful or true. A truly Orwellian nightmare.

We can’t win this by being nice. In fact, we’re going to have to get mean – pitiless, in fact. Watch their tears flow and still take things away from them, and then punish them for crying. For weeping over the fact that they are no longer allowed to destroy. We have to turn insane barbarians into sane citizens and this won’t come easy. Or quick. It’ll take a couple generations of get rid of the Leftist poison…to get to a point where nobody would dream of voting for someone based on their skin color or gender. People who wouldn’t dream of getting paid for not working. Who won’t tolerate dirty streets. Who abhor wastrels. Sane people. Civilized people – that is what we have to make.

Idiots At It Again

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Yesterday as Trump started indicating there might be a deal with Iran, social media was flooded with accounts saying we were surrendering to Iran – giving them billions, allowing them to control Hormuz, paying them reparations, withdrawing all US forces from the Middle East…on and on and on like that. This was then seconded by a whole chorus of voices from the anti-Trump Right.

And it was all nonsense – none of it came from Team Trump. It was all clearly an op. Attempting to set a Narrative of Trump being defeated. The sources, from what I can tell, were Iranian revolutionary guard accounts and, of course, American and global Leftist accounts. The uniformity of the information on the alleged deal shows that they were talking points cooked up in advance (coordinated between Democrats and the Mullahs?). Once a hint that a deal might be possible, out the memo went…and the barking seals went with it. We expect this from the Left…but it was infuriating to see it from the Right. And not just the deranged, TDS right. You’d think by now they would have learned – that Trump isn’t an idiot, he’s working from a plan and he’s not out to scuttle the USA.

Now that some real details are starting to emerge, we can see the shape of what Trump wants to accomplish: complete termination of Iran’s nuclear program along with freedom of navigation through Hormuz. The crux of it seems to be that Iran doesn’t get anything until those two things are accomplished (this would include the US taking possession of Iran’s enriched uranium). But even now, we still don’t know – there has been no official word. But this does make sense.

You might ask: what about regime change? Well, what about it? During the bombing the Air Force and the IDF were targeting mullah security goons…they were hiding under bridges and such to keep out of sight of our aircraft. The entire leadership of the regime was dead or in hiding. This was the moment, guys. If the Iranians wanted to be free, it was theirs for the taking. Sure, the mullah’s goons would have fought…they’d have to, because any successor regime is going to kill them. But freedom must be fought for and the Iranians had the perfect opportunity. Might have cost them some thousands of lives, but that would be it and it would all be over. The Iranian people remained in hiding. They’d take a video of a bomb explosion. Cheer it. And then go back inside…no risk taking. At least, not by anywhere near enough Iranians to matter. This is the Iranians choice – to be cowards. As far as I’m concerned, they just voted in overwhelming numbers for the mullahs. Exile groups were putting up pictures of the Iranian crown prince and saying now was the time…but I guess in all the press of events they forgot to sneak into Iran and actually fight the mullahs. I didn’t care much about the Iranian people before…care absolutely nothing about them, now. They were clearly waiting for an American army to show up and liberate them…after which they would, of course, compete with each other to be more anti-American than the other guy…probably start taking shots at our troops to prove how anti-American they are. No, thanks.

And I’m not even particularly concerned about navigation through Hormuz…as long as American-flagged ships aren’t molested, I now don’t care at all. You think of that the Indian ship which went into a panic over some goon on the Iranian coast firing an AK-47 at it…bullets ain’t gonna stop a 400,000 ton tanker. Harmlessly bounce off the side. If you’re worried about it, hire some mercenaries to man some .50 caliber machine guns aboard the tanker: out in international waters you can kill anyone attacking you with impunity. But the Indian ship ran away…and the rest of the world’s merchant fleet also chickened out, even though it is clear that the mullahs have no capacity to actually impede navigation. The world gets its oil from there, not us. If you’re such a coward that you won’t cruise past some guys taking pot shots at you, then that is a you problem, not an American problem.

I’m rather tired of the world – bunch of greedy, lying cowards. I do have a little respect for the Ukrainians these days as they’ve stood up to Russia. The Israelis get my respect, as do the Japanese. Heck, even the Chinese get a measure of it. Rest of the world? I hold it in utter contempt. The other day some Indian tourists defaced some ancient Native carvings here in the USA…get the danged foreigners out of my country – every last one of them. They don’t add any value to the USA. And if the world burns down then as long as our Navy and Air Force are second to none, we won’t catch fire. I’m honestly of the opinion that if the world wants our help, then they’re going to have to pay us for it – gold, raw materials, territorial concessions. You’re having a civil war and want us to end it? Sure. We’re taking your primary export port. Kicking all of your nationals out of it. Making it American territory. Now you have to export through us. Forever. And you can’t immigrate to US territory. Ever. So on like that.

And I’m tired of the traitors in our midst, as well – the people (and includes people on the Right) who are willing to sell us out just so they don’t have to admit they were wrong about anything. That is really the crux of it – a pig headed unwillingness to merely at error. The rest of us have – we on the MAGA side are repentant and humble. We know we participated in helping to screw everything up. We were wrong about a lot of things. Sometimes honestly wrong in that we didn’t realize we had been deceived, but still wrong…and when you find your error, the only thing to do is own up to it and fix the problem. Not whine about “norms” and get all pissy that the person you hate turned out to be right.

Open Thread

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Bill Cassidy is out – didn’t even make it to the runoff; came in third, so two other GOPers will vie for Cassidy’s seat this November.

The Usual Suspects are out there deploring this – “just because he wasn’t loyal to Trump!”. News flash: it wasn’t Trump who overwhelmingly voted Cassidy into history’s dust bin. It was the people of Louisiana. Seventy three percent of primary voters voted against Cassidy. That is a complete rejection not by Trump, but by the people.

The proximate cause, of course, was Cassidy voting to impeach Trump in 2021 – voting to do so based on what was a transparent Deep State op on January 6th. In other words, Cassidy wasn’t standing for Law … he was merely cooperating with a Dem op. And that is why he was punished. The GOP base – increasingly MAGA – is fed up with Republicans who help Democrats. It wasn’t the actual vote…it was why he voted like that.

The bottom line is that we’ll no longer tolerate weak-kneed Democrats in GOP clothing…people who only run as Republicans because that is the only way to power in their State or district. If you are to take GOP votes, we want a GOP result. Nobody has to jump on a grenade for Trump. You can be in opposition to this or that Trump policy. Plenty of GOPers are and Trump isn’t saying a word against them…because they aren’t cooperating with Dem ops. Trump doesn’t mind fair give and take – and he knows that the battle is some times knee to groin. He’s ok with that. In fact, he seems to enjoy that. But don’t backstab…don’t get out there repeating Democrat talking points – which are always lies.

The result also shows that MAGA is vibrant – the two advancing are, from what I can tell, MAGA and More MAGA, at least in rhetoric. The base is still with Trump. And if Trump and the MAGA GOP can get these people to show up in November, the result will be amazing. Reminder: all models are based upon the Trump 2024 voter not showing up. Could it end that way? Sure. But Trump and the GOP have a billion dollars in hand to remind these people how important it is to vote.

In 1859, the State of California passed the Pico Act – named after Andres Pico who led the effort. What did it do? Per the Constitution of the United States, it split California into two States – that is, with the consent of the State in question. This Act has never been repealed – it is still on the books in California. It was never completed because the Secession Crisis came on right afterwards and there simply wasn’t any time or desire to deal with it. Post Civil War, it was simply forgotten. But it is a law – and it is still in force. And Trump could do the funniest thing ever by sending the Pico Act back to Congress for their vote on it.

Iran might have thought Trump had forgot about them, but Trump hasn’t – earlier today he issued another warning to them: make a deal or else.

Robert Stacy McCain notes that a good starting point in discussing the odd ideas out there is to check, as it were, the browsing history of their advocates.

Looks like what we all suspected was correct: Omar knew all about the corruption. We need to indict, convict, denaturalize and deport this foreign agent.

Reality Emerges

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Watched Trump and King Chuck give their speeches before the State dinner – Trump was in good form, clearly enjoying himself. And Charles also seemed pleased as punch. This ultimately stems from both men simply knowing who they are and further knowing that nobody can take it away from them. I have many disagreements with Charles and I’m horrified at his going along with Islamists in the UK…but he has that self-confidence which is supposed to be the supreme mark of the gentleman. Trump has it, too. It is a crucial aspect of leadership – knowing who you are. Not having to pretend and not wanting to, either. People like Biden and Clinton have faked it their whole lives. Obama, too. They have to say the enormous lies because it is their way of establishing dominance…to lie to our faces and defy us to do anything about it. Charles may be wrong about things – heck, Trump may be wrong about things – but they’re going to say what they want to say and not try to bamboozle us. It seems clear that Charles and Trump get along – because they recognize each other.

And that is the way it is supposed to be. We will not all agree. Not ever. At least, not this side of every knee bending and every tongue confessing that Jesus is Lord. But we’re supposed to meet each other on the level. Even war with each other on the level. That is what is really missing in modern society – it is so stuffed with cowards and cheats who lie to cover up that the whole world stinks. Everything is a crisis. Nothing gets solved because the liars and cheats won’t let us – fearful that if we fix things, we’ll start to ask why the liars and cheats are living so well.

But that is changing. Sure, Comey’s indictment might not lead to any jail time – but it is an indictment. It is a statement that a lying weasel is just that – and should be treated as such. We’re going after the fraudsters. We’re exposing the liars. We’re bringing reality back…and in reality, those who are truly worthwhile start to emerge, as from the shadows..and at times in quite terrifying forms because we’re simply so unused to it.

You think about the great leaders of the past – Caesar, Napoleon, Lincoln and Bismarck…towering figures who dwarfed all those around them. But, also, not terrifying because they rose out of reality. Napoleon beat Francis II time and time again…but never once did Francis lose his nerve or throw in the towel…he bided his time, built his army, forged his alliances and went to work with a will when the time came. Because Francis was as real as Napoleon. Grant as real as Lincoln. But who is as real as Trump? Vance. Hegseth. Rubio. But keep in mind these men, too, were initially dismayed by Trump…they, too, had bought the fraud that to be great was to be to at least some degree a liar and a cheat…all the liars and cheats said so. But under Trump’s auspices, these men – and many others – have come to firm ground, and they are becoming real, too. All of us who haven’t gone insane with TDS are simply better at it than we were pre-Trump. Less afraid to speak. More willing to risk. Quickly penetrating the fraud. We might disagree with each other. We might be mistaken. Even gravely so. But we’re all real – we’re all thinking and doing and trying to get to the truth as best we can.

I, for one, am glad go be in the real world.

Crucial Times are Coming

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The Democrats have placed their bet on people hating Trump in sufficient numbers to get them back into power – in their world, what is on the news is real. The protests are real. The polls are real. The endless articles and talking heads saying that Trump is doomed and MAGA is dead are real.

Could they be right?

Infinite universe: anything is possible.

But now that SPLC has been indicted for essentially funding the KKK for years, we really do see that the opposition is manufactured on all levels. We know the votes are fake – the Democrats only have significant national power because they have One Party control over quite a lot of America. Forty percent of New England voted for the GOP in the 2024 House elections and yet not one of New England’s 21 House members are GOP. Any sort of fair and honest system and the GOP should have six to eight of those seats. We got thirty nine percent of the House vote in California but only seventeen percent of the House seats. Should have 20. Think of that – Democrat corrupt politics have denied us at least twenty six seats just in those two States. Sure, there are some Red States which might have got a few more Democrats in but the GOP hasn’t been nearly as ruthless in gerrymandering as the Democrats plus we don’t cheat. That is, we don’t find votes weeks after election day to make sure our guy gets in. Democrat cheating over 2022 and 2024 probably cost is four or five Senate seats as well. And with the fake votes giving Democrats power they have not earned so, too, fake protests against us. All ginned up via Democrat money to give the appearance of actual opposition. Same with the lawsuits – Democrats under Obama and Biden stuffed the federal courts with rank partisans of the worst sort; people who know their job is to rule in favor of Democrats no matter how absurd and illegal the argument is. Just do it. Don’t care. You’ll be protected.

For many years this fraud has given the Democrats power and they are confident it will continue to do so. But here’s the real weakness of the One Party State – it moves itself into increasing insanity. Without any check on power, the most stupidly extreme rule the roost. The Democrats are expecting a snap-back in November because people hate Trump. But if people don’t hate Trump – at least, not in sufficient numbers – then the driver of the vote will be how insanely stupid the Democrats are. Illegals. Criminals. Welfare and Medicaid corruption. They’re defending all of this – and promising a Day One impeachment of Trump. Do the American people want to vote for a two year impeachment drama in DC? We’re going to find out – but my expectation is that they’ll reject it. Especially as Trump and the GOP are floating on money while the Democrats are broke. Not for nothing was Trump’s first target NGO funding…because he knew that Democrat donors are also fake. It was all just kickbacks…get the grant, kick back a percentage of it to the DNC. The grants have dried up and so has Democrat money. And that means as we get into September Democrat insanity will be playing on a loop on TV while the Democrats simply don’t have enough money to counter it.

Don’t get me wrong – they do still loom up powerful in front of us. Trump still doesn’t have 100% control over all federal agencies…Democrat moles plus lawfare have curbed Trump’s ability to gain control of the Executive power which is solely vested in him as President. Every national institution is still dead set against us. We still have RINOs sabotaging us…and attention-hound Righties willing to sell us out for a few Democrat dollars. Against all of this is Trump and MAGA. Are we strong enough? We know Trump is, but are we? Will we let the Democrat pysop get to us? Depress us? Convince us to stay home? We’ll find that out, too.

2026 and 2028 will be the crucial elections in the life of America. If we can hang on to Congressional power in 2026 and get Vance or just about any other GOPer in for 2028, then we’re going to win all down the line. The Democrats will have less and less money. More and more criminal investigations will grind forward. More and more DNC moles in the Executive branch will be booted. We’ll reach the tipping point probably in 2030 as the census comes in and the shift of House and Electoral College power to the GOP will start a stampede for the exits on those who support the Democrats. The Democrats won’t be the Establishment any longer. We will be. And one thing Establishment people demand is to be part of the game…they’ll make their peace with us and turn with fury and scorn upon those they backed the day before. And even though most Republicans don’t know this – and most Democrats don’t, either – the Democrat leaders do. Oh, they know. They know how only corruption keeps them in power. That the longer MAGA remains in control the more of their scam will be revealed. They know they are doomed if they don’t win it all by 2028 – they need a trifecta in order to undo Trump’s legacy, pack the Court and simply rule being American unconstitutional. Forever. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent this.

Personally, I think we’re going to win – that there is just enough patriotism left in America to prevent us from falling into the death spiral of Europe and Canada.

All Patriots are Happy

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I know it is still Easter but this is getting to me a bit and I want to write about it now.

Something I posted on X earlier:

Reminder: Bill Clinton left our boys hanging in Somalia.

Obama left them hanging in Libya.

Biden left them hanging in Afghanistan.

There isn’t a foul enough word to describe a CinC who does that.

As of this moment its got 1,000 reposts, 5,000 likes and nearly 31,000 views. That’s in under 5 hours and, keep in mind, I’m a minor account on X. Not an “influencer”! So, I struck a real nerve here. There are Lefties and Never Trumpers commenting – all coming in with stupid lies. So, a second nerve was struck.

The first nerve is that Americans – actual, patriotic Americans – are tired or losing. We’re tired of our boys and girls going into harms way and being hung out to dry…left to die, allowed to be killed…and if they do manage to win, being hauled up on war crimes charges. The worst of the three events I posted was the infamous “black hawk down” incident. Keep in mind that was a carefully planned event by our enemies. They were looking for exactly that – shoot down one of our ‘copters so they could jump up and down on it and drag American bodies through the streets. In the savage mind, that is victory. Our response should have been to inflict punitive damage on the city and people of Mogadishu. Let them know that while they might at times get a lucky shot in, the response by us is so horrific that it isn’t worth it.

Instead, Clinton pulled the plug – not just giving the enemy a propaganda victory, but an actual victory. That is what set the stage for all which followed. Reminder: we had just won the Gulf War in 100 hours of ground combat. The Elder Bush, IMO, wrecked that a bit by not compelling the Iraqi army to unconditionally surrender but there was still no doubt in the global mind: going toe to toe with us just kept graves registration busy. Mogadishu changed all that – it inserted into the global mind the concept that if you kill some Americans and make it difficult, we’ll cut and run. The whole plan that Saddam had in 2003 was to have his forces fade into the crowd and then create a score of Mogadishus until we quit. The Younger Bush was a bit more stern in that he wouldn’t just bug out like Clinton did, but he also went along with the “don’t hit them too hard” concept which had been prevalent in American military thought since Korea. This lead to the morass, the collapse of Bush’s support…and the ushering in of Obama who not only showed he’d cut and run, but he’d actually bend over backwards to help our enemies grow stronger.

Americans aren’t afraid of casualties – we’re just tired of forever wars ending in defeat. We will pay any price and bear any burden…but only if it gets us somewhere. Keep in mind that we won’t always be able to do what we did yesterday – devote massive resources to get one man out. Sometimes the exigencies of combat will prevent us from doing that. But by doing it – and whacking the heck out of the Mullah’s goons in the process – Trump let the world know that you won’t Mogadishu us into running away. That when Trump says we’re fighting to win, then we are, indeed, fighting to win.

And that is the other nerve – the Left and Never Trump nerve. Make no mistake about it, if they believe in any sort of a god, they were praying all day for our man to be killed or – even better – captured. They were hoping for an American defeat. For our humiliation. For one our sons to be paraded around like a trophy – alive or dead. And if alive, tortured until he agreed to make an anti-Trump statement on TV. Don’t get into an idea that they wanted a good outcome for America…they wanted a bad outcome for America. And, sure, a lot of it is animus towards Trump but keep in mind why they really hate him: he’s a brash, American patriot. That is the key to understand TDS…it is actually ADS. America Derangement Syndrome. A lot of people have for so long supped on garbage lies that they really think that America should be defeated. Should be humiliated. They hate my comment because the stark contrast between Trump’s muscular Americanism and the cowardly retreats of their heroes infuriates them. It punctures their bubble. It lets them know that we know they’re the bad guys in all this…and that is something they can’t stand; they want to be the good guys…but they can’t be. Not without repentance and admission of error…something no Lefty or Never Trump will ever do (except in rare instances).

The divide is really between Patriot and Traitor. Not that Trump symbolizes America – you can hate Trump and remain a Patriot – but that what Trump is doing, rebuilding American greatness, is something all Patriots support, even if they take exception to the methods Trump uses. The Left and Never Trump don’t just hate Trump, they hate America. They want an America hollowed out, drug addicted, flooded with illegals and at the beck and call of a Global Elite which is increasingly enthralled to Chinese Communists and Islamists. They want us depressed, impoverished, weak and frightened. They believe the world is a better place when America is degraded…and they hate Trump for trying to restore American greatness because they hate American greatness.

We are winning a decisive victory over the Mullahs – their regime will soon be no more. The Gulf States, faced with Mullah insanity, are finally lining up with us. For all the money we give to Israel, it is a pittance compared to what we give to NATO, and in Israel we have brothers and sisters in arms who are every bit as good as America’s warriors. The world is learning the lesson forgotten…the lesson of World War Two: we’re not just a Great Power, we’re the only true Great Power. As long as we are patriotic and lead by Patriots, we can’t be defeated. Ever. By Anyone. We will leave the Traitors on the ash heap of history. We will Make America Great Again…and the world peaceful and prosperous as we do it.