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Open Thread

Mark Noonan10 Comments

Apparently at UC San Diego something like 130 students were asked this math question: 7+2 = 6+___. And twenty five percent of them couldn’t answer it.

That is third grade math, tops. Another education thing I saw recently was a professor who’s class was upset because he was using letters for mathematical equations and the kids were furious that he expected them to know there are twenty six letters in the alphabet.

Turns out when Sir Edward Grey said the lights were going out in Europe in 1914 he was dead right – the only real reason I can think we’re here is so many of the very best people in the West were killed in WWI that we were left with nothing but the dregs…who have, step by step, brought the West down to their level. It is worse in Europe – where the dying was must greater – than in the USA, but everywhere in the West the 20th century saw the most intelligent, physically fit and bravest sacrificed…and as time went on, sacrificed by ever stupider people.

Always good to keep in mind that to be educated 125 years ago meant you knew Latin and Greek. That you had a firm grounding in math, history, law, theology, philosophy and geography, no matter what sort of degree you were aiming at. And also good to keep in mind that money didn’t keep you out of college – sure, the rich kids got in because daddy paid, but anyone who had the intellectual chops for college could get in. Sure, it was difficult to pass the exams…sure you probably had to work to earn money in addition to your scholarship…sure, you lived poor and struggled to keep going. But if you had the grit plus brains, you got the degree…and entered into a world of rare and honored achievement. To be an educated man or woman in 1900 placed you in an elite. A class of people who were not only intelligent, but knowledgeable, hard working and disciplined. Since WWI, all of that has been dispensed and getting a degree is really no more than sitting there and waiting to get it. And now the kids can’t add or read.

Democrats are in massive psy-op mode, again. The bottom line is that they want us talking about anything but their support for illegals, criminals and boys in girls sports (positions their insane base will not let them retreat from). This is why they are now bringing up Epstein as if it had anything to do with Trump. They don’t care that every scrap of evidence indicates that Trump never used Epstein’s services and that the two men hated each other – they’ll just lie and say up is down not really with the intent to convince, but just to get us talking about it. Meanwhile, the GOP is on track to flip voter registration in North Carolina red by 2026…and Pennsylvania by 2028. And even our loss in New Jersey this month is masking a distinct trend in favor of the GOP in that State. Oh, and Nevada is a Red State – so Red that both our Democrat Senators voted to end the shutdown.

The real key is to understand that whatever it is the Democrats and MSM (BIRM) are talking about is mere distraction. Don’t get distracted.

Marjorie Green has decided to join a long list of people who decided to go to war against Trump…and she’s destroying herself in the process. Lets face it, we all had questions about her from the start but as long as she was MAGA, ok. But now that she’s going on the View to attack Trump, that pretty much dispenses with her. Whatever she started out to do, she’s chosen the path of TDS grifter. So be it – and so long.

Michelle Obama is a bitter and exceptionally ignorant woman – she’s been gifted wealth unimaginable (and entirely unearned by her) from a nation she despises…and now she’s out on some book tour telling us how horrible we all are. She is the modern Ruling Class writ large…no ability, no accomplishment, massive sense of entitlement combined with disgusting bigotry. The bad news is she and her husband are only in their 60’s and so the USA has decades left of hearing these two creeps whine about America.

Fight, Fight, Fight!

Mark Noonan29 Comments

Some people are in a bad way today and it got me thinking of a passage in the upcoming (promise!) Book X of the Mirrors series:


It is never time to be depressed – get out there and, well live. And if that gets us a bullet in our brain, then at least we didn’t crawl.

One of the smartest people I follow in X has pointed out that if we dispense with the filibuster we’ll soon find ourselves in a cold civil war…which may then become hot. And, he’s right. There is a dreadful risk in such a thing but there’s dreadful risk in all action, and even inaction is fraught with danger. We’re rather on the knife edge here.

You see, the Democrats just elected in Virginia a man who has fantasized about killing Republican children. The Democrat leaders did not distance themselves from the man. This indicates two things, both bad:

  1. The Democrat base is horrifically violent and ready to kill.
  2. The Democrat base is incapable of the basic due diligence of being a citizen.

Whether any particular Democrat want us dead or is simply very stupid it all works out the same…because those who want us dead count on the votes of the stupid for power. The whole Democrat edifice is a standing threat to our lives, our fortune and our and sacred honor. We have to start behaving accordingly. And, actually, Trump has – certainly since Butler. The thought you might be killed any moment by these lunatics does concentrate the mind wonderfully. But at the moment most of us don’t feel like we’re in the crosshairs so our minds aren’t as concentrated as Trump’s. But we are in the crosshairs. It is time to concentrate.

If we dispensed with the filibuster we would have at least 14 months in which to enact laws without any hindrance by Democrats. We could do quite a lot which would gut their power. Trump already is, but if you do it legislatively then it is a very deadly blow. And, sure, if the Democrats win a trifecta before the Left is destroyed this will go badly for us…but if the Democrats get a trifecta and we’ve never struck a blow, then that just goes worse for us. Might as well do what we can.

I am reminded that the anti-Communist forces in Russia in 1917 didn’t lift a finger to save the Provisional Government. They all pinned their hopes on this, that or the other thing happening after that government was gone. But the trouble was that once Lenin kicked out the Provisional Government and assumed power he had the ultimate levers of power in his hands. The time to stop Lenin wasn’t after his October coup, but before. Even if that meant a few norms were tossed aside. Nothing that could have happened in getting rid of Lenin was worse than what Lenin was going to be. And, so, like that, nothing we do to hit the Democrats is worse than what they’ll do if we don’t hit them.

So, hit them.

And be happy about it – be a happy warrior. Our goal in life is to have a tenured Harvard professor struggling to make ends meet bagging our groceries. To bring down the Ruling Class. To overturn the system. To have a revolution. They must lose – and lose, in the end, everything. No power. No money. No position. No prestige. Ridiculous, useless relics of a dead past that will never return. We do that, first and foremost, by taking away their access to government money.

Not for nothing did a Democrat Senator float the idea of funding the government merely on Trump’s promise that he won’t fire any more government employees. It is that crucial to them. It can’t be overstated how utterly dependent the Democrats are upon essentially laundering taxpayer money into DNC coffers. How much they depend on their ability to get useless people well paid government sinecures. How if they don’t have access to money, nobody will pay any attention to them. Their whole existence since the 1930’s has been based on passing out government cash. And this is our best chance to take that way – we have the trifecta. If we don’t have to get 60 Senate votes to cut spending…if we only have to get 50 plus Vance, we can gut the Deep State.

And, sure, with a risk that the Democrats – facing total destruction – will provoke a violent civil war. That is always in the cards with them – especially now after they’ve been fed for ten years on the lie that Trump is Hitler and they are the Brave Resistance. These lunatics are already killing based upon lies…won’t take a lot more to get them killing in droves. But it will go better for us, should it come to blows, if we’ve already cut off the funds. If they are on the outside trying to overthrow, rather than on the inside pretending they are defending America.

So, let’s do it. Risks and all! Better to have it out right now rather than desperately trying to undo things after a future far Left Democrat victory at the polls (however engineered). My bet is that the Democrats simply don’t have a lot of people willing to kill for them – that is, not enough to pose an actual threat to a heavily armed MAGA population. That even if they try violence, it will end badly for them and pretty quickly. But we’ve also got the hope that if we just cut off the funds, this all ends…the Left vanishes in a puff of intersectional smoke…and we all look back and wonder how those people ever were in power.

United We Must Stand

Mark Noonan11 Comments

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

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

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

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

We will not fall for it.

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

We avoid endless wars because they give us nothing.

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

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

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

Open Thread

Mark Noonan12 Comments

You know how it went:

“Time to award the Peace Prize!”

“Cool, who we got?”

“Well, we want to award it to Hamas but the bodies ain’t cold yet.”

“Guess we gotta give it to Trump, then. Darn it!”

“Wait! There’s this lady in Venezuela: María Corina Machado! She’s Latina, South American. You know: Trump hates them! We’ll give it to her!”

“Genius!”

(((And then what happened?)))

They just don’t understand – not anything. I pointed out that shortly after Butler, I saw a video of some kids in the middle of nowhere Africa reenacting the event with Trump as the super macho man…Trump has been a social phenomena for a while…he became a popular hero after Butler. You just can’t get around the fact that the man was shot at, got back up while bleeding and shouted, “Fight!, Fight!, FIGHT!”. He’s certified heroic…and people do respond to such men (and women).

Sure, the entire Global Establishment still hates him and despises his supporters…but if you look around the world today, you can see that Establishment is hanging on by the skin of it’s teeth. Nobody likes it. If more populations were armed like Americans, they’d already be engaged in bloody revolutions. Trump stands against them all – and even if you have this or that exception to what he does or how he does it, you know the choice: it is either Trump or the grifting, slave-trafficking, war-mongering, anti-human scum of the Establishment.

It isn’t a difficult choice.

Bari Wiess is fairly liberal lady and she’s being placed in charge of CBS news…and the MSM is having a meltdown. Why? Well, you see, Bari has this bizarre idea that its ok to hold Democrats to account.

And it is bizarre – and I remember reading the articles in the 1980’s where the Left was insisting that there wasn’t a “both sides” to issues and that everyone had to follow the Leftwing Party Line…and the MSM dutifully followed. But now nobody believes it and its shedding audience and news divisions – never money makers – are now bleeding networks dry. So, it is get rid of news, or get someone in there who might be able to draw an audience. Wiess is the MSM’s last chance…if she can merely make it 25% even handed (just one fourth of the time!) it’ll be saved…if not, then its over.

Trump’s peace deal in on track in Gaza – with Hamas being just what it is: savages. There’s video of them rounding up Gazans suspected of disloyalty and summarily executing them. I do hope the deal holds…not because I think it’ll bring real peace, but because there’s no point in continuing this round any longer. Israel had their 90 day window after 10/7 to kill Hamas. They didn’t do it. Whatever deal is made, Hamas will want to eventually attack again. They can’t do otherwise – their whole existence, their justification for power, is killing Jews. Any deal which concedes a right of Jews to live – anywhere – makes Hamas pointless. But, a peace deal now at least stops the current battle…and with the benefit of Hamas being greatly degraded in power (might be ten or fifteen years before they become a serious threat again). And the end of this does allow more Arab States to come to terms with Israel…and that, long term, is the best way to undercut Islamism…if Jews are visiting a resort in Dubai it is hard to justifying firing a rocket from Gaza.

Team Trump has commenced the Reductions in Force necessitated by the Democrats shutdown. I’m starting to think that Trump is one of the very few people in DC who understand how American government works. In this case, if the money isn’t appropriated by Congress, then the thing simply doesn’t exist. If there isn’t an appropriation for your job, you don’t have a job. Previously Presidents have pretended to furlough the workers and made sure back pay was in every budget deal…but you can’t really furlough someone…if there isn’t money for them, their position is gone.

Trump is now acting upon this reality. And Democrats don’t quite know what to do about it.


Open Thread

Mark Noonan24 Comments

Saw a video of a fairly large crowd of people in New York City celebrating 10/7. As I said in the previous thread: we’re going to have to decide what we do with evil people.

We are not, at this juncture of history, actually trying to preserve a certain form of government: we’re trying to save our lives. And we will be forced – and I believe very soon – to act like people do when their lives are at stake. This is beyond a concern of free speech…this is people telling us they are delighted when we’re killed (and 10/7 isn’t just about killing Jews – it is about killing the whole concept of civilized behavior). I can let them keep on…or I can find a way to stop them.

I said for a long while now that I thought we had a peaceful way out – that the window for a political settlement is still open. As of this moment in time, I want that window closed. I’ll let them start the fight…but I’ll do everything I can, when they do, to ensure we finish it. This time around, no more Grant-like “let ’em up easy”.

The Senate confirmed 107 Trump nominees all at once – and for those who wanted Trump to recess appoint these people: well, you were wrong. Trump knew what he was doing and all of these are now in place until 1/20/2029 (unless Vance keeps them on). In fact, this time around, Trump very much seems to know what he’s doing all the time…he’s running rings around the Democrats and, to be fair, around some of his supporters as well. As I noted early on in the Trump Era: the man plans. You might not like his plan, but he’s always got one…he does nothing actually off the cuff. Everything is calculated and my goodness but has he learned how to do politics…he’s got Democrats going into 2026 defending medical care for illegals and riots in the streets.

Some people are mad that Trump hasn’t fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers here in the second week of the shutdown. I, too, want those firings…but at this point, I’m just going to let Trump cook…perhaps he was waiting for these 107 to make sure some Deep State bureaucrat doesn’t step in as Acting this or that? We’ll find out.

Free Speech and Justice

Mark Noonan22 Comments

It is still all about the lies – Kirk was killed by a man who submerged himself in Leftwing lies to the point where he perceived Kirk as a personal enemy who must be eliminated if the killer was to survive. Now, to be sure, this is a weak-minded person – but as I’ve noted again and again, if you spread hate filled lies in a population of 340 million, even if just one tenth of one percent fully believe the lies, that means 340,000 people primed to kill.

That’s a lot.

And, of course, it is probably closer to twenty five percent of our population fully infected with the lies that killed Kirk. So, 85 million or so people. This is shown by an ABC reporter who looked at the killer’s text messages to his partner and found them “touching”. Everyone is torching that reporter but keep in mind: to that reporter – as to tens of millions of others – the killer is the hero. I guarantee there are people right now writing scripts portraying the killer as the hero. You can almost see the Law and Order episode…a “Right Wing Fanatic” gets killed and after our dogged (Liberal) law enforcement officers investigate, they find it was the “Fanatic” who caused it to happen.

It is unshakable Liberal dogma that Kirk was an absolutely horrible person. They’ll literally quote you things Kirk never said (or that are so twisted out of context they work out to bald faced lies) as proof that he was lousy…with the subtext being that he got what was coming. These fools are incapable of turning that about – of thinking of a time when their opponents decide to dish it right back to them. They can’t imagine that because they are stunningly ignorant – they just assume they’ll never be called upon to pay the price they demand we pay. They don’t know how the world works – do not know how people behave when they feel their lives are at stake. They expect to get Kirk killed, get in our faces, yell at us…throw things at us…and we’ll never do anything. They’re wrong. There is a limit – and we’re just about there. The next phase is people on the Right shooting back.

That happens if Team Trump is not able to get a handle on the people responsible for the lies and make them pay for it. And that brings me to this: Bondi is getting a lot of flack for condemning hate speech. There is no such thing as hate speech – we all know that. And, so, her comment about it ignited an immediate fire storm on the Right. But you do need to pay close attention to what she said:

Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), it is a federal crime to transmit “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.” Likewise, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and 18 U.S.C. § 115 make it a felony to threaten public officials, members of Congress, or their families.

You cannot call for someone’s murder. You cannot swat a Member of Congress. You cannot dox a conservative family and think it will be brushed off as “free speech.” These acts are punishable crimes, and every single threat will be met with the full force of the law.

Free speech protects ideas, debate, even dissent but it does NOT and will NEVER protect violence.

She is not saying that hate speech is a crime – but she is saying that hate speech will be a crime if it goes beyond a certain point. This is as close as she feels she can get to my position – that is, lies aren’t 1A protected. Honestly, I don’t know if that’s where she’s heading but if I were AG, this is where I’d start on my path to hauling the Left into court for their lies, as such. Can’t do that – just too much opposition would develop against it, including from the Right. Heck, we’ve seen just the use of “hate speech” set off a ruckus. But it is the way to go about it – it is kicking the Left in the shins. Their terminology is being turned against them…and she’s not promising to drop the hammer on “I hate Trump”…but she will drop it on “I think Trump should be taken out”. And so on through all the rest of the incitements the Left puts out and then pretends weren’t incitements when someone like Kirk gets killed.

Our test case is now the people who surrounded Kirk’s killer – the friends who talked him into believing the way he did. If any of them in any way encouraged violence, we might be able to indict them…and indict them in Utah – a Trump +31 State. We don’t know how this will shake out as its still very early, but the text messages released indicate that the killer had been brooding of this for some time and felt he had the opportunity to kill Kirk and get away with it. We’ll see what Bondi and Patel turn up in the investigation. We’ll see, that is, if we can make the Left pay for Kirk’s murder – because that is the only way to do this. If the killer is executed for the crime and it goes no further, then justice has not been done…it would almost work out to a miscarriage of justice. It would be hanging the concentration camp guard while letting the camp commandant off. The killer was wound up like a clock and set off on a schedule…and the greater guilt resides in those who lied this event into existence.

And our safety can only be secured if we punish the liars. You can see it: they feel no remorse and are not at all toning it down. They are already getting fired up and ready to brazenly lie some more. Why shouldn’t they? They got an effective opponent killed – they certainly hope to kill more and ever higher up the line. And they sit supremely confident that nothing will happen to them. “I didn’t kill anyone!”…no, but you said over and over again that Kirk wanted all trans people killed…that he was a Nazi…a fascist…an existential threat. But if you lie and lie and lie and those lies motivate a killer, then you are morally responsible for the death…now we’re going to find out if we can make such people criminally liable.

Destroy the Left

Mark Noonan25 Comments

It has been noted that if they won’t change because of this, then they’re not going to change. So, as the Left is not changing after they orchestrated the murder of Charlie Kirk, we just have to go on the assumption they never will change. This means we have to think a bit differently about what outcome we want – that is, what is our definition of victory?

It isn’t good enough to simply beat them even for a whole series of elections – we must get to a point where it is impossible for the modern American Left to ever be in control of the destiny of our nation. This is so because they have now absolutely proved that their goal is our death or enslavement. They will not quit, will not change and the only thing preventing them from putting us against the wall at any given moment is the lack of power. Now we on the Right much better understand why Pinochet and Franco did what they did – not out of bloodthirsty cruelty, but because they knew that if they didn’t, then everyone they knew and loved would be killed. Keep in mind that both men only acted when they felt they absolutely had to and both almost acted too late…just a little more time for their opponents in either case and they would have lost forever (it should be noted that Pinochet, like us, was patient – he obeyed Allende’s orders to suppress anti-Allende protests and only reluctantly joined the coup when he perceived that Allende was leading Chile to destruction).

The good news is that the murder of Kirk has opened a lot of eyes – even among middle of the road, Trump-skeptical people. In spite of relentless lies about Kirk since he was killed (in addition to all the lies prior), people do perceive that all he was doing was talking. He wasn’t inciting violence. He wasn’t calling for tyranny. Just talking…and he was killed…and then large numbers of Left people shouted for joy. The man was killed in front of his wife and children…a very terrorist, public execution. A warning to everyone else: don’t talk! And this perception is moment by moment alienating more people from the Left. Whether or not they’ll now all turn out for us is unknown…but it is unlikely they’ll turn out for Democrats. At least, not until Democrats clearly and distinctly condemn what happened without any “but” in there.

The bad news is that no matter what happens, tens of millions of people are totally committed to the Left – their place in the world (at least in their minds) is dependent upon toeing the Party Line. If even they want to change, they feel they can’t – too much to be lost. Position. Wealth. Friends. All gone if they stray even an inch from orthodoxy. In addition, the major media outlets – in spite of some tremors of change recently – have doubled down on lying for the Democrats. Going along with their talking point which is overtly that Trump causes the violence and covertly that Kirk had it coming. That sort of social reach means that if the stars align, an unrepentant Democrat party gets into power…and we already saw Biden’s people making major efforts to criminalize dissent…this will go on overdrive if any Democrat obtains Executive power in the USA.

This is why Trump must really go after these people – and there are signals that he’s going to. The shutdown of USAID and other government programs has massively hurt the Left. But there are still plenty of money-bags out there. Think about how the Army of Bots was out on social media within minutes of the assassin’s arrest telling everyone that the killer was MAGA…it is now dogma on the Left that he was MAGA and no amount of facts will change that. They believe it. The Party has told them to ignore the evidence of their eyes and they are doing so…but the really disturbing thing here is that army of bots which put out the Party Line: someone paid for it. And as the Party Line is that the killer is MAGA based on his background, this means the person or persons who paid the bots knew who the killer was before the arrest. What I’m saying here is that the Leftist Money is paying for a certain outcome…relentlessly putting out the word about MAGA’s evil and Trump’s a Nazi and going on the dark web to tell the mentally unstable that they must kill. And then setting up the talking points in advance as they perceive which fools are most likely to carry out the deed. They’ve tried two times against Trump (that we know of). They’ve now go Kirk. They will try to get others like him and rely on it that Vance, Rubio and Hegseth are in the crosshairs.

It is a huge churn of Leftwing hate mongering going out there…backed by the major media outlets and most popular culture. And it is all paid for – it is all deliberate. And it is also getting very desperate…they know that if youth continues to shift Right then the GOP will win many elections in a row…and it’ll be Trump followed by Trumpsters. Meaning that twenty years from now, America will be a place where the Left can’t win…and those on the gravy train because the Left is dominant will be out in the cold.

But only if we win – and winning now requires us to go after the true malevolent actors…not the fool who shot Kirk, but the wicked people who lit the match. Who has the greater guilt: the man who believed the lies, or the liar? I say the liar. Kirk was killed by a man who apparently submerged himself in a Leftwing swamp on line…but that swamp was built on purpose, and just for this purpose. If we don’t go after the makers of the swamp, then that swamp will just keep sending out killers.

But also keep in mind that Trump is our last chance to save America as we understand her. That is, a federal Republic under our Constitution. If the Left had any sense at all, they’d see it, call a halt and shift a bit to the Right…but they won’t because at this point they can’t…too far down the hate-filled Leftwing rabbit hole. If Trump is not able to uproot the Left’s Ecosystem of Hate, then this doesn’t mean we roll over and die…it just means we go a different route. We go Pinochet or Franco. That is, we refuse to die. We refuse to let our love of the Constitution lead us step by step into Gulag. The only way the Left wins now is with violence…if they can kill enough Trumpsters, they believe they will win. And if we can’t uproot them, they will keep killing…and it’ll come to the point where it is time for us to shoot back. The Left better hope that Trump destroys them…because that will be a lot nicer for them than the alternative.

The Shift is Happening

Mark Noonan15 Comments

That was posted just an hour ago on Trump’s Truth account. I think the man is serious.

And I also think his opponents still don’t understand him in the least. They don’t get that he’s actually a pretty smart guy – thinks strategically. Everything is planned in advance. There’s a script but Trump has the capability to ad-lib at need. Add to it his now ten years of experience in fighting the Establishment/Deep State and you’ve got quite the political force of nature here.

I work in my day to day with a bunch of very bright, young people. Seriously: one of my team members was born in 2005. They do give me a bit of hope for the future. To be sure, there is much they don’t know – the teaching of history is pretty much gone and the kids don’t get references to anything done before 2000 (“kids” meaning anyone born 1990 or later). But they are savvy – they do see through the various scams that have been laid on our society over the past few decades. They might not know the way out of the maze, but they know they’re in one. They were relentlessly propagandized growing up and now see it all for what it was – this, I’m assuming, is what is happening among this class of kids: those who are at work, earning their pay and building for a future. The kids who are still sitting around hoping that some Socialist will hand them a life are probably deeply sunk into the maze and comfortable there. I don’t know those kids – I do know these.

This is why, I think, a lot of youth is heading towards Trump and, by extension, the GOP…and pray to God we don’t betray their trust! They literally are the future – they’ll be there when we’re all in the ground. But Trump’s don’t-give-a-damn style appeals to them – because they don’t give a damn about the enforced Leftist piety we’re all supposed to adhere to or suffer social destruction. They just want to live their lives – they don’t care what a person’s color is or who they have sex with or if the guy wants to wear a dress…just live and let live. After a gap of 25 years, my generation (late Boomer to early X) has returned…essentially Libertarian in social desires but also no-nonsense about having to earn what you want. Trump is telling them, “you’re right: be free. Work. Build. Enjoy the ride!” and the youngsters are responding to it…far more than the GOPe’s “hey, lets bomb some people and lower taxes” or the Democrats “you’re all racists at heart” messages.

And it could end up rather surprising – one thing being noticed these days is a resurgence in religious belief among the young. Keep in mind: these are people born 1990 and later. They grew up in irreligious households. The entirety of pop culture was hostile to all traditional religious beliefs. Priests were all perverts, pastors all crooks. Religious people were all fanatics who wanted to kill everyone who didn’t believe. But out of this morass of Enemy propaganda there has emerged this strange flower…the rose of faith. It is still small…but it is growing rapidly. This was just last month:

Estimates of that crowd run towards a million – overwhelmingly young people. People born in the 21st century. There are more young Catholics in England than active members of the Church of England. The smaller Protestant churches continue to grow. People are starting to become unapologetic about announcing their faith.

I’m starting to be content – that is, sure in the knowledge that we really can’t lose. That no matter what the other side does, we’re going to win. Nobody believes in the Establishment except those paid to do so. Ten thousand shrieks for free trade or mass immigration are routinely revealed to be ten thousand bots in India. We’re winning – Trump has kicked in the door…the roaches are scurrying for cover and we’re on the march.

Blue State Failure: a Federal Response

Mark Noonan16 Comments

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. – Article IV, section 4, US Constitution

I’ve been pondering this since Trump sent the Guard into DC and is suggesting that he’s willing to do it in Chicago and other Blue cities plagued by crime. The federal nature of the United States is crucial to the very existence of our nation as we know it – that is, the States are sovereign and the federal government only exercises delegated powers…that which the States, or the people, surrender to it via the Constitution. So, on the immediate face of it, the federal government should not be interfering in the normal course of law enforcement in the States or the cities, save directly in response to violations of Constitutionally valid federal laws. A federal system is a major plank in the defense of our liberties.

And we have lessons from history on the dangers of centralized control: part of the reason the Roman Empire crumbled was the decay of provincial and municipal government – that is, the constituent parts of the Roman Empire became horribly mismanaged and the Emperors felt compelled to progressively take direct control of local affairs…just to ensure basic law enforcement and services were maintained. Roman rule was pretty light early on, but by the third century started to be suffocating…and by the fourth so onerous that people welcomed barbarian and, later, Islamic conquest just to get the Roman bureaucrats off their backs. What I’m pointing out here is that centralized control, while it can provide a temporary fix to local government failure, tends to breed even worse mismanagement as time goes on as the bureaucracy becomes enormous, expensive and self-serving.

But I think there is more for us to consider here.

The United States shall guarantee to every State…a Republican form of government. That is a very important thing. The Founders did not propose to allow any of the States to erect a monarchy or other un-Republican form of government. The States are sovereign and govern themselves according to whatever laws they like…but they can’t create any tyrannical form of government…and if they do, the United States the Constitution implies the federal government may directly intervene and oust any tyrannical regime, substituting for it a government responsible to the people.

The question before us now is this: are the States all governed by a Republican form of government?

It is a very serious question. We know that voter fraud is rife in the Blue States. That, in fact, the governments of the Blue States have set up voting systems which guarantee that massive fraud will occur. Mail in ballots. Allowing ballots to arrive long after the election is over. Lack of controls on ballot handling. Counting ballots in secret. Forbidding challenges to election results. Registering non-citizens to vote. Refusing to purge the dead and departed from voter rolls. All of this and more puts a gigantic question mark on the stated results of all Blue State elections. We can concede that the deeply Liberal parts of America are voting in large numbers for the Democrats – but we still see elections coming in close on election day with a GOPer ahead and then over days and weeks ballots dribble in until the Democrat wins. And only in the very rarest instances has there ever been a GOPer behind narrowly on election day emerge victorious.

The pragmatic facts of life are that we can’t say with any level of certainty just how the actual citizen bodies of places like California, Oregon and Illinois voted. Sure, good chance they did vote Democrat…but by how much, really? Maine (at large), Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico and New Hampshire were all close enough that merely moderate amounts of ballot box stuffing could have produced the Democrat wins. And the GOP actually increased its California House vote but ended up losing House seats in the State (Harris did five percentage points worse than Biden had in 2020).

And then we look at what the Blue States do – last November Californians passed Proposition 36 with 68 percent of the vote. This law imposed a lot of stiff penalties on crime – crime that the California and local governments have allowed to run rampant. Gavin Newsom has refused to provide any funding to enforce it. Think about that – more than 2/3rds of the people supported it. This means very large numbers of Democrats voted in favor. It is massively popular and only a politically suicidal government would ignore the will of the people here.

Unless that government was certain that it’s power wasn’t dependent upon the consent of the governed.

Sure, the California Democrats couldn’t stop Proposition 36…but they also don’t care about it. It means nothing to them. Sabotaging it carries with it no political risk. Because power is not apportioned in California via votes…it is apportioned via other means. In this case, whatever amount of ballot box stuffing is required to ensure super majority control by Democrats. My contention here is that California does not have a Republican form of government.

And this is where we can get legitimate, Constitutional actions to essentially annul the de-facto powers of the Blue States and cities. They aren’t responsive to the will of the people and they are inflicting upon their people violence and other crime. It is now Trump’s responsibility to stop this. I’m not entirely sure he sees it this way, but it is the actual situation…and I do believe he is moving that way. The fact that crime in DC is nearly gone almost instantly after mere law enforcement shows how easy the fix is…and how the rampant Blue crime is a policy choice…and a policy choice by people who feel confident that no matter what they do, they’ll never be voted out…because, in reality, they were never voted in.

And it is in the lawful Trump that we have our best opportunity to do this but not set a destructive precedent. We really don’t want federal power butting into State affairs…but we have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that our fellow citizens are governed according to their consent. Trump is the man – and maybe one of the very few men – who would be able to exercise the power to ensure a Republican form of government but not abuse it, and not set up some permanent system of federal interference in State affairs. And that makes me think that perhaps he is on the same page as I am and is just step-by-stepping it? Could be. I hope so. And if we can reform Blue State government then we’ll take away the last prop of Liberal power…their dictatorial control over the Blue States.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan12 Comments

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner…and the Democrats/NeverTrump people are sure this is the very end of Our Democracy.

In the specific, they are claiming that Trump is merely mad that the latest job numbers had massive downward revisions. And, hey, maybe Trump is mad about that…but the bottom line is that if you’re getting it that wrong, then why the heck are you even putting out numbers? This is the same BLS which month after month after month massively overstated the job gains under Biden. Is the data worth anything? Major financial decisions are taken based on what BLS is saying…and they can’t even nail down accurately the number of jobs gained or lost?

Some say that there is a declining response rate from those surveyed. Ok. Is anyone looking into an alternate method? Seems to me that they’re really just kinda guessing and then revising based on more solid data…so, why not make the monthly report out of the most recent, solid data we’ve got? Sure, it means the July jobs report might be about April or May, but if its accurate then its at least useful and we’d still have long term trend data. If BLS is just throwing numbers at the wall, though, then it is useless…and the Commissioner is either stupid (and so should be fired) or corruptly massaging the data to favor Democrats and harm Republicans (and so should be fired). And do keep in mind: all this statistics stuff was first put together during the New Deal when a bunch of Leftwing pinheads thought they could decide economic policy based on statistics. This is why, today, we buy our consumer goods from China, guys: the stats say it is the way to go.

You know: it doesn’t matter in the long term if in any particular month jobs are gained or lost overall…what matters is how much we, as a people, are making, mining and growing. Bottom line on that is that the more we make, mine and grow here at home the more job openings there will be…and the more national wealth which, stored, can provide aid for those who lose their jobs because of fluctuating economic conditions. Production is the measure…not the household jobs survey.

Some reforms being pushed by Team Trump do look like a back door method to eventually privatize Social Security. They are going slow and careful here because this is a dangerous issue…but everyone with sense knows that eventually the Social Security system is going to need deep reforms to survive. For us older people, it won’t matter: nobody is going to change it for us and we will get what we were promised (nobody is going to vote to cut benefits and then have everyone on or about to be on benefits vote against them next election). Probably for people fifty and older no significant changes are forthcoming. But for the youngsters, I think there will be – and likely with their eventual enthusiastic support. There is much wrong with youth but they do have knowledge about markets…a lot of these kids have been playing around with various investment items since they were little. It will be easier to sell to them the notion that their Social Security is theirs – a government guaranteed investment account that they own, that follows them around wherever they work and which they can start to access by some fixed date in their lives and which will have some guaranteed minimum payout no matter what happens…but which they could also grow to be quite significant, perhaps combining it with their personal savings and their employer 401k’s.

Ultimately, America is Made Great Again by the total dissolution of the New Deal.