Morality

The Cowardice of the West

Mark Noonan2 Comments

In 2025, about 41 million Americans received SNAP – food stamps, as we geezers remember it being. Of these, about half had worked in the month previous to receiving benefits. This would indicate that a significant portion of those on SNAP are just people who are going through a rough patch and need a little help. But it also means that a significant portion hadn’t worked in the month before. That is, we do, indeed, have welfare bums. People who are drawing funds without contributing.

This is simply wrong.

Unless one is a child, physically disabled or elderly, there is a moral obligation to work. To do something for your daily bread. This is true whether you believe in God or not – it is a universal that nobody may be allowed to skate. To be sure, some people will be able to skate out of this because they are born rich and so get to live in indolence. They shouldn’t. But, what of it? It doesn’t cost the taxpayer anything and I’ll guarantee you the number of rich layabouts is tiny compared to the number of welfare bums we’ve got. I couldn’t get a figure on how many on SNAP hadn’t worked in the previous six months but lets say it is merely 20% of all SNAP benefits – those are the bums. And there are 8 million of them. And they probably pull down other benefits as well (housing/utility subsidies, internet/phone subsidies, Medicaid, what they can cage from food banks, etc, etc, etc). I bring this up because we are told that we must continue to accept immigrants – and must go gentle on deportations – because we need these people. That is, to “do the work Americans won’t do”. In other words, to replace the 8 million bums we’ve got sitting on Welfare.

Nope. That isn’t being sensible – it is simply being a coward. You’re refusing to make the bums get to work because that would be hard and, in the minds of the infantile, make you the bad guy. You’d rather take the Cartels importing quasi-slave labor to build homes and mow lawns – and then talk yourself into thinking your the smart, good guy who is all reasonable and stuff. You’re leaving fellow human being to wallow in the indignity of being a beggar (and, worse, a fat, illiterate and barbarian beggar) while assisting in the cruel exploitation of Third Worlders. You’re degrading your country, spreading crime and urban squalor and pitching Western Civilization down into the gutter.

It is like that all through our society these days – everyone simply afraid to do what is right, and so goes along with a horrible, anti-human and destructive expedient. Don’t make welfare bums work: import illegals. Don’t abolish the public schools: do a voucher program so at least your kids can escape. Don’t arrest the homeless and put them in work camps: just make certain they are contained in certain areas of town we don’t go to any more. Don’t flog miscreants who disturb the peace: just stay away from them. On and on and on like that. Every time we’re confronted with a hard, adult choice – to prove we can, indeed, govern ourselves…we slide away. Hope it all works out. Place a band aid on a bleeding artery. If the Republic dies it will be because of this – whether a Communist tyrant or a Caesar takes over, it’ll happen because we, the people, were too chicken to rule ourselves.

I’m not saying there’s an easy fix. I am saying that men and women with courage can fix it all. And not just our social pathologies; the whole raft of problems in the world today can be eliminated or at least rendered nearly harmless if people will just screw up the courage to do what needs to be done.

And do keep in mind that failure to flog is the cruelty. That is, failure to impose the harsh punishment is the evil thing to do. When faced with a barbarian who has the social skills of a spoiled six year old, it is for the civilized to make sure that person is instructed. Failure to do so harms both the barbarian and the larger society. It is required of us that we make the lazy work. The boorish behave. To insist everyone in the public square is at least clean, decently dressed and has basic respect for others. Drive through the bad areas of town – see that bum? That filth? That’s on you. You didn’t do it, but you allowed it to happen. The bum swilling cheap booze or taking drugs made his choice…and it is your moral obligation to punish him for that choice. To take away his booze. Get him cleaned up. Put him to work. It is better for him. Better for you. Better for everyone.

We can’t survive if we forever think all of this is Someone Else’s Problem. Are we free men and women or are we not? Do we say we shall govern ourselves? Ok. Then we’d better get on to it. Show a little courage. Do the right thing. Or become slaves, ourselves.

Why Lie?

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I’ve yammered on endlessly about the evil of lies – how they poison our society and will lead to our destruction if not stopped. But I don’t think I’ve gone over much just why people lie. Why would people dishonor themselves by uttering lies? What do they hope to gain by it?

Everything they want.

The purpose of the lie is to serve the malevolence of theft. The liar lies because he wants something he does not have title to. Whether its a man trying to trick an old lady into giving up her savings or a man trying to trick a people into making him their god, the universal is that the effort is to obtain what is not owned. I bring this up because there’s a video going around of this slob of a Commie woman ranting about how nobody should be locked up for stealing a tube of toothpaste; essentially claiming that our unjust society – one that doesn’t have endless free toothpaste – is the cause of the theft, which is justified against an unjust society. It is a mere rephrasing of Lenin’s “loot the looters”…the call to theft, rape and murder he issued to the Russian underclass in 1917. And like our tubby Commie today, Lenin was lying to gain power. He was quite ok with middle class people being savagely attacked if he gained him the power to enslave everyone – that is, Lenin was trying to steal power he could not earn (in the only free election Lenin’s Bolshevik’s competed in, they got 23% of the vote; and this after Lenin’s October coup gave him the ability to suppress opposition parties – the Russian people voted for a Populist, semi-Socialist Russia…Lenin stole it and gave them an inhuman tyranny).

If you really boil it down, every war in human history stems from just that – a desire to steal. Somebody wants something that isn’t theirs and they cook up a series of lies to give a plausible excuse to steal. Most times it is one side lying, but very often it is both. If everyone would just rest content with what they earn, war would be exceptionally rare. As would theft of any type. Nobody forcibly prevents someone from earning their keep, after all. Only in times of actual famine (very rare in the modern world) is there really not enough to go around. All other times, it is a simple matter of working. Maybe not pleasant work: but if you work, you eat. If you work, you’ve got a place to stay. If you work, you’ve got clothes. If you work, you’ve got toothpaste. If you work, you don’t really dream up a scheme whereby you become the infallible leader of the people. But if you don’t want to work…well, then you steal.

To be fair, there are those rare birds – thieves who don’t try to justify it. They freely admit they just don’t want to work and so they steal so they can avoid working. But they are very rare. Most thieves will say they had no choice and the person who they stole from had more than he needed and life wasn’t fair and daddy was mean and mommy’s boyfriend was a jerk and so on and so forth. Packs of lies to justify the desired end: getting without earning. Stealing.

After war, the rest of the ills of our society. The plague of single motherhood: men wanted sex they didn’t pay for via “doing the right thing”. The plague of illegals in our society: businesses wanted labor they could steal via sub-market wages (and, of course, politicians want the votes of those who can’t vote so they could cancel out the votes of those who could). The massive welfare fraud: people wanted to live well without working hard and so worked up the idea of “helping the poor” via programs which not only don’t help, but positively encourage the poor to remain ignorant and impoverished. On and on like that – people want an easy life…a life of little or no work but plenty of wealth. They want to steal. And so they lie.

This still puts lies as the worst thing, but it is important for us to understand the purpose of the lies. You think about all the call for more education spending by groups which presided over the dumbing down of education. We often think such people are stupid. Maybe even wicked. But we don’t comprehend that what they are after is wealth they don’t earn. They don’t want to grind away teaching Johnny to read. They don’t even care if Johnny lives or dies. But they do want money. Lots of it. High wages. Gold plated benefits. Lots of time off. So, they lie so that they may steal. Honest teachers could produce a generation of geniuses for half the price we’re paying now…but if anyone even tries, those who are stealing will do all in their power to destroy them. They might even put an ideological imprint on it (like Lenin did) but the main thing is to keep the cash rolling in. All else is subordinate to that…and no lie is too outrageous.

We have to start seeing these people for what they are – the scumbag con artist trying to get Granny to give up her social security check. The pig trying to sucker a poor girl into giving it up in return for a promise of later greatness. They are still human, but they are the scum of humanity. We can pray for their redemption, but they have to be washed out of our society as you would clean a latrine to ensure public health. If you can’t go with me on severely punishing lies, then at least go along with punishing the liars for their theft.

Side note: it is true that petty theft should not land you in jail. It should get you flogged, instead. Rely on it, we won’t even have to flog 10% of the petty thieves before the rest get the message.

More About Lies

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I had a short conversation with someone who identified himself as a fellow independent author. As it turns out, we both write in the Fantasy genre and he asked me what is the worst thing people can do. My answer: lie. The primary sin of my Bad Guys is that they lie. The primary glory of the Good Guys is that they don’t lie, ever.

The guy vehemently disagreed with this and essentially called me a dunce for thinking that. His view? Hatred is the worst thing people can do. This, naturally, means he’s on the Left – though politics never explicitly came up. We can tell that because it is absurd to consider hatred, of itself, a bad thing. To be sure, God orders us to love our enemies (and most people don’t fully understand what that means), but it is clear there are things we’re supposed to hate. Among these things are lies. Only a Leftist would think that hatred is inherently bad – as we’ve also noticed the Left considers discrimination inherently bad…even though you couldn’t have, say, a football team unless you ruthlessly discriminate against anyone who can’t pick up a blitz and then do something about it.

To me, this was a bit of an interesting look into the fundamental divide in the modern world. And there’s no better way to put it than a battle between the sane and the insane. When we’re dealing with the Left, the primary problem we have is they are raving lunatics. They believe things which are not only untrue, but are obviously untrue. Things like: there have been times when atmospheric CO2 was five times (or more!) higher than today and yet life flourished on the planet…and the planet had absolutely no ice…so vastly warmer than today. So, me running a lawn mower is not going to doom the Earth…nor will my cessation of lawn mowing save it. It is simply insane to think it is something to bother with…and this presuming we’re actually in a genuine warming period rather than a mere inter-glacial warming period (I lean towards this being the case – keeping in mind that its an Ice Age as long as there’s any polar ice). But the Leftist lunatics think it is so and their real demand – and I’m not kidding – is the complete ban on oil, coal and natural gas. And they think we’re all gonna die – just a few years from now! – if we don’t do this.

Insane.

But, also, entirely built on lies. People have been lying and lying and lying – whole industries have been called into existence which now make money off the lies. Lies have a gigantic constituency and the lies are spread with great skill to ensure that those who are making bank off nonsense never have to stop…no matter how destructive it all is to actual life on Earth: We are forced to recycle plastics which have zero value…so, we drop them in the bin (which is paid for via graft dollars) so that they can be picked up (more graft) and then sold to a recycling outfit (yet more graft) which then pays China (more and more graft) to ship it outside the USA where it can be ground up and dumped into the ocean. All because of lies which are earnestly believed by insane people. If we had just kept to glass bottles, none of this…if we wanted a genuine green regulation then when corporate America decided to save 5 cents on a glass bottle, we should have said, “nah, guys; stick with the glass”. Which, you know, can be melted and remelted and, if unbroken, and be cleaned and reused endlessly. But there was no graft to be had in that…no lies needed to sustain such a logical thing.

And I’ll keep saying it – nobody agrees with me but I am 100% right: we have to punish liars. Severely. Confiscation. Proscription. In some instances, with violence (a DA who lies and thus lets a felon off who then goes on to kill should be, well, killed; or at least life at breaking rocks). We’re going to have to do it. Trump broke down the door on this – by merely saying “fake news” he exposed it all. But we don’t win until the liars lose. And lose everything.

Honorable Service

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Vladimir Sukhomlinov (1848-1926) was a Russian army officer. He entered service 1867 and remained until 1915. As a young officer he served bravely and was decorated multiple times. But he left the service in 1915 because he was War Minister and Russia had suffered some catastrophic military defeats. These defeats could be traced to the Russian army not being well equipped with modern weapons and being badly organized logistically for war (ie, men going into battle without proper weapons and clothing, food being insufficient, so forth). And here’s the thing: he was a senior member of Russia’s armed forces from 1886 onwards. That is, for nearly thirty years he was high up, eventually rising to the highest rank, Minister of War who was de-facto Commander in Chief of the Russian army. During all this time at the top he was repeatedly praised, promoted and decorated…but when the test came, it was found that the army he commanded wasn’t in any way ready for war. In other words, he failed…and had failed for decades.

How was he able to rise so high? I mean, after a while someone should have figured out that whatever qualities Sukhomlinov had, he wasn’t fit to be in charge. Well, he was protected and advanced by the Russian system…which was corrupt to the core. All errors and rumors of corruption were covered up. He was protected. Heck, he was protected even after he fell from power – he should probably have been shot but he ended up spending only a few months in jail before his powerful friends in the Imperial government got him released. To be fair, he ended up dying in extreme poverty as an exile in Germany after the Russian Revolution…but this doesn’t change the fact that for decades a man in no way fit to hold power exercised such power…and untold numbers of Russians ended up dead because of it.

I bring this up because of Robert Mueller, who passed away the other day. We are told that his Bronze Star and combat performance in Vietnam is the defining thing about him and thus any condemnations are not just wrong, but wicked. This all in response to Trump posting that he was glad Mueller was dead. But as we can see in the case of Sukhomlinov, bravery in combat as a young man doesn’t mean that everything which comes after is good. At some point in his career, Sukhomlinov observed how the system really worked – it wasn’t bravery and ability which got you ahead in the Imperial Russian army, it was connections and connivance. Make the right friends and then do whatever is necessary to help those friends, and you’ve got it made…though you are mentally incapable of exercising command, they’ll put a general’s insignia on your shoulder and have you command soldiers in battle! Nobody cares about how many of them die, or if the country wins or loses the war…its all about place. Position. Prestige.

Mueller saw the same thing in our government. The path to advancement in federal law enforcement wasn’t paved with dedication to the rule of law…but in getting in and getting on. Finding out who had the power and then stroking that person or group until they let you in…and, of course, once in you have to keep things up for everyone else who is in. Cover up crimes and failure for the in crowd, ruthlessly hound – even if it means breaking the law – anyone the in crowd identifies as an enemy. Given the overall arc of Mueller’s career, this decision point came to Mueller fairly early on…perhaps not even more than a few years after he hung up his uniform. Whatever beliefs he had a boy, young man and combat officer were set aside in favor of career advancement. Mueller reached the decision point and decided he would do what it took to advance – in the end, his final public act was to lend his name to the Trump-Russia con…a transparently false attempt to frame Trump and force him out of office. Complete degradation…all honor entirely lost. It is sad, when you think about it. We can pray for the repose of his soul and hope he repented before he died, but the bottom line is that his entire career in government was a malevolent blight upon the Republic. We’d have been better off if he had never lived.

And it is right and proper to be pleased that he has gone to his final judgement. That he cannot in any way, shape or form harm our Republic again. A bad man has died. His fate is now up to God – but his memory must be damned by all decent people. None of this pretending he was an honorable man or public servant…he was a corrupt apparatchik for a disgusting, inhuman Ruling Class. We must condemn his memory because we want the rising generation to know that being a Mueller is a disgrace and even if it doesn’t land you in jail, it will lead you to a dishonorable grave.

One thing our nation must recover is a sense of decency. Not the “decency” of the Ruling Class – their idea of decency is that they are treated with kindness and respect no matter how nauseating they are. No: we want real decency. Men and women who do the right thing, all the time, no matter the consequences. People who aren’t looking for career advancement, but to do what is best. Pissing on Mueller’s gave is where this starts, crude as that may seem – but, then again, real decency is a bit brutal. All true things are like that – sort of in your face, insulting you a bit by their existence, because one thing all decent people know instinctively is how far short of excellent they fall. Contrast with our Ruling Class which is convinced of its moral and intellectual superiority while they wallow in ignorance, lying to themselves and to us while the steal and kill. Mueller probably never had a doubt. Hillary. Obama. Comey: all like that. Stupid. Liars. Corrupt. Cruel. But convinced they are better than everyone else and that any criticism of them is perverse. They get to do this because our system continues to protect them…but under Trump, we might be getting back to a system where garbage people do get what’s coming to them…and honorable people get to be in charge.

We Need Morality

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So one of the sob stories Democrats are putting out to make us feel bad about their shutdown of the government was this lady – I think in New Mexico – who was whining about how she needs SNAP…and has been on it for thirty years. Thirty! Since 1995!

Have you ever felt like a sucker?

I’m soon to turn 61 – and tomorrow I will get up and go to work. Put in my eight hours. Maybe slightly longer if its busy. I do this so that I can buy my food, my house, my car, my gas, my clothes, my cable service, my phone service…and those small, individually wrapped Reeces cups because I’m trying to keep my weight under control (successfully) and the craving for something sweet after dinner gets its fix with just one of those. You know: all my stuff. My wife works, too. That lady has been sitting on her ass since I was 30! Collecting benefits. And you know it isn’t just SNAP…I’m sure she’s raking it in with a lot of other programs and, of course, is isn’t like anyone checks when you show up at the local food bank for a bit of free grocery shopping.

Yes, we do have an absolute moral obligation to feed the hungry. The clothe the naked. To house the homeless. But it isn’t a one way street:

For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you. Not that we do not have the right. Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us. In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. – 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-10

The poor have a moral obligation to work – and even it is make-work. Some contribution to society…to the people who are getting up each morning, going to work and providing the food, clothes and shelter. No human being physically capable of work and under the age of retirement has a right to receive without giving something back. Enough of this welfare scam. I don’t care what we have them do, as long as they are putting in a solid forty hours every week. Have them sweep the streets if there’s nothing else…but that EBT card only reloads when it is recorded that you did forty hours that week. Period.

And, in the end, this is what will get them off welfare…make them be responsible. There are people who are willing to live on the margins of life as long as it doesn’t require any effort on their part. But these days we’re lavishing so much money on welfare that the so-called “poor” are living as well as people who work for a living…and that’s just wrong. Welfare is to keep you this side of starvation and nakedness…not so you’re at home eating EBT cheetos while others are out working. If we make them do drudge work, they’ll for the most part find some other way to earn their daily bread. And, hey, if some don’t – then at least we’re getting clean streets and they’re getting the knowledge (and pride) that they aren’t just a burden…they’re doing something useful day in and day out. That is basic human dignity, folks.

But aside from that, this has exposed the lack of real morality in our society. It isn’t merciful to let people be on welfare for decades (and in many cases, generations). It is just wrong. It should horrify people that someone is on it more than six months. A year, tops. I related after my Dad died in 2009 that I found his food stamps ID card from 1970 in his wallet…I never knew but he kept that souvenir of the bad times…probably as a reminder. There is no shame in getting help. Dad was out of work and had kids to feed. You do what you gotta do. But you don’t make dependency a life style…or if you are to be dependent for your whole life, then you sure in heck shouldn’t have a say in how society works. That is, if you’re on welfare, no voting.

It is time for us to really get back to knowing what is right and what is wrong. Being on welfare except as a temporary expedient is wrong. Being massively overweight on welfare even more so (and we’ve all seen the overweight people on mobility scooters whipping out the EBT card at Wal Mart). But it is also wrong to be a bum on the streets. To be drunk or high in public. To father children with multiple women you never married. To engage in irresponsible sex in general. To be illiterate. To be innumerate. To be poorly dressed in public. To be loud and boorish in public spaces. To brawl over nothing in a fast food joint.

We have to start punishing this sort of thing. Loss of voting rights is just the start. There also has to be labor sentences for having that brawl at the fast food joint. For being high. For generally being a disreputable person who is making life hard for everyone else. And if a person doesn’t take the lesson the first couple times they are sent to labor to make up for their poor behavior, then the punishments must get progressively worse until they are permanently at work or finally get the message and stop acting like turnip-brained barbarians. We’re all human beings. On average, none of us are smarter than anyone else. I am not some specially gifted person that I have a house, cars, clothes and food. I just work and pay my bills and do my small part to keep things going as best I can. It isn’t a special burden: it is just life. And it isn’t really all that hard…sure, I get up some mornings and wish I could be doing just about anything else but going to work…but I go all the same. It is called being a man. Being civilized. Being truly human.

The world works. It really does. But it only works when we do. When all of us suck it up and get the job done. We can’t sustain ourselves if half of us are living off the other half. Everyone who is at all physically capable must contribute (and none of this “but my back hurts” nonsense – I live with constant pain in my right knee and I still get to work…because you offer up your pain to God and get on with it…when I’m saying “disabled” I mean you have to be disabled. Just not capable of doing any physical labor at all). And everyone who tries to slack or acts like a barbarian has to feel it – they can’t skate on that. It is the little things that matter the most…and for a well-ordered society, the bigger threat is the welfare bum, not the bank robber. A bank robber bets his life that he can steal and not be killed…a welfare bum bets your life that you’ll feed him no matter what. Time for that to end.

Not one person in America should be hungry, naked or homeless. But not one person in America should be taking without giving.

Open Thread

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The other day the UK voted to kill people to save on their healthcare budget. Of course, it wasn’t presented that way…it was all about “compassion” … where we compassionately whack granny rather than take care of her. After all, the old broad has been around a while and in her current condition she can’t bake a pie…so, here: take this $20 pill instead of this $20,000 medical treatment. It is all just horrific…but what is to be expected by people who don’t really believe anything any more. This is why I say the UK is doomed – and its not doomed by Muslims being imported, but by Brits not believing in God or, indeed, anything of note. The Muslims will take over the dead body of Britain…but someone would no matter because very soon there won’t be any British people left even if you do see some white guy with a Cockney accent. The only slight chance for Britain is the fact that – like a lot of places around the West – there is an ongoing revival of Christianity among youth. Still small in numbers, but growing rapidly…so, there might be a fight for Britain. But not over the current system – over who gets to replace it.

But I bring this up because there was this Lib-Dem MP who was rebuked from the pulpit by his priest. His Catholic priest. Had the guy been Church of England his non-binary priestess of color would have awarded him a medal for voting to kill. The MP was upset because the priest had made the public statement that he could no longer receive communion. That’s what bothered him – the public rebuke. Not the fact that he took his immortal soul in his hands and let it slip away because his constituents favor offing the elderly. The man goes to Mass every Sunday. Over the years the entire New Testament and most of the Old has been read out to him. He’s heard untold numbers of homilies expounding Catholic teaching…and he’s shocked and hurt that his public defiance of Catholic teaching led to a public rebuke of same. Catholic in Name Only! But that is the problem and if you wonder why we get some bad things happening in the Church – and, indeed, in all religions – it is just this: some people are only nominally in their religion. It is a sort of a hobby but it doesn’t touch their lives in any meaningful way…they live lives of practical paganism. And there are plenty of priests and pastors (and rabbis and imams) who are just as practically pagan as their wooden-headed congregations.

In case you wonder why I’m no longer in favor of universal suffrage it is really this: it isn’t that people are too stupid to vote but that people are too indifferent to be allowed to vote. If you don’t believe in anything, then why the heck are you even voting? For more welfare? To make some sort of social statement because you voted the “right” way? Well, that’s what gets us people like Obama in office so no thanks on that. I’d rather compete with people who hate me for a reason rather than people who hate me because TV told them to.

Canada tried to slap some BS tech tax on us retroactive back to 2022 and Trump terminated trade talks and Canada dropped the idea. It can’t be emphasized enough that access to the US market is the most valuable thing in the world…other countries might be richer per capita, other countries might have more people in them…but nobody has our combination of money and people. To sell in the USA is the most magnificent opportunity available…and people will pay through the nose for the privilege. That is what our Experts didn’t and don’t get and Trump instinctively knew all along. The tariffs are to get them to understand that there’s a price for doing business here and it’ll either be paid at the customs house or by a deal which allows us to sell in your country. Everyone gets to pick what they want but nobody gets a free ride any more.

Over on X a veteran posted about his experiences in the Muslim world during the War on Terrorism. It isn’t a pretty picture. It went viral. A lot. The guy has about 45,000 followers but the post is now up to 13.7 million views. Give it a read. What I believe is important about it is the fact that he’s just brutally telling us what it was like – with no condemnation of Muslims as Muslims. It is just what he saw – what he had direct experience of in a wartime situation in the Muslim world. I can tell it is true because it is a very extreme version of what I experienced in the peacetime Muslim world back in 1985-86. And do note that none of this sort of stuff was reported in the MSM…they’d be all over an American who shot the wrong guy but they never gave the actual context of what being there was like. It didn’t fit the Narrative.

First thing for all Americans to remember about Islam: it is different from the United States. This may come as a shock – especially for the fine people at Gays for Palestine – but they really aren’t just like us. Different language, different religious atmosphere, different historical development. The point being made in the post was that you can’t just willy-nilly transport these people to the USA – or the larger West – and expect them to simply fit in. Sure, self-selected people arriving via normal immigration process can be fine…and have been fine for ages…but waves of “refugees” being shoved in via NGO-funded human trafficking, not so much. The difference is that the Muslim who simply wants to live in, say, Germany and so does his best to live like a German is an immigrant…the Muslim trafficked into Germany is a combination of welfare bum and invader…who not only does not understand the West, but holds it in contempt.

We don’t want to have any more excuses for bad behavior – and it extends not just to importing people who don’t want to be here, but also to excusing Third World failure. I pointed out on X that Haiti is on the same island as the Dominican Republic and yet Dominica’s per capita GDP is more than five times that of Haiti. I asked, reasonably, just how could people louse it up as bad as the Haitians had? And then I got hit by The Excuse:

After independence from France – a quite brutal affair where the Haitians massacred all the white men and forced the surviving white women to marry Haitians – the French and Haitians reached a deal…and to be sure, it was a deal made with a French fleet off of Port au Prince. The French demanded an enormous sum of money as compensation for lost property and all the French who had been killed and, faced with overwhelming force, the Haitians agreed. These payment were enormous, especially on a poor country like Haiti, and the various financial means used to pay off the indemnity ended up working out to the last payment not being made until 1947. And that’s it, you see? Had that indemnity not been imposed, the Haitians would have had the economic sinews to build themselves up. There are serious calls for France to pony up $100 billion in reparations for all this.

I’d like to point out at this moment that 1947 was 78 years ago. Suppose Haitian development was negatively impacted by the debt – a reasonable assertion – this doesn’t explain why since the debt was paid there’s been no real improvement. Over the course of 78 years – a human lifetime – there should have been some movement towards economic prosperity and political stability. Instead we recently had some sort of bizarre cannibal gang rioting in Port au Prince. I get that Haiti has a legacy of slavery, colonialism and being treated unfairly by Great Powers…but lots of countries have that and aren’t basket cases. I start to suspect that there’s some fundamental failure in the Haitian people.

And we’re all done with that – and Trump revoking Temporary Protected Status for 500,000 Haitians has got the Democrats in an uproar and the rest of us asking, “does this mean we’ll get them all out? I’m sure there are more than 500,000 here”. It isn’t indifference to human suffering…it is impatience with endless excuse-making and explaining-away. The Haitians – and the rest of the people of the Third World – are human beings just like the rest of us. They are no dumber and no smarter than we are. They are as capable of building up a free and prosperous society as anyone…and we’re now suggesting that they get on it.

A Little Courage, Please

Mark Noonan9 Comments

My Dad didn’t survive World War Two. He won it. Might not seem like much of a distinction but I think it important – survivors are people who merely endured…victors are people who did something. I think that we in the West have gotten into the habit of thinking of veterans as “survivors” because it suits the overall Left worldview that we should do so…the concept that war is always bad and never solves anything has been deeply embedded into the Western mind, and I do believe deliberately…to get Westerners out of the habit of defending the West.

I’ve talked about this a bit and it stems from World War One…which the Western elite started to talk about in terms of it being useless slaughter about ten years after the war ended. It really got going with things like the play Journey’s End in 1928…which, being written by a veteran of the trenches, can’t be totally condemned…but the whole depressing aspect of it with everyone miserable and doomed to die doesn’t cover all the ground. The play is set in the front lines in March of 1918 and the men there are, in a bit of a sense, doomed…it isn’t spoken of in the play but the characters are directly in the path of the most massive offensive ever conducted in war: Operation Michael. This was where the Germans sent the very best 72 divisions of their army against 29 British divisions in line…and it started with a 4 hour barrage where 3,500,000 shells were fired. The grim reality is that those British units in the front line were going to lose a lot – some were totally destroyed over a couple days fighting. It was quite horrific.

But it was also an amazing British victory. No operation of the war was more creditable to the British soldier than his response to Michael. The very best of Germany came at Tommy in overwhelming numbers and the British soldier stopped him cold…Michael was a total failure and that failure ensured Germany’s ultimate defeat in the war (the German plan was for Michael to knock the British army out of the war and then turn the whole German army against the weakened French and unready American armies). And remember, it was just regular British units…filled with average British men from all over the UK and the Empire. The German forces were picked men…units specially crafted and trained for this exact offensive. The best of Germany met the average of the British Empire…and got it’s Kraut ass kicked.

But the public mind on all of it is of a useless welter of slaughter deciding nothing. And it is like that for all great and brave efforts. Even our movies and stories about victories in World War Two have this element of the hopeless in it…that it was all bad. For post-WWII military efforts it just gets even worse…the hopelessness of useless effort and death often combined with a subtext that the West is a criminal enterprise. This, I think, is why we see all over the West a simple refusal to defend itself. We’ve all seen videos of “migrants” on busses and trains in Europe verbally and physically abusing women and a bunch of Western men stand around pretending their don’t notice it. Sure, if they did try to do anything they’d probably get arrested while the “migrant” skated…but the fact that they’ve allowed such a thing to be betrays complete cowardice…and I don’t think humans are by nature cowards. This is an imparted reality…something made. On purpose.

We do need to get a collective backbone. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no Audie Murphy. I’ve never faced combat. I have no idea how I’d behave in a life-threatening crisis. I hope I’d behave well…the lessons imparted to me by my combat-veteran father tell me that in a crisis I’m to swallow fear and do what needs to be done. I believe I’d give a good account of myself…that is, if I were on a bus and I saw a woman being abused, I would intervene. I wouldn’t care that I might get hurt or the authorities might arrest me afterwards…I would intervene because that is the right thing to do, consequences be damned. And we do see that in the USA when its totally absent elsewhere in the West…but we also know that it isn’t universal in the USA because we do get the stories where everyone did just stand around and let it happen.

Growing a spine is going to take a cultural shift – and that means a pop-cultural shift. We’re going to have to start retelling tales of heroism. More movies like The Alamo of 1960, less like Saving Private Ryan of 1998 – and, yes, I recognize the high quality in both films…but one is a tale of triumph in defeat the other a tale of defeat in triumph (after all, the key scene is a defense of a bridge against odds…and while most of the men died, the bridge was held…the evil Nazis were thwarted. A good outcome was obtained…but the movie ends it with it all being quite useless effort). It is a huge difference. And we need to get it back.

No, You Can’t Use my Morals to Kill Me

Mark Noonan37 Comments

The latest effort to derail DOGE has been to have moderate Right (not specifically Never Trump) people write despairing pieces about the failure of Conservatives to deplore Elon Musk’s serial adultery. He has 12 confirmed children, a social media influencer claiming number 13. They tie this into Trump’s sexual past and throw up their hands (a little dramatically) wondering just how we can do anything when those in charge of the movement are sinners? This effort is clearly orchestrated by the Left – which doesn’t care at all about morality but they will wipe their butt with their own flag if it helps them.

Rely on it, if we made an effort to codify morality into law, these same Right voices would rise in opposition to us on Libertarian grounds. The only people morality applies to, in their minds, is us: we have to be perfect and if we ain’t, then we don’t deserve to have power…or, indeed, anything.

To make it clear: adultery is a sin. Fornication is a sin. Horrible, bad sins which can destroy a human soul and condemn it to everlasting damnation.

But so, too, divorce and birth control. Working on the Sabbath. Not going to Mass on Sunday. Do you get what I’m saying? If we are to base our politics upon what is considered a sin in Christian theology, then we’re going to have a very different political organization. And one that won’t win anything. To be sure, winning in politics is not usually the most crucial consideration. We Christians are in the world but we are not supposed to be of it and we are supposed to, as far as possible, meekly live within the political structure trusting to God that things will work out. And for the most part, that is what Christians have done – it has been a long time since anyone really insisted upon any distinctly Christian policy in American politics. But things are different now. We’re not fighting for mere political power. We are fighting for our very lives.

We Christians are to accept martyrdom if it is thrust upon us. We aren’t to seek it out but if we are placed into the position where we can only live by denying God, then it is time for us to die – and joyfully so. But our prime duty here is escape if possible. Just as we are to avoid near occasions of sin, so we should avoid, if we can, situations where the choice becomes apostasy or death. That is what we’re trying to do here. I know it sounds perhaps a bit melodramatic, but it is win in politics right now, or die. If we lose and have to die, so be it – we trust in God. But let’s try not to lose.

We have to fully grasp what we’re up against. Remember, when the Palestinians sent in rape/murder squads to Israel, the global Left supported the Palestinians. They still do. Even today they are still out in the streets waving Hamas flags and calling Israel the bad guy. Think about that. They also sincerely believe that a human being can be born in the wrong body – and that anyone denying this is malevolent. They believe that punishing criminals is wrong. Not kidding about that: they are all in for “alternatives to punishment”…because they have internalized the idea that crime only happens because of injustice. We joke about saying “society made me do it”, but they really believe this to be the case…and so “society” needs to be punished. These are not reasoned, logical positions. They are not just false, but obviously false…and yet tens of millions of people in these United States of America believe it all and given that they further believe the world will die if they don’t get their way, we have the recipe for massacre.

Keep in mind that the whole basis of Nazism was stupidly wrong – ultimately based upon the belief that the Jews were an organized, malevolent force in the world deliberately out to destroy the civilized people – ie, the Aryans. This is no different from the modern Left believing that we are an organized, malevolent force deliberately out to destroy the planet. The Germans bought the Nazi argument and at least 40% of the American people have bought the Left argument. It won’t take much for a solid majority to get behind “born in the wrong body” and “that hamburger is killing the Earth!”. And people who think that the world will end if they don’t prevail are not noted for holding back…once you get that idea fixed in your head that only total destruction of the enemy allows you to survive, you’ll do anything to get your way.

I am not here in this year of 2025 trying to preserve Christian morality – we lost that fight decades ago when we didn’t oppose the completely insane idea of no-fault divorce…when we seriously went along with the idea that a promise made to God and Man can be annulled by a judge. At that point, the slide down into Elon Musk having 12 or 13 children from a large number of women was kinda baked in. And, on the whole, this is actually far more human than the Left which wants to trans kids they don’t abort…and suicide them if they wind up depressed teenagers. At least Musk is making babies and wanting them to get on a path towards a useful life. Better if he wasn’t nailing everything that will sit still for five minutes…but if I’ve got a choice between a world where people are bumping uglies with wild abandon and having buckets of children and another world where they lop off healthy body parts and then suicide the result…I know what I’m choosing. And I did just mention the suicide thing, didn’t I? Really think about that – the Left thinks it is good if people can have taxpayer funded “doctors” kill them if they’re feeling out of sorts. They don’t even call it a necessary evil any more – they call it good. Positive. A great outcome. Yay death!

For my own safety’s sake, I must defeat these people. Because I am not like them, I don’t want them jailed or killed. I will allow them to remain in their personal delusions…but I must do everything I can to remove them from all power and influence in the world. I will go pretty far here, including to eventual disenfranchisement and confiscation of their wealth if that proves necessary to stop these insane people. But for right now, I think that if we can de-fund them that will solve most of the problem…my conviction is that these insane beliefs are only given credence because subscription to them ensures well-paid sinecures for those willing to push the lunacy. Don’t ever downplay the power of a dollar sign in front of a morally and intellectually weak person. Much is written in the history books about how the German generals went along with Hitler even when it was clear his military commands were leading to disaster…much less is written about how Hitler secured and retained that compliance: money. He simply bribed his senior leaders to go along…and go along they did, only concerned about keeping their place at the trough. So, too, the modern American Left. And if we take away the money…if nobody is paying them to be insane, then there’s a strong chance they’ll stop being insane. And Musk is leading the charge in taking away their money.

Do I trust Musk? No. The default position on anyone with a great deal of money and/or power is mistrust. Trump gets trust now because he’s proven himself in the face of terrible odds to be on my side. Musk? Well, he’s doing some good things but so far the chips haven’t really been down…he hasn’t had to choose between his own happiness and the good of the people. The Left is pushing that way and he’s probably going to be forced to make that choice. We’ll see how that goes. But, meanwhile, he’s doing what I want – except too slowly and being far too nice to the Left. I want what he’s doing put on overdrive. Musk is a tool. He’s useful right now. If he remains useful then I’ll keep backing him – but the minute the tool is broken or proves ineffective, I’ll drop him like used chewing gum.

And here’s the kicker: once I defeat these insane people and restore a world where truth is the basis of action, then I can start to revive Christian morality – or, indeed, any moral code. People who think that abortion is good are not going to be converted to Christianity with ease. Heck, just getting them to stop being raving lunatics is a herculean task. But if they are no longer paid to believe that abortion is good then they might stop actually believing that abortion is good…and that will open them up to the prospect of understanding that being a good person requires a strict moral code enforced by law and custom. But this is all for after: after the Left is defeated. I can’t get there from here – I must first get rid of the lunatics. Then I can talk.

Evil People Like Being Evil

Mark Noonan17 Comments

People are now really noticing the grooming scandal out of Rotherham, UK and there’s all the “how can this happen?” sorts of statements going on. I refer you to this passage in Book VII: Empress:

This, I think, is what we normies don’t fully realize. A person on X asked is there’s some sort of passage (ritual?) where becoming a child abuser is necessary for advancement in the Establishment. To this I replied, in a way. You see, to really have power with the full backing of the global Establishment, you must sign off on abortion as a positive good. No more of this mucking around with “while I’m personally opposed” drivel from the 1980s…you have to get out there and say and do actions which actively promote abortion as a moral good. Once you’ve passed that Rubicon…well, tolerating the abuse of kids is easy. And, as noted above: fun. Rely on it: the people who covered up Rotherham had a big, old laugh about it…because their ability to cover it up and their current program to just bareface it out demonstrates their power.

“So, now you know we pretty much actively encouraged it. So, what? What can you do about it? Oh, and here’s a Bobby to arrest you for posting about it on social media.”

We aren’t quite there in the USA yet but, as per usual in social disintegration, we’re always about a decade behind the rest of the Western world. Takes longer here because of our federal system and written Constitution. But make no mistake about it, and we’ve already seen it: the government is going to eventually try to arrest us for noticing government corruption. And just like over in Europe, they’ll justify it as a fight against racism or whatever alleged “phobia” they can think of. Trump is going to become a finger in the dyke in 17 days…but if we don’t really dig deep and reform, then he’s just going to slow it down.

This really should come as no surprise – we have seen it before. In the Soviet Commissar forcing his female prisoners to be his sex slaves. In the Nazi camp guard waking up is prisoners with ice water in the middle of the night. Needless cruelty done just because the perpetrator can do it. And they do it because they enjoy it. Having no sense of decency and no real conception of God (whatever they might have started with long since burned out of them), they just do it because they can. Solzhenitsyn theorized that the interrogators of the Lubyanka must have got together to discuss ways and means of being cruel because once it happened to one prisoner, it soon happened to all the rest…as if they were trying out new ways of being gratuitously cruel…with some har, har, hars and back slapping as they decided which prisoner to try it out on first. And then these people went home to their wives and/or girlfriends and acted like they were normal human beings.

But they ain’t. Now, to be sure, as long as we are alive we are all capable of redemption but we also know per the Bible that sometimes hearts can be hardened…that God lets the choice of the wicked be ratified and that’s when they get exceptionally horrid. People who have those hard hearts might, at times, seem normal…they can still put on the false front. But deep down inside they’re just looking for the next cruel thing to do…and the more senseless it is, the better. Remember, the slaves of GULAG and the Arbeitseinsatz didn’t have to be treated brutally…nearly starved and beaten over trivial things. In fact, the Soviet and Nazi regimes would have got vastly more economic benefit out of their slaves had they been well fed and treated with kindness. It actually worked against the regimes to do what they did…Nazi soldiers lacked sufficient weapons and supplies because of it towards the end of the war. But it happened…because, as I said, evil people like to do evil things.

So, what to do?

First thing – call it evil. These aren’t mistakes. These are failures of the system. These are deliberate, malicious acts of evil and those who did them have to be very severely punished.

That is going to be the key to restoring our world. To resume a society of logic and decency – severe punishment inflicted upon the wicked. If we don’t do that, then we’re doomed. I’m hoping that we’re just about to start doing that.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart – Psalm 19

Mark Noonan13 Comments

You heard that this morning when you went to Church.

Right?

It really struck home…and sort of worked into something that occurred to me earlier in the week: the laws of God are not a ban on fun, but just ten simple rules (boiled down to two by Our Lord) for a sane life. The precepts of the Lord really do give joy to the heart. Think about it. If everyone on Earth just agreed to abide by the Ten Commandments for one week – just seven, little days – think about what a wonderful week that would be? No lies. No murder. No adultery/fornication. No theft. No wrath or jealousy. It would be a week of total chill…and it would cost us nothing. Nobody would lose a thing by it. If we would obey the precepts of the Lord, we’d be living pretty joyfully.

And that’s why the world today is held up by a scaffold of lies. It is all a bunch of drivel designed to really get to one thing – that people don’t have joy in their lives. And that just tells you who the author of the modern world is right there.

Here is Nevada we are inundated with pro-abortion ads. The most sick and twisted is teenage-looking girls (I’m sure they’re over 18 for legal purposes but clearly chosen to look 15-ish) begging us to save their right to an abortion. “Think about us”, they say. We have to make sure they can get an abortion…we have to make sure, that is, they can get their lives ruined as early as possible but at least scrape away the most inconvenient result (and, of course, protect the older men who abuse them…can’t forget that: Question 6 here in Nevada legalizes abortion for minors without parental consent…because we must ensure the degenerates can dispose of the strongest evidence against them). What strikes you about it – aside from revulsion – is how very sad it is. That we’ve clearly got girls of a very young age who are resigned to being sexually used and tossed aside…and abort that kid so you can have your career in a cubicle farm.

If they were just working on obeying the precepts of the Lord, of course, they’d look forward to marriage to a man who will promise and kids growing up and all that normal, sane, human stuff. Can’t have that, can we?

On and on like that. Young boys are also taught to ruin themselves – that their relationship goal isn’t to make a manly promise to a woman, but to skip from one to another because that “respects” a woman’s independence. This has had the effect of making more and more young men have contempt for women…to see them as objects. And irritating objects at that. Useful for only one thing so why put up with her outside of the bedroom? It is causing a real crisis in manhood…men aren’t geared to be like that and talking them into being pigs is causing psychic breakdown in the men as well.

There was a reason we used to stamp on people who lived badly and lied – and it wasn’t because we were anti-fun. It was because we had a little bit of common sense. We were a mature, sensible people – we didn’t believe childish notions about having one’s cake and eating it too. We knew that life was a series of trade offs and that if we wanted a bit of real happiness and prosperity then we had to ensure at least a basic level of morality – that we had a least a little bit of obeying the precepts of the Lord, even if a lot of people did cut corners on that when they could.

We have to get back to that.

It will be difficult.

But it will be worth it.