Allies?

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Yesterday, Trump posted that he was ordering a reduction in our participation in a joint military exercise with South Korea – at the same time saying a few kind words about the dictator of North Korea. It seems to have passed without much a ripple in the MSM, but it has caused some consternation on the right. How could he? What is Trump thinking? South Korea is a close ally!

Yeah – a close ally which has refused to help us in our battle to secure the Straight of Hormuz, vital for South Korea’s energy needs. Trump did point that out in the post. This, my friends, is actual diplomacy. Everyone is a League of Nations man as long as someone else is the patsy.

Mark, just what the heck are you talking about? Glad you asked!

The concept of some sort of League of Nations showed up in the late 18th century – a sort of last gasp of the Enlightenment (so-called) which had asserted that private judgement would be great only to have it finish up in the September Massacres. What was needed, it was asserted, was a body of some sort where all the nations of the world could come together and compose their differences in a spirit honest give and take. Just about everyone agreed with the idea…but it didn’t get anywhere because while the theory was excellent, the pragmatic facts of life is that there had to be an enforcement mechanism. Someone who would be willing to underwrite the military defense of the agreement and the members of the League. For a long while, no takers – not even when the thing called a League of Nations was made in the aftermath of the First World War. It was only at the tail end of World War Two that the world found its sucker – more accurately, its Uncle Sucker.

There is absolutely nothing better than having a Protector who also isn’t a Ruler. In fact, this is the first time its ever happened – one nation, the most powerful on Earth, allowing itself to be financially bled white (and some times actually bled) so that everyone else can abdicate their responsibilities while still getting a say in how things are done. Don’t worry, guys, America will protect you! Vote against us in the UN! Trade with America’s enemies! Call American soldiers war criminals! It doesn’t matter – America will still be there for you! Paying for your defense. Heck, in some cases paying you for the privilege of defending you! You can massively expand your welfare state. Cut your defense to the point your military is a pathetic joke. Indulge in all sorts of crackpot social experiments which unman your own people so that a few foreign savages can take over…go ahead! Uncle Sucker will be there for you!

Until now. Trump has decided to end this farce – and it is way past time. An alliance must be a two way street. If I agree to send America’s sons and daughters to defend the 38th parallel, then Korea’s sons and daughters better be available at need. And it isn’t a big ask. We’re not asking Korea to send an army to occupy Tehran…but a bit of assist in securing the Straight. No, Korea, you don’t get to make back room deals with the Mullahs…trying to play both sides of the street. You picked a side. Ours. If you wish to switch sides, fine. We’re ok with that, too. But no more free ride. Trump is also doing in with our European “allies”. Put up or shut up.

And it will make for a far more rational world where US interests are advanced…as well the interests of those who are friends. After all, it might be a tough thing to swallow for South Korea. Their politicians get a lot of domestic political mileage out of denigrating the United States. But that isn’t in Korea’s interest. Korea really does face a hostile power to the north which is backed by the second most powerful nation in the world, China. Unless South Korea wants to become a conscript ally of China, they’d better decide to be America’s ally. That means helping us when we ask. Being on our side in global conflicts. A cessation of cheap shots at American honor. Be an ally. Or be an enemy. I don’t really care. But don’t be a two faced sack of…stuff.

So, too, all the rest of the nations of the world. Vietnam needs us as an ally against China. Poland needs us as an ally against Russia. Russia needs us as an ally against China. Israel needs us as an ally against the Islamists. Greece needs us as an ally against Turkey. There are lots of things the USA can do with other nations which are beneficial to both parties…but it can only be beneficial if it is honest and if both sides ante up their blood and treasure for the other. The world will be a safer and freer place if we insist upon real alliances – as Trump is doing.

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.

Open Thread

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More documents regarding the origins of Russia, Russia, Russia have been released – nothing we didn’t already know but now we’re getting some names of who started it all. This helps map out the picture of Team Obama getting the ball rolling…what we don’t have is confirmation that Obama, himself, was aware and/or ordered it done. I doubt that Obama has the courage to put his name on such a thing…probably was more of a nod as DOJ ran the whole thing by him. What is clear is that they sought to destroy Trump during the 2016 campaign and then amped it up after he took office. Crucial: it was during the campaign they sought to destroy him.

If you rewatch the MSM coverage of election night, 2016, it just gets funnier each time. They were so sure (heck, I think we were all so sure!). It was supposed to be a short night ending in Hillary’s victory speech. If you watch the coverage you can see the happy faces slip into fear and then despair. But given that they were all so sure, why try to destroy Trump during the campaign? You start to suspect that someone decided to do a deep dive into the polling and found Trump had a real chance. Do you realize what level of panic that would generate in the highest reaches of the Establishment? It is the only explanation for why they started this at a time when, officially, Hillary was cruising to victory. That takes things like the CIA director…and at least tacit approval of the sitting President. And once you start you keep going – because you have to. If the target obtains power and finds out, you’re doomed. The 2020 result was mere follow up. The assassination attempts…follow up on steroids.

And keep in mind, the FBI and CIA swung massively into action in 2020 to hide the Biden family corruption – the fact that Biden was bought and paid for by foreign interests. Why? Well, sure: TDS. But more importantly – Biden was never high enough up in the food chain to get the really good payoffs. He wasn’t getting Obama money, nor Pelosi money. He got relative peanuts. Protecting Biden in 2020 was only partially about getting Trump…it was mostly about making sure the scale of foreign money buying Americans was kept out of sight.

Abdul El-Sayed has scrubbed his social media accounts – having to delete things like a desire to ban Fourth of July fireworks and abolish the Second Amendment. Do keep in mind that this doesn’t reflect a change of heart…just a pack of lies designed to get him over the electoral finish line. Personally, I think he’s just way too Commie – and way too stupid – to make it. We’ll see. But the coalition of Islamists and upper class white women in Michigan will, I believe, prove too small in November. And, yes, he’s as much a fraud as you suspect – the man played polo as a kid. As one jokester put it – Abdul El-Sayed is ready to seize the day and the means of production in a $10,000 suit.

Looks like the insane commie in Wisconsin – Hong – will lose her bid to be nominated for governor. And it looks like the Democrats manufactured some late votes to ensure she did. I wonder if she’ll wake up a bit, now? She’s been a good, little commie foot soldier for them for years and here they come to knife her in the back. She could expose a lot if she wanted to.

But she’ll probably settle for some media gig and/or book deal. They are always so easily bought off.

Nixon, the Pre-Trump

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Someone pointed out that it was 52 years ago today that Nixon resigned. While I have memories that stretch back to the 1960’s, it was Watergate that became the first connected Narrative of my life: while I was a child and didn’t remotely have full understanding of it all, I saw it unfold (mostly against my will: Dad watched every minute of the hearings even though cartoons were, indeed, showing on a different channel) and it was comprehensible to me. And I remember this day and Dad watching Nixon depart the White House for the last time. “Well, they finally got him,” he said quietly to himself. I didn’t really understand that at the time – because the Narrative was Nixon Bad. Do Bad Things. Nixon Crook. Must Go. Bad Bad Bad Nixon. But, as per usual, Dad’s understanding was vastly superior to most.

There has been quite a rehabilitation of Nixon of late. It was started, of course, by Nixon himself. He wasn’t going to let those who destroyed his political career have the last word on what Nixon was about. So, he self-selected himself as our Elder Statesman and put in the hard work to actually be an Elder Statesman. It it my view that Nixon might have been the most intelligent man to ever be President. Perhaps to even lead any nation, ever. His ability to analyze situations and figure out the crucial points was amazing. This doesn’t mean he didn’t make some mistakes. He made a couple quite fabulous mistakes…but in the context of the times, within the limitations of a Deep State nobody fully understood until Trump, you can understand why he made those mistakes.

First off, he was flat wrong – via Kissinger – to stop the Israelis from destroying Egypt’s Third Army during the Yom Kippur War. At the time of the USA/USSR imposed ceasefire, Third Army was only two or three days away from abject surrender for lack of water. Should have allowed Israel to bag that Army – and then demanded a peace deal which would have been, essentially, Egyptians for peace…give a peace treaty (with Israel retaining part of the Sinai) and get your boys back. This would have been a better solution to the war and would have cemented not “land for peace” (which is why we have “from the river to the sea” these days) but “some land for peace”…in other words, when you get beat by the Jews, the Jews get part of your land, forever. So, don’t fight Jews. Like, ever.

Second was playing “the China card”. This was Deep State nonsense based upon drivel intel assessments that the USSR was as strong as the USA and getting stronger…that is, we needed China as an ally to counter the USSR. This wasn’t based upon any fact, ever. Just the biggest bit of nonsense imaginable. I figure it was Soviet moles in the CIA who put such intel together. But given that intel – which Nixon could not have known at the time was nonsense – at the time opening up to China seemed a good idea. Long term, we’ve seen it has been an utter disaster. Right now, Chinese money is being spent to undermine the political stability of the USA – those DSA groups are often orchestrated by Chinese agents.

But, still, Nixon remains an historic person. A man of wide education and deep understanding. Capable of both great sentiment and cynicism (you have to have both to be a great leader). And he was destroyed, ultimately, simply because Nixon had played a big role in exposing Alger Hiss. That act had got Nixon in the Establishment’s crosshairs…how dare this nobody from a working class family dare trip up Hiss! For goodness sake, Hiss was a Harvard man! Nixon graduated from some low-rent school in California! It really is a club and you ain’t a member. Neither was Nixon. So they went after him and after him and after him…finally managing to get him via Watergate where, we find, Nixon did nothing except discuss the possibility of trying to make the whole matter go away.

What we can most learn from Nixon is that we can’t let the Establishment take even one trick. The other day Todd Blanche was finally confirmed as Attorney General. The usual TDS/RINO suspects are deploring the fact that Blanche used to be Trump’s personal attorney. “He should recuse himself!”. Why? On what grounds? I mean, on what grounds in a world were Obama’s AG declared himself Obama’s wingman? In a world where Trump’s first AG recused himself just so the Deep State could cook up the Trump-Russia nonsense which plagued Trump’s first time? No. Nope. Ain’t happening. Blanche by all available knowledge is a first rate lawyer who is honest. I don’t care that he used to represent Trump. Will he carry out Executive Branch policy which is set by the President? That is all that matters – because there is no independence at Justice. The President is to see to is that the laws are faithfully enforced. The President is the person vested with all Executive authority. The President sets the policy…the cabinet implements it…not going off on a tangent in response to some nonsense in the MSM about how Bad the Orange Man is. Bottom line, if Nixon had rigidly opposed the whole Watergate effort – not letting his staff testify – it would have gone nowhere. Lesson learned: don’t cooperate with those who are looking to get you.

And Trump does get this. Not just from the Nixon example, of course; he’s also learned some harsh lessons in the first person. But the Establishment is just as keen to destroy Trump as it was Nixon – and for largely the same reason: daring to challenge the Establishment’s man (though in Trump’s case, it was the Establishment’s woman – Hillary). It doesn’t matter what policies Trump pursues. He could come out in favor of the entire DSA program tomorrow and they’d still hate him and work to destroy him…he’s a low class nobody! He’s not supposed to be there! That is Hillary’s spot!!! All that really matters. And we must understand this. Outside all the lies and theft, all the killings and brutality, all of the grifting and freakishness…the only thing that really matters to the Establishment is being the Establishment. Being in charge. Not being questioned. Having a semi-divine aura about them. Anyone who disturbs this must be destroyed. They got Nixon. I don’t think they’ll get Trump.

And their next target is Vance.

Open Thread

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British media is reporting a “rise in racism” among patients of the National Health Service. Allegedly, white Brits are using derogatory terms towards Medical Personnel of Color…of course, same Brit media will say that a POC should be able to ask for a non-white doctor because that makes them feel more comfortable. But a white guy does the same? Racism!!!!

Or the fact that foreign-born medical personnel are 1.8 times more likely to be hauled up on malpractice charges than native British medical personnel. Could be that, ya know? And you know it is – and that is why the Brit media is putting out “racist white Brits” here…to forestall complaints about non-white medicos. Make a complaint and the police might pay you a visit to see if you’re violating Britain’s anti-racism laws. With evidence that you are being, well, you’re white. The twists and turns the global Ruling Class will make just to sustain their views.

What I like to point out is that Mumbai (which is really Bombay…a city founded by the Portuguese, not the Indians, later ceded to Britain…the name change is just a lame Indian attempt to pretend the Raj never happened) is the richest city in India and yet you can easily find pictures of Bombay like this:

Granted, this was probably taken after a storm or some such and is likely the worst you’ll ever see the beach…but, still, what a dump. In India’s richest city. Fully functional societies don’t have this. India has always had squalor, of course…but I’ll bet any amount of money that when Mumbai was Bombay, this sort of thing was never seen. If these Indians are so brilliant that we have to import them by the bushel, why does India look like it does? I think someone is trying to sell us on a con, guys.

Oh, the Lefties are out there saying that El-Sayed is this totes brilliant guy with doctorates n’ stuff…and I’m over here going, “can we check?”. That is, let’s have someone do a deep dive into just how he and the rest of these Leftist clowns are getting their credentials. We know it has all been massively dumbed down…how much dumbed down to get our first Muslim health director in Michigan? A little? A lot? We should find out.

More people are starting to understand that 2026 is a binary choice – you’re voting GOP, or you’re voting for the Communist destruction of the United States. And this is dawning on people before Trump and the GOP put that message on steroids heading into the Fall. The Left which was allowed into the Democrat ranks in 1972 has completely taken over and with that the mask is off…their underlying insane ideas are now front and center. We’ll see how it plays out.

Curing Communist Bums

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Got into a bit of a discussion with a Commie on X and it was interesting in illustrating just how miserably we’ve failed to tell the story of Communism. He was full of the usual “it wasn’t that bad and it was meant to be good and it was better than the Nazis and it is all the West’s fault blah blah blah”. Do have to hand it to the Commies – of all the inhuman things which have come up in modern times, it by far has had the best PR. Of course, they have been helped by the utter destruction of education in the West. Always good to keep that in mind – and you have to consider how truly educated you had to be to get into college unless Daddy was a benefactor or some such. Outside of that leverage, you have to be of a high intellectual level just to be there – but then starting, say, in the late 19th century, the standards were progressively dropped until here in 2026 college grads are barely literate and don’t know what, say, a modestly successful 8th grader might have known 100 years ago. Fertile grounds for Communism!

And that brings up another thing I saw on X a few days back – a young man lamenting the hostility to Communism. Don’t we hidebound geezers understand that sometimes people don’t want to work but want to merely cultivate their own garden in peace? I stayed away from pointing out – as most did – that under Communism you can’t have your “own garden” and instead opted to point out that we have here the primary appeal of Communism: the desire to not work. Somehow or another the Communists assume that “from each according to their ability” will always work out to someone else making sure food is on the table. Plenty of Third World Communist armies were fully staffed with the sons of farmers who’s dream was to be a clerk in an air conditioned office…putting in maybe two hours a day and evenings at a coffee shop discussing the evils of Capitalism and private property. Anything to get out of feeding the hogs, right? And going to Church on Sundays…

And that got me to realize that sloth is, next to pride, the worst sin. The desire to kick back and live on the labor of others – to steal your daily bread. Without even the labor (and danger) of actually robbing someone. Get in and get on is the watchword for humanity unless it is carefully trained out of us. To be decent, one must learn – eventually – that the only things you should have are those you earn. That to live off others – even if it is a freely offered gift – is dishonorable. Better to be the poor worker than the fat welfare bum. Work up a theory which somehow shows that you, the theorist, shouldn’t have to work. Doesn’t matter what you use to justify it as long as you can find and fix someone to take the blame for the fact that injustice exists in the world. All in all, this line of thinking has made me ever more convinced that we’re eventually going to have to create labor camps for the tens of millions who are part of the system of exploitation…real exploitation. Not the so-called Capitalist sort: the exploitation which has an oil field worker turning over 40% of his income so that welfare bums can eat cheetos and a government elite can live in carefully guarded, upscale communities. The HR director as well as the couch potato will benefit greatly spending a few years at hard labor – and we can use this labor to greatly beautify the public spaces of the United States. First by simply cleaning them up, and then by replacing the low-rent construction of roads and bridges with stuff that would make Romans envious. Imagine instead of black lines of asphalt crisscrossing America it was all done with locally obtained paving stones? Bridges made to last two thousand years out of stone rather than steel that rusts away after 100 years? It would be great. And the bums would come back from it healthy…and we would pay them, so they’d also know how truly valuable an earned dollar can be.

Open Thread

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John Cleese – of Monty Python fame – has come out very strongly in favor of Restore Britain: the new British political party which is committed to expelling the migrants. Cleese has been a life-long Lefty. Probably still is, at least for the most part. But he recognizes (and perhaps too late) that if there is to be a Britain which allows a John Cleese to thrive, it can’t be a Britain overrun with migrants. That to try to absorb millions of foreigners who despise the local culture is impossible – they must be forced out or they will take over. There is no middle ground here.

To be sure, there could have been. If the British government had carefully vetted the migrants, limited their numbers and insisted they be educated, wealthy and not tied to Islamist ideology, Britain could have taken in quite a lot of Muslims without any great difficulty. What Britain did – what all of Europe has done – is take in the least acceptable Muslims. Ignorant, backwards, bigoted people entirely enthralled to Islamist ideology. By doing this, the British Ruling Class – the European Ruling Class – has made it a zero-sum game: all or nothing. One side or the other must be destroyed.

Right now, I rate it heavily in the Islamist’s favor. Every European institution is entirely captured by them and the European population in sunk into sloth and cowardice. But it wouldn’t take much. As has been famously said, only 3% – if it is really determined – is necessary. In Europe, I drop that to 1% because the military and police forces of Europe are pathetic and nobody is really going to fight hard to keep the current system. The bigger fight would be between the patriots and the invaders – but turning out the British government, itself, would only take about 10,000 determined British patriots marching on London. And maybe someone like Cleese coming out in favor of Britain will start the ball rolling? I hope it does. I’d hate to see European civilization end.

Fauci took the fifth quite a lot – not quite as much as Vito Genovese, but right up there. Oddly, he’s been granted a pardon…which means he really can’t take the fifth; he’s not in danger of jail no matter what he says about the time period covered (which goes back to 2014). This refusal to answer is contempt of Congress, an actual crime. We’ll see if the Congress has the guts to refer him…but even there, the hearing was held in DC, which means we’d have to try him in DC and no DC jury is going to convict Fauci. Should have had a special session of the committee in Florida. That said, Fauci utterly destroyed himself. Probably most people hadn’t known he had been pardoned…and why not answer questions about what you did? He’s the great scientist, right? What’s to hide? The Mrs is still not very political and she, watching the hearing, came to loath Fauci. Wanted to smack him kind of loathing. This matters – it is important in and of itself; it is people at last losing respect for the Ruling Class. That is really what destroys them.

Francesca Hong is the likely Democrat nominee for governor of Wisconsin and she’s completely insane. Seriously holding to the “police cause crime” Democrat Socialist line. She’s not remotely alone nor nearly the most insane Democrat rising in 2026. Trump and the GOP will mercilessly point this out all through to November.

Iran took a shot at a US base and word now is that Trump has ordered the gloves taken off. We’ll see how that plays out.

It is pretty certain that if there’s a small, urban market that takes EBT, it is just a front for welfare fraud.

Open Thread

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The Nazi origins of MKUltra? Mark Felton has a good look at it:

Goes along with our realization after Butler that you don’t need a gigantic conspiracy…just a few people have to be in the know if you can also arrange it that security is lax and sort of walk your target into range. A few days back I just happened across the TV news coverage of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and it was all so very odd that it just seemed to happen…but then you find out that he had planned to go one way which would have entirely missed Sirhan but last second (likely literally “hey, Bobby, walk this way” kind of last second) it was changed to a path which walked him right up to get shot. Sheer happenstance, of course. Right? Back in those days no Secret Service protection for candidates but, also, it wasn’t like there weren’t LAPD cops around. There was security…and a “lone nut” managed to get into the kitchen of the hotel as someone decided RFK should walk right down the path to the killer.

We really don’t know, do we? That is, so much nonsense has been piled up over an 80 year period (and so much of the supporting documents are long gone, as are the people who were involved) that we can’t unwind it all. This does give free play to the conspiracy theorists – and as I’ve said before, I think at least some of the conspiracy theories are floated by the guilty to deflect attention from the real crime. But what I think a lot of people don’t fully realize is just how much our alleged leaders are complete zeros. Nincompoops. Barely literate morons who probably can’t change a tire. Do we really think that Nancy Pelosi figured out how to make all that money? She’s worth $640 million. She’s got a BA in Political Science; even if standards were more rigorous back in her day, its not the sort of degree that makes you the wolf of Wall Street. Also, just listen to her – has anything she said ever sounded like there was thought behind it? It is all just propaganda points mindlessly repeated until revised points are provided. On and on like that go our leaders – and, yes, including a lot of GOP leaders, as well (though the GOP does have some actual intellectual power in it). They’re morons doing what they’re told and being rewarded with untold riches if they toe the line…meanwhile, someone who might change thing gets off the ranch…Dallas, Los Angeles, Butler (close one!).

I hear that the Islamist who rammed his car into a German pride parade is a man who was under investigation for planning terrorism, fled to Lebanon to escape justice and then was deliberately brought back to Germany. Word is he was scheduled to start taking de-radicalization training soon. Just amazing – and shows how much the global ruling class really hates the West…and how stupid they are. I have little hope the Europeans will rise up but if they do (and it would only take 1% of them rising up to overthrow the system) then what will happen to the ruling class will make the Great Terror of the French Revolution look tame. Oh, and at the vigil for the victims one speaker was hoping the attacker was a white Christian instead of an Islamist…

I guess Chicago was subsidizing private grocery stores to the tune of $14 million and those stores have now shut down. Reminder: those stores were opened because the chains figured there was EBT to rake in. And there was. For years. But the welfare bums – who often as not just illegally convert their EBT to cash for 50 cents on the dollar – started stealing so much the stores lost money…and then continued to lose money even after they were hooked up to taxpayer dollars. Naturally, “leaders” of the local community are upset…though none of them are calling for the arrest of shoplifters (its better than even money that the “leaders” are actually gangsters who organize the shoplifting; their actual complaint is loss of easy targets for looting).

Open Thread

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Culture War

Mark Noonan20 Comments

Apparently in the new Odyssey movie, Odysseus suffers from a form of PTSD over his participation in the sack of Troy. Thus one of the problems of crafting a historical epic – complete misunderstanding of how the people at the time viewed the matter.

They did have rules of war! Don’t think for a moment that they didn’t. And those persons and powers who egregiously violated those rules would be hated, perhaps even fought to destruction because of it. There was even a rule about sacking cities – in that if a city surrendered on terms then the conquering power had to live up to them…the terms usually being that the people are spared death or slavery and rather than looting, the wealth of the city is carefully tallied up and transferred to the conqueror, leaving enough for the conquered city to survive (it would, after all, now become part of the conqueror’s realm). But a city taken by assault? Different story: the defender’s lives are forfeit and they’re fortunate to merely be reduced to slavery. Bottom line, Odysseus would not have felt bad about sacking Troy; in the moral code he lived in, there was no problem with what the Greeks did. But if we translated him to 1570 to observe the Siege of Famagusta he would have been outraged that Mustafa Pasha, after accepting the surrender on terms, then went on to murder the defeated Venetian commander, Marco Antonio Bragadin as well as every other Christian he could lay his hands on. This was a rather stupid move by Mustafa as it fired up the Venetians (as well as the overall Christian West) so that a little more than a year later, at Lepanto, the Christians were…well…not very nice to the defeated Muslims. So, rules. Just not our rules. More importantly, just not our rather silly rules.

I’ve talked about this before and in war, very bad things happen. Decent people try to limit the bad as much as possible – and bring any war to as rapid a conclusion as possible – but, mainly: bad. You are, after all, trying to kill people in order to compel them to obey your orders. This is not a nice thing to do and it can’t be done except by being, to some degree, rather nasty. But in the modern West, we’re supposed to believe there’s a method of warfare where everything is done nicely. Can’t happen. As Jackie Fisher put it, attempts to humanize war are akin to humanizing hell. But because we’ve been sold this concept, we can’t imagine an Odysseus not feeling guilty about the sack of Troy…which, to be sure, would entail lots of murder, rape and looting…with the survivors sold off as slaves. But that was the code they all lived by – and the Trojans could have accepted surrender terms. They felt they didn’t have to. Bet wrong!

And that gets me to this: this new movie, like all of popular culture, is an attempt to propagandize us into a certain mode of thinking. Like all those Cold War movies which cast the United States as the bad guys…the unreasonable partners in the global dance. Which cast patriotic Americans as idiots who simply didn’t understand things. On and on like that – it didn’t take with all of us, but it did take with enough…so now we’ve got American citizens calling essentially for the abolition of our Constitution and the rejection of our Declaration of Independence. That is, wishing to replace America with something quite different…something they view as other than the inherent evil which is the United States of America.

None of this is done with a sledge hammer, nor is it done overnight. It is a slow, steady drip, drip, drip of propaganda until the ground is ready for the seed of treason. We’re being told – mostly by allegedly Right voices – that we should ignore the DEI casting decisions in The Odyssey. They are all small roles. Only on screen for a few minutes. Ignore that! Look at the beautiful film! This is why we were losing for so long. We kept just gliding over the subversive aspects…after all, they didn’t work on us! Or, at least, not as much as they worked on others. But by making things like The Manchurian Candidate and Cool Hand Luke part of our shared culture, we were simply internalizing enemy propaganda. In The Manchurian Candidate, the true enemy is anti-Communism. Don’t fight the Communists! Fight the Americans who want to fight Communism – the True Irredeemable Bad Guys are displayed with a pathetic caricature of Joe McCarthy…name never mentioned but everyone knew and he’s just this drunken idiot puppet of malign forces. In Cool Hand Luke the true enemy isn’t a shiftless vandal, but prison guards trying to keep good order among a prison population made of of men with a proven disregard for truth and the property of others. We’re supposed to feel sympathy for Luke – he didn’t really do anything that bad, right? Just a little bit of vandalism. Let him go! I submit Detroit as the result of that attitude turned into policy.

In The Odyssey, the drip, drip, drip is mostly that West doesn’t matter – never did anything. As I’ve said before, it doesn’t really matter what the skin color of the actors are – but it must be placed in a proper context. You can have an all-black Odyssey…but you’d have to set it in Bronze Age Africa. To just slip a black lady into the role of Helen of Troy is to insult the work and those who love it. It isn’t a matter of disliking black, it is a matter of loving the integrity of the story. And, of course, it never goes the other way. If a person in a story is female, black, Asian, gay, Muslim or what have you then the actor portraying that character better match up. We are told we must honor the wonderful achievements of everyone except for the white or the male or the Christian. One thing that did make me laugh was in the reboot of the Star Trek movies starting in 2009, the character of Mr Sulu is gay. He wasn’t in the original series, nor in the first batch of movies. Why is he gay now? Because the actor who played him in the original series is gay. That this didn’t come out until years after the first series went off the air is irrelevant. That there are scenes in the original series indicating Mr Sulu is heterosexual also doesn’t matter. The actor is gay, so Mr Sulu is now gay for all time to come. Just try to make him straight in some later movie or TV show and you’ll get howls of anger. We get erased, they get strictly honored in all things…and get to take over our roles at will…we’re not even supposed to laugh when they cast a black woman as Richard III.

The main take away here is to not give them an inch, because we know they’re going for the mile. Don’t participate in their absurdity. In this, it can be just waiting until The Odyssey shows up on streaming. Personally, I won’t watch it at all – the source used for the movie is a feminist re-write of the original, the DEI casting decisions are absurd and the scenes I’ve seen from it don’t impress me at all. Nolan is a pretty good movie maker but I think he got way off course on this one. Don’t concede the point. Don’t be like, “well, I didn’t mind the casting”. Mind it. Say it. Call it the idiotic twaddle that it is, even if you otherwise like the film. Point and laugh at it – don’t get yourself invested in it. That is, don’t feel like your intellect requires you to say you like something you don’t. Don’t be one of those people who simply want to sit at the cool kid’s table and so will say something nice about nonsense.

And, of course (and once again) we on the right simply must start building a replacement entertainment industry…one that will subvert the Left rather than the Right. We do have talent! We just don’t have institutions willing to pass us bundles of cash for garbage, like the Left does.