The Insidious Erosion of Civilization

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If you’re of a certain age, you remember this movie – and it is a good one. You can easily rate it as one of Newman’s best as well as one of the best of the 1960’s. George Kennedy’s Best Supporting Oscar was well earned while Strother Martin completely nailed the role of “the Captain”. But it is also rather horrible and was definitely a piece in the gigantic pysop which essentially talked us into giving up civilization.

What is the story? Well, Luke is a dishonorably discharged WWII veteran who in a drunken haze destroys public property (parking meters) and so gets sentenced to a chain gang. As the story goes on, we find that Luke really doesn’t like rules! He heroically resists the rules! Damn those rules! And, to be fair to Luke, he is treated unjustly – when his mother passes way, the Captain puts him in the box to discourage him from any escape attempt to attend his mother’s funeral. This is wrong. On the other hand, it isn’t exactly the worst thing that can happen to a man.

Step back a moment before that box event and remember that Luke’s mother had come to visit him shortly before her death – and in the scene we find that Luke has a brother who is married, with kids, working the family farm and taking care of his ill mother. We’re supposed to instantly dislike the brother when he hands Luke his guitar and says, “now there’s no reason for you to come home”. Cruelty! But…the brother is taking care of mom and the farm and is supporting a wife and kids and did take time out of his life to make sure his mother could say goodbye to her ne’er do well son in jail. So, maybe not cruelty? Maybe exasperation? A man who could have used some help running the farm and taking care of mom and has just had it with his brother’s pointless antics?

Can’t say – because it isn’t explored in the film, which is a paean to the anti-hero – the man or woman who simply refuses to fit in and live up to the expectations of others. We’re focused in the film on Luke and only get enough of the backstory to understand why he’s in jail…but not why he did a thing which would get him in jail, other than a general sense that he’s a rebel…and a long-time one, too. When mom visits, she talks up about his rebel ways and the one time he almost gave it up to get married to a decent women, but he wrecked that, too. The end of the movie has Luke being unjustly shot and allowed to bleed out but still showing his defiance to the end. Which, was the end of a pointless existence that was very costly to society which not only didn’t receive any benefit from Luke’s existence, but had to pay a lot of extra money simply because he had been alive.

The sum total of the movie is to make people feel that being like Luke is a good thing – that rules are just made up things that the strong impose on the weak. It is, of course, quite the other way around – the rules are to ensure the weak can withstand the strong. End the rules and you get…well, Mexico; where there are no rules in any real sense and the strong take what they want and kill with impunity. But if your goal is to erode Western Civilization – to end Christendom as it used to be called – nothing better than well-written, well-acted movies which subtly but insidiously talk people into thinking that rules are bad…as long as said rules are those of Western Civilization. Bottom line, Luke is the villain. His mother the weak-kneed enabler of the villain. His brother the heroic defender of family. The Captain is the man who has to keep a lid on the villain to prevent bad from becoming outright evil. And there really was a failure to communicate…all through the life of Luke, nobody could ever convince him that being a man requires the courage to subordinate oneself to others.

I’ve written before about how effective advertising is. Propaganda, as it were. The one thing that Hitler really did hit upon – and from Toland’s biography, he hit upon it while he was a down-and-outer in Vienna – was the fact that if you say something with conviction over and over again, people will come to believe it, no matter how absurd it is. The Big Lie works exceptionally well. This is not to say that all advertising is a lie, but that if you advertise a lie often and effectively enough, people will believe it. What movies like Cool Hand Luke were doing – and it just got worse as the decades went on – was telling a society that the sober, the hard working, the honorable were the bad guys…just a bunch of rotten, hypocritical rat bastards preventing freedom. There is a straight line from movies like this to people figuring they can attack cops for merely enforcing the law…the people who jump on cars, set things on fire, loot shoe stores are the descendants of Luke…free to run wild because the Captain is now a career civil servant who figures his pension is more important than decency. And the rest of us pretend it is normal – you see? It didn’t just affect the miscreant…it also affected us. Infected us. We’re not shooting the people who set up roadblocks and set things on fire because…we’re somehow convinced that it’s ok for savages to impose upon us. We don’t want to be seen as the Captain, right? He’s the bad guy! So is the brother! Luke is the hero! Grab those nike’s!

It is going to be a long road back to civilization – and it will take some very tough people making some very hard decisions. I don’t see a completely non-violent way out of this mess. The only debatable point is how much violence there will be…because if the Left wins, they’ll impose violence on us of the most horrific sort, and all we can do is decide how much violence we’ll apply to them to prevent this. We have to stop being so weak – so cowardly. Civilization is a necessary thing for anything above the existence of brutes – and sometimes civilization has to destroy the barbarians…even if they appear dressed nice and speaking sweet words.

Human Rights and the Operation of Law

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Hate to link to Tik Tok but its the best video I can find on it. I hesitate to post it because I’m afraid Amazona will decide to move to El Salvador just so she can have a President who is clear, concise and doesn’t play stupid games with the overall Left. Go ahead and watch it, though – because President Bukele makes a point which is blazingly obvious but has remained unmentioned for decades as the Left has destroyed the world:

Sure, we all have rights. Even the very worst of us do…but everyone has rights. Everyone. Do you understand? Every last person on Earth has human rights…included in these rights are the rights to not be beheaded, raped, beaten and robbed by criminal gangs. Bukele is just a man who looked at the situation and arrived at the only possible conclusion: rights are being violated all to heck and gone in El Salvador and I must do everything I can to ensure the maximization of secured rights…and this meant rounding up every person he could find who had a gang tattoo or other obvious marker for being a criminal.

Sure, he almost certainly swept up some who didn’t need to be taken in – on the other hand, you don’t get a gang tattoo by accident. You get it for the very specific purpose of letting everyone know you’re in the gang, with all that entails. The main thing is that it was the only way to get it done – to turn El Salvador from a happy hunting ground for murders into a peaceful, free place where families can go out at night with zero fear. And it was an operation of law – it was, indeed, law in its purest form.

We are an over-lawyered society and so we tend to equate law with lawyer. We watch our tense, courtroom dramas and think that is law. It isn’t. It is a means of achieving law. And for the most part, it works very well. But not always. In El Salvador, under the old regime, the first thing a gangster would do when arrested was squeal like a stuck pig about his “rights”. And then the lawyers would swoop in, funded by drug money, to tie things up in knots and if that didn’t do the trick, just bribe and/or intimidate the cops and judges. It was downright impossible to punish anyone who was in a gang – and they ran wild. And don’t just think it happens in El Salvador – our own judiciary is corrupted. I am confident that some of it is bribery and intimidation, but most of the corruption is political…that is, huge swaths of our justice system are in the hands of people who are in it to protect the Left and harm the Right, as well as to harm America and our civilization at every turn. You think a man arrested 20 times for violent crimes is let out by accident? No. The judge who released him to go stab a girl on a bus did so on purpose – with the full intent that the violent criminal would go and do something horrible…go out, in the Leftist judge’s mind, and punish AmeriKKKa for its racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

The law isn’t there to make sure forms are filled out correctly – that your warrant is perfect. That your evidence is collected properly. It is there to ensure, as far as imperfect humans can, that justice is achieved. That, in the main, people are able to live their lives as they see fit, under no threat from others and able to retain the fruits of their labor. We have the forms and the warrants and the evidence collection procedures in place to ensure, as far as possible, that everything is on the level and everyone gets a fair shake. But while all that is going on, the primary purpose must be kept in mind: I should be able to walk down the poorest street in the city in middle of the night, tipsy after a few drinks with a hundred dollar bill sticking out of my pocket and make it safely to my destination 9,999 out of 10,000 times. We shouldn’t have to lock our doors. We shouldn’t have to get a concealed carry permit. We shouldn’t have to spend money on burglar alarms. A murder or armed robbery should be a shocking rarity which rates blazing headlines in the news. That is law. That is what law is for. And if they say we have law but murder, assault and robbery are common enough that you’re taking defensive measures against them, then you don’t have law. You have anarchy.

To be sure, “round ’em all up and sort ’em out later” must never become the norm. On the other hand, the intense levels of criminality we see in certain parts of the USA must never be the norm, either. Abnormal circumstances require abnormal actions. You do what you have to do to secure justice…to ensure that you live in a lawful society. And I do believe we’re getting to the point where we here in the USA will have to take a page out of Bukele’s book. Trump is doing a fantastic job – and in spite of critics, I think Bondi and Patel are doing well, too. This is our last chance to just use the regular tools…but we’re already seeing signs that it might not be enough. Mostly in things like that Luigi character having the death penalty taken off the table via suppression of evidence by a clearly Leftist judge. Also when we see juries in Left areas simply not convicting obviously guilty Leftists. On and on like that – but we can’t live in a society which has a host of lawyers, judges and cops but no law.

The securing of human rights is not a theory – it is the purpose of government. It is, as our sublime Declaration states, the reason why governments are instituted among people. If I can’t be safe and free and in possession of my property, then what purpose is the government? How is there law if I can lose my life and property on a whim? There isn’t. And if making sure I can hold my life and property means that those who would take both need to be treated harshly, then so be it – the criminal does not lose his rights, but by the abuse of his free will he compels us to restrain him…and in doing that, we can’t be too fussy about whether or not every form was filled out just right.

Open Thread

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Walz backed down, Frey is standing firm – both are idiots but my guess is that Walz knows a losing hand when he sees one…while Frey is probably so beholden to Minneapolis corruption that he knows he stands or falls with it. Bottom line is that if Minnesota allows mere federal law enforcement, then the jig is up for the Left in that State…they’ll lose their ability to steal money and elections.

Trump isn’t backing down. The various hand-wringers on the Right went into full Doom mode but were silenced when ICE was seen having beers and watching Minnesota cops clear out the rioters from their hotel. Nobody is leaving. Nobody is slowing down. The illegals are still going to go. All of them.

That this is all an op is shown by the RINOs who immediately jumped out with their pre-written amnesty plans…and the Democrats also came out with theirs. Both are absurd, neither has a chance of passage and if any get through Congress, they face a certain veto by Trump. The Democrats want to make ICE get a judicial warrant for each illegal and they can only get such if the illegals commit a federal crime beyond illegal entry…so, you know, no deportations once you get into the country. Nothing shows better that this whole effort is to keep up the fraud…because Democrats know they can’t win without it. And do keep in mind that if we lose in 2028, then that may be final…Democrats will pack the courts, open the gates and do everything they can to make sure they can’t lose a vote.

This is why the continued insistence on the Right with keeping the filibuster is just plain and simple stupid – there is no upside to keep it, no downside to dropping it. Keeping it just allows Democrats to slow us down in 2026 while dropping it doesn’t matter long term…Democrats will ditch it at their first opportunity. This isn’t the old America – we’re no longer living in a nation where everyone is a patriot. Democrats hate this country. They only see it as something to steal from – with the Leftwing fanatics additionally seeing it as something to kill as soon as possible.

But if we stand firm, we’re going to win. The economy is starting to go like a rocket. Trump is clearly enjoying himself, knowing that he has every advantage. He’s already on the stump for 2026 and he plus GOP have something like a billion dollars in the bank to campaign with. The Democrat policies are downright insane and nobody looking at them will figure they have the better path forward..and Trump will make sure everyone looks at them.

That vile Ilhan Omar was the “victim” of an alleged “attack”…someone sprayed some liquid on her. The pre-made MSM Narrative was her continuing her speech like the Brave Fighter for Justice she is…but, sorry, someone sprays some unknown liquid on my I’m going to immediately wash it off and get myself checked out. This is simple prudence…that she kept talking puts a huge amount of Smollet on this event. There’s nothing I want more than her being stripped of her “citizenship” and deported. She’s not one of my fellow Americans…she’s a mere Paperwork American and if we can find the slightest falsehood in there, out she goes.


The Battle of Minneapolis

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The Democrats – the overall American Left – have chosen Minneapolis as ground zero. This is logical in that the city is entirely under Democrat control in a State where all State-wide offices are held by Democrats. That is, they can control both the State and City response to federal actions with zero chance that anyone on the Democrat side will face criminal charges at the State or local level. There are lots of places Democrats could have chosen – and ICE is operating all around the country, of course – but they chose Minneapolis. What they are trying to do here is to get MAGA to back down – to withdraw. To give up any serious attempt to enforce federal law in Minneapolis.

Their strategy is to use a paid network of activists to track ICE and then vector in people who are willing to block streets, shout, push and shove and generally act like idiots in the hope that ICE will end up killing some of them. Which, of course, is precisely what has happened – with the Democrats all demanding Trump pull back, joined in this by the weak-kneed people on the Right who will only fight until the Democrats tell them to stop.

It can’t be emphasized enough how important this is, to both sides. Do keep in mind that it isn’t just money being stolen in Minneapolis…it is every State-wide office. Trump got 47% of the vote in Minnesota – so, you know, MAGA isn’t radioactive there. It has appeal. Yet not one State-wide office is held by the Republicans. How did Kamala win the State? Because of her 1.6 million votes, more than 500,000 came from Hennepin County – you know, Minneapolis. Without that 70% vote out of Hennepin, Trump would have won the State. That county also provided the margin for Walz and Ellison in their State-wide “victories”. In a nation divided about 50/50, in a State divided about 50/50…it is the one place that goes 70/30 which gives the Democrats power. Absent that, they wouldn’t hold a single State-wide office in Minnesota.

There hasn’t been a Republican mayor of Minneapolis since 1961. The chances that a party retains control of a large political entity for 65 years without fraud are near zero. The only thing that has changed is that the Democrats put the fraud in Minneapolis on steroids and now use it to control the whole State, not just Minneapolis. And if the fraud is at long last exposed and those who carry it out are removed from power…if there is no more money to steal, then it is all over. Turn out the lights. The GOP will win it all next round and if the Democrats want to come back, it’ll have to be by providing something people want…not by merely perpetuating a corrupt system via fraud. And if Minneapolis goes down, then so will Boston and Los Angeles and San Francisco and Portland and New York City and Chicago…on and on and on.

It has been my contention for years that the vote totals out of the deep Blue cities are pure fiction. Just whatever number the Democrats think they can get away with…and in States where the AG is Democrat, the Democrats think they can get away with anything. That 500,000 vote margin for Harris in 2024…it could be, in reality, any number between zero and 500,000…with the higher you go, the more unlikely the alleged number is. You think about places like Minneapolis and Chicago and Los Angeles which get worse year by year…higher crime, spreading poverty, ever more illegal immigrants, ever more flight of native Americans…and somehow or another in these increasing disaster areas, the Democrat margins increase. That is simple absurdity – it is like the PRI remaining in total control of Mexico for like 80 years straight. Doesn’t happen unless people cheat.

So, this is the battleground – and while Democrats decided to go ape in Minneapolis, it is actually the ground of Trump’s choosing. He was going to respond the same way no matter where Democrats did this. And keep in mind, during the Summer of St Floyd of Fentanyl, it was in cities all across the country. Democrats can’t seem to muster up enough people for more than one city at a time…and they are defending the city where billions have been stolen via welfare fraud. Those investigations continue. More and more indictments on that will come down. The Democrats out there thumping their chests about fighting off Trump’s ICE “Gestapo” will likely soon find themselves being arraigned…unless they can get Trump and ICE the heck out of Dodge.

And, so, Trump can’t back down. I don’t think he will. I won’t. I did say prayers for the dead, I did pray for the people of Minneapolis to choose peace. But I am not about to get weepy-eyed over insane people getting killed because they believed stupid Democrat lies about what ICE is doing. We all have agency. We make our choices. We endure our consequences. There is nothing to actually protest in the ICE actions. It is mere routine law enforcement…if you decide to get in ICE’s face, then you just bet your life that nothing bad will happen. Two of these Leftwing fanatics have lost their bet. More probably will. Yes, this could be the “Bleeding Kansas” precursor to Civil War II. I don’t want that. I don’t think it’ll go there…but it might, and if it does, I won’t shed a tear for the Left as we destroy them.

Arrests! We Got Arrests!

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We did get some arrests! More are promised…but Don Lemon’s arrest warrant wasn’t signed because the Judge’s wife is an Assistant AG in Keith Ellison’s office.

Think about that. It isn’t a statement of guilt. It isn’t about evidence. It is merely law enforcement saying they want to arrest a person on alleged charges. Book him, Dan-o. That’s it. He’d be out on bail probably within hours. But the Judge wouldn’t sign…because the Judge knows that the job isn’t about law, it is about protecting Friends and punishing Enemies. He was protecting a Friend.

This is what we’re up against – all up and down the line on every level of government, we have committed Leftist fanatics who’s only loyalty is to the Party. Trump is weeding them out of the federal level and in the Red States serious efforts are being made to get rid of them…but in the Blue areas – which includes the Blue areas of Red States – the fanatics are firmly in power and will hamstring all operations of law if those operations harm the Left. It is going to be hard to get indictments. Hard to get judges who won’t just toss the cases. Hard to get convictions in jury pools made up of Leftist fanatics.

The good news? In the end, we don’t have to get a lot of convictions all at once. In fact, to start, we only need one. Just one person looking at years in jail but holding information which will put dozens in jail. Information to trade for a get out of jail free card. There’s nothing quite like looking at 10 or 20 years in the pen to concentrate the mind…to make one reconsider if loyalty to the Party is all its cracked up to be. These people figure they are immune…that they mostly won’t even get arrested and, if arrested, will be allowed to skate. And even if convicted they figure a Democrat President in 2029 will pardon them. It will be hard to get any of them to flip…but if we can get just one, the whole thing unravels.

And they are all corrupt – every last one from the most minor official to the highest elective offices. They are all on the take. They all have skeletons they must keep hidden. Everyone is at risk if anyone starts to help find the bodies. Once one flips, it’ll be a stampede of mostly lower level miscreants desperate to get out of the way. We can start to unravel it all…backed by the testimony of those who made it all happen. You think some Somali just off the boat can work up a multi-billion dollar welfare scam? No. That takes local talent. A lot of it. The Somali is just the face – the way to call all attempts to stop it racism. If that bit of lead shielding no longer works and if people are facing serious jail time, it will all come out.

And nobody has ever tried this before. The GOP has routinely let slide massive corruption because they are a mix of on the take, themselves, or just too gutless to go after it. Afraid of being called bad names. But not any more. The charge of racism just doesn’t work on us – we know we’re not and, actually, the more they shout it the more angry and determined we become…because we know we’re not and for goodness sake, these people are robbing us blind. Trump is the first man in ages who feels that cheating is bad, as such and must be stopped. It probably was set deep in his soul by how he was cheated in 2020. Nothing like that sort of rip off to make you thoroughly sick of all con artists. Be that as it may, he seems determined to go get it…and if you look at what’s been done, it is clear the Left has been set up…essentially forced to defend the indefensible against a President who is willing to let it all come out because he and MAGA are not at all involved.

We’ll see how it goes – if it works, corruption is rooted out and the Democrats suffer another body blow (the corruption provides most of Democrat campaign funds – nobody really donates to them; they kick back to Democrats some of the swag stolen from the taxpayers).

Do We Have Any Guts?

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The word at this moment is that the DOJ is going to charge Don Lemon and the rest of the Commies who invaded a Minnesota church yesterday under the Klan Act. The teeth of it:

…That any person who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, shall subject, or cause to be subjected any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States…

…That in all cases where insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State shall so obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the people of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named in the Constitution and secured by this act, and the constituted authorities of such State shall either be unable to protect, or shall, from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States; and in all such cases…it shall be lawful for the President, and it shall be his duty to take such measures, by the employment of the militia or the land and naval forces of the United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary for the suppressions of such insurrection, domestic violence, or combinations…

Nutshell: if you do anything – even under the color of law or custom – which denies the rights of an American, you are in violation of the Act and if the local and State government wherein you reside refuse for any reason to secure your rights, then the President may use any means which come to hand to secure your rights, local law notwithstanding. Lemon’s assertion is that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights to report on the incident…but the videos he’s posted show he had advance knowledge of and participated in the invasion of the Church, thus being part of a combination designed to deny the right of the people to free exercise of religion. Given that the government of Minnesota has done nothing – and has, indeed, encouraged such actions – it is now fully within the power of the President to see to it that the free exercise rights of the people of Minnesota are secured.

But, as they say, there’s more! 18 US Code 247:

Whoever, in any of the circumstances referred to in subsection (b) of this section…intentionally obstructs, by force or threat of force, including by threat of force against religious real property, any person in the enjoyment of that person’s free exercise of religious beliefs, or attempts to do so; shall be punished as provided in subsection (d).

Lemon and co are lucky nobody was physically harmed…but just for walking in there, they each face a year in jail. But the main thing to keep in mind here is that there are a host of laws on the books protecting civil rights, they are race and gender neutral, they have teeth…and they simply haven’t been applied to the Left, ever.

If we have just a small bit of guts, we’ll be able to destroy the Left…and they walked right up and asked us to. Keep in mind: the Klan doesn’t even exist any longer. Nobody will incorporate a Klan organization under the laws of the United States or the several States because doing so just makes you liable in court…so it can be with Antifa and all these Commie terror groups organizing protests and riots around the country.

Obstruct law enforcement. Block a road. Harass a citizen over beliefs. Any and all of these are massive federal law violations. And everyone involved in the organization doing it is completely liable both as to criminal and civil penalties.

Open Thread

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Our top immigration judge has advised that immigration judges are not bound by federal court rulings saying the Executive can’t detain illegal immigrants without bond. This assertion has one really strong thing going for it: the law.

Essentially, all these federal cases against immigration enforcement are absurd: they aren’t federal judicial matters. They aren’t dealing with citizens but with foreigners and the presence of foreigners in the USA is, in law, essentially at the discretion of the Executive. This is how Biden and Obama hand-waved millions in – because the Executive has control of it under the powers of the Commander in Chief. The only time a federal court could get involved is if a detained person asserts American citizenship: that is something for a court to decide. But if you’re not a citizen? The Executive can hand wave you out or in. If we were to go to war with China tomorrow, then Trump could simply order every Chinese national detained – regardless of immigration status – and then deported.

There’s no appeal on this. If ordered, done. The whole fracas we’re seeing is simply stupid – the people getting violent about it are ignorant fools when not wicked.

This also shows that under the radar, Trump is getting a lot done – and a lot done which will have massive long term effects on national policy of all sorts. It is my view that Trump at least sometimes picks an issue to make the Left go ballistic over so that while they are having their hissy fit over it, he can busily do other things.

I don’t think Democrats have any idea of the wind they are sowing. We fought them in 1861-65 when they tried to nullify federal law after losing an election fair and square – and after that, we let them up easy. We swiftly allowed them to rejoin as full citizens. People who had been Confederate officers and senior elected officials were allowed to exercise power in the United States. It won’t be like that after round two – we’re fed up. There’s a video out there of a couple guys duck hunting by a lake in the Pacific northwest and this shrieking woman just walks up to them, shouting foul language and telling the hunters she hates them and wants them to leave. The guys just laugh it off and to really set the woman off, shoot a duck. This is the sort of lunatic the Left is…and our guys are still quiet and laughing it off. But if we do get pressed to the point where it is fight or flight, it will be fight…and we will win…and our mercy will slumber.

Trump, as others have pointed out, is their last chance – if he succeeds then the Republic goes on serene and happy. If they do manage to stop him, then that only means that our being fair and nice didn’t work. It’ll be time to be something other than fair and nice.

What We’re Up Against

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I saw a video of a man interviewing some of the anti-ICE protestors and he was asking them about the fraud in Minnesota and to a man, woman and other, they were convinced it wasn’t happening – made up to justify hating Somalis. In other words, racist MAGAts were just inventing a reason to go after black immigrants. This is 180 from reality but we do have to understand why they believe it: the MSM has told them this is the case. Sure, it is heavily reinforced by Leftwing social media, but they get their main cue from the MSM. Over and over again on CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the DNC propaganda outfits, the basic Narrative is repeated: it is just that evil, bad Orange Man and his racist supporters going after poor immigrants who didn’t do nothing. Then after the Leftist watches that, xe heads over to Bluesky where it is a stream of “people are being kidnapped!”, “ICE is going door to door with guns drawn” and “it was clearly a murder by ICE” over and over and over again. What you won’t get in either MSM or Leftist social media is the fact – very clear by now – that quite a lot of money was stolen…and while Somalis have been the face of it, the reality is that the entire political and social organism of Minnesota has been in on it…and it is likely going on in California, New York, Illinois and every other State and locality where the Left is dominant.

Here is our problem: they can’t be talked out of it. I’ve seen major Lefty accounts posting video clearly showing the woman tried to kill the ICE officer and the comment with the video is “here we see the ICE officer shooting the woman for no reason”. And then 10,000 Lefty accounts repost it and after a day or two it has a million views and you start getting smaller Lefty accounts saying “I saw the video where the ICE officer shot her for no reason”. Boom: this is now Leftist dogma as much as “hands up, don’t shoot” and “Russian collusion” are. Absent a road to Damascus moment, these people will go to their graves certain they saw ICE murder someone on video. And these people get to vote – they will go into the voting booths this November and pull the lever based upon their conviction that ICE murdered someone…and is daily kidnapping, murdering and torturing others. A Big Lie will have a gigantic influence on how America is governed.

This is not sustainable.

It is my view that the insanity the Left is displaying will be a massive turn off to all non-Left people by November – coupled with the rapidly improving economy, my expectation at this point is a GOP victory in the mid-terms. Of course, I could be wrong – but if I am wrong it means that a quite monstrous lie will propel the Democrats into control of at least one house of Congress, if not both. Think about that – a political result based entirely upon lies. And then the liars will get to enact laws and carry out other Congressional actions. How is a Republic supposed to survive with that? I mean, if the Democrats lie their way into a Congressional majority in 2026, then they’ll just put the lies on turbocharge for 2028…and if they can lie to victory one year, they can certainly do it again…and our whole system will be in the hands not just of liars, but of liars who believe that lying is the best possible thing to do…that not only should they lie, they should lie in the most astonishing and easily exposed ways and carry out the most absurd policies based upon the stupidest lies imaginable. That will be it, my friends: we’ll be cooked. We’ll have laws mandating illegal entry into the USA and immediate fraudulent benefits to everyone we bring in…just as one example.

I hope that Trump and team are fully cognizant of what we’re up against – there are rumors and rumblings that major anti-corruption efforts are underway, with Somali fraud in Minnesota just a very small tip of a gigantic iceberg. I hope this is true – because while we can’t convince these Leftist morons they’re wrong, we can start sending a lot of them to jail…or at least into the mental meat-grinder of a felony trial (though, of course, Leftist judges will try to toss the cases…and Leftists still working within Justice will try to sabotage the cases). We really do need to start seeing people like Walz in cuffs. We need to start detailing just how bad it is. The good news is that Trump and the GOP appear to have something like a billion dollars in hand to let the American people know what has been going on – and watch as the Left tries to pressure the networks into not running the ads (it won’t work – while the Lefties running the major networks will want to comply with censorship of MAGA, there is just too much regulatory and monetary risk in doing so).

Outside the GOP money, we continue to see gains in GOP registration – after a slight, regional blip for Democrats in the runup to the 2025 elections, we have now resumed the GOP’s increase…including flipping North Carolina Red for the first time since Reconstruction. Fetterman is out there sounding more MAGA by the day because if he does want a second term, he only gets it with MAGA votes. Essentially, the crazed Leftist type can no longer win in Pennsylvania State-wide. Do keep in mind that Trump’s opposition is very much astroturf…it is rent-a-mobs at the beck and call of the DNC. It is armies of bots on Social Media endlessly reposting Leftist talking points. In money and registration, it is all running strongly GOP. The woman who got herself killed by ICE was part of a network of Leftist groups paid by Leftist moneybags to stir up trouble…bottom line, she’s dead because the Left wanted her dead. Her and a lot more…they are convinced if they can gin up a Kent State (or a dozen) they’ll win – they believe a Narrative which said that Kent State led to Leftist victory in the past…forgetting that two years later the tin soldiers and Nixon won in a landslide and that the Guard was overwhelmingly favored against the protestors in public polling.

It all turns on Trump. The fate of our country is in his hands – if he can continue to show the courage and just go after these people (and he shows no sign of slacking), then we can crush them once and for all.

The Left is Nothing but Hatred and Lies

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The dead woman was a member of “ICE Watch”…a far Left, radical group trained and paid to go around harassing ICE officers. It is designed to be confrontational – to incite violence. To get people killed. And it doesn’t matter who is killed because it is the killing, itself, that the Left wants…they need corpses, in their view, in order to pressure Trump on the political front to give up immigration enforcement.

For the moment, let’s not get into why they want enforcement stopped – the main thing is that they are using violence to coerce the Trump Administration – the duly elected Executive – to accede to Leftist political demands by committing violence. They are terrorists. All of them. Every last person involved.

It doesn’t matter why they are doing it – that they are doing it is sufficient, itself, to treat them as the terrorists they are.

The Democrats may force us into Civil War – and they’ll do it in the service of stupid lies which were created to get Trump…because Trump risks the only thing the Left actually cares about: power and money. They don’t give a darn about the immigrants, or the dead woman…or anything. None of it matters to them. Reminder: they’re in favor of abortion. Not ok with it being legal – they are in favor of it. They believe it is a good thing. People that far gone – their hearts that hardened – simply don’t care about death, suffering and destruction. They just want what they want; they want it now and they’ll kill as many as necessary to get it.

We have to stop kidding ourselves – thinking that there’s common ground here. There is still a chance we can resolve this with legal means – that is, simply prosecuting them and cutting off their money. But they might not let us…they are not in any way toning it down. They are already saying the ICE officer is a murderer. Think about that – they are saying the ICE officer deliberately and for no reason killed the woman. That is murder. That is what they are saying. And rely on it on the various far Left message boards and social media platforms, their characterization of it is even more lurid. These people hate us. They want us all dead or enslaved. They will not stop unless we make them stop. I believe we can stop them using our current system…but they might force the issue. That nauseating pile of garbage who calls himself the governor of Minnesota pretty much threatened to use the National Guard against Federal law enforcement…some idiots out there are going to take this seriously and act accordingly.

Trump has the guts to see it through – I hope that we, the people, do as well. This could get rough.

Civilization is Good

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Take a moment to study this picture:

The modern Left loathes it – they see it as genocidal conquest. But it wasn’t that at all – it was the spread of civilization. The night of Barbarism flees before the light of Progress. The pioneer, the sodbuster, the railroad and, at last, the city. A new world is born and it is better for everyone…even the Barbarians if they give up their old and savage ways.

I bring this up because in the wake of taking out Maduro, plenty are saying “oh, its just for oil”. It isn’t just for oil. But even if it was – even if we said the only thing we want to do is physically take ownership of Venezuela’s oil reserves – this is not a bad thing…because the reason we would do so is to efficiently extract cheap and abundant energy to be placed on the open market so that the whole world – and most especially the poor – can benefit from it. Our ownership of the oil is a boon to the world…the Venezuelan government’s ownership of it is a boon to the leaders of Venezuela and a select group of Russian, Chinese and Iranian oligarchs. It is said that Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves – even more than Saudi Arabia. This is worth, I am told, something like thirteen trillion dollars…and as long as the Maduro regime was in place, the people of Venezuela were going to keep rooting in garbage cans for scraps while the Ruling Class lived in palaces. It was unjust for that regime to continue to hold that asset – just as it was unjust for a small number of savages to hold the asset which eventually became the United States of America.

It is way past time we ditched the whole anti-West charade…this stupid concept of the Noble Savage. This idea that putting a city where a howling wilderness once stood is a bad thing. It is all so very stupid – proved stupid by the fact that not one person who rants and raves about the settlement of the USA is willing to assume a 1492 lifestyle. It is this concept that underlays all the other stupid concepts – like the idea that because a Third World dictator shouts “death to America” he has a point…or some concern for the well being of his people. Maduro could have made his people very wealthy…he could have tapped into the vast wealth of Venezuela and made sure that the profits from oil and gas extraction were used to increase the overall wealth of Venezuela. It wasn’t hard. The damned oil is there, plenty of people with knowledge and expertise were ready and willing to get it out of the ground and on to the market…but if Maduro had made the people of Venezuela wealthy, then he wouldn’t have remained in charge. It is as simple as that – like Lenin, Stalin, Castro and so many others, he knew that the only thing keeping him in charge was an impoverished people held down by well paid goon squads. Any alteration of this dynamic and out they go. Maduro and his cronies are not Venezuelan patriots…they only care about themselves.

And I, for one, and just darned tired of playing a stupid game…It is only now, in the 21st century, that some governments are starting to arise in Latin America that are based upon a patriotic desire for the people to do well – Argentina and El Salvador leading the way here. You think about Argentina – independence since 1810, a large (1 million square miles) country with vast natural resources and an educated population of mostly European origin…basically the same ingredients the USA has but until Milei got into office in 2023, not one government of Argentina had ever really cared about Argentinians, as such. Just various factions fighting for control via violence and voter fraud…causing a nation which should be at least as rich as the USA to still be poor here in 2026. Good to keep in mind when thinking about Latin America is that independence didn’t come from a vast, popular uprising against Spanish rule but because a tiny, Liberal elite felt that with Napoleon’s occupation of Spain in 1808, they had a chance to take over. Such a start was not conducive to the development of the sort of patriotism which makes for a successful nation…it has slowly developed over time and is now strong enough that it is forcing Latin American governments to become real governments rather than collections of opportunists seeking their chance to loot the treasury.

And you’ll notice that the genuine patriots have no problem with us – even if they disagree with us. I expect that patriots from another country will argue vigorously with me…but I also expect mutual respect. And we’re getting it…because that is the way forward. To make the deal. Sign the treaty. Do what is best by our respective peoples while also giving reasonable concessions to our foreign partners. Yet another chance for us to stop playing a stupid game – Milei is a man we can work with. A Maduro is a man to be whacked at the earliest opportunity…so, too, the leaders of Mexico, Columbia, Cuba and Nicaragua. They aren’t patriots – they are factions, usually these days in cahoots with Cartels when not owned outright by them. When they say “death to America” they aren’t saying anything at all…they are just playing a game which allows them to keep stealing. I saw a talking head on TV who was asked what she thought about Mexico’s “President” condemning Trump…she correctly answered that she didn’t give a darn what the so-called President of Mexico said…because she’s not really the President. She was installed by various criminal means to be a facade for a cowardly and corrupt Ruling Class. We here in the USA might have to deal with her for practical reasons…but for goodness sake, don’t think of her as a Mexican patriot…she’s barely retained a shred of humanity at the moment. We hope for her repentance but we need to keep in mind what we’re dealing with.

Back on that wagon train, my friends…back on the path of bringing civilization to the world, and whacking the barbarians at the earliest opportunity. Because civilization is good.