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Zelinskyy has made his choice – and he wants his Democrat friends back in office. Things are going very well in the USA with the only jarring note being persistently high gas and diesel prices. Those prices kept artificially high by refinery shutdowns in the USA, Europeans buying a lot on the world market…and Ukrainian attacks on Russian diesel production. It is the high gas prices which allow Democrats to pretend they are upset about high prices (Democrat policies would deliberately propel us towards permanent $10 a gallon gasoline). In service of his Democrat friends – who will turn on the money supply with no questions asked given how much money Democrats were helping themselves to – Zelinskyy has decided to hit even harder a diesel production, even after Trump asked him not to.

Fine. That’s the way he wants it, that’s the way he gets it. Trump is now squeezing money flowing to Ukraine and, in apparent cooperation with Musk, restricting Ukrainian ability to target the Russians.

Putin is a fairly despicable person and, like almost all Russian nationalists from past to present, has zero understanding of Russia’s strategic needs. For probably half what he’s spent fighting Ukraine he could have freed up the Russian economy (still wearing a lot of Soviet-era shackles) and rebuilt hope in the Russian people to the point they wouldn’t be dying out. 1.1 and 1.4 are the crucial numbers here – that is Ukraine and Russia’s respective total fertility rate. Ukraine and Russia are currently fighting over which people will die out in the Donbas by 2100. Ukraine could have given up the Donbas as a lost cause (the front has not moved more than a mile or two in either direction for a couple years now) and similarly rebuilt their economy to give the people some hope and thus some prospect of actually having kids, which is the only thing that truly matters for both countries.

But, they keep fighting. Putin locked into that Muscovite attitude that more land means a better country. Zelinskyy knowing that as soon as the war ends, he’s out of office and at the mercy of a lot of people he’s pissed off for years. As I’ve said from the beginning, I don’t care who governs the Donbas. It is not remotely a strategic interest of the United States. And as for defending Europe and Freedom – Russia can’t move their army from Rostov to Kiev so they’re not going to Warsaw, Berlin or Paris any time soon…and as Europeans can get arrested for simply saying they don’t want Third World savages for neighbors, not seeing much for America to defend there. Truly, screw all of them. But we do need our diesel…and anything else we might need and I’m prepared to whack anyone who gets in the way of us getting on.

Trump is now in complete campaign mode and is doing rallies all over the place. This is a man who simply does not quit – and we’d better not quit on him. He’s not doing this for himself – he’s got all he’s ever wanted. He’s rich. He’s famous. He’s got a great family. A wife who clearly loves him (third time the charm, I guess). He’s President and proved that 2020 was stolen from him. He’s implementing policies that are making America great again day by day. But it is all for us – and if we falter, then it will be all for nought. Those idiots out there saying Trump isn’t doing enough or not doing it fast enough or not in the preferred sequence are either complete morons or paid operatives. There is a gigantic psy-op going on – lead by polls but seconded by endless social media voices…but they all say the same thing: lose. Quit. Surrender. I don’t think it’ll work – but we’ll find out in just a few weeks if it does.

The Netflix version of Narnia is already on the rocks – test screenings are turning out very badly and they are already having to reshoot scenes because audience reaction is so bad. Pro tip: don’t mess with someone else’s story. This has been billed as a reimagining of Lewis’ story. You can’t do that. Not successfully. It is Lewis’ story. He wrote it to tell a certain tale. Maybe you don’t like it. Maybe you think you can take the basic idea and make it better. Fine. Proceed. But don’t take his story and change it into something it isn’t…it looks like an insult. I’m no great author – but I like the Mirrors series. Maybe its bad. Heck, maybe its the worst literature ever written. Doesn’t matter. It is my story. I wrote it to say certain things. Anyone trying to take my story and make it say something else is only insulting me…and anyone who does actually like my story. Write you own, dang it.

Jack Smith’s fascist investigation of Trump went to far as to look into who was buying MAGA hats. This is what is coming for us if we lose.

Don’t lose.

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Democrats are mighty upset that Ilhan Omar’s DC home got raided today. Couple things:

  1. You Democrats set the precedent when you sent agents to rummage through Melania’s underwear.
  2. All we’re doing is looking into a Settler-Colonizer on Indigenous Peoples Day, so chill.

It really is an outrage that we allow that woman to serve in the Congress of the people of the United States of America. I don’t care what her paperwork says, she isn’t American. She’s a foreign invader, and a massive ingrate. Reminder: we saved her life. We saved the lives of untold numbers of Somalis. And how did they pay us back? By shooting at us in Somalia and setting up Learing Centers to steal money from America’s poor people. In general, I want every Somali in the United States deported – any we allow to stay better be able to prove their more patriotic than George Washington. We must not permit people like Omar to remain here – stealing our money, calling us racists and telling lies about America. They can do whatever they want back home – in Somalia.

A retired Royal Marine has caused some controversy by saying the way to handle the migration crisis in the UK is to machine gun migrant boats. All I can say regarding Major-General Julian Thompson’s plan is that you’d only have to do it once. Twice, tops. The message would be widely distributed in an exceptionally rapid manner and you’d simply have no boats to shoot at in short order. Naturally, the Tories are joining in with Labour to condemn the patriot’s comment. This is why the Tories are finished in British politics except explicitly as Labour’s poodle. All British patriots are now forced to vote Reform or, even better, Restore Britain.

Given that it looks as if every woman coming in is raped in transit and that a large number of people die along the way and, additionally, the number of British people who end up raped and murdered by the migrants, machine gunning a couple boats will cost far fewer lives and cause much less suffering that not machine gunning them. The thing about crude but effective plans is that they are, well, effective.

It is, of course, Columbus Day. I always like to bring this up: 50 feet.

That is how long the Nina was. This is about from my front door to about 4 feet out my back door. Her beam (width) was about 16 feet. About as wide as my living room. Twenty six men lived in that space for weeks traveling thousands of miles in the open ocean with no hope of rescue if disaster struck.

That takes guts. That makes all complaints about Columbus trivial. He and his crew were incredibly brave men who did something that had to be done – explore the world. No: there aren’t places humans aren’t supposed to go. There aren’t places where if someone else got there first, nobody can even visit. The New World wasn’t off limits.

Furthermore, the highest civilizations of the New World were horrific, anti-human empires that needed to be destroyed (and were destroyed with the eager help of oppressed Natives). Who knows what depths of depravity they would have plumbed had they been left undisturbed? As for the deaths from disease: eventually the Eurasian/African disease environment was going to arrive at the shores of the Americas. And disease killed vastly more (orders of magnitude more) than direct or indirect actions of the Europeans. The social devastation was going to happen at some point – there was no stopping it. Had it not started in 1492 then it would have started in 1517 or 1609 or something…there would be a ship load of Europeans, Africans or Asians who arrived…and, whammo, the diseases would be there. The only way to prevent the rapid population loss was to hold off until after the disease theory was known…but that theory would probably never have been known except for people working in the Americas with the results of the diseases brought in from outside.

And even with that, the Natives now live better than their ancestors could have ever dreamed – even the most impoverished Natives in the Americas in 2026 have access to knowledge which their ancestors in isolation could never have achieved. The best thing to ever happen to the Native population of the Americas was the arrival of Europeans.

So, say a prayer for Columbus and his crews – they did a great service for all humanity on this day, 1492.

Nidal Hasan and the Consequences of Citizenship

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The execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed and people right across the political spectrum are horrified. This is because people right across the political spectrum have, ultimately, no idea what they are doing. We have been living about a century now in a world of make-believe. We’ve pulled the wool over our own eyes. Conned ourselves out of our agency. Abdicated all authority over our own lives. We want to live a coddled existence. We don’t want to know about distasteful things. Except about sex, I guess – give us a good sex story and we’re all ears (and eyes). But about anything else it isn’t so much we don’t want to know but that we want to pretend we don’t know. And yet with all this, we still insist we are citizens and get a say in what happens.

There is no chance Trump will stay the sentence and even if the Courts decide to intervene late, it won’t work – we have a properly rendered sentence according to law and Hasan is guilty. In this, it doesn’t matter if the death penalty is a right or wrong thing to do…the laws in effect now provide for it and the thing will happen. The man will be dead. The horror expressed about livestreaming it isn’t about the enormous thing of taking a man’s life…it is about not wanting to see it taken. So that we can pretend it didn’t really happen. That we played no role in it. Guess what? If you’ve ever voted, you played a role in it. You may as well be on the firing squad. That is the thing about a Republic or a Democracy – all of the citizens are collectively responsible for what the government does. Don’t like this? Then I suggest you get yourself a king – let the king be responsible. You can be the slave and then you’ll have nothing to do with it.

Honestly, not only should his execution be televised, it should be compulsory viewing for everyone who wants a vote.

For us to be citizens, we must take responsibility. We must see what is going on and render judgement upon it, and thus upon ourselves. What do you want? Choose it. Take the consequences or benefits of that choice. Don’t try to pretend you didn’t play a role – even if you’re on the losing side of a political decision, you still participated in it. You decided. You pulled the trigger. You are free to abdicate this authority at any time – renounce your citizenship. Leave the country. Flee far away – go some place where others decide for you. If that’s what you want, fine – but don’t propose to participate along with me in governance if you wish to be free from the consequences of that participation.

As I’ve been saying for a while now, it is time for us to rejoin the real world. The world where actions have consequences. Where suffering is real. Where choices have to be made. Where men and women brace themselves up and do what needs to be done. The sooner we rejoin the real world the sooner our nation and civilization are saved – because that wool over our eyes has allowed an insidious sect of anti-humans to worm their way into the mechanics of our government. While we averted our eyes and pretended we had nothing to do with it, they are busily setting up a system where people can be killed on a whim. Where property doesn’t exist. Where the family is evil. Where God doesn’t exist. You might not like having to decide if a man lives or dies…but if you don’t make that decision, then others will for you…and they might decide it is time for you to die. Slaves, after all, don’t get a say. Citizens do.

Do you want to be a Citizen?

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Good to keep in mind that Detroit voted for the white lady rather than El-Sayed. Another thing to keep in mind is that El-Sayed, like Obama, grew up whiter than I did. They’re all cosplaying theater kids, after all. But while there is…uh…a little mistrust between the overall black community and Jews, what is happening over in Gaza means pretty much nothing to them. To be sure, it means just about nothing to all of us…the people out there protesting are being sent out by paid agitators and probably 99% of them couldn’t pick Gaza out on a map if you gave them ten tries.

Nobody knows what will happen in a month. That’s the thing about the future: it hasn’t happened yet. But I am growing more and more confident that the DNC/MSM Narrative is 180 from reality. They are simply making it up, hoping to get the GOP into a defensive crouch rather than reaching out to battle Democrats who have nothing to offer the American people.

I guess there is now a push to secularize Catholic hospitals in Canada because the Left can’t stand the thought of there being even one place where they can’t murder a baby or grandma. There are still great Canadians – we see them all the time; but Canada is run by outright wicked people and their electoral system allows a party with 44% of the vote to corner every ounce of political power. This is just like the UK, of course. What “Democracy” actually brings…a system where there are no checks upon power. Keep in mind the battle wasn’t between Monarchy and Democracy back in the day…but about whether anyone could hold total power. Total power held by a King is just as bad as total power held by a transient political majority. Nobody and no group should ever be able to hold all power…our system prevents that, which is why the Left wants to pack the Court and abolish the Senate.

The video out of France is horrific – absolutely nobody has opened fire on the rioters.

No, they aren’t French. They aren’t youths. They aren’t complaining about education. They are trying to conquer France and impose an Islamist ideology. The French better find some guts and right quick.

Trump talking up American shipbuilding. This sort of thing is crucial – and why we simply must win. If we win just a couple more election cycles, we’ll get it all…lose and it is all over.

Nidal Hasan is to die via military firing squad on December 3rd. As stated many times before, I don’t support the death penalty. I don’t have much sympathy for Hasan, of course. But I will say this: execution by firing squad is too honorable an exit for him. He should be hung if we’re to kill him.

Tuckerism Must be Confronted

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Tucker Carlson has been getting a lot of play of late – the most recent outrageous thing he’s said is that there was essentially no point to Britain fighting Nazi Germany. His contention being that given Britain’s current condition, the effort 1939-1945 was wasted. To you and I, this is absurd – but to a twenty five year old who doesn’t really know history, but does know what Britain is like these days, it makes some sense. The person Tucker was interviewing during this dismissed his assertion – but he didn’t confront it. He didn’t refute it. Probably on grounds that he believes it isn’t worthy of refutation. But it is.

I’ve mentioned before that the two world wars were fought over one issue: that no nation may be allowed to alter the politico-economic system via violence. That all adjustments between nations and peoples must come about via fair negotiation between all interested parties. To be sure, this is a little bit of pie in the sky – but it is an ideal and a good one. And the first step towards any sort of rational policy is to set your ideal and then do all you can to approach it, knowing you’ll never get it exactly right.

Such an ideal is true even if never attempted before – and certainly prior to World War One violence dictated a lot of the world’s affairs. In fact, the Great Powers of Europe had used violence to create themselves as Great Powers. But we are supposed to live and learn and by, say, 1890, the world understood that the destruction and sheer social disruption of a major war wasn’t something worth doing. This is why in 1899 we had our first attempt at a world peace conference. Called into being by the new Czar of Russia – Nicholas II – it met at The Hague between May and July and, basing itself upon Lincoln’s rules of our Civil War, attempted to set some basic rules of war fighting designed to, as it were, limit the damage.

Certainly, there were skeptics of it. But it was the right thing to do – and the Permanent Court of Arbitration was established to resolve disputes between nations. It didn’t work; but it was a step towards the ideal: that all disputes will be resolved via fair give and take. Just fifteen years later, of course, the whole thing ran up on the rocks. And in that it is good to keep in mind just why it failed – because the German military class perceived in July of 1914 that the moment to strike had come. That is, they felt it was the perfect opportunity to permanently alter the politico-economic system in their favor via violence. Russia was surging towards another revolutionary outbreak. France was riven by political corruption and bitter political faction. Britain was on the verge of Civil War over Irish Home Rule. The Germans felt the opportunity afforded by the assassination in Sarajevo allowed them to engage in what they believed would be a short and totally victorious war…Russia dethroned as Great Power, France reduced to satellite status, the UK forced to stay out of Continental affairs. From there, the German leadership saw itself striding from power to power to ultimate global domination.

It didn’t work. Because the world stood up to it – especially Britain, which held that no matter what, they couldn’t let Germany get her way via warfare. The US, as well, though very tardily and with nonsense from Wilson about making the world safe for Democracy. That wasn’t an issue at all – how people governed themselves was irrelevant. How they conducted themselves towards other powers was the only point. Victory was secured, at great cost, and the principle was broadly accepted – no war. Must negotiate. Anyone who starts a war is a criminal.

The rise of Hitler’s regime threw all that into a cocked hat. The Allied failure to properly punish the Germans left Germany with vast latent power. Hitler’s rank dishonesty in dealing with foreign powers helped the world walk right into his trap. He wanted war. he wanted to use violence to get his way. He felt that anyone unwilling to use violence was a subhuman who deserved extermination. But the ideal was still there – and so France and Britain tried again and again to get Hitler to accept a price for peace. When Hitler showed in Poland that no amount of concessions would move him off his goal, there was nothing else to do but fight. And so the war was fought – once again on the principle that you can’t use violence to get ahead. That the Nazi regime acted with unbelievable brutality towards Jews merely made its defeat even more morally imperative…but the defeat of Germany was necessary even if Germany had never harmed a single Jew. The Germans had to be forced off the notion that they could conquer their way to power and prosperity.

And they were. And in 1945 the principle was solid. And the world could look forward to a long peace – except for one, small problem: the leaders of the victorious West were a combination of idiots and cowards. American. British. French. Everyone. All morons and cowards. They took the victory the people of the West had won and threw it away at the first opportunity. Sure, Communist infiltration played a role in the decisions made…but looking back on it, they’d have chosen no differently even if there were no Communists. They had come to loath their own people. They felt the two World Wars were caused by the common men and women of the West rather than the folly of the Western Ruling Class. They were determined to divest their peoples of power as soon as possible…positively throwing away their territories in a rush to give power to bands of armed thugs in their former colonial possessions.

And while they were doing this, they were busily sapping the moral and intellectual strength of the Western people. Dumbing down education. Denigrating Christianity. Family. Hard Work Sobriety. Thrift. Basic decency. All were eroded away because, it was felt, Western peoples were too dangerous. And here we sit in 2026 with mobs of feral Third World youths rioting in France as the French people cower, more afraid of being called racists than of defending their ancient civilization. Seeing this, an ill educated Western population can easily be convinced that it is such people who are the suckers. The heirs of Christianity. Of Republican ideals. Of hard work, family and being law abiding. What does it get them? A savage beating them while their own police run away. This is where the likes of Tucker get their audience…because nobody actually likes things as they are. But the youths of the West today don’t know their own history – only a sick, lying parody of it, presented to them by a Ruling Class which hates them. But they can see it is bad – and they are looking for some way to respond. Some world view which gives them a place – and a purpose. People like Carlson provide it. Tuckerism being a species of propaganda which is designed – very cleverly – to present itself as the bulwark of the West while actually being a poison designed to kill it.

And this is fueled by people who hate the West. Russian, Chinese and Islamist money is ultimately behind all of it. They want the people of the West to continue to despise themselves – but now to assist the anti-West in destroying the West. Nothing better than convincing the kids that the West was immoral to fight the World Wars. That the Jews had and have it coming. Not to turn back to what made the West great – especially its Christian heritage – but to simply boil over with hatred, and help set things on fire. Most people dismiss Tucker and his like as unimportant. They aren’t. They are very important and must be confronted. And part of that confrontation must be some admissions: most importantly that the West has been fooled. That it was mostly fooled by Westerners doesn’t change the fact of being fooled.

We have to do this because we must give the youth of the West a path to reviving our civilization. A faith in God, a faith in Republican ideals. A faith in family. This will require two simultaneous efforts – getting the foreign savages out of our nations, and hammering hard at those who are being paid by anti-Western forces to subvert the West. We can’t continue to allow the barbarians to remain here…but we also can’t simply allow people to lie in public. I know: I’m once again back on that subject: that lies are the problem. But, they are – they have nearly destroyed us and they are being used to finish us off. We either stop the liars, or we will die. Tucker and those like him cannot be allowed to appear in public to spread lies. What these traitors are saying cannot be first amendment protected. Even if they claim they are patriots – they aren’t, not a one of them – we still can’t allow them to lie. Keep in mind while they are lying – allowed to lie – so, too, are the Communist and Third World enemies of the West. And even if we got rid of the Communists and the foreign savages, if we retain in our public square a pack of liars, then eventually the Communists and savages will be back. Only when all of them are gone can we fully restore America – and the West.

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I guess even the New York Times is sorta conceding that we’ve won the war with Iran – someone has ordered the Democrats to pull the plug on that one. Didn’t help their cause that the Mullahs are essentially endorsing the Democrats for the mid-terms. That chart I posted in the previous thread tells the tale – oil is flowing. Except Iran’s oil, because we’re not allowing it…because we control the Strait. Now, to be sure, the Mullahs might try some mad dog attacks in a desperate attempt to keep gasoline prices high in the USA, but they are completely boxed. As I’ve been saying – the side which controls the air and sea has won…the only thing left is figuring out how to tidy it all up. As long as we remain firm – and Trump will – there’s no other ending than Iran conceding to our demands.

Lost in the shuffle of that attempted hijacking/mass murder is that Israelis were flying from a Muslim nation back to Israel. I think that even a lot of Muslims are giving up on the whole Islamist thing – there’s no future in it. Sure, you can keep fighting and dying and hoping that in a century you might make it to Tel Aviv but only an insane person does that. To be sure, there are a high number of insane people in the Muslim world but it is a lost cause. And it has happened before – in the aftermath of the first Muslim advances out of Arabia, they tried for decades to get at Constantinople – fighting with fanatic determination. But after multiple failed campaigns, they did give it up…and Constantinople remained Christian for another 800 years, well long enough for Europe to make itself (until recently) Muslim-proof. I think the defeat of Iran will go a long way towards ending all of this – without them to mobilize and pay for insanity, the well will dry up.

Side note: early on the reporting about the hijacking implied it was just some sort of scuffle between the pilot and copilot. You really can’t hate the media enough. They are claiming that they didn’t know the facts…which is just another idiotic lie as the story came out with the copilot clearly trying to murder the pilot so he could crash a plane full of Jews. The MSM hates you, hates your country, your family, your religion…all decent things of humanity. And so they bend over backwards to protect…what? A lunatic Islamist unfit for decent company of any kind.

Video of a British town taken 50 years ago – it was all very British, and is now long gone. Keep in mind that this was deliberately destroyed by the British Establishment. The Left was in the vanguard but even the British Right eagerly participated. Because the Establishment came to hate Britain. Just as our Establishment hates us. They looked upon that clean, tidy community of hard working, law abiding people and a sense of loathing came over them. It was so boring! Just common people doing common things! Didn’t they know you could be a degenerate? Where was the room for perversion???? How can people live in such a place???? They set about, step by step, destroying it – teaching the youngsters to be degenerates. Putting people on welfare and drugs. Importing foreign savages. Telling them via the schools there is no God. Here, listen to some second rate music which insults decency! Laugh at your history! Don’t get married! Don’t work hard! Sobriety is for suckers!

We’re still within an ace of that happening here – Democrats get back in they’ll impose that while also making it illegal for us to win elections. It will really be a choice between fighting or dying. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I don’t think it will. I do believe we’re going to win – but it will be a close run thing.

Trump Reality vs Democrat Fantasy

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That is really what 2026 will come down to – can Trump present reality more comprehensively to voters than Democrats their fantasy?

As I live in a Battleground State I am started to be inundated with campaign ads. The Democrats are running on “Trump’s endless wars and high costs”. Now, to be sure, there is a war and there are high costs…but lets take a look at some reality here.

As for the war: Iran today announced their new demands we must meet in order for them to open the Strait. MSMers are covering this all rather breathlessly. But, thing is, the Strait is open. Iran has no capacity to enforce any demands. It is all just theater – which the American (and overall Western) MSM is participating in – because they hate Trump. The reality:

Saudi Arabia’s crude oil exports have surged this month despite a sharp escalation in fighting with Iran-backed militants, according to data from the trade intelligence firm Kpler.

Riyadh is exporting 6 million barrels per day in September, the highest level since the Iran war began about seven months ago. The kingdom’s crude shipments have recovered to the monthly average of 2025.

Keep in mind that in total exports out of the Gulf pre-war, Iran accounted for a huge share of it. That is now completely stopped. So, sure, someone can say that oil exports are still down from pre-war, but when they say that, they’re just lying. They’re not giving the full context of the situation – in that Saudi is back to pre-war levels, Iran is at zero percent of pre-war…and they’re at zero because we haven’t given Iran permission to use the Strait. The only nation it is closed for is Iran. Because we closed it.

Because we control the Strait. Not Iran.

An Iranian official issuing demands should produce gales of laughter. It doesn’t because the world wants Iran to win this, so they can get after Trump.

As for costs – yep, gas and food prices remain high. We hit a modern peak for inflation in 2022…when Guess Who? was in office; it was 8 percent. It is 3.3 percent so far in 2026. Still too high, but we’re not getting that gigantic shock that the Democrats gave us in 2022. It would be lower except gasoline prices have recently spiked, likely via market manipulation (overbidding the price, shut downs of refineries) because there is no shortage of oil. Can’t do much about it short term, but it isn’t anything like an inflationary crisis crushing the middle class. But if you watch the MSM, it is – they are filled with stories about it. All complete fantasy.

To be sure, anyone who consumes MSM product is going to keep believing it – ignoring the evidence of their lying eyes. By this time, anyone still watching the TV news or the major news outlets is simply incapable of independent thought. They are the merest sheep waiting for the Idiot Box to tell them what to think. Can’t do much about that, either. Morons gonna moron. We can address changing the requirements for enfranchisement in the future…for now, the vote of an ignorant fool counts.

But the result of the election will not come down to idiots believing the TV but how many such idiots there are and how many intelligent people Trump and the GOP can drag to the polls. I know – sounds kinda silly, but the results will be determined by who gets the most votes!

Completely disregard all polls – smart poll analysis guy I know on line decided to look into who isn’t responding. Turns out, its us. Republicans don’t respond to polls. This is because we know they’re drivel. We’ve seen it just too many times – they always overstate the Democrat. When the “error” is all one way, it isn’t an error – it is a lie. And if a lie, then a lie produced to make us work against our own interests. Like the RINOs out there shouting we have to start pouring money into deep Red States just to barely survive November…that, along with polls, is the op: to get us to panic, go into a defensive crouch and let the Democrats win the battlegrounds by default. This is exactly the model the Democrats used in 2018. But this time we’re not falling for it. Today I saw a GOP-sponsored ad against Dina Titus (D-NV); she represents a D+2 seat which she won in 2024 by 7.5. Trump, MAGA and the MAGA part of the GOP aren’t going into a panic…they are fighting to win.

I feel confident. To be sure, even if you could existentially prove to me we’ll lose, I wouldn’t change a thing except to demand Trump do more, faster. We’re winning. We’re eating into the Democrats real power – welfare fraud and illegal votes. Over time, they’ll have less and less capacity to win…because in reality they haven’t won in ages. Only fraud has kept them afloat. If all the fraud were stopped tomorrow, they’d probably wind up with about 100 seats in the House after November. The party of letting illegals in, criminals out and surrender on the world stage isn’t popular. At all. Can’t be. If the truth were told, they’d be finished for good. And Trump will now spend the next two months – and about a billion dollars – telling the truth.

UPDATE:

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Seeing some video of Episcopal “priests” who are essentially denying not just the divinity of Christ, but His very existence. And I wonder: what is the point? Why even bother? If Jesus is not God – or if He never existed – what is the point of even talking about Him? I mean, other than to just insult the whole idea of Christianity? This is not heresy – it is apostasy. These people could go golf or something on a Sunday morning…going to Church to simply dump all over the very idea of Christ – aside from the risk to one’s soul – seems a gigantic waste of time.

But that is the Left – nothing but hatred. So much hatred that you even go out of your way to hate. There are fallen away Christians – including some who downright loath Christianity – but they don’t dwell on it. For whatever reason, they have rejected grace…and now they go about their lives doing things which please them. Not spending huge amount of time and resources expressing their hatred. But not our Left! Nope: once they hate something they need to let you know – at length – that they hate it.

Just weird. And sad. Pathetic. Kinda stupid.

Japan and the USA sign a rare earths agreement – more work towards cutting China out of the loop on it. Keep in mind that China nearly cornered the rare earths market; on purpose to hamstring us if it ever came down to a fight. American President after American President simply let it happen. Were they stupid? Bribed? Yes. Trump isn’t having any of that – he knows it is crucial and we have to get our own rare earths. This is MAGA – and this is true diplomacy. Working to build up America while also building up our true friends…not our so-called “allies” who routinely stab us in the back and, step by step, turn themselves into fascist tyrannies.

Women in Gaza are being traded for food and being forced to marry rapists. Of course some will blame Israel but I’ll just remind everyone that the Gazans sent rape/murder squads into Israel and every last thing that happens after that is 100% the moral responsibility of the Gazans. That is what sort of people they are – and now that they can’t kidnap, rape and pass around Jewish girls, they are doing it to their own. Completely hideous people. Like all people, they are capable of redemption – but as Gazans, they never will be. As long as they are there and being controlled by savages their chances of emerging into normal basic humanity are nil. I didn’t want Gaza placed under siege, forced to surrender and the population sent into exile to be cruel…it was to give Israel real peace and give the Gazans a real chance to stop being barbarians.

Flock cameras should be banned – here’s a story of a woman who was locked up for 86 hours due to Flock indicating she was involved in a car accident. She wasn’t. I get the idea of having cameras for security…but we’re also dealing with humans not just having the data, but refusing to think. That is, they take what the computer tells them as Gospel. You can’t do that – but people do because it is just easier. Can’t trust humanity with the power that Flock puts in their hands.

Polling says “Blue Tsunami”. But polling also shows Democrats winning more white voters in Texas than they have in a generation. In other words, the polls are lies. I don’t pay the least attention to them. I mean, come on! They’ve always overstated Democrat strength – and they’ve gotten worse. Response bias is where it starts – you and I don’t even answer when a pollster calls or texts. Democrats eagerly answer every last one, thinking that they are somehow Defending Our Democracy by so doing. We’re going to win in November.

Racism Fatigue

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It is just getting so very tiresome. The racism stuff. You know what I always skip over when looking for something to watch? The latest entry in “black people triumph over racism” movies. They are just boring as heck. And in two different ways: they aren’t historically accurate and all of their views are 21st century…they don’t, that is, even try to tell us what a black person in, say, 1940 might have thought about things. They tell us what a “studies” graduate wants the past to be…not what the past actually was. And they never show the real triumph – that black Americans from 1865 to 1965 switched from being almost entirely illiterate field hands to being integral to the highest aspects of American economic and cultural life. You’ll get a movie claiming the black woman got us to the Moon (an absurdity as 100,000 people got us there)…but not the movie of the black sharecropper who wound up middle class.

But we can’t talk about that – it shows America works. That even when emerging from slavery and being held down by various legal and cultural bigotries, if you are hard working and sober, you will get ahead. If you look at the run of movies and such on it over the past 20 years then apparently highly educated black slaves fought for the freedom of a fat welfare chick to have a bizarre hair style. And I think we’re all getting done with that.

I first noticed it about ten years ago among white youngsters – a growing contempt for the whole race system. And why not? They were being told from preschool that their white skin makes them devils who can never be cured of racism and who must crawl on their knees just to be barely tolerable in polite society. They could see themselves striving and getting nothing while other kids, with other skin colors, quickly figured out that they had been given a pass…don’t do the work, back talk, even be violent and the system would still reward them, and better than the white or Asian kids who actually put in the effort. People do notice injustice. It can’t be missed. Just as a black lawyer in 1926 could clearly tell that society was unjustly discriminating against him, so can a white kid today see it.

And we do need to get completely done with it. Race must play zero role in how we decide things. I don’t care how much you claim racism caused you a problem. Just deal with it. There were black people forging ahead when genuine Klansmen were out for blood. If your great-great-grandpa could become literate and own his home with that going on, then you’ve got no excuse. These days, the Klan is a division of the SPLC and so ain’t much of a problem. But here’s the thing – race will become a problem if we keep dwelling on it.

That is, if we keep up this system today of racial spoils where if you’re dark skinned you get advantages not available to white or Asian skin, then guess what will happen? The Pretend Racism being used today will become Real Racism – the whites and Asians will join up to assert privileges for themselves…and as the combination massively outnumbers the Black/Brown population, they will win and do whatever the heck they want. And feel good about doing it. The attempt by the Left to elevate Race isn’t going to lead to peace and justice…its going to lead to a system more overtly racist than anything Jim Crow ever thought of.

I understand that the Texas university system is now dispensing with the various “studies” program – that is, the mills which grind out bogus degrees while propoagandizing young people into believing that there’s a cabal of white racists out to get them. This is a good first step – but we have to get after it all. Racism must end – and the only way to end it is to destroy the groups promoting it. Easy to spot: they mostly identify themselves by some sort of civil rights activity. Defund them. Arrest them (we’ve seen in BLM how the leaders are just raking it in for themselves). Insult them on a day to day basis. Bring suit (civil and criminal) against them for conspiring to deny civil rights. Get rid of these hate filled leeches…so that we may have peace, and an end to racism.

Open Thread

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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