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JD Vance’s toxic Hail Mary
Voters on the right are upset, even bewildered, about the customary mid-term beating the “ruling party” took in Tuesday’s election. This kind of electoral sea change takes place something like 90% of the time in American history, so while painful, it should surprise nobody.
What is truly shocking about the election is a) the large number of Islamists and communists who were voted in as Democrats by Democrat voters, and b) the Democrat takeover of what had been traditionally deeply conservative / Republican areas in Texas, Iowa, Kansas, elsewhere. These two things are of real note and worth studying, and pushing back against. Whether the GOP has the balls, that is a separate issue.
The Democrat Party has accepted the Islamists and communists with open arms, so that is who and what the Democrat Party now is.
While ironic only to historians that the political party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, and black voter suppression serves as the host body for anti-America Islamists and communists, the practical effect is that a lot of middle income Americans who believe in family, hard work, savings accounts, and capitalism, are also gleefully marching alongside the black flag of ISIS and the hammer and sickle flag of the former USSR and the current CCP, and also voting for their candidates.
Such is their loyalty to the political party of slavery and the KKK, or their blindness to what voting for these kinds of candidates really means in terms of anti-America policy. Go figure. I left that movement a while ago, and feel much better for it.
As a former member of said party, I never could figure out all that mess, and so I am loyal to no political party, but rather save my loyalty for America’s founding principles, our Constitution, and our American flag. This narrow but traditional perspective alone now puts me somewhere on the right of the Republican Party, though my policy views have changed very little since I started voting over forty years ago, as a rural Democrat.
So amidst all of the expected post-election hand-wringing, gnashing of teeth, finger pointing, bitching, caterwauling, etc comes a surprisingly swift stab-in-the-back of President Trump by his own vice president, JD Vance. And what a play it is! It is a hellaciously toxic Hail Mary pass at the last second of game time. JD Vance is staking out his own territory and looking for his own constituency.
After the Trump Administration had huddled on subsequent political messaging, blown yesterday from a high pressure honey wagon all over the political landscape is JD Vance’s own take on why the 90% probability electoral turn happened Tuesday: The Jews did it.
Relying on some fictional pollster JD Vance won’t reveal and cannot reveal, he says Tuesday’s voters were apparently most motivated by 1) end the “Iran war”, 2) focus on cost of living and inflation, 3) put America and Americans first, and 4) change America’s relationship to Israel.
This list bears a remarkable similarity to the messaging of JD Vance’s buddy, obsessive Jew-hater Tucker Carlson. So maybe, probably, Tucker Carlson is the mysterious “pollster” JD Vance says he is relying on. In JD Vance’s defense here, several big political polling firms did recently reveal themselves and their fictitious polling results to be completely made up. So in that broad vein, Tucker Carlson could very well be counted as a “pollster,” at least enough for JD Vance to make the claim. Tucker Carlson as a fake and unreliable pollster is in good company in that political polling business.
No pollsters or opinion surveyors anywhere else have recounted these four issues in phone or exit polling, or anything close to them.
Yes, Americans were upset about high gas prices (and by extension high food prices), which are directly attributable to the unnecessarily prolonged fighting with Iran’s effect on global oil. But they are not saying the “Iran war” verbatim; that is strictly a Carlsonian construct. Nor is anyone outside of the Tucker podcastisphere obsessively bitching about Israel non-stop, except the Islamists, for whom genociding the Jews and the Christians is a core belief of their ideology. Nor does any normal American voter make being a good America First American conditional on having a bad or venemous relationship with Israel, a fellow democratic western nation that has helped America hugely over the past 75 years.
There is no logical or reasonable tradeoff between America and Israel, except with the Jew haters, like Carlson, for whom all Jews, including little kids and eye doctors, are evil and must be eradicated.
That JD Vance’s first three issues all tightly revolve around the last one, Israel, and by direct extension “The Jews,” is the tell. His four point list is a Carlson construct, and Carlson is the mysterious pollster. And how sad and shameful it is that JD Vance has used this mentally retarded envious loser excuse to stab President Trump in the back, so quickly after a very painful electoral loss.
If anyone embodies the worst of the bad character traits attributed to Jews by their envious haters, it is JD Vance here.
Tucker Carlson quit the Republican Party months ago, and announced the formation of a new political party with fellow loon Marjorie Taylor Green. JD Vance did not lift a finger to defend President Trump against Carlson’s crazyman invective (“Trump is the anti-Christ”) or MTG’s invective or the invective of other desperate attention seeking loons like Thomas Massie or Joe Kent. JD Vance screwed up the military effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear bombs by declaring a ceasefire, and then blames Israel. And then goes off script and stabs President Trump in the back for his own benefit.
JD Vance’s backstabbing Hail Mary long throw here is a political message to all fellow Jew haters to gather under his banner, presumably the resurrection of the American Nazi Party. And how sad to see Donald Trump, Jr., “liking” JD Vance’s statement on “X.” Then again, Donald Trump, Jr., is a party to the 1789 Fund, run by Iranian jihadi, Omar Malik, one of JD Vance’s big funders and the funder of Carlson’s own media business. C’mon and tell me that all of this is not weirdly ironic and kind of sick and twisted.
Like, following the money bread crumbs where they lead us, JD Vance is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Qatar, and Iran. And the Arab Gulf states like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, on whose behalf America attacked Iran. This explains his toxic messaging and associations and his anti-Jew deflections.
I myself will be immediately championing Marco Rubio for president in 2028. America First, baby!
JD Vance should buy a house in Qatar, next door to Tucker Carlson. Neither are America First, hell I am unsure of either of them are even Americans any more. On the flipside, Marco Rubio has given pro America speech after pro America speech, pro America action after pro America action, and we know he is the embodiment of America First.
Alas, the last of the garden’s tomatoes
The last of my garden’s tomatoes
Tomatoes are the number one home garden crop in America. Even if you do not particularly like or enjoy tomatoes alone, they are easy to grow and easy to process into a variety of foods, condiments, sauces, etc.
Like the Bubba character said in “Forrest Gump”: There is tomato bisque, tomato barbecue, fried tomato, baked tomato, grilled tomato, hot tomato soup, cold tomato soup, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, whole tomatoes, cooked tomatoes, raw tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, tomatoes on the vine and tomatoes on the window sill. The list goes on, and the uses for tomatoes seem boundless. So, people grow ’em and find ways to use ’em.
Plus, tomatoes are red, which is a universally appreciated color for edible foods. They are alive.
Well, summer ended months ago, but I just ate the last three tomatoes from my garden. It is a sad moment, because so long as these had sat around on the widow sill and then in a colander on the table, I had a palpable connection to the summer and to my garden, which brings me real pleasure. Now that these last three were diced up and eaten in a fresh mixed salad for lunch, the house feels empty. Summer and its last remnants are truly gone, until next year.
Oh, there are still plenty of un-eaten garden tomatoes frozen in the freezers. As tomatoes are harvested over their growing season, there are always many more that become ripe than can be eaten, and so those get put right into the freezer. Whole and as-is. Then they are pulled out and used as-needed for sauces, or mixed and sauteed with zucchini and onion as ratatouille, which goes great with everything fish, poultry, meat, or a few fried eggs for breakfast. But they are not fresh.
You know, a garden is symbolic. There is the Garden of Eden in the Bible, a symbol for Western Civilization and adjacent human populations for thousands of years. The idea that a garden can be idyllic, a place of deep contemplation or even of spiritual pursuit, is also common among both the Anglo Saxon English and the Japanese Shinto Buddhists. Gardens are a universal thing, practical and philosophical.
In the 1940s and 1950s, back yard American gardens (“Victory Gardens”) became big symbols of American self-reliance, as rationing for World War II put a strain on food supplies. These Victory Gardens were immensely successful in every measure, including healthy food produced, money saved, communities and families brought together, work ethics taught, chores completed, and young people’s allowances earned. An entire post-war culture was developed around these Victory Gardens.
Well, America is a garden, too. Like a garden, it depends on inputs in order to produce outputs. Gardens do not run on good intentions or virtue signals or promises, they need piles of horse crap, lime, and compost (all of which I put into my garden every year). And if you neglect to feed your garden these nutrients, it will be unable to feed you tomatoes in return.
And so we are a few days away from an important election, where it seems one entire political party is devoted to the idea that the American garden does not need to be fed nutrients, and yet they can just continue to take and take and take from it. That is, “free” Medicare, and “free” housing and “free” this and free that. Of course nothing is free, because somewhere someone has to pay for it.
If the American garden ceases to be productive, then this political party will raid the individual back yard gardens of American citizen taxpayers who have labored hard to make their gardens successful. And after having their backyard gardens raided by the government and by scavenging people, the hard working gardeners will cease growing gardens. What is the point?
This approach to government is guaranteed failure with gardens, and is not a sustainable way to approach or run government, either. No government can succeed by taking and and taking and taking, and giving to people who do not put nutrients back into the American garden. Eventually you run out of other people’s money (Margaret Thatcher). And when you run out of other people’s money, then the entire system collapses.
I hope our dear readers vote for a sustainable approach to running America as a garden, and not for the forced re-distribution approach to mismanaging a garden. Because if the takers and the scavengers win next week’s election, there will be no tomatoes anywhere. The tomatoes you grow in your garden will be claimed by someone who never worked to grow them. And you will have no tomatoes. And you will have a crappy summer, too.
Broken Bow, Nebraska
Several years ago I did a drive out West and back East. Two different routes, two totally different landscapes, experiences, people, history.
While cutting across Nebraska, from its most northwestern corner to Omaha, a road sign caught my attention. Hard to miss it, as it was staring me in the face. It said “Josh, you can go that way, or the opposite way, these are your limited choices here.”
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This sign at that “T” intersection symbolized then and even more so now the strange fulcrum America is balancing on. Back then America was undergoing the shock of the wide open borders, the mass migration of illegal aliens and their subsequent mass crime wave; the Biden DOJ’s declaration of war on everyone who was not part of their political “tribe.” The illegal invasion of President Trump’s home at Mar A Lago, based on the fake accusations of politicized lawyers. Etc.
At that “T” intersection, one could go one way to the tiny cow town of “Alliance.” The other direction was to “Broken Bow,” also a small ranching town in the middle on Nebraska, which is truly the definition of the Middle Of Nowheresville. No other choices were available. No straight ahead, just two completely opposite directions, left or right.
While we all encounter “T” intersections while driving, it was the names on the signs and the starkness of the empty surroundings out there on the American heartland prairie that caught my attention that moment. They were so evocative of the choices we faced then, before the 2024 election, and it reminded me of a popular meme from probably 2022 that says “You are here” at a “T” intersection, with your choice being “Communism” on the left turn and “America” on the right turn.
Broken Bow, Nebraska, gets its name from, yes, you guessed it, the 1860s Indian Wars. A broken bow is a symbol of failed war, lost battle, a lost war, defeat. I think “Broken Arrow” is the US Army call sign for a pending overrun of US positions by enemy infantry. The Fasces, the symbol of ancient Rome and Mussolini’s 1940s fascist Italy, is a bunch of arrows all wrapped up together, and thus unbreakable. So this kind of imagery is evocative to everyone, at all times in human history.
Out there on the Nebraska prairie that day, the other choice at the “T” was “Alliance,” a name also evocative of military maneuvers, strategies, tactics, and also cultural cohesion, different people agreeing to stick together for their common good.
What a juxtaposition: Defeat on the one hand, or survival on the other.
Maybe I see too much symbolism in things that are really just mundane, but it is how my mind works, and so I also envision that this upcoming election in America is representative of this kind of analysis or interpretation of the natural phenomena and the built world surrounding us. The ephemera of past human conflicts and choices and decisions around us are neon bright reminders that we repeat history, and hopefully have learned from it.
We all of us, each of us, have choices, every minute of every day, and we all have agency, our own unique ability to apply and implement ourselves, our passions, our desires, our hopes, our dreams into the world around us. Some aim high and think big, others less so. It is all important.
At our very individual best, we are capable of great changes at times when we and others least expect it.
To me, I see America right now at that crossroads out there in the endless Nebraska grassland, facing a stark choice, two opposing directions, mutually exclusive.
On the one hand, America can elect people to Congress who will implement policies that result in a broken American bow. Policies that resulted in the terrible destruction of the 2020 riots here, and also the terribly destructive riots in Europe the past week, to say the least. Open borders, Medicare for everyone who mass migrate walks across the border, “free” taxpayer funded stuff on top of “free” taxpayer funded stuff for anyone and everyone from around the world…this is not sustainable, it is not an adult or responsible way to think about limited money, or limited resources. It is inevitably destructive of our civilization, and why oh why would any taxpaying American citizen vote for their own, our own, destruction?
On the other hand, Americans can elect representatives to Congress who want an alliance, which is cultural cohesion, holding down the fort, protecting the fort, protecting the American People tribe from further defeat or damage. An American society built on mutual benefit, fairness, which to date our nation has been. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but even at our worst still infinitely more and better than any other nation on the planet.
Hopefully, my fellow Americans see this coming Election Day as the choice between Broken Bow and Alliance, and they choose Alliance. I won’t talk about political parties, because neither one impresses me. One is crazy, the other is lazy. But I will take lazy and non-destructive over crazy and totally destructive every day of the year. Especially on Election Day this year.
Your vote is your agency, your impact, and I hope you use it for the alliance, and not for breaking things.
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Oh, the ironies swirling around Columbus Day
Yesterday was Columbus Day, the traditional official day where Americans mentally or culturally mark the European discovery of what became America, also known as the New World.
Columbus Day has become a cultural battlefield, a friction point between cultural traditionalists, fair-minded empathists thinking of the displaced Amer-Indians, and cultural Marxists seeking to just tear down all of America and Western Civilization. That my calendars all say that yesterday was both Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day is evidence that the cultural Marxists are successful in penetrating into our national mindset and identity. This is more meaningful than the illegal defacement and vandalism of Christopher Columbus statues everywhere by knuckle-draggers performing as humans.
But oh, the rich ironies that surround all of this debate and discussion and deliberate, wilful ignorance on all sides!
Irony, one asks? Why yes, sh*t tons of ironic moments surround the Columbus debate.
First among them is the scientific fact (not theory) that Christopher Columbus was in fact…Chaim Colon… a Jew. How ironic is it that among the greatest modern tormentors of the Jews (the Spanish, and the Catholic Church) then became the greatest cheerleaders for one, when it suited their own cultural appropriation desires?
And is it not ironic that the evil 1492 Spanish total ethnic cleansing of the Jews from Spain, and the theft of their money, their businesses, their homes, and even their children, and their mass forced conversions and burning alive at the stake for religious “thought crimes,” then resulted in one of these same Jews fleeing the Spanish crime wave, and in his flight with a large crew of Jews aboard the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, Columbus ended up locating a large and largely uninhabited continent upon which all abused people – Celts, Protestants, and Jews – could find refuge?
And was it not ironic that the barbaric Spanish Inquisition, which was really just a mass sadism, rape, pillage, and steal scheme by the Church (led by the ironically appropriately named Queen Isabella, which is the Latin name for Jezebel, the notoriously evil pagan Jewish queen of Biblical times), was so evil that it ended up creating the Protestant Reformation in response?
And that those same fleeing Protestants then populated Columbus’ “New World” and founded the free and prosperous America that we all know and love? That then relies upon the Jewish-Catholic Columbus as its modern day patron saint and national symbol?
Quite a cycle of ironies, stacked on top of one another.
And about this “Indigenous People’s Day” thingy bob: Who are these Amer-Indians? I mean yeah, we all know they most likely pre-dated the arrival of Europeans, but where did they come from, originally?
ASIA!
As if Asia is any closer to America than Europe…the take-away here being that the American Indians are themselves migratory transplants in America, also from a distant continent. They are, in effect, no different than Christopher Columbus, the Protestant Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, or the subsequent waves of Italian and Irish and European immigrants.
I dunno, but maybe one human migration is the same as another? And if Europeans being here in America is some sort of huge racial crime, then what do we say about the mass invasion of Europe by non-Europeans? Should only fair-skinned indigenous Europeans inhabit Europe? They are the natives there, after all.
Native land is native land is native land, and trying to say that one native land is off limits to subsequent human migration, while the other native land should be wide open, is racially discriminatory. Which I think is actually the whole point of this cultural Marxism attack on Columbus Day and America’s Western heritage. If you ask me, it smells like an imperialistic Han Chinese plot to keep the Asian migration to America wide open, and the undermining of Western freedoms ongoing….
Whole new meaning to “October Surprise”
“October Surprise” is a phrase associated with last-minute, last-ditch, late-in-the-game efforts to damage political opponents right before the annual early November’s Election Day.
Usually based on outright lies, half truths, lies by omission, or some partial evidence of a candidate’s possible or implied failure of character or legality, the “October Surprise” is always cast as a dirty trick meant to make a strong candidate un-electable. An October Surprise is usually a fake smear, amplified by a partisan establishment media, though there are occasional last-minute information releases that are truthful.
Well, it is election season in America, and it is an important one, but tomorrow, October 7th, marks the other kind of “October Surprise.” Like the big, deadly attack that America experienced at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and which brought America directly into World War II. And while our subject October 7th was a surprise attack, and it resulted in a huge sadistic massacre of mostly civilians, it was not just about that one moment. Its implications are world-wide. Even though it occurred in one of the world’s smallest nations, inflicted upon one of the world’s tiniest groups of people.
Three years ago on October 7th, Islamic jihadis broke through the Israeli border near Gaza, and attacked friendly, trusting small villages and a world-love music festival (the Nova Festival). The invading Gazan jihadis committed unspeakable human rights violations, war crimes not seen since World War II, and sadistic atrocities that are unimaginable and even unbelievable to the normal person.
Unfortunately or fortunately, the Gazans proudly recorded their crimes, and the heart-breaking / soul-shocking footage is visible at a lot of websites. Babies burned alive in front of their parents, who were then raped and murdered. Lots and lots of gleeful torture by green-wearing Jihadis, who did the whole Allahu snackbar thing after each crime.
Islamic cruelty is not just a specially noted thing of past European history, or of our own 9-11 plane attack, or of the many crazy reports home from American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is something naturally organic to that desert culture, which we got to see most recently in the 2012 civil war in Syria. Well, all of it was replicated on the Hamas-led civilian attack on Israeli Jews on October 7th.
And while October 7th was supposedly about Gaza, a place the Israelis had completely abandoned in 2005, it was really the opening salvo in a world-wide jihad against the West. Just like Arch Duke Ferdinand’s murder started the dominoes that triggered World War One, it appears that Gaza’s October 7th surprise attack was the beginning of a highly prepared, well coordinated world-wide jihadi assault on Western Civilization.
If there were such a thing as a Muslim peace movement, three years ago would have been the time to see it rise to the occasion. Instead, our planet has been enveloped in a unified mass invasion of Western nations, a massed political attack on Western democracies by the Red-Green Alliance of Islamic jihadis and Marxists, jihadi candidates for Congress and US Senate in Michigan. Using democratic processes and institutions to achieve non-democratic sharia-compliant end results, October 7th triggered an avalanche of attacks on America and Western nations.
October 7th, 2023, was the October Surprise of all October Surprises. Small place, small beginning, but enormous shockwave with civilization-ending implications still building up steam right now.
Tomorrow is October 7th, the modern day Day of Infamy. Folks, ya better try to get everyone around you to wake up. Before it is too late. You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Levi’s Jewish rye bread, and you don’t have to be Jewish to understand the deep threat to your family implied in October 7th.
You are in a civilizational conflict, whether you realize it, or not, whether you like it, or not.
Party or Principle: To which are you loyal?
Just curious because of the curious elections going on around America right now. Appears that a lot of Americans are loyal to one political party, and not necessarily to a set of immutable principles.
Which are you loyal to, a political party or to certain principles?
Maybe you remember a certain political party back when it stood for certain principles, and I also remember that political party. From my seat now, it is hard to see how either of America’s two main parties have stayed true to a set of immutable principles, though one party has stayed much closer to its original founding ideas (anti-slavery, keeping the American union of states together, ensuring that new states admitted to the Union were not slave states) than the other.
Used to be that adherence to a political party resulted from agreeing with the policies it sought to implement. That kind of loyalty makes sense. It is a linear, logical relationship. And now that we see one of the American political parties so. freakin. far. from its historic beginnings, and yet still commanding loyalty of half of America, it is hard to square up.
In fact, this one political party is openly devoted to the interests of illegal border jumpers over those of existing American citizens, more supportive of Iran’s IRGC jihadi terror forces than of the American military forces seeking to stop them from nuking America, more supportive of pedophiles and murderers and rapists than of their victims, etc. The list of contrary policy positions is very long for this political party, to which tens of millions of Americans nonetheless pledge their allegiance, their money, and their vote. Imagine that your political party is supported by the IRGC, Russia, China, Cuba, and North Korea….the worst, most oppressive, most cruel, least-free nations all support…the Democrat Party.
Only one explanation for this makes sense to me: Self-destruction is the ultimate virtue signal.
In our modern digital world of personal signals and attempts to stand out, be unique, get noticed, break loneliness, gain influence or fame, nothing says I am superior to others than hating yourself and voting for policies that destroy yourself, your nation, your core necessities.
A stated willingness to sacrifice your own interests is the ultimate statement of purity, of goodness, or moral superiority, these leftists believe.
Problems with this are two:
One, leftists’ self-destructive (“suicidal empathy”) behavior is not limited to just leftists. They seek to impose this same destruction upon everyone else in America. So much for showing anyone the way and how socialism is supposed to be done right by living it successfully for the rest of us skeptics; nope, it has to be forced on us at gunpoint. And in their minds, the socialists are the ones with the guns…
Two, this behavior is based on the super rich irony that you have to be super rich and live in a super rich and super organized nation, like America, to indulge fantasies of self destruction. It requires living among such great wealth that one feels invulnerable, immune to accountability, to be able to entertain these moronic statements and beliefs.
Only spoiled rotten people can dye their hair blue, self-identify as a dog, change their pronouns daily, hate America, hate tax-paying white people, and also demand and expect expensive lattes and gourmet food. Starving people cannot indulge themselves in self-destructive fantasies, just like those humans who already lived under socialism, and got out alive, assiduously reject it.
We saw this mentality most vividly at the nationwide anti-Israel-anti-America-anti-police student + activist university encampments from 2023-2025. Students there made a big deal about going on hunger strikes to make their political point, and then just hours later they whined about the lack of “Door Dash” food deliveries to their violent environment.
Spoiled rotten pampered children of privilege acting out all brave and fierce, only to then complain about not getting exactly the kind of expensive, fancy food to which they are accustomed, or that the police they decried were also nowhere to be seen when needed to protect these overgrown children from each other.
What complete rubbish and childish nonsense.
Leftists and Democrats view America as an eternal safety net that is too big to fail, to which they must never donate but from which they can always take, that America is too successful to collapse under the weight of this sustained assault. At their deepest, leftists appear to believe that self-destruction is some sort of atonement, and that their lives will be better afterwards. And people like me say, in response, are you outta your freakin mind!
There is no food period in your leftist gulags. Forget Door Dash, or expensive lattes; food itself of any sort is in short supply at the education camps these fools envision for others but which will inevitably house them.
A great deal of this discussion is encapsulated in a powerful speech given by a Democrat at the Republican National Convention last week. Yes, he is a Democrat whose own family vilifies him for having broken ranks. But you know what? The people who care the absolute most about political party allegiance, like the Kennedy family, are not interested in ideas, or principles, or in being consistent, or in supporting the US Constitution. Rather, their political party affiliation is either their business, their family, or their religion.
For the Kennedy clan, being a Democrat is strictly business. It is access to power and wealth.
For many unaffiliated Catholics and Jews, the Democrat Party has become both family and the embodiment of their “religious values.” Not that abortion until after birth or defenseless citizens under the jack boot of all-powerful government are values of Judaism or Catholicism, as founded, but to the fallen members of these groups who are far far distant from actual religious teachings, these kinds of vacuous policies have supplanted tradition.
When coupled with the heroin-like dopamine rush these people get for always “voting correctly,” America ends up with tens of millions of uncritical Americans who are not anchored in principle, but who are rather loyal to a political party that changes with the winds, and which openly runs on self-destruction.
Even if that political party is destroying the America that protects and feeds them and caters to their every desire and dream. Their silly fantasy about showing how much they care by killing themselves and their interests takes precedence.
People like me inhabit the other end of the many spectrums (emotional, cognitive, religious) involved here. I am loyal to America’s first principles, its founding ideas, like the superiority of meritocracy, not to any political party, and especially not to any political party that deviates so far from America’s first principles.
And I have a tough time understanding anyone who acts otherwise, except to pity them as the in-effect lost-in-space drug addicts they are.
I am loyal to the ideas the old party used to stand for, not for the crazy, self-destructive policies it promotes today. I did not leave the Democrat Party, it left me.
Remember 9-11
Never forget, never forgive until America gets a full apology.
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MIssing Charlie, Missing America
Today is the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s murder in Utah, on a college campus supposedly devoted to learning, education, ideas, free speech, debate, and so on. Because you were a kind person with a big heart, I miss you, Charlie, and so do a lot of other people. Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 Islamic jihadi attacks on America.
Since the day Charlie was shot by a political leftist incapable of free thought or debate or learning or free speech, America has been subjected to an increasing onslaught of anti-free thought, anti free speech, anti debate, anti ideas by the political Left, especially on college campuses.
Incapable of standing and debating, the political Left and its Islamic jihadi allies always use violence, coercion, suppression, and censorship. Claiming victim status until they have sufficient power to firmly control their political opposition, political Leftists, and their political and cultural allies, demand equal footing in every venue, in every institution. Then, when they have enough votes, they take away everyone else’s vote.
And now, at Ground Zero in Manhattan, where 25 years ago the Twin Towers were hit by two jet airplanes hijacked by Islamic jihadis, and where over 3,000 Americans subsequently lost their lives in horrible deaths, the political Left is once again demanding shared space. Yes indeed, there are demands for a mosque (!) at the Twin Towers site. Because the murderous Islamic hijackers deserve to be remembered as victims, too. As though the murderers are the same as their victims.
Charlie Kirk stood for reasonable debate, but he also stood up firmly for Western culture, Western ideals, Western values. We must carry on this legacy, most importantly through voting for strong pro America, pro freedom candidates.
Charlie’s vision for America (and Europe) challenged people especially on college campuses, because his message was incompatible with the Left’s destructive moral relativism that has taken hold everywhere.
The same moral relativism that demands the 9-11 Islamic hijackers be treated the same as their victims has also infected the minds of the Lindsay Clancy jurors, who are now openly saying in front of cameras in public interviews that Lindsay Clancy was the real victim, not her three little children that she strangled with her bare hands, in her home, in their bedrooms, surrounded by all their teddy bears, toys, and other symbols of safe, happy, hearth and home. These women jurors are talking about “compassion” for the murderer, to the point where they would have her be found not guilty of brutally murdering three innocent children.
In other words, a year after Charlie was shot in the neck by a Leftist, America is still suffering from the Left’s attack on basic human morality and essential civilizational values held the world over, except in materially successful capitalist countries, like America, where citizens have so much stuff that they can afford to invent their own problems. Like so-called “compassion” for brutal child murderers.
Charlie, we miss you, we need you now more than ever, and I know I speak for many when I say that your legacy of freedom, core Western values, and open debate as fundamental to our American culture is not forgotten. Today we remember your martyrdom, and tomorrow we remember the martyrdom of the 3,000 innocent Americans burned alive, crushed alive, thrown into a fifty story fall to pavement alive, by Islamic jihadi murderers.
Hopefully, the lesson we Americans take from all this remembering is that we do not allow yet more Leftists to take elected office and perpetuate, nay, increase, all of this mayhem.
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Foggy Ireland
Ten years ago several young Syrian toughs confronted me on a boat in Mallaig, Scotland. Freshly imported into Scotland as supposed victims, they knew that they were untouchable, and they pushed everyone around, acting like they owned the boat. It irked the American crap out of me and I stood my ground. Been a while since I had a good donnybrook, which is always good for a man’s vasculature, and I squared off.
The captain walked over to me and quietly confided “Ya, ya kin take ’em, and we will all cheer you for it, but the coppers will lock you up and ship ya home, no matter who started it.”
So I drank that bucket of Syrian sh*t and enjoyed the quiet ride across the loch and to my hunt for red stag.
Not long after, Scotland had a Syrian prime minister who said wildly racist crap about the native, indigenous white Scots people, and he derided both Protestant and Catholic religion. The Scots had imported their own invading force, intent on destroying Scotland from within. No “Bravehearts” these.
A couple years later I toured the spectacular Worcestshire Church in Barmouth, Wales, (Bugs Bunny forever destroyed my ability to properly say or spell Worcestshire) and commented to a local man how sadly empty and un-used it appeared. Yes, he confirmed, the church sits neatly cared for and tidy, but the Welsh government acts to dissuade the Welsh people from attending church.
The following year, the government of Wales began removing public statues of white people, because white people statues somehow represent racism, they said, because apparently white people are inherently racist, they said. Or something nuts like that, they said. Whatever their nutty cause (imagine removing statues of black people because of their skin color…it is nuts), the Welsh government was making culture war on its own people.
England’s government has obviously gone to war against its own native people, importing millions of illegal, unvetted, unknown criminals from culturally opposing places, allowing them to run violent rampages daily against the native, indigenous people, and then arrests and harasses the victims of said rampages. Whether I am willing to submit myself again to this craziness, I doubt that I will even be allowed into England as a tourist at present. Thought crimes like those committed on this blog are officially deemed much more serious offenses than knifing people, and the British government is quite effective at tracking the different opinions held by others.
So one supposes that Ireland just had to join this war against native Europeans, and against its own native Gaelic speaking indigenous people, and so the Irish government began doing all the same things as the aforementioned “UK” member states. A stroll through Dublin a few years ago revealed more tattooed Pakistani men than native Irish on the streets, more Arabic spoken than English, or Gaelic, more new mosques than churches. As in Wales, the beautiful old churches sit empty. Irish coppers (Gardia) will indeed jail an Irish guy for stopping racial harassment and sexual violence by Pakistani men, while looking away at the Pakistanis’ crimes.
The official Irish Government war against Irish culture and people is well on its way. Despite countless generations of Irish fighting and dying to maintain their independence from Romans, Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Victorian England, modern British…the list of invaders and occupiers is long…now, Ireland is embarked on a foggy headed policy of self-erasure.
Conspiracy mongers dwell heavily on the unnatural coincidence of all of Western Civilization suddently and simultaneously committing “Harry Kary,” or ritual seppukku suicide. I do concur that it is odd as hell. But it is not some shadowy, secret handshake cabal causing this.
Rather, this “suicidal empathy” immigration policy is the inevitable result of too much material success putting too many people to sleep. Way way too many people in France, Germany, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and America have too much, and thus take way too much for granted, and have too many creature comforts and food and ease of living, to realize that they cannot drain their own collective bank account for the benefit of myriad total strangers, without losing it all themselves.
The old adage about soft times making soft men, resulting in hard times, which then make hard men, tough men, making tough and sometimes brutal decisions about life and death, seems to be playing out here. I observe that America’s young socialist brats have no idea just how hard and tough the old Americans like me can be, will be, need be.
An Irish song comes to mind about the likely future, as told by the Irish past:
As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
Their Armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by
No pipes did hum, no battle drum did sound its dread tattoo
But the Angelus Bell o’er the Liffey’s swell rang out through the foggy dew
Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war
‘Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar
And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through
While Britannia’s Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew
Oh the night fell black, and the rifles’ crack made perfidious Albion reel
In the leaden rain, seven tongues of flame did shine o’er the lines of steel
By each shining blade a prayer was said, that to Ireland her sons be true
But when morning broke, still the war flag shook out its folds in the foggy dew
‘Twas England bade our Wild Geese go, that “small nations might be free”
But their lonely graves are by Suvla’s waves on the fringe of the great North Sea
Oh, had they died by Pearse’s side or fought with Cathal Brugha
Their graves we will keep where the Fenians sleep, ‘neath the shroud of the foggy dew
Oh the bravest fell, and the Requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the spring time of the year
While the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few,
Who bore the fight that the freedom’s light might shine through the foggy dew
As back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fled, O glorious dead, When you fell in the foggy dew…
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Happy USA 250th at National Mall big success
Spending two days in the DC-area 102 degree summer heat is not usually something I choose to do, but I gladly did it this week. And I am here to report back two facts: 1) The USA 250th Birthday National State Fair Semiquincentennial Celebration on the National Mall was a big success, and 2) Everyone I met there at the National Mall, and then yesterday at Mount Vernon, was a conservative patriot. This I consider to be not a success, but a failure by the political Left in America. More on this in a moment.
First, let me report on the USA 250th Birthday National State Fair Semiquincentennial Celebration on the National Mall. It was a lot of fun and I am glad I went. They had an active rodeo ring and horse riding competition, with hundreds of active fans cheering from around the fence at any given time. They had a huge Ferris wheel, which we rode in, and got a unique view from and of the DC skyline. There was a long line to get onto this ride at all times, and the two young ladies we rode up with said it was their second or third trip on it.
The FIFA or Fifi or FAFO whatever whatever huge screen soccer watching area was jam packed with thousands of fans, most of whom wore American flag shirts, pants, hats, or draped a flag over their shoulders. America was playing Bosnia when I was there, and the fans were cheering lustily. The line to get in went around the block.
The empty part of the National Mall that people try to show as evidence that this event is not popular is empty because there is nothing happening there. The state booths and the activities are almost all down-the-way, or back the other way. Everywhere else I went there were lots of Americans showing lots of interest in the events and music and exhibits etc etc. The live music was constant, fascinating, and performed by really talented people. No matter where we went, live music was being played.
The Princess of Patience was able to find one frozen ice cream treat out of all the food being marketed. And as far as I could see, the food vendors were struggling to keep up with the constant demand. A lot of food booths had staff promising that the next food delivery was due at any moment, and the hot, sweaty visitors were lined up and waiting. Gotta say, “artichoke dip-stuffed jumbo pretzel” and “bacon-and-cheese stuffed jumbo pretzel” sounds like a lot of work to make, cook, and then deliver ready to serve.
How about selling just ye olde regular big salty soft pretzel, with lots of yellow mustard? Strangely, I looked and never saw just regular old burgers and hotdogs being offered. The food was all creative and fancy, semi-gourmet. That would put a kink in your cowgirl rope, if you were trying to serve up fresh food to a constant stream of hungry fair-goers.
The state booths were fascinating and informative. I stopped in at Guam and had a long, fascinating talk with the friendly reps there, both of them Native, one of whom helped the Princess of Patience charge her phone. I learned about the 80-year American military presence on Guam (still a necessity, due to Chinese imperialism in the Pacific Ocean), and how the Natives are developing their own identity and tourist trade. Similar to Hawaii.
Pennsylvania’s booth seems clouded in controversy, but you would not know that when visiting it. PA’s booth was the best of all that I visited, because it had so much interesting information, and because the fascinating exhibits linked our glorious history to our excellent present. Lots of framed historic American and Pennsylvania flags, antiques, a life-size copy of the Liberty Bell… who the heck scrambled hard at the last second to put all of that together into a coherent exhibit? Thank you very much to US senators John Fetterman (D) and Dave McCormick (R), and to the many corporate sponsors who under-wrote the costs.
It is disappointing that my own governor, Josh Shapiro, did not participate. This big event, our nation’s 250th, should be a bi-partisan celebration. A person’s hate for someone in politics should not outweigh your patriotism for America or your pride in the state you represent. It is tough not to see this as a childish tantrum, but then again, I have yet to have any Democrat friend or family member explain this phenomenon to me without them going immediately from zero to a hundred on the Angry Meter. And it is hard not to see that as a childish tantrum.
Support for America should not be partisan, or even politically questionable. Especially on our 250th birthday.
Which brings us back to the attendees. What on earth is happening in America that people’s personal hatred of a president is so corrosive that they will vandalize national monuments that he has had cleaned up, and that they will boycott a fun, informative, unifying “national state fair” on the National Mall, on America’s 250th birthday?
Every single person I met and chatted with (dozens) there at the National Mall was a conservative patriot. The attendees had a great pride in celebrating America’s 250th Birthday, and made real showings of that pride in their choice of clothing, hats, and words of happy encouragement with one another. That there was no one Leftist (who I saw) just there out of love for America or pride in America says a lot of bad stuff about the political Left in America.
Ditto for yesterday’s day spent at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. The place was LOADED with American tourists, Boy Scout groups, all wearing patriotic colors and clothing. We all stood in lines to see just about anything, and despite the 102* blazing heat, everyone was just as friendly, happy, and good natured as the audience had been the day before at the National Mall. How refreshing.
Mount Vernon has incredible updated displays and exhibits, with a significant emphasis on the roles and daily lives of African slaves there, and presumably also across the South, until 1866, when the Republicans took away the Democrats’ slaves.
The George Washington Grist Mill and Distillery was closed, I guess due to the high heat, but come on, people. On July 4th week? On the week of America’s 250th birthday? Something there stank of sabotage….NPS staff who cannot bring themselves to work for a president they disagree with. That was not professional behavior or being devoted to America, if not to the man who temporarily runs it.
I fear for an America that is once again divided into halves. One half, my half, is proud of America, happy to be an American, will work with anyone to advance our great nation forward. The other half (or third) is angry about America, at war with America as we were founded, constantly faulting America, trying to set us back, trying to subvert us, and is actively boycotting our great nation’s 250th birthday celebration.
One guy I spoke with on a train was headed out of DC for the weekend. He is a Democrat lobbyist, an attorney, wearing a fabulous Swiss watch, and more or less said that DC was being inundated with knuckle dragging backwoods types, people like me, I guess, for the 250th celebration, and he had to get out of Dodge in order to enjoy the holiday weekend.
It is curious to me that the political left cannot enjoy sharing America with others. Either the political Left has absolute and totalitarian control of America, or they are miserable boycotters.
Kind of like 1860, a LOT like 1860….which America lived through, and came through stronger, after everything got sorted out.
On the other hand, I and the millions of Americans like me wish you a Happy Independence Day and a Happy 250th Birthday, America!
I took all of the photos below. Any reproduction requires attribution, please.
President George Washington’s face, made from a clay mask while he was alive. In 1776 he lead America to freedom
George Washington’s grist mill and distillery, which made him more money than anything else he did. Washington made rye whisky, which is now coming back into vogue, and which I can occasionally enjoy
General George Washington crossing the Delaware River imposed on the Washington Monument on the National Mall
The Washington Monument, the National State Fair Ferris wheel, and the “Arc d’Trump”
The Arc d’Trump, the big Ferris wheel, and the Washington Monument at dusk, a once-in-several lifetimes view. Smithsonian Institution on the left
Washington Monument lit up in celebration of America’s 250th birthday, with a temporary “national state fair” building in front
American soccer player Malik on the JumboTron on the National Mall, with the US Capitol in the background. Pretty unique view
Earliest known depiction of Uncle Sam, on an 1876 Centennial celebration flag, welcoming “all nations.” Legally, not as an invasion force
My view from the Ferris wheel, looking at the so-named “Arc d’Trump” and the US Capitol in the distance. The soccer game JumboTron is visible in the distance.
People from around America inscribed their best wishes for America’s 250th Birthday
Your faithful author and the Princess of Patience
Two friendly all-American federal police provided me with a grand entrance onto the National Mall
Yours truly, visiting the Truth booth. Truth Social is the official voice of President Trump, because former Twitter couldn’t stand the truth
So-called “Arc d’Trump” has great symbolism, especially with the Ferris wheel and the Washington Monument in the background
Pennsylvania’s booth had the most amazing exhibits, including this old flag from my home turf
Copy of the Liberty Bell at the PA booth