Category → Government Of the People…
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.
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.
Crazy or Lazy, your choice today
Today is Election Day.
Highly consequential election. We have two choices: A crazy Democrat Party intent on destroying America as founded, or a lazy Republican Party which operates as a social club and is a far far cry from the political party of Abolition it was founded to be (in opposition to the slave owning Democrat Party).
Because post-Civil War Reconstruction was not fully implemented, the Democrat Party of insurrection, racism, slavery, and civil war was not banned. Rather, it was allowed to continue re-growing itself. But it never really changed. It went from enslaving just the African slaves to trying to enslave the entire America under the boot of Big Government totalitarianism. Today the Democrat Party openly talks about amassing an unassailable amount of political power, so it can force its unpopular agenda on everyone.
When I was an active Democrat in the 1980s, the Democrat Party was a pretty moderate movement. That patina is gone. My positions never changed, but the Democrat Party swerved hard and far to the far Left. It now stands for eliminating our Second Amendment rights, First Amendment free speech rights, greatly narrowing our economic choices, putting government in charge of our children, unsustainable government spending, etc. I cannot recognize this as an organization I once worked hard to advance.
Against this steamroller jihad against freedom stands the lazy, spineless, uncaring modern Republican Party, which at best stands for just not doing the worst excesses of the Democrat Party. And doing nothing else of consequence.
Today I choose the do-no-harm Lazy over the catastrophically damaging Crazy. This is the best choice for an America that is not too big to fail. I hope you join me and vote accordingly.
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.”
Picture of it below.
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.
Screenshot
Screenshot
America’s choice in ten days
Screenshot
Ruger is about to be eaten alive
While the American gun world is presently enthralled by the ATF’s latest effort to deep-six the NFA and emasculate the GCA, and make SBRs and sawed-offs and suppressors available for all, we have something much more prosaic to discuss here. And it sucks.
Bill Ruger, Sr., was a famously driven man, a true American, who from his earliest adult years made unique, high quality guns that he wanted to make. These were firearms not yet on the market by any other manufacturer, and with no indications that there ever would be a market for them. They were often modeled after guns that had at one time been centerpieces of the foreign sporting world, like elegant, accurate British and Scottish-made Farquarson action single shots. And yet the markets followed him. In fact, Bill Ruger created markets not just for his own guns, but for whole categories of guns that Americans had not shown interest in for a hundred years, if ever.
Like the Ruger #1, a single shot, based on the Henry/ Farquarson action. Simple, rugged, exceptionally accurate, capable of all kinds of Africa-scale rounds. He also made side-by-side shotguns, and over-under shotguns, when both were falling out of favor to blastemall semi-autos. In fact, many younger Americans had never actually seen a double barreled shotgun in person, when Ruger brought his Red Label onto the market. Like the Bearcat and subsequent revolvers, introduced at a time when cowboy-style guns were long out of style.
Bill Ruger adapted investment casting for many of his firearms, which saved a lot of money in laborious machining and turning raw stock. He revolutionized modern gun manufacturing so well that competing companies, like Colt, began chasing the new markets that Bill Ruger had opened, often adopting his manufacturing methods in part or in full.
One of my favorite rifles is a 1980s Ruger M77 RSI International .308, that is as light and as pointable as a stalk of goldenrod, as accurate as a laser, and easy to carry all day long. Because it is so exceptionally light, short, and handy, and has a thumb safety on the tang, it is exceptionally fast on snap shots while stalking deer and bear in the mountains. My M77 RSI has killed countless deer and one bear. But the challenge with the M77 RSI is that Ruger had the short, thin, finely tapered barrels milled with the scope mounts integral to the barrel. Like the Germans used to do (and occasionally still do) on their finest sporting rifles. While a fabulous little work of art, the manufacturing costs for this gun were too high, and it was discontinued in the early 1990s. Tang-safety M77s were made a few years more, and then the ridiculous wing safety was used on all subsequent M77s. No still hunting for you!
Recently, Ruger bought out the old Marlin machinery from the old Remington plant in Ilion, New York. I toured that factory about fifteen years ago, and what a loss that it is now gone, that the workers there are gone, that the Remington name is now gone from the town of its founding after more than two hundred years. Crappy or shady business practices caused the new-new-new Remington to fail, even though it produced many good products. Though the old Marlin 1895 was not well made in the Remington plant, with “Remlin” rifles pretty low on the totem pole.
Well, Ruger took the lever action world by storm when it resuscitated the Marlin 1895 a few years ago, in its state-of-the-art Mayodan, North Carolina plant. Flawless, incredibly accurate, reliable, rugged, this stainless lever gun in its original 45-70 became the go-to for Alaskan big game guides in grizzly country. It is the gun I take hunting in Alaska. I have killed several deer and a bear with mine. One shot kills, one at 160 yards with open sights (my eyes are aging and that kind of shooting just ain’t happening any more, sadly).
And Ruger has also continued to make all the oldies-but-goodies that are cornerstones of the gun owning world: The GP100 .357, .44 Mag Redhawk, .44 Mag Blackhawk, .45 Colt Vaquero, and Bearcat revolvers, the Ruger Number 1 single shot, and the M77 series of rifles, among others.
Ruger can continue to run a perfectly successful business making these “legacy” models, because while their markets are not on fire, like the 1895 is, they are steady. Their customers want them. Not by the truckload, but enough to keep several highly trained workers busy full-time, and money coming in steadily.
But Ruger is about to be eaten alive in a foreign corporate takeover, and the company has already notified its customers that it is dropping an awful lot of the oldies-but-goodies, including most of the revolvers. Whether this decision is a tactical retreat under the turtle shell by current ownership, in order to shed less-productive or under-performing, or expensive to make products, balance the books, and shield against the coming hostile takeover attempt, or is a giant flash increase in short-term profitability so that the takeover costs as much as it possibly can, who can say. The fact is, Beretta is gunning for Ruger, and it appears that they are likely to take over.
And Ruger is showing the signs of a prey animal. Tossing stuff overboard in an attempt to pick up speed as it flees its pursuer.
Forgive my national pride and my national interest bit, but I am not happy about losing another indigenous firearm manufacturing company to a foreign country. Yeah yeah yeah, Beretta is 500 and some years old. Whateva. Great. I like that. Good for Italy. But that means nothing of consequence to any of us Americans, when what we need are Ruger replacement parts easily obtainable here in America, sold to us by Americans on the phone.
Remington 3.0 went to the Great Gun Maker in the sky a few years ago. Winchester bounced back and forth between the Japanese and the Belgians, and now exists in some purgatorial form that occasionally shows up like a ghost, and then disappears back into the shadows, again. Colt has barely hung on, same for Smith & Wesson. America’s native gun makers are Henry, Taylor’s (which also imports quality Italian firearms), Barrett, a few other small shops specializing in hyper accurate sporting rifles. America needs all the gun makers it can get, making not just sporting weapons but military weapons, too. We cannot survive if we outsource our weapons acquisitions to foreign makers.
America needs Ruger. But it appears we are getting Beretta, and there is no way that firm is going to run the company the Bill Ruger way. Here comes the corporate slashing and bleeding, the loss of fabulous guns, and the loss of American jobs, in the name of maximum profit. Maybe Beretta wants a lever action shotgun, and is acquiring Ruger just for that. I guess that might be in the spirit of ol’ Bill.
Ruger’s M77 RSI International in .308, that has killed over a hundred deer in my hands, a bear, some other critters. Just recently topped with a now discontinued Leupold 1×5, perfect for the slow mountain still hunting I enjoy
Ruger Marlin 1895 in 45-70 with shed buck I shot in Dauphin County a few years ago. Laser accurate gun
Abandoned mine site in remote Alaska, five mile walk in from dead-end dirt road. Over a week of hunting this area, I saw moose and griz aplenty, heard a wolf pack howling, passed up on a smaller black bear I literally walked right up to and looked over. Having my own handloaded brass solids in the Ruger Marlin 1895 was the most reassuring feeling
Hunting in Alaska requires all kinds of layers, and waterproofs, rubber boots, and stainless rifles. The Ruger Marlin 1895 is my go-to gun for these trips
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.
One good reason to vote for Scott Perry
Scott Perry is the current congressman in Central PA. Has been for something like ten years, maybe twelve…fourteen? As political careers go, Scott is just about to enter the “been around a long time” category, a category I am normally leery of, because long term career politicians always lose touch with their constituents. They become institutions in their own right, and use that institutional hold to self-enrich, while hardly ever doing The People’s business.
Career politicians usually slide into cruise control mode and make pretend about doing something, bloviating, and then go on long vcations.
The fact that Scott has to work hard and campaign hard in a competitive district in order to hold on to his seat is a good thing. It is good for him, because it keeps him honest and responsive, and because it forces him to listen to his constituents. It is good for us, his constituents.
Scott Perry has several different reputations, some I understand and some I just do not understand. Some of these are well-earned, for better and for worse, and some are just bitch-and-moan partisan politics, which I categorially reject. I can say that I have had conversations with Scott where we disagreed, and where we agreed.
One of his good (I think) reputations is as an independent maverick, an independent thinker, his own man, who operates away from political party oversight and control. It is this way of conducting himself that has earned him my vote.
Where each political party has its own constellation of circling sycophantic self-interested parasite groups, say, teacher’s unions for the Democrats and tobacco for Republicans (it is a toss-up which is worse for you, the teacher’s union or constant tobacco use), the unusually rare career political reps like Scott Perry have constructed their own unique support network that is tailored to their own/ his own unique way of advocating and voting. Their financial and political support structure is by nececssity grass roots, organic, natural, and personal. Not the kind of massive, illegal Communist Chinese support that officials like Mitch McConnell (R-KY) get. Or the massive, illegal Islamic Republic of Iran support that Barack Obama (D-Kenya) got.
Over the spring and summer, Congressman Perry did something that few other elected officials in either party did: He opposed Flock Cameras. Wow. This is a brave thing to do, especially in an election year. Takes real conviction and principle for any politician to take a stand against such a political and financial behemoth as Flock Cameras.
Something so powerful, that promises so much (fake) security, what could go wrong, right?
What are Flock Cameras? For those readers living in a cave (welcome to my own cave here, by the way, proud to say it) or in Rio Linda, and who do not know what Flock Cameras are, here is my perception of them:
Flock Cameras are a high technology evil portal to Hell, where, while of and on this earth, they are combining with artificial intelligence (nothing super about that, yet) to quickly bring the end of a free and Constitutional America and usher in the age of robot warfare against humans.
We have already seen the dystopian futuristic movies and read the books they are based on (1984, THX1138, Terminator, etc), to know what an all-seeing anti-privacy robot eye can do to humanity, to you. Well, Flock Cameras are the watching all-seeing surveillance eye sent by Satan to control us. This is no hyperbole, and it is refreshing to see that American citizens of all mindsets and policy thinking are now coalescing around opposing Flock Cameras.
And while lots and lots of elected officials in America were taking Flock Cameras cash, some above board and some apparently undisclosed, and signing very very illegal Non-Disclosure Agreements with the company so it could set up in thousands of communities around America, Scott Perry was one of the few, one of the early voices among elected officials, to say STOP THIS.
Scott Perry is up for election in a month. Some things he promotes I do not agree with, some things he votes for or submits legislation on I do agree with, such as his official opposition to Flock Cameras. Such a love-hate relationship is healthy with elected officials and constituents alike. But then again, this is the thinking person’s approach to politics and policy. People who are trained seals clapping and barking for their partisan “team” will not understand this kind of critical thinking approach to life.
If you are a central PA voter trying to figure out whether to vote for Scott Perry, I recommend voting Yes. If for no other reason he had the balls and principle to stand apart from the big money pack and stake out policy territory popular with The People, but unpopular with elected officialdom. Scott said No to Flock Cameras, and he has thus earned my Yes vote next month.
Calling President Trump! Calling President Trump!
Americans elected Donald John Trump to represent them in 2024, because he ran on a platform of reform and reconfiguration of a tremendously bloated and corrupt federal government. Without question, President Trump hit the ground running in 2025 and began implementing huge changes.
Eliminating USAID was an important step, because it was 100% captured by one political party and was serving as a fire hose of taxpayer money going directly to Democrat Party activist groups.
Ditto for the unneeded Department of Education. If education is a state and local thing, then what the hell does America need a federal agency for, to what end? To further enrich the greedy and destructive teacher’s unions? No thanks. Not a good use of limited taxpayer funds.
Ditto for US EPA, a place I worked for seven years and for whose complete and utter corruption and ideological capture I can personally attest. Burn that place to the ground and start over with a pencil stub and a scrap of paper. Administrator Lee Zeldin is making slow but steady progress towards taming that freakshow.
But one of the problems the Trump Administration faces is the unbelievable lawlessness of the judiciary, where so many ideologically activist judges openly flout the law and Constitution to block Trump Administration policies. Policies that are solely the purview of the Executive Branch, and about which the Judicial Branch should have zero jurisdiction or oversight.
Latest in this judicial over-reach is the White House expulsion of far left ideological activist groups falsely representing themselves as “news reporters.” Included are CNN, MS NOW, and some other openly partisan group that is hardly an arbiter of fact or news, but rather an actor trying to create news and political narrative.
President Trump is within his right as Chief Executive to expel these frauds, and anyone else he wants, from access to the White House, which is the home and office of the Chief Executive. Absolutely no one else has anything to say about White House operations. Not the Congress, not the Judiciary.
And yet, another lawless activist judge has “ordered” that the White House allow these leftist activsts inside its doors…and instead of just saying no to this lawlessness, President Trump appears to be deferential to it.
Recall that judges do not run America. Their decisions are not final, nor are they binding if they are illegal. Judges do not make executive branch policy, nor do they make legislation, which is the purview and job and sole jurisdiction of the Congress. Judges who over-reach and who try to make policy, write legislation, or run executive branch operations are waaaaaay outside their constitutionally defined role, and are putting their own credibility and influence at great risk. Judges who over-reach and then get ignored are like the boy who cried wolf; people stop listening to them altogether.
Recall that American government is set up with three co-equal branches of government, and a natural tension exists between them. That natural balance is upset not only when one branch over-reaches its established jurisdiction, but when it is allowed to do so by the other co-equal branches.
Which is what is happening right now with this aggressive over-reaching judge (and many other judges) and the over-weaning White House.
Yes, America has a Constitutional crisis over press access to the White House only because President Trump is waaaaaayyyy too deferential to lawless judges, who themselves have zero standing in saying how the president runs his White House. There is no other Constitutional issue here, certainly no First Amendment right to access a government building exists, and certainly not the heart of the Executive Branch.
Freedom of the press means that fake news misinformation groups like CNN and MS NOW, as well as actual legitimate news organizations, are free to say to the American public anything they want to say. It does not mean that these disinformation activists at CNN get to go say it wherever they desire to go.
I am not going to elaborate over the double standard here, not only ignored but also sometimes protected by many of the same over-reaching judges now trying to insert themselves into the presidency, compared to when the Joe Biden White House yanked the credentials of 400-some news reporters who refused to regurgitate Biden talking points and narrative. Or when the same Biden White House ordered Twitter and Facebook to shut down political voices and information sources that the Biden Narrative opposed. Or when the Biden FBI kicked in the doors of journalists who were lawfully reporting on the salacious and disgusting contents of Ashley Biden’s diary (she made her father, Joe Biden, sound like he sexually molested her).
No, what is really at the heart of this issue is Donald John Trump’s softness, his dislike of confrontation or of prolonged difficulties. I know, his enemies describe him as the opposite, but the proof is right here in front of us.
He very much wants to make everything into a New York real estate deal, a natural and healthy give-and-take negotiation that results in an even handed resolution. He is also doing it with Hamas in Gaza, Iran’s IRGC, Turkey’s modern day Caleph Erdogan, and with America’s grossly over-reaching judiciary. All with huge problems resulting from his lack of a firm hand, a firm stance. Big mistake, President Trump!
American government involves an on-going, nonstop power struggle among the three branches of government. This natural tension is built into the framework of America’s bones. When it fails, the entire premise of American democratic rule is placed at risk. And it is failing now, because one political party is devoted to grabbing as much power as it can “by any means necessary,” while the other political party is deliberately in avoidance and refuses to fight back, regardless of the cost. One party is crazy, the other is lazy.
And the one man America pinned a badge on to bring order to the chaos is throwing gasoline on the fire, instead of putting it out.
This failure is made worse by President Trump’s outright refusal to stand up for his office, for the Chief Executive, for his basic Constitutional rights as the only person elected by the whole country. Bizarrely, he keeps deferring to his enemies, including this rogue judge, as if they will give him a fair deal, a fair shake, fair treatment. He seems to keep on hoping that his sworn political enemies will somehow come around and see the wisdom of mutual benefit conflict resolution, when the result of his deference and kindness is just more intransigence and confrontation and undermining of his executive role and policies.
It is long past time that President Trump puts his foot down and tells these rogue judges to go ahead and enforce their illegal, unconstitutional decisions, if they can. Without his compliance, their power-grabbing decisions are meaningless. And there is no reason why a self-respecting Chief Executive like President Trump should be outsourcing management of the White House to the Judiciary, which has zero jurisdiction there, especially on White House day to day operations.
Calling President Trump! Calling President Trump! The Bat Light is flashing over Gotham, the bad guys are rampaging through society, and we need you more than ever now! Where are you, President Trump? Where did you go?
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.
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.
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot
Screenshot