February 2nd is the birthday of Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand developed and defended Objectivism, a philosophy that advocates “rational selfishness.”

To celebrate Randsday, you do something not done on any other holiday: you give yourself a present. Randsday is for getting that longed-for luxury you ordinarily would not buy for yourself. Or for doing that long-postponed, self-pampering activity you cannot seem to fit into your chore-packed schedule.

Randsday is for reminding ourselves that pleasure is an actual need, a psychological requirement for a human consciousness. For man, motivation, energy, enthusiasm are not givens. Psychological depression is not only possible but rampant in our duty-preaching, self-denigrating culture. The alternative is not short-range, superficial “fun,” but real, self-rewarding pleasure. On Randsday, if you do something that you ordinarily would think of as “fun,” you do it on a different premise and with a deeper meaning: that you need pleasure, you are entitled to it, and that the purpose and justification of your existence is: getting what you want—what you really want, with full consciousness and dedication.

In The Fountainhead, Peter Keating comes to realize this:

Katie, I wanted to marry you. It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven—that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain—and wasted pain. . . . Katie, why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. As I wanted to marry you. Not as I want to sleep with some woman or get drunk or get my name in the papers. Those things—they’re not even desires—they’re things people do to escape from desires—because it’s such a big responsibility, really to want something.

Randsday is the time to challenge any duty-premise, re-affirm your love of your values, and honor the principle that joy in living is an end in itself.

Have a selfish Randsday!

“Everyone is entitled to his opinion.”

Not really.

People are entitled to hold their own opinions. They are entitled to be wrong, but they’re NOT entitled to impose the consequences of their errors on you. And they are NOT entitled to coerce you into pretending to believe that their hallucinations, fantasies and delusions are true. They are NOT entitled to make their hallucinations, delusions, fantasies and errors into law.

Michael J. Hurd

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told Newsmax: “The Border Patrol do not like what they’re being forced to do. They do it because they’re forced by [President] Joe Biden and his administration. On day one of his administration, he said that he was not going to deport people anymore and ever since then, we’ve been in litigation with them over immigration, and he’s continued to let people in. But that’s not what law enforcement wants. I can tell you nobody wants what he wants.

“Basically, he’s decided, to the detriment of the American public, that he’s going to bring these people in, work with the cartels every day, because the cartels make money off every person coming through and he’s making it easier for them because they don’t have to hide anymore. They just turn themselves in. It also allows the cartels to import more drugs, so it’s been very profitable and good for the cartels. It has not been good for Americans because of the increased crime, the risk of terrorism and the cost that every state is going to bear as a result of this.”

The Declaration of Independence says it better than anyone else can today:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

America is no longer a free country. So watch yourselves!

Michael J. Hurd

“Before you diagnose yourself as depressed, make sure you are not surrounding yourself with people who suck the life out of you.” [a meme on social media]

We have medicalized EVERYTHING. In the process, we forget we make poor choices.

We are not responsible for another’s choices. But we are responsible for the psychological atmosphere we create around us. Friendships and marriages are not coercion. We can end relationships, or at least minimize their influence, when we choose. We don’t have to let things bother us. We don’t have to become the toxic people trying to bring us down. We can refuse to enter or stay in their universe, at least psychologically speaking, and often literally — we can exit their lives.

Most choices are correctable, and many choices are even reversible. That’s the fact you cannot see if you’re too caught up in being a victim. Sometimes we are victims, but it does nothing to remain in that role. All it does is recreate the victimization we owe it to ourselves to move beyond. Seek justice and even retribution when possible, and when it’s truly worth it for you. But never let justice become your all-consuming motive. Otherwise, the whole point of holding others accountable is lost.

Michael J. Hurd

There’s been a strange transformation on the left in recent years, as its rhetoric has turned from championing real issues to bashing the right and salivating over putting Donald Trump and his associates in prison. Since the internet and social media have opened up so many new channels of communication, the left is losing its former power over the flow of information and has become forced to debate issues on the merits. Despite still maintaining a stranglehold over education, the legal system, the MSM, large corporations and most of big tech, a new study found that teenage boys are the most conservative they have been in half a century.

In reaction, the left is trying to deflect and avoid real debates by tarnishing the right with lawfare since the left now dominates the legal system. When you can get a judge to twist the jury instructions, disallow legitimate evidence and witnesses based on bogus excuses and skew the jury pool by refusing to transfer the case outside of a heavily Democratic area like Washington, D.C., you can ensure victories every time.

The right allowed the left’s domination of the legal system to happen, because we were too busy going to church, raising families and participating in typical Judeo-Christian charitable work – instead of spending our free time volunteering on busybody state bar and judicial committees, hanging out with politically correct legal groups late at night drinking and networking.

This is why there has been such a rise in lawfare – it’s now the left’s most successful strategy for winning. Destroy the right’s arguments by creating the illusion they are so bad their opinions should be illegal. The judges all go along with it, because as I’ve written previously, they are terrified of having their pristine, mostly behind-the-scenes reputations destroyed and their families harassed in public.

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The Democrats never talk about Joe Biden’s positions on issues. They never discuss his latest initiatives. They know no one takes Biden seriously due to the dementia, and Democrats have lurched so far to the left that trying to take a defensive position and prop up their positions is futile. The transgender issue is a classic example; it’s impossible to defend child mutilation, so the left is losing that debate. The best they can do is duck the argument and gaslight, changing the topic to magnify the flaws of Trump and others on the right.

Unlike the right, the left never gets any satisfaction from watching people come to see the light like #WalkAway, or by giving a speech commending their leaders’ bold visions. They don’t even make a pretense of it anymore like they did last century (pretending Jimmy Carter had bold vision was a stretch). So in order to find some satisfaction, they have resorted to disguised fascist tactics, using the legal system to squelch free speech.

The average American, who doesn’t pay close attention to politics but still votes, can be easily swayed by this tactic since no one wants to be associated with a “criminal.” Polls show that support for Trump greatly decreases if voters are asked whether they’d vote for him if he were in prison.

The left has a proven track record already, by successfully targeting fringe people and groups like Alex Jones and Q/QAnon. Since few conservatives aligned with them, they were a cinch to take down, and now the left has a blueprint to easily follow – even labeling people as “QAnon” who aren’t.

This transformation to this psychotic approach took place in part due to COVID-19 lockdowns driving mental illness on the left. Since the left insisted on locking down hard, unlike the right, they experienced more social isolation. One of their jobs that expanded during the lockdowns was trolling people on the right online from home, which further exacerbated the mental illness, being stuck with that miserable job all day long.

The left has successfully changed real political debate into a terrifying “gotcha” Orwellian era, the beginning of fascism. Turn to the MSM and it is endless coverage of Trump’s legal battles, as if there’s little else going on. Their leading pundits, like Ron Filipkowski, hysterically post round-the-clock about every minor proceeding in the lawsuits and prosecutions of Trump.

The Democratic Party should be honest and change its platform so that every plank states what it is really doing – take Trump and his associates down with lawfare, particularly through prosecution. Minor prongs are taking down his associates with lawfare.

I keep wondering, “When are the grown-ups going to intervene and stop this Orwellian lawfare?” The Supreme Court has shown that it will not intervene in anything related to election fraud, but I predict it will draw the line at allowing Trump to go to prison, realizing that’s a terrifying slippery slope to go down. While that intervention will stop people from deserting Trump, the Democrats have mastered election fraud so they won’t need him in prison in order to “win” the presidential election. Their approach is “by any means necessary,” so they are working all sleazy angles to avoid legitimate political debate.

The Democrats have successfully implemented radical Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” diverting attention from real political issues to destroying their political opponents with character assassinations. Since the average American doesn’t have time to figure out the complex legal issues involved, they’re getting away with it, as their comrades in the MSM hype up the caricatures of conservative leaders as traitors.

It’s not easy, but the right is going to have to figure out how to stop this transformation of political debate. I am forming an organization to combat the lawfare, especially against conservative attorneys. But that’s only one angle; we need something pronto to get people to wake up and realize we no longer have free political debate in this country.

Rachel Alexander, The Stream

The killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more Sunday by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he’s been reluctant to do out of fear of igniting a broader war.” [Newsmax]

Political pressure? What’s political pressure, exactly? What political consequences will there be to Biden if he does NOT strike Iran? That he’ll lose reelection (assuming they don’t replace him with Michelle Obama)? Like in 2020? Please!

Iran may not be America’s friend. But Iran’s virulently toxic totalitarian government is the friend of Biden — as well as Obama and everyone else involved in this regime we still call a federal government in America.

We know that Iran is Biden’s friend, because he advanced them billions of dollars (as did Obama before him) so that Iran may practice self-defense. Well, when you give billions of dollars to a country that sponsors most of the world’s terrorism, what do you expect? More terrorism.

All of this is done out in the open. I simply can’t believe any media anywhere would refer to “political pressure” that does not exist. Conservatives legitimately complaining about it all on the Internet (when not censored by Facebook and Google) is not the same as political pressure.

“Political pressure” is a term that applies to governments who are accountable in some way to the people they govern. Leftists are accountable to their own deranged interest groups — the pro-Palestinians, the violent trannies, the vax police, the Green police and all the others. But they’re not accountable to anyone else, and they’re not worried. Perhaps they should be. But it’s not going to be mere “politics” that stops them.

Michael J. Hurd

Just think: This horrible woman could be commander-in-chief of the U.S. military a year from now. Remember: the fraud in 2020 worked. Biden “won” without a single campaign event, and with the aid of mail-in voting that remains with us. This time, Trump faces endless lawsuits and dozens of criminal charges. The entire federal government and a majority on the Supreme Court are weaponized against him. Whether Biden resumes office next year, or someone like Michelle Obama does so, is really in the hands of a few people — people like Barack Obama, Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg and others.

This woman loathes America by her own acknowledgement. If you love liberty, she loathes you and your liberty. She thinks everyone who’s not a hard leftist like herself is a racist and a tyrant. We know this because she says so repeatedly, and her actions back it up. Not that she has ever held an elected office. You can be sure that she will be more than a puppet. She will use her race as an excuse to intimidate and ultimately terrorize people into agreement with her; or if not agreeing, then obeying. Biden was a zombie. Michelle Obama could be a monster.

After Biden, is the bar so low and are even decent people so desensitized that they will simply put up with the selection of this nasty totalitarian to finish off the destruction of our republic? I honestly don’t know. But it’s a very plausible scenario.

Michael J. Hurd

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I have come to the depressing conclusion that the white ethnicities that constituted the nations of Western Civilization have degenerated into such insouciance and stupidity that they have no possibility of survival.  They sit mindlessly in front of TV absorbing their brainwashing and indoctrination.  They can’t pay their rent, mortgage or car payments, but they pay endlessly for care of immigrant-invaders who are overwhelming their communities with material needs.

(Article republished from PaulCraigRoberts.org)

In the US, North Carolina, once a Southern state, now an immigrant staging ground, has given over its high schools to serve as immigrant-invader “resettlement areas.”  To Hell with the North Carolina taxpayers. Immigrant-invaders’ rights preempt those of North Carolina taxpayers, whose majority white population, according to the narrative,  consists of white supremacist racists exploiters.  https://thepostmillennial.com/north-carolina-high-school-to-close-make-way-for-newcomer-school-for-refugees-families#google_vignette 

North Carolina has also, at taxpayers’ expense, built a campus for a “head’s start” program for children of immigrant invaders. The program takes over a former school property for NC American citizens.  https://www.wect.com/2023/07/07/ribbon-cutting-event-planned-east-coast-migrant-head-start-projects-new-campus/ 

Wherever you look, you see the US welcoming at citizens taxpayer expense endless burdens from immigrant-invaders permitted to walk unheeded across the border into the Tower of Babel that the US has become. According to leaks, RINO Republican Senators are preparing an immigration bill that would force America to accept 1.8 million immigrant-invaders each year.  Amazing to watch white people destroy their own country.  https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/24/senate-republican-josh-hawley-mike-lee-ted-cruz-border-deal-leak-proposal/?spot_im_redirect_source=pitc 

No one in America can do anything about it.  Instead of stopping the invasion and over-running of the country, the US government commits endless American resources to defending the aggressively expansive borders of Israel and Ukraine, while Washington dismantles the barrier put in place to defend America’s borders.  And the fool responsible for this policy is running for reelection as president with the media’s and America’s elites’ support.

In what remains of European ethnic countries, the director of the EU’s “border protection agency, Fronrtex,” Hans Leitjens, said that “nothing can stop immigrants.”  What he means is that the EU will not stop immigrant-invaders from bringing the Camp of the Saints to all of Europe and perhaps to Russia as well, considering the weakness demonstrated by a government that could be ruling the world. https://www.infowars.com/posts/nothing-can-stop-immigrants-eu-border-chief/ 

The dumbshit Hans Leitjens, obviously a proponent of Western annihilation, says that opposition to being overrun by immigrant-invaders constitutes “xenophobia and prejudice.”

There you have it.  If white ethnicities attempt to prevent their overthrow by invaders, they are xenophobic and racist.  

How did so many white ethnicities get converted to a point of view that doesn’t serve them? The English Suffer While Immigrant-invaders Are Housed in Hotels. This is what white people have learned to expect from “their” governments.  https://www.rt.com/business/591133-uk-power-cuts-energy-debt/

Don’t you think it is strange that the world’s white ethnicities are prepared to commit lives and endless resources to protect the borders of Israel and Ukraine, but nothing to protect their own borders?

How can people this totally stupid continue to exist?

They simply do not get it! Their product is garbage! Their adherence to the orthodoxy of the Democrat Party, diversity, multiculturalism, and now DIE, as well as giving Dem politicians a pass while excoriating Republicans over the tiniest peccadilloes … no one wants to read what they write. And these days, people have alternative news sources. It’s not that Los Angelenos can’t support the LA Times. It’s that Los Angelenos WON’T support the LA Times.