“Better to fight for something than to live for nothing.”

— George S. Patton

 I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.”

— Courtesy of Moses Popescu, Patriots Last Stand

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

— Nietzsche

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“When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s too.”

— Socrates

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“I grew up here. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman. My mom’s a Jew. My dad’s an Arab. I have a black kid. And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn’t look like it,” she said. “I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker. And when I leave California, maybe you’ve lost your f***ing mind. Just maybe! When you have me running from home, maybe it’s gone way too far.”

She said the laws that are being passed in the legislature and signed into law by far-Left Governor Gavin Newsom are “absolutely f***ing mind boggling.”

“In relation to crime, protecting our kids, like, we’re decriminalizing everything, which arguably I would probably be okay with, but we’re not regulating any of it,” she said. “So it’s like, okay, you’re gonna decriminalize sex work, but only so women can loiter on the streets, not to keep them safe, not to have them pay taxes, not to make them, you know, regularly check for STDs, not to take away the pimps out of the equation.”

“The fact that a 12-year-old child can be put on off-label cancer drugs to irreparably change their body,” she said. “If my son came to me and said, ‘Mom’ — or my daughter — ‘I think I’m trans,’ I’d say, okay, you know, like, you want to dress this way, you want me to call you whatever the heck you want, dress, fine. Explore it. I love you. I’m cool, do you as long as we’re safe, but we’re not changing your body until it’s fully developed. I’m sorry. Conversation’s over. Can’t get a f***ing tattoo!”

— Fitness Influencer Jillian Michaels On Leaving ‘Woke’ California

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“For the greater good” almost always means “this will be bad for you.”

And it’s almost always said by someone it will be good for.

“Great” just means them.

[from @RealSpikeCohen, on Twitter/X]

Once enough people understand this post, socialism (and all its toxic variants, including green fascism) are DONE.

Every destructive movement of human history, from the murder, censorship and brutality of the Middle Ages to the nihilistic destruction of Nazism and Communism — and their stepchild, today’s “woke” psychotic totalitarianism — are based on the idea, “This is good for you … because I say so.”

If something is really and truly good, it doesn’t have to be forced. And if it has to be forced — well then, something is wrong with the ideology right there.

Even if you can find a situation where the thing being forced is good for ALL involved — including the person being forced — it still would have no meaning. If a person is not convinced that the virtuous thing he’s doing is right, then there is no virtue in his coerced action. There’s only resentment, subtle hostility and a breeding ground for rebellion.

I find it darkly comical that today’s Woke Establishment — the modern day apostles of coercion and guilt-infused lecturing, moralizing we see everywhere we turn today — think they’re “progressive,” sophisticated or somehow new.

They’re as old as the Stone Age. They’re as sophisticated as savages. It all has been tried before, as recently as the Nazis, who took their coercion and moralizing all the way.

Today’s totalitarians reply, “I’m no Nazi. I’m virtuous.” If you’re so virtuous, then why must you imprison your political opponents — in America, of all places — and force, intimidate, defund, “cancel” and intellectually neuter anyone who sees fit to disagree with you, people as diverse as Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld, Elon Musk or Donald Trump?

The need to “guilt” and coerce people into believing what you believe — that’s the ultimate red flag.

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Dysfunctional – not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning. having a malfunctioning part or element: behaving or acting outside social norms  

Grifter – a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction;  a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.

So, Hunter Biden was found guilty of a serious crime, the least serious crime he has committed in his life of depravity and debauchery. 

He was his father’s bagman, sent around the world to sell American influence in Joe’s name for large amounts of money. 

The Bidens are a family of grifters. They thought they were so clever.  They went to great lengths to cover their illegal tracks by setting up countless LLCs and assorted bank accounts.  The family has lived far beyond the means of a senatorial or vice-presidential salary for decades. 

For fifty years, Joe Biden has been a thug, a plagiarist, a criminal.  He is a pathological liar, as even the New York Times has noted. 

He was a known racist for years, too; Robert Byrd of KKK infamy was his mentor. 

Like most criminals, Joe is not very bright.  Now, as the world watches him descend into the well-known signs of dementia, the left continues to pretend he is qualified to run for a second term when he is clearly not.  Joe is over, done.  He belongs in a care home.

The Biden family is obviously profoundly dysfunctional, rife with adultery, drug addiction, promiscuity, alcoholism, and criminality.  Joe’s affair with Jill broke up her first marriage.  Their daughter Ashley’s diary revealed the fact that her childhood very possibly included inappropriate behavior by her father that led to her promiscuity and drug use.  Hunter was expelled from the Navy for cocaine use.  

As his laptop showed, he is a thoroughly degenerate man who was a drug addict who used prostitutes, some of them very young.  After his divorce from his first wife, he had an affair with his sister-in-law, the widow of his deceased brother.  He introduced her to cocaine.  Both his wife and sister-in-law are mothers, of his own three daughters and his niece and nephew.  How sick is that?  Dysfunctional hardly describes how unstable the Biden family is. 

Being the snobs they are, they continue to ignore the child Hunter fathered with Lunden Roberts but embrace the son by the newest wife.  In a semi-normal family, wouldn’t some of those adult children want to know their half-sister in Arkansas?  Guess not.  They are all without a shred of class or grace.  They are all grifters.

Now convicted of the crime of lying on a gun-purchase form, will he be actually held accountable?  Not likely.  He has never been held accountable for his bad behavior in his life.  Joe Biden says he will not pardon him, but he can and will commute his sentence with the stroke of that pen he uses so irresponsibly.  It is safe to say he will certainly do exactly that if his son is sentenced to prison.  Joe’s party is all about using lawfare to jam up his political opponents for fabricated crimes but they will not hesitate to protect all manner of lawbreakers in their own family and party. 

Biden, or whoever is actually operating as president, is most likely doing Obama’s bidding, fulfilling his “transformation of America” Marxist/communist agenda.  The party that is so terrified of a second Trump presidency is terrified because they are guilty of so many crimes against the American people and the Constitution. 

They assumed they would get away with their oh-so-clever crimes to take down the man who threatens their authoritarian hold on power over the American people.  Now they are scared, for good reason.  If Trump is elected and justice is to be done, those mobsters of the deep state, which is exactly what they are, will be indicted, brought to trial and sentenced for their crimes. 

They know who they are:  Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weismann, Judges Merchan, Kaplan and Chutkin, prosecutors Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and a host of others. 

As for trivial people like AOC, Joe Scarborough, Dan Goldman and their ilk, they wish they were important enough to be worried.  They’re not on Trump’s radar; they are insignificant.

To say the country is at a crossroads is a gross understatement; we are at the edge of a Marxist abyss. 

Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, and he has been a disaster for the nation from day one.  There are no words to describe the damage done by this illicit administration; ten to fifteen million migrants have entered the country, unvetted, given a free pass, sheltered and fed on the taxpayer dime, any terrorist tendencies ignored.  There are terrorists among them who have attempted to  breach numerous military sites. 

Surprised? Of course not. It is what the left wants. When and if there is a major terrorist attack, they will be prepared to absurdly blame it on Trump and his supporters while it will be the open borders left that is entirely responsible. They want chaos, tragedy, pandemics and escalating crime; anything to make people fearful and reduce the population by a variety of means. 

If the Biden presidency has taught us anything, it is that we can never, never again install a man so corrupt, so incompetent, so anti-American as Joe Biden.  He is the most destructive president in American history and if we prevail as a republic, he will be forever more known as exactly what he was and is, a man with a greedy, dysfunctional family of grifters.

American Thinker

Marxism was easily the most destructive political theory to ever be put into practice.  Over the course of the 20th century it was responsible for the purposeful killing of well over 100 million people.  To put that evil into context, the slave trade into the United States was 400,000 people, the number of Congolese dead during the reign of King Leopold II of Belgium is estimated as high as 10 million and the total number of deaths during WWII was 73 million.  But Communism beats them all, combined.  And the vast majority of those numbers came from governments killing their own citizens!  I mention all of this is because the father of Communism, Karl Marx, has been on my mind lately.

Marx was a despicable human being.  It’s often said that he never had a job in his life.  That’s not technically true. Although he had a doctorate, his radicalism kept most universities from hiring him.  He was a writer and editor for a number of publications, most of which went bankrupt because no one was reading them, or were shuttered by governments seeking to quell what they saw as sedition. He was a writer for the New-York Daily Tribune for a decade and later for the New York Sun. None of these jobs paid particularly well or consistently (other than the Tribune) and what they did pay Marx often spent on alcohol and tobacco.

Marx’s family lived in poverty and debt his entire life and often they went hungry and were evicted a number of times.  This, despite Marx having received substantial inheritances from his parents and his taking numerous “loans” from friends. He fathered at least seven children with his wife, but only three survived to adulthood, in part due to the family’s poverty and its consequent malnutrition. But Marx never once took a job that would economically support his family and give them sufficient sustenance.  In reality, Marx spent most of his adult life supported by his friend, co-author and defacto vassal, Friedrich Engels, the son of a textile manufacturer. Aside from being a hypocrite, arrogant, condescending, violent with words and sometimes deeds, Marx was also a slovenly man.  He drank to excess, smoked and almost never bathed.  A German spy, after visiting Marx, reported “[Marx] leads the existence of a Bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk.” And he was a racist and an antisemite as well, despite his father having converted to Christianity for political and economic reasons.

Marx spent virtually his entire adult life decrying the inequality and “failures” of Capitalism and proffering the replacement of Capitalism & democracy with Communism as outlined in he and Engels in The Communist Manifesto.  But the thing is, Marx had no direct connection to actual Capitalism other than taking the money produced by it to support him and his family.  He had no experience starting a business, building a business, managing payroll, insurance, suppliers, customers, employees, unions or anything else.  No, he learned everything he knew about business and economics from reading.

Not that it’s impossible to learn about economics from reading. I’ve read Thomas Sowell’s books and feel better informed for it.  But unlike Marx, Sowell actually worked in the government and observed in real life the consequences of government programs. In addition, he directly ties his work to specific data from a wide variety of real-world sources. He cites specific companies, government programs, economic measures and studies when he writes.  Marx does none of that.  Most of the information Marx gathered during his career was that of various philosophers, political, economic and otherwise.  These included among others Adam Smith, James Mill, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and of course Friedrich Hegel. But he never visited a factory, a mill, a mine or interacted with the proletariat he championed.  He did interact with one virtual slave, however, his lifelong family maid who he never paid, and with whom he fathered a child he refused to acknowledge.

Engels on the other hand did have experience, in his family’s manufacturing business, his German father sending him to Manchester, England in 1842 to get the impressionable lad away from the radical politics infecting Prussia. Too late however as Engels was already radicalized and headed on the path that would define his legacy.  Engels would visit the most downtrodden slums of England and would share his observations with Marx. He would leave the company in 1844 and would not return until 1850, two years after the publication of The Communist Manifesto.  Much of what Engels would write however was either embellished, taken out of context or an outright lie, a characteristic he and Marx shared.

Although Engels had limited experience with the proletariat, Marx had none and wanted none.  He demurred when Engels invited him to visit factories with him, nor would he query his merchant uncle about business other than on a single family matter.  But lack of actual evidence or experience with anything outside of reading didn’t stop Marx from writing about the destruction of the entirety of western civilization.  Individual liberty and private property would be gone while the government would control the means of communication, transportation and production and simultaneously undermining the family and dictating where citizens would live. He proffered a world of Communism with no understanding of how the world actually works, ignoring the lessons from New Harmony, Indiana, Robert Owen’s failed attempt to build a socialist nirvana in America, about which Marx would most certainly have known. His means of accomplishing this was not via democracy, but rather violence, writing in 1848 “there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”

Which brings me to why Marx has been on my mind.  Does any of the above sound familiar?  A vile, self-centered and arrogant individual with poor hygiene, highly educated, with little or no experience doing anything resembling productive and spending his time railing against society and advocating for its violent overthrow?  It should, because we’ seeing thousands of individuals – many highly educated (including lawyers!) and most with no experience in producing anything in the real world – violently demonstrating for the overthrow the United States as we know it. From Portland to New York to Atlanta to Tampa every time we get the mugshots and reports from the police of the arrestees, they look exactly like you would expect, unkempt, modern day wannabe Karl Marxs. A majority of them are professional agitators, going from place to place causing trouble.

While Marx had a vision (albeit an absurd and impossible one) with which he wanted to replace democracy and Capitalism, today’s agitators are nihilists with no plan beyond destroying America. They, like Marx, are parasites who do nothing productive for society.  They have no idea how the world actually works, how to build anything productive, nor an idea how to do anything but throw fists, stones and Molotov Cocktails while complaining about the society that nourishes them. But then that’s the beauty of the left, there never needs to be a connection between ideas and reality.  It’s enough to criticize, theorize and legislate, no proof necessary, then let the chips fall where they may. With Marx humanity paid a terrible toll for such folly.  You’d think Americans would have learned something from that history. Sadly however, looking at the support the Democrat party maintains – and make no mistake, the Democrat party of today is a modern incarnation of Marx’s theory – many apparently haven’t.

Vince, Flopping Aces

The brilliantly executed rescue of four hostages by the Israelis has left Hamas deeply chagrined. Another spectacular feat for Israel — and defeat for Hamas — simply cannot be accepted. So some have insisted that others — the Americans — must have played a role in the operation. It’s nonsense. The Americans have said that they been contributing some intelligence to the Israelis about where hostages were believed to be held — it’s not known exactly how much, or how useful it was — but insist there were no Americans involved in either the planning for, or the execution of, the rescue. This attempt by some Hamas supporters to suggest that America provided major help to Israel in the hostage rescue should remind us of Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser, who had been so sure of the swift victory over the Zionists that he had promised hysterical Cairene crowds would soon be theirs, only to find that on the first day of war, June 5, that his air force had been decimated, with 286 planes (out of a total of 420) destroyed on the ground by Israeli bombers. He immediately began to blame America and Britain for “collusion” with Israel — a collusion that did not exist. As Elie Podeh has written here:

In the early hours of June 6, 1967, Egyptian media began to spread the allegation that both the United States and Britain were taking part in Israel’s preemptive attack on Egypt and Syria. According to Radio Cairo, U.S. and British aircraft carriers provided an air umbrella for Israel and played an active role in the operations. In the following hours and days, the Egyptian media constantly repeated the same argument in a variety of forms.

Thus, for example, on the afternoon of June 6, Radio Cairo reported that British Canberra bombers had taken part in air strikes against Egyptian posts in Sinai and that U.S. aircraft had left the U.S. air base in Libya for Israel. The next day, Egypt’s leading newspaper, Al-Ahram, quoted by Radio Cairo, reported that British and U.S. pilots were flying Israeli planes under the guise of volunteers and that Israeli pilots used aerial photographs taken by U.S. spy aircraft. The Egyptian propaganda machinery then let launch a barrage of reports on the Anglo-American “aggression” with Israel.

One might have thought that almost fifty years later, this absurd tale of nonexistent American and British participation in the Six-Day War would have long been buried. But it lives on in Egyptian textbooks. Here is one paragraph that thirty-two years after that war ended was still to be found in those schoolbooks (and it may still be in them today):

The United States’ role: Israel was not [fighting] on its own in the [1967] war. Hundreds of volunteers, pilots, and military officers with American scientific spying equipment of the most advanced type photographed the Egyptian posts for it [Israel], jammed the Egyptian defense equipment, and transmitted to it the orders of the Egyptian command.

As Podeh notes in his Middle East Forum article, “the above quote is not a propaganda item; it is taken from an Egyptian high school history textbook published in 1999. This fictitious depiction repeats older textbooks, and is reproduced in new textbooks for lower grades. For more than thirty years, a fabricated narrative of the 1967 war has been transmitted by the Egyptian education system as a fact.”

The Americans have been providing Israel with whatever intelligence information they have managed to compile on the location of the hostages, a task which constantly changes because the hostages are regularly moved from place to place. But that is all. According to Jake Sullivan, “There were no Americans involved militarily.” No American boots on the ground, no Navy Seals, nothing of that sort. Just some help as to where some of the hostages might have been held. But that won’t stop Hamas and its supporters from accusing America of having done a great deal more.

Jake Sullivan was forthright, in an appearance on CNN after the hostage rescue, on who was to blame for the civilian casualties:

“The Palestinian people are going through sheer hell in this conflict because Hamas is operating in a way that puts them in the crossfire that holds hostages right in the heart of crowded civilian areas, that puts military emplacements right in the heart of crowded civilian areas.”

Do not be surprised if the Palestinians in their future textbooks describe the hostage rescue as a joint “American and Israeli operation,” during which “more than a thousand civilians, almost all of them women and children, were massacred in the greatest bloodbath of modern times.”

Nothing, remember, is too absurd for Hamas to claim, or for the world’s antisemites, from Francesca Albanese and Antonio Guterres to Roger Waters and Eric Clapton, to believe. So just keep sweeping back the tide of malignant nonsense. Brooms out, please!

Hugh Fitzgerald, Front Page Magazine

I wrote this just before Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict:

Hunter’s trial is a SHOW trial. Just like Trump’s trial.

Trump’s trial SHOWS us what happens to dissenters in a weaponized, thoroughly politicized one Party “justice” system.

Hunter’s trial is a SHOW (like Breaking Bad or House of Cards were shows) designed to distract us from what has actually happened to our former republic. Hunter will not be convicted of anything; or if he is, he will walk.

Do not fall for it. And ignore the earnest performances of head nodding, smoothe talking, intellectually dazed news reporters. They hope to earn big bucks drawing you into the charade.

Hunter Biden will be JUST FINE. He never has been accountable a moment of his life; and never will be.

It’s bread and circuses for the conservatives. We all know who’s fully in charge. Whatever happens to the Bidens, the Uniparty will remain in power, until it’s overthrown.

And it will not go quietly; or willingly.

P.S. Emperor Biden said he will NOT pardon his son. This means: He will pardon his son.

P.S. again: If you want to punish Hunter Biden, don’t put him in jail. Just cut off his cocaine and his whores. THAT will be torture for him.

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