THERE ARE NO MODERATE DEMOCRATS. The Party is radicalized. That’s what radicalized means. The Party is on the fast track to totalitarianism. Wake up!
In New York City and Virginia, Democratic Communists seek to minimize prison time — or even release — violent felons. They are working on the legislation at this moment, in Virginia. Their focus appears to be letting violent felons out. In Minnesota, it’s the same. It’s not immigrants they’re supporting so much as violent felons who aren’t citizens. Why do Democrats seethe with rage at the idea of violent felons being held accountable for their actions? They have no such problem with grandmothers peacefully protesting abortion or the 2020 election results spending the rest of their days in prison, often without due process as during the Biden regime. But a convicted murderer, rapist or terrorist sitting in prison? “Set them free,” scream today’s progressives. Something deeply sick, sadistic and sinister is at work in the views of the Party and those who support it.
“Marxist Democrats learned well from their Bolshevik mentors. Communism cannot take over a Rational, Law and Order nation. Communists must create cultural chaos (e.g., Welfare State, Welfare Fraud, CRT, DEI, Trigger Warnings, Classroom chaos, Failed Reading Methods, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, Boys in Girls sports, Illegal Alien Invasion, Common Core Math, Tik Tok mania, Video Games, etc.) to attack Reason and simultaneously defund and attack the agents enforcing Law & Order so that Communist thugs can ruthlessly take over the cities, then states, then the nation.”
“If you show up in a war zone, armed, and harass the soldiers trying to enforce the law, it’s not very good judgment and you’re going to get what you deserve.”
This seems so obvious, but to millions of befuddled, brainwashed or simply bad people — it isn’t obvious. Democrats and leftists are professional victims. They see themselves as victims when they are prevented from victimizing others. They feel as if they have a right to control others through all their socialism, forced vaccines, rigged elections, open borders, liberty for convicted violent felons, censorship, gun confiscation, woke madness and green totalitariaism — and if others resist or push back in ANY way, they cry and scream like babies, demanding to be appeased. We must stop appeasing and coddling leftists. President Trump is a gift, and they deserve far, far worse.
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.
To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
— Ayn Rand (Anthem)
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Somewhere along the way, taxes stopped being about roads, courts, and national defense.
They now exist to sustain worthless politicians and to reward the friends, donors, contractors, and constituencies that keep them in power.
Money is taken from everyone, filtered through Washington, and handed back to the favored few, all while being sold as compassion.
That isn’t a revenue system. It’s a patronage system.
A system built to serve itself has forfeited the right to exist. It’s time to bring the current federal income tax system to an end.
— Senator Chris McDaniel
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert, Author Of Dune.
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They must be hiding something very big in Minnesota to send their foot soldiers there from all over the country! They’re rattled, the fraud’s getting exposed, and enforcement isn’t slowing down. Keep the pressure on.
— Elon Musk
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Why do supporters of American Communism fighting ICE get to have guns, while nobody else does?
Ayn Rand wrote, “Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”
She nailed it.
Because I am a therapist, people always ask me: “What is self-esteem?”
In part, self-esteem refers to the attitude that you have a right to your OWN life, and to live for your OWN sake.
In line with Rand’s quote, socialism (which is tyranny) is incompatible with self-esteem.
In short: Freedom (economic and otherwise) is the mental oxygen you breathe. Your self-esteem will choke under socialism. And if you possess any self-esteem at all, you could never support socialism.
Contrary to repeated assurances by the Federal Chancellor, the German state apparatus is growing at an accelerating pace. What we are witnessing before our eyes is the transformation of the economy into a command economy.
You may recall: In the days between last year’s federal election and the appointment of the new government, a political window opened in which Germany committed fundamental breaches of its own fiscal rules. The outgoing Bundestag decided on a redefinition of the debt brake and ultimately executed its substantive demise by outsourcing massive new debt.
The legitimization of financing gimmicks, the establishment of sectoral exemptions and special funds constitutes a fiscal original sin. It opens the door wide for the state to finance administration, the welfare system, and economic policy interventions with ever more debt. Taxpayers are left holding the bag for this budgetary deregulation, while capital markets — thanks to the hypothetically unlimited backstop of the European Central Bank — remain wide open. Fiat credit flows freely, the state sector expands, and in doing so crowds out the productive forces of society.
The Classic Bureaucracy-Reduction Rhetoric
Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz used this phase of political power vacuum in April to offer glimpses into his political agenda. Alongside well-worn political platitudes such as “switching into growth mode” and launching an “investment offensive,” one familiar media trope made its appearance: cutting bureaucracy.
At first glance, cutting bureaucracy sounds citizen-friendly and suggests a responsible approach to public finances. A lean state would be tangible proof of serious fiscal policy and a guarantee that the private sector — the true engine of societal performance — is not burdened unnecessarily with documentation requirements and bureaucratic drudgery.
Friedrich Merz knows this. Cutting bureaucracy sounds good. It sounds reasonable. And it has devolved into a hollow political phrase — cheap to invoke while, at the same time, a veritable hyperstate is being constructed.
For it is public administration itself — now employing 5.5 million people — that exposes the political rhetoric as fiction. The gigantic special fund, adding €50 billion in new debt annually, must be administratively distributed. Thousands of individual subsidy projects must be reviewed, approved, and monitored. This requires massive bureaucratic expansion. Merz and Klingbeil were well aware of this when they wove the narrative of a lean state into their media messaging.
Moreover, since it has become clear that the conflict in the Donbas is not going away anytime soon, the build-up of a substantial military-industrial production system has emerged — under the shadow of stoked fears of Russia — alongside the green “art economy.” This year, Germany’s defense budget amounts to €120 billion. Distributing these additional funds equally necessitates additional layers of public administration, from ministerial departments down to local governments.
A Man of the Strong State
Friedrich Merz is by no means a man of the lean state. He is a committed advocate of centralized industrial steering under political primacy. He believes Germany can successfully pursue its transformation toward a green and militarized command economy through massive borrowing.
Politics now interprets the decline of German industrial production as a mandate to deliberately repurpose empty factories for arms manufacturing.
At the same time, the deep economic crisis — having already cost Germany 400,000 industrial jobs since 2019 — is largely kept out of public debate. Meanwhile, the public sector is being transformed into a buffer for an impending labor market catastrophe, expanding its workforce by roughly two percent annually.
By the end of the third quarter of 2025 alone, employment in public services, education, and healthcare increased by 205,000, according to Focus. Without disparaging these jobs, it must nonetheless be emphasized that they represent social services that must first be financed by value creation in the private sector.
In manufacturing — the core of Germany’s economic strength — around 143,000 jobs were cut last year. Fewer than eight million people now work in this fundamental sector. The automotive industry alone laid off more than 60,000 workers last year — six percent of its total workforce in Germany. This reflects a dramatic collapse in production activity, which has lost more than 15 percent of its volume across all industrial sectors since 2018.
The causes of this economic decline are well known: a self-inflicted energy crisis, high fiscal burdens, and mounting competitive pressure from China, India, and the United States — countries not subjected to the same regulatory pressure continuously imposed by the German state and the European Union.
We recall what Friedrich Merz promised in April of last year: to reduce bureaucratic costs — estimated by the ifo Institute at around €146 billion annually — by 25 percent, while simultaneously shrinking public-sector employment by eight percent over the coming years due to demographic effects alone.
A Distorted Reality
Ignorance or deception? The brazenness with which Merz distorted political reality at precisely this point is striking when viewed against the continued expansion of the public sector. People are migrating out of the productive parts of the economy into the state apparatus out of sheer self-preservation — the very apparatus that represents the greatest destroyer of economic performance.
Germany is facing a profound economic asymmetry that is being deliberately intensified by political action.
The expansion of the German state apparatus, which has pushed the government share of GDP above 50 percent, reveals one thing clearly: the social dislocations caused by a politically engineered energy crisis and subsequent deindustrialization are being papered over with cheap credit. More state, less private economy. New government debt is nothing more than confirmation that policymakers are rejecting reform pressure and shifting the costs of delay onto future generations.
If this debt camouflage succeeds — leading to net new borrowing exceeding 5.5 percent this year once the finance minister’s accounting tricks are included — politics buys time. Time it urgently needs in its battle against the economic reality of the green transformation.
The question is: how long can the federal government postpone unavoidable reforms through the credit pump? The social costs of open-border policies and the delayed adaptation of the welfare state to economic reality are accumulating into a socioeconomic fiasco — one that will unfold abruptly once capital markets begin to question Germany’s creditworthiness.
Yes, “our” backs. Republicans are killing conservatism. They are too quick to acquiesce to what seems (to them) to be Democrat reasonableness, but is really Democrat destructiveness.
Here are the two problems American voters face because of “maverick” congressional Republicans:
Their own pride in their alleged integrity forbids them to do what the voters want them to do. They believe they know better.
Their non-combative (weak) nature is a feature, not a bug, and it’s killing the conservative agenda.
Frankly, I’d like to strangle any Republican who does not support what Trump is doing. Our votes this last election gave Trump a mandate to do what we voted him to do, not to do what some egocentric false-pride congressman thinks is a better idea. We don’t want their better ideas, we want Trump’s better ideas. His track record proves that he knows things few others can figure out. That is a gift. The rest of us don’t have it.
I don’t know what Republican congressmen and senators think they are doing, but this I can tell them most assuredly: The American voter abhors their willingness to cave to Democrats and we hope their respective keisters will be primaried so we can get some courageous vertebrates sitting in those chairs.
The Quislings in our party are paying far too much attention to their local issues and not enough to the grand national mandate Trump received when he was elected. The Quislings pretend to be measured, moderate, pensive, calculating, …better. They are none of those things. In fact, they may as well be Democrats. We voters are sick of them.
It is way past due that “moderate” Republicans take a leaf from the Democrat playbook and vote loyally the way the leadership wants them to vote, not the way weaklings vote. Do they have a clue how weak they are? And in their weakness, they are killing Trump’s agenda, an agenda we the voters strongly approve of and voted for. How can it be clearer? Stop standing in the way of Trump’s agenda, which is the MAGA agenda. The margin is too thin for that kind of disloyalty to the voting public.
You won’t catch a Democrat doing that excrement. That is why we have so many problems getting Trump’s agenda passed; because some Republicans think they know better, are better. They don’t. And they aren’t.
NOTE TO REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS: We don’t want your moderation. People in the middle of the road get run over. We are in a war for the soul of America and you are a roadblock. Vote with Trump or kiss your derriere goodbye.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito crystallized today’s Democrat Party by admitting he is willing to see people die to fulfill his revolution.
This is a direct quote, per the far-left Variety, and these are the words of a narcissistic sociopath.
“This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting. We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”
Don’t you get it, you over-privileged, leftist dummies?
Do you not see it?
You bored, spoiled brats attempting fill the God-shaped hole in your soul by attacking law enforcement, destroying private property, and provoking violence are nothing more or less than cannon fodder to Democrat Party elites like Giancarlo Esposito.
On “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” this actor brilliantly portrayed a cold, chilling and ruthless sociopath. It turns out: He wasn’t acting. The actor who portrayed Gus Fring wants a revolution against whites, and hopes for tens of thousands of patriotic Americans to die. He sees ICE as the perfect opportunity for launching a racial supremacy, totalitarian movement in America. Well, the mask is off, because we know this is how most Democrats feel, and probably always have.
I heard that Massachusetts is trying to pass a law against spanking children. It seems ridiculous, but given that this state gave us Mitt Romney, anything is possible.
I don’t approve of spanking children, because I see no reason to teach your children that initiation of violence is ever a good thing. At the same time, parents must be given wide discretion, outside the obvious examples of physical or sexual abuse, or outright neglect, before the government gets involved in prosecuting them for raising their children.
However, there’s one thing worse than the image of an adult spanking a child, and that’s the spectacle of a government social worker coming in to a home trying to enforce this law. Just imagine what this would look like. The premise of such a law is that such an official could do a better job of raising a child than even the most insensitive, ignorant, uneducated parent.
I don’t share this premise.
Parents, even inadequate parents, have given us some pretty intelligent and accomplished offspring over the centuries. Look at all the accomplished people who write and speak of their inadequate parents, and imagine the ones we don’t know about. Now look at what government gives us. Take your pick on the various accomplishments of government: incompetently fought wars; the welfare state bureaucracy; Medicare and Social Security, with their impending bankruptcy; the O.J. Simpson verdict; political correctness; public schools that do everything but teach; and so much more.
I’ll pick parents over the government, any day of the week.
Q: Can a person be lacking in character and strong in competence?
A: In certain respects, yes; but ultimately, no. Ultimately, low character will drive out and undermine competence. Imagine you have a car mechanic, or some other service professional, whose work you like. Yet you discover he charges fees when he said he wouldn’t, and you catch him in a few lies. You hear complaints from other customers as well. What happens to your opinion of him? The same thing happens to him, internally. The concentration, focus and motivation that makes some of his work competent will inevitably be stressed by the ongoing consequences of complaints by customers, as well as the stress of remembering which lies he told–to whom–and when he has spoken the truth. It’s an accomplishment to be competent, but it also takes work to be a liar, or otherwise lacking in character. The two are constantly colliding within the conflicted individual
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