Friday, August 29, 2025
The Nihilists Among Us
Even the emerging pattern of transgender mass shooters fits into this paradigm. The Queer Movement is entirely about nihilism -- tearing down reality and "normal" to replace it with unreality and emotion-driven hallucination. Transgenders refuse to accept biology and demand to have their fantasy life validated by others. Socialists and Marxists claim that the brutal regimes that rose and fell on that ideology were utopias rather than impoverished hellholes. Anarchists want a world without any authority, when the historic results of such environments are that the most brutal subjugate those around them, and so on. (Heck, just take a look at the CHAZ experiment in Seattle, the George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, and the cities that tried to "defund the police" for evidence supporting that conclusion.)
We have always had firearms. What's new is the nihilism, the despair, and the way we treat the maladjusted by catering to their fantasies rather than requiring them to adjust to reality. Not all of these will be violent, but as we have seen, they are more likely to become violent when they fail to escape the misery of their failed fantasies.
You Can't Fly Our Flag! It's Racist!
When the flag of the country is defined as hate speech by the establishment--the government rejecting its own citizens--that government will likely fall. And it will fall not in a normal election cycle, but through mass protests amounting to a color revolution. And not one spurred on and funded by USAID, but a genuine one that borders on the edge of violence.
The Process That is Due
Ignoring his state-level domestic assault case(s) in Maryland, Abrego may already rank as the most due-processed human to have ever existed.
This is absurd. Is he an illegal alien? Yes, he is. Throw him out. That's the process.
Language Barrier
I looked it up and the official languages of Uganda, a former British colony, are English and Swahili. Until 2005, English was Uganda’s only official language.
The AP appears to be arguing that Maryland Man should not remain in the United States because of the language barrier.
Insurrectionist Judges
Democratic Party loyalist judges are mounting a rebellion—one might say, an insurrection—against the rule of law. They are trying to serve their party by impeding the Trump administration even where there is no good faith legal basis for doing so. This is an outrage. It won’t get as much public attention as other bad faith conduct by the Democratic Party, but it should.John Roberts is totally cool with it.
Some of the Above
One of President Trump’s best qualities is that he understands energy—in particular, the vital need for affordable, reliable energy. Trump understands, further, that “green” energy technologies, wind and solar, are not and cannot ever be either affordable or reliable. They are essentially a heist, an attempt to transfer trillions of dollars out of certain industries, and into others. Also, out of the United States and into China. If the Left can pull it off, it will be the biggest transfer of wealth in human history.
I hate it when Republican politicians subscribe to an “all of the above” approach to energy, which implies that wind and solar have a positive role to play. I think this is wrong: wind and solar are hopelessly expensive, inherently unreliable, serve mostly to disrupt the operation of the grid, and are terrible for the environment.
Entitled Invaders
While it’s a little shocking to hear this from a Senate-confirmed sitting judge, I hear this sentiment all the time from the defense attorneys for illegal aliens. They maintain that their clients are guilty of, at most, a “status” offenses, where they are being prosecuted for who they are, not what they’ve done.
No. Crossing the border is a kinetic, overt, deliberate act in defiance of law. No one is being prosecuted for being Honduran, they are prosecuted for the felony crime of crossing the border after having been previously deported.
And the phrase “lacking documentation.” If I were to lose my passport, and be unable to find it, I am highly confident I could obtain a new one, with a little time, money and effort.
Deportees are not lacking documentation, they are ineligible, not qualified, barred from obtaining such documents through legal, legitimate means. They are not lacking.
Also,
Why doesn’t he want his citizens back in Honduras to Make Honduras Great Again (MHGA)?Exactly.
Deport the Foreign Agitator
Ezra Klein is a smart guy. He knows what CUAD has said and done at Columbia. The fact that he decided to leave all of that out of his conversation with Khalil is not the result of ignorance. He made a choice. The only way he can portray Khalil as an innocent victim of the Trump administration instead of a pro-terrorist extremist is to minimize all of that previous, inconvenient speech. That's the interview Klein wanted and it's the interview he tried to deliver.
The interview got negative backlash anyway because, despite Klein's best efforts, some of Khalil's extremism was still evident, i.e. saying the 10/7 attack was inevitable. Klein did his best to put lipstick on this pig and, sadly for him, it still wasn't very pretty.
How about asking Khalil what he does for work? What is his job? How does he earn a living?
Rep. Elmi's Siblings
I was told in 2019 that Hashi entered the United States with Omar as Guhaad Omar and reclaimed his name when he became a citizen. According to my source, Omar was his fake sister and he was her fake brother, although they may have a familial relationship of a more distant kind.
Incidentally, that would still leave five Omar siblings unaccounted for among the seven whom the Star Tribune and others have attributed to Omar’s family. In a classic case of the blind leading the blind, the New York Times followed the Star Tribune on this point — while fact-checking Trump!
Can either the Star Tribune or the Times name one Omar sibling with the name Omar? As of this date, neither the Star Tribune nor the Times has ever done so.
Yet we know that Sahra Noor is Omar’s sister. We know that Leila Elmi (or Leila Nur Said Elmi) is Omar’s sister. What is going on here? Hint: We know that the man variously identified as Nur Omar Mohamed or Nur Said Elmi Mohamed or Nur Said Elmi was Omar’s father (see Benjamin Weingarten’s American Ingrate at pages 156-157) and we are quite certain that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (Omar’s husband number 2) is Omar’s brother, although Omar denies her sibling relationship with the latter.
The Death of Europe
The current generation may be the last of the Europeans. After two millennia, Western culture may finally be extinguished in Europe. The re-reconquista is well on its way to replace Christian Europe with Islamism, only this time it is the European elites who have invited the invaders in.
The censorship state is but one tool that is used to facilitate this cultural replacement. Most of the censorship is aimed at suppressing dissent over the flood of migrants that began under the policies of Angela Merkel, and has since dominated European policy.
Davos, as far as I know, has no migrant camps or grooming gang problems, so everything remains A-OK for the transnational elite.
That won't be true forever, though. The late Roman Empire faced similar challenges; a flood of Germanic migrants contributed significantly to its decline. During this period, German migrants came to dominate the legions, as Roman elites ceded the responsibility of running the empire to the migrants.
In other words, there is precedent, and it doesn't have a happy ending.
It's hard to see how this trend reverses itself. Europe is Islamizing, and the reaction of the elites is to strike out at ordinary citizens who are objecting. It is difficult to overstate how much disdain the transnational elite has for the citizens of their countries--they don't even believe in countries at all.
So we helplessly bear witness to the destruction of a once-great culture, and can only shake our heads as leaders like von der Leyen brag that they support freedom as they imprison people just trying to speak up against the insanity.
Act of War
Whatever the Trump administration does to destroy the cartels will be a big improvement over our prior efforts. And the fentanyl, or its ingredients, come from China. China is deliberately killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, and they, too, should pay a steep price. The policy of the Biden administration to put our economy, in particular our energy infrastructure and our pharmaceuticals, in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party was always inexplicable. It is even more so in light of Chinese responsibility for the fentanyl epidemic.Allowing Chinese nationals to attend our universities is insane.
IRA = GND
That doesn't mean All Quiet on the Green Front, as we'll see momentarily. The immediate question is why Democrats have suddenly shut up about the progressive wing's most treasured agenda set. The Green New Deal was their entrée to true redistributionism, not to mention a more-or-less nationalized energy industry. The GND was to industry what ObamaCare was to healthcare for progressives -- an opening by which to seize the means of production via regulatory capture.
So why shut up about it now? One potential reason: voters began to figure out that it was to industry what ObamaCare was to health care, and wanted no part of it.
The second potential reason may be more applicable. Joe Biden actually managed to get a big chunk of the Green New Deal through Congress by calling it the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Invasion of the West
No doubt some would argue that it is good, or at least acceptable, that large numbers of “British” babies are named Muhammad. But I don’t know how a positive spin can be put on the fact that a considerable number of Muslim parents are naming their male babies after the architect of the October 7 massacre. How are actual Englishmen supposed to share their country with people whose values are literally as evil as Hitler’s, Stalin’s and Mao’s?They can't.
Slash the Voter Rolls!
Frankly, I don't think that homeless people should be voting. By definition, they are incapable of managing their lives, at least at the moment, so asking that they be excluded from the pool of people who manage the lives of others seems reasonable.
What about people who get more than 30-50% of their living expenses paid for by the taxpayers over a year? Same. It's one thing to need help when unemployment strikes or in some crisis — that happens to many people during their lives and is no big deal — but quite another if someone is living off the government dime for over a year or a decade. If milking the government is your job, then you shouldn't be in the voting pool.
This isn't about punishing people. It's about ensuring that self-government works at the societal level. If you cannot govern your own life, you shouldn't be in a position to govern others'.
They Have No Ability to Think Critically
It's as if liberals see common sense and choose to do the opposite of what it tells them. No amount of sage advice will dissuade them because some "expert" with dollar signs in their eyes can talk them into anything as long as they whisper magic words like "renewable energy."
Bring Back Absolute Victory
This, too, reflects a clarity that modern Western leaders often lack: the resolve to act decisively, to bear the weight of terrible decisions in pursuit of peace and justice. Truman's choice was not only militarily sound but morally defensible. The bombings were not, as many armchair critics have argued over the decades, a cheap form of ethical utilitarianism; Truman's decision to bomb was simply reflective of how real war-and-peace decisions must be made in the heat of the moment, when the stakes are the highest.
It is fashionable now to question the morality of Truman's decision from the safety of the present. But it is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were gratuitous or overly callous. They were not. They were the tragic price of a brutal victory and the necessary cost of hard-fought peace.
War, we know, is hell. Indeed, that is a very good reason to avoid starting wars in the first place. But once upon a time, Western societies understood that once a horrific war has been initiated, there can be no substitute for absolute victory. That lesson has long been forgotten. It is past time to learn it once again.
And, from Ed Morrissey:
That is a lesson that has been lost over the last 80 years. We see the results everywhere, but especially in the Middle East, and especially in Gaza. When someone starts a war -- especially those with insanely tyrannical belief systems -- there is nothing that can be done but to fight it until absolute and utter vanquishing of such enemies. Giangreco reminds us, as Frank does as well, that the world was blessed with leadership in 1945 that understood that doctrine ... rather than the leadership caste of the West in our time.
Genuinely Stupid Judges
Lawyers have gotten into trouble for using artificial intelligence to write briefs. AI programs have fabricated cases that don’t exist, and made up quotations from those cases. That is scandalous; for judges to do the same thing is even worse. District court judges have clerks who often write first drafts of opinions. At a minimum, the judge reviews, edits, approves and signs them. Here, no one in the judge’s office could bestir himself to do legal research and write an opinion—i.e., to do his job—relying instead on an artificial intelligence program. And the judge either used the AI program himself, or was too lazy even to check the opinion for accuracy before he signed and filed it.Does John Roberts support removing from office federal judges who rely on AI to write opinions?
Impeachment proceedings should be brought against these judges, in which they can be required to explain what happened—although, to be fair, what happened seems obvious. If they relied on AI programs to write opinions on cases before them, they should be removed from office. The federal judiciary is already under a cloud because of the political campaign that a number of district court judges have mounted against the Trump administration. Confidence in the federal bench is at a low ebb, and these scandals can only make matters worse. Congress should step in, and the Supreme Court should ban the use of artificial intelligence in deciding cases and drafting opinions in the federal courts.
The Unamericans
As immigrants from third-world countries have started getting elected in the woke areas, they freely admit that their political priorities are not about improving America, but instead are focused on their fellow countrymen in this and their home countries.More on anchor baby Ramirez from John Hinderaker:
Ilhan Omar regularly speaks in Somali to transplanted Somali migrants. Omar Fateh, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (Minnesota Democrats) candidate for Minneapolis Mayor, declared his allegiance to Somalia and Somalis, and now Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois declares that she is a Guatemalan before she is American.
She was born here, by the way, but obviously is not a fan of the country that placed her in Congress.
This trend shouldn't surprise anyone. What did you think decolonization looked like, anyway? By now, we should know that for its advocates, it looks like October 7th and the invasion at the border.
In the view of the "decolonizers," America and the West are lands to be plundered, not homelands to become a part of. As Mamdani would say, it is time to "seize the means of production" and "eliminate private property"--or at least take the private property of Westerners and redistribute it to those more deserving.
Nice try. But I have never heard an Irish-American, Italian-American, etc., announce that his primary loyalty is to the country of his parents’ birth, rather than to the United States, while serving in Congress. I am proud of my Norwegian ancestry, too, but it would not occur to me to say—in Norwegian!—that “I’m a proud Norwegian before I am an American.”
Ms. Ramirez is not especially consequential, although, to be fair, she does serve in Congress. But she is a sign of the times: the Democratic Party is no longer an American party. It is at best internationalist, and at worst—more often—anti-American.
