Sunday, November 30, 2025
Stop Importing Culture
Immigration isn’t really complicated. Whether it is good or bad depends on whom you get, and in what numbers. The quality of immigrants is an individual matter, but country of origin is highly important, as it determines the culture that immigrants will bring with them. And, as we have seen in America, many immigrants do not adopt our culture, they inflict their culture on us.
Detrimental to the Interests of the United States
Can Trump actually do those things? The most significant is the first: Trump’s pledge to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries….” It is reasonably clear, I think, that Trump can do this. 8 U. S. C. §1182(f) says:
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Highly Concentrated
Yes, well, if the problem were only certain individuals and not systemic cultural issues, fraudsters would not be almost entirely concentrated in one religious and ethnic group. If the problem were only that some fraction of the population, evenly distributed, is inclined to commit fraud when they see an opportunity, you wouldn't keep finding out that the distribution of fraudsters was so highly concentrated.
It's not the German, Norwegian, or people of Swedish people [sic] who dominate our ancestral groups who are stealing billions of tax dollars; it's overwhelmingly Somalis, who are also coming to dominate our Democratic Party affiliate here in the state.
Third Worldism
Unfortunately, we have been governed by naive or merely stupid people who have romanticized the third world and Islamic culture. Naifs in the refugee resettlement community open their hearts and their homes to people who mean us harm. USAID spread the money around, and decent people wanting to do good opened their homes to people who are obsessed with undermining our country.
A lot of people are talking about harassing these good-hearted people, but that is misguided. Their crime is having soft hearts that make their thinking processes soft as well. They helped enable an awful thing, but not for awful reasons. That doesn't excuse anything, in the sense that anybody with common sense could predict that opening the doors to mass migration from Afghanistan would be disastrous, but liberals believe that common sense is colonialist thinking.
Reasoning with such people is like arguing with toddlers.
Obligation Inversion
Hey folks! Guess what? That is exactly the Trump administration policy, and the only reason why we have all this storm and strife over "cruel" arrests and deportations is that illegal aliens refuse to budge. They not only disrespected our laws when they came, committed identity theft to get jobs, but now they are refusing to accept an "all forgiven" offer and a cash bonus because they don't believe the rules should apply to them.
In simpler terms, the problem isn't that Trump is being mean; it's that illegal immigrants are giving the country the finger.
If our immigration laws are to mean anything, then we must enforce them. Even the Pope agrees with that, despite the fact that every atheist in the world is trying to use his moral authority to argue that we should give every lawbreaker a pass.
Trump is offering an easy way and a hard way. The choice is being made by the people who refuse to accept the easy way.
It's no different than a criminal who resists arrest complaining about being manhandled. They should have complied when asked to.
How hard is it to understand this basic fact? Apparently very.
Leftist Logic
You can disagree with the deployment but the deployment didn't cause the shooting...unless you're saying it did. I think this is the looming worry that has so many leftists echoing the same talking points this afternoon.
He's really doubling down on this. If the National Guard hadn't been called, some deranged nutter wouldn't have shot them. So it's literally Trump's fault. That's the argument and there's no doubt about it.
Could it be that the shooter is the actual problem? The shooter and whatever motivated him to do this? No, it can only be Trump and anyone who aided him.
The Real Victim
Is committing identity theft and making the life of a man and his family hell a bad thing?
Apparently not, as long as you were also breaking the law by entering the country illegally and working illegally, racking up debts without paying them, and committing other crimes. In fact, once you are caught, the Times will classify you as a victim in need of as much sympathy as the man you have terrorized for a decade.
Meet Ilhan Elmi
I have been on Omar’s case since August 2016. I summarized my initiation in the City Journal column “The curious case of Ilhan Omar.” I believe that Omar entered the United States illegally as a fraudulent member of the Omar family. Getting out of Kenya, the family was split. A brother and sister emigrated to England. The brother was brought to Minneapolis to extract him from a homosexual life in London.
Omar married her brother in 2009, probably for purposes of immigration fraud. A Christian pastor signed their marriage license. Omar continued living with her “real” husband and father of her children all the while. She also filed joint tax returns with her “real” husband (even though she had never legally married him) while she was legally married to her brother.
Ignoring Culture is Insane
And, it must be said, these migrants have been invited into our society not on the basis of judging individuals as individuals, but on the basis of their participation in a category. If you let somebody into the country because they are a Somali, not because they are likely to be a good citizen, why is it unfair to kick them out based on the same characteristic, because, as a group, the Somalis are horrible members of society?Also:
But civilizations are built on cultures more than anything else. As Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and other countries have shown, strong and basically healthy cultures can create stable and wealthy societies despite having few resources and even challenging strategic situations.
As Venezuela and Cuba show, being blessed with abundant resources but a bad culture can create total disasters.
Everything is downstream from culture.
Whiteness
You see, places where white people dominate are famously awful, which is why nobody from the good places where whiteness is not a problem wants to have anything to do with us or our creations. People of pallor ruin everything, and because we do nobody comes to places like Europe or the United States, nobody uses our evil technology or medical breakthroughs, and even if we offer them assistance, they know better than to take what we are offering.
People of melanin are flowing out of these places at record rates and moving to places like Iran, Somalia, Venezuela, and Sudan. Hispanics are fleeing south. It's a horror.
Inflation of Another Kind
To be clear, UC San Diego is not an easy school to get into. And yet, a lot of these top students being admitted can't do Elementary and Middle School math problems. Why is that?In other news, Saul Geiser is a surface-level-thinking moron.
Well, as Megan McArdle suggested this happened because the UC system did away with SAT scores. SATs aren't just optional in the UC system, they are forbidden. The single person who is probably most responsible for that decision, which was made in 2020, is Saul Geiser. Today, Geiser has a opinion piece of his own for Inside Higher Ed in which he argues that dropping the SAT has been a big success because racial equity has increased.
Western Liberals Hate the West
You still see some Western liberals praising Communist China for leading the way on “green” energy. Look at all the solar panels and windmills they produce! say the liberals. Yes, they produce solar panels and wind turbines in factories that run on coal. They sell the solar panels and wind turbines to us, because we are dumb enough to buy them, and because they want to control our economy.
Colonizers
Don't call it the "great replacement," because that would be horrifically racist and show you to be a white supremacist Nazi who should, of course, be shot in the street by a transgender furry pro-Hamas "diversity is our strength" and "be kind" warrior.
But, since I am a hermit who spends all his time in front of a keyboard, and too old to care about being called names, I will risk the furry's wrath and point out the obvious. The whole point of the mass migration being forced on us is to replace the current citizenry and especially the culture that is our inheritance with one built by the new colonizers of the Western world.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The 2019 Star Tribune story proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose. The historian Dominic Green looked at the documents and arrived approximately at the same conclusion in a column for the Spectator that was published online by the Daily Mail. Rob Long wrote a hilarious 2019 National Review column — “That’s My Husbro: Ilhan Omar’s Family Drama” — premised on the proposition that Omar married her brother. Everybody knows. Everybody knows, but somehow it doesn’t matter.
Democrats Oppose Thermodynamics
But there is a broader point here that is more important. It is true that the cost of electricity has been rising steadily. The reason is the expenditure of many billions of dollars, perhaps into the trillions by now, that have been wasted on “green” energy, with the costs charged to ratepayers—i.e., all of us. The Democratic Party is responsible for those price increases. The Trump administration, which has turned its back on the Green New Deal, is doing everything possible to bring down the cost of electricity by promoting reliable, affordable power. For Democrats to blame the high cost of electricity on the Trump administration is a special kind of dishonesty.
The American Identity
Since the origins of the republic, the United States has always had a legal identity and a cultural one. The legal identity is broader, permitting more inclusivity. New arrivals on our shores can relinquish foreign allegiances, acquire American citizenship, and become part of "We the People," much as the biblical figure Ruth left the nation of Moab thousands of years ago to join the children of Israel. As Ruth said: "Your people shall be my people and your God my God."
But the cultural identity of the United States -- the religiously imbued habits, values and expectations that enable our national creed, "E Pluribus Unum" -- has never been infinitely malleable. America has always had a dominant public ethos shaped by a historical Protestant-majority culture. This culture emphasizes individual responsibility, industriousness, respect for the rule of law, the dignity of conscience, and the limits of liberty rightly understood.
The two identities are connected. As President John Adams famously said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Conscience and freedom of religion must be wholly protected and secured in one's private life, but the very nature of American citizenship and American community are shaped and guided by the inherited tradition of the Protestant majority.
Contradiction
Liberals will often say things like, "The United States is the wealthiest country on earth, but we don't have anything like the welfare benefits of Europe, even though we can afford them more than they."
Apparently, they don't see the contradiction in their logic. The United States is significantly wealthier because we don't have as large a welfare state and have a freer market. The bigger and more intrusive the state, the less vital the economy. See: Europe. And Europe will, soon enough, not be able to maintain the welfare state they are so proud of. Consider the UK healthcare system to see how unpleasant state-run healthcare can be.
The Toddler Mayor
Wilson's pitch to bring Seattle back is to become more socialist. Ideologically, she is very Mamdani-like, but intellectually, she is Mamdani-light. Or, perhaps I should say, Mamdani without the looks or charm.You wouldn't hire this person for literally any other job.
She even shares a similar background to Mamdani. Her parents are prominent academics in New York who regularly send her money because she is basically unemployable and can't afford to live in Seattle. She went to Oxford, but dropped out a few weeks before graduation, and she blames her lack of a college degree for her inability to get high-paying jobs.
Protect the Tribe
What the Star Tribune fails to note is that the state House of Representatives is locked in a 67-67 tie between Democrats and Republicans. There are several state Representatives of Somali ethnicity. Every single member of the House who is of Somali background voted against the bill and it failed on a tie vote. So, no, Somali legislators prevented it from getting done.And:
But to the unconvincible, proof cannot exist or be produced. So, what would represent proof?
The latest example of truth denial comes from the Minnesota fraud/Al-Shabab angle. The proof consists of a simple logical deduction. The logical proof goes like this:
Therefore, Terrorist groups in Somalia were the recipients of stolen Minnesota tax dollars.
- Billions of dollars have been stolen from Minnesota taxpayers through welfare fraud (see above).
- Persons of Somali ancestry represent most of that loss.
- Somali fraudsters sent some of those proceeds to Somalia via remittances.
- Terrorist groups in Somalia extract money from those in their territory.
Deniers say that intent hasn’t been proven, so the chain of events never happened. Or that there are not any “peer-reviewed” academic studies of the phenomenon. No Al-Shabab terrorists have been convicted in federal court for money laundering crimes. The objections are infinite when the truth is inconvenient.
Call His Bluff
I'd almost like Netanyahu to travel to New York City to dare Mamdani to try arresting him. First off, traveling foreign dignitaries get security details from the federal government, so Mamdani would have to penetrate the Secret Service cordon to effect an arrest. More basically, however, New York City is not a "city of international law"; it is a city based on American law under the US Constitution, and a mayor's writ does not include enforcing "international law" except to the extent it overlaps US law and does not violate the Supremacy Clause.
Hizzoner needs a refresher civics course, as well as a refresher economics course and a refresher history course. Mostly, however, Mamdani needs intensive treatment for moral idiocy.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Public School's Out Forever
To say you like communism, you have to be a moron. And you have to know absolutely nothing about history. And you must be getting your information from ill-intentioned, malicious sources. What sources might those be? The public schools. What other explanation is there for young people developing a fondness for communism?
I think we have reached the point where it is a serious question whether, on balance, our public schools do more harm than good. Sure, our kids need to learn how to read and write, multiply and divide. But the schools do a horrible job of teaching them those things. Their focus is on propaganda, not education. With no public schools, probably the same number of kids would learn basic skills from their parents or in private schools, for which demand would rise. But most students would be spared the propaganda component of contemporary public “education.”
Electoral Subtraction
"No enemies on the right?" Nick Fuentes is not on the right, and he has declared himself to be an ENEMY of the right. Anybody who defends him as a potential ally is an idiot or disingenuous.
Which brings me to the next problem: coalitions are indeed additive, but they are also subtractive. Allowing people like Nick Fuentes anywhere near the entrance to our big tent means that others will exit it, and quickly, too. Voters rarely sit down and read through your policy platform; they evaluate you and the people around you.
Think about your reaction to the election of Jay Jones. It has little to do with what Jay Jones will do as Attorney General, and everything to do with what you think of his character. And much of the anger about his election is about what it says about the Democrats who voted for him or endorsed him.
It says a lot about Abigail Spanberger and the Democrats who supported Jones that they did, and nothing good. In my piece yesterday about the election of Jones, that was my point: voting for Jay Jones was a symptom of moral degeneracy. In other words, the "no enemies to the left" principle says something bad about the people who hold that view.
Becoming Third World
Somalis, to say the least, have not integrated into American political culture. Quite the opposite, they have brought the corruption and the intolerance that characterized Somalia right here into the United States, and seem quite pleased with the fact that they can abuse the social trust we extend to citizens. All told, they have easily scammed hundreds of millions of dollars, and perhaps billions, just in Minnesota.
Robed Tyrant
“Other funding?” What other funding? It looks like the Judge is going to bypass Congress and just order the Treasury to borrow the money to close the gap. Why not do that with every other program in the federal government? We can get rid of both the legislative and executive branches and just have a judge in Rhode Island operate the whole thing.
And:
This judge has cracked the code. Just order compliance immediately and you can’t be overruled. This Administration, unlike the the previous one, will always comply with every legal ruling, however absurd. Usually, when a higher court does finally get around to overuling the overreach, the facts can’t be reversed.
Democrats Are Trash
The purpose of the NC billboard, the DC attack, and that video by the Sedition Six are all designed to accomplish the same goals: discourage enlistment and re-enlistment, weaken the institution and the chain-of-command, and prepare for whatever they have planned next.
Buckle up, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
