Saturday, October 31, 2026
Spoiler Alert: He Voted Communist
Is it really appropriate for Robert Prevost to vote in an American election, now that he is the head of a foreign state? It is a reasonable question. Moreover, one wonders why the Vatican made a point of publicizing the Pope’s casting a mail-in ballot in Illinois. Are they trying to encourage turnout on behalf of candidates who share the Pope’s views on illegal border crossings by members of criminal gangs?
We probably will never know how Robert Prevost voted, of course. But it is reasonable to ask: did he cast his ballot in favor of pro-life candidates, as Catholic doctrine would seem to require? If so, they all would have been Republicans. Or did he put doctrine aside and vote for the pro-illegal immigration, pro-MS-13 party?
The Socialism Project
The bottom line is that liberals are making it difficult if not impossible for most young people to buy a first home. Then those same liberal politicians try to take advantage of the resulting social discontent to advocate for socialism, which can only exacerbate the existing, government-caused problems.
But socialists don’t worry much about that. As the current adage correctly holds, you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out. Which is hard to do, when the left-wing government has all the guns.
The Battle of Our Time
When we think about the last 200 years of immigration into the United States, the goal was, virtually always, assimilation. Come to America, adopt American values and customs, become an American. The fact that many Muslims have rejected this assimilationist tradition in favor of a weird sort of separatism—integrated only, it seems, into the political world, as allies of the far Left—poses perhaps the greatest challenge that America faces today.
The failure of huge numbers of Muslims to assimilate is manifested in everything from terrorist attacks to countless billions of dollars in theft from government programs to ridiculous levels of welfare consumption. The problem is real, and everything that El-Sayed did as an academic was calculated to make the problem worse, and America weaker.
High Stakes for The West
The French establishment wants the upcoming presidential election to be about new desks and protractors for students, while most voters think the election is about whether France will or will not survive in recognizable form.
A Decade Late
How do we know this was a political calculation? The reliance on the criminal statute of limitations in this case has always been weak. The DOJ and DHS always had the option of pursuing a civil/administrative case against 'Omar' over her false identity and fraudulent naturalization. Identifying Ahmed as her brother should have easily led to exposing the 'Omar' dodge, which Scott did almost from the beginning. Tugging at those threads would have unraveled her father's lies about being a teacher rather than a high-ranking officer in Siad Barre's genocidal military, lies that would have given the Obama-era DHS plenty of cause to denaturalize 'Omar' and send her entire family packing back to Somalia.
The most remarkable part of this NY Times story is that it adds hardly anything to the evidence already available to the public about 'Omar,' her sham marriage, and her identity. What it does accomplish is that it strips 'Omar' of her one defense that has kept the media at bay — that these are just unfounded allegations by right-wing activists. The documentation of the Obama administration's suspicions rebuts that nonsense rebuttal and reinforces the truths that the evidence reveals. 'Omar' is a fraud and a fraudster, and one has to suspect that the Trump administration may find plenty more evidence of other questionable activities in its full-bore probe of 'Omar' and her finances, too.
Just to be clear: this illegal alien is voting on our nation's laws.
More from David Strom:
One of the many scandals she has survived in her now-long political career is the immigration fraud accusations that have dogged her for years: her alleged marriage to her obviously very gay brother in order to get him a Green Card. Unlike many "asylees" who pretend to be gay in order to get permanent resident status in Western countries, Omar's brother could be a host on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy or RuPaul's Drag Race.And yet more from Scott Johnson here.
Don't Put Life Losers in Charge
In my post several days ago on October 18, I recounted the story of how ignorant Chinese Communist Party ideologues in the late 1950s convinced themselves that they knew how to achieve limitless agricultural production by just ordering each community to produce large, arbitrary amounts of food. Do you want to double grain production? Then just plant twice as many seeds in the same acreage! The ideologues had no idea how agriculture actually worked in the real world. Within a couple of years, there was widespread famine, probably the largest in world history. Tens of millions died horrible deaths of starvation.
At the end of that post I noted that, here in the West, equally ignorant ideologues were engaged, actually for a few decades now, in ordering up an energy transition to replace electricity generation by fossil fuels with generation mostly by intermittent wind and sun. Today’s energy transition ideologues have a lack of knowledge of how an energy grid works that is comparable to the ignorance of the Chinese ideologues of agriculture. How is this one working out?
Causation
These are amazing numbers, and represent a remarkable success on the part of the Trump administration. Other policies may also be pertinent, but it seems obvious that closing the Southern border and deporting large numbers of criminal illegal aliens have made all Americans safer.But according to little libertarian weirdos like David Bier, such policies make Americans, or, as he views it, those present in America, less safe.
They're All Gazans
The entire Gaza phenomenon is baffling. On October 7, Gazans showed themselves to be the most depraved, perverted and murderous people on the planet. And yet, instead of the universal horror and condemnation that one would have expected, their attempt at genocide brought them international support and even popularity.
I can’t imagine that these young Italians care anything about Gazans. They certainly don’t care about Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudis, or any other Arabs. Or about any other Muslims, most notably the Iranians, who suffer under horrific tyrannies. I think their purported pro-Gaza activism is nothing more or less than a particularly virulent form of anti-Semitism. They want to globalize the intifada, which is to say, kill the Jews wherever you can find them.
I am not an expert on the history of the 1930s, but it seems to me that the anti-Semitism we are seeing today, primarily in Western Europe and in North America, is more widespread than during that era. Not only that, it enjoys the support of much of the Western establishment, i.e., most of that part of the establishment that is on the left. Anti-Semitism has become a sort of secret handshake by which the “right” people (i.e., the Left people) can identify one another.
We are living in dark times.
Oops
At the time, Ilhan came up with some half-baked excuse as to why she referred to her father by her husband’s last name. That’s the thing about lies: you have to live then 24/7/365. One slip up and you give the game away.
The 'Omar' Database
Three reporters have independently investigated what I call the curious case of Ilhan Omar: me, Preya Samsundar, and David Steinberg. David has now compiled a selection of our work to document the case for newcomers and other interested readers. It is not exhaustive, but it is invaluable.More here and here.
The Red-Green Alliance vs. The West
If history and theology are any guide, there is even more uniting these two factions. Davidson correctly points that “on issues like women’s rights, transgenderism, gay marriage and the sexual revolution in general, [Islamists and radical leftists] are not aligned.” But these differences are mere window dressing to their core similarities: spreading their ideology through aggression and confiscating the wealth of others.
These two principles are fairly well known as features of communism, but most Westerners have been conditioned not to associate them with Islam. Nearly all Western schools, underfunded or otherwise, have done their utmost to obscure the fact that Islam was spread by the sword as well as by theft. As historian Raymond Ibrahim details in his classic history Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, starting with the Prophet Muhammad and continuing with his many successors, Muslim armies would invade, pillage, terrorize, and enslave neighboring kingdoms, forcing their populations to submit to Allah, face martyrdom, or live as second-class citizens (dhimmis).
Besides its unbridled military aggression, Islam’s expansion was greatly aided by its parasitic approach to war and government. When it comes to winning battles, the deciding factor often comes down to logistics: Whoever could better supply and compensate an army would usually win. For most of history, generals fed and paid their armies through the spoils of war, allowing soldiers to plunder their enemies’ riches and enslave their people. For Christians, such actions are gravely sinful, but in Islam, they are fully allowed in the name of spreading the faith.
Deserving
Well, let's talk about "deserving" in this context. Why would people who broke the law to get into the country and then often break the law to get work that undercuts low-income American labor "deserve" subsidies from these same taxpayers? El-Sayed and the rest of the Medicare for All Democrats want to end private health insurance and force all Americans into a closed system of socialized medicine without any choice. El-Sayed and his allies then want to force taxpayers to fund elective surgeries for people who haven't legitimately paid into that closed system at the expense of those who do.
All in the Family
In her memoir Omar herself refers to Barre as a dictator. He was notorious for the widespread commission of war crimes by his army. While Omar omits any mention of her father’s military career, Sahan Journal omits any mention of Barre’s notoriety. Among other things, between 1987 and 1989, Barre set out to destroy the Isaaq clan, the largest of the peoples of the State of Somaliland. Suffice it to say that Barre was a bad, bad guy.
As is always the case with Omar’s misdirection, Omar’s silence regarding her father’s real occupation in Somalia must be purposeful. Did the United States knowingly afford refugee status to Soviet-trained officers in the military of Siad Barre? Maybe. But did Omar’s father disclose his career in the Somali National Army in connection with his emigration to the United States? The misdirection of Omar’s memoir makes me wonder.
We have an illegal alien in Congress. It seems like that should be a big deal.
Also:
Omar has not lived a life that anticipated the scrutiny that accompanies a high-flying career in American politics. A brazen quality infuses her deceptions. She has nevertheless been afforded a wide berth by virtue of an identitarian offense — “There are people who do not want an East African, Muslim woman elected to office and who will follow Donald Trump’s playbook to prevent it” — and a sympathetic press. And yet her deceptions may be catching up with her.
And, from Bill Glahn:
Huh. How about that? To answer The Nation's rhetorical question, media and Democrats have been keeping quiet because they know that she’s guilty. Of what, exactly? It doesn’t really matter, Omar has played fast and loose with the rules, for so many years, something significant was bound to come out at some point. She’s just that reckless.
Litmus Test
It's not a silly question, it's a litmus test: Do you support terrorism? That's not a silly question in this case because there is reason to believe that Khalil does support Hamas. The group he helped lead at Columbia clearly did support Hamas and violence. It said so directly. It handed out Hamas-authored literature. It praised the mastermind of the 10/7 attack.
So answering the question definitely would get us somewhere. We would know for certain if Khalil supports Hamas instead of having to guess based on clues. But really, at this point, it's not much of a guess anymore. Khalil supports Hamas and that's the real reason he won't answer.
When Your "Neighbors" Are Barbarians
Democrats have a Somali problem, and it's unlikely to go away any time soon.
For years, the Somali community and the Democrats have been joined at the hip, and the Democrats have made no secret of the fact that they are willing to go to the mat to defend Somalis come hell or high water. We keep hearing that Somalis built the state, are our "neighbors," the 'fabric of Minnesota," and the most prominent Somali politician in the country is Ilhan Omar, who is so unabashedly Somali that she actively campaigns as Somali first, Minnesota second.
The Fall of Minnesota
The roots of the fiasco lie deep; this video of Senator Amy Klobuchar reveals the attitudes that made industrial-scale fraud inevitable. Klobuchar was actually proud of the fact that she made it easy for Somalis to send money back to their home country; it turned out that much, likely most, of that money was stolen from Minnesota’s welfare programs. And in a sea of Somali flags, Klobuchar sees nothing but DFL votes. Assimilation? Who needs it?
Don't Eden Prairie My City
As far as I can tell, Eden Prairie is represented at every level of government exclusively by Democrats. They have shaped this once-tranquil suburb into what it is today, with the inevitable consequences. To not accept the status quo would be to endanger Democrats’ monopoly on political power, by angering a constituency they rely upon to win elections. So nothing will be done. Acceptance will continue.
National Interest
The obvious question to Suzuki is: Why should the Japanese government, which represents the interests of Japanese citizens, care? Obviously, once somebody is in Japan, even as a noncitizen, the government has a duty of care to at least a minimal standard.
But when setting up policies regarding who you bring in with an eye toward permanent residency, the interests of somebody living in Afghanistan or Pakistan shouldn't really be near the top of your list of concerns. Nobody expects Pakistan to ask, "If I do this, will it benefit a Japanese person?" That is absurd. Governments exist to serve their own citizens first, with others a distant second.
That runs counter to the core of the transnationalist ideology, which sees national borders as accidents of history and geography. We are all one big salad that should be tossed together, don't you know?
It's the sort of idea that got us the movement to make everybody learn Esperanto, and that assumes that the United Nations could really be a governing body.
In other words, it's a special combination of stupid and idealistic that we used to call sophomoric, because it has a superficial appeal that collapses on contact with reality.
But there it is; it's the reigning ideology of the people who own the cultural and economic high ground in developed countries.
It's Because They've Been Taught to Hate the West
What could possibly be going on here? I assume that if you asked young people whether the law should endorse husbands beating wives, or homosexuals being executed, virtually none would say Yes. But somehow, many young Americans have gotten a positive view of Sharia, whether they know anything about it, or not.
Perhaps this is due to our appallingly bad schools, but still: can there possibly be many public schools that push Sharia law on their students? Or maybe it’s the popular culture, but again: what movies, TV shows, podcasts and the like are pro-Sharia?
It really is a mystery. But somehow, a great many young Americans are being indoctrinated into an alien ideology that is utterly incompatible with our system of government or our mostly free civilization. I can’t explain how this has happened, but we should all be concerned about it.
They Have to Leave
Recalling my work on habeas corpus cases filed in Minnesota, several cases involved Somali noncitizens with criminal convictions whose legal status was in the process of being revoked. As for asylum seekers, if their applications were denied, they have to go back, regardless of whether they’d accumulated any American criminal convictions along the way. The idea that merely seeking asylum means that you automatically get it, forever, should not be how it works.
This “worst of the worst” framing implies that immigration laws only apply to convicted felons and to no others. If you overstayed a visa, you have to leave. If you crossed the border without authorization, you have to leave. Otherwise, we have no borders.
"Minister"
That is sheer stupidity, of course, but it is a special kind of stupidity. Why, after all, would someone who doesn’t believe in the basic facts and principles of Christianity want to be a minister? Maybe they think it’s just being a social worker, only with a better clientele. Or maybe it is one more instance of the Left infiltrating, and perverting, every modern institution.
I also note that a lot of these nutty ministers are women. I have noticed the same thing in my own experience. Maybe the Catholics are onto something in that regard.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Infinite Levels of Due Process For "Our Neighbors"
Not sufficient? Through Immigration Court, illegal aliens have access to four levels of appeals. In addition, through federal district court, illegal aliens have access to three levels of appeals.
There is no corner of American jurisprudence where actual citizens have access to that amount of due process.
During the Biden years, illegal aliens streamed into America by the millions, without following any laws. Biden-appointed judges insist that those same aliens be afforded infinite levels of due process, all at American taxpayer expense.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Coward
Klobuchar is running for governor. She seeks a position of leadership in which she could do something about the outrage with which Kendall has had to live. What did Klobuchar have to say?
Video of the hearing is posted on YouTube here. Klobuchar apparently attended the hearing briefly but left without speaking. The committee press release states: “Democrats called no witnesses and asked no questions.” They essentially boycotted the hearing.
Maybe some enterprising journalist who covers politics for a living will have the temerity to ask Klobuchar for her position on the issue. She is a little hard to pin down.
It's Kinda Their Thing
Liberals have a habit of destroying things even after wiser people warn them they will, and once the damage is done, they ask for a Mulligan.
It's infuriating. Time and again, the consequences of bad decisions are easy to see and predict, and those of us who do so suffer scorn and often cancellation for stating the obvious. And once the predicted disaster strikes, the people who caused it are empowered to do it all over again after the required "oopsie" is uttered.
And:
"Nobody had a Plan B?!" Gee, who was SUPPOSED to have a Plan B?
"Unforeseen?" How do you miss the fact that shutting down 25 percent of a city's power supply would present problems?
Who knew? I mean, really, who could have even imagined the possibility that the power supply would get shaky? What are we, fortune tellers?
Still, Hochul is nine points ahead in the race to become governor, and the odds-on favorite to be reelected. Voters, it seems, prefer to have people in power who do incredibly stupid things as long as they utter the "right" words. And, apparently, "oopsie" seems cute to them. After all, we enjoy watching cats push fragile things off tables. It's kinda cute. Destroying society, apparently, has the same appeal to liberals.
Because Diversity
Bill Glahn asks, "What does Britain gain, other than more Labour voters?"
The answer and a follow-up question:Fairness. Generosity. Balance. So, in other words, Britain gains nothing, whatsoever. Who is asking for this?
Nothing But Trouble
Most countries bury statistics that reveal the fact that, as a class, migrants from some countries, regions, or religions present nothing but problems for society. They do poorly in school, consume more welfare than native-born or immigrants from Western countries, and commit far more crimes. And since the migrants come in through mass migration and are not selected based on their likelihood of contributing something valuable, as a class, they are nothing but trouble.
And:
Some people will look at these numbers and either scream RACISM or use them as irrefutable evidence that people with different skin tones are too stupid to contribute. Neither response helps when setting public policy. It really doesn't matter WHY admitting people from the Middle East or Africa is a losing proposition; it only matters whether it is or not. Refusing to recognize an obvious, irrefutable fact merely because it makes you queasy is a recipe for suicide.
These People Are Total Lunatics
So, in this data set, 87% of Democrats say they would like to see President Trump impeached and removed from office. (For what? Who cares?) 84% of Democrats say they want President Trump to be removed from office on grounds of disability, under the 25th Amendment. Of course, unlike Joe Biden President Trump is obviously not disabled. 55% of Democrats would like to see President Trump die of natural causes. It is hard to imagine a similar result with regard to Republicans and a Democratic president. And, perhaps most shocking, 59% of Democrats would applaud a military coup that removed President Trump from office. Seven Days in May? The Democratic Party is fully on board!
I guess we should be reassured that “only” 32% of Democrats want to see Trump assassinated, while an equal number — 32% — are “very negative” about a Trump assassination. And Democrats pretend to be puzzled as to why people keep trying to murder the president!
The Downside
So why is the Trump administration seemingly on the ropes, with the Republicans’ midterm prospects considered to be bleak? The main reason is the Iran war; not because of casualties we have suffered in that conflict, which have been almost nonexistent—rather, because of the transitory impact on the price of gasoline.
I think the root cause of the administration’s current malaise is the fact that Donald Trump is not a good politician. A competent politician would have handled the Iran conflict quite differently. It would have begun with an address from the Oval Office in which the president would announce the beginning of the conflict, explain the reasons for it, and outline the administration’s goals. Trump never did that, and his Truth Social posts—which he seems to think fill the role of the traditional address to the nation—have been sporadic, amateurish and inconsistent.
A competent politician would not have empowered the IRGC by wasting months trying to achieve a “deal” that would, in any event, have been worthless. Trump should have carried out the military operation until his announced goals had been achieved, and then terminated it.
And a competent politician, instead of spouting off on everything under the Sun on a daily basis, thus giving his opponents endless ammunition to attack him, would stick to consistent messaging on the most important topics, like the economy and immigration. Instead, Trump’s significant achievements have largely been lost in a blizzard of irrelevant news headlines, usually enabled by Trump himself.
Many people voted for Trump because they liked the fact that he was not a politician. He has done a lot of good things, starting with closing the Southern border. One can argue that everything else is a footnote. But he hasn’t gotten much credit for his achievements, and it is mostly his own fault. Trump has now run for president three times and is serving his sixth year as president, so, like it or not, he is a politician. Unfortunately, he isn’t a very good one, and his supporters are now paying the price.
What Laws Can I Break?
One of the most glaring facts about left-wing governance is that it simultaneously imposes huge costs in money and freedom on law-abiding citizens while subsidizing and enabling lawlessness and decline among the people most inclined to break the law, degrade society, and ruin things for everybody else.
And:
If anybody had a yard that looks anything remotely like that homeless encampment, they would be fined out of existence. But when homeless people do it, it's celebrated as "urban camping." Money pours in from the city and NGOs to keep everything going, and the result is a city that is both expensive to live in and that is declining around you.
Weirdo Update: Texas Edition
Whatever that means, indeed. Talarico has been a font of Academia-speak racism for the entirety of his career, not to mention an extremist on transgender issues and abortion. Now that the general election has begun, Talarico has had to reverse himself on allowing pediatric sex-change operations, declaring the existence of six genders (which he never named), God being "non-binary," whatever that means, and hating his own "whiteness" as well as Christianity, when it was unenlightened by "Islamic mystics." At present, the man who wants Paxton to be held accountable for racism is spending most of his time and resources in Houston and parts of Dallas to convince black voters to show up for him, after Jasmine Crockett accused Talarico and Texas Democrats of being the real racists in 2026.
The Conquest Model
For all the progress in improving life in Sweden and beginning the effort to right the cultural balance again, the progressives were able to marshal the forces they had imported over the years and get them to the ballot boxes. And it's not only that they vote for the Social Democrats. Remember, these are coalition governments, so any Green or Left Party votes automatically boost the Social Democrats' majority in the Riksdag, their parliament.
See Minnesota for another example.
October Morale Booster?
I met with two federal agents investigating Omar earlier this year on January 22. At the time they asked me as a courtesy not to publicize their investigation. Although I was free to do so, I have kept quiet about it out of a desire not to complicate their work. Events such as the disclosures by administration officials above have led me to believe I should be free to discuss my involvement now.
And:
Some of the issues raised by the agents related to Omar’s late father. He represents a part of her case that I have not explored or written about. He held himself out as a trainer of teachers. In her memoir, as I recall, Omar herself omits any details of his military career.
I helped the agents arrange a meeting with another witness whom they were interested in interviewing. On April 3, I got a call from the lead agent asking me to help put him in contact with another witness, which I did. That witness had a piece of evidence relating to Omar’s father that the agent wanted. I believe the investigation in which I was interviewed is the one that lies behind Secretary Mullin’s comment last week.
Vote Like Our Civilization Depends On It
Can the Left succeed in getting its way by intimidating jurors? Yes, it can. In 2021, police officer Derek Chauvin was tried for the “murder” of George Floyd, who had, apparently by sheer coincidence, three times the lethal limit of fentanyl in his system, which is why he repeatedly complained that he couldn’t breathe—his lungs were filling up with fluid on account of the fentanyl overdose—a half hour before anyone knelt on him.
Chauvin should have had, at a minimum, a fighting chance at trial. But much of the city of Minneapolis had already been burned down by rioters, and leading figures in the Democratic Party were inciting mobs by demanding that Chauvin be convicted, or else. Pretty much every business in downtown Minneapolis shut down and put up riot barriers, for fear that the Chauvin jury might not reach the “right” verdict. The Hennepin County courthouse was shut down—eerily, it was completely dark, except for the one room where the Chauvin trial took place. The courthouse was surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire, in anticipation of attacks by liberals, especially if the jury didn’t do the “right” thing. Jurors assembled in an undisclosed location and were bused to the otherwise-uninhabited courthouse every morning, lest they be exposed to violence from the Left.
So, yeah: liberals are serious about trying to make it impossible for anyone who shows up for jury duty to fail to do their bidding.
Coexist?
Unfortunately, it simply isn’t true that we are a single nation, divided over various political issues but united in our patriotism and our broader values. That may have been true once, but those days are long gone. Today, there is a significant segment of our population with which it is frankly difficult to coexist.
This Can't Continue
We are raising a generation of moral idiots. It certainly does not bode well for the future; you can’t really have a functioning democracy if close to 40% of your people think political murder is a fine idea.
Far Right Future?
Things could change, of course: politicians across the left-right spectrum often unite to block anti-immigration candidates, even where such candidates command a plurality vote. Why the European establishment is so determined to destroy Europe’s millennia-old culture, I cannot explain.
It does seem likely, at the moment at least, that France will go the “far right” route next year, and finally start to slow the process of national disintegration via third-world immigration.
A postscript: if Le Pen wins, she will be the first woman President in French history. Somehow, that possibility has not inspired the kind of enraptured press coverage from the left and from feminists that buoyed, for example, Hillary Clinton.
And:
Germany’s establishment parties are aghast at various AfD policies, about some of which they might be right. But they won’t consider the most obvious response: reversing their own support for mass third world migration, thus taking the most important and popular issue out of AfD’s hands. Bitter hostility to native European people and cultures is the one hill that European elites are determined to die on.
I'll Pass On This Cultural Enrichment
Noting that not all Muslims will slit your throat or rape your daughter is hardly an argument for the continuation of mass Islamic migration. That some Muslims integrate and that many of their children do well in school is a trivially true fact that tells you absolutely nothing other than that individuals are different, and even within groups that statistically are more likely to collect welfare, commit crimes, rape girls and women, and attack people who don't share their beliefs, there are plenty of good people.
So what? You don't make public policy based on the exceptions, or even the bare majority. If importing vast numbers of people, a third or a half of whom will cause enormous problems and drain the public purse, you should not do it. It's no different than following a policy where we let all felons out of jail under the correct assumption that some of them will never reoffend.
If I told you that 42 percent of a group whose members under 35 (the vast majority of Muslim immigrants fit into this category) believe that violence against anybody who disagrees with them on their religion deserves to be assaulted or killed, would you recommend importing millions of them?
Obviously not. It is insane. It's the basket-of-apples problem. Would you buy a basket of apples where 42 percent of them could poison you, hoping that the ones you eat or feed your children won't be one of them?
And that's not all of it: studies show that the second generation of Muslim immigrants are MORE, not less, radicalized. And mosques are often led by the radicalizers, and the mosques are popping up everywhere.
Friday, September 18, 2026
Short Man Syndrome: Islamist Edition
However, the ad has its problems. First off, the product stinks, and no amount of sexiness can mask its stench. Second, there is no sexiness. El-Sayed comes across as a guy whose self-perception is even more warped than his grasp of economics. El-Sayed barely clears the podium on stage, and while he looks fit, his candlepower falls somewhere between Jesse Eisenberg and Tom Green. The only people who would feel the intended effects of El-Sayed's flexing into the camera are AWFLs, and if he doesn't already have that demo locked down, El-Sayed and the Democrats are in deeper guano than previously thought.
Friday, September 11, 2026
25 Years
So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers — because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers.
But eventually, a funny thing happened: We went back to sleep.
Not entirely, of course. We still have enhanced security in air travel to prevent a similar kind of terrorist attack. We recognize the necessity of dealing with radical Islamist regimes and networks, although even that seems to have faded when dealing with them impacts our gas prices. For the past three years, American campuses have churned with activists declaring their solidarity with an Islamist terror network that perpetrated a massacre on Israelis that far surpassed the scale of 9/11 on a population-adjusted basis and demand that Israel get handed over to radical Islamists whose ideology barely differs at all from al-Qaeda and the terrorists of 9/11.
We fret over "Islamophobia" rather than honestly deal with the threat of radical Islam, both abroad and at home. David will have an example in his next post, in fact.
That is one reason why writing these commemorative posts has become so difficult. It's not just the memories; it's the forgetting. No one needs another "I was in my office dealing with a shift change" memory post. What we need is a slap in the face and someone yelling, "Wake up!" With the exception of the anniversaries and perhaps a day or two on either side of them, 9/11 has gone to sleep in America.
And:
To discuss 9/11 is to admit the threat. To admit the threat requires recognition of those who threaten. That, in turn, requires action, not just by the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of War, but by all of us. It means action in controlling our borders. It means vigilance in choosing our leaders. It means fully funding law enforcement and ensuring its focus on mission. It means heightened awareness, or in the vernacular that erupted in the days after 9/11, it means "If you see something, say something."
But that's not the story you are getting from the media. It's all about Islamophobia, explaining that, despite the fact that more Muslims immigrated to the United States post-9/11 and that they and their children significantly outnumber the number of Muslims who lived here before it, they really are the hardest hit by the vicious, grossly unfair Islamophobia.
Islam, we all know, had nothing to do with the terrorism.
It was actually remarkable to me how little hate was directed at Muslims post-9/11, and sometimes I wonder whether the steady flow of pro-Islam propaganda didn't doom the West to an Islamist takeover by more peaceful means.
The Islamist interpretation of October 7th, now dominates American discourse, with politicians across the West isolating Israel and repeating absolute falsehoods about Israel, and liberals making pilgrimages to mosques and sometimes learning the language of the very people determined to colonize us.
We are now told that Muslim immigrants "built this country" and are the "fabric of America," but also that they are the recipients of a steady stream of hate.
Uh, no. There are few populations more catered to than Muslims in Western countries, at least by the Establishment, which in the UK now invites them to actually rape English girls. And after every terrorist attack, we are warned that it is hate speech to notice.
This is a prime example of suicidal empathy.
In the history of bloody conquests and the enslavement of people, Muslims stand at the top of the pyramid, and unlike the West, Islamists are as fully committed to the project of conquering the world.
We were angry, and we should have been. We should still be angry today.
The conflict in which the terrorist attacks were one battle continues today. The Iranian Republic declared war on America in 1979, and they have pursued that war ever since, even as Americans tried to ignore it. Radical Islam is as much a force for evil today as it was 25 years ago. Perhaps the reminders we are now seeing of the full horror of the terror attack of 25 years ago will cause Americans to get serious about ending the scourge once and for all.
Someone should perform the same service for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As they used to say on Candid Camera, they they were caught in the act of being themselves — at today’s 9/11 Ground Zero memorial ceremony (video below). The New York Post covers the story here, Fox News here.
Mr. Johnson's annual tribute to Rick Rescorla is posted here.
The big picture here is that on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 we're still targets for al Qaeda (the Sunni extremists) and we're also fighting against Iran and the Houthis (the Shia extremists). What all of these groups have in common is Islamic militancy and hatred for the United States.
That seems worth mentioning on the anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, a day when American media is simultaneously awash in stories about Islamophobia and Islamic militants who want us dead.
Monday, August 31, 2026
Giant Toddler
Piker, who fancies himself a revolutionary communist with an iron will and the blood of a tiger ready to take on the entire capitalist establishment, has taken to whining about the criticism all day, every day. Or at least it sure seems that way. A guy who screams about the need for capitalist blood in the streets has become a whiner who complains about not being liked and advertisers being nervous about associating with him.Many of the communists are hyperfragile.
Globalize the Reconquista!
Good for the people of Ceuta. Europe is for Europeans, Spain is for Spaniards. We have seen this movie before: Muslims invaded Spain in 711 and it took until 1492 for Spaniards to drive the last of them out. Now Muslims are invading again, not just in Spain but in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other Western countries.
Muslims generally think they are winning the current conflict, as they certainly are in England, France, Germany, and some other European countries, and to a lesser extent—so far—in the U.S. and Canada. Why many Western authorities are unwilling to resist the current invasion—unlike, for example, Charles Martel and King John Sobieski—is a question to which I have no answer. For now, let’s applaud the people of Ceuta for standing in the gap.
Get Back to Me When the Muslims Pay Up
Which brings up the question: if reparations are the proper response to historical injustice, what other injustices and by whom, should reparations be paid?
Let's do a thought experiment: if white Americans should pay reparations for the European slave trade, then should Muslims pay reparations for their own participation in the African slave trade? After all, Muslims created the African slave trade, having invented it 700 years before white Europeans ever took advantage of the already-existing trade that was created by Muslims in the 7th century.
Muslims enslaved far more Africans than Europeans ever did, and Europeans almost never captured African slaves, but were sold those slaves by African rulers who raided other tribes. Venturing into Africa to capture slaves was far too dangerous for Europeans, who died from violence or disease, and many never even left the boat.
Muslims often participated directly in the capturing of slaves, including Europeans. The United States Marine Corps was stood up to fight Muslim slave traders.
And:
Should the Nordics pay reparations for the depredations of the Vikings, who rampaged throughout Europe and the Mediterranean for centuries? Should the Mongolians work to repay the descendants of Genghis Khan's victims? Should the Turks repay the Greeks for kicking them out of Anatolia? What about the Armenians, whose great-great-grandparents suffered through an actual genocide?
Who is doing the accounting for all this? Whose suffering counts, especially when nobody alive today experienced the actual suffering? Do 70 years of Affirmative Action count toward the reparations?
Clown League
Yep. That's it. It's literally the dictionary entry for the word, and the biological definition of "woman." That is what triggered an obscenity-filled public meltdown by a "professional" athlete in the middle of a game. It's what nearly emptied the Sky bench and derailed a game for which thousands of fans paid to see. It's not much of a wonder that Clark and her teammates trounced the Sky last night, 113-90, even with Aliyah Boston on the bench with an injury. The loss eliminated the Sky from the playoffs, in fact.
The absurdity of this meltdown belies the idea that the WNBA operates as a professional sports league. When was the last time anyone saw a player in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, or even the minor leagues of these sports lose their minds and their focus over a T-shirt in the stands? When was the last time a fan got tossed for wearing a non-obscene T-shirt in any of these leagues? This is the second time in a week for the WNBA in which a team either threatened to expel or outright expelled fans for wearing T-shirts that only expressed support for biology as the definition of "women."
This isn't a sports league. It's a struggle session with cardio. It's a woke drum circle, and the only players who understand professionalism and mental discipline are those targeted by the struggle-session clique. Clark was smirking because she understands the necessity of mental discipline — and she sank eight three-pointers during this game to demonstrate it. Everyone else on the court, the sidelines, and in the offices doesn't have a clue what professionalism means. It's a clown show, run by clowns that indulge clowns, and all of the clowns punish those who refuse to don nose bulbs and size 40 Nikes.
Furthest Thing From the Working Class
Things have gotten so bad that the New York Times has noticed. The subject of the Times story is Gustavo Gordillo, co-chairman of the New York chapter of the DSA. Gordillo has stopped talking to the press after a reporter asked him where he lives. Gordillo claims to reside in an apartment in Crown Heights, but it turns out that he really lives in a $1.5 million row house in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The house was paid for by his father, also named Gustavo Gordillo. The elder Gordilla is the founder and CEO of Draft Pros, a telecommunications infrastructure design and construction company with eight national and international offices.
Gordillo Jr., the socialist, went to Yale and studied sculpture. He now claims to be a union electrician, but the union says his “enrollment in an apprenticeship program was terminated in March of this year after he failed to complete the required work.” So in other words, he is a complete fraud.
Like the rest of the organization that he leads. A friend comments, “Now do Mamdani.”
Also, David Strom:
If you look at the leaders of the DSA, it's hard to find anybody who has worked a day in their lives at anything that could be called a "job." You could slap the term "heir" or "heiress" to their bios, and few people would bat an eye. They are Marxists in more ways than one: their daily bread is handed to them by over-indulgent people around them, who egg them on as they pursue "social justice."
The DSA co-chair in New York City, who helps run the organization that Mamdani, AOC, and all the red-diaper babies get endorsed by, lives in a cozy $1.5 million duplex-turned single-family luxury home bought and renovated by his wealthy father. While it was being renovated, he rented a place, but stiffed the landlord on the rent. He pretended to be a union electrician, but like so many socialists, he failed to put in a day's work and was let go.
Defenders of the West
As the election of Trump has shown, the one place where there is a modest amount of hope that Western culture can be saved is here in the United States, and given our close ties and interdependence with Europe, it's important that we fight back at every opportunity.
I don't know anything about Nathan Cofnas aside from the most basic facts, but what is clear is that he is being punished for exposing Jason Arday, and not for any supposed unacceptable views on race. He was hired after making them clear, and the research he based them on was apparently of sufficient quality that the university gave him a position many academics would die for. So spare me the character assassination, because it is irrelevant. I know this because the university implicitly endorsed him when it hired him.
This is about whether speaking truths that the cultural and academic elite refuse to hear will get you punished, and the answer to that is obvious. The people who have perpetrated a fraud upon the world are either being lionized or excused without comment, while the people who exposed the fraud are being hounded, punished, and subject to enormous harassment.
The choice we face is about whether we, to the extent we can object, take that opportunity and do so in the strongest terms we can, and Rubio's State Department is doing so. It is about free speech, obviously, but also about much more: will we let the people and institutions that shape our society and help develop the policies that run our lives be a bunch of frauds with arbitrary power over us all?
It's not a small thing. Not only are academic institutions extremely powerful and influential, but the people with the power are talking about passing a law to shut everybody up when they get exposed.
Of course, the State Department should come down like a ton of bricks on these guys and use whatever power we have to push back. They need us more than we need them, and it most certainly IS our business. When academics come to us for money, they spin yarns about how vital to society and the economy they are; when they get into trouble, they act as if we have no stake in whether they are run properly.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Wokeball News
Things went from bad to worse over the weekend, with a whole slew of WNBA-related news, all of which have to do with how Woke is destroying the reputation of the League.
The Atlanta Dream, for instance, refused to stand for the National Anthem at one game and subsequently refused to even walk onto the court until the Anthem had finished playing.
They did find time, though, to honor the President of Earth herself, Stacey Abrams, who, aside from her stint as a Star Trek near-goddess, is famous solely for losing two elections and spending years denying she did. She was an election denier when election denial was cool.
Oh, wait, I forgot: she should have been famous for being a fraudster, getting awarded $2 billion from the EPA for a bogus NGO she just invented out of thin air, but the media pretty much buried that.
Minds of Toddlers
She was speaking about Francesca Hong's stated positions as a sitting state legislator, over 30-years-old, and she held those positions until she started getting trashed for them in her current campaign for governor.
But really, she was just a kid and shouldn't be held responsible for anything she said outside the current context of her campaign.
We're not even talking, in most cases, about positions taken at the height of the George Floyd madness. Every DSA-supported candidate has held crazy views until they started running in their current campaigns; they are the very reasons why the DSA endorsed them, after all. It's just that they are so unpopular that they have started to temporize or disavow positions they have held throughout their adult lives.
As Organized Crime Democrats have freaked out, worried that these candidates who are adults with the minds of toddlers have captured the Democratic base and will destroy the Democrats' chances of picking up seats this year, a cadre of their supporters are trying to help out by downplaying the insanity.
And:
This is an explanation? Who wants a person in a position of power who can become so emotionally unhinged that they adopt insane positions so casually and work mightily to destroy people who disagree with them?
Sure, I became a commie and tried to destroy Western Civilization, but that was sooooo 2021, you know.
Seriously, who would you rather have in power — somebody who kept their head under pressure, or somebody who blows with the winds with their peer group? The first is called an adult; the second is called a man- or woman-child.
Unearned Arrogance
But the DSA leadership is being tested already. As their candidates rise in prominence, DSA leaders are being put to the test by, of all people, the midwits in Pravda, and they are coming off looking quite stupid.
By that I don't mean that their ideas are stupid — nobody in Pravda cares much about that, unless it will harm the political prospects of the Democrat Party.
No, I mean the actual people who lead the Democratic Socialists of America. To say they have the political sophistication and depth of college sophomores at a third-rate college is being far too kind to them. These people are STUPID. Midwits have IQs around 115-120, which makes them above average in language fluidity. They are not so much stupid as sufferers of the Dunning-Kruger effect; they think they are smarter and wiser than they are, and will never be smart enough to realize they barely understand complicated topics.
