In response to this kind of nonsense:
My own personal policy is that if someone, anyone, starts shooting at me from the street when I’m sitting peaceably on my porch, I return fire, with interest (a.k.a. “massive retaliation”).
And just in case I haven’t been clear enough: I don’t own a stupid paintball gun.
I can’t see it happening in Texas, mind you, mostly because I believe that more than a few Texans are of similar inclination. And our cops aren’t that stupid. (“You want us to do whut?”)
Here’s the background to the quote below.
This is as true in the U.S. as it is in the U.K.
“It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are ruled by people who fear the anger of the masses following acts of inhumanity more than they do the acts of inhumanity themselves.”
Note the overreaction of the political class to the theater of Jan 6, 2020. If what’s happening in the U.K. now were to happen in the U.S., there’s no telling how they’d react.
Oh wait; something like that did happen, when the Antifa/BLM riots leveled whole areas of various cities and anarchy became the order of the day in places like Portland and NYC.
But those riots were virtuous riots, you see, riots that were actually supported by the ruling- and media elites. If ever there’s a furious backlash by conservatives against — oh I don’t know, say massive and palpable vote fraud by the socialists which prevents Donald Trump from winning the November 2024 election — you can be damn sure that the Marines will be mobilized, posse comitatus be damned.
This is going to be interesting.
…or rather, out. Reader Brad (who lives there) sends me these headlines from Illinois:
“But where,” you may ask, “is Headline #1?”
Well, you see, it deserves a place all by itself, because #2-5 are just the causes and consequences of #1. So here it is:
More than 87,000 people moved out of Illinois taking with them nearly $10 billion in income, according to the latest Internal Revenue Service data. For the last six years, the total lost adjusted gross income is more than $47.5 billion.
While 14,486 people moved to Illinois from California in 2022, bringing with them $1.5 billion in income, the latest IRS data shows 31,600 of those who left Illinois went to Florida, taking with them $4.1 billion dollars.
Total lost income out of Illinois because of outmigration was $9.8 billion in 2022. Last year’s IRS migration report found 105,000 fewer individuals, taking with them $10.6 billion. The year before that, nearly 101,000 people left Illinois, taking with them $8.5 billion.
That’s the ticket, folks: leave the poxy place and starve the bastards out.
Just remember, when you get to Florida, Texas etc., exactly why you bailed; and don’t vote for the same shit — that would be socialist politicians — in your new place.
Adding to the panic-stricken voices of the Left Over Here, FrogPres “Manny” Macron weighs in:
Emmanuel Macron has warned the public that “civil war” awaits France if they fail to vote for his brand of centrist neo-liberalism in the upcoming legislative elections.
I guess it should be noted that while we Murkins had our own little shindig just before the Frogs had theirs, we are (as a nation) less likely to repeat the exercise — although I may stand to be corrected, if the 2024 elections are of a certain type.
The Frogs, however, are a lot more volatile, as I’ve mentioned before.
Mind you, that’s not to say that the French governments of recent times haven’t earned such a shitstorm, as the popularity of the National Rally has proved. But then again, our own .gov hasn’t exactly earned the respect of the populace either, so…
All this, however, takes place in an environment in which the Brits seem most likely to be about to commit national hara-kiri themselves, by tossing out (on, ironically, July 4) their own Stupid Party (the not-so-Conservatives) and replacing them with the reliably-Communist Labour Party. But I digress.
Back to the French: the 1789 Revolution took place against a political and social order which was manifestly unjust and in many cases actually malevolent, wherein an unelected power elite (the Royalty and Church) ran the country at the expense of ordinary people.
It remains to be seen, then, whether the French will revolt against their government again, for precisely the same reasons — only instead of the Royalty being the villains, there is the European Union (only nominally elected by the French citizenry) and instead of the Church, the multiple “religions” of socialist and Green policies. It sounds like a facile comparison, but clearly it’s enough to frighten Macron, which is why he’s sounding the alarm.
And finally: after our Revolution, we didn’t hack off the heads of the deposed ruling class, but the Frogs sure as hell did.
So maybe Macron and his lizard people have a right to be fearful.
It’s going to be interesting — in both countries.
Here’s a story which is quite heartening:
The people in question are with the American Accountability Foundation in Kentucky, and they are busily engaged in a project that I’ve been hoping to see all throughout the current presidential campaign. Tom Jones of the AAF received a $100,000 grant from the Heritage Foundation to do some important research work. They are poring through the backgrounds of federal workers, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. They are checking public comments and social media posts, looking for swamp dwellers who may be opposed to the policies of Donald Trump should he return to office next year. They plan to publish a list of as many as 100 names later this summer, and those people may have to rethink their future career prospects if Trump returns to the White House.
There are, however, a couple of things which make me do a Lemon Face. Firstly, while “accountability” is all well and good, what I’d really like to see is some kind of awful consequences for the disloyal (and perhaps criminal and treasonous both) government stooges, especially those who proudly proclaimed that they were doing their best to undermine the Republican administration.
I’ve always said that the State Department implements the foreign policy of the Democratic Party, regardless of which party is in power. It’s a mordant comment, good for an amused smile, perhaps.
The time for that accommodation is over, or should be.
Just as Trump came to power in 2016 with a pre-vetted list of federal judges ready to be nominated and sworn in, I want him to arrive in the Oval Office in 2025 with a similar list of judges, to be sure — but with another list of Swamp apparatchiks who need, at best to lose their jobs, but preferably with some kind of legal censure — e.g. prosecution — and not just the prospect of losing their little place at the poxy government trough.
That little totalitarian cocksucker Anthony Fauci, for example, needs to spend his last years on earth in some dank federal prison for causing — and admitting he caused — untold harm to American society by his actions as a federal employee. And he’s just the most egregious example. There are a lot more than “100 names” who need to be kicked out of government and punished for their disgusting behavior. Losing one’s job is a pointless “punishment” if all it means is a well-paid talking-head job on NBC or any of the other alphabet soup socialist-supporting media companies. These bastards need to be punished. At the very least, they should forfeit their government pensions: they abused their positions, and don’t deserve to reap any benefits.
I know, I know: this is not a good precedent to set because it will make people leery of working on government. That, my friends, is a feature and not a bug.
What I’d like to see in Trump’s very first week as POTUS is a head-of-state summit with Argentina’s Javier Milei, both as an amicable confirmation of shared principle, and an exchange of ideas as to implementation of policy.
It appears that the Socialists — people like Kathy Griffin, Joy Behar and Rachel Maddow — are scurrying around like frightened mice at the prospect of Trump throwing people in jail when he comes to power. I would advise Trump and his advisors to do precisely that; just not to waste time with irrelevant nonentities like the above harpies, but to get serious with the actual bad agents like James Clapper, the entire upper management of the Justice Department and the Pentagon, and the authors of this document — for starters. The State Department, EPA and so on can wait until Year Two of the 47th President’s term.
We don’t need an accounting; we demand a reckoning.
…news from Amazon:
Well now: considering that the CEO of GrubHub has publicly stated that Trump supporters/MAGA types need not bother applying for positions at his company, I think it’s only fair that this Trump supporter/MAGA type refuses to do business with his poxy company, ever. Even if it’s free.
