March 15, 2026
Chicom Funding Anti-Energy Lawsuits
Timothy Birdnow
Of course they are.
FTA:
The Pelican Institute For Public Policy published a report outlining the institutional barriers preventing Louisiana from developing its energy industry. Earthjustice, an environmental law organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, receives millions of dollars in funding from a non-profit organization with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) connections, according to the Pelican Institute.
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And they aren't the only ones. This sort of lobbying by a foreign power is illegal, I'm pretty sure. If not it should be.
George Soros also has a big hand in this, naturally, and so does Michael Bloomberg, former "republican" mayor of New York City and notorious busybody.
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Trump Restarts California Oil - Newsom Vows to Resist
Timothy Birdnow
President Trump is using an old Cold War law to force California to restart oil and gas drilling at offshore sites.
Naturally, Gavin Newsom vows to resist at all cost. Just because gas is over five bucks a gallon in California doesn't mean he isn't going to stop anyone from obtaining more energy.
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Big Bucks so Catholic Charities could Facilitate the Invasion of Illegals
Timothy Birdnow
I am a Catholic but this makes me want the Church to lose it's tax exempt status:
Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952
Remember when Southwest Key, Catholic Charities USA, and Endeavors, all non profit organizations, received about $5.6 billion of tax payer money under Biden from 2021-2024 to help facilitate illegal immigration?
Their CEOs made millions of dollars in salaries and most of their executives made $600-700k salaries annually each, all funded by you and yours so they could relocate illegal aliens all over the country.
Lots of people got rich off of our money to ensure the establishment never loses again.
Now our legislature is refusing to pass the SAVE Act… I wonder why?
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Top NGO recipients of your tax dollars:
Catholic Charities USA - $1.4B
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service - $180M+
Endeavors - $1.18B
Southwest Key - $3B
USCRI - $1.1B
Some grew their budgets 10x in just 2 years.
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Stationary News Cycle
Timothy Birdnow
Andrew Clark
@AndrewHClark
In 72 hours we went from:
Trump never expected the possibility of Hormuz closing,
To:
Trump was briefed Hormuz could close but riskily did it anyway,
To:
Trump bombed Kharg Island but it likely won’t force Iran to open the Strait
To:
Iran opened the Strait
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Kilmead Tries to Get Trump to Spill Secrets
Timothy Birdnow
"Yeah, but, Brian, I can’t answer a question like that. And you shouldn’t ask it. You shouldn’t even be asking it. It’s one of so many different things. It’s not high on the list, but it’s one of so many different things. And I can change my mind in seconds, but, you know, for you to ask the question, who would answer a question like that? You’re asking me a question. Kharg Island. Who would ask a question like that, and what fool would answer it? Let’s say I was gonna do it or I wasn’t gonna do it, what would I tell you? ‘Oh, yes, Brian, I’m thinking about doing it. Let me let you know what time and when it will take place.’ It’s not, you know, it’s sort of a foolish question. A little surprising for you because you’re a smart man,”
Donald J. Trump when asked by Fox host Brian Kilmead if he was thinking of taking Kharg Island.
I've long said Kilmead is an intellectual lightweight and it shows with stupid questions like that. OF COURSE Trump can't tell him his war strategy. Who does Kilmead think Trump is? George W. Bush?
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All the Soros of the World
Timothy Birdnow
How did the anti-war kooks get out so fast after we attacked Iran? You know who was at the center of that.
Soros has been funneling big bucks to these radical groups - like ANSWER and the old Clinton-era Moron.ogr, er, Moveon.org.
It's worth a read.
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March 13, 2026
About the Public Trust
Timothy Birdnow
Carlos Velazquez forwards this paper discussing the crucial role of trust in a democratic republic like ours and how it is being eroded in the modern age - and how that is an existential threat to the belief of the citizenry in the governing structure of our nation.
The author is absolutely correct, but he doesn't go far enough.
At the outset of 2019 the Democrats were in a demoralized state; everything they had thrown against Trump had failed and they were desperate to regain power. The only way they could, as they saw it, was to change the rules.
They did this by using the pandemic, which they blew up way beyond the degree of seriousness it deserved in order to justify those rule changes. They closed their own states, thus damaging the economy in the process, then blamed Trump. But the real goal was to get the rule changes in place.
The rejection of mail in voting WAS a bipartisan issue for a long time; after the election of 2000 the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission warned mail in voting was ripe for fraud. The Democrats basically took their report and used it as a blueprint on how to steal the election of 2020, and with a complicit media they pulled off a true coup against the Trump Administration, then pursued Mr. Trump and anyone who challenged the election results with the full force of law. The FBI was spying on people who suggested the election was stolen. Places like New York or Atlanta brought charges against Trump aids (like Rudy Giulliani) in kangaroo courts to suppress evidence of fraud.
I could go on but the point is that this was always intended to steal elections just as letting in millions of illegal aliens served that purpose.
As the authors says, this had led to an erosion in trust, and trust is what makes a democratic republic function. As John Adams stressed "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". Yet so many Americans have highly immoral and irreligious peoples into office because those individuals offered largesse from the treasury and promised immoral and irreligious things.
So there have been enough Democrats, and they have become ruthless and Macchiavellian enough to purposely try to hide what they were doing, which is rig the game in their own favor. The more ruthless the politician the more they have been rewarded, and so the moderate Democrats are now all gone. Power is all that it has come to matter in politics.
They have been building a Tammany Hall style machine, a Bill Daley machine, in Washington and while much of that is illegal they have hidden it in plain enough sight; they know the media is in the tank for them and will run interference. (One can fairly hear Emperor Palpatine in the form of James Carville shrieking in joy as he murdered Master Windu "Unlimited Power!" from Star Wars III.)
But of course this is an end-game thing; it has destroyed the public trust in the fairness of elections, and in time that could rent the whole republic asunder.
So now the Republicans want to require voter i.d., a very modest proposal that all other countries on Earth require and the Democrats are fighting this tooth-and-nail. They argue minorities are too stupid to be able to get an i.d. card! I suspect everyone knows this is a canard, which is why the blacks and latinos aren't angry like they would be at Republicans if they were to make such an argument, but it is a testament to how far this nation's moral and spiritual center has imploded.
We desperately need the SAVE America act.
When the Founders established this country it took days for information to travel across a state, much less the country, and so elections were left to the individual states. The Founders could never have anticipated the rise of electronic communications and mechanized travel and how that would give an empire to the media. That empire has outpaced the checks and balances put in place by the Founders. Political parties can subvert the vote through carefully coordinated efforts that are only possible with modern technology. The only way to restore balance is to prevent them from cheating at the local and state levels by putting in minimal standards.
(Vote Fraud has always been an issue. There were reports of massive cheating in the election of 1864 for instance. And the election of 1960 was clearly stolen by Kennedy. But it has never been so easy to do and easy to hide as now.)
The fact is the Federal government has long imposed minimal rules and standards on states.
We used to have a national speed limit, for instance. We have a national drinking age. We have a national tax. We have national food and drug safety standards. We have standards in how we deal with minorities. We have standards that deal with the treatment of the handicapped. We have air pollution standards. We have limitations on who can be medical doctors, or airline pilots. Yet we have zero standards with how we handle our most important civic function.
It's insane, but it's a conscious policy. And as our moral center has disappeared it seems many Americans just don't care.
In the end if we do not restore public confidence in our electoral system we will continue the division in this country until we come to civil war. It's the inevitable outcome of a system where power is all that matters and different sides are willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it. Setting voting standards to restore public trust is absolutely vital to keeping America from tearing herself apart.
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Churchill to be Replaced by Animal
Timothy Birdnow
Britain is planning to erase Winston Churchill; they are going to replace his image on banknotes with a picture of a beaver.
And not just Churchill and not just with beavers; the Bank of England wants to replace all of the great historical people represented on British currency with wildlife.
They claim they took a poll. I'm sure they did - polling leftists to get that conclusion. I have to hope that is the case because otherwise the nation itself is completely gone, every one of them.
The United Kingdom has fallen. It is now become a farse.
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Land Stealing Shapiro
Timothy Birdnow
Democrats are all corrupt. It's in their genes.
"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s neighbors are suing the Democrat, accusing him of stealing a slice of their land to erect an eight-foot-high security fence around his private residence in an ‘outrageous abuse of power,’” reports the New York Post. "The neighbors, Jeremy and Simone Mock, are currently duking it out with the governor in court over a 2,900 square foot parcel of land located between their two homes in Abington, Montgomery County, court papers show.”
It gets worse. Shapiro is essentially claiming squatter’s rights on the land.
The Mocks alleged in a lawsuit filed last month that Shapiro and his wife, Lori, unlawfully seized the stretch of land after initial negotiations to buy it from them went up in flames.
Shapiro claimed in a countersuit that he owns the disputed land due, citing an "adverse possession” loophole that makes it his because he has maintained the sliver of property for decades.
The land-grab tit-for-tat kicked off last year when the Shapiros first sought to erect the huge fence and upgrade security following an arson attack on the governor’s official residence in Harrisburg while they were all sleeping inside on April 13.
"This is a case of squatters’ rights, which is the colloquial term for the legal doctrine known as adverse possession," attorney Chad Cummings told Realtor.com. "Where a person continuously maintains possession of another’s property openly, visibly, and notoriously for a set period of time, which varies by state, the squatter can file a court action to ask the court to recognize the squatter—the 'adverse possessor'—as the legal owner through a quiet title action.”
This isn't undeveloped rural land. Shapiro claims he maintained it but that is not enough to allow him to seize it by adverse possession.
There are two elements that must be present for adverse possession - the squatter must occupy the land "openly" and "notoriously". His occupation must be clearly visible and it must be known by the community and the owner. Cutting the grass on a patch of land does not constitute this. If he were to build stuff on the land it would.
It generally requires seven years to implement "squatter's rights" on a property.
I own land in the Ozarks and my property is land-locked, meaning it does not touch a road. I have access via an easement - by law the owners of the land along the road have to give me ingress and egress. I've used the little road I've cut through the woods for twenty years now but it would in no way grant me possession via adverse possession; I never built anything on the access road. Had I paved it, or even put down gravel, it might be different (I'd have to look that up) but I can't take it even though I have labored to build the little road and maintain it because I did not "openly and notoriously" claim possession by major improvements to the land.
I'm not worried; as I say by now I have a legal easement. In fact the state of Missouri built me a little on-ramp to the state highway on the owner's property (which only improved it for him). And the owner is apparently a very old man in a retirement home who has no interest in the property at all (I would like to buy it from him but doubt he's up for selling it.) Of course, that was a few years ago when I found out who actually owned the shaggy woodland; it may have sold by now. I'm always receiving offers to buy my property, and the offers have gone up in price over the years. If I hold onto it I will probably make out very well. Taxes are still ridiculously cheap on it so why sell? And my trees keep growing; white oak, red oak, all timber that will bring a good price should I decide to harvest it. I'll make more from harvesting timber than I would for selling - which is why people want the property in the first place.
But to get back to the subject at hand, all these oh-so-loving Democrats will steal the milk money from a baby's poor mother if it is in their interest to do so. Shapiro shows he is no different here.
And despite this case not yet being settled Shappiro ordered State Police to patrol the disputed land, and they kicked the rightful owners off of it.
And he has landscaped the property and flies drones over it to make sure his neighbors don't set foot on it.
Oh, and then there is this:
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
PA Democrat Gov Josh Shapiro wants to build a security wall around his house…. But promised to sue if Trump built a border wall!
Funny how Democrats zealously patrol their own property but won't patrol the United States. Shapiro is using the State Police as his personal version of ICE.
Republicans should push a bill to defund the state cops for the same reasons that guys like old Josh want to defund our border agents.
At any rate the guy may talk a good game but in the end he's a self-seeking scoundrel like every other Democrat in these modern times.
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Stupid Kid Makes Good
Timothy Birdnow
Look at the corruption of Gavin Newsom!
Despite his low SAT scores and his inability to read and write he sure seems to understand a ledger.
According to Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Mag:
Gov. Gavin Newsom had helped set up a state government agency for his wife and then a quasi-government non-profit to which he has directed millions of dollars which in turn helped promote yet another non-profit that puts millions of dollars in the pockets of the Newsoms.
That convoluted arrangement may explain why Newsom won’t turn over his tax returns.
Gov. Newsom promised to be the first California governor to release his tax returns every year, but media outlets have been grumbling that the last time he released a tax return was quite a few years ago when he was legally required to because he was running for reelection.
The questions got louder when he bought a $9 million house in addition to their $6 million house. The new 5,609 square foot estate comes with a spa, sculptures and Brazilian decks, and was bought from a member of the billionaire Pritzker clan, who have been one of Newsom’s major donors, and carries a $6.5 million mortgage with $600,000 in annual payments plus over $100,000 in property taxes. Some have been asking where all that money was coming from.
This may only be the tip of the iceberg considering that in 2019, the Newsoms had paid their household staff $288,000 alone. Assuming that the staffing costs have kept pace, California’s first family should be looking at very some very huge bills to maintain their outrageous lifestyle.
Not bad for an ignoramous! In fact, I would say stupid kid makes good.
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Iran 's Huge Arsenal
Timothy Birdnow
This shows just how well-armed the Iranians were before the opening of hostilities.
These weapons were all courtesy of Iran.
Iran was like a spider in a web of hatred aimed at Israel, and eventually they would have pulled the trigger at a time of their own choosing.
Meanwhile Iran continues to attack shipping not just in the area of Hormuz but elsewhere, and it just released photos of Kamikaze drones in it's arsenal, drones it says will paralyze shipping in the whole Middle East.
The whole nation was essentially an armed camp.
So for those who think we could have continued to ignore them and kick this can down the road, the very fact that they were so militarized (thanks in no small part to Obama and Biden giving rhem huge sums of cash) should disabuse you of that notion. This is a nation planning on a foreign war from the beginning.
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Swalwell Does Not Live in California
Timothy Birdnow
Eric "Gang Bang Fang Fang" Spits, er, Swallows doesn't even live in California despite running for Governor of the state.
Seems the point man in the Trump Jihad rents a single room from a family in California to give himself a mailing address; his principle residence is in D.C. and he lives in luxury hotels when in California.
By law he is required to have five years of full-time residency in the Yellow State. He clearly isn't qualified to hold office there.
But of course removing him from the ballot is nigh unto impossible with the Democrats solidly in charge there.
Still, one must hope the voters see this and decide not to reward such behavior. Don't hold your breath on that one.
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And the Beat Goes On
Timothy Birdnow
It seems no matter how much we do, how much we win. who we put in office this stuff just keeps coming.
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The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is promoting his investigation of a leftist group that received massive amounts of taxpayer dollars from the Biden administration to help illegal immigrants while omitting that the Trump administration kept the cash flowing. In fact, a $200 million program that gives illegal alien minors free lawyers was briefly cancelled and quietly reinstated by the Trump administration within days, though there is no mention of the abrupt about face in the probe announced last week by Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, a former collegiate wrestling champion serving his tenth term in the House.
Shortly after President Trump issued an executive order, back in mid-February 2025, ensuring taxpayer resources are used to protect the interest of American citizens and not to incentivize or support illegal immigration, the $200 million allocation for migrant kids got axed. The money was going to the same leftwing nonprofit that Jordan’s committee is investigating, though the veteran lawmaker’s new audit only mentions that it is focusing on how the open borders group has spent hundreds of millions of dollars awarded under Biden-Harris. The target is the Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington D.C. nonprofit that partners with a national network of human rights defenders to provide legal defense to immigrants at risk of detention or deportation. "Acacia envisions a nation with a transformed immigration system that embodies freedom from detention, due process, and equal protection, where every person facing the prospect of exile and community separation has access to meaningful legal defense,” the group writes on its website, which assures its network of attorneys fight for all immigrants regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race or previous interaction with the criminal system.
So why did the Trump Administration quietly reinstate this program? This money was restored within days of Trump's E.O. and no explanation was given for it.
Why aren't the Republicans raising hell about THAT? We understand our enemies will screw us, but our champions? Our so-called "friends"?
This is the problem we have long faced; we are stuck with a bunch of Quislings, Republicans who don't want to rock the boat and who want to enjoy the fruits of being in power but not bear the responsibilities that go with that. And we dare not get rid of the squishes because we could lose the seat to the Democrats, so people like Mitch McConnell stay in office year after year and work with the Democrats, make a big show of being "bipartisan" when that is not what the voting base wants. We are alienated from our own party but we dare not turn these clowns out because we fear the alternative worse.
That is why the GOP does not really want to become a solid majority party. They stay in power because of the knife-edge political balance. I suspect the Democrats play this game too in their own way, especially the older ones; the new base, the radicals like AOC or Ilhan Omar or Jasmine Crockett don't, and their grievance is much like our own. But they definitely hold more sway in their party than MAGA does in the GOP, even though MAGA IS the base of the GOP whereas the radicals are still a minority in the Democrats but constitute the "base" because the older Democrats are a sclerotic lot and have nothing to offer the younger generation.
At any rate we are beset upon on all sides by cowards and traitors and noses covered in media backside waste.
Until we stop funding our own demise we will never see the restoration of America. And this President is the last best hope for our cause. I realize he can't be everywhere at all times, but he needs to be brutal when his own policies are undercut by underlings. Whoever made this decision needs to not only be fired but be tarred and feathered.
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Iran Froze Citizen's Bank Accounts
Timothy Birdnow
Hmm. The Administration's attacks on Iran focused on their banking infrastructure and the Iranian regime has frozen all the bank accounts of its citizens.
As the author of this American Thinker piece points out, this is a sign the Iranian government is on the verge of collapse. They are stealing the money of the citizens in a desperate bid to hold onto power.
Hre are a few snippets from the article:
Joe Truzman
@JoeTruzmanThis morning, hundreds of thousands of Iranians woke up to frozen bank accounts. Customers of Bank Sepah and Bank Melli got an SMS saying their accounts were locked,@NarimanGharibposted on X. The banks' websites and service channels are blocked, and it's not possible to log into accounts at all.
The regime is calling this a "Central Bank technical upgrade to communication switches for network stability," he wrote.
This is almost certainly the regime freezing enormous sums of money taken directly from its own citizens to ensure its survival. Iranians are being robbed blind by their own government as it clings to power.
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This is when people become truly desperate. This is when they rise up and fight.
It’s true that, because there is no Second Amendment in Iran, the citizens have no guns with which to fight the tyranny that has oppressed them for so long. However, it’s worth remembering that one of the worst battles the Nazis experienced during WWII was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, fought against a band of starving, unarmed Jews, who nevertheless made do with what they had. When people have nothing left to lose, they fight like there’s no tomorrow, because, for most, there isn’t.
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, although it hurt the Nazis badly, ended up worse for the Jews. The few survivors died in the camps. If Trump doesn’t go wobbly, though, it won’t end up that way for the Iranian people. The mullahs are already on the ropes, and the Israelis are using drones that have pinpoint accuracy to destroy individual IRGC checkpoints on Iran’s streets, so that the IRGC cannot prevent people from protesting:
This after airstrikes on the data centers for Bank Sepah, which handles payroll for the IRGC/military forces.
If Trump doesn't go wobbly, as the author keeps pointing out, this thing will end with Iran's regime falling. When the Iranians get hungry enough they will lose the fear that the murder of 30-40 thousand of their fellow citizens has instilled in them and that will be the end for the Mullahs.
We need to be getting weapons to them now.
At any rate if you want to understand any issue you follow the money, and the money in Iran is moving in such a way as to illustrate the regime is in big trouble there - or what is left of the regime.
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March 11, 2026
Dems Give Away Their True Intent
Timothy Birdnow
Why is he afraid of ICE near polling sites? This comment gives away the whole game:
"I won't go through all of the demands, much of which we've talked about repeatedly in the public, but one of those demands is, keep ICE out of sensitive locations. And we've defined that as schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and polling sites.”
Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries
by the by, he wasn't unhappy when Don Lemon and a bunch of anti-ICE terrorists invaded a house of worship and held the congregation hostage while telling their children their parents were going to Hell. He wouldn't denounce THAT but he refuses to let ICE near "houses of worship" now. Oh, and what constitutes a house of worship? That can be anything, any place where people gather to pray. So basically ICE will be allowed to go nowhere.
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From the Bottomless Pit
Timothy Birdnow
Maybe America should require kids to live overseas for a year or so in a socialist country, like Mormons require a year of missionary work for all of their kids.
From the article:
In January 2009, when the U.S. economy was mired in the Great Recession, 23 percent of respondents said they believed that would be a "good thing” versus 65 percent who said that would be a "bad thing.”
By July 2010, the portion of registered voters who considered a transition from capitalism to socialism a "good thing” reached an all-time low of 18 percent, while those who considered more socialism a "bad thing” reached an all-time high of 69 percent.
Today, 38 percent of Americans, more than double the number in 2010, think it would be a "good thing” for the United States to move away from capitalism and more toward socialism.
Unsurprisingly, America’s disaffected youth is leading the socialist charge. Incredibly, 53 percent of all voters under 30, and 66 percent of Democrats under 45, want less capitalism and more socialism.
Among all Democrats, a solid majority of 55 percent champion more socialism in America.
The article rightly pins the blame for this on public schools which are now completely in the tank for socialism and fight fiercely any notion of private property or ownership of the means of production by individuals. And of course they do not teach the history of socialism and how it wrings out and impoverishes any society foolish enough to adopt it. Oh, and they never, ever teach that National Socialism was a socialist state.
As Witney Houston so cloyingly but accurately stated "the children are our future" or, as has been attributed to St. Ignacious of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits "Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man." the reality is we have lost the children, and that by design of the Left, who have taken our children away and controlled their environment so as to set in false teachings. This acceptance of socialism is proof that we have lost the younger generation and that is very, very bad because they ARE the future and the precious thing we gifted them - freedom and free enterprise - will be lost in the fiction of a socialist worker's paradise.
And the truly sad thing is that these kids are living better than the most opulent kings of the past. They have everything their little spoiled hearts desire materially. The food is better, they have insane creature comforts (like air conditioning and heat, cold beverages, ice cubes, televisions and computers and smart phones) and they have to work less than anyone in history. They have more square footage to live in than most people in history, and their homes are far more comfortable. Food is cheap compared to the past. They have the best healthcare in human history, and it is cheap compared to what people of the past had to pay when they got sick. Medicines are better. And they are free to leave any job they do not like, and if they lose a job they have unemployment benefits to tide them over. Their parents will be cared for without them if need be.
All of this bounty cometh from capitalism.
Socialism takes what capitalism made and squanders it by giving it to those who did not produce it and who do not value it. People stop making stuff, doing stuff, because your labor is for others and not yourself.
They wrongly conflate democratic socialism and the welfare state and point to places like Sweden as proof democratic socialism works. Not so; Sweden is a very corporate friendly place, in many ways more friendly than the capitalist United States. Corporate taxes are quite low, for instance. And the reality is these places with a huge welfare state are now running down just as Margaret Thatcher said socialism would do "the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money". Few Scandinavians actually start or run their own businesses; they are too lazy, to seduced by the ease of the social safety hammock. That is why places like Sweden are now suffering from all sorts of problems caused by mass immigration; they brought in people to do everything for them and now those people do not see any reason why they shouldn't just take over. That's what happens when you care more for comfort and ease than actually doing anything.
But the youths don't understand this and in fact couldn't define either capitalism or socialism. Socialism is government ownership or control of the means of production. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy both called themselves socialist and rightly so; they didn't outright own all the corporations as in Communist countries but they had complete control over them and the "owners" were mere caretakers. In fact the Communists understood this and were quite approving of Fascism in the early days "first Brown then Red" was their saying; they saw Fascism as the interim state between capitalism and socialism.
I hate the term Capitalism, which was used by Marx as a pejorative and it was in fact coined by socialists. Free markets is better. I would argue that "Capitalism" is not an ism at all; it is the natural state of Man, what he would do if left unmolested. The earliest cave men undoubtedly traded - you give me that spear and I'll give you this fish. That was essentially Capitalism. Freedom to trade as you please. But it's always been under attack by someone who didn't want to have to make or find something to trade. Governments in particular like to steal wealth for their own use and so have long regulated and restricted freedom of trade for their own benefit. Socialism is but the final stage of that.
The actual concept of Socialism as a defined ism goes back to Jean Jacques Rousseau, who advocated it in The Social Contract. Rousseau believed in the Collective Will, a radical democratic notion that what the People want they have a right to take. Interestingly enough Rousseau also invented Fascism at the same time, arguing that Christianity sucked and what was needed was a new religion where the People are god and the State is the Holy Mother Church. The primary difference between Fascism and Socialism is in the religious/spiritual aspects (Socialism makes a god of economic determinism without actually pretending to spirituality) while Fascism deifies the Collective Will. But both ships are sailing in the same direction - placing government at the pinnacle of power over the individual and a totalitarianism, which Mussolini defined as "everything within the state, nothing outside the state". Mussolni wanted a society that was intimately involved in every aspect of life.
That is socialism in a nutshell; a world where society is up in everyone's business no matter the topic. So people who want to do unusual things can't, be it pray the Rosary or dress up as animals for sex; if it isn't approved by the current crop of leaders it is unlawful. Socialism homogenizes everything, turns life into a gray paste. Despite it's appeal to those on the margins in the end it will crush them because nobody dare oppose the Will of the god of the socialist society.
These young dumb kids know nothing of any of this. They just think it is more "fair" as if anything in life is fair.
Their problem is a moral and spiritual vacuum that has left them hungry for something more. The very fact they have a concept of "fair" shows they know there must be more than what they find in this world, and yet they have been told repeatedly there is no God and the material is all. They know this is wrong but having not been allowed to learn anything else they are doing exactly what those who have taught them intended - making a god of Socialism and worshipping that. As has been attributed to Chesterton "when you stop believing in God you will believe in anything" and these kids never actually believed in God in the first place because they were told all their lives God was a superstition, a very dangerous superstition that hurt people and was a huge buzz kill. So in the yawning chasm of their souls a new, strange god has now entered. They have believed it.
Turning this around will be nearly impossible. The only way it could happen is if the young generation suffer horribly to make them question their most fundamental assumptions.
I fear this is not just a bad omen but a horrendous omen. Our society has prospered because we honored God.
Granted, many young people have been swept up in a religious revival and are finding what they need to fill that void in their souls. But many more of them have not and it will be hard to turn them from what they have been taught as children.
All of the political victories, all of the tent revivals, all of that stuff is destined to fail ultimately as our society collapses under the weight of this religious belief in Socialism and nihilism.
At any rate that doesn't mean we don't try. If we can keep America alive for a generation or two past it's expiration date that would be a tremendous victory - so much suffering averted for a time. And we can keep the seeds alive for the future, after the wave of Socialism destroys the nation and then shows it's true face. And who knows? Maybe we'll succeed after all.
It's worth a try.
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Starbucks Leaving Washington
Timothy Birdnow
Starbucks is fleeing Washington State after an insane tax was imposed.
The Founder and CEO of the overpriced coffee house is moving to, drumroll please...Florida where he won't pay any income tax and will get out of the miserable weather. And his company is moving to Nashville where it will try it's best to turn the red state of Tennessee blue.
This is the inevitable outcome of liberalism. Yet I doubt Schultz realizes that and he will probably remain a lifelong Democrat, polluting the good state of Florida and ruining Tennessee along with it.
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Seattle Wasted So Much Money on Anti-Ice Signs it Can't Fix the Roads
Timothy Birdnow
Not only is Seattle wasting taxpayer money paying for anit-ICE signs but it will likely delay important road work an neglect transportation needs to fund the illegal opposition to law enforcement by the Trump Administration.
Seattle DOT has made thousands of signs informing ICE it is unwelcome and may not step on any state or local property and the cost was so high it is defunding road projects.
The Seattle Department of Safety stated in a fiscal memo:
"To the extent that appropriations made in the 2026 Adopted Budget support other activities, and for which SDOT cannot find efficiencies / savings to otherwise support, SDOT may have to delay or defer projects or programs to free up funding for the signage costs that will be incurred pursuant to this legislation. Cost for signage is indeterminate at this point as FAS has not yet completed a review of all the properties that would be covered by this legislation.”
So it is apparently more important that the good city of Seattle screw over America and the Trump Administration than it is to make it possible for it's residents to move about freely. This is their value; protect people who have broken the law over doing what it was actually elected to do.
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The Last Days of Great Britain
Timothy Birdnow
Gee, I wonder why?
Britain is now solidly under Sharia and the Kaffirs who are still there are now being subjected to murder and assault as they are in every country where Islam gains a solid toehold.
Official statistics say that in England and Wales the Muslim population is 6.5% , but that is probably quite low. The fact is whenever Muslim populations reach 10% they impose Sharia and yet we are seeing it there now. And of course London is now 15% Muslim as are a few other cities in the U.K. So we are now seeing Sharia imposed and the "infidels" are being terrorized.
The British response? To put stab wound kits on public conveyance.
Britain is doomed. If I were a Brit I'd seriously think of immigrating somewhere.
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D.C. Bar Goes After Ed Martin
Timothy Birdnow
The D.C. Bar has filed ethics charges against Ed Martin for sending a letter to Georgetown University Law Center demanding an end to DEI practices.
The bar could revoke Martin's law license.
This is but another example of what we are up against; the Left has weaponized the law to the point where if you resist anything they do they will come after you legally and with a vengeance.
Martin, the former interim D.C. District Attorney, whose appointment was spiked by Thom "Up Yours" Tillis, is accused:
The office that polices attorney misconduct in Washington, D.C., has filed ethics charges against Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, after Martin last year sent a threatening letter to the Georgetown University Law Center that raised questions about its diversity and inclusion policies while he was serving as interim U.S. attorney, according to court filings made public Tuesday.
In a Feb. 17 letter to the law school, Martin told university officials that a whistleblower claimed Georgetown was teaching DEI and asked about the practice. Without waiting for a response, he told the school he was imposing sanctions by instructing his office staff not to employ any students from the school as fellows, interns or employees at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C.
In response, the school’s now-former dean, William Treanor, told Martin, who is a devout Catholic, that his letter represented "an attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution.”
In filings made in the D.C. Court of Appeals’ Board on Professional Responsibility dated Friday and made public on Tuesday, Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton "Phil” Fox III of the D.C. Bar alleged that Martin’s conduct as a government official violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution by making demands that the law school change what it teaches students and how it teaches them.
It is long-standing policy that the U.S. government impose it's will on what and how universities teach their students because these institutions take Federal tax dollars and it is established law that this money comes with strings. And of course there is no right to a job after you get out of school, and if the government chooses not to hire graduates from a particular school there is no Constitutional prohibition making this policy illegal. Lord knows the Left has used these tactics repeatedly on the right over the years. It's part of WHY the universities are universally filled with Leftists now; it was "diversity" or die.
So what Martin did was not at all unethical or criminal but the Left will go after him anyway. And even if he wins in court he will have to waste huge amounts of time and money. As they say, the process IS the punishment.
So we are a LONG way from victory as of yet. The radicals are waiting in the wings, ready to reassert themselves as soon as Trump exits the stage. And even now they are going to go after some of the MAGA folks, a foreshadowing of what is to come once they take back power.
The DOJ should open investigations into the D.C. Bar in retaliation. It's sad it has come to this but there has to be tit-for-tat, even if it's not always a clear cut violation. EVERYONE needs to be afraid to use lawfare to their political advantage. Mutual Assured Destruction. It worked with the Soviets and it will work now, provided we have the balls to use it.
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