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June 22, 2026

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?

Timothy Birdnow

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

Democrats thought Fed Chair Kevin Warsh would be a Trump loyalist — his opening move proves he’s nothing of the sort

The article observes:

But Warsh came out swinging against inflation and held rates steady amid persistent inflationary pressures.

I am going to say this again and will until I am blue in the face SPENDING DOES NOT CAUSE INFLATION except in very specific cases and for a short time. Lowering interest rates will not cause inflationary pressure. I don't know how to make this point any plainer.

The concept that spending by consumers causes inflation is straight out of Keynes. It is Demand Side Economics, something disproved time and again by the implementation of Supply Side Economics under Reagan, under Clinton, under Bush, and under Trump.

Demand side economics argues that when consumers ask for more than the market has to supply we have inflation, and the key to controlling inflation is to control spending. But what does that mean? It means no economic growth because people aren't spending enough for the market to actually grow. It is exactly what we mean when we talk about "sustainability" - it is a balancing act whereby we keep demand down and supply just barely meeting that demand. It assumes people are not actual people but mere consumers and they will be satisfied with less if the gods ofc the copybook headings say so.It does not see human beings living their lives but rather an amorphous blob of f"consumers". Control of demand is seen as the key to a healthy economy; too much demand and the economy suffers from inflation.

I remember years ago Rush Limbaugh used to play a Cornpone Southern Democrat named Ernest Hollings complained about people buyng what they wanted "too much consumin' going on!" Hollings fretted over people living their lives.

That's because he and his compatriots were all Keynsians who thought that the market actually gets it wrong and must be managed.

Reality is on the side of the Supply-siders who argue that the market will adjust to demand if you let it and that inflation is in fact a monetary problem, not a consumption problem. Always at it's core there is the Federal Reserve tampering with the money supply. We've seen a rise in inflation recently for instance because the Fed instituted another round of "qualitative easing" meaning they are buying the U.S. debt with money they are printing. That extra money goes into circulation and debases the currency. In the old days this didn't happen because money had to be backed by gold, and later gold and silver.

In fact the big argument at the end of the 19th and early 20th century was about "free silver". The Populist Party made that a central plank of their platform. William Jennings Bryan, the cowardly lion (Bryan was the template L. Frank Baum used for the Cowardly Lion in his novel The Wizard of Oz and the Yellow Brick Road was the Gold Standard) made his fame with his "cross of gold" speech where he said Mankind should not be crucified on a cross of gold". Why was Bryan so jacked up about the gold standard? Because the U.S. government set the price of gold at $20.67 and refused to change it for decades - and that led to deflation of the currency as the demand grew for gold. Gold had become the backing of most currencies around the globe.

Deflation is very destructive. It locks up credit, which hurt farmers who always have to borrow money for new equipment and to buy seed. It hurts factories and manufacturers. It helps bankers who lend money with a value of x and get money back with a value of Y, so the banks get fat and rich and the borrowers get poor. Oh, and workers got pay cuts rather than raises.

So Bryan and the Populists wanted "free silver" aka going to a bi-metallic standard so there would be some inflation. They didn't understand the destructive nature of inflation then as nobody had experienced any outside of wartime. Inflation helps borrowers - you pay less back then you borrow as the money is worth less. But it means rising prices.

The bi-metallic standard would only cause some inflation because silver was worth less than gold, but it still caused inflation because more money was on the market.

The 20th century saw the end of any backing at all for money after Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard for good. Now we have "fiat currency" which is backed by nothing but the good word of the Federal Reserve, who prints all our money. The Fed giveth and the Fed taketh away.

(In theory we have the "petro-dollar" with oil backing our currency but there is no real-world connection between our money and oil - it's just a way of saying our money has value because of how much oil it can buy. Oil is sold based on the U.S. dollar and it's hard if not impossible to buy oil with Rubles or Rupies or Yen. But our currency is not attached to it.

So the fundamental assumptions of the Federal Reserve board and especially the Chairman is critical to how our monetary policy will work and how our economy operates. If Chairmab Warsh is a Keynsian we will see stagnant economic growth and modest but increasing inflation just as we have done under Powell or under Hollerin, er, Yellen, and under the last half dozen Keynsian directors.

Trump has proven in times past to be a bad judge of such things. He appointed Powell after all, and he appointed a lot of guys who screwed him royally, people like Jeff Sessions for AG and then replacing him with Bush loyalist William Barr, both of whom screwed him over. He appointed Christopher Wray to the FBI and Wray went full TDS on his boss, and almost brought the President down. There are many other examples. Trump has a bad tendency to not think ideologically and he gets burned. I fear he may have appointed another Jerome Powell in this instance.

This quote from the cheerleading article spoke volumes:

But if you know Warsh like I do, you also know his background: A longtime Fed governor, academic, investor and thought leader who believes taming inflation is what the Fed should be spending its time doing, not giving forward guidance to markets.

In other words this guy has never done anything outside of the ivory tower and government. Zero. Zip. Nada. the Null set. He is a pure academician who invested some money maybe but has no real practical experience.

Just the kind of guy who would fall for Keynsianism and government interventionism.

BTW the Great Depression is often blamed on "laissez Faire" economics but the reality is the Federal Reserved caused it by pumping up the money supply then suddenly contracting it, shocking the markets. At the same time the Republican President Herbert Hoover was running vast public works programs and spending money like crazy. In fact, Roosevelt ran against him FROM THE RIGHT, arguing Hoover spent too much money on the Depression works programs. The Great Depression was caused by the very things that we now believe fixed it - and are the go-to moves by our government during economic downturns, thus making the "great recession" out of a one-industry correction.

We do not need another academic in such a position. I fear Warsh is going to disappoint us as did Mr. Powell. Trump has GOT to learn to think ideologically and not just look at credentials.

The New York Post writer says Warsh is no tool. Seems to me the author is the tool here. I don't know what Warsh is yet but it doesn't look very promising to me.

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Ace in the Hole

Timothy Birdnow

You gotta love Trump!

Trump threatens U.S. will charge toll fees in Strait of Hormuz if Iran doesn’t execute peace deal

What other President would make that kind of threat? You have to speak their language and Trump knows how to do that.

Yes, that would raise gas prices but what is now happening is other places are ramping up their oil production and when this process is complete the Persian Gulf will not be so important an oil source for the world. U.S. producers, for instance, have been reluctant to ramp up production out of fear of a leftist regime regaining power, but this is incentivizing them to o so. If Iran wants to charge a toll why shouldn't we as well? Then the other countries - Venezuela, Mexico, the U.S. etc. will have broken the backs of OPEC and Gulf oil will become just one more source out of many. The world needs that - Irans one hole card will be gone in due course.

That's what Trump means when he says time is on our side and w hold all the cards. The only problem is, will the American People see that before pulling the rug out from under him?

Btw threatening to impose tolls on the strait is intended to push the Europeans into pressuring Iran. It might work too. Europe is afraid to stand with us now because they let so many Muslims into their countries but the threat of rising oil and gas prices may make them grow a pair of danglies. Their native populations are already restive with high energy prices.

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Sly Fox

Timothy BIrdnow

Proof that Fox News still isn't really on our side. They have refused to run an op-ed by Republican Senator Ron Johnson about the lies told to us by the government over Covid.

Fox News Refuses To Run Sen Ron Johnson’s Op-Ed On Deadly Government Covid Vax Lies

Years ago my father (rest in peace dad!) told me Fox served a purpose to the internationalists/New World Order types by acting as a safety valve to bleed off pressure from the public; they gave us an "alternate view" but stopped short, often diverting attention from what should have been discussed. They would often fixate on stories about crime or other things at critical moments when some stories were exploding. They often diverted discussion on key things. One of those I noticed was the Covid business; they refused to have any dissenting voices on about Covid.

Apparently they are still doing so. I am not sure why.

We've caught them red-handed. This is huge news but Fox still wants to downplay it.

Johnson posted on his X account:

"The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and Fox Digital have all declined or ignored requests to publish this op-ed,”

Why would Fox and the Wall Street Journal (another Rupert Murdoch company) refuse to publish an op-ed by a U.S. Senator?

The coverup continues - and Fox News remains part of it. You must take them with as big a grain of salt as you do the mainstream media. They are more seductive because they are conservative on many issues but then they slip in lies and water them on the sly.

Don't trust ANY mainstream media sources. Use them as tools to see what is happening but always verify.

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Starmer Stumbles and Falls

Timothy Birdnow

Go woke and go choke!

Keir Starmer resigns as British prime minister after devastating Labour revolt and local election losses

Of course this does nothing to remove the Labour party from power, so the next guy will be the same or worse than Starmer. But at least we see some signs of life in Britain. With luck the next general election will see the rise of the party formally known as UKIP and now called Reform Britain or whatever.

Fascist Britain is a dying nation. One hopes that sanity and the Britain of yore will re-emerge.

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Another Nimrod's Tower

Timothy Birdnow

So now Barack Hussein Obama's Presidential Library and House of Pancakes has officially opened to grace the skyline of the most corrupt major city in America. A dark, foreboding tower shaking it's fist at the heartland of America, this monstrosity has taken much heat for being an architectural eyesore. Here is one example of that criticism. It also features a good photo of the great stone phallus symbolically sodomizing the Chicago South Side.

My first thought when seeing it was "Triumph Mosque".

When Muslims conquer a land they would first build a mosque honoring their triumph over the aboriginal inhabitants. That mosque generally included a call to prayer tower - a minaret.

Obama, you may remember, was raised in Indonesia as a Muslim by his Muslim step father. This is what he would think of when he thinks of victory. It is also what he would tell his architect he would like to show.

My second thought was any castle erected after conquering a nation. One of the keys to controlling a conquered people is to make them FEEL conquered, and to do that armies have historically built castles on high ground to remind the conquered peoples that they won and the legitimate rulers lost. You build a big, often ugly building with massive defenses, solid structures, that look imposing and evil, something that says "don't you dare!" to the fallen peoples.

That is precisely what this monstrosity looks like and it is intended to project a psychological thumb in the eyes of the American People "I won, you lost!"

It is an enormous Medieval middle finger to Middle America.

What did anyone expect from Obama? He made his contempt for American values quite plain, and he promised "change" by which he meant the DESTRUCTION of what America had been and the creation of something different, a transmogrification of the beautiful spacious skies and amber waves of grain into a dark and sinister dystopian world. He may not have seen his vision as dystopic but rather as "freeing" as has every tyrant and oppressor, but in the end it's no different than any of the schemes to create paradise on Earth - it lead to entropy and decay and oppression. Hitler, Stalin, any of those who sought to fundamentally change human society have all brought the same.

Take Genghis Khan. What is often not mentioned about the bloodthirsty conqueror was that he thought he was doing the work for his god, and he thought he was going to conquer all Mankind in order to save it. As he was on a religious crusade he was absolutely determined and relentless. No quarter was given to anyone who opposed him, and one of his favorite things to do was confine his enemies in a box and then seat himself on top of it for a feast while they slowly suffocated to death. Nice guy.

But in many ways he is much like a modern liberal, and we don't even know how many he murdered, or how much suffering he caused. Certainly Russia was formed by his kindred; it was actually more advanced and enlightened than Western Europe prior to the coming of the Golden Horde. Ukraine - one of the great lights of Europe, was reduced to a wasteland and kept that way by the Mongols for centuries. It's why Moscow - a good vassal to the Mongols - became =the ruling power in the region and not Kiev. In fact the name Ukraine is Russian for "the Borderland". It ws nothing but a waste.

Al because Genghis Khan worshipped a false god and wanted to impose that god on all Mankind.

At any rate Obama has much the same philosophy. Whether he worships Allah or the God of Rousseau, Marx, and Lenin is unclear, but he worships a dark god nonetheless and he seeks not to persuade but to conquer. And certainly he deserves a arch de triumph. That is what his "library" is all about.

It's his victory mosque, his medieval castle, his victory dance on the graves of his foes. One can see him feasting on top of his enemies as they die, much as Genghis Khan had done. And it is an eyesore on purpose (as is almost all modern art) to show that he has won and thus free to offend and insult everyone. Modern art is all about insulting and offending and not about much else. It is the ultimate FU to the public.

But in the end all the dark towers will fall one way or another, just as Nimrod's dark tower fell at Babel. Obama is another Nimrod.

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June 21, 2026

Apologies for no Blogging

Dear readers,

I am sorry I didn't get anything up for you today. It was raining outside and I think that is why my back pain came roaring back today. I pretty much had to stay in the easy chair and keep it stretched out.

I will see that orthopedist in a few weeks; hopefully he'll do something to fix this. I have suffered excruciating pain for weeks now and physical therapy isn't helping much.

I've been taking Advil i n addition to another NSAID - something I'm not supposed to be taking but what can you do? Tylenol is worthless for anything other than a mild tension headache.

So I've been wasting the hours in my chair. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day; I have PT tomorrow afternoon after all.

Thank you for your patience.

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June 20, 2026

Europe Awakening

Timothy Birdnow

The European Parliament approved a measure to kick aliens out of the whoe continent by a two thirds majority, with chants of "send them back" echoing the halls of parliament.

‘Send them back’ chants erupt in European Parliament: The Overton Window was just kicked off its hinges…

Problem is the E.U. parliament has almost no authority; most of the power in the European government resides with a central committee that is unaccountable to the People.

At any rate the new law would ramp up deportations, set up camps outside of Europe to house asylum-seekers, and otherwise do what Donald Trump has done in America.

Europe is in far worse shape than the U.S. in terms of immigration. Luxemburg, for instance, has over half of it's population being aliens and other European countries are a quarter or more alien. You cannot maintain a culture with so huge an alien population in your midst.

And they are almost all North African and Muslim men of military age. Rape gangs are common and white women have to hide in their homes out of fear of them.

So this is a great development even if the inner oligarchs who run the E.U. will try to prevent the implementation of this law. Europe appears to finally be waking up.

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Bloomin' Idiots

Timothy Birdnow

Have they really sunk THIS low?

President Trump Notes Opposition Effort to Destroy DC Reflection Pool

Trump asserts - and he has some corroboration as there have been a number of arrests - that the "loyal opposition" is sowing algae in the D.C. reflecting pool and trying to wreck it. They hate this man so much they want to vandalize our nation's capital!

What a bunch of haters.

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Not Proud to be an American

Timothy Birdnow

Lee Greenwood must be rolling over in whatever place he is in right about now.

Poll: Nearly 4 in 10 Democrats ‘Ashamed’ to Be American

Here's a novel idea; why don't you leave if you think America sucks so bad? I mean Canada is right there, an easy drive. And there is Australia and New Zealand.

This is ingratitude, plain and simple. These are people who grew up in the richest, freest, most nurturing nation on Earth but they want to "stand for something" and feel part of a titanic struggle in a nation where giants have already done the real struggling and bleeding and dying. So they manufacture grievances out of nothing and then say the country sucks.

Tell that to a guy from Kenya, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo; those guys would happily change places with you if you'd offer to swap.

You cannot have character, real character, if you lack gratitude, and you cannot have gratitude if you don't ask for it. A grateful spirit makes you a great person. A whiney and covetous spirit makes you a jerk. Most Democrats are jerks.

In bygone days Democrats argued that they didn't like the direction the country was headed but loved the country. Now they have stopped with that pretense and can come out proudly as haters of kin and country.

In Dante's Inferno the lowest circle of Hell was Antenorrah, the place for traitors to kin and country. That's the modern Democratic Party now.

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Iranians Say Strait is Closed Before Reopening It

Timothy Birdnow

For the love of all things Holy will Trump finally just obliterate these jerks!

Iran Foreign Ministry says Strait of Hormuz is open after IRGC warned it was closed — sparking confusion

It's time to stop pussyfooting around here. Trump should never have suspended the bombing campaign.

They are never going to make a deal and stick to it.

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The Great Crime

Timothy Birdnow

In more Fauci/Covid newes it turns out Anthony Fauci contacted Joe Biden on inauguration day and begged for a full pardon.

New: Desperate Fauci Emailed Biden for Pardon on Inauguration Morning

Independent investigator Nick Shirley tweeted this:

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According to the current Pardon Attorney of the US, Anthony Fauci was begging for a pardon literally minutes before the change of powers on January 20th.

On the morning of the inauguration Fauci was emailing the Biden Administration for a pardon. What crimes did Fauci commit?

Why would Fauci be begging for a pardon if he wasn't guilty of a crime?

I think we all know the answer to that.

More and more the great Covid Pandemic looks like the crime of the millenia.

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The Government Knew About Wuhan and Covid

Timothy Birdnow

The government knew the Wuhan lab was an accident waiting to happen and that conditions there were ripe for an accidental release of a deadly pathogen into the human population, recently declassified material from Lawrence Livermore Labs shows.

Conditions were prime for a breech. Not only were they playing with the gees of the Sars Covid 2 but they were playing with human DNA in regards to it and security was lax.

I will take it one step further; I will argue it was prime for an INTENTIONAL release of this virus. The virus was not very lethal, after all, but it ended the Trump Presidency and at the same time seriously damaged the American economy. An ideal weapon to "accidentally" release. Oh, and while it may have led to a backlash the powers that be thought to capitalize on it, strengthening the WHO and other word organizations at the expense of national sovereignty and increasing government control of the public in the process.

There were a lot of good reasons for an unscrupulous sort (like China and some of the internationalist-minded in the West) to find it a happy accident that this was released. Oh, and Johns-Hopkins had run an emergency simulation in the fall of 2018, just before the actual outbreak. The outbreak simulated was for an accidental release of SARS Covid 2.

At any rate do read this article and the linked report - it's an eye-opener.

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June 18, 2026

U.S. Funding Science Radicalism

Timothy Birdnow

Here is just one example of how our government continues to fund leftist causes, especially climate alarmism.

The supposed "gold standard" of science advice to the country's leadership is riddled with all sorts of radical activism.

Much of what they are funding is aimed at children, I might add, and will turn our kids into radicals and socialists and the Gang Green.

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Retail Sales Up

Timothy Birdnow

Well, well, well...

US Retail Sales Beat Market Estimates in May

So retail sales are up. Where is this "terrible economy" they keep telling us about?

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Nothing Will Change

Timothy Birdnow

It doesn't matter.

Trump Says US Will Not Invest ‘Any Money’ in Iran Reconstruction Fund

While we don't want American taxpayer funds wasted what is at issue is rebuilding Iran under the Mullahs. All we are doing is Making Iran Great Again and ultimately a lot of taxpayer money will wind up funding this anyway. Let them rebuild and they will rebuild their military capabilities. There will be no strings attached to this money and even if there is nothing will stop Iran.

After the fall of the Soviet Union the Clinton Administration was very worried about the old Soviet nuclear arsenal. So Clinton started a number of programs to keep nukes from leaving Russia. For instance, he paid to keep the old nuclear cities - the places where nuclear scientists worked to enrich uranium and make plutonium - operating. Yes, operating so the scientists wouldn't go to some Third World country and give them atomic weapons. The end result was Russia had all this nuclear material and nothing to do with it but make more bombs.

Meanwhile Clinton paid to destroy the old Soviet arsenal. The Ukrainians agreed to give up their portion of said arsenal (thus making them vulnerable to Russian attack) and so did Russia. But the agreement did nothing to prevent anyone from building a new arsenal, and Putin had all this enriched uranium at his disposal. The end result was Russia built a newer, far more advanced nuclear arsenal, larger and more modern than the U.S.

See, we gave Putin the ability to build those weapons by funding the Russians, paying them for their goo intentions.

If we give Iran money no matter the source we allow them to fund whatever they like, even if there are strings attached (because it will free up other money from other sources). Money is fungible and always has been.

I suspect Trump sees this as a kind of American version of China's Belt and Roadway policy in which we retain control of the money and can set terms. But it just won't work that with with this bunch who see everything through the prism of the 12th Imam.

Sadly our policy with Iran should have been much like Rome's policy towards Carthage. Maybe we wouldn't sow salt in the Earth but we should have tried to break the country economically. And maybe we SHOULD just break the country up; it is an empire after all, ruled by the Persians who dominate the minority races such as the Medes or Kurds or whatnot. But we are leaving Iran intact and giving her the money it needs to rebuild her weapons stockpiles. This is foolish.

I trust Trump to try to do the right thing, but I fear he just can't conceive of the kind of fanaticism he's dealing with here and he doesn't grasp that you can't make binding agreements with people like the Mullahs.

But then I've long said Trump won't solve the situation - he can't. My thinking comes from the Bible and the Bible makes it clear Iran will be a major player in the Great Tribulation and that Armageddon will include them. The King of the East doesn't march through Siberia, after all.

Trump may get the best we can do, which is a couple of decades of relative peace. But I think we should have crippled Iran economically. I hate to do that but sometimes there is no other option and a prosperous Iran is a more dangerous Iran.

And I assure you that the matter of Lebanon and Hezbollah will read it's ugly head again soon, breaching the deal and Iran will renege on the deal as soon as Israel launches a counter-attack on the Iranian proxy.

So nothing changes. It was a valiant try but in the end this region is unreformable by any but the Most High.

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GOP Attacks Lee Over SAVE America Act

Timothy Birdnow

Why are Republicans so opposed to passing the SAVE America Act?

Report: GOP Senators ‘Pile-On’ Mike Lee for Pushing for Passage of SAVE America Act

This includes Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, a darling of the conservative base (including me).

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Using the conference lunch to go after the one guy asking them to please do something the country cares about, for a change, and then smugly leaking their outright contempt for the GOP base — and for the president! — to the campus regime scribes.

Why is the GOP so terrified to even push the Democrats to do a talking filibuster? The American People are on board with this by huge margins (over eighty percent) and yet the GOP refuses to even put the Democrats on record with this. Why?

Yes, the Republicans are beholden to the Chamber of Commerce and others who want cheap labor at any cost, but is that enough to make them risk losing the election? I suspect there is more at work than just campaign dollars.

Well, John "Up Yours" Thune admits it's because many of the opposition Senators just hate Trump[/link and are prepared to lose the election rather than hand the President a win.

We must systematically remove these Quislings if we are going to save America.

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Two Americas: Black Rednecks and Karmelo Anthony and Civilization

Selwyn Duke

When thinking about poor Austin Metcalf, I sometimes wonder about his reactions during those last fatal moments on April 2 of last year. When murderer Karmelo Anthony drew that knife, could he not, being young and athletic, have avoided at least a deadly strike? Perhaps Anthony was just too quick. But then I realize something:

The two boys were from vastly different worlds.

Austin occupied the world most of us inhabit. It’s a place where, among other things, proportionate force is instinctively understood. Sure, boys and men, being boys and men, will sometimes have physical conflict, and we understand that part of manliness is standing up for yourself. But we also reflexively know that a shove is to be met with a shove, a swing with a swing. This norm, reflected in Queensberry rules, is necessary for preservation of life and civilization.

Anthony’s world is clearly different. Egos are as big there as virtue is small; touchy and prideful to the hilt, the instinct can be that if you feel "dissed,” you can smoke the other guy. This is why it isn’t unusual hearing about ghetto altercations in which an "offended” party departs, returns with a gun and shoots multiple people. It’s why so many rappers (e.g., Tupac) suffer violent deaths.

So Austin, perhaps poorly acquainted with this world, might understandably have been completely shocked at the drawing of a knife amidst an adolescent locking of horns. It’s not something civilized people may expect. (Perhaps such warnings should be in an updated version of "The Talk: Nonblack Version” — the article that got commentator John Derbyshire canceled.)

Whatever the case, Anthony’s world is reflected in his reprobate supporters, too. Out protesting and uber-emotional, they generally speak as if a shove among youths can warrant deadly action. Yet they don’t just reject proportionate force, a foundational principle in Western law and something operative in all 50 states.

Such people also reject the other laws, rules, social codes, traditions, and customs of the wider and polite society. They’re self-righteous about it now, too, because they identify such limitations as "white.” (Even punctuality has been called a "white norm.”)

Make no mistake, however. Someone rejecting proportionate force and civilization's strictures generally is described in one obvious way.

Uncivilized.

You could also call such a person a barbarian (a word we should make fashionable again).

Or you could call them, as the great Professor Thomas Sowell has, "black rednecks.”

As Sowell pointed out in his 2005 book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, what’s now called "black culture” is largely just appropriated redneck culture. You can, too, trace its roots back 500 years to England, and even then such people were called "rednecks” and "crackers,” the professor noted.

Thus is it no coincidence that redneck and "black” culture share similarities beyond the obvious speech patterns. Just a few that Sowell noted are: aversion to steady work and lack of entrepreneurship; neglect of education and anti-intellectualism; sexual promiscuity and degraded family norms; and, relating to killer Karmelo, proneness to violence and pride-induced touchiness.

Whatever you call it, however, something’s for certain: "Black culture” has got to go.

More and more people of all races are realizing this, including an increasing number of black Americans. Commentator and podcaster Jason Whitlock says that ghetto-mentality blacks should be given the AIR option: assimilation, incarceration or reservation (that is, American-Indian style. Note: I don’t believe in creating more reservations.) And the young black woman here is so disgusted with redneck-black culture that she uses the n-word to identify those epitomizing it.

It’s these people’s desire that the black community shed this black-redneck culture, just as white southerners did ages ago with white-redneck culture. But this hasn’t happened and won’t anytime soon—and this is for good reason.

White redneck culture mostly disappeared because we didn’t exalt it. We didn’t put white rednecks in entertainment, singing stupid, decadent "songs” and getting filthy rich in the process. We didn’t portray their sub-culture as cool and desirable. We didn’t claim that because it was "their” culture, we had to respect it. We didn’t give their style of speech a respectable name and blather on about how language norms are just social constructs, anyway. We didn’t witness them give their kids inane names, as if the child is a new pet ferret, and then wink at their "creativity.” We didn’t recognize their own national anthem. We didn’t elevate "redneck pride” to ethnicity-like status so that maintaining it became a matter of perverse principle. And we wouldn’t have had one of its representatives co-host the Olympics.

Yet we do all this and more with black-redneck culture. We make the aforementioned rap disgorgers rich before someone makes them dead. Today you can monetize ghetto-rat status—and what you reward you get more of—though, of course, only a select few benefit materially. Virtually all are more likely to end up like Karmelo.

This is demonstrated daily, too. Activists wanted police wearing body-cams, and we all have video recording devices. The result: Endless footage reveals that blacks are rarely victims of non-blacks. What is common is to see black rednecks acting like barbarians. And this has all led to a "condition,” affecting all races, dubbed "black fatigue.”

This phenomenon is good, too, because getting fed up with a cultural norm is the first step toward changing it. And here’s what must happen to reform black ghetto culture (again, lamentably, I don’t expect this to occur anytime soon).

The greater mass of people must say, in no uncertain terms, that if you embrace this culture, we’ll have nothing to do with you. We won’t do business with you or hire you; you’ll be scorned and ostracized. Leverage is necessary to this end, and thus should anti-discrimination law be rescinded. (I’ve advocated this for decades for other reasons; e.g., such law violates freedom of association and invites government tyranny.)

Just as significantly, we must shed the affirmative-action mentality. This means that in response to studies showing that people with "black” names are less likely to get job-interview callbacks, our only response will be, "So what?” When parents name their child De’Quan, La’Teesha—or Karmelo—that screams out, "My mission in life is to oppose ‘white’ [read: mainstream] culture.” And they almost invariably transmit this hang-up to their kids; hence the profiling.

We’re also not going to worry about racial disparities in academics, income and general accomplishment. (These exist between whites and Asian-descent Americans, too.) White rednecks didn’t fare so well in those areas, either.

Another prerequisite is purging ghetto culture from entertainment. To this end, we’d need a traditionalist version of the NAACP to arise and, along with other groups, pressure corporations to cease monetizing black-redneck culture. This is much as how the NAACP and allied entities successfully pressured CBS into canceling black sitcom Amos ’n’ Andy in the 1950s. The kicker, too, is that today’s rap-thug imagery reflects infinitely worse stereotyping than anything on that show. (In fact, Amos ’n’ Andy placed its goofy main characters inside a very well-functioning black world in Harlem, NYC.) I can only imagine how embarrassing some black Americans find it.

Simply put, society-wide disgust with ghetto culture must intensify. We must say, pull up your pants and pull out your ego by the roots. Shed the gold chains and mind chains of imagined oppression. Focus not on victimhood but virtue, not on race but righteousness, not on taxpayer-handouts but Truth, not on gripes but God. You, black-redneck culture, are a dinosaur, and that asteroid with your name on it has finally struck.

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Gun Case

Timothy Birdnow

More proof we can't count on SCOTUS to fight our battles.

Supreme Court Allows Gun Ruling Favoring Letitia James To Stand

The Supreme Court refused to hear a case litigated by Letitia James over New York State overreach in the Governor signing an Executive Order allowing people to sue gun makers using "nusisance laws". It waw an end run around Court rulings that do not allow such litigation. By not hearing the case the Supreme Court lets a lower ruling stand.

FTA:

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) Monday, allowing an appeals court’s ruling in favor of Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James to stand.

Then-Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law intended to allow "public nuisance” litigation against firearms manufacturers in 2021 as a means to bypass the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 (PLCAA). NSSF expressed disappointment with the news the Supreme Court would not hear the case, which it brought in December 2021 as part of a pre-enforcement challenge, according to court documents.

First, someone should litigate Andrew Cuomo and Letitia James as public nuisances.

Second, the Court is clearly leaving this open to another challenge. It stands with their policy though; this was a "pre-litigation" challenge and there was no actual plaintiff who had been harmed as of yet. So the Courtt can hear this again in time.

I suspect this isn't the end of it. Let us hope not.

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The Flawed Iran Deal

Timothy Birdnow

Here is the memorandum of understanding that forms the framework for a peace deal with Iran:

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.

Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States Lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.

Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.

The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, While ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.

The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.

The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran's nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.

The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like.

The United States undertakes that, in light of the progress of negotiations towards a final agreement, frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be released and made fully available. These funds, whether held in the master account or transferred, will be used for any final beneficiary payment determined by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and will be fully available for use. The United States undertakes to issue all necessary permits and licenses on this basis.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that an implementation mechanism will be established to oversee the successful implementation of and future commitment to the Final Agreement.

Following the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and upon receipt of assurances regarding the commencement of implementation of Articles 4, 5, 10, and 11 of this Memorandum of Understanding, and the continued implementation of these steps, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States will enter into negotiations for a Final Agreement solely with respect to the remaining Articles.

The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council

Right off the bat this thing is flawed insofar as Iran will claim Hezbollah is not under their control and that they did not break the deal when Hez Angels launches a new round of attacks on Israel - and they will say WE broke the treaty when Israel hits back.

The fourth point requires us to withdraw all forces from the region within 30 days of the end of the blockade too, which means we have to be out of the Persian Gulf and possibly out of the Arabian sea as well. What is to stop Iran from hostile action at that point?

Point six says we give Iran $300 billion for reconstruction. So we ARE bribing Iran, as did the Obama Administration before us. This is over twice as much as Mr. Obama sent them.

We should not give Iran any money at all to settle this. If we do the Iranian government will crow about us being forced to pay reparations, and thus claim victory over us.

Frankly, I think we should have just walked away and left this as a problem for the Europeans to deal with if Mr. Trump did not want to resume the attack. We have lots of oil of our own.

Point eight says that the "status quo" will be maintained on nuclear weapons programs. After saying Iran would not attempt to obtain a nuclear weapon in point seven they turn around and say this. The status quo was Iran enriching uranium and working towards missile systems to deliver such a deadly payload.

The last point says there will be a "binding agreement" with the U.N. as guarantor. Fat chance any of that will matter to Iran or the U.N.

This doesn't sound like a very good deal to me.

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