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August 02, 2026

Hitting a Birx Wall

Timothy Birdnow

I don't believe Birx received a pardon from President Autopen.

Dr. Birx Admits to Altering Documents, and Lying to Get People to Vaccinate

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In March 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the former CDC director met at her home. Their plan, according to Birx: "block any of the president’s escape routes” so Trump would have no choice but to accept their flatten-the-curve measures.

Two days later, the "15 Days to Slow the Spread” was announced.

This wasn’t neutral science. It was a calculated effort to corner the President of the United States and force nationwide lockdowns.

The American people were never told the full story.

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In other words this was a political hit on President Trump from the very beginning, and Fauxi and Birx colluded to take the man who was ultimately their boss out.

Birx also lied and said the vaccine would protect Americans and has since admitted she knew they would not.

After Trump fired Birx she became CEO of Armata Pharmaceuticals. She made out quite well.

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Spanberger Restores Felon Right to Vote

Timothy Birdnow

Virginia Governor Spanberger just created 66,000 new Democratic voters with the stroke of her poison pen, restoring voting rights to felons.

While former Governor Glenn Youngkin had implemented a limited restoration which requires individuals apply and be approved the insane leftist Abby something or other (Abby who? Abby-Normal) just made it a blanket restoration.

The Democrats will do whatever it takes to acquire and hold power.

Felons, by the very nature of their anti-social acts, lose the right to have a say in the direction of the country. Why should they get to control the destiny of their fellow Americans, people who they tried to prey upon?

So this is a key demographic for the Democrats - convicted felons. The Dems never met a monster or vicious thug they didn't like.

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Rest in Peace Great Britain

Timothy Birdnow

Bye bye Great Britain!

UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags

A nation that won't display it's own flag out of fear of making immigrants uncomfortable has died. The corpse is already starting to stink.

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GOP Giving No Money to Paxton in Texas

Timothy Birdnow

The GOP Establishment would rather lose the Senate than hold their noses and fund Ken Paxton, then when he loses they will say "see!"

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/208266302210796380[[/link]

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Thune's Senate Leadership

Fund plans to spend $115 million in Georgia and North Carolina, but has allocated $0 to Texas so far.

We have SOOO got to clean house in the GOP.

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Lettuce Talk Sense

Timothy Birdnow

I've always said green leafy vegetables are bad for you.

The Cyclospora outbreak is just one of the many party favors we receive from globalism. We import a lot of our produce from Mexico and other Third World countries, and what we buy that is American made is often handled and picked by Third World people working in the fields and the packing plants.

Lettuce is particularly vulnerable because it is not cooked but eaten raw.

Cyclospora is transmitted through infected produce and water contaminated by human excrement (and, as it causes diarrhea it becomes a self-perpetuating system).

Michigan seems to be the center of all of this. Interesting; Michigan has a LOT of migrant farm workers and they live under Third world conditions (since they come from the Third World) and that probably has something to do with it.

From the University of Michigan article:

In interviews conducted as part of the Michigan Farmworker Project, workers described crowded housing, being provided dirty mattresses, sewage and other odors from bathrooms. They detailed common areas such as living rooms often doubling as bedrooms and a lack of air conditioning.

Additionally, some said they experienced food insecurity, fears of polluted drinking water, high rents, low wages and a general lack of safe, affordable and quality housing—not unlike the situation many US residents are facing.

The five-year-old community-engaged research project led by Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios and Alexis Handal of the University of Michigan School of Public Health has examined a variety of topics related to treatment by farm owners and supervisors over time.

The latest study, published in the Journal of Agromedicine, assessed housing, labor conditions and general health, using phone interviews with 63 seasonal, migrant and H-2A farmworkers, who, the researchers say, are relied upon to bring produce to market each year. The findings are especially important given the miniscule pool of US workers seeking farming jobs, the researchers say.

"This is about basic human rights, and it’s also about treating these workers as the valuable contributors to the state’s $104.7 billion agricultural economy that they are. They are not afforded the same protections as other workers with federal and state occupational health and safety rules, and the treatment reported by some is dehumanizing and unhealthy,” Iglesias-Rios said.

Housing conditions are especially relevant as local, state and federal officials continue to monitor the spread of avian flu, which was detected in another Michigan dairy herd this week. It has also infected two farm workers in Michigan and one in Texas.

The workers live in a mix of employer-provided agricultural housing or in rental properties in the farming communities where they work. About 19,000 migrant, H-2A and seasonal farmworkers, either live in Michigan or travel from other states or countries to provide the labor for Michigan farming operations each season.

Naturally the solution wouldn't be to not let these people come for those jobs but to make taxpayers fund better living conditions for them.

But you can take the boy out of the Third World but you can't take the Third World out of the boy. Expecting these people to maintain First World hygiene is like expecting people in India to use birth control.

They are naturally unsanitary. In their homes it's not so bad but here, doubled up as they are, it's an epidemic waiting to happen.

Infected produce is just one of many reasons why unrestrained immigration and open borders is a terrible idea. Migrants drove the cost of housing through the roof. Migrants brought a crime wave with them. Migrants clog up emergency services and make an ER visit into a day-long affair. They drive prices up around the country on all manner of goods and services. And in the end the American taxpayer gets to foot the bill. Why? So some people - Jefe - can get cheap labor and so the Democratic Party can mint new voters to keep their party in power (and they ARE voting whether one wants to admit it or not).

We've seen this with other diseases, Third World diseases that are making a comeback in the U.S. T.B., Scarlet Fever, and Plague are all roaring back and we act as if it is a big mystery why.

In fact a whole plethora of Third World diseases are coming back to the U.S. The powers that be want us to believe it's because people aren't vaccinating their children and while there may be a kernel of truth to that the more obvious answer is because we have millions of aliens who have come here from the Third World, who aren't vaccinated and who are living as Third World people in America. Third World lifestyles mean Third World problems.

People carry diseases and mix them all together and you have a petri dish of unique illnesses that get to march through non-immune communities. There is fertile ground for mutation, and antibiotics become less effective.

Our fault, dear Brutus is not in ourselves but in our immigrants.

While I do not wish them ill, and certainly understand why many of them come for work, we aren't doing them any favors in the long run. Their countries will never reform as long as they have the safety valve of outsourcing their "problems" to the U.S. And our economy cannot prosper with a permanent serf class. We saw what dirt cheap labor did to the economy of the Antebellum South; the Southern economy was much poorer than in the North and was largely a caste system with wealthy planters and the rabble. Most of the rabble couldn't find work, or if they could fin it were horribly underpaid, because the plantation owners owned slaves to do the work southern Americans Just Wouldn't Do. How do you compete if you own a cotton plantation and have to pay employees while your competitor does not? It is a terribly destructive thing for a nation. I wrote about that some years ago.

Cheap farm labor via aliens is much the same. While they are paid they are paid less than market rates (which is why the farmers want them in the first place) and they suppress wages for everyone. Oh, and it's a machine; as a farm laborer's position improves he will seek better work, taking a good job from an American. But his job will still need to be filled so the jefe farmer will just go and recruit himself another. More illegal aliens come and the cycle repeats.

Meanwhile we wind up with cyclospora on our lettuce and other produce. And with tuberculosis and the Black Death infecting our children. And with fewer jobs for our families, and higher taxes, higher costs of living, etc.We might die waiting for medical treatment because the hospitals are overfull with migrant laborers who don't have insurance.

Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. We all pay for it.

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We Miss You Roseanne!

OH, in another video from the Gateway Pundit, you may want to listen to this rendition of the national anthem at the premier game of the women's baseball league. Makes me miss Roseanne Barr!

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Kennedy Bashes Bash

Timothy Birdnow

He just made me proud to be related to the Kennedy's!

FIREWORKS! "You’re Talking Nonsense!” – RFK Jr. Nukes Screaming Dana Bash and CNN for Pushing COVID Fear as She Lectures Him About "Vaccine Disinformation” (VIDEO)

You go Bobby!

Dana Bash openly lied and claimed the Covid vaccine "worked".

How? It didn't prevent you from getting the disease. It didn't keep you from spreading it. The only claim made by Big Science was that it would keep you from getting as sick as you otherwise would be and that is entirely unprovable. It was a claim wholly unsupportable by empirical evidence.

Many countries never had a vaccine mandate and did as well as those that did in terms of cases of Covid and severity. Sweden, for instance, refused to implement the international protocols (social distancing, mask mandates etc.) and it did btter than most of the countries that required vaccinations. The clot shot did not work. But it did cause all sorts other problems involving heart and lungs and strokes.

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The Death of Freedom of Speech

Timothy Birdnow

This is a very dangerous precedent. It is a matter of free speech to use racial epithets if one wishes. The law has zero say in the matter.

First Amendment at Risk: Was Shiloh Hendrix Actually Convicted of "Hate Speech” — in America?

So would this blond white mother have been convicted if instead she called the child a Mother effer?

Would she have been convicted if she herself had been black?

We do not have speech codes in America; we have a First Amendment, after all. But the Left simply acts as if we do. Control of speech has always been the goal of every Leftist.

Is this woman a hero? Far from it. She used language to a child that was wholly inappropriate. But it does not involve the law.

Selwyn posts up the video of the event and the man is immediately talking about hate crimes law. He was clearly ready for something like this to happen at some point in time.

I suspect this woman will win on appeal but it's going to cost her a huge amount of money. That is the whole point; the process is the punishment.

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Pirro-uette

Timothy Birdnow

Judge Jeanine Pirro has gone native, it seems, refusing to prosecute the reflecting pool slasher.

Her reason? She thinks the contractor screwed up and so the pools was compromised anyway.

That doesn't matter; the act in and of itself is illegal, not whether the vandal was successful or not.

David Hearn, the vandal, was a former Olympian who attempted to vandalize the pool by yanking "forcefully" on the soft liner. When a Parks Service employee told him to stop he screamed at him and refused to quit.

Hearn was indicted by a Grand Jury for felony destruction of property in a D.C. Superior Court.

Pirro believes that this case will not hold after seeing the drained pool. She believes the contractors screwed up the installation in a rush to be ready for July 4.

But this doesn't change the fact Hearn was TRYING to vandalize the pool.

Pirro dismissed the charges without prejudice, meaning Hearn could be prosecuted at a later date.

This may be because Pirro didn't think she could ger a conviction but I wonder; so many Republicans go native once they get inside the beltway and Pirro always seemed to me to be a self-promoter, at least to a degree. I wonder if some Republicans didn't talk to her and get her to drop the case to avoid a messy situation going into the elections.

No doubt Democrats would use this case to argue the GOP was "out of control" and launching political witch-hunts. Of course the irony is lost in that they bitterly opposed Trump's anti-weaponization fund which compensated people for being abused by legal authority for political reasons yet they would accuse Trump of abusing people with the weaponization of the law for political reasons. But hypocrisy never sticks to Democrats because the media sees to it that it does not.

I suspect some of the Republicans closeted her and pressured her into dropping the charges. Pirro wasn't one to let the law be broken and the lawbreaker get away with it - which is precisely what is happening here.

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Is China Supplying ABM Systems to Iran?

Timothy Birdnow

Is China planning to send Iran with air defense systems? It appears they just might be.

Naturally China is denying it.

Iran normally uses home-made systems but they are running out of them and now are going to neeed to buy such systems to stave off American attacks. China might say they are not doing this but China has waged a cold war against us for some time now.

I sought to link the original Reuters report but it has a "sign up" popup that I can't take down so I found another source.

At any rate China has every interest in an Iranian victory, and Iran need but survive this to finish victorious. I don't think it's a question of IF China is meddling, just how it is meddling.

China needs Iranian oil. China wants to weaken the United States. China wants to keep the Middle East burning so it can increase it's influence in the region and also so it can keep the U.S. distracted. If war ever becomes necessary with the West Iran will be the silk road of death, with China using it to invade the Mediterranean theater.

Iran is crucial to China's long-term interests.

We also know the Chicoms had no problem unleashing Covid on the whole world, be it an accidental lab leak or a purposeful event (I believe it was the latter, to get rid of Trump and sow chaos in the West.) They are Communists and think only about power.

At any rate while I do not know if this is true it could easily be.

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August 01, 2026

Newsom's Tax Returns

Timothy Birdnow

Gavin "Nuisance" Newsom has made eleven million bucks since he took office, predominantly from "wineries, restaurants, and other investments" as the article states. That was in five years, between 2019 and 2024.

Restaurants are notoriously low percentage businesses and most fail within their first year. There is a saying in the wine business "to make a small fortune in the wine business you first start with a large one". Both of these businesses are not for the novice and not high profit.

So what is going on? I'll tell you what is going on; the left is laundering money to Newsom in much the same way as they were doing to "Brotherly love" Ilhan Omar's husband made a fortune with a winery that did not even exist. Someone is creating fictional wineries and putting money into their accounts that way.

It's possible that Newsom actually owns a winery, but it's flourishing and that only because someone wants it to flourish. I suspect he's not actually making any money with the sale of wine, except where the wine is given away by the purchaser, much like book sales of politicians. John F. Kennedy was never without a copy of "Profiles in Courage" because his father bought all his books to make it a best-seller.

But, but, but..Newsom's money is in a blind trust! In blindness we trust!

I suspect this is the very same trick used by Hillary Clinton to make a killing in cattle futures. It's an old game; take two investors, one a politician and the other a would-be donor. Match them in a fund that balances out then give the one that earns money to Hillary and let the loser take the hit. The loser knows he's taking the hit - he's donating money without actually donating money. Newsom's "blind trust" is no doubt run by Democrats who are making him money but swindling or volunteering other people's money.

Here is a quote from the article that gets me:

"The governor’s income included his government salary, which ranged from $167,647 in 2021 to $192,087 in 2024."

With millions rolling in why does he need to take that from the taxpayers? You know what President Trump takes? One American dollar per year. The rest he donates to charity. That is for being President of the United States and pputting up with the massive amount of crap that he has to take. Newsom could easily donate his salary to charity. But he won't because liberals always are free with other people's money but rarely with their own.

Newsom also was paid a hundred and fifty grand for his children's book about a kid with dyslexia. Did Mr. Newsom write this while he was supposed to be working for the public? If so he was neglecting his job. Or did he have it ghost-written (more likely) and not mention how much the ghost-writer got paid or who paid him (it could be seen as an illegal campaign donation.)

This guy is as corrupt as they come. Hopefully Nick Shirley will show up to interview him, or some other analysts who can analyze these tax returns and show Newsom is taking graft. I have little doubt he's doing that very thing.

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Judiciary of Dunces

Timothy Birdnow

This is why we keep losing; we've got double-minded dimwits at the very pinnacle of our government.

Justice Gorsuch keeps insisting America was founded as a religiously neutral nation, but the founding-era record tells a very different story

Gorsuch has been a decent enough Justice but he's clearly malinformed about American history. America was overwhelmingly a Christian nation. The Establishment Clause was put in place to prevent government from putting it's thumb on the scale by deciding WHICH sect of Christianity would be dominant. Had the Founders thought Islam or Hinduism or any other religion would become dominant they would never have included that clause.

Forsuch told PBS' Margaret Hoover:

"We were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion … It was about those ideas [in the Declaration of Independence] … We have a First Amendment, for crying out loud. No established religion.”

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Why, pray tell, was slavery no abolished at that point then? Why weren't Indians given citizenship at first? Clearly they were thinking about race.

Race neutrality came later as a result of a long and very painful process - a process we have yet to complete as we simply flipped the dominant races.

But as for religion, yes, there is nothing specific in the Constitution about religion other to ban government from meddling in it, but that is a far cry from saying Christianity is not the core of our nation. Multiple Founding Fathers said so.

This illustrates that Gorsuch is not an originalist but a textualist; he doesn't divine the wishes of the Founders and why they said a thing in the Constitution but rather simply looks at the text as written (and using our modern figures of speech as opposed to theirs). He joins Amy Conehead Barrett and Jumpin' John Roberts as textualists.

The Founders could not possibly state every position in a way that could not be misinterpreted. They relied on their successors understanding this point and interpreting the Constitution based on their original intent. Textualism is silly; it allows for reinterpretation. Gorsuch is dead wrong about America and it's Christian bedrock.

As the article points out, most states had their own preferred religion and imposed all sorts of laws based upon them. Nobody ever suggested they couldn't do that.

In fact many states had religious tests for running for public office and you couldn't run if you weren't a Christian. Those laws lasted until 1961 in some states. It was the leftist Warren Court that struck such laws down as unconstitutional.

How did this practice continue so long if the Founders had opposed the idea that America was a Chrstian nation?

And what of the practice of opening both houses of Congress with prayers led by chaplains? Until recently it was always assumed they be Christian ministers.

Gorsuch is an example of how specialization rots the brain. He studied the law and clearly did not absorb a whole lot else. Law schools rot the brain, and working in the legal field REALLY rots the brain. Legal thought tends to be confused, to put it mildly.

Gorsuch got this idea not from original sources but by reading what other lawyers, his contemporaries, had to say about what the Founders believed.

This is America's problem. Rule by expert has destroyed our country because experts read and quote other experts and avoid doing a couple of simple things - reading the source material directly and using common sense. Scholars rarely do either. Most want to impress their collegues rather than get too the heart of what it is they are examining.

So the modern interpretation of the founding of America is that we have "separation of Church and State" and a guy like Gorsch isn't going to risk being thought a fool - he'll just open his mouth and remove all doubt.

The truly scary thing is Gorsuch is one of the better Justices on the Court. We are governed by a collection of idiots.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Timothy Birdnow

I'll be surprised if she can win.

Ex-'Squad' member fights for comeback as socialist wing ramps up war on Dem establishment

She's running against Wesley Bell, a leftist Democrat to be certain, but one who is not completely crazy. Bell has a lot of money it seems, and I am seeing all sorts of adds for Bell and none Cori Bush. Bell is the incumbent and he had been around for a while, including being the Prosecuting Attorney in St. Louis County.

Bell is being cagey; he's attacking her for attacking other Democrats while he starts his commercials attacking Donald Trump and then mentioning Bush is dividing the Democrats. I doubt this strategy would work ina purple district but it probably will in the very blue Missouri 1st.

Democrat Russ Carnahan lost his seat in Mo. 3 when his district was eliminated and a sizable chunk of the south-side area then went to the first district (where I am a resident). At the time it was the stronghold of toothless Lacy Clay, son of the former grifter Congressman William Clay, the man who won his seat from Jelly Roll Hogan, the head of the Hogan crime gang. Forty five percent of the population is black while forty percent is white. There is zero chance of ever electing a Republican in this district. I will probably take a Democrat ballot on tuesday to vote for Bell. (In Missouri you don't have to register party preference for primaries as in most other states.)

At any rate I'm fairly certain Bell will win and Bush will lose but I'm not taking any chances. I'm a Bell man at least where the primary is concerned.

Not sure who the Republicans are running if anybody but I will certainly vote for whoever shows up there - or for, say, the Constitution Party or Libertarians. I might even write myself in if it comes to that. I often do that.

Bush was an embarrassment. Bell isn't a whole lot better but he's not the same sort of chip-on-the-shoulder buffoon as is Bush.

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Walz to Blame for Water Hack

Timothy Birdnow

Trump thinks Minnesota was behind the water processing system attacks!

Media aketh and Trump answereth:

Question: Can you rule out that Iran was behind the water attack? Can you rule out that Iran was behind that cyber-attack?

President Trump: No, I think Minnesota is behind it. You know who's behind it? Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent. I think the governor's behind it. I don't think there was an Iranian cyber-attack. I think that Minnesota ought to get its act together. It's one of the worst-run states... JD will tell you. In fact, tremendous corruption in Minnesota. And by the way, just gave me a report, massive, massive future things having to do with corruption in Minnesota are happening right now.

While it seems unlikely Walz was in the Governor's mansion with a laptop hacking the water system himself Trump's point is that the gross incompetence and inattention made Minnesota a prime target.

This article surmises as much. But there is more if one wishes to consider it.

It seems to me Walz would be happy to point to an Iranian cyber attack to divert attention away from his many scandals. This way he can act as the aggrieved party and at the same time suggest he's out there fighting for his own people when in fact this works to his advantage by distracting attention. And you never know; there is always a slim possibility the Governor found some hacker to spoof the Iranians. Democrats have done such things before.

For that matter Iran would be smart enough to realize this.

Walz has suggeste China negotiate a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran - something that no doubt would be pleasing to the Iranians. And Walz also was a big supporter of Muslims in his state. There is every reason to believe the Iranians would want to throw Walz a lifeline.

If nothing else this helps to sow discord between the Administration and the Democrats in Minnesota that may well help the Iranians.

So while I doubt Walz actually paid someone to hack the water system I do think he's at fault to no small degree, and that he's probably also happy with the outcome.

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Hit Squad?

Timothy Birdnow

One question; is the victim related to AOC?

Body Found at Home of Rep. Ayanna Pressley's Husband Ruled a Homicide

Pressley is a "squad" member.

Yoseliani Ann Marte Ocasio is the 18 year old victim found at Pressley's home. Ocasio is, after all, part of the hyphenated name for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, or Sandy Occluded Cortex - AOC.

At any rate this is a house owned by Pressley's husband and it was on the market for a million and a half. How does someone who is in league with the socialists worth enough to own a house worth that? It's GOOD to be a social democrat!

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Stay Out of Eastern European Fight

Timothy Birdnow

This mirrors much of my own thinking about the Ukraine/Russia conflict. The author gets a bit more pointed in his criticisms of Ukraine but his points are essentially valid.

Remember, we gave Russia a verbal promise to not expand NATO into the old Warsaw Pact then we broke it. Russia tolerated our moving NATO right up to their border (they ddn't really have a choice) but the Ukraine (I'm going back to putting THE in front of the name like we used to) was always hands-off because it was one of the "Russias" along with Byeloru aka White Russia and Great Russia. The Ukraine is rather like Texas is to America. Imagine if the Soviets had taken control of Texas during the Cold War.

And for a time we did not. But then when the Ukraine elected a pro-Russian President the CIA began fomenting the Orange Revolution to overthrow him and install a pro-western guy who was willing to "do busisness" with all our dirtbags. That's why Hillary Clinton got involved with them. That's why Hunter Biden got involved with them. It never would have happened had we not kicked out the elected government and replaced it with one more pleasing to ourselves.

This war has nothing to do with sympathy for an underdog democracy - Ukraine is as corrupt as Russia if not more so and it's no longer even remotely democratic as Zelensky has suspended elecctions and suppressed free speech and suppressed the Orthodox Church and imposed universal drafting of young men (thus getting rid of those who would oppose his remaining in office). Putin is certainly no better but this is rather like a fight between an alligator and a Burmese Python in the Everglades - you can't really root for either.

No, what this is about is money and power. The Ukraine was laundering vast sums of Western cash. But there is more than just a desire to make money involved; it is all about the New World Order. Russia, under Putin, was trying to build an alternative to the New World Order system the elites of the West were trying to put in place. Russia was fouling up their whole scheme. So they want to squeeze Russia dry, bankrupt her, empty her out so the remnant is forced to come hat-in-hand to Western bankers and diplomats and join the NWO as penitents, trustees.

And let us not forget what Tulsi Gabbard admitted; we had dozens of biological labs in the Ukraine doing gain of function research. In other words we had weapons labs, right next door to Russia.

Yes, Russia did invade Crimea, and then the eastern portion of the Ukraine as well. But the Ukrainians had been shelling the Crimea for years. They also put a dam on the Dneiper river and diverted all of Crimea's fresh water. They provoked Russia at every turn.

Again I am not excusing Russia. Putin is a bastard and will do whatever he can get away with doing. But there is another side to this. The Western elites won't tell us that other side because they bafflingly want war with Russia and don't seem to care about the dangers of it going nuclear.

A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

I believe we have no material national interest in the Ukraine. I further believe this could well have been prevented by remotely competent diplomacy before it began, but the elites wanted this. Biden screwed it up bigly. But that, I believe, was by design. Putin is an opportunist and saw he could get away with it.

I really don't believe Russia is in that bad a shape either. I think we are being gaslit by the media and by these internationalist think tanks. The reporting suggests the Russians are nearing the end but I suspect the reality on the ground is a bit different.

I will say this; Putin cannot afford to lose this war. He will be removed from office, and by office I mean the body politic, sans body. His head will roll. He's not going to allow that.

And everyone who could replace him is worse than is he.

So what will Putin do? Tactical nuclear weapons come to mind. Use tactical nukes on the Ukrainian battlefield and dare the West to start the big one. We'll probably back down from that and Putin knows it. Even Trump won't risk all-out nuclear war, despite Trump having the balls to fight.

Putin won't do that unless he's trapped like the rat he is, but if it is that or face assassination and overthrow he'll do it, I suspect.

Oh, and while the old Soviet arsenal had been under the control of a number of agencies that limited single-man launches the current Russian nuclear arsenal very likely is not; it was Putin's creation. I rather suspect he has complete control over their use.

At any rate whoever wins this war isn't worth our time one way or another. All that we've done by dragging this out is battle harden both sides and when it finally ends they will likely go around the world selling their skills to the highest bidder. There is a reason why the Albanian mob took over the Sicilian Mafia; they were so hardened by the war in Bosnia that they were too tough for the Mafia and are now in control of it. That is what we will see with the Russians and Ukrainians in times to come.

Also, Russia and Ukraine will BOTH have to replace their populations with men from elsewhere. Ukraine, in particular, will be filled with Middle Easterners and other non-European types who mean us ill. See here, here, and here for just a few articles singing the praises of the glory of immigration to replenish the population of the Ukraine. The Ukrainians will become a remnant in their own countries, and that is just fine by the standards of the Western Ruling Class.

I suspect it will happen less with Russia, although the Russians are going to have some big problems too. But Putin is no fool (unlike Zelensky) and he will fight to prevent that from happening to his own country. He may not be able to succeed but he'll try. Mostly he'll encourage a population boom. Once the war is over Russia will be a good place for young white men to go; lots of Russian women for the having.

In the end this is a proxy war by the West, which was angry about things like BRICS. We are leaving our children with a nightmare to clean up so Progressives can make money and feed their scheme for the New World Order.

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Paradise Lost Redux

Timothy Birdnow

I wrote this for American Thinker some years ago. I thought it worth republishing:

Paradise Lost: Why the Left Loves Muhammed

"For who can yet believe, though after loss,
that all these puissant legions,
whose exile hath emptied Heaven,
shall fail to reascend Self-raised,
and repossess their native seat?"

John Milton
Paradise Lost
Book one, verses 631-634

Conservatives seem baffled by the animosity held by liberals towards Christians and Jews. Christianity requires the believer submit to authority, accept the rule of government, be charitable to his fellow; in short, be a model citizen. Ditto the Jews, who held these requirements even longer than the Christians. Why are liberals so hostile to both? For that matter, why do liberals seem so smitten with that 7th century holdover known as Islam? Why do those on the Left seem less than eager to defend our freedom and way of life from the ravages of Islamic Jihad?

To understand this, it is necessary to examine the intellectual underpinnings of modern Liberal thought. We must begin with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Godfather of modern liberalism, in his treatise The Social Contract:

"MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

Why? George Bush, of course, but also because

"It was in these circumstances that Jesus came to set up on earth a spiritual kingdom, which, by separating the theological from the political system, made the State no longer one, and brought about the internal divisions which have never ceased to trouble Christian peoples. As the new idea of a kingdom of the other world could never have occurred to pagans, they always looked on the Christians as really rebels, who, while feigning to submit, were only waiting for the chance to make themselves independent and their masters, and to usurp by guile the authority they pretended in their weakness to respect. This was the cause of the persecutions.

"What the pagans had feared took place. Then everything changed its aspect: the humble Christians changed their language, and soon this so-called kingdom of the other world turned, under a visible leader, into the most violent of earthly despotisms.

"Several peoples, however, even in Europe and its neighborhood, have desired without success to preserve or restore the old system: but the spirit of Christianity has everywhere prevailed. The sacred cult has always remained or again become independent of the Sovereign, and there has been no necessary link between it and the body of the State. Mahomet held very sane views, and linked his political system well together; and, as long as the form of his government continued under the caliphs who succeeded him, that government was indeed one, and so far good."

So, Christianity and Judaism, by giving the World Separation of Church and State, destroyed the old pagan order and splintered the power of the collective will. To those who believe in this collective and the exercise of the will of society over the individual, there can be no worse crime. The results were ‘the most violent of earthly despotisms' while the Islamic world, that model of theocratic benevolence, offered a government ‘so far good'".

(It is ironic that the Left would use that very Christian concept of separation between Church and State as a tool to eliminate the author of this division.)

Those who would revolutionize society, who would remake America in their own neo-pagan, atheistic mold, find the fundamental weakening of the power of the State intolerable (since it is only by that power that their will can triumph), and would prefer to institute a system more akin to that of Muhammad. They admire Islam for maintaining the ancient regime, although they ultimately plan to displace Allah with a Man-centered deity.

Of course, the liberal also hates being constrained in any way, and traditional morality flows, as they perceive it, from the Church down. By raising Islam as an alternative to Christendom, the liberal hopes to bludgeon the keepers of morality. Islam can help with the dirty work of crushing the usurper ideologies of Christianity and Judaism, and then, of course, their turn will come.

Then, too, we can look to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who believed not in the rationality of Christendom, but in a mythical Greek paradise ruled by "Dionysian" creative forces - emotionalism and irrationality. These forces were vanquished by the rise of Socratic intellectualism and the coming of Christianity. Nietzsche argued further against a fixed reality in his unpublished work `On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense', claiming that what we think of as truth is merely a convention agreed upon by society, thus freeing Man from the tyranny of concrete reality.

This wild spirit, this vision of the anti-mind slithers throughout liberal thought and can be seen in numerous left-wing positions; being soft on crime, spiritual environmentalism, their admiration for dictators such as Castro and Mao, and in their current love affair with radical Islam. Terrorism is the ultimate irrational force, a violence aimed at random destruction and mayhem. It holds kinship with the bloodlust of the Marxists and Nazis, and, as such, is a ``creative force`` by Nietzschean standards. (Oh, and Nietzsche also hated Christians and Jews, and was a prime inspiration for National Socialism; copies of Thus Spoke Zarathustra were issued to German soldiers during World War One, gaining the interest of a certain corporal...)

A return to the "good old days" of the 7th Century, to a time before paradise was lost to the tyranny of Judeo-Christian intellectualism seems preferable to modern liberals, who have flatly rejected Hobbes` view of primitive life as solitary poor, hard, nasty, brutish, and short. We especially see this in the neo-paganism of the environmentalist movement; they dream of a lost pastoral Eden where mankind could be free of the drudgery of industrial life and the endless intellectual toil. A great many on the Left wish to overthrow the current order, replacing it with this twisted Nietzschean/Rousseauian mirage stolen from the Book of Genesis.

Of course, to those who do not believe in a concrete reality, as many liberals do not, one system is as good as another, and we have no right to judge the Moslem on how he conducts his affairs. Since the Jihadist's reality is equally valid as the Westerner's, we are practicing moral Imperialism if we force our Judeo-Christian moral law on them. This is exacerbated by the fact that they are Third World peoples; many liberals, deep in their hearts, are pulling for what they perceive as the underdog - in this case the terrorist murdering thug-at the expense of their own culture. A racist, sexist, homophobic, power-mad society such as ours deserves to be taught a lesson! Even if the teacher is racist, sexist, homophobic, and power-mad, they aren't Western, Christian, or White! They aren't Dick Cheney! Power to the people!

There is a strain of masochism involved here as well; the white liberal perceives himself as having unfairly benefited from his station in life, having lived well on the backs of the poor. Somebody must be punished for this! He will flagellate himself in his mind, and will support those who will punish his country, because justice demands retribution, and America has lived far too well. If we must endure terrorist attacks to atone for our sins, so be it! Perhaps we should do the decent thing and die; let others have their turn at the table.

Here Socialist thinking comes into play; there is only so much to go around, and we have been hogging it for too long. For those in the Arab world to live better, we must exit the stage. It's only fair!

The Liberal ultimately believes that the culture we have built, the triumph of Judeo-Christian values, is diseased and must be erased. If Islam can do their work for them, so be it. Islam, like the State under Marx, will ultimately wither away, and the paradise which predated Christ and Abraham can be restored. At least they like to think so.

Much like Milton's fallen angels, they believe they have been dispossessed of their rightful station by a tyrannical spiritual entity, and they are determined to repossess their native seat-the fallen pastoral paradise promised them by Rousseau and Nietzsche-via the triumph of their Collective Will. This is their prime mover, their principle motivation. It is why they were so enraged at the loss of their political power, and why they hate the ``usurper`` George W. Bush; they were driven out before they could attain paradise. This concept-lifted from Christian doctrine-that History has an ultimate end in a Humanistic Eden cannot be overstressed; the Left is consumed with this. They feel that, by losing their political power, they have been cast into the Lake of Fire.

"They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
of Paradise, so late their happy seat,

waved over by that flaming brand, the gate

with dreadful faces throng`d, and fiery arms."

Paradise Lost
(Book XVII, verses 642-644)

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And Muhammed is Their Prophet

Timothy Birdnow

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Here is a great essay on why the Left loves Muhammed.

The author argues:

"Islam is different. It stands for something. And here’s what’s really great about what it stands for: It stands for a lot of the things leftists love.

My cousin, who converted from being a Jewish atheist to Christianity, and then became a pastor, spent decades working in the Virginia prison system. Many years ago, he wrote an email to me that stated something very profound about how common it was for prisoners to convert to Islam. What’s significant is that they didn’t do so because they felt remorse for their crimes, repented, and sought redemption. Instead, something very different was going on:

It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals "convert” to Islam in prison. They don’t convert at all; they simply remain the angry, judgmental, vicious beings they always have been. They simply add "religious” diatribes to their personal invective. Islam does not inspire a crisis of conscience, just inspirations to outrage.

And there it is: The "spiritual” nexus between Islam and socialism.

For socialists, Islam is everything they want, plus it answers the big questions: Why am I here?

To serve Allah.

Why shouldn’t I murder, rob, cheat, assault, sleep with my sister, etc.?

You’re free to do so, as long as it benefits Islam.

And then there’s the kicker: What happens at the end?

It’s not the end. You ascend to Paradise. If you’ve been a soldier for the cause, you get a wonderful paradise, plus endless sex with 72 women, a good sales pitch for leftist men.

If you’re a regular guy, you get to live in a wonderful paradise, complete with sex with your "purified” spouses, something that will work for leftist men.

As for women, they get to be young, free of negative emotions, material goods, and surrounded by friends and family…but no sex. For leftist women, riddled with angry emotions and utterly degraded and demoralized by hook-up culture, this may actually end up sounding very good."

I remember reading eighth and nineth century Christian thinkers discussing Islam and it's meteoric rise and this author is correct. These thinkers all said the same thing - Islam appeals to the carnal nature of Man, offers the indulgence of the flesh over the spirit. It is not spiritual except in the academic sense; it is more justification for self-indulgence.

Islam turns our moral failings into "service of Allah". Fighting and warfare are not things we do because we must but become "Holy War" aka Jihad, and thus given the impramateur of God Himself. So those who are violent and enjoy the other fruits of warfare - raping women, destroying things, stealing children, stealing "the enemy's" goods, are freed from moral blame as this is in the service of the Kingdom of Allah. Sex in Islam is the easiest thing imaginable; a man may have four wives (who have a legal share in his estate) but an unlimited number of concubines, meaning he can ball any woman he pleases. And it is particularly incumbent upon him to take the infidel women as part of the campaign to terrorize and ultimately dominate t he kaffirs. So deviant sex and even violent rape are not just excused but celebtated. You are no longer a scumbag abuser of women but rather God's anointed warrior!

Islam allows, nay encourages you to lie, to cheat, to steal, to break oaths and treaties, to oppress women, to rape women and even male children, to betray your benefactors and people who see you as friends, etc.

While I am not saying all Muslims are such monsters (most are just normal people who have been raised Muslim and whose parents likely adopted it because of the pressure exerted on them from their Muslim overlords) I am saying many are and that is because, in the end, Islam makes it so.

(I have to ask; why does Allah require his followers to impose justice on the world? Is he so weak he has to have human beings do it for him? Christianity is quite the opposite; God imposes justice, humans bring word of mercy in the hopes that their neighbors freely choose to serve God. A world of difference, even if on occasion Christians haven't followed their faith.)

But judgmentalism and imposing "justice" which is an excuse for imposing your own will, is quite attractive to Muslims and to Leftists alike. It plays to a very flawed human lust for power and a sadistic desire to abuse those perceived as enemies.

Islam has been described as "Judaism without the Jews" and the characteristics the Left claims to so loath about Jews is prevalaint in Islam in spades. But in true Pharisidic fashion the Left admires Islam and loathes Judaism. The Jews were important to Judaism because they were chosen by God to fulfill a purpose - a purpose of missionarizing without forcing. Islam has the purpose of reproducing too but by hook or by crook. The moral code of the Jews constrains them - the moral code of Islam empowers them.. No Jew ever cut off the head of a non-believer out of a sense of "justice". On the contrary the Jew will generally forgive those who do suc h barbaric acts - as do Christians. And Jews do not proselytize; they rather discourage conversions. They are chosen not to convert people to Judaism but to evangelize the worship of God by example. You don't have to be a Jew to worship God - you DO have to be a Muslim to propertly worship Allah. They will tolerate you if you pay them tribute (just like a Mafia Don) but only up to a point. Eventually they will get back to you about your lack of faith.

At Any rate the Islam/Leftist alliance has many facets. I wrote about some of them in an essay at American Thinker some years back.

Oh, there are a number of similarities between Islam and Leftism. For instance, the first thing the Muslims did when conquering a nation was issuing an order forgiving all debt, public and private. This was very popular with the poor and working classes and many became Muslims as a result. That this was theft seemed immateriall to the Muslims, and nothing good comes of a crime. They also imposed a lot of new taxes (something near and dear to the Left). They thought to change times and laws just as liberals do. And they were (and remain) universalists; the whole world must be subjugated by Islam, just as it must be subjugated by leftism. And I have already discussed the sexual mores. There is a reason why, even though Islam forbids homosexuality, they allow the rape of young boys by Muslim men as in the "dancing boys" of Afghanistan. Also, Islam frowned upon alcohol (although they wink at it) but not harder drugs. Smoking hashish was fine to the Muslims but having wine with dinner not so much. That is EXACTLY like modern liberals, who promote legalizing marijuana and even hard narcotics while waging war against beer and wine.

So why the similarities? I would argue both come from the same father and he ain't God. They are brothers in the service of the adversary.

Or, if you prefer to take religion out of it, they are in the service of the same sort of system and their enemies are the same. Both hate Christianity and Judaism. Both hate free societies. Both hate seperartion of church and state. Both want to empower a strong central government to coerce people into believing what they themselves hold true. It matters not who they are - Muslims, Communists, Socialists (including Nazis and Fascists), etc. the program is always the same. And, as the old Arab proverb says, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

And all of them feel the path to paradise, a long-lost paradise, is blocked by the superstitious, primitive, and judgmental Christians and their Jewish allies.

Broad and easy is the path to eternal damnation.

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