January 19, 2026
The Insurrection Act Needs Updating
From Carlos Velazquez
As much as I see the need for strong federal action and sympathize with President Trump in this matter, I need to add some necessary context to this screenshot.
The Insurrection Act is an old law. Not just old in years, but old in assumptions. It was written for a world where defiance of federal authority was overt, documented, and unmistakable. Governors stood in doorways. Orders were issued on paper. National Guards were openly deployed to block federal law or federal court orders. Responsibility was visible, traceable, and undeniable.
That world no longer exists.
The Insurrection Act could not have anticipated the internet. It could not have anticipated smartphones in every pocket. It could not have anticipated instant text communication, livestreaming, viral video, or real-time coordination across thousands of people with no formal chain of command. It could not have anticipated encrypted messaging apps, disappearing messages, burner accounts, or decentralized networks that can mobilize crowds in minutes and dissolve just as fast. It could not have anticipated social media platforms that algorithmically amplify outrage, nor activist ecosystems that blur the line between spontaneous protest and coordinated interference.
Most importantly, it could not have anticipated plausible deniability as a governing strategy.
Today, officials do not need to issue formal orders to obstruct federal law. They do not need to deploy the National Guard to block anything. They can signal hostility rhetorically, encourage "documentation,” tolerate selective non-enforcement, and allow sympathetic actors to interfere, all while maintaining clean hands and careful language. The obstruction happens anyway, but responsibility is diffused. Intent is implied, not declared. Action is outsourced to crowds, activists, and digital networks rather than state forces.
In earlier eras, this kind of behavior would have required explicit conspiracy and coordination. Today, it happens organically, at scale, and at speed, through tools that did not exist when the statute was written. The law assumes that defiance looks like defiance. Modern defiance looks like ambiguity, omission, and signaling.
That means the Insurrection Act should not be invoked lightly, or that it necessarily applies in every modern conflict. But it does mean the statute is operating with blind spots that did not exist in 1957 or 1963. It was built to handle governors who said "no.” It struggles with governors who never quite say anything at all, but whose words, timing, and tolerance produce the same practical result.
If the Act is to remain relevant in a digital, hyper-connected, polarized society, it needs to grapple honestly with that reality. Otherwise, we are left pretending that modern obstruction must look like a man standing in a doorway, even though power no longer works that way.
In short, the Act needs updating to take into account 21st century conditions.
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Not So Hot
Here is another story in New Scientist which argues that volcanic carbon dioxide output has greatly increased in recent years, much higher than it was in past geological ages. (The author makes the mistake of saying atmospheric carbon dioxide is the sole driver of warming and cooling, when it is demonstrably false; some of the coolest periods in Earth's history have had much higher levels of carbon dioxide, such as the
Meanwhile, new research suggests the high North Atlantic Ocean was not so hot during the Miocene, a period with comparable atmospheric carbon dioxide.
If the water was colder than scientists thought during higher carbon dioxide levels why is it a "planetary emergency" now?
Off course we know the Antarctic is gaining ice mass, both land and sea, and havs recorded regard cold numbers in recent years.
The principle researcher of this study said she lived in the Caribbean and saw life struggling during high temperatures. Hmmm. I suspect she didn't consider how that enormous quantity of life in tropical climates would fare if dumped into cold water. A greater variety of life lives in the tropics for just this reason. Life generally likes warmer weather, not colder. Life adapts to colder but in the end if there was no dangerous competition any life form will gravitate to the warmer, richer zones.
Yes, if it's too hot creatures will struggle; they aren't used to it. But we have life forms that exist in boiling hot water in volcanic vents, so it's what you get used to that matters.
So many scientists view the universe through their own experience and do not actually consider their experience may not be typical.
At any rate climate change theory is far, far from "settled" and an honest person would admit that.
I would point out the Eocene was generally warm but, despite atmospheric carbon dioxide DROPPING to 700 to 800 ppm (double what it is today) an ice age began and the planet cooled WAY down at the Eocene/Oligocene despite these still very high carbon dioxide levels. The onset of "icehouse earth" led to an extinction event.
So much of current climate theory is pretending to far more knowledge than scientists actually have, and speculation now informs most research on the subject rather than facts and an open-minded approach to it. We live in an irrational age.
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New Climate Model Lets Lefties Sue for "Destroying the Planet"
Timothy Birdnow
Well at least they are calling it what it is - a weapon, not a legitimate scientific effort!
From Pseudo Scientist, er, New Scientist:
Yet Pujianto’s case is at the crest of a wave of litigation underpinned by innovative climate attribution models. Climate scientists say the most advanced type of model, called end-to-end attribution, can demonstrate a robust chain of cause and effect from an individual company’s carbon emissions all the way to local communities – no matter where they are.
Whether the studies will stand up in court is now being tested. "The science is evolving very rapidly and that’s allowing for new kinds of legal arguments,” says climate litigation expert Noah Walker-Crawford at the London School of Economics. What’s more, with the recent COP30 climate conference failing to deliver much meaningful action, some activists hope these advanced climate models could offer a powerful new weapon against global warming
It is no more possible to pin climate changes on a specific company than it is to pin salinity in the ocean to human urination. But that isn't going to stop the Gang Green, no sir! They will create flights of fancy supposedly linking a company with the weather and they'll judge shop, find a friendly judge who will instruct a jury in such a way as to make it impossible for a fair outcome to be had
This is politics by law. It's a disgraceful money and power grab. And New Scientist is happy about it.
Shame on them!
The short story (I won't call it an article) goes on to blame all the woes of the world on "climate change" and promotes every unexplained phenomenon on human caused warming (something not even proven as of yet). The dopey author doesn't seem to have ever read newspaper articles from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries about equally bizarre events, things like rains of frogs or whatnot.
This dimbulb doesn't understand that climate is always changing and always has been and we are just along for the ride in most cases. It is extreme hubris to think we are the sole determinant of how warm the planet is or how warm it will be. We had nothing to do with any of it, not the last ice age, not the Holocene warming, not the many warming or cooling periods. But now because we are increasing by a very slight margin atmospheric carbon dioxide (and we are in one of the lowest periods for carbon dioxide in geological history) we are "destroying the planet". Newsflash! The planet did fine before we came and will do fine after we leave and there's not much we can do about it. Even a nuclear war would have only a short-term impact on this planet.
Ths is what passes for science these days!
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January 18, 2026
Walz's Rebel Yell
LTimothy Birdnow
I a stunned; Tampon Timmy Walz has gone full insurrection.
This was done to stop ICE from making raids on illegals.
The word you are looking for is "treason".
Sundance dishes:
According to the Minnesota Dept of Public Safety, Governor Tim Walz has activated the national guard. However, in a statement on their X account the officials note, the guard "are not deployed to city streets at this time, but are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, preservation of property and supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully.”
This is likely a proactive move to block President Trump from invoking the ‘insurrection act’ to stop the chaos being fueled by the governor himself as well as professional leftists in the region.
He's gone full John C. Calhoun.
I don't think it's just to stop Trump from invoking the Insurrection Act but to put boots on the ground to tamper with ICE operations.
This guy is going to HAVE to go to prison and for a long time before this insanity ends.
Sundance continues:
He's right; I suspect just about every official in Minnesota has their hands dirty with the Somali carnival of sleaze. Walz most of all and he no doubt knows a cell awaits him in some high security prison. He's going down swinging. And he's willing to take many lives to do it; he's the very definition of a monster.As federal efforts led by the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) together with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue, the governor and local municipal leaders throughout Minneapolis have continued to call for activists in the street to maintain operations against immigration enforcement and criminal illegal alien arrests.
Underneath all of the state opposition is a matrix of financial fraud purposefully being hidden by the officials throughout the state of Minnesota including Governor Walz himself. In essence, the state government is trying to protect themselves from criminal investigations of fraud by creating chaos as a defense mechanism.
This situation is starting to spiral out of control. We may be in a full-blown civil war by the summer.
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Only the Beginning
Timothy Birdnow
Why America is sca-rude!
Mr Buchanan is the head of the Cignal Group, a top polling company.
He finds that especially white women believe what the media tells them and think violence is acceptable "in the name of righteousness". As he points out this shooting of Renee Good is just the beginning.
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Black Holes Tunnelling Through Our Heads
Timothy Birdnow
They are catching up with me. I've long argued that our universe is probably a decayed black hole and now science seems to think so too, at least this particular research group does.
Of course I couldn't prove it with the mathematics, which is why I am a blogger and not a particle physicist.
The article states:
It is a mathematical connection between these two opposite arrows of time. This reinterpretation has powerful consequences.
"These mathematical bridges not only retain the vision of ER, but also restore the unitarity in curved spacetime,” the study authors added.
For instance, one of the biggest puzzles in physics is the black hole information paradox. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and can eventually evaporate, seemingly destroying all information about what fell into them. This violates a core rule of quantum mechanics, which says information must always be preserved.
The paradox arises because physicists usually describe black holes using only one direction of time. In the new framework, information is not destroyed at the event horizon. Instead, it continues evolving along the mirror, time-reversed component of the quantum state.
From our perspective, it disappears—but at the fundamental level, nothing is lost. The laws of quantum mechanics remain intact, without requiring exotic matter or radical changes to Einstein’s theory.
How this affects black holes, the Big Bang, and the universe itselfIf this picture is correct, its implications go far beyond black holes. For instance, the same time-mirror structure could apply to the entire universe. The Big Bang may not have been the absolute beginning of time, but a quantum "bounce”—a transition between a contracting universe and an expanding one, each with opposite arrows of time.
In this scenario, our universe could be the interior of a black hole formed in a previous cosmos. As that region collapsed, quantum effects prevented a final singularity, causing spacetime to rebound and expand again.
Some traces of the pre-bounce universe—such as small black holes—might have survived and reappeared in our own cosmic expansion. Intriguingly, such relics could help explain part of what we currently call dark matter.
None of this is really new. The "big bounce" universe is an old idea, going back to at least the '60's and probably before that.
And since the Big Bang theorized that the universe started from a "cosmic egg" about the size of Mars it was unquestionably the equivalent of a black hole.
There are other aspects of this too. Wormholes, for instance, are often portrayed to the public as tunnels in spacetime and often used as faster than light highways for imaginative science fiction. But they are extremely small and can only accommodate, say, an electron. They collapse very fast too. (There is a theory that a tunnel diode effect is the creation of a small wormhole that allows an electron to pass through an energy barrier by simply tunneling through it, for example.) These phenomenon (assuming both are different things) is more easily explained if one assumes a fundamental shift in time.
A while back I read about an experiment where scientists got a beam of light to travel backwards along it's trajectory. It did so at a speed far greater than the speed of light, which everyone thought impossible Now this doesn't mean we have proof of concept for a faster-than-light spacecraft drive, nor that Einstein is overthrown; no information could be carried this way, meaning Einstein's relativity is still in tact. But what does it mean? Imagine a particle moving along with the beam of light. What would we see as outside observers? I suspect we'd see the particle in complete reverse, with spin and all other aspects of it reversed aka antimatter. It would seem to be turned to antimatter for a very short time. Was it? No because it is only under these very unusual conditions for a short period. But a particle that is moving backward in time would also appear this way. I think this is a very limited form of time travel. Time outside the event continues to move normally but inside the event it reverses for a moment, and at the same time the light moves faster than light because it is essentially flowing backwards in time and the limits imposed by the fabric of the universe on the beam's velocity is shifted.
I've also wondered if quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation are not related to this. When we split a particle the two parts are identical and remain "entangled" with an action influencing one particle also influencing another. Much thought has gone into the question of how they "communicate". I have long thought they were simply the same particle existing in two separate spaces. Never had any proof of that. But this suggests I may well be right about that.
And this may explain why dark matter is a crock, as it increasingly appears to be thanks to recent research suggesting dark energy does not exist. We know gravity and time are closely related; perhaps the extra gravity we witness is a coefficient of gravity from the past catching up with the universe? Remember, we don't see the universe all at once; we see it in different stages of it's existence depending on how far the light has traveled to get to us. We see our solar system largely in real time (well, within hours anyway) but not the stars in the Milky way and most certainly not the most distant galaxies. The Einstein–Rosen bridge may connect us with past gravitational influences as well as with those of the present.
I don't know but it could explain why there seems to be a bunch of mass hiding from us. We assume that because the universe should be expanding much faster than it is. But to explain the slower expansion we have to postulate a bunch of extra matter, and then to explain how it has expanded as much as it has we have to postulate an opposite force, Dark Energy, to explain THAT. Cosmology increasingly resembles the Medieval argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Seems to me there is a simpler, as-yet unthought of solution.
I don't know and I certainly can't work out the math.
At any rate it's fun to think about even if it twists your brain into knots.
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What Greenlanders Want
Timothy Birdnow
Greenland's populace (Denmark and the E.U.) "they stole our future".
From Red State:
But Greenland's native population may have other ideas.
Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.
Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.
Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.
"I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. "That choice was taken from me.”
Amarok Petersen isn't the only Greenlander to have reason to be unhappy with Danish rule.
Even in adulthood, medical decisions were made without Petersen’s consent. Plagued with problems after the IUD, she had repeated surgeries for unexplained pain. It wasn’t until years later that doctors informed her that her fallopian tubes had been removed in one of the operations in the early 2000s.
Her family also suffered under Denmark’s so-called "Little Danes experiment,” in which Greenlandic children were forcibly sent to Denmark for adoption or institutional care — often permanently separated from their families, she said.
The program, which ran from the 1950s through the 1970s, was part of Denmark’s broader effort to assimilate Greenlandic children, often without parental consent.
I find this interesting because it clearly illustrates the West's obsession with Mlthusianism, with overpopulation and the sneaky underpinning of eugenics that governs the European mind even now, 81 years after the fall of the Third Reich.
I have little doubt Denmark treats the native population like little children, and pesky ones at that. Of course the leadership in Greenland doesn't want to split from the Danes; that is what keeps them in power. But the average person lives on about 3 grand a YEAR and has no real opportunities. Denmark enforces all the E.U. environmental regulations there, no doubt. That means no development, which means no jobs. If you are a Greenlander you are a subsistence farmer or fisherman. That is the best you can hope for.
The article continues:
The island has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to researchers, with an estimated 81 per 100,000 people annually killing themselves.
"They took our resources. They took our bodies. And then they told us to thank them,” she said of Danes. "How do you thank someone who stole your future?”
Usually with bullets but in the case of Greenland I doubt they have any. The Danes have imposed draconian gun control laws on the Greenlanders "for their own safety". Granted, they do drink a lot in Greenland, but what else is there to do? Still, it's a happy coincident, I'm sure, that Greenlanders don't have any weapons (even while there are polar bears and other dangerous critters about) to kick the Viking horde off of the island.
Given the vast amount of wealth that the U.S. will brig them, coupled with the fact that we will impose far fewer nanny state regulations, I have no doubt most Greenlanders would welcome the change to America. Greenland is, after all, an Island that is part of the North American continent and not part of Europe. Europeans are colonizers.
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Former J6 Patriot Stabbed in Riot in Minnesota
Timothy Birdnow
Don't tell me this isn't an insurrection in Minnesota!
Savannah Hernandez on X:
Insane scene out of Minneapolis where anti-Islam activist, Jake Lang, was mobbed, attacked & allegedly stabbed by left wing rioters earlier today.
Reminds me of what BLM used to do to MAGA supporters in 2020.
6 years later the left wing hasn’t changed:
Murdering political enemies is a fine old Leftist tradition and should hardly surprise us.
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Virginia Governor Orders State to Not Cooperate with ICE
Timothy Birdnow
Virginia is going all Minnesota on us with the new Democrat governor signing an executive order to make state law enforcement refuse to cooperate with ICE.
Former Governor Youngkin had issued an eo ordering state cops and the Department of Corrections to cooperate with the feds on illegal aliens. Now this woman has rescinded that order and is going to free illegals who violate the law.
I guess Nabra Hassanen doesn't matter to Governor Spanberger. Miss Hassanen was a17 year old girl from Reston Va. raped and murdered by an illegal alien. But like, RESIST and stuff!
Nor does she care about the 11 year old girl who was raped multiple times by an illegal alien from El Salvador. Nor does she care about the Herndon Va. woman raped by Navarette Romero, an illegal alien. She doesn't seem to give a flying frigg when it's an American hurt by an illegal alien.
Dlemocrats have shown their true colors and it's not red, white, nor blue. RED maybe but not the other two colors.
This is what happens when Republicans don't go to the polls; Spanberger was shown to be a real kook well before the election but the state's GOP had a tepid response and now the Old Dominion is being dominated.
I will say this; Spanberger has to leave Virginia sometime. If she interferes with ICE she would be easy to arrest.
Looks like this is another state gearing up for an insurrection. While they don't have Ft. Sumpter in the state they do have Ft. Beloir and 18 other military bases. Maybe Spanberger can order her national guard to attack one of those? And of course there are always ICE headquarters.
How long before Spannie and the rest of her Democrat cohorts sing "we will hang Donald Trump from a sour apple tree"?
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Minnesota Judge's Ruling Against ICE is a Trap
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a Conservative who just doesn't get it.
This was not and is not about the Law, it's about setting a trap to use for PR and political purposes, nothing less.
From American Thinker:
It’s time to read, not react. A leftist judge ordered ICE to not do something. No surprise there. But the actual order is, shall we say, far less than it appears.
The judge recites several accounts of people supposedly being abused by ICE agents. A common thread runs through the stories. ICE was in the field doing its job. During the event, various agitators began interfering with ICE. The events run from stepping within arm’s reach to do video recording to physically attacking officers in the act of arresting an offender. Along the way, there are multiple accounts of resisting arrest.
Some events are uncorroborated, whereas others are documented by video. In short, the common thread is illegal activity by protesters.
By definition, no illegal activity is peaceful. Assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and interfering with an officer in performance of his duty are all felonies.
But the Left's lawfare warriors will SAY it was peaceful and who is going to argue with them? Certainly not this Biden-appointed judge. No doubt when ICE shoots another person or even pepper sprays them charges will be brought and this judge will issue a contempt citation for ICE and the Administration will eventually win on appeal but that is not the point. This is something designed to gin up the Left, to incite the radicals and give them a false sense of security so they don't stop, and give the media a weapon to use against the Administration. The law doesn't enter ito it.
If it did this judge wouldn't have issued any sort of edict; he would just have pointed out the law is already in place. And if he had examples of lawbreaking he would have said so and forwarded it to the state attorney general.
The article continues:
Judge Mendez ordered that ICE officers in Operation Metro Surge, not the regular ICE officers in Minneapolis, are not allowed to do certain things to "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” At this point we have to ask how that term is defined by the judge. Is it lawful activity that stays out of the officers’ way and doesn’t warn potential targets that ICE is coming? Or is it like the "mostly peaceful protests” in the George Floyd Summer of Love?
The real problem here is definitions. ICE isn’t supposed to "retaliate’ (Injunction item a). It can’t arrest or detain "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” Pepper spray, non-lethal munitions, and crowd dispersal tools are forbidden (c). ICE can’t stop or detain drivers or passengers following ICE vehicles without articulable suspicion that they are acting unlawfully. Simply following isn’t enough (d).
On their face, these orders are a nothingburger. The judge is merely ordering ICE to follow the law. And there is very little, if any, evidence that ICE is breaking the law.
This will come down to a parsing of words in Clintonesque fashion "it depends on what the meaning of is is". This judge has essentially set himself up as arbiter of any action taken by ICE to defend itself.
IF as the author states, there is little to no evidence ICE is not following the law why didn't the judge dismiss the case or find in favor of the feds? It's because he wants the order on record so he can meddle with ICE protocols, and can hand an issue to the Democrats.
He cites Justice Kavanaugh and thinks that is the end of it, but he misses the whole point; it's the initial court ruling/rulings that will matter in terms of public opinion and this judge knows it. He knows he'll be overturned if he cites contempt but that is a small price to pay for the political benefits to be derived from it.
I wish our side would learn how this stuff works. It's not what you have but what the enemy thinks you have, to quote Saul Alinsky. The psychological and propaganda factors often trump the legal or moral, at least where politics is concerned.
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Three Commies Walk into a Bar
Timthy Birdnow
A friend on Facebook posted this. Sums it up nicely:
3 Communists walk into a bar, one orders a $15 mixed drink, one a $10 Martini, and the other a $6 beer. When the bill comes, based on their mantra, they are forced to split the bill equally.
Next week, the three, once again, return to the bar, but this time, they all ask for separate checks, so the bartender asks them, why aren’t they splitting the bill equally, since in communism, everyone pays the same fair share. The three communists reluctantly agree, and once again split the check 3 ways.
The following week, the three communists return, but with a mob of devoted followers, and protest the bartender, to change the prices of all their drinks, to the cheapest drink on the menu.
In fear of his business vandalized or burned down, the bartender agrees. So the following week all the communists come in and enjoy their $6 equally priced drinks, and celebrate the successes of communism.
The Communists continue this for several more weeks, until one Friday they return to the bar, to find it closed, with a sign out front, stating that the bar is out of business.
And that comrades, is how communism works.
Slherrie Long
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Trump Blowing Opportunity in Venezuela
Timothy Birdnow
I think this is a foolish mistake by the President.
His theory seems to be that if he pushes the old, illegitimate regime out there will be civil war and it would "destablilize" the region. But who has been destabilizizing the region all along? It wa Maduro who sought to export the revolution.
The fact is the opposition was duly elected but cheated out of power - and the current junta has no legitimacy to the People of Venezuela nor before the world .
Leave the Communists in power and they will destabilize the region without any help from us
I'm not arguing for an American military intervention with boots on the ground, but we certainly have shown we can take out leaders and force a weakened government out if we choose just using drones and air strikes and covert operations
You don't make deals with the devil but Trump seems to believe he can do so in this instance.
This isn't Iraq. Our problem in Iraq stemmed from the long time lag between Bush threatening invasion and the actual process, which allowed Saddam Hussein to set up a covert network to use guerilla fighting techniques and to move all of his weapons out of country. Also, Iraq because a cause celebre' for jihadists all over the world who poured into Iraq to fight the infidels' and we did nothing about that. Iran poured all sorts of people and weaponry into Iraq, their being a next-door neighbor And Iraq was fought using Rumsfeld's "light footprint" notion which didn't work; the war only turned around when we surged more troops into the region
Venezuela is completely different. No American boots will be on the ground Venezuela has just two friends in the region - Cuba and Nicaragua - and both would have to send aid overseas, a place we have complete control over. Unlike Iraq which could move oil north into Russia the Venezuelans have nowhere to go with it, and oil is the lifeblood of their economy.
And as I pointed out the regime in power has no legitimacy, having stolen the last election. There are a LOT of angry Veezuelans who were disenfranchised. There was no popular rebel movement in Iraq and it was easy to spin it as American imperialism to the public.
Also there is a different cultural and religious outlook in the two countries Iraq was Muslim and Americans were kaffirs, infidels, and as such even those who hated Hussein still couldn't bring themselves to support such as we. Venezuelans are either Christian or non believers and while Hispanic culture is a bit different from ours it's got the same basic roots. They may not like Anglos all that much but it's a completely different mindset. We're just Gringos to them, not enemies of Allah as the Muhammedans see us.
And remember this is a popular uprising; the CIA didn't manufacture it. In fact I suspect the CIA is pushing Trump to take just this course of action.
I get it; Trump has a lot on his plate and probably fears taking on such a big project. But it has to be done at some point. It may be he's waiting until after the elections when he needn't fear a temporary oil price spike hurting the GOP in the midterms.
Oh, and it turns out Maduro was being guarded by Cuban regulars, not Venezuelans. That illustrates just how weak the Communist grip on the country truly is. A medium-sized push will topple it.
Trump stated:
"This partnership between the United States of America and Venezuela will be spectacular one FOR ALL. Venezuela will soon be great and prosperous again, perhaps more so than ever before!”
Uh, how is that going to work when you are leaving the Communists in power? Communists never made any country work except for themselves, and they always export their errors because the only way Communism will succeed in their minds is if everyone is doing it. They know in their hearts their rotten system can't compete with free markets.
This is rather like taking out Adolf Hitler and letting Goehring run Germany; the infection is still there and as hot as ever. You need to sterilize it, denazify. Taking Maduro was a good thing but history is going to judge Mr. Trump harshly for taking such a half-measure. The Communists need to go.
I know there are many good conservatives who want us out of all foreign entanglements, period. But we have NEVER been out of all foreign entanglements; James Monroe, for instance, had the Monroe Doctrine, which committed the U.S. to fight foreign powers intervening in the Western Hemisphere. We had the War of the Barbary Pirates under Jefferson, which the paleocons would be horrified by if Trump were to do the exact same thing for the exact same reasons. We invaded Canada during the War of 1812, Mexico during the Mexican War, and Cuba and other Caribbean islands plus the Philippines during the Spanish American war. Intervention isn't necessarily bad, nor does it necessarily lead to disaster. We have just overused it in recent years, and often on the wrong people.
But Venezuela is in our hemisphere, and it poses a threat to the stability of the region. Trump has a golden opportunity to kick the Communists out and he's blowing it.
History isn't kind to people when they blow it.
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January 17, 2026
How Kathleen Kennedy Wrecked Star Wars
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a good analysis of how Kathleen Kennedy destroyed the Star Wars franchise with her woke feminism, and how she blames the fans for not liking her Karenesque lecturing.
She bemoans the fact that true fans of the Star Wars saga didn't care for much of what she injected into the film and can't understand that "doing something new" as she put it was in fact taking something out - the heart and soul of what made Star Wars such a huge success in the first place.
The appeal of Star Wars was it's return to the roots of American filmmaking. There was a clear demarcation between good and evil. The hero was self-sacrificing and chaste and true. What was right and good was Luke Skywalker's goal. And there was repentence - from Han Solo, from even Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. Men are men and women are glad of it in the originals. The original franchise celebrated the old virtues.
And this was blended with cutting edge technology, making special effects that were amazing at the time.
There was no sex, no drugs, no sleazy underbelly in the film, no trannies or sexual perverts (except insofar as the bad guys sometimes were seen as such - Jabba the Hut was a human slaver who kept women as sex slaves and killed them as he tired of them, but of course he was a giant slug.)
There was heroism and not all the explosions and other gimmicks used by modern filmmakers to cover up their inability to tell a good story.
Kennedy wanted to overturn this, to "modernize" the franchise. The result was that people lost interest. She tore the soul out of the very thing she claimed to love.
Anyway, read the article; it makes great points.
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Trump Scews Up, Appoints Conrad Poos to Peace Panel
Timothy Birdnow
I wonder about Trump's personnel decisions sometimes. Choosing the former Labour Prime Minister and refugee from a Monty Python sketch is just a terrible idea.
If anyone is a candidate for "upper middle class twit of the Year" it's Mr. Blair. He is basically Conrad Poos and his dancing teeth.
Along with Blair Trump has appointed to his "Peace Council" World Bank President Ajay Banga, an Indian-born American businessman; billionaire US financier Marc Rowan and other deep state/internationalist types, the very people from whom we are trying to rid ourselves.
You may remember that Tony Blair was one of the principle architects of the "Roadmap to Peace" in 2002, which only made things worse. The cornerstone of that plan was the creation of a Palestinian state - something untenable to Israeli security as it would only be a weapons platform to attack Israel. Yet he believed in that deeply. It's a fool's game.
There is no reason to believe Blair will offer any new ideas to a situation that has been essentially stagnant for decades. The "peace process" has been little more than a huge exercise in diplomatic onanism with nothing to show for it. Blair presents more of the same.
Not sure what Trump is doing with this but he seems to not see that putting someone who is opposed to his value set and ideas in a position of authority is setting himself up for failure. Trump has a huge blind spot in that regard.
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