Yearly Archives: 2020
NO COMPLACENCY – AND NO BEING GASLIGHTED EITHER
Journalistic toadies tossed him softball questions that had been pre-cleared with Biden’s staff. He still screwed it up, lapsing into incoherence several times during the 28-minute presser.
After this debacle, it may be another 89 days before Biden emerges from his basement again. Gaslighting between now and election day will be surreal.
The leftist narrative most at odds with reality is that Slow Joe can beat President Trump.
AMERICA, WE ARE LEAVING
This is the hardest thing I have written.
I grew up in a law enforcement family. My father worked his way up to the rank to Captain at the Ft. Smith, Arkansas Police Department. As I kid I remember going with him on Friday to pick up his check and I was in awe of these super heroes he worked around.
They were funny and fun to be around. Men and women of all races all with the same mission, to make the community safer. After college, I was proud to become a police officer myself. 27 years has passed and if you would have told me the condition of law enforcement today, I would have never believed you.
It’s not that law enforcement has changed for the worse but everything around it has. This why we are leaving, America. You’ll soon be on your own.
THE SULTAN ASTRONOMER
You’re looking at something historically and scientifically astonishing. It is what remains of an astronomical observatory built 600 years ago – in 1420 – by a Sultan in Central Asia who loved science and mathematics more than war and conquest.
Born Mirzo Taraghay, he is known to history as Ulugh Beg (“Great Ruler,” 1394-1449).
Grandson of the nomadic conqueror Tamerlane (1336-1405) who devoted his life to war upon other peoples as did his ancestor Genghiz Khan, Ulugh Beg ruled over Sultanate of Turan, known to the Romans as Transoxiana – the land between Central Asia’s two great rivers, the Oxus (now the Amu Darya) and the Jaxartes (the Syr Darya), from his capital of Samarkand.
It was in Samarkand, the most fabled oasis of the Silk Road, that Ulugh Beg built his circular observatory, three stories high of white marble.
WHAT WOKE WHITES DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT BLACKS
Before I begin, let me introduce myself:
Yep, I’m not white, I’m a black guy born and raised in Indiana, now living in Chicago. Okay, let’s get started.
This month’s protests started out as a black movement against police brutality, but they have a different look now. In many cases, whites have taken over. They apologize for their “white privilege” and, in at least one case, wash black people’s feet to expiate their collective sins.
Celebrities, athletes and corporate America followed suit. Why? To find out, I had to hear what whites were saying.
IS TRUMP FIGHTING BACK?
Starting to fight back
Support for President Trump among older white voters is declining, polls indicate.
I suspect such slippage as there has been is chiefly because many older Americans share the view of Tucker Carlson and some other conservative pundits that the president isn’t doing enough to protect us from the Marxist mobs.
“If you do not protect (your people) – or worse than that, if you seem that you can’t be bothered to protect them, then you’re done,” Carlson said in a monologue after the rioting in Washington D.C.
Watching arrogant, ignorant punks and thugs loot and burn and tear down national monuments with apparent impunity fills me with rage. I’d love to see cops wade into these mobs with truncheons swinging, crack some skulls.
But as my rage subsides, I remember this…
IT’S TRUMP’S CHOICE TO WIN OR LOSE
The 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, those voters were leaning to reelect President Trump, largely on the powers of incumbency and a near-record vibrant economy.
Then came the contagion, the lockdown, the recession, and the collective madness of looting and arson, which in turn led to the present anarchy of statue toppling, cancel culture, name-changing, and McCarthyism 2.0.
Of course, a president is blamed for chaos on his watch even if he did not create the chaos. He either stops it and is praised as a winner or, like Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980, is written off as a loser.
The hour of reckoning is here and either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win the swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers [Jared Kushner, anyone?] and lose the country.
NASCAR COMMITS SUICIDE
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/20
The most heinous perversion of symbolic art in world history is that of the Swastika – Sanskrit for “the goodness of existence.” This Roman mosaic in Tarragona, Spain, is 2,000 years old, yet the Swastika is far older – carved onto mammoth ivory by Ice Age hunters in Ukraine 12,000 years ago.
Why from time immemorial has it represented eternity, prosperity, the centeredness of all that is? Look up into the sky on a clear dark night. All people have studied the heavens for eons. You could always know where you were by finding North, for the two front stars of what we call the Big Dipper point to it – always.
The Greeks called it Mega Arktikos, the Great Bear – why we call Far North the Arctic today. The ancients saw the Bear every year rotating around Celestial North – now occupied by Polaris, the North Star – through all four seasons, while all the stars in the sky circled around it every night. What do you see in this depiction of that seasonal rotation?
Here we go with another HFR mind-blow!
AMERICA’S CASTRATED GENERALS AND CUCKOLDED EXPERTS
If Donald J. Trump is re-elected to a second term as president, will that victory finally be enough to break the back of a military and policy “elite” who have surrendered to the anti-American mobs and the Democrat Party who made them possible?
It’s a good question. Here’s more.
Who does our military serve?
Are they subordinated to some ineffable “conventional wisdom” about justice and racial harmony? Do they march to the beat of a “politically correct” agenda defined by the organizations like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or to the nostrums of ivy league grandees?
Or are they under the command of the citizen America elects to hold the rank of their commander-in-chief?
DEFUND THE THOUGHT POLICE
Due process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement.
These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, literally. Anyone who dares push back, perhaps with a mild tweet saying “All lives matter,” faces immediate censure.
In this perilous environment, the most frenzied voices do more than dominate the public square. They monopolize it by silencing dissent. They have received full-throated support from the tech giants that control electronic discussion and the media giants determined to shape the narrative rather than report the news.
The “thought police” are on patrol and ever-vigilant, twirling the twin batons of guilt and moral superiority. They need to be defunded.
EXPLAINING TRUMP’S CHESHIRE CAT GRIN ON SEATTLE
It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.
That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.
The libs’ plan to win in November corresponds to Trump’s plan to crush them yet again. Here’s how and here’s why. You’re going to enjoy this.
CONSERVATIVE GUTLESS WONDERS
BLM/Antifa proto-hominids attack Jackson statue (6/22)
When I see the images from Lafayette Square on Monday night (6/22) I keep wondering, where are the conservative leaders who have said so much and done so little to defend our history?
It was a multi-ethnic group of working class DC cops who stood guard protecting Andy Jackson’s statue, their facemasks flecked with the spittle from woke white women. Being taunted by woke white men with man buns. And getting called a traitor to their race.
What I want to see right now more than anything is elected officials and community leaders who are willing and ready to link arms with these cops and physically take part in cleaning up this mess and defying the mob.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MADNESS ENDS?
When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when?
There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both.
When Normal People Grow Weary
One is when “average” people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy—and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots.
Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience. At some point, tonight’s looting rioting hero on on CNN, becomes tomorrow’s commonplace, unnoticed felon.
“LOGIC IS AN ENEMY AND TRUTH IS A MENACE”
Watching it today is a stark reminder that what we Americans are experiencing, the violence that is tormenting Democrat-run cities throughout America, is not particularly new. The totalitarian left has forever been trying to eliminate those of us who rage against the dying of the light.
Serling was beyond prescient when he wrote the screenplay for this episode. He was a true visionary. He somehow envisioned the future we now inhabit — an era in which those who "have a mind" are deemed obsolete.
NOT A BIT
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/19/20
Juneteenth, schmoonteenth. The only solace for a week as ghastly as this is comic relief.
Yet this was a week that grief for what has happened to America is washing over any hope for her. Take this heartbreaking story (6/14): Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears for Children of Fallen Police Officers Receives Death Threats for Her Kindness to Police.
This is but one example of so many overwhelming us now that makes it clear: November 3rd is no longer a choice between Republican and Democrat. It is a choice between Decency and Depravity, Freedom and Slavery, Civilization and Savagery. A future or no future at all.
As always, the HFR provides solutions to how achieve the formers and reject the latters.
AFRICAN SUNSET
This really isn’t photoshopped – it’s what a sunset actually looks like on the Luangwa River in Zambia. Best way to enjoy it is with a gin-and-tonic Sundowner with good friends on a dream Africa safari. Zambia is an undiscovered gem, the best safari country in all Africa right now.
Fabulous luxury lodges, iconic animals of Africa in amazing profusion, and much less expensive than the well-known safari regions elsewhere. I told you all about our Africa Dream Safari in January. It filled up fast – but then you know what happened to us and the whole world.
We’ve rescheduled it with new dates, August 1st to 11th. We can now take one, possibly two more couple(s) and maybe one single. Enjoy the description and all the cool photos below, and if you’re serious about joining us, email me at [email protected] for a special discount I may be able to offer you.
THE COMING URBAN EXODUS
[Note by JW: this article of Dan Henninger is politely implicit, which is here made helpfully explicit in bold. Enjoy]
Among the most durable of those institutions is what some call “the great American city.” America’s cities are indeed a wonder—built quickly from nearly nothing across a vast continent into a unique story of social and economic success.
We may now be on the cusp of a great reordering of the nation’s population as many people decide it is time to separate themselves and their families from the social, political and moral turbulence of this country’s large Democrat-controlled urban areas.
People with all sorts of political beliefs are going to get out because they are watching Democrat-controlled city after city reach a tipping point of social disorder and political disorganization.
In the past three months it has become clear that modern urban Democrat progressivism is politically incompetent and intellectually incoherent.
THE NEW BARBARIANS
Bamiyan Buddha before and after Taliban barbarism
Barbarism has a history as long as civilization. The Roman Empire in later years was sacked by various barbarian tribes. In the 13th century, the Mongol Horde destroyed civilizations along the Silk Road to the gates of Europe (Vienna) and much of China and Korea.
In recent times, the Nazi barbarians, Soviet Communist barbarians, Chinese Communist barbarians, and the Taliban barbarians of Afghanistan all undertook a reign of terror to consolidate power.
The New Barbarians of BLM, Antifa, and their supporters in academia, the media, and the Democrat Party are acting true to form.
DEMOCRATS RELEASE THE KRAKEN
Democrats subsidize Antifa Communists and BLM thugs and make excuses for their violence in the hopes the disorder they cause will hurt President Trump in November.
But the monsters they’ve let loose on society are more interested in tearing down the system than in perpetuating Democrat control of it.
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson won 61.9 percent of the popular vote. Four years later his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, got just 42.7 percent.
What happened in between were race riots, and “anti-war” riots and bombings instigated by Antifa’s Commie predecessors such as the Weathermen.
HEY, BLM! WHERE’S MY CHECK?
Marxists seek to destroy the history of the nations and peoples they hope to enslave, because if you don’t know where you came from, you don’t know who you are. And if you don’t know how things were back then, you don’t know how far we’ve come.
History doesn’t repeat itself. But people who are ignorant of history tend to make the same mistakes their ancestors did. The study of history, in context, is essential to progress.
After genocide, slavery has been mankind’s most egregious sin. And after prostitution, the most ubiquitous. Slavery has been practiced by every tribe on every continent since the beginning of time.
Marxists imply slavery was especially horrible in America, which is the opposite of the truth.
THE DEMOCRATS’ ONGOING SYSTEMIC RACISM
Facts: America is accused of racism, of holding racial minorities back by way of system-wide white supremacism, and yet Jews, black Nigerians, Indian Americans (from India), and Asians are more successful in America than whites, and their respective imprison rates are lower than whites.Derek Chauvin was a racist cop,
a registered Democrat,
working for a Democrat Police Chief
voted into office by Democrat voters,
in a Democrat controlled city,
in a Democrat controlled state.
He had 18 complaints against him and was let off multiple times by Democrat prosecutor,
now Democrat Senator and failed Democrat presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar.
But somehow, it's all Trump's fault?!
How is it possible in a country that we’re told is riddled with the cancer of white supremacism for those four groups to enjoy a higher standard of living and more success than their all-powerful, white oppressors?
The asking of the question answers the question.
YES, THEY REALLY ARE… GONE WITH THEIR MINDS
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/20
Evil Eye pendants, Khiva, Uzbekistan, Central Asia ©Jack Wheeler
Welcome to the Root Cause HFR. Libtard Groupthink’s mantra is the demand to solve the “root causes” of what they hate about America. That turns out to be what they call the “systemic racism” hardwired into America’s DNA from the inception, at which they peg the year 1619.
This is going to be a different HFR. Rather than itemizing and discussing the significant events of the week, we’ll be exposing the root cause of the whole dog’s breakfast that’s driving America insane right now – either cowardly or criminally so.
For it turns out that the Libtard DemFascisti are right – the root cause problem is systemic racism, but it is the opposite of what they think it is. Thus here is the explanation of the real systemic racism that is killing America.
Veteran TTPers will be familiar with this, and why it is embodied in the pendants pictured above. Not so much for our newer members. Reminder or revelation, what follows needs to be clearly understood by every American patriot if we are going to cure our country.
OUR GUTLESS REPUBLICANS AS WE DESCEND INTO MADNESS
The day after the horrific death of George Floyd on May 25, the rioting began in Minneapolis. It was violent, destructive, and murderous. Tragically, the death of this one man at the hands of one particular bad cop became an opportunity for the demolition of the city. Hundreds of small businesses, many of them minority-owned, were destroyed.
Like previous riots, the rioters have set their own communities back decades. The riots spread to New York; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Chicago; Santa Monica; Beverly Hills; and elsewhere. There have been protests in nearly every other city in America. Hundreds of millions of dollars in losses due to looting and damage to buildings have been incurred.
The question is, where on Earth are the Republicans?
Why has there been no press conference with every Republican in the House and Senate standing together to denounce all this violence? To passionately defend our police? Why are they cowering in silence?
THE COVID-19 RACKET TO DESTROY SMALL BUSINESS
Politicians, when they are running for office, claim they love and support small businesses — but many of them lie.
Over the last three months, the political class has waged an intense war against those people who have risked their savings and countless time and effort to build viable small businesses — including personal and business services, restaurants, etc.
Business owners were told that they must shut down because of the spread of COVID-19 — and that mitigation actions such as distance limitations and enhanced cleaning would not be enough — unless, of course, you happen to have a big business like Walmart, Target, a major food chain, Home Depot, etc.
The big-store chains love the fact that politicians have made it illegal for smaller enterprises to compete with them. Do you think the politicians might be rewarded for doing the dirty work for the big guys during this political fund-raising cycle?
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS FALLEN AND CAN’T GET UP
On Monday (6/08), Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat leadership became the living embodiment of a tagline symbolizing helpless frailty.
WE OWE US – BLACK LIVES MATTER OWES REPARATIONS TO THEMSELVES
He owes $14 trillion to himself
Robert Johnson, notes Wikipedia, is the first Black American Billionaire. He made it on his own. Only in America could he have achieved this. Yet on June 1st, he had the pathological effrontery to spit on his country in order to curry favor with – and avoid the envy of – the racist thugs of Only Black Lives Matter.
On CNBC, he demanded that the US Government – meaning taxpayers like you and me – pay $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to “help reduce racial inequality.”
The incoherent racism of this is testimony to how the fear of being envied can turn even brilliantly successful businessmen’s brains into mush. So let’s straighten Bob out.
We’ve been here before. So much so that in TTP back in February 2004 – yes, over 16 years ago – I wrote We Owe Us: The Real Case for Reparations. We’re going to slightly revise it for today.
“BLACK LIVES MATTER IS A JOKE”
[On Sunday May 31, naturalized US citizen from Cameroon in West Africa, Nestride Yumga confronted BLM protestors in Washington DC. “Black Lives Matter is a joke. You are the racists,” she told them. “Go to Chicago. They don’t have schools, and they die every day. They don’t matter because you can’t get attention from that… You guys are hypocrites, attention seekers. No one is a victim here. The only victim here is George Floyd.” The video of her went so viral that she was invited to write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, published yesterday (6/08). Here is the video – her op-ed follows.]
TEN RULES FOR POSTMODERN RIOTING
The “peaceful protests” against the terrible brutalization and death of George Floyd soon either themselves turned violent or, in many cases, were hijacked by Antifa operatives and opportunistic looters or both.
It was certainly not as alleged a “small number” who destroyed swaths of New York, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, or Philadelphia.
After watching hours of such footage of mayhem and destruction, one can glean a few rules that the rioters apparently followed quite religiously. And they are often disconcerting if not bizarre. Here is a sample of 10.
THE SCUM OF AMERICA
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/05/20
The irony is almost unbearable – American heroism in space, Anarcho-Fascist violence tearing American cities apart below.
Shortly after witnessing the successful SpaceX launch last Saturday (5/30), the President delivered a remarkable address at the Kennedy Space Center.
I have waited many years for such a presidential declaration. My Aeschylus and America in 2004 expressed it in the section on “Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong” – that we had a failure of nerve in the face of the rest of humanity’s envy for the greatest achievement in the history of mankind, America’s landing a man on the Moon.
We retreated from space, from Vietnam, from everywhere. Ronald Reagan rescued us, then proceeded to achieve the impossible once again, America ridding the world of the Soviet Union to peacefully win the Cold War. We’ve been retreating from that heroic pinnacle ever since. Until, that is, we rejected retreat and strove for greatness instead as we did with Ronald Reagan, and elected Donald Trump.
SEND IN THE TROOPS
Senator Tom Cotton
[New York Times journos are in “open revolt” over the egregiousness of publishing a view opposing theirs. TTP salutes Senator Cotton for his courage. This op-ed was in the NY Times yesterday 6/03]
This week, rioters have plunged many American cities into anarchy, recalling the widespread violence of the 1960s.
These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives. Many poor communities that still bear scars from past upheavals will be set back still further.
One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers. But local law enforcement in some cities desperately needs backup, while delusional politicians in other cities refuse to do what’s necessary to uphold the rule of law.
WHEN WILL THE KNEELING STOP TO THE BIG LIE OF THE FASCIST LEFT?
One of the more disturbing images to emerge in the past few days has been of police officers and National Guardsman kneeling — effectively bowing down — before the mob.“Black lives matter until a black woman gets pregnant”
--observation among pro-life black women
These men and women who represent the forces of law and order claim they are kneeling in solidarity, but what they're doing looks remarkably like surrender.
The reason they are doing so is almost certainly because they believe the Big Lie that leftists are selling — namely, that law enforcement is causing a black "genocide."
While it's true that there is black genocide in America, it's not coming from law enforcement. It's coming straight from Planned Parenthood, the Democrats' most sacred organization.
WAS IT EVER REALLY ABOUT THE VIRUS?
What happened to social distancing rules in lockdown cities?
Coronavirus has been the most searched term on Google in 2020. Suddenly, for the last several days, three-quarters of the top trending Google searches relate to the country-wide riots over the death of George Floyd. Virtually no searches of the Chinese coronavirus.
Twitter provides another barometer. Of the top trending Twitter topics for these days noted above, a third were tied to the riots, but nothing regarding the Wuhan flu.
How could such a black swan event disappear from the news so quickly? This is another example of Rush Limbaugh’s “drive-by media”, quickly driving past a story that is no longer of use or relevance to the DNC media apparatus.
Was the past four months of media hysteria and panic really about the virus? Or was it instead a means to a desired end?
NO LONGER RESISTANCE, IT’S INSURRECTION THAT MUST BE STOPPED COLD
After nearly four years, we’ve arrived at the end game, the final, violent cry of the “resistance” as it continues to try to overturn the results of the 2016 election and tip the United States of America irreversibly toward anarchy and socialism.
Aided and abetted by the mainstream media and the majority of Democrat politicians, the current unrest sweeping the country is being presented as “dissent” and “protest” but is, in fact, insurrection. It’s time to put it down, hard.
Although the media would have you believe otherwise, we’ve been down this road as a nation before, and dealt with insurrection decisively. It’s time for President Trump to do the same – and there is no question that he has the law on his side.
WHO IS ORGANIZING THE ANARCHO-COMMUNIST RIOTERS?
The Death-by-Cop of George Floyd in Minneapolis was grotesque. That the people of Minneapolis have turned out to protest is understandable.
But is it really the citizens of Minneapolis who have set the city on fire, burning down small businesses as well as the police precinct building, libraries, etc.? Who are those masked men in black with secret-service quality ear-pieces, military grade gas masks and backpacks full of Molotov cocktails?
They are very likely professional rioters, recruited, transported and paid by the likes of some George Soros front group or other anonymous Cloward-Piven devotees who share Soros’ hatred of America and want to see this nation bought to its knees.
TRUMP SHOULD NOT SAVE DEMOCRATS FROM THEMSELVES
The same Democrats who just a few weeks ago threatened beach walkers, churchgoers, and other disobedient social distancers are giving a wink and a nod to arsonists, looters, and attempted murderers.
Democrats belong to the Party of Lawlessness. No wonder Democratic politicians only give lip service in condemning the looters; they share a mutual contempt for the ideals on which the country was founded and a common mission to fundamentally transform the country and all its institutions to yield to their America-hating point of view.
Why, then, should we be compelled to rescue them as violence continues? Why should we not watch in smug satisfaction as they are hoisted with their own petard?
WHAT WE ALL MUST DO RIGHT NOW
Adley Stump delivers the world’s best pandemic advice. So obviously clearer and more informative than anything you hear on cable or network news.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/29/20
These two pictures of Memorial Day Commemoration on Monday (5/25) have starkly contrasting messages. The one above projects courage to live without needless fear, the one below projects the necessity of needless fear.
Patricia McCarthy in her The Mask Police of the Left this week (5/27) notes that we didn’t have this virtue-signalling tyranny when the Chicom-Democrat-Media Virus was at its peak. Now that we’re opening up and we know it’s no more or even less lethal than seasonal flu, all of a sudden everyone has to wear a mask. Why? Because:
