Victor Davis Hanson
SICK SCHOOLS – AND THE CURE
The sheer madness that has gripped many elite universities since October 7 and the butchery, rape, torture, and mutilation of some 1,000 Israeli civilians by Hamas murderers have shocked the public at large.
Campus craziness is, of course, nothing new. But quite novel for campuses was the sudden jettisoning of prior campus pretenses. Universities have brazenly dropped their careful two-faced gymnastics to reveal at last–unapologetically, proudly, and defiantly–the moral decay that now characterizes American higher education.
Recent news stories have exposed this rot to the world, and will have grave repercussions for higher education in the next few years.
HAMAS CHIEF OFFERS UP BLOOD OF GAZA’S PEOPLE FOR MOTIVATION
So is this a man, or a maggot?
He "needs..."
What a needy [expletive deleted].
Normal nations ... and men ... will fight and sacrifice themselves for their women and children. That's the textbook definition of masculinity. That's what Israel is doing as it seeks to defend itself against the monstrous terrorists who laid waste to the land and tortured and murdered 1,400 innocent women, children, elders and many others.
Now this creep wants to sacrifice his fiefdom's women and children, presumably because he can't motivate his minions to fight for his repellent cause otherwise.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/27/23
MAGA is in the House
Holy Bananas, Batman!
Many conceptualizations of the world and how it works fell during October. Reality is settling in.
The leaders of both parties in the House of Representatives felt so smug in their belief that the people's will could be ignored forever, three weeks of backstabbing and double-dealing failed to return Kevin McCarthy and the Uniparty to the speakership.
Instead, out of nowhere, a Northern Louisiana MAGA Republican assumed control. No! No! No! The RINOs cried out, but the deed was done.
The war between Hamas and Israel is growing hotter at the same time that the Israel-Saudi economic treaty collapsed. The war has profound global financial implications. Empires are on the line.
Russia has stopped firing cruise missiles. Are they out? Their precision strike capability is falling just as their former pals in Armenia are under threat once again by Azerbaijan. This time, however, Iran and Turkey might become directly involved.
And what of all the hostile migrants flooding Western nations? They were supposed to become homosexual-loving, Democrat-voting, dues-paying union members. Instead, they are bringing Jihad to Main Street.
Big labor is showing its muscle, and the economy feels a pinch. However, the re-industrialization of America will be a non-union, deskilled economic miracle. Who needs 1,000 workers in an engine plant when the government is hell-bent on eliminating internal combustion engines? The media says the unions are about to break the auto industry; The opposite is about to happen.
Come on over to this week's HFR. Everything is changing.
SKYE’S LINKS 10/26/23
Loss of Confidence
A loss of confidence is blowing through the land. Universities, as the Great Rush Limbaugh used to say, produce skulls filled with mush. The academia's response to the Hamas attack on Israel portrays the conflict as the oppressors vs. the oppressed instead of right vs. wrong, murder and rape vs. peace. Do universities add value to society or drain resources? This is a serious question.
The SCOTUS gave the big okey-dokey to unlimited government censorship and propaganda within the United States. Citizens are returning the favor by disbelieving just about every government narrative online.
TTP is technically part of the dark web because our content is not searchable by Google. TTP is "dark" to the censors. This is good.
The lawfare against Trump continues. Overall, Trump still defeats his enemies, but the globalists intend to destroy him. We look at the Levant Bronze Age and several globalist empires' end-states in relation to modern times. Hint: History rhymes, and a Dark Age follows.
Economic conditions continue to deteriorate even though official government GDP figures say otherwise. The number of transactions is collapsing, yet the inflation-fueled aggregate price of transactions is increasing. So far, in 2023, 13 large pulp and paper plants have closed and announced closure in the USA and Canada because the corrugated box industry is in a severe recession. The large mills will be gone forever, as will their forest stewardship. There will be more forest fires. The big issue is the tremendous decline in e-commerce. Collapsing Amazon orders are reflected in the collapsing corrugated box market.
Come on over to Skye's links. We cover culture, politics, war, and economics this week.
THE SICKNESS OF OUR UNIVERSITIES – AND THE CURE
The sheer madness that has gripped many elite universities since October 7 and the butchery, rape, torture, and mutilation of some 1,000 Israeli civilians by Hamas murderers have shocked the public at large.
Campus craziness is, of course, nothing new. But quite novel for campuses was the sudden jettisoning of prior campus pretenses. Universities have brazenly dropped their careful two-faced gymnastics to reveal at last–unapologetically, proudly, and defiantly–the moral decay that now characterizes American higher education.
Recent news stories have exposed this rot to the world, and will have grave repercussions for higher education in the next few years.
The Nazis once desecrated the tombstones of dead Jews. Our campuses have updated that hatred. Students now tear down pictures of Jewish captives kidnapped or murdered by Hamas. University presidents do not condemn the hate-filled rallies supporting the killing of Jews in Israel. Here’s the cure for it all.
ANOTHER NAIL IN THE GLOBAL WARMING COFFIN
Drilling ice cores on the Greenland ice cap
Statistics Norway, the government agency that produces official statistics for that country, released a report last month titled “To What Extent Are Temperature Levels Changing Due To Greenhouse Gas Emissions?” The report concludes:
“[T]he results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations. In other words, our analysis indicates that with the current level of knowledge, it seems impossible to determine how much of the temperature increase is due to emissions of CO2.”
The Norwegians’ defection is important because climate alarmism can survive only if it is deemed an official “consensus,” so that people who point out inconsistent facts can be censored. Once the purported consensus is punctured, it rapidly becomes clear that the Climate Emperor is unclothed.DOES IRAN REALIZE ITS OWN GROWING DANGER?
Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high.
It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb—and might use it soon. The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China.
Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of all Muslims. It gloats that it is feeding the Russian war-machine in Ukraine by exporting its own drones.
But above all, Iran is giddy over the appeasing Biden administration.
This mollification of Iran also led its appendages Hamas and Hezbollah to believe that if any of them started a war against Israel, then Iran would guarantee their victory, the U.S. would do nothing— and likely force Israel to do the same nothing.
Yet a delusional Iran still is not fully aware how its loud bragging about and support for its client Hamas’s barbaric killing of Jewish civilians have put it into an unprecedented dangerous predicament.
THE GAZA-UKRAINE KREMLIN CONNECTION
On October 7, following the brutal attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict began evolving into a full-scale war. The Kremlin’s propaganda does not hide the fact that this escalation in the Middle East benefits the Russian state. This raises questions as to what real benefits the Israel-Hamas war brings Moscow beyond its use in propaganda.
Russian narratives regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are closely related to the complex situation the Kremlin found itself in leading up to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow used highly controversial conspiracy theories, with anti-Semitic undertones, to justify its aggression. These theories included the idea that the West was determined to destroy Russia at any cost, as it represents the last bastion of Orthodox Christian values resisting globalization (Tsargrad.tv, November 2, 2022).
At the onset of Russia’s invasion, similar conspiracy theories began to proliferate on mainstream Telegram channels. These theories described an alleged Jewish plot aimed at “expanding living spaces at the expense of Ukraine and Russia” (Т.me/kremlinprachka, April 23, 2022).
A foundational myth of Russian propaganda is distinguishing the “good Jews” from the “bad Jews.”
SKYE’S LINKS 10/19/23
Elon cheers for the Second Amendment. That is a semi-auto Barrett .50 BMG rifle that Musk is shooting. Reach out and touch someone at a mile - if you really know what you are doing. Note: the link has the video clip of Musk hip-firing multiple rounds.
Anti-Gunners About To Meltdown After Elon Musk Says 'Armed Citizens Vital For Democracy's Defense'
The First Amendment is poised to win again, while the Lefts’ contortion of the Fourteenth, along with climate change and net zero are all sinking like the Titanic. And wait ‘till you see how brilliantly Trump is skirting that fascisti judge’s gag order. Ready, set, go for Skye’s Links!
BIDEN’S WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE STRENGTHENED IRAN AND HAMAS
The barbaric and evil terrorist attacks on Israel are a horrific reminder that the world is safe when America is strong—but when we have a weak president in the White House, the costs can be greater than our worst nightmares.
If we hope to prevent further shedding of innocent blood, the United States must learn the painful lessons of these savage atrocities.
As we pray for the Israeli people in this hour of anguish and give them our complete and total support, we must also confront the absolute failure of the Biden administration, whose incompetence and ignorance invited this heinous and deadly assault on civilization itself.
The only thing Biden is good at is the weaponization of the justice system against his political opponents. Every step of the way, Joe Biden has empowered and emboldened America's enemies the world over—and clearly none more so than the terrorist group Hamas, and their bloodthirsty sponsor, the villainous regime in Iran.
THE PHYSICS OF WHY CARBON DIOXIDE DOES NOT CAUSE WARMING
The climate-change scheme and net-zero carbon policy are based upon a false notion that carbon dioxide and other gases cause global warming. They do not. We don’t have to guess about this. We have empirical and scientific proof.
I owned a Weights and Measures gas-physics test-and-repair facility and conducted tests. We learned gas physics from engineers at factories that manufacture gas-physics instruments. They must understand gas physics, or their instruments won’t work.
Here’s why gas physics shows that carbon dioxide cannot cause global warming – because carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas.
IT’S ‘1984’ ALL OVER AGAIN IN BIDEN’S ‘POLICE STATE’
But if it had, it’s doubtful that the FBI would have been much use, since it’s so distracted with an exaggerated domestic terrorism crisis in which conservatives are the bad guys and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a terrorist attack worse than 9/11.
This is the “ultra-MAGA-semi-fascist” threat Joe Biden likes to rail against and that he needs for his election campaign to divide the country further, and to justify indicting his main political rival, locking up Donald Trump supporters, and imposing an Orwellian level of mass surveillance, censorship and ideological indoctrination on Americans.
The “Police State” being created by this president, or those pulling his strings, is the title of a chilling new documentary by conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, which opens next week in New York and theaters across the country (trailer above).
In the words of former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie, who features in the film: “We’re becoming China plus drag queens. [It’s a] hyper-ideological version of the police state that’s animated by wokeness … the worst of all worlds.”
WHAT ISRAELI VICTORY WOULD LOOK LIKE
The Fate of Hamas
“I’m driving south to the Gaza corridor, the place Hamas invaded on Saturday (10/07),” Yonah Jeremy Bob says in our first phone conversation. “But it’s a straight drive, so let’s talk.”
Mr. Bob is an expert on the Israeli shadow war with Iran, the subject of his new book, “Target Tehran,” and he covers the Israeli intelligence agencies and military for the Jerusalem Post. He’s busy tracking down answers to the questions every Israeli wants answered: How could this have happened? What’s the plan? Who will pay?
Saturday’s shock gave way to rage, “and then rage crystallized into a very steely determination,” Mr. Bob says. “It’s the thing Israel’s enemies never fully understand. They think of Israel as a weak Western state, where people care about their looks and money and all the things that will make them flee rather than fight.” Hamas often scoffs that “the Jews love life.” But that’s why they fight for it.
He sees a two-part story here. “Hamas took its best shot and it won big on the first day,” he says. “But it really doesn’t have anything else. It isn’t going to accomplish anything else close to what it has already done. From here on, it’s going to be Israel demolishing them.”
SKYE’S LINKS 10/12/23
Is Elon Musk a Superhero or Supervillain? He could be either depending on the issue. But here’s once case where no doubt he’s the former. The Federalies have declared war on Elon Musk, and Elon has declared war back. This is a war all freedom advocates want Elon to win!
That sums it up doesn’t it? Yet, while there’s plenty more evidence of Federalie perfidy this week, there’s plenty of good uplifting news as well. And we’ll close with something special to celebrate on this day. So come on, jump right in, the water’s fine!
THE ESTABLISHMENT’S ALTERNATE REALITIES
One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions.
Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border.
Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advantage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be new constituents.
Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more Joe Biden and his Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas flat out lie that “the border is secure.”
They both live in a world of make-believe, passed off to the American people as reality.
PURE EVIL PAID FOR BY JOE BIDEN
On Saturday (10/07), Hamas attacked Israel, making it the bloodiest day in the country's history and resulting in more Jews dead since the end of the Holocaust. Meanwhile, the Biden administration's response was less than ideal in many ways.
This is especially with regards to the $6 billion that the United States released to Iran as part of a prisoner exchange, a move that was announced on the anniversary of September 11, no less. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his Monday edition of "The Verdict," was among those calling out the administration for this, but also other, moves.
"This attack this massacre, this horrific assault on Israel, was funded by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies. They work for Iran. They work under the direction of Iran. They are funded by Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that these attacks were planned, were signed off on by the Iranian government," Cruz shared.
The role that the Biden administration played does not merely have to do with that $6 billion payment, though.
"The $6 billion is just a fraction of the cash that Joe Biden has flooded into Iran. Because a few weeks before the $6 billion, the Biden administration allowed $10 billion from Iraq to flow into Iran. That brings it up to $16 billion in cash that directly flowed into Iran. But that doesn't cover it all.
THE IRAN GAZA WAR
Israeli civilian taken hostage to Gaza
It is a rampage of unspeakable cruelty, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It is also a security catastrophe of unprecedented proportions for Israel’s military and political class. Much time will be spent figuring out the causes and responsibility. For now, some broader observations:
First, call it the Iran-Gaza War. To be sure, Hamas bears responsibility, and any serious Israeli response will involve its total, unconditional defeat. But Hamas is an ally and instrument of Iran. An operation of such scale and complexity is unlike anything Hamas has previously attempted and strongly shows significant Iranian involvement. Hamas has publicly thanked Iran for its support, and Iran’s supreme leader applauded the invasion.
This is the war with Israel that it wants—on Israeli soil, through once-removed marauding militias. Thus: Any serious response must go through Tehran.
If the U.S. and the international community are truly outraged by the scenes of senior citizens gunned down on the street and women and children abducted, they must not only refrain from limiting Israel’s operation in Gaza but resolve to oust the genocidal regime in Tehran.
DID BIDEN WITHHOLD INTEL FROM ISRAEL?
Biden and Ayatollah Khamenei
Hamas terrorists in Gaza launched a massive and highly coordinated attack on Israel with incursions by land, air and sea. From a thousand miles away, Iran was funding and coordinating it. There had to be a lot of cyber chatter preceding the attack.
Yet Israel was apparently caught by complete surprise.
The question being rightly asked is, how could Israel’s intel operations – one of the most sophisticated in the world – have been caught so off-guard?
The answer may be in Washington. The Biden administration has never gotten along with the Israeli government, nor did the Obama administration where Biden was Vice President. Biden and Obama have both seemed determined to let Iran – a terrorist state that has vowed to destroy Israel – get a nuclear bomb, and experts think that at any given moment they could have one in a matter of months.
And as is well known, Biden just gave Iran six billion dollars in exchange for American hostages that Iran had taken.
SKYE’S LINKS 10/05/23
She’s not real. She’s a “virtual girlfriend,” AI designed to provide every fantasy a man could dream of. Enter “virtual girlfriend” in DuckDuckGo or Google and you’ll discover there are an uncountable number of them. Yet another example of the danger of AI replacing reality with fantasy, with real world consequences: AI girlfriends and the subsequent lack of children who would otherwise grow up and pay the bills:
Washington U. Prof: AI Girlfriends Are Ruining a Generation of Men
Welcome to another stirring edition of Skye’s Links! We have news that’s exhilarating, alarming, and informative. Learn what joke’s on Elon! We have to end on a sad note, however, but it’s important for you to know. Jump right on in!
SUICIDE OF THE HOUSE
Who was it who said of the Palestinians that they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity? You could say the same of the Republican Party.
By rights, the Democrats should be in disarray. The Biden administration has been a disaster, as pretty much everyone knows, regardless of what some loyalists may tell a pollster. And yet it is the Republicans who can’t get their act together.
Once again, they have bailed out the Democrats with an idiotic vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. Only eight Republicans voted for Matt Gaetz’s motion, but of course every Democrat voted to get rid of McCarthy. Whatever their faults, the Democrats have party loyalty, and they know their self-interest when they see it. Unlike many Republicans.
Because while Democrats may be evil, they are not stupid. Like Gaetz Republicans.
XI’S LEADERSHIP IS IN CRISIS: NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT
There is a growing body of evidence that indicates the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership is in freefall. If true, this makes Xi Jinping more dangerous as it increases the likelihood of an attack against Taiwan.
It also means Xi’s regime, the CCP, is extremely vulnerable to pressure from America, and the rest of the free world, to evict them from power.
Xi and the CCP face a deeper problem than the lasting economic downturn in China and myriad of social problems the Chinese regime confronts—problems that cannot be papered over by Xi’s prominence at the BRICS meeting or at any other international fora.
The Chinese regime’s problems are multiple and are the result of a fundamental cause—communism. As such, the Communist Chinese regime is illegitimate and is in a lasting and insuperable legitimation crisis.
The leadership is in crisis for two major reasons:
RUSSIAN ARCTIC REGIONS STRENGTHEN BONDS WITH BEIJING
Russia’s Regions on the Arctic Ocean
[Last week, 9/20, Paul Goble told us about China’s plans to separate the Middle Volga from Russia. We’ve long known about China’s plans to recapture Far Eastern Siberia. Now, as Paul explains this week, China may have plans to control Russia’s entire Arctic.]
Moscow has long declared that China’s role in the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is a central part of their strategic cooperation. Despite this, the Kremlin cannot be entirely comfortable with the recent extent of Beijing’s expanding activities in the Arctic Sea.
Nor can Moscow be at ease with the Chinese government’s increasing ties with Russian regional governments in the Far North and along the coast of the Arctic Sea.
If any country other than China did the same, Moscow almost certainly would denounce such actions as neo-colonialism. If any country other than Russia did so anywhere else in the world, the Russian government would make the same pronouncement.
Given the international sanctions regime, Russia has little choice but to allow China to take these steps. Such actions carry the risk that the Russian-Chinese alliance may begin to collapse, with ever-more Russians concerned that Moscow is losing out to Beijing.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/29/23
Kangaroo Courts
Trump was handed a devastating summary judgment in New York today that seriously imperials the future of the Trump organization. The heart of the case involves whether the market or the courts determine the value of real estate assets. Asset prices go up and down, ultimately depending on what a buyer is willing to pay.
Not so in New York, says the court. The assets valued at the market peak must remain valued at the market peak, or fraud will occur if old values used on old contracts are no longer in line with current valuations. So sketchy is the court logic that Trump was denied a jury trial or the ability to raise a defense.
The Deep State fears Trump; they fear him as he teaches the public to question official narratives. All the feds have is widescale public acceptance of narratives. The government lacks a police force or military large enough to stop a massive general strike. Sure, they have germs, computer viruses, and the other tools of 21st-century governance, but they are losing the narrative war. Now, Trump is a martyr.
Dianne Feinstein is dead. She was a slow-moving poison on society as she advanced China’s interests at the expense of the United States. Her efforts to maintain the free movement of opiates into the United States have killed over 1 million Americans. This is a genocide. She discovered how to destroy urban centers as mayor of San Francisco and spread the misery to downtowns far and wide as a senator.
Labor is striking using tactics from Beautiful Trouble, which we pursue today in the HFR.
SKYE’S LINKS 09/28/23
Ending the Kleptocracy
As Elon Musk leads the way toward Supreme Court challenges to the Administrative State, the era of federal tyranny and arbitrary rulings might end. The Chevron Deference results from a 1980s SCOTUS ruling that allows apparatchiks within federal agencies to make up rules and prosecute discretions with impunity. These departments and agencies maintain magistrates to hear their rules applied politically or for profit. Aggressive agencies never lose in their kangaroo courts. This tyranny costs the economy dearly.
Musk is challenging the government in several directions and is sailing into a favorable Supreme Court. His most important challenge is constitutional, as the administrative judges are far removed from the supervision of the President. They are silos of government unto themselves.
ESG is failing everywhere, as is most of the enviro movement. The memo went out earlier this month, and BlackRock is leading the rollback.
Disaster Capitalism is one of the dems get rich quick gimmicks, and Biden’s efforts might keep him from the ballot. Wouldn’t this be a turn of events?
All this and much more are at Today’s Skye’s Links.
TYSON’S TWADDLE – WOKEISM POSING AS SCIENCE
[Is there a more obnoxious jerk who epitomizes woke arrogant speaking-for-science fraudulence more than Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Read on how he was so masterfully exposed by two knowledgeable Brits.]
Bruce Thornton and others have usefully dubbed it “scientism”: “Dressing up ideological beliefs or even fads in the quantitative data and forbidding jargon of real sciences like physics or engineering.”
It allows progressives who actually know and care nothing about science to boast that they “believe in science” or “follow the science” whereas their reactionary opponents, presumably, do not.
For some years now, the premier prophet of scientism in America has been Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who since 1996 has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and who, like his fellow astrophysicist Carl Sagan before him, has won fame as a promoter and popularizer of science.
Until, that is, he was exposed as a bloviating fraud last Saturday (9/23).
TATARSTAN CAPITALIZES ON CHINA’S EXPANDING ROLE IN MIDDLE VOLGA
[For some time now, TTP has been telling you about the independence movements in Russia’s Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, with Moslem Tatars and Bashkirs fighting in Ukraine against Russia, knowing Ukraine’s freedom will lead to theirs and start the breakup of Russia. With that, they know they can prosper for they have a lot of oil, easily extractable with no permafrost like in Siberia.
And TTP has been telling you for years about the long-range designs Chicom China has on eastern Siberia. Now, our friend Paul Goble tells us the latest: China’s campaign to separate the Middle Volga from Russia.]
Kazan, Tatarstan. Russians have become increasingly concerned with the expansion of Chinese influence in the Russian Far East, along the Northern Sea Route, and in some of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Now, the Kremlin is confronted with a potentially more disturbing development: the rise of China as a major player not just along Russia’s periphery but near its core. Beijing has been increasing its investments and influence in Tatarstan and the Middle Volga.
IS THE LEFT HAPPY THEY GOT THEIR WISH?
America has been in a veritable cultural revolution since the 1960s. Nearly all our major institutions finally became woke—the administrative state, traditional and social media, universities, K-12, the corporate boardroom, entertainment, professional sports, and the foundations.
So the Obama and the Biden administrations finally seemed to have achieved their aims, in what the Obamas once boasted would be the “fundamental transformation” of America into something unrecognizable by its Founders.
But what they gave us was nihilism—the destruction of norms, laws, and customs. There is no border, no criminal justice system, no real president any more.
The citizen is a serf, the illegal alien the veritable citizen. The former needs a passport to reenter the country, the latter is waved on through. There is a slob in gym shorts and a hoodie establishing dress codes for the Senate, teen murderers bragging that they won’t spend a day in jail, and a would-be state legislator filming herself doing sexual gymnastics while begging for cash only to be upset over the invasion of her “privacy.”
So the Left got what it wanted and gave us our new America. And the result?
BIDEN CONDEMNS MENENDEZ FOR ROOKIE CORRUPTION
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Democratic Senator Bob Menendez facing charges of bribery, President Biden weighed in this morning, condemning the Senator for accepting his bribes in bars of gold rather than fungible assets laundered through 20 shell companies.
"Gold? That's a real rookie move, Jack!" said Biden to reporters. "If you're gonna get rich off a bribe, you gotta have money wired to several different shell companies over the globe which will then launder the money and wire it to your son in exchange for a painting, who will then buy some expensive items, and give you your cut. Come on, man! This ain't rocket surgery! Don't they launder money in Mexico or wherever this Menendez guy is from?"
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/22/23
It’s All About The Spectacle
It really is all about the spectacle according to the New Left, and whether critical systems can be disrupted such as city services or military avionics software.
We follow up on Skye’s Links from yesterday concerning the strange F-35 aircraft crash and what it means.
Ukraine’s survival might depend on gearing up the Arsenal of Democracy but the West no longer has a machine tools industry. These are the tools used to make the machines that produce goods. The problem needs urgent attention.
The fourth installment of leftist theory outlined in Beautiful Trouble, the modern replacement for Rules for Radicals, continues. The hand of Russian military doctrine in modern leftism becomes self-evident.
Please join us for this week’s HFR, and as always, your insights are greatly appreciated on the forum.
SKYE’S LINKS 09/21/23
The Great Decentralization
A battle is being fought over control of A.I.
Who will control the technology? The decentralized billions of people, or the few and powerful?
With control comes the power of the global narrative and the ability to separate right-think from wrong-think. Throughout human history, the good guys have seldom been the thought police.
Or, as many are beginning to realize:
The Right of the People to Keep and Deploy Computer Models Shall Not Be Infringed.
Information control runs far and deep. Something caused the computer on a Marine F-35B aircraft to eject the very surprised pilot while the plane was in level flight. The Marines are taking this very seriously. Did something malfunction? Is the software buggy, or did someone send a digital signal to the aircraft?
By this time next year, billions, or maybe tens of billions of election campaign messages will have been computer-generated and sent. Most messaging will be ephemeral, meaning it appears briefly and then vanishes without a trace. George Soros is investing much money into mass brainwashing via TikTok. Even the candidates will appear as computer-generated images, making fake and inflammatory statements.
Truth is under automated assault as the narrative reaches beyond hospitals killing grandma for fedbucks and global interests inventing a climate crisis. Just how deep is the deep state? It continues to fear Trump at all levels.
Economic conditions are concerning as the Federal Reserve is losing ground to inflation. If the A.I. technology behind the manipulation of the 2024 election is used to create a financial panic, we might experience Weimar Germany, Version 2.0.
The narrative is too powerful to be in the hands of a few.
DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF BIDEN’S OPEN BORDERS POLICY
It’s hard to look at the photo of 1-year-old Nicholas Feliz-Dominici, who died from fentanyl exposure at a Bronx day care Friday. So handsome with his little suspenders and blue bow tie, his crisp white shirt and tiny sneakers, he looks directly into the camera with a purposeful air. You can tell, just by looking at him, that this was a well-loved child.
Just imagine his poor mother, packing his bag for the day, getting him dressed, dropping him off at the new day-care center, giving him a kiss and maybe feeling a little guilty as she heads off to work. It’s what working mothers do every day across this city.
Cops found a kilo of fentanyl and a kilo press in a room at the day-care center that belonged to a “new arrival” from the Dominican Republic, who was renting, and two people were held responsible for little Nicholas’ death.
But there is a wider culpability. President Biden’s open border kills.
It kills the poor souls seeking a better life who answer its siren call and make the hazardous journey from more than 150 countries to cross illegally into the United States.
It kills more than 100,000 Americans each year with drug overdoses from the fentanyl sent here by the Mexican drug cartels.
Joe Biden and the Democratic politicians who abet him have ensured New York is awash with fentanyl and overwhelmed with an influx of illegal migrants.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HATES AMERICA
Once again, Mark Levin has done a great service to the Republic by writing a fully documented, highly pointed book on a topic of vital national interest. Published today by the Threshold Editions imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Democrat Party Hates America is required reading for anyone who follows politics in America. That most assuredly includes those who identify as Democrats, though most will shun the book because it is too much of a challenge to their sense of self-worth and virtue.
For the few who have the courage to read it, the book will be a revelation. I make no secret that I was born into a family of active Democrats, and until reality intruded well into adulthood, I shared that political attachment. I have since regarded it as a mistaken affiliation, but after reading this book I now have a sense of shame.
If it is widely enough read, and I predict that it will be a runaway best-seller, the book will change the way the public understands one of our two major political parties, forever tainting the Democrats for the racism, hypocrisy, lack of principle, and sheer ruthless pursuit of power at any cost that have permeated their party throughout its history.
If you have family members, colleagues, associates, or friends who are vocal Democrats and who do not shy away from political discussions, The Democrat Party Hates America is a cornucopia of evidence that you can use to persuade them out of their delusion that they are supporting a worthwhile political movement.
POST-POSTMODERN WOKE AMERICA
Woke Revolution depends on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others
When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous.
Take the following examples of woke craziness and hypocrisy, perhaps last best witnessed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
The Biden administration from its outset wished to neuter immigration law. It sought to alter radically the demography of the U.S. by stopping the border wall and allowing into the United States anyone who could walk across the southern border.
Over seven million did just that. Meanwhile, Biden ignored the role of the Mexican cartels in causing nearly 100,000 ANNUAL American fentanyl deaths.
Then border states finally wised up.
They grasped that the entire open-borders, “new Democratic majority” leftwing braggadocio was predicated on its hypocritical architects staying as far away as possible from their new constituents.
So cash strapped border states started busing their illegal aliens to sanctuary blue-state jurisdictions.
THE DEM “DUMP JOE!” BANDWAGON IS ROLLING
A certain conventional wisdom about the 2024 presidential race has dominated political discourse for much of this year: Donald Trump is unstoppable when it comes to winning the Republican nomination but cannot hope to retake the White House come the general election.
What endears him to his party’s base repels the independent and moderate voters he needs to win the presidency. So, Joe Biden is clear favorite to be elected for a second term.
That conventional wisdom is now smashed to smithereens – and not in a good way, for those who don’t want to see Trump back in the Oval Office.
No, suddenly it’s Biden who’s perceived to be the loser with an increasing number of Democrats now fearing that if he runs again the likely outcome is the unthinkable – a Trump victory.
WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS THERE IS NO DIRECT EVIDENCE THAT HUNTER BIDEN ACTUALLY EXISTS
WASHINGTON, DC — Amid a House impeachment inquiry and increasing questions about bribery and extortion involving Hunter Biden, the White House reminded the press that there's not any direct evidence that Hunter Biden actually exists.
"When you think about it, there's not really any conclusive proof that this 'Hunter' guy is even real," said historic, gay, black Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to reporters. "Have any of you even seen him in person? Have you actually physically touched him? For all we know, Hunter is just a figment of the GOP's wild and fevered imaginations. It's sad, really."
The gathered journalists murmured and nodded in agreement at Jean-Pierre's excellent point.
"It's a shame we didn't start questioning the notion of this 'Hunter Biden' fiction a long time ago," said Meet The Press anchor Chuck Todd. "How could we have been so blind to the deep deception of the far-right? The whole thing was a hoax! This is an attack on democracy."
Journalists have begun to pull all their Hunter Biden stories pending further investigation into the matter. "Once we have investigated the GOP's deception around the existence of this alleged 'Hunter' character, we will update you on that story," said Jake Tapper. "Stay tuned for an update in 5 or 6 years."
At publishing time, new allegations related to Joe Biden's involvement in the corruption surfaced, leading the White House to denounce the existence of Joe Biden as a right-wing conspiracy theory.
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In Disney's upcoming reboot of 1937's Snow White, will the Prince kiss the sleeping princess? Or will he obtain her consent first?
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/15/23
New Lamps for Old
The New Left Wants Your Freedom
The Left feels good this week as we saw the New Mexico governor foolishly attempt to suspend the Second Amendment. As Skye pointed out in yesterday's links, nobody is in support, not even David Hogg.
Mitt Romney announced his retirement at the end of his current term. Now, there is a piece of work: Mitt was on the take for some serious bribes in Ukraine and attempted to cover his guilt by impeaching Trump. The good people in Utah hate the man now that he is rightly known as the worst kind of traitor. He did it for money, not some lofty moral purpose.
Bye, pal, hit the road.
The UAW is on strike, and they have been crafty in targeting choke points at the big three automakers. Their strategy will force auto plants to wind down and lay off workers. This means that relatively few strikers are paid from strike funds, but most workers in targeted plants will receive compensation and wages when laid off.
The UAW move shows Hamas, a concept that means controlled righteous anger in Arabic, and is one of the topics we cover in part three of Beautiful Trouble, an analysis of the New Left's approach to advancing modern leftism.
We cover the theology of the new Left and continue discussing their internal training materials, including the hows and whys of seizing freedom. Part four continues next week.
Please join us at the HFR; your forum comments on the Beautiful Trouble series have been very insightful and helpful. Thank you, and as always, your critique and insight are most appreciated this week.
SKYE’S LINKS 09/14/23
"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The truth, integrity, information security, and honest dealing appear to be unknown ideas.
In today's links, we discuss how your car spies on you to provide a lucrative cash stream for the manufacturer, how government agents routinely gain access to this data, and more. This includes the combination to your safe, thanks to installed back-doors.
Propaganda is now a central mission of the government as it seeks to control through emotional manipulation. One of its most potent tools is scientism, a sleight of hand that forces actions to adhere to theory instead of vice versa. Scientism is a stepping stone towards global socialism and the abandonment of the market economy.
The 1A and 2A endured major blows this week with the courts and sheriffs fighting back throughout the land. It would be easy to blame Biden, but increasingly, he seems to be approaching a vegetative state.
Inflation is awake and breaking free from its chains. Try as it might, the Federal Reserve cannot control this beast. The White House wants higher energy prices to drain money from the economy but risks accelerating stagflation.
Please join us over at Skyes's Links:
WHAT GAMES DOES HUNTER PLAY?
What shameless act or felonious activity was not evidenced on Hunter Biden’s laptop? Racist attitudes toward Asians? Soliciting prostitution? Felonious use of drugs? Photographed nudity and perverse sex? Admissions to illicit foreign shakedowns?
Hunter all but accused his own father President Joe Biden of also being on the foreign take: “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family… Unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
Hunter’s alleged felonies range from bribery to tax evasion. That he has not yet been prosecuted for anything is scandalous. His exemption is attributable only to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s likely weaponized directives to federal prosecutors to downgrade or forget altogether felony charges against Hunter.
So given such wild behavior, why would not Hunter tone it down, stop the global grifting, cease the reckless behavior—and quit redirecting attention to the likely illegal acts of his father, the President?
NIKKI HALEY SQUISHING AROUND
As you may have guessed from the title of this post, I’m not a Nikki Haley fan. She’s a sort of conservative, which makes her way better than a Democrat, but she’s also a squish, which puts her low on my list. I also really dislike her playing the woman card to run. That’s such a Democrat thing to do. Now, my concern is that she’s attacking Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) because he’s holding the Pentagon’s feet to the fire over its illegal abortion policies.
The Hyde Amendment isn’t complicated: It says that federal funds cannot be used to pay for abortions unless the abortion will save the woman’s life or the pregnancy results from rape or incest.
In 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court held that abortion is not a constitutional right, returning the matter to the states. (To make abortion a federal right or ban it nationwide requires a constitutional amendment.) Several states have since banned or severely limited abortion. There are military bases in many of the states that have placed full or partial bans on abortion.
The Pentagon is currently a leftist institution, from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on down. Obama started a purge of conservatives, and Biden has been finishing it.
THE FEARFUL LEFT’S IMPEACHMENT PLOT
Weaponizing impeachment is just one of many precedents that Leftists now would not wish to have applied to themselves
An impeachment inquiry looms and the shrieks of outrage are beginning.
The Left is now suddenly voicing warnings that those who recently undermined the system could be targeted by their own legacies.
So, for example, now we read why impeachment is suddenly a dangerous gambit.
True, the Founders did not envision impeaching a first-term president the moment he lost his House majority. Nor did they imagine impeaching a president twice. And they certainly did not anticipate trying an ex-president in the Senate as a private citizen.In modern times, the nation has not rushed to impeach a president without a special counsel investigation to determine whether the chief executive was guilty of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
But thanks to the Democrats, recent impeachments now have destroyed all those guardrails.