Victor Davis Hanson
OH, PLEASE — NOT ‘TRUMP THE DICTATOR’ AGAIN!
It is “Trump Will Destroy Democracy” season again. And predictably the Left has gone hysterical, after experiencing a trifecta of frightening 2024 news.
One, current polls in the primaries and in a general election for now show that Trump would win.
Two, unequivocal evidence is mounting that the Bidens are one of the most corrupt political families in American presidential history.
Three, Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and feebleness have reached a point where he is one fall, one bad cold, or one long brain-freeze away from incapacity. He clearly is not running the country.
Truth is, the Left has shown itself to be grotesquely dictatorial for years now – let’s itemize what they’ve done.
RESURGENT DREAMS OF INDEPENDENCE FROM RUSSIA IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
[The Caucasus Mountains run east to west from the Caspian to Black Seas. The peoples of the North Caucasus (north of the east-west watershed) have been fighting for the freedom from Russian imperial conquest since 1800. For historical background, please consider reading about the great warrior leader of the Caucasus’ struggle in the 19th century, Shamil. He remains a legendary hero to this day. The Caucasus soldiers fighting in Ukraine against Russia’s occupation call themselves the Imam Shamil Battalion.]
Russia’s war against Ukraine has significantly altered the geopolitical terrain of Eastern Europe, and its repercussions have extended into the North Caucasus.
One of the most notable consequences has been the reawakening of aspirations for independence among the dozens of ethnic groups that populate the region. On November 7 and 8, a major milestone was reached when the Congress of the Peoples of the North Caucasus convened in the European Parliament (Caucasusfree.com, November 9; YouTube, December 7).
Circassian, Chechen, Dagestani, and Ingush pro-independence representatives gathered to discuss their shared goal of independence from Russia. With most of Moscow’s attention fixated on the war, these movements have gained traction in recent months and will likely build on that momentum as the fighting in Ukraine rages on.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/07/23
TEXIT!! Some people are getting really fed up with the central government's shenanigans. Heard of the Texas Nationalist Movement? It has over 600,000 supporters and growing. Until SCOTUS starts giving 10th Amendment rights for real back to the states, more states are going down this path:
TEXIT Progress: Secession Question Expected To Appear on March 2024 Texas Primary Ballot
https://www.2thepointnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MissingTapes.mp4
Shenanigans like this. Nothing to see here folks, so just move along… right. It’s the folks on the Jan 6 Committee who should be rotting in the Capitol Police Gulag, not the patriots there now with no justice whatever.
Jan. 6 Committee Tapes Have Disappeared, Says House Republican
OK, here we go! A lot here, and cool memes too. Jump on in!
THE POTEMKIN PRESIDENCY OF JOE BIDEN
Have you heard about Joe Biden’s historic presidency? Or about the historic accomplishments of Joe Biden’s first term?
I have. Repeatedly. I force myself to watch “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Jake Tapper on CNN, and Jonathan Karl on ABC, so I’m well-informed about the thinking of left-wing elites and their game plan for keeping Donald Trump out of office.
Apparently, part of the plan is to convince the American public that Joe Biden has been a great president, mostly when you weren’t looking.
In a sense, this is the political equivalent of the recent cleanup of San Francisco by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to make the dangerous and dirty city look better for the arrival of the Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping.
But here’s the real explanation for why the media thinks that Joe Biden is a great president and the rest of us think he is an addlepated place keeper.
CHINA EXPLOITS RUSSIA’S VULNERABILITIES
According to reports from Chinese media in late November, Beijing has refused to invest in the construction of the Power of Siberia-2 natural gas pipeline, proposing instead that Moscow fully cover the multibillion-dollar project. China also insists on substantial discounts for Russian gas, demonstrating strong “bargaining power” in negotiations with the Kremlin (South China Morning Post, November 24).
Power of Siberia-2 is pivotal for Russia in mitigating the losses incurred after Gazprom’s withdrawal from the European market. As Western sanctions have weakened Moscow’s geopolitical leverage with its energy resources, Beijing has capitalized on the situation to increase energy flows to China at cheaper prices.
Most economists argue that Moscow cannot fully compensate for the losses resulting from limited access to European markets. They also point out that the gas supplies currently flowing through the Power of Siberia-1 pipeline are already being sold to China at almost half the price of rates for the European Union and Turkey
WEIMAR AMERICA
Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.
At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel.
Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.
Hundreds of such incidents are now occurring on a daily basis—as the country is leaving its Weimar phase and heading at warp speed into normalizing Jew-hatred and worse. What explains the collective madness?
UKRAINE AID’S BEST-KEPT SECRET
Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States.
That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles.
Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.
At a time when both major parties are competing to win working-class votes and strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base, our military aid to Ukraine does exactly that — it is providing a major cash infusion into factories across the country that directly benefits American workers.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/30/23
Will Conor McGregor be the next Prime Minister (“Taoiseach”) of Ireland? He may be the man to save the Irish from themselves, who elected a woke girlieman to apologize for their country’s existence. McGregor rightly called Leo Varadkar a “disgrace” for describing the return of 9-year old Emily Hand to her Israeli parents from being held hostage by Hamas terrorists as her being “lost” then “found”:
Conor Mcgregor Torches Ireland's PM Over Response To Hamas Release Of Child Hostage
In fascist response, Varadkar ordered a witch hunt to persecute McGregor!
There’s so much cool stuff in this week’s links – jump right in and enjoy!
I WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
With less than one year to go until Election Day, the polls show that we are beating Joe Biden by wide margins both nationally and in the battleground states—and young people are a major part of the reason why.
A recent NBC News poll found that we are leading Biden 46 percent to 42 percent nationally among voters ages 18 to 34—a clear sign that young Americans are rejecting Joe Biden's reign of failure, incompetence, and corruption.
Sadly, many younger Americans are putting their lives on hold because they think the Biden economy leaves them no choice. Sadly, many younger Americans are putting their lives on hold because they think the Biden economy leaves them no choice.
Under Joe Biden, we are a nation in decline and rapidly losing the American Dream.
When I take the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States, I will rapidly rebuild the greatest economy in the history of the world so that young people can thrive and prosper. Here’s how.
WHY UKRAINE CAN AND WILL WIN
All too often, one hears claims that, in the long run, Russia will win over Ukraine because it has a much larger economy and population. Historically, that is a flawed conclusion. Historical precedence suggests that Ukraine is more likely to win, so let’s take a look at the reasons why.
Motivation
This is the most important factor in a war. Ukrainians know why they are fighting. They are defending their nation's existence. If they stop fighting, Ukraine will cease to exist as an independent state.
Russians, by contrast, don't really know why they are fighting. Most seem to fight for fear of being killed by their own, while their families are supposed to be richly paid if they die.
Other reasons are…
ISRAEL GAINS ALLIES — WHICH IS NO COINCIDENCE
For Israel, it had to be good news to learn that Geert Wilders, the supposedly wild and crazy Dutch version of Donald Trump, came in with a huge parliamentary victory in the Netherlands and now may become the country's next prime minister.
That's because Wilders is a ferocious advocate and ally for Israel. He’s got company. All of the proto-Trump leaders now emerging in the world today are indeed nationalists, America-firsters, or fill-in-the native country first, make one's country its best, in spirit.
How is it every nationalist out there emerging in public life can all be so pro-Israel? There couldn’t be a better reason.
PUTIN’S GOAL: TO COMPLETE STALIN’S UNFINISHED GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
[2023 is the 90th anniversary of one of history’s greatest acts of evil. The definitive book to read is Robert Conquest’s The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine.]
People across Ukraine and around the world are lighting candles this month in memory of the millions of Ukrainians killed in the artificial famine engineered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s regime in the 1930s.
Known to history as the Holodomor, this man-made famine remained hidden in the Soviet shadows for decades.
In recent years, a growing number of countries have finally recognized the famine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation, but despite this growing international awareness, many have yet to grasp the chilling continuity between Stalin’s attempt to erase Ukraine and the genocidal objectives of today’s Russian invasion.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/23/23
Monday (11/20) was our ersatz White House Occupant’s 81st birthday. Some staffer genius released this photo of him with his 81-candle birthday cake on fire, mercilessly mocked all over social media as “Biden’s Portal to Hell.” Many observed, “That cake is what he’s doing to America.”
Biden Mocked Into Oblivion After Posing with 81st Birthday Cake: 'Portal to Hell’
Meanwhile:
Trump Expands Lead Over Biden in New Poll as Women, Blacks, Hispanics Jump Off Sinking Ship
Welcome to a Thanksgiving edition of Skye’s Links! Lots of enjoyable stuff – and also some head-ups on what you need to know. Jump right on in, it’s Turkey Day!
THE GREAT RESET OF FREEDOM HAS BEGUN
The global economy, and more importantly, the entire world as we know it, is about to undergo a seismic shift toward freedom. Here is why I believe this to be, how it will happen, and why I think this week may have marked step one of a long journey in the right direction.
By now you know that Javier Milei, an outspoken and eccentric libertarian, has won Argentina's presidency after promising to aggressively tackle inflation, shutter the country’s central bank, end woke culture and significantly reduce government.
Most important and least mentioned this week is that under the wild exterior, Milei has it where it counts: he has two masters degrees and has “been a professor of macroeconomics, economics of growth, microeconomics, and mathematics for economists” with specializations in economic growth.
In other words, the “bold” financial ideas aren’t just bluster. Beyond Milei’s outspoken demeanor and explosive personality, something far more meaningful is taking place under the surface. Argentina is the first of many dominoes that will fall, leading the world toward a new “Great Reset”—one that prioritizes liberty and freedom instead of big governments and collectivism.
CHINA SINKING – IT’S A POST-CHINA WORLD NOW
In a historic turn, China’s rise as an economic superpower is reversing. The biggest global story of the past half century may be over.
After stagnating under Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 70s, China opened to the world in the 1980s — and took off in subsequent decades. Its share of the global economy rose nearly tenfold from below 2 per cent in 1990 to 18.4 per cent in 2021. No nation had ever risen so far, so fast.
Then the reversal began. China’s decline could reorder the world. Since the 1990s, the country’s share of global GDP grew mainly at the expense of Europe and Japan, which have seen their shares hold more or less steady over the past two years. The gap left by China has been filled mainly by the US and by other emerging nations.
To put this in perspective, the world economy is expected to grow by $8tn in 2022 and 2023 to $105tn. China will account for none of that gain, the US will account for 45 per cent, and other emerging nations for 50 per cent.
CAN WE SAVE OUR UNIVERSITIES?
[Another excellent piece by VDH – with one major flaw. Of all his suggested solutions, the most necessary is missing: the complete total abolishment of the unconstitutional federal Department of Education.]
It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are illiberal centers of mediocrity and intolerance—and increasingly unsafe.
Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly encountered college graduates who were poorly educated in basic skills and lacked general knowledge—and yet highly politicized, and intolerant of different views and opinions. Ignorant but arrogant is a sad way to start an adult life.
How can we fix this?
SKYE’S LINKS 11/16/23
Good news! This is a real step in the right direction!! A strong bipartisan bill protecting the 4th Amendment rights of Americans is coming out of Congress. This bill goes far beyond reforming Section 702, it prohibits any government agency from buying information on Americans from a data broker without a search warrant signed by a judge based on sworn probable cayuse.
It gets even better! It prohibits government from demanding business records (such as your phone and bank records) with a mere administrative demand or subpoena; a real search warrant will be required. The bill also contains audit provisions and penalties for violations. The Xiden administration has said that they will veto it, even without having read it:
Biden White House Shoots Down Massive Bipartisan Surveillance Reform Bill They Have Not Read Yet
This edition of Skye’s Links is chock full of good, even wonderful news, plus cautionary and useful news as well. And we end with what Trump’s plans are for a second term – now we know! So come on in…
THE GOP IS A FAKE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH NO VISION FOR THE COUNTRY
When Louisiana’s Mike Johnson was pulled from obscurity and elected House speaker last month, many conservatives were cautiously optimistic that the man with the self-professed biblical “worldview” and somewhat solid voting record would be the fighter they’ve needed to halt Democrats’ Marxist takeover of society.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long to discover that Johnson is just as weak-kneed as his Republican predecessors.
On Tuesday afternoon, Johnson and House Republicans surrendered to Democrats yet again on a major government spending fight. Rather than stand strong and fight for conservative priorities, Johnson agreed to another continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the federal government funded through the beginning of next year.
Unsurprisingly, the proposal does nothing to address key issues plaguing the nation, such as the Biden-manufactured crisis at the U.S. southern border, and maintains already-high spending levels.
ARE KREMLIN OFFICIALS DOING DRESS REHEARSALS FOR PUTIN’S FUNERAL?
A Funeral Speech for Putin?
A trickle of whispers has become a firehose of rumors as Kremlin watchers spot multiple signs that Putin may have died, or that he may do so very soon.
“Let me comment like this: Something very strange is going on in the Kremlin,” says distinguished Russia expert Anders Aslund in describing Putin’s alleged death.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health has been a contentious point of speculation as his public appearances routinely trigger rumors of cancer, Parkinsons, bathing in deer antler blood, or simply having a steroids habit developed from his obsession with body-building.
Unlike earlier times, the recent rumors about the 71-year-old having died, something which the Kremlin denies, comes in tandem with several other signs that some Russia-watchers believe may be a configuration in the tea leaves indicating a political change is afoot in Moscow.
THE DAMAGE OF THE WHITE PRIVILEGE SLANDER INDUSTRY
One of the key reasons leftwing anti-Semites have been so effective at galvanizing campus hatred of Israel, and by association of Jews in general, is their careful effort to brand themselves DEI victims whiles tarring Jews with the empty white supremacy slur.
Accordingly, Jews and Israel now supposedly enjoy toxic white privilege. They are libeled as veritable white supremacists illegitimately in the Middle East to colonize “Palestine,” and as European imperialists picking up the mantle of the earlier 19th century British and French—as if a prior 400 years of Ottoman imperialism in the Middle East never occurred.
As now-privileged white victimizers, contemporary Jews are not seen as victims of the Holocaust, explaining the comfortable alliance between Islamist Holocaust deniers and the DEI crowd.
It was no accident that a racist BLM on news of the October 7 massacres quickly issued posters glorifying Hamas hang-gliding murderers.
Jews are now collateral damage from the damning of an entire group of people, namely white Americans and Europeans.
WHAT REPUBLICANS DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT HOW BIDEN REALLY WINS ELECTIONS
Do polls matter when Dems continue to win anyway?
In the aftermath of another disappointing election night for Republicans, questions need to be asked about supposedly non-partisan get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operations Democrats are using to ensure their low-propensity voters – and only their low-propensity voters – get to the polls.
On March 7, 2021, Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, President Biden instructed every federal agency to submit a plan to leverage their agency’s personnel and assets to help turn out the vote.
For example, agencies might use internal data to identify aid recipients who are not registered to vote, then use agency personnel to get them registered and ensure their ballot is cast and counted.
Anyone who criticizes GOTV efforts gets accused of wanting to suppress voting. But it’s not voting to which we should object – it’s the exclusive collection of ballots from Democratic voting blocks. Especially since federal employees are explicitly prohibited by law from participating in political activities.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/09/23
The Fall of the Wall, Berlin, November 9, 1989
Today (11/09) is World Freedom Day! A celebration of what Wikipedia calls “a pivotal event in world history,” commemorated by the President issuing on this day, as in years before, A Proclamation on World Freedom Day, 2023.
It has special significance for TTPers, as TTP’s founder Jack Wheeler, as the creator of the Reagan Doctrine, played such an instrumental role in bringing the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union about. (November 9th also has quite personal significance to Jack, for it’s his birthday. He’s 80 years old today!)
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Jack’s Reagan Doctrine and Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative drove the USSR over the economic cliff onto the ash heap of history. Today, our Deep States Federalies (America’s equivalent of Hobbes’ Leviathan), with enthusiastic help from China and Russia, are returning the favor with unsustainable debt and deficits. The current situation cannot go on forever, and so we can be sure that it won't.
Dr. Robert Malone is wise in ways that go beyond medicine and biology. Here he discusses the big picture and the inescapable problems that we must solve to rebuild a free society. Please consider this a must-read:
THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL’S OPEN LETTER TO US UNIVERSITIES
American University and College Presidents,
As President of Israel, I have spent the past month traveling among devastated Israeli communities, more than 1,400 grieving families, and the relatives of more than 240 hostages. I've been trying to comfort survivors of the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a sadistic atrocity that included rape and torture.
And while doing so, I hear of Jewish students harassed at Harvard University. A Jewish student assaulted at Tulane, Jewish students locked in a library at the Cooper Union as a mob shouts outside, signs accusing Israel of genocide, swastikas painted on dorm-room doors, hateful and intimidating demonstrations - too many examples to list.
All of this is happening not on the fringes of society but in the very temples of scholarship, in halls meant to be beacons of humanism, progress and rigorous inquiry. And it is happening not in Europe a century ago, but in the United States in 2023.
Debate is welcome on any topic, including Israel's actions. But the events on campus are not debate but a defilement of the university and its principles.
How can anyone endorsing, excusing, or glorifying the Hama atrocities have a place in any college, or in the civilized world?
THE FOURTEEN FACTS ABOUT US AID TO UKRAINE
Since Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in eight years, Russian troops have ravaged Ukraine’s cities, raped its women, and stolen its children. Russian missiles and Iranian drones strike Ukrainian cities daily, often hitting civilian targets. Russia is the aggressor. Ukraine is the victim.
For Americans who believe in respect for national borders, the primacy of national sovereignty, and the right to self-defense, support for Ukraine is natural. Ukrainians are not asking for, nor do they want, US troops to help them fight Russia. All they ask for is the resources required to give them a fighting chance.
Meanwhile, Russia is among America’s top geopolitical adversaries. As former Secretary of State and Hudson Distinguished Fellow Mike Pompeo said last week, a Russian victory “would be felt well beyond Ukraine’s borders, including by strengthening a Russia-China-Iran alliance that aims to weaken the US and our allies across the globe.”
As Congress debates additional support for Ukraine, detractors will spread false and misleading information. It is important to understand the facts. Here are fourteen to be aware of.
THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO REVEALS THE LEFT’S FAVORITE MESSAGE
On March 27, 2023, a woman named Audrey Hale entered The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, and slaughtered three nine-year-old children and three adults. It was only because police were nearby that she was stopped.
The woman, who claimed to be a so-called “trans man,” left behind a manifesto. However, while police departments and media outlets are usually quick to release statements from mass murderers, government officials in this Democrat-run city refused to do so in this case.
Steve Crowder, though, obtained the first three pages of the manifesto, which he released today. In addition to showing an obsessive level of preparation (this was no spur-of-the-moment killing), the manifesto shows that the killer was motivated by one of the left’s favorite mantras: “white privilege.”
So know we know why the woke establishment made this enormous effort to hide the manifesto.
HOW TO DEFEAT HAMAS FAST, CHEAP, AND EASY
There are 300 miles of Hamas tunnels underneath Gaza
As the war rages on, Gaza is getting destroyed, people are getting killed on both sides, and a resolution of the conflict seems as elusive as ever. On the contrary, the war is escalating and spreading to other theaters. The main problem is the Hamas tunnels.
The massive spiderweb of 300 miles of tunnels boast an impressive level of engineering, constructed from reinforced concrete, divided into separate self-contained sections by steel doors, and reaching depths up to 100 feet. The tunnels are also equipped with modern ventilation systems powered by generators.
They were built under buildings, hospitals, schools, and other civilian projects. The terrorists currently hold more than 200 hostages somewhere in their tunnel maze. With the tunnels, time is on Hamas’s side.
So, what is to be done? This:
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/03/23
The Other Shoe Falls
So many changes are occurring with the war on multiple fronts, the near revolution in the House of Representatives, and the frantic attempts by legacy media to push the latest narratives as loudly as possible. The legacy media opposed the revolution on Capital Hill, but was on the wrong side of freedom.
The younger generations do not listen to legacy media. They don’t own televisions; if they do, they only watch major sporting events. Virtually none watched the Texas Rangers defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the World Series. Legacy narratives don’t reach Generation Z.
Gen Z is plugged into the alternative media. The Alt Media is decentralized and operates in real-time, updated every five seconds. The only filters are used to screen out porn, especially child porn. Everything else is there, and it is up to the user to block and mute undesirable content.
This online world without censorship is fascinating to watch. Gen Z wants to recreate something like the 1950s, where people get a job with earning power and can settle down and settle in. Millions are expressing this sentiment along with their desire to blend in. They want to be like the 1950s man in the gray flannel suit.
From first entering school, they were told that their skin was evil and oppressive, and so they tattooed themselves. They are no longer white. They are Tat Brothers and Sisters, and there is logic in this.
Gen Z is responding to the war in Israel as a collective, and they expect the worst from the government.
This matter of Gen Z, America's future soldiers, needs to be on the radar as current events are accelerating the arrival of the climax of the Fourth Turning.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/02/23
Freedom Versus the State
The struggle for freedom never ends. Every day, the rights of man must fight against the unjust and oppressive power of government.
The news from the House of Representatives is excellent as Speaker Johnson is setting to work to right assaults against the 1A, 2A, and 4A. Bills long stuck in committee that restrain the Executive and its security apparatus from stomping on freedom.
The Covid virus frightened about half the population into demanding martial law and suspending civil rights. They wanted to imprison, bankrupt, and starve those who recognized the sham for what it was. The Deep State discovered how to create the conditions, whereas the left begged to be placed in chains.
Now, the movement is against conservatives. The war in Israel threatens to move one or two million radical Islamists to the United States and Europe, placing them into states and towns that still maintain the American culture. The purpose will be to fan a fire in conservatives for the government to prevent cultural dissolution.
A few terrorist bombings, some school shootings, and some babies decapitated in hospitals, accompanied by the new narrative of war and the military draft, might cause voters to demand that migrants be drafted into the military first. The prospect of soft Generation Z kids and their sisters marching off to war will be too much for too many.
Once this happens, once the military is filled with soldiers hostile to American culture and American freedom, the military will be turned inward against conservative Americans.
The Republic will become the Empire.
The new narrative is targeting conservatives, and we have it within our power to stand firm and reject the fear-mongering. The left has already succumbed as one liberal group of Ivy League students attempts to cancel – and harm – another group of liberal students.
For three years now, TTP has been documenting the transition among the left that is turning into 1930s-style antisemitism and economic collapse. Only today, the brown shirts are worn by university faculty.
The dollar is in serious trouble, and the Fed might be losing control. The Executive Branch of government has gone rogue. But the many bills tabled by former Speaker McCarthy necessary to restore the economy and freedom are now in play.
The dawn is rising,
Come on over to Skye’s Links. A lot is happening.
DEMS FORESEE DISASTER IF WE CUT BACK ON SPENDING
Joe Biden and the Democrats seem to be wanting a government shutdown, as they say they can’t live with any of the cuts advocated for in a few appropriation bills in the House, and Biden “vows” to veto. From Newsmax:
Compared to 2023 levels, the bills in question would cut Department of Transportation funding by $7 billion, HUD funding by $1.2 billion, and EPA funding by nearly $4 billion.
‘House Republicans had an opportunity to engage in a productive, bipartisan appropriations process, but instead are wasting time with partisan bills that cut domestic spending to levels well below the (Fiscal Responsibility Act) agreement and endanger critical services for the American people,’ the White House said. ‘These levels would result in deep cuts to clean energy programs and other programs that work to combat climate change, essential nutrition services, law enforcement, consumer safety, education, and healthcare.’
During the COVID era, both parties spent massive amounts of money for “emergency spending.” This implied that these supplemental appropriations would disappear after the “crisis” ended… Yet it’s been over two years, and those dollars still flow.JOE IS BLOWING UP THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
“It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
—Samuel Adams
On day one of the Biden administration, he canceled the Keystone Pipeline, putting thousands of skilled workers out of work. Over the ensuing months, he canceled oil leases, stopped fracking, and drained our strategic oil reserve. All this was surely intentional; he means to starve the American people of energy, making what is available more expensive by the day. Like Obama, he means to transform America, and not in a good way.
The most catastrophic stunt Biden pulled was the tragically ill conceived withdrawal from Afghanistan. He left billions in state-of-the-art military equipment to the Taliban along with the Bagram Air Base, which sits close to China. Thirteen young American patriots were killed by the sheer ineptitude of their leaders. This tragic maneuver telegraphed Biden’s, and thus America’s, weakness to every leader in the world. Russia thought taking Ukraine’s Russian-speaking border regions would be a cakewalk. Our careless warmongers in the Biden administration thought Zelensky would easily defeat Russia with billions of U.S. dollars. The military complex wanted that war. All of that went awry. Here we are a year and a half later; Ukraine has lost half a million people and is still begging for billions more in aid. None of this would have happened if Trump had been in office.
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.