Last year when Iryna Zarutska was murdered on the train by DeCarlos Brown Jr., I (and countless others) wrote about the scourge of violent criminals being released to prey on innocent civilians. But I recently started looking at it from a different angle, particularly when I saw the contrast between the way the Knicks fans behaved after their team won and the Japanese did after their team’s game. It occurred to me that something bigger is going on. Not that the scourge of violent crime isn’t real, because it is and we see it play itself out on our screens every day.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
From Soft Justice To Generational Welfare: Why America’s Moral Collapse Can Only Be Fixed With Brutal Common Sense
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
HOAs And Western Civilization: From Karen To Rambo
Like most Americans, I hate HOAs. We’ve all heard stories of Homeowner’s Associations fining some veteran for flying an American flag in their yard or watched videos of some Karen or Biff playing the role of HOA cops. But as much as a pain in the ass HOAs are, the reality is, most of the people who move into those communities do so, at least in part, because of them. Why would someone subject themselves to the petty tyrannies HOAs? Because for them, having a community of a particular standard is important.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
From Crassus and Caesar to BLM and ‘Gays for Palestine’: How History Shows The Left’s Alliance Will Fail
Roman history can be quite illuminating. The First Triumvirate lasted from 60 BC to approximately 53 BC. It was an informal — and largely secret — agreement between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus to basically run the Roman Republic. Although ostensibly a Triumvirate, it was, for all intents and purposes, a duopoly between the two great generals. Crassus, by far the richest man in Rome, was mostly indulged because of his wealth. Among other things, he became rich by forming a band of firefighters who would show up at a burning house and offer to buy it for pennies on the dollar. If the owner refused, they’d just leave, while if he agreed, they’d go ahead and put out the fire. Nice guy.
Caesar and Pompey were adversaries but their partnership in the
Triumvirate was sealed when Caesar forced his 17-year-old daughter Julia to
marry the 47-year-old Pompey. The marriage was reportedly a happy one,
but when Julia died in childbirth in 54 BC, it was the beginning of the end of
the Triumvirate. The final stake came with the death of Crassus in
53. The collapse of the pact led to years of civil war which ended with a
triumphant Caesar being appointed dictator for life in February 44 BC.
And we all know how that turned out.
Caesar’s murder was followed by the Second Triumvirate with Mark
Antony, Lepidus and Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son. Once again, made up
of adversaries and relatives, this Triumvirate had a similar trajectory and
again ended with a Caesar in total control.
But you might ask… what does this have to do with America in the
21st century? Well, let me tell you. Both of the Triumvirates were
a circumstance where men who basically disliked/hated one another worked
together to defeat a common enemy, and then turned on one another.
I can’t but help thinking about this when I see images of leftists
holding up signs that say “Gays for Palestine” or blue hair white liberals
holding up BLM signs. Don’t these people know that they basically hate
one another and once they defeat “The Man” they’re not going to usher in some
paradise with Kumbaya playing over the loudspeaker?
The left is made up of factions that, if left to their own
devices, wouldn’t have anything to do with one another, or worse, would be at
one another’s throats.
LGBTQXYZ and Muslims. Hispanics and blacks. Jews and
blacks. Feminists and Muslims. Liberal Jews and Muslims…. They are
taking the adage “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” to the extreme.
This is of course the entire constituency of the Democrat
party. The funny thing, or not so funny, about all of this is that these
“victim” groups are only able to work together to fight against
white/Christian/heterosexual/capitalist oppression because they live in a
country that was largely built by whites, Christians, heterosexuals, and
capitalists. Remove those and you have absolute chaos and an utter lack of
freedom with which to speak one’s mind. Remove them and you have a lack
of prosperity that allows one to focus on being a professional victim.
Remove them and you have a tyranny ruled by whoever has the biggest stick or
least amount of morals.
Nonetheless, that’s where Democrats are, holding hands and singing Kumbaya, certain that they are going to overthrow the system. But they’re wrong. They’re not going to.
Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony et al. could, because they held all
the power. Between them they basically controlled or were aligned with
every legion in the Roman Republic. They weren’t really fighting the
power. They were the power. They were fighting against one another
to split the Republic they already controlled.
Democrats don’t have such control. Sure, they have some
statehouses and sometimes the White House or Congress, but they don’t have a
coherent message that would allow them to cobble together an actual ruling
coalition.
But let’s imagine this coalition of victims did somehow triumph
over the white, Christian, heterosexual, capitalist patriarchy, what would come
next?
Who would be in charge? How would they decide? Would
Muslims and women and gays rule equally together? Would Jews and blacks
come together to create a prosperous multicultural nation of freedom and equal
opportunity? Would blacks and Hispanics and Asians decide that they
should have a society based on merit or color? If color, whose would
dominate?
None of those things are particularly likely, because the Western
civilization (America) the left hates so much is the only one in history where
they could have formed their coalition. Indeed, in an Islamic
civilization, gays would be far more likely to be thrown from buildings than be
marching in gay pride parades. This Democrat coalition is a paper tiger.
But here’s the thing the Democrats never want to admit, every one
of those groups of victims that make up the party, blacks, Hispanics, Jews,
LBGTQ blah, blah, blah, feminists, etc., have lives filled with more freedom,
more opportunity, and more prosperity here in America than their compatriots
have any place in the world. Not sure? Ask yourself, is there a
Muslim nation where a Muslim could have more freedom, opportunity and
prosperity than here? Blacks in Africa? Hispanics in a central or
South American nation? Gays anywhere? Feminists anywhere? No,
of course not.
So somehow these geniuses have gotten it into their heads that
they can somehow align themselves in a coalition to try and take down the
white, Christian, heterosexual, capitalist patriarchy and create something even
better.
They can’t. But then they don’t really care about
that. With their tunnel vision, all they can see is the clan of
victimization that binds them. Democrats have no realistic vision for
what a world will look like when they’ve destroyed the single most free and
prosperous nation in human history. Well, the Muslim wing of their
coalition does, but that’s a different story.
And that is the hallmark of the left. They create
nothing. They build nothing. All they do is destroy things that
others built. From Marx to today, the left has never built a successful
nation that values freedom and prosperity. They have however cost the
lives of tens of millions and kept billions more in abject poverty, in most
cases with little or no freedom along the way. When the left comes to
power, it’s always the same… tyranny and a police state.
We almost had that under Biden, remember the Disinformation
Governance Board and the J6 persecutions? Say what you will
about the Republicans, and there’s a lot to be said, but for the most part they
don’t seek to destroy America for their own narrow self-interests. They
might want to change some things, but they generally don’t want to
“fundamentally transform America” into a Victimization Industrial Complex.
Democrats, for all their focus on issues of victimization, never
have a plan for fixing the country that doesn’t involve destroying or taking
what others have built. And that’s how you know the Democrats aren’t a
serious party. The only thing that unifies them is the hatred for the
white/Christian/heterosexual/capitalists of the patriarchy. They have nothing
else to offer. Republicans should start shining a light on that truth now
that we’re in the run up to November.
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Sunday, June 14, 2026
Trump Should Make Senators Lives A Living Hell Until They Pass The Save America Act
It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.
It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give
Democrats the ability to cheat. Aside from Ranked
Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state
allows 30
days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there
was one.
We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real
time. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point
after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a
single vote. I asked Grok for the odds and it was somewhere over 1 over
infinity... basically, zero. In
a city where only 43% of students can read, believing those vote totals
would require you to think that when half the voters are practically
illiterate, not a single one accidentally voted for Pratt. And now thanks to
mail in voting, Pratt has
lost the lead for qualifying for the runoff to someone who was polling
4 points behind him when voting started.
All of this makes me think of a quote by
Elena Gorokhova when characterizing life in the Soviet Union: “The
rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know
they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe
them.” The Russians even have a word for it: Vranyo,
a lie that everyone knows is a lie but pretends otherwise.
That’s exactly what’s been going on in America for decades.
The Democrats have been using mail-in ballots, voting machines, and endless
“recounts” to steal elections right in front of us. It’s the theft that
everyone is supposed to pretend is not happening. Christine Gregoire in 2004.
Al Franken in 2008. Joe Biden in 2020.
Then there’s the Senate. The same week the Senate took a
shot at the SAVE America Act and it was defeated. Voting with the
Democrats were
the four most despicable vermin in the Senate, Susan Collins, Lisa
Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Thom Tillis. Even if they had voted with the
GOP, it would have failed because the TDS afflicted John Thune refuses to get
rid of the filibuster.
Congress’s failure to provide for secure elections has been
a disaster for Republicans and the Republic. Not only is California an economic
and cultural trainwreck, but a Republican hasn’t won a statewide race in 20
years — the year Democrat-in-RINO-clothing Arnold Schwarzenegger won
reelection. But at least they have 7 House seats, out of 52 in a state with 25%
GOP electorate. In New England the GOP’s 24% of the electorate gets them
exactly zero of the region’s 21 House seats, and the one Senator out of twelve
is another Democrat-in-RINO-clothing, Susan Collins. She has a Liberty Score
of 20, which is even with AOC and
below Ilhan
Omar at 22! (That’s out of 100… while Thomas Massie
had a 96!)
Then in 2024 Trump ran again, and we expected that after
years of being targeted, both literally and figuratively, he would take a
wrecking ball to the Swamp. But he hasn’t. Deficits have continued to
grow, it’s practically impossible to eliminate even the most egregious of
programs, and federal judges usurp Executive powers like kids in a candy store.
From deportations to Pentagon decisions to the 1776 Fund, there’s barely an
initiative that some leftist judge hasn’t stopped. In the Senate,
Republicans have actively stopped him from making
recess appointments by gaveling in faux sessions so they never
technically go on recess. That’s never
happened before. No president has ever had recess appointments blocked by a
Senate controlled by his own party.
All of this is happening because Congress has shirked its
constitutional responsibility. Fair and free elections are not speed
limits or property taxes or any of the other things that are constitutionally
in the purview of states. Fair and free elections are core to the rights of
every single American regardless of where they live. Yet we have 14
states, representing almost 40% of the population with no Voter ID,
representing 73% of the Electoral College votes necessary to win the White
House. Add in the issues with voting
rolls, machines, and chain of custody, and it’s clear cheating is the rule
of the day when it comes to voting in Democrat cities and states.
The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution reads:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for
Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the
Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such
Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
This is not Congress spending billions on redistribution
because someone discovered the power to do so hidden in the penumbra of
the General
Welfare Clause. This is not Congress deciding out of thin air that they
could legislate “right
turn on red” nationally because they controlled highway funds. No, this is
explicitly in the Constitution and Congress has failed to utilize its power to
provide Americans with free, fair, and timely elections. All of the other
problems in America today stem from that.
President Trump, if he wants to have even a chance of a
successful legacy, needs to knock out the Swamp with the SAVE America Act.
Force Congress’s hand. He needs to make a speech to the nation and perhaps do a
modern version of FDR’s Fireside Chats chronicling its progress. He needs to
name names of Senators obstructing it. He needs to use every legal tool
available to pressure those intransigent grifters to support it. How? By
sending JD Vance to preside over the Senate and firing the Parliamentarian. By
refusing to sign another bill until SAVE is on his desk. By influencing where
the GOP spends its campaign cash. By deciding where the next military logistics
depot goes. By calling Congress into special session every single time they
seek to go home for a holiday or campaign for reelection. He should make their
lives a living hell until they do what 85% of the American people want and
which the Constitution empowers them to do, which is nothing more than force
free and fair elections.
This is not business as usual. We’re at a tipping point and
honest elections are the only peaceful way to fix it. Americans have
historically used the ballot box to guide government. The last time that was
taken away was in 1774 when Parliament passed the Massachusetts Government
Act. That didn’t end well for the tyrants in London, and it won’t end
well for the Swamp in Washington. Americans — or
at least 85% of them — demand their votes count, and want their
elections to be honest. Standing in the way of the SAVE America Act while
states openly manipulate their elections and lie while doing so is simply a
step too far. The Russians have a word for that too: Poslednyaya
kaplya. The last straw.
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
IQ, Crime, Nobel Prizes, And Immigration: The Diversity That Is Destroying Western Civilization
Sometimes data or information that seems completely disconnected can tell a story when taken together. I experienced that recently. Over the course of a few days I saw a number of posts on X that caught my attention. First was a post stating that “Whites make up only 8% of the world’s population… so in fact, we are the minority.” That 8% is down from a peak of approximately 25% in the 19th century.
Next I saw a post that featured a map of the world and
showed the
average IQ of the citizens. Hong Kong had the highest, with 107.7 while
Somalia had the lowest 83.8. Both nations are largely homogeneous while the
very diverse United States comes in at 101. Generally sub-Saharan Africa
has the lowest scores while eastern Asia has the highest.
Then I saw a post about Denmark and who commits crimes
based on their nation of origin. The data wasn’t pretty. In
every category from rape to attempted murder and everything in between,
foreigners were far more likely to be the perpetrators than Danes. Rape
gives you an idea of exactly how the data played out: Somalis were 20x
more likely to commit rapes than Danes. Syrians, 16x, Palestinians, 12x,
Afghans, 11x, and Iraqis, 9x. Somalis were 27x more likely to attempt to
commit murder as well.
Then finally I saw a post that listed Nobel
Prize winners by nationality. The United States had by far the most,
with 425, followed in second place by the U.K. with 114. Of the 15
nations with the highest number of prizes, only one, Japan at #7 with 33, is
the only one not from a largely white western nation. Of the one thousand or so
prizes awarded since 1901, approximately 85% went to white males, 10% to women,
5% went to Asians, 2% to Latin Americans, and 1% to blacks.
At this point I’ve got these disparate bits of information
in my head, but nothing is quite clicking, but I’m certain there is something
to be discerned. Then I realize I’m reading all of this on the backdrop of
Europe and the rest of the West being invaded by people coming from the very
nations that are on the bottom of those IQ score charts. I say invaded,
but in reality it’s more like the doors are being flung open by the globalist
elites in Brussels and Washington.
Now of course, it has to be said that IQ scores are but one
measure of a person. Indeed, having a high IQ score doesn’t guarantee
that someone is going to be a good or successful person. Both Ted Bundy and Ted
Kaczynski were said to have IQs of approximately 136 while Mohammed Ali, known
for his dazzling verbal agility, scored
a 78.
The folly of such policies is legion. Across Europe we
read almost daily about women and
children being raped by “migrants,” not to mention churches
burning and
no-go zones where police fear to enter. Across the United States, in
addition to blatant fraud, a majority
of immigrants are recipients of government largesse and basic services
like schools and hospitals are overwhelmed.
The reality is, “diversity” for diversity’s sake is never,
ever, a positive for Western civilization.
Now, of course the left will cry that not everyone from
Somalia or Afghanistan or Nicaragua has an IQ in the eighties, and even if they
did, they deserve an opportunity to better their lives. Both statements
may be true individually, but neither suggests why the West should open its
doors to them in aggregate. The reality is, there are members of any group who
perform — or in this case score on an IQ test — better than the majority of
citizens of their countries. And while it might be nice to identify and
offer such people entry, that’s not how it works. In both Europe and the
United States, for far too long the borders have simply been erased and tens of
millions of third world “refugees” have entered, bringing with them the very
third-world values that kept their nations from succeeding in the first place.
The reality is, over the last 500 years, almost all of the
advances that have come about that have improved the lives of mankind have come
from white males living in Western civilizations. This is particularly true
since the founding of the United States. That doesn’t mean that others
haven’t contributed or that the white males got or get everything right,
because they most certainly didn’t. But it does make one wonder why the
leaders of the civilizations built by that group are so determined to destroy everything
that they built in the name of diversity.
If the goal were to improve the lives of the less fortunate
around the world, Western leaders would be exporting the things that made the
West successful in the first place… Law and order, education, capitalism, the
scientific method, limited government, individual freedom, Christianity, and
equality under the law. In general, these are the foundational elements
that created prosperity and built Western civilization, and the third world
immigrants who are streaming into the West share almost none of them, and few
assimilate to them once they arrive.
That dichotomy is a grenade waiting to explode. The
crime chart from the formerly safe Denmark makes that perfectly clear, as does
the use of welfare programs by immigrants in the United States.
But of course, it’s not just IQ. Indeed, in the United
States we have a program whose applicants dovetail with high-IQ programs — H-1B
— but that program is terribly problematic as it sacrifices American workers so
that big businesses can import Indians and pay them less for the same
work. At the same time, east Asian nations, with the highest IQ scores in
the world, are sorely lacking in the kinds of advances reflected in Nobel
prizes, which in turn drive advances and prosperity.
The reality is, Western civilization, for all of its many,
many faults, has given mankind most of the things that drive the world today:
Automobiles, telephones, airplanes, MRI machines, computers, and much
more. And the world envies it. How can you tell? Because
millions of people from around the world invade the United States, France, the
U.K., Italy, Sweden, and more every year. But how many people do you see paying
coyotes thousands of dollars to sneak them into Mexico or Cuba or Somalia or
India or Lebanon? Not many.
As the influence of these third world “migrants” grows,
particularly Muslims, the West will find its unprecedented standard of living
continue to decline. High-trust societies cannot import those who have no
regard for the cultures of their hosts. Like water, culture — if it’s not
protected — will flow to the lowest point until equilibrium sets in. With
whites at 8% of the world’s population and the foundational values that built
Western civilization under attack from within and without, that equilibrium is
going to look far more like Beirut or Mogadishu or Caracas than it will London
or New York or Paris at their peaks. No, thank you….
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