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Enjoy Until Midnight. Then Back To Work.

“Execute order 66.” – Revenge of the Sith

This is a GloboLeftist.  Thinking we’re not cheering for this, not understanding we didn’t vote for stability.

I had a football coach that had a speech that he saved for the team after we had won a big game.  Since we were 2-7 my senior year, he rarely got to use it.  It went something like this:

“Alright, team, we won the big game and are feeling pretty good right now, except for Jenkins.  I’m pretty sure he was left-handed, anyway, so don’t worry too much about him.  We won.  Enjoy it.  Relax.  Until midnight.  After midnight, it’s back to being hungry for a win – the score is zero-zero.”  Since this was before the GloboLeftElite clouded the minds of men, he’d then hand out cigarettes and beer to the freshmen and sophomores, with cigars, tequila and strippers for the upperclassmen.

I loved high school.  I learned a lot about Destiny there, though I think that was just her stage name.  I never did get all the glitter off the truck seat.

Anyway, Trump has once again assumed the presidency.  This is not the naïve, friendly, Trump of his first administration.  Nope, he’s played the game, had four years to marinate in his mistakes, and is surrounded by a bunch of people who are nearly as pissed off as he is.  The biggest initial impact, besides bleaching the Oval Office to get the old man smell out, are the plethora of Executive Orders he issued nearly immediately.  I’ve got an incomplete list below, and let’s spend a few minutes reveling in them.

I can’t verify this, but I can imagine him saying it, so it’s probably true.

  • 1,500 pardons for January 6 protestors.

This was a big one, and was needed for legitimacy.  So many of the folks on January 6 did absolutely nothing wrong in what was effectively the largest panty raid in American history – you could tell because Nancy Pelosi certainly had her panties in a bunch.

Sorry for that.  Now you probably need mind bleach.

The sentences for the protesters were, in almost every case, extremely disproportionate to the crimes alleged.  This is justice.

The button text is photoshopped, although when I checked, the Spanish version of whitehouse.gov was really gone.  Actual text:  “Return to Home Page.”

  • Declared a national border emergency.

This was one that really got the goat of the GloboLeftElite.  Butch Maddow, MSNBC© Lesbian at Large, reporting from the MSNBC™ Safe Space© bunker, immediately asked where Steiner’s troops were.

But what happened is the border shut down.  Immediately.  The Border Patrol ceased their most recent duty of diaper delivery and social work and began, well, patrolling the border.

  • Removed birthright citizenship.

Pure genius, and well overdue.  If I vault over my neighbor’s fence and my woman gives birth on his lawn, I don’t have a claim to his house.  Oddly, that’s been our theory for decades.  The wording of the amendment establishing citizenship at birth clearly says, “and under the jurisdiction thereof.”  Criminals are not citizens, and not under the jurisdiction, just like diplomats, people on student, tourist, or work visas, or ILLEGAL ALIENS aren’t.

Boot ‘em.  Sadly, this isn’t retroactive, but this is a start.  Already H1-B Indians are complaining that they can’t chain migrate their 4,323 close relatives from India because of this.

Yes, this makes me cry inside.  But it’s tears of joy.

  • Shut down refugee resettlement.

Every picture about this particular order showed the fat Squatamalan woman wearing designer clothes crying because her appointment to negotiate to come into the United States was cancelled.  She had a cell phone (nicer than mine) showing that her appointment was cancelled.

Why, oh why does it make these people cry when they are told that they have to live in their home country surrounded by people just like them?

President Trump sends his regards.

  • Rescinded 78 Biden Executive Orders on DEI.

Imagine you’re a diversity trainer.  Imagine you had a contract to teach diversity to listless herds of .gov employees.  Imagine now you’re unemployed.

I know, I know.  I’m in pain, too.  It’ll probably take plastic surgery to remove the smile from my face.

  • Froze .gov hiring.

This is a good start.  Now start firing ever DEI employee, every gun control policy wonk, and every third employee, randomly.  That’s a better start.

  • Required immediate return to in-person work for .gov employees.

They have to go to work?  In a building?  That’s not their home?  And put on pants?  Sheer monstrosity.

If employees don’t return, they’ll get a little visit from Barron.

  • Required regulation cutting.

This is a sleeper, because it has a huge ability, if done right, to lower costs for businesses and individuals.  We’ll see.

  • Required removal of climate policies that raise costs and withdraw from the Paris Accords.

Again, a sleeper because all of that alternative energy is really, really costly when compared to regular old energy, and yet raise your costs invisibly because the cost is just passed on to you via your bill.  The Paris Accords aren’t a treaty, because the GloboLeftElite couldn’t pass a treaty.  It’s just . . . an agreement that bound us to GloboLeftElite goals, i.e., they keep their jets, but we have to have crappy cars.

Or, it was an agreement.

  • Withdrew from the World Health Organization.

I’ve written about this bureaucratic overreach with no particular purpose after they actually did some good and important things.  Mainly, it’s a bunch of high-paying jobs and a really cool building with a rooftop café for foreigners to sip cappuccinos while they laugh at us plebs.

  • Created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate entire agencies and many .gov jobs.

I’ve written about DOGE before.  I’m certainly in hopes that it works, though, like so many of the above, it all depends on the executions.  After fair trials, of course.

  • Removed the security clearances from the 51 intelligence officers who said that Hunter’s laptop was fake, and, also John Bolton.

I found this one particularly delicious.  These intelligence grifters retire and use their credentials to maintain access to secret information, and then sell their opinions to big corporations or mainstream media.  Sadly, I’m not sure the Executive Orders covered Bolton’s mustache, which I think is Bolton’s primary sensory and information storage organ.

Even Michael Bolton would be better at national security.

  • Declared that there were only two genders.

It took mankind 2020 years to forget this, but one stroke of the pen and it made sense again.  I wonder what will happen to all of those trans celebrity kids now that they’re illegal.  Maybe we can send them to Guatemala, too.

  • Declared that it’s now the Gulf of America.

A troll from Trump, but a beautiful, hilarious troll that the GloboLeftElite will focus on while Trump’s busy gutting the federal government like a trout or an MSNBC© Safe Space™.

There are, of course, more, like firing the DEI obsessed Coast Guard L.I.C. (Lesbian in Charge) or shutting down most foreign aid, immediately.

So, tonight, I’ll sit back and not gripe.  I’ll enjoy the moment.

Until midnight.

Henry VIII And Our Hidden History

“Come on, drop it.  Stop acting like Henry VIII.” – Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

“I can’t be an ‘eritic if I ‘ave me own church, eh gov’na?”

In a comment the other day, the idea was introduced that the history books would get it right, and regardless of our follies today, eventually the historians would sort it out.

I don’t think so.

I think some very fundamental parts of our history have been either been gotten entirely wrong, or, worse, subverted for a reason, especially history that matters.

One example of this was brought out by two brilliant posts from Robb Ludden-Joyer.  Mr. Ludden-Joyer writes on X®, and you can find him at @rawbloodenjoyer.  Yeah.  With that sense of humor, I knew I was going to enjoy these posts.  You can find them here (LINK) and here (LINK).  I strongly encourage you to RTWT.

In these two posts (of which Mr. Ludden-Joyer says he’s working on at third) Mr. Ludden-Joyer looks at the life and times of Henry VIII of England.

Now, when I think about Henry VIII, the image that popped into my mind was of a portly dude who, when he didn’t fancy a wife, had her killed.  This is the type of no-fault divorce I can get behind.  Essentially, history has branded Mr. The VIII as an irresponsible, low-brow hedonist who killed his wives on whims.  Ah, who says the old ways aren’t the best?

I’m not sure if that’s what you got out of your history class and popular media, but it’s certainly what I got out of World History.  My World History class was “taught” by the varsity boys’ basketball coach.  His teaching style was interesting – I had him first period, and he’d show up and start the film of the day.  He had films for every day.  When it was over (if it was a short one) he’d instruct us to start the second film.  Five minutes before the period ended, he’d show back up, stop the film, and then say, “Let’s knock off for the day, class.”

But I did somehow letter.  Coach said he had to pull a few strings.

One day we got rowdy enough that someone found him, and he marched back as mad as a varsity boys’ basketball coach could be, and gave us a speech worthy of a team that was both unable to dribble, shoot, or run.  Then, after the impassioned speech?

“Let’s knock off for the day, class.”

Rob Ludden-Joyer has, however, given us another viewpoint on Henry VIII, so let’s reassess.

A very short version of Mr. Ludden-Joyer’s thesis is that Henry VIII may have had a much, much different incentive:  keeping England under English control.  When talking about Henry VIII, no one really mentions the Habsburgs.

Who were the Habsburgs?  Well, they started sometime around the 10th century, and their primary strategy to gain power was marriage.  When they wanted to gain a barony or some location, they’d marry off their children to Baron Whatshisname.  Then, with the Habsburg connection, they’d make sure that the children of Baron Whatshisname married other Habsburgs.  If Baron Whatshisname had a male heir, well, the best doctors were the Habsburg doctors, and, “Oh, my Baron, it’s a tragedy what happened to your son.  But your daughter is just fine and healthy!”

If you watch the movie Jaws backwards, it’s a heartwarming story of a shark that helps disabled people put their lives back together.

But the Habsburgs were very, very good at not letting others use their tricks on them, and thus their family tree began to resemble a stump as they kept interbreeding to keep the power in undisputed Habsburg lines.  Other countries expanded by war, but the Habsburg’s main weapon was the womb.  And lots of poison, I’m betting.

Henry VIII’s first wife was . . . Catherine of Aragorn.  Okay, it’s Aragon, but Aragorn is way cooler.  Anyway, she was a . . . Habsburg.

So, Catherine had a child by Henry VIII, named . . . Henry.  Henry “died suddenly with no recorded cause of death”.  Then, another son, who lived for a few hours.  Then, another son, who died shortly after birth.  Once is a tragedy, twice is a coincidence, but three times is the Habsburg doctors killing Henry’s sons so he’d have to let her marry a Habsburg.

Finally, she had a single daughter with Henry (notice the pattern) named Mary.  It is a bit of a spoiler to point out that she’s known to history as Bloody Mary, and not because of that horrible drink named after her.  And she lived, just fine.

Hmmm.

One day I was looking at myself naked in the mirror and thought, “Whoa, I’m pretty sure they’re gonna kick me out of IKEA.”

Well, Henry VIII likely wanted to keep England under control of, you know, the English, and fought back by asking the Pope to rid him of this wife.  Popes back in the day were generally fine with this sort of thing, but the Habsburgs had God on their side – and by God I mean the Habsburgs had the Pope in actual custody.  Amazingly, the Pope agreed with the people who had a knife to his throat and said no, and this led eventually to the birth of Henry’s longest living heir – the Church of England.

Henry VIII also had a son, who was King Edward VI, until he was poisoned by the Habsburgs.  That led to Lady Jane Grey becoming Queen, until Mary killed her.  Bloody Mary married a Habsburg, but thankfully her inbred egg carton was empty, and she had no children with her Hapsburg cousin.

Thankfully, she died.

Elizabeth I was then queen, and Mr. Ludden-Joyer theorizes that her avoidance of marriage was partially intended to keep England ruled by the English.

Again, @rawbloodenjoyer’s ideas are fresh, and when I read them, they ring very true – a large part of Henry VIII’s motivation was about the ultimate control of England remaining in the hands of the English, and not merely him being horny.

It must be common to have headaches as a farmer.  They keep talking about my grains.

Of course, I’ve skipped a lot of details because Mr. Ludden-Joyer has covered so many of them in his posts.  I’ll take this a bit further, though.  If you look at English history, the Habsburgs finally got there with George I of England, of the House of Hanover, whose mother was a cousin to the Habsburgs.

By then, however, the game had changed.  As Thomas Jefferson (definitely not a Habsburg) said, “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”

I think that the question now as we move forward is a simpler one, and it echoes Jefferson:  “Who controls our money?”  Our money is a meme at this point, and like Bitcoin or Trumpcoin, and masters of the money meme like George Soros can easily spend only $40 million and take control of the criminal justice system.  When you look back at our history, the history of the United States, how much of that has been led by those who would use money to control?

A billionaire who hates America pulling the strings behind the curtain.  How could that be bad?

And how much are they willing to subvert our history to hide their actions?

Let’s knock off for today, class.

The French, Broken Windows, And The Intentional Destruction Of Wealth

“Remember that broken basement window around by the side.  And be careful.” – Phantasm

Inspector Clouseau drove a tank during World War II.  Apparently, it was a pink panzer.

Dead French dude Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist who died in 1850, but not after having written books and essays that influence economics to this day.  Bastiat was handicapped by having to speak and write in French, which has the disadvantage of sounding exactly like a cat when it is drowning in Jell-O® Instant Tapioca Pudding™.  This is combined with the disadvantage of the French using letters more or less randomly in ways not at all related to the sounds they make.

Bastiat was heartily anti-socialist, and was ahead of the curve, especially in France where they had a socialist revolution every year that the groundhog doesn’t see his shadow on Bastille Day.  As I look to the country around us, and especially Los Angeles, I see that it’s probably time to trot out Bastiat’s old parable of the broken window, which is featured in his essay, That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen.

I remember an old girlfriend once yelled, “Are you even listening to me?”  Weird way to start a conversation.

In the parable, a snotty kid accidently breaks a window at his father’s shop.  What does the father sell?  He’s French, so probably cigarettes and baguettes and marionettes.  Regardless, the father has to call the guy who fixes windows, who is thrilled.  He gets to charge the father for fixing the window, he buys some glass, cuts it, and installs it.  Since he needs more glass, he even orders some from the French Glass Factory, and they make a tiny bit of profit, too.

What a great story!  This is what makes the economy zoom, right?  This is what Bastiat referred to as That Which Is Seen.

Well, not exactly.  The window as it was sitting there was just fine.  It was doing its job, letting the French people with their little, beady eyes get light so they could smoke and import foreigners.  There was nothing wrong with it.

That pane of glass represented wealth, if you will.  It was built in the past, sure, but it was doing its job, being a window.  When the snotty little kid broke it, he destroyed wealth.  Money that could have been used for his father to buy a new machine to plant cigarette seeds so he could grow packs of Marlboros™ will have to wait.

Things that will always be a mystery:  What number of French soldiers does it take to successfully defend Paris?

Broken windows, while putting a few francs into the pocket of the guy who fixed the window, overall made the country poorer.  That wealth could have done a nearly infinite number of things rather than fix the window.  Bastiat referred to that as That Which Is Not Seen.

When I look at the fire that just swept through Los Angeles, I think about Bastiat.  Billions of dollars of damage has been done in Los Angeles – and that was only after hitting two or three homes.

I kid.  But there are devastated areas where Governor Gavin Newsom is salivating at the thought of the economic activity associated with rebuilding.  He promised to remove “red tape” so that rebuilding could be less costly – which means that he knew all along that the “red tape” was nothing more than a means to destroy wealth by creating a vast sea of pockets that had to be filled with money before the building could start.

John Lennon was really ahead of his time:  “Imagine all the Paypal® . . .”

The impact of the fires is due to mismanagement and neglect of the important systems that society actually needs to prevent tragedy at scale.  There is a case for the protection to society brought by fire departments – even Bastiat would agree to that.  But we need competent people to run them, unless, of course, the goal is to have broken windows so that Gavin’s friends can buy up California land at the greatest discount of the past fifty years.

If it so obvious when there’s a fire, why isn’t it obvious when, during the Great Depression, the USDA drove herds of cattle off of cliffs to kill them to bring prices up, all while families were starving?  Did that create wealth?

What do you get if you cross a border collie with a pit bull?  A dog that’s smart enough to bury the bodies.

Why wasn’t it obvious when Obama tried to kickstart the economy by buying up perfectly usable cars in his Cash for Clunkers scheme just to explicitly destroy wealth so that more people would be forced to go out and buy cars?

Yup, breaking more windows to give jobs to the guys who replace windows.

Beware of those that would break windows to create prosperity.  War, of course, is the ultimate window breaking machine, I mean, outside of the GloboLeftElite that run places like Detroit and LA and San Francisco and Baltimore and . . . well, I guess war is the second biggest window breaking machine outside of GloboLeftElite leadership.  Except the GloboLeftElite doesn’t give us cool things like jet engines and large airplanes and microwaves and the AR platform to compensate for the rubble and poverty.

In cities, you ignore sirens and listen for gunshots.  In the country, you ignore gunshots and listen for sirens.  In Detroit, you ignore both.

The GloboLeftElite just gives us the poverty via broken windows, and calls it progress.

The real bright side?  At least the GloboLeftElite doesn’t speak French.

Trump, Greenland, And The Caesar Offramp

“Do you want me to send you back to where you were, unemployed in Greenland?” – The Princess Bride

Think Trump wants to Make Greenland Green Again?

Greenland.  All of this post started by thinking that pretty soon we might be handed the keys to Greenland, so we should get up there quickly to measure to see if our stuff fits.

I’ve written several times about the coming political/economic crisis that the United States is facing, and back in 2018 I said the earliest year would be 2025, and the latest would be 2040.  I’m sticking by those figures.  The most likely period for this crisis I’m still putting at 2030-2035 because things tend to go on a lot longer than we think they will – inertia is real in physics, and it’s just as real in political economic systems.  Things go on a lot farther than they should, and in hindsight people say, “Well, how in the heck did that last so very long.”

History is filled with many such examples:

  • The Ottoman Empire,
  • the system under Czarist Russia,
  • the Chinese Emperors, and
  • my first marriage.

Watching history unfold right now with the dawn of the second Trump Administration, I wanted to give a quick glimpse in what might be an offramp to the collapse.  I’m calling it, “The Caesar Offramp.”

Or was it Sultan Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

It is very clear that the political situation more than rhymes with problems taking place in the very late Roman Republic.  Cicero (the dead Roman, not Porky Pig’s® nephew) even gave a speech about groups called the Optimates and the Populares.

The Optimates were the elite of the day – think the people who take jets from their Aspen house to their superyacht that they just had shipped in to Port Hercules in Monaco so they could be with all the other people who had their superyacht shipped to Port Hercules in Monaco.  These are the princes of the world, the folks who fly to Davos to get together to tell you that you’re using too many hydrocarbons and probably shouldn’t be legally allowed to have air conditioning.

The Populares?  Let’s be real – these were also the elite of the day, but they at least pretended that the rank-and-file people were important.  They had superyachts, too, but pretended they didn’t like them and also ate cheeseburgers.

Hmmm.  All of this is sounding familiar.

Man, I wish our local McDonald’s was as generous with the cheese.

Let’s skip forward, a bit.  At the end of the Republic, Rome was on the verge of civil war, and Julius Caesar, certainly the most famous Roman identified as a Populare, broke the system, and became the prototype for what would become an Empire that would last for the next five hundred years in the West, and the next nearly 1,500 years in the East.

What really made me think about this is the very real possibility that the United States will become the controller of Greenland.  Yup.  Whereas the United States has had territorial expansions, the last really big one was over 150 years ago when Seward negotiated for Alaska, and the last significant territorial acquisition were some islands we got after World War II, but they’re tiny.

I can see Trump in the movie Dune:  “Fremen.  Great people.  Funny suits, but great people.  Really mistreated by the Harkonnen.  Many such cases.” 

Regardless, it’s been nearly 80 years since we added territory to the United States, and it certainly wasn’t the largest island in the world, rather batches of small islands in the Pacific that were taken from the Japanese after, um, some nuclear persuasion.  To me, this is a symbol of a world in flux, where nothing should be taken for granted.

And, it provides the basis for an offramp – a Caesar.

Trump is certainly not that man.  Trump is about, as he told us plainly, The Art of the Deal.  Trump didn’t seize power, he talked himself into it.  His Populare sentiment contrasts with the Optimate culture of the RINOS and GloboLeftElite, and he used exactly that to springboard himself into power.

Twice.

The sentiment is there, and given the relative polarity and unpopularity of the various members of the Optimate class, there exists a big opening, right now, for a Populare leader to rise up, seize power, and completely overhaul our systems.  Just the fact that we’re talking about absorbing Greenland to better surround Northern India (formerly known as Canada), the idea that our institutions, both financial and political can be remade is also on the table.

I think Trump wants to turn Greenland into an ICE detention center.

I think that this isn’t the most likely scenario, a Caesar without a civil war – I still think that Civil War 2.0 is the mostly likely outcome.  Here are the variations that immediately spring to mind:

  • Civil War 2.0 followed by regional Balkanization
  • Civil War 2.0 followed by Ceasar 2.0 (and likely a North American Unification)
  • Civil War 2.0 followed by a Revitalized Republic
  • World War 4.0 (counting Cold War as 3.0) followed by some version of regionalized Balkanization, Caesar 2.0, or a Revitalized Republic

I find the regional Balkanization the most likely, still, since people are already self-segregating away from the Red/Blue state they don’t like, and that the polarization has essentially already created two countries within a single border.

Caesar 2.0 after Civil War 2.0 would require an extraordinary man with a military background, but also one of public service to step up at the right time with a message of unification.  Think Napoleon, but taller and with a better public speaking voice.  I’m betting Napoleon sounded like a mouse squeaking when he talked.

People called me a monster for feeding my kids frozen pizza rolls.  Should I have microwaved them first?

The Revitalized Republic, while most personally desirable to me, seems the least likely since we don’t like each other very much, any more and the residual community that created the space for the Republic seems missing.  I’m not sure that the resolve exists for the mountains of skulls that would need to be stacked in order for the Republic to be reconstituted.

So, an off ramp may exist.  There’s a vanishingly short time for that to occur, so if it doesn’t happen by 2030, I’m betting that it’s not in the cards.

But, we’ll always have Greenland.

Memes, Including One Of My Favorite Greentexts

I had an 11 hour day, no draft post (because of the long day) and I’m a bit under the weather.  If any one of those was not true, you’d be staring at a great post.  As it is, enjoy these memes, including one of my favorite greentexts.

Poor Whit.

The Return of the Podcast: We’re So Back

Streams will show up here at 9EST, that’s in just over 30 minutes!  (and we typically pregame for five minutes, so it really starts up at 8:55PM)

Mrs The Mrs – YouTube

Funniest News On the ‘Net.

 

In this episode:

  • War and Stuff
  • On This Day
  • Conversation Street
  • Two Minutes of Guns In 60 Seconds
  • ThinkRealFast
  • I Heard It On The X

When It Comes To The Country, What Does Winning Mean?

“Fight Club wasn’t about winning or losing.” – Fight Club

What do you get for winning a muscle loss competition?  Atrophy.

One of the things I thought about after the Big Christmas H1-B X® Debate is this simple question based off of Elon’s now famous Drunk Christmas Xeet (above):

What’s the price of winning?

First, I guess I’d ask the question – winning at what, exactly?  There are lots of things that a country could win at.  Here’s a stab at some things that I think would be fairly nice for a country to win at:

  • Liberty
  • Trust
  • Happiness
  • Low Corruption
  • Low Crime
  • Health
  • Standard of Living
  • Educational Achievement
  • Cultural Accomplishments
  • Innovation in PEZ® Delivery Devices

That’s not a very bad list, at all.  A country that scored highly in these indices would be a pretty darn nice country to live in.  It looks, hang with me for just a second, exactly like the United States through much of its existence prior to 1960.

Most people know about Karl Marx from his political philosophy, but few know about his sister, Onya, who invented the track race starter pistol.

Will bringing in more “people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated” help any of that?

Maybe.  A little.  The United States was a center where smart people wanted to come for years, especially in the post war era.  We got a few that did really help – Von Braun and Fermi, for instance.  However, some of the greatest prosperity the country had ever seen was when it was at its most restrictive in immigration.

I don’t think that was a coincidence.  The Immigration Act of 1924 was ushered in based on the huge slug of mainly non-Western European immigrants hitting our shores – people who little in common with the existing peoples of the United States, other than having two eyes and butts and such.  Having a never-ending stream of legal immigrants made the Act very, very popular.

How popular was the Act?  308-62 in the House, 69-9 in the Senate.

Remember, it’s not gay if it’s TSA.

The Act stabilized the existing ethnic makeup of the United States, with over 54% of allowable immigrants coming from English-speaking (this includes 11% from Ireland, which I assume counts) countries.

Imagine!  Over half of the immigrants to the United States speaking English on day one, and 94% coming from nominally Christian countries.  Oh!  And only 150,000 a year.

The result was a Depression.

Just kidding – that was going to happen anyway, thanks to the Fed®.

No, the result was that during the Depression we weren’t swamped with millions of jobless imports every year to make the situation even worse.  Oh, and it certainly didn’t hurt our own industry.  It was ready to hire actual Americans when World War II hit.  Did we need to import more people to build bombs and tanks and ships and planes?

No.  We did just fine, thank you.

Grandma Wilder fought during World War II.  She ended up getting a divorce.

And we were a much more unified country than today, leading in many of the categories I’ve put in the list above.

So, how is that not winning?

Elon imports Process Engineers on H1-B visas to work at his factories.  He pays them less than the median wage for Process Engineers – only $0.86 on the dollar.  Oh, and they can’t quit or they’re shipped back to India.

Is that winning?  Is it winning to have people work like virtual slaves for 86% of the median wage?  This doesn’t sound much like a rock star that we need to help us “win”.

Unless “win” means something else:

  • Lower Worker Wages
  • Higher Quarterly Profits
  • Importing More GloboLeft Voters
  • Higher House and Rent Prices
  • More Inflation
  • Increased Health Care Costs

I wonder how we got lulled to sleep?

Illegal aliens are bad enough, but legal ones can be just as economically corrosive, especially in the massive numbers that we’ve seen over the decades since 1965.  The fact that many of them

  • don’t speak English,
  • have political views antithetical to liberty,
  • are often openly hostile to the existing American population, and
  • come from philosophical backgrounds entirely alien to Western Civilization

doesn’t help.

A few, sprinkled here and there?  Yeah, in three or so generations they’d not stick out.  But over (as of 2018) 26% of Americans are first or second generation, and I’d bet that number vastly undercounts illegals.

The goal, I think, was for Americans to not be able to speak out about the idea that they’re being replaced by cheaper foreign labor that is more amenable to living under totalitarian conditions.  To want to defend the future of the continent where you and your forefathers built a civilization out of an untapped wilderness is somehow supposed to be wrong.

Oh, and the GloboLeft have been conditioned to hate Americans and those close to them.  Their idea of empathy is horribly skewed.  In the graph below (which I did a post on, but am too lazy to look up right now), the TradRight (on the left, oddly) has their highest concentration of empathy to those that they know – their family and close friends.  The GloboLeftists have their empathy skewed out to . . . all lifeforms in the universe.  The GloboLeftists don’t much like themselves, their family, or those that are close to them.  They hate themselves and actively love people who are more foreign in ideology and genetics than their actual brothers and sisters.

The meme about my political philosophy above being a wholesome family wasn’t a joke.  It’s actually a real thing. 

If we want to win, well, first we have to define exactly what winning looks like.  After that, it’s up to us to really look at what it is we need to do to win.  My suggestion is that investing in our own people is probably better than treating them like a commodity to be bought and sold, or a horse to be worked to death pulling a plow to raise the children of people who hate us, who came here only as economic tourists.

Americans aren’t weak.  We’ve proven that time and time again.  Don’t let up, and don’t stop the pressure.  Winning is important.