Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
US Grant, at the Battle of the Wilderness 1864
One of the most famous scenes in movies is the opening speech of Don Corleone in the Godfather when he tells the undertaker who is asking for Justice for his daughter who was disfigured by men let off by the courts:
If you’d come to me in friendship, this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
For the last 10 to 15 years or even more the woke mind virus has held ordinary Americans in fear of saying the wrong thing, or expressing an approved opinion. We had not reached the point of England where people were getting arrested but the fear was palatable and most of all those who perpetuated this fear to control us kept pushing in order to give the illusion, backed up by media and culture, that they were the overwhelming majority.
It could be something as simple as not putting out a Trump sign because you didn’t want your car keyed or your house egged, or keeping your mouth shut while a leftist ranted on at work about Trump being a Nazi.
Quite a few gave into this fear but a much larger amount of people simply wanted to get on with their lives and didn’t want to waste their time dealing with fools. They were quiet and quite a few were armed but in the end all they wanted was to be left alone.
The political left seeing an advantage in this kept pushing farther and farther and seeing no penalty for their actions didn’t bother to police or restrain themselves, in fact I suspect more than a few understood the monsters they created in places like Portland but realized that said monsters could easily turn on them.
It’s generally a bad idea to push a well armed population beyond their endurance, because people eventually decide they’ve had enough and once you push a person who only wants to be left alone past that point bad things tend to happen.
And that brings us to the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
When we had a Christian society that valued life it was axiomatic that people would not celebrate a political murder or frankly any murder. One might not worry if criminals murdered criminals as that was considered part of the risk of being one, but the murder of a political figure for expressing & debating those who disagree with them in public? Unthinkable.
But once, thanks to the rise of abortion & gay marriage and the transgender business the political lines became split along religious lines. While it is not an absolute rule odds are if you were and are against these three things you were a Christian and thus a republican, while if you were for it, you were a Democrats.
It started in the 1970’s, continued in the 1980, and by the rise of Barack Obama the lines were pretty much set.
Now the thing about Christianity is this. The core principles, beyond the divinity of Jesus include the following:
The equality of man before God in value and love
The love of neighbor and even of enemies
When your culture embraces this, you can get along with those who disagree with you.
But when half of the culture decides those are not values they share, who decide that those who disagree with them are worthy of suffering and death the social compact was shattered.
And the reaction of leftists all over the nation has done this.
We see that poor Ukrainian girl murdered in Charlotte Iryna Zarutska who could be their daughter and realize that the left doesn’t care if violent lunatics’ are free to do this because they see political gain in having them free.
We see that poor hotel manager Chandra] Nagamallaiah BEHEADED by an illegal immigrant who was let free by the Biden administration with just two weeks left before Trump took office and realize that could be them at work while the left marches against deporting such people.
And last of all we see people openly celebrating the murder of a young man with a wife and two kids because he argued for opinions opposite of theirs opinions that we share.
If it was the odd crank on the net we wouldn’t care, but the sheer number of teachers, physicians, college administrators, members of government and the military and those in various industries that serve the general populace who have taken to the net either on video or via social media to celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk has been a great shock to many who are suddenly realizing that these people who they work beside would celebrate their deaths for agreeing with him.
Now mind you, they have a perfect right to hate Charlie Kirk, they have a perfect right to say they’re glad he’s dead, either at home or in private or public conversations, they even have the right to post what they did. It’s not a criminal offense and I would object to anyone being prosecuted for such a thing.
We also have rights, and when you go on a public platform, and appear in the public square and in our workspaces or in a place where our children are being taught and publicly celebrate assassination, not because they’re a terrorist or that we’re at war with an enemy or because a person is a gangster or mafia guy to whom such a thing is an occupational hazard, but because you disagree with the person’s political opinions and dared to openly and effectively debate others, then we have the right to very publicly call you out.,
For this breaks the social compact, it actually shatters it. This is a trust society and we can’t trust them anymore. The line is crossed and something must be done.
If we were leftists who had rejected Christianity the solution would be rather simple, we would slaughter them and say good riddance. The right is certainly well armed enough for this, but we don’t just pay lip services to those Christian beliefs, we actually believe them and thus such an option is off the table as it is grave sin that puts one’s soul at risk.
Furthermore like in the Godfather scene above, while these people have celebrated murder these people online have not actually murdered anyone. Consider this exchange prior to the Godfather quote above:
Don Corleone: I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn’t need a friend like me. Now you come and say “Don Corleone, give me justice.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me “Godfather.” You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder – for money.
Bonasera:I ask you for justice.
Don Corleone: That is not justice. Your daughter is alive.
So instead us worrying about what they will do to us, we’re thinking about what we’re doing to them. They are being named and shamed and pressure is being put on the institutions & businesses that employ them. Such people have no place in government, or in law, or in teaching or in medicine. And if you own a private business that serves the entire public you can’t have someone on staff publicly cheering the death of someone for having the same opinions as half the population.
So now hundreds, or even perhaps thousands of people will lose their jobs. I suspect most if not all of them had no issue when Roseanne Barr or Gina Carano lost their jobs over public statements that didn’t involve cheering for political murder and if it was 1968 they would have no problem doing the same to anyone who celebrated the murder of MLK or RFK but they never dreamed their actions might actually have consequences.
If they didn’t get it before they get in now. Some might celebrate themselves as maryters but I suspect most of them may have figured out they’re crossed a line…
…and now they fear us.
It would be very nice if it didn’t reach this point, but one must live in reality. This is where we are, where we go from here is anyone’s guess however there is one other aspect of Christianity that does comes into play here.
Then Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
Matthew 18:21-22
That’s a non-optional doctrine because if we don’t we condemn ourselves as the Our father says: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
If these people seek forgiveness we are required to forgive but will they have the humility to ask for it?
So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?“
John 18:37-38a
If I had to explain the communist left why they can not be trusted from only one example, the one that instantly comes to mind is their actions from 1939 to 1941 concerning World War 2.
Being two sides of the same coin the Soviet Communists and the German Fascists’ hated each other with a passion having fought against each other by proxy in Spain during the Spanish Civil war. Their proxies in the west had plenty to say attaching the German Reich and their provocative moves right up until August 24 1939 when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact or Hitler Stalin pact was signed at which point leftist all over America in editorials and in song urged America to stay out of World War Two and particularly not to aid Britain in her time of need…
…right up until June 22nd 1941 when the Nazi juggernaut poured into the USSR and the states that they had invaded after 1939. Suddenly all of these voices pivoted 180 degrees and demanded that the US get involved in World War Two to stop the Nazi Menace.
This is one of the reasons why once Japan attacked in December of 1941 you didn’t see the left complain about us going to war. Fighting Japan and Germany meant fighting to save Communist Russia as well so as far as the American left was concerned, they were all in!
Or to put it simply the atrocities and the danger from the Nazis didn’t matter all that mattered was advancing the desired narrative.
And that brings us to Gaza.
For years the Palestinians aided by the left pushed the idea of Gaza as an “open air prison.” that Israel kept oppressed with an iron fist, then Israel, after the attacks of October began their ground invasion of Gaza on October 27th twenty days after the October 7th attacks and demonstrated that this time they meant it and then the narrative slowly then all at once changed.
As Israel pulverized tunnels and destroyed terror infrastructure suddenly we saw Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular wax poetic about the beauty of Gaza that existed before the war. They talked about markets, malls, beautiful beaches and all the wonders and joys of Gaza that existed before the Israeli invasion. No talk of open air prisons, just talk about the paradise that Gaza was before the big bad Jews decided that for once Hamas had gone too far and they were going to root them out of their holes once and for all, no more hiding in schools, no more hiding in hospitals, no more hiding in tunnels. If you were Hamas you were going to be dead.
You see as long as Israel was not in Gaza it was important to the cause of Jew Haters to declare Gaza a prison and point fingers at Israel as the jailors, but once Israel actually came in and destroyed infrastructure used to support terror suddenly Gaza was an Arab paradise before October 2023 that Israel spoiled by their invasion. Reality didn’t matter, the narrative mattered.
And now we see the latest twist and turn of reality with the coming of the Biden (Trump?) cease fire.
For the last year everywhere you looked Israel was being attacked as perpetuating a genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza, in colleges, on news broadcast and in marches and rallies and especially in the UN & ICC the word of the day was Genocide.
The reality that if Israel wanted to slaughter the Arabs they could have done it at any time without putting any troops at risk didn’t matter, the fact that nations actually moved to change the legal defination of “genocide” to make it fit their cause didn’t matter, the fact that the Israel was allowing supplies in rather than letting their enemes starve and that Hamas was stealing the supplies and selling them didn’t matter either, what has happening in Gaza was genocide and that was that.
Until yesterday, when with the latest peace deal suddenly Hamas and their supporters declared victory.
Suddenly the last 15 months were transformed from “Genocide” to a grand victory that Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular could celebrate with pride.
The fact that large chunks of Gaza have been leveled and that Hamas while surviving has been castrated means nothing, victory must be declared because to not declare victory in public is to admit defeat.
This is what happens in a face society, a society that runs on reputation rather than reality can’t deal with seeing things in the light of truth. It’s why Egypt spent the first two days of the six day war vs Israel in 1967 declaring that they were at the gates of Tel Aviv when in fact their air force was gone and their armies were in retreat. Frankly if it wasn’t for the fact that Egypt prolongated this lie, Jordan would not have gone to war with Israel and would still hold the west bank and Jerusalem.
A society that lies to itself because the truth is too painful can not deal with things as they are and when you can’t deal with reality bad things happen.
The left in California can’t deal with the reality of what causes fires, so it burns.
The left in the Northwest can’t deal with the reality of socialism, thus it collapses
The left in NYC can’t deal with the reality of policing thus crime flourishes
The left in England (and the elite right for that matter) can’t deal with the reality of Islam and woman thus their children get raped and their people silenced for speaking out.
And most of all the Arabs can’t deal with the fact that will less that 16 million Jews in the entire world they have outpaced the entire Arab world in every single single measurable advancement of life and have repeatedly defeated their armies when they’ve tried to destroy them.
This is what the left and the Arabs have in common and why a group of people who are supposedly in love with Homosexuality, Transgenderism and gay marriage and destruction of the family unit can so embrace a culture that would slay people for all of these things. They share the unwillingness to alter their views to fit the facts rather than vice versa. Cue Tom Baker:
If Arab nations ignored Israel in general and the Jews as a nation in particular and concentrated on improving their own situation they would flourish. They have a large population, people who are devout (even if they in many cases see God incorrectly) and have so much potential. If they focused on these things they would be giants in the world of trade, science entertainment and the condition of their own people. That they have not is one of the tragedies of human history.
I still have high hopes that as a pious people the days will come (long after I’m gone) where they will discover Christ as he is rather than Christ as they paint him, there are already rumblings of such things taking place.
But until then they will declare a public truth that suits their fragile egos and ability to cope while privately seething in humiliation knowing that the only reason they are alive is that Israel doesn’t want to kill them.
Fonzie: [after being humiliated by 15 uncontrollable kids] They figured out my weakness the Fonz does not hit little kids. [starts to leave]
Richie: So where are you going?
Fonzie:To find someone who does eyyy!
[After returning with his nephew spike]
Fonzie: …but if Spike hits you that’ s just one little kid hitting another and that’s not against the law.
Happy Days Football Frolics 1976
If you have the stomach for it read this post concerning the Mass Rape of White Girls in England by Pakistani Muslim men for the last 20 year and the left ignoring to preserve their multicultural myth.
Every racially aggravating factor you could imagine is present. First, there is substantial evidence that the young girls in question were targeted because they were white. In these communities of Pakistani Muslim rapists, hardly any of the victims were Pakistani Muslim women.
But if you REALLY want to see what the solution to the problem is, look at this comment in the piece:
It wasn’t just white girls, though it was mostly them, but Sikh and Hindu girls. The fathers of the Sikh and Hindu girls went after their Muslim attackers armed with swords and other weapons, and there were battles in the streets. Some might have been arrested, I can’t remember, but they didn’t face the usual left-wing go-to accusations of being “far right” or “racists.” And the Muslim men did not go after those girls again (emphasis DTG). The Sikhs set up the Sikh Awareness Society to warn their local girls of the potential dangers. No such warnings were ever given to white girls that I know of, bearing in mind they would have been told repeatedly that everyone is the same, and it’s racist to regard other races in any way except favourably. The State groomed them almost as much as those gangs…
Yes you read that right, the same “multicultural” BS that prevented the authorities from protecting White British girls from being protected from these people allowed the Sikh’s to defend and save their daughters without fear of arrest and hinderance.
And because incentives matter Sikh girls were spared and white girls were not because there was an incentive for Pakistani men to avoid targeting them.
Frankly if I was a British father in this situation I would approach the Sikh community as Bonasera did Don Corleone hat in hand to ensure that scum would be suffering that very day.
Harvey: When l get off this boat, l’m going to get my father to put you all in jail. You’re all kidnappers.,,,
Captain Disko: Well, l guess there ain’t nothing else for it.
Harvey: …l’ll bet they put you all in jail. ln jail for the rest of your lives, and l’m going to do it, too.[ Disko waps him upside the head knocking him down to the ship’s deck] You Hit me?!
Captain Disko: Now you just sit there and think about it.
Captain’s Courageous 1937
As we near the last days of the blog as a business venture I think back on all the stories I’ve covered. There have been a lot of stories I’ve seen that have surprised or shocked me.
As many recent graduates face complaints about how they fit into the workplace, employers report increasing hesitancy in hiring them, according to a report by the education and career advisory platform, Intelligent
You mean all that expensive DEI education is not translating into job skills?
The report, which was based on a survey of nearly 1,000 hiring managers, found that one in six employers were reluctant to hire Gen Z workers mainly due to their reputation for being entitled and easily offended.
Moreover, more than half said that this generation, which refers to people born between 1997 and the early 2010s, lacks a strong work ethic, struggles with communication, doesn’t handle feedback well, and is generally unprepared for the demands of the workforce.
Amazing! Who would have thought that people who had to have counselors if the wrong person wins an election or if someone who disagrees with them politically speaks on a campus is completely useless in the real world.
Holly Schroth, senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that Gen Z’s focus on extracurricular activities to boost their college competitiveness rather than gaining job experience has led to “unrealistic expectations” about the workplace and how to deal with their bosses.
And even worse, they don’t come equipped with safe spaces!
Do a web search of “Gen Z” and “polite” and you’ll find a wave of stories on how this generation has no idea how to act around actual human beings.
So treating your kids as your friends and buddies instead of being the parent and spanking them then they need it produces useless idiots.
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