Thoughts on America After the Death of Charlie Kirk...

One big lesson from this past week is that there will be no civil war in America. It's not happening. It can't happen. Civil War 2.0 just got taken off the schedule.

The murders of Irnya Zarutska and Charlie Kirk revealed that America is a center-right nation of decent, normal…

— Jay Fivekiller (@JayFivekiller) September 14, 2025

Saw this tweet over on X and gave it some thought....for what its' worth, I agree with most of the tenets except for one part; quoting.... "The Democrats will suffer through several more disastrous electoral cycles before younger politicians finally emerge who will rebuild it into a more patriotic, immigration skeptical, pro-family, center-left party that can compete against the Republicans on economic and quality of life issues."

While the first part of that quote is correct in that Democrats, if they weren't already heading to at least one or two not-so-good election cycles, are probably headed to several in a row reminiscent of how Democrats in the 1920's suffered and subsequently Republicans in the 1930's likewise suffered electorally. Where I think Mr. Fivekiller is wrong though is in what that party will look like.

Historical examples are important here; in two of America's fellow Western countries, Canada and Australia, one half of the Left-Right spectrum is occupied by coalitions of parties. In Australia, that coalition is an official one, known as the Coalition and consisting of the Liberal & National Parties; in Canada, it is an unofficial coalition of the Liberal & New Democratic parties. In both cases, the parties have commonalities which allow them to work together (a unified Labor Party in Australia, a unified Conservative Party in Canada) yet both groups have quarreled with each other over the decades.

Going back to the Democratic Party, I think we might see something similar where the Democratic Party as it currently stands simply can't survive the continued pull-and-tug of its' disparate parts, especially as more and more of its' constituent parts begin fracturing and splintering. Which begs the question: where will it go?

That, dear readers, is the million dollar question which I'm not certain of figuring out offhand. Given the first-past-the-post plurality system used in the U.S., any official split would be fatal to the Democrats yet the party as it stands cannot survive; my guess would be something akin to Canada's left-wing "coalition" - two disparate parties with a common focus (opposing Republicans) yet sometimes at cross purposes to one another. (Think American-style Liberal & Progressive Parties).

Democratic "Integrity"

(The Patriot Post, 9 June 2025)

I'm honestly of the opinion now, in case I hadn't mentioned it before here, that Democrats are un-American, nay, anti-American scum. Republican might not be much of anything but they love America and what she stands for; can you same the same for the Democrat Party Demokkkrat Party?

The Democrats' Vision for America

Let this image sear into your soul.

This IS the Democrat vision for America, anarchy in the streets, foreign flags waving, and our values crushed under the weight of chaos.

Lawlessness isn’t the exception, it’s the plan.

Welcome to the Left’s Summer of Love: Part II. pic.twitter.com/59Tl3Krblo

— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) June 8, 2025

Enough said. 

Los Angeles Protests - National Guard in LA - LIVE Breaking News Coverage

This is but another reason to hate - yes, I said it, hate - the Democratic Party and the Left in general. Ever since their beginnings, they've been a part of bigotry, discrimination, lawlessness, appeasement and treachery and how anyone with a sane mind could pull the lever for the Democrat Party Demonrats will forever be a mystery to me.

Canada Votes, 2025

Canadians across the frozen tundra of Canada voted today in elections polarized by the ongoing tariffs row between them and the United States. Links to election news below,

BBC News 

The Guardian

Over on my forum Conversations 2, I'm live-blogging results and news as they come in. Enjoy the evening and to my Canadian readers, if you haven't yet voted, go vote!

Democrats Will Always Side Against Normal People

Townhall's Kurt Schlichter is right about Democrats here; when have they ever defended normal everyday Americans and not whackjobs?

Take you times folks, we can wait...

Taking Back What Belongs to the Taxpayer

(The Patriot Post, 10 April 2025)

If there's one lasting legacy of the second Trump administration, hopefully it will be the reeling-in of so-called "independent agencies" (an oxymoron since they're still a part of the Executive Branch) back into the arms of the Executive.

Founders' Quotes, 7-8 April 2025

A pair of quotes concerning politics, political leaders and political parties...

(1) It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. - Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America — 1775

(2) Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party generally. . . . A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. - George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

Politics isn't bean bag as Tip O'Neill once said; it is an endeavour that belongs to the body politic of society and requires our steadfast attention. So too is keeping our political leaders, whatever persuasion they are, on the straight and narrow. That also requires a civic society that is educated in civics and thought, things sorely lacking in today's "I want it now, damn the costs!" society.

The Party of Hate

Reading Larry Elder's article over at HotAir all I can say is that the Democrats, long a party of bigotry, racism, discrimination, Jim Crow and segregation are simply returning to their evil roots and should be tossed out like the garbage that they are.

Period, end of story.

NSC Leaks Yemen War Plans to Journalist in Major Security Leak

To quote the great Vince Lomardi, "What in the hell is going on around here?"

A catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.

On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”.

“Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally,” the Delaware senator Chris Coons wrote on Twitter/X. “We can’t trust anyone in this dangerous administration to keep Americans safe.” (The Guardian)

Basically, the TL/DR for this is that around the time of the strikes earlier this month against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, there was a group chat on Signal between the principals involved here - SecDef Hegseth, NatSec Advisor Waltz, DNI Gabbard, VP Vance, SecState Rubio, WH advisor Miller (and a few others more than likely) - and apparently someone added to the chat the phone number of a senior journalist for the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who reported it earlier today to everyone's outrage.

Now, how he got it I suspect everyone would like to know but here's my first thought: why in the holy fuck did they do this over a publically available messaging system such as Signal (which is end-to-end encrypted, contrary to popular opinion) and not over the secure communications systems the United States is known for?

Secondly, who sent the group chat links to Goldberg, a well-known Trump critic? Third, and here's a political angle: this effectively nullifies conservative attacks against Democrats' who've in the past been loose and fast with cybersecurity and other security issues - Hillary Clinton and her emails, Eric Swalwell and his daillance w/a known communist Chinese spy - because now the argument can be made that if you're going to prosecute/attack them, then you need to go after whoever leaked these plans to the Atlantic. (Remember conservatives' criticisms of the well-known "two-tier system of justice"? Yeah, the argument can be made that if Trump wants to go after his political critics, then he also needs to have this investigated fully as well.

Suffice it to say, both sides of Congress - Democrats and Republicans - are horrified and outraged over it and I don't blame them...and it also throws out comments both Waltz and Hegseth have made towards Democrats' in past years.

Finally, there's another part of this angle that I suspect will come out in short order - by using Signal to communicate rather than through official comms, were they trying to escape scrutiny via. the Federal Records Act? Trust me when I say this, folks: you can escape a lot of things in government, but God help you if you misplace a piece of paper record somewhere.

D.C. Corruption

 

(The Patriot Post, 22 March 2025)

IN a land full of corruption, the honest man is an endangered hero.

Are Democrats Destroying Themselves?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer? Yes, but so long as there is no viable alternative for liberals/leftists to go to, not in the immediate future (with all due respect to Townhall's Mark Lewis). That said, even a cursory look at the political map shows how hard it'll be for them to get back the reins of power. For instance, while the House could still flip next November, if the Senate even reverts to the Presidential line, its' a one-seat loss for Dems (from 53 seats currently to 54 seats).

Go out four years and its' still just as bleak there for Democrats.

Karl Rove once spoke of the "permanent Republican majority" during George W. Bush's administration....I still think he was wrong then but I do believe that every so often each party has a generational majority that endures for a couple decades either way.

Until recently Dems' owned a lock on the House majority (1954-1994) and odds are there were people who were born, lived and died only knowing Democratic house majorities (led by, among others, Sam Rayburn, Carl Albert, Tip O'Neill and Tom Foley). Likewise, assuming no epic collapses by Republicans, Democrats may be staring at a generational minority in the Senate of similar length.

Why? Couple reasons but the two that come to mind quickest are: (1) lack of a viable Democratic bench in a bunch of GOP-led states and (b) their collapse in winning red states over the past couple decades.

Until Democrats square those two, they may never hold all three reigns of elective federal power in the immediate future. Of course, given who runs the Democratic Party these days....

Democratic Echo Chamber

Erick Erickson is right.... “Democrats have built an echo chamber that is poisoning them. Their preferred news network, newspapers, and voices, intoxicated by power and control, lack the humility to relate to people outside of their bubble.” (Patriot Post, 7 March 2025)

With the exception of Twitter (X) he's right; look at the others still under Democratic/Left control - Bluesky is a home to deviants, Mastodon is a left-wing circle jerk (FYI: I've been kicked from both for having opposing opinions, particularly w/regards to Ukraine & Russia) and most of the Traditional Lying Snake Media are headed that way too, the L.A. Times and Washington Post notwithstanding.

Why? For starters, they hid the simple truth that Joe Biden was incompetent to serve as President and attacked anyone who dared question his fitness for the office. In addition, they believe that you should only have a voice if you agree with them; God forbid you should have a differing opinion than they do!

To borrow Erickson's words, "They aren't just out of touch with Americans, they're out of touch with reality."

Well said, sir!

Projecting Much, Digby?

Back when I was mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Never Trumper I used to really enjoy Digby's Hullabaloo. Its' a liberal blog written by Heather 'Digby' Parton and her merry band is misanthropes, neer'do'well, carpetbaggers and scalawags and they've had their good moments but for once they're projecting what they and the broader Left in general do regularly - project their foul deeds onto the Right.

More than six weeks into the second Trump administration, there is a chill spreading over political debate in Washington and beyond.

People on both sides of the aisle who would normally be part of the public dialogue about the big issues of the day say they are intimidated by the prospect of online attacks from Mr. Trump and Elon Musk, concerned about harm to their companies and frightened for the safety of their families. Politicians fear banishment by a party remade in Mr. Trump’s image and the prospect of primary opponents financed by Mr. Musk, the president’s all-powerful partner and the world’s richest man.

“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard and the co-author of the influential 2018 book “How Democracies Die.” (NY Times, h/t to Digby's Hullabaloo)

The longer one follows the sordid, twisted spectacle that is the American political world, one notices a lot of different things - one of which being how our supposed betters complain whenever the hoi polloi - you know, the average person - grows a spine and doesn't go along with the Elites. It upsets them, it makes me break out in flop sweat - especially when you have someone like a Donald Trump who is actually willing to use the levers of power to get things done that the Elites don't like.

What they especially don't like is when their supposed allies - universities, businesses and the legal profession - actually remember what the laws are, who's in charge and realize, much to the Elites' chagrin, that rather than risk getting in trouble its' better to simply do your job and leave politics to the elected officials.

VP Vance Schools Lefty on Free Speech

Say whatever you want about J.D. Vance but he isn't playing on the issue of free speech. Just ask poor former MSNBCDNC host Mehdi "hope you don't have a beeper" Hasan....

The American media/left attack on Vice President JD Vance for calling out censorship during his speech in Germany is a truly alarming thing. How do you stand with censorship rather than with the person calling it out? 

We even saw the crazy moment where "Face the Nation's" Margaret Brennan claimed that free speech had been "weaponized" by the Nazis to "conduct a genocide." Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to school her on how nuts that was if she thought that free speech was somehow the cause of the Holocaust — that, indeed, the Nazis didn't allow free speech. 

After folks on the right called out this insanity, leftist media personality Mehdi Hasan tagged JD Vance in an effort to compare Vance's criticism of the Germans to the White House blocking the AP from the Oval Office and Air Force One. -- Hey @JDVance, I know you’re busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this? (Mehdi Hasan, 17 Feb. 2025)

Vance's repsonse was epic...  Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps! (VP J.D. Vance, 17 Feb. 2025) (RedState)

Do you think Mike Pence or any other recent vice president would've sent that zinger at a leftist pundit? Nope; they'd just bent over and taken it like establishment types are want to in past years. It also doesn't help that Mehdi Hasan is a we;;-known near-terrorist sympathizer who once accused a conservative commentator of supposedly threatening him on live television. 

Paraphrasing something Omar Little once said on The Wire, "You come at Vice President Vance, you better not miss!"