Welcome to New Mogadishu!

Welcome to New Mogadishu!

Congratulations, New York City! You have just elected an inexperienced, childish, anti-Semitic, anti-American, Moslem to be your next mayor. You have bought the ticket, now get ready to take the ride.

Aside from being a Moslem – which should have been reason enough to vote against him, Mamdani’s socialist platform is not only childish, but completely unworkable. It is so stunningly insipid that it is hard to know where to begin dissecting it.

Minimum Wage – The Zohran has promised to increase NY’s minimum wage to $30/hour by 2030. Every time any government increases minimum wage two things happen simultaneously. First, there is an immediate increase in prices of goods and services to cover increased cost of labor, Second, there is an uptick in unemployment as those businesses that can not raise prices cut labor costs by cutting employees. You have bought the ticket, now get ready to take the ride.

City Owned Grocery Stores – This is even dumber than The Zohran’s minimum wage idea. His published platform calls for these stores to sell their products at the purchase price with no markup to cover costs. All operating costs, all hired labor, everything will be at the “city’s” expense. Which means at the taxpayers’ expense. This would be a bad idea even if The Zohran would seek out the best and brightest grocery chain managers to set this up and run it, but he will not. The Zohran will put his socialist buddies in charge, guaranteeing the bad idea will be a total cluster fuck. Other countries have tried government run stores in the past and all have failed. The Zohran’s no profit groceries will fail too. You have bought the ticket, now get ready to take the ride.

City Run Housing – Even more stupid than city run groceries are The Zohran’s plans to control housing rents in the city. It has been tried before and has failed before. It will fail again. Even more ignorant is The Zohran’s proposal for the city to build and manage “affordable” housing. Governments cannot manage anything and if this is enacted the city council of New York will become Gotham’s latest slumlord, owning overpriced, poorly built, crappy tenements. You have bought the ticket, now get ready to take the ride.

We could go on and on pointing out the idiotic things that New Yorkers voted for but let us just look at one more – free childcare. Beyond the fact that no government has any authority to provide childcare, this is an incredibly stupid idea. The Zohran’s plans to pay daycare workers the same as teachers, meaning minimally educated and trained people will be earning approximately $76,308 in today’s money. Just where do you think the money for those big paychecks will come from? Yep – your tax dollars! You have bought the ticket, now get ready to take the ride.

Yes, New York, you really stepped in it this time. As a wise cowman once told me, “You can’t cry for everyone.”  I do not have any sympathy for the city of New York and its residents. You made a dreadful choice by electing The Zohran. “As you sow, so shall you reap.” There will be no bountiful harvest of peace, tranquility, and prosperity in The Zohran’s socialist, dystopian version of New York City. America’s once greatest city will be nothing but a crime-ridden, filthy, third world shit hole city. Maybe a name change for your city is in order. Maybe “New Mogadishu” would be more fitting.

Yes, New Yorkers, you have bought the ticket, now get ready to take the ride.

The Simple Truth About the Shutdown

There are some fundamental, elemental truths behind all of the hand wringing and blame throwing surrounding the current government shut down. For all of the political grandstanding the simple truth is that previous, disingenuous governance and perennial failure by Congress to pass a budget is the root cause of the shutdown. We elect these people to do a few simple tasks; to protect the citizens from foreign invasion, to provide for civil order so that citizens can conduct their lives in peace, to fund the federal government, and to hold the president accountable for enforcing laws.

It should be obvious to any but the most intellectually blind partisans that Congress has failed miserably at fulfilling their Constitutionally required responsibilities. Unless you’re a total mind-numbed Democrat, it is obvious that Congress has been totally negligent in fulfilling its responsibilities for years. Congress stood idly by and allowed the Biden administration to let at least 20 million people enter our country in violation of existing laws. Congress has allowed our major cities to become violent, crime infested hell holes. And Congress has not passed a budget since 1997 – 28 years of total fiscal irresponsibility.

The sticking point in this shutdown is that the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) subsides are set to expire at the end of this year. There are a couple of things, Dear Reader, that you need to remember about the ACA. It was drafted entirely by Democrats and passed without a single Republican vote. This was the bill, if you recall, of which then Speaker of the House Nancy “Tippler” Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill, to see what’s in the bill.” Legislative malfeasance at best – total incompetence at worst. Since no one read the ObamaCare bill before it was passed; no one knew that the built-in subsidies written into the law would expire at then of 2025.

There is an incredible intellectual dissonance in all of this. If the purpose of ObamaCare was to make health insurance “affordable” why were subsidies written into the bill? And, why didn’t Democrats fix this when they were in power? Why did they wait until the 11^th hour to try to extend the subsidies? Does this speak of lack of leadership, political gamesmanship, or just gross incompetence and stupidity?

Any endeavor, industry, or business that requires subsidies is a failure by definition. Any legislator who votes in favor of subsidies should be thrown out of office. It is not the government’s responsibility to keep businesses or industries afloat. The free market is always right when left alone.

So here we are – 31 days into a ridiculous government shutdown all because Congress has abrogated its responsibilities for years. We are here because the Democrats passed an incredibly messed up law that forced Americans to buy a product from private companies – the very definition of fascist economics. We are here because Democrats failed to address the subsidies years before they expired.

We are here because of incompetence, political gamesmanship, and pandering. We are here because Democrat politicians care more for their positions, power, and kickbacks than they care about the American people. We are here because Democrats do not respect the will of the American people. We voted to see the federal budget cut – congressional Democrats want nearly 2 trillion more in spending – which was cut in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”.

We are here because the Ruling Class has no regard for the will of the voters.

 

 

 

We Swore That We Would Never Forget

September 11, 2025, this day dawned clear, clear, and bright. There was not a single cloud in the sky. It was a nearly perfect late summer day with just a hint of fall. It looked like a perfect day just to be alive.

September 11, 2001, that day dawned clear, clear, and bright. There was not a single cloud in the sky. It was a nearly perfect late summer day with just a hint of fall. It looked like a perfect day just to be alive. But, in one split second, the perfect day became a hell on Earth. It was perhaps the most horrific day in the history of the United Staes.

At 8:46 AM American Airlines Flight 11, supposedly bound from Boston to California, crashed into the North Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center. The fiery crash forever changed this country. The American homeland had not been attacked in 187 years. The inconceivable had happened. The protection that we thought two oceans provided, suddenly disappeared and America faced the reality that we could be attacked.

Our national innocence died that day.

We swore that we’d never forget.

For a very short time after the attack on September 11, we were unified as a nation. President Bush committed our nation to destroying the Islamic terror network that had conceived and conducted the attack. Our national resolve for righteous vengeance seemed nearly as strong are national horror was in the days following the attack. But, before the task was done, partisan politics reared its ugly head and our united thirst for vengeance gave way to “politics as usual;” our righteous Crusade whimpered and withered away to nothing. Within months, the horrific moment that we swore we would never forget was forgotten.

For nearly a quarter of a century, Americans have discussed and debated the causes of that dreadful attack. Possible causes and motives range from the somewhat plausible to the viciously anti-American. Over the intervening years, it has become almost heretical to state the obvious reason and cause for the attack of September 11, that being that Moslems are completely incompatible with modern, civilized societies.

I said it and I stand by it. In this case Occam’s Razor holds true.

You can rationalize and wander off into incomprehensible “nuances” of thought. You can blame American “imperialism,” or the now in vogue. “Colonizers,” but unless you understand, and accept, the simple fact that Islam breeds and fosters violence and hatred, you will never get it.

The world does exist, nor function by the “Ivy Tower,” “new age,” politically correct globalist guides and rules. Geo-political events, and therefore, history is driven by the aggressive use of force. Tyrants, bullies, and dictators drive events, and they prey upon the weak. Whether on the grade school playground, in third world shithole countries, or in the international arena, the strong prey upon the weak. There are not enough nuances in any deep, intellectual discourse to sway the tyrants, bullies, and dictators of the world. The only thing that tyrants, bullies, and dictators respect is strength.

And therein lies the cause of the 9-11 attack – ever since 1979, the government of the United States refused to confront Iran and the Islamist movement. They saw us as weak, and they attacked us.

It is just that simple.

We swore that we would never forget. But it is apparent that we have forgotten. Our nation has been overrun by as many as twenty million illegal aliens whose identities and motives are unknown. Our big cities have become crime infested hell holes. For twelve of the last 16 years, our federal government has not been serving the people. For those years, the elected, appointed, and hired bureaucrats have been only serving themselves. Our nation has looked weak upon the world stage – the last president unconditionally surrendered a defeated nation and billions of dollars’ worth of perfectly functioning military equipment to radical Moslem terrorists. After the Biden farce of a government our nation looks weak and vulnerable.

We swore that we would never forget.

We have forgotten. Shame on us.

He's Just in the Way

 

I find the vitriolic hatred for President Trump absolutely amazing and worth discussing. Donald Trump came into public prominence during the 1970’s, as much for his flamboyant lifestyle as anything else. He was a creation of the media – until he was not. The national press fawned on his every move – celebrated his wins and losses, compounded an already bigger than life character into a media superstar.

Mr. Trump published several best-selling books. He was celebrated for his philanthropy and well respected both in NY business circles and NY “high society.” NY media was filled with photos of Donald Trump with Black politicians and celebrities. Over the years, he was publicly acknowledged for his philanthropy. Here is a partial list of the awards he has received over the years:

National Jewish Hospital's Humanitarian Award (1976)

Jewish National Fund's Tree of Life Award (1983)

Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1986)

Freedoms Foundation's President's Medal (1995)

Muhammad Ali Entrepreneur Award (2007)

Unicorn Children's Foundation's Shining Star Award (2008)

Palm Beach Police Foundation's Palm Tree Award (2010)

Lois Pope LIFE Foundation's Presidential Hero Award (2011)

The Algemeiner's Liberty Award (2015)

Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation's Commandant's Leadership Award (2015)

The Friends of Zion Museum's Friends of Zion Award (2017)

20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center's Bipartisan Justice Award (2019)

Donald J. Trump – celebrity, media personality, business mogul, best-selling author, TV star, and philanthropist; well liked by the media and the American people, until the moment he announced that he was running for president as a populist, nationalist, conservative Republican with a promise to “drain the Swamp” and to “Make America Great Again”.

In that one moment, Donald Trump went from being a well-loved, popular American original to being a racist, Fascist “threat to Democracy.”

Any serious observer of American politics must ask, what was there in Mr. Trump’s announcement, and in his positions, which caused such an immediate and vicious reaction to Donald Trump running for president? What was it that he said that so enraged the mainstream media and the established Ruling Class? Was there really anything that he said that triggered the full-on onslaught? Or was it simply that he openly, and harshly criticized the “status quo,” that he dared to point out the obvious – that America was being choked to death by globalism, “progressive” liberalism, unfair trade deals, endless foreign wars, and out of control spending?

Or was there something deeper, some formless fear of something that they did not understand, but feared at the foundation of their beings? You see, I genuinely think that the Progressives, Democrats, and their shills in the mainstream media sensed right from the start that Donald Trump could connect with the American people in a way that no other politician since Reagan has been able to. For all of Mr. Trump’s wealth and “glamour,” he has a connection to the people. Mr. Trump intuitively understands us, respects, and appreciates us. From that first announce in Trump Tower, Mr. Trump has spoken directly to use, to quote from Don McLean’s “American Pie,” “in a voice that came from you and me.”

There is nothing radical in President Trump’s policies and agenda. He wants America to be safe, to be prosperous, to be treated fairly by the rest of the world, and to be respected. He understands that there are limits, some set by the Constitution, others set by practicality, to what the Federal government can, and should do. Mr. Trump understands that governments must reflect society rather than be trying to modify society.

President Trump has a much better understanding of economics than do most politicians. He knows that debt is harmful to the economy. He knows that lowering taxes – to a point – always generates new revenue. Mr. Trump is a master negotiator. He starts with sometimes ridiculous sounding positions and then negotiates to close to what he wanted to begin with. This approach has worked wonders with the tariffs and has resulted in better trade deals and a tremendous amount of new, foreign investment in manufacturing facilities in the United States. All of which will generate jobs and cash flow for American workers.

The Ruling Class can only exist as long as the American people remain unaware of their existence and their real intent. President Trump presents a real and present danger to the Ruling Class simply because he speaks to us – and for us. He understands the American people and is standing up for us. The Ruling Class must crush the threat the President presents if it is to survive.

The Ruling Class and their media allies are attacking President Trump because he is us and they hate and resent us. They cannot maintain their power and the wealth that they are pillaging from us if we have a spokesman and a “champion” fighting for us. They must destroy President Trump or lose the power that they have taken from us.

So, make no mistake, it is not Donald Trump that they hate and fear, it is us that they hate and fear – he is simply in their way.

 

 

 

 

House Cleaning Long Over Due

I am having way too much fun watching the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shine the light on the corruption run amok in our federal government. Democrats are flooding the media with their hysterical tirades against DOGE and President Trump, showing that their support is for the corrupt bureaucrats and wasteful spending and not for the best interests of the American people.

The reaction from the Democrats really does not make sense. But, silly me expecting the Ruling Class to make sense! They are not fighting to defend the spending. They are not explaining how the egregious spending is important to US interests. They are simply screaming bloody murder about the process! Their protests range from “no Constitutional authority” to Elon Musk is trying to steal our identities, to the DOGE folks lack “clearance”. It really seems like they are simply fighting President Trump just to be fighting him.

Or, more frightening, is that the Democrats are fighting the investigations because they are on the take and raking in big bucks from these absurd federal expenditures. When one looks at the published net worths of these elected officials, many of whom have had a real job, the idea of massive kickback schemes becomes a frightening possibility.

in fiscal year 2024 the US government will borrow $1.8 trillion to meet its committed spending. All told, Congress has incurred over $36 trillion in debt. As a nation, we owe 24% more than the value of all the goods and services produced in the US in a year. This is as unsustainable as it is absurd.

Several things are going on here that are enormously important. Primarily, there is the issue of “deficit spending.” The government does not have money of its own and can only spend money that it takes from citizens. Federal spending should not exceed taxation revenue. It is completely irresponsible to spend more than you have, and it is completely absurd to borrow money that must be repaid to “give” it away as “foreign aid”. While it is noble and honorable to help the less fortunate. Borrowing to do it is just plain stupid.

There also seems to be no accountability for how federal money is being spent once it is turned over to a department or agency. There seems to be a total breakdown between the House authorizing the spending and where the money ends up. Congress totally fails on its oversight responsibilities. This must change. But it cannot change until Congress fulfills its Constitutional obligation to pass an annual budget. That process also includes following up on how the money is spent – every dollar of it. And that, it seems, has not been happening for many years. It is critical that our government develop as a fool proof method of accounting as possible as quickly as possible.

There is no issue important now for than for President Trump and DOGE to root out all the fraud, waste, and corruption in government spending. This may be the most critical issue that our government has ever faced. The long-term survival of the nation may very well depend on whether the theft and corruption can be stopped.

 

 

 

 

How Did They Get It So Wrong?

 

Out here in “fly over” country, we joke about how weather forecasters and economists continue to be paid, even though they are wrong more often than they are right.  Most real Americans have to be, at least competent at what they are doing if they expect to be paid. We need to add pollsters to this elite group of folks who continue to be paid no matter how wrong they continue to be.

Once again, the political pollsters totally misread the intentions of the American voters. Right up until the vote counts started to be reported, the pollsters and pundits were telling us that the race was “too close to call”. Yet, for all their expertise, all their education, all their high-priced data, the election was not close.

As I write this on Thursday, President Trum holds a commanding 69 electoral vote lead over Harris and is ahead in the nation-wide popular vote by more that 5 million votes. This is an electoral land slide. How did the pollsters miss it?

Maybe a better question might be why did they miss it?

To be just, I think that I need to point out that many of Mr. Trump’s supporters are highly suspicious of governments and of the news media, including pollsters. There is a very real possibility that many Trump supporters might not have been honest with pollsters. Given this anti-authority tendency among Patriots, Conservatives, and Libertarians, it is possible that pollsters might never get a truly accurate picture as long as the news media remains so virulently “progressive”.

But our distrust in pollsters is not the only, nor the major cause for the dismal polling results. The fundaments of modern polling, coupled with deeply ingrained prejudices, and their sycophantic need for approval from the ruling elite has all but destroyed both their ability to take meaningful polls and their credibility.

The nature of their work almost necessitates that pollsters reside in the power centers of the country. They become neighbors with the Ruling Class and the peer pressure that comes with it. The pollsters want to fit in, they want to belong, and so they approach their polling with a preconceived bias to appease their neighbors.

This bias has its base in the fact that that pollsters are all college “educated”. Most of us know that colleges are no longer centers of higher education but are propaganda camps for the Ruling Class. Coming out of these propaganda camps, those people who go into polling begin with a pro-establishment, pro-Ruling Class bias. Their abilities to objectively gauge public opinion is skewed from the beginning.

It is also human nature to want to please “the boss”, to make sure that the guy footing the bill is pleased with the results. As every major news organization supports the Democratic Party and the Ruling Class, any poll conducted on behalf of any news organization is almost sure to be biased toward the Democrats.

If I, or anyone else with even a modicum of common sense, were commissioned to poll the residents of New Bethlehem on an issue, we would begin by finding out how many residents we would need to poll to get a representative sample and we’d speak with that many people at random. We would have an objective representation of what the people in New Bethlehem think of that issue.

At random. Therein lies the rub.

Pollsters no longer ask at random. Over the past 30 years identity politics has become the norm among the Ruling Class and the progressives. Every group of people must be broken down into a series of generally accepted demographic categories – male, female, white, black, college educated, etc. and so forth. The samples are not random, they are prescribed by the progressive idea that these arbitrary “identity groups” are monolithic voting blocs, that all college educated white men vote alike, all blue-collar workers vote alike, all women vote alike. We know that they do not, but this flawed concept has become one of the foundations of political polling. And we all know that if the foundation is flawed the end product will be flawed.

There is another, darker, more sinister reason the polling has been so dreadful over the past 20 years. It is possible that the pollsters, being part of the news media, may have moved from gauging public opinion to trying to influence public opinion. As wrong as all of the polls were this year, I am inclined to think that the pollsters were trying to discourage Trump voters and encourage Harris voters and because they were not accurately gauging sentiment in the country, they failed to influence voters.

Republican, Conservative, Libertarian, and Patriots must view polls and pollsters from here on with the skepticism that they treat mainstream news. They simply cannot be trusted any longer – for whatever reason. Like the news media, the pollsters have proven themselves not to be worthy of our trust or support. And like the tradition news media, it will take years of hard work for them to regain our trust.

 

 

 

 

 

Is Unity Truly Her Goal?

 

“Kamala the Chameleon’s” claim to being the candidate who can “unite” the American people might be the most ludicrous bit of nitwittery being bandied about in this election cycle. I really wonder what heinous protocols might await those among us who will refuse to “unite” with the “progressive” re-structuring of America. It is, after all, progressives who have called for “re-education” camps for Trump supporters.

Paula Collins, Democratic congressional candidate in NY Congressional District 21 has called for Trump supporters to be interred. Even party super-star HILLARY has called for “deprogramming” Trump “cultists”. Is this Harris’ plan for national unity, coerced agreement? This reminds me on Mao’s Cultural Revolution in Red China. Hard handed in my humble opinion.

We – Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, and Patriots – must bear in mind that the progressive leadership is well schooled in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and one of his rules is "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." After more than 40 years of demonizing, personalizing, and polarizing their opposition, their calls for “unity” seem hollow, empty, and phony as hell. It was creepy Joe Biden, just four short years ago who promised to unite us, and then just the other day called us “garbage”. So much for bringing us all together.

The Alinsky progressives have spent almost 50 years demonizing everyone who has not been in complete lockstep with their every position. And those positions have become so extreme in the past 16 years that the gulf between the Democrats and the rest of us might be too wide to bridge.

When we disagree on runaway government spending – you call us mean spirited.

When we disagree on parents’ rights in the schools – you call us domestic terrorists.

When we disagree on men participating in women’s sports – you call us haters.

When we disagree on placing some limitations on pre-natal murder – you call us misogynists.

When we disagree on illegal immigration – you call us racists.

When we disagree on crime in our cities – you lie to us and say that our cities are safe.

When we tell you that we want our America to be safe, strong, free, and prosperous – you call us fascists and racists.

When we object to your radical climate proposals and your mandates that we submit to unsafe, untested, and dangerous vaccines – you call us science deniers.

Democrats have made it clear that they do not respect our beliefs, our culture. Our values and our desires to walk as free men. We hear Democrats pay lip service to “uniting” Americans – but they ignore, trash, vilify, and persecute Americans who disagree with them. Words are cheap, and politicians use them just to con people into voting for them. It is much more important to watch what people do. Has Kamala Harris shown us any respect?  How often has she supported positions that respect American values? Has she done anything in her career to show that she has any concern for the typical American? Do not fall for the words – look to the deeds done and not done.

At this point in our nation’s journey, I do not believe that there can be any unifying the American people. After 2 generations of the Alinsky Radicals dominating politics, popular culture, news media, and the public education system the divide between the Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, and Patriots and the progressive Democrats is irreparable. The United States, as founded and constituted, cannot exist much longer. The seeds of its death were sown by Saul Alinsky and nurtured by 50 years of progressive, power hungry, totalitarian Democrats. Our nation is on the brink of civil war and there will be no stopping it.