A Resounding And Powerful Defense Of Liberal Democracy, Market Economies, And Unabashed Nationalism And Patriotism

It's difficult to overestimate the insidious destruction of our way of life over the last 100+ years. Beginning with the philandering progressive Woodrow Wilson's massive expansion of the administrative state, FDR's consolidation of government power in service to progressive ideals (also known as power!), and supported by the so-called conservatives of the Republican Party, we have been sliding into serfdom. Truman, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush x2, Clinton, Obama, and the drooling figurehead Biden have all contributed to the diminution of our rights as a free people.

But the worm turns, and the election and reelection of Donald Trump has given us the rare opportunity to repair some of the possibly existential damage to our republic.

And there is no better representative of the ideals on which our country was founded than Marco Rubio, a shining example of when the man and the moment meet.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference

That infamous wall that had cleaved this nation into two came down, and with it an evil empire, and the East and West became one again. But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion: that we had entered, quote, “the end of history;” that every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood; that the rules-based global order – an overused term – would now replace the national interest; and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.
This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history. And it has cost us dearly. In this delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade, even as some nations protected their economies and subsidized their companies to systematically undercut ours – shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized, shipping millions of working and middle-class jobs overseas, and handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals.
We increasingly outsourced our sovereignty to international institutions while many nations invested in massive welfare states at the cost of maintaining the ability to defend themselves. This, even as other countries have invested in the most rapid military buildup in all of human history and have not hesitated to use hard power to pursue their own interests. To appease a climate cult, we have imposed energy policies on ourselves that are impoverishing our people, even as our competitors exploit oil and coal and natural gas and anything else – not just to power their economies, but to use as leverage against our own.
And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.

Marco Rubio has identified the issues with clarity and, more importantly, with a profound understanding of how corrosive the progressive movement has been. More impressively (if that is possible) he has welcomed all who believe in the power of limited government, fair markets, and love of country to join us in our efforts to roll back the evil of communitarian societies, and top-down control of our lives and livelihood.

He is already one of our best Secretaries of State, and with this declaration he has the opportunity to be a great one!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (UzL96)

2 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

3 gp has already nooded; where is everybody?

Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:03 PM (NcvvS)

4 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 15, 2026 12:03 PM (0N4FZ)

5 Rubio's comments on "what next" is even more striking. It is a vision of powerful allies pushing to a prosperous future, not weak client states atoning for an imagined evil origin.

He would make a powerful President, if he were not destined to be so busy as Governor-General of Cuba

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)

6 That's good stuff! Does Rubio write it himself?

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:04 PM (N8ZBc)

7 >>> we have been sliding into serfdom. Truman, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush x2, Clinton, Obama, and the drooling figurehead Biden have all contributed to the diminution of our rights as a free people.

But how can you have freedom when it is sooo easy for Guvment to monitor everything you do?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:05 PM (/lPRQ)

8 Willow'd:

444 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:44 AM (ZOv7s)

To be fair to yourself Vampires are about sexual conquest.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (cwGMH)

I subscribe to the fairly conventional opinion that as vampires and zombies are metaphors for sexual deviants and socialists, respectively. They literally depict a nigh-alien subspecies with unnatural reproduction, so that is what they are natural metaphors for: the former reproducing by molestation trauma, and the latter reproducing by spreading their mind virus through mere contact.

Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:05 PM (Sy6m/)

9 Willowed from Pixy's:

The highlight:

https://tinyurl.com/4ca4d97f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (UzL96)
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And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

https://tinyurl.com/w7krr23k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 07:02 AM (UzL96)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:06 PM (UzL96)

10 Am I the only one who gets a bit, well....nonplussed at having a "security conference" in Munich???

Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 12:06 PM (gh32g)

11 Thanks, BOINGing one & Skip. After refreshing, and still there were no comments, was wondering.

PS: 3,503,317 BOINGs so far; 144 from me!

Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)

12 The Left is incapable of determining or predicting cause and effect. It's their most dangerous political trait.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 12:08 PM (cwGMH)

13 I worry about Marco getting worn out

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0)

14 "The Left is incapable of determining or predicting cause and effect."

The pomo left doesn't even believe there exists a reality with cause and effect.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:09 PM (N8ZBc)

15 9
'And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will'

Starry, starry night...

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (fd80v)

16 I worry about Marco getting worn out

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0)
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I'll start a Geritol GoFundMe for Rubio.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (UzL96)

17 Starry, starry night...

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (fd80v)
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Indeed the link I posted after the lyrics refers to the EU, whose flag is very starry-starry.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:11 PM (UzL96)

18 I heard about Rubio's speech and pulled it up on youtube last night.

I am still not tired of winning.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 12:11 PM (qFwJc)

19 Excellent speech!

The toughness of Trump and the inspiration of Reagan.

Posted by: Random PJ at February 15, 2026 12:12 PM (+jscL)

20 Maybe a bigger leftist delusion: human nature is infinitely malleable.

Others:
Intentions matter more than results.
All men are created equal in every attribute.
Feelings trump rationality.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)

21 That conference was a great study in contrasts. AOC vomited out a Kamala-grade word salad and then froze like a deer in headlights when questioned. And Rubio gave this excellent speech.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (QZThv)

22 17
'Indeed the link I posted after the lyrics refers to the EU, whose flag is very starry-starry.'

Oh I got the point you were making. Europe has leaders (like the one in your link) who think they are on the 'side of history'. I think she's the one Russia demanded be booted from the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:15 PM (fd80v)

23 So it's safe to hump Marco's garbage can now?*
* if you don't get this, you are not an OG AoS reader

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 12:15 PM (diia5)

24 When asked questions, Rubio answered just fine.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 12:16 PM (qFwJc)

25 So it's safe to hump Marco's garbage can now?*
* if you don't get this, you are not an OG AoS reader

Rubio's garbage has been back on the menu for most of the last year.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2026 12:16 PM (QZThv)

26 More others:
People act according to rules and good intentions, not primarily in their own economic interest.
Economies can be (ought to be) planned, because markets know nothing about what works.
Ignorance of history. Leftists think that their every brainstorm has never been thunk of before, and thoroughly examined and tested centuries ago.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (N8ZBc)

27 Little Marco has been my #1 best surprise of Trump’s second admin.

Now. Can someone explain why we aren’t freaking out about the shutdown of the DHS?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (IhIKR)

28 20 Maybe a bigger leftist delusion: human nature is infinitely malleable.

Others:
Intentions matter more than results.
All men are created equal in every attribute.
Feelings trump rationality.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)

Lysenkoism was a thing for a reason. It was a very very very early 1900s thing when the technocrats really started going. People could be modified. Some races are better than others. God is dead, so we are the Masters now. Let's throw all the poor people into our planned cities. We need to weed out the genetic defectives. Let's sterilize people. etc etc etc.

What's fascinating is that the Soviets took all (or a lot) of these early 20th century ideas and tried to implement them. TONS of planned cities and economies. Almost all abject failures. So much of it even beyond the purges and just outright death, the policies led to depression and alcoholism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)

29 I'll start a Geritol GoFundMe for Rubio.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (UzL96)

I'd contribute. I like the guy and like that he took ownership of the problem with "we made these mistakes together" as he did favor bringing illegals "out of the shadows" once.

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:18 PM (kJmLc)

30 OTOH, Canada is now giving serious consideration to killing disabled infants.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n1OCj)

31 tl;dr - Totalitarianism sucks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (bss/y)

32 30 OTOH, Canada is now giving serious consideration to killing disabled infants.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n1OCj)

They keep going back to the same ideas. Power begs to be used- and they have never understood that that is why the government should not have this much power.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y)

33 Oooh, here's a biggy: Lefties believe man is inherently good. If they believe sin exists, they don't believe it exists in every man.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (N8ZBc)

34 Heh. 'Arc of History' is a fitting nic for the topic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

35 33 Oooh, here's a biggy: Lefties believe man is inherently good. If they believe sin exists, they don't believe it exists in every man.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (N8ZBc)

I don't think they believe man is inherently good. They believe he can be MADE good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

36 20 Maybe a bigger leftist delusion: human nature is infinitely malleable.

Others:
Intentions matter more than results.
All men are created equal in every attribute.
Feelings trump rationality.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)

I don't think leftists even have beliefs. I think they only have two pseudo-moral principles, Power & Clique, and then all of their rhetoric after that is Say Anything power-mongering. What you call delusions, I see as fallacies that con artists find useful in their scam patter, not actual fixed beliefs.

It's like the question, "How does your dog or cat think of you?" They don't. They don't think. They have feelings, produced by the interaction of instincts and experiences. You may provoke instinctive reactions similar to those provoked by their mamas, but they don't think, "Oh, it's my mom!" And leftists don't "think" that everyone is the same, it's just hypnobabble for their grift.

Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:23 PM (Sy6m/)

37 >>That conference was a great study in contrasts. AOC vomited out a Kamala-grade word salad and then froze like a deer in headlights when questioned. And Rubio gave this excellent speech

Both AOC and Whitmer. They both wanted a spot in front of the bright lights and both crashed and burned spectacularly making it very clear they are media creations with zero substance. How do you go to a national security conference and not have a clue about Taiwan or pretty much anything else related to national security?

Even some of the Euros were punking our DEI politicians for having nothing but Trump hate. It isn't working anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:24 PM (viF8m)

38 I hope Rubio will run for President.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 15, 2026 12:25 PM (MI5LZ)

39 Tbe only 'massive expansion' during the Wilson Administration was consequent to the general mobilization for the 1st World War. Demobilization had been completed by the time Warren Harding took office in March of 1921. There was a knock-on economic recession, but that was over before the end of 1921.
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You did see some new federal agencies created during the Wilson years which had a durable existence: the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, the Bureau of Public Roads, and the ancestor of the Farm Credit System. There were some issues with these institutions. The creation of the Federal Reserve was controversial with most Republicans in Congress voting 'no'. The creation of the Federal Trade Commission was not. The Republican congresses had ten years (1921-31) to dismantle these agencies but did not.

Posted by: Art Deco at February 15, 2026 12:25 PM (pawNB)

40 It's like the question, "How does your dog or cat think of you?" They don't. They don't think. They have feelings, produced by the interaction of instincts and experiences. You may provoke instinctive reactions similar to those provoked by their mamas, but they don't think, "Oh, it's my mom!" And leftists don't "think" that everyone is the same, it's just hypnobabble for their grift.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:23 PM (Sy6m/)

Huh. I think an interesting question is do dogs have a thought process?

I remember I could see when Ajax was thinking. He'd always want to be petted while I was on the toilet. And rather than slam the door in his face I'd say 'Find your ball!' He'd look at me a min and you could see the wheels turning. Then he'd check the bathroom and if he did not find it, he'd start systematically checking the apartment. He'd either find it or it would be out of reach and he would start whining.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)

41 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (oZ49z)

42 33 Oooh, here's a biggy: Lefties believe man is inherently good. If they believe sin exists, they don't believe it exists in every man.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (N8ZBc)

I don't think they believe man is inherently good. They believe he can be MADE good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

They believe THEY are good. We are bad and dumb and need their stern hand to control us, for our own good, of course.

Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (lCppi)

43 > He would make a powerful President, if he were not destined to be so busy as Governor-General of Cuba
Posted by: Kindltot
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No doubt. I think this is very much in his future as well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (jtM2q)

44 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic. I'd rather ban all muslims

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)

45 OTOH, Canada is now giving serious consideration to killing disabled infants.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n1OCj)

Moloch rejoices.

Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (lCppi)

46 44 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic. I'd rather ban all muslims
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)

Mamdani can go suck start a shotgun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

47 And thete will always be someone who wants to rule the world, or at least a country.

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (Ia/+0)

48
I don't think they believe man is inherently good. They believe he can be MADE good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

And I think they want to redefine evil as good.

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:29 PM (kJmLc)

49 Heh. 'Arc of History' is a fitting nic for the topic.

"Arc of History" is satirizing Obama's belief that history inevitably was heading towards Obama's desired end-state.

A professor of "scientific Marxism-Leninism" at a Soviet university could not have put it any better.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)

50 Apropos of nothing, the "worm has turned" idiom has never made sense to me.

Anyway, Rubio has definitely impressed me so far as SoS and NSA. If he's just "pretending" to hold the beliefs he espouses re America and our role in the world, then he is the greatest thespian to ever walk this earth.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (i49OE)

51 Old hag bitch:

https://tinyurl.com/36ebdchf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (UzL96)

52 A professor of "scientific Marxism-Leninism" at a Soviet university could not have put it any better.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)

Exactly. 'Your bones will pave the way to the future.'

He's an idiot, but also evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y)

53 A truly epic speech!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (2WIwB)

54 Rubio said (to the effect) that the US wasn't going to sit around and nurse Europe's self destruction to make it less painful.

In clearer terms, he basically told them "you're all on your own if you continue down the path you're on."

Something Europe desperately needs to hear.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (jtM2q)

55 Shit-eating lefties believe in power and money.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (SxfqT)

56 BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.

The left is starting realize they are the baddies.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)

57 Moloch rejoices.

Do you have any idea how much is costs to care for a disabled infant?

5% of all deaths in Canada are now "assisted suicides".

Posted by: Canadian Goverment Baal Worshipers! at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (n1OCj)

58 BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.

The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)

No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

59
BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.

The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw

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She left the door wide open for amnesty, though. "It has to be done HUMANELY," she said, using moderate bird-hand.

It's not as if they're going to give up those precious Democrat voters.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 12:33 PM (n7rxJ)

60 58 BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.

The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)

No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

THIS. Virginia is the blue print (which is also Keir in England.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

61 Posted by: Art Deco at February 15, 2026 12:25 PM (pawNB)

So the federal income tax doesn't count as a massive expansion?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:34 PM (n9ltV)

62 No, JackStraw, they will never accept that they are the baddies. They truly believe that their problem is just optics & messaging. They are hollow creatures infused with will-to-power. If they actually ever thought that they were the baddies, they would have to change their ways. No chance.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (NcvvS)

63 Marco is bitch slapping us! Please stop Marco! Please stop! We are euro weenies who just want to layabout all day on vacation while our immigrant slaves do all the work!

Where is my banana hammock?

Posted by: Dirty Euros And Their Potent BO at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (Ksqrb)

64 Does Rubio write it himself?

You know, I'd actually think more of our chances if he didn't. It would show that he's not just a man on horseback, but has a staff who understand the issue. We were raised at pep rallies. We hear a guy give a great speech, and right away we want him for President, or king, or, in one case, god.

A successful society (with a succession plan instead a secession plan) has rewarding places for productive, ambitious men like Rubio other than just at the tip of the populist pinnacle. I'd love for him to become world famous without having to wrestle with JD to prove it. This is a kind of new part of 'our system,' and it isn't working.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (zdLoL)

65 >>They believe he can be MADE good.

'G-o-o-d' is an interesting way for them to spell, 'compliant.'

Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (Y1sOo)

66 Excellent speech!

The toughness of Trump and the inspiration of Reagan.
Posted by: Random PJ at February 15, 2026 12:12

A perfect description!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:37 PM (2WIwB)

67 Posted by: Dirty Euros And Their Potent BO at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (Ksqrb)

Except they don't work

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:37 PM (kJmLc)

68 BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.

She's telling her fellow Davos-types to turn the temperature down temporarily before the frog notices that it is boiling.

Besides, short of mass reparation, Europe is already going to have irreversible demographic changes without further immigration, given the gap between the birthrates of the indigenous population and the birthrates of the "migrants".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:38 PM (n1OCj)

69 Come on, Mamdani wants to ban dogs?

Force everyone to go to Mosques of Friday then

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:38 PM (Ia/+0)

70 30 OTOH, Canada is now giving serious consideration to killing disabled infants

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Sorry about your baby.... it was a business decision.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 15, 2026 12:39 PM (SHZtS)

71
That's good stuff! Does Rubio write it himself?
Posted by: gp

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I read that he did do some big rewriting and inserted gobs of his own stuff.

By the way, is he supposed to be the good cop to Vance's bad cop?

Vance: "You idiots better get your shit together."
Rubio: "I love you and I don't want you to die!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n7rxJ)

72 Besides, short of mass reparation, Europe is already going to have irreversible demographic changes without further immigration, given the gap between the birthrates of the indigenous population and the birthrates of the "migrants".

Most first graders in Vienna don't speak German, for example. Half of the school kids in Brussels are Muslim.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n1OCj)

73 Before ever getting to a election the Leftists go center then after winning right back balls to the wall Leftward

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (Ia/+0)

74 I sort of feel bad for the Euroweenies, all the decent stock migrated to America during the 18th and 19th centuries and any of the remaining halfway decent ones killed each other off in the two world wars.

Posted by: Archer at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (wvc0i)

75 No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

THIS. Virginia is the blue print (which is also Keir in England.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:34 PM (

Washington state has entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (2WIwB)

76 69 Come on, Mamdani wants to ban dogs?

Force everyone to go to Mosques of Friday then
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:38 PM (Ia/+0)

He has also stated he plans to prioritize muslims

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (kJmLc)

77 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic.

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)

No, he didn't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n9ltV)

78 >>THIS. Virginia is the blue print (which is also Keir in England.)

And everyone is seeing it. They aren't supermen, they are some of the dumbest and most corrupt people on the planet.

Why do you think the left is freaking out about ICE? They don't love illegals, they love their votes and their ability to act as foils for their corruption which is now being exposed daily.

They, as they like to say, are on the wrong side of history and while of these obtuse are waking up to the fact that their policies are enormously unpopular the far left commies still have all the momentum in the party. Has anyone looked at the fundraising comparisons between the Democrats and Republicans for the midterms? Democrats are in full red alert mode because USAID and Act Blue and other means of cheating are being taken down.

We are winning and no amount of black pills is going to change it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:41 PM (viF8m)

79 69
'Come on, Mamdani wants to ban dogs?

Force everyone to go to Mosques of Friday then'

Leave the dogs.
Bag Mamdani.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:41 PM (fd80v)

80 He has also stated he plans to prioritize muslims

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (kJmLc)

Document this. Or stop spreading rumors.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:42 PM (n9ltV)

81 It is interesting that there are two distinct problems with socialism.

The practical problem is every socialist state turns more and more authoritarian in practice. Whatever the leaders promise you get, at beast, something like East Germany.

The theoretical problem though is that even if you could get the sort of "real socialism" which the left always promises society would collapse. Why would I work if I am getting a mere one eighth billionth of my work since "to each according to his need?" Most people don't want to do most jobs that produce the goods and services they actually want.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

82 Washington state has entered the chat.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (2WIwB)

Colorado too. Get the tip in and then fuck away.

If you'll pardon the imagery, ladies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

83 77 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic.

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)

No, he didn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n9ltV)

Eh, fuck that sack of shit anyway. LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

84 Most first graders in Vienna don't speak German, for example. Half of the school kids in Brussels are Muslim.

The last time I was in Europe I noticed almost all of the women pushing baby carriages were either in a hijab or clearly southeastern European - not many French, German, etc ones with kids.

Now the funny part is you could see the native Euro women - often wearing shorts shorts as they jogged/biked around. It was quite a dichotomy of them versus even the (I assume) Orthodox Christian women from the Balkans.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

85 "Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs"

Now wait just a cotton pickin minute!

Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at February 15, 2026 12:46 PM (vFG9F)

86 Who will be Newsom's Secretary of State?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2026 12:46 PM (Cqx++)

87 Here is Rubio's interview with Bloomberg after his speech in Munich...

https://tinyurl.com/3z2dbwhk

Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 12:47 PM (i49OE)

88 Rubio is making it harder for me to hate him for the amnesty fiasco. I hate him even more for that.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

89 I think the socialists are not power mad accidently, I think they are always 'What would happen if?'

Remember good old games like civilization or what was the name of the one which was a God game but you had like a creature avatar that was semi-independent and how you treated it determined how it looked and acted. Good and Evil? It was a Molineux (sp?) game, iirc.

Their creatures all turn into vicious, poop flinging evil bastards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)

90 Moloch rejoices.
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (lCppi)

Well, all muslim infants are defective. They grow up into muslims.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (8zz6B)

91 No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised

This one shouldn't work. No one should have expected the CIA agent they were running in VA to be anything other then an authoritarian technocrat.

And yet I see people like Meghan McCain bitching about it. Well Meghan you and your family have been arguing these far leftist are people voters should be afraid of for decades now. How is that working out for you?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

92 BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.
~~~~~

Hillary also hosted the Fundamental Rights for Women discussion, and the first speaker she had was our own "Sarah" McBride.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (3ImbR)

93 I believe it was some American Pali activist who called for the ban on dogs in NYC, not Ramadanimi.

Read about it the other day. Don't remember her name. i

Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (Y1sOo)

94 86
'Who will be Newsom's Secretary of State?'

You tell us.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (fd80v)

95 88 Rubio is making it harder for me to hate him for the amnesty fiasco. I hate him even more for that.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

The question is: Road to Damascus or is he Mike Pence?

Do we take a chance?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)

96 Now. Can someone explain why we aren’t freaking out about the shutdown of the DHS?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Most of their jobs are mission critical so they all just get to keep on working...
... should offer some half-way point though, like shutting down major airports in lib ciities due to lack of budget and that it would be inhuman to make people work wo being paid.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (/lPRQ)

97 Now. Can someone explain why we aren’t freaking out about the shutdown of the DHS?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (IhIKR)

The Big Beautiful Bill provided... (looks it up)... $75 billion for ICE and $65 billion for CBP, so immigration enforcement will proceed apace. Otherwise, in FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard, essential workers will continue without pay, while non-essential (or at least non-urgent) functions like training will be suspended. It's not a big deal to anyone but the households of those specific employees affected.

And, those employees probably mostly belong to the Democrat party that is responsible for the shutdown, so I see their financial troubles as an internal dispute that Democrats need to resolve amongst themselves. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (Sy6m/)

98 If youz guyz haven't watched Rubio's entire speech at the Munich Security Conference, you are missing something tremendous. No one in President Trump's cabinet has impressed me more than Little Marco. God bless him.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 12:50 PM (3ImbR)

99 The last time I was in Europe I noticed almost all of the women pushing baby carriages were either in a hijab or clearly southeastern European - not many French, German, etc ones with kids.

Mark Steyn's clue that something was going on was that he was talking to a friend at a cafe in central Vienna about 2000.

There was a maternity clinic across the street, and every woman going into the maternity clinic was Muslim.

Steyn subsequently got into legal trouble because an iman in Norway told Muslims to breed "like cockroaches", and Steyn committed the offense of accurately quoting the iman.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:51 PM (n1OCj)

100 This one shouldn't work. No one should have expected the CIA agent they were running in VA to be anything other then an authoritarian technocrat.

And yet I see people like Meghan McCain bitching about it. Well Meghan you and your family have been arguing these far leftist are people voters should be afraid of for decades now. How is that working out for you?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

*Types* *deletes*

Really. Damn, I think I managed to get 'fucking' in that sentence about 7 times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)

101 >>>It's not a big deal to anyone but the households of those specific employees affected.
~~~~~

And even those people have little to worry about since their credit union offers interest free payday loans to tide them over.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 12:52 PM (3ImbR)

102 Remember good old games like civilization or what was the name of the one which was a God game but you had like a creature avatar that was semi-independent and how you treated it determined how it looked and acted. Good and Evil? It was a Molineux (sp?) game, iirc.

Their creatures all turn into vicious, poop flinging evil bastards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)

Black And White?

Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:52 PM (Sy6m/)

103 I think the socialists are not power mad accidently, I think they are always 'What would happen if?'

Indeed. Here is the sort of discussion I've had many, many times with anarcho-socialists...

Ok, suppose you get your dream anarchist society. There are no corporations and "the people" control everything. Who decides what you'll make in your factories?

Well there will be a council of experts.

Ok, and if workers disagree with the council and don't want to work what will happen?

Oh they'll have to do it. Because the people will have decided.

But let's same some don't care what "the people" want...how will you handle it?

In that case we will put together a group that will remind the workers of their responsibilities and if necessary re-educate them to make sure they don't have any wrong ideas.

So then in your "anarchist" society there is a government, police force, and a prison system?

No no nothing like that! Just experts making sure society does the right things!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

104 Oooh, here's a biggy: Lefties believe man is inherently good. If they believe sin exists, they don't believe it exists in every man.
Posted by: gp

I don't they give a rat's ass about good/evil and are incapable of making that question a foundation principle.
I think they believe the 'smart' people should be in charge from the top-down, or just want power and screw the little guy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:53 PM (/lPRQ)

105 Word.

OBAMA: “The other side does the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together.”

I get angry a lot when I hear Democrats lie, but I'm not sure I've ever been angrier than over the above video clip.

No one in the history of the USA has purposely caused more hateful division in America than Barack Obama.

For Frankfurt School Marxists, hate and division is THE necessary element of power.

A true Frankfurt School disciple, Obama's singular purpose was to create hate and division along demographic lines.

Racism was on life support when Obama took office. He gave it life once again, deliberately.

Virtually all of the hate and division we experience in the USA today is directly attributable to Barack Obama.

Other than Woodrow Wilson, Obama is the most objectively evil man ever to sit in the Oval Office.

Shut up Obama. Everything you are bemoaning was created by YOU, you lying narcissistic Marxist filth.

https://is.gd/rfnSjf

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

106 >>If youz guyz haven't watched Rubio's entire speech at the Munich Security Conference, you are missing something tremendous. No one in President Trump's cabinet has impressed me more than Little Marco. God bless him.

I was really surprised at the standing ovation he received from the EU crowd. He walked into their home and told them they were doing it wrong and it's time for them get their shit together and they cheered him. Baby steps but a welcome reaction.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)

107 Black And White?
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:52 PM (Sy6m/)

Might be. *looks it up*

Yeah, that's it.

2001?! Longer ago than I thought.

Guys, I think we might be getting old.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y)

108 Well, I believe I over the worst of this damned cold. Slept pretty well last night, and just came in from an hour of hoeing weeds in the sunshine. Worked up a good sweat, and my nose is not drippy much at all right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (8zz6B)

109 Afternoon all. Thx CBD.
Two great things came out of the Munich conference
1) Rubio hit it out of the park with this speech
2) AOC looked and sounded like the blithering idiot we all knew she was. She even got Gretchen to show her stupid side

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Ggsrp)

110 God games do give people a bad idea about how the real world works.

I suspect that if you were to implement one that fully modeled the information problem socialism has but gave you the option to instead let autonomous groups of individuals make decisions about what to produce and how much you'd find that everyone ended up going capitalist.

Why do you mean I have to decide how much copper I'm going to need for the next 5 years right now? I don't know if I'll be attacked by my neighbors or make a break through that will require more electricity...how can anyone know that?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

111 105
'No one in the history of the USA has purposely caused more hateful division in America than Barack Obama.'

Is there anyone that isn't a completely brain washed democrat that listens to that cock smoker anymore? Anyone that pushes this 'come together' horseshit makes me angry too.

Hell no, I'm not watching that link. One of the many benefits of him not being President anymore is not having to hear his lying voice.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:58 PM (fd80v)

112 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic. I'd rather ban all muslims
Posted by: night lifted

That didn't take long.
Up next - kafr women of all ages are legal to rape.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:58 PM (/lPRQ)

113 Marco was speaking about #3. Japan's new PM is stepping up on #2

Trump & Co recently released a report on US global strategic priorities:
1. Fortress Americas with a latter-day Monroe Doctrine
2. The Far East. We'll try to get China to play nice, but if not see #1
3. Europe. Has lost its way. If they don't find their way back, it's on them. See #1
4. Africa. Benign neglect. See #1

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (dtajH)

114 Oh one of the more amusing attempts to capture modern politics in a God game was Sid Meier's Alpha Century. Note, it wasn't actually made by Meier who seems to be right leaning but instead Brian Reynolds who is left leaning.

The "good guy" factions are the enviro-weenies and the UN (whose leader sounds like Jordan Peterson amusing enough)

The bad guys are the Chi-coms, the Christians, and the Spartans (who are kind of like a 90s right wing militia) - the Chi-coms are the baddies because this game came out around the time the left started allying with China.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)

115 Old hag bitch:

https://tinyurl.com/36ebdchf

She hasn't learned a thing. The guy makes a point about her not liking Trump. Most people would make a joke about it, something like "I'm sure he calls his Mom on her birthday", but all she can manage is a smirking sneer, and an immediate attack. The guy answered her attack, and all she had was more sneering. She is just nasty to the bone.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

116 >>>I was really surprised at the standing ovation he received from the EU crowd.
~~~~~

Me too. I was scanning the crowd at every chance, and there were relatively few who looked displeased.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (3ImbR)

117 "They believe THEY are good. We are bad and dumb and need their stern hand to control us, for our own good, of course."

That's what we believe about them too. It's not a clear distinction.

"Shit-eating lefties believe in power and money."

Well, again, we also believe in power and money. We know that we can't accomplish anything without it. Not a clear distinction.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (N8ZBc)

118 Q:
Who built the Wall?
Who pretends a "rules-based international order" should supplant the national interest?
Who wants to surrender the very ideas of citizenship, of national sovereignty, of nations?
Who wants to great a global "New World Order"?
Who pursues deindustrialization and depopulation?
Who will not stop?
Who pursues these aims with violence and subversion, intimidation and terror?
Who is impervious to reason and to result?
Who are we not holding accountable?

A:
The international left

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (RIvkX)

119 For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not sick of all the winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (2Ez/1)

120 So, Gretchen and AOC were palling around together in Munich?

What was Gretchen's role? To pay the bar tab after AOC left with the tall German local who was hitting on her all evening?

Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (Y1sOo)

121 Mamdani's office has said a lot of shit. It's probably staffed with a bunch of wild eyed commies itching to pop a couple normies. They also have zero self control. Especially when talking to the press without a handler nearby.

Same goes for people only peripherally involved with his official office. Or, you know, his supporters in the greater anti-American arena.

So I wouldn't put much past his office in whatever capacity you wish, to say... shit. Whether that's something along the lines of Islamification in NYC is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (jtM2q)

122 Vance: "You idiots better get your shit together."
Rubio: "I love you and I don't want you to die!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Finding a tad more than annoying that the blackpilling Super Conservatives are insisting that Rubio is a better candidate than Vance now. Can't wait until Vance nominates Rubio for VP in 28. Their tiny heads will squeak.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (diia5)

123 114 Oh one of the more amusing attempts to capture modern politics in a God game was Sid Meier's Alpha Century. Note, it wasn't actually made by Meier who seems to be right leaning but instead Brian Reynolds who is left leaning.

The "good guy" factions are the enviro-weenies and the UN (whose leader sounds like Jordan Peterson amusing enough)

The bad guys are the Chi-coms, the Christians, and the Spartans (who are kind of like a 90s right wing militia) - the Chi-coms are the baddies because this game came out around the time the left started allying with China.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)

Eh, I'd say it is more complex than that. Spartans are more like spartans of old, brutal, utilitarian, militaristic.

I'd say the enviro factions are a bit out there- especially the expansion creepy fungus kid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (bss/y)

124 Eh, fuck that sack of shit anyway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

No argument from me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (n9ltV)

125 I was really surprised at the standing ovation he received from the EU crowd. He walked into their home and told them they were doing it wrong and it's time for them get their shit together and they cheered him. Baby steps but a welcome reaction.

I think it's easy to conclude that all Euros are on board with the left's agenda, but that isn't so. We know from our own country that the media and big government conspire to make anyone who disagrees with their agenda out to be on the lunatic fringe. I don't think that's the case, and we're probably going to find out soon just how much the left is wrong. There is an enormous magma chamber under Europe and it's about to go all supervolcano. See also, Japan.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (Riz8t)

126 "They believe THEY are good. We are bad and dumb and need their stern hand to control us, for our own good, of course."

That's what we believe about them too. It's not a clear distinction.

I don't think it is exactly the same. If you could roll back government to say 1880 levels so that lefties could still go live on communes if they wanted, but not force anyone else to give them money and power I wouldn't care a lot what they did.

The left's answer for us is re-education camps or mass graves.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

127 The question is: Road to Damascus or is he Mike Pence?
Do we take a chance?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)

For one, Rubio has more power in the USG than anyone since Kissinger
For another, we have two years before having to make any decisions so we have time

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)

128 Who will be Newsom's Secretary of State?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2026 12:46 PM (Cqx++)
====

Nirdeen Kiswani

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 01:05 PM (RIvkX)

129 I'd say the enviro factions are a bit out there- especially the expansion creepy fungus kid.

Yeah the Cult kid from the expansion isn't one of the "good" factions, I meant Lady Deidre

In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

130 A-hole Obama also recently said that social media had to be regulated, because although people are allowed a variety of opinions, there should only be one "truth".

You'll never guess who gets to determine what is the "truth".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:06 PM (n1OCj)

131 Marco was speaking about #3. Japan's new PM is stepping up on #2

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (dtajH)
-

The Emperor is a Bozo:

https://tinyurl.com/44s2vaze

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:06 PM (UzL96)

132 44 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic. I'd rather ban all muslims

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)

We voted for this!

Posted by: NYC cats who voted by mail at February 15, 2026 01:06 PM (5rh/l)

133 No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

The more sentient ones understand that's the only plan through which they could possibly survive; but they're too late for it to work. Their foot soldiers have all gone insane and are going to viciously attack any dem candidate who isn't absolutely pure with the radical left.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2026 01:07 PM (/QdgR)

134 The Emperor is a Bozo:

And the king is a fink!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t)

135 Nap time ovet

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (Ia/+0)

136 I think it's easy to conclude that all Euros are on board with the left's agenda, but that isn't so.

I notice polling from Europe shows their electorates way to the right of their pols, even their "right wing" pols.

But, their reaction to their "right wing" pols governing as far leftists has been fairly muted.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

137 Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife will never be president.

Posted by: Just for the record at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (2Ez/1)

138 127 The question is: Road to Damascus or is he Mike Pence?
Do we take a chance?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)

For one, Rubio has more power in the USG than anyone since Kissinger
For another, we have two years before having to make any decisions so we have time
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)

Love that answer. America is doing well, especially in global concerns, and Rubio has been a big part of that. Judge him by the results. And I would love a Vance/Rubio ticket.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (i49OE)

139 "I don't think it is exactly the same."

We clearly believe that we are good and they are evil. They view are mirror image. We have reasons for believing we are the good. And we believe those reasons. So it is with them, unless, as some have aptly pointed out, they believe in nothing.

We will be tested, and our reactions will reveal what we really believe, if anything, when the chips are down.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (N8ZBc)

140 Remember Perot's "vast sucking sound?" Its amazing to look back and see that he was underselling it.

NAFTA just seemed to fade away under the flood of ever-greater globalism.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (XlIjI)

141 130 A-hole Obama also recently said that social media had to be regulated, because although people are allowed a variety of opinions, there should only be one "truth".

You'll never guess who gets to determine what is the "truth".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026

I suggest me. If it’s actual truth it shouldn’t matter who delivers it, right Obama?

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (OoFl2)

142 Now. Can someone explain why we aren’t freaking out about the shutdown of the DHS?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (IhIKR)

Shutting down a Bush-era bureaucracy is a win, IMO. More and faster, please...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (nbLIj)

143 >>>There is an enormous magma chamber under Europe and it's about to go all supervolcano. See also, Japan.
~~~~~

Japan's invasion is relatively modest, and they've already taken the most important step to reversing it by electing Takaichi. Europe, on the other hand, has a really, really long way to go, and unlike Japan, most Europeans are idiot leftists and love their3rd world newcomers.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (3ImbR)

144 >>I think it's easy to conclude that all Euros are on board with the left's agenda, but that isn't so. We know from our own country that the media and big government conspire to make anyone who disagrees with their agenda out to be on the lunatic fringe. I don't think that's the case, and we're probably going to find out soon just how much the left is wrong. There is an enormous magma chamber under Europe and it's about to go all supervolcano. See also, Japan.

And Argentina and El Salvador and other places in Latin America. Just the other day MP Rupert Lowe launched the Restore Britain party. He sounds Trumpish on the platform and seems to be getting some momentum.

The media, if possible, is worse in Europe than it is here. Not everyone in Europe likes the idiotic policies of the left anymore than we did and their censorship regime, which is really an extension of ours, is much more powerful. But people are starting to fight back which is encouraging.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (viF8m)

145 Trump is making the SAVE Act our hill to die on.

It's got overwhelming popular support, but Congress is obstructing. Now why is that?

Expect lawsuits to expose a spider web of voter fraud in MN and GA for openers. Can you say RICO?

Trump will act by EO if he has to, and then dare those who oppose to go record.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:11 PM (dtajH)

146 I notice polling from Europe shows their electorates way to the right of their pols, even their "right wing" pols.

Doesn't matter - we will soon have complete control of the media, and we'll simply ban right-wing candidates from running (like LePen), or nullify election results that we disapprove of (like the Romanian presidential election).

Posted by: The EU! at February 15, 2026 01:11 PM (n1OCj)

147 No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised

Both Obama and Clinton ran as moderates. Hell Clinton ran to the right of Bush 41 in '92.

Biden ran as a leftist but then he didn't get more votes from actual citizens anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

148 I'm very pleased that Little Marco's balls finally dropped and that he is now a man.

One I just heard:

An Englishman is hiking in Scotland and he pauses to drink from a stream. A passing shepherd calls out "Dinnae drink frae that, it's all fulla coo piss an shite!"

The Englishman says to him in a cut-glass accent "Would you very much mind repeating that in the Queen's English?"

And the shepherd says "I'm terribly sorry sir, I was only asking if you would like to borrow this tin cup and get a proper drink?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 15, 2026 01:12 PM (IG3/x)

149 "our reactions will reveal what we really believe, if anything, when the chips are down."

A good example is the ICE fracas. It was discussed in a thread this week, and I was shocked to read all the comments shitting on the concept of due process.

What do we truly believe?

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:12 PM (N8ZBc)

150
Something I'd like to know, how do Hillary, Newsom, and AOC even get to go to Munich and hold audiences? Who decides this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 01:12 PM (n7rxJ)

151 2001?! Longer ago than I thought.

Guys, I think we might be getting old.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y)

Ha! That's a fictional date. "X years ago" is always the year 2000 minus X, and 2001 is 2000 minus -1, so therefore it's in the future. Q.E.D. You can't trick me!

Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (Sy6m/)

152 Love that answer. America is doing well, especially in global concerns, and Rubio has been a big part of that. Judge him by the results. And I would love a Vance/Rubio ticket.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (i49OE)

Except VP is a step down and he didn't like Congress per his own comments.
He may stay on as SOS for Vance

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)

153 "...most Europeans are idiot leftists and love their3rd world newcomers.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (3ImbR)

I think the closer truth is that they have been taught to love their invaders.....

Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (i49OE)

154 Vance/Gabbard.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)

155 I want to see Monica's boyfriend's wife grave so I can be sure she won't be President and piss on it while Ism there

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (Ia/+0)

156 Sure, the left has changed and seen the light.

In Munich, Democrats pledge a return to wealth taxes and climate hysteria
Both Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez spoke of returning the U.S. to the good graces of the global elite. Newsom assured the Europeans that Trump’s reign is temporary, and that the U.S. will soon enough dismantle the “wrecking ball” that the administration has taken to the EU...
Newsom offered his leadership and his state as the model, proclaiming that “California is a stable and reliable partner” for Europe. The model includes high taxes, massive spending programs and greater bureaucratic regulations — precisely the policies that have driven the European economy into its current stagnation...When not fumbling with security questions about issues such as Taiwan, Ocasio-Cortez was demanding that wealth taxes be implemented in the U.S. “expeditiously.” Such a tax on billionaires’ wealth, including unrealized gains, is currently being pushed in California. The predictable result is that billionaires and other wealthy citizens are rushing to leave the state and taking their investments and companies with them.
https://is.gd/JETLJc

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

157 >>What do we truly believe?

That many people don't know what due process means when it comes to illegal aliens.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (viF8m)

158 A good example is the ICE fracas. It was discussed in a thread this week, and I was shocked to read all the comments shitting on the concept of due process.

If you've gotten a final order of deportation, you've received your due process, no matter what Democrats may think.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:14 PM (n1OCj)

159 The Emperor is a Bozo:

And the king is a fink!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t)
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The peasants are revolting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:14 PM (UzL96)

160 Know who else made pledges in Munich?

Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't resist at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (2Ez/1)

161 "That many people don't know what due process means when it comes to illegal aliens."

How do you know that a person is an illegal alien without due process?

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (N8ZBc)

162
The peasants are revolting!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:14 PM (UzL96)

They stink on ice

Posted by: It's me donna at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (VE6XX)

163 We clearly believe that we are good and they are evil. They view are mirror image. We have reasons for believing we are the good. And we believe those reasons. So it is with them, unless, as some have aptly pointed out, they believe in nothing.

This is sort of a tautology, most people believe they are "good-ish" though the left's morality is extremely flexible.

But I do disagree though that the implications here are different for the left and the right. The right wants to take power away from the left and the left wants to take power from the right, yes that's true. But then the left wants to forcibly remake society into some nominal socialist idea and the right wants to make politics largely unimportant again. Think the Soviet Union (but the right people will be in charge this time!) versus 1880s America.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

164 136 I think it's easy to conclude that all Euros are on board with the left's agenda, but that isn't so.

I notice polling from Europe shows their electorates way to the right of their pols, even their "right wing" pols.

But, their reaction to their "right wing" pols governing as far leftists has been fairly muted.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

Commenters on another blog who say they live in Europe, laugh at Americans calling all Democrats and their fellow travelers liberal. They say a typical American liberal will have the same beliefs and policy goals as a center-right Euro. They say moderate liberals over there are the same as AOC and Bernie Sanders here.

Posted by: Gref at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (5rh/l)

165 If you've gotten a final order of deportation, you've received your due process, no matter what Democrats may think.

And an administrative warrant authorizes Federal law enforcement to carry out the deportation.

Banning administrative warrants is an effort to ban deportations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:16 PM (n1OCj)

166 Vance/Gabbard.

Posted by: Kindltot

BRB. Bunk.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

167 Citizens get due process. Invaders get, if they are lucky, merely an immediate deportation.

I would suggest too that if deportation included taking all the invader's assets or giving them a sentence at hard labor we'd probably see an extremely elevated self-deportation rate.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:17 PM (sKqQm)

168 JackStraw, they are having riots in Argentina over the debate in the chamber of deputies about the changes to the labor laws. Last I checked they are fighting in the chamber about medical leave obligations, and in the street the rioters are looking really black-blocky, starting to use molotovs, and the riot police in Buenos Aires are using water cannon.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

169
Commenters on another blog who say they live in Europe, laugh at Americans calling all Democrats and their fellow travelers liberal. They say a typical American liberal will have the same beliefs and policy goals as a center-right Euro. They say moderate liberals over there are the same as AOC and Bernie Sanders here.
Posted by: Gref at February 15, 2026

This isn’t the case in Italy. Maybe in Milan, but certainly not most of Tuscany.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (Wmg4n)

170 Not an Olympics fan but just wow!

https://tinyurl.com/55972wdh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (UzL96)

171 "If you've gotten a final order of deportation, you've received your due process, no matter what Democrats may think."

I guess that applies to only a small number of illegal aliens. Most of them, we don't even know who or where they are.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc)

172 Commenters on another blog who say they live in Europe, laugh at Americans calling all Democrats and their fellow travelers liberal.

Talk with them about issues not "the left" or "the right".

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

173 Commenters on another blog who say they live in Europe, laugh at Americans calling all Democrats and their fellow travelers liberal. They say a typical American liberal will have the same beliefs and policy goals as a center-right Euro. They say moderate liberals over there are the same as AOC and Bernie Sanders here.

That may have been somewhat true at one time, but things have changed dramatically. The Overton Window has shifted and left the building. Those commenters are trying to persuade you that things are the same as they've always been. They aren't.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

174 "Citizens get due process. Invaders get"

How do you know somebody is an invader without due process?

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:19 PM (N8ZBc)

175 I guess that applies to only a small number of illegal aliens. Most of them, we don't even know who or where they are.

There are currently 1.6 million orders of deportation that haven't been executed yet.

Most ICE actions are targeted at specific individuals that have received an order of deportation.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:20 PM (n1OCj)

176 Look at Britain for example.

The current government was voted in due to the former "right wing" government failing to stop immigration.

And even with the EngSoc being very clear they will imprison you for wrong think people keep going to social media and posting thoughts that get them imprisoned.

Odd behavior for a society far to the left of ours isn't it? Of course, as I mentioned that is about issues not labels - remember 20 years ago Bernie Sanders was also a border hawk...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

177 I have to get to work, but I always play civilization the same way. A Technocracy that leaves everyone alone until they fuck with me. Then they die.

The End.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (bss/y)

178 If you skip your immigration hearing you also forfeit your claim to due process. And there are millions who do exactly this.

The idea that someone can illegally break into the US, then refuse to play by any of the incredibly lenient rules we have for asylum and then complain you aren'g getting due process from the US is one of the most twisted arguments I've ever heard. All they are due is trip home.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)

179 I think the closer truth is that they have been taught to love their invaders.....
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (i49OE)
~~~~~

True. And it worked. Last time I was in Germany, people had painted their own homes and fences with signs welcoming the migrants. Europe's conservatives are equivalent to our democrats. That's one of the reasons Nigel Farage is falling away in popularity with the right. However, this new guy Lowe sounds promising.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:22 PM (3ImbR)

180 "There are currently 1.6 million orders of deportation that haven't been executed yet."

By all means, deport them immediately.

To my point, that leaves about 40 million to find, and to verify their illegal status, presumably via due process.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:22 PM (N8ZBc)

181 To my point, that leaves about 40 million to find, and to verify their illegal status, presumably via due process.

To this point ICE has deported 0 citizens/legal aliens.

The focus on due process is merely a fig leaf to grin things to a halt.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

182 Talk about loving your invaders - Harvard:

https://tinyurl.com/bd9wz7k7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:23 PM (UzL96)

183 https://tinyurl.com/yjk5dz76
Doug Ross Substack on Marco's speech

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:24 PM (Ia/+0)

184
Who will be Newsom's Secretary of State?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

==============

I don't know if you're blackpilling, but I love playing these games.

Pete Buttigieg keeps coming to mind.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 01:25 PM (n7rxJ)

185 Haaaavard is a Cultural Marxist Seminary

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)

186 Western Euros have been conditioned to rely on big government. Their standard of living outside of the uber rich is not much different from 3rd world places like Baltimore, Detroit or New York City. Cramped filthy holes full of people who love their freebies.

Posted by: Men's Room Wall at February 15, 2026 01:26 PM (Ksqrb)

187 "To this point ICE has deported 0 citizens/legal aliens."

How do you know that? Because ICE says so?

The last time we decided that an emergency required sacrificing liberty, we got the Patriot Act and FISA courts.

Exigent thinking is bad thinking.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:26 PM (N8ZBc)

188 vThe current government was voted in due to the former "right wing" government failing to stop immigration.
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The Conservatives deserved to lose.

Labour did not deserve to win.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 15, 2026 01:27 PM (i1VVh)

189 "How do you know somebody is an invader without due process?"

ICE has been going after those with criminal records where it's been established that they're Illegals. Is that enough due process for you?

Then we'll see (1) tougher enforcement against employers and (2) blue states made to cut-off benefits to illegals or lose it for all their citizens. Self-deportation to follow.

But you didn't want a real answer to your fake question, did you?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:27 PM (dtajH)

190 Odd behavior for a society far to the left of ours isn't it? Of course, as I mentioned that is about issues not labels - remember 20 years ago Bernie Sanders was also a border hawk...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

Starmer and his cabinet have been deep in the "grooming gang" scandal for 20+ years. The Pakistani grooming gangs have been kidnapping, raping and trafficking girls for longer than that, and violating various trade and importation tax laws, as well as being involved with money laundering on such a high value that the banks are involved. Funds from these gangs are traced to Osama bin Laden, and other terrorist groups, making the UK a state sponsor of terrorism.

The kidnapping, rape, torture and trafficking of young girls is bad enough, even with the direct help of authorities, but the UK has become a true anti-state.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:27 PM (rbvCR)

191 Oh, on yesterday's KT's thread, you could follow that up with Winston Marshall's latest podcast interview of a woman reporter on England Rape gangs and international sex trafficking

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:28 PM (Ia/+0)

192 "ICE has been going after those with criminal records where it's been established that they're Illegals. Is that enough due process for you?"

That gets you all the illegals with criminal records. Deport them.

Now we're down to the 20 million without criminal records.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)

193 How do you know that a person is an illegal alien without due process?

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (N8ZBc)

You are buying into the left's manipulation of the language.

All of these illegals get due process.

That doesn't mean a full-blown trial and all of the rights afforded to citizens.

It means a legally mandated process for tossing their criminal asses out of our country.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 01:30 PM (n9ltV)

194 How do you know that? Because ICE says so?

Because if ICE deported a citizen it would be THE news item of the year.

This is very similar to the left's claims that "the Republicans are disenfranchising voters!" and after 26 years they've yet to find one.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

195 gp is a troll, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:31 PM (dtajH)

196 "How do you know somebody is an invader without due process?"

Because I'm shooting at the invaders, uh, sorry, you moderns would call them Japanese Undocumented Immigrants right?

Posted by: Some GI in 1942 at February 15, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

197 Except VP is a step down and he didn't like Congress per his own comments.
He may stay on as SOS for Vance
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)

I think that's a great idea. He has plainly found a groove. The position suits him, and vice-versa. It's a shame that the Peter Principle is a thing, and people tend to rise precisely to the level of their incompetence; it is a blessing to the country when someone finds the level of his highest performance, then puts his own ambition in check and stays there.

Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 01:32 PM (Sy6m/)

198 Oh, on yesterday's KT's thread, you could follow that up with Winston Marshall's latest podcast interview of a woman reporter on England Rape gangs and international sex trafficking
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:28 PM (Ia/+0)

You could also look up Rich Does Politics on Youtube and watch his interview that touches on Munich and the Pakistani Rape Gangs panel

youtu.be/7nrIcsl9uPU

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (rbvCR)

199 "But you didn't want a real answer to your fake question, did you?"

It's not a fake question, cripes. I'm not trying to monkey-wrench deportation of illegals. I'm asking WTF we really absolutely believe.

When we perceive were in an emergency, our beliefs morph. It happens! Trouble is, the USA has been in full-tilt Emergency Mode for 25 years.

I'll let it go now.

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)

200 Now we're down to the 20 million without criminal records.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)
~~~~~

If they are in this country illegally, or for the sake of argument, "undocumented," how are they surviving? How are they making money? How do they get housing, medical care, education? To take all those things when you are not entitled to them is a crime, no?

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (3ImbR)

201 "gp is a troll, no?"

Oh go fuck yourself!

Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)

202 Are the feds going after those who employ illegal invaders?

Posted by: Slaves For Me But Not For Thee at February 15, 2026 01:36 PM (Ksqrb)

203 gp is a troll, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:31 PM (dtajH)

Disagreement isn't trolling.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 01:37 PM (n9ltV)

204 When we perceive were in an emergency, our beliefs morph. It happens! Trouble is, the USA has been in full-tilt Emergency Mode for 25 years.

I'll let it go now.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)

You have a valid concern, and it is a valid point. To date there has not been any indication this has happened, and every outrage that has been brought up to date has been shown to be a non-issue or a fake issue. Fortunately there is a lot of criminals to be caught up, a lot of administrative warrants that need to be filled before ICE has to start doing real digging, and we have the people over the aisle that will point out where Homan got it wrong so we can review if it is wrong.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:37 PM (rbvCR)

205 Are the feds going after those who employ illegal invaders?
Posted by: Slaves For Me But Not For Thee at February 15, 2026 01:36 PM (Ksqrb)

I would be ecstatic if the IRS just disallowed the write off of the business cost of wages to any employee that had a bad match between SSN DOB and Name

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:39 PM (rbvCR)

206 Now we're down to the 20 million without criminal records.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:29 PM
###

Where does that 20 million number come from?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 01:39 PM (2Ez/1)

207 Now we're down to the 20 million without criminal records.
Posted by: gp

Many illegals do have criminal records in their own countries, but, because they never presented themselves at a port of entry and were not documented with fingerprints, legitimate id, etc expressly for the purpose of avoiding detection, they should not be allowed to claim innocent here because they have supposedly kept their nose clean.

Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:39 PM (F3Dlr)

208 implicitly, gp is pushing the idea that we can't fix the Illegal problem without gangs of our own SS going door-to-door and dragging people away in the middle of the night. So we're helpless.

He should be open about it and say so

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:40 PM (dtajH)

209 They are ILLEGAL.

Deport them.

I don't care if they built up a nice life here.
They are crims, plain and simple.
Send them back to their shithole countries, so they can work to improve them.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 15, 2026 01:42 PM (ufFY8)

210 One other point, if someone is incorrectly deported they haven't "disappeared" - they'd present themselves to the nearest US embassy and after getting home almost certainly sue the government for a ton of money.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

211 I'll ruffle some feathers.

I want them all gone. I even want the innocent little children gone. Know why? Because hundreds of those little children are in my local grammar school--the only school we have, no high school--and they make up nearly 80% of the student population. I live in a beach town and many of the homes are rented for tens of thousands of dollars in the summe,r and the winter rentals, from September to May, are frequently less than $1,500/month. So, they all come here. Where they go in the summer, I don't know. Nor do I care.

The American kids in my town pretty much all go to the local Catholic school, which goes from K-12. My school taxes are through the roof, and half the classes in the public grammar school are either English as a Second Language, or full-on taught in Spanish.

More than half of my property taxes go to the school, so they can educate the children of illegals. In a foreign language no less.

Don't mind me, I'm in a bad mood today.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:49 PM (3ImbR)

212 Now we're down to the 20 million without criminal records.

Depends on how much you care about working-class wage suppression.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:52 PM (n1OCj)

213 implicitly, gp is pushing the idea that we can't fix the Illegal problem without gangs of our own SS going door-to-door and dragging people away in the middle of the night. So we're helpless.

He should be open about it and say so

Posted by: Ignoramus

One time I commented and someone took offense and labelled me a troll and told me to go back to giving blowjobs behind the shopping center.
Not one ette said a word in my defense.
One moron suggested as a long time commenter that my comment was meant /s.
Casting stones and all that.

gp is not a troll imo.

Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:53 PM (F3Dlr)

214 Besides tossing every Illegal out, this birth here makes them a citizen has to stop. No where else does that except other No Borders Marxist have done that.

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:55 PM (Ia/+0)

215 "That conference was a great study in contrasts. AOC vomited out a Kamala-grade word salad and then froze like a deer in headlights when questioned. And Rubio gave this excellent speech.
Posted by: Ian S."

I just tried listen to her remarks s but could nit finish. When she speaks at least 70% is fluff, filler (like, um, you know , I feel that, we are entering a new paradigm etc....) the rest is just plan stupid blather. As you say, compare and contrast to Rubio who is on point and making clear concise statements, even if you disagree with them.

Posted by: Ripley at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (GUOwU)

216 implicitly, gp is pushing the idea that we can't fix the Illegal problem without gangs of our own SS going door-to-door and dragging people away in the middle of the night. So we're helpless.

He should be open about it and say so

Yeah, the theory is that a Democratic Administration can let in more than ten million illegals, claiming that they are "asylum seekers" that have been given "parole", with an immigration court hearing five years from now; and that a Republican Administration can do almost nothing to reverse that, due to requiring criminal prosecution-levels of "due process" for all illegals.

This is a recipe for the destruction of the United States, which is why I oppose it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (n1OCj)

217 The Wall fell because if a Randalls store about 3 miles from my house.
Yeltsin knew that 100s of flavors of ice cream meant the Soviet Union had failed Russians.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (gbOdA)

218 JackStraw, they are having riots in Argentina over the debate in the chamber of deputies about the changes to the labor laws. Last I checked they are fighting in the chamber about medical leave obligations, and in the street the rioters are looking really black-blocky, starting to use molotovs, and the riot police in Buenos Aires are using water cannon.
Posted by: Kindltot

Shouldn't they be using diesel in lieu of water given that rioters are playing with matches?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (/lPRQ)

219 Rubio has been the biggest suprise of Trump admin 2.0.

Posted by: Usntakim at February 15, 2026 01:57 PM (Kwwen)

220 Bernie Sanders said in 2016 primary that Americans did not need 20 choices on deodorant.
Every Socialist believes in Choices, their Choices.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 01:58 PM (gbOdA)

221 Rubio has been the biggest suprise of Trump admin 2.0.
Posted by: Usntakim at February 15, 2026 01:57 PM (Kwwen)

Honestly, RFK Jr has surprised me too. I thought he was a single issue guy.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)

222 this birth here makes them a citizen has to stop.
Posted by: Skip

This. It's legalized citizenship theft.
The numbers of Chinese that come, give birth, then immediately return to China with their dual citizenship child until the child is educated and returns 18 years later is an enormous homeland security risk.

Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:59 PM (F3Dlr)

223 >>Don't mind me, I'm in a bad mood today.

Doesn't mean you're wrong. I don't how we got to a place where this is even controversial. Try sneaking into Mexico and see what happens.

We simply can't have a country without strong borders and immigration laws. Sure, millions around the world want to come here and if you spend some time traveling the reason becomes obvious. But we simply can't afford to let people just pour in here without rules, either financially or culturally.

Follow the rules, come here legally or get out.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (viF8m)

224 > "That conference was a great study in contrasts. AOC vomited out a Kamala-grade word salad and then froze like a deer in headlights when questioned. And Rubio gave this excellent speech.
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Try listening to any politico without a prepared statement they've either memorized or read while commenting.

They are all blathering idiots.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (jtM2q)

225 gp is not a troll. He is taking a hard line. Considering how being understanding and accommodating has gotten us in the past 30 years, i am surprised more of us are not at that point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (zZu0s)

226 1St World Nood

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

227 Rubio has been the biggest suprise of Trump admin 2.0.
-
He might be the better successor, imho.

Posted by: Methos at February 15, 2026 02:01 PM (vSvIl)

228 This. It's legalized citizenship theft.
The numbers of Chinese that come, give birth, then immediately return to China with their dual citizenship child until the child is educated and returns 18 years later is an enormous homeland security risk.
Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:59 PM (F3Dlr)

About 1.5 Million

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 02:02 PM (gbOdA)

229 'Behind the shopping center' is odd. Usually we tend to insult in patterns. So, down by the river or under an overpass would be normal.

Strange.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:02 PM (zZu0s)

230 Ok, so you live in a mid-level suburban neighborhood in a mid-level house. Because of the slope of the lot it has a walk out basement with a sliding glass door.
You have to be out of town for three weeks and forget to lock the sliding glass door. A Hispanic family of five discovers the unlocked door and occupy your basement.
They're very industrious. The carpet gets cleaned. The drywall is repaired. They even paint and the dripping faucet in the basement bath gets fixed.
You come home and to your horror discover what has happened and call the local authorities.
Before they arrive the woman in the group pleads with you on her knees:
"You can't throw us out! WE'VE WORKED SO HARD!"

You make the call.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 02:03 PM (2Ez/1)

231
IrishEI, have you been following the case of the Honduran future MBA who got herself kicked out when she flew to Texas for a family visit over Thanksgiving? She's blaming her fate on lousy legal advice ("No one ever told me I had to report to a court") and some judge just decided she's a fine young lady and the US has to fly her back and give her... due process.

All emotion, greeting-card photos of her smiling and holding flowers and some sort of diploma, and the usual obligation on us to make her dreams come true.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 02:04 PM (n7rxJ)

232 Strange.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Personally I found it disgusting, but that's just me.

Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 02:05 PM (F3Dlr)

233 Mamdani has announced that he wants to ban dogs, haram and anti-islamic. I'd rather ban all muslims

Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM

And he will do it. Just as it was done in the UK. He's already getting the call to prayer blasted. He's only one month into his Administration. It's going to get a lot worse.

Amy Mek @AmyMek

NYC FALLS: Adhan Blasts Through Streets – Zohran Mamdani’s Sharia Dawn is Here!

(TURN YOUR VOLUME UP)

My lord, America – the conquest we’ve warned about is exploding now. The Adhan isn’t a “beautiful call to prayer”; it’s a militant declaration: “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is greater than your gods, laws, freedoms), “There is no god but Allah” (all other faiths are false).

Blared 5× daily from loudspeakers – 5 AM wake-ups included – it’s forced submission on non-Muslims, pure civilizational jihad straight from the Muslim Brotherhood playbook.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL – but they’re aggressively normalizing it.

X video (00:37): https://bit.ly/4rDnhbT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 02:08 PM (P5BPp)

234
She even got Gretchen to show her stupid side

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 15, 2026 12:55
PM

Gretchen Whitmer is the Jussie Smollet of governors

(Whitmer is getting lit up on the twits)

Posted by: AltonJackson | Contractual Obligation Comment at February 15, 2026 02:09 PM (tljrc)

235 219 Rubio has been the biggest suprise of Trump admin 2.0.
Posted by: Usntakim at February 15, 2026 01:57 PM (Kwwen)

Good to see you, man. How are thing going?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (xcxpd)

236 I've liked Rubio since he was speaker of the house in Florida. He chose to run for the senate as a Tea Party candidate and had to run against the Florida rino establishment. Since, he's grown even more nationally and retained his desire for basic freedoms.

Posted by: Juan Paxety at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (EwniN)

237 Shouldn't they be using diesel in lieu of water given that rioters are playing with matches?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (/lPRQ)

I look forward to the sound of helicopter rotors starting up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:27 PM (8zz6B)

238 Rubio has been the biggest suprise of Trump admin 2.0.

I beg to differ.

-Maduro

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 02:29 PM (WHh2h)

239 Voluntary deportation is the main way to remove a large invasive body of illegals. No benefits, no jobs, no hope that remaining here will get amnesty, increasing risk that anytime an illegal gets picked up they end up in detention unable to earn a buck nor do much of anything, etc. etc.

Eliminating parole goes a long way as now the illegals cannot get out on bond and disappear, they are detained until a hearing. That means no income, no remittances, no bennies other than you get in jail, etc. etc.

Roughly half of the illegal population came during the last ten years and they can go back about as easy---several million per year or so. It is a myth that these are integrated into the US and their distribution is pretty lumpy with urban/suburban destinations. The rural illegals are generally located around food processing or other plants that have high turnover and pay low wages.

Due process is entirely another kettle of fish and many, like the Irish dude overstaying his visa (about 1/3 to 1/2 of illegals) have specific statutory language that do not permit these illegals from challenging their deportation in court. Visa language for most explicitly don't allow it.

Posted by: whig at February 15, 2026 02:30 PM (2swu2)

240
THIS IS NOT NORMAL – but they’re aggressively normalizing it.

X video (00:37): https://bit.ly/4rDnhbT
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 02:08 PM (P5BPp)

I don't know if they can be made to stop. Of course, based on the precedent of Goose v. Gander, you could blast Zeppelin during their services from a similar loudspeaker. Perhaps a recording of hog calling contest, y'know, just have fun with it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 15, 2026 02:40 PM (w/O5Q)

241 I don't know if they can be made to stop. Of course, based on the precedent of Goose v. Gander, you could blast Zeppelin during their services from a similar loudspeaker. Perhaps a recording of hog calling contest, y'know, just have fun with it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 15, 2026 02:40 PM

I have seen videos of people in Scotland who have been playing bagpipes during the call to prayer there. A small act of rebellion.

That said, at 5am, or whenever the sun is coming up in one's area of the country, I do NOT want to hear dueling musicals from Muslims and other people outside.

There should be noise ordinances preventing the call to prayer. If there are not, then cities all across the country should be pushing to pass them.

Better yet, Muslims should all be deported, since Islam is incompatible with western society. But I'm not holding my breath that will happen in my lifetime. More than likely Muslims will take over just like they have Europe.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 02:48 PM (P5BPp)

242 Marco will be both the Governor General of Cuba, AND the Viceroy of Persia.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 15, 2026 02:49 PM (q6Ikg)

243 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: The Separation Of Church And State at February 15, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

244 We are winning and no amount of black pills is going to change it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:41 PM

I would not call what is going on "winning". After having lost the culture war and the Long March Through the Institutions for the past two to three generations and the last 3-4 decades, conservatives are finally fighting back.

It's like losing in a football game 35-0 and scoring a TD to make it 35-7 and going "we're winning!"

No, we're finally working to take back our country that has been lost for the past 25+ years to the Marxist left.

We are making slow progress, but we are not "winning". The culture has long been lost and the Marxist left still controls the vast majority of the institutions in the country. Going to take decades and generations of this progress before we can claim we are winning again.

Recall everyone claimed every day we were "winning" during the first Trump Administration. And then we all know what happened from March 2020 through January 2025.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 03:01 PM (P5BPp)

245 He seemed unremarkable as senator and presidential candidate. He has really showed up as SoS. If (big if) he and Vance are as they seem, it’s going to be a tough choice between them in 2028. Vance’s handling of the media during the 2024 campaign was tremendous.

Posted by: Advo at February 15, 2026 03:16 PM (jO4mz)

246 It's not too late.

Now, where did I park my remote control flame throwing tank?

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at February 15, 2026 03:19 PM (9Nwmx)

247 He seemed unremarkable as senator and presidential candidate. He has really showed up as SoS. If (big if) he and Vance are as they seem, it’s going to be a tough choice between them in 2028. Vance’s handling of the media during the 2024 campaign was tremendous.

Posted by: Advo at February 15, 2026 03:16 PM

We went through this with Nikki Haley. We go through it every time someone gives a good speech. Then all of us a sudden that person is fit to be President.

As you mention, Rubio, when on his own, was unremarkable. And pushed amnesty on this country.

Now that he is taking orders from President Trump, amazingly he saying and doing what President Trump tells him to do. That tells me that Marco Rubio is good at following orders. It tells me nothing about how Marco Rubio would be on his own as the one giving the orders in the future.

Not to mention, Senators make poor Presidents. Marco Rubio should prove himself worthy of the Presidency by running for Governor of Florida. If he does well there, then he can run for President again.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 03:31 PM (P5BPp)

248 Thank you, SoS Rubio, for this clear statement. But it troubles me. What troubles me? That it needed to be said at all!

Us dumb hick hinterland folks have always known this about human nature. We've known it for the millennia of our existence.

How the hell did so many high-powered, gilt-edged-credentialled leaders of the day across the whole freakin' globe get so collectively stupid so quickly and then persist in their stupidity despite the clear evidence all around them that what they have is all wrong?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 15, 2026 04:12 PM (bufu1)

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