These Mullahs are serious!

NO! Now is not the time for resignation!

Yesterday, Ace mentioned reports of visits to the UK for certain medical procedures by the apparent favorite of the Mullahs to be the new Supreme Leader of Iran.

He is said to be an avid gardener when not planning the massacre of protesters or celebrating terrorism. Harmless, yet "ten times as dangerous as his father", as some have called him.

I, myself, am kind of wondering why the UK would not be just a little bit uneasy about this guy owning SEVERAL luxury properties in London. And why Spain would have been happy about his recently deceased father owning property there.

Tim Orr studied Islam in London. He wrote a piece that was published in Substack and elsewhere: The Iranian Revolution and the Failure of the Secularization Thesis

History occasionally produces events that overturn the intellectual frameworks used to interpret the modern world. The French Revolution did this in 1789 by demonstrating the political power of mass mobilization, and the Russian Revolution did it again in 1917 by introducing an ideological state built on Marxism. Yet the Iranian Revolution of 1979 posed a challenge even more unsettling to modern assumptions. It had become a modernizing state that many believed was steadily moving toward secular development, given Peter Burger’s at that time on the secularization thesis, which he later rejected. It argued that as societies modernize, religion gradually loses social, political, and cultural influence.

Yet, suddenly, Iran produced a theocratic government led by clerics. For many scholars and policymakers, the outcome seemed almost inconceivable beforehand, given its shift to a more secularized government. The shock was not simply political; it was intellectual as well. The Iranian Revolution revealed a blind spot in modern political theory: the enduring political power of religion.

Prior to the revolution of 1979, most academic work, led by Burger, which was built upon the work of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, assumed that modernization caused religion to retreat from politics as secular regimes rose to power. Industrialization, urbanization, and advances in education pushed religion away from the public sphere and toward private life. Indeed, Iran appeared to be heading in this direction under the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah, whose regime was committed to economic modernization and an alliance with the West. . .

Much of the continuing Western misinterpretation of Iran reflects the lingering influence of secularization theory. Many policymakers still assume that economic development, generational change, or deeper integration into global markets will gradually normalize Iran’s political system. Yet the revolution itself suggested otherwise. In Iran, modernization strengthened the social networks through which religious leaders organized political resistance. The Islamic Republic therefore represents not simply a temporary deviation from secular modernity but a different model of political modernity in which religious authority remains central.

The Iranian Revolution ultimately forces a broader reconsideration of how political change unfolds in the modern world. Revolutions do not inevitably produce secular or liberal outcomes. Instead, they reveal which institutions command the deepest trust within a society. In Iran, centuries of religious organization prepared the clerical establishment to assume power when the monarchy collapsed. What many observers once viewed as an irrational upheaval can instead be seen as the logical outcome of Iran’s historical structure. The deeper lesson is simple: religion remains one of the most powerful political forces in the modern world. Ignoring that reality will continue to produce misunderstandings about Iran—and about revolutions more broadly.

Something to think about.

Comment on this piece, which is much longer than the excerpts above:

The Mullahs of Iran and Bolshevik rise to power in Russia have many parallels. Both future leaders were in exile in Europe, and both sent in to disrupt the political situations in Russia and Iran. Both countries were suffering from instable and reactionary governments. And, as both succeeded, a small minority was able to seize power and brutally establish an authoritarian system that eliminated the competition and enforced their agenda over the populus. The USSR eventually collapsed from its own rot, the mullahs will have to be forcibly removed or they will hold on indefinitely.

It always amazes me that so many dictators of the 20th Century who mass-murdered their own people spent time in Paris first.

I tend to think of Marxism and some of its variants as religions, too.

Tim Orr also wrote an academic piece with references concerning the theology of the Mullahs. You might want to keep it handy for reference: Iran's War Against Israel: The Shia Eschatological Vision Behind a Messianic Conflict

My personal journey into understanding why Iran is so intensely hostile toward Israel began when I studied at the Islamic College in London, which teaches the Twelver Shiʿa tradition. My time there was unique, as it gave me a rare opportunity as a non-Muslim to learn from Muslim and Shiʿa scholars and to listen carefully to their perspectives. During that time, I came to see more clearly how religion—specifically Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary, Twelver Shiʿa–influenced messianic theology—shapes the Iranian regime’s perception of reality.

While pursuing my studies, I came to my own conclusion that the animosity of Iran toward Israel is not just political, but religious, which is fundamentally different and is not well understood in the West. And while the religious nature of Israel’s elimination in Iran is often either denied or downplayed by political and academic analysts, understanding Khomeini’s Shia end-of-days ideology, is nonetheless key. Political discourse is a side-effect of the Khomeini’s worldview, which is dictated by his eschatology. Appeasement and compromise with the Iranian regime will not accomplish the elimination of its desires to obliterate Israel since the regime views the destruction of Israel as a precursor to the arrival of the Mahdi (Twelfth Imam), as revealed by Shiite texts.

Perhaps the scariest part of Iran’s apocalyptic belief system that is not deterred by mutually assured destruction is Iran’s feverish desire to obtain nuclear weapons. Whereas other states see nuclear weapons as tools for deterrence, Iran’s regime believes nuclear weapons will allow them to destroy Israel, and possibly the world, facilitating the necessary chaos for the arrival of the Twelfth Imam.

Iranian political and military officials, including the late Ahmadinejad, have claimed again and again that Israel must be “wiped off the map.” These are not empty threats. It is their religious obligation to do so. Should Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, the world will be dealing with a regime willing to use it as an act of obedience to God.

Iran’s genocidal dreams about Israel cannot be dismissed as rhetoric, political bluster, or even calculated decisions that can be altered through international engagement and rational discourse. It is a religiously motivated war, and until the world recognizes this, containment of Iran will fail. This is not a regime that can be negotiated with or appeased.

MEANWHILE,

Full mask off moment for the social justice theocracy as the UK declares its nation’s own literary legacy to be a terroristic peril https://t.co/dYLsPs9M1k
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 5, 2026

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WEEKEND

The Week In Pictures: Ayatollahed You So Edition

The Week In Pictures: Ayatollahed You So Edition
Much happened this week: there were primaries in Texas, Bill and Hillary Clinton testified on Jeffrey Epstein, Tim Walz and Keith Ellison testified in Congress, Kristi Noem’s career crashed. But there was only one really big story, our long-overdue revenge on Iran’s mullahs. So let’s get to it–The Week In Pictures, Ayatollahed You So Edition:

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Music

Stairway to Heaven

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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From two weeks ago, before last Saturday's surprise: February 21, When will the left show us what "The Right Side of History" should look like?

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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Soon after the surprise, a glimpse of a leftie social media page which I follow did not find a meme to express feelings directly about what had happened in Iran. The political post quoted something from December.

Trump’s sinister achievement is to delegitimize the old intellectual and political establishment while at the same time cementing the racial hierarchies and regimes of repression that this elite exploited during the war on terror. In yet another parody of the “responsibility to protect” hucksters, the white-supremacist president also wishes to be seen as the authentic savior of a benighted world at war.
Western liberalism, constantly searching for monsters abroad, turns out to have been a moral mask for an intellectual service class—a fashion accessory tossed aside by Trump. It is of no use to those presiding over a swift and brutal reversal of racial progress. It should not surprise us how quickly the nineteenth-century prejudice that white men should dominate “inferior” Africans, Asians, and Latin American peoples has become common sense for much of Western politics and journalism. “The subterranean stream of Western history has finally come to the surface,” Arendt warned in 1950, after the nineteenth-century ideologies of racial aggrandizement had achieved a monstrous culmination in the heart of Europe. That subterranean stream has again come to the surface in 2025, and it is sweeping away the once-unassailable idea of the West.
- Pankaj Mishra, Harper’s Magazine, December 2025

Let me know if you deeply understand this text.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 07, 2026 11:20 AM (cxFcK)

2 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 11:21 AM (Ia/+0)

3 I'm open to an Open Thread. I'm easy that way.

Posted by: Air Head at March 07, 2026 11:22 AM (oftw2)

4 almost

Posted by: doug at March 07, 2026 11:23 AM (Hy+R4)

5 I have so far discounted signing my phone into my Kindle, which it kees wanting to fo. Reading a book on phone doesn't appeal to me.

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Good morning and welcome back Mr. Khameini. You are familiar with our procedure. Here is a specimen cup. There is a KY dispenser next to the paper towels. There is also a stack of recent Goat Aficionado Quarterly. Leave the specimen cup on the rotating shelf next to the sink.

Posted by: muldoon at March 07, 2026 11:23 AM (qgHp7)

7 Happy Saturday all. The VP has been absent ever since he war started. I wonder what's up with that.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 07, 2026 11:24 AM (jyd01)

8 Afaik you just have to sign into your amazon account on your kindle?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 07, 2026 11:24 AM (tcsrY)

9 Gah!! Sock fail. @6

/Receptionist at a London infertility clinic.

Posted by: muldoon at March 07, 2026 11:25 AM (qgHp7)

10 Ayn Rand isn't on the banned list?

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 11:26 AM (Sco7b)

11 It argued that as societies modernize, religion gradually loses social, political, and cultural influence.
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That was the great fantasy of both the classical and progressive liberals. It dates from the 17th C (arguably the 16th), when thinkers feared that religion was the great divisive force in mankind. They seem to have forgotten how non religious wars have been frequent, too.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 07, 2026 11:28 AM (AlhUl)

12 10 Ayn Rand isn't on the banned list?
Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 11:26 AM (Sco7b)
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Why would she be? What they hate is Christianity, above all.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 07, 2026 11:29 AM (AlhUl)

13 I wonder on the Democide list ( a government killing its own citizens) how the Muslims are doing to catch up to Marxists?

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 11:31 AM (Ia/+0)

14 Speaking of euphemisms . . .

U.S. Military, Ecuador Conduct “Lethal Kinetic Operations” Targeting Narco-Terror Groups

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 07, 2026 11:32 AM (FXNzP)

15 From the last thread, apologies for hijacking the main topic:

Speaking as someone who has chronic depression, Stateless, don't downplay it. Yes, other people have problems, but that darkness is a destructive beast.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:22 AM (ufSfZ)

Can it be helped?

Also nood.
Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 11:27 AM (Sco7b)

Meds can help for a while, though there's always the possibility that you'll outgrow them and need stronger and stronger prescriptions (which is something I don't like). IMO, the best cure is to like yourself. I find this nearly impossible to achieve, but you might be able to do it. Exercise and hobbies are also, I am told, good ways to banish depression.

I hope this helps. You can always e-mail me off the board if you want to talk.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)

16 Willowed- but I thought it was really funny...

442 407 Don't naval ops generally occur in international waters?
Posted by: Halfhand at March 07, 2026 11:02 AM (I9O2A)

Usually, but not always. I recall one patrol we made on The Carver in a place in the middle of Long Island, called Mills Pond. That was a tense one.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 07, 2026 11:26 AM (e2WND)

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 07, 2026 11:34 AM (e2WND)

17 Let me know if you deeply understand this text.

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I got lost after Trump delegitimized the previous established civil world order which, according to her, was illegitimate to begin with.

Posted by: muldoon at March 07, 2026 11:34 AM (qgHp7)

18 Islam is the pissed off son that has been rejected by Dad that favored Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the gentiles grafted into a royal position. Sux to be third place. Satan and the Islamist, no daylight between them; rage against the dying light. in short Daddy don't love me, kill everyone.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 11:34 AM (ehY6c)

19 Obviously, Augustine's City of God has to be on the banned list. Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples and his history of WW2 must also be banned.

Musically, "Rule Brittania" and "Land of Hope and Glory" should be immediately silenced.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

20 They assume that all religions will secularize because that is sort of what Christianity did. The thing is, they are basing this off a Judeo-Christian framework.

A lot of Judeo-Christian philosophy though can be boiled down to: Your instincts tell you to be an asshole. God does not want you to be an asshole. Don't be an asshole.

The religion itself is already trying to ... soften the base instinct. They would say secularize because they are assholes.

We know you hate that guy. Don't.

We know you want to take advantage of that weaker guy (or that woman, or that kid.) You should help them out instead. That is why God has given you strength.

Islam DOES NOT think this way. Tribalism is baked in. Deceit is baked in. Taking advantage of the weak is baked in.

It is EXPLICITLY anti-Judeo-Christian. They cannot coexist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 11:37 AM (bss/y)

21 Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 11:34 AM (ehY6c)

Genius. Borrowing this, if I may.

Posted by: sal at March 07, 2026 11:38 AM (f+FmA)

22 Islam is sharia, good muslim = sharia, sharia and western civilization - incompatible. Either one or the other. Look at all the Christian countries in the ME, Africa. It's either islam or nothing.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 11:39 AM (GD0B3)

23 18 Islam is the pissed off son that has been rejected by Dad that favored Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the gentiles grafted into a royal position. Sux to be third place. Satan and the Islamist, no daylight between them; rage against the dying light. in short Daddy don't love me, kill everyone.
Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 11:34 AM (ehY6c)

Hmm, envy. Lucifer.

That was a good part of the Prophecy movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 11:39 AM (bss/y)

24 Obviously, Augustine's City of God has to be on the banned list. Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples and his history of WW2 must also be banned.

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Also Dick and Jane. Not only are the names cismormative but Dick actually has a dick!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 07, 2026 11:40 AM (FXNzP)

25 OK, folks, think I'll take a nap. See you on the Book Thread tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:40 AM (ufSfZ)

26 Iran’s genocidal dreams about Israel cannot be dismissed as rhetoric, political bluster, or even calculated decisions that can be altered through international engagement and rational discourse.

Same mistake that Israel made with Hamas and with "Palestinians" generally.

"Sure, they want to kill Jews, but they also want to live comfortable lives, so it is possible to buy them off and leave you in peace, aside from the occasional symbolic attack."

No - they just want to kill Jews, and will live in mud huts if that enables them to kill Jews.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2026 11:40 AM (n1OCj)

27 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)

Thanks for the info.

I plan on making a lot of changes including leaving the house more and spending time with my friends more.

Separately, I'm trying to find any details on on Iran being bombed. Nothing.

But considering how the left would wail and rend their garments, maybe that's a wise choice.

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 11:41 AM (Sco7b)

28 Majority Christian countries in the ME disappeared under islam. then in our lifetimes , it invaded Yugoslavia. Clinton supported bombing Serbia and the window was open for islam to reconquer Europe.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 11:41 AM (GD0B3)

29 Genius, o boy the gist of my opinion is Old Testament script.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 11:41 AM (ehY6c)

30 I would add to the UK Banned Book List the author William Tyndale who translated the Greek and Hebrew Bible into English.

Tyndale, born in Gloucestershire, England, had to flee to the Continent because the English authorities threatened to imprison and even execute him for the crime of translating the Bible without ecclesiastical approval. (heresy)

John Wycliffe's work was also condemned and the copies he made were confiscated and burned.

Tyndale was ultimately betrayed and arrested near Brussels and executed.

I see the Anglican priesthood and leadership of that day just as tyrannical and bloodthirsty as today's dead Iranian Supreme Loser.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 11:41 AM (a4flb)

31 "Iranian political and military officials, including the late Ahmadinejad"

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I thought Imadinnerjacket survived the recent attack? No?

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 07, 2026 11:41 AM (1Au9i)

32 Stateless, also get s blood test. Some deficiencies can exacerbate depression- low iron, low thyroid, low vit D.

Mind-body connection is important.

And as a believer, I pray you turn to God. He us our refuge and our comfort, and He loves us more than we love ourselves.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 07, 2026 11:42 AM (tcsrY)

33 20: Some of the stuff on support of Western Liberalism, etc. at the Spin, Strangeness and Charm post linked by Sarah Hoyt is really interesting

https://instapundit.com/779982/

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 11:42 AM (7vIsy)

34 "Let me know if you deeply understand this"

You mean stringing together a few non sequiturs in place of an actual argument? Or the multiple instances of accusing others of doing the very thing Lefties are doing? The fact that only someone heavily educated could string together this much polysyllabic pablum?

I would suggest he needs a lobotomy, an exorcism, and a several years digging canals.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 07, 2026 11:43 AM (w/O5Q)

35 30 years later, people cannot go to Christkindlmarkt without being harassed my muslim hordes. UK's working class has been raped by muslim gangs for decades, and now they are debating approval of cousin marriages on the floor of parliament.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 11:44 AM (GD0B3)

36 Part of the problem is that modern Westerners can't believe that anyone would take religion that seriously.

I remember during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, NPR ran a think piece trying to figure out "what is the real reason" for the conflict in Northern Ireland.

The idea that people would kill other people over religion was so bizarre that NPR decided that there had to be some other reason for the conflict.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2026 11:45 AM (n1OCj)

37 I don't even shallowly understand it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 07, 2026 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)

38 BTW , do you know who was the prosecutor or whatever the title is in the UK who covered up Jimmy Savile's rapes of children ? Yep , Keir Starmer. Same as he covered up rapes of vulnerable working class girls by majority Paki gangs.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 11:46 AM (GD0B3)

39 Maybe that is why he got the title handed to him.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 11:46 AM (GD0B3)

40 Phil Hartman on Dennis Miller's show, 1997:

x.com/youngmalevoters/status/
1993347586556936609

Amazing.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 07, 2026 11:48 AM (3uBP9)

41 Maybe already mentioned, the UK report that probably had the terrorism-inducing books (classics, all, of course) also said the Union Jack could be a sign of extremism. Not making this up.

The UK, or at least the predominant or ruling portions thereof, has become a parody of itself. A disgusting, outrageous, disastrous parody, but a parody.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 07, 2026 11:48 AM (U/Byj)

42 Islam is the pissed off son that has been rejected by Dad that favored Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the gentiles grafted into a royal position.

Except the vast majority of Muslims have no lineage with Abraham. Islam is not a race, its a demonic tyrannical government and culture using religion as a justification for its violent practice and expansion.

And Islam came thousands of years after, centuries after Christianity. It is a foundational belief that Mohammed is a descendant of Abraham through Ishmael, but there is no reliable documentation beyond maybe Adnan and that still leaves many centuries of fill-in-the-blank.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 11:51 AM (a4flb)

43 said the Union Jack could be a sign of extremism.

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Remove the crosses and the colors and all that's left is a solid field of white. Seems apt.

Posted by: muldoon at March 07, 2026 11:52 AM (qgHp7)

44 Bigsmith not sure in initial hit, but he is mort now anyway

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 11:52 AM (Ia/+0)

45 And as a believer, I pray you turn to God. He us our refuge and our comfort, and He loves us more than we love ourselves.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 07, 2026 11:42 AM (tcsrY)

Thanks. That's very high on the list.

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 11:53 AM (Sco7b)

46 Meds can help for a while, though there's always the possibility that you'll outgrow them and need stronger and stronger prescriptions (which is something I don't like). IMO, the best cure is to like yourself. I find this nearly impossible to achieve, but you might be able to do it. Exercise and hobbies are also, I am told, good ways to banish depression.

I hope this helps. You can always e-mail me off the board if you want to talk.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)

Yeah, drugs never did much for me, so I've only taken them sporadically, was taking Prozac until the prescription ran out a month ago- didn't even notice really. I have always "liked" myself, i.e. I know I'm a goodish person with sympathy and probably more importantly, empathy. My biggest problem, especially lately, is that as I approach 29 I'm starting to find it hard to actually cares what happens to me.

OK, just re-read that, and it's way inapprops for a beautiful sunny Saturday... but I wrote it, so I'll send it.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Sometimes I Reflect On Serious Things. at March 07, 2026 11:55 AM (e2WND)

47 Lots of interesting information KT, thank you.

Islam was established before the state of Israel so I'm curious how the "destroy Israel, enter 12th Imam" came about. Was there something in Islam that morphed into this idea? Was the destruction aimed at Jews as a "race" before the state? Was this idea established after the state of Israel. I know next to nothing about Islam. Maybe someone here knows.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 11:56 AM (RkOfE)

48 "Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time." - POTUS

Interesting.

Navy already targeted for elimination. Air force pretty much gone. Army (Artesh)? IRGC obviously priority target all along. "Areas" - presumably installations/bases?

Maybe we'll see. Meanwhile the world wonders (hat tip USN coding clerk in October 1945) if/why not the important missile defense radar in Jordan was not effectively protected. Possibly just that perfection is not a standard - but would think those assets would have very heavy defenses.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 07, 2026 11:56 AM (U/Byj)

49 If Pankaj Mishra had a cock in his mouth instead of between his thighs, he would be Kamala Harris.

What flavor of dressing would you like on your salad, madam?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 07, 2026 11:57 AM (M9gjJ)

50 Except the vast majority of Muslims have no lineage with Abraham. Islam is not a race, its a demonic tyrannical government and culture using religion as a justification for its violent practice and expansion."

Exactly! No wonder leftists feel such an affinity for Islam, it's they system they've always dreamed of - an oppressive totalitarian system that justifies the execution of anyone who disagrees with the leadership on the grounds of Heresy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2026 11:58 AM (/QdgR)

51 KT … One of your Best Columns EVAH! Excellent piece and documentation. Ya did GOOD!

Posted by: Dr_No at March 07, 2026 11:59 AM (ayRl+)

52 Was the destruction aimed at Jews as a "race" before the state? Was this idea established after the state of Israel. I know next to nothing about Islam. Maybe someone here knows.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 11:56 AM (RkOfE)

Hatred of Jews is foundational to Islam. They teach that from the start, Ishmael was the chosen son of Abraham and that Isaac and his mother disgracefully engineered his expulsion, so that all Muslims must forever seek the utter destruction of the sons of Isaac.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2026 12:00 PM (/QdgR)

53 "Though the inferno encroaches, I shall sip my tea with dignified resignation."

Until I've had my coffee, I am in no way ready for this level of cerebral discussion.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (2WIwB)

54 A lot of leftardism is mental masturbation in service of an ideology. They couch it in hyperanalysis which itself legitimizes the text.

We all like written communication to some extent, but this deep complicated pretzelization elevates their worldview to a level of authoritative righteousness dressed up in proclamation that is nearly biblical in its self-regard.

Posted by: ... at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (vE0+H)

55 Red-Green alliance is not a joke. This was picked up by the USSR, and all of Balestenians and assorted jihadists like the ones who helped remove the shah of Iran in 1979 were trained in those camps. The MEK that aligned with khameini were Soviet puppets, trained alongside arafat.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (GD0B3)

56 Intellectually I think humans are hard-wired to be spiritual. Communists AFAICT want to ban traditional religions and have people worship the government. Many many western secularists have substituted their notion of Science for god. I used to puzzle over how communists who hate god could be so enamored of Islam, but its rather similar. Islam AFAICT says only the clerics can decide who is fit to be governing. Communism says the party (not the general public) decides who is governing and you must accept the government as the supreme authority; aka worship it. And I guess both Islam and communists hate the Jewish and christian god. I've read that Allah is just their word for the same god, but it doesn't ring true by muslim actions.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (vlkz/)

57 Oh hey, Iran apologized for spraying missiles around at neighboring countries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (bss/y)

58 I shudder to think of what "Perfessor" squirrel will do when he sees the UK's list of "terrorist" books.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 07, 2026 12:02 PM (lXPRc)

59 The thing is, they are basing this off a Judeo-Christian framework.

Could you explain this alleged Judeo-Christian framework?

The Jewish leadership at the time killed the Messiah. That seems to be a full 180° difference.

Furthermore, Jewishness was based on secular lineage (they didn't accept the Samaritans as being fully Jewish). The New Covenant is based on a physical but spiritual lineage (God loved certain people from Eternity Past and Chose them for Adoption).

The only point of intersection is Paul's "grafting in to the Olive Tree" in his Roman letter, and that was based on a common faith in the Son of God and the Promised Land not being a patch of land on the Eastern Med, but heavenly.

Furthermore, and I know I'll lose RC and EO here, but spiritual life is by faith, not works - which is an alien idea to all other religious frameworks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:02 PM (a4flb)

60 Thx K.T.
One of the things that has kept the mullahs in power is their extensive security state. Secret police, militias and lots of informants. Add on technology and they're hard remove

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 07, 2026 12:02 PM (/C62k)

61 When you truly understand the beliefs of Shia Islam, you realize that it was insanity on our part not to use our nuclear arsenal to wipe them out 47 years ago, and we have compounded that insanity every year since.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2026 12:03 PM (/QdgR)

62 Speaking as someone who has chronic depression, Stateless, don't downplay it. Yes, other people have problems, but that darkness is a destructive beast.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:22 AM (ufSfZ)

Can it be helped?

Also nood.
Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 11:27 AM (Sco7b)

Just choose to not be depressed.

Posted by: Idiotic advice people have unironically given at March 07, 2026 12:04 PM (TbWk/)

63 So now they now use propaganda to go after and divide the west the same way USSR used propaganda to divide the west.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:04 PM (GD0B3)

64 Could you explain this alleged Judeo-Christian framework?

The Jewish leadership at the time killed the Messiah.

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Your and you mama's sins killed Jesus. Not "Jewish Leadership" 2000 years ago.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:05 PM (GD0B3)

65 Pankaj Mishra
After reading his article I am more confused. It seems his idea of a Western Civilization is moving towards a social and economic democracy with no strong leaders. Was he not around under the 8 years of Bush and 8 years of Obama when American Western Civilization was berated daily? Was he on vacation when Biden surrendered billions of dollar to illegals, third world refugees, and NGO that begat more illegals, third world refugees?
So in the end Trump is a totalitarian for actually standing up for the American Citizen and Taxpayer. And now for the first time in my life a President is standing up for the Americas and the 15 or so countries that want their own self rule as well a free market trading. His final thesis is that Trump is a white-supremacist (maybe he is thinking of the 19th century White Mans Burden) for even thinking he has the “responsibility to protect” US Americans above all other Americas citizens.
Is this not the argument "stolen land" and Fuck Ice? The US Citizen has NO right(s) to sovereignty, to rule of law, or to economic benefits as all of these are just white-supremacist ideas that do not belong in a (post)modern world.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:05 PM (gbOdA)

66 Furthermore, and I know I'll lose RC and EO here, but spiritual life is by faith, not works - which is an alien idea to all other religious frameworks.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:02 PM (a4flb)
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Who lost whom?

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:06 PM (rj6Yv)

67 This is why I have no patience for people who say American forces should not be involved in this war against Iran. If they understood anything at all, they would see that this war is just as important to our long term survival as the war against Nazi Germany was.
Luckily we're in a much stronger position now, and the war won't take nearly so long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2026 12:07 PM (/QdgR)

68 Democide list ( a government killing its own citizens) how the Muslims are doing to catch up to Marxists?

You forgot to count the brown ones.

Posted by: A sub-continents worth of murders at March 07, 2026 12:07 PM (PMJuY)

69 Let me know if you deeply understand this text.
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I think it is another effort to secure the narrative of "white colonialiser bad". It isn't logical so it is hard to follow.

>>>It is of no use to those presiding over a swift and brutal reversal of racial progress. It should not surprise us how quickly the nineteenth-century prejudice that white men should dominate “inferior” Africans, Asians, and Latin American peoples has become common sense for much of Western politics and journalism

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First: reversal of racial progress? Please tell me more because I suspect my definition of this term will be quite different from the author's. Second: where are these white men who are saying they must dominate the "inferiors"? If the author is referring to the Iran action, the author is wrong. That action was taken, as far as I can tell, because of a perceived threat which is not a desire to dominate.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:07 PM (RkOfE)

70 Well, strictly speaking 'Yo mama' in this context is Mary- who was born without sin.

Generally correct though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:07 PM (bss/y)

71 Yeah, you know what I have loved since 2008? All the racial progress. Same since the 1960s (welfare not civil rights.)

Now from 1860s to 1950s, there was actual progress.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:09 PM (bss/y)

72 56 "Intellectually I think humans are hard-wired to be spiritual..."

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (vlkz/)

I agree, and often wonder why exactly that is. It can be argued that it's because we "evolved" to question Life, the Universe, and Everything, but that just doesn't ring as completely true to me.

I truly believe there is Something More.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Sometimes I Reflect On Serious Things. at March 07, 2026 12:09 PM (e2WND)

73 We want to be part of something greater, but also believe that there is a reason to be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:09 PM (bss/y)

74 It's amazing how a country sitting on so much natural wealth is so poor. Even billions and billions of investment in Chicom and Russian technology did not help. Any free society, even without so much natural wealth , is so much richer than that massive country.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:09 PM (GD0B3)

75 65: Where is the Pankaj Mishra article?

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 12:10 PM (7vIsy)

76 Islam was established before the state of Israel so I'm curious how the "destroy Israel, enter 12th Imam" came about.

There was no state of Israel at the time of the Holocaust, yet enough Germans found it acceptable to round Jews up and execute them.

Maybe the problem isn't "Israel" its a problem of Satan still grinding his axe against God's Chosen People.

Of all the people groups and ethnicities that has ever inhabited the Earth, its the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who are promised to be around to the End of Days.

No guarantees for any other exist, with the possible exception of Ishmael's descendants mostly because there is no sunset language in the Genesis prophecy about them infesting and tearing up every nation with their existence.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:10 PM (a4flb)

77 Re: International “Law”

During the Nuremberg trial there was significant pressure to go after Karl Dönitz, head of the German submarine fleet. If I recall my history correctly USN admiral Nimitz pointed out the US was doing the same thing.

Submarines were never thought very sporting to begin with, and there were calls (before even the first War To End All Wars And Make the World Safe For Democracy) to outlaw submarine warfare.

“Unrestricted” submarine warfare has a bit of a sordid history. There isn’t room to pick up survivors, not very many anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:10 PM (hlNSv)

78 Whenever some idiot wants to ban books, the proper response is "We don't have to live this way and we are banning you!' as you put them testicles first into the wood chipper.

Posted by: Enough Of The Sucking Already at March 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Ksqrb)

79 "Intellectually I think humans are hard-wired to be spiritual..."

Imago Dei?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:11 PM (a4flb)

80 'Crimes against Peace' iirc were the charges against Donitz.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:12 PM (bss/y)

81 Separately, I'm trying to find any details on on Iran being bombed. Nothing.

According to people watching flight trackers on X, a ton of refueling jets and B1 bombers have taken off in the last hour or so, and there was a massive campaign of IRGC buildings exploding all over Iran this morning (morning Iran time, so before we woke up).

It's important to have sources outside of the MSM, because the MSM's caught on to the fact that most people believe something didn't happen if the MSM didn't mention it. A lot of the grumbling about Trump is because the MSM didn't tell people DOGE is now in every Federal agency cutting things (they pretty regularly post updates on X) or that ICE is arresting and deporting people every day.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)

82 It's amazing how a country sitting on so much natural wealth is so poor
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Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:13 PM (hlNSv)

83 78 Whenever some idiot wants to ban books, the proper response is "We don't have to live this way and we are banning you!' as you put them testicles first into the wood chipper.
Posted by: Enough Of The Sucking Already at March 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Ksqrb)

*working out the logistics*

Ok, we can make this happen, we need to have AOP fabricate a set of lubed parallel walls and a plunger system...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y)

84 For the disobediance of Adam a sacrifice was needed so that all mankind , condemned to death, should be saved by the sacrifice of one man for all of mankind, Jesus the Christ. This was and is God's plan. As to who is responsible for this unfolding, God. If you must find a scapegoat blame everyone, blame no one. Why God laid this down I have no idea. Love the mystery.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 12:14 PM (ehY6c)

85 Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:13 PM (hlNSv)

Hmmm. I bet you could draw parallels to Russia and Mexico. Different psychology but the 'criminal' is sort of the same and the end result works out to be much the same.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)

86 Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.

If Mexico could be de-cartel-ized (and I mean the government enablers too) it could become a China-scale manufacturing giant. Would be nice to have something like that in our hemisphere.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:15 PM (QZThv)

87 Where is the Pankaj Mishra article?
Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 12:10 PM (7vIsy)

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/
liberal-totalitarianism-pankaj-mishra-western-hypocrisy/

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:15 PM (gbOdA)

88 > Let me know if you deeply understand this text.
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My eyes glazed over at the word "delegitimized." I mean, I understand what Pankaj's trying to say, but sometimes the 25 cent words carry a lot less weight than the ones for a (extinct) penny.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2026 12:15 PM (jtM2q)

89 I'm not a religious scholar or historian. I have read the Bible, but not multiple times. But the Jewish leadership had to hand Jesus over to the Roman governor and demand his death to fulfill all the prophets of the OT. Many everyday jews converted to Christianity, including the apostles.

Saying 'the jews killed Christ' has been used to whip up antagonism to jews, for centuries especially when some king ran up huge debts to jewish lenders.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 12:15 PM (vlkz/)

90 What else would you add to the list?
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The obvious, Animal Farm, The little Red Hen

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 12:16 PM (XeU6L)

91 “Unrestricted” submarine warfare has a bit of a sordid history. There isn’t room to pick up survivors, not very many anyhow.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:10 PM (hlNSv)

I don't recollect Bismarck hanging around to pick up survivors of Hood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2026 12:16 PM (8zz6B)

92 Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:13 PM (hlNSv)

Notice every illegal here in the US makes the US a better place?

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:16 PM (gbOdA)

93 Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:13 PM (hlNSv)

Mex is a narco state.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:16 PM (GD0B3)

94 The thing is, they are basing this off a Judeo-Christian framework.
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Could you explain this alleged Judeo-Christian framework?
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When I think of this term, I don't think of genetics nor blame for the Crucification. I think J-C refers to the 10 commandments and the sharing of the Old Testament.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:16 PM (RkOfE)

95 The UK, or at least the predominant or ruling portions thereof, has become a parody of itself. A disgusting, outrageous, disastrous parody, but a parody.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 07, 2026 11:48 AM

Concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology, says Prevent

Online guidance says 'cultural nationalism' could be a reason for referring someone for deradicalisation

We define extreme right-wing terrorism as the active or vocal support of ideologies that advocate discrimination or violence against minority groups. The 3 most common sub-categories of extreme right-wing terrorist ideologies and their narratives are:

Cultural nationalism: 'Western culture' is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/46L4x1w

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:16 PM (P5BPp)

96 If Mexico could be de-cartel-ized (and I mean the government enablers too) it could become a China-scale manufacturing giant. Would be nice to have something like that in our hemisphere.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:15 PM (QZThv)

We could take over Mexico, build a real constitutional republic with zero taxes on income and investment, slap a coat of paint on it and flip to Europeans that need an escape.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:18 PM (gbOdA)

97 Just choose to not be depressed.
Posted by: Idiotic advice people have unironically given
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I had quite the reaction to this statement until I saw the nic! Thanks for making this point in a memorable way 😊

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:18 PM (RkOfE)

98
Let me know if you deeply understand this text.

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Trump is Hitler.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 12:19 PM (JF3MH)

99 Who lost whom?

I tend to go by the teaching of the Apostles (Sola Scriptura).

Once any entity says that Holy Tradition and Ex Cathedra statements have the same or greater authority than the Scriptures, there is a problem. From a logical standpoint, if a book is left open for anyone to write in, then people will write things in. There doesn't have to be coherence once the authority of Scriptures is subordinated to contemporary thought and culture. (think: syncretism to pagan practices)

Why does the EO look at "sin" as "missing the mark" when the Latin church made it a penal issue? Rome left the EO when they decided they wanted to build a religion on Latin rather than the original languages. (that, and the Great Schism)

The Reformation stripped out all of the detritus and yeeted out the non apostolic additions (eg Purgatory) to restore which once was.

So is it the Latin Mass or Vatican 2 which is the genuine thing?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:19 PM (a4flb)

100 Makpfaz Kamengetme seems like a regular guy. I mean for a regular shatain worshiper.

Posted by: Eromero at March 07, 2026 12:20 PM (Lytz7)

101
the Jewish leadership had to hand Jesus over to the Roman governor and demand his death to fulfill all the prophets of the OT.

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There's something circular about this reasoning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 12:21 PM (JF3MH)

102 It's amazing how a country sitting on so much natural wealth is so poor
Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.

Manana...Manana! Siesta mi amigo, luego cerveza.

Posted by: Mexican Joe at March 07, 2026 12:21 PM (Ksqrb)

103 Why should anyone be shocked the Union Jack is considered “extremist”? They did exactly the same thing with the American flag. I’ll not defend the Stars and Bars per se, but where does it end? The Rebel flag lost any sort of genuine secessionist sentiment or pro-slavery coding afaik, merely being a redneck or good ole boy trademark.

Colors. It’s OK to burn the American flag in protest - protected speech - however there’s a guy serving 13 years in prison. - in Iowa - for burning the buttstuff flag. Somehow that is not protected speech.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:21 PM (hlNSv)

104 "People are as happy as they make up their mind to be." - A. Lincoln

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 07, 2026 12:21 PM (qFwJc)

105 We could take over Mexico, build a real constitutional republic with zero taxes on income and investment, slap a coat of paint on it and flip to Europeans that need an escape.

El Salvador is trending kind of in that direction. I periodically see reports on X from people vacationing there that it's approaching Japanese levels of being clean and safe. As Bukele likes to say, all you have to do is keep the criminals in prison.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:22 PM (QZThv)

106 It's important to have sources outside of the MSM, because the MSM's caught on to the fact that most people believe something didn't happen if the MSM didn't mention it. A lot of the grumbling about Trump is because the MSM didn't tell people DOGE is now in every Federal agency cutting things (they pretty regularly post updates on X) or that ICE is arresting and deporting people every day.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)
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Yes. Meanwhile, DJT is working to loosen sanctions on Russian oil, he's ordered the US Navy to escort tankers out of the Persian Gulf, and the Administration is jawboning US defense contractors to increase production of armaments. The tyrants in Cuba are facing a rebellious population, and the PRC's economy is in the toilet.

There's a lot on the plate at the moment.

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:22 PM (rj6Yv)

107 Saying 'the jews killed Christ' has been used to whip up antagonism to jews, for centuries especially when some king ran up huge debts to jewish lenders.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 12:15 PM

America's greatest President.

It's me, Rand, open up.

America's greatest President.

Dammit... who is Ronald Reagan.

A casual shoe for yachting.

What're you trying to figure out, BD? Who could I be? *sigh* What is a blucker.

They killed Jesus Christ.

Who are the Jews, open up, sucko!

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4d7ZKLu

Posted by: Balls and Shaft at March 07, 2026 12:22 PM (P5BPp)

108 "One day, as he was reading to the king the story of our Lord's sufferings, Clovis was so much moved by it that he started up in anger and cried out -- "If I had been there with my Franks, I would have avenged His wrongs!"

I wonder if the Priest kind of looked uncomfortable for a moment and told Clovis: 'Right idea, but also misses the point. Or proves it.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

109 Its a feature of every totalitarian regime to have a iron fist security system. One goes with the other

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 12:23 PM (Ia/+0)

110 Furthermore, and I know I'll lose RC and EO here, but spiritual life is by faith, not works - which is an alien idea to all other religious frameworks.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:02 PM (a4flb)

So, what I hear from those of this view is "I have faith, so I want to please God because I love Him, so I do things that I know He would like me to, but it's not "works"."

We would ask, how is that not "works"?"
We must be using two different definitions here.

Posted by: sal at March 07, 2026 12:23 PM (f+FmA)

111 "I don't recollect Bismarck hanging around to pick up survivors of Hood."

All 4 of them had to swim back to England.

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 07, 2026 12:24 PM (FylAi)

112 It's amazing how a country sitting on so much natural wealth is so poor
Now do Mexico. Smart, industrious hard working people. Strange.

Latin American political culture, which the Deep State is furiously trying to import here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2026 12:24 PM (n1OCj)

113 After being born ,stayed in hospital 3 weeks; family had to be reminded to come get me, I wasn't going to die. Put up for adoption by parents but no takers. Sis very disappointed in that. So my point to the chronic depressed is buck up. God is your father. The sun will rise tomorrow and there just might be a pony in that shit pile you call life. Go find your real Father , He welcomes you with eternal love. He made you for a reason. Be His servant. That is your true destiny. God is love.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 12:25 PM (ehY6c)

114 Jesus was a threat to the High Priest and others making a fortune in the "Temple Business."

He was breaking their rice bowl.

The Father did for us what He asked Abraham to do to Isaac. Isaac agreed to it, believing in the resurrection. "His faith was counted as righteousness."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 07, 2026 12:25 PM (qFwJc)

115 As Bukele likes to say, all you have to do is keep the criminals in prison.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:22 PM (QZThv)

At the watering hole last week I claimed that you could take a city like Houston, round up 1000 people, exile them off, and crime would drop 50%.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:25 PM (gbOdA)

116 What else would you add to the list?
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The obvious, Animal Farm, The little Red Hen

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Love the addition of the Little Red Hen! How about The Ants and the Grasshopper? Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy Tales?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:25 PM (RkOfE)

117 When I think of this term, I don't think of genetics nor blame for the Crucification. I think J-C refers to the 10 commandments and the sharing of the Old Testament.

Have you even read the 10 Commandments?

It says right, in the preamble: "I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery"

Before issuing out an Antinomian slur, consider Matthew 5, harmonizing with the New Covenant that says the Spirit will first bring the dead spirit to life then write the Law on the Believer's heart (meaning this is more than head knowledge, but becomes part of the externally regenerated Will - something absent in pre 70AD Judaism)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:26 PM (a4flb)

118 Yes. Meanwhile, DJT is working to loosen sanctions on Russian oil, he's ordered the US Navy to escort tankers out of the Persian Gulf, and the Administration is jawboning US defense contractors to increase production of armaments. The tyrants in Cuba are facing a rebellious population, and the PRC's economy is in the toilet.

There's a lot on the plate at the moment.

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:22 PM (rj6Yv)

Indeed. The PRC's also got an oil shortage it appears.

And trucks full of gold and currency leaving Ukraine were found in a routine traffic stop in, I think, Hungary. So something is happening with that war too.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)

119 So is it the Latin Mass or Vatican 2 which is the genuine thing?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:19 PM (a4flb)
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Both are the "genuine thing".

My turn.

How many Protestant denominations and "non-denom" Christian communities are there around the world?

And why is that?

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:27 PM (rj6Yv)

120 Submarines were never thought very sporting to begin with, and there were calls (before even the first War To End All Wars And Make the World Safe For Democracy) to outlaw submarine warfare.

Wikipedia:

The Jolly Roger is a symbol that has been used by submarines, primarily those of the Royal Navy Submarine Service and its predecessors. The practice came about during World War I: remembering a 1901 complaint by Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson that submarines were "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and that submarine personnel should be hanged as pirates, Lieutenant Commander Max Horton began flying the flag after returning from successful patrols

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2026 12:27 PM (n1OCj)

121 To THAT type of list
I would add the book "Starship Triopers"
And these dangerous documents:
The Magna Carta
The Declaration of Independence
The US Constitution
Dignitatis Humanae (1965): The Vatican II Declaration on right to religious Freedom

But never ban the Quran

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 07, 2026 12:27 PM (TA9gW)

122
the Union Jack could be a sign of extremism. Not making this up.

Posted by: rhomboid

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I haven't seen any particularly loud agitations against the Royal Family lately. Are the haters too smart/cautious to go there? There's always a rumbling and grumbling about them, but not much beyond that.

Incredibly, I don't think the tipping point has come yet in the UK. I think that happens when the masses are massing in front of Buckingham Palace yelling DOWN WITH THE KING and such.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 12:28 PM (JF3MH)

123 "Intellectually I think humans are hard-wired to be spiritual..."

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 12:01 PM (vlkz/)

I agree, and often wonder why exactly that is. It can be argued that it's because we "evolved" to question Life, the Universe, and Everything, but that just doesn't ring as completely true to me.

I truly believe there is Something More.
Posted by: Denny Crane
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I have a good friend who is now 96 years old. He has been involved with the community and his church since he was a young man, also, 101st during Korea. Universally respected as a good man. Raised four good children.

One afternoon, having coffee together, I asked him, 'Walter, your're 95 years old...have you figured out what life is about?'. He didn't even have to think about it, he replied, 'No, I don't think that we are supposed to know'.

I tucked that away in the back of my head.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 12:28 PM (XeU6L)

124 Pankaj Mishra... evidently doesn't like the new meritocracy.
(What do I win?)

Posted by: MkY at March 07, 2026 12:28 PM (q6tQZ)

125 I tend to think of Marxism and some of its variants as religions, too.
Posted by: K.T. at 11:00 AM

Is Marxism a pseudo-secular crypto-religion, or is Islam a crypto-secular pseudo-religion? This apparent dilemma can be resolved by recognizing that it is based on a category error: they are both confidence schemes, not proper ideologies.

I assert that Marxism and Islam are correctly understood as organized criminal rackets -- albeit spectacular, whole-of-society grifts that take all of a nation's accumulated wealth and enslave the populace on top of it, for the benefit of the insider clique with its hands on the apparatus of control. As such, they are based on cynical "nihilistic lying," where they might not even know whether their own words are true, and they certainly don't care. Their words' purpose is for being effective at manipulating the marks of their con job; it is missing the point entirely to analyze the truth value at all.

Posted by: SciVo at March 07, 2026 12:29 PM (Sy6m/)

126 And trucks full of gold and currency leaving Ukraine were found in a routine traffic stop in, I think, Hungary. So something is happening with that war too.

Heading for Ukraine, actually. A retired Ukrainian secret police general was part of the Ukrainian group engaged in a "routine bank transfer".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)

127 “Concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology“

Who says that?

Well, conveniently enough, it’s the people forcing mass migration. That’s the terrorism here, where none was before. Nobody voted for this. There is no rationale for importing illiterate hordes of unassimilated third worlders other than to break them.

The victims in this arrangement are being punished for deigning to object albeit only verbally. This was the plan to begin with, as the conflict was inevitable. If it were happening in only a country or two, here and there, it might not be so obvious this is a conscious long term strategy by whatever goblins are ruining the world.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:30 PM (hlNSv)

128 I read somewhere that once people absorb antisemitic ideas, they are unreachable by logic, or historical argumentation, or anything like that. They become so fused to the conspiratorial, it becomes a crutch (not intellectual, there is nothing intellectual about it). No need to do anything, accept any responsibility, here is your answer! And there is always this very easy "theory". Honed by thousands of years of hate, either coming from religious or political authorities. Religious would push replacement "theology", political would, rather then solve their own problems , point a finger to the "real culprits". We are seeing it today, of course.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:30 PM (GD0B3)

129 Incredibly, I don't think the tipping point has come yet in the UK. I think that happens when the masses are massing in front of Buckingham Palace yelling DOWN WITH THE KING and such.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 12:28 PM

The British Patriot @TheBritLad

BREAKING: Protests have ERUPTED at multiple locations across Edinburgh, with crowds marching through the streets waving Scottish and British flags.

Chants of “Sink the boats” echo through Edinburgh tonight.

The Scots are demanding the removal of all illegal immigrants.

X video: https://bit.ly/4d9wC6x

Posted by: Balls and Shaft at March 07, 2026 12:30 PM (P5BPp)

130 As with many things Trump, the war with Iran has been most revealing regarding backstabbers and fake conservatives. Sure, a general unease around use of military force is healthy, but the stretches to justify opposing the war are ridiculous. We've got the "we're puppets of Israel, damn those Joos!", the "we're going sacrifice thousands of lives in another forever war. That's not MAGA!" folks, and the biggest retards of all, the "Iran struck our radar in the region, we underestimated their capabilities, and we and our allies in the region are going to get smashed!"

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 07, 2026 12:30 PM (jeAJZ)

131 Annnd, we're back...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:30 PM (P5BPp)

132 Tousi is showing all the latest boom booms going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR51d5AVywI

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 07, 2026 12:31 PM (FylAi)

133 At the watering hole last week I claimed that you could take a city like Houston, round up 1000 people, exile them off, and crime would drop 50%.

For the cities I've seen the figures for you could make a dramatic difference with under 100 people rounded up. If I remember right, solid gains are possible up through 500-ish in most places.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:31 PM (QZThv)

134 Is Marxism a pseudo-secular crypto-religion, or is Islam a crypto-secular pseudo-religion?
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Communism with a God?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:31 PM (hlNSv)

135 IMO, the best cure is to like yourself. I find this nearly impossible

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 07, 2026 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)

I like you and enjoy your posts.

Posted by: Nicless at March 07, 2026 12:32 PM (nPp6w)

136 That list of 'right wing' books doesn't surprise me but is still sickening. Britain has about a dozen living people I care about, mostly poets, and a history of literature that has shaped and enriched western civilization in a positive way for centuries. If those few people are safe and the literature secured, the whole place can rot in the hell they have created for themselves. I would not mourn the loss for more than a moment. Britain's sole value right now is to serve as a warning about what to avoid here.

Posted by: JTB at March 07, 2026 12:32 PM (yTvNw)

137 The Jolly Roger is a symbol that has been used by submarines, primarily those of the Royal Navy Submarine Service and its predecessors. The practice came about during World War I: remembering a 1901 complaint by Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson that submarines were "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and that submarine personnel should be hanged as pirates, Lieutenant Commander Max Horton began flying the flag after returning from successful patrols
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2026 12:27 PM (n1OCj
Having been a VF 84 Jolly Roger, but not a submariner, I say thank the Lord we have a great silent service.

Posted by: Eromero at March 07, 2026 12:32 PM (Lytz7)

138
Love the addition of the Little Red Hen! How about The Ants and the Grasshopper? Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy Tales?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Yes, all of them. These were things that we read as children, and which entertaingly conveyed easily absorbed morality/life lessons.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

139 The victims in this arrangement are being punished for deigning to object albeit only verbally. This was the plan to begin with, as the conflict was inevitable. If it were happening in only a country or two, here and there, it might not be so obvious this is a conscious long term strategy by whatever goblins are ruining the world.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:30 PM (hlNSv)

I have always thot the reason the Obama and Biden let crime run wild is to get the People to agree to any plans they offer up and the Plan will have 1)few guns, b) national surveillance/police, and iii) 50% income tax burdens.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:33 PM (gbOdA)

140 The UK is in trouble , no doubt. I think they would have been in a much better shape was it not for the class system that they have. It is as bad as the caste system in India.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

141 133 At the watering hole last week I claimed that you could take a city like Houston, round up 1000 people, exile them off, and crime would drop 50%.

For the cities I've seen the figures for you could make a dramatic difference with under 100 people rounded up. If I remember right, solid gains are possible up through 500-ish in most places.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:31 PM (QZThv)

I can't quote exact numbers right now, but something I read recently said you are exactly right. Something like 5% (just pulling the number to illustrate). If you just executed (for arguments sake) these people on catching them, no recourse, violent crime would drop by 90%.

The argument was that not just a very small fraction of people who are doing the violent crime, but it is always the SAME people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

142 Are we supposed to argue with that, ass?

Oh wait, you are saying they are supposed to be happy with grooming gangs? You support child rape and sexual slavery.

It IS on brand for your ilk, ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:35 PM (bss/y)

143 The obvious collapse is affecting the "little people", and the upper classes think they are immune to it. That their daughters will not be harassed, raped by the paki gangs. Well, they will be raped by other means, your lordships.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:36 PM (GD0B3)

144 "People are as happy as they make up their mind to be." - A. Lincoln

IIRC, Lincoln suffered from depression, so to me, this statement sounds like wish casting.

And yes, as in all things, a relationship with God is the answer. Also, as with all things, a relationship with God doesn't make all problems go away. And also, those problems can be an avenue to a stronger relationship to God.

Personally I encourage sympathy and not judgment for depression, encourage turning to God while not neglecting tangible solutions as well.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:36 PM (RkOfE)

145 We've got the "we're puppets of Israel, damn those Joos!", the "we're going sacrifice thousands of lives in another forever war. That's not MAGA!" folks, and the biggest retards of all, the "Iran struck our radar in the region, we underestimated their capabilities, and we and our allies in the region are going to get smashed!"

As a highly upvoted comment of mine on El Gato Malo's place says, I can justify preventing 7th century goatfuckers from blowing up Apple's and Intel's top processor design teams without any mention of the Bible or Zionism or whatever the MacGuffin in play is. (Said teams are in Israel, for the unfamiliar).

I realize a lot of the anti-Jew/anti-Israel mongoloids also say that Israel has no importance for us outside of religion. Not true: a staggering amount of the technology we use daily was and is being developed there.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)

146 Crimes against Peace' iirc were the charges against Donitz.
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Right, but to have Soviets on the court didn’t exactly lend any legitimacy to the affair. They weren’t any better than Nazis. It was a joke, pretty much. Churchill, like everyone else, thought that once captured, Nazi leaders should have been shot.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:37 PM (hlNSv)

147
So, what I hear from those of this view is "I have faith, so I want to please God because I love Him, so I do things that I know He would like me to, but it's not "works"."

Trees bear fruit as to what type of tree they are. So a tree that has been made by God to bear fruit should indeed bear fruit.

I think the hang up here for you is that "works" are redemptive despite "all of our works are as filthy rags" (Is 64:6)

Works follow faith, are a result of a regeneration of the spirit.

Lets say that a person struggles with sexual sin. They would say "I don't want to be a Christian because then I would have to give up adultery, and I don't want to". But what if the desire went away because of spiritual regeneration and renewal of the Will rather than constantly battling an carnal Will? Works?

What if with a renewed will you saw a person in need and felt a conviction to fill the need? Work or Fruit?

If the Will is bent towards carnality and the rules stipulate that you have to cut back some arbitrary amount, you have the world's religion because the world doesn't recognize spiritual regeneration - the brining of the dead spirit to life.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:37 PM (a4flb)

148 Just like I don't blame Clarence Thomas for the Taney court, why would anyone blame modern Jews because the Sanhedrin decided to be assholes a couple of thousand years ago? (At the same time, why do so many treat Pilate as scum for following the law?)

And yes, both Jewish Law and Christian Teaching encourage one to reject Evil and the habits of Evil. That often governments and societies fail at this, badly, does not mean the rules/teachings do not exist, as some seem to be trying to say.

Finally, both Faith and Works are required, per James and Paul - we are saved by Grace but our Grace is only fulfilled when it results in Works! Faith alone, as James says, "is dead". In a coma, at least.

Posted by: RandomDave at March 07, 2026 12:39 PM (aJQbY)

149 ''Let me know if you deeply understand this text.""

Insane scribblings from the janitor of Pankot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 12:39 PM (snZF9)

150 The love of Got provides a safe harbor for those whose lives are anchored on Him.

Great sailors must venture out into the ocean , such is life. Embrace the storms. God is with you, always. Saint Paul thanked God for the tribulations.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 12:39 PM (ehY6c)

151 The argument was that not just a very small fraction of people who are doing the violent crime, but it is always the SAME people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)
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Even MSM reports include a mention of a perp's rap sheet. No one's surprised when the prosecutor is called a "Soros DA", either.

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:40 PM (rj6Yv)

152 When I think of this term, I don't think of genetics nor blame for the Crucification. I think J-C refers to the 10 commandments and the sharing of the Old Testament.

Have you even read the 10 Commandments?
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🤣 No, I am illiterate and don't even know what I typed. I don't even know how I can type with the drool all over my keyboard. I am enjoying the laugh though, so thanks for that.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:41 PM (RkOfE)

153 At the watering hole last week I claimed that you could take a city like Houston, round up 1000 people, exile them off, and crime would drop 50%.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 07, 2026 12:25 PM

Houston, TX is being taken over by Muslims. Remove all the Muslims from Texas and that city improves dramatically.

Amy Mek @AmyMek

ALERT TEXAS - CAIR CONQUERS ANOTHER COUNTY!

Tonight's Dhimmi of the Day award goes to Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia!

This guy showed up to a CAIR-Texas Ramadan event in "Islamic attire" - the same CAIR that Gov. Abbott designated a foreign terrorist organization (Muslim Brotherhood ties) back in November 2025.

He tells them straight up: "Assalamu Alaikum... I've got your back!"

Got their back against what?

The "hate" and "hurtful rhetoric," he says, is coming from state and national levels — the "ridiculous stupidity" he slams.

X: https://bit.ly/47kpYqp

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:41 PM (P5BPp)

154 I realize a lot of the anti-Jew/anti-Israel mongoloids also say that Israel has no importance for us outside of religion. Not true: a staggering amount of the technology we use daily was and is being developed there.

That is why these losers want to kill or crab bucket people of genuine achievement, skill and talent.

Just like wanting to break the knees of a better figure skater.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:42 PM (a4flb)

155 Stateless, re the advice to get a blood test--DNA analysis can be very helpful. My son is bipolar/schizoaffective, and discovered that he has a gene that inhibits absorption of B vitamins, which doesn't help his condition since they are often prescribed as supplements to mental health treatment.
The test was recommended, because they are discovering a lot with it that helps guides meds--some work great for some folks, and not well for others, and there can be a genetic component to understanding what might work best.
(from my experience, psych meds are like an ongoing darts game. It can be very frustrating to be weaned on, check for results, weaned off if necessary, and try again with the same process. It is also worth sticking it out, to find what works for you. In my prayers, and I will say it has helped me to have small daily rituals that are good for me. Husband died three years ago, still paying off the bills on a fixed income, and son in and out of psych ward throughout. I am doing better all the time with things that are good for me. Best to you)

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 12:42 PM (enw9G)

156 Great sailors must venture out into the ocean , such is life. Embrace the storms. God is with you, always. Saint Paul thanked God for the tribulations.
Posted by: kingsman
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We were not promised smooth sailing, only a safe landing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 12:43 PM (XeU6L)

157 Right, but to have Soviets on the court didn’t exactly lend any legitimacy to the affair. They weren’t any better than Nazis. It was a joke, pretty much. Churchill, like everyone else, thought that once captured, Nazi leaders should have been shot.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:37 PM (hlNSv)

Yeah, pretty much like the end of WWI.

I mentioned last night that on my phone ewetub, I got another Nazi Camp Guard execution (it's always women. I think ewetub thinks I'm a misogynist.) In any event, I did NOT click on the video, but I looked up the name. Considering the video, I assumed there would be info on this woman and she would be an infamous sadist or something. Per the wiki entry (which has a picture of her hanging dead), she was a guard for a short time (like 2-3 months.) Supposedly she separated some women in a work camp. She 'said' she was just separating people who could work from those who could not work- but did not know they were going to be gassed. She actually fled from the camp in January of 1945. Nevertheless, when she was caught, they charged her for choosing people to be executed. She appealed, it was rejected and she was hanged.

Cont.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

158 Marxism is certainly a religion, the Government is god

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 12:44 PM (Ia/+0)

159 Rob Schneider @RobSchneider

Let’s do this here…

Today!

Genius Tech @Geniustechw

Pakistani imam in Italy preaches that every Muslim must fight the infidels or face “catastrophic consequences”

next day Giorgia Meloni personally orders his deportation after 30 years in the country

X: https://bit.ly/47f3lni

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:44 PM (P5BPp)

160 Pankaj Mishra has his(?)head so far up his ass that he can't tell if he is coming or going. Pure intellectual masturbation. No longer has any connection to reality, lost in dogma.

Posted by: clarence at March 07, 2026 12:44 PM (lBwkW)

161 We were not promised smooth sailing, only a safe landing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 12:43 PM (XeU6L)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)

162 Just like I don't blame Clarence Thomas for the Taney court, why would anyone blame modern Jews because the Sanhedrin decided to be assholes a couple of thousand years ago? (At the same time, why do so many treat Pilate as scum for following the law?)

Right, Jesus wasn't killed on behalf of Judaism, he was killed on behalf of the Roman Empire. Same as how Jewish Marxists around the world are working for Schwab, Soros, that Chinese guy, Reid Hoffman, etc, etc. Same as how Pelosi, Biden, and most of the Kennedys aren't pushing for abortion-on-demand on behalf of Catholicism.

I know "I was just doing my job" is often considered to be a weak excuse now, but the fact that there hasn't been any organized right-wing counter-Antifa is exactly because everyone on the right has a real job they can't afford to lose.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

163 IIRC, the USS Kidd DDG-100, is the only US surface warship allowed to hoist the Jolly Roger. From the images I've seen, it is not a small flag, either.

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:47 PM (rj6Yv)

164 Cont.

So, this article is a good reason why I hate wikipedia (I also love it.) 1) There is very little info. 2) How much has this entry been 'massaged?'

Now, this chick might have been a monster- although the fact that she ran after a very short time is interesting to me. Jan of '45 though, the writing was on the wall if people had eyes to see.

Is this an example of rush to judgement and purge the monsters? Was she a valid kill? Or was she someone who realized 'what the fuck am I doing?' and tried to escape it?

I don't know. I just find it odd there is a video on it. It is ghoulish as fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)

165 Leftist and Islamists, the real book burners.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:48 PM (N72/9)

166 The argument was that not just a very small fraction of people who are doing the violent crime, but it is always the SAME people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:34 PM

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog

Something like 70 to 75 percent of Americans are never arrested in their lives. Another 20 to 25 percent are arrested once, usually for something minor. Almost all of the arrests, especially for violent crimes, are coming from about 5 percent of the population.

If all of these people were just thrown in a cage forever and forgotten about, the rest of us could live in peace. That's a fact. You could essentially solve the crime problem, almost completely, by arresting the tiny minority of the population that commits basically all of it.

Instead, we let them roam the streets, continually release them back into the public, and watch helplessly as they kill, rape, and destroy, even though nobody on Earth can explain why this system makes sense, or is fair, or moral, or just.

End Wokeness @EndWokeness

Damon Johnson just set someone on fire in NY while on parole. 131 prior arrests.

X: https://bit.ly/47yzG8H

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:49 PM (P5BPp)

167
And trucks full of gold and currency leaving Ukraine were found in a routine traffic stop in, I think, Hungary. So something is happening with that war too.
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I think it has to do with Hungary refusing to continue to finance the Ukrainian war, through their vote in NATO.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:49 PM (RkOfE)

168 barbarausa, I will pray for you.
I also find small rituals very helpful.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (LmPA0)

169 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:49 PM (P5BPp)

I doubt his 'remove these people and we all live in peace.' We KNOW it would not work like that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

170 Something else to consider also.

At this moment Iran probably has more warships at sea than the Royal Navy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (N72/9)

171 Yeah I thought that was pretty much common knowledge, at least in law enforcement circles. Maybe not in the wider community.

The cops know exactly who the “bad guys” are, and it is a relatively small number of individuals. They just can’t prove it, or get a conviction. If you thought emptying the insane asylums was a bad idea you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

This is all moot now, because leftists basic aim now to empty the prisons and lock up the cops. They’ve been sending their very best from overseas for a while now.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (psViZ)

172 Pakistani imam in Italy preaches that every Muslim must fight the infidels or face “catastrophic consequences”

next day Giorgia Meloni personally orders his deportation after 30 years in the country

X: https://bit.ly/47f3lni

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:44 PM (P5BPp)

I love that woman.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (snZF9)

173 I think J-C refers to the 10 commandments and the sharing of the Old Testament.

Have you even read the 10 Commandments?

Your God is cruel. He deprives you of so many pleasures. My God only demands you submit (and be male).

Posted by: Muhammed Xerxes at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (jeAJZ)

174 I think it has to do with Hungary refusing to continue to finance the Ukrainian war, through their vote in NATO.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:49 PM (RkOfE)

And Tracksuit Commando Che threatening to assassinate Orban.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)

175 At this moment Iran probably has more warships at sea than the Royal Navy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (N72/9)

Maybe 'under' the sea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)

176 Instead, we let them roam the streets, continually release them back into the public, and watch helplessly as they kill, rape, and destroy, even though nobody on Earth can explain why this system makes sense, or is fair, or moral, or just.
End Wokeness @EndWokeness
Damon Johnson just set someone on fire in NY while on parole. 131 prior arrests.
X: https://bit.ly/47yzG8H
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:49 PM (P5BPp)

Exactly...we don't have to live like this. Garbage humans allowed to be garbage humans while normals have to suffer.

Posted by: Make Penal Colonies Great Again at March 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Ksqrb)

177 Clyde Shelton @ 12:49

I remember reading years ago that Cuba had managed to halt the spread of AIDS by strictly quarantining, in camps, anyone infected.
They weren't mistreated, but they were sequestered to keep the virus from spreading to the general populace.
IOW, they treated it like the dangerous contagious disease it is.
Did not get much airplay--guessing it conflicted with the preferred myth of the progressive socialist paradise.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 12:53 PM (enw9G)

178 My go to ritual is memorize scripture and repeat daily. I liken it to my Catholic brothers and sisters saying the rosary. The darkness attacks daily so our spiritual armour must be strengthened every day. Resist the devil and he will seek other , easier targets. Harden your defences with prayer.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 12:54 PM (ehY6c)

179 Aetius

The Royal Navy does not have a single carrier or attack sub to deploy. All are tied to the pier for maintenance. Some have been immobilized for over 1,000 days.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:54 PM (N72/9)

180 Maybe we could get Meloni to govern Texas for a bit to take care of the Muslim takeover of cities there.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:56 PM (RkOfE)

181 Pakistani imam in Italy preaches that every Muslim must fight the infidels or face “catastrophic consequences”

next day Giorgia Meloni personally orders his deportation after 30 years in the country

X: https://bit.ly/47f3lni

==

Good for her, and we should do the same. Every day I come across some imam in the US preaching the same , or worse. Many in NY city. They feel safe under aytollah mamdami.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:56 PM (GD0B3)

182 I think it has to do with Hungary refusing to continue to finance the Ukrainian war, through their vote in NATO.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 12:49 PM (RkOfE)
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The immediate flashpoint (and it's becoming a very hot issue) is that Hungary and the Slovak Republic both import Russian oil for their energy requirements. That oil is transported in a pipeline that transits Ukraine. Zelensky has closed the pipeline since Jan. 27 and is in no hurry to re-open it.

Posted by: mrp at March 07, 2026 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)

183 The Royal Navy does not have a single carrier or attack sub to deploy. All are tied to the pier for maintenance. Some have been immobilized for over 1,000 days.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:54 PM (N72/9)

And what they have something like 35 admirals and only 20 surface ships?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y)

184 Why is anyone surprised Mamdani's wife likes the Oct 7 attacks? Hell, we know Mamdani himself probably jacked off to them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:59 PM (bss/y)

185 And the British Army has more horses than tanks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:59 PM (N72/9)

186 Thanks, vmom--every bit helps!
I started making new year's resolutions that I can keep, and in the process found it easier to make good habits.

A couple from two years ago that are now entrenched: fresh fruit and veg every day. It is good for me, I feel better, and the good habit it spawned was progressing to cooking at home even though it is now just me and the dog.
I eat like a queen, AND save money.
This year is another personal care--every night, while I watch a favorite rerun or movie, I cream my elbows, and clean/file my nails.
Sounds silly, but I'm not ashamed of my elbows any more, and my hands look nice.
After elbows conquered, I move on the decimate the stock of foot cream my daughter keeps me supplied with, lol. This year, I will not just feel good, but look better!

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 12:59 PM (enw9G)

187 James Woods @RealJamesWoods

I am done with the Republican Party.

Between this and Thune’s refusal to pass the SAVE Act, I’m done with these uniparty traitors.

I’m changing my party affiliation to Independent. No wonder President Trump is fighting an uphill battle every day.

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

WOW. The Republican Party is protecting Ilhan Omar from accountability

Rep Nancy Mace “I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother husband's immigration records, and IT WAS REPUBLICANS that killed my motion”

It’s a Uniparty. One Big Club.

X: https://bit.ly/3NkTZzE

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 12:59 PM (P5BPp)

188 183 The Royal Navy does not have a single carrier or attack sub to deploy. All are tied to the pier for maintenance. Some have been immobilized for over 1,000 days.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:54 PM (N72/9)

And what they have something like 35 admirals and only 20 surface ships?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y
A good world war would thin them out.

Posted by: Eromero at March 07, 2026 12:59 PM (Lytz7)

189 Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 12:54

Very nice idea, thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:00 PM (lQ+/f)

190 One of the UK's two aircraft carriers has been placed on advanced readiness to sail from Portsmouth, the BBC understands.

The crew of HMS Prince of Wales have been told they must be ready to leave in five days, defence sources said.

This may raise speculation the carrier could be deployed to the Mediterranean to help defend British interests threatened during the conflict in the Middle East.

Before this, the ship's "notice to sail" was 14 days.

~ BBC

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:00 PM (Y1sOo)

191 185 And the British Army has more horses than tanks.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:59 PM (N72/9)

So... Just like between WWI and II, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:00 PM (bss/y)

192
At this moment Iran probably has more warships at sea than the Royal Navy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 12:50 PM (N72/9)

For something like 15-20 years until today, the Royal Navy had more admirals than ships.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2026 01:00 PM (Th7dZ)

193 A nuking of Admiralty house would thin out the trimmers and flotsam.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:01 PM (N72/9)

194 >> The Royal Navy does not have a single carrier or attack sub to deploy. All are tied to the pier for maintenance. Some have been immobilized for over 1,000 days.

But, they have Curry.

Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2026 01:01 PM (l9aEn)

195 Not just Muslims taking over Texas cities. People from India as well.

This is what happens when all the California companies move to Texas and then staff with H-1Bs.

Info Battle Maiden @info_maiden

The Celina, TX indian population has increased by 3,600% in the last 10 years.

Classrooms filled with primarily indian children.

Telugu overtook Spanish as #2 language in Celina ISD bilingual program.

New indian grocery/restaurant/dental clinic construction popping up daily.

A town that no longer resembles Texas.

X: https://bit.ly/40S16Tg

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:02 PM (P5BPp)

196 Great post, KT! LOVE the meme!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 07, 2026 01:03 PM (WONhk)

197 Scripture verses on faith and hope in difficult times:

https://tinyurl.com/2kr8pz5y

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:03 PM (8Xy/A)

198 regarding depression, has anyone looked into/used trashthepills.com?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at March 07, 2026 01:03 PM (iNp3L)

199 But, they have Curry.
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2026 01:01 PM (l9aEn)

You know, if that carrier does have to put to sea, they might want to look at the rum ration again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:04 PM (bss/y)

200 Oohhh

14 to 5 days...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:04 PM (N72/9)

201 One of the UK's two aircraft carriers has been placed on advanced readiness to sail from Portsmouth, the BBC understands.

The crew of HMS Prince of Wales have been told they must be ready to leave in five days, defence sources said.

This may raise speculation the carrier could be deployed to the Mediterranean to help defend British interests threatened during the conflict in the Middle East.

Before this, the ship's "notice to sail" was 14 days.

~ BBC

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:00 PM (Y1sOo)

Somehow I think it will the first and only carrier lost in the war.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (snZF9)

202 I think the hang up here for you is that "works" are redemptive despite "all of our works are as filthy rags" (Is 64:6)

Works follow faith, are a result of a regeneration of the spirit.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 07, 2026 12:37 PM (a4flb)

I see your point, but that's not what we think.

Posted by: sal at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (f+FmA)

203 FenelonSpoke, currently absorbing Psalm 91. Memorization is also might slow down dementia, so brain enhancement and as well as spirit. I will not go gently into that good night.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (ehY6c)

204 I wonder how rum and curry go together?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (bss/y)

205 Let's see. Here are some other British writers that could be considered right wing because they have faith or just a positive view of western culture. Dorothy Sayers, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Tennyson, all the Inklings, Edmund Spenser, Chaucer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Kipling, H. Rider Haggard, Chesterton, and probably Winston Churchill. Don't forget J.K. Rowling. Throw in John Constable paintings of British landscapes.

Posted by: JTB at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (yTvNw)

206 Good for her, and we should do the same. Every day I come across some imam in the US preaching the same , or worse. Many in NY city. They feel safe under aytollah mamdami.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2026 12:56 PM

Yep. Here in Michigan as well, it has likely been happening for decades.

@XTexasGirlX @XtexasgirlX

Dearborn, Michigan: Muslim prayer gathering openly chants 'Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.' This is ON VIDEO. In AMERICA. Not the Middle East. Not 'free speech.' This is a call for mass 💀 on our soil. Why is this tolerated?

X video: https://bit.ly/4b6jcpq

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (P5BPp)

207 >>regarding depression, has anyone looked into/used trashthepills.com?

I have not. But I have found, over a lifetime, that the surefire cure for depression is exercise. That can come in the form of recreation or manual labor.

The real key is finding purpose in your life. But, exercise mimics this, sufficiently, imo.

Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (l9aEn)

208 Somehow I think it will the first and only carrier lost in the war.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (snZF9)

That would truly be 'bad luck.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (bss/y)

209
The Royal Navy does not have a single carrier or attack sub to deploy. All are tied to the pier for maintenance. Some have been immobilized for over 1,000 days.

But, they have Curry.
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2026 01:01 PM (l9aEn)

The Royal Navy ceased to be a naval force to be feared when they pulled all the Pusser's Rum from the fleet in 1970 and shit on hundreds of years of British Naval Tradition

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (Th7dZ)

210 Curry'd rum?

Eeewww

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (N72/9)

211 >>The Royal Navy ceased to be a naval force to be feared when they pulled all the Pusser's Rum from the fleet in 1970 and shit on hundreds of years of British Naval Tradition

They dropped the Rum and Lash...but, they cling to the Sodomy.

Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2026 01:07 PM (l9aEn)

212 210 Curry'd rum?

Eeewww
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (N72/9)

No! Curried whatever, with a good rum. (although I assume the rum ration was horrible rum- not El Dorado 15.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM (bss/y)

213 Somehow I think it will the first and only carrier lost in the war.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (snZF9)
That would truly be 'bad luck.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (bss/y)

Or a lesbian ship captain.

Posted by: New Zealand at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM (Ksqrb)

214 25 mosques opened in Dallas past 2 years.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM (ehY6c)

215 Thanks for verses link, Fen. I pray every day, and always start with "Thank you God".
Despair is the deadliest sin; with no hope, what difference do any of the others make?

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM (enw9G)

216 IIRC Britain's new carriers have had engineering issues, no one has had time to find out if Lucas Electric did a bang up job.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:09 PM (N72/9)

217 "Reducing the notice to sail from 14 days to 5 days requires preparations to be accelerated. Final maintenance tasks must be completed, the ship’s company recalled from leave and training courses and all systems checked to ensure the ship is at the highest state of readiness. The ship already has aircraft ordnance and munitions in her magazines that were embarked last year."

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:10 PM (Y1sOo)

218 Mexico, and the rest of Latin America have suffered from the long legacy of Spanish Colonial Government for centuries. This was their foundational model, and it is very difficult to break free of. A tightly controlled central government with an intimidating, all encompassing bureaucracy that has its fingers in everything. Also a business structure where all large companies are tied to the central government one way or another, and a culture where government corruption on both the small and large scale is not just endemic, but openly tolerated.

It is very difficult for any system set up like this to ever truly reform.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2026 01:10 PM (fSA1n)

219 213 Somehow I think it will the first and only carrier lost in the war.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (snZF9)
That would truly be 'bad luck.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:06 PM (bss/y)

Or a lesbian ship captain.
Posted by: New Zealand at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM (Ksqrb)

https://tinyurl.com/4s6jk293

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:10 PM (bss/y)

220 I've learned that every time you post what sounds like stupid shit you got from some random X account with 5 followers -- which is often -- I need to look up the real information.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:10 PM (Y1sOo)

221 Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM

What a wonderful way to approach the day, Barbarausa.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:11 PM (8Xy/A)

222
No! Curried whatever, with a good rum. (although I assume the rum ration was horrible rum- not El Dorado 15.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM (bss/y)

I was never a rum guy when I was still drinking, but I found Pussers to be kinda awful compared to other rums.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Th7dZ)

223 > IIRC, the USS Kidd DDG-100, is the only US surface warship allowed to hoist the Jolly Roger. From the images I've seen, it is not a small flag, either.
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Occasionally, when returning from a successful, clandestine mission, USN ships or submarines will fly the Jolly Roger. It's supposed to acknowledge something pretty significant has been accomplished.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2026 01:11 PM (jtM2q)

224 There is ALWAYS SOMETHING to give thanks for.

Little things for the win(s)

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:12 PM (enw9G)

225 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (P5BPp)

People chanting this need to be deported. Please consider sending the woman's post to the White House.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:13 PM (8Xy/A)

226
Rep Nancy Mace “I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother husband's immigration records, and IT WAS REPUBLICANS that killed my motion”

It’s a Uniparty. One Big Club.

X: https://bit.ly/3NkTZzE
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

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

I don't care about Nancy Mace's efforts. They'll result in a circus -- an ineffective congressional hearing or investigation and referral to the DOJ -- which is the only place where this case can be meaningfully prosecuted and where it should be under active investigation anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 01:14 PM (JF3MH)

227 There is an Amelia video where she states that the UK has enough curry recipes. I couldn't find it now tho.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 01:14 PM (RkOfE)

228 25 mosques opened in Dallas past 2 years.

Posted by: kingsman at March 07, 2026 01:08 PM

Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman

There should be exactly ZERO in America.

Mosques per U.S. State:

New York: 570
California: 481
Texas: 399
Florida: 250
Illinois: 228
New Jersey: 210
Michigan: 127

X: https://bit.ly/4b738Uh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:14 PM (P5BPp)

229 And what they have something like 35 admirals and only 20 surface ships?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y
A good world war would thin them out.
Posted by: Eromero at

Not enough to cover three eight hour shifts.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 07, 2026 01:14 PM (sl73Y)

230 When USS Charlotte pulls into port flying a broom, hope President Trump is there to award a PUC to the crew and to throw a huge party.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:15 PM (N72/9)

231 Kangmin Lee @kangminlee

These people despise America, spit on its history, and mock the blood of those who died for it.

No reverence, no loyalty.

No reason they can't be removed.

Kaylee Campbell @kaylee_ashlynn

Your ancestors died so Indians could dance on the WW2 memorial.

X video: https://bit.ly/3Nkmaid

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:17 PM (P5BPp)

232 Prior to the revolution of 1979, most academic work, led by Burger, which was built upon the work of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, assumed that modernization caused religion to retreat from politics as secular regimes rose to power.

I could talk about this all day. That statement above ties into so many things. The love of some for G.K. Chesterton. The broad-sweeping attitudes of various generations. How we are at the insanity that so many see now - although there is little agreement across the spectrum of how to define it, just a general agreement to disagree that everything is falling apart without getting into the details.

That one sentence above explains so much.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:17 PM (VK2pC)

233 If you want to be reminded where all the division and hate in our country started, I urge you to go listen to Obama’s speech at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. He is the most loathsome, hateful, divisive and purposeful subversive our country has ever elected. He will stop at nothing to undermine our republic by using the people as his weapon.

If you don’t believe me, take the time to go back and review the state of race relations, and the general divisions in our country prior to his election. You will find his policies and rhetoric not only undermined our unity, but he used the goodwill some people handed him to do it. They trusted him, and he expressed his thanks by using the auspices of government to wage a war against the people.

It’s a disgusting period in our history, driven by some of the most deliberately devious intentions one can imagine.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 07, 2026 01:18 PM (04KGT)

234 UAE declares war on Iran
Moj has been found ,targeted and severely wounded
More regular army troops are defecting

Posted by: Ben Had at March 07, 2026 01:18 PM (+nEug)

235 Well, Hordelings, it's been fun. I must away.

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 01:18 PM (RkOfE)

236 I take some herbal supplements that are supposed to be good for anxiety and lifting my mood. I did not do this by getting blood tests and using an expert, but just searching the internet and trying things so I won't list what I'm using, and I wouldn't recommend this method of trying herbal compounds for others, even though what I'm taking is helping me for now. I went this route mostly because of fear of getting dependent on a prescription and then it becoming unavailable due to Chi-com actions, figured the herbs would stay available. I did not seek out a naturopath? I think it would be, because busy and didn't want to spend the time to do it plus I'm bull-headed. I think both herbs and prescription medicines can be helpful. Having something to take the edge off helped with getting out more and getting that emotional benefit.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 01:19 PM (vlkz/)

237 >>They'll result in a circus -- an ineffective congressional hearing or investigation and referral to the DOJ -- which is the only place where this case can be meaningfully prosecuted and where it should be under active investigation anyway.

It is.

https://tinyurl.com/ye22cnff

Posted by: JackStraw at March 07, 2026 01:19 PM (viF8m)

238 Not enough to cover three eight hour shifts.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 07, 2026 01:14 PM (sl73Y)

LOL.

Hot Bunking Admirals!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:19 PM (bss/y)

239 Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:12

I try to begin everyday to say not only thanks, but to ask the Lord to show me something of his grace and goodness each day. Today ( so far ) it was a cute little boy jumping up and down in the supermarket, a ride through the countryside and ( this may sound odd) but it was a man wearing a bright green knit cap which brightened up a gray day. I told him I liked his cap and he and I exchanged words of "God bless you."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:19 PM (8Xy/A)

240 Hot lesbian action!

https://is.gd/983VhF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 07, 2026 01:19 PM (FXNzP)

241 Hot boinking admirals?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:20 PM (N72/9)

242 So we will have gold plated Aks and Desert Eagles joining the fight. Maybe some Bugatti Chase cars.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:20 PM (bss/y)

243 241 Hot boinking admirals?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:20 PM (N72/9)

Heh. That was implied.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:20 PM (bss/y)

244 Somehow I think it will the first and only carrier lost in the war.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:05 PM (snZF9)

Actually Iran built some stupid “drone carrier”, a cargo ship mocked up too pretend it was some kind of real carrier with a big plywood flat top on it.

Satellite photos showed it burning in the straits a couple days ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2026 01:20 PM (fSA1n)

245 Three Admirals, One Bunk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:21 PM (bss/y)

246 RINO's want the vote fraud going

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 01:21 PM (Ia/+0)

247 There is an Amelia video where she states that the UK has enough curry recipes. I couldn't find it now tho.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 07, 2026 01:14 PM

Yes, you're referring to the viral AI-generated character Amelia (often called "Amelia AI" or the "purple-haired goth schoolgirl"), who originated from a UK Home Office-funded counter-extremism video game called Pathways (or Game Pathways). The game aimed to deter young people from far-right extremism, but it massively backfired.

Amelia became a huge meme and symbol among online right-wing / anti-immigration communities in late 2025 / early 2026. People started creating and sharing AI videos of her spouting exaggerated patriotic, anti-mass migration rhetoric in a posh British accent.

In one of the most popular clips (widely shared on X, Instagram, YouTube, etc.), Amelia says something along the lines of:

"Curry is fine, but we have several recipes already. We don't need 2 million Indians here to make it for us."

Grok: https://bit.ly/4be8QUy

Video (Instagram): https://bit.ly/3OWPeN9

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:21 PM (P5BPp)

248 Islam is antithetical to the American Republic. It is a political cult driven by their fascist desire for conquest. They prove it every day by using the freedoms and liberties we all value so much, against us. It is an infection that is spreading and needs to be eradicated.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 07, 2026 01:21 PM (04KGT)

249 Number 2 intelligence guy that got promoted to # 1 is now dead

Posted by: Ben Had at March 07, 2026 01:22 PM (+nEug)

250 If you want to be reminded where all the division and hate in our country started, I urge you to go listen to Obama’s speech at Jesse Jackson’s funeral.

And here we go. Groups were assassinating judges and politicians - here - long before Barry Sortero uttered a word on the public stage.

Get this ... judges in certain areas were letting criminals run free long before then as well. We got films like Death Wish exactly because if it.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:22 PM (VK2pC)

251 Wouldn't that be 'Three admirals in the rack'??

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:22 PM (N72/9)

252 If you want to be reminded where all the division and hate in our country started, I urge you to go listen to Obama’s speech at Jesse Jackson’s funeral.

My old granny was a typical white woman afraid of black men. She would cross the street so she wouldn't get stabbed, or burned or pimp slapped. I called her "Toot".

Posted by: Barack Obama, Let Me Be Clear at March 07, 2026 01:23 PM (Ksqrb)

253 Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026

And what are the supplement which you have found helpful? . I know someone who takes St. John's Wort, SameE and elderflower and it had been helpful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:23 PM (8Xy/A)

254 I know "I was just doing my job" is often considered to be a weak excuse now, but the fact that there hasn't been any organized right-wing counter-Antifa is exactly because everyone on the right has a real job they can't afford to lose.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 07, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

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I have wrestled with this a great deal myself. I am belatedly reaching the conclusion that our choice (akin to those faced by our Founders) is between saving the country and preserving our freedoms, or maintaining our personal wealth and comfort. Logically, the answer seems obvious. But it also means that, like the Founders, we must be prepared spiritually to make very difficult decisions. That's a tougher slog when our personal inertia has had us primarily focused on taking care of our families. It ultimately boils down to whether we truly trust in Divine Providence....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 07, 2026 01:23 PM (DIY2E)

255 You can lie all you want troll boy.

The unpleasant facts about Obama and what he did are plain for everyone to see. He’s still doing it.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 07, 2026 01:24 PM (04KGT)

256 Second look at Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

Seems transcendent meaning of life still tops the list.

I've thought for some time that atheist/agnostic analysts are seriously handicapped when trying to suss out the motives of Muslim zealots, especially the votaries of the ultra-violent Shia Twelver sect.

Posted by: Beverly at March 07, 2026 01:24 PM (reMys)

257 Fenelon - An odd thing happened to me last week. I awoke one morning with a humn running through my mind. Curious, because while it is commonly sung by congregations, I do not believe that I have heard it in years.

I enjoy finding Youtube recordings of carols/hymns, that show the congregation, particularly at Christmas time. So, searched for the hymn that played in my head. This one came as somethng of a surprise:
https://tinyurl.com/3bxa9dp2

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

258 251 Wouldn't that be 'Three admirals in the rack'??
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2026 01:22 PM (N72/9)

Bunk sounds dirtier, to be honest.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:24 PM (bss/y)

259 Muzzies are demanding zones free of dogs.
I demand zones free of muzzies.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2026 01:25 PM (2WIwB)

260 Unknown Drip Under Pressure -

You’re right about William Tyndale and the Anglican Church, but John Wycliffe was a Catholic priest and his troubles came from a Catholic England.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 07, 2026 01:26 PM (BHlFn)

261
It is.

https://tinyurl.com/ye22cnff
Posted by: JackStraw

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

Then let's ditch Nancy Mace's circus where Ilhan refuses to show up and everyone screams racism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 01:26 PM (JF3MH)

262 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

I love that hymn, and thanks for the site recommendation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:26 PM (8Xy/A)

263 It doesn't sound odd, Fen.
Today it is warm enough that the bugs are waking up (not for long. NoVA has several fake springs/falls every year), and it told me my guard bees will be up and about before too long.
I have no wasp troubles on my balcony, because the big fat bumbling white faced carpenter bees wage very effective war against them.
Last year grandgirl was on the balcony with me, and one did its usual fly-up-and-hover to fake us out (they do not sting, just act aggressive as part of their process), and she got a bit nervous.
I told her to come sit by me, because they are my friends who keep the wasps away.
She did, and while watching them asked, with great hopeful six year old skepticism, "Okay granny, but are they MY friends?"
I still smile every time I see one of my guard bees.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:28 PM (enw9G)

264 The unpleasant facts about Obama and what he did are plain for everyone to see. He’s still doing it.

The unpleasant fact is that he wasn't first. He's not a criminal mastermind. He's an expression of will. And he's not unique.

That's the problem with "Blame Obama". The entire notion pretends that the entire notion is new. Its not.

Barry Sortero is the radical 2010s reflection of radical 1960s. Can't blame that on the young uns.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:28 PM (VK2pC)

265 As such, they are based on cynical "nihilistic lying," where they might not even know whether their own words are true, and they certainly don't care. Their words' purpose is for being effective at manipulating the marks of their con job; it is missing the point entirely to analyze the truth value at all.
Posted by: SciVo

The problem with the mafia model is that the True Believers are willing to torch piles of cash to enforce orthodoxy. True Believer Marxism morphs into money-making racket only after the State solidifies into an unchallengeable, permanent thing. In Islam, that may never occur, and the permanent revolution continues.

Marxism = transitional quasi-religion to justify a totalitarian State.
Islam = violent, supremacist ideology inside a thin shell of a religion to justify conquest of all.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 07, 2026 01:28 PM (diia5)

266
https://tinyurl.com/ye22cnff
Posted by: JackStraw

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

Harmeet Dhillon: "Look, Ilhan Omar has some legal issues regarding her citizenship. I’ll just leave it at that.”

Continuing, she added, “I think that they’ve been well covered in the press, but it’s shameful, and I am so happy to be an American. And you know, people need to get out there and touch some grass in other countries and see what they go through, to really appreciate how great we have it in this country.”

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I'm not seeing an investigation in the DOJ. All I'm seeing is the same things I say all the time, and nothing happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 01:28 PM (JF3MH)

267 Get this ... judges in certain areas were letting criminals run free long before then as well. We got films like Death Wish exactly because if it.
Posted by: And I Would Love To
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Judge Roy Bean was my preferred judge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 01:29 PM (XeU6L)

268 How people of quality eat cereal.

https://is.gd/qtnx3x

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 07, 2026 01:29 PM (FXNzP)

269 And I find I helps me get out of myself and can brighten someone elses day if I can give a genuine compliment to at least one person- aside from my family, I mean - everyday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:30 PM (8Xy/A)

270 My old granny was a typical white woman afraid of black men. She would cross the street so she wouldn't get stabbed, or burned or pimp slapped. I called her "Toot".

And Barry didn't invent that little trick either. The rhetorical act of pretending that groups - as a group - don't act like groups.

I'd advise any woman to cross the street to get away of a group of black boys at night. Or a group of white boys dressed a certain way, for that matter. Or a group of goth girls. Or a group of heavy-set sturdy girls with hair colors not in the natural-for-human spectrum.

And that act began in the 60s as well.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:31 PM (VK2pC)

271 Islam is antithetical to the American Republic. It is a political cult driven by their fascist desire for conquest. They prove it every day by using the freedoms and liberties we all value so much, against us. It is an infection that is spreading and needs to be eradicated.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 07, 2026 01:21 PM (04KGT)

Absolutely.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:33 PM (snZF9)

272 That's the problem with "Blame Obama". The entire notion pretends that the entire notion is new. Its not.

Barry Sortero is the radical 2010s reflection of radical 1960s. Can't blame that on the young uns.
Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:28 PM (VK2pC)

I'd agree with that, he allowed the sentiment to be voiced, mainstreamed and reinforced.

I'd still say things were visibly less tense in say 1995.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:33 PM (bss/y)

273 Or a group of goth girls. Or a group of heavy-set sturdy girls with hair colors not in the natural-for-human spectrum.

And that act began in the 60s as well.
Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:31 PM (VK2pC)

I think the question we all have is: do the goth girls have big tits?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:34 PM (bss/y)

274 Muzzies are demanding zones free of dogs.
I demand zones free of muzzies.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2026 01:25 PM (2WIwB)

Yeah, the US zone, the Earth zone, the SOL system zone, etc

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2026 01:35 PM (snZF9)

275 I'm not seeing an investigation in the DOJ. All I'm seeing is the same things I say all the time, and nothing happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 07, 2026 01:28 PM

Grok summary:

No, Ilhan Omar is not being prosecuted by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Recent reports from early 2026 indicate that the DOJ opened an investigation into her finances, campaign spending, and possible interactions with a foreign citizen during the Biden administration (starting in 2024). However, credible sources like The New York Times describe this inquiry as having stalled or appeared to stall due to a lack of evidence.

President Trump publicly referenced and amplified claims of an ongoing DOJ probe (often tied to questions about her reported wealth increase and unrelated Minnesota fraud scandals), but no official DOJ announcements, indictments, or active prosecutions against her have been confirmed.

Grok: https://bit.ly/4s2oc5G

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 01:35 PM (P5BPp)

276 Barbarausa

You might like like this devotional on bees and gratitude:

https://tinyurl.com/y8v3efy8

Thanks for sharing your gratitude and spirit here at ASHQ

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:36 PM (8Xy/A)

277 I give random true compliments as well.
They often start very enjoyable conversations, which frequently include that another terrible consequence of lockdown--by design?--is that people forgot how to just talk to one another.
I am convinced that lockdown was intended to cause despair, and that made me so angry I turned that rage toward refusing to submit to despair.
Again, every day, something to smile about and give thanks.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:36 PM (enw9G)

278 I'd still say things were visibly less tense in say 1995.

Sure. And by the 80s some of us closer to 29s were looking at our dads skeptically while Donna Summer was on the TV. Yes - things were better in the late 80s and early 90s.

But that doesn't mean they were good. Race still got you five points on your promotion packet. Race was still the tie-breaker.

This idea that everything was just great until that damn Barry Sortero. It gets tired. The same as the Everything was great until Clinton argument.

It wasn't. And the seeds were sown in the 60s. No wonder certain folks want to swear everything was perfect until 1/1/70.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:37 PM (VK2pC)

279 Obama himself was an Op. He was groomed for the job by the International Left.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2026 01:37 PM (8zz6B)

280 Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:36

Amen. That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 01:38 PM (8Xy/A)

281 This is pretty hilarious over at Insty:

https://instapundit.com/781057/

"Amazing. They can’t get the story they wanted, but this is close enough for CNN."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:38 PM (bss/y)

282 And now for some aircraft carrier news that isn't complete bullshit:

The USS Ford SG has in-chopped to CENTCOM AOR by transiting the Suez Canal yesterday and into the Red Sea.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Y1sOo)

283 Amen back at you <3

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:39 PM (enw9G)

284 Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:37 PM (VK2pC)

I'd agree with the general sentiment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:39 PM (bss/y)

285 " However, credible sources like The New York Times"

Bwahahaha!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2026 01:39 PM (8zz6B)

286 The USS Ford SG has in-chopped to CENTCOM AOR by transiting the Suez Canal yesterday and into the Red Sea.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Y1sOo)

I just had a thought: could you launch strikes from the carrier while in the canal? No reason you couldn't, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:40 PM (bss/y)

287 Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 12:42 PM (enw9G)

Thank you. I'm seeing people soon.
Thanks to all of you.
This is temporary and can be fixed.

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 01:42 PM (Sco7b)

288 Gardening thread is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:42 PM (bss/y)

289 I just had a thought: could you launch strikes from the carrier while in the canal? No reason you couldn't, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:40 PM (bss/y)

Carriers usually turn into the wind when launching or landing planes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2026 01:43 PM (8zz6B)

290 The Houthis have been very quiet.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 07, 2026 01:44 PM (+nEug)

291 The USS Ford SG has in-chopped to CENTCOM AOR by transiting the Suez Canal yesterday and into the Red Sea.

By all accounts that crew has been at sea for nine months now. And that's the problem with being on Serial Number One of a new super-weapon.

In all fairness, I never let down at my 3/4 wrench and think "I've used you all day, maybe you need a break" either.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:44 PM (VK2pC)

292 I avoid St Johns Wort because I'm already prone to sunburn plus it can cause diarrhea. I take Ashwagandha, funny thing, I had heard commercials for "stress gummies" and thought they were a CBD thing and one day listened better and "oh I take that, but just capsules of the powder" Blanking the name but I take something that is supposed to balance female hormones. I tried 5-HTP when I was in a period of anxiety and every little thing made me want to "Hulk smash" I dropped that after a bit because I felt like it was making me too lazy. I added Rhodiola rosea and that seems to help me a lot. I am not a herbalist and the dart(s) that worked for me may not be be useful for others. I only shared because in my own experience herbs can be an option between prescription pills, and 'just exercise and meditate'

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2026 01:45 PM (vlkz/)

293 I'd advise any woman to cross the street to get away of a group of black boys at night.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:31 PM (VK2pC

Didn't Jesse Jackson once say he'd do the same thing?

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 01:46 PM (Sco7b)

294 293 I'd advise any woman to cross the street to get away of a group of black boys at night.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:31 PM (VK2pC

Didn't Jesse Jackson once say he'd do the same thing?
Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 01:46 PM (Sco7b)

Which is where I think Obama's writers got the story. I would imagine almost 90% of his biography is completely fabricated. You know, everything but the coke and cock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:47 PM (bss/y)

295 >>Carriers usually turn into the wind when launching or landing planes.

They also need a certain amount of wind over the deck to launch. That which is not created by the actual wind is augmented by the ship's speed. Carriers move through the canal very slowly.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:49 PM (Y1sOo)

296 The banned list of the Western canon reminds me of that asshat grifter Jesse Jackson leading the Stanford student idiots in the 1980s, ranting "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go!"

Q.e.d., democracy really does die in the darkness of ignorance.

Sigh. Anyone else sick to death of these people? They could derail an erotic daydream...

Posted by: Beverly at March 07, 2026 01:51 PM (reMys)

297 They also need a certain amount of wind over the deck to launch. That which is not created by the actual wind is augmented by the ship's speed. Carriers move through the canal very slowly.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 01:49 PM (Y1sOo)

Thanks. I was actually envisioning, what if an enemy attacked while the carrier was transiting? They would be a sitting duck. I am assuming they have planes out while transiting though, right?

Or, I guess the idea would be that you would not use a canal while there was any chance of engagement?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 01:52 PM (bss/y)

298 They need to add "Camp of the Saints" to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Posted by: Beverly at March 07, 2026 01:55 PM (reMys)

299 The banned list of the Western canon reminds me of that asshat grifter Jesse Jackson leading the Stanford student idiots in the 1980s, ranting "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go!"

The Western Canon. Now I've seen folks who quote Bloom as a fact. As in "This is the Canon".

I'm no fan of either Bloom or those like him. They're presumptuous. Credentialist. And generally just easy to punch in the mouth.

Not to mention that Mark Twain doesn't appear even 26 names down on his stupid list. And that's the problem, such as problems are, when you allow a society access to libraries and basic education as well as work and such. You might screw around and raise up independently minded men who see Bloom as a fool.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 01:57 PM (VK2pC)

300 best to you, stateless, and in my prayers <3

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 01:59 PM (enw9G)

301 >>I see the Anglican priesthood and leadership of that day just as tyrannical and bloodthirsty as today's dead Iranian Supreme Loser.

Er, Wm Tyndale was offed (strangled at the stake and then burned) by the Roman Catholics. Pre-Anglican. Protestants were the ones who translated the Bible into the languages of the people.

Posted by: Beverly at March 07, 2026 01:59 PM (reMys)

302 Thanks. I was actually envisioning, what if an enemy attacked while the carrier was transiting? They would be a sitting duck. I am assuming they have planes out while transiting though, right?

Or, I guess the idea would be that you would not use a canal while there was any chance of engagement?
*****
I know security by the local authority is stepped-up when high value targets pass through.

Other than having 3 touch-and-goes, one arrestment and one catapult shot in a T-2 Buckeye trainer, I wasn't carrier-based, so I have no idea what airwing tasking may be prior to transiting the canal.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2026 02:00 PM (Y1sOo)

303 Husband died three years ago, still paying off the bills on a fixed income, and son in and out of psych ward throughout. I am doing better all the time with things that are good for me. Best to you)
Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 12:42 PM (enw9G

Sorry, I'm all caught up.
I'm glad you found ways to make yourself happy. The elbows was funny.

All the best to you and your family.

I also agree with exercise. It fell by the wayside when I was taking care of Mom. I really liked 'Convict Conditioning'

I've never been a pill person. I've been to my family doctor once in, now twice in 10 years. I do take various supplements as was mentioned above. These prescriptions will be tempirary and I'm going to placebo effect the heck out of them.

Just getting out of the house would be amazing. On the plus side, down the road, I'll be a nice siurce of comfort to caregivers here. Especially solo ones...

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Sco7b)

304 They need to add "Camp of the Saints" to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
Posted by: Beverly
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Yup. Should be read by those who haven't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 02:06 PM (XeU6L)

305 If there are any Grok users here, I would be interested in what Grok has to say about The Camp of the Saints.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 02:07 PM (XeU6L)

306 stateless, I am not on meds for anything but asthma, and would prefer to keep it that way. Many of the side effects of all the advertised drugs seem worse than some of the diseases, and they always come with "and BTW you need to eat right and exercise" so I started there.
I've watched my son struggle with what works and what doesn't, and it is so hard for him.
I wish he did not treat himself so harshly, but the nature of his illness involves finding a balance between being all the way down or all the way manic, with the added danger of going too far in one direction and tipping over into psychosis.
My demon seems to be despair, and so far I'm holding my own, and winning most days (in terms of not succumbing--don't want to press my luck, lol)
(The elbows didn't USED to be funny, so I started with them this year. We have a family gathering the end of April, so I'm trying to budget one of my biannual salon pedis before then. They are MUCH cheaper than a podiatrist, and I like picking a great sparkly color)

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 02:19 PM (enw9G)

307 Perhaps the Iranian revolution of 1979 upset the "secularization thesis" and revealed a vastly underestimated and largely overlooked social demand for religion. Or maybe it, along with the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and even the American Revolution mere displays the viability of being the first comprehensive entity that can put together a national upheaval.

Breaking current society into pieces achieves nothing but chaos unless your outfit - regardless of philosophy / orientation / agenda - is the one strong enough and organized enough to pick up the pieces.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at March 07, 2026 02:21 PM (bufu1)

308 FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash

The FBI and our partners arrested an individual illegally in the U.S., charged with voting in the last 5 presidential elections - each time falsely claiming he was a U.S. citizen to vote

"Illegal immigrant charged with voting in Pennsylvania in 5 Presidential elections.

Mahady Sacko was ordered removed from the U.S. in 2000 but remained under ICE supervision while casting ballots, prosecutors allege."

X: https://bit.ly/4rWuWC1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 02:24 PM (P5BPp)

309 Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 02:19 PM (enw9G)

You're right about the side effects.
They may cause you to be deader than this thread.
Back to doing stuff.

Posted by: Stateless at March 07, 2026 02:28 PM (Sco7b)

310 Pankaj Mishra, Harper’s Magazine, December 2025

I don't think English is xis native tongue.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 07, 2026 02:32 PM (4NO2D)

311 If there are any Grok users here, I would be interested in what Grok has to say about The Camp of the Saints.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2026 02:07 PM

The Camp of the Saints (original French title: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 dystopian novel by French author and explorer Jean Raspail (1925–2020). It is a highly controversial work of speculative fiction that depicts the collapse of Western civilization — specifically France and broader Europe — due to an overwhelming wave of mass immigration from the Third World.

Upon release, the book was a bestseller in France but faced sharp criticism for its racist depictions and xenophobic themes. Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center have long described it as a "racist fantasy" popular among white supremacists and anti-immigration extremists, comparing it to The Turner Diaries as an analog in far-right circles.

It gained renewed attention in the 2010s amid European migrant crises, with figures on the populist right hailing it as "prophetic." Marine Le Pen (France's National Rally) has kept a signed copy and referenced its ideas.

Grok: https://bit.ly/4lj3z2A

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 02:32 PM (P5BPp)

312 Camp of the Saints needs to be rewriting, missed its target by that ( ) much.

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 02:35 PM (Ia/+0)

313 Sounds like The Turner Diaries is another must-read.

In essence, The Camp of the Saints is a passive nightmare of demographic conquest through immigration, warning that the West will commit cultural suicide if it doesn't harden itself. The Turner Diaries is an active fantasy of revolutionary triumph through terrorism and genocide, providing a supposed roadmap for white supremacists to seize power.

Both remain polarizing: critics view them as dangerous racist propaganda that normalizes hate and violence, while some on the far right see them as prescient warnings or heroic narratives. Their enduring presence in extremist ecosystems underscores how fiction can shape ideology and, tragically, action. If you're exploring these for research or literary analysis, approach with caution — they contain extreme, graphic content.

Grok: https://bit.ly/47kIbEh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 02:38 PM (P5BPp)

314 "Let me know if you deeply understand this text."

The extra points Pankaj has been awarded for being a brown POC with an exotic name have dried.up, and now, to quote Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters, "They expect results!", and he doesn't like that.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 07, 2026 02:39 PM (sR2WI)

315 In essence, The Camp of the Saints is a passive nightmare of demographic conquest through immigration, warning that the West will commit cultural suicide if it doesn't harden itself.

All Groups - as a Group - act as a Group. Individuals can differ from the Group as a statistical variance.

And that's the long and short of the dysfunction of Western Civ. The refusal to believe that previous statement.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 02:40 PM (VK2pC)

316 And that's the long and short of the dysfunction of Western Civ. The refusal to believe that previous statement.
Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 02:40 PM (VK2pC)

To fracture the group by making it believe that it is no a group. No Nation, No Culture.

Why do you think they kept repeating in the 70s 80s and 90s that america had 'no culture?' THEIR thought was probably to try to destroy prejudice, but it also fractured the 'group' that believe in public service, patriotism, God, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 02:43 PM (bss/y)

317 Let me know if you deeply understand this text.
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I piss on that text.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2026 02:45 PM (RIvkX)

318 Because america's culture was:

1) There is no class. Anyone can make it no matter their beginnings (be it wealth or race.)

2) All are equal before the law.

3) Government is an enemy (if not now, then eventually), so you have to destroy it's ability to infringe upon you. Or even be able to GAIN that ability.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 02:45 PM (bss/y)

319 THAT was a major culture- that was completely antithetical to most throughout human history. Unique.

They did not like that though because at root, it denied them power.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 02:47 PM (bss/y)

320 "but it also fractured the 'group' that believe in public service, patriotism, God, etc."

This is why I think the primary purpose of lockdown was to engender despair.

So many people have remained broken, not by the disease, but by how it was used.

And it remains to be seen how an entire generation of children was crippled by what it did to their normal development, to go so far as to prevent babies and toddlers from even seeing faces.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 02:47 PM (enw9G)

321 So many people have remained broken, not by the disease, but by how it was used.

And it remains to be seen how an entire generation of children was crippled by what it did to their normal development, to go so far as to prevent babies and toddlers from even seeing faces.
Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 02:47 PM (enw9G)

It's a good point.

It... damaged me what happened with the election and the J6 thing. It was like a nightmare that I could not believe was happening.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 02:49 PM (bss/y)

322 ... No, Ilhan Omar is not being prosecuted by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Recent reports from early 2026 indicate that the DOJ opened an investigation into her finances, campaign spending, and possible interactions with a foreign citizen during the Biden administration (starting in 2024). However, credible sources like The New York Times describe this inquiry as having stalled or appeared to stall due to a lack of evidence.
===

... credible sources like The New York Times ....

LOL,
See, even GROK AI is FBAR

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 07, 2026 02:51 PM (/lPRQ)

323 It... damaged me what happened with the election and the J6 thing. It was like a nightmare that I could not believe was happening.

And that is where we differ. After Ruby Ridge and Waco and the actual 2020 steal ? Its like folks like you finally woke up.

Did you notice six cities shutting her down within 15 minutes on election night ?

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 02:55 PM (VK2pC)

324 Did you notice six cities shutting her down within 15 minutes on election night ?
Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 02:55 PM (VK2pC)

I did- that's what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 02:56 PM (bss/y)

325 I did- that's what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 02:56 PM (bss/y)

OK ... did you notice all the lead up to it ? Like a wife getting shot in her kitchen, while the sniper didn't get prosecuted and the lawyer that protected him eventually getting promoted by Trump ? That man was Bill Barr.

Did you notice all the kids getting burned alive in a church to protect them from the cult leader that went to town every day ?

The 2020 steal and J6 did not happen in a vacuum. But many insisted on not seeing it coming.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 02:59 PM (VK2pC)

326 That a number of major city voting shut down like clock work has to be under a higher authority, the odds all did it independently has to be nearly impossible

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)

327 I knew about Ruby Ridge and Waco, of course. BUT. It was fairly easy to see that as rotten fruit of a dem admin. Cleared out next when the 'good guys' were back in power.

Right or wrong and willing to say I was wrong.

Part of my point, and what my point always has been, is that the power of the government has to not just be lessened, but that power not be allowed to be concentrated. It does not mean that it is ok when Trump does it- because at least right now if trump was replaced by a dem the brakes would be FULLY off and we would be living in that dystopia again. People are getting a bit too triumphalist about thing (it is good to enjoy the success) but structurally we have not solved shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2026 03:03 PM (bss/y)

328 Lockdown stole what was left of my husband's physical health, and our son's mental health.

I will never stop being enraged by that.

But as I discussed above many times, I will be damned if I let it make me give up. i refuse to despair, but I still have cold anger.

It reminds me to be a happy warrior, and to remember the best revenge is living well.

and I remember to thank God for every day and the good things that come with it.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 07, 2026 03:03 PM (enw9G)

329 I knew about Ruby Ridge and Waco, of course. BUT. It was fairly easy to see that as rotten fruit of a dem admin. Cleared out next when the 'good guys' were back in power.

There are no "good guys" in power. If only those older than us had understood.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Daniel Webster

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 03:08 PM (VK2pC)

330 Dearborn, Michigan: Muslim prayer gathering openly chants 'Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.' This is ON VIDEO. In AMERICA. Not the Middle East. Not 'free speech.' This is a call for mass 💀 on our soil. Why is this tolerated?
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It's that damned pesky First Amendment. It's neither immanent nor concrete. I can write (or stand on a street corner and preach) for Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to skewer every Islamic cleric in the world for the same reason.
Now, if the chant was "Followers of Allah, kill ..." they could be charged.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 07, 2026 03:09 PM (sR2WI)

331

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 03:09 PM (VK2pC)

332 It's that damned pesky First Amendment. It's neither immanent nor concrete. I can write (or stand on a street corner and preach) for Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to skewer every Islamic cleric in the world for the same reason.

And hence the problem. We've been through this before - but a certain, shall I say "older generation" just doesn't want to believe.

The 1A protects you from Government. So bitch about Government all you want.

But start posting bills, or even stand in the Common Square, and start talking about how My Momma' is Whore ? Or, as posted, my elimination ? My murder ?

Then Johnny Law just needs to go home. And let nature take its course. And if Johnny Law does not ? Then Johnny Law is the same problem here that he is in England.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 03:12 PM (VK2pC)

333 WE HAZ A PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 03:22 PM (Ia/+0)

334 Add Caliphate by Tom Kratman to your reading list of dystopian novels of a future with a large portion of formerly semi-Christian secular nations overrun by Islam.
Unfortunately, plausible.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 07, 2026 03:28 PM (sR2WI)

335 Or just read the koran. Or just a few parts of it. Its Mein Kampf for Muslims.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 03:36 PM (VK2pC)

336 I see man of many handles is back again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 04:04 PM (ix8EF)

337 And I see the scold of just one would like to talk to the manager again. Would you like to talk to the manager ? Would you like to decide who can talk and who can not ?

That's a rhetorical question. Of course you would.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 04:29 PM (VK2pC)

338 335 Or just read the koran. Or just a few parts of it. Its Mein Kampf for Muslims.

Some of that Twelver stuff is not in the Koran.

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 04:30 PM (7vIsy)

339 Ha ha. I talk to no manager( and that s all I read if your last post ) . I just notice it which is reinforced by your telling other posters how the baby boomers finally woke up, but you got it all along.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 04:35 PM (PFs9e)

340 Some of that Twelver stuff is not in the Koran.

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 04:30 PM (7vIsy)

Don't care. When a core group is using the text ... the koran ... to justify whipping your ass ?

Bringing up nuanced points about how they ain't interpreting their own faith correctly is a losing strategy. The kind that ends up with some factually accurate folks taking a walk into the camps.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 04:39 PM (VK2pC)

341 And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 04:39 PM

The Mullah's Twelver stuff is worse. Responsibility to bring chaos on the whole world, etc. And they are financing most of the Sunni terrorists.

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 05:22 PM (7vIsy)

342 And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 04:39 PM

One wacky exercise is to look at how countries in the West changed who they supported (and when they supported both sides (or three sides if you count the Marxists) in the Iran-Iraq war.

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2026 05:25 PM (7vIsy)

343 Hobby nood if still here

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

344 One wacky exercise is to look at how countries in the West changed who they supported (and when they supported both sides (or three sides if you count the Marxists) in the Iran-Iraq war.

I watched the West change sides as Jimmy Carter left the Shah to twist in the wind in '78. While Americans were held hostage on live TV for over a year. Watched no less than Walter Fuckin' Cronkite try to spin it. While my elders ate that shit up - just like they did every evening their entire lives.

I tire - I really tire - of all this "America wasn't betrayed by my Generation" bullshit.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 05:34 PM (VK2pC)

345 And some of us are tired of you talking about it, AIWLT. You are not going to convince all the baby boomers, no matter how much you blame them for all thinking the same thing or believing the same thing. Find some way to deal with decades of disappointment and hurt and anger with parents and whomever else let you down.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2026 06:02 PM (Nx5jP)

346 I can't believe this "war" has been going on for seven days. Will this Never-Ending-War (c) ever end?

Posted by: LASue at March 07, 2026 06:30 PM (lCppi)

347 And some of us are tired of you talking about it, AIWLT.

The we finally - in the macro - understand each other. You think, generationally, that your shit never stank and we should all enjoy the taste of it.

And just about everybody else a decade or two younger just wishes you'd shut up - and better yet - get out of the way. And that about covers it.

Posted by: And I Would Love To at March 07, 2026 06:33 PM (VK2pC)

348 Senate Majority Leader John Thune Blocks President Trump's Recess Appointments

Last updated
5 minutes ago

Senate Majority Leader John Thune prevented President Trump from making recess appointments. This action contrasts with historical uses by previous presidents, such as Bill Clinton's 139 and George W. Bush's 171 recess appointments, while Trump has made zero. The obstruction has impacted unfilled positions, including ambassador roles in the Middle East.

X: https://bit.ly/4s4XCZS

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 06:41 PM (P5BPp)

349 Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews

BREAKING - The NYPD has just confirmed that the homemade bomb thrown at conservative protesters in New York City by a leftist shouting “Allahu Akbar” was a shrapnel bomb filled with nuts, bolts, and screws that, if successfully detonated, would have killed countless people.

X: https://bit.ly/47ihf8a

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 06:52 PM (P5BPp)

350 Oliya Scootercaster @ScooterCasterNY

BREAKING: NYPD ID'S both suspects after attempted bomb attack on outside Gracie Mansion.

Device is Jar wrapped in black tape with NUTS BOLT AND SCREWES and fuse inside.

Video shows second suspect pass bomb along to another, second suspect being arrested by the NYPD outside Gracie Mansion. Close up of the device.

X video: https://bit.ly/4b6NdFC

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 06:56 PM (P5BPp)

351 MAZE @mazemoore

For some reason people are making a big deal that Mamdani's wife liked social media posts calling for the end of Israel apartheid and occupation.

Um, this was Mamdani himself two weeks before Oct. 7th.

X video: https://bit.ly/4ldETIG

MAZE @mazemoore

[Mamdani] Two weeks after October 7th. Completely unhinged.

X video: https://bit.ly/4bdXuzK

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 06:58 PM (P5BPp)

352 Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs

A mass shooting, a bomb threat on a plane, and now a bomb thrown at an American citizen.

Islam is a cancer, and it will spread if not taken care of

Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner @JakeLang

I just survived an assassination attempt by these two Muslim men;

The homemade bomb they threw landed 3 feet in front of me.

The detonator failed to ignite, because God is on the throne of my life.

X video: https://bit.ly/3PoKTlZ

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 07:02 PM (P5BPp)

353 The U.S.A. is on the same path as Europe, just a few years behind.

Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra

White population of America in decline.

Dallas, Texas
1950: 83%
Now: 27%

Chicago, Illinois
1950: 86%
Now: 31%

New York City, New York
1950: 90%
Now: 30%

Miami, Florida
1950: 92%
Now: 12%

Los Angeles, California
1950: 93%
Now: 24%

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 07:04 PM (P5BPp)

354 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

HOLY CRAP! Police just confirmed that a potential BOMB was launched at anti-Islamic invasion protestors in NYC, with two Muslims involved now arrested

Devices were thrown, causing Jake Lang and others to run off

One YELLED "Allahu Akbar!"

DEPORT NOW!

X video: https://bit.ly/46QOpf4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 07, 2026 09:34 PM (P5BPp)

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