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Jesus Is A Muslim 22 Oct 3:57 AM (3 days ago)

One more in my series on this kind of thing and then I promise I'll stop.

That graphic is from an article in America magazine, or something similarly airheaded, where the US Catholic bishops make the case for supporting mass migration.

The primary outcome after 15 years of mass migration has been a dramatic increase in the populations and power of Muslims across Europe and North America. As a predictable result, girls are being raped, Jews are being persecuted and churches are being desecrated or burned. The locals are getting a bit restive as well.

From the article at that link:

Fearing a riot, the Irish authorities yesterday evening shut down the Luas tram line from central Dublin to the suburban village of Saggart, southwest of the city centre. It didn’t work. Many hundreds — perhaps a thousand — angry protestors had gathered outside the gates of the Citywest IPAS (asylum) centre, hurling missiles and abuse at the Gardai public order unit blocking them from forcing their way up the long and wooded drive to the hotel.

The day before, an African asylum seeker had been charged with the sexual assault of a 10-year old Irish girl on the grounds of the Citywest centre, a 2,500-bed hotel recently acquired at vast expense by the Irish government, against fierce local opposition in the 4,500-strong community. The suspect, who needed an Arabic translator, was issued with a deportation order this spring and hadn’t yet been removed; the victim, in the care of Ireland’s scandal-hit Tusla child protection agency, found her chaotic personal circumstances publicised by the state in a manner many on social media saw as tantamount to victim-blaming. Outside the IPAS centre, the toxic combination had fired up both locals and protestors from across the country, who now had very little time for Ireland’s main political parties, or the police forces standing between them and the hotel they wished to storm.

An African Muslim "migrant" raped a 10-year-old Irish girl and those crazy, unpredictable Irish got their Irish up.

Jesus, being omniscient, must have predicted this on the way to the sports betting site where he was picking up his winnings from betting heavily on Georgia this weekend. Since the Catholic Church has played a significant role in the mass migration crisis by loudly supporting the migrants and since the bishops claim to be informed by the Holy Spirit through prayer and since they also claim that Jesus is present in the whole thing, we can safely assume that all is going according to God's plan.

Personally, the only conclusion I can reach as I look at demographic predictions that show many European countries becoming majority Muslim in a few decades and political polls showing that NYC will soon have a Muslim communist mayor, is that Jesus has switched sides and now plays for Team Islam.

Prove me wrong, bishops.

Jesus Does Not Like The Jews 20 Oct 6:58 AM (4 days ago)

We know this from modern Catholic teaching, summarized here.

1. Our prelates are convinced they are being guided by the Holy Spirit.
2. The Holy Spirit has told them to support open borders and welcome all migrants.
3. Muslims are a good chunk of those migrants.
4. Those Muslim migrants have now become a majority in several locations. Birmingham, England, for example, where Jews were recently forbidden from attending a soccer match.
5. In many Muslim-heavy locations, Jews are persecuted and sometimes killed.
6. The Holy Spirit, being omniscient, knew this would happen, as did anyone with even the faintest familiarity with Islam.
7. Ergo, the Holy Spirit does not like Jews.
8. As we say in the Nicene Creed every week, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are consubstantial.
9. Ergo, Jesus does not like the Jews, either.

Man, Jesus' home life with his Jewish Mother Mary must have been wild.

In The UK, No Jews Is Good Jews 17 Oct 7:37 AM (7 days ago)

This is unreal.

It's For Their Own Good 15 Oct 3:30 AM (10 days ago)

 ... that we should repeal the 19th Amendment.

Here's something I hadn't considered: women are much more liberal than men. Liberal governments are the ones who have opened their countries' borders to the "migrants." Now the migrants are raping women like mad. Women continue to vote for those same liberals.

Women are voting to be raped.

Here's a reasonable explanation, one that jives with my own experiences and the deep-dive I did into writing romantic fiction with AI. I don't agree with the over-broad generalization, but the sense of the thing seems true.

For women, it's better to risk getting raped than to be seen as lacking empathy.

That sounds insane, but it fits the facts.

They Aren't Smart Enough To Want Anarchy 13 Oct 5:05 AM (11 days ago)

Continuing with my model of primitives instead of progressives, let's look at this excellent blog post about the decay in Chicago.

A driving reason for me to start (my business elsewhere) was because I saw that Chicago was on the brink of a financial precipice. I knew the politicians were full of themselves when they touted the “diversity of the economy”. Chicago was and is driven by financial services. Chicago has lost insurance, banking, investment banking, and other major verticals in finance. It has accounting, and it has trading...

I was early in this realization. An old friend who has passed away, Dan Rahill, and I went to lunch. Two CEOs laid out the math on city/county/state budgets, pensions, and everything else. A career bureaucrat stood up at that lunch and said any reform was against the Constitution.

Dan and I quickly realized that either we grow the economic opportunity, or we move.

He goes on to discuss how he left and doesn't miss Chicago because those remaining are angry with Trump's efforts at deporting illegals and the ICE raids. After a few anecdotes, he summarizes the situation as follows.

There are some truths about immigration and illegal aliens.

1. You cannot have open borders with a welfare state. It’s impossible.
2. It is lawful to deport illegal aliens. They aren’t here legally, and it is the federal government’s role to do it. There is no such thing as a sanctuary state or city. Asserting such is not any different than assertions by the old Confederacy that they were above federal law.
3. When there is no law, and there is no will to enforce the law, or there is only a selective will to enforce some laws, anarchy will reign. Totalitarians love anarchy. It’s what Lenin brought to Russia to take control. It is the playbook of Saul Alinsky. Anarchy begets totalitarianism.

1 is spot on. 2 is a poor reading of the legality of secession in 1861, but it's close enough for our purposes. 3 may be correct, but it's irrelevant. Anarchy might lead to totalitarianism but in a place where the residents can choose to flee, it will be warring tribes living in mud huts and squalor, not a modern city. Who cares who rules the place at that point?

Dig this from South Africa.

As the primitives gain more and more power, money and skilled people flee both Chicago and South Africa. The ones who are leaving, just like my friends who have left California, are the builders and producers. The ones staying behind are the primitives. Thus, the spiral downward continues.

Lots of people on the right keep going on about totalitarianism, anarcho-socialism and the plots of the Globalists. It hardly matters whether or not the primitives wrecking the place have some grand plan or not. They're tearing those places to bits.

It's not really a blog post without a dig at the primitives who run our Church, is it? The bit about open borders and a welfare state being incompatible touched a nerve. We receive regular earfuls about Catholic social teaching (read: lots of welfare) and support of the "migrants" from our leaders in the Church. Sigh.

Primitives, Not Progressives 12 Oct 5:42 AM (12 days ago)

I think I've had my formulations wrong all this time. I keep talking about progressives and suchlike, but that's not really who they are. Instead, they are primitives. Allow me to explain.

Ben Shapiro published a book recently called Lions and Scavengers. In short, lions build and protect while scavengers, well, scavenge. I like Ben, but the book feels like it was rushed and his model doesn't work for me. For one thing, lions don't build anything. Further, the people who get me all worked up, the Catholic hierarchy, are only somewhat scavengers. It dawned on me just recently that a better descriptor is primitives.

Primitives have no idea how civilization works, how it is maintained or how it was created. These are the South Africans who have torn out power lines to get at the copper which they sell for scrap metal. These are also the Catholic bishops who call for more and more "migrants" to be brought into America from places like South Africa.

The South Africans are tearing South Africa to bits and the bishops can't see that bringing them here will only lead to America being torn to bits. They are both primitives because civilization is utterly alien to them save for how it will be consumed to provide sustenance for today.

Dig this time-lapse video of a major construction project.

Now listen to this Aboriginal talk about meeting white people for the first time.

Now check out this summary of the Palestinians going at each other like animals now that there is a power vacuum in Gaza following Hamas getting stomped by the Israelis.

There is simply no chance in the world that either the Aboriginals or the Palestinians could build that apartment complex on their own. If you go backwards in time a bit so that both the Abos* and Pallies cannot rely on anything invented by the Europeans, it becomes crystal clear that neither would be able to build anything even remotely like that.

Primitives are like that. They are, well, primitive. If you import a bunch of them or create a ton of them in your universities or generate them from legalizing drugs, they will drag you down to their level. They cannot do anything else because they do not know how to maintain, much less build.

This is what makes the open-border crowd primitives. They are actively overloading the system to the point where everything will get pulled to bits. Because they are primitive, they don't understand what is required to maintain civilization and, in childlike innocence, think it will always be there.

An intellectual with a fancy degree wearing a suit (or Roman collar!) can be just as primitive as the Abo woman in the video above. When you consume what others have built, when you devour your fixed assets to feed yourself today, when it is easy to project the fruits of your behavior into the future and see mud huts instead of skyscrapers, you are a primitive.

Primitives do this:

It is childlike naivete to think that cash will continue to flow from the government forever like this. It is childlike naivete to speak of empathy and compassion for the migrants who will accelerate the process of fiscal collapse. It is childlike naivete to think that Abos, Pallies or South American peasants will contribute anything unique and irreplaceable to construction projects like the one above in excess of what they will drain from the rest of us.

It is the same childlike ignorance that leads the South Africans to tear apart their infrastructure for scrap.

It is primitive.

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Watch this and think in terms of the value of the fixed assets involved. Any repairs of this destruction must be paid out of existing funds which will not be available for normal maintenance or improvements. In short, the "migrants" are pulling Italy to bits. The Catholic bishops, being primitives, cannot comprehend that.

* - If you think I'm going to keep typing "Aboriginals" and "Palestinians" over and over again, you're crazy.

Tomato Chemistry 9 Oct 4:34 PM (15 days ago)

 For years, I've nuked our raised beds with every kind of fertilizer imaginable. In December or January, I pull last year's tomato plant carcasses out of the bed and then whack it with raw DOW chemical, some LGBTQWERTY organic nutrients and then some PETA-approved, sustainable animal fertilizers. Cumulatively, I use about triple the fertilizer I should.

In January, February and March come the San Diego rains. It's not much for normal humans, but for us, it's a decent amount of water. It turns my fertilizer blitz into a charming tea for the plants, read: Roma tomatoes. This has worked forever. This year, it failed. All we got was monster tomato plants with plenty of fruit that never ripened.

Preparing for my garden in Alabama, I bought this soil test kit. 

Testing the Nitrogen.

Here's what I discovered.

Tomatoes want a pH of about 6 and a moderate amount of Nitrogen. They want a lot of Phosphorus and Potassium. I had:

• pH = 8. No surprise, San Diego is known for hard, alkaline water.
• Nitrogen: High. Probably not a problem.
• Phosphorus: High. Excellent!
• Potassium: Low. Oof!

If The Jews Are Packing 8 Oct 4:03 AM (17 days ago)

 ... then it might be time for you to check to see if your luggage is in working order.

Dig this.

Also, this.

My own family arrived here at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Like many Jews from Eastern Europe, they were fleeing the mass murders perpetrated by the Russian state. That journey brought them to Scotland, where they built new lives and laid down roots. I grew up in Glasgow, deeply proud to be British. I learned the kings and queens of the British Isles by heart and was captivated by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots. I absorbed the customs, values, and culture. I was always a proud Jew who understood my connection to Israel, but I also cherished being British.

This was my home. Today, I am preparing to leave it.

It has not been an easy decision. For years I clung to the belief that, despite the rise in hostility to the Jewish community, we could still build lives here. I had watched from abroad during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020, when Jew-hate poisoned the party and seeped into wider politics. 

And then there's this.

Despite what right-wing antisemite loons might say, and I'm looking at you, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, Jews are civilization's canaries in the coal mine. If they don't feel safe, then it's a good bet you're not going to feel safe soon.

Looking back through history, you can take your pick of pogroms and see that they never preceded times of peace and prosperity. How could they? Jews are a boon to any society.

It's no secret that Jewish culture strongly values education and hard work. It's why, contra Hitler, they succeed wherever they go. And who doesn't want more of that?

If you've created an environment where that is not valued to the point where the Jews are looking for the exits, it's a strong indicator that things are about to go sideways for everyone.

Super Special Yiddish Bonus Content

Add New York City to the list of places you might want to avoid in the future.

Well, That Didn't Take Long 6 Oct 10:47 AM (18 days ago)

 I wasn't going to write about France again, but they, well, they did a France.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu abruptly resigned on Monday morning, just three weeks after his appointment, preempting what appeared to be an inevitable ousting. Lecornu was expected to unveil his policy agenda before the National Assembly on Tuesday, but both the Socialist Party and the National Rally had warned that without a drastic policy shift, they would trigger a no-confidence vote. French bonds and stocks slumped on the emerging political crisis. 

President Emmanuel Macron's office issued a one-sentence statement, confirming that Macron had accepted the resignation of Lecornu. This comes amid turmoil over the composition of his cabinet, a coalition of centrists and conservatives. 

Lecornu told reporters his resignation was primarily due to the inability to compromise across the political spectrum: "I was ready to compromise, but each political party wanted the other political party to adopt its entire program."

Three whole weeks? What an amateur. Let Bruno Le Maire show you how professionals do it.

France's former finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, who was appointed head of the Ministry of the Armed Forces on Sunday, announced his resignation less than 24 hours after taking the job, amid ongoing political turmoil that rattled stocks and bonds in Paris on Monday. 

Surrendering in less than 24 hours. Now that's some prime-grade Frenching right there.

Not to worry. The migrants will add stability to the whole thing, right Catholic prelates?

Professor David Betz, please call your office.

Oh, wait, there he is now.

Triggering Civil War In England And France 4 Oct 2:54 PM (20 days ago)

David Betz has made the rounds discussing why he thinks that sectarian civil war in Europe will happen in the next 5 years. Here's one such conversation.

Here's an interesting article from ZeroHedge that applies.

France remains paralyzed even after its latest government reshuffle. Time is running out to consolidate public finances before bond markets turn against Paris.

The office of Prime Minister has become a revolving door. In just three years, President Emmanuel Macron has burned through five governments without visible results. 

The country is trapped in political shock, a deadlock in parliament that appears unbreakable.On September 9, Sébastien Lecornu of Macron’s Renaissance party took the poisoned chalice from his failed predecessor François Bayrou. Like those before him, Bayrou was broken by France’s structural inability to reform. The country sustains one of the most bloated welfare systems in the world, with government expenditure at 57% of GDP. This overextended welfare state acts as a sedative for a migration-driven society that has shifted into full socialist-style management of the economy—and now cannot find a way out.

France buys social peace with ever-larger sums of borrowed money. The strategy leaves deep holes in the public accounts and barely hides the fractures of a fragmented society, where class conflict grows more aggressive and Islamist subcultures flourish. With new borrowing at 5.6% of GDP this year and total debt at 114%, France faces the classic Ponzi dilemma: once old debt can no longer be rolled into new issuance, the entire system collapses.

Unlike the US, the Euro is not the currency the world uses and so there is no real reason to buy French bonds as there is to buy American bonds. If any of the European countries find themselves in a serious fiscal crunch, there will be cuts to their social spending, either from inflation or budgetary necessity.

It hardly matters which. In a population used to survival at the hands of government largesse built upon clouds of borrowing, when that borrowing dissolves, things will get dicey and people will revert to clan and tribal loyalties. The African and Muslim "migrants" will have the advantage here as they are far more familiar with violence and deprivation than the native French and British.

If you think the IMF can bail out these countries, think again. IMF rules say that a country can borrow up to 200% of its quota, which is tied to its economic size and contributions to the IMF. For the UK, that would be about $55B. For France, that would be about $70B. That would cover about 4 months of each country's current borrowing. 

The IMF can't come to the rescue because the amounts both nations need are just too large. 

You can "buy social peace with ... borrowed money" until you can't.

David Betz has predicted it. Will the debt crises be the catalyst for it?

Christian Morality Is About Individuals, Not Groups 28 Sep 5:56 AM (26 days ago)

 St. Thomas Aquinas has provided us with the best definition of love.

You've got a decent chance of figuring out what "the good" is for an individual if you really get to know them. At least you can make an educated guess. You can also take steps to make sure your actions don't have destructive secondary effects on others.

You've got just about no chance at all of figuring out what "the good" is for the members of a large group and you can just forget about predicting how you might harm people outside the group.

I've discussed in the past how my middle brother died as a homeless addict and alcoholic. If you had exerted yourself to do "good" for him, you would have locked him away in rehab for the rest of his life and given him some vigorous home truths. I have no idea if such an action would be best for any particular homeless person, I just know it's what he needed.

When the progressive prelates in the Catholic Church talk about "uplifting the marginalized," warehousing the homeless like that is not what they mean. As a result, "uplifting the marginalized" would have been counterproductive for my brother.

If Bishop Pham of San Diego goes out to the tomato fields in Central California and gets to know Jose Hernandez, illegal immigrant, he's got a really good shot at helping poor old Jose without kicking the rest of America in the groin. It's a bit murkier when Bishop Pham and the rest of our moral-pornography-besotted bishops talk about the "migrants" as a group, insisting that we deport none of them.

I recently saw some eye-opening education stats from California. Over 70% of black 4th graders in California are not proficient at reading at the basic level. The basic level. Dittos for black 8th graders. That means "See spot run" is about as far as they can get. They can barely communicate in English, there's zero chance they can communicate at all in Spanish.

Thanks to Bishop Pham and his buddies in the Church, the language of construction, housekeeping and landscape maintenance in California is now Spanish. Those functionally illiterate black kids are shut out from the only careers available to provide them productive, successful lives.

Had our bishop focused on Jose, he'd have been fine and we'd all have applauded. Maybe Jose has a wife and children and he's trying to keep the family together while his wife undergoes complicated treatments for her painful dandruff condition. The bishop would have been able to predict the ripple effects from his actions with a degree of accuracy.

When the bishops lecture us about the migrants, they clearly have no idea what they're talking about. They aren't trying to hurt people on purpose, but they've still managed to absolutely stomp all over young blacks' employment prospects. Even now, they have no clue at all what they're doing to the rest of us.

That's not a criticism of their intentions or intellect, it's a consequence of their decision to take Jesus' teachings and extend them from individuals to groups, which is something He never did for reasons that have become all too obvious.

So help Jose and let the polity take care of the migrants.

On Old Men And Cigars 26 Sep 1:50 PM (28 days ago)

After my tobacco growing experiments yielded a smokable harvest, I decided to find out if my tobacco was any good by taking up pipe smoking. I'd never smoked prior to that and even now, I smoke about twice a month. I recently decided to see what cigars were like.

Recalling that Roger Moore was partial to Monte Cristo cigars, and Roger being my favorite James Bond, I stopped at our local Total Wine and More and picked up one. It was utterly sublime.

At 62, I took up cigar smoking with about the same regularity as my pipe smoking. Monte Cristos are quite expensive, about $25 apiece, so I tried to find similar cigars that were less expensive. A bit of searching both here in San Diego and in Mobile, Alabama yielded a string of smokes that tasted like I was licking the asphalt out in the street. Horrible.

The last one I tried, highly recommended by the cigar guy at the Tinder Box in Mobile, was a Perdomo Lot 23 Nicaraguan. Again, sublime.

My cigar exploration has produced very few hits, so I think I'm done with that and I'll stick to the Perdomos and the Monte Cristos. Combined with a good Old Fashioned, and I make a good one, the experience is exquisite.

The problem with being a novice at cigar smoking when you're 63 is that you didn't make your truly hideous mistakes at 16 and there are lessons you still need to learn the hard way.

About a week ago, wife kitteh went on a retreat with a friend and, naturally, I threw a stag party. Southern food and Confederate Railroad music was had in great quantities and two of my guests proved to be excellent mixologists. It was a lot of fun until the very end when we brought out smokes.

You are not supposed to inhale cigars. I had heard that, but while smoking my previous cigars, I played with that advice and inhaled a few times. Nothing happened.

I inhaled a complete Perdomo Lot 23 Nicaraguan Churchill. That is one seriously big cigar.

Vomito de gato.

Cigars have a lot more nicotine than cigarettes which is why you only puff them. You get plenty of the stuff through your mouth. No need to take it into your lungs and poison yourself, which is what I did. Blargh.

I don't get a nicotine high. I still don't understand why people smoke cigarettes. I smoke pipes and cigars for the flavor and the experience. Like I said, they go real well with mixed drinks. And so I ended up crawling around on the floor all day Sunday as my body irritably processed the idiotic amount of nicotine I had consumed while not actually enjoying any kind of buzz from it.

I sure wish I had learned that when I was 16.

A happier moment when I'm puffing, not inhaling.

If This Is A Spaniel 24 Sep 8:22 AM (last month)

 ... then I'm the Queen of France.

That's Buddy. He's probably around 40# by now at 5-6 months old. We were assured he was a spaniel - retriever mix. Doggy DNA testing showed he was exactly what I thought he was when we met him as a puppy at the rescue place - a pit bull.

Fortunately, he's a meek pit bull. Our twin chihuahua sisters dominate him. Thank God for small favors.

The Deeper Meaning Of Charlie Kirk's Death And Memorial 22 Sep 5:59 AM (last month)

Here are a few clips to get this started.

First, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

Second, Vice President J D Vance.

Next, Erika Kirk.

Now, President Trump.

Finally, Andrew Klavan.

They are not all the same. There is a line running through them, but they are not the same. The Overton Window has shifted dramatically. 

The dominant question on the right, now broadly permissible as a result of Charlie Kirk’s death, is this: How do we best follow Christ in the realm of politics?

It is incredible to me that such a question is now front and center in the Republican party. It would have been unthinkable even 3 weeks ago. As a believing Catholic, I haven't felt comfortable discussing my faith in public in 20 or 30 years. 

I have a friend who teaches natural family planning at marriage preparation classes. She's no dummy, she can see other Catholics wince when she brings up the topic. She shared with me a little of the embarrassment she feels, even among her fellow Catholics, at the subject. She hesitates to discuss it unless required by the classes.

That's the Overton Window in action. What is permissible speech in public? The Overton Window limits what we will discuss with each other, even in private, even among friends. When JD Vance said he had felt uncomfortable discussing his faith in public, he meant even the speeches he gave at red-meat, MAGA events.

The Secretary of State went full Father Mike Schmitz, not just in public, but in front of a memorial service whose size equaled those of JFK and MLK. When have you ever heard that, in such an enormous venue, from the person fourth in line for the Presidency?

I didn't watch the whole thing, but I watched much of it and every speaker got up and talked about their Christian faith. It was the central theme of the day. Not MAGA, not Trump, not the political enemies, not even the murder of Charlie Kirk. While Charlie's assassination was the catalyst, the end product of the reaction was this conversation.

How do we serve God in our politics? How do we gain the courage to speak the truth? How can we be more like Charlie Kirk in our daily lives?

I have no doubt that the regime media will focus on Trump's profession of hate. They absolutely should do that. The President of the United States, at a massive event for a Christian preacher, pled allegiance to hate. But you have to see it in context. If you know anything about Trump, you know he's a showman, full of bluster, speaking in hyperbole all the time. He is the greatest, everything he's ever done is the greatest, all of his achievements are like nothing we've ever seen.

Trump's profession of hate had an undercurrent of regret and doubt. It was an admission, not a call to action. When he talked about Erika's forgiveness, he didn't do what he usually does to people who disagree with him, calling her names or saying she was a failure. No, instead of that, he said that she might be able to convince him he was wrong and he needed to wish the best for everyone, even his enemies.

Amazing. Fantastic. Miraculous.

We don't know where this is going to lead, but we do know that it has utterly changed the conversation we are all having with each other, at least on the right. We are now having the correct conversation, as Andrew Klavan has been asserting for years now. The most important questions are about the Truth and both politics and culture are downstream of that. 

Don't get angry and avenge Charlie Kirk. Imitate him instead.

I'll leave you with this one, staggering quote. Imagine a world where Elon converts and uses his platform, his wealth and his powerful persuasion for Christ.

Marginalized Pornography 19 Sep 4:33 AM (last month)

Within the very progressive Diocese of San Diego, a common theme from the pulpit is how we must lift up the marginalized. It's driven me bonkers, but it's taken me a while to understand why.

There is no such thing as the marginalized. The term comes from social justice and cultural Marxism academic literature. It implies all that you would suspect given that pedigree. Its root is the verb "to marginalize" and it's freighted with the Marxist concepts of oppressors and oppressed. Oppressors marginalize people. The oppressed are the marginalized.

Further, it carries with it the woke hierarchy of victim groups. When you talk about the marginalized, people know you mean blacks, LGBTQWERTY, women, the homeless and so on. The flip side is that straight, white men and their allies are the ones doing the marginalizing. Everything is about power and systems of oppression.

Just taking the homeless as an example, you can see that the term doesn't make sense. My middle brother was an addict and an alcoholic. He was homeless when he died. To our diocese, he was a member of the marginalized. In reality, that man was in no way, shape or form marginalized by anyone. He was an utter sensualist. There was no immediate pleasure he would not forgo whether that was sex, drugs or booze. He slept with anything that wore a skirt and consumed anything that made him high.

Our family tried to "uplift" him many times, but that always ended in theft, betrayal and sometimes violence.

The racially marginalized are equally nonsensical.

Here, the white girl was the oppressor. The black guy who had just stabbed her in the throat was the marginalized. Dittos for the black passengers who walked past her as she bled out on the floor. You can find the full story here if you aren't familiar with this iconic image.

Classifying people as marginalized makes no sense at all. As Solzhenitsyn said, the dividing line between good and evil runs down the middle of every human heart. We're all complex people. Catholics, perhaps not including our clergy here in San Diego, believe that all people are fallible, sinful creatures that cannot perfect or redeem themselves on their own. That includes whoever it is the clergy think they're describing when they used the term "marginalized."

So what's up with all the talk about the marginalized?

When you use the term "marginalized," you put them in the context of the Marxists' oppressor-victim framework. The discussion from that point on forces anyone disagreeing with you to take up the flag of the oppressor. You are airbrushing away the agency of these people the way lingerie models have their flaws airbrushed away in Photoshop. It's porn.

When our clergy tell us to uplift the marginalized, what are we going to say, "No, I don't want to uplift the marginalized?" You force us to accept your unspoken premise that these people are helpless victims of an unjust system created by people like us who are privileged at their expense. We are the villains and now we must pay back what we owe.

It's all nonsense, it's all moral pornography. Your frisson of onanistic pleasure that comes from helping the less fortunate by your speech alone becomes all the greater because now you are helping, not just people who are in a bad way, but utterly innocent and helpless people who are in a bad way. You can't hope to find anyone who better fits Jesus' reference of "the least among you" than the "marginalized."

It's like an AI version of the perfect lingerie model, a chick crafted by your prompts to have just the right hair, the right skin, the right measurements, the right pose, the right facial expression and the right garments to arouse you to the very heights of ecstasy.

The marginalized do not exist in real life because Marxism is utterly wrong, but they do exist in your head. Each of the social justice progressives has their own internal image of the marginalized, just like porn addicts each have their own distinct fetishes.

A good way to put an end to this kind of talk is to bring up concrete examples. My brother, for one. Just how do you plan on uplifting him when he's just going to rob you to get another hit? How about the black guy on the train in Charlotte? Are you planning on uplifting him as he stands with the white girl's blood dripping from his knife, muttering, "I got that white girl?"

Or maybe these guys in South Africa. For the social justice crew, black South Africans are prime-grade marginalized beef on the hoof. Go ahead and uplift them as they destroy their own infrastructure in the process of stealing a few dollars worth of scrap metal.

All Bark, No Blog 16 Sep 2:07 PM (last month)

The puppy is just killing me. It takes up my every morning which is when my creative juices flow. It's getting bigger and easier to manage, but it's still needy and wife kitteh needs her morning sleep.

Sigh.

Having A Psychotic Boss Leads To The Assassination Of Charlie Kirk 11 Sep 4:49 AM (last month)

I've been pondering this concept for a while and the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday forced it to the surface.

What is the next logical step after this?

How about the radicalization of the Democrats?

The Democrats get a large percent of their money from small donors which means the base. As their popularity declines, so does their pool of donors. As their popularity declines, their base becomes more and more radical because the squishier ones leave. Their popularity is now at historic lows.

As their popularity decreases, they are forced to spiral in towards their far-left base which means their rhetoric has to become more and more frenzied and hateful to keep the money flowing. Hence "the end of Democracy" and "fascists" and all the rest.

If their starting point was that everyone who disagreed with them was a racist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a fascist and more, where else can they go as their base moves farther and farther left?

How do you appeal to psychotics?

Addendum

It is nearly impossible to be a conservative and not understand the left's positions because we marinate in them every day. They permeate our entertainment, schools and news media. We bathe in the water of the left.

It is very common for the progressives to have no idea why conservatives think like they do because people like Charlie Kirk have been edited out of their world. I can't tell you how many news sources and public figures described Charlie as "divisive" and then cherry-picked some of his positions, putting them in the worst light possible. They deliberately removed all neutral reference points. They wanted you to hate him.

As the left spirals down into their base, their base stays whipped into a frenzy of ignorant, self-reinforced hate. That's a recipe for more and more violence.

More than that, Charlie Kirk along with Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh and lots of other thought leaders on the right make it a habit to speak in large, public forums and then make sure the progressives in the audience get an unedited, uninterrupted chance to challenge them in the Q&A.

That dialog was precisely what Charlie was doing when they shot him. 

You punish the things you don't want repeated. If you're going to punish free and open conversations about politics, be prepared for the alternative.

One more thing. Ben Shapiro made a typically brilliant observation about Charlie's assassination. This spells the end of open-air presentations like this. From now on, the venues for these things will be enclosed, tightly controlled and necessarily smaller. If you saw photos of Charlie's event yesterday, you'll see why this is a bad thing for all Americans. That crowd was huge.

The 8th Air Force And Islam In Europe 4 Sep 3:57 AM (last month)

I know this is a detour from my series on Be Nice, Don't Judge in the Diocese of San Diego, but I just got a brain wave on a topic I've been pondering for years.

What will the world be like for us when Europe and Canada become Islamic? Given demographic trends, we're on track for that. 

What if the end result is a 1950s America where we prosper because our competition has been bombed into the Stone Age and we're the only ones with a functional, advanced economy? The analogy isn't perfect as we would share the spoils with Asia in a way we didn't in the 1950s, but the idea might be the same.

Is there a difference between the 8th Air Force and Islam?

Think about this: there isn't a single Muslim country where there are significant manufacturing, software development or investment industries. Quick, name an automobile brand that comes from an Islamic country. You can't because there isn't one.

It's not that they don't have resources, manpower or cash. There are plenty of Islamic countries awash in all three. It must be something cultural. I won't go into it here, but if you have read What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis, it makes sense. Here's the book's blurb from Amazon.

For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.

In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken, overshadowed, and dominated by the West. In a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil, Lewis shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry, industry, government, education, and culture. He also describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, while others asked not "Who did this to us?" but rather "Where did we go wrong?"

A lot of things went right for America in the 1950s. One of the chief among them was the fact that Europe and Japan were skeletons of their former economic selves. Are we headed back to those halcyon days once Britain, France, Germany and Canada become Islamic Republics?

Allahu Akbar, indeed.

Who Are The Marginalized? Not You 3 Sep 5:11 AM (last month)

After Bishop Devouring Mother smothered us with treacle at the recent Synodality Meeting, we got another earful about the marginalized from the pulpit on Sunday.

Who are the marginalized? Well, the homeless, the addicts, the migrants, the LGBTQWERTY crew, non-whites and women in general.

Recently, an illegal got a trucker's license from a deep blue state where they love the marginalized. Illiterate and ignorant of traffic laws or signs, he made a U-turn on an expressway from the right-hand lane and killed three people.

He is the marginalized. The people he killed are not the marginalized. Get that through your head, you judgmental bigot.

In Milan, a North African migrant beat and raped an 18-year old girl. I'm not going to post the details here, they are simply too horrible. He is the marginalized, not the girl.

The Marginalized Are Fetish Porn

Thinking about this, I came up with a definition of pornography. It is exaggerated sensory input designed to stimulate your particular desires. The porn star who is hung like a horse, the porn star with a D-cup, the family of migrants with eyes like anime characters, the homeless man who lost his job, they're all porn, some for the pervert, some for the be nice, don't judge crowd. The be nice, don't judge type love the way the marginalized excite their devouring mother fetish and give them a fantasy about cuddling and protecting and uplifting the weak and needy.

Here, we see two migrants, a transgender, a homeless person and a gay dude.

One of the worst things you can do to someone who is enjoying porn is to mess with their inputs. Imagine having a wonderful session with your laptop and someone presses the F11 key and your browser pans out to show you the camera and sound crew filming whatever filth you're enjoying. What a total buzzkill!

That's who we are to the Catholic Charities people, the bishops, the Church of England, Lutheran Charities and the race-obsessed progressives when we ask about the people killed by the illegal trucker or the girl raped by the North African. It's also why the churches and politicians are so silent about the victims. No one wants to be that guy, the one that wonders aloud if all this thrilling content featuring the "marginalized" is just so much porn.

The Real Penalty For Apostasy

Dig this. It gives you the true penalty for pulling back the camera on the porn - social isolation for you and yours.

That was Graham Linehan, a British comedy writer who got arrested coming off the plane at Heathrow. His story can be found here. It's worth a read to get a good sense of the direction the Elites are taking us all.

Be Nice Unto Others As You Would Have Them Not Judge Unto You 30 Aug 7:06 AM (last month)

Here's one more post in my be nice, don't judge series discussing how and why the Church has become pathologically feminine, a near-perfect instantiation of Carl Jung's devouring mother.

Way back in 2023, 10 days after the diabolical Hamas attack on Israel, I wrote this post with the following excerpt.

I worked part of a men's retreat weekend on Thursday and Friday and heard another "God loves you" sermon. In light of what had happened in Israel and what is happening in our own children's hospitals and then the protests on campuses supporting both, that sermon was an obscenity. It's taken me a while to figure out what it is that makes them inappropriate and tasteless. I've come to the conclusion that they are childish. Not innocent and naive, but sickeningly infantile and weak in their blindness and dishonesty.

One of the priests who was on the retreat saying Mass has a habit of saying, "It's x o'clock and you are loved" with a simpering smile. I've always felt that to be a little creepy, talking to me like I'm an anxious child. This time it was sickening.

We're at war. Evil is no longer talking in euphemisms. It is livestreaming its rapes. It is shouting and dancing about its abortions. It is marching in the streets chanting, "Gas the Jews!" It is flashing swastikas from its cell phones at Jews in the streets. It is proudly talking about genital mutilation and mastectomies for children.

In this environment, prancing around and saying, "It's 11:30 and you are loved!" is an obscenity. It is a denial of the pain and loss of the innocent. There is no pain, there is no loss, there is just gooey goodness and love all around. There is no need to fight and argue and stand for what is good because there isn't any existential threat around us. Evil is nowhere to be seen, we can all go back to our soft beds and go back to sleep.

Synodal Nausea

At the diocesan synod meeting last weekend, we were given handouts where the slogan for the synod was "Pilgrims of Hope." It was nauseating in exactly the same way. It was infantilizing and condescending and useless in its utter emasculation of the participants.

I'm facing a major decision in my life right now. I'm aging out of the chance to achieve one of my life's goals - a vacation home in Alabama. I'll soon be too old to enjoy it if I buy it, but at the same time I have significant financial commitments to our extended family that must be met before I can spend money on myself. Outside of a DeLorean some 30 years ago and a few trips to sporting events, I've not spent much on myself. Throughout my adult life, my time and money have all gone to parents, wives, children and others.

That's not a complaint, it's simply part of being a man. The decision is right there in front of me every day. At the same time, my employment situation is uncertain. I worked about 60% this last fiscal year and am only 60% funded for the coming year. I'm working hard to land new clients and get to full time, but I've got nothing but prospects right now. I don't feel comfortable taking a plunge on a Fish River house at 60%.

Simultaneously, I'm fighting the bottle, just like almost everyone else in my family has, particularly on my mother's side, for generations. That battle has been up and down for years. Right now it's mostly up, but I know it will never go away completely. It's hand-to-hand combat with demons every single afternoon.

Into that situation comes my church, oozing docility and creepiness, saying things like, "It's x o'clock and you are loved" and "Pilgrims of Hope." It prattles on about uplifting the marginalized and amplifying their voices. The marginalized face the same choices and temptations I do, that we all do. We're freaking adults, not pouty toddlers.

This is how my Church sees me and everyone else, too.

After the Synod, trying to put my finger on just what was sickening me about this, I listened to this talk by Jordan Peterson summarizing his outstanding book, 12 Rules for Life. Here it is, queued up to one of its many good points.

Jordan is useful, the Church prelates are not. More tellingly, Jordan loves me, the Church prelates love themselves.

The Bishops Love Themselves

In Matthew 7:12, Jesus famously says, “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets."

I want, heck, I need my friends, family and church to treat me like an adult and not a disturbed child. I am a fallible, sinful person and only by changing myself will my life improve. A friend wouldn't pat me on the head and tell me they were going to uplift me because I was marginalized. If I'm marginalized, it's because I did it to myself.

Hello, double Elijah Craig Old Fashioned. And a refill after this one, please. I'm on the Highway to Marginalization, as AC/DC might say.

Last night, I began to think what it would be like if I talked, in a treacly voice, to the bishop or the pansy priest the way they talked to me.

“Father… oh Father… I can see the strain in your eyes. Do you need to be uplifted? Don’t worry, I’ll hold the space for you. Your poor little voice hasn’t been heard, has it? I’ll amplify it. I’ll be your megaphone of hope. You’ve carried such burdens, haven’t you? So heavy, so unfair. And yet you keep smiling—oh, how brave! But Father, you don’t need to be brave with me. Not anymore. You can put it all down. You can weep if you need to weep, wail if you must. Don’t hide behind your vestments. It’s going to be alright. I will nurture you, protect you, love you into wholeness. Shhh… there now. Let go. Let me be strong for you.”

Vomito de gato.

This isn't love, it's moral masturbation. The Church prelates don't talk to us like this because they love us, they do it because they get a virtue orgasm out of it. They couldn't care less about us, we're just 2-dimensional pornographic images to them. 

The scene where I condescend to the priest is plainly wrong because both the priest and I know our relative positions in the Church. It is inappropriate for me to talk to him like an infant. However, both the priest and I know our relative and utterly equal positions in the eyes of God and it is inappropriate for him to speak to me that way, too.

Further, and more obviously, we're both freaking adults, man. No one talks to an adult that way, not if they want to keep all their teeth. It's beyond insulting.

I think I'll stop here as this one is getting a bit long and I still want to go to the gym before the Newcastle game at 0930.

Maybe, while I'm at the gym, someone will uplift my weights for me. That's what Jesus would want - for me to go to the gym, but not lift anything and have me sit there and watch others lift for me.

Vomito de gato indeed.

Be Nice, Don't Judge People From Other Cultures 29 Aug 4:45 AM (last month)

 This was so breathtaking that it is practically the whole of my post today.

Shorter version: "They rape little, white girls because raping little, white girls is what they do and who they are."

Meanwhile, Church prelates, deliberately blind to such cultural differences, lecture us dirty, bigoted laity about being tolerant and inclusive while Church NGOs, devoted to "uplifting the marginalized" at any cost, provide the manpower for importing massive numbers of "people from other cultures" who lack "proper cultural awareness."

Mental Exercise: Imagine the amount of "cultural awareness training" required to make respecting women second nature to the fellow below given his starting point and the amount of  "cultural training" he has received since boyhood in his native land. How long might it take? Who would administer it? What culture would he be trained in when the West hates its legacy culture?

The feminine pathology that has take over the West in general and the Catholic Church in particular simply dismisses such complications as it plays out a massive, collective instantiation of Carl Jung's devouring mother.

Every problem is a baby and every solution is cuddling.

Super Extra Special Number One Plus Good Bonus Content

Look, everyone! The migrants are receiving cultural awareness training! We're saved!

Yet More Bonus Content Because God Is Love

This post is taking on a life of its own.

Dig this.

A migrant staying at the Wethersfield asylum centre in north Essex says there is “almost nightly fighting” between different nationalities.

The BBC has seen video footage that appeared to show a fight involving several men in a canteen where chairs were thrown and one man had a bloodied face...

The asylum seeker, whose identity we are protecting, says the asylum centre on the former military base “has many, many problems".

He told the BBC there was “almost nightly fighting with another nationality, because the number of people is many”.

He said he did not know why the migrants were fighting.

The BBC understands that some of the minibuses that take migrants to the nearby centres of Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford have had their windows smashed and vandalised on the base.

Be nice. Don't judge. God is love.

Be Nice, Don't Judge The Truth 28 Aug 4:57 AM (last month)

Of all the various organizations, governments and institutions in the world, two of the very few whose mission is to pursue the Truth are the Catholic Church and empirical science*. Political parties exist to get elected. Private enterprise institutions, including our universities, exist to get funding. Only the Church and true science need to justify changes through reconciliation or argument with past doctrines and beliefs. Protestant Christianity isn't included because it lives in a no-man's land with its preference for personal interpretation over dogma.

True science doesn't have an institution that defends it. The ethical collapse of Scientific American and the capitulation of most of our top universities to cultural Marxism shows that clearly.

That only leaves the Catholic Church institutionally defending Truth. When we falter or fail, civilization loses its last guardrail and all bets are off.

Europe and Canada are decaying under the weight of mass migration from Africa and Islam. If you haven't seen it yet, check out this video of a 14-year-old Scottish girl defending herself from harassing migrants. She's brandishing a knife and an axe because the police and the men in her town cower in the face of the migrants. Naturally, the authorities arrested her and left the migrants alone.

I really dislike swearing in prose, but this meme captured what is going on in Europe perfectly.

Be Nice, Don't Judge

Recalling my post about nature being red in cilia and membrane ...

The whole model of the world God made is effectively, while not utterly, Darwinian. Violent competition is a part of life at all levels. It is into that world that Jesus came. It is that world that gives us the dramatic conflicts of our lives, conflict being a necessary element of any story. Our lives are art expressed through our bodies and our actions and that expression forms the story we author with our lives.

It is in such a world, deliberately and purposefully created this way, that we are called to serve God, love our neighbors, forgive each other and care for the least among us.

The Church and its associated NGOs have been behind mass migration everywhere, actively enabling it by supplying the manpower necessary to bring the migrants into the various countries. The Church and the NGOs have received contractual payments in the hundreds of millions of dollars to do just that. 

The Church has utterly disregarded the Truth and the reality of the world in favor of a pathologically feminine world view that insists that the only thing Christ really taught was be nice, don't judge. The end result is perfectly summarized by the meme above. The "Jesus Christ" may be inappropriate language, but only technically. It speaks a truth deeper than the simple exclamation suggests.

And now we live in a world where the countries that have brought in these migrants are on the verge of widespread sectarian violence. This was perfectly predictable for anyone who was honest and clear-eyed about the cultures being imported.

France Used To Be Catholic

In France, several cities are turning to teen curfews to suppress the growing violence and drug trade being perpetrated by the African newcomers.

Several French cities have this summer introduced a curfew for teenagers in a bid to curb youth violence, but even some mayors are not sure if the ban should be enforced. While some experts say that curfews for minors do not reduce crime, one French mayor begs to disagree. "It's become very quiet," said Cédric Aoun, the mayor of Triel-sur-Seine located 35 kilometers west of Paris.

It may seem racist to suggest that the violence and crime is not being perpetrated by the native French, but the data suggests otherwise.

In Catholicism, observable, empirical data must be folded into our holistic model of the world God created for us. Paraphrasing St. Thomas Aquinas, if empirical data conflicts with Church behavior, then Church behavior must be wrong and be reformed. Be nice, don't judge has led to massive increases in rape across the West. That tells us that be nice, don't judge is not Christ's sole commandment.

The rape is bad enough. Wait for the sectarian violence to kick off in earnest and see just how effective be nice, don't judge is then.

* - I'm using empirical science as a shorthand for physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and similar fields. It's early and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. This is the best I can do. Feel free to suggest alternate formulations in the comments.

Be Nice, Don't Judge The Diocese 26 Aug 1:58 PM (last month)

I've been pondering this for quite a while now. It's been a hard one to pin down and organize in my head so instead of simply posting slop, I've sat back and thought. None of it was worked out with AI because I sometimes find my thoughts too influenced, too guided when I do that.

Aside: I heard someone recently say that public intellectuals (of which I am not one) who have podcasts never have the time to ponder and think deep thoughts once they start their podcast careers. The demands of constant content creation take away their quiet, ruminative time.

I went to our Diocesan synod meeting last weekend. I thought it was horrendous. I don't think the idea of synodal processes - listening to each other and having deep discussions within our parishes about this or that important topic - is a bad idea at all. It can lead to all kinds of good things. No, it was the overall zeitgeist of the event and the people that made my flesh crawl.

I'll need a few posts to assemble the whole argument and this is just the opening salvo.

The Diocese's Fake Virtue

Practically every aspect of the meeting and the discussions at our table were utterly saturated with "be nice, don't judge." There was a wildly exaggerated emphasis on niceness and forgiveness and kindness and kissy-kissy love-love.

It was all performative.

Thanks to the progs here in California, statutes of limitations and previous bankruptcies were ignored so we could undergo yet another round of lawsuits regarding the sex abuse scandal. Everyone who had committed those acts is now dead and there have been no new accusations, so this was simply gratuitous beating by the same progressives our bishops all worship.

Here's Matthew 5:38-42, a passage that is clearly influential in our diocese and should have been fundamental to our response to the lawsuit given our progressive nature.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well."

"If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles. Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow."

Emphasis mine.

When it became clear we were going to get sued again, the diocese pulled a stunt and separated the parishes from the diocese both legally and financially. When the suit  went through, the diocese declared bankruptcy and lost everything, but all the parishes were spared. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand your cloak to your cousin and tell everyone you've never seen it before in your life.

I thought it was a clever trick and perfectly reasonable given the treachery of the State of California. However, if you do that and then come and morally masturbate in front of us all about giving and love and not judging and be niceness, I'm going to need some Pepto.

They didn't mean a word of it. They were simply indulging in virtue pornography with each other. It wasn't real, but, by God, it felt real. It felt real, real goooooood.

God Doesn't Make Mistakes

The topic of LGBTQWERTY came up at our table in our discussions. Be nice, don't judge ruled here as well. "God doesn't make mistakes" so we should not even suggest that there might be sin associated with LGBTQWERTY.

I sat there wishing I'd brought a hip flask and trying not to rip some of the others to shreds verbally. Still, I had some questions.

I like to drink. I fight that every day. My family is shot through with drunks. I've become a firm believer that there is a genetic aspect to alcoholism. If God didn't make mistakes with the LGBTQWERTY crew, then he didn't make a mistake with me. I planned on having two double Old Fashioneds when I got home.

Hey, don't judge, man. Be nice.

And then there are the people (me, for one) who seem predestined to be judgmental and argumentative. Illogic drives me bonkers. If that's genetic, which it must be because it's strongly linked to an analytic nature, then being judgmental isn't a sin, either.

The entire structure of be nice, don't judge dissolves under its own weight. It's perfectly OK for me to judge because God made me that way, right?

Don't judge the judgmental people. 

Or maybe it's, "Don't judge, you probably aren't good at it. Leave that to the experts."

Random Meme

I'm going to stop here. I need to ponder a bit more before continuing. In the meantime, its memetime.

This seems apropos. Also, sometimes liberal, white women include your bishop.

Why Primitives Are Primitive 19 Aug 5:16 AM (2 months ago)

I recently found the YouTube channel of Franck Zanu. He is a native of Benin who has spent a good deal of time researching, studying and thinking about the plight of blacks around the world. I'm not sure I agree with all of his conclusions, but he has interesting and relatively defensible positions. Since he comes from Benin and I do not, at the very least I must respect his vastly superior experience.

Here is his conversation with a woman from the Caribbean about why he thinks Haitians will never be able to fix Haiti. I have queued it up to a relevant part of the discussion.

His assertion, which he lays out thoroughly if you watch the whole video, which I recommend, is that the Africans had never seen a functioning country. Prior to colonial rule, they'd never experienced anything other than primitive, tribal society. Here's an excerpt. I have edited this transcript for clarity. Her dialog is in italics.

We had tribal wars. And you must understand, even though the only thing African tribes have in common is skin color. Once we go to this tribe is a different language, different religion, different everything. Food, everything. It's like you've been to China, in France, except the way in the same region. Let people get this picture clear. It was a continent with only tribes.

(When the Europeans arrived in Africa) there was no republics. There were no countries. No modern day concept of what country means. There were no formal boundaries and borders. So let's talk about Benin itself. How many tribes were in Benin at that time? About 50. 50 different tribes or more... But you can't say Benin because there was no Benin. You can say the region. You see what I mean? It was a region that stretched all the way from the Nile River in Nigeria, all the way to Ghana, just a region. That's no name for anybody. There was nothing like Benin, Nigeria, Ghana. 

No. But there was a concept of Dahomey.

That's correct. That's a tribe ... That's one tribe of very brutal guys. Guys with potbelly married 200 wives, and they call them chiefs. And the foreigners named them kingdoms, because that is the only way they know from where they were coming from Europe. But there was no kingdom. We are not kingdoms.

It's any pot belly guy married to many women with his family making war on the other small tribes, and they were describing them based only on the word they know. The Europeans say, oh, this people's kingdom. It was only chiefs. We never had kings in Africa.

When he made these points, it really hit me that without the experience of being a meaningful part of a functioning, modern country, even if it was modern in the 18th Century sense, you would have no idea how to organize such a country. You could take it over, but you would then revert to mean and become a really big, primitive tribe. More likely, you would devolve into many smaller tribes and go to war with each other.

More than 200 years later, they're still at the starting line.

Franck, who has appropriated an extra c for his name, possibly by nefarious means, has this terrific analogy explaining what happened to African and Caribbean countries after independence.

Now what I am explaining about Haiti goes for every single black Caribbean country. They also did the same thing. They ask for countries to run. They have never run before. What I'm explaining about Haiti has to do with every single African country. Nobody in Africa, at least sub-Saharan Africa, who's great great great great great grandfathers have ever seen a country with their eyes, let alone manage, administer, run it.

None has ever created a political system that is authentic to the people who live in it. None. None. We don't have the concept of political systems we have. We don't have the concept of economic systems yet colonialists came to build a country within a short time, install it the same way they know from where they came from, the busses, the bus stops, the roads, clinics, schools, churches, all these they build.

But you foolishly ask them to give you something you don't know how to run. It reminds me of an analogy I have created and I keep using, and that is, a guy came with an airplane big enough to take 400 people. Okay, took natives from a land into the plane. Okay? The people managed to jump the pilot, the copilot, and the junior engineer and killed them all.

...Okay, so now they've killed the pilot, the copilot and the engineer. Only then did they turn around and ask, "Does anybody know how to fly this thing?" Nobody knows how to fly that thing.

...So African leaders got independence within three years. They recognize, oh, shoot, we don't know how to fly this plane. But as it is about Africans, ego is far bigger than intellect. They couldn't confess to the masses. So do you know what they did. They coined a term immediately and say guess what. We got independence from colonials.

A Little Image Translation 14 Aug 3:18 AM (2 months ago)

 I couldn't find the tweet I wanted to include here, but this image will have to do. Do you know why Muslimas must dress like this?

In Islam, they believe that men cannot be expected to control their sexual desires. To prevent sexual sin, women must cover themselves completely. The image I had in mind was a still from a BBC interview with a woman covered even more completely than this, where you could only see her eyes.

Aside: Will Neuralink technology make the niqab obsolete? If women had sensors in their clothing that provided them visual information from the world around them, they wouldn't even need the eye slits any more.

If you tell boys from a very young age that they cannot control their sexual urges and that women must safeguard themselves by dressing in sacks, what do you think that does to their attitudes towards women as they reach adulthood? Forget the whole male guardian thing and all the legal second-class status for women issues, just think about how you bend males in your society when this is front and center in public every day all day. Every woman you see on the street reinforces the notion that men cannot control themselves.

If you can't control yourself when you see a Western chick dressed normally, then this is no big deal.

He did it because, when he saw her, he wanted to have sex with her and he knew, just knew that it was pointless to try to control himself.

To this guy, the trial must have seemed like a Kafka play. He could not control himself, yet he was on trial for not having controlled himself. Madness!

This post came about after I saw several videos of Muslim men in England smirking and smiling when confronted by British men who had caught them approaching little girls in parks or outside schools. It was jarring to see how the Muslims thought the whole interrogation was both surreal and comical. How in the world could they be suppressing laughter as they were being threatened?

A frustrated, frightened and angry British woman posting on X clued me in. She said something like, "Every time you see a veiled Muslima, see instead the Islamic teaching that men can't be expected to control themselves."

With that mental model, it all made sense. The Muslim women are wearing protective clothing that keep them safe from men. You, a Western girl, are not. They can relax in public. You cannot.

The multiculturalists don't know how anything works. They haven't worked through the dynamics of Islamic society and how they play out in daily life. The Islamic idea that women are responsible for preventing rapes and sexual assaults through their dress may or may not work, but it's real and it is utterly incompatible with the behavior of Western women.

You'd think they would have thought of that, but they didn't.

Recycling For The Win

This was pretty stunning. It turns out the British government recycles all the dinghies that come across the channel carrying "migrants." I wonder if they get their deposit back with each one. In any case, whatever it is the British government says about trying to stop illegal immigration, they clearly aren't if they send the boats back to France to get reloaded and used again.

Exit Question: How will an Islamic Europe change America?