Revolutionaries are different. They want to destroy the system. Sometimes they see a problem and decide that the system is too broken to fix and must be torn down. Sometimes they’re just wreckers who want to tear everything down because of their own mental problems. Sometimes the revolutionaries are in it for the money, being paid by outsiders to bring down their own system.

Some are more profiteer than revolutionary. They think that the destruction can be controlled and that they can buy up the pieces and profit when stability is rebuilt.

And then there are the simple thugs. They have no philosophy. They’re in it for the looting and raping. They’re not revolutionaries, just criminals.

These groups have different motives and sometimes have different tactics and different effects.

I don’t care. They are all working to destroy society.

They are all traitors.

They want to destroy our high-trust society and the rule of law.

They also want to hide behind the rule of law when they’re caught. They want trials and to have their lawyers provided by foundations with undisclosed funding. They expect that the police will keep them safe even as they’ve been calling for the murder of police or CEOs. They’re counting on the system to protect them from the consequences of breaking the laws they don’t respect.

Revolutionaries, in all their hateful varieties, do not deserve the protection of the laws that they subvert. They should receive a brief hearing and if the preponderance of the evidence shows that they are attempting to overthrow the law, they are to be stripped of the protection of law and dealt with like any other insurgent in a nation at risk. And collective guilt is a thing. Dress up in the Antifa uniform, get a bullet in the head even if you never assaulted anyone.

I don’t think that these recommendations go beyond what most Americans would support. Americans who are not revolutionaries or terrorists or supporters of either, at any rate.

Now let’s go beyond comfort zones.

Stopping the paid rioters and the ideological revolutionaries isn’t enough. So long as the funding and the organizational structure remains in place, new mobs can always be formed. New patsies will pop up to try to assassinate Supreme Court justices.

Political cover needs to be removed just as surely as the funding sources. Every city council which declares that their city is a sanctuary city is a criminal supporter. Every judge who sets pocket-change bail for murderers.

If a prosecutor declines to press charges against the 25 arrested rioters who were part of a mob which caused fifty million in damages, he needs to be viewed as part of the insurrection. Give him a hearing just like the other revolutionaries.

The same goes for the journalists, talking heads, and academics who create an environment in which a formerly law-abiding member of the public is more likely to join a revolutionary group or to act violently himself. “Stochastic terrorism” is the term used in the counter-terrorism community. It refers to public rhetoric against a group or against society itself, repeated often enough to act as low-level brainwashing. It increases the likelihood of people acting violently, even with no orders given and no specific individuals being identified in advance.

In other words, exactly what we have, with the primary identified enemies being Republicans and Whites. (And the secondary enemies being men, heterosexuals, and Christians. The people who built the society currently being torn down.)

I have no moral problem with putting five dozen activist judges, “studies” professors, militant Mohammedans admitted under dubious refugee claims, and agitators-with-a-byline up against the wall and shooting them.

There are practical problems, though. Patriotic Americans can’t rely on any police forces to arrest the rogue prosecutors and the propagandists. They barely manage to arrest rioters looting stores during mostly peaceful protests. Individual police officers or sheriffs or special agents may be patriotic, honest, and courageous but departments follow the political winds or the paymaster of the officials and cannot be trusted.

The same goes, more strongly, for turning the suspects over to the legal system for the hearings. There is almost no chance of a judge finding another judge to be a traitorous revolutionary not deserving of legal protections.

That leaves patriotic Americans to seize suspected offenders and to form citizens’ tribunals to judge them. Or individual patriots to act by themselves if they don’t have people they can trust to work with.

And at this point, the patriots trying to save our society look a lot like the revolutionaries trying to destroy it. “If you argue with an idiot, bystanders may not be able to tell you apart.”

As I said, it’s a problem.

About all I can say about that is that history is written by the winners.

And that patriotic Americans are currently on the way to losing. It’s impossible to win when only one side is fighting.

Losing sucks. Try to make sure your side wins.

Mike @Substack

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Pro-Algae Eco Activists Oppose the Cleanup of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Controversy over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is drawing national attention again after “Pro-Algae” protesters began a demonstration opposing the Trump administration’s cleanup and restoration of the historic landmark. Independent journalist Emily Miller interviewed the self-described “Team Algae” protesters who reportedly return every day to protest the Reflecting Pool’s cleanup.

“We have reached peak circus here,” Miller said, as National Park Service crews removed the green algae using advanced nanobubble technology.

This video, posted on YouTube, recorded the pro-algae protesters. Miller reported on X that at least one male protester was arrested for jumping into the water and grabbing hoses from female Park Service workers who were clearing the algae.

On June 19, left-wing vandals reportedly slashed the new blue sealant on the pool floor and scrawled “86 47,” widely understood as a threat to assassinate the 47th President, NBC Washington reported. The $15 million cleanup project is designed to repair leaks, improve the pool’s water systems, and give the basin a clean appearance ahead of the July 4 weekend.

Soon after the pool was refilled, algae mysteriously reappeared across portions of the water, creating a visible green tint. President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for the recent damage to the pool sealant and algae growth.

“We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool, which sits between The Washington Monument and The Lincoln Memorial,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

To say the very least, yeah. Know how to put an end to it once and for all? Issue an “immediate deadly force” authorization for the National Mall security forces…and see to it that it is enforced against the shitlib degenerates.

“Pro algae activists”? Yeah, gedoouddahere with that horseshit. What they ARE is America-hating Commie brats who have never been called to account, reined in, or disciplined for anything their whole lives, that’s what. If “PAAs” is what they prefer to be called, then as far as I’m concerned that’s all the more reason to call them something else—ANYTHING else.

Northern Barbarian
@xnoesbueno
Why we post about Britain. Because the British can’t.

That, and because Britain is whence we sprang as a nation, and we still love Britain. And having expended considerable blood and treasure in Britain’s defense, we are not without standing.

We hate to see Britain descending into its Labour nightmare. Mass migration. Two tier justice. Racist police who turn a blind eye to rape, let a young man die because the foreigner who stabbed him cried racism. Police who will show up promptly to arrest you if you post something that might “cause anxiety” or “offend” but more particularly challenge authority.

We do that for Canada, too. And Australia.

Why has such a swath of the Anglosphere become so wretchedly authoritarian? The Anglosphere having spread civilization and notions of liberal governance, free enterprise, individual freedom around the world.

By far the biggest part of the Anglosphere, the United States, thankfully remains free.

Yeah. Thankfully.

A-HENH! In a comments-section response to the above post on conquered Britainistan, NB adds:

*looks at watch* Yeeaaahhh, that “self-correction” oughta be kicking in ANY TIME NOW *checks watch again*

Actually, I don’t entirely disagree with NB’s assertion that Amerika v2.0 is about as good as it gets with respect to what we’re pleased to refer to as freedom. He’s right; I’ve been to several other countries myself and, with the possible exception of the Netherlands (now completely overrun by Mooselimb immivaders, sadly enough), this really IS about as good as it gets out there in the wider world.

However, seems to me that’s damning with faint praise, just another feeble cope—which is absolutely NOT something any liberty-minded Real American ought to be willing to settle for. Once-Great Britain, Ireland, and Scotland aren’t the only nations badly in need of a revolution, seems to me.

More:

Scandalously, Thomas Jefferson once wrote to James Madison, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and is as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

In the same year, 1787, in regard to what is known as Shays’ Rebellion, he wrote another friend, “God forbid that we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion.” A lack of rebelliousness among the people would demonstrate “a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. . . And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

Truer words were never etc.

All of which goes to show that, as Jefferson clearly understood, there are two (2) standards for assessing the freedom of any nation-state, one correct and proper, one gone grievous astray:

• The Absolute Standard, ie, Jefferson’s Way: either there is liberty, or there is not, as I’ve so often put it here
• The Relativist Standard: one given country can fairly be said to be freer than some other one—as i said, a feeble cope by which we reassure ourselves that we haven’t entirely betrayed the ideals of our Founding Fathers quite yet

Update! We may have fallen down on the whole “freedom” thing, but at least the food is good.

The most self-destructive pillars of lefty lunacy finally begin to fall
The grotesque sexual misconduct involving Democratic politicians — from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to California Rep. Eric Swalwell — has finally put #MeToo to rest.

We were reminded of its demise when it was revealed that Maine senatorial candidate and socialist heartthrob Graham Platner had been discovered to possess a long social media history of crude and pornographic put-downs of women.

The demise of Black Lives Matter offers another example of a recurring left-wing phenomenon: movements that begin as moral crusades and end as self-parodies.

Almost every BLM cause célèbre has proved fraudulent, following a long tradition that stretches from Al Sharpton’s Tawana Brawley myth to the Duke lacrosse scandal.

The aftermath of the death of George Floyd did lasting damage to the country that still reverberates.

What accounts for these bouts of periodic, collective and suicidal madness?

First, the craziness is almost always birthed in the contemporary, affluent and leisured West, which alone has the capital and resources to afford such freakish sideshows.

Second, the frenzies are usually the creation of the left, predictably birthed in universities, the media and the bureaucracies.

They appear with familiar symptoms. The irredeemable, deplorable and “garbage” hoi polloi are supposedly too dense to be properly schooled and thus must be frightened to death in order to adopt agendas that otherwise appear to them as utterly insane.

Junk your natural-gas dryer and grill, or face massive floods on your coasts. Drop the SAT and defund the police or face endless race riots.

Hire thousands of race and gender commissars or be forever tagged as racists, sexists, homophobes and transphobes.

Open the border and let illegal aliens enter by the millions, and thus pay partial penance for “whiteness.”

The left is correct that few Western voters will openly embrace the unpopular elite agenda of racial fixations, globalism, laxity on crime and degrowth environmentalism.

We can’t be rid of the Leftard mind-disease soon enough to suit me.

Bugs, a roadie who’s been with us since the day we started, bought me this Yamaha keyboard. I said, Man, why’d you buy that? It’s expensive! He said, If you write one song on it, it’ll pay for itself. So he charged it for me and left it there.

Jeff Lynne was over one night and I started playing with it. I played…

[Petty hums the opening chords of Free Fallin’]

Jeff goes, Wait. What was that? Just play that first part over and over. Okay, I did. And Jeff’s just sitting there smiling and he says, Go on, sing something.

So just to make Jeff smile I sang, [in a nasal voice with an exaggerated Southern accent] She’s a good girl, loves her mama, loves Jesus, and America too… And Jeff said, That’s not funny, Tom, that’s really good. Keep going.

From there I wrote the first and second verses completely spontaneously. We were smart enough to have a cassette on.

Jeff said, Go up on the chorus, take your voice up a whole octave, what’ll that sound like? I said, What do I sing? Jeff said, I’m free falling. So I sang, I’m freeee… He said, Whoa, there’s power in that, that’s good.

I wrote the third verse after he left and brought it in and showed it to him the next day. It all fit together and we were really excited.

[After the song came out,] Axl Rose called and asked me, Where did you get that line about the vampires in the valley? When I’m driving I sometimes see these shadowy-looking people just off the sidewalks, around the post office. I always thought of them as vampires for some reason.

Proving once again the unimpeachable veracity of the old saw that every songwriter’s process is different. Back when I was hauling freight all over Hell and half of Georgia, I used to keep a small notepad and pencil right beside me for those not-rare occasions when inspiration would hit as I was choogling down the highway. Yessir, believe it or leave it, but some of the songs I’m proudest of were written from the driver’s seat of a Freightshaker, K-Whopper, or International Pro Sleeper.

New category: Inside the sausage factory.

The SIQ (Song in Question):

1

Error happened.

MLB Continues Shameful Anti-Christian Crusade—Threatens Players Over Bible Verses on ‘Pride Night’ Caps
In yet another display of its ongoing war on Christian faith, Major League Baseball has issued an official warning to three San Francisco Giants pitchers who dared to write Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.

And by ‘warning’ we mean threat, because what follows a warning in sports? Most likely a fine. Or, you know, as per Rule 3.03 of the official MLB Rulebook, a non-conforming player can be barred from participating in the game.

While the league under Commissioner Rob Manfred eagerly green-lights rainbow alterations and perpetually bows to the LGBT alphabet mafia, it is drawing a firm line at players subtly referencing God’s word.

It’s shameful. Utterly shameful.

It is that, at the very, very LEAST. Ahh, but does the story get even better, you ask? Why, yes; yes, it most certainly does.

Courage is indeed contagious. The brave stand of the San Francisco Giants’ players who wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on their caps, and the Texas Rangers’ continued stance to not host Pride Nights in June, has much to do with this latest development in the pushback on the month-long Pride celebrations from more baseball players.

The York Revolution announced it has canceled and forfeited its scheduled Thursday game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs after several players refused to wear the team’s planned Pride Night jerseys.

In a statement issued late Wednesday, the club said the decision was made with “great disappointment” and that tickets for the June 18 game will be treated as a rainout and may be redeemed for any future 2026 regular-season home game.

From the York franchise’s statement.

No excerpt from that turgid mess of groveling, pusillanimous rumpswabbery, sorry not sorry. Heap big kudos, however, to the York Rev players, the Texas Rangers, the SF Jints, and the rest for their bold stand in defiance of PC/Wokester fascism, sez I. My favorite bit? Gotta be this:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised his Texas Rangers, who continue to lead by example, and chastised Major League Baseball for their punitive attitude towards free speech expressions of faith.

The Texas Rangers are the only team in Major League Baseball that doesn’t host a Pride Night. This week, they’re hosting Faith and Family Night instead.

Meanwhile, MLB just warned Giants pitchers for writing Bible verses on their own caps.

In Texas, we don’t punish people for living out their faith. We protect that right.

Thursday night, the Texas Rangers will host “Faith & Family” Night, where the players are welcomed to share their personal testimonies of faith.

Well said, Gov. How very sad that such plainspoken, common-sensical normality should come across as a tremendously refreshing change, a highly unusual breath of clean, fresh air as compared to the vile, emetic dreck the Toxic Left ladles nonstop over Real American heads each and every day. Or, as Ms O’Connell puts it:

Bravo to the York players, and other players in the MLB who openly live their values and go their own way, instead of bowing the knee to the culture’s demands for LGBTQ+ orthodoxy. The York players get the hat tip this week. They didn’t ask for permission or forgiveness; they just took a stand.

Indeed they did. Pride Month my wrinkled, baggy old ass.

Update! How long can it be before some other ballplayer—most likely no higher than Double A status, possibly Single A or even Legion ball—holds a press conference, flouncing proudly into the room at the appointed hour in women’s clothing, size 17EE pumps, and not nearly enough troweled-on makeup to conceal his coarse, three-day shadow/beard and gaily declare himself a Transpysrsyn who, despite his fully intact courting tackle, has always strongly “identified” as female?

Who was the most boring rock star?
I was the music director of a popular college rock station in the early 1980s, and as such, had the opportunity to interview or sit in on interviews with a lot of touring acts, whose A&R people would dutifully bring them by to help boost interest and airplay.

I can tell you there were a few good ones. David Johansen was boisterous and hilarious. Greg Kihn was cool and folksy. Steve Perry and Neil Schon of Journey probably would’ve been a great interview, but we were all punky and new wavy and our edgy drive time guy insulted them so they stormed off the set. Definitely not boring. And Nick Lowe was charming, clever, and full of stories, including a few about his longtime pal and running mate, Dave Edmunds.

You know who was boring as…well, really boring? Dave Edmunds! I don’t know if he was strung out from the road the day we got him, or bummed out to be stuck with a bunch of snooty kids, or whatever, but man, you could not crowbar a word from him. He just slouched in the chair, issuing monosyllabic grunts and such, until the interview mercifully ended.

The guy could really put on a show, and he was an amazing guitarist, and who even knows what he was like in real life back in the day, but in my sole encounter, for whatever reason, he was the most boring rock star. Hopefully someone has a story to counter this impression, so I can put the blame on me.

Been there done that myself, I’m afraid. One of the most embarrassing occasions of my whole life had to be the time we went to a local college radio station the morning after a gig in NOLA for an interview session. It being N’Awlins and all, naturally we weren’t merely hung over when we got there, we were still drunk as boiled owls. So every question received a mumbled, semi-coherent one or two word response. The poor DJ was totally at sea trying to make us sound lively and interesting, poor bastid.

Savages vs. Civilization
Karmelo Anthony—his first name sounds like some off-brand 99 Cent Store nougat confection—is going to prison for 35 years, and he is relatively lucky. He is lucky he does not live in a society that treats monsters appropriately. A civilized society does not tolerate his brand of sociopathy. It executes such criminals—not only as righteous retribution and not only as an example to others, but as an act of societal hygiene. For a millennium, Europe hanged, beheaded, or otherwise dispatched about 1 percent of its male population every year for various crimes, and you know what? After a while, there were not that many more criminals left. European society was remarkably peaceful as far as crime, if not as far as war. But we moderns decided to go another way. We decided this was too harsh. We decided this was too mean. So, we decided to tolerate nonsense, and it is no surprise what has happened. The kindness to criminals has, inevitably, turned into cruelty to the innocent.

There is a culture clash in America going on between models of public behavior. The primarily European model of public consideration for others is one in which you do not try to dominate public spaces and where you are aware of and considerate of other people who are present. And then there is the Third World model, which we are all experiencing more and more, and we are getting pretty damn tired of it. That is one where interactions in public spaces are a test of power. Can you be obnoxious and get away with it?

We are seeing this a lot lately in various forms. How about the idiots who think it is a great idea to turn on their phones’ speakers and have loud conversations in public? We have reached the point on airplanes where we must remind people that they need to use headphones if they are going to be listening to music or videos. Were these people raised by wolves? Some of them are obviously stupid. Some are retaining the habits of their garbage homelands. But for others, it is a way of showing they are the boss and daring others to stop them. That is what the black father in Brooklyn did when some idiot was shouting into his phone. He told the guy to stop, and the guy murdered him.

These two models of behavior are incompatible. You can either have a civilized society, or you can have a Third World society and everything that comes along with it. For a long time, we have been tolerating Third World behavior. But that seems to be ending. People are calling out this problem, including the racial aspects, which was unprecedented until the left normalized it. Now, the civilized are striking back, and they really do not care if you call them racist because they do not want to put up with idiots acting the fool in public.

In the case of Karmelo Anthony, he decided he was going to be a jerk and go into someone else’s area and dare people to stand up to his crap. Well, Austin Metcalf stood up to him, so he took that as a threat to his manhood and murdered Austin Metcalf without a second thought. That kind of Third World idiocy is endemic to much of the world. And, not coincidentally, where it is endemic, there is poverty, chaos, corruption, and general misery. A society where you cannot discipline yourself to not be a jerk and where you must constantly test all of those around you to prove your own manhood is one that does not go to the moon. Instead, it goes down to the polluted river with a plastic bucket that was imported, because your trash country does not make anything, to get cholera-laden water to carry back to your hut.

We are done accepting excuses. We are done accepting bad behavior. There is no racial debt that must be paid back in the blood of innocents. Those of us of a certain age have seen the coming backlash before, after liberals have normalized and tolerated crime for a while. Inevitably, the tough-on-crime politicians get elected and impose tough-on-crime policies. But what is different this time is that the people are calling this out for what it is. As his supporters have made clear, Karmelo Anthony thought he had a special kind of street code that gave him a free pass to butcher anybody who pointed out his obnoxious public behavior. Well, we reject that, and you can call us all the names you want. It does not work anymore. Some amorphous sense of collective guilt is not going to convince us to agree to being murdered. The consensus is developing that we need to stop putting up with this behavior and start putting people in jail for a long, long time. Now, of course, that is the moderate solution. The real solution is to start promptly executing criminals even as we purge our institutions of this bizarre desire to justify Third World social chaos. Don’t underestimate the potential viciousness of the backlash that is on the way. The thuggish likes of Karmelo Anthony are going to force open an Overton window and are then going to be thrown out of it.

Ultimately, the REAL solution to the problem is to start killing “liberals” in job lots, until so many of them have been exterminated that the remainder is terrified to so much as open their front door to check if it’s raining, because any time they do so a half dozen or so high-caliber bullets come smashing into and/or through it from a long ways off.