Bah!

“How it works”

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Mike 1 Comment

Mayor Mammyjammy says, like he has the least inkling.

Mamdani Unveils Innovative Plan to Tax New Yorkers to Pay for Their Low-Cost Groceries
Comrade Zohran Mamdani, the Communist Twelver-Shi’ite Mayor of New York, on Tuesday unveiled his plan for government-run grocery stores as if they were actually a good thing. Dear Mayor, who always has the best interests of The People at heart, has set aside $70 million for this foray into government-sanctioned theft and redistribution, and says that this exercise in vote-buying and making people dependents of the state will be operational in late 2027. So there’s something to look forward to, at least if you’re in the habit of collecting signposts on the highway to civilizational destruction.

In full socialist states, high walls and guards with machine guns keep the productive people from fleeing, and the threat of the gulag keeps them working. In Mamdani’s New York, the productive people will grow tired of paying for everyone’s groceries, and will leave the city. Unless Mamdani can figure out a way to tax everyone who has ever lived in New York City, his socialist grocery stores will fail.

Mamdani, however, is all for trying the socialist “experiment” again anyway, despite unanimously negative results. “New York City,” he said with grandiose ebullience, “it is time for a grand experiment once again, just as LaGuardia used government to respond to the challenges of the Great Depression, we will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.”

It’s time for the socialist experiment again? Really? Millions killed and millions more in the gulags weren’t enough? The killing fields of Democratic Kampuchea weren’t enough? The failed economies of the entire Soviet bloc weren’t enough? This is like doing a basic science experiment for the umpteenth time and wondering if it will come out differently this time: will the boiling water not become steam this time? No, the same thing will happen that happened all the other times. Socialism will fail again.

Mamdani explained: “Now, here’s how it works. The city will subsidize a core set of staples. A private operator will run the store, but the answer to the standards that the city will set these standards include requirements that at our stores, bread will be cheaper, eggs will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation, and workers will be treated with dignity.”

That’s swell, but here is how it works also: The stores will quickly run out of the low-cost items, as the demand will far exceed the supply. After all, who doesn’t want free stuff? There will be long, long lines to get virtually anything at these stores, and after they run for a while, those who are paying for them will go broke or leave the city or both, and they will collapse. If you’re skeptical about this, note that this was exactly what happened to city-run grocery stores in Kansas City, and much of it happened also in New York City itself when a private firm ran a week-long experimental low-cost grocery store back in February.

Not one of these collectivist/authoritarian/totalitarian jackwagons ever seems to be at all interested in asking the most obvious, common-sensical questions of themselves as regards their proven-failure program. Why, one might almost conclude they’re frightened to death of the answers or sumpin’.

Iran: the REAL solution

Posted on April 13, 2026April 14, 2026 by Mike 7 Comments

STRONG HINT: Don’t let’s anybody get sidetracked or distracted by blockades, negotiations, or other pointless pettifoggery. There remains one, and only one, correct answer to the nagging Iran question, and it’s been the same for nigh on fifty (50) years. To wit:

To Blockade or Not Blockade, That Is the Question. But There’s Only One Answer: REGIME CHANGE.
We’ve gone from 4D chess to 4D blockades.

Will it work?

The New York Post says yes: “Trump Brilliantly Calls Iran’s Bluff — With His Own Strait of Hormuz Blockade”

Bloomberg says no: “The Hormuz Blockade Is a Throwdown the U.S. Can’t Win”

Question for the readers: Which outlet is right and which one is wrong?

Answer from the writer: Yes.

The New York Post is correct: Trump’s blockade of a blockade deprives Iran of profiting from ransom payments and/or selling any oil, thus increasing its economic suffering. It weakens one of the mullah’s biggest bargaining chips.

If you assume that Iran is negotiating in good faith, weakening the mullahs’ bargaining position makes tactical sense.

But Bloomberg is also correct: It’s extraordinarily unlikely that Trump can blockade his way to victory, especially in the short term. More likely than not, the blockade would have to last months — if not years — to bear fruit, and for a candidate who ran on the platform of “no more forever wars,” that’s not an attractive option.

Besides, the economic pain will be shouldered unevenly, with the nations that actually care about the welfare of their people screaming far louder than the mullahs. Iran doesn’t mind suffering — as long as everyone else suffers, too.

If you assume that Iran is negotiating in bad faith, a blockade of a blockade is an incremental tit-for-tat escalation that increases everyone’s pain points without bringing us any closer to a real solution.

In other words, it’s a waste of time.

Perhaps a smarter strategy is to hit the mullahs with a threat they dread far more than a blockade. I’m talking about the two words that have horrified Americans since the Iraq War of the early 2000s: regime change.

But not Iraqi-style regime change, where we plant U.S. soldiers overseas and try to build a new government from the ground up in a foreign land. That’s regime building, not regime change.

I simply mean smashing the current regime.

Under President George W. Bush, American foreign policy operated under the “Pottery Barn rule,” which meant, as Secretary of State Colin Powell explained, “If you break it, you own it.”

But why? What prevents us from breaking it and simply walking away?

What’s wrong with regime change WITHOUT regime building?

Egg-zackly, precisely so, and just what I (perhaps mistakenly) assumed the plan had been right from the start. Alas, with his useless “negotiations,” his unconvincing bluster about “destroying civilizations,” and now his “blockade of a blockade” strategery, Trump seems to be wandering farther and farther afield from the lone bone-simple solution that addresses all the concerns any sensible sort might have about the still-intact Mad Mullah regime: nuclear weapons; support for terrorism; menacing anti-American and -Israel with both rhetoric and physical action; the bloody suppression and/or mass murder of anti-regime protesters; et al ad nauseum.

It still shocks me that, after a fine start which saw a cpl/three waves of Ayatollahs righteously taken out by a shitstorm of High Explosive Death From Above, Trump inexplicably halted the bombing and floundered about in search of avenues more acceptable to the namby-pamby Jurassic Media consumers of the world, resulting in the continued survival of the selfsame Mullah goobermint which had started all the trouble way back in Jimmeh Peanuthead’s day.

I say again: if Trump pulls out, declares “victory,” and leaves any kind of entity called “the Islamic Republic of Iran” still intact behind him, then the whole misbegotten enterprise was a complete waste of time, money, materiel, and American lives. The Mullahs must go. There is no acceptable alternative—NONE.

Go ahead, break my heart, whydon’tcha

Posted on April 11, 2026April 11, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

According to my ex Suzie, who thanks to her cushy sinecure working for Meta is reliably quite knowledgeable about these matters, the Morehead City PD “tactical response” Weinermobile story is NOT real, being instead an April fools Day prank. The image itself, apparently, is an AI-generated fake. Which only serves to confirm once again the old adage which says that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Animals

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

REMINDER: This is who the D卐M☭CRATs have effectively turned Amerika v2.0 and most of Western Europe over to lock, stock, and barrel.

Someone Please Save the Mannequin From this Little Muslim Boy!
This isn’t an isolated incident in this part of the world.

A disturbing video has gone viral on Indian social media. While Jihad Watch has not independently verified the footage, several local news outlets have reported on it.

The clip shows a very young boy, not older than five or six, standing outside what appears to be a garment store. A mannequin of a young girl, dressed in children’s clothing, seems to draw his attention. The child, wearing a salwar kameez and an Islamic skullcap, then approaches the mannequin.

What follows is profoundly unsettling. The boy begins by inappropriately touching the mannequin’s face and kissing it repeatedly, then pulls at the neckline of the T-shirt, peers inside, inspects the chest, lifts the shirt further, touches the torso, and attempts to remove the jeans by tugging at the drawstrings.

All of this unfolds in broad daylight. A woman in a hijab passes by the scene without reacting, as if nothing unusual is happening. Unable to loosen the drawstring, the boy abandons the attempt and focuses again on the mannequin’s upper body, continuing to touch it repeatedly and forcefully.

The exact location of the video has not been verified; however, the Bangla-language shop signs visible in the video indicate it could be in either West Bengal or Tripura in India or in Bangladesh.

Boys raised in this pre-medieval ideology grow up exposed to rigid and problematic ideas about women, particularly notions that women must always be covered or under male supervision. They grow up seeing social media content by jihad-recruiting pages portraying women as objects whose worth or safety depends on how they dress or behave. One of their widely shared memes compares women to candy, portraying a “covered” piece as safe and desirable, while an “uncovered” one is said to attract insects. Such comparisons reduce women to objects and promote the harmful idea that a woman’s safety or respect depends on how she dresses, rather than on the responsibility of others to behave appropriately. Boys who grow up in these circles, hence, believe it is completely okay to touch, fondle, or sexually assault women who do not conform to their religious values. They are all “maal-e-ganimat,” a.k.a. war booty for them. Have you not heard of grown Muslim men being caught in a Western country for sexually assaulting girls, and the excuse they present in defense is that they didn’t know that rape was illegal? Yes, that’s exactly what we are talking about.

However, the child in the video is not an adult; he is a very young boy. At that age, children in most settings are only beginning to learn the basics; many are still struggling with the alphabet and may not yet be able to recite a simple nursery rhyme. But the skull-cap-wearing boy in his oversized kurta knows every action that translates to sexual assault in the regular world. The possibility that the boy could repeat similar behavior in the presence of a real, unattended girl cannot be ruled out.

“Ruled out”? You jest. It cannot be prevented, more like, which shitlibs don’t actually want to do anyway. Instead of wringing our hands and boo-hoo-hooing about “saving the poor mannequins from the widdle Moslem feral rapists,” it’s time and past time we started thinking about saving ourselves.

A circus of error

Posted on April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 by Mike 1 Comment

Very much related to tonight’s Eyrie post, I fully share Spencer’s disgust with the sudden, serious wrong turn on Iran.

Well, it’s another glorious day, or something. President Donald Trump’s threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran have apparently worked, a “ceasefire” has been concluded, and as he did when he forced Israel to stop fighting Hamas when it had a chance to destroy the jihad terror group once and for all, Trump is once again hailing the dawn of peace in the Middle East:

A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

The Islamic Republic of Iran was likewise in a celebratory mood, and in its joyful exuberance, fired off a round or two of celebratory missiles and drones into Israel and the Sunni states that it has targeted since the beginning of this conflict. Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported that on “Ceasefire day 1,” Israel “took multiple waves of Iranian missile fire after the ceasefire was announced. Kuwait reports that more than two dozens drones were launched by Iran since 8am. UAE is currently under an Iranian missile attack. Iran, via state media, reports strikes against Lavan Island and the oil infrastructure there.”

At least eleven people were injured in Israel, and (Iran also) attacked Qatar and Bahrain as well as the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. The government of Israel says it supports the ceasefire but only if it is real, which it obviously isn’t.

Well, I mean, DUH; of course it isn’t. None but a wilfully blind fool could possibly imagine that it was, and/or would ever be. As the esteemed Mr Spencer closes out his brief, straight to the point essay:

Without military action, which Trump will become progressively less likely to resort to as the midterms approach, the U.S. has no leverage.

If the Islamic Republic of Iran remains in power, it will build up its strength again and then resume its jihad against Israel and the U.S. That’s one of the only two reasons truces are allowed in Islamic law: one is if the Infidel enemy converts to Islam, which is not in play here, and the other is if the enemy is winning, so as to give the warriors of jihad time to regroup and then fight again more effectively.

The Trump administration, like so many others before it, should have studied Islam and realized that the Islamic Republic is serious about Islam above all. Then it would have known that when the Islamic Republic’s leaders showed a willingness to conclude a ceasefire, they were tacitly admitting that they were losing. It was time to press forward to final victory, not to stop fighting. And so another opportunity to rid the world of a jihad threat is lost, another chimera of peace is announced, and the jihadis will rejoice that they have survived to fight another day, as yet another Western government has kicked the can down the road instead of defeating them.

I truly hate having to say it, but that’s precisely what has happened here, to my eternal mystification and deep, deep disappointment. Bitterly clinging to the forlorn belief that this is all part of some Grand Strategic Plan is about as helpful as trying to polish a turd. To quote my own Eyrie piece:

Bottom line: as long as an Ayatollah, any Ayatollah (even one Trump idiotically assures us is a “reasonable” “moderate”), remains in charge of the nation-state entity known as “the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the war ain’t done yet.

Ah, would that t’were not so. But alas, here we all are.

Common sense on the Court

Posted on March 23, 2026 by Mike

Sounds about right to me. But then, I’m inclined to be sensible like that, see.

Supreme Court sounds skeptical of late-arriving ballots, a Trump target
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ‘s conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.

A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after Election Day would send officials scrambling in 14 states and the District of Columbia, just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections to change their ballot rules.

An additional 15 states that have more forgiving deadlines for ballots from military and overseas voters also could be affected.

The legal challenge is part of Trump’s broader attack on most mail balloting, which he has said breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and years of experience in numerous states. Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.

The court heard arguments in a case from Mississippi pitting the state against Trump’s Republican administration and the Republican and Libertarian parties. At issue is whether federal law sets a single Election Day that requires ballots to be both cast by voters and received by state officials.

Via Ace, who adds:

It’s obviously just farming fake votes to steal elections in the unconstitutional overtime period.

And the Justices appear to believe that when the Constitution specifies an Election Day, it means AN Election DAY, not an election week or an election month or an unspecified election period allowing the printing of millions of fake ballots.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.

1, that’s all false, and 2, this has nothing to do with the actual legal question at hand, which is: When the Constitution speaks of an (singular) Election Day, do they mean it or were they just joshing?

It’s amazing how leftwing communists routinely invent words and penumbras that don’t appear in the Constitution, but, when faced with the Constitution’s actual words, claim “Oh that doesn’t matter, that’s like 100 years old, man.”

“Amazing” isn’t quite strong enough to meet the case, but maybe that’s just cynical ol’ me talking.

Stealth Jihad

Posted on March 23, 2026 by Mike

We’ve all marveled at the unlikely alliance of convenience between Western Leftards and the dark-age forces of Pisslam. Well, it was no accident.

The memorandum gave detailed methods for establishing Islam as a “civilization alternative” in the West and a “grand Jihad” for eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within. It called for the ‘sabotaging’ of the west and its “miserable house” by domestic hands AND the hands of the believers so that the west is eliminated and “God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

The plan explicitly referred to using western society’s own people, institutions, laws, and unwitting allies (progressive groups and NGOs, media, politicians, academics, or civil-rights organizations) to advance the Islamic agenda.

Tactics included infiltration of education, media, government, finance, and alliances with non-Islamic actors “when tactically beneficial” while maintaining ideological separation. This is also called “long-term settlement” (tamkeen); a form of demographic or cultural subversion rather than direct conquest. It is often mentioned in the paper as “the settlement mission”.

A related 1982 Muslim Brotherhood document (called “The Project”) outlines a 100-year global plan with similar elements: building parallel societies, exploiting Western freedoms, and forming pragmatic coalitions.

One problem the Muslims wrestled with was the need for foreign alliances and western “advocates” to make immigration and the integration of Islam into target countries more “official”. Twenty-five years ago, this was considered all but impossible in the US and in Europe. However, since around 2014, the Sharia fundamentalists found a willing and ready ally in the new “woke” left.

Today, the notion of even discussing the agenda of “Stealth Jihad” in a public venue in 2026 is labeled “racist” by progressive activists and left wing politicians (even though Islam is not a race). If you were to go back in time around 15 years ago and explain to people what is happening today in terms of third-world immigration, they would probably laugh in your face and call you a conspiracy theorist.

In 2026 in Europe the plan is nearly complete and in the US the plan is well underway. The change in how our society views Islam as an untouchable subject is largely due to a dark and convenient political alliance between the woke left and the Stealth Jihad.

Only recently has the problem of Muslim immigration risen to the forefront of media coverage, but only because of the work of citizen journalists like Nick Shirley who are exposing widespread fraud among migrants. The majority of this fraud, whether it is in Minnesota or California, is connected to Somali Muslim immigrants and is perpetrated with the help of leftist NGOs and politicians.

Coming from a country with an average IQ of 67, these people are not capable of instituting such a plan on their own. They had help and it is clear that Democrats are deeply involved in these operations, perhaps in exchange for financial kick-backs, but certainly in exchange for votes (Somali migrants in Minnesota voted 80% in favor of Democrats in 2024).

It’s not surprising, but there are a lot of similarities between progressives in the west and third world Islamic migrants from the east.

There are some very basic incompatibilities also—deep-seated differences that can never be reconciled without violence and bloodshed. Can’t wait till the one that requires homosexuals be executed by your choice of either A) throwing them off a cliff, or B) dropping a tall building on them kicks in. Gonna be some mighty chagrinned “liberals” weeping and moaning all over the damned place on that most frabjous of days, me slithey toves.

Not a wife

Posted on March 8, 2026 by Mike

A beard.

This Might Be the Clearest Sign Yet the Obamas’ Marriage Is a Total Lie
Jesse Jackson’s funeral was held Friday at the House of Hope on Chicago’s South Side. Every major Democrat who still matters showed up: Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden, California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

That’s right: sitting with a bunch of other couples, Barack Obama once again went stag. The Obamas themselves issued a joint statement about Jackson’s death that made Michelle’s absence on Friday all the more glaring. “Michelle got her first glimpse of political organizing at the Jacksons’ kitchen table when she was a teenager,” the statement read. “And in his two historic runs for president, he laid the foundation for my own campaign to the highest office of the land.” If there was ever a funeral Michelle had a personal, deeply rooted reason to attend, this was it.

So what’s the excuse this time?

The Obamas have been the subject of divorce rumors for a while now, and to say they’ve not handled them well is an understatement. They appeared on a podcast together, which looked painfully scripted, and of course, there’s the obligatory birthday, anniversary, Father’s Day, and Mother’s Day posts on social media. The choreographed podcast appearances and coordinated anniversary posts on social media prove nothing. Bill and Hillary Clinton have been photographed holding hands, too; no one believes they have a happy marriage.

Last June, Michelle said she was relieved she didn’t have a son, because he would have been “another Barack.” That’s not the kind of thing a happily married woman says in public.

The real tell is the explanation Michelle keeps offering. “One of the major decisions I made this year was to stay put and not attend funerals and inaugurations and all the things that I’m supposed to attend,” she told NPR last year. “That was a part of me using my ambition to say, ‘Let me define what I want to do, apart from what I’m supposed to do.'”

That would be a compelling argument if she were actually retreating from the public eye. She’s not. She’s recently “written” a book. She does podcast interviews regularly. She gives speeches. From where I sit, she seems to be declining the specific events where the public would see her standing next to her husband.

There’s a meaningful difference between stepping back from the spotlight and stepping away from your spouse.

There is at that. Bottom line: this “marriage” is a total sham, conceived and arranged from the start as a distraction from a politically-inconvenient truth; namely, that Big Mike’s “husband”—widely known for years in Chicago as “Bathhouse Barry” for very good reasons—is in fact a homosexual; and Big Mike “herself” is probably a man—more of one than her fake, ghey “husband” will ever be, at any rate.

FLA

Posted on March 7, 2026 by Mike

Lakeside Joe pithily welcomes you to Paradise Here Below.

Welcome to Florida — where the sun is loud, the water is everywhere, and the wildlife thinks it owns the place.

Yep, that’s been pretty much the entirety of my personal experience of the place. Well, that and the giant cockroaches.

The hobgoblin of little minds

Posted on March 5, 2026March 5, 2026 by Mike

Not “a foolish consistency,” as Emerson would have it, but good old-fashioned cognitive dissonance.

THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES
I am a science teacher. In science, I teach my students that a hypothesis that contradicts itself is invalid.

So I made a list.

THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES

Buckle up. This one is going to take a minute.

“My body, my choice”… but you MUST get a vaccine or lose your job, your ability to travel, and your right to eat inside a restaurant. Both things. At the same time.

“Believe all women”… unless the woman is Tara Reade, Juanita Broaddrick, or Paula Jones. Those women apparently came with an asterisk nobody mentioned.

“Tax the rich”… said by a woman worth $120 million (Pelosi), a man worth $9 million (Schumer), and a senator who owns three houses (Bernie) — all while their stock portfolios grow on insider access the rest of us will never have.

They are outraged — OUTRAGED — about billionaires having too much power… and then accept $1.6 billion from George Soros without blinking. Quinn’s Law #7: it is different when you are a Democrat.

“Defund the police”… and then hire private security for themselves. I am not making that up. Multiple city council members who voted to defund their police departments had private, taxpayer-funded security at the same time. You literally cannot invent this.

“No one is above the law”… until a federal judge in Wisconsin helped a criminal evade ICE agents and half the party defended her. Judge Hannah Dugan. Look it up. Suddenly “no one is above the law” had an exemption for people who agree with them.

“Science is real”… but a biological male who identifies as a woman is medically, biologically, and athletically identical to a biological female. Just go ahead and ignore the entire fields of endocrinology, genetics, and sports medicine while you are at it.

“We support the working class”… and then they vote AGAINST no tax on tips. And no tax on overtime. Every. Single. Democrat. Voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill. The party of workers apparently does not want workers keeping their own money.

“We need more gun control to stop violence”… but releasing violent criminals back onto the street with zero bail is compassion. The criminal is not the problem. The gun on the shelf of the law-abiding citizen is the problem. I need someone to explain that logic to me using small words.

They want a $20 minimum wage to help the poor worker… and then they celebrate the illegal immigration system that lets employers pay $6 an hour in cash with zero benefits to people who cannot say anything without being deported. That is not progressive. That is the economic model of the antebellum South with extra steps.

Yep, “Extra steps” for sure…all of which of necessity will involve more government, less freedom, and higher taxes.

Lots, lots, LOTS more to this one yet. Go ye and read of it, for IT. IS. GOOD.

(Via Ed Driscoll)

Ask a silly question

Posted on March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 by Mike

The esteemed (and usually estoned and esdrunked, to swipe one of my old friend Pfouts’ most memorable lines) Matt Margolis asks one of the silliest—no, make that the stupidest—questions of all time.

Are Leftists Really This Stupid About Iran?

Oh, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt! To ask it is to answer it, I’m afraid. And while we’re on the subject…

Claude is down, so I had to make use of Grok to estimate how long it will take for US and Israeli air defense systems to run out of interceptors. No precise calculation is possible, especially since the in-theater total is a subset of the entire US stock, but it appears obvious that both the USA and Israel will be effectively unable to defend against missile barrages by this time next week at the latest.

…Claude is back up and here are its estimates:

Estimated total: roughly 1,400-1,500+ projectiles launched by Iran across all theaters in ~36-48 hours, with the vast majority intercepted but a significant number — perhaps 70-100+ — making impact. At least 14 people killed outside Iran (10 in Israel, 3 in UAE, 1 in Kuwait, 1 in Bahrain) plus 4 US service members, with hundreds injured.

Pretty gosh-darn scary, I suppose—provided everything carries on exactly as it has so far, with no changes, disruptions, or unlooked-for situational shifts either great or small coming to bollix everything up. Which, as we all know very well, has never been the case, and is never going to be, wartime or no.

It’s the exact same thought-pattern that gullible types and/or shitlibs have been tripped up by for many years, one of the most seductive intellectual traps there is: just because this is the way things are NOW, things will keep on just like this forever and ever, amen. T’ain’t so, McGee.

Review and recap

Posted on March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 by Mike

Let’s run through all this one more time for the elucidation of the hopeless retards out there, of both Left and phony Right, whose sole interest is to endlessly shriek Unjustified! Illegal! No new wars! into the face of a certain President they obsess over and hate like people afflicted by hemorrhoids hate the itching, burning, pain, and general wretchedness brought on by the worst outbreak EVAR.

Firstly: Trump has not “started a new war,” he is finishing one that has been waged against us for almost fifty years (!!) now.

Nextly: there is nothing illegal, illegitimate, or immoral about launching missile strikes/bombing runs specifically targeting Iran’s military and/or political leadership, its warfighting capabilities, and/or its nominally clandestine, patently illegal nuclear weapons program.

Now we come to the meat of the matter.

Since the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 — when Democrat President Jimmy Carter capitulated to terrorism — no one has possessed the cojones to challenge Iran’s Islamic Death Cultists. Until now.

Let’s review what Iran — the most malevolent actor in the Middle East — has done since that day.

Iran Hostage Crisis (Nov. 4, 1979 – Jan. 20, 1981)

Iranian revolutionary students, backed by Ayatollah Khomeini’s new Islamic government, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage (52 were held for all 444 days). The hostages faced mock executions, beatings, and psychological abuse. Iran demanded the return of the former Shah. A U.S. rescue attempt failed and killed eight Americans. The crisis ended with the Algiers Accords on Ronald Reagan’s inauguration day. The U.S. cut diplomatic ties with Iran, which remain broken today.

U.S. Embassy Bombing, Beirut (April 18, 1983)

A suicide truck bomb hit the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. The attacker was linked to an Iran‑backed group that later became Hezbollah. U.S. intelligence found that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) helped plan and support the attack.

Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing (Oct. 23, 1983)

A Hezbollah suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into a U.S. Marine barracks, killing 241 U.S. service members. A similar attack minutes later killed 58 French soldiers. U.S. intelligence linked both attacks to Iran. The bombings led to the withdrawal of U.S. and French forces from Lebanon.

Kuwait Embassy Bombings (Dec. 12, 1983)

Coordinated bombings hit the U.S. and French embassies and other targets in Kuwait. At least five people were killed. The attackers were linked to Iranian‑backed groups, and investigations found Iranian support.

U.S. Embassy Annex Bombing, Beirut (Sept. 20, 1984)

A truck bomb killed 24 people, including two Americans, at a U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut. Hezbollah claimed responsibility. U.S. officials said Iran supported the attack.

As most of us know already, the above list is just the beginning, and even after throwing in the rest of the items in Doug’s collection it still isn’t anything like a full and complete account of the evil, cruelty, and needless suffering the Mad Mullahs have inflicted upon the entire world.

And yet treasonous shitlibs here in the US openly, even proudly, bemoan the loss of their new hero Khamanei as if he was their own father or son or husband or…something. As for self-styled “conservatives” like this doot-brained twatwaffle: why on Earth do you choose to remain in a country you condemn so energetically, with never once so much as a moment’s pause for breath? Why haven’t you shagged your whiny ass on off to Tehran, Mogadishu, Medina, Abu Dhabi, or some other locality you find more congenial?

In the end, we always seem to arrive at the inevitable binary solution set, in this instance: either 1) put your money where your mouth is and just fucking LEAVE awready, or 2) shut your fat yap and keep it shut; if the rest of us want any more shit from you, we’ll squeeze your fucking head.

In any event, good riddance to bad rubbish, ya scrofulous blowhard.

SNEK!!!

Posted on February 28, 2026March 1, 2026 by Mike

According to Glenn, Trump just did it again.

Cutting Off the Head of the Snake
Or maybe the Gordian Knot

November 4, 1979 — almost 47 years ago — Iran seized the American embassy in Tehran and held its staff hostage. Ever since then, American presidents have struggled with what to do.

Jimmy Carter temporized for many months, even as ABC’s newly created Nightline — a nighttime news show created specially to cover the hostage crisis — opened every night with “America held hostage, day XXX.” His wife, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, finally prodded him to do something. The “something” turned out to be a shambolic rescue mission that ended in disaster.

President Reagan intimidated the mullahs a bit, but never seriously retaliated for the Beirut barracks bombing that killed over 200 Marines along with over a score of other service personnel. George H.W. Bush invaded Iraq but left the mullahs largely alone. Bill Clinton did nothing of substance. George W. Bush had a chance to bring the Iranians to heel after the conquest of Iraq, but inexplicably failed to press his advantage. Barack Obama was, basically, complicit in their nuclear program, to the point of famously sending them pallets of cash totaling over a billion dollars.

President Trump, on the other hand, killed General Soleimani and told other Iranian leaders that they could be next. And now they are next.

So what have we learned, and what’s likely to happen in the future?

Well, for one thing, we’ve learned that there is no atrocity so abominable, no adversary so bloodyminded and vicious, no act of war so blatant and brazen that the shitlib Left won’t leap in all a-frothing to scold the US about daring to react in any fashion more bellicose than rolling over, showing our (yellow) bellies, and pissing all over ourselves as we whimper piteously for mercy.

Additionally, we’ve learned that every attack launched by us Ugly Amerikkkan H8888rrzzs© in response to provocation, however dire, shall be decried as “unprovoked,” “disproportionate,” “dangerous,” and/or “destabilizing.”

In sum, then, we’ve learned that:

Amerikkka, come Hell or high water, is always and forever wrong
Amerikkka will always and forever be the bad guy, deserving of all blame no matter what; ie, we are the big, scary monster underneath every kid’s bed
The US should never be thought of as “the world’s policeman,” “the world’s breadbasket,” or “the defender of the Free World,” but rather as “the world’s whipping boy”
Likewise, the US is to be presumed guilty no matter what, in all situations and contexts
Words like “genocide,” “apartheid,” “greed,” and “oppressive” apply strictly and exclusively to the US alone, no one else

There. Not by any means comprehensive, mind, but enough to be going on with just the same. Taken for all in all, an addendum to Mike’s Iron Law #1,246 has been deemed necessary. “What’s likely to happen in the future?” More of the same, alas, for just as long as Real American Normals remain content to put up with this tired shit, and not a moment longer.

As time marches ever on, it begins to look as if it will take exterminating no fewer than half to two-thirds of them before the rest of the sewer rats get the message and back the fuck off, so emboldened have we allowed them to become.

Update! Too bad, so sad.

An Iranian news anchor broke down in tears on live television while reading the news of Ali Khamenei’s death. pic.twitter.com/5v7WpTBYr4

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

March 1, 2026

Cry me a river, Muzzrat swine. Happily, by assuming room temperature Khamenei has now become a good Ayatollah.

Updated update! France could use more Trump and a lot less Macron.

Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys Come Out for the Islamic Republic of Iran
After the U.S./Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran began early Saturday morning, the far-left government of Canada offered tepid support for the strikes, while the government of Saudi Arabia, indignant after an Iranian strike against a U.S. base inside the kingdom, said that it would join in on striking Iran. So far, so good.

Emmanuel Macron’s France, however, had a markedly different reaction. Several hours after the strikes began, Macron wrote:

The outbreak of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran carries grave consequences for international peace and security.

Notice that he says nothing whatsoever about the yearning of the Iranian people for freedom after suffering 47 years of the Islamic regime’s bloodthirsty repression.

In this decisive moment, all measures are being taken to ensure the security of the national territory and that of our compatriots, as well as our interests in the Middle East.

France also stands ready to deploy the necessary resources to protect its closest partners at their request.

The ongoing escalation is dangerous for all. It must stop. The Iranian regime must understand that it no longer has any option but to engage in good-faith negotiations to end its nuclear and ballistic programs, as well as its actions of regional destabilization. This is absolutely essential to the security of all in the Middle East.

Macron here assumes that the Iranian Islamic regime will remain in power.

That’s because if it were up to his weak ass, it would—forever and ever, amen.

Nevertheless, he plows on:

The Iranian people must also be able to build their future freely. The massacres perpetrated by the Islamic regime disqualify it and require that the voice be given back to the people. The sooner, the better.

This is inconsistent, as he just called upon the Iranian regime to “engage in good-faith negotiations.” Now he says that it has been disqualified, and that he wants the Iranian people to have a voice. Great, but how does he envision their getting that voice, if he thinks that “the ongoing escalation is dangerous for all” and “must stop”? Macron offers no way forward. He is clearly just hoping that whichever side wins will think he was supporting it all along.

Well, of course he is. He’s the pluperfect ProPol: all things to all people at all times, no matter what. He talks a lot, but says nothing of any real import. When the final bell sounds, he’ll step up to the podium, beam a gleaming, toothy smile into the camera lenses, make a rousing little speech extolling his myriad virtues—foresightedness, courage, unswerving dedication to principle, plainspoken integrity, and so forth, none of which he possesses to any noticeable degree—shake the important hands, and then move on to the next Media Availability.

Overcome with disgust, Spencer spits:

None of this can be made to make sense. It is just the dissembling of a politician who wants to appear strong when he is weak, decisive when he cannot make up his mind, and on the side of his Western allies while not alienating his friends and business partners in Tehran.

Oh, it makes sense all right. It stinks to high Heaven; it’s self-serving as all Hell, sure. It’s despicable, certainly, and says nothing whatever complimentary about the people of France, that they would countenance such an obvious bargain-basement s’faccim as the “leader” of their once-proud Republic. But what it also happens to be is perfectly typical of his foul ilk.

As my biker friends used to say, Macron is so low he’d crawl over his dead sister to fuck his own mother. Which, y’know, is pretty dadgum low if you ask me.

Shame and disgrace

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Mike

New Yorkers ought to be deeply, deeply ashamed of themselves.

If I showed this picture to a person after 9/11 and told them it was New York 25 years later, they would have called me a psychopath pic.twitter.com/YuslPuGJZs

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) February 23, 2026

Q: How long does it take to completely forget an atrocity as heinous as 9/11/01 was?
A: Apparently, not more than 25 years.

Tucker: what happened?

Posted on February 23, 2026February 23, 2026 by Mike

With this spectacular self-beclownment, he’s really gone Full Retard. PRO TIP: never go Full Retard.

Apparently, Tucker Carlson Supports the Muslim Ownership of Christian Slaves
During Tucker Carlson’s disturbingly dishonest, ultra-combative interview with U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Carlson replayed his biggest tropes: America’s “toxic relationship with Israel.” Israeli leaders were in league with Jeffrey Epstein and had visited Epstein Island. (After Huckabee suggested a defamation lawsuit, Carlson immediately backtracked and uploaded an apology video.) Israel was “purging Christians from the Holy Land,” with those dastardly Jews scheming “to keep Americans from noticing.” (No apology for that one.)

And Carlson, of course, included his standard Qatari bootlicking, culminating with this fascinating exchange:

Huckabee: Tucker, Christianity is growing in Israel.

Carlson: Okay, but —

Huckabee: There is a big lie that goes out there —

[crosstalk]

Huckabee: No, let me finish this: I keep hearing Christians are really not treated well in Israel. That’s simply… that’s a lie.

[crosstalk]

Huckabee: There were 34,000 Christians in Israel in 1948. There are 184,000 Christians today.

…Now, I’ll tell you where Christians are not doing very well: They’re not doing very well in Muslim-controlled countries. There’s almost no Christians in Qatar, for example, except those who live in the Christian ghetto, who are the service workers.

Carlson: I’m sorry, I don’t want to argue with you, but there are many more Christians in Qatar than there are in Israel.

It’s a fascinating exchange because it deconstructs how modern-day antisemites propagandize their message: They manipulate words and statistics to create false impressions.

Today, there are over 180,000 Israeli citizens who are Christians. In 1950, there were 36,000; in 1980, there were 89,900; in 2010, there were 153,400.

And according to opinion polls, 84% of Israel’s Christians say they’re satisfied with Israeli life. Presumably, that’s why the Christian population has grown fivefold!

Meanwhile, there are virtually NO Christian citizens of Qatar. No Jews, Hindus, atheists, or Buddhists are citizens either.

So consider: Israel has 184,000 Christian citizens with full voting rights, plus 371 churches. You can hear the church bells ringing every Sunday.

Whereas Qatar has a grand total of about six churches within a fenced compound. No other churches are allowed anywhere in the country. There are no crosses or crucifixes near the buildings; the church bells are silent.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East that grants Christians total religious freedom. It’s long been the only growing Christian community in the entire Middle East. Furthermore, Israel’s 184,000 Christian citizens enjoy full voting rights. They worship freely and openly. They’re among the best-educated in the land.

But because Qatar’s petro-rich Muslim citizens own hundreds of thousands of Christian slaves, Tucker Carlson implies that Qatar must therefore be more pro-Christian!

Ahhh, fact-buttressed logic: the bane of all shitlibs, Jew-haters, Jurassic Media propagandists, and muttonheaded Nazi-symp liars like, say, Tucker Carlson. Plenty more yet to this excellent piece, all of it well worth your while.

Update! Tucker is by no means alone.

SO: foam-flecked headcase with no more credibility than your average Ha-Ha Hotel inmate, or clued-in visionary whose honest analysis is so far outside the box that the Proper Authorities© feel it necessary to silence her voice? They report, I deride.

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