Can you believe they really said it?
The rich are different from you or I.
Bernie Sanders: "You think I should wait on line at United? No apologies for my private jets."
Socialists are beyond parody pic.twitter.com/MF6dDHOiyE
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 8, 2025
Any decent, self-respecting nation would have lynched this filthy, over-entitled oxygen thief long, long ago, just on general principle.
Served up piping hot, as fresh as tomorrow morning’s headlines.
Indians aren’t gonna let the Billie Eilish comments go. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Bz82d1Hvs7
— Jeff X – memes🇺🇸 (@JeffXmemes)
Oh HELLS muthafuckin’ yeah! Thanks to Irish, who says it’s “perfect,” and he ain’t lying ’bout that, people. Backstory here.
If ever I’ve seen the ultimate justification for a lightning-fast mag dump, this lumbering Cape Buffalo provides it in spades here.
We were told body cams would show police “racism”, or something of the sort
Instead they show officers calmly issuing the same reasonable orders dozens of times, and then being attacked anyway by some of the worst people on earth, and forced to defend themselves https://t.co/g9yaRzP6Xk pic.twitter.com/rt3sCNehxM
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1)
*shudder* I’d certainly want to be packing something a lot more hefty, a damned sight more brawny, than that itty-bitty little ole Glock to drop that stampeding wildebeest.
2Just one year under Trump has done the following:
Fixed a stalling economy on a downward spiral. That bad economy is not an accident or due to some misfortune, it is the plan of the left to destroy America. The fix is fairly simple, just adhere to American first principles, the kind that help Americans.
Confront our mortal enemies across the world: Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia.
Confront the enemies masquerading as friends: Mexico, Canada, European Union.
The success is rolling in heavily now. There is an interrelationship to defeating our enemies, reining in the “friends” bad habits, and strengthening our economy.
I stated prior to the election that Trump Version 2 would see Iran go down, Venezuela go down, and from the ashes of each would rise a self generated country of freedom. Russia would implode as it becomes clear it is a weak 3rd world country. China’s ambitions would be halted as the world turns their collective backs. Mexico and Colombia took note of the ease with which The US Military took out a vicious dictator, killing several hundred men with not a single American life lost. The pair of cartel run states are now in sheer panic realizing there is nothing they can do stop the US from making them pay a price for their drug production and drug running into the United States. Mexico and Canada have now sent the Chinese back home as the US says no to imports as a pass through. The EU feels the heat of reciprocal tariffs, no longer getting a free pass. Their bullshit green agenda is in tatters. The German economy is in the dumpster, their industry shackled.
The prediction was for 4% growth in 2025, 5% in 2026, and 6+% in 2027. We have surpassed that and are well on our way to 5+ in 2026, maybe even hitting 6% by year end. Inflation is down, pay is up, the middle class is better off than ever. There is so much good news on the economic front that it is too long to report. Do recall that the “experts” stated the tariffs would cause inflation and prices to rise. Neither occurred, just the opposite in fact. Inflation came down, price increases stopped and came down in many cases. It is an economic miracle some would say, and yet it is just using common sense to guide economic and foreign policy.
2026 will be big. Trump will continue to battle the domestic communists and we, the American people, will win. 2026 will be the greatest year in American history.
4Don’t look now, but we’re living in one.
The Moral Blackmailing of the American People
In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” threatened to sever the “attachment of the People” to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”Unfortunately, it seems that every few years, Americans must be reminded anew of Lincoln’s wisdom. This week’s lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement standoff in the Twin Cities is but the latest instance of a yearslong baleful trend.
On Wednesday, 37-year-old “queer activist” Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Good, who had barricaded her vehicle in an attempt to obstruct an active law enforcement operation, ignored agents’ requests to exit the vehicle and instead directed her car at one of the agents. Good actually then hit the agent, who was briefly hospitalized for his injuries. But before she could do even more damage, the agent shot and killed Good. The federal government has called Good’s encounter “an act of domestic terrorism” and said the agent shot in self-defense.
Suffice it to say Minnesota’s Democratic establishment does not see it this way.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the deployment of 2,000 immigration agents in the area and the deadly encounter by telling ICE to “get the f*** out of Minneapolis,” while Gov. Tim Walz called the shooting “totally predictable” and “totally avoidable.” Frey, who was also mayor during the George Floyd-inspired mayhem of 2020, has lent succor to the anti-ICE provocateurs, seemingly encouraging them to make Good a Floyd-like martyr and riot accordingly. As for Walz, he’s right that this tragedy was eminently “avoidable” — but not for the reasons he thinks. If the Biden-Harris administration hadn’t let in untold millions of unvetted illegal aliens, and if Walz’s administration hadn’t conveniently overlooked hundreds of Minnesotans — of mixed immigration status — defrauding taxpayers to the tune of billions of dollars, ICE never would have embarked on this particular operation.
Liberals and open-border activists play with fire when they so casually compare ICE, as Walz previously has, to a “modern-day Gestapo.” The fact is, ICE is not the Gestapo, President Donald Trump is not Hitler, and Charlie Kirk was not a goose-stepping brownshirt. To pretend otherwise is to deprive words of meaning and to live in the theater of the absurd.
But as dangerous as this rhetoric is for officers and agents, it is the moral blackmail and “mobocratic spirit” of it all that is even more harmful to the rule of law.
Most of us assumed this dispute had been settled once and for all by the early spring of 1865, but apparently we were mistaken.
What I most want to know at this juncture is why in the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed world is Tampon “Timmeh” Waltz, after doing everything his little pea-brain can come up with in the way of fomenting insurrection against the US federal G in his sorry-ass State, has not been locked up under multiple charges of treason already.
The underlying problem all along has been that self-dramatizing Leftist morons have been getting away with personal threats, acts of violence against individuals, arson, looting, and wanton vandalism without ever facing Consequence One for any of it. They snarl ferociously about the supposed “evils” of private property, capitalism, and White People generally but have never been called out for any of their patent hatemongering. They must be forcibly made to understand that the Left’s permanent Get Away With It© card has been revoked, so their usual schtick is just liable to get them ventilated from here on out, as should have been the case all along.
Sorry, shitlibs, no more blanket Leftard Exemption for you. The days of having everything your own way are done. Things are different now, and I promise you ain’t gonna like it. In the immortal words of the great Curtis LeMay:
It’s a damnable shame that it’s come to this, but as I’ve told y’all about a blue million times: WE didn’t ask for it, WE didn’t want it, WE didn’t start it. THEY did.
Update! Number One with a bullet on the (S)Hit List.
Smarmy, smug, obnoxious, unlikable, as always. Also just dumb as a box of hair, too.
Updated update! Brother Billy has hisself an idear, and I gotta say I really, REALLY like it.
So I was thinking
A lot of mentions and RUMINT is that there are NOT enough cops out there to do what needs to be done, and that the White House is, per the usual, dithering on #TIA1807 (ie, the Insurrection Act of 1807—M) because smol-hats and ‘reasons’. OrangeManBad doesn’t WANT to be remembered for invoking the act (even tho right now, he really needs to, if only in Minnesota) and deploying Active Duty Troops.Cowardly as all get out IMO
HOWEVER -I- thought of something. Remember the talk about granting Letters of Marque a few back BEFORE we snatched Maduro? I got idea… an utterly brutal and completely ruthless idea.Why not just deputize ANY and ALL Veterans who want to volunteer, under a limited Contract, similar to what was done in Iraq. The DotMil didn’t have enough troops to run convoy escorts for quite a spell, so Blackwater stepped in, and did it quite well. Make it that Prior Contracting experience is a plus, and give us very liberal and open-ended Rules of Engagement.
Shoot First, For God Will Know His Own.
As well as enough Federal Legal Coverage that every. single. shoot. will be considered a “good shoot” and the trigger puller in question doesn’t get prosecuted after the fact at the State Level, due to the Federal Primacy Clause.
Also keep a metric shit-ton of irrevocable blank Presidential Pardons on hand…
Just in Case of later DemoncRat Fuckery years later.
I almost guarantee after the first 200-300 stupid fuckers get shot in the head that this shit’ll end so quick it make Soro’s head spin. And oh yes… Give a list of PRIMARY TARGETS that NEED to be “harvested” for the greater good. I’m pretty sure putting a bounty of $1 Million USD on Alex Soro’s head would attract enough attention to remove him and his Dad from the board. Even if he flees to the EU… lots of people there getting mighty poor and hungry these days from what I heard… for the E.U., make it $100 million, so they have enough to possibly even tempt the Soros Bodyguards on turning on him…
Now wouldn’t THAT be a kick in the head.
The Venezuelan operation was a complete surprise – to Venezuela, to our own press, to our enemies around the world. There are no moles inside the Trump administration. There were no leaks, anywhere, to anyone.
What is next? They don’t know. Our enemies are very uncomfortable today.
Update: There are reports that leaks occurred to the NYSlimes and Washington Compost, bu they declined to report prior to the operation. True? Beats me. It was a large operation involving many people so I would not be surprised that someone told someone that told the two fake news organizations, but I do not believe they had any details to report, and that would be the main reason for a non-report.2The TRUE meaning of Christmas is telling officious, whiny shitlibs to crawl up an armadillo’s ass and die.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was feeling the Christmas spirit this week as she gave state employees a generous gift. She announced she would be closing state offices on Friday, December 26th, extending a nice four-day weekend to the state’s employees to spend with their families and celebrate the birth of Jesus.
The birth of Jesus? She can’t say that! She’s a governor.
At least according to the Scrooges at the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist nonprofit organization that, in their words, works to keep state and church separate.
Sarah’s e-mail really got the agitated atheist’s tinsel in a twist.
The angry elves at FFRF couldn’t let this stand, and they jumped into action, pounced, if you will. They sent a letter to the Governor demanding that she rescind the statement, claiming it violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Going even further, they demanded that she no longer use her office to promote ‘Christian Mythology’ as truth.
Next, this happened.
The @FFRF took issue with me closing state offices to celebrate Christmas and sent a letter demanding I rescind my proclamation.
Christmas isn’t a just a holiday, it’s the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth. Meaning matters, we won’t pretend otherwise.
See my response here ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/UciehY3GtS
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee)
Y’know, her dad would’ve benefited tremendously from a lot more of his daughter’s backbone and feistiness back when he was in politics.
“Please know that I will do no such thing.” Epic! Also, LEGEND! I think I maybe came in my pants a little just now.
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2Not unexpected by me or other people that do not suffer Trump derangement. Trump did it in his first term but it took longer.
It is why they released the virus along with their psyops – they had to shut down the economic progress before the American people realized how easy it was to have a robust wealth producing economic system in the USA. The other benefits (to them) were extra but planned. #1 was stop the economy.
Now it’s back. The plan has always been – grow your way out of the trouble created by every past administration since Ike. And it is working.
Unexpected only by those ignorant enough to believe the business school propaganda. The WSJ propaganda. The Chamber of Commerce propaganda. The democrat party propaganda. And the republican in name only propaganda.
It’s always enlightening to me to discover there are many that do understand it and expected it. I’m not alone.
One year in and the result is 4.3%. I expect to break 5 next year and 6 the year after if the American people just stay the course.
US Economy Grows Like Barry* Expected
*and many others, like Kenny
UPDATE:
America rises, Chinese growth stunted, under 3% – Thanks President Trump!
David Thompson carries on with his long-established habit of speaking perfect truths and unassailable common sense.
Readers may recall this chap here, a cross-dressing educator – the one who records classroom videos of himself faffing about with his wig while expecting applause for his feats of fake-hair management:
As I said at the time,Schools have surrendered to cross-dressing men with a rapidity and full-throatedness that is quite remarkable. The place where cross-dressing men should not be – in positions of intimacy with, and authority over, children – is where they seem to find the most gushing welcome and the most ludicrous indulgence. Such that children are coerced to mouth fabulist pronouns and to regurgitate obvious lies.
Despite much higher rates of sexual offending, including offences against children, and similarly high rates of serious mental illness, people who identify as trans appear to be favoured in school hiring. Their numbers, and social-media prominence, does seem noteworthy. Among successful candidates, there is a certain triumphalism. A confident strutting.
Hence the numerous videos of such men vamping and cavorting in a classroom setting. Marking their territory with an arsenal of bad wigs and curiously oversized fake boobs.
It is, I’d suggest, enormously presumptuous, and selfish, to coerce other people’s children into what amounts to a personal affirmation exercise. A gratuitous flex at their expense. While knowing that the parents of those children may not approve, and may be left to deal with whatever upset or confusion ensues. Any number of inapt or premature questions.
Well. Let’s catch up with the chap in question, Mr James Roman Stilipec, and his predictably emboldened activities:
Then Dave proceeds to do exactly that, and it’s quite a revelation. So to speak. Yes, there are pictures, and yes, they’re revolting.
A notorious bank-robber (Willie Sutton, I think it was) once quipped when asked why he knocked over banks, “Because that’s where the money is!” That same sort of thinking explains why these days there are way too many pedo pervs like the above creep haunting classrooms, Scout troops, youth sports leagues, etc etc : because that’s where the kids are.
It must be made abundantly clear to all concerned that 1) we know what they’re up to; 2) that the jig is up; and 3) that henceforth, any “Minor-Attracted Person(s)” found within fifteen (15) statute miles of a school or playground will be beaten to a sticky, reddish goo forthwith, said process to be repeated as needed until either the weirdo-shit is ended, or the weirdos themselves are.
Quarter 3 growth is 4.2%
It just keeps going up.
Private spending – private investment – not the damn government growing (gov is downsizing)
It is a big deal, one that is glossed over by the left, the “media”, and the rino republicans.
Hat tip Instapundit
Also, from the comments, one by Kenny:
“Native-Born Workers Rise By 2 Million Under Trump To A New Record High, As Foreign-Born Plunge By 1.6 Million”
It is a BIG DEAL. How often have we told you the plan is to increase growth and grow ourselves out of trouble and increasing personal wealth at the same time. Get the economy on track, then next eliminate institutional welfare…
Just put a sock in it already, whiny-ass nigger bitch.
Would you believe that in the entirety of human history, no one has been oppressed as much as Michelle Obama? It’s true. Whenever she gets in front of a microphone, she can’t help but complain about how unfairly she’s been treated, how terrible white people are, or how racist our country is. She paints herself as chronically oppressed, endlessly scrutinized, and forever burdened by a country that never treated her fairly. I know it must not be easy having fame, fortune, a bunch of multimillion-dollar homes, and all that. It must be really, really brutal. The routine has become predictable, and her latest appearances only reinforce the sense that she carries a deep resentment toward white America, while insisting she’s the one who never got a fair shake.
Last month, in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts to promote her new book, she literally had the gall to claim that people unfairly scrutinized her while she was in the White House. Roberts began by quoting Michelle’s own words.
“You said, ‘We were all too aware that as the first black couple, we couldn’t afford any missteps.’ And you also say that as a black woman, ‘I was under a particularly white hot glare.’ Did you feel that?”
“For sure,” Michelle replied. “You can’t afford to get anything wrong because you didn’t get the, and at least until the country got to know us, we didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.”
Anyone who lived through the Obama years remembers the media environment. The media swooned over Barack’s speeches and treated Michelle like a cross between a fashion icon and a national therapist. Editors placed them on magazine covers every time they could justify it. Journalists fawned over Barack’s wardrobe, his aura, and even the crease in his pants, all while ignoring scandal after scandal after scandal. But, yeah, sure, let’s talk about how they were held to some fantasy standard that no first couple ever had to meet before or since.
Michelle Obama doesn’t know what unfair scrutiny is. She wouldn’t be able to tolerate a fraction of the scrutiny that the Trump family had to endure daily. Reporters attacked Melania for everything from her shoes to her accent. They smeared Trump’s children for no reason beyond their last name. Even the Bush family took heat, including the teenage daughters who never sought public attention. Those families took incoming fire every hour of every day.
Yet Michelle keeps insisting she lived through hardship that no other first family could possibly understand. Cry me a river. That narrative has become her brand.
Matt’s closing ‘graph is a killer.
Here’s a reality check, Michelle: You’re not a victim. You never were. The left canonized you the second you hit the national stage, and you’ve spent every moment since trashing America and demonizing white people — enough with the performative oppression routine. You’ve built an obscenely lucrative post-White House empire selling a completely fabricated narrative of “constant struggle” while swimming in wealth, worshipful media coverage, and cultural influence that 99.9% of Americans will never experience. Your sycophantic media allies breathlessly amplify every manufactured grievance as gospel, but your own venomous words keep exposing what this really is: barely concealed contempt and racism wrapped in designer victimhood.
So let’s tot it all up, then:
This is a woman who, for most of her adult life, has never wanted for anything whatsoever, has never known need or hunger or poverty or lack. A spacious, lovely home, designer clothes, shoes, jewelry, and purses—all hers, without her ever even having to go fetch any of it—she has “people” to send out on such lowly, menial tasks, see. She travels in the most rarified circles, keeps the most exalted company, rubs elbows with the rich and famous..
The fanciest restaurants, the finest wines, the best seats in the theater, the concert hall, or the arena…and all she has to do to get them is simply nod her head at the right time, in the right place, to the right person. Nothing more taxing or obsequious than that. The people in charge of these amenities WANT her to have them, for no more complex or justifiable reason than that she is who she is, knows who she knows, and hangs out with all the right people. Her taste, in everything from sports cars to cashmere sweaters, is beyond reproach; an approving word for a product, a service, or a facility murmured into the right ears can keep a business humming busily along for a year…as a negative assessment can shut one down forever.
All this finery, this pampering, this sycophancy, flattery, and preferential treatment, this carefree, luxurious lifestyle—no part of it either earned or, really, deserved, but all of it hers nonetheless, most of it free of charge—yet STILL this ingrate bitches, she whines, she moans, she kvetches about how terribly, terribly HARRRUD De Wite Mayne has made life for her.
Meanwhile, for all her claimed victimization by Rayciss!© White Debbil oppressors, she could search arduously every minute of the rest of her life and never find one single ghetto-blighted soul who wouldn’t jump at the chance to exchange places with her, the blind, self-obsessed cretin.
What must life be like with one so bitter, so unswervingly determined to be unhappy always, so intently focused on the black storm clouds in the far distance that she’s totally incapable of seeing the silver lining right in front of her nose? How could ANY normal, sane person live with such a bleak, cheerless sort? For that matter, how does such a morose person live with herself?
I never imagined it could be so, but it would seem that Big Mike is an even more annoying, insufferable twatwaffle than his/her/its light-in-the-loafers “husband” is.
To make her shit at all worth putting up with, she’d have to be funnier than Dave Chappelle; smarter and more eloquent than Thomas Sowell; more talented than Wynton Marsalis; more graceful than the Nicholas brothers; better-looking than Billy Dee Williams at 32; and more personable than Louis Armstrong. Alas for poor Moochelle, she comes up way, WAY short in every category.
Just once, just ONE. FUCKING. TIME in her miserable, oxygen-thieving existence, I wish I could see some burly, ill-tempered, and yes, WHITE project foreman hand her a shovel, direct her precious ass into a deep, muddy ditch, and command her to start digging and to go on digging until he specifically tells her to STOP. OH, what a beautiful sight that would be.
What the hell, it’s about as much so as anything else is these days.
Ladies: You need to get yourselves under control.
A leading indicator of this age is the unprecedented rise of “women” raping other women, “women” exposing themselves on buses, “women” taking out their penises and masturbating in public, “women” touching female children in public bathrooms, etc.
Starting around, oh, 2018, the rates of “women” committing gross sexual offenses previously the domain of mentally-ill men absolutely skyrocketed.
It was unprecedented — and yet not a single “expert” in the field of policing or criminality offered any explanation for it. Not a single study, not a single white-paper report.
Equality, bigots. It’s called equity. Women can take out their penises and rub them against women standing in front of them on the subway, too.
And yes I started that sentence saying it’s “equality” and then stealth-changed the term to “equity” and you know that means? It means you’re a transphobic racist for noticing the change in terminology.
Or are you saying women aren’t ALLOWED to excel in male areas of achievement, bigot?!
Heh. Oh Lord no, far be it from me to ever say such an awful thing.
That’s how I see it.
Thanks to the vision of President Trump and the tenaciousness of the Israeli’s, today we have:
Hamas destroyed and utterly defeated.
Hezbollah dead and unable to mount any military action.
Iran’s hopes for nukes are done. They know it.
Syria is dead and no threat.
Iraq is dead and no threat.
The remainder of the ME countries are dedicated to making peace with Israel and the wider world.
Israel has not been in this good of shape, less threatened, since the beginning of Israel. The threat of war is over.
President Trump understands that a peaceful ME is good for America and bad for her enemies – the chinese and russians, and the marxist left within.
The great Schlichter has a few words, perhaps his best ever:
…Utter Humiliation of Palestinian Terrorists…
Would somebody please explain to me exactly what the actual fucking fuck?!?
Another Culture-Enriching Success Story in France
If you follow the European cultural enrichment news closely (which I have been doing for almost twenty years), you’ll notice the frequency of stories about a bizarre and sickening custom practiced by third-world migrants, usually Muslims: the rape of octogenarians, or even nonagenarians. The victims are usually women, but not always: I remember at least one report (I think it was in Germany) of the nursing-home rape of a man in his nineties.But, hey, it’s just cultural differences, you know? It’s no big deal; no reason for outrage.
Bold mine, because Tarzan on a big red scooter, dude.
We do not need them, we do not want them, our society is completely incompatible with their Stone Age belief system, yet Western governments go right on bringing them in to live among civilized people regardless.
I repeat: explain it to me, please. Assuming there even IS an explanation, beyond just sheer bloody-mindedness and nothing more.
(Via WRSA)
Update! Just had to share with y’all where that weird reference to Tarzan and big red scooters came from. It happens to be one of my all-time favorite lines from one of my all-time favorite Raymond Chandler novels, The Long Goodbye, an insult lobbed by gangster Mendy Menendez at all the world’s most beloved private dick, the formidable Philip Marlowe. A lengthier passage:
He looked me over unhurriedly. “Tarzan on a big red scooter,” he said.
“What?”
“You. Marlowe. Tarzan on a big red scooter. They rough you up much?”
“Here and there. What makes it your business?”
“After Allbright talked to Gregorius?”
“No. Not after that.”
He nodded shortly. “You got a crust asking Allbright to use ammunition on that slob.”
“I asked you what made it your business. Incidentally I don’t know Commissioner Allbright and I didn’t ask him to do anything. Why would he do anything for me?”
He stared at me morosely. He stood up slowly, graceful as a panther. He walked across the room and looked into my office. He jerked his head at me and went in. He was a guy who owned the place where he happened to be. I went in after him and shut the door. He stood by the desk looking around, amused.
“You’re small time,” he said. “Very small time.”
I went behind my desk and waited.
“How much you make in a month, Marlowe?”
I let it ride, and lit my pipe.
“Seven-fifty would be tops,” he said.
I dropped a burnt match into a tray and puffed tobacco smoke.
“You’re a piker, Marlowe. You’re a peanut grifter. You’re so little it takes a magnifying glass to see you.”
I didn’t say anything at all.
“You got cheap emotions. You’re cheap all over. You pal around with a guy, eat a few drinks, talk a few gags, slip him a little dough when he’s strapped, and you’re sold out to him. Just like some school kid that read Frank Merriwell. You got no guts, no brains, no connections, no savvy, so you throw out a phony attitude and expect people to cry over you. Tarzan on a big red scooter.” He smiled a small weary smile. “In my book you’re a nickel’s worth of nothing.”
He leaned across the desk and flicked me across the face back-handed, casually and contemptuously, not meaning to hurt me, and the small smile stayed on his face. Then when I didn’t even move for that he sat down slowly and leaned an elbow on the desk and cupped his brown chin in his brown hand. The bird-bright eyes stared at me without anything in them but brightness.
“Know who I am, cheapie?”
“Your name’s Menendez. The boys call you Mendy. You operate on the Strip.”
“Yeah? How did I get so big?’
“I wouldn’t know. You probably started out as a pimp in a Mexican whorehouse.”
He took a gold cigarette case out of his pocket and lit a brown cigarette with a gold lighter. He blew acrid smoke and nodded. He put the gold cigarette case on the desk and caressed it with his fingertips.
“I’m a big bad man, Marlowe. I make lots of dough. I got to make lots of dough to juice the guys I got to juice in order to make lots of dough to juice the guys I got to juice. I got a place in Bel-Air that cost ninety grand and I already spent more than that to fix it up. I got a lovely platinum-blond wife and two kids in private schools back east. My wife’s got a hundred and fifty grand in rocks and another seventy-five in furs and clothes. I got a butler, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur, not counting the monkey that walks behind me. Everywhere I go I’m a darling. The best of everything, the best food, the best drinks, the best hotel suites. I got a place in Florida and a seagoing yacht with a crew of five men. I got a Bentley, two Cadillacs, a Chrysler station wagon, and an MG for my boy. Couple of years my girl gets one too. What you got?”
“Not much,” I said. “This year I have a house to live in—all to myself.”
“No woman?”
“Just me. In addition to that I have what you see here and twelve hundred dollars in the bank and a few thousand in bonds. That answer your question?”
“What’s the most you ever made on a single job?”
“Eight-fifty.”
“Jesus, how cheap can a guy get?”
“Stop hamming and tell me what you want.”
Good, good stuff, that there is. Interested parties, whether experienced devotees or Chandler virgins, are encouraged to check out this free download of The Collected Raymond Chandler (yes, it does include The Long Goodbye, among other fantastic Chandler works), which is well worth your time and trouble, believe me.
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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
—Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
Claire's Cabal—The Freedom Forums
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
—Daniel Webster
“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill.”
—Charles Bukowski
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
—Ezra Pound
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
—Frank Zappa
“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
—John Adams
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
—Bertrand de Jouvenel
"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
—GK Chesterton
"I predict that the Bush administration will be seen by freedom-wishing Americans a generation or two hence as the hinge on the cell door locking up our freedom. When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I’d tell them to emigrate, but there’s nowhere left to go. I am left with nauseating near-conviction that I am a member of the last generation in the history of the world that is minimally truly free."
—Donald Sensing
"The only way to live free is to live unobserved."
—Etienne de la Boiete
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To put it simply, the Left is the stupid and the insane, led by the evil. You can’t persuade the stupid or the insane and you had damn well better fight the evil."
—Skeptic
"There is no better way to stamp your power on people than through the dead hand of bureaucracy. You cannot reason with paperwork."
—David Black, from Turn Left For Gibraltar
"If the laws of God and men, are therefore of no effect, when the magistracy is left at liberty to break them; and if the lusts of those who are too strong for the tribunals of justice, cannot be otherwise restrained than by sedition, tumults and war, those seditions, tumults and wars, are justified by the laws of God and man."
—John Adams
"The limits of tyranny are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
—Frederick Douglass
"Give me the media and I will make of any nation a herd of swine."
—Joseph Goebbels
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
—Ronald Reagan
"Ain't no misunderstanding this war. They want to rule us and aim to do it. We aim not to allow it. All there is to it."
—NC Reed, from Parno's Peril
"I just want a government that fits in the box it originally came in."
—Bill Whittle
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