{"id":12728,"date":"2023-07-10T23:08:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T03:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?page_id=12728"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:46:07","slug":"mikes-iron-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/mikes-iron-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike&#8217;s Iron Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A listing of what I call Mike&#8217;s Iron Laws, which, while not necessarily inspirational, motivating, or otherwise helpful, are nonetheless unfailingly true and accurate. More MILs will be added to this list as and when they occur to me. The numbering scheme, when present, is tongue-in-cheek and entirely random, and was never intended to be taken as indicative of the particular Law&#8217;s importance, applicability, or date of origin. As such, &#8220;Numero Uno&#8221; has been struck through accordingly. Links are to the post in which the MIL first appeared, or were first mentioned; that being the case, newer additions may or may not have a link appended.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2022\/11\/20\/the-making-of-a-martyr\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #873:<\/strong><\/a> They will NOT stop. They will NEVER stop. They will have to BE stopped<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2022\/11\/05\/keepers-of-the-faith\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #847:<\/strong><\/a> \u201cGovernment health care\u201d is not about either health, or \u201ccaring\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2022\/05\/02\/the-ministry-of-truth\/\"><strong>Another of Mike\u2019s Iron Laws:<\/strong><\/a> Elect all the Republicans you like, then sit back and watch as nothing changes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2022\/04\/21\/on-patience-process-and-breaking-the-cycle-of-losing\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law <del datetime=\"2023-07-11T23:59:47+00:00\">Numero Uno<\/del>:<\/strong><\/a> Revolution is a process, not an event<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/11\/22\/america-has-a-nigger-problem\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #4296-54e, addendum 67:<\/strong><\/a> If shitlibs didn\u2019t have distortions, distractions, and outright lies, they\u2019d have nothing to say at all<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/09\/12\/on-principles-and-motivations\/\"><strong>Another of Mike\u2019s Iron Laws:<\/strong><\/a> Place not your trust in government. For it is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/10292623-government-is-not-reason-it-is-not-eloquence-it-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master<\/a>; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/05\/30\/wish-in-one-hand\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #187:<\/strong><\/a> There\u2019s always a workaround, and true Americans will always be able to find it<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/05\/27\/how-the-tenth-was-lost\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #1,246:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Whenever Progressivists win, America loses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/snek\/\"><strong>Corollary #187-b, Section 7:<\/strong><\/a> Whenever Progressivists are unhappy, America is winning<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/04\/30\/this-right-here\/\"><strong>One of the most important of Mike\u2019s Iron Laws:<\/strong><\/a> Anything that rankles the Left can only be good for America<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/03\/09\/the-secession-dustup-continues\/\"><strong>Yet another of Mike\u2019s Iron Laws, in the form of a Biblical rejiggering:<\/strong><\/a> Thou shalt not suffer a Communist to live<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/02\/20\/cooperation-is-weakness-weakness-is-death\/\"><strong>Another of Mike\u2019s Iron Laws:<\/strong><\/a> You cannot placate the implacable, nor sate the insatiable. It\u2019s a mistake to even try<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2021\/02\/12\/hate-to-say-i-toldya-so-but\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #1:<\/strong><\/a> Never cede ANYTHING to the Left, not a single goddamned thing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2020\/06\/11\/no-no-a-thousand-times-no\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law for dealing with the Left:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0They will never be satisfied, no matter what you yield up to them<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/07\/13\/showroom-statuary\/#comment-21249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #149:<\/a><\/strong> No matter what the issue or context, it\u2019s NEVER about what they\u2019re telling you it is; ultimately, the real intention, goal, or agenda is only about more power and\/or wealth for THEM, and less freedom for YOU<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/09\/23\/snake-oil-sales-sharply-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #149, corollary A:<\/a><\/strong> The damage, destruction, impoverishment, and general ruin wrought by shitlib policy is a feature, not a bug\u2014by their lights, those results signify not <em>failure<\/em>, but near-total <em>success<\/em>. For the orcs of Mordor On The Potomac, their job isn\u2019t what their subjects think it should be, nor what the orcs deceitfully claim it is; certainly, their interests are not aligned with our own, but are at 180-degree variance with them; their goals and ambitions are achieved not to our benefit, but to our grievous injury, intentionally so<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/07\/16\/the-truth-at-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #213:<\/a><\/strong> There is nothing whatsoever that shitlibs will leave alone and unmolested\u2014NOTHING<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/08\/06\/just-say-no-mr-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #462:<\/a><\/strong> Whatever the Left is most angrily, vociferously denouncing YOU for doing is exactly what <em>they themselves<\/em> are doing<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/08\/28\/eyrie-up-43\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #4,780, addendum Q:<\/a><\/strong> Everything gets fatter, hairier, and closer to the ground<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/09\/07\/america-that-was-what-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #13b:<\/a><\/strong> With almost every problem in the Western world, if you want to find the roots of it there\u2019s but one place you need to look: <em>cherchez le shitlib, mon frere<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/11\/30\/sanctuary-city\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #391:<\/a><\/strong> In the face of creeping tyranny, complacency is death<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/11\/30\/sanctuary-city\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #24:<\/a><\/strong> Left\/liberalism always carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2023\/11\/30\/sanctuary-city\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #3,169:<\/a><\/strong> Give Leftists an inch, and eventually they&#8217;ll take absolutely everything you have<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2024\/04\/02\/who-could-have-possibly-foreseen\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike\u2019s Iron Law #635:<\/a><\/strong> If you make the cost of doing business too steep, it will close<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2024\/07\/01\/the-great-and-powerful-oz\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #68:<\/a><\/strong> Universally applicable to all government agencies, departments, projects, and programs\n<ul>\n<li>Its mandate will never expire<\/li>\n<li>Its purview will never be limited<\/li>\n<li>Its original mission will never be accomplished, its goals never achieved, its stated intentions never fulfilled<\/li>\n<li>Its budget will never be cut, likewise the number of its employees<\/li>\n<li>Its authority will never diminish, only expand<\/li>\n<li>Its reach will never be constrained<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2024\/09\/11\/debunked-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike&#8217;s Iron Law #30:<\/a><\/strong> Assume they\u2019re lying, always, for if they couldn\u2019t lie, they\u2019d be unable to speak at all<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2022\/11\/20\/the-making-of-a-martyr\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #74:<\/strong><\/a> When America wins, Left\/liberals lose\u2014every single time, no exceptions, always and forever<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/2022\/11\/20\/the-making-of-a-martyr\/\"><strong>Mike\u2019s Iron Law #873:<\/strong><\/a> They will NOT stop. They will NEVER stop. They will have to BE stopped<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/2025\/05\/22\/inside-the-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIKE\u2019S IRON LAW OF EXISTENTIAL WARFARE:<\/a><\/strong> The enemy you don\u2019t, or won\u2019t, resist to the uppermost limits of your strength is the enemy which will ultimately defeat you.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/2025\/05\/22\/inside-the-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIKE\u2019S IRON LAW #20,376:<\/a><\/strong> Ultimately, the Madhouse Left\u2019s argument isn\u2019t with Republicans, conservatives, or any specific belief, agenda, policy, or proposal; their argument is with <strong><em>REALITY ITSELF<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-times-regrets-the-error\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike\u2019s Iron Law #7846:<\/a><\/strong> When all the \u201cerrors\u201d and \u201chonest mistakes\u201d seem to cut in only one direction, what you\u2019re seeing isn\u2019t actually an\u00a0<em>error<\/em> at all, but an <em>agenda<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A listing of what I call Mike&#8217;s Iron Laws, which, while not necessarily inspirational, motivating, or otherwise helpful, are nonetheless unfailingly true and accurate. More MILs will be added to this list as and when they occur to me. 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