I’m terribly tired, so this will be a short piece. The big news is, of course, the falling-out yesterday between Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump. Trump is determined to find a way to negotiate an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia; Zelensky wants to keep the war going. The Ukrainian …
Category: tyrannies and tyrants
Feb 10 2025
Systems Of Control
Control is an ominous-sounding word, especially when applied to people. Do you want to be controlled? I don’t. Do you want to control others? If so, stay far away from me. We look upon aspirants to public office with a certain wariness because of their obvious desire for power over us: the power …
Feb 02 2025
Units And Standards Reprised
Not too long ago, in addressing one of my favorite shibboleths, “national security,” I wrote the following: [The Biden Administration] argued that obeying the First Amendment “imposed unprecedented limits on the ability of the President’s closest aides to use the bully pulpit to address matters of public concern, on the FBI’s ability to …
Jan 31 2025
New Totalitarians For Old
In a way, when the subject is the lust for power, nothing fundamental really changes. The would-be tyrant doesn’t say to the masses, “Give me total power over you because I want to oppress you.” He says, “I’m here to help you. Trust me. Give me total power over you because I know best …
Jan 27 2025
We Gotta Repair The Electoral Process
Because if the Left ever swindles its way back in, surviving the next gulag is terribly unlikely. It surely will be worse than this.
Nov 28 2024
The Big Giveaway
I’m going to struggle through one post this morning, because the subject is so important. The big “reveal,” if you will, that the State has gone totalitarian comes in parts. They don’t always arrive together, but once any one of them becomes visible, you may rest assured that the others will soon be upon you. …
Oct 01 2024
What Does It Mean To Be “Governed?”
By now, our Gentle Readers have probably heard about this: Quoth the mighty Sundance: Within the recent WEF discussion, Secretary Kerry outlines how freedom of speech is a ‘threat to the global democracy‘ because the governing officials have a difficult time controlling information. Kerry goes on to posit how the next administration, …
Sep 19 2024
Equal But Opposite
I’ve written here of the use of gradualism to habituate a people to ever more rigid government control over their lives. It’s not a new idea. It has several names, according to the era in which it’s addressed. James Madison called it “consolidation.” Twentieth Century strategic thinkers called it “salami tactics.” Today, gradualism or …
Aug 27 2024
The Best Possible Argument For An Armed Society…
… is the long train of abuses and usurpations committed by the governing elite: Joe and Jill Biden took a taxpayer-funded weeklong vacation in Santa Ynez, California last week. Secret Service agents violently pushed peasants out of the way so Jill Biden could go on a shopping spree on Friday afternoon. …
Aug 15 2024
His Mistake Was In Pleading Guilty
Here is what he allegedly gained from his admission of guilt. The judge arbitrarily decided to reduce his sentence from 30 months to 20 months “because you pleaded guilty to this serious crime.” Three Facebook posts criticizing UK policy is now viewed as a serious crime in a country where voter awareness of the consequences …
Jun 22 2024
Greetings, my fellow domestic terrorists!
Oh, if you read any kind of anti-Marxist blogs, you know you’re on a list somewhere. And if your Catholic, or in the military (it’s a two-fer for me!) then the government is going to label you as a domestic terrorist. According to documents obtained by American First Legal (AFL), the DHS board called “Homeland …
May 22 2024
Shortsighted: Bill Whittle A Bit Too Cheerful
These new age war tools are particularly attractive to a tyranny that views its subjects as domestic terrorists. Additionally, their existence reduces leaderhip risk by reducing personnel. As in the number who are equipped and might turn around and attack the tyrant. Like the soldiers at the Bastille did.
Apr 26 2024
Cicero Saw Clearly
Everything about this post is short. Something simple should not require a great deal of words. The enemy outside the gates are far less to be feared. That is the shortened version of Cicero’s famous observation. I have begun to see it as eventually universally true. Certainly in light of Fran’s latest screeds noting past …
Apr 01 2024
A Despotic Self-Own By RFKJr
Say you know a classical liberal. The Dems have finally broken their bond with him, most notably with their Bolshevikian attacks on any one or group that exposes their faults. Their attacks on free speech has him leaning towards RFKJr because of some popular stances that align with his own. Specifically for people like that …
Sep 15 2023
Bootlickers Disguise Bootlicking as Shoe Shining
Most folks have probably encountered a situation like this. You’re arguing on social media with some Lefty, and he copies and pastes some links he dug up on Google as evidence his point of view is right, and you’re just an idiot who hates fact-based rational thought. After all, how can you ignore the opinion …
Aug 04 2023
Warning: Transition In Progress
The most dangerous time for the people of a country transitioning from freedom to tyranny is the period of transition itself. The events of the transition period are invariably bloody. However, those events are also educational. Once the opposition has been destroyed, the survivors are aware of what it will take to remain survivors. …
Nov 01 2022
Has A Super-majority Had Enough?
Because, as we learned the hard way in 2020, a majority is not enough. Come 8 November, the final scene below is the least they could do. So man the polls as you have never done before, because the enemy knows they have everything to lose. And so do you.
Nov 01 2022
When Not To Forgive
This Atlantic article has stimulated quite a few jeers and raised middle fingers from us in the Right…and that, Gentle Reader, is entirely appropriate: We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people …
Oct 02 2022
Is it Safe? Part 1
The wannabe despot is a coward. Before he acts he needs to feel the environment has been well prepared before he makes the next move. The title of this series comes from the line endlessly repeated by the Lawrence Olivier character as he tortured the one portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. Well, in …
Sep 05 2022
“That Can’t Be True!”
The title phrase is a reaction, elicited from some, to the most “extreme” news. It’s the verbal equivalent of putting hands over eyes and screaming “Make it go away!” And sane Americans are having it ever more frequently. However, it’s dangerous. What makes it dangerous is the word can’t, which is always a …
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