A Rising Tide: The Conservative Case for the American Engine of Prosperity

 

MO MONEY:

The DOW hit 50K today. I remember when Bush 41 left office it was around 3,5K. That shows you how much wealth has been created in the US since 1993. From the Inception of the DOW until Bush 41 left office it went from 0 to only 3.5K. 

I always have said "What someone else has has nothing to do with what you don't have. There is enough for everybody. Ya just have to know how and where to find it. I'm always lookin'..

"STAY THIRSTY MY FRIEND" ~ The Most Amazing Man In The World

A Rising Tide: The Conservative Case for the American Engine of Prosperity

A recent social media post, reflecting on the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s historic climb past 50,000, offers a profound, albeit folksy, conservative truth. The observation is stark: the Dow, from its inception in 1896 until President George H.W. Bush left office in 1993, had reached approximately 3,500 points. In the three decades since, it has multiplied over fourteen-fold. This isn’t just a statistic for traders; it is a towering monument to the unparalleled wealth-creating power of the American economic system when it is unleashed. The post’s accompanying philosophy “What someone else has has nothing to do with what you don’t have. There is enough for everybody. Ya just have to know how and where to find it” encapsulates the core conservative belief in opportunity, personal agency, and the moral superiority of growth over grievance.

From a conservative perspective, this astronomical growth since the early 1990s is not a random accident or the inevitable result of technological progress alone. It is the direct reward for a series of policy decisions that unshackled the private sector, incentivized investment, and affirmed that the purpose of the economy is to generate prosperity, not to be an instrument for social re-engineering. This period encompassed the tech boom of the Clinton-Gingrich era (fueled by deregulation and the internet), the Bush tax cuts that left more capital in the hands of those who create jobs, and the Trump-era tax reform and deregulatory blitz that supercharged business confidence and investment before the pandemic. Even the Biden administration has, at times reluctantly, presided over a market whose underlying strength was built by these prior policies. The Dow’s journey is a market verdict on the power of low taxes, sensible regulation, and free capital flows.

This narrative stands in direct opposition to the progressive zero-sum worldview that dominates much of contemporary political rhetoric. The left’s economic framework is fundamentally rooted in scarcity and redistribution. Its language is of “fair shares,” “taxing extreme wealth,” and combating “inequality.” It views the economic pie as static, arguing that if one person has a large slice, it necessarily means another has less. The social media post’s wisdom dismantles this fallacy: What someone else has has nothing to do with what you don’t have.” The conservative sees a dynamic, expanding pie. The wealth represented by that 50,000-point Dow is not a finite pile of gold coins hoarded in a vault; it is capital. It is investment in factories, research labs, startups, and retirement accounts. It is the engine of business expansion, wage growth, and innovation. Jeff Bezos’s wealth is not a claim on existing resources that deprives others; it is a valuation of Amazon, a company that created over a million jobs, revolutionized logistics, and provided a platform for countless small businesses. His gain is not society’s loss; it is evidence of value created for millions.

The post’s second axiom “There is enough for everybody. Ya just have to know how and where to find it” is a clarion call for personal responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset. It rejects the victimhood narrative that claims certain groups are permanently locked out of prosperity by systemic barriers. Conservatism does not deny that life presents challenges, hardships, or uneven starting points. But its solution is not to have government attempt to guarantee equal outcomes through redistribution. The solution is to foster a society with the greatest possible equality of opportunity: a vibrant, growing economy where jobs are plentiful, where education and skills are valued, and where barriers to starting a business are low. The “how and where to find it” speaks to the virtues of hard work, delayed gratification, financial literacy, and relentless hustle. It’s the immigrant opening a restaurant, the tradesman building a company, the coder learning a new language, or the investor patiently contributing to a 401(k). The market rewards those who provide value to others. The 50,000-point Dow is a testament to the millions of such individual decisions, risks, and efforts aggregated together.

This is not to advocate for a callous social Darwinism. The conservative vision is of a generous society, but one where generosity is personal, communal, and voluntary—not coerced by the state. A society with a booming stock market is a society with more resources for charity, stronger community institutions, and greater capacity for individuals to secure their own futures and help their neighbors. The prosperity symbolized by the Dow funds the churches, non-profits, and local initiatives that address poverty and dislocation far more effectively than distant federal bureaucracies.

Furthermore, this growth is the bedrock of American strength. The wealth created since 1993 is what funds our military, invests in next-generation technology, and provides the economic resilience to confront challenges like a pandemic or geopolitical rivals. A nation obsessed with slicing the existing pie more “fairly” is a nation in decline. A nation focused on baking a bigger pie is a nation that can lead, innovate, and secure its future.

The post’s sign-off, “STAY THIRSTY MY FRIEND,” is the perfect coda. It is a call for relentless ambition, curiosity, and drive. It is the antithesis of the progressive politics of envy, which seeks to quench its thirst by taking another’s glass. The conservative ideal is to build more wells, to teach people how to dig, and to celebrate those whose efforts create new sources of abundance for all.

The march from 3,500 to 50,000 on the Dow is more than a financial chart. It is a story of American optimism, resilience, and the transformative power of freedom. It is empirical proof that when government steps back and allows the genius of the American people to flourish, the result is not inequality but unprecedented, widely-shared wealth creation. The task for conservatives is to protect the policies that made this possible: limited government, low taxes, sound money, and the unwavering belief that in America, there is still enough for everybody—for those with the vision, and the thirst, to go and find it.

#DOW #STOCKMARKET #STOCKS

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Imane Khelif opens up on ‘natural’ male gene while agreeing to undergo testing for 2028 Olympics

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Democrat, can we simply stick to the facts and numbers and keep 'Orange Man Bad' out of it?

 

Democrat, can we simply stick to the facts and numbers and keep 'Orange Man Bad' out of it?

Only 12% of ILLEGALS are Caucasian. The 'worst of the worst' are Black and Brown. You call CBP and I.C.E. Nazis and Fascist. 30% of I.C.E. and 50% of CBP is Latino. Has anyone ever met a Latino Nazi? Have you read of any in a book?

Oh, Castro was close to a Nazi. He wS Communist. Look here, they all HATE WHERE YOU LIVE, AMERICA. If you are Black or Brown YOU LIVE HERE TOO!!!

Facts Over Slogans: A Conservative Case for Reasoned Debate on Immigration

The recent social media post cuts through the fog of modern political discourse with a series of pointed, data-driven questions. It challenges the pervasive, emotionally charged narrative surrounding immigration enforcement with stark demographics and a plea to move beyond juvenile epithets like "Orange Man Bad." From a conservative perspective, this post is not merely a retort; it is a manifesto for a return to factual debate, a rejection of racialized smears, and a passionate affirmation of American civic identity over tribal grievance.

At its core, the conservative philosophy values order, sovereignty, and the rule of law. Immigration policy is not, and cannot be, an exception to these principles. The post begins by invoking facts and numbers specifically, the demographic breakdown of those entering the country illegally. While the precise percentage can be debated, the underlying point is crucial: the debate over illegal immigration is fundamentally about the act of breaking the law, not the race of the individuals committing the act. To conflate the two is the very definition of prejudice. Conservatives argue that a nation without enforced borders is not a nation at all; it is a geographic idea. Enforcing immigration law is therefore a neutral, necessary function of any sovereign state, from Japan to Norway to the United States. To attach racial animus to this function is to intentionally poison the well of discourse and avoid a substantive discussion on quotas, assimilation, labor markets, and national security.

This leads directly to the post’s powerful challenge regarding the composition of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The claim that 30% of ICE and 50% of CBP personnel are Latino is a devastating rebuttal to the casual, inflammatory labels of "Nazi" and "Fascist" hurled at these agents by some on the left. This is not a trivial point. It strikes at the heart of the progressive tactic of demonizing opponents through historical atrocities to shut down debate. The question, "Has anyone ever met a Latino Nazi?" is rhetorical brilliance. It exposes the absurdity and intellectual bankruptcy of the analogy. These are not jackbooted ideologues; they are public servants a vast number of them drawn from the very communities they are falsely accused of targeting doing a difficult, dangerous job mandated by Congress. To slander them is to disrespect the rule of law they are sworn to uphold and to insult the countless Hispanic Americans who see in border security not oppression, but the protection of their communities, their jobs, and the integrity of the immigration system through which many of their own families entered legally.

The post’s reference to Castro is equally significant. It correctly distinguishes between the communist tyranny of Cuba and the Nazi fascism of Germany, while noting the authoritarian similarities. This distinction is often lost in a political culture that uses "fascist" as a catch-all insult for anyone to the right of center. Conservatism insists on precision in language and a sober understanding of history. Lazily equating ICE agents who operate under layers of legal oversight and judicial review with the genocidal apparatus of the Third Reich is not just offensive; it is a form of historical illiteracy that cheapens the memory of actual victims of totalitarianism.

But the most profound element of the post is its closing argument: "LOOK HERE, THEY ALL HATE WHERE YOU LIVE, AMERICA. If you are Black or Brown YOU LIVE HERE TOO!!!" This is a full-throated, patriotic appeal to a unifying American identity. It is a fundamentally conservative idea. It rejects the left's hierarchy of racial grievance, which often casts America as an irredeemably oppressive project. Instead, it affirms that America is a place a nation of laws, ideals, and shared destiny that belongs equally to all its citizens, regardless of ethnicity. The "they" in this sentence are those who violate its borders and show contempt for its laws, not people of a particular color. The post reminds Black and Brown Americans that their stake in a secure, prosperous, and lawful America is identical to that of any other citizen. It is a call to view citizenship not as a demographic category in a competition for victim status, but as a shared commitment to a common home.

This is the conservative antidote to the poison of identity politics: E Pluribus Unum Out of Many, One. The progressive model seeks to divide the populace into oppressor and oppressed groups, fostering resentment and a sense of alienation from national institutions. The conservative model, as echoed in this post, seeks to unite citizens around shared love of country, respect for its laws, and the understanding that a nation’s first duty is to its own people, of every race and creed.

The plea to "stick to the facts and numbers" is therefore a plea for maturity and national self-preservation. Emotion-driven policies from catch-and-release to sanctuary city non-cooperation have directly contributed to the current crisis: overwhelmed border facilities, tragic deaths in the desert, strain on public services, and depressed wages for low-income workers. Facts show that uncontrolled immigration disproportionately harms the most vulnerable American citizens, including legal immigrants and working-class minorities. A conservative approach demands we discuss these outcomes soberly: how many, from where, with what skills, and through what legal process?

The post’s blunt style may be dismissed by some as crude, but its substance is a clarion call for a return to foundational principles. It demands that we debate immigration through the lenses of sovereignty, law, economic impact, and national cohesion—not through the distorting prisms of racism, historical slander, and childish political taunts. It affirms that those who enforce the law are not villains, and that those who cherish America, regardless of their complexion, have a common interest in its security and integrity. In an era of shouting, this post asks for reasoning. In an era of division, it offers a unifying vision of patriotic citizenship. That is not just a conservative argument; it is an urgently American one.

#Race #Democrats  #Movement #ILLEGALS 

 

White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx. Here's what to know

#TrumpRx #Prescription #RX #Drugs #BigPharma

The Mirage of TrumpRx: More Government, Not Less, Masquerading as Reform

The recent announcement of a Trump administration initiative to launch a “direct-to-consumer” prescription drug site, dubbed “TrumpRx” by online commentators, has been met with a flurry of headlines. On its glossy surface, the proposal seems to align with conservative free-market principles: empowering consumers, increasing price transparency, and bypassing middlemen to reduce costs. Yet, upon closer examination, this initiative represents not a bold stride toward market liberation, but a further, perilous step into a government-managed healthcare economy. It is a quintessential example of big-government conservatism, a well-intentioned but misguided foray that expands the federal footprint in medicine under the banner of consumer choice, ultimately undermining the very market forces it claims to champion.

At first glance, the concept of a federal portal for comparing and purchasing prescription drugs appears seductively simple. Proponents argue it will harness the power of transparency to drive competition, allowing Americans, especially seniors on Medicare, to see prices and purchase medications much as they would book a flight or compare televisions online. This taps into a justifiable and widespread frustration. The prescription drug market is notoriously opaque, a byzantine labyrinth of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), rebates, and perverse incentives that often obscure true costs from the end user. The conservative instinct is to cut through this Gordian knot, and a digital marketplace seems a modern, efficient solution.

However, this instinct falters when the proposed marketplace is created, funded, and operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This is not a private-sector innovation like Amazon Pharmacy or GoodRx entering the fray; it is the federal government inserting itself as a central pricing arbiter and distribution coordinator. The moment the White House launches its own “.gov” drug store, it ceases to be a neutral facilitator of market forces and becomes a market participant with unparalleled power. It inherently tilts the playing field. What begins as a voluntary option for price comparison can, with the stroke of a regulatory pen, morph into a preferred or even mandatory channel for federal programs like Medicare Part D. This is not competition; it is the laying of groundwork for a single-payer-style formulary by stealth.

True conservative reform would focus not on creating a government storefront, but on dismantling the regulatory and legal barriers that prevent a genuine, private market from functioning. The root causes of high drug prices are multifaceted, but many are direct consequences of government intervention or inaction. The Byzantine patent and regulatory system, often manipulated by manufacturers to create “evergreening” monopolies on drugs, stifles generic and biosimilar competition. The perverse role of PBMs—entities that emerged as a result of the complex, government-structured Medicare Part D system—is a creature of a convoluted regulatory environment, not a free market. Furthermore, the outright prohibition on Medicare negotiating drug prices, a provision originally supported by conservatives to prevent government price-setting, has had unintended consequences when paired with a system that mandates coverage without fostering real consumer-driven competition.

A conservative approach would aggressively pursue deregulation to speed safe generics to market, reform the patent litigation process to prevent abuse, and, most importantly, empower the consumer with both information and financial agency. The fundamental flaw in our current third-party-payer system—whether private insurance or government Medicare—is that the end user is insulated from the true cost. Real transparency and competition occur when the patient, armed with a Health Savings Account (HSA) funded with pre-tax dollars, can shop for value directly with their pharmacist or doctor, creating a direct feedback loop between price, value, and purchase. The TrumpRx model does the opposite: it maintains the consumer’s detachment from cost (as the government or an insurer still pays) while having the government hunt for a better deal on their behalf. This entrenches the disconnection between patient and price that is the core dysfunction of American healthcare.

The initiative also opens a Pandora’s box of dangerous precedents. If the federal government can establish a “direct-to-consumer” portal for drugs, what is the principled argument against it doing so for medical procedures, imaging, or doctor visits? This logic leads inevitably to a fully government-facilitated, “one-stop-shop” for all medical commerce—the architecture of a national health service. Once the infrastructure is built and the data flows through Washington, the temptation for future administrations to use it for price controls, treatment mandates, or ideologically driven exclusions (on everything from puberty blockers to certain vaccines) will be overwhelming. The distance between a government price comparison tool and a government price *setting* tool is far shorter than most realize.

Moreover, the security and liberty concerns are profound. A centralized federal database detailing the prescription habits of millions of Americans represents a staggering threat to medical privacy. In an age of data breaches and bureaucratic overreach, consolidating such sensitive information under the aegis of HHS creates a tempting target for hackers and a powerful tool for regulators. The history of government IT projects, from Healthcare.gov’s disastrous launch to chronic cybersecurity failures at agencies like the Office of Personnel Management, does not inspire confidence. Conservatives have rightly fought against the “social credit” systems of communist China; we must be equally vigilant against the creation of a centralized federal health data trove that could be used to influence, nudge, or penalize citizens based on their medical choices.

The appeal of TrumpRx is understandable. It offers the allure of a simple, presidential solution to a complex and painful problem. It feels like action. But conservatism at its best is not about the appearance of action; it is about principled action that expands liberty and limits state power. The proper role of the federal government in healthcare is not to become America’s pharmacist. It is to ensure a level, open, and competitive playing field by removing artificial barriers, enforcing anti-trust laws against genuine collusion, protecting intellectual property rights without allowing their abuse, and empowering individuals—not federal agencies—with the resources and information to make their own choices.

Instead of building a government website, a truly conservative administration would champion reforms that: expand HSAs and make them accessible to all; break the stranglehold of PBMs by demanding transparency in rebates and fees; accelerate FDA approval for proven generics; and promote true price transparency by requiring all providers and pharmacies to publicly post cash prices. These measures would foster a thousand private-sector solutions—apps, services, and businesses—to help consumers navigate the market, innovation that would be stifled by a government monopoly on price comparison.

TrumpRx, for all its market-oriented packaging, is a symptom of a Washington mindset that cannot conceive of a solution that does not originate from and be controlled by the state. It is the path of least resistance within the existing bloated bureaucracy, not the bold path of market discipline. Conservatives must look past the appealing brand name and see the proposal for what it is: another brick in the road to a government-managed medical economy. Our prescription should be for more freedom, not a new federal drugstore. The cure for high prices and opaque markets isn’t a bigger government role; it’s the vigorous, creative, and unencumbered force of American free enterprise, finally unleashed to serve the patient as a consumer, not a subject.

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Mamdani wants to Socialize Education

The education challenges the Mamdani administration faces

A wholesale end to mayoral control of schools will not be among them, despite what Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said on the campaign trail.

'ONE SIZE FITS ALL' EDUCATION DOESN'T WORK

Mamdani wants to shut down AP Schools in NYC. He wants to focus on EQUITY and DEI. That is what Socialists and Elite Democrats do. They succeed on education programs that they don't allow the less fortunate to succeed as they did. The rich kids can move on. The poor kids are stuck in public schools that are failing. 

Zohran Mamdani attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, where he graduated around 2010. During his time at this specialized high school, he co-founded the school's first cricket team and was involved in student journalism. 

#Socialism #Education #Mamdani

High School: The Bronx High School of Science.

• Activities: Co-founded the cricket team and co-edited the school newspaper, The Science Survey

Follow The Money In Polilitics

 FOLLOW THE MONEY

Follow The Money In Polilitics

#Campaigns #SoftMoney #HardMoney #Follow The Money #CampaignContributions

Media Research Center

 Media Research Center

AMERICA'S MEDIA WATCHDOG

#Media #Watchdog #WhistleBlower #1stAmendment

Abortion, ILLEGALS, and The US Population

 

OPINION

Abortion, ILLEGALS, and The US Population

The Democratic Party wants Abortion on demand paid for by the Government.  They want the ILLEGALS because they say the US birthrate is declining so we need them to boost population. NO WE DON'T! STOP KILLING BABIES!

BTW, 65% of Abortions are now done at home with a pill - that has an 11% complication rate. They say that rate is higher than FDA standards.

If I gave a Woman a drug and it ended up killing her baby I would be on the wrong side of a news story.

The Great Contradiction: Abortion, Open Borders, and the Liberal War on the Future

A recent, impassioned social post cuts to the heart of what many conservatives see as the defining, and devastating, contradiction of modern progressive policy. It lays out two seemingly disparate agendas of the Democratic Party: the fervent promotion of abortion-on-demand, often publicly funded, and the advocacy for mass, illegal immigration to “boost population.” To the conservative eye, these are not separate issues. They are two sides of the same degraded coin—a cynical and short-sighted strategy that sacrifices both the nation’s native future and its sovereign integrity on the altar of political power.

The post’s core argument is a moral and mathematical rebuke: “STOP KILLING BABIES!” followed by the insistence that we do not need to import people to solve a population decline we are actively, intentionally engineering. This is not merely a pro-life stance; it is a profound accusation of cultural and national suicide. Why, conservatives ask, must we tear down border walls while funding the termination of potential future citizens within them? The answer, from this perspective, is raw political calculus. A declining native birthrate, exacerbated by a culture that often devalues family formation, creates a demographic vacuum. The progressive solution is not to promote the conditions for stable families, motherhood, and child-rearing—which would align with traditional, often religious, values they oppose—but to fill the void with a new electorate. This new population, the theory goes, is more likely to depend on the very government programs that Democrats expand, thereby creating a permanent political clientele. It is the replacement of cradle-to-grave citizens with transactional migrants and a state-managed demographic plan.

The post then pivots to a critical and underreported facet of the abortion debate: the rise of the chemical abortion pill, now accounting for a majority of abortions. The cited 11% complication rate—a figure supported by studies like the 2021 *Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health* analysis which found significant rates of emergency room visits post-medication abortion—is a damning indictment of the “safe and easy” narrative. For conservatives, this is the ultimate expression of progressive hypocrisy. The same political movement that demands “equity” in healthcare and screams “follow the science!” on other issues aggressively downplays the very real physical and psychological dangers of DIY abortions. They have fought to eliminate even basic safety standards, like requiring an in-person physician visit, all under the banner of “access.” The result, as the post starkly notes, is a dangerous double standard. If a citizen gave a woman a drug that ended her pregnancy, it would be a national scandal, potentially prosecuted as a crime. Yet, when a corporation mails the same drug, funded by political allies and championed by the media, it is framed as “healthcare” and “empowerment.” Where is the equity for the women rushed to the ER with hemorrhaging or incomplete abortions? Where is the scientific rigor in ignoring complication data?

This medicalization of abortion, stripping it of clinical oversight, is seen not as progress, but as a descent into barbarism disguised as convenience. It transforms a profound moral and physical event into a transactional ordeal to be managed alone, in a bathroom, with the state and corporations absolved of all responsibility for the outcome. The conservative view holds that this is the opposite of compassion; it is abandonment. True care for women would involve robust support for crisis pregnancies, adoption reform, and policies that empower women to choose life without facing financial ruin—not mailing them pills and telling them to deal with it.

Ultimately, this post points to a broader conservative critique of the liberal worldview: its fundamental hostility to the foundational pillars of a healthy, enduring society. The traditional conservative vision values the nuclear family as the essential cell of national life. It sees children not as a burden or a choice, but as a blessing and a societal necessity—the very future of the nation, its culture, and its values. The policies of abortion-on-demand and the degradation of borders represent a direct assault on this vision.

Abortion destroys the native future. Open borders import a replacement population without demanding assimilation to the language, law, and shared history that have made America exceptional. Together, they create a rootless, transient society—one without deep familial bonds or national loyalty, perfectly suited for management by an ever-expanding administrative state. The citizen is replaced by the client; the patriot by the recipient.

The conservative answer, therefore, is not to manage the decline but to reverse it. It calls for a restoration of a culture of life, where every child is welcomed, protected by law, and seen as a bearer of inherent potential. It demands an immigration policy that is legal, orderly, and merit-based, one that admits newcomers who wish to become Americans, not just access its economy. It seeks to rebuild the economic and social conditions—from marriage-friendly tax codes to protections for religious liberty—that allow families to flourish.

The post’s raw emotion—its focus on the “baby,” the “ILLEGALS,” and the deadly complications—cuts through the sanitized euphemisms of modern politics. It rejects the language of “terminating a pregnancy” and “undocumented immigrants” in favor of terms that speak to moral and legal truth. In doing so, it voices a deep-seated fear that the nation is being dismantled from within and without: from within by a death cult of convenience that sacrifices its young, and from without by an invasion enabled by political elites.

The path forward, from this perspective, is clear. We must choose life. We must choose law. We must choose a future built on our own children, raised in strong families, educated in our history, and committed to the perpetuation of a sovereign, virtuous republic. The alternative is a barren nation, both morally and demographically, adrift in a world it no longer has the confidence or the people to lead. The Democratic blueprint is one of managed decline and political dependency. The conservative imperative is one of national renewal.

#Abortion #ILLEGALS #Population #Census #Democrats

Help Women Who Choose LIFE

Aid and Help For Pregnant Women

 They Actually Have The Audacity To Call It ABORTION TOURISM ... [SICK]

ANALYSIS:

23% of Illinois abortion patients are Women from another State.

Close to 50% of Illinois Women seeking Abortions are on their 2nd or more abortion. Apparently it is used as birth control paid for by tax payers.

Illinois pitching for funds to shore up abortion tourism denounced as ‘macabre’

Pritzker Signs Bill Requiring Public Colleges in Illinois to Offer Contraception, Medication Abortion

#Pritzker #ABORTION #ABORTIONonDemand #ILLINOIS #taxpayerfundedabortion

Body camera footage show shooting of man by NYPD officer

 

Crazy Guy With Knife Shot By NYC Cop After the Cop Was Stabbed ...You Won't Believe Who The MAYOR went to see.

When someone, family or not, calls 911 and says someone has a knife the 911 Operator  is going to send the POLICE, not a Social Worker. Social Workers and Ambulance Drivers do not show up on a scene until the Police secure the scene. And yes, if you charge a cop with a knife you're gonna get shot.

BTW, Mamdani went to the hospital to visit the crazy guy, not the Cop. NYC is in trouble and they will get what they voted for.

#NewYorkPoliceShooting #NYC #Mamdani #Police

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Body camera footage show

shooting of man by NYPD officer

Two officers went to the Queens home of a 22-year-old when he was experiencing a mental health crisis. A newly released video shows the man grabbed a knife, and an officer shot him. CBS News New York's Christina Fan reports.Feb 4, 2026

In Regards To Billie Eilish ...

 

In Regards To Billie Eilish: Basically Every Country On The Planet Has Been Conquered and Had or Supported Slavery. GET OVER IT!!! I thought what she said at the Grammys was stupid, but shouldn't have to give up her house ... BTW, she said "No one is illegal in stolen land." Her Mansion in California sits on land that once belonged to the Yongva Tribe. Since her statement the Yongva Tribe has issued a statement: WE WANT OUR [STOLEN] LAND BACK ... You can't make this up ...

A Clash of Narratives: Property, Hypocrisy, and the Uncomfortable Truths of History

Pop star Billie Eilish’s declaration at the Grammy Awards, “No one is illegal on stolen land,” was met with rapturous applause from an audience clad in haute couture. It is a simple, emotionally potent slogan, perfectly suited for the era of social media activism. Yet, the swift and pointed response from the Tongva Tribe—who noted that Ms. Eilish’s own luxurious mansion sits upon their ancestral territory and expressed a desire to have it returned—has thrown that simplicity into stark and revealing relief. This incident is not merely a case of celebrity hypocrisy; it is a microcosm of a profound philosophical and historical conflict between a modern progressive narrative and the foundational principles of conservative thought, as well as the uncomfortable, complex truths of human history.

From a conservative perspective, Eilish’s statement represents the logical endpoint of a worldview that privileges grievance over gratitude, and emotional rhetoric over practical governance. The core of the argument rests on two premises: that the land was “stolen,” and that modern political boundaries are therefore illegitimate. Conservatism, in its American form, begins from a different foundation: the rule of law, the sanctity of legally acquired private property, and the recognition that the present is built upon a past we can learn from but cannot undo.

The conservative view holds that property rights, enshrined in law and defended by institutions, are the bedrock of a free and prosperous society. To declare all land “stolen” is to unravel the very concept of property title. On what basis does Ms. Eilish own her microphone, her awards, or her earnings? They are secured by a legal system whose legitimacy her statement implicitly denies. If the standard is original, pre-historical possession, then no individual or nation on earth holds legitimate title to anything. This is not a philosophy for building a functioning society; it is a recipe for endless conflict and societal collapse. The Tongva’s request for the return of her mansion is the perfectly logical application of her own logic. If she takes her slogan seriously, what is her answer? To vacate? To deed her home to a tribal council? Her likely inaction will speak volumes about the difference between fashionable sentiment and serious principle.

This leads to the second, and far more profound, point: the breathtaking historical naivete of the “stolen land” narrative as it is commonly presented. It posits a static, utopian pre-colonial world of fixed tribes living in eternal harmony with borders unchanged since time immemorial. This is a historical fairy tale.

Consider the “fun fact” about the Great Plains, a brutal but accurate summary of a deeper truth: **The Sioux took the land from the Cheyenne, who took it from the Kiowa, who took it from the Pawnee, who took it from the Crow, who took it from the Arikara.** This cycle of conquest, displacement, and enslavement was not unique to North America; it is the story of humanity. The victors did not merely take the land; they often enslaved the vanquished, absorbed them, or drove them out. The Mongols conquered. The Romans conquered. The Zulu Empire expanded through conquest. The Aztecs subjugated their neighbors. Every square mile of this planet has been contested, traded, settled, and resettled through millennia of migration, war, and treaty.

This is not to excuse or minimize the particular injustices inflicted upon Native American tribes by European settlers and the U.S. government. Broken treaties, forced removals like the Trail of Tears, and outright brutality are dark chapters that must be studied and remembered. But conservatism argues for a clear-eyed view of history, not a selectively guilty one. To single out the European-derived American project as uniquely “illegal” or “sinful” for doing what every human civilization has done—compete for resources and territory—is to apply a political and moral standard to our ancestors that is absent from the rest of human history. It is presentism of the worst kind.

The conservative alternative is not to ignore history, but to build upon it with realism and gratitude. The American experiment, while flawed and often violent in its expansion, also produced something historically exceptional: a constitutional republic based on individual rights, a system of laws that applies (in theory) equally to all, and the capacity for self-correction. The treaties, however dishonored, were at least an attempt at a legal framework—a concept often absent from inter-tribal conflict. From this hard-won foundation, the United States has provided more liberty and prosperity to more people from more backgrounds than any nation in history, including, today, to the descendants of those very tribes.

Furthermore, the practical implications of the “stolen land” narrative are both nihilistic and paralyzing. What is the prescribed action? The dissolution of the United States? The deportation of over 300 million people to countless points of origin across the globe? The redistribution of all private property based on genealogical claims lost to time? These are not policies; they are incantations of guilt. They offer no viable path forward, only a permanent state of apology and alienation from one’s own home.

Conservatism offers a different path: patriotism as a forward-looking commitment, not a blind worship of the past. It is the love of the country you have, the community you build, and the laws you uphold. It involves honoring specific treaty obligations that remain in force, supporting tribal sovereignty on existing reservations, and preserving historical sites. But it firmly rejects the idea that current citizens, whose families may have arrived generations ago or last year, bear personal, inheritable guilt for historical events they did not cause.

Billie Eilish, in her mansion on Tongva land, is the perfect symbol of this cognitive dissonance. She benefits entirely from the system her rhetoric condemns—its laws protecting her property, its economy generating her wealth, its platforms amplifying her voice. Her statement is cost-free activism, a luxury good afforded by the very stability she calls illegitimate.

In the end, the clash is between two visions. One sees a nation born in original sin, forever tainted, its people illegal occupants. The other, the conservative vision, sees a nation born in a revolutionary idea of liberty, forged through a difficult and often tragic history, but capable of justice, growth, and greatness. It chooses to build upon the legacy we have inherited, to improve it where we can, and to defend the civilized structures of law and property that prevent the world from reverting to the brutal, conquest-based reality that was the true norm for all human history—a reality where, as the plains tribes knew well, land was always taken, and the victors always took the spoils. We can acknowledge that past without being condemned to live in its shadow. The first step is to stop uttering slogans that would, if taken seriously, dismantle the very stage on which one stands.

#BillieEilish #Land #StolenLand #Tribe #Sioux #Cheyenne #Kiowa #Pawnee #Crow #Arikara #Slavery #NativeAmerican #Youngva 

 

Michelle Obama Makes It Clear She’s Done With Politics for Good

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Pretti and Rittenhouse = Apples and Oranges

 

Pretti and Rittenhouse = Apples and Oranges

People are comparing Alex Pretti to Kyle Rittenhouse. If you are one of them there a problem. You put too much sugar in the Kool-aid. Pretti was interfering was Law Enforcement activity. Rittenhouse was not. Pretti was carrying ILLEGALLY. Rittenhouse was not. They call Rittenhouse a White Supremacists. He was not. He shot 3 White people. One chased him into an ally. One hit him over the head with a skateboard. And the other guy had a gun ILLEGALLY. Also, the media lied about Rittenhouse. They said he carried the gun across state lines. He did not. The gun was already in Kenosha at his Dad's house.

Also, people asked why a 17 year old was on the streets with a long gun. The answer is BECAUSE THE 27, 37, and 47 Men were not.

#AlexPretti #KyleRittenhouse #Minneapolis #Kenosha

The Rittenhouse Standard: A Case Study in Law, Narrative, and Conservative Disillusionment

A recent social media post, focusing on the stark contrasts between the cases of Alex Pretti and Kyle Rittenhouse, serves as a potent and concise indictment of our current political and media climate. It articulates, in raw form, a central tenet of the modern conservative worldview: that there exists a pervasive and intentional dual standard in how the rule of law, self-defense, and individual responsibility are applied and reported based on political alignment. The post’s core argument that these two cases are not morally or legally equivalent is correct, but its deeper significance lies in exposing the machinery that tried, and failed, to make them so.

The legal distinctions are, as the poster notes, unambiguous and fatal to the comparison. Alex Pretti, in the tragic events at the Capitol, was indisputably interfering with a lawful police operation. He was part of a mob actively breaching a secured federal facility during the certification of a presidential election the very definition of interfering with law enforcement. Kyle Rittenhouse, placed in an impossible position on the streets of Kenosha, was not. He was fleeing attackers. Video evidence, later vindicated in a court of law, showed him being chased, cornered, and assaulted before he used lethal force. This is the foundational principle of self-defense, a sacred right conservatives argue is being progressively eroded unless it fits a preferred narrative.

Furthermore, the post correctly highlights the critical legal status of the weapons involved. Pretti’s possession of a firearm in Washington D.C., while a convicted felon, was a clear-cut federal felony. Rittenhouse’s rifle possession, as determined by Wisconsin law and the jury’s acceptance of its legality for a 17-year-old, was not. This isn’t spin; it’s statute. The conservative frustration here is profound: why is the left, which so often champions nuance and systemic context, so eager to ignore the plain letter of the law when it exonerates someone on the wrong side of the political aisle? The insistence on labeling Rittenhouse’s act “illegal” after a jury found otherwise is not a legal argument; it is a political act of narrative preservation.

This leads directly to the post’s most damning observation: the media’s role. The poster singles out the “crossing state lines” fabrication, a lie so ubiquitous it became accepted truth for millions. This was not a minor factual error. It was a deliberate narrative construction designed to paint Rittenhouse as a violent outsider, a vigilante seeking trouble. When that collapsed, the fallback was the “white supremacist” smear, a label rendered absurd by the fact, as noted, that all three individuals he shot were white. This campaign was a clinical exercise in character assassination, where truth was sacrificed on the altar of political utility. For conservatives, this wasn’t just bias; it was malpractice. It exposed major media institutions not as journalists, but as activists in a culture war, willing to burn their credibility to fuel a sociopolitical narrative.

Finally, the poster’s closing point, though brusque, cuts to a deeper cultural truth: “BECAUSE THE 27, 37, and 47 Men were not.” This is a raw expression of a conservative belief in individual duty and community protection. The implied argument is that when the state through its elected leaders and law enforcement abdicates its fundamental responsibility to protect life and property, as happened during the Kenosha riots, a vacuum is created. In that vacuum, chaos reigns. The question then becomes: who steps in? The post suggests that Rittenhouse, however young and however ill-advised some may find his presence, was an answer to that failure. He was there, in part, because the responsible adults in positions of authority the 27, 37, and 47-year-old men who should have been keeping the peace were either absent, ineffective, or ordered to stand down. This speaks to a conservative ethos that values proactive citizenship and self-reliance over a passive reliance on a state that can, and does, fail.

The attempted comparison between Pretti and Rittenhouse is not a sincere legal analysis. It is a moral and rhetorical sleight of hand. Its purpose is to conflate two radically different events to create a false equivalency that sows confusion and allows partisan animus to override facts and law. The Pretti case involves the breach of the seat of government. The Rittenhouse case involves the fundamental, individual right to preserve one’s own life from a violent mob.

For conservatives, the Rittenhouse trial became about far more than one teenager. It became a referendum. A referendum on the right to self-defense. A referendum on the presumption of innocence. A referendum on whether facts and law could still triumph over a media-driven narrative seeking a predetermined verdict. The jury’s “not guilty” verdict was a victory for the former, but the enduring liberal fury over the outcome proves the latter is still fiercely operative. The social media post, in its straightforward way, connects these dots. It underscores a conservative conviction that we are living in an era where your rights, your reputation, and your access to truth depend less on your actions and more on which side’s “Kool-Aid” the cultural arbiters have decided you’ve drunk. The battle is no longer just over policy, but over reality itself—and the Rittenhouse case stands as a stark monument to that struggle.

Groundhog Day and the Unseen Fabric: Why Tradition Matters in a Data-Driven Age

 

We have somewhat educated Weather Girls. We have NOAA. We have 'Meteorologists'. They have decades of data. They have Dopplar Radar. Yet, every February 2nd we depend on a FAT RAT to tell us the weather for the next 6 weeks ... Plllllleeassssseee ... PUT IT IN A ZOO AND MOVE ON!!! Oh, and we have AI!!!

IT'S A FAT RAT!!!

Groundhog Day and the Unseen Fabric: Why Tradition Matters in a Data-Driven Age

#Groundhog #GroundhogDay #Weather

Every February 2nd, a curious and charmingly absurd ritual plays out in towns like Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. A groundhog, often described with affectionate derision as a “FAT RAT,” is coaxed from its burrow. If it sees its shadow, six more weeks of winter are prophesied. If not, an early spring is declared. To the modern, technocratic mind, this is the height of irrationality. As the online critic shouts, “We have somewhat educated Weather Girls. We have NOAA. We have 'Meteorologists'. They have decades of data. They have Doppler Radar… Oh, and we have AI!!!”

The critique seems unassailable from a purely utilitarian perspective. Why would a nation that can land rovers on Mars and predict storm paths with remarkable accuracy genuflect before a rodent? The instinctive conservative response, however, is to ask a deeper question: Why not? And what do we lose when we dismiss such traditions as mere silly anachronisms to be discarded in the name of cold, hard data?

The conservative worldview is not, contrary to caricature, anti-science or anti-progress. Conservatives celebrate the marvels of Doppler radar and the life-saving precision of modern meteorology. We rely on NOAA’s data for farming, commerce, and public safety. The development of AI is a testament to human ingenuity. But conservatism is also deeply aware that man does not live by data alone. We are not mere calculating machines; we are story-telling creatures, rooted in community, memory, and shared ritual. Our health as a society depends not just on the efficiency of our systems, but on the strength of our intangible bonds—the things that make a place a home, not just a location.

This is where the humble groundhog, Phil, offers a lesson no supercomputer can. Groundhog Day is not a failed weather model. It is a successful *tradition*. It serves an entirely different, and profoundly human, purpose. It connects us to the rhythms of the natural world in a tangible, playful way. In the dead of winter, it creates a moment of shared anticipation and lightheartedness for an entire community—and by extension, for a nation watching. It is a piece of living folklore, a thread in the cultural fabric that ties generations together. A child who watches the ceremony today participates in the same collective story their grandparents did. That continuity is a form of social capital, a reservoir of shared identity and belonging that is desperately needed in an increasingly fragmented, digital, and transient age.

The sneering dismissal of the “FAT RAT” in favor of AI and “educated Weather Girls” (a peculiarly dated and dismissive term itself) reveals a modernist hubris. It is the belief that anything not quantifiable is worthless, that sentiment is for the weak, and that history is merely a prologue to our own enlightened present. This is the mentality that looks at a centuries-old town square and sees only inefficient land use, or at a longstanding holiday and sees only an unproductive day off. It seeks to homogenize experience, replacing local color and quirky particularity with a sleek, sterile, and globally standardized “efficiency.”

Conservatives understand that this mindset, while promising control, ultimately leads to a profound alienation. When we reduce every aspect of life to data points and optimize all human activity for measurable output, we create a cold and lonely world. We become like the protagonist in the film *Groundhog Day*, trapped in a repetitive, meaningless cycle—not of tradition, but of hollow routine devoid of deeper connection. Traditions like Groundhog Day are an antidote to that. They are voluntary, joyful, and connect us to something larger than ourselves. They are exercises in *freedom*—the freedom to be irrational, to celebrate, to gather not for profit or productivity, but simply for the sake of community.

Furthermore, the ceremony is a humble reminder of our own limits. For all our technology, the weather—like much of life—remains ultimately unpredictable and beyond our total control. The groundhog’s “prediction” is a gentle, humorous acknowledgment of that reality. It places humanity within a natural order, rather than positioning us as its arrogant master. AI may crunch probabilities, but it cannot replicate the humility or the human joy found in this small, shared act of looking to nature for a sign.

So, no, we should not “PUT IT IN A ZOO AND MOVE ON!!!” To do so would be to make a zoo of our own culture, placing the living traditions that nourish us behind glass, to be observed as dead curiosities. The conservative plea is for balance. Let us have our NOAA and our advanced forecasting. Let us use every tool to build safer, more prosperous communities. But let us also fiercely protect the “FAT RAT” and the countless other local traditions, holidays, and rituals that build our character, warm our hearts, and remind us of who we are and where we come from.

A society that retains the wisdom to use supercomputers *and* the grace to enjoy a groundhog’s forecast is a society that understands the full spectrum of what it means to be human. It is a society that has not traded its soul for a data set, and that is a future worth conserving.