Wilder: They Broke The Deal...

John Wilder's latest--"They Broke The Deal: The Economics Of Loyalty And Patriotism"--delves into why so many Westerners are no longer willing to fight for their country. 

    What changed?

    Well, I think the deal that I had has been broken so completely that they simply don’t see a country worth fighting for anymore.  At all.  Why?  Because the economics and culture I grew up in have evaporated, been swallowed in a sea of foreigners, or been the subject of a leveraged buyout.

This is another example of Robert Putnam's research showing that greater ethnic diversity leads to lower social capital. Michael Jonas provides a good summary of Putnam's study and conclusions in his article, "The Downsides of Diversity" published by Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. An excerpt:

    It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger.

    But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam—famous for “Bowling Alone,” his 2000 book on declining civic engagement—has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.

Or, as John puts it in regard to willingness to fight for their country:

The teeming cesspit of India (76%) and the perennially unemployed Armenians (96%) are much more willing to fight than the United States (41%) because India is filled with Indians, Armenia is filled with Armenians, and in America, at least 29% of the people in the country are illegal, on visas, or are first or second generation immigrants with little tie to the country. 

Read the whole thing. 

Arsonist Arrested For Spokane Fires

If you think that you are safe from wildfires because you live in a city, Spokane, Washington is showing that it is not necessarily true. The New York Post reports:

    The Old Trails Fire ignited Saturday and quickly became one of the most destructive fires in Washington history as powerful winds, drought conditions and extreme heat fueled explosive growth.

    Together with several other major fires burning around Spokane, the blazes have destroyed at least 700 structures, scorched roughly 12.5 square miles and prompted evacuation orders affecting about 67,000 people.

    Residents allowed back into some neighborhoods Monday were met with scenes of almost unimaginable destruction. Entire streets had been reduced to ash, with burned-out vehicles, twisted metal and collapsed homes stretching block after block. In many cases, only brick chimneys remained standing. 

Additionally, "[a]s of Sunday nearly 10,000 customers were without power and another 5,300 customers were without natural gas." The New York Post article indicates that a suspected arsonist has been arrested for setting one of the fires--the Old Trails Fire. (More at this Fox affiliate). 

Communism In Action: DHS Blacklists Chinese Firms For Slavery

Breitbart reports: "U.S. Homeland Security Blacklists 43 Chinese Firms for Slavery." From the lede:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has added 43 more companies to the “entity list” under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), directing customs agents to presume that all goods from the listed companies are tainted by slave labor from Uyghurs and other oppressed minorities in China.  

VIDEO: "Satan's Storm"

 On June 15, 1960, temperatures in the town of Kopperl, Texas, spiked to near 140 °F (60 °C). 

VIDEO: "The Night Texas Hit 140°F (60°C) During a Thunderstorm"
Swegle Studios (24 min.)

In-N-Out Shooter Lost Bravado When He Came Under Fire

From the New York Post: "Hero civilian says In-N-Out shooter’s ‘bravado immediately crumbled’ after he fired back." The relevant part:

    Jordan Salinas, 35, told ABC News that he noticed Chad Williams, 24, aiming his rifle at passing vehicles outside the Twin Falls fast food chain on Saturday when he decided to leap into action.

    “I peeked around the right-hand side of that sign closest to the road, and that’s when I saw the individual with his rifle pointed at the vehicles,” Salinas told the outlet in a sit-down interview alongside his girlfriend, Emily Cohelo.

    Salinas, a healthcare worker and the full-time caregiver for his brother, said Williams appeared calm as he aimed at cars — but his confidence quickly faded when he realized he was also in the line of fire.

    “He seemed unusually comfortable aiming that rifle at those cars,” Salinas said. “As soon as some rounds started coming at him, everything changed immediately. All that bravado he had immediately crumbled.”

    Salinas raised his FN Five-Seven – a semiautomatic pistol equipped with a suppressor – with both hands and squeezed off a round.

    It was the first time he ever aimed his weapon at a living target, he told the Idaho Statesman. 

So not a hunter. This was also interesting: 

He said he had trained for the moment after witnessing the 2021 mass shooting at the Boise Towne Square mall, in which two people were killed, and several more were wounded. 

And below is the ABC News report with an excerpt from the interview:  

VIDEO: "Hero civilian describes gun battle at Idaho In-N-Out restaurant"
ABC News (2 min.)

Leftists Are Evil

Kurt Schlichter writes about "Democrats Want to Close the Prisons, Except Not for People Like You," discussing why Democrats favor letting criminals run wild, explaining:

    ... Socialism is not about making lives better or creating prosperity or security or any of those things. It’s about jerks living out their personal psychodramas while they get off on making you miserable.

    Nothing demonstrates that more than the idea of defunding the police and getting rid of prisons. After all, you wicked normal people deserve to have thugs, junkies, murderers, rapists, and other Democrat constituencies turned on you to make you pay for the crime of being you. You need to understand the deep hate that lives within all these people, and that’s why, in every single leftist sector of society, you see the actual criminals not merely being ignored but being idolized. The DSA types would free these barbarians for the express purpose of allowing those barbarians to hurt you, because you deserve to be hurt. You deserve to be killed. You deserve to be raped. Why? Because these freaks don’t like you and it amuses them to see you in pain. 

[snip]

    So all this stuff about closing the prisons is just nonsense. Same with defunding the police. The DSA types have no intention of ending prisons or ending the police. They just intend to change the target demographic from actual criminals to people like you who stand up and demand your rights. In the socialist paradigm, the only real crime is opposing the socialists. And they would not hesitate to lock you up or murder you if you get in their way. 

He also notes:

No, the evil of socialism is not a bug, but rather a feature. Remember, it’s driven by hate—hate of the normal, hate of the smarter, hate of the better, hate of your parents who just didn’t get you. And every single time it’s put into practice, we see the same thing. Since everything in socialism goes against human nature, you need an apparatus of repression designed to force people to accept what nature rejects. There’s not a socialist country without thuggish police. There’s not a socialist country where you can speak freely. There’s not a socialist country where you are free because your freedom defeats the whole purpose of socialism, which is ensuring your submission to the cadres. 

Even importing the third world is a part of this evil. In "Nick Shirley’s New Video Dismantles the Left’s Narrative on Ceuta's Migrant Crisis," Aaron Hanscom points out that the recent invasion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is because of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his promise of amnesty to illegal aliens residing in Spain. But why would Sánchez do this? 

If they allow this to become the Third World, they know — people in power — they know they will be able to do whatever they want. They will increase their power because a ruler in the Third World is a real ruler. The thing here is that people in power know that if they become this, the Third World, they will increase their power and their money even more. That's the thing because they can control the society in an easier way. I mean, if, if you keep this full of third-worlders, you can do whatever you want if you are in power. 

The article notes a similar sentiment from Victor Davis Hanson discussing why Democrat leaders favor open borders:

First of all, they are nihilist; they like the chaos. Second, they feel all these people will come, and they cannot assimilate or culturally integrate. They have no skills or background checks. No health care. And that means they will have enormous demands on the state, with bigger government, more taxes, more redistribution. And of course they are a constituency. They will be dependent on the state, and they are going to vote for a socialist ticket. And that is the subtext of both what is going on in Spain and what is going on over the border. And what the socialists have done here. 

So back to Schlichter's article. He concludes with this warning: "Understand what kind of America these DSA types want. Understand that they will use the engines of government, including the courts and law enforcement, against you. Understand that there will still be crimes; it’s just those crimes will be saying what you think, praying how you want, and owning guns." And, I would add, if you don't submit to them, you will likely be cut out of the economy, unable to buy or sell. The Flock cameras and cashless society will see to that. 

VIDEO: "Rappelling For The Prepared Citizen"

  

 VIDEO: "Rappelling for the Prepared Citizen - Introduction and Basics"
Echo Mike (46 min.)

¡No Pasarán!: The Real Reason For The Covid Panic

 In his piece, "'Fauci did his bit, played his part, and was lavishly rewarded by the press': So how did a virus with a ~.02%-.04% mortality rate become 24/7 headline news? It became battle prep for the 2020 election steal,"  the author observes:

So how did a virus with a ~.02%-.04% mortality rate become 24/7 headline news? It became battle prep for the 2020 election steal, an incessant drumbeat of death and lockdowns and an economy gone sideways, an endless news cycle of bad news. The dark powers went all in and, among other illegalities, introduced the loosey-goosey mail-in ballot to complement stay-at-home COVID bug-a-boos and hysteria. And who would've suspected if it had been a repeat 2016 squeaker, but the dark powers didn't want to beat Trump they wanted to humiliate him, break him, to politically memory-hole him. So they fabricated 81M+ votes for zombie candidate Biden from the fag-end of Obama 44. That's 11,784,985 votes over peak Obama (2008) and 6,265,888 over Harris's $2B+ mad money campaign (2024). [Pause.] Yeah.  

 On a related note, Declan Finn writes about "Fauci the murderer." He begins:

    Doctor Anthony Fauci killed my father.

    If he’s not a direct killer, he was at least an accomplice.

    When my father came down with an infection that played havoc with his blood sugar, the hospital treating him dismissed it as “just an infection,” and because hospital was operating on COVID protocols and couldn’t be bothered to do their job, they sent him home without stabilizing his blood sugar.

    My father was dead before the week was out. 

And he correctly points out: "In fact, everything labeled a 'conspiracy theory' was true, and if you had a big enough microphone to say that, Fauci made it his job to crush you" 

FBI Data: Murders By Race

From Guns America: "FBI Murder Data Reveals Who Commits Homicides, Who Victims Are." Not surprisingly to anyone that pays attention to facts over propaganda, "[a]ccording to the FBI data analyzed by the CPRC, Black offenders accounted for 56.4% of known murderers in 2024." Also, "[t]he report also compares each group’s share of murderers with its share of the overall U.S. population." And the results?

If every demographic group committed murders strictly in proportion to its share of the population, everyone would score 1.0. Instead, the CPRC found one group stood far apart from the rest. Black males registered 8.3, White males were 1.2, and every other demographic group came in below 1.0. 

And if you think the White ratio seems high, you are correct because it lumps Hispanics with Whites; and we know from other studies that Hispanics commit homicides at rates well above those of Whites. 

Fauci's Holocaust

Kevin Downey Jr. has a piece over at PJ Media entitled "COVID-19: Fauci's Holocaust." And I think he is spot on in his observations laying this at the feet of Fauci. Some of the points raised in the article:

COVID was nothing less than a modern-day Holocaust.  It killed roughly seven million people worldwide. Economies crumbled, and trillions of dollars were lost. Families were kept apart on holidays. We watched our grandparents die alone on tablets. Funerals were either not allowed or limited to 10 people. Children didn't go to school, creating years of educational and emotional damage they still feel today.

[snip]

 The COVID virus and the responses were some of the most evil, premeditated tactics humans have ever wrought upon mankind. What we also endured was a years-long propaganda-fest that would ideologically tear families apart, cost people their livelihoods, and have people at each other's throats in what many were duped into believing was an existential threat to everyone on the planet.

 Here's what we know:

• Fauci decided to sidestep restrictions on gain-of-function research in the U.S. so, through grants and contracts, pursued gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• There, researchers created the COVID-19 virus which, whether by accident or deliberately, was released, quickly spreading in China and, thence, to the rest of the world. 
• Fauci's diary states on February 8, 2020, that he believed that COVID's fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%, but on March 10, he stated it was 10 times higher, which lie he repeated in testimony to Congress.
• He was a key figure urging the lockdowns, notwithstanding that COVID was no more fatal than seasonal flu. And he "admitted in his diary that he convinced elected leaders to continue the lockdowns for as long as he deemed necessary."
• He was a key figure behind mask mandates although he knew that the masks did nothing to prevent the spread of the virus 
• He used the lockdowns as a way of forcing people to get the vaccination.
• And he did all of this for fame, money, and self-aggrandizement.