When Governments Virtue Signal

The article "Hard to Read: Lesbian Couple Facing 1st Degree Murder Charge After Foster Son Found Dying in Horrific State - Their Nickname for Him Was Evil" from the Western Journal has the quote of the day: 

The state doesn’t need to be fulfilling the fantasies of homosexual couples having children as their playthings to abuse and neglect.   

Quote of the Day: National Security And Open Borders

From T.L. Davis:

National security is non-existent in a nation without a border. The admittance of anyone, without substantive qualifications to enter is, in effect, an unregulated border and therefore non-existent. To hear DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA and DOD complain then about the need to protect and defend national security is a farce. While it is important to enforce laws against all manner of possible threats to the homeland, it does not comport then, to allowing the invasion of nearly a million military-age men from hostile nations such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Russia and numerous hostile African nations. The illogical pretense of securing the nation by attacking, jailing and surveilling American citizens who hold jobs and pay taxes for the crime of being patriotic to the Constitutional principles that are being violated by open borders, systematic sexual abuse of school children and censoring speech in opposition to those violations cannot be allowed to go unnoticed.

QOTD: From Gray Man At American Partisan

 "The left has been rioting and burning for most of Trump’s four years and I fully expect them to enlarge their operations (because they ARE coordinated operations) and expand them into your town. As far as they’re concerned, win or lose, we must be punished. Punished for electing Trump to begin with. Punished for defeating Hillary. Punished for being Christian, for being Conservative, for being white, for being men, for being Americans. Punished for existing."

Quote of the Day: The Elephant In The Room

"Why do blacks get hassled by the police so much? The Occam’s Razor explanation is the one you are never supposed to mention in public: because on average African-Americans commit so disproportionately many crimes, especially murders."--"Crime Roaring Twenties" by Steve Sailer at Taki's Magazine. Sailer does a deep dive into the crime statistics at the link.

QOTD: From Sam Culper

"When the time comes, don't let anything or anyone discourage you from the violence that needs to occur."--Sam Culper at NC Renegades (h/t WRSA).

Runner Up QOTD: The Wealth Gap and Civil War

"The Fed has created the largest wealth gap in U.S. history and bears responsibility for the approaching civil war and eventual financial collapse of our debt saturated system."--"Boiling Point" at The Burning Platform.

QOTD: What The Coming Election Is Really About

"Columnist, farmer and classicist Victor Davis Hanson has cast the 2020 election as a choice between civilization and a return to primitivism. It’s unfortunate that we’ve come to that, but here we are." -- "Why Is The Mob Winning?" by the Issues & Insights editorial board.

QOTD: Jeff Cooper on the 9mm Parabellum

This is from the September/October 1978 issue of American Handgunner Magazine, from an article by Jeff Cooper on IPSC (International Practical Shooting Confederation) (p. 12):

The matter of power factoring keeps coming up, with many affiliates asking when the Parabellum will be ranked with the major calibers. My personal vote is for "never." The 9 X 19 is not a satisfactory stopper and it should be replaced by the ordnance departments of the free world. (The other people are welcome to it.) I am aware that it is standard. So was one-handed pistol shooting until we found a better way.

QOTD: Making A List And Checking It Twice

"Western Civilization is being murdered in detail, and the perpetrators are identifiable men and women with faces, vehicles, home/work addresses, daily routines, and associates." -- Western Rifle Shooters Association.

QOTD: Why the Left Is Pushing Impeachment

"The radicals don’t want to win elections. They want to destroy them. Their real goal is to use blind hatred of Republicans to convince Democrats that elections are inherently illegitimate."--Daniel Greenfield.

Quote of the Day: Peter Navarro on the Wall Street Journal

“It’s called the Wall Street Journal for a reason. It represents Wall Street,” Navarro said. “And the Wall Street Journal never saw an American job it didn’t want to offshore.”

--Peter Navarro is President Trump’s chief trade adviser

QOTD: Making Your Own Narrative

The CCW-shut-up-and-call-your-lawyer group in essence allows the narrative to be written by others and have no control at all what it defines things as. We [...] choose to write our own narratives. And make no mistake...the narrative is written the moment you have fired your last shots. 

Truth has very little to do with it. 

It has more to do with who has the most compelling and believable story first.

Let that sink into the brain.

--Gabe Suarez

QOTD: America Is A Countryclub

      "... the US isn’t so much a country as a country club. Membership has its privileges, and members don’t care at all what life is like for those who are in the country but aren’t members of the club. The recent initiatives to let everyone in and to let non-citizens vote amply demonstrates that US citizenship, by itself, counts for absolutely nothing. The only birthright of a US citizen is to live as a bum on the street, surrounded by other bums, many of them foreigners from what Trump has termed 'shithole countries.'"

          --Dmitry Orlov (source: "The Saker Interviews Dmitry Orlov"--The Unz Review).

QOTD: Dancing On A Powder Keg

Sarah Hoyt describing the Left's ignorance of normal Americans:

      Their pig ignorance of the world and their smug and stupid imagined superiority over the rest of us don’t allow them to know what they’re doing.

      And what they’re doing is tap dancing on a powder keg and calling for more candles to properly illuminate the series.

QOTD: Taxes and the Perpetually Offended

I saw this at Château Heartiste: "The worst thing about taxes isn’t the fact that you lose money, it’s the fact that your money is used to fund a welfare state of people who hate you."

QOTD: On living a worthwhile life...

"A long life, lived in fear and regret is sad, like one of those clowns that terrorizes my dreams."

--John Wilder, "14 Magic Questions and Elon Musk’s New Quest for Genetically Engineered Cat Girls."

QOTD: The Church Needs A Few Good Men

"[T]he church needs the manly virtues of enduring suffering, hardship, and having values that are higher than worldly social status and success – people who stand on solid rock, not who have a finger in the air to see which direction the wind is blowing so they can conform."

                                      --"Surviving The Cultural Tsunami" by Rod Dreher (quoting Aaron Renn).

QOTD: A Succinct Summary of Leftism

"The [Khmer Rouge] regime was an ultra-communist autocracy that sought to transform Cambodia into an agrarian utopia. Their plan failed entirely and resulted in the deaths of at least 1.7 million people, who died of starvation and sickness or were murdered."

          --from "Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia: Did justice take too long?"--Deutsche Welle.

QOTD: Hillary Clinton's Call For Violence

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton told CNN. “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.”

(Source)

QOTD: Looking on the Bright Side

"The current craze for surgically mutilating troubled high school girls (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) can be looked at another way: as a really slick exercise in negative eugenics.  Being nuts is fairly heritable: I have no doubt that many of these girls’ mothers were cutting themselves ( while listening to grunge)  back in the 90s. If you remove their ovaries, these girls aren’t going to have descendants: end of story."

--Gregory Cochran, "Nits Make Lice"