They Howl in Faux Anguish

Where were all the democrats when American citizens were falsely detained and jailed in various countries around the world. Yeah, the same ones who have wet their pants over a jailed El Salvadorian gang member who disrespected our country and laws.

— Diogenes Sarcastica (@KonanBarBarron) April 16, 2025

First they came for Mahmoud Khalil, and I said nothing because I thought it was a damn good idea. He is a citizen of Syria who came to America to get a college degree. After graduating he stayed in America to be a leader in a group dedicated to supporting Hamas by disrupting normal activities at Columbia University, threatening and harassing Jewish students. Hamas is an organization that deliberately seeks out and murders as many Jewish babies, infants, and toddlers as it can. They came to deport him. Not imprison him; not kill him. They came to give him a free plane ride back to his home country.  Democrats are outraged.

Then they came for Kilmar Garcia (a.k.a. “Maryland Man”), and again I said nothing because it was a damn good idea. Mr. Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who entered the country illegally. He is also a member of a criminal gang known as MS-13. MS-13 murders people for fun and profit. An earlier attempt to deport Mr. Garcia was delayed by an immigration judge who was concerned that Mr. Garcia would be in danger if returned to El Salvador. This is due to rival gang enemies who wished him harm.   They deported him anyway. (not our monkey, not our circus)  Democrats are outraged again, for reasons unknown.

Next they came for Tren de Aragua gang members. There is no dispute that they (1) entered the country illegally, and (2) make their living by committing crimes. Democrats insist we slow things down to give each member a court hearing of some sort. Democrats are silent as to what evidence such people could possibly present at such a hearing that should prevent their deportation. My silence means approval.

Next they arrested people who vandalized other people’s cars. This time the Democrats sat silent because they quietly approved of the vandalism.

Then they canceled the Social Security numbers of millions of illegal aliens who never should have received them in the first place.  Again the Democrats howled in anguish.

This country now has over 20 million illegal immigrants. This country is currently paying interest on a debt that increases at a rate of over a trillion a year, with the total now standing at over 36 trillion. Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse is the easy part. Deporting illegal immigrant felons is the easy part. Doing the easy stuff will not be enough. There are hard choices ahead, and the Democrats have made it crystal clear they will be of no help whatsoever.

 ~ Thank You Sarah Hoyt @Instapundit &

Larwyn's Linx@ Doug Ross Journal for the Linkage! ~

Systemic Considerations

"Whatever else you think is happening in our world, contraction is the reality-based order-of-the-day, and everything else is downstream of that. The world has to get by with less. Nothing is going to fix this for everybody, though any number of schemes for redistributing what’s left will preoccupy the political mojo. 

Right now, it’s tariffs, which are an attempt to restore industry ceded to the formerly left-behind people elsewhere in the world — taking back what we used to do. You are correct to wonder if this is even possible. The wish is surely understandable, if a bit fuzzy and over-simplified: to be again a nation of people occupied purposefully in the service of a bright future. Redemption stories are deeply appealing. 

Many of us are aware that the hour for this is late. We’ve already lived through our decades of pumping cheap oil out of American ground, extracting the ores, fashioning the metal into I-beams and rails, raising the skyscrapers, laying the asphalt ribbons of highway, and strewing the landscape with split-level houses and strip-malls. Let’s not try a re-run of that. 

What have we got to work with? An overly-complex matrix of systems and subsidiary systems operating on the verge of failure at excessive scale. For example, our cities and their asteroid belts of suburbs. The rot is already well-advanced in many of them from their centers outward, and we can see the process underway of strip-mining the remaining assets on-the-ground. Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore. . . all occupy important geographically strategic sites. All are populated by dwindling societies of the cope-less, floundering their way out of existence. The geographies will abide without them. Others will come along and make something of these places’ virtues. 

Agri-business is a method for strip-mining the value from what remains of our fruited plains. Everything about it is on an arc of failure, mortgaged to a futureless giantism. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and now that time has passed. The remaining soil itself can probably be rescued with heroic ant-like peasant labor over generations, which is to say a long and rather desperate project with no quick resolution. Even if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., hadn’t come along to read America the riot act on food, anyone can see that the age of Froot Loops is drawing to a close. 

Town and country, what human society at its best was composed of, has got to be rearranged. This is something that MAGA is not talking about. MAGA looks like it is seeking a reenactment of the years 1950 to 1964. That isn’t going to happen. What then? The tech broz propose something like an A-I printed robotic future. They are drunk on their own Stanford University brand Kool-Aid, hallucinating a future that is little more than math dressed in spandex."- J.H. Kunstler 

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A Good Monday Morning

 

Your Sunday Soothingness

Just for you, because your Blog Editrix loves each and every one of you, another bit of Auditory Soothingness culled from your editrix own personals digs for your Sunday decompression. This day I give you a small taste of a collaboration between two amazing musicians, Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer. This two part tune is from their very eclectic 1974 album that has come to be one of my favorite LP's of all time from that period. From "Like Children" this is 'Giving in Gently / I wonder.'

Enjoy Your Sunday!

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Bill Maher's Full 'book report' on his Meeting with Trump at the White House

"He laughs, including at himself. It's not fake. Believe me as a comedian I know a fake laugh when I hear one. I thank you for them." "I've had so many conversations with prominent people who were much less connected. People who don't look you in the eye, people who don't really listen. None of that with him."

There Simply Are No Words

 The New Face of the Democrat Party. 🙃

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "Connect the dots. You cannot afford your home, groceries thanks to deportations" pic.twitter.com/sg8ggsp4sG

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 10, 2025

~ Thank You Larwyn's Linx@ Doug Ross Journal for the Linkage! ~

Here's Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Mid-Week Big Ass Open Thread

Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, is just exhausted after watching the crazy train insanity of democrats and the hate filled obese middle-aged black women & testosterone challenged men of the media after all the news of things yesterday.  So she turns things over to you to espouse your words of wisdom or whatever you call it.

Just remember. Regular ground rules apply. Repeated violations will result in severe spankings. The floor is open, and use the coasters.

I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book Shelf.