Friday, May 02, 2025

Évelyne Joslain : "La gauche transnationale occidentale ne tolère aucune remise en question de ses politiques migratoires"


Suite à la parution de La Guerre Culturelle (Éditions Presses de la Délivrance), Evelyne Joslain est interviewée par Etienne Fauchaire dans The Epoch Times.

Epoch Times : « C’est avec Wilson que la guerre culturelle commence vraiment », écrivez-vous. Pouvez-vous expliquer pourquoi Woodrow Wilson est à vos yeux le « premier président mondialiste » et en quoi 1913 est une année pivot dans l’ascension du socialisme en Amérique ? 

Évelyne Joslain : Woodrow Wilson fut le premier président « progressiste » des États-Unis, c’est-à-dire, le premier chef de l’exécutif de gauche ouvertement acquis aux idées socialisantes, voire socialistes, de son époque. Mais il fut aussi, et surtout, le premier président cosmopolite, ce que l’on appellerait aujourd’hui un mondialiste.

Là où ses prédécesseurs voyaient en l’Amérique une nation à part, exceptionnelle par son attachement à la liberté, Wilson, lui, rompait avec cette tradition : il méprisait la Constitution américaine et considérait les modèles européens comme supérieurs. Sa fascination pour le système parlementaire britannique ou l’État-providence bismarckien en témoigne.

Mondialiste, il le fut aussi par sa politique étrangère, en engageant les États-Unis dans la Première Guerre mondiale, jouant cependant un rôle décisif dans la victoire des Alliés, et en inaugurant une doctrine géopolitique au nom de laquelle l’Amérique se devait d’assurer la liberté du commerce maritime mondial et le libre-échange entre États-nations. Il est à l’origine de la Société des Nations (SDN), ancêtre des institutions internationales supranationales.

Comme je le rappelle dans mon livre, le sénateur Henry Cabot Lodge fut l’un des premiers à comprendre et dénoncer l’idée mortelle pour l’Amérique et les autres nations d’une souveraineté supranationale en devenir. Pour Wilson, c’était « le monde d’abord, l’Amérique en dernier ». Son irénisme foncier l’empêchait de concevoir la corruption inévitable de grands organismes internationaux incontrôlables. Certes, sa SDN échoua. Mais l’idée demeura.

Wilson a aussi définitivement marqué l’Amérique de l’intérieur, par des réformes adoptées en 1913, et imitées dans tout l’Occident : création de l’impôt sur le revenu (impôt direct sur les citoyens, remplaçant les droits de douane qui frappaient les pays étrangers), élection des sénateurs au suffrage universel, et surtout, création de la Réserve fédérale, une banque centrale indépendante du pouvoir exécutif.

Diana West, dans son ouvrage magistral American Betrayal : The Secret Assault on Our National Character, n’exagère en rien en parlant de trahison du caractère national. C’est bien l’esprit des Pères Fondateurs que Wilson a renié.

Il est donc tout à fait amusant que Donald Trump envisage le démantèlement des héritages les plus délétères de cette année 1913, qui fut en réalité l’ouverture officieuse de la Guerre culturelle minant l’Amérique depuis plus d’un siècle.

En 1944, lors de la Conférence nationale des Partis communistes, Alexander Trachtenberg, éditeur de journaux marxistes et activiste au sein du Parti communiste américain, a tenu ces mots devenus célèbres : « Lorsque viendra le moment de prendre le contrôle de l’Amérique, nous ne le ferons ni sous la bannière du communisme, ni sous celle du socialisme : ces termes sont trop entachés et repoussants pour le peuple américain. Non, nous nous emparerons de l’Amérique sous des étiquettes que nous aurons rendues séduisantes : le libéralisme, le progressisme, la démocratie. Mais nous la prendrons bel et bien ! » Aujourd’hui, il n’est pas rare d’entendre des figures politiques ou médiatiques défendre des idées traditionnellement classées à gauche ou à l’extrême gauche, tout en se réclamant du libéralisme et de la démocratie. De quelle manière le terme « libéralisme » a-t-il été progressivement vidé de son sens originel et détourné à des fins idéologiques ?

Alexander Trachtenberg, marxiste américain né en 1886, fut un éditeur militant et un révolutionnaire pur, convaincu, à l’instar d’Antonio Gramsci, que la transformation des sociétés passe par le temps long.

Un siècle plus tard, cette stratégie portait ses fruits : deux jours avant son élection à la présidence des États-Unis en 2008, Barack Obama déclara, dans une annonce jubilatoire à ses électeurs : « Nous sommes à deux jours de la transformation en profondeur de l’Amérique », renouant ainsi avec les prédictions de Trachtenberg.

 … Depuis les débuts du « progressisme », terme choisi pour masquer un socialisme larvé, les théoriciens de gauche ont systématiquement cherché, avec succès, à manipuler le langage pour dissimuler leur identité idéologique véritable et leurs objectifs réels. Ce processus s’est déroulé en plusieurs étapes – que je détaille dans mon livre – et a conduit, dès les années 1970 et l’avènement du politiquement correct, à l’établissement d’une véritable nomenclature codée.

Notons que ce sont les universités qui, bien souvent, ont été à l’avant-garde de cette subversion lexicale, forgeant des expressions nouvelles et détournant le sens des mots afin de produire des versions « acceptables » des réalités, c’est-à-dire conformes à l’idéologie de gauche.

 … En Europe, les « libéraux » … européens revendiquent leur différence avec les libertariens américains opposés à un gouvernement interventionniste, si bien que cela leur permet d’adhérer pleinement à cette idée d’un super-État européen.

 … Ils se montrent tout aussi muets face à l’immigration incontrôlée, en réalité vraisemblablement voulue et donc contrôlée par les idéologues mondialistes. Ils n’émettent jamais non plus de critiques envers les institutions internationales ni les structures globalistes, n’ayant de cesse, en revanche, de mépriser tout ce qui touche de près ou de loin au « populisme », c’est-à-dire, en réalité, aux aspirations des peuples enracinés. …

 … Dans le sillage des idées d’Antonio Gramsci et de Léon Trotsky, un intellectuel communiste hongrois exilé à Berlin, Georg Lukács, participa en 1923 à la fondation de ce qui allait devenir l’École de Francfort. Aux côtés de plusieurs penseurs allemands, juifs pour la plupart qui fuiront par la suite le nazisme pour se réfugier aux États-Unis, Lukács contribua à l’implantation sur le sol américain de cet institut conçu dès l’origine comme un outil de subversion culturelle dans le cadre de la « longue marche à travers les institutions ». Pouvez-vous revenir sur la nature idéologique de l’École de Francfort, sur sa stratégie d’action intellectuelle et sur l’héritage qu’elle a laissé, notamment dans la genèse du phénomène aujourd’hui qualifié de « wokisme » ?

L’École de Francfort fut à l’origine un think tank marxiste installé au sein de l’Université de Francfort. J’ignore ce qu’il en reste aujourd’hui sur place, mais son héritage intellectuel, lui, s’est largement exporté, notamment aux États-Unis, où il s’est naturellement enraciné à l’Université Columbia. Cette institution est devenue, dès les années 1930, l’épicentre de la révolution gauchiste qui, à partir de 1968, s’est diffusée dans la quasi-totalité des campus américains.

  … Il est important de rappeler que la violence n’est pas une dérive accidentelle de l’ultra-gauche, mais un outil assumé de son arsenal idéologique. Les penseurs de l’École de Francfort ont toujours revendiqué la désobéissance civile, la subversion, voire la confrontation directe, au nom de la supériorité morale de leur cause. La violence est justifiée parce que les fins seraient nobles, et les adversaires, par définition, coupables.

Enfin, tous les concepts forgés dans les milieux universitaires de gauche depuis les années 1980 – dans le sillage d’Howard Zinn, Edward Saïd, Noam Chomsky – s’inscrivent dans la continuité directe de la Théorie Critique, la marque de fabrique de l’École de Francfort. C’est cette matrice idéologique extrémiste qui a abouti au wokisme, promu d’abord sous Barack Obama, puis sous Joe Biden, et qui continue aujourd’hui à irriguer la gauche radicale occidentale.

 … Autre marqueur dans cette longue guerre culturelle que vous décrivez : l’immigrationnisme, qui a encouragé l’importation massive de millions d’étrangers en Occident afin de servir, selon vous, l’agenda mondialiste porté par la gauche. À ce titre, vous affirmez que la loi américaine sur l’immigration du 3 octobre 1965 constitue à elle seule « une révolution mondiale », dans la mesure où elle a rapidement essaimé en Europe, alors fragilisée moralement par la décolonisation. Quelle est la genèse de cette loi, et quelles en ont été les répercussions pour l’ensemble du monde occidental ?

La Loi de 1965 sur l’immigration aux Etats-Unis, connue sous le nom d’Immigration and Nationality Act, doit son adoption en grande partie à l’activisme du sénateur Ted Kennedy. Elle constitue l’aboutissement de plusieurs courants idéologiques ayant émergé dans le monde avant de s’implanter et d’émerger en Amérique.

Il faut rappeler le poids symbolique de la conférence de Bandung en 1955 précédant un vent de décolonisation. Ce mouvement sera soutenu par des Américains, qui ont vu d’un mauvais œil des Européens, bénéficiaires de l’aide militaire et financière américaine, s’accrocher à leurs vastes et coûteux empires coloniaux.

À cela s’ajoutait l’essor de l’anti-américanisme porté par les intellectuels progressistes des années 1950, Lionel Trilling en tête : désobéissance civile, non-conformisme et émergence d’un “chic radical”… Vingt ans avant l’universitaire décolonialiste palestino-américain Edward Saïd se dessinait déjà cette préférence pour l’Autre : l’étranger, l’exotique, perçu comme nécessairement opprimé. Il devenait chic et moralement vertueux de se préoccuper de la misère du “Tiers Monde”, appellation nouvellement formée.

Une autre idéologie sous-jacente accompagne ce bouleversement : celle des frontières ouvertes, ou plutôt, d’un monde sans frontières, où l’accueil inconditionnel devient un impératif moral, et où les populations de souche sont sommées d’accueillir et d’accorder des droits civiques à tous ceux qui se présentent.

Tout cela s’inscrivait aussi dans le contexte des directives venues du fameux concile Vatican II. Le sénateur Kennedy, catholique par héritage familial sinon par ses mœurs personnelles, était sensible à tout ce fatras intellectuel, en plus d’être désireux de laisser son nom dans l’histoire. Il n’hésita donc pas à mentir outrageusement en affirmant que cette loi « n’apporterait aucun changement indésirable » ou « n’était en rien révolutionnaire », et réussit à l’imposer au Congrès. On connaît la suite.

En soixante ans, sous l’effet de cette loi d’inspiration révolutionnaire, l’Amérique a ainsi connu plusieurs vagues migratoires successives qui ont profondément transformé son ADN fondateur.

L’Union européenne continue à promouvoir cette même politique, et le Royaume-Uni, bien qu’ayant quitté l’Union, continue d’en appliquer les principes avec des effets identiques. La gauche transnationale occidentale ne tolère aucune remise en question de ses politiques migratoires. L’Angleterre de Keir Starmer, trotskiste devenu Premier ministre, en offre une dernière illustration frappante : Renaud Camus, auteur de la théorie du Grand Remplacement, vient tout juste de se voir refuser l’entrée sur le territoire britannique. Son crime ? Avoir qualifié ce processus de remplacement organisé des populations de souche de « génocide culturel et civilisationnel » de l’Europe.

Il convient également de noter que, bien que cet Immigration Act de 1965 précède d’un an la formulation de la doctrine Cloward-Piven – du nom des deux sociologues marxistes enseignant à Columbia –, il est évident qu’elle s’inspirait déjà de leurs travaux en cours. Au cœur de cette pensée : l’idée qu’une crise, savamment provoquée par la saturation des services publics et l’effondrement des institutions – sous l’effet de vagues d’émeutes, de catastrophes orchestrées et d’arrivées massives d’étrangers soigneusement non assimilés – pourrait déclencher une révolution marxiste.

La crise, réelle ou fabriquée, constitue un excellent moyen pour imposer aux populations des mesures impopulaires et totalitaires. …

 … Dans le cadre de ce mouvement de balancier idéologique entre les États-Unis et l’Europe, vous affirmez que « Lyndon B. Johnson est le premier président responsable de la guerre culturelle », et que sa politique a directement inspiré, en France, la loi Pleven de 1972, première législation antiraciste adoptée dans l’Hexagone. Cette loi, souvent critiquée pour avoir permis un usage militant et judiciaire des tribunaux par certaines associations woke, a aussi préfiguré, rappelez-vous, la loi Gayssot de 1990, portée par un député communiste, qui pénalise le racisme, l’antisémitisme, ainsi que la contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.

Avec Lyndon B. Johnson, la guerre culturelle est devenue une réalité tangible et visible. Il s’est inscrit dans la continuité de ses prédécesseurs démocrates – Woodrow Wilson, qui avait déjà introduit des idées socialistes, et Franklin D. Roosevelt, architecte d’un État profond tentaculaire –, mais ce président-là fut celui qui creusa un fossé définitif entre la droite et la gauche américaines. Un fossé devenu, soixante ans plus tard, irréconciliable.

Johnson ne s’est pas contenté de politiques sociales : il mit en place un arsenal de lois qui instituèrent un traitement préférentiel de certains citoyens au détriment d’autres, jugés moins « méritants ». À travers un système redistributif d’allocations, de privilèges et de « droits » spécialement créés par le gouvernement – en rupture avec les droits universels garantis par la Constitution –, il posa les fondations d’un clientélisme systémique.

Parallèlement, il amorça la militarisation idéologique de la justice, désormais à deux vitesses, à partir notamment de la Loi sur les droits civils de 1964, qui permit à certains groupes de bénéficier de cabinets d’avocats gratuits.

 … Vous abordez également longuement l’écologisme, dont vous situez le coup d’envoi idéologique en 1972 avec le rapport Meadows du Club de Rome. Vous vous indignez que le scandale du Climategate, survenu en 2009, n’ait pas « définitivement révélé l’imposture planétaire » que constitue la « lutte contre le changement climatique ». En quoi est-elle devenue, à vos yeux, « le cheval de Troie de la gauche marxiste et un pilier central du wokisme » ?

La lutte contre ledit changement climatique est un exemple éclairant des extrémités auxquelles la gauche néo-marxiste est prête à recourir pour atteindre son objectif fondamental : la destruction du capitalisme et des sociétés traditionnelles. Ce sujet est devenu le Cheval de Troie par excellence de cette gauche, et ce que je considère comme le pilier central du wokisme, avant même celui de l’immigration.

Pourquoi ? Parce que les deux autres piliers du wokisme – les obsessions identitaires sexuelles et les questions raciales obsessionnelles – ne font pas l’unanimité au sein de la gauche elle-même. En revanche, la cause climatique, elle, rassemble. Elle se présente comme une croisade universelle, une urgence planétaire, un idéalisme vert qui séduit particulièrement les jeunes générations, toutes cultures confondues. C’est le sujet vertueux par excellence, celui qui vous place instantanément dans le camp du Bien.

C’est aussi un sujet parfaitement compatible avec la dialectique marxiste : la Terre, idéalisée puis déifiée, est décrite comme une victime exploitée et pillée par l’homme, figure de l’oppresseur capitaliste, destructeur par ses activités et coupable par sa démographie.

Plus encore, les néo-marxistes les plus radicaux vont jusqu’à établir un lien direct entre le climat et l’immigration : les populations du Sud global ne fuiraient plus seulement la misère ou les conflits, mais les conséquences environnementales des exactions des anciens colonisateurs du Nord. L’immigré devient ainsi « réfugié climatique ». Il fallait y penser. Le pape François et Greta Thunberg ont largement œuvré pour légitimer cette vision.

Ce sujet rallie également toutes les élites mondialistes : têtes couronnées, institutions internationales, politiciens, financiers, médias, artistes, universitaires, scientifiques subventionnés, milliardaires rouges et lobbies mondialistes… tous trouvent un intérêt très concret à entretenir l’alarmisme climatique. Et, dans cette grande mécanique idéologique, c’est l’Union européenne, bien plus que les États-Unis, qui apparaît aujourd’hui comme la surface du globe la plus dramatiquement atteinte par le catastrophisme climatique.

ROF's Vanessa Biard Tries to Bring Some Sanity to France's LCI TV Channel


Among the people who were face to Face à Darius Rochebin Thursday night was Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer (appearing at 1:13:07 and 1:27:27), ROF's vice-president who was, in the words of Paul Reen, "defending Trump against the clown Gallagher Fenwick who compared Trump to a rapist on FranceTV last week, and can only resort to name calling. Bravo Vanessa for trying to bring some sanity to these ridiculous TDS channels." 

Au sommaire : 1er-mai : Jérôme Guedj et le PS pris à partie. "90 % des emplois sont menacés par l'IA" (L. Ferry). Administration Trump : le début d'une purge ?

Source : Face à Darius Rochebin

 

 

 

 

 

 


Thursday, May 01, 2025

Partial List of Illegal Aliens Committing Crimes or Treated with Kid Gloves: We will probably never know the true extent of illegal alien crime because…


Hardly a week goes by when we don't read (except, needless to say, in the mainstream media — including abroad, such as Belgium's RTBF) about another illegal alien committing a crime or getting extraordinarily good treatment.

Here is a partial list of criminals — Be sure to read the excerpt of Catherine Salgado's article at bottom of this post…

• In June 2024, a 12-year-old, Jocelyn Nungaray, was sexually assaulted and killed by two illegal immigrant suspects, Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, who then dumped her body in a Houston bayou. The latter "was wearing an ankle monitor at the time he allegedly murdered Nungaray that was provided to him when he was arrested by Border Patrol agents after entering the country illegally and being released from custody".

Cory Alvarez (Massachusetts Court Gives Haitian Illegal Alien Accused of Child Rape $500 Bond)

• Melvin Jesus Aquino Enriquez (Illegal immigrant charged with murder of 3-month-old baby)

• Two men have been arrested in connection with the April 2015 theft of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's purse, both of whom (one, Mario Bustamante Leiva of Chili, has been named) are illegal immigrants

• California is set to release an illegal immigrant convicted of killing two teenagers over six years before his sentence was set to conclude, it was learned in April 2025. Fox News:

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was driving drunk at high speed in 2021 when he crashed into a car carrying 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin. Both teens were killed in the fiery wreck. Ortega-Anguiano was later convicted of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2022.

Now, California officials say he will be released early, sparking outrage from the victims' families and immigration officials.

Ortega-Anguiano has an extensive criminal history. He was convicted of burglary in 2005 and stealing a car in 2007. He was also convicted of battery and kidnapping in 2014. … Tom Homan … noted that Ortega-Anguiano is now a felon because he has already been deported multiple times.

 • We could go on, but Ann Coulter provides the list: 9/11, San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon, Fort Hood, Pulse nightclub, Kate Steinle, Laken Riley, Mollie Tibbets, Ana Navarro, etc. etc. etc. etc.)…
• One Oregon prosecutor, writes Catherine Salgado (thanks to Stephen Green, who calls it CRISIS BY DESIGN), claims that it doesn’t matter at all in an attempted murder case if the violent criminal was an illegal alien or not.

The victim would likely beg to differ, considering her attacker probably should never have been in the country and anywhere near her to begin with. 

After a “Portland man” slit a woman’s throat, journalist Andy Ngo asked the Oregon county’s prosecutor whether the accused criminal is an illegal alien. But the prosecutor claimed that was irrelevant information to the case. Ah, to live in a Democrat-run paradise, where the criminals are protected and the victims are despised.

 “A ‘Portland man’ named Manuel Jesus Huchin-Interian was convicted for slashing the throat of a woman and leaving her to bleed out on the ground,” Ngo explained. “The victim narrowly survived with the eight-inch neck wound.” Amazing how Democrats are spending so much time and effort bewailing illegal alien criminals like accused drug- and human-trafficking Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the “Pomona father” who is actually a felon, while they never have time for the victims of illegal alien crime.

 … We will probably never know the true extent of illegal alien crime because Democrat states and officials are so zealous in hiding statistics on how many people are robbed, raped, and killed by illegals.

 … The victims of illegal alien crime, including Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, Ivory Smith, Nate Baker (whose killer was previously ordered deported), David Lee, and Travis Wolfe, received little to no attention from Democrats. We have not forgotten how Joe Biden called Laken “Lincoln,” or how the Democrat congressmen refused to stand or applaud to honor Jocelyn’s and Laken’s mothers.

RTBF : Trump, les 100 jours qui ont changé NOTRE monde


Le 30 avril, la télévision belge lançait un débat sur Donald Trump, les 100 jours qui ont changé NOTRE monde. On m'avait interviewé pour QR Le Débat sur RTBF via Skype/Teams et j'apparais à 40:14-41:33, à 55:30-56:50, et à 1:16:16-1:17:25 (à d'autres moments aussi, peut-être, j'ai peut-être omis une ou plusieurs apparitions). 

Dans la section sur les immigrés illégaux, à 55:30, l'on me traite de raciste, se gardant bien de laisser apparaître les passages de l'interview où je dis que traverser illégalement la frontière, quel que soit le pays, fait de vous d'office un criminel — si j'arrivais sans passeport ou visa à Zaventem, je serais moi aussi "hors-la-loi" — ou les passages où je parle des membres hyper-tatoués des gangs hyper-violents de MS-13 et de Tren de Aragua.

À vrai dire, pour ma seconde apparition sur RTBF, j'avais été interviewé (à distance par Nathalie Maleux, la co-animatrice de Sacha Daout) pendant 45 à 60 minutes, et il y a donc énormément de détails et de nuances qui n'ont pas été retenues.

Trump, les 100 jours qui ont changé NOTRE monde

Ce 30 avril, cela fera 100 jours... 100 jours de présidence de Donald Trump, 100 jours de bouleversements aux Etats-Unis et dans le monde :

 Coups de chaud et coups de froid dans les relations diplomatiques, mesures économiques contraignantes, atteinte aux Droits de l'Homme, attaques sur le monde scientifique...Cette présidence est-elle en train de changer la donne ? Quid de la démocratie, quid de l'impact sur l'économie mondiale et donc sur notre portefeuille ? Quid de l'équilibre planétaire ? Faut-il craindre une 3e guerre mondiale ? 

Les principaux ministres et représentants politiques belges et européens seront présents. Experts économiques, voix américaines, la parole sera également donnée à des personnalités qui soutiennent les décisions du Président américain.  

Avec nos envoyés spéciaux et des représentants des MFP, nous serons à Washington, Moscou, Kiev, ... pour constater les effets dans le monde entier de cette politique. 

Nous donnerons les clés pour comprendre l'impact de Trump sur nos vies : notre portefeuille, notre sécurité, notre armée, nos entreprises, les Droits de l'Homme, les sciences.

The Imperial Judiciary: The Constitution A) does not authorize judges to veto a president and B) it is not a suicide pact: The rights of citizens are sacrosanct; The rights of spies, terrorists, and illegal aliens are nonexistent

Power corrupts. … the judiciary is an overreaching monster in black robes, hellbent at overturning the 2024 election one unwarranted TRO—temporary restraining order—at a time.

What is going on right now, writes Don Surber, can be described as Trump v. the imperial judiciary. (Thanks to Mark Tapscott, who adds that Don "takes apart the federal judiciary’s illegal immigrant deportation insanity more effectively and completely than I’ve read anywhere else.")

District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts issued an order that prevents President Trump from using one of the nation’s oldest laws—The Alien Enemies Act of 1798—to deport of MS 13 and other terrorist illegal aliens. The law was written and approved by Founding Fathers such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who realized the Constitution is not a suicide pact. The rights of citizens are sacrosanct. The rights of spies, terrorists and illegal aliens are nonexistent.

Murphy is one of 677 district judges who have taken it upon themselves to veto any and all presidential actions that George Soros does not like. The same people who turned and looked the other way when Biden was calling a protest at the Capitol an insurrection now refuse to allow the deportation of violent criminals who are here illegally.

They want El Salvador to send one of their citizens back. Imagine if Putin said, you know, I changed my mind. Send Brittney Griner back.

There are three branches of government and we are told they are equal. The legislative branch has stopped legislating, instead deferring to career government employees to write the rules, enforce them and then adjudicate them. Protected by Civil Service, they bob in the bowels of government like a fatberg and are accountable to no one.

The judiciary also writes laws, legalizing gay marriage, abortion and taxpayers paying for tranny surgery for military men with fetishes. No one holds them accountable. Oh, sure, we can amend the Constitution to get around the justices. The only time the politicians did that was to impose an income tax on us.

The lack of accountability in the bureaucracy and the imperial judiciary gunning for President Trump are why Erez Reuveni, Assistant Director of the Office of Immigration Litigation, felt he could get away with lying in court and saying the government made a clerical error in deporting of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran, back to El Salvador.

 … Judge Murphy in Massachusetts’ call for hearings and appeals before we deport anyone is an absurdity to the power of bizarre. The only process due them are two questions: Do you have a passport and a visa? If the answer is no, buh-bye, fella. You just won a one-way ticket home—or El Salvador, whichever Trump chooses.

As Chris Matthews said, 

“I think the country is going to get really ticked off at a government that won‘t do what they tell them to do. A country without borders is not a country. If you don’t have a border—I‘ve never heard of a country in the world that doesn’t have a border. That‘s what defines a country. If you don’t enforce it, you’re a joke.”

But that was nearly 20 years ago when liberals at least bothered pretending they supported the border. Now they want our country to be a joke—and it was under Biden.

We are in an emergency. Untold millions illegal aliens are wandering around the nation.

But the imperial judiciary’s actions eclipse the danger of this emergency by demanding that every one of these millions of criminals be granted a trial and the appeals that follow. Much to the delight of Democrats, the illegal aliens crisis has led to a showdown between the courts, which they control, and the president, whom they hate.

The 677 district judges are not the only threat. The Supreme Court is siding with the liars inside the government and the lying media.

 … Sundance called the attacks on Trump enforcing immigration law lawfare on steroids

  … But the ones breaking the rule of law are in the judiciary. And not just with illegal aliens but in the false insurrection cases, rejecting out of hand claims of fraud in the 2020 election, allowing Obama to spy on Trump, allowing Biden to raid his home, 91 counts in 4 indictments and trying to order military planes to turn around in midair.

The judges are the ones who should respect their authority first by recognizing the boundaries. The Constitution does not authorize judges to veto a president. District judges have taken it upon themselves to expand their districts to include the entire nation and in the case of Boasberg, El Salvador too.

We often hear that justice delayed is justice denied but this order underscores another saying: Time plus no answer equals no. A president has 4 years to fulfill his promises to the American people. Lifetime appointed judges can wait him out. They did that in his first presidency. 

The press is hunky-dory with judge-shopping by the Soros Left to block Trump from upholding immigration law and the like. 

 … Federal judges are not the only rogue elephants using their power to prevent elected officials from doing their job and enforcing laws. PJ Media reported, “Judge temporarily blocks Mayor Adams' administration from allowing ICE onto Rikers Island.”

 … I sure hope Tom Homan starts living up to his warnings about arresting officials who aid and abet illegal immigration.

There is hope. The Supreme Court is extending its schedule (delaying its three-month summer vacation) according to Fox

 … Make no mistake, this is an attempt to stifle the president and blunt his presidency. Elections have consequences? Hah! John Roberts has enabled the district judges to veto Trump over and over again. 

 … Some people advocate having the president ignore the courts. That reflects the corruption of the courts. 

In response to Don Surber's article, a reader by the name of Tmitsss quotes one of its lines as he goes on to refer to the Declaration of Independence:

“Do you have a passport and a visa? If the answer is no, buh-bye, fella.”

Due process applies to deprivation of life, liberty and property. Foreigners without a visa have no protected right to remain.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Vietnam Defeat 50 Years On: It’s a very dangerous thing to be an American ally when Democrats are in power


Kabul gave us Ukraine, and all the death that ensued

Fifty years after Saigon, Rod D. Martin asks us to Remember the Nobility of a Betrayed Cause (cảm ơn to Mark Tapscott). 

Fifty years ago, April 30, 1975, the world watched in horror and disbelief as the last American helicopter lifted off from the rooftop of our embassy in Saigon. South Vietnam had fallen in the manner of Ernest Hemingway, “first gradually, then suddenly”: a decades-long war, a relative peace, and then a mad dash by the North Vietnamese Army that consumed the country in less than a month.

The tragedy was simply breathtaking. And horribly, horribly unnecessary.

What followed was not peace, but darkness. The swift collapse of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (turns out the Domino Theory was true) brought the subjugation of millions, and the opening act of a Communist bloodbath across Southeast Asia. At least a million were sent to the “re-education camps” in Vietnam alone. Half a million were murdered. Another two million fled this brutal night by sea, on rafts wholly unsuited for the tumultuous ocean, in wild hope that an American aircraft carrier might happen upon them. Close to half a million died in the water.

None of that counts the genocide of Pol Pot — whom the American left had dubbed “the George Washington of Cambodia”. Over the next three years he murdered between a quarter and a third of his entire population. He would have gone right on had not even the Communists in Moscow and Hanoi been horrified (though Beijing gave him their unqualified support both before and after the massacre).

None of this had to happen. This was not the end of a war, but the culmination of betrayal — a betrayal of an ally, of a cause, and of the very principles America had defended with precious blood and treasure for eight long years.

The received wisdom is that Vietnam was a mistake, a misguided war fought in the wrong place at the wrong time. That narrative is false. The Vietnam War was part of a noble, epic struggle — the same struggle that won the Cold War and saved the whole world from a similar fate. It was a just effort to stop Communist totalitarianism and genocide from consuming yet another corner of the globe. South Vietnam was not a hopeless case. It was a fledgling republic, striving to build a free society in the shadow of Marxist tyranny and under constant assault from within and without. Its people fought with courage and resolve for more than two decades, first with our help and then — fatally — with almost none.

In many ways, the fall of Vietnam mirrored the loss of China in 1949: a long American effort thrown away at the very last through perfidy in Washington — begun and betrayed by Democrats in both cases — with ghastly, ongoing consequences. The two were even similar in this: a Christian President of China (Chiang Kai-shek) betrayed by Truman, a Christian President of South Vietnam (Ngo Dinh Diem) assassinated on orders from JFK, after both of which came the deluge.

By 1973, we had won. No, really. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, forcing North Vietnam to accept South Vietnam’s sovereignty and halting hostilities.

 … Nixon called it “peace with honor” because it represented more than withdrawal — it was a commitment, a guarantee that America would not desert its friends or allow 58,000 of its sons to have died in vain.

But with Nixon forced from office, Congress fell into the hands of men more concerned with leftist politics than principle. … Deprived of ammunition, fuel, and the will of its ally, South Vietnam collapsed — not because it lacked heart, but because it was abandoned, by the same Democrat Party that had sent America’s sons to die there just ten years before.

This is the reality the left refuses to confront even half a century later. The fall of Saigon was not inevitable. It was engineered in Washington more than Hanoi. It was not a military defeat — it was a political surrender, the first of many. Over the next five years, Democrats handed 26 countries to the Communists. That’s on top of Carter’s betrayal of the Shah of Iran.

Richard Nixon understood this. Years after, in No More Vietnams, he laid out the real lessons of that conflict, lessons we ignore at our peril. … He rightly condemned the gradual escalation that defined the Kennedy and Johnson years, insisting that decisive action at the outset would have saved countless lives.

The same could be said for China, where decisive Soviet action in 1945 in Manchuria, fecklessly answered by Truman, set the tone for the rest of the war. 

 … These lessons, learned at tragic cost, should have guided us forward. But they were forgotten. In 2021, Joe Biden gave us a second Saigon, this time in Kabul. 

Once again, a Democrat President abandoned our allies, violated our commitments, and handed victory to the forces of barbarism. Once again, desperate people clung to departing American aircraft, hoping in vain that the land of the free would not forget them. Once again, we left billions of dollars worth of weapons for our enemies and consigned countless friends to death.

It’s a very dangerous thing to be an American ally when Democrats are in power.

Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a tragedy born of necessity. It was a choice — a deliberate reversion to the very perfidy that doomed South Vietnam. And just as in Vietnam, the consequences were immediate: a resurgent Taliban, women and girls booted from schools and reduced to chattel, jihadists emboldened, and American credibility in tatters. Kabul gave us Ukraine, and all the death that ensued.


Related: Il y a 50 ans, tout le Vietnam devenait un pays totalitaire communiste

La chute de Saigon, le 30 avril 1975, acte toujours, dans l’imaginaire collectif, la défaite des Etats-Unis dans la guerre du Vietnam. Or, la réalité historique est différente. Ce qui s’est passé au Vietnam après cette date est tout aussi marquant, sinon plus. … c’est bien l’armée sud-vietnamienne qui a été défaite, les troupes américaines ayant quitté le pays deux ans avant. Les derniers soldats américains étaient partis le 29 mars 1973 et la situation militaire n’était pas très bonne côté communiste. 

 … Les 140 000 personnes évacuées en avril 1975, quand Saïgon est tombé, étaient presque exclusivement des civils et des militaires vietnamiens, pas des militaires américains en fuite. L’Amérique avait perdu la guerre… chez elle, dans les médias et l’opinion publique. Une guerre qui n’avait plus de soutien, menée par une administration en proie à des graves affaires intérieures. C’était pourtant, malgré ses horreurs, une guerre juste contre le communisme qui allait transformer de nombreux pays de l’Asie du Sud-Est en dictatures criminelles. … Ce sont les « boat people » sur lesquels se réfugient, au risque de leur vie,  des milliers de Vietnamiens fuyant leur propre pays, qui ouvriront enfin les yeux sur la terrible situation du Vietnam.

Ironie de l’Histoire, 50 ans après, le Vietnam, même s’il reste une dictature, a choisi d’adopter l’économie capitaliste et le style de vie occidental. C’est aussi une victoire de l’Amérique.

Good-Bye, Friend: David Horowitz Has Gone to Meet His Maker


RIP David Horowitz. Called a "A Great Warrior for Freedom" at Front Page Magazine, Robert Spencer writes that David Horowitz

not only refused to play along with [the Left's] game; he broke its power. At the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s flagship publication, Front Page Magazine, he did not let the left set the agenda; instead, he set his own. He didn’t shun figures who enunciated unpopular truths that the left wanted desperately to conceal; instead, he gave them a platform. He articulated an American conservatism that was not defensive, not reactive, not imitative of the left, but providing a vision for our nation’s future that is a genuine alternative to what the left has forced upon Americans for so long, and which preserves and strengthens what has made our nation great 

David Horowitz, No Pasarán's blogger, and Geert Wilders at CPAC in 2009


Crisis by Design: Not only did Biden's open border policy all but shut down the immigration system, the unregulated flood of illegal immigrants threatened to overwhelm local law enforcement and human welfare systems


 … the four years of Joe Biden's titular presidency likely represent what amounted to the most sweeping application of [the Cloward-Piven Strategy] ever attempted … overwhelm the existing system by introducing so many participants that it collapses, thus creating political chaos, which Democrats then promise to end by enacting comprehensive and fundamental systemic changes

The Biden Era Was the Ultimate Application — and Utterly Predictable Failure — of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, writes Instapundit's Mark Tapscott

There was a time in the mid-1960s when two left-wing Columbia University professors — Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven — enjoyed a brief run of media celebrity by espousing a strategy for Democrats they believed could force the creation of an American welfare state based on a guaranteed annual income.

 … Put simply, Cloward-Piven said [in the Nation Magazine that] the way to force radical socialist reform of capitalistic America was to overwhelm the existing system by introducing so many participants that it collapses, thus creating political chaos, which Democrats then promise to end by enacting comprehensive and fundamental systemic changes.  

If that formula — known ever since the Swinging Sixties as the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" (CPS) — sounds familiar despite its origins seven decades ago, it should, because Democrats are still using it. In fact, the four years of Joe Biden's titular presidency likely represent what amounted to the most sweeping application of CPS  ever attempted.

Considered in this context, Biden's open border policy was pure CPS — removing every barrier to the entry of so many illegal immigrants coming into the country that Border Patrol and other immigration system personnel were reduced to little more than temporary escorts, housekeepers and travel agents.

Nobody knows with certainty the actual total of illegals who came into this country, but the figure of 11 million is almost certainly near the ballpark's home plate.

 … Not only did Biden's open border policy all but shut down the immigration system, the unregulated flood of illegal immigrants into major cities including New York and Chicago offered the additional benefit of threatening to overwhelm local law enforcement and human welfare systems.

But the border chaos was only the most prominent of Biden CPS applications. Biden took office in Jan. 2021 with the nation still reeling from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biden imposed an authoritarian vaccination program to inoculate 200 million Americans, and included compulsory shots for millions of Americans, many of whom were at risk of losing their jobs for failing to do so. Public schools remained closed, public services constricted and local economies floundered.

Between Biden's $1.9 trillion American Relief Act and $1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act, the money supply was swamped with cheap money that drove up inflation to record levels. Hundreds of billions of tax dollars were lost to improper payments in pandemic-related special business aid and unemployment benefits, and, encouraged by official policies, millions of illegal immigrants became Social Security and Medicaid beneficiaries.

 … By enabling the addition of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to the Social Security rolls and extending Medicaid benefits to another estimated 1.3 million illegals, the bankruptcies of both programs are nearer than ever.

And just for the record, let's not forget how the left, empowered as never before by the Biden regime, engaged in the courtroom edition of CPS by mounting the unprecedented, and ultimately failed, attempt to entangle Donald Trump in litigation stemming from a series of bogus criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions.

The dozens of lawsuits filed since Trump's inauguration and the explosion of nationwide injunctions issued by mostly Biden and Obama District Court appointees is the second level of the left's courtroom CPS.

With reports of horrendous crimes committed by illegals against U.S. citizens going about their daily lives, inflation keeping eggs and other staples at record highs, continuing chaos at the border as more illegals raced to get across the border before the Nov. 2024 election, voters went to the polls and chose ... Donald Trump, who promised to stop the chaos, restore law and order, and restore economic sanity and prosperity.

Millions of working-class Americans, Hispanics and blacks who traditionally voted strongly for Democrats for generations went for Trump, in a potentially landmark shift in American politics that will influence elections for decades to come.

 … [As for President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty], trillions of tax dollars spent on failed welfare programs has not ended poverty. Ironically, a key fact in that regard was recognized by the authors of CPS in their original magazine piece, where they said their approach "is based on the fact that a vast discrepancy exists between the benefits to which people are entitled under public welfare programs and the sums which they actually receive."

Aha! Trillions spent on welfare doesn't even begin to put trillions in the pockets of the poorest Americans. The reality is that, for the most part, those tax dollars enriched legions of civil servants, government consultants, politicians, public relations operators, academic "experts" and nonprofit activists.

Related: The Smug Liars' "Screw-You" Party

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Promethean Rivalry: The AI race between America and China is even more impactful than the Space Race or the Atomic rivalry at their apex


… the AI race is more impactful than the Space Race or the Atomic rivalry at their apex

asserts ROF's Sébastien Laye at the Washington Examiner.

There is no shortage of books or reports on the U.S.-China rivalry, especially as artificial intelligence portends to become a nuclear-like inescapable linchpin of this competition. We recently extensively dealt here with the geopolitical consequences of the AI race as laid bare in the “Super Intelligence Strategy” paper by Eric Schmidt and two executives from Scale AI.

This week, the Center for a New American Security published “Promethean Rivalry” by Bill Drexel. As we have ourselves repeatedly pointed out the shortsightedness of most of the geopolitical digressions on the AI race, we found this work to be groundbreaking as it strives to analyze the world-altering impact of this technological race. In a nutshell, this is not just another technology race between two superpowers. Possibly, we even see a scenario where the AI race is more impactful than the Space Race or the Atomic rivalry at their apex. 

The rationale for such a bold assertion of our own is due to the multidimensional stakes of the AI competition, weaving military, economic, geopolitical, and ethical issues

 … The paper analyzes four domains and the world-altering affect of the AI rivalry on the four domains: conflict norms (how military conflicts are waged and solved), state power (what is the essence of global superpower and influence in the age of the AI rivalry?), emerging bioethics (the future of medical treatments, genetic engineering, cloning, etc. in an age of acceleration) and catastrophic risks

In these four instances, the prospect for Sino-American collaboration is limited given China’s diplomatic intransigence, while the disconnect between necessity and feasibility is more troubling. 

When we think about possible autonomous warfare, panopticon techno states with surveillance regimes, AI-powered human genetic engineering, or AI malfunctions, we need more human collaboration, but we should not fool ourselves in the West and believe there is a responsible co-pilot with us in the cockpit.

 … Drexel is adamant that only a clear U.S. lead over China’s AI ecosystem will ensure a safe future for mankind. I have advocated a defector’s visa status, like what we did during the Cold War, for Chinese AI researchers who want to join the West to defeat their techno-authoritarian state. The U.S. needs to attract all top AI talents in the coming two years, including from low-growth Europe. I share Drexel’s concerns that direct cooperation with China on catastrophic risks, autonomous killing systems, or genetic engineering has been an illusion. We should leave the door open (it will be used in due time) without being delusional here.

 … In a time when NATO has long lost any meaning, I advocate rebuilding our global sphere of influence around a grand technological and economic alliance, leaving only rogue states to the techno-authoritarian model championed by the Chinese. With these countries, and altogether open to a dialogue with China, we could continue our efforts to establish norms on the responsible use of AI in militaries or AI in nuclear command and control.

Friday, April 25, 2025

Remembering Reagan's Zero Option: How Trump's "Tariff War" Resembles the Last Battle of the Cold War


As critics within as without the United States voice incomprehension about America's brand-new tariffs all the while raving and ranting about the move as a "war" started by Donald Trump, it is far from inappropriate to recall one of the last "battles" of the Cold War.

During the 1980s, outrage erupted all over the West as Ronald Reagan went ahead with plans (pre-dating his election) to install medium-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was another heinous and brainless Republican duly detested across the globe not to mention another fascist or (neo-)Nazi who was willing to start the Third World War in addition to being the latest Adolf Hitler. (Spasibo za InstaGiperssylku, tovarich Sarah.)

And leftists everywhere, from America to Europe West as well as East, took to the streets to protest against the deranged "Hollywood actor" and the Pershing II missiles which would, but of course, start World War III.

But here a question arises: Why was Washington (not to mention its Western European allies) in favor of alleged escalation in the first place and insistent on installing nuclear-capable theater-level weapons in (Western) Europe?

For one major reason. Because the Soviet Union had started a policy of installing nuclear-capable theater-level weapons in (Eastern) Europe. Indeed, hundreds of the USSR's SS-20s were already installed throughout the countries of the Warsaw Pact when NATO's decision went through to reestablish military balance between East and West.

But nobody ever protested the Kremlin's SS-20s. Certainly nobody in the East, but nobody in the West either.

In fact, I recall one demonstration in Paris. When one single solitary pacifist decided that he would add one single solitary sign against the SS-20s to the hundreds if not thousands of signs against Uncle Sam's Pershings, the sign was torn to pieces and the guy may even have been beaten up. (Some pacifism!)


As François Mitterrand famously said, despite being a Socialist pressured to sympathize with Moscow's communists while decoupling from Washington's capitalists, "I too am against the Euromissiles. However, I do notice some simple truths: The pacifists are in the West, while the missiles are in the East." Another Socialist, Germany's Helmut Schmidt, also went along with the deployment (before being replaced by Helmut Kohl).

Among the useful idiots was my girlfriend's sister who insisted that "Vi vil ikke forsvares med atomvåben" ("we do not want to be protected by nuclear weapons", which is akin to saying we do not want to be protected by guns, only with knives, no matter what weapons the other side has) — to the ire of the elder members of her family, some of whom had lived through the Germans' occupation of Denmark in the 1940s.

Naïve Danes wanted the country to exit the NATO structure; then, they insisted, the Russians would not invade even if they attacked the rest of the NATO countries. After the Warsaw Pact broke up, Polish and other Eastern European officers divulged Soviet military plans to the West, and needless to say, the Scandinavian country, aka the door to the Baltic Sea, would be invaded and occupied no matter what its neutrality status. Indeed, military plans allowed for half a dozen atomic bombs (or missiles) to be dropped on the country immediately as the war broke out — started unilaterally by the USSR (whose motivations the pacifists kept telling us we had to try and understand).

Between 1983 and 1985, the Pershing IIs started being installed in Western Europe. Previously, Reagan had given voice to the Zero Option, whereby no Pershings would arrive in Europe if the Kremlin removed its SS20s from the continent.

With Mikhail Gorbachev getting the top job in Moscow ("I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together", said Margaret Thatcher), the message got through to the Soviets that if they removed their SS20s from Eastern Europe, the Pershings would disappear as well. That is what eventually happened: Reagan's Zero Option had come around full circle and had led to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987.

Congratulations, Ronald Reagan. (Even if — to its ever-lasting shame — the Nobel Prize Committee awarded its peace prize only to Gorbachev, leaving Reagan out to dry.)

What leftists and other useful idiots called outrageous behavior and an insane step towards World War III turned out to be the exact opposite and, indeed, a win-win situation.

Isn't this similar to what, 40 years later, is behind Donald Trump's "tariff war"?

Related: "Brutal Americans"? The issue is that we've never been brutal enough — with the evil of the world or with those who would take advantage of us, as a nation or as taxpayers

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Bullying Deepfakes: Believe It or Not, Fake Pornography Shots Powered by AI and Meant to Harass Teens Has One Exceptionally Positive Side


Teens "falling victim" to fake pornography?! Over at Fox News (skip the blockquote below to go straight to the meat of the matter), Nikolas Lanum reports on 

A troubling trend [that] has emerged in schools across the United States, with young students falling victim to the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered "nudify" apps that have the power to create fake pornography of classmates.

"Nudify" is an umbrella term referring to a plethora of widely available apps and websites that allow users to alter photos of full-dressed individuals and virtually undress them. Some apps can create nude images with just a headshot of the victim. 

Don Austin, the superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School District, told Fox News Digital that this type of online harassment can be more relentless compared to traditional in-person bullying.

"It used to be that a bully had to come over and push you. Palo Alto is not a community where people are going to come push anybody into a locker. That doesn't happen. But it's not immune from online bullying," Austin said.

"The differences, I think, are worse. Now your bully can be completely anonymous. You don't even know where it's coming from," he continued.

 … "We're at a place now where you can be doing nothing and stories and pictures about you are posted online. They're fabricated. They're completely made up through AI and it can have your voice or face. That's a whole other world," he told Fox News Digital.
Seriously?! Am I the only person that sees the benefits of this "troubling trend" of online bullying?!

Think about it. 

Blackmail is now a thing of the past.

That's it.

It's over.

Whether you are a teen or an adult, whether the photos are real or not, you can simply pass all of them off — indeed, you can do so nonchalantly — as fakes or deepfakes. To your classmates, to your spouse, to your constituents. Who will know whether you are fibbing or telling the truth? (Maybe you hardly know yourself…)

(In a totally different context, of course, that is exactly what Joe Biden's White House did…) 

As it happens, a considerable size of the audience for these sex photos/videos — maybe far more than half — will already be assuming that they're fakes… (Thanks for the Instalink, Sarah.)

Depression at 16? Suicide at 17? Why fear sextortion at this point? Compliment instead the (anonymous) photo/video creators for doing a good job — for doing an outstanding job.

On my phone I keep receiving photos of Donald Trump tenderly cuddling with Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin or Stormy Daniels. Lots of apps now make you "repair" snapshots that are decades or (over) a century old, colorize them, and make them into mini-movies (the latest one I saw delighted me as it involved Civil War daguerreotypes from the 1860s).

I also keep receiving AI ads where, by combining a couple of photos of myself and of any girl (someone I know and am perhaps infatuated with or some rock or movie star or someone — Marilyn Monroe? Rudolph Valentino? Che Guevara? Queen Victoria? — who has been dead for decades) I can make myself hug or kiss that person — hungrily — on the mouth.

Years ago (long before AI), I was writing a TV script imagining a politician who was on national television and who was all of a sudden ambushed with private photos of him in a compromising position (with a woman other than his wife, with a man, with many women, with many men, at an orgy, in a BDSM cave, with a money shot, whatever…). Talk of falling victim; talk of bullying; talk of harassment (justified or otherwise)!

How should he react?

Ignore the content. And, with an admiring voice, let out a whistle and praise the work: "Wow, that's well done!"

"What do you mean?!" interrupts the TV presenter, visibly frustrated. "No no no! Don't tell me you are claiming they're fake?! We have proof that you were seen at—"

Again, this was before AI, needless to say, which only made the politician's next words even more startling: "It is so how admirable the degree to which studios have made progress with special effects!"

In my story, the politician went on to taking the photos he was in and replacing himself with Woodrow Wilson. Thereafter, he deliberately and openly creating a number of (in his case, fake) photos of other politicians — and even himself — involved in ridiculous positions (an appropriate word in more ways than one), such as with a midget, with a gorilla, and with (a young) Greta Garbo. 

Imagine if photos of Barack Obama servicing Chicago gentlemen were to appear now? 44 knows he has nothing to fret about.

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Black Writers Seem to Have No Interest in Any Author (in Any Human?) Who Ain't Black (or Who, at Best, Ain't a Member of Some Minority)


It can seem frightening when one realizes the extent to which the left has succeeded in alienating America's black community from the rest of the country.

Once a week, the New York Times Sunday Book Review features an interview with a published writer. Called By the Book and featuring a painting of the respective author by Rebecca Clarke, some of the questions are personal to the subject of the interview — which often seems to be done by email — while a handful of other questions features the exact same basic recurring inquiries, such as "What’s the last great book you read?" and what's "Your favorite book no one else has heard of?"

A number of writers are black, which is not a problem, needless to say, far from it, but you might have second thoughts and wince a mite (whatever the color of your skin) when you see the race-baitin' books that sometimes inspired the authors and notice to what degree they are exclusively, or mainly (but far from always), by other black writers (although sometimes by other minority authors, but invariably by leftists).

For instance, the favorite novelist of all time for Tiya Miles is "Toni Morrison — for her sheer bravery, breathless wordsmithing, intellectual range and incomparable understanding of our emotional and social realms. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins came to mind as a close second. Her best-known novel [was] “Contending Forces” (published in 1900)".

A previous post on a(n in)famous football quarterback who authored a picture book was asked this question

Which books or authors inspired you as an activist?

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” by Alex Haley, Malcolm X and Attallah Shabazz; “Revolutionary Suicide,” by Huey P. Newton; “The Wretched of the Earth” and “Black Skin, White Masks,” by Frantz Fanon; “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” by Paulo Freire; “Black Awakening in Capitalist America,” by Robert L. Allen; “Women, Race and Class” and “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle,” by Angela Y. Davis; “I Write What I Like,” by Steve Biko; “Slave Patrols,” by Sally E. Hadden.

Thus, that post ended with this sentence of mine: 

There you have it: … Colin Kaepernick seems to have no interest in any author (in any human?) who ain't black.

As for the question that almost invariably ends the By the Book interview in the NYT's Sunday Book Review section each week — "You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?" — Toni Morrison and James Baldwin are ubiquitous, returning again and again and again. (Thanks for the Instalink, Sarah.)

Here are some of the black authors' actual replies: for Reginald Dwayne Betts the answer is "Lucille Clifton, Harold Bloom, Toni Morrison", for Brontez Purnell it's "Sappho, Anton LaVey and Maya Angelou", and for the rapper Common it's "James Baldwin, Nas, and Kahlil Gibran", while the aforementioned Colin Kaepernick answers "James Baldwin, Alexandre Dumas and Toni Morrison."

As for Morgan Parker, the author of “Magical Negro” wanted to invite six people, not three, and not one of them not African-American:

June Jordan, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin — but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t get just as much fun and fulfillment from a night with Angel Nafis, Danez Smith and Saeed Jones.

Regarding Glory Edim (who "created the Well-Read Black Girl book club"), she only wants four people, but needless to say, they can hardly be described as run-of-the-mill realists:

Toni Morrison, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Trevor Noah. There would be whiskey, shared laughter and candid commentary on everything. If I could add one more person, it would be Ta-Nehisi Coates!

Who can deny that Nikole Hannah-Jones, Trevor Noah, and Ta-Nehisi Coates would engage in nothing but objective, neutral, and "candid commentary"?! 

“Lovely One: A Memoir” allowed the Times to interview Ketanji Brown Jackson (otherwise known as a Supreme Court justice), and she does list two whites ("Heather McGhee. Atul Gawande. Brad Meltzer.") for her ideal dinner party, but apart from that, it's blacks and/or leftists all the way through (Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s biography, “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality,” “Born a Crime,” by Trevor Noah, “Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism,” by Justice Stephen Breyer, “All That She Carried,” by Tiya Miles, in addition to a stack of memoirs — by Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Michelle Obama, Sonia Sotomayor). 

What’s the last great book you read?

Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s biography, “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality,” is probably the last full book I’ve read outside of work. I was just so grateful that this extraordinary woman’s experiences and contributions finally got the attention they deserved.

Indeed, Ketanji Brown Jackson adds that it "was crucial for me to maintain a relatively good relationship with my daughters. Doing that well is the essential challenge of working motherhood." Who knows? Maybe she does know what a woman is, after all!

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Republican Tries to Debunk French Conviction that America's Change of Mind on Tech Tariffs Represents Some Sort of Defeat for Trump

Twelve hours after Erik Svane's appearance on French TV Saturday evening, the ROF spokesman was back in the BFMTV studios on (Palm) Sunday morning for another debate about Donald Trump's tariff strategy along with Beijing's muscular reaction, where the No Pasarán blogger joined Léopold Audebert and Raphaël Grably on Le Live Week-End (24:02-33:24). 

Comme le diront plus tard BFM Business, J. Bro, et l'AFP,

"Personne n'est tiré d'affaire en ce qui concerne le déséquilibre commercial et les barrières non tarifaires que les autres pays utilisent contre nous, surtout pas la Chine, qui nous traite le plus mal", a assuré le président des États-Unis sur son réseau Truth Social.

La mise en garde de Donald Trump intervient au lendemain d'une exemption de surtaxes - jusqu'à 145% pour la Chine - accordée par les autorités américaines sur les produits high-tech, smartphones et ordinateurs en tête, ainsi que sur les semi-conducteurs.


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Émission du 13 avril 2025

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1h25min|2025|
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