Europe Reshapes its Monetary System

American  Thinker 

European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde is pressing Eurozone member states to swiftly legislate the introduction of the digital euro. Inside the ECB Tower, the clock ticks ominously as France’s mounting debt crisis intensifies. Without comprehensive capital controls, the fragile construct of the Eurozone risks unraveling.

A Single Metric of Regime Strength

Political regimes can be most effectively compared through a single economic metric: capital flows -- or, put differently, net direct investments.

Overwhelming Significance

This metric holds overwhelming significance, as it consolidates the final verdict of thousands of investors regarding the relative quality of an economic location. It is therefore unsurprising that, in the otherwise extensive statistical work of diligent European data offices, there is almost never valid data or current capital flow accounts between the struggling Eurozone and the United States.

What is known, however, is that Germany lost a net €64.5 billion in direct investments abroad last year, with a large share likely flowing to the U.S. This capital movement has remained stable over many years, providing statistical evidence of the country’s accelerating deindustrialization.

For 2024, it can also be noted that the EU lost roughly €20 billion in net direct investment to the U.S. In terms of capital positions, this means that the stock of European companies’ direct investments in the United States rose to $5.7 trillion last year. The U.S. remains, and continues to be, the preferred investment destination in global competition.

Portfolio investments -- i.e., financial market assets -- are not even worth discussing here: in this area, the balance sheet for Europeans appears even darker.

Trump as U.S. Salesman

President Donald Trump understands the power of capital like no other. Every diplomatic trip becomes an offensive for the U.S. economic position -- and the results speak for themselves. His Middle East tour in May 2025 alone brought investment pledges from Gulf states worth trillions, demonstrating decisively where internationally mobile capital truly flows.

In the Eurozone, a similar frantic activity is underway, albeit for different reasons. Administratively and technically, the region is in the final stages of introducing the digital euro. It is meant to provide the technical framework that allows the euro to keep pace with the major currency blocs of the world -- yet the Eurosystem risks being crushed between the powerful duopoly of the U.S. and China. It now mirrors the EU’s marginalized geopolitical position.

Foreign reserves or collateral are increasingly held in U.S. dollars, U.S. Treasury bonds, or gold. Month by month, the euro loses relevance.

Control Money to the Rescue

The digital euro is positioned as the future of the euro, conforming to modern standards of fast settlement systems. The entire marketing effort by Europeans is focused solely on obscuring the real background. The wallets -- the digital accounts of the future -- will be centrally managed by the ECB, theoretically granting it access to all transactions within the Eurozone system and across borders. Total control is the objective; notions of civil freedom or banking secrecy are long gone.

Regardless of the technical design of this ledger system -- whether blockchain-based or using the already established TIPS standard -- the EU-ECB power complex is clearly under enormous pressure. Lagarde recently urged Eurozone member states to swiftly establish the legal framework for the digital euro variant, which is to complement cash initially.

The pressure comes not least from U.S. dollar stablecoins and technological developments elsewhere. But at its core, the issue is different: the Eurozone economy, once artificial, debt-financed state demand is removed, has been in recession for some time. Considering the stagnating productivity of the Eurozone economy, it is clear the region never truly recovered from the debt shock of a decade and a half ago.

Since then, the ECB has merely covered the collapse of the real economy -- the overregulation that Brussels spreads across the continent -- with ever-new cheap credit and manipulated capital markets. The frantic activity at the ECB and in Brussels signals that markets are undergoing an accelerated realignment of capital flows. Investors are fleeing the EU: the fear of capital flight is real.

Capital Flight Already Underway

The ECB will attempt to choke these trends with an iron hand: digital euro wallets will allow it to monitor every transaction, set limits, and block capital movements deliberately. Anyone attempting to transfer capital abroad will require permission -- a control apparatus that paralyzes citizens in the Eurozone cage and makes any exit nearly impossible. The commercial banks? They will comply obediently, acting merely as transmission belts for ECB directives -- no ethics, no resistance, not the slightest hint of protest against this form of neo-feudalism.

The ECB finds itself in a self-perpetuating intervention spiral, which it triggered by beginning to monetize the Eurozone’s overflowing state debts and becoming part of the Brussels power apparatus.

It is precisely this misguided monetary policy that has left the Eurozone economy listlessly limping along. Productivity growth remains absent, unemployment is masked in official statistics: hundreds of thousands are in short-time work, pseudo-jobs, or stuck in bloated public administration. Since 2019 alone, public-sector employment has increased by 420,000 -- in an era where artificial intelligence could have efficiently automated repetitive tasks even in chronically inefficient public administrations, easing the fiscal burden on citizens.

The ECB’s zero-interest policy has significantly contributed to both the public and private sectors sinking ever deeper into debt. An economy artificially kept alive by debt, suffocated by overregulation, and weakened by an energy crisis is no longer capable of supporting real, sustained positive interest rates.

The Antagonist

Across the Atlantic, the contrast is stark: in the U.S., the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates in real positive territory, while the economy thrives on deregulation, entrepreneurial spirit, and market-driven prudence. In monetary policy, Washington pursues the exact opposite approach from that implemented in the Frankfurt ECB Tower.

The U.S. is also embracing digital money. The Trump administration’s GENIUS Act created a framework allowing private banks not only to continue traditional credit creation but also to issue their own digital currencies -- fully collateralized by government bonds, gold, or Bitcoin.

The U.S. pursues two objectives simultaneously: partly cushioning its enormous national debt via stablecoin issuance on global markets, and signaling clearly that, while Europe relies on centralized control money with maximal sanction mechanisms, the U.S. returns to private banking and private capital formation -- a fundamental divergence with explosive implications.

Capital Seeking a Safe Haven

The question of where internationally mobile capital, entrepreneurs, and self-employed individuals will orient themselves -- the U.S. or the European Union/Eurozone -- is essentially answered. Capital flows where it is treated best, which is determined not only by tax rates and levies but primarily by the regulatory environment. In Europe, however, that framework has long acquired Kafkaesque dimensions under Brussels’ green ideology.

While the European Commission literally walls itself in -- with digital censorship, opinion control, and now implemented capital controls -- the U.S. sends a very different signal: it is preparing for location-based competition with China. In the coming years, energy generation capacities necessary for the growth of data centers, AI, and all derivative sectors and innovations will arise there.

Europe -- or rather the EU -- has removed itself from the game. It turned away from Russia’s cheap energy in a belligerent fury, failed to resolve the conflict with the United States, and simultaneously launched a partisan war against its own middle class. The so-called Green Deal, the hallucinated green transformation, has long been exposed as a failed attempt to escape energy dependence while subjecting the world to its regulatory framework. Brussels is beginning to realize: the era of post-colonialism is over; no one will feel bound by the European regulatory framework if the world’s largest economy chooses a different path.

At the ECB and in Brussels, it is well understood: in the event of a sovereign debt crisis, capital will certainly not flow into the Eurozone, but will seek the center of the global economy -- the United States.

Entertainment and podcast thread for Sept 25

 

Advice: You can spend the rest of your life pondering over your past mistakes and wondering if you'll ever get over them, or you can choose to not think about them so much and continue to go on with your life. We're just human beings, screw ups will happen, either intentionally or accidentally. With good luck, mostly accidentally.

We Totally Voted for Trump to Tick Off Tiresome Foreigners

Townhall 

Quick, everybody care what a bunch of impotent, fussy foreigners think about us! No, really, we should give a damn that some herring-gobbling fjord jockey is mad about Donald Trump. Yeah, Norwegians totally matter. But not really. No foreigner matters. Not Canadians, not the English, not the Arabs (especially of the nonexistent Palestinian variety), not the Papua/New Guineans. Here’s the reality. Most foreigners are trash. Most people who aren’t Americans suck. And treacherous Americans who presume to leverage the puny outrage of second-rate cultures against ours deserve our contempt and mockery almost as much as the foreigners themselves.

They think we’re dumb, New World rubes with too much in the way of guns, calories, and Jesus. In contrast, we barely think of them at all.

Donald Trump went to the United Nations the other day and did something that American presidents aren’t supposed to do, which is refuse to pretend that the delegates aren’t a motley bunch of pompous cronies of mostly pathetic potentates. The last time any of us thought the UN was anything but a corrupt clusterfark of jumped-up chiselers trying to hustle greenbacks from Uncle Sucker was back in second grade when we collected pennies for UNICEF, you know, before our public school teachers replaced that particular brand of performative onanism with drag queen story hour. 

What really gets to them is Trump‘s total contempt for the UN and everything and everyone it represents. He’s not just unimpressed by their pretensions to dignity; he actively despises them. That’s why he wouldn’t let it go about the escalator that they couldn’t make work (assuming it was not done on purpose, in which case our new ambassador Mike Waltz should nuke the entire site from orbit). Trump famously made his escalator work. These dummies collect billions of dollars a year, and they can’t even operate the same kind of moving stairway you can find functioning in a zillion shopping malls. That’s a microcosm of the UN’s failure around the world. We give it money, and it squanders it. It demands respect, and it generates enough hot air to make the climate change hoax real. Weak American leaders treat it like it matters, but Trump laughs at it. No wonder the Turtle Bay losers are big mad.

Now, I admit I’m biased against foreigners. I lived among them in their garbage homelands for a significant part of my life. Back when I was a young lieutenant, I was stationed in Stuttgart doing my very small part to keep the red hordes of the Warsaw Pact on their side of the Fulda Gap. The fact that many of you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about is a testimony to how well we did our job. But why did we have that job in the first place? Because the freaking Europeans not only have a multi-thousand-year history of butchering each other, but because they managed to both create and embrace two of the most loathsome and despicable ideologies in all of human history, the twin socialist pathologies of Nazism and communism. If it weren’t for those poisonous creeds, Americans would not have had to head over to Europe to knock heads together and then sit there for going on a century – we’re still there under the auspices of the welfare program known as NATO – keeping them from killing each other. 

Now, let me tell you about the Germans. There’s a reason my ancestors picked up and got the hell out of there 250 years ago. Germany and Germans suck. It’s a terrible country full of terrible people with a terrible culture that does terrible things unless somebody has his boot on their collective terrible neck. They’re unique in their combination of unjustified arrogance, moral illiteracy, and irritating anal retentiveness, alternating between feckless weakness – they’ve starved their military into near nothingness in order to subsidize the zillions of Third World sociopaths they’ve invited into der Fatherland – and homicidal psychopathy that has lain dormant under their unsmiling, pale visage for the last 80 years. The Germans’ big problem with the Nazis – if you’ve ever pounded too many steins of lager with them at a volksfest, which I have, they’ll tell you – is that the Nazis lost.

And I also spent a year deployed refereeing the incomprehensible internal feuds among the various sects, tribes, and ethnicities of the Balkans, in my case, in Kosovo. Nothing like having to pick up the pieces of communism before the locals could chop up their neighbors into pieces with shovels and axes. There’s a reason I have been telling Americans for over 10 years, in both columns and novels, that you don’t want to start creating new rules because that leads to very, very bad things, and I saw it up close in Kosovo. 

Don’t even get me started about Ukraine, where I spent time training their soldiers and puking my guts out. I’ve never been so sick in my life. It was like working in an open sewer, except with more bribery. There’s this smell that lingers in the air behind the old Iron Curtain, a potent mix of disinfectant, decay, and dread, that you can’t get out of your nostrils even after you’ve gotten the hell out of there.

Oh, and I got to spend some time in the Middle East, too. Here’s a little bit of advice, besides “Don’t go.” Don’t shake anybody’s left hand, and that hose in the toilet? It’s for exactly what you think.

Now, leftist Americans are the most parochial people in the world because the only thing they know about America is New York and Los Angeles, and the only thing they know about the rest of the world is London, Paris, Berlin, and maybe a little bit of Italy. Yet, they will share the full range of their inexperience and ignorance with those of us who have spent quality time there with the locals. They insist we have much to learn from foreigners. No, we don’t. The only thing foreigners have to teach us is what not to do. We’re constantly hearing about how other countries have these wonderful free health care systems, but nobody tells you that you can’t get an MRI for 12 months or that the one treatment that you can get right away is a lethal injection. Every time you visit one of these countries, half the public employees are on strike. In many cases, the friendliest people you will meet are the gypsies who try to steal your wallet. Hilariously, Europeans have been appalled because Americans who catch them beat the crap out of them, and this is when we are at a disadvantage because we’re limping because we’ve banged our legs up in the tiny cells they call hotel rooms. Air-conditioning is a luxury, and there’s nary a man-sized car to be seen. Guns? None, unlike in America, where citizens are armed. In lesser countries – which is all of them – guns are for the masters, and the people themselves are serfs.

Foreigners are an example all right – a cautionary one.

But that doesn’t stop them from offering their stupid opinions. They’re all over Twitter venting about the US of A like old men shouting at clouds. They’re very mad at Donald Trump. They’re baffled by how we proudly celebrate our faith and our patriotism; the only thing they believe in is climate change and maximizing the pension they get starting at 43 years old.

They throw words like “fascist” around, and to be fair, they are the experts since foreigners invented the concept. It’s kind of funny to watch them vent, as if their flaccid fury matters to us. They’re nothing. They’re not militarily significant. They’re not economically significant. And a significant number of them are not sexually significant, to judge by the plummeting birth rates of the Europeans who have given up their civilization to the Third World masses and appear intent on running out the clock watching soccer and the Eurovision Song Contest.

It’s funny how they attempt to speak to us as peers. It’s actually quite adorable.

I enjoy appearing on foreign news networks as a commentator, where I’m inevitably paired with their American correspondent, who is, of course, based in Washington, D.C., as opposed to in America. And it blows their minds when I say things like, “We totally voted for what Trump is doing,” “Diversity is a system designed to allow losers who can’t hack to get access to what achievers earn,” “We don’t arrest Americans for mean tweets because we’re civilized,” and – this one always gets a gasp – “America has a terrible assault weapons problem, in that not every law-abiding, healthy adult American citizen has an assault weapon.” I am rarely asked back, even if I’m not tossed off the air.

Now, we must be fair. Not all foreigners are garbage. Just most of them. I married someone who was a foreigner until she became an American and, therefore, better than foreigners. And some foreigners are fine. I had a very good time in Paris last year. I loved Portugal this year. Now, both of those countries idiotically decided to recognize the non-country of Palestine lately because they are terrified of the even worse foreigners who they let into their midst, but you know, they’ve got good wine, and you have to give them credit for that. That’s something. It’s not much, but it’s something.

Antifa’s origin story traced to Communist Stalinist group that aided Nazi rise to power

 

The U.S.-based Antifa movement has embraced the label and symbols of Germany's "Antifaschistische Aktion" — a Communist group whose actions enabled the Nazis to take power.

By Jerry Dunleavy

Published: September 24, 2025 11:07pm

Updated: September 25, 2025 8:43am

The modern iteration of the militant Antifa movement draws its name, symbolism, and inspiration from Antifaschistische Aktion — a project of the German Communist Party in the 1920s and 1930s which targeted center-left parties as the true fascist enemy and aided in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Antifaschistische Aktion was founded in 1932 by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which viciously opposed the more moderate leftist Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), dividing the opposition and directly contributing to the successful rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) — the Nazi Party — and the eventual establishment of Hitler’s dictatorship.

The first Trump Administration repeatedly sought to go after the far-left American movement known as Antifa, and now, in the wake of violent anti-ICE protests and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump has designated Antifa as a “domestic terrorism organization.” 

The modern iteration of Antifa seeks to burnish its anti-fascist bona-fides by linking itself through its name and its two-flagged banner to purported efforts by Antifaschistische Aktion to oppose Hitler and the Nazis, but the actual history of Germany’s Antifa movement is much more complicated than that.

Modern "Antifa": Rewriting history

The German Left was deeply divided during the years between the First and Second World Wars, as the SPD often attempted to defend the Weimar constitution and to preserve some of the Weimar Republic’s democratic institutions against both a Nazi fascist state and a Communist one, while the radical KPD, subordinated by Joseph Stalin's Comintern, sought a Soviet-style revolution in Germany.

The democratic German Weimar Republic, established in the wake of Germany’s defeat in World War One, was beset by massive economic problems flowing from the Great Depression, intense hyperinflation, political instability, and constant street battles between paramilitary groups, including those backed by Communists and Nazis. The German Antifa played a key role in the German Communist Party’s successful efforts to kneecap the SPD, contributing to Hitler and the Nazis managing to seize power amidst a divided and demoralized opposition.

Mark Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, wrote in his 2017 book that “over the past decades, antifa have self-consciously adopted interwar anti-fascist symbols like the two flags of the Antifaschistische Aktion.”

Richard J. Evans, the author of The Third Reich in Power, argued that "the Communists' violent revolutionary rhetoric, promising the destruction of capitalism and the creation of a Soviet Germany, terrified the country's middle class who knew only too well what had happened to their counterparts in Russia after 1918.” 

Evans wrote that "appalled at the failure of the government to solve the crisis, and frightened into desperation by the rise of the Communists, they began to leave the squabbling little factions of the conventional political right and gravitate towards the Nazis instead."

More: https://justthenews.com/world/europe/antifas-origin-story-traced-communist-stalinist-group-which-aided-nazi-rise-power

Liberty University Students Vow to Carry on Charlie Kirk’s Mission After Assassination

 

Article by Claire Harrington   |   September 23, 2025

The assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk, has resulted in a worldwide outpouring of grief.

Liberty University (LU)—home to one of the nation’s most vigorous TPUSA chapters and a campus where Kirk frequently spoke—was especially affected by his murder. 

Kirk’s connection to LU was significant. In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from the university “in recognition of his work and dedication to courageously promote American freedom and defend our common liberties on behalf of young students in colleges and high schools across the country,” as well as “for his example and inspiration to young people everywhere of what can be achieved when faith, conviction, and hard work are put into practice.”

Following the fatal shooting on September 10th, 2025, the private evangelical university held a vigil where students gathered in clusters on the campus lawn, lifting Kirk’s family up in prayer.

In the days after his assassination, controversy arose over how the broader Christian community should understand the death of Kirk, a husband and father of two. While many mourners hailed Kirk as a martyr for his vocal defense of Christian values in the public square, one pastor went viral for calling him “an unapologetic racist and spent all of his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land,”—a statement that many Christians denounce as a thinly veiled justification for his murder, or, as Wenyuan Wu puts it, an example of how leftists turn to “whataboutism“ instead of condemning Kirk’s killing.

[RELATED: Leftists Turn to Whataboutism Instead of Condemning Kirk’s Killing]

In response, LU’s Standing for Freedom Center—originally named the Falkirk Center, a combination of Charlie Kirk’s name and that of Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell—defended Kirk’s witness, saying, “make no mistake, Charlie Kirk did die a Christian martyr.”

“Charlie wasn’t a racist, fascist, Nazi, homophobe, transphobe, or any of the other disgusting epithets hateful Leftists are trying to use to smear his name and tarnish his legacy,” the SFFC declared. “He was a husband, father, son, patriot, free speech champion, debater, successful political strategist, and, above all else, a Christian.”

The statement included a broader call to action, saying, “Charlie Kirk’s assassination demands that we pick up his ‘bloody microphone’ and carry on his mission to go boldly into the public square and proclaim that the Christian faith must ground, inform, and rule our lives and our politics.” 

When asked by Minding the Campus, LU students echoed the sentiment. 

One LU graduate, Cassidy Stolec, shared how “in a time where COVID lockdowns were going on around the world and the country, Charlie gave students the opportunity to come together and listen to conservative voices at the Student Action Summit in 2020.” She continued, “Little did I know that SAS would be the place I met so many of my friends, and my future husband.” 

Stolec is one of many students who find themselves empowered by his death to renew their commitment to the fight for truth. She told Minding the Campus of her dedication to “continue the legacy he started because I am tired of being silent in fear of being canceled or fired! I will forever be changed by Charlie Kirk and now I will use my voice to help be the change he started.”

Emma Dayton, president of the Young Women for America chapter at LU, expressed the effect of Kirk’s assassination on her life to Minding the Campus.

Charlie died protecting the sacred freedoms that his enemies twisted for evil, and somehow the Lord in his loving-kindness has turned this evil act for good, igniting a worldwide fire within the hearts of individuals young and old. Even days after Charlie’s death, I find it difficult to listen to any music that isn’t Christian or see any social media posts that aren’t about Charlie. The martyr of a fellow believer really puts things into perspective, and I never want to lose this longing and expectant feeling for Heaven that I’ve had the past few days.

Various sources have noted the number of non-Christians, especially college students who aren’t regular church-goers, flocking to attend services following Kirk’s assassination. Both Charlie and Erika Kirk, herself a graduate of LU, have had a profound influence on the spiritual journeys of students.

Halli Gravley, a communications major at LU, told Minding the Campus how, after meeting Kirk at just fifteen years old, “his encouragement and advice that day led me to start a TPUSA activism hub in my hometown while in high school and ignited a passion within me to proclaim truth.” 

She continued, “I then met Erika and have been constantly encouraged in my walk with the Lord by her ministry and her BIBLEin365 program,” in which participants read the Bible cover-to-cover in one year. 

“I am immensely grateful for the Kirks’ impact in my life, not only the professional experience and knowledge I have gained, but for the reminder of the significance of the most important things: Faith, Family, and Freedom. Jesus is the reason for it all,” Gravley concluded. “We saw this evidently through Charlie’s life, and may we, as the younger generation, move forward in proclaiming truth and sharing the gospel.” 

[RELATED: Charlie Kirk Gunned Down on Utah Campus—And the Left Still Claims the Right Is More Violent]

Despite general bipartisan condemnation of the assassination, some left-wing university professors took to spewing hatred and celebrating the tragedy on social media. And leftist students took to vandalism. The University of Tennessee- Knoxville’s “The Rock,” a symbol of free expression on campus weighing 97.5 tons, which featured a mural of Kirk and the words “Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant,” was defaced and the words obscured within hours of the memorial. 

Still, countless events intent on honoring Kirk’s influence and legacy proceed with minimal disruption. LU was joined by numerous other universities in mourning Kirk, with vigils being held across the nation in his honor, including at Grand Canyon University, Colorado State, Texas A&M, and Utah Valley, the campus on which Kirk was killed.

Liberty University continues to honor the legacy of the legendary conservative activist. Most recently, its students have been sporting TPUSA gear and America-themed clothing, and at the football game against James Madison University, they observed a moment of silence in Kirk’s honor, recognizing “the weight of this tremendous loss.”

The transformative power of Charlie Kirk on America’s youth has only multiplied following his assassination. In addition to personally touching the lives of so many students, at the time of this article’s publishing, over 54,000 requests for new Turning Point USA chapters have reportedly been submitted nationwide, ensuring that his legacy will never diminish. 

“When a tyrant dies, his reign ends; When a martyr dies, his reign begins.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Antifa Must Be Destroyed

American  Thinker 

When President Trump visited King Charles III at Windsor Castle on September 17, members of Antifa stood outside and chanted, “Charlie’s in a box.”  They were referring to the great Charlie Kirk, who had been assassinated one week earlier.  Charlie’s assassin is a left-wing zealot who engraved “anti-fascist” taunts on his bullet casings and may have had direct ties to Antifa terrorist cells in the United States.  More Antifa supporters stood outside Charlie’s public funeral in Arizona on September 21 and shouted disgusting insults at the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had come to mourn and pay their respects.  

This is what Antifa is.  It is an evil organization that attracts people with evil in their hearts.  Those who identify as Antifa either are killers or support killers.  When Antifa terrorists murder people who oppose their evil ways, they stalk the friends and families of their victims and take pleasure in their pain.  They say nasty, hateful things in an effort to provoke people who are grieving.  They are demons and deserve to be exorcised from this world.

President Trump says he is going after Antifa.  In a September 18 Truth Social post, the president wrote, “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.  I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.”  

Days later while answering questions from the press in the Oval Office, President Trump stated clearly, “Antifa and their radical allies have crossed every line.  It’s time to call them what they are: terrorists.  We’re designating Antifa as a major terrorist organization, and we’ll go after every group funding or supporting this sick, dangerous radical left disaster.”  Going further, he reminded reporters, “This isn’t just about one group; it’s about the entire network of left-wing extremists who’ve turned our streets into battlegrounds.”  Finally, he threw down the gauntlet with this promise: “We’ll root them out to protect every American.”

I pray that the president is successful in his mission.  He tried this once before during the Antifa-BLM insurrection of 2020 — the most costly riots in U.S. history.  While Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha, St. Louis, and other American cities were being set on fire, President Trump wrote, “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.”  

This was only a few months before the fraud-filled, mail-in-ballot (s)election that installed Joe Biden in the White House, and the permanent Deep State was ignoring and actively undermining Trump’s orders.  Cover-up artist and then-attorney general Bill Barr acknowledged that Antifa agents had been engaging in organized violence around the country, but he chose not to address the issue.  Former FBI director Chris Wray downplayed domestic threats from Antifa, dismissing the killers and terrorists as merely unrelated fellow travelers supporting “a movement or an ideology” and “not a group or an organization.”  As a result of FBI and DOJ inaction, Antifa was not targeted, and the terrorists were never punished.  Instead, federal agents and prosecutors dedicated all of their resources to harassing patriotic grandmothers and U.S. military veterans who dared to protest election fraud at the Capitol on January 6.

It should be noted that there were numerous signs of terrorist cell organization during the Antifa-BLM insurrection of 2020.  Perpetrators traveled from states across the country to greatly magnify the violence and destruction in individual cities.  Pallets of bricks were often discovered in the days preceding regional riots.  Police departments found “stashes of bricks and rocks” and flammable materials hidden inside neighborhoods.  

Antifa terrorists removed the license plates from stolen cars and used them to transport weapons and accelerants into targeted areas.  Those terrorists then “dressed in black with their faces covered by motorcycle helmets, balaclavas, or other masks to create a uniform, anonymous mass of revolutionaries prepared to carry out militant actions, sometimes involving weapons such as flagpoles, clubs, projectiles, and Molotov cocktails.”  

Before engagements, Antifa terrorists researched conservative pundits, doxxed them, pressured employers to fire them, disrupted conferences, instigated social media campaigns to “cancel” outspoken opponents, and even infiltrated conservative organizations.  They used encrypted messaging apps to communicate with each other.

During military engagements, Antifa units deployed scouts to monitor the perimeter of targeted areas and provide live updates.  Antifa cells had street medics available on-site to treat wounded terrorists.  Antifa terrorists demonstrated prior training and even expertise with firearms and explosives.  Well before Antifa’s 2020 insurrection, Peter Beinart wrote in the Atlantic that the domestic terror group had achieved “a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s.”

Five years ago, Antifa’s military tactics and subversive operations inside the United States were well-organized and well-funded.  This was obvious to everyone…except the DOJ and FBI.  Let’s hope that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel don’t replicate those failures by willfully protecting Antifa terrorists as Barr and Wray did.

Importantly, President Trump is determined to go after the people and institutions actively funding Antifa’s paramilitary troops.  Among those who fund Antifa’s violence, George Soros has used his “philanthropic” organizations — including Alliance for Global Justice and the Open Society Institute — to funnel money to Refuse Fascism and other unincorporated Antifa groups.  Journalist Andy Ngo has sourced Antifa’s funding to crowdfunding platforms, NGOs, and even government agencies.  The Biden administration oversaw a slush fund of “social justice” grants that ended up in the hands of domestic terrorists.  Democrat-run states even award taxpayer-funded grants to Antifa cells and provide free legal services to Antifa terrorists charged with felonies.  One Antifa expert has “traced over eighty million dollars going from Open Society Foundations to at least fifty-four groups engaged in crime and domestic terror on U.S. soil.”

Those who finance Antifa terrorism cannot be permitted to escape justice for their crimes.

Antifa terrorist networks must be thoroughly destroyed.  After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a “trans” activist published a video calling for more attacks.  “I hope he’s the first of many,” the terrorist-in-training announced.  “Capitalism is growing and growing.  Patriarchy is growing and growing.  Nothing’s getting better…But making people afraid to speak” will “fix things.”  Lest you dismiss this kind of rhetoric as the rantings of a deranged he/she, here’s video of three professors from Virginia universities saying explicitly just three years ago, “We actually need to crash the U.S.  We must stand with the armed resistance.”  Antifa’s network extends directly into America’s university system.

One social media user going by the name of “Old Salt City Ace” wisely summed up the left’s culpability in Charlie Kirk’s murder.  Democrats know that their violent rhetoric led directly to Charlie’s assassination, the poster argues, because their effort “to deny, distract, deflect, and deceive, is a loud and crystal clear ‘Guilty’ plea.  Citizens didn’t vote for them, so they began importing replacements.  Citizens didn’t worship them, so they began removing God.  Citizens began questioning them, so they began lying.  Citizens began challenging their lies…so they began shooting citizens.”

Enter Antifa — the Democrat Party’s paramilitary arm in the United States and an international terrorist organization that works to destabilize Western society in general.  Journalist Jack Posobiec calls Antifa “the militant arm, the international arm of communism.”   ZeroHedge’s Tyler Durden says Antifa’s endgame is simple: “Burn the west to the ground.  Burn free markets to the ground.  Destroy as many conservatives and nationalists as possible in the process until there is no one left to oppose them.”

We will hunt them.  We will confront them.  We will oppose them.  And we will destroy them.

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JD Vance Gives Law Enforcement and Domestic Security Speech in North Carolina and Takes Media Questions

Hours after a violent left-wing activist opened fire on a Dallas, Texas, ICE facility killing two, Vice President JD Vance appeared for a previously scheduled speech on safety and security in Concord, North Carolina. WATCH:

War Department Seeks Approval for First Military Execution Since 1961

RedState 

Then-Major Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army officer and psychiatrist, went on a shooting rampage on Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded 32 others. In an exclusive at The Daily Caller News Foundation, contributor Wallace Wright informs us that Hasan has exhausted his appeals, and now the Army and the Secretary of War will be seeking his execution.

The Department of War will ask President Donald Trump for final approval to execute the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, a DOW official told the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively.

The execution, if approved by Trump, would be the first carried out by the military since 1961. Hasan, a former Army Major and psychiatrist turned radical Islamic terrorist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 others during his notorious rampage on the Army base in 2009.

“I am 100 percent committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan,” Hegseth exclusively told the DCNF. “This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays.”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is clearly determined to see this sentence carried out.

This is how that process works:

Under the Army’s regulations, the Army staff will put forward the recommendation for Hasan’s execution. The packet will then be passed to the Army secretary, then the Secretary of War to give “additional recommendation to the President,” the DOW official told DCNF.

“Inmate Hasan’s packet is now in the staffing process for presidential action,” the DOW official said.

Service members are governed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and thus are subject to different procedures should they receive the death sentence. Hasan is one of four people on military death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Given the nature of Hasan's crimes, it seems a safe bet that the presidential action will be swiftly forthcoming.

At the time of the shooting, during the first Obama term, the Pentagon inexplicably declined to address this shooting as a terrorist act, deeming it instead to be "workplace violence." That is, of course, patently ridiculous, but Nidal Hasan faces the ultimate penalty regardless. That's a penalty that the more muscular Department of War under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth will not hesitate to carry out.

This shooting, while a horrendous enough crime all on its own, is made even more horrendous by Inmate Hasan's former status as a U.S. Army Medical Corps officer, a psychiatrist entrusted with the mental health care of U.S. Army soldiers. That's a significant level of trust that was (wrongly) placed in then-Major Hasan, who proceeded to betray that trust and his oath of office in the most horrible way possible. Inmate Hasan is a traitor to his fellow soldiers, to the country that he claimed to have served, and to the American people. If there's anyone who justifies the first execution by the U.S. Army since 1961, this is the man.

Hasan tried to justify his crime by stating that his victims were going "against the Islamic Empire." There is, of course, no "Islamic Empire" to go against. 

On a personal note, I look forward to the day when I can report Nidal Hasan's execution has taken place.