Trump is the Catalyst for the American Renaissance

American Thinker 

Trump’s strategic judgment and leadership in action have suddenly flipped the global script and fundamentally changed the world for the better.

For the last 43 years, through five different presidents, the United States had ineffective responses to the radical Shia Islamic regime in Iran, which had declared “death to America” irregular war on the United States. Major incidents include:

• In April 1983 Iran-backed operatives bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut killing 63
• In October 1983, Iran-backed Hezb’allah bombed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Marine service members.
• In June 1996, Iran-backed Saudi Hezb’allah bombed a U.S. Air Force housing complex, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding hundreds.
• During the 2003-2011 Iraq War the total U.S. casualties from Iran-linked forces exceeded 1200. But the loss of American lives inflicted by the radical Iranian regime was much higher. Iran’s improvised explosive devices (IEDs) took many more American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan -- totaling more than 4,200, which was about 46% of all U.S. war zone deaths between 2006 and 2019. In addition, estimates for the IED-wounded, often resulting in ugly facial disfiguration and loss of limbs took an even higher toll, with one official source putting the number at more than 30,000 U.S. service members across both wars.

There is no shortage of experts who have different views on deployment of U.S. military force. But what has characterized American war policy for last 70 years, from the Korean War through the Biden presidency, was that wars were fought to achieve negotiated compromise outcomes rather than to achieve victory.

One can hope that some military historians and strategists will look back on this period and have constructive answers to the fundamental question of “What took America so long to deal with Iran?’

It turns out that it took a tough “outsider” president who had the courage and conviction that evil is powerless when the good have the determination to effectively deploy U.S. military power to win decisively.

What is also remarkable is that even Trump’s opponents, of which there are many both at home and abroad, could not figure out what he was going to do. Trump did not say what his intentions were in Venezuela, as the U.S. amassed naval vessels and troops including the Gerald R. Ford carrier group off the coast of Venezuela. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had no idea what was happening until U.S. special forces were in his bedroom to take him alive.

After getting elected on the America First policy agenda, with an attendant pledge of no new wars, Trump took enormous political risk in going to war with Iran. After so many failed attempts at regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other nations by prior administrations, Trump could not say that his intention was regime change.

But with the targeted death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameinei, along with dozens of top security, political, and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) leaders in the very first day of kinetic engagement, it was clear that regime change was a key U.S. objective.

In the first five weeks of the war on the Iranian regime the United States decimated a supposedly unconquerable nation:

• Destroying Iran’s air force and all its air defense network
• Sinking Iran’s navy
• Incapacitating Iran’s ground forces, both the IRGC and the regular army,
• Destroying Iran’s nuclear bomb capability, most of its missile force, and all its weapons manufacturing industrial base.

The last card the Tehran regime possessed was their blockade of the Straits of Hormuz. The Iranian regime lost their only remaining card when the U.S. decided to blockade the Iranian blockade and take control of the Straits of Hormuz and effectively seize control of the Iranian economy and its oil trade with China. Prior to regime change in Venezuela and forthcoming regime change in Iran, China purchased more that 50% of Venezuela’s oil exports and 80-90% of Iran’s oil exports. Not only is all that oil revenue in jeopardy now, but the United States is going to pick up much of that and additional oil business going forward.

President Trump did not waste any time in playing a new card to secure one of the world’s busiest chokepoints, the Straits of Malacca (between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, Indonesia). The Major Defense Cooperation Partnership (MDCP), a bilateral defense framework agreement between the United States and Indonesia, was just formalized on April 13, 2026.

More important than the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Malacca are the route for approximately 80% of China's imported crude oil. Already acknowledging their strategic vulnerability, the Chinese were caught off guard when Trump took action that could disrupt or control navigation through the Strait of Malacca, even calling it their “Malacca Dilemma.”

The total military defeat of Iran in the Middle East combined with what the U.S. has accomplished in the western hemisphere -- wresting control of Panama and its canal from China, taking on the Latin American narco-terrorists, taking control of Venezuelan resources and cutting off oil sales to China, and the collapse of Cuba, will deliver a multifaceted strategic and economic blow to China and the CCP, while driving more global traffic and oil sales to the United States. For the first time in many decades, the geopolitical tectonic plates are now shifting away from tyrannies in favor of the United States and the cause of freedom.

While there will be twists and turns ahead in coming to final terms with Iran, President Trump has all the cards and deserves the credit for this remarkable American renaissance. It turns out that evil is rendered powerless when the good have the courage to fight to achieve real victory.

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If there is ever peace in the world, will we even recognize it?

European Politics in Deep Sleep

American Thinker 

With the Hormuz crisis, another element falls into place in the mosaic of the new world order. This order is dominated by the titanic struggle between the U.S. and China, manifesting in commodity and energy markets. That Europe has slept through this transformation is a sign of blatant reality denial.

We are currently receiving conflicting reports from the Strait of Hormuz -- that strategic chokepoint where global geopolitical weather is shaped like nowhere else. Sometimes a Greek tanker passes through, sometimes a French one. Most often, tankers destined for India or China navigate without incident.

Hormuz delivers a master class in geostrategy and power politics -- something Germany, above all, has largely ignored for decades. After three decades of complacency and firm belief in Fukuyama’s thesis that globalized free markets would ultimately pacify humanity, a hangover now prevails.

Secure transport routes, pricing power in commodity and energy markets, and even insurance -- the U.S. intervention in Iran is multifaceted. It addresses the escalating resource war with China and other aspects, such as the maritime insurance industry.

Between the U.S. and the City of London -- specifically major insurers like Lloyd’s, Skuld, NorthStandard, and London P&I -- a real battle for this market segment has erupted.

At the conflict’s outset, London insurers suspended numerous war-risk policies for ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Alternative coverage was offered at premiums twelve times higher -- under such conditions, transit is no longer profitable. Tankers headed for Indian or Chinese ports are often insured outside Western systems, relying on Iranian guarantees for safe passage.

The U.S. government simultaneously announced plans for a state-backed insurance program through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). This pool is to start with $20 billion in volume and government guarantees, eventually moving into the hands of the private American insurance sector.

The U.S. watches Europe’s hesitant stance in securing its own energy supply from Hormuz with evident cynicism. Being nearly energy-autonomous themselves, they can afford to buy time.

Incorporating insurance into strategic calculations is a groundbreaking geopolitical move by the U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, responsible for the insurance strategy, expects the Strait to reopen in the coming weeks -- either under U.S. escort or via a collective allied solution. One certainty: energy transfer will become significantly more expensive for importers like the EU -- the free lunch for Europeans is over.

A similar dynamic is visible at NATO, where the U.S. increasingly questions why it should finance a military club that parasitically depends on American technological and financial capabilities without taking real risks itself.

President Donald Trump breaks conventions, dismantling the postwar order if it hasn’t already become history. Whoever controls national insurance and maritime chokepoints wields enormous leverage in an increasingly realistic scenario of geopolitical tension.

Viewed differently, the once-global British Empire now exists as a form of virtual power, generating influence through control over key maritime chokepoints. Financialization of the economy is central to understanding the still-real power of the City of London.

Its global financial network acts like a web around the planet. The London Exchange, along with its commodity and precious metals sectors, still wields massive influence over critical metal pricing.

Pressure is mounting on London’s precious metals markets as physical outflows accelerate. Financial institutions destabilized by massive issuance of uncollateralized instruments, coupled with gold and silver prices reflecting actual scarcity, mirror the increasingly strained relationship between Washington and London.

Pricing power in critical commodities equates to real geopolitical power. The U.S. has clearly drawn harsh lessons from the rare earths shortage.

Beijing -- as Europeans painfully know -- will impose export bans on critical resources like rare earths if under economic or political pressure. To counter this, the U.S. seeks leverage, as in Venezuela and Iran, over resource pricing.

Europe’s intense pressure amid the U.S.-China showdown is a logical consequence of a series of political errors. Morally driven energy policy carries consequences, and the romantic escapism of eco-socialists comes due.

Energy and commodity prices will not return to prior levels. They will find a new plateau, fluctuate, and the conflict will continue. Commodities are increasingly strategic bargaining tools, granting producers substantial power.

The era of globalization, which brought enormous efficiency gains over three decades, is over.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative must now be classified as mercantilist politics. Observers never believed altruism drove Beijing to build infrastructure in Africa or South America -- the approach was far smarter and forward-looking than the outdated European or British extractionist models now ending under U.S. policy.

Brussels, under German ideological leadership, has trapped itself. Its Green Deal is a moralized energy policy now functioning as a poverty engine.

Europe must intellectually mature, shed ideology, and bury eco-socialism as an anti-civilizational path of failed collectivist policies. A peace agreement with Russia is necessary to restore energy and resource imports, buying time to develop a continent-wide nuclear energy program.

In the short term, securing critical raw materials and energy must dominate the political agenda. The degrowth ideologues are on the verge of achieving their long-held dream of energy rationing -- intolerable yet inevitable, as they hold Europe’s levers of power. Voters hold the ultimate remedy.

The present is largely lost -- but if Europe regains reason, it can reemerge as a force of reason and a serious political player in the future.

How Equality Destroys a State

How Equality Destroys a State

America is built on the concept of equality, but that concept has to be understood properly to prevent the country’s downfall.

Dalton Henderson for American Thinker 

The equality of man is found at the forefront of our Declaration of Independence and is considered an uncontested virtue of free society.  However, disagreement over its implementation has raised the following questions: What exactly is equality in a state?  Which things should be equal?  Which should be unequal?  What are the consequences?  A nation’s concord depends on the answers — and yet today, these questions are rarely examined.  

Historically, this was not the case.  In Aristotle’s exploration in Politics, equality is governed by justice — the principle that each is given his due.  But exactly what is “due” depends on the object being distributed.  To account for this, Aristotle distinguished two types of equality: numerical, or equality of distribution, and value, or equality of proportion.  The first is characterized by each receiving the exact same, the second by each receiving an amount proportional to his contribution, ability, or merit.  

A just society requires a combination of both, each to its appropriate object.  Any misplacement of a form of equality to a domain where it doesn’t belong is an error that, if absolutized, manifests in two extremes.  The first assumes that if all are equal in one aspect, they ought to be equal in all aspects — e.g., if two people are equal in citizenship, then they should also have equal amounts of material goods or wealth.  The second supposes that if some are unequal in one aspect, they should be unequal in all aspects — e.g., different laws for different classes or levels of wealth. 

The question, then, is which aspects of society should be governed by which types.  Citizens should have numerical equality in that which is innate and belongs to man by nature itself: rights endowed by the creator, equal protection under the law, respect, and dignity.  A just state gives these things equally to everyone; they don’t require another’s physical production and are intrinsically owed by the laws of nature.  Proportional equality, however, should be owed to objects that belong to man by action and do require external production by other humans: wealth, services, and material goods.  These things are justly given in proportion to each’s contribution and merit in their acquisition, for it would not be fair for a man who contributes nothing to be owed the rewards of another man’s work.

This is not an argument against welfare from the state for those in genuine need, which can be a valuable tool for good order and prosperity.  But to believe that externally created goods are owed by justice as a function of equality is a confusion between ordinate numerical and proportional equality.  

When the state’s policy fails to align each object to its appropriate type, it creates discontent among the citizenry and the inevitable growth of factions.  When that which requires man’s external production is held in common, or redistributed equally rather than by man’s contributions, it forms two competing groups — those who do more than their share and those who do less.  As with anything that is shared, those who contribute more begin to feel animosity for those who do little yet receive the exact same benefit.  Take a household with roommates: When one chooses not to contribute to paying the rent or maintaining the common areas, it very quickly causes frustration with the others who do — and the agreement to live together is often dissolved.  In this way, the state reflects a household on a massive scale.  Groups receiving benefits without contributing become pitched against those who do more but receive the same, or even nothing at all — and the stability, or the agreement, of the state suffers.  On the other hand, when things that belong intrinsically are distributed unequally, there grows animosity for those who enjoy the special benefit of something that should be for all men.

Great thinkers for millennia have feared the consequences of faction and diminished concord among citizens.  Regarding faction, James Madison explained in Federalist No. 10, “The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.”

As long as human beings have free will for varying sentiments and opinions, there will be a separation of numbers into factions.  But when factions grow too strong or too extremely opposed, there follows the abolition of constitutions, or enough change that it’s effectively so.  The quintessential virtue that mitigates faction and ensures concord between men and states is justice, which guides and governs all good and ordinate interactions between distinct elements.

When equality is prescribed and applied irrespective of justice, it causes more unrest than it often seeks to prevent.  A well ordered state provides all citizens an equal share of that which is intrinsically owed by natural law, while it regulates goods and services of external production to be distributed proportionally to each’s contribution.  Misplacement of any object from its proper domain of just equality pitches citizen against citizen and inflames the power and risk of “this dangerous vice” of faction.  

Dalton Henderson is a former U.S. Army Ranger and current graduate student.  

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A Chinese Secret Police Proxy Stole COVID Research. Then He Went to Milan.

 

HOUSTON – For more than four years, Xu Zewei moved freely through China’s technology sector, beyond the reach of American justice. A 34-year-old Chinese national based in Shanghai, he had spent the height of the pandemic breaking into American universities, stealing the email accounts of virologists and immunologists racing to understand a novel coronavirus, and quietly reporting his findings to handlers inside China’s Ministry of State Security — as the world sheltered, and its scientists scrambled, and Beijing watched.

By 2021, he had graduated to an even larger campaign — one that would compromise more than 12,700 organizations worldwide. Then he got on a plane to Italy, and the long arm of American justice finally caught up with him.

Xu appeared in federal court in Houston this weekend following his extradition from Milan, where Italian authorities — working with the Polizia Postale, Italy’s cyber crimes unit — arrested him on behalf of the United States government. He now faces a nine-count federal indictment that spans wire fraud, unauthorized computer access, and aggravated identity theft. His alleged co-conspirator, Zhang Yu, 44, remains at large.

"Today, Xu Zewei will stand in a federal courtroom to answer for crimes that struck at the heart of American science and security — allegedly stealing COVID-19 research from our universities when the world needed it most," said Acting United States Attorney John G.E. Marck for the Southern District of Texas. "We have pursued this moment across years and continents."

What Xu had allegedly been doing in the years between the crimes and his arrest offers a window into how Beijing’s contractor ecosystem actually works.

After his arrest, his spouse reportedly informed Italian police that he had moved on to a new role entirely: information technology manager at Shanghai GTA Semiconductor, developing systems and network infrastructure for a company that controls roughly 80 percent of China’s domestic market for automotive chips used in electric vehicles, counting BYD among its clients.

A state-directed hacker, quietly embedded in a strategic industry — and one whose flagship client, BYD, is now poised to enter the Canadian market under a landmark trade deal Prime Minister Mark Carney negotiated in Beijing in January. The Chinese government wasted no time casting the arrest as American aggression against China’s technological rise.

The charges offer a rare window into how Beijing conducts its cyber operations — not through uniformed military hackers, but through a deliberately obscured ecosystem of private contractors and front companies. Two separate enabling firms, operating in parallel, under the supervision and direction of two named Shanghai State Security Bureau officers, according to U.S. court filings.

Xu allegedly worked as general manager of Shanghai Powerock Network Co. Ltd., supervising other hackers and coordinating with Zhang Yu, a director at a second front company, Shanghai Firetech Information Science and Technology Company.

The arrangement is designed to give Beijing plausible deniability while flooding western institutions with intrusions far broader than any single intelligence priority would require. Much of what these contractors steal, prosecutors say, gets sold to whoever in China will pay for it. The greater objective from Beijing’s sprawling intelligence apparatus, experts say, appears to be boosting China’s technological rise.

Xu’s alleged activities began in February 2020, in the early weeks of the pandemic, when the world was desperate for treatments and a vaccine. Court documents describe Shanghai State Security Bureau officers directing him to target specific researchers — virologists, immunologists — at a university in the Southern District of Texas.

The operation was surgical in its focus: Xu allegedly confirmed to a bureau officer that he had penetrated the university’s network, received instructions to access specific mailboxes belonging to COVID-19 researchers, and then confirmed he had done so.

The scale of Beijing’s interest became clearer as the operation expanded.

Court documents show that as early as February 5, 2020 — weeks before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic — Shanghai State Security Bureau officers were already directing Xu to conduct reconnaissance on a second university, this one based in North Carolina, with specific attention to its school of public health and a professor engaged in COVID-19 research.

The timing is striking. China’s intelligence apparatus was tasking contractors to steal American pandemic research at the very moment the world was still struggling to understand the disease that had emerged from Wuhan.

By late 2020, his alleged activities had expanded into something far more sweeping — and more explicitly political.

The indictment describes how the conspirators used their access to target a Washington law firm specifically chosen, prosecutors say, for its insight into United States government policies and policymakers. Once inside, Xu and his associates conducted hundreds of searches of attorney mailboxes, hunting for information on specific American officials and agencies. Their search terms included “Chinese sources,” “MSS,” and “Hong Kong.”

The Ministry of State Security was, in effect, searching a Washington law firm's files for intelligence about United States investigations and policymakers. The search terms — "Chinese sources," "MSS," "Hong Kong" — suggest investigators believe Beijing may also have been hunting for information about American intelligence sources inside China itself.

That targeting was part of a still larger campaign.

Xu and his co-conspirators joined what would become one of the most consequential state-sponsored hacking operations in recent memory, exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server to compromise more than 12,700 organizations worldwide.

In March 2021, Microsoft publicly disclosed the intrusion campaign, attributing it to a Chinese state-sponsored group it called HAFNIUM. By July of that year, the United States and its allies — the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — formally attributed HAFNIUM to the Ministry of State Security and condemned it as an indiscriminate, reckless, and destabilizing attack on critical infrastructure across allied nations.

The United States has previously unsealed indictments against Ministry of State Security officers and their proxies — largely symbolic gestures aimed at attribution and deterrence — but extracting a defendant from foreign soil requires a combination of intelligence, law enforcement coordination, and, above all, luck. Or bad judgment on the part of the target.

Xu, it appears, provided the last ingredient himself.

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The Leftist Death Cult

Townhall 

There hardly seems to be any time that passes between assassination attempts or attacks on right wingers, Christians, and any other group that the Left has deemed acceptable to hate. Last night’s attempted attack on members of the Trump administration will go down as just another entry on the “Security incidents involving Donald Trump” Wikipedia page. 

It’s doubtful that this will even be spoken of as an attack on the Trump administration a month from now, and we will only be reminded of it when Cole Allen’s trial begins and his potential sentencing is handed down.
Instead, the story will be spun in the numerous books written from the perspective of some middling journalists in attendance in which they portray themselves as the real victims of the evil that was displayed. Talk shows and podcast episodes will recount the so-called heroics from those who live-tweeted their reactions.

Why? Because of the cult of death that exists in the American Left. Violence targeting conservatives is applauded. Charlie Kirk’s assassination saw many of the most virulent progressives across the country giddy that he was murdered in front of the world. His tragic death has become a meme to our “compassionate” political adversaries. The summer of violence in the wake of George Floyd’s death was excused away and ultimately forgotten.

And when it finally becomes politically inconvenient for Leftists to glorify the violence they cheer for and encourage, they turn to claiming that it is all actually a hoax. If a hoax doesn’t tickle their fancy, they attempt to paint the perpetrator as a right-winger.

Thanks be to God that the Secret Service neutralized the threat, and may this serve as a reminder that a sizeable portion of the Left wants to see the leaders of our movement dead and that they’d be happy about it.

Police Just Stopped Another Transgender School Shooting Before it Could Happen

Townhall 

A Virginian transgender substitute teacher has been arrested for planning to commit a “murder spree” at a local school, the New York Post reported on Friday.

Police took Hadyn Dollery, a 19-year old male who identifies as a female, into custody after he bragged about his plot online and made references to a “kill list” over Discord. His target is said to have been John Champe High School in Aldie, Virginia near the Washington, D.C. area.

He had been considered a "nonlicensed substitute” in the 2025 to 2026 school year, but his information was removed from the school district’s database shortly following his arrest, according to the Post.

Authorities say that they learned of the thwarted attack due to a tip received by the police department’s Safe2Talk app.

Dollery was placed under arrest on Thursday and is currently being held without bond. He is facing charges of threatening bodily harm.

'Two Women Fighting' Devolves Into Mass Shooting at Indiana University 'Little 500' Celebration

RedState 

The details are still rather thin, but early Sunday morning, an altercation between two women at a "Little 500" celebration near Indiana University swiftly devolved into a mass shooting incident, leaving nine people injured.

Nine people were injured in a mass shooting near Indiana University early Sunday morning.

Police responded to reports of gunfire at a celebration after the "Little 500" college cycling race in the area just before 12:30 a.m., finding "multiple wounded individuals." Nine people were taken to local hospitals, including six by ambulance, according to WHTR.

Authorities have not detailed the extent of the victims' injuries.

Witnesses told the outlet that the gunfire resulted from an altercation between two women at the event.

"Two women fighting … I didn’t think too much of it," a witness told WHTR. "I figured the police would get to it. But then I saw a girl reach toward her pants leg and start firing. By then, I was already running the other way."

Police have yet to make any arrests in the matter. 

The University has issued a statement regarding the incident: 

IU statement on this morning’s shooting on Kirkwood Avenue:

“Last night marred what should have been a celebratory weekend for the IU and Bloomington communities. 

While no IU students are believed to be involved, we condemn the violence in the strongest terms and thank the Bloomington Police Department, IUPD, State Police and other law enforcement agencies who responded to the events off campus. Our thoughts are with the victims of this tragic incident. 

Safety remains our top priority and we remain in close coordination with local and state law enforcement.”

As someone who attended "Little 500" festivities back in my college days, I find this local reporter's reaction to the news relatable:

Waking up this morning and I am sad and angry. 

9 people were injured early this morning in a shooting on Kirkwood in Bloomington during Little 500 weekend.

Bloomington Police say they were stationed in the area due to it being Little 5 weekend when they heard multiple gunshots and the crowd started running. 

If you don’t know Little 500 weekend, it’s a bike race, but it’s also the biggest party weekend of the year. Kirkwood was filled with thousands of students and people visiting.

Police say they immediately found multiple wounded people. 

At this point, we still don’t know how many were hit directly with bullets, bullet fragments or if anyone was injured during the chaos after. 

Ambulances took the injured, a Bloomington Police officer took someone in their own squad car, and two were driven by personal vehicles for treatment of injuries. 

Police have no suspects and nobody in custody. 

I was on Kirkwood with with my daughter and her friends on Friday afternoon. We literally played Yahtzee in Kilroy’s. I was gone before before 6PM. 

My son went to visit his sister, an IU student, Saturday during the day and I knew there would be a shooting, and I told him “I don’t want you shot” so he came home before 6PM.

I am praying for the 9 injured and their families. We don’t want to live this way. We shouldn’t have to tell our kids you can’t be somewhere because you might be shot.

Please don’t remain silent. 

Anyone with information about the shooting, or who may have video of the shooting, is asked to contact Detective Chris Scott at 812-339-4477.

Globalism’s Propagandists Depend on Censorship

Globalism’s Propagandists Depend on Censorship

People see through their lies.

J. B. Shurk for American Thinker

Perhaps I’m being too optimistic, but I think fewer people are buying into the hardcore cult propaganda that Marxist-globalists rain down on the world every day.  

I see a few more rolled eyes around me when someone blames a thunderstorm on “climate change.”  The last few stragglers of committed COVID-hyperventilators have taken off their paper masks when out in public (and have pleasantly discovered that abnormally rapid breathing disappears once dirty rags are removed from one’s face).  I’ve heard more “trans”-enablers stating clearly that biological boys should not be in girls’ locker rooms or competing in their sports.  More celebrities and academics (many of whom have proudly identified as atheists in the recent past) have begun to read the Bible and openly discuss the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Is the world healing?  Has the ideological pendulum begun to swing back toward sanity?  Have the Marxist-globalists dosed the world with so much propaganda over the years that the effectiveness of their lies is starting to fade?  Does that mean the last century of Marxist-globalist sociological conditioning is beginning to wear off?

I think the lies that Marxist-globalists regularly tell have become too preposterous for the average person to swallow anymore.  

Last week, the apocalypse-whisperer Al Gore was at a Hollywood “climate change” event honoring how wonderfully stupid all his celebrity friends are.  Joined by The West Wing alum Bradley Whitford, both men discussed the likelihood that Earth will descend into another ice age in ten to twenty-five years.  They referenced Roland Emmerich’s 2004 wintry disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, in describing what we should expect.  Prepare for snowdrifts!

Listening to this kind of doomsaying-lunacy-bordering-on-sexual-fetish, the average person says to himself, “I thought you told us that ‘global warming’ was going to incinerate us?  Now you’re predicting snow?”  Gore’s wildly inaccurate, scaremongering, anti-science, fever dream, An Inconvenient Truth, predicted that the Arctic Ocean’s summer ice would be gone by 2013 (wrong!) and that Mt. Kilimanjaro would have no snow by 2015 (also wrong!).  The snake oil salesman who became filthy rich by selling disaster porn to the world promised that rising temperatures would soon (as in at least a decade ago!) leave Manhattan and Miami under twenty feet of water.  Now, in 2026, apparently “global warming” is so last decade’s fashion, and we’re back to “global cooling” again!  We already did “global cooling” during the 1970s!  Does that mean bell-bottoms, disco, “blaxploitation” films, and kung fu will be making comebacks, too?

A century of the “little boy who cried wolf” telling us that using hydrocarbon fuels (or what the oh-so-educated “elites” among us call “fossil fuels” in order to pretend that everything runs on dinosaurs) would cause the planet to freeze…or perhaps burn…or maybe change our climate (Duh, the climate is always naturally changing, you idiots!)…or produce a tornado somewhere in the Midwest…has forced a lot of people to ask, “Why should we trust ‘The Science’ when ‘The Science’ sounds a lot like propaganda?”  When Marxist-globalists doubled down by turning a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, into the world’s leading authority on “climate science,” people capable of thinking beyond the limits of government programming finally had enough. 

Then some people wondered: If man-made “global warming” is just a government scam meant to justify new taxes and more burdensome impositions upon personal freedom, what other lies might Marxist-globalists tell?  Ding-ding-ding, welcome to COVID!  Let’s be honest: A lot of people who had figured out the “Global Warming/Cooling/Climate Change/Extreme Weather” Hoax should not have fallen for the COVID Hoax.  Come on, guys; the Marxist-globalists ran the exact same apocalyptic playbook but turbocharged the pace: We regret to inform you that you will not die from “global warming” because you will all die from COVID…unless you do exactly what we say!  

I know, I know…it’s really difficult to accept that “authority” figures really do lie to us all the time.  I mean, what kind of people would shamelessly bankrupt small businesses while generating record profits for Amazon and Walmart?  How luciferian must our degenerate “ruling class” be if it is willing to arrest Christians for attending church, while encouraging race hucksters to burn down cities in the name of “justice”?  How psychopathic must our “leaders” be to bar people from comforting dying loved ones in hospitals or attending their funerals?  Unfortunately for us, Marxist-globalists represent the apex class of shameless, luciferian, degenerate, psychopaths.

The one-two punch of the “Global Warming” Hoax and the COVID Hoax seemed to have opened up many eyes in the West.  People who aren’t normally inclined to question government authority looked around and wondered, “Could these liars also be lying to us when they say that men have babies and women have penises?”  “Is it possible that taxpayer-funded NGOs launder money into politicians’ pockets?”  “Would the Southern Poverty Law Center really fund the Ku Klux Klan in order to cook up enough fake racism to stay relevant?”  You say enough of these things out loud, and you realize that the whole construct of Marxist-globalism consists of lies, fraud, new forms of control, and new taxes.

People are now waking up to a rather startling set of propositions: Marxist-globalist governments lie to them regularly.  Those lies cause harm to citizens.  When citizens complain, Marxist-globalist governments tell more lies and try to redirect blame (It’s Trump’s fault; It’s Putin’s fault; It’s that blasted ‘global warming’!).  When citizens see through those lies, too, Marxist-globalist governments turn to the same blunt instrument that all totalitarian governments choose: censorship.

It is no coincidence that the United Kingdom (through the Online Safety Act) and the European Union (through the Digital Services Act) are building digital censorship infrastructure meant to keep citizens from talking about certain “taboo” topics (such as mass illegal immigration and the Islamic conquest of their nations) and prevent public debate about anything Marxist-globalist governments do.  Canada (through the Online News Act) has made it similarly difficult for citizens to read any information that is contrary to official government propaganda.  Under the guise of “protecting the children,” Australia has implemented age-verification requirements for social media platforms.  From its Harmful Digital Communications Act of 2015 to its more recent Safer Online Services project intended to regulate all online content, New Zealand is leading the charge among Western nations (at peace) in implementing total government control over (and censorship of) online speech.  Among Western nations at war, Ukraine permits no online dissent to the edicts of its martial-law government.  Strangely, nobody in Europe finds it incongruous that Ukraine’s much-vaunted “defense of democracy” from Russian authoritarianism requires Ukrainian authoritarians to suppress basic democratic principles.  Even in the United States — the nation with a First Amendment explicitly protecting free speech from government censorship — Democrats (an inappropriate political party name if ever there was one) are itching to resurrect the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board designed to censor — in the name of “national security” — anything that government bureaucrats deem as “misinformation,” “malinformation,” or “disinformation.”  

All across the West, therefore, a similar chain of events is occurring: (1) Marxist-globalists have told so many lies that a critical mass of citizens has begun to notice.  (2) As citizens push back against the lies of their Marxist-globalist governments, those governments are becoming increasingly hostile to citizens.  (3) In defense of their own authority, Marxist-globalist governments now embrace censorship and the criminalization of private thoughts.  (4) Citizens have begun to realize that their own Marxist-globalist governments are the greatest threat to their freedoms, security, and prosperity.  

What happens next?  Maybe (5): We take the whole Marxist-globalist freak-show down for good.  It’s time to end their lies.

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