Category: What He Said

“Die mad, Eurotrash.”

Frankly, My Dear What He Said 32 Comments

This is personal to me because I’ve spent a substantial part of my life doing the jobs that Europeans would not do. From November 1988 to April 1991, with a multi-month tangent to the Persian Gulf War, I was part of NATO in what was then West Germany. It’s always great to have people tell me how important NATO is when I was part of it, and they weren’t, but let’s put that aside. I was there at the end of the Cold War. We were still doing things like having REFORGER exercises and going out on alerts at 3 a.m., where we would shiver in our assembly areas knowing that if the balloon really went up, our role was to die in place so the locals could continue to consume strudel and bitch about Ronald Reagan.

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Indeed

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Christopher Landau is the US Deputy Secretary of State.

Related: The money sent to Russia is in blue; the money sent to Ukraine is in orange.

The Brainwashed Masses

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I had a one on one conversation with someone today who perfectly matches Adams description in the video below. This individual was a well educated professional, close to retirement age but still in very good shape both mentally and physically. He was convinced that the United States was on the verge of becoming Nazi Germany and in his opinion the sooner someone shot Trump the better. It is both fascinating and frightening to see this up close and in person.

Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends

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John Nolte;

Democrats and the media are calling for unity. In the past, we’ve fallen for that trap. But this time the switch flipped, and our collective voice said: Go away. You didn’t ask for unity during the George Floyd riots. You never ask for unity when it’s your side. You demand only fealty.

Democrats and the media are calling for us to tone it down. Another trap we’ve fallen into. Not this time. This time our collective voice said: Go away. You never demand that your side tone down the rhetoric. It’s only ever us, and when we do, when the best of us seeks to have a civil dialogue with you, you publicly execute him to terrorize the rest of us.

Democrats and the media are desperate to emotionally blackmail us as we seek accountability for those who celebrate murder. Ah, yes, the old “muh principles” trap. Collectively, we say: Go away. We saw what you did to a nobody rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask. You destroyed his career and made every Republican lawmaker answer for him. Today, there are literally thousands and thousands of credentialed Democrats (teachers, lawyers, academics, health care professionals, etc.) inciting murder against us by celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder, and you’ve done nothing other than defend them.

Gold Bars Off The Titanic

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Sun- Stop pretending the government funds anything — we do

We now live in a country where the average person works until early June just to pay their taxes — where small and mid-sized business owners are crushed under a pile of forms, fees, audits, payroll taxes, and levies — where provinces like Manitoba continue to grow their bureaucracies while basic services falter. Our emergency rooms close without notice. Our roads crumble. Our courts are backed up. And yet, governments at all levels act like more spending is the only answer.

Flash Flood Alley

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Roger Pielke Jr has observations.

As I write this, the death toll in the Texas flash floods now exceeds 70, with 12 people still missing, including 11 girls and one camp counselor. It is a heartbreaking and horrific tragedy.

Many have been quick to politicize the tragedy in an effort to support whatever agenda that they were promoting before the disaster — climate change, DOGE budget cuts, operations of the National Weather Service, the Biden Administration. The one political implication of the disaster that I’m ready to call for is to reassert the importance of establishing a U.S. Disaster Review Board, a case made here at THB by Mike Smith last March.

Today, I share some data and context on the event for those wanting to go beyond seeking to use tragic deaths is hopes of scoring online partisan points. Shameful.

Before getting to relevant data and research, my view — This tragedy occurred in a location that has among the greatest risks in the nation of flash flooding, where kids in summer camps have previously been swept away to their deaths, and where warning systems are (apparently and incredibly) not in place. This tragedy never should have happened and it should never happen again.

Update by @MarinaMedvin: This catastrophe keeps getting worse. A dam broke on the Guadeloupe and the rescue teams are now being evacuated. (Other reports dispute the dam break, but not the evacuation of rescue teams.)

Quote of the Day

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“Media defenders are quick to cry out about ‘the public’s right to know,’ when in fact they are talking about the media’s ability to boost ratings and spread confusion with unsubstantiated statements by those with an axe to grind.”

— Thomas Sowell

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