Haters will say this is AI ?? pic.twitter.com/vqWVxiYXeD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 14, 2024
That’s of course on top of Monday evening’s (8/12) Conversation between the two: Elon Musk And Donald Trump Interview Combined Views Hit 1 Billion. This is driving the Woke Media apoplectic – and a lot more.
You’re going to belly laugh and be inspired by this HFR. Here we go!
Get ready for some fun, the Left and their lackeys are taking a beating in so many ways. This week’s Links will have you shaking your head in disbelief at DEI in action, and then grinning with schadenfreudian delight.
We’ll start with some really great news about steps toward election integrity in Virginia, and the taking down of a player in the voting machine industry. His crime was in the Philippines, but he also sold machines in America; maybe this will lead to more good news here.
Sweden is providing some real hope for those wondering if we’ll ever be able to remedy the migrant invasion problem. And more and more information is coming out about J13—the Secret Service has serious problems; this is where the DEI influence is really obvious. And then there’s more good news coming from a court decision about 2A, too.
Nancy Pelosi drops her haughty mask and reveals the disdain she feels for those who aren’t in thrall to her; and Elon Musk’s star is getting brighter every day. Finally, as you can see in the cartoon here, there’s a new dance craze – the Harris Walz. Open this up and dance right in.
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on August 6, 2018. It is even more critically relevant now than back then. America failed to heed its message six years ago, it is mortally important it succeed this time, for this is our country’s last chance.]
TTP, August 6, 2018
[This essay is in honor of the 73rd anniversary of August 6, 1945]
Tinian Island, Pacific Ocean. It’s a small island, less than 40 square miles, a flat green dot in the vastness of Pacific blue. Fly over it and you notice a slash across its north end of uninhabited bush, a long thin line that looks like an overgrown dirt runway. If you didn’t know what it was, you wouldn’t give it a second glance out your airplane window.
On the ground, you see the runway isn’t dirt but tarmac and crushed limestone, abandoned with weeds sticking out of it. Yet seventy-three years ago today, August 6, this became the most historical airstrip on earth. This is where World War II was won. This is Runway Able.
This is where President Truman had the courage to achieve victory over a fascist enemy because he knew the American people would vindicate it.
President Trump has that same courage. His presidency is a gift to America from Providence. Now the moment is arriving when Americans must prove worthy of that gift.
Today I want to talk about the right to remain silent. Despite it being one of the best-known American criminal justice rights, people who are under investigation still manage to run their mouths and leak information like a sprinkler to those who want to put them in jail.
You need to think about all of the ways you broadcast information to people; particularly under the stress of arrest.
Most conservatives haven’t been faced with this. Need I say, times are changing.
Up front also: I am intending this post for an American audience. If you are in some other country, you are subject to their legal system. Some Americans forget that when they go abroad.
Your rights may depend on your pain tolerance. In our scenario here, you have either been approached by law enforcement wanting to talk to you about something that happened, or you have found yourself not free to go following that happening. Now what?
Not only has Vladimir Putin, the putative emperor of Russia, been proven to have no clothes, but as evidenced daily in Kursk, the Russian Army militarily speaking has been caught stark naked as well by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Ukraine’s stunning counteroffensive in Kursk that began on Aug. 6 is proving to be a major personal embarrassment to Putin and his regime – and it is continuing to gain steam capturing Russian territory at a faster rate than what Moscow has been able to achieve in the Donbas after months of bloody fighting and 500,000+ casualties.
Sometimes, as Col. Joshua Chamberlain did while defending Little Round Top at Gettysburg during the American Civil War, you have to “fix bayonets’” and attack.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, the AFU Commander-in-Chief, has done just that and boldly aimed them at the underside of Putin’s corrupt and decaying Russia.
In doing so, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals have proven the Russian Army to be one-dimensional. Putin’s army can lay siege – and it can inch forward bleeding bodies. However, it cannot maneuver.
This sad sack static Russian army is not their father’s Soviet Army. Rather, they are their great-great grandfather’s meatgrinder of an army that fled the battlefields of WWI
There’s a funny internet meme that uses a still frame from a British sketch comedy show in which two naïve Nazis wonder aloud, “Are we the baddies?”
The conservative humor site Twitchy is fond of referencing that joke whenever the U.K. government treats George Orwell’s 1984 as an instruction manual instead of a warning.
These days, the joke is everywhere because the world is watching Britain nosedive into abject tyranny.
U.K. officials do not like dissent. They do not like free speech. And they certainly do not like it when ordinary citizens criticize the government. For these reasons, the authoritarians across the pond caution their domestic serfs: “Think before you post.”
Included in that ominous threat is the promise that the Crown will come after anyone for “inciting hatred” online. What is “hatred”? Why, that’s for government functionaries to decide and for lowly commoners to find out! In a bit of cowardly arm-twisting meant both to encourage community snitching and to terrify concerned family members, Big Brother underscores its warning with this doozy: “Remind those close to you to share responsibly or face the consequences.” The government’s thought police would hate for something bad to happen to someone you love. So don’t force them to be the baddies, okay?
Iran’s strategy of Middle East conquest by proxy has proven remarkably effective. Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen have all turned into pawns in the Persian power’s quest for regional dominance.
The latest iteration of that playbook, Gaza, shows what happens to an Arab territory that subordinates its own interests to Iran’s hegemonic and anti-Israel aims.
Iran’s cynical strategy of “fighting Israel until the last Arab” is about to repeat itself in Lebanon, after Hezb’allah’s July 27 rocket attack murdered a dozen children playing soccer on the Golan Heights of Israel.
Iran’s strategy has been successful partly thanks to anti-Israel bias by the global media, the U.N., International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other actors that effectively abet Iran’s jihadi war on Western civilization.
In the summer of 2001, I led an overland expedition of 2,500 kilometers across Eastern Tibet, traversing by foot the “Great River Trenches of Asia,” over the 15,000’ Si-la pass between the Salween and Mekong Rivers, thence to the Upper Yangtze by 4WD following it to near its source, onto Lhasa, capital of Tibet.
Enroute we stopped at incredibly remote and rarely seen Namche Barwa (7,782m/25,531ft), the eastern terminus of the Himalayas, which run in a 1,600 mile-long arc from here in Tibet through Nepal, Northwest India, to end at the western terminus of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.
At nine years old, Jackson handled this like a trooper. What a rewarding thrill it is to have a great adventure with your children. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #277 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Some three hours’ drive east of Rangoon brings you to Mount Kyaiktiyo, at the top of which (3,600ft) is a gigantic granite boulder covered in gold leaf perched on the edge about to fall off. But it never does, held in place, legend says, by a strand of the Buddha’s hair put underneath it 2,500 years ago. Ever since, the Golden Rock has been a sacred pilgrimage site for the Burmese people and Buddhists around the world.
There are very few people here other than pilgrims, who devoutly pray, circumambulate the rock, and reverently place small strips of gold leaf upon it. It’s a marvelous experience to be among them. I plan to be here once again in an expedition soon – you might consider joining me. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #112 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Here in Zambia and elsewhere in Africa, crocodiles are nicknamed “Flatdogs.” You can see why. They spend much of their lives lying flat on the mud bank of a pond or river. Yet when on the hunt they can attack with astounding speed and surprise, leaping unseen from muddy water upon an unsuspecting target twenty feet away in an instant. This happened to a young boy fishing along the Luangwa River near our encampment just days ago. Africa is unforgiving of the unwary. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #142 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Yes, these are the actual legendary walls of Troy that Homer immortalized in the Iliad. Or what remains of them 3,200 years later. You see here the East Gate of Troy VIIa, the layer demolished in ashes archaeologists believe where the historical basis of the Trojan War occurred in 1180 BC.
This was Troia or Ilium for the ancient Greeks, after the city’s founder Tros and his son Ilus. They firmly believed what Homer described was real history, and the heroes portrayed – Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Ajax, Patrocles, Paris and Priam – really lived. They knew just where it was – in the northwest corner of what is now Turkey they called the Troad where there were ruins with the tomb of Achilles.
Alexander the Great so firmly believed it was all true that when he crossed the Hellespont in 334 BC to destroy the Persian threat to Greece, he devoutly worshipped at Achilles’ tomb. 2,200 years later everyone thought Troy was a pure myth – all historians certainly did – except for a self-made German businessman named Heinrich Schliemann. He spent his fortune excavating a mound called Hissarlik in 1871 – and found Troy.
Today, you can explore these ruins of history yourself. Go there alone at night with a full moon above. Will the shade of Achilles come forth out of the moonlit shadows to greet you? (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #217 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
It is a profoundly somber experience to stand here on this abandoned weed-strewn airstrip. For this is Runway Able on Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas, where 76 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a B-29 nicknamed Enola Gay piloted by Capt. Paul Tibbets took off with Little Boy in its bomb bay bound for Hiroshima – and three days later on August 9, a B-29 nicknamed Bockscar piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney flew off with Fat Boy in its bomb bay headed for Nagasaki.
As a consequence, on August 15, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan to America. Here is where World War II was won, and the Nuclear Age begun.
This lost bit of tarmac is the most consequential airstrip on earth. Be prepared for a deep complex of swirling emotions if you ever stand here yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #14 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Why would Kamabla (as in Kama-blahblah) pick a weirdo woke leftie from a safe blue state and not the obvious choice – a young (50), popular, and far less woke gov from a must-win state, Josh Shapiro? Two reasons, supplied by Kamabla’s puppetmaster, Obama.
First, Shapiro is Jewish and once-proudly so – untl he publicly “Un-Jewed himself” in desperation and still didn’t get picked. That’s because Obama leads the Democrat Anti-Semitic Caucus that dominates the party now. Nope, no Jews, Ms. Harris was told.
She was happy to comply. Trump explained this morning (8/09): Donald Trump: Kamala Harris ‘Hates Israel,’ ‘Doesn’t Like Jewish People Even Though She’s Married to One’
(Their marriage is pretty rocky, as the Daily Mail explains: Kamala Harris Was 'Humiliated' By Doug Emhoff Affair Bombshell… Life At The Vice President's Residence Has Been Frosty Since Affair Story Broke That He Got His Children’s Nanny Pregnant.)
Second, Obama demanded the most radically lunatic woke ticket possible to rub patriotic America’s nose in it, because he knows the Dem Swing State Vote Fraud Machine has everything nailed down guaranteeing a Cheat-to-Win victory this November even more unassailably than in November four years ago. This is Obama’s dream chance to “fundamentally transform America” to destroy it forever, and he’s making sure his Hate America dream comes true.
How could it not with tens of millions of illegal aliens already on the voter rolls?
Yet this story has a happy ending. Read on... here we go!
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on March 24, 2017. It starts with headlines about a terrorist attack in London. This Monday (8/05) there are headlines about anti-immigration protests all over the UK, with the British press universally condemning them as “far-right thugs,” not the Moslem migrant thugs attacking them, and both the government and police on the side of the migrants instead of the British people. This is a tour de force article of history with acute lessons for the present.]
TTP, March 24, 2017
The front page headlines around the world of this morning’s (3/23) news are all the same – about the “driver,” the “assailant,” the “lone wolf,” the “knife-man,” the “knife-wielding attacker,” who murderously drove his car across Westminster Bridge killing and injuring dozens of pedestrians, and stabbed a policeman to death trying to enter Parliament in London.
There is story after story about the victims and the policeman, who are named with photos and their life stories. There is one story that is missing. Search in vain through the newspapers and websites of the British and US press, for you will not find one about the perpetrator – not who he is, not his life story, not even his name.
Scotland Yard is, at this writing, refusing to identify him. They only describe him as “Asian” – which is PC code in Europe for “Moslem,” and his attack as “an act of international terrorism.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May denounced the attack as “sick and depraved” – never even hinting at who or what is responsible for such sickness and depravity.
So who and what is? The answer may surprise you. For as much as you and I and every reader of British tabloids know that the “Asian knife-man” is a Moslem motivated by Islamofascist barbarism, that’s not who and what.
To learn who and what is responsible for that Moslem terrorist’s sickness and depravity, all Theresa May and every native-born Brit have to do is look in the mirror.
Last week (3/17), we discussed “The Suicidal Racism of Western Civilization.” Now we turn to the West’s – including America’s – suicidal masochism.
