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Thursday, February 19, 2026
The most heinous perversion of symbolic art in world history is that of the Swastika – Sanskrit for “the goodness of existence.” This Roman mosaic in Tarragona, Spain, is 2,000 years old, yet the Swastika is far older – carved onto mammoth ivory by Ice Age hunters in Ukraine 12,000 years ago.
Why from time immemorial has it represented eternity, prosperity, the centeredness of all that is? Look up into the sky on a clear dark night. All people have studied the heavens for eons. You could always know where you were by finding North, for the two front stars of what we call the Big Dipper point to it – always.
The Greeks called it Mega Arktikos, the Great Bear – why we call Far North the Arctic today. The ancients saw the Bear every year rotating around Celestial North – now occupied by Polaris, the North Star – through all four seasons, while all the stars in the sky circled around it every night. What do you see in this depiction of that seasonal rotation?
Here we go with another HFR mind-blow!
Watching it today is a stark reminder that what we Americans are experiencing, the violence that is tormenting Democrat-run cities throughout America, is not particularly new. The totalitarian left has forever been trying to eliminate those of us who rage against the dying of the light.
Serling was beyond prescient when he wrote the screenplay for this episode. He was a true visionary. He somehow envisioned the future we now inhabit — an era in which those who "have a mind" are deemed obsolete.
If Donald J. Trump is re-elected to a second term as president, will that victory finally be enough to break the back of a military and policy “elite” who have surrendered to the anti-American mobs and the Democrat Party who made them possible?
It’s a good question. Here’s more.
Who does our military serve?
Are they subordinated to some ineffable “conventional wisdom” about justice and racial harmony? Do they march to the beat of a “politically correct” agenda defined by the organizations like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or to the nostrums of ivy league grandees?
Or are they under the command of the citizen America elects to hold the rank of their commander-in-chief?
It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.
That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.
The libs’ plan to win in November corresponds to Trump’s plan to crush them yet again. Here’s how and here’s why. You’re going to enjoy this.
When I see the images from Lafayette Square on Monday night (6/22) I keep wondering, where are the conservative leaders who have said so much and done so little to defend our history?
It was a multi-ethnic group of working class DC cops who stood guard protecting Andy Jackson’s statue, their facemasks flecked with the spittle from woke white women. Being taunted by woke white men with man buns. And getting called a traitor to their race.
What I want to see right now more than anything is elected officials and community leaders who are willing and ready to link arms with these cops and physically take part in cleaning up this mess and defying the mob.
Due process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement.
These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, literally. Anyone who dares push back, perhaps with a mild tweet saying “All lives matter,” faces immediate censure.
In this perilous environment, the most frenzied voices do more than dominate the public square. They monopolize it by silencing dissent. They have received full-throated support from the tech giants that control electronic discussion and the media giants determined to shape the narrative rather than report the news.
The “thought police” are on patrol and ever-vigilant, twirling the twin batons of guilt and moral superiority. They need to be defunded.
When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when?
There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both.
When Normal People Grow Weary
One is when “average” people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy—and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots.
Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience. At some point, tonight’s looting rioting hero on on CNN, becomes tomorrow’s commonplace, unnoticed felon.
Juneteenth, schmoonteenth. The only solace for a week as ghastly as this is comic relief.
Yet this was a week that grief for what has happened to America is washing over any hope for her. Take this heartbreaking story (6/14): Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears for Children of Fallen Police Officers Receives Death Threats for Her Kindness to Police.
This is but one example of so many overwhelming us now that makes it clear: November 3rd is no longer a choice between Republican and Democrat. It is a choice between Decency and Depravity, Freedom and Slavery, Civilization and Savagery. A future or no future at all.
As always, the HFR provides solutions to how achieve the formers and reject the latters.
This really isn’t photoshopped – it’s what a sunset actually looks like on the Luangwa River in Zambia. Best way to enjoy it is with a gin-and-tonic Sundowner with good friends on a dream Africa safari. Zambia is an undiscovered gem, the best safari country in all Africa right now.
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Democrats subsidize Antifa Communists and BLM thugs and make excuses for their violence in the hopes the disorder they cause will hurt President Trump in November.
But the monsters they’ve let loose on society are more interested in tearing down the system than in perpetuating Democrat control of it.
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson won 61.9 percent of the popular vote. Four years later his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, got just 42.7 percent.
What happened in between were race riots, and “anti-war” riots and bombings instigated by Antifa’s Commie predecessors such as the Weathermen.
[Note by JW: this article of Dan Henninger is politely implicit, which is here made helpfully explicit in bold. Enjoy]
Among the most durable of those institutions is what some call “the great American city.” America’s cities are indeed a wonder—built quickly from nearly nothing across a vast continent into a unique story of social and economic success.
We may now be on the cusp of a great reordering of the nation’s population as many people decide it is time to separate themselves and their families from the social, political and moral turbulence of this country’s large Democrat-controlled urban areas.
People with all sorts of political beliefs are going to get out because they are watching Democrat-controlled city after city reach a tipping point of social disorder and political disorganization.
In the past three months it has become clear that modern urban Democrat progressivism is politically incompetent and intellectually incoherent.
Facts: America is accused of racism, of holding racial minorities back by way of system-wide white supremacism, and yet Jews, black Nigerians, Indian Americans (from India), and Asians are more successful in America than whites, and their respective imprison rates are lower than whites.Derek Chauvin was a racist cop,
a registered Democrat,
working for a Democrat Police Chief
voted into office by Democrat voters,
in a Democrat controlled city,
in a Democrat controlled state.
He had 18 complaints against him and was let off multiple times by Democrat prosecutor,
now Democrat Senator and failed Democrat presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar.
But somehow, it's all Trump's fault?!
How is it possible in a country that we’re told is riddled with the cancer of white supremacism for those four groups to enjoy a higher standard of living and more success than their all-powerful, white oppressors?
The asking of the question answers the question.
Marxists seek to destroy the history of the nations and peoples they hope to enslave, because if you don’t know where you came from, you don’t know who you are. And if you don’t know how things were back then, you don’t know how far we’ve come.
History doesn’t repeat itself. But people who are ignorant of history tend to make the same mistakes their ancestors did. The study of history, in context, is essential to progress.
After genocide, slavery has been mankind’s most egregious sin. And after prostitution, the most ubiquitous. Slavery has been practiced by every tribe on every continent since the beginning of time.
Marxists imply slavery was especially horrible in America, which is the opposite of the truth.
