It seems that now i am a "far right" ideolog, even though my views haven't changed substantially over the years. Ih the political world, the left has moved dramatically farther left. What was the center is now far right according to them, Please just let ideas just be rational,.
That same Islamic immigration is happening of course, here in America along with every other country. It is one thing to help people, it is quite another to accept an onslaught of people UNVETTED by the millions…and then expect our economy to be healthy, our country free of crime, drugs, and don’t forget the many who HAVE come here legally, working with the system of immigration, only to have ILLEGAL ALIENS cut in line in front of them, illegally.
I make no apologies to the FAR LEFT who want to call me a “far right extremist”. In truth, I am an American who loves my country and wants to protect its sovereignty.
Regarding, “largely Islamic immigration that is making the streets dangerous in practically every European country”, step on any public transportation in Minneapolis and you will find multiple young women with hijab and long black robes on their way to work. I admit to being intimidated by their dour profiles. We may not be far behind European countries.
Re the "far right" designation. The WSJ used the same term the other day in describing the German elections. They called Merz and the CDU the "conservative" party in Germany and the AfD the "far right" party. The truth is the CDU is the centrist party, the Social Democrats are the left/liberal party and the AfD is the conservative party by any measure, The fact that AfD got more of the vote than the currently empowered Social Democrats indicates that the Social Democrats are the "far left" party.
As for Trump, I fully expect him to start hectoring Putin the way he hectored Zelensky if he doesn't toe the line in the upcoming negotiations. Once that's settled, then he can concentrate on Gaza and the Arab morons who control 22 nations and who refuse to take responsibility for their Nazi brethren in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding so-called "refugee camps." Arabia covers 5 million square miles, more than the United States. They have to find a place for these people.
Despite the fact that they have been egging their Gaza friends on for decades. The instability has led to ruin. Especially in those countries without that black gold.
I am growing ever more dubious about Trump, an admission that will doubtless earn me scorn on these pages. But his public hectoring of foreign leaders to accept his view of the world grows old very quickly. And earns return fire from time to time, as we have seen with Trudeau. It is possible Canada and Greenland could be absorbed into the USA to the benefit of all concerned, but to demean the people we would have to work with to accomplish this is counter productive.
That said, I agree with both your points above: we need a new approach to the Middle East, and uncontrolled immigration has been a disaster. And point three: language matters. A lot. I have understood and believed this third point since I was in my early teens.
On the Middle East, getting neighboring countries to absorb Palestinians is a herculean task. Which demonstrates just how differently they view Hezbollah and Hamas than our self-satisfied elites do, and how dangerous they understand unlimited immigration to be. As for Gaza becoming a Mediterranean resort, that is either a brilliant idea or a fool's errand. The natural landscape is there, the money is available in neighboring countries, and it would be a vastly different way to address a problem that has been festering since the late forties -- eight decades. Isn't it time to try a new approach? Considering that the current situation was the vision of an evil but powerful man (Arafat), isn't it time to try the vision of another powerful man (Trump)?
On immigration, I believe it was Senator Ted Kennedy who changed our immigration law to stop favoring Europeans. At the time I thought yeah, that sounds like something we should do out of fairness. But is immigration about fairness or about building our own strength? Some countries are very open about their desire to accept immigrants who come with money, education, or entrepreneurial talent. Extra points if you speak the language when you arrive. The scenes of people dropping infants over the wall, of others wading across the Rio Grande, or still others being smuggled into the country packed into the back of a back of a freight truck cannot possibly be what Sen. Kennedy anticipated. The same thing can be said about New York hotels taken over by charities to house gang-bangers whose only entrepreneurial talent is taking advantage of our refugee system. It is beyond time for the U.S. Congress to create a more reasonable plan than what we have now.
Your insights are accurate save one. We're far, far, too far beyond the times of make nice-nice in the political arena. The moment Trump backs off his kick-down-doors-and-take-names approach is the instant all the world leaders think, "Yeah, I knew he wasn't serious."
This is WAR, my friend. There are no nice guys who win in combat.
Trudeau and other whiners reveal both their lack of spine and the fact that they have no real power with which to resist the USA. Weaker politically, much weaker economically, and captive to the bankrupt globalist ideology.
Fred: Far be it from any of us who follow Roger to 'scorn' anyone with common sense and logical viewpoints such as you put forth. We are not left wing pseudo-intellectual lemmings who only see one side of the political spectrum. My concern is on a more personal level. My son served our country in the USCG and last year opted not to reup due to DEI before Trump got elected. He was offered a very nice Federal job as a result of his Coast Guard training at a Marine Corp. Air Base. His work is classified so his boss told him not to answer Musk's email about providing 5 items he accomplished last week. I get the 'method to the DOGE madness' however, I fear a 'demigod' approach may be too strong in some cases. My son served our country with honor and distinction and does not deserve to lose his job if his boss instructs him not to answer. Maybe Trump/Musk need to stay a tad longer around the white house conference table to discuss the ramifications of some of these decisions.
Tell him to reply to the second email explaining his "classified" work cannot be put in a non secure email. A non reply might be taken as a ghost employee.
They are not looking for details. They are looking for an answer. Everyone in the country does 5 things in a week. Even at a missile silo they do 5 things that have no classified content. Did they fill our a report? Did they go to a meeting? Did they have a safety brief? Did they collaborate with colleages on a project? Did they do any research? The list is endless.
Or maybe he could answer that his boss ordered him not to answer.
Also, seems to me if I were working with classified material I could still answer such a query without divulging any state secrets.
Sounds like your son's boss just doesn't like his new boss and is going to extreme lengths to obstruct him. Also sounds like he doing a good job of it as your last sentence faults President Trump and Elon rather than him for defying directives from his superior.
Those good people that work for the DOJ and the Pentagon will be policed by their new leadership so any response to the email will not be used by DOGE for any reason. Still, a response is a response, and a refusal is still a refusal, both come with a meaning. Which meaning they want to convey will come out in the end, for better or worse. My guess is that they have been flooded with so many positive email responses they can't begin to respond to them. But the lack of responses will be easier to identify. The big boss is asking, anyone in between should not be blocking it, and I would respond, but that's just me. I served for 30 years, successfully.
This is utter nonsense. He doesn't have to reveal classified information. All he has to do is reply to the email. I wrote reports, I did reasearch, I went to a team meeting, I did some training, I collaborated with colleagues on a project. See that? One purpose of the email was to see if anyone was actually on the other end of it. His boss did him a disservice and if it is documented, belongs on the bubble and should start equiring with realtors to sell their house if they have one.
I am in agreement with each of your points. President Trump is the only voice I hear that offers ideas on how to resolve conflicts. The world needs to listen to and to realize that his is the correct path to follow if we want to continue to exist and flourish.
How can we possibly think that there is any way to change the thinking of millions of Israel/Jew haters, when we have people like AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib in our own government? Has their anti Israel and anti American hatred diminished at all in the years they have lived in our country, enjoying all the benefits and freedom that we offer? Their imbedded hatred will not ever be erased. They were raised from birth on it. It would take many generations of a different way of thinking to change that, and that is not likely to happen.
Hold firm, indeed. Trump/Vance is a life preserver thrown to the passengers aboard the overtly scuttled USS America. If they don't grab hold really fast and lock on with a death-grip fanaticism, we'll all drown in the sea of feel-good progressive lunacy.
Thank you for your brilliant insights and commentary. Sadly, my friends and relatives on the other side choose not to listen to another perspective and are convinced the world is going to end with this administration. How I wish AI could come up with a reliable fact checker meter for both sides.
Sadly, Roger, nothing remains the same. I was raised in El Paso's lower valley and went back to visit 25 years after leaving. The squalor was unrecognizable.
I visited a cousin who lived on Manhattan's LES several times in the 80's and the city was one non-stop party. Now it's a non-stop mugging.
Even Atlanta, where I lived while attending Georgia Tech, is a cesspool.
I'm glad I moved out of OKC into the distant reaches of rural Oklahoma before the liberals take over and take it the same way.
What's the fix? I've said it before, we're beyond making nice-nice. Conflict isn't managed by compromise. Cry havoc...
To quote the Big Guy, I'm an "Ultra MAGA violent extremist". And I always thought I was a centrist, pacifist, patriot. When all else fails, label your competition with dirty words. Both the right and the left have totalitarians among them. And libertarians. We need a two dimensional political spectrum at a minimum. Not a left-right one dimensional one.
The left requires two things to succeed; lying and censorship. It is the personality of Joseph Goebbels (a NAZI, who was remarkably popular). His summation: lie/tell the big lie/ repeat the lie until the people believe the lie; AND, censor all speech which counters the lie..."truth is the enemy of the state."
As Elon stated a few years ago, I have not moved my viewpoint, the Left has shifted everything so far to the left that they are out of touch! I have always been a centrist/liberal, but am now Far Right I guess as I believe in common sense and reality! I happen to subscribe to the belief that eventually Russia and the US will in fact ally to a large degree - economically, not politically. China had their opportunity to join the West in economic prosperity, but they chose to scam the process and take advantage of their potential partners; primarily because their government cannot separate politics from economic policies, and never will unless the CCP loses its tight grip. Trump knows how to manage all kinds, Zelensky demonstrated yesterday that he is a comedian turned politician and needs to recognize he is no longer dealing with a corrupt Biden admin. And, please do not call Ukraine a democracy, I worked with Ukraine for several years, it is as corrupt as they come, second only to Russia, and far from democratic. I hope Trump gets his deals done as they will be good for the world. The European globalists can sit on the sidelines and continue to destroy their countries; unless of course their citizenry finds their Trump to turn things around.
It seems that now i am a "far right" ideolog, even though my views haven't changed substantially over the years. Ih the political world, the left has moved dramatically farther left. What was the center is now far right according to them, Please just let ideas just be rational,.
The Marxist script--change the language and alter perceptions of truth and reality--is unchanged.
You and Mr. Simon are correct to resist this!
That same Islamic immigration is happening of course, here in America along with every other country. It is one thing to help people, it is quite another to accept an onslaught of people UNVETTED by the millions…and then expect our economy to be healthy, our country free of crime, drugs, and don’t forget the many who HAVE come here legally, working with the system of immigration, only to have ILLEGAL ALIENS cut in line in front of them, illegally.
I make no apologies to the FAR LEFT who want to call me a “far right extremist”. In truth, I am an American who loves my country and wants to protect its sovereignty.
Good editorial!
Regarding, “largely Islamic immigration that is making the streets dangerous in practically every European country”, step on any public transportation in Minneapolis and you will find multiple young women with hijab and long black robes on their way to work. I admit to being intimidated by their dour profiles. We may not be far behind European countries.
We wrestle definitely not far behind.
Re the "far right" designation. The WSJ used the same term the other day in describing the German elections. They called Merz and the CDU the "conservative" party in Germany and the AfD the "far right" party. The truth is the CDU is the centrist party, the Social Democrats are the left/liberal party and the AfD is the conservative party by any measure, The fact that AfD got more of the vote than the currently empowered Social Democrats indicates that the Social Democrats are the "far left" party.
As for Trump, I fully expect him to start hectoring Putin the way he hectored Zelensky if he doesn't toe the line in the upcoming negotiations. Once that's settled, then he can concentrate on Gaza and the Arab morons who control 22 nations and who refuse to take responsibility for their Nazi brethren in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding so-called "refugee camps." Arabia covers 5 million square miles, more than the United States. They have to find a place for these people.
Despite the fact that they have been egging their Gaza friends on for decades. The instability has led to ruin. Especially in those countries without that black gold.
I am growing ever more dubious about Trump, an admission that will doubtless earn me scorn on these pages. But his public hectoring of foreign leaders to accept his view of the world grows old very quickly. And earns return fire from time to time, as we have seen with Trudeau. It is possible Canada and Greenland could be absorbed into the USA to the benefit of all concerned, but to demean the people we would have to work with to accomplish this is counter productive.
That said, I agree with both your points above: we need a new approach to the Middle East, and uncontrolled immigration has been a disaster. And point three: language matters. A lot. I have understood and believed this third point since I was in my early teens.
On the Middle East, getting neighboring countries to absorb Palestinians is a herculean task. Which demonstrates just how differently they view Hezbollah and Hamas than our self-satisfied elites do, and how dangerous they understand unlimited immigration to be. As for Gaza becoming a Mediterranean resort, that is either a brilliant idea or a fool's errand. The natural landscape is there, the money is available in neighboring countries, and it would be a vastly different way to address a problem that has been festering since the late forties -- eight decades. Isn't it time to try a new approach? Considering that the current situation was the vision of an evil but powerful man (Arafat), isn't it time to try the vision of another powerful man (Trump)?
On immigration, I believe it was Senator Ted Kennedy who changed our immigration law to stop favoring Europeans. At the time I thought yeah, that sounds like something we should do out of fairness. But is immigration about fairness or about building our own strength? Some countries are very open about their desire to accept immigrants who come with money, education, or entrepreneurial talent. Extra points if you speak the language when you arrive. The scenes of people dropping infants over the wall, of others wading across the Rio Grande, or still others being smuggled into the country packed into the back of a back of a freight truck cannot possibly be what Sen. Kennedy anticipated. The same thing can be said about New York hotels taken over by charities to house gang-bangers whose only entrepreneurial talent is taking advantage of our refugee system. It is beyond time for the U.S. Congress to create a more reasonable plan than what we have now.
Your insights are accurate save one. We're far, far, too far beyond the times of make nice-nice in the political arena. The moment Trump backs off his kick-down-doors-and-take-names approach is the instant all the world leaders think, "Yeah, I knew he wasn't serious."
This is WAR, my friend. There are no nice guys who win in combat.
Precisely.
Trudeau and other whiners reveal both their lack of spine and the fact that they have no real power with which to resist the USA. Weaker politically, much weaker economically, and captive to the bankrupt globalist ideology.
Fred: Far be it from any of us who follow Roger to 'scorn' anyone with common sense and logical viewpoints such as you put forth. We are not left wing pseudo-intellectual lemmings who only see one side of the political spectrum. My concern is on a more personal level. My son served our country in the USCG and last year opted not to reup due to DEI before Trump got elected. He was offered a very nice Federal job as a result of his Coast Guard training at a Marine Corp. Air Base. His work is classified so his boss told him not to answer Musk's email about providing 5 items he accomplished last week. I get the 'method to the DOGE madness' however, I fear a 'demigod' approach may be too strong in some cases. My son served our country with honor and distinction and does not deserve to lose his job if his boss instructs him not to answer. Maybe Trump/Musk need to stay a tad longer around the white house conference table to discuss the ramifications of some of these decisions.
Tell him to reply to the second email explaining his "classified" work cannot be put in a non secure email. A non reply might be taken as a ghost employee.
They are not looking for details. They are looking for an answer. Everyone in the country does 5 things in a week. Even at a missile silo they do 5 things that have no classified content. Did they fill our a report? Did they go to a meeting? Did they have a safety brief? Did they collaborate with colleages on a project? Did they do any research? The list is endless.
Or maybe he could answer that his boss ordered him not to answer.
Also, seems to me if I were working with classified material I could still answer such a query without divulging any state secrets.
Sounds like your son's boss just doesn't like his new boss and is going to extreme lengths to obstruct him. Also sounds like he doing a good job of it as your last sentence faults President Trump and Elon rather than him for defying directives from his superior.
That guy needs to add "updating their resume" to the list.
Those good people that work for the DOJ and the Pentagon will be policed by their new leadership so any response to the email will not be used by DOGE for any reason. Still, a response is a response, and a refusal is still a refusal, both come with a meaning. Which meaning they want to convey will come out in the end, for better or worse. My guess is that they have been flooded with so many positive email responses they can't begin to respond to them. But the lack of responses will be easier to identify. The big boss is asking, anyone in between should not be blocking it, and I would respond, but that's just me. I served for 30 years, successfully.
Thanks Dana for the info.
This is utter nonsense. He doesn't have to reveal classified information. All he has to do is reply to the email. I wrote reports, I did reasearch, I went to a team meeting, I did some training, I collaborated with colleagues on a project. See that? One purpose of the email was to see if anyone was actually on the other end of it. His boss did him a disservice and if it is documented, belongs on the bubble and should start equiring with realtors to sell their house if they have one.
I am in agreement with each of your points. President Trump is the only voice I hear that offers ideas on how to resolve conflicts. The world needs to listen to and to realize that his is the correct path to follow if we want to continue to exist and flourish.
Well said and thought out Roger!
How can we possibly think that there is any way to change the thinking of millions of Israel/Jew haters, when we have people like AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib in our own government? Has their anti Israel and anti American hatred diminished at all in the years they have lived in our country, enjoying all the benefits and freedom that we offer? Their imbedded hatred will not ever be erased. They were raised from birth on it. It would take many generations of a different way of thinking to change that, and that is not likely to happen.
Those fools are acting.
Hold firm, indeed. Trump/Vance is a life preserver thrown to the passengers aboard the overtly scuttled USS America. If they don't grab hold really fast and lock on with a death-grip fanaticism, we'll all drown in the sea of feel-good progressive lunacy.
Thank you for your brilliant insights and commentary. Sadly, my friends and relatives on the other side choose not to listen to another perspective and are convinced the world is going to end with this administration. How I wish AI could come up with a reliable fact checker meter for both sides.
Just like it did with the last time he was in office.
Good article as per usual, we are getting spoiled.
Sadly, Roger, nothing remains the same. I was raised in El Paso's lower valley and went back to visit 25 years after leaving. The squalor was unrecognizable.
I visited a cousin who lived on Manhattan's LES several times in the 80's and the city was one non-stop party. Now it's a non-stop mugging.
Even Atlanta, where I lived while attending Georgia Tech, is a cesspool.
I'm glad I moved out of OKC into the distant reaches of rural Oklahoma before the liberals take over and take it the same way.
What's the fix? I've said it before, we're beyond making nice-nice. Conflict isn't managed by compromise. Cry havoc...
To quote the Big Guy, I'm an "Ultra MAGA violent extremist". And I always thought I was a centrist, pacifist, patriot. When all else fails, label your competition with dirty words. Both the right and the left have totalitarians among them. And libertarians. We need a two dimensional political spectrum at a minimum. Not a left-right one dimensional one.
Well said!
The left requires two things to succeed; lying and censorship. It is the personality of Joseph Goebbels (a NAZI, who was remarkably popular). His summation: lie/tell the big lie/ repeat the lie until the people believe the lie; AND, censor all speech which counters the lie..."truth is the enemy of the state."
As Elon stated a few years ago, I have not moved my viewpoint, the Left has shifted everything so far to the left that they are out of touch! I have always been a centrist/liberal, but am now Far Right I guess as I believe in common sense and reality! I happen to subscribe to the belief that eventually Russia and the US will in fact ally to a large degree - economically, not politically. China had their opportunity to join the West in economic prosperity, but they chose to scam the process and take advantage of their potential partners; primarily because their government cannot separate politics from economic policies, and never will unless the CCP loses its tight grip. Trump knows how to manage all kinds, Zelensky demonstrated yesterday that he is a comedian turned politician and needs to recognize he is no longer dealing with a corrupt Biden admin. And, please do not call Ukraine a democracy, I worked with Ukraine for several years, it is as corrupt as they come, second only to Russia, and far from democratic. I hope Trump gets his deals done as they will be good for the world. The European globalists can sit on the sidelines and continue to destroy their countries; unless of course their citizenry finds their Trump to turn things around.