George Rebane
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died last night. He was a good man and an effective legislator who was able to work with both sides of the aisle. This because he was a Bayesian – getting new information often allowed him to change/improve his position on issues. As an influential supporter of Israel, Ukraine, and US alliance, his 20+ year involvement, leadership, and wisdom contributed much to the workings of our foreign policy under both Republican and Democrat presidents. May he rest in peace.
The Democratic Socialists of America are proto-communists whose ideological tenets unify around anti-capitalism, labor organizing, anti-imperialism, and strong support for Palestinian rights. (platform.dsausa.org). They are now updating their programs to further restructure US institutions to include eliminating the US Senate, making POTUS and SCOTUS subordinate to Congress, and abolishing various “carceral forces” along with defunding major parts of the military. DSA’s “carceral forces of the capitalist state” include prisons and police and related coercive practices of the entire punitive apparatus seen as upholding capitalist inequality. Such is the clearest understanding to date of the political rot that is now eating away at our constitutional republic. Democrat know-nothings continue to erroneously maintain that their party’s socialists are not the nation’s greatest threat. We recall that communism/socialism was established in Russia, China, Germany, Cuba, Venezuela, … through political transformations carried out internally, and not through external invasion – with our voters with two generations of Leninist education under their belts, the DSA wants to put us on the same path.
We are now on a slow and tentative path toward regime change in Iran. The ridiculous cease fire is over, the blockade is being re-established (hopefully), Hormuz is mostly open for safe and free passage, and we are beginning to destroy their infrastructure – bridges, railroads, energy facilities. It’s taken this administration a while to finally understand with whom they have been attempting to make a deal, when the answer all along has been ‘No deal, just unconditional surrender with verifying inspections.’
[13jul26 update] The politics of socialist envy. SpaceX going public created a crop of new millionaires to billionaires numbering almost 5,000. Anthropic’s anticipated IPO will create more thousands of new millionaires, deca-millionaires, centi-millionaires, and billionaires. The proto-communist Democrats are decrying the creation of this new wealth as an example of how wealth is inequitably divided under capitalism and concentrated among the select few. Their double dummy constituents lap this crap up hook, line, and sinker. The truth is that such events are another example of how capitalism creates new wealth and distributes it among the working class. This truth cannot be handled by our evil party that knows only how to redistribute existing wealth, and so the lies and their destructive consumption goes on.
[14jul26 update] VDH supports Rebane Doctrine (e.g. here) for use of military force in Iran. All communications with the murderous theocrats should be conducted on the background of our continuing strikes to take out their income generating infrastructure in a manner visible to the average Iranian. There should be no negotiations for any agreement, only a statement of demands for unconditional surrender. In the end, it is Iran’s citizens who must detect the weakened state of the regime and rise up to oust it. We are told that the CIA and the Mossad are quietly organizing and supplying arms for such an uprising. But the people must first see evidence of the growing helplessness of the mullahs and the Republican Guards. Victor Davis Hansen’s recent arguments are in his ‘The US Needs to Hit Iran Harder to End the War’.
The two ICE shootings in the last week could have been avoided. When ICE identifies an address and/or facility in and around which illegal aliens gather or inhabit, they always seal off the street so that they can inspect the occupants of any cars that desire to leave the restricted area. It is in the attempt to stop such traffic with on-foot ICE agents that lead to the shootings. The illegal alien behind the wheel will just attempt to drive right through the blocking agent. My approach is for ICE to always seal off the desired area with tire-flattening strips or road spikes that are standard equipment in every police and highway patrol car. The departing cars would then be halted, inspected, and released as appropriate. Escaping cars would not get very far with flattened tires.
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