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“Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.”
The very wise man pictured above (RAH) said that, and I’ll second it. Here’s a case in point:
I spent yesterday digging through very intentionally rocky ground (built up to support RVs using heavy crushed rock) to first access the water line so that we can put more spigots around the place, and then putting in fence posts. All of this involved digging holes at least two feet deep for the various things… by the end of the day, I was wiped. Then I come in to read more about the assholes that are dancing in the blood of Charley Kirk and then whining about being fired for it.
Now normally, as anyone who has been here a while will tell you, I’m a big proponent of “We need to find a way to resolve our issues as a nation without bloodshed, because the worst thing that can happen to a country is its complete destruction, and a civil war does that.”
Whatever comes out the other end, it is NOT the same nation it was before. You don’t have to just look at our civil war to know that, look at the English civil wars.
The end result even if the “royalists” won, did not look like what the country looked like before. Things get changed by that experience, and usually not for the better. Our Revolution was one of the few exceptions where what came out was much better than what the nation looked like before.(Actually a civil war, if the truth was told. Any revolution is a successful civil war.)
As I said, that’s my default position. However, coming in soaked in sweat and exhausted, and reading these--well I’ll be extremely generous and call them “People”--reading these “People’s” comments and their sheer joy in the fact that the most nonviolent right-winger in the nation was assassinated, in front of his wife and children… Their out and out lies about what Charley stood for, and what he professed to believe…
Well, I had had enough. Dennis Presiloski, a Canadian photographer, art director, and political gadfly put it this way; and I’m going to quote the entire screed:
“Dear liberal friend, this last week has shaken tens of millions of decent folks who don’t normally obsess over politics out of their slumber. They’re angry. They’re pointing the finger at you. And you might be wondering why?
First, millions watched in horror as a 23-year-old blonde woman—a Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska, a girl who could’ve been their daughter—was stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. A monster who’d been released from jail 14 times. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in criminology to know something’s rotten when a predator like that roams free, courtesy of soft-on-crime policies.
And then, instead of blaming the monster, instead of accountability for failed policies, we get a lecture to have sympathy for the villain, while the blame is shifted to “society,” the very society that the good people of America want to keep good. And then you blame them for a young woman stabbed in the neck?
F*ck you.
Second, Americans saw footage of Charlie Kirk gunned down in cold blood. Some knew him well; others had never heard his name. But they all saw a decent man, a husband, a son, cut down for his beliefs. Their hearts broke for his family. Good, God-fearing people wept, not because of Kirk’s politics, but because evil triumphed over innocence.
Third, and this is the kicker, these same Americans—logging onto Facebook—saw their neighbors, their kids’ teachers, their nurses, their local bureaucrats, celebrating Kirk’s murder. Not just excusing it, but cheering it like ghouls at a lynching. Normal folks saw this and felt a chill run down their spine.
They started whispering about spiritual warfare, about actual warfare, about the darkness creeping into their soul. These aren’t political junkies or talking heads; they’re regular folks who just realized politics isn’t some abstract game—it’s life and death. And not just any life, but their own, their sons, their granddaughters.
And so they’re not just leaning right—they’re charging right.
When they see Iryna Zarutska stabbed to death, they don’t just see one deranged killer. They see every ivory-tower professor, every HR busybody, every DEI commissar who’s preached about “systemic racism” while pushing for no-bail policies that let predators loose. They see through the lies you’ve fed them for years—about “reform,” about “equity,” about “compassion” for criminals—and they’re done with it.
When they see Charlie Kirk’s blood spill, they don’t just see a martyred activist. They see every smug leftist who calls anyone to the right of Joe Biden a “fascist,” every blue-haired radical joking about “punching Nazis” or “bashing the fash.” They realize there are people in this country—maybe even next door—who’d cheer their own deaths for voting Republican, for going to church, or for being white.
They wonder if that bullet could one day find their own doorstep. And they blame you, because you didn’t have the guts to rein in your own radicals. You let Marxist wannabes run wild, from campus struggle sessions to rifle shots. When they see their neighbors—teachers, nurses, bureaucrats—glorifying murder on social media, they don’t just see bad apples. They see moral rot, a soullessness that no decent person can ignore.
They’re starting to talk about good and evil, about a spiritual battle for America’s soul. And they blame you, because even if you condemned Kirk’s killing, they haven’t seen you call out the ghouls in your own ranks who danced on his grave.
Your response?
Excuses and deflection. On Iryna’s murder, you trot out cooked crime stats, claiming “violent crime is down,” while anyone who’s walked through a big city knows the streets are more dangerous than ever, complete with no-go zones. Victims don’t report crimes because they know the cops are handcuffed and the prosecutors are too busy playing social justice warrior to do their jobs.
On Charlie Kirk’s death, when we see supposed thought leaders make insane and factually incorrect justifications, not only evading accountability but celebrating the death of a young father, for expressing simple views like men should use the men’s room.
You say, “But it’s not that many!”
Wrong—everyone’s seen it on their feeds. And not just blue-haired Marxists but people in positions of responsibility. Healthcare providers, pilots, educators, food service… should anyone be forced to accept service from people who want them dead? And so it’s not just a matter of reversing cancel culture or an act of vengeance, it’s self-defense.
You don’t want to hear this, but you need to. The heartland is rising, and it’s not just angry—it’s furious. Millions demanding a return to law, order, and decency. To restore a nation where families are safe and evil is punished.
If you want any say in that future, you’d better clean your own house. Police your radicals, denounce your ghouls, and start respecting the people who make this country work. The silent majority isn’t silent anymore, and they’re done with the BS.
These senseless, stupid, and completely unjustified acts of violence against peaceful people have revealed the dark secret of the left. That at it’s core is violence. That socialism is inherently violent. That forcing beliefs on people eventually results in actual force.
Government uses force to redistribute private property and compel individuals to do what they otherwise would not do, or prevent them from doing what they want to do, or to stop them from speaking what they want to speak. Or else. If ideas are so bad that they can only be achieved by force, only defended by murder, then maybe, just maybe, those ideas suck.
Oh wait you say, you don’t support any of that lunatic woke stuff, you just want the government to do a “little bit more” to help people. Dear liberal, where we are now is the result of 60 years of government doing just a “little bit more” and endless tolerance to the point of tolerating murder. So get this message loud and clear…
No more.
We’re not having it. The kind and decent people of this nation are on the edge of moving from “turn the other cheek” mode, to “eye for an eye” mode. And that is not something you want to happen dear liberal. Because though violence may lie at the core of your ideology, the right is much better at it.
Repent now, while you still can.”
But see, Dennis is talking primarily about the so called “squishy middle” the people that many folks on the far sides of the debate regularly call “Normies.” (Derogatory slang for normal, the sort of individual who doesn’t pay much attention to politics, who doesn’t read on the subject daily, and who only when something BIG happens, notices the political battlefield. In other words, about 70% of the nation.)
By the way, let me just say that I fucking hate that dismissive phrase and attitude about the largest sector of our nation. That, and the dismissive phrase “fly-over-country” both of which indicate, in extreme hubris, that “these people don’t really mater. They’re not important, like we are.”
Of course, “these people” if they get pissed off, are the biggest force in the nation, but don’t let that bother you, chum. “These people” are the folks you need to persuade to see things your way, if you want lasting change, but hey, you go right ahead and be dismissive. Your language and behavior will communicate far more effectively than your words. That’s not the way to convince them of your position, pal. But don’t let me interrupt you in mid fuckup. It took someone being assassinated on live TV, the vision replayed a thousand times on social media, to get them involved. Now they are. Piss them off at your peril.
Now that aside being said, I am not one of those people. (Those people don’t write political blogs.) I am however someone who had a long military career, and saw the horrors of a civil war, and how it wrecks nations. It’s why I am so very against it.
Normally.
But between the truly abominable behavior of the left, and my exhaustion, last night I was at full, “Fuck-em, let’s get this thing going, Call Charley the ‘New Fort Sumpter,’ and lets start stacking bodies.” Larry Correia has an observation on violence as viewed by the left v the right:
Well, last night I would have happily flipped that switch. Of course, after a night of sleep and some food, I’ve calmed down a little. And, I’m still not all that far from putting a finger on that switch. I’m sure that a lot of folks are.
Please, for the love of anything that you hold sacred, if you’re on the left, understand what Dennis is saying, and rein in your ‘one percenter’s’. The triple blow of a Catholic school being shot up, a girl’s throat being cut for the sin of just being there, and then Charley’s assassination, it’s got people ready to just stack bodies.
And here’s the completely unfair thing about it:
Once it starts, it’s not going to be as discriminate as you would think and hope. There are some good people in “dot E D U” There are, I am sure, some good people in journalism. There are some good people in the courts.
If that switch gets thrown, it ain’t gonna matter. Please, I beg of you, go look at a decent history of the French Revolution. Or the Russian Revolution, Hell, almost any revolution. It wasn’t just the guys that were truly deserving who caught the axe. Every grievance, every “that judge let this guy off with a lighter sentence than he should have,” Every “that bitch called the cops on me because my grass was ¼ inch too long, according to the HOA guidelines” is going to get dragged out and settled with violence.
And what is it going to take to start this? It might be as simple as someone who is dead tired, and maybe a little on the low blood sugar side, getting crossed in the wrong way. They’re not going to need a gun. You would be amazed how much damage can be done with a pickup truck, or a can of gasoline, with someone behind it that is just DONE. We’re talking Michael Douglas “Falling Down” done.
What’s that you say? You with the blue hair and the nose ring? “One guy committing violence can’t start a war?” Oh. Okay, well, just do me a favor ma’am, look up a dude named Gavrilo Princip. Then come back and talk with us from a position of knowledge instead of ignorance.
Yes, it took the special preconditions globally that made eastern Europe a powder keg, for Gavrilo to make his one little act of violence into the spark that killed forty million people. Guess what, we’re there. We’re living in that powder keg. Honestly, I half expected Charley’s assassination to be the spark, and it still might be. It’s been less than a week as I write this, since Charley was gunned down. We still don’t have solid conformation that we even have the right, or only, trigger man. (there’s some theories running around that the asshole in custody was a patsy, and the actual shot was from elsewhere, including one that it was a pistol in the crowd. We just don’t know. Honestly, we probably never will. (Zapruder tapes and the grassy knoll anyone?)
Questions are being asked like “If it was a rifle, where’s the exit wound?” Seriously, any rifle capable of making that shot (which is to say any hunting rifle) should have gone through the neck and out the other side, yet on the video, there doesn’t seem to be an exit wound.
We’re in a time where, at any point in the next couple of months, a reaction to this action could snowball. I guarantee this is not what Charley would have wanted; but you know, he was the best of us, as far as nonviolence, and keeping open a dialog, as opposed to “just get it over with, and clean house” goes.
And all of this ignores things like the ICE agent that was struck and dragged by the car of an illegal alien, who he ended up shooting to save his own life in Chicago, or the illegal alien who beheaded his boss with a machete in front of the victim’s family, because he took offense at something the boss said. I can’t say it often enough. POWDER KEG.
In other cases of pushing, seemingly just to see how far the rope will stretch before it breaks; we have Russia, who, right in the aftermath of encroaching on Poland’s airspace with armed drones, (causing Poland to activate Article 4 of NATO) did the same to Romania, (also a NATO partner.) I don’t know what can possibly be in Putin’s thoughts. If you WANT to fight NATO, while fighting Ukraine, that’s a good way to start it. Of course, if the PRC is pulling Putin’s strings these days (always a possibility) maybe that IS the goal. Get the US involved in Europe through a NATO Article 5 attack, and bet we will be too busy to also get involved in a surprise attack on Free China.
It's ballsy, I’ll give them that. STUPID, but ballsy.
Sal has some nice things to say about Japan’s new Rail Gun system, at japan-is-wayne-e-meyern-railguns, you should go over and take a look at that.
Finally, coming out of California (who’s shocked here?) their VA hospital (the Veteran’s Administration, offering you a second chance to die for your country, since 1928) at Palo Alto was supposed to get some new buildings to replace old ones that were not ‘earthquake proofed.’ This was to include a new state of the art Psychiatric Hospital. Plans were made in 2008, work was started in 2009. It was supposed to take six years, and cost roughly $450 mil..
It's now estimated that it will cost over $1.6 billion, and may be complete by 2036.
The VA IG looked into it, and filed this report: https://www.vaoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2025-09/vaoig-23-03189-148_final.pdf by all means read it yourself, but what it boils down to, after 62 pages, is that none of the procedures written for major projects were followed.
There are all sorts of rules that are supposed to keep the price down, and stop the sort of “growth in the project” shit, and the failed management decisions, that make this the same sort of project as Cal Transit’s Highspeed Rail system. The local bureaucrats didn’t feel the need to follow any of them.
Now the only thing keeping the project alive is the “Sunk Costs Fallacy” that says “well, we’ve already spent so much on it, we can’t afford to stop now. That may not save it for long.
QOTD: We’re going to get in the way-back machine, for a quote that is pertinent to the Charley Kirk assassination. “They’ll talk to Martin, because they don’t want to talk to ME.” Malcom X. The right’s Martin Luther King is dead. Everyone left is a Malcom.
Yours in Service,
William Lehman