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African and Caribbean leaders just met in Ghana to demand formal apologies, debt relief, and a global reparations fund from the West.
Leftists who hate Western civilization are salivating at the chance to humiliate us by paying up.
They want you to believe it’s justice. But it’s nothing more than a parasitic money grab from societies that have repeatedly proven they cannot build or maintain functional, prosperous civilizations on their own.
Ethiopia was never colonized. It’s still one of the poorest, most unstable, and least developed places on the continent.
Hong Kong and Singapore were colonized. They became wealthy, orderly, high-trust global powerhouses through discipline, trade, and sound institutions. They’re not lining up with their hands out.
The pattern is undeniable wherever productive populations left.
Rhodesia was Africa’s breadbasket.
After independence as Zimbabwe and the flight of skilled farmers and administrators, it collapsed into hyperinflation, farm seizures, famine, and dictatorship.
South Africa, once the continent’s most advanced economy, is following the same trajectory. Crumbling infrastructure, record crime, energy blackouts, governance failure, and accelerating emigration of skilled citizens.
Trillions in Western foreign aid poured into these regions over decades. Almost entirely wasted on corruption, socialism, and dependency.
Many of these places were worse off before colonization in critical metrics. Literal shitholes.
Colonial rule brought modern infrastructure, medicine, education, and administration.
After independence, large parts reverted to their natural state of extractive institutions, tribalism, low trust, and low productivity.
Shitholes again.
These are failed states because they are failed societies.
And they will keep failing. Reparations would vanish into the same void as the aid before them. It would simply be theft from the productive to subsidize perpetual failure.
Put simply, they are thieves.
The Western leftists enabling and cheering this shakedown are never motivated by compassion.
They’re driven by spite and hatred for their own people and civilization.
They’d rather see the West bled dry and humiliated than defend the culture, institutions, and human capital that actually built the modern world.
The West owes them nothing.
The West does not do humiliation rituals.
The shakedown ends here.
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🚨US Navy Secretary Hung Cao is facing backlash for these comments: “They call me a white supremacist, but I have one request for them when they give me my hood, make sure it’s got the little slits and not the circles so I can see better.”
Thoughts?
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I'm Canadian, and for the life of me I cannot understand it.
After everything Donald Trump has said, done, been accused of, and admitted to, how are people still defending him?
It makes absolutely no sense to me.
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This was the exact moment in history when Australia stopped being a free country.
NEVER, under any circumstances, should you give up your guns to the government.
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@OneBadDude_ Im convinced the COVID vaccine wasn’t intended for Covid . . . and you can’t convince me otherwise.
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I’m convinced the covid vaccine did more damage than covid and you can’t convince me otherwise.
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Let's be honest,the Iranian delegation's performance in Switzerland was a masterclass in psychological and diplomatic leverage.
They arrived on their own terms, made the Americans wait, refused even the symbolic gesture of a handshake, held firm to their demands, and walked away the moment they usual threats from Donald Trump entered the conversation.
In doing so, they projected confidence while exposing the American desperation and weakness.
What stands out is the Persians' sophisticated understanding of symbolism and strategy.
Every move is calculated, every gesture deliberate, as though they are several moves ahead in a chess match while their counterparts is struggling to keep up.
The result is a striking contrast: Iran is composed, disciplined, and in control, while the United States is reactive and outmaneuvered.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the fact that Iran has now emerged as one of the most influential and formidable powers in the Middle East......
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@HorrorFXDesigns @thewakeninq Oh pshaw, maybe they took two trips around . . . One to enjoy the experience (zero recording) and one for you to enjoy (recording) 🙄
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@thewakeninq Everyone with their fuckin phones out recording and live streaming instead of just enjoying the experience. I hate it here. Take me back to the 80s man
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A vicious dog attack today in the retirement village.
I was cornered in on all sides and pinned down. 😅
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I’ve been living immersed in South Korea for the last month with my wife and daughter.
We just leave the stroller outside if we go in anywhere.
Because no one’s going to steal it.
I met a friend for lunch. He rode his bicycle. He just left it outside in an alley without a lock.
It was still there 2 hours later.
Another friend mistakenly left his phone on a park bench. When he finally retraced his steps and went back 4 hours later, his iPhone was still there.
I walked by a KPop concert. The fans who traveled from outside of Seoul to attend just left their luggage outside the subway station. No locks. No security.
Koreans take this for granted. They don’t realize this is not normal for most the world, especially America.
When I ask about it, they just respond, “of course, why would someone take it?”
Can you imagine any of these things happening or being possible in NYC or LA or *insert city*?
And IF, something were to be stolen in Korea, the police would investigate. Because in a high trust society, rules and norms matter.
There’s no “under $1000” law.
Theft is theft.
And trust is trust.
Will this social norm ever be possible in America?
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A woman drove 8 hours to a shelter to pick up her dog. It turned out that her ex-husband had cruelly brought the dog to the shelter as an act of revenge after their breakup.
When the dog saw his owner, he became incredibly excited: barking happily, running around, whining with joy, wagging his tail nonstop, and jumping into her arms over and over again.
The shelter staff said they had never seen a dog show such intense emotions before — a clear sign that he had missed her deeply and felt heartbroken after being abandoned 💖✨
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@MickeyDangerez Happy Fathers Day from America, waiting for you and your family . . . 🕯️
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To every American who has reached out with support for me and my family — you have revigorated our hope and drawn us closer to God.
Your genuine care for our situation and my baby boy's future fills me with profound love for this nation.
Your generosity humbles me beyond words. We will repay it fourfold through relentless hard work, resilience, and dedication to helping make America even greater.
Because of American kindness, my baby boy will have the chance to grow up to his full potential serving America first. A real future for our child is the biggest gift anyone could give us.
An Amerikaner father.
🫡 🇺🇸 🙏❤️
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@Herb_Minstrel @brendanmjones @LoneStarChica @JenniferEvn22 @SaraGonzalesTX @byrnanation Great thoughts Dolly girl, I feel that you are just getting started . . . LGD’s are heroes worth their weight in gold, an absolute necessity, work horses and should be protected at all costs!
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Anyone who knows me personally knows I’m a pretty outspoken critic of government overreach. I became involved in local politics during the illegal government mandates of the COVID years. I’ve largely stepped back and focused on my family, my homestead, and my business (all of which I’ve called my “quiet rebellion”).
But the ordeal with #SaveLucy and #SaveSnuggles has brought this issue front and center to our lives once again.
I’ve been thinking a lot about laws that allow livestock guardian dogs (LGD’s) to be taken from their families over completely normal livestock guardian dog behavior.
There is a much bigger conversation to be had…
Fact: The government does not benefit from a population that is self-reliant. Self-reliant people are harder to control. They grow and raise their own food. Fix their own problems. Depend less on fragile supply chains, massive corporations, and government programs.
Fact: the most important tool a homesteader has (aside from their firearm) is a livestock guardian dog.
Before Lucy was out in the fields, then later our Pyrenees/Anatolian mixes, we lost animals every year to foxes, coyotes, and bears. I still remember the night a bear wiped out my entire flock of chickens! We don’t raise, train and keep these dogs because we think it’s cool—we do it because it’s necessary.
People who don’t live this lifestyle don’t understand that an LGD isn’t a luxury. It isn’t just a pet that happens to live outside. It is an essential piece of the operation.
Take away the LGD, and you make it exponentially harder to raise livestock and feed our families.
Take away people’s ability to protect their land, and you increase dependence on the very systems that are keeping us sick, and keep getting more expensive, more fragile, and more centralized every year.
Maybe that’s not the intent behind these laws, but it is absolutely the result.
The people writing these policies often have zero understanding whatsoever of LGD’s, rural life, predator threats, or what it actually takes to keep animals alive on a farm.
Instead, they apply suburban standards to working farm dogs and then act shocked when farmers and homesteaders push back.
For me personally, and I think for many Americans across the country, the #savelucy and #SaveSnuggles movement is about much more than two dogs.
It’s about shining a light on laws that allow neighbors and bureaucrats to stick their noses where they don’t belong. It’s about whether families have the right to use the same methods humans have used for thousands of years to protect their livestock and provide food for their families.
It’s about whether people living on their own land will be allowed to make practical decisions without bureaucrats and activists who have never even grown a tomato dictating how rural life should work.
You want to #MAHA?
You want less reliance on massive corporations and more thriving local economies? Then stop making it harder for families to live off their own land!
Stop punishing homesteaders because their LGDs are doing exactly what they were bred to do!
Stop favoring city transplants who move to the countryside for the view while treating the people who actually work the land as the problem. You’re pushing out the very families who sustain local economies, raise local food, and pass down the skills and values that built rural America in the first place.
Our Lucy became America’s dog for a reason. She represents millions of Americans who simply want the freedom to raise their families and steward their land without unnecessary interference from neighbors, bureaucrats, and government agencies. Lucy became a symbol of the voice of ordinary Americans—a voice that is too often threatened with being silenced. That’s why #SaveLucy and #SaveSnuggles matter. They were never just about dogs. They are about preserving the right of everyday Americans to live freely and thrive on their own land and in their own homes.
mulberrypatchhome.com
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We are done if a Democrat ever steps foot in the White House again. Biden/Harris ripped open our precious borders and we have barely BEGUN to recover. Another Democrat in power will be the death knell of America.
Amy Mek@AmyMek
🚨CONQUERED TEXAS.... NOTHING SAYS TEXAS LIKE MUSLIMS BEATING THEMSELVES IN THE STREETS OUTSIDE THE MOSQUE Why stay inside beating yourselves when you can take it outside in a show of force to dominate the streets and unsettle locals? That's exactly what's happening in Houston right now. This is a Muharram Juloos - the public street procession during Muharram, the "holiest" mourning month for Shia Muslims. It commemorates the killing of Imam Hussain and his family at Karbala in 680 AD. Shia mark it with black flags, loud chants, and synchronized chest-beating (matam), where men rhythmically pound their own chests, sometimes with chains, to relive the grief. We didn't grow this here. We imported it by bringing in millions from third-world Muslim countries where public self-beating and street takeovers are normal. Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, and similar places send the people, and their customs follow. The result? Texas streets turned into scenes that belong in Karachi or Karbala, not America. They could mourn quietly inside the mosque. They choose to do it outside in your face. WHY are we importing the thrird world,,,, It's third-world culture imported and normalized on American soil. I've warned about this pattern for years. It's spreading....
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Hey America! 🇺🇸
Japan is playing today in the World Cup, so if you’re watching, come cheer for us too!
We’re gonna give it everything we’ve got 🔥
Let’s enjoy the match together! 🇯🇵❤️
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There is so much life to live and enjoy if you can pull yourself away from the screen and the deep dark caverns of the Internet.
Get out and live life and love the people in your life. ❤️
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