Something Fishie

Lord, I pray that all the exploiters, the dishonest dealers, the cheaters, the liars, those looking to sow fear and dissatisfaction and division will be exposed. All of them.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:1-5 ESV “Word” is Logos in Greek, which means logic and perfection. Jesus is both God and perfection, and all things were made through Him. Jesus is life, our reason for living, and even in a dark world, Jesus shines and evil has not defeated Him. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 ESV Perfection became “flesh” (Greek means perfection became fallible and crude, like a weak human) and lived among humans. The apostles saw God in human form, full of truth, but also grace that no human deserves. Why does God love us, despite our wickedness? We don’t know, and yet He still does. His ways are far above our own, like the heavens over the earth.

Look, I get it, Dems. You think buying Greenland is dumb. You think trash-talking NATO is dumb. You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb. You think bombing Iran is dumb. Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it. But that’s not the point. Every administration in American history has done dumb things. Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy. LBJ had Vietnam. Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1. W. had “Mission Accomplished.” Obama had…. where do I even begin? Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions. What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for. That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for. A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency. That’s the new threshold, Democrats. That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible. Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland. But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care. Zero F’s given by me.

Well, THIS executive branch, at least.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

If you are using the earth as a reference frame, the moon is actually doing a close flyby of Artemis II.

NBC News isn’t saying she is a Democrat. When there’s a scandal with a Republican, the party affiliation is always in the headline. #themoreyouknow

"Don't go after fraud, there's so little that it's not worth the effort" counted as Good Policy Thought for like 25 years

The only place in Cuba where currently has electricity is a five star hotel where Hasan Piker and Code Pink are staying. Hospitals don’t even have electricity. These people are the world’s biggest useful idiots.

THIS Is why we can’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz. THIS THIS THIS We just don’t have enough Destroyers and US Merchant Marine supertankers…. And the SHIPs for America Act doesn’t have enough fraud inside it to be passed by Congress. Dems spent $65B connecting ZERO rural homes to internet. That’s 21 US Navy destroyers!! More than enough to run convoys in the strait. Navy Veteran @PeteButtigieg was given $2 TRILLION to fix infrastructure. That’s 666 destroyers or 133 nuclear aircraft carriers! 5 years later, longer than it took us to win WW2, our infrastructure is in worse shape. FORGET EVERYTHING THE MEDIA IS TELLING YOU 👇👇👇 IS WHY WE CANNOT SECURE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

@johnkonrad One Minnesota daycare fraud can buy 6.3 DDG’s.

Awww, fancy that.

In California, Vermont, Maryland, and DC, noncitizens are allowed to register and vote in local elections They’ve been asked how they keep those noncitizens who are registered to vote from voting in federal elections They refuse to answer Shady as heck

@plzbepatient People who loudly exclaim their plans to kill Trump and everyone who voted for him are suddenly very upset that he doesn’t mourn when one of their “heroes” dies.

Democrats were definitely going to be super nice to Trump when he dies until the Mueller post. Bridge too far.

I will never know why people get so worked up when you tell them you want to make sure the voter rolls reflect actual living potential voters and nothing else.

@libsoftiktok @somethingfishie

HOLY SHLIT The DOJ found over 300,000 DEAD VOTERS on just a partial review of voter rolls 300,000! But Democrats told me this is impossible and never happens!

If you are an American currently stuck in line at the airport, you should keep three things in mind: 1) Democrats shut down DHS to stop illegal aliens from being deported. 2) Shutting down DHS had zero effect on funding for immigration enforcment. 3) Democrats have said they will not re-open DHS unless ICE no longer has the power to detain criminal illegal aliens. The Democratic Party, quite simply, cares more about protecting foreigners than representing Americans.

A disturbing pattern is being exposed in California. Fake hospices allegedly enroll patients and bill Medicare for millions before vanishing.

I've tried this once. Maybe the second attempt will work. Hey @elonmusk @nikitabier, can we get a Texas flag emoji please? #GodBlessTexas