Minarchic Anti-Communist

Tolerance is not a virtue.

A lot of what we assume was created through legal process was just made up by the victors The Constitution wasn't legally ratified under the Articles of Confederation Judicial review doesn't exist in the Constitution the Supreme Court just made it up The 14th Amendment was "ratified" under military occupation in the South after Lincoln dumped half the constitution in the toilet Nobody cares, most of this stuff is celebrated at this point You can just ignore the courts, if you win no one will care

If a mural of a young, innocent woman killed in cold blood divides your community, you have a shitty community.

As many are beginning to understand after listening to oral arguments today, the Supreme Court does not exclusively weigh the law, the facts, the text, and the history to come to its conclusions. Sometimes it does that. But in the most political and contentious cases, that is most definitely not what happens. We do not actually have a supreme court, we have a lifelong legislature of lawyers who prefer the robe to the campaign trial. One-third of the court makes decisions based entirely on what is best for the Democrat party and never wavers from that mission. Only two of the nine justices seem to have any consistent interest in determining a given law’s text and original meaning. Of the remaining four, the chief justice thinks he’s a thermometer whose job is take to the temperature of the country and then make decisions based on whether they’ll make people like him. The former professor seems to think she’s still writing academic papers. The former Western judge is occasionally reliable when he’s not claiming boys can become girls or fan-girling over Indian treaties. The final justice seems to be saddled with the horrifying task of corralling the two rudderless and emotional basket cases into something resembling coherence. And if that weren’t horrifying enough, let me comfort you with the observation that this collection of Democrat party operatives, weepy thermometers, wannabe legislators, and only sometimes actual lawyers is actually the least dysfunctional of the three federal branches of government. Happy Wednesday!

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@IanGaudrea30195 @drawandstrike Divisions are good.

My painting of Iryna Zarutska that is being removed after the mayor has declared it divisive

@VegasDevil1 @BrandonStraka Problem is, that was already the case, pre-LBJ administration. Black America had exceptional upward mobility, strong families, great culture, & patriotic traditional values. The Communist-alligned Democrats broke up the black (+white too) family & set America on path of decline

Two women dine and dash at Tasty Tails in Dallas, leaving a small family-owned restaurant asking for help identifying them. Incidents like this hit local businesses hard.

@tpverity212224 @BrandonStraka 'People'

@BrandonStraka It's become a thing now.. People have no self respect

@That1Lady1 @BrandonStraka The CRA was a mistake where it applied to private businesses.

@BrandonStraka Absolute TRASH! When I was younger I worked in several restaurants and in every single one there hung a sign that said " we have the right to refuse service to anyone " That needs to make a comeback.

Bukele didn’t save El Salvador because he arrested all the criminals. He saved it because he removed the judges. Communist judges are the sword and shield of the communist revolution here in America. Removing them is everything.

@IlyaSomin @Kinger_DC This is just a lie. Also, newsflash, there ARE NO CHILDREN OF FREED SLAVES LEFT. Children born to illegal aliens, tourists, temporary workers, foreign diplomats, "refugees" whose cases are awaiting hearing, etc are OBVIOUSLY excluded from automatic citizenship.

As we prepare for Supreme Court oral argument in birthright citizenship case, it's important to remember every argument for denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented migrants also requires denial for many freed slaves, thus undermining main purpose of Citizenship Clause. See my @lawfare article: lawfaremedia.org/article/slaver…

@Hntaigana @Geiger_Capital And that law itself is constantly violated. It is almost irrelevant to the public will. Americans have guns because they refused to give them up, and even reclaimed them when courts and pols took them away. We can do same with citizenship. "The law" is what we allow it to be.

It has actually worked out pretty well because Americans still have more right to bear arms than almost any other civilians on Earth. In fact, of all the "genius" moves the founders are credited with, I'd say the Bill of Rights is one that unambiguously helped a lot, whereas others may be more happenstance (e.g., just because America had the Constitution and became great, it didn't necessarily become great because of the Constitution).

Under the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment, a foreign citizen of another nation can cross our border illegally at 9 months pregnant, give birth to an American citizen, and then return home. Their child is now eligible for US benefits and can vote in our elections. The Chinese can also pay to have surrogate children on US territorial islands in the Pacific, then immediately ship the babies to China to be raised under the CCP. Those children are now eligible for US benefits and can vote in our elections. Both of these scenarios are happening. It’s simply wrong and not at all what the Amendment was intended for, which was former slaves and their children. If it stands, US citizenship means nothing.

@miketermaat_ @Geiger_Capital There's no trust left. None.

@Geiger_Capital People want the rules to make sense. Citizenship should be clear and steady. If the system looks easy to game, trust starts to break. The country needs one clear standard and it needs to be applied the same way every time.

@Hntaigana @Geiger_Capital Like the 2nd Ammendment? It would be extremely hard to be clearer: ABSOLUTELY NO LIMITS ON RIGHT OF THE US CITIZEN TO OWN AND USE WEAPONS How has that worked out? We are not merely ruled by laws. We are ruled by those willing to enforce their own will, and the people who obey

@Geiger_Capital I tend to agree, though I have to ask: it feels like way too many amendments and other provisions in the Constitution were written in an excessively vague way. Why not just make it explicit in the text of the amendment? It isn't true no one could have imagined this scenario.

@PALillie @SohrabAhmari If Europeans somehow discovered the intestinal fortitude & resources to defend themselves, their FIRST PRIORITY should be evicting the hordes of Asian Islamists who have MULTIPLED incidents of rape & commit a majority of violent offences in every state they occupy. Also Greens

@obannan @SohrabAhmari Honestly, at this point I hope every European country, the UK included does rescind all of your basing rights & kicks you off the continent. We need to start taking you at your word here & you would absolutely deserve it

The American Right be like: "OK, cool, from now on, the US will have just a single, tiny ally. This is fine."

@WesHull5 @shipwreckedcrew If at first you don't win, recount, recount, until you do!

@obannan @shipwreckedcrew I remember that election. Kept finding votes in King county until she was the declared the winner.

And from the first election after it started, Republican's became unable to win statewide elections in the state that had give us GOP Senators Robert Packwood, Mark Hatfield, and Gordon Smith, and GOP Governor Victor Atiyeh. Also Reagan in 1980 and 1984. But now Oregon is a walk-over state for Dems in every statewide race with all-mail elections. Proof of concept that has now been followed in other Dem. controlled one-party states.

@FischerKing64 @Cernovich Yes.

The SCOTUS birthright citizenship case will bring much into focus. The very idea is stupid beyond belief, and is being openly exploited with birth tourism - which is used to subvert us. But do 9 old lawyers have a finger in a rule book and a hand in their crotch? And if they do - should we go along with a suicidal ruling? Really - if SCOTUS tells us birthright citizenship is ‘the law of the land,’ which would mean a Chinese woman who plans birth in San Diego can pump out a bonafide American citizen - do we do along with that? The implications are terribly destructive. It would mean someone born in San Diego but raised in Beijing is as American as apple pie - doesn’t need a visa to study at Stanford. Spying would be a lot easier. If SCOTUS doesn’t get this, isn’t moved by the open reality - it’s an institution that has had its time.

@rickjones98 @WallStreetApes

@WallStreetApes It’s definitely strange but tolerance and coexistence has to be considered. How do we as a culture learn to get along with our Muslim neighbors and understand their customs? Anti-diversity practice borders facism.

American says Muslims are already practicing Sharia Law in Plano, Texas A Muslim is seen at the East Plano Islamic Center with his very underage wife Investigator says he has 3 more underage wives at home “She is his wife. Yes, his wife. Please spare me your denials of Sharia law could never happen in America because it's already happening right here in Plano. And this is all over. He's got three more little wives at home too, by the way.”

@rickjones98 @WallStreetApes Anti-diversity fosters law and order and civilization. If medieval child-rapists feel uncomfortable or even (in'sh Allah!) SCARED enough to STAY AWAY... THAT'S KINDA THE POINT.

@sahu42750 @shanaka86 Moral hazard's a bitch.

This is not sudden collapse but structural asymmetry revealed under stress. NATO thrived on a shared Soviet-era enemy and mutual benefit. Today’s multipolar world — with no unified threat perception on Iran — turns it transactional. Rubio isn’t abandoning the alliance; he’s demanding reciprocity: bases and access must serve both sides, not just Europe’s defense. Europe’s procedural/legal refusals are sovereign choices, but they highlight the “one-way” critique when US power projection is restricted. Post-Iran war, expect tough negotiations on basing agreements, burden-sharing, and European strategic autonomy. Alliances endure when interests align; they weaken when treated as one-sided insurance. Facts beat nostalgia: this fracture forces adaptation — stronger European capabilities or a recalibrated transatlantic deal. The street runs both ways, or it erodes.

JUST IN: Marco Rubio just said NATO might be a “one-way street.” The Secretary of State of the country that founded the alliance, funded it, commanded it, and expanded it from 12 members to 32 just questioned whether it still serves American interests. He was not speaking hypothetically. He was responding to the fact that three NATO allies refused to let American aircraft use their airspace to conduct a war those allies were never consulted about. France blocked overflight for US weapons shipments to Israel. Italy denied Sigonella, the largest US air base in the Mediterranean, because Washington never formally requested authorisation for combat missions. Spain closed its entire airspace and every joint base. Germany, host of Ramstein, the Pentagon’s European command centre, has publicly called the war “illegal.” The alliance that survived the Berlin Blockade, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Ukraine fractured over an operation none of its European members were asked to join. This is the structural insight nobody is discussing. NATO’s Article 5 guarantees collective defence when a member is attacked. No NATO member has been attacked. The United States launched a war of choice, invited Israel as its partner, and demanded that European allies provide infrastructure for an operation those allies neither endorsed nor believed was legal. When they said no, Rubio called it a one-way street. The street is one-way because America built it and decided where it goes. Europe is being punished for refusing to drive on a road it did not choose. Meloni was Trump’s closest European ally. She aligned on immigration, China, EU scepticism. Italy still denied Sigonella because Italian law requires government approval for combat use and Washington never asked. The procedural denial exposed the personal alliance as decorative. Meloni is now distancing from a war 77 percent of Italians view unfavourably, turning her Trump friendship into a liability before a referendum. And here is where the fracture connects to the strait. Europe’s energy survival depends on American LNG, which now supplies 55 to 58 percent of EU gas imports. Trump told Europe to “fend for yourselves” on Hormuz while Europe’s fuel arrives on ships transiting sea lanes America says it will no longer protect. Rubio questioned NATO’s value on the same day Europe’s energy infrastructure relies on American supply more completely than at any point since the Marshall Plan. The alliance is being threatened by the country that made the alliance necessary by making Europe dependent on American fuel. The CMA CGM container ships trapped in the Gulf are French. The Hapag-Lloyd vessels stranded are German. The NATO allies whose airspace is denied are the same allies whose merchant fleets are hostage to a chokepoint America closed. The fracture runs from the podium in Washington to the anchorage off Fujairah. The airspace denial and the shipping entrapment are the same refusal expressed in different mediums. Europe is saying no to the war with its sky and paying for it with its sea. NATO survived 75 years because it had a shared enemy. This war has no shared enemy. It has a shared consequence. And the consequence is being distributed by the country that created it. The alliance did not break over a threat. It broke over a choice. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@shanaka86 It broke because it was unwieldy and foolish. Conning NEARLY TWO ENTIRE CONTINENTS into a "mandatory" mutual defense pact in which only the single party that is least in danger is responsible for 70% of funding & 60% of fighting is... absurd. Just as were the alliances of 1912.