Posted On: Saturday - February 28th 2026 9:40PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons World Political Stupidity
No, this is not what we voted for. I really expected President Trump-47 to lay low this time, even if just for the reason that he’s got so much else on his plate. A few months ago when the bombs were let loose on Iran, it was over quickly. I figured Trump was humoring Israel with that. He’s obviously really beholden to them or they’ve got him convinced that “those mullahs simply cannot have nuclear weapons.” That would likely be a bad thing, but not so much for America if we’d just stayed OUT OF ALL THIS.
It surreal to hear the same thing out of Trump as has been heard from all the NeoCons over the last 35 years. “Operation Epic Fury”, “Regime change.” “You guys go ahead and have your revolution - we got your back.”, “If you kill or threaten Americans, then we will hunt you down, and we will kill you” says War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Wait, which Americans, the ones who are over there attacking Iran? The best one was “The bombings will continue until peace is achieved.”
Trump may be thinking that this will be over quickly, as last time but then again, as with Venezuela, he’s talking about running the place! (Luckily his attention span is not that long - watch Venezuela.)
It may not end quickly - will the American military start to suffer some serious losses?
It is funny to see the D-party ctrl-left politicians go all Constitutionalist now. They’d have had no problem with these attacks had their man been in office. Then, soon we will see the Protest Industrial complex get in gear - see CCP-Linked NGO Network Prepares "Emergency Protests" In US After Trump's Iran Strikes Jeopardize Oil Flows To China. They may seem in alliance with the anti-war MAGA and REAL Conservative crowd, but they’re just there, as with the “George Floyd riots to pro-Palestine protests to anti-Tesla protests to anti-Trump protests and anti-Elon Musk protests to anti-DOGE protests to anti-ICE protests/riots”, to sow discord. We’ve got enough discord already without these foreign-run NGOs.
Well, I’ll leave things with this comment by Mr. Anon from this thread:
So – let me guess: We are now destroying the nuclear facilities that we totally destroyed last summer to prevent Iran from building the nuclear weapon that it has been one month away from building for the last thirty years.This is not a great note on which to end the blog week. We’ll try to get off the immediate news next week - I want to review Empire of Dust for one thing, and there’s much general stupidity demanding our attention. Thanks for reading and (more occasionally now) writing in.
Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 6:42AM MST
PS: “On the Unz-Sailer open thread: "there are more anti-war comments than pro"
Meanwhile, on the Sailer-Substack, there are more pro-war comments than anti. And certainly at the least there are more upvotes to the pro-war comments.”
It may have been confusing the way I wrote it, Mr. Hail, but I was estimating that on the SteveSailer.net site the comments leaned slightly anti-war by count. Perhaps we need a better count, and now the comments are up to 300.
I see you wrote one at least, so I’d like to ask you, can people comment even if they aren’t subscribers? This may have a lot to do with how many are on there - besides the important subject matter - but then I can’t see how many comments there are when it is paywalled. I don’t ask this for myself, BTW, as I really don’t want to get into commenting on another site - no offense to SS at all.
Regarding Mr. Sailer on the Iraq war, he had some great insight that helped him relate 2 normally not connected things, the social question about cousin marriage in the Middle East or other Moslem countries too, I guess, and the alleged goal of the war to spread democracy so something like 9/11 could never happen again. So, Mr. Sailer was against the war because he figured you’re not gonna get these kind of people to become those early Americans DeToqueville wrote about, or anything close!
However, was he against the war because it was wrong for America to get involved and overthrow governments to begin with? I’m not so sure about that. I didn’t read him back then though…
Meanwhile, on the Sailer-Substack, there are more pro-war comments than anti. And certainly at the least there are more upvotes to the pro-war comments.”
It may have been confusing the way I wrote it, Mr. Hail, but I was estimating that on the SteveSailer.net site the comments leaned slightly anti-war by count. Perhaps we need a better count, and now the comments are up to 300.
I see you wrote one at least, so I’d like to ask you, can people comment even if they aren’t subscribers? This may have a lot to do with how many are on there - besides the important subject matter - but then I can’t see how many comments there are when it is paywalled. I don’t ask this for myself, BTW, as I really don’t want to get into commenting on another site - no offense to SS at all.
Regarding Mr. Sailer on the Iraq war, he had some great insight that helped him relate 2 normally not connected things, the social question about cousin marriage in the Middle East or other Moslem countries too, I guess, and the alleged goal of the war to spread democracy so something like 9/11 could never happen again. So, Mr. Sailer was against the war because he figured you’re not gonna get these kind of people to become those early Americans DeToqueville wrote about, or anything close!
However, was he against the war because it was wrong for America to get involved and overthrow governments to begin with? I’m not so sure about that. I didn’t read him back then though…
Hail
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 3:09PM MST
PS
Re: Mr. Moderator, on your dropping in of the name Stephen Miller, in reference to immigration-restrictionist rhetoric and policies.
Something tells me Stephen Miller was also an influential pusher for the Iran war. The complete Zionist-ization of Trump in the 2020s was a devil's bargain.
Some of the astute Sailer commenters, including Dennis Dale, have identified this some years ago already. The trade was "full-on puppetization of White America and its resources and prestige and military and money and everything, in exchange for some steps (many basically symbolic, some real) on things like Wokeness and immigration."
I haven't heard the name Stephen Miller in reference to the Iran war, but I am pretty certain he was a pusher for it. He, too, is a victim of hubris. He's also a lot smarter than Trump.
Re: Mr. Moderator, on your dropping in of the name Stephen Miller, in reference to immigration-restrictionist rhetoric and policies.
Something tells me Stephen Miller was also an influential pusher for the Iran war. The complete Zionist-ization of Trump in the 2020s was a devil's bargain.
Some of the astute Sailer commenters, including Dennis Dale, have identified this some years ago already. The trade was "full-on puppetization of White America and its resources and prestige and military and money and everything, in exchange for some steps (many basically symbolic, some real) on things like Wokeness and immigration."
I haven't heard the name Stephen Miller in reference to the Iran war, but I am pretty certain he was a pusher for it. He, too, is a victim of hubris. He's also a lot smarter than Trump.
Hail
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 3:00PM MST
PS
Steve Sailer wrote (copy-paste of his comments on the Iran War in full, now beyond the Day 3.5 mark):
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I’m not particularly good at predicting the outcome of Trump’s adventures abroad because Trump seldom acts out of a long-term ideology, the way that George W. Bush’s 2003 Iraq War was based on a neoconservative consensus that had emerged over the years, giving me plenty of time to study and evaluate it.
Similarly, I did a good job of recognizing the Great Awokening and predicting where it was headed and why it would fail. I’d spent years articulating How the World Works and how, if you can’t tolerate admitting that, then you end up subscribing to Ibram X. Kendism. Which is exactly what happened, with dire consequences that were easily predictable (by me).
Trump’s foreign policy, in contrast, is more opportunist. So, he’s less likely to make predictable mistakes for ideological reasons. But is he more likely to make unpredictable mistakes?
What are your thoughts?
(end quote, Sailer)
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COMMENT: These vague comments seem actually to be almost readable as pro-war, and he completely dodges mentioning Israel.
This is the man who coined "Invade the World, Invite the World"!
How hard would it be to mention something like what Adam Smith did: that Netanyahu and his yapping orange buffoon did the war to coincide with the Jewish blood-soaked etho-holiday of "Purim," dealing with the killing of ancient Persians and ancient Jewish ethno-liberation?
And what of the comments by Rubio and others that Israel forced them to go to war? Which is already obvious but saying it is notable.
The big war against Iran finally came, and Sailer lost interest in criticism of Israel.
Steve Sailer wrote (copy-paste of his comments on the Iran War in full, now beyond the Day 3.5 mark):
____________
I’m not particularly good at predicting the outcome of Trump’s adventures abroad because Trump seldom acts out of a long-term ideology, the way that George W. Bush’s 2003 Iraq War was based on a neoconservative consensus that had emerged over the years, giving me plenty of time to study and evaluate it.
Similarly, I did a good job of recognizing the Great Awokening and predicting where it was headed and why it would fail. I’d spent years articulating How the World Works and how, if you can’t tolerate admitting that, then you end up subscribing to Ibram X. Kendism. Which is exactly what happened, with dire consequences that were easily predictable (by me).
Trump’s foreign policy, in contrast, is more opportunist. So, he’s less likely to make predictable mistakes for ideological reasons. But is he more likely to make unpredictable mistakes?
What are your thoughts?
(end quote, Sailer)
_____________
COMMENT: These vague comments seem actually to be almost readable as pro-war, and he completely dodges mentioning Israel.
This is the man who coined "Invade the World, Invite the World"!
How hard would it be to mention something like what Adam Smith did: that Netanyahu and his yapping orange buffoon did the war to coincide with the Jewish blood-soaked etho-holiday of "Purim," dealing with the killing of ancient Persians and ancient Jewish ethno-liberation?
And what of the comments by Rubio and others that Israel forced them to go to war? Which is already obvious but saying it is notable.
The big war against Iran finally came, and Sailer lost interest in criticism of Israel.
Hail
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 2:53PM MST
PS
On the Unz-Sailer open thread: "there are more anti-war comments than pro"
Meanwhile, on the Sailer-Substack, there are more pro-war comments than anti. And certainly at the least there are more upvotes to the pro-war comments.
But longterm participation or observation of a discussion community can have benefits at time like these. What I notice is: nearly all the pro-war comments on the Sailer-Substack thread are from people I don't recognize. They could be "bots." Or they could be the new Sailer fanbase.
Steve says he has not formulated an opinion on the Iran war, or any of Israel's 6 or 7 recent wars of aggression and puppetizing of US foreign policy. This "wouldn't have happened in the 2000s or 2010s," is what I've said before. But it's not a hypothetical; we have lots of cases of Steve being on record in the George W Bush era opposing these wars, which was a lot harder to do back then than it would be now.
On the Unz-Sailer open thread: "there are more anti-war comments than pro"
Meanwhile, on the Sailer-Substack, there are more pro-war comments than anti. And certainly at the least there are more upvotes to the pro-war comments.
But longterm participation or observation of a discussion community can have benefits at time like these. What I notice is: nearly all the pro-war comments on the Sailer-Substack thread are from people I don't recognize. They could be "bots." Or they could be the new Sailer fanbase.
Steve says he has not formulated an opinion on the Iran war, or any of Israel's 6 or 7 recent wars of aggression and puppetizing of US foreign policy. This "wouldn't have happened in the 2000s or 2010s," is what I've said before. But it's not a hypothetical; we have lots of cases of Steve being on record in the George W Bush era opposing these wars, which was a lot harder to do back then than it would be now.
Moderator
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 11:21AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, it wasn't as easy as it would have been on TUR's system, but I did read all the comments - 200-odd at the time - last night under that SS post. I agree that Altai wrote 3 or more good ones.
I meant to write in the current iSteve thread that I would guess, without doing a count yet, that there are more anti-war comments than pro. What do you think on that?
BTW, I'm gonna put together a post tonight with some points to ponder.
I meant to write in the current iSteve thread that I would guess, without doing a count yet, that there are more anti-war comments than pro. What do you think on that?
BTW, I'm gonna put together a post tonight with some points to ponder.
Moderator
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 11:19AM MST
PS: Adam, I'll check your graphics out later on. Thank you.
"It's almost as if allowing a bronze age people, with a bronze age morality and bronze age superstitions to possess modern weaponry is a mistake. (or something?)" Indeed. Most people FOR this war only see the one side of it.
Then, note what Mr. Anon wrote (pasted into this post). I'm inclined to believe that these stories are no more believable than the crap out the big WMD's in Iraq.
"It's almost as if allowing a bronze age people, with a bronze age morality and bronze age superstitions to possess modern weaponry is a mistake. (or something?)" Indeed. Most people FOR this war only see the one side of it.
Then, note what Mr. Anon wrote (pasted into this post). I'm inclined to believe that these stories are no more believable than the crap out the big WMD's in Iraq.
Moderator
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 11:16AM MST
PS: I agree with Mr. Smith that the same wars would be happening were Kamela the puppet in chief. In the way we are discussing - especially after Marco Rubio kind of admitted it - Trump is a puppet beholden to Isreal, but on other matters he's the only one I've seen lately who's not. (He fights Globalism and the Globalists.)
Mr. Hail, I am not as pissed off at the guy as you are. I AM angry, even above the stupidity of this move that may end up worse for everyone than the last big NeoCon wars, that Trump has now caused:
1) Animosity against him from former supporters fo this.
2) A big distraction that could end all the work (and I'm much more optimistic than you on this) he, well, Steven Miller, et al., have done against the PRP.
Mr. Hail, I am not as pissed off at the guy as you are. I AM angry, even above the stupidity of this move that may end up worse for everyone than the last big NeoCon wars, that Trump has now caused:
1) Animosity against him from former supporters fo this.
2) A big distraction that could end all the work (and I'm much more optimistic than you on this) he, well, Steven Miller, et al., have done against the PRP.
Hail
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 8:18AM MST
PS
Altai has some good comments on the Sailer-Substack.
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/what-do-you-think-about-the-iran/comment/221525643
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/what-do-you-think-about-the-iran/comment/221533928
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Altai wrote:
"Steve (Sailer)'s reluctance to touch the whole situation (And his retreat to paywall land) in the Middle East has been disastrous. Steve is basically the only one who can bridge to normie-cons and influence these discourses. His retreat has helped allowed this craziness to develop." -- Altai, after the "Purim-2026" rage-war against Iran.
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Almost Missouri wrote:
"Americans elected Trump as Executive, who is supposed to get authorization from the Legislature before launching a war, not just as a Constitutional nicety, but to ensure that it is a project the public actually supports. Polls show most Americans don't support this. Trump undoubtedly knows this.
So why would a formerly popular Executive defy the will of his constituency? One answer is that his real constituency isn't those who elected him."
I wrote in response:
"Your comments sounds like 2000s-Sailer, like a blog-post from 2000s-Sailer. Why isn't 2020s-Sailer like this?"
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Altai has some good comments on the Sailer-Substack.
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/what-do-you-think-about-the-iran/comment/221525643
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/what-do-you-think-about-the-iran/comment/221533928
___________
Altai wrote:
"Steve (Sailer)'s reluctance to touch the whole situation (And his retreat to paywall land) in the Middle East has been disastrous. Steve is basically the only one who can bridge to normie-cons and influence these discourses. His retreat has helped allowed this craziness to develop." -- Altai, after the "Purim-2026" rage-war against Iran.
___________
Almost Missouri wrote:
"Americans elected Trump as Executive, who is supposed to get authorization from the Legislature before launching a war, not just as a Constitutional nicety, but to ensure that it is a project the public actually supports. Polls show most Americans don't support this. Trump undoubtedly knows this.
So why would a formerly popular Executive defy the will of his constituency? One answer is that his real constituency isn't those who elected him."
I wrote in response:
"Your comments sounds like 2000s-Sailer, like a blog-post from 2000s-Sailer. Why isn't 2020s-Sailer like this?"
___________
Hail
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 7:50AM MST
PS
Artist's depiction of the year 2026:
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-israels-orange-buffoon-trump.png
https://x.com/Hail__To_You/status/2028841189970227298
Artist's depiction of the year 2026:
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-israels-orange-buffoon-trump.png
https://x.com/Hail__To_You/status/2028841189970227298
Adam Smith
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 7:33AM MST
PS: Good morning, everyone!
https://i.ibb.co/HDddvhTh/Bored-of-Peace.jpg
I've been meaning to chime in for a couple days now, but I've been lazy about internetting. (Spell check tells me that internetting is not a word. Oh well...) I have, however, been busy spring cleaning around the yard and in the garden because the weather was really quite nice for a few days. (Insert smiley face emoji here.) Cold(ish) yesterday and today, but I should probably/maybe plant my snow peas, sugar snaps, spinach, bok choy, and komatsuna anyway. (I've never planted komatsuna before. I hope it's good and likes our climate/soil etc.)
https://i.ibb.co/TMfvQK8n/The-bombings-will-continue-until-peace-is-achieved.jpg
＜a quick side note＞I have a small batch of pdf files to post but I'll do that a little later. (After I finish waking up. I'm still a little sleepy headed this morning.)＜/a quick side note＞
Mr. Hail...
https://i.ibb.co/jPkZFTtt/the-anti-Semites-were-right.jpg
While it may now seem like Kacklin' Kamala would have(?) (could have?) been a better choice and may have even (somehow?) been able to avoid yet another senseless war for jewish power, there is really no evidence that Kacklin' Kamala and ℎ𝑒𝑟 jewish handlers would handle this situation any differently. In fact, there are many reasons to believe that the jew's war on Iran would have proceeded as planned no matter the sitting (p)resident in the white house. I am of the opinion that this event was planned some time ago to coincide with the third purim blood moon...
https://i.ibb.co/PsxpDqGw/purim-blood-moon.jpg
https://cbn.com/news/world/third-blood-moon-landing-directly-purim-israels-deliverance-ancient-iran
(Say what you will about those evil little jews but they sure do love their symbolisms and esoteric occultisms/mysticisms.)
https://ffoz.org/messiah/articles/purim-blood-moon-and-the-fall-of-the-wicked
https://anash.org/blood-moon-on-purim-signals-downfall-of-the-wicked/
I mean...
It's almost as if allowing a bronze age people, with a bronze age morality and bronze age superstitions to possess modern weaponry is a mistake. (or something?)
☮️
https://i.ibb.co/HDddvhTh/Bored-of-Peace.jpg
I've been meaning to chime in for a couple days now, but I've been lazy about internetting. (Spell check tells me that internetting is not a word. Oh well...) I have, however, been busy spring cleaning around the yard and in the garden because the weather was really quite nice for a few days. (Insert smiley face emoji here.) Cold(ish) yesterday and today, but I should probably/maybe plant my snow peas, sugar snaps, spinach, bok choy, and komatsuna anyway. (I've never planted komatsuna before. I hope it's good and likes our climate/soil etc.)
https://i.ibb.co/TMfvQK8n/The-bombings-will-continue-until-peace-is-achieved.jpg
＜a quick side note＞I have a small batch of pdf files to post but I'll do that a little later. (After I finish waking up. I'm still a little sleepy headed this morning.)＜/a quick side note＞
Mr. Hail...
https://i.ibb.co/jPkZFTtt/the-anti-Semites-were-right.jpg
While it may now seem like Kacklin' Kamala would have(?) (could have?) been a better choice and may have even (somehow?) been able to avoid yet another senseless war for jewish power, there is really no evidence that Kacklin' Kamala and ℎ𝑒𝑟 jewish handlers would handle this situation any differently. In fact, there are many reasons to believe that the jew's war on Iran would have proceeded as planned no matter the sitting (p)resident in the white house. I am of the opinion that this event was planned some time ago to coincide with the third purim blood moon...
https://i.ibb.co/PsxpDqGw/purim-blood-moon.jpg
https://cbn.com/news/world/third-blood-moon-landing-directly-purim-israels-deliverance-ancient-iran
(Say what you will about those evil little jews but they sure do love their symbolisms and esoteric occultisms/mysticisms.)
https://ffoz.org/messiah/articles/purim-blood-moon-and-the-fall-of-the-wicked
https://anash.org/blood-moon-on-purim-signals-downfall-of-the-wicked/
I mean...
It's almost as if allowing a bronze age people, with a bronze age morality and bronze age superstitions to possess modern weaponry is a mistake. (or something?)
☮️
Hail
Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 3:41AM MST
PS
-- Israel's pet orange buffoon at it again --
The start of another war for Israel, a senseless war, an illegal and aggressive war started dishonorably, a major war against a significant power, with unknown consequences. entirely directed and demanded by Israel.
This is no time to brag about being right about Trump and the Trump people. I take no pride in being right about identifying this thing, as least in his mid-2020s version of Trump/MAGA. Trump is a deeply sick and perhaps senile person, still talking big-talk (it's all he really knows; and it charmed many at various times to various extents in the 2010s, dragging on by inertia into the 2020s). But he is puppetized by Israel and dangerous in many of the usual ways.
When I turned fully against Trump some time ago, it was specifically over things like what this war is showing us. Lack of principle matters; extreme and repeated dishonorable behavior, e.g. using negotiations as a ruse to plan a first-strike surprise attack, assassinating leaders of other countries. That's the kind of gangster-state behavior that Israel does. That's not what White men do.
The extreme narcissism festers and metastasizes into Hubris.
The Trump personality cult went too far. It is, today, nothing but sychophants all the way down, with the ideological vigor not on behalf of White-Western mankind but on behalf of Israel (and the Trump family and other demagogues and con-men who make money from the whole thing).
The buffoon's going along with Israel and the dual-citizens, outsourcing all foreign policy to Israel and its agents, is something that mattered, and was a huge signal that something very bad is going on behind the scenes. The relatively small number of made-for-TV deportation performances do not make up for it.
In summary:
-- This is a disaster. --
And, let the record show:
the anti-Semites were right.
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Let me say one more thing.
This is the first time I think I've said this:
My thinking now is, not only was Trump-2024 a big mistake. I now am forced to go further: Kamala should've won. If the sole choice was between Israel's pet orange buffoon, on one hand, and the worst candidate in history (a.k.a. the Kackler) on the other hand, I believe we'd have been better off with the Kackler after all.
-- Israel's pet orange buffoon at it again --
The start of another war for Israel, a senseless war, an illegal and aggressive war started dishonorably, a major war against a significant power, with unknown consequences. entirely directed and demanded by Israel.
This is no time to brag about being right about Trump and the Trump people. I take no pride in being right about identifying this thing, as least in his mid-2020s version of Trump/MAGA. Trump is a deeply sick and perhaps senile person, still talking big-talk (it's all he really knows; and it charmed many at various times to various extents in the 2010s, dragging on by inertia into the 2020s). But he is puppetized by Israel and dangerous in many of the usual ways.
When I turned fully against Trump some time ago, it was specifically over things like what this war is showing us. Lack of principle matters; extreme and repeated dishonorable behavior, e.g. using negotiations as a ruse to plan a first-strike surprise attack, assassinating leaders of other countries. That's the kind of gangster-state behavior that Israel does. That's not what White men do.
The extreme narcissism festers and metastasizes into Hubris.
The Trump personality cult went too far. It is, today, nothing but sychophants all the way down, with the ideological vigor not on behalf of White-Western mankind but on behalf of Israel (and the Trump family and other demagogues and con-men who make money from the whole thing).
The buffoon's going along with Israel and the dual-citizens, outsourcing all foreign policy to Israel and its agents, is something that mattered, and was a huge signal that something very bad is going on behind the scenes. The relatively small number of made-for-TV deportation performances do not make up for it.
In summary:
-- This is a disaster. --
And, let the record show:
the anti-Semites were right.
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Let me say one more thing.
This is the first time I think I've said this:
My thinking now is, not only was Trump-2024 a big mistake. I now am forced to go further: Kamala should've won. If the sole choice was between Israel's pet orange buffoon, on one hand, and the worst candidate in history (a.k.a. the Kackler) on the other hand, I believe we'd have been better off with the Kackler after all.
Moderator
Sunday - March 1st 2026 9:11AM MST
PS: Haha, yes, it is… which nicely segues us into the review of “Empire of Dust”. Thank you.
About that German Psychologist who is temporarily living in the Gell-Mann (no, that’s not it) house in Los Angeles you mentioned - is that someone you know personally, Dieter?
About that German Psychologist who is temporarily living in the Gell-Mann (no, that’s not it) house in Los Angeles you mentioned - is that someone you know personally, Dieter?
Dieter Kief
Sunday - March 1st 2026 3:10AM MST
PS
Hi Mod. - looking back on this week and looking forward on the next week at once: - "It's all so tiresome".
'appy sunday peakers!
Hi Mod. - looking back on this week and looking forward on the next week at once: - "It's all so tiresome".
'appy sunday peakers!
“Similarly, I did a good job of recognizing the Great Awokening and predicting where it was headed and why it would fail.” I don’t like bragging, but it’d be fine if he were right there. He’s was very prescient, maybe a little lucky, about the Tranny thing, and it might be the case that the crazy left starts in on Polygamy next - just guesswork here, but that’d be another good prediction.
However, the wokeness was NOT a fad. He was wrong on this, and he doesn’t give the credit for the possibly only temporary end to it where it belongs, Donald Trump.