Countries, borders, and nationality are not sacred things. They are tools for partially solving the problem of human coexistence. A country is not just a random group of people inside an arbitrary line on a map. It is a fragile system of laws, norms, expectations, customs, institutions, trust, language, welfare arrangements, and political legitimacy.
To keep such a system functioning, it matters who is allowed to join it, at what scale, and under what conditions. This is not because outsiders have less human worth. It is because a functioning society is not automatic. Peaceful coexistence is difficult, historically rare, and easy to damage.
Normally we simplify this with ideas like citizenship and nationality: if you are born here, you are part of the political community and the state has special obligations to you; if you are born elsewhere, you do not automatically have the same claim. That can sound cruel when reduced to first principles, but it is also practical. A society has much more ability to shape, educate, socialize, and govern people born inside its institutions than people arriving from very different political, cultural, or economic environments.
Immigration can be good, bad, or neutral depending on numbers, selection, integration, timing, and the receiving society’s capacity. But it is not something one can treat as morally simple. If you move people from one social system into another, some part of the first system comes with them. That does not make them bad people. It just means migration has real effects on the host society and cannot be treated as a purely individual transaction.
Modern first-world countries are, in historical terms, unusually stable and successful arrangements. They are so successful that people risk their lives to enter them. But that stability did not appear by magic. It depends on institutions, norms, trust, enforcement, and a bounded political community.
Well-argued. I would add that mass migration into the West is also a deliberate act of war against the West, an invasion encouraged by traitors in government and outside of government. Mayorkas is a clear example of someone who threw open our borders. He was aided and abetted by Dems and many other corrupt politicians and economic forces. The West must reasonably face its declining birthrates through domestic policies, not immigration. Mass immigration at levels we are seeing today will result in the annihilation of the West within a few more generations. This is killing the goose that lays golden eggs. All aspects of this problem must be faced full on, including declining birthrates. Either accept them and accept a smaller economy or figure out how to have more babies. In 1950, the population of USA was 180 million and the world’s was 2 billion. Everything was fine in USA. Rest of world not so much, but the third world has grown massively since 1950. Another side of this is the quality of immigrants/ invaders. Many of them really are low-IQ and come from clannish societies, so they will never be able to adapt, and evidence for that is everywhere. ABN
…’You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those apartment houses and they’re not all Hezbollah.’
Israel has killed at least 3,783 people and wounded 11,699 others in Lebanon between March 2 and June 14, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The agency does not distinguish between civilians and military combatants.
Trump also aired his anger with Bibi over the Israeli PM’s decision to bomb Beirut just two hours before the memorandum of understanding was to be signed by the US and Iran on Sunday.
‘Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon,’ Trump said. ‘I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon, and with Hezbollah.’
Trump also noted that he has told Israeli officials that Syria should ‘take care’ of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.
The President also doubled down on his recent claim that Israel would have been destroyed by Iran.
‘Without the US, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel because no other President was willing to do what I did.’
More data for the extremely importantquestion — Who rules whom? Israel or USA, in what order and to what degree? Israel and Jewish Supremacists inside USA appear to have strong control of our Deep State. Trump appears to have meaningful control of much of our foreign policy and appears to be wrestling with the Deep State, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. It looks like he is building a peaceful Middle East economic confederacy which includes Israel as an equal partner to the other states in the region. This may result in ending the Israeli fantasy of becoming the region’s hegemon. The ongoing battle for Greater Israel is a supremacy battle which unquestionably is being waged inside USA as well as in the ME. Right now, our totally cucked Congress is actually trying being bribed & blackmailed to to marry USA’s military to Israel’s military, while also repeatedly deliberately failing to pass basic voter ID laws, which are overwhelmingly supported by the public. How will this all shake out? Your guess is as good as mine. ABN
In this effort, USA has the ironic advantage of coming from behind in many areas. This both forces and allows us to build with the newest and best. ABN
The entire Western world is ruled by a self-centered elite numbering but a few thousand. No one who is not either onboard with them or accepts being a servile toady to them (most politicians) ever gets anywhere near real political power, or honest social influence.
Historically, elites have always manufactured social and political ‘reality’. In today’s world many of their traditional tricks are not working as well as they did only ten years ago.
What’s changed today is social media, especially X, allows the honest voices of ordinary people to be heard.
Moreover, it is obvious to anyone paying attention that more voices and more information about anything actually results in better and truer information.
Crowds crowd-sourcing themselves have proved to be much more savvy than a few thousand elites, who all bow to a small handful of super-elites.
It is simply a fact that more information seen by more people who add yet more information yields better information. Bad info is quickly sifted out.
Elites fear open-ended information more than anything because it reveals how selfish, wrong, small-minded and crazy they are.
That said, not all elites are always bad.
The best of them understand what is happening with human information and information-sharing and what is feasible.
It seems clear to me right now that more than one battle is going on among them. ABN
Eva is among a group of popular influencers who claim not to understand why the invasion is happening or who is behind it. Tucker, Promethean and others speak in the same way. These are all good people who feel forced to evade censorship and a loss of followers, probably reasoning that a 90% complete voice that is heard by many is better than a 100% complete voice that is heard by only a few. I agree with their analysis. I am a 100% voice by choice. Throughout history empires (and we are living in the Western empire today) have always forced dissidents to use euphemisms or claim ignorance to avoid dangerous consequences. The more thing change the more they stay the same. It is important to understand that not all speakers can speak the whole truth in all situations. Similarly not all politicians (I mean the rare good ones) can do everything they want to do because the consequences will be counterproductive. I believe RFK is in this sort of a bind right now. Going forward, this feature of world history is unlikely to change. ABN
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
—The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency in recent weeks issued the new counterintelligence threat assessment amid rising tensions between Israel and the U.S. over the way forward in the war with Iran, the officials said. They said the DIA posted an internal message, viewed by one of the current officials, that raised the level for Israel to “critical.”
The designation stems from concerns within the Pentagon that Israel is making a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East, the officials said.
The DIA assessment includes a seven-page document and features a chart, according to one of the current U.S. officials. The document says the assessment of Israel is that its ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a “critical level,” according to the official.
UPDATE: The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, an elite institution, is warning other parts of the American elite that the Israeli elite is spying on the Trump faction of the American elite. The warning is serious enough that the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency is allowing the American public to know about the compromise. At the same time Congress, the voice of the largely united front of the pro-Israel American elite, is trying to marry America’s military to Israel’s military. The adage that all politics is local has never been true. The adage should be all politics is elite factions competing with each other while toying with the public. There does appear to be a major battle going on involving Israel, the City of London ‘rules based order’, and some possibility that some factions of the Western elite do not want to entirely destroy USA and all of Western civilization. The public has close to zero say in anything elites do except when it is strongly united, a rare event which, should it occur, is always transient. I see a slim possibility that the Trump faction of the American elite may do something many of us will like. I am basically an American pragmatist strongly in favor of preserving Western civilization and American sovereignty ABN
In 2015, even before President Trump came down the golden escalator, CTH was outlining a ‘new era and dimension’ in American economics that could be possible if a presidential candidate focused on specific Main Street policy. {Go Deep}
Throughout the next four years we watched carefully how Donald Trump was organizing that Main Street revival {Go Deep} and what specifically was creating the economic growth {Go Deep}.
One of the points emphasized in 2016 about Trump’s unique MAGAnomic policy, was how both Trump and Bernie Sanders agreed on the problem. The difference between them was the solution.
Think of it like economic football.
Both Trump and Sanders identify the rigged game. Bernie Sanders wanted to change the referees so that government controls the game. Donald Trump’s approach was different. Trump wanted to change the rules of the game, not step in and try to play referee to a rigged game where the rules were flawed.
One of the examples of economic “rule changing” is trade tariffs. You don’t need govt to regulate the corporations directly (ie. raise corporate income taxes). Instead, you can change trade policy to make the better corporate decision a return of production back to the USA (a fundamental rules change).
Both approaches involve a different govt policy, but Trump’s approach changes behavior. That’s MAGAnomics.
One of the reasons Trump’s approaches are much more effective, is that his rule changes extend beyond the American corporate game. Trump’s approach changes the behavior of foreign governments and foreign corporations, a win/win/win.
An example is the Japanese government investing in America to offset reciprocity tariffs; while Toyota, a corporation, invests in specific auto manufacturing expansion to avoid baseline tariffs.
You don’t get that kind of result through Bernie’s approach changing the American referee in an all-American game and raising corporate income taxes. And don’t forget, the corporation can just move offshore and avoid income taxes entirely. Apple used to have their company incorporated in Ireland. Trump’s rule changes brought them back.
The Promethean Action PAC is now highlighting the fundamentals of Trump’s MAGAnomics and how the policy is distinctly different from all U.S. economic policy before it.
This short piece provides an excellent explanation of what MAGAnomics means to this administration and how that explains some of what the Promethean group is saying in its videos, which are models of conciseness and appropriate brevity. Reposted this piece in full with the author’s permission. ABN
So if Trump knows, his apparent demotion of Israel is explained. If he knows, his end-run around Europe and Israel, makes sense. There are many other signs Trump knows the Middle East and Israel and more, and is reorganizing world geopolitics based on pragmatics and USA’s best interests. As a global top hegemon, Trump is doing what he has to do (by KOBK rules). I am speculating. I want the best for USA and the world, in that order. ABN
“Health freedom is the largest, strongest single issue voting bloc in America today.”
“We are America’s new majority.”
“We are independent from any party.”
“And we are stronger than ever.”
She declared that Bayer-Monsanto’s push for a pesticide liability shield is “exactly what happened in 1986 when Congress gave a liability shield to vaccine makers.”
“It was a bad use of tort reform then, and it’s a bad use with pesticides today.”
“So let the record show, just like we did in 2024, we’re gonna show up and decide the elections in 2026.”
“Your voice matters more than you can imagine.”
“And it’s about to matter even more in the 2026 midterm elections.”
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