Trump suspends Iran attack for two weeks, subject to Hormuz Strait opening
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Taki, who thinks it's 431 BC, takes time out from his debaucheries to scold The Donald that Iranians are going to experience terrible suffering, and Americans eventual defeat
Arrogance led to the Athenian demise, no doubt about it.
But like the good Spartan that he is, he doesn't consider that it might be 490 BC instead, seeing how he and his European friends are too busy with feasting to come to the aid of our age's Athens at Marathon.
Here.
Monday, April 6, 2026
Everybody is getting into the authoritarian business of giving themselves the power to decide something they don't like is terrorism so that they can suppress it
... Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a measure that gave him and other state officials the power to designate groups as "terrorist organizations" and expel students who support them, with rights groups saying the law will chill free speech.
The law empowers the state's chief of domestic security, governor and cabinet to designate any organization they determine engages in extremist acts as a "terrorist organization."
After such a designation, the group can be forcibly dissolved and face a freeze on state funding, according to the legislation. It also says that students shall be expelled from their institution if they "promoted a domestic terrorist organization or a foreign terrorist organization." ...
My favorite phrase from this essay: "To the extent that there’s an intellectual foundation for Trumpism . . ."
Very amusing.
There's a lot riding on the outcome of the Hungarian elections for certain "conservatives" next week.
It's mostly about Gladden Pappin, but is useful for describing the connections between Hungary and other American figures like J. D. Vance, and also the Danube Institute bankrolling Rod Dreher (unmentioned), helmed by National Review veteran John O'Sullivan:
Another English-speaking member of this species is John O’Sullivan, a former speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher. O’Sullivan is the founder and president of the Danube Institute, which receives funding from Orbán’s government and stays relentlessly on message. Last year, the institute put on an event called Is Transgenderism Dying?” With nearly two weeks to go before the election on April 12, the institute hosted a summit featuring a video address by the deputy U.S. secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and in-person remarks from one of his advisers. Weeks earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had traveled to Budapest and told Orbán, “Your success is our success.” The Danube Institute event reinforced that message by giving U.S. diplomats pride of place in the program. “It’s very comforting to know that we have allies like you,” an institute employee told the Americans at the conference’s conclusion.
Jonathan Turley was writing a pretty good column until he got to "We have allowed U.S. citizenship to become a mere commodity for the most affluent or unscrupulous among us"
He never mentions that with one hand Trump wants to end birthright citizenship in this court case and with the other sell citizenship to 37 million foreigners at $1 million each to nearly wipe out the national debt.
I say nearly because the national debt has exploded to $39 trillion since Trump first proposed this crackpot gimmick in February 2025.
Trump's only ideas about America are about money and getting more of it.
Turley tries to square the circle but remains no friend of the blood and soil conservatives who framed the constitution for "our posterity".
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Judas' silver is up 2% year to date, gold is up 8%
Silver: $73.77 USD +$1.49 USD +2.06% YTD
Gold: $4,693.90 USD +$359.60 USD +8.3% YTD
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Ronald Reagan's goal of a 600-ship U.S. Navy made it to 594 in 1987, but in 2026 we can barely deploy 300 because of Bill Clinton, but Trumpty Dumpty never mentions that
After the end of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, Bill Clinton gutted the Navy.
We went from 541 ships in 1992 to 336 by 1999.
And now we can't stop the Houthis in the Red Sea, nor Iran in the Persian Gulf.
Friday, April 3, 2026
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