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When the World Changes
I don’t know what you think, but I think that we have just lived through a month in which the world has changed.
And if you don’t think it’s scary, well, there is no help for you.
Who would have thought, back in February, that the US and Israel would conduct a bombing of Iran “like we’ve never seen.”
Or decapitate a regime, “like we’ve never seen.”
Or turn the global oil market upside down, with mega-oil tankers streaming across the world to fill ‘er up in the ports of the Gulf of America.
Or conduct a brief negotiation and roll it up in 21 hours, because we don’t think the Iran representatives have the authority to commit the Iranian regime.
Or expose the Euros as so last century.
Or expose the Euros as “weak, feeble.”
Or tell the Iranians threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz “no, you don’t block us, we block you.”
Or upset China’s nice little arrangement with Iran to get nice cheap oil.
Or make us all wonder what’s going on in Ukraine if we can bomb Iran back to the Stone Age in a month and Ukraine and Russia can’t.
Or wonder what it means if we are now entering an age when the first act of war is to decapitate the enemy regime.
Or have a president that told the pope that maybe it was time to start saying something about an Iran regime that has slaughtered “at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters”
Or show that the whole climate change claptrap exposes modern nations to existential peril “like we’ve never seen.”
And so on…
I think the most disturbing event is the assassination of the top leadership of Iran, of the Ayatollah on down. Imagine if some other nation — Russia? China? — blew up the White House and the US Capitol and killed the president and the congressional leadership, all in a single afternoon. But left the Washington Monument standing.
So I have a question. What exactly are the new Rules, after the last month?
I am sure that political leaders all across the world would like to know.
Other than the obvious. That the United States of America is the world hegemon for better or for worse. In case you haven’t been paying attention since the Great White Fleet sailed around the world in 1908.
I asked Grok who put together the current US strategery. It really didn’t have an answer, but just fumbled:
The ideas draw from pre-existing restraint/American nationalist thinking.
Seriously. Who thought all this stuff up? It seems to me that it goes way beyond the usual policy stuff from the usual suspects. Right now Marco Rubio is both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, and I know that everyone is having the time of their life thinking up new Marco Oval Office memes. But all this didn’t come, like Athena, from the head of Zeus.
I want to know who put all this together, Senator. And so do you.
| Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:11:36 GMT |
Speaker Emerita Sgt. Schultz
I know. Isn’t she special! Nancy Pelosi on C-SPAN:
A flustered Nancy Pelosi denies that Democrats knew what Swalwell was doing and turned a blind eye:
Pelosi: “Absolutely not true.”
Interviewer: “You had no idea?”
Pelosi: “None whatsoever.”
Yess. I am sure that Nancy Pelosi, like the rest of us, was a devoted fan of Hogan’s Heroes. And I am sure, as a special fan, she has dozens of GIFs at home of Sgt. Schultz saying: “I know Nothing!”
I was reading someone who suggested that maybe our Democratic friends like to have their rank-and-file House Members compromised. Because then they are easy to manipulate, according to the ancient creed: “nice little job you got there; pity if something should happen to it.”
Isn’t that how spy operations work? Wasn’t that the whole point of the Chinese setting Rep. Swalwell (D-CA) up with Fang Fang?
I wonder where it goes from here. My instinct is that the Dems and the Progs are losing and they know it. But what do you do when you are about to collapse in defeat? You put on a brave face and tell your troops “once more unto the breach.” Maybe you even tell them that it is a noble thing to die for your country/party.
Meanwhile the rest of us are trying to figure out what comes next.
I suppose it’s a lot easier if President Trump manages to checkmate Iran and Israel manages to neuter Hezbollah in Lebanon and the whole world lines up to load up on oil in American ports.
Oh, and hey, Cuba, why not just give it up and join the real world? We Yanks would just love to start visiting Cuba again and make Cuba into the jewel of the Caribbean again.
But I fear that our Democratic friends won’t just give up the ship. I fear that they will do something stupid that will have a butcher’s bill attached to it. If you look back to 2010 and the operation against the Tea Party, and the operation against Mitt Romney in 2012, and the operations against Trump starting in 2015, and the curious case of the mail-in ballots in 2020, and Jan 6, and lawfare and Dem District Court judges, you can understand that our Democratic friends probably have a number of stupid tricks they haven’t tried yet.
And they will tell us, again and again: “I know nothing!”
| Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:37:21 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
He runs usgovernmentspending.com, the go-to resource for government finance data, and is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Click for more.
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Nietzsche: I philosophize with a hammer. Me: No, Fritzi; you philosophize with the one-liner.
A racist is absolutely anyone who’s pissed off a lefty — Glenn Reynolds
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
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