David Simon 🇺🇸

Policy Analyst+Writer, Symphonic Horn, 4th°Knight of Columbus #Conservative #MAGA
🎓MA: PubPolicy BS: PoliSci/Econ MI: PubAffairs/English ✝ Precinct Cap'n LD-12

[Matthew J. Peterson @docMJP]

It can’t be stated clearly enough: one party in America purposely decided to flood the country with millions of random people for the sake of power.

Desperate. Lawless. They should be punished at more than the voting booth (legally and culturally) for a generation.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

So the US military put Ebola into airborne particles so animals could be infected by inhaling air. Vaxxed animals got hurt by inhalable Ebola worse than unvaxxed ones. Tony Fauci blows up, saying it all should have been classified to not undermine vaccine confidence.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Welcome to the UK's "justice" system:

Danny Tommo
> damaged a migrant invader boat
> DENIED BAIL

5 terror suspects
> bomb plot against US Air Force
> RELEASED ON BAIL

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

So the way this works is:

-- You are told not to apply for a job because you are a white man.

-- An underqualified person whose demographic traits match what you were explicitly told were the basis for the hiring is instead hired for the job, forcing you to do most of that person's work.

-- You are subjected to a racial struggle session in 2019 in which the trainer say that Christopher Columbus and all white people today are "cannibals" who are "like the devil" and include evil in their DNA.

-- Your supervisor calls you a colonizer.

-- You are told to step down from your job because you are preventing a POC from being promoted by continuing to have a job

-- You file a lawsuit in November 2022 for these overtly racially hostile and discriminatory acts.

-- You wait 27 months while evidence is gathered to see whether you have a legal claim worthy of going to trial

-- In February 2025, the district court grants summary judgment to your employer, dismissing all your claims.

-- You wait another 19 months for the 9th District Court of Appeals to say, in fact, your case can go to trial because civil rights law forbids racial discrimination against people of any color

-- The actual trial is potentially years in the future for unlawful abuses that derailed your career seven years ago

-- Takeaway: LOL Woke 1 was craaazy

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

This man has almost singlehandedly brought El Salvador forward by at least a century, and he did it without LARPing as a Western liberal.

He’s doing almost everything we wish to see transpire in the West, and he started from a substantially worse position than any Western nation.

The aesthetics, the national mythos, the nod to history and tradition, the beautiful architecture, the brutalizing of criminals, and the orientation of a nation and people back towards that which rests above and beyond man. All of it is what the present hour calls for.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

"what's the most esoteric piece of knowledge you know?"

THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Americans married at 16.4 per 1,000 in 1946. They marry at 6.1 today.

No marriage, no babies, no replacement.

Long before dating apps, the collapse began when the contract got cheap to exit and optional to enter.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

holy shit
i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Somali-run daycares in Seattle are taking in $40,000-70,000 a month and don’t seem to have ANY kids at them.

The American dream appears to be alive so long as you’re stealing from taxpayers.

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

This is just a relentless stream of discovering how much easier foreigners have it in America.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The FBI’s 3.9% civilian stop number only exists because they throw out the self defense shootings before they count.

John Lott applied the Bureau’s own definition without those exclusions and got 36.6% across 615 attacks, 58.3% last year wherever people could legally carry.

Jack Wilson ending the West Freeway Church attack in seconds is exactly the kind of case they discard first.

The CDC pulled the same move. In 2022, gun control groups privately called the agency’s own 2.5 million defensive use estimate a roadblock to new restrictions, so the numbers vanished until researchers and Grassley’s emails forced them back.

Turns out you can simply bury a figure when it wrecks your narrative.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

We are already a socialist country.

And you don’t even have to be a citizen to be one of the takers.

Why hasn’t Congress cut federal funding to California?

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

epic line of commentary.

sydney sweeny is an acid test for feminism.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

‘Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…’ - and we will give them an apartment, food stamps, a smart phone and free education.

[Maddie Rowley @Maddie_Rowley_]

Whenever someone says we should have universal healthcare I remind them that we do, it's just not for American citizens, it's for illegal immigrants only, and you're actually paying for their healthcare on top of your own.

[Austen Hufford @austenhufford]

NEW: We went undercover and discovered California's Shadow Welfare System.

Smart phones
Car Insurance
Cash
Food
Housing
Healthcare

All for free
All for illegal immigrants
All paid for by U.S. taxpayers

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.

We went inside the system and exposed it all.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

It gets worse: if you examine the farmer productivity statistics, the current attempts at expropriation without compensation of Afrikaner farmland will, if followed through on, starve South Africa

When this happened to Zimbabwe, famine resulted in the former breadbasket of Africa

It would be even worse now, as there are no longer successful countries nearby to step into the breach...it's the last one left, in many ways

Pray this doesn't happen

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

The Greenland Triumph Is a Sea Change in U.S. Foreign Policy

The deal is everything we could ask for, and infinitely more than the Enemedia told you was possible. But the bigger news is the agreement’s implications for the rest of the world.

With today’s signing of the tripartite deal between the United States, Greenland, and Denmark, Donald Trump has achieved yet another masterstroke — like the NATO commitment to increase defense spending more than two-and-a-half times, like the EU trade deal, like booting China out of Panama — that the Enemedia unanimously told you was not merely impossible, but laughable.

Lesson: don’t listen to the Enemedia. It’s not just that they’re biased. They’re also almost always wrong.

To quote Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the “world has changed a great deal since 1951,” referring to the original security agreement. The people of Greenland “recognize the long-term security threats that you, Mr. President, have rightly spoken about.”

“This agreement should put to rest any doubt today and in the future about where Greenland’s loyalty lies,” Nielsen said.

Indeed.

The deal itself is important, but not so important as what it represents. We’ll come back to that in a bit: it’s the part you most need to understand.

Trump’s enemies are out in force saying the President achieved nothing he didn’t already have. That position proves only that their time horizon is that of a toddler. What the Greenland deal gives the United States is perpetuity: no matter what happens in Denmark, Greenland, or some future Eurabia, U.S. rights in Greenland survive.

Key points:

1. Under the prior deal, U.S. rights only lasted so long as Greenland was part of Denmark, and so long as NATO exists (or the U.S. remained a member). All of that is gone.

2. Under the (foolish) 2004 amendments to the treaty, George W. Bush gave up our basing rights outside Thule Air Base (now Pituffik Space Base). Those rights are now restored, allowing a significantly expanded U.S. presence for Golden Dome, for interdiction of enemy fleets in the GIUK Gap, and for such other needs as may arise.

3. The U.S. now has an absolute veto over military access and even strategic investments by any non-NATO ally. The Chinese and Russian initiatives toward Greenland are now thwarted, forever.

These things matter, a lot. But there’s more.

A Sea Change in U.S. Foreign Policy

For decades, American foreign policy has assumed the permanence — and the permanent utility — of various international organizations and agreements. This has continued long after the utility of many of them has disappeared.

NATO is a key example. Did NATO once have utility? Absolutely: in the beginning it shored up nations lying in ruins under the American aegis. Later, our allies contributed essential forces and expenditures to oppose a Soviet threat that grew almost until the day it collapsed.

That ended in 1991. When it did, the foreign policy establishment did not adjust. They reasoned from the long-held presumption that NATO was essential not just to peace but to survival. They did not rethink that presupposition when the facts on the ground changed.

So American leaders of both parties allowed Europe’s (and Canada’s) militaries to atrophy, allowing them to freeload on the American taxpayer while subsidizing stifling anti-competitive economies and a vast Islamic invasion. They did so because, to them, the alternative was unthinkable.

Am I arguing that NATO cannot be valuable? Absolutely not: I think an alliance of (mostly) free countries with strong militaries that support one another and deter aggression by unfree powers is tremendously worthwhile.

Moreover, I would be happy for that alliance to be NATO, and for there to be other such alliances (like AUKUS, or the Quad, or the growing informal Asian NATO, or the military cooperation inherent in the Abraham Accords) that serve the same role.

What I’m arguing is that NATO is not currently valuable, or at least that it hasn’t been for a long time. If it rearms — as Trump has singlehandedly strongarmed it into doing — that can change. Otherwise, it’s just another American welfare program. And that does not serve the interests of the American people. It is actually a net-negative.

Yet Washington’s presuppositions remained, and but for Trump’s team, remain. NATO is less an alliance than a religion, one in which America is supposed to pay permanent penance (for what is unclear) to its European “betters” by giving them free stuff. Whole Beltway think tanks exist to tell us the importance of this ritual.

Trump’s sacrilege in questioning that is the source of much of the irrational hate spewed in his (and your and my) direction. He’s “obviously” a madman, or an idiot, or a traitor.

Many of the same people, or the people who hired them, said the same of Reagan.

Trump’s view is entirely different, and it is best summarized thus:

1. The government of the United States has the right to tax the people of the United States because of its corresponding duty to protect the people of the United States.

2. No international arrangement that fails to serve that purpose is legitimate.

3. No treaty, and no “friendship” among nations, is permanent; and therefore each country must do whatever it must to secure its people long after such things might end.

This is where time horizon comes into play. And the world got an object lesson in Diego Garcia.

Diego Garcia is America’s most important base in that most important area, the Indian Ocean. It is in the Chagos Islands, a British possession and thus supposedly safe. The deal establishing the base was for 70 years. Socialist former Prime Minister Keir Starmer negotiated a deal to extend that for 99 more.

The catch is how he went about it. For reasons known only to God, Starmer’s deal included a transfer of the island chain to distant Mauritius, a Chinese client state 1,250 miles away that has never in history ruled the islands. The President rightly called this “an act of great stupidity”.

Now, if this is what a supposedly close ally and one of the world’s handful of nuclear powers will do under the wrong government, what might tiny Denmark do in the course of the next half-century?

Trump succeeded in blocking the deal's implementation. But he learned the lesson. Alliances are not forever; nor are allies always mindful of our interests. The American President has a duty to protect the American people, not to soothe the feelings of freeloading foreigners.

As Lord Palmerston put it, nations do not have permanent friends, only permanent interests. So long as those interests align, that’s swell. But if you think they’re going to align forever, you need to go read some history.

That’s the greater significance of the Greenland deal. Henceforth, American foreign policy will stop assuming that impermanent things are forever. We don’t know whether there will even be a NATO in 50 years. We don’t know if we’ll still want to be part of it. We don’t know if Greenland will be independent, or thoroughly dependent on a new Denmarkistan, or the CCP.

So henceforth, America will plan for uncertainty. We will grow up. And we will not plan our future security around wishes, ponies, and unicorn farts. Those days are over.

Will Greenland Join the United States?

So will Greenland join the United States? In the short term, Trump’s objectives have been met exactly as in Panama: we have “taken back” the Canal not through conquest or a transfer of sovereignty but by booting out the Chinese and reestablishing American bases. As is always the case with Trump, the opening position is always grander than the actual aim, so that the aim may be achieved.

The people who don’t understand this, after all these years of Trump, should not be allowed anywhere near a car dealership.

What one must not miss, however, is the long term. Greenland has every reason to want to be free of Denmark: what it doesn’t have is the ability to pay for it. In the real world, it turns out that matters.

Greenland’s 57,000 people have no means to develop their own island. Neither does Denmark, which lacks both the cash and the tech to do so. The result is an impoverished island dependent on what Denmark can provide: welfare, to the tune of about $1 billion per year. 72 percent of Greenland’s people are under 40. And they have no future.

America provides a pathway out of that. The new bases will be big employers. The development that follows will pour money into the island’s economy, first in investment, later in profits and royalties to the islanders. As the economy booms, the independence Greenland has long demanded but simultaneously failed to act upon will become affordable.

Moreover, today’s agreement marries Greenland to the United States in perpetuity. That provides a pathway to the sort of Compact of Free Association the U.S. currently has with Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia: all the independence, none of the costs. Remarkable what a tiny population can achieve when it doesn’t have to pay for embassies or a military.

Today’s deal makes that the island’s logical future.

But the truth is, it really doesn’t matter. Today Trump got everything he actually wanted in Greenland. He also established a longer view of U.S. foreign policy needs. Americans should not be held hostage to the feelings of those who depend upon it. America is a net positive for virtually the whole world, but it can only remain so if its own security is, well, secured.

Today was a big step, long overdue, in that direction. And as with NATO’s 5 percent commitment, it never would have happened under any other President.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The Boston Globe has just published a shockingly sober article about the nonexistent genocide supposedly targeting the transgender community.

In it, they cite a report I coauthored showing that the murder rate is actually lower for trans-identifying people than the general population. Our report was responding to the HRC's annual reports pushing the narrative that there is an ongoing "Epidemic of Violence" against the transgender community.

The reporter says he "offered the Human Rights Campaign's key researcher, the transgender woman Charleigh Flohr, or anyone else with the organization an opportunity to rebut the Manhattan Institute finding, but they didn't reply to me."

That's unsurprising because the HRC is engaging in fundraising propaganda. They don't care about the truth, only promoting the narrative.

Our report presenting the actual data is irrefutable. That's why they have nothing to say in response.

You can read our report summary in @CityJournal here:
🔗https://t.co/59VQbpDJYV

Or explore our comprehensive report here:
🔗https://t.co/riV2m6zZ60

Read the Boston Globe article here:
🔗https://t.co/rSGgRfe2kj