The Spanish Civil War wasn’t a polite disagreement over policy.
It was the raw, screaming eruption of what happens when one side decides the other is an existential threat to be exterminated, and the other side...paralyzed by decorum, institutional inertia, and a suicidal faith in “norms”...lets it happen.
From 1936 to 1939, Spain tore itself apart in a furnace of ideology:
anarchists, communists, and radical Republicans on one end, Nationalists, monarchists, and the Catholic right on the other.
Cities burned. Priests were dragged from altars and shot. Guernica was leveled not as collateral but as a message.
Foreign powers...Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin...poured in weapons and ideology while the so-called “democratic” left in the West wrung its hands and romanticized the slaughter.
When it ended, half a million were dead and Franco’s boot came down hard.
History’s verdict? The side that understood power won. The side that treated politics like a debating society got corpses.
And here we are in 2026 America, watching the same script play out in slow motion, except the Republicans...those self-proclaimed guardians of the Republic...are auditioning for the role of the spineless moderates who got marched to the wall in Barcelona.
The left has already declared total war:
cultural, institutional, legal, and psychological.
They own the universities that breed the cadres, the media that shapes the narrative, the bureaucracies that weaponize “justice,” the tech overlords who censor dissent, and the streets where Antifa cosplayers rehearse their revolutionary wet dreams.
They don’t debate; they delegitimize.
They don’t disagree; they pathologize you as a threat to “democracy” itself.
They’ve studied Alinsky, Gramsci, and Mao.
They understand the friend-enemy distinction Carl Schmitt laid bare:
politics is not about compromise...it’s about who gets to define the enemy and crush him.
The psychology here is textbook cowardice wrapped in virtue.
Republicans crave the approval of the very institutions that despise them. They want to be seen as the “adults in the room,” the reasonable ones, the ones who still believe in “bipartisanship” while the other side is loading magazines.
It’s a death cult of respectability.
They fear being called “extremist” more than they fear the extinction of the country that elected them.
So they pass toothless resolutions. They hold hearings that go nowhere. They fund the very agencies that spy on their voters. They negotiate with people who view negotiation as surrender.
They are not serious. They are not warriors. They are the eunuchs guarding the harem while the barbarians scale the walls.
Thomas Hobbes warned that without a sovereign willing to enforce order, life reverts to the war of all against all.
The left gets this instinctively. They have the will. They have the venom. They have the ferocity. Republicans have press releases.
The Spanish Republicans of 1936 didn’t lose because their ideas were weaker; they lost because they fragmented while the Nationalists consolidated will and force.
Sound familiar?
This is not politics. This is prelude.
We are not “divided.” We are at the fault line of incompatible civilizations...one that reveres the individual, the family, the West’s hard-won inheritance; the other that worships the collective, the state, and the endless revenge of the resentful.
The left is not confused. It is coherent in its hatred. The Republicans’ failure is not tactical; it is ontological.
History is not a bedtime story. It is a butcher’s ledger. Spain proved that when one side goes for the throat and the other offers its neck, the throat wins.
If the American right keeps electing therapists in suits instead of lions, we will get our own Guernica...only this time the bombs will be lawfare, financial ruin, and cultural erasure, until the streets run red because no one had the spine to stop it earlier.
Wake the fuck up.
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Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.
Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military.
On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.
Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.
It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft.
So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!
THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.
Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.
Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.
So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi.
Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.
Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong.
Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names".
For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy.
In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system".
But they're not. They can't be the justice system.
The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve.
Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you?
No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system.
The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe.
If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse.
In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite.
Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat.
We all understand this.
We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act.
Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to.
We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again.
And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again.
The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you.
Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute.
It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.
One wrong move by government here, and you will see, at the very least, 250k Irish people descend on the capital in a blink.
They must step down, there is no other way.
I cannot see another way.
We have already heard the warning of using the army against its own people.
We have heard the threat that they will come for the protestors after the protest ends.
We have then seen the attempted character assassinations on the protest leaders.
None of this has worked an iota as every single person in this country, outside of the political paywall and even within, is wide awake to it.
These threats, as well as being pitiful, are now futile.
Where else do they think they are going here?
Government, you have no more moves.
You’re going nowhere but out I am afraid.
It is check mate. The gig is up.
I don’t condone it, I don’t call for it, just calling it as I see it.
Sláinte 🥃⚔️
“The weapon that has done the most for the conquest of Europe, for its colonization by Africa, for its Islamization, for the destruction of Europeans in Europe, for genocide by substitution, more than family reunification, more than widespread nocence, more than the migratory submersion itself, is the accusation of racism. It has paralyzed three hundred million people and made them accept the unacceptable, the worst that could happen to them: their own annihilation, their erasure as a civilization.”
[March 25, 2019]
@C_3C_3 I love to see people still enjoy a good read. Two of my faves from recent years: The Blade Itself by Abercrombie, and The Name of the Wind by Rothfuss. Two wildly different books that are the start of a trilogy. Both well-written. Enjoy
@defendthebags Love the expansive vision, Josh. Can’t wait for the Jova flying cars! (Dibs on the idea, when you implement it.) A question I have is about copyright/trademark protection in a decentralized environment: how does that work, and who enforces it?