Lest you misinterpret my motivations: I am not particularly Conservative. I believe in limited government and fidelity to the Constitution (ALL of it). I also think the gov't has no business telling you who you can join for life with, or what you can and can't smoke for fun. 1/
Hegseth’s task force on senior service colleges had a 90-day clock because ideology does not need an open-ended review. Universities have given ideology an open-ended review for years and called it academic freedom.
The Pentagon is checking whether curricula still serve national security. Campuses rarely check whether curricula still serve any coherent public purpose. One institution is willing to remove people who resist the mission. The other protects those people from removal.
The Pentagon under Hegseth’s leadership is treating low standards as a leadership failure. Campuses treat the same failure as a social-justice necessity. Officers who insisted on diversity metrics over performance were removed from key billets. Faculty who insist on the same metrics are granted tenure.
The piece outlines the leadership and curricular changes that would mirror the Pentagon approach. Those changes are feasible once the funding conditions are clear.
The real turnout fight isn’t between the two parties—it’s between people who still believe the country is worth defending and those who’ve been taught it’s not.
Education systems don’t just fail students; they actively reprogram them against the institutions, faith, and history that built the place. When enough parents stay home, that reprogramming becomes permanent. The midterms are the last practical chance to interrupt it before the next generation treats the results as normal.
Show up, bring the people who trust you, and treat it like the defensive line it is. Great post SB
THE MARTYR’S VETO
Semi-related to this post but there is a point where prudence warps into fear.
“Don’t show it! They might get angry!”
That sentence should embarrass a serious civilization.
Don’t show the punishment! They might radicalize!
Don’t speak too plainly! They might riot!
Don’t enforce too visibly! They might make him a symbol!
Don’t we have better things to do?
Isn’t this beneath us?!
Nonsense.
Follow that road long enough and you’re no longer sovereign. You are negotiating with anticipated outrage.
We’ve been tip toeing around these barbarians for decades. Where has it got us? The west is nearly overrun in the name of “tolerance”.
Public justice isn’t bloodlust. Its memory made visible. Civilizations have always understood that law has to mean something beyond ink on paper. The beast in man does not study white papers. He studies consequences.
That’s why the spectacle matters. Because evil should NEVER be allowed to believe civilization has become ashamed of defending itself.
If extremists turn a lawful sentence into martyrdom, that’s their mythology, not ours. We don’t owe them control over our symbols, our courts, or our courage.
A fortress that lowers the gate every time the enemy howls has already taught the enemy how to command it.
Desi says: "Screw it. All of it. Terrorists, terrorism simps, midterm vapors, all of it. Papa greased a perfect 3-point landing in a P-47 last night in the sim and that shit is impressive. Piss on everything else."
What’s the objection? You only approve of “Execution by Musketry” when it’s without a trial, like Charlie Kirk?
Spare us your boos. We’ve seen what makes you cheer.
No. I want every single jihadi terrorist wannabe thinking of following Hasan's example to see the most humiliating end possible. No blaze of glory. Shot like a rabid dog.
I need someone to stop this.
An American citizen. A defenseless prisoner. A bag over his head. A firing squad. In broad daylight.
And within minutes, Americans will have footage of it from every angle, on every phone.
We should not underestimate what it means for millions of people to watch a human being executed. We have seen the power of such images before—from Rodney King to George Floyd to the recent killings of Charlie Kirk, Nicole Renee Goode, and Alex Pretti.
This is not merely a question of how an execution is carried out. It is a question of what kind of image we are willing to create—and then broadcast to the world.
There is still time to stop this, and someone in this administration should.
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They are going to hate us regardless; they did before Hasan, and will continue. It's why he did what he did in the first place. This is a stupid argument. Might as well send a message.
As a purely practical matter, having a video that can be sliced and diced by the jihadists of a terrorist in a wheelchair seen as their martyr being shot by the US on livestream may have unintended consequences