France's Death Ride (1914-1918) and Cultural Confidence

French General Henri Gouraud is most well-known for commanding the Fourth Army on the Western Front in 1918. He brilliantly used an "elastic defense" to stop the last great German offensive in World War One (15 July 1918). The American 42nd Rainbow Division was attached to Gouraud's army where it held a key part of the line.
 

Henri Gouraud (1867-1946)

The Rainbow's chief-of-staff, Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur was fascinated by Gouraud. As MacArthur wrote in his memoirs:

He seemed almost to be the reincarnation of the legendary figure of battle and romance, Henry of Navarre. And he was as good as he looked. I have known all of the modern French commanders, and many were great by any standards, but he was the greatest of them all. Petain and Foch rank with the best of any era, but Petain always exaggerated the enemy potential and thereby failed to exploit fully his successes, and Foch was too inflexible once he had outlined a plan, and consequently missed opportunities. But Gouraud was without a weakness.

He was also an inspirational, patriotic leader. On 7 July 1918 he issued a message to his army. No Western general today is capable of so dramatic an order that exudes cultural and moral confidence and certitude: 

In your breasts beat the brave and strong hearts of free men. None shall look to the rear; none shall yield a step. Each shall have but one thought: to kill, to kill, until they [the Boche] have had their fill. 
Therefore you General says to you: You will break this assault and it will be a happy day.

After the World War ended, Gouraud was tasked to clear Syria of Turks and the supporters of the British puppet, and pan-Arab nationalist, Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi. After the French victory at the Battle of Maysalun. Gouraud reportedly visited the tomb of Saladin. I've reserved the best quote for last. Gouraud supposedly kicked the tomb and said:

Awake, Saladin. We have returned. My presence here consecrates the victory of the Cross over the Crescent.

Alas, they don't make Frenchmen like this anymore. Most of the best died in the World Wars. The socialist-globalist refuse are now eagerly surrendering their country (and the entire West) to Saladin's progeny. Let's hope the Yellow Vests can save their nation, and therefore, the West before it's too late.

Craig Biddle of The Objective Standard Double-Downs on Open Borders Dogma

Obleftivists of all flavors firmly believe that there's such a thing as a "right" to cross an international frontier. Like all leftist utopians, they reject the fundamental nature of the nation-state and its central importance for anyone having any rights lawfully secured. According to these altruists, civilized nations owe the uncivilized a civilized existence. 

Craig Biddle, the editor of the Objective Standard, has posted a video on Facebook providing his latest thinking on open borders uber alles. His contempt for the actual reality of mass third-world immigration into Western nations is quite breath-taking. Western elites explicitly use mass immigration as a tool for social engineering to create a "new people" more easily ruled. That's the charitable interpretation of elite motives. It could just be that they're sociopaths who want to watch the world burn. Either way, the destructive results will be the same.

At lease Biddle admits that he begins with a "worldview" and then attempts to shoehorn reality into his floating abstractions. Note that his defense of open borders is purely deductive and is based on a floating "principle." The actual reality of what mass immigration has done to the country and other civilized nations is irrelevant to his "principles." These are the deep thinkers who supported the "property rights" of enemy agents to build their jihad victory mosque at Ground Zero.

"The border is not suppose to be wall or line that keeps people out. It's simply a line that demarcates where the US government laws apply." No rationalism here. And, except for applying laws that protect American national sovereignty that ensures that American law will continue to be enforced. Obleftivists reject the Westphalian nation-state. They view the national border as only a line of jurisdiction. They view the border between the USA and Mexico like they view the state line between Kansas and Nebraska.

California: From Reagan Country to Pelosi Land

No Obleftivist has yet morally condemned the media for its high-tech lynching of Catholic school boys for the crime of smiling while white. The establishment's vicious hatred of whites doesn't bode well for a white minority America - except for those who profit from anti-white pogroms and genocide. Obleftivists deny that a genocide is beginning in South Africa. They would have to occasionally look at reality to understand what the globalist agenda is really about. Instead, they fervently support selling the People's Liberation Army more rope and the demographic invasion and destruction of Western Civilization. 

Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) Only Has "Experts" on Trump Derangement

They just can't help themselves. Trump Derangement dominates ARI's "thinking" on every issue. ARI's foreign policy "expert" is Israeli/Brit Elan Journo. His essay "The Betrayal of Charlie Hebdo" published a few days ago on ARI's blog illustrates this problem. Journo evades the central issue raised by the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Then, he digresses into the usual anti-Trump boilerplate.

Globally on social media, many echoed the slogan “Je Suis Charlie” in solidarity.

But when the moment faded, it became clear that the threat to freedom of speech emanates not only — or even primarily — from the “jihadists’ veto.” The deeper problem is us. There’s pervasive antipathy to the principle of freedom of speech. Unless we understand and value it, we will lose this crucial right.

The left has always been hostile to free speech. This fact is hardly news. The West's most dangerous enemy has always been the left. ARI "experts" seem to understand this on some limited, superficial level. Sadly, this knowledge has not prevented ARI from jumping into bed with the cultural Marxists. For example, that one must vote Democrat because the USA in imminent danger of being taken over by Jerry Falwell. Or, that one must vote Democrat because moderate secularist Donald Trump is actually Satan. The fruits of appeasement of evil to gain academic and media respectability are never sweet.

Regarding the above quote: unless that ideology is globalism; or, open borders for America; or, "free trade" with Red China; or, second wave feminism; or, late term abortion; or,  whitewashing Islam with the evasive "totalitarian Islam;" or, Donald Trump as the "villain of our time." 

The central issue raised by the Charlie Hebdo attack is the Islamic/leftist alliance against Western Civilization. This alliance is dedicated to eradicating all Western values. It's equally obvious that to fulfill it's evil agenda, the alliance is equally dedicated to replacing Western nations with the Balkanized chaos of mass migrations of hostile settlers who hate the West as much as the alliance. Obleftivism has no problem with the last part of the plan to eradicate the West. Demographic invasion is now a "right." ARI has degenerated into just another Koch Brothers' libertarian mouthpiece. It is not Objectivism. Avoid it like the intellectual plague it is.
 
The left controls all of the West's cultural institutions. From science, the media, academia to sports and large corporations. They have silenced all dissent to the leftist narrative in these areas. They are now trying to take over the internet and drive out all dissent from social media. President Trump seems to understand the magnitude of the threat. The Obleftivists at ARI do not. Instead, they uncritically worship the fascists of Silicon Valley and are prepared to tolerate purging the internet of all who refuse to toe the party line of cultural Marxism. One can argue that Trump is not doing nearly enough, or going about it in the wrong way, to stop this threat to open public discourse. But, one can't honestly deny the danger or that something must be done to stop Soviet Valley's power grab in connivance with Democrats. (Another issue involved here is that corporations are creatures of the state. The concept of the "artificial person" needs to be revisited. Obviously, both corporate and libel law need much reform). 

Instead, Journo castigates Trump as the enemy of freedom and holds him partially responsible for the left's hostility to all rights.

What’s so alarming about Trump’s evident antipathy to freedom of speech is that so many Americans have acquiesced in it — perhaps even sharing his outlook.

See, the answer to the jihad in Western Europe is hating on Trump for his desire for much needed libel law reform, for his attempt to deal with the traitorous Swamp, for his truth-telling about the evil media, for his America First trade policies, for his desperately needed wall. Meanwhile, Obleftivists continue to hate on Poland and Hungary for their "crime" of not importing cancer. Nowhere in his essay does Journo have the courage and honesty to state that the source of jihad is Islam. Nor does he mention that the purpose of jihad is to impose sharia law, which would mean the end of Western Civilization and all rights along with common decency.
 
In his "analysis," Elan Journo doesn't mention Macron's, and the rest of Western Europe's elites', treason to their own people. He also doesn't mention the Yellow Vest protest against those same traitors. The Yellow Vest protests are the most encouraging event to happen in Western Europe in a very long time. So, of course, ARI ignores it.

In the following brief, seven minute video, Paul Joseph Watson provides more insight into events in Europe that all the ARI "experts" combined. I suspect that one reason ARI hasn't mentioned the Yellow Vest protests is because of their hostility to it. ARI Obleftivists are supporters of the fascistic EU superstate and Yaron Brook has stated his antipathy to Brexit. ARI "experts" smear opposition to EU nation-wrecking and fascism as "populist." "Populism" in their book is, but of course, "racism." Given ARI "experts" blind adherence to globalism and cultural Marxism, it's no surprise that they miss much and understand little.

 

Happy New Year and Keep Your Powder Dry

The Democratic controlled House of Representatives looks like the cantina scene from Star Wars. It is a hive of villainy, scum, evil and treason. The Democrats' avowed purpose is to destroy what's left of the USA. Their method is demonstrated by what they are fighting for most vociferously. For example, to continue uncontrolled "immigration" by refusing to fund the Wall while providing "sanctuary" for murdering invaders. America's death-spiral is encapsulated in this picture:

Occasional-Cortex and Jihad Barbie

Appropriately, on the left is Puerto-Rican Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her economy and soul destroying "Green New Deal" is already being touted by an equally evil media. The headbag on the right is Somali invader IIhan Omar. The picture is an excellent illustration of the Left-Islamic alliance to destroy America. Occasional-Cortex's non-American constituents voted for her because she promises to fundamentally transform America into Venezuela as quickly as inhumanly possible. They are also excellent representatives of the anti-American fifth-column the left, and Republican turncoats, have imported for this very purpose. If the American people won't vote for their own immolation, the left will replace them with those who will.

While a nation may survive external enemies, and may even survive imported enemies, it cannot long survive traitors within the wall. Sadly, "traitors" is the best word to describe the voters of Minnesota's fifth congressional district who support Omar. This district, and the last election, demonstrates that the domestic left is America's greatest enemy. They seek the nation's death. That their own death may soon follow is not any of their concern. They are just driven to murder the object of their all consuming hate: American (and Western) traditions and freedom.

Hyperbole? No. Ayn Rand made the nihilistic motives of such haters clear in her seminal essay "The Age of Envy" in 1971. Consider this passage on the Green movement:

...when the great emancipator, the automobile, is attacked as a public menace, and highways are decried as a violation of the wilderness--when bleary-eyed, limp-limbed young hobos of both sexes [!] chant about the evil of labor-saving devices, and demand that human life be devoted to the grubby hand-picking of truck gardens, and to garbage disposal--when alleged scientists stretch, fake or suppress scientific evidence in order to panic the ignorant about the interplanetary perils augured by some such omen as the presence of mercury in tuna fish--when their leading philosopher proclaims that work is an outdated prejudice, that fornication should replace ambition, and that mankind's standard of living should be brought down--when sundry hordes block the construction of electric generators and are about to plunge New York City into the catastrophe of an overloaded power system's failure--it is time to grasp that we are not dealing with man-lovers, but with killers. (emphasis added)

If there is a second American revolution these will be the two sides: those who seek to defend human values and those nihilists who seek to make human life on earth impossible. And, everyone will have to choose a side in this fight. It's later than most Americans realize.

Unfortunately, the left's pathologies have a useful idiot (or worse) in the misnamed Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). Consider ARI's CEO and most vocal spokesperson (see what I did there) Yaron Brook. Under his leadership, ARI has gone all out to garner both academic and mainstream media respectability. Nobody at ARI seems to understand, or wants to admit, that both these institutions are irredeemably evil. They are both a national menace and must be eliminated, not appeased. Evil of such magnitude cannot be reformed. It must not be sanctioned. 

Evil as the hating creatures are, there is something still more evil: those who try to appease them. (Ayn Rand - "The Age of Envy")

ARI sanctions evil by maintaining the facade that this evil are their civilized equals who should be engaged as such. When not pandering to evil, Brook castigates President Trump, and the "Deplorables," as the "villain of out time." In the last decade and a half, Brook has been moving ARI further and further left. Now it is indistinguishable from such left-libertarian organizations as Reason and CATO. He often attacks those on the "right," including real Objectivists, while appeasing the left on the all important cultural-social issues of our day. It's also clear what Ayn Rand would have thought about the mass importation of savages bent on looting and destroying Western Civilization. Unlike ARI, she would have been against such civilizational suicide.

On a positive note, Bruno Turner and Lindsay Perigo have been producing a weekly series of YouTube videos that are first-rate. Being considerate gentlemen, they limit their videos to thirty minutes duration. Their latest video is one of their best.

In this episode, Lindsay makes an excellent observation that should be widely repeated. The West is in an existential fight for survival with barbarians both within and without. The central part of that fight is the preservation of Western nation-states. If these nations fall, so does the West. Globalization is just the method by which the left seeks to destroy the nation-state, and therefore the West with it. President Donald Trump's fight for secure borders, rational immigration policy, ending America's role as global cop, and sane trade policies is the fight to save the West. Sadly, Yaron Brook, ARI and its supporters are on the wrong side of this battle on every issue.