Dire Straits: All The Trouble In The World

               Hello, and welcome to another post by Donnie Downer!

The sun is expected to “fundamentally transform” itself in just a couple billion years, making life on Earth impossible. But, how ‘bout those Cowboys?! An exploding and/or dying sun is obviously not a problem we have to concern ourselves with now. I’m guessing I’m not the only one who doubts humans will last that long. In fact, I would be surprised if we are hanging around as a viable entity come, say, the year 2200. Eric, why so pessimistic and glum? Let me count the ways.

*There are 50 million mostly non-assimilating foreigners in the country. Foreigners who are utterly determined to outbreed and eventually overwhelm us, almost like an invasive species. They are succeeding. Bigly.

*We are gripped by an apparently endless, if inexplicable, suicidal empathy. Bad timing for that. (See above.)

*Suddenly, the long-time American values of competence, punctuality, neatness, hard work, etc., are under attack. They are nothing but symbols of “white supremacy,” you see.

*In fact, incentives not to work and to commit crimes have been put in place, as have disincentives to work hard and obey the law.

*The once sacrosanct notions of Christianity and a Judeo-Christian work ethic are rapidly losing ground-- mocked, derided, and even weaponized.

*Mainline religions-- and virtually all other vital institutions—have been taken over by the far-left. (See also, schools, media, the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, etc., etc.)

*The U.S. birth rate is far below replacement. Which indicates that doubt, unease, and selfishness have permeated those under 40.

*Mental illness, depression, and suicidal thoughts are all at all-time high levels. And Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) is now one of the leading causes of death in Canada.

*Schools routinely and incessantly teach our kids that Christianity is oppressive, and the US is evil.

*In most of those same schools, the only history being taught is false. Indoctrination, not education, is the order of the day.

*Western nations have been gradually but inexorably infantilized and feminized.

*There is an unexplainable inability to discern and define anyone’s and everyone’s sex and/or gender.  This is combined with an abject hatred of traditional gender roles.

*Bad actors and terrorists seem far more determined to dispatch us than we are even to deport them.

*Whether referring to DOGE, the Save America Act, or simply holding serial fraudsters accountable around the nation, it appears almost impossible to effectively push back against entrenched crime, even given allegedly concerted efforts. At the end of the day, no one is held accountable. No one.

*A.I. is getting smarter as people are getting dumber. A.I. won’t break out and physically kill us all. It will also do many truly amazing and wonderful things for us. But, as with every new invention and every new significant advance in technology, it will be used for evil by bad people, which will likely lead to disaster. Best case? We use AI to perform our tasks, write, create, and think for us, rendering ourselves unable to think, create, or do much of anything for ourselves. If we ultimately cede these abilities to AI, we will have made ourselves moot, and, ironically, written ourselves out of our own story.

Perhaps worse yet, most or all of the aforementioned will make DSA types smile and pump their fists. Simply put, at this point, evil is winning. In a rout. There are only two realistic ways this doesn’t end very badly. Very badly, indeed. One, good people decide to do whatever it takes to put an end to this tragic farce. Or two, there is divine intervention.

What say you, gentle readers?

 

SEASONS (Exclusive)

          The seasons begin to pass all too quickly as we grow older. One year we ask, “What happened to spring and summer?” when we feel the autumn wind.

        And the same can be said about an individual's life span. “What happened to spring and summer?” we ask ourselves as we enter our golden years, the “fall” of our lives.

       Furthermore, is it September 23rd or December 19^th?!

       Do we really want to know?

"Artificial Intelligence" Or "Super Intelligence?"

 

President Trump recently ordered the federal government to begin referring to the technology formerly known as “Artificial Intelligence,” or “AI,” as “Super Intelligence,” or “SI.”

This immediately prompted California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign an executive order requiring all (formerly) Golden State agencies to continue using the term “Artificial Intelligence.” Or else.

Newsom took to X to let the world know, “I just signed an executive order permanently declaring Artificial Intelligence ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in California.” Talk about intelligence! Gov. Slick added, “Super intelligence is clearly not coming from the White House— that’s why California continues to lead.”

Well, California is leading the nation when it comes to the highest gas prices, the number of homelessness people, and poverty rate. Democrats are hoping to bring that to the nation at large. And, since Democrats are so good at cheating-- and so many Americans are so bad at logic and reasoning-- they’ll probably get their chance.

It is obvious Trump likes to rename things. People, places, concepts, technology. I guess that’s just part of being “a very stable genius.” But Newsom? Well, he’s just exhibiting Pavlovian response. Anything Trump says or does immediately prompts him to reflexively say or do the opposite. In this sense, he is a puppet on a string. TDS? Yes. But also TRS, Trump Response Syndrome.

We have to remember that “Artificial Intelligence” was created by “real,” natural human intelligence. Yet we face two related problems going forward. First, too many people, especially the college educated, exemplify “Stupid Intelligence,” another form of “SI,” in which so much of what they “know” is wrong. Second, most humans, with our inherent biological intelligence, are demonstrably getting dumber and less capable, at precisely the same time Artificial Intelligence is becoming Super Intelligent…on its way to “Stupendously Intelligent.” So, “SI” it is. With all the benefits that will bring. And all the risks.

Looking to the (not-too-distant) future, it is not clear who will be the servant…and who will be the master.

 

 

Michigan Justice May Consider Deeming Animals "Legal Persons"

 

With the recent ascension of Justice Elizabeth Welch, Democrats are now the majority in the Michigan Supreme Court. Welch, a radical leftist activist, campaigned on the promise that she would “Put People First.” Well, I guess it depends on what your definition of “people” is. The far-left justice has indicated she’d entertain a case brought by the “Nonhuman Rights Project” arguing that “common law courts must recognize our nonhuman animal clients as legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty protected by the writ of habeas corpus.” (Far-left justice is an oxymoron if ever there was one.)

Welch noted that she is open to exploring whether “chimpanzees possess a common law right to bodily liberty” and rejected the idea that “the Book of Genesis is a sound foundation for Michigan common law.” Remarkably, she cited Peter Singer, a big proponent of animal equality and liberty, who also seriously argued for killing children and the elderly. (Oh, and Singer defended sex with animals. I guess he thought bestiality was no big deal if animals and humans are considered to have equal rights, and are on an equitable footing.)

Tragicomically, Welch’s campaign was backed by Planned Parenthood. So, don’t kill animals, or deprive them of their natural rights and liberty, but feel free to casually snuff out the human life in your wombs, ladies! Gotta love utterly consistent logic like that, right?

So, to recap, monkeys have human rights, but undersized humans don’t have human rights. What’s more, bellow “progressives,” Leftist violence is protected speech, but Conservative speech is violence. And men can become women, and vice-versa, on nought but a whim or assertion.

If Democrats win the midterms, it may not be long until they launch a monkey suffrage movement. For all we know, with no ID needed to vote in the majority of states, a monkey or ten may have already voted. But that will just be a prelude to the push for inter-species marriage. The “ISM Front” will start riots in cities like Portland, Seattle, L.A., San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis to force the issue. If monkeys have equal rights...why not? Who does it hurt if some folks want to marry a monkey? Or a horse? Or a dog? Who wants to be on the regressive, fascist, intolerant, bigoted side and be called a “far-right extremist” and “love-hater?”

Nearly a dozen years ago, I wrote a satirical post about just such a scenario. It may not be seen as satire for much longer. When it comes to depravity, Democrats believe in monkey see, monkey do.

Being old-school, I believe we should stop monkeying around with the fundamental-- and Biblical—principles that made this nation great.

Save a horse, ride a cowboy? Nah. Save a nation, vote conservative.

                                                      

                       

 

 

Iran Sends "An Open Letter To The Honorable People Of The United States Of America"

 

In one of history’s most preposterous (and pathetically comical) ruses, Iran’s IRGC has produced a 26-page-long letter to the American people, in which it repeatedly urges Americans to vote against the villainous President Donald Trump and his rascally Republicans…amidst a veritable sea of bald-faced lies, projection, and simple untruths. In one sense, it is fairly sophisticated in its attempt to fool, um, “low-information” Americans and prey on their suicidal empathy. Yet, it so whitewashes the Quran and Iran’s tyrannical, fanatical, terror-sponsoring leaders as to come across as breathtaking farce.

In a section titled “The Main Factors Underpinning Iran’s Victory,” it cites “The Quran’s superior doctrine and worldview.” The “letter” goes on to state: “Arguably, the primary factor responsible for Iran’s victory in its clash with two armies that enjoy almost limitless resources is having a leader who is carefully chosen in accordance with a set of criteria inspired by the tenets of the Quran, a leader whose virtue, justness, and competence must be ascertained beyond any reasonable doubt by a body of independent and learned jurists appointed directly by the people.” Well, that couldn’t be any further from the truth. Now tell us the one about the Three Bears.

Summoning even more chutzpah, the communication claimed that “Quranic doctrine” is based on the principles of “honesty, liberty, equality, social equity, respect for the rights of others, political discernment, compassion, and the priority of human values over personal desires.” Honesty? Like that so clearly shown in this letter? Liberty? Like that your people enjoyed prior to 1979? Equality, social equity, and respect for the rights of others? Guess I’ll ask the families of the countless thousands of citizens-- of various countries-- that you and the terrorist groups you sponsor have slaughtered. Or perhaps we can just look at your women, draped in tarps and without the right to bare arms, legs, or anything else. Or, in many cases, to drive or leave home without a male chaperone. Typically they do have the “right” not ot be beaten by their husbands…with anything larger than a thumb.

At one point, the missive states, “it should be fairly obvious that the phrase ‘Death to America,’ which Iranians have been chanting since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, does not in any way express any ill will toward the American people.” This is beyond Orwellian, akin to something a hyper-woke DSA candidate might say. Wishing the death of America, and therefore Americans (and calling it/us “The Great Satan”) does not in any way express any ill will toward the American people? Sure. And abortion is “women’s healthcare,” and Lindsay Clancy was a “darn good mother.” (I say was, because, you know, she recently killed all of her children.)

The letter goes on (and on and on) to ask “How Can the U.S. Be Saved?” Remarkably, it references both the Old Testament and the “Qur’an (13:11),” stating, “God does not alter the affairs of a people until they alter their own affairs.” This may actually be the case. If so, Americans must laugh at this letter and proceed to try to save their country. Iran’s leaders have already altered their own affairs, and that of the tens of thousands of their own citizens they have slaughtered. We’ll all be watching to see what God does next.

The message further read, “Despite all the hardships that our enemies impose on us, we will continue fighting, as we have done for the past 47 years, for the liberation of humanity from tyranny and ignorance.” (See also, their women in tarps. And the 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days during the Jimmy Carter abetted “Hostage Crisis.”)

Incredibly, the letter asserted, “We can live together in peaceful coexistence,” and closed with “We pray for an imminent end to oppression and aggression, for the liberation of all nations from the grip of tyrants, for a life of loving fellowship and universal peace.” May as well have been written by Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.

In truth, the 26-page piece of Persian propaganda boils down to this: “’Death to America’ or ‘Vote Democratic’ is same thing. Thank you.”

On second thought, truer words were never spoken.

 

 

 

 

English Minister Says Idyllic British Life "Never Really Existed"

 

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, England’s Ministry for Nature, also called The Parliamentary Under‑Secretary of State (or PUSS), toils in the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), which is responsible for crafting government policy on nature recovery, biodiversity, land use, and related environmental priorities.

She recently told those attending a Labour Party conference, “If we don’t make the case for nature, there’ll be the far-right deciding and determining what that looks like. It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of Britain, that never really existed. It’ll be that warm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub that doesn’t exist, and with symbolism of fox hunting all around them, it’ll be a very far-right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have, [and] never really existed.”

Pubs, ale, and dogs are not just symbolic of the far-right, but of the very far right?

Pubs were once central to British life-- a place to meet, talk, and bond. Sadly, for the formerly United Kingdom, the number of pubs will continue to shrink, fewer ales will be drunk, and fewer dogs will be lying contentedly at people’s feet, as the British Isles continue to be ceded to Muslims, many of them males of military age, because of suicidally empathetic clowns like Riddell-Carpenter.

In 1955, Britain had roughly 60,000–70,000 pubs, taverns, and inns, virtually all serving warm ale. And there are still more than 500 breeders of black Labradors in the UK. England’s oldest fox hunt, which is still running today, is the Bilsdale Hunt in Yorkshire, established by George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham in 1668. And fox hunting was portrayed in a great many books, movies, and television series, odd for something that “never really existed.”

“Progressives”-- and assorted other leftist whackos-- stare us in the face and tell us, “reality is what we say it is. And history is, too.” Leftists despise nostalgia, tradition, and history because it threatens them. So they have no choice but to deny them, erase them, and then rewrite history. Fiction becomes truth, or at least commonly accepted knowledge, as truth is obfuscated and sent packing. Why is this so important? It should be abundantly clear, but in case it isn’t: history teaches us lessons, pattern recognition, and, along with tradition, gives us a shared bond. And the truth? Well, that could set us free.

You know what “never really existed,” Ms. Riddell-Carpenter? The world as you imagined it to be.

Britain has changed dramatically in recent years. It has decided to let its own girls be gang-raped and its institutions be overrun, while actively harassing-- and even imprisoning—its native citizens who point this out. Jolly Olde England is no longer jolly, and soon will not be England, at least in any real sense. It will just…fade away.

In fact, it will be as if it never really existed.

 

 

Darkness At Noon...And 1 PM...And 2 PM... And...

 

It is too much for a decent and sane person to bear. Yet we must. We must never surrender to those that wish to destroy our way of life, and with it, us. We see it all around us, a nation “fundamentally transformed,” a nation we no longer recognize. A nation under attack, by foreign invaders and domestic terrorists. And those who aid and abet them. A culture so degraded and permeated with fraud, corruption, dishonesty, and outright evil that it beggars description.

In recent days, we have witnessed:

A woman viciously murder all three of her kids…and be called “a darn good mother.”

26-year-old Dimone Fleming, a Bronx mother who repeatedly stabbed her 3-year-old and 11-month-old sons and submerged their bodies in a bathtub at a taxpayer-funded family shelter, be found not criminally responsible and so will not go to prison.

Many vile attacks on the late Charlie Kirk—and by extension his family and all those that loved him—and of his statues and likenesses being vandalized, around the first “anniversary” of his murder.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul dress herself in a hijab while speaking to Muslim men just two weeks before the 25^th “anniversary” observation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center which killed nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children.

North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen taking to Facebook to post a picture from her vacation in Germany. Headen showed herself standing in front of crematorium ovens in Dachau, a former German concentration camp, and now a somber memorial. She chose the accompanying words to compliment the photo: “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.” Dear God.

A story surface claiming that illegal aliens in Ceuta are cutting cats in half and otherwise dismembering them “for fun.”

And we hear that a 21-year-old man was shot three times on the streets of Seattle…and no one tried to help him. Because they were all too busy filming him with their phones. Great footage! Real! Lotsa clicks and likes! Can’t pass up that kind of opportunity! He walked up to a convenience store begging for help. The employees allegedly locked the store’s doors on him as he was bleeding out.

What the hell has happened to us?!

The good are mocked and punished, the bad no longer held accountable. Our institutions have been captured by evil clowns who desire nothing more than to see to the destruction of the freest, most prosperous, and most tolerant and benevolent nation on Earth. Our culture has been degraded to the point it is unrecognizable. Christianity is routinely mocked and marginalized, as Muslim prayer rings out across our once great cities.

The DEI Nazis, the cultural and political Marxists, and the Muslim fraudsters have effectively combined forces to destroy this nation. That that fact is unpalatable to a great many does not render it less true. A free and open nation is always uniquely susceptible to such assault. That should be obvious. The only way for any nation so conceived to prevail is for the majority of its citizens and leaders to be learned, moral, and courageous.

We are so screwed.

A couple decades ago we let the Muslim Trojan Horse in. Teachers’ unions have become nothing more than Leftist indoctrinators. The mainstream media is a pathetic, anti-American joke. Mind-altering drugs have been widely legalized. The Ten Commandments have been shunned in favor of an infinite number of “my truths.” You may have heard of “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a ‘50s horror movie redone in the late 1970s. Today, too many have succumbed to The Invasion of the Mind Snatchers. That is arguably more tragic.

Sorry, but that is the truth as I see it. And a continual backpedaling from the truth is what got us into this mess in the first place.

So, yes, we must continue (or start?) to resist, to fight. Because that is better than consenting to live as slaves. But, am I hopeful? With all that is aligned against us, truthfully, no.

Few readers will understand the following slightly paraphrased reference to an old Sinatra (and others) song lyric, especially younger ones. Understandably. But it is quite poignant for those of us who do.

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing our purpose after all of these years

And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns
Don’t bother, they’re here

Gentle readers, I’ll let you determine who the clowns are.

 

Good And Bad Immigration

 

Early waves of immigrants to the United States each brought something that contributed to the material well-being of the nation. The English brought notions of common law and individual liberty. The Germans built great breweries and brought along their discipline and affinity for post reformation Protestantism. And sauerkraut! The Norwegians brought cultural tolerance, the Finnish saunas, the Swedes blonde bombshells, the Italians outstanding cuisine, the French arts, and the Cubans a hatred of tyranny and Communism.

The majority of recent immigrants, especially illegals, however, come from places that abhor the idea of individual rights and free markets. Meaning they come from destitute sh*thole countries stuck in the Dark Ages.

Many, especially Muslims from places such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, for instance, have come here to destroy the fabric of a once great nation and eviscerate everything earlier immigrants built.

And, ironically, it will be the New Testament ideas of “turn the other cheek” and “love your enemy” that will see to the destruction.

Numerous Imams and other Muslim figures have stated that they will utilize three avenues to take over the U.S and the West.: 1) by using their women’s wombs to outbreed us (like they use women in general), 2) via mass immigration, and 3) by using our very freedoms, openness, and decency against us. (Like nearly everyone else does. See also China.) This has worked exceedingly well throughout the West in recent years, though there are finally some signs of a feeble pushback. It’s easy to see why the pushback has been relatively feeble when anyone who doesn’t cheerfully and fully embrace this civilizational suicide is promptly called a “far-right” bigot, xenophobe, nationalist, hatemonger, and white supremacist.

Demography is destiny. Period. Oh, there are countless “progressives” who purport to doubt this claim, and who would/will be outraged that I made it. But all of history proves this to be the case.

Which is probably why progressives either don’t teach history or teach a far-left version of it, one in which all the truth has been extracted to make room for…The Agenda.

Muslims And Marxists: United In Hate

 

Oddly enough, Muslims and Marxists have much in common. They both look at anyone who isn't a member of their outsized cults as an “infidel.” And they both feel the urge to convert, enslave, or kill the non-believers.

Oh, there is no doubt that, absent a rapid, thorough, and fundamental recovery of Western values, culture, sanity, and confidence, Muslims and Marxists will one day have a “reckoning” as they carve up the carcass of the erstwhile West. But for now, they share the desire to decapitate Western nations, their relatively free markets, and any remaining rights and freedoms their citizens might still possess. 

Leftists enslave people? Yes, via endless taxation, the confiscation of their hard-earned property, the fruits of their labor. And by telling those in the underclass that there is no way they can succeed, so they should just continue to rely on government alms and get used to their positions. Which means, of course, that they must continue to vote for the leftists.

Both Muslims and Marxists will have no truck with any agenda but their own. As for Marxists’ willingness to kill, see also Steve Scalise, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, and a host of others. Both groups refuse to tolerate those who disagree with them, and neither will fully assimilate into a culture that they do not dominate.

Rather, if they are inconvenienced, they simply seek abortions, whether it be a baby, an adult, or anyone in between. Or even an entire night club, society or nation.

That nary a Muslim or Marxist nation has been both successful and free matters not. In fact, that is the point. The two ideologies share an enormous appetite for destruction. And the West seems utterly—if bizarrely—committed to seeing they are completely sated.  

Canada Prepares For War Against The United States!

 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently said that he had prepared military operations in the eventuality of a conflict with the United States, i.e. Trump Attacking The Great White North…which is no longer great and ever less white. The PM Noted that he is very fond of China, perhaps because both country’s names start with a ‘C’ and end in an ‘A.’ Coincidence? “I don’t think so,” stated Carney. The Former international banker stated that, in solidarity with the Chicoms, the loon will no longer be the national bird of Canada. Rather, henceforth it will be the Peking duck. He also encouraged his fellow citizens to substitute soy sauce for maple syrup wherever practicable. Half of Canadian citizens immediately pledged to do so, most shouting “Take this Trump!”

The great leader boasted that, should American troops ever cross over the Canadian border, hordes of Canadians would be there to shout, “elbows up” and pelt them with snowballs. And, though Canadians have effectively been disarmed by their proclivity to elect progressive governments, Carney stated that some Canadians do have slingshots and would not be afraid to use them. He also referenced such weapons as hockey sticks, canoe paddles, weed whackers (electric only, better for the environment), and fishing lures with treble hooks.   

Moreover, Carney asserted that, while Canada has only about 74 operable battle tanks, it has many times that number of Bombardier Bombers—small tracked vehicles with cool names that are designed to go over snow and ice-- and that could be armed with BB guns and noisemakers if the situation warranted.