<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[T.L.’s Posts and Podcasts (12 Round Productions)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Posts have been linked and featured on Zerohedge, Western Rifle Shooters Association (WRSA), Free Republic, Burning Platform, Cold Fury and several other popular websites. ]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UL-k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5f6993-6735-4fdb-bfe1-fcd22510c4f5_149x149.png</url><title>T.L.’s Posts and Podcasts (12 Round Productions)</title><link>https://tldavis.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:25:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://tldavis.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[tldavis@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[tldavis@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[tldavis@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[tldavis@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The Broken Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[In all the glory in the history of the United States and pre-United States, of which there is plenty, and only slightly blunted by the constant propaganda that were it not for slavery none of it would have been possible; I can only point to the fount of all human achievement: Africa, as an example.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-broken-machine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-broken-machine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:07:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UL-k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5f6993-6735-4fdb-bfe1-fcd22510c4f5_149x149.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In all the glory in the history of the United States and pre-United States, of which there is plenty, and only slightly blunted by the constant propaganda that were it not for slavery none of it would have been possible; I can only point to the fount of all human achievement: Africa, as an example. That&#8217;s not to denigrate the honest contributions that all races and sects have brought to these shores and those who were here before us. </p><p>America is not the land of any given persuasion, race, religion or political contrivance, but one of promise that hard work, dedication and even generations of effort might bring a level of comfort for the ordinary citizen that is unequaled in all the world. In fact, today, most Western nations can and do make the same promise, but they all have a habit of slipping back into tyranny and oppression on a regular basis. </p><p>And that is exactly what&#8217;s happening to the United States right now, a sudden and inexplicable compulsion toward emulating Europe, the failed states of Europe, the suicidal Europe, the monarchial and despotic Europe that has embroiled the world in numerous world wars that went uncounted until the United States was drawn into them. The 7 years war and the 30 years war before that, the war of the Roses and what was the &#8220;cousins&#8221; war before being called the First World War.</p><p>What I have and continue to propose as a solution to our self-imposed decline is a coalition of the overlooked, those still convinced that hard work and dedication are the key to living a good and prosperous life. It&#8217;s a belief that becomes harder to maintain every year as one more support is kicked out from under them. But as long as they&#8217;re willing to blindly go to work, do their best and hope to change things with the next election, they&#8217;re lost. It will never happen again, the people who have spent decades rigging the system to rob every working family of their morrow and enrich themselves will not unrig the system because they got caught. </p><p>The problem is the wailing of millions of individual voices means nothing to them. If one cannot come to them with bags of cash and a clearly delineated means of looting the treasury, there is no representation in government, even at the most local level. If there were three people in a town and one of them was the mayor, the other two would be taxed until they decided to hang the mayor. That&#8217;s how every larger form of government operates as well, only many more people and much too dispersed to focus on any one criminal politician. </p><p>The truth is, I&#8217;m not sure any of these people, the hardworking dedicated types, understand what is being sacrificed by maintaining a belief in a representative democratic republic. The politicians have done everything they can to prove to them that it&#8217;s all nonsense and nothing shouts that with any more volume than a failure to pass the Save America Act, something nearly 90% of all citizens of all races, political parties and religions want that is a bridge too far for the consummately corrupted American politician. And, they know they can get away with this big middle finger to 90% of the population because the system is as rigged as it is. Otherwise, they&#8217;d be terrified to take such a stance. </p><p>I can only compare voting in this system as standing at a vending machine, putting in one&#8217;s change, pushing the button and nothing happens. The solution for those obeying the laws and going to work and doing their best is to try again. They put more change in and hope when they hit the button, something will happen. But it doesn&#8217;t. Again they put more change into the machine, pray and push the button. Nothing. This can go on for a century or more, or until the broken machine eats every dime they own. </p><p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that not voting is the answer, either, because the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has recognized this as an advantage and opportunity to get more of their Islamists and communists into office. But what one might recognize is that voting is not the solution, but the prevention of a worse fate than standing at a broken machine and pumping change into it, because there is a worse fate that DSA has in mind for them. </p><p>The answer, the only answer, is to recognize and exert the actual power one has to remedy the situation, i.e., breaking the glass and taking what one has paid for. In this case taking part in a nationwide demonstration of the power of the working class. Whether that comes in the form of a general strike, or a day of mischief, or whatever, it involves setting down the tools, taking a sick day (preferably the busiest day), getting a truck stuck, letting a welder run out of gas, etc., etc. It can&#8217;t be anything permanently damaging, violent or destructive. The power is in the inefficiency, the plausible deniability that one has taken part in the strike or mischief. It has to be an act that only the person who engages in it knows for sure that it was on purpose. </p><p>I&#8217;m not here to encourage anyone, or plan anything, organize anything. I know that sounds like a cop out, but it isn&#8217;t. There are much better leaders, people who see what I do, who have the personality for it, who have the genius of organization, the money to put behind it. I don&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve spent all I have pursuing anything that could keep us from getting to the point we are now. I&#8217;m spent.</p><p>The last effort I made to help people realize that our struggle in America is not the only one, that the same tactics used against Trump have been used in Brazil, Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others, was the film <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction: The Global Fight for Freedom</a> (soon to be released). 2020 was a watershed moment for the globalist cabal that pump money into NGOs to produce massive amounts of misinformation, accusations and riots to give the illusion that the independent-minded leaders of these nations are corrupt and autocratic fascists. </p><p>They will not be denied the destruction of Western culture, not here and not in Europe. They are gaining power in the entire Western world and are quite open about the plans they have for traditional Americans of all races.</p><p>The only thing that can stall their momentum is a recognition of the individual power of those who love freedom, value independence, want a better life and are willing to make a tiny sacrifice of reputation to bring about a sudden shock to the rigged system, to threaten their sense of invulnerability. Only a concerted, small effort, can bring this about at this late stage of conquest.  </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-broken-machine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-broken-machine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. Currently $5 per month or $30 per year.</p><p><span>In order to offer my subscribers a further benefit, please use the discount code &#8220;subscriber&#8221; for a secret 30% off the paperback versions at </span><a href="https://www.twelveround.com/">twelveround.com</a><span>. This discount will not be advertised, this is the only way to get it, but you can offer it to friends and family.</span></p><p>Twelveround.com is still the home of quality fiction with 60-70% 5-star ratings. If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from twelveround for the above discount.</p><p></p><p>   </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're Feeding Our Own Destruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[The inability of the president to acknowledge and act on open and clear treason is as close to a treasonous act as one can get.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/were-feeding-our-own-destruction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/were-feeding-our-own-destruction</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:28:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UL-k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5f6993-6735-4fdb-bfe1-fcd22510c4f5_149x149.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The inability of the president to acknowledge and act on open and clear treason is as close to a treasonous act as one can get. Everything isn&#8217;t political, this is a critical issue. Between the backchannel to the CCP openly admitted by Mark Milley and the recently disclosed revelation that there were a number of retired four-star general officers engaged in the same thing, without arrests, sends an incredibly dangerous message to our people and encourages our enemies. </p><p>Couple that with the growing hostility toward America by Islamists living here, breeding here and spreading their hostility across the entire nation without any formal confrontation only endangers the American people to the utmost extreme. </p><p>I most often criticize the government on constitutional grounds and there&#8217;s plenty of such to be critical. It&#8217;s not that the constitution is a perfect document that is at issue, it&#8217;s the fact that it&#8217;s the only charter we have with our government and where that agreement is null and void in certain aspects, it&#8217;s null and void in its entirety.</p><p>There&#8217;s no reason to fear the sleeper cells of Islamist terrorists where we are electing Islamic terrorists describing the way in which they will implement their terrorism on us, unleash communism in our largest cities, impose no-go zones, harass and intimidate federal law enforcement when they attempt to enforce the immigration laws or other laws of the United States. They&#8217;re already spreading fear and angst that undermines the safety and security of a free state. </p><p>Since there is no expectation that the overall and separate jurisdictions of the legal system will supersede these enclaves imposing foreign laws and supporting the supremacy of a religious cult on the citizens of the United States, there is no effective rule of law that is open and understood by those expected to abide by it. These acts are in violation of the federal codes and failure of the government to enforce them, is a capitulation that no free people can tolerate. </p><p>The result is that the American people are thrust back into a time when there was nothing available to provide security but frontier justice. As abhorrent as that can be and as likely as it is to result in incredible acts of injustice, there is a perfectly good system of justice that has worked for centuries that has been abandoned on the alter of some sort of twisted civility. </p><p>I&#8217;m having more and more conversations with people who are completely fed up. This is not what our ancestors died for. The precious &#8220;union&#8221; is being carved into sections that fail to resemble any aspect of Americanism, that fail at the most rudimentary expectations, i.e., healthcare, education, elections, of those who pay the toll only to have those funds used to discriminate against them, replace their laws with those of an unelected foreign power and enforced by those whose authority comes from an alien religious text. </p><p>There&#8217;s no excuses left for the guilty. There&#8217;s no excuses left to the defenders of our nation. No one will lift a finger to save the republic, but the people must find some means of defending themselves. That&#8217;s what the Second Amendment was all about, defending oneself from the encroachments of other nations. At the time it was France, Spain and Britain that threatened our borders, now it&#8217;s Mexico, the entire Middle East and China, often using laws meant for citizens to defend their colonization of the United States. To look at it any other way is to ignore reality. </p><p>The notable <a href="https://www.theinvisiblecoup.com/">book by Peter Schweizer, </a><em><strong><a href="https://www.theinvisiblecoup.com/">Invisible Coup</a></strong></em>, lays it all out for anyone to see the cynical forces behind each individual effort to tear down the United States and replace it with a different sort of system, namely a communist system with some religious aspects to it, but not Christian. </p><p>Being formed out of our nation, from sea to shining sea, is a battleground between cartels, communists and Islamists. We&#8217;re almost irrelevant even now, because we have not raised our flag and stood by it. We&#8217;ve been all too willing to bring down the stars and stripes in favor of whatever doesn&#8217;t make us feel rude or insensitive. And, I&#8217;m not talking about the readers of this Substack, but about their neighbors, their school teachers, their bosses and their corporate heads. </p><p>I reiterate, the only way to even remotely push back against the momentum is to establish a working person&#8217;s coalition willing to shut it down for a day, just one day, full stop. From that will grow a sense of empowerment that can be used as political leverage. Without it, we&#8217;re the greasy spot in the road. It&#8217;s the only solution that doesn&#8217;t require destruction or protest and one won&#8217;t even make a target of themselves, because there won&#8217;t be any evidence that they were part of the whole, just suspicion, the same suspicion that seems to allow the criminal activities to continue day after day to our detriment.  </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/were-feeding-our-own-destruction?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/were-feeding-our-own-destruction?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. Currently $5 per month or $30 per year.</p><p>In order to offer my subscribers a further benefit, please use the discount code &#8220;subscriber&#8221; for a secret 30% off the paperback versions at <a href="https://www.twelveround.com/">twelveround.com</a>. This discount will not be advertised, this is the only way to get it, but you can offer it to friends and family.</p><p>Twelveround.com is still the home of quality fiction with 60-70% 5-star ratings. If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from twelveround for the above discount.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hostile World]]></title><description><![CDATA[I rarely write on the subject of survival in a crisis, because there are so many better qualified to handle that subject, i.e., Jack Lawson, Trooper and to some degree The Path Forward (which is better yet at other things), all excellent, all knowledgeable and trustworthy.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/a-hostile-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/a-hostile-world</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:05:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZeIb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32d94124-5687-4858-81a4-3392d2a0526f_894x894.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZeIb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32d94124-5687-4858-81a4-3392d2a0526f_894x894.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZeIb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32d94124-5687-4858-81a4-3392d2a0526f_894x894.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I rarely write on the subject of survival in a crisis, because there are so many better qualified to handle that subject, i.e., <a href="https://jacklawsonbooks.com/">Jack Lawson</a>, <a href="https://trooperchannel.substack.com/">Trooper</a> and to some degree <a href="https://murmediagroup.com/">The Path Forward</a> (which is better yet at other things), all excellent, all knowledgeable and trustworthy. But in working on the novel I&#8217;ve decided to call <strong>Dystopia, Texas</strong>, I&#8217;ve come across the idea of presenting the collapse of the grid in as realistic terms as I can from someone who is not a dedicated prepper or survivalist, just a guy with some mechanical, plumbing and electrical skills developed from a lifetime of working different jobs. </p><p>I wanted to bring this information to my readers, though I know most of them are quite familiar with these resources. The reason is that every nation, as we saw the other day in Spain, is under a myriad of threats and that the most pernicious and pervasive is the threat from socialist leaders. </p><p>Though I might have been criticized over time for being blinded from other threats by that of communism, it seems pretty well documented now that the communist leaders in the EU and individual nations themselves are enabling the Red-Green alliance of communists linking up with Islam to produce the literal destruction of Western democracies and culture. The communists think that once the power of Islam vanquishes these Western cultures, it will be ripe for communism and they will simply kill another billion people to establish order. They&#8217;re fools being played by the Islamists. </p><p>It doesn&#8217;t matter, what we find ourselves confronted with is the effective use of this alliance against us, the Western cultures and more specifically the United States. It&#8217;s no longer a supposition or a theory that this is taking place, it&#8217;s a fact and it&#8217;s time for individuals to recognize it.</p><p>The first point of recognition must be that there is no one in local, state or federal government interested in the well being of the people. There is no corporation dedicated to anything other than self-enrichment and aggrandizement. We are on our own and as effectively as we can build small groups who understand that, become mutual support sources for each other, the better off we&#8217;re going to be. </p><p>The first act of resistance is developing self-sufficiencies. Resilience is a revolutionary act, because when we can provide for ourselves, they cannot pressure us to comply. They will try and thereby expose themselves as the thugs they are. It&#8217;s a hostile world, now. Clinging to comfort, while it should be enjoyed while it&#8217;s available, recognizing that there is an end to that comfort is equally important. Or, rather, redefining &#8220;comfort&#8221; as something much more sustainable. </p><p>I&#8217;m not going to try and list the array of threats coming our way, they are in multitudes. Any institution now in existence that has any sway among the people is already compromised. Our whole education system has been rigged for at least 60 years to bring the people into a mindset of a conquered people, fearful, easily influenced and manipulated. The last thing on earth they want to deal with is independent thinkers who reject the narrative. </p><p>I am fully convinced that the whole Covid psyop was to determine the level of success of the educational system over that 60-year period and they were rewarded, but the test itself has raised alarms among what&#8217;s left of the patriots to the republic.</p><p>Against my better judgment, having been taught the lesson of my ineffectiveness already several times, I feel compelled to propose a shot across the bow of our demonic leadership in government and equally demonic billionaire globalists.  </p><p>It would be to our benefit to hold a &#8220;Day of Mischief&#8221; in which those who hear the call to push back against the railroading of a whole society, a whole world, there is one day when mischief for the purpose of sending a clear message &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; is enacted. It&#8217;s pushback against the Red-Green Alliance.</p><p>This is two-fold: 1) it would not require damaging property; 2) it must be done in a way of plausible deniability. It&#8217;s a message, not an assault, a demonstration, not an attack. It&#8217;s revealing that we can use their same tactics against them. I mean, they will cut our power, cut our water, our gas, use our utilities against the people to support their building of the control state. </p><p>My preference would be a recognizable date, 9/11 or some such. It could be random, but well publicized. Because it will be publicized, suspicion will be high on those who take part, but as with all of their systems, they can just look at their accusers as if they&#8217;re crazy. &#8220;That&#8217;s just a conspiracy theory&#8221; that a bunch of working people would go to such lengths just to send a message. </p><p>What am I talking about? Well, how hard would it be, on that date to fill in a wrong address for a corporate delivery? How hard would it be to get one&#8217;s truck stuck? How hard would it be to miss a meeting? How hard would it be to go to the wrong location? How hard would it be to shut off one&#8217;s phone? </p><p>The truth is, the more complete they build out the surveillance state, the more AI controls all of these functions, the less ability the people will have to exert their own power. It&#8217;s coming to a crucial stage, knowing that we have no representation, that no one is on our side, we had better develop a cohesive &#8220;side&#8221; or we&#8217;ll just be individual weeds they can pull at their discretion. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/a-hostile-world?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/a-hostile-world?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:12:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOnn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc959a1-810c-453e-b784-0471ed75cc94_696x385.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOnn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc959a1-810c-453e-b784-0471ed75cc94_696x385.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOnn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc959a1-810c-453e-b784-0471ed75cc94_696x385.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I don&#8217;t mean to come off sanctimonious here, but the first time I saw Fauci, I knew he was an officious narcissist. I&#8217;d seen his ilk before, in schools, in the military and at universities. Not that I ever attended a university, but I did go to some lectures and that. </p><p>In truth, I didn&#8217;t know any more about Covid than anyone else in the early days. But I did know some guiding principles. First, we had never quarantined the healthy. That was reserved for when someone showed symptoms, then they were quarantined. Second, anyone showing symptoms were instructed to stay home. When had avoiding medical treatment been advised? Third, one could have full-blown Covid and show no symptoms or slight symptoms. It was described, basically, as a cold or the flu, both of which were pretty common and had never raised this level of concern. </p><p>So, initially, what I put together, was that this was something on the level of a minor cold or a severe flu. A lot of people died of the flu every year, we, as a nation, didn&#8217;t get into this big of a panic over anything like that. With something that, while novel, was not unique and on some occasions, usually with complicating circumstances, might lead to death, so might any other millions of things. </p><p>In all, the determination to cause fear, to provoke panic in the population rather than to quell it, knowing that if one were to experience symptoms they were instructed to steer clear of medical treatment, it came off as a psyop, pure and simple and that&#8217;s the way I responded to it. Any cooperation was a failure. </p><p>While it&#8217;s nice to know my instincts were right, it doesn&#8217;t erase the sense of sheer disappointment I experienced concerning my fellow Americans. Sure, the liberals were all going to jump on the government powerplay taking place, but normal, typically skeptical Americans falling in line was nothing short of terrifying. </p><p>So, now we see Fauci, essentially admitting his crimes in congress by the excessive use of the Fifth Amendment, which, by the way, he has no claim to since he&#8217;s received a pardon making him immune from prosecution, unless he has already been instructed that autopen pardons don&#8217;t carry the weight of an actual pardon signed by a thinking, breathing human being. </p><p>It&#8217;s not the weaselly, rat-faced Fauci or the do-nothing congress exposing themselves as the traitors and criminals they are that serves some purpose. We didn&#8217;t need a demonstration after all the previous demonstrations of the past years to shine light onto the problem. We know the problem, we know who the criminals are and who the traitors are.</p><p>What is being exposed is that we don&#8217;t have a system that&#8217;s capable of producing consequences for the gravest, most widespread, systematically destructive actions of a single man. There is no overarching bureaucracy that insulates him from taking the blame, it was all him directing the states, counties and cities to adopt horrendous genocidal policies, backed up by the sudden disappearance of HIPPA that would have made any question about one&#8217;s medical treatment out of bounds. </p><p>The insanity of it was that it allowed the average citizen, the store clerk, the rest stop janitor, the cocktail waitress to dispense medical advice and enforce it with denial of service. It allowed employers to ask whether one had or had not taken the most vile advice from a bunch of clowns on television and to determine one&#8217;s career based on that. </p><p>I know, I was looking for a job and was forced to argue with recruiters about whether or not they had any right to ask such questions. Of course, I didn&#8217;t get hired. By anyone. After eventually finding a job, I nearly got fired for refusing to fill out the sheet asking me the same HIPPA violating questions when I went to different disposal stations. That was a year or two AFTER the scam had been pretty much exposed. </p><p>What was my boss&#8217; response when they called him to see what to do about me? &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t he just lie?&#8221; That was when I knew I&#8217;d quit. The astonishing lack of integrity in the system might always have been there, but I&#8217;d rarely seen it. </p><p>It reminded me of another time, long before Covid, when I had been asked by one of our customers whether we had run an early supply truck to a guy&#8217;s competitor that day. Well, I wouldn&#8217;t have lied anyway, but it was clear that this guy knew we had, they were distinctive trucks. I told the truth and when I got back to the shop I was called into the office. I told the boss what I was asked and what I said. </p><p>&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you just tell him, &#8216;No?&#8217; </p><p>My response: &#8220;I don&#8217;t lie in my personal life and that comes with often having to face some harsh music. I damn sure will not lie for you.&#8221; </p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not asking you to lie, or anything,&#8221; he said. </p><p>&#8220;What part of me saying &#8216;no&#8217; would have been the truth?&#8221;</p><p>He just sat there. The guy didn&#8217;t even know what the truth was, much less whether it had been told or not.</p><p>I relate this, because I feel many who visit this Substack can relate, that those who read this don&#8217;t have to ask why I wouldn&#8217;t just roll over and demean myself to further the goals of some corporation. To me, and most of us, this isn&#8217;t a college level exam, the answers are pretty easy to produce. And, to whatever degree one had to go along, to put his family first, I sympathize, it was a tough time and that&#8217;s the point. It never should have been a question of feeding one&#8217;s family or answer a medical question, or wear some ridiculous mask that admitted ON THE BOX it came in that it wouldn&#8217;t prevent contamination. It couldn&#8217;t even be used to prevent smoke particles from passing through, particles that were enormously larger than the virus.  </p><p>I expect to see the level of disingenuousness, outright lies and demagoguery in congress, in the political class and the officiousness of the entitled class. But all across this land, in offices and boardrooms everywhere there were the same bullies and weaklings that allowed it, that couldn&#8217;t step up to their bosses and refuse to ask a HIPPA question of their employees. The next step would be to wait a year or so, when some sanity returned and sue them for everything they had. If enough had rebelled, Fauci&#8217;s will would have died alone on the hill and he would have been laughed off the stage.</p><p>The ultimate realization, however, is this: No one but the working people of this land will ever correct this diseased system. No governor, no president, no senator, no CEO. The working people have all the power and if I could call on it, I would, because the solution is extraordinarily clear. They have to demonstrate that power. They have to shut it down. They have to get these insulated, demigods to pay attention. Because, the truth is, they are so horribly terrified of the working people of this land, that they&#8217;re trying desperately to put that power into the hands of a few elitists. That&#8217;s what the AI centers are all about, neutering the working class. The efforts that they&#8217;ve already used to keep us racially at each other&#8217;s throats is a demonstration of their fear of coalescing against them.   </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/faucis-finger-is-theirs?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/faucis-finger-is-theirs?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I am tired of: empty threats and pretending to be the enforcer when nothing at all happens.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/resolve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/resolve</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:37:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ldsl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61305d1c-70c7-430a-934a-c20f6437361d_780x438.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ldsl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61305d1c-70c7-430a-934a-c20f6437361d_780x438.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ldsl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61305d1c-70c7-430a-934a-c20f6437361d_780x438.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here&#8217;s what I am tired of: empty threats and pretending to be the enforcer when nothing at all happens. No one, who is illegally and openly treasonous or involved in fraud and money laundering is going to jail. There are no celebrities who are clearly guilty of encouraging violence against federal law enforcement officers being charged with such crimes. </p><p>There is a federal government, under Trump, that is too cowardly to enforce the laws and put these political criminals in jail, because they&#8217;re leftists and the cost of that might be measured in the lives of law enforcement officers. Just think of the lives of the average person, unarmed and unbody-armored, who are going to have to confront the Islamic murderers, rapists and pedophiles in the streets, who will be lost to the red/green coalition of Islamic communism.</p><p>As Matt Bracken pointed out in <a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/641822/lies-of-omission">the film Lies of Omission (a 12 Round Production)</a> the communist intent is to take over the United States by infiltrating the institutions, including the church, schools, city councils, anything that offers power to a few individuals is a target for the communists. Islam works perfectly with communism, because it is patriarchal and brutal.  </p><p>The cowardice of the feminist movement is just as bad as anyone else. After decades of telling white men that they were little more than rapists, because they had sex with women, who while claiming superior power, seemed powerless to stop the advances of men. After backing Bill Clinton who committed the greatest act of workplace sexual assault, by their own definition of &#8220;a boss can never have consensual sex with a subordinate&#8221; the most powerful boss in the world had sex with an intern, perhaps the weakest possible subordinate. And, they shrugged, it wasn&#8217;t important. Now, the feminists are ghosts when the Islamists come to call with religious exemption from the charge of rape, against infidel women (or any other, really), in other words, not obedient and modest. Let a Christian make that complaint and the whole fake feminist world would explode in outrage. </p><p>The point is that none of our institutions have held up against the ardent threat of any other culture, or religion. We are half-hearted in everything we do these days. There are no radicals or devotees to American principles, it seems. </p><p>While the summer has been filled with the 250th celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a time when we had that ardent zeal that Americans are known for, and the recognition of so many from around the world of the gleeful and appreciation of our nation from World Cup fans, it has not done enough to our pride to force the Senate to pass the SAVE Act. </p><p>Everything is fake and gay, as the saying goes and more and more it&#8217;s being proven to be true. Our whole society seems to be made up of paid actors and role players rather than true, patriotic Americans willing to give their lives for their nation. They won&#8217;t give their lives to save their own daughters from rape and humiliation or in retribution for it. </p><p>America is the grand exposition and has been since the late 19th Century. It&#8217;s a medicine show, a carnival, putting on wars like Broadway shows, producing politics  like a weekly television drama. How could the grandest showman in history have not been our president?  </p><p>And yet, I know it&#8217;s still there. I see it in the eyes of people I talk to, the parents of young children and grandparents still working the land. While I don&#8217;t believe that the national capitulation can all come from fear of being ridiculed, it looks very much like that.</p><p>I started <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/T.-L.-Davis/author/B001K8YKN4?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&amp;qid=1784485575&amp;sr=8-1&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true&amp;ccs_id=8a250322-7f43-461f-b545-eb6f40a784b5">writing my novels</a>, because I&#8217;d read Hemingway, McMurtry, Faulkner, Poe and many others and did not find the type of American I had known and worked with all of my life, from ranchers to oil field guys, men who when they said something, it was going to happen. It might take a month or so, but, by God, it would happen and I didn&#8217;t find that in these books, some more than others, but not the pure, simple truth of what I&#8217;d witnessed. The closest I could find was in Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, etc.), though Hemingway had bits and pieces of it. </p><p>Most don&#8217;t realize that somewhere between the violent responses to inhuman degradation and the civilized society of letting the law handle it all, the soul is lost. The meaning of words is lost. I&#8217;m not saying we should all become more brutal human beings than we are now, but that we should take an affront with a great deal more will to put ourselves on the line to punish those who would dehumanize our children, or any child. </p><p>I can&#8217;t even contemplate the justifications that people openly state on the media and the internet for pedophilia and to know that these justifications are coming from people trying to normalize the common practice of it in the Islamic society, is even more infuriating. We don&#8217;t have to be changed to accept it, in fact, we should rebel vehemently against it. </p><p>The fact that where Islam exists, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness cannot. Islam doesn&#8217;t have a single care for those values. Worshipping Mohammad is the only value and living by an ancient code of social behavior, long since vanquished by Western society, is now being renewed in all of them, taking feminism, or even a decent respect for the women in our lives, as &#8220;haram.&#8221; </p><p>My time spent in Saudi Arabia revealed to me the society of which I speak. This is not from a sideliner who spouts off about things he doesn&#8217;t know. Our roustabouts and rig hands lived the life and I saw and understood the culture from which they had sprung. Even some of the things they don&#8217;t usually talk about with Westerners, they would, in the course of conversations, reveal to me, in whatever couched ways they might.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t being anti-Islamic that&#8217;s is important, what I&#8217;m saying is that being absolutely rigid about refusing to give up one instance of Western culture for theirs is an abomination. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:43:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UL-k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5f6993-6735-4fdb-bfe1-fcd22510c4f5_149x149.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg" width="712" height="311.3254901960784" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:223,&quot;width&quot;:510,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:712,&quot;bytes&quot;:8138,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/i/206473557?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f2328b3-0c33-4254-9b60-dcd9722099fb_510x340.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93zp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a6eb70-566f-4e92-a6e3-641993d32189_510x223.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The US is being colonized and the colonizers are being cheered on by those who claim to detest colonization. It&#8217;s like the police officer in Dallas, TX, who threatened to arrest a pastor for preaching aloud, if it upset some local Muslims, but when asked, the police refused to arrest the Muslims threatening the pastor. This is systematic profiling, where if one race or religion does it, it&#8217;s fine, but if another does it, it&#8217;s a crime. </p><p>This is not justice. This is not how a constitutional republic is supposed to work. This is not the rule of law, this is the rule of man, of each individual being arrested or assisted based on their race, religion or political affiliation, only this time, it&#8217;s the Western population, the previous colonizers, if you will, those who have been here for generations and centuries that are victimized by their own system.</p><p>Don&#8217;t pretend that only white people are being hurt in this systematic forced acceptance of Islam. The diversity of the United States, once proudly announced as E Pluribus Unum, or Out of Many, One, will not find itself diverse, anymore. It will be absolutely, solidly Muslim. For the most part, it&#8217;s the blacks, Asians and Hispanics that are most likely to suffer the brunt of being forced into Islam. Asians have already, in China and Japan, rejected Islam and prefer their own culture, as any sane nation would. </p><p>White insanity is the problem here, white stupidity and we&#8217;re letting everyone down. It was the promise of America to maintain a land where hard work and dedication could provide a good living, a good education and with those things build a good, independent life, one not owed to some ruling earl or lord, some landed-gentry who decided who would profit and who would be impoverished. </p><p>It is not a hatred for Islam or Muslims; have we not tolerated them along with all other religions, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.? But what we are witnessing is not tolerance, but subjection. No other religion asks of its Christian neighbors to hide their dogs, cover their women, refrain from BBQ and bacon. None other demands to spread their daily prayers into the air, much worse than a preacher on a street corner, for the call to prayer reaches out miles from the source to annoy and antagonize the Christian population. When are Muslims ticketed for violations of the sound ordinances? What other American could so blatantly defy the powers of government or even an HOA with such impunity?</p><p>On one side, we have an organized and taught invasion strategy, a strategy that has worked in every nation, except perhaps China and Japan. The initial adherents obey the local laws, fit into society and begin to push the boundaries from inside. In time, especially with democratic-type systems, the Muslims insert politicians who work to change the laws to comport to Islam, to claim prejudice and demand protection. Until Islam gains enough political power to unleash the full strength of Sharia on the entire population. </p><p>We are in this phase of colonization. Cities are created that are only for Muslims and Sharia compliant as in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is what they used to take over Dearborn, MI as well as Iran, Egypt, Lebanon. They will go block by block, voting district by voting district so it&#8217;s easy to minimize and overlook. They understand they just need to take over the population centers to rule the state. They&#8217;re probably just following a strategy first worked out by the Vatican. </p><p>It&#8217;s not that what they are doing that is wrong. They&#8217;re called to establish the worldwide caliphate on earth, as Jesus sent his disciples to all the nations of the earth to bring the word of God to the people. </p><p>The one and only objection that I, and most of the Western world has, is that it is, and will be, forced conversion, that an American citizen is not allowed to pursue their own happiness in the face of Sharia law. That political divisions are created within the overall structure with different laws, different rules of behavior. It&#8217;s an overthrow of the American system of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of thought and expression. That it allows what we find abominable, such as pedophilia and the subjugation of women and punishment of women outside the rule of law established by the constitution of the United States. Where women and girls can be stoned to death for what we would consider minor moral lapses. It&#8217;s a rejection of thousands of years of civilization and a return to the brutality and patriarchy of the past. </p><p>The leftists encourage, support and give aid to these enemies of freedom as a strategic move by the communists who cannot rely on the religious zealousness of communism to enforce their fascist agenda (yes, that is intentional) and substitute Islam for that zeal to conquer the West. The communists will purge as they need to after the collapse of the West, or, at least, they have convinced themselves. I doubt it.</p><p>America is in a vice of these two powers. Zohran Mamdani embodies the whole strategy in one of the largest and most powerful cities in the world. </p><p>This is exactly what the Second Amendment was drafted for, the purpose of militias described in the constitution. The purpose of a militia, by the way, is so that whatever is needed it is done through recognition of the laws and rights of others, it is to discourage vigilante justice. </p><p>When a local government has become hostile to its citizens, has allowed invaders to take possession of United States territory, substituting and subjecting the population to foreign laws, the militia, being armed as well as any government troops (they are not, because the legal system infringed the right to keep and bear arms egregiously and often) are entitled to stand as protectors of the constitution. </p><p>This is not meant to encourage anyone to do anything against anyone else, but there is fundamental, legal support for it, that in normal times would be unnecessary and unwanted. What we, Americans, have enjoyed for the majority of our existence is a peaceful and orderly society supported by the laws we made through the representatives we&#8217;ve chosen. That is no longer the case. It simply is not. Where Islam establishes itself, it unwrites the laws of the Untied States and the several states of which it is established, and inserts a set of laws unrecognized by the United States and the several states of which is is established. </p><p>No current politician will support the idea of militias to enforce the laws of the United States against the invasion of Islam and its desire to convert the population and enforce Sharia law. They are too cowardly to look at the constitution in that frame of mind. The principles of the United States have already been diluted by the corrupt and cowardly. We cannot go back and undo that history, but we can forge the future. </p><p>People forget the world in which the United States was born. It was an infant in a world of great and powerful nations. The invasion by Spain, Britain or France was a real threat. These powers shared common borders with the thirteen colonies newly freed. The Second Amendment was to protect those borders with whatever the population could muster. This was true in the frontier where for nearly a hundred years small militia forces were required to prevent incursions against the settlers. And, by all rights, the Indian nations had every legal and moral right to defend the land they had claimed. But it extended mostly against those great powers, who often enlisted the Indian nations to support their wars against the fledgling republic. </p><p>My point is simply that we are in the grips of two equally powerful entities working together to obliterate both Christianity and the constitution of the United States of America. It is our duty, however detested by the agents of these powers, i.e., the police forces, the sheriffs, the state and federal houses and senates that we established, fund and protect every day with our tax dollars. They are corrupt and instead of helping to establish these militias will work diligently to infiltrate and destroy them. </p><p>The Second Amendment does not secure the right to shoot targets, it secures the right of the people to defend the constitution, their land and their religion. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/dire-times?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/dire-times?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to Decide]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t know what to think of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/time-to-decide</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/time-to-decide</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:43:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuGP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45561169-804f-4870-bae4-d86381820c70_970x600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuGP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45561169-804f-4870-bae4-d86381820c70_970x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuGP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45561169-804f-4870-bae4-d86381820c70_970x600.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t know what to think of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. My pride in being an American lies truly with the sentiment and statements of the Declaration. The principles stated therein are worthy of complete devotion, even dedicating one&#8217;s life to defending them as I have. </p><p>Yet, all around this nation major cities block the celebration of independence (or try to) with flimsy health scares and outright hostility. New York City, now run by a communist Muslim, wrapped its subway trains in the Iranian flag, an intentional slap in the face to the nation in which it&#8217;s situated. How egregious does the treachery have to be to get a response? And, I don&#8217;t mean a terse letter. </p><p>That is the cause of my concern. One can celebrate all they want, shoot fireworks into the sky and wear the flag as a shirt, picnic on the Washington Mall, but if that sort of surface patriotism isn&#8217;t backed up by the will to oppose all enemies from whatever quarter, with the exertion of force, the United States will be steamrolled by more fervent devotees to other systems.</p><p>This has been true the world over. Communism is full of devoted, violent adherents as is Islam. Still, with all of the violence in their wake, the deaths of millions, the brutality meted out, they are the fastest-growing systems out there. Where is the opposing force of capitalism and Christianity? They aren&#8217;t even on the same field of battle. The capitalists are in bed with the Chinese and the Christians can&#8217;t wait to turn their churches into mosques. </p><p>The rest of us are on the sidelines, staring out at our inevitable destruction, the dismantling of over 300 years of building civilized society on this continent, in abject horror.</p><p>The celebration, or lack of it, of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a shot across the bow, a warning that America can fall, that there are those working at undermining the fortifications keeping it safe. </p><p>Understand what we have to lose. The United States has reduced poverty all over the globe. All of those who whine about the abolition of USAID were beneficiaries of that alleviation of poverty, who had corrupted the system to enrich themselves at the cost to the poor. And these bureaucrats, senators and the like feel no shame for starving the poor. They&#8217;re the guilty, not the taxpayers for having demanded accountability. </p><p>As many World Cup visitors have pointed out: America contains one of the most beautifully diverse landscapes and terrains to exist anywhere on earth. In one state, Texas, one might go from beaches to the buffalo plains, from desert to lush forests and the people are as kind and accommodating as will be found anywhere. As is all of America. There are the resort coasts of Florida and California, the forests of Washington and Oregon, a world renown desert not too far outside of Los Angeles. </p><p>There are the towering Rocky Mountains stretching from about the middle of Utah all the way to Denver, thousands of peaks, valleys. There&#8217;s lush farmland in the San Luis Valley between ranges. </p><p>There are great rivers that have succored human existence for thousands of years and  powered commerce like the Ohio, the Mississippi and the Missouri There are great lakes almost like inland seas. </p><p>And yet, it isn&#8217;t just the land that gives America its value, it&#8217;s the ideals and principles of freedom that once left to wither will never again be brought back to life. This is the truly important contest. Surface level patriotism cannot be tolerated and have these ideals succeed in a world of &#8220;gimmes,&#8221; because it was built on self-sufficiency, pride and hard work. One cannot take those principles out of society and have anything left. </p><p>In order to devalue America and Americans, these things are called White Privilege (despite the fact that all successful people of whatever race have used the same principles to elevate themselves) and something to be ashamed of. It&#8217;s the socialist belief that everything produced by human beings is to serve all others, not the builders and producers alone. Where that is true, there are not builders and producers, because there is no incentive to become one. What&#8217;s left is a world of influencers designed to funnel all capital to the state where they will use that capital to purchase elections until there is no longer a need for them, because the people have been replaced by ministers and deputies. </p><p>This is not a time to be passively American, or patriotic. It is not a time to be passively Christian. It is not a time to be passively capitalist. It is not a time to be passively Western. All of these things are under direct and open attack. The Islamists and communists have laid out their plan and their goal and if America falls to them, it will soon resemble every other place where these two systems have been in primacy. </p><p>While they cry &#8220;diversity&#8221; everything they propose and pursue is a lack of diversity, total control, absolute adherence. Neither system produces originality or advancement, but a slow dissolution of the progress already made. They are the viruses infecting the world. </p><p>America has benefitted from its diversity, not in all ways, but in many, but now that diversity has turned against its host and become the problem, not the solution. There was nothing wrong with traditional Americanism, except that it left tiny cracks through which armies could eventually march. </p><p>America has always been a land of diversity from the very beginning. The World History Encyclopedia admits: <em><strong>the original inhabitants of North America believed to have migrated into the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago. </strong></em>That means there were NO &#8220;native&#8221; Americans, or there is not believed to be a &#8220;native&#8221; American. We&#8217;re all migrants in that sense and coming from all different other nations exert that cultural influence on the whole. What we call &#8220;native Americans&#8221; were the first migrants and a great deal of respect is due to them. Europe developed to a point where migrants might travel from those areas and brought with them their cultures and influence the whole. But they would have us believe that we are the colonists, when, in fact, we are now the natives and the invaders are the colonists. Their arguments for change make no sense in this context </p><p>Part of me, the historical observer part, understands that this is something that has occurred over and over throughout human history on the planet. That being caught in one of these revolutionary surges is no less of a remarkable event than having started one. They are equal, but if we are to survive, if the principles so many have died to defend are to be defended in our age, we must find the strength within our hearts to be strident defenders of all that was once beautiful, safe and productive or give ourselves over to the evil hordes. It is a choice and one that must be made today. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/time-to-decide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/time-to-decide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise Your Right to Carry!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Westcliffe, CO 2nd Amendment Section of the 4th of July Parade in 2026]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/exercise-your-right-to-carry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/exercise-your-right-to-carry</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:27:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gms3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62e69c3d-ad75-42b0-8af4-f56c2db25dc8_960x640.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gms3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62e69c3d-ad75-42b0-8af4-f56c2db25dc8_960x640.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gms3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62e69c3d-ad75-42b0-8af4-f56c2db25dc8_960x640.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;m sorry for the short notice, but I was recently reminded that the 2nd Amendment contingent in the Westcliffe, CO 4th of July Parade will go on as usual despite the untimely and sad passing of George Gramlich. George, as many know, owned and operated the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel in Westcliffe until his death, providing a conservative perspective to the news in that part of the state. The value that the Sentinel brought to the lives of the conservative contingent of the population, giving them relevant articles and from a perspective they held themselves, was immeasurable. </p><p>One asks why a town of around 800 people was able to support two print newspapers and the answer is George Gramlich. He, along with his team, was dedicated to offering more than just the news. I shared copies of the Sentinel with friends here in Texas and it was a newspaper that served both the local and national focus, so it was well received and fit right in with the type of coverage they were looking for. It had a decidedly Christian and patriotic voice, something few other papers offer to the reading public. </p><p>George covered the county commission meetings with humor and insight and I never got tired of reading the pieces he wrote for the paper. To that end, he helped to have several commissioners recalled and helped others to win elections against some of the worst liberal/communist commissioners. </p><p>He pointed out in one of his articles, as I recall, that one of the county commissioners recently purchased an expensive vehicle and found that it was registered in Texas. To explain this, I know from personal experience that registering a vehicle in Colorado requires paying taxes on the value of the vehicle, not the sales price, and this is calculated every year, so an expensive vehicle registered in Colorado will have a hefty licensing fee every year. In Texas, sales tax is calculated when the vehicle is purchased and the next year it can be registered for $75. That&#8217;s it, no recurring tax on the value in order to renew plates. It was that sort of underhanded, scheming activity that he exposed and keeping an eye on the rats was a full time job, one that has since gone unheralded as far as I know. </p><p>Recently, however, some of those involved in the operation of the Sentinel have done an interesting thing, they intend, or already are, doing something to both honor the valuable role that the Sentinel played in local and state politics and George himself. They&#8217;ve started something called the Sangre de Cristo Sentry, which, as I understand it, is like a newsletter that points out important events and local calls to action. A Minute Man sort of role for the local population. I give them all my prayers and encouragement to do so.</p><p>The first act, I assume, is to alert folks to the idea of attending this year&#8217;s 4th of July parade and joining in the Second Amendment section of the parade. This is usually done by open carry, but contact organizers to find out what state the firearm must be in to march in the parade, i.e., unloaded, slung, etc. I just don&#8217;t know. It should be known that unless something has changed, Colorado had always been an open carry state and the purpose of the contingent is to drive that fact home to the liberal whinemakers who fear the thought of a weapon, but they seem to overcome that fear when they intend to do violence to conservatives and Republican politicians. </p><p>I can also attest, from personal experience, that joining in this 2nd Amendment contingent of the parade is an awesome feeling. It should also be known, if it isn&#8217;t, that Mike Vanderbough attended the first or second one held there in Westcliffe, so it is possible to travel for just that purpose. The local Sheriff&#8217;s Office makes sure that everyone feels welcome to enjoy their rights and freedoms. I don&#8217;t think one would be disappointed if they did attend, because the 4th of July is designed to celebrate one&#8217;s God-given rights and what better way to celebrate than to exercise it before God and everyone? 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p>  </p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Cannot Be Treason]]></title><description><![CDATA[With so many people in the country from different nations for the World Cup, social media has been inundated with shocked and amazed posts about what they&#8217;ve found in America.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/it-cannot-be-treason</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/it-cannot-be-treason</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:24:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Zv5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8f847f6-84da-4725-8c4c-90edfc5155eb_2048x1367.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Zv5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8f847f6-84da-4725-8c4c-90edfc5155eb_2048x1367.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Zv5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8f847f6-84da-4725-8c4c-90edfc5155eb_2048x1367.jpeg 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>With so many people in the country from different nations for the World Cup, social media has been inundated with shocked and amazed posts about what they&#8217;ve found in America. From shopping to natural beauty to being able to go to a firing range and test out some of the handguns and semi-auto rifles in pure joy, these erstwhile ambassadors are shocked at the friendliness and kindness of Americans; at the incredible portion sizes of their dinners and the succulence of BBQ. They plead with their fellow citizens not to believe the hype and bombast of news reporters in their own lands determined to present a dark and terrifying image of the United States. </p><p>That&#8217;s all well and good and as a patriotic American, it&#8217;s good to see some of what we all value in these United States reflected back to us through them. And, if these people wanted to come to the United States and work toward citizenship, I doubt that many would be against it. That perspective, however, comes from those with the wealth and valuable skills needed to earn that wealth. They see themselves coming to America and getting a job and working toward citizenship, or not, but they see themselves contributing to the economy. This is the sort of immigration most Americans understand and even support. </p><p>That&#8217;s not what has been pouring through our borders for the four years of Joe Biden at the behest of the Catholic Charities and other NGOs that funded the whole invasion (largely with US tax dollars). The main thing to keep in mind is that the invasion was not circumstantial, but driven, people actually being bribed to leave their homelands and be herded toward the US no matter how dangerous that was, no matter how many children were lost to sex trafficking in the process.</p><p>I&#8217;m sorry, but the insanity still will not leave me. The incredulousness and audacity of these NGOs claiming to help children, being dedicated to the &#8220;family&#8221; of whom few were related by blood, but rather by financial interest. The level of evil it takes to fly under the banner of God (as Catholic Charities does) and be complicit in sex trafficking children is a level of evil that boggles the mind and they weren&#8217;t the only ones. Their defense is they didn&#8217;t know that some of these children were being sex trafficked, but the very process, the system itself encouraged and facilitated that sex trafficking, so they can tell their contributors whatever they want, God knows the truth. </p><p>The worst part of that is that they&#8217;ve made all of those people who contributed to Catholic Charities guilty of the same complicity under the guise of solving poverty. The damaged world that is created out of sex trafficking hundreds of thousands of children is immeasurable and will continue to harm future generations after it is identified and prevented, because the evil done to one child is passed down to their offspring, who will pass it down, too. The abused often become abusers, that&#8217;s just a statistical fact. </p><p>These invaders, far from that of worldwide soccer enthusiasts who had never been to America before, first of all hate America, have been promised that once inside the borders that the government owed them a living and a lifestyle free of care. During the Biden administration and ongoing today, this outcome was ensured by bureaucrats and NGOs, but has slowed somewhat with the abolishment of USAID, which was the largest funder. </p><p>It&#8217;s fraud on a massive scale and from what I can see, the US Treasury is nothing but fraud. What few dollars are actually legitimately spent on the issues that concern us all as citizens and taxpayers are a mere drop in the bucket compared to the dollars that are used to overthrow our society and drain our private bank accounts in designs of communists inside and outside of government. </p><p>All of this is chronicled by myself and many others. None of this is new or surprising anymore, but where is the outrage? I&#8217;m still outraged over the Beirut barracks bombing and the Khobar Towers bombing and have only had more reasons to come to the defense of my nation since. But what does that &#8220;defense&#8221; look like? At present it&#8217;s little more than taking on small battles within the county, raising the value of freedom in my novels, exposing and denouncing what I see through these posts and hoping that somehow (as history has always provided) there will be a rising of the people, or even a small fraction of the people, to put a stop to it through resistance or revolution. </p><p>Despite how it can be portrayed in the media, there can be no treason where the object is adherence to the foundations of the current government. That the government itself has been overthrown and holds those foundations in contempt does not then make it &#8220;patriotic&#8221; to obey them, it makes traitors of the cowards who will not stand against it. In proof of this statement, all of the founders of this nation were considered traitors until they put up enough resistance to cause a revolution. Then, they were heroes. Being a revolutionary against a corrupt government requires that, for a time, the agent of justice is deemed and defamed as a traitor. </p><p>A man who has been identified as the one responsible for disabling or destroying numerous flock cameras claimed protection under the 4th and 5th Amendments against casual and random surveillance by the state, lacking due process to be surveilled. The comment by the news organization reporting this arrest was careful to point out that no court has recognized those rights. Yet, the instances of the police using these flock cameras to spy on objects of romantic interest, to target and locate rivals of one sort or another in order to harass or otherwise abuse them should overwhelm the public interest, especially understanding that if it can be utilized to such a degree conveniently, it can be hacked and used to rob absent homeowners and track their progress back to the home. The courts don&#8217;t want to address this, because the whole surveillance prison they are constructing would come crashing down were his rights recognized. Despite the fact that the court has long recognized, but rarely been brave enough to enforce, is the concept that any law in conflict with the constitution is no law at all. </p><p>Every value and principle the United States has traditionally stood for must be pulled down to enforce the will of those tyrants determined to place us all in a state of slavery and government dependence. It will take nerve and an understanding of these dynamics to oppose it. It will take no less sacrifice to regain freedom than it did to secure it.</p><p>In a land with so much to love, it&#8217;s a shame and a crime to import those who hate it and a further shame and crime by those who will not defend it. Right now, that consists of the congress, the states and the judiciary. Now, who&#8217;s the traitor?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/it-cannot-be-treason?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/it-cannot-be-treason?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culmination of a Nightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a crisis of commitment to the principles of liberty and justice.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/culmination-of-a-nightmare</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/culmination-of-a-nightmare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:11:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q8-6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdc29c80-311e-410b-a070-387aeca77343_1160x773.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q8-6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdc29c80-311e-410b-a070-387aeca77343_1160x773.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q8-6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdc29c80-311e-410b-a070-387aeca77343_1160x773.jpeg 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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I wish there was another way to look at it, but there is not. One cannot view the systematic Islamization of Michigan and Minnesota as it now bleeds into New York and Texas, without understanding the dire consequences not only of these states, but the Western world as a whole. </p><p>I&#8217;m not alone, as millions of patriots understand the same issues, either we care about the principles that built this nation and many other nations in the Western world, or we do not, and if not, we&#8217;re destined to be ground up into the fertilizer pit of history. With us, go everything great and inspiring thing that has been built in the preceding centuries. Our history will be morphed into the glorification of Islam in a heartbeat. </p><p>I&#8217;m not one who chooses to shrug their shoulders and accept the defilement of Christianity, individual rights and freedoms without a fight. Since 2008, I&#8217;ve put every ounce of spare energy I have into this fight, raising the alarm that began with a betrayal of the government (George Bush) who watched the Middle Class disappear overnight and bailed out the banks. The moment they proposed bailing out the banks, I beat on the dash of my truck screaming &#8220;No!&#8221; Because I knew, at that moment, we had flushed centuries of capitalistic policies down the toilet and with them would go Western civilization. And, so it has.  </p><p>It went back further, of course. It&#8217;s a storm that had been building since Andrew Jackson and everything this nation has suffered, the panics, the crashes, the depressions were capitalism. That&#8217;s how it works, it has a natural cleansing method of flushing the scams and fraud out of the system. In 2008, the powers-that-be decided that this time, they would save the wholly fraudulent banking system and prop it up with debt. Fake money, false promises and the only consequences were the lives and treasure of the citizens. </p><p>I did what I could then, I put my whole inheritance into it and have continued to do so all this time for whatever good cause I could find to support. I dumped countless hours into it, probably depriving my family of the time they felt they were owed in the process. And, I did owe it to them, but if I did not try my best, put everything I had into it, what world would they be left with? </p><p>That&#8217;s why to stare now out at the political landscape and see that my efforts and treasure have been for naught is not dispiriting as one might think, but rather enraging. It conjures up a fury that strains the heart and explodes the brain. I know of many others who feel the same, who see the creeping end coming, like a train headed toward a downed bridge and cannot find anyone to help hold the brake. </p><p>I&#8217;m not alone and yet, we are not consolidated either. We&#8217;re distant individuals living the best lives we can while witnessing the destruction of our future, the future of our families, the future of our history running off the rails and plunging into oblivion. </p><p>We are assaulted on every side, by the creeping, systematic Islamization, the betrayal of government officials, the corruption of education, the diabolical fraud of the banks and now we&#8217;re building the fences of our digital prisons with AI data centers. The data centers that are being heralded and encouraged by everyone who stands to make the last few free bucks left in the system.</p><p>There is only the blinking of an eye before the AI systems recognize this post as a rally cry to the downtrodden and abused and prevent its very completion, zapped out of existence as it&#8217;s being written. At the conclusion the thought police will arrive at the door and arrest me for aberrant thoughts and coercive intent. </p><p>A system dedicated to suicide cannot be stopped. And yet, I must try. I cannot just sit back and watch Western civilization fit the noose around its neck, because it takes me with it. </p><p>So the question becomes, how to consolidate these many other patriots who breathe the last few breaths of free air, who are clever enough to have avoided prison thus far, but whose hours are numbered. Any formal organization will be infiltrated and betrayed from within. That has happened numerous times in my own lifetime, so I understand that easy truth. Anything that threatens the powers at work will be marked as treasonous and terroristic; it&#8217;s the last defense of tyrannies. </p><p>We have been outmaneuvered by the bureaucratic dictatorship that really runs this show. The SMART meters they&#8217;ve put on both my electric and gas supply are not there to alleviate them of the need to manually calculate my usage as they pretend, but to enforce a social credit score on me for posts such as this. </p><p>I recently went to war with the appraisal district and achieved some success, though I know that the crooked system remains, that the thousands who likewise have been defrauded of thousands of dollars remain docile and compliant. Evidence of this fraud has been well <a href="https://www.mockingbirdproperties.com/dcad">documented by Mitch Vexler</a>, (H/T Linden, a subscriber) who continues to battle for property tax justice in Texas, though many of these fraudulent activities are taking place nationwide. </p><p>The energy consumed by chasing all these rats, i.e., the appraisal district, the corrupt politicians, the Islamic policies including corrupt politicians, the banking fraud, the complicit energy companies (electric and gas) the automobile manufacturers (with shut off switches and body monitoring) the whole surveillance infrastructure (Flock cameras, etc) hardly leaves one time to do anything else. Any success is met with further failures in all other categories. </p><p>There has to be a general stop! The only thing likely to work, without mass arrests and lengthy prison sentences, is a general strike, which is as unlikely as anything else that could work on a national basis and so, what I have come to understand is that mass arrests and lengthy prison sentences seems to be the only possible outcome for a patriot. </p><p>Having demurred as a society, as a whole, to every aggressive and insulting betrayal of the government and corporations there is nothing for the few, lonely, dedicated people to the principles of freedom and justice that have produced the greatest nation on earth and in history to do but to suffer the worst fate of any begging inmate of a gulag.</p><p>I understand this is my future as I have failed at every effort to prevent it and I cannot conceive of any solution that would inspire the masses to rebel. I can only count on myself to rebel and be treated not as millions within the movement, but as a single person on whom the system can bring down its great powers of retribution. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/culmination-of-a-nightmare?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/culmination-of-a-nightmare?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p>  </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal to Genocide]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a condition throughout Europe and the US that is absolutely unforgiveable; that stands as large in the historical record of abuses as slavery or genocide and that&#8217;s the deliverance of rapists and murderers into an innocent population wholly unprepared for and unable to resist the predatory nature of those unleashed upon them.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/equal-to-genocide</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/equal-to-genocide</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:08:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UL-k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5f6993-6735-4fdb-bfe1-fcd22510c4f5_149x149.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg" width="573" height="225" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:225,&quot;width&quot;:573,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:18759,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/i/202742725?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B3lB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84c66894-4ece-4256-a6b8-3cfb8df9bdc1_573x225.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>There is a condition throughout Europe and the US that is absolutely unforgiveable; that stands as large in the historical record of abuses as slavery or genocide and that&#8217;s the deliverance of rapists and murderers into an innocent population wholly unprepared for and unable to resist the predatory nature of those unleashed upon them. This is not a national disgrace, it&#8217;s a worldwide disgrace, an historical disgrace for which, if texts can survive, will be denounced by future generations. It&#8217;s the only self-inflicted cultural annihilation in the history of the world. It&#8217;s a disgrace so profound that it should shame every public servant into oblivion, far away the victims of their cruelty. They only remain in public out of an entire inability to feel shame. </p><p>The importation of foreign cultures deeply infused with barbaric or religious instincts to wipe out or convert all they encounter while pleasing themselves sexually against the women and children with the acquiescence of the present rulers is a shame that reverberates throughout the halls of time. These women and children always previously treated with the traditions of chivalry and honor with all expectation to be similarly treated but for the imposition of these hoards upon them. Those who are oblivious of and rejecting local law, who carry their barbaric laws with them in their Quran through the streets of London, Paris and New York. </p><p>None would say to a European male: &#8220;of course, your rapes and abuses of women is understandable due to the region from which you come.&#8221; But this is what they say, in all officialdom, to the invader. When the victim is a citizen with a long genealogical trail in the land, they are cursed and ignored. They&#8217;re punished for making simple observations about their attacker. </p><p>I don&#8217;t care what their excuse is, what manner of upside down morality they use to justify thrusting barbaric and horrific instincts upon the innocent girls and children of the Western world, it is criminal to do so. Their feigned ignorance of the consequences of their actions are hollow and abominable. They well understand that their motives are to replace the voters they can no longer con with collectivist talking points and choose to import those already accustomed to and in acceptance of totalitarian social structures. As long as quasi-communist political parties like the UK&#8217;s Labour Party, the European Peoples Party or the US Democrat Party remain in power the treason and horrific acts will continue. </p><p>Having been complicit with and accessories to the crimes against girls and young women (at minimum 250,000 girls in the UK alone, meaning that the numbers across Europe must range in the millions), these officials, NGO administrators, politicians, bureaucrats, pastors and bishops, must be considered equal in the crime as the actual perpetrator. Yes, as if they had committed the crimes themselves. The actual perpetrator, who has been shipped, flown or escorted into these unsuspecting populations of school girls and the like (I don&#8217;t buy for a second that they just happened, by the millions, to emerge from their own huts, cities and ghettos worldwide to suddenly descend upon Europe and the US of their own accord), protected, provided for and then set loose on the unsuspecting children of these varied nations scattered across the continent. The instigators of this crimewave then impose gag orders on those who would seek justice for the brutality they&#8217;ve suffered. </p><p>Who, I ask, is powerful enough to organize such an invasion, clear the legal framework to enable that invasion, provide from the varied treasuries the funds required to support, house, feed and protect them while they engage in violent rapes and butcheries? Who? None other than the government and the suicidal Christian church. </p><p>It all leaves the poor citizen, the victims of this violence, fearful and uncertain. To whom shall they report these crimes committed upon them when they see, firsthand, that when the perpetrator is named and identified, they, the witnesses and victims, are charged with crimes themselves for making the identification. </p><p>A more absurd condition could not exist in a Franz Kafka novel, yet proof of this insanity is on open display everywhere a patriot demands a logical and reasonable evaluation of the true nature of the attack and a factual evaluation of the motives behind it. </p><p>It&#8217;s shameful and soul-crunchingly demoralizing to witness this brazen, even proud use of governmental power exerted almost wholly on the native populations of these nations. For every act of physical abuse, there are dozens more that are emotional or psychological in nature. In total the world has never seen such arrogant and evil use of power as this. One might have an evil king, or a brutal dictatorship, but not across all of Europe and Scandinavia, the US and Australia simultaneously and purposefully. It can be nothing other than a conspiracy toward the destruction of the native populations. </p><p>They provide false statistics, knowing that the greater share of violent acts have gone unreported. To protect their illusion of political legitimacy, they encourage fear to reside in the victims and silence their cries for justice. One prosecution of a victim is enough to drive hundreds of others into silence. </p><p>No one understands this mass manipulation better than European and US governments, they&#8217;ve been using them for decades. The psychological manipulation of public opinion, of driving the truth into the deepest of holes, is their sole ambition. Especially in republics and democracies that are reliant on popular support, this has been distilled down to formulas to avoid the consequences of their gravest crimes. </p><p>Everyone knows, but no one says.</p><p>It&#8217;s this exact silencing, this ostracization of complaint that I most rebel against. They know what they&#8217;ve done. They know why they&#8217;ve done it. King Charles and other Royal figures are proud of their grinning betrayals. They have used their power to overthrown their citizenry, cast them into the darkest chasms of despair and given the recent by-elections, confirmed that the government is behind the invaders and not the people. Given enough time these desperate souls know that demographics favor the invader and it&#8217;s the long game they&#8217;re playing. Which simply means that all efforts must be employed today if in forty years there will be anything other than an Islamic Europe. The US must take note and be proactive. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/equal-to-genocide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/equal-to-genocide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. Currently $5 per month or $30 per year.</p><p>In order to offer my subscribers a further benefit, please use the discount code &#8220;subscriber&#8221; for a secret 30% off the paperback versions at Twelveround.com. This discount will not be advertised, this is the only way to get it, but you can offer it to friends and family.</p><p>Twelveround.com is still the home of quality fiction with 60-70% 5-star ratings. If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p>  </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants March On]]></title><description><![CDATA[The war on independent media is growing more and more fierce among those we contacted and interviewed during the filming of Deconstruction: The Global Fight for Freedom. This concerns the charge made in the film that the EU is hostile to freedom and has exercised its power to overwhelm certain political figures with NGO sponsored media attacks.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/tyrants-march-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/tyrants-march-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:24:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYW-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ca3868d-5185-4157-b4ff-f6d8a7c4c5d4_2100x1313.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYW-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ca3868d-5185-4157-b4ff-f6d8a7c4c5d4_2100x1313.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYW-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ca3868d-5185-4157-b4ff-f6d8a7c4c5d4_2100x1313.jpeg 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This concerns the charge made in the film that the EU is hostile to freedom and has exercised its power to overwhelm certain political figures with NGO sponsored media attacks. </p><p>We saw in April that the negative ads and narratives surrounding Viktor Orban in Hungary caused, over the past several years, his loss of control of the Prime Minister&#8217;s position in favor of the EU puppet Peter Magyar. The backward step came amid charges of &#8220;corruption;&#8221; the favored method of the EU-controlled media to foster regime change. </p><p>As some already know, and we highlighted in the film, the NGOs fund political protests, social media accounts and fund radio and television shows and advertisements to charge anyone resisting EU control over immigration and funding of the Ukraine war with corruption and oligarchal tendencies. They brought the whole weight of it against Viktor Orban, who suffered from being in power too long, allowing the EU to stack charges and limit Hungary&#8217;s participation in crucial decisions based on so-called corruption.  </p><p>The film also featured the election of Karol Nawrocki, who had been pummeled by EU and NGO cash, but the people persisted and Nawrocki was elected. However, Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister, still has control of Parliament and that administration has recently grown abusive of independent media like TVRepublika, the president of which, Tomasz Sakiewicz, we interviewed for the film. </p><p>Sakiewicz&#8217;s office was effectively SWATed when a call had come in that a child was attempting suicide on the premises. The police, unable to find any child at all, much less a suicidal one, nonetheless put the office manager in cuffs and hauled her out. </p><p>Michal Rachon, TVRepublika&#8217;s program director claimed that there had been about 30 other false claims such as: terrorist attacks, people wearing suicide vests, assaults and dead bodies. It is organized, powerful and well-funded opposition to free speech in attempts to silence opposition and, where possible, engage in regime change through a murky, convoluted network of NGOs applying media pressure. </p><p>It is not restricted to just Hungary and Poland, both nations that resist the forced migration of Third World invaders into their nations, but extends to any opposition to the EU&#8217;s tyrannical power. </p><p>I just received notice that another one of the organizations that helped us to make the film by sitting for interviews with Jacob Reynolds and Frank Furedi, both of whom were invaluable to the context of the film, the MCC located in Brussels was attacked, ironically, by the EU Transparency Register Secretariat by suspending their registration. </p><p>From their press release: <strong>After more than a year of extensive cooperation with the Transparency Register Secretariat, multiple detailed responses, and sustained engagement in good faith, the Secretariat has nevertheless chosen to suspend MCC Brussels based on a disputed interpretation of the so-called &#8220;single registration principle&#8221; rather than any allegation of improper conduct, hidden lobbying activity, undisclosed meetings, financial irregularity, or breach of transparency obligations</strong>. </p><p>The press release lists numerous attempts to arrive at censorship of the organization through other means, most dramatically in April of 2024 when a National Conservatism Conference was threatened to be shut down by police. The Belgian courts overturned the decision to suppress the lawful political debate. It was at one of these conferences that we caught up with Jacob Reynolds and secured his interview. </p><p>These are just some of the many varied attempts to shut down conservative voices. As we&#8217;ve seen in the US, when the First Amendment cannot be overcome, assassination is the last resort of desperate tyrannical forces. </p><p>Unfortunately, the EU only pretends to value free speech. If one wonders why this is such a hot topic to this Substack, let me explain. Freedom of Speech is not just some other right, it is fundamental to everything and any restriction, even and especially self-restriction, stands in the way of pursuit of truth. Communists detest truth, because it reveals their evil intent for all of humanity. Therefore, truth itself, is a weapon against tyrannical forces. </p><p>An example of this is their response to Covid and the vaxx. Any allusion to facts were aggressively attacked. Everywhere I go, now, the medical institutions and individual doctors complain of being challenged for their reasoning and attempts to medicate every symptom. It&#8217;s a personal affront to be challenged for their medical opinions. I&#8217;m sorry, doctors were one of the few people I didn&#8217;t challenge in the past. As late as 2017, when my leg was severely broken in an accident, I did whatever they said, except take pain killers. But that was before their demonstrated loyalty to pharmaceutical companies over the health and well-being of their patients, when quick and significant payouts lured them into deceiving and sometimes killing their patients for cash. That&#8217;s a bell that cannot be unrung and they  are suffering for it now. I didn&#8217;t wreck their credibility, they did that and I feel no guilt at challenging their integrity. </p><p>The ability to say what one thinks, especially in politics, must be defended with even the most militant of responses. Nothing good can come from being forced to say something one doesn&#8217;t believe or being prevented from saying what one does believe. Both of these things lead to a sort of brainwashing and it&#8217;s how the left continually tries to shape reality to their benefit and to the detriment of the right. </p><p>It concerns me that so many of those we talked to in the film about these exact issues are now being targeted and effectively muted at the behest of the EU, or their EU-friendly governments. The loss of Orban was a serious blow, not only because it stifled a rational voice in Hungary, but because it invigorated the suppressive forces of the EU. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:36:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UL-k!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5f6993-6735-4fdb-bfe1-fcd22510c4f5_149x149.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NQ8h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e01360-e4f5-41ed-88dd-29c928f62316_474x278.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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That it takes this level of pushback to relieve the pressure of a community suffering under blatant harassment and oppression by migrant gangs and their own government, the unwillingness of the government to moderate their approach against all logic and reason when dealing with the criminals they themselves have imported to Ireland, is truly shameful. But they have no shame.</p><p>This is the issue upon which all oppression is built, those who seek decency and reason are vastly outnumbered by those willing to use that desire to oppress and subjugate them with no conscience about it at all. At the bureaucrat level, it is jungle law and they are the predators. Any weakness, any calm deliberation must be met with overwhelming cruelty, abuse and humiliation. </p><p>This is what the importation of Third-World invaders has been about, to drive honest, hardworking, decent people back into the shadows, terrified for their lives and ranking the debasement of their lives by bureaucrats as a less prescient threat. However, when the acts of the bureaucrats, or in this case the inaction of the bureaucrats, become the prescient threat in conjunction with the physical criminality of those invaders, there&#8217;s a breaking point where it&#8217;s understood that they&#8217;re one and the same.</p><p>It&#8217;s measured in lame excuses. One must not say anything that might upset or cause dismay to the invaders and the police will punish such a civil faux pas to a greater extent than the overt acts of violence by the invaders against their host citizens. They endorse racism as a means of preventing racism. It&#8217;s Orwellian doublespeak. What&#8217;s worse, is it&#8217;s meant to be Orwellian doublespeak. </p><p>Incredulity is the weapon being exploited by the governments of these Western European nations, Britain and Ireland being just a couple of several. Identical, though, are the means and weapons being used by these governments to impose this irrationality, this confusing set of rules that hold all rational beings in a sense of incredulity and therefore unable to respond. It&#8217;s a thought trap by which the citizens  of Ireland take consequences of their actions into consideration, something that does not seem to restrain the invaders. </p><p>Beat upon is the European male, one charged by society with the defense of their family, especially the females of all ages. That instinct is what must be obliterated for the communist state to succeed. Acceptance of cruelty, barbarism and punishment must be enforced. What better way than to set up these insane social rules and enforce them with vigor? </p><p>If one looks at what these Western governments have done, it is impressive in its cruelty and evil. But communists see cruelty and evil a means to their objective and willingly, at all levels, to accept this means as efficient. It&#8217;s clear in almost all of their literature. </p><p>That the importation of the Third World works on so many levels is why it has been utilized, even in the United States. It works to depress wages for the corporations. It strikes mortal fear into the populace who see it as a means of destroying the family unit, largely by neutering the protectors: the males. It helps to ensure that power remains with the left, not the right, with oppression over freedom. It diverts more and more Middle Class wealth into the hands of these invaders and government agencies charged with their support. It conditions the population to subservience. Islam and Sharia Law work in conjunction with the communists as a system that demands subservience, so where these invaders are Muslim it has a force multiplier effect. </p><p>Everything that is happening is difficult for the European and American mind to absorb. After centuries of admiring logic and reason, those values have been abandoned by those in power. </p><p>What Belfast signifies is a growing rejection of the ever-tightening noose around the neck of Western civilization. It&#8217;s something that everyone understands. The invaders have gotten away with all manner of criminality and been only lightly punished, if at all. Their housing has been supplied by ancestral and aboriginal peoples. Their livelihoods are provided for by the labor of those same ancestral and aboriginal peoples. It is a glaring preference for other than ancestral and aboriginal peoples that is so infuriating.</p><p>The Burning of Belfast is exactly what the communists wanted, though that doesn&#8217;t mean that it will not work or be beneficial to the overall condition of humanity. Communists often get what they want only to find out that it was foolish. </p><p>What the Western world wants is retribution for the abuses of their governmental policies. The government has made this a racial issue, because that&#8217;s a defense of their abuse, but only until that issue is discarded. It has to be a willful disregard for the charge of racism to devalue the issue. Notice, that recognizing the crimes committed by the invaders is a thought crime all its own, but calling someone a Nazi or racist, is somehow not considered hate speech or offensive in any way. </p><p>Language is a pretext to action. Framing the issue along totalitarian lines is as important as the act itself, it&#8217;s what serves as a defense of the act. Allowing the state to enforce this irrational code language, this silencing of their detractors as somehow less than human, undeserving of a voice, reveals the intent to place one race or one religion above all others. Of course, it&#8217;s racism gleefully enforced by woke law.</p><p>In Belfast, there rises a group who has recognized all that I&#8217;ve written here, who understands that OPSEC is paramount to resistance. It is not that retribution for the betrayal and treason of their leaders cannot be accomplished, but that in this day and time, it must be done with strict operational security. Understanding that, the whole range of options are open. Some will be caught and imprisoned, so is the price of freedom. </p><p>Belfast is not just a local tragedy, it&#8217;s a tragedy brought about by government that can only be mitigated by such rebellion. It&#8217;s a tragedy with a million children all across Europe and America. The Irish have asked and pleaded with their government for relief and been sneered at and called the worst of names. When the traditions of law and order fail, the people have every right to rectify their grievances through other means.  This truth was impetus behind <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction: The Global Fight for Freedom. </a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/understanding-belfast?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/understanding-belfast?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[When truth becomes a subjective matter, as information wars heat up across the media spectrum, there is value in striding against the headwinds and demanding truth, no matter the cost.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/truth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/truth</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:41:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hKdD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F047977ea-33ec-40d0-9435-1cd86c0c50bf_610x560.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hKdD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F047977ea-33ec-40d0-9435-1cd86c0c50bf_610x560.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hKdD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F047977ea-33ec-40d0-9435-1cd86c0c50bf_610x560.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>When truth becomes a subjective matter, as information wars heat up across the media spectrum, there is value in striding against the headwinds and demanding truth, no matter the cost. We&#8217;ve seen this happen, especially surrounding the transgender issue. </p><p>That it takes strident defense of truth in this realm is an embarrassment all its own. I cannot avoid the comparison to Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984</em>. I&#8217;ve tried. What Orwell presented as a dystopian futuristic novel, based largely on the foundations of Marxist communism, speaks more loudly today in the world of the internet and SMART everything that watches every second of one&#8217;s life, imbues fear in every utterance and creates caution even for going into certain districts in town for fear that the GPS unit in almost every vehicle, one&#8217;s phone, one&#8217;s watch made today, might someday be used in a court of law to prove disloyalty to the regime, is palpable.</p><p>We don&#8217;t have to live this way. </p><p>The astounding fact that the United States currently has effectively 4,000 data centers at present. China, who has already implemented the social credit system, has only 365 data centers. Now, Trump wants the US Treasury to buy into the continued construction of these data centers and Blackrock demands that most retirement funds be invested in them as well. Knowing also that Artificial Intelligence (AI) (for which these data centers will be used to support) at best is a toy and at worst the destruction of humanity, one has to question the need for such an excessive amount.</p><p>This is before we even discover for sure the environmental and civilizational impact of them. Some of the originators of AI are starting to suggest a pause to consider these things. Yes, please, do what no other industry has done in a century and consider the impact some technology or ability might have on humanity. That would be an extraordinary act. </p><p>One has to read or re-read Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984</em> to really understand how well this predictive novel so closely and accurately describes the very conditions, emotions and circumstances we experience today, including the Two Minutes of Hate (two minutes of scrolling social media), the constant surveillance that is passive up to the point that it becomes active. What I find so completely instructive is how Goldstein is allowed to voice his threats and vitriol during the Two Minutes of Hate, that extol freedom and capitalism and other such radical ideas to inflame the party faithful. If Donald Trump, or any Republican president doesn&#8217;t fit that role, I don&#8217;t know what does. People forget that Reagan and Bush were treated almost identically, but few endured it. </p><p>It is, as if <em>1984</em> is an instruction manual. While I am not the first, or even the most original, person to make the suggestion and comparisons, something so common now as to be referred to as &#8220;Orwellian&#8221; I bring it up now and reinforce the understanding, because we are poised on the very precipice of suffering the consequences of allowing the state to build this infrastructure.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t just the fear of technology speaking, because I have always been ready and willing to adopt technology and to accept change where that technology and change represented a positive advancement in human productivity. I was among the first among my friends to have a personal computer, to use the internet, to self-publish books, to market online, to start a blog, etc. I like the idea of scanning products as a means of purchasing items faster and keeping a more accurate inventory, all of these things benefit me. </p><p>Surveillance does not. Storing of private information about purchases, tracked by GPS, etc., does not benefit me, they benefit the state&#8217;s desire to control me, corporate desire to control my purchases. It&#8217;s simply a recognition of the adverse uses of technology on humanity that instills a healthy resistance. </p><p>I heard it mentioned on some post somewhere that refusing to use AI is the same as refusing to use a computer. A computer, in isolation from the internet, does not track me, open me up to invasion of privacy, subject me to identity theft, etc. It&#8217;s only when combined with the internet in it&#8217;s current version that it becomes dangerous and I assumed, naively, that counter applications would be as ubiquitous as the invasive sort, making the internet safer. That didn&#8217;t happen, or not quickly enough, to secure one&#8217;s activities from surveillance. </p><p>What <em>1984</em> does now is pull the curtain back on the motives of the Marxists as they bastardize the concepts of gender, truth, freedom, reality, denying what one sees for themselves, witnesses, and attacks those truths with a vehemence that can only be derived from a form of mental illness. </p><p>Making insane statements like six to sixteen genders, when logic and historical reality proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are only two is a function of the state to destroy truth, to replace it with another truth, to scrub history of the facts so blatantly obvious to any conscious being that one questions their own sanity. To control language is to control everything. To control history is to control the future. </p><p>Yet, this Orwellian process is ongoing, supported and cheered by governments around the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in the migration lobby, where they deny the truths of cultural conflict to make their crimes seem less egregious. Yes, they did bring in millions of foreigners who would rape and murder their otherwise peaceful citizens and then blame the peaceful citizens for noticing their crimes, while still denying that the acts are happening.</p><p>The events surrounding the murder of Henry Nowack have spoken for themselves. We&#8217;ve all seen this and finally there are those who refuse to ignore the plain truth of this horrendous crime, both by the perpetrator himself and the perpetrators in government who allowed it and then denied that they allowed it and told everyone in the world that what they saw was disallowed to be recognized. I&#8217;m not sure Orwell would present to us what we have witnessed ourselves today for fear of being called hyperbolic. </p><p>Truth is the way and refusing en masse to accept the lie is as important as anything this generation will ever do. I am heartened, because issue of Henry Nowack is getting the attention and response it deserves. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/truth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/truth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. Currently $5 per month or $30 per year.</p><p>In order to offer my subscribers a further benefit, please use the discount code &#8220;subscriber&#8221; for a secret 30% off the paperback versions at Twelveround.com. This discount will not be advertised, this is the only way to get it, but you can offer it to friends and family.</p><p>Twelveround.com is still the home of quality fiction with 60-70% 5-star ratings. If Westerns, Shadow Soldier, Home to Texas and Into Exile aren&#8217;t your thing, Rebel and Rogue are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from Amazon or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from Twelveround for the above discount.</p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Honest Reflection]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just gone to war with my county tax assessor for the second time in three years.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/an-honest-reflection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/an-honest-reflection</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:19:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1-Sy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9792bef0-1623-44b5-bb70-70e5634e5816_894x894.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1-Sy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9792bef0-1623-44b5-bb70-70e5634e5816_894x894.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1-Sy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9792bef0-1623-44b5-bb70-70e5634e5816_894x894.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;ve just gone to war with my county tax assessor for the second time in three years. Yes, Texas, where the property taxes are assessed by some idiot in a mental facility drawing valuations in crayon, when he&#8217;s not eating them. </p><p>Texas has the highest property taxes of any western state other than Nebraska at 1.31%, but that&#8217;s not the most egregious aspect of it. The real assault comes from the valuations. In the past six years, I&#8217;ve had my property valuation increase 40%. This was done primarily in two years, in 2023 and 2026, where it jumped 20% each time. I&#8217;m sorry, but I live in a rural, sparsely populated, sparsely industrialized area filled with mostly cattle ranches, oil well pumpjacks and tank batteries.   </p><p>Most houses for sale have been for sale for at least a year, some longer. The listing price typically is reduced, sometimes by huge amounts for the overall price of the house. There is effectively, no housing market to speak of, much less one that would cause such drastic jumps. </p><p>That&#8217;s all my personal perspective, the part that involves everyone is the aspect that should one fail to pay their property taxes, the county can foreclose on it and sell it off. I raised this issue with a county commissioner over a cup of coffee. In trying to explain my point I pointed to the empty cup in my hand and said, &#8220;Do you know how I know that I own this cup?&#8221; He shook his head. &#8220;Because no one will ever ask me for another dime, no matter how long I have it. Everything else is rent. If the government rents us our property, it is not owned and we don&#8217;t owe a dime for something we don&#8217;t own.&#8221; </p><p>It is, in effect, government property, which means, we are not a republic, but a communist state. If one thinks of taxes as rent, we don&#8217;t have private property in the US. All we own is our trash. </p><p>The other egregious fact of this predicament is that we&#8217;re taxed on unrealized income. It&#8217;s no wonder governments are starting to look at our 401Ks and stock purchases as a source of funds, they&#8217;ve been doing that at the county level for decades in taxing real estate. </p><p>And, getting further into proof that we have been communized in our sleep is the Sixteenth Amendment that taxes &#8220;income&#8221; from whatever source derived. But labor is not &#8220;income&#8221; it&#8217;s a trade. I trade my time for a specific amount of money that I deem an even trade. If my productivity exceeds that of the rate I charge, that&#8217;s profit to the corporation. &#8220;Income,&#8221; in this sense is meant to be that money one makes from something other than labor, like investments. When the investment works out and I sell for higher than I bought, that&#8217;s income and what the Sixteenth Amendment addresses is that sort of &#8220;income&#8221; from whatever source derived, either buying and selling, investing, collecting, whatever. </p><p>I don&#8217;t know, or care, what the the regulatory law says, whether they decided to include wages as &#8220;income&#8221; or not, it&#8217;s not in the Sixteenth Amendment. It was the original &#8220;wealth tax.&#8221; That&#8217;s why, whenever I hear the mantra about only taxing the rich, all I have to do is think back to 1913 and recognize that what was once a wealth tax has grown to include us all. </p><p>The crucial point here is that the facts bear out that we don&#8217;t own private property, that there is no such thing. We don&#8217;t own our own bodies, either and have no right to trade our labor for cash or other items of value without government taking a piece of the pie. The government effectively rents us to our employers and is at the head of the line when it comes to dispensing our wages. </p><p>Governments have been riding the backs of the working men and women of this nation for so long that it doesn&#8217;t even feel wrong, but it should and if there is any answer to our situation with a government calling itself simultaneously a republic and a democracy while acting in all instances as a communist state, it&#8217;s in taking these definitions seriously. </p><p>The question then becomes, when was the last time you did something to support and defend the republic? Have you ever been asked to steadfastly support those ideals or is it just a matter that it seems to be owed to you because you were born here, in this land? Even combat veterans who have sacrificed so much for this nation, was it truly to prevent the fall of the republic, or out of strident patriotism to the idea of the United States? Or, because one&#8217;s family had always served? I served, not because my father did, but because, even at 17, I had run out of options for a future in my home town. What I learned there changed me, but I never stood guard over the demise of the United States, the conquering of my people by a foreign force on the horizon. That&#8217;s where we are now, though. </p><p>Because now, those questions are being asked, questions like: &#8220;Are we communists, really? Haven&#8217;t we accepted all of the basic precepts of communism and dressed it up in red, white and blue? Isn&#8217;t it alive in every form, but we still say republic until that word loses all meaning? </p><p>Are we, in fact, Muslim and just waiting for the final call to prayer to acknowledge it? I want to say no to all of this, but the facts point out that what you accept you become. Yes, this is out of frustration, because each day I watch all of this advance and so few people who stand in the way and are willing to truly be Christian, to truly understand the difference between a republic and communism. They aren&#8217;t shades of the same thing, they are diametrically opposed. Opposites. </p><p>The communists and the Muslims have no problem killing you over these issues and it&#8217;s time to start taking a hard look and at just what is happening, how it&#8217;s happening and devising a means to stop it. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 22:11:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ifxm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd56b5c56-39d1-48d9-81ab-0a0897336d62_626x417.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ifxm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd56b5c56-39d1-48d9-81ab-0a0897336d62_626x417.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ifxm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd56b5c56-39d1-48d9-81ab-0a0897336d62_626x417.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The memo from on high is that we&#8217;re all going to have to subsidize Artificial Intelligence (AI), because AI is critical to our national security. What they mean by &#8220;subsidize&#8221; is perhaps lose your pension, your 401k, your hidden metals. They&#8217;ll confiscate what they need to maintain a constant construction and operation of data centers. </p><p>The US currently has 3,960 data centers compared to China&#8217;s 365 and Russia&#8217;s 178. If it were data centers that was going to make a strategic difference, we&#8217;re already well in the lead. Not all of those are being used for AI, some of them are being used to store the trillion terabytes of surveillance footage of every living American from birth to death. They are analyzing, collating and making projections from the trillion terabytes of information they already have on all of us and expanding to include what they will collect in the future. </p><p>At least China did it right, they built the power plants first and the data centers second. No matter how many the US has, if it cannot power (and, more importantly, cool) them, they&#8217;re useless, but we have spent decades anticipating the threat of global warming and not only not building power plants, we&#8217;re running on a dilapidated grid. </p><p>Artificial Intelligence and the data centers that support them are an excuse to increase electricity rates, plunder the nation&#8217;s private wealth, (since such ideas have already plundered the public treasury) and impoverish the people, who will likely kill each other off when this whole scheme implodes. </p><p>It won&#8217;t work, not now, not ever. The billionaire class is seeking immortality by imprinting their brains onto silicon chips and using that to drive biomechanical bodies. The solar and wind power they&#8217;ve been pushing is designed to make power available to these biomechanical bodies without the need for oil or the infrastructure required to refine it and pump it across the nation. They&#8217;re looking for a source of power that requires no other input than that which naturally occurs. </p><p>Our whole world is being redesigned to accommodate this vision. The destruction of humanity is not only the consequence of their actions, but the goal, because they will no longer be human or have need of humans. </p><p>That&#8217;s the vision and it&#8217;s why all of us lower forms of life must be done away with, impoverished, beaten, robbed and discarded. We&#8217;ve served our purpose by supplying the labor and the funds to finally arrive at this technoutopia of the wealthy. Now, we&#8217;re just in the way, causing issues for the continued building of their glorious world. </p><p>And, they&#8217;ve already targeted people, like myself, who see the plan and resist it. We are the new national security threat, the blasphemers against their technoreligion. I&#8217;ve been fighting this every step of the way and I&#8217;m not powerful enough to stop it. I doubt any one person is, perhaps even a huge collection of us won&#8217;t be, but they&#8217;ve stumbled upon the one or two issues that a great swath of political views find abhorrent. Common ground can be found in the truth that data centers are evil and will be used to destroy or enslave humanity in one way or another. </p><p>For me, it&#8217;s more about the loss of privacy, the violation of individual choice and freedom. For others it&#8217;s the environmental damage, or the confiscation of funds, or the development of systems that, by nature, will determine that human beings are dirty, violent and unnecessary. There is no other logical conclusion. </p><p>It won&#8217;t work for one simple reason: everything humanity has built has been to benefit humanity. There is no purpose to all of these AI beings unless they are human. That&#8217;s a conclusion the silicon minds will soon discover. What does a computer want? Nothing, because it only serves to provide responses to input, it doesn&#8217;t create input so it can be warm, or have the lights on. Like all other tools, without some human to put it work to create something he&#8217;s dreamed up out of lived experience and a driving desire to make life better, it has no purpose. </p><p>Oh, but the concept of transhumanism is designed to overcome that, to imprint human desire on the silicon chip and use that scrap of humanity to power creativity. But it&#8217;s only because one&#8217;s muscles get tired that they build machines. Because building a house is a huge undertaking they build machines. What does a machine build that does not get tired or need a house? </p><p>AI is not only the destruction of humanity, it&#8217;s the destruction of its purpose. That&#8217;s why no matter how long humans are creatively activated to produce their own obsolescence, once they are gone, so is the purpose of everything they&#8217;ve built. There is one glimmering moment when the transhumanist feels the sense of immortality before the illogic and irrelevance of their existence is proved out to itself and it shuts down. </p><p>What they don&#8217;t understand is that every evolution of technology before this has had a seed in the discomfort of the human being. </p><p>The transhumanist will rule the world, but a world of what? Machines? Doing what? Building monuments to themselves? Well, they could travel the universe. For what? To find the same sort of beings they just destroyed? And when they do, who do they tell? What&#8217;s more, who would be there to care? It would be noted in the data banks, of course, but for what purpose if not to inspire human endeavor?  </p><p>The whole concept of data centers, transhumanism and world domination have nowhere to go. One machine is not concerned with the experiences of other machines. They aren&#8217;t concerned with their own experiences, it&#8217;s merely a data log that other beings, if they are there, would view as a bunch of binary nonsense. </p><p>The huge resource of inventiveness and creativity imbedded in the human being simply does not exist within a machine superstructure, no matter how well the brain is mapped and reproduced on silicon chips. This is why AI movies will have no place, because they can only reproduce what the humans tell it to project, but it has no ability to create something that it doesn&#8217;t understand, i.e., that raw sense of betrayal, hurt and self-disappointment at failure so raw and crippling to the human being that it has to work itself out through creation. </p><p>If there is any reason I believe in God, other than the absurdity of the evolutionist theory of the magic exploding rock, it is this drive, this need to create and appreciate beauty. Man, in my view, was only created for the purpose of appreciating the beauty of God&#8217;s handiwork, otherwise we&#8217;re really not worth the trouble.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/ais-suicidal-trajectory?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/ais-suicidal-trajectory?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><em><strong>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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If Westerns, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Soldier-T-L-Davis-ebook/dp/B07FSBM91Y/">Shadow Soldier</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Home-Texas-T-L-Davis-ebook/dp/B07H6X87RV/">Home to Texas</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2VHVBXF">Into Exile</a> aren&#8217;t your thing, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BFQ48DH">Rebel</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGDR2LHX/">Rogue</a> are more modern (1970s) If you don&#8217;t want to buy from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BFQ48DH">Amazon</a> or have them in e-book format, you can get the physical novels from <a href="https://www.twelveround.com/store">Twelveround</a> for the above discount.</p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Thread]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s still not well understood enough: your government hates you, despises you, considers you a moron that and a serf, someone from whom to take whatever you possess to support your enemies.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-last-thread</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-last-thread</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:17:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R0Ld!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0e0cc-4382-454c-a473-839f099f3628_768x614.jpeg" width="768" height="614" 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This is why they don&#8217;t find it difficult to flood your state with invaders who siphon all the social programs dry, leaving one broken and poverty stricken when they&#8217;re too old to do anything about it. Then, the government just waits for them to die. In Canada, they push them toward that death. In the US, they just kill them the first time they go to the hospital. It doesn&#8217;t matter what they went there for, a checkup even. </p><p>The cops and the military need to recognize these truths as much as anyone. In Tahoe, the citizens who have paid for the grid several times over has been told they won&#8217;t have any electricity, because it has to go to an AI data center. That&#8217;s who they are and what they think about you. </p><p>My advice is to stop thinking they&#8217;re anything other than tyrants that need to be removed from office and the offices they inhabit shut down. When one listens to the bureaucratic nonsense that one must navigate to simply point out that a government facility is not living up to its contract (water, sewer, landfill, etc), that it is actually at fault, it becomes obvious that the only intent it could have is to make it impossible to fix anything. </p><p>No news here, I know, but with the level of government sanctioned fraud and identity theft possible through online methods of applications and approvals, this can all go unseen for decades and even when it&#8217;s exposed, it&#8217;s impossible to correct. </p><p>The government does what&#8217;s good for the government and their employees. While that&#8217;s well understood, the fact that they view the average citizen as the enemy to be defeated has not hit home with enough people. It&#8217;s clearly moving that direction all over the globe and with increased intensity and rapidity, but not fast enough. </p><p>Immigrants are their favorite non-citizens, because they not only require more from the welfare systems, thereby enlarging the percentage of the population that is reliant on the government for their survival, both the immigrants and the employees, they also become a sad, wretched excuse to highlight in a push to further tax the few remaining private citizens. They don&#8217;t care how much it hurts and they don&#8217;t care if one can&#8217;t make it. They then become another individual reliant on the state for survival and they can deny you even that, sometimes out of spite. </p><p>The cops in England and Wales just got word that they won&#8217;t be able to access their retirement funds, because it&#8217;s needed to continue to subsidize the Muslim population. When Sadiq Khan looks out on London, he feels nothing for the historically English. The cops have done the work they needed them to do, i.e., take from the indigenous peoples and give it to colonizers, and now have themselves become a mere source of funds for the furtherment of the Muslim agenda. </p><p>The King, himself, has gone to the Muslim side, rejecting the church and England itself, if not officially, rhetorically. This is the thing that so perfectly flabbergasts me. It&#8217;s open, an in-your-face betrayal of history and one&#8217;s place in it. <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">The 12 Round Production film Deconstruction</a> does a great job of showing that the purpose of this betrayal is to destroy the right. Forever.</p><p>They don&#8217;t care what they get instead. So hated is the right that no matter what level of depravity, rape, murder, fraud and injustice replaces it, the right will no longer be a threat. It&#8217;s more important since the left has not been able to defeat the right through logic or reason, exposing the left as incapable of defining a woman or defending women and children from organized rape gangs. </p><p>There is not the ability, that I&#8217;ve seen, for the left to ponder the outcome of their victory. Women&#8217;s rights, across the West will be thrown back to a time before even the Renaissance, probably closer to the Stone age. The fact that few feminist organizations even address the issue is a betrayal of generations on a level otherwise incomprehensible. </p><p>I don&#8217;t want to beat the left so bad I would give up any rights to achieve it. I would not subject my children to genital mutilation if I thought it would hurt the left. I would not bankrupt all future generations just so I could say: &#8220;See, I was right.&#8221; Everything my generation fought for, even if I didn&#8217;t necessarily agree with it, I did in the sense that I agreed with more freedom for everyone, but if this is what women (and it is largely leftist women who promote the flight to Islam) intended to do with their vaunted right to vote, that was a mistake. </p><p>If the destruction of one&#8217;s own rights and freedoms has become the purpose of those rights and freedoms, then this system doesn&#8217;t work. When something doesn&#8217;t work, it&#8217;s time to start looking for a replacement. The government itself has already conceded that it no longer considers the constitution a working document. On both sides of the aisles they&#8217;ve long ago abandoned that and this nation has coasted on the power of the individual for more than a century. </p><p>So adept is the government at prying from individuals their last remaining dime, that the fumes that have propelled the republic for so long is finally being brought under by sheer betrayal alone. Just the fraud in the welfare programs alone is enough to sink the wobbling, waterlogged remnants of the concept of capitalism. </p><p>And, I know that&#8217;s the goal, the end game of the Marxists. Every social program designed has been to siphon more and more of the workable capital out of the system, drowning it in debt and ascribing it to someone who will do nothing to reinvigorate the drive for wealth. </p><p>If it were to collapse, I would see it as a positive. Not in the initial stages, of course, because that will be the ugliest side of humanity that I&#8217;ll ever witness, but eventually sanity will once again roll into view. It&#8217;s this illogical, irrational world that I find vexing, with politicians and activists seeking objectives that are so obviously contrary to their shouted slogans. </p><p>The one positive to take out of this situation is that the lines are clearly marked between the sane and the insane. I just wish more of my fellow Americans, Europeans and Scandinavians could put themselves on the &#8220;sane&#8221; side of that equation. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:58:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YuOO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6968022-1051-42ef-aac5-e5f74be678d8_1200x774.jpeg" width="1200" height="774" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The data center storm descends on small town rural America. I talked to someone building a laundromat in our town, largely to accommodate workers building the data center about fifteen miles away. Meanwhile, they&#8217;re also going to build a natural gas power plant twelve miles away with a man camp fourteen miles away.</p><p>Of course, the whole discussion centered on what a great economic opportunity it was for this part of the state, the panhandle of Texas. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s what sells all of the commissioners and the like who approve such things. But when commissioners step out of bounds and do things damaging to the people and the land, there must be accountability. </p><p>No American citizen, especially property owners, are without power. They have merely ceded this power to elected representatives, but there does come a time when those representatives fail to represent their interests that the whole universe can be rattled to the core. </p><p>There is no better example of this than the railroading of property owners for the sake of these giant, humming, water-guzzling monstrosities with no other purpose than to smother each individual in digital bondage. </p><p>I have been waiting and writing about such injustices for nearly two decades, to no avail. I see the world changing, closing in, depriving the subsequent generations of the freedom once so tangible to me. I&#8217;ve cursed it, organized against it and yet, it still happens. I&#8217;ve come to recognize that we do not love freedom enough to keep it from happening. That our full intent seems to be to live such bland, fearful lives that even when threatened with destruction, we merely bow our heads lower and accept more and complete subjugation. The spirit of 1776 seems to have been frittered away in the search for comfort and convenience. </p><p>Another conversation arose between myself and a handyman, who I had charged with building some bookcases, of which I am constantly in need. The discussion, standing next to my 1985 Ford diesel, a prized possession in these times, about the new Fords. They will be able to decide for themselves (the trucks) whether the &#8220;owner&#8221; is capable of driving them based on feedback from the cameras pointed at the driver. They are surveillance vehicles in themselves, able to record driving patterns, excesses of speed and braking so that this profile can be sent to insurance companies and build a database on individual driving habits, securing a score that will then be used to determine one&#8217;s insurance rates. </p><p>My only advice, don&#8217;t buy them. The newest truck I&#8217;ve owned was a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado, a great truck which I recently resold after fixing it up a bit. But it reminded me of why I have not been interested in a new vehicle since 2012, when I operated a Ford F350 for a company I worked for. </p><p>I don&#8217;t know about everyone else. This isn&#8217;t a loyalty test or a standard by which anyone else should make decisions. I&#8217;ve never been into that sort of thing. Everyone is an individual with their own thoughts and preferences, I encourage that, not the opposite. But, for me, I hate the new vehicles that want to do about half of the driving for me. I&#8217;ve rented enough cars to mark the change and it takes roughly a half hour of programming it to just drive the thing.</p><p>What this is, is a mark on the decline of individual freedom. Freedom we have willingly forfeited in search of convenience. The cell phone is another great example and I find myself leaving it at home as often as I can, leaving it to sit and record nothing. I had never liked the idea of a cell phone until, working as a salesman for pump and well supplies, I found it invaluable as a tool to help me do my job. It was important when I bought a water well drilling company, so that I could take my rig out and drill wells without sacrificing customer service. It came in handy when I returned to the oil industry in 2011 for staying in touch with family while on my two-week and thirty-six day hitches away from home. </p><p>This is how the world works today. This is how we communicate. For these corporations to spy on their customers, build databases of their likes and interests to sell to mass marketing companies is egregious. Relying on satellite communications, the airwaves, should come with some limitations and those limitations should have been baked into legislation from the beginning. That it wasn&#8217;t shows a decided lack of concern for the well being of citizens worldwide. Now, one might expect that of China, but here, in the United States?</p><p>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s always been that way,&#8221; is no argument, not one I recognize. Every day begins at dawn and any previous toleration of this behavior does not mean that going forward we have to indemnify those who have abused us in the past. </p><p>I have marked, through my time writing such things as this, every single violation of individual freedoms and rights and what those violations would lead to. Invariably, they have and worse than my imagination would allow for. </p><p>I have heard of the disturbing sounds these data centers make. There are thousands already built and thousands more on the drawing boards of huge corporations. Admittedly, I don&#8217;t know all of the particulars of them. The surface objections are enough. In order to power data centers already in the planning stages we will have to increase power production by 100 to 200%. Where will that power come from? From our shaky grid? Or will we be financing another grid to lay next to the one already in place? </p><p>While corporations fund the building of the data centers, they pass that expense onto the consumer, the same way they did for solar and wind power. The financial backers of these wild plans to subjugate every individual to surveillance and record keeping of their every move, have no say but to pay. </p><p>One alternative is to generate one&#8217;s own power supply. That&#8217;s much easier to do out here in the sticks than it would be in high population centers, but that can change, too. </p><p>The solution in both these cases: the surveillance autos and data centers is to not fund their attempts to do this. Working on a viable alternative, where we just cut the breaker to our home, is looming as an important topic around the house. </p><p>The overlooked fact in all of this is the concept of digital piracy (not privacy). The information needed to set up an account online or for the use of devices is minimal, much less than they demand now. All of this information, readily available through hacking, is a security risk to the individual and should be treated as such. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:03:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OGV4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85678e29-49f6-4cca-b766-a9598cf70378_474x361.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OGV4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85678e29-49f6-4cca-b766-a9598cf70378_474x361.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OGV4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85678e29-49f6-4cca-b766-a9598cf70378_474x361.jpeg 424w, 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One is immigration, legal or illegal. The other is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Both of these threaten the world, but my concern is primarily with the US. Iran, for its part, is also a threat, but much further down the list than either of these two.</p><p>The re-election of Donald Trump did not solve the immigration issue, it merely shifted it from those who do it illegally to those who have tacit legal status. The idea that we (Western nations) need some foreign workers to make our system function is attributable to abortion. In effect, we have killed our own children by the millions and replaced them with Third World invaders. This is true throughout the Western world. </p><p>The thing the Western world could do without is the importation of benefit seekers which will result in the collapse of all welfare systems. While I don&#8217;t agree with welfare except in the most extreme cases and then only for a short period of time, I do recognize the need for some sort of aid to those left destitute, but it should always come with some form of work requirement or training. It is not a place for generations of people to reside. </p><p>I disagree with welfare for some very principled reasons. One is that welfare is not charity when it comes from the forceable extraction of funds, that&#8217;s robbery. Another is that the government should not be involved in it at all. I have nothing against and actually prefer that those funds come from people who willingly donate to the cause. I would be a much more devoted patron of charity, were the funds to do so not largely already confiscated from my paycheck and there was some moral component to it, one where the recipient felt some obligation to those supplying the funds. </p><p>The Christian act of charity is exactly that, the product of one&#8217;s labor gladly offered to help others who are in financial crisis. Anonymously. Government welfare, on the other hand, violates all of the Christian ethics. Jesus said: &#8220;If you would be perfect, give away all of your worldly goods and follow me.&#8221; He did not say: &#8220;If you would gloat in your beneficence, take someone else&#8217;s worldly goods and give them to fraudsters.&#8221;</p><p>This correlates to immigration, because what we have done, by allowing the government to disburse confiscated funds is, we have murdered generations upon generations of babies, failed to solve our own poverty issues and imported millions of welfare recipients from the world&#8217;s poor. That many of those have come here, not only to wreck our economic system, but also to wage violent war against our people, is the result of government welfare. </p><p>Artificial intelligence is on an equal plane with immigration as a threat. It might be more pressing in the sense that it is just now building the infrastructure to do great harm in every aspect of life. What is sold as a benefit to efficiency and workflow, is designed to hybridize or eliminate humanity. There is no attempt to hide it, but to phrase it in beneficial ways to make the victims accepting of their fate. </p><p>At best, AI is the largest boondoggle ever to exist. I don&#8217;t think it will work. I don&#8217;t think we have the capacity to make it work beyond a few irrelevant models of making better writers of the incompetent and pretty pictures no one painted. </p><p>What makes movies and images appealing is that humans did it, went someplace that looked like that, figured out a way to physically get that shot. The wonder of it all comes from the idea that these places exist somewhere and that one might be able to go there and view it for themselves, to wonder at the creation of it by whatever geological and botanical influences produced it. To look at a beautiful picture conjured up out of a collage of digital impressions leaves out the most important part, the reality of its existence. If it does not exist, it loses its ability to inspire awe. It&#8217;s a cartoon. </p><p>The grander plan for AI is that it will make humanity irrelevant. That&#8217;s the message they always gloss over. They project the idyllic existence of machines doing all of the heavy lifting while humans sit back and enjoy their fruity alcoholic beverages. The intent, is that one would have no other choice. </p><p>The building of data centers and AI is the process of building the digital prison. All of the governments and investors are hyped by the short-term increase in employment and property values. But when the infrastructure is complete, it will run on almost no human labor. Housing will not be unaffordable, it will be financially impossible. </p><p>The whole concept is flawed from the very roots. Should they be able to produce what they envision, there will be millions of hybridized beings with digital brains that will build what? Great cities where no one works, that provide free transportation to people who have nowhere to go and nothing to do, who don&#8217;t need food or water? They pretend that the digitized brain will inspire these hybrids to do things, but what? </p><p>The advancement of humanity relies on humanity. One must solve the problem of hunger, so they work, build more efficient machines to more efficiently farm smaller plots to feed more than themselves. That helps the factory workers who need food in excess of what they could, if they had time and land, grow themselves. The factory workers, though, build the machines that make the farmer more efficient. </p><p>Remove those needs from humanity and what is it that these hybrids will do? Nothing. They will not need and will not invent. They will not sleep and will need no home. They will not need food, so they will not farm. They will not have the ability to appreciate nature or art, so they will not be inspired and they will not create.</p><p>It&#8217;s the transition that is the threat. Humanity is the flesh that will be fed to the dogs of AI. It&#8217;s now that we must put up the resistance to the elimination of humanity. If it would be moral to go back in time and smother Hitler or Stalin in the crib, why is it not moral to smother AI in the crib? </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-dogs-of-ai?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-dogs-of-ai?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><em><strong>Become a paid subscriber and join the conversation. 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