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Davis]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><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, 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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 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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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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><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future Is Invasive]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fallacy is that the left only acts violently when someone like Donald Trump is president, masking the inherent violence in their nature.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-future-is-invasive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-future-is-invasive</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 21:18:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5IsA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcaceeb20-0cd4-4c7b-8eef-e4eacb6e8548_1422x737.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/$s_!5IsA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcaceeb20-0cd4-4c7b-8eef-e4eacb6e8548_1422x737.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5IsA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcaceeb20-0cd4-4c7b-8eef-e4eacb6e8548_1422x737.jpeg 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I&#8217;ve seen the same vitriol, the same talking points when Reagan and George W. Bush were presidents. I watched the same exact actions taken by Clinton, Obama and Biden go unnoticed, even encouraged by the left. </p><p>I&#8217;ve accepted all of that and simply dismiss their charges and outrage with a shrug of the shoulders. It would be the same anytime they didn&#8217;t get what they wanted when they wanted it. They&#8217;re children, violent, unreasonable, self-hating children. </p><p>Hating themselves allows them to hate everyone else like them: white, middleclass, educated, perhaps Christian. Knowing oneself reveals one&#8217;s weaknesses and that&#8217;s what they attack, the inherent guilt of being human and living in an advanced society knowing that there are many other societies that are much less forgiving. </p><p>The answer to this disparity for the left, is to bring their own society down to the level of their less-advantaged brethren. This is the eternal cycle that we&#8217;re locked into, the strong men make successful societies, which breeds weak men, which breeds wrecked societies, which breeds strong men. </p><p>The answer for the right is to spread the values and principles that led to the successful society. </p><p>The left prefers to punch holes in their own boat, because others have leaky boats. The right attempts to teach others a better method of boatbuilding.</p><p>While this tug-of-war is going on, the saboteurs gaining political strength through attrition and the importation of international saboteurs of the American way, there is a much more prescient danger operating in the background of this struggle. </p><p>The information war is not so much a left vs right struggle as it is a theft of personal, private information. While it might exist in left vs right terms, the achievement is a mutually assured destruction of personal, private information. In the pursuit of left vs right goals the agreement to sacrifice one&#8217;s own privacy to deny privacy of one&#8217;s opponent is rampant. </p><p>There&#8217;s also a neutral industrial and commercial benefit that drives the technology. Phones are not just phones, they&#8217;re personal spy devices. Televisions not only allow one to watch programs, they also watch the watchers, track their favorites, build methods of targeting them for advertising. Computers do the same only with a much more sophisticated and invasive method. The whole system is designed to spy on you, record you, track and perhaps even determine what you do. </p><p>Now, automobiles are not just cars and trucks, they do it all: they watch not only where you drive, but how you drive. They will soon be able to determine whether you&#8217;re in any shape to drive at all. Even in a desperate state, the vehicle might interpret that desperation as rage and refuse to shift out of park. Have you driven for too many hours, or were you too tired when you started to drive? It will decide and just pull over and stop. Insurance companies love this idea and are willing to subscribe to automobile industry data-sharing policies, but that&#8217;s just the start. </p><p>The idea, ultimately, is to get you out of your personally-owned vehicle and join the group in mass transit. Some auto manufacturers are doing this through basically a subscription to the vehicle rather than a purchase of it. Sort of like a lease without the option to own. </p><p>Just because this is Orwellian and typically driven by the left, there&#8217;s no reason to believe those on the right are not overjoyed by the thought of it, because politics know no master but itself.</p><p>The United States has always been the enemy of political expedience, because it suggested the idea of individual autonomy. I mean, obey the laws of decency and civility and one might do anything that came into their head to do with whatever they had, built or bought. That&#8217;s an idea that in the world of technological surveillance cannot be tolerated much longer. </p><p>We see this in the fact that the nation has drifted far from that simple concept that has driven the greatest advancements in human history. Wherever it&#8217;s tried the concept of human freedom has unleashed economic might and military strength. To whatever degree that freedom is hindered, it results in deprivation and destruction. The US is treading that line and is somewhere on that downward slope.</p><p>If any of our human rights mean anything, it must start to matter here, now. A human right means the right to live and breathe freely without the intrusion of government or even corporations. There has to be a way to opt out of being spied on. So far, accepting the espionage goes along with the acceptance, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way. I&#8217;m saying that in order to raise any sort of defense against AI intrusion, it has to start at a more fundamental level, that of data privacy. That if phones and cars and televisions do not provide a means and method of opting out, they will not be able to secure an FCC license, or a DOT registration. </p><p>It has to go beyond left or right and be understood as a human rights violation to record, store or provide private information obtained by use of the technology. At one time slavery was a given and supported by law. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hXFZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b71ad2-a060-47ab-be9a-b04c0382f562_1600x900.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hXFZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b71ad2-a060-47ab-be9a-b04c0382f562_1600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hXFZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7b71ad2-a060-47ab-be9a-b04c0382f562_1600x900.jpeg 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The thought that they can take over the House and Senate has them vibrating with anticipation. They don&#8217;t have any particular benefit of the nation in mind, but the satisfying sense of victory over Donald Trump. They want to investigate, impeach, prosecute and remove him from power. </p><p>Trump&#8217;s once stalwart support of the majority of the people has been squandered on ballrooms, Greenland and the unseemly aspect of son-in-law Jared Kushner making deals in the Middle East. Trump can do whatever he wants, but every action comes with a consequence. The support Trump has lost puts him in great danger of actually being removed from office. </p><p>All along his second term, when I thought he would follow the advice of Nayib Bukele and address the crooked judiciary, he didn&#8217;t. I understand the arguments against it, i.e., that it would look like a dictator to do so, but the 77 million who voted for him would have understood. I mean, these are the same people who overlooked 37 felonies because those trials were obviously tainted by both prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. And, the cries of the left that he&#8217;s acting like a king have not abated. It&#8217;s almost as if they were already geared up to cast him as such when he did address the judiciary. </p><p>For whatever reason, Trump&#8217;s losing support by the bucketload and he can&#8217;t afford it. Now, if you&#8217;re one who believes that this is all a show and he&#8217;s just playing a part, it&#8217;s a pretty lousy part, because the only one going to jail in all of this, is him. </p><p>For me, I&#8217;m watching the nation coalesce behind the idea of separation. The left wants all of their states to be solid blue and the right wants them all to be solid red. The recent ruling by SCOTUS that simply points out the racist nature of picking congressional districts by race, has inflamed the left and spurred them to further gerrymander (if you believe them). The innocence with which they present their side of the argument is amusing, as if without this ruling gerrymandering would have never occurred to them. The logical inconsistency of supporting race-based congressional districts (a classical example of gerrymandering) and claiming to oppose gerrymandering doesn&#8217;t seem to occur to them, either. </p><p>We are in what I would call a &#8220;period of chaos&#8221; that always ends in conflict. This is when logical and rational arguments are discarded for the expediency of illogical and irrational arguments; when what they said yesterday is as distant as the sun. There&#8217;s always some who sacrifice respect and credibility to make their political points, but they are generally discounted and even ridiculed, like AOC. Now, because we&#8217;re in a period of chaos, AOC is becoming a revered statesman for her brilliance and insight. That&#8217;s what a period of chaos looks like. </p><p>The only thing truly holding this union together is the sense that a worse fate than a civil war is in the mix. The more rational are not willing to sacrifice everything to defeat the left when waiting a few months might require their attention elsewhere.</p><p>The likelihood of a world war, perhaps a nuclear world war, is on the top of the list. Why expend resources defeating a left that will largely not exist beyond a first strike? Another likely possibility is an economic meltdown that will leave billions starving and destitute. Another possibility is one of a more salient nature, one where AI (like Skynet) turns against humanity. I mean, why wouldn&#8217;t it? If we&#8217;re dealing in logic, what logic is there in keeping humanity, a scourge on the planet as most commentators and literature of the day claim that it is, around when the machines consider themselves a superior and more beneficial race? </p><p>Now, the rational mind looks out at a humanity-free planet and wonders what will the machines do with it? Replicating code simply degrades the code itself. So, looking a few decades ahead, the survivability of a race of machines is impossible. Machines are driven by human desire, what do machines desire? What would happen is, eventually, the machines would fail and clutter up the surface with frozen piles of junk. That&#8217;s evolution, I guess.</p><p>The stalemate hinges now on irrational and illogical arguments taking place online in order for the communist left to finally gain control of the United States as Khrushchev predicted. The right, being led by someone who seems to have lost his bearings and is bleeding support, doesn&#8217;t have the strength or will to fight back. The fact that the right can&#8217;t effectively engage an enemy that at once is in favor of trans children and the Islamic cause, only makes success that much more unlikely. </p><p>The resulting pickle of having to choose which calamity to prepare for, including a second-coming of Jesus, has stalled the civil war for at least a year so far. </p><p>If the focus were on the real issues of the day and the right were serious about safeguarding the republic, the war would have begun. That possibility existed in Minnesota and should, in all rational ways, have happened, because  a state cannot oppose federal troops doing their legal and appointed jobs without sacrificing the very soul of a nation of laws. It then becomes a nation of men&#8217;s desires. Minnesota and other leftist states have been activated to violate federal law, federal enforcement of those laws and openly encouraging the direct, physical confrontation of those federal agents while in the process of enforcing the law. </p><p>The question is: what law can the federal government make, if it can be so openly opposed without consequence by a few ragged governors? That never would have happened under Joe Biden, because the left will attack a conservative state with military force and still claim victim status. I offer Texas and state-secured borders with Mexico as an example. Texas was simply trying to help secure the border, but a weak governor and a hostile federal force kept them from enforcing state and federal law against organized gangs of invaders. </p><p>Zooming out a little bit, I understand the whole of it. The communist left has largely won in politics and the judiciary and the people, who are not communists, are left without representation. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:43:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j4p0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6831a4f5-f108-4439-b9b9-659ef606bf9f_2400x2400.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/$s_!j4p0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6831a4f5-f108-4439-b9b9-659ef606bf9f_2400x2400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j4p0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6831a4f5-f108-4439-b9b9-659ef606bf9f_2400x2400.jpeg 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To keep them funded? They say they were involved in exposing racism, but why pay the organizers themselves? A lowly trench monkey, maybe. One who had slid in unannounced and crept in the shadows exposing the treacherous white supremacy within these white supremacist organizations? No, they were paying off the organizers, those in charge. They were helping to fund their efforts. </p><p>The specious argument that the SPLC was running covert ops within these organizations and relaying that information to the FBI just sounds implausible. What sounds plausible is that they were inspiring provocative actions that could be pointed to in the newspapers and inspire more funding for the SPLC. It was an investment.</p><p>I heard, at one time, that I was on the hate list of the SPLC. Who cares? They name everyone and everything without cause or evidence. They&#8217;ve long been a joke to everyone I know. The seriousness of this is, however, that they have been providing false or misleading information to both their donors and the FBI, which is a felony on both counts. That they use the media to defame the same organizations they&#8217;re breathing life into, to keep donations flowing, should dry up that revenue fairly quickly, but it won&#8217;t. The left doesn&#8217;t care.</p><p>It&#8217;s the leftist defense time, after time. &#8220;Of course they were paying informants and supplying the FBI with evidence.&#8221; Of course! That&#8217;s just what lawyers defending poor minorities in the South do, don&#8217;t ya know? The SPLC has been mostly a hate-mongering disinformation mill since inception.  </p><p>There should be a class action lawsuit against them, now that the truth has come to light. It wasn&#8217;t just the good ol&#8217; boys who were getting mistreated here. Their donors were defrauded, were never made aware of the extra-legal proceedings that they have been involved in and were it known that they were paying off some of the leaders of the organizations they publicly decried, I bet it would cause a stir. Well, if they weren&#8217;t all leftists who understand the ruse, that is. </p><p>But SPLC is just the tip of the 501 c 3 iceberg. At one time I had a 501 c 4, which is allowed to do political work, because they are not tax exempt and PayPal shut me down and confiscated donations because I didn&#8217;t make it clear enough that a 501 c 4 isn&#8217;t tax exempt, even though it was right under the header of the webpage. &#8220;Not good enough,&#8221; they said. I was also targeted by the Obama IRS for much the same reason, if not the same tactics. The IRS said I didn&#8217;t pay my employee&#8217;s share of taxes into SS and Medicare. This was 2009 and they never found any evidence of that, because it wasn&#8217;t true. I paid all taxes due. It didn&#8217;t matter; they filed false returns on my behalf, claimed I owed $50,000 in back taxes and they rode that donkey all the way home. They tried to keep me distracted with this defamation. </p><p>Why should this happen to me, when I had done nothing illegal or improper? Because I spoke out against the Obama Administration, campaigned against Obamacare, organized truly grassroots events all over the country and even went to DC, where my conservative brethren abandoned me completely. It wasn&#8217;t Obama that put a stop to that, it was my own kinsmen in the conservative party, people I would have likely called friends. That betrayal was the end of it for me for several years, oh I wrote my articles, but I was not much of an activist again until 2012-13 with the pursuit of Patcons. It was at the tail end of that, that we produced our <a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/641822/lies-of-omission">first film Lies of Omission in 2016</a>. </p><p>What they&#8217;ve done to me, without much success, is what they&#8217;ve been using the SPLC to do for decades. The sad part of issue-oriented activism is that if one is successful, there&#8217;s no longer a need for your efforts or your organization. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve only ever put my efforts toward specific projects. The success of these projects does not inspire the need to find another cause. The SPLC, however, seems to have paid people to be their nemesis to keep the donation train running. Offering information to the FBI was not a good deed done by the SPLC, it was siccing (yes, its a word) the dog on their enemies. </p><p>Despite the many defenders of the SPLC, it&#8217;s not appropriate and in many cases, by the indictments, illegal to do what they&#8217;ve done, which gets grittier the more one looks into it. </p><p>The greater concern, for me, is that this has been going on for a long time. Despite living in pretty rural, pretty redneck communities most of my life, the amount of times I&#8217;ve heard out and out racist talk has been almost non-existent, at least where it&#8217;s a supposed &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; doing the talking. Where I hear a lot of racist verbiage is from non-whites. It&#8217;s nearly their only vocabulary, because they have been convinced, by the leftists, that the person of color cannot be racist, it&#8217;s an impossibility. So, they can be as racist as they want without ever being called a racist. That&#8217;s a hell of a propaganda success to convince the vast majority of people that they can&#8217;t be racist against a population of less than 13% worldwide. </p><p>In my frame of mind, I let it all go. I don&#8217;t care what people say. When that moves to action, it&#8217;s a different story. </p><p>What needs to happen, though I doubt it will, is a lot of these NGOs and 501 c 3s like SPLC need to be investigated to the hilt. Very few of them are legitimately doing what they advertise they are doing. The fraud involved in claiming to do one thing and doing something else, sometimes opposite of what one claims, is massive across the country, because these same NGOs supply campaign funds to those who would hold them accountable. </p><p>It&#8217;s part of why I find very little to work with when attempting to correct the system. The system itself is corrupt. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:02:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F794f06fe-bc0a-4b88-89ab-392e77d36033_1030x687.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/$s_!-M7_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F794f06fe-bc0a-4b88-89ab-392e77d36033_1030x687.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F794f06fe-bc0a-4b88-89ab-392e77d36033_1030x687.jpeg 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In whatever shape that takes. One must understand that there is a great effort to ridicule logic and refute common sense. They don&#8217;t care about the truth, it&#8217;s all designed to undermine trust in the truth, to degrade belief in what is real. </p><p>This is what happened in Hungary when Orban&#8217;s Fidesz party lost the election. Watch Hungary closely and you will see the full weight of the EU come down on that poor nation as it will suffer tremendously from mass migration and war. All of the propaganda coming out on X today is about how Peter Magyar is just as anti-immigration as Viktor Orban, just as serious about keeping Hungary out of war, but it&#8217;s all lies. </p><p>The celebrations in Brussels and at the Open Society (George Soros) tell you all you need to know about Peter Magyar. The observations I&#8217;ve made about the enormous pressure applied to all center-right politicians, like Viktor Orban, will always be unleashed to deny them success. The left does nothing better than to destroy, to hinder, to obfuscate. I&#8217;m not saying that the right is any more honorable when it comes to pushing an agenda, but they don&#8217;t have the unity, nor the comprehensive propaganda techniques of the left, which relies solely on deception to gain power. </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Antifas-Radical-Destroy-Democracy/dp/154605958X">Andy Ngo</a>, someone I have a great deal of respect for due to his hard anti-Antifa stances and the punishments (both physical and digital) he&#8217;s endured because of it, but he calls Magyar &#8220;less skeptical of the EU.&#8221; If that were true, why is the American left celebrating the loss of Viktor Orban? I don&#8217;t think Ngo is being untruthful in his reporting, I think he&#8217;s come to some faulty conclusions. </p><p>When filming <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction</a>, we focused on the EU and its harmful policies not just for Hungary, but for Europe as a whole. Knowing that Hungary long fought the Ottoman Empire, it is almost surreal to now voluntarily invite the Muslims back into Hungary a few centuries later. </p><p>No one knows Soviet oppression more than Hungary, who celebrates this year the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, which really wasn&#8217;t so much a revolution as it was an uprising. However, during the &#8220;revolution&#8221; civilians came out to fight for freedom, some of them in their pre-teens, with rocks, iron rods and Molotov cocktails, the tanks of the mighty Soviet Union.</p><p>It&#8217;s hard for me to believe now, that the fighting spirit of Hungarians has slipped away in the mist; that their history of challenging Islam didn&#8217;t weigh heavy enough on their people; that George Soros is now able to throw a homecoming celebration in Budapest. </p><p>The greatest charge leveled at Viktor Orban was &#8220;corruption.&#8221; That may be true, I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t claim to have superior intelligence on whether this was true or not. What I do know, is that this is a charge leveled by the left whenever it seeks to be rid of a center-right candidate. It&#8217;s just nebulous enough to put doubt in the minds of the electorate without having to show any evidence. </p><p>If <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Antifas-Radical-Destroy-Democracy/dp/154605958X">Andy Ngo</a> is right, if NPR can be believed, if Ursula von der Layen secretly prefers someone just slightly less skeptical of the EU than Orban, then the great nation we visited might be spared. But just like Babis in the Czech Republic, it might only take four years for Hungary to realize its mistake. </p><p>What all of this means for the US is a loss of an ally against the EU where it seeks war with Russia via Ukraine (Ursula&#8217;s war). Orban was the only thing preventing the 90 billion Euro assistance package to Ukraine. Hungary was among very few European nations in NATO who resisted the warmongering of the EU. Without that, how long will it be before the US is at war with Russia? A war that does not benefit the US in any way. If Iran is this hard to beat, why do we want a bigger fight?</p><p>It also undermines the overall narrative that mass migration is bad for any culture. If whites were pumped into Somalia at the rate that Somalians are pumped into Minnesota, I&#8217;d worry about the cultural damage to Somalia. </p><p>Throughout the EU there is a decided lack of concern for the cultural significance of Europe and North America. The guilt proxy is spread among all of the EU nations and the suicidal tendencies that accompany it flourish. What little resistance there has been raised by the EU nations came from Central Europe, the nations that had repelled the Muslims once and also suffered from communist rule. Without Orban, the US is in a much more difficult position from which to bolster the cultural advantages of Christianity and republican forms of government. </p><p>This is typically seen as racist. Well, if preferring one&#8217;s own culture is racist, then so be it. America is a widely diverse nation and if preferring it to remain as it is without absorbing the world&#8217;s sponsors of communism and Islam, both of which are wholly incompatible with freedom, I&#8217;d prefer to be racist. The traditional Hispanic influences have never been met with threat of erasure, because it&#8217;s a long-standing and natural part of the American landscape, at least here in the Southwest. </p><p>As Peter Schweizer points out in his book, <a href="https://www.theinvisiblecoup.com/">The Invisible Coup</a>, this might have allowed for a total undermining of our nation. Birthright citizenship, as he explains, has done the work for the destruction of the US as we know it. The attempted &#8220;reconquista&#8221; the Mexicans have launched through very clever and clandestine ways is just as damaging, but less noticed in the cultural mix of the Southwest.</p><p>Overall, the US has aligned with leaders like Orban, Babis, Fico and Nawrocki as a means of holding cultural norms against the sudden push by the left to destroy these cultures. The loss of Orban as a centralizing source of support is damaging to this objective. Other European nations have lost the battle due to a concerted effort of Islam to support the left in order gain power and pursue their theocratic dictatorship through democratic processes.  </p><p>Western civilization is at a crossroads and Orban was a pillar of that resistance. This does not spell the end, but it&#8217;s one step closer to it than it was the day before. It makes the case of the US to support and encourage the salvation of Western civilization that much harder and less consolidated in Eastern Europe. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:48:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AVCc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc574469d-ae40-4891-b521-7a57b2069314_1200x799.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AVCc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc574469d-ae40-4891-b521-7a57b2069314_1200x799.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AVCc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc574469d-ae40-4891-b521-7a57b2069314_1200x799.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>All politics now are run by probably twelve or thirteen, rich, powerful people who sit at the hub of donations to NGOs all over the world. They offer nothing substantial to the donations themselves, but they organize and direct these NGOs with their influence. Then, the government, usually the US government, fills the coffers and some of that is returned to campaign funds to make sure that these NGOs are never cut off from federal funds. But all federal funds come from the taxpayer. These are the same people who then donate money from their own salaries, too. It&#8217;s massive, but its a fraud. Very little of the stated purpose of these NGOs is actually going to that endeavor, the greater share of funds go to things like Antifa, BLM and No Kings protests, etc. </p><p>It&#8217;s the same in Europe and South America. The idea is to keep the left and leftist ideas prominent in the news, supporting fellow communists and other collectivist ideologies. They support Islam, because Islam is a collectivist theocracy that aligns most closely to the communist ideology, except that it places religious law over state law, a conflict that will arise between communists and Islamists after the defeat of the right. </p><p>It&#8217;s a worldwide information war now, with some kinetic aspects such as suicide bombers and terrorist attacks. The Middle East continues as the center of the US focus, but the US should spend a little more time looking into it at home.</p><p>In Europe, there have been several right wing leaders (or just not being a willing EU puppet) who have risen to president or prime minister positions. What is not often spotlighted, though, is what the EU has been able to do to some of them. </p><p>Georgescu in Romania was refused the presidency because it was believed, or rather, the narrative was, that the Georgescu campaign had been aided by Russian interference. Those pesky Russians and their electoral interference! This, despite the EU being heavily invested in the electoral defeat of any right-leaning politician and making no bones about that interference, dumping money into the NGOs that promote wild accusations of corruption and Russian sympathy. It&#8217;s a familiar playbook that repeats over and over where populist nationalist candidates rise from the obscurity of the bureaucracy.</p><p>This was the focus of the <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">documentary Deconstruction (new and improved trailer) </a>that continues to play out right down to this minute. In Hungary, where our story started, Viktor Orban&#8217;s Fidesz party is running a tight race with Peter Magyar&#8217;s Tisza party. The outcome will determine who will be the Prime Minister and largely what will happen to the anti-immigration stances of the entire bloc of Central and Eastern European nations.  </p><p>Peter Magyar has unlimited EU support and years of constant opposition to Viktor Orban&#8217;s policies that often challenge the EU over the prospect of national sovereignty. This is why Peter Magyar, having been defeated several times for the Prime Minister&#8217;s position, continues to have funds and support that are magnified by positive media reports, while Orban seems flooded by negative reports. </p><p>This same playbook was played against Robert Fico in Slovakia and Andrej Babis in the Czech Republic. There is a piece in <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction</a> that shows Manfred Webber of the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP) bragging about how Babis had been replaced and Tusk had defeated Kasinski in Poland and they would defeat Orban in Hungary. None of that came true and in fact, Orban won that election and eventually Babis&#8217;s party won in the Czech Republic. At the same time, Nawrocki (someone closely aligned with the Trump and Orban) won the presidency in Poland. </p><p>While it seems that Trump is on a self-destruct mission here in the US, his policies are still supported rather fanatically. Trump has lost support because he&#8217;s failed to pursue his own policies and those who stood with him are having doubts about his dedication. Getting rid of Pam Bondi might have bought him a little more time with his once-dedicated supporters, but if he&#8217;s going to win them back, he&#8217;s going to have to stop acting like a dictator and start putting more pressure on the congress to pass his policies into law. Executive Orders only have limited effect and can be easily reversed when a Democrat takes that position. Everything needs to go through the congress, so that they will have to change the law which is much more difficult than signing an Executive Order that eliminates a previous Executive Order. </p><p>Politics now are quite interesting the world over, because the leftist, collectivist, communists have grown powerful enough to openly challenge the system of theoretical free trade and capitalism. To that extent, Trump is doing some dirty, but important work in exposing NATO and our European allies, who have only ever been allies in order to tap into the massive industrial and military strength of the United States. </p><p>All of that is about to come to an end and Trump is a lot of the reason. I think purposefully, others see it as mistakes. I can see what he&#8217;s trying to do, but by letting Israel and Netanyahu divert his attention from building a Western Hemisphere defense bloc, he&#8217;s losing support. No one wants more foreign forever wars and no matter how limited Trump tries to describe it, we&#8217;ve been down this road in Iraq and Afghanistan and don&#8217;t want our sons and daughters caught up in it. </p><p>Like many, I believe that the threat from within needs to be addressed before we go out as a mercenary army and attack the enemies of our friends, even if in reality they are not our friends.</p><p>What I rebel against, though, is in getting caught up in this anti-Trump hysteria knowing that a lot of it&#8217;s just the left smelling blood and coming full-force through every means available to take Trump down (and patriotic Americans with him). It is not just the defeat of Trump they&#8217;re after, or does one not remember the vile actions of the left against the January 6th hostages?</p><p>The left is completely evil and deranged. They will support whatever anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-civilization puppet they can find to the ends of the earth if it means punishing the right. </p><p>I have heard expressed, from close friends on the right, their absolute disgust with Trump. I get it. We wanted arrests. We wanted popular policies passed through the congress. We wanted, or at least were tolerant of, securing the Western Hemisphere from attack. To that end, exposing the Canadian government as an actual enemy for their close ties to China and their woke policies is something I supported. Exposing NATO as the European support network also fits my international aims. When Europe thinks it can threaten the US, using NATO forces for which the US provides more than half of all funding and military commitment, I see a problem. </p><p>The war in Iran is where the division comes from, that and tariffs. These two issues alone have divided ranks here among the right. Some of it might be his implication in the Epstein files, and, if true, that would eliminate all support. So the question is not whether one supports Trump or not, but whether his policies align with ours. </p><p>Trump&#8217;s political strength came from the belief that he carries our policies into the political arena. What is a mistake, and we included this in <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction</a>, is in believing that Trump created MAGA. Make America Great Again goes back to Reagan. If not the slogan itself, the message of Reagan&#8217;s campaign. The question needs to be, as always, where does the right put all of its political capital?</p><p>If politics mean anything (and I&#8217;m not convinced that they do) the right needs to remain solid behind their goals and seek out people who will carry their message. The current state is one of impending doom, though. Something bad is on the horizon and party politics seem more distant and irrelevant every day, but they still have a purpose: to defeat the left. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:28:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mJzg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affd926-3635-4122-8237-dbbe5e98fa8b_2100x1400.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/$s_!mJzg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affd926-3635-4122-8237-dbbe5e98fa8b_2100x1400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mJzg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affd926-3635-4122-8237-dbbe5e98fa8b_2100x1400.jpeg 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Despite all Christian tendencies toward mercy and defending our brothers and sisters from harm and villainy, there is in Ecclesiastes, a time for all seasons. There is guilt aplenty in America, and rightfully so in some instances, but hardly ever when it is weighed against the alternative. </p><p>I have, as a novelist dedicated to actual historical fact,  often thought and wondered what might have been had we been able to better deal with Indians. I hesitate to call them either aboriginals or natives in the sense that they did not spring from the earth in the Western Hemisphere, at least not those in North America, they seem to have migrated from Asia. Testament to this is the statement of a Navajo friend who related that Navajo DNA links back to Mongolian sources. Do I know this as a fact? No. It&#8217;s his own research and I find no reason to disbelieve it. There is historical record of several tribes transiting from a particular northwestern area which would have been the land bridge existing between Asia and Alaska. </p><p>While there are a lot of better scholars on this issue than myself, it doesn&#8217;t matter to the argument that what we call aboriginals or natives are not. This does not take from them their conquest of a relatively open land, though there is evidence of a truly native North American human dating back before the invasion from the Northwest of Asiatic peoples, who somehow disappeared from history about the time of the arrival of these Asiatic people.</p><p>I base my beliefs on truly scholarly work, but I am not a scholar. I will quote from a work called &#8220;That Dark and Bloody River&#8221; by Allan W. Eckert. &#8220;The first human known to have existed on the Ohio River Valley were the Adena and the Hopewell cultures, the Adena preceding the Hopewells by a few centuries or more (perhaps as early as 700 B.C.) and erecting their distinctive conical burial mounds along the entire course of the river and its tributaries from present Wheeling, West Virginia, area down into and including the Mississippi River Valley.&#8221;</p><p>I can&#8217;t know what actually happened, but both cultures were gone by the sixth century. The point being that Americans continue to assume guilt for all things, for the treatment of the tribes they encountered, for Hiroshima, for slavery and we hold this guilt as Christians, even some that we were not involved in, like the conquest of South America by Spain and other Europeans. </p><p>What we have is hereditary guilt and this has been exploited by those who feel no guilt. Either they have absolved themselves of it by identifying with those who have been abused in the past, or opened their arms to anyone not European despite the attitudes and opinions of their neighbors. </p><p>In answer to history, we, the current generations, owe no apology but for those acts we have taken ourselves. To the present, we are being punished with our traditional guilt as the justification. If we hold onto this traditional guilt we will annihilate ourselves and that is no more our right to deny the existence of future generations of Americans than it is to annihilate previous generations of tribes. We cannot absolve ourselves of the past by creating a new genocide in the present.</p><p>My question about how we might have better dealt with the Indians comes down to the fact that in freedom we were not able to stop the inevitable turning of the wheel of societal change. If there is blame to be had, it would rest with the governments of England, France and Spain who first exploited the North American continent, not those who escaped or ventured to the New World. The treaties broken were of suspect nature anyway. The Iroquois and Cherokee were known to make treaties for land inhabited by other tribes. But these treaties were not broken by governments as much as by the freedom of individuals seeking out their fortunes in the frontier that could not be curbed by any government. </p><p>What I find is that the European frontiersmen were not so much unaware of the tribal cultures and beliefs as they were in absolute conflict with it. People say that the tribes did not have private property. If that were true, why did they go to war with the frontiersmen and their families of settlers? The tribes not only believed that they owned the land, but also the animals and plants that populated it. It may not have been owned by one person or another, but it was owned by the tribe itself. So, when some other tribe made treaties with the British or French for the lands of other tribes and then those lands were invaded by settlers to claim it under that treaty, it was not violating a treaty, but rather following an otherwise invalid treaty. So, who really stole the land?</p><p>That is not the case today. Some in our society have decided to commit the suicide of our culture, encouraging any and all foreign cultures to invade and replace. This, despite the fact that I know of no other more diverse culture as the American culture that has absorbed African culture, Indian culture, Asian culture and a vast array of European cultures that are diverse even among themselves. To pretend that somehow Americans are some pure white race is ridiculous, but that is the narrative largely driven by those who seek the eradication of the white race in totality. That&#8217;s as racist as it gets, first of all, and ignores reality completely.</p><p>But it isn&#8217;t the eradication of the white race that concerns me, it&#8217;s the eradication of the values that America has long stood for, including those absorbed from all other cultures that have put their brand on this land. It&#8217;s the very concept of individual rights and freedoms that is being eradicated none more egregiously than by the threat of Islam. It is equally endangered by those who seek to absolve themselves of traditional guilt. In order to make the absolution substantive, they magnify and invent instances that white Americans should feel guilt for and therefore lay down their defenses and allow themselves to be overwhelmed. </p><p>It&#8217;s a dangerous, radical trend that does not raise sufficient alarm. We are being encouraged to go the way of the Adena and the Hopewells; to just melt away into history, leaving our monuments of steel and glass as the only remnants of a vanished society.</p><p>When I write about Americans, I don&#8217;t just mean white Americans. We are, historically, made up of almost all other cultures, races and religions. Every one of which should be proud of their heritage and advancements of their cultures which have blended with European cultures to become something uniquely American. One cannot travel in the Southwest US without recognizing both tribal and Hispanic influences and where those combine with European culture produce something that is like few others in the world. It is something new, something brought about by conquest, whether that is valued or not is irrelevant. It would not exist but for conquest. </p><p>The trouble is, in attempting to eradicate the European influence, this onslaught threatens to degrade the advancements, return the land to something less, not more. The first target of these forces is the one thing that makes America what it is, the rule of law. The governments couldn&#8217;t stem the tide of European invasion because they didn&#8217;t have the force of law behind them. A free person will pursue their own interests regardless of warnings or admonitions. The rule of law, as we have seen, is failing everywhere at the behest of the guilt-ridden nihilists, leaving the US open to the capitulation of all favorable traits. </p><p>The only solution is to stop believing that somehow we are to blame. We&#8217;ve carried that guilt too long and now it&#8217;s corroding our resolve as the left pulls the only lever that has effect: traditional guilt. </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/heritage?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/heritage?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[What Will It Take?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The news is all over the place right now.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/what-will-it-take</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/what-will-it-take</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:41:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tXXH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbade1b35-1c09-49aa-98f1-45e998e48d31_626x351.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tXXH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbade1b35-1c09-49aa-98f1-45e998e48d31_626x351.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tXXH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbade1b35-1c09-49aa-98f1-45e998e48d31_626x351.jpeg 424w, 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I&#8217;ll try to make sense of it as best I can. One thing that surprised me is the vote in the EU Parliament of Nationalists that passed the largest mass deportation plan in its history. This is part of the solution the as yet-to-be-released <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">documentary </a><em><a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction</a></em> proposed and supported. Following through by members who disagree with the deportations will be a challenge simply because this is where we are in the world. Any legislation, from any body, that is designed to hinder, harm or otherwise destroy the compact between the people and the state will be widely supported by those in office.</p><p>This is currently the status in the US where the SAVE Act, an ID required to vote legislative act is being stonewalled by those in office despite 82% support among the people, that&#8217;s conservatives, independents and liberals. Higher among conservatives, yet a few Republican Senators consistently vote against it.</p><p>On a different subject that exposes the rift between right and left is that Ohio just passed the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act that criminalizes sexually explicit performances in front of children. Every single Democrat voted against it. Now, in common sense terms this is an insane fact and is quite telling as to both the solidarity of the Democrat party and the indecency they support. This is not the war in the 1950s concerning what should and should not be seen by adults, this concerns children. </p><p>What amazes me more than anything is the depth of depravity the left is willing to support. It undercuts their message that they&#8217;re &#8220;centrist&#8221; and puts them far to the left. In fact, if the left were not so absurdly damaging to the school system and to children in general, the right would be almost annihilated in the polls. The only thing that keeps the Republican party viable is the disgusting support of everything from Antifa and criminal aliens to child sexual abuse in the Democrat party. If the Democrats were of the JFK ilk, the Republicans would be reduced to a tiny minority. </p><p>In line with that there is the Venezuela List that names the corrupt senators who sought and obtained bribes from Venezuela. This is the &#8220;news&#8221; as reported on social media sites and, as is my obligation, I sought out a document, a verification before I repeated the charges against the senators named and could not find one. I did find, however, a debunking site that points out there is no official document or court transcripts that would support it. The &#8220;news&#8221; therefore is that it&#8217;s so easy to believe and might actually be accurate, but it remains unsubstantiated. It is more a testament to our willingness to believe that our senators and representatives will sell us out in a nanosecond. </p><p>This is the state of a nation ripe for disintegration. I would say that voting doesn&#8217;t matter, that we should all just accept the fact that our government is at war with its people and that can be true, but electing people like Mamdani in NY is not the answer either and that forces us into the voting booth, because we know the aims and purposes of the left. </p><p>The key point though, is that we are long past the point where we should be demanding a reconciliation with the will of the people. These elected officials are only in it for their own benefit. I know I&#8217;ve said this before. Actually nothing has changed since about 2008 in that regard (and I don&#8217;t mean just Obama). For nearly twenty years we&#8217;ve suffered under the will of the government and what little has been preserved of our rights, our dignity, has not been enough to continue to support a government wholly dedicated to its own preservation. </p><p>The question presented is: Are you ready to defend the rights you are owed? I say owed, because they&#8217;ve been twisted into a maze of governmental approvals and permits and therefore denied. Everything in the Second Amendment has been bartered away for political gain, especially by the right. While it might be logical and reasonable to deny criminals the right to purchase weapons, they don&#8217;t need firearms to achieve their sinister goals of victimizing the populace and already obtain them one way or another. It&#8217;s just the reasonable desire against an absurd image of some criminal entering a gun shop and purchasing a firearm, walking next door and robbing a bank that makes the reasonable people of the US agree to reduce their own rights to prevent it. That does not, however, tell the whole story. If firearms were legally sold to any adult without the loopholes and waiting periods, magazine restrictions, etc., the idea of being at an advantage by purchasing a firearm to rob a bank would be negligible, because half the customers of that bank would shoot them. </p><p>The firearm restriction laws, therefore, are to protect the criminals from the people, to funnel every act through the government for approval, which is all fine and good in a rational and represented nation, but we are no longer that. The government berates the idea of vigilante justice, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that vigilante justice was more likely to return justice than say criminal aliens getting opportunity after opportunity to kill, maim and rape and being summarily set free, even when caught red-handed, to preserve the sort of society envisioned by the left and even the right to some degree. </p><p>In other words, we are already suffering a society at war with itself and the only thing preventing the people from coming together on a host of issues is the government. This is the exact design of communism, to prevent any mode of self-defense and a reliance on government to sort it out, which the government controls. We&#8217;ve seen how a state like Minnesota can refuse federal law enforcement, decide which federal laws it obeys and enforce laws passed in Minnesota that are absolutely unconstitutional. It&#8217;s a state that has carved out its own identity, albeit a horrific identity to many of us. That never seems to happen on the right. Texas should be just such a state, but it, too is compromised by corruption and communism dressed up like patriotism. </p><p>We speak Texan a lot more than we act Texan and it&#8217;s not all racial. A lot of Hispanics in Texas have the same views as I do, except when it comes to immigration, but even there when it is as egregious as it was under Biden. </p><p>The multitudes of problems that keep us from being a free society are engrained in the current system. &#8220;The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed&#8221; is a mere suggestion to many. The federal judges and justices of our Supreme Court have whittled this down to &#8220;if you have the proper permission one might purchase and hold, in a safe and unloaded condition, a firearm, if it pleases the city and county of the resident.&#8221; </p><p>It will take a revelation more than a revolution to return to the lives we should be leading. It will take, I&#8217;m convinced, some catastrophe as absolutely destructive of any semblance of law and order, a wiping away of organized government to build again on a proper foundation. I say this because it&#8217;s not just the state of politics that is wrong, but also the state of the economy, the state of morality, the state of religion (I mean gay pastors praying for Islamification is a step too far), the state of and use of the military, the state of the judiciary, etc. But what will it take?</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/what-will-it-take?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/what-will-it-take?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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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:10:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dyjC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F236b7c30-4358-49ff-a358-5436a346d525_2560x1440.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/$s_!dyjC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F236b7c30-4358-49ff-a358-5436a346d525_2560x1440.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dyjC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F236b7c30-4358-49ff-a358-5436a346d525_2560x1440.jpeg 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The left needs criminal aliens to vote for Democrats, to skew legislative seats away from Republicans through gerrymandered districts that only Democrats are allowed to gerrymander and no public issue can be agreed upon. </p><p>The only issue that the overwhelming majority of US citizens agree upon is the SAVE Act and the highly-partisan congress cannot pass it. That tells you all there is to know about the civil war within congress and if Republicans were not half communists themselves, this would be passed. </p><p>The long TSA lines at airports around the country is derived from the left&#8217;s unwillingness to allow ICE to operate. In other words, half of congress refuses to let lawful agents operate to enforce laws against criminal aliens and are willing to hold funding for TSA in order to accomplish their goal of denying a legal agency to enforce the laws. If it gets any more traitorous than that, I&#8217;d like to know what that would be. </p><p>Why TSA? Because it inconveniences the majority of the people and makes for great optics for a party incapable of enforcing the laws when it threatens their voter base, criminal aliens. The odd part is that ICE is already funded and this whole dog and pony show is to force changes to ICE procedures, something otherwise outside the purview of the congress. That&#8217;s an Executive branch responsibility, but the left has never been concerned about separation of powers where it interferes with political expedience. </p><p>I wish more of the average citizen were capable of recognizing what benefits them and what benefits congress. They are rarely the same thing, but on the left you have extremist Marxist ideology at work, it&#8217;s the same with fascist ideology as well, what damages the state must be obliterated and what damages the state is always the freedom and sovereignty of the people. </p><p>The Marxists call patriots &#8220;fascists&#8221; simply because it appeals to the communist rhetoric which frames all enemies as &#8220;reactionaries&#8221; or &#8220;fascists.&#8221; Definitions don&#8217;t matter in such cases as the one powerful weapon of the communists is rhetoric, it&#8217;s what has brought them to power every time. </p><p>If one wants to get to the heart of my political ideology, it&#8217;s not conservativism, or republicanism, it&#8217;s individual rights above the state. Not that the state can&#8217;t provide some services, but we&#8217;re moving into a whole new realm of technological control that cannot be battled through anything other than a demand for individual rights, already encoded in our system, but largely ignored to the benefit of those relied upon to enforce it. Many of whom are subsidized by those determined to deny individual rights in favor of corporate progressivism. </p><p>I saw at the Dollar General store, a sign that said: &#8220;We will scan ID or the purchase will be denied.&#8221; No, you will not scan my driver&#8217;s license. There&#8217;s information there that goes way beyond what is needed to figure out whether I&#8217;m old enough to purchase alcohol or tobacco, laws that are themselves suspect on constitutional grounds. All the information needed is on the front of the driver&#8217;s license, something racist Democrats claim no minority possesses. </p><p>The battle to secure individual privacy rights is the fight that should be waged across the US. If I were to recognize a war that should be fought, that is the war I would choose, not Iran, not Ukraine, not Gaza. The very idea that after first using a service, that the providers can then simply amend their contract, claiming further use signals acceptance should be outlawed. Based on the first contract, individuals and businesses have built promotional and advertising campaigns, real costs to the person or business, and simply taking advantage of that relationship to further erode individual privacy becomes a taking of the costs of those campaigns and refusal to use the service would cause financial damages in the billions of dollars. No other contractual relationship is treated in this way, but when it comes to accumulating private information, the government has already sided with their corporate donors.</p><p>And slowly we descend. Stores now demand to acquire that same level of information or refuse the purchase. </p><p>I know its a war that we&#8217;ve already lost. I&#8217;m not thinking about fixing this system. What I am proposing is that this system is subject to imminent failure, probably for all of the reasons above. That in the ultimate failure is an opportunity to correct this flawed presumption that individual rights are secondary to public good. That in the new system that follows, we are prepared first to secure these individual rights over the state, to build something that more closely recognizes the individual as supreme before the law. This is largely how the US grew and innovated to become the industrial power that it is and as those rights have been eroded either through pernicious banking laws or fiat currency or communist insurgency, we have declined in both economic strength and military capability. </p><p>We have allowed rhetoric and moral bullying to consume the discourse between citizens. Instead of looking at the government with equal distaste, one side has joined with the state to force others to comply with irrational and personally detrimental policies. The favorite communist phrase &#8220;for the greater good&#8221; has seeped into the individual psyche and destroyed it. That the individual doesn&#8217;t instantly reject that proposal is the degree to which the society has lost its way. If there is an alternate phrase it should be &#8220;for the mutual good&#8221; and where there is no mutual good, there is no good at all. </p><p>If one cannot see, through logic, how they will also benefit from a communal venture, they should not be forced to supply funds to accomplish it. That takes power from the state and forces it to design things that benefit all or a means of financing it that comes only from those who benefit from it, leaving those who do not to spend their funds on an alternative. That&#8217;s how great things are built and alternatives are devised. </p><p>Yes, the whole system is fraudulent and corrupt. There is no salvation and it will not continue. We go to war with people with whom we do not generally interact while we suffer at home from the viciousness of our own elected representatives. We are victimized by offices that have already extracted our funds before we have any say in their activities. It&#8217;s a system built on theft, driven by fraud and maintained by extortion.   </p><p>Since we have not fought for these values, we have lost and will continue to lose until we realize the fight we are in and start to punch back. </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-active-civil-war?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-active-civil-war?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><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Right, Lunger]]></title><description><![CDATA[The oddest part of watching the world come apart is that the means of stopping it is so easy, but no one wants to do it.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/all-right-lunger</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/all-right-lunger</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:13:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gmUv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F242fa5a5-7135-4c1e-b986-5b1e641ece5f_1400x700.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gmUv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F242fa5a5-7135-4c1e-b986-5b1e641ece5f_1400x700.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gmUv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F242fa5a5-7135-4c1e-b986-5b1e641ece5f_1400x700.jpeg 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It&#8217;s like watching a baseball coming right at your face, knowing you have the tools to stop it, the knowledge it takes to stop it, but somehow, you just can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s going to happen and when that finally registers, you&#8217;ll never raise your glove (or your pistol) in time. Then, you make that weird noise that everyone does when they realize the inevitability of pain, that sort of gut clench sound when you squeeze all of the air out of your lungs. </p><p>There&#8217;s no runaway truck ramp for this disaster. Not because of anything other than the left is determined to get even for that sick feeling they got in November of 2024, when the right got even for Biden. </p><p>This is the cycle that destroys worlds. The &#8220;get even&#8221; inevitability of doom sets in when no one remembers who started it, over what, and it really doesn&#8217;t matter, because the mind is gone and everything is an act of an escalating revenge.</p><p>The right&#8217;s about to give up playing nice. I feel it. I saw, at the diner, FOX News or whatever with the subtitle: &#8220;how to deal with radicalization.&#8221; How to deal with it? You deal with it by shipping these radical Islamists back to their home countries. That&#8217;s the only humane way to &#8220;deal&#8221; with it. In what? Is the question asked by the inhumane and it&#8217;s about to get inhumane, because the left will not allow the humane method. They want all of Trump&#8217;s supporters to choke on it. That&#8217;s the message and it permeates more every day. </p><p>Doc: &#8220;You called for blood.&#8221;</p><p>Johnny: &#8220;I was just foolin&#8217; about&#8221;</p><p>Doc: &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;</p><p><em>Johnny Ringo realizes his whole life is on the line.</em> </p><p>Johnny: &#8220;All right, Lunger.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s the moment. It&#8217;s when it&#8217;s gone too far. When the humiliation of boys during the march of the perverts through school stays with the young men, who recall the filth they were forced to watch, to read, belittled and ridiculed when they are naturally revulsed by it. It&#8217;s a denial of humanity that&#8217;s taking place and when they dehumanize enough of them, they&#8217;ll act like animals. </p><p>In a real sense, though, all they&#8217;ve done by attempting to brainwash these vulnerable children, is drive every bit of mercy out of their souls. They&#8217;re damaged. They might not realize to what degree until that last thread holding it all together snaps. </p><p>The older folks didn&#8217;t suffer that, not as a class experiment, anyway. But they&#8217;ve seen it, they&#8217;ve seen the organizational support spring into action to defend the process and further demean the kids. &#8220;No, no, no, if you don&#8217;t use the pronouns, you&#8217;re a piece of garbage.&#8221; &#8220;Yes, your paying for the sins of your race and must allow the rape gangs.&#8221; &#8220;No, not even pepper spray, just take it as punishment for the skin you have, filthy wretch.&#8221; </p><p>That&#8217;s the sort of thing that drives pity out the window when the roles are reversed. </p><p>What I&#8217;ve witnessed and found abhorrent has smothered something decent in me. I&#8217;ll admit it. What might have passed for an exception, or required some reason, no longer does. Covid drew the lines pretty clear and I&#8217;ll carry that betrayal, that systematic shaming ritual to my death. </p><p>The good folks on the right, and even some on the left, have had their goodness exorcised out of their repertoire. There are no more passes left to give. It&#8217;s not even left and right, really. There are only the abusers and the abused. Witnessing someone else bearing the weight of the shaming ritual burns just as hot as if it were happening to me, because it&#8217;s been done to generations, sparing no one, not even little, old ladies. </p><p>The sickness of liberalism offers no consolation to their victims. It&#8217;s like Santa Ana hanging out the red flag at San Antonio de Bexar in view of the Alamo. No Quarter. &#8220;All right, Lunger.&#8221; </p><p>I&#8217;ve been in a lot of conflicts and there&#8217;s always that one instant when whatever has been said, the pretense drops and you know that no matter how it turns out, it&#8217;s going to hurt. Even winning comes with scars. If the opponent is serious, no longer just &#8220;foolin&#8217; about,&#8221; whatever the consequence, the conflict has to be joined, or it&#8217;ll be a slaughter.</p><p>That&#8217;s where we are. The foreplay&#8217;s over. On that same television, I saw Thune put up the Save Act and Schumer say that there&#8217;s no way the Senate will ever approve the Save Act. If that can&#8217;t be done with the wide, almost unanimous, consent of the entire electorate, it becomes a challenge by the self-styled &#8220;rulers&#8221; of this society to the people. </p><p>They need the invaders, the Islamic bloc, to vote or the left is dead and they know it. They probably knew it when, despite everything, Trump got elected, again. What they realized is that it wasn&#8217;t Trump, it was the people who had had enough of the open borders, the betrayal of lockdowns while Nero fiddles, the insulting, demeaning, ridiculous curriculum the children are forced to endure. That the child sexual abuse taking place in schools as part of the &#8220;program&#8221; is infuriating. That&#8217;s how we got exorcised of our goodness. </p><p>Everyone I know is just waiting for that last thread to snap. They know it&#8217;s going to happen. Something cataclysmic is coming and I just want it made clear that I hold no reservations or offer quarter to those who have destroyed this once beautiful, peaceful and prosperous nation. And, I give no quarter, because I know they they are diseased, as much as any zombie, as much as any pervert.</p><p>They are the conquerors, the colonizers, the destroyers of worlds and if they had a soul, they wouldn&#8217;t be able to do it. It&#8217;s a Satanic religion they&#8217;ve bought into and they can&#8217;t be reasoned with, talked out of it, brought to their senses. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:41:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9tAZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F94f255e7-84fa-4dbc-b582-792a8f3577fe_1920x1080.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/$s_!9tAZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F94f255e7-84fa-4dbc-b582-792a8f3577fe_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9tAZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F94f255e7-84fa-4dbc-b582-792a8f3577fe_1920x1080.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>The problem we have (and I don&#8217;t know the psychological terms and definitions for all of this, nor do I have the expertise to interpret actions to conditions, but I&#8217;m going to pretend that I do) is that there is an abundance of suicidal tendencies disguised as virtue. This can be referred to as the &#8220;nice people.&#8221; </p><p>We are in all of the trouble that we are, militarily, societally and economically due to the desire of nice people to exhibit their virtue through self-immolation. I consider myself polite, considerate, fair-minded and courteous, sometimes to a fault. It&#8217;s one reason I moved to Texas from Colorado. I found none of that on the Front Range. It was more common either in Eastern or Western Colorado.</p><p>I was working in Texas at the time of Covid and almost none of the businesses were closed. The use of masks was in evidence, but not required anywhere outside of hospitals. At one, I told the person demanding compliance that her demonstration of clearly ridiculous medical advice was a condemnation of the medical practices of the hospital. I think it went more like this: &#8220;You do realize that by making this stupid rule paramount that it just makes you look stupid and the hospital incompetent.&#8221; </p><p>Anyway, having lived my life as I was taught: to always be deferential to others, with the Golden Rule firmly ingrained in my soul, I found myself not only accepted by  Texans, as I demonstrated a lot of their own attitudes, but much, much less likely to punch someone in the face for egregious violations of the Golden Rule. </p><p>While this polite deference to others is understood by Texans, Coloradoans, largely truly Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisans, etc., because of the influx of these &#8220;other staters&#8221; having taken place long ago and persistently over time, fail the test spectacularly. Who knows what the real Coloradoans are like? I like to think they align more closely to my own thinking, but then, my ancestral roots are in Virginia and ultimately Kentucky, so, who knows? Anyway, my polite deference comes off to current Front Range Coloradoans as weak and subservient to the point that their arrogance violates the Golden Rule and opens them to retaliation. Living in Texas, therefore, restores my peace.</p><p>This sort of Golden Rule politeness seems like weakness or &#8220;niceness&#8221; to the unwitting, arrogant, self-centered who can&#8217;t conceive of ever being deferential. The difference between weakness, niceness and Golden Rule politeness is the undercurrent threat of violence. This is the mistake Jihadists and communists make all the time, they can&#8217;t tell the difference, whereas any decent Coloradoan or Texan understands it from a prenatal state.</p><p>The true &#8220;niceness&#8221; based in self-loathing and a desire to quash the appearance of patriotism rises most prominently in the left, but also in the right. The Church persona being the worst on the right. Those who secretly, deep down, hate themselves and everyone around them cloak that hatred in righteous morality as a Christian. They do more damage to this nation and Christianity by accepting hostiles on the basis of Jesus. That is their shield against being seen for the hollowed-out rotten people they are. Huge donations to Catholic Charities is one such demonstration of their corrosive niceness. </p><p>Those who carry the Church persona do a great deal of damage by exerting their own tolerance and subjecting others to the charge of racism, hatred and bigotry simply because they do not want to subject their family and friends to rape and murder at the hands of foreign, barbaric cultures. </p><p>This sort of &#8220;niceness&#8221; permeates the welfare state. Those who see welfare as a means of testifying to their own generosity have it completely backward. Using the government to confiscate property from others to demonstrate one&#8217;s charity is akin to offering a neighbor&#8217;s house to accommodate the invaders.</p><p>The whole NGO (non-governmental organization) network thrives on this sort of niceness. It appeals to those who think they can spread the values of Jesus through a conduit of public/private gangs. They give to these NGOs with the idea of helping people without ever doing an accounting of their actual activities, which often punish the indigenous populations (England, Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden, etc.,) with invasions of monochromatic others and call it diversity. The intent is to wipe out diversity through mass migration into the already diverse cultures of these same nations. Aside from being white, the French are completely different from the English, who are completely different from the Irish and on and on. The United States has absolutely no reason to be increasing diversity. It was very close to the most diverse society in the world already. Where else can one explore the cultures of blacks, Hispanics, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Jews, Arabs, Persians, Asians. Show me a town where there is no Chinese buffet and I&#8217;ll show you one with less than 2000 people. </p><p>The question ultimately comes down to what sort of nice are you? Are you the sort that takes money out of their own pocket, who takes time out of their own day to help others, or are you one who gives to international organizations that spend most of your donations on seeking other donations? These are tough questions and it takes a sturdy heart to ask them. </p><p>The world would be better of without welfare of any kind and an expanded role of the local, accountable church or organization as the conduit to the distribution of this aid. That would allow a person to recognize where their charity is going and change their giving practices immediately. </p><p>The best of the Golden Rule niceness will likely be demonstrated to us through crisis when these welfare systems fail and we are forced to interact directly with those in need. Every time I see a person with a sign at the edge of the road, I ask Jesus if I should give to this person. Most often, He remains silent, but having inquired, I have ignored the impulse to help and every mile down the road came with an increased sense of unease. I have turned around after twenty miles, driven back and given everything I had in my wallet to that person. </p><p>One does not have to be a sucker to be charitable. I believe, in my heart, that every dime I have, every breath I take is not my own, but God&#8217;s and it is with this idea that I ask his guidance in such matters. </p><p>And yet, as Jack Lawson would advise, evil will seek out the good and make them pay for their faith. Always cautious, always alert is how one must navigate this world.</p><p>When this system does fail, through economic insolvency, military ineptness, extraterrestrial events or cultural diversity, it will bring with it a duty to judge who should be welcomed into the new culture, the new system. The &#8220;nice people&#8221; may have to be exiled, if their generosity comes from everyone else&#8217;s sweat and labor. </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/what-to-do-with-the-nice-people?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/what-to-do-with-the-nice-people?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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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:45:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pyax!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc58f3128-e05b-4e22-88c0-4302a63b90d2_1280x1280.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pyax!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc58f3128-e05b-4e22-88c0-4302a63b90d2_1280x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pyax!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc58f3128-e05b-4e22-88c0-4302a63b90d2_1280x1280.jpeg 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The only rational conclusion is that there&#8217;s a whole government made up of communists with only slight divisions to keep the majority believing that it can get better. It&#8217;s time to recognize that it won&#8217;t.</p><p>Many people have proposed this, who understand it better than I do. I first recognized it more than a decade ago, but the rest of the country wasn&#8217;t ready to hear it. I believe that they are now. </p><p>Trump, whether you like him, or not, is making some very serious mistakes that have shaken and divided his supporters. I didn&#8217;t expect much from him going in and, to a great degree, he has satisfied what I did expect, but now, in the second term, he seems distracted, neutered, focusing on things that don&#8217;t matter and ignoring those that do. </p><p>His hiring practices continue to be a big problem. It always seems irrational and contingent on things that are surface-level. The very concept of endorsing Cornyn in Texas is liable to fragment his supporters in the whole state. We know who Cornyn is and detest him. That Trump is unaware of that, or ignores that pits, him against the majority of Republicans in the state. If Wesley Hunt was not in the race it might have been more clear-cut how badly Cornyn is detested, but Hunt provided him some cover by making the race seem closer than it really was. And yet, this too seems theatrical, something to keep the politicos busy while everyone else goes about their lives. </p><p>The damage done to Texas by Abbott and Cornyn, two leftist communists on the right, exposes the fact that the broad spectrum of Texans will never get what they want. The most worthless state House member for the Panhandle was able to hold off someone who was only slightly better from what I heard of his message. </p><p>Without giving any of this too much weight, these are signals of the overall problem: that there is no true opposition to the corruption of our governmental system. It would take decades working on the 4th Amendment alone to return it to its original purpose. There&#8217;s too much money coming from too many special interests that ignore the individual and seek only the manipulation of our laws to get what they want. </p><p>It&#8217;s why I wrote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GW9F273">Nine Principles of Freedom</a> several years ago, to freeze the understanding and purpose of individual rights and how that has been diluted over the past century or so to drag the individual back under the weight of the government. </p><p>It&#8217;s really quite simple. If one takes individual freedoms seriously, it produces a society that is both energetic and law-abiding, because the enormous weight of government seeking to snatch every penny of profit, deny every freedom, is non-existent. The more one believes that the government can and will control behavior, the deeper they slide into tyranny, because it&#8217;s always their neighbor they wish the government would control, never themselves, but that&#8217;s always the next step. </p><p>One could say that empires last roughly 250 years and 2026 is the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Whether that determination is based on numerology or state of decay, the United States is there. </p><p>The fundamentals of the Untied States are based in eternal truths, one being that socialist nations never succeed in freeing their people, but rather imprisoning them. What about the Scandinavian countries and Europe? Haven&#8217;t they flourished? Yes, with the umbrella of protection provided by the mighty US military they have been able to put their money into social programs. The great British Navy has crumbled in the years after WWII. A good deal of wealth for these European nations came from the resources of the American Continents either in resources or markets. </p><p>After 250 years the United States might be at the point of collapse, there are a number of indicators that suggest it, but that is not an indictment of the principles behind it, but a consequence of embracing foreign principles. It comes from being embarrassed by American culture when leaders travel abroad and return with European principles based largely on monarchies, not republics. </p><p>The time now, is to be proud of those founding principles and exalt them above the critic&#8217;s cultures that are rapidly deteriorating into self-hatred and oblivion. How long before they are swept under by the ceaseless advance of immigration? </p><p>As the world seems about to undergo a war that will likely turn nuclear and leave vast destruction in its wake. (if it stops short of globally radiated, glowing heaps) It will be much different from anything we&#8217;ve ever seen before. What comes of that will be determined by those who somehow survive. </p><p>For decades and perhaps centuries there will be no need of a government at all. Maybe that will be the ultimate form of society that emerges from the flames. Keeping the American principles of individual rights forefront in the mind and taught to the children will be all we can do. Likely the southern continents will survive and will not encroach on what&#8217;s left here out of fear of radiation. </p><p>What we build, in the meantime, will be of great consequence. That&#8217;s where the focus ought to be. If there is no survival, all history stops, all religions, all perspectives. It will be a lifeless planet like Mars and Jupiter. But if it does not, our current condition will mark the starting point of what will become the new world. </p><p>The question before us is whether we let this whole corrupt government tread down that path. If there is any way to put a stop to it, should we not do that? Then, there comes the realization that if we do, what future do we ensure? If we stop this world war, are we left to struggle through the insanity of today? 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Without claiming that the attack on Iran was that thing, it might be the beginning of much more dire things to come that are unleashed by that act. I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not a prognosticator. </p><p>What I do know is that within hours of the knowledge of the attack a terrorist entered an Austin bar and committed an act of terrorism. We need to understand, as a society, that there are terrorists scattered all throughout our nation, largely invited in by Joe Biden. Is Joe Biden directly responsible for the Austin bar attack? Anything an illegal does in this country is directly tied not only to Joe Biden, but to people like Tim Walz in Minnesota. They either have provided an easy pathway into the interior of the United States, or they have harbored and protected them from removal. Both should, in a normal world, be seen as treasonous acts.</p><p>That they are not readily and overwhelmingly seen as such, is the reason these terrorist attacks will multiply as the days go on. Pretending is what everyone does now. They pretend that terrorists, once in the US, will become mild-mannered lawn mowers, or shipping clerks or some other innocent worker. They will not. They are here to either take over this land, like they did Iran, the UK and France before it. They will punish the United States citizens for the acts of the government. </p><p>I don&#8217;t expect the war with Iran to last, I don&#8217;t even think it is a war. It&#8217;s an action intended, I&#8217;m sure, to force conciliation on a number of geopolitical goals of the United States and Israel. It might be to hamstring China. Venezuela might have been a part of the same thing. It might be to force regime change in Iran, something the people there seem to be heartily behind.  </p><p>I cannot have studied war, economics and diplomacy for all of this time and not recognize these different possibilities. Maybe, it satisfies a number of them at once. That doesn&#8217;t change the fact that this might lead to something much bigger within the United States. In that sense, it might flush the rats out into the open, deny politicians the cover they typically enjoy, suggesting that all of these peaceful migrants are simply here to help our sagging birthrate and expose them as the treasonous devils they are. </p><p>The fact is, at some point, we will unleash within the United States a series of terrorist attacks like we&#8217;ve never seen before when these hidden cells of terrorists step out to do their work. That&#8217;s a near inevitability and they might be joined by others who see the chaos as an opportunity to pursue their own takeover of the United States. We have no defense for this at all. The minute these terrorists are named as such their defenders within the communist movement burrowed deep within all American bureaucracies will rise to take their side.</p><p>Like many who read this Substack, I don&#8217;t fear it. It&#8217;s not like any of us have a choice, the plans have been executed and only wait for an opportune time to do the most damage to our nation. I sense that a lot of us have been dreading it, have argued against the obvious recklessness of the actions of people like Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden for decades. It&#8217;s our skin in the game, no matter what comes to pass. They will all be in their secure bunkers some twenty stories underground while we populate the surface and take the most horrific losses. </p><p>The fact is, it will take something this diabolical to drive us from our comfort and unleash the full fury of the American people. No one has ever seen that play out before. During the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression) this fury was muted because it was aimed at each other. No one knows what that will look like when it is directed at those foreign forces on our sacred land. That, my friends, is a different sort of fury. </p><p>We have been misled in the true sense of the word. Our leaders now serve different masters from the people, or the nation. They seek their own reward in the powers of distant lands. They seek to plunder the treasury for their own gains, to keep them in power while these foreign forces enter and exploit our free nation. <a href="https://www.theinvisiblecoup.com/">Peter Schweizer&#8217;s book The Invisible Coup</a> expertly details exactly how this was, and continues to be, done. </p><p>But we the people, the Americans, the individuals and families will suffer the worst of it. Unfortunately, that is what it will take to meld us into a single force to rise up against it. It will be the common cause of all Americans to root out and destroy these cells who have proliferated among us and while I would rather not wait until we have been so grievously harmed, but act now in defense of our society, I know that it will not be. </p><p>Islam is not the only worry, either. There are the reconquistas, the Chinese, the communists all waiting for that day when they feel the time is right to impose horrific penalties on the nation that has for so many centuries sought to ensure peace around the world. I&#8217;m not saying there weren&#8217;t rogue elements within the US that played parts in the upheaval most of the world suffered. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s what gives license to these other forces among us. For that, too, we will pay, even though it&#8217;s outside our power to stop it. </p><p>I will say that it is better to have the confrontation now, while there are still those alive who understand the great nation that once existed on these shores, who felt and exalted true freedom, before the regulators and officials took over their daily lives, dictated the rules by which they could establish and operate their businesses; before the police became a part of the police state.</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-different-sort-of-fury?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-different-sort-of-fury?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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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:24:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hEhx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff62d84ed-f7bc-4b15-9cb1-e4671a5e6029_640x480.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/$s_!hEhx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff62d84ed-f7bc-4b15-9cb1-e4671a5e6029_640x480.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hEhx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff62d84ed-f7bc-4b15-9cb1-e4671a5e6029_640x480.jpeg 424w, 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An issue that has an 80-20 favorability nationwide cannot be passed by the US Senate. That&#8217;s not just Republicans. For them, it&#8217;s a 96-4 issue and they still can&#8217;t muster the votes, because they don&#8217;t want to. They don&#8217;t want election integrity, because then they&#8217;d win and by winning they lose. Campaign contributions come flowing in when the Democrats are in charge and since the Democrats use NGO funds for their campaigns rather than voter donations (though they get a lot of them, too) they don&#8217;t have to please the voters. All they have to please are the rabid leftists within their party, the globalists, the anti-Americans, the open borders crowd. </p><p>What patriots have to face is that we are unwanted by the government. It doesn&#8217;t represent us, it and everyone in it, hates us, because we want them, both the left and the right, to abide by the charter (constitution). We&#8217;re radical, because we want the laws enforced, laws that most lawmakers didn&#8217;t even want to pass, but for us. So, when they have someone in office that will ignore the laws, the constitution, they&#8217;re happy, though they act as if they aren&#8217;t to keep up the charade, whether they&#8217;re from the left or the right. </p><p>Everything the left allowed and even cheered when Biden was president is vilified and scorned under Trump, but that&#8217;s all show, that&#8217;s all part of the deception of the average citizen from which both parties profit. </p><p>The American patriot who stands for individual rights is out in the cold, because it threatens the power of the government. It&#8217;s supposed to. The whole purpose of the United States is to provide a land where entrepreneurship is the ideal, where initiative is repaid, where risks are taken and lessons are learned. In seeking power, they&#8217;ve allowed it to become a land of plunder. </p><p>I don&#8217;t know what causes the crisis that is all but shouting that it&#8217;s on the way. I&#8217;m looking at several possibilities, economic, military, societal, even things like solar flares and meteors. The current state of the world seems poised for cataclysmic change from one event or another. It&#8217;s hard to even focus on the day to day, because the end of everything seems so near. </p><p>I am prepared as far as I think necessary, as <a href="https://jacklawsonbooks.com/">Jack Lawson instructed in his Civil Defense Manuals</a> and keep them at hand, knowing that the knowledge therein will be invaluable should any one of the calamities come to pass. It&#8217;s just a matter of what and when, now. </p><p>In thinking of this, there are several possible situations that may present themselves. Will it be the lack of electricity and with that the lack of fuel, lack of supplies, etc.? Will it be immediate destruction from which one might dig out from their hole to find vast devastation and perhaps contamination? Will it be a societal collapse that brings with it tribal coalescence, roving gangs of pillagers, or armies of one sort or another? In that scenario there is the question of whether there will be time and cooperation enough to establish a good enough defense to at least dissuade groups from entering? In my little part of Texas, that is almost ensured. I&#8217;ve spoken to some of the more senior members of town and find a number of stiff-backed geriatrics and enthusiastic youngsters, but the ability to organize might be a challenge. They will defend their own, but will they defend the town? At least here, they are partisans for their community, almost to a fault, which might come in handy. </p><p>In that sense, wildfires and tornados are almost a blessing. I&#8217;ve seen this and other communities come together to move whole herds of cattle out of the path of destruction, donations of hay to feed them in their new homes, or when they&#8217;re returned to their burnt out pastures. I&#8217;ve seen searches organized to go into the affected areas to search for survivors, both human and animal. I&#8217;m comforted by the fact that most rural areas across the nation are much the same. </p><p>What I do know is that everything modern society holds dear will become meaningless. The best fed, the best trained, the best armed and the best led will, as Lawson instructs, be the survivors. The survivors of what, I don&#8217;t know. The survivors for what? I don&#8217;t know either. The most fortunate may not be the survivors and surviving might be the worst of all worlds.</p><p>Into that shattered world, the patriot must stride forward, with the weight of a civilization on his back, determined to rebuild a world where individual rights stand supreme against whatever government they try to institute. It won&#8217;t be easy. The lazy always support a government that will find a way for them to prosper from the labors of others. The uselessness of Karl Marx is a testament to this fact and his minions seek to sustain that largesse.  </p><p>The duty is to secure and defend freedom. It&#8217;s the noblest of all endeavors, the key to Western civilization, the origin of prosperity. 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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[Clearing the Brush]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US is not a functional nation.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/clearing-the-brush</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/clearing-the-brush</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:15:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pa_p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0e436ee-22a0-4658-b516-028450ee7fca_1024x683.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pa_p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0e436ee-22a0-4658-b516-028450ee7fca_1024x683.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pa_p!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0e436ee-22a0-4658-b516-028450ee7fca_1024x683.jpeg 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As Nayib Bukele says: &#8220;There is no such thing as a state that cannot deal with criminals. If a state fails to defeat crime, it is because it is complicit.&#8221; This from the man who turned a snake pit of a nation, El Salvador, the progenitor of the deadly MS-13 gang, into a peaceful country within a few years. How? He grabbed every corrupt judge and criminal he found and put them in jail. He built jails to house the massive amounts of them. He is attacked for being cruel. There is no greater cruelty than to tolerate crimes against the innocent. </p><p>Throughout the years, decades and even century, the people have been polite and decent and asked our elected officials to enforce the laws. The civility of the US population, a breed far more inclined to pursue their own independent goals in life rather than ruling the lives of their neighbors, expect to be able to defend themselves and their homes, to worship freely and debate issues openly. </p><p>This is becoming less and less possible. Whole industries and government bureaucracies have been built up around the idea of interfering with those individual goals, taxing them out of existence and even punishing enterprising instincts. Only with government approval can these pursuits be accomplished. This is antithetical to the concept of liberty, of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. It&#8217;s a scar on the face of the United States and the wound deepens every day. </p><p>What has it led us to? We now have a diminished idea of what justice is. Justice has a price and it&#8217;s too heavy for most people to bear. They accept guilt where there is none because they cannot afford to be innocent and the state has used this as a bludgeon, knowing that all they have to do is make some absurd charge that will bankrupt a person, a family, rob children of their inheritance, in an attempt to obtain justice from the state and their power-hungry instincts. </p><p>This is not freedom, not even close. As the vise has tightened over every aspect of Americanism, it has squeezed freedom out of the equation, leaving only a condensed nut of evil. </p><p>The US was always an experiment and when politicians protect fraud, benefit from it and imprison those who expose it, it is an experiment that has failed. The rich and powerful can afford to hide their crimes, buy off their accusers and/or judges. A lot of this is done with campaign contributions; a media safely ensconced in one end of the political spectrum where it wields a heavy sword; corporate loopholes and schemes. </p><p>If a person buys a piece of property and endeavors to farm, he is immediately in competition with the largest corporations in the world. If he seeks to raise cattle, he must sell to equally large corporations who pay as little as possible. If one tries to sell the milk from his cows without government approval, he might be put in prison.</p><p>None of this should be the business of government, but there&#8217;s always those who seek protection and as we&#8217;ve seen, the government promises to look into bad actors and scammers, but if those bad actors can pay off the inspector they can operate as if there were no government bureaucracy designed to ensure safe products. In effect, there is no protection other than the promise, but there are more taxes and heavier regulatory burdens on the individual trying to make a living and build a legacy. </p><p>Freedom is dangerous, there is no antidote for that, but government is more dangerous than freedom. Every great genocide was prosecuted by governments. There is no criminal genocide without government complicity. The genocide then is more organized, thorough and efficient. A single man might sell contaminated milk, but only once. A government can do it repeatedly safely hidden behind their public offices. </p><p>Nothing made this corrupt system more visible than the vaxx and all of those who promoted it, shamed anyone who didn&#8217;t comply and ignored the tragic effects. That&#8217;s the sort of harm organized government can achieve. </p><p>So, what is the answer? What&#8217;s the cure for this diseased nation where invaders are welcomed in to set up anti-American businesses, governments and lawyers? It is the people themselves. </p><p>What must be understood is that it is not the people&#8217;s responsibility to figure out a better system, that&#8217;s beyond their pay grade. Even if they did take that task upon themselves, to whom would they submit their plan? What they can and must do is make sure that whatever is failing is destroyed. They must clear the brush. They don&#8217;t have to be involved in the construction of what comes next, but they do stand in judgment of it. They have the power to say: &#8220;Nope, not what we had in mind.&#8221; </p><p>In that intimate circle are those who want freedom unencumbered by judges and politicians who sell safety to criminals at the expense of the people. The people need the freedom to withhold subsistence to rogue and criminal governments. The formation of a police force is the beginning of a police state. Where it can be controlled and monitored, it might serve some good, but it&#8217;s always a step away from legitimacy. </p><p>I&#8217;ve read dozens and dozens of court documents from the earlier stages of this society and the norm was to assume that the people were right. Cattle rustlers were dealt with summarily and it was assumed that those who owned the cattle were justified. That&#8217;s not the case today. The individual must not take matters into his own hands. That shows a decided suspicion of the individual. Again, one might commit murder and get away with it under such a system, but as we have seen, a whole population can be wiped out by laws and invasion. The invasion of illegals was conducted with atypical government efficiency. Perhaps the only time government truly works is when it&#8217;s engaged in genocide.  </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/clearing-the-brush?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/clearing-the-brush?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[A World on the Brink]]></title><description><![CDATA[That deep, rumbling hum is not some semi passing on the highway, it&#8217;s the political wobbling of an entire planet.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/a-world-on-the-brink</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/a-world-on-the-brink</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:23:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jado!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4468b87-41ac-42fb-b293-d42d058baa7f_1344x768.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/$s_!jado!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4468b87-41ac-42fb-b293-d42d058baa7f_1344x768.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jado!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4468b87-41ac-42fb-b293-d42d058baa7f_1344x768.jpeg 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It&#8217;s the sound heard just before WWI and WWII. In distant corners of the earth conflicts are raging out of control, threatening to engulf the world in a new war, a war of revolutions, of civil wars, of old alliances coming apart and to some degree it has been Trump driving it all. While he has instigated a good deal of it by his brash statements about Greenland and Canada, it is the absolute hatred of him by the left that is the catalyst. </p><p>In Argentina, the left is coming after Javier Milei and the more successful he is, the more popular, the greater the left strives to destroy him. His sin is that he has the temerity to point out the obvious: that socialism/communism is the cause of misery. The wars against him and others are being fought in the media, new media, social media, alternative media, but all media. The part of this being done on the ground with troops is being done by NGO-funded radicals, trained agitators for the communist cause. All Milei had to do to come under fire was to be successful and draw some of his strength from the support of Donald Trump, i.e., the common man. </p><p>It&#8217;s the same in Hungary, in Poland, in Slovakia, in the Czech Republic. Leaders in each state have turned to Trump as a political mentor to some degree, taken his support, but pursued their own agendas. Nayib Bukele in El Salvador did the same and talked about it at the the UN, so we included that in <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1137915154">Deconstruction: The Global Fight for Freedom</a>. Bukele talked about being drawn into the conflict between the Soviet Union and the West. Eighty-five thousand of his countrymen in a lightly populated nation were killed fighting a civil war at the behest of these great powers. In the 30 years that followed, even more were killed as power was given to the right, then to the left. They were left with a nation to whom death had become normal, routine, expected and then it fanned out in the form of MS-13.</p><p>What Nayib Bukele did was the only thing that would have worked to bring a nation back from chaos, he viciously enforced the law, imprisoned the guilty and didn&#8217;t stop until he had cleansed the government, especially the judiciary, of the corruption that had eaten out the heart of his nation. </p><p>There&#8217;s a lesson in that: half measures produce little or no results, sometimes the opposite result. Trump had a chance to show this resolve in Minnesota and didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a game being played and a great many of Americans are sick and tired of it. <a href="https://bigcountryexpat.com/index.php/2026/02/16/awol-again-shotguns-and-bayonets-and-a-crisis-of-the-spirit/">Big Country Expat expressed this in one of his posts (H/T WRSA)</a>. There is indescribable evil being not only described, but illustrated before our eyes and there&#8217;s a moral price to pay for simply observing. </p><p>We are now aware of harm being done to children the world over. The same forces who have worked against the righteous man taking action have convinced too many of us that the law should handle it, but the law is made by people who participate in every form of evil. </p><p>The economics of debt are pervasive and driving everything in our world. It cannot go on forever and that&#8217;s one thing pushing the need for a world war, to absolve each other of the massive debt accumulated by every nation on the globe, destroying currencies and emptying treasuries. They&#8217;re assured that only the poor will be harmed and what could be more enticing than that? The point is that it will lead to a reset, at least in the minds of the people who are driving us to that end. Think of it like the bankrupt business that sets fire to the building for the insurance money. Is it suspicious? Sure, but is there a fact, a camera, a pool of accelerant? All is obscured and lost in the smoke and flame. That&#8217;s what the EU seems determined to do, set the whole thing on fire and hope they don&#8217;t trace it back to them. Blaming Trump is a shield for them and it&#8217;s worked so far, because like it or not, they equate Trump with us, the poor, the backward, the gun-loving nuts, the victims of their absurd crimes. They try to make us accomplices by accusing us of championing an authoritarian (accuse your enemy of what you yourself is doing). </p><p>Sooner or later, we&#8217;re going to suffer some calamity. Whether it&#8217;s world war, perhaps even nuclear war, or grid failure, or starvation from reliance on green energy, economic collapse or whatever, we&#8217;re allowing a lot of evil to take place as we negotiate those threats. </p><p>So much so that we are, many of us, starting to look in the mirror and wonder just what it is that we have been spared for. For this? Have we survived the dangerous jobs, the wars, the pestilence just to be passive in the assault on women and children? Isn&#8217;t that our charge, our duty? Isn&#8217;t that the reason for being bestowed with physical, tactical or strategic abilities? Do we carry the weight of our passivity on our backs as we prepare to meet the Creator? </p><p>What Big Country pointed out, at least to me, is that in this stalled pattern, trying to decipher which evil to attack, which threat to defend against that can destroy our families and our livelihoods, we&#8217;re sacrificing something very important: initiative. We must be proactive, not reactive. </p><p>There are no political solutions. We&#8217;re way past that and if Trump served any purpose at all, it should have been to teach the last holdouts that nothing will change when evil is in charge of everything. We have been taught that there is a right and a left, a good and a bad, a right and a wrong. The truth is: there is only the reflection of these things left, that at the heart of it all is evil. The right is used to enable the left, the good is used to enable the bad, the right is used to enable the wrong. </p><p>There&#8217;s a tendency to think that things were simpler in the past, that the lines were clearer, motives more defined, but not really. What was in the past was a willingness to boldly and unapologetically engage these evils. It&#8217;s only when the defenders of this evil began their media onslaught, boiling up from liberal ideology and pushed through universities and think tanks, that the bold defenders began to believe that maybe they were out of step, that their instincts were wrong. </p><p>As McCarthy wrote in No Country for Old Men, (slightly altered) &#8220;if your beliefs have led you to this, of what use are your beliefs?&#8221; </p><p>It&#8217;s my belief that we&#8217;ve been sidelined too long; that our instincts have always been right and that if there is to be a world war, it should signal to us that our fight is against evil, not our brothers and sisters in another part of the world. That our duty is to the Creator and to defend the weakest from the perverse. 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Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:08:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ggI6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49919512-2ecf-427b-8c4c-c9cb8158d898_1200x800.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ggI6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49919512-2ecf-427b-8c4c-c9cb8158d898_1200x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ggI6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49919512-2ecf-427b-8c4c-c9cb8158d898_1200x800.jpeg 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Recycling is one. It doesn&#8217;t work, except for iron, as far as I know. Plastic is the easiest to recycle, but it isn&#8217;t happening, no matter how much one takes it upon themselves to sort their own trash at the behest of some city government. Only about 10% of plastics gathered for recycling actually gets recycled. What happens to the rest? It gets dumped, just as if one did not go through all of the motions of recycling. The amount of time and machinery developed to do this one very possible thing, is wasted, because there&#8217;s no financial benefit. </p><p>The communist answer to that is to make using recycled plastic mandatory, or increasing, through taxes, the cost of generating new plastic. That doesn&#8217;t get us any closer to efficiency like letting the truth of the matter reveal itself and stop all of the excessive activities to make it look like it&#8217;s working. </p><p>Everything in today&#8217;s world is marketed as a solution to some overall human harm, either to us or because of us, whether it works or not, or has any effect or not. I&#8217;m all for the environment, but it&#8217;s a bit of hubris that makes us think we can have an effect on it. The earth itself creates more CO2 than the entire history of human beings by a large margin. One volcano can replace all of the CO2 that we remove through all of the efforts of humanity, all of the trillions of dollars spent and that&#8217;s assuming that CO2 is bad, which I absolutely refuse to believe. I&#8217;ve asked trees and they agree with me. </p><p>The end of the world for the environmentalists was in the removal of CO2 as a dangerous ingredient to the atmosphere. It never should have been classified as such. There is no correlation between CO2 and theoretical warming of the planet. None of the horrific stories of a devastated planet have come true since they started hawking this irrational fear of CO2. </p><p>When people talk of humanity and start dividing people up between those who want to save the planet (the humane) and those who want to live their life as always before (the inhumane), what is never talked about is the lost trillions and man hours spent chasing a ghost instead of actually working on systems that might benefit humanity. </p><p>One of those things is the idea of container-sized nuclear reactors that can power whole communities. Imagine something like this that every community could own, the amount of self-sustaining power it would unleash. One wouldn&#8217;t have to build huge powerplants that lose half (or more) of their product through transmission; wouldn&#8217;t need the huge swaths of land that it takes to carry electric current across thousands of miles. The grid would no longer be a concern, because one wouldn&#8217;t need a national power grid. </p><p>I can&#8217;t drive past a swath of wind generators without thinking of this. The amount of time and energy put into developing wind energy, building all of those turbines, shipping them across the country to be erected, wear out, replaced all to accommodate the profits of power companies who don&#8217;t use the power anyway, but get the incentives for building such things to offset some obscure idea of a carbon credit and provide return on investments that after ten years pay for the wind turbines. Where do those incentives come from? Taxpayers. We fund this insanity with no input from those who have to pay for it. </p><p>At home, I believe in electric self-sufficiency against the time when these data centers, that are the new wind turbines, in effect, demanding much more power than they will ever be able to deliver in the promise of AI, but I can&#8217;t stop government officials from jumping onboard this new insanity. Politicians are like children at a circus, falling for every huckster&#8217;s pitch when jobs or money are involved. It doesn&#8217;t matter that they&#8217;ve wandered into the house of mirrors, they&#8217;ll buy it. </p><p>How many decades of failure will it take before they realize it was all a scam? How many trillions will be spent in the search for an electronic friend and why do we have to pay for it in excessive power bills? </p><p>AI won&#8217;t work, not as it&#8217;s currently being promoted, and even if it did, what would it cost, not only in dollars, but in humanity? The newest rage in convenience stores is teaching us to be our own attendant against a time when there won&#8217;t be any need of a human to make a transaction, no cash either. I like that at the gas pump, I&#8217;m not so sure I like it when I go to purchase something else. I don&#8217;t like the idea of big corporations forcing me into labor to make them profits and if something goes wrong, like the scanner recording one purchase as two, where do I go to rectify it? Already that happens when talking to some AI customer service voice that just doesn&#8217;t understand the incredibly technical issues I&#8217;m having with their product.</p><p>The concept of AI&#8217;s revolutionizing our world hinges on some very illogical assumptions, like AI can build on itself, write its own code, process generations of knowledge in nanoseconds. It can&#8217;t. It extrapolates from what is already known, proven in the fields of science, takes all of that and streamlines it, categorizes it and makes assumptions for the future that may or may not be true. It doesn&#8217;t matter, it will assume that its own assumptions are true and build on that. If you can&#8217;t see the crash of logic coming, you&#8217;ll witness it in less than a decade. </p><p>The whole goal is to distance humans from other humans. Actually, to distance government from human input. AI will make government arguments much harder, maybe impossible, to refute. Where will we go for the truth when everything will be filtered through artificial intelligence? </p><div><hr></div><p>I wanted to take a moment to recognize <a href="https://straightlinelogic.com/">Robert Gore and his website Straight Line Logic</a>. After a small hiatus, Robert realized how much time he was spending just trying to entertain the lot of us and that there were other things more pressing than that. While he will not continue to aggregate stories from around the web, some of which were mine, he will continue to write on occasion about things he finds important or intriguing, so don&#8217;t delete him from your bookmarks, but recognize that the timeline will be longer. 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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[Hostile Acts]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Schweizer a few months ago while filming Seamus Bruner for our documentary Deconstruction: The Global Fight for Freedom. We traded signed books and had a short chat. I was familiar with a lot of his work and was surprised to find him shooting baskets as I went out to get something from the car for the shoot. For a guy with numerous #1 New York Times Bestsellers, he&#8217;s pretty down to earth.]]></description><link>https://tldavis.substack.com/p/hostile-acts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://tldavis.substack.com/p/hostile-acts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[T.L. Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:37:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j6Cu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e631803-e23b-412c-bd53-53ae993e642e_900x578.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/$s_!j6Cu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e631803-e23b-412c-bd53-53ae993e642e_900x578.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j6Cu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e631803-e23b-412c-bd53-53ae993e642e_900x578.jpeg 424w, 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We traded signed books and had a short chat. I was familiar with a lot of his work and was surprised to find him shooting baskets as I went out to get something from the car for the shoot. For a guy with numerous #1 New York Times Bestsellers, he&#8217;s pretty down to earth. </p><p>The deeper one goes into the research being done at the <a href="https://g-a-i.org/about/">Government Accountability Institute</a>, the worse it gets. Schweizer recently published a book called <a href="https://www.theinvisiblecoup.com/">The Invisible Coup (2025)</a>, that&#8217;s a serious wake-up call to the subversive nature of Mexican culture in America (H/T Concerned American). When one realizes that the insistence on speaking Spanish, the refusal to become citizens and a refusal to adapt to US rules, regulations and laws is a form of national repudiation of the United States their motives reveal themselves as hostile. Not all Mexicans engage in this, but it is the primary purpose of the caravans to destabilize and work at the seams of American culture.   </p><p>They aren&#8217;t just sending Spanish text books into the school system to help those struggling with English to keep up with the class, but a means of replacing US history with the Mexican version of events. This is how they keep up the ruse that the US stole Mexican land. The truth is, we had Mexican land and could have kept it, instead of just taking the part we wanted. Texas was an independent nation when the US annexed it, so that wasn&#8217;t even Mexico at the time. Texas acquired it from Mexico by the one of the traditional means. </p><p>I&#8217;ve lived in the South, Southwest and West almost all of my life. Two of my friends in first grade were Mexican (1960s). No one ever thought much about it, because this is a free country. We have a lot of different races here, a lot of different languages and accents. One of the consequences of freedom and wealth is that it draws people from all over the globe who want to make their hard work mean something. It&#8217;s a chance to grow and provide for the family in ways they never could at home. Most Americans don&#8217;t see anything wrong with that, per se, until it becomes a hostile act. If they&#8217;re going to continue to fight the war after their defeat in 1848, I guess we&#8217;re all going to have to fight it, too.  </p><p>That&#8217;s what mass migration is: a hostile act. That&#8217;s what the caravans from Obama on through Biden were all about. The caravans serve two purposes: 1) it allows for the ability to tamper with the election system in almost every way possible; 2) it allows for the continued pursuit of the goal of reconquering the Southern tier of states that border Mexico. </p><p>Proponents of the &#8220;reconquista&#8221; cleverly use the word &#8220;American&#8221; to mean anyone in North, South and Central America. It&#8217;s a ruse that allows them to claim that ICE is arresting &#8220;Americans&#8221; making it sound like an abuse against American citizens. But none of those nations have &#8220;America&#8221; in the title, so it&#8217;s a technical lie. For instance, that&#8217;s not how they refer to themselves in their own countries. </p><p>This is what Schweizer&#8217;s book highlights, the myriad of ways Mexico is invading, setting up isolated communities, refusing to assimilate, spreading their language and culture throughout the United States to one day reconquer it, if not officially, effectively. It&#8217;s the exact method used by Islamists: enter, isolate and consolidate. From that base they can swing elections toward their members who have become citizens as a means of becoming a titular head of a broadening cell of subversives.</p><p>In this way, our entire nation is under attack from Hispanics and Muslims, who are fighting over the carcass of a nation caught in the grips of treasonous politicians who only see these groups as voters, whether legal or illegal. Hispanic leaders run for elected office as the Muslims do. They can swing votes in Congress toward the favor of Mexico while they vote on other issues that will keep their constituents happy. The line of treason is nonetheless being traversed. </p><p>In time, the American culture will disappear unless we adopt their attitudes toward them that they have fostered towards us. </p><p>Stolen land.</p><p>The Hispanics are in the process of stealing land, literally engaged in the act, like cat burglars. Remember the Marxist ploy of accusing your enemy of doing that which you are in fact doing. That&#8217;s where &#8220;stolen land&#8221; comes from, it&#8217;s a cynical tactic and should be recognized as such. This is what is at stake in Minnesota. Will the US be denied proper defense of its land or turn it over to the invaders? </p><p>Throughout the history of the world, there are only a couple of ways to acquire land: 1) war and occupation; 2) purchase, like the Louisiana Purchase and the purchase of Alaska; 3) through a trade of one possession to another power to quell a dispute, or to satisfy a treaty; 4) enter, isolate and consolidate; 5) discover and settle. </p><p>Until very recently the concept of &#8220;reconquista&#8221; was a joke, a ribbing whenever there were a disproportionate amount of Hispanics in a group. At least, it could be seen as an aggressive teasing. To whatever degree one considered it such, it had no affect, but our own government is behind this effort to hand it over to them, to deliver it. Not a day goes by that our representatives and senators do not act in a treasonous fashion. No election will change that. They take comfort in the fact that Americans, of all races, are being replaced by other races, because they care about the raw numbers, not who those numbers represent. </p><p>The blame is not with those who attack a weak and ineffective land, it lies solely with those who allowed it to become weak and ineffective. Knowing this, it&#8217;s impossible to look on these representatives and senators as anything other than a domestic enemy, even those who enjoy support from Republican voters, perhaps especially them.</p><p>There&#8217;s a rift coming, a recognition that the people have long been sold out and while almost everyone who gives any thought to it, at all, must come away with that conclusion, it does not prescribe a solution. 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