(Cool video, BTW.
Time-lapse, organic dance?
The anti-Balanchine?
Some truly gorgeous effects…)
Trump “ denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility”.
Good. Start with the mayor elect of NYC and his odious parents.
I started watching Death By Lightning on Netflix and almost gave up on it half way into ep. 1. (4 episodes.) It’s about James Garfield’s rise to the presidency & his assassin.
The sequence involving the GOP convention & presidential candidate nomination, starting in the middle of ep. 1, is really something. Of course, it is a dramatized version of history, but I imagine they would have stuck with Garfield’s speech verbatim from the record.
I see another Supreme Court case coming if the State Department actually follows through on what Secretary Rubio says they’re going to do.
I think this interview was before the National Guard shooting.
BEN SHAPIRO: You’ve making a lot of moves over at the State Department that are different than your predecessors. That includes moves to get out of the United States people who are terror supporters. Not just people who say bad things, but people who are actual terror supporters, act in ways that are conducive to actual terror groups. I wanted to give you a moment to sort of explain the approach that the State Department is taking in taking a look at, for example, student visa holders and what are the standards that are being used to determine whether somebody should stay in the United States or should go because obviously the opponents of the administration are arguing it’s violations of free speech.
SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO: People have the ability to say what they want. That’s not an argument that the administration is actually arguing with. The administration is not trying to crack down on free speech. You’re trying to actually stop something else.
Yeah. Well, let’s start with the baseline, okay? No one is entitled to a student visa to enter the United States. No one. It’s not a constitutional right. It’s not a law. We every day consular officers on the ground in face-to-face interviews are denying people visas for all kinds of reasons. Because we think you’re going to overstay, because we think you’re a family member is a member of a of a drug ring, whatever it may be.
We deny visas every day all over the world. No one’s entitled to a visa. Let’s start with that because I hear some of this reporting out there like if somehow we you’re allowed to have a visa unless we can come up with a reason why you shouldn’t have one. That’s not true. The burden of proof is the other way. Now let’s say you go to a window somewhere in the world and say I want to go to the United States to study at a university and as part of that interview it comes out you think Hamas is actually a good group. We probably would not let you in. I would hope we wouldn’t let you in. Okay. But let’s say we don’t ask you that question and you get into the US on a student visa and all of a sudden it becomes obvious you think Hamas is a good group. Well then we should revoke your visa. In essence, if we would have learned things about you once you’re here that would have caused us to deny you a visa when you were overseas. That’s grounds for revocation.
It is not in the national interest of the United States. It’s not in our foreign policy interest. It’s not in our national security interest to invite people onto our university campuses who are not just going to go there to study physics or engineering, but who are also going to go there to foment movements that support and excuse foreign terrorist organizations who are committed to the destruction of the United States and the killing and the raping and the kidnapping of innocent civilians, not just in Israel, but anywhere they can get their hands on them. That’s not in our national interest. So, we have a right to deny visas before you get here and we have a right to revoke them if we believe that your presence in our country undermines our national interest, our national security, and our foreign policy.
And that’s what we intend to do.
Now, listen, there are other student visas that are being canceled that have nothing to do with us, by the way. And that has to do with someone, for example, who is here on a student visa and has a DUI. And I don’t know, that’s not us. That’s DHS. But I don’t know if people realize if you commit a crime while you’re in the US, that’s an automatic grounds for revoking your visa. and no one was ever doing it. They weren’t doing they weren’t cross referencing the system. Now they’re starting to do that. So that’s the majority of these. But we have identified I can’t tell you the exact number because it’s static and it’s constantly moving. But when someone is presented to me and it’s clear that this person is a supporter of a foreign terrorist organization, we’re going to remove him from the country. You’re not going to be here. It’s just that simple.
What how what a stupid thing. What a ridiculous thing to invite people in your country so they can be part of these movements that are terrorizing fellow students, tearing up campuses, shutting down campuses. We have campuses in America that couldn’t even operate for weeks. People couldn’t go to class. Are we Are we crazy? What other country in the world would allow this? We shouldn’t allow it.
She should be the first gone. Not that a house dropping on her head wouldn’t be a just reward.
A truth that no politician dares to utter–*
Statistically, the majority of crime in this country is apparently perpetrated by a very small percentage of our population (in essence, the same group of often violent perps committing multiple crimes–over and over again) and, if this is so, why not intensely focus law enforcement and judicial attention on that 5% percent or so of the population, rather than spreading such attention and scarce resources in covering the other 95%?
@ Snow > “why not intensely focus law enforcement and judicial attention on that 5% percent or so of the population, rather than spreading such attention and scarce resources in covering the other 95%?”
You know the answer as well as I do: because the break-down in the criminal justice system is deliberate, systematic, and pervasive by design.
It’s the same reason the gun control activists target the 95% of Americans who are law-abiding gun owners rather than cracking down on the 5% who are gun-toting criminals.
miguel linked to this post by El Gato Malo on a prior thread, but I’m putting it up again for the section relevant to your point. Gato’s context is both the murderer of the NG trooper in DC, and the fraud & criminal rapacity of the Minnesota Somalis, so I’ve split my excerpts among these three threads.
once, as a poorer and far less technologically advanced nation, we had the ability to manage all of this and more.
the loss of this capacity is not happenstance, it’s a choice.
we understood that most crime in the west was committed by a small number of people and that they needed to be kept away from everyone else because nothing was going to stop them. europe understood this too. people make a big deal out of “US incarceration rates” but what really spiked that was closing the mental hospitals and ending involuntary psych holds in the US. this spread the problem to the streets and it wound up in the jails. europe kept doing invol-psych holds. add up prison and locked mental ward populations as one figure and europe looks a lot like the US as a percentage. in western culture, there are simply about 2% of people you cannot trust around everyone else. they are too damaged, mentally ill, or incapable of self-control or self-regulation. they will never play nice with the others. and one way or another, you need to remove them or you get crime, mayhem, murder, and all manner of other problems like homeless drug addicts living under overpasses and losing arguments with parking meters and breaking into cars.
and you can like this fact or not, but it does not change: there are parts of the world where people like this are FAR more common than they are here. it is, in fact, why those parts of the world tend to be such awful places. somalia and haiti and syria are lovely pieces of land. people are not fleeing the terrain.
we once understood not to allow low-trust high-aggression lunatics in from overseas in wholesale quantities and to laugh ideas like “well some of them are nice” and “not all tigersharks” out of the room.
but the flood of the unvetted and unsuited has been endemic and deliberate. these groups cannot assimilate and would not wish to if they could. this is especially true of islam, a religion and culture neither suited nor inclined to coexistence among the west. i routinely ask: name three countries in the last 200 years where a large influx of islam has made the country better. i get crickets then howls of “islamophobia!” from the very people islam is itching to destroy (women, homosexuals, progressives, etc)
the money little georgie soros dumped into deluding the wannabe university radicals has been well spent and it’s just astonishing how far this rot goes.
none of this is normal and none of it should be normalized. it’s civilizational strychnine being peddled as health food. and it gets worse the longer you let it run. and past a point it’s political polonium.
Perhaps I was just unaware of what was really going on but, looking back, I don’t believe that things were this bad when I was growing up admittedly, now, almost 80 years ago.
Today, though, between neglecting the teaching of basic skills–the old reading, writing, and arithmetic–the indoctrinating of students in a leftist worldview and it’s ideology, the unchecked violence in many of these schools, all of the sexual predator teachers (how many apparently normal, even award winning teachers have turned out to be predators? seems like an awful–and growing–lot to me), and crazy shit like this,* I’d say–if at all possible–get your kids out of public schools, which have apparently–more and more–turned into dysfunctional cesspits.*
And THIS:
“…’Magnetic’ Mystery Creature Inside Ancient Fossil”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/stunned-scientists-discover-magnetic-mystery-creature-inside-ancient-fossil
(Cool video, BTW.
Time-lapse, organic dance?
The anti-Balanchine?
Some truly gorgeous effects…)
Trump “ denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility”.
Good. Start with the mayor elect of NYC and his odious parents.
I started watching Death By Lightning on Netflix and almost gave up on it half way into ep. 1. (4 episodes.) It’s about James Garfield’s rise to the presidency & his assassin.
The sequence involving the GOP convention & presidential candidate nomination, starting in the middle of ep. 1, is really something. Of course, it is a dramatized version of history, but I imagine they would have stuck with Garfield’s speech verbatim from the record.
I see another Supreme Court case coming if the State Department actually follows through on what Secretary Rubio says they’re going to do.
I think this interview was before the National Guard shooting.
Ben Shapiro Lost For WORDS As Marco Rubio Sends BRUTAL Message To Jihadists!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSAkTXWKKL4
Lions, and tigers, and bears.
Omar!
She should be the first gone. Not that a house dropping on her head wouldn’t be a just reward.
A truth that no politician dares to utter–*
Statistically, the majority of crime in this country is apparently perpetrated by a very small percentage of our population (in essence, the same group of often violent perps committing multiple crimes–over and over again) and, if this is so, why not intensely focus law enforcement and judicial attention on that 5% percent or so of the population, rather than spreading such attention and scarce resources in covering the other 95%?
* See https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1993625780681892259
And now for something completely different, an Amity Shlaes review of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book “1929.”
https://archive.is/cT8tO
Robotics has come a long way.
@ Snow > “why not intensely focus law enforcement and judicial attention on that 5% percent or so of the population, rather than spreading such attention and scarce resources in covering the other 95%?”
You know the answer as well as I do: because the break-down in the criminal justice system is deliberate, systematic, and pervasive by design.
It’s the same reason the gun control activists target the 95% of Americans who are law-abiding gun owners rather than cracking down on the 5% who are gun-toting criminals.
miguel linked to this post by El Gato Malo on a prior thread, but I’m putting it up again for the section relevant to your point. Gato’s context is both the murderer of the NG trooper in DC, and the fraud & criminal rapacity of the Minnesota Somalis, so I’ve split my excerpts among these three threads.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/backing-up-the-shark-truck
Perhaps I was just unaware of what was really going on but, looking back, I don’t believe that things were this bad when I was growing up admittedly, now, almost 80 years ago.
Today, though, between neglecting the teaching of basic skills–the old reading, writing, and arithmetic–the indoctrinating of students in a leftist worldview and it’s ideology, the unchecked violence in many of these schools, all of the sexual predator teachers (how many apparently normal, even award winning teachers have turned out to be predators? seems like an awful–and growing–lot to me), and crazy shit like this,* I’d say–if at all possible–get your kids out of public schools, which have apparently–more and more–turned into dysfunctional cesspits.*
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/baltimore-high-school-teacher-exposed-posting-disturbing-kink/