Professor, the way I see it is like you said, we have to make the rubble bounce. Indictments and convictions, and lots of them. Let the legal system and discovery put some sunshine on the misdeeds of our supposed moral betters, and then see how the people react. As has been demonstrated by the losses of millions of registered Democrats, the prevailing winds are at our backs, and now is the first chance in a long time to make effective change.
Indict Fauci, Birx, Schiff, and the rest of those who inflicted lie after lie on the American people. Primary any Republican who even somewhat sides with them or asks for moderation. If any Republicans get collected in the indictments, so be it. They should have known better than to side with the uniparty over the people.
Scorched. Earth.
That's what the Democrats were angling to do if Biden or Harris had won, and they had retained Congress. Make it impossible for them to try again for a few decades. The right pieces are in place with a president and a group of cabinet members that are unapologetically America first. Let's truly put America first and cut out the cancers that exist ruthlessly and surgically.
Then again, maybe I'm reading too many of Schlicter's books.
As I remarked over on Taibbi's site, part of Britain's problem is that fully 25% of its population lives in a *single* metropolitan area, and they have no Electoral College to moderate its control. (That this metro area is also the seat of government makes it all the worse.)
We have the same problems due to Reynolds v Simms and Baker v Carr couple with the 17th. While it hurts NY, IL, CA and CO etc, it also hurts the US due to the gerrymanderingCDs and Senators not moderate enough to get thru a bicameral split legislature.
Our left-wing metropolises lord it over flyover country, to be sure, but they are not a unit to the extent that London is. Our biggest single metro area is New York, with about 6% of America’s population. It’s harder for the tail to wag the dog when the dog has a half dozen tails.
So long as the government is in control of as much of the supposedly-private economy as it is, the temptation to use it for economic gain of supposedly-private interests will be irresistable. And from that follows the nearly limitless resources, the spending on press control, etc., etc. used to gain influence over it.
The ONLY way out is to shrink the beast. Not just "reduce the deficit" -- reduce the SPENDING, for its own sake. Painful, given how much transfer payments dominate the budget -- but the only way forward. With that much cash sloshing around the system, there's a lot of wet beaks.
I can't take credit for the observation that the primary opposition to the Ruling Class/Left isn't the Republican Party, but one man, Donald Trump. It appears that he realized his biggest mistake during the first administration was choosing his cabinet from the old guard of the Republican Party. He didn't make that mistake in this administration. The two assassination attempts on his life point out the fact that the Ruling Class/Left understands this. They have absolutely no fear of the Republican Party but are scared to death of Trump and the people who support him. What this means is that we have roughly 3 years to make the rubble bounce. Let's get started.
Quoting the Professor: “Make them pay.” And I wholeheartedly agree with: “make the rubble bounce.” I agree with those calling for litigation, including discovery. If what appears to be evident becomes clear evidence of treason then I am in agreement with your suggestion of firing squads!
I mourn for the country of my birth but for an election to correct what is wrong would be miraculous at this point. I suspect that in particular those who did the raping and those who enabled it will experience lamppost justice. I am not too worried by that, brutal though it will be, but many of the enablers will be very surprised - I suspect the actual perpetrators are surprised to have gotten away with it so far.
Though only a small part of what needs to be done, the recent uptick in the naming and pics of the judges, donors and ngo types mean there's at least a small bit of social accountability for actions damaging the country. Of the many wonderful things X has done, letting us know what these types have been doing in the shadows improves the situation.
Mandating television cameras in federal court would, I think, go a very, very long way to showing the American public exactly the kind of political, and often times legally illiterate & ignorant, hacks so many inferior, and even some superior, court judges really are....
I have long maintained that the message of the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World" has not taken hold globally, being even tarnished domestically within the elite Goliath 'monoculture' by the base poem of Emma Lazarus. Our trust is with president Trump and his select "army of Davids" administration to burst the establishment's bubble and redirect the bureaucracy we pay for towards the founding fathers' ideals. (I fear the acaDem-media is a lost cause that continues to pollute our young. We can only hope as they mature that they will look and learn.)
Leftist/liberal pols understand perfectly what they must do to maintain power: replace their existing citizens with less educated, more easily controlled immigrants who are beholden to the government drones who kept them fed, clothed & housed. Native-born & raised citizens are ever so much more trouble to keep under control.
Complete transparency and personal accountability for all government employees (elected, appointed and hired on a need basis) is a must. That will require statutes and robust executive action. Otherwise the uniparty will prevail sooner or later, and the moment will have been for naught.
for the undereducated, sitting on a long stake is a faster death. Short stakes take longer. It's hard to be heroic, sitting on a stake leaking multiple fluids
Oh, please! Of course he was joking, just like Linehan was joking about punching Trans women in the balls. Have we gotten to the point where every sarcastic remark has to be footnoted with "Of course, I didn't mean that literally! Don't actually do it!!!" If even a sophisticated, sympathetic audience can suspect that Prof. Reynolds might have meant this literally, I despair about humor in America. No offense meant, but get a grip, dude.
You're right that I should get a grip. I think I was engaged in projection, as I often get upset and reflexively say that people who offend me -- like meddlesome bureaucrats, greedy tech people, companies that make me endlessly go through 2-step verification, to say nothing of politicians -- should be shot. I don't actually want these wishes implemented, much less become public policy, any more than I would hang Mike Pence, throw Communists from helicopters, or execute dope dealers. I once publicly advocated crucifixion of spammers in my blog, and I posted a meme that said "ROPE, POLITICIAN, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED." But I didn't really mean it. In fairness, I'm a lot guiltier than Glenn. Problem is, I have friends on opposite sides whose political ideas amount to advocacy of killing each other. Advocacy of imprisonment of political opponents has become so numbingly routine that it's hard to get a grip.
Executing drug smugglers without trial does seem to be government policy now. I’m glad they’re dead, but it is troubling: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/02/trump-drug-strike-venezuela/ “Defense officials, who said initially that they intended to provide additional details about the operation, declined to address questions seeking clarity on what transpired Tuesday, including the legal authority used to justify the strike; the estimated weight of narcotics on board; whether U.S. forces attempted to interdict, board or otherwise communicate with the vessel; and if its crew was first warned before the boat was struck with deadly force.”
The idea seems to be that drug smuggling is now considered "terrorism," so executions are justified. I can remember when terrorism consisted of politically directed violence against civilians. Can prostitution (now called "human trafficking") be far behind?
Leo Strauss tells us that we're all driven, in order, by religion, philosophy, culture and finally, the law. All the comments have us work in the areas of law and culture; and that's why what's proposed doesn't work. Glen and Matt work in the philosophical area, so their work gives hope. What to do about 'The Church' is beyond me.
Glenn, why is Europe as a whole committing suicide? First the de-industrialization via the Net Zero mania that is wrecking Germany and crippling Britain. Coupled with the inability to innovate or even compete in the tech/AI sector. Add in the welfare state they all want but can no longer pay for. It’s sad and pathetic. Mark Steyn maybe right that civil war is inevitable. I don’t know if we can or should help Europe or look elsewhere for friends and allies. Europe as we have known it for hundreds of years is over. So sad. Time may have run on repairing Europe. Can the EU even survive? Maybe some east European countries and Italy and maybe Greece, currently one of the best governed countries in Europe. I just don’t know.
Professor, the way I see it is like you said, we have to make the rubble bounce. Indictments and convictions, and lots of them. Let the legal system and discovery put some sunshine on the misdeeds of our supposed moral betters, and then see how the people react. As has been demonstrated by the losses of millions of registered Democrats, the prevailing winds are at our backs, and now is the first chance in a long time to make effective change.
Indict Fauci, Birx, Schiff, and the rest of those who inflicted lie after lie on the American people. Primary any Republican who even somewhat sides with them or asks for moderation. If any Republicans get collected in the indictments, so be it. They should have known better than to side with the uniparty over the people.
Scorched. Earth.
That's what the Democrats were angling to do if Biden or Harris had won, and they had retained Congress. Make it impossible for them to try again for a few decades. The right pieces are in place with a president and a group of cabinet members that are unapologetically America first. Let's truly put America first and cut out the cancers that exist ruthlessly and surgically.
Then again, maybe I'm reading too many of Schlicter's books.
This!
As I remarked over on Taibbi's site, part of Britain's problem is that fully 25% of its population lives in a *single* metropolitan area, and they have no Electoral College to moderate its control. (That this metro area is also the seat of government makes it all the worse.)
We have the same problems due to Reynolds v Simms and Baker v Carr couple with the 17th. While it hurts NY, IL, CA and CO etc, it also hurts the US due to the gerrymanderingCDs and Senators not moderate enough to get thru a bicameral split legislature.
Our left-wing metropolises lord it over flyover country, to be sure, but they are not a unit to the extent that London is. Our biggest single metro area is New York, with about 6% of America’s population. It’s harder for the tail to wag the dog when the dog has a half dozen tails.
So long as the government is in control of as much of the supposedly-private economy as it is, the temptation to use it for economic gain of supposedly-private interests will be irresistable. And from that follows the nearly limitless resources, the spending on press control, etc., etc. used to gain influence over it.
The ONLY way out is to shrink the beast. Not just "reduce the deficit" -- reduce the SPENDING, for its own sake. Painful, given how much transfer payments dominate the budget -- but the only way forward. With that much cash sloshing around the system, there's a lot of wet beaks.
I can't take credit for the observation that the primary opposition to the Ruling Class/Left isn't the Republican Party, but one man, Donald Trump. It appears that he realized his biggest mistake during the first administration was choosing his cabinet from the old guard of the Republican Party. He didn't make that mistake in this administration. The two assassination attempts on his life point out the fact that the Ruling Class/Left understands this. They have absolutely no fear of the Republican Party but are scared to death of Trump and the people who support him. What this means is that we have roughly 3 years to make the rubble bounce. Let's get started.
Quoting the Professor: “Make them pay.” And I wholeheartedly agree with: “make the rubble bounce.” I agree with those calling for litigation, including discovery. If what appears to be evident becomes clear evidence of treason then I am in agreement with your suggestion of firing squads!
Using treason charges for political differences did not work out well, which is why our constitution has a strict definition of it.
I mourn for the country of my birth but for an election to correct what is wrong would be miraculous at this point. I suspect that in particular those who did the raping and those who enabled it will experience lamppost justice. I am not too worried by that, brutal though it will be, but many of the enablers will be very surprised - I suspect the actual perpetrators are surprised to have gotten away with it so far.
British people are also being punished for trying to keep themselves from being raped, as the kerfuffle with Lola Muir showed.
Though only a small part of what needs to be done, the recent uptick in the naming and pics of the judges, donors and ngo types mean there's at least a small bit of social accountability for actions damaging the country. Of the many wonderful things X has done, letting us know what these types have been doing in the shadows improves the situation.
Mandating television cameras in federal court would, I think, go a very, very long way to showing the American public exactly the kind of political, and often times legally illiterate & ignorant, hacks so many inferior, and even some superior, court judges really are....
I have long maintained that the message of the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World" has not taken hold globally, being even tarnished domestically within the elite Goliath 'monoculture' by the base poem of Emma Lazarus. Our trust is with president Trump and his select "army of Davids" administration to burst the establishment's bubble and redirect the bureaucracy we pay for towards the founding fathers' ideals. (I fear the acaDem-media is a lost cause that continues to pollute our young. We can only hope as they mature that they will look and learn.)
As always, thanks Glenn.
Leftist/liberal pols understand perfectly what they must do to maintain power: replace their existing citizens with less educated, more easily controlled immigrants who are beholden to the government drones who kept them fed, clothed & housed. Native-born & raised citizens are ever so much more trouble to keep under control.
I always wonder trust they think will happen to if the real Marxists take over?
Utopia, of course!
Complete transparency and personal accountability for all government employees (elected, appointed and hired on a need basis) is a must. That will require statutes and robust executive action. Otherwise the uniparty will prevail sooner or later, and the moment will have been for naught.
Unless you were joking, I have to disagree with the suggestion of firing squads.
I was hoping he wasn't joking
sharp wooden stakes are more ecologically sound. reusable also
Short stakes preferred....
for the undereducated, sitting on a long stake is a faster death. Short stakes take longer. It's hard to be heroic, sitting on a stake leaking multiple fluids
Compromise proposal; would you be okay if we castrated the rapists and rape-enablers?
Oh, please! Of course he was joking, just like Linehan was joking about punching Trans women in the balls. Have we gotten to the point where every sarcastic remark has to be footnoted with "Of course, I didn't mean that literally! Don't actually do it!!!" If even a sophisticated, sympathetic audience can suspect that Prof. Reynolds might have meant this literally, I despair about humor in America. No offense meant, but get a grip, dude.
You're right that I should get a grip. I think I was engaged in projection, as I often get upset and reflexively say that people who offend me -- like meddlesome bureaucrats, greedy tech people, companies that make me endlessly go through 2-step verification, to say nothing of politicians -- should be shot. I don't actually want these wishes implemented, much less become public policy, any more than I would hang Mike Pence, throw Communists from helicopters, or execute dope dealers. I once publicly advocated crucifixion of spammers in my blog, and I posted a meme that said "ROPE, POLITICIAN, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED." But I didn't really mean it. In fairness, I'm a lot guiltier than Glenn. Problem is, I have friends on opposite sides whose political ideas amount to advocacy of killing each other. Advocacy of imprisonment of political opponents has become so numbingly routine that it's hard to get a grip.
Where _is_ Bun-bun, when we really need him?
Executing drug smugglers without trial does seem to be government policy now. I’m glad they’re dead, but it is troubling: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/02/trump-drug-strike-venezuela/ “Defense officials, who said initially that they intended to provide additional details about the operation, declined to address questions seeking clarity on what transpired Tuesday, including the legal authority used to justify the strike; the estimated weight of narcotics on board; whether U.S. forces attempted to interdict, board or otherwise communicate with the vessel; and if its crew was first warned before the boat was struck with deadly force.”
The idea seems to be that drug smuggling is now considered "terrorism," so executions are justified. I can remember when terrorism consisted of politically directed violence against civilians. Can prostitution (now called "human trafficking") be far behind?
Leo Strauss tells us that we're all driven, in order, by religion, philosophy, culture and finally, the law. All the comments have us work in the areas of law and culture; and that's why what's proposed doesn't work. Glen and Matt work in the philosophical area, so their work gives hope. What to do about 'The Church' is beyond me.
A Written Constitution is a must have
Glenn, why is Europe as a whole committing suicide? First the de-industrialization via the Net Zero mania that is wrecking Germany and crippling Britain. Coupled with the inability to innovate or even compete in the tech/AI sector. Add in the welfare state they all want but can no longer pay for. It’s sad and pathetic. Mark Steyn maybe right that civil war is inevitable. I don’t know if we can or should help Europe or look elsewhere for friends and allies. Europe as we have known it for hundreds of years is over. So sad. Time may have run on repairing Europe. Can the EU even survive? Maybe some east European countries and Italy and maybe Greece, currently one of the best governed countries in Europe. I just don’t know.
Determining what we, as a nation, allow as “I think it will take more than ordinary electoral defeat” will be interesting, to say the least…