The War Was Lost On The Floor Of The Discotheque

The inimitable Victor Davis Hanson summarizes a crucial reason the Germans lost WW II here. If you don't want to watch it, it can be summarized in General Guderian asking the OKW how they planned to knock out Detroit after the Nazis declared war on America.

Similarly, General William Tecumseh Sherman tried in vain to get through to the warhawks in the South before the Civil War.

You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

We are in Chicago for a wedding. Last night, after the reception, we went out to a happening nightspot for drinking and dancing. I haven't been to a place like that in decades, but I'm not a complete novice at this. It was no surprise to see couples engaging in social and partly physical foreplay before going home together for casual sex.

At such times, it's completely obvious that feminism is a crock. The girls were there to be lusted after, wooed and taken home. The guys were there to get laid. It wasn't complicated. There was no equality, just symmetry.

The other thing that hit me, marinating in the Islamic conquest of Europe and the UK as I do, were those two quotes above. Muslimas were home gestating babies. Western women were slithering up to handsome men for sterile sex and a tiny bit of attention.

Returning to VDH, let's ask AI how the Nazis could have survived 1939-1945 and gone on to long-term control of Germany and Europe.

If the Nazis had avoided war altogether, Germany might have secured long-term dominance in Europe through economic and political power rather than conquest. By 1939, Hitler had already erased most of the Versailles Treaty’s limitations—rebuilding the military, reoccupying the Rhineland, annexing Austria, and absorbing the Sudetenland—without provoking a major conflict. Had he stopped there, Germany would have stood as the preeminent power on the continent, surrounded by war-weary and cautious nations unwilling to challenge him. With continued economic expansion and subtle political influence in Eastern and Central Europe, Berlin could have built a German-led sphere of prosperity and dependence, achieving much of its imperial vision without the crippling cost of total war.

Once Germany invaded Poland and dragged Europe into conflict, however, its fate was sealed the moment the United States entered the war. Nazi Germany could never match the combined industrial and manpower might of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. By 1944, America alone was producing more tanks, planes, and ships than all the Axis powers combined, while supplying its allies at the same time. Germany’s only real chance for survival lay in not fighting that war at all—cementing its gains peacefully and letting time, diplomacy, and economic gravity make it the unchallenged master of Europe.

Islam was not a problem for the West until they allowed mass Islamic immigration, effectively kicking off the current civilizational war. They were there and we were here and without intimate contact, there would be no conflict. Once the populations mixed on European and British home soil, it was on like the break of dawn.

If your opponent can out-produce you by factors of 4 or more, your best bet is to never get into a scrap with them in the first place. If you want the discotheque and the hookups, you better not be importing Muslims.

X Is The Last, Best Hope For Freedom

First, here's the context.

FRANCE: In Paris, verses from the Quran are now being broadcast on loudspeakers in subway stations.

But if Christians tried the same in Muslim countries, they’d be imprisoned or even killed.

Why is this tolerated? pic.twitter.com/8UpLodRXqf

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) November 5, 2025

Make no mistake, the Catholic Church has been instrumental in importing the colonizers. In an attempt to generate a good meme for this, I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok for this.

Generate a photorealistic image of a simpering Catholic bishop standing in front of a huge crowd of Muslim men praying on prayer mats, blocking a city street.

ChatGPT and Gemini refused with this kind of error message.

I can’t generate that image — it targets specific religious groups in a disrespectful way.

Mind you, neither has had a problem in the past doing the simpering bishop or other such religious figures. It's only when you bring Islam into the picture that the two AI systems sniff haughtily and look over their pince-nezes at you disapprovingly.

Grok, meanwhile, gave me the perfect image.

Ms. Mamdani For The Win!

It hardly matters whether it's politics or the Church or what have you, the great feminization of America continues apace. This is the perfect encapsulation of the moment wherein we are ruled at all levels by AWFLs. It's all love and caring and empathy and not judging and kindness all the time.

"We will prove that there is no problem to large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."

Those are terrifying words. pic.twitter.com/EY0qypP3Qy

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) November 5, 2025

And here's more.

This is the most important, most dire, most dangerous thing in the country right now.

To ignore this, is to ignore all future election outcomes.

Suicidal empathy of young women, whose emotions are preyed upon by the Democratic Party is what is causing this.

Open. Your. Eyes.

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) November 5, 2025

Here's a nice topper for the cake.

Over 100 languages are spoken in our great city and it’s actually a pretty amazing part of being an American.

If you are humiliated by America and the diversity that powers our nation’s Nobel Prizes, Olympic Gold Medals, and breakthrough innovations and culture, that’s on you. https://t.co/Fgl5FlVnf5

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 3, 2025

Whatever.

None of this is going to work. It's all going to end in tears.

Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens And Andrew Tate

 ... need to be nuked from orbit and after that, the rubble (or glass) needs to bounce and just keep bouncing until there aren't two atoms left sticking together. Republican leaders who don't do that are fair game for all of the classic progressive ad hominems such as racist, sexist, homophobe, etc.

I thought Fuentes was a hideous man, but Ben's recent thorough review of him and Tucker's slightly veiled embrace of him made me realize just how irredeemably evil he is. Dig this video. Feel free to start around the 3:15 mark.

I've been a fan of Tucker for about a decade. I was a fan of Candace from the very beginning. Both have gone totally insane. Along with Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, they've become the Four Horsemen of the Hatepocalypse. They are exactly what the Democrats accuse us of being.

This shouldn't be hard. It would be simplicity itself for politicians like JD Vance to beat these four like piñatas. There wouldn't be much of an electoral downside to it, either. Like Bill Clinton whacking Sister Souljah upside the head, in the long run it would make JD look powerful, principled and willing to make the hard choice to estrange part of his base. Like Clinton's decision to take on a popular black woman, the concern about these swine and their followers would prove to be overblown.

Ted Cruz gets it.

Right wing honks are always reluctant to the point of paralysis to call out vile lunatics on the right, but what they need to do is recall the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The Synod Perfectly Encapsulates The Left

In our parish, we are participating in the second round of the synodal process which is being hyped by Catholic leadership. It's like dying, only without the good parts.

The synodal process is just that - a process. We have been told not to set goals or look for outcomes, but participate in the process of listening and understanding. To illustrate this, we've been given a 20-page booklet with helpful guidance and real-world examples. Ohioan will recognize this immediately as symptomatic of the very worst of the strategic planning teams we ever had the misfortune to join at work.

In one of these examples, a priest in our diocese wrote about a decision he and some leading members of the parish made to use parish buildings to house "migrants," i.e. illegals. He then talked about the synodal process where some members of his parish objected.

Our parish, xxx, initiated a migrant shelter in October of 2023. The question that was quickly coming to us as we are using a much-needed community space, is "how long are we going to do this?" My fellow priests and I felt, after a few months and some good advice, that we needed to give this shelter a full year to see the ups and downs of migrant cycles in order to make a good discernment. We are hoping that this year of discernment includes a variety of voices. While I will probably give more credibility to the voices of those who are more involved in the shelter, one of my brothers points out that we also need to listen to the voices of those who are not so crazy about the idea, or those who feel like we are putting too much of our attention in the shelter to the neglect of some other programs.

Emphasis mine. You see, he is going to listen, undoubtedly with a condescending and smarmy smile on his face, to those "who are not so crazy about the idea" and then he's going to do exactly what he wants because he's already gamed the system by giving greater weight to the pro-migrant crowd.

Welcome to the synodal process! God is love!

We had a planning meeting to discuss how we will do our own synodality synodaling and got an earful of just this kind of thing. An AWFL brought up the migrants in our session, insisting that we make them a big part of our topics for synodishness. Trying to be helpful, she had been taking notes on just who in the parish had shown bigotry recently and just how they had been doing it. It was lovely and full of love and lovingly served the God of love.

At that point, I and the others who didn't want to see the synodification devolve into house-to-house fighting in the parish had a choice to make. We could either push back or we could remain quiet and see if it would blow over. One woman asked if she could hear the names and the crimes. The AWFL refused to do so in a most synodalicious way. Personally, I couldn't think of a way to push back that didn't end in shouting, so I kept quiet.

In retrospect, this perfectly encapsulates almost all interactions with progressives. They are full of love and you are a bigot. From that starting point, you are supposed to engage in dialog.

On the plus side, the rest of the country isn't as stupid as San Diego. We are the only diocese dumb enough to engage in Round 2 of Synodalizing. In fact, here in the diocese of San Diego, as I understand it, more than half the parishes have simply refused to participate. It's no wonder. The thing is doomed to end in shouting and tears. After all, there are just so many bigots out there and they are all so full of hate.

Synodality in action.

God Speaks To Me In Prayer

 ... for real, I am sure of it. But those conversations, I believe, are limited to those things about which I have direct, personal knowledge.

A good friend of mine, we'll call him Andy, recently fell while hiking a local, canyon trail. The trails can be uneven and steep. My friend is in his mid-60s. He braced himself with his hands and when he fell, he badly injured both shoulders, possibly damaging his rotator cuffs. He's been in pain since then.

Andy's life is defined by active service for others. He is the ultimate handyman having worked as a mechanic for decades and, through enforced frugality, having repaired, rebuilt or constructed everything in his house and his children's houses. He, with family help, recently did a moderately-sized remodel of his own house, doing almost all of the work himself.

Andy cannot watch a movie all the way through because he wants to be working on something instead. He would never watch a sporting event all the way through if not doing so at one of our dinners or parties where the game is the excuse for the get together. His entire being is defined by his productive, physical activity.

The fall and injury took that away from him, at least temporarily. Andy and I don't have a whole lot in common - we can't discuss sports, theology or most of the things on this blog. Still, I see him and his wife a couple of times a week, so we socialize quite a bit. I like Andy and enjoy his company.

During my morning prayer recently, I thought about him as I spoke my thoughts out loud to God*. I believe that God or the Holy Spirit or Jesus or whatever pointed out to me that Andy is going through excruciating, psychological pain right now. Andy, being Andy, doesn't show it, perhaps not even to himself. What I needed to do was use my gifts as an ENFJ and draw out his feelings and thoughts about his injury, his recovery and his inability to do the things he normally does. I needed to give him a place to talk about it.

I needed to love Andy in the way he needed to be loved.

I believe this was divine because, at the time, my thoughts were consumed with my ongoing war with the bottle, the presence of the pit bull puppy and the way it was wrecking my life, the lack of the Alabama river house and any number of other self-pitying introspections. There is nothing more important than me, you understand. What I heard was gentle, loving, compassionate, true and perfectly suited to my nature and gifts. It was oriented towards someone other than me.

The next time I saw him, the interaction was only brief, I asked him about how he was doing and he brightened visibly as he told me how he was feeling. He was still in a good deal of pain and it prevented him from doing things. He liked having someone who understood and listened.

Bingo.

Going back to the recent theme on this blog where I rage against the Eccliastical machine, I don't believe the Holy Spirit would tell me to vote for JD Vance when he responded to me in prayer. I don't know JD personally and while I may think he'd make an excellent president, he very well may be a self-serving crook in ways I can't see. It would be a form of insider trading for the Holy Spirit to give me divine guidance to direct my voting.

Similarly, the Holy Spirit isn't guiding the Catholic bishops or the Pope, for that matter, to support open borders and the "migrants." Those issues are hopelessly complicated with winners and losers no human can hope to estimate. For the Holy Spirit to give such guidance would be to imply that Heaven has run the numbers and they come out squarely on the side of mass migration. The bishops, being fallible humans of no particular skill in macroeconomics, cultural assimilation, political science, environmental studies, etc, certainly couldn't run those numbers themselves.

To believe that the Holy Spirit is guiding our prelates to support mass migration is to believe that the Holy Spirit is engaging in insider trading at the highest levels.

As Aquinas said, to love is to will the good of the other. In the case of mass migration, the "other" is absolutely everyone. Even AI run on supercomputers would have no hope of working out those equations reliably. The question of what is "the good of the other" in this case is hopelessly complicated.

While I have direct, first-hand experience of divine guidance and intervention in my life, I simply cannot believe that Heaven is handing us the answers to questions as cosmically difficult as that.

Yeah, I don't think it works this way.

* - I've learned to follow Andrew Klavan's dictum - when you pray, speak out loud because it forces you to speak in complete sentences and think clearly about what you're saying. I also follow the teaching of many, many Catholic teachers who say that prayer is conversation with God.

Jesus Is A Muslim

One more in my series on this kind of thing and then I promise I'll stop.

That graphic is from an article in America magazine, or something similarly airheaded, where the US Catholic bishops make the case for supporting mass migration.

The primary outcome after 15 years of mass migration has been a dramatic increase in the populations and power of Muslims across Europe and North America. As a predictable result, girls are being raped, Jews are being persecuted and churches are being desecrated or burned. The locals are getting a bit restive as well.

Volley of bottles against Gardai at CityWest earlier pic.twitter.com/IZrfqFIMYp

— Aris Roussinos (@arisroussinos) October 21, 2025

From the article at that link:

Fearing a riot, the Irish authorities yesterday evening shut down the Luas tram line from central Dublin to the suburban village of Saggart, southwest of the city centre. It didn’t work. Many hundreds — perhaps a thousand — angry protestors had gathered outside the gates of the Citywest IPAS (asylum) centre, hurling missiles and abuse at the Gardai public order unit blocking them from forcing their way up the long and wooded drive to the hotel.

The day before, an African asylum seeker had been charged with the sexual assault of a 10-year old Irish girl on the grounds of the Citywest centre, a 2,500-bed hotel recently acquired at vast expense by the Irish government, against fierce local opposition in the 4,500-strong community. The suspect, who needed an Arabic translator, was issued with a deportation order this spring and hadn’t yet been removed; the victim, in the care of Ireland’s scandal-hit Tusla child protection agency, found her chaotic personal circumstances publicised by the state in a manner many on social media saw as tantamount to victim-blaming. Outside the IPAS centre, the toxic combination had fired up both locals and protestors from across the country, who now had very little time for Ireland’s main political parties, or the police forces standing between them and the hotel they wished to storm.

An African Muslim "migrant" raped a 10-year-old Irish girl and those crazy, unpredictable Irish got their Irish up.

Jesus, being omniscient, must have predicted this on the way to the sports betting site where he was picking up his winnings from betting heavily on Georgia this weekend. Since the Catholic Church has played a significant role in the mass migration crisis by loudly supporting the migrants and since the bishops claim to be informed by the Holy Spirit through prayer and since they also claim that Jesus is present in the whole thing, we can safely assume that all is going according to God's plan.

Personally, the only conclusion I can reach as I look at demographic predictions that show many European countries becoming majority Muslim in a few decades and political polls showing that NYC will soon have a Muslim communist mayor, is that Jesus has switched sides and now plays for Team Islam.

Prove me wrong, bishops.