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the war on us

friday, june 6th, 2025

It’s pretty universally acknowledged that America’s recent wars — say, starting with Vietnam — have been stupid, pointless, and fake in instigation. And yet the soldiers we sent into these fiascos acted bravely and honorably for the most part. So, it has felt a little weird to celebrate their sacrifices minus any sense of political justice, victory, or meaning in the endeavors they sacrificed for. Ergo, the holiday is lately reduced to a celebration of grilled meat. The Democratic Party, the party of Hoaxes, Hustles, and Hatred.

This (just past) Memorial Day, for a change, the USA is not actively at war in some distant land, only against ourselves. One faction in this as yet cold civil war seeks to Make America Great Again (MAGA), and the other side seeks what. . . ? To do the opposite of that? Make America Disintegrate (MAD). It’s hard to come to another conclusion.

MAGA is led, of course, by Mr. Trump, president again after the strangest executive interregnum in our history. At its plainest, MAGA means returning to an economy based on producing things of value. To many, this might conjure up the image of humming factories, good pay for honest work, and a well-ordered, content, patriotic populace grateful for their prosperity, in other words, something like the America of 1958, when Mr. Trump was entering puberty.

It’s a comforting vision. Parts of it seem possible to achieve. Maybe we can rebuild an industrial infrastructure of up-to-date factories. Didn’t we voluntarily deep-six all the old ones only a few decades ago? And for what reason? So that faraway nations rising out of darkness could make all the stuff we wanted at a fraction of the cost? Turned out to be a bad bargain based on supremely foolish short-term thinking. Is the Blue Party really only the customer service desk for the administrative state?

It also came with a set of very corrosive financial arrangements based on the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. These are pretty abstruse, but suffice it to say they enabled us to rack up phenomenal debt that we will never be able to pay off. We even fooled ourselves into thinking that we could replace that old economy of factory production with financial games based on jiggering interest rates and innovating ever more complex swindles. That merely produced a fantastic divide between the financial gamesters raking in billions while the former factory workers were left broke, demoralized, sick, and strung-out on drugs.

As a basic proposition, it’s doubtful that we can return to anything like a 1958 disposition of things based on rising continental-scale enterprise, as in the Big Three automakers and General Foods. It all seemed like a good idea at the time, and the zeitgeist pushed it, but we can see where it landed us: in the ghastly suburban sprawl clusterfuck and the overall ill health of the people. Also the scale of things is done rising; is, in fact, contracting. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

And yet we are surely lurching into a new disposition of things, probably featuring a reduced population (disease and infertility induced by the Covid vaccine op), falling energy production (despite the whoop to drill-baby-drill), and much smaller-scaled, re-localized production of goods and food — if we’re lucky. (Events are in the driver’s seat, not personalities, even gigantic ones like Mr. Trump’s.) If we’re not lucky, the disorders of change itself may overwhelm our ability to remain civilized.

The MAD faction is led by the Democratic Party, the party of Hoaxes, Hustles, and Hatred. Being more a religious cult (of envy, grievance, and revenge) than a political faction, this Memorial Day they celebrate their patron saint George Floyd, a fake martyr whose death by fentanyl overdose sparked a summer of looting, arson, and homicide followed by a fraud-saturated election.

The Black Lives Matter operation proved to be hustle, that is, an effort to extract money dishonestly. But it morphed into the even more pervasive DEI op, seeping into every institution of American life and contaminating each of them with incompetence and grift, larded with sanctimony. That’s over now, but what is the MAD Democratic Party left with? It has put itself at the service of the depraved Deep State, the rogue permanent bureaucracy that has developed a malevolent hive-mind dedicated to maintaining its perquisites at all costs. In other words, it is vested solely in power. . . power over the people of this land... to dominate, regulate, asset-strip, and punish for the crime of wishing to be civilized.

The MAD party is on the wane now. Its insanity has become so exorbitant that no one of healthy sensibility can bear to be associated with it. Those who remain involved in Democratic Party politics are largely those liable to prosecution for manifold crimes against the country, now using the most unprincipled dregs of the legal system to keep them out of prison. The party will be defeated utterly.

The Deep State it served is getting disassembled systematically by MAGA, deprived of funding, de-staffed, shut down. It has nothing left but lawfare and a claque of judges who will lose their battle with legitimate law and the Constitution. If it attempts to revive its street-fighting proxies this summer, that too will get shut down swiftly and harshly. Lessons will be learned. All of which is to say that the Deep State’s war against the American people could be drawing to a close. That is something to be grateful for this Memorial Day.

MAGA will then be left to battle with the forces of nature, which basically means physics, especially as applied to the mechanisms of money. MAGA could easily founder if it fails to face the current deformities of finance, namely the gross, untenable debt hanging over the country. I’m not so optimistic about how that might work out.

A Day In The Life.

Awake at 4:44a on Friday, drenched in sweat, I turned down the bed to dry, and went downstairs to sleep another 4hrs on the LR couch. I checked for fever -- none -- and slept until almost 9a. Up once again at 9, I made coffee. tuned into the "CP Show", and had Creamed Chipped Beef Over Toast, w/ Peas for breakfast, took a 250mg Bayer "Body & Back" Aspirin for various fall, ribs, Sciatica and Neuropathy pains, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, and had a couple smokes in the garage. It was a sunny, very bright, 65°F morning, with a massive t-storm system and floods forecast for later today and tonite. A ***Flood Watch*** (7p-5a) was posted locally. Swell.

★★★ FLOOD WATCH ★★★

• Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
• A portion of south central Pennsylvania, including the following counties, Adams, Lancaster and York.
• From this evening 7 PM through early tomorrow morning 5 AM.
• Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
• Heavy rainfall is probable from late this evening through late tonight. Periods of rainfall rates of 1-2" per hour are possible with total rainfall between 1 and 3 inches. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop.

Sherry arrived around 1p, and we had a great 4hrs together, but because of the incoming, massive t-storms and dire rainfall forecast, she left around 5p, to get some errands done, before all hell broke loose on the roads with Friday traffic. By 5:30, the skies got real ugly as the torrential rains moved in, and dumped on us. I settled-in to watch the 6p news, made some dinner, and noted that a ***TORNADO WATCH*** was quickly posted for a large swath of the East Coast, including this area, and northern MD. The rain began around 6p, and continued thru the evening and night; sometimes torrential. It finally stopped around 1a.

After dinner, I watched the first 15mins of FNC News, switched to Discovery's "Gold Rush: Freddy & Juan Mine Rescues" until 1:30a, and unplugged as I was dozing off, and headed upstairs.

Awake and up at just after 8a, it was eerily quiet -- the rain had stopped. Only the birds were chatty. I turned-off the AC, made coffee, scanned the weather and news headlines, and tuned into yesterday's "CP Show Podcast", and just relaxed for the morning. It was a partly sunny, breeze, warm 65° morning, with 55% humidity from the past 3 days of a lot of rain. No complaints. The ***FLOOD WARNING*** was still posted throughout the York County area.

After lunch, I got a note from one of my many FRiends on FR, the nation's premier Conservative website, that the usual poster who does the F1 Grand Prix race postings, was in the hospital suffering badly from chemo/radiation after surgery, for terminal cancer. I was asked to rebuild the F1 Race Weekly Thread's complex HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language), did in 3hrs, took a 2hr snooze, and sent the rebuild back to the guy at FR. He gave me the OK to post it, and the laudits came in from dozens of the F1 Forum section members. All that done, I had some dinner, watched what passes for "news" on Sat/Sun on Fox (FNC) with 4 talking head idiots, and switched to History's "Ancient Aliens", Discovery's "unXplained" and bagged it for the night at midnight.

Up at 8:15a on Sunday, a blue sky, sunny, 56° morning, I made coffee, had a couple smokes in the open garage for fresh air, tuned into the 2025 F1 Spanish GP on ESPN -- yes, I went thru the registration process AGAIN -- and checked the news and weather headlines. Very hot/humid weather coming mid-week. SUMMER'S HERE! I got ready for the day, finally had some breakfast around 1p, and started laundry and other condo chores.

By 3p, I was getting tired from chores, but had several more to do, and gave-up any possibility of an afternoon nap. I always stop drinking coffee before 6p -- did I mention that love Kona Coffee -- so I can get to sleep at a decent hour, had dinner and watched the news, then switched to FOX-TV's line-up for a few hours, and finally to TWC's "Weather Gone Viral" until 11:45p. Lights out.

Up at 8:30a on Monday, a bright, sunny, 55° morning, forecast to be in the mid-80s. Near 90° and very humid weather coming thru the rest of the week. Yuk. I scanned the news and other weather sites. I lounged around, had some Poached Eggs & Creamy Bacon Grits for breakfast, got ready for the day, and left at 12noon, for 5 errands. Back at 2:15p, I unloaded, did some chores, tuned into the morning's "CP Show" Podcast to catch-up on the first hour, had a leftover Turkey Hoagie for lunch, and tried to grab a quick nap on the LR couch, but couldn't.

We're now in a Canadian Wildfire smoke pattern for a few days/weeks, who knows?, affecting air quality, starting tonite. I can smell the smoke, right now. I had dinner, watched the news, switched to MT's "Iron Resurrection" until 12 midnight, and unplugged.

Up at 7:45a on Tuesday, a white sky (Canadian wilfdire smoke obscuring the sky), 64° morning. I'm keeping the condo closed w/ AC, if needed, for the nexdt 2-3 days. I made coffee, had a few smokes in the garage, tuned into the "CS Show" until 9, and then the "CP Show" from 9-12. I scanned the news and weather, did some condo chores and planted a new Coreopsis "Golden Needles", mnear the front door, to replace a "Red Elf" Coreopsis verticillata, which died after 5yrs.

I made a 2nd carafe of "Opio" Kona Coffee, lounged around until the Weis Market delivery arrived, put that food away, and had lunch. The lawn mower crews finished-up around 11:30, and left. Nice quiet, finally, since 8a. The Weis delivery arrived at 12:15 and, after unpacking, finally sat down at the desktop w/ coffee, to relax a bit. I got a 2hr nap in on the LR couch, watched the 6p news, and switched to History's "Secret at Skinwalker Ranch" for the rest of the evening. Lights out at 12 midnight.

Oh, did I forget? Happy Pride Month. SPIT on that sewage!

All the local forecasts had this posted:

Up around 8:15 on Wednesday, I made coffee, had a couple smokes in the garage, scanned the weather and news -- so much demonKKKrat mental illness in the news. A sunny, not as bad as yesterday's milky-white sky, hazy, 67° morning, forecast to hit 90°. Hey, Summer's here!

★★★ AIR QUALITY ALERT ★★★

• WHAT: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert on Wednesday for the Susquehanna Valley.
A Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung diseases, and the elderly. The effects of air pollution can be minimized by avoiding strenuous activity or exercise outdoors.
• WHERE: South-central Pannsylvania, all 11 counties.
For more information on ground-level ozone and fine particles, visit http://www.airnow.gov and http://www.aqpartners.state.pa.us.

I tuned into the "CP Show LIVE", and planned the day. I need to work on "The Document" and get that to a near-finished point, but I always get interrupted by people and/or calls, it seems. I'm determined to not let that happen, and move it along. I did a final load of laundry, made Creamed Chipped Beef Over Toast, w/ Peas for a late breakfast, and read this:

Here are 50 reasons why President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is the best chance in a generation to pass critical reforms, for which Americans voted:

It delivers the largest tax cut in American history. This means an extra $5,000 in Americans’ pockets with a DOUBLE-DIGIT percent DECREASE to their tax bills. Americans earning between $30,000 and $80,000 will pay around 15% less in taxes.
It makes the Trump Tax Cuts permanent, preventing the largest tax increase ever. If the bill doesn’t pass, Americans will see the largest tax increase in history.
It raises Americans’ take-home pay by as much as $13,300 and wages by as much as $11,600.
It reverses the spending curse plaguing Washington, D.C. The bill delivers the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years, with $1.6 trillion in mandatory savings — the largest single reduction in mandatory spending in our country’s history.
It delivers NO TAX ON TIPS and NO TAX ON OVERTIME. This makes good on two of President Trump’s cornerstone campaign promises and will benefit hardworking Americans where they need it the most — their paychecks.
It provides historic tax cuts for seniors.
It finishes President Trump’s border wall. As a result, 701 miles of primary wall, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, and 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers will be constructed.
It boosts Border Patrol and ICE agents on the frontlines with the largest border security investment in history. This means funding to hire 10,000 new ICE personnel, 5,000 new customs officers, and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents to detain and deport at least one million illegal immigrants annually.
It increases the child tax credit to $2,500 per family.
It protects Medicaid for Americans who truly need it. This bill eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse by ending benefits for at least 1.4 million illegal immigrants who are gaming the system.
It implements popular work requirements for able-bodied Americans receiving taxpayer-funded benefits. Through commonsense, Clinton-era work, volunteer, education, or training requirements, the One Big Beautiful Bill lifts Americans up to find a better quality of life through the dignity of work.
It eliminates hundreds of billions of dollars in Green New Scam tax credits. The legislation immediately stops credits from flowing to China, saving taxpayers $500+ billion every year.
It reverses electric vehicle mandates that let radical climate activists set the standards for American energy.
It ends Biden’s war on American energy. The bill finally unleashes American energy dominance by opening federal lands and waters to oil, gas, coal, geothermal, and mineral leasing.
It streamlines onerous permitting processes so America can get building again.
It refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to safeguard America’s energy security.
It repeals and rescinds every “green” corporate welfare subsidy in Democrats’ so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.”
It stops illegal immigrants from receiving tax credits and taxes remittances sent to foreign countries.
It supports small businesses by increasing the Section 199A deduction to 23% — promoting the growth and success of Main Street.
It incentivizes MADE IN AMERICA. The bill rewards companies that build their products in America with lower taxes — and allows Americans who buy an American-made vehicle to fully deduct their auto loan interest.
It creates new Trump Savings Accounts for newborns — allowing children across America to experience the miracle of compounded growth.
It expands access to childcare for hardworking American families.
It provides a historic increase in funding for the U.S. Coast Guard. This will help block illegal drugs and migrants from entering our country, protect our sovereignty in the Arctic, and promote our national security.
It supports building new factories to grow domestic business operations. The bill renews 100% immediate expensing and interest deductions, increases the small business deduction, and establishes 100% immediate expensing for equipment and machinery.
It helps American farmers, producers, and ranchers compete and sell products in foreign markets. The bill makes sure American farmers aren’t crowded out by foreign imports in liquid fuel production markets.
It holds woke, elitist universities accountable by increasing the endowment tax on large universities.
It protects hardworking taxpayers by canceling Biden’s illegal and unfair student loan bail outs.
It ends taxpayer-funded sex changes. It reverses the Biden-era mandate that Medicaid cover so-called “gender transition” procedures — ending the taxpayer-funded chemical castration and mutilation of American children.
It’s a once-in-a-generation chance to revolutionize our nation’s defense capabilities and protect the homeland against new threats by funding President Trump’s Golden Dome.
It enhances the capacity of America’s naval fleet. The bill provides billions of dollars to revitalize America’s shipbuilding and maritime industrial base.
It modernizes air traffic control — fulfilling President Trump’s plan to completely overhaul the systems that keep Americans flying safely and efficiently.
It strengthens SNAP benefits. The legislation requires states to contribute a greater portion of the cost of administering benefits, thereby controlling costs, and closes the excessively broad loopholes for work requirements.
It implements critical program integrity and cost containment provisions in Medicaid to strengthen it for future generations. These include removing deceased individuals from the program and limiting retroactive coverage from three months to one month prior to enrollment.
It safeguards Second Amendment rights by removing tax and registration requirements for firearm silencers and eliminating silencers from the National Firearms Act.
It provides critical disaster recovery funding to farmers, producers, and ranchers.
It provides funding to rebuild America’s military — including $9+ billion to improve quality of life for our servicemembers, $20+ billion to bolster U.S. munitions production, and $12+ billion to modernize our nuclear arsenal.
It expands health savings accounts to give Americans greater choice and flexibility in how they spend their money.
It gives $10,000 bonuses annually over the next four years to Border Patrol and ICE agents on the frontlines.
It incentivizes scholarships that empower American families and students to choose the education that best fits their needs.
It repeals Democrats’ insane attack on the gig economy — ending the requirement that Venmo, PayPal, and other gig transactions over $600 be reported to the IRS.
It reforms and streamlines the federal student loan program to drive down tuition costs and simplify repayment plans. This includes reasonable limits on amounts students can borrow.
It strengthens accountability for students and taxpayers on federal student loans. The bill imposes “skin in the game” requirements to hold universities financially accountable to the government on defaulted federal student loans.
It implements critical reforms to Pell Grants to make sure they prioritize students who truly need financial assistance while promoting completion. The legislation allows grants to be used for short-term, high-quality workforce training programs to support Americans who want to learn a trade instead of the traditional four-year colleges.
It increases timber sales on federal lands. This means an increase in timber production and improvement to forest management — improving the resilience of timber and saving billions on future wildfire suppression costs.
It authorizes the sale of expanded spectrum MHz to strengthen rural broadband and secure America’s technological dominance in AI and other emerging technologies.
It creates permanent fees that illegal immigrants must pay for their applications so American taxpayers aren’t saddled with covering these costs. These fees will bring in over $77 billion to cover adjudication costs and fund immigration processes and enforcement actions.
It protects family farmers. The bill prevents the greedy death tax from hitting two million family-owned farms who would otherwise see their exemptions cut in half and cuts taxes on farmers by over $10 billion.
It ends abusive financing practices in Medicaid by freezing existing provider taxes and prohibiting new provider taxes. This ensures states cannot improperly increase the federal government’s cost-share of a state Medicaid program at the expense of taxpayers.
It reins in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy — with minimal accountability or oversight — that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by the so-called “elites.”
It rolls back harmful Biden-era regulations that increase cost and administrative burdens with limited flexibility for states. These burdensome regulations, such as federal staffing mandates at nursing homes, lead to closures, reduced access to care, and increased costs, particularly in areas already overwhelmed by labor shortages."

The "BBB" also ADDS $3+ TRILLION to the deficit, bringing it up to $42+ TRILLION. Without some major changes, I DON'T SUPPORT IT.

Sherry called and had the afternoon free, after her morning Family Project, so I invited her over. We had a great time together, as usual, for 3+ hours, and she left around 5:45p. I had PA Dutch Chicken Pot Pie for dinner, watched the usual evening FNC news, and switched to History's "American Pickers" until 11:30p, and bagged it.

Up at 8:45a on Thursday, another milky-white, but partly-sunny sky, very warm 74°, forecast to hit upper-80s, morning. Meh. I made coffee, had a couple smokes in the garage, watered some new Italian Sweet Basil transplants in the garden and on the front porch, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE", from 9-12. The ***AIR QUALITY ALERT*** was again posted on local York-Lancaster websites. It smelled like a 'campfire' outside; not an unpleasant smell, IMO. The gutter cleaning crew was here, as was the lawn fertilizing crew, so it was a noisy day. Not my favorite thing on a weekday, or any, "early" morning. Heh. More coffee, please.

After lunch, I worked on the new Sidewalk Construction Proposal for the Flagpost Memorial, where my Dad's WWII Plaque is displayed, at Mt Rose Cemetery, here in York. Interrupted by constant phone calls, I put it aside to let my headache and frustration subside, and by 3p, temps had jumped to 91° w/ 45% humidity. Yuk. Except for numerous smoke breaks on the back patio, I stayed inside, in the AC. No luck trying a nap, either. After a BLT and German Potato Salad for dinner, I watched the usual evening news on FNC, switched to History's "Ancient Aliens" until 12 midnight. Good night, Irene.

Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the "Journal", and Sherry and I've already temporarily set aside Thursday for a trip down south to a massive Dutch shopping center, neat the MD line. My week's clear and, if she gets her Family situation on a confident, even keel, we'll go. Looking forward to all the wonder fruits, vegs and foods there.

How Wall Street Made $25 Trillion Selling-Out America.

There is no other way to say it: liberal judges are waging unrestricted lawfare against President Trump.

First, they protected illegal immigrants from deportation—literally sheltering criminals from justice.

Now, they’re protecting foreign governments and multinational corporations from President Trump’s tariffs.

Case in point: yesterday, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled the tariffs were illegal. Today, a second court followed suit.

This is not surprising. Wall Street is engaging in total warfare against President Trump. Why? Because Wall Street profits tremendously from the trade deficit—to the tune of over $1.2 trillion per year. If President Trump is successful, this gravy train comes to an end.

America has run a chronic trade deficit every year since 1974. The total cumulative value of this trade deficit (adjusted for inflation) is over $25 trillion.

That is, Americans bought $25 trillion more than they sold. Of course, we didn't get the goods for free—we still had to pay for them. How? By selling assets & debt.

An asset is something that we made in the past that still retains value.

A good example of an asset is a house. The production of a house made in 1974 would contribute towards America’s GDP in 1973, but not today. However, the house—and the land—retains value and can be sold in the current year to buy foreign products. This sale would not count towards America’s GDP, nor would it factor into the trade deficit, but it does balance the payment.

Just like the Canarsee, America trades assets—everything from Iowa’s best farmland to shares in New York’s largest companies—every year to pay for our trade deficit. For example, in 2024 foreigners bought an estimated $42 billion of residential real estate, $8 billion of agricultural land, and $12 billion commercial real estate.

Needless to say, this buying pressure raises real estate prices. This benefits people with exposure to the market—primarily institutional real estate investors—at the expense of the American people, who struggle to afford their rent or mortgages.

In addition to real estate, Americans also sell ownership of our businesses. As of June 2023, foreign investors own some 17 percent of all American equities. This inflates the stock market by guaranteeing buying pressure—again, benefitting Wall Street. The stock market balloons while factories and jobs vanish on Main Street.

Ownership of our businesses has other dire consequences, such as giving foreign governments direct access to our technologies. This perpetuates the massive theft of American intellectual property, which is estimated to cost America up to $150 billion every year.

Americans also sell debt to pay for the trade deficit.

This is sort of like buying groceries on our credit cards, except is occurring at the national level. For example, foreigners own some $8.67 trillion of U.S. Treasury securities, accounting for 24 percent of the public debt. Further, America’s corporate and household debt has ballooned since 1973 to the highest levels since World War 2.

Debt is especially dangerous because we have to repay the principle and we pay interest. This inflates the cost of buying foreign products in a way that most economists fail to appreciate.

Consider that America became a debtor nation in 2006—for the first time since the Great Depression. As a result, we are now paying over $150 billion in interest every year to foreign entities for the privilege of buying the products we should be building.

Given the massive profits that Wall Street earns in selling-out America, it it any wonder that they are funding litigation to stop President Trump’s tariffs?

The President needs to stand firm. Remember, tariffs are the time-tested solution that were supported by America’s most successful presidents from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump.

Tariffs will reshore American industry and shift our economy from consumption to production, protecting our economy, our industry, and our national security.

Most importantly, tariffs will make it harder for Wall Street to betray the American people.

Radical Islam is Consuming Germany.

Germany, the economic heart of Europe — the supposed gold standard of order, stability, and industrial might — is unravelling in full view. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s not nationalist hysteria. It’s a fact, carved into the skin of innocent commuters, children, and schoolteachers. What once stood as the engine of Europe is now a cautionary tale in slow-motion collapse. A nation once known for precision, discipline, and security now radiates something closer to fatigue and fear. The cracks aren’t subtle anymore, they’re gaping, and they run through every level of German society.

Hamburg, one of the most vital arteries in Germany’s circulatory system, was the scene of the latest horror. Seventeen injured, some critically, in yet another knife attack, this time carried out by a 39-year-old woman at the city’s main train station. No political motive, we’re told. Just mental distress. Another lone wolf. Another one-off. Another excuse. But I’m skeptical, and for good reason. In today’s Germany, these so-called random stabbings almost always trace back to the same source. The same radical worldview. The same imported hostility toward everything for which the West stands. It’s there, lurking beneath the surface, over and over again.

It’s become a ritual now: blood on concrete, sirens screaming, and officials falling over themselves to insist this isn’t part of a broader pattern. Only it is.

On Thursday, May 22, a 13-year-old Arab boy stabbed his classmate at a Berlin elementary school. That same day, an 11-year-old Iraqi boy stabbed a peer on the school playground in Remscheid. These children brought kitchen knives to school. Not fists, not words — knives. Children barely old enough to ride the train alone now arrive at school carrying deadly weapons and settling playground disputes with stabs to the leg and neck. This isn’t just about crime. It’s about a slow, grinding erosion of Western values; values Germany once embodied. The old Germany believed in rules, order, and protecting its own. Now it lectures citizens on tolerance while their children bleed in school hallways. This is what the political class calls “integration”.

This isn’t integration. This is insanity, and everyone knows it. Teachers, bus drivers, doctors, police — all of them living and working inside the reality that polite society refuses to name. These attacks aren’t outliers. They’re symptoms. On Sunday, May 18, another knife tore through Germany’s thinning social fabric, this time in Bielefeld. The attacker was a Syrian asylum seeker named Mahmoud M. The scene: a group of young people celebrating Arminia Bielefeld’s promotion to the football league outside of a bar. A moment of joy quickly transformed into a bloodbath. When police entered the perpetrator’s apartment, they found books on Islam, a photo of a Hezbollah leader, and an image of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed head of the PKK, a group that Europe still considers a terrorist organization.

A few days earlier, an Afghan asylum seeker stabbed a jogger to death, with no provocation, no warning; just another “random” act of imported chaos. The victim was a French software developer living in Germany. Out for a run. Now dead.

But the madness didn’t end on the running path. It entered the courtroom. The accused, while sitting on trial for murder, has successfully demanded that his court interpreter be removed. Why? Because she’s a woman. And he didn’t feel comfortable sitting next to her.

He slaughters a man in broad daylight, and the German court bends to protect his cultural sensitivities. Not the victim’s memory. Not the rule of law. His feelings.

These barbaric attacks have a common thread: a distorted worldview imported from failed states. From cultures where tribal loyalty trumps civil law. Where violence is a daily tool, not a last resort. Where Western norms — rule of law, gender equality, individual rights — don’t just clash, they offend. And yet, Germany keeps importing these norms by the tens of thousands, then acts surprised when the society they produce looks nothing like the one it replaced. This isn’t multiculturalism, it’s self-sabotage.

The result is a country where emergency rooms feel more like warzones and classrooms like holding cells. This is what happens when you import people faster than you can integrate them, and when you stop insisting that they assimilate at all.

And still, the authorities lie. If the attacker holds a German passport, even if they arrived from Damascus only five years ago, and still struggle to speak the language, the crime is logged as “German”. Case closed. The aforementioned Hamburg train station stabbing is being attributed to a woman with German citizenship. But what does that actually mean anymore?

The headlines are neutered. The public is gaslit. And the media plays its part, dutifully omitting ethnicity until the outrage cools. Until the blood dries. Until no one’s looking. “German” has become a statistical disguise, a state-sanctioned sleight of hand, a cover-up masquerading as classification.

Germany preaches democratic values and tolerance while silently passing on the bill for failed multicultural experiments to the very people who never asked for any of this. It’s the bureaucrats and activists who demand open borders, but it’s the bus driver in Düsseldorf and the nurse in Bremen who pays the price. The German government’s response? More border checks, more public relations campaigns, a few stern words, and then back to business. But this is no way to govern. The German people deserve better.

There’s a cultural cancer setting in, one no central bank or policy white paper can fix. What’s happening in Germany is not unfortunate. It is unacceptable. And the longer Europe’s leaders pretend it’s just a rough patch, the more knives will be drawn, the more blood will be spilled, and the more ordinary Germans — those who pay their taxes, follow the rules, and ask only to live in peace — will be told to sit down, shut up, and accept it.

But they won’t. Not forever. Because when the state fails to defend its people, the people will defend themselves. And what follows won’t be orderly or democratic. It will be raw, unfiltered, and perhaps existential.