Tom Dunn

Let me tell you exactly how a civil war in the U.S. would go because a lot of you seem to have some glorious delusions about it. 80 million gun owners in the United States means absolutely nothing if no one is willing to use them, which the 2A community has made clear they aren’t. You pay 60% of your income to people who groom your kids and send billions in fraud to Somalis. Nothing happens. For decades, our movement has said abortion is murder. There are baby murder mills on every corner of every city. Nothing happens. No one did a single thing during the Floyd riots, during the Epstein scandal, or during Covid lockdowns. Not a single thing. I cannot fathom what event would make people take up arms now. Tens of millions of Americans think that an election was fraudulently stolen and the illegal president flooded our country with 30 million illegals. No one did anything. Even if people were willing to take up arms, there is zero organization, planning, or prepping. There is no leadership hierarchy, no victory criteria, no logistics or manufacturing, no supply lines, nothing that could sustain combat operations. And who is your opponent? Who do you actually kill? People seem to think that “the enemy” is some other town, city, or state, filled to the brim with armed antifa Stalinites. In reality, your opponents are your neighbors. It’s grandmothers, single moms, and college kids, not some armed resistance. Shooting up your local school board doesn't seem to be a winning proposition. Even the most solid dem or republican districts only vote for their party by a 60-70% plurality, meaning ~30% of your city, town, or county is your sworn enemy. That’s a lot of people. Likewise, 30% of your “enemy’s” territory are your own people. How does, say, Abilene take up arms against Austin without tremendous crossfire, and what is the victory condition? Let’s say you take the Ted K method and agree that it’s not the general public that needs to go, but the elites controlling them. What then? How do you organize armed resistance to target them? Historically, if a resistance movement can’t fight a traditional fronted war, and your warfighters won’t form a well regulated militia, then a resistance resorts to terror tactics. Think of the Irish troubles, Italian Years of Lead, and precursor events to the Spanish civil war. The Ted K/IRA/Italian method is to send car bombs to politicians, package bombs to professors, and general terror to the main avenues of civic life. It didn't work. Ted K got arrested and changed nothing. Ireland remains split. Spain and Italy are controlled EU communist blocks. The reality is that unorganized terror campaigns achieve very little structural reform. What they do achieve is dead school kids lying in the street because a bomb went off at the wrong location. Dead citizens at a shopping mall, none of which were politicians. Slaughtered fathers at a sports stadium who were just trying to watch a game. Commuters trying to go to work ripped apart from a train bomb. In any case, none of the elites ever take the brunt of the killing. When civic life collapses and people stop participating in cultural staples, everything falls apart. Bars close down, schools are filled with armed guards and kids stop learning, move theaters collapse (not the worst thing tbf), organized sports collapse, commuters stop showing up for work, and we end up living like cattle in a pen. Social trust collapses, the economy collapses, and national or regional identity reverts to clan/family/town identity. Once this happens, we follow the same path as Yugoslavia and break apart into tribal regionalization. California, Oregon, and Washington splinter into some pacific alliance, taking with it more than half of domestic food production and wheat exports. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and all of New England form an Atlantic alliance and shut down more than thirty deep water ports. That means no imports or exports come from or to red states. In turn, the red states begin withholding all corn, wheat, sorghum, and soy trade with blue states. All advanced manufacturing disappears too with no off takers to purchase it. Eventually, people will get tired. They'll get tired of seeing their kids blown apart at school. Tired of watching their brothers die in a ditch somewhere. Tired of turning on the news to see some random gunfight in a random neighborhood achieve nothing. Tired of watching basic goods disappear. Tired of having no income. They'll simply become exhausted of death and destruction with no end. Think of the 1960's race riots. What did they achieve? Absolutely nothing. They only ended because people became tired. The war will end with nothing changing. Lincoln knew this even in our fledgling phase - the union as a whole can't survive without all parts of whole contributing. Blue states can't survive without red, and vice versa. When the US balkanizes, we'll still trade, it'll just be harder. We'll still have population migrations, it'll just be harder. We'll still cooperate, but everything will persist under a massive layer of resentment, distrust, and malign intent. The same processes will continue, just significantly less efficiently. The 60's race riots accomplished nothing. Ireland remains divided. Yugoslavia will never return. The United States will only follow them if it pursues rhetoric that encourages unorganized violence with no true way to win. This isn't to say that there's never a use for violence; quite the contrary. We celebrate organized, armed resistance every Fourth of July. But what I've seen over the last few decades is that the stomach and intellectual capacity to organize a true resistance effort does not exist here. I strongly encourage people to step away from the ledge lest you learn what millions of others have learned the hard way.

Wow.

There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture. The wolf begged to be freed. “I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!” The shepherd cut the rope. The next night, three lambs were gone. Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness. By winter, half the flock was dead. An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?” The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.” The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.” That’s the lesson. Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.

THIS is how you run an ad. 🔥 Every Republican should be running ads like this. Blakeman just turned Hochul's whole record into a comedy sketch, and it's going to leave a mark.😂

The NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles almost killed Jalen Hurts for a Week 5 international showcase. ​The full details of what happened behind closed doors in London just surfaced, and the negligence is staggering. ​Before kickoff in London, Hurts was in a hospital bed until 4:00 AM undergoing emergency vascular testing. Medical staff instructed him not to sleep because sleep was considered an active health risk. ​Instead of shutting down their $255 million franchise quarterback, the team cleared him to play 60 minutes of brutal, high-impact collision football on zero sleep. ​Then, they loaded him onto a pressurized, 8-hour transatlantic flight back to Philadelphia. ​Every doctor on the planet knows that long-haul flights and cabin pressure are the exact triggers that cause lower-extremity blood clots to break free. The Eagles spent days assuring the public it was just a "minor, superficial calf clot". ​Now the truth comes out: the clot dislodged, shot through his bloodstream, and caused multiple pulmonary emboli in his lungs. ​Hurts is officially out for the season, placed on blood thinners where taking a single routine tackle could cause a fatal internal hemorrhage. ​He isn't just lucky to play football again, he is lucky to be alive. ​When the NFL preaches "player safety," remember this moment. They ran a human being into the ground for television ratings in the UK, almost lost him to a preventable medical catastrophe, and cratered their entire season in the process. ​Who inside that building signed off on letting him play and board that flight?

What's the word/grammar hill you are absolutely dying on?