2/3/25 – India: Get the reparations. The Indian people deserve the reparations. They deserve justice.
2/3/25 – The reason India has been an economic powerhouse for all of human civilization (with the exception of British exploitation, which wasn’t India’s fault – see the reparations demanded below) is because of…(drumroll) trade. No other country in the world has this proud legacy. While Europeans were living in caves or whatnot, the Indus Valley Civilization (India) had elaborate, relatively egalitarian cities with plumbing and public baths and was exporting various goods to Mesopotamia and the ancient world. With the stated exception, India has had strong relationships with its trading partners. If a country loses its relationships with its trading partners, it will become less rich. There is no doubt about this. Although there are certainly benefits to autarky, and it should always be a consideration, one of the most important things a country can do is build mutually beneficial and respectful relationships with other countries. So, think long and hard. We’d like the American people, especially our farmers, manufacturers, and other exporters, to have a voice in where we go as a country. They deserve that. What do you think, America?
2/2/25 – Let’s speak of JUSTICE on this Sunday, shall we. Of the three great contemporaneous ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization (India), the former two having been historical trading partners with India, the only one that has remained an economic and cultural force throughout civilization is India. Egypt still exists but not as it once did.
If it hadn’t been for the British’s unprecedented exploitation of the country, it is entirely possible that India would have the most dominant economy in the world. Even after this extreme exploitation, India still has a powerful economy.
The genetic degenerates pretending to have some privileged lineage, the British monarchy, aka the inbred sociopaths, needs to be dissolved, and India needs to be repaid the estimated 43 TRILLION dollars in wealth that was stolen from her.
The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country
2/2/25 – Indians: Instead of fighting about who’s more Indian, a total waste of time and energy, focus on getting well-deserved and long overdue reparations.
2/2/25 – From the New York Times, a voter says, “A lot of the time, he said, Republicans seem to support policies that hurt people. When Democrats have bad ideas, as he sees it, ‘They’re not trying to hurt people, they’re just stupid.’” The American people are so smart. From Mark Twain, the cruelty of I didn’t think. Happy Sunday!
2/2/25 – Let’s keep having the debate. A review of some other tensions: freedom/innovation and law/order (see below); and from some time back: free will (prochoice) and justice (death penalty) and sanctity of life (prolife and anti-death penalty). We generally honor sanctity of life but make some exceptions to allow for both abortion and the death penalty. We almost never take an all or nothing position, and immigration is no different. We don’t care if we are disappointing everyone. We are not here to be your friend. We are here to tell you the truth.
As it relates to mercy for migrants “versus” rule of law (it’s actually not either/or), mercy and compassion for migrants is not sinful. It is incorrect to describe it as such. However, mercy can be sinful. The Catholic Church and other Christian institutions should have taken a much tougher stance with child sex abuse. Their “mercifulness” was sinful because the acts were extremely sinful. Whether mercy is sinful or not depends on the context. It is not sinful in the context of migrants because they naturally want to flee their home countries for many good reasons. Fleeing one’s country, even when breaking the laws of another country, by definition is not sinful because it is not immoral. Their actions are motivated by fear and a survival instinct, and that’s understandable. Sinfulness isn’t determined by laws. It’s determined by morality, which may or may not overlap with laws.
However, the Biden administration did not adequately prioritize the rule of law for our own country. The open border policy was terrible governance. It created all kinds of problems: practical ones for our nation and moral ones. Our own country’s safety, stability and economics are always important. How do we house that many people coming in that fast? We couldn’t, and one could literally see it, even in northern states. Equity for migrants is also important. We can’t take in the whole world, so we need to have a system that is fair. Venezuelans making up 60% or Latin Americans making up 80% of TPS recipients is not fair to TPS seekers of other nations. What we see is that Latin Americans have too much advocacy and others do not have enough. It needs to be more balanced.
What would Jesus say? We don’t know, but we know what he said. He said all of the things people quote him on about mercy and compassion, but he also said “Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s,” meaning follow our worldly laws. (We expect Republicans to follow the law and pay their taxes.) As we said before, we can’t cherry-pick which laws we follow. That is a surefire way to destroy our country. If you don’t like a law, you can try to get Congress – and Congress alone – to change it, but the law is the law. All people, including and especially the current administration, are expected to follow the law. As it relates to migrants, we provided what we think is a balanced approach before. (See below.) We need to continue to accept immigrants and migrants, such as refugees and asylum seekers, but the system needs an overhaul. We need comprehensive immigration reform. We need to properly absorb them at a quantity and pace that is manageable for our country, while maintaining our enviable assimilation process and taking an equitable approach. We also need to do soft power: helping their home countries strengthen their law enforcement capabilities and more Peace Corps. (Again, see below.)
Empathy for immigrants sounds like Christianity 101. Here’s why some say it’s a sin.
2/1/25 – To start Black History Month, let’s say this. If anybody thinks black people are inferior, they are out of their mind. They are an incredibly beautiful, talented, smart and viable group of people. Africa is rising.
2/1/25 – Skin color is arguably the worst indication of a person’s “race.” (Hint: Most people are mixed.) In any case, skin color is highly deceptive. One of the strange things about many white people is that they can get extremely brown, as tan or tanner than many naturally brown people. Many fair brown people are genetically less “white” than darker people if you analyze their DNA. You have to look at a variety of factors: indigenous groups, migratory patterns, wars and conquests, anthropology, religion, culture, linguistics, DNA and biological features (hair type, facial features, etc.) You’re putting together a puzzle of human migration and growth, which involves many factors. So, everyone can stop with their skin color obsession, whether lighter or darker. It’s practically meaningless.
2/1/25 – The British were primarily Anglo Saxon, white people, not Caucasians. (See below for the distinction.) The Aryans (Iranians) were not Anglo Saxon, so rest easy, not related to the colonizers. The Aryans were also not Arabs, Turks or Mongols (Genghis Khan). Mughals were Turks/Mongols. The Aryans were Iranians (Persian), a different ethnic group from Arabs, Turks and Mongols, and the Persians’ language is Farsi, which is still spoken in South Asia today. Farsi is not a Semitic language. It’s an Indo-European, specifically Indo-Iranian language. The Aryan/Dravidian “divide” is manmade. It is possible that South Indians might be more “original to the land” to some degree; however, Indians, north and south, have varying genetic markers of the Aryan migration, which occurred several thousand (about 4,000) years ago. Almost all Indians are mixed with it. Many Indians also likely have genetic markers of the Mughals. Stop having ridiculous blood and soil debates. You’re not winning anything, and you’re losing social cohesion.
2/1/25 – The Republican Party would be wise to be the Party of Lincoln. Racism and hatred of other ethnicities will do long-term damage to a party that has a venerable origin.
2/1/25 – Were the American people deceived by the Biden administration and the liberal legacy media for the past four years?
2/1/25 – Did the liberal legacy media deceive the American people not only about Biden’s infirmity but also on the scale, scope and composition of his administration’s open border policy? The American people deserve answers.
2/1/25 – Among many other answers, the American people deserve answers from the Biden administration as to 1) who was actually running the country because Biden seemed too infirm to do much quality decision-making and 2) who made the decision to give almost 2/3 (60%) of TPS (based on the list below) to Venezuelans. Remember: this is the same administration that had a disastrous pull out from Afghanistan. Why not the Afghanis who helped us? With a world on fire, why not more distributed across the many regions in the world that had people with legitimate claims for TPS?
2/1/25 – There were over 711,000 Venezuelans who received Temporary Protected Status (TPS) between 2021 and 2023. That is an extremely high amount. It is more than all of the other countries on the list combined. The American people deserve to get an answer from the previous administration as to why Venezuelans got preferential treatment. Was it because of a special interest group?
How Temporary Protected Status has expanded under the Biden administration