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Trump – The Presidency

by Medron Pryde on May 25, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

On this week’s episode of Trump – The Presidency, Season Two…

At the start of this week’s episode, Axios released the audio content of Joe Biden’s deposition. As it turns out, Robert Hur was right about Biden being a prosecutor’s nightmare because of his mental deficiency. Moreover, it is proof of Biden’s mental collapse prior to 2023, if not the 21st century. Will Kamala Harris, the Democrats, or the legacy media, apologize for their rebuke of Hur? Tune in to future episodes (but don’t hold your breath.)

The Biden family countered the Tapper-fed media disaster with a diagnosis of cancer in the former President, hoping pity would override a sense of national betrayal. The left immediately capitalizes on the nation’s pity by saying no one could criticize Biden’s actions because he is suffering from what is likely a terminal diagnosis. Sane Americans point out that the left no longer gets to tell people what they can and can’t talk about, investigate, or prosecute. Mic drop.

The Supreme Court ruled that Administration CAN deport illegals under the Alien Enemies Act, as long as they are given proper notice. Tom Homan, America’s biggest badass, went online and said, “Hey, members of MS 13 and Tren de Aragua, I’m notifying you, I’m deporting your sorry criminal-invading asses!” Case closed.

Representative LaMonica McIver was arrested for assaulting two federal agents in New Jersey when she illegally tried to force her way into an ICE facility. She immediately played the race and victim cards in her defense. The Department of Justice played the “We have your ass on bodycams shoving federal agents” card in response, trumping her hand (pun intended).

The big lie of this week’s episode goes to Chuck Schumer who blamed DOGE cuts for the Mexican sailing vessel hitting the Brooklyn Bridge. Retards around the world demand that people not refer to Chuckie as a retard because it was insulting to be associated with someone so ignorant. Henceforth, he will be known as a Megatard.

The Supreme Court also overturned a ruling from an Obama-appointed judge that force Trump to give Venezuelans protected status. Justice Ketanji Jackson was the only dissenter because she couldn’t find Venezuela on a map, but then again, she’s not a cartographer (or a biologist).

The US starts work on the Golden Dome initiative to protect the country. China announces that it would be “turning space into a warzone.” Apparently they have never heard of the US Space Force. Heaven forbid we try to protect our own nation for a change!

The South African President visits White House and is verbally slammed for his calls for genocide of whites in his country. Trump all but teabags the guy on live TV, that’s how epic the takedown was. The same mainstream media that covered up Biden’s mental collapse claims that there is no genocide in South Africa. Their evidence is, they haven’t covered it, so it must not be real.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives emerges from their coma and votes on the Big Beautiful Bill, moving it on to the Senate. Every single Democrat in Congress voted against the largest tax cuts in history, immigration reform, and cutting taxes on tips. Their hate of all things Trump overrode common sense and any concern they may have faked regarding the American people…again.

Early in this episode, Trump, as the voice of reason, calls Putin and Zenensky, telling them to stop being little bitches and talk to each other. By the end of the week they were exchanging POW’s. In one fell swoop, he accomplished more for spreading peace than the now defunct Voice of America did over decades.

Will Marco Rubio de-pants Chris Van Hollen on live TV, or will Jake Tapper ever admit he was part of the Biden cover-up? Tune in next week, same MAGA time, same MAGA channel.

– Blaine Lee Pardoe

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 24, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The expansion of the Ottoman Empire was a bit of an odd duck when it comes to accompanying mass migrations. They conquered much of South Eastern Europe, South Western Asia, and the old Arabic Caliphates in the Middle East and the North African territories. Some of the mass migrations, like those into Europe and Asia, are easy to see in the styles of buildings and mosques that exist to this day. Or in some cases don’t. Other mass migrations like those into and out of the Arabian and African regions are harder to track.

The exact reasons for this are relatively unclear. Did they move in and then leave again, or did they never move in more than a few basic administrators to watch over the conquered territories who were later absorbed into the general population? The predominant faith of both ethnic groups was Muslim by that time, so the religious wars that took place were more disagreements between the different flavors of Islam, and those flavors crossed ethnic borders. This all makes mass migrations in those areas a bit harder to track.

There are basic types of architecture that are famously Ottoman that can be seen throughout the old Ottoman Empire. Experts can easily recognize a surviving Ottoman government building, but the Turks themselves were far more willing to pull up stakes and move somewhere else than their European counterparts. And the modern Middle East and North African nations they once controlled exhibit a distinct lack of respect for or influence from their former rulers if you ask the modern day Turks.

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Fraud

by Medron Pryde on May 23, 2025 at 12:01 am
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The richest man in the world took months out of his life to look for fraud in the federal government budget at the behest of the American President. Despite doors literally being locked in his face to resist those efforts, he found hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and government dirty tricks funds used to mutilate or kill children or overthrow foreign governments.

The people who supported all of this hated his finding it so much that they burned down his businesses in protest. One study I saw said that the majority of Teslas in America have been vandalized. Vehicles that are primarily owned by liberals by the way. And when the President shut down these departments and spending, judges have demanded again and again that he must reopen them and fund them.

And now, the Republican Congress has voted to keep almost all of that fraud and abuse in the budget they just passed. Because the dirty little secret is that it isn’t just nameless bureaucrats committing fraud to get rich or push their dirty little schemes. And Biden and Clinton and Obama aren’t just bad examples of what politicians can do if they are corrupt. Bush and Romney and McCain are too. And they aren’t alone. They all vote for the fraud because they all benefit from the fraud.

Washington DC lives on fraud, and it can’t imagine living without it, and it will do anything it takes to keep the fraud going. Even the disinfecting power of sunlight showing what they are doing is not strong enough to stop them from doing it. Consider what that means very carefully.

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 22, 2025 at 12:01 am
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The original Arab invasions were a mass migration that conquered half of Rome’s farflung empire, but the French, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Indians drove them back from their core regions of power. But not before they converted a large number of mountain Turks to their new religion. Then the Mongols drove into Europe and the Middle East and brought the Black Death that wiped out between half and a third of the local populations before disappearing back into the East.

The Turkic tribes of the high mountains walked into that power vacuum with a smile. The Afghan Turks conquered most of India with the help of Persian Turks while Anatolian Turks conquered the plague-weakened Eastern Roman Empire, including Constantinople. The new Ottoman Empire quickly controlled three quarters of the old Roman Empire, from South-Eastern Europe to North Africa, while their fellows ruled modern day Iran and India as well.

And the Turks ruled in a rather de-centralized manner over the regions they conquered. They weren’t even all allied with each other. They fought and betrayed each other almost as much as they fought with Europeans in fact. Maybe more. The next few hundred years have more rising and falling tribes and peoples than European minds are really equipped to understand. For us, the French have been French for a thousand years, and the Gauls before them were kinda proto-French. Ditto the Germans, the Poles, the Scandinavians, and the Russians. But the various Turk and Turk-adjacent and Resisting-The-Turk tribes and peoples seem to remember all of it, and can tell you in detail every single one of them. Every time they were on top and every time those people two villages over were on top. It is just one long series of migrations from place to place as the tribes wax and wane in strength.

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 21, 2025 at 12:01 am
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The Arab invasion of Roman Hispania started the better part of 1,000 years of alternating war and peace over the Iberian Peninsula. The various Arab and Ottoman Empires faced off against the surviving Christian kingdoms in the mountains that would form modern Portugal and Spain and the various Successor State Roman Empires from Charlemagne to the Holy Roman Empire that was famously mocked as neither Holy, nor Roman, nor or an Empire.

The Arabs and African Berbers moved in when they pushed the locals into the mountains, took over the existing Roman infrastructure, and built a new Islamic civilization over the ruins of the old one. They officially allowed other religions to exist of course, but their laws were clear on who was superior and who was not. What history now calls the Reconquista of Spain began when they demanded an exorbitant tax from the surviving Christians.

The Christians chose to fight rather than pay the heavy taxes, and furthermore decided if they were going to fight, they wanted all of their land back. The alternating wars and peaces that followed from the north of Spain all the way to the Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts resulted in the eventual expulsion of millions of Muslims who refused to convert to Christianity. That made this both a mass migration INTO Hispania and then back out to Africa and Arabia a thousand years later.

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