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Trump – The Presidency

by Medron Pryde on April 28, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

On this week’s episode of Trump – The Presidency, Season Two…JD Vance visits the Pope and Francis dies shortly thereafter. Hedging their bets, people insist he visit the set of The View as soon as possible.

Four Democrats go to El Salvador to visit the deported criminal there, proving once more they are the party committed to wasting taxpayer dollars.

Dick Durbin claims that forty-years in Congress is enough, while the rest of the nation feels it’s twenty years too many.

President Trump announces he’s donating two flag poles for the White House, which leads the progressives to burn flags instead of Tesla’s. Later he announces that he’d like to give new mothers five-thousand dollars which fully committed the Democrats to proclaim that motherhood is racist.

In an unforeseen plot twist, Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, goes to the IMF and tells them how entirely fouled up they are in a press conference that was eerily similar to Shakespeare’s King Henry V’s Agincourt speech. His referring to the IMF and World Bank as using, “vapid, buzzword-centric marketing” makes the testicles/ovaries of the IMF members shrivel in fear.

In a stunning pair of surprises near the end of this week’s episode; two judges were arrested for acts involving protecting criminals. Trump’s foes immediately forget their “Poor Maryland Father” narrative and label him as Hitler Version 2.0, even though he had nothing to do with their crimes or their arrests. Trump’s supporters referred to the arrests as, “A good start…more please.”

Will the new narrative gain ground or will Trump convince Zenensky and Putin to both stop being little bitches and stop trying to kill each another, forcing the Dems to declare peace as an alt-right scheme? To find out, tune in next week, same MAGA time, same MAGA channel.

– Blaine Lee Pardoe

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on April 27, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

When the Europeans first came to the Central Americas, they brought with them centuries of the worst germs and plagues known to man in their blood. Multiple pandemics flew up and down the Americas a few hundred years ago, each one wiping out a quarter or half of the local populations. Estimates suggest that the populations of the Americas were in the millions to tens of millions when the plagues began. That is how many died in the end.

By the time settlers arrived in New England, scattered Indian tribes numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands were all that was left of those who tended and gardened the ruins of the civilization their fathers, grandfathers, or great grandfathers remembered. The religious exiles that would later create the United States of America found a new-to-them Promised Land of immense riches and very few Indians to defend it all. That made our colonization of the Americas one of the more successful mass migrations in known history.

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on April 26, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The European Colonization of the Americas was a major mass migration that ironically has its roots in the Mongol Hordes that drove the previous major mass migration. When the Mongols conquered most of the known world and united both the West and the East in one large economic region, they brought Asian germs with them that became the Black Death, a plague that killed somewhere around a third of the European and Middle Eastern populations. Tens of millions of people died, civilization as we knew it collapsed, and only the fact that Northern Europe is a cold and uncomfortable place to live allowed the European survivors to rebuild.

The Europeans who did rebuild sported immune systems capable of fighting way more diseases than their ancestors. They were made of hardier stock, a factor they would use for generations. The Europeans that traveled to the Americas centuries later and brought their germs with them, and the people they named Indians had been separated from their Asian cousins for what most people think is thousands of years. They had no defense for the Black Death or the stew of other diseases brewing in European immune systems.

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Mass Migration

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

The Sea Peoples that appeared out of nowhere in the Mediterranean were almost certainly a form of mass migration. Our records of that era, centuries before the birth of Christ, are fragmentary, and we don’t even know where they came from. All we know is that they showed up one day and everyone lived to regret it. The civilizations of the area had a complex trading relationship with each other, and they sent letters everywhere. The letters we’ve recovered tell the tale of a complex network of advanced kingdoms. And then one some of them fell silent. Some sent pleas for help when people arrived from the sea and overwhelmed them. They come one after another, from one end of the sea to the other. One of the most poignant letters we’ve found is a report from the Egyptian army that they won. The Sea Peoples had been defeated. And the Egyptian’s own losses were so horrible, so vast, that they didn’t know if their army or empire would survive to celebrate the victory.

The Roman conquest of that same area centuries after those great kingdoms collapsed certainly had aspects of mass migration. Roman Citizens could go anywhere they wanted, and they did so in peace after the Romans armies killed enough locals to teach them what happened if they resisted. The Muslim conquest of three-quarters of the Roman Empire was absolutely another example that could fit the definition in broad strokes. The Mongol Hordes that road from one end of Asia to the other and even brought the last remnants of Pseudo-Roman power low were another. The majority of the people in the world actually share DNA going back to those Mongolians, showing just how intimately their strong young men migrated when they came to a new land.

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Mass Migration

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

Mass Migration is something that happens from time to time. Looking at history, something broadly resembling a mass migration normally takes place every few centuries. And it is generally a bad and dangerous thing for everybody involved. It is usually generated by very bad living conditions in one place, and/or an opportunity to obtain better conditions elsewhere. Some mass migrations are peaceful, though most end up being done at least partially through the tip of the sword. Sometimes there is a great disaster that people flee from in mass. They generally either have enough swords or gold to find a new place to live, or they are slaughtered or enslaved by the people who live where they are going. Other times, an organized and powerful realm has a lot of bored strong young men without much to do so the leaders decide to give them something to do. Go over there and take the land from those other people.

Either way, the bored strong young men aren’t trying to lure THEIR sweet young wives and daughters away from their comfortable fires. The key point in more organized mass migrations like this is that the rich people in power are insulated from the effects of the migration, while it is the poor people who do most of the fighting and dying and risking of limbs. They either do it because they are told to, or because their realm will recognize any land (and women) they conquer as belonging to them. Dreams of free land and women have tempted many bored young strong men into migrating to foreign lands to make it rich. That in fact is one of the greatest cycles of history across the world. Every square inch of ground on Earth, except perhaps for Antarctica, has seen migration in action. And we can see it all in the dirt if we know what to look for.

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