Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,
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This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.”
Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.
Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought to justice for conspiring with parts of the Intelligence Community to frame President Trump as a Russian spy. The same Ukrainian and British Intelligence agents who helped orchestrate the first ridiculous impeachment against Trump (ostensibly set in motion because the president asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy why Joe Biden’s son was making tens of thousands of dollars each month as a board member of a Ukrainian energy company) continue trying to instigate an all-out war between the Russian Federation and the United States. The mainstream media and globalist politicians want us all to forget that they used COVID as an excuse to roll out totalitarianism around the planet — justifying widespread censorship, lockdowns, mass surveillance, deadly chemical injections, and the abrogation of God-given rights in the name of “public health.” Our scientific institutions refuse to say clearly that COVID was most likely engineered in a Chinese bio-lab with funding from U.S. taxpayers that Dr. Anthony Fauci had redirected to assist his friends and business associates overseas. Nobody has been prosecuted for any of these crimes, just as nobody was prosecuted when President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder used the ATF to arm Mexican drug cartels, the IRS to target conservatives, and the USA PATRIOT Act to spy on political enemies (including all of the Republican presidential candidates for the 2016 election).
During the Obama and Biden administrations, Christians were prosecuted for being faithful servants of Christ. Parents were put on domestic terror watchlists for objecting to radical infusions of “transgenderism,” pornography, and race-based discrimination in their children’s public school curricula. The Democrat Party nationalized healthcare, used USAID budgets to subvert foreign elections, and redirected trillions of taxpayer dollars into “climate change” slush funds for domestic and foreign political allies. The Obama-Biden regime defamed police officers as inherently racist and disparaged all white Americans as inherently “privileged.” Decades of solid improvement in race relations in the United States were thrown out the window, as Democrats told their voters that white, heterosexual males deserve to be vilified and attacked. For fifteen years, Antifa goons, BLM rioters, Islamic supremacists, and other violent left-wingers have burned down neighborhoods, destroyed churches, looted businesses, terrorized motorists, and harassed, threatened, and murdered ideological adversaries. Instead of reporting on years of leftist domestic terrorism, corporate news talking heads still pretend that President Trump’s MAGA voters are the biggest threat to the United States.
It is easy to list the long train of abuses that have been committed against us and lose hope for the future. Particularly because nobody has been held accountable for any of the serious crimes listed above, a lot of American patriots have begun to wonder whether our country can even be saved. It can be saved. But doing so will require Americans to get their minds right about the struggles ahead.
I often ask American patriots who express premature defeat whether they would give up so easily if this were 1776, rather than 2026. My point is two-fold: First, we are most definitely living through a critical period of American history when, just as was true during the time of our Founding Fathers, the fate of our country rests in our hands. Second, the odds that we shall succeed in saving America today are at least as high as they were two-hundred-fifty years ago.
Sometimes the people who are most proud of America’s past accomplishments are too quick to throw in the towel when it comes to America’s future. But the origin story of the United States is epic because it was so unlikely. The Boston Massacre was in 1770. The Boston Tea Party occurred three years later. By the time the Second Continental Congress declared Independence from Great Britain in ’76, American colonists were still sharply divided over the merits of war. The Revolutionary War continued until ’83. The Articles of Confederation, ratified in ’81, was superseded by ’89. When the Founders drafted the U.S. Constitution, they effectively tabled the peculiar institution of slavery, knowing that the issue would collapse the Union. During the 1790s, the heavily indebted United States endured severe economic troubles, and many members of Great Britain’s Parliament expected to reacquire their former colonies just as soon as interstate squabbles and economic calamity doomed the young nation. When the British captured and burned much of Washington, D.C., in 1814, they nearly succeeded.
When Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty began meeting at the Green Dragon Tavern in 1765, do you think they knew it would take fifty more years to secure America’s Independence for posterity? Do you think John Hancock, Paul Revere, or any of the Bostonians who met around the “Liberty Tree” would have cared? Their preserved correspondence to other patriots throughout the colonies reveals two things above all else: (1) They knew that they were the underdogs, and (2) they relished the fight. They leaned into their political and moral principles. They defended their convictions. They embraced righteous indignation. “[W]ith a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence,” the signers of the Declaration of Independence “mutually pledge[d] to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Those extraordinary men risked absolutely everything to go up against the greatest empire in the world. Few outside of the American colonies believed they would prevail. A healthy contingent of British elites predicted that the colonies-turned-states would fight among themselves and dissolve the Union within a short number of years. Some Americans with Loyalist sympathies continued to expect a return of British rule until the conclusion of the War of 1812 seemed to finally put the matter to bed.
I do not expect today’s American patriots to become Nathan Hale, Patrick Henry, Caesar Rodney, or John Paul Jones. I do not expect Americans to step into the shoes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Franklin. But I do expect Americans to respect their country’s past enough to remain confident, steady, and determined as we fight the battles to come. Because, frankly, the threats we face today pale by comparison to the threats that our ancestors were able to overcome. What one man can do, another can do. What one generation can accomplish, so can the next.
We humans have this psychological “glitch” when it comes to being the “underdog.” When we feel that the challenge before us is almost too great to be met, some of us become even more committed to prevailing. Once we’ve won, however, we begin to take our victories for granted. We start to assume that things were always meant to turn out the way they did. Yet, strangely, the first sign of trouble weakens our resolve. As soon as some other scrappy opponent starts banging down our door, we begin to worry that everything will be lost. We forget that we used to be the ones banging down doors.
What I would like to remind my friends is that we American patriots have an advantage that this militant generation of communists and Islamo-fascists will never have: This is our country, and there are tens of millions of us who will never allow enemies of freedom to conquer it. I don’t care how many “black-pill” pessimists scream, “The end is nigh.” They are wrong.
Our enemies took over the universities. They took over the Deep State. They see total victory within their sights. But they’ve never seen American patriots actually fight.
We are not sheep for the wolves to devour. We are the hunters who scare the wolves away.
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Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 20:05It all started with complaints from residents in Springfield, OH that a surge of Haitian migrants was causing chaos and an odd disappearance of local wildlife and pets. City officials and local companies where shipping the migrants in by the thousands and giving them jobs. NGOs arranged for extensive handouts including housing, food and cash. Initially, all of this was done while avoiding any discussion with the community at large.
The surge started after 2021, but the Biden Administration denied that such a plan existed. Within a few years, Springfield's Haitian population grew from a couple thousand to over 15,000 migrants. That's nearly 25% of the total population of the city. This does not happen without government coordination.
When Donald Trump dared to address the issue in a debate with Kamala Harris, the media and Democrats exploded with outrage. But Trump's assertion that the migrants were "Eating the dogs and eating the cats" in Ohio likely helped to win him the presidency. His position echoed a growing concern among native citizens over the rapid invasion of the third world into the US and the fact that most of these people will never assimilate into American standards.
This problem is about the be rectified, with ICE officially operating in Ohio. The Haitian round-up has begun. With the latest Supreme Court decision, TPS designations can now be terminated by the Trump Administration. Many migrants exploiting TPS are being called in by ICE to turn in their passports and wear an ankle monitor. These are people who will likely be deported in the near term. NGO's are already trying to preempt deportations by mobilizing well funded left-wing activists.
🚨 JUST NOW: Hundreds of liberals are showing up to the ICE office in Ohio where HAITIAN MIGRANTS must check in as they face deportation...
...nearly EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A WHITE LIBERAL!
Just look at the crowd. At least 80% is old and white.
Every single time. The suic*dal…
The most common argument against deportations is the claim that Haiti is a "violent and dangerous place" and sending migrants back would be the same as "sending them to hell." The counter-argument is simple: Why would Americans want to import hell into their own backyard?
There are currently over 300,000 Haitian migrants across the country that were, up until 2026, enjoying Temporary Protection Status (TPS), making it legally impossible to deport them. The recent changes could affect all of these people and set the stage for mass deportations for the majority of them. Media propaganda in favor the "poor oppressed migrants" will be rampant as this process unfolds.
Haitian Migrants in Ohio Who Lost Temporary Protected Status Are BREAKING DOWN in TEARS After Being Fitted with ANKLE MONITORS
Notice all of the media cameras there to capture the moment?
Staged and performative.
Temporary means temporary.
They all must go home.…
Local leaders and employers in Springfield have long interfered with the enforcement of immigration rules and credited the Haitians with the "economic revitalization" of the region. Native residents continue to disagree with this claim.
In reality, the surge of cheap labor allowed manufacturers to avoid hiring locals who cost more. Democrats ran Springfield for decades (until 2024 when they were finally voted out), and ran the city into the ground. They were happy to flood the city with Haitians in the expectation that eventually these people would become full citizens and vote left-wing for the rest of their lives.
Make no mistake, the importation of third world migrants by Democrats is undoubtedly an agenda to transplant a loyal voting block to replace more conservative American citizens. Conservatives and many independents are celebrating deportations as a reversal of a horrific multicultural scheme that benefited progressives at the expense of the wider public.
Around 52% of all Haitian households are on some form of welfare, including SNAP and cash assistance. An army of NGOs operate to provide aid to these groups and help them game the system. The TPS framework has long been abused; many migrants under TPS are only supposed to reside in the US for 18 months but end up staying for a decade or more.
Haitian migrants send an estimated $4 billion to $6 billion each year in remittances to Haiti. These funds make up nearly 20% to 25% of the country’s gross domestic product. Time and time again, we see third world immigrants using the US as a cash cow to support the economy in their country of origin rather than assimilating. They view America as an open market to be raided, not as a new and better home.
This is why the majority of US voters continue to support deportation efforts.
Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 19:40