Reader’s Links for May 2nd, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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14 Replies to “Reader’s Links for May 2nd, 2025”

  2. May 2, 2025 Sitting here looking across the bay — if you did not live here, you would not know there is a bay out there, from the waters edge straight out, all gray white. The mainland has disappeared, all gray white. The sky gray white.

    What is photosynthesis, does the climate choir know?

    • Scott Bessent – Secretary of the Treasury
      https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/officials/scott-bessent

      The George Soros Partner Who Disrupted Right-Wing Publishing
      by Armin Rosen – November 7, 2023
      https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-george-soros-partner-who-disrupted-right-wing-publishing

      “Protests by unpaid Chinese workers spread amid factory closures” by Huang Chunmei for RFA Mandarin – April 29, 2025
      https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/29/china-us-tariff-protests-workers-wages/

      Cliff Kincaid and Trevor Loudon touch on tariffs and other topics but this was 4 days ago and things keep changing.
      Putin Spits in Trump’s Face
      America’s Survival – 4 days ago
      https://rumble.com/v6sotv5-putin-spits-in-trumps-face.html

    • China is on very shaky economic ground and is trying to bluff its way out of trouble, President Trump knows this and is keeping the pressure on.

      Not too long ago I posted some videos about how Xi is in deep political trouble and probably won’t last much longer as Chinese Emperor. The tariffs are just helping the destruction of the current Chinese economy, I don’t know if the financial trouble in China will cause the collapse of communism or if it will just force a return to the type of communism that Deng was pushing. I do know that the economic trouble will take China out of position as one of the major economies of the world. If we can keep President Trumps policies in place after he leaves office we will end up forcing most of the world to return to some form of freedom and individual rights. don’t expect that it will be a copy of what we have in the US or in Western Europe but the different cultures will require different quirks in the laws protecting individual freedom and rights.

      No matter what happens in China the rest of the world is headed towards many kinetic civil wars, wars that will cause many modern nations to de-solve and others to form. This is why President Trump wants to bring Greenland and Canada into the US, he knows that if they are part of the US it will be easier for the US to protect itself and our friends overseas. The leftist who have seized control of almost all of the Western Nations are seeking to destroy all of the current governments and nations to (in their minds) make it easier for them to create the socialist hell hole a one world government would devolve into.

  4. As VP Vance Says the Russia-Ukraine War ‘Is Not Going to End Any Time Soon’, State Department Spokeswoman Warns US ‘Not Going To Mediate Peace Talks Anymore’

    The war in the Ukraine is in its third year. While a lot of progress in peace talks was made in the last 100 days under the auspices of the Donald J. Trump US administration, we’ve apparently come to the point where the initiative must now be seized by the Russian and Ukrainian warring parties.

    For weeks now, we have been hearing from Trump and his top cabinet members that, because of the lack of tangible progress by the two sides in the peace process, the US may be about to leave the position of a mediator in the negotiations.

    It seems that this day has arrived.

    First, Marco Rubio told Fox News that progress between Russia and Ukraine was ‘not fast enough.

    Then, VP JD Vance told the same Fox News that the Ukraine war is ‘not going to end any time soon’, in a rare admission of the difficulties that the peace process is facing.

    Sky News reported:

    “Russia and Ukraine are getting closer to a peace deal but not fast enough, the US’s top diplomat has said.

    Marco Rubio repeated that Washington was ready to step aside and stop pursuing peace should a deal not materialize – a threat he’s made several times in the past week.

    read the rest at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/as-vp-vance-says-russia-ukraine-war-is/

  5. Trump DOJ Stuns Nation: Sides with Gun Owners in Supreme Court 2A Showdown
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on May 2, 2025 by Dave Workman

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    Gun rights attorneys are calling it “monumental” and “a huge deal,” and at least one national gun rights organization is hailing the Trump administration for turning the U.S. government’s position on the Second Amendment a full 180 degrees by submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting petitioners in a case challenging the constitutionality of a state gun control law.

    It appears to be the first time in history the government—in this case the Department of Justice—has taken the side of gun owners. The case, known as Wolford v. Lopez, challenges Hawaii’s Act 52, an extremely restrictive gun law adopted in response to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen ruling, which struck down New York’s unconstitutional concealed carry law.

    Civil rights Attorney Mark W. Smith, host of the Four Boxes Diner on YouTube, declared, “This is a huge deal, a sea change in the way the Supreme Court will be functioning in the way the Department of Justice will be interacting with the United States Supreme Court when it comes to our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. This is a big deal.”

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    He was referring to the government’s declaration in the amicus brief that, “The United States has a substantial interest in the preservation of the right to keep and bear arms and in the proper interpretation of the Second Amendment.”

    Likewise, fellow civil rights attorney William Kirk, president of Washington Gun Law and host of his own YouTube broadcast, asks his viewers, “Did you ever believe, especially during the last four years, that you would ever hear the Department of Justice have this as their official statement?”

    Kirk referred to the DOJ’s Thursday brief filing as “a monumental day.”
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    The 29-page amicus bears some significant signatures: Solicitor General D. John Sauer, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, Deputy Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris and Vivek Suri, assistant to the Solicitor General. Dhillon is also making headlines for expanding the mission of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to include a sharp focus on protecting and enforcing the Second Amendment.

    As reported previously by AmmoLand News, the establishment media is attacking Dhillon on the contention that she is decimating the Civil Rights Division staff at the risk of abandoning the division’s traditional job of protecting voting rights and pursuing discrimination against minorities. By taking this approach, the media is literally—perhaps intentionally—ignoring the division’s expanded role of defending the Second Amendment.

    The brief is a gold mine of quotable quotes.

    “Hawaii’s novel default rule defies—indeed, effectively nullifies—the “general right to publicly carry arms” that Bruen recognized…” the brief states. “That is no accident. The structure and operation of Hawaii’s law reveal that the law serves no legitimate purpose and instead seeks only to inhibit the exercise of the right to bear arms.”

    In another paragraph, the brief recalls, “Until NYSRPA v. Bruen…Hawaii maintained a may-issue regime for licenses to carry firearms. Individuals could apply for carry licenses only in narrow circumstances, and police chiefs retained broad discretion to deny applications. In practice, that may-issue regime operated more like a no-issue regime. In 2018, the Ninth Circuit noted that Hawaii had issued ‘only four concealed carry licenses’ to private citizens ‘in the past eighteen years’ and that, in one county, ‘not a single concealed carry license ha[d] ever been granted.’”

    Later, the brief notes, “Under traditional property law, a person who enters private property open to the public does not need specific permission from the owner to carry a gun—or, for that matter, to carry anything else, or to engage in any other constitutionally protected con duct, such as prayer or speech…Hawaii’s singling out of firearms confirms that the default rule has nothing to do with protecting property rights. For everything but firearms, Hawaii presumes that owners welcome it on their property unless they affirmatively object.”

    And then there is this: “The scope and operation of Hawaii’s default rule thus establish that the rule serves no legitimate objective and that it instead seeks simply to impede the carrying of firearms. That is plainly unconstitutional.”

    Into this unprecedented legal drama steps the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which notes in a Friday statement that Hawaii is one of the 12 states it named in an online petition to Attorney General Pamela Bondi, calling on her Second Amendment Task Force to investigate for patterns of 2A infringements and impairments.

    “We’re hoping the submission of this important amicus brief signals the beginning of the administration’s promised effort to defend the Second Amendment from infringements enacted over the years by various states,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It is time to end these blatant and deliberate constitutional violations, and we finally have an administration willing to accomplish that task.”

    The DOJ amicus brief identifies five states, including Hawaii, which “reacted to Bruen by enacting the type of default rule at issue here.”

    By no small coincidence, all five states—Hawaii, California, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York—are on the“Dirty Dozen” list specified in the CCRKBA online petition, which is still gathering signatures.

    As attorney Kirk acknowledges in his YouTube presentation, it’s always possible the high court may not take the Hawaii case. But at least now, for what appears to be the first time ever, the Justice Department has jumped into a legal battle on the side of individuals fighting to protect their Second Amendment rights.

    While it would be conjecture to suggest this is really what the political left fears and finds so offensive about a second Trump administration, the notion also cannot simply be dismissed because of the political earthquake which would almost certainly result from an aggressive DOJ campaign to right what Second Amendment advocates contend have been decades of wrongs against a cornerstone of the Bill of Rights.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2025/05/trump-doj-stuns-nation-sides-with-gun-owners-in-supreme-court-2a-showdown/

  6. “The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” ~ George Orwell

    “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” ~ Winston Churchill

    “Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.” ~ Aristotle

    “The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

    “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” ~ George S. Patton

    “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” ~ James Madison

    “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” ~ George Orwell

    “There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.” ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

    “War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.” ~ Thomas Paine

    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

    “Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” ~ Euripides

    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

    “The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” ~ Douglas MacArthur

    “I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” ~ George S. Patton

    “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell

    “It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.” ~ Zell Miller

    “On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.” ~ Dan Lipinski

    “A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all” ~ Michael Scott

    “The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.” ~ Duke of Wellington

    “No one hates war like a soldier hates war.” ~ Tommy Franks

    “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” ~ Nathan Hale

    “Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.” ~ Allan Massie:

    “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country” ~ George S. Patton

    “The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” ~ Stonewall Jackson

  9. “When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.” ~ George S. Patton

    A Veteran – whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve – is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America,” for an amount of “up to and including my life.” That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

    The author is unknown: There are many vets and active duty personal who don’t understand what this quote means.

    “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

    “Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don’t know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.” ~ Tulsi Gabbard

    “It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, “He’s so big, we can never kill him.” But David looked at the same giant and thought, “He’s so big, I can’t miss him.” ~ Dale E. Turner

    “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

    “Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

    “Get there first with the most men.” ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

    “Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

    “Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.” ~ F. E. Adcock

    “A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.” ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

    “Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin’ shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.” ~ Joseph Bruchac (I was told kill them three times, once for the nations because that’s your job, once for your mother so she can see you again, once for yourself so you can return home at the end of your tour.)

    “I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.” ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

    “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.” ~ Tench Coxe

  10. “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

    “The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” ~ Douglas MacArthur

    “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell

    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius

    “Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.” ~ Sun Tzu

    “For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.” ~ Sitting Bull

    “?The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ~ Bruce Lee

    “Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.” ~ David Gell

    “Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.” ~ Carl von Clausewitz

    “You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.” ~ Sun Tzu”You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.” ~ Sun Tzu

    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” ~ Richard Grenier

    “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” ~ George Washington

    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ~ Sun Tzu

    “Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.” ~ George S. Patton

    “My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.” ~ Joni Mitchell

    “Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.” ~ Mercedes Lackey