Reader’s Links for Nov. 17, 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.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

18 Replies to “Reader’s Links for Nov. 17, 2025”

  1. Sundance has analyzed the villains who are challenging the takeover of the divine MAGA movement within the Republican party. They’re the ones who oppose America First über alles.

    Those designated as enemies use “wedge issues” as splitter tactics. Israel tops the list as a “for us or against us” dividing line. The way Sundance frames it, I’m definitely in the Against Us camp.

    This looks like a perfect example of a dialectics LOE.
    If so, is Sundance using it intentionally for that purpose? He does have outsized influence on politically conservative activists at the local level in their own communities.

    Or am I too steeped in dialectics theories? I fight the usage of the name as shorthand because it turns off everybody I talk to, but I find the concept itself 100% brilliant. Awesome.

    This is a MUST READ:
    The 2025 MAGA Fracture and the Benefactors Behind It

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/15/the-2025-maga-fracture-and-the-benefactors-behind-it/#more-277867

    • There is an effort to divide the MAGA movement, the people are trying to get our side to start condemning people who don’t refuse to talk to people who disagree with our side and to read things into statements that may or may not be in them. in the following article you can see where the author is trying to push the idea that Ted Cruz is planning to run against JD Vance. I don’t see why his making a run would hurt Vance but I also don’t see why his followers would refuse to support Vance if Cruz runs and looses. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/ted-cruz-responds-report-that-he-is-considering/

      • Yeah, this whole dynamic feels somehow off. Pre-fabricated. Reinforcing the same trend as Sundance.

        Ted Cruz has been characterized as an enemy RINO since his first run for POTUS. I dunno, I like him. I was delighted to learn that J.E. Dyer also backed him in 2016. Now he’s such a threat?

        DeSantis was similarly trashed to silence any “splitter” voices in 2024. Those who claim to be the genuine voice of MAGA are quick to jump on competition from conservatives they perceive as a challenge. RINO is their go-to 4-letter word.

        Mitt Romney is supposedly an arch-RINO. He was made to look so toxic he was frozen out of all conversation in 2016. Even after the election he was verboten. Somehow Anthony Scaramucci was given a voice, but consulting a person with the experience of Mitt Romney was out of the question.

        J.D.Vance came out of nowhere. He has neither accomplishments nor track-record. I don’t understand why he should be considered a top contender. That’s just voting directly for his sponsors, puppet-masters so shameless they don’t bother with a curtain. Smokey-room politics. I’d look very closely at whoever starts pushing this guy.

        • I know what you mean, what you have to remember is that a lot of the people on our side don’t really like Trump and will do all they can to ensure that MAGA dies when he leaves office.

          • We’ll be in really rough shape if we don’t sweep Congress in 2026. He’s got very little time to accomplish the domestic goals set before the last election.

  5. Just a quick note to let readers know I’m out trying to get some footage that I hope will be interesting to you all.
    So there may not be a post today.
    Eeyore

    • I took Johnny’s post (^ just above ^) seriously. Like a warning prefaced, “You can’t unsee this!”

      Sooo, no falestinian flags, please!

  6. (Richard: Watch, listen and make up your own mind on what he said will happen.)

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/ted-cruz-responds-report-that-he-is-considering/

    https://rumble.com/v71uh16-trump-floats-launching-strikes-against-cartels-in-mexico-and-colombia.html

    HUGE: Trump Floats Launching Strikes Against Cartels in Mexico and Colombia – “Okay with Me… I Would be Proud to Do it, Personally” (VIDEO)
    by Jordan Conradson Nov. 17, 2025 3:00 pm80 Comments

    President Trump told reporters on Monday that he would be “proud to” launch strikes into Mexico and Colombia to stop the drug cartels as the Department of War ramps up its offensive against Venezuelan drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea.

    US forces had launched at least 21 strikes on drug trafficking vessels in the Western Hemisphere as of Saturday, killing over 80 designated foreign terrorists who were attempting to smuggle illicit narcotics into the United States.

    This comes as the US military conducts drills with Trinidad and Tobago’s military, and Trump reportedly weighs strikes inside Venezuela.

    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the Operation Southern Spear program, a mission that “defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” Hegseth said.

    (Richard: This isn’t the Cold War where we were going into South American would tie up troops that were needed elsewhere.)

    • There’s also the Iran/Hezbollah angle that I don’t think PT can say much about for security reasons.

      • I think that’s the biggie.
        Hezb-aloha + CHYna + RuZZia.

        Maduro in bed with the Twisted Ones. Communications via Que-ba. Nuke submarines lurking off both our coasts.

        • You are both right, we are headed into a multi-sided civil war with some of the sides backed by our foreign enemies and foreign enemies already on the ground in the US.