#Immigration Update from South America 8: One Night in Bangkok

I’m in Necocli, #Colombia, a dangerous cartel town where #immigrants try to get a ferry across the Gulf of Urabá to the #Darién Gap. There’s never been a place of more hope & hopelessness.

Human degradation… 2.

…in its many forms is everywhere. I hadn’t been in town 15 minutes before I was offered cocaine and sex. Beggars of the authentic variety are everywhere. Street vendors price gouge. Cartel “eyes” are upon you and everyone else.

But you also encounter those who are…

UPDATE FROM SOUTH AMERICA 3: THE IMMIGRATION SHELL GAME🧵

I’m current driving through rural Colombia with a hired driver. With an hour to go, I thought I’d make use of the time.

I try to distinguish for you between what I know to be factual and my theories or opinions…. 2.

FACT:

The #Biden administration is using the #UN and a series of NGOs to traffic humans across this continent — and the globe — to the US border, or, increasingly, to bypass the #border altogether and fly them to undisclosed locations in the US.

But a number of questions…

#BorderCrisis Update from South America:🧵

I’m currently in Colombia.

To say that it’s a sh*t show down here is an insult to fine sh*t shows everywhere.

The #Biden administration is running a human trafficking op via the #UN, NGOs, and your tax $.

They are flying illegals… 2.

…from Central & South America to secret destinations in the US while denying it and media allies obfuscate the facts.

NGO personnel tell me off-record that the Biden administration won’t reveal the destination of flights, but that they are, with the use of anonymous…

Sitting in a doc’s office waiting room, I passed the time writing an allegory of #America.

Enjoy!

#TRUMP MARRIAGE COUNSELING: AN #AMERICAN ALLEGORY

Think of America as a bad marriage.

Her name is Blue. (Pretentious, she prefers Bleu.) His is just plain ol’ Red. She comes… 2.

…from money. He’s self-made. Their marriage is Green Acres minus the grace and good humor.

She’s sleeping with everybody but him; he’s a regular guy who doesn’t know it.

But Red knows something is off. So, he convinces his wife that they should see a marriage counselor…

EGYPT’S “GARBAGE PEOPLE”:🧵

“Where are we going today, Mr. Alex?” My Egyptian driver asked.

“Garbage City,” I said.

“Mokattam?” His tone was decidedly unenthusiastic.

“You think it’s dangerous.” Mine was a statement, not a question. The concierge had tried to dissuade… 2/22

…me.

“I’m Egyptian, and I would never go there. But you?” This was a warning.

Ibrahim had been my driver on multiple occasions. He likes it because, he says, “It’s never boring with you.”

And I like him because he’s a good. (Pro tip: When in the third world, always…

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 15: Javier Milei and the WEF strategy

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Argentina's new President Javier Milei has become something of an anti-globalist rock star -- and for good reason.

The Spanish-speaking equivalent to Donald Trump flew into Davos on a commercial flight... 2/13

...and gave the globalist elitists here -- collectively: "WEFers" -- a piece of his populist mind.

Milei, an economic and maverick, has consciously mimicked Trump straight into the presidency, even saying, "Make Argentina Great Again."

None of us can recall an...

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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 8: Day One

As many of you know, I am in Davos, Switzerland covering the annual WEF meeting. It’s the Oscar’s for globalists.

It seems the best place to begin is with a WEF primer:

The World Economic Forum was founded by octogenarian Klaus… 2/15

…Schwab in 1971. He has been its sole chairman.

In prepping for a 4-part series on the WEF I wrote for Daily Wire — now available on my website — I read his books.

Schwab, an engineer by education, uses the language of his profession: “The future is built by us!” He…

DEATH & HOPE:🧵

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“O death, where is thy victory?
O grave, where is thy sting?”

This has been a hard week.

Lauri and I were out for dinner when she got a call. Her dad, hospitalized, was dying. We left our table and went and stood in the lobby Facetiming with him as he… 2/14

…gradually slipped away.

87-years-old and in failing health, this was not wholly unexpected. Even so, children feel the loss of a parent very deeply. And it hit me hard, too. I held Lauri and we wept together.

Earlier that same day — but well before we knew what the…

THEY/THEM:🧵

Recently I was in a store and requested help. An employee was called and a . . . person came. The face was almost totally obscured by a mask and utterly opaque sunglasses.

Asking the price of an item and being Southern, I started to say “ma’am” but stopped short… 2/

…because I wasn’t sure this person was indeed female. The hair was very short and the appearance was either that of a somewhat effeminate male or a butch female.

It was then that I noticed the name badge:

ZEN
THEY/THEM

Normally, I refuse to play along with the…

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WOMEN MAKE THE HOLIDAYS: LITERALLY🧵

When I was a little boy visiting my g’parents on Vancouver Island, I would get up early with my Irish g’ma. She’d sit me on her Aga coal stove & chat with me while she cooked.

The stove was warm & her Irish jaunty. I’d fetch her coal… 2/9

…and she’d teach me limericks.

I did much the same with my Alabama g’ma who—sorry g’ma Henderson—had vastly superior culinary skills. What she lacked in witty Irish-isms, she made up for in little tasty morsels she’d give me from the things she was baking.

The holidays…

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HOW #HOLOCAUST DENIAL IS BEING USED IN THE #ISRAEL - #HAMAS #WAR

Early in my minor academic career & before I became a writer, I was awarded a fellowship that sent me to Europe to study the origins of the Holocaust.

My research took me to Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald,… 2/14

…Mittelbau-Dora, Mauthausen, and a few other places of Nazi genocide.

There you find rooms full of prosthetic limbs, gold teeth, piles of human hair, suitcases packed by Jews who thought they were just being relocated, baby shoes, ashtrays made from human pelvises, lamp…

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ISLAM & JORDAN PETERSON

I’ll say it again. I like Peterson. Glad he’s on our side.

But he has confused conversations with “moderate Muslims” — who largely ignore their religion’s teachings — with orthodox Islam.

I have debated Muslims on CNN, Al Jazeera, and…

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1714435939832115520

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…(the real ones) in Hyde Park, London.

I have seen the work of Boko Haram and the Fulani Herdsmen Militia in Nigeria.

I have witnessed clerics spitting at women dressed in the Western style in Egypt.

I have been to a dozen terrorist sites, all evil acts committed by…

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ELON MUSK, LINDA YACCARINO, & THE MYTH OF FREE SPEECH ON THIS PLATFORM: a short 🧵

Take a moment to read @elonmusk’s tweet from yesterday.

It’s bold. He’s made many such bold statements.

But is it true?

Let’s juxtapose this decree from on high with a bolder statement… 2/6

…made by his handpicked CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Listen carefully to her doublespeak. Listen carefully as she tells you, flat out, that this is NOT a free speech platform under her direction.

I said that her statement is bolder than his because you would think that she, as…

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OF MICE AND MUSK:🧵

.@elonmusk talked very boldly from the outset of his Twitter takeover. No one made him do it. He liked the superhero comparisons. He would save free speech & civilization.

A savvy businessman, he nonetheless hoped to make Twitter profitable, but, as he… 2/

…told a CNBC interviewer, if he lost money, so be it. Free speech was, to hear him tell it, the mission.

Early signs were promising. He unlocked a number of conservative accounts while others — including my own — suddenly began to flourish. The Twitter Files exposed the…

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OPPENHEIMER: A PERSONAL NOTE

I saw the film. Barring a couple of weird scenes, it’s excellent. I take issue, however, with the revisionism that the US dropped the bombs on “a defeated enemy.”

I actually knew the man who provided the casualty estimates on the possible… 2/

…invasion of the Japanese home islands. His name was MRD (Michael) Foot. An Oxford historian post-war, Michael was a remarkable man and something of a mentor to me.

A member of the SAS during the war, he was captured by the Nazis while on a behind-the-lines mission. He…

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THE POWER OF GRACE

Yesterday, I saw an absolutely amazing thing. I was watching a documentary about the descendants of the men in Hitler’s inner circle and their struggles to cope with their horrifying legacies.

One, the grand-niece of Herman Goering, was a pleasant… 2/

…German woman now living in the USA. She had decided to have herself sterilized “so there would be no more Goerings.”

Another, a thoughtful, honest granddaughter of Heinrich Himmler, was a troubled soul who used a different name and hoped people would think her Dutch….

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THE COMPLEX LEGACY OF TIM KELLER: 🧵

I’ve been processing the passing of two PCA pastors this week: Tim Keller and Harry Reeder III. They leave two very different legacies.

I have already expressed my shock and grief for the sudden loss of Harry. Keller’s passing, … 2/

…though expected, nonetheless leaves a permanent hole in a family. We grieve with them.

Harry was well-known to me if not to others. He did not have Keller’s national profile even though he pastored a PCA flagship. But the contrast between them is noteworthy.

Harry was…

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G. GORDON LIDDY: AMERICAN ENIGMA 🧵

HBO has a new series about G. Gordon Liddy and the Watergate fiasco.

Liddy interviewed me 2-3 times. On the first occasion, I expected a crazy man. That was, after all, his reputation.

But he was nothing of the sort.

Liddy was highly… 2/

…intelligent and superbly educated. There was hardly a subject—history, philosophy, art, literature, law—in which he did not command greater knowledge than you.

He made a small fortune by leaning-in to his Mad Max reputation—primarily the creation of John Dean’s…

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GUNS & THE ROOT CAUSE OF MASS MURDER: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 🧵

Another tragedy and another predictable response to it.

I will begin my essay in an unlikely place: C.S. Lewis and a debate on educational philosophy in WW 2.

Stick with me here. It’s worth it.

In the… 2/

…early stages of the war, a debate raged in England over this question: How can education prevent the rise of future Hitlers?

The thinking behind the controversy went like this: Hitler had, by stoking ethnic divisions and bitterness over the Treaty of Versailles, led a…

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“FOR YOUR OWN GOOD”: A SHORT 🧵 ON TYRANNY

Among the many phrases in modern usage that cloak an evil agenda, let me alert you to a few more.

These euphemisms are favorite Leftist phrases (like “The Final Solution”) that are freighted with an inhumane agenda: 2/6

You can bet that what follows will NOT be with your liberty, happiness, and peace in mind.

C.S. Lewis observed that the worst kind of tyranny is that which is exercised “for your own good,” because he who tyrannizes you does so with a clear conscience. He is sure he…

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TUCKER CARLSON, MARTIN LUTHER, & THE NEW MEDIA: a 🧵

Perhaps I’m the only one who sees @TuckerCarlson’s departure from @FoxNews as good news.

If I’m a Democrat strategist, I want him there so that I can, by applying pressure to Murdoch, at least control him a little…. 2/

Carlson, for example, after an initial rollout of the #Jan6th tapes, went silent on the subject.

He also gave no coverage to @DineshDSouza’s 2000 Mules film which exposed massive election fraud. Perhaps these reflect Carlson’s own opinions, but one suspects he was…