Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Collapse of Society (X Thread)

What is the Decline of the West?

What does it look like?

Consider this X thread:

Tough love comes in many forms.

Sometimes, a sober reflection on the past, and the moral decline overwhelming our present, can focus us on preparing for a better future. 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

MassResistance is Launching a Public Education Revolution!

 We need to start a revolution in every school district!

Our schools have hit rock-bottom, and the children are the victims. It must be completely changed.

This situation must be completely reversed.

March 27, 2025
ALT TEXT This is an example of what the special interests and teachers' unions have brought into schools across the country - replacing real civics and academics.

Public school enrollment across the country is going down. Families are leaving their local schools. By the thousands, they’ve had enough. They are paying to send their children to private schools or they are taking on the burdens of homeschooling.

It’s not hard to see why. By virtually every measure, public school education in America is worse than ever before in history. High percentages of children in every grade are reading below their expected grade point level. They can’t do complex (or even easy) math problems. Their knowledge of civics, American government, and history is abysmal. They can’t write coherent paragraphs.

As a result, when students graduate, their reading levels, critical thinking ability, and general knowledge are far below even that of a few decades ago. Most colleges must now require remedial classes in basic subjects for students to simply catch up. Even Stanford, Harvard, and MIT are offering remedial math classes.

But there are some things that the public schools seem to excel at. Most parents are just becoming aware of how thoroughly dominated their schools are by leftist ideology, radical indoctrination, and other toxic non-academic materials and activities. Homosexuality, secret transgender grooming, gender ideology, Planned Parenthood-style sex-ed, pornographic books, anti-Americanism, and far-left political fads (anti-Semitism, “climate change,” etc.) have become standard fare. LGBT “GSA” clubs are in most high schools and many middle schools. There is even a push to start “rainbow clubs” in elementary schools!

Students go through school embracing a range of destructive ideas. And their mental health issues have skyrocketed.

Not surprisingly, good teachers are also leaving the schools. They’ve had enough of the radicalism, the absurd non-learning atmosphere, and the horrible discipline problems caused by “woke” policies imposed by administrators.

It’s not just children who are being irreparably harmed. It’s their families and all of society.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Children are capable of great learning. Public school students used to study (and appreciate) Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, and other great authors. They learned algebra, calculus, and trigonometry. They studied chemistry and physics. They knew geography, history, civics, and astronomy as well as most adults. They could debate and write well (with very good penmanship) and a larger vocabulary. They learned musical instruments, sang in chorus, and learned to appreciate classical music and even opera.

And beyond that: When Winston Churchill was a boy, his classmates could compose poetry in ancient Greek and Latin. He sometimes reminisced about reading Thucydides in the original Greek in high school.

We can restore education in America! Public schools should be uplifting beacons of learning instead of cesspools of ignorance, propaganda, and perversion.

Parents should want to send their children to the local public schools. Teachers should want to teach at them.

President Trump has opened the door to positive change. His Executive Orders are requiring that school systems that receive federal funding (i.e., all of them) abandon illegal and discriminatory DEI policies and teaching, identity propaganda, destructive gender ideology, and boys in girls’ sports  – and implement pro-America courses of study for students.

That is a great start. For the first time in memory, parents have a friend – not an enemy – in their federal government in this regard.

This is an incredible opportunity. It’s a time for parents across the country to jump in and use that starting momentum from the top to force the entire change on the local level. An American revolution in education: All the bad curriculum (and methods) must go. All the radical perversion must go. It must be replaced with true quality.

But in every community, there are big obstacles to making this vision happen. Special interests, big money, and children are a dangerous combination. The national LGBT groups, the teachers’ unions, radical teachers, woke administrators, leftist school committees, and local unhinged leftist activists are all strongly against the reforms that parents want.

In most communities in America, the public schools take up over half of the town’s entire operating budget. Taxpayers – everyone’s taxes – are paying many times the per-pupil cost at similar private schools. We must insist on getting our money’s worth at the public schools.

Like every revolution that’s worth fighting, this will be a very nasty battle. Unfortunately, the conservative movement is not stepping up in any forceful way. But MassResistance has aggressively geared up to help parents make this happen in their communities. The only requirement is that the parents must really want this change. It’s not a fight for cowards. But it will really be worth it.

We’re already at work in a few school systems. But we want this education revolution to be a national movement! If you know of people in your community who are tired of the Left ruining the lives of everyone’s children with your tax money, drop us a line!

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"Palestinians" Teach Their Children to Kill Themselves While Killing Others

 How does anyone make peace with a culture like this?


No such thing as "Palestine." 

There is no making peace with this ideology.

This is not a culture. This is not a country. This is not a nation. This is not a people.

PalestinianISM must be eradicated, just as El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele eradicated every trace of MS-13 from his country.

Chinese Propaganda Using Western Influencers to Promote China

 This is a problem:


Does anyone really believe this nonsense? 

China is shoring up influence by buying up influencers.

This is wrong. 

Do not fall for the CCP propaganda!

TAC: The Judicial Supremacy Lie

 

The Judicial Supremacy Lie

Lysander Spooner vs the Supreme Court  (article | podcast)

“An unconstitutional judicial decision is no more binding than an unconstitutional legislative enactment.”


That’s how Lysander Spooner rejected the dangerous doctrine of judicial supremacy - the idea that a judicial opinion becomes law simply because judges say so.


Spooner’s warning wasn’t new. It echoed the Founders and reinforced a principle that once formed the foundation of constitutional understanding: The Constitution is supreme - not opinions about the constitution from anyone.


But today, this principle has been almost entirely forgotten - or worse, ignored.


What is Judicial Supremacy?


Judicial supremacy is the idea that the Constitution means whatever the courts - especially the Supreme Court - say it means, until they change their minds. It places judicial opinions above the President, Congress, the states, the people - and even the Constitution itself.


But as Spooner wrote in A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850):


“The Constitution is the fundamental, the paramount law, and all officers of the government are sworn to support it.”


In short, judicial opinions carry no special weight unless they’re in line with the Constitution.


“A judicial decision, as such, has therefore no intrinsic authority at all; its constitutional authority rests wholly upon its being in accordance with the constitution.”


This means Supreme Court decisions aren’t automatically binding. Judges are just as capable of violating the Constitution as Congress or the President.


“There is not a syllable in the constitution that makes a decision of the judiciary - of its own force, and without regard to its correctness - binding upon anybody, either upon the executive, or the people.”


Replacing constitutional supremacy with judicial supremacy means there’s no limit to what the courts can declare “constitutional.” That, Spooner warned, is the road to despotism.


“If a judicial decision contrary to the Constitution were binding simply because it were a judicial decision, the judiciary could constitutionally make themselves absolute sovereigns at once.”


This would transform judges into a permanent class of unelected rulers with unlimited power.


“If we take the decision as authority for the meaning of the constitution, all decisions will of necessity be constitutional, and the judges are of course, constitutionally speaking, absolute despots.”

The Founders Supported Constitutional Supremacy Too


Spooner didn’t invent these ideas. He was just repeating what the Founders had already made clear. Hamilton, in Federalist No. 78, wrote:


“Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void.”


To deny that would be to claim “that the servant is above his master.”


Madison reminded us of the proper chain of authority:


“The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind.”


Tucker warned that laws not in line with the Constitution are no laws at all:


“Otherwise they are not laws, but a mere nullity; or what is worse, acts of usurpation.”


Despite what you may have heard, even John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, took the side of constitutional - not judicial - supremacy:


“A law repugnant to the constitution is void; and... courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.”


Jefferson knew better than to trust the courts:


“Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so... the constitution has erected no such single tribunal... it has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”


And Madison emphasized that courts, like all branches, can violate the Constitution:


“The judicial department also may exercise or sanction dangerous powers beyond the grant of the Constitution.”


Spooner took this to its logical conclusion: if unconstitutional decisions aren’t law, they don’t have to be followed.


“An unconstitutional judicial decision is no more binding than an unconstitutional legislative enactment - and a man has the same right to resist, by force, one as the other.”


And for public officials who take an oath to the Constitution, Spooner said it’s not just a right - it’s a duty:


“His oath to support the constitution (as he understands it) forbids him to execute any law that he deems unconstitutional.”


This view reiterated what St. George Tucker wrote about the oath to the Constitution in 1803:


“The people are not only not bound by them [unconstitutional acts], but the several departments and officers of the governments, both federal and state, are bound by oath to oppose them… They must violate that oath whenever they give their sanction, by obedience or otherwise, to any unconstitutional act of any department of the government.”

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5 Essential Truths from Lysander Spooner - echoing the views of leading founders.


If judicial opinions are law just because judges say so - then we don’t have a written constitution, at all. Instead, we live under the British system of arbitrary power the founders fought a long, bloody war to secede from.


That was the essence of Lysander Spooner’s warning. And from his writings, we’re left with five essential truths:

  • The idea that judicial opinions are binding simply because they’re judicial opinions is the definition of tyranny.

  • The Constitution - is the supreme law of the land.

  • Judicial opinions are only binding when they align with the Constitution.

  • Every official at every level takes an oath to the Constitution - not to anyone’s opinion about the Constitution.

  • Refusing to enforce unconstitutional acts from any branch isn’t just a good idea - it’s required by that oath.


Spooner nailed it:


“The idea, so constantly asserted, that the permanent judiciary, the judges, have a right to decide all constitutional questions, authoritatively for the people, is one of those gross impostures, by which men have always been defrauded of their rights.”


The bottom line: Judicial supremacy isn’t law. It has no basis in the Constitution. It’s tyranny.


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It’s no wonder government-run schools never teach us much of this - if anything at all.


That’s part of why we work so hard every single day to reach and teach more people about this essential history - and these essential foundational principles of the Constitution.


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Concordia res parvae crescunt
(small things grow great by concord)


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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Federal Appellate Judges who Served as Clerks for Justice Clarence Thomas (as of March 20, 2025)

Left-wing rags like The Atlantic are panicking about Justice Thomas' far-reaching influence.

As they should.

He has been a true legal cultural warrior, and we need more justices like Thomas, who are committed to fighting for our constitutional republic against all odds.

President Trump needs to consider elevating two of the appellate justices below to the United States Supreme Court as soon as possible!


 

Here is a list of current federal appellate judges who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas [Via Grok], based on available information as of March 20, 2025. Justice Thomas has had a significant influence on the federal judiciary, with many of his former clerks being appointed to federal appellate courts, particularly during the Trump administration. The list focuses on judges actively serving on the U.S. Courts of Appeals:

  1. Gregory G. Katsas (born August 6, 1964)
    • Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    • Appointed: 2017 (by President Donald Trump)
    • Clerkship: Clerked for Justice Thomas during the 1991–1992 term, part of Thomas's first group of Supreme Court clerks.
  2. William H. Pryor Jr. (born April 26, 1962)
    • Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    • Appointed: 2004 (by President George W. Bush)
    • Clerkship: Clerked for Justice Thomas during the 1996–1997 term. (Note: Pryor's appointment predates the Trump-era wave of Thomas clerks, but he remains an active judge.)
  3. Allison Jones Rushing
    (born 1982)
    • Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
    • Appointed: 2019 (by President Donald Trump)
    • Clerkship: Clerked for Justice Thomas during the 2007–2008 term.
  4. Neomi Rao (born March 22, 1973)
    • Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    • Appointed: 2019 (by President Donald Trump)
    • Clerkship: Clerked for Justice Thomas during the 2001–2002 term.
  5. James C. Ho (born February 27, 1973)
    • Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    • Appointed: 2018 (by President Donald Trump)
    • Clerkship: Clerked for Justice Thomas during the 2002–2003 term.
  6. David R. Stras - Clerk to Justice Thomas (2002–2003 term). Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 2018.
  7. Allison H. Eid - Clerk to Justice Thomas (1996–1997 term). Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 2017.

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