Oklahoma Supreme Court kills state question to eliminate property tax, declaring it “unconstitutional”

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In a 5-4 decision, the state Supreme Court nixed proposed State Question 843, which would have completely phased out all property taxes over the course of three years, arguing that it violates the state constitution requires municipalities to collect ad valorem taxes. The dissenting voices made clear that the Court does not have the Constitutional authority to declare unconstitutional a law that hasn’t even been voted on yet. The path forward now is to use a state question to amend the state’s constitution, and only then bring back another State Question proposing the elimination of property taxes.

This was always going to be the outcome. The lifeblood of “democracy” is the Middle Class, upon whom the System relies upon for its very existence. Property is owned by the these forgotten wage earners and taxpayers, and the System would never allow such an easy and enriching source of sustenance to be simply cut off.

Fascinating how much oppression, how much egregious taxation and regulation, can persist under Constitutional auspices, but any movement in the opposite direction is scrutinized under a microscope, and then killed in utero.

The Middle Class needs its own revolution, and there is only one form of government suited to the needs of the forgotten, nearly bled-dry, hosts of “democracy”.

America’s 19th century orphan palaces

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In 1890, the population of Springfield, Ohio, was 32,000. And yet, the enormous Odd Fellows’ Home for Orphans and the Indigent was built to house hundreds of children.

Jared Kushner’s phone hacked by Dutch intelligence, exposing billions in payoffs by Mideast royalty

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This should be the biggest story in the world, but it’s being relegated to the side, and will be forgotten in two weeks. In 2017, Kushner’s phone was hacked and monitored by Dutch intelligence, and found evidence of payoffs to a one-time hitman, receipt of billions from Mideast royalty, among other dirty deals.

Kushner has also struck me as very off. Borderline androgynous, of peculiar voice and cadence, he doesn’t really seem completely human.

 

Appeal to Heaven

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Even on an anonymous blog, I feel compelled to occasionally apply samizdat.

Reading John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, you can almost feel what Jefferson felt when he wrote the Declaration. It’s there, in utero, as if in wait for someone like Jefferson to distill the essence that became our founding creed. You can hear it like a tune thrumbing under Locke’s words. Even stylistically, they are very similar.

The progression of managed decline of the American Republic seems to have accelerated. The Old Stock are beginning to realize that the approved channels of change provide no real change at all, and are even designed to do so. They realize that what once existed here exists no longer, and they fear for the future of their children, and their children’s children. It’s important to think about more than just the present crisis. We have to mentally project the logical conclusion in our minds, and realize that something is happening which will soon be irreversible, and we must understand that this will be the legacy to all our descendants, who will be forced to contend with a nightmare that we were too weak and enfeebled, too meek, to ward off at the pass.

The forgotten progeny of America, scattered and in despair, may yet conform a new faith. It’s a question not if but of when. And maybe not even new, but about 250 years old. The appeal to Heaven lies in their hearts thus far unarticulated, but the right is theirs, and it’s finally beginning to register, the only path forward. The philosophical-historic fulcrum pivots amid just such cultural/existential crises, and managed, even planned, decline, is shattered to reveal the dawn beneath. The well-laid plans of American decline are not inevitable, though we’re made to believe as such. And too many do. Too many who see what’s happening and understand, then throw their hands up and say, “there’s nothing I can do”. That helpless despair has been planted purposely in your mind. It’s meant to ideologically anesthetize, to spiritually paralyze, and if it prevents you from acting, it is performing the task it was designed to do.

4 Decades of Replacement

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As of 2024, the United States is home to roughly 50 million foreign-born legal citizens, or 15% of the total population. Their children, second generation Americans, number over 20 million. Combined, their numbers comprise 30% of the current US population.

The official number of illegal immigrants living in the US sits at 14 million, but unofficial estimates triple that number, or 42 million. Roughly 300,000 babies are born annually to illegal immigrant families each year, or 9% of total annual US births.

Over the past 4 decades, the US has accepted 3.5 million refugees from various Third World nations. Refugee status allows them to also sponsor family members for resettlement.

Each year, the US issues roughly 600,000 immigrant visas via consulates and embassies overseas, as a path to permanent residency in the US. Overall, 1.4 million immigrants become “lawful permanent residents” in the United States annually. Over the past four decades, 38 million people have acquired permanent residency in the US. Of these 38 million, 24 million more of their family members have been sponsored and resettled here. Roughly 80% of all green cards are issued to immigrants from the Third World.

20 million have achieved full US citizenship over the past 40 years, and have sponsored 25 million family members.

The birthrate among naturalized us citizens sits at 2.19, compared to 1.73 among native-born citizens.

According to Grok, 88% of net job growth has gone to foreign-born workers in the United States over the past five years.

The white slums of Middle America

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Something that goes completely unacknowledged by pretty much everyone is the existence of vast white slums that lie on the outskirts of every small town in Middle America. Growing up within 30 minutes’ driving distance of several, it always seemed strange that these were never spoken of, almost as if no one even noticed. But they’re there, block after block of impoverished, filthy men, women, and children, all white, and all living in deplorable Third World conditions. They’re harmless, mostly, and seem at peace with the station in life they’ve found themselves in. It’s strange, bordering on the surreal, to drive through them today, and see that not only are they still there, but they’ve expanded, become more densely populated, and fallen further in decrepitude. These people are far past hopelessness, the despair hanging like a poisoned, invisible fog. They’re not hopeless, because hope has never entered their mind. Generation upon generation have lived this way. How long has this state of affairs existed? More importantly, why hasn’t something, anything, been done to solve this utterly unaddressed crisis? For all the money sent overseas, Uncle Sam could spare a few to help what appear to be a people you’d normally see working stable jobs, and living tolerable lives. You can see the intelligence in their faces and hear it in their voices, and envision the squandered potential. That may be the worst part of it. They aren’t low IQ, although they may live hand-to-mouth on EBT, and be addicted to meth, alcohol, and the many other vices common among those who need it just to get through the day. frequent visits to small town Oklahoma feel more like expeditions into forgotten sloughs of despond. I have a bad feeling that they will always be there, that nothing will be done, and that it will only get worse.

The suspiciously enshrouded past of St. Louis, MO

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As children and as we grow, history is presented to our developing minds as endlessly banal and soporific, almost as if on purpose. As if the teaching of it is specifically designed to induce tears of boredom, and a lifelong hatred of the subject. Everyone, almost to a person, appears to be conditioned to never look for more than a moment at historical anomalies. The strange fact that Corinthian columns, Second Empire and Beaux Arts architectural design, and enormous Gothic arches exist throughout the world, as if built around the same time period, and with the same horse-and-buggy tools that apparently were used to construct the colossal Gothic masterpieces of Medieval Europe, never enters our minds, having been successfully innoculated against historical curiosity.

Look at St. Louis, Missouri, before the intentional destruction of these masterpieces. You’d assume these had stood for 500 years if you didn’t realize it was 19th century America. Maybe you’d be correct.

Merchants Exchange

Old Four Courts (demolished):

Fullerton Building (demolished)

Basilica of St. Louis (still standing):

The Missouri Republican Building, demolished to make space for the St. Louis Arch:

Through the 1930s, over 400 similar buildings were demolished along the St. Louis riverfront, as part of a supposed riverfront revival, severing a physical link to an enshadowed past. What could have been the real reason for the deliberate destruction of such priceless works of art? Is it really possible to believe that these were built with the limited tools of the period?