Opinion
By Geoffrey Ingersoll, 12-4-25
All of this is meant to terrorize and marginalize the normal people. To sap them of morale.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Welp, we’ve crossed the Rubicon. It’s all downhill from here.
Or is it? For the dads of the world, weekends are about chores, church, and family.
For the libs of the world …
STEADY PLOD OF THE ABNORMAL
The current debate (see: controversy) in national politics right now is whether or not it’s okay to kill terrorists.
First: Is it okay to shoot at them? Second: Is it okay to shoot at them again when you miss the first time?
The details of the case are not complicated. The administration believed it had identified a cartel drug boat headed to the U.S. border. Rather than risk a dangerous stop and board with the Coast Guard or the Navy, they simply conducted airstrikes. Their justification for these strikes was the State Department’s recent designation of these cartels as “terrorist organizations,” which opens up a whole host of additional interdiction tools.
We can debate the designation. We can also debate the accuracy of the intelligence, but there are a few things that are beyond debate.
- These were not just lowly fishermen out for a little fun in the sun, as I’ve seen some media types attempt to allege.
- It’s well within norms to use lethal force to prevent designated terrorist groups from delivering a payload of basically anything — drugs, bombs, guns — across our borders illegally.
Right now, there’s an attempt to render abnormal so-called “double taps.” A double tap is when your first strike fails to neutralize the threat and officers in charge deem a second strike as necessary.
Now, I can’t tell you how many hours of air combat footage there are of the military doing double and triple taps on terrorist targets. They do not care if dudes are fleeing and hiding. The object of the game is to kill all the terrorists.
Even GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who’s got absolutely no reason to defend Trump, said, “I can’t recall any time in my history of doing counterterrorism operations where we strike a group, whether that’s a building or a boat or a vehicle, and then we were, like, ‘Oh, well, there’s survivors. We have to go. We can’t kill them.’ Of course we killed them.”
Of course we did.
And of course, Democrats and their liberal media allies are attempting to make something perfectly normal — killing all the terrorists — into something abnormal.
Remember when Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker referred to being a wife and a mother as a “vocation” in a speech to graduating seniors at Benedictine College? The political left went absolutely ballistic. The NFL waffled and issued a statement distancing itself from Butker.
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Marriage and parenting as a “vocation” is milquetoast Christian doctrine, and Butker received a standing ovation from the Catholic college’s crowd. In other words, it’s perfectly normal.
Getting married young and having children is normal. Going to church is normal. Obeying laws is normal. Being a healthy, productive member of your community is normal. Being a masculine man and a feminine woman is perfectly normal.
It’s not normal to dare active-duty members of the military to defy civilian leadership, as Senate Democrats Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin did recently. It’s not normal to openly call for military coups, as Sen. Mark Warner did on MSDNC.
It’s not normal to support organizations that explicitly call for an end to the nuclear family or for riots in the streets, as Dems did with Black Lives Matter. It’s not normal to expect everyone to have the same exact outcomes in life. It’s not normal for men in women’s lingerie to read books to kindergarteners. It’s not normal for adults to parade themselves completely nude in public in front of children.
It’s not normal for subways, streets and parks to be owned and dominated by the most violent criminals in the country. It’s not normal to have 72 arrests and still be allowed to walk among the general public. People getting set on fire and murdered on the metro is not normal. It’s not normal for places of business just blocks from the White House to require magnetic locks on the doors.
What we’ve been witnessing from liberal elites over the past decade is a deeply energized attempt to push the abnormal and marginalized into normal territory, and the normal people and things out into the abnormal territory. It’s why Catholic masses were subjected to FBI surveillance for “extremism.” It’s also why pastors who prayed outside abortion clinics got raided at home during a family meal.
And it’s why so-called “polycules,” or people married to multiple people, got prime profile space in The New York Times. We’ve got how many genders now? More than 70? When did it become normal for elite universities to matriculate and credential kids who haven’t read a single book?
In the last decade, there hasn’t been an antisocial, destructive cause or person on the margins of healthy society that the political left has been unwilling to boost. They platformed Jacob Blake, who attempted to kidnap his children at knifepoint. They treated George Floyd like the next coming of Christ. They went to the mat to defend Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant who most likely trafficked people for MS-13.
They’d ruin you for objecting to literal pornography being taught in grammar school. They’d call you racist for pushing back against race-based policies. And so help you God, if you protested against abortion outside of an abortion clinic, the FBI would be at your house tomorrow.
Of course, men in dresses with sex crimes on their record should be allowed in the girls’ locker room during U-8 swim classes. Of course, we need fewer police. Of course, killing terrorists is a war crime.
Of course.
All of this is meant to terrorize and marginalize the normal people. To sap them of morale.
Well, not me, Dear Reader. I can tell you that much. Not us. We won’t be cowed by the crowing of those who would make the abnormal and destructive normal elements of our society.
The good guys will win. Mark my words. The normals will always outnumber the abnormals.
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