I had a new episode of GrokTALK! in the works, complete with lots of clips, moving parts, and commentary, when it crashed. This is not typically an issue, but when I reloaded the app, it had changed, and I was unable, try as I might, to log back into it.
I hope to find a way to recover it, but at this point, I’m beyond frustrated with the potentially lost work, including access to the editor. I need a new one, and that show may be gone. I have nothing to share in its absence, given the time left to me before the publication deadline.
It’s a podcast without the podcast.
A few thoughts from the show, absent the joys of a video podcast if that is, in fact, what it would have been.
Read on air from this earlier post:
Yes, California was part of Mexico – for less than three decades. The Spanish began colonizing California in 1542. After Mexico declared independence from Spain, it managed to hang on to California for a measly twenty-seven years (1821 to 1848) before the United States purchased the state (along with others) in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. California has belonged to the United States over six times longer than it ever belonged to Mexico.
I also had some thoughts along this vein.
Since its independence, Mexico has been in almost constant conflict with groups of indigenous people, who have been pursuing their own self-interest, the right to self-rule, and true Independence. Mexico has continuously suppressed them violently when necessary. I’m not sure how that makes people in Southern California, waving Mexican flags around in front of burning police cars feel, but maybe they could take all that energy and the Marxist money used to fund the riots in LA and all the riots likely to follow, and go back to Mexico to help those people fight for their independence, on land, they actually have a claim to.
People whose indigenous language is not the colonial conquering Spanish, spoken by the so-called protesters in defense of people who entered Southern California illegally.
The United States won the Mexican-American War. U.S. soldiers took Mexico City. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included Mexico’s relinquishment of all claims to territory north of the Rio Grande, which encompasses modern-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern California, and all points north. The US paid Mexico 15 million dollars as part of the deal, removed its troops from Mexico City north of the new border, and guaranteed the safety of any “Mexicans” in these new American territories, assuming they did not violate any US laws.
No one south of that border has the right to anything north of it, certainly not over the 27 years in which Mexico claimed it for itself.
More facts.
Entering Mexico illegally is also against the law. As Michael Shellengerger reminds us, were he and other Americans to go to Mexico City and behave the way these “protesters are acting in LA, we would not walk away unharmed.”
California did nothing to prevent illegal aliens’ access to the nation despite the illegality, nor did it move to suppress violence in their name, committed by them and others, choosing instead to condemn efforts to protect American citizens from violence.
Looting, crime, assault, and arson are not protected speech.
Defending the laws passed by Congress is not an abuse of executive power.
Staging Marxist-funded protests across the nation, likely to “spontaneously” become like those in LA, is not protected by the First Amendment, and actions by law enforcement and others to suppress violence are not tyranny – it is protecting American citizens from it.
The left’s mob rule tactics are very much like democracy in its purest form, which is why our nation was founded as a Republic.
To those who manage to engage in truly peaceful protest, we defend your right to do that. Those who use the protest to engage in violence, premeditated or otherwise, should expect to be met with equal or greater force.
To the media that plans to misrepresent that, nobody trusts you, and doing that isn’t going to help.
I want to think the commentary and clips were more compelling, but maybe not.
And, of course, we could always go back to the 1848 borders before the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. That would mean all of Mexico south to Mexico City belongs to the US, and all of those Mexicans would be eligible to become US citizens, but also subject to United States Law.
I’m fine with the borders where they are in 2025, but not with idiot leftists lying about why they are that way.
Check out this week’s Granite State Live for a slew of great rants on this subject, plus Bruce de Torres, Director of Communications of American Small Business League, and Michael A. Letts, Founder, President, and CEO of In-Vest USA.
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler
