Goddamn, PASS THE SAVE ACT!!!
https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... point.html
Weak Men And Hard Times: The SAVE Act As A Tipping Point
Unless the President and Republican leaders become strong men on immigration and the SAVE Act, we are in for some very bad times.
Vince Coyner | March 5, 2026
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Like most red-blooded American men, I think about sex and the Roman Empire numerous times every day. In recent years, I’ve added the above quote to that set.
As I think back, the different elements of it were probably floating around in some amorphous, uncoordinated morass in the back of my mind for years, never bothering to coalesce. No doubt the reason they didn’t is that for most of my life, America was enjoying the “Good times.”
Good doesn’t mean perfect, of course. For the first three quarters of my life, times were far from it. From Vietnam to issues of race to the rusting of the manufacturing belt to economic tumult to the crime wave of the 80s and 90s, much of that period felt like Americans were living on a roller coaster. But overall, life was forward-looking and optimistic.
Slowly but surely, things usually seemed to be moving in the right direction in the long run. Japanese imports may have turned the Big Four into the Big Three, but they helped improve quality and innovation in the industry. Computers came along and started making everything from writing term papers to shipping logistics easier and more efficient. Among other things, transportation deregulation, the collapse of Ma Bell, and the growth of franchising brought about an increase in economic standards and a spectrum of lifestyle offerings that no humans had ever imagined, never mind enjoyed.
But then we got Barack Obama. He had a goal of transforming America...and he succeeded.
This was the beginning of the time when Americans stopped being able to debate ideas openly. Once Obama emerged on the stage, everything became about race and victimization. On virtually every issue, if someone disagreed with the administration on anything, it was racist.
I’m not suggesting it was all Obama’s fault. While he is most certainly a race grifter, the reality is that the silencing of debate by calling someone a racist was also enabled by Nancy Pelosi and every other Democrat in America.
But sadly, it didn’t stop there. Beginning in 2008, the Democrats—always the party of professional victimization, including their offspring, the KKK—perfected a tool for suppressing debate: wall-to-wall victimization.
From that point forward, Republicans were racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, antisemites, Islamophobes, and probably more, all at once. And suddenly, the spectrum of issues for which debate was verboten because Republicans were characterized as the living, breathing incarnations of Nazis, covered pretty much everything. From education to social net programs to airline safety to community policing, to the butchering of children, literally every single issue on the table was infected with the victimization cancer, where debating on the merits was no longer tolerated.