Greetings, Dear Reader,

I’m realizing I’ve left you all in the dark.

My wife is due any day now. Specifically next Tuesday, but if you’re parents, you know that means any day.

I’m expecting to be out for two weeks, but I might still make time during baby/mama naptime to write in to y’all.

A couple years ago, before the birth of my son, I wrote a SOTD about fathers, specifically what they owe their families. It went out over email and as was our infrastructure at the time, if you didn’t get it, it appeared nowhere else.

Well, I’m rerunning it today.

A FATHER’S DEBT

This was originally sent to our subscribers Sept. 18, 2024, five days before my son was born.

I had been thinking deeply about what a father owes his family. Those thoughts became quite acute after I realized I would be having a son.

Curious about your thoughts, Dear Reader, so sound off in the comments or in emails to me.

Best,

Geoff

1. Survive:

There is nothing more worthless than dead. If you are a dad, don’t be dead.

Obviously there are things we cannot help, tragedies, accidents, etc. Barring those, in order to be a good dad, you need to be alive. At this point, you probably think I’m joking, and I am to an extent, but what I mean by this is that taking care of yourself is taking care of your family.

Among the things I find perplexing in this country, and there are many, is the general apathy for the mental and general wellbeing of dads and men. No, lol, I don’t expect anyone to go out and start a 501c3 dedicated to helping 40-year-old guys, that’s absurd. I also don’t expect society to declare September international dads awareness day, that is also absurd.

(Leave dad alone in September, that’s when football starts.)

What I mean more specifically, is among the dads themselves. Every time I see a 300+ pound dad, I’m not just disgusted, I’m disappointed. When did this become acceptable? Put the meatball sub down, man.

As a dad, you need to take care of yourself. You need to train for the worst. You need strength, and not just physical strength, strength of mind and character. How can you stand for anything if a flight up the stairs makes you wheeze? How can you instill discipline if every slice of pizza is an Odyssean Siren?

You need to be able to run a mile. You need to be able to carry something moderately heavy for an indeterminate amount of time. You should, in America, own and know how to shoot a gun. You need to learn to say no, and not just to others, but yourself.

I had kids late, near 40. Do the math and I’ll be 70ish by the time they’re all capable. I need mental and physical fortitude. I need to be capable, vicious even, until then.

No way to do that if I die due to bad habits aggregating in my bones.

2. Provide

Dads who don’t provide aren’t dads. They’re leeches. What’s more, they promulgate little ones who themselves, on the father’s example, become leeches.

When I say provide, I mean a number of things.

In this day and age, first and foremost dads must provide means. Money, in other words. Dads must be employed. I don’t care if your wife is an Instagram influencer (first of all, why’d you even marry her?). Get a job. If not, you are at best a confusing mom, at worst you are just an au pair with a penis attached.

Security. This goes back to #1. You need to provide security. That means not being limp-wristed. Stop spending money on urban scooters and just walk. Or run. Learn how to fight. Yes, I’m serious, literally go to classes. Spar other full-grown men. You need to fight to learn how to fight. If you can’t defend yourself, you can’t defend your family.

Purchase a firearm. Learn how to shoot and maintain a gun. Also learn how to fix things. Replace your own sink at least once. You don’t have to take apart a car engine, but replace a headlight or two.

Finally, provide a steadfast and positive example of masculinity. Your sons will model themselves after it and just as importantly, your daughters will seek it out in a mate. Your wife will be happy even as she sometimes wishes you wouldn’t embarrass her in a country club parking lot because the parking attendant who caught you illegally parking wouldn’t take her apology not once but twice and now you’re absolutely berating a complete stranger.

But I digress.

Security isn’t constant demonstrations of capability, but rather the known potential that capability can be, at any given time, demonstrated.

So in short: Means, security and an example. Provide all of those.

3. Thrive

This is among the hardest to achieve, but given the aggregate nature of life and habits, it’s perfectly achievable.

Thriving doesn’t mean you have to be Elon Musk. That’s insane. Also, the jury’s out on whether that guy is actually a good dad.

Wherever you go, whatever you do, growth should follow. Not immediately, but over time, you should demonstrate the capacity to thrive under basically any kind of obstacle. It’s as old an obligation as nature itself.

Thriving can be maintaining an optimistic attitude. It can be failing three times and succeeding the fourth. It can even be the proverbial corporate ladder and climbing that sh*t. Become bigger (but figuratively, chaps) as time passes.

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Thriving is also being satisfied when enough is enough. My uncle for years was a highly paid economist at a major company. Now he teaches math at a local high school and loves it. I mean the guy truly loves it. He thrived then, he’s thriving now.

So is his family.

You owe it to them to take the hits and keep on ticking. Thrive in all things.

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

I’d have done this sooner, but to be frank, running a journalism training program takes up most of my time and the trove of Anthony Fauci docs Rand Paul released was like 1000+ pages.

So yes, I’m late to the party.

Good thing for you, Dear Reader, my one and only rule about showing up late is to show up dressed to the nines.

Then everyone forgets you’re late!

DR. FAUCI AND MR. DRUMPF

Dr. Anthony Fauci is the Donald Drumpf the left always imagined Trump to be.

The trove of documents Rand Paul described as Fauci’s “diary” – really just notes for an eventual memoir – show that Fauci’s inner monologue was so self effusive, self congratulatory, and hyperbolic it would make Trump’s outer monologue blush.

Discussing Trump’s eventual turn on him, Fauci referred to himself as “the most credible scientist in the world.” He called himself “the most famous and talked about person in the world.” He recounted with bizarre self aggrandizement finding prayer beads with a picture of himself depicted as a Catholic saint.

We always knew Fauci was duplicitous. We’ve known for years that he lied about the lab leak, his role funding the Wuhan lab, his role in gain of function research and his role in the misinformation campaign — and so on. While I think it’s quite worthwhile to make hay out of all that – especially his concession that most scientists believed the virus was engineered from the start – none of that is news to me.

Should he go to jail for all of it? Absolutely. Nevertheless, the most revealing element of all these new documents to me is just how psychologically deranged Anthony Fauci the man is on the inside. He believed himself to be godlike. He had no business leading anything. We had every reason to be skeptical, aggressively so.

He noted that American university students “illegally sitting” on a campus lawn “enjoying themselves” applauded him when he walked onto campus. The “and then everyone clapped” meme was real life for Fauci. He noted applause he got at restaurants and standing O’s he received before speeches. He gleefully recounted talking to Barbara Streisand and then butt dialing her later. He recounted all the praise he received from celebrities and celebrity media personalities, just like Trump is known to do on stage, saying “people” “call” him all the time to say what a great job he’s doing.

Except … Fauci is not Trump giving a campaign speech. This is a “diary.” He’s talking to himself about himself. It adds another dimension to the profoundly disturbed inner person of Anthony Fauci. Trump is often just boasting. Fauci is looking in the mirror like Marky Mark at the end of Boogie Nights.

“I’m a star … I’m a star, I’m a star, I’m a star,” Mark Wahlberg says while his (prosthetic movie) genitals are exposed.

“Press is going wild with me,” he wrote on March 22, 2020. “Front page in Washington Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic.”

Chris Wallace at Fox gave him advice. Chuck Todd gave him advice. Jake Tapper gave him advice and invited him to dinner. The press more generally comes out of all this looking like a useless boob. They gripe about Trump threatening “Democracy” but serve no clear interest of the people in their approach to Fauci, an unelected bureaucrat who recalled with self reverence closing schools in New York and California with a couple of phone calls.

Mob bosses who end lives with phone calls are more self aware than Fauci, whose notes give off a sense of marvel at his own influence. I can shut down schools! I can shut down entire states with phone calls!

Noting with meticulous detail the “swag” exploding around his image, the mugs, bobble heads, bottle openers, magnets and St. Fauci imagery, he concluded unconvincingly, “I do not like this one bit.”

Fauci was lying even to himself in his own diary!

He recalled his travails in high society frequently. “I was totally swamped,” he wrote with no sense of irony, “all night by people wanting to say hello, shake my hands, and take pictures with me. I could not get away from it … some people may think that this is great to have people treat you like Elvis Presley.”

Again, at the end, he calls it “unnerving” as if he didn’t actually find attending parties with “the highest level of AAA list you could imagine in Washington DC” so great.

“Super A list at party,” he recalled to himself. “Senator Mark Warner, Kellyanne Conway, Andrea Mitchell, David Ignatius, David Frum, Zeke Emanuel, etc., etc.”

And if there’s one party that looks in particular like the sucker of the bunch, it’s the media.

I know it’s an old drum for a conservative to beat, but my god do they all look like total boobs now. The so-called defenders of big D Democracy. If an umpire in the bigs got as many calls as consistently wrong as the media over the last two decades, they’d be out on their asses, unemployed.

Iraqi WMDs, DEI, illegal immigration, toppling dictators, gender affirming care, Joe Biden’s brain melting one might think would be the worst of all, but really, it was covid and Fauci.

That pitch was up in the stands and Jake Tapper, Andrea Mitchell, Meet The Press, CBS, the NYT, Atlantic and Wapo were looking right into America’s eyes and calling a strike.

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The cult of Anthony Fauci, beginning in his own damned head and heading outward in concentric circles to overtake the brains of the most powerful people in DC, has arguably been the most damaging subversion of the American Republic in US history.

We’ve only just begun to understand the damage done. The learning loss. The universal scars on American childhood. The death and destruction. Businesses annihilated. 20+ million dead. China unaccountable. Risky science unaccountable. US taxpayer funded WMD research run by the PLA. People locked in their homes. Mostly liberal adults turned clinically neurotic, shrieking about mask use in 2022.

All of it sourced to the truly bobbled noggin atop Anthony Fauci’s torso.

Now we know. Dr. Fauci was the Mr. Drumpf the political left always accused Trump of being.

And they welcomed him in. Destroy democracy, Dr. Fauci, do it harder. Wreck our credibility worse than Trump ever could. Wreck our economy. Empower China. Ohhh yeah, St. Anthony, to you we pray.

I guess the bright side of it all, Dear Reader, is that our side had him pegged from the start.

Yes, the hapless rubes the media scorns so frequently. They had the real conman pegged from the absolute get.

At least we know there are real stewards of the American spirit out there, who will resist the power hungry dorks and science nerds to the very end.

Amen.

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welcome to my daily jihad, State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.

Guess what? Islam is corrosive.

ALLAH TOLD ME TO

Right now there’s a Dem-sponsored bill in Massachusetts to create a commission strictly dedicated to carving out government jobs specifically for Muslims.

The commission, should it be adopted, would also be compelled to make recommendations that would enshrine “Islamophobia” in various state lawmaking. In case you might be thinking of burning a Koran or calling Muhammad a pedo.

Just a rock’s skip away over in Europe, a number of explicitly pro-Muslim laws are already on the books in places like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and so on.

So they import the Muslim hordes, who rape and pillage, and then they make it illegal for you to call them rapists. Unlike the Catholic church, about which we hear this charge constantly from the liberal left, raping and pillaging is literally institutional in Islam. It’s a lawful mandate. Throw in child marriage/buggery as well.

Murdering apostates and infidels is also a command. You can actually read it for yourself. It’s not very hard to find.

There have been three Islamic extremist attacks in Europe in as many days. Following the attack on a gay pride event, LGBT activists tripped over themselves to express their discontent. Specifically, they were mad it wasn’t a “white, Christian man” and encouraged the public to keep the discourse nonpolitical.

Can these people even be helped?

Reuters coverage of the Muslim man who prowled the streets stabbing people in broad daylight in Paris couldn’t get any more comical.

Here’s the copy verbatim:

“It is Allah who commanded me,” the man lying on the floor says.

Nunez said the man had been detained by an off-duty police officer. “I pay tribute to him; it was a courageous act,” he added.

The motive for the attack remains unknown, Nunez said, adding that police could not verify the identity of the attacker, whose declarations were “incoherent” while he was being arrested.

Literally nobody in charge has any idea what they’re doing. The activist class responds to murderous Islamic extremism by openly wishing war on the religion that acted as the moral underpinning of the Western Enlightenment. (That would be Christianity.) Journalists and their mastheads print that motives are “unknown” despite perpetrators explicitly stating their motives. And police are perennially incapable of identifying threats to public safety.

So in case anyone’s still having trouble, let me spell it out: It’s the Muslims, stupid.

“Do you really believe that?” A friend asked me yesterday.

I had said in a group chat that 30 million people needed to be deported from the US, particularly the vast swaths of third-world Muslims we’d imported. My rationale was pretty simple: Islam is bad.

“Believe what?”

“That Muslims are no good?”

My son loves his daycare lady. She’s an elderly Pakistani woman who wears hijab. She’s great. I’m fond of her as well. I’m still fond of the fixers I worked with in Muslim countries. I’m fond of their dedication to religion and family. There are interpreters I’d have defended with my life. In fact, I pray the Angelus three times a day myself because of influence from Muslim friends.

But the religion itself is a fraud on par with Scientology, and the culture that comes with it is utterly corrosive to Western values. It takes just a few hours of reading Islamic scripture to conclude as much.

“Individually, they’re fine … but the call to prayer in suburban America is bad, the religion itself is bad, the culture is bad, their governments are bad. Virtually none of it is redeemable. But you can’t blame the individuals for that. They’ve been fooled.

“The culture is horrible … It’s antithetical to the West.”

In short, it should stay where it is. Firmly if necessary.

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Really, this goes for all of the Middle East, especially. Generations of tribalism and religious conflict have bred a culture of paranoia among Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, and Israeli Jews that is alien to Western ideals. The region’s entire culture — steeped in identity politics, religious fanaticism, and tribal loyalty — is at odds with the Western world’s belief in non-violent political transition, tolerance, and free speech. It seems hard, if not impossible, for the West to stop a group of regional cultures that refuse to let go of centuries of bloody feuds, and importing — or allying with — any of them is even more foolish.

Still, the Marxist Islamification of Democrat politics is far and away the biggest threat facing us at home right now. Mamdani is turning the mayor’s residence into a mosque and rolling out socialized grocery stores that are doomed to fail. Homos for Palestine. That’s the burgeoning face of lefty politics. Murderous, destructive absurdity.

And even as the Muslim hordes victimize them, as they certainly will, lefties will dream about “white, Christian men” to persecute.

The whole thing is perverse.

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

I’m going to let you in on a bit of a weakness of mine here at SOTD …

IT’S HAPPENING HERE NOW

First, I want to get this out of the way.

If you’ve been following me for a minute now, you know I’ve written about Anthony Fauci, COVID, the lab and his role in funding it (despite oversight meant to prevent such funding).

In fact, I’ve taken to starting off speeches to young conservatives by saying “Dick Nixon did nothing wrong, Anthony Fauci should be in jail, and we need more reporters who think both are true.”

The Fauci story is near and dear to my heart. Nevertheless, the doc dump over the weekend of Fauci’s diary is a bit too much for me to properly handle in an hour.

So I’m going to direct you to someone who did the story justice. Click here if you want a really good rundown from .

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Next up: The worst excesses of the UK? Happening here in the US now.

Some of you might have been following the Shiloh Hendrix case. This is a woman who caught a boy stealing from her son’s snack bag and got into a confrontation with the boy’s father. Things got heated and he started recording her, daring her to call him a “ni**er.”

Hendrix was visibly at her wit’s end and went for it unabashedly and without shame.

Overnight she became an internet sensation.

Was it because everyone to the right of AOC is racist? If you watch MSNOW, read the NYTimes and need to feel superior to sleep at night, sure, that could be why.

There’s another possibility. Perhaps Americans more generally are tired of the bloated, over-educated, low-IQ HR class policing language. More than tired, exhausted. One might say fatigue had fully set in by the time Shiloh Hendrix was shouting “ni**er” full blast next to an outdoor jungle gym.

As a result of the video and the public outcry, Hendrix was prosecuted by Minnesota authorities for disorderly conduct under a “fighting words” legal rationale. The rationale assumes that certain forms of speech are tantamount to violence because they will almost certainly result in violence, which in this case, they did not.

She was found guilty on one of two disorderly conduct charges, so the jury returned a split decision. If you want a good legal analysis of her pending appeals case, you can read that here and here. The short version: She’ll win.

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Setting her (strong) legal case aside, the most interesting details emerged in the immediate wake of the verdict.

Whoa! Judge Christa Daily has a recent, mind-blowing history of giving sex offenders a slap on the wrist. No jail time for child porn. No jail time and a minor fine for sexual assault of a minor. She did sentence one man to 30 days in jail for sexually assaulting a 9-year old, but he got “work release” the whole time.

And then there’s the (air quotes) “victim”.

Sharmake Omar, the man who filmed himself berating Hendrix in the park, was charged with two counts of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old foster care runaway. Those charges, levied to both him and a fellow cohort named (of course) Mohamed Hussein Omer, were dropped “in the interest of justice” despite the teen giving credible and detailed testimony.

In case you’re wondering, this case mirrors almost exactly the scenario playing out in the UK right now. Foreign-born men of Islamic origins grooming and raping underage runaways, more often than not white children, and then getting protection from public criticism by a state that has made such criticism a criminal act.

What’s happening there is happening here now.

Judges like Daily and others in completely unhinged blue states like Minnesota are giving preference to foreign kid rapists and arresting the people so fatigued by it all that they start hurling insults.

Luckily, it’ll be a cold day in hell if Hendrix loses her appeal. Thank God the higher courts in America are less insane.

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

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TAKE A PEEK INTO THE ELITE ABYSS

Every now and then, instead of reading a bunch of newsletters and copy and formulating a coherent and original idea for the day, I’ll just pop on X’s trending list and see what I think is the most insane news item.

Turns out that today, it’s just X’s trending list.

Americans care about almost none of this, fyi. They might find it amusing/enraging and comment about it on various social media if they see it in their feeds, but it’s not preeminent in their minds.

Polling still shows the economy, affordability, health care, and immigration are still the top issues.

But in elite bizarro world, these items (along with Musk’s hilarious interview with the Economist) are likely to dominate among the political commentariat, which is eminently too online and thus too divorced from reality.

First up we have an AP story about Nepalese ladyboy prostitutes no longer getting free condoms and lube from American taxpayers because Musk is mean or something. That’s literally the story. It’s gross. AP thinks you should care about it.

Some cross section of AP readership probably does, but it’s likely comprised of confused coeds, feminists and folks at condom NGOs that got their funding cut.

Then we have the USA Today lady who said Caitlin Clark’s complaints about WNBA refs are pretty much the same as lynching, and she’s putting black lives in danger by expecting basic civility to be upheld in sports.

Here’s the graf in case you’re interested.

Right along with Clark, we have Sophie Cunningham, who the New York Times reports is “doubling down” on the idea that men should not play in women’s sports.

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There was even a video of her enduring a struggle session in front of the media, who consistently refuse to accept reality on this topic.

Sophie’s is not a controversial take. ~70% of America agrees with her. It’s just that the majority of the media elite reside firmly in the other 30%.

Then we’ve got a rare closed question headline in which the answer is “Yes.”

Yes, they are. Is this even a question? Therapists are almost always as damaged as their clients. Also, the schools that credential them also inculcate them with unreality at best, and at worst, neo-Marxist unreality.

Of course, they’re telling kids to abandon their families. That’s what damaged, cultish Marxists do. Read a book.

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Also, therapy is fake. Especially for men. You want to do therapy for men? Give them an ax, a team of other men, and a bunch of trees to cut down. Then give him a steak, a few ice colds, maybe a bourbon and some primo tobacco. Repeat that for a few days, ten hours a day, and most men will be fine.

You want therapy for a woman? Give her a strong man and a bunch of kids.

This is the state of elite discourse today. Thank God it’s Friday indeed.

If you want to read more into it, be my guest. But be careful looking into the abyss because it could just look right back at you.

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This is completely unacceptable.

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