Harris has shown up in a video that is being widely-circulated by Democrats -- and she's clearly either intoxicated or psychotic.

Assuming this is not tampered with, and it doesn't look like it is given that Fox is reporting on it, who in the Name of God would ever release something like this where the public can see it.

You don't get that unstable, and be willing to display it where others can see it, in a day, a week, a month or a year.

We literally came within the people's choice of putting this person in the left seat with the nuclear launch codes and a crap-ton of warmongers who want to see WWIII start right here, right now.

Never mind the rapidly-growing scandal within Harris' campaign -- more and more examples are coming out of her campaign paying for friendly "interviews" which were undisclosed.  That's a clear violation of election law; any expenditure for election communications has to be disclosed in the communication as to the funding entity.  Those were advertisements, not interviews.  Harris appears to have essentially ignored this not only in the spirit but almost-certainly in the letter of the law -- whether it will lead to any consequences is, of course, an open question.

I have much more to say on Trump's choices for his cabinet; some good, some not-so-much, particularly the insane belief by his Treasury nominee that we can ignore the medical scam for another four years.  No we can't; its going to blow next year or into the midterm year and ruin both House and Senate majorities if we don't deal with it straight up on the first day -- and Biden is doing everything he can to throw gasoline on that fire on the way out with his insane Ozempic crap for Medicare and Medicaid.

But had this election gone the other way in less than two months we'd be staring at a woman who is unstable enough, by the clear and public evidence, in power that we'd almost-certainly wind up in the middle of a nuclear war.

If you voted for her and don't admit this, given the evidence before you now, you're certifiable.

And dangerous.

And by the way, if you (that is Democrats, since you're the ones who ran and then voted for this woman) don't fix this right here and now, permanently within your party structure then the sane people of this nation must destroy the party including every elected person within it -- no exceptions.

The Party and its "boosters" and supporters in the media, other politicians (hi Obama) and similar are all responsible for this; Harris has been questionably-stable for a long time, there are valid questions about the drugs found in the White House and who's they really were, and any political party that will nominate and back a candidate for President that displays this sort of radical instability in their mental state must be ruined and permanently removed from the political landscape because the price of not doing so has a high probability of quite-literally being 3/4 of the population killed in a nuclear war and its aftermath entered into not due to necessity, not due to miscalculation but rather due to raging, active insanity in a person deliberately promoted as a candidate and who's mental condition is being actively concealed by everyone involved.

There is now enough credible information related to Western NC on what's going on with the various "organs of government."

I've written about a lot of this in the past; zero of what FEEEBLA (FEMA) has done surprises me.  Show up a week late, rent up all the nice places outside of the damage zone at $500/nt for your "people", fuck the locals who have nothing because it was destroyed, walk around with clipboards, clear a tree with a chain of people passing logs around and take photos to post on media which anyone with more than a shoe-sized IQ knows is fucking stupid because anyone with a brain would pull a side-by-side or small pickup in there, toss the logs in and drive it the 200' which is 100x faster and more efficient if the goal was to actually clear the downed trees and then, once you harass people and act like strutting peacocks leave, fuck all the people who got hosed.

Oh by the way we spend billions a year on this horseshit and should ruin them all.

But the latest is much-worse than preening and doing nothing: Its at the county level and is active obstruction imposing misery on top of what nature did and is exactly what you get when you let state and local government have too much power rather than give them a reminder from time to time who actually is in charge (not them.)

Specifically they're forcing people out of temporary structures built by volunteers because "they don't meet code."  Among the things the CUNTY cites are lack of insulation and lack of a permanent and permitted foundation.  The former is a "who fucking cares, its cold and a wall to stop the cold air is better than none" and the latter, in the present tense, is a physical impossibility because (1) the former foundation at the site is either gone or buried under 6' of mud and unusable, (2) wouldn't align with the temporary structure anyway thus can't be tied to in a code-compliant way and (3) the permitting and soil engineering analysis required to put up a new one is unreasonable under the circumstances.

Yeah, I get it -- if there is severe weather again without that the temporary structure may be destroyed but guess what -- so will be a tent and in the meantime its a hell of a lot warmer and better than a tent.

It appears the only "legal" option other than a tent for these folks is an RV which isn't a structure and thus fuck those government goons but, when it comes to the FEMA ones they won't let the people use them (and yes, FEMA has a couple thousand of them) because most of the sites are in fact in a flood plain as was just proved in spades by the event (duh), that's prohibited use by FEMA and thus fuck you no place to live for you.

Oh and I'm sure there are some assholes in the county who will be around next to tell you that an RV is not a legitimate "living unit" either if used for more than some period of time (e.g. a week or two) on a given piece of property.  You know, because a fucking tent beats something with walls?

There are times that one thinks that perhaps the correct answer to "government" is in fact to say no to all of it except for a Navy at the federal level, run them all out of town by whatever means are necessary and accept that (1) this means you have to shoot your own intruders, thieves, rapists and similar and (2) take the risk of food poisoning in a restaurant and such, along with the risk of a fire in a motel or other structure because there are no inspectors and such and thus nobody to police it all.

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES.

When you get down to it, all of this -- and much more -- is related to something we don't want to discuss.

The issue with "migrants" in Germany deciding that ordinary revelry, which Germans have partaken in without incident for a long time -- suddenly becomes an invitation to rape.

The same sort of problems occur in England, with the same source.

And Laken is dead for the precise same reason.

You see, we're not all the same.

In fact, Anglo-Saxon White People, like it or not, are rather unique -- and a serious minority in the world.  It's a cultural difference that may or may not be bred into us, but its real and those nations that have ignored it have paid the price -- in blood.

Simply put, it's this: Different cultures have a wildly-different view of the value of human life.

You cannot let people into your nation and society who do not share your view of human life, or allow other things to have a higher valuation (like their desire for sex) than you place on life yourself.  If you do your society is doomed because you will be forced to either degrade your view to match those you admit or they will abuse and kill you.

Laken (and many others) are dead because we did not adhere to this basic principle when it comes to who we let into our nation which, in fact, up to the 1960s, was based on exactly this.  Multiple "immigrant" sexually-abusive monsters who allegedly raped children are in Massachusetts for the same reason.  Our abandonment beginning with Hart-Celler and wildly expanded and abused in the decades since, was defective in the first instance because it ignored the basic fact that our cultural standards in this regard are incompatible with many others.

We're not the only ones; most of Europe has done the same foolish things -- and gotten the same results.  You could claim a one-off was "random chance" but not when it happens repeatedly, as it has in France, England, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere.

The facts are that most of the planet's cultures simply do not share Anglo-Saxon values in this regard.

Yes, there is a distribution of these beliefs in individuals across all cultures, but the distribution is not the same between cultures and people, just as is the case that not all Pit Bulls will eat your child.  But the odds of a Pit Bull doing so, irrespective of training, are much higher than that of a Lab doing the exact same thing.  The distribution between those breeds, although both are dogs, is wildly different.

We are nowhere near perfect -- but we are different, and if the choice is to either have that high-level respect for human life or not -- I chose to have it, because while there are those who are nuts in any population there is a difference in the baseline, and its not small.

Laken and many others are dead because we refused to respect that.

We must return to what was.

Hart-Celler and what followed after it, especially the Reagan Amnesty and what has followed since, was a monstrous mistake we must reverse.

It starts, if Trump means what he says, with indictments and prosecutions under 8 USC 1324, a long-standing law that mandates a term up to life in prison for each and every person who provided assistance to Iberra -- including the landlord who rented him an apartment, the entity who paid for him to reocate to GA from NY and everyone else involved including State and Local government officials, none of whom are immune from Federal prosecution and all of whom facially violated that law.  If this does not happen on the first day Trump is not serious and the choices before us become much more-stark as it then becomes clear we cannot vote our way out of this problem.

I'll give it to you long, hard and dry on why Democrats lost:

• Parents, especially parents of girls, are tired of the bullshit about boys in their locker rooms and on their sports teams.  Oh, you think not?  Well then you're fucked in the head.  Every adult man knows goddamn well how he would have reacted at 13 to the prospect of being able to look at some 13 year old pussy in the shower!  Give me a fucking break; this is so goddamn stupid that nobody except 40+ year old women who mass 400lbs and couldn't get laid by a rabid convicted rapist would support it.  By the way the official Democrat party position is that any boy who says he's a girl can ogle your daughter in the locker room and run against her in a Cross-Country meet -- this isn't just some lunatic fringe thing, Harris/Biden really did that to Title IX as a mandate.  (PS: If you're on a dating site and have "trans rights" in your profile then you've self-tagged as a fucking lunatic as you clearly support teen boys in the girl's locker room. Nobody wants to date mentally-ill people -- well, except others who are as well, of course.)
  
  
• Everyone is tired of the inflationary bullshit.  20%?  What drugs are you on?  My grocery bill has doubled and so has yours unless you've traded down.  I know it has because I run all my household expenses through plastic and into Quicken, so it takes 30 seconds to pull up everything spent in a year on groceries.  Car and homeowners insurance are up by fifty percent.  These are mandatory expenses.  And don't kid yourself -- The Fed won't save you.  Powell said so, directly, under questioning, and his "stay the course" path means you might catch up in about 50 years, assuming the Government doesn't do that shit again (if you're not dead first, that is.)  You want that shit to stop?  Well fixing that starts when the excuses stop, does it not?  Yes, Trump was the asshole who started it when Covid hit and even before but the Democrats not only threw gasoline on the fire you have such mental midgets as AOC and Harris demanding more-more-more of it!
  
  
• Speaking of inflation if we don't get the deficit spending under control (cutting it to zero right now) and collapse the cost of health care and other necessary expenses such as insurance, vehicles, groceries, rent and similar -- which we can do by enforcing existing law both with health care firms and expelling all the illegal immigrants (thus collapsing demand for rental housing, cars and of course insurance costs will drop since those jackasses can't drive and don't have either insurance or money forcing you to pay their bill) there is a very real risk of an exponential runaway in federal spending, a collapse in the debt markets which in turn means all asset prices will collapse and there may even be a civil war.  Not because of Democrat green-haired fantasies -- simply because people can't afford to eat.  Of course people WILL eat if that happens. They'll eat you, to be specific.  Trump may or may not have been wrong about cats and dogs but this is no joke and if we don't cut this shit out that's in the offing -- and not far off either.  No nation has ever managed to get out of this sort of exponential deficit expansion without collapsing except by cutting all of that shit out, all at once.  Though all of recorded history there is not one instance of success in trying to play "MMT" games.  NOT ONCE.  What DOES reliably happen is civil unrest, the death of millions by internal collapse and even civil war.  Would you rather have the price of your house go down by 60% and your stock portfolio drop by 80% or be what's for lunch as you cook in your home that is literally burnt around you by a starving mob?
  
  
• No "evil" carbon dioxide EVER!  Uh..... are you planning on asphyxiating yourself, may I ask?  No?  Leaving aside that CO2 is literally the gas-of-life without which every single plant dies, and we are only about a third of the way to the optimum level for plant growth (and that level is non-toxic to animals, including us, by the way) are you intending to bomb Asia to ruin?  Oh wait, that would mean fires, smoke and.... CO2, right, never mind they'd probably nuke us if we tried it.  Well they are the ones producing all the gains in emissions, and not a little either -- our output is going down, theirs is going parabolic and by the way they have 1,000 new coal-fired plants (which will make more of course) in the process of construction.  Now I get it that lying about what you intend is part and parcel of being mentally ill (see above on boys running around in the girl's locker room) but a quadrupled heating bill in the winter tends to focus the mind and this lunatic bullshit is going to do exactly that, never mind the millions of birds your windmills kill and the incessant noise they produce 24 hours a day, including at night when it used to be nice and quiet with crickets chirping.  Oh, that same noise?  It fucks up whales and their sound-based navigation when you put that shit offshore, including endangered species of whale.  I thought you said you cared about wildlife?  Never mind fertilizer (without which you starve as yields go down 50% or more), none of your nice things can be made (plastics and rubber are all from carbon), there is no medicine (want a syringe or IV bag for a drug you need? Guess what they're made of?) and more.  Carbon is why we have a modern society and without the exploitation of it we are literally back in the 1800s -- if we're lucky.  Indeed carbon exploitation is why deaths from extreme weather events are down by 98+% over the last 100 years despite the population deliberately putting itself at risk of such events going up by more than a factor of ten.  Simply put carbon means we can deal with it by, for example, using portable generators until the linemen can get the power restored and that grill bottle of propane - carbon fuel - means you can cook food to eat in the meantime as well.
  
  
• We're so compasssssionate about all those poor people from Venezuela and elsewhere -- open the border!  Uh huh.  You know that daughter you have?  Multiple "migrants" Harris and Biden let in are accused of rape or murder -- and in some cases both.  In the meantime you approved giving them all $2,000 a month between EBT cards and "housing assistance"; that's $20 large a year tax free and thus those who don't rape and murder work for less and can pay more for your apartment.  Thus you lose both your job and place to live.  But instead of saying "heh that's fucked up!" you call those of us who said that would happen and now that it has we want it stopped and all of them removed racists.
  
  
• And what's this trans shit anyway when you get down to it?  Puberty blockers with a known permanency risk never mind that if the person continues down that road and chops things off they can never have either a normal adult sexual experience or a child of their own, ever, 100% of the time.  If you're one of the people who thinks a child has the capacity to deal with the reality of that especially when being egged on by social media and all the "cool kids" you're out of your fucking mind.  The "cool kids" used to talk your son or daughter into smoking a joint or chugging a beer, which could cause some problems.  Now those same "cool kids" talk them into cutting off their own dicks by telling Mom and Dad they're going to kill themselves if Mom and Dad don't go along.  You're free, as an adult, to do whatever you want so long as you're willing to pay for it. If you do this to a kid or let it happen you're mentally ill and in a rational world you would be immediately hanged as a child-abusing monster -- period.  The people advocating for this crap are such miserable assholes they can't attract anyone who wants to sleep with them and rather than deal with that they choose to screw your kids out of ever having an adult sexual life as their way of taking revenge.
  
  
• Oh, the homeless should be able to live where they want including in the park and on the street.  Ok, that sounds good.  Its compassionate, right?  Except shit happens for all humans so where do you think they're going to shit?  By the way the reason we got rid of all those nasty diseases of a couple hundred years ago was not due to vaccines -- it was because we started shitting in toilets thereby containing, transporting and treating the waste, separating it from the water supply.  Now you want to go back to people shitting on the street -- for real.  Never mind the injectable drugs and of course disease-laden needles thrown all over the place.  Would you like a helping of cholera and dysentery with that America?
  
  
• Oh, its horrible that we jail people for stealing -- let's stop arresting them.  Ah, now the homeless have a way to "make money" -- they just rob stores and people.  No jail, no problem, except of course that the stores can't deal with unlimited losses nor will shoppers put up with having their purses and wallets snatched, so the stores all close.  What sort of mental midget couldn't have seen that obvious outcome in advance?  How many people would be lined up out the door of the bank if you announced that robbing a bank would not get you either arrested or shot?  Yeah, you folks in the Democrat party really are that short on IQ points.  What, you don't want to live in a literal world of shit with no stores or places to buy anything except drugs on the closest street corner?  Why not -- that's what you voted for!
  
  
• We're all for FREEDOM you scream.  Freedom to abort a child, freedom over our own bodies!  Right up until you demanded OTHER people take an injection for a fucking flu that yes, in vulnerable people is pretty dangerous but has statistically zero risk in children and healthy young adults.  If you refused to go along and sing the praises as directed by Fauci and Biden?  Why into the GULAG with you!  And if someone dares just speak about the dangers of those shots and catalogs the injures in the public eye?  Why they must be banned immediately from the town square, fired and disposed of.  Freedom eh?  You mean free to be and think just like you, but not in any other way, right?  Why you'd have put me in a concentration camp if you thought you could get away with it, roughly HALF of Democrats supported doing that and the CDC actually was working up plans to do so.

When you get down to it Harris was uniquely full of shit and voters were tired of being bullshitted.  Repeated claims that Biden was perfectly fine mentally by her personally were over the top crap anyone with two IQ points to rub together could see.  Neither Biden or she had any sort of plan to actually do something about the inflation problem and the reason is simple -- the parties have constituencies that get nicely wealthy out of screwing you and aren't going to stop by being asked nicely; you have to be willing to jail them and Harris and Biden aren't.  Younger people in particular are getting relentlessly fucked by the illegal alien invasion and driving of ordinary living costs, especially groceries, medical and car insurance.  The entire "I've got a vagina and I'm black so vote for me" crap doesn't work on them (it shouldn't work on anyone, but of course sometimes it does) any better than it did for Hillary and her "its my turn" garbage.  Worse, after getting spanked multiple times trying to buy votes through "forgiving" college loans Harris had an entire cadre of deeply-indebted people who now have every reason to believe that despite getting a letter saying they're good its going to blow up in their face as those gibs were ruled unlawful and rather than drop it when the first loss happened or go after the colleges for unlawfully deceiving students as to the value of their coursework they doubled down with more of what the courts told them they can't do!  Waking up every morning thinking you're going to get a letter in the mail telling you that $100,000 you had to pay is still in fact owed any day now is not a motivator to get you to pull the lever -- who votes for more butt-screwing and uncertainty?

Why did the Democrats lose?

Because the Republicans could have run SATAN, literally, and beaten them.

That's why.

If the Democrat Party doesn't want to disappear it had better cut all that shit out -- right here, right now, publicly, and excoriate and excommunicate all the assholes in the party who did that stupid shit and will continue to unless they find themselves whacked upside the head with a clue-by-four and expelled from party ranks.

Assuming there's anything in that cranium to be whacked, that is.

I have my doubts.

.... before you provoke or start one.

Let's take the Hezbollah detonating pagers and, it appears, now HTs as well.  People are trying to run a scare-op that the batteries exploded due to some firmware change.  No.  First most pagers run on a single AA battery because they're very low power as they do not transmit (the reason Hezbollah went to them in the first place; its very easy to "find" someone who is transmitting all the time, such as a cellphone.)  Those were clearly detonations, not fires, and thus the devices were tampered with.

Want my bet on how?  A "front company" that the other side (Mossad, basically) set up managed to bait Hezbollah on their orders with an "unbelievably good" price.  You know the old adage about something that's too good to be true?  It was; the front company bought the devices, put the explosives in them and then sold them at an intentional loss to Hezbollah.  I'll bet any amount of money you care to lose that's how it happened and every one of them went to the intended target.

There are plenty of people who are saying this is a "war crime" or similar.  Sorry but there's no such thing in this sort of context as I've pointed out before.  These devices were explicitly coded for an encrypted network used only by Hezbollah and thus useless in the secondary market or by others.  In other words there is an extremely high probability, near 100%, that only a Hezbollah person would have them since they'd be the only people for whom they would work and further, since they were remote triggered with a message only if on that encrypted network would they explode.  That they might be living with others who are family members or similar elicits nothing more than a shrug from me.

To those who argue that the political, non-fighting parts of a "government" are immune that's bullshit folks.  Oh you can take whatever position you want but you're wrong and I don't care if you like it or not.  Take the US: We have a "civilian command and control" structure up to the President as CiC.  Therefore the President, who is subject to being removed by impeachment through Congress, which in turn means the people because we elect Congress and they serve at our pleasure, is an actual combatant in any military action this nation takes -- it is he or she who issues actual operational orders and both that person and the entirety of Congress and all persons who are employed in support of either, directly and indirectly, are legitimate military targets if and when we engage in any military act.

Indeed the same can be reasonably construed even against civilians because without tax money and the civilian infrastructure, including the flow of money, no war can be prosecuted at all.  That's right folks -- you, I, and everyone else are legitimate targets if there is a war because but for our contributions there is no war since all wars require material and money.  You don't really think Rosie was a riveter for other than the purpose of prosecuting a war, do you?  Well if she was riveting to prosecute a war then Rosie is a legitimate target for the other side.

Oh and spare me the high-minded bullshit about America in this regard.  Do recall we put a cruise missile through Gaddafi's office window -- and can we talk about Saddam?  He was hanged, was he not?  Well then why would you not expect Biden and Harris -- along with the entire State Department cadre in support of that crap over there to hang if Ukraine loses?  The only reason they won't is the inability of the other side to reach said people and do it.  How sure are you they can't reach them -- and, since you generated the tax revenue that funded that war and thus are the reason it occurred, how sure might you be that they cannot reach you?  May I remind you that it is much easier to reach you or I than it is to reach the President?

Again -- if you don't like wars don't start one and don't let your activity be the reason one can be funded and continued either.

Speaking of wars those can be rather "un"-civil too.  Indeed war is the end result of reason in the context of politics that fails to find acceptance and one or both sides decide to continue by violent means.

Like, for example, attempted political assassinations of a candidate when you fear you might lose through the process of reason at the ballot box.

Let me point something out to those who are engaged in these events and those who effectively cheer them on such as the current Administration and its spokesperson as well as many in the government itself along with others among their families (e.g. Vindman's wife) who have made quips on social media like "no ears were harmed."

Are you sure you want a war because it sure appears, to this person, that the entire left side of the aisle not only wants one they're deliberately trying to provoke it right here at home!

Do you have any idea what that looks like if you get what you're provoking?

Let me explain it to you since the above principle applies to anyone who possesses a brain: Anyone involved in any way with the promotion, funding or operations of the side aggrieved is a legitimate target in the event of war.

Anyone and everyone.

Yes, you with a campaign sign on your front lawn or a bumper sticker on your car.  Your spouse and children who are part and parcel of the reason you labor and produce.  Anyone who has donated any amount of money to a political campaign or PAC, even one dollar is enough.  Anyone who works for an organization that has funded or is a SuperPac, or benefits from any interest said PACs advocate for.  All the businesses, magazines, newspapers, their corporate owners along with every single employee of same who are the reason said corporation earns money and thus can exist and more.

Yeah, that's like damn near the entire American population on one side or another and I, for one would rather not have simply going to the mailbox in the afternoon be a potential "shooting gallery" style event.

Then again I can reason and foresee the logical conclusion to this sort of stupidity and an awful lot of people in this nation apparently cannot.

If you start this crap that is in fact the "solution set" of people who are "fair game" and I'm sure you can figure out that you can either sit at home and try to protect your house and the people in from being destroyed or you can go to work or simply make a run to the store and expose same to destruction.  You can't do both because you can't be in two places at once and worse, everyone else is in the same situation at the same time and literally everyone is a potential aggressor with no way to know who will do the "evil" thing.  It is obviously impossible to either protect all the potential targets or arrest everyone with the means and potential motive to commit such an act when all it takes is utterly bog-common things everyone has at hand in their homes.

If you think the war in Gaza, Lebanon or Syria is bad you really need a wake-up call or perhaps a history lesson because in places like Rwanda, where they first banned guns, the people there didn't bother shooting anyone -- they used machetes and slaughtered about 20% of the population within a couple month's time.  Who doesn't have a steak knife within easy reach and if you think such is not a "big deal" go ask an EMT about whether such an attack is dangerous.

We have a serious problem in this nation -- and indeed worldwide -- in that people have become disconnected from the consequence of war and other forms of "unrest."  While a lone nutjob acts alone and with his or her own resources, which are typically quite-limited politically-motivated violence, such as the mobs in 2020 who burned, looted and murdered, "CHAZ" and similar garbage, the money-driven invasion of "migrants" that in fact has been repeatedly shown to be motivated and exploited on the basis of money and said persons allegedly "helped" are nothing more than human farm animals abused for said purpose and more are NOT the acts of singular individuals -- they are acts that require organization, coordination and participation to take place just like Rosie had to rivet that plane together so it could go bomb Germans and Japanese and both Rosie and the entire plant management, along with the suppliers of the metal, rivets and energy conspired together to do so.  Without every one of them no plane flies and thus no city gets bombed.

Hundreds of years ago every King understood this.  He had to leave his keep and get on his horse to prosecute the war because the war had to be led and the men needed said leadership and motivation.  This meant he had to risk being personally killed.  His men had to be so-motivated by his personal risk because they had to look the other guy in the eye while running him through with their swords and they knew damn well that the other guy would look them in the eye if he killed them in exactly the same way.  There were no "safe spaces", there were no "rules of war", if you lost your kids were frequently slaughtered like dogs and your wife raped so as to produce more of "their" side's genetic material, it was very likely your town would be burnt to ash and everyone knew that every single person in the nearest village and in fact through the entire land was exposed to this risk as soon as war began.

You thus only started and participated in said wars that were worth that deeply personal risk.  If directly attacked you had no choice; fight or die.  But otherwise, where you had a choice, you thought about it long and hard because there was no escaping the consequences all the way to the top.

Now look at everything post-WWII.  Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the bullshit in Ukraine and now Hezbollah/Israel/whatever.  Why should we, or those in Europe, think we're free of risk when we want to fund and supply these people?  More to the point where do you think these assholes taking potshots and trying to blow up a political candidate get the idea they can do that without every one of their family members, and all of the political party members who have cheered on such acts via rhetoric such as displaying heads cut off in effigy being exposed to a retributive strike by members of the other side?

The old ways, before we had push-button technology, forced you to confront the reality of what you were doing, whether directly or by providing supply, aid and comfort to those engaged in said actions.  The "international" political apparatus of course wants to claim this is "illegitimate" through things like the "Geneva Conventions" but their concern is not for the people at large -- it is for their own skin and that of their families which damn well ought to be fully exposed up to and including at the cost of their lives when they wage war, whether directly, by proxy or by supply either through physical material or intelligence and whether domestically or otherwise.

Why?  Because only the very real risk of serious personal consequences -- not high-minded bullshit spewed from some ivory tower -- has a proven record of deterring people from being assholes.  Even that is not a perfect record by any means but the last 70 years and especially the last decade right here at home with the politically-motivated riots in 2020 none of which were punished make clear that all the high-minded and mealy-mouthed bullshit is worthless.  Without deterrence every unpunished crime begats another more-serious one because there is no cost imposed on anyone for committing it and therefore as long as there is benefit to commit the crime the pattern of escalation will continue.

Arson is one of the most-serious felonies that is on the books and in fact a person RAISING BAIL MONEY FOR THE ALLEGED OFFENDERS is running for President and the Governor of one of the focal states of said attacks who sat back AND LET IT HAPPEN, PARTICULARLY CENTERED AMONG BLACK BUSINESSES despite having command and control of the National Guard is her VP candidate.  Said candidates have the gall to expect black people's votes today!

The outrageous farming of humans for profit at the cost of their abuse over the last three decades, none of which has been punished even though all of it is a felony under laws on the books since the 1950s continues apace today including in Springfield Ohio.  Neither State OR Federal Government when under control of either party over the last two Administrations has brought a single charge under 8 USC 1324 even when citizens have been murdered by illegal aliens.

Further, in the last couple of political cycles the belief that such acts, along with the intentional and illegal obfuscation of  timely election results, coupled with a refusal by the judiciary to order actual evidence audits and the toss of any results where the chain of custody required by State Law is not properly maintained makes clear that everyone involved on all sides and in all branches of government believes THERE IS NO PRICE for even the most-hideous abuse and felony.

I rest my case.