https://voxday.net/2026/01/03/another-year-another-war/
“Don’t wait too long,” sang Frank Sinatra sixty years ago when he was struggling with aging and the thought of being over the hill, his end coming. “Why must the moments go by with such haste? Don’t wait too long.”
Much has been written about Frank, and rightly so. These commentaries have been elicited by the universally acknowledged genius of his singing, especially for his gift of soulfully expressing the deepest human emotions of love and loss and longing. I would suggest that Frank Sinatra, and in particular his great album, September of My Years, be requisite listening for anyone interested in real change for the New Year. In the midst of the revelry and fireworks, the old year and the new, the resolutions and irresolutions, looking back and looking forward – here is Sinatra singing of the deepest core of the year’s turning – human loneliness. And how, despite it, to love and connect. How to embrace seeming contradiction. How to change.
I never met Sinatra, but he was my mentor in this process, one that has no ending. It’s transformative work. Ephemeral, yet realer than real. Especially at a time when digital media and AI have scrambled the public’s sense of reality.
When I was young, he taught me to be old. Now that I’m old, he’s taught me to be young. How? By listening to the singing, the words that fly from his mouth come from the heart’s desires, the hunger of the soul. They pierce to the core of all our longings for change within permanence. He didn’t write the words, but he had a genius for articulating them. As Bob Dylan said of Sinatra, “Right from the beginning, he was there with the truth of things in his voice.”
In his voice, yes. I am not speaking of the man about whom so much has been written, good and bad. I am not speaking of his politics or his personal life. I never knew the man, just the voice. That’s enough. From his voice comes truth of a very deep nature.
Listen, you older folks. “When the wind was green at the start of the spring….” “When I was seventeen….” “I know how it feels to have wings on your heels ….”
Youngsters, listen. “When you’re all alone, all the children grown, and like starlings flown away, it gets lonely early, doesn’t it, every single endless day.”
“Once upon a time….” Everyone, listen. Connect.
Perhaps only songs can change us. Arguments so often seem to fall on deaf ears. Could it be that songs are the expression in sound of the dual nature of our New Year’s longings for newness amidst the old?
Americans haven’t been in control of New York City for a long time. Once you start letting immigrants run things, you can’t be surprised when the process continues considerably further than you’d originally imagined and declared would be just fine:
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as New York City’s 110th mayor, the first Muslim and African-born person of Indian descent to hold the position. The 34‑year‑old took his midnight oath on a centuries-old Quran in a long‑closed subway station beneath City Hall on Thursday.
It doesn’t really matter at this point. New York was lost in the early 20th century, it was just disguised by the redefinition of “American” under the immigrants’ civic nationalist propaganda. All of the various political moves now are just laying the stage for the shape of the eventual breakup.
What does Mamdani have to offer, and how can he represent heritage Americans in any way when he stands against everything that they stand for? He can’t, of course, nor does he wish to do so. Which is why dissolution is now not only inevitable, but obvious.
From 1965, when it began, to 2020, Head Start has cost American taxpayers $240 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation report. The program sold as an educational boost for America’s poorest children has done nothing in 60 years to improve education outcomes for those children, according to federal evaluators. Yet it currently gets $9 billion in taxpayer funds per year. Pretty scammy!
Trump could absolutely bring malicious prosecution charges against everyone involved in any of that ****, as no, you're not immune as a government employee and in fact 18 USC 242 and 42 USC 1983 exist specifically for this reason; they have no applicability to someone who isn't a government employee as there's no "color of law" that can attach to a private party.
.....let me show you my tiny little undescended set of testicles: pResident Donald J. Trump
Oh, allegedly, from the White House itself, its "unleash Hell."
Uh huh. To do that you'd have to have a pair. Which you don't sir, or you would have already done it.
If you did, Walz would be under indictment and out of there, along with Ellison in Minnesota. Both California's Governor, with their bogus CDLs, NY with theirs and all across the "fruited plain" where dozens of "daycares" are registered to one address which happens to be an apartment, a commercial building with nothing in it or an empty lot every person involved in that including the state regulators who granted those licenses without the mandatory inspections would all be sitting in prison for New Year's Day.
So would META's Zuck, who, Reuters reports, deliberately concealed scam advertisers from regulators. making the board and Zuckerberg personally part of the scam and destroying any possible claim they were misled.
Indeed the reaction is amusing; Washington State, which has a bunch of these "many registered to a bogus address" alleged "daycares" just had a bill filed by a State Senator to "blind" the names of the owners and addresses. Lisa Wellman should be indicted as co-conspirator on Racketeering charges for this -- she is not immune from federal prosecution so get off your fat**** and show me your testicles have descended by doing so.
I first noticed the symmetry when I read the leaked group message Charlie Kirk sent to close allies just forty-eight hours before his death:
“I cannot and will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause.”
That line pulled me backward to the summer of 1963 when President John F. Kennedy’s administration moved to implement the right of return for displaced Palestinians. At that time, Israel’s prime minister Levi Eshkol publicly criticized Kennedy for taking the demand to the press rather than keeping it within “quiet talks.”
The front page of Davar (the Histadrut’s flagship Hebrew daily) on November 20, 1963 captured Eshkol’s defiance in blunt Hebrew:
“Israel does not accept the U.S. proposal under any circumstances.”
Forty-eight hours later, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
In both stories—a president and a political media figure decades apart—we see men who challenged the same powerhouse of influence. Both had endured months of tension, leaks, and smear campaigns. Both went public at the critical moment. And in both cases, forty-eight hours separated defiance from death.
so how does this get this bad?
well, let me tell you:
it starts simply enough: a number of political factions feel challenged and seek to stay in power. they have lived off bribing and co-opting voters at home, but this has run out of rope and they need a new-new thing.
to prop themselves up electorally and in the electoral college and US house of representatives apportionment by census, they import voters from abroad.
this gets them two things.
more population and therefore more electoral votes and more representatives
a local voter base beholden to them that will support them, thick or thin because they are a dependency or people who could never make it in the US unsupported. they were selected for this exact reason. “they are all on welfare” is a feature, not a bug.
the trade was simple:
you come here, i give you free housing, welfare, education, food and education worth many multiples of your standard of living at home, you get to live in a nice, safe place and have 12 zillion kids, and you vote for me and get your friends to vote for me.
the systems were so rigged it was surreal. in MN, one registered voter can “vouch” for up to 8 others, all of whom are then eligible. the mail in ballots go out in bales to housing projects and buildings and “operatives” are paid to “harvest” them and others paid to fill them out and send them in.
easy peasy. everybody wins except the folks being made to pay for this, but let’s face it, john and jane q taxpayer have not had any government representation since lord knows when.
and then the criminals extol the virtues of their crime syndicate as though it’s high morals.
it’s really about as manipulative and inverted as it gets.
it boils down to this:
being able to defraud the electorate and plunder the taxpayers was the price of winning elections, one the political machines were happy to pay.