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They knew the earth wasn’t flat; they didn’t know how large it was.

Columbus vastly underestimated the distance or he just wanted to be sponsored to sail over.

This image is from the end of my favorite Columbus Day movie and Mel Gibson's masterpiece Apocalypto

Today we honor and celebrate one of the great visionaries and explorers in human history, Christopher Columbus. Columbus and the Spanish crown sought a cheaper, safer and less politically encumbered means to trade with the Far East than the traditional land routes. This became essential when the Muslim Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople.



... Columbus and his crews discovered and explored the Caribbean sea, mapping its geography and also documenting its tides, currents and wind patterns. They sailed and mapped out Central America. Columbus discovered the shortest land crossing that became the Panama Canal. He recognized that you could traverse it by water if you could build a canal. Not having the resources to build it, he and his men traversed it by land. They built a small settlement there where they discovered gold. Their settlement was attacked by Indian tribes and they barely escaped complete slaughter.

They put their boats back in water to escape, and sailed toward San Domingo. They discovered that some of their ships had started leaking due to a wood eating mollusk known as shipworm. He and his crew desperately bailed water until they found some islands to bring their ships to land. All of his ship repairmen were killed by the Indians, so Columbus sent a small party to San Domingo to summons a larger rescue and repair crew. They came and Columbus and his crew used their tenacity and resourceful cunning to escape death yet again. ...

Columbus and his crew survived massive ocean storms. They survived tough conditions on the open seas with diet and disease. They encountered hostile people who in some cases attacked them and nearly killed them all. They remained resolute and accomplished much on their missions. Had Columbus not set sail or had he failed, another European would have eventually succeeded, as the spirit and thirst for exploration, adventure and the upward development of European civilization was strong across all of Europe.

It is common these days to attack and caricature Christopher Columbus as a one-dimensional embodiment of pure evil. Those attacks on his character are not attacks on Columbus as much as they are attacks on European civilization ands its multi-continental diaspora. They do not aim to establish some new moral order, rather they aim to destroy our European diaspora’s moral legitimacy. It is likely that in a few short years every statue in North America that honors Christopher Columbus will be torn down. As that project has destroyed the legitimacy of the European diaspora and even of Europe peoples and our achievements, the statues honoring the Pioneers and Founding Fathers of America will be torn down too. That is an attack not just on those men, it is an attack on the civilization that they were a part of. Thus, if you are a European, it is an attack on you.

These attacks and the ensuing conquest of our nations have succeeded because we surrendered our moral authority. We lost our confidence and our ability to appreciate the astounding bravery, intelligence, imagination, technological prowess and organizational skills of our people. There is an antidote to this sorry state of affairs. We can reclaim our moral conviction and self confidence very easily. When we do we will reclaim our nations and our people’s destiny to ascend ever upward toward the transcendent; fusing the realms of the spirit and the material through curiosity, daring and action. We can reclaim it by proudly honoring Christopher Columbus, his crew, their supporters and their great collective achievements. We can reclaim that which we most need to reclaim - our healthy and good instinct to better ourselves and our people by sailing for glory. In so doing we honor ourselves and our civilization that produced him.

Today I honor and acknowledge the greatness of Christopher Columbus. I honor the greatness of European man.

The Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo is a hereditary title of Spanish nobility held by a line of descendants of Emperor Moctezuma II, the ninth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan. Since 1766, the title has been associated with a Grandeza de España, the highest honor accorded to Spanish nobility. The Palace of Moctezuma, located in Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Spain, is one of many palaces erected by the descendants of Moctezuma II.

So it's wrong to say that the Spanish were implacably racist against the Indians.

Recall that Columbus was taken back to Spain in chains; he was evidently a bad boy in the "New World."

The town of Johnston, Rhode Island unveiled a statue of Christopher Columbus last Monday. The unveiling was the high point of the town’s celebration of the day when Americans and Europeans commemorate and honor the Admiral of The Oceans. Johnston’s town leadership took ownership of the statue after Providence mayor Jorge Elorza unilaterally removed the statue in June, 2020, pre-empting Providence’s formal procedures for erecting or removing historical monuments.




(Statue of Christopher Columbus: Reclaimed and Raised in Johnston, Rhode Island 10/8/2023)

It is a wonderful thing that this beautiful statue was claimed by a town before it was destroyed or melted down as so many of our historical monuments have been. The mayor, townspeople and everyone involved in this act of reclamation and preservation is to be praised and commended for acting swiftly and resolutely to preserve this part our heritage.

The people of Johnston have done something more than reclaim and raise a statue. They have shown the entire American nation the path forward. When a nation or territory is conquered the first acts of the conqueror are to remove all traces of the conquered people’s statuary, art, history and customs and practices and to erect a new set of such things in their place. We cannot and we must not deny that our country is no longer ours. We must confront the bitter truth or the reality that we are a people whose country is, at best, occupied and, at worst, conquered. ...

From the depths of my soul, I thank you the great people of Johnston, Rhode Island. You have stood up for America, for Americans and the European history and ancestry of our people. A people are a nation, and a nation is a people. We must all look to Johnston and its great people and take action exactly as they have. Claiming, erecting, polishing and celebrating our historical monuments is just the first step.

Happy Columbus Day! Argentine President Javier Milei released a video honoring Christopher Columbus for discovering the Americas in 1492.

In a bold and grisly new tradition, the U.S. government held its first annual “Human Sacrifice Extravaganza” in celebration of “Indigenous Peoples' Day,” formerly known as Columbus Day. The brutal event took place at the top of a reconstructed Mayan pyramid in Mexico, where one unlucky citizen dubbed “the chosen one” was offered up to the ancient Sun God K'inich Ahau in a ceremony that seemed more at home in a Mel Gibson flick.

The unfortunate soul, Doug Swenson, an “average Joe” sanitation worker from Minnesota who just so happened to be a straight white male, was randomly selected via a complex lottery system no one actually understands but everyone agrees is “fair and equitable.” Doug, a mild-mannered father of two, was whisked away from his quiet suburban life to become the government’s sacrificial lamb. His fate? To be scalped (in honor of Native American traditions, of course), have his heart cut out, and then unceremoniously decapitated at the summit of the towering temple.

Leading the ritual was none other than U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who, dressed in traditional Mayan priest garb, threw himself into the blood-soaked task with surprising enthusiasm. Eyewitnesses say Garland appeared "possessed by the spirit of sacrifice," shouting unintelligible chants while high on peyoti before tossing Doug’s severed head down the pyramid stairs. “The sun demands blood in exchange for bountiful harvests!” he screamed, as sweat and sacrificial blood dripped down his face. “And by K'inich Ahau, it shall have it!”

At the base of the pyramid, a large crowd of government officials and political influencers cheered while drag queens dressed as Aztec warriors performed interpretive dances. Among the enthusiastic crowd were prominent Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who all joined hands and chanted ominously as the lifeless body and head of Doug tumbled down the massive stone stairway. In a display of what historians will surely describe as “peak 2024,” they caught the corpse and severed head, holding them triumphantly in what MSNBC called “a critical moment for social justice.”

The pre-show entertainment, led by TikTok-famous Democratic influencers Harry Sisson, Olivia Julianna, and JoJo from Jerz, included heartfelt speeches about the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as scathing critiques of Christopher Columbus. “Colonization was the true evil,” Sisson said solemnly, while surrounded by 45,000 sunburned white people with “#LandBack” signs. “Today, we honor those indigenous cultures… by bringing back their totally awesome science-based traditions.”

Conspicuously absent from the festivities were Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who both claimed they were “there in spirit” as they continued their campaign trail tours, confident that this year’s sacrifice would secure the progressive vote. Doug Swenson’s family, meanwhile, was compensated with a generous $750 government check and a lifetime supply of Cheetos, which insiders say is about as much as one can expect from an administration that’s dedicated to reparation through ritualistic murder.

Critics of the event pointed out the hypocrisy of demonizing and erasing Western historical figures and ideals in an attempt to virtue signal, while conveniently ignoring the fact that many indigenous societies, like the Mayans, were notorious for their own barbaric and uncivilized practices. “It’s weird that the same people who claim the West is uniquely evil for its violence are now celebrating human sacrifice, but hey, it’s 2024, and irony is dead!” said one onlooker, before being promptly canceled on social media for “hate speech.”

As the sun set on the bloodstained steps of the pyramid and the last of the drag queens sashayed away, the crowd left feeling proud of their contribution to DEI and social justice. Doug's sacrifice, they agreed, was a small price to pay to ensure their moral superiority in the ever-important Twitter/X debates to come.