A female reader noticed something while watching President Trump’s new border czar take a US Congresswoman to task.
I was watching Tom Homan upbraid AOC’s childish whining with hard adult reality. Something about his eyes struck me. Tom Homan has a serious Frank Hamer vibe. Frank Hamer was The Texas Ranger and a real bad ass.
It’s the eyes. You don’t mess with that. That’s a hard man that’s seen and done hard things. There’s also a clarity to the eyes that you don’t often see. It’s there in the portraits and photos of Sigmas you’ve posted. It’s raptor-like.
Most people have a sort of light emotional haze over the eyes. There’s some internal churn perpetually going on and you see it in the eyes. To me this suggests a resting state of the mind, where there’s just raw observation of input. Nothing going on except the minimal activity necessary for observation and analysis. Not a lot, or even absence of ego based interpreting engaged in the processing.
Also the steadiness of the gaze. Maybe this ties into the posts on empathy, sympathy and delusion bubbles in that it is difficult to notice others if you always have a bit of me-centric narrative going on. The louder the prattling of the internal narrative, the more it never ends, the worse it is. Like a fun house mirror. Even if you happen to notice others, you interpret through a me-centric lens that can be very inaccurate. Or like bubble wrap you are insulated from any topic that isn’t about yourself.
Frank Hamer wasn’t squeamish about doing the hardest things that need to be done so that everyone else could have civilization. If Homan is anything like that, then we are in for a Wyatt Earp reckoning straight from the movies. I think Hamer was was a Sigma.
I’m not familiar with Frank Hamer, Texas Ranger, so let’s have a look at the man’s history. First, the picture.
She’s right about the eyes, at least. He’s got the same emotionless, looking-at-you-but-looking-through-you ocular expression that the Duke of Wellington and other Sigmas have been observed to have. This is a man focused on his mission, whatever that mission might be. Now, a few quotes from his biography on Wikipedia:
Although his formal education ended after the sixth grade, as a youth Hamer displayed several unusual abilities, including an extremely high level of intelligence and a near eidetic memory.
Hamer was a lone wolf by nature, but he eventually formed an inter-jurisdictional posse…
Hamer was a Ranger off and on throughout his adult life, resigning often to take other jobs.
Hamer retired in 1932 after almost 27 years with the Rangers. "When they elected a woman governor, I quit." The commander of the Texas Rangers allowed him to retain a Special Ranger commission as an active Senior Ranger Captain even after his official retirement.
The Texas Bankers' Association had begun offering rewards of $5,000 "for dead bank robbers—not one cent for live ones." Hamer determined that men were setting up deadbeats and two-bit outlaws to be killed by complicit police officers; the officers would collect the rewards and pay the men their finder's fees. But the police refused him support and the Bankers' Association's position was that "any man that could be induced to participate in a bank robbery ought to be killed." Hamer wrote a detailed exposé of the racket, which he termed "the bankers' murder machine", and he took his article to the press room of the State Capitol and handed out copies.
Former Governor Coke Stevenson hired him to accompany him to the Texas State Bank in Alice to examine the tally sheets for ballot box 13, which held ballots for his opponent, Representative Lyndon B. Johnson, which he knew to be fraudulent. Outside the bank stood two glowering groups of armed men. Hamer got out of the car, approached the first group, and said "git" and they left. The second group was blocking the doors of the bank, and he said "fall back" and they complied.
Hamer married Gladys (Johnson) Sims, the widow of Ed Sims of Snyder, Texas; she and her brother, Sidney Arthur Johnson, had been charged in 1916 with murdering Sims.
The verdict is clear: Sigma.
As for whether Frank Hamer will prove a model for Tom Homan or not, Homan’s official portrait suggests that the odds are a little better than one might assume. Because whether he’s a Sigma, or, as is much more likely, a Bravo, Homan does look like a man who means business.
Yeap, there's something about the eyes. They have it, Vox has it, DeGaulle had it, that guy from the comics business had it too...it simply is there. It's like the gamma smirk.
As the old saying goes, “The eyes are the windows to the soul.” Or as the Bible puts it, “The lamp of the body is the eye.”
Frank Hamer’s gaze is arresting. Not necessarily hostile, but never to be questioned or ignored. Definitely a Sigma.