Mark Steyn on rape in England

Only 1.3% of the rapes reported to police in England and Wales result in criminal charges, but if you dare to sing "Delilah," the Welsh police would like a word with you.

Watch the full episode of The Mark Steyn Show here: https://t.co/2L9i5hSvl3 pic.twitter.com/TGiWf78GJZ

— Mark Steyn (@MarkSteynOnline) March 4, 2023

To eradicate a virulently evil culture takes courage and determination. It's not done by weak men.

The way to view this is a man on the cusp of winning a civil war. These gangs were parallel powers in position to challenge state. He’s a Caesar figure wiping out Pompei and his other rivals. It’s exciting in this enervated world that such a thing is even possible. https://t.co/vpPCTl47Fs

— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) March 3, 2023

Journalism

 

Glenn Greenwald on censorship via "Fake news or misinformation" laws

 A major escalation in official online censorship regimes is progressing rapidly in Brazil, with implications for everyone in the democratic world. Under Brazil's new government headed by President Lula da Silva, the country is poised to become the first in the democratic world to implement a law censoring and banning "fake news and disinformation" online, and then punishing those deemed guilty of authoring and spreading it. Such laws already exist throughout the non-democratic world, adopted years ago by the planet's most tyrannical regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. 

If one wishes to be generous with the phrase "the democratic world" and include Malaysia and Singapore – at best hybrid "democracies" – then one could argue that a couple other "democratic" governments have already seized the power to decree Absolute Truth and then ban any deviation from it. But absent unexpected opposition, Brazil will soon become the first country unambiguously included in the democratic world to outlaw "fake news" and vest government officials with the power to banish it and punish its authors. 

Mike Pence, Dick Cheney, and the Constitution

Glenn Reynolds argues that the Vice President is a legislative officer for the purpose of the constitution. 

Nowadays, we tend to think of Vice Presidents – wrongly – as a sort of junior or co-President, but that’s not actually how it works at all.  As I wrote in the Northwestern Law Review piece:

The Constitution gives the Vice President no executive powers; the Vice President's only duties are to preside over the Senate and to become President if the serving President dies or leaves office.  Traditionally, what staff, office, and perquisites the Vice President enjoyed came via the Senate; it was not until Spiro Agnew mounted a legislative push that the Vice President got his own budget line. The Vice President really is not an executive official. He or she executes no laws--and is not part of the President's administration the way that other officials are. The Vice President cannot be fired by the President; as an independently elected officeholder, he can be removed only by Congress via impeachment. 

While I think Glenn is doing God’s work with his blog and this Substack essay (to which I recently subscribed, and everyone should do the same), I will make a modest objection for the sake of the argument.  When Glenn states that “… presiding over the Senate is surely a legislative function par excellence.” he begs the question.  

A Vice president is unquestionably a “spare.”  But if the Constitution does not specify that the Speaker of the House is a member (Article 1, Section 2), it’s possible that the President of the Senate shall not be a Senator and therefore is not a legislator.  After all, he has no vote unless the Senate is equally divided.  In other words, the Vice Presidency is, for all practical purposes, a Constitutional spare, a baby in the womb waiting to be born.  Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat.    

Media Malpractice

Almost impossible to overstate how wrong so many news corporations were on the science of covid:
- lab leak as conspiracy
- efficacy of lockdown
- harmlessness of school closures
- recovered immunity
- toddler masking
- vax mandates

A perfect record of anti- science failure.

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) February 26, 2023

Covid lies

If the Covid lab leak theory being a 'conspiracy theory' was a lie and '15 days to stop the spread' was a lie and 'masks work' to stop the spread was a lie and 'vaccine mandates will stop the spread' was a lie and 'natural immunity is a myth' was a lie and 'there are no side… https://t.co/1C1psE7lKw

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 26, 2023

Chalk another one up for the “crazy far-right conspiracy theorists” pic.twitter.com/3tBu2KElTW

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 26, 2023

Vivek on the origins of Covid

I'm accepting criticism from anyone who has seen the full context here.

The rest of you are in a fake news bubble but I trust you suspected that.

Scott Adams Interview - It's Okay to Be White https://t.co/yP6rNiOXnS via @YouTube

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 26, 2023

Scott Adams on Hotel Jesus

I'm accepting criticism from anyone who has seen the full context here.

The rest of you are in a fake news bubble but I trust you suspected that.

Scott Adams Interview - It's Okay to Be White https://t.co/yP6rNiOXnS via @YouTube

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 26, 2023

Dinesh D'Souza on secession - the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln's First Inaugural

Well said @DineshDSouza.

Thank you for taking part in the debate about national divorce.

We are living in a time of great division where the left is bullying and abusing the right and basically forcing the right to accept the left’s ways whether we like it or not.

And the… https://t.co/uTEeNUJFg6

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 25, 2023

Vivak Ramaswamy runs for President

There’s a toxic anti-American culture in our country’s bloodstream right now. The @GOP’s top priority shouldn’t be to simply complain about it. It should be to dilute the woke agenda to irrelevance with an inspiring national identity. We need to rediscover what America *is.* pic.twitter.com/UrMXWLFBHx

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 24, 2023

Oliver Stone on who started the war in Ukraine

Who really started the Ukraine war?

May 2022
Oliver Stone to Lex Fridman: What the western press hasn't said is that on the days before 24 February, there was heavier & heavier artillery fire going into Donbass. Ukraine had 110,000 troops on the border. They were about to invade pic.twitter.com/r6dfGANVby

— the Lemniscat (@theLemniscat) February 24, 2023

Be the Party of East Palestine

My message to congressional Republicans: you can either be the party of Ukraine & the globalists or you can be the party of East Palestine & the working people of America pic.twitter.com/A3SjyKE7PC

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 25, 2023

Jimmy Dore on Ukraine

Why is Tucker Carlson the only corporate news show to allow me to bring on an Anti-War message & tell the truth about Ukraine?

You’re being lied to about Ukraine and by the exact same people who lied us into Iraq, Libya , Syria, etc etc..America is the world’s terrorists. https://t.co/Pd3a0USREA

— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) February 25, 2023

Sexual insanity; Abortion insanity

South Park nails it! pic.twitter.com/IwxUaKfFNX

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 20, 2023

Arizona elections

Ok, enough of those committing crimes! When the hell will real law enforcement officers actually start holding real criminals responsible? This is not a Maricopa County problem, this is not an Arizona problem, this is a National Security problem that affects our entire country. I… https://t.co/wsl64a6VCJ

— LTG (R) Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) February 24, 2023

America First

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— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 23, 2023

Biden Team steals women's clothes

Whenever the Biden Administration lectures us about DEI, I will think of this cross dresser fetishist stealing a Tanzanian woman’s luggage to wear her clothes. pic.twitter.com/HRRTsu53L7

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) February 23, 2023

This 5 Minute Clip From Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog should be required viewing for any Conservative who is serious about winning the Culture War.

Let's Make 2023 the Year We Stop Being Afraid to Speak the Truth. pic.twitter.com/PJFkmAmAJP

— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) February 23, 2023

41,000 Hours Of January 6 Tapes Reveal AOC Died 13,941 Times https://t.co/bd3UGfm5A1 via @TheBabylonBee

— Ivan "New and Improved" Alaska (@Ivanalaska) February 23, 2023

Freshman in high school SMOKES the school board. pic.twitter.com/Gv489lQqq5

— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 22, 2023

School choice

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— The Virginia Project (@ProjectVirginia) February 23, 2023

Dark Ages

 Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia – and so many urban centers -  are reminders that the “Thin Blue Line” is good enough for a civilized, law-abiding, population.  It is easily overwhelmed when enough people no longer internalize the premises of civilized behavior and the rest of us forget why they are important.  Then Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings” comes to life and Dark Ages emerge.

A Mostly Peaceful War

 People who have been in battle know the old adage, “war is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.”  I’m reminded of this when any reporter describes a riot that they approve as “mostly peaceful.” 

Could this be why we’re not deluged by on-the-scene reporting from the war in Ukraine every day?  Is that why we are not getting intrepid CNN reporters filming the “mostly peaceful” war in Ukraine?  The American people should get some feedback from the $100 billion-and-counting treasure we’re sending there, even as the people of East Palestine are getting turned down for Federal relief.    

 

Voter Fraud

 

Gun Wars: An Interview with Larry Correia

 Larry Correia is a bestselling author of thriller SF/fantasy fiction.  He’s also a gun enthusiast.  Now he’s written a nonfiction work on gun rights and the Second Amendment.  I read an advance copy and found myself flying through the pages – it’s super-interesting and engaging, even to someone like me who’s been a shooter and gun-rights supporter and part of this world for many years.   The book is In Defense of the Second Amendment, and it comes out on Tuesday.

I thought it would be nice to ask him some questions, which are featured below. As usual, the article is free to everyone, but comments are limited to paid subscribers.

So fiction pays a lot better than nonfiction – as a nonfiction author, believe me, I know – but you took time from writing bestselling fiction to produce a book on gun rights.  Why?  And why now?

The new diversity quota formula? Watch Paul Joseph Watson........

Great Moments in American History, Revised According to AP's Inclusive Style Guide

 What happened: The Associated Press issued new style recommendations that aim to promote diversity and inclusion by discouraging the use of "general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated."

Read the whole thing

Twitter knew Hamilton 68, a media source for Russian online activity, was 'bulls**t'

 

These conspirators were so anxious to destroy Trump that they poisoned the well for any understanding between Russia and the US. They may well be the ultimate reason for the current danger of a nuclear war.

The Hamilton 68 story shows how the illusion of ongoing “Russian interference” worked. The magic trick was generated via a confluence of interests, between think-tanks, media, and government. Before, we could only speculate. Now we know: the “Russian threat” was, in this case at least, just a bunch of ordinary Americans, dressed up to look like a Red Menace.

Read the whole thing 

 

You will eat it and you will like it. It grows on you when you're starving.

 

How to steal an election

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 27, 2023

In honor of Mozart's birthday

The 2024 Presidential race will take a radical turn

 Between now and the 2024 presidential election, we will see several issues emerge that will make today’s candidates handicapping worthless.  For starters, there’s a war in Europe that’s rapidly escalating.  It was mere weeks ago that Abrams tanks were off the table, and today several dozen are on their way.  As night follows day, this will end with tactical nukes.  

And then, we find that Pfizer is developing ever more toxic viruses, so it can sell us more shots to cure whatever diseases the viruses cause.  To be followed by a drug for the medical problems caused by the vaccine.  Meanwhile, athletes and young people in perfect health are toppling over with heart attacks.

Meanwhile, the WFP is predicting a shortage of wheat and corn, increasing food prices, and a new global recession.

The next American President may be chosen to repair the damage caused by war, pestilence, famine, and death. 

The Apocalypse, anyone?

Your quick guide to what antiWhite is:

If you need this in other languages, let us know. pic.twitter.com/BDSncpQRhy

— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) January 25, 2023

German declares war on Russia ... again

German foreign minister declares war on Russia pic.twitter.com/C4cAqnZXhD

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 25, 2023

Schiff and Fart will not be on the Intel Committee. https://t.co/QG1xXBFYDA

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 25, 2023

HOLY SHIT!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

pic.twitter.com/FjnUhclojj

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 25, 2023

HOLY SHIT!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 25, 2023

 

 

Would be a shame if this went viral on the 2 year anniversary of Biden’s installation pic.twitter.com/egZfARlfSC

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 20, 2023

The Myth of Recycling

This is BRILLIANT! https://t.co/VWc7W0rceQ

— kerry dougherty (@kerrydougherty) January 19, 2023

This level of hubris is never found in the wild. It is in Davos.

DAVOS WATCH: USA climate envoy John Kerry claims that the WEF globalists are the "select group of human beings” touched by something at some point in their lives that caused them to have a savior complex

He calls the experience “extra terrestrial” #wef23 pic.twitter.com/diZKoh6fe1

— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) January 17, 2023

The big problem with the Joe Biden documents story

 THE BIG PROBLEM WITH THE JOE BIDEN DOCUMENTS STORY. This could be the shortest newsletter ever. The biggest problem with the Joe Biden documents story is this: We know only what Joe Biden's lawyers have told us. And the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the case will make the problem worse.

Now, some elaboration. The initial fact that Biden, after his term as vice president ended, kept some classified documents in his possession was revealed by a team of Biden lawyers. In making a public statement, they noted that the discovery of the classified documents, on Nov. 2, 2022, in Biden's old office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C., was made by...a team of Biden lawyers.

That alone raises some questions. Biden's vice presidency ended on Jan. 20, 2017. He began using the Penn Biden office in mid-2017. He became president on Jan. 20, 2021. With the Oval Office and plenty of workspace right downstairs, he no longer needed the Penn Biden office. So why was it not until Nov. 2, 2022, that his lawyers were emptying the old office? And by the way, why does it take a team of lawyers to clear out an office? Many people use movers.

Wow. This is an absolutely epic take down of climate change nonsense and wokeism. Outstanding!pic.twitter.com/DY1vDyjuur

— DissocialSpace (@DissocialSpace) January 15, 2023

JOHN STOSSEL: COVID: Who was Right?

If you think COVID was an "accidental leak" from the Wuhan lab, then how did Biden operatives know in 2017 that a pandemic was coming for the Trump Administration? https://t.co/tZlYuuKhrP

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) January 14, 2023

The Associated Press' Chris Megerian: Biden Secret Documents: Nothing to see here -It's all Trump's fault

According to the AP, it all started with Trump making a big deal about Hillary's emails.  

 Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information.

You see, it was all about a server, not a word about destroying the evidence by wiping the server to Bleach Bit" 30,000 emails.

Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records to the government after leaving the White House.

Notice that "Trump's" a "criminal" and his records are "Top Secret"

And now misplaced files with classified markings has led to another investigation that’s causing a political and legal headache for President Joe Biden.

Now Biden just "misplaced" some "classified" files (how classified?), causing poor Joe a "headache."

But nothing to see here because this happens all the time.  Mergerian trots out a Michael Hayden acolyte.  The same Michael Hayden who thinks that Trump should be executed for his crimes.  This Michael Hayden:

Forget al Qaeda, ISIS, Iran, Russia or China — former CIA Director Michael Hayden thinks the most dangerous people he’s ever seen are … Republicans.

The retired Air Force four-star general wholeheartedly concurred Wednesday night with an Aug. 12 Twitter post by Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce that read: “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.”

But I digress.  

Larry Pfeiffer, a former intelligence official, said the situation with Trump’s documents is far different than ones he encountered while working in government.

During the time that Pfeiffer was CIA chief of staff, classified files turned up in the wrong place in presidential libraries a handful of times, he said.

“It just happens,” said Pfeiffer, now director of the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy and International Security at George Mason University. “Mistakes get made, and stuff gets found.”

He said that seems more likely to be the case regarding the documents with classified markings that were found at an office used by Biden at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement after his term as vice president ended.

Biden’s personal lawyers discovered the documents and contacted the White House counsel’s office, and the National Archives picked up the records the next day.

The situation appears like “an average, run-of-the-mill mistake” that’s “being handled in a by-the-book, textbook fashion,” Pfeiffer said.

"Mistakes get made and stuff gets found." What a change of tone when the top Democrat is found stuffing government secrets in his office closet and this garage.

We can only conclude that Biden's headache is all Trump's fault.

I'm back. Thank you @elonmusk. 🥰

I was banned for exposing the smoking gun of Ivermectin's suppression. This has been successfully buried for years.

Watch Dr. Hill squirm as he admits his paper on IVM, back in January '21, was falsified by Bill Gates' UNITAID.#FauciFiles

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— Adam Gaertner 🇺🇸 (@veryvirology) January 13, 2023

Gettign Rid of Joe Biden for 2024

“It appears Joe Biden’s shelf life of usefulness has finally expired.” https://t.co/B7kI5ib825

— Lenny Dykstra (@LennyDykstra) January 13, 2023

Twelve lies of COVID

Hilarious! Dr. Charles Hoffe, Dr. Stephen Malthouse & others who’ve been raising vaccine injury awareness with @voters_canadian sing a 🎶 12 Lies of COVID 🎶 Christmas jingle.
Report to come at https://t.co/Gi9Wj4L06E pic.twitter.com/W0nSQerUWk

— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) December 21, 2022

PARSING WORDS - Sarah Hoyt

 The recent trend of dictionaries changing meanings according to the howling of the crazy people is wrong, but frankly, so is the howling which gets in sane people’s heads and replaces the meaning of some words with a howling sound of outrage and the sense of “DON’T”. After that the howling-word starts getting applied to everything vaguely adjacent whether benign, malign, indifferent, or simply something a political side wishes to suppress.

Take racism for instance.

I was never racist, until “race-blind” became racist. 

...

 some crazy people, undoubtedly back East have a head-belief that all criminals are black (Sounds racist to me) and therefore took away a useful tool people used when buying houses at a distance. (Hey, maybe they didn’t want us to flee.)

That there is harmful racism, because it affects people of every race when going about their lawful business of real-estate purchase.

But we let them do it, because they hide behind that awful “racism” slur.

Which is why it’s important to tear the cover away and see the thing for what it is.

Racism as a thought-crime doesn’t hurt anyone. The crazy things racists do while claiming OTHER PEOPLE are the racists? That hurts everyone and tears society apart.

Looking around, “one rule for thee, another rule for me” edition: Biden classified documents; Stanford has one admin per student; Cringe Jean-Pierre; Biden confuses Salvation Army with Secret Service?!; Fed chair says “we will not be a climate policymaker”; even Ahmadinejad thinks the mad mullahs are losing it

 So much insanity, so little time. A few highlights/lowlights in US politics:

(a) It has been revealed that Abu Hunter, when he stopped being 0bama’s VP, took classified documents home — the very same offense for which Mar-A-Lago was raided. (More here. Via Instapundit:)

Read the whole thing.

Ineffective Maltruism

 

Important essay.  Read the whole thing.  Excerpt.

A key aspect of this “maltruism” is its ability to extend control through soft-sounding enterprises – how can something with “open” and “democracy” and “save” in its name – and be a “nonpartisan – nonprofit” entity to boot – be anything but good?  

Happy squishy-sounding NGOs and “philanthropic LLCs” then extend their actual real hard power as funders and networkers and “third party validators” in ways that mere mortals cannot. We have yet to see an organization intended to create a global hive zombie mind call itself “Wicker Basket Full of Yawning Golden Retriever Puppies,” though the very fuzzy term “philanthrocapitalism” – also used to describe this approach – comes close. ...

The politics of this putative philanthropy are brazen. If one looks at those who have taken the “Giving Pledge,” one sees a list that one could easily mistake for the list of the owners of the private planes that jet to Davos for the annual World Economic Forum meeting.

The Media and the Speaker Fight

The Media and the Speaker Fight https://t.co/cgn8VphitR

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) January 10, 2023

What is the pattern? It holds that regardless of the year or the circumstance, Republicans fall into two camps: The Reasonables vs. The Far Right Wing Nuts and Crazies. In the current fight to be the next Republican Speaker of the House, like clockwork the media pattern has kicked in. House Republican Leader McCarthy is The Reasonable guy, his opponents The Far Right Wing Nuts and Crazies.

Head Girls

 

Once More on Renowned Fool Emily Oster, and the Malign Influence of Head Girls More Generally

Our governing elite are increasingly selected not for intelligence or ability, but for conscientiousness, agreeability and conformity. The consequence is a new kind of midwit tyranny.

 Modern society is run by Head Girls, of both sexes ... Modern colleges aim at recruiting Head Girls, so do universities, so does science, so do the arts, so does the mass media, so does the legal profession, so does medicine, so does the military...

The Head Girl can never be a creative genius because she does what other people want by the standards they most value. She will worker harder and at a higher standard in doing whatever it is that social pressure tells her to do - and she will do this by whatever social standards prevail, only more thoroughly.…

We live in a Head Girl’s world - which is also a world where creative genius is marginalized and disempowered to the point of near-complete invisibility.

Ideological capture - Joe Rogan

“Love” in this context isn’t Eros, or even a love for common man, it’s solidarity with an ideology.

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— Rhyen Staley (@DunedainRanger9) January 5, 2023

Broccoli

Coming to terms: The COVID lockdowns were all for naught

 Guess which developed country had the lowest excess mortality between 2020 and 2022. Go on, have a guess. That’s right. Sweden, which refused to close shops or schools or to impose a mask mandate, saw cumulative excess deaths rise by 6.8%, the lowest figure in the OECD. By way of comparison, the equivalent figures were 18% in Australia, 24.5% in the U.K., and 54.1% in the U.S.

At this stage, various authoritarians, hypochondriacs and mask fetishists trot out bizarre arguments about Sweden having a low population density, as if Swedes were evenly spaced across their birch forests rather than living mainly in cities comparable to ours. What is striking about this argument is not so much its dishonesty (in March 2020, lockdowners claimed that Sweden faced total catastrophe, not that it might end up with a slightly higher mortality rate than Finland ) as its desperation. Across the world, we are in denial. We simply can’t bring ourselves to admit that everything we went through — the disrupted education, the spike in mental health problems, the ruined careers, the debts — was for nothing. Like the countries that emerged maimed from World War One, we tell ourselves that the sacrifice must have had some purpose. Perhaps, now as then, decades will pass before we can bring ourselves to face the hideous truth.

 

Don Surber - The year of the fascists

 In 2022, we learned the government runs social media

...

The best I can say about 2022 is that it was not a leap year. After 9 months of this year, Queen Elizabeth had all she could take. She was out of here. She had been through the London Blitz, the dismantling of the British Empire and the death of her husband of of 69 years. She always kept calm and kept rolling. But 2022 was just too much for her.

...

Time magazine Man of the Year was Volodymyr Zelensky, the kleptocratic president of Ukraine. The only worse choice would have been Vladimir Putin, who tried to trigger a world war. The two thieves need one another to survive. It is symbiotic Satanism. When Russia invaded Zelensky’s country on February 24, he remembered the words of Rahm Emanuel, who said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

Within days, Zelensky was using the war to raise money from gullible NATO nations and their Bidenesque leaders. He rolled NATO as if it were the town drunk. Zelensky knew to give 10% to the various big guys. Think of Kyiv as Chicago on the Dnieper River.

...

Inflation ravaged the world as governments that shut countries down in the Pandemic Panic printed money to give away and appease the peasants. Bread is now $4 a loaf — at Dollar General. The news media called 7.1% inflation a decline when the reality is 2022 was the worst year for inflation in four decades — and up from the previous worst-in-40-years inflation of 4.7% in 2021.

...

Lefties also have the Republican Party.

Despite beating Democrats by 3 million votes in the House elections, Republicans gained only 9 seats in the House and lost another seat in the Senate as Republican congressional leaders refused to support Republicans who had the support of Donald Trump. Then these same Republicans branded Trump a loser. It’s amazing. These clowns would rather serve in hell than rule in heaven.

...

There was hope in 2022. ..topping the list was Jennifer Sey, who spoke out against covid protocols and had to resign as chief marketing officer of Levis....

“Democrats shriek fascist! at anyone challenging the edicts of the Party — anti-lockdown protesters, the unvaccinated, Trump supporters. Meanwhile, corporations are doing the bidding of Democratic Party elites as they ruthlessly censor and sideline dissenters. In fact, this is what real fascism looks like.”

And that, my friends, is what bugs me no end about this (string of naughty bad words) year. I learned I could not speak out on Google and Twitter against (another string of naughty bad words) the mindless support of the war in Ukraine. Putin started it and Zelensky is milking it for hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid. Handing him an unlimited credit card is bad policy. Silencing critics is immoral. In 2022, we the people allowed the government get away with it just as we the people allowed the government to shut us down in the name of stopping covid, which never even paused.

We need more Jennifer Seys and fewer Volodymyr Zelenskys and Vladimir Putins.

Virginian Pilot Letter Writer

At dinner with friends last night, we briefly touched on the subject of what's wrong with the country.  Why do so many people hate it?  The Virginian Pilot's Letters to the editor" section could not have provided a better answer.

‘Do better’

Those who oppose the immigration at the southern border need to look at the history of this country. The explorers who “discovered” America were immigrants who slaughtered the indigenous population. Their descendants imported people against their will, enslaving them for more than two centuries. During World War II, Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the descendants of the original immigrants for the sole reason that they had family who had emigrated from the then-American enemy, Japan.

During the 1930s and ’40s, virulent antisemites, including such vaunted Americans as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh who influenced those in government, promoted the lies of the German government, preventing hundreds of thousands of European Jews from entering our country and thus saving their lives. While we have a country that we can be proud of for our many accomplishments, we have much to atone for and be ashamed of: Native Americans, Africans, Japanese Americans, European Jews, Hispanics. We must do better.

— Marge Schechner, Virginia Beach

And there you have it. According to Marge Schechner of Virginia Beach, America was founded by genocidal murderers, slavers, and antisemitic racists who exhibit special hatred for Japanese and Hispanics.  Marge may have overlooked other faults because she then mentions that we "have a country we can be proud of for our many accomplishments."   She fails to mention those accomplishments so we're left in the dark about what those are.  

Marge is not an outlier.  This is the Liberal view of America: a country of vile people descended from vile people.  But if we want to return to Marge's good graces, we are told to "do better."

Do you have the feeling that Marge represents a lot of the educational establishment that is teaching our children and creating their "standards of learning?"

PRINCIPLES

 This is going to be a long thread on the subject of the PRINCIPLES! Crowd and their insistence that DeSantis shouldn’t lead a charge against Disney, ‘Don’t call them groomers! That’s naughty!’ etc

because PRINCIPLES!

And I’m going to use Dien Bien Phu as an example.

At Dien Bien Phu, the French Foreign Legion was slowly surrounded by the Viet Min. The Communists slowly took high ground position after high ground position. 

At first the French tried occasionally to push them out and occasionally succeeded.

But eventually the Viet had all the high ground with artillery sited on the base.

At first the shelling was a nuisance. Then it got heavier. More and more guns, more anti-aircraft. 

Eventually, the French were pounded into surrender.

The Left has been ‘boiling the frog’ for a long time, and it has mostly been by weaponizing empathy around ‘cultural issues.’

And as Breitbart pointed out, 'Politics is downstream from culture.' 

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What Makes Christianity Different?

What distinguishes Christianity from all other religions? This! pic.twitter.com/HKXv5g7G8q

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 27, 2022

Today’s blacklisted American: Violence against churches and religious institutions skyrockets since 2018

 

The Biden administration has done nothing because it sees these attacks as politically advantageous. The attacks are being done by the militant brownshirts of the Democratic Party, and thus Biden and Harris are glad to see them occur. They want the religious — who almost always tend to be conservative — to live in fear. And these politicians also know that they have the support of a huge segment of the modern American population. Too many Americans no longer believe in free speech. Instead, they think that censorship and oppression are always justified to impose their own ideas.

Meanwhile, the majority of Americans who still say they believe in free speech and religious freedom do nothing. Within the Republican Party is a small but significant faction that actually favors the repeated betrayal of its conservative wing, allying themselves with the Democrats to further these intolerant policies. The rest of that party does nothing, because it is like the American general public, largely willing to look the other way out of fear, self-interest, or cowardice.

And thus freedom dies.

The greatest answer ever given at any press conference ever.

Merry Christmas ✝️pic.twitter.com/9jNASM9rEn

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 25, 2022

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

 

Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today.

None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.

What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science.

More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science.

While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited.

You may be too young to know that in the 1960s and '70s the "End of the World" was coming via Famine,  Pollution, Ozone Depletion, Acid Rain, and a New Ice Age.  That was before Global Warning became The Thing.

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Harmful Language You Should Stop Using - And What To Replace It With

 

The Twitter Files are the Red Pill

 Matt Taibbi knew something strange was happening, but he could not put his finger on it.  Until he was able to read the Twitter Files.

Sometime in the last decade, many people — I was one — began to feel robbed of their sense of normalcy by something we couldn’t define. Increasingly glued to our phones, we saw that the version of the world that was spat out at us from them seemed distorted. The public’s reactions to various news events seemed off-kilter, being either way too intense, not intense enough, or simply unbelievable. You’d read that seemingly everyone in the world was in agreement that a certain thing was true, except it seemed ridiculous to you, which put you in an awkward place with friends, family, others. Should you say something? Are you the crazy one?

Matt was immersed in what was once called the "Mainstream Media," so he saw the world through the lens created by the people who made up a fantasy world by telling us the absurd, the malignant, and the bizarre were normal.  The "culture" was ripped apart and reshaped in ways that made no sense to normal people.  That has made a lot of people a little crazy.

I can’t have been the only person to have struggled psychologically during this time. This is why these Twitter files have been such a balm. This is the reality they stole from us! It’s repulsive, horrifying, and dystopian, a gruesome history of a world run by anti-people, but I’ll take it any day over the vile and insulting facsimile of truth they’ve been selling. Personally, once I saw that these lurid files could be used as a road map back to something like reality — I wasn’t sure until this week — I relaxed for the first time in probably seven or eight years.

Here's what allowed him to regain his senses.  He read the internal Twitter files that revealed a conspiracy so deep that most people are still unwilling to believe it.  He took the red pill. 

A group of us spent the last weeks reading thousands of documents. For me a lot of that time was spent learning how Twitter functioned, specifically its relationships with government. How weird is modern-day America? Not long ago, CIA veterans tell me, the information above the “tearline” of a U.S. government intelligence cable would include the station of origin and any other CIA offices copied on the report.

I spent much of today looking at exactly similar documents, seemingly written by the same people, except the “offices” copied at the top of their reports weren’t other agency stations, but Twitter’s Silicon Valley colleagues: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, even Wikipedia. It turns out these are the new principal intelligence outposts of the American empire. A subplot is these companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus, although evidence suggests their Quislingian executives were mostly all thrilled to be absorbed. Details on those “Other Government Agencies” soon, probably tomorrow.

 Something tells me the coming year is going to be a better one. Happy Holidays, everyone. Enjoy your loved ones, ignore the rest, and see you all again soon.

Fat acceptance is a death cult

.@MattWalshBlog: "Fat acceptance is a death cult. It's one of the most dangerous ideas in the world...It's probably time that we start thinking about the misinformation that tells people...that morbid, suicidal, self-destructive obesity is something to be celebrated." pic.twitter.com/NmzKO1axty

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 21, 2022

.@MattWalshBlog warns against following Stanford's list of banned words: "Yes, it's arbitrary...yet, through the force of sheer repetition, the person who abides by the language rules will eventually begin to perceive reality in a way that conforms with the rules." pic.twitter.com/g4aQcytufw

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 22, 2022

The Totalitarian dillemma - how do you change it peacefully?

 People tell me that most FBI agents are good people who bring criminals to justice. If that's true, where do you think they get people like the two dozen agents with machine guns and ballistic vests with FBI stenciled on them raiding the home of a pastor, his wife and his seven children at dawn?

 This is not an isolated instance. Recall the night-time raid on the home of the 70-year-old Roger Stone that involved not just a SWAT Team but helicopters, boats and a CNN News team conveniently primed to film the raid by the FBI. That's how totalitarians intimidate the population; you make examples, you highlight these arrests to let them know that it can happen to you.

As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when the Indian attacked: ”what do you mean “we” white man?”  Who do you think will “clean up” the FBI?  Christopher Ray, the man who’s run the place for the past 6 years?  Or Merrick Garland who labelled men and women who criticized school boards as domestic terrorists?  Do you think Joe Biden will change his mind about MAGA Republicans after calling them fascists?  

Keep in mind that these people have the power to send dozens of heavily armed men to arrest elderly men asleep in the middle of the night, or middle-aged pastors in front of their children.  Probably thousands of college-educated men – and women - would love to be in on these raids believing they are saving the country.  

Seriously, what is Jim Jordan going to do when Ray, or Garland tells him that he’s got a plane to catch and can’t stay to chat?  That’s what we got when the Left created a “cabal of powerful people” and decided to – the Time Magazine’s words - “save” the 2020 election. Mao wasn't kidding when he said that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

1. Controlled Opposition : Why I Really Don’t Give A €&+# About Them

New 🧵 1/55 pic.twitter.com/YwFGIESQAK

— Threads 🧵 Irish (@ThreadsIrish) December 22, 2022

The Nihilism of the Ruling Class Curtis Yarvin

David Rothkopf is the deep state made flesh. A sort of “Yung Kissinger,” Rothkopf has done the cursus honorum of journalism, government, philanthropy, and academia. Not that he is or ever was in charge of anything. No one is in charge of anything. There is only a way things work. But if anyone knows how things work, it is Rothkopf.

That’s why it’s worth reading his new masterpiece of airport nonfiction, American Resistance: The Inside Story of How The Deep State Saved the Nation. Or in case you have better things to do in the airport—my summary of the book’s argument:

The deep state does not exist.

The deep state is stronger than the president.

The deep state is the true democracy.

There is no deep state.

It is not my business to refute this remarkable logic—only to explain it.

What is the deep state? What does it think? Why does it do what it does? Where does it come from, and where is it going? Rothkopf is here to tell us—and yet, not. Like Kissinger, he loves nothing more than to say a thing and in the next breath deny it.

One random phrase caught my eye as a beautiful sample of his style. Rothkopf writes of “the alleged ties between Joe Biden’s son Hunter and the energy company Burisma in Ukraine” (my emphasis). Alleged! The fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma’s board is as well-documented as the Holocaust. Yet with this one beautiful word, alleged, the commissar vanishes. Orwell was a rookie.

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VIRGINIAN PILOT: "NOTHING TO SEE HERE ... MOVE ALONG"

This is how the press covers up news that's inconvenient for Democrats.

Doomed to Repeat: Gender Ideology and the Repressed Memory Movement

 

A scant 30 years ago, therapists with (mostly) the best of intentions managed to ruin many people’s lives. Using recovered memory therapy, clinicians unwittingly participated in creating false memories of horrific abuse that in some cases permanently sundered relationships between parents and adult children and sent innocent people to jail for decades. Most importantly, this treatment also harmed the patients it was meant to help.

In the late 1990s there were numerous lawsuits in which therapists or psychiatrists were successfully sued or settled on charges of having propagated false memories of childhood sexual abuse, incest, and satanic ritual abuse. Fran and Dan Keller served 21 years in prison after young children who attended their daycare began making wild allegations after having been coaxed by a therapist. According to one child witness, the Kellers “had everyone take off their clothes and had a parrot that pecked them in the pee-pee,” and “came to her house with a chainsaw and cut her dog Buffy in the vagina until it bled.” The therapist construed these childish imaginings as literally true, and concluded her small patient was a victim of ritual abuse. The Kellers were finally freed in November of 2014 after the only witness who provided any physical evidence of abuse—a doctor—recanted.

The false memory and ritual abuse scares of the ‘80s and ‘90s now seem bizarre almost beyond imagining. Therapists, psychiatrists, government agencies, congressional committees, and the media bought into the belief that worldwide satanic cults had infiltrated society and were ritually abusing children on a significant scale.

Tragically, history is in the process of repeating itself. Something strikingly similar is now happening. The current trend to diagnose children as transgender bears an eerie similarity to this previous social panic. This matters because, as with the previous panic of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the current trend is harming those it is supposed to help, and forcing them to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives.

Below, I outline the similarities—and differences..

 Transgender children fall prey to the bizarre belief that they are the opposite sex or neither sex. Taken away from the clamor and din of politics, the assertion that one is biologically one sex but of a different “gender” in some mysterious way makes no sense and is every bit as strange as asserting that daycare workers sacrificed babies and fed them to children.

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America, We Can Choose Not to Tolerate Weirdos

 

EXCERPT (read the whole thing);

Somehow we got to the point where we're expected to just nod politely when freaks, strangeos, and perverts turn up in positions of great responsibility. Well, that needs to change. Whether it's some "non-binary" bondage mutant who oversees America's nuclear waste betwixt bouts of luggage larceny or an Army colonel who – and yeah, this happened – masks up as a leather sex puppy in uniform on social media and who, along with junior officers, also dressed as carnal canines, forms what I guess would be an erotic litter. And then there's the everyday parade of creepy groomer oddities teaching our kids – actually, indoctrinating them – who are so proud of it that they go post videos of themselves bragging about the gender confusion and woke nonsense they spread. Time to stop accepting the idea that we need to pretend weirdos are not weird....

There is a solution, though. It's to reject false tolerance, the kind that is not about letting people alone to live their private lives but about forcing their intolerable strangeness upon the rest of us. We tried what they called "tolerance," and they started grooming our kids and unleashing kooks to command our troops.

It is high time we no longer tolerate nuts. No, if you are a nut, you do not get a position of responsibility. Too bad. You don't get an important job because you are crazy, and craziness does not stop when you leave your house, or doghouse, as it were. Let's reach far back to yesteryear – like 2017 – when it was understood that insanity is disqualifying.

Empowered woman - Babylon Bee

Pro-Choice Bosses - A Generous Offer To Our Pregnant Employees

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 13, 2022

The population implosion

 A couple featured in the NYTimes live in separate homes and do not have children.  Americans are not reproducing themselves and will eventually die out as a result.  The invasion of people crossing the Southern border could replace the children Americans are not having.  The problem is that the South American birth rate is only slightly above 2, which is not good enough.  However, the invasion is not just South Americans but also trekkers from Africa, where women have an average of 4.2 children. 

Demographics is destiny.  One of the reasons Russia is having military problems is that they are short of men.  Their fertility rate is 1.6, which means they are dying out and lack the manpower for sustained war.   They’re drafting retirees to fight.

The American fertility rate is roughly the same: 1.6.  This is not a big problem for today’s retirees.  But it is for people in their 20s or 30s who may want to retire and collect their social security benefits.  Sub-Saharan Africa has by far the highest fertility rate. If current trends continue, my grandchildren may depend on the benevolence of the grandchildren of Africans crossing the Southern border, who will continue to spend enough time together to reproduce.

Forget about global warming.  The end of Western Civilization will come from ideas born on the pages of the NY Times.

I think this band, which I discovered a few years online, is one of the very best I’ve ever heard in vocals, harmonies and musical arrangements. Check out this song, for example: https://t.co/Wa7Ase0gtM https://t.co/TIOP06rDVY

— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) December 13, 2022

Who In the US Is Objectively Racist? The Left. As the Data Show Definitively.

 

The increase in gun homicides documented in the Emory University study is attributable almost exclusively to one factor: a nearly 60 percent increase in homicide fatalities among black men. Not over a period of many years–but in a little over one year.

And what year was that? 2020. And what happened in 2020? The death of George Floyd, and the subsequent revelation that black lives especially matter.

Yes, but not in the way intended. Not by a long shot. That death and revelation brought in its train myriad consequences. Defund the police. The war on cash bail and the release of numerous criminals. The demoralization of police, who were instructed explicitly and implicitly that arresting black male offenders was a career risk, and the subsequent surrender of the streets to the thugs. And on and on. (The release of many from jail because of COVID didn’t help either.)

This is as close to a natural experiment as can exist in social science. An exogenous shock–the death of one man–leads to a tectonic shift in law enforcement, especially with regards to a particular demographic. The result?: a hyperbolic increase in homicide rates in that demographic. (I note that the previous uptick observable in the chart in 2014 corresponds to the proto-Floyd event, the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, which was the catalyst for Black Lives Matter.)

This is as close to a definitive proof of causation as is possible in observational social science.

Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2022

Dear Woke Corporation: Take a Hike!

"I'm sorry that's happening to you. Best of luck."

Senator @TomCottonAR blasts woke Kroger CEO for expecting Republicans to come to their defense. pic.twitter.com/L9j82kDraA

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 6, 2022

When there's Racial Outrage, there's a Race Hoax. Depend on it.

A black woman (Zaynab Bintabdul-Hadijakien) is revealed to be the suspect behind the window-smashing attack on the Black Cultural Center at @UVA in October. The incident had been blamed on white supremacy by activists. UVA hid the suspect's identity. https://t.co/1XiAKPlnhl

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 5, 2022

American Stazi

Evidence of FBI spying on Trump’s allies for years before 2020 has emerged.  It’s telling that the FBI alerted Twitter and Facebook that the “Russians” were going to spread disinformation shortly before the New York Post printed the Hunter Biden laptop story.  They could only have known about the upcoming story because they were monitoring the emails of Trump attorney Giuliani and Steve Bannon.  It would be interesting to find out when they began spying on their domestic political enemies and what court order allowed them to do that.  

Re @elonmusk #TwitterFiles - FBI spying on Rudy Giuliani’s cloud in 2020 with a covert surveillance warrant. Had access to his emails from John Paul Mac Isaac and me. FBI had #LaptopFomHell and knew it was real. Looks like pre-censoring a legit story https://t.co/HZmSPiRR8d pic.twitter.com/rlnTeK2a7T

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 3, 2022