Phyllis Schlafly, American Conservative
Posted On: Thursday - August 15th 2024 8:02PM MST
In Topics: Feminism History Americans Morning Constitutional
Phyllis Schlafly, born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart, was born a century ago today. (Hat tip to E.H. Hail) She died at 92, but we'll post this in memoriam, because there was no Peak Stupidity yet in September of '16.
I don't know what kind of press the late Mrs. Shlafly will get in this day and age. It was bad enough a half century ago when she was a known Conservative and anti-Feminist.
Though she was a wife and mother - BIG TIME, with 6 children by her lawyer husband Fred in Alton, Illinois* - Phyllis Schlafly was a political figure from 22 years old on up. It doesn't read as if her family background would have influenced her to get into politics, but she did graduate from Radcliffe College with a degree in Government. (Ahhh, geeze... no, no, this ONE time it worked out well.)
(I guess there were still 2 to come at this point.)
Mrs. Schlafly didn't make it far in her attempts at a political office. In 1952 she won the GOP primary but lost in the election for US Congressman (I think it would have still been called?) from Illinois. She tried again in '60 but she was soundly defeated then too. It was 4 years later, when Barry Goldwater was running in the GOP primaries, that she did what COULD have been her most important accomplishment. That was her writing of the short book A Choice, not an Echo to support Mr. Goldwater against the east coast squish** establishment. It would have been had the Libertarian/Conservative Goldwater won that election. (As it was, the book was said to have helped AuH2O win the California primary.)
What Mrs. Schlafly IS remembered the most for is her fight against the Feminist Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the US Constitution. Now, Peak Stupidity has stated that, after the Bill of Rights 10, the Amendments have generally, on the average, sucked. The ERA was about to bring that average much further toward the sucky side. Believe it or not, this proposal for the ERA predated Phyllis Schlafly herself by 3 years. By the early 1970's though, the Feminazis (h/t, El Rushbo) were gung ho on this one:
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.It sounds so simple and eminently fair, but human nature and the sexes are not. Mrs. Schlafly's objections were women-centric themselves, having to do with conscription to the military, alimony, and child custody*** There are the usual reasons that the whole idea is ludicrous, as all real Conservatives could see. However, in the age of the "Battle of the Sexes" with Billie Jean King and that crowd, the ERA seemed like a shoe-in, but thank you so much, legislators of... well, it was a bit complicated:
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification."
OK, nice job, you guys in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Utah, and Arizona. Thanks, SOME of you legislators in the Carolinas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Thanks for thinking twice, legislators of Kentucky, Tennessee, Nebraska, S. Dakota, and Idaho. You knew you screwed up the first go-around. You people in Virginia, Illinois, Nevada, and North Dakota, what was your freaking point, after the deadline?
Oh, back to the late great Phyllis Schlafly, there was more to her politically than a short book and her exhausting but victorious fight against yet another stupid Amendment. She was what's called a "Paleo-Conservative" now****. She was against all aspects of feminism, such as "marital rape", the "gender pay gap" scam, and pro-nuclear family. After the fall of Soviet Communism, she was against the US being in Bosnia, anti-UN, against activist judges, and most importantly, against the immigration invasion.
Peak Stupidity celebrates the life of the great American, Phyllis Schlafly.
PS: I mentioned the John Birch Society briefly in the previous post. Here's an interesting bit from wiki regarding the JBS and her 1964 book:
Schlafly had previously been a member of the John Birch Society, but quit, and later denied she had been a member because she feared her association with the organization would damage her book's reputation. By mutual agreement her books were not mentioned in the John Birch Society's magazine, and the distribution of her books by the society was handled so as to mask their involvement. The society was able to dispense 300,000 copies of A Choice Not an Echo in California prior to the June 2, 1964 GOP primary.That was a bit of a squish move there, but it sounds like the JBS did the practical thing.
* Across the Mississippi from St. Louis.
** The Bushes and Romney's of yesteryear. Hell, they had a Romney and a Bush too, come to think of it.
*** I wonder what she thought of the latter 2 aspects after no-fault divorce. Perhaps anti-Feminist does not always = pro-men.
**** Though she was a delegate for George H.W. Bush over Pat Buchanan, so WTH was that all about?
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Now where DID I put that H&K anyway?
Posted On: Thursday - August 15th 2024 3:05PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Healthcare Stupidity Guns
This might seem like yet another curmudgeonry post based on one set of surveys taken for one visit to the pediatrician, but that's not the case this time. This is one of our less frequent Libertarian-oriented posts.
Do you all remember the beginning of this deal in which various government and other organizations became tools of the Anti-Amendment-II forces? I'd call it "mission creep", but that term implies other motivations (the desire for expansion and more power). The CDC cared about guns all of a sudden, cause "gun deaths". Do they have an anti-driving-and-texting program? (Who knows? Maybe they do.) Credit card companies got roped in, or caved in, to stopping transactions involving gun stores. Anti-Constitutional forces have tried all manner of backhanded methods to push through their agenda so as to avoid being obviously wrong in the spotlight.
Back in the 1990s, as I recall, I'd read about this practice in healthcare in which parents would be asked about guns in the home. What was the point of that? The more paranoid among me, errr, us, might wonder if that information stayed in files of that doctor's office only. Of course, I'd tell them to piss up a rope if ever asked, I reckoned, but I've been mostly in Conservative areas in which they wouldn't dare. (Not good for bidness! Not at all.) However, I didn't expect web portals on the internet. Nobody DOES!
When I got to the question above, I kind of blew off the part after "your home", realizing that the rest of the question refers to what, say, Phylis Schlafly, to pick a random Conservative lady, would have called "broken homes". Keep that in mind for a bit. So, there you are. There was my chance to tell them this was virtually none of their business.
(√) Decline to answer... hmmm, would that answer put me under suspicion for being one of those crackpot Libertarian Dads, the kind who make their children write papers based on John Birch Society articles? Yeah, I did, but putting this into a computer database rather than just leaving a paper form blank* bugged me.
I'd rather bug them instead. Thinking only of our own house here, I thought the answer (√) Unsure should really freak someone out back in "Data Collections". "Wait, what, you don't KNOW if you have a gun in your house?! Where'd you see it last?"
"Well, it could be under the mattress, but then we went to the range. So, we might have left it out there, or in the car, or...." That's not exactly the situation. It's more like, to be honest here, I have rounded up some guns recently that I didn't even remember buying.
So my answer to screw with the system was (√) Unsure (When will I get the tattoo? Why come I don't have ...?), but a straight answer would have been
* If it came down to "Sir, you missed this one question", I'd have either nicely told them they don't need to know that or gone the "What? Your lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out. Alright then... we gotta go." route.
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Peak Outsourcing
Posted On: Wednesday - August 14th 2024 6:14PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Zhou Bai Dien Karmakarma Kameleon
Peak Stupidity Legal Dept. disclaimer: For the British Police Commission: Our display of this meme is not hateful incitement. Please be aware that Peak Stupidity does not come up with this stuff.* We just forward it along. Don't extradite us, bro!
Michael Scott explains:
* Occasionally, we've done some good ones.
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I pity the poor portal people.
Posted On: Wednesday - August 14th 2024 6:04AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Artificial Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity
This post is related to our recent one titled It's portals all the way down! in that the image above is from the doctor's office survey. However, we present a different, more basic, form of stupidity today. (The reader may see this already from the image above.)
There were a LOT of questions - maybe it was 100 questions rather than only 50. First rule of Kid's Medical Portal Club: You don't give them any information that may be used against him! Granted, allergies, medications, and that, yes, you enter it correctly. This was a long survey that was obviously about his mental health. He's fine. So, I answered every question with "NEVER", of the 3 options. Otherwise, I wouldn't be surprised to be told we needed a follow-up visit. Hell no, we were just trying to get him on the
The problem was, look at the freaking English there! Did a Woke hire write the questions? I mean, that's better than having xi actually writing software, and it still allows for "
So, what I was ebonically saying here was "No, this kid don't never listen to no rules." and "He don't never show no feelings." That's not really the case mentally - he's fine, but "NEVER" is what the software wants. Scholastically, however, they weren't testing the kid, but he's got these portal people beat my a mile.
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Rotherham Riots: Scenes of the hotel "guests"
Posted On: Tuesday - August 13th 2024 6:29PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
We've been phoning it in lately, for reasons...* Today, we'll comment on a few more images from the riots last week in Rotherham. I realize that this was just one of many incidents (and hopefully many more going forward). However, I watched an hour and a half of that riot and got lots of thoughts in my head.
So, this post and one more will be the end of that. We'll have more on the Totalitarian reaction of UK authorities and maybe some suggestions for the future.
Here are scenes OF, not at, the hotel - one of a multitude - that houses
(Some good rock throwing by the rioters got the fake stucco and some upper floor windows.)
These look like gangster hoods, but, see, they haven't assimilated yet. Pretty soon they'll be regular British yobs, committing violence only at soccer games... when there's a Moslem player fouled ...
I felt pretty good seeing that picture. Is it possible that, upon looking out at the mayhem and seeing the smoke below, they might have been having thoughts for the 1st time that not all British people will take this invasion lying down... and thinking of olde lost England? Not everyone is a pushover, young thugs. That is, if their very own government doesn't force them to be.
Yes, the White British people are raising hell down below and threatening you harm. Good. Suck it!
These 2 hotel guests look out with curiosity. Is there a way out? Would they get their asses kicked on the way out? Could they get their asses kicked out of the country even, worst case?
It's a kid and a brother, Dad, sister, I dunno, making alternate use of that Arafat style Italian restaurant tablecloth headgear, such as even the RHINOs don. I don't want to see a family hurt, but then, the PRP's plan to Islamify Great Britain has and will hurt many MILLIONS of British families.
Whose country is it? GTFO. Or, while you're up there still, use that Brit-government-supplied phone to text home with some of your new pictures. Let 'em know that maybe this is not the next best place after all.
Will the Moslem invitee-invaders wise up and realize who they may be dealing with in the future? I mean, they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
PS: Just after I finished this post, my son showed me the Katrina and the Waves video for Walkng on Sunshine, AS IF... I might have somehow never heard that song before. Well, I remembered correctly that this was a British band. How #Sad, the whole thing, from 1985 to 2024!
* Haha, these days "phoning it in" has a new meaning. It could or should mean doing something with so little effort that you can do it on your ridiculous smart phone keyboard.
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Lyin' Press foregoes fairness
Posted On: Monday - August 12th 2024 6:15PM MST
In Topics: Trump Media Stupidity Taxes Karmakarma Kameleon
Instapundit posted the following by an X-er named Tim Murtaugh. Mr. Murtauge says:
I guess that non-partisan watchdog group wasn't available for comment this time.
Let's also note that, contrary to what his press spokesragdoll said, Bai Dien had the IRS cracking down with a new "Service Industry Reporting Program. I wonder if the IRS has got their 87,000 new employees on line yet.
As Peak Stupidity commented when Trump proposed this move a couple of months ago, taking action on this is really a function of Congress. That should be especially obvious in light of the Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council ruling. I'd like to see it happen, one way or another, but I think the IRS won't remove its grubby hands from this income, or else, what's next, teenage boys who mow lawns?! For those not wanting to be under the jurisdiction of the IRS, there's cash.
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Grrrlll Power in the UK
Posted On: Monday - August 12th 2024 7:26AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Female Stupidity
If you assume that the attempted assassination of Donald Trump happened just due to pure stupidity (I don't), the feminism and wokeness* were surely a big part. That there were women in Trump's Secret Service detail to begin with**, and from what we saw on video, didn't work out so hot.
They and the proponents of Feminism don't want to hear that they are not cut out for this type of work. It's not just size, but mental and emotional differences too, that matter. I noted this just looking at the cute face of this lady cop - at least I think she is, as these bulked-up body-armor suits don't exactly show off their bods - at the Rotherham Riot.
This screen shot if from the latter end of the hour and a half, maybe 1:15 or so. It's around the back side of the Migrant Express hotel. As a small contingent of cops faced off a similar sized group of rioters, there was some shoving. This lady simply looks like she wants to go home and have a good cry. That's the difference between men and women. She shouldn't have been there... but, but, grrrlll power!!
Adam Smith has kindly put a video up on his youtube channel with a display of more Authoritah-tive grrrlll power!
* Political Correctness on steroids.
** Peak Stupidity says, if you're gonna push quotas on the SS, at least put the women in the anti-counterfeiting department.
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Wise Russian Proverb
Posted On: Saturday - August 10th 2024 6:13PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Humor China The Future
Thank you, Alarmist, for linking us to this, off of Ann Barnhartz's meme site.
Thank you, Peakers, for reading and writing this week! We'll have more on the anti-Regime rallies in the UK, or, if unfortunately, there's nothing more, on the evil Orwellian aftermath there. Though it's old news, the Olympic genderbender nonsense still contains lots of humorous stupidity to be exploited. There'll be more than that, I'm sure. Have a happy Sunday.
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Dr. Rock on Financial Musical Chairs
Posted On: Saturday - August 10th 2024 10:07AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Global Financial Stupidity Economics The Future Karmakarma Kameleon
In the comments under our recent post Crash, my ash, Old Soldier spelled out the deep financial hole we are in already, with no good way out. I agree. That post of mine was a comment of the state of "the market" only. The big wigs care about that money, but also, what's left of the Middle Class sees those fund numbers in their 401-k's, IRAs, "market funds", whatever, as showing they are doing OK. When those numbers go way down, they see that they are not nearly well-off after all.
Anyway, Ron Paul's recent column on the debt had only 16 comments on The Unz Review, so I perused them. I remember the guy going by Dr. Rock as always having good comments on that site in general and particularly on Steve Sailer's blog. This comment of his*.is related to elections, and the general pointlessness of it, economics-wise [in its entirety, unedited]:
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Every administration plays the game of kicking the can down the road, in the sole hope that the entire house of cards doesn’t collapse white they are in office, or too quickly after the leave office, lest it be blamed on them.
Nobody wants to be the guy (or girl) that decides to address it, because they don’t want to be the administration to inflict the barbaric levels of austerity it would take to address it. They also don’t want to be responsible for firing half of the federal government, or taking a ax to welfare, food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security, military spending, international aid, and the hundreds of billions on pure pork that we dole out as part of the grift-graft-campaign contribution scam.
Their only hope is that whenever it finally blows up, and sends us into a deep depression, hyper-inflation, and complete global financial collapse, that it will be on someone else’s “watch”, and every President and Congress that came before, will act like they had nothing to do with it, and it was someone the sole fault of the people in power at that instant! (probably for more short term partisan political gain) “The Democrats mismanaged the economy!”
One of the reason why it will never get “fixed” until after everything collapses, is because multiple administrations and Congress’ failed to do anything about it for decades and decades, and now, it’s too big for any one generation to take on!
Moreover, unless you are also willing to destroy the Fed, and end Central Banking, and the entire fiat currency system, you won’t really be fixing the problem. You’d also have to eviscerate the phony casino stock market, derivatives market, bond market, “every” market… total annihilation! (You’d also be labeled as the the most destructive world leader since Adolf Hitler, and in a way, they would be right, because you’d have to be willing to basically blow up the entire world, financially)
Also, how can we go back onto the gold standard, with hundreds of trillions, maybe thousands of trillions, in so-called “circulation”? (under MMT, it might be INFINITY TRILLIONS) Gold would go to $1,000,000 an ounce, maybe higher (I have no idea, because we’d be in Armageddon).
Ergo: Everyone just “plays along”, like it’s all going to be okay (until it isn’t).
However, that Everything Bubble is out there, and growing, and getting ready to “pop” one day, and just like the past manufactured crisis got us central banking, the next one will get us CBDC and Social Credit Scores, and a complete surveillance state.
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Unfortunately, Dr. Rock is right on the money. The people he describes here are, I assume, those behind the scenes. Kamelion is much too stupid and a solipsistic narcissist to understand this financial picture. Trump, OTOH, can understand this stuff well enough, but he would be sure he can fix all this on his own, in 4 years, never mind the century-and-a-decade-long existence of the FED and the number $35,000,000,000,000.
PS: "Musical Chairs" was the old ZeroHedge's way of putting it, back when I'd read the site thoroughly a decade ago.
PPS: There is one slight matter I disagree with Dr. Rock on. That is, the gold standard and million bucks per ounce or not, what's the difference? The thing with gold is, an ounce is an ounce. Whatever number of green pieces of paper or bits on a computer it can "trade for" doesn't mean much.
* Since I don't comment there now, I won't ask Dr. Rock if it's OK to use this. I've never been refused before, so ...
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Mediterranean Cuisine Peak Stupidity Trifecta
Posted On: Friday - August 9th 2024 5:03PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Economics Inflation Customer Care
Wow! In addition to being a "pop-up" Peak Stupidity Curmudeonry post - not one of our posts that is waiting in the wings - within 5 measly minutes, 3 of our niche topics presented themselves to us. The Zen of Stupidity, it was.
I attempted to get some reasonably healthful food at the hub airport. While avoiding Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A and all that, I came to a place I frequented a number of time ~ 6 years ago, while doing a lot of traveling through there. Mediterranean folks eat well, don't they? I could pretend it's healthful anyway, and it was so tasty. Also, they dished out a lot of grub, while getting me out of there for 8 to 9 bucks, tax included.
1) INFLATION: You know the drill here. It's difficult to avoid the accusations of cherry-picking, though we've never actually done any apples-to-apples comparison of cherry prices;-} We've had plenty of discussion of the BLS inflation "basket of goods" and more, so it's not all just random outrage. Anyway, I notice what I notice. After having enjoyed this food a number of times, I noticed the prices up $2 after a year or so and, probably worse in terms of value, the portions had gone down to 75%, maybe less, of what I'd previously enjoyed.
That was it. It had been nice while it lasted. I just came by after ~ 5 years though. Now, for that same type of meal, one isn't getting out of there for under $19 after tax. Hit me, Money Chimp: 14% average annual inflation taking into account compounding. That's off on the low side, as I didn't take the portion size decrease into account. If the quantity of food is only down by 25% (I doubt that), we get 19%!
2) COMPETENCE: This subject that we've covered for a couple of years now is called a "crisis" of competence often. I don't like that usage, as crisis has a connotation of something being temporary. Nah, it ain't.
I was not going for that $19 meal, but it didn't matter, as the place was out of half the ingredients anyway. This is a big hub airport - they are just throwing away money in rent. Customers in front of me were being told what was missing and then dropping out of the line. There was no point. This was not the fault of the one diverse lady there doing the serving and check-out duties. (Their problem was more that there was no competent old White guy running the place.) I did notice this woman's plastic badge, though. I kid you not, it said "I don't know. I just work here.". That was always supposed to be in fun, was it not? That joke does not work here anymore.
3) CASH IS KING: Well, that was nice for me, at least. I had the place to myself, seeing as how everyone had bailed. I only wanted what they did have, that healthful Mediterranean snack of a small cup of hummus and piece of pita bread, so this lady got to it. She put it on a plate.
That'd be "this many dollars"* was pretty much it, as she just pointed to the card reader without any price stated. I handed her a fiver. "No?" "It's card only." "How much is it, 3 bucks, right? Here you go." (I didn't care where the money went.) No can do. She stood firm, so there's a piece of pita bread and some hummus sitting there, or already in the trash. I've got cans of tuna fish, so ... it's all GOOD. Is it?
How can Peak Stupidity keep up with the news today, as we ran into a Trifecta of Stupidity.
* The movie Idiocracy has hundreds of lines that apply well now.
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Rotherham Riots: Two-Tier Policing
Posted On: Thursday - August 8th 2024 12:03PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
(Continued from Enough is Enough! - - The Rising of the Yorkshiremen and The Cops.)
To the right in this image, the Rotherham rioters had just busted up that narrow plate glass window, using asphalt, stone, and wood as their implements of destruction. That opening got them to the hotel's lobby, I guess, as they were able to pull out various chairs. The small contingent of cops there, with their helmets and shields, were up against the wall, but they could have easily walked off to the right. A large number of them were around the corner. There was nothing stopping them from retreating but their "duty" to the realm. They weren't stopping the hotel from getting smashed up through a cinder-block wall (not bloody likely) either, as the rioters could already get in.
When it comes down to it, other than that these cops were in the way and acting traitorously toward their countrymen, I don't think the rioting Brits hated them here. The former were just extremely angry, having been at wits end for years, no, decades, in trying to stop the cultural and physical destruction of the UK. Enough is Enough! Chairs and rocks gotta fly. (Stuff has to burn too - that was later.)
The hate could be for the masses of alien Moslems, people that should not have EVER been residing in the UK like this. This was a *** hotel they'd attacked, after all, one housing Moslem aliens at no charge. However, on calmer days, I doubt these White folks have much hate for most of the normal working-man Moslems even. The large proportion of the hate should be, and probably is, directed at the Globalist scum, such as newcomer, 20%-of-the-populace-elected Totalitarian Kier Starmer. Thing is, they couldn't get quite so close to 10 Downing Street, that's all.
Our 1st post on this matter pointed out the Orwellian biased press coverage. Something else that's been discussed, where one can actually discuss it, is "Two-Tiered Policing". That's the term in use over there, and Peak Stupidity ain't gonna change it, but (Sam Francis-coined) "Anarcho-Tyranny" is a better and more over-arching term for what's been going on in the UK. The use of Two-Tiered Policing seems recent to me, yet the "policy" goes back a long ways.
The British police have dealt with violent Moslem rioters over the years too, much more so, in fact, since that's who normally does the rioting. All it takes - just very recent events - is for a Moslem family's children to be taken by CPS (no opinion on the specific details) for riots to start, and then another I'd heard about involving a Moslem beating down a British cop at the airport. I suppose the cops will defend property against destruction some of the time - hard to get pictures showing otherwise, of course - but there's a fundamental difference.
These guys in Rotherham have the whole system after them at this point. Even were it not for the top-level J6-style Orwellianism, the local police will arrest and charge the normally (formerly?) law-abiding British people. The CPS incident resulted in the children being sent back. (Nice work! This doesn't work for White Brits, though) The 2nd one resulted in no charges on the Moslem for beating down a lady* cop, resulting in a broken nose. How'd the latter work out for a White guy who'd lobbed a piece of asphalt more accurately?
Maybe the general population of the UK hasn't been aware for as long as your VDare people and Enoch Powell, but they've had to have seen the drastic changes from the PRP for 2 decades now, and certainly 1. Why have there been no riots yet? There've been plenty of other incidents of Moslem/alien violence that could have triggered them. The reason riots like this haven't happened is, there you go, that Two-Tiered Policing, but more broadly, Anarcho-Tyranny.
Law abiding White Brits don't generally riot, 'cause, ILLEGAL. Were they to do so, they would and will expect and get that law & order, and in spades. That's what it is in a country with Rule of Law, inn't it, Gov'nah? Yet, the authorities won't treat aliens with same way, 'cause, FEAR. Yes, that's fear of the masses of Moslems that don't go so much for that Rule of Law business and also fear of being seen as anti-Woke, pro-White, and worst, anti-Regime.
Can you imagine if these people where White and one did ctrl-r's to the signs thusly: (Islam/Muslims = White People) (Crusaders = Invaders) (Jihad = Deportations) (Shaykh = J6 Political Prisoners)?
This outcry about Two-Tiered Policing is right and just and overdue. However, Anarcho-Tyranny covers much more that their term doesn't. These White Brits surely see it, but what about the fact that these foreigners, having invaded their land in boats or Chunnel trains, are being put up for nothing using their own hard-earned, hard-stolen tax money?! How about that these folks haven't been arrested for trespassing when they broke in to begin with? How about the taxpayer money used, not to at least, pay for deportation courts, but to help them get citizenship as part of the PRP?!
Well, maybe they'll come up with more terms to cover the rest. Globalism, Totalitarianism, Orwellian Police Statism, and, if nothing else, Communism, will surely do for now. I hope this fight continues... more on that score...
* Yep, we'll get to that post.
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It's portals all the way down!
Posted On: Thursday - August 8th 2024 6:40AM MST
In Topics: Internets Humor Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity
"We're going paperless.", I'm told, nearly every day now. No, you can't write a check. No, you can't bring the form in person.
OK, we can't continue to live in the '70s. I! GET! THAT! [/old FOX-era Tucker] What used to be "our website" is now "our portal", meaning, what? You can use the app, I guess and maybe cannot use a browser even? It just sounds more modern, is all... That's what it's about. "Don't have a portal? OK, Boomers!"
This particular portal was an entryway that led to our boy being able to play organized sports. It's paperless. Here went. I know longer pick anything but simple obvious passwords now, with too damn many of these things, so if someone decides to hack in and take him off the soccer team, so be it - it's nothing but Communist Kickball anyway.
Then, I'm in, through the portal. It wasn't too bad. There was then that "physical" page, so I got out the tape measure and the blood pressure machine, and put him on the scale. Ooops, but you've got to print this out, and, ooops, go to the doctor.... with... a form.
The doctors' office told us we couldn't just up and come in, because this boy hasn't been there in so long we gotta catch up.* That required going through their portal... cause, they're like... paperless.
This one was much worse. It'll require a 2nd post for some funny and PS-adjacent stuff, but let me say that "2 surveys" turned into 5, one of them with 50 questions or more. That was over half an hour. Through the portal, and around the 6 million dollar flower pots, to the doctor's office we go ... ♫ ♪ ♬
The one Doc I remembered from before, a good guy, was there on a stool in a common area typing stuff into a computer. Seeing as how I had a clipboard in my hand, I asked "I thought we'd gone paperless?" He liked that one.
To be fair, SOME of the papers on the clipboard were for insurance stuff. How lucky was I that I didn't have to get on the insurance company's portal!
It's simple, sonny, whaddya' need a refresher class?
Here's the original:
I read this on Instapundit first. To keep it short:
After a lecture on Cosmology, the Professor was questioned by a little old lady. "Your theory that the sun is the center of the solar system and the earth is a ball which rotates around it has a very convincing ring to it, Professor, but it's wrong. I've got a better theory", she said.
"And what is that, madam?" inquired James politely."
"That we live on a crust of earth which is on the back of a giant turtle."
The Professor decided to gently dissuade his opponent by making her see some of the inadequacies of her position.
"If your theory is correct, Madam," he asked, "what does this turtle stand on?"
"You're a very clever man, Sir, and that's a very good question," replied the little old lady, "but I have an answer to it. And it's this: The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him."
"But what does this second turtle stand on?" persisted the Professor, patiently.
To this, the little old lady crowed triumphantly,
"Why, simple! It's turtles all the way down."
* Of course, we are blessed to have heard this.
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Rotherham Riots - The Cops
Posted On: Wednesday - August 7th 2024 12:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
Note: They'll be a handful of posts on the Rotherham riots in particular, among the widespread anti-PRP (Population Replacement Programme) riots going on in the UK. We'll concentrate on the video we discussed on Monday, but more good news will surely be proclaimed here.
Yes, this is all good news and something for the rest of the White Western world to enjoy and learn from. The British people can not fight the Globalist evil by voting.*. I'm pretty sure that realization is much of the impetus for these riots.
It's more than just good news. All this is glorious to see!
These guys are explaining to these police officers a number of things, much which is lost in translation to me. From what I did catch during this hour and a half (and other videos), the rioters, being for the most part, almost solely, the same people as these cops, want to reason with them as fellow Brits. Why are you cops out here in our faces today? Don't you understand that you are working completely against your own people here? What about our children? What about YOUR children, Mr. Starmer's enforcers ?
I know the much of the answers. Well-paying jobs. Pensions. There's more. Other than were it the women cops (fairly cute, I might add, but more on them later), I can see one of these guys feeling it cowardly to all march away, especially once the protest got more... riotous. These guys are decked out in their body armor, with helmets and plexiglas shields. This is not 1965 during the Vietnam War, with long-haired young ladies, and men, sticking flowers into gun muzzles. 6 decades later, the UK and the US are much more Police State-adjacent for that to happen.
Yet, rather than be a question of duty and honor, the "Domino Effect", and Lyndon Johnson's wanting o finish what was started vs. peace and quit-being-the-world's policeman", these people facing off are truly on the same side in ideology, culture, and blood... on EVERYTHING. That these cops didn't stand down or better yet, refuse to come out there at all, says lots about how our Regimes have have gotten control of society.
He was one of the many police officers that can be seen interacting (like that one!) with rightfully angry Brits outside the Holiday Inn Express housing alien people that day.
It's within a couple of minutes of the 8 minutes into the video I captured here that there's a younger cop - darker beard - who verbally agreed with the rioters. ( I caught some of it, but c'mon, please, blokes, speak fooking English!) He says something to the effect of agreeing, but then, there's a "but..." I don't know. "It's just our job, mate!" or something, he said.
Well, again, I tried to make out what I could***, but I noted the look on this guy's face. Can I tell from a face that a guy does not look like a dummy? He doesn't. He's got to agree with the rioters at some deep level, maybe even that they are in the right on this particular day too, in wanting to smash the hotel and wanting masses of foreign aliens OUT, out of the British lands. In this scene, it seems like this cop was mulling this over. (This was before things got heated and there was no mulling over anything.)
His walking off right there would be seen as cowardice only by those who miss the whole big picture. In fact, it would have been a very brave thing. It could have started a change in the action that day. One step of this sort would truly scare the BeJesus out of the Starmer Regime. It could be the start of Glorious Revolution 2.0!
Even more so than it'd be for an uprising like this in America***, in Rotherham, and other locations I've observed, the rioters and the local law are almost all one in the same in culture and blood. Will the cops decide to stay at the station next time? Better, yet, I'd love to see them join in!! The pressure on local cops from the Regime to enforce the Globalist PRP and to go Orwellian and Totalitarian on these "Far Right" "racist" "thugs"**** is tremendous, I'm sure. The Regime doesn't want things like this to keep happening.
Well, this post was to discuss "Two-Tier Policing", but we didn't get that far. This series about Rotherham will continue. As I've written, this is THE important story right now. Here's hoping it stays that.
* I didn't comment on this last time, but this traitorous scum Starmer got 1/3 of the votes cast recently and is now in charge of the country. As with these riots too, it's not the one thing (this one election).
** We'll have more on this, but there'd be a fundamental difference, IMO: Guns.
*** It was a little like listening to Peter Brimelow - same accent (northern England), come to think of it. Miss 1 or 2 words, and the rest turns to muck in my mind. Sorry! It's not you, it's me. ;-}
**** Sorry, but "thugs" always brings up ghetto dweller Black! folks in my mind. Can White people even BE thugs? What does Webster say...?
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Crash, my ash!
Posted On: Tuesday - August 6th 2024 11:31AM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics
Oh, it's coming, all right. However, this 2,100 point drop over 5 days, including the 1,000 point drop in one day is peanuts. Let's think proportions - out of 40,000, that's 5% and 2 1/2%, respectively.
I imagine there are financial people out there who've been in this business a long time. In the 1980s, those 2 drops would mean 90 points / 45 points. That'd be a "Big day for the Dow.", but no kind of news story. By fall of '87, the Dow had ramped up 44% in 7 months, but there was that October 19th "Black Monday" crash. "OMG, 508 points!" Not many stock brokers worked in tall buildings with working windows anymore, by 1987. So, we had that going for us ... but that one was a 22.6% drop. That drop would be an 8 to 9 thousand point drop today. (Maybe tomorrow.)
In the early/mid '90's, this 5% drop would be 200-odd points, and in the 8 year early 21st century market, we're talking 500 points. Do people not remember this?
Listen, this is Peak Stupidity. We've been all over this Global Financial Stupidity business for almost 8 years now.* 5% in a week, or 2 1/2% in a day is NOT a crash. We'll tell you when we're having a crash!... so long as GoDaddy has still got power...
* Though we got nuthin' on good old Dr. Paul. We were a week ahead of him on the recent debt "milestone", but Ron Paul has been aware of what's coming for half a century.
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Mr. Hail on Kamala Harris
Posted On: Tuesday - August 6th 2024 7:52AM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits Karmakarma Kameleon
The less we read of or hear from this ditz, the better. However, Kamakama Kamelion has gotten herself into this high position, and the subject of how do you plain get people like this, I mean just in the world to begin with, is hard to avoid. Essayist E.H. Hail has stopped avoiding it.
Mr. Hail gets into the psychological phenomenon he calls Solipsistic Narcissism, present in this woman and in women in general. See Kamala Harris and “female solipsistic-narcissism” in the political in 21st-century USA
I read it last night. Our friend Dieter Kief has chimed in already, and I'm sure Mr. Hail welcomes more comments.
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Right = Bad. Got it?
Posted On: Monday - August 5th 2024 7:03PM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity Media Stupidity
Whoever is a baddie at the moment is of the Far Right.
I remember this crap during the Cold War. The hard-core Commies of the USSR were the "Rightist hardliners". After that, during the Great Replacement Programme, anyone caring about his nation above others is of the Far Right.
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Rotherham Riot Movie: Rising of the Yorkshiremen
Posted On: Monday - August 5th 2024 7:32AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
For me watching the video below was the equivalent of going to an acton film in the 1980s. We don't go out now, the screen is about 0.01% the size, but the action is here and I inside I strongly feel myself being part of the action. One difference here is that this one is real and happening very nearly NOW. I would rate "Yorkshire!, Yorkshire!" as my favorite film of the century so far.
I wrote that I was heartened to see the rioting in Southport and London. Here I was 10 times heartened. Youtube (probably accidentally) served up this suggestion, which is pure on-scene footage without the reporter even talking. I mean, I see that these guys have broken into the hotel and that others are throwing hotel furniture at the cops. I don't need to hear "They've broken into the hotel!" and "They're throwing hotel furniture at the cops!". I turned on the auto-closed captioning, for what it's worth, on those previous videos firstly because I'd been in a bad spot to listen but secondly because those English accents are not so easy for me to get through. I know it's English, but ... CC would be rubbish (as they say) for this one, so just watch, listen and be there...
This is an hour and a half of real action, with no commentary, or, much, much worse, Lyin' Press BS propaganda.
This riot was in Rotherham. You may recall* that Rotherham was the English town (was? or is?) in which Moslem "grooming" gangs took underage White British girls to be prostitutes for their Moslem fellows. ("It's their culture.") This went on, or has gone, on for a decade and a half or more. The British authorities have been too afraid to do a thing about it and covered it up. By "afraid", I mean both of the Moslems themselves and of being called names for wanting to enforce olde quaint British custom, like men who pimp out underage girls are severely punished.
It took me a while to figure it out, but the building around which the protest/riot takes place, with the police defending it, is a hotel that is housing "migrants", illegal or whatever, doesn't matter to me, or these guys. I've not been in Rotherdam, but I'd venture it's a hundred quid a night to stay here for those not active participants in the Population Replacement Programme. I'm no Socialist, but If you're going to have a Welfare State, it ought to be for YOUR people, not imported, often violent foreigners.
This hour and a half of action was, again, the best thing I've seen in a long time! I was right there with these blokes. When they yelled at the cops asking whose freaking side are they on, I wanted to be yelling, when they threw rocks, I wanted to be throwing rocks, when they started throwing furniture at them, I wanted to be throwing the furniture. Here's the video:
There were no interviews here, so we have no answers to "Is this about the 3 girls stabbed?" or "Is this about the grooming gangs?" Peak Stupidity will speculate though, as we tend to do.
It's about time these Yorkshiremen got the opportunity to rise up against their Regime's Anarcho-Tyranny. The murders by an African in Southport are a good excuse, and the riots elsewhere over this I'm sure triggered this one. However, were you to interview one of these guys and get the real answer - not so easy when one is in the middle of a riot with that adrenaline flowing anger being very focused - what would you learn:
Let me expand on the thoughts that I speculate are the reason for this and future riots: The UK has a UniParty, just as America does. Voters there recently punished one squad of it, and ended up with another, the Prime Minister therefrom being another Globalist Totalitarian POS. The ballot box is NOT working! It's time for something else.
It's not just the one stabbing, and it's not just the Rotherdam Moslem grooming business. It's bigger than that now. These blokes are fighting back the only way they (and I) can see, against the Regime and its policies of destroying the British people.
Peak Stupidity will have more commentary on the UK riots with screenshots (of this one) to come... mixed in with that Curmudeonry stuff, that is.
* Without the ultimate source, VDare, being able to give me 50 stories, I Yandexed it, and got an iSteve post on the 1st results page. I know John Derbyshire would have written something, but even with "John Derbyshire" in the search, I didn't get anything right off.
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[UPDATED 06/19/25:] Sorry, but they've got the video restricted to those who sign in. Apparently, the throwing of stuff through windows and the setting of dumpsters on fire is less suitable for children than say, Drag Queen Story Hour videos.
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Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Posted On: Saturday - August 3rd 2024 2:25PM MST
In Topics: Music
This band name came to me for reasons, today, and I know we haven't featured Poison before here. This '80s band* has a lead singer, Bret Michaels, who looked very much like contemporaneous band Guns & Roses' lead singer Axl Rose. I mean, the bandana, long hair, tattoos (only a couple, '88, '89...it was a different time, you understand...) One of these guys was imitating the other.
Even the band members probably looked like their counterparts. It was the look for bands like that, and I don't know if it was that or the sound that made me thing for a couple of decades that this song, Every Rose Has Its Thorn was by Guns &, excuse me, G&R. It's a ballad, but it's still got a good sound you'd expect from "this kind" of band.
I didn't need to see about the whole guy naked, but the hot bikini-underwear-clad chick makes up for it. She appears for a couple of seconds twice. I think the deal was to get viewers to watch/listen to the whole thing, expecting another look at black-bikini-underwear woman.
Yep, good music, good music videos and hot chicks (you try) were in my mind back 35 years ago, not all the discouraging stuff you've read here lately. I wish the country had paid attention a few decades early.
On that note, let say that we'll just have to get into the Curmudgeonry next week, as I've got too many to pass up. I hope I can make them entertaining at least. These do fit in well with our site Mission Statement, but so does one more about the Genderbender nonsense. Then, maybe we'll get to that last post on the Deep State. Others will pop up.
Thanks for reading and commenting. Happy Sunday to all!
* They played through the '90s and beyond, but that was no longer my time to listen.
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England Burning: Enough is Enough!
Posted On: Saturday - August 3rd 2024 9:02AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
It was proving to be too long a title, so let me just state the 3 separate points for this post:
1) My corrections in the previous post, leading to...
2) Anarcho-Tyranny: Leeds vs Southport/London/more
3) Straight video without the Lyin' Press
1) Peak Stupidity has our usual "[UPDATE]" note on the last post.
Just to reiterate, this murderer (Rwandan, not Nigerian) was born in the UK, to parents that came from Rwanda during the Million Machete Murder civil war in the 1990s. So, what? The rioters' point doesn't change - in a way it reinforces it. This guy didn't assimilate.
The kids* who weren't killed were in "critical" rather than "serious" condition when I read it, which is worse. Some may yet die. I hope they don't and won't live the rest of their lives debilitated.
I picked up somehow that Leeds had another riot of THIS sort, White people having had enough with the destructive changes forced on the UK. No, the Leeds riots had been by Moslems upset by the Child Protective Services having taken kids away from their family...
2) No, the rioters (I had to use CC only) were comparing the Leeds riots to theirs, with the term Anarcho-Tyranny not used. I'll use it, but "Two-Tier" is the term I heard and read a number to times in the videos. Not to get too far off track, but let me point you to this couple of weeks old article on that happening. The CPS office took the 4 children from their extended family members taking care of them(?), and massive rioting ensued.
I'm no fan of the CPS either. OTOH, I have no idea what exactly the problem was with the treatment of the children. However, let's imagine we are ACTUAL Brits and read the following from the article:
Leeds Children’s Services also explained they had been told by a third party the family members were going to take them to Romania.OK, so they were some kind of vague class of "migrants", and the family was going to take them out of the UK. What's wrong with that?! Save the taxpayers' money on the CPS, and get them out, where they won't be a burden and replace Brits in the future. It's a WIN/WIN! No, but the CPS was worried that they wouldn't be able to return. MADNESS! [/BotRK]
As all of the children are foreign nationals without settled status, it could be difficult for them to return to Britain.
Wait, is that the Anarcho-Tyranny? No, that was just massive stupidity. Most** of the Anarcho-Tyranny is in the very headline (explaining why I didn't link with it):v Four children returned to extended family after Leeds riots. You see? When Moslems riot, the Regime gives in. The family in question, along with future Moslems that may (probably not anymore) deal with CPS got what they wanted.
As White British people who want their country back riot, we all know that the police will not relent, and the Regime will not give in. Yeah, right, can you imagine "OK, we feel your pain. An immigration moratorium will be started next week along with a deportation program."? I knew you couldn't.
3) A good video showing the scenes in London appears below, which was embedded on ZeroHedge in UK Prime Minister Calls For Crackdown On Angry Brits - Violent Migrants Get A Pass.
I had previously looked through more of the Lyin' Press ones to make further points about the lies and hatred of the British people, but rather than that, this one has no Lyin' Press Orwellian corrections of the views of the British rioters. There's just the one guy, Wesley Winter (not a true Brit either, obviously) who is small media reporter. He asked folks in the crowd questions and commented on the video footage, for a whole hour.
My commentary first***: I'm glad he's doing this kind of reporting, but Mr. Winter's commentary is pretty lame. "There a bunch of police over there." (Yeah, we see that.) "They're launching stuff at the police." (Yeah, we see that.) "These people are angry because ...". He must have said that 20 times. Oh, and "The noise is crazy." (It's like, a big crowd of people, so, yeah...)
His questioning of the rioters was decent, but he had a couple of points he seemed to want to push. 1) "Do you see there are more police here than at Leeds?" They respond yes, but this reporter seems to want to drill that in over and over. 2) He's on the other side wrt the real gist of the rioting. "It's about the little girls killed, right?" Some answer yes, and some give him more of the overall big picture. It's not just about this particular violent act against these White British children. It seemed that reporter Wesley Winter wanted to clarify himself that it most certainly was.
England Burning: Enough is Enough.
Notice a few things. Everyone is angry, and rightly so. However, even in that anger there are a number of cucks seen - or just so beaten down from years of PC that they can't get themselves to say more. "No, it's not about race or color." Others are straight honest. I hope their courage and honesty are contagious. It can work like that, but I guess it depends on whether the cucked are careful with words due to fear, or due to ingrained PC they just can't shake.
The guy interviewed at 06:15 in does a nice job, but never was explicitly pro-White. (The woman with him or near him is extremely annoying.). An example of one of the cucked is at 26 minutes in, while right at 29 minutes we see a nice rant for 45 seconds.
This large woman starting at the 30:06 mark did a nice job explaining the Anarcho-Tyranny, excuse me, Two-Tier policing.
It was great just to be ABLE TO watch footage of this rioting without the Lyin' Press's pro-Regime, anti-White Orwellian messaging overwhelming it all.
* Adults too were injured.
** Another part, as heard many times from rioters in various videos - "What about Leeds?" - is that the police didn't have he presence they have now when the big programs of the Regime itself are being threatened. Perhaps, the Bobbies are more scared of the Moslems than they are of even the strongest of the Brits. For probably both reasons, rather than escalate things, in Leeds they would stand down or run away, from what I've read. That sounds like the Summer of George over here.
*** As of this writing, I've not watched the 2nd half.
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The Riots in Britain: Lyin' Press version
Posted On: Friday - August 2nd 2024 8:23PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Media Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity
I've always felt that Western* Europeans in recent history were too proud of themselves as racially virtuous people to learn anything from America the EASY way. This comes from my talking to some of them in the 1980s and later. They could have learned the easy way by touring Memphis, Tennessee - the FULL tour - or inner city Detroit, for a few weeks.
They decided to learn it all the HARD way. I'm probably being hard on them, as that's kind of general. I'm sure there were plenty of Brits, for example, who've always been against immigration of non-Whites to their islands. I've heard of this one guy named Enoch Powell...
The UK - slightly different from Great Britain, I know - is only 81% White now. Even as late as 1980, BTW, Britain was 96% White, as per wiki. They didn't care to (why bother?) take this data much early, but if you read or talk to people who lived there in the '50s and '60s, many would not have ever met a non-White person. It was probably at 99.9x% White.
Most of the people, as is the case here, have had no choice in the matter. During this recent period, along with this invasion, and probably well related to it, the place has turned into an Orwellian Police State. Eric Blair, aka, George Orwell, even got the setting right - Oceania. Maybe they'll change the name soon and memory-hole the whole "UK", "Britain", "England" stuff - it's so hard to keep straight, right?
Something else kinda related to the above is that the UK is not such a civil and peaceful place anymore. The latest news about that is that a Nigerian stabbed a dozen people or so, killing 3 little White girls and seriously injuring a half dozen others, on the streets of a city called Southport, on the west coast in northern England, about 15 miles up the coast from the famous Liverpool.
Before I move on, let me mention those injured. The news says a number of them were "critically" injured. That does means they may or may not eventually be whole people again. Some of these other children may have cuts that require gut surgery, requiring colostomy bags, maybe injuries that cause pain throughout the rest of their lives, who knows. Not being dead is on thing. As a parent, imagine a child with an injury that will affect him the rest of his life. Some may be so horrendous that you may wonder if it'd have been better off the other way.
Let's think on that, and move on to the reaction of the people of Britain to this, yet another, act of violence on their White people. There've been riots there in Southport. The people know what this is about - they don't even have to go through the news stories trying to pick out clues on "what kind of person would do this?"
Rather than be let to vent their anger, as Black! people always are during their riots, Anarcho-Tyranny requires the police to come down hard on the White people. (That is, if they have the man- and woman- power in place.)
In England, the Anarcho-Tyranny shows up different treatment for Palestinian protestors vs. the actual Brits. Even when it's real Brits for Palestine, the protests don't threaten the Globalist Establishment, so they're A-OK. The problem for the UK authorities is that these White people out in the streets know what the problem is. They know what needs to be done to prevent these horrible acts from happening again... or at least from INCREASINGLY happening. The people are acting like NATIONALISTS or something! That's very scary to those in power.
The UK Lyin' Press is an arm of the authorities, just as it is here. They've been trying to get across to the rioters and sympathizers that you can't go assuming mass killers are Moslems. No, he wasn't an Englishman, but it turns out that the stabber was a Welshman name of Axel Rudakabana. (Not the kind of Welch names I'd seen on the signs there.) No, this guy is NOT a Moslem, so quit rioting and complaining. He's a Welshman, albeit from Rwanda.
One Judge Menary down in Liverpool allowed the 17 y/o's name to be released because he was within a week or so of being 18, but also (per the 1st video below)...
Continuing to prevent the full reporting has the disadvantage of allowing others to spread misinformation, in a vacuum.Ya see, the people have misinformation about violence from the Moslem "migrants", so I suppose now that they know he's a Rwandan "migrant", born of Rwanda "migrants", actually, they should just stand down and go home. Does that change these angry rioters' point one bit, though? No, it doesn't.
Here's a sample of UK news reporting. You'll notice they've studied a few tactics seen before in American Lyin' Press reporting.
That's the Travon Martin baby picture move. Hey, we invented that move here, like 12 years ago, buddy! They show the guy at what 8 years, 10 years old, maybe. The mass murderer could be 220 pound and in shape at this point. We don't know. (How are we gonna know?)
If you've got the stomach for it, take the 10 minutes to watch the pure evil of the Lyin' Press - UK Bureau - as they make the story of one into mistaken ethnic identity. (This one started playing after the above one finished.)
I'm going to have to post more on these riots, both there in Southport**, and now in London. This is very heartening stuff to see. People have had enough, finally!
And lastly, 3 cheers for gun control in Great Britain. When guns are outlawed, only outlaw evil violent foreign invaders may have guns, or they'll just have "bladed knives".
* We can't speak for the Eastern Euros, as most of the time in question, they were locked in, with no good sources of outside news and no source of non-White immigrants too - the cons and pros of being oppressed by Communism for 40 years, I suppose...
** Mercyside (as in by the Mercy River), I think - man, that could be in any one of a dozen British invasion pops songs from 60 years ago. Now there's an invasion I don't mind so much.
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[UPDATE 08/03:] Fixed a few items (thanks, Mr. Hail, for the one), as I'd written this after watching videos with CC on - not able to get sound - and got some details I thought were right from context wrong.
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