Oh, I dunno; I think maybe “diabolical stratagem” might actually be more the mots juste, with “Satanic plot” overtopping all comers to take the prize for accuracy, honesty, clarity, and forthrightness. Regarding the UK’s arrest of decidedly non-Woke comedian Graham Linehan for the heinous crime of Aggravated DoublePlusUngoodthink W/ Intent to Poke Fun at Pyrsynzz Of “Transgender,” Steyn opines:
I was glad to see Rupert Lowe post this:
I stand with Linehan.
Arrested for a social media post.
This is MADNESS.
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10)
However, I disagree that it is “MADNESS”. It is not. It is conscious strategy – because even any residual culture of free speech is incompatible with what they’re planning to do to you.
Which is why I don’t think “politics”, at least as it has been traditionally understood, will be much help to us. Have you been following the German municipal elections? Headline from Bild:
Parteien verpflichten sich, nur positiv über Migration zu sprechen
Which means:
Parties commit to speaking positively about migration
Hang on, that must be some sort of typing error, right? But no:
The CDU, the SPD, the Greens, FDP, the Left Party, and Volt have agreed, at the initiative of the Cologne Round Table for Integration, not to speak negatively about migration during the campaign. This so-called ‘Fairness Agreement’ by all the parties except the AfD (which was not even asked) stipulates that ‘migrants and refugees must not be held responsible for negative social developments such as unemployment or threats to internal security’. In principle, the parties have agreed ‘not to conduct the election campaign at the expense of people living among us with a migrant background.’
So all the parties but one have agreed to talk only positively about mass migration. This in a city, Cologne, where migrants marked New Year’s Eve a few years back with an orgy of mass rape that “mainstream” media declined to report, and in a country where only the other day an “asylum seeker” threw a sixteen-year-old girl under a train.
The dead girl is from Ukraine. She would have been safer in a war zone – as would this Ukrainian lady in North Carolina. If you wanted to incentivise revolutionary uprising, you would do as the German establishment did and sign a “fairness agreement” confirming that electoral politics is just a massive diversion for the rubes. Oh, but don’t worry: the political class is still free to have vigorous disagreements on the Shopping Mall Parking Lot Expansion bill.
The tyrannies of Europe really ought to rethink just what it is they’re incentivizing here, lest their Oaf Class subjects get themselves a bellyful of being abused by their own governments and decide it’s high time they started doing a little “incentivizing” of their own.
Unappealing update! CHERCHEZ LE “TRANNY”!!!
Graham Linehan accuser ‘is disgraced transgender police officer’
A disgraced transgender police officer is believed to have reported Graham Linehan, the gender-critic Father Ted creator, to the police over his social media posts.Former Pc Lynsay Watson, who was born Alex Horwood, was sacked by Leicestershire Police for gross misconduct in 2023 after allegedly harassing a free speech campaigner and critic of gender ideology.
An anonymous social media account, believed to be linked to Watson, boasted in April this year of reporting Linehan to the police over several social media posts he made about transgender issues. The account encouraged other transgender activists to do the same.
Watson has a well-documented history of calling on police forces to pursue criminal investigations of campaigners who are sceptical of the belief that self-identification, and not biological sex, determines what a man or woman is.
Just when you thought the story couldn’t possibly get more off-putting than it was already…
- Entries
Tucker commented about the “end of politics” before the 2024 election, at least as far as it concerns domestic debate on the subject.
To wit, he posited that politics occurs when the goals are shared and the disagreement is over the means to achieve them.
For instance, if both sides want to fund the government so that it can make life better for Americans, one may disagree over the proper role of taxes and the proper tax rates to use within that framework.
In that context Republicans may propose lower tax rates to stimulate capital formation and business expansion which provides jobs and lowers costs for Americans. Democrats may propose higher tax rates to fund government in order to take care of the poor and subsidize the “working man”. There CAN be an honest political debate about the correct tax rates of the GOALS are similar.
This is politics. Each side makes their case to voters, engages in debate with each other and seeks office to attempt to implement their ideas.
But when one side or the other rejects the traditional goals and is in fact working for a completely opposing vision, politics is no longer possible. Politics involve a shared framework and often involves compromise. Hence we might get tax rates that are higher than Republicans may want, but lower than Democrats want.
When the Visions are of an Opposite Nature there is no room for compromise. No shared goals. No common ground or middle way.
One side wants such and such tax rates and the other side wants to abolish private property completely. Tax rates have no place in that other vision
Therefore, we get this week a prominent Dem aghast that the Founders thought our Rights come from God. GOD! Why that’s just how the Mullahs of Iran thinks!!!
It’s a complete rejection of the American Way.
There is no compromising with these people. Either the Founder’s Vision prevails or their Communist one does. There is no common ground. No compromise. No politics to be played, except if one takes Mao at his word and it all comes at the barrel of a gun.
They go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao. Just sayin’