The long and the short of it

Former Commie creep-o Peter Hitchens tells it like it is.


The longer version:


Yes, this revelation comes as no big surprise; sensible, sane sorts have known all along what the immivasion kerfuffle was really about. Still, it never hurts to be reminded now and then, so we can annoy the Left by dropping another Truth Bomb on their empty heads.

“Things That Must Be Decolonised And Morally Corrected”

This time, it’s bland, innocuous old folk music that has shitlib panties all in a bunch. Too White, don’tchaknow. Next time (and bet your bottom dollar there’ll BE a next time), who the fuck even knows. Vanilla extract, maybe.

Don’t Oppress My People With Your White-Ass Folk Music
In crushed-by-niche-culture news:

University of Sheffield researchers handed taxpayer cash to ‘decolonise’ folk singing.
A mere £1,485,400, since you ask. A gnat’s eyelash. For an issue of such fundamental importance to the turning of the world.

The project… has also been granted extra funds on top of this from bodies such as Research England.

Whew. I was getting worried there.

Taking place at the University of Sheffield, researchers “will take an unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England.”

Obviously, activities that are chiefly indulged in by white people – in this case, folk singing – must be deemed suspect and found problematic with great urgency, and then probed for hidden wrongness. At taxpayer expense.

And behind this mannered waffle is the weird implication that devotees of folk music are somehow, simply by existing, excluding racial minorities. Shooing them away. Though, again, details on this point are neither obvious nor forthcoming. Still, perhaps we can look forward to an academic interrogation of classic car shows in Nottinghamshire as some heinous bastion of “white-centricity.” Another item on the list of Things That Must Be Decolonised And Morally Corrected.

Just cool your jets, you know it’s coming.

Following the quip about British classic car shows as another potential target for pointless academics, commenters svh and asiaseen caution against giving such people ideas:

Not just “white-centricity”, but judging by the photograph, “white-male-centricity.”

That’s this photograph here. Do feel free to grip the arms of your chair.

Just this once, I troubled myself to transcribe the link mentioned above, on account of it’s kinda important. Plus, you can never have too many car-show pics, even if it’s crappy Ainglish autymobiles.

“How it works”

Mayor Mammyjammy says, like he has the least inkling.

Mamdani Unveils Innovative Plan to Tax New Yorkers to Pay for Their Low-Cost Groceries
Comrade Zohran Mamdani, the Communist Twelver-Shi’ite Mayor of New York, on Tuesday unveiled his plan for government-run grocery stores as if they were actually a good thing. Dear Mayor, who always has the best interests of The People at heart, has set aside $70 million for this foray into government-sanctioned theft and redistribution, and says that this exercise in vote-buying and making people dependents of the state will be operational in late 2027. So there’s something to look forward to, at least if you’re in the habit of collecting signposts on the highway to civilizational destruction.

In full socialist states, high walls and guards with machine guns keep the productive people from fleeing, and the threat of the gulag keeps them working. In Mamdani’s New York, the productive people will grow tired of paying for everyone’s groceries, and will leave the city. Unless Mamdani can figure out a way to tax everyone who has ever lived in New York City, his socialist grocery stores will fail.

Mamdani, however, is all for trying the socialist “experiment” again anyway, despite unanimously negative results. “New York City,” he said with grandiose ebullience, “it is time for a grand experiment once again, just as LaGuardia used government to respond to the challenges of the Great Depression, we will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.”

It’s time for the socialist experiment again? Really? Millions killed and millions more in the gulags weren’t enough? The killing fields of Democratic Kampuchea weren’t enough? The failed economies of the entire Soviet bloc weren’t enough? This is like doing a basic science experiment for the umpteenth time and wondering if it will come out differently this time: will the boiling water not become steam this time? No, the same thing will happen that happened all the other times. Socialism will fail again.

Mamdani explained: “Now, here’s how it works. The city will subsidize a core set of staples. A private operator will run the store, but the answer to the standards that the city will set these standards include requirements that at our stores, bread will be cheaper, eggs will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation, and workers will be treated with dignity.”

That’s swell, but here is how it works also: The stores will quickly run out of the low-cost items, as the demand will far exceed the supply. After all, who doesn’t want free stuff? There will be long, long lines to get virtually anything at these stores, and after they run for a while, those who are paying for them will go broke or leave the city or both, and they will collapse. If you’re skeptical about this, note that this was exactly what happened to city-run grocery stores in Kansas City, and much of it happened also in New York City itself when a private firm ran a week-long experimental low-cost grocery store back in February.

Not one of these collectivist/authoritarian/totalitarian jackwagons ever seems to be at all interested in asking the most obvious, common-sensical questions of themselves as regards their proven-failure program. Why, one might almost conclude they’re frightened to death of the answers or sumpin’.

Stupid Leftist tricks

Not a lot to add to this.


If you tax them into penury, they will flee. As Stephen quips, they’re willfully turning themselves into a third-world nation, with all the peace, prosperity, and happy fun times that status implies. You’d think they’d know better by now, the stupid fools. After all, it’s not as if there aren’t instructive examples aplenty of where such idiocy always, always, ALWAYS winds up, they’re everywhere you care to look.

“War On Poverty” goes awry

Brought to you by the man who famously (and correctly, alas) predicted, “I’ll have them niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

‘War on Poverty’ May Have Created a Permanent Underclass, Economists Say
America’s “War on Poverty,” launched by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, has expanded into a vast array of federal social welfare programs that today exceed $1 trillion per year.

Upon signing the Economic Opportunity Act, Johnson stated: “This is not in any sense a cynical proposal to exploit the poor with a promise of a handout,” but rather a means to “help our people find their footing for a long climb toward a better way of life.”

While poverty has declined significantly over the past half-century, however, recent reports indicate that these programs simultaneously reduced the share of private income for America’s poorest, locking them into long-term dependency and limiting their ability to move up into the middle class.

Gee, who could possibly have seen THAT coming? As Ed reminds us, Reagan did, if no one else:

As President Reagan said in 1987, “In the sixties we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.”

Looks like, yeah.

The hobgoblin of little minds

Not “a foolish consistency,” as Emerson would have it, but good old-fashioned cognitive dissonance.

THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES
I am a science teacher. In science, I teach my students that a hypothesis that contradicts itself is invalid.

So I made a list.

THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES

Buckle up. This one is going to take a minute.

  1. “My body, my choice”… but you MUST get a vaccine or lose your job, your ability to travel, and your right to eat inside a restaurant. Both things. At the same time.
  2. “Believe all women”… unless the woman is Tara Reade, Juanita Broaddrick, or Paula Jones. Those women apparently came with an asterisk nobody mentioned.
  3. “Tax the rich”… said by a woman worth $120 million (Pelosi), a man worth $9 million (Schumer), and a senator who owns three houses (Bernie) — all while their stock portfolios grow on insider access the rest of us will never have.
  4. They are outraged — OUTRAGED — about billionaires having too much power… and then accept $1.6 billion from George Soros without blinking. Quinn’s Law #7: it is different when you are a Democrat.
  5. “Defund the police”… and then hire private security for themselves. I am not making that up. Multiple city council members who voted to defund their police departments had private, taxpayer-funded security at the same time. You literally cannot invent this.
  6. “No one is above the law”… until a federal judge in Wisconsin helped a criminal evade ICE agents and half the party defended her. Judge Hannah Dugan. Look it up. Suddenly “no one is above the law” had an exemption for people who agree with them.
  7. “Science is real”… but a biological male who identifies as a woman is medically, biologically, and athletically identical to a biological female. Just go ahead and ignore the entire fields of endocrinology, genetics, and sports medicine while you are at it.
  8. “We support the working class”… and then they vote AGAINST no tax on tips. And no tax on overtime. Every. Single. Democrat. Voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill. The party of workers apparently does not want workers keeping their own money.
  9. “We need more gun control to stop violence”… but releasing violent criminals back onto the street with zero bail is compassion. The criminal is not the problem. The gun on the shelf of the law-abiding citizen is the problem. I need someone to explain that logic to me using small words.
  10. They want a $20 minimum wage to help the poor worker… and then they celebrate the illegal immigration system that lets employers pay $6 an hour in cash with zero benefits to people who cannot say anything without being deported. That is not progressive. That is the economic model of the antebellum South with extra steps.

Yep, “Extra steps” for sure…all of which of necessity will involve more government, less freedom, and higher taxes.

Lots, lots, LOTS more to this one yet. Go ye and read of it, for IT. IS. GOOD.

(Via Ed Driscoll)

Braggadocious

Sorry, but this isn’t nearly as impressive a qualification as she seems to think it is.

Democrat Oregon Governor Tina Kotek took to social media during Lesbian Visibility Week to tout her status as one of only two openly lesbian governors in U.S. history. In her message, Kotek praised Oregon’s “diversity” and identity politics-driven leadership, but it’s clear that her focus on identity over real issues highlights a growing trend in left-wing governance. While President Trump focused on policies that strengthen America, Kotek’s liberal agenda continues to prioritize divisive identity politics, leaving behind real solutions for her state.

Of course, and as usual. But hey, the important thing to remember here is that she’s a lesbian, amIright?

Demographics=destiny

T’is a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Democrats Face a Demographic Doom Spiral
Trump isn’t just deporting illegals. He’s deporting the voters Dems need.

Well, I mean, y’know, DUH. Why do ya think they’re so damned upset about deportations, voter ID, updating/purging voter registration rolls, restoring election integrity, all that?

The Census Bureau recently released updated population figures through June 2025. The country grew slightly but that growth wasn’t equally distributed. Many red states, like South Carolina, Idaho and Texas, grew significantly. In just one year, each of those states saw their population increase by more than 1%.

Blue states aren’t keeping up. California, Illinois and New York now have fewer people than in 2020. In contrast, Florida’s population is up around 9%.

There’s an obvious and important takeaway here. Blue states implemented leftist ideas. They have high taxes and regulations that strangle construction. They have failing schools that teach students to hate America. They force female athletes to compete against boys.

The results have been so intolerable that millions of people have moved out. It’s yet another example of people fleeing socialism.

There’s a less obvious but just as important takeaway. After the decennial census, states gain or lose congressional seats based on population. Those adjustments change the Electoral College. States receive electoral votes based on how many House and Senate members they have.

The forecast from the American Redistricting Project shows Democrats losing nine seats in reliable blue states. Two swing states, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, would each lose a seat. Those 11 seats would go to states that Trump won in 2024. A different projection from Jonathan Cervas at Carnegie Mellon University has solid red and lean red states gaining 13 seats.

Like I said: devoutly to be wished.

The last several years have made it abundantly clear that NO polity even halfway determined to preserve personal liberty, Constitutional governance, and individual self-determination can afford to allow themselves to be governed ruled misruled by D卐M☭CRATs. To permit them anywhere near the proverbial levers of power is to seal one’s doom.

Worst Republican President?

Hands down, no contest IMO. Pathetic George W Bush

Bush Blasts Trump (LOL)

Really, no elaboration needed. From the failed Iraq and Afghanistan occupations with no end and no plan, to the continued losses to marxist democrats domestically, few presidents in history have approached the failures of Bush. The 9/11 response was all Bush, and it was a failure.

2nd worse? Probably the other damn Bush…

I’m aware there is substantial competition.

It ain’t the fruit in the fight, it’s the fight in the fruit

Arthur Sido provides a timely reminder.

One of the jokes we tell ourselves on /ourside/ is that in a second civil war, one side has half a billion guns and the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use. It is pretty funny and it is also true but then again it misses something I try to emphasize:

A noodle-arm, limp-dick fag with a septum ring can still kill you dead as a doornail using a crappy SCCY with pink grips.

The times they are a’changin’ and the Left, once proudly anti-gun, has been quietly and not so quietly arming and training for the last decade, accelerating once Trump 2.0 happened and especially after Renee Good and Alex Pretti became good communists.

Of course this is not happening organically. Nothing these fruitcakes do is their own idea. Do you think a significant percentage of people in America suddenly decided all on their own that they were “assigned the wrong gender at birth”? Of course not. There is a large online community that is certainly at least somewhat organized and funded, likely by foreign adversaries as well as domestic insurrectionists, that spends all day online using Telegram and Discord and other medium to whisper perversions and hatred into the minds of people that are unmoored from society.

However it is happening, the Left is arming up and embracing a perverted interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that only applies to socialists engaged in the class struggle to defend marginalized communities or some similar bullshit.

The same media that hates you and thinks you should be disarmed because you don’t want your family robbed, raped or killed by some feral thugs is giddy over the idea of communists arming themselves.

I’ve been issuing this same cautionary bulletin for years now, pretty much ever since I read my first MSM article beatifying the Pink Pistols (motto: “Armed gays don’t get bashed”). None of us ought ever to make the potentially fatal mistake of assuming that just because they look and act like whiny, emasculated pusscakes, they aren’t also deadly serious, and altogether dangerous. Unhinged whackjobs brandishing rifles, pistols, knives, and clubs should always be kept well away from, even if it means crossing the street so as to avoid getting within CQB range of them.

Privilege

The rich are different from you or I.


Any decent, self-respecting nation would have lynched this filthy, over-entitled oxygen thief long, long ago, just on general principle.

No, daddy, NO!

Not the genital cuffs AGAIN!

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RE: Vance Getting Booed at the Winter Olympics

So a bunch of Eurotards from Europe’s fashion capital booed our Vice President and Second Lady at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

Democrats, of course, are thrilled by this because they too hate America. I, of course, could not care less.

But let me tell you what is really going on.

The USA is Europe’s Daddy, and has been for 80 years. Europe is the stumblebum adult male child in his 30s living on Daddy’s couch. He can’t hold a job, all of his relationships are disasters and he depends on Daddy for all sustenance and protection.

One day Daddy gets fed up with Sonny’s unwillingness to pay his own way. Daddy is also pissed because Sonny does not support free speech or free markets, and because Sonny fails to protect himself from Muslims who beat him up in the street daily. Daddy finally says:

“ENOUGH! You are on your own. Get out of my house. No, I will NOT lend you more money.”

So Sonny has to finally stand on his own two feet and he resents it. So the next time Sonny sees Daddy, he boos him.

That’s what happened in Milan.

It’s always about envy, resentment, and feelings of inadequacy with these delinquent brats.

Just another shitlib success story

Nice to see things working out as intended…even if they won’t admit it.

Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter
(The Center Square) – Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont’s Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can’t be charged in a garage.

Spokesman for energy workers advocacy group Power the Future Larry Behrens told the Center Square: “Taxpayers were sold an $8 million ‘solution’ that can’t operate in cold weather when the home for these buses is in New England.”

“We’re beyond the point where this looks like incompetence and starts to smell like fraud,” Behrens said.

Now, now, I’m not entirely sure I’d be willing to go as far as all that. Not when stupidity, wishful thinking, and daylight barking madness will more than meet the case.

“The end of democracy”

Isn’t everything?


“Show more,” I defy thee!

Hi everyone declaring Don Lemon’s arrest the end of democracy… and I say “everyone” because not a single one of you did anything but cheer real fascism against real journalists…

BTW, a few years later the fascist state of CA and the fascist DA Kamala Harris (yes, THAT Kamala) were forced to drop their fascist charges. All of them.

You’re all hypocrites. You have no principles. Have a nice weekend. Cry more.

Love that Parthian shot at the very end there. “Cry more,” indeed. Heh.

(Via Insty)

From the mouths of fools ofttimes comes Truth

Getting it yet? They’re just coming right out and saying it now, without the least dread of possible consequences or pre-emptive reprisal. And why the hell wouldn’t they? The supine Right’s passive (non-)response to the Enemy’s constant promises of violence, riots, and even murder has been a great deal less than whelming so far. Not even after the Violent Left has made good on said promises will the Blowhard Right bestir itself, retrieve Grampa’s dusty, rusty, musty old hunting rifle from the locked gun safe in the basement, and finally take definitive action in defense of his family, his home, his neighborhood, and even himself personally.

Is it cowardice? Is it laziness? Fear of the decidedly hostile authorities? Of arrest, trial, and incarceration? I haven’t the slightest idea what stays the Rightist hand, thus am NOT going to speculate on it for now. What I WILL say is that it’s been downright sick-making, watching all-hat no-cattle Right-wingers talk a big game, then rolling over to show their (yellow) bellies for their Leftist lords and masters whenever they get called out on their empty bluster.

Nolte: Sociopath Giancarlo Esposito Willing to See 50 Million (Other) People Die for His Revolution
Actor Giancarlo Esposito crystallized today’s Democrat Party by admitting he is willing to see people die to fulfill his revolution.This is a direct quote, per the far-left Variety, and these are the words of a narcissistic sociopath. Block quotes are Variety’s

This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting. We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].

Don’t you get it, you over-privileged, leftist dummies?

Do you not see it?

You bored, spoiled brats attempting (to) fill the God-shaped hole in your soul by attacking law enforcement, destroying private property, and provoking violence are nothing more or less than cannon fodder to Democrat Party elites like Giancarlo Esposito.

Right enough, although the people most in need of being forced to open their eyes and finally “see it” aren’t the bullet-stopping blockheads of the Left, but the putative Righties who prefer to remain comfortably numb to the Coming Upleasantness©—weakly shrugging off  the scads of clear, irrefutable evidence heaping up in man-high hillocks, like snow during a NYC blizzard, right before their own lyin’ eyes. The detestable dolts act as if said evidence doesn’t even exist, never has done, nawssirree.

Which, perhaps it doesn’t…for them. Maybe they’ll change their tune when observable reality whirls around and bites them square in the ass.

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