LOSING!

They let ’em GO?!?

Posted on October 1, 2026October 2, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Just in case any of you out there had made the mistake of assuming that Burnham would be—HAD to be, actually—any kind of improvement over Starmer.

UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, Burnham says
The government believes that Iran played a part in the RAF Fairford incident which resulted in five men being arrested and then bailed, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said.

“There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford,” he told the BBC. He did not provide further details.

Well, I mean, y’know, like, D’UH. Is there any sinister jihadi cookie-jar Iran DOESN’T have a hand—BOTH hands, s’cuse me—jammed deeply, inextricably into, all the way up to the elbows?

Iran has responded, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying the UK leader was “barking up the wrong tree”.

“I can confirm Iran’s belief that releasing supposed terrorists working for foreign states really says it all,” he wrote on social media.

Of course, the Iranians are perennial, irredeemable liars, but with that last bit I must admit he’s onto something.

Asked why the suspects had been released on bail – a decision which has been openly questioned by President Donald Trump – Burnham insisted the men were subject to the “strictest possible bail conditions”.

Another patent, transparent lie, establishing once again that the Persians do NOT have a corner on that market. As for Trump “openly questioning” the craven, incroyable decision by the UK to cut these malefactors loose on their own recognizance, more or less, the usual shitlib suspects will squeal like stuck pigs about it, but he’s absolutely right to do so.

In truth, he wouldn’t be much of a US Prez-mo-dent, or any kind of an American either, if he hadn’t. Honestly, this sudden catch-and-release maneuver is eminently questionable, to say the least; more to the point, forrmerly-Great Britainistan’s government’s weird move is outright dodgy, among severa otherl likewise-unpleasant possibilities. Thus:

Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump said: “I will tell you, I would have said, ‘don’t let them have bail’. I’m surprised that they released them. I wouldn’t have done that.”

But Burnham said: “I think people need to understand that when it says released – that isn’t as people might think. It’s obviously with the strictest possible bail conditions.

“The authorities have this under the strongest grip and closest control, and I can assure you of that.”

Uh huh, RIGHT. Ten’ll getcha twenty that this aforementioned “strongest grip and closest control” the PM is yapping bonelessly about isn’t anything like as “strong and close” as the gimlet-eyed scrutiny the Brits will be enforcing against the 80-plus-year-old Grandma who gets her butt caught in the blades of the UK “justice” system. called to answer charges on numerous counts of seriously heinous (no really, you guys!) “crimes” such as Double-Plus Ungoodthink; Wrongspeech; Unlawful Melanin Deficiency in a Public Place; Looking Illegally Askance at Our Dark-Complected Brethren; Aggravated Covert Raycississisming; or, say, Uttering a Discouraging Word sotto voce after having been hurled violently to the pavement, stripped altogether nekkid in broad daylight, and gang-Culturally Enriched by fifteen (15) Pakistani Youths™ in downtown Brixton last week.

And if for some bizarre, incomprehensible reason Duly Constituted British and/or Europeen Authority failed in their sworn, sacred duty to see to it that Granmaw got hers last week—in fullest measure, no stinting, holding back, or pulling of a single punch—you may rest assured she will NEXT week, or the week after that at the absolute latest. As the great old t-shirt/bumper sticker/whatever slogan once opined in reference to snipers, so it now is for the traditional English Gramma:

Why run? You’ll only die tired. After all, it’s not as if there’s anyplace left in Aulde Blighty to run to anyways.

PROGRESS update! A wave becomes a current becomes a tide becomes a tsunami. Hopefully so, at any rate.

More Countries Are Introducing Laws Targeting Religious Customs
Portugal has enacted a new law banning most face coverings in public, adding the country to a growing list of European nations that restrict garments such as the burka and niqab.

President António José Seguro signed the measure after it was adopted in Lisbon in July with support from a right-wing governing coalition, according to GB News.

Although frequently described as Portugal’s “burka law,” the legislation does not expressly single out Islam. Instead, it prohibits clothing intended to conceal or obstruct a person’s face in public.

Gotta love that “…Laws Targeting Religious Customs” scare-propagandizing, don’tcha? Don’t necessarily have to “expressly single out” Pisslam at this stage anyways; nobody’s gonna need to resort to any blind SWAG-work (ie, the venerable old Scientific Wild-Ass Guess) as to what’s being proscribed here, nor the reason for it. Leastways, if the Holy Catholic Church has started requiring full-face-concealing garb for its female congregants, I ain’t heard about it as of yet. Could be a different story for the nuns, I dunno.

There are several exceptions. Face coverings remain permissible for professional and health purposes as well as certain artistic, advertising and entertainment activities.

The restrictions also do not apply in places of worship or at holy sites. Aircraft and certain diplomatic and consular circumstances are similarly exempt.

Those distinctions have not stopped human-rights organizations from arguing that Muslim women who wear full-face veils will bear the practical consequences of the legislation.

João Godinho Martins, executive director of Amnesty International in Portugal, called the measure “a threat to human rights.”

“Despite having removed direct references to Islam, which were a part of previous versions of the text, this new law clearly violates the human rights of Muslim women who choose to cover their faces,” Martins said. “It is a direct threat to their freedom of expression and freedom of religion.”

Uh huh, right, assmunch. Funny, but I haven’t noticed any indignant, fretful noises emanating from either you or your organization concerning Moslem women’s “freedom of expression and…religion” in any other context, nor in any Moslem nations either. Gee, wonder why that might be.

My favorite bit is coming up, which you’ll recognize from the boldface I’ll be using for it.

Portugal is far from the first European country to legislate on the issue.

According to the Express, 24 other countries have imposed burka or face-covering restrictions of some kind. European countries with such measures include France, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway and Luxembourg, though the scope and legal structure of their restrictions differ.

Niiiice. Enough so to warm the cockles of even my cold, black heart, I gotta tell ya. Fingers and/or toes crossed (no, I do NOT have any toes anymore, sad to say) that it won’t turn out to be just another damnable instance of way too llittle, way too late.

Batman hangs it up

Posted on September 28, 2026September 28, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

And seeing the writing on the walls of Gotham City, all going the way of the alarming new Moslem/Communist alliance of convenience, who could blame him for throwing up his hands and stalking away in disgust?

Batman Unable To Keep Up With Rising Crime As Gotham City Elects Another Democrat https://t.co/wUxuLz5r2e

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee)

September 26, 2026

(Via Ed)

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UNEXPECTED!©

Posted on September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Gee, who among us saw THIS one coming?

New Crime Stats: Children of Migrants More Likely to Be Criminals Than First Generation
I have been following Danish crime stats because Denmark is one of the few countries that track crime using key demographic variables such as race, religion, country of origin, and immigration status (and their descendants).

For years now, Danish crime statistics tell us what we already can intuit from the data we do have: migrants from Muslim countries commit crimes at a vastly higher rate than native-born Europeans, and the statistics indicate that the rates aren’t even close. They are especially represented in the sexual crime statistics, but in just about every category, the differences are remarkable.

But what most people who support mass migration might be surprised to learn is this: their male descendants are even more likely to commit crimes and are often more likely to be Islamist extremists than their parents. Again, the statistics show the differences aren’t even close.

Here are the basic facts: as first-generation Muslim immigrants have aged, their propensity to commit crimes has decreased somewhat, leading to a slight decline in first-generation crime statistics. They are now only about two times more likely to commit crimes as native-born Danes, which is still pretty bad.

More worrying is that their sons are even more likely to commit crimes than they were; the rate is three times as high, or even higher in some cases, and they are also more likely to see themselves as the natural replacements for a declining population in their adopted countries.

Indisputable confirmation of the essential truth underpinning the hoary old maxim: Invite the Third World, become the Third World.

Second look at secession…?

Posted on September 10, 2026 by Mike

This time from the UK, not the Damn Yankees, although I very much doubt it’s going to go any better for the seceders this time around than it did the first one.

Zia Yusuf slams ‘lying Labour’ over village which could be ‘ruined overnight’ by migrants
EXCLUSIVE: Piddington is home to just 350 people but under Home Office plans assessments were carried out for 3,510 migrants at a neighbouring ex-MoD base.

Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf has blasted “lying Labour” after it emerged the Home Office had carried out assessments for migrants at a former MoD site, which would have outnumbered villagers 10 to one. Publicly available documents show an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) risk assessment stating that “the proposed scheme” relates to “accommodation for 3,510 service users” at the ex-military Bicester Site A storage facility.

The shocking figure discovered by worried villagers of neighbouring Piddington, in Oxfordshire, has been refuted by the Home Office, which said it was based on an “outdated estimate” and there was no plan to increase the official figure of 1,256 male migrants they were seeking to put in the base.

Resident and parish councillor Joe Marshall, who has been poring over the papers released as part of the planning ‘consultation’, said the figure remaining in the documents was “misleading” and questioned why the Government had not withdrawn the paper, or updated it.

Reform UK spokesman Zia Yusuf, who became the first mainstream politician to visit Piddington last month, said: “It’s now been revealed the lying Labour Government had assessments carried out based on housing 3,510 migrants in the English village of Piddington, more than double the official figure of 1,256. That would have been 10 illegal migrants for every one resident.

Mr Yusuf dubbed the Oxfordshire village “ground zero” in the migrant crisis as Labour ploughs ahead punishing populations in rural towns and villages by moving thousands of mostly fighting age male migrants into ex-military sites in counties including Essex, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and East Sussex.

Piddington residents are now on the front line in the migrant crisis battle, and on July 4 villagers voted 96% in favour of a referendum to leave the UK if the migrant camp plans go ahead.

Bold mine, and…well, rotsa ruck with all that, kiddies. (Via Ace)

Operative word: “dispiriting”

Posted on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 by Mike

Steyn asks the Big Q.

I’m not sure precisely when the 9/11 era – “The Day That Everything Changed” – became The Day That Everything Changed Back To The Way It Was Before Only Even Nuttier And More Suicidal. But, a quarter-century on, the Taliban are back running Afghanistan, but with more territory than they ever had before; an al-Qaeda guy has been installed with American approval as strongman of Syria; the Christian community in Iraq was extinguished on America’s watch; the Libyan intervention delivered the North African ports closest to Europe into the hands of Isis, with direct consequences for Continental demographics; and – just to confirm the “war on terror” was utterly lost and always misconceived – a Shia Twelver from Uganda who believes in everything the guys we’re droning in Tehran believe is Giuliani’s successor as Mayor of New York City and the new kingmaker of the Democrat Party. If the United States Government had been working for the other side all along, what exactly would it have done differently?

Oh, I’m afraid we all know the answer to that one, only too well: nothing whatsoever.

So, even before the dispiriting observances of the coming week, it’s hard to recall the visceral emotion that in those first weeks and months after September 11th engaged almost every area of American life. With one striking exception, that is. On the eve of the Second World War Irving Berlin’s gift to the nation was “God Bless America”. Across the ocean Hugh Charles and Ross Parker did the same with “There’ll Always Be an England”. But this new war found American songwriters sitting on their hands, the very silence serving as a kind of recessional, for pop culture’s retreat from any aspect of the subject. The short history of American popular music’s contribution to national resolve can be told in two photographs of blockbuster pop stars in military uniform: on the one hand, Glenn Miller, shot down over the English Channel while leading the US Army-Air Force Band, and, on the other, Madonna, who on her world tour a few years back cavorted on stage in a burqa and, when she disrobed, as she inevitably does, was revealed to be wearing army uniform underneath. This was in order to make the highly original point that the Taliban and the Bush Administration were both equally oppressive. Truly, the herd mentality of celebrity “dissent” is indestructible. Would it kill ’em once in a while to dissent from their dissent and try something other than the dreary conformity of celeb cardboard courage?

As for less tediously obvious provocations, as I wrote on the first anniversary of 9/11, “Bruce Springsteen’s blurry equivalist mope of a 9/11 album, The Rising, is a classic example of how even a supposed ‘blue-collar’ icon can’t bring himself to want America to win.”

Well, I mean, y’know, SPRINGSTEIN. If there was ever a bigger phony, a more obnoxiously objectionable Limousine Liberal, than that jerkweed, I’m sure I haven’t heard of him/her/it.

The article veers off in a most unexpected direction from there, which ultimately proves to be even more dispiriting. Which is, y’know, SAYING something.

Update! Lest you think there’s nothing more substantive to this one than le doom et le gloom, hey, it’s Mark Steyn, fercripessake.

Then they rushed the hijackers. Mrs Jefferson kept the line open. A few minutes later, the plane crashed, not at Camp David or the White House or the Capitol, but in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Jeremy Glick knew that he would never see his three-month-old daughter again, Todd Beamer that he would never know the baby his wife was carrying. But both men understood that they could play their part in preserving a civilization for their children to grow up in. By being willing to sacrifice themselves, the citizen-soldiers of Flight 93 saved thousands, including perhaps the terrorists’ intended target – the highest officeholders in the republic. Flight 93 was the decisive event of September 11th. As Jim Bennett of UPI wrote:

The Era of Osama lasted about an hour and half or so, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty.

And, for a while, that remained true: as I wrote at the time, “No one will ever again hijack an American airliner with box cutters, or, I’d wager, with anything else — not because of idiotic federal regulations, but because of the example of Todd Beamer and his ad hoc platoon.” Faced with a new and unprecedented form of terror, the latest American technology (cellphones) combined with the oldest American virtue (self-reliance) and stopped it in its tracks in just 90 minutes. When the Air France passengers jumped the Shoebomber and the Delta passengers the Pantybomber, they were acting in accordance not with FAA regulations but with Flight 93 rules.

But the years go by…

I’m not a big Neil Young fan. If I never heard the fey, dopey “Harvest Moon” or “Heart Of Gold” ever again, it wouldn’t be too soon. But I’m glad he wrote this song. For serious Young admirers, and the rock biz in general, it was more problematic, even a mere three months after 9/11. The venerable rock critic Dave Marsh said Young’s politics had “all been downhill since ‘Ohio'” – his song about the Kent State shootings – and dismissed “Let’s Roll” as “jingoistic”. But, if it takes a Canadian rocker to purvey a bit of Yank jingoism, let’s have more of it.

Amen to that, Mark old fellow.

Let’s make a DEAL!

Posted on September 1, 2026September 1, 2026 by Mike

Despite having won it seventy-three (73) times already, according to fucking Trump, we’re not gonna win this Iran thing, are we?

Put this one right on top of the stack of things I don’t understand.

.@SecScottBessent: “We have zero tolerance. We are going to economically asphyxiate this regime.”

“My job is to make sure that they want to have a deal, and they will want to have one.” pic.twitter.com/47jKGqsofj

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

September 1, 2026

Clue to the willfully, obstinately clueless: THEY DO NOT WANT A DEAL, THEY WILL NOT ABIDE BY ANY “DEAL” YOU DO FINALLY MAKE WITH THEM, AND THEY REGARD YOUR CRAVEN CRAWLING TO THEM BEGGING FOR SOME KIND OF STUPID-ASS DEAL AS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS, YOU STUPID FOOLS. Which it, y’know, IS, actually.

SO, in other words, exactly the same as they’ve been doing for the last, oh, round about fifty fucking years, then.

Bessent has been almost frighteningly effective in fulfilling his promise to collapse Iran’s currency, the rial. As he reminded Fox Business in that clip, the rial stood at 800,000 to the dollar last spring, but as of last week was down to two million.

That’s created real-world hardships for the regime and the Iranian people.

“Small protests occurred outside petrochemical plant and a sugar cane factory where workers were made unemployed but received no salary for last six months,” Peter Baum reported on X today. “One person killed by IRGC outside the sugar cane factory.”

Furthermore, “Academic staff at numerous universities on strike as they too have not been paid for months.”

The trick is to keep asphyxiating the regime until Tehran can’t afford to pay the thugs who keep the people in line with beatings and mass murders as required.

And these are the same theocrats Bessent thinks he can make “want to have a deal?” And that after we let go of their throats, they’ll stick to it?

What I had thought back in March might be a days-long campaign to hurt the regime has gone on too long for a deal — and the stakes are too elevated.

Once you grab somebody by the throat, you’ve got to keep squeezing until the job is done.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: so long as an entity still exists in the Middle East called The Islamic Republic Of Iran, with a bunch of Mad Mullahs firmly in charge of said entity, we have “won” neither Jack nor Shit.

The Plan

Posted on August 7, 2026August 7, 2026 by Mike

Please don’t try to tell me you didn’t know there was one. PLEASE.

For the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., Everything Is Going According to Plan
Sure, there are a few dissenting voices. But the left will take care of them.

Before 2007, there were no Muslim in the House of Representatives or Senate at all. The seven Muslim legislators who will be sworn in (on the Qur’an, no doubt) in January will include the four representatives in the 119th Congress: Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.); Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.); Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.). Joining them will be the nation’s first Muslim senator, Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.), as well as Reps. Darializa Avila Chevalier (D-N.Y.) and Adam Hamawy (D-N.J.).

After the November elections, there could be more as well, but El-Sayed, Avila Chevalier and Hamawy are virtually assured of election now, as they have nothing to worry about in November. The left, once in power, generally moves to make opposition to its policies progressively (hah) more difficult. In New York, New Jersey, and Michigan, the left has been in power for a long time, and the Republican Party is moribund.

So the number has gone from zero to four to seven, and many more are to come. “Every election cycle, we see more Muslim candidates — not fewer,” crowed Robert McCaw, the executive director of CAIR Action, the explicitly political arm of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). “That’s a clear indication of confidence, growth, and belonging,” McCaw exulted, although it would have been more accurate to say that the growth of Muslim political power in the U.S. is a clear indication of a concerted effort being made in the face of near-total ignorance and/or indifference on the other side.

Hamas-linked CAIR top dog Nihad Awad articulated that effort on August 31, 2024 at a convention of the likewise Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). “Lawmaking,” he stated with equal parts obviousness and ominousness, “is about making laws.” Yes, of course, and that is why Muslims in the U.S. are seeking political power: the idea is to bring Sharia, which is not just religious, but political, supremacist, expansionist and violent, to the United States.

Awad continued: “Today we have 43 State delegates in the United States who are Muslim. If they want to run for Congress, in the next two or four or six years, they can. We may end up, if we are organized, we may end up with about 50 members of Congress in the next six years, if we only plan and put our money where our mouth and our minds are.”

The Muslim Brotherhood articulated the ultimate goal in a captured internal document dating from May 1991, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America.” It stated that “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions” (p. 7).

The idea that the Westerners would destroy their own civilization “by their hands” comes from the Qur’an: “It is he who has caused those among the people of the book who disbelieved to go forth from their homes to the first exile. You did not think that they would go forth, while they thought that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place they did not expect, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O you who have eyes” (Qur’an 59:2).

From zero (0) to fifty (50) in only a few short years, and there’s no end in sight. Disgusting.

Alliance of convenience

Posted on July 21, 2026July 22, 2026 by Mike

Gotta be the most unlikely one of all time, methinks.

Socialism and Islamic Supremacism: Two Strange Bedfellows Aiming to Destroy Our Republic
Both want to change our system of law. Both hate the United States and Western civilization. And both detest Christianity. They also, by forming an alliance, become the strangest of bedfellows. They are socialism and Islamic supremacism in America — and both forces are growing.

Socialism, under the name “Democratic Socialists of America” (DSA), is quickly dropping its mask. Its new platform, released last week, calls for eliminating the Senate and having a wholly empowered Congress choose the president and Supreme Court. The DSA also wants to convene a second constitutional convention to make the preceding possible. The idea is to draft new founding documents guaranteeing a “socialist democracy.”

Political activist and Islamic supremacist Linda Sarsour is a bit less ambitious — at least in her overt pronouncements. She at this moment just wants to replace the Declaration of Independence with a document reflecting “our [read: their] values.” Whether this would be a Declaration of Dependence or a Declaration of Dependence on Allah, she didn’t say.

Then there’s a development Sarsour would surely endorse. Right from the Pressing 1 for English file, commentator J.B. Shurk reported Monday:

On social media platforms last week, videos spread of a Home Depot shopping experience in Dearborn, Michigan. Signs throughout the store were in Arabic.

Shurk further mentions that other Dearborn retailers — such as Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and Albertsons — also post Arabic signs.

As to the Islamic supremism-socialism nexus, the DSA has a “Muslim Caucus” (but no Christian Caucus, do note). Prominent Muslim members include Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-N.Y.C.). Another Muslim representative, Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), is DSA-endorsed.

One may think there’d be friction between devout Muslims and devoted leftists. There has been, too. In 2023, Hamtramck, Michigan — the first American city with an all-Muslim government — banned the “Pride” flag from public property. The old-line Democrats that had been ousted by the Muslim Democrats weren’t happy about it, either. But Hamtramck’s new overlords didn’t care. Oddly, too, the legacy media didn’t feel compelled to combat this anti-“LGBTQ+” “bigotry.” They imitated crickets.

And this may be a portent of things to come.

Oh, I’d say that’s a safe enough bet, yeah.

Update! Kunstler posts a fresh, intriguing take on the latest flavor-of-the-day-of-the-week sub-branch of the D卐M☭CRAT Party.

In the meantime, there is plenty else to concern those of us who care about our country, and Western Civ more generally, on the home front. Here comes the Insane Clown Posse of the Democratic Socialists. Their platform: abolish the police; no more jail for criminals; open borders; amnesty for all border-jumpers; abolish the Senate; Abolish the electoral college (House of Representatives to elect the president); defund the War Department; voting rights for all non-citizens; “wealth” taxes; free housing, food, medical care for all; green new deal laws; free Palestine (which is more important than any place else on Earth)!

Oh, and they are quite out-front about merely using the Democratic Party as a means to acquire power. Yeah, you noticed that already? Nobody actually had to read the quiet part out-loud. (Well, it wasn’t all that quiet.) Question is: how is all this going to work in practice (or in the praxis, as the Gramscian Marxists like to say — because it sounds like some occult power), as they roll over every institution in the land.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are our own jihadistas. They aim to make their program work by jamming it down America’s throat, starting with the throats of the plain old Democratic Party, the party of FDR, JFK, and HRC, currently fronted by Hakeem Jeffries (the House) and Chuck Schumer (the soon-to-be-abolished Senate). These two appear to be totally buffaloed by the DSA’s Insane Clown Posse. It’s their own Frankenstein monster, stitched together in their laboratory from the tatters of the 20th century. And like in the original by Mary Shelley, this monster is fixing to abolish its maker. Hakeem and Chuck are just standing by like a couple of credulous clucks waiting to see how things develop as the calendar marches implacably toward the catastrophic midterm election.

And it carries on from there, in most awesomely brilliant fashion.

Burning questions

Posted on July 10, 2026July 10, 2026 by Mike

Whatever pitiful handful of old-school Ainglishters may still be left ain’t gonna like the answer much, I bet.

What would Churchill think of the land of Lucy Connolly and Henry Nowak?
THE emergence of vigilante patrols on the streets of Rochdale following the release from prison of a convicted grooming gang ringleader is, at first glance, a local story. Such episodes are easily dismissed as spontaneous expressions of public anger, the predictable consequence of a controversial criminal case. Yet to do so would be to overlook the more interesting question. Why are citizens beginning to assume responsibilities that belong exclusively to the state?

The significance of vigilantism in Rochdale and elsewhere in Britain lies not in the number of people involved but in the assumption that underlies it: that the authorities either cannot or will not perform one of their most elementary duties. Political legitimacy depends as much on what citizens believe governments are capable of doing as on what governments actually do.

Taken in isolation, the events of recent years in Britain prove very little. Western democracies periodically experience shocking crimes, controversial court decisions and failures of public administration. No single episode tells us much about the condition of a nation. The picture changes when exceptional events begin to accumulate with unsettling regularity.

The Southport murders, where three young girls were killed and many others injured, sent shockwaves throughout the entire country. Beyond the horror of the crime itself came intense scrutiny of the state’s capacity to prevent such atrocities. The public debate that followed was as much about confidence in government as it was about one criminal.

None of this means that Britain stands on the brink of civil war as some commentators suggest. Such a conclusion is unsupported by the available evidence. Hyperbole makes for clickbait, after all. But what if vigilante patrols are not an isolated incident, but the first visible symptom of a broader crisis of confidence in the British state’s capacity to perform its essential functions?

One cannot help wondering how Winston Churchill, the historian rather than the statesman, would read Britain’s present predicament. In A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, he chronicled Britain as a nation shaped by successive waves of transformation. The native Britons gave way to the Romans. The Romans departed. Angles, Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans each left their mark upon the island. Civil wars, religious upheavals, industrialisation, imperial expansion followed in turn. Britain’s story did not end there. The post-war decades brought new waves of immigration from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent and Africa, adding yet another layer to a nation that had always been shaped by change. To Churchill, these were not interruptions in Britain’s story. They were Britain herself.

Would he regard today’s anxieties as merely another chapter in that long and often turbulent history? Or would he conclude that something more fundamental is taking place – not simply another transformation, but a gradual erosion of the confidence that has long enabled Britain’s institutions to absorb change without losing their authority?

Time alone will answer that question.

Yeppers; like it or not, it most certainly will. Actually, it’s my own belief that it already has, and that it is now much too late for No-Longer-Great Britainistan to have any real hope of reversing course and saving itself.

To date, no civilization, however mighty, wealthy, successful, and/or rigorously defended has endured forever—not the Greeks, not the Romans, not the Ottomans nor the Mongols nor the Picts nor the Saxons etc etc etc. Our English cousins had a darned good run for sure, several centuries at or near the top o’ the global heap. Alas, that run is now well and truly over, and the British future now looks for the most part swarthy, anarchic, Moslem, and frankly, bleak.

No shit, Dick Tracy, where’s the fuckin’ squad car?

Posted on July 10, 2026July 10, 2026 by Mike

Trump FINALLY figures it out. Well, kinda-sorta, I suppose.

President Trump Signals End of “Waste of Time” Ceasefire With Iran
There is a moment in every failed negotiation when one side finally says out loud what everyone else has been thinking. That moment arrived Wednesday in Ankara, when President Donald Trump, seated beside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the alliance’s annual summit, was asked about the status of America’s tentative ceasefire with Iran. His answer required no translation from diplomatic language because he refused to use any.

“For me, I think it’s over,” Trump said. “As far as I’m concerned it’s just a waste of time.”

Trump’s frustration was not with the terms of the deal but with the character of the men across the table. He accused Iranian negotiators of agreeing to terms in private and then denying them in public, a pattern anyone who has followed four decades of Islamic Republic diplomacy will recognize instantly.

“They’re liars. We make a deal. … They go outside, talk to the press. They say, ‘We never even talked about it.’ … As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.”

He left the door open for his negotiators to keep meeting with their Iranian counterparts, then promptly explained why it would accomplish nothing. “They can talk, but I think they’re wasting their time. They’re liars, they’re cheats. They’re sick people.”

“Left the door open”? Yeah, you might say that…unfortunately.

The United States Is Still Talking to Iran After Big Strikes
Technical talks between the United States and Iran are ongoing despite recent strikes and apparent rising tensions.

A United States official confirmed to Townhall that “the United States is still committed to finding a resolution, and technical talks continue,” adding that “Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon.”

Yeah, well, until you mouthy jackasses recognize once and for all that A) no “deal” you ever reach with them will be worth the simple chronic halitosis expelled during the “negotiations,” and B) the Mad Mullah regime can NOT be trusted, will NEVER negotiate in good faith, and is SUPREMELY uninterested in what the political leadership of the Great Satan might think about their insane ambitions, then an Iranian nuke isn’t quite the practical impossibility certain Administration personnel would have us believe.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: as long as there remains a political entity in the ME called the Islamic Republic of Iran, then the job isn’t truly done. And until such time as Amerika v2.0’s political leadership has the intestinal fortitude to see that project through to the bitter, painful end, we shouldn’t even be dicking around over there at all.

Love him or hate him, Trump is only human, and as such is every bit as capable of making a mistake as anybody else. It’s my carefully considered opinion that he’s made a YUUUUGE one here, and needs to try, try again until he gets it right. It’s only the whole world that’s at stake, that’s all—no pressure or anything, Mr President, sir.

Ruh-roh

Posted on June 14, 2026June 14, 2026 by Mike

Leave it to the fine folks at the Bee to get right to the meat of the matter.

pic.twitter.com/S8dBtm1KrB

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee)

June 13, 2026

Heh. Who indeed.

Update! Via Stephen, another excellent Xweet that I felt really needed to be on the main page here too.

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority)

June 14, 2026

The ones that really slay me are the ones who, like lying douchenozzle, shithouse pud-puller, and serial female-abuser Adolf Platner, think it’s FederalGovCo’s job to see to it that it never, ever happens again. Just who the actual fuck do you goobermint wastrels think you are, anyhow?

So 14% of the population thinks it wants a race war, huh?

Posted on June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 by Mike

Careful what you wish for, stupid niggers.

Savage Anthony Karmelo Supporters Now Making Death Threats Against Austen Metcalf’s Family and Randomly Punching White People in the Face for TikTok Clout; White People Must Remain Calm and Not Cause Incitement or Division
—Disinformation Expert Ace

I mean obviously, it’s on us normies being targeted by racial violence to be calm and not provoke thugs who have been taught that they have a free-floating right to attack or kill white people and if you challenge that right, then you are the next to be attacked or killed.

In fact, we should apologize to the Race Attackers for making it necessary to play the Knockout Game.

The media always attacks normal people for getting angry and becoming “radicalized” while they make infinite excuses not just for black assaults but for black incitements to commit assault.

Some “incitements,” like the Crime of Noticing, should be punished by the state and, the state being absent, by Street Vigilantes enforcing Blood Reparations.

But other incitements to commit violence and demonization and dehumanization of another race are just “Good Trouble” which should be justified, defended, and amplified by the media.

Are we really now at the state where black radical racists and “allies” openly declare what they have long hinted at — that they have an unquestioned right to attack or even murder white people who do not afford them enough deference and “disrespect”?

Good luck with that!

Good luck indeed. To ALL of us.

DISGUSTING: Black woman in Tampa, Florida, has joined a disturbing trend of anti-white attacks, in which black individuals approach random white strangers, physically assault them, and falsely claim that they served on the jury that convicted Karmelo Anthony in his murder trial.… pic.twitter.com/qgOUzQC8Em

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0)

June 11, 2026

The rest of it is…well, completely pathetic, actually.

These racists need to face serious legal consequences. Without swift and visible enforcement of the law, this anti-white trend of random assaults and false accusations will continue to escalate. Authorities must stop it now before frustrated whites decide to take matters into their own hands.

See what I mean? “Serious legal consequences”—yeah, THAT will surely fix things, absolutely. Hey, I know—let’s all hold our breath waiting for tt!

That 50-IQ nigger bitch shoulda had a bullet in her head before she ever got close enough to put hands on that pathetic White pussy in the first goddamned place. That she did not is a perfect encapsulation of our whole problem, and an unassailable explanation for why we are where are, and how exactly we got here.

“Ceasefire” continues to “hold”

Posted on June 9, 2026June 9, 2026 by Mike

Mlitary analysts confess utter bafflement as to how this could possibly have happened, given that all of Iran’s military capability had already been destroyed weeks ago.

President Donald Trump posted on TruthSocial Tuesday, “I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Hey, better get in touch with Pock-e-stawn and arrange more negotiations with the Mad Mullahs, no? After all, they’re just aching to make a “deal” that will resolve our 47-year-old Iran problem once and for all. Stay the course, Mr Preaident, and damn the torpedos!

It is good news that our men survived, but it should be obvious by now that it is incredibly dangerous to continue pretending there is a ceasefire when there is not. It puts our service members at risk. This time the Iranian regime did not succeed in killing the pilots, but what about next time?

The murderous mullahs continue to execute their own Persian people who protested the regime. The Tehran terrorists are also bombarding civilians across multiple Middle Eastern countries and encouraging their terrorist proxies to join in the bloody activities.

The main point, the essential point, the ONLY point (bold mine).

It is highly ironic that over the weekend, Trump was trying to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into not striking back against the Iranian regime and its terror proxy Hezbollah for a series of devastating bombardments targeting civilian areas. Multiple Israelis died in Hezbollah strikes last week. Iran’s other proxies, the Houthis, also joined in firing upon Israel. You can see Netanyahu’s statement below. Now, all of a sudden, Trump is discovering what Netanyahu and many of us already understood: The Iranian regime is not the least bit interested in negotiating in good faith, but it is just as determined to continue fighting and killing Americans as it is to fight and kill Israelis.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf (or Qalibaf), who in April was among the Iranian negotiators speaking with American leaders, bragged soon after an abortive meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, “I, as a soldier, am fighting in the realm of negotiations.” For fundamentalist Muslims, lying to the enemy is not only permissible, but praiseworthy (see taqiyya). This is why terrorists in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and elsewhere have violated every deal they ever made with Israel or Western nations.

Having played along so far with Trump’s preposterous “Let’s make a deal!” delusions, I begin to wonder whether Bibi knows it or not, honestly.

Just anoher D卐M☭CRAT murder

Posted on May 26, 2026May 26, 2026 by Mike

Nobody can say it comes as any big surprise, I shouldn’t think. Which is a whole ‘nother sad, sad story in and of itself.

Memorial Day Tragedy: Veteran ‘Trump House’ Owner Dies After Vicious Assault
After his neighbor savagely attacked him unprovoked on May 20, the U.S. Army veteran who owns a California home famous for its huge Donald Trump signs passed away just before Memorial Day.

Kerry Sheron had gained local notoriety in his Escondido community for hanging Make America Great Again banners and American flags all over his house. But a younger man — who is, ironically, also a veteran — assaulted him so horribly on May 20 that Sheron died on Sunday, May 24, according to the California Post. Police are refusing to offer clues as to the motive, but Sheron has previously complained about vandalism of his banners and flags, and his wife believes the attack could be political.

The attacker, 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler, abruptly approached Sheron outside his home and began beating him. Deputy District Attorney Ross Garcia explained, “It was a single punch to the jaw. The victim then falls to the floor, and there are subsequent hits to the victim’s head area.”

Despite all that, Butler has pleaded not guilty to murder, elder abuse, criminal threats and battery. It appears, therefore, that he has displayed absolutely no regret or repentance for his deadly attack. He is in jail without bail, and officials are considering homicide charges.

“Considering”? What the actual fuck is UP with that arrant horseshit? We all know very well why this violent “liberal” piece of shit did what he did, just like we all know he really ought to be beaten to death himself for it pour encourager les autres. Another thing we all know: the oxygen thief Butler will almost certainly skate for this murder most foul, or perhaps be given at the very most a light slap on the back of his hand for this patent HHHHHH8 Crime™.

All of which makes this clip of old school Chicago flatfoot Jim Malone’s final question for G-man Elliott Ness even more apropos, timely, and relevant than it already was.

Safe-bet answer: absolutely, positively nothing whatsoever, that’s what.

The art of NO deal

Posted on May 12, 2026May 12, 2026 by Mike

Hate to have to say it, but Trump is an idiot, and he’s screwing the pooch by the numbers.

Trump: No Need to Rush Anything With Iran

Frankly, I would rather see action rather than talk

I would like to see oil prices and inflation back down

And I am sick and tired of Iran poking us in the eye on the world stage, and making it look like we’re desperate for some sort…

— John Betts (@JohnFromCranber)

May 12, 2026

Here’s the ugly truth of the matter, via Lakeside Joe.

That penultimate line—“The regime can only be stopped by force” et al—assumes something not so far in evidence, namely that “At some point, Trump will be convinced of this reality.” It’s my considered opinion that Trump, being at heart a basically decent sort who derives no pleasure from killing people in job lots, would vastly prefer to make some kind of deal with the Mullah regime, even though any deal the howling Western infidel makes with the Mullahs won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on.

Which in turn means that Trump, having an entirely unrealistic view of the opponents he is confronting—ie, a far too charitable one regarding their willingness to deal fairly and honestly with “the Great Satan,” among other things—should never have dragged us into the Iran quagmire in the first place. His Presidency will be regarded by future historians, if any, as a catastrophe, one this piss-poor excuse for a nation will be paying for for generations, possibly even centuries. Sorry, but IMO that’s the long and the short of it.

Update! Just got off the phone with my brother Jeff, who just minutes ago shelled out $1100.00 at a truck stop to fill up his Freightliner with diesel fuel, but won’t make anything close to that much this week. He says another month or so of losing money like this and he’ll be out of business, and the truck will be up for sale. No need to rush anything, eh, Donald? *spit*

It begins update! Jeff called back to tell me that a friend and co-worker of his just gave the company his notice and put his truck up for sale. He’s taken a job driving a dump truck, for just slightly more than minimum wage. For as long as THAT lasts, anyway. He says thanks a pantload, Donald!

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