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~Welcome to the fourth day of Christmastide, and another episode of my ongoing audio adaptation of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It,. Santa Rubio came down the Euro-chimney and left lumps of coal in the stockings of various totalitarian Eurocrats by banning them from entry to the United States - starting with the thug commissar Thierry Breton, a man who boasts openly about the EU's nullification of the Romanian election in the interests of "protecting democracy". There's no reason why such a goon should be able to go shopping on Fifth Avenue. Next thing you know he'll be nullifying elections in Iowa, and then it won't matter who's two points up in Cedar Rapids.
Besides, Europeans ban individual Americans all the time. For sixteen years, Michael Savage, unlike the legions of paedo rapists arriving nightly from Afghanistan and Somalia, has been prohibited from entry to the United Kingdom - because his radio show is not to the taste of Britain's thoroughly Islamised Home Office. So the dystopian future posited by Mr Rubio is already here:
"Are we going to live in a world where some American puts up a social media post and then gets to some airport somewhere and is arrested?"
Secretary of State Marco Rubio issues a warning to Americans over Europe's assault on the First Amendment. pic.twitter.com/tOG8Lf8Ov0
— Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) December 23, 2025
But, if you listen carefully to Rubio and his colleagues, they're signaling something more fundamental than differences over Graham Linehan and Elon Musk. As I've said, we are now in the last fifteen years (if that) of anything reecognisable as "the western world". The less "European" Europe gets, the more its leaders bleat that what matters is not ethnicity but "values". Yet the more non-European Europe gets, the more furiously its "values" are abandoned. The semi-Islamic bleepholes arising before our eyes in England, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway will have insufficient in common with America to keep Americans willing to shoulder the costs of an alien continent's defence. Oh, c'mon, one more chorus of "We won't come back till it's over Over There!"
But that's the point: it's over over there.
So, in today's episode of our ongoing audio adaptation of my ancient bestseller, we continue our brisk overview of the Four Horsemen of the Eupocalypse:
Here's another statistic: thirty per cent of German women are now childless. Among German university graduates, it's over forty per cent...
Almost every issue facing the European Union – from immigration rates to crippling state pension liabilities – has at its heart the same root cause: a huge lack of babies. Every day you get ever more poignant glimpses of the Euro-future, such as it is. One can talk airily about being flushed down the toilet of history, but even that's easier said than done. In eastern Germany, rural communities are dying, and one consequence is that village sewer systems are having a tough time adjusting to the lack of use. Populations have fallen so dramatically there are too few people flushing to keep the flow of waste moving. Traditionally, government infrastructure expenditure arises from increased demand. In this case, the sewer lines are having to be narrowed at great cost in order to cope with dramatically decreased demand.
How are those childlessness numbers looking a generation on? Among women born between 1988 and 1992 - that's to say, now in their mid-to-late thirties and approaching the end of their fertility - just under fifty per cent are childless. Good luck with all that "values" bollocks. As I said twenty sodding years ago, you've adopted the strategy of the Shakers: eschewing breeding, you're relying entirely on conversion. Good luck betting your "values" on that. The gang-rape stats can already tell you how that's going.
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