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~I said my piece on the end of the "Russia" investigation over the weekend, but before the release of the Attorney General's summary letter. On "Russia" and collusion, it is total victory for Trump. True, it took Mueller two years to reach a conclusion he could have made at the end of the first month. but that, alas, is the way of US "justice" in general. On his second conclusion - did Trump obstruct justice? - Mueller professes agnosticism, which is pathetic and weaselly, but again all too typical. Philosophically speaking, it is an interesting question whether one can obstruct justice in a matter for which there is no underlying crime. But in the America of investigation-without-end that will be sufficient pretext for House Democrats to launch unending investigations of whether Trump obstructed his exoneration in the last unending investigation.
~To return to where we left things a week ago, with a dying man and the toll of church bells in the post-Christian west:
'A church without faithful,' they seemed to be saying, 'in a city without God.'
Jacinta Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand and "the world's youngest female head of government", once worked for Tony Blair, and one would like to think she has learned from the master. For her fellow PM, tragedy was an opportunity: After the Princess of Wales' fatal car crash, George Stephanopoulos enthused to Christopher Hitchens, "Tony Blair's handling this really well. This is his Oklahoma City." As Hitchens remarked, "This is the way these people think."
But it's not clear to me that Ms Ardern is thinking at all. Because some mass murders are more significant than others, it was inevitable that the Christchurch slaughter would be seized upon to justify the banning of guns and speech - and not just in New Zealand. In Ottawa, the fallen Peter Pan PM is attempting to distract from his corruption scandal by raising the possibility of resurrecting the "hate speech" law I helped get repealed by the Canadian Parliament in 2013. But Ms Ardern is taking virtue-signaling to a whole new level: She has significantly raised the bar for every Islamopanderer in the chancelleries of the west - and the people seem to like it, at least according to the NZBC, where I heard some purported reporter the other day pronounce: "She hasn't put a foot wrong."
But did she put a head wrong? There it is at top right in a hijab. It is a curious image. Last year, when Alyssa Milano and fellow liberal sisters protested the new patriarchy to be ushered in by Brett Kavanaugh, they did so in costumes from "The Handmaid's Tale":
Apparently it's bad to force women into red robes and white coverings, but black robes and black coverings are totally cool - nothing patriarchal about them at all; in fact, the likes of Ms Ardern seem to get a kick out of it. Black isn't the new red.
Ms Ardern also ordered the nationwide broadcasting of the Muslim call to prayer, which apparently she can do, just as the Speaker of the legislature a couple of months back axed Jesus from the daily parliamentary prayer.
Meanwhile, to the list of discredited alt-right white supremacists such as Jesus and Chelsea Clinton, we must now add Jordan Peterson, whose book on "twelve rules" for life has been banned post-Christchurch by Whitcoulls, New Zealand's equivalent of Barnes & Noble. I don't believe Islam is terribly bothered by Professor Peterson one way or the other, but the left is - and so, in a touch of that Blairite opportunism mentioned above, they're happy to use one phobia (Islamo) to take out the most reviled exemplar of another (trans). Watch my interview with him while you still can.
Incidentally, if Jesus is too non-inclusive for the New Zealand Parliament, shouldn't we be changing the name of Christchurch to Mahmoudmosque?
~Aside from a few unctuous taqiyya types like Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan (now in a French gaol awaiting trial for raping two women), how many actual Muslims do the ostentatious virtue-signalers actually know? Kathy Shaidle drew my attention to the "Candid Camera" episode below. I don't know of either of the protagonists, but that's no reflection on them - I'm Mister Squaresville, and they're hip and happening. But Jim Jefferies is apparently a big name in both his native Australia and Hollywood, and has just started his third season on Comedy Central. He invited on to the show a so-called "anti-Islamic activist" Avi Yemini. Mr Yemini set two conditions, but, suspecting Mr Jefferies would break them anyway, took the precaution of secretly recording it anyway.
Which was a very prudent thing to do. Jefferies did indeed break both conditions, sat on the tape for months, and then used it in response to the Christchurch massacre. He also took Mr Yemini's answers and matched them up to entirely different questions.
So far that's just business as usual with the bad-faith bookers of Comedy Central. But listen to what happens next: Jim Jefferies, who plays an impeccably progressive anti-Islamophobe on TV, suddenly starts badmouthing Islam and Muslims himself - and indeed their fecundity, as if he's just some knuckle-dragging nutter who picked up a secondhand copy of America Alone. Click below to watch:
Kathy Shaidle suggests that deep down many so-called lefties agree with the right on Islam; they just object to anybody saying it in public. I would say that's particularly true of the showbiz crowd. I remember pointing that out to a very well-known West End playwright and Labour Party supporter a decade or so back as we stood at the back of the theatre just before curtain up, and he expressed regret for my descent into Islamic obsession. He'd drawn a youngish crowd that night, which he took as a good sign. "See any hijabs?" I replied. "As London Islamizes, the pool of potential theatregoers shrinks." He took the point. At some level, nobody in his line of work can avoid taking it, aside from special pleaders on BBC arts show ever ready to hail new breakthroughs in Sharia stand-up or burqa ballet. If you're an actor or a musician or a comic, you can't stand on the stage night after night and not notice the contrast between the demographic distribution in the auditorium and that of the street outside - that Mohammed for all his sterling qualities is disinclined to take his four wives for an evening of Oscar Wilde or Brahms and Liszt ...or Jim Jefferies. At a certain level, it appears that Mr Jefferies understands that, and once in a while, in contrast to the anodyne pap of "edgy" comedy that has so enriched him, actually says what he really feels.
Whether that's compatible with a gig at Comedy Central I leave to others.
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Margaret Atwood's story is supposed to be a kind of science fiction about a world in which only a minority of women are able to bear children. Her notion that Christians would react to this problem by instituting polygamy and female slavery, and that people supporting such a radical departure from the doctrines of every Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant church would somehow politically dominate the United States is simply incredible. On the other hand, in a world where female fertility has been decimated by a virus, the transition of some Islam-dominated nations to polygamy and de facto female slavery would be a short, logical step.
In the USA, a condition that limits fertility to a minority of women would be vastly empowering for the fertile few. Rich and powerful men who desired a posterity would be bidding competitively with their marriage proposals. Some prenup agreements would specify one or two children and then a divorce, to allow the fertile mom to make a new deal every few years, with child rearing taken on by armies of stepmothers starved for children of their own. Some fertile women would become surrogate mothers at prices that would set them up for life. Abortion would become a felony, when the survival of humanity is at risk. A crash research program to restore normal fertility would absorb the endowments of Harvard and other ivy league universities, which would not need the money in the absence of new students. Experiments in cloning and life extension would also get serious investment. A fertile woman would be able to emigrate to any nation in the world. Robots would need to be built to take over the care of the old and sick as the supply of new doctors and nurses dwindles. But American women would not start wearing funny costumes and let men boss them around.
John Solomon, writing in The Hill.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435700-trump-russia-collusion-did-affect-an-american-election-the-one-in-2018
The collusion between the deep state, Democrat politicians, and their propagandists did have a major effect on last year's mid-terms. And there were very deliberate attempts to deceive.
I'd like to think we on the right all knew this sort of thing happened during taped interviews, but it is amazing to see the difference in the edited vs unedited clips.
I'd heard of Jim Jefferies before, but now I can safely file him away in the group with Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, and the rest of the talk show hosts who have come to America and made a ton of money telling us how awful we are!
An extraordinary admission yesterday by former editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell:
"But this column had argued such public calls - [advocating for reduced Muslim immigration] - are likely to be self-defeating because they could increase the alienation and potential radicalisation of young Muslim males born here. The police and security agencies made that precise point to me in briefings many times while I was running this paper."
As Christopher Hitchens emphasized: if discussion (about immigration, religion etc) is the level of provocation required for Muslims to start murdering unbelievers in their midst, that tells us everything we need to know. And do.
The whole "Don't annoy the bad man and his increasingly large and agitated crowd of friends" sounds like something Neville Chamberlain would have advocated. That didn't go too well for Neville or Europe as I recall.
I recall Mark referring to this sort of thing as "rationalising our surrender".
The fact is, the elites are as indifferent about the continued killing of ordinary citizens as the Islamists.
One more thing:
I happened upon a reminiscence by the author of the novel "Camp of the Saints' yesterday too. You know: That "crazy" novel which speculates on what would happen if the First World let the Third World move in en masse...?
It was published in 1973, and the author sent copies to all the big French politicians and other members of the elite. According to Raspail, he received mostly courteous "thank yous" in reply, even from those who added that they didn't much like what he was getting at.
However, Raspail also noticed this-- and remember, this was 1973:
"All these folks who are or were participating in the country's government or the molding of opinion, practice a double way of talking: one that's for public consumption, and another that's personal and kept hidden. If they ever came right out and bucked the tide, faced with that whole pack—media, show biz, artists, human-rights types, sociologists, academics, activist groups, bishops, technocrats, humanitarians, community organizers, and I could keep right on going—they'd be signing their civil death warrants."
I happen to know for a fact that a number of people who (publicly) find my views or Marks or whoever's views on Islam, censorship, and any number of "controversial" topics actually (privately) share our views but choose to pretend not to in public.
This is similar to Charles Murray's observation that our elites "speak liberal but live conservative." They rave about public education while sending their children to private schools; love diversity but whose only non-white "friends" are their children's nannies; tweet approvingly of Earth Hour while keeping all their lights on, and so forth.
I believe that much of the animus experienced by the Mark Steyn's of the world is that they have the courage of their convictions, and the wets who do not are jealous of their freedom. That's why debating them is mostly a waste of time. They already AGREE with us on the facts; they are actually angry at themselves at being such wimps, and project this self-hatred onto us.
That's a very interesting story. Probably many people are afraid if they speak their minds they could lose their jobs and they're also concerned that their heads would roll if they actually came totally clean like that Jeffries guy did, although, unwittingly. They all have to be figuring what the costs of having personal bodyguards to protect them for the rest of their lives would cost. I'm still concerned Judge Jeanine Pirro is not getting her show back on Fox because of some remark she made about whoever wears a hijab shows their true colors. I mean the negative consequences of speaking out are not imaginary.
Something else that Mark recently noted is that those on the Left - in addition to being self-loathing, intellectually dishonest cowards, etc - often use virtue-signalling as a cover for what they're really up to.
The overwhelming number of progressives implicated in #MeToo and blackface stories in the past 12 months (despite their squeaky clean SJW credentials), suggests that identity politics advocacy should be a huge red flag for skeletons in the closet.
"I believe that much of the animus experienced by the Mark Steyn's of the world is that they have the courage of their convictions, and the wets who do not are jealous of their freedom. That's why debating them is mostly a waste of time. They already AGREE with us on the facts; they are actually angry at themselves at being such wimps, and project this self-hatred onto us."
Brilliant, Draidlebaum!!! Exactly.
I agree. Those most vocally against any particular human faliing or vice in one's fellow man are often among those most attracted to it.
eermm-errm, President Trump is rumored to be getting very serious about libel reform. This whole 'fake news' awareness campaign by Candidate/President Trump got people to focus on and then actively look for proofs - i.e. illustrative examples. Will come in very handy ahead in dealing with especially any media outlet that was part of promoting what they knew was false - and President Trump just used the T word - treason, and that this sort of 'evil action' should never happen to any future presidents... sure sounds like charges/arrests will be forthcoming to hold those conspirators accountable.
I do hope that you're right, but also that a weapon will not6 be crafted for future Democrat governments. I'd love to hear the ins and outs of this issue being examined.
President Trump was very clear yesterday - what was done was 'evil' and he used the word 'treason' and the comment that most other presidents would not have prevailed, which is very very true - the US population/poltical class and general culture has no experience in how to deal with a coup attempt. He then said this shouldn't be allowed to happen to any other president again... the only way to deter another attempt absolutely means arrests, prosecutions. The People (citizens) who have no life experience with this sort of thing) need to understand this, too. It's not a game. The people involved - did they do it on their lonesomes or did they act on orders from other higher than themselves? Lots to undercover and expose.
Hope this helps understanding what's happening. :)
I hope you are right Mr. Gao about libel reform. That would be good.. Freedom from the judicial tyranny of NY Times v Sullivan for the rich and famous would have positive spill over effects for the rest of us, at least as you suggest in the supression of fake news. Maybe GoogleFacebookTwitter could someday be held responsible for the vast libel and slander against little people they enable and facilitate every miniute of every hour of every day?
Thanks for the shout out!
If this is potentially libelous, then I'll understand if the following comment is deemed unacceptable, but:
Am I the only one who thinks Jim Jeffries is slightly (or more than slightly) drunk, above?
Now some will say, How can you tell? He's Australian??
But seriously:
I believe we will be gravely informed, before the month is out, that Mr. Jeffries has entered rehab.
Mark I am kind puzzled by your words that the report of the special counsel is "Total Victory" and by the celebration on Fox and among members of this club on the great victory of vindication of President Trump by the Special Counsel report. Vindication? Sorry I don't see that. Words matter, to get Hillary of the hook all what was needed learned advise of Peter Strzok to change Gross negligence to Extreme carelessness and adding an illegal term of intent. To keep DJ Trump hanging on the hook the straight shooter Robert Mueller required the advice of nine high paid Democrat Donor lawyers to weigh every word look at it with magnifying glass debate were that word will be in the sentence. Due an unexpected unpleasant communication with a club member I had to look at the so far published wording of Mueller report in AG Barr letter https://www.vox.com/2019/3/24/18279973/mueller-report-quotes-barr-letter The wording that have been used in Mueller report were fuzzy enough to leave it to malevolent persons to state that the interpretation of AG Barr that there was absolutely no collusion with Russia is politically motivated. As to obstruction of justice AG Barr own wording "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" .In my view this is an open invitation for the democrats Go Get Trump
Wouldn't you love to see one of those detective display boards with all the photos of all of the players in this scandal, push pins and all the lines connecting this one to that one with the times and sequences of events depicted? It would probably fill up one exterior side of the FBI building. That would be a great project for the complicit lying networks to complete as partial punishment for phony journalism offered as the news to the American public for three straight years. Actually upon completion, it could be a focal point at the Newseum, a real "must see" for the public on Pennsylvania Ave. Ought to be free admission for all, not $25 a head.
Yes, The linchpin of Peter Strzok would connects to HRC, Comey and Mueller that connects to 9 democrat donor lawyers and to Comey that connects to Bruce Orr (that connects to Christopher Steele) and all Corrupt FBI honchos and to AG lynch that connects to Bill Clinton and Obama that connects to HRC. I just listed some of the major actors that interconnect in several positive feed back loops. If all actors that played role in this take down conspiracy would be shown there would be a cobweb of interconnecting lines with many positive feedback loops I wonder if there is a computer program that could create graphic display with pictures and interconnecting lines that can be shown on a big movie screen of the FBI building under the title Trump take down conspiracy
I had to add that I am 100% convinced that all the accusation against President Trump are false but what I wrote should be viewed as I acting as devils advocate what will be the argument of malevolent Democrats and their lawyers. The response to that is the fact that Robert Mueller stated that there will be no further prosecution indicates that if he with his 9 democrat donors lawyers gave up on filing charges is a proof that they had no leg to stand on in first place. Case dismissed.
To create it would be a real journalist's mission impossible. I hope that the American people wake up finally to which news outlets they can trust. The pool is drying up to a puddle.
Maybe just an album page with pictures important conspirators and what part they played in the conspiracy I would think that it would be less than 100 names and the Album page frame would be the networks and major talking head pictures that pushed the Trump conspiracy The corners names of 4 major newspapers that pushed the conspiracy . By the way what happened with the unsealing of Christopher Steele Deposition that was supposed to happen on March 14 by order of US District Court of Southern Florida judge?
If the Dam congressvermin want to take that "fuzzy" wording and run with it, I welcome it. The American people will not be running alongside. The American people see "NO COLLUSION" and want to move on with their lives. They realize that 22 months, $40 million, dozens of investigators, thousands of interviews, and they came up with nothing means that enough is enough. Anything further is just sour grapes and being a sore loser. Americans do not like sore losers, especially in the middle of March Madness. Actually, now that I think of it, this was probably the worst time ever for the Left to have this report delivered: in the middle of the greatest example of sportsmanship the country experiences. Bwahahaha!
There were things I sensed we would never know that seemed to revolve around Steele because of what was suggested would hurt our Allies. Just a wild guess it had something to do with making their intelligence departments vulnerable. Maybe years from now there will be more declassified documents that explain what's being kept under wraps. Adam Mill had a good piece (with links to past articles he wrote) at The Federalist on Friday: 4 Things to Look for in Mueller's Russian Collusion Report. Every time I read some new article I learn some new thread I didn't know before, or connections made between these major players going all the way back to previous court cases and even their law school days. How much time can one spend on unraveling one hoax with all the big hoaxes happening now?
The article nicely captures all the points of interest in current affairs.
I'm particularly glad that Ardern's behaviour is getting attention. Some politicians are ambush predators, just like crocodiles. They lie about, apparently asleep, but always watching and waiting. In a week Ardern has accomplished a huge part of the left wing's universal agenda. Certainly she seems in a week to have succeeded in more severely restricting freedom of information and speech as well as the ability of households to protect themselves, and in strengthening her censorship arm, immigration stance and support for international Islam as well as parading her sanctimony more than her socialist counterparts in Australia were able to accomplish in two consecutive terms of government.
I imagine that it will be a while before we know that what we have seen is a well-oiled machine slipping into gear to exploit the main opportunity, or hysterical (and brainless) thrashing about in response to a shocking tragedy. Much as I dislike conspiracy theories, I'm going with the first of those interpretations until evidence to the contrary emerges. She has just moved too quickly and too consistently for me to dismiss the uncanny resemblance to a crocodilian ambush.
As an aside, what I am less inclined to dismiss is the correlation in New Zealand of high legal gun ownership statistics with low serious crime statistics (not forgetting that even there the abiding domestic violence is not usually accompanied by blasts of machine-gun fire). I certainly think that the next Australian nutter to plan a shooting spree across the Tasman sea will not be much deterred by measures to disarm the people of New Zealand.
Apparently, Jordan Peterson's crime was that, while in New Zealand, he'd posed for a photo with a fan who was himself wearing a "Proud Islamaphobe" t-shirt. Therefore, his book was removed from the shelf at a bookstore which, curiously, was still selling "Mein Kampf."
I sometimes honestly ponder the question of which is less repulsive to me, living under Islamic or Leftist rule? Islam will surely win that battle when the time comes, and it would almost be worth it just to say we told you so to them before the scimitar drops on them.
I suspect the scimitar will drop on conservatives first.
Although the other day I was with a conservative who said, that he and his wife thought that paying the jiza tax might be worth it if it meant getting back a more conservative culture and get rid of the sexual and other issues that plague our current leftist run culture.
that surprised me.
A fair question worthy of a thorough debate.
Unfortunately, the left will try to drop the scimitar on us first, so we may never find out!
As Mark has said, you could just grow a beard, get a few more wives and keep your head down.
You'd have to give up bacon and alcohol.
There might be an advantage having two wives. Every month, Wife 1 moves all of the furniture around, and then, a week later, Wife 2 moves the furniture back to where it was before.
Hilarious, David. If all my new extra wives were like my own lovely wife, I guess that wouldn't be too bad. Unfortunately, being a bit uneasy around the opposite sex (women are wonderful, but they are mysterious creatures), I tend to find something to do in the shop or the arena or even the north field deep in snow, whenever the wife has a hen party. So I would probably spend a lot of time out of the house, if for no other reason than to avoid the Great Furniture Migration.
One insurmountable problem: I could probably overcome my mild attraction for Guiness. When the mullahs come for my bacon, however, they will have to pry that bacon from my cold, dead fingers. Bacon, bacon, bacon...going to breakfast now.
Really, if the bearded numbskulls can wait a bit, a massive coronary will do their job for them. God bless!
Hi David, I assume you'll be happy to have not one, but two mothers-in-law?
It would be far better to live under Islamic rule. Given the choice, a religious culture will always be preferable, and you will always know exactly where you stand and what's required.
And all things considered, Muslims are 80% correct on the social issues. Reagan always said anyone who is 80% with you is your ally. It's unfortunate what will happen to women, but the gross sexual misconduct will be put to an end. It's a worthy trade.
Carl, I will assume you are not a troll, and probably not a Christian and that you really believe order is actually worth tyranny. Personally, I would rather battle the angels of God than bend my knee to fundamental Islam. I usually don't get too deep into these conversations because more than a few comments are made tongue in cheek (and, time). Still it seems reasonable to point to the broken nature of man and Imam, and ask how FGM, child rape, honor killings and the like qualify as moral and a large improvement over the lunacy of the Left. Something to consider...it is possible there is more evil in this world than Leftist policies.
"80% ally" and "knowing exactly where you stand" with votaries who want you dead is what they refer to as submission.
But you are only 20% dead.
I was cynically assuming I'd first choose a conversion to Islam in order to stay around long enough to see the Left get what comes next.
I have always said that Margaret Atwood was prescient with her book THE HANDMAID"S TALE.. She got the head coverings, the long robes and the sexual subjugation absolutely correct. HOWEVER she had the wrong religion. It is Moslims and Islam that is overtaking the world and subjecting women to 11th century values.
What a woman!
The Identitarians are primarily on the left. Their enemy are the non identitarians of the center left and center right and it is these that they attack and try to 'convert' to their indentitarian left. I would certainly not be surprised for them to see an act of extreme right wing Identitarian violence as being useful to this 'conversion'. NZ is the type of country where reactions to these extreme acts can be contained and clamped down on easily and quickly. ie. it's a low risk place for such conspirators.
Mark, if the opportunity should arise, could you and Tucker put in a good word for Trey Gowdy as Special Counsel. He is as honest as the day is long. We do not need someone acceptable to the left, it is now hammer time, they have had their innings. Raw power is all they understand. I can think of no one better than Trey to keep punching.
And Jim Jordan. Not forgetting Lindsey Graham - he did brilliantly wrt Brett Kavanaugh.
What a great day for ripping the curtain away on the fraudulent spokepeople for anti-iislamophobia and other hoaxes perpetrated on the world.
Jeffries is a moron whose entire shtick is late-era Letterman with a funny accent: virtue signal for applause and pretend that's comedy
A two year long 'investigation' with more than a dozen lawyers working full time not to mention paid staff and they couldn't spend a week or two looking into possible obstruction of justice? This unanswered question is in fact a poison pill gifted to these rabid Democrats. They are already running full tilt with plan 'B' in their determination to drive this president out of office. If spineless republicans are unwilling to climb into the mud pit and start fighting back then this pogrom against Trump will never end. Start with John Brennan, Andrew McCabe and Bruce Orr and take it from there. These criminals and at least a dozen more need to be brought to justice now. Given the events of the last two years I have little confidence any of this will take place.
Roy This poison gift can be easily dismissed They looked at it and that was the reason that Mueller and his 9 Democrat donating lawyers decided not to prosecute because they have seen they have nothing to back it up and no leg to stand on.
Avid Yemini is no hero. At the start of the above video, he labels some white guy saying "white people like myself feel happy and safe around my culture, my people" as a NAZI. What's NAZI about that? Nothing. It's exactly what the MSM would say about a comment like that. So Avi is a bit snaky. Isn't the above culture and people sentiment the guiding principle behind the creation of Israel itself? Isn't that what China and Japan feels also, as two major non-white examples? None of them are labelled as racist - well Israel is, but only by the Left. But that's the point. Apparently only white western people are not allowed to feel pride in their race and culture. That sentiment is exactly what the Left are propagating, and Avi happily carries the can for it.
Your fellow Adorable Deplorable has that great line about how Trump's inside and outside voices are the same, unlike Hilary Clinton.
And if I recall correctly, you and Tammy Bruce also had a conversation about how "uberfeminist" men always seem to be the biggest creeps, and using (like PM Hairdo) feminism as their cover story.
I think there's definitely a case to be made that when so much energy is spent trying to dampen down or smother the "inside" voice so that "outside" voice person can go to cocktail parties and have their non-funny show/radio gig/column, eventually the person inevitably turns into a human pressure cooker of sorts-there's always the psssst pssssst pssssst of reality, of the truth, of their real thoughts trying to escape and then: kaboom.
Mr. Jeffries' Twitter feed has been pretty quiet since Mr. Yemini's expose.
And I don't know if anyone else noticed (I mentioned this to Kathy) the part where Jeffries sarcastically sneers about Avi Yemini's name "a good Australian name" (he's of Israeli origin).
No comment about whether or not Man Haron Monis (chocolate store hostage taker) or Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar (a 15 year old who shot a civilian member of the police) or Yacqub Khayre (Brighton), Momena Shoma, or Hassan Khalif Shire Ali (Melbourne stabbing) are "good Australian names".
Wanker.
Bang on, Laura, bang on!
I noticed the sneering too, Laura. Yemini is a solid Ozraeli citizen, as they're often referred to. Jim Jeffries on the other hand... well, you said it already.
Btw, your list of "other" Australians should also include the names Numan Haider (Endeavour Hills stabbings), Ihsas Khan (Minto stabbing), and Saeed Noori (another Melbourne vehicular attack) - not to mention our high-level ISIS fighters/ families - like the Sharroufs - of whom there are (were?) quite a few! Also, the would-be/ subsequent terrorists involved in the many plans thwarted in the advanced stages - Holsworthy Barracks; Fairfield; St Paul's Cathedral; Etihad flight... and many more!
There was also a non-terror terror attack in a suburban Melbourne bank in 2016 involving an "asylum seeker" by the name of Nur Islam. Impatient with the wait in the customer service queue, he left the bank, bought a big can of petrol, and returned to pour litres of the stuff inside the entrance before igniting it. (See the impressive CCTV footage on google video, using his name/ "bank".) He was recently sentenced to 7+ years. But despite his name being a clue as to the motive for such an attack, the judge declared: "There appears to be no rational explanation for your bizarre and callous actions." Yeah, right.
PS. I just mentioned Mark's "cover-for-creeps" theory in reply to Kathy above!
Oh Kate, you're such a hatey hater. I mean, who among us hasn't lit up a bank with petrol after having waited in line for too long? Judge not and all that!
I admit I wanted to a time or too. But I didn't.
Speaking of which, did you see the news item from Italy a couple of days ago, where a school bus with 50 children onboard was hijacked by an "asylum seeker" who then set it ablaze? There was minimal reporting because they all managed to escape; one horrific scene shows small children fleeing for their lives down the side of the highway, screaming. No doubt the individual in question was fed up being stuck in morning traffic. Perfectly understandable!
Btw- had you heard the latest about Christchurch? Big public announcement today by Ahmed Bhamji, the Chairman of the NZ mosque which recently hosted the PM. See MEMRI TV - Mossad, Zionist Businesses Paid, Supported Christchurch Shooter.
I did see that story, and if memory serves, the first headline I read was something to the effect of "Italian Man Hijacks School Bus". I thought, how odd...Italian man you say? Read a little more closely and discovered the details.
Indeed, I did hear about Ahmed Bhamji's accusation. All I can say, on behalf of the ZOG is that although we firmly deny any involvement, of course and cannot really comment on operations, I'll definitely have to investigate where the leakers are, because they need to learn to keep their big, fat Jew yap-traps shut when we do such complicated, secret operations. There's a rat fink in the organization, and we're gonna have to clean the swamp.
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In all seriousness, it took a lot longer than I thought for certain parties to blame Da Jooooooooz.
:) You'll have to reply to the more recent comment on this (Douglas Murray interview) where it will be read!
The leftists censors provide an interesting twist on Gleishaltung. In 1930's Germany the Brownshirts (SA), the state police (SD), and the Gestapo enforced the party line. In modern America thousands of little block captains (assisted by major corporatists) work as enforcers via private corporations—in this case a bookstore—and "social(ist) media."
From your column: Jim Jefferies, who plays an impeccably progressive anti-Islamophobe on TV, suddenly starts badmouthing Islam and Muslims himself - and indeed their fecundity, as if he's just some knuckle-dragging nutter who picked up a secondhand copy of America Alone.
It's amazing the mischief that can be caused by putting a Hillary Clinton "What Happened" dust jacket on a copy of America Alone!
Well, to speculate a walks/quacks/feathered anology, the Left-controlled universities, some grown to have a bigger footprint than the country of Luxenbourg, act like 'semi-autonomous' territories, imposing and enforcing a separate code of law, court, cuisine and culture, and 'Taliban/Talibé' means 'students' so... the professors (imams/teachers/marabous) rote drill the Talibé who then get sent out dressed in rags for sympathy/virtue-signal to beg for money, and report back which recalcitrant businesses didn't cough up the 'donation' so they need to be 'visited' by the 'enforcers'...and the debt incurred by so many Talibé to attend the university is almost guaranteed to never be paid off, providing a steady income stream from former enrolled Talibé to fund and expand this construct, no matter whether they got a degree, didn't get a degree or got a useless degree. Sort of the same sorts of complaints about the academic performances of madrass 'schools' after an honest funding audit of their use of donations, loans and grants.
Most days I wear my brand as a "deplorable" or an "iredeemable" with pride. But on other days, when I want to discuss the latest slaughter and offer the incontrovertible suggestion that the problem, from Christchurch to Newtown, is not too many guns, but at least one too few, I would appreciate a response other than "we refuse to 'normalize' your beliefs". What is normalizing, anyway, and can it be done in an hour, like Martinizing in dry cleaning?
We don't listen to each other. No, actually, they don't listen to us--and scouring the archives to find Tucker's politically incorrect remarks from the Hoover Administration doesn't count. (Neither do Zachary and Jeremiah, or whomever is transcribing Rush's show for Media Nutters these days.) We can't help but listen to them, if we read a newspaper, watch the news, or merely stroll past the other owners at the dog park. Dogs, at least, require the curiosity and temerity to sniff each other's behinds; humans just spread 'em and share. I've always held off despair by telling myself I could despair tomorrow, give it another day. I want to remain one country, one people; I don't see how it could be otherwise. But tomorrow isn't just another day. It may be today, if not yesterday.
Well said, Josh. What is normalizing? Think about what the Khmer Rouge did to the gentle folks of Cambodia, or perhaps Stalin's agricultural policies in the Ukraine. That's not really accurate, but that is most definitely what the Left intends to normalize free folks. I am deeply sad, and a little ashamed, that this world is what I am leaving to m thy grandchildren. Even worse, the last time Americans disagreed so profoundly about issues of freedom and government more than a half million died...using muskets and black powder cannons to arbitrate their dispute. I guess I can keep praying we conduct the the New Civil War on Twitter.
I fortunately don't know this Jefferies guy, but I'm sure he will argue that he was just saying those things to get Yemini do fall in his trap, which did not work. But really he loves all Muslims and wants to convert, which he may need to do to escape the wrath of you-know-who.
Thanks to Kathy and Mark for sharing.
Set aside the fact that there can be no obstruction of justice where there is no underlying crime. Mueller's cop-out on this subject opened new opportunities for the Democrat Propaganda Stenographic Corps (fka MSM). I note in today's "news" the DPSC is focusing on Mueller's weaselly statement and ignoring the language in AG Barr's summary that clearly states there was no obstruction. Half-truth is apparently good enough in the "news" business.
Nicely put David: Even in theory the firing of James Comey could never qualify as obstruction. We have plenty of evidence that operatives in the Obama White house and state dept. working hand in hand with a rouge FBI and a corrupt justice dept. in addition to Brennan's CIA attempted to unseat a duly elected president. You'd think that if republicans really cared about this great country then they would actually do something about it. After two years I'm still waiting.
"Kathy Shaidle suggests that deep down many so-called lefties agree with the right on Islam; they just object to anybody saying it in public."
Of course they do. Prior to 9/11/2001, the Left routinely bashed conservatives as the "American Taliban". Then, after 9/11, the Left discovered commonality with the Taliban due to their shared hatred of GW Bush, and they have never looked back.
That being said, I and the Left agree that in the Left/Islamist partnership, the Left holds the whip hand. "Muslim" members of Congress loudly bay that any attempt to restrict infanticide amounts to "regulating women's bodies". Think they got that from the Koran or the writings of Sayyid Qutb? Nah, they got it from their true masters, the faculty of Harvard University. Who don't give a hoot about superficial, symbolic things like temporarily wearing a hijab, but about what truly matters, the arbitrary power to inflict death on the unborn, total state control over the economy, the subjugation of 'deplorables', etc. And Muslim immigrants are reliable votes for all that.
So Christchurch won't be renamed "Mahmoudmosque". I would, however, not be the least bit surprised if it is renamed "SocialJusticeVille". In fact, I'd be more surprised if it wasn't.
SocialJusticeVille is just a stepping stone to Mahmoudmosque, or Ruzulmasjid. The leftists may happen to currently control the culture and media, but 9/11 taught the leftists of Harvard that the Muslims wield the whip: nobody is interfering in the strict regulation of Muslim women's bodies.
You must've missed the big news, before Christchurch, where Illan Omar was declared the victim of "Islamophobia" after being reprimanded for her Jew-hate (by fellow Democrats).
The Chelsea Clinton episode confirmed who the "true masters" are in the Left-Islam alliance.
Left/liberal/progressives aren't fond of Islam because of a shared despite of Geo. W. but, rather, because they both aim for a totalitarian future.
There is a major difference Moslem when he dies for the cause of Allah goes to paradise, leftist when he dies for the cause of leftism the best that he can hope for is cremation the worst being eaten by maggots. So it seems to me that Moslem are more motivated to die for the case of Allah than leftist for socialism. Beside it Moslems are doing it over 1300 years and did not lose the motivation just see how every one is shaking and is careful not to offend them.
Yes. Totalitarism seems to me to be the true lasting order ot the world. From the tribal big man to the Divine Right of Kings to the Socialist Utopian Leader for Life to Caliph?. Human freedom only exists during short periods when the nobility is in disarray.
AB43, What you say to Wm. Picou has a small measure of truth, but makes no relevant point. Neither socialists nor muslims want to die for their cause and it is a big deal for either of them to do so, regardless of the propaganda each produces. But, both socialists and muslims are alike in one most critical aspect: They do share the conviction that those who do not share their beliefs are not fully human and have no right to life or the pursuit of happiness. As you point out we know from the history of death and destruction from ancient muslim conquest and modern muslim terror that's how that culture feels. LIkewise we know from the history of 20th Century Russia and China that socialists will kill many, many millions of people to mold a new socialist future. For socialists or muslims, hurting or killing others is just no big deal. Even US socialists seem likely feel this way. In the candid words of a prominent US socialist, these nonbelievers are,"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America,"
The last bit is the most important. "Some of those folks -- THEY ARE IRREDEEMABLE." What is to be done with a person who is irredemable in the eyes of a socialist government or a Muslim Caliphate? Who cares what happens to sub-human refuse? Enslave it, imprison it, wound it, kill it. And get a reward from the government or caliphate. Socialist and Muslims are both mortal enemies of the free people of the world. Neither is less dangerous than the other, in my opinion.
Kate To understand Chelsea Clinton reaction to the verbal lashing she received from that big mouth Muslim school girl and the Chuzpa of Ilhan Omar You have to realize that both have been indoctrinated from very early childhood that their religion is superior to all other religions in the world and all humans that follow other religions are inferior and should be humiliated. Famous Islamic Scholar stated that: The glory of Islam consists of humiliation and degradation of infidels and infidelity. All what they have to do is just look around The only Church that existed in Mogadishu the place they came from was destroyed the number of Christians that are there are living in fear. On other hand here in USA they have mosques proselytizing is allowed Any criticism is of Islam is persecuted Is that not proof that Islam is superior and infidels like Chelsea Clinton deserves to be humiliated?
Mr. Elkins
History is a very interesting subject and we can dwell in it for hours and hours. But what I am interested in is here and now, as Arabs say: "Il Fut Mut" The past is dead. Stalin and Mao are both dead and the may rot in hell. You can say what you want, but Vladimir Putin is no Stalin although he may arrange from time to time assassination of one of his opponents and of people that betrayed Russia but he doesn't kill millions. Xi Jinping is not Mao he tries to do the best that he can to make as many as possible Chinese happy he is an authoritarian but not a tyrant for sure does not kill millions of his countrymen. On other hand there is a difference between current socialist and current Moslems. Try to point out any place in the world where socialists engage in mass murder in particular mass murder by suicide, anything that compares to what Muslims do all over the world at least once quite often several times a week in such places as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Nigeria, Egypt, in all Western Euro countries that they set their foot, actually it is very difficult to find one country in the world that was not subject to Muslim terror in the last two years. They use all methods quite often suicide murders, but they use whatever is available to them to accomplish the holly mission to kill what they perceive as the enemies of Allah whether they are infidels or Muslims. As to irredeemable persons Islam treats them as apostates the Koran mandates them to be murdered, the socialist countries including China try to reeducate, brainwash anything short of murder, democratic countries just set them free..
It turns out the investigation of Trump should have been entrusted to Jerry Seinfeld.
At a base level I believe humans are still pack animals, often described as tribal creatures. But besides wanting to belong to a tribe, by instinct many recognize and follow the "strong horse". Not that the strong horse is the best horse, just look at history, but follow it many do. At least those of simple mind and weak constitution, and they are becoming the majority in a big hurry. Not least due to tech and media shutting down contrary opinions.
It's true that in a choice between a strong horse and a weak horse people will prefer the strong horse. But Osama bin Laden learned that sometimes the choice is between a live horse and a dead horse.
Most people want not just to belong, but to follow, or more aptly, to be led. It is one reason why socialism creeps back into society time and again.
Have you figured out how many infidels have died due to revenge attacks because of killing of Osama. The Doctor that helped to confirm that Osama indeed lives in this compound, still rots in prison. One of Osama sons is becoming head honcho of AlQuida and US Soldiers still are dying in Afghanistan with no end in sight
Mark, you neatly expose the internal contradictions of intersectionality and virtue signalling. Now can you get Kathy Shaidle to keep an eye out in Toronto to see if Margaret Atwood is now wearing a hijab? That would peg the irony meter.
"Philosophically speaking, it is an interesting question whether one can obstruct justice in a matter for which there is no underlying crime. "
Um, I think that's a bit of a weaselly statement itself - no you cannot obstruct justice in this situation - something you should be able to philosophically determine after 1 or 2 minutes of thought...
Technically speaking if the straight shooter Mueller with his 9 Hillary donating lawyers thought that they can nail Trump on obstruction charges they would not waited a minute to do so and all the leftist media would have gone bananas with fire work to celebrate the big Victory with a ticker tape parade in front of Trump Tower in NY
In the photo above, as Jacinda Ardern and her chums line up for their Islamiic Solidarity Clitorectomies, I'm wondering, "Where did the headgear come from?" Does she have a drawer in her desk marked "Islamic Solidarity Readiness" where she keeps a variety of garments that can be donned at a moment's notice?
The hijab is who she really is. Her other clothes are merely costumes.
In late February, Jacinda Ardern was caught out having to clarify her fake, virtue-signalling offer to take 150 asylum seekers detained in off-shore Australian centres. Her behind-closed-doors condition: No single males. This got leaked to the media.... Oops! Turns out Jacinda is as "Islamophobic" as the rest of us.
Well, it's certainly who she will become if she lives long enough to see Sharia law ruling her country.
No kidding! No single males. Who did she think was going to father all her future voters? Thanks, Kate.
No need to be Islamophobic, Paul.
#JihadistsAreVotersToo
Amazing. Their hypocrisy literally knows no bounds. Impressive. Keep up the good fight Mark and great meeting you in the unpronounceable Wilkes-Barre. You and Dennis put on a great show!
Does no one act in good faith any more? The Kavanaugh fiasco, the fraudulence of the Mueller investigation, the college admissions scandal, Cambridge rescinding its offer of a fellowship to Jordan Peterson, dishonest, lazy, ignorant journalists and politicians, all carrying on in a world without consequences for mendacity and incompetence. Thanks, universities, churches, the fifth estate, for your termite-like destruction of our society's foundations.
Honesty is just one thread in the rich tapestry of Diversity.
Apparently our 'betters' have decided there's no profit in acting in good faith.
Mr. Picou, that rule to live by has been the case since humans began walking erect. Of course there is no profit in acting in good faith when there is a sucker born every minute. As a boss in a financial advisory business told me many years ago, the real profit in all financial transactions is in the confflict of interest. Generallizing this idea, all societies sooner or later divide into a very small noble and a very large more or less enslaved peasant class. In Europe and the US, we been living in a period of relative human freedom and social mobility, paid for in blood during the world-shattering violence of the mid 20th Century. The Nobility is reasserting itself now, in the guise of the welfare state. Soon nearly all of us, those who are not strong enough psychopaths to prosper as a new socialist man or their courtiers and jesters, will be enslaved again.
From my view of the world, I just can't get very upset at the utterly predictable and despicable behavior exhibited by the Lords and Ladies who run Comedy Central. Why bother with them when the FBI, NSA, DEA, and the Federal Department of Education are arming up at an alarming rate. Are not such agencies the entities to truly be terrified of? The masters of Comedy Central are idiots and there will be no cost to them, even if their lackey of the moment Mr. Jefferies is discarded. Ayn Rand in her book We the Living said she had to escape socialism or die. With no where to run to modern Americans are going to face the choice to either fight to the death or become slaves. I just hope that i am wrong, or tthat he choice to fight or die doesn't come before I die or am too old to fight.