Baby Food for Thought

by Mark Steyn
Clubland Q&A - Action Replay
October 4, 2019

https://www.steynonline.com/9770/baby-food-for-thought

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If you missed our livestream Clubland Q&A on Friday afternoon, here's the action replay. Simply click above and settle back for an hour of my answers to questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. In this latest edition, we chewed over everything from President Pence and post-presidential Trump to conservatism's free-speech fainthearts and Swedish proposals for more cannibalism. Plus Boris in the Brexit box, and the corruption of Justice.

You don't have to be a Steyn Club member to listen to the show, so please click away and enjoy it. But I do thank Club members for some especially fine questions on this edition of our Q&A.

If you're one of that brave band that prefers me in vision, on Sunday morning Oz time (which is Saturday a little after 6pm North American Eastern Time) I'll be on Outsiders on Sky Australia, taking about the US Attorney General's probe into Anglo-Aussie involvement in the "Russia investigation".

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RAC • Oct 7, 2019 at 16:32

Watching the 'let's eat us some babies' gate crasher disrupting one of AOC's town halls last week what struck me most about this incident was the rapt attention given to this gal whom I assume was parading as an agent provocateur (I'll give AOC the benefit of doubt on this one). So sheep-like are these morons who worship the High Priestess of the democratic party no one in that crowd dared to react 'till they got clarification from Alexandria. In the event - on the moral scale of atrocities where does cannibalism rate visa vie murdering a full term baby either in or out of the womb. I'm half serious here. Perhaps we can turn to Saint Pete for this one. Actually we already have his holy opinion on the latter issue - it's not that big of a deal "because it doesn't happen that often".

Ellen Comeau • Oct 6, 2019 at 21:11

Cher Mark,

Thanks for the shout-out at the end! Appreciate it!

Mark replies:

Bonne chance, très chère Ellen! We're all rooting for you.

Laura Rosen Cohen • Oct 6, 2019 at 16:03

As per Mark's excellent observation about Republicans not being serious about power, the phrase "I'm proud to lose" uttered by so many Republican squish heads is why Trump won.

Being proud to lose to anyone or anything is actually shameful. You can be proud you put up a good fight, proud to have competed with formidable opponents, but one must never, ever be proud of losing.

Robert Rowe • Oct 6, 2019 at 14:43

Mark. A bible reading in church this morning brought to mind your dealings with the DC courts and Boris at the Supreme Court here in the UK. The reading was from chapter 1 of the prophet Habakkuk and the salient part was verses 3 & 4.
"Why dost thou let me see such misery, why countenance wrongdoing? Devastation and violence confront me; strife breaks out, discord raises its head and so law grows decadent; justice does not come forth victorious; for the wicked outwit the righteous and so justice comes out perverted."

Walt Trimmer • Oct 5, 2019 at 15:52

Let's be realistic. Who's going to volunteer to take the baby away from its mother? It would get ugly pronto.

P. Gao

Walt Trimmer • Oct 5, 2019 at 17:15

But alas, as for mothers, hasn't it been frightfully easy to talk thousands of mothers DAILY into paying to give up their babies? What a coup! They even pay for it! That doesn't count those who get paid to give them up. It's gotten very, very bad. Over 1 million abortions a year in the US. That's a very big number and would make quite the mountain if the bodies were heaped up together. So... where are they? Needed for surgery? How many infant liver transplants are done a year? Count on one hand? And that's for live, viable livers. Where're the 999,999,890+ other conveniently available livers? The price list is findable by the public, so there really is a market for them. This begs so many questions. Who are the buyers for baby bodies? Why do they want them?
The media has been dropping cannibalism de-sensitizing stories here and there for some time now as 'news' while movies and television shows depict horrible violence and cannibalism crimes. Surely, isn't there something really evil and real behind those persistent and creepy efforts? Nice people never even think of those things in the first place, much less encourage others to consider such depravity. The scene we've all been shown this week is very peculiar. Don't believe it was random, so wonder why it was done.

Kate Smyth • Oct 5, 2019 at 14:33

I was too late submitting a question on recent media and social media management of Muslim anti-Semitism (such as the "bullying" in Melbourne schools) and Muslim apostasy (eg. the suppression of Yasmine Mohammed's "controversial" book). It appears the West has reached the advanced stage of complicit assimilation with The Religion of Peace.

The disturbing cases of Jewish children being targeted by other students have a very clear ideological basis. We do not need to (re)learn the history of the Holocaust, as MP Josh Frydenberg advised. People need to be educated - and honest - about Islam.

Laura Rosen Cohen

Kate Smyth • Oct 6, 2019 at 15:59

Kate I have thoughts about those episodes. Seems to me that there was an appalling naevite on the part of the parents to expect the schools to "do something". The two cases I read about were quite different. In the case of the 5 year old, it seems there was little warning. But in the case of the older child, I read about negotiations happening between the parents and the school for over four months. No parent should have any expectation that the school will "fix" things, especially this thing. At the first sign of trouble, that kid should have been yanked out of the school. And all Jewish kids should be taught self-defence. The whole thing is revolting. Absolutely sickening.

Kate Smyth

Laura Rosen Cohen • Oct 7, 2019 at 09:30

Yes, but what's even more troubling is sections of the media downplaying (as "bullying") anti-Semitism that is central to certain "religious" teaching. (By the way, why weren't the perpetrators kicked out of the school?)

Like the recent "not terrorism" fatal stabbings in Paris, the priority with reporting is to dissemble until the news cycle moves on. The clearest sign of Islamisation nowadays is that Islam is rarely mentioned - except favourably.

Stating the obvious here, needless to say!

Kate Smyth • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:09

This was an excellent round-up of the descent of the West on multiple fronts... and depressingly entertaining! It's always good to hear Mark put the boot into fake-conservative enablers and squishes.

Andrew Lawton • Oct 5, 2019 at 12:47

Thanks for breaking the news of my legal fight! Thankfully for Her Majesty, the action is Lawton v Canada.

Mark replies:

Good luck, Andrew - although in any showdown between you and the Dominion of Canada, a mere G7 and Nato member has to be accounted the underdog.

Kate Smyth

Andrew Lawton • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:10

Go get 'em, Andrew!

Andrew Lawton

Kate Smyth • Oct 5, 2019 at 14:03

Thanks Kate!

Sol • Oct 5, 2019 at 10:53

They have Pharisees and we have heroes, like Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, and Clarence Thomas.

The most corrupt part of the United States is its capital, and a huge portion of the country isn't budging on hypocritical demands for a leader without flaws.

If you want a more perfect president, form a more perfect Union. A surfeit of saints ain't our fault.

Michael Seth

Sol • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:06

Sol, I would add Rush is our Moses. Otherwise I couldn't agree more.

Sol

Michael Seth • Oct 5, 2019 at 14:36

I thought of that afterwards. You're right.

Laura Rosen Cohen

Sol • Oct 6, 2019 at 16:05

Many great leaders were terrifically flawed humans. I'll take them any day over the appalling class-based purity test wankers of the Never Trumper movement.

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 03:41

Durn, I had my question all ready and, just as I was going to send it, my internet went out. I know it's too late now, but I'll just throw this out for the club:

I am increasingly seeing the political situation as hopeless. That's partly because I connected the dots between Steyn and Trump. Whether it's him, a Christian baker or florist, a Federal appointee, or Trump, the Left will leave no stone unturned to make your lives as miserable as they possibly can. Whether it's endless investigations, lawsuits, or shouting you out of public places, their message is clear: oppose us and you will never be left alone to enjoy your life.
The Left has no compunctions about doing whatever it takes and, aided by most of the judiciary and nearly all of the media, they seem to always get away with it. Under these circumstances, how many people will want to take a stand, knowing that it may cost them their happiness for the rest of their lives? How can we ever hope to win under these circumstances?

Perry Pattetic

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 11:42

Well, the Revolution that turned British colonist subjects into American Citizens was a minority endeavor all the way, with many by-standers. Not unlike the French Resistance. Of course, the victors get to write the glorious history, which helps unify the nation.
Faced with a militarized police that is on its own side; the SWAT teams of every Federal department (Education, with no schools, no teachers and no students needs SWAT??); the Gestapo-like FBI, whose 13,000 sworn officers have failed to spot the crimes committed by Müller, Comey, McCabe, Strozk and countless others; BigData deployed by the NSA and CIA and the 15 other intel agencies; Sinister CIA-backed Google; FaceTwitter; The NYT, WaPo, and the rest of the MSM, and the army, marines, etc. -
Who in their right minds would stand and fight??
Fortunately, a lot of Americans are not in their right minds and perhaps 5% will stand and fight.
We can't win without overturning the amoral, corrupt, hateful left.
Playing their game just encourages them -see how rolling over on gay marriage led to dual-sex toilets led to LGBTXYZ led to Trannies led to Unlimited genders?

The 1st is lost - Government privatized suppression of free speech, and our Register - the words we can use to think and speak and write - are limited by the day .

Stay armed.
If they come for the guns, there will be many Tiananmen Squares all over America.

Joseph W.

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 12:30

That is what heroism is for. Steyn and Trump don't give up; neither should we.

Robert Bridges

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 12:55

They just don't turn over sfones, they throw them. There is a mismatch in this "war". The Left uses guerilla tactics while many conservatives and especially RINOs play be conventional rules. The Right must learn from Israel in fighting the Left....there is no room for failure....ever!

Fran Lavery

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 12:57

Something similar happened to me. I was about to send my question when the beautician walked over and said, "it's time to rinse"! Almost the same as the internet going out, but not really. I was going to ask when we get to go on a Steyn Club fishing trip with Mark and Tucker up north. Anyway,I'm angling for a low key water adventure, not necessarily high seas. Mollie Hemingway should be invited, too, so I can talk about David Bowie with another Bowie fan. Which makes me think, could the boss have a contest to see who can guess what the upcoming secret event known only to members might be? I think I know.

Michael Seth

Joseph W. • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:14

I'm no hero but as Dean Wormer said, "I hate those guys." The Dean was a wise man and I have never hated anyone or anything as much as the left. It keeps me knitting a la Madame Defarge.

Michael Seth

Perry Pattetic • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:16

Bravo PP. The 2nd does indeed guarantee the 1st.

Kate Smyth

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 14:06

"I am increasingly seeing the political situation as hopeless."

In his interview with Mark, Hillsdale's Larry Arnn used the term *emergency*. It's too bad AOC and Greta co-opted it for their purposes.

Kate Smyth

Perry Pattetic • Oct 5, 2019 at 14:10

"...see how rolling over on gay marriage led to dual-sex toilets..."

Conservatives excel at rolling over, vis-à-vis Mark's point about the Republican presidential candidate likely to deliver the best concession speech, not to mention the pansified state of conservatism throughout the Commonwealth.

Walt Trimmer

Fran Lavery • Oct 5, 2019 at 16:02

I hate when that happens but vanity has a price.

Walt Trimmer

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 16:09

Someday, and maybe soon with this impeachment putsch, the Left will wake the sleeping giant of patriots. They will not like the terrible resolve. To quote our history, if they want war, let it begin here.

Fran Lavery

Walt Trimmer • Oct 5, 2019 at 17:43

Organization is the main ingredient. Perhaps, we have to get like the 21st Century Minutemen. They really are pressing for an uprising of the freedom lovers around the world. It feels more like an all sides squeeze.

P. Gao

Joseph W. • Oct 5, 2019 at 22:38

Exactly! Divided we fall, united we stand. All the media does is deliver crafted narratives expressly designed to pit us against each other and to create a false sense of 'aloneness.' Are we sentient creatures who can easy figure out and then crush the 'game' or not?

Laura Rosen Cohen

Walt Trimmer • Oct 6, 2019 at 16:07

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Segnes Schonken • Oct 5, 2019 at 01:45

Riotously funny show! Many thanks.

Don Stefanson • Oct 5, 2019 at 01:34

As I recall, the speaker in " A Modest Proposal" is a modern economist and his rational is that since the English are already consuming the parents, they might as well eat the children, too, giving the Irish colleen a livelihood by dropping an infant every nine months or so. Of course, as the English believed at the time an Irish baby is covered with bristles like a piglet, (see Mary Davys1674-1732, The Merry Wanderer), they have to be scalded and the bristles removed before they can be properly boiled or fricasseed.

Thomas Ryan • Oct 4, 2019 at 22:50

Mark, your first query about what time it will be in Oz when you are interviewed. For all the one world government fans, why can't we change our clocks around the northern hemisphere at the same time?

Steven Payne

Thomas Ryan • Oct 5, 2019 at 04:19

Better question, why do we do the ridiculous clock changing thing at all?

Walt Trimmer

Steven Payne • Oct 5, 2019 at 19:43

While we revere the genius of our Founding Fathers we also need to acknowledge that they were not perfect. Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea of daylight savings time.

SteveT • Oct 4, 2019 at 22:46

Is it possible the 'eat babies' woman at AOC's event was a plant from Planned Parenthood floating a trial balloon to expand their offerings into on-site buffet lines or drive-through windows?

Fran Lavery

SteveT • Oct 5, 2019 at 00:38

It may sound like an extraordinary leap what you suggest, but I have been wondering where the aborted baby parts end up.

Journolist

SteveT • Oct 5, 2019 at 06:37

That would be "The Fourth Trimester" chain alluded to by Douglas Adams?

Calvert Whitehurst

Journolist • Oct 5, 2019 at 09:02

Or to update the 1980's Madonna hit - Papa Don't Preach, 'Cause I'm Eating My Baby.

Perry Pattetic

Fran Lavery • Oct 5, 2019 at 12:28

Fran, it is Big Business.
From stem-cells to eyes, brains, bones, organs, blood - the more developed and less damaged a foetus, the greater its value to bio-tech.

Planned Parenthood uses women as mobile cultivation and incubation systems, a virtual farm consisting of hundreds of thousands of self-managed, autonomous baby plantations. The taxpayer covers costs by grants and the virtuest of virtue signals - "non-profit" status. Non-profit status lets them pay their executives better than the un-virtuous working in the for-profit world.

This business model requires late-stage crops, the fruit plucked from the womb at the latest possible moment of ripeness. Hence post-partum "abortion"

Of course, by dressing this up a "women's health", we don't have to discuss what is actually being done - the harvesting of viable, living humans for profit and financial reward.

One can imagine Planned Parenthood paying abortees a few grand for their full-term babies, and still turning a healthy profit. The vertical and horizontal extension opportunities of the business are considerable.
They could open childrens' homes (shudder); open modern workhouses for women, who just have to be pregnant, stay on-site, stay pregnant until the day before due-date. They would be fed, watch tv, do light work, maybe get conjugal visits!
Imagine the network marketing opportunities - "Ding-Dong! PP Calling!"

Fran Lavery

Perry Pattetic • Oct 5, 2019 at 12:44

I just think this is the purest form of evil there can be. At the very least, if any taxpayers funds funnel through to this kind of program then we have a right to know where body parts are going. It's disgusting to have to think about this much less much less discuss it. It's like we're having a dialogue in a horror flick and it's real human beings we mean and Irma taking place in the 21st century. God help us.

Michael Seth

Calvert Whitehurst • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:04

Now THAT'S good!!

Fran Lavery

Fran Lavery • Oct 5, 2019 at 13:09

I don't know Irma, I think it's good old autocorrect for "it's.

Journolist

Fran Lavery • Oct 5, 2019 at 15:13

Don't forget the UNCHR and other acronymed baby farms delivering the right sort of progeny. Please make a donation.