Balderdash

The "Nakba" according to its Author

2026-10-25T13:09:00.000+08:00

To know what "the Nakba" was, it is good to read what the person who coined the term said:

"Seven Arab states declare war on Zionism in Palestine, stop impotent before it, and then turn on their heels. The representatives of the Arabs deliver fiery speeches in the highest international forums, warning what the Arab states and peoples will do if this or that decision be enacted. Declarations fall like bombs from the mouths of officials at the meetings of the Arab League, but when action becomes necessary, the fire is still and quiet, the steel and iron are rusted and twisted, quick to bend and disintegrate. The bombs are hollow and empty. They cause no damage and kill no one.

Seven states seek the abolition of partition and the subduing of Zionism, but they leave the battle having lost a not inconsiderable portion of the soil of Palestine, even of the part "given" to the Arabs in the partition. They are forced to accept a truce in which there is neither advantage nor gain for them...

In short, the Zionist home in Palestine is today closer to realization than ever before. On the other side, the very being of the Arabs has never before known such fragmentation and collapse as in this battle.

In addition to the material collapse is the collapse of values which is shown [in various ways. It is shown] by the doubt of the Arabs in their governments and by their accusations of their leaders and rulers, even by the doubt of many of them in themselves and in their potentiality as a nation. [It is also shown] by the despair in their breasts, by their refusal to meet the danger, and by their shrinking before the magnitude of the blow. Indeed, this moral and spiritual relapse is more important than the material loss, no matter how great the latter might be; for if the resolu- tion of a people crumbles and its confidence in itself is lost, it loses the best that it possesses and is impotent to rise after a fall or to shake from itself the dust of humiliation and defeat.

These are some aspects of the disaster which has overtaken the Arabs in this battle of the Palestine war. These and others, which are on the tips of all tongues, which throb in all hearts, and which every one of us sees and hears [cited] in these critical days, are sufficient to indicate the seriousness of the trial and the intensity of the tragedy...

When the battle broke out, our internal propaganda began to tell us about imaginary victories and to benumb the Arab peoples with the easiness of our military struggle and our ability to overcome and conquer -- until the disaster struck, accompanied by a bitter reaction...

When we view this disaster and appraise its extent and its results, it is also right and fair for us to know that it is only one battle in a long war. If we have lost this battle, that does not mean that we have lost the whole war or that we have been finally routed with no possibility of a later revival...

By advocating that we take far-reaching action and that we view the war in its entirety instead of confining ourselves to the present battle, I do not mean that we should merely await the course of events and depend on favorable circumstances...

I hope that, in the above discussion, I have hit on the truth in describing our present disaster in Palestine and that I have made clear its seriousness and gravity, and the intensity with which it now afflicts us and will afflict us in the future. I also hope that I have pictured the disaster as it really is and that I have outlined the course which we must take in relation to it and the viewpoint from which we must look at it, for this is the necessary first step in analyzing a problem and studying the ways of solving it...

However, whether we are able to strike this crushing blow successfully and establish a united, democratic state in Palestine or whether we prove impotent and have partition imposed on us by the Zionists and the rest of the world, the struggle must go on...

The present struggle, which we have described and whose principles and conditions we have drawn up, is necessary for the battle we are now waging. However, the war waged to uproot Zionism and to conquer it completely will not be finished in a single battle. On the contrary it will require a long and protracted war. To put it briefly -- and in all frankness and sincerity -- this war will not lead to the victory of the Arabs as long as they remain in their present condition. The most that they will be able to accomplish under the circumstances is to guard against the immediate Zionist evil and to protect as much of the Arab being as possible. The road to final and complete victory over this evil is different. The road to this victory lies in a fundamental change in the situation of the Arabs, and in a complete transformation of their modes of thought, action, and life."

--- The Meaning of the Disaster, Constantine K. Zurayk aka Constantin Zureiq (1948), 1956 translation by R. Bayly Winder

There's also quite a lot of racism in the pamphlet, but basically the "Nakba" (disaster) was the failure of the Arabs to eradicate the Jews.

Links - 25th October 2026 (1 - French Migrant Riots)

2026-10-25T09:54:00.000+08:00

Ren ♡ on X - "id rather see the world set ablaze in protest than watch it die under the boot of fascists and pedophiles"
Left Wingers want to destroy the world. Recall that everyone who disagrees with them is a fascist and/or pedophile
Of course left wingers are blaming Russia, fascists, AI, "police brutality" etc and climate change for the riots. The "solution" is always more of the left wing agenda

Eric Matheny on X - "You’ve gotta love how grandmothers walking through the Rotunda is an insurrection, and Third World migrants setting fire to cultural relics is a student protest."

Melissa Chen on X - "Aline started working at age 12. Over the next three decades she built La Barrique, a restaurant in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, from scratch. She cooked, served, and became part of the neighborhood. On October 17, rioters broke in, destroyed the place, punched her in the face, and set the building on fire. By morning her restaurant was ashes. 34 years of work, vaporized in a single night. Obviously, Aline is an immigrant, one who went to work every day, contributed to the economy and served her community. One of liberalism's fatal flaws is the fear of drawing distinctions. Distinctions between men and women. Distinctions between cultures. Distinctions between countries. Because apparently noticing any differences means that you are violating your commitment to equality; it means that you are discriminating, and in the hierarchy of evils in the liberal world, there is no worse sin. This is literally baked in to the French national motto: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité Égalité means equality, specifically social or political equality. Which means that drawing any distinctions is the same as discrimination. But this is completely untethered from reality because these distinctions are REAL. And if you craft and enact policies that ignore these distinctions, the chickens (ok since this is France, the Gallic rooster) will come home to roost."

Handre on X - "When immigrants refuse to integrate into the host society's legal, linguistic, and commercial fabric, they create jurisdictional ambiguity. Ambiguity is where transaction costs breed. But that is only part 1 of the problem cascade. Consider the banlieues ringing Paris, where Sharia-adjacent informal courts settle disputes that French civil law theoretically governs. Two competing legal systems occupying the same geography produce institutional decay. Contracts become unenforceable across community lines. Capital avoids the uncertainty. Citizens pay that cost in stagnant property values and higher insurance premiums. But wait there is more. Language is infrastructure. A Turkish enclave in Berlin where 40% of residents speak no functional German represents a communication barrier that price signals cannot cross efficiently. Entrepreneurs cannot hire freely across that barrier without absorbing translation overhead. Labor markets fragment. Wages inside the enclave compress because the worker pool cannot compete in the broader market. Then, the welfare state makes it dramatically worse. State subsidies remove the market pressure that historically forced assimilation. Ellis Island immigrants learned English because the market paid them to. Today the German government pays families in Neukölln to remain monolingual, then wonders why parallel societies calcify across two and three generations. Non-assimilation creates a property rights problem across cultural barriers. Voluntary immigration into a free society demands adoption of its legal foundations. Anything less transfers real costs onto existing citizens without their consent, and that is simply redistribution without even a passport. Fast forward 20 years and you end up with this:"
Fountainhead Forum on X - "A nation needs a shared civic identity. This is why multicultural Switzerland works. A welfare state destroys any shared civic identity. It creates a class of taxpayers and taxeaters."
This is why left wingers love welfare so much. It creates the division they thrive on

Hen Mazzig on X - "Why are the New York Times, CNN, and BBC working overtime to make sure not a single Palestinian flag makes it into their photo coverage of the French protests?"

LoLNothingMatters on X - "You have to find whatever small joys you can in the darkest timeline. I have decided to do so by savoring the fact that Palestinian flag has become the global, universal symbol for barbarism and nihilism, proudly waved by every faction that just wants to see the world burn."

Yves Engler on X - "700 marched in Montreal today in solidarity with the French student protest movement"
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "No French flags, no Canadian flags, no Quebec flags. Lots of communist and terrorist flags though."

Itai Cellier on X (Translated) - "There's a very good question here that I want to turn into a separate tweet - "Why is there atomic chaos on some streets and nothing at all on nearby streets (where there are good stores for looting)?"
The answer is pretty simple: This pattern of areas with widespread looting and areas right next to them with absolutely nothing is a symptom of the fact that vandalism and looting work is professional, planned, and coordinated in advance. And I'll explain: What characterizes all the riots in France so far, like Saint-Germain's victory, "Music Day," etc., is the "spontaneous destructiveness" created by the arrival of masses of people from tough suburbs into the big cities, mainly in the evening hours - under the cover of darkness and under the cover of a large crowd flowing through the streets - it's very easy to carry out acts of vandalism and robbery that the police have a hard time spotting until it's already "too late" or at least, it allows enough critical operating time before police forces can arrive at the scene. Because of this, the shape of looting areas in these cases has always overlapped with the crowd's paths of advance. Yesterday, something entirely different happened. There were approved demonstration routes by the police authorities, there were a few riots carried out along those routes too but those were mainly regular spontaneous riots and not organized.
**Most of the damage** was carried out in areas **relatively far** from the demonstrations and it was carried out in an organized way using a very smart method - first of all, skilled teams piled up barricades around a certain sector. Barricades that didn't encounter any police resistance because the police simply weren't there because they were busy securing the route of the authorized demonstrations. After the barricades were set up, they were usually also set on fire. But it wasn't just the barricades that were set on fire but also several nearby hotspots like cars or business storefronts, wooden doors, etc. The goal was for residents to call the fire department which would send fire trucks that would have to draw water from street hydrants and direct firefighting efforts to several hotspots [usually at an intersection] which de facto creates - an effective blockage of traffic routes - beyond the burning barricades themselves. From that moment, the looters were essentially free to smash the storefronts that interested them without interference. The thing is, they also "stuck to the schedule" according to reports, the X hour was 16:30. - When you're looting inside a sector "secured" by burning barricades and fire trucks starting to flow in *far* from the demonstration routes and when all the looting happens simultaneously - even a police force of hundreds of thousands of officers - won't manage to arrive quickly (via mounted patrols or transit - because the routes are closed) or flow in time on foot to all the looting sites to stop it. This is what essentially proves it was a professional organization with a guiding hand and disciplined teams. Who does the suspicion fall on? On the skilled teams of Antifa and other radical left organizations, including "professional brains" who come from abroad. On people from Mélenchon's "indomitable France." And on agents of Putin's Russia. [Remember the blue Star of David graffiti painted on Jews' homes right after 9/7? The synagogue painted green? The red hand signs on the Holocaust memorial? The sabotage of the train guidance systems before the Olympics? - All of these were proven to be Russian sabotage operations]. This modus operandi is also what explains the "amazement" among bobo people [the French bourgeois left] who tweet things like "What riots are they talking about I live here in Paris and my street is full of stores and quiet." Yeah, darling. You're not in an area pre-targeted by the "protest" organizers. And that's why "you didn't notice anything.""

Ro Khanna on X - "From the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: in an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in. In France, students and teachers are asking for safe schools, enough teachers and smaller classes. In Spain, for affordable rent and housing. In Albania, for good jobs and an end to corruption. @JDVance says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south. He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment. The is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few. This is what happens when young people lose hope in their future. In America, let us listen to our young. We need an economic and political transformation. America's Next New Deal."
Melissa Chen on X - "Let me translate what Ro Khanna’s pitch is: Remember the 2020 BLM riots’ death toll, firebombed buildings, looted stores and subsequent crime waves and business flight in multiple cities? Yeah, we miss that! Let’s double down with higher taxes on productive capital, more redistribution, and reward youth protests so we can fund the cycle and invite more of it! We want the USA 🇺🇸 to be be MORE like France 🇫🇷 !!!!! Vote Dems!!!!!"

Melissa Chen on X - "Then why isn’t Central and Eastern Europe - Poland, Czechia, Hungary - burning this weekend? (Albania is the clear exception, and for different reasons) Housing costs, school conditions, and youth economic frustration are real problems across much of Europe, including in places with far lower immigration. Yet the large-scale, violent unrest this week was seen in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium. Why? The demographic differences are stark: Foreign-born share of the population: Poland ~2.6%, Hungary ~7%, Czechia ~10%, France ~14%, Spain ~19%. More importantly, the composition differs. Inflows into Poland, Czechia, and Hungary have been overwhelmingly Ukrainian, other European, or specific groups like Vietnamese. Western Europe has large, multi-generational populations from the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the broader Middle East/North Africa. Muslim population estimates remain under 1% across Poland, Czechia, and Hungary versus roughly >10% in France."

TMK on X - "Remember when Macron threatened to send the French navy to stop the United States from invading Greenland? Hilarious. He won’t even stop the invasion of his own country by African Muslims."

Visegrád 24 on X - "BREAKING: Macron blames the protests in France on high fuel prices caused by the US-Iran War"
Lara Logan on X - "I have always said the instant operation to hang the conflict with Iran like a noose around the Pres Trump’s neck was information warfare at its finest. You knew it because it immediately came from both the left & right - dead giveaway. Now the globalist puppet Macron is using this too in the hope his people won’t wake up to the reality of the globalist cult & their leftist-Islamist proxies & how they have been infiltrating & taking over France with the intent of dismantling it completely. Now the riots have laid this bare for all to see they are panicking - so of course, when all else fails…blame Trump. After all that’s what a lot of Republicans do lately - at least those still clinging to the system who hope against hope wethethe people will get back in their box & do as they’re told after they get rid of Trump."

British Intel on X - "🚨 UPDATE: Protesters in Paris have attempted to reach the Élysée Palace, the official residence of President Emmanuel Macron, as violent unrest continues across France. French authorities have banned demonstrations around the presidential residence and deployed police to prevent crowds from reaching sensitive government buildings."

David Knight Legg on X - "“There is, in fact, no such thing as a French culture; there is a culture in France, and it is diverse, it is multicultural" - Emmanuel Macron, Lyon, 2017. Lyon, after 9 years of broken borders, is on fire. Violent crime is up 63pc."

Melissa Chen on X - "It's funny how the commies who constantly tout the evils of private property and the moral urgency of redistribution always sprint straight for the monogrammed handbags the moment the alarm goes off. Personally, I find it hard to summon much sympathy when luxury stores get smashed and looted. Why? Because it's the same industry that constantly embraces third-worldist leftism, sustainability theater, inclusion quotas, and progressive signaling. Recall that Vogue endorses Democratic candidates and majority of high fashion designers snub Melania Trump. Campaigns push all kinds of norm-busting avant garde ideas including open borders and BLM-adjacent slogans, while relying on know-nothing woke celebrities to amplify their message. These brands have spent decades cultivating an ideology to appeal to a consumer class (like Hasan Piker lol) that treats property as negotiable, heritage as contemptible, order as oppression, and hierarchy as something to be dismantled. So when the mob turns on the glass and marble of their own boutiques, this is simply known as being hoisted by their own petard. The Limoges town hall, on the other hand, is different. Its destruction is the loss of something irreplaceable, and I mourn it"

DocumentingLibs on X - "Paris, 2026. Last night. They wanted a better life in Europe. So the first stop during the mass riots was Christian Dior and other high-fashion shops. Don’t act surprised that the city stops looking or feeling like Paris. Watch the whole thing and tell me how this show of diversity makes Europe better."
Gunther Eagleman™ on X - "This is what Paris looks like the morning after the "cost of living" protests, and it is UNRECOGNIZABLE. Dior's door is smashed in. So are Goyard, Bulgari, and Louis Vuitton. They even smashed up a corner wine shop and a bakery. There is a HAMMER AND SICKLE painted on Louis Vuitton's boarded-up window. The Monument to the Republic is covered in "ACAB" and anti-Macron graffiti. One wall says "Bernard, you're screwed, the youth is in the street," a shot at the billionaire who owns Dior and Louis Vuitton. These people said they were marching against "high prices." Then they stole everything they could carry. This is what communism looks like. Smash, grab, and blame the rich. Paris deserves better than this."

Dan Wootton on X - "Fucking hell, they just did it! The BBC actually described the Islamo-leftist riots burning France to the ground as “MOSTLY PEACEFUL”! But Danny Tommo puncturing a people smuggling boat is terrorism to them. Defund them NOW!"

Max Klinger on X - "This clip should be put in a time capsule. It’s an artefact of our suicidal age. Observe: Massive fire burning down a building in France, with the French flag dangling above the flames. In the background, a Palestine flag - the flag of a foreign land ruled by medieval jihadists - flies next a sign saying ‘Fuck Israel’. The defining anthem of these so-called ‘protests by schoolboys’ (lol) is a song praising the jihadists who murdered a bunch of ‘infidels’ in the Bataclan and Jewish kids at a school in France last decade. Videos show masked fighting aged men jumping on benches and claiming that Allah orders them to murder police, to massive cheers. This is not an entirely Islamic sectarian protest, ofc. But brutal, hostile, anti-Jewish, anti-Western Muslim fanaticism is now a central feature of Western life. And one of the central driving forces behind Western decline."

Sébastien JALLAMION on X - "🇫🇷 Pour que tout le monde comprenne la situation malgré les propos complètement hors sol du président de la République : Selon les chiffres officiels communiqués par la préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône, rien qu’à Marseille, 30.000 personnes ont participé à des pillages. Même si tous les policiers et gendarmes de France avaient été dépêchés sur place, il aurait été impossible de l’éviter. Ajoutez ce que nous avons vu à Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux, Limoges, etc etc… et vous comprendrez que l’Etat est dans l’incapacité d’assurer l’ordre public. Dans ces circonstances, il existe des dispositions qui ont déjà fait leurs preuves, comme ce fut le cas en 2005 : l’Etat d’urgence, qui permet notamment aux préfets d’interdire les rassemblements, d’instaurer des couvre-feux, de procéder à des assignations à résidence administratives pour un temps limité. Emmanuel Macron, qui n’a pas hésité à décréter un État d’urgence « sanitaire » pour un virus, estime que ce n’est pas nécessaire, et laisse les préfets gérer avec le peu de moyens dont ils disposent une situation de violences urbaines jamais vue sous la Veme République. Nous basculons progressivement dans un scénario de violences ethniques avec une intensité croissante, et l’Etat laisse la population livrée à elle-même. À force de refuser de prendre les mesures qui s’imposent de peur que la situation ne s’envenime, elle finit par s’envenimer encore plus vite.,,"
JfDeBlg on X - "Les solutions existent. L’armée pour défendre les bâtiments de la république, la police et la gendarmerie pour le maintien de l’ordre avec carte blanche pour tirer dans le tas… quelques morts et cela dissuadera les pillards. Enfin, mise en prison des fauteurs de troubles"

Liza Rosen on X - "An Israeli reporter stood in the ruins of a French street and could not process what she was seeing. It looked like a battlefield. Shops smashed, barricades burned, glass and debris covering the pavement. The people who live and work there had done nothing to the rioters. Now they cannot open their stores, cannot earn a living, and are afraid to walk outside with their children. This was not a protest about school conditions or the cost of living. It was the free Palestine Marxist-Islamic intifada imported into French cities. Palestinian flags flew while masked groups systematically looted bakeries, pharmacies, luxury stores and ordinary shops, torched cars, and attacked public buildings. Limoges town hall was burned. Marseille city hall was stormed. A Paris synagogue was vandalized. Around 1,800 people were arrested. Roughly 1,500 businesses were damaged. Losses run into the hundreds of millions. The locals did not start a war. The same banlieue populations that already consume the bulk of welfare, housing and education budgets simply used the march as cover to burn the country that feeds them while demanding more. Macron and the political class that opened the borders and harvested the votes left ordinary French people to live among the wreckage. Free Palestine is the slogan. Muslim colonialism is the project. The same ideology that celebrates October 7 in Gothenburg and waves jihad flags through London now turns French streets into a battleground and leaves the people who built the shops terrified for their children’s future. 💔💔💔"

Eli Steele on X - "I have argued that suicidal empathy is a flawed concept, and what is happening in France proves it. In the post below, Le Pogam gives a good articulation of @GadSaad 's suicidal empathy. He argues that the West feels too much for the wrong people. In short, our compassion misfires, and we die of kindness. It is a comforting story in a sense, but it is false. The behavior he describes is real, and I have said so before. But what drives it is not empathy but fear. My father has long argued that white guilt is the diagnosis. People often say, "I have no white guilt," but it has nothing to do with personal feelings of guilt. You cannot feel guilt for what you have not done. White guilt is collective guilt, and the left has charged the entire West and all whites with the crimes of slavery, segregation, and colonialism. We live in a white guilt world, and that world rules by fear. The charge is racism, and the punishment is public ruin and ostracism. What moves us is fear, and far too many of us have lied to ourselves that this fear is empathy. Suicidal empathy has no origin story. In his book and countless podcasts, Saad offers up the explanations of misfiring emotions and the flawed hairworm analogy. But why would his biological explanation of empathy start misfiring during this time? Saad blames ideas spread from the universities, but that only moves the question. Why did the West let those ideas win after the 1960s? He never says. Le Pogam seems to understand this hole in Saad's reasoning, and that is why he points to Christianity as a possible explanation. But Christianity is 2,000 years old. The origin of white guilt has a date. In the 1960s, white America confessed to centuries of racial oppression. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were that confession. As my father puts it, "It was a confession that this nation made." Whites who had been on the top were now fallen. They lost their moral authority. Many whites sought to regain their innocence by turning against America and the West. They sought innocence by allying with the "oppressed." Europe followed a similar path with colonialism. In February 2017, Emmanuel Macron went to Algeria and called France's colonization "a crime against humanity." Three months later, he was elected president. France did not punish him for it. It rewarded him. Le Pogam describes empathy as the spotlight that lights up the face in front of you. But that spotlight passed over the injured police officers (nearly a thousand of them) and the looted shopkeepers. Fear is the truer explanation here. Standing with the police and the shopkeepers invites the racist charge. Standing with and excusing the rioters gives you a free pass. Le Pogam then describes how this works when he refers to the ideology that "sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do." But this is not empathy. You cannot empathize with a category. Empathy only works with a person. What Le Pogam is describing is the brute act of devaluing people into ideological pawns and then brutally assigning them to race boxes. That is what white guilt does. Whether he intended to or not, Le Pogam then explains white guilt perfectly when he says men went silent at the dinner table because they were told their protective instinct was toxic. Why would grown men believe that? Because borders, police and the word no had all been branded racist. Those men were afraid of being called racists. They calculated the cost. That fear is white guilt. So then the question becomes why have so many self-proclaimed free thinkers on the right swallowed suicidal empathy whole? Because it flatters us. If our only flaw is that we're too kind, that's a compliment. The problem is always someone else, and we get to feel innocent. That need to feel innocent is white guilt too. It is far easier to believe we are dying of kindness than to admit we have been afraid."

卄𝐎ù𝔰ε 𝐨𝔣 ℙｏє𝐌 _ on X (Translated) - "A Syrian who lives in the UK travels to Paris to join the riots. During his livestream, he calls for doing the same in the United Kingdom, London. This is what the West has massively imported."

Josh Wolfe on X - "Uh... You know who isn't rioting across Europe, burning down historic buildings, looting shops. desecrating monuments, turning cities into ruins and globalizing the intifada? ZIONISTS."
Another reason left wingers hate them so much

Thread by @jonatanpallesen on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A look at how the European media covers the violent French riots. The largest Danish new media, DR, has only a small feature on the main page. It describes the riots as "French high school students continue to protest". (I translate the texts to English.) The picture is with the police as the central element. It is not even the largest news story about France on DR. With a larger feature is this story about right-wing antisemitism, and some things this person wrote when he was 17.
Another large Danish news site, TV2: "Schoolchildren all over France demonstrate". Do you notice something else about these demonstrators? The article does not. The article features an analysis, where we can get a perspective of things, that's not just the strictly verifiable aspects of the story. Still no mention of ethnicity.
The Guardian leads with a sympathetic intro from a sympathetic school pupil, Sophia. The article tells us that among the reasons for the situation is the opaque online system for university applications."

The Violence Sweeping France Was Never Really About Schools - The Atlantic - "The French protest too much. Over the past two decades, paroxysms of rage, violence, rioting, arson, and looting have regularly seized the nation, imposing enormous costs on civil society. During the 2005 banlieue riots, the deaths of two boys evading police sparked three weeks of severe property destruction and violence. In the years since, pandemonium has broken out over veil bans, the commemoration of NATO’s anniversary, the legalization of same-sex marriage, even the arrival of ride-sharing apps... the violence fanning out across France has little to do with pedagogical concerns. For some time now, there has been an existential crisis at the heart of French life, rooted in a pervasive sense that the future will never equal the past, that the state cannot achieve what its citizens expect. The national pie is often seen as zero-sum, which explains why so many constituencies, from retirees to high schoolers, refuse to give an inch. Their anger accumulates, then it boils over. And the government is either unwilling or unable to contain it. Five of the videos that have gone viral reveal the nihilistic resentment beneath the pretext of school reform. In the one I can’t get out of my mind, a 15-year-old dressed in a black hoodie, black sweatpants, and mask calmly approaches a woman in Marseille and sprays her face with a makeshift flamethrower, leaving her with first-degree burns. In a scene from Nantes, an inferno fills the lobby of the Nelson Mandela High School, which cost 75 million euros to build in 2014. In the third video, a keffiyeh-clad blond-haired teen in Paris smiles as he explains to a reporter, who has asked about a policewoman being chased and tripped by teenagers, that “the ends justify the means.” Elsewhere, a masked teen stands atop a car addressing a crowd of euphoric classmates, who hold their smartphones out as if they’re at a concert. He counts the police he sees: “There are only 10 of them,” he screams. “In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” The crowd erupts in cheers. The fifth clip depicts a large and rapturous group of teens in the Loire Valley, backpacks on and smartphones out, gathered in a circle, rapping the lyrics to “M*R*H.” The song opens with a reference to the Bataclan terror attack in 2015 in which 90 people were killed: “I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid of hell; the pact is intact—who but Allah can stop me? / Bataclan—playing dead, lying flat—I’m gonna pick ’em off one by one.”... In recent years, France’s protest culture has been indulged and glorified to the point of insanity. This has become a particular problem during Emmanuel Macron’s tenure, which began in 2017. Protests have not only enfeebled his administration but also eroded the political viability of centrism in France. In 2018, the gilets jaunes, or “yellow vests,” led a national revolt ostensibly against fuel taxes that nearly incapacitated Macron’s presidency until the coronavirus pandemic subdued it. In 2023, nationwide demonstrations coupled with indiscriminate violence and mayhem followed the police shooting of a teenage motorist near Paris. That same year saw further street clashes and rioting over disputes surrounding pension reforms and the construction of water reservoirs. In 2024, farmers blocked roadways and damaged government property. Last year, hundreds of thousands of people participated in protests led by the anti-austerity Bloquons Tout movement (“Let’s block everything”)... some on the left have sought to exploit the nihilism convulsing France by spurring it on. On September 28, Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis and a member of LFI, danced with students while singing “La Marseillaise” in front of a flaming blockade at the lycée Paul Eluard. The following day, he made his message clear. “La violence, à un moment donné, peut être légitime”: At a certain point, violence can be legitimate."
Clearly, setting a head teacher on fire is how you protest "underfunded" schools
Left wingers in the US want to emulate all of this, because they love nihilism and destruction. The fact that left wingers in France are still not happy despite getting pretty much all of what many left wingers in the US claim they want is lost on them, of course. Left wingers are never happy

Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ on X - "Les conditions inhumaines du lycée Nelson-Mandela, à Nantes. Il fallait le voir pour le croire. Verrière, bois clair, nef de 26 000 m², énergie positive. Internat de 166 lits, chambres avec sanitaires, salles de travail, patio. Deux gymnases et un mur d’escalade de 24 voies. Sections internationales, BTS, prépa. Facture d’origine : 52 à 64 millions d’euros, il y a douze ans. Le genre d’établissement qui ferait pâlir 95 pourcents des lycées français. Et c’est le lycée qu’on brûle, hall et verrière, au nom du manque de moyens. Le Site est fermé jusqu’à la Toussaint, cours à distance, remise en état chiffrée en millions. Les conditions étaient si inhumaines qu’il a fallu y mettre le feu pour les rendre visibles. Mais de qui se moque-t-on ?"

Mass protests in France spiral into worst riots in years - "Rioting erupted in cities across France on Saturday (Oct 17) as demonstrations against rising living costs and declining public services spiralled out of control in some of the worst violence the country has witnessed for decades... In Limoges, the city hall was set ablaze; in Marseille, black-clad protesters broke into city hall and defaced the building with anarchic graffiti, and in Lyon, protesters torched the city's tourist office... Belgium, Portugal and Italy also faced smaller-scale protests on Saturday as living costs rise in Europe, while protesters in Albania again rallied against perceived government corruption, a lack of jobs and poor education standards."
Left wing cope - they have riots like this every 6 months

𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 on X - "There were no French flags present at the protests in France."

Matt Van Swol on X - "France gives asylum seeking migrants:
Free healthcare
Free education
Free legal aid
Free housing
Free food
Free cash
…and this is how they treat France."
Left wingers unironically think they need to be given even more, and that expecting gratitude is "toxic"
The new left wing cope is that these are protests about the cost of living

The Crisis for Democrats in Michigan

2026-10-24T17:45:00.000+08:00

Of course, a white supremacist supporting Trump proves that Trump is a white supremacist.

The article generously assumes that El-Sayed is not an anti-Semite himself.

The Crisis for Democrats in Michigan - The Atlantic

"The hard-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker warned Jewish Americans last week that their excessive identification with Israel would subject them to anti-Semitic attacks. “If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action—not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” he said. Piker’s tone was one of rueful concern, not unlike the pose adopted by anti-Semites throughout history. “No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy both for us and for them,” the Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh said in 1941.

Several leading Democrats, including Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, issued statements denouncing Piker’s ugly warning to the Jews as a barely veiled anti-Semitic threat. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Michigan’s other Senate seat, trod more carefully...

Most Democrats followed El-Sayed’s line that Piker was irrelevant. “This election is about what’s going to happen when we elect Abdul to the United States Senate. I am done, so don’t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker. It’s not what November is about,” Representative Debbie Dingell said at a rally for El-Sayed.

Democrats have good reason to say this. El-Sayed is running a close race to hold a seat that Democrats probably need to retain to win control of the Senate in the midterm elections.

But the truth is that Piker, and the uncomfortable questions raised by his alliance with El-Sayed, is one of the important questions at stake in the election. If Piker were just an internet pundit, his rant—the latest entry in a long list of outrageous comments he has made—would be of little consequence to the Democratic Party. Piker has said that “America deserved 9/11,” praised Mao Zedong as “one of the great leaders of this world,” and mourned the collapse of the Soviet Union as “one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” His ideology is profoundly authoritarian. But several left-wing Democrats, especially El-Sayed, have campaigned with Piker and elevated him into one of their most prominent surrogates. So El-Sayed’s alliance with Piker has become a political and moral crisis.

In Michigan, Democrats are trying to avoid handing Republicans their first Senate win in the state in more than three decades. But if El-Sayed wins, he would throw open the doors of the party to a strain of militant politics that many Jews justifiably consider dangerous. The Democratic Party is now divided between those who are trying to force El-Sayed to stop encouraging left-wing anti-Semites and those who give him their unconditional support...

Supporting El-Sayed means accepting a strain of anti-Semitic politics that to date has had no place within the Democratic Party.

What’s more, El-Sayed has already said that he intends to use his victory as a platform to reshape the party. Him winning could invite a future in which the United States has not just one party that is open to bigots but two.

Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force. He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers. El-Sayed tends to depict nearly all opposition to his candidacy as financially driven, but when applied to Jewish political activity, this charge becomes even more conspiratorial.

Ann Arbor, where El-Sayed lives, is home to a branch of the Free Palestine movement that has engaged in violent intimidation of Jewish Democrats. Activists at the University of Michigan not only seized the central campus grounds for their own but also vandalized the business of Jordan Acker, a Democratic regent, and made middle-of-the-night attacks on his home, one of which involved shattering his window with a jar of urine.

El-Sayed has campaigned on the Michigan campus with Amir Makled, a lawyer who defended the protesters and who has shared anti-Semitic and pro-Hezbollah social-media posts. When the Justice Department charged eight of the protesters—one of whom had worked on El-Sayed’s campaign—in a plot to commit still more acts of intimidation, El-Sayed treated the indictment as biased, telling reporters, “It’s a lot more about what you’re advocating for that gets you indicted or not indicted, rather than what you did.”

Dana Nessel, the state’s attorney general, has faced anti-Semitic harassment and has said that she plans to skip the state party’s August convention rather than endure more abuse. At the party’s April nominating caucus, Mallory McMorrow, a then-candidate for Senate, reported that her Jewish husband was subjected to an anti-Semitic slur. On the weekend before the primary, Walter Masterson, a left-wing streamer who has appeared with El-Sayed, disrupted an event for Haley Stevens, El-Sayed’s pro-Israel opponent in the Democratic primary, forcing the brewery hosting it to cancel the event. El-Sayed did not condemn the bully-boy tactics used on his behalf.

Before he warned American Jews that they were bringing anti-Semitism on themselves by identifying with Israel, Piker displayed on his Twitch stream a quote attributed to Jeremy Moss, the Democratic nominee for Congress in a suburban Detroit district: “The entire purpose of my campaign is to make sure America continues to support Israel. I don’t think it’s wrong for Jews in America to want to put Israel first. America is not our homeland and we have been victims of antisemitism here.” Moss insists that the quote is a pure fabrication, and no one has yet produced any evidence of its authenticity.

Numerous Democrats denounced Piker’s comments. Instead of apologizing, though, Piker replied on X, “Aipac boss call was made,” implying that only the influence of the pro-Israel lobby could have caused Democrats to object to his rhetoric.

El-Sayed has refused pleas from his fellow Democrats to break off his alliance with Piker, who joined him at a pool party on the last day of campaigning before the primary. El-Sayed first brushed off the requests by likening Piker to Joe Rogan, a controversial podcaster whose show some Democrats have appeared on (but not a figure they have brought out on the campaign trail). More recently, he argued that the demands that he distance himself from Piker come from “cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020, but we seem to want to bring it back.”

This is a dodge. El-Sayed’s fellow Democrats are not trying to silence or punish Piker. They are asking El-Sayed, who chose to bring Piker out to campaign for and endorse him, to make clear where he stands. “Abdul El-Sayed had a prime opportunity to cut ties with Piker and directly disavow his words, but he did not,” Democratic Representative Hillary Scholten of Michigan told Politico. “There is a lot of work left to do to unite the party.”

Notably, El-Sayed is using an evasive construction similar to the one that J. D. Vance has employed to justify his friendship with Tucker Carlson...

Democrats have little trouble understanding that the right-wing infighting over Carlson is about whether the Republican tent, which already includes racists, nativists, and vicious Islamophobes, is also big enough to include anti-Semites. They have correspondingly little trouble making harsh judgments about the moral compromises Republicans are contemplating in the process.

What many Democrats don’t wish to admit is that they are entertaining a similar choice themselves. El-Sayed and Piker have professed their abhorrence of anti-Semitism. But so has Vance—and, so, for that matter, has Carlson. If your opposition to anti-Semitism applies only to your ideological adversaries, and you excuse or ignore it from your allies, it is an empty bromide.

When Democrats dismiss the controversy over Piker and the movement he stands for, they are treating the growing influence of left-wing anti-Semitism as unworthy of concern—or, worse still, a fait accompli. The Democrats imploring El-Sayed to renounce Piker want more than a generalized promise to safeguard Jewish safety, or a statement that “nobody” speaks for the candidate. They are seeking some assurance from El-Sayed that he will speak out in opposition to attacks against Jews by his own supporters.

El-Sayed has responded as if the only reason Democrats might hesitate to endorse him is that they hold a personal grudge against him. “There are a few people who are still nursing wounds or grievances from the primary,” he told Semafor. “I get it. Losing is hard.” It is true that losing elections is hard. Losing your moral principles, on the other hand, can be surprisingly easy.""

Links - 24th October 2026 (Migrants: UK)

2026-10-24T13:48:00.000+08:00

Thread by @PolitlcsUK on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨 BREAKING: The Government says the two Iranian men charged over the alleged terror plot against Jewish people in Manchester entered the UK by small boat in 2020 and 2023. One was granted asylum and the other has a live asylum claim. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says tonight: "The fact both suspects arrived by small boat several years ago is a reminder of the importance of our relentless work to tackle illegal migration into this country. While numbers are down, I know there is more we must do. "It would be inappropriate to comment further on this case. But I can say that we will be unrelenting in our efforts to protect our Jewish communities, root out antisemitism in this country, and maintain our border security" Counter Terror Police says it's alleged Salam Ahmadyan, 36, of Liverpool, and Rahman Salehi 34, of Salford, were in contact with an overseas third-party who may be in Iran in relation to the "imminent" plot. They have now been charged under the Terrorism Act over allegedly:
- Communicating with others using encrypted applications to acquire components to assemble a homemade explosive device
- Acquiring a document entitled “Steps for Making [a] Powder Chlorine and Car Brake Oil/Fluid Bomb”
- Acquiring video material containing instructions on how to manufacture or assemble an improvised explosive device
- Acquiring liquids, components and equipment required in order to manufacture or assembling an improvised explosive device
- Using the internet to identify and research potential targets for attack
- Acquiring images, plans and maps of potential targets for attack
- Conducting reconnaissance of potential locations for attack"
Nigel Farage on X - "Eleven years ago I warned that terrorists were using illegal routes into Europe to attack us. The establishment ignored me. Nine years ago I specifically highlighted the Iranian threat via illegal migration. Crickets. Six years ago I specifically warned about the invasion in the Channel, often taking to sea myself to document the horrors. Again, I was dismissed. In 2023, I reported on terrorists coming into Britain on small boats, just like these men did under the Tory government. In 2025, in the House of Commons, I discussed Iranian terrorists at Dover. And in April and May of this year I cited sources that told me Iranian terrorists were already in our midst. They said shame on me. No. Shame on them. We now have a state of national emergency on our borders, and this government is trying to open them to even more unknown individuals. We are inviting terror and horror into our communities. It must end now. And if this Home Secretary disagrees, she must resign."

Just Right Frank on X - "This is how Labour are lying to you. The truth is in the small print. When an asylum seeker is granted "Leave to remain" they become classed as homeless. That means that they must be given priority housing help by Councils. I found out about this when Blair was PM. That is how long they have lied to you. Last year Labour granted Leave To Remain to 200,000 asylum seeker at the rate of 1 every minute, many of them did not even have a face to face interview, that is simply rubber stamping the applications in order to empty the hotels. Please help to expose their lies."
@Noodles on X - "Hence all the immigrant rapists registered as No Fixed Abode 🤔"

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood - "“They’re just troublemakers. You know, they’d kill me in a minute if they could, and they’d definitely kick me out of my own country. So let’s just be really clear about who and what they are. They don’t think I’m a true Brit and they hate the fact that I’m a Muslim.” Mahmood also said she considered herself “part of the pro-Palestinian cause” and felt “very uncomfortable” over the arrests of activists opposing the ban imposed on Palestine Action."
Migration Watch on X - "Perhaps a bad idea to continue admitting all the male rapists on these small boats then?"
Proof the UK needs to bring "asylum seekers" over themselves to protect them!

Chris Rose on X - "It’s disgusting for Shabana Mahmood to claim that everyone in Patriot Platform would "kill me in a minute if they could” with zero evidence. She is not the victim. People like Wayne Broadhurst, Rhiannon Whyte, Gheorghe Trica, several teenage girls are the real victims."

Max Klinger on X - "Some of the most insane figures you’ll read this year. Simply put, you cannot accurately understand British life, or British politics, if you aren’t aware of them. I say this as someone who’s descended from immigrants btw:
‘From June 2021 to June 2025 approximately 4 million migrants of various types came to Britain. According to the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory, more people moved to Britain in those four years than the entire population of Wales. To give this some grounding in our country’s deep and ancient history, the Welsh are the ethnic group most closely descended from the original Brythonic inhabitants of the British Isles. They are now outnumbered by migrants who arrived in just those four years. The incomprehensible scale of this migration is comparable in size to England’s entire 17th century population. To call these figures incomprehensible is not rhetorical flourish; people quite literally don’t understand the numbers. Research from the thinktank Onward published in 2024 found that voters believed that about 70,000 migrants had entered England in the preceding year. Net migration in 2023 had in fact been 672,000. Between 2001 and 2020 the size of Britain’s foreign-born population doubled. By 2025 one in 30 people living in Britain had arrived as a migrant in the previous four years under the Tory government. Strikingly, 10% of all residents of England do not identify with any UK national identity. Between 1975 and 2025 the white British population of London declined from 85% to 37%… While legal migration soared, Britain’s southern coast was beset by illegal immigration in the small boat crisis. Between January and April 2025 more than 10,000 illegal immigrants arrived. This is about as many men of fighting age as were in William the Conqueror’s army at the Battle of Hastings. In 2022 45,000 illegal migrants came ashore in Britain in small boats. This is a larger group of men than the Roman Army that conquered Britain in 43 AD. These changes are without precedent in the entirety of English history. They are not incidental migrations, they will reconfigure the country forever.
This is a lengthy quote from @BenBarryJones’ Island of Strangers."

British Intel on X - "Prime Minister Andy Burnham says it's "hard to conclude that Daniel Thomas is anything other than someone who has racist views," directly attacking the Patriot Platform founder known as Danny Tommo. Tommo pleaded not guilty this week to criminal damage over the alleged slashing of a boat in the Channel while an emergency responder was aboard. A sitting Prime Minister just branded a man racist in public while his case is still active and unresolved. Make of that what you will."

thenodeproject on X - "Andy Burnham calls Danny Tommo a racist for wanting our borders protected - on the same day terrorists attack our country. And we’re supposed to believe patriots are the problem?"

Lee Harris on X - "Andy Burnham says when people are "causing fear and intimidation in communities" by covering their faces you "have to prevent them doing that" The people who are causing fear and intimidation in our communities are unvetted illegal migrants. The man is completely out of touch"

Basil the Great on X - "🚨NEWS: Andy Burnham has received significant backlash after he called for a "Britain for Everyone" ‘A Britain for everyone, no matter who we are or where we are born, we would be unstoppable, and we will be.’ Many have pointed out this has failed and Britain should be for the British"

Young Bob on X - "The left has begun a campaign of AI-generated pictures of me being shot in the neck. I have been arrested before for hate speech offences for posting jokes about mass deportations. However, the left can post threatening pictures of me being shot in the neck with no consequences whatsoever. However, the line should always be, "I don’t care". These people are sick, and when we win, we will crush these people."
If you joke about mass deportations this is right wing violence. If you "joke" about shooting non-left wingers in the neck, this is free speech. Proof that the right wing are responsible for political violence!

Mike Jones on X - "Remember when Diane Abbott opposed Finnish nurses working in the NHS because, in her words, they were “blonde, blue-eyed”? Apparently, they weren’t suited to nursing in multiracial Hackney. Was Abbott ostracised from British politics? Nope. She ended up on Andrew Neil’s comfy BBC sofa and eventually became a Shadow Minister in Corbyn’s cabinet. These are the people who could be ruling us in the future."

Home Office staff volunteer with Calais charity that backed lying migrants - "Civil servants working at the heart of Britain’s immigration system volunteered with a charity that helped adult migrants posing as children to enter Britain. Home Office staff spent two days in February with Care4Calais, a British asylum charity that separately tried to persuade judges that balding and wrinkled asylum seekers were children. The visit was organised by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) as part of a campaign to give asylum seekers in the Channel the same rights as Ukrainian refugees. In a video promoting the volunteering trip, one PCS official called for Labour to introduce a plan to end the “humanitarian disaster” unfolding at Britain’s borders. Trade union representatives in the video, who are employed by the Home Office, criticised dehumanising “rhetoric” about migrants that focused on the “numbers” of people arriving on small boats... Care4Calais helped dispute official assessments of migrants’ ages. In one such case, a Sudanese man in his 20s was placed in children’s accommodation after the charity referred him to a council. Immigration courts later rejected such claims, finding that those involved had tried to deceive authorities to gain the “advantages” of being treated as a child asylum seeker, such as school places and council accommodation, rather than the hotels housing adult asylum seekers. Judges have also found in favour of other migrants supported by Care4Calais who were wrongly assessed as adults when they were children. Home Office figures show that 6,255 asylum seekers had their age disputed in cases closed in the year ending this March. Of these, 43 per cent were found to be adults despite claiming to be children. It is understood that the PCS and Care4Calais have been working together to oppose the UK’s asylum policy since around 2022, when they sued the Conservative government to block the Rwanda detention plan. The PCS is lobbying ministers to adopt its “Safe Routes” policy, which it developed with Care4Calais, which would implement a “Ukrainian-style” visa system for Channel migrants that would give them the right to live, work and claim benefits in Britain."

Afghan small boat migrant 'smuggled girl, 14, into the UK after kidnapping and sexually assaulting her' - "A DINGHY migrant smuggled a girl of 14 into Britain after kidnapping and sexually assaulting her, a court has heard. It is believed to be the first case in which an abducted child has been brought across the Channel in a small boat. The Afghan national is said to have lured her away from a camp in Belgium in June 2025. After allegedly sexually assaulting the teen, he is then said to have brought her across France and sneaked her into the UK. The man, who can’t be named as it could identify his alleged victim, was found living with the girl in Manchester. He was arrested in West London last month. The man has given three birth dates, and could be 27, 21 or 18."

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on X - "The Home Office is not fit for purpose & should be stripped of immigration powers Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds claim asylum in the UK alleging a relationship with the Kurdistan Prime Minister's daughter! 100s of allegedly persecuted gay Pakistanis claim to have the SAME boyfriend Hundreds of Bangladeshis claim to be persecuted as prominent members of an opposition political party - yet can't answer basic questions about the organisation Hundreds of identical documents, signed by the same foreign magistrate.... None of this was seemingly questioned by the Home Office, which in 2024 accepted 62% of asylum applications. For context: Spain only accepted 11%. To make matters worse, the UK grants asylum to migrants who have been REJECTED by other countries. This is a big pull factor for migrants from Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan etc after being rejected in Germany, France, Austria etc. We are becoming an international joke."

Kidnapper convicted of FIFTY crimes since arriving illegally aged 14 wins bid to stay in UK as judge rules he'd be 'mistreated' in Kosovo for being Roma - "Avdi Alija, 39, arrived illegally in the UK aged 14 and has been convicted of 50 criminal offences ranging from burglary and theft to cocaine possession and driving while drunk or high on drugs."
Kevin DeAnna on X - "Imagine what life would be like if the government treated useful people with such sympathy and consideration"

Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio on X - "In Britain, there are escalating tensions over people from mediaeval, violent cultures exploiting our weak asylum system to move to Britain. Brits are so desperate for it to stop that we’re seeing citizen armies rise up to police the border. The politician in charge of such things, Shabana Mahmood (classic British name there), has listened to these concerns and thought, "Screw them. Let's have more." Mahmood announced a plan to bring in more Afghan and Palestinian refugees via "safe routes". The only safe routes I'm worried about are my kids getting a safe route to school while this government continues to open the floodgates. And all the refugees will be able to bring their entire extended families (and anyone who pretends to be in their extended family). So, is this a good idea? Luckily we know - we’ve seen what happened when Palestinian refugees went to Jordan, went to Lebanon, and went to European countries such as Denmark and Norway. Spoiler alert - it led to social upheaval, civil war, hundreds of thousands dead, assassinations, violent crime and benefits dependence. There's only an upside if you're a far-left or Islamist politician."

Peter Hague on X - "The basic reason why immigration is such a toxic issue in the UK, and why it won’t settle down soon, is there is no popular consent for it, and the elite do not care. Every time the British public have been asked, they have demanded substantial reductions. The debate hasn’t shifted, they have simply been overruled by an elite that considers borders illegitimate. With an absolutely straight face they offer legal routes as a solution to illegal migration - the possibility of simply not letting people in just doesn’t occur to them. Perhaps, they hope, they can contain the seething anger of the British people they have betrayed long enough to tip the demographic balance, and have a voting bloc of new arrivals to keep them in power."

varrock on X - "~50% of all HIV diagnoses in the UK are from African migrants. In just 3 years, African migration alone doubled the rate of HIV in the UK."
Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "This is made so much worse when you remember that there are African cultures that believe raping a virgin cures AIDs. Wonder how that is gonna play out across the West 🥴"

Charlie on X - "In her judgment, the judge, Fiona Lindsley, said the families were living in vulnerable structures in a war zone, malnourished, unwell and struggling psychologically with anxiety from their husbands and fathers in the UK that they would not survive much longer if they remained in Gaza."
"You simply cannot have any resettlement or asylum system when criteria like this are used to determine eligibility. There are hundreds of millions of people across the world that would meet this definition. This is why any such claim that resettlement will be limited to a few hundred or thousand is bogus, as once the human rights claims kick in, countless more will be chain-migrated into the UK."
If you don't let the whole third world move into the West, it's a grave violation of human rights

Gun-toting migrant who called for slaughter of Jews cannot be deported - "An alleged Palestinian gunman who called for the slaughter of Jewish people cannot currently be deported to Gaza after completing a jail sentence for trying to enter the UK illegally. Abu Wadee, a 34-year-old TikTok influencer who was a member of a militant group and posed for pictures with AK-47s, is living in Northamptonshire after being freed from his nine-month sentence. The Home Office is seeking to deport him but cannot do so at present because of the risks to life in the region and the lack of safe and legal routes through which to return to Gaza. Wadee, also known as Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas, pleaded guilty to trying to enter the UK on a small boat on March 6 without leave or valid entry clearance... His arrival in the UK made national headlines after it emerged that he had posted support for the banned terror group Hamas and hate speech calling for the death of Jewish people on social media. A video posted on his Facebook site in June 2021 showed him throwing pipe bombs. He has almost 20,000 followers on TikTok. Wadee, from the city of Khan Younis in Gaza, also posted a video on his Facebook page in September 2024 in which he was filmed calling for Allah to “punish [Jews] completely”... He admitted he had been a member of a militant group known as the Tyre Burning Unit and had called for the killing of Jews, but claimed that was “eight years ago”. He said that he had only acted in that way because he had no choice, adding: “That was back when I lived in Gaza under Hamas rule. Everyone knows that Hamas is a terrorist organisation that would kill us if we didn’t speak against the Jews while living there.”"
Clearly, we knew he meant "Zionists", so there's nothing wrong with what he said, which is just "humanity" and "opposing 'genocide'"

Robber migrant can stay in UK because he ‘goes to local leisure centre’ - "A French migrant who was jailed for robbery and drug-dealing has been allowed to stay in Britain after an immigration court heard he regularly attended his local leisure centre. The fitness sessions he took six days a week were cited as an example of how integrated he was into UK society and of his “consistency, reliability, focus, discipline and commitment” since his release from prison... The 21-year-old migrant, who the courts referred to as YC, came to the UK when he was three years old with his mother and was allowed to stay in the UK because of how “socially and culturally integrated” he was into British life, and that deportation would be “unduly harsh” on his British partner."

War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
Aaron Edwards on X - ""Are we psychologically ready?" Who is this "we", all of a sudden? I thought Britain was a multicultural melting pot of forever immigrants and always has been? I thought there was never any such thing as "the English people" or "the British people"? I thought the people who oppose migrant invasions from foreign nations are racist bigots who should be arrested or shunned? If there was a military invasion of Britain tomorrow, what would be the point of trying to repel it? What would "we" be trying to defend anyway, in this world of effective open borders and multicultural vape shop bliss? Why be so un-inclusive to the invaders by opposing them? If we lost a war now and were somehow conquered, what would actually change about our effective current "policy" about what makes Britain Britain? Aren't all nations and cultures equally valid and worthy of being celebrated? Wouldn't our invaders have as much right to this land as we do? Aren't their ideas about going to war against us just as valid as our ideas about not wanting to be taken over by them? Why not just let the invaders win if the result is all the same either way? ...No, I don't think we are psychologically ready."

Are British people stealing immigrants’ jobs? - "In Birmingham, our reporter interviewed a local man named Mohammad Khan. And he said: “Here it is hard to get a job. A lot of students come and pick up part-time jobs. They take over the housing. They work for a lower rate and they can speak English.” If the ability to speak English is giving these students a decisive advantage in the Birmingham jobs market, that means the people they’re under-cutting must be immigrants who can’t speak English. In which case, I hope Birmingham isn’t going to see mass protests by unemployed immigrants, muttering: “Bloody British. Coming over here, stealing our jobs.” Then again, if they can only say this in another language, I suppose we won’t know what they’re protesting about... this unfortunate situation puts me in mind of an article I read in Metro, in 2022. It reported that the recent gentrification of Brixton, South London, had been deeply distressing to locals of Caribbean descent – because, they said, it had caused their area to undergo rapid demographic change. One man, who had run a jerk chicken van there for 17 years, complained: “If you go to some places in Brixton nowadays, you will not see any black people.” Which is interesting. Because, this last time year, Reform’s Robert Jenrick got in a lot of trouble for saying that, when he visited the Handsworth area of Birmingham, he “didn’t see another white face”. If it was offensive for Mr Jenrick to note a lack of white faces in parts of Birmingham, was it offensive for the jerk chicken vendor to note a lack of black faces in parts of Brixton? Personally, I don’t recall anyone kicking up a fuss about the latter of the two comments. So I suppose it must be different. At any rate, the important thing to remember is that diversity is our strength. And so, if this sudden influx of English speakers makes Birmingham more diverse, I think we should all applaud it."
Clearly, immigration makes the UK stronger, and people who live in the UK who don't speak English are just as British as everyone else

Meme - "Women commenting "not all men, but always a man" on a video of a Bangladeshi migrant assaulting a 12 year old British girl on his day in the country *Big glum green monster*"

Meme - evan loves worf @esjesjesj: "Yeah being far right means having cartoonish xenophobic fears totally not based in reality"
BasedJas @_frogtober: "Being far right is basically "I don't want my country to become Islamic""
Clownworld Chronicles @ClownworldChron: "MUSLIM SOMALI SEX GANG SAY RAPING WHITE BRITISH CHILDREN "PART OF THEIR CULTURE""

Energy Secretary attacks Mahmood’s migrant crackdown - "The Energy Secretary has attacked Shabana Mahmood’s migrant crackdown, deepening the split within Andy Burnham’s Cabinet about border controls. Miatta Fahnbulleh said that extending the time foreign nationals had to wait before being granted indefinite leave to remain threatened “the process of building cohesion”. Writing to voters in her Peckham constituency, she said Labour should “raise the level of the debate” and “challenge divisive political rhetoric” around immigration... Ms Fahnbulleh, considered one of the rising stars of the soft Left, was elevated to the Cabinet by Mr Burnham when he became Prime Minister. As a member of his top team, she is bound by collective responsibility, meaning she is obliged to publicly support the policies of the Government. If she wished to explicitly argue against the planned reforms, then she would ordinarily be expected to resign her position. The row about migration reforms is one of several splits within Cabinet, including disagreements about a third runway at Heathrow and North Sea oil and gas."

Why was Mohammed Yaseen treated better than our SAS? | The Spectator - "What should be done with a foreign man who has been a ‘hardened terrorist’ since he was 16, was a member of the group which beheaded Briton Ken Bigley, and went on to join an Isis unit which conducted stonings, beheadings and mass executions? A normal country would deport or permanently jail him. If he was back in the Middle East, he’d be hanged. But in the UK, when this man, the Iraqi Mohammed Yaseen, arrived illegally (leaving Germany after serving a sentence for his Isis membership), we locked him up for six months and then set him free. Despite a British court being told that Yaseen poses ‘a danger to the whole of the UK’, he has applied for asylum and it is being reported that our own Foreign Office ‘has raised concerns’ that he could face ‘mistreatment’ if he’s returned to Iraq. ‘Mistreatment’ because he’s a terrorist, you understand. Yaseen’s asylum claim will be funded by British taxpayers, as will all the legal aid he receives. Meanwhile those who were sent out by the British state to hunt and kill Isis terrorists have been treated very differently. New reporting has revealed that investigations into SAS actions against Isis resulted in soldiers being interviewed by the police over claims they use ‘disproportionate force’ in shooting two teenagers working for the terror state, and then 48 hours later being sent back to Syria to conduct further operations. These men, and many like them, have received minimal support from the Ministry of Defence – just a list of legal aid solicitors they might wish to call. Meanwhile, investigations like these and the interminable Haddon-Cave inquiry grind on, leaving members of the SAS facing the permanent threat of further police action. The result is that many experienced operators are leaving the regiment, making us all less safe. So Isis terrorists are afforded every support and protection, with our own Foreign Office worried about him, while the very best and bravest of our military are hounded by the state they serve. George Simm was Regimental Sergeant Major of 22 SAS. When I spoke to him about these two stories he told me: ‘It is an obscenity to allow foreign fighters into our society – it goes way beyond negligence – and why? Because of a quasi religious adherence to a law (the Human Rights Act) that is only recognised as valid by a tiny fraction of that same society. And for politicians to supinely state that they can’t do anything about “because it is the law” should disqualify them from running anything more important than a whelk stall.’ George is right. This is obscene. The legitimacy of the British state, of any state, rests on it fulfilling its first duty to protect its people and to serve their interests. The UK has become an inverted perversion of this. The state imports thousands upon thousands of dangerous rapists (and now terrorists), provides them with printed ‘guidance’ on why they shouldn’t rape, and then turns them loose in towns and cities across the land. When locals try to prevent these arrivals, the state deploys vast policing resources to ensure they go ahead. When an actual terrorist enters the country our machinery of state is worried that his homeland might do something nasty to him if we send him back there. And when our special forces do their jobs, conducting lawful operations which were directed at the highest level in Regent’s Park, they are treated like criminals for killing our enemies. If anything, George Simm is too kind to the British state. It has entirely failed in its duties and broken its covenant with the British people. A state which actively acts to make its people less safe, which demonstrates daily that it cares more about the comfort and ‘rights’ of foreigners than it does the safety of its own people, and which hides behind ‘the law’ as a justification for these acts has no legitimacy at all. Once I would have described myself as a conservative. No longer. There is almost nothing left worth conserving in the modern British state. We need a reckoning. A new settlement, very many trials and proscriptions for those politicians, civil and public servants responsible for these crimes against the British people, and a new state which will serve the British people. This obscenity must end."
Human rights are designed to destroy the West, after all

The Kids Are Not All Right in France

2026-10-24T09:46:00.000+08:00

The Kids Are Not All Right in France

"The main reason for Elwan’s sudden fame is not that he embodies the zeitgeist of the current riots; it’s that he doesn’t.

This is a country where no one retains respect for the outgoing president or for the rusted institutions of the Fifth Republic and where, whoever he is, the next president-elect eight months from now will have won by default. But it’s a country where La Bataille de Gaulle—the patriotic, nostalgic, anti-American two-part biopic on the exploits of the general of the same name during World War II—has attracted an audience of nearly 6 million despite being neglected by the media...

After WWII, it was De Gaulle, with the help of his minister of culture, the writer André Malraux, who managed to build the fiction according to which France stood among the winners of the conflict, on equal footing with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR, despite having been led for four years by a collaborationist, pro-Nazi government. And it was De Gaulle who founded the Fifth Republic one year before Les 400 Coups was released. The year 1958 was also the beginning of the Algerian war, the outcome of which would confirm five years later the inevitable end of the French empire; the ensuing beginning of France’s “Arab policy” to replace it and secure oil and gas supplies from the now former colonies; and the domestic counterpart of that new diplomacy that would come to be known as “the immigration policy.”

And here we are, 60 years later.

France today counts more than 3 million college students—compared to 500,000 in 1968—but according to the latest data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development last September, these students have achieved the lowest scores ever recorded since the survey began 26 years ago. (Since 2022, math scores have dropped 16% and reading comprehension 18%.) According to the OECD, this decline is not attributable to immigration per se. It affects all social backgrounds, good students as well as bad, while the gap between students from immigrant backgrounds and others has remained stable since 2015.

The high-school graduation rate (the baccalauréat instituted by Napoleon in 1808) is nearly 90%, an absurd percentage that calls its value into question, to say the least. In any case, it no longer serves as a screening mechanism to selective higher-education programs for the working and lower-middle classes. In recent years, that process has shifted to Parcoursup, a web portal set up by the government, the opacity of which is a target of the current protesters. Other targets involve too-large class sizes and the crumbling infrastructures of many high schools. Some lack proper heating in winter or air-conditioning during heat waves; some are infested by rats and cockroaches. In some, classes go for months without teachers. None of those claims can be disputed. They are also nothing new. The situation has been dire for years, but when the national debt exceeds $4 trillion (119% of GDP), and when annual interest payments exceed $80 billion—making them the most expensive item in the national budget, before defense and before education—it can only get worse.

Hanging over everything is the prospect of the coming presidential elections, a time of promises that everybody knows won’t be kept. “There is a direct connection between the French ritual of the presidential election in the Fifth Republic and the debt,” says political scientist Dominique Reynié, head of the think tank Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol):

The Fifth Republic imposes a presidential regime in which every candidate to the presidency has to fit into a lyric narrative according which once elected, he and he alone will be able to restore a strong welfare state that will accomplish miracles. This worked as long as the country was prosperous, and at the cost of a debt that was swept under the rug year after year. But in times of crisis or change, like today, this presidential election ritual becomes a poison, a poison that can only increase both ineffectual spending, in the short term, and a general distrust toward the political system in the long run.

The less this presidential regime worked, the more it demanded a growing, almost magical narcissism on the part of successive candidates and presidents—a toxic dynamic that, since the early ’80s, has undermined both the right and the left. The end stage of that narcissism today is, of course, President Emmanuel Macron. He came to power in 2017, convinced that his political genius as an outsider had destroyed the system—when, in fact, his victory was simply the signal that the system was dead. During his term, he has had time to realize his mistake, since his hubristic decision to call snap parliamentary elections in the summer of 2024 condemned the rest of his presidency to complete impotence and brought parliamentary life to a standstill. (Unsurprisingly in this context, neither of the two French political parties that remain alive as of this writing has ever been in power: Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise.)

As a result of this political and economic wreckage, the French high-school youths wake up every morning in a country that, at this point, does not appear to be governed at all, only to go to decaying schools to pass exams whose value is at best questionable. They live with the memories of the shutdown, face the prospect of worthless diplomas in an artificial-intelligence-managed world, and are under the threat of being labeled illiterate. (According to the essayist and French teacher Mathieu Roger-Lacan, one-third of the population qualifies as such; like everywhere else, illiteracy is especially strong among the youth, where the fall of reading comprehension diagnosed by the Programme for International Student Assessment test has been aggravated since the rise of social networks and cell phones by a growing difficulty to focus on lengthy texts.) On top of all this, cell phones were banned in high schools in early September of this year. According to an anonymous teacher in a paper published by the revue Le Grand Continent, current riots may contain “a reflex” typical of an addict who craves his fix and becomes restless because he hasn’t gotten his dose; it’s also possible that, by looking away from the feed, the French high-school student has opened his eyes to a situation that suddenly seemed unbearable to him.

Perhaps. But does any of this fully explain the 6,600 persons in custody or the 85 professors and 761 cops wounded by students (against 261 students wounded by the police)? Or the burning down of several schools, including the Nelson Mandela high school of Nantes, a brand-new establishment rebuilt, at a cost of several million euros, to meet environmental standards? The wrecking of a fire truck? The pursuit and beating of a policewoman by five or six youths to cries of “Kill that bitch! By Allah kill her!” Does it explain the professor who was doused with gasoline just a few steps away from a fire in the commune of La Ciotat on Oct. 1? Does it explain in any way the 15-year-old Muslim kid—who is attending a high school in the seventh arrondissement of Marseille as a sophomore and pursuing a vocational baccalaureate in “Support, Care, and Personal Services”—who, during a riot in Marseille on Oct. 1, walked calmly toward a woman trying to stop protesters from destroying a bus station and, using an aerosol can as a flamethrower, tried to burn her face? (Identified by the police, then arrested and charged with a “barbaric act,” the kid—by all accounts a collected, calm adolescent with no previous police record—has not tried to hide or deny the fact. To the victim asking “Why? Why?” he answers that he does not know.)

And what about the “Al Aqsa flood” slogan tagged on the wall of the Sorbonne? What about the obsession with the “Free Palestine” slogan, the “We’re all the children of Gaza,” heard in each and every demonstration? Can it illuminate the constant Palestinian, Lebanese, and Algerian flags deployed during most of the riots between Oct. 1 and Oct. 7, which then receded after Oct. 8?

What about, above all, the rap song in praise of several terrorists that can be heard in three locations, on three different days, sung by three different groups of young demonstrators? Originally written and sung by a masked guy called Boto700, whose clip on X and TikTok totaled more than 100,000 views, the words go like this: “Like Mohammed Merah, dodge the cameras. Bataclan—I shot it for free, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam. Dude, in hell, there’s a bounty on my head; I’m on a rampage like a hellhound. Tell your rapper to let me do my thing—woe to him if he doesn’t cooperate, dude, I’ll turn him into an Adolf Hitler.”

Mohammed Merah is the man who killed Jewish children at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012; Salah Abdeslam is the only surviving attacker from the Bataclan massacre. The kids who are seen yelling this song in three different videos in a state of exaltation were barely born when these killings happened. All of them appear to be white.

Since Oct. 1, Al Jazeera+, the TikTok account of the Qatari channel, has brought video support to the demonstrations. So has La France Insoumise (LFI), directly and through several student groups with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood embedded in high schools and junior highs. These include La Jeune Garde, of which several members were accused of the murder of a far-right activist in Lyon last winter, and Espoir Dignité Résistance (Hope Dignity Resistance), a group that “under the guise of fighting Islamophobia, has deliberately chosen to engage in violent activism to promote its ideology,” according to the Ministry of the Interior...

Whether an agreement has been made between LFI and crypto-Islamist groups to let them freely celebrate Oct. 7 inside of the demonstrations can only be a matter of speculation. But it’s certainly hard to miss the prevalence of Palestinian flags during the first week of October.

That said, is LFI or anyone else really in control of what’s going on? No political operation really accounts for the aerosol incident in Marseille, or even the rap song. When the OECD states that, despite a general decline in literacy, the gap between students from immigrant backgrounds and others has remained stable since 2015, doesn’t this imply a certain amount of what we might call cultural permeability?

One could argue that France has been in a chronic state of riot since the Clichy-sous-Bois riots of 2005—when two teenagers were electrocuted inside an electrical substation while trying to escape the police. What is new here is the weirdness, the bizarre gap between the demands of the students and what can be so often seen on the ground. From that viewpoint, one of the most remarkable videos is also one of the least violent: It shows three LFI representatives, wearing their republican scarves, throwing bottles of water and sandwiches over a police cordon that blocks the street on which Sciences Po students hold a sit-in. Judging by these dramatic images, the student demonstrators are trapped by the cops, barred from drinking or eating. Yet no one seems to realize that the other side of the street is open; the students are perfectly free to walk to the next café. It’s as if the French have become unable to see what’s going on around them, blinded even to the streets they know best...

Elwan was involved in a hate incident and sanctioned for it. As best as I could reconstruct it, the incident went like this: A student showed a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara; another student commented that Sara Netanyahu “really looked like an old Jew,” to which a third student claimed the remark was antisemitic. During the ensuing argument, Elwan intervened to say “we have a right to hate 5% of this country’s population.” The number is wrong (Jews barely account for 0.5% of the French population), but still."

Links - 23rd October 2026 (Brexit [including Andy Burnham Faux Pas])

2026-10-23T13:54:00.000+08:00

Ian Proud on X - "The problem with the 'Russia caused Brexit' hoax, is that it isn't really about Russia, but about the tear-filled liberal regret that Brexit happened and the need to blame someone. Not the voters who, on the basis that many in Westminster consider most working class people to be childish, insufficiently educated and gullible, must have been misled. But the Russians, because Russia is the font of all ill. Let's be clear, what I am not saying is that Russian intelligence doesn't conduct hostile activity against British interests. They do. By the same toke, British intelligence conducts hostile activity against Russian interests. As Larry Johnson @LarrySonar21 put it eloquently when I chatted with his earlier, asking a foreign intelligence agency not to act against the interests of another state is a bit like asking your dog not to lick its balls. We even spy on each other during peace time and, while I am on the subject, we spy on our allies too. Right now we are de facto at war with Russia so, boo hoo if they are doing naughty spying things, because we are too. Whinging about Russian spying is so unbelievably childish. Maybe if we sued for peace, we might each spy on each other a little less and do fewer hurty things. But the idea that Russia put a big effort into affecting the Brexit vote doesn't really bear scrutiny. I was in Moscow during the Brexit vote and practically no one was interested in following what they considered to be UK domestic politics. Even the result of the Brexit referendum barely featured in the newspapers. I almost never got asked about Brexit. No one was interested. As i said, no one at the Embassy was buzzing with speculation that the Russkies had been stirring the pot. It just never cropped up. The general view was that Corbyn had left the field of play meaning Labour never mobilised itself in a meaningful way. We have a tendency to believe that the whole world is desperately fascinated with and concerned by our decision to exit the European Union. They are not. As it happens I was a reluctant remainer at the time of the Brexit vote in 2016. I used to joke that being a British diplomat in Moscow made me less reluctant (just to be clear, I had a very nice life with my family in Moscow). That comment was more about the feeling of community I experienced when flying back through Latvia and the idea of being part of a much larger community. That feeling has now gone. The EU is no longer a community that allows nation states to be sovereign while maximising economic, social and cultural connections with minimal central intervention. If people who voted leave were worried about bureaucrats in Brussels telling us what to do in 2016, you want to take a look at the EU today. It has become and is becoming ever more centralised, wresting more sovereignty from its members and prioritising the political and military at the expense of making ordinary people poorer and less safe. The idea that Britain's economic interests can best be served by rejoining a community suffering mass deindustrialisation, the highest energy costs in the developed world and uncontrolled migration is idiotic and dangerous. The suggestion that we can collectively feel safer by latching ourselves to unelected officials in Brussels who want to break Russia up into smaller constituent parts and take on China next, is frankly terrifying. If the Brexit vote happened again, I would vote to leave. Not because the Russians told me to.. I suspect that most people who voted leave in 2016 would do so again. If @andyburnham wants us to rejoin then the public should have a say. Blaming the Russians just makes him appear every bit as useless as Starmer, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May.... jeez who's in charge of our frigging country"

Meme -Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta: ""the Russians swung the Brexit vote" 🤦‍♂️ #GrubbyBurnham"
LEAVE: £13.4m - Aaron Banks. Wetherspoons, JCB, Dyson
REMAIN: £19.1m - £9m Government leaflet, HM Treasury forecasts, CBI campaign, US President endorsement. UK Universities, European Central Bank, WTO, IMF, UK Local Government, George Soros, TUC & Unions, Japanese government, Irish government, 30 UK newspapers & mags, 2 Former MI5 DGs, 13 Nobel prize winners, Labour, Libdems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein, SDLP, EU Commission, Draghi, Berlusconi, Kofi Annan, WWF, NATO, Asda, BAe, BMW, BT"

J Stewart on X - "This was one of the most PAINFUL CAR CRASH interviews you’ll ever see with Labour foreign minister Stephen Doughty on @GMB about Andy Burnham saying Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Susanna Reid grows increasingly frustrated as he refuses to answer her questions, and even Ed Balls eventually tears into him for the “embarrassing waffle”. Doughty is asked again and again about the Prime Minister’s claims but he just keeps ignoring the questions and repeating the same empty line: that Russia has been attempting to interfere with our democratic processes for many years. Susanna tries to force him onto the 2016 vote itself. She asks what Russia actually did, whether it influenced voters, and whether it affected the result. He refuses to give any specifics and just repeats the line. When she asks “Why are you not getting into specifics when the Prime Minister has just got into the specifics?”, he claims Burnham was only speaking more broadly. She keeps pressing. He keeps repeating the line like a robot. She asks if the Prime Minister was wrong.
Doughty: “The PM has been very clear about Russian attempts to interfere in our democratic processes.”
By now Susanna is openly angry and accuses him of “muddying the waters not clarifying them”. He almost laughably says the same thing again. He isn’t listening. He might as well have come on just to read a statement. Susanna points out that if the result of such a huge decision was influenced, the public deserves answers about what the interference actually was. Doughty claims the PM only said “attempted to interfere”. Susanna cuts in immediately: “He doesn’t say ‘attempted to interfere!’” They play Burnham’s actual comments. Doughty goes straight back to the identical line. Susanna tries one final time. Same response. It is at this point that Ed Balls, clearly fed up, lays into him:
“This is EMBARRASSING. It’s really bad for politics when you just blatantly don’t answer the question on something so important and go back to a nonsensical line, which is contradicted by what the Prime Minister just said!” He goes further: “Either answer Susanna’s question or just say I’m not going to. This waffle is embarrassing!”
Doughty: “It’s not waffle at all Ed!” Then repeats the line yet again.
It is waffle, and I never thought I’d say this but well done Ed Balls for bluntly calling him out. It was embarrassing. Andy Burnham should never have said it. We’ve been through all this. Russia did not in any way, shape or form influence the outcome of that referendum. Dragging this nonsense back up is reckless and a disgrace."

A Brexit rebuke from MI5 is the humiliation Burnham deserves - "Andy Burnham’s latest effort to reignite the Brexit debate is starting to look like his first major mistake in office. The head of MI5 has warned that Russia’s “unimpressive” attempts to influence the 2016 EU referendum should not be the cause of further debate in Britain because it would only serve to delight Russian online trolls. This is an embarrassing slap down for the Prime Minister, who seemed to believe he was delivering something of an exclusive when he appeared as guest on The Rest Is Politics podcast at the weekend. Undoubtedly aware of the inexhaustible thirst of his hosts, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, for any titbit that might undermine the 2016 referendum, Burnham announced that on first arriving in Number 10 this summer, he had asked whether Russia had interfered in the vote that resulted in a 52-48 per cent win for the Leave campaign, and received “the clear answer that, yes, there was”. Now the UK’s top spook, Sir Ken McCallum, Sir Ken McCallum, has cautioned against fuelling Russian propaganda efforts, claiming that Vladimir Putin’s online trolls would be “delighted” if the furore caused by the Prime Minister’s comments continued. Sir Ken confirmed that Russia had tried to influence the vote – something that was already public knowledge before Burnham’s guest appearance on the popular podcast – but dismissed the “comparative impressiveness” of its efforts. The security services seem equally unimpressed by the Prime Minister’s relaxed willingness to set this particular hare running, even though, in placing a question mark over the reliability and robustness of the British democratic process, he has merely amplified one of Moscow’s favourite propaganda lines. An army of online commentators, still licking their wounds 10 years after the referendum, were only too happy to reinforce Burnham’s suggestion that the result had been tainted by Russian interference – essentially conceding a major victory to the Kremlin – and should therefore be either discounted or run again. Burnham’s problem, and the Government’s, is that there remains no evidence that such attempts to influence the result were successful. Hours after Burnham’s podcast appearance, Stephen Doughty, a foreign office minister, was touring the TV studios reassuring viewers that this was the case and trying desperately not to appear as if he was contradicting his boss. Which he was. It is unprecedented for MI5 to make such a high-profile and direct intervention in a political debate. No other prime minister in recent memory has had to have his fingers rapped in quite the same publicly humiliating way. But the stakes are too high to avoid it: the integrity of the UK’s domestic democratic process is a vital cog in the propaganda wars with our Russian opponents. Any serious undermining of it, especially without evidence, cannot be allowed to stand, however senior the political figure who kicked it all off."

Burnham faces Red Wall revolt over Brexit reversal

The costs of rejoining the EU are higher than anyone wants to admit - "Ten years ago, the leader of the official Remain campaign – the then prime minister David Cameron – described the Brexit referendum vote as a decision that “lasts for life”. “We make this decision,” he said, “and it’s probably going to be the only time in our generation when we make this decision.” It is impossible to know how many of the nearly 34 million Britons who turned out to cast their vote did so seduced by the promise of settling the Europe question once and for all. But a decade later, the debate seems anything but over... There has been a concerted effort lately by Rejoiners to convince the nation that an EU which has taken every opportunity to punish the UK for daring to vote leave would somehow allow us to return to the club on our terms, opting out of Schengen and the euro. The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, who no longer has the authority to speak for Brussels, has been featured in a British paper, breezily stating that staying out of the euro and Schengen area would be “perfectly possible”. European ministers who do speak for Brussels, however, have declared in general terms that there will be no “cherrypicking of policies” in the UK’s future relations with the EU, and that Britain must not consider itself “an equal partner”. It would seem reasonable to interpret this to mean that, if the UK is allowed to rejoin, it will have to become a full member of the bloc, adopting its currency and visa policy. Alongside the EU’s new “Solidarity Mechanism”, which requires member states to share the burden of asylum seekers arriving in Europe, joining Schengen would likely mean opening up Britain to a whole host of unvetted migrants from around the world, as well as allowing free movement of European citizens, raising serious security concerns. It is hard to imagine joining a European single currency still plagued by structural flaws, meanwhile, would be welcomed by British voters. By Lord Elliott’s calculations, Britain would have to pay £22bn in annual contributions if it rejoined the EU. “In 2020, we paid £17.043 billion with the rebate, which is £21.937 billion today, run through the Bank of England’s inflation calculator. Assuming we got the rebate back, we’d be paying at least £22 billion a year today.”... that is before taking into account the fact that the European Parliament and the Commission are in the midst of negotiating an increase to the EU’s next long-term budget – with the former having voted last year for €100bn more than already proposed by the latter – while looking to introduce new revenue streams to raise the extra funds. “When we can’t even afford to increase defence spending by £4 billion a year, that seems to be an enormous amount of money to give to a foreign bureaucracy”, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg says, as he reminds me that a return to the EU would not only be “extremely expensive”, but would also take us back into the regulatory regime of Brussels. “I think it’s 10,000 more regulations that have come in since we left. We would have all the inflexibility that the EU has.” The crippling financial burden which would accompany an EU membership should alarm us all. But for a Brexit Britain only beginning to reconnect with its trailblazer spirit, it is the prospect of being strangled by Brussels’ compulsion for overregulation which may be an even greater threat. Sir Jacob tells me: “We have enormous opportunity in nuclear fusion because we regulate it differently from nuclear fission. The EU, on the precautionary principle, thinks it’s all the same and is lagging behind.” The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported in May that “ten fusion companies in Europe have issued a joint letter to Brussels demanding urgent action to remove the regulatory shackles before Europe is shut out of the global fusion race”, such is the desperation among innovative industries which rely on a nimble regulatory framework in order to succeed. Artificial intelligence is another industry which has benefited from a light-touch regulatory approach. More AI companies have been founded in the UK per capita since 2020 than anywhere else in Europe, with Britain now being “home to the second most Quantum companies in the world”, the Government declared in March. Sir Jacob holds the view that nuclear fusion and AI are the two industries which are going to dominate economics in the 21st century. “If we’re in the EU, we’re out of business.”... The Labour Party made a promise in its 2024 manifesto: “There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement”. Yet, since assuming power, senior members of the Government have equivocated over this commitment. It is becoming increasingly difficult to take Labour for its word on Brexit. Ten years ago, the people of this country trusted a Remainer establishment when it agreed to hold a referendum and promised to implement the result. What followed was a decade of machinations to derail Brexit at every possible turn: from Westminster and Whitehall’s refusal to prepare for an orderly departure, to Sir Keir Starmer’s clandestine meetings with the EU leadership, effectively undermining Britain’s position, to the May administration’s disastrous negotiations and, finally, Labour’s creeping climbdown and failure to honour its manifesto promise. What is now at stake is far more than the future of Brexit: it is the future of our democracy itself."

The Channel illegal migrant crisis can’t be blamed on Brexit - "A report by Migration Watch, updated in 2019, recorded the dramatic decline of the system’s effectiveness from the UK’s perspective in the years before Britain left the EU, with figures revealing “that the balance has shifted since 2015, when 131 people were transferred to the UK, against 510 people who transferred out”. Using Home Office numbers, the report found that “while there were a total of 676 returns of asylum seekers from the UK to other European countries under the rules in 2016 and 2017, 1,019 asylum seekers were transferred to the UK”. “The truth is, we were a net receiver of migrants,” Sir Jacob said as he shared the numbers from 2018, when the inflow to the UK was nearly six times the outflow. That year, the UK received 1,940 requests to take people, and took 1,215, accepting 63 per cent of the applications. In contrast, Britain made 5,510 applications to remove people, of which only 4 per cent or 209 were accepted. “The Dublin regulations were a joke.” It is difficult to quarrel with Sir Jacob’s conclusion... “So our requests to get people out were refused almost invariably, whereas the overwhelming majority of requests for us to take people, we accepted the Dublin regulations, increased immigration in the United Kingdom.” Sir Jacob’s view that these “were not a serious means of protecting our borders” is shared by industry experts and is well documented. Tony Smith CBE is a former director-general of the UK Border Force. During his 40-year career at the Home Office, he also served as the regional director for London and the South East in the UK Border Agency. In 2021, when Parliament was debating the Nationality and Borders Bill, Mr Smith told the public bill committee that the Dublin Convention “certainly did not work with France even when we were in the EU. In fact, we were in the EU when some of the boats started coming. They still would not take anybody back because it relied on a flawed policy framework.” It would appear that some Europeans agree with Mr Smith’s assessment of these regulations, even if Remainers continue to mourn our loss of access to them. Distilling the basic problem with Dublin from the European nation’s perspective, Pietro Galeone of the Labor and Social Policy Unit at Bocconi University in Italy, wrote in 2023: “First of all, several non-border states receive more demands for asylum than those on the border. Second, the distribution of asylum seekers across Member States does not follow the rule book.” The impracticality of the system is also well-documented, with a report from CIDOB, a Barcelona-based think tank, noting that “most applicants seek asylum in a different country to the one in which they arrived”, defying the basic tenet of Dublin that “[i]t should not matter which country you flee to”, as articulated in 2012 by the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström. And so is the inefficiency of it. “If Dublin is inefficient in preventing asylum applications in a country other than that assigned, it is just as inefficient in fulfilling transfer requests between member states,” the report found. To illustrate the point, it provides an example from 2013, when of a total of 76,358 transfer requests, 56,466 were accepted by the receiving countries. However, only 20 per cent, or 15,938 transfers, were carried out... As predicted by those advocating for Brexit 10 years ago, whatever the problem, the solution which Brussels finally arrives at will always result in further loss of sovereignty for individual member states. But why, despite freeing itself from the EU, has Britain failed so miserably to take control of its borders? Not just the illegal Channel crossings, but legal immigration has soared under the leadership of those who promised to take back control of the country. “That was the fault of the Conservative government, of which I was a part.” Sir Jacob responded unflinchingly. “It was not a consequence of Brexit.” “The problem was that post-Covid there was a feeling that people had retired early. They had got used to furlough, they weren’t going back to work, and that there were going to be labour shortages across the economy. “And the way to fill those was with migrant labour. And we therefore took very large numbers of migrant labour under easy terms, plus their dependents. And so for a couple of years, migration was utterly out of control.” Having delivered such a candid assessment of his own party’s failings in power, what advice would Sir Jacob offer the Labour Government to address the Channel crisis? “Pull out of the Convention on Human Rights, pull out of the refugee convention, forget internationalism, govern the country.” It is, however, very much a consequence of Brexit that the only legislators responsible for the current immigration crisis are based in Westminster. If Brexit means anything, it is to have the freedom to make our own choices. That includes the freedom to make wrong choices too, on our own terms, not dictated by Eurocrats, secure in the knowledge that the people who govern over us do so only because we have entrusted them with that right. A right which can be taken back if the terms no longer apply."

Yes, Brexit did deliver an extra £350m a week for the NHS - "On the eve of the Gorton and Denton by-election in February, the Labour Party posted the picture of a red bus on its X account. Across it was printed: “Remember the £350 million a week for our NHS? You can’t trust Farage.” The accompanying caption read: “He’s got a track record of selling the British people false promises.” There were two problems with this post. First, it wasn’t Nigel Farage who was responsible for the promise of £350m a week for our NHS made during the Brexit campaign. Second, even if the claim had been made by the then Ukip leader, it would in fact have served as a rare reminder of a politician delivering on a promise several times over... On Oct 28, 2018, Philip Hammond, chancellor in the Theresa May government, presented his last Budget to the country before we officially left the EU. “By 2019, we were giving the NHS an extra £350m a week, and it’s gone up since then, of course,” Lord Elliott recalled... While we were a member of the EU, there had to be a Brexit pot, out of which the weekly £350m gross payment would be made to Brussels. It was a political choice which committed British taxpayers to this arrangement. In the same way, it was Brexit which allowed Westminster to make the political choice to divert those funds towards the NHS in accordance with our national priorities."

Project Fear predicted a Brexit apocalypse for the City. It never happened - "In the spring of 2016, the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London Corporation made an historic declaration. By 17 votes to three, its members had decided that the governing body of the Square Mile would support the United Kingdom remaining a member of the European Union in the upcoming referendum. In his attempt to explain the City’s extraordinary decision to adopt and express a corporate view on one of the most politically charged debates of our times, the then chairman of the committee Mark Boleat, since knighted, highlighted two significant factors. One would seem to serve as a reminder of the strength of the establishment’s anti-Brexit stance. This was not a party political issue, Sir Mark said: “Wherever possible we support the Government of the day, and on this issue we would be supporting the [Conservative] Government in a view that is shared by the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National parties.” The second is a testament to the success of what Brexiteers remember as the Remain campaign’s “Project Fear” in convincing Britain’s financial services industry that it was crucial economically for the country to retain its membership of the EU. Prime minister David Cameron had declared Brexit “the self-destruct option for the country”, and chancellor George Osborne had predicted a year-long recession, with up to 820,000 jobs lost within two years. Likening it to the anxiety gripping the Square Mile back in the 1990s when it became clear that the UK would not be joining the euro, City sources remembered “an atmosphere of unease”, as panic set in. One of the most high-profile interventions from within the industry came from JP Morgan. Chief executive Jamie Dimon initially warned of his bank cutting 4,000 jobs in the event of the UK leaving the EU. After the vote and during the Brexit negotiations, the warnings escalated as Mr Dimon revised his job loss estimates up to a more dramatic 16,000 “if we can’t find reciprocal recognition of rules” with the EU, posing “a real threat to the future success of London as a financial centre”, as reported by the BBC. The JP Morgan boss did not shy away from suggesting that his pessimism over reciprocal recognition rules being negotiated between London and Brussels was due to the EU’s wish to punish the UK, with “a lot of people” being “mad with the Brits for leaving and want[ing] their pound of flesh”. London’s loss was going to be Paris, Frankfurt or Berlin’s gain, as European leaders such as the “new darling of Davos”, the then 39-year-old French president, Emmanuel Macron, dialled up the charm offensive. Mr Dimon’s instincts were partially correct: our pound of flesh was indeed claimed. The UK has not been granted broad reciprocal recognition of its rules by the EU, despite us granting our own recognitions more flexibly in some areas. Post-Brexit UK-EU financial services cooperation continues to rely on a combination of limited equivalence and regulatory dialogue. The punishment is also reflected in the fact that Britain has been granted fewer equivalence decisions (which reduce regulatory complexity for British-based firms operating in the EU) by Brussels than other third countries like the US. The EU also retains the right to withdraw equivalence with notice. But Mr Dimon was wildly off the mark on his predicted exodus of City workers. “At the time of Brexit, CityUK endlessly cited their study forecasting Brexit would mean 75,000 job losses”, remembers Lord Lilley, the Conservative grandee who, as Mrs Thatcher’s trade and industry secretary, oversaw Britain’s entry into the Single Market. “It didn’t happen. There are now more people employed in financial services in Britain than before Brexit.” Certainly, the predictions of a collapse in the numbers of financial services jobs did not become reality. Indeed, JP Morgan is reported to be one of the top employers to have “ramped up efforts to hire workers in the year after Brexit”. According to research by recruiter Morgan McKinley and data-analytics firm Vacancysoft, finance firms in England and Wales “tried to hire just over 87,000 workers [in 2022], the highest level recorded by the two organisations and up more than 27 per cent on 2021”. In April, it was reported that JP Morgan was returning some jobs from Paris to London, having bulked up its French operations after Brexit. The bank employs 13,000 staff in London. It is unclear how many of its 1,000 Paris-based employees are moving to London, but the bank has announced plans to build a new 3-million-square-foot tower in London, resulting in a projected £10bn to be injected over the next six years into the local economy. Goldman Sachs, a City giant named in Sir Mark’s speech as among those urging the UK to remain in the EU, has invested £1bn in its new headquarters in Brexit Britain. London also remains a leading global centre for financial technology, which accounts for 38 per cent of our “unicorns” – startups projected to be worth more than $1bn in a few years. It was reported last year that London bred more unicorns than Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam combined. Placed fifth in the global league table, London is behind only San Francisco, New York, Shanghai and Beijing, with “the combined value of British unicorns tripling from $54bn in 2020 to $172bn in 2024”. It is a small wonder that “the City has done an about-turn and successfully lobbied the government to exclude financial services from dynamic alignment with EU law in the planned reset,” said Lord Lilley. Ten years on from Brexit, London has bolstered its status as a global financial centre, diversifying beyond the EU. “City firms welcome Britain taking back control of our law,” said Lord Lilley. “They benefit from the Wholesale Markets Review, Listing Overhaul, bonus cap removal, and, not least, the competitiveness objective for our regulators, but, above all, escaping the never ending stream of new EU regulations.” It was JP Morgan analysts who had mocked Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans, declaring, a “unicorn with a lick of paint is still a unicorn.” Some unicorns, it transpires, are worth pursuing."

No, Brexit has not sent Britain to the back of the queue for free trade deals - "Readers will remember that there was a persistent effort to present Britain’s aspiration of developing a trade strategy independent of Brussels as a hankering for a lost empire. It is as though the concept of two countries willingly entering into a mutually beneficial partnership as equals had been erased from the Europhile subconscious. Which was exactly the sentiment Peter Mandelson – at that point yet to be ennobled or disgraced for the third time – expressed in a Radio 4 interview later in 2017. Britain’s departure from the EU, the prominent Remainer lamented, would leave us “jousting for access to the Single Market with every Tom, Dick and Harry in the world”. The disdain for any country outside the hallowed Single Market club is a testament to the EU’s own imperialist interpretation of trade. “There were many people who were convinced that Britain, outside the European Union, would be a desperate and impoverished mendicant, that we would be going from embassy to embassy on our knees, pleading to have British goods sold in their markets,” Michael Gove, now Lord Gove, recalled. Even as late as Autumn 2020, we were being mocked for aiming too high despite our apparent lack of “clout”. A European commentator decreed that “Brexit Britain is fast becoming Billy No Mates, touting for deals left right and centre”. And yet, by July 2023, the UK had signed the accession protocol to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or the CPTPP, acquiring closer trading relations with countries ranging from Japan and Singapore to Canada, Chile and Peru, via Australia and New Zealand. The Australian deal, as part of the UK’s accession to CPTPP, merits a special mention as the first trade agreement negotiated from scratch after Brexit. The Japan deal, on the other hand, was an example of modifying an existing treaty. While it was largely based on the Japan-EU deal, post-Brexit we were able to “secure better access for UK goods than was the case under the EU”, according to Lord Gove. With the UK becoming the 12th member of a trade block with 11 dynamic economies, the CPTPP represented 14.4 per cent of the world’s GDP on 2024 data... In May, “Billy No Mates Britain” became the first G7 country to conclude negotiations on a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council. And what of India, the country we were told had humiliated the prime minister of a weakened and isolated Britain? It appears that Mr Dalrymple might have either overestimated the strength of the South Asian nation’s “very bitter memories of British rule” or underestimated its pragmatism: easy mistakes to make for devotees of a resentful and ideological EU. Having commenced negotiations in 2022, the UK signed a trade deal with India in July 2025. The EU, too, struck its own agreement the following year, after “nearly two-decades of stop-start negotiations”, as the Indian press reported. It is difficult to tell whether President Barack Obama’s threat to Britons during his UK visit – barely two months before the referendum – that a Brexit vote would send us to the “back of the queue” for trade deals with his country helped the Remain case. Critics of the then president suggested at the time that the boorish pronouncement was intended to mask his embarrassment at failing to strike a deal with the EU. Happily, a new president at the White House appeared to break the spell for both the UK and the EU. Last year, Britain was transported to the front of the queue. It became the first country to strike a deal with the US following President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcements, with an effective 10 per cent tariff rate, the equal lowest of any country, illustrating the flexibility the UK now has in deciding and negotiating its own trade policy. Subsequent events, and Mr Trump’s rapidly changing tariff threats, haven’t substantially altered that picture. “The key thing about leaving the European Union is that it creates possibilities,” Lord Gove told me. Britain’s landmark defence partnership with Australia and the United States exemplifies this point. Along the way, in autumn of 2021, the three countries came together to form Aukus, an “enhanced trilateral security partnership”, with a view to sustaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, focusing in its initial stages on “cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies and additional undersea capabilities”. That leaving the EU had “liberated Britain to make the right decisions in our interests”, as Lord Gove put it, is something which the current Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, also understands well, even if party politics prevents her from acknowledging it. As she attempted to steer the economy through the prolonged crisis in the Middle East, Ms Reeves found a lifeline in her ability to cut “tariffs on over 100 different foods sold in supermarkets” to ease the pressure on households. It is a direct consequence of Brexit that Britain has regained its independence to set its own trade policy, according to its own needs, unburdened by the interests of 27 other disparate economies."

A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred—Introduction, Text, and Commentary (6/6)

2026-10-23T13:08:00.000+08:00

Finishing this series, I am giving it the "Islamic Jew Hatred" label.

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Part 6

This bit contains the citation about Palestine being considered a Islamic waqf (which again appears in the 1988 Hamas Charter) which can never be given to non-Muslims (which explains the Israeli-Palestinian conflict).

A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred—Introduction, Text, and Commentary (6/X)

"The missionary Gregory Wortabet‘s mid-19th century account from Jerusalem (published in 1856) confirms Lane‘s reference about the apparent commonality of Muslims equating their domesticated asses (donkeys) with Jews, accompanied by "opprobrious epithets"—and often abuse—of either, or both. Wortabet cites another Jew-hating motif from canonical Islam‘s repertoire, the alleged poisoning of Muhammad by a Khaybar Jewess, as a possible rationale for such chronic Muslim attitudes toward Jews. His anecdote also documents the pejorative reference to Jews as "hogs" (pigs), in accord with Koran 5:60.

The Jew is still an object of scorn, and nowhere is the name of "Yahoodi (Jew)" more looked down upon than here in the city of his fathers. One day, as I was passing the Damascus gate, I saw an Arab hurrying on his donkey amid imprecations such as the following: "Emshi ya Ibn-el-Yahoodi (Walk, thou son of a Jew)! Yulaan abuk ya Ibn-el- Yahoodi (Cursed be thy father, thou son of a Jew)!" I need not give any more illustrations of the manner in which the man went on. The reader will observe, that the man did not curse the donkey, but the Jew, the father of the donkey. Walking up to him, I said, "Why do you curse the Jew? What harm has he done you?" "El Yahoodi khanzeer (the Jew is a hog)!" answered the man. "How do you make that out?" I said. "Is not the Jew as good as you or I?" "Ogh!" ejaculated the man, his eyes twinkling with fierce rage, and his brow knitting. By this time he was getting out of my hearing. I was pursuing my walk, when he turned round, and said, "El Yahoodi khanzeer! Khanzeer el Yahoodi! (The Jew is a hog! A hog is a Jew!)" Now I must tell the reader, that, in the Mahomedan vocabulary, there is no word lower than a hog, that animal being in their estimation the most defiled of animals; and good Mahomedans are prohibited by the Koran from eating it. The Jew, in their estimation, is the vilest of the human family, and is the object of their pious hatred, perhaps from the recollection that a Jewess of Khaibar first undermined the health of the prophet by infusing poison into his food. [emphasis added] Hence a hog and a Jew are esteemed alike in the eye of a Moslem, both being the lowest of their kind; and now the reader will better understand the meaning of the man‘s words, "El Yahoodi khanzeer!"

Moshe Perlmann, an eminent scholar of Islam‘s Medieval era anti-Jewish polemical literature, made this rueful summary observation in 1964:

The Koran, of course became a mine of anti-Jewish passages. The hadith did not lag behind. Popular preachers used and embellished such material.

The numerous salient examples of Islam‘s canonical Jew-hatred punctuating Hajj Amin el- Husseini‘s 1937 declaration validate Perlmann‘s concise overarching assessment of these foundational Islamic sources, and their tragic application across space and time, into the modern era.

El-Husseini‘s promulgation of jihad and canonical Islamic Jew-hatred in pursuit of the destruction of Palestinian Jewry, and later, the nascent Jewish State of Israel, has reverberated across the ensuing decades. Consider two complementary fatwas, one written January 5, 1956, by then grand mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Hasan Ma‘moun, and another January 9, 1956, signed by the leading members of the Fatwa Committee of Al Azhar University—Sunni Islam‘s Vatican— and the major representatives of all four Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. These rulings elaborated the following key initial point: that all of historical Palestine—modern Jordan, Israel, and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza—having been conquered by jihad, was a permanent possession of the global Muslim umma (community), "fay territory"— booty or spoils—to be governed eternally by Islamic law.

Muslims cannot conclude peace with those Jews who have usurped the territory of Palestine and attacked its people and their property in any manner which allows the Jews to continue as a state in that sacred Muslim territory. [As] Jews have taken a part of Palestine and there established their non-Islamic government and have also evacuated from that part most of its Muslim inhabitants. . . . Jihad . . . to restore the country to its people . . . is the duty of all Muslims, not just those who can undertake it. And since all Islamic countries constitute the abode of every Muslim, the Jihad is imperative for both the Muslims inhabiting the territory attacked, and Muslims everywhere else because even though some sections have not been attacked directly, the attack nevertheless took place on a part of the Muslim territory which is a legitimate residence for any Muslim… Everyone knows that from the early days of Islam to the present day the Jews have been plotting against Islam and Muslims and the Islamic homeland. They do not propose to be content with the attack they made on Palestine and Al Aqsa Mosque, but they plan for the possession of all Islamic territories from the Nile to the Euphrates.

Although free of eschatological references, the January 1956 Al Azhar fatwas‘ language and arguments—pronounced from Sunni Islam‘s most esteemed religious teaching institution—are otherwise indistinguishable from those employed just over three decades later by Hamas (in its 1988 covenant), revealing the same conjoined motivations of jihad, and conspiratorial Islamic Jew-hatred.

Koran 3:112, which affirms the curse of permanent abasement upon the Jews for transgressing Allah‘s will, and killing his prophets, is featured before the pre-amble to Hamas‘ foundational Covenant—it is literally part of the very first statement of the document. Article 7 re-states the canonical apocalyptic hadith of Jew annihilation requisite to ushering in the messianic age, which concluded Hajj Amin el-Husseini‘s 1937 declaration:

...the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to realize the promise of Allah, no matter how long it takes. The Prophet, Allah's prayer and peace be upon him, says: "The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,‘ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews." (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985)

Jihad is the other pillar of Hamas‘ foundational ideology featured in the 1988 Covenant. Article 15 (subtitled, "Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is a Personal Duty") elucidates classical jihadist theory, as well as its practical modern application to the destruction of Israel by jihad:

The day the enemies conquer some part of the Muslim land, jihad becomes a personal duty of every Muslim. In the face of the Jewish occupation of Palestine, it is necessary to raise the banner of jihad. This requires the propagation of Islamic consciousness among the masses, locally [in Palestine], in the Arab world and in the Islamic world. It is necessary to instill the spirit of jihad in the nation, engage the enemies and join the ranks of the jihad fighters. The indoctrination campaign must involve ulama, educators, teachers and information and media experts, as well as all intellectuals, especially the young people and the sheikhs of Islamic movements...It is necessary to establish in the minds of all the Muslim generations that the Palestinian issue is a religious issue, and that it must be dealt with as such…

Recent polling data indicate that these traditionalist Islamic views—espoused across a continuum of 75 years by el-Husseini, Al Azhar University, and Hamas—resonate with the Palestinian Muslim population. American pollster Stanley Greenberg performed what was described as an "intensive, face-to-face survey in Arabic of 1,010 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip." As reported in July, 2011 these data revealed that seventy-three percent of Palestinian Muslims agreed with the dictates of the apocalyptic hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985; included in both el-Husseini‘s 1937 declaration, and the 1988 Hamas Covenant) calling for the annihilation of the Jews, to bring on the messianic age. Eighty percent supported the destruction of Israel by jihad, and the need to recruit the entire global Muslim community, or "umma" in this quintessential Islamic cause.

Almost four decades ago Bat Ye‘or published a remarkably insightful analysis of contemporary Islamic Jew-hatred, in particular, its annihilationist predilection. She hypothesized that the rise of Jewish nationalism—Zionism—posed a predictable, if completely unacceptable challenge to the Islamic order—jihad-imposed chronic dhimmitude for Jews—of apocalyptic magnitude.

The pejorative characteristics of Jews as they are described in Muslim religious texts are applied to modern Jews. Anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism are equivalent—due to the inferior status of Jews in Islam, and because divine will dooms Jews to wandering and misery, the Jewish state appears to Muslims as an unbearable affront and a sin against Allah. Therefore it must be destroyed by Jihad. Here the Pan-Arab and anti-Western theses that consider Israel as an advanced instrument of the West in the Islamic world, come to reinforce religious anti-Judaism.

Bat Ye‘or‘s 1974 observations have now been confirmed by the first thorough textual analysis of the exclusively Islamic sources utilized in a critically important 1937 pronouncement by Hajj Amin el-Husseini. One can only speculate as to why such an investigation was not conducted decades earlier."

From the footnotes:

29. See Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 55, Number 546 http://bit.ly/16GJkUY (pp. 770-771); and The Life of Muhammad—A Translation of Sirat Rasul Allah, pp. 239, 248, 255. The Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun (who ruled from 813–833), allegedly had a Jewish notable drowned for referring to Muhammad as a liar. Immediately thereafter, it is also claimed, al-Mamun recounted for those present (The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, p. 222)

the story of al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad, a friend of the Prophet—how, (when he was on one of his journeys), he was accompanied for a whole day by a Jew. When evening came, al- Miqdad remembered the saying handed down from the Prophet: "No Jew meets with a Muslim in privacy unless he has some scheme to trap him."

Links - 22nd October 2026 (Women)

2026-10-22T13:42:00.000+08:00

Small girl 🙈 big God 💪 on X - "I was a virgin until 24, started dating Moyo since 21, he didn't pressure me, told me to take my time, loved, cared and still spent on me... After my 24th birthday, we had a big fight and separated. I thought that was the end. Out of anger I lost my virginity to a random guy and just 2 days after Moyo reached out to me. He wanted us back together. I felt horrible cos I was no longer a virgin, I told him instantly because I was scared and didn't want to lead him on. But he was sad, angry and he went quiet. That was the last time I heard from him. I thought he loved me for who I am but sadly he was only after my body like every other man."
That is certainly one way to interpret it

Meme - "*5 white girls squatting*
OUR DADDIES BLOW MONEY SO WE CAN BLOW U
white birthrates are low because white women spend their most fertile years (18-22) having sterile condom sex with athletes, frat boys and drug dealers. then from 23- 30 they sit in jew daycare air conditioned fake jobs. then they settle with betabuxx billy and use their expired eggs to have 1 autistic neurodivergent down syndrome immunocompromised future incel"

dmoon on X - "Working in HR/recruiting is a massive power trip for women. It’s an extension of their role as sexual selectors in dating. As it stands, women choose who gets a job and who gets laid. I don’t think people realize how disastrous this is for society."
Ambers on X - "When I worked as the IT guy at a vocational school in my early 20s, most of the middle-aged women in the HR program seemed drawn to the profession because it allowed them to be surrounded by other middle-aged women and just small-talk and gossip for 3/4 of the day."

Temitope💕 on X - "Funny how most restaurants are full of male chefs, but at home it's magically a woman's duty. When it's unpaid, it's for women and when it's profitable, it becomes a 'man's passion'"
иωατα αиαγο єzє on X - "Funny how most prostitutes are women, but at home it's magically a man's duty to initiate sex. When it's unpaid, it's for men. And when it's profitable, it becomes 'women's liberation'"

america1776 on X - "I think one of the saddest things I’ve watched as I’ve gotten older is the fall of women. I won’t lie, it’s been tough going from women as Disney princesses to 50 percent of men wanting nothing to do with them. What’s sad is I don’t think it’s the ladies’ fault completely. But whatever it is, as a man you feel yourself growing a bigger ick toward them every day. The order of society is broken, and now that women have been given power they have shown they won’t do what’s best for society as a whole. I think that’s what we as men resent the most. Sad, sad situation."
⏳Brunus⌛️ on X - "Feminism, social media, and simps. That’s the big three—the triad behind the fall of women. Feminism taught them entitlement. Social media rewarded it. Simps validated and subsidized it. Each is destructive on its own, but together they’re greater than the sum of their parts because they endlessly reinforce one another."

Meme - Skylar Romines @skylarromines: "There was a guy from twitter who used to send me flowers weekly for a while. We met IRL for the first time & went to dinner about a month ago. After that, he asked me out again. I thanked him and was honest that I didn't think we'd be compatible long term & shouldn't continue. He hasn't sent me flowers once since then. It's always good to have an opportunity to see someone's true character when they don't think they're going to get what they want from you anymore. Like - someone who was genuinely invested in your happiness would've kept sending flowers."
Female entitlement is huge. Of course, if he had continued sending her them, she could've slammed him as a creep for making her uncomfortable and continuing when she'd made it clear she wasn't interested. There's no winning.

Meme - Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy: "I have never in my life dated a man who plays video games. We are adults, correct? Why is this a debate."
sometimetyler: "This is why you're still dating at 40."

Thyroid Sick Of Getting Blamed For All Of Woman's Character Flaws | Babylon Bee - "Local woman Denise Stanton's thyroid gland has gotten increasingly fed up with getting blamed for all of her shortcomings. Stanton has often accused her thyroid of being responsible for everything from being irritable toward her husband to shoveling three donuts in her mouth at once. "I've had it," said the thyroid gland in a statement. "I'm done taking the fall for your mood swings, Denise. I didn't make you eat that whole bag of Doritos. I didn't make you yell at the UPS guy about his package-stacking technique. Take some responsibility for yourself, Denise!" The thyroid had kept quiet for years, silently fuming as Stanton attributed every poor decision she made to her tiny gland. "She had three glasses of wine and tried to say I was causing her brain fog," sighed the thyroid. "Even when she said I made her stay up all night bingeing Gilmore Girls and downing Ho-Hos, I kept my mouth shut. Not any more, Denise." At publishing time, Stanton had told her friends her thyroid must be acting up again as she had impulsively spent $5,000 on a new dress."

Meme - Patches O'Houlihan @sondraa: "Nothing like 4 divorces and 6 engagements to find out you're the problem"
My Mixtapez @mymixtapez: "After 4 divorces and 6 engagements, Jennifer Lopez says she won't be getting married again -she's choosing herself from now on"
Melissa @Meleeeza02: "My guess is she's always "chosen herself" ...thus the divorces. The language used to rationalize toxic behavior is so ridiculous."

Meme - @ma1ybe: ""What radicalized you" realizing Women have been menstruating for 300,000 years. The first sanitary pads appeared only in 1880. And it wasn't until 2023 that they were finally tested using actual blood, and surprise: turns out they don't work the way we thought. But strawberry Viagra exists, because apparently a bitter pill is just too much for men to deal with"
MAGA Life @MAGALife69420: "300,000 years waiting for a man to fix your problems and you STILL complain"

Meme - "The dating scene is far worse than most people realize. What a lot of these podcasts won't say is that men have legitimately given up. The reason they have given up is that women aren't fair anymore. They expect a lot and basically offer sex twice a month. It sounds harsh, but am I wrong? Unless you date a high school sweetheart or find someone at college, everything turns into a business deal, and all the single men I know want nothing to do with it. There's so much resentment toward women recently because men on a large scale have figured out American women aren't wives. They are career-driven, angry narcissists who think men owe them a lot just because they are women. It's just so tiring."
RossG @RossGSalvatore: "All movies and social media NEVER describe women's bad behavior of disrespect or cheating as BAD BEHAVIOR. NEVER EVER. Instead it's YAH, GO GIRL! Bad behavior, disrespect, hoeflation--are all encouraged as the way to act in life. How the hell did we even get here."

Meme - Debra: "men would rather be out on a night without tent and sleeping bag instead of going to therapy."
"Surviving a Frozen Night in the Wild at -20 degrees C (No Tent, No Sleeping Bag)"
Ronnie: "He found peace in the woods and somehow you still managed to get upset"
Women love to get upset about things that don't affect them

Liz on X - "Me: I was raped.
Them: Give me exact details and names and location or you’re lying.
And you wonder why women severely underreport rape."
jellybo on X - "Nigga that’s the basis of reporting any crime"

Raq on X - "What’s the point of dating anymore? You find a man, you go on an amazing first date. He’s obsessed with you. You spend an extended period of time together without wanting to kill each other. You start thinking this maybe could be something. So you tell him you like him, because honesty is the best policy, right? WRONG you messed up already. He initially tells you he likes you too. Then it starts happening. He starts slowly pulling away. Text messages happen a little more infrequently, you start calling and texting first. You call him out on pulling away, he says he’s “busy” The man who was obsessed with you when he first met you (because you were out of his league) now has the power. So eventually, you get annoyed and you send a paragraph telling him that you don’t want a penpal and you want to be treated correctly. He replies I’m sorry, but doesn’t do anything to correct his behavior. No act in furtherance of his apology. So it’s done, it’s over. Another one bites the dust. A tale as old as time"
Westside L.A. Guy on X - "Here’s what happened. She had sex with a guy of higher sexual market value than her & is shocked that he won’t commit. The guy simply has better options than her. She can easily get commitment from a man of similar sexual market value but her delusion won’t let her."

Meme - TDHBXG @TDHBXG: *strapping handsome guy on jetski*
M @joiedevivre789: "I dated so many men, good looking, tall, dressed fashionably, popular, sexy etc you know who I married? A short not so good-looking very street smart man who makes laugh so hard I roll on the floor for thirty five years"

Meme - gabby @girllafraidd: "my italian grandmother looked at me and asked if the american dream is to be a whore"
gabby @girllafraidd: "happy fourth from a supposed american dream"

Meme - Jake: "I started wearing a wedding ring when I go out and I swear women pay way more attention to me now."
Emily: "You don't think pretending to be married is a little unethical?"
Jake: "I'm not the one hitting on a married man."

Meme - "Much better to be a pick me... than a skip me"
*Comfortable Woman in rain with umbrella marked Husband*
Shivering wet woman: "You're a pick me!"

Meme - Remssx @Remzsx: "My husband is a silent type that doesn't keep friends. He never stayed past he doesn't visit anyone and no one visits him. We are married for 4 years and we never had a reason to quarrel or argue, most times I bring up baseless argument so we could just raise our voice yet he will find a way to avoid it. I know issues makes marriage stronger but I have never had any reason to at least act upset and have him beg and pet me. It's seriously eating me up, this man is too peaceful and quiet for my liking and I on the other hand is stubborn Please, how do I spice up my marriage and how do I get this man to at least raise his voice at me little. I want him to at least get angry once. This sound funny buts it's really bothering me. I am bored in this marriage."
Women love drama

Karen Eggleson on X - "I find it funny that a woman who has sex with different men is called a slut, but a man who has sex with different women is not. How come?"
Adriana Flowers 🌸 on X - "This is something that you will hear a lot from women. They complain about how only women are shamed for being promiscuous while men that do the same are not. First of all, these women do not actually think there’s anything wrong with sleeping around. They just don’t like that women specifically get more shame for it than men. If no one was shamed they would love it. Second of all, women create this double standard, yes. Ignore all the virtue signaling from most women that say they are grossed out by manwhores. Place a hot manwhore in front of them that wants them and all the “grossness” will disappear from their bodies. (These aren’t virginal women that complain about the double standard btw.) The reality is that women simply do not find sexual immorality in general appalling. They think it’s ok when women do it, they think it’s ok when men do it (hence why they use incel as an insult for men, they hate men that aren’t being sexually immoral). The slut shaming tends to come from men and a minority of women. But who is shaming the minority of promiscuous men that are running through most women? No one. And so the double standard is born. Mind you, women benefit from double standards all the time. They just don’t like double standards that don’t benefit them."
Right_in_the_middle on X - "It might be unfair, but the reality is that the characteristics that map onto highly promiscuous men make them highly desirable: charming, confident, attractive, intelligent, witty, successful, and so on. Granted, a man with these characteristics who chooses not to be promiscuous is going to be perceived as the most valuable of men. Whereas the trait that maps onto promiscuous women, or is necessary for promiscuity, is simply willingness. So either women have to treat male promiscuity as a real negative that outweighs those traits, or men with those traits will keep being rewarded for not choosing exclusivity. Fair, unfair, sex differences… it doesn’t matter. It’s just reality. Better to lay out the facts so the issue can be addressed."

6igantuar on X - "The vast majority of spiked drinks are actually just women that drank too much and claim their drink was spiked to avoid accountability. It’s nowhere near as common as women make out."
Bethany Cherisse on X - "I literally had a female friend in my early 20s who OD'd and nearly died on the nightclub floor in front of me. Once they brought her back around, she proceeded to insist to security, paramedics and our entire friend group that she was certain her drink had been "spiked". She even pointed out the guy she thought it was. None of us believed her. Why would we? Every single one of us had seen her popping MDMA pills all night like it was candy. She just didn't want to admit that, so it was easier to rely on the old "I didn't put myself at risk a man slipped something in my drink and he's the one at fault." Happens all the time."
Accountability is misogyny

The Robber Baron on X - "I had no idea. 70% of divorces are initiated by women; that jumps to 90% for college educated women. I have a few male friends who are going through separations that are stunning. Good dads, good husbands, nothing major wrong. Toxic femininity is a thing"
Autumn Christian on X - "If you're married to someone who takes care of you, and is a good parent to your children, then you've won the game. There isn't anything out there that you're missing. You've already found what you're supposed to find. So many people ruin their lives with a vague sense of dissatisfaction that is entirely constructed within their own minds. You're not going to find the answer by separating from your spouse, ruining your children's lives, partying, sleeping with strangers, "finding yourself" by taking a plane staring into the dead gas lamp sky of a thousand cities that all look the same in the heat of your misguided misery. I've blown my life enough to know that I'm skillful enough to recreate my own personal hell no matter the circumstances. Stop trying to find the answer by running away. It's time to stay. Stay. You need to love harder. Explore what you already possess. Possess more only to give and enrich the life you currently have. Take responsibility for something important to you. Start a business. Take care of a relative. Be a better friend. Be a better parent. Create something beautiful. Love some more. Everything else is a dead end."

🦢 on X - "I divorced my husband because I was sick one weekend and asked my husband to pick up my medication on his way home. He said he would. When he arrived, he had takeaway for himself, a new video game, and a bag of snacks. No medication. When I asked him about it, he said, “I forgot.” Then he opened his food and asked if I wanted some. That was the moment I realized he could remember everything that made his own day easier, but somehow forgot the one thing I actually needed."
Clearly this has nothing to do with feminism radicalising young women into hating men (which we can see from the recent New Statesmen survey) and using every minor grievance as an excuse to justify divorce, and their grandmothers only stayed with their husbands because they couldn't leave

Scot on X - "Ladies do you realize 70% of you have the exact same shit on your dating profiles"
marmot on X - ""i only swiped right for your dog"
"no hookups"
"coffee, wine, hiking"
>pic 1: at a pumpkin patch
>pic 2: drinking an ipa with 2-3 slightly uglier friends, all tastefully not looking at the camera as they pretend to laugh
> pic 3: bridesmaid pic
> pic 4: doing something "whimsical" like balancing on a log or blowing on a dandelion
> pic 5: hugging a labradoodle"

GHOST on X - "Behind every dumb bitch is a pack of dumber bitches cheering that dumbass bitch on so she becomes an even dumber bitch"

Cigs on X (Translated) - "this is the reason i've stopped wanting to ever deal with girls i don't know. even if she passes out right in front of me, the most i can say is, “Good luck.” once helped a woman who fainted. when she came to, she started freaking out, uncomfortable being touched by a guy. never again."
tara🦉 kinda ia on X (Translated) - "HAHAHAHA. This video just popped into my head. Meanwhile, the coach was just holding onto the girl so she wouldn't fall flat on her ass during the backflip, but instead, her friends were yelling at him. Then the coach stopped holding her. So when she tried the backflip again, yeah, the girl fell, her head hit the ground, her neck snapped."

Lisa Britton on X - "All we hear all day every day is how men should “be better.” But the moment you mention how women could “be better” too, the internet breaks and there’s a wave of rage. I got a heavy round of insults this afternoon for simply saying we should have a conversation about how, in many ways, women need to take accountability for their actions. Fortunately, I’m used to insults. You’re not going to shame me into silence! Yes… Women can “be better” too, and it’s about time we had that conversation!"

Emily Jashinsky on X - "Consensual hookup culture often feels predatory to women because... it is. It preys on women's desire for monogamy and coupling and love, which many believe there's a chance of receiving even after casual sex. Frat bros around America are indebted to Alex Cooper for trying to convince so many women they can and should have sex like men. It's led to men having a lot more casual sex because women choose to have it. That norm is great for dudes, but women often end up feeling preyed upon and exploited because they experience sex differently and just can't — on average — have casual hookups so easily. Cooper preyed on women to make millions by convincing them it was normal to see sex more like men see it. Men who mislead women into having casual sex by dangling the prospect of monogamy prey on women. It doesn't mean women are helpless! And it doesn't mean non-consensual sex is anything short of horrifying and criminal. It just means there's a predatory culture swirling around even consensual hookups too, and it's really dangerous for women."
True Discipline on X - "It isn't any more predatory than the norm of men paying for dates. Sometimes you make an investment and don't get anything in return..."
Thread by @olivertraldi on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "It is hard to know in what sense it could be "predatory". There's no information gap - it's not as though men somehow know something about women's future experiences that women themselves don't know. Another example of how talk around this issue really confuses me. When we talk about "norms", people often act as though they can be changed from on high by some authority, or alternately as though no one has control over them at all, like the weather. But norms emerge from different people making independent choices, which turn into rules. I'm also a bit skeptical of the notion that young women are really wholly tricked - as though they've never before encountered this idea of differences in sexual experience. Men and women treating sex differently is all over literature, television, movies. It's not some epiphany. In the roots-of-wokeness debate Park MacDougald coined the phrase "demand problem" to explain why the notion that people got tricked by Foucault or critical race theory or whatever wasn't sufficient to explain the rise of wokeness. The tricking itself requires an explanation."
Feminism tells them that men and women are the same, so

Benjamin Ryan on X - "Research suggests that, contrary to Jashinsky's claims that Alex Cooper has unleashed a tragic libertine culture of empty hookups, casual sex among young people has actually declined in recent years. Sex in general, whether it leads to love or is the product of it, has been on the decline, much to the alarm of people who see warning signs left and right that people are isolating themselves in the iPhone age. Meanwhile, a major problem in the discourse about the Cornell 7/Jane Doe case is that many people are allowing how they feel about the story and how it has been told one way or another to override what we know about it. Similarly, just because it feels like empty sex must be on the rise doesn't mean that we know it to be true. In short, we need fewer vibes, more reason. Less art, more matter."

The unspoken truth: Toxic women destroy good men - "There are women who wreck their own relationships and marriages. And you know how it begins? Not even acknowledging that she made a mistake and never saying sorry... Emotionally reactive behavior in a woman feels extremely unsafe to a man. When our emotional reactions are out of control, and we start yelling at and attacking a man, many men will begin to shut down. This shut down often causes us women to become even more emotionally reactive. Since we are not getting the response from him that we want, we yell louder and push even harder. Our words cut deeper. He feels even more unsafe, and he will eventually completely shut down and pull away. We need to take responsibility for and learn to regulate our emotions. Again, communication of feelings needs to come from a place of vulnerability, not from a place where we yell at and attack him. Genuine relationships are based on authentic connection with another person, not based on trying to get something from someone. When our goal is to get something, instead of to connect, we are using and objectifying the other person... The foundation of a relationship is trust and safety. This foundation is established and maintained when both parties demonstrate kindness, compassion, and respect, along with a healthy dose of grace and forgiveness."

S'pore woman says social media manager put up LinkedIn post about meeting 'Piyush Gupta' in Bali, demanded S$5,000 to remove it - "Janney Hujic has been in the news cycle after purportedly posting a picture of "Piyush Gupta", which turned out to be not Piyush Gupta... Hujic clarified that it was her freelance social media manager who had posted it. She told 8world that the freelancer, who is based in the Philippines, posted false content without her permission to attract traffic, and then "blackmailed" her for S$5,000 based on the number of likes. The freelance social media manager even changed the password to prevent Hujic from logging into her account. Hujic said she was on a cave exploration trip in Vietnam and had no internet access... The social media manager was paid a dollar for every like a post received, and was added in a group chat where she shares photos with friends. Her account of the meeting in early May to 8World tallied with the man she took a picture with, Kumar H Subramaniam. Hujic said she had approached him, been told he wasn't Piyush, and had asked for a photo that she could share with her friends as a joke. She later sent the photo to the group chat and posted it on Instagram, apparently jokingly writing: "Oh my, it's him." She also showed 8world her Instagram stories as evidence. According to Hujic, she speculated that the social media manager had chosen the time when Hujic was on a cave exploration trip, and offline, to put up the LinkedIn post for likes... According to messages between her partner and the social media manager shown to 8world, the social media manager apparently demanded S$5,000 to delete the post. The message read: "Post has over 6k engagement. Pay me 5k SGD and I take down."Her partner reportedly paid the manager, but Hujic is still unable to access her accounts."

Meme - RoRo Marrelli: "I found my girlfriend's Only Fans. So I created an account using her dad's name and picture and tipped her very nicely with her own money. Now she won't answer her dads calls and he don't know why. This is how you know she's not a Bama fan."
"Here's an update: she's been upset but when I ask her what's wrong she says nothing is wrong. But we all know what NOTHING IS WRONG means lol. So there we were, last night. I was hitting it from the back and I said who's your daddy. Today she asked me not to say that again. So later on left the house as I normally do and when I signed into this evenings OF show she said she is going to be quitting her OF due to a career change and she won't have time anymore. Modern Problems require modern solutions."

Explaining the Cornell Seven and Jane Doe

2026-10-21T13:24:00.000+08:00

Alex Knepper | Facebook

The Cornell case is a fabulous reminder of why I do not trust one syllable written by the mainstream press about sex-crime accusations. Very little about how this case was originally presented seems to hold up to scrutiny -- except maybe the original decisions of the university and the police.

I've waited a few days to comment on this tinderbox of a story because I wanted enough facts came out to form a coherent judgment. It's inevitable that any attempt to have a rational discussion about this topic -- ie, any discussion that does anything other than take the accuser totally at face-value -- will attract a swarm of moralizing crusaders chanting 'rape apology'. It's exactly like when one wants to argue with an evangelical crank who only knows how to call pro-choicers 'baby-killers' or trans people 'groomers': a total atrophy of logical thinking -- a terminal addiction to sloganeering. It's just how mobs function: thinking is displaced by incantation and indignation. They think the intensity of their convictions is proof they are right.

Trauma feminists are the religious right of the Democratic Party: totally impervious to evidence-based arguments, addicted to berserk moralizing, incomprehensibly dogmatic -- and always reliable for a good old-fashioned electoral self-harm mission, like when they led us on a wild goose chase against Brett Kavanaugh and ended up creating a situation where Republicans actually gained in the Senate during Trump's first term. Just as the religious right won't stop until they've recreated the Republican Party in the image of huckster televangelism, the trauma feminists won't stop until they've recreated the Democratic Party in the image of an all-female group therapy session. Their latest mission: affirming our God-given right to regret-free drug-fueled orgies.

The story as originally presented was this: a woman casually looks to spend a fun night hanging out with her friends, who happen to be members of a fraternity. But those so-called 'friends' have set her up. Once this Sandra Dee-style naïf was in the clutches of these predators, she was forced to consume illegal drugs, then subjected to a brutal gang rape at the hands of at least seven men, one of whom texted the rest of the frat, summoning them with their code word for an active rape. After this attack, she reported being gang-raped by these men to the university. But despite her abject terror of these woman-hunting men, only two were expelled from campus, with the others who gang-raped her only made to write essays, and no criminal charges were filed owing to a police culture that protects rapists and has contempt for women and their bodies. Once again, the reality of rape culture on university campuses -- and among men -- has been exposed. This would all be quite horrific, if it were to have happened exactly as reported.

Whatever happened that night, it's pretty clear by now that little about it aligns with this version of events -- and that there is not an unambiguous need for criminal charges.

This woman actually reports in her 2024 account that she went to the frat house specifically to participate in a drug-fueled orgy. She was not forced to use ketamine: everyone in the room was using drugs and drinking alcohol, including all of the men. She reports having consented to sex with multiple men, and taking the drugs of her own accord. (Why does being intoxicated render her incapable of consent but not the men?) As the night goes on, three other men enter the room, and when she tells them to go away...they listen to her. 'Free pussy' seems to be understood to be about a woman who has volunteered for anonymous group sex because she enjoys it -- and the men who came to the room appear, by her own testimony, to have honored her No when they found out she wasn't enjoying herself anymore. The other men continue their activity, and she starts becoming very uncomfortable as she's increasingly overwhelmed, but everyone is too intoxicated to process anyone else's intentions by this point. She reports at this point feeling certain she was being raped, and says that her thought at the time was that the best course of action would be to snort more ketamine off of one of the men's genitals, reasoning that if she did more drugs, maybe she'd pass out, and then if they continued to violate her when she was unconscious, she could charge them with rape. (Huh?) She actually, astonishingly, adds that she would be up for doing it all over again, except without so much drug use. (What!?) She texts one of the men later that the situation got out of hand and that she felt very uncomfortable, which leads the frat to disinvite her from the next house party, which she was eager to attend. (Huh?) Meanwhile, she wrestles with moral guilt about having volunteered to be the sexual plaything for an orgy in the first place, lamenting to a sorority sister that the awful rumors about her are true; that she is indeed a słüť.

It sure looks to me that what happened is something more like one of the natural risks of volunteering to participate in drug-fueled orgies. It reminds me of one of the times I went to the house of a guy I met on Grindr. He and his friend were both already drunk when I got there. It didn't take him long to start smacking me in the face, which I'd never consented to; my flavor of submission doesn't entail an enjoyment of pain, but his flavor of dominance apparently entailed inflicting it. I told him to stop. He didn't listen. I tell him to stop again. Still doesn't listen. Finally, I have to yell at him. After a few minutes, it sinks in that this guy is in fact a total stranger, he's too drunk to process what I'm saying, and he's already been violent toward me without my consent: I really don't know what's going to happen if I stick around. So: I left! (Imagine that!) I *did feel uncomfortable -- both in the middle of the incident, and afterward. But I told myself: that's part of the risk you take when you go to a drunk stranger's house, take off your clothes, and invite sexual activity! It would be profoundly ridiculous of me to do anything other than brush it off of my shoulder. If I can't handle a situation like that, then drug-fueled hook-ups might not be for me! These trauma feminists wouldn't cut it as gay men, I can tell you that.

But this woman seems to have instead felt ashamed of herself afterward. A quote from Nietzsche comes to mind: 'Memory says 'I have done that.' Pride says 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields." The only one sļúț-shaming this woman was she herself: she seems to have been disgusted with herself for being the kind of person who found pleasure in snorting drugs off of a guy's genitals while other men watched, and for getting herself sloshed enough that she couldn't coherently communicate her desires to other people sloshed out of their minds. Over time, encouraged by ideologues online -- she reports this internet activity herself; it is not my speculation -- she found it easier to accept that she was a victim of other people rather than her own poor judgment.

Hence the incoherence: I consented multiple times -- no, I am 100% sure I was raped. I am terrified of these men -- no, I want to go back to party naked with them again. They should be prosecuted -- no, nothing they did was illegal. I am certain of this -- no, I actually was so intoxicated that everything is blurry. I was coerced to use drugs -- no, I went there already knowing I'd be using drugs and actively wanted to keep using even as I felt violated. I was drugged by predatory men -- no, all of us were using the same drugs and they were as intoxicated as I was.

What jury would possibly convict based on such an ambiguous collection of statements? You can't run a steamroller over people's lives with such absurdly contradictory evidence. It is simply impossible to determine what really happened that night, through multiple layers of heavy intoxication and rapid-cycling apparent affirmations of and apparent withdrawal of consent. The whole episode was about as hedonistic and 'immoral' as it gets, with extremely poor judgment shown by everyone involved: hence the two expulsions and the closing of the frat chapter by Cornell in response to the incident -- a response that looks vastly more reasonable now that we have more context. The university clearly felt that the young men behaved recklessly by allowing drug-fueled orgies to begin with, and reasoned that closing the frat down and expelling two of the main participants was sufficient. That's not exactly a light punishment for reckless and illegal conduct, actually.

It sounds like the woman *was extremely uncomfortable by the end of the night -- and that the men didn't realize it at the time, and agreed with her after listening to her that the way it unfolded was regrettable. One apologized. That's why they refused to let her come to the next party, even though she *wanted to get drunk and naked with her apparent rapists again, the next week.

Her regret points us to the reality that serious discomfort is a major risk when you place yourself in a situation like that -- where communication becomes extremely compromised. As I discovered myself, there's no foolproof way to know things will go exactly as-planned when you're naked and intoxicated with horny strangers. There is no God-given right to comfortable, risk-free drug-fueled orgies. If you're too fragile to process that sort of discomfort, an easy way to avoid it is to not snort illegal drugs after taking all of your clothes off and instructing a group of men to use your body for their pleasure. Again: the idea of a gay man acting traumatized by this belongs in comedy.

The woman and her male lawyer certainly know how the mainstream media works when it comes to sex crimes. From the Duke Lacrosse case to the Michael Jackson trial, from the Rolling Stone UVa episode to the Jay-Z accuser, from Graham Platner to Al Franken: the press reports one-sided sensational accusations at face value, no regard is given to any potential defense, nobody cares what the accused have to say for themselves, anyone asking for evidence is tagged as an apologist for whatever the accused is said to have done, and no accountability ever takes place among those who ended up exposed as having been willing to destroy the lives of innocent men in the name of a moral crusade: again, very much like the religious right in its manic quest for sexual purity. The holiness of their motives is supposed to serve as a substitute for evidence. But we still don't know who 'Jackie' from UVa is. The woman who falsely accused the Duke Lacrosse players, Crystal Mangum, was never charged. Accountability is only for men, apparently. Where else in life do we allow such asymmetry of information?

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has decided to do a complete circumvention of the ordinary legal process by presupposing the guilt of the accused, appointing as a special prosecutor Attorney General Letitia James, who referred to the accuser as a victim and a survivor, indicating that she's already made up her mind about what happened and has already concluded Cornell in the 2020s is a hotbed of misogyny and sexual predation. In what other legal context would this be considered appropriate?

Alright, bring it on: let's see if anyone cares to argue against me using evidence rather than by calling me a rape apologist. As a gay guy who knows what these situations are like, I am immune to the slings of 'incel' and accusations of trying to justify my way with women, so good luck trying that one. Can't wait to see how many people try it, anyway. Here's a tip for debating with me: I am receptive to evidence-based arguments, but not to moralizing and shaming. If you didn't learn that about me when I was standing nearly alone in defense of Graham Platner, you'll never learn. Sex crimes are the defining moral panic of our time, and if I am the only person in the Democratic Party willing to say so without fear, so be it: one person with the truth has the edge over a million members of an angry mob armed with nothing with taunts to intimidate and shame.

Links - 20th October 2026 (Cornell "Rape")

2026-10-20T13:13:00.000+08:00

CBS Mornings on X - "If Jane Doe’s case against seven members of a Cornell University fraternity goes to trial, prosecutors will show “a mosaic,” that may include the text messages Doe sent to at least two of the fraternity members accused of sexual assault, CBS News legal analyst @CarolinePolisi says. Polisi breaks down the “textbook trauma response” Doe exhibited in some of those text messages, and what could come next as the legal process continues to play out."
Phil Holloway ✈️ on X - "I’ve personally handled countless cases of SA in various roles in the justice system. There is no such thing as a “textbook trauma response”. This is made up wording that serves as a euphemism for prior inconsistent statements"

Rich Lowry on X - "Even if you disregard all the initial text messages, you still have Jane Doe’s sworn statement *a month later* when she’s had time to process what happened and decided it was very bad, and her detailed account of the night still doesn’t include anything that constitutes sexual assault—this is the ultimate flaw in the case and most media coverage and advocacy pretend that it doesn’t exist. You can assume everything in that statement is truthful and correct, and you still don’t get a rape case."

OutspokenSamantha on X - "Jane Doe: I had sex with several men at once!
Feminists: You go girl!
Jane Doe: But I'm ashamed...
Feminists: You were raped!!"

Liz Wheeler on X - "She read on forums that she was a slut and felt ashamed. Then someone on the forum suggested she consider it sexual assault and report it. Then she was disinvited from the frat Halloween party. So, she was ashamed (she should be). She felt violated (she was, even if she consented). She was mad (about being disinvited to the party). This is key— She’s also dumb because she had zero knowledge of the definition of rape when she went to police. Regret over your horrendous behavior is not rape. She’s a double dose of dumb actually, because apparently she told police accurately about what happened (not rape, she consented), which demonstrates that her claim of rape is false. But she’s been raised in a culture where it’s only a baby if you want it to be, and boys can be girls if they feel like it, so why shouldn’t she think it’s rape if she’s decided it’s rape? Leftist ideology at work. Instead of taking responsibility for her horrendous behavior, she wants to celebrate herself as a victim. In other words, she’s being nasty and vindictive trying to whitewash her shame with false allegations. But the real story here is deep down EVERYONE involved and everyone who’s now following this case recognizes that what happened was disgusting, immoral, and sexually deviant. Which means we as a society actually do recognize that sex isn’t just a handshake, and the morality of sex can’t be reduced to just consent. God was right all along. Imagine that. Sex is holy and belongs within marriage. Otherwise, sexual depravity reigns and everyone is hurt. She should go to confession not the police station."

Meme - "The raped lioness returns to ask for more ketamine. *skinny lioness with ribs showing*"

Meme - "WE ARE ALL JANE HOE. WE STAND WITH A LIAR"

Meme - "First, it was "Same, Lindsay." Now it is "I am Jane Doe." The number of women who admit to letting 7 guys run a train on them and killing their kids is astounding."

Meme - "I am Jane Doe. I was having sex with my wife when she touched my butt without consent. I was 57."

Meme - "If you're going to call yourself Jane Doe at this point I'm just going to assume you like drugs and orgies."
It's so revealing that so many women are proud to proclaim that they lie about rape

Meme - "WOMEN WHEN FRAT GUYS HAVE SEX WITH WHORES *Bart Simpson with telescope*
WOMEN WHEN RAPIST IMMIGRANTS GET: INTO THE COUNTRY *Blind Bart Simpson with sunglasses and cane*"

Meme - "Imagine being so eager to hate someone that when you find out a girl wasn't assaulted, you STILL insist she was, instead of being happy she wasnt."

Meme - Savanah Hernandez: "Craziest part about the Cornell 7 story is how Lucy Craig was so embarassed about everyone at Cornell knowing she was such a huge HOE, that she made up fake rape accusations that backfired so badly, that now the entire NATION knows she's a huge HOE. Crazy work"

Meme - Snow White to Seven Dwarves while on her bed: "Alright, who wants to do some Ketamine?"

Thread by @JonathanTurley on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, is calling for fraternities to be forced to admit women to change the culture. It is a call that is feeding a familiar mob forming over a case before any charges or evidence is established. Many politicians, pundits, and professors are replicating what occurred in the Duke controversy and refusing to wait for any charges, let alone a conviction, in the alleged Cornell rape case. Roth notably does not call for the compelled admission of men into sororities. It is the type of virtue-signaling move that Roth has made into a virtual signature of his tenure at Wesleyan. Calling neutrality “a retreat,” Roth previously led calls for universities to reject “institutional neutrality” and officially support Kamala Harris."
Left wingers are going to call Jonathan Turley a rapist/rape apologist/dinosaur

Meme - "EVERYTHING IS MEN'S FAULT. the adult-toddler's guide to explaining all of her whore choices" *woman going down playground slide*

Meme - Doge lawyer: "Your honor, she couldn't consent to sucking his dick because of the ketamine she had just sorted off it" *sad female dog*
Women are calling men who point out facts about the case red flags. Which is very telling.

Meme - *Daily Dilemma*
"Cry rape but change your statement after cops advise you its illegal to make false accusations
Cry rape 2 years later in civil court where you'll get paid for lying
WHORING YOURSELF OUT SO BAD THE ENTIRE CAMPUS IS TALKING ABOUT IT"

Meme - "HOW IT BECAME A CRIME
her own timeline, then the rewrite
01 She went there intoxicated.
02 She was invited to group sex and went.
03 She snorted K off a guy she didn't know.
04 She BRAGGED to her friends about snorting K off a guy's D.
05 She BRAGGED that she let the frat run a train on her.
06 She told everyone she was looking forward to the next party (Halloween).
07 She told people to get over it. It's a sex thing.
08 A feminist published an opinion piece claiming she was raped.
09 The frat banned her after members were called rapists.
10 The guy she liked ("King") rejected her over it.
11 Now it is a crime.
consent, then regret, then a lawsuit"

Meme - Savanah Hernandez @Savsays: "The Cornell 7 case is another litmus test for whether or not you'll fall for the most debunkable propaganda imaginable. Lucy Craig (aka Jane Doe) is not a victim. She's a false accuser and instead of women putting this HOE in her place, they're going to back her. Making it even harder for real rape victims to ever be taken seriously in the future. Anyone calling Lucy Craig a victim is an idiot who clearly can't read or think for themselves."

Meme - "Cornell Case: Reported Message Timeline
1. Oct, 21-22, 2024 (about 2 days after alleged incident)
"super clouded too" "none of the sexual stuff was illegal" "I really liked being with u"
Reported by ABC News / CBS New
2. Oct. 23, 2024 (about 4 days after alleged incident)
"Bro everyone knows." "RUINING my life temporarily" "my reputation is destroyed and I'm utterly ashamed." 'You're right it'll get better and [you] think everyone's jealous of us. But also like everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common." "also really open minded"
Reported by TMZ, attributed to ABC News / NYT reporting
3. Late October 2024 (before Halloween party)
"chi phi is your house and you are weleome here." "thank u i really appreciate that. <3 i'll bring my cigs tomorrow."
Reported by NYT-based coverage / TMZ
4. Late October / Early November 2024 (after party invitation withdrawn)
"I knew this was going to happen. The woman will always get the short end of the stick." "Yall aren't my friends. Yall are covering your asses."
Reported by NYT-based coverage / TMZ
5. Nov. 3, 2024
"Let's be clear that 90% of what happened that night was not consensual."
Reported by ABC News
6. Nov. 7-8, 2024
Nov. 7: Hospital forensic exam reported. Nov. 8: Report made to Cornell Police.
Reported by NBC News / other national reporting"

Meme - *Kombucha girl*
"Regret sex
Accuse him of rape"

Meme - shoe @shoe0nhead: "tldr- whats crazy is if you actually read the case she verbally consented to everything that occurred. she said no to some things (like anal, 4some) so they DID NOT DO those things. she said yes to some things (like 3some & KETAMINE DICK) so they DID those things. consent was literally respected through *the entire thing*. it was literally just a sloppy freak orgy she (understandably) regretted because it was fucked up, she felt ashamed. then when she didnt get invited to a halloween party at that frat & her “reputation was ruined” she called it rape. also she was literally pre-planning accusing these guys of rape in the middle of the fuckfest bc she realized real life isnt like porn and stuff like this is actually weird & gross & made her uncomfortable (she never passed out btw people keep repeating that). i see a lot of “high/drunk people cant consent” all the dudes were high and drunk as fuck too, worse than her! they were passing out and throwing up! and is she a rapist too? if you want to debate the MORALITY of having a ketamine gangbang thats a whole other story. we can get into that. we can talk about stuff like bonnie blue and the consequences of consent based morality. but the legality is- it was not rape. i’m convinced the hivemind blob that downloads their opinions from tiktok havent actually read any of the case or texts"

Meme - MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises: "The saddest part of the Cornell 7 case is the BF. Imagine finding out your GF had trains run on her in college. Then she accuses 7 men of drugging/assaulting her. And then it turns out she lied about the whole thing and consented to all of it and made false allegations. 💀"

Meme - GD44 @GD44vh: "The Cornell woman is ugly and also extremely boring holy shit."

Meme - "Breaking News: Jane Doe has been named"
"eCourt Records. Jane Doe (Lucy Craig) v. Cornell University, Inc. et al."
"It's Lucy H. Cr of Birmingham, Alabama. Don't blame me - the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently."

Meme - "YOU ARE ~~JANE~~ A CLOWN. AND SO IS REST OF YOUR MURDER CLUB TRYING TO CONVERT WEAPONIZED CONSENT CASE INTO .A RAPE CASE, JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH LINDSAY CLANCY, TURNING TRIPLE HOMICIDE INTO MOTHER'S HEALTHCARE STORY."

Meme - Liz Mar @LizMair: "If he had a hard on I'm pretty sure he wasn't so drunk he couldn't give consent. Just saying."
Collin Rugg @CollinRugg: "NEW: Cornell 7 frat brother Matthew Ingalls is accusing 'Jane Doe' of r*ping him, citing that he was too intoxicated to give consent. Ingalls reportedly told Cornell investigators that he was too intoxicated from alcohol and ketamine to give consent...."
The Grateful Red @gratefulred1: ""If you don't have a penis, you are not allowed to have an opinion on this" -Feminist rules, but for men"

Meme - FlippeR FlappeR @FlippeRFlappeR6: "Rape apologists are showing themselves more"
FlippeR FlappeR: "So its okay for the woman to say if he is hard that means he must give consent?"
Kylo-Ren Faire: "when did that happen?"
FlippeR FlappeR: "Maybe if you actually read, you'd know when did that happen"
Allison Floyd: "This fucking pig. Also I'm aware lots of men don't understand women's bodies but it's not a naturally dry area to begin with"
Elder of Salem: "She wouldn't be wet if she didn't want it"
Liz Mair: "If he had a hard on I'm pretty sure he wasn't so drunk he couldn't give consent. Just saying."

Meme - Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner: "Lol I LOVE that you guys successfully community noted this one. Involuntary bodily functions are NOT a stand-in for consent! Imagine if people said "oh I I felt her get wet so she was enjoying it no matter what she said." Everyone would be up in arms, but somehow it's acceptable to say this about men. A man's erection isn't consent, and a man's erection doesn't mean he was sober enough to consent."
LetsGoBoston @TypicalBoston69: "Men can consent by achieving an erection. In fight or flight moments, such as if they didn't consent to being raped, arteries would constrict and blood would be kept close to the heart..."
Readers added context: "Erections are involuntary physiological responses that can occur during non- consensual sex, including under fear, stress or fight-or-flight conditions, and do not indicate consent."
I too saw feminists claim this, or to claim that when both the man and woman are drunk and have sex, the man is the rapist. This is also related to the claim the left love, about "homophobes" being secretly gay

Meme - WPL @WomenPostingLs: "What do you mean you're married and go to frat parties"
@FAZEannefrankk: "MY! HUSBAND!"
₍ᐢᐢ₎ @FAZEannefrankk: "I do cocaine. I go to frat parties. I get drunk. I don’t deserve to get gang raped."

Meme - shoe @shoe0nhead: "i’m done i give up. good luck out there single people"
shoe @shoeOnhead: ""yes means no". got it thanks"
NKY Lefty @NKY Leftist: "In many cases, that's correct. It's actually insane if you can't understand that"
Weird. Feminists keep telling us that consent is very simple. Like a cup of tea, even (or that stupid FRIES acromym)
She gets called a pick me for exposing female/left wing irrationality, of course

Meme - "We are all Jane Doe!"
"We literally know. We understand you all have the capacity to make a bunch of mistakes and bad choices and not take any responsibility for it. Thats the whole problem."

Meme - Golf course sign: "PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE WHORES KETAMINE"

Meme - *Mulan*
"Local sorority thot
>ever changing story
>text receipts
Now all of China knows you're a whore"

Meme - Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63: ""professional misandrist" in bio lol. Imagine proudly announcing that you hate half of humanity and criticizing someone else for bad opinions"
Maya-Claire 🥀 @ofclmayaclaire: "I cannot fathom being so male-centered that you write a “in defense of rapists” article. Believing other women is out the window for Jacques if it means she can get an op-ed published!"
"The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care I Opinion. What's most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. Ingrid Jacques USA TODAY"
Feminists don't care about evidence - just the narrative

Meme - Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63: "Interesting how when it suits them, progressives are just as likely as the far right to play the "your views are invalid because of your immigrant background" card, even when the immigrant has probably been American longer than their shitty little selves have been alive"
Bulma @mcapel4: "Anyone who sends out those texts without consent and especially along with a photo is breaking laws and rules of conduct. Add the high levels of intoxication and campus justice in the Cornell case doesn't seem skewed. Ex-USSR have a unique breed of internalized misogyny."
A woman who doesn't go along with the feminist narrative that men are evil has internalised misogyny. Telling.

Meme - Chicken with gaping orifice representing ran-through woman: "WE ARE ALL JANE DOE"

Meme - Brooke Teegarden @theletsnotdate: "Men speaking out against the Cornell rapists are not automatically safe. Predators understand the value of looking like shelter."
valhalla1976: "This just gets better, lol. "Why aren't men speaking out?!" Man speaks out. "Why are men speaking out?!" The womanliest behavior eva."
Naturally, he got told to shut up, because he's a man. Of course, feminism is about equal rights and is for men too. Feminists pretend that men matter too, but they're only allowed an opinion if it pushes the left wing agenda
On the one hand, an "ally" is a useful idiot who will always be hated because of who he is. On the other hand, virtue signallers are often insincere
This won't stop the feminists demanding men virtue signal. They believe white men are guilty even when proven innocent, women never lie when sliming men and accusations by a "minority" against a "majority" are proof after all

Meme - ShitlibSupreme: "If the Cornell 7 were immigrants, brown, or black guys you know all the rightoid chud freaks currently doing endless rape apologia would be sounding like the world's biggest feminists right now."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Several of the Cornell 7 accused have non-white or immigrant/international backgrounds, including Korean national Winston Lee and others with Hispanic/Portuguese surnames and family details."

Meme - Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "Leftists will laugh at 9/11 and cheer on October 7 mass murder and rape but then suddenly demand public beheadings when it comes to the Cornell 7 Can anybody explain this phenomenon to me - I initially assumed that it was because the accused were white men, but half of them are non-white, so what’s the go here? Is it just cause college frat boys are coded white in the progressive imagination?"
"I'm sorry i raped a girl for seven hours" *written in repeat like a punishment*
"REMOVE THEIR HEADS IN A PUBLIC SETTING, IT'S THE ONLY ANSWER."

Meme - Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon: ""It's not fair but if you don't want to be charged with arson, don't make a woman upset so she makes up a story about you committing arson then everyone pretends to see a burned down building that you were responsible for!" -statement made by the utterly cowardly and evil"
Covfefe Anon: "This could be one of the most servile and evil statements that exist "if they didn't want to be accused of rape and expelled they shouldn't have done something that made a girl mad!""
Covfefe Anon: "The thing about saying that this girl has some level of virtue because she didn't lie in the initial police report is that it doesn't put that in the context of her later actions which reveal how she understood her actions at the time ..."
Things Rust wouldn't say: "No, their behavior was immoral and degenerate and now they are dealing with the consequences of engaging in immoral behavior. It may not be fair, but its the natural result of making bad decisions."

Meme - Milli Hill @millihill: "New substack piece on #cornell"
"It's time for women to stop taking any responsibility for our safety. We might as well - because the call is safety coming from inside the house."
Diana Villiers @Dianavilliers1: "Sorry - but your story is full of lies. Three guys had sex with her. Three. Not 7. And by every imaginable standard she consented to those 3. It wasn't "seven hours gang raping her" You are blaming 50 guys for not responding to a chat that went around at 2 in the morning."
Dyssinius on X - "In order to do this, women would first have to *start* taking responsibility for their own safety. Or for anything else, for that matter. Instead, the Sisterhood is on a months-long quest to prove to the world that women bear no responsibility for anything they do."
No surprise she got blocked. Left wingers cannot stand dissent
Feminism can be understood as an outgrowth and evolution of the feminine inability to take responsibility

Meme - *Clown putting on makeup meme*
"Engage in Ketamine fueled threesome"
"Text guys after saying that nothing illegal happened and you enjoyed it"
"Tell investigators that you were excited about them possibly "being gay" around you during threesome"
"OMG I was raped!"

Heather Mac Donald on X - "An unambiguous case of consensual sex. The aftermath of the Cornell group sex episode is a peerless example of the hypocrisy of the feminist movement, which proclaims the oppressiveness of any remaining traces the chivalric code. Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are helpless to take care of themselves."
Comments (on a related post): "Yes, they basically say "women are vulnerable" to male "manipulation" and cunning and therefore, men must always be restrained around them. This literally places them as the "weaker" and lesser being of the species."
"Absolutely true, if a man is drunk but sees a women making bad decisions (like having a 3some) he is expected to take away her body automity and force her to sit in a room by herself until she understands that she is wrong and he knows her body better then she does..."

Willis Eschenbach on X - "Folks keep telling us we're supposed to "believe all women". Here is what Jane Doe told the DA in a sworn statement under penalty of perjury, immediately after the Cornell incident.
"Jane Doe’s sworn statement in November of 2024 did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped. On the contrary, Jane Doe’s statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual. My office obviously did not and could not have based our November 2024 decision on the allegations in a civil lawsuit that would not be filed until nearly two years later. Furthermore, I have never been contacted by Jane Doe’s attorneys. Not to inform me the original statement was inaccurate and not to ask me to reconsider our decision. Rather, I reached out to Jane Doe’s attorneys after the lawsuit was filed to understand the discrepancy between the original statement and the lawsuit’s allegations and the proper path forward in light of the lawsuit’s allegations."
The DA goes on to say:
"Jane Doe provided a six-page, single spaced, typewritten statement to the Cornell University Police Department. Jane Doe made more than twenty hand-written notations to the six-page document. The signature page of the statement contains the following language: “I have read this statement consisting of 6 pages and the facts contained herein are true and correct. I understand that making a false written statement is punishable as a class A Misdemeanor pursuant to §210.45 of the Penal Law of the State of New York.” As I explain further below, the statement – especially as it relates to the legal definition of “lack of consent” – provides a different narrative and set of facts of the events of October 19, 2024 than those alleged in the lawsuit."
OK, I believe her sworn statement … what's next? I see that Governor Hochul has decided the boys are guilty. She makes the following false claim:
"She spoke to the police. She sat for hours and told them exactly what happened to her. And according to new reports, she could not have been clearer that she was 100% confident that she had been raped. Yet, shockingly, those words never made it into the account that the Cornell police sent to prosecutors."
That is a FLAT-OUT LIE. Jane Doe signed a six-page document after making a number of hand-written notations on it and she NEVER said she was raped, much less that she was 100% confident about it. In any case, Gov. Hochul has appointed Letitia James as Special Persecutor to handle the case … so I figure it's only a matter of time until she indicts Trump as a co-conspirator. "Believe all women", indeed …"
The same people who demand "due process" for illegal immigrants, i.e. get endless appeals even though it's been proven that they have no right to be in the country, demand that the Cornell Seven be jailed without a trial despite no evidence they did anything legally wrong. Left wingers are hypocrites

Links - 19th October 2026 (2 - Brexit)

2026-10-19T17:13:00.000+08:00

Farage: Burnham reopening Brexit debate is gift for Reform - "Nigel Farage has said Andy Burnham has given him a “gift” in reopening the Brexit debate. The Reform UK leader said a referendum on rejoining the EU would “bitterly” divide the country, and accused the Prime Minister of contradicting his own plans for devolution. It comes after Mr Burnham said a second Brexit referendum was a possibility as part of his review of Britain’s relationship with the EU... Mr Burnham, who until June was the mayor of Greater Manchester, previously promised to “rewire the state” by moving power away from London. The Reform leader said: “This is the pro-devolution prime minister…to even consider rejoining the single market, the customs union, let alone the European Union itself, is the opposite of devolution. “A massive transfer of huge powers up to an authority, whereby there’s nothing Parliament could do to change any of it. “So I find the whole thing totally contradictory.” When Mr Burnham stood in the Makerfield by-election that propelled his return to Parliament, he promised not to “rerun” Brexit arguments and said he was “not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU”. The Prime Minister’s constituency of Makerfield voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU in 2016, at 65 per cent. Other parts of the Red Wall – historically a cluster of Northern Labour-voting, working-class constituencies – voted in favour of Brexit, with 59.2 per cent in the West Midlands and 58 per cent in the North East opting out of the EU."

Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton & Minehead on X - "From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection."
Pro EU people think national legislatures are unable to introduce their own legislation. This is without even getting into whether it's a good idea

Brexit was supposed to limit immigration – it did the opposite - "Why, having promised more control over immigration, did net migration rise so much, an episode now sometimes described as the Boriswave. A small part was a bounce-back from the pandemic, but most of it was a result of policy decisions by the government and others. First, the government opened new humanitarian routes for Ukrainians fleeing the war there and for some Hong Kongers in response to the new national security law there which was felt to violate earlier agreements between the UK and China. These actions were unconnected to Brexit and were broadly politically popular. But the government also made a number of other changes to work and student migration visas which led to a very large increase in numbers. It made care workers eligible for work visas, with numbers issued far exceeding predictions. The implementation of this visa was incredibly poor: for example, 275 visas were issued to a care home that did not exist and 1,234 visas issued to a firm that had only four employees. In 2023 over 100,000 visas for care workers were granted. The skilled worker visa was extended to medium-skill jobs (as recommended by the Migration Advisory Committee – full disclosure, I was Chair at the time), but the government also decided that jobs deemed to be in shortage should have lower minimum salaries for visas, in some cases only slightly above the minimum wage. From an economist’s perspective, responding to a shortage in workers by lowering wages was a bizarre decision. At arm’s length from the government, NHS England decided to incentivise the hiring of migrant nurses by giving hospitals more money (£7,000) if they hired a migrant than a British nurse. I think the cash was meant to compensate for the extra cost of overseas recruitment, but it may have over-compensated, as over 60,000 visas for migrant nurses were issued over the years 2021-23. In total 337,000 work visas were issued in 2023 to people overseas, who brought with them 279,000 dependents. On student migration, the government introduced the Graduate Visa, giving all international graduates and their dependents an unconditional right to work in the UK for two years after course completion. They chose to ignore the MACs previous advice to be cautious about this because of the potential to create a demand for degrees (especially short Master’s degrees) that was based not just on the value of the qualification but on the subsequent temporary right to work in the UK (note: I was Chair when that report was written so might be biased). The results were predictable – an explosion in student numbers, concentrated in less selective universities, in one-year Master’s course, with more dependents. In 2022 and 2023, over 900,000 student visas were issued together with 275,000 visas for their dependents (for context, in 2019 there were 270,000 visas with 16,000 dependents). Each of these liberalisations to the managed part of migration may have made some sense taken individually but taken together, they added up to a level of migration which meant that the UK’s population grew at the fastest rate in more than a century. So why did this happen when more control had been promised? Part of the reason may have been the pandemic. Coming out of the pandemic vacancies were very high, the media was full of stories about terrible labour shortages and employers in many countries (not just the UK) used the opportunity to push for more liberal immigration policies. But more than that, I think the UK government at the time was simply incompetent. Within government the usual dynamic is that some departments push (backed by industry lobbies) for more liberal migration policies, and the Home Office pushes back. But some of the home secretaries at the time talked tough about immigration in public but simply did not do the day job. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was hardly renowned for his attention to detail. So a raft of policies, many now partially or wholly reversed, followed. But there was one other part of migration that was also rising at this time – asylum claims including those crossing the English Channel in small boats. Asylum claims rose from about 40,000 a year pre-pandemic to 100,000 afterwards. The number of people arriving by small boat crossings rose from 1,800 in 2019 to peak at over 45,000 in 2022 (in 2025 there were 41,000). Although a rise in Channel crossings would likely have occurred even if the UK had stayed in the EU, Brexit probably reduced control over this type of migration. With Brexit, the UK lost access to the Dublin convention on returns (imperfect though it was), cooperation with European countries was no longer automatic, and, perhaps most importantly, the UK lost access to databases about past claims and criminality of those claiming asylum in the UK. Brexit has made the UK an appeals court for some asylum-seekers in the EU whose claims failed – though we lack good data on how many. And here perhaps is the greatest irony. Brexit ended free movement with the EU giving the UK more control over work, family and student migration even if its government has not chosen to exercise much control at times. But Brexit has given the UK less control over asylum and unauthorised migration, the types of migration that trouble voters the most."
UK. Time to call Brexiteers racist for wanting to reduce white EU migration and ramp up brown and black non-EU migration

Meme - Chris Rose @ArchRose90: "10 years ago since this gem."
Matt Gallagher @MattyWTF1: "Right I need some damn sleep. Good to see we'll be staying in the EU. If I wake up to Nigel Farage's smiling face I'll kill myself #EUref"
Matt Gallagher @MattyWTF1: "Oh my fucking god"
The Farage @TheFarage2016: "wakey wakey *Nigel Farage's smiling face*"

I have no Brexit regrets, and nor should you - "So had it all been for nothing? I never once doubted the common sense of the electorate if they were given the facts. Yes, they might think that Brexit had been a failure. But did they really want to return to the EU? Would they embrace free movement once more, including an almost indefinite number of non-European migrants legalised by various EU states? Would they welcome the euro? Would they happily resume paying a budgetary contribution perhaps now amounting to £1,000 per family? Would they allow the EU again to make British laws, and impose damaging restrictions on industry, agriculture and science? These questions the EU lobbies avoided, but I was quite sure what the public’s answers would be. An opinion poll this month confirmed it: only 27 per cent would be willing to give up rule-making powers in return for greater single-market access. Many people have a stake in Brexit’s failure: nationalists wanting to break up the Union, diehard Rejoiners, culture-war activists portraying British history as hateful, and Labour politicians eager to make Brexit the excuse for the damage done by their own energy and tax policies. They may still manage to tie us to an increasingly troubled EU. Yet in reality, the anti-Brexit case is increasingly discredited. None of the predictions of disaster made by Project Fear have come true. Even though pro-EU voices and the Labour Government still keep repeating that the economy has been devastated by Brexit, their arguments are not persuasive. Most European countries have suffered similar and sometimes worse problems, and the electorate is seeing this. Total trade with the EU (imports and exports) to a great extent recovered after short-term disruption, and ending the contribution to the EU budget compensates for any overall loss. The UK remains the most popular destination for foreign investment. Our advanced technology sector is third in the world (behind the USA and China) and was recently estimated to be worth more than double that of Germany and three times that of France, hampered by EU restrictions. Predictions that Brexit would make the UK friendless and marginal were disproved by its help to Ukraine, by its rapid negotiation of commercial treaties with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and by the strategic AUKUS pact. Above all, Brexit has given us back the power, and the obligation, to govern ourselves, just like the Japanese, the New Zealanders, the Swiss, the Norwegians and indeed most peoples in the democratic world. That so many found this a daunting prospect shows how debilitating EU membership had been for our system of government, and also how little confidence Rejoiners have in their own people... Brexit proved that our democratic instinct is still alive."

How Britain can finally make Brexit a success - "The truth is that it is impossible to assess precisely what the impact of Brexit has been because so many other things have been going on at the same time: Covid and the associated lockdowns, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the spike in inflation and interest rates, a major hit to the aerospace and automotive industries; a four year period of uncertainty about whether the UK would eventually leave the EU and on what terms; and a period of acute political uncertainty which culminated in the election of a Labour government for the first time for 14 years. A simpler guide is provided by looking at how the UK economy has performed relative to its neighbours. It hasn’t done outstandingly well, of course, and this is one in the eye for uber-optimistic Brexiteers who believed that we only had to leave the EU for prosperity to descend upon us like manna from heaven. But equally our performance has been incomparably better than what was envisaged by the Treasury and other uber-pessimists. Indeed, the UK economy has grown at about the same rate as France, and much faster than Italy, Germany and Japan. Admittedly, in per capita terms, its relative performance comes out a bit worse. But it has still done better than Canada and Germany. In practice, although I reckon that the damage was probably relatively minor, I suspect that Brexit has delivered some sort of blow to UK GDP. After all, we knew that Brexit would make trade with the EU more difficult, with more bureaucracy and delays at the border. Potentially offsetting this, there were gains to be had from free trade agreements (FTAs) with countries around the world, from the saving of contributions to the EU budget, and from a wave of deregulation. We have been fairly successful in securing FTAs, although their impact is unlikely to be huge. More concretely, we have saved our annual contributions to the EU budget, amounting to about 0.5pc of UK GDP, and this number will increase. The greatest failure, however, is that we have not deregulated. On the contrary, even under the last Conservative government, never mind the present Labour one, new regulations have continued to spew. One area where being outside the EU has brought regulatory advantage is artificial intelligence (AI)... If current trends persist and the UK continues to be a major force in AI while most of the EU languishes, then all those people currently saying that Brexit was a disaster will have to eat their words."
Left wingers want to regulate AI till it doesn't exist, so good luck

Meme - "All Under One Banner. SCOTLAND IS SCOTTISH, NOT BRITISH"
Lord of the Rings memes with politically incorrect themes: "Leaving the United Kingdom to join the EU whilst under the leadership a West-hating, unpatriotic follower of the religion of peace. You've brought a whole new dimension to the word, 'Nationalist'"

World Economic Forum ‘rigged data’ to make Brexit look like failure - "Klaus Schwab, the face of the Davos conference in Switzerland for years, allegedly intervened in the WEF’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, which ranks countries on productivity and long-term prosperity. In the 2017/2018 report, the UK’s ranking improved from seventh to fourth after a change in methodology. But Mr Schwab, 87, wrote to staff that the UK “must not see any improvement”, as otherwise it would be “exploited by the Brexit camp”. The final report published in 2017 showed the UK had dropped one place to eighth... Allegations that Mr Schwab ordered the figures to be changed were made in an internal WEF investigation, launched after a whistleblower accused him of misusing funds, making suggestive remarks to younger staff, and manipulating research. Switzerland’s SonntagsZeitung newspaper obtained some of the preliminary findings... During the preparation of the same report, according to the investigation, Mr Schwab allegedly ensured that India did not drop 20 places in the ranking. He was hoping to convince Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to join the conference in the Swiss Alpine ski resort, which is attended by about 60 world leaders every year... The investigation carried out by Homburger, the law firm, also looked into some £836,000 in expenses submitted by Schwab and his wife Hilde. SonntagsZeitung reported the expenses allegedly lacked sufficient links to WEF activities. It is also alleged Mr Schwab sent suggestive emails and had “embarrassing interactions” with younger WEF staff. The final results of the investigation have not yet been published... Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, told The Telegraph: “Every conspiracy theory about Klaus Schwab now turns out to be true. He is a dangerous globalist manipulator.” Richard Tice, deputy leader, added: “No surprise the globalist WEF appears to have distorted facts to prevent sovereignty and independence being seen as a good thing. They are a dreadful organisation that Reform will have nothing to do with.” Lord Frost negotiated the Brexit deal that took the UK out of the EU when Boris Johnson was prime minister. He said: “It’s rare we get such clear direct evidence of the global establishment’s hostility to Brexit. Schwab’s alleged deliberate downgrading of Brexit Britain in his Global Competitiveness Report, directly contrary to the actual evidence, shows how deeply embedded distrust of national independence is, and how determined so many people are to suppress any discussion of its benefits.” He added: “Labour’s continued denunciation of our trade agreement with the EU, and their refusal to acknowledge that their trade deals with India and the US would have been impossible without it, are the direct descendants of Schwab’s censorship: ideology before evidence, belief before fact.”... The term “Davos Man” was coined 20 years ago by political scientist Samuel P Huntington to describe an elite who “have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past.”"

Starmer to bring back 76 EU laws - "Sir Keir Starmer is set to bring 76 European Union directives back on to the UK statute book as the Government seeks closer alignment to the single market. The Prime Minister will introduce new legislation in the King’s Speech in May to allow Labour to transfer swathes of European regulation covering the agriculture and food sectors."

Starmer’s ‘Brexit betrayal’ after handing Gibraltar border controls to EU - "Sir Keir Starmer has agreed a Brexit deal that hands control of Gibraltar’s border to the EU. The Prime Minister was accused of plotting to undo Brexit after negotiations to keep the border with Spain open finally ended after almost four years. Under the terms of the deal, Spanish border guards will have the final say on whether a UK citizen can enter the British Overseas Territory."

Brexit was not an economic catastrophe. Here’s the proof - "Since 2007, UK productivity has been broadly flat, breaking a more than 200-year history of productivity improving every decade. This catastrophically poor performance is, from the evidence, nothing to do with our membership or otherwise of the EU, and everything to do with poor government policies from 2008. The Government has damaged our largest and most productive sector, financial services, by increasing taxes and adding layers of onerous regulation. In addition, governments have disincentivised entrepreneurial enterprise and investment with increasingly intrusive regulation, together with a large influx of cheap labour both before and after Brexit. From an economic perspective, both the political and managerial classes have got the EU completely wrong. The EU is a large, protective trading bloc, erecting high barriers to trade with outsiders by a combination of explicit tariffs and very high regulatory compliance requirements. Until 2020, the UK was an insider, and now we are an outsider."

Brexit causes tumble dryer shortage in Northern Ireland - "Shoppers wanting a tumble dryer in Northern Ireland have been left high and dry after new EU rules restricted what can be sold. Under the Windsor Framework, Northern Ireland follows hundreds of EU rules that the rest of the UK does not have to abide by. Laws in Northern Ireland were changed earlier this year to align with the EU’s eco-design and energy labelling regulations, which are meant to make appliances easier to recycle and more green. That means Northern Irish consumers cannot buy certain types of condenser tumble dryers and will be forced to purchase more energy-efficient models, such as those with a heat pump... Mr Allister said that the Brexit deal was designed “for the purpose of breaking up the UK economy and forming an all-Ireland economy.”"

The UK is now a sectarian state - spiked - "People who blame Brexit for everything assume that everything in the world was going swimmingly until Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016 – or until we left officially in January 2020. Just as ignorantly, they think the rest of the world has blossomed since then, while the UK alone has been plunged into poverty and financial distress. But things were never fine here, and things everywhere else have continued to get worse. It’s not just that our current problems have plenty to do with Labour’s decision to torpedo the economy with tax hikes – the fortunes of European countries have hardly ever been worse, either. France is in an even more precipitous state of political turmoil than we are, while Germany is experiencing its longest economic slump since 1871. Their respective crises are clearly nothing to do with Brexit, and instead owe far more to the effects of the Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The bogus conjecture that Brexit is to blame for the UK’s weak economy has its origins in a prediction made in October 2021, when Richard Hughes, then chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said that Brexit ‘would reduce our long-run GDP by around four per cent’. That qualified prognostication is still routinely regurgitated as a fact. Only this month, a letter in The Times repeated that ‘as a direct result of our leaving the European Union’ there had been a fall in the United Kingdom’s GDP by four per cent. Not content to spread their own ‘misinformation’, EU diehards and a grasping Labour government are now reduced to quoting prophecies from yesterday’s soothsayers."

Europe is becoming a Remainer fever dream - "Andrej Babiš, squillionaire agri-business tycoon and former prime minister, has clinched a coalition between his ANO movement, the motorists party Motoristé sobě, which translates roughly as Motorists for Themselves (love the name, guys), and the far-Right Freedom and Direct Democracy party. Together they now control 108 seats in the 200 seat lower house. This is not a simple tyre refit. It is a complete engine replacement for Czech politics. The resulting programme appears to be a blend of screw Ukraine, protect borders, cherish spark plugs, and give the European Commission palpitations. What does this mean for Czechia? Should we even worry? They are, after all, allowed to vote for who they like. And Eastern Europe right now is entitled to look at Western European management of, say, migration, and think: Pfff. However, this does affect us, deeply. And here’s how: this is yet another EU country shifting further to the Right – but this huge tectonic movement has yet to register on British political radars. As we all know, ever since June 2016 British politics has been painfully divided between Leavers and Remainers. Generally, the Remainers are on the centre/centre-Left, from Starmer down. Most of them are desperate to rejoin the EU. And they will try soon enough. But what happens when they finally realise that the cosy, social democratic, solar-power-loving EU that we exited has gone, and the hard-Right is in or sharing power in Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Slovakia, Bulgaria? And they might soon be joined by Germany, France, and others? Put it another way, what will happen to the fey, earnest EU flag wavers at the Last Night of the Proms, when that sweet circle of EU stars has a big nasty imperial eagle in the middle?"

Immigration is to blame for Britain’s productivity woes, not Brexit - "the OBR has been consistent with its analysis of Brexit’s impact since 2016. Imbedded into its forecasts for years has been the suggestion that it would reduce productivity by 4pc and trade intensity by 15pc relative to remaining a EU country. They also believe that most of this productivity impact has already happened. It would take a lot to say they had underestimated this impact in any meaningful way... Business investment is key driver of productivity. And there’s not much in the recent figures to suggest a change is needed, given that business investment rose through 2023 and early 2024 before weakening again. And the OBR already includes this weaker business investment in its current forecast. They could reduce this still further, but it is hard to see how they can do so because of Brexit when business investment has been low by international standards for a long time. The truth is that Britain’s productivity problems predate Brexit by years. Productivity growth collapsed after the 2008 financial crisis and has never recovered. There was no sudden or dramatic fall after the 2016 referendum. Instead, we just saw a continuation of the long period of weak productivity growth that has sadly been a defining feature of our economy. Then there’s immigration. It is this, and not Brexit, that has really confounded things. High levels of net migration have meant that firms could do without investing in either training or productivity enhancing technology. As such productivity per worker has grown slowly. Brexit hasn’t made that any worse. While workplace investment in training has continued to fall, this decline has been persistent for more than a decade and definitely not caused by Brexit... The OBR has also promised to look at Labour’s Employment Rights Bill next month, something they say will most likely have a “net negative” impact on productivity."

Times Radio on X - "“I’m fed up with going away to Europe and apologising…you feel embarrassed.” Lorraine Kelly says queues at passport control post-Brexit make her feel like a “untermensch.” @reallorraine | @HugoRifkind 📻"
Thread by @admcollingwood on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "We underestimate the power of this. A certain class of Britons -- the sort who Orwell said would feel more embarrassed to stand for the national anthem than to steal from the church poor box -- did not like being or feeling English, but still needed to feel part of something bigger than themselves (man cannot live by bread alone). The EU gave them the opportunity to feel part of a grand and noble project that rose above pretty and abhorrent nationalism, while enjoying a facsimile of patriotism. Given they had always preferred European cultures to English (per Orwell, it was easy enough to do. Brexit took that away. Now, every passport queue is a reminder that they're no longer 'citizens of Europe.' To imagine this pain, think how you'd feel if Britain was conquered and colonised."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
All these supposedly worldly people can't conceive of a world outside of the EU, where you need a passport

The EU is no friend of working people - "[The EU] inflicted crippling austerity on a desperate Greek economy, cutting public services and ruining lives. At the peak of the Greek crisis, more than one in four people were unemployed. And all this was done over the heads of the Greek people, who explicitly voted against the EU’s outrageous bailout terms in 2015, only to have an even worse deal thrust on them by Brussels. It’s the same EU that limits state aid and the ability of national governments to intervene in their own economies. This ties their hands when trying to rescue failing industries and save livelihoods. It’s the same EU that repeatedly sides with big business over small firms, putting the fate of millions of workers in the hands of the super-rich. And, most importantly, it’s the same EU that denies individual countries – and therefore their voters – the right to decide what rights their workers must have. This is where the heart of the problem lies. From the Remainer perspective, it is better for the EU to dictate our working conditions from on high than it is for workers in our own country to determine them for themselves. Diehard Remainers claim to be protecting the rights of the working class. But, in truth, they do not trust the public to elect the right government. It is in part for this reason that supposed left-wing ‘Eurosceptics’ ended up backing the EU when push came to shove. For them, we could not risk leaving the EU while the Tories were in power. They reduced a generation-defining decision to the question of which party was in power at that particular moment. These leftish Remainers prefer to outsource important political decisions to Brussels, where they are protected from interference by the masses. In the name of prioritising workers’ rights, they would deny those same workers the right to decide their own political futures. They think they are keeping workers safe from a rapacious Tory government, but they are really just trying to keep them safe from themselves. This points to one of the key problems with the contemporary left: it sees working-class people as victims rather than agents who are capable of forging their own futures. It offers high spending on public services, but very little that will empower the working class as citizens of a democracy. There is also a strange tendency among Remainers to treat the EU as the source of all goodness. But many of our most valuable rights were not won by the EU, but rather by the determination of the British working class and the labour movement."

Lucy Craig (Jane Doe) Surrounded / Cornell 7 as 911 for Women / Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror

2026-10-19T13:02:00.000+08:00

*Piper Perri Surrounded*
*Lucy Craig (Jane Doe) with Cornell 7 around her*

*Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York*
*One alight, due to Lindsay Clancy*
*Cornell 7 truck about to crash into intact tower which is 'Women'*

Normal person: "A black man has a history of domestic violence."
NPC: "Shut up, racist."
Normal person: "He's got a restraining order against him."
NPC: "Silence, bigot."
Normal person: "His landlord is trying to evict him for $12K in unpaid rent."
NPC: "Qulet, Nazi."
Normal person: "He's the 12th holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case."
NPC: "DERRRR !!! JAIL THAT FUCKING NIGGER !!!"

Links - 19th October 2026 (1 - General Wokeness [including APA])

2026-10-19T09:09:00.000+08:00

Diana S. Fleischman on X - "Candice Hargons is the incoming president of the American Psychological Association, the main professional organization of US psychologists. Here are some of her publications"

Benjamin Ryan on X - "These are the 10 most recent papers of the new APA president, Candice Hargons:
1. “That’s Probably What Euphoria Feels Like”: Nonbinary Black Womxn’s Gender Expression in an Antitrans (and Anti-Black [Womxn]) America American Psychologist, Sept. 2026 https://researchgate.net/publication/41 3684513_That's_Probably_What_Euphoria_Feels_Like_Nonbinary_Black_Womxn's_Gender_Expression_in_an_Antitrans_and_Anti-Black_Womxn_America
2. “Hard to Remember, then Hard to Forget”: A Qualitative Exploration into the Attitudes and Lived Experiences of Black People With Black Names Journal of Black Psychology, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6909040_Hard_to_Remember_then_Hard_to_Forget_A_Qualitative_Exploration_into_the_Attitudes_and_Lived_Experiences_of_Black_People_With_Black_Names
3. A Content Analysis of Cultural Mistrust Among African Americans in Therapy Settings Journal of Black Psychology, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6882965_A_Content_Analysis_of_Cultural_Mistrust_Among_African_Americans_in_Therapy_Settings
4. “People Already Don’t Know What the Fuck I’m Saying”: Nonbinary Black Womxn Perspectives on Sharing Their Gendered-Racial Identity Journal of Counseling Psychology, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6831816_People_already_don't_know_what_the_fuck_i'm_saying_Nonbinary_Black_womxn_perspectives_on_sharing_their_gendered-racial_identity
5. “It’s an honor to be in this body”: A Black feminist grounded theory of embodiment through yoga among Black womxn Body Image, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6564713_It's_an_honor_to_be_in_this_body_A_Black_feminist_grounded_theory_of_embodiment_through_yoga_among_Black_womxn
6. Brief Report: Naloxone Decline Among African American Kentuckians Substance Use & Addiction Journal, July 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 3785046_Brief_Report_Naloxone_Decline_Among_African_American_Kentuckians
7. “Nobody Ever Sat Me Down to Talk About That Kind of Stuff”: A Thematic Analysis of Heterosexual Black Men’s Genital Hygiene Messages Health Communication, May 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 1904305_Nobody_Ever_Sat_Me_Down_to_Talk_About_That_Kind_of_Stuff_A_Thematic_Analysis_of_Heterosexual_Black_Men's_Genital_Hygiene_Messages
8. “God Did for Me What I Couldn’t Do for Myself”: Understanding Religiosity, Spirituality, and Locus of Control Among Black Americans Who Use Opioids Journal of Religion and Health, Feb. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/38 8793550_God_Did_for_Me_What_I_Couldn't_Do_for_Myself_Understanding_Religiosity_Spirituality_and_Locus_of_Control_Among_Black_Americans_Who_Use_Opioids
9. Understanding Coping Strategies and Sociocultural Context in Black Americans’ Mental Health Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Feb. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/38 8769360_Understanding_Coping_Strategies_and_Sociocultural_Context_in_Black_Americans'_Mental_Health
10. The Nonbinary God: Disaggregating Spirituality and Christian Religiosity Among Nonbinary Black Womxn (NBBW) Journal of Counseling Psychology, Jan. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/38"

J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 on X - "Yes. "Asked by the APA how she defines scientific integrity, Ms. Hargons wrote that she "reject[s] the positivist paradigm's assertion of objectivity." Absolutely inane, delusional. Stupid individual."

Thread by @Tyler_A_Harper on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Every time I write something critical of how elite academia is captured by bizarre ideologies, people claim that these are minor tendencies. Yet experts on things like the “liberatory potential of pilates for minoritized womxn” keep getting put in charge of major scholarly orgs. So you have this woman in charge of the American Psychological Association, Rouse over at the American Anthropological Association, etc. It’s just not tenable to claim this stuff is minor or a right wing fever dream when these people keep getting put in charge of major orgs."
Left wingers claim that if you deny climate change is the most important problem the world faces, you are a climate change denier and need to be ostracised and banished from polite society, then go on and proclaim that the idea of there being two sexes is wrong

Jamil Smith جميل كريم on X - ""This woman" is a widely recognized expert in her field. You can worry all you like about how intellectually dishonest people on the right view people like Carolyn Rouse—but questioning her qualifications based upon her opinions while undermining her expertise is a chump move."
Niko Nadeau on X - "The only people among whom she is widely recognized as an expert are people who also hold batshit false opinions, and who also did not believe in any sort of objective reality."
Brandon Warmke on X - "Rule 1 of captured disciplines: You're never actually supposed to assess the work. And they are never willing to defend it. Instead:
-Who are you to criticize this work--seriously who are you and who cares what you think?
-If you criticize the work, you undermine the author's expertise. They are experts and so shouldn't be criticized
-Qualifications settle the matter of quality, end of story.
-Since you're criticizing you must have bad motives. Stop being so mean.
These fields truly believe they should be immune from external criticism. They cannot handle it, they know that, and resort to a series of red herrings because they have no patience for addressing criticism. They publish research asking only that you celebrate it. These are very unhealthy academic norms. The refusal to accept external criticism is precisely why these fields have such low standards and devolved into identititarian obsession and progressive advocacy. What else is there to do?"
Left wingers think "qualifications" insulate you from criticism. And since they easily DEI each other "qualifications" too, that's supposed to make them immune to criticism
At least when Richard Dawkins was criticising the leprechology argument, it was in principle possible to learn about leprechology and challenge leprechologists on their own terms. But with the left, they just proclaim that experts who push the left wing agenda are infallible

Geoffrey Miller on X - "Why men -- especially conservative men -- won't go to therapy: The weird thing about the American Psychological Association (APA) is that every objective observer has known that it's been ideologically captured by the Left since the 1970s. That's the main reason why the Association for Psychological Science split off back in 1988, to form a more-scientific, less-politicized version of APA. Yet, here we are, 40 years later -- with APA still the main accrediting body that gives its seal of approval to PhD programs that train the vast majority of licensed clinical psychologists in America. APA sets the agenda. It determines what gets covered in graduate courses. It runs the most influential journals and conferences. It sets the whole political and ideological tone for psychological research. For decades, it has pushed political correctness, 'affirmative action', wokeness, DEI, and Leftist political causes. APA also ignores, censors, and/or demonizes the psychological research areas that are politically incorrect, but that replicate well (e.g. intelligence research, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, sex differences). There are alternatives. For example, the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) focuses more on the real science -- evidence-based treatments and interventions -- rather than on the Leftist activism of APA. But, for the moment, the APA's ideological agenda still dominates American clinical psychology. This partly explains the feedback loop between clinical psychology becoming so feminized (with women getting about 80% of clinical psychology PhDs), and clinical psychology becoming so radical-Leftist in its politics. And it explains why it's pretty difficult to find licensed clinical psychologists who are actually sympathetic to men, conservatives, and/or Christians. This is one big reason why men won't go to therapy -- they don't want to deal with a (probably female, probably liberal) therapist who has been indoctrinated into wokeness for 5-6 years throughout her graduate training."

Steve McGuire on X - "BREAKING: An advisory panel on accreditation has recommended that the Department of Education suspend the American Psychological Association (APA) for 12 months amidst concerns about ideological standards on DEI, gender-related treatment, and especially antisemitism. After hearing from several groups during a meeting yesterday, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity’s (NACIQI) voted to make the recommendation. The recommendation now goes to the Department of Education for a final decision."

Bernie on X - "This is an absolute DISGRACE of an article by the BBC! Any white woman who dares to paint her nails in a colour is framed as committing cultural appropriation… and if she has nude nails, or no colour the BBC prints the claim that this can perpetuate “white supremacist standards of beauty”. They actually printed that! So basically, no matter what I do to my NAILS I fail because I’m white? Why should I ever be forced to pay for an organisation that prints stuff like this?"

Meme - constans @constans: "I feel like some of these writers just finished a sociology degree and think they’re the first person to figure out that western social class norms code muted styles as higher class and loud, garish styles as lower class. Yes, congratulations on your discovery"
detty @0ddette: ""one 25-year-old tells the BBC, adding, "also, I lift weights in the gym, so I don't want to snap a nail and waste money." But there are those who think the trend - or the way it's being discussed by some - belies something more sinister.” Spend $120 on nails or you’re classist?!"

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on X - "The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images. Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph revealed the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people. The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote". In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks. That was the only way that "nature" could win. However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo. The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House. The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural. Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain" Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar. The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists. Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths."

LeeKuanYewRespecter on X - "Amber Schultz, an Age and Sydney Morning Herald reporter who has been covering the alleged dangers of social media believes the algorithm showed her manosphere-adjacent content presented by women to “soften her up” and test her receptiveness before serving her more extreme Andrew Tate content. That requires a conspiratorial theory of how social media works. Does she really believe these companies built vast, multi-billion-dollar engagement platforms to run teenage boys through an ideological induction funnel in service of Andrew Tate? Remember when they said this about Ben Shapiro and YouTube? The obvious answer is no, the algorithm is testing what keeps her watching. Even if you pause for a second. Engage with one type of content and it serves you more content popular with the same audience. It doesn’t need to “soften you up”, test your ideological readiness or guide you towards a predetermined endpoint. Tate gamed those algorithms with his content Ponzi scheme which flooded social media with clips, while saying politically incorrect things at the height of peak woke which obviously made him extremely effective engagement bait. How can you report on social media like this and not understand the basics of the attention economy?"

Meme - Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno: "There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!"
Prof Cosmic Feathers @BudgieSAGEE... @Prof CosmicF...: ""There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland." @Owen If that group that ethnic group was whites calling for their own homeland, you would call it racist. Why is it different if it Jewish people?"
Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno: ""The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people.""
Prof Cosmic Feathers @BudgieSAGEE... @Prof CosmicF...: "So you wouldn't call those white nationalists who build whites only villages in back woods of the US Midwest racist?"
Owen Jones: "Clearly violates what I said"
Funny Logic @7thTimeCharmer: "So Whites have no right to an ethnic homeland unless we include everyone? You think it's a human right for the entire world to live with White people."
Keith Woods on X - "Great illustration of how leftists think about sovereignty. Every ethnic group is entitled to a homeland, but no White people anywhere can have as much as a neighbourhood to themselves because that violates the right of every non-White person on earth to have access to Whites."
Left wingers hate both white people and Jews, so this tracks

Don't Divide Us on X - "Below is a letter in The Spectator from September 4th, from Professor Alan Lester who tries to defend reparations. But his case is is based on two linked - unproven, possibly unprovable - assertions: (1) that slavery was the most economically transformative factor in British industrial success and that (2) slavery 'in the Atlantic' is the reason for present day social inequities. This ignores the real historical & social differences between America and Britain, and the fact that, in Britain, there are contemporary sources of social inequities that have nothing to do with historic slavery but much to do with important political, sociological and cultural shifts in the post-war period:"
Dr Colin Green ن on X - "1 is obviously false. No human labour, not even enslaved, matched steam engines for efficiency. Enslavement, for that very argument, is about efficient productivity in a specific landscape. Steam & coal had the more transformative efficient productive role in the broader economy."

Pro-Palestine photographer, friend killed by Muslim man in Tucson anti-LGBTQ hate crime - "A Muslim man shot and killed a pro-Palestinian photographer and his friend as they were leaving an Arizona gay bar before turning the gun on himself in what cops say was a hate crime. Ousman Ceesay unleashed the violence in Tucson around 12:30 a.m. Monday — targeting two men he did not know, Tucson Police confirmed. Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, were in the parking lot of Venture-N when they were confronted and then shot by Ceesay, according to cops... The gunman was carrying a note with a list of other gay-friendly businesses in the area, but cops said he never tried to enter the bar near where he committed the heinous crime. A second note in his home found by detectives “indicated he acted alone and that this shooting was a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” the department said. Ceesay, originally from The Gambia in West Africa, had no prior contacts with the police department and had only just moved to the area from Oklahoma City... He and his wife were facing money troubles after racking up more than $76,000 in debt that forced them to declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2018, according to the outlet. Ceesay previously worked as an Uber driver and was a practicing Muslim who prayed five times a day... Capara was a photographer who spent years documenting LGBTQ nightlife, campus demonstrations, rallies over Gaza and protests against ICE. “He cared deeply about people in Tucson or those thousands of miles away. People who were marginalized, overlooked, or misunderstood,” said his father, Jeff Capara. "
Damn Mossad!

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Three days ago a gunman opened fire outside Venture-N, a Tucson gay bar. Two men dead. The shooter dead. Police now call it a targeted hate crime. He had a list of LGBTQ businesses on him. You probably even didn’t heard about it. Because the shooter wasn’t the approved villain. He WASN’T a white Christian nationalist. He was Ousman Ceesay, 44, a Muslim immigrant born in The Gambia. He confronted two men in the parking lot and started shooting. One of the victims was Cameron Davis Capara, a well-known local photographer and left- wing political activist who spent years documenting pro-Palestine marches, anti-ICE actions, anti-Trump, anti-fascism rallies, and anti-capitalist “No Kings” circles. The other was Vincent Anthony Siqueiros. Both were killed where they stood. Police didn’t rush out a mugshot package. Some coverage danced around the shooter’s background. National cameras never really showed up. No wall-to-wall specials. No Democratic officials lining up at podiums to denounce homophobia and demand action. The story dropped fast. That’s the tell. When the facts don’t fit the script, the outrage machine stays quiet. Two men get murdered outside a gay bar, the killer leaves a target list, and the same people who never miss a chance to lecture the country about hate suddenly have nothing to say. If that doesn’t show you how selective the media and the virtue-signal crowd really are, nothing will."
Micro2Macr0 on X - "No wonder this went under the rug. He was a Muslim killing the gays. That is VERY MUCH against the mainstream narrative. When will people wake up?"

The i Paper on X - ""Britain is turning on people who look like me, but white allies are silent" says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. "We need our white allies to speak up otherwise, I dread to think what this country will become.""
Stand Up To Marxism on X - "Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Anti-White racist quotes:
1.) BBC World, 4th June 2006: Presenter Gavin Esler asked, “What’s wrong with white guys, by the way?” Yasmin Alibhai-Brown replied, “I don’t like them. I want them to be the lost species in a hundred years.”
2.) The Wright Stuff (Channel 5), 25th August 2008 In a discussion about employment/jobs: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: “Don’t apply. It would be great if you went away, White, middle class men.” Host Richard Bacon replied: “Is that not a racist comment?” Alibhai-Brown: “Of course.”
3.) The Independent, 5th January 2009: “Spare me the tears over the white working class”
4.) The Independent, 30th August 2015: “I like Corbyn, but let’s face it, we don’t need another white man at the head of a political party”"
An "ally" is a useful idiot who no matter what he does will always still be despised for who he is

Jamie Sarkonak on X - "It has come to my attention that I have been denounced by @Advocates_Soc for criticizing judicial decisions — and yes, individual judges. Here's the thing. When someone, for example, spends her lawyerly career writing op-eds in favour of migration and calling herself an activist, and then becomes a federal judge, and from that seat allows all sorts of undesirables to remain in Canada on weak grounds, people are free to draw a connection from A to B. When a judge, for example, spends his lawyer years advocating fiercely for more race-based law, and then later throws out gun charges of black men on his (unsupported) assertion that police were racist during their arrests, people are free to question whether he's really a fair adjudicator. When a judge, for example, says that a ban on drug trafficking is unconstitutional, and then *applauds* vigilante drug dealers for their self-proclaimed safe supply program — applauds them for supporting the business of organized crime and feeding the addictions of street people — that's beyond the pale. You're worried about democracy being poisoned? Worry about the judge who threw out Parliament's law against selling heroin because she felt it was "common sense" that it was supported by science. I agree that it's not right to criticize a judge personally for impartially applying the law and coming to an unpopular decision (which they may even privately disagree with). But when their professional history, or their conduct in court, suggests allegiance to a cause that they happen to be ruling softly on, it will get noticed. Bringing the administration of justice into disrepute is a two-way street, you know."
Freedom of speech is for threatening Jews with death, not to critique the judiciary who are infallible

David Knight Legg on X - "A couple of Canada’s activist judges just got busted by journalist Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj for some particularly gross views of hard drugs and two-tiered racial views of defendants.
- B.C. judge Catherine Murray decided she would praise two hard-drug traffickers, and invent a Charter right to deal those drugs.
- Ontario judge Faizal Mirza thought the law should have a race-tiered application in sentencing Canadians, then deployed it.
Disgusting ideas. Thankfully not Canadian law. So when these activist judges tried to impose them, Jamie called them out. Great journalism. But then the “Advocates Society” wrote a letter to defend the judges. They made two points and both backfire: First, these judges “make their decisions on the facts and the law – not popular opinion or political expediency.” Second, journalists “vilifying judges who make unpopular opinions or demanding their removal is not accountability. It’s pressure.” Nice try. First, these activist judges didn’t apply facts or the law. They applied personal views not found in Canadian law. Second, calling them out and demanding their removal isn’t ’vilifying’, its asserting a democratic fact: activists don’t get to hi-jack the bench to impose drug dealing and two-tier race screens that Canadians haven’t consented to through legislation. If Catherine and Faizal wish their weird views were the law, they can resign and try to get a legislature to agree. That’s what politics is for. But thats not how jurisprudence work. Activists don’t get to hi-jack the bench for their personal ends just because they sit on it. The Advocates Society knows this. Great journalism by Jamie @sarkonakj defending Canada from activist judges whose bizarre ideas make everyone less safe and less equal before the law."

Jemele Hill on X - "America was built on the institution of slavery. It is how America became a world economic power — the buying and selling of people being tied to the economy. That is effectively white supremacy, since it was a race-based system. Fast forward to other economic policies that were guided by race — housing, employment, etc. There were rules that prevented Black people from equally participating in the free economy. In fact, one of the most glaring features of American capitalism is racial inequality. The racial wealth gap exists because specific policies were put in place to suppress economic participation. So yes, capitalism is tied to white supremacy."
Corey Walker 🇺🇸 on X - "It's amazing that a person can be so confidently incorrect like this and not feel any embarrassment. She will still be invited on cable news to share her "expertise." This is an absurdly idiotic take. If slavery made the US into an economic superpower, then why isn't the south richer than the north? America experienced its most robust economic growth after the abolition of slavery. Industrialization, manufacturing, railroads, technological innovation, migration from Europe, and free labor markets accelerated the US to the top of the global economic hierarchy. Slavery arguably stunted the economic growth of the south due to underinvestment in human capital, weaker incentives to invest in education and public infrastructure. Slavery was not only a moral atrocity it was also a terrible economic system which only served to enrich the small wealthy slave-owning class."

Muslim Brotherhood has its sights set on Canada | National Post - "I attended a closed-door meeting with foreign intelligence officials to discuss the growing influence in Canada of the Muslim Brotherhood, the powerful transnational Islamist movement that is the ideological root of all modern Islamic terrorism. The Brotherhood’s objective, I was told, is two-fold: to achieve a paralyzing effect on the ability of Canadian policymakers to act against it; and to steadily expand its influence in Canada. Indeed, the Gaza war has mobilized and emboldened the Islamist group’s “white-collar jihadists” in the country to advance its strategy of “civilizational jihad” — gradual institutional transformation, rather than violent overthrow. The officials also revealed that their analysis of internal Hamas documents — the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood — showed that the terrorist group views Canada as vital to its plans. “They love you guys,” one of them quipped. Last year, a Global News investigation revealed that roughly 450 individuals with various roles inside Hamas have ties to Canada. In another private briefing in Washington, D.C., a senior U.S. national security official made it clear that the Americans are also acutely aware of Canada’s growing Muslim Brotherhood problem. The message was unambiguous: the United States government views the Muslim Brotherhood as a transnational threat, and it is deeply concerned that Canada’s immigration policies are severely undermining broader North American counter-terrorism priorities (a recent C.D. Howe Institute report, which found that 24,599 asylum claimants were accepted by Canada without being asked a single question between January 2019 and February 2023, was cited)... Across Europe, governments are increasingly recognizing the Brotherhood as a serious political and security challenge. France released a government report describing the group as a “threat to the nation,” with lawmakers urging the European Union to classify the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Dutch legislators have called for a ban on the group. Sweden has launched an investigation into alleged Islamist infiltration, while Belgian officials are raising alarms about the alleged Brotherhood-linked capture of some municipalities. Like Europe, the U.S. sees Canada as both a terror target and an incubator of terrorist threats. It considers it unacceptable that its northern neighbour serves as a logistical, financial and recruitment hub for Islamist groups. However, Canada, unlike Europe, appears determined to avoid the conversation altogether, despite CSIS warning in its latest public report that the threat is “particularly concerning.” This disconnect was on full display when Prime Minister Mark Carney, in his much-awaited speech on combating antisemitism, invoked “Islamophobia” while failing to acknowledge the principal driver of the anti-Jewish hatred across Canada: Islamist extremism. That reluctance is becoming harder to justify. Recent reporting on the annual convention of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), an organization that openly praises the Muslim Brotherhood’s philosophy, raises troubling questions. According to Melanie Bennet of Juno News, a youth workshop at the convention displayed the phrase “Jew free” in a word cloud under the prompt: “What kind of community/Ummah/world do you want to help build?” At another session, an audience member reportedly asked how young Muslims could enter politics to “infiltrate the western wolves.” During the same session, Anas Altikriti, an alleged Muslim Brotherhood associate who was effectively denied entry into Canada but attended virtually, seemingly rejected the very idea of Muslim integration into western society, describing it as “a tool to beat the Muslim community with,” and insisting that Muslims only need to “abide by the law.” Despite the controversy surrounding the event, there has been effectively no political condemnation from Ottawa. That silence matters because MAC benefits from taxpayer-supported charitable status and, according to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) records, received over $38 million in public funding between 2020 and 2024. Canadians are entitled to ask whether organizations that annually platform Islamist ideologues — including individuals denied entry into the country — and promote deeply divisive rhetoric should continue receiving taxpayer funds. The question becomes even more pressing when contrasted with the CRA’s decision to revoke the charitable status of eight Jewish non-profits over the past three years. The double standard is hard to ignore... The problem in Canada is not simply political Islam itself. It is the persistent unwillingness of political leaders, media institutions and public officials to discuss the issue honestly. Fear of accusations of racism or Islamophobia has created a climate in which legitimate national security concerns are too often dismissed before they can even be debated. A healthy democratic society cannot afford political taboos around questions of extremism, foreign ideological influence or institutional infiltration. Canadians deserve transparency about Islamist networks operating in the country, including their sources of funding, political relationships and their degree of influence within public institutions. The Carney government has a responsibility to confront this threat with decisiveness rather than denial. The longer Canada avoids acknowledging the dangers posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, the more entrenched its networks become — and the harder the consequences will be to reverse."
To fight Islamophobia and spite the US, Canada needs to welcome the Muslim Brotherhood and become a Muslim country

Links - 18th October 2026 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023 [including Hamas Media Coordination])

2026-10-18T17:50:00.000+08:00

Mossad Commentary on X - "🚨 GAZA PHOTOGRAPHER ADMITS HE WITHHELD OCT. 7 FOOTAGE
Prominent Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza says he filmed Israeli hostages being abused by crowds on Oct. 7, but deliberately did not publish the footage because he feared Israel could use it to identify and target those involved. He also delivered unusually harsh criticism of Hamas:
• “Show me one Palestinian in Gaza who was protected by Hamas’s weapons. No one.”
• He says Hamas had a chance by Oct. 11, 2023 to accept a deal involving disarmament that could have prevented massive destruction and loss of life.
• He describes a Hamas-run WhatsApp mechanism used to intimidate journalists, circulate their personal details, and coordinate attacks against anyone who crossed the organization.
• Gaza photographers, he says, learned to lower their cameras whenever civilians criticized Hamas because publishing such footage could make them targets.
Azaiza was named to TIME’s 100 most influential people and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he is describing, in his own words, how much of Gaza’s story never made it onto your screen."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Motaz Azaiza is forcing a reckoning the “pro‑Palestine” movement never anticipated. Because he’s celebrated by activists, politicians, and journalists and can’t be smeared as a “Zionist shill,” his admission carries weight: Gaza’s journalism space functioned under Hamas’s control, and any reporter who deviated from the group’s narrative risked “disappearing behind the sun.” That single truth reshapes how we understand the stories pushed out of Gaza since October 7 and explains why dissent against Hamas’s rule never surfaced publicly. Western journalists and outsiders, unaware of this coercive ecosystem, ended up amplifying Hamas’s information warfare rather than scrutinizing it."

Leslie Kajomovitz on X - "Listen to Motaz Azaiza in an another interview call Jews dogs, and be more explicit about his excitement at seeing the hostages being brutalized in the streets of Gaza on October 7th. In this interview, he is more explicit also on how the only reason he didn't participate was because he was afraid of Israel, not because he didn't want to. In the same interview he speaks of many things, but in it, he does something he didn't do in his last interview. He confirms he was a member of Hamas before he went to university and joined Fatah. Later he "realized" he "can't be affiliated to any group," because neither faction "works for the sake of Palestinians" @StateDept @SecRubio did Motaz Azaiza disclose his membership with a terror organization in his immigration forms? Why is Motaz Azaiza in America?!? FYI: @EFischberger @EYakoby @chalavyishmael @MaxNordau"

S Sebag Montefiore on X - "BOMBSHELL: Gaza Photojournalist Reveals Hamas Ran a WhatsApp Group to Control War Coverage Motaz Azaiza — once the face of Gaza's war reporting, with nearly 20M followers — says a Hamas-linked WhatsApp group called "Smart" directed media coverage and organized attacks on journalists who broke from its line."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Motaz Azaiza just admitted that Gaza’s journalists were all in a Hamas WhatsApp group called SMART—where they “managed the discourse and the narrative.” Journalists coordinating the narrative with Hamas should be a massive international scandal. Instead, there’s not a word."
Josh Wolfe on X - "This is INSANE. should be front page news of every US paper. Chance the NYT even mentions it once?"

Eitan Fischberger on X - "So it turns out that Hamas runs a WhatsApp group with all of Gaza’s journalists, where Hamas “managed the discourse and the narrative.” These outlets have "journalists" in Gaza: Reuters, AP, NYT, CNN, Wapo, PBS, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Drop Site News"
Eylon Levy on X - "Hamas won the information war. Now it’s bragging. Because it’s already won. And nobody will admit they got duped."

Nazi Hunters on X - "“Women here!” “Take off your pants!” “Take off your clothes!” “Spread your legs!” “Don’t make trouble!”
This is the translation guide that Hamas terrorists carried and used during the October 7 massacres, helping them to pronounce these instructions in Hebrew so they could kidnap, rape, and slaughter Jews more efficiently. Never forget."

Alessandra on X - "After 9/11, I believed what they said that Muslims didn’t support. Religion of peace they said. 10/7 seeing so many cheering it on showed me muslim communities have a large scale problem with support for violence & terrorism & hatred of non Muslims which they refuse to address"

Meme - "GENOCIDE? UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, released its report on the number of Palestinian refugees
IN 2022 REPORT BEFORE THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL THERE WERE 5,747,065 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES REGISTERED WITH UNRWA
IN 2025 REPORT THERE WERE 5,795,136 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES REGISTERED WITH UNRWA
48,071 MORE THAN IN 2022
SOURCES FOR THE NUMBERS
UNRWA, "UNRWA in Figures 2022" (Accessed July 2022)
UNRWA, "UNRWA in Figures 2025" (Accessed July 2025)
IF THE UN'S OWN NUMBERS ARE SHOWING THAT THE PALESTINIAN POPULATION IS GROWING, HOW ARE PEOPLE CLAIMING THAT THERE IS A GENOCIDE?"
The terrorist supporter cope is that genocide isn't defined by killing everyone in sight. But given how loosely genocide can be defined nowadays, wanting to destroy a group and giving one member of it a condom and telling him to use it is also "genocide"

Meme - Barak Ravid @BarakRavid: "Netanyahu: "Israel rejects the Gaza Board of Peace 15-point document. The IDE will not make any withdrawal until Hamas disarms. I mean the heavy weapons, the less heavy weapons, all the weapons. And we are talking about real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament""
Ilan Goldenberg: "There's no example in history of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration working when one side insists on the other's total surrender before taking any steps. This isn't a recipe for "real disarmament." It's a recipe for perpetuating the stalemate in Gaza. Bibi knows it."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Germany and Japan are a counterexample: both surrendered unconditionally in 1945, after which Allied-led demilitarization and reintegration succeeded, producing stable democracies. This contradicts the claim that no DDR has worked after a demand for total surrender."
Everystein Singleberg Timeowitz

Uri Kurlianchik on X - "I'm so tired of hearing Gaza was a defenseless ghetto. At 40,000+ militants, one of the world's largest military tunnel networks, and thousands of rockets, Gaza had a bigger and stronger military than most European states. Gaza was never a concentration camp. It was a fortress."
David Boxenhorn on X - "A fortress, supplied by its enemy. Who would believe it?"
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "To quote he who should not be named, "if all the water in all the seas was turned into ink and all the trees into paper, this would still not be enough to write down the madness happening in Israel every day.""

Meme - Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain: "One of the “children of Gaza” Israel killed, shown in this video doing what all children his age do, firing RPGs on Israelis. Wait, why?"

Meme - "Sacrificing your own Civilians on purpose to build a narrative. #GazaGenoLIE"

Meme - Aizenberg @Aizenberg55: "Hamas' May 2026 Gaza fatality list shows an even higher share of combat-age males among claimed war deaths, at a ratio to females. Hamas' own data, which includes some natural deaths and fatalities caused by Hamas itself, sharply contradicts any notion of "genocide.""
"Gaza War Fatalities Per Hamas - May 2026 by Age & Sex
72,835 fatalities as of May 2026
75% of fatalities ages 13-55 are male representing 26,000 excess fatalities
High teen male deaths = child soldiers
69% of fatalities ages 13-17 are male representing 2,900 excess fatalities"
When terrorist supporters go on about how Israel is killing "children", they're really admitting that Hamas uses child soldiers. But of course, Israel is to blame

Meme - Aizenberg @Aizenberg55: "13-year-old Muhammad Al-Qattani was portrayed as an innocent child killed in an IDF strike. But he was another child soldier recruited by Islamic Jihad, probably at age 12. The militarization of Gaza's children by Hamas and PU is never mentioned by those "NGOs" and "experts.""
When terrorist supporters accuse Israel of killing children, at least some of those "children" are actually enemy combatants. But of course, self defence is "genocide" if left wingers hate you, because they want you to be murdered by your enemies as they cheer

Eitan Fischberger on X - "For nearly three years, CPJ helped push the incendiary narrative that Israel was systematically slaughtering journalists. Now CPJ just announced that it has removed another 22 people from its database. Twenty were removed after new research established “engagement in combat," meaning terrorism. That’s on top of 8 it had already removed after determining they were Hamas or PIJ combatants. So CPJ has now removed 28 supposed journalists for literal participation in hostilities. And understand how absurdly narrow CPJ’s standard is. Affiliation with Hamas or PIJ doesn’t disqualify you. Even membership in an armed group doesn’t automatically disqualify you. CPJ only draws the line at actual engagement in combat. Yet even by that ridiculous standard, 28 names failed their test. The review began after Hamas and PIJ themselves published obituaries identifying supposed “journalists” as combatants. And those obituaries keep coming. CPJ’s credibility should be in tatters — for good."

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "I was today years old when I learned that an estimated 20,000 deaths from natural causes in Gaza are counted as genocide victims. Apparently, Hamas hasn’t released the natural death numbers since 2023 and automatically includes anyone who dies in the total ‘genocide’ figure."

Olivia Kelly 💋 on X - "96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide. 3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide."
The cope is that genocide isn't defined by killing everyone in sight. Given how loose the definition of genocide is these days, if you make comments about destroying members of a group and then give one member of the group a condom and sternly tell him to use it, that is also "genocide".

Open Source Intel on X - "NEW: Footage from central Gaza shows an armed operative using a child to carry weapons into a residential building."
AG on X - "Worth noting that the human shield strategy would be pointless if they believed Israel was willing to just target indiscriminately. The only reason to do this is because Hamas/PIJ believe that having a child act as a human shield makes an Israeli action less likely."
Clearly, the fact that the IDF kills some children shows that they're guilty of "genocide"

Senior Hamas official sparks outrage in Gaza after referring to war casualties as 'material calculations' - "A senior Hamas official has drawn widespread anger from Gaza residents after referring to the high death toll in the Strip as “material calculations.” In a recent interview, Qatar-based Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri remarked that the number of births in Gaza — around 50,000 — exceeds the number of war casualties, which he claimed demonstrates that the losses do not reflect the broader picture of the conflict. He added, “The martyrs [killed in the war] — the wombs of Gaza’s women will give birth to twice as many. This is the price that must be paid. If we thought in material terms, we would not be able to hold onto our land.”... During an anti-Hamas protest held yesterday in Khan Younis, demonstrators directly condemned Abu Zuhri’s remarks, chanting: “Oh Abu Zuhri, you disgrace, even the child wants to live.”"
Clear proof that Israel wants to kill as many Palestinians as possible

Barry Andrews MEP on X - "The updated @Google satellite images of #Gaza are quite incredible, for all to see..."
Gravimetric on X - "I'm glad you posted this because I just spent an hour on google maps, looking at Gaza. It showed me that you and the rest of the "Free Palestine" crew are clearly cherry-picking images and only posting images of the destruction. I made sure that every image I looked at was taken in 2026 and what I saw is that the majority of Gaza remains untouched by Israel. I encourage anyone reading this to look for yourself and you'll see that these liberal lunatics are lying and only posting images that back up their "genocide" nonsense. Has Israel blown shit up, yes. But it's nowhere near as bad as they're saying it is."
Edward Baker 🐇 on X - "You know what's weird? Use GoogleEarth and scan up the seaside. No destruction (a few marine ports, yes), but basically untouched. Why? You can't tunnel near the sea. Water table is too high."

Meme - "GERMANY 1945
LOSING A GENOCIDAL WAR YOU STARTED, DOESN'T MAKE YOU THE VICTIM OF ONE
GAZA 2026"

Gazan Maastricht University student faces no criminal investigation over October 7 video - " A Gazan student at Maastricht University who appeared to suggest in a video that he had been involved in the October 7 attack on Israel will not face further criminal investigation. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) and police found no reason to investigate the matter further. After reviewing the video, authorities concluded that no criminal offenses had been committed, including involvement in a terrorist attack, glorification of terrorism, or incitement. Media outlets reported that the student published a video to Instagram on September 26 in which he was watching footage of the attack on TV and saying “this is me” when masked Hamas fighters were on screen. The video has since been deleted."
Time to import more Palestinians

Pro-Palestine protesters defy police over Oct 7 march - "Pro-Palestinian protesters are planning a “provocative” pro-Palestinian march on Oct 7 in defiance of the police... A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “Organising a march on the anniversary of the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is an outrageous provocation. “It is impossible not to remember how Palestine activists demonstrated on the day of the attack back in 2023 before Israel had even responded. “That’s because the motivation of these hate marches has always had less to do with solidarity with Gaza than with hatred for the world’s only Jewish state. “Almost 60 per cent of Jews would not feel comfortable disclosing their Jewish identity at university, according to our representative polling. This event will do nothing to alleviate those concerns. We are writing to several institutions, including the universities involved, to demand accountability.” Last year, hundreds of students across Britain held Pro-Palestine protests on Oct 7, chanting “long live the intifada”, “from river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “occupation is a crime, get your hands off Palestine”. The march took place six days after a terror attack at Heaton Park synagogue, which caused the death of two people and the perpetrator."
The cruelty is the point

Ghadi Abou Mjahed on X - "Japan and Germany were completely destroyed in WW2, yet their kids didn’t become terrorists. Stop making excuses for Arabs."

Facebook - "In 1945, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Berlin and Dresden lay in ruins. Millions were dead and millions more were homeless. Within a generation, Japan and Germany had become two of the richest, most peaceful democracies on earth. Suffering is real. It has never forced anyone to become a terrorist. Rebuilding is a choice, and so is killing."
Comments: "And they weren’t perpetual refugees"

Kamel Amin Thaabet on X = "The savagery of October 7 caused too much cognitive dissonance with the progressive image of noble white-hearted Palestinian and wicked Israeli. They NEED the genocide narrative as a psychological corrective to return equilibrium to their internal worldview."
David Bernstein on X - "It's also why they tore down Israeli hostage posters. They have a psychological need to see Palestinians only as victims, and Israelis only as perpetrators."
It's also why many terrorism supporters, if they're not praising it as "resistance", claim that Oct 7 was done by the IDF and go on about the Hannibal Directive. Of course, some of them switch between the two, so it is literally "this is not happening, and it's good that it is", as is usual for left wingers

Meme - "How it started
We are so powerful. Allah akbar.. we will kill you! *Bodybuilder Muslim man with green headband with intact surroundings*
How it ends
Ya allah. Look what they did to us. It's genocide *Sad emaciated Muslim man with turban sitting in ruined city*"

Meme - "BY 1944, THE NAZIS HAD FIRED OVER 11,000 ROCKETS INTO ENGLAND. WHEN CHURCHILL RETALIATED, HE WAS CALLED A WAR HERO
BY 2024, HAMAS HAD FIRED OVER 32,000 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL. WHEN NETANYAHU WAS RETALIATED, HE WAS CALLED A WAR CRIMINAL
OH, THE HYPOCRISY"

Leviathan on X - "The students of Rick Hansen Secondary School @RHSSStormPDSB in Mississauga are being encouraged to wear their keffiyeh to school to commemorate the October 7th terrorist attacks."
Clearly, schools are just teaching their students "empathy", and no one supports terrorists or terrorism

Mark Changizi on X - "Iranians show footage of piles of bodies to document the January massacre by the Islamic Republic. Because that’s what one does when documenting mass killing. The Holocaust? Mass graves and piles of corpses. Rwanda? Mass graves and human remains. Cambodia? Killing fields filled with skeletons. Srebrenica? Mass graves — so many bodies that investigators could reconstruct how perpetrators dug them up and moved them to secondary graves to hide the crime. Mass killing leaves bodies. But Gaza? Again and again, the visual evidence offered for “gEnOciDe!” is… buildings reduced to rubble."
It's the only genocide in history where the population keeps rising, of course

Jeremy Diamond on X - "We found 24/40 deaths can be traced back to Israeli military actions. That includes direct IDF strikes/gunfire, but also when Israeli military actions led captors to kill their hostages. That's not just us saying that: the IDF has acknowledged that in many of these cases"
Mehdi Hasan on X - "A majority of the hostage deaths can be ‘traced back to Israeli military actions’! Good job Netanyahu! Good job IDF defenders in the West! 👏🏽👏🏽"
Julie Roginsky on X - "This take is embarrassing. Every single hostage death can be traced back to Hamas taking these people hostage."
Terrorist supporter logic: if you try to rescue hostages and the terrorists kill them, it's your fault

Universities finally sound ready to tackle campus antisemitism: Ivison | National Post - "The macabre spectacle of planned pro-Hamas vigils at universities across Canada on Wednesday “honouring our martyrs” may wipe away the last vestiges of public trust in our seats of higher learning. The fact that remembrance on October 7 is being devoted to the perpetrators of murder and rape, rather than their victims, is a sign of how far universities have allowed a Marxian secular worship of “the oppressed” to justify bullying, intimidation and harassment of Jews in Canada... as a review of antisemitic incidents at Toronto Metropolitan University last year by Justice Mary Lou Benotto found, the absence of clear enforcement, combined with ambiguity around free expression, has contributed to the perception that disruption and discrimination carry few consequences. It is possible that individual students were sanctioned after the TMU review, which followed on from the violent disruption of two Jewish-linked events. Pages of the report were redacted on privacy grounds. But the Benotto review concluded that the deteriorating campus climate was the result of the absence of decisive action by the university. The consequences of this inaction are evident in the findings of the Campus Anti-Semitism and Student Experience (CASE) report, commissioned by the federal government. It found 84 per cent of the 900 Jewish students interviewed said antisemitism on campus is a serious problem; 95.7 per cent said they had experienced or witnessed it; 70 per cent said their university does not take antisemitism seriously; and 68 per cent said their campus is not a safe or inclusive place. More than half of those students avoid wearing or displaying Jewish symbols — a damning statistic in a country that trumpets its diversity credentials... York University removed an anti-Israel encampment almost immediately, while other campuses, such as McGill, tolerated them. They quickly became the focal points for antisemitism."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Is Hamas Becoming a Global Identity Vehicle? Support for Hamas has morphed into a transnational phenomenon that is not just about being “pro-Palestine.” Instead, Hamas and what it represents have become a form of rebellious identity expression and a vessel for a sprawling mix of grievances: ideological, economic, cultural, and psychological. Its jihadist violence is being repackaged as a catch‑all outlet for anti‑Western, anti‑capitalist, anti‑white, and antisemitic politics. Whether it is leftism or Islamism, the “resistance” narrative that Hamas ostensibly represents has become quite a normalized interpretation of how to think about October 7 and the past two decades in Gaza, while erasing Palestinian agency, responsibility, and accountability. The inability to truly understand the complexities and actual details of the Israel and Palestine conflict is why so many support Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranian regime, all of whom are somehow seen as correcting or challenging white-centric dominance and colonialism. The third anniversary of October 7 exposed the scale of this shift. Large crowds in American and European cities used the worst day for Jews since the Holocaust and the most disastrous day in Palestinian history to flaunt their support for violent Islamist extremism. To understand the extent to which the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex has mutated and created out-of-control monsters, consider how incredibly damaging and self-sabotaging the pro-Hamas rallies and actions were. They deliberately chose to brand the Palestinian cause as inseparable from the bloodshed, hostage‑taking, and fascistic jihad of 10/7. These Western pro‑Hamas demonstrators are erasing any distinction between Palestinians and a terror organization that has devastated Palestinian society far more than it ever harmed Israelis. Their behavior naturally triggers an instinctive backlash: a hardening of attitudes, a dismissal of Palestinian suffering, and a collapse of sympathy for legitimate Palestinian grievances. Compounding the problem is the statistically confirmed fact that large segments of the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian diaspora communities have been unable or unwilling to counter this trend. Some have joined it outright, embracing the “resistance” narrative or hiding behind slogans like “this didn’t begin on October 7” to avoid confrontation with the anti‑Zionist machinery that dominates the “pro‑Palestine” space and to not be called “Zionists” or “traitors” by other members of the community. With diaspora communities paralyzed, universities compromised, and basic civic norms eroded, national‑level responses are now essential. Support for Hamas remains strong three years after October 7 and is growing more entrenched. Think ahead five or ten years: persistent economic strain, deeper ideological radicalization, and expanding networks of Islamist and far‑left extremism. What happens when those marching for Hamas begin entering governments, militaries, financial institutions, and other levers of power? What happens when already‑radicalized youth, with no off‑ramps, continue believing the West, Jews, and Zionists are their mortal enemies? Even if a tiny fraction – less than one‑tenth of one percent – turn to violence, the resulting instability could eclipse that of ISIS and al-Qaeda combined. A coordinated national strategy is overdue – not to suppress legitimate debate on Israel and Palestine, but to draw firm boundaries and stop tolerating the intolerable. This video shows just a small sample of pro-Hamas rallies in major US and European cities two days ago, on October 7."
We are still told that no one supports Hamas

Thread by @MorEdge_Insight on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Someone asked me on DM what roof tapping is. This is what it is. Israel fires a small warning shot onto the roof of a building Hamas is using. No warhead meant to bring it down. Just the knock. Get out. Then the calls, the texts, and the leaflets. Then, if the fighters are still in there, the real strike. This clip is Al Jazeera, live from Gaza, a correspondent in a press vest, and the knock lands on the tower behind her while she is on air. She ducks. The building is still standing. That’s the whole point of the tap. No other army does this. Not the Americans. Not the British. Not the Russians. Not the Arabs who spent the day firing the rockets. Hamas puts the launch sites and the commanders in the apartments, and Israel still knocks on the roof before it hits them. Then the same footage gets played as proof of a war crime. Watch it again. The warning is the explosion. And then come the leaflets. After the knock on the roof comes the paper. The whole sky fills with them. Arabic on one side, a map on the other, the block you are in, the road out, the time you have. So many millions are dropped you can film them falling and write “the whole sky is leaflets” across the clip. Phone calls. Texts. Roof taps. Then this. Israel tells the entire building to empty before it hits the men who turned the building into a launch site. Hamas tells the building to stay, films the paper coming down, and calls the warning a war crime. No other army on earth drops a sky full of instructions on the people it is about to strike. The leaflets are the proof. They just get edited out of the story."

Modern Dating

2026-10-18T13:37:00.000+08:00

Naturally, the replies giving him a reality check were accused of hating women.
Chris Hatch on X
Attention Young Men: I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it. Step 1: Stop playing video games Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned up Step 3: Hit a shower (when dating hygiene is critical) Step 4: Go clean your car Step 5: Sign up for a yoga class Step 6: Go to the yoga class Step 7: Ask a cute for her phone number at yoga class (yes you can meet girls IRL and not just on the apps - 10/10 the Dirt Dog highly recommends) Step 8: Follow up within 2 days with a phone call and ask them out for this coming weekend Friday or Saturday night. Step 9: IMPORTANT - come up with a good game plane for date night. Get a dinner reservation, get an activity planned. Let them know in advance what you are doing so they can dress appropriately. I know you are gunna roll off the couch and head to date night, but they are not. They are going to stress about what to wear and call at least 6 different people on FaceTime to ask their opinion. Step 10: I highly recommend you bring flowers to the door step. I’m not covering that you go to the doorstep, because if you don’t do that you have no hope here. Women want men to date them. You don’t need to break the bank on flowers. Head to Trader Joe’s. Grab 2 different kinds of flowers. If you don’t know what matches find the closest looking lady to your mom at TJ’s and ask her. Wrap the 2 flowers into 1 bouquet with paper. Bonus Points you can cut open a TJ bag and use that as the paper. Step 11: Be a gentleman on the date. She isn’t there to hear your life story. Ask her about her. For every 1 question you answer, ask her 3. Open Doors, pay for the meal, be polite. Provided you follow most of this guideline you are highly likely to get yourself an opportunity for date number 2. Keep going until you find someone that you can’t imagine not being around all the time. That’s when you have found a good one for you. My life is complete with my wife as my companion. I wish you the same fortune in life. Happy Hunting.
The Refined Populist on X
The problem with Boomer dating advice is that they have zero understanding of casual modern dating so their arguments are defeated by a faulty premise.

All those girls in Chris Hatch’s life ARE dating. They’re just in situationships, regularly hooking up with guys from the apps, or maintaining some other FWB-type arrangement. They SAY they’re not seeing anyone, but that’s only because presuming such a level of commitment jeopardizes their roster spots with Chad.

Chad did not have to waste $100 signing up for yoga or buying multiple bouquets from Trader Joe’s to bang your crush. He casually ordered her up like a pizza on a lazy Tuesday night, and like Domino’s, she was hot and ready at his door in 30 minutes or less.

When you engage in these performative stunts, you’re not impressing her. You’re signaling that you’re a low-status man who knows he has no real shot and has to go ridiculously overboard to compensate.

She’s more likely to laugh at you than find any of this endearing. She won’t be FaceTiming six friends, obsessing over her outfit. She’ll be texting the guy she actually wants to be with and if he’s free, you’ll get hit with a “Heyyyyy, sorry, I totally forgot it was my birthday and I have to pick my aunt up at the airport! Reschedule?” And you’ll never hear from her again.

If Chad’s not free, she’ll humor your stupid little mini-golf date or hike or whatever…before spending the night at Chad’s place anyways.

The REAL issue is that modern dating has cheapened sex to the point where men face a catch-22 that actively discourages traditional courtship while incentivizing dishonesty towards women.

1) While finding a serious relationship is next to impossible, getting laid has never been easier. If you know how to work the apps, you’ll get matches. Stick to the script and humor her nonsense for an hour, you’ll probably get laid.

2) Every attractive woman on the apps matches with every man she swipes right on. All those men know that sticking to the script can get them laid, too.

3) It’s impossible to have a relationship without honesty. But honesty isn’t part of the script. Being honest will A) not get you laid and B) not change her behavior. Legions of other men are willing to stick to the script. Her conclusion won’t be that she’s the problem and needs some introspection, it’ll just be that you’re an asshole.

(Side note: most of our socio-political issues are downstream of this. Women have gone insane because they never receive pushback on their absurd ideas, as pushback jeopardizes getting laid.)

4) Nobody wants a relationship with a girl who puts out of the first date. You’re not special. If she’s sleeping with you on the first date, tons of other men got the same treatment. She’s for the streets.

5) When sex is cheap, a woman who DOESN’T put out on the first date becomes a massive opportunity cost. You could have spent that same time and money on someone who would. If she puts out on the second or third date, it begs the question of whether she has put out on the first date for other men. If so, why not for you? Simp.

Once you’re following the script, women effectively become substitute goods. However, this is not good. You will get laid, but you will never find a partner or be happy. The only ways out are:

1) Dating genuinely traditional women who aren’t participating in hookup culture and for whom casual sex is off the table. But they’re in short supply, they’re looking for equally traditional men and have their pick of the litter, and they’ll sniff out the fakes. Also, let’s face it. 99% of you aren’t willing to sacrifice easy sex and actually be trad.

2) Making peace with your girlfriend’s sexual history and hoping she doesn’t have a triple-digit body count or that she wasn’t spending the first few months of your relationship in another dude’s bed. LOL. LMFAO even.

3) Dropping out of the game entirely. Not an option, king.

There aren’t many good options. Regardless, don’t listen to Boomers.

Ryan Kennedy 🇺🇸🏋🏻‍♂️🍒 on X
This is the worst, most outdated dating advice for men that I have seen in years.

Step 1: Give up your hobbies.

Step 2: Join a yoga class that you’ll hate.

Step 3: Meet a girl in yoga class and court her like it’s 1950.

Step 4: Call her on the telephone and ask to take her out on Friday night.

Step 5: Remove all excitement and be completely predictable by telling her exactly what you’ll be doing days in advance.

Step 6: Buy her 2 different kinds of flowers and wrap them in a handmade paper bouquet.

Step 7: Bring the flowers to her doorstep and be a completely neutered pussy all night.

Step 8: Make everything about her and only talk about her life since you’re completely uninteresting.

Step 9: Pay for everything and don’t even think about trying to escalate physically. She’s a lady, you brute.

If you follow all of these steps, you’ll be sure to get some pussy one day. Eventually. Probably. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.🤞

Jonathan on X
Attention Young WOMEN:

I am surrounded by 30-40 year old men in my life who are protectors, providers, leaders, masculine, competent, smart, capable, and hardworking!

Step 1: Don't be a slut

Step 2: Be 100% feminine

Step 3: Stay fit

Step 4: Be friendly

Step 5: Be submissive

Step 6: Be on the man's program

Step 7: Prioritize your man

Step 8: Be a help meet

Step 9: Be a traditional woman

Step 10: Respect male leadership and respect, love, and admire your father

THERE, I FIXED IT!!!
Jeffrey Ye on X - "The dating equivalent of boomers saying just walk into Goldman Sachs with your resume and a “firm handshake”"
Rebecca 📖 on X - "Well, I have two teenage sons, they shower, they work out, they know how to talk to young women, they are well read and kind. Both have had girlfriends they were very serious about (the older one told me he planned to marry his HS gf), who dumped them because they (the girls) wanted to explore their options. I think there’s a lot more going on here than you’re aware of and putting the onus entirely on young men does both them and women a huge disservice."
Diana Dahl on X - "I am so tired of the young men being easy targets to put down. The young women have far more issues, I believe."
Devon Eriksen on X - "This is excellent advice for meeting a girl in 1986, but I think young people are going to have some trouble with the time travel part."
Tim (Buckshot) on X - "It was bad advice in 76, worse in 86, worse yet in 96, etc."
Crixus on X - "That will work perfectly, if you are 6 feet+ tall, make six figures as a 20 something, are in perfect shape, have a supercar, are a secret billionaire and possibly an Eastern European prince looking for a down to Earth 5/10 girl to be your billionaire princess. Otherwise, they will treat you like shit for existing in their vicinity and will roast you in their group chat for eternity. This generation of women are irredeemable selfish bitches."
InfantryDort on X - "This is alot of words to try and get young men to avoid going on the heroes journey that actually produces men with higher sexual market value. Going to yoga ain’t it. Thats the lamest shit I’ve read in a hot minute. Join the Infantry instead."
El Mustachio Elegante on X - "I’ve been happily married for almost 2 decades & even I know this is terrible, outdated advice."
Tyga on X - "The advice was never in-date. It is the usual "women are perfect", men need to change themselves crap these feminist men pinch off."
Neo1963 on X - "Agree, I'm in the same boat as you. I have a good looking 32-year-old son, goes to church, play guitar is physically fit, financially responsible, and secure and working a very good job making the six figure plus income and it's hard for him."
MrsLibertyBelle on X - "I’m a mother of a daughter that age and sons that age up to 30+. The reason “nobody is dating them” is because of the ever-expanding definitions of literally everything involved in courting a woman who may not be interested as “sexual assault” or “attempted sexual assault” or just generally being a creep or a stalker. The MeToo era and the current “most men are rapists” discourse with the Cornell drug-fueled orgy have young men scared out of their minds that unless “she” approaches him and literally says “I am interested in you” then he may be labeled a sexual predator if he asks a woman for her phone number or out for coffee or tries to put himself out there and lean in for an attempt at a kiss. It is really sad."
Rachel Wilson on X - "This has to be rage bait"
Aruvin 💊 on X - "This is, by far, the shittiest dating advice I've read on X, and trust me that's saying a lot. Go back to collecting your social security checks and attending AARP luncheons, boomer. Leave dating advice to the guys who are actually dealing with women in 2026."
H. Pearl Davis on X - "Men like you that gas them up have made them arrogant"
The Texian ⭐️ on X - "Because women never do that.
Meanwhile in the women’s chat group:
• “Know your worth”
• “Don’t settle”
• “You deserve better”
• “A real man would…”
• “You deserve a man who…”
• “If he wanted to, he would”
• “That’s the bare minimum”
• “Never settle for less than you deserve”
• “He’s not interested if he doesn’t [text back fast / plan the date / pay / etc.]”
• “Red flag: [normal behavior]”
• “You can do better”
• “Wait for someone who matches your standards”
• “He should already know how to treat you”"
Jesse Drama on X - "I’m so confused. The girls are the ones not getting dates, but the men are the ones you gave the to do list to?"
Ben Fleming on X - "> "I don't know any women who can land a man."
> Decides to give advice to men instead of women.
I found your problem."
Melissa on X - "They’re all single for a reason, and usually it’s their own character flaw that needs addressing. Blaming men for the fact women are single only creates more delusional narcissism within women who have their own character flaws needing to be addressed. I’m quite tired of society trying to impose a false reality wherein women are painted as flawless creatures."
Peachy Keenan on X - "No one is dating them for a reason. Here are a few that may apply (the girls you know may have their own reasons):
Overwhelming majority of young women will not date a conservative or anyone who voted for Trump.
If you're under 6 ft.
If you're not extremely successful already.
Guys have learned by that age that cold approaching girls marks them as "creepy." When they try it once and get rejected, get an eye roll, or get told they're too short, not whatever, to their face, they will never cold approach again."
MaraGood85 on X - "Sir... I've been in the vicinity of young women who are barely a "5" turn up their noses at really wonderful young men because they were blue collar and under 6ft tall. Or maybe because their hair wasn't thick enough. Your list isn't going to do jack shit for these young men until these young women start living in reality."
Wargwarn on X - "I know a lot of yoga chicks, some who actually teach at studios. This is how you get banned from a yoga studio lmao. Girls generally do not want to be propositioned at yoga studios or the gym at all. Also this post is so out of touch it’s hilarious."
Eric on X - "Men: absolutely do not fucking go to women's fitness classes and start asking women out. Do. Not."
Buckie58 on X - "Dude will end up on regional Facebook/Instagram as a creep and be completely blacklisted within a few classes. This guy is delusional."
Gia Macool on X - "If I see a guy doing yoga, I’m already gone 😂 Who told you this was good advice? A woman. First dates aren’t marriage auditions or big romantic performances. They’re low-key. Grab a drink, talk for an hour or two, and see if you actually like being around each other. That’s it."
Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️ on X - "Nobody picks a woman up at her doorstep for a first date anymore. No woman in her right mind is going to tell a man she has never dated where she lives, unless they already know each other through a shared community, such as a church, where that information is already familiar. And almost every woman under 30 I have spoken with would get a serious case of the ick if a man showed up with flowers on a first date. First dates nowadays are casual, low-key affairs. They are not grand romantic gestures or declarations of serious intent. The purpose is simply to spend a couple of hours together and find out whether you actually enjoy each other's company."
CAMELCAST OFFICIAL on X - ""How to spend hundreds of dollars to get friend zoned""
SightUnseen555 on X - "And this is the BEST possible outcome of this advice."
Uncle Curtis 🇺🇸 on X - "You’re asking a young man to invest $90–270 and 6–11 hours spread across multiple days for the opportunity to treat a girl like a princess, not talk about himself, and then be friend-zoned when he could be having a great time just hanging out with the fellas?
Here is the full breakdown of what you’re asking him to invest:
Money breakdown (one attempt):
• Prep (haircut $15–25, yoga drop-in $15–30, flowers $8–20, optional car wash $0–15): $38–90
• Date (dinner + activity, paying for both): $50–180
• Grand total: $88–270
Time breakdown (one attempt):
• Prep steps (haircut 20–40 min, shower 15–30 min, car clean 30–60 min, yoga class + travel 90–150 min, flowers 30–45 min, planning 30–60 min, call 5–15 min): roughly 3.5–6.5 hours
• Date itself: 3–5 hours
• Grand total: 6.5–11.5 hours"
planefag on X - "is this satire?"

Links - 18th October 2026 (1 - Migrants)

2026-10-18T09:44:00.000+08:00

Thaïs d’Escufon on X - "Europeans and American patriots! Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.” Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large. I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted. They cannot silence the truth! Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷"
Visegrád 24 on X - "A French woman who was sexually assaulted by a Tunisian immigrant could be sentenced to prison tomorrow for saying on TV that the main danger to French women is sexual violence from migrants that come to France from Africa and the Middle East"
Wesley Yang on X - ""Free speech and multiculturalism cannot co-exist" was once a warning by conservatives. It is now an overt policy explicitly defended and enacted by center-Left political parties across the Western world."
Meme - Christian Heiens: "Women will vote to mass import rapists from the third world, virtue signal about how they're more comfortable around Syrian and Sudanese "refugees" than they are with their high school classmates who still believe in having a country, and then go online to complain about how unsafe they feel going out at night."
Pol DeBuitleir @PotDeBuitleir: "Down with fascists"
"I feel much safer with refugees than fascists. Refugees welcome. Smash Fascism & Racism. Stop the Far Right"
The miracle of the magical migrants | Geoffrey Heath-Taylor | The Critic Magazine - "a core dogma of the progressive creed: the magical, transformative power of Western soil. The moment a migrant steps onto the tarmac at Heathrow or JFK — and certainly the moment their child draws its first breath in a Western maternity ward — they are deemed to be as indigenous as the oaks of the Forest of Dean and the Redwoods of northern California. To suggest that cultural roots or ancestral ties might linger is “othering”. This logic was deployed in the aftermath of the Southport stabbings. When it emerged that the suspect, Axel Rudakubana, was the son of Rwandan immigrants, the immediate response of the clerisy was to flatten his identity. He was, we were told, a “Welsh Christian”. Forget that his parents moved to Wales from Rwanda in 2002. Rudakubana was born in Cardiff: to mention Rwanda was irrelevant. The mystical soil of Wales had worked its magic, making Rudakubana as Welsh as Dylan Thomas. Only a bigot could imagine otherwise. If this principle — that geography dictates identity, and recent arrival is no bar to belonging — were applied universally, its consistency could be respected. But it is not. It is applied with a rigorous, almost comical selectivity: the rules of belonging depend more on who you are, where you’ve come from and what colour you are. Consider the Afrikaners. The Dutch first dropped anchor at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. That is the better part of four centuries ago — pre-dating the formation of the United Kingdom by more than 50 years. An Afrikaner born in Pretoria today is the product of 12 or 13 generations of African living. They have no other home; their language was forged in the Sub-Saharan dust. Yet, to the liberal progressive, they remain undeniably, irrevocably European. In the lexicon of the decolonisation movement, a white farmer in Zimbabwe or a third-generation British descendant in Kenya can never be an African. They are “colonial settlers”, transients with no moral claim to the land of their birth. It matters not that they might never have seen Europe, nor that their great-grandfathers are buried under local Mpundu trees. Their whiteness renders them eternal guests, morally obliged to “go back” to a continent that is foreign to them. Whilst the Somali arrival in the US instantly becomes a permanent thread woven into the fabric of the nation, the Dutch arrival in Africa is a temporary incursion that centuries cannot normalise. The anti-settler, pro-immigration lobby cannot have it both ways. They cannot claim that the “Welsh Christian” son of Rwandan immigrants is irrefutably British whilst simultaneously turning a blind eye to the seizure of land from third-generation white farmers in Africa on the grounds that land being in Africa cannot be settled by non-Africans. This hypocrisy finds its most feverish expression in the Middle East. Why does the clock of history stop for Jews in 1948, freezing them as eternal immigrants, whilst for the Windrush generation the clock starts in 1948 when they instantly became naturalised British citizens? Why is a Jew in Judea — the very land from which his culture, religion and name originated thousands of years ago — a “settler”, whilst a first- or second-generation Pakistani in Bradford an unquestionably indigenous Brit? The answer is that “settler” and “native” no longer draw on geography or history. They are moral categories. In the theology of the left, the West is the source of oppression, and anyone moving from the West (or perceived as an outpost of it, like Israel) carries that sin with them. They can never truly belong to the “native” lands they move to. However, anyone moving to the West is an innocent — a victim of history seeking betterment whose arrival is a blessing. It is a worldview that requires a suspension of disbelief so vast it borders on the miraculous. It asks us to believe that a man’s identity is fluid when he steps onto British soil, but calcified when he steps onto African or Levantine soil. It is a logic that allows the left to posture as the defenders of the “native” in Palestine — even when the Jew bought the land, as so many did — whilst simultaneously declaring that the very concept of “native” is racist in Paris or London. Until we recognise this sham moral hierarchy for what it is — an anti-Western ideological weapon rather than a coherent theory of citizenship — we will continue to be frustrated by contradictions and hypocrisy."
Economists say SG has "deep and systemic" issues caused by over-reliance on cheap foreign labor - "Economists Manu Bhaskaran and Nigel Chiang published a paper on Academia.sg yesterday (20 Nov) highlighting that Singapore is under-performing relative to trading partners, peers and OECD countries in both labour and total factor productivity. It reflects a "deep and systemic" issues in the Singapore economy, especially in sectors where an over-reliance on foreign migrant labour has affected incentives to invest. This is undermining economic growth, wages and living standards, corporate profitability and international competitiveness, the authors opined... Singapore’s productivity growth has under-performed its top trading partners, other small high-income economies, and the OECD average, with the performance gap widening over the years. "Since 2000, real median wage growth has declined, and average local monthly nominal wages are lower than in our peer group in every sector except finance — as much as 40 to 50 percent lower in construction, and accommodation and food services, where productivity is also very low," the authors said. "Low productivity growth will over time undermine economic competitiveness. Already the rate of return on foreign direct investment in Singapore is lower than in other emerging Asian economies and in a peer group of small countries with similar per capita GDP."... The authors said that the weak productivity in Singapore can be traced to policy decisions that may have distorted the incentive structure of the economy. "One likely reason is the massive inflow of foreign labour, much of it poorly skilled," they wrote. Up to around 2005, output per worker moved more or less in line with Singapore’s top 15 trading partners. But subsequently, there was a persistent and wide level of under-performance, coinciding with the explosive growth in the importation of cheap foreign labour in the early 2000s, noted the authors... When productivity growth under-performs, companies' profitability is affected too. In their research, the authors found that construction, hotel, F&B and even information and communication sectors under-perform the most with respect to profitability, productivity and wages, and these sectors are the ones with large inflow of cheap foreign labour. At the same time, the authors also observed that real median wage growth in Singapore has declined steeply in the first decade of the 2000s, which coincides with a period of accelerated inflows of foreign labour. "The large and rapid inflow of foreign labour has depressed wages, business investment and productivity growth. Sub-par productivity growth eventually showed up in the under-performance of local companies, but the economy continued to grow thanks to an expanding labour force," the authors wrote. "To conclude, the Singapore economy appears to us to be in a low-level trap. Large inflows of low-skilled cheap foreign workers have depressed both wages and the incentive to raise productivity, making the economy increasingly reliant on ever more inflows of cheap labour, which further restrains wage growth and produces even less incentive to move up the productivity curve, while also hurting the wages of lower-income Singaporeans.""
Weird. We are told that open borders boost productivity and doesn't affect wages
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 on X - "the entire world has seen a sudden influx of Indians in the last 10 years really remarkable. i don't think i've yet read a good explainer. everybody focuses on receiving-country dynamics. why did south asia's emigration rate suddenly go BOOM after 2015?"
Project for Immigration Reform on X - "Over the past two decades, nearly every Western country discovered the same lucrative arrangement. Universities could charge foreign students premium tuition. Governments could classify the resulting inflow as a form of “high-skilled” immigration. And ambitious young people from South Asia could be sold the prospect that a degree was less an education than a pathway to permanent settlement. The United States helped establish the model. When the Obama administration expanded post-graduation work authorization for foreign students, it transformed the student visa from a temporary educational credential into something much closer to a probationary immigration program. Other countries soon followed. Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand each concluded that they, too, could convert their universities into recruitment agencies for future migrants. The policy rested on a fashionable theory of economic development. Washington think tanks spent years arguing that Silicon Valley owed its success chiefly to immigrant talent. Statistics about immigrant founders circulated endlessly, stripped of context and elevated into a kind of civic theology. Policymakers elsewhere convinced themselves that importing ever larger numbers of foreign students would allow them to replicate California’s success. Of course, no rival Silicon Valley ever materialized. Instead, we got a transnational market in migration opportunities. Universities collected tuition revenue. Governments inflated their human-capital statistics. Young foreigners pursued residency. Natives found themselves competing in increasingly crowded labor markets, residents confronted rising housing costs, and communities adapted to demographic change on a scale that few policymakers had openly contemplated."
‏ً on X - "“They are stealing our jobs.” Yes Billy, who failed high school, Rajesh the astrophysicist has stolen your job."
Comments (elsehwere): "Leftists: "migrants do low skilled jobs that we need done"
Also lefties: "haha dont be silly, theyre actually all doctors and scientists"
Which is it"
Meme - Elizabeth Berry: Xiran Jay Zhao @XiranJayZhao: "If you don't want desperate people coming to your country maybe you shouldn't have based your standard of living on fucking up the places they lived"
Kevin Reynolds: "Victim mentality. Blame others for fucking up your country! All countries are the same, the planet doesn't have preferences. It's your fucked up culture that fucked up your country!"
You can see left wing zero sum mentality again: some people are rich because others are poor/miserable. That's why they want to make happy people miserable and rich people poor - they think it will make others happy and rich
Joshua Garrison on X - "I bring home a trapped coyote and let it loose in the kitchen. Hackles up. Teeth bared. Pissing on the floor. My wife says, "Get it out." I tell her that is a very unwelcoming and unchristian way to speak about a future house pet. The children back into the hallway. I tell them it's a rescue. I tell them fences are fear. I tell them cages are barbaric. I tell them the old rules were cruel. I tell them it will domesticate in time. Then I grab my lunchbox and leave them to live with my principles. When I get home, there is blood on the floor, and the experts who sold me on compassion are already explaining why nobody could have seen this coming. Anyway, that's Western migration policy."
I am a Singaporean Indian Tamil. CECA has made me feel like a foreigner in my own country. : r/SingaporeRaw- "I am a Singaporean Indian who speaks Tamil, one of our four official languages. But increasingly, I have been made to feel like a foreigner in my own country. Just the other day at an Indian Mamak food stall, I was speaking Tamil with the stall owner, when a North Indian foreign woman cut in, started speaking in Hindi, and acted like we were the outsiders. She even told me that when the stall uncle speaks Tamil to her, she only replies in Hindi, not even English, because “Hindi is the national language of India, not Tamil.” No social awareness. No civic sense. Just entitlement. Let’s be clear: Hindi is not an official language in Singapore. Tamil is. (heck even in India it is such a controversial topic). But because of CECA and the lack of real safeguards for locals, even local Singaporean Tamil voices are being sidelined. The irony is that even in India, that statement is highly controversial. Tamil Nadu and other southern states have strongly resisted Hindi imposition for decades. But thanks to India’s current political climate, where Hindi nationalism has been pushed more aggressively, this kind of mindset is becoming more common among some Indian nationals coming here. And this is not a one-off. It’s part of a growing pattern where the influx of foreigners under CECA has changed the social fabric of our SINGAPORE, often at the expense of local minorities. This election, I am voting for the opposition because I want leaders who will actually speak up for local minority communities. Leaders who will question how policies like CECA were implemented, and who will prioritise Singaporeans of all backgrounds over unchecked foreign interests."
Damn racism and Chinese privilege!
Defiant L’s on X - "Mexicans are now protesting migrants that are in their country, "We don't want you here""
Common Sense Extremists on X - "Everyone accuses White people of being racist, xenophobic and hateful bigots who have these qualities in their very DNA yet they are literally the only ethnic group that feels that they have a moral obligation to share their nations with the entire human race."
Meme - ">The reason for the sudden influx of browns in the west is to keep the economy propped up.
Basically. The pension ponzi is coming apart ahead of schedule and they need to keep the boomers happy, so the imperative for policymakers is
1. Prop up inflated housing values, which represent the majority of most boomers' net worth, reducing reliance on pensions. Infinity browns living 20 to a house will do this
2. Suppress wages so boomers can get stuff cheaper. Making working age people compete for jobs with infinity browns living 20 to a house will do this
3. Suppress inflation caused by money printing to inflate other boomer assets (stocks etc). Infinity browns each sending $250 a month back to Bangladesh will do this by removing money from the economy here
4. Suppress popular backlash to working people being deliberately impoverished in order to benefit boomers. Making a big chunk of the population browns who have a very strong incentive to continue #1-3 does this
That is why the coordinated influx of various types of browns into pension system countries all of a sudden, all at the same time. Other jurisdictions like Canada are also trying stuff like euthanizing a certain % of retirees per year, to attack the pension problem from both ends, but that's the main problem. If you think about it for five seconds, you'll realize that public pensions for everyone require a constantly increasing population that's constantly producing more value per worker (as opposed to service and government jobs that reduce value produced per worker), and it's mathematically impossible"
Meme - Claire Lehmann @clairlemon: "I asked Claude Fable why the Australian government promoted record- breaking immigration at a time of economic deterioration. It's output:"
"Elite consensus and taboo. For roughly two decades, neither major party in either country wanted to own restriction, partly from conviction, partly because the charge of racism was electorally lethal and the business/progressive coalition behind openness spanned both parties. That created exactly the vacuum insurgent parties exist to fill. On whether the backlash was foreseeable-yes, and it was foreseen. Britain ran this experiment first: the post-2004 surge fed UKIP, then Brexit, then Reform, in a more or less straight line. The political science on rapid local demographic change plus economic insecurity predicting populist-right support is well established. What's striking is that Australia watched all of it happen and its Treasury still revised migration forecasts upward two months ago."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Actually amazing story showing the complete insanity of Australia’s immigration system.
> Palestinian man migrates to Australia
> Has kid named Kamleh
> Kamleh grows up to join ISIS
> Kamleh declares war on Australia in ISIS propaganda videos
> Australian authorities allow Kamleh to keep Australian citizenship
> Kamleh marries four wives while in Syria
> Has kids with jihadi wives
> These kids automatically get Australian citizenship
> ISIS collapses, Kamleh assumed dead
> Years later, refugee camp administrators find random kid named Youssef
> Youssef lives under care of Dutch-Somalian woman
> Dutch Somali woman claims to be Kamleh’s fourth wife
> Youssef is therefore “Australian orphan” entitled to automatic Australian citizenship and repatriation
So you could literally join ISIS, rape and pillage across the Middle East, and the Australian government would recognise any kid you had while raping and pillaging across the Middle East to be automatically Australian Citizenship involves literally no obligations of loyalty whatsoever in Australia. You can literally join ISIS with an Australian government guarantee that any kid you have while raping and butchering people across the Middle East will get an Aussie passport"
Alice Smith on X - "They told us immigrants were doctors and engineers - they weren’t. They told us immigrants were refugees and evacuees - they weren’t. They told us immigrants were women and children - they’re not. It’s been lie after lie upon lie."
i/o on X - "The online right had to shift its argument away from "non-Western legal immigrants are good only when they are net contributors" to "non-Western legal immigrants are bad even when they are net contributors because they will destroy our culture" once they realized that the data clearly show that these newcomers (especially if they are from Asia) are usually almost always instant contributors. The evidence the online right has for its "destruction of culture" claim isn't so much a data-based one as a fear-driven one (and in some cases a racist one) based mostly upon motivated reasoning and limited or anecdotal data. Which brings me to two familiar complaints of mine: (1) The right lacks the ability to establish institutions that would have the resources and ability to collect sufficiently extensive data relating to the cultural assimilation of non-Western legal immigrants (data which might support its case), and (2) the institutions which do have the resources to investigate its claim have no interest in doing so because they have been captured by a left that really isn't all that interested in the issue of immigrant assimilation anymore (or even thinks it's a harmful notion). So what we're left with is a debate between a right convinced that highly-educated high-income low-crime legal immigrants from the developing world will reject (and ultimately destroy) so-called "heritage culture", and left-leaning institutions that don't particularly care if this happens — and also a relative paucity of existing large-sample data which might help reasonable people judge the merits of the right's argument. But, based on the information we do have now, I'm not persuaded that legal immigrants are going to deleteriously change or harm American culture. And of course the argument that they are good for our economy and global competitiveness remains strong."
Jonas Reschat on X - "In Denmark, the social-democratic politician Frederik Vad introduced what he called the third realization: Even immigrants who are well-educated and law abiding can be subversive if they're too culturally different from Danes. The libertarian politician and former professor of sociology Henrik Dahl made a derivative conclusion: As minorities enter Danish institutions, assimilations happens both ways, because they will eventually influence Danes as well. Looking at America today, we see this happening very clearly. American culture is gradually moving away from the North-Western European origin: Less economic freedom, more corruption and clannishness."
Meme - "1770: British refugees seeking aslyum in Australia are attacked by hateful, xenophobic, racist, bigoted Aboriginals who hate the asylum seekers purely because of the colour of their skin."
Meme - Cernovich: "They admit that miss migration is a revenge fantasy."
Mehdi Hasan: "Well, your forebears should have thought of that before they went around the world colonizing the lands of Mohammeds, Khans, and Patels. Enjoy your racism!"
Lucy White: "I do not want my country to be full of Mohammeds, Khans, Patels, Singhs Adebayos or Babatundes. I want my country to be full of Matthews, Peters, Johns, Williams, Christophers and Samuels."
Left wingers see brown and black people as punishments for white people. Weird how non white countries don't have these problems
Kumashun🇯🇵🐻💎 on X - "How to make a species go extinct:
1. introduce a closely related invader species
2. Outnumber the natives
3. Feed the invader
4. Pressure the native
5. Encourage cross-mating
Sounds familiar right?"
MichaeloKeeffe on X - "Nigerian woman and government-appointed racism czar, Ebun Joseph: "Every generation inherits a country, we redefine it and redesign it. Ireland is already a multicultural country, we are not going to undo it, we can't go back to that time.""
Cosmopolitan Reactionary on X - "Listening to a halfwitted Nigerian woman lecture Irish people about how their country must be demographically “reimagined” feels utterly dystopian, but even the bleakest Hollywood visions of the future couldn’t have imagined a scene like this."
Mike Chimp on X - "Imagine having the audacity, after being accepted as an asylum seeker in a foreign country, to not be in anyway grateful but demand that they change every aspect of their thousands of years old culture just to suit yours. And dim witted natives applaud this."
Meme - *Smiling woman holding up 'Refugees Welcome' sign*
"Strange. They're all young Japanese women"
*Worried woman putting down 'Refugees Welcome' sign*
Meme - "And then what? What happens after that? You get rid of the welfare state, then open the border, then worlders and their anchor babies start voting for policies that give them preferential treatment. Welfare state gets put right back in place, administered by people who take their own side. And that's assuming you even *can* end the welfare state, which can at best be minimized but will never be eliminated. It's a pipe dream. We have to ask ourselves how much do we value national sovereignty- and what does it mean to be a nation? People like you never get that far. It's always just "well this NAP rule sounds great, so I'm gonna project my values into the hearts of others, and assume they will share these beliefs". "Because there's this thing, that makes sense to me, that I agree with...well, if we just inform people, get the message out, obviously they'll agree and respect our values." These people would loot the 10+ generations worth of wealth you have, and laugh while you starve. We can set some reasonable limits to protect our people, and otherwise why even have a nation at all? But you see, you gotta be willing to accept that we'll never live in a perfect little world where we can all hold hands and sing Kumbaya and recite Rothbard quotes to each other. Have an ounce of nuance."
Maliq on X - "Look at the Indian diaspora in Britain and America. Millions of Hindus live there, practise Hinduism, build temples and preserve their culture. Yet you rarely hear, “We want Hindu law,” “ban beef,” or “change your country to accommodate our religion.” Now compare that with the constant battles over Sharia, halal, adhan and religious exemptions. You can practise your religion without demanding that everyone else live by it. At some point, we need to stop calling every criticism “Islamophobia”. As Muslims, we need to be honest: we have an integration problem."
Slumdog_Chillionaire on X - "Irish Americans: wow I love it here!
Irish: Fokken plastic paddy yank go back to yer foken country. Cunt.
Somalians: ISGUAIAVS Ki mandala BAKBAVGAYSMKO! *stabs someone*
Irish: ahhh a true son of the sod 🥹"
Guido Fawkes on X - "Phillipson to Piddington Women Concerned About Their Safety: ‘All Women in Society Are Unsafe’"
Benedict Spence on X - "This is among the most wicked deceptions many of the pro-migration lobby make - that a) women *must* fear all the men who live around them, and b) because bad men exist, women *must* accept more bad men moving in or be branded bad people themselves."
Meme - Templarpilled @Templarpilled: "The average Afghan "refugee" is a fighting age male and this is who the media picked to represent them:" *blonde haired blue eyed girl*
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld: "'I've never been to Afghanistan': Six million deportees forced to start over under the Taliban"
Meme - *Mental gymnastics*
"Normal people
People think there's too many immigrants
Only the right-wing wants to stop that
People vote for the right-wing
Leftists
Centrists normalised anti-migrationrhetoric
Brainwashed by billionaire propaganda
They want tostop austerity
It's because of Elon buying twitter
They want higher wages"
Meme - Muslim woman in hijab: "IN MY COUNTRY I AM FORCED TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT. HERE I'M FREE TO TALK TRASH ABOUT THIS COUNTRY IN HOPES IT CHANGES INTO A COUNTRY WHERE I'M FORCED TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT."
N News on X - "A driver who struck and killed a Pakistani international student who was praying in the middle of an Adelaide road didn't stop because he thought he hit a kangaroo."
Puyangan Adiyan on X - "What kind of mental illness is it that makes someone squat on the road and what kind of justice system is it which punishes the innocent driver?"
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "BREAKING NEWS: An Australian judge just let a foreign violent rapist escape prison because he found that the rapist didn’t know that rape was a crime in Australia. Within six months of moving to Australia, a foreign 16 year old teenager committed a brutal violent rape attack. Australian judge Andrew Muller refused to imprison the 16 year old teenage rapist because he found that the rapist didn’t know that rape was against Australian customs - he had “limited insight into societal norms in Australia.” In determining the sentence, Justice Muller somehow found that the fact that the rapist didn’t understand that rape was against Australian culture reduced his moral culpability for the rape. I don’t understand. This is sickening. In a victim impact statement, the victim described feeling a loss of dignity, confidence and sense of self. She said she "can no longer call [her] body [her] own" and that night her life was stolen and would forever be changed."

Links - 17th October 2026 (Migrants: US)

2026-10-17T13:12:00.000+08:00

TheBlaze on X - "Abdul El-Sayed: “We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors.”"
i/o on X - "We don't owe the world unrestricted access to our country. We owe it to ourselves to make our country strong, which is something careful selective immigration can help us accomplish. But the last thing we need are more people like El-Sayed who think it is the highest duty of a nation with already-strained resources to become a dumpster for the billions of people who inhabit the failed societies of the world."
We are still told that Democrats don't believe in open borders
Wall Street Apes on X - "More Somalia gang violence in Minnesota. A violent shootout with more than 100 shots fired flying into residential homes and bedroom windows. 3 separate shootings tied to Somali gangs in just one week. Americans need to understand how widespread the Somali gang activity is in Minnesota
- There are 12 documented Somali Gangs
- Over 300 Somali are involved in these gangs
- There have been over 100 shootings by these gangs in the last 2 years
- There have been 14 homicides by these gangs in the last 2 years
Deport them ALL from America"
Ariana Jasmine on X - "Hey so ICE shooting a car with a 5 year old child in it is exactly what the IDF does to Palestinian families"
US immigration officials defend ICE agents who shot man while his child was in the car - "Marcos Charles, a top ICE official, said the agency's officers used their vehicles to try and stop Belgal in his car but that he resisted orders to get out and instead accelerated, smashing into two ICE vehicles. Charles said Belgal then "weaponised his vehicle and proceeded to accelerate going towards other officers", adding: "Our officers, using their training, and believing that their life and the life of their partners in the general public were in danger, used their training and fired weapons."... The DHS said Belgal, 28, was from the Dominican Republic and had "a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs and weapons possession". Belgal was arrested by police officers in New York in December 2023 and released "a few days later"... DHS has also alleged Belgal was associated with the Trinitarios, described by the US justice department as a transnational criminal group."
When left wingers admit that the people ICE shoot are trying to kill them, just like Palestinians always try to kill Israelis
Mohamad Safa on X - "If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious."
SeanFletcher48 on X - "This is the most preposterous false equivalence I’ve encountered in quite some time. Being labeled as a “person” and a “person who has the right to enter a country” are two entirely different concepts. This is straight out of a fools guide to Marxism… does this cr@p ever work?"
Even for left wing stupidity, this is a new low, but I keep seeing left wingers share it
Stella on X - "Why not create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants instead of focusing only on deportation? 🤔"
Sean Quigley 🇺🇸 on X - "Why not create a path to ownership for car thieves instead of focusing only on incarceration?"
Meme - Smirkley: "Based Dominicans."
"Haiti: people deported back, 2026
Removals to Haiti this year, by country sending them back
Dominican Republic 194,465
United States 1,397"
The US is clearly the most evil country in the world, sending such huge numbers of Haitians back to their deaths
Meme - Cernovich @Cernovich: "This is why I support mass deportations"
memetic sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "The levels of ingratitude are staggering."
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "i had a lot of medical issues as a growing kid and i still live with them today. but i'd probably wouldn't be alive now if it wasn't for medicaid helping my poor family. i don't know how this country survives the coming years"
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "america has always been and always will be the great satan. there has never been a more violent terrorist organization than america"
Clearly, importing more people who hate the country despite benefiting so much from it is how the US survives and honours its legacy of being built by Americans. Marg Bar America means Death to America but when Muslims say that they don't really mean Death to America. But of course, if you say punctuality helps you succeed in life you are a racist white supremacist
Arkansas Democrat would "trade five Americans for just one" illegal alien - "Don't worry, nobody is out to "replace" Americans. That's just an anti-semitic conspiracy theory ... that happens to be the stated policy of Democrats like Hallie Shoffner in Arkansas."
We're still told that it's a myth that left wingers hate their countries and that left wingers hate white people and their countrymen
arctotherium on X - "Incredible Woke More Correct moment - a Somali given the "Outstanding Refugee Award for Entrepreneurship" by Minnesota appears to have committed about $1.5M worth of Medicaid fraud."
Insider Wire on X - "#BREAKING: The Trump admin has deported over 25,000 illegals to 28 countries that aren't their own."
Homeland Security on X - "Because they asked us not to send them to their home countries. No need to say thanks."
Gunther Eagleman™ on X - "AUSTIN’S POLICE CHIEF JUST TORCHED THE LEFT’S ICE SHOOTING NARRATIVE IN REAL TIME. A city councilman ran to the cameras claiming ICE sideswiped a man and shot him five times through the back window. The chief said that is not what he’s hearing. There was a small foot pursuit. It was one gunshot wound. The man’s wife already admitted he tried to drive off while agents were on him, even with an ICE vehicle blocking his car. He is alive and stable. The activists still got their smear out first. This is how they operate. Lie early, print loud, correct never. Wait for the facts. Back the officers. Stop letting city hall write the crime scene before the police do."
Thread by @iAnonPatriot on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "America imported less than 2,000 German scientists after WW2 and they took us to the moon in less than 2 decades. America imported nearly 175,000 Somalis over the last 40 years, and now 89% of them with children in Minnesota are on welfare. The Somalis have given us thousands of fake daycares — as well as their most popular dish, bananas and rice. They’re stealing BILLIONS from US taxpayers through fake daycares and welfare. Fantastic people."
Claire Valdez on X - "215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won. I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican American representative. And I'm strengthened not just by Mexico's history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us – and building a government for the working class. ¡Viva la Independencia, Viva México!"
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "You should run for office in Mexico if you want to represent them"
John Daniel Davidson on X - "This woman presents a conundrum for the civic nationalists. On the one hand, they have to say she’s just as American as anyone else, because after all she’s a citizen, and in their view all citizens are equally American. On the other hand, she clearly rejects all the ideas the civic nationalists say constitute American identity. She rejects the nationalist “creed” they say is the heart of our national identity. But if accepting the creed or the set of ideas that supposedly constitute America is what makes someone an American, this woman obviously isn’t one. Arguably her citizenship should be stripped and she should be deported (to Mexico). But the civic nationalists will never argue that, which is how you know they don’t really believe their own account of the sources of American identity. Their unwillingness to follow their logic to its obvious conclusion suggests they want something else. But what? In short, they want America to be nothing more than an economic zone. Not a nation and a people, but a global ATM and a tax farm. All this nonsense about “creedal nationalism” is cover for that."
Talking about dual loyalty is racist even when that person proclaims it loudly
The New York Times on X - "Breaking News: More than 20 states sued the Trump administration over its policy to restrict immigrants from obtaining green cards if they rely on public benefits."
Importing voters and expanding the state is the point
Greg Price on X - "Mamdani and AOC are spotted laughing with each other as people cry while the names of those who died are read during the 9/11 Memorial in New York City."
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "They obviously don't think of themselves as Americans or think of the events of 9/11 as connected to them in any way. I was speaking with an American today about something else but they asked me how 9/11 had been seen in France, and it reminded me that in the aftermath, everyone in France felt that we had been under attack, because we all sensed implicitly that they had attacked a very close ally and that they had sought to attack all free Western countries. The slogan "Nous sommes tous américains" was on every lip. Mamdani and AOC may have American passports but they are not even as American as a random French person."
The Washington Post on X - "Scores of immigrants from El Salvador who have been shielded from deportation for decades because of ongoing violence and natural disasters in their homeland could now face removal from the United States after their benefits expire today."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "They were given TEMPORARY status to escape natural disaster and violence. The natural disaster in question is long over and El Salvador now has a lower murder rate than America. No reason to not send them home."
Tim Anderson on X - "Arlington’s Commonwealth’s Attorney testified that her office has a DUI policy specifically for DACA recipients. In a small number of cases, prosecutors have considered changing a DUI to a different first-degree misdemeanor so the defendant can renew DACA status. (We don’t have first-degree misdemeanors - they are called Class 1 misdemeanors - surprised an elected prosecutor doesn’t know that). She says the defendant is still held accountable and the original DUI charge remains visible. But DACA status is a factor in the plea resolution, one that an American citizen charged with the same offense cannot invoke. Should immigration status affect which crime appears on a defendant’s record?
Source: Dehghani-Tafti deposition, p. 89, lines 6–22."
Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 on X - "Don't blame law enforcement for enforcing immigration laws. Blame Democrats for misleading millions into believing they could break those laws without consequences."
Threads - "More than 70,000 people are currently in more than 200 concentration camps in the United States. What? You say: We don't have concentration camps in the US. Ah, but we do. Historians define concentration camps as sites of mass civilian detention without trial, based on group identity. Our "detention" centers ARE concentration camps. We need to shut them down."
Illegal immigrant is an identity. This is why left wingers want criminals all out on bail so they can commit more crimes. They consider accused criminal an identity too
These must be the only concentration camps in history where those in them can leave anytime
Meme - "DEMOCRATS TODAY ARE SAYING NO ONE, EVEN THE PRESIDENT, IS ABOVE THE LAW. SO OUR QUESTION IS, HOW COME ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE?"
Insider Wire on X - "#BREAKING: The DOJ successfully revokes the U.S. citizenship of an Indian rapist."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "People who spent all of 2014-2020 crying nonstop about rape culture in the US will be very upset about this"
Can undocumented immigrants receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in the U.S.? - "Some states have used state-only funds to provide food assistance to unauthorized immigrants... Those states include California, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Washington, but not North Dakota."
Weird. Left wingers keep insisting that illegal immigrants don't get government healthcare or food stamps
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on X - "Mohan Bhagwat and his hateful Hindu nationalist ideology are not welcome in our communities. His paramilitary organization the RSS is responsible for violent attacks and pogroms against Muslims, Sikhs, Dalits, Christians, and more. We must reject all forms of hate and supremacy."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "Remember when we were a less multicultural country and we didn’t have to listen to Muslim and Indian politicians fighting each other in our own country?"
Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist on X - "BREAKING: Randi Weingarten announces her new website directing people to shop at stores other than Target. Why? Because Target "remained silent" on ICE. Not because they promoted ICE. But because they didn't actively oppose ICE. The crazy teachers unions must be dismantled."
Left wingers believe that if you're not for them, you're against them
The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets: New Evidence from Administrative Microdata - "From early 2021 to early 2024, the U.S. experienced an unprecedented boom in unauthorized immigration, followed by a rapid slowdown beginning in mid-2024. We provide the first systematic empirical assessment of the labor- and housing-market effects of this episode. Using newly available administrative microdata on individual immigrants, we construct measures of net unauthorized immigration at the national and local levels and exploit plausibly exogenous variation across local markets. We find that unauthorized immigrant worker flows (UIWF) increased local employment approximately one-for-one, without significant declines in local wages. These inflows also raised local house prices and rents without expanding housing supply, consistent with a housing demand shock in the face of short-run inelastic supply. Lastly, we find that UIWF reduced labor income per capita, consistent with downward wage composition of the local workforce, and strongly reduced government transfers. These findings should help inform policy debates surrounding how unauthorized immigrant labor supply impacts local labor and housing markets as well as public finances."
Left wingers are still pretending that illegal immigration doesn't boost house prices
Christianity Today | Facebook - "“Jesus did not turn a blind eye to injustice,” wrote Raymond Chang last year. “We too must take up our cross and follow him, even when it leads us to the lives of the most vulnerable. If the church remains silent now, we risk repeating the mistakes of the past. But if we act with courage and conviction, we can help write a different future, one that honors Christ by standing with those whom he calls beloved. This is the moment for the church to rise—not with fear, but with faith. Not with silence, but with solidarity. We can support ministries that provide legal aid, language access, and holistic care to immigrant families. We can amplify and listen to the voices of immigrant leaders and stand in solidarity with them as fellow image bearers and believers. We can create space for lament in our churches, pray for those affected, and open our doors as places of refuge and advocacy. And we can repent: of our silence, our indifference, and our complacency in the face of suffering. If we believe the gospel is good news, then it must be good news for the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the undocumented child. It must be good news for those who are afraid. Let us remember our identity as the church: witnesses to a kingdom marked by compassion, righteousness, and reconciliation. And let it be said that when the vulnerable cried out, the body of Christ did not look away. Instead, we stood up. We spoke up. We followed Jesus to the margins, and there we found him.” From the CT archive: https://chrst.today/49fde5z"
Comments: "Once again, it is perfectly good to do a little Christian nationalism, so long as it’s a liberal flavor."
"There’s one huge difference. They were legal citizens. THEY were denied due process. Those who are here illegally because they cut in line do not have the right to due process. That is for CITIZENS. Also—according to scripture, heaven has walls and gates. Hell has open borders."
My sexual assault is being used to justify ICE. : r/offmychest - "I, 17f, was raped by a coworker this April. He was older, 23, but when he asked me to hang out after work I didn’t think much of it. I had hung out with coworkers before, besides, I had a bit of a crush on him. However, I definitely did not want to have sex with him. I consider myself somewhat lucky, I walked from the situation with merely a small scar and some bruising. It took me a few days to tell my manager that something had happened, not quite giving the full story. After about a week I finally couldn’t take seeing him at work anymore and I told my best friend who helped me call my manager, who later helped me talk to the police. Filing the report was one of—if not the—hardest things I’ve ever had to do. It is a tedious and painful process. I started to doubt myself and wonder if maybe it was my fault. Then I waited. For two and a half months the police searched for him and I checked over my shoulder. I was afraid of the dark and being alone, but worse I was obsessive about the case. I checked arrest logs daily to see if maybe they just hadn’t called me yet. Eventually, I eased up a bit. The people around me reassured me that he had most likely fled the state, if not the country. For the first time in nearly 3 months, there were days where I didn’t think about him. Then he was arrested. I was put on bail alert, given a protective order, and told how the court process worked. Things began to move very quickly, and I was doing my best to keep up. The ADA told me that it may be in my best interest to come back to the case after some time had passed, that she did not think I would survive taking the stand. I didn’t entirely disagree. Eventually, due to many circumstances, the case was dismissed. I was told that I had the option to proceed again at a later time, but at the moment he was being released. I was hit with a wave of emotions, the main of which being fear. I still had a protective order, but it didn’t feel like security enough. A few days passed and I got a call from my advocate. She let me know that he had been released directly from county jail to immigration custody. A wave of different emotions. Confusing ones. I knew he wasn’t a citizen, but I hadn’t processed what that meant. I don’t think everyone has a right to be in the United States. I think anyone can but not everyone does. I think immigration policy is important and we shouldn’t just let everyone in. HOWEVER, immigration and ICE under our current administration is out of control. I cannot support the actions or methods that are being used. It’s been about two weeks since that phone call, almost four months since the incident, and I just saw his name and face on ICE & DHS’s websites, treating his detainment as a “win” saying “The heroic men and women of ICE will NEVER stop arresting sickos like this.” People are posting about my case on twitter and Nextdoor, and thank god because I’m a minor and the nature of the crime all my info is private, but still holy shit. I’m just really upset and frustrated. I don’t want what happened to me to be used to push and justify the current system. I feel like it’s really wrong to use the rape of a child as a political talking point."
I bet she chooses the bear and demonises white men
Meme - Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow: "90% of homicides in NYC are committed by nonwhites. If Spider man was real you all would HATE him and call him a nazi fascist for beating up mostly black and Hispanic criminals all day."
Spider-Man Vibe @Spid...: "I don't usually get involved in political stuff, but some things need to be said. Spider-Man and Stan Lee would never support ICE. Not now. Not ever. Fuck ICE." *ICE Spider-man promo*
Meme - Kendra Jade Rossi: "Not only FK iCE BUT ALSO FK all of the people that are unbothered by the senseless murders by our government."
"Not once throughout history were the masked men gunning down innocent people in the street the good guys."
John R. Chango Sr.: "Innocent people dont attack, harrass, impede or obstruct law enforcement..."
Weird. Left wingers tell us that if you oppose antifa, you're a fascist.
Breaking911 on X - "Hasan Poker in resurfaced Clip: “We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f*ck your sisters and then your daughters… We’re here to destroy the white race, b*tch.”"
Brandon Gill on X - "Every Democrat wants this by the way. Hasan is just the only one who will say it out loud. Hatred of white people is the glue that holds the Democrat Party together."
Keywords: Hasan Piker
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "“America isn’t a people, it’s an idea.”
“Well, can we at least deport the people who openly reject the idea?”
“No, that would be against the ideas!”
This is the game we’ve been playing for over 60 years now. Civic nationalism inevitably destroys itself because it’s utterly incapable of making literally any value judgements between those who openly reject the civics and those who adhere to it. Why bother adhering or even learning the civics in the first place if there’s absolutely zero price to pay for betraying them?"
Paul Graham on X - "Asked whether there was a reason he couldn’t return to Honduras, Angel told the judge, “My mom and almost my entire family are here. It’s too dangerous to go back.” But that wasn’t enough for the judge, who told the boy he did not qualify for asylum. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked. “I don’t know,” Angel replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”"
"Future generations won't believe we let this happen."
What sort of parents wouldn't go to be in the same place as their young child?
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The U.S. has let in something like 6% of the entire population of Honduras, just over a few years. But that's still not enough? Of course many of them will have family in the U.S. by now. Unless you want the U.S. to let in the majority of the population of Honduras, you will have to draw the line somewhere, which will include some harsh cases. But maybe letting in most of the entire population of Honduras is what you want?"
Coal on X - "Those who opened the floodgates are responsible. The clean up crew is now just managing the fallout to enforce laws and ensure peace and societal cohesion. These stories are incredibly sad, and children especially don't deserve it; often they are too young to understand what is going on. But the hate and malice that you hold in your heart against your own people for enforcing laws should be directed towards those who broke it and let them in. The original conspirators of the US border crisises must face justice, even though I highly doubt they will. This is not hard to understand, and an upstanding man with children like yourself should most of all know this. I suppose you never have to think about it given the sheltered life you have insulated yourself and your family into..."
damn you people are stupid on X - "It’s such a crime against humanity when people must exist in a country that’s not the US. You and this silly line of reasoning are jokes dude. "
🇺🇸Proud Dad 911🇺🇸 on X - "I agree. Let’s deport the entire family."
Paul Graham on X - "Your profile says "Love Jesus Christ". Do you think he'd agree with you?"
Patrick McGuinness on X - "You act like the Pharisee who challenged Jesus, trying to trap Him by pitting God's Law against Roman law. Jesus Christ said "Give to Caesar what is Caesars" when challenged. OBEY THE LAW. Jesus Christ would throw your phony challenge back at you and ask who YOU took in."
Patrick on X - "Why don't you sponsor the family and fund their lives with all the money you have? You can afford to. Why don't you?"
Red Stator on X - "Yes. Read the Epistle to the Romans."
Raptor22 on X - "Actually yes he would. He’d also condemn you for not housing immigrants in your own house. It’d probably go something like “Let those who wish to take in those from a strange land be the first to house them. Do not let Pharisees heap guilt when they themselves host no one.”"
Mh on X - "*sent from my billionaire enclave surround by white people instead of the cheap labor I want you to live with , go to school with, and share a hospital with"
Foolsandfolly on X - "“You love Jesus so therefore you must accept infinity migrants into the country”."
Trump admin. works to recover over $1B in Medicaid money; says given to illegal immigrants - "A preliminary audit by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that, mostly during 2024-2025, multiple states were using the money improperly. California, the biggest culprit, spends over $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid dollars on healthcare for illegal immigrants"
One left wing cope is that if states fund benefits to illegal immigrants it doesn't count as welfare because it's not the federal government, but that cope doesn't even work here
Defiant L’s on X - "New Hampshire Senate candidate Karishma Manzur on The Laken Riley Act https://x.com/OliLondonTV/st atus/2093210009673056503/video/1 “It was a racist, xenophobic act that was forced into law by the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump.” Laken Riley was a 22 year old nursing student from Georgia who was brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela with multiple arrests prior to the murder but was never kept in jail. The Laken Riley Act requires illegal aliens to be arrested and detained after committing a crime"
Nobody is above the law - unless it pushes the left wing agenda
ABC Conflates Legal and Illegal Immigration, Tags Protesters 'Anti-Immigrant' - "Correspondent David Wright filed a report in which he portrayed opponents of illegal immigration in Murrieta, California, as "anti-immigrant," with the ABC correspondent blurring together the issues of legal and illegal immigration. The report provocatively included a soundbite of an unidentified activist complaining that the people of Murrieta look "xenophobic" and "racist": "People probably believe that this is a xenophobic, racist group of folks down here." Wright, who never used any form of the word 'illegal" throughout his report, referred to protesters as "anti-immigrant" as he began the piece... Ironically, at the same moment that he uttered the words "anti-immigrant protesters," a clip was shown of a pair of demonstrators who were clearly singling out illegal immigration as they each held up a sign which read, "Immigrate Legally!" Then came a clip of another protester, this time holding a sign which read, "Stop illegal immigration," with the protester also chanting the same words. After several clips of those protesting illegal immigration were shown, then came the soundbite accusing them of xenophobia before Wright then recounted the arrival of another group of protesters who came to defend illegal immigration as part of a "backlash." The ABC correspondent ended up shifting to President Barack Obama presiding over the annual July 4 naturalization ceremony at the White House and used a soundbite of the President speaking generically about "welcoming immigrants" as a foil to suggest that the protesters in Murrieta, California, are opposed to immigration generally"
Even in 2014, left-wingers couldn't tell the difference between legal and illegal immigrants. But then, left wingers can't tell the difference between men and women either

Shane Gillis won’t silence me

2026-10-16T13:16:00.000+08:00

Shane Gillis won’t silence me | The Spectator
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out Shane Gillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.
The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”

Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.
One creator said it best: “She’s not dressed like a whore. You think like a rapist.” I agreed so much that I shot a reel of myself repeating that phrase to camera as I did walking lunges. Healing isn’t linear, but my glutes better be.
Women are not responsible for where men’s eyes go. That’s why I designed a garment that covers everything but the eyes, so men have nothing left to look at. It’s flowy. It’s modest. And it’s mine. It’s called the Unseen Set, it comes in oat, sage and bone, and it drops Friday for $189. Use code SHANE for 15 percent off.

To be clear: this story is bigger than me. That’s why I’ve been so brave about making it about me.

When the Lindsay Clancy trial started, I knew I had to speak. I’m not a mother. I’m a dog mom. But I posted a ten-minute video about postpartum psychosis anyway, captioned “Same, Lindsay,” because when Bellamy was a puppy, he chewed through my exercise bands and I have never recovered. Then I filmed myself throwing ice cubes at the bathtub to get the rage out. It was that or kill my dog.

And then the Cornell story broke. I posted, “I am Jane Doe” in seven separate videos. I’ve never been to Cornell. And I’ve never been sexually assaulted. But I have been in a gang bang. Solidarity means centering yourself in other people’s trauma, in front of a camera, with good lighting.

In the videos I wore my “I Am Jane Doe” sports bra. Five percent of the proceeds went to a women’s charity. Ninety-five percent went to fighting the patriarchy, which is my yearly “Women Against Men” scream retreat in Cancun. We scream naked on the grounds of the former Girls Gone Wild locations to show the progress we have made.

The only woman I can’t support is Sydney Sweeney. She took her top off for a prediction market app and covered herself with two footballs, setting women back a hundred years. It’s sickening. She got paid. I would never take my top off for money. I take my top off for awareness.

It may be fall, my favorite season. But we don’t have time for pumpkin spice lattes anymore. We women don’t have time for “wine o’clock” when it’s fascism o’clock everywhere. My old Stanley cup said: “But First, Coffee.” The new one just says: “WHORE.”

Then I realized: Shane doesn’t get to call me a whore. I will not live under his fascist regime. Shane can’t shame me into covering my body. So I’m thrilled to announce I’ve launched an OnlyFans. Shane Gillis said women dress like whores at the gym. Now, I am one. $14.99 a month. Link in bio.

Links - 15th October 2026 (Canadian Politics [including Eby in BC])

2026-10-15T13:37:00.000+08:00

Meme - *Huge ball rolling down hill. 10 years of NDP. Property Rights. Crime. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Jobs*
Eby running: "It's Trump's fault!"
*Running men identically dressed in suits with yellow ties*
*"Vote NDP again!" sign*
Meme - "BC NDP premier David Eby is a far-left lunatic who has brought nothing to his province aside from debt, drugs, tent cities, corruption and poverty. SHARE IF YOU'RE EXCITED FOR BRITISH COLUMBIANS TO FIRE HIM"
Adam Pankratz: David Eby's new big idea — food shortages | National Post - "David Eby has looked at his election campaign struggling to find its feet and decided that while socialism is good, even more socialism would be better. And so, last week, British Columbia’s stumbling premier announced a cap on corporate grocery profits on milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkey. How this will actually address the affordability crisis that has flourished under Eby’s watch is unclear. What is, however, clear is that under Eby no private business will be permitted to move or operate without government restrictions, involvement or extra taxes. At his news conference Eby did not spell out exactly what capping profits entailed, but one must assume it means price controls... Welcome to Soviet British Columbia. Price controls have widely been shown by economists to have significant negative effects on an economy as well as the people they are purported to benefit. The reason is straightforward: by artificially capping prices, transactions which would otherwise occur at the higher, market price are not realized. Without a clear price signal (and thus profit incentive) the market will not produce the correct amount of the price-controlled product. As a result, the market will be undersupplied for the products it would otherwise purchase. True demand, in other words, will not be met. This has consequences, and they are not good. What Eby’s grocery store folly would mean in practice for British Columbians is that grocery stores will shift away from selling the correct, market demanded amount of milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkey, and focus on selling other products at likely higher prices to make up for their profit shortfall in the price-controlled areas. The result is terrible for consumers and families. Those who can quickly get the products they want before the stores run out may have lower prices, but families who aren’t as fast won’t get anything because the product doesn’t exist in sufficient quantities to meet market demand. Lower prices resulting in empty shelves isn’t a solution to anything. David Eby’s economics are both further ludicrous and insulting. Ludicrous because Canadian grocery store profits are extremely low already. In 2025, Loblaws, for example, noted that margins in the sector average three to four per cent. This is not indicative of an industry which is gouging consumers, but rather one which operates extremely efficiently in a competitive, price sensitive market. The insult comes from Eby choosing to aim his fire at Save-On-Foods, locally owned by B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison. Pattison is rich, yes, but also extremely philanthropic. He has donated over $200 million to hospitals and health care facilities, including a $75 million dollar donation to Vancouver’s St Paul’s hospital in 2017. That donation is a Canadian record. Eby doesn’t care because Pattison is rich and therefore by definition evil. This default move to restrict the open market and despise the successful is a hallmark of what David Eby’s NDP is all about. To address the Vancouver housing crisis, Eby has proposed taxing newly built, unsold condo units. He has claimed developers are “hoarding” the apartments. As with the grocery stores, he says that he is “standing up to developers.” In reality this is just more economic lunacy. Developers aren’t “hoarding” condos. They can’t sell them because the economic conditions of the province Eby and the NDP have presided over for nine years is so bad there are no buyers. Just as capping grocery profits doesn’t solve the affordability crisis and can create artificial market shortages, all taxing new developments achieves is to create a disincentive for developers to continue building, knowing that any empty units could be subject to Eby’s unsold condo tax. The result is fewer new units coming on the market and an even worse housing crisis in the future. David Eby’s anti-Trump campaign message for his unnecessary election has fallen flat with British Columbians. In response he is flailing around in a desperate attempt to find something that might stick. So far, all Eby has found to offer British Columbians is more taxes and Soviet-inspired price controls. None of these policies address the real problems British Columbians are facing and only shine a spotlight on how Eby’s government is completely out of ideas."
If BC voters haven't had enough of disastrous left wing policies, they deserve what's coming to them
Eby takes aim at Jim Pattison, one of B.C.'s few captains of industry | National Post - "Being a wildly successful, humble philanthropist isn’t as easy as it used to be. While society used to laud those who created jobs and wealth, today such activities are viewed with suspicion and even liable to land you in the cross-hairs of jealous politicians with an axe to grind. And so it was that, on Friday, B.C. NDP Leader David Eby stood in front of a Save-On-Foods supermarket in Kelowna to take cheap, gratuitous shots at the province’s homegrown billionaire, Jim Pattison. While taking such under-the-table shots is par for the course for Eby, it’s hard to think of someone less deserving of such treatment than Pattison. An observant person driving around the Lower Mainland will notice the names of B.C.’s great philanthropists on public buildings. That same person would also notice that one name is seen more often and in larger print than any other: Jim Pattison. He’s respected throughout the province not only for his incredible business success but because of how he has poured money into charitable gifts, notably in health care. For the new St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Pattison donated $75 million. That’s a Canadian record for a private citizen. St. Paul’s is not, however, the only beneficiary of Pattison’s philanthropy. In 1999, the Vancouver General Hospital received $20 million. Lions Gate Hospital got $5 million in 2008. Surrey Memorial Hospital received $5 million in 2011. Burnaby Hospital recently got $5 million. And in 2022, New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital received $30 million to fund its redevelopment. That’s literally tens of millions of dollars given away to help British Columbians and their health-care needs. The scale of his charity ought to prevent venal politicians from slagging Pattison for the “crime” of being a billionaire, but those are not his only contributions to B.C. He also creates huge numbers of jobs. The Jim Pattison Group employs 57,000 people worldwide and has $20 billion in annual revenues. Around 45,000 of those employees are in British Columbia, which makes Pattison Group the province’s largest private employer. In an election campaign in which Eby has encouraged all and sundry to “Buy B.C.” and “Build B.C.,” it’s hard to think of anyone who has done more of that than Pattison. Moreover, from 2001 to 2022, the president and CEO of the Jim Pattison Group was former NDP premier Glen Clark. Indeed, most B.C. politicians have managed to recognize that, whether or not they agreed with everything Pattison did, he is certainly a net good for the province, as both a creator of jobs and wealth, and as a generous philanthropist. In today’s pathetically polarized world, however, characters like Eby can’t see past their own ideological noses to recognize someone who has made the province better. The fact that Eby chose the Pattison-owned Save-On-Foods rather than, say, Walmart, as the back drop for his cap on food prices announcement is as insulting as it is revelatory of a party that hates anything that might smell of private enterprise doing well. There’s no denying that Pattison has personally benefited from his business acumen and track record of success. Why this is a problem in the eyes of people like Eby is the real mystery. Pressed on his unwarranted attack on Pattison, Eby dug in his heels, saying he would not apologize for standing up for families by lowering grocery prices. It’s unbecoming and juvenile. Dumping on billionaires is fashionable in some circles, and there are instances where opprobrium for their behaviour is well warranted. Jim Pattison isn’t one of those cases and any responsible politician would recognize that fact and celebrate that he’s one of our own."
Left wingers won't be happy till the rich are no longer rich
Eby's campaign goes from bad to worse with daycare fiasco | National Post - "The B.C. NDP election campaign took another turn towards oblivion over the weekend when it emerged that Leader David Eby’s family took a spot in one of the province’s $10-a-day daycare facilities. Following Eby’s bizarre attacks last week on local philanthropist Jim Pattison for the crime of being successful, this latest episode raises the question of who Eby has more disdain for: billionaires or single mothers trying to access his government’s hard-to-find $10 daycare spaces. Brought in under former NDP premier John Horgan, the $10-a-day daycare program was planned to be universal, but currently only 10 per cent of the province’s daycare spots fall into that category and B.C. cities have the highest daycare fees in the country... we do know that as premier, Eby earns $227,000 a year, and his wife is a doctor. That means a family income likely approaching $500,000, if not more — not exactly the people the limited $10 daycare spots are supposed to benefit. No one should begrudge Eby and his family for their financial success, but voters are more than entitled to raise their eyebrows at a premier who talks of defending the interests of those less fortunate, while filching daycare spots designed for the working mothers and families he loves to crow about on the campaign trail. Once again, Eby’s hypocrisy is on full display. In response to another campaign misstep, Eby has been quick to point out that his family made a donation to the daycare in question as they “felt that we did not need that discount.” Fair enough. But what would Eby say to the person in need who never got access to that spot? This latest faux-pas is one of many during a campaign that, from Day 1, has been poorly planned and executed. Eby sought to take advantage of a B.C. Conservative party in disarray with serious leadership issues. However, his early and unnecessary election call coalesced the Conservatives behind their new leader, Lorne Doerkson, as they jettisoned the people that were causing the issues: namely, former leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and the more fringe elements of the party. As a result, the initial NDP campaign plan of running against U.S. President Donald Trump and Findlay — Trump’s “regional manager,” as Eby called her — fell flat from the start. It hasn’t recovered. Polls show that British Columbians have been unimpressed by what they see as a totally unnecessary election call. They are also wise to the fact that having been suddenly unable to run against Trump, Eby and the NDP can’t run on their record. A darkly comic example of this occurred about a week ago, as Eby stood at a campaign stop and announced that hospital wait times in B.C. are “totally unacceptable.” Practically any British Columbian will tell you that’s true. But those same British Columbians also know that the NDP has been in government for nine years and are responsible for the mess. With no one but themselves to blame, the NDP are flailing and lost."
David Eby's pledge to make BC the highest taxed jurisdiction on earth | National Post - "B.C. NDP Leader David Eby proposed a new tax policy that would give his province one of the highest marginal tax rates on earth. If implemented, the top marginal tax rate in B.C. would hit 57.5 per cent, meaning that 57.5 cents out of every dollar earned above a certain threshold in B.C. would be collected as tax. It wouldn’t just make B.C. the highest tax jurisdiction in Canada, but it would place British Columbians in a higher tax bracket than even some of the most notoriously high tax corners of Europe. According to the most recent figures from the OECD, top-earning British Columbians would be paying a higher tax on income than their well-paid peers in France (55.4 per cent), Japan (55.9 per cent), Sweden (52.4 per cent) and the U.K. (45 per cent). In fact, they’d likely be paying more of their income in tax than any other jurisdiction save Denmark. Although Denmark’s top rate comes in at 55.9 per cent in OECD data, in practice, the Danish rate can rise as high as 60.5 per cent, according to a June analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers. B.C.’s top tax rate would also push well ahead of California, the single most high-tax jurisdiction in the United States. According to the U.S.-based Tax Foundation, Californians pay a top income tax rate of 13.3 per cent. Which, when combined with a federal top rate of 37 per cent, comes to 50.3. The new tax rate was pitched by Eby on Sunday as a “millionaire’s tax,” as the new top rate of 24.5 per cent or more only applies to annual incomes of $1 million or more... Nevertheless, Eby would also be raising taxes for non-millionaires. Any income above $190,405 would be taxed at 18.8 per cent instead of 16.8 per cent, and any income above $265,545 would be taxed at 22.5 per cent instead of 20.5 per cent. As such, any British Columbian earning more than $266,000 would already be experiencing a combined rate of income tax (55.5 per cent) higher than almost anywhere else on earth. In a Monday social media post, University of Calgary economist said the new rates “would raise BC to the highest income tax rate since 1981, and make the province (by a decent margin) the highest tax rate jurisdiction in Canada.”... as noted by B.C. journalist Bob Mackin, the threshold for the new taxes also just so happens to kick in right above the annual salaries paid to B.C. cabinet ministers, which top out around $183,000 per year. The B.C. Conservatives, meanwhile, have dubbed the new tax scheme a “doctor’s tax,” as it will kick in right around the annual salaries earned by physicians, which Eby’s government has simultaneously been attempting to attract to B.C."
Canada Proud on X - "#REPORT: Carney Liberal heritage minister Marc Miller held secret meetings with the Labour Party in the UK on a proposal to promote "social cohesion" by cracking down on "digital grifters" and "politicians of grievance.""
Kurt Holman MP on X - "Calling your political opponents “politicians of grievance” while discussing ways to crack down on them is one hell of a way to say the quiet part out loud. Are we still doing democracy?"
Dan Knight on X - "Marc Miller flew to the UK on a junket to study Labour’s “social cohesion” plan. The same plan that literally targets “digital grifters” and “politicians of grievance.” The same minister who told committee that CBC’s job is to promote social cohesion… and then got asked why that language sounds like something out of Beijing. They’re not even hiding it anymore. Define the “shared values.” Label the dissenters. Call it cohesion. You can’t make this up. Via Blacklock’s Reporter: https:// blacklocks.ca/study-social-c"
Mario Zelaya on X - "I don’t care anymore. I’m just gonna say it. This never sat well with me. The Liberal MP resigned, over an accident on the way to Ottawa (classifies as work), A YEAR AGO, that was so bad, that no one knew about it until yesterday. And the accident was so bad that he could still work for almost a full year before resigning? And now I’m finding out from @RealAndyLeeShow that he went to China? But can’t travel to Ottawa? And he’s LIKELY eligible for 70% of his MP pay for the next 20 years (retirement or until he “recovers”) through the long term disability benefit MPs get via their PSMIP? The media doesn’t question it. At all? And yet, when a Conservative MP resigns, immediately MSM finds a way to attack Pierre? Meanwhile Carney has had 2 MINISTERS QUIT, and others leave with ZERO backup prospects or job lined up? HOW IS NO ONE INVESTIGATING OR QUESTIONING THIS?
🚨 INSANE It just keeps getting worse. HE WAS ON A TRADE DELEGATION 2 WEEKS AGO. IN CHINA. How was he able to be hurt so badly, LAST YEAR, that no one knew about it, BUT HE COULD GO TO CHINA ON A DELEGATION? 2 WEEKS AGO!"
Mario Zelaya on X - "BREAKING: new reports indicate that Shaun Chen, the Liberal MP that resigned due to his "inability to travel to Ottawa" may have voted electronically on Canada's Surveillance Bill from China. A newly found video on WeChat, found by Andy Lee, place him in Guangdong, China when the vote took place in late March. Standing Order 45(12) allows MPs to cast votes for bills remotely, but they must be physically be in Canada. In addition, publicly available MP expenses show that Shaun Chen expensed flights from Toronto to Ottawa during the same period the WeChat video places him in China."
Kyle Seeback: It's not Trumpian to hold the Liberals to account | National Post - "In the last few years, some Canadians have assumed that to be a conservative in Canada is to admire Trump or to see his movement as the model for our own. That assumption is wrong. It misunderstands our history, our institutions and the very principles that define Canadian conservatism... Expressing anger is not Trumpism. Demanding accountability is not Trumpism. Speaking directly about the failures of government is not Trumpism"
The US pursues strong economic growth, therefore Canadians who pursue economic growth are Maple MAGA and must be condemned
Official Bilingualism Has Failed Canada - "On April 26, 2025, 11 people were killed when a deranged man plowed his SUV through a crowd at Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu Day festival. The next morning, Prime Minister Carney spoke movingly of the tragedy, characterizing it not just as an attack on individuals, but the Filipino community itself. Yet his words of grief came not in Tagalog, the language most Filipino-Canadians speak, but English. And French... Most Filipino-Canadians know English, like 87 per cent of Canadians overall. Linguistic minorities in the country, whether their first language is Khmer, Polish or Xitsonga, have long accepted English as a necessary tool of communication in a diverse country—the bridge language that the vast majority of Canadians, regardless of personal background, will use in most public contexts for reasons of efficiency and expediency. It is only French-Canadians, however, who are understood to possess a unique right, endorsed by the constitution and defended by a phalanx of politicians, journalists, activists and intellectuals, to be addressed by the state (and increasingly the private sector) in the language they prefer. Some Canadian, somewhere, might have preferred to hear Carney mourn the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy in French. So the Prime Minister obliged. Why exactly only one linguistic minority in a country as large and multicultural as Canada enjoys a right to things in their preferred language is difficult to answer using liberal or utilitarian logic. Official bilingualism nevertheless remains venerated by all manner of Canadian elites as a taboo in the truest sense; a sort of folk religion that’s upheld more than defended. Evidence continues to accumulate that state-mandated bilingualism conflicts with Canada’s self-image as a fair and merit-based democracy, and the worst may be yet to come. It’s a faith worth revisiting... “Founding peoples” refers to the idea that Canada was settled and built by individuals from particular ethnocultural groups. But why do only two types of Canadian get to be founding peoples? It certainly doesn’t seem tied to any coherent theory of history. Ontario and Quebec were carved from the former colony of New France and claim to be its legal successors. But even New France was not simply a society of French settlers and the Englishmen who eventually conquered them; Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and migrants from other parts of Europe were there as well. When Canada annexed the northwestern half of North America in the 19th century, waves of immigrants made the country even more diverse, with new provinces and territories built and settled by peoples from Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere, in addition to migrants from Canada’s east. Canada’s postwar growth into a country of 40 million has been driven by even more varied sources... When Thomas Cromwell retired from the Supreme Court in 2016, Prime Minister Trudeau was reported to have wanted to select a female bilingual judge of colour from the Maritimes to replace him—only to learn no such person existed. More than 50 years after the passage of the Official Languages Act and 40 years after the Charter, official bilingualism has not failed as a policy as much as it’s failed Canada. And the cost has been tremendous—not just the literal cost of things like building Toronto a $126-million French-language university with just 25 students—but the opportunity cost of excluding so many of the country’s best and brightest from consequential careers in public or even private service... in its own way, Quebec’s language policies remain more grounded in the real world than Ottawa’s. The province rationally provides most public services exclusively in French because that’s the language the majority of people in the province speak. Indeed, the central paradox of Canadian bilingualism has always been that the province it was primarily intended to appease doesn’t accept it as a sensible policy within its own borders. "
This is a good way to get Quebec to secede, and a good way to ignore political history by proclaiming it incoherent. Of course, good luck if you say that the treaties with "indigenous" people were signed ages ago and should be ignored today, or that "indigenous" people are a smaller portion of the population than Quebec and so shouldn't have any special rights. The practical implications are better explained, though
Marc Nixon on X - "What happens if Russia invades Canada through the Arctic tomorrow? Does the “Elbows Up” crowd suddenly remember who our most important military ally is? Canada cannot even defend 25% of its population from food insecurity. Anti-American chest-thumping is easy when you assume America will still be there when things get ugly. That’s the wake-up call."
Andrew Scheer on X - "Remember when Mark Carney's energy minister claimed the Liberal government was actively driving an urgent increase in oil exports to protect global energy supply? Three months later, Conservatives FORCED HIM to admit (in writing!) that they actually did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Only Conservatives will axe the tax and clear the red tape that is blocking oil & gas production."
Bronson on X - "Trump thinks he can bully Canada and push us around. He's wrong. The only groups capable of that are: Indiginous tribes greater than 10 people, the CRA, Sikhs, public sector unions, dairy + cheese farmers, Muslims, climate alarmists, public health units, trans and 🏳️‍🌈 people."
Marit Stiles on X - "Private investors don't take over airports out of generosity. They do it to maximize profit for their shareholders. You pay, in fees on every ticket, while thousands of good jobs hit the chopping block. Premier Ford needs to come clean about where he stands: does he want Ontarians to pay more for their travel or does he want to actually strengthen our province for the people?"
Left wingers only share the graphic about federal, provincial and municipal responsibilities when they want to cover for left wing parties (despite them wanting to butt into areas beyond their jurisdiction)
Profit is evil so we need to nationalise the economy then blame capitalism when we starve
Canada’s Booze Boycott Is About to Backfire - "President Donald Trump’s ban on Canadian alcoholic beverages is set to take effect on September 29. It covers a broad range of beer, wine and spirits. For Canadian producers, this is no small matter: in the 2024–25 fiscal year, we exported $1.4 billion in alcoholic beverages to the United States. That is a lot of business to put at risk. Canada started this particular fight in March 2025, when most provinces pulled American alcohol from their shelves. Alberta and Saskatchewan later resumed purchases, but elsewhere the restrictions remained. Canadians overwhelmingly liked the idea. Taking bourbon and California wine off the shelf felt like a way to stand up to Trump. And yes, it hurt some American companies... But did we seriously damage the American alcohol industry? The broader export numbers suggest a different story. Compare the first six months of 2026 with the first six months of 2025. U.S. wine exports to Canada fell by more than 45%, beer by more than 90%, and spirits by about 3%. Yet U.S. beer exports to the world rose 12.7%, and spirits exports rose 25.9%. Wine exports fell 14.4%. Canada mattered, especially to particular producers, but growth elsewhere helped cushion the blow for beer and spirits. Wine is a different story. Its global decline is real, although we should be careful about blaming it all on Canada. Other forces are at work. That brings us to an uncomfortable question: who has more room to absorb an alcohol ban? American producers have a vast domestic market and customers around the world. Canadian brewers, wineries and distillers facing a closed U.S. border have far fewer options. Standing up to Trump may feel good. But if this ban takes effect on September 29, Canadian producers could pay a much higher price than the American industry has paid for our boycott. We should at least be honest about that before declaring victory."
Time to accuse the US of attacking Canada again, because they're not allowed to retaliate or they're even more evil than they are already accused of being. But left wing Canadians think destroying Canada is a price worth paying to spite the US and Trump
Kim Dobranski on X - "I've looked at this photo 10 times, and I'm still trying to figure out what Pete Hegseth did that was supposedly so horrible that it caused this firestorm. All he did was repost an actual photo that had already been posted online by the Canadian cadet program and added three words, "This is real." He didn't slander anybody. He didn't disparage anyone. He didn't openly mock the individuals in the photo. He simply reposted a photo that was already publicly available. It was a picture that our own Cadet program put on line as a promotional image. An image that is supposed to somehow reflect the excellence of our programs? Yet somehow, we've turned it into a national controversy. I think the reason there's such a firestorm is because Canadians, deep down, know how pathetic we've become, and we absolutely hate it when someone else points it out. We'd rather live in this fantasy where we're still this strong, respected, serious country, as long as nobody outside Canada notices what's actually happening. But the moment someone does notice, we get our panties in a knot. Not necessarily because they're wrong, but because we don't like being criticized. Instead of asking why this photograph struck such a nerve, we're attacking the person who reposted it. Maybe the outrage itself says more than the post ever did. What it comes down to is we have massive insecurity about who we are, and when someone calls it out, instead of reflecting, we lash out. At scale. People who are strong and secure, don't care what other people say and they don't care what other people do. Only weak people that lack self-esteem react so poorly. We are no longer a serious country."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Meme - "Canada: 11 Years Apart
Conservative Party of Canada (2015)
1.9 B surplus
Debt-per-capita: $16,559
AAA credit rating
Violent crime: 1,070/100k
#5 Happiest country on earth
GDP growth beating most of the planet
Liberal Party of Canada (2026)
$48.3B deficit
Debt-per-capita: $29,923
Downgraded to AA+
Violent crime: 1,428/100k (up 33%)
#15 Happiest (down 10 points)
Dead-last in OECD growth
SAME COUNTRY. DIFFERENT RESULTS. THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE."
Crisis is coming, and voters may give the federal NDP another look - The Globe and Mail - "The NDP... is at historic lows in popular opinion, reduced to half a dozen seats in the House of Commons and facing the threat of bankruptcy: the sort of party that is ripe for the plucking. The 30,000 or so members the Lewis campaign is credited with signing up are about half the size of the pre-race membership. The party was already down to its hard core, the truest of the true believers. The Lewis influx will reinforce that. This is a radical party, now, unrecognizable to many of its former members. It is hard to see how it could be otherwise. Those pining for the old labour-farmer coalition have to reckon with a Canadian society that looks nothing like what it was in the NDP’s glory days. In 1935, when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the NDP’s forerunner) was founded, 30 per cent of Canada’s work force was agricultural, while another 15 per cent was unionized. By 1961, when the NDP came into being, the proportions had been reversed: 11 per cent agricultural, 32 per cent organized labour. Still, nearly half the working population, combined. But today? Farm workers make up about 1 per cent of the work force; unionized workers, still about 30 per cent – but most of those are white-collar, public-sector workers now, not the horny-handed sons of toil of old. Still, the provincial New Democrats seem to have managed the transition. For all of the federal party’s travails, the NDP’s provincial cousins are in robust good health, governing two provinces and forming the official opposition in four others. The efforts by the provincial parties in Alberta and Saskatchewan to distance themselves from the new federal leader, striking both for their speed and brutality, are therefore an ominous sign. But again, how could it be otherwise: for a party in a resource-based province, any association with a party so overtly hostile to resource extraction is a death knell. To add to the party’s difficulties, it remains a non-factor in Quebec, with a leader whose French is serviceable at best. Most of all, it faces the same dilemma that did in its previous leader: how to occupy space in a political landscape dominated by the baleful figure of Donald Trump, at a time when national survival has supplanted more everyday concerns... It has been decades since any government tried the policies the Lewis NDP now advocates. The reasons that led governments to abandon them are forgotten; the very passage of time means they can now be presented as fresh approaches. As for the party Mr. Lewis now leads, it is impossible to discount the importance of feeling good about yourself. The policies of the Lewis NDP may be bad policies; they may be losing policies; but they are authentically their policies, things they actually believe in. You’d be surprised how much that matters to people."
Surely, it will work this time...
André Pratte | National Post - "According to Statistics Canada’s latest projections, in 2050 (a brief 24 years from now), Quebecers will count for less than 20 per cent of Canada’s population (between 18.1 per cent and 19.1 per cent, to be precise). Alberta’s population will be inexorably catching up, with between 13.5 per cent and 16.1 per cent of the total population in 2050... Demographics is not the only reason Quebec’s influence in Canada is and will be diminishing, unless the province’s politics undergo a substantive change. Quebecers have not voted to separate from Canada in a referendum, but they have separated in some of their attitudes... Quebec political leaders invest little time in engaging with their counterparts in Ottawa and in provincial capitals, except when specific files require it. The result is that very few politicians across the country have a deep understanding of Quebec’s part in Canada’s diversity. Additionally, recruiting highly qualified French-speaking Quebecers to work in the federal government is a challenge often lamented in Ottawa. Justin Trudeau appointed a Governor General who does not speak French, a choice that, in earlier decades, would have been criticized not only in Quebec. There is pressure, for instance from the Alberta Premier, to appoint Supreme Court justices who cannot speak one of our country’s two official languages (guess which language it is?). Because of this lack of leadership at the national level, and as a result of French Canada’s relative decline, fewer Canadians value official bilingualism as a plus for our nation. A 2024 Léger poll showed that bilingualism was seen as positive by 70 per cent of Quebecers but only 35 per cent of Canadians outside Quebec. The Prime Minister’s rosy reimagining of Canadian history has no effect on today’s worrisome reality. The demographic trends at play in Quebec will not only diminish its political weight. Population stagnation and aging threaten the province’s economic growth and fiscal situation. According to the economists at Desjardins, “the sustainability of Quebec’s welfare state model could be challenged.” Quebec’s leaders and population will face serious challenges in the coming years; their contribution to the federation will be the least of their concerns."
Randall Denley: The Ford government makes its college-funding scandal worse - "Grants sent to students at seven private career colleges in 2024-25 totalled $385 million, according to reporting by The Canadian Press. That’s the same amount that went to students in the entire public college system... The government blamed an unsustainable increase in demand for student aid when it cut grants from 85 per cent of support to 25 per cent . In 2024–25, student grant spending jumped by $465 million, but the rise was driven largely by the career college problem. The Ford government’s new grant percentage is still in the middle of the pack nationally, but it would be natural for Ontario students to think they are paying the price for a career college problem the government should have fixed."
Left wing logic: you can never cut free money, even if the post-cut numbers still look reasonable in perspective

THE DEMOCRATS KILLED DEMOCRACY: And Had the Audacity to Do It While Screaming About Saving It

2026-10-14T13:31:00.000+08:00

As usual, when left wingers talk about Defending Democracy, they mean railroading through what left wing elites have decreed. It's only oligarchy to go against the popular will if the popular will pushes the left wing agenda.
mike bski on X
THE DEMOCRATS KILLED DEMOCRACY: And Had the Audacity to Do It While Screaming About Saving It
Picture the most devoted Democrat voter you know.
Your neighbor with the yard signs. Your coworker who cannot get through lunch without mentioning January 6th. The family member who mutes you at Thanksgiving. That person who genuinely, deeply believes the Democratic Party stands for the working class, the poor, the vulnerable — and above all, for democracy itself.
Now ask one question: does their party actually represent what THEY believe?
Not what MSNBC told them to feel this morning. Not what arrived in their DNC fundraising email. What do the actual human beings who vote Democrat actually want from their government?
I teach science. I deal in evidence. And the evidence here is not ambiguous. It is humiliating — not for the voters, but for the machine that has been harvesting those votes while openly, measurably, provably ignoring everything those voters care about.
So let us go through it.
— THE VOCABULARY PROBLEM NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH —
Before anything else, the word.
America is a constitutional REPUBLIC. Not a democracy. "Democracy" does not appear in the Constitution a single time. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees every state a "Republican Form of Government." That is the actual text. Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths." Hamilton celebrated "legislative balances and checks" in Federalist No. 9 as the specific safeguard against tyranny — from kings, aristocrats, or unchecked majorities. All three equally.
The Electoral College, the Senate structure, judicial review — those are not bugs. They are FEATURES. Built deliberately so that mob rule cannot function, because the Founders understood that mob rule is just tyranny with a friendlier presentation.
Here is the thing about "democracy." It gets taught wrong in school. Your teacher learned it wrong, believed it sincerely, and passed it along to you. Same way people taught that blood is blue until it hits air. Or that humans only use 10% of their brains. Repeated confidently. Still wrong. And the correction is worth making because the entire Democratic argument — the one @RepJeffries deploys at the podium multiple times a week — rests entirely on a word that does not mean what he says it means. When he says "saving democracy," what he means is "getting the outcome we wanted." When the constitutional guardrails prevent that, the guardrails become threats to democracy.
That is not protecting democracy. That is dismantling the republic they cannot stop mispronouncing.
— THE DATA THAT SHOULD EMBARRASS THEIR OWN PARTY —
The Manhattan Institute surveyed Democratic voters — not Republicans, not independents, THEIR OWN VOTERS — on the actual policy positions their elected officials vote on every day.
The results were not close.
Only 13% of Democratic voters believe Israel is a colonial apartheid state that should be dismantled. Thirteen. Yet @RepJayapal — Washington's 7th Congressional District, Seattle — and the progressive caucus sprint to the nearest camera to validate exactly that fringe framing every chance they find. The 87% of Democrat voters who disagree? Functionally unrepresented by the people cashing their party's fundraising checks.
Only 11% of Democratic voters think the country should avoid focusing on deporting illegal immigrants. Eleven percent support what their politicians are fighting for on immigration. The other 89% — the overwhelming majority of actual Democrat voters — want enforcement. Their representatives are busy comparing ICE agents to the Gestapo.
Only 21% of Democratic voters support gender transition medical procedures for minors. One in five. Four out of five of their own voters are skeptical or opposed to a policy their politicians treat as settled doctrine. @RepJamaalBowman, New York's 16th District, voted against every measure placing any restriction on those procedures. Who exactly is he representing?
Seventy percent of ALL Americans — not just Republicans, everyone — said in October 2025 polling that the Democratic Party is "out of touch." That number came from a center-left polling outfit. Their overall approval cratered to a 35-year low: only 33% of registered voters viewed the party favorably, per the Wall Street Journal in July 2025. Net favorability hit NEGATIVE 32 — worst for either party since at least 1996, per CNBC. Quinnipiac dropped them below 20%.
@RepJeffries holds his weekly democracy press conference. America watches. The numbers keep falling. Someone should tell him.
— WHAT THEY DID TO THEIR OWN VOTERS FIRST —
The Democratic primary system has superdelegates — party insiders, lobbyists, DNC officials — whose votes count above the expressed preferences of actual party members. They are the institutional veto, the emergency brake for when regular voters pick "wrong."
Hillary Clinton had 400+ superdelegates committed before a single primary vote was cast anywhere in the country. The media reported her delegate lead as mathematically insurmountable from day one of the race. Democratic voters went to polls in early states knowing the outcome was being managed around them. Then the DNC's own internal emails leaked. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned. Donna Brazile — a CNN contributor serving simultaneously as a DNC official — admitted she fed debate questions to Clinton's campaign in advance. The party absorbed the scandal, made minor reforms to quiet the noise, and moved on.
Bernie Sanders built real momentum. Then, in roughly 72 hours before Super Tuesday, Buttigieg dropped out. Klobuchar dropped out. Beto O'Rourke materialized to endorse Biden, who had just lost badly in multiple early states. The moderate lane cleared in unison at a speed that defies coincidence. Nobody explained the coordination. Nobody had to.
This one is in a different category entirely.
Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee without receiving a single presidential primary vote. Zero. Biden withdrew. Harris was coronated immediately — no competitive process, no debates between candidates, nothing resembling a democratic selection of a nominee. The party simply announced it.
This is the party that schedules weekly press conferences about protecting democracy.
Harris had dropped out of the 2020 primary BEFORE IOWA — before a single vote anywhere — because she could not generate support from her own party's voters. She returned in 2024 as the automatic pick because the party decided the demographic calculation was right. Not because voters chose her. @SenBernieSanders, whatever one thinks of his politics, watched the party machinery roll over him twice. His voters got processed and discarded. And @SenatorSchumer stepped to the microphone and announced Harris with the energy of a man confirming a decision made at a table he was not invited to.
They called it democracy. With a straight face.
— FOURTEEN TIMES. LET THAT NUMBER SIT. —
The 2025 government shutdown. This went down the memory hole so fast it should offend everyone.
Democrats voted FOURTEEN TIMES to reject clean Continuing Resolutions that would have reopened the government. During those fourteen votes:
42 million SNAP recipients had their benefits in limbo. Active duty military were in paycheck uncertainty during an active military operation. Air traffic controllers — the people responsible for whether your aircraft lands on a runway — worked without pay. TSA agents, federal employees of every description, all of it on hold.
@RepJeffries, Minority Leader, Brooklyn and Queens — voted no. Repeatedly.
@SenatorSchumer, Senate Minority Leader, New York — voted no fourteen times. The same man who voted FOR clean CRs twenty-nine consecutive times before this shutdown. First time in his entire Senate career he voted against one. And in 2018, on record, Schumer described Republicans during a budget fight as someone who "won't even come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan CR." Pelosi 2018: "We're not hostages to your wall. Reopen the government." Obama 2013: "You don't get to demand a ransom for doing your job."
Every standard they applied to Republicans for a decade dissolved the instant they were the ones holding the lever.
Their stated reason: COVID-era ACA subsidies were expiring. Premiums would rise. People would suffer.
Here is the part that needs to be read slowly.
Those COVID subsidies were written as TEMPORARY provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Not one Republican voted for that bill. Democrats extended the temporary subsidies through 2025 in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Not one Republican voted for that one either. Democrats designed the expiration. Democrats set the clock. Democrats programmed the timer. And when it hit zero exactly on schedule — @SenatorSchumer, @SenatorWarnock, @RepJeffries, and @SenAlexPadilla walked to their cameras and told their constituents Republicans did this to them.
@SenatorWarnock — the Reverend Senator from Georgia — repeatedly posted that Republicans voted to "double premiums." In committee hearings. On social media. To constituents. This is a documented, verifiable falsehood. No Republican wrote those subsidies. No Republican extended them. No Republican scheduled the expiration date. He knows the voting record. His staff reads legislation. When a Reverend tells his congregation something he knows is not true, there is a word for it in both legal and theological traditions, and neither is flattering.
But the thing that actually floors me — the accidental confession buried inside their entire argument — is this.
By insisting that ending the COVID subsidies would make the ACA unaffordable, Democrats publicly admitted something they have never acknowledged in fifteen years of defending the program.
The Affordable Care Act is not, in fact, affordable.
They named it the Affordable Care Act. Promised it would lower family premiums by $2,500 per year. Premiums doubled between 2013 and 2017. The seven largest health insurance companies tripled their revenues from $511 billion to $1.5 TRILLION between 2014 and 2024. The plan enriched the very corporations it claimed to regulate, while making coverage more expensive for the people it claimed to help.
And here is where it gets genuinely surreal.
These same people lionized Luigi Mangione — the 26-year-old who murdered a health insurance CEO — as a folk hero, a symbol of righteous rage against corporate health care greed. They made him a cultural icon.
Then they shut down the government demanding that American taxpayers permanently subsidize those same insurance corporations.
I have a whiteboard. I am waiting for someone to explain the consistency.
If you went to your boss and said "last month you gave me a $1,000 Christmas bonus, and this month you did not, so you cut my pay" — your boss would explain those are different things. One was a one-time bonus. The other is your salary. Demanding a temporary bonus become permanent compensation is not a pay cut. It is an expectation that was never reasonable.
That analogy is exactly what happened. And they blamed the people who never wrote the bonus in the first place.
— THE 80% THEY VOTED AGAINST UNANIMOUSLY —
The SAVE Act. H.R. 22. H.R. 7296. All it requires is proof of United States citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. A passport. A REAL ID. A military identification card. Documents the average adult carries for routine purposes like boarding a commercial flight or opening a checking account.
National polling: 80% support. Including a majority of registered Democratic voters. Their own voters. The humans they claim to represent want this. Eighty percent.
Every Senate Democrat voted no.
@SenatorSchumer — no. @SenAlexPadilla — no. @SenatorWarnock — no. @SenatorWarren — no. Unanimous opposition to a bill supported by four out of five Americans, including their own base.
Then they returned to their cameras to discuss protecting voters.
Quinn's Law #22: liberals love democracy unless it does not go their way.
There is exactly one coherent argument for opposing citizenship verification in federal elections. None of them are going to say it into a microphone. But it is there, and it explains the vote.
— THEY TRIED TO REMOVE HIM FROM THE BALLOT. THE ENTIRE SUPREME COURT SAID NO. —
When the ballot box looked uncertain in 2024, Democrats attempted something that had never been done in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment — using it to remove a presidential candidate from state ballots. Colorado. Maine. Illinois. Others.
If a foreign government attempted that, every network would call it election interference without hesitation or qualification.
The Supreme Court rejected it unanimously. Nine justices. Across the full ideological range. Zero to nine. The entire court, looking at what Democrats were attempting, said no.
They put him in a courtroom for the campaign trail instead. The trial judge — Justice Merchan — had donated to "Stop Republicans PAC" and to Biden's 2020 campaign. His daughter ran a Democratic political consulting firm generating millions from anti-Trump advertising during the trial itself. Four Supreme Court Justices dissented from allowing the proceedings to continue on immunity grounds. The jury was permitted to convict without unanimously agreeing on which crime had actually been committed.
Then came the democracy speeches.
— THE QUESTION NOBODY ASKS THEM —
A direct question for @RepJeffries, @RepJayapal of Washington's 7th District, @RepTedLieu of California's 36th, @RepAOC of New York's 14th, and @IlhanOmar of Minnesota's 5th:
What have you accomplished for your constituents that did not involve taking money from someone else and handing it over?
Not symbolically. Not rhetorically. What measurable improvement in the actual lives of the people in your actual district can any of you point to?
The poorest, most economically distressed urban congressional districts in this country have been represented by Democrats — often the same family of machine politicians — for 40, 50, 60 consecutive years. Some of these districts have been Democratic strongholds since the Eisenhower administration. The poverty rates in many of them are HIGHER today than in 1980.
@RepJeffries represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens where generational poverty has not shifted across decades of his party's stewardship. @IlhanOmar represents Minneapolis — Democratic governance for generations. What has improved?
The answer to that question is not a coincidence. A constituency that builds real economic independence tends to stop needing the party that managed their dependency. The incentive structure runs exactly backward, and it has for six decades.
In January 1963, Congressman A.S. Herlong Jr. read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal #15: capture one or both of the U.S. political parties. I am not presenting that as conspiracy. I am noting that when observed outcomes match stated objectives with this precision across six decades, intellectual honesty requires at minimum that we notice.
— THE TALLY —
Here is what "protecting democracy" has meant in practice.
Presidential nominees selected without primary votes — twice now.
Fourteen votes to withhold pay from military, air traffic controllers, and 42 million SNAP recipients over subsidies Democrats wrote as temporary and then blamed Republicans for letting expire on schedule.
Unanimous opposition to an 80% voter-supported election integrity bill — including opposition from their own voters.
An attempt to remove a presidential candidate from state ballots, rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court.
A health care law that tripled insurance corporate revenues while making coverage less affordable — championed by the same movement that made a folk hero of a man who murdered an insurance CEO.
A party with 20% approval and negative 32 net favorability holding press conferences about representing the will of the people.
Quinn's Law #2: if you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing.
They accuse us of threatening democracy.
Look at what they have done to their own.
The word they keep using. It does not mean what they think it means.
Or maybe it does — and they know exactly what they are doing.
That second possibility should unsettle you more than the first.
Madison built this republic deliberately because he did not trust unchecked majorities. He wrote Federalist No. 10 specifically to explain why mob rule is indistinguishable from tyranny regardless of which mob is running it. He did not anticipate that the people dismantling his guardrails would do it from inside a major political party while announcing themselves as democracy's last line of defense.
But that is where we are.
But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who reads the Federalist Papers, checks the actual voting records, and cannot locate a single senator or representative at 20% approval who has standing to lecture the remaining 80% on what democracy is supposed to look like.

Links - 13th October 2026 (French Migrant Riots)

2026-10-13T10:44:46.474+08:00

Why the French school riots are a taste of the chaos to come - spiked - "The level of violence has been exceptional, even by French standards. Comparisons can be made with the riots of 2005 and 2023, but these were in response to supposed incidents of police brutality and drew in disaffected youth from banlieues all over France. This is the first time that school protests have turned so nasty. The French government was in no way prepared... The protesters and their supporters claimed the violence had been started by law enforcement... Apart from bricks and other heavy projectiles, the weapon of choice is the firework launched from a tube. These fireworks have been turned not only on the police but also on firemen who attempted to put out blazes. Another favourite tactic of rioters is to throw aerosol cans into fires and watch them explode. Among other weapons seized by the police were knives, hammers, baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and bottles of hydrochloric acid. The recourse to violence was clearly anticipated and prepared for by certain protesters. In the mêlée, it was understandably difficult for police to calibrate the proportionality of their response and to distinguish between the aggressive protesters and the rest. What cause is all this violence meant to serve? In the beginning, pupils, with union prompting, were protesting against the paucity of teachers, the decaying state of school buildings, the complexity and stress of the university application system and, finally, overwork. It is true that during Emmanuel Macron’s two terms, there has been a desultory succession of education ministers with very different approaches. The government was recently humiliated by the publication of the PISA results, which showed an alarming decline in standards. However, although it is evident that the educational system needs more investment, everyone knows that the French state is stony broke, with record levels of debt and borrowing costs. More money is already spent on education in poorer areas, like the Seine-Saint-Denis district north of Paris, where much of the protests and riots began, than elsewhere. Was it really to call for building improvements that so much school property was destroyed? The bill for the damage done so far has been calculated in the tens of millions of euros. The already cash-strapped authorities will have to pay for the repairs. As often happens in this situation, there is much talk among politicians of making the parents of vandals pay, but the difficulty of identifying the culprits and of extracting money from the families means that this will, as usual, go nowhere. What happened over the past week is what always happens when school pupils protest: the movement gets hijacked by extremists of various stripes. Already, the main union behind the protests, the Union syndicale lycéenne, is a far-left organisation. Unsurprisingly, far-left tropes were apparent in the banners and slogans of those protesting – from anti-racism and the supposed need to decolonise education to the plight of Gaza and the usual ‘anti-Zionism’, which swiftly descended into anti-Semitism. The theme of police brutality was quickly placed front and centre, even as the police were deliberately attacked by those who were the real instigators of the violence; namely, the ‘casseurs’ (from ‘casser’, to break) – quasi-professional rioters wearing masks who damage property and clash with police. As always happens, their politically motivated actions drew in non-political hoodlums from the banlieues who are simply eager to engage in violence and mayhem. No doubt hotheads among the genuine school pupils joined in, too. Equally worrying has been the involvement of politicians from the far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI). On Tuesday, 40 of its elected representatives joined protests outside schools, calling for the movement to spread and blaming any violence on ‘police savagery’. A trio consisting of LFI founder and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former chair of the Union syndicale lycéenne Louis Boyard and mayor of the Seine-Saint-Denis district Bally Bagayoko were photographed smiling and giving the thumbs up sign amid a crowd of school pupils. Bagayoko, of Malian ancestry and elected mayor in March this year, has shot to superstardom among far-left politicians. He was greeted by exultant school protesters on Monday when he turned up to show his support. Videos have widely circulated showing him dancing next to a burning wheelie bin and apparently attempting to pull a burning settee away from some school gates. The president of the Paris region has announced she will be sending him a bill for €100,000 to pay for damages to school property. A policewoman has lodged a complaint against him for allegedly helping to vandalise her car. The Paris prefect of police has accused Bagayoko of incitement to commit acts of violence. All this only enhances his status as an icon of left-wing revolt. On Tuesday, Mélenchon himself made a predictable statement about police brutality, accompanied by a sinister warning that there would be ‘no forgetting or forgiving’, presumably aimed at any officers accused of heavy-handedness. He even went so far as to call on LFI activists to ‘interpose themselves’ between the police and the school protesters in order to protect the latter. Although this tactic may sound Gandhi-like, it is well known that LFI has proxies among Antifa combatants, as was shown by the murder of right-wing militant Quentin Deranque in February this year. The next day, Mélenchon seemed to take a more moderate stance, declaring that only ‘non-violent methods’ should be used. Such strategic ambiguity is typical of LFI, at one moment apparently encouraging anti-democratic behaviour, the next denying any such intention. All this would be bad enough, but in the present context of the run-up to the presidential election in April and May next year, it has an especially menacing side. The election has two rounds, but in France, the metaphor of a ‘third round’ is habitually used to describe any movement of protests and strikes that inevitably follow an election result the left does not approve of. At present, the polls predict a clear victory for Marine Le Pen. Will LFI and its troops accept the result? In February, Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI parliamentary group, declared darkly: ‘We will never accept fascism taking power, even legally by the democratic process, as Marine Le Pen wants to do.’ In May, Bagayoko told a podcast audience that if Le Pen were elected, the consequence would be a ‘popular insurrection’. In this light, Mélenchon and LFI’s involvement in this wave of violence looks very much like a dress rehearsal for what will happen if Marine Le Pen is elected. In the meantime, it is also a way for Mélenchon to consolidate his hold on the youth vote"
Police fire teargas as French school protests cause 'heaviest toll in decades' - "Police fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades... Lecornu told lawmakers at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had so far been injured in clashes, "the heaviest toll in decades paid by the school system". His office said more than 700 police officers were also hurt."
Left wingers are still pretending that this is normal for France
Ivanka Trump RV 🇺🇲 on X - "This is surreal. Paris has been conquered. The cops are sitting back and watching it happen because being taken over by an immigrant invasion is better than being called a racist. Unbelievable."
Michael Shellenberger on X - "Students are rioting because the French government spends too little to educate the children of migrants, say the media. But France spends between two and 200 times more per student than the nations from which its migrants come. The media refuses to report basic facts."
Thread by @shellenberger on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Students are protesting in France because schools don’t have enough money, say mainstream journalists. In truth, they have more money than ever. What’s really behind the riots is a decades-old Left-Islamist political alliance that much of the media supports.
A lack of school funding and a shortage of teachers are behind the protests and riots at French high schools, say the news media. “Complaints from students about deteriorating schools, teacher shortages and heavy class schedules have become the latest cause embraced by some presidential hopefuls,” wrote the AP. Students are protesting long school hours, overheated classrooms, dilapidated buildings and staff absences, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). Le Monde editorialized that the government is to blame for not listening to the students. Of the French public surveyed, 62% said students were justified in their protests. Protests have now reached more than 1,000 of France’s 3,700 high schools, called lycées. But French schools have more money per pupil today than at any earlier time. Primary school classes averaged close to 30 pupils in the 1960s, nursery classes close to 40, and public primary school classes will average 21 this year, the lowest on record. In 1970, 20% of a generation earned the baccalauréat, the lycée diploma, whereas nearly 80% earn it today. Spending per pupil has risen 1.6% a year in constant euros since 1980. While the French government spends 4.5% of gross domestic product on educational institutions, Germany spends 3.7%...
.@TheEconomist says the bond markets are behind the riots"
Mark Dubowitz on X - "Heard this today from a smart European: Europe has subcontracted security to America. Its economy to China. Energy to Russia and its labor force to the Islamists. This model now has completely collapsed."
Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "#new France, which recognized a Palestinian state, is now being destroyed by the very M*slims that they tried to acknowledge, according to experts in France #france "True to my country’s historic commitment in the Middle East, for peace between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people, I declare that France today recognizes the State of Palestine.” That was Emmanuel Macron a year ago in New York. #muslim Hamas viewed this as a victory. Now Paris is on fire and conservatives are pointing out that the riots, destruction and school fires are what mass immigration looks like a generation later. #paris Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally saying "France is sliding into riot and urban violence.” “What France has become after decades of laxity and mass immigration.” The CGT union said two-thirds of high schools in Seine-Saint-Denis joined the riots on Thursday. From there it spread to Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Rennes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, and La Ciotat in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said,
🔵400 to 500 high schools will be fully or partly closed on Monday,
🔵24 have been burned or ransacked,
🔵78 education staff have been injured, and
🔵170 students have been hurt.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said 735 of France’s 3,700 high schools have been hit one way or another. That is about 20%. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said about 5,000 people have been arrested since Monday, most of them minors, and that France is “sliding into riot and urban violence.” A police spokesperson put officer injuries above 600.
🔴On Friday, Oct. 2, physics teacher Thierry Laurent, 59, was doused with diesel while putting out a fire students had set on a tree.
🔴A 16-year-old pupil at that school was arrested Sunday in Marseille. Prosecutors opened a case for violence against a public employee, face concealed, with a weapon.
🔴A policewoman was chased and beaten on the ground in Paris while someone shouted “Wallah, kill her.”
🔴Critics called it barbarism and asked how long France will “let our country sink without reacting.”
Paris police chief Patrice Faure said Saturday the riots are “out of control.” White Lives Matter wrote, "This is sickening and everyone White American who hails from Europe as the motherland should be disgusted at this vile image! This is the death of your culture" Do you agree?"
Gad Saad on X - "When referencing Muslim thuggery in France, the French media refers to them as "Les Jeunes." The youth. But the youth are not Vietnamese youth; they are not Japanese youth; they are not Hasidic Jews youth. They are Muslims but it is mean and Islamophobic to call them by their actual identity. In Britain, the Pakistani child rapists are called "Asian men." Now the mayhem in France is apparently not due to Muslim youth but to "high school protesters." ANYTHING is better than to be accused of Islamophobia. Give up your children, your women, your heritage, your society, your religion, your culture, your civilization but don't you dare be Islamophobic."
French school protester arrested after ‘flamethrower’ attack on woman - "The assault occurred on Friday in Marseille, one of several cities roiled by violent protests that forced the closure of hundreds of schools and led to clashes with police, teachers and firefighters. In one of the most shocking pieces of footage to emerge from the riots, a person wearing a hood uses an aerosol can and a lighter to launch a burst of flame at a woman calling for an end to the vandalism... Protests spread last month from impoverished French suburbs where students complained of overcrowded classrooms, poor facilities and absent teachers. But much of the sympathy for the protesters has evaporated after chaotic scenes were caught on camera, including a police officer being beaten while unconscious and teachers being assaulted outside school gates. In further footage, a young person wearing a hood runs up to a teacher attempting to put out a tree fire and douses him with petrol... Intelligence agencies reportedly told a crisis meeting on Thursday that the movement had been initiated by La France Insoumise (LFI), a hard-Left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is running for president in 2027... Bally Bagayoko, the LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, was carried on the shoulders of a crowd of jubilant student protesters outside the gates of the Paul Éluard high school in the suburbs of Paris. Earlier, he had said that “violence can be legitimate”, before adding that “every time we can avoid it, it’s better”. Mr Bagayoko was filmed attempting to pull a burning rubbish bin away from the gates of the school before high-fiving and clasping hands with the students."
Proof that they are well-integrated!
Damn far right violence!
The nihilistic far-Left is pushing France to the brink - "What began as a normal demonstration in a democracy has morphed with lightning speed into violent riots all over the country. And it is unlikely to die down anytime soon. Spurred on from the very first day by far-Left MPs from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), the movement spread rapidly. Watching Mélenchon’s lieutenants draped in their tricolour sashes, visiting blockaded lycées and haranguing the young with the words “violence can be legitimate” marked a new low point in French tolerance for political violence. After all, the word “terror” and “terrorism” were born in the streets of Paris in 1793 during the final spasms of the French Revolution under Robespierre. Mélenchon added even more fuel to an already dangerous situation, with eyes bulging and tongue dripping with rage, and said: “We are proud to be at the high school gates to defend our kids. Mobilise yourselves to intervene against police savagery.” Savagery? When police are being shot at from close range with firework mortars and sprayed with highly corrosive hydrochloric acid, it would be surprising if they did not try to retaliate. Infiltrated by professional thugs and older radicalised provocateurs, lycéens (pupils) often do not realise the danger they are in and get injured in the fray. French public opinion is not blind. A poll for Le Figaro showed that while 62 per cent of the French support the demands of lycéens, 78 per cent disapprove of the far-Left involvement in the violence. In seven months’ time, the French will choose their next president, and Mélenchon is doing two things. First, he has already begun campaigning, galvanised by early polls showing that he could make it through to the second round to face the far-Right’s Marine Le Pen. Secondly, Mélenchon is preparing the insurrection he hopes will follow if Le Pen is elected. He knows the country is fragile and will use every lever at his disposal to fracture it further and sow chaos. Politically, he doesn’t mind appearing violent – quite the opposite. According to an exhaustive study by Fondapol, a centre-Right French think tank headed by political scientist Dominique Reynié, Mélenchon is overrepresented among two groups with higher levels of abstention than the population as a whole: French Muslims and the young... if education in France has failed, it is not because of systemic inequality but because high standards have been replaced by a generalised, naive benevolence. As the economist Pierre Bentata recently put it: “in schools, conviviality has replaced authority” and “the vertical hierarchy of knowledge has given way to a horizontalisation of opinions.” In primary schools, there are no marks but coloured dots to shield pupils from disappointment. In the end, 90 per cent of an age group obtains the baccalaureate which makes it almost worthless. “In our eagerness not to frustrate, we have ceased to educate,” Bentata concludes. Hence today’s savagery."
LeeKuanYewRespecter on X - "The ABC has covered the French riots as simply students rallying for better classroom conditions. No mention of the radical left, despite literal Antifa and communist flags appearing in frame. Also telling is the uncritical acceptance of the claims. A simple check shows that French schools are not underfunded. France is in the top quartile of OECD nations for upper-secondary spending and is the only European country other than Germany spending more than 25% of GDP per capita per upper-secondary student each year. Are they lying to us or themselves?"
Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost on X - "Demoralized media here, trying to convince the public that they are not at war, that nobody is trying to abolish their civilization, and that they only want “equality.” It is a classic motte-and-bailey. The trick works because “equality” can mean two very different things while sounding like the same claim. To a normie, equality means equal rights, fair treatment, and protection from discrimination. That’s the safe, non-activist meaning. It asks for changes within the existing order without challenging the order itself. In the revolutionary grammar, “equality” means activism. It is a mandate to find inequality, identify the structures said to produce it, and act against them. Unequal outcomes, inherited institutions, traditional roles, social hierarchies, cultural norms, and other distinctions become evidence that domination still exists. Carried to its endpoint, the project is to sublate Western civilization itself: dismantle its inherited forms while preserving and reappropriating the achievements worth carrying into a higher social order. Equality becomes the standard by which the existing order is judged, dissolved, and rebuilt. Thats why equality can function as a solvent. The argument begins with an obvious injustice most people agree should be corrected, then moves outward. First a rule is unequal, then an institution, then the surrounding culture, and eventually the civilization that produced them becomes the deeper problem. The motte-and-bailey works by sliding between those meanings. When challenged, it retreats to the safe version: we only mean equal treatment, equal rights, basic fairness. Who could object to that? Once the challenge passes, the broader meaning returns, and “equality” again becomes a reason to dismantle inherited distinctions and institutions. So the public hears equality as a promise to make the existing order fairer. The revolutionary can use the same word as a mandate to put the existing order itself on trial. That double meaning is what makes the deception work. The moderate meaning reassures the public that nothing fundamental is happening. The radical meaning allows a much more fundamental transformation to proceed under the same word."
Defiant L’s on X - "Student during Paris riots and clashes with police: “There are only ten of them. In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” https://x.com/visegrad24/sta tus/2107127083734552874/video/1 They have welcomed them in, now they're reaping the consequences. If the police can't deal with high schoolers how are they going to deal with the thousands of military aged men that they just accepted in the country"
John Daniel Davidson on X - "The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them. They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable."
ᴸᴬᵁᴿᴬ on X - "🇫🇷 France has for decades been importing and breeding generations of people who, in practice, are good for nothing except freeloading, making noise, and aggression. The young Blacks from the banlieues are not “troubled youth” or “victims of the system.” They are a product that simply does not work in European society. Company bosses have been saying it for years behind closed doors: they are unemployable. Not because anyone discriminates against them. Because the moment they show up at a workplace, the circus begins. Zero discipline, constant entitlement, contempt for Whites, no basic respect, intellectual emptiness, and readiness for conflict at the slightest pretext. Bosses, French entrepreneurs, say it straight behind closed doors: the second they open their mouths or set foot on company premises, you already know there will be a problem. Aggression, zero work culture, zero discipline, zero respect, zero basic social skills. The team refuses to work with them. Interns? They won’t even take them for a week because it’s a risk. The only ones they still hire are the children of their own employees. This is not about “poor neighborhoods” or “inadequate education.” This is a cultural product: an environment dominated by street culture, contempt for work, contempt for the French, a cult of violence, and a permanent sense of entitlement. The state piles on top of that lifelong welfare and a multicultural ideology that forbids naming the problem for what it is. Look at the photos from France currently flooding X. A pack of young Blacks with middle fingers up, twisted faces, hoodies, acting like a half-wild herd that has just claimed territory. This is not an accident. This is their natural way of being. Street culture, cult of violence, contempt for work, the eternal feeling that the world owes them something. For decades the French state has been feeding this with benefits, ideology, and an absolute ban on telling the truth. The result is exactly what you see: masses of people who cannot and will not function according to the rules of the civilization that took them in. There used to be methods that worked. Hard, brutal, effective. Disciplinary quarters, the Foreign Legion, real hierarchy and real consequences. From similar material they turned out people capable of at least minimal discipline. It worked because no one played at “understanding” and “empathy.” There was only the will to break the bad upbringing. Today that will is gone. In its place we have cowardly politicians, judges, and media who prefer to watch their own cities turn into zones where a White man is a stranger rather than admit that the mass import of a population with diametrically lower average predispositions and a diametrically different culture leads to irreversible catastrophe. Do they have IQ under 50? This is not a question of “integration.” Integration with something that by itself produces aggression, entitlement, and intellectual mediocrity on a mass scale is an illusion. The more of them arrive, the more French society has to retreat, pretend, and pay. Companies avoid them like the plague. Normal people from the same backgrounds get hit with the same stereotype because the majority simply does not work. And the entire layer of power, instead of solving the problem, is busy protecting the lie. Either the hard hand, selection, and removal of this Black waste that is unfit returns, or France will continue to sink under the weight of monkey-people who will never be able to function at its level. And there is no tragedy in that. There is only consequence. And that consequence is the extinction of the White race. A matter of time.
ᴸᴬᵁᴿᴬ"
Left wing worker protection doesn't help their employment too
Henry von Blumenthal on X - "Riots are not only taking place in France. They are happening in Spain and Belgium too, which rather undermines the claim that this is about underfunding in the French educational system."
Eva Vlaardingerbroek on X - "This is Liège (Luik), Belgium. Note how the French migrant “school riots” are spreading. Of course they are. Because they are not about the school system. They are ethnoculturally motivated attacks against Europe and its native peoples."
Visegrád 24 on X - "BREAKING: The riots are spreading from France to Belgium. Young second and third-generation migrants have joined forces with Antifa near the central station and are clashing with riot police."
Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "It's sort of funny how you can be shown a crowd like this, from anywhere in the West, and know exactly who is doing it, what their politics are and what they look like."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Thousands of Islamists are now rioting in Belgium. Attacking Belgians, destroying buildings, and accosting police."
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "I can't believe the French government is underfunding Belgium schools"
Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio on X - ""They're just worried about school funding!" has to be one of the most spectacular gaslights ever"
Visegrád 24 on X - "BREAKING: Moroccan wedding guests have attacked the Member of the Flemish Parliament Filip Dewinter @FDW_VB in Antwerp city hall in Belgium. The anti-migration politician is also a Councilman of the Antwerp City Council and arrived in city hall for a council meeting together with fellow Vlaams Belang councillor Anke Van Dermeersch. A large group of Moroccans who had gathered in front of city hall for wedding pictures recognized the politician, called him a racist and quickly attacked him. Dewinter was grabbed by the throat by a large man, pushed inside city hall, punched and kicked by several people. He came away with a bleeding eyebrow and a black eye, and has filed a complaint for assault and battery. European politicians are now attacked at their work place for opposing mass-immigration. Meanwhile, mainstream media stays silent about the attacks or downplays them and the threat they pose to democracy."
Clearly, it's his fault for being racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic. This is proof we need to lock up the "far right" to prevent violence
Fox News on X - "What looks like a student protest in Paris is becoming something much bigger. A Fox News Digital investigation identifies 50 organizations connected to France's protests, but only 15 are student or youth groups. The other 35 include communist and socialist organizations, labor unions, political parties and activist networks, raising questions about who's helping drive the movement beyond its original demands over school conditions. The investigation also traces international connections and efforts to amplify the unrest, including tactics seen in the United States. | @foxnewspolitics See who's behind the 50 organizations: https://foxnews.com/world/behind-f"
Left wingers are still lying that the riots are about school funding
Clash Report on X - "French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: A world is coming to an end. That world is the one that has ruled for 40 years: neoliberalism, which spread across the entire planet after using Pinochet's dictatorship as its laboratory."
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "It's absolutely insane for this guy to blame his country's ills on "neoliberalism" when French government spending as a percentage of the economy is currently higher than it was in the Soviet Union right before it collapsed. France is currently running a 5% deficit to GDP, the nation's debt to GDP stands at nearly 120%, the country has one of the most generous welfare and entitlement systems in the world, and French Boomers living off taxpayer-funded pensions earn more than working adults. Is the "neoliberalism" in the room right now? Communists like Melenchon just throw around the word "neoliberalism" to mean "thing that I don't like", as if that's a sufficient distraction from the fact that the last 40 years have been ruled by their ideology."
Mor Edge Insight on X - "There isn’t really any other way to see it. This man is praising a violent riot that injured 48 police officers in a series of riots that have injured hundreds. He says that throwing large paving stones and furniture that could instantly kill somebody is “beautiful” It opens up so many questions that it’s hard to know where to even begin. How is a politician vying for the leadership of the country next year openly inciting violence and an insurrection, with no consequence? How is Macron simply standing by watching and doing or saying nothing? And I think most importantly, how are the French people, and the same question goes for all Europeans, simply watching it and doing absolutely nothing? There is no fight left in any of them except those who are rioting and burning down the streets. And these same countries want to convince the world that they’re somehow going to stand up to Putin and take on Russia. Ukrainians are fighting for their lives and their spirit is incredible, strong, courageous. They e truly stood up and shown what fighting back means. But European countries are the opposite. And it’s painful to watch. No leadership. No courage. No patriotism to be seen anywhere. This isn’t going to end well. It doesn’t even matter if it’s Russia or China or Iran pushing these riots. The point is that not a single European country is fighting back. Not one. And while their cities are destroyed and burning in flames with skyrocketing crime and rape and chaos, the only thing they find time and courage to do is lecture and condemn the few countries who do have the courage to fight back. This man Melenchon should be executed for treason. But instead you can almost see him winning the election next year. Because if he doesn’t, then all he has to do is set his attack dogs on the country and burn it all down and then just take the country nobody seems to care to fight for. Europe truly has fallen."
Weird. We're told the far left just want free healthcare and equal rights, not destroy society
Lara Logan on X - "ACAB is the Antifa slogan for “All Cops Are Bastards”. Same thing they wrote on the walls & monuments in Portland & Minneapolis & here they are writing it in France. Same ideology, same network of terror. Remember when CNN compared these a**holes to the Allies/heroes landing on the beaches of Normandy to fight the fascists? Now the whole world can see them for what they are: a violent foreign terrorist network of Marxists & Nazis allied with political Islam and funded/directed by their globalist puppet masters."
How much does France spend on education compared with the rest of Europe? - "Among European countries, Sweden spends the largest share of its GDP on education at 7.3 percent in 2024, followed by Iceland (7 percent) and Belgium, Estonia and Finland (6.3 percent each), according to Eurostat. The lowest spenders are Ireland (2.7 percent), Greece (3.9 percent), Romania and Italy (4 percent each), and the United Kingdom and Spain (4.1 percent each). At 5.1 percent, France is joint 13th, level with the Netherlands and Slovakia, and above the EU average of 4.8 percent."
Clearly, as long as they don't spend infinity on education, both France and Belgium are underfunding education and deserved to be destroyed by "student 'protests'"
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Rioters at French high school in Beaugency chant lyrics to Boro700’s MRH - a rap song which glorifies the ISIS terrorist attack on the Bataclan as well as a jihadist terrorist who executed an 8 year old French Jewish girl by shooting her in the head.
Lyrics: “Bataclan, they played dead, lie down, I’m gonna shoot one in the eye.”
“Like Mohamed Merah, dodging the cameras at the Bataclan, I shot him with my eyes, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam.”
Mohammed Merah executed three French Jewish children aged 3, 5 and 8 years old. He chased the 8 year old French Jewish girl and grabbed her by the hair, paused to reload, then shot her in the head. Salah Abdeslam meanwhile was the only surviving member of the 10-man ISIS cell that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks including the massacre at the Bataclan. Murdered 130 people, injured more than 490."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "It’s absolutely fucking insane that the mainstream media are hiding the truth of the French riots. The students will literally scream “we love ISIS and want to execute Jewish children” and the mainstream media will say they want more investment in education"

Ridiculous Zuccs: Lucy Craig (Jane Doe)

2026-10-12T20:52:50.118+08:00

Even mentioning the name "Lucy Craig" (without a photo) "may faciliate or coordinate activity that might cause harm to people, businesses or animals".

"Is that Lucy Craig"

"Is Lucy Craig a predator or victim in your eyes?"
Of course, this does not seem to be the case for posts slamming the Cornell 7 / Cornell "57".

Links - 11th October 2026 (2 - Woke Universities [including Admissions])

2026-10-11T17:49:00.000+08:00

Libs of TikTok on X - "I cannot believe this is real. California State Superintendent candidate Richard Barrera says he’s against bringing back the SATs and if students at top universities are at elementary level math, it’s the college professors’ job to catch them up 🤯"
Left wing ideology as usual is about levelling down and destroying civilisation
Smirkley on X - "Texas guarantees UT Austin admission to the top 5% of every high school class, by grades alone. This seems race neutral but top 5% at a black school isn’t top 5% at a white/Asian one. Among its own auto-admits entering in 2008 (tell them to publish new data) the mean SAT was 1277 for asians, 1267 for whites, 1111 for hispanics, and 1068 for blacks. 2025 Texas SAT score averages: 1202 for asians, 1054 for whites, 904 for hispanics, and 887 for blacks. Model with 2025 SAT scores and the Texas class would be 42% Asian, 37% white, 12.5% Hispanic, and 2.6% black."
i/o on X - "A lot of people are shocked to discover that whites are only 25% of the in-state undergrad students at the University of Texas, outnumbered by Hispanics, who perform much worse than whites on the SAT. The reason for this is what I would call a "deformative action" admissions approach (described below). The second graph shows how far the fall-off would be for the Hispanic student share if the sole admissions criterion was actual tested cognitive ability. And you can also see how Asians (only 6% of the population of Texas) would then be the dominant group on campus if measured intelligence were the only admissions criterion. (And, yes, the SAT is still mostly a test of general intelligence, although less so than it was a few decades ago.)"
i/o on X - ""In 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of Berkeley Law’s admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were below 95% of the admitted white applicants... black applicants had 5.8 times higher odds of admission than comparable white applicants.""
i/o on X - "Harvard abolishes its SAT requirement in hopes of removing evidence of its preferential treatment of black and Hispanic students in admissions. A few years later, it creates its first remedial math class."
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Ghost on X - "So can someone explain why Harvard is admitting students who can’t do 7/8th grade math?"
SettledScience™️ on X - "Because UCSD is willing to take those that can’t do 5/6th grade math?"
Gail Heriot on X - "Eliminating the SAT as a requirement effectively results in institutional suicide for universities like Harvard. A Harvard with a remedial math course isn’t really Harvard anymore. I’ll leave it to others to decide if that’s good or bad."
It’s ‘racially harmful’ to reform grade inflation at Harvard, student petition argues - "The lobbying comes as a Harvard faculty consider capping the number of A grades they give out in each class. That proposal came after a report published last fall found that 60 percent of all undergraduate grades are now As"
When you admit racial minorities are less competent
The Chronicle of Higher Education on X - "One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A."
Jonah Goldberg on X - "This is exactly how I feel about doctors. If the surgeon really tries his or her best, who am I to complain when they remove the wrong organ? Also, pilots. Knowing how to fly is so much less important than really, really, caring about getting there."
Shabbos Kestenbaum on X - "An open letter to current Harvard faculty, donors, and trustees: I know you hate me. I know you hate President Trump. I know you think the enforcement of federal law is actually a conspiracy to overhaul higher education. I know you think the multiple conclusions of religious discrimination against Jews is a lie. But I am genuinely struggling to understand, irrespective of antisemitism, how the current disastrous state of the University has not resulted in tangible, meaningful reform. I implore you to answer basic questions about how you continue to choose to run Harvard University:
1. Why do you insist on paying Claudine Gay, an actual serial plagiarist who was forced to resign, a salary of $900,000 a year?
2. Why specifically should Claudine Gay of all people be teaching a class on leadership, using Harvard as a case study?
3. What specific merits and talents does Chairwoman Penny Pritzker bring to the table? What is the specific justification for keeping her?
4. For what specific reason is the University refusing to comply with federal law by not sharing the criminal background history of your foreign students to DHS?
5. Does it bother you that 97% of the faculty identify with one particular political ideology? If yes, what are two specific actions you're willing to take to rectify the problem?
6. What specifically have you done to ensure that the few conservative students left on campus aren't self-censoring their work and opinions?
7. Does it bother you that multiple faculty members, such as Professor James Hankins, admitted they or their colleagues were told that white men, in the post George Floyd backlash would no longer be hired if there was a (less qualified) black or gay applicant?
8. Thousands of donors, representing billions of dollars, have refused to give anymore since 10/07. What specific policy overhauls have you implemented to win them back?
Irrespective of antisemitism, I'm genuinely struggling to understand why Harvard refuses to get out of its own way. This entire controversy since Day 1 has been entirely self inflicted and avoidable. Poor leadership after poor leadership..."
Peter Boghossian on X - "The entire institution is an incorrigibly corrupt ideological cesspool. The corruption has been institutionalized: Gay was found innocent of plagiarism charges BEFORE her investigation. She's a serial plagiarist who even plagiarized the acknowledgments in her dissertation."
Nan Hayworth, M.D. on X - "Harvard can't be bothered because it has not yet encountered consequences that inspire sufficient fear in that institution. This is one of many reasons why taxpayer dollars should be withdrawn from every school in the country. They insulate from consequences of arrogance and overt malefaction."
Philip Greenspun on X - "The New York Times told us that Claudine Gay "resigned" from Harvard. The university's IRS filings, however, show that she was being paid at the rate of $3.1 million/year after purportedly resigning."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The media didn't write about this at the time, but Claudine Gay is not only a plagiarist. Also:
1. Her research makes no scientific sense. (See https://t.co/HnToNRrPCZ)
2. She removed inconvenient data points going against her hypothesis in order to publish her biggest paper. (see: https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/2000387665695219997?s=20)
Having her be the president of Harvard is bad, but it makes some sense. Paying her $3 million to be a political scientist, a job she is useless at, does not make any sense. It is highly disrespectful to the students paying tuition."
Steve McGuire on X - "“Recent evidence suggests that Harvard’s upper administration sees its own faculty as a problem that needs to be solved.” Yes."
Jason Locasale on X - "The problem is that an upper administration exists at all. Universities weren’t meant to operate like corporations optimizing for brand protection and revenue extraction. Faculty are treated as variables to manage, useful when they attract funding or prestige, disposable when they create risk. These administrations tolerated and even empowered extreme behavior when it aligned with their branding and revenue strategy. Until these institutions move away from this model where a centralized administrative class manages speech, behavior, and reputation, reform is only cosmetic."
Why I’m Leaving Harvard - "My four decades of experience at one of the world’s leading universities have given me a unique vantage point to trace the replacement of Western history by global history. This change is part of the reason why the younger generation finds itself in a state of moral and intellectual disorientation... We had just endured almost two years under the university’s strict Covid regime. This was a form of emergency governance that mirrored to a fault the whole country’s uncritical acceptance of The Science and its proclivity, when backed by public power, for tyrannous invasions of private life. At Harvard, professors were told we had to lecture in masks and give seminars on zoom. Neither practice accorded with my idea of liberal education. The year earlier the university had collectively taken a knee during the Summer of Floyd. This turned out not to be empty virtue-signalling, as I expected, but had serious consequences for the way we conducted our affairs. In reviewing graduate student applicants in the fall of 2020 I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that “that” (meaning admitting a white male) was “not happening this year.” In the same year a certifiably brilliant undergraduate I had tutored, who was literally the best student at Harvard—he won the prize for the graduating senior with the best overall academic record—was rejected from all the graduate programs to which he applied. He too was a white male. I called around to friends at several universities to find out why on earth he had been rejected. Everywhere it was the same story: Graduate admissions committees around the country had been following the same unspoken protocol as ours. The one exception I found to the general exclusion of white males had begun life as a female. Harvard, I believe, is now on a better course under its current president, Alan Garber. The reaction to the Claudine Gay fiasco, which highlighted the university’s shocking indifference to the anti-Semitic demonstrations following the October 7 atrocities, compelled the Harvard Corporation, which chooses the president, to seek out a safe pair of hands... When late liberal pedagogy replaced Western civilization courses with global history, serious harm was done to the socialization of young Americans. When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized."
Diversity is about eradicating the existing order, not diversity
Weird, we are told that DEI is to ensure that everyone gets a fair chance and that discrimination against minorities is eliminated. Of course, the next copes are that white men have discriminated against others for so long, so it's their turn to be discriminated against and that this is good, and also that because society privileges them so much, discriminating against them just levels the playing field overall
Harvard professor calls out ‘exclusion of white males’ in scathing public resignation - "Hankins contrasted how history is taught in China, where national identity and patriotism are openly reinforced, with how it is taught in the United States, where Western history is often presented as something to be condemned or dismantled. “In the hands of hyper-progressive (or ‘woke’) practitioners, Western global history is often, indeed, actively anti-Western,” he wrote. Harvard’s downfall, Hankins said, had begun decades prior. In the 1990s, the university was “under increasing pressure to hire more women faculty,” and thus, was forced to abandon some of its longstanding expectations. “Since at the time women formed less than 10 percent of PhDs in history and were even rarer in the mid-career cohorts from which Harvard tended to hire, equality required that standards be lowered,” the professor observed... he concluded that, while one can “hope” for change in America’s existing higher education institutions, “for now, a better hope lies in building new institutions unencumbered by the corruption and self-hatred that infect the old.”"
Thread by @elianayjohnson on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "“We have not hired with tenure a historian in a Western field—ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern—in a decade; the last promotion to tenure from the junior ranks occurred in 2012.” “Meanwhile, the department has lost eight senior historians in Western fields—all major figures—through death, retirement, or departure for other universities. I will be the ninth, and I am not expecting to be replaced.” “It is hard to avoid the impression that, whether through hostility or neglect, Western history is being phased out or allowed to die on the vine at Harvard. My remaining colleagues in Western history are mostly distinguished specialists, but new blood is not flowing in. Meanwhile, the Hamilton School, founded only four years ago, has almost miraculously hired forty-eight outstanding scholars.”"
Thread by @MaxE2review on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "People know that much of academia is dominated by woke dogma, but they really don't grasp how extreme and how culty it truly is, even at the very highest levels. There are so many examples it's hard to know where to start. To illustrate it, let's do a deep dive into the head of the Cambridge faculty which hired Jason Arday (and where I once studied sociology). Her name is Hilary Cremin, and she famously referred to Arday as 'the best in the world'. But what else has she written?
She's described British schools as 'a contemporary form of fascism', that brutally oppress kids based on their race, gender and culture, despite the fact that literally no proper data supports this in any way. I'm not making that up, it's a direct quote. Bear in mind this person is head of the education faculty, which trains teachers, at the most prestigious university in the world. But it doesn't end there, ofc. She views humans as of no greater moral worth than any other living being, and looks excitedly forward to an end of 'speciesism' which oppressively views humans as more valuable than other beings (which, of course, we are). She believes that to achieve a utopian future, she the school system and society more broadly will need, to quote one reviewer, 'to have recognised perspectives on the world that differ from those of people who are “white, European, neuro-typical, heterosexual, middle class and male". It will privilege the “lived experience” of the humble as against the dogmatic truths and blind rationality of the powerful. In doing so it will draw on the “wisdom traditions” in Taoism, Buddhism, the Song Lines of the aboriginal peoples of Australia, and European Paganism.'
Prof. Cremin, who heads the faculty of Education at Cambridge, rails against the advancements of our civilisation, the scientific method, modernity and the enlightenment, etc - which she only ever describes in negative terms as built upon the supposedly problematic belief in empirical truth and rationality. This is despite the fact that that they have resulted in advancements in human wellbeing and flourishing previously unparalleled in world history.
To quote one reviewer (Dr Nicolas Tate, who I forgot to credit in 1/): 'She asserts that our contemporary world is also one of “violence”, that word being redefined to cover anything the author does not like: hence the “slow violence” of the degradation of the environment and the “structural and cultural violence” of rule by white male elites. In a book of 190 pages the word “violence” occurs 81 times and “emergency” 48 times. Nowhere are the massive improvements that “modernity” has brought to people’s standard of living, health and longevity even mentioned.' In her book, Prof. Cremin, head of the Cambridge Education faculty which hired Arday, 'dismisses the Enlightenment and “modernity” as a backward step, their legacy an unhealthy obsession with rationality and empirical truth, a cult of “humanism” (redefined by the author to mean patriarchy and white dominance).' That's a quote from Tate again - you can read his article here - dailysceptic.org/2026/09/17/mee…
I've zoomed in on Cremin here but this stuff is absolutely commonplace within social sciences, and more broadly across academia as a whole. From where it seeps into our media, culture and beyond. It's a major scandal, which I'll be doing my best to shine a light on. Follow on here for updates."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries, and Western civilisation
Melissa Chen on X - "So Cambridge University is abandoning its plan to investigate its hiring of Jason Arday and instead focus on whether they were sufficiently POLITE and caring during the process. Let me help you out, Cambridge. You have been way too polite and compassionate this whole time and this is exactly why Arday is dead and why your reputation is in the toilet. You abandoned hiring standards, then called any questions vile and scrutiny a hate crime. That is what put a man in a job he didn't belong in. I genuinely don’t know how anyone respects Cambridge University after this. If you’re an alum you might as well shred the degree."
Max Klinger on X - "Have just received an astonishing, and very detailed, statement from an esteemed lecturer at Oxbridge. Goes into significant detail about the way that, in this lecturer’s view, their institution has been gripped by deeply illiberal woke dogma. I will be releasing the full thing soon.
Among other things, it includes claims that:
• students are having ideologically-driven conclusions pushed on them
•universities as a whole are hiring people not based on academic excellence but on their conformity with woke zeitgeists and their immutable characteristics
•DEI-style hiring practices are so ubiquitious across the university sector as to essentially amount to a form of discrimination
•Unrigorous, activist-style research and behaviour is commonplace among academics
And much more.
Genuinely quite staggering to read, even though none of it is in any way surprising. I will be post it soon as part of my efforts to expose and highlight the way that universities are laundering progressive activism through the academy."
Lavinia on X - "At Caius College, Cambridge, attendance of these 1.5 hour-long inclusivity training sessions is mandatory for all undergrads. The sessions will be delivered by Stop Hate UK, who erroneously state that "gender identity" is a protected characteristic and that "Islamophobia is a crime." One would hope these are honest mistakes and they will be correcting them @stophateuk. It will be interesting to hear what they have to say about the hate myself and others experienced at Cambridge for having the temerity to join a society for women that excludes men. Their website talks a lot about The Law and they seem to be very much in favour of the crime of Hate as a category: the word itself is menacingly capitalised throughout their material with the ominous implication that the violence or harassment ordinarily necessary for hatred to constitute a Hate Crime is somehow superfluous, and that simply Hating silently in your head should be sufficient. I wonder if they like the law so much when it comes to the protected characteristic of belief in the binary nature of sex and the Supreme Court judgment clarifying that sex in law means biological sex. We shall soon find out. In any case, by bringing them in and mandating attendance, Caius College is at best tacitly endorsing this ideological pressuring of students into being firmly on the woke side of a culture war they are determined not to wade out of, even given recent events. Training will of course include American rubbish about unconscious bias, microaggressions and how to be an Upstander against heteronormative hypermasculinity. No doubt some administrator has looked over this charity and their session descriptions and decided there's nothing at all controversial here, nothing political, just kindness."
Colin the Barbarian @OXSOC@sciences.social on X - ""...to ensure a collective and unified response." Next step will be the issuing of the little red book. First self-criticism event Friday morning. Struggle sessions on Sunday afternoon."
Clearly, the far left just want everyone's basic needs to be met
Wesley Yang on X - "White male political science PhD's were half as likely to be hired as professors in 2023 as both "underrepresented minority" men and women"
Sam Schulman ن on X - "Hey kids: That young white male prof of yours has had to surmount incredible obstacles in order to have the privilege of teaching you. He is sure to be first-rate."
Brandon Warmke on X - "Apparently, being a woman on the poli sci job market gave candidates a better chance of getting a tenure track job than co-authoring in APSR, the flagship journal. When academics weren't lying about discrimination ever happening, they were lying about it never sacrificing merit."
Thread by @Tool_Being on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "White males are less than half as likely to successfully land a professorship than non-white males. You don't get stats like this without blatant systemic discrimination. If it was against any other group the government would be burning down whole institutions right now.Another way to interpret this is to say a white male applicant is getting compared to other applicants in the most competitive group and you need to to be in top 19% of group to land the job. If you are a non-white male applicant, on the other hand, you’re application is getting compared to others in less competitive group and you only have to be in top 40% of that group to get the job. Big difference."
If you think there's discrimination against white men, you're a far right extremist spreading misinformation
Maarten Boudry on X - "Just the other day, one of the few remaining liberals in my department, Freddy Mortier (now officially retired), made some remarks about @nathancofnas ’s suspension during a graduation ceremony. After making clear that he has no sympathy whatsoever for Cofnas’s views, he argued that even thorny ideas should be openly discussed rather than shut down. Predictably, students jeered and booed him, preventing him from continuing his speech. Both students and colleagues then walked out in protest. So what did the dean do? She took the stage to apologize for her colleague’s “completely inappropriate” remarks, to loud applause and cheers from the students. In other words, she encouraged and rewarded the hecklers. The level of cowardice is simply astonishing."
Left wingers are terrified of free speech, because they can't control it and bully others into pushing the left wing agenda
Leviathan on X - "The itinerary for Frosh Week at @Concordia University includes Harm Reduction Training to ensure safe consumption of hard drugs, a Palestine solidarity event, and “Queer Antifascist Resistance in Quebec.” The upcoming generation is in the very worst of hands."
Thread by @mboudry on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "My former philosophy department at @UGent banned the teaching of this paper by Anomaly & Faria, in a philosophy class by my colleague Bouke De Vries. Why? Because it discusses demography and migration as potential threats to liberal societies, and something called “biocultural continuity”! The horror! It sounds almost... conservative! Someone please protect the students! If you ask me, one of the main dangers facing liberalism is precisely that (some) liberals want to shut down debate about the threats it faces. So what else could we do? Bouke invited me to join efforts and write a paper in reply, which critically evaluates and challenges Anomaly & Faria's argument. It has now been accepted for publication. So can liberalism survive itself? Anomaly and Faria fear it may not, pointing to low birth rates, cultural fragmentation, mass migration from illiberal cultures, and liberalism’s self-imposed constraints. In our paper, we’re more hopeful. Open societies adapt faster; people defect and switch ideologies when facades crack; technology gives them an edge; and authoritarian regimes have demographic problems of their own. Liberalism ain't finished yet. This was a somewhat adversarial collaboration, which are often the most interesting. Bouke is more pessimistic and tends to think that demography (largely) determines our destiny, whereas I take a more sanguine view of the robustness of liberal democracy and focus more on cultural transmission—which can undermine demographic advantages through the horizontal transmission of ideas and ideological defection. Liberalism is inherently attractive, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. To be published soon—and banned in a classroom near you!
This is what the distinguished “educational committee” had to say about the decision to discuss the paper in class: “a serious error of judgment.” It sounds Orwellian, but this is the state of academia today—or at least of @UGent. The problem of ideological capture has been a long time in the making, and it’s only getting worse."
Brandon Warmke on X - "For those outside philosophy, some backround: This paper appears in Social Philosophy & Policy, a very good and mainstream philosophy journal edited by Dave Schmidtz and published by Cambridge. Top moral and political philosophers regularly publish there from across the political spectrum and by invitation. All papers are blind peer reviewed. This volume on "Global Crises" was guest edited by Allen Buchanan. The paper's topic and method are standard for work in PPE (philosophy, politics, economics), where you try address questions using the tools of each discipline. Hard to see what the complaint could be aside from just political or personal animus. But that's obviously not a reason to disallow a professor from assigning a reading."
Max Klinger on X - "Having studied this stuff at Cambridge, I'm now on a one-man mission to expose the sheer, unimaginable levels of fraudulence and grift within academia. This is even more important now that the people who produce this stuff are trying to attack anyone who does so as 'racist' etc. Here are a few real examples of claims made by esteemed, frequently cited, well paid academics in prestigious journals:
1)Expecting maths students to get the correct answers is racist, and is a form of 'white supremacy culture' as it places an absolute emphasis on getting a single 'right answer'
2)'Time' is a racist concept, and expecting people to arrive on time is racist and a form of, you guessed it, 'white supremacy' (again)
3)Donald Duck cartoons are a key means by which American imperialism operates
4)Childrens' cartoons and pop music are tools of capitalistic domination
5)E = MC squared is a 'sexed equation'
6) Telling kids to take their hoods off in class is racist
There are so many more I don't even know where to begin. I'll be putting more out on here in the coming days. Jason Arday's death was tragic. But it can't be used to stifle legitimate criticism of this absolute racket. Follow on here for updates."
The Nation on X - "At the end of Gazelle Mba's time at Oxford, she was told if she "wanted to study anything related to Black people," she "was better off leaving the institution as soon as possible and heading to the United States.""
Cosmopolitan Reactionary on X - "I ask this with genuine curiosity: what explains the monomania some black academics have for writing and researching about themselves? I mean no offense to my Irish compatriots who dedicate their lives to Irish history, language, etc., but I can’t imagine anything more boring than being Irish in an Irish Studies department full of Irish people talking (whining, really) about being Irish. In the context of a university (whose very name derives from the Latin universitas, meaning “the whole”) it seems like racial solipsism taken to an absurd, almost sinful degree."
Dotty Gale on X - "Gazelle Mba is from Nigeria. Claudine Gay is from Haiti. Jason Arday's parents were from Ghana. Dr. Ian Andre Roberts is from Guyana. They voluntarily left their homelands and then made careers writing about black oppression in their adopted countries. Because there's such a demand for that kind of black scholarship that they're practically imported for it."
Oxford and Cambridge Have Always Been Racist | The Nation - "The summer before I began studying as an undergrad at the University of Oxford, I braced myself for racism. I spent several hours each day preparing by scrolling through blogs, newspaper articles, and social-media posts"
When you prime yourself to see racism, you'll see it, e.g. the Dartmouth Scar Experiment
It's weird how "minorities" are so eager to enter spaces where they will be relentlessly oppressed
Closure of Birmingham City University black studies MA ‘blindsides’ staff (aka "Staff 'blindsided' as black studies MA course axed")
Daniel Friedman on X - "Charging a black person tuition that they finance with debt to receive a terminal master’s degree in black studies is greater cruelty than about 99% of the things actual racists have done to black people since 1960. A PhD can lead to an academic job and comes with funding. But a master’s degree? Why does such a program exist?"
There were only 8 people enrolled in it too.
The Conservative Pipeline Problem - "The study -- "Left Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don't Get Doctorates" -- argues that the much debated minority status for conservatives in higher education may be the result of differing priorities of graduating college seniors of different political persuasions. The study presents evidence that conservatives are significantly more likely than liberals -- at the point when college students decide whether to apply to graduate school -- to value raising a family and having money. In contrast, liberals at that point in their lives are significantly more likely to value writing original works."
From 2007 (so the ideological bias of academia as a factor wouldn't have been as strong at the time). Left wingers were quipping that historians are liberal because they studied history. So much for that - they were liberal even before studying history
This would also explain the left's long march through the institutions - they value power more than earning money or having a family
Liam Out Loud on X - ""Studied history" doesn't explain why professors are all left-wing. Langbert's survey of 5,000+ professors found Communications and Anthropology at 100% registered Democrat.... literally ZERO conservative faculty.
- Religion 98.6%
- English 98%
- Sociology 97.8%
Even Engineering, the most "balanced" field, was 61.5%. History teachers aren't left-wing, the entire academic apparatus is. BUT THIS ISN'T BECAUSE THEY'RE SMARTER. It's because they are more ruthless. Marcuse's "repressive tolerance" was put into full force in the mid to late 20th century. Leftists believed themselves to have moral license to treat right-wing thought itself as harm rather than disagreement. This led to a hostile environment against anyone Conservative. Then factor in administration and affirmative action policies that favour left-wing leaning groups (blacks, women, gays, etc etc). This created two-way pressure: push out conservative faculty and students, while simultaneously stacking the deck of newcomers with leftists. Andrew Lobaczewski called this "negative selection." Opposing viewpoints don't get hired, given tenure, and self-select out. Moderates leave. Then all that's left is... the left. History doesn't teach you to be left-wing. Rather, the institutions were captured at the administrative level, restructured who gets through the gate, and now launder a monoculture with heavy ideological biases as "the expert consensus.""
Max Klinger on X - "Have been asking academics and students to provide examples and evidence of the ideological capture of their universities by progressivism. Here's another: 'Hi Max, I studied Social Anthropology. You step into the building and see the faces of Che Guevara, Castro, Chavez, Lenin, Marx, Engels, native marxist leaders graffitied everywhere, as well as feminist symbols and slogans on the hallway and classroom walls.
'The curriculum is...shaped around Marx and Marxist-inspired thinkers....We engaged very, very little with anything else.
'The biggest difference I could tell from the rest of the world is that my professors were very comfortable about expressing their beliefs and assigned normative judgements to everything. Marxism, socialism, and communism are good, but capitalism and religion are evil, this is in spite of my country's very troubled past with Marxists.
My school routinely mocks the church and conservatives but intellectually it's the most closed off space.'
This example is from South America. This is a truly global phenomenon. I have included an image from one such university square below. I also found academic literature, published in British academic journals, arguing that it's great these walls are covered in these figures, which they deem a form of noble 'resistance'.
As I say, this is not a UK-only phenomenon by any means. Vast swathes of what gets held up as profound academic research is little more than openly partisan leftist/woke activism. Follow on here for more examples"
Max Klinger on X - "I’m running a project to try and push against progressive ideological capture within academia. The following are quotes from a statement sent to me by an Oxbridge academic:
'The rot of hard left-wing, woke ideology has now become clearly embedded within teaching...the students are now being taught that academia is the same as activism. It is a farce.
‘I thought that universities were hiring people to pursue excellence in research and teaching—instead, they are hiring people based upon conformity to the ideological zeitgeist.’
‘Universities do not want the best academics or teachers: they want ‘yes men’ who will not cause a fuss and only further entrench and spread the EDI drumbeat.’
‘Oxbridge, amongst other universities, has been plagued by the reform of syllabi under the banner of “decolonisation”.’
‘Universities should teach students about how to think in the pursuit of truth. Universities today, however, have descended into relativism. The idea of objective truth has been replaced by the idea that all views are equally valid, and even worse, that conservative and ‘traditional’ views are to be dismissed as outdated and invalid. This is the menacing agenda of ‘decolonising’ the curriculum.’
‘The role of an academic [has been devalued to] nothing more than an ideologue. What on earth is going on? Are universities social justice warriors? What is the point of students attending university if they are simply going to be told that authors are racist, sexist, anti-feminist, old, white men?’’"

This is not a ‘student protest’ – it’s an intifada against France

2026-10-11T13:37:00.000+08:00

This is not a ‘student protest’ – it’s an intifada against France - spiked
The teens burning schools, assaulting police and glorifying Islamist terrorists are not protesting about class sizes.

‘In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!’, screams a masked student rioter named ‘Yanis’. He was filmed standing on top of a car, gesturing to the 10 or so police officers struggling to contain a restless crowd of teenagers. His chilling cry is met with cheers and exultation from the students outside the Honoré de Balzac high school near Paris. ‘Yanis, the voice of reason’ reads the subtitle on the now viral video of the speech.

This is just one of the many unnerving scenes from what have euphemistically been dubbed the French ‘school protests’. Since 18 September, when protests broke out at a school in the Parisian banlieue of Créteil, teenagers and young adults have been engaging in some of the worst rioting the country has endured in decades. At least a third of French high schools have been closed or disrupted in some way. More than 6,000 people, overwhelmingly minors, have been arrested. Around a thousand people have been injured, three-quarters of them police officers. With the rioting showing no signs of stopping, and with more organised protests involving teachers and trade unions planned for the coming days and weeks, the unrest is certain to surpass the damage and destruction caused by comparable unrest in 2023 and 2005.

Nevertheless, the delusion persists that these are merely protests – and even ‘peaceful’ ones at that. Judging by much of the coverage, the international mainstream media might as well be broadcasting from a parallel universe. Reports from the likes of the BBC and Sky News have tended to focus on the problems in French schools, from dilapidated classrooms and packed lesson timetables to teacher absences and the hated new system for university applications. No doubt these are valid concerns that have animated many earnest students, as well as the thousands of teachers and trade unionists who have been striking in solidarity with the teenagers. But this surely cannot explain the displays of nihilism and violence that have taken over the streets.

Was it really a lack of school funding that led a masked 15-year-old in Marseille to use a lighter and an aerosol to set fire to a woman’s face? Was it frustrations over the school timetable that led some protesters to arm themselves with knives, baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and hydrochloric acid? And what of the crumbling classrooms? As French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu wryly observed in parliament this week, ‘Burning down a high school does not improve the state of high-school buildings’. Ironically, one of the first schools to go up in flames was the plush Lycée Nelson Mandela in Nantes, built at a cost of €54million as recently as 2014. Most of the rioting has taken place in and around schools in the troubled banlieues, which actually get more funding on average under the French system.

Complaints about school conditions also cannot explain why so many rioters choose to drape themselves in the flags and symbols of foreign countries – including the Algerian, Moroccan and (inevitably) Palestinian flags, often with a keffiyeh face covering. While the gilets jaunes protests of 2018 and 2019 would usually feature a sea of national and regional flags, the tricolore has been notably absent in the past few weeks’ clashes. It seems that whatever is on their passports, the racially diverse crowds are united in their rejection of French identity. French Republican values, whether they are deemed ‘oppressive’, ‘colonialist’ or ‘kafir’, are similarly treated with suspicion by the ‘new France’ of youths and second- and third-generation migrants.

Yanis’s threat to ‘kill’ the police ‘in the name of Allah’ also points to an Islamist element in this unrest. The rap song ‘M*R*H’ by Boro700 has become the unofficial anthem of the blockades. Its title refers to Mohamed Merah, the French-Algerian terrorist who murdered three unarmed soldiers, a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school, one of whom he grabbed by the hair to shoot her in the head at point-blank range. The opening lyrics reference the November 2015 Paris attacks, which killed 130 innocents, most of them at the Bataclan theatre:

‘I ain’t scared of hell, the pact’s still on, who but Allah can stop me? / Bataclan, playing dead, lie down, I’m gonna shoot you in the eye.’

A large, mixed-race group of teenage boys in the Loire Valley filmed themselves rapping along to every word. On Tuesday, a group of teens – this time all white and mostly girls – broke into the Church of St Hilaire in the Vendée, and began rapping to ‘M*R*H’ as it blared out of a portable speaker. It would be pushing it to claim that radical Islam is the main motive for these disturbances, but it is increasingly the script that young French people reach for when expressing opposition to, if not outright hatred for, their own society. As the white girls in the Catholic church chanting ‘Who but Allah can stop me?’ illustrates, that goes for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
What is unfolding in France is far more troubling, and far more existential, than a mere protest over school funding or a row over classroom sizes. This is not a demand for better ‘education’ as a route into French society, but a rejection of that society and its values. It is an intifada against French civilisation itself. The sooner France wakes up to this reality, the sooner it can begin to repair the damage.

Links - 11th October 2026 (1 - Women: Lindsay Clancy)

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Meme *Protest with Trans rights are human rights, Protect trans kids, gender affirming care saves lives signs*
Woman with horn rimmed glasses, black earrings, purple hair and purple hat and non-binary symbol tattoo and tank top: "MEN CAN GeT PREGNANT!"
*bemused man*
*Protest with We stand with her, justive for Lindsay Clancy, Justice for Lindsay, Moms support Lindsay signs*

Woman with horn rimmed glasses, black earrings, purple hair and pink pussy hat and we stand with Lindsay Clancy shirt: "MEN COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GIVE BIRTH AND SUFFER FROM POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION!"
*bemused man*
Ri§en ☦️ on X - "I want to take a moment to address the topic that has been floating around recently following the Lindsay Clancy trial and the potentially millions of insane women supporting them. If it turns out that Lindsay Clancy, a woman who murdered her three children to death via strangulation, is judged to be not guilty, this sets a clear legal precedent that women are controlled and subject to the whims of their emotions and hormones. This is a precedent that women, particularly feminists, have been trying to argue against for damn near a century of not being true. It certainly doesn't seem to be true for ALL women, but there are always rare exceptions to the rule. If this precedent is set, it gives an irrefutable argument for repealing the 19th Amendment and restricting women's rights. But I want to take another look at something real quick and analyze why feminism and giving women too much power is damaging not just to men and women, but to soceity as a whole. Men and women are both corner stones of soceity, but they serve different roles as those cornerstones. Women bring life into the world, Men cultivate the world for life to flourish. This is a cycle for men and women to uniformly participate in. Men work to keep the infrastructure of soceity stable, safe, and secure so that life can prosper. Women bring life into the world to ensure there are more people to pass on the responsibility of the future to. By giving women more rights, more responsibility, more expectations to take on, this not only adds more unnecessary stress into their lives that they were not meant to deal with, but it also makes the role of Men more difficult as it forces men and women to compete for something they were never supposed to in the first place. Pushing women into the workplace was a ploy meant to provide the government with a second source of tax revenue, to ensure control over how many people are allowed to reproduce at once, and to break apart the nuclear family unit. Interpreting this correctly, you would see this as a necessary step to commit genocide against a group you don't like without taking violent action against them. Keep them busy, keep them apart, make them compete against each other, and if they have children, they will be too busy to care for then themselves, so have the government care for them instead and brainwash their children to serve the agenda. There is a reason why men are not the ones who give birth, and it is because we have a specific role to follow. By forcing women into the role meant for men, it not only makes's men's role more difficult, it makes women's role impossible to follow. Ever since this movement has started, it has never benefited soceity, it has only benefited the government and the corrupt lobbyists that occupy it."
Steve Mudflap McGrew’s REMASCULATE podcast on X - "If Lindsay Clancy is found innocent because hormones made her emotionally unstable, women better be very careful celebrating that verdict. Because the law loves PRECEDENT. From that day forward, every job application is going to have a new question:
“Are you currently hormonal?”
“Well, I’m a woman.”
“Thank you. I think we’ll be going in another direction.”
You can’t carry a weapon anymore. No female police officers. Sorry, but we cannot hand a loaded gun to somebody whose legal defense might eventually be, “My hormones were acting up.” No more high-stress jobs, either. No air-traffic controllers. No surgeons. No nuclear-launch codes. One bad hot flash and boom 💥 Canada is glowing. And women definitely can’t be judges. How can you decide whether somebody else is emotionally stable when your own gender just established in court that hormones can make you kill three people? No female politicians, either. You can’t be trusted to run the country if, according to your own argument, your endocrine system occasionally takes over the government. And custody hearings are going to change overnight. The judge will say, “Ordinarily, children belong with their mother. However, according to the Lindsay Clancy precedent, she may be only one hormone away from a Netflix documentary. The children go with Dad.” Dad doesn’t know their shoe sizes, the pediatrician’s name or which one is allergic to peanuts, but his testosterone has never been successfully used as an insanity defense. Feminists spent a hundred years saying women are not hysterical, irrational creatures controlled by their biology and one defense attorney walks into court and says, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… have you considered the uterus?” You cannot demand equal authority and then ask for discounted accountability. If women want equal rights, great. But equal rights come with equal wrongs. Otherwise, that glass ceiling is about to become a padded ceiling."
alyssa on X - "Liberal women: “ICE is ripping families apart!”
Also liberal women: “we love Lindsay Clancy!”"
Meme - Attraction Matriarch @TheXMatriarch: "If sex matters enough to make betrayal devastating, then it matters enough for chronic sexual abandonment to be treated as a serious marital injury, not a selfish complaint."
"r/DeadBedrooms
It's strange that having sex outside your marriage is so significant but failing to have sex with your partner is no big deal.
Plenty of people would view sex outside your marriage as grounds for divorce because sex is so important but call you trivial and selfish for leaving your spouse if they never have sex with you because come on its not that important."
Henry @human_exp1234: "oh it simple, it because more people that are suffering from the effects of sexless marriage is men. if women were the ones that were suffering people would view dead bedrooms as a big deal."
Toad on X - "The men on the Clancy jury should keep mentioning how hot they think she is in order to reverse psychology the female jurors into hating her"
End Wokeness on X - "John Battaglia killed his 2 daughters in what forensic psychologists said was psychosis, stemming from a bipolar disorder The jury deliberated for 19 minutes He was executed in 2018"
Threads - "Friendly reminder: the Lindsay Clancy case is three years old. In those three years, she has never claimed she didn't kill her children. Never retracted her admission. Her defense isn't arguing that she didn't do it. Her own lawyer has said multiple times that she did. But naturally, TikTok Detective Agency has reopened the case from the comfort of their living rooms because 3 days of watching viral clips makes you more qualified than the experts who've spent years on it."
Rebekah Jones on X - "Amber Heard. Blake Lively. Lindsay Clancy. All public trials that brought out the absolute worst men on the internet to gloat in the suffering of women who were victims. Incel rage at its peak."
Ilemona on X - "Amber Heard abused Johnny Depp repeatedly. She was not the victim. The real victims in Lindsay Clancy's trial are 3 dead children."
Accountability is misogyny.
ECLIPSE INTEL on X - "In 1954, Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub. She was committed to a mental hospital, later declared better, and released. Her husband stayed with her. They went on to have three more children. She drowned those three too. Same house. Same bathtub. Six innocent children dead. That history raises a question we should never be afraid to ask: What happens after someone who has killed their own children is released—and who pays the price if the system gets it wrong again? Now look at the debate surrounding Lindsay Clancy. Her children are the victims, yet some conversations quickly shift toward sympathy for the accused. Mental illness can be a serious factor in understanding someone’s actions. But understanding is not the same as excusing. And when children are murdered, their safety has to come first. We cannot treat the protection of vulnerable children like an experiment where society simply waits to see what happens next. If someone deliberately kills their children, the justice system must take the victims, the surviving family, and public safety seriously. Children deserve protection. Victims deserve justice. And accountability cannot disappear behind an excuse."
Ed Kemper Was Released From a Hospital After Killing - "After serial killer Edmund "Ed" Kemper murdered his first victims—his grandparents—at age 15 in 1964, he was confined to Atascadero State Hospital, one of the largest forensic mental health facilities in the world. Kemper was released on parole on his 21st birthday... Between May 1972 and April 1973, Kemper butchered five college students, a high school student, his mother and her best friend. He raped his first victim, had sexual intercourse with the bodies of his next five victims, and had sex with his mother's head. He severed the heads of all his victims except that of his mother's best friend, whom he strangled April 20, 1973 to support a made-up story that she and his mother had gone away on vacation together... So how did Kemper manage to get released on parole after shooting his grandparents in the back of their heads with a rifle? According to Dr. Alfred Rucci, the hospital's acting director at the time, it was because there are no certainties in psychiatry when it comes to predicting murder and violence by people who are considered criminally insane. "Most of this work is a matter of an educated guess," Rucci told the Los Angeles Times in May 1973."
Weird. We're told that being found not guilty by reason of insanity means you'll be locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of your life
Cannibal killer murdered again after mental care failures - "[Peter] Bryan had been admitted to a secure hospital after beating a shop assistant, Nisha Sheth, to death with a hammer in 1993. But eight years later, mental health experts decided he could live in the community under supervision.Bryan butchered a friend, Brian Cherry, while on afternoon release in spring 2004 and then strangled a fellow inmate, Richard Loudwell, two months later in Broadmoor hospital where he had been sent for the Cherry killing."
Matt Walsh on X - "The defense just confirmed in open court that the hold out juror is a man. It's one sane man against two simps and nine girlbosses. Hold the line, sir."
Nate Schatzline on X - "For decades, we conservatives warned that normalizing the murder of the unborn leads to the acceptance of murdering the born… We’ve been watching that become reality in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Praise God for the one juror with conviction that chose NOT to normalize murder."
Neil Kennedy | FivestarMan on X - "The gravitational descent into the infanticidal reasoning of the anti-man spirit.
1967 — “It’s a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby in rare cases, such as rape and incest."
1973 — “It’s a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby through the first trimester. It's exclusively a a woman's choice."
2019 — “It’s a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby up to full term.”
2022 — "It's a woman's right to kill her child at the time of birth."
2026 — “It’s a woman’s right to kill her children when she is depressed."
The conception of sin is death."
Corie Walsh, Frankfort mom accused of killing 2-year-old Barrett Walsh, is held; witnesses say she discussed Lindsay Clancy trial - "A Will County judge on Tuesday granted prosecutors' petition to keep Corie Walsh in custody pending trial as she faces first-degree murder charges in the death of her 2-year-old son, Barrett. During the hearing, 40-year-old Walsh stood in court in handcuffs and shackles, at times with her head down. Her attorneys argued that the case should not be treated as first-degree murder, contending Walsh was experiencing a psychotic episode when the child was killed... The hearing also included discussion of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Prosecutors said, "Witnesses informed the officers that the defendant had recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial; at the time of this occurrence, the jury was still deliberating on the matter." According to prosecutors, Walsh participated in a group chat with other mothers in which she believed Clancy's husband had killed their children but allegedly texted on the morning of the incident that she had changed her view."
Women are more prone to social contagion, after all
Gina Milan on X - "And there it is… A Lindsay Clancy copycat just murdered her 2-year-old in Illinois and then tried to kill herself. I knew this was coming. It was only a matter of when. This country is mentally unwell and has a sick habit of idolizing people like Luigi Mangione and now Lindsay Clancy. This will keep happening if we refuse to hold people like Clancy accountable for murdering her three kids and instead turn her into a martyr because she was “depressed.” Unbelievable. Makes me sick."
Husband stands by wife accused of killing son, plotting to poison him after Clancy trial obsession: attorney
Clown World ™ 🤡 on X - "Bro… she admitted to killing your 2-year-old son and prosecutors say she was planning to poison YOU next. What the hell are you standing by?"
Mother allegedly kills 5-year-old, wounds 2 other children - "An eyewitness has described the moment she saw a horror crime scene in which three children and a woman were all stabbed in the Blue Mountains of Australia. A 45-year-old woman, who is believed to be the mother of the three children and is the main “suspect” in the case, was found with self-inflicted stab wounds. Police have confirmed that a 5-year-old child has died while the two other children have been wounded. Julie Sukkar told Nine News that one of the injured children was a baby."
Lo-Ping on X - "Was the whole feminist moral panic that video games will cause rape entirely just women projecting their own susceptibility to social contagions onto men the whole time?"
Nancy Pearcey on X - "Former abortionist Abby Johnson on Lindsay Clancy: "We have become extraordinarily practiced at looking at a dead child and asking first what his or her mother was going through. And abortion taught us how to do that. For decades, the defense of abortion has depended on shifting the moral center of the story away from the human being who dies and toward the human being experiencing the crisis. The mother’s suffering becomes the justification. But suffering does not make killing good,” Johnson wrote.... Johnson argued that culture has spent more than 50 years training itself to begin with a mother’s fear, financial stress, lack of support or depression until the child’s humanity nearly disappears—first in abortion and now in cases like this one.""
Mili🌠 on X (Translated from Spanish) - "Ah, and speaking of Lindsey Clancy, this son of a thousand whores killed her two daughters and her pregnant wife COMPLETELY CONSCIOUSLY because she wanted to start her new life with her lover. You'll never see a man talk about the Watts case."
Maw on X - "Do you want to know why men don’t talk about it? Because Chris Watts is in prison. For the rest of his life. And outside of a desire to see him executed, we have no complaints about it. And, this is a crucial factor so see if you can get it through your dumb skull, nobody is making up wild conspiracies about his innocence on TikTok, and nobody came to his defense. Except for a handful of women who sent him love letters in prison."
paige s. on X - "Callan Clancy lived 4 more days after his mother strangled him. Lindsay was told this when she was hospitalized. She never asked about him. But hey, she was a great mother with all the remorse in the world which is why she’s trying every legal maneuver possible to be free 🙄"
True crime podcaster slams '60 Minutes' Patrick Clancy sit-down - "A popular true crime podcaster complained that “60 Minutes” didn’t entertain wild conspiracy theories about Patrick Clancy after the grieving dad granted his first sit-down since his ex-wife’s trial for killing their three children ended in a mistrial. “Point blank, that is probably the worst interview I’ve seen in a long time,” Briana Whitney, a contributor for the “Crime Junkie Podcast,” blasted in a now viral TikTok video posted just moments after the CBS segment aired Sunday... Patrick Clancy has been the subject of bizarre and vicious conspiracy theories from across the “true crime” social media spectrum. Some wackos have even claimed that Lindsay Clancy didn’t actually kill her kids — despite her admission in court — and that her then-husband was responsible. Whitney, who called herself “a journalist” in the clip, apparently expected Douthat and Clancy to acknowledge such baseless allegations. “There was no questions about inconsistencies in [Patrick’s] story, no questions about why were the kids left alone, no questions on the mistrial itself, how this all went down, no question about what’s happened with the jurors ever since,” she moaned. The podcaster also complained that the interviewer failed to dig deeper into Clancy and Danis’ love story."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "I had a few podcast subscribers say that low-key our culture does not understand what true crime podcasters are doing to white women in this country, and now I believe it."
Clown World ™ 🤡 on X - "Patrick Clancy lost all three of his children and somehow the media has decided his new wife buying chicken and green beans at Whole Foods is “exclusive news.” This is getting disgusting. Leave the man and his wife alone."
Matt Walsh | Facebook - "These juror interviews are extraordinary. They are admitting openly that they disregarded the law entirely for the sake of letting Clancy off the hook. There’s no other way to read it. One juror says she originally wanted to vote guilty but changed her mind so that “Lindsay could get the help she needs.” That is a clear violation of the law. They were supposed to make a determination solely about guilt or innocence. They were not there to make sure anyone “gets help.” Another juror says she voted not guilty because the prosecution never produced “character witnesses” proving Clancy was a “bad mother.” The problem is that A) killing your children IS definitive evidence that you’re a bad mother, and B) the prosecution would not have been allowed to call those kinds of witnesses. A witness solely testifying that Clancy was a bad mother would have been purely prejudicial. So this juror acquitted because the prosecution failed to provide evidence that they weren’t allowed to provide and which would have been irrelevant anyway. Extraordinary. This same juror even admitted that it was a “fact” that Clancy “viciously killed her children.” The word vicious literally means “done maliciously and with intent.” So if that’s a fact then they were obligated to vote guilty. But they didn’t. Meanwhile another juror swooned over the defense attorney’s “entertaining” demeanor. And another one said that all of the facts of the case — “everything,” her words — “proved” that Clancy “loved her children.” Apparently strangling your children to death, in this juror’s mind, does not at all call your love for them into question. Just a collection of the most morally obtuse idiots ever assembled. Amazing."
Maryam on X - "Just to clarify: Patrick Clancy walked away with his 400k Microsoft job, the 1.7M gofundme, a life insurance payout on all 3 kids, and funds from the sale of the house, plus a new wife and a new kid, Meanwhile, Lindsay Clancy is left with no kids, no money, no house, no job, no legs, and maybe no freedom. Where PC would have paid millions for alimony / child support in divorce, he makes 4-6 million off of their deaths. Money is the root of 90% of crime, but that’s not suspicious to police?"
Sunny on X - "They're doing "it's not fair that a man walks away without having to go to jail for a crime he didn't commit, when a woman might have to go to jail for a crime she committed" Absolutely psychosis."
Matt Walsh on X - "We’ve never seen anything like this before. A man was conscripted into jury duty by the government. He performed his civic duty and followed his conscience, refusing to acquit a woman who confessed to systematically executing her three children. The defense attorney immediately launched a public smear campaign against the juror. Soon several other jurors joined the campaign. Then the media. Even the defense attorney’s wife has joined. Now they’re doxxing the man, digging into his past, contacting his family, showing up at his house. All of this both to punish him for refusing to go with their program, and to pollute any future jury pool by making it clear that anyone who votes to convict Clancy will have their life destroyed. It’s truly one of the most outrageously evil things we’ve ever seen from the Left, and that’s saying something. A direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. They are burning down every boundary and standard in their path. And doing it all for the sake of a child murdering psychopath. Unfathomable."
Outspoken Samantha | Facebook - "The family of Kailey Erhart is now concerned that the outcome of the Lindsay Clancy case could be used to help Erhart avoid first-degree murder charges. Erhart is accused of attacking her three children with a knife on August 3, 2026. Two of them - Morgan, 3, and Ava, just 5 months old - died from their injuries. Their 1-year-old brother, Colton, survived. The children’s paternal family wants her charged with murder. They believe the attack was motivated by revenge over a breakup - not postpartum mental illness. And now, after watching the enormous public and media push to excuse Lindsay Clancy’s actions on the basis of insanity, they’re understandably worried about what that could mean for their own case. This was bound to happen, and we have to put our foot down. We cannot create a new standard where a mother killing her children is automatically treated primarily as a mental-health tragedy rather than a heinous crime. Mental illness can absolutely be relevant to criminal responsibility - but that determination has to come from the evidence in each individual case, not from public sympathy or a cultural assumption that a mother who kills her children must not have been responsible for her actions, or that it's someone else's fault. Three children were attacked. Two are dead. Their family deserves to have the evidence determine what happens next, and to have a clean slate for the pursuit of justice. And the consequences could be enormous if we allow the Clancy case to set the standard for how we approach future cases involving mothers who kill their children. As we've seen over the last few weeks, there seem to be a lot of deranged women who would actually do this for attention - and they might if they think the worst that'll happen is a few years in a psych ward."
Threads - "it’s weird seeing that the people whose buttholes were all puckered over jokes regarding the ironic death of the bigoted charlize kirkian, are also the same people that are totally cool with making jokes about lindsay clancy’s innocent children losing their lives y’all are some real interesting ‘christians’ 😹"
Left wingers are always making rubbish up and/or have very poor comprehension skills. Apparently mocking Lindsay Clancy and her supporters is making jokes about her children dying
Vince Langman on X - "Liberal white women were a million times more upset with Sydney Sweeney's "Good Jeans" ad, then they are with Lindsay Clancy killing her three beautiful children. Make sense of this for me, please?"
OutspokenSamantha on X - "If you treat all men as if they are bad because some them commit crimes, r*pe and murder women... Then you can't blame society when they start to treat all women as if they are hormonal and unsafe because some them support a baby killer."
Treating women the way they/society treats men is misogyny, after all
Gad Saad on X - "If you don't affirm your son's trans identity when he is 2 years old, you are an evil mother. If you kill your three children, you deserve our empathy because hormones. Any questions?"
kira 👾 on X - "Inde Navarrette has received more hate from women this week than the woman who murdеred her 3 children. This is the state of the world right now."
John “John” Johnson on X - "A tale as old as time. Women hype up the fat ugly chick (a murderer in this case) while talking shit about the beautiful girl who’s done nothing wrong, just because she’s perceived as a threat."
PoIiMath on X - "It would be endlessly hilarious if the Clancy hold-out juror was black. That would mean
- a bunch of white women telling a black man he doesn't know what justice means
- white women begging a white judge to remove the only black man from the jury
- white men & women from the jury going public to complain about the black guy"
Meme - "BREAKING: Lindsay Clancy's defense Attorney, Kevin Reddington, just revealed that the LONE HOLDOUT on the jury is a MAN who refuses to return a "Not Guilty" verdict."
Captain America: "DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE POLITICIANS OR THE MOBS SAY, DOESN'T MATTER IF THE WHOLE COUNTRY DECIDES THAT SOMETHING WRONG IS SOMETHING RIGHT. THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED ON ONE PRINCIPLE ABOVE ALL ELSE: THE REQUIREMENT THAT WE STAND UP FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE, NO MATTER THE ODDS OR THE CONSEQUENCES. WHEN THE MOB AND THE PRESS AND THE WHOLE WORLD TELL YOU TO MOVE, YOUR JOB IS TO PLANT YOURSELF LIKE A TREE BESIDE THE RIVER OF TRUTH, AND TELL THE WHOLE WORLD - - "NO, YOU MOVE.""
Thread by @MattWalshBlog on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The other jurors have spent all week calling the lone male holdout an arrogant, uncooperative dummy who didn’t understand the law or follow the rules. Now we come to find out that they were talking about the only black guy in the room this whole time. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better. This juror now has an extraordinary opportunity to do a media tour accusing the other jurors of racism. Puts the media and the left in an impossible situation. I genuinely don’t know how they’d handle it. Pit the race card directly against the woman card. Make them choose."
Nick Freitas on X - "Angry women in my feed: “Men commit more murders!!!”
A. The point is not only the murder but the SUPPORT you are giving the murderer.
And
B.
-Murders: 14,085 (2025)
-Abortions: 1,126,000 (2025)
When you call ours murder and yours “healthcare” it really skews the stats."
Brilyn Hollyhand on X - "Strangle your three toddlers? Run over an ICE agent? Stab a kid at a track meet? Shoot a healthcare CEO? The Left will praise you. Get assassinated while bringing civil discourse to campuses? They’ll dance on your grave."
Meme - 3 pink-haired women strangling toddler with exercise band: "OH LOOK, HERE COME THE MISOGYNISTS"
*Man in medieval armour, man in monk outfit, third man*
Rep. Nancy Mace on X - "If postpartum mental illness becomes a get-out-of-jail-free card for murdering your children, then by logic, anyone diagnosed with it should lose custody of their kids."
C3 on X - "Negative Legacy Media coverage…
Lindsey Clancy: 35%
Michael Desronvi: 95%
Lindsay killed her 3 innocent children.
Michael wanted to hold her responsible.
The Legacy Media is truly the Enemy of the People."
Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Asks Judge to Investigate Holdout Juror - "Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is asking the court to allow for a thorough investigation of the holdout juror ... including access to his phone records and a review of his 2021 criminal charge for allegedly assaulting his wife."
Lindsay Clancy case: Who is Dawn Light, charged after allegedly filming jurors? - "A self-proclaimed “crime junkie,” who followed multiple criminal cases online, is facing a charge of intimidation of a juror, witness, police or court official in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Dawn Light was arraigned Wednesday after allegedly taking videos of jurors exiting the courthouse. Her arrest raised questions about public access and security in the high-profile trial."
Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "#news One of the first psychiatrists to evaluate Lindsay Clancy, 5 days after she k*lled her three young kids, found no signs of hallucinations, said that Clancy was 'calm & cooperative' and that she denied suicidal intent. #massachusetts
Dr. Sejal Shah told the jury that Clancy denied hearing voices at that time, and she didn't see anything that would indicate Clancy was having hallucinations. Dr. Shah was not hired as an expert but testified as a witness who evaluated Clancy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Prosecutor: You asked her if she was having hallucinations or delusions, other than those initial ones on the first day. She denied those?
Shah: During my evaluation, yes.
Prosecutor: And she also denied suicidal intent and homicidal intent, correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: You listed her insight and judgment as fair, correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: Her behavior was calm and cooperative?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: You didn’t see anything about her behavior that would indicate to you that she was responding to some type of voices or hallucination that you couldn’t, see?
Shah: At that moment, no.
Prosecutor: During that meeting, she denied suicidal intent, correct?
Shah: That’s correct.
Prosecutor: She denied homicidal intent, correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: She denied having auditory or visual hallucinations, correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: She reported her mood as okay, is that correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And she told you she was looking forward to moving to Spaulding, correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: She also denied any confusion or disorientation, is that correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And again, you described her mood as okay on that day?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And you described her as future-oriented on that day?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And then you spoke to her again on February 21st, 2023. Is that correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And then your last visit with her was February 22nd, 2023. Correct?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And again, she indicated she was hopeful about treatment at Spaulding ?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: She was future oriented?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And she denied suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: She denied audio hallucination, visual hallucination, and anything else of that nature?
Shah: Yes.
Prosecutor: And so, her focus at that time appeared to be her physical situation, her legal situation, and looking forward to going to Spaulding to rehab?
Shah: Yes.
#christinaaguayonews"