Friday, December 5, 2025

It's like a United Nations of Weird

When diversity = perversity.

H/T: Thompson Blog

I think the day may come when this carrot-topped idiot winds up working as a cashier at a 7-11

If he can figure out how to operate a cash register: "Prince Harry Snipes at Donald Trump in Cringey Colbert Appearance".

This sad clown had everything: a royal title, a guaranteed annual income, and the opportunity to not only live an extraordinarily comfortable life, but a useful one - and he threw it all away with both hands (with a huge assist from his greedy wife, of course).

Might be time for the Trump administration to revisit the idea of deportation.

UK continues its march into the nightmare of Orwellian statism

"Frankly, a Very Authoritarian Government’: Labour-Led Britain Suspends Elections, Announces Rollout of China-Style Facial Recognition Cameras".

…today’s the day we learn that there will be surveillance cameras not just in our big cities, but literally in every single village. The surveillance state is getting very, very close indeed.
And that, of course, in the same week that we learn the 800-year-right to trial-by-jury is to be abolished in the majority of cases… and of course despite not being in the manifesto, the government want to introduce digital I.D., leaving literally every single one of us in this country open to hackers.
And it is, frankly, a very authoritarian government. It doesn’t really believe in liberty, it doesn’t believe in individual freedom, and we learn it doesn’t really believe in democracy either.

It is horrifying, yet somehow mesmerizing, watching the UK turn into the kind of society that it fought against in WWII. The situation appears increasingly hopeless, but I cannot bring myself to accept that it is inevitable. Time will tell - and soon. 

Happy Feet Friday

Johnny Hodges and friends, with "The Peaches Are Better Down the Road".

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Newsom looks like a praying mantis that got stepped on

 

Empty suit wrapped around a nothing burger apparently seems to think he's hidden his light under a basket long enough

"Did Senator Mark Warner Just Call for a Military Coup?"

This specimen of what passes for a moderate - best known as the Virginia senator named Warner who wasn't married to Elizabeth Taylor (as I read somewhere today) - must have presidential aspirations or something; no qualms about jumping on the Seven-Days-in-May bandwagon.

A much-deserved second chance

Right now, I wouldn't live in Oregon on a bet: "He Went to Jail for Defending Himself. Now Ian Cranston May Get a Second Chance."

The most extraordinary thing about the confrontation that wrongly sent Ian Cranston, an unassuming young man in glasses, to prison for a decade, is that there was very little argument over the facts because they’re amply documented and were caught on video.
But add a woke prosecutor and the BLM hysteria to the mix and you get something that is the opposite of justice.

Lock these stories away in your mind, and take the time occasionally to mull over the meaning of their cumulative impact. There are ideological inquisitors out there, as fierce as any that operated in Spain in the name of religion, who take pride in destroying the lives of good people just trying to live peacefully and inoffensively in their own communities, but who keep getting dragged into the spotlight by arrogant thugs who insist on intruding into their space and doing harm - thugs, moreover, whose sense of entitlement has been bolstered by the very system that props up an army of woke prosecutors bent on turning victims into criminals.

This phenomenon of elites at war with their own citizens is, of course, not limited to the United States, and it will ultimately result in vigilantism. There are already signs that this is happening: "Masked, Armed 'New Republican Movement' Threatens Northern Ireland Far-Left Politicians — Cites Mass Immigration and Child Indoctrination as Reasons They Are Now 'Legitimate Targets'."