Somehow Biden seems to think that Americans don’t settle their differences with riots, but at the Battle Box.
A Google Image Search for “Battle Box” turns up a weird assortment of Mall Ninja garbage and role playing game accessories.
Nov 042022
Nov 032022
So, yet another attempted political assassination attempt. Let’s watch the national news media fall all over themselves to report on this, shall we?
Midterms horror as Republican candidate’s daughters, three and five, are almost KILLED after gunman opens fire at North Carolina home – where Democrat rival filmed campaign ad – with bullet landing close to where they slept
And
Shot Fired at Family Home of N. Carolina US House Candidate
Can we expect to see the same talking heads and political animals yapping about how the Republicans and right wing rhetoric are responsible for the attack on Paul Pelsosi, now talk about how the Dems and lefties are similarly responsible for this?
Nov 032022
David DePape is an illegal alien, having come from Canada through the Mexican border and overstayed his visa. But he was in California, a “sanctuary state,” and more specifically San Francisco, a “sanctuary city.”
I wonder if Pelosi will ever wonder if the immigration laws were enforced, maybe this wouldn’t have happened? But then, how can you possibly hold back the vast, virtually infinite tide of illegal alien nudist drug addicted BLM supporting pride flag flying hippie MAGA supporters? There are so many of them that they pose a threat to democracy.
Not a threat to democracy:
From earlier: American flag stolen from church and burned outside White House on H St #protests2020 #dcprotest pic.twitter.com/yD5tFYixw0
— Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) June 1, 2020
Oct 312022
Minneapolis looks like… well, “fun” isn’t really the word. After Fentanyl Floyd died there, the protestors wanted less policing and that’s what they got. Look at the utopia that sprang up.
Saturday night in Minneapolis. Once again, I witnessed several fights and assaults outside the Gay 90s and Augie’s where just the night before three people were shot.
This has been the location of multiple fights, assaults and shootings the last several months downtown.
1/7 pic.twitter.com/pICid3j13l
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) October 30, 2022
Oct 312022
Back in the Bad Old Days, a whole lot of people were trapped as serfs. While not technically slaves, they kinda were… they were legally trapped onto a particular piece of property and had to work for the landowner (generally some flavor of “nobility”). You could get in a *lot* of trouble if you just decided to get up and walk twenty miles away. It’s a good thing that that concept is dead and buried. Right?
Right?
Behold the “15-Minute City.” As described on Wikipedia, this is straightforward enough… a form of civic planning where the bulk of your necessities – groceries and such – are available within a short walk (you can walk there in “15 minutes”). It *sounds*… well, maybe sorta kinda nice enough, maybe, on a limited basis; probably more so for people who have never actually known wide open spaces, but there are of course large sections of urban areas where groceries and medicine and whatnot are *not* available anywhere near you. But whether it was the intention of the people behind it or not, the “15-minute city” concept is a lead-in to modern serfdom. Gentlemen, behold:
Anger after travel chief announces traffic filters are ‘going to happen, definitely’ ahead of decision
Mr Enright explained in the Sunday Times that the heart of the traffic filters policy was to turn Oxford into “a 15-minute city” with local services within a small walking radius.
The new traffic filters on St Cross Road, Thames Street, Hythe Bridge Street and St Clements would operate seven days a week from 7am to 7pm.
Two more filters on Marston Ferry Road and Hollow Way would operate from Monday to Saturday.
People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week.
Translation: if this comes to pass, people within these “15 minute cities” will only be allowed to freely leave their plots of land 100 days out of the year by means of their own vehicles. Sure, you can walk out… but how far can you walk, carrying all your property? Sure, you can ride public transportation… which goes where it goes, not necessarily where you want to go. And I look forward to seeing people try to carry their beds and fridges and libraries on the bus. And sure, you can leave 100 days out of the year. Then 90. Then 75. Then 50. Then “papers please.”
The process seems to be to slowly acclimate Brits to accept that where they are is where they’ll stay.
Curiously, at the same time the British citizens are being trained to become sedentary, to reduce their horizons to little further than they could throw a rock (not that they’ll be allowed to throw a rock, of curse), they are also being trained to accept that an Englishmans Home Is Not His Castle:
Homeowners are being offered contracts to take in illegal Channel migrants as govt hotel bill rises to £2.4bn-a-year
As Britain continues to be colonized by military age males from the third world, Brits are being conditioned to not only accept these world travelers into their country, but into their homes. Right now the British government is attempting to get this done via bribery. When that fails to take care of the problem, I’ll but utterly unsurprised when eminent domain is used to appropriate second homes, unoccupied apartments and other currently-unoccupied places. And when *that* fails to solve the problem – and why the hell would it, as the British government would be throwing the door open to a full invasion, providing room and board to the latest waves of colonizers – then people who are deemed to have Too Much House will be required to share. Got a barn? Not anymore. Got a spare bedroom? Not anymore. Got a living room? Not anymore.
Haha. I got me a 3rd Amendment, chumps!
Oct 282022
There are few facts as yet. Chief among the missing facts are the identity of the attacker and what his motives were. I suspect that those little details will determine if this becomes Big News or just sorta fades away.
Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attacked with hammer at home
Option A, this becomes Big News: the attacker will prove to be a whacko right winger
Option B, this fades away: the attacker will prove to be a left winger, or a drugged-up nut.
In either event: expect there to be a drive to further increase the security of government officials and their families. This security will doubtless extend to armed guards… armed with the sort of weapons that Speaker Pelosi would use the power of government to prevent *you* from having with which to defend your own family against hammer-wielding nuts.
UPDATE:
Well, here we go…
David Depape, Paul Pelosi Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
David Depape is a Berkeley resident. What are Depape’s politics and was he on social media? On a blog and website, he was fixated on censorship and made anti-Semitic comments. In one post, he ranted about government attempts to control information, calling for the arrest of journalists from prominent news organizations. Online records give Depape’s age as 42.
OK. In some ways, this guys *screams* Left Wing Nut… lives in Berkeley, sells hemp jewelry, hangs out with nudism activists. On the other hand, his views are straight out of Hollywood Central Casting for a Right Wing Nut… ranting about the Jews, Qanon, Covid conspiracies, Commies, Trump support, etc. There’s enough here to paint him as a Far Right Extremist, and so I expect that’ll be the narrative going forward. This story should thus now become Big News. Just in time for the election, as it happens.
Oct 272022
Further Third Worldification of American cities…
You’d think they’d at least try to clean up the area around the White House. Maybe even try to mask the damage caused by the anti-Trump insurrectionists several years ago. Nope.
Oct 262022
There’s lots of awful in this story. One aspect of awful: a man hunting mushrooms stumbled across a suitcase and found a dead five-year-old in it. That’s gotta leave a mark.
“Lil feller.” This guy, a pretty good replica of Wilford Brimley, seems like a good man.
The kid was killed by his mother who believed him to be a demon. We *really* need to start mass producing loony bins and crazy buckets.
Oct 262022
Yeah… no. It seems that whole swathes of LA have been turned into the Third World. This was not a sad inevitability; this was a result of intentional choices by those in charge of the city, county and state.
Yeeeeeeesh.
You can’t have vast numbers of homeless like this and justify open borders.
Oct 262022
It is hard these days to separate Hitler from the occult. Regardless of how much Adolf *actually* believed in Atlantis or Vril or Hyperborea or Ancient Aryan Supermen or all that rubbish, it is now just accepted that he did, and that those beliefs informed his nutty plans and actions. Did he really think that the Spear of Destiny would lead him to victory? Shrug.
Guess what: we’re here again, this time with Putin and whackadoodle Slavic magical superstitions:
The Crazy Mystical Impulses Sending Putin Wild in Ukraine
Valery Solovey, who’s trained many members of Putin’s ambassadorial corps at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and served as the prestigious school’s director of public relations, either knows a thing or two about the black arts of Russian diplomacy, or is dafter than a borscht sandwich. As the professor tells it, Putin once commanded Kremlin sorcerers to ritualistically kill a black dog so he could drink the blood to ensure a crushing victory in Ukraine. When that dog didn’t hunt, Solovey claimed that Putin ordered all the magicians’ heads cut off and displayed in front of their homes.
Uh-huh.
The article is filled with nutso. How much of it is accurate? How much of it was dreamed up by Putins enemies? How much of it by delusional supporters who buy into the nuttiness and see Putin as divinely anointed? Dunno. At first glance, you’d think that a guy brought up in the atheistic, materialistic Soviet system wouldn’t be superstitious. But the Commies didn’t actually get rid of the human need for magical thinking; they just redirected the need for God to the State, magic for Socialism. It would surprise me none at all to find the the KGB was filled to overflowing with wannabe-wizards making appeals to the spirit realm.
Appeals to the supernatural are hardly rare in politics. The Middle East is built (and destroyed) on that; American politics is full to overflowing with politicians on both sides claiming special status with God or Jesus. But in American politics, the supernatural is usually pretty performative; you don’t often get the feeling that this politician or that actually really buys that deeply into it. But Putin is *clearly* psychologically unsound, and is clearly aggressive in a way not seen in Europe since Bad Mustache Man. Couple that with especially crazy magical beliefs, easily influenced not by a massive, slow-moving and hidebound Church but by random Rasputin-like weirdos… well, it seems like bad times might get worse.