I was there. I remember. All through the early oughts, we, the insufferably, terminally plugged in wondered when this amazing new means of communication, this thing that allowed all of us to become “journalists” would pay off in elections, in public opinion, in everything.
In 2016 and definitely in the reaction to 2020 and the ridiculous gaslighting and prosecution not just of Trump but of anyone who said what we all saw happen “the results of 2020 were impossible and, oh, btw, the king is so senile he talks to invisible people and no longer knows who or what he is” we saw the first fruits.
The left brought everything they had to bear. EVERYTHING. Starting in 2016 they were a locked-in-step chorus, not just the news, but every “artist” (pardon me if I scoff) from writers to producers to everyone, all spoke with the same voice trying to convince us they had already won, resistance was futile and we were just the remnants of the lost world where truth mattered.
Ten years earlier it would have worked. Arguably it worked, in crowning Obama and whoever was really ruling for him.
In 2016 it sputtered and died. If you think it wasn’t a big surprise, go look at the news from that election, as the results came in (Always advisable if you’re down anyway.) They threw everything they could at it, in 2020. Everything. From the — What did Joe call it. I can’t remember the exact wording anymore. Besides it’s early, and I haven’t had coffee (I might not finish this before ten, but let the record show it’s six am. Gah. It’s a day like that) — the most comprehensive and inclusive fraud machine ever deployed in American politics (and hooo, boy, that’s a lot) and they managed it. Nothing short of a revolution. Then they started dismantling everything.
And yet…. and yet we’re still here, and 2024 didn’t go the way they were so sure they’d set it up to go.
Also the fraud has become — as it was for those of us who watched it all the time — obvious, glaring, in your face. (Hi, California!)
And now, now suddenly, it seems the whole world is wakening and seeing and demanding sanity, not the crazy stuff that our self-proclaimed betters force down our throats every day and claim is for our own good while making the world into hell.
What changed? Well, some of it really was just more people reading their news online, till mainstream news are the domain of the very young, the very old and the very busy and naive.
But more importantly, I realized last night, we keyboard journalists in our pajamas (to coin a phrase. Eh.) stopped simply reacting to and amplifying or picking and choosing among the main stream.
In my early blogging days almost all my blogs (and my posts at instapundit) were inspired or took from main stream news sources.
There’s still a bit of that, of course, but Epoch Times and other smaller players are a breath of fresh air. And there’s genuine individual reporting from people who are there, or involved with the thing, or know about the thing. We’ve even done some (Thank you to Larry Good for his posts on the water that Data Centers actually use, not the scary weirdness we’re being propagandized with. And thank you to other guests over the years who brought their expertise to my blog.)
However, the turbo charge is so new most of us haven’t processed the change: Twitter/x not being just an echo of the narrative and amplifier of main stream news but a genuinely free speech platform (with hickups, of course, but getting better.)
Without twitter, we wouldn’t know that Ireland is actually reacting to the outrage perpetrated on it. Or that England is taking things passively. Or that we, who aren’t on the left in the US, exist and are still fighting. Without twitter, we would be like most of Europe, where our MSM seems almost fair and balanced by comparison tot he leftist bilge inflicted on them.
And — hear me out — this is just the start. There is also, as someone has noted, a great change in the air, a great change in Latin America (of all places) and a great change in the world in general which honestly can be traced to USAID stopping financing every leftist cause around the world.
Turns out that the great and invincible left that kept pushing for world communism and fighting America as it was founded and making us feel like we couldn’t win was actually a vast paper tiger founded by our very own tax money.
We were being robbed to fund our enemies, while the media at home lied and told us to give it all up.
This, where we stand now, is just the start. The villains have started being unamasked. Some of their funding was removed. But we are only at the very beginning of a great big change.
When I was little and a young woman all the leftists said “Come the revolution.” because of course, part of their heretical beliefs is that in the end there is a communist revolution everywhere that puts them in power.
Turns out they couldn’t be more wrong. Yes, there is a revolution coming. There is a revolution, in fact, under way. But it is against the false creed the left has blared in our ears while keeping us gagged so we couldn’t protest.
This is just the beginning.
In the end, we win, they lose.
According To Hoyt 
Oh, bless your optimistic little American heart. :~)
And I mean that with only the tiniest hint of its usual Southern snark. Because America-loving hearts like yours ARE a blessing.
May the Fourth (aka Independence Day) be with us!
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But but Sarah, “everybody” knows that the Irish riots are just Far Right Racists!!! [Sarcastic Grin]
Or says one idiot Irishman on Baen’s Bar. [Angry]
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From the mouth of a university idjit, far-right extreme-nationalist facist merely means respect for human dignity, love of humanity, peace, and freedom.
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we can decolonize the mainstream media and the universities
or, at least we could do so cheaply, in theory, if and only if the other americans did not say no, and if and only if the universitistas were not American enough to also be armed
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I am fairly sure the Universities will decolonize themselves just fine as they declare bankruptcy and sell off all their property. I would be unsurprised if the Yale and Harvard Endowments decide that whole University cosplay sideline is just a distraction from their core business of financial management, while most of the lower tier universities just whither away and vanish. Maybe the state universities will remain, though in fewer numbers, and the football schools will probably stick around, but nationwide there will be a lot fewer, and more resemble trade schools.
It will certainly be interesting to watch.
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Oregon State started out as Agricultural college. I’d be fine with it going back to that. Not sure what prompted U. of Oregon to start. Other than Oregon State wasn’t in Eugene.
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Yeah, the college my eldest will be going to has the mascot of Aggies. Large and small animal veterinary school will definitely stay strong, and he’s going for engineering of the aerospace variety.
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There seem to be no shortage of self-flagellating Irish on X, but I don’t think they’ve got much throw weight or traction. (Didn’t check actual origins, so some may not have been actually Irish).
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There are some really CCP ‘canadians’ on various internet places.
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Given what got exposed on X, a bunch of Hindu folk too.
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India also has Sikhs, Jains, Zoroastrians, and maybe also Buddhists for all that I know.
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I think there might be a couple genuine ones–because they’ve bought the false flag ones hook, line, and sinker. We’ve all started to notice, though, that when the left takes a hit or something happens that’s bad enough their usual narrative can’t cover for it, suddenly the black-pills or the loudly self-flagellating suddenly appear everywhere, and with a remarkably similar script… :D
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I mean we’re still stuck with leftwing true believers, it’s hardly a surprise if the rest of the world is as well.
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Blackpill bots.
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Black Irish Lives Matter, amirite.
Nowack is an eastern european surname, so he was probably some sort of horrible immigrant person, but to my American eyes I cannot see much difference between him and this one black Irish guy I have seen.
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He was from Poland.
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“Black Irish,” used to mean someone with fair skin, dark hair and brown eyes.
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My husband. (Though he’s a mutt, we once got stuck in a plane to Ireland, on reroute, and boy, he fit in.) So does older son, except for the eyes, which are wholly Amerind, but hey.
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Yeah. One of my college friends was one, plus over six feet tall and) heavy set. He played football until he banged up his knee.
I remember him fondly because when I had to miss a quarter due to surgury and they threw a welcome-back party for me, he took the guy who decided to tell everyone I’d left to have an abortion outside and, “reasoned,” with him before I could hear the guy sound off. Chivalry was not dead.
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Sounds like my late grandmother: a New Orleans Irish Catholic, raised seven children and loved an old reprobate cuss for 66 years, passing at last at 91 with a (mostly full) head of coffee-black hair right to the end. The family name was Druhan, out of Co. Wexford.
And yes, her memory is a blessing to those who knew her.
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Sounds like my late grandmother: a New Orleans Irish Catholic, raised seven children and loved an old reprobate cuss for 66 years, passing at last at 91 with a (mostly full) head of coffee-black hair right to the end. The family name was Druhan, out of Co. Wexford.
And yes, her memory is a blessing to those who knew her.
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He hasn’t died yet?
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Being “Brain-Dead” might explain his idiocy. [Wink]
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The truth will set you free is an old saying but it seems to be more true than ever. The left hates the truth and have had control of the media for too many years and they don’t know what to do at this point. Except double down on the fraud and lies. And it isn’t working any more as more and more people see the reality they try to hide. Those in power try to stifle the net and people just find more ways to expand and bypass the would be gatekeepers to get the truth out there for more people to see. There is indeed a revolution happening and it isn’t the one the lefties wanted!
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Candidate Joe Biden, August 2020: “We have assembled the most extensive, comprehensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Biden, minutes later: “What do you mean, I wasn’t supposed to say that?”
Because of course it had to be ‘inclusive’ too. 😡
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yes, the “inclusive” was the hilarious part.
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But it did not include doing fraud in favor of republicans so not very “inclusive” as far as I am concerned.
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Oh, I’m sure there was some fraud that benefited Republicans. Maybe 1% as much as the fraud perpetrated by the Democrats. Possibly even more than 1%. Just enough for idiots to claim “See, there’s fraud on both sides!”
Plus, of course, whenever a Republican wins the Democrats screech “FRAUD!!!“
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Nit, when the Republican wins, it’s “Voter Suppression”. [Crazy Grin]
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Or “Russia, Russia, Russia!”
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Or “Fascists! NAZIS!”
To hear those lunatics, you’d think WWII was still going on and the Wehrmacht was massing on the Canadian border to invade the US.
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Instead, we have them running the Totenkopf Dummkopf reunion in Maine…..
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Somewhere* on the ‘net, I saw a snippet that claims the number of registered voters in South Dakota exceeds the number of people eligible to vote. If true, perhaps John (spit) Thune has a reason to oppose proceeding with the SAVE act.
(*) A few weeks ago, no idea where. Me, I like the USPS executive order solution. That’d put a sabot in Oregon’s vote-fraud-by-mail stuck in the state constitution. (And California, Illinois, New York, and so on. AFAIK, the constitutional bit is more or less uniquely inflicted on Oregon.)
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Yep.
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Ages ago, when the Onion was still occasionally funny, they ran a headline “Senator from South Dakota resigns after census finds no one actually lives in the state.”
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Even in South Dakota there are hordes of illegal aliens shipped in by the Brain-Dead Biden Regime.
I still remember the Detroit precincts that counted more than twice as many votes as there were registered voters. All those Chicago voters over 120 years old. The 68 voters registered at the same 1-bedroom Phoenix apartment. Pennsylvania counting 766,000 more mail-in ballots than were ever sent out.
And all the Democrats just barking “There is no election fraud! Election Deniers! Conspiracy Theory!” in unison like trained seals.
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Speaking of California apartments….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/voter-fraud-california-man-finds-dozens-of-ballots-stacked-outside-home
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Never surrender! Never give up!
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“Come the revolution, we will all eat strawberries!”
“But I don’t like strawberries…”
“Come the Revolution, we will like strawberries.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
The USAID thing is wild. Conquest’s 3rd law of Politics in living, horrific color. I’ve joked, I almost wonder if we would have been better off setting up a bureaucracy charged with the proliferation of communism than what we ended up doing, but that kind of feels like it would be an absolute monkey-paw sort of thing. Setting up any bureaucracy seems to be a monkey-paw sort of thing.
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The heck with strawberries. I like blueberries better. And they’re far more eco-friendly than those yucky acai berry things.
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I’ll be happy with a Hard Boiled Egg
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Rousseau’s “General Will,” where true freedom is obeying the General Will of society, even if it triggers your allergies. With a dollop of German philosophers who added their slant [Kant?*] to things.
*Nudges basket into position to catch incoming carp.
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Ironically, the skit is from an old British radio show, the Goonies.
My folks had them on records, of all things.
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so does Dave Freer. :D
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The Goon Show. And there was a puppet version on black and white tv, for kids.
“1985” was their episode showing how Orwell had tweaked the BBC, but not quite enough for their taste.
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“True freedom,” my rosy beige keister.
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Freedom is slavery…
If Indy stops sleeping his life away and builds a time machine, who wants to go with me to kill Rousseau? Or better, kidnap infant Rousseau and teach him right from wrong.
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I’d be satisfied to delete Marx and Engels. But Rousseau might be the better start.
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No Rousseau, no Robespierre. No Robespierre, no Marx. No Marx, no Lenin & Hitler.
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“I meant to take out Hitler, but goofed and hit Wilson.”
“Who’s Hitler?”
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That’s always been my plan. Well, the strangling him in his crib part. Don’t know if he’d really be teachable.
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I’m always up for a round of time travel assassin.
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I’m of the mind that time travel assassination would be futile.
The father of lies would just find another poor sap to influence into the part originally planned for Rousseau, Hitler, Marx, whomever…probably someone worse.
I’m guessing the real reason time is only allowed to go in one direction is because The Author knows that if we knew what was coming, we’d try to help.
Trust the plan. Trust The Author. Keep your powder dry and your things where you can find them in the dark.
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my parlor game/thought experiment:
100 years minimum
Rifle
One deletion to fix everything
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Kant cant?
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[GENGHIS KHAN BUT IMMANUEL KANT]
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Yep. Honestly, I think while Kennedy MIGHT not have done it on purpose — I don’t know much about him, as a character — the people manipulating him into believing we needed USAid to compete with the Soviets for hearts and minds (Guffaw!) did it with just this intent.
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I’d bet good money there are redacted memos detailing routing CIA money through USAID with JFKs comments in the margins – that’s basically how he was running the Vietnam stuff, carrying forward the same way Ike was doing it, but with more Green Berets. It took the first bubba President, LBJ, to turn it over to the Pentagon.
But institution capture and bureaucratic drift over 65 years would inevitably mean it would have ended up the same as it did for us even with snowflake-pure initial intentions, as that’s just what money-conduit bureaucracies do.
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“I have not yet begun to fight!” – John Paul Jones
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John Paul Jones was moderate, restrained, and appropriate.
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True that.
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Don’t give up the ship!
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
You understand why some animals eat their young.
I may sink, but I’ll be damned if I strike!
-same fellow
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Thank you! Nabbed the fear one for an article. Much appreciated!
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You left out the bit where he stopped at the enemy admiral’s estate and flirted with the enemy admiral’s wife….
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And with the girls be handy!
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I am simply an angry asshole.
I am also a bit wired.
Some of the wired is simply down to dosing myself with allergy meds so that I can calm down and think more deliberately. This part may pass soon enough.
I am a bit annoyed by some who speculate that political reverses they have suffered are a surprise, and down to information warfare.
No, no, no, we should be able to hypothesize a world that exists beyond the consensus of the inner party. And I do not mean the outer party, or human consensus outside of the party entirely.
We should be able to speculate that machines operate in a world outside of human consensus. Whether we debug, fix, and evaluate machines from that perspective is a bit of a choice of human perception.
I would argue that if we as machine people reject that perception it is likely that our choice will correlate more with broken and non-functioning machines.
Anyway, I am living over much in my own head, and in my own predictions of what others may say, or have said, and too engaged with my own temper.
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I’m a machine person who is built from a pile of scrap welded, bolted, screwed, and tied together with baling wire from the local junkyard. My father was a Chevy truck, my mother was a Westinghouse washing machine. My blood is a mix of coolant, diesel, and used gasoline. I eat lawn mower clippings and spit gravel, The sand in my craw is at least honestly come by. I rule no one but myself and no one rules me. I’m an American and I refuse to apologize for it.
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June 5, 1989.
PLA had at least five working tanks, per the picture. Though maybe their main guns were not in working order, I dunno.
There is an interesting question whether the PLA had much anti-tank rounds in inventory, or would have loaded them onto the tanks crewed by less trusted crews.
How many working tanks does the Royal Army of the United Kingdom have?
I understand that they don’t have many cavalry units equipped with sabers these days.
How many working tanks does the army of Ireland have?
Now, tanks are maybe not the right tool if one has a sane ethical riot response mission in mind.
An insane unethical riot response mission can also be carried out with infantry, etc.
But, what kind of infantry do our brothers of the British Isles even have right now? How many paras do they have?
If the correct response is country regiments, do they have any of those?
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Based on the Canadian experience, not very good infantry, and not a lot of it.
https://www.noticer.news/non-citizen-ethnic-infighting-canadian-armed-forces/
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Don’t know about the Army, but I doubt they are better off than the Royal Navy, which currently has zero deployable attack submarines and wasn’t able to get a working destroyer to the eastern Med.
That high-pitched whining you hear when you enter St. Pauls these days is Horatio Nelson spinning in his grave.
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Hell they couldn’t get a single frigate or destroyer into the English Channel to “escort” a Russian ship of questionable nature. They sent like a support ship. You can put jam in the Royal Navy’s pockets, they’re toast.
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Grok looked for me; UK has about 288 Challenger 2 tanks in inventory, 150-200 operational.
For contrast, US has 4500 M1, 2000-2500 operational/deployable
Russians appear to have about the same operational in their modern-ish (mostly T72) models. ‘Operational’ might mean ‘they will start if we try hard enough’.
Chinese seem to have 3-4000-ish type 96 and type 99 in inventory, no idea how many ‘operational’. I wonder if their armor is as good as the anti-air systems they sold to the Iranians.
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The Russian numbers should probably be considered suspect. The Russians have been burning through the old stockpiles that the Soviets built up during the Cold War, using them against Ukraine. It’s quite likely that they no longer have any “rainy day” stockpiles these days.
China’s tanks are an unknown quantity. AFAIK, they haven’t exported any of the models that the PLA uses, so there’s no operational history to look at. On the other hand, the Royal Thai Army has used a Chinese export tank (the VT-4, I think it was) in the recent fighting against Cambodia, and one had its barrel explode after just a couple hundred rounds (fortunately, no crewmen died). The Thais seem to prefer even their ancient M48 Pattons over the VT-4, which is a much more recent tank.
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The T-72 (at least the export model) did NOT fare well in First or Second Gulf Wars. It either can’t fire on the move or is so poor at it that Iraqi Forces didn’t even try, and its optics and sensor suite are late 70’s at best meaning it often has to be operated unbuttoned (i.e. commander sticking out of the top). There was also footage of a T-90 getting abused by a pair of Bradley IFV, although that seemed more the T-90 commander didn’t seem to consider them threats (or missed one flanking) and once the Bradley had side shots with the 25mm Bushmaster the T-90 was in serious trouble.
Truthfully the Ukraine War has shown that even High end tanks (Abrams M1a2+, Challenger, Leopard) are at significant risk in a world with cheap optical fibre guided drones. As ever in warfare attack and defense take turns advancing. Drones of all sorts have made advancing a hell for infantry or armor and made defense feasible. So we revert to the covered trenches of WWI and defensive positions hold sway. Something will happen to break the stalemate and the pendulum will swing back to attack having the advantage where it was for the better part of 80 years.
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Or were never trained to try. All my reading says that Arab / Middle Eastern tank crews aren’t well trained enough to take advantage of the capabilities. Given the last two years of meatgrinder, the remaining Russian crews may not have the training either.
My bet is for a capacitor powered laser a la “”Hammer’s Slammers Automatic Artillery Defense.” The capacitor will charge continuously from the engine.
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Almost certainly, on the Arab training. Arab militaries tend to treat knowledge the same as the classic quote from one of the Dawn of War video games (40K RTS) – “Knowledge is power. Guard it well.” And the officers guard it *jealously*. A book I own mentions American trainers talking about distributing operational manuals to tank crews in a friendly Arab nation (it might have been Egypt, though I don’t recall for certain), and the officers coming along afterwards and taking the manuals away from the men.
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I heard similar from a gent who trained helicopter pilots in Iraq. If I remember the story correctly, it took some, let us say, “Come to Issa bin Maryam” talks about “you will be on the chopper that crashes and burns up because the pilot didn’t know what to do when a red light came on,” to get the officers to let the pilots study.
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Hypothetically, if we are moving away from the post-WWII de facto ban on practice of NBC warfare, chemicals might have some potential in trenches.
Perhaps not, but I really have not studied the issue enough to have a valid or informed opinion.
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Chemicals tend to be a very mixed bag, and can (and have) backfire spectacularly with a little bad luck. Once they’re out, you have no control over what they do.
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Kind of like ‘economic migrants’.
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Yes, quite.
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Newest numbers I can find are from 2023 when they were at 210 officers and 1,820 other ranks total strength (with a rounding note, so likely less that that), which is a very large ways short of full establishment. At that point they were offering a 7,500 BP bounty for soldiers from other regiments to join the Paras.
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I was impressed how fast the real footage of the triggering event in Belfast hit the ‘net, long before the official censors could stop it. More and more that is happening, people are getting around the walls erected by the “proper sorts,” and showing the truth. Granted, it also means we have to be more discerning about sources and checking for enhancements and modifications (AI or hand done), but truth is slipping through the PowersThatWouldBe’s fingers.
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Absent Chinese levels of internet control, it’s difficult to stop something like that from getting out now that everyone has a portable, easy to use camera. And even in China, stuff still gets out despite government censorship attempts.
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What’s REALLY telling is how the elites are all pouting and blaming Elon for allowing the proles to share and talk about this openly, this all could have been avoided if only they were allowed to show the masses what to see and hear.
They’ve been warned countless times by countless people this was only a matter of time in popping off and they dismissed all warnings. Now they think they can put the toothpaste back into the tube.
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What’s REALLY telling is how the elites are all pouting and blaming Elon for allowing the proles to share and talk about this openly, this all could have been avoided if only they were allowed to show the masses what to see and hear.
They’ve been warned countless times by countless people this was only a matter of time in popping off and they dismissed all warnings. Now they think they can put the toothpaste back into the tube.
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What’s REALLY telling is how the elites are all pouting and blaming Elon for allowing the proles to share and talk about this openly, this all could have been avoided if only they were allowed to show the masses what to see and hear.
They’ve been warned countless times by countless people this was only a matter of time in popping off and they dismissed all warnings. Now they think they can put the toothpaste back into the tube.
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As John Ringo noted on X, when the IRA and the protestants plot together, something very explosive is happening in Ireland (or about to happen). Strange times we live in.
I saw a character in an upcoming video game (unfortunately, I don’t remember which) who was a dead ringer for Amelia. Probably a coincidence, since the game is Asian. But you never know.
The left will set up a replacement for USAID. They need something like it, and will find a replacement. But for the time being, it doesn’t exist, and we can enjoy the respite that brings. And hope that the continent can start electing sensible majorities before the pogroms start.
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Those Asian game devs absolutely have seen the Amelia stuff. Guaranteed.
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Quite likely. But that might not be why she’s in the game. Purple-haired women aren’t unusual in East Asian media, after all.
I did finally remember where I’d seen her. She’s in the trailer for the just announced “Gundam Rogue Orbit”, which is controversial for an entirely different reason (the enemy mecha in the game look decidedly *unusual*, leading to speculation that the enemy are aliens). Since we know nothing about why she’s in the game, it’s too early to make any sort of educated guess about whether or not her appearance is a coincidence.
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*Looks up trailer*
Purple-haired women, yes. But purple-haired women who wear a black choker? That’s not so common, and cannot possibly be a coincidence.
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Let’s hope that they didn’t internally decide that the game was a stinker, and decide to throw in some cheap politics because they could.
‘Roll left and die’ was not a good thing when it was the left doing it, and I would not care to see it from the right either.
OTOH, Gundam has always been intended to have political content. Not necessarily anything involving current day Japan politics, but the Principality of Zeon was a sewer. Evil oft doth evil mar is not a bad message about irrational regimes.
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If the devs wanted to make a cheap game that would draw in conservatives, there are better ways to do it, imo. If nothing else, the enemies in this game have people complaining about aliens (it’s not confirmed that they are, but they look very unusual), which are rare in Gundam (only two instances so far; the 00 movie, and an ongoing manga called Gundam 8). For the moment, I’m inclined to think that whatever the devs are up to, they intend for the game to succeed on its merits.
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Fair enough.
Either way, we should get a better idea when we learn more about her. If there are other similarities, it will start to look more and more like a reference by the developers. Currently all we know about her is that she exists, and appears to be under threat in the trailer before the Gundam Helix (the name of the game’s Gundam; jokes are that there will be a mid-game upgrade called the Double Helix) arrives to save her.
Given what’s been going on in Japan recently, and Japanese sentiment in general, I’d be inclined to think that the devs are likely sympathetic to what Amelia represents, even if this character doesn’t turn out to be an homage to her.
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There’s one other bit of info that can be teased out of the trailer: she’s watching a bank of monitors showing the action, and she’s wearing an armored jacket of some kind. Meaning she’s probably not just a helpless civilian, but is likely part of the military / militia / whatever the correct name is for the group that defends the civilians from the enemy. Perhaps she’s another pilot, perhaps she’ll serve in a Mission Control role, perhaps she’ll be a love interest for the protagonist… or perhaps she’s just there for the trailer. (Doubtful, you don’t create a visually interesting character like that and then not use her in the actual game). As you said, we’ll learn more as the game gets closer to release.
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My first thought was that those were ‘rare’ boss mecha, and that the effects were simply very hot conventional materials. Or as conventional as psychoframe gets.
Of course, that is UC thinking, and this could have nothing to do with UC.
I’m pretty much in the mode of ‘let the devs cook’. I thought some of the comments on youtube were making hasty assumptions.
That said, I am not invested enough in gaming or in Gundam to understand how the real fans feel.
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When Two Tier et al were calling for unity and cooperation, I don’t think “IRA and Orangemen working together” was quite what they had in mind.
When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. The Troubles are not so long ago, really.
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The official UK reaction is to blame … Farage. On the other hand, the cooperation between the RC and UP is very real. The great fear of the ruling class has always been the working class ignoring divide and rule but by bringing in a new group to divide, they’ve managed to combine. You’d think that the ruling class, steeped in Marxism which purports to encourage just that, would remember that they’re the ruling class. They don’t have any personal experience with working people, but most importantly, they completely lack imagination. If nothing else, there’s a neglected mythology around RC and UP uniting against the ruling class in the United Irishman uprising of 1798. The stories are there, the heroes are there: Wolf Tone, Robert Emmet, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and above all, the songs are there and both sides know them,
genuine civil unrest would be a horror show, especially in NI where the paramilitary experience still exists. That’s really what angers me, these thoughtless, careless people may cause civil war but almost certainly won’t be damaged by it.
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And I’m scared about contagion. Not just Europe either. These things spread.
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Yes. Good people and bad people get caught up as victims when a society spasms like this. It’s why ILOH tries so hard to warn people against the things that provoke it. Not all of the immigrants in the British Isles, or Europe in general, are <censored>. And those people will probably be hurt by what is, really, a logical act of self-defense by the pre-existing population. As the defensive spasms build in strength, target selection gets a lot less choosy.
And then when people see it happening in one place, they’ll try and bring it to their local areas, even in places where it isn’t appropriate. Something like this happening here in Los Angeles, which might (key word; and if it isn’t, then it’s in the top 3) be the most ethnically diverse place in the country, would be catastrophic.
Also, it probably wouldn’t be the whites starting it here in LA, though they’d get blamed for it.
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A reason that some people go to some trouble to come to the US, or to the UK, or maybe even to Finland for all that I know, is that they think there will be fewer murderous goons here, and that the politics might be a bit more stable.
They don’t particularly want to be stabbed by crazies either.
Also, many of them actually are willing to adjust their behavior and customs to be more compatible with ours.
Or have adapted, and are not wild to have their kids radicalized by lunatics in our school system.
This disease of the mind that some lawyers have, of selectively relaxing consequences for being a violent madman, is screwing also immigrants. But maybe they don’t see the contrast, or maybe they don’t have the confidence in speaking out so visibly against the madness.
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Argh, writing too late at night!
Maybe the /immigrants/ do not see the contrast, or maybe they don’t have the confidence in speaking out so visibly against the madness.
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Well you can bet a year’s salary that the cameras are only going to focus on Mr. and Mrs. Brown-people and their cute little moppets who are perfectly assimilated and pay taxes and are not on the dole losing their house to a “racist mob”, and I hope that will help ease the suffering of the innocent in all of this. Of course no one in power is going to realize thay this suffering on Mr. and Mrs. Brown-people could have been avoided if they just listened to complaints and did their fucking job against the rapist invaders.
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Blaming Farage is somewhat ironic, given that he is only calling for a cut-off of immigration, and *not* deportations. Rupert Lowe is the one calling for mass deportations. But Starmer, et al, likely aren’t too concerned about accuracy, so long as they think they can tar what they see as their biggest threat in the next election (whenever that happens to be).
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Hmm… suddenly reminded of “the Irish reunification of 2024”. Heh.
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Oh, if they win, it’s on their immediate slate. IF they win.
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It should be noted that the peace agreement that ended The Troubles was only possible after all the Soviet money dried up after the USSR dissolved. The various grudges that fed the violence did not change, but absent KGB and GRU money it had no legs behind it to keep up the direct action units.
Hard feelings remain. Do not ask certain Irish folks their opinion of the UK Royal Marines, for example. But there’s no bombing or kneecapping anymore.
Similarly to how Arafat suddenly was up for negotiations, much intractable conflict worldwide abruptly ended when that Soviet support abruptly stopped.
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Grudges? I’ve heard of some…
$SPOUSE tells me of her mother’s trip to Scotland, where the pubs have signs: “No Campbells Allowed”. (I have to remind her that while certain people* recall the event as “the battle of Glencoe”, a whole lot of others call it a “massacre”.)
(*) Yeah, she’s a Campbell. AFAIK, I have no Scots in my ancestry, modulo the odd Viking raid.
(Her mother still went in the pub. NOT wearing Campbell plaid. She was slightly crazy, but not stupid.)
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Someone posted on X today a story about the American branch of an Irish family (including the poster) visiting the ones who stayed behind in Ireland. One of the local cousins was acting as a tour guide. Even though no one gets killed anymore, the poster said that the cousin got *very* uncomfortable when the group took a wrong turn down one particular road.
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So the Soviet money stopped and our left decided to replace them over the last few decades after the USSR collapsed?
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It’s finks all the way down.
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Even if they don’t.
If they do win, it’ll be reconstituted as a government entity just like it was up until 2025. If they don’t win, and can’t trick the Republicans into doing it for them, then they’ll figure something out with NGOs. But something *is* going to replace USAID, one way or another. A centralized logistical organization provides a greater degree of control over the groups getting paid.
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It’s a Dream, I know…
But imagine a Law or Amendment: “Any government agency or organization found to be funneling money or using their money to support a supposed Non-Government Organization forfeits its existence and all parties to such activities shall likewise forfeit any all claim pension/remuneration/severance payments or other support as it is disbanded. Nor shall participants be allowed in government organizations, even as external advisors, for a period of not less than 70 year.”
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“trick”? Cue Inigo Montoya. If the Republican wing of the UniParty had to be “tricked”, we would have had the SAVE Act already. I’m amazed Trump has gotten as much as he has out of them.
Hopefully, we’re getting rid of enough of them to make a small dent. Texas is doing its part.
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Decolonize THIS!
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I say again that the university people have gotten themselves into a losing position where they are less persuasive to the rest of society. I say again that they are losing when they convince themselves that they can shoot their way out where persuasion fails them.
I repeat that the university people have gotten themselves into a losing position where they are less persuasive to the rest of society. I repeat that they are losing when they convince themselves that they can shoot their way out where persuasion fails them.
The fire we draw in the form of their attempt to regulate online speech, tells us that we are over the target, and that we need to continue the mission.
The IRGC had the shooters to crush the Iran uprising of January.
We shall see if the UK has the shooters to crush the British uprising of June.
We shall see if the PIRA has the shooters to crush the Irish uprising of June.
The world has not the shooters to crush the American uprising.
The world has not the shooters to crush the Christian uprising.
The world can go frustrate itself, stack up, and try.
The mission is sacred, and we will carry it out to the end, and at all costs.
clear ether!
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I wonder if we might see something happening in France around July 14th… 😮
We’re all marching to Bastille Day
The guillotine will claim her bloody prize…
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Well, I’m hearing tumbrils in the distance again.
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That’s my beloved’s birthday. He is part French.
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Ça ira
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Indeed it feels uncomfortably like Mme. DeFarge has picked up her knitting again.
People whine about some of the verses of The Star Spangled Banner being a bit aggressive and bloody-minded. They need to listen to Le Marseille for a bit (preferably with english subtitles, though the ones on this performance seem off)
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The Portuguese anthem is retarded. The last lines are “Against the cannons, march, march.” Uh…. cannon fodder is the ideal? ‘kay then.
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The USMC, the 82nd, the forces the Nightstalkers support, and so forth are not going to go in to help the Starmer government with ‘internal security’ matters. Nor will we help Van Leyen with similar missions.
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The Reader thinks they might be needed to denuclearize an Islamic United Kingdom.
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No, they’re not. And they’re quite possibly the best COIN troops in the world right now. Countries can’t invoke Article 5 over internal disorder. Of course, if the White House occupant changes, then all bets are off.
Ironically, someone on X noted that the best COIN veterans in the UK are likely concentrated in Northern Ireland. Apparently a large number of the British Army guys who went to Iraq and Afghanistan are from that area.
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The problem in California elections is that they have made so much of the fraud legal.
You can register people to vote by having them sign a petition (which you pay them to do) using any address. Ballot harvesting – collecting ballots from those people and submitting them is allowed. Ballots postmarked by election day can be submitted for a week after the election and the postmark doesn’t have to be an official USPS one.
A law passed this March prevents any ballot counter’s signature verifications from being challenged.
Unless Congress steps in, the only way to have competitive elections* in California is for the Republicans to avail themselves of all these deliberate loopholes as well.
*Still not the same thing as fair elections.
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Except that no one will be prosecuted for challenging Republican ballots…. if they are counted at all.
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Don’t forget the “signature mismatch” stuff that is documented as happening to registered-R voters here this round, especially down in LA.
Never gets done to the paid-to-register “unhoused” “voters” registered at a “shelter” address who are instructed to sign with an “X”, but if your ballot envelope is for an R voter!under the microscope it goes!
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Same in Colorado.
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Part of the reason why the California Republican apparatus can’t do it is because Republican voters get suspicious when people ask them to do stuff like this. It’s why the Republicans set up drop boxes (in places that Republicans frequented during the day). The party apparatus tried ballot harvesting of their own, but the voters didn’t trust strangers coming up to their doors and asking for their ballots.
The Dems sued over the drop boxes, of course. Fortunately, they lost.
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Well there’s yer problem: CA Republicans were trying to harvest wild ballots.
Ballot harvesting is notably a whole lot easier when you turn it into agriculture, where you do the planting and irrigation and growing of those ballots yourself before your harvest time, so basically Ballot Farming.
Thusly:
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/la-skid-row-homeless-claim-theyve-been-paid-to-vote-for-karen-bass-and-nithya-raman/
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So they went to burning them up? The article only talks about two incidents. Were there more? Will we find out?
https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/election-interference-scandal-uncovered-in-2-california-hubs/
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Well, they only looked in two, so…
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THe dems were so sure that demographics would put them in power permanently. Now, Trump polls majority among Hispanics and the old guard of the party are losing out to tribalism among Muslims and Indians. We forget that the Indians are THE most left wing ethnic group in America now.
alas, there seems to be civil war again in Belfast but the RC’s and UP’s seem to be on the same side. Leftism brings its own miracles. The death is constant though,
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The search terms ‘belfast friendship celebration’ do not bring up any relevant hits on the first page.
Mostly it is about this US college hockey match. Which happens in november, will be interesting to is if it is still on then.
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Yeah, people complaining about California expats bringing their stupid California politics with them should experience the straight up stupid commie politics that come over with folks from the subcontinent.
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Marxism kills, fast or slow, but it always kills. If you have X look at John Ringo’s feed. This one, particularly: https://x.com/Jringo1508/status/2064741229867172256
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The Bee’s bit on Karmelo and Barack is maybe very poor satire.
It is much too close to being unironically true.
To be obviously untrue, you might have to attempt something like Barack talking about his underage lover, whom he personally and specifically advised to carry out the stabbing.
Which maybe is not so obviously untrue as all that.
Satire is really hard, especially satire that is actually funny instead of ‘look, I am telling a joke’.
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The Bee on Karmelo not being satire, I said that exact thing on Small Dead Animals yesterday. (Or maybe Blazing Cat Fur, can’t remember.) If all you’ve done is repeat what they really and truly said, but added a laugh-track, that’s not satire.
Still funny, I must say. But more in that sort of sour, eye-rolling way. And then you spit to get the taste out of your mouth.
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The guy who was almost beheaded?
It turns out that a few days earlier, he had helped his almost-beheader to move into his new apartment. Helped carry his stuff. Welcomed him.
That makes the beheading not just a crime, but also an open hospitality violation.
The Irish and Scots-Irish believe in hospitality, even in Belfast.
So yeah, that makes it extra special.
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And then the murderer threatened hospital staff who were trying to treat his injured hand. Apparently “threatening a radiographer” is a crime in the UK, so that got added on.
The man who was attacked, Stephen Ogilvie, was rescued by neighbors who heard the attack. One of the guys used a hurling stick to help out, which isn’t as good of an argument as a gun but would probably work.
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That implement looked a little lightweight – he was wacking the perps head with good swings and the guy barely noticed.
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They’re not very heavy. We’re talking a somewhat thin piece of wood that’s only a half-yard to a yard in length, and made of either ash or bamboo. It’s better than nothing, but it’s not exactly a good first choice as a weapon.
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Shame no cricket bat was at hand – those are stout.
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you can do real damage with a Hurley, if that’s what it was. To that end, Ogilvie tends to be a Protestant name, there are RC Ogilvie’s, but not really in Ireland and it would be spelled differently, A Protestant having a Hurley would be very unusual. It’s very possible that an RC rescued a UP.
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Hurley sticks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurley_(stick) )are traditionally made of Ash from near the base of the tree with the bas (wide flat portion) usually being part of a root. Bamboo has been used of late as there has been an issue with native Irish Ash trees that has made the wood rather expensive. The Hurley is kind of like a Cricket bat and a field Hockey stick had a baby :-). There is sometimes a metal band partway along the bas. A hurley is a sturdy thing and applied right (with the edge not the flat) I suspect it could break bones including ribs and skulls. Not a perfect substitute for a shillelagh but it would do in a pinch.
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a properly applied Hurley can easily kill, a shillelagh not so much. THe Hurley is much heavier I have a teenage memory of smashing a Triumph car to bits using Hurley — don’t ask. —, no way you could do that with a shillelagh.
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Triumph? Working on electric stuff, were we?
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“…the guy barely noticed.”
Yeah, sometimes they don’t. Speaking from experience, there are some who don’t feel pain. You can beat them from h3ll to breakfast, and they’ll just keep going. Hitting one of those on the head with a 2×4 can be ineffective. I’ve heard a lot of stories from cops about the Maglite bouncing off the perp’s head and they didn’t even blink.
Those are the ones you use joint locks on. >:(
It’s hard for Mr. Stabby to continue when his shoulder is on backwards. That’s probably how they took him down when they finally got him.
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Cell vid cuts off as the three coppers move in as the concerned citizens scamper clear, so seeing perp’s level of resistance will need to wait for body cams to leak.
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And coincidentally it is being reported perp was from an upper-tier family and was employed as a Khartoum police officer before urge to migrate to visit the Emerald Isle became irresistible.
I note that perps behavior on the cell vid does align with what I have seen of third world s-hole police procedure fairly well.
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“threatening a radiographer”
Gee, maybe he should get a gift. Were i mean, I’d suggest it be about 4 Grays.
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Wow.
That seems just a bit more appalling than I would have guessed.
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Burning cars and buses won’t accomplish anything. The Irish have to go after the savages directly or it’s all just a lot of useless noise.
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Reportedly, some homes have been burned. So it’s not just random stuff being burned.
However, the meat is probably in how the government ends up reacting, and how the locals react to the government reaction.
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So I did look at some actual authorized Belfast news sources, as far as I know.
I find myself suspecting false flags, which I am sure is just me being irrational.
I basically do not see how Labour or the Greens could have set this up, so think that they might not have.
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The savages will leave when the money runs dry. If one is to “go” after anyon then go after the masters not the servants. They live in Dublin 4 and London N1, and Malone outside Belfast. They don’t live on the Falls or Shankill.
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Bear in mind they are fine committing crimes for money.
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“Burning cars and buses won’t accomplish anything.”
Nope. Untrue. It makes the government pay attention. That’s why Lefties do it. When Righties and Normies do it, the government pays A LOT of attention. It also depends on whose cars are getting burned, at the individual level. Tribal warfare 101.
“The Irish have to go after the savages directly or it’s all just a lot of useless noise.”
Going after the individuals, while satisfying, is whack-a-mole. There’s always another one.
Going after the -government- and making them afraid enough to change their policy, that’s the way. Because the goblins wouldn’t be there except for government policy.
(To any Lefty morons who still skim this blog looking for outrage, please note that “goblin” is a non-racial term referring to freaks who like to r@pe and chop off heads, not a particular racial group. Your goblin comes in all shades, and it is the -government- that lets them run around gobbling instead of pitching them into jail forever. You idiots.)
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The current riots with scattered to broken mostly peaceful arson are cover. These folks know what they are doing.
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The price of freedom is to be ever vigilant, some one much smarter than I said it first. As I have said before, you can’t turn an aircraft carrier on a dime (YET go all our geniuses) but the ship of state is turning, keep paddling and we’ll make it. Thank you Sarah for being one of the paddlers.
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The SpaceX IPO is nearly upon us. If you’ve initiated a Conditional Order To Purchase, the last hoop to jump through will be confirming it tomorrow.
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“The SpaceX IPO is nearly upon us.”
Chez Phantom has a countdown clock. ~:D Our resident stock trader is waiting for it to crash before buying some, because discretion is the better part of valor.
Long term, the prospect of automated asteroid mining and carbon nanotube manufacturies is making me salivate. Holy crap, it’s going to be cool. ~:D
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That cashflow from Starlink is pretty awesome all by itself. Adding future income from compute charges on their “space AI datacenters” could be insane – as I understand it, that’s where ‘zon is gnenerating most of their cashflow these days. And that’s all just in LEO.
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Saw this article this morning, and I think he has an excellent point that you have to look at Elon’s entire ensemble. I KNOW he’s right that we haven’t even started with what Starship’s cost to orbit is going to enable.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rodmartin/p/the-spacex-ipo-isnt-overpriced-the?r=6em1o&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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”The worth of a thing is what that thing will bring.”
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“That cashflow from Starlink is pretty awesome all by itself.”
I’m a fan of Starlink. We’ve had it here when there was no decent cable provider. Now we have gigabit fiber, so we use that.
But, hear me now fellow tech nerds, “Starlink Phone.” That’s some serious business right there. I want that. No more getting pillaged by crappy Canadian rip-off Bell and Telus networks.
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T-Mobile is promoting satellite phone through Starlink, for when cell towers are not available. Supposedly exclusive, per verbal marketing (promotional written material does not say “exclusive”). I suspect “first to market” with Starlink, but I doubt exclusive, or longer term, at the current costs (free with T-Mobile account).
Verizon has a satellite texting that can be turned on. Allows emergency cell on satellite. Haven’t had the need to use either. Texting, at least receiving texting, in areas we visit, would be gold. But even in those areas, satellite access isn’t guarantied.
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In Canaduh you can get Starlink phone through Rogers, I am told. I don’t know what’s involved, but I will be looking into it as Space-X starts to roll out the Starling phone connection here.
Cell reception outside the 905/416 area code is not great, putting it mildly.
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My folks are in a dead zone on Verizon, so they have a booster that is going through their starlink.
If they didn’t tell me, I wouldn’t know.
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The gutting of USAID continues to pay dividends in the world freedom index.
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To expand on what I wrote above…
The day has been an interesting one. Catholics and Protestants in Ireland putting aside some deep and *centuries* old hatreds to face a common problem (and the fact that Gerry Adams is the one running Ireland as it seemingly prepares to erupt against its own government tickles me to no end). Elsewhere in the Isles, the Nowak protests have seemingly died down for now (though I’m wondering if it’s just a cover for something bigger that’s about to explode). Paris is apparently burning again, and more seriously than in the past. And I hear bits and pieces about Germany that make me wonder if something momentous is about to happen there (though I don’t know whether good or bad, peaceful or violent).
But it’s not all stories of disorder. The World Cup is happening here in the US, which means that we’re getting a lot of visitors from foreign lands that happen to like that silly game that we refer to as “soccer”. A lot of them are realizing just how wonderful of a place the US really is, how kind and welcoming the locals really are – even to foreigners, and posting about it on social media. One German, who goes by the name “Freddie”, posted on X that after a spectacular night at a stadium watching one of the games, one of his friends told him, “Punch me five times in the morning, and I still won’t believe I’m not dreaming!”
It’s a wonderful thing to see, especially with all of the condescending (and misplaced) anti-American gloating that you often see from foreign accounts on social media.
(not the Japanese, though; the Japanese like the US, and vice versa)
Also, students in Korea (when did the south of the peninsula just become “Korea”, while the north remains “North Korea”?) are protesting… communists. Weird, right? It’s due to the Chinese acting with their usual condescension and arrogance (both the government in Beijing, and Chinese tourists visiting other countries, who have gotten increasingly arrogant over the last few years). Similarly, a mob descended on a news crew reporting in Korea when Mandarin was heard… until a member of the crew produced documents proving that the crew was from Taiwan. Then it was back pats all around, and one bystander even created a sign for the cameraman to wear on his back clarifying that the crew was from Taiwan.
And speaking of Taiwan and China, it boggles me that the KMT is now a puppet of the CCP. Chiang Kai-Shek is spinning in his grave.
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“A lot of them are realizing just how wonderful of a place the US really is, how kind and welcoming the locals really are…”
That German guy Freddie is getting huge traffic on X, he’s hilarious. He went to buy gas at a Buc-ee’s, and he’s like: “Lol, this is a GAS STATION!” and the place is big as a Wallmart with a hundred gas pumps out front. His little German heart was going pitter-pat.
I recall a -lonnnng- time ago when my brother’s friends came from Germany to visit, they could not believe how far it was from the airport to my brother’s place. Over an hour. They said they’d be in France if they drove that far from their place.
I love America. It’s awesome. Canada sucks. Europe sucks even more.
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He was marveling that an eagle was flying over the stadium. I looked and said, “Isn’t that Jordan Hare? (Local pronunciation,btw, is, “Jerdan Hare.”). It’s Auburn! Of course there’s an eagle flying over!”
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“Similarly, a mob descended on a news crew reporting in Korea when Mandarin was heard…”
Rooftop Koreans for the win.
Meanwhile in Canada, a white guy showed up at a CCP-sponsored dragon boat race, in Ottawa no less, wearing a Falun Gong t-shirt. The organizers ran him off. In Canada. In a public park. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ottawa-dragon-boat-festival-apology-falun-gong-shirt
Linky in case the Usual Suspects scream it never happened. Yeah it did, f-ers.
In case anyone is still wondering what’s up in Canada.
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Why are they allowing foreign governments to sponsor ‘events’ in Canada, and then exclude Canadian citizens from them?
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“Why are they allowing…”
Because they’re bent, in my humble opinion. On the take. Vassals to the evile overlords of #Chicomland, bought and paid for. They can probably buy a #Lieberal cabinet minister for under a million bucks. Such a deal.
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Chinese citizens in foreign countries have been getting very aggressive lately. They’ve been openly attacking anyone and anything that they see that denigrates the PRC or the CCP. And in many western countries, the local authorities let them get away with it when the Chinese claim that thing against China is “racist”.
American LE shuts it down quickly whenever it happens. But there have been incidents in the UK and Australia where arrogant Chinese visitors were able to get local LE to shut down something that local citizens were doing that the Chinese visitors didn’t like. And those are just the ones that I’m aware of.
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