Links - 6th December 2025 (2 - Migrants: UK)

Jeremy Corbyn on X - "We need solutions, not scapegoats. Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!"
Chris Rose on X - "Did a billionaire murder Rhiannon Skye Whyte, Wayne Broadhurst or Gurvinder Singh Johal? Did a billionaire sexually assault a 14-year-old in Epping? Did a billionaire r*pe a 12-year-old in Nuneaton? It’s not scapegoating when there’s a clear pattern you naive charlatan."

Piers Morgan on X - "There are a lot of white English people I would happily trade for a good weekly chicken tikka masala."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Western media and political elites gain status by signaling indifference (or hostility) to their own ethnic in-group. In educated white circles, you derive high social standing by broadcasting your own lack of affection for other white people. Piers lives in a town that is 97% white English. That demonstrates his revealed preference: cultural and ethnic homogeneity. But to be a member in good standing of his town and tribe, he has to tell the world that he doesn’t care about cultural and ethnic homogeneity. The way to maintain his standing with his in-group is to loudly protest that he cares little for his own in-group. Very weird psychological trait particularly to individualistic north-western European societies."

Channel 4 News on X - ""If you say or imply people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin...if you say they should be deported, then mark my words, we will fight you with everything we have." Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells the Labour Party conference that inciting "racist violence and hatred" is not free speech, but "criminal"."
Leo Kearse - on YouTube & touring on X - "REMEMBER THE WORKPLACE RULES: White and born in America? You're a coloniser on stolen land. Brown and born in England? You're 100% completely the most English person who ever Engled."

British Intel on X - "🚨🇬🇧 ASYLUM SEEKER RAPIST NAMED AFTER COURT COVER-UP COLLAPSES
Lawyers tried to hide the identity of a man who raped a 15-year-old girl, but the cover-up has been exposed after media pressure.
🔴 The attacker, Amin Abadi Mohammad, an asylum seeker, raped the teen after throwing a coat over her head.
🔴 Courts initially granted him anonymity, sparking outrage.
🔴 The Sun challenged the ruling – and won, forcing his name into the open.
Britain’s justice system is protecting criminals instead of victims. Our country deserves transparency – not censorship in the name of “sensitivity.” WHEN WILL BRITISH JUSTICE PUT VICTIMS FIRST?"

Basil the Great on X - "🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Muslim says England flag must be REPLACED as Christian Cross is offensive He says we need to replace the St George's Cross with a WHITE FLAG that just says ENGLAND"

Qatari camel herder sexually assaulted woman while in Britain for heart treatment - "Nasser al-Gherainiq assaulted the woman in a lavatory at a clinic in Marylebone linked to the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea, south-west London. He had come to the UK to receive treatment for a rare heart condition... She explained that, as a member of a conservative Bedouin tribe in Qatar, Al-Gherainiq would not have had much contact with women who were not members of his family. “Until July 2023 he had never left Qatar,” she said. “He would have had minimal experience engaging with women outside a family context. The only woman he would have had any meaningful contact with is his mother.” Referring to a pre-sentence report prepared on behalf of the defendant Ms Bickerstaff said: “Limited visits to Doha and a preference for a desert environment curtailed his exposure to urban and modern societal norms. “This defendant would have had no experience whatsoever of interacting with a woman. We submit that he was equivalent to an immature and inexperienced adolescent. He completely failed to understand her true feelings.”"
Qatari camel herder sexually assaulted woman while in UK for heart treatment : r/europe_sub - "How outrageous is that argument that he hasn’t spent time with women except his mum so in his mind, dragging someone into a toilet stall and trying to rape them isn’t something that would click that it’s reprehensible"

Yossi BenYakar on X - "This is the single best explanation I have seen for why the UK has turned against Israel. Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff exposes the uncomfortable truth that politicians are too afraid to admit: The British government has effectively joined the global jihad agenda. This isn't an accident. It is the direct result of mass Islamic immigration. British politicians have done the math. They know they cannot win elections anymore without appeasing a demographic that fundamentally calls for the destruction of Jews and Christians. They are prioritizing their political careers over the actual lives of their own citizens. Listen to her break down exactly how the UK capitulated."

Britain is becoming more racist, says Mahmood - "Ms Mahmood, Britain’s first female Muslim Home Secretary, said the country is becoming more racist because people on the Left, including Labour MPs, are in denial about illegal immigration. Her comments follow the announcement of her plans to overhaul Britain’s migration policy."

Lee Nallalingham on X - "So the Bank of England’s chief economist has finally said what every normal person has known for years. You can’t add record-breaking immigration to a country that already can’t house its own people and then act shocked when rents explode and young Brits can’t afford a home. It’s not rocket science, but sadly, even the basics of supply and demand are beyond this government."
Soaring immigration is fuelling Britain’s housing crisis, says Bank of England’s chief economist - "Huw Pill said higher interest rates were not responsible for record hikes in rental costs, which jumped by 9.2pc in the year to March. He said “quite large increases in immigration” were piling more pressure on Britain’s housing stock, after net migration hit a record-breaking 745,000 in 2022... A report by the Centre for Policy Studies this week warned that record levels of immigration had failed to boost the economy while making the housing crisis worse. The report, which was backed by former immigration minister Robert Jenrick, said migration now accounted for around 89pc of the 1.34m increase in England’s “housing deficit”... Mr Pill said the Bank had little influence over housebuilding, as he suggested politicians should do more to build more properties. He said: “I think that the best role we can play is to do our job and let other people do their job. “And their job might be: well should we look again at some of the things that are constraining supply? Should we look at planning regulation? Should we look at building restrictions? “And of course, this is not a problem that will go away because the drivers of the population are going to be quite consistent.” The Office for Budget Responsibility, the government’s tax and spending watchdog, has previously predicted that net migration – the numbers entering the UK minus those leaving – will average 350,000 over the next five years. This is up from a prediction of 290,000 just a few months ago. This will drive up the total number of adults in the UK from 55m in 2023 to 57m by the end of the decade."

Asylum seekers pose as stateless Kuwaitis to trick their way to Britain - "Asylum seekers are being coached to exploit a loophole that allows them to gain refuge in Britain by claiming to be from a stateless minority group in Kuwait... it advises applicants to claim that they “don’t have a birth certificate nor does my family because we are stateless”, adding that they should say: “I have no official papers.”... The document also contains exact quotes to rehearse to repeat to the authorities, including “in Kuwait no passports for Bidoon”, “no school”, “no hospital”, “police beat us” and “I had to leave”. The same phraseology appeared in a 2024 Guardian article that documented asylum seekers in Calais, quoting one saying: “In Kuwait no passports for Bidoon, no school, no hospital, police beat us. I had to leave.” The Home Office was warned a decade ago that supposed Bidoons were gaming the system – and now claims are surging. Between the years ending June 2021 and 2025, 5,272 people from Kuwait applied for asylum in the UK. This is almost double the 2,874 people who applied in the previous 20 years. Acceptance rates have risen from 41 to 81 per cent in that time. Claims by stateless individuals hit a record high in the year ending June 2025, jumping from 287 to 1,418. Acceptance rates hit 92.1 per cent in that period, also a record high having averaged at just 43.1 per cent in the 2010s... investigations by the Amman authorities had found migrants falsely claiming to be Bidoons, providing implausible accounts of their journeys to Jordan from Kuwait and using forged documents. The report stated: “The majority appeared to know little or nothing of Kuwait”. It also revealed that the Jordanian ministry of interior alerted the Home Office that some applicants for Kuwaiti Bidoon family reunions who had been given UK clearance as “stateless individuals” had used Iraqi identities to enter Jordan. “This suggested to the Home Office a pattern of immigration abuse, and it launched an investigation of applications made by Kuwaiti Bidoons,” it said. Staff also identified a significant number of cases where marriage certificates came from the same mosque in Kuwait and were signed by the same four or five imams. The Kuwaiti authorities investigated these mosques, and discovered those imams were not real and the marriage certificates did not appear in their marriage registers. The Kuwaitis also helped the Home Office to identify fake Bidoon birth certificates."

Rachel Reeves’s moan about ‘mansplaining’ is proof that she’s out of her depth - "Cat Eccles, the MP for Stourbridge – after a fascinating remark about immigration. On Tuesday, Ms Eccles went on the radio to explain why she dislikes ministers’ plans to tighten up the asylum system. “It just feels that they are trying to just be seen to be doing something,” she lamented, “just to appease the electorate.” Appease the electorate? Goodness, what a horrifying thought. I do sympathise. After all, giving voters what they actually want would represent a shocking break with Labour tradition. Let’s not forget what Roy Hattersley, the party’s former deputy leader, wrote in The Guardian in 2009 about his time as MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook. “For most of my 33 years in Westminster,” he recalled with satisfaction, “I was able to resist Sparkbrook’s demands about the great issues of national policy – otherwise, my first decade would have been spent opposing all Commonwealth immigration and my last calling for withdrawal from the European Union.” Imagine! Similar sentiments were expressed by Douglas (later Baron) Jay, a postwar Labour minister. In 1937, he wrote: “In the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than people know themselves.” Almost a century on, however, members of the public somehow still have the effrontery, the arrogance, the bare-faced cheek, to expect their democratically elected representatives to do the sort of things they tell them to. Honestly. Who do these voters think they are?"
It's only oligarchy to defy the popular will if the popular will pushes the left wing agenda. The left hold ordinary people in contempt

Posh girls for illegal immigration - spiked - "The calibre of so-called progressives coming out to bat for illegal immigration amid growing anger over migrant hotels has been of a very low quality lately. So low in fact that they are making the situation worse. I've been struck by just how many of the talking heads commissioned to appear on various current-affairs shows and radio phone-ins don't appear to understand the migrant-hotels issue or why it's provoking so much anger. Among the many low-calibre pundits in this vein one in particular has stood out: Zoe Gardner. On an edition of BBC Two's Newsnight this week, there Gardner was - again. Billed as an 'asylum and migration researcher', she set about spinning the tired and unbelievable narrative that the tens of thousands of asylum seekers entering the UK illegally are all victims of persecution or refugees from war. She dismissed talk of protesters' 'legitimate concerns' about the asylum seekers, despite the serious criminal charges hanging over some of them, as a racist trope - one she seems to think has been put about by Nigel Farage and regurgitated by an unthinking and bigoted British public. 'I'm not affected by people in the UK arriving on small boats - and neither are you'... Gardner's CV is typical for the types of experts / politicians / journalists now doing the media rounds. Since graduating from the London School of Economics, she has had 'roles' rather than jobs. These include stints at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Asylum Aid, the Race Equality Foundation, and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. She describes herself in one of her bylines as an 'independent immigration-policy expert and campaigner for the rights of all migrants and refugees in the UK and across Europe'. When she is not being an immigration-policy expert, she is a 'grassroots activist' - a role she has performed for the anti-Brexit group, Another Europe is Possible, and something called the Stop Trump Coalition. These campaigning groups are united by their opposition to democracy... It seems that Ms Gardner has been living and 'working' (and I am using the word 'working' very loosely) within a very elite London network, consisting almost entirely of people who have never had a job that wasn't entitled 'activist' or 'journalist'. They exist to write op-eds for the publications of the middle-class left or to provide right- thinking views on liberal broadcast media - all of which are run by people just like them, with the same background, views and no doubt the same friends. Perhaps it's unfair to focus just on Gardner. There are so many upper-middle-class, privileged activists whose whole life experience is centered on the green rooms of BBC politics shows and each other's media and campaigning outlets. Similar pieces to this could be written about countless others in her mould. There's 'literal communist' Ash Sarkar, self-styled 'Marxist' Grace Blakeley, Green Queen Caroline Lucas and Guardian aristocrat Polly Toynbee. And that's just the professional-activist women - there's an even longer list of men of a similar ilk. In some ways, there is nothing new about haute-bourgeois types going out into the world to castigate 'the poor', with a scented handkerchief at hand to protect their sensitive nostrils from the smell of poverty. British philanthropy was built on such self-righteous condescension, as were some of our educational institutions, such as the London School of Economics. Indeed, Britain's establishment left has always been fuelled by a distant, pity-the-poor attitude. Today's bourgeois radicals are heirs to the bourgeois leftism of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. I'm thinking of figures such as Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, John Maynard Keynes and Marie Stopes - all of whom, from positions of great privilege and comfort, thought that the best way of getting rid of poverty was by getting rid of the poor. Hence, their well-known embrace of eugenics... Like their predecessors, today's so-called progressives are convinced they are on the right side of history. They view the world entirely in their own self-righteous image. Gardner and others like her have no life experience or skill that could actually help those migrants they believe to be 'victims'. While they have dropped the old progressives' attachment to eugenics, they remain faintly disdainful of ordinary people. They have no understanding of the British working class, no sense of why it is that those they are long used to patronising have had enough of being ignored or silenced... We are living in extremely dangerous and divisive times. By dismissing the concerns of large swathes of the country, the nice left-wing ladies of London's middle class are only sowing further division."

Miss Jo on X - "This is the most British 2025 story. Lucius Njoku came to the UK from Nigeria on a student visa, bringing his wife. His wife got a job in the NHS and her visa allowed him to stay. Lucius then dressed as a woman, used the name “Joyce” and washed/dressed patients and did daily nursing tasks. The ID he was using came from another Nigerian woman who worked at the hospital, who had agreed to let him do some of her shifts. For months, none of his colleagues noticed. Eventually a patient realised and confronted him. Where is the dignity for female patients bing treated by a man dressed as a woman? Where is the punishment for fraud? He got a 16 week prison term, suspended for 12 months and a small fine. He was not deported."

Miss Jo on X - "What is going on in the NHS? The Times did a quick review of doctors and their record overseas. They found 22 doctors who had had their licenses removed overseas were accepted by and working for the NHS. Take, Sujan Thyagaraj who lost his licence in New Mexico in 2019. He prescribed strong opiates to a patient and then sexually abused her in his office. He tried to get a licence in various States in the UK but ended up in the UK where the NHS were delighted to give him one, without checks." CraiginEngland on X - "Iranian national who raped girl, 13, is jailed for just 7-years. The child was attacked in broad daylight in Croydon town centre. It has emerged Judge Antony Hyams-Parish said she had not suffered “severe psychological trauma”. He didn’t impose a stricter sentence as he did not deem Amini to be a “dangerous offender”. The judge’s sentencing remarks have been released to The Sun. Despite the harrowing “stranger rape” of a child, he said to Amini: “I have concluded that whilst there is no doubt that she was caused psychological harm, I have concluded it falls just short of severe psychological harm.” Credits below 👇"

Channel 4 News on X - ""I don't want to die as a refugee in this country" says Afraa Hashem, a Syrian woman who arrived in the UK in 2020. Afraa and her family have applied for Indefinite Leave to Remain and have been waiting for a response for ten months. We asked them about Labour's plan to reform the immigration system and how they feel about the possibility of extending the time people have to wait before they can apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain from five years to 20 years."
James Price on X - "Since this person arrived here, there is a new regime in Syria. She seems to back this new regime so much that she has its flag behind her, prominently, in shot. Note that she doesn’t have the British flag. It does beg a rather obvious question."

Migrant crisis: Turkish man convicted for rape set for compensation after electronic tag left him 'depressed' - "Lawyers will take part in discussions to decide whether “appropriate relief” should be granted to Mustafa Taskiran, 48. High Court judge Mr Justice Lavender ruled in the migrant's favour just days before the 48-year-old admitted to stalking and threatening to kill a woman with a knife. The sex offender told the court that the electronic tag caused him “intense physical and mental distress” due to its weight and discomfort. Taskiran's long history of criminal activity began just four years after he was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 1994. Over a ten-year period, he committed 54 offences but avoided a deportation order in 2009."

Nick Timothy MP on X - "Shabana Mahmood says she likes the Danish immigration model. So do I. They publish data on who contributes and who doesn’t. People from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey are net recipients. But Mahmood refused to publish this data here."

Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 on X - "Shabana Mahmood is targeting three countries with visa bans if they don't take illegal migrants back. Angola, DRC, and Namibia are all Christian countries. Just 4 Angolans arrived illegally last quarter. Pakistan makes up the most illegal migrants, but no action. Hmm..."

Adam Wren on X - "Talking to international students during my MA I was pretty shocked by how secular they said their generation are, it’s happening even in places like Egypt. We’re going to end up in this weird position where Islam is a more potent political force in the UK than it is in Iran"

Concerned Citizen on X - "A man who wrote “stop the boats” on his Mother’s cast after she broke her leg is being investigated. The UK is no longer a serious Country."
The establishment is pro-migrant after all: the migrant-industrial complex

Basil the Great on X - "🚨LABOUR MP HAS A DISASTER INTERVIEW
"Are you seriously telling me we need AI to establish whether a bloke on a dinghy with a full beard and appears middle aged isn't a child?"
"Yes"
🤦"

Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 on X - "Good news everyone! The BBC has reported costs for hotel contracts for the Migrant Hotels has risen from £4.5bn to £15.3bn.. That’s JUST the hotels, not NHS, Police or extra benefits we provide them! You wonder why our taxes now have to go up because of this mystery “black hole”"

Government publishes Casey review into social integration in Great Britain - "According to the Guardian, the report found that successive governments have failed for more than a decade to ensure that social integration in the UK has kept up with immigration and have allowed some local communities to become increasingly divided. BBC News noted that Casey said segregation and social exclusion has reached "worrying levels" and is fuelling inequality in some areas of Britain, while the Telegraph highlighted that the report recommended migrants should swear an oath of allegiance when they arrive in UK... "I also found other, equally worrying things including high levels of social and economic isolation in some places and cultural and religious practices in communities that are not only holding some of our citizens back but run contrary to British values and sometimes our laws. Time and time again I found it was women and children who were the targets of these regressive practices. And too often, leaders and institutions were not doing enough to stand up against them and protect those who were vulnerable.""
From 2016. How ignorant. Doesn't she know that Muslim women are educated and empowered and don't need white saviors to speak for them, and also that Islam is the most feminist religion?

'Why was he allowed to be here?' rages mum of girl, 15, raped by asylum seeker with 11 previous convictions - "THE anguished mum of a 15-year-old girl raped by an asylum seeker raged: “Why was he here?” She said her family will never recover from the horror attack by Amin Abedi Mofrad, who was yesterday jailed for 12½ years. In a letter to the Home Secretary, she asked why the violent criminal, who had 11 previous convictions in Germany, was allowed to roam our streets. She said her girl “now carries a pain and trauma no child should ever know”, adding: “She has been handed a life sentence.” The Iranian predator, 35, dragged her down an alleyway as she walked home from an under-18s club night in Oxford on Valentine’s Day last year. Her pal took a snap of him as they got away... Mofrad arrived illegally on a small boat in 2023 and was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault that year. But the case was dropped over a lack of evidence. His 11 convictions in Germany were all for violent assaults and ABH between 2014 and 2019... Tamasin Graham, mitigating, told the court that Mofrad faced the death penalty in Iran as he “turned his back on Islam”. The judge said he must serve at least nine and a half years in prison. As he was led away, Mofrad screamed: “Everybody lies! Lies, lies, lies!”"
Asylum seeker, 34, ‘raped girl, 15, in alleyway & demanded she be a “sex doll” before boasting to his pals’, court hears | - "AN asylum seeker forced a girl of 15 to the ground and raped her while demanding she be “a sex doll”, a court heard. Amin Abedi Mofrad is accused of raping the helpless teenager in an alleyway in Oxford in February last year. The 35-year-old is then said to have sent a picture of himself kissing her to his pals to celebrate his achievement... cops found two contacts saved in his phone, both with a misspelling of the alleged victim’s name. Both phone numbers were one digit out. The device also had a string of “triumphant” texts supposedly sent to a pal named Ali. One text, sent just before 1am the next day, allegedly read: “I have never f*****d a p***y like that.” Another, sent some hours later, said: “I have just f****d two different p*****s tonight.”"

Insurrection Chic (Trump)

Insurrection Chic - Victor Davis Hanson

Is Jeff Davis the Model?

Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?

The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?

Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? He ultimately ordered the attack by South Carolina state forces against the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, which ignited the Civil War.

Or is the better inspiration the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door?” Alabama Governor George Wallace likewise vowed to use his state’s law enforcement to nullify a federal law.

Yet how odd that the left, which had lectured us so often about a January 6th “insurrection”—a charge that not even the Javert-like special counsel Jack Smith ever lodged against Donald Trump—now talks frequently about the proud nullification of our nation’s federal laws.

The New Confederacy

Democrats weirdly boast of the subordination of the Constitution to international statutes. Our governors and mayors in blue states and cities take neo-Confederate vows to oppose the national government’s right to protect its own property, to direct its own employees, and to enforce our shared federal laws.

Over a decade ago, some 600 “sanctuary cities” declared that they were immune from the full enforcement of federal law. They further boasted that they would not hand over illegal aliens, detained by state or local authorities, to federal agents.

These were strange threats. Not long ago, at the 1992 and 1996 Democratic conventions, liberal grandees like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi had vowed to stop all would-be illegal aliens from unlawfully entering the U.S. Apparently, they all flipped to open borders when spiraling numbers turned the undocumented into a new Democratic constituency.

Moreover, being the left, their loud nullificationist vows were, of course, purely political and never principled.

Once, an exasperated Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, had beseeched the Obama administration in vain to enforce its own federal laws at the southern border. In frustration, she finally sought ways to use her own state’s resources to do what Obama refused.

And the reaction of the Obama administration?

It was certainly not gratitude for Brewer’s efforts to enforce federal law. Instead, the Obama crowd sued her. It successfully sought out left-wing judges to stay her state’s efforts.

How strange that our current “principled” district judges once ruled that states could not interfere with federal border policing—even in cases where the federal government was illegally refusing to enforce its own laws.

But now they’ve become neo-Confederates who routinely favor states blocking the federal government when it is finally fulfilling its constitutional duties.

Of course, if any rural red county decided that it could nullify the federal government’s laws governing handgun registration or EPA regulations, the projectionist left would deem them insurrectionary new Confederates and send in the FBI.

Coup Bluster

In Trump’s first term, some retired four-star admirals and generals—Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice be damned—talked of a sitting U.S. President Trump leaving office, the “sooner the better”—whatever that meant. Others libeled him as a “liar” and “Mussolini,” his policies comparable to those of the executioners at Auschwitz.

Some retired lieutenant colonels in 2020 even publicly advocated using military units to confront presidential security details. Did they want an armed showdown to forcibly remove Trump from the Oval Office? And in their madness, they bragged about the purported greater lethality of their army friends to defeat the president’s supporters or security details: “Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne.”

Do we remember the Obama-era Pentagon lawyer who, eleven days into the first Trump administration, speculated in print about how to remove an elected President Trump? She offered up the choices of Trump removal by either the 25th Amendment, the impeachment process, or a military coup: “[A] possibility [for removing President Trump] is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup…”

We also remember Gen. Mark Milley, the recent Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

He once apparently diagnosed Commander-in-Chief Trump as unhinged.

So Milley took it upon himself to warn his communist Chinese counterpart that during any existential crisis, the People’s Liberation Army head would be first contacted by Milley—if Milley ever felt Trump was too erratic to be obeyed (in Milley’s nonprofessional medical judgment).

So Milley reported his call as follows: “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

Milley apparently also decided that he was exempt from obeying federal laws.

As JCS chair, he also violated laws governing the chain of command. He unlawfully directed regional commanders to report to him first, should they receive a direct presidential order deemed lunatic by Milley. Yet the legal chain of command mandated that subordinate theater commanders report to, and receive presidential orders via, the Secretary of Defense.

Later, ex-generals like Milley and John Kelly routinely and emphatically blasted ex-President Trump as a “fascist.”

“Fascist” was just the sort of dangerous hyperbole that the left so often has warned us can prompt the unstable—like a Thomas Crooks or Ryan Routh—to emerge from their creepy shadows to “save the republic.”

Fort Sumter?

Democratic officials are also currently calling for organized and state-sanctioned opposition to the federal government, in near-Bleeding Kansas or Fort Sumter insurrectionary fashion.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims he will use his city resources to actively thwart ICE duties. In deranged fashion, he threatens to call in the UN to prevent federal law enforcement. He apparently treats the Constitution as nothing, as if Johnson were elected not by fellow citizens but by global voters from Iran to North Korea.

Johnson’s idiocy is no mere boast: when a trapped convoy of ICE vehicles was recently besieged by violent protesters, local Chicago-area police were told to stand down and let ICE fight its own way out.

In Portland, the local police sometimes advise violent Antifa-related protesters on strategies for their anti-ICE street activities, presumably to help them avoid arrest.

Consider the blather of the increasingly disturbed octogenarian Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

She recently boasted that “Trump is ‘a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth.” Then she doubled down and giggled that she “could have done much worse.”

But what exact epithet could Pelosi mean that is “much worse” than “vile” and “the worst thing on earth”?

The ‘vilest creature in the cosmos’?

Pelosi, remember, as Speaker of the House, set an embarrassing historic precedent by tearing up on national television the State of the Union address of the President of the United States when the text, as is customary, was ceremoniously presented to her by Trump. Should that now become a normal part of all SOTU addresses?

Recently, in a veritable paean to Jefferson Davis, Pelosi warned that federal agents might be arrested on her home turf if her state officers determine whether their enforcement of federal law violates California statutes.

If Pelosi’s confrontation materializes, will they use force?

Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani has boasted in the past that he will soon override federal law as mayor of New York and arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he arrive at the UN headquarters in New York.

But what if the federal government says, “NO!” Will Mamdani then call in the NYPD?

Note, Mamdani did not issue a comparable threat to the communist Chinese UN delegations, whose government oversees a million Uyghurs in work camps, nor to the Nigerians who have allowed Islamic terrorists to kill over 150,000 Christians, nor to Vladimir Putin, who invaded Ukraine, causing over 1.5 million casualties in the greatest European slaughterhouse since World War II.

Instead, Mamdani appeals to a superior “international law.” In his unconstitutional mind, world law supersedes his own government’s constitutional authority.

As a de facto insurrectionist, Mamdani would claim that international human rights activists, or the International Criminal Court (?), deserve greater legal authority inside the U.S. than do Americans’ own elected federal government.

All that nonsense sounds like infamous Confederate Attorney General Judah Benjamin, who often bragged about how insurrectionary states could legally ignore federal authority.

Military Resistance?

Yet the most recent and dangerous example of insurrectionary nullification is an inflammatory video issued by Democrat and veteran politicos.

In it, Democratic lawmakers and veterans Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Rep. Chris Deluzio, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan appeal to U.S. soldiers to “disobey” their superior officers’ orders if, in their own legal opinion, they feel the orders are “illegal” by contravening the Constitution. How or why, they do not say.

Are we then to imagine an insurrectionary fantasy of 1.3 million active-duty soldiers, now each acting as his own lawyer, questioning daily orders from their officers? Not one of these elected officials provided a single instance of any past Trump order or Pentagon directive that would serve as an example of their nullificationist dogma.

When these Democratic officials also appealed to federal intelligence officers to likewise disobey orders, should we laugh or cry?

Did any of these moralists ever issue such a video when the Obama- and Biden-era Directors of the CIA, FBI, and National Intelligence all admittedly lied under oath?

How about when “51 intelligence authorities” deliberately lied in an open letter to the American people on the eve of the 2020 election to help elect Joe Biden? Or when the FBI agents worked with private social media to suppress the news?

In the video, did these officials mean that soldiers should resist presidential orders to employ federal troops to quell domestic chaos and rioting?

Lots of presidents have done just that from the Civil War to the present.

Would they have urged U.S. soldiers to disobey any order in pursuance of the use of force without congressional approval?

If so, why didn’t they damn past presidents like Harry S. Truman, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, who all directed the military to act abroad without the approval of Congress?

How about Barack Obama’s serial use of Predator assassination drones that, on at least one occasion, blew up an American citizen?

These sanctimonious Democrat officials did not outline any possible scenarios for their advocacy of insurrectionary disobedience—because they had no example to draw on.

Nor did they dare reference in any detail Articles 90 and 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which explicitly spell out when, in the rarest of cases, a soldier can disobey an order.

The officials had no concern that their video was endangering thousands—if someone might take their advice and, without cause, disobey an order, putting lives at risk, well beyond their own careers.

What the Democrats did not say is that they cut the video to implant a false narrative that Trump was on the verge of issuing unconstitutional orders, and they were encouraging mass and politicized disobedience, after the previous failure of the shutdown, mass street protests, attacks on ICE agents, and Tesla dealerships.

The New Secessionists

Leftists are now back to the same old, same old incendiary conspiracies and paranoias of Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, removing Trump from the ballot, impeaching him twice, indicting him 91 times, raiding his home with armed FBI agents, plotting stealthily to record him to invoke the 25th Amendment— and all the dangerous and often illegal ways it has sought to destroy a political opponent by any means necessary.

We certainly are in dangerous times. But the crisis is one of the left’s own making, in overtly inciting the country to a virtual rerun of 1861.

What else is urging American soldiers to defy the orders of their superiors without citing a single specific cause?

How about claiming by fiat that entire cities and states are immune from federal jurisdiction?

What about threatening to use state officers to arrest federal law enforcement officials?

Withholding local police help and thus endangering federal agents at the hands of violent protesters?

Making a mockery of the Uniform Code of Military Justice?

Advising violent protesters on how best to demonstrate against federal officials without being arrested?

Subordinating U.S. federal law to global legal authorities?

Using city resources to help illegal aliens evade federal law enforcement?

Arresting a foreign official with diplomatic immunity and under federal legal protection when he enters a local jurisdiction?

Freelancing by sidestepping the legal rights of the Commander-in-Chief and instead phoning to tip off an enemy general?

The common theme?

The desperate left feels the more insurrectionary tensions they can gin up, the more that the ensuing domestic crises hurt an elected president whom they loathe.

They assume they are exempt from following the law because they believe they are our moral and intellectual superiors.

And so for the next four years, they will once again insist they can ignore or violate with contempt any federal law they please—as the nation is heading toward widespread civil insurrection of the left’s own neo-Confederate making.

 

Links - 6th December 2025 (1 - Trans Mania)

Nurses given ‘kindness training’ after criticising trans colleague’s access to changing room - "Nurses were given “kindness training” after criticising a trans colleague’s access to the female changing room, a tribunal has heard.  Bethany Hutchison is one of eight nurses at an NHS hospital giving evidence at an employment tribunal over their treatment when they complained about a trans colleague using their changing room.  “We have had to go through ‘kindness’ training because of this, and no one who is opposed is allowed to say anything,” Ms Hutchison today told the tribunal in Newcastle.  Ms Hutchison said several colleagues told her they were embarrassed and distressed by having to undress in front of Rose Henderson, a biological male who identifies as a woman. Karen Danson told the hearing on Wednesday that Henderson triggered a flashback to child sexual abuse trauma when they met in the changing room at Darlington Memorial Hospital’s day surgery unit.  She said she became “alarmed” and was left “sobbing and shaking” when her half-dressed transgender colleague “was clearly watching” her in the women’s changing rooms in September 2023."

Trans nurse who used female changing room ‘just a large woman’, NHS says - "A transgender nurse who used a hospital’s female changing room was no different than a larger woman, an NHS boss has suggested.  Eight nurses are bringing a claim against the NHS after Rose Henderson, who was born male but identifies as a woman, was allowed to use the female changing facilities at Darlington Memorial Hospital.  An employment tribunal in Newcastle has previously heard allegations that Henderson, who was bearded, intimidated female colleagues and repeatedly asked one if she was going to get changed.  However, Andrew Thacker, of the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, said during a hearing on Tuesday that Henderson had not acted in a “threatening” way... The tribunal has heard that nurses started to raise concerns about Henderson using the changing rooms in the summer of 2023.  In one incident, a nurse alleged that a half-clothed Henderson “was clearly watching” her as she was about to get undressed and asked her three times if she was going to get changed.  She said the incident had triggered her post-traumatic stress disorder from child sexual abuse... Ms Shields said in her witness statement: “My assessment is that 80 per cent of the female staff at the time were not happy that Rose was permitted to change in our changing rooms.  “The majority of the people that I spoke to were not happy with it.”  She said she asked her manager: “Why were we expected to share our changing room with a male?”"

Meme - J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling: "I never said and never believed Khelif was trans. I knew* he was a man. The gender activists who created a political climate in which sex testing was seen as 'bigoted' are as culpable as the IOC for the travesty that ensued.
*via a highly credible source who saw his test results"
UCD Gender Studies: "J.K. Rowling Invents A Trans Olympian To Get Mad At"

Jon Root on X - "IOC President Thomas Bach just literally said there is no scientific way to determine what is a man and what is a woman…"
From 2024

Will it take a death for IOC to get a grip on boxing gender-row lunacy? - "Disqualified from the 2023 Boxing World Championships for failing sex tests, Lin Yu-ting did not even bother appealing. While Algeria’s Imane Khelif initially protested to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Taiwanese fighter offered no formal objection to test results indicating the presence of male chromosomes. And yet one year later, both of them were given carte blanche to compete on the grandest stage of all, the Olympic Games, with both winning every round of every bout en route to gold medals.  The reason for this travesty of justice was the spinelessness of the International Olympic Committee, so desperate to appease the gender ideologues that it sat back and allowed a procession of women to be smashed in the face by biological males.  At the global level, there has been progress since, with World Boxing – a newly instituted body, and a welcome successor to the IOC’s hopeless “Paris Boxing Unit” – introducing mandatory sex testing to determine eligibility for international events. Khelif, who had previously vowed to sue JK Rowling and Elon Musk for alleged hate speech, promptly withdrew from a scheduled event in the Netherlands. But Lin, it seems, is not taking no for an answer, the 29-year-old entering the Taiwan Games this week and demolishing a teenage opponent so quickly that the fight, in eerie echoes of Khelif’s 46-second mauling of Italy’s Angela Carini in Paris, was abandoned...
Lin Yu-ting, one of the gender-row boxers at last year’s Olympics, has returned to the ring in controversial fashion and beaten a female opponent in 1½ minutes.  Twenty-nine-year-old Lin, who won gold in the women’s featherweight division in Paris, beat Pan Yan-fei, 19, in Taiwan’s National Games.  According to reports, the fight in the women’s 60kg division ended after just 1min 34sec of the opening round after Pan was “subjected to several head shots and appeared short of breath”.  After Pan’s coach threw in the towel, the referee halted the match and the result was recorded as “abandoned”. Lin has not been seen in action at international events since winning a gold medal at Paris 2024 amid the storm of controversy over disputed sex tests.  However, in Taiwan’s National Games, where domestic rules apply, Lin swatted away her opponent with ease."

Olympics ready to ban transgender athletes from all women’s events - "According to World Athletics data, there have been 135 DSD finalists in elite female athletics competition this century.  In a presentation at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this year, Dr Stephane Bermon, the head of health and science, estimated that 151.9 times more DSD athletes had made finals than the DSD incidence in the general population. World Athletics introduced mandatory sex testing ahead of this year’s World Championships, a move Bermon said was necessary because of an “over-representation” of DSD athletes among finalists."

Spell of trans cult has been broken - "The FA left no doubt that it took this decision, banning men from playing women’s football at all levels, with extreme reluctance. Even in the short statement it issued, there was no reference to the women and girls disadvantaged for years by its genuflecting to the fallacy that people could be whatever sex they purported to be.  There was certainly no mention of the girl punished last year for stating biological reality, or of the many courageous women who have been publicly vilified for opposing the gender ideology it so keenly embraced... Even on this long-awaited day, with three major sports accepting the imperative to exclude males from the female category from the grass roots to the elite, the language was pitifully lily-livered.   “Complex”, the FA called it. What exactly is complex about banning males – forget the label “biological males” in this instance, given the Supreme Court’s clarity that there is no other kind – from competing against females in a contact sport?  The only reason it was ever presented as some fiendish dilemma is because the FA, in common with many supine governing bodies, was more interested in pandering to Stonewall lobbyists and militant trans activists than in defending the truth. While the 2010 Equality Act was crystal clear in declaring that sports should be single-sex wherever a physical advantage existed, it has taken until 2025 for the FA to recognise what was staring it in the face. It is unforgivable.  Not that it is the only institution culpable. The ECB has been equally hopeless: it was presented, two years ago, by The Telegraph, with letters from parents of girls as young as 12, all alarmed that their daughters were being sent into bat against a middle-aged man. Six first-class counties demanded answers, but instead the ECB settled on an absurd fudge, making women’s cricket women-only merely for the elite, while leaving the grass roots – where disparities in power between men and women would be most pronounced – a free-for-all.  The excuse was that volunteer umpires could hardly be expected to conduct on-the-spot sex checks. But how disingenuous is this? All that sport had to do was set out an unambiguous policy prioritising fairness for women. Worry about enforcement later. So long as you have a policy, the other elements will fall into place. And yet the ECB preferred to wrap itself up in vacuous mantras about “inclusion”, all the time oblivious to the fact that its stance was serving to exclude women from their own sport."

Meme - "I asked my husband about times he felt euphoria, he said when he won a big prize for his music, when he got the job he had been working towards, when he managed a big case successfully, when the baby was born, when I agreed to marry him. I then asked "did any of those times give you a euphoria boner?" And his response was to ask if I was completely insane because "Nobody gets an erection just because they're happy. A boner is a sex thing.""

Meme - "hey kid! what genitals do you identify with? wanna talk about your genitals? wanna cut em off?"
"hey stop that!"
"OMG! WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH OTHER PEOPLES GENITALS?!"

JD Vance on X - "When I see all these senators trying to lecture and "gotcha" Bobby Kennedy today all I can think is: You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal "therapies" for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of shit and everyone knows it."

Mary Margaret Olohan on X - "BREAKING: The Justice Department is deliberating banning guns for transgenders as part of a range of options blocking mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, @realDailyWire has learned. Story to come."
Lyndsey Fifield on X - "Oh my God he’s done it. This beautiful man has done it. He’s gonna make the left come out with a full throated fever pitch defense of gun rights."

Trans activist ‘deliberately provoked Graham Linehan’ - "A transgender activist deliberately provoked Graham Linehan, the Father Ted co-creator, by putting a camera in his face, a court has heard.  Linehan, the 57-year-old Irish comedy writer, is on trial accused of harassing Sophia Brooks, a trans woman, and damaging the activist’s phone outside a conference in Westminster on Oct 19 last year.  At Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday, Sarah Vine KC, Linehan’s barrister, said Brooks – who had been filming attendees at the event – had in fact been harassing Linehan.  In her closing remarks, Ms Vine said Brooks had followed “a course of conduct designed both to provoke and to harass Linehan”.  She told the trial that there was “a doubt, and a reasonable one at that”, whether marks on Brooks’ phone were caused by Linehan’s actions... Ms Bindel told the court: “He had been his usual friendly self [during the conference] and very quickly he appeared like a man who had had enough. He just wanted them to go away.”  She said that the activist also shouted her name and followed her in the streets after the conference, adding: “I felt scared of him.”  Giving evidence for the defence, Katherine Harris, the co-founder of LGB Alliance UK, told the court that earlier in the evening, she saw Brooks stand up with a camera among attendees during a panel discussion.  Referring to the complainant as male, Ms Harris said: “It was a deliberate, intimidatory move on his part and he would not stop. He was photographing anybody and everybody he could, and it felt intrusive and aggressive.  “It felt as though he wanted to get everybody, to get all of us in his power through his camera, to say, ‘I’m the big man here, I can do what I want’. That was the message. The disruption was complete.”"

Met police to end non-crime hate investigations after Graham Linehan case - "The Met police have said they will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents as the Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan was informed that no further action would be taken after his arrest over social media posts... “After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn’t even bother to attend) the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case. “With the aid of the Free Speech Union, I still aim to hold the police accountable for what is only the latest attempt to silence and suppress gender-critical voices on behalf of dangerous and disturbed men.”... The Met will continue to record non-crime hate incidents to assess potential community tensions."

The Free Speech Union on X - "Former University of Leeds student, @_ConnieShaw , wasn’t just removed from her committee position at Leeds Student Radio. She was faced with potential expulsion from the University of Leeds itself after she interviewed Graham Linehan.   The Free Speech Union, with the help of an external lawyer, wrote Connie a 16 page long legal defence. She was subsequently found not guilty and was allowed to complete her degree.  She was told she could be disciplined again if she spoke about the ordeal publicly. Now that Connie has graduated, she can reveal the full story."

Meme - Claudette (was Clive) @ClaudetteReese: "*Minneapolis shooting* Whilst what they did was horrific, we can be the better people. Respect their pronouns & remove it from the discussions about this heinous act of hatred. Trans is not the problem here."
Of course, if it had been a straight white man, that would definitely have been the problem

Rosie O'Donnell apologizes for Minneapolis shooter claims - "Comedian Rosie O’Donnell issued an apology for alleging the Minneapolis school shooter was a “MAGA person.”  “I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect”... “kill Donald Trump” was inscribed on one of the weapons used.   The shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, whom federal officials referred to as transgender, died by suicide."

Abigail Shrier on X - "Worth remembering that getting biological males into girls’ sports was a DAY ONE priority of the incoming Biden Administration. This ultra-fringe idea was a policy priority for the radicals who were running the show."

Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon on X - "Phase I “No Boy would ever play in a girls sports, it will never happen — you’re crazy”
Phase 2 “its not really happening, you are just gaslighting”
Phase 3 “well maybe it is happening but it is so rare you are making a mountain out of a mole hill”
Event : Boy wins girls track event and girl is forced down on the podium
Phase 4 “Well she just needs to train harder and quit complaining”
Phase 5 “boys are girls and if you say differently you are a bigot”
Phase 6 “Any girl that complains about boys in her sport is a grifter, loser, whiner, idiot, bigot”
-Ahnaleigh is a gifted runner. Maybe a potential Olympic athlete.
-At an event last year she got up on the podium after taking second place only to realize that the person receiving the gold medal was a boy
-When she spoke out, the hate flooded her and her family.
-Her mom has collected some of the greatest hits for you to see what a deranged group of people are saying to a HS girl who has worked her tail off to be a competitor, only to have it stolen by a man. You can listen to her yourself in the video below by @choeshow"

Riley Gaines on X - "This week has been a dream for the women-hating Democrats. Boys stole girls’ state titles, podium spots, or qualifying spots in California, Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota. They swear this isn't actually happening."

Clown World ™ 🤡 on X - "Authorities say a transgender high school student has admitted to planning a Valentine’s Day school shooting and has pled guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.  Investigators allege 18-year-old Trinity Shockley became fixated on the Parkland gunman and intended to carry out a similar attack. A search of the suspect’s home reportedly uncovered a collection of items honoring mass shooters."

MsMbl🏳️‍⚧️ on X - "I’ll never understand why some feminists see the trans community as a threat to women. I grew up in the 80s, I’m a feminist to my core, and I stood side by side with the gay community for their rights. Now I see women claiming we’re fragile, that we need protecting. That’s not the equality I fought for, it’s the opposite as it is suggesting women are the weaker sex!"
Eva Kurilova on X - "Women ARE the weaker sex and it hurts us to a devastating degree to suggest that isn't true. Plus it's just stupid. And if you believe we aren't, then you have to answer why women are seemingly just allowing themselves to be victims of assault, rape, and murder. If we're just as strong then are we just too stupid to avoid it? Absolutely retarded take. I loath these people."

Christina Buttons on X - "Matt, I conducted an informal survey of detransitioners, many of whom began transitioning as minors. A full 85.7% said their healthcare providers told them that being transgender is a biological or medical condition they had no control over.   That’s blatant misinformation—and it played a major role in their decision to transition. No child or adult can give informed consent when their doctors misrepresent the nature of their condition. These providers have shown themselves to be untrustworthy.  The idea that people are “born transgender” stems from flawed interpretations of studies. I’d be glad to explain what those studies set out to find—and what they really say—if you’re interested."
Prisha Mosley🦎 on X - "That’s what my providers told me. I believed that I had a medical condition that was causing me to want to kill myself and feel miserable and that I needed drugs and surgery in order to live."
manta ray flapjack ^,.,^🏳️‍⚧️ on X - "i almost went down this exact pipeline. betrayed by counsolers and people i thought i could trust during my time of greatest need."

English cricket facing legal action over transgender ban - "The Good Law Project, led by activist lawyer Jolyon Maugham, has written to the England and Wales Cricket Board demanding it reverse a decision taken just over a fortnight after April’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.  The ECB was among a number of sports governing bodies to impose such a ban after the UK’s highest court said only those born female should be deemed women under the 2010 Equality Act.  The Football Association made a similar decision to the ECB – one taken almost three years earlier by the Rugby Football Union – following the ruling in a case brought by For Women Scotland.  The Good Law Project appears to have singled out cricket because of it being a non-contact sport, despite the risk of transgender women having strength and speed advantages over those born female... Canterbury County Court dismissed a discrimination claim brought by transgender pool player Harriet Haynes over a ban on those born male playing in women’s competitions. A judge said he was satisfied exclusion was the only “reasonable” way to ensure “fair competition”... “Blanket bans excluding trans people from playing grass-roots sports can have a serious detrimental impact on those people’s lives. For many trans people, participation in amateur sports isn’t just a way to get exercise – it’s where they find community and make friends... “We find girls and women self-exclude when they are treated as less worthy of protection. And we know including males excludes females from female sport.  “Females are constantly told they ought to move over, stay quiet and give up their rights. This can’t be allowed to happen anymore. It’s up to all sports governing bodies, including in cricket, to make non-conforming males feel safe and welcome in male sport.”  The Good Law Project is also taking the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to court, accusing it of “violating” trans people’s rights to privacy."
Why are trans people so obsessed with forcing their way into female spaces?
Apparently transwomen cannot make friends playing in co-ed or male leagues. Why are they so sexist and anti-social?

Lib Dem civil war breaks out over trans rights - "The Liberal Democrats are at war over trans rights after the leadership defied its members and banned biological men from taking women’s posts in the party.  On Tuesday, the party banned trans women from taking women’s positions following the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex.  The party’s LGBT+ group condemned the decision as “trans-exclusionary” and an “attack” on one of the country’s most marginalised groups... The original rules allowed those who “self-identify as women” to stand for party posts set aside for women, which gender-critical activists said diluted the chance that biological women could reach the top of the party.  After receiving legal advice, the party published the new rules on Tuesday, stating that quotas would be applied to people according to their sex at birth, not with their preferred gender identity... The Lib Dems said its rules would also change to ensure that at least one trans person should sit on all its larger committees. A spokeswoman for Liberal Voice for Women said: “It is good to see the party has taken on board legal advice and is now changing its quotas following the Supreme Court ruling to ensure quotas for women are reserved for women.  “However, we are concerned that the new quota guarantees those with a trans identity at least one place on every committee over 10 people, despite the fact trans people are only 0.5 per cent of the population, alongside the fact there is no evidence they are under-represented on Lib Dem committees.” In May, Sir Ed Davey said he accepted the Supreme Court ruling, but unlike Labour, he initially did nothing to change the party’s rules.  The clash comes under the backdrop of a series of trans rows that have engulfed the Lib Dems.  Last month, a Hertfordshire councillor was suspended after allegedly tweeting a picture of a girl aiming a gun, alongside the words “Shut the f--- up, terf”. A terf is a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” and the term is used by trans rights activists as an insulting reference to those with gender-critical views. The image was sent to Natalie Bird, a gender-critical party member who the Lib Dems barred from standing for Parliament in 2018, because of her view that there are only two genders."
As with illegal migrants, following the law is only important to push the left wing agenda

Are the Lib Dems Britain's most hypocritical party? - "Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey wants us all to believe that he and his party are the nice guys of UK politics... Davey was repeating the mantra again yesterday on the opening day of the party’s annual conference, with a call to “reject the divisive politics of Nigel Farage.”  But how unifying the Lib Dems are was amply demonstrated within minutes of the formal opening of the conference, when trans activists successfully prevented a motion on women’s rights being debated. It seems that rejecting division also means refusing to listen to women concerned about their rights to women-only spaces.  The motion, had it been debated and carried by delegates, would have brought the Lib Dems into line with the law as set out by the Equality Act 2010. But the Lib Dems, along with the Greens, the SNP and Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party, are the last bastion holding out for the rights of trans women (biological men) to use and occupy spaces legally reserved for women. Any challenge to this position, even one that is backed by the Supreme Court, is anathema to the Lib Dems, and so the motion wasn’t even debated. So much for inclusiveness and fairness. Davey himself has shown no leadership on the issue. He has been challenged by Piers Morgan, who said to Davey: “In May 2023 you told LBC that women ‘quite clearly’ could have a penis.” To which the Lib Dem leader replied: “Well actually I didn’t say that.” Except he did. When presenter Nick Ferrari asked him, “So a woman can have a penis?” he replied “Well, quite clearly.” Ironically, given yesterday’s shutting down of the debate by his own conference, he used the same LBC interview to demand that the debate on trans rights be carried out with “a bit more maturity and a bit more compassion”. That none of that was seen yesterday is something we should not expect Sir Ed to be drawn on. There are few more divisive issues than the rights of women to their own spaces free from the presence of biological males, however they identify. Yet Davey only addresses it when he’s cornered in a TV studio and has yet to condemn yesterday’s silencing of Lib Dem women.   He may think he’s on firmer ground with his decision to boycott the state dinner for President Trump last week, exploiting his principled stand for all it was worth by letting us all know he had written to the King himself to explain his absence. Yet what value are such acts of ersatz principle when all you’re doing is lazily going with the flow of UK public opinion? Similarly, this great champion of unifying principle wants Britain to be thrown into another unseemly and deeply damaging period of division, all in service of his ambition that Britain should rejoin the EU (gradually, with customs union and then single market membership first: the “boiling frog” strategy).   Having vehemently opposed respecting the result of the 2016 referendum, Davey wants it overturned slowly, subtly, with as little fuss and public debate as possible. For that is the Lib Dem way: by all means subvert democracy (or the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court); just do it quietly, with a smile on your face so that everyone will believe you’re doing it for the right reasons. If true leadership means telling your own followers uncomfortable truths that they don’t want to hear, then Davey has already failed. Opposing Donald Trump is easy, especially when you’re the leader of only the third biggest party in the Commons. Supporting rejoining the EU is easy when most of your party already feels the same.  But on difficult issues like the threat to women’s privacy and safety from the trans rights movement, Davey is, like the SNP leader John Swinney, a prisoner of his own activists. Not for him the courage shown by, for example, Neil Kinnock, who risked dividing his party at Labour’s 1985 conference by denouncing Militant from the platform."

Links - 5th December 2025 (2 - Donald Trump: Capitol Riot, White House Renovations)

Scott Adams on X - "Is the mainstream news not covering the transcript of Trump asking in advance of Jan6th for lots of National Guard help to avoid any violence? Because if that's true, the absurd Jan6th "insurrection" hoax falls apart."

JACK on X - "Notice how quickly trump send National Guard troops to L.A. to calm immigration protests but refused to do the same on Jan. 6 when his supporters were storming the Capitol."
Insane gaslighting. He asked the Pentagon to deploy the National Guard but they ignored him. Not to mention how left wingers actually think the National Guard can be deployed within a few hours and was deployed within that timeframe to crack down on crime

Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - It’s been revealed that the January 6 committee spent $17.4 million in taxpayer funds, more than double its original budget, to hire filmmakers and actors to produce content dramatizing its case against President Trump."

Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say - "A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect... A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters including flexion (knee bend), hip extension, speed, step length, cadence, and variance rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Va., as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video from Jan. 5, 2021. The veteran analyst who ran the analysis for Blaze News said that based on visual observations the program can struggle with, he personally pegged the match at closer to 98%. Kerkhoff, who was a Capitol Police officer for four and a half years, left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail at the Central Intelligence Agency... CIA spokeswoman Liz Lyons stated that the subject worked in campus security. Kerkhoff’s residence in Alexandria, Va., appeared to be under the watch of law enforcement officers on Friday night. Blaze News editor in chief Christopher Bedford was pulled over by local police after stopping to observe the home. He was then allowed to leave. The FBI, which failed to solve the case in nearly five years of investigation but indicated that it was closing in after Blaze News brought its investigation to intelligence sources, was feet from the Falls Church address of the pipe bomb suspect days after Jan. 6... “The FBI put us one door away from the [suspected] pipe bomber within days of January 6, and we were deliberately pulled away for no logical or logically investigative reason,” Seraphin told Blaze News Friday. “And everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one... Seraphin proposed doing a “knock and talk” at the door of an Air Force civilian employee whose address was tied to a vehicle that picked up the bomb suspect in Falls Church, Va., on Jan. 5, 2021. Seraphin’s team spent two days watching the man, but Seraphin’s request to go face-to-face with the person of interest was denied. The team was pulled off the case the same night, he said... The findings were confirmed by several current intelligence sources who viewed the study results... The FBI said an unknown subject placed pipe bombs under a park bench at the DNC and the Capitol Hill Club near the Republican National Committee building between 7:54 and 8:16 p.m. the night before the riot. Discovery of the devices between 12:40 and 1:05 p.m. respectively on Jan. 6 drew already depleted police resources away from the Capitol just as a huge crowd breached the grounds at 12:53 p.m... The possible solution to the pipe-bomb mystery could have far-reaching reverberations. Several officials familiar with the government’s investigative efforts said a new work is urgently needed to determine whether there were co-conspirators who aided and abetted the crimes, and to learn if federal agencies or employees knew who was involved in the bomb hoax and participated in a nearly five-year cover-up. The FBI has faced questions over its failure to make meaningful investigative progress despite offering a $490,000 reward with the ATF, along with a $10,000 reward from the Metropolitan Police Department. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed the bureau conducted an exhaustive investigation... The prospect of a Capitol Police officer being the perpetrator, if confirmed, could recast the entire story of Jan. 6. It could start to unravel the carefully crafted, zealously defended Democrat narrative that massive crowds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as part of an insurrection to keep Trump in office and deny Joseph R. Biden Jr. the presidency. At the same time the FBI was not solving the pipe-bomb mystery, it was carrying out the largest investigation in its history to hunt down the thousands of Americans who went to the Capitol after Trump’s Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse. The FBI under Wray worked in concert with the Biden Department of Justice to put hundreds of Trump supporters in prison. The U.S. Secret Service response to discovery of the pipe bomb under a park bench at the Democratic National Committee building drew fire from congressional investigators and the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General. Speculation that the Secret Service knew the DNC pipe bomb was a dud began when U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) released Capitol Police security footage showing agents acting nonchalantly after a Capitol Police counter-surveillance officer informed them that he found a pipe bomb in the bushes behind the DNC building. Agents stayed in their SUV eating lunch for two minutes before getting out to investigate. They stood feet from the suspected bomb and allowed pedestrians to walk past and vehicles to continue driving within feet of the device. Commuter trains that pass directly next to the DNC building continued to run... A user known as Armitas on social media said the videos released by the FBI had been manipulated to reduce the frame rate. He also provided evidence that the pipe bomber first tried to plant the devices outside the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and a congressional rooming house on C Street the evening of Jan. 5. Shortly after Blaze News’ report on his findings, the FBI released higher-quality footage of the pipe-bomb suspect."

Gain of Fauci on X - "The Capitol Police on in January 6th:
-Planted the pipe bombs.
-Shot and tear gassed peaceful protesters in efforts to agitate them.
-Removed barriers and literally waived people to go towards the Capitol building.
-Opened giant magnetic doors from the inside to allow people in the building.
-Shot and killed an unarmed female veteran (the only person that was killed this day).
-Lied about all of this.
-Also lied about the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died of natural causes.
-Became celebrities that received Congressional and Presidential awards for their “efforts.”
Am I missing anything?"

Eric Matheny 🎙️ on X - "I’ve always wondered how were the Kavanaugh Protests not considered an insurrection, warranting prison terms of up to 22 years? People stormed a government building with the intent to interfere with official business (confirmation of Supreme Court Justice)."

M.A. Rothman | Facebook - "Leftist: Can you name even one day that was deadlier than January 6th?
Dennis Prager: Yeah, any weekend in Chicago."

FBI had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds - "The FBI secretly deployed 274 plainclothes agents into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot crowds, a fact hidden for over four and a half years until current Director Kash Patel’s team turned over a 50-page after-action report to Congress. Agents lacked proper safety gear and clear identification, risking misidentification by other law enforcement... Rank-and-file agents slammed the bureau’s leadership, claiming political bias infected operations under James Comey and Chris Wray. “Our response to the Capitol Riot reeks of political bias,” one agent stated. Another wrote, “We have been used as pawns in a political war.” Agents criticized the FBI’s aggressive pursuit of Jan. 6 cases compared to minimal action against 2020 Black Lives Matter rioters, with one noting, “I do not recall a single instance where the FBI… made any attempt to put the resources behind the summer riots of 2020.” The report reveals internal frustration over the Washington Field Office’s “hopelessly broken” culture, prioritizing “wokeness” over crime-fighting. One agent urged, “The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that… it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously.” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and subcommittee chair Barry Loudermilk demand answers on why courts and defendants were not informed of the agents’ presence, raising concerns about prosecutorial fairness."

Meme - "Photo 1: A man that said there were no undercover FBI agents at January 6th under oath. *Christopher Wray*
Photo 2: A man that sent 274 plain clothed FBI agents to January 6th. *Christopher Wray*"

John Strand on X - "First, we learned the FBI planted 275 undercover agents in the January 6 crowd. Now, evidence shows Antifa operatives disguised as Trump supporters helped ignite the chaos. This was a coordinated attack used to frame innocent Americans and justify tyrannical detainment."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 on X - "I just reviewed footage from Jan 6th. There was Antifa in the crowd, just like I and many others, always said. Eye witnesses in the crowd were literally calling them out. The @FBI has all the cell phone data and more and @FBIDirectorKash should match it with known Antifa members through arrest records from the BLM “summer of love”, Portland, and other riots. If they could track down MAGA grandmas, they can track down Antifa members who incited the violence."
Andy Ngo on X - "New York City Antifa member Talia Jane Ben Ora was at Jan. 6 in a MAGA costume. She was never charged with any crimes that day."

Meme - "If you enter a building illegally, you must face the consequences. *US Capitol*"
"Why are they deporting people that entered the country illegally?"

Meme - Michael McFaul @McFaul: "I have not forgotten January 6,2021."
souparmon @souparmonTN: "We know"
Democratic party as farmer: "GOOD MoR-NinG SUNSHINE!" *many milking buckets*
January 6th: *Scrawny cow that's been milked to the bone*

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 #BREAKING: Radical leftists are ASSAULTlNG ICE AGENTS who are conducting operations in the NYC courthouse ARREST ALL OF THEM ON FEDERAL FELONY CHARGES!"
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 on X - "18 USC 111 - assaulting federal officers. Hundreds of J6ers faced that charge for even minimal confrontations with police. Many denied release pending trial—sentences upon conviction plea ranged between 3 years to 14 years in federal prison."

🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 on X - "And here is: Seven minutes and 27 seconds of seditious conspiracy captured on video tape on American soil on Jan 6. Undercover metro Police and Capital police officers dressed as Trump supporters chanting ‘U.S.A.’ and ‘Our House’ while encouraging protesters to climb scaffolding and walls screaming ‘Help em up!, Help em up!’, ‘Push em up!, Push em up!’
Protestor: “Now they're letting everybody in - there ain't nowhere to go.”
MPD Officer: “yeah…”
MPD Officer: “This is.. I think it’s. They’re going to trap everyone in.”
Another MPD Officer: “Yeah..”"

C3 on X - "Did you know Judge Boasberg protected Ray Epps? He gave Ray probation while locking everyone else up. That is why it is important for Americans to once and for all know if Ray Epps was a federal asset on Jan 6th. (Hint: he was) It would unravel the entire operation."

🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 on X - "And here it is: Capitol Police cuffed an FBI informant—a confidential human source—then brought him into a side, where they happily uncuffed him and fist-bumped him. January 6th was an orchestrated criminal conspiracy—instigated by Nancy Pelosi and others—to cover up the seditious conspiracy that took place on November 3, 2020: the overthrow of the United States government. In other words: one conspiracy after another after another. And the J6 Committee? Just another conspiracy."

Meme - Will Stancil @whstancil: "Is there literally nothing we can do to stop Trump from demolishing the White House? It's our house, not his, it's our history, and he's reducing it to rubble because he wants a monument to himself."
captive dreamer @avaricum777: "The same people who celebrated as our statues got melted into scrap and military bases were renamed in the summer after George Floyd overdosed now have the gall to talk about "our history." Buildings have insurance, don't they? Who cares, its just property."

Meme - "There's literally a Clinton scandal for every tweet she sends."
"After they were criticized for taking $190,000 worth of china, flatware, rugs, televisions, sofas and other gifts with them when they left, the Clintons announced last week that they would pay for $86,000 worth of gifts, or nearly half the amount."
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton: "It's not his house. It's your house. And he's destroying it."
"White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump's ballroom"

Jeffrey Levy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 on X - "Disgusting. How does a lame duck president with 3 years left in his term destroy a 120+ year old historical site? The entire East Wing is gone. He won’t stop there. Republicans silent. He doesn’t plan on leaving."
Left wingers have no concept of legacy

Meme 2017: Madonna: "I'VE THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT BLOWING UP THE WHITE HOUSE" *excited Soyjaks*
2025: *White House renovations* *raging Soyjaks*

Meme - Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson: "Where was this outrage when taxpayer dollars paid for:
- Roosevelt's West Wing
- Taft's Oval Office
- FDR's East Wing and private pool
- Truman's full White House rebuild
- Nixon's bowling alley
- Obama's basketball court"
One left wing cope is that the donors will get kickbacks or benefits, so taxpayers will be paying for it in the end

Shaun King on X - "I actually think it's a great idea to build a big ballroom on the White House grounds. It's virtually impossible to hold events of any size there and they are always wasting millions on tents and heaters and chairs and lights and everything else. Stop acting like you have some emotional attachment to the East Wing. You don't."

alexandriabrown on X - "I am stunned to discover just how many people have no clue that major White House state dinners are held in tents because there is no room in the entire White House complex to hold any event over about 300 people."

Bad Hombre on X - "Trump was already campaigning on building a White House ballroom in January 2016, before the GOP primaries. Trump even says he offered to build one free of charge during Obama’s presidency — but David Axelrod never called him back. Democrats are feigning ignorance."

Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 on X - "*incoherent wailing
Uh... what's wrong?
HE DESTROYED THE WHITE HOUSE
What? When did this happen!
THE EAST WING HE TORE IT DOWN
Oh no that's awful... what's the East Wing?
IT. WAS. A. SACRED. HALLWAY.
Oh like for Christmas trees and stuff? That sucks. OK but why?
TO BUILD A BALLROOMUH
Oh... wait a ballroom? So... so he's like renovating it to be better.
HES DESTROYING AMERICAN HISTORY
Well I agree it's a waste of taxpayer... *mid Google... oh he's paying for it himself. Why are you so hysterical?
*increased incoherent ranting through sobs"

MJTruthUltra on X - "Oh this is just rich… Obama in 2009 tore up the front lawn of the White House and spent nearly $400 million of taxpayer dollars, during a RECESSION, to build a basketball court… CNN gushed over him. Trump is building a ballroom, spending LESS, $300 Million, for a magnificent ballroom, and not a penny of that is coming from taxpayers… CNN is furious. Now, Hakeem Jeffries wants to investigate him, and democrats are worried about preserving history… they literally said the White House was RACIST."

C3 on X - "Obama spent $2 billion in taxpayer money on a website that didn’t work. Biden spent $230 million in taxpayer money on a bridge in Gaza that broke in 21 days. Trump is spending $0 in taxpayer money for a beautiful ballroom in the White House. The Media only cried about Trump…"

Matt Van Swol on X - "Not a single member of Congress upset about the "White House renovation" came and helped Western North Carolina rebuild after Helene. Not one. You want to know who did help us? Trump did. He HELICOPTERED-IN STARLINK and saved lives. EVEN WHEN HE WASN'T IN OFFICE!!!"

Outspoken™️ on X - "Nobody adds a ballroom to a house they plan on leaving."
MILO on X - "The progressive mind cannot fathom doing anything for posterity, legacy, history. It knows only vandalism and destruction. The men who laid the first stones of Notre Dame knowing they would never see it finished are an alien species to these myopic and mentally ill moral midgets."

Kevin Dalton on X - "I wonder why everyone on the left is so upset about President Trump‘s expansion of the White House that is being 100% funded by donations, but have zero interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsom‘s California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA’s and cronyism. It’s (D)ifferent"

Lomez on X - "This morning NPR had on the chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee to explain why Trump's White House renovations are an affront to the history of the building and so on and so forth. This chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee is named Priya Jain. She was born and raised in India. Did her undegrad studies in India. Speaks in a thick Indian accent. And seems to write on exclusively India related topics, with recent academic publications such as “Clean, Cool Air: Health and Air Conditioning in India,” and "Planning of the Indian Institute of Technology (1951) in Kharagpur." This is all fine on its own, but that she is the chair of the American Heritage Conservation Committee and is lecturing Trump form the perch of our National Public Radio on the appropriate architectural design of the White House, seems indicative of... something."

The real reason Democrats are in meltdown over Trump’s White House ballroom - "The renovations will improve the White House complex without damaging the central residence, where the president and his family live and where the historic public rooms are located. The only destruction is to a decrepit wing of offices built by Franklin Roosevelt, now lacking adequate electricity, plumbing, and electronic connections. Republicans add that renovating the White House has been done many times and that the most extensive work, by far, was by a Democrat, Harry Truman, who gutted the entire White House residence and rebuilt the interior... Whatever you think of these arguments, they can’t explain what is most interesting about the dispute: the Democrats’ volcanic anger. They can’t explain why so many are truly enraged by the demolition and new construction. They can’t explain why at least one Democratic lawmaker has made tearing down the new ballroom – after it is built and paid for – a litmus test for his party’s next presidential candidates. That’s because the Democrats’ anger is ultimately not about blueprints, bricks, and mortar. It is about symbols and their meaning, especially the powerful, evocative symbols that define our constitutional democracy... Democrats think the new ballroom will be “too Trumpian”, too much gold leaf and too little upper-class restraint. They make the same point about his redecoration of the Oval Office. These complaints are really a version of Old Money, Ivy League disdain for a president they consider boorish and déclassé. They see Trump as a real-life version of Rodney Dangerfield’s over-the-top character in the movie Caddyshack. They might pause to consider who were really the good guys and bad guys in that movie. The hero was Rodney’s character, Al Czervik, the uncouth, self-made millionaire beloved by the kids who caddied for rich golfers. All of them were outsiders, including Czervik. The insiders were the butt of the joke, the smug, old elite at the country club. Long ago, the caddies’ families would have been Truman Democrats. Today, they are Republicans and none too happy with a Democratic Party that always seems to criticise America. As voters, they care about public safety, taxes, their kids’ education, and dysfunction in Washington, not about how the East Wing is rebuilt. They don’t give a damn about the metaphor. If the White House is given a free upgrade, fine, as long as it doesn’t damage the historic residence. If that’s what Trump gives them, he’ll have the voters support. After he cuts the ribbon, he can raise a gold-rimmed glass in the new ballroom. The Democrats’ fury will have been for nothing."

Palestine: Feeding people as Genocide / Israel as Palestine

Eylon Levy @EylonALevy: "Israel’s decision to insert itself in humanitarian aid distribution has exposed the total bankruptcy of Hamasbara. Feeding people is now starvation."
Muhammad Shehada: "Israel is profiting big time from its genocide: the meager aid packs a few Gazans received today were almost entirely Israeli products with visible Hebrew writing on

So this shell Israeli-American mercenary group is helping Israel make some money from starving Gaza to death!"

Also, somehow, giving away food means you're making money.

"Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM: "Today is a great day to share one of my favorite cartoons, published in the New York Times in 1948. Notice "Palestine" represents the Zionist Jew resisting the Nazi Islamist. At the time, when people said "free Palestine" they meant "establish a Jewish state.""
"Not like Dachau, is it, Herr Mufti?" PALESTINE *man with sword* THE GRAND MUFTI *Nazi swastika*"

Links - 5th December 2025 (1 - Left Wing Economics)

Jacobin on X - "Imagine a vampire came to the New World with Columbus in 1492. If he somehow managed to earn or steal the equivalent of $1 million 2025 US dollars every day, he wouldn't become a trillionaire until about 4232 — 2,740 years later.  Not even Dracula himself would be as effective a blood sucker as oligarchic trillionaires-to-be like Elon Musk."
Friend of the Talking Bird on X - "Flat Earthers have a better understanding of geography than socialists have of economics."
Epistemic Violence on X - "“if you stole continuously for five hundred years you wouldn’t be as wealthy as if you held a large stake in productive enterprises you built” that’s a pretty good reason to be a capitalist instead of a thief, thanks Jacobin!"
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "Leftists mistake wealth creation for theft. In their zero-sum world, if Tesla didn’t exist, its billions would “belong” to the working class, never mind that it wouldn’t exist at all."
Ryan Palmer on X - "They also apparently have no concept of compounding or exponents."

wanye on X - "Leftism has nowhere to go but authoritarianism, because it demands that you ignore incentives and self interest, which no free humans will ever do. So they have no choice but to put more and more restrictions on your behavior, until finally you just don’t have a choice at all."

Meme - Putting Workers 1st: BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS: "Many people don't understand that wealth and money are finite. So people having billions and billions of it means your money is worth less AND there is less for you. Extreme wealth causes extreme poverty and it always will. Billionaires shouldn't exist."
Left winger have a zero sum mentality. They love the fixed pie fallacy. Ironic, since they claim rights are not like cake. When there's a much better case to be made that wealth is not like cake than rights

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
Clearly, they didn't get enough money and it was the fault of capitalism, and if you ask questions you're a bad person who wants people to die

Wall Street Mav on X - "Only in America can a kid wear $150 shoes, sip a $8 coffee, and post from a $1,200 phone about being oppressed and claiming capitalism has failed them."

MC Squared on X - "Many people are convinced they need a therapist, when in reality they might just need a new economic system, and an egalitarian society that offers hope and meaning to their life"
This helps explain why left wingers are mentally ill. The mentally ill look for someone and something to blame for their problems. But it's a self-reinforcing cycle. Hatred destroys the soul.

Meme - @Batman could just use his money to fix all the problems in Gotham! More social aid and investment would solve everything without violeuce!
He does do that. He literally does that all the time. Homeless shelters, reform initiatives for ex-Cons, youth programs, these are all things Bruce does to solve Gotham's underlying social issues. Try reading an actual comic book sometime."

Why do many westerners on reddit want to see the collapse of western civilization so bad? : r/stupidquestions - "I think this is largely lack of exposure and understanding of how things have been historically. To repurpose a quote from the great work One Piece 'Children who've never seen peace and children who've never seen war have different values', except we are also talking about things like starvation aswell.  There are still injustices in the world, and saying things are better than they were doesn't resolve this. However a total collapse situation isn't going to fix this."
"the mindset I have been seeing on reddit is that after the end of capitalism, everyone will be "free" with no elaboration, which sounds just like one of cults that promise eternal bliss"
"That's called "accelerationalism" Its a belief system you will find in people from across a variety of political stances.  The basic idea is they think "I cant wait for society to collapse, then MY ideology, the one correct belief system, will take over!"  Its a very self centered belief that you can find in left, right, and fringe political groups."
"It also shows a severe lack of a knowledge of history."
"True. It reminds me of people who dont understand logistics and seem to believe it is as simple as chucking stuff on a lorry and driving to a supermarket."
Why do many westerners on reddit want to see the collapse of western civilization so bad? : r/stupidquestions - "Exactly. I hate to be that guy but so many of these “anti-capitalists” think the fall of capitalism when result in them not working or working way less. In other words they are lazy. These people ignore the reality that stuff still has to happen. Food needs harvesting, machines need maintenance, infrastructure needs maintaining. We like electricity, plumbing, internet, etc. these things don’t magically appear. It takes people doing work to make it happen. Sometimes that work sucks or has to happen at inconvenient times. “Destroying” capitalism isn’t going to change that."
"You simply have to ask them what they will do when capitalism falls. "I will be growing my own potatoes and teaching poetry in the afternoon" No my dude you will be sent to the mines."

Meme - Nina Turner @ninaturner: "Yes, the person who makes the fries at McDonald's should be able to pay for housing, groceries, and other bills with their paycheck alone."
Major Swagger: "Then I wanna quit my job and make fries at McDonald's Waaaay less stressful"
anordinaryperson @GoodTimes2024: "If pay for work should be based on how stressful it is then CEOs need a pay cut in America because playing golf isn't stressful."

Meme - "GREAT IDEA FOR SOCIALISTS. THE ACTORS UNION WOULD BE THE PERFECT PLACE TO TRY SOCIALISM! AN ACTOR EARNING $20 MILLION COULD REDISTRIBUTE THEIR WEALTH TO GIVE HUNDREDS OF STRUGGLING ACTORS A LIVING WAGE. *Mark Ruffalo*"

Meme - Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo: "It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children's future."
Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff: "Agree, too many getting rich making movies. Entertainment should be free, a public good. No one should profit from it. That's exploitation. Entertainment is a human right. Let's create a Dept. of Entertainment to be the single provider. Equal pay for actors and postal workers!"

Meme - Jen Kiggans @JenKiggans: "Sunday afternoons are for grocery shopping at the commissary. So thankful to the Defense Commissary Agency for taking care of the military families and veterans in Hampton Roads and around the world (and I save an average of $2 $3 off my favorite Tillamook chocolate peanut"
More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS: "This Congresswoman is saving money at a government owned and operated grocery store."
Xavier Morocco @_Xavier_Morocco: "That isn't available to the public, charges a 5% surcharge on all purchases, and is expected to operate at a $26,000,000 loss in FY 2026."
Left wingers were claiming this showed Zohran Mamdani was right and when told it lost money saw no problem with that. They're really clueless

FischerKing on X - "The West has already conquered genuine poverty. Poor people have apartments, cars and flat screens. But what never goes away is envy, which is just rooted in human beings. UBI, even a really good UBI, will not solve this problem. And AI making everyone idle will magnify it."

Meme - Quokka: "I don't like economists"
Nicholas Decker...: "There is no statistically significant impact of income on crime. Criminality and poverty coexist because they are both caused by the same underlying traits. Giving poor people money will not make them any less violent."
"Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children"
Weird. I thought reality had a liberal bias
Clearly, they didn't receive enough money

RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS on X - "That economists are often the only social scientists willing to tell people uncomfortable truths is evidence in favor of the validity of their field."
wanye on X - "Quite a lot of the progressive worldview is just simply not true. One wonders what percentage of progressives are aware of this and still believe it anyway. That’s possible. There are aspects of progressivism that are based on a particular weighting of various trade-offs and that don’t really require that you believe things that simply aren’t true; but what is that — like, 5% of progressives?"

Meme - Crying Soyjak: "RAISE THE TAXES! INCREASE MINIMUM WAGES!"
Shocked Soyjak: "Why is everything so expensive?!"  

Rep. Dan Goldman on X - "If Starbucks can spend billions on buybacks and executive payouts, it can negotiate a fair contract with its workers. The “Red Cup Rebellion” is what happens when a company chooses to union-bust and retaliate against employees seeking a living wage and benefits.  I proudly joined the @Labor_Caucus in demanding Starbucks bargain in good faith."
Bad Hombre on X - "You’re literally the heir of Levi Strauss, which relocated production to sweatshops in Haiti and Honduras, screwing thousands of American workers, and then infamously got caught retaliating against and intimidating workers trying to unionize in those countries."

There is a fatal clash of two ideas at the heart of Western society - "It is the cost of eggs, not the appeasement of Russia, that is undermining the Trump White House and American voters are not shy about saying so. That is because they are unabashed in their belief that the American way of life is based on an abiding principle: that individuals have an inalienable right to improve their circumstances in life by their own efforts. If they find that their aspiration and determination are frustrated by things that are beyond their control like inflation or competition for jobs from illegal migrants, they expect the government to act effectively on those problems. Traditionally in the United States, it has been believed that this was what government was for: to remove obstacles to individual achievement and progress.  Much more recently the European model of state intervention and the creation of a welfare state which is designed to protect the disadvantaged and to care for those who, it is believed, cannot succeed on their own, has been brought into the US electoral arena. It is espoused by Left liberals like Bernie Sanders and the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, who have gained a hearing but whose ideas are still considered exotic and profoundly at odds with mainstream discourse. It is important to appreciate this because, paradoxically, it could help to illuminate the identity crisis that European democracies are undergoing. Americans who demand that the obstacles to individual success and personal advancement be removed – that it is, in fact, the most important function of government to remove them – do not see themselves as selfish or callous. On the contrary, they believe quite sincerely that they are upholding an important moral standard: individuals must fulfil their potential and make the effort to succeed as best they can in order to take responsibility for their own lives. Most importantly, to as great an extent as possible, they must see to it that their children will have greater opportunities for self-advancement than they did. That was, and still is, the great American promise.  But it is not only Americans who think this way. Large proportions of the populations, perhaps majorities, of almost all the European democracies believe it too. Self-determination, the right to make your own decisions and take control of your own fate, could be said to be the whole point of a free society. Whether they would say so explicitly or not, most people feel that they should be able to take decisions for themselves about their social and economic condition – and that they should be prepared to accept the consequences of those decisions. Indeed, they believe that it is the possible consequences – the risks – that may follow from those choices which are the only things that make people behave sensibly. It follows that they resent the idea that the state should support those who have made no effort to improve their lives.  They do not see this resentment as nasty or unkind. On the contrary, they regard it as a conscientious expression of concern for the longer term well-being of those who might be consigned to lifelong failure. This perfectly plausible moral view has been almost drowned out in European politics by generations of  class-based ideology. The very idea of a public morality based on individualism – generally termed “selfish individualism” – was attacked. Then there was the inviolable credo that those who appeared to fail, even if they refused to try, were not to blame. Their bad choices were determined by the misfortune of their circumstances which were out of their control.  In some cases, of course, this would be true – but as a general principle applied to the whole of a population it became an insidious vindictive force: all those who succeeded were guilty of stealing wealth and advantage from all those who failed. Allowing people to prosper and achieve the rewards of their own ingenuity or hard work could not be acceptable because their success created inequality and was, in effect, a form of theft from those who lacked those fortunate traits. The only decent political solution was to take some of that advantage away and hand it out to those who, through no fault of their own, had achieved less. Wealth redistribution or, as it came to be known, “social fairness”, relied on the idea that even your apparent virtues – self-reliance, responsible behaviour, determination – were actually unfair privileges.   If your actions are constructive and conducive to success, that is just the good luck with which you happened to be gifted at birth. The problem for contemporary democracy is that a great many people believe this too. In fact, it is probably the case that a majority of the populations of Western countries believe both of these arguments – that people should be rewarded for succeeding by their own efforts, and that they should be penalised by having to support those who have not made an effort. It has simply become impossible for societies to sustain this contradiction any longer."

Rob Moore on X - "Socialism is when you take £10,000 from one productive person who works & give £1,000 to 10 people who do not work, and then blame the one productive person for all the country’s problems so the 10 people will vote for you Then the productive people leave & the system implodes on itself"

John Rain on X - "Having antisocial behavior is influenced 41% by genetics, according to this study published in the Journal of Criminal Justice."
Proof that poverty causes crime

Billie Eilish's $11,500,000 donation sparks confusion - "While on stage accepting her award at the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards, Billie, 23, took aim at the billionaires in the room. ‘If you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to some people that need it,’ the Birds of a Feather singer said. ‘Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties.’... However, backlash bubbled when fans noted that while Billie’s speech urged billionaires to give up their own wealth, the money didn’t appear to have come from her own funds. Billie’s net worth is an estimated $50million (£38million) for her music, brand deals, and other business ventures. Instead, it’s believed a large portion of the money came from fans willing to pay extra at her tour — which she did not mention in her speech... ‘Wait what 😭😭😭 she charged her fans extra and she is claiming it as a donation as if she made it from her own pocket and personal gain,’ imalltoowell wrote."
Like with Ms Rachel, literally 五十步笑百步

Sam Schulenberg on X - "Abundance is rejected by sections of both the DSA and the establishment left because it treats policy as a tool to deliver what people need (more homes, cheaper electricity) rather than a weapon in a performative class war or a spoils system for favored interests and industries."

50 Nerds of Grey | Facebook - ""I once saw someone use food stamps to buy..." Why are you watching what other people buy? 🤔 Normal people don't do that. Please be normal."
Of course, these are the same people who keep bitching about billionaires buying yachts

Evie ♡ on X - "if you believe that someone needs to work in order to not starve or freeze to death then you’re a horrible person. i don’t make the rules"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This guilting approach just doesn't work on me, personally, at all. I have no duty to give hostile strangers my resources, if they are ALSO so lazy and useless they might otherwise die."
To think we used to be told "the world doesn't owe you a living"

Seattle’s New Socialist Mayor Goes Full Communist, Says She Won’t Allow Private Grocery Stores To Close - "Democratic Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that she will not allow private grocery stores to close in a resurfaced video from September.  Wilson said during her mayoral run that corporate grocery chains should not be allowed to only sell food to those who can afford it and expressed support for a “public option,” meaning that government-run grocery stores would be established. Her proposal emerged at a time when Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had promised to establish government-run grocery stores throughout the city.  “Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores that will leave behind food deserts,” Wilson said. “Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural, corporations create them when they abandon our communities.”"
Next step - nationalise them!

antifa🔻girlfriend on X - "boy i sure do love exiting subway stations through the emergency exit door! unfortunately i am a very slow walker and easily distracted so sometimes i look up from my phone and find that i’ve been holding the door open for a minute or more without even realizing it"
Daniel Trubman on X - ""More of the economy should be publicly owned" and "It's good to steal from publicly owned agencies" seem like obviously contradictory statements, but somehow it's the primary stance of a lot of DSA types? Sewer Socialists would hate these people."
keysmashbandit on X - "Literally why. Why. Why. Why. Why. It costs money to run the trains. They're good for everyone. Modern miracle. Under what leftist philosophy would you want to fare evade. I don't understand it."
wanye on X - "One thing you notice with communist types is that they experience a kind of mental anguish in regards to things most of us are fine with, like paying for things that they genuinely find useful and good. Like, when I pay my rent or my mortgage I feel fine about it. But they experience deep psychological torment.  They’re not faking it. You almost have to feel sorry for them that they’re so bothered by such ordinary aspects of life."
The left wing position is that these things should be tax-funded, but they have no answer to the death spiral where higher and higher taxes are imposed on fewer and fewer productive activities, since they want more of the economy to be public

Why do right wingers vote against their self-interest more than left-wingers? : r/AskSocialScience - "This isn't really answerable unless you clearly define what "one's self interest is."  If a left wing movie star votes for higher taxes, it's not in their immediate financial interest but might be in their long term financial interest or might be indirectly in their interest if it helps their community.  If a right wing business tycoon votes for lower taxes, it might be in order to give more money to charity to help their community or to hire more workers in their community, etc.  So what kind of interests are we talking about? Moral? Financial? Structural? Who are we talking about? The wealthy? The poor? Specific racial or ethnic groups? And are we talking about short term interests? Long term interests? Direct effects? Indirect effects?  Even getting much more specific like this, it would be hard to establish even your premise, but at least it would approach answerability. As a case in point, here's an attempt to analyze self interests by political party for just housing policies:  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/711717  If you even just read the abstract, you'll get the idea that decision making when voting is far more complicated than simply being for it against one's self interests."

Meme - Rock @TheCensoredRock: "Me going to work everyday and paying for my own shit doesn't make me "lucky""
Liberal Jane @liberaljanee: "You are not 'better' than someone on welfare - just *luckier*"
Left wingers don't believe the "oppressed" have agency

Craig Weiss on X - "imho, when you hit $1B+ net worth, you are morally obligated to serve the human race"
Bojan Tunguz on X - "imho, if your $1B+ net worth was achieved through a successful business, then you have already served the human race more impactfuly than the 99.9999% of all humans who have ever lived. and far, far more than all the petty grandstanders."

Wall Street Mav on X - "“ if you are getting 85% of your needs met through food stamps, Medicaid and rent subsidies, and then someone offered you a job for 40 hours per week…”  “ work 40 hours to get 100% or do nothing for 85%. People looked at that and said 85% is fine.”  “ and once people figured that out, there was no way to get them out of that.”"