The left is intellectually exhausted

The left is intellectually exhausted
Ironically, so-called progressives have absolutely failed to move with the times

In justifying his defection from the Conservative Party to Reform, Robert Jenrick expressed his frustration that many of his former Shadow Cabinet colleagues did not share his view that Britain was fundamentally “broken” when the question was put to them. Given the events surrounding this admission, it has been largely overlooked just what a damning indictment of the party that governed the country for fourteen of the last fifteen years it is for them to be having heated internal debates over whether they have left the country “broken”. Not struggling, or underperforming, or declining — completely broken.

The perception of Britain as broken is widespread with voters, with over three in four voters agreeing that Britain is broken in a poll last August. Given this deep and widespread dissatisfaction with the country’s politics following over a decade of rule by Britain’s (nominally) right-wing party, it would be natural to assume that the political left were in the ascendancy, capitalising on the rejection of the Conservatives’ deeply unpopular record. Surely Britain’s leftists have been winning people over with narratives of decline and renewal. After all, they had fourteen years to create them.

Well, not quite. The two parties currently polling highest are both firmly of the right, with Labour left languishing in third place. Instead of offering an optimistic vision on how to fix a broken Britain, or even a serious analysis of how it came to be broken, British left of centre politics — from its more moderate wings currently governing the country to its outer fringes — is suffering from complete intellectual exhaustion.

This is made all the more surprising considering the hegemonic dominance of the left within the country’s major institutions of knowledge production, most strongly within academia. Yet for all this dominance of the country’s once venerated academic institutions, the left’s intellectual landscape is remarkably barren. It is yet to produce an accurate sociology for the Britain that has emerged this century, in which rapid demographic changes have rendered many previous social categorisations largely redundant. When attempting to explain why so many people feel like Britain is broken, the left shies away from an original interrogation of the changes that have taken place over the last few decades that have shaped and distorted the country’s economy. As covered by Chris Bayliss, Britain’s economy is increasingly run by diktats, legal requirements and opaque subsidies that have crushed the market mechanism and obscured price signals. Instead of having an economy driven by private profit, Britain has engineered one intended to satisfy a variety of social objectives, be they inclusion of certain minorities, wealth transfers to selected groups, environmental goals, regional rebalancing, and so on. What many on the left claim as their objective — an economy geared towards meeting social needs rather than generating profit — is one that Britain is long down the road in trying to create. The result is that most people now think their country is broken. 

Instead of reckoning with the ways in which the implementation of social obligations have caused economic disfunction, the left conveniently ignores the erosion of the market economy, falling back on an analysis of Britain’s malaise that bovinely repeats buzzwords — neoliberalism, financialization, market fundamentalism — from two generations ago, regardless of how meaningless they have since become. With such an outdated analysis, it is no wonder that the solutions proposed are also those of generations passed. Rent control, wealth taxes, renationalisation, more corporate regulation — the Big Ideas the left now touts as the way to fix Britain are simply a rerun of the ones that were discredited a few decades ago, though we are promised that somehow perhaps this time it will be different.

Just as the left has failed to provide a cogent analysis of the economic trends of the last decades, so too has it failed to understand the enormous impact of demographic changes wrought by mass migration. Opposition to immigration has been treated as a pathology to be deconstructed or explained away rather than a rational political position, with adherents to such views categorised either as unwitting victims of false consciousness, or irredeemable bigots cruelly lashing out due to their own failings. National identity is treated as an anachronism, something the left always assumed would naturally dissolve away as class identification superseded such confused and artificial divisions. When the left has approached British national identity, it has been either to deconstruct it as artificial and therefore implicitly invalid, or to scold it for its association with perceived historic wrongdoings and upholding the categorical evils of white supremacy, colonialism, racism, and so on. 

Britain is indeed confused about its own national identity, having never properly interrogated what it meant to be British once the Empire had dissolved and its settler colonies gone on to develop national identities of their own. Since the turn of the century, multiculturalism was imposed from above as the guiding light of Britain’s post-Imperial identity. There was no rigid definition of Britishness, no need to be of a certain ancestry or even to have been born in the country. A piece of paper declaring one British would suffice, with adherence to a set of vague liberal values preferable but not mandatory. But demographic developments have rendered this vague definition unsustainable. Much to the left’s consternation, older conceptions of national identity tied to ancestry have been growing in popularity despite a concerted effort by all organs of the state to convince people otherwise. So what is the left’s response? What convincing alternative do they put forward? “Mr Blobby patriotism” and a conception of British identity centred on TV adverts and fart jokes.

Such a profound failure to confront the realities of modern-day Britain means that the left will continue in its failure to deliver in government and form a coherent understanding of why it keeps failing. Instead of taking this moment to look outwards to the country and offer a constructive vision, the British left can offer only a continued project of deconstruction of Britain’s institutions and passing obsessions with global social movements — climate, Black Lives Matter, Gaza — that elicit flashes of fanatic zealotry before being dropped and forgotten. Perhaps before continuing to misdiagnose why Britain is broken, the left would do well to look inward and analyse why it too has ended up intellectually broken.

 

 

 

Links - 23rd January 2026 (1 - Migrants: UK)

Equality chief’s migrant comments a ‘disgrace’, say Tories - "The Conservatives have described the new equalities watchdog chief’s warning against talking about the risks of migration as “a disgrace”. Mary-Ann Stephenson, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), criticised “the creating [of] this idea that migration causes huge risks for the country” in her first major intervention since taking up the role this month... Mr Philp claimed that the influx of migrants had undermined social cohesion, saying: “These comments by the new Labour-appointed human rights chief are a disgrace. Once again, the Left tries to paint those opposed to mass immigration and illegal immigration as racist.” “Mass migration with no integration has undermined social cohesion. Sex crimes by foreign nationals are up 62 per cent, foreign criminals and illegal immigrants routinely abuse human rights, modern slavery and asylum laws to stay in the UK... Mr Philip’s response follows criticism by Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, who said: “Reform believes we should deport terrorists, rapists and serious foreign criminals. The vast majority will agree with me that we must prioritise the rights of British people, whatever their ethnicity.” In an interview published on Monday, Dr Stephenson said migrants should not be demonised... The role that human rights protections play in allowing migrants who reach Britain illegally is at the centre of public debate about the small boats crisis. Both the Tories and Reform, who are leading the opinion polls, have vowed to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the treaty that migrants have used to argue they have the right to a family life in the UK. Critics have warned that the ECHR’s protections are being exploited by people who have crossed the English Channel without permission in order to fight deportation. Labour has committed to staying in the ECHR, insisting that the record flow of small boats can be tackled without leaving the treaty. Before taking up the role, Dr Stephenson lobbied the Government to abandon its “smash the gangs” policy on small boats. She has also called for more asylum seekers to be allowed into the country, comparing criticism of refugees to “hostile politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past”. Immigration has been listed as the issue of most concern to voters during 2025. That coincided with Reform topping opinion polls for most of the year."
It's only oligarchy for the government not to follow the will of voters when it pushes the left wing agenda

UK plans to end 'failed free market experiment' in immigration - "The British government outlined plans on Sunday to end what it called the "failed free market experiment" in mass immigration by restricting skilled worker visas to graduate-level jobs and forcing businesses to increase training for local workers... Under the government's new plans, skilled visas will only be granted to people in graduate jobs, while visas for lower-skilled roles will only be issued in areas critical to the nation's industrial strategy, and in return businesses must increase training of British workers. Companies in the care sector will no longer be able to seek visas for workers recruited abroad... After Britain eventually left the EU in 2020, the then Conservative government reduced the threshold to allow workers in categories such as yoga teachers, dog walkers and DJs to be eligible for skilled worker visas."
From May. Weird, the libertarians claim that open borders help the economy

Starmer to rent homes for migrants
Matt Goodwin on X - "The British people are now in the truly ABSURD position of having their own money being used by the state to outbid them for housing in the private sector —housing that’s now going to migrants who broke our laws. The Tories & Labour created this chaos Send them a message"
Vauban Books on X - "“Europe is the first continent to pay for its own colonization.” - Renaud Camus, Enemy of the Disaster"

BBC Newsnight on X - ""We absorbed 250,000 Ukrainians... Why is it that we can do that for people from one country but not from anywhere else in the world?" Ellie Chowns, Leader of the Greens in Westminster, wants to tackle illegal crossings by providing "safe, legal and managed routes." #Newsnight"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "Quite incredible to be so ignorant about such an important issue. Ukrainians are real refugees — women and children. Afghanis are young men "fleeing" from oppressing women themselves. When they come to Europe, Ukranians are good citizens and follow the law. When they come to Europe, Afghanis and other Muslims commit a lot of violent crime and rape."

Another massive blow to Britain’s economy is on the way (fka "Donald Trump could bankrupt Britain with the stroke of a pen") - "Net inward migration has reached staggering levels in Britain. We are absorbing such high numbers that even 250,000 would seem like a modest figure. Many arrivals are imposing huge fiscal costs; our public services and infrastructure are buckling under the strain. Failure to bring it down trashed the contract between government and citizen, destroyed public faith in the political class and may end up putting the Tories on an electoral par with the Monster Raving Loony Party. Amid this slow-motion disaster, it’s easy to forget that, not so long ago, Britain was a nation of emigrants. It was an exodus of people which kept politicians awake at night, not an in-flow of 1.2 million. Between 1815 and 1914 some 10 million people left these islands to seek new lives and opportunities in Australia, Canada, the US and New Zealand. After the Second World War, so many fled that Winston Churchill issued a plea against the desertion of “the old land”, later describing emigrants as “rats leaving a sinking ship”. The cost of fighting the most expensive war in history had triggered a series of economic crises – massive national debt, increased rationing, housing shortages – which swiftly dissolved any post-victory euphoria and pushed people to seek prosperity elsewhere. Even as late as the mid-1980s more people were leaving the country than entering it, despite the near mythologised Windrush generations. Today, tired of flatlining growth and stagnant living standards, the rats are again packing their bags. This is now a country where 28 million private sector workers are expected to support nine million who are economically inactive, six million public sector staff and 13 million state pensioners. Where the top 1 per cent of earners pay 29 per cent of income tax and the top 10 per cent pay nearly two-thirds, and are then pilloried for failing to pay their “fair share”. No wonder 400,000 workers are reportedly planning to move abroad in the next two years. It’s a miracle the figure isn’t higher. Even in the aftermath of Brexit, leaving has never been easier. Psychologically, it’s no longer the commitment it was in the days of the Ten Pound Poms heading Down Under, or the Irish taking a week-long steamship journey to Ellis Island. Cheap flights and improved communications have made the process far easier... Close to 250,000 British expats are now living in Dubai, with a similar number in Abu Dhabi. And the more British people there are in these cities, the more palatable they will seem to those left behind. Back in the 1940s, Ontario Premier George Drew staged a series of publicity stunts to attract British immigrants. Today, Elon Musk believes that, “if you want your team to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be”. Were his buddy Donald Trump to open up a visa route to our top earners, it would surely plunge Britain into an even greater fiscal crisis. Frankly, it would be precisely what our useless politicians – though not our once-great nation – deserve. Having treated the hard-working less as a prized horse pulling a wagon than a nag to be flogged until it collapses, they can’t be surprised that so many are starting to make hay elsewhere. The UK lost a net 10,800 millionaires to migration last year, a 157 per cent increase on 2023 and more than any other country bar totalitarian China. There’s still hope. When a population has sufficient energy and drive and the conditions are right, recovery can be rapid. Think West Germany and Japan after World War II. But that relies on giving people the opportunity to build back again. Look also at Zimbabwe and South Africa – wealthy countries all but destroyed by incompetent and vicious, predatory governments. And with every net zero, DEI, welfarist, tax-and-spend policy Labour is moving our future further from the first world towards the junk heap. For many contemplating emigration, the question may soon be “when”, not “if”."
Weird. Left wingers keep claiming that millionaires will never move despite how disastrous left wing policies are and how much the rich are targeted

I visited the UK town where 43% cannot speak English – I was left shocked - "Visiting North Evington in Leicester - a town where 43% of residents cannot speak English - I was taken aback. Statistics had already hinted at the problem, but it wasn’t until I tried speaking with local residents, shopkeepers, and councillors that the reality truly struck me. Walking along the high street, it was easy to forget I was still in England. To my left stood Dipika’s beauty salon, Shiv Shak’s eatery, the Desi Sweet Centre, and Szechwan Spice. Across the road, signs advertised ‘Abdul Enterprise’ next to Sabziiwala Cash and Carry, while a group of young men crowded inside DFC, a halal chicken shop. The majority of conversations I overheard were in languages other than English, and most shopfronts, posters, and advertisements followed suit. The 43% figure soon felt like an understatement... I’ve had more fluent conversations in shops abroad than I managed here, in an English town. For the first time in Britain, I felt like an outsider, and that I should’ve instead been able to speak Punjabi... choosing to live here for decades without learning more than a handful of English words is not only irresponsible - it is lazy."

We live in Britain's 'valley of strangers': Inside Muslim-majority northern town where locals say there is 'no point speaking English' and others say 'no one talks to each other' - "Once famed for its cotton weaving industry and confectionary factories Nelson made its name and fortune during the industrial revolution, thanks to its strategic location close to the Leeds and Liverpool canal."

I've started sailing as a hobby. What is the correct legal response for when I encounter small boats and irregular migrants? : r/LegalAdviceUK - "I've taken early retirement and started sailing as a hobby. Been doing it for about 2 months now, and during that time I've encountered 2 small boats within talking distance and 3 more that were too far away to talk to. My boat has a capacity of 10 people. I could maybe hold 16 at a push. The Merchant Shipping Act 1995 says I must offer help to people if able to safely do so. I have some very specific questions which I need answered. I am not looking for any discussion about political issues. Please just answer the questions. I've tried using AI, but they give contradictory answers.
1.) If I see a small boat of irregular migrants which is in trouble, I am obligated to help them. Is this correct?
2.) If there are more people on the boat than my boat can accommodate, I am legally obligated to help as many as I can?
3.) What happens if a boat notices my boat and begin sabotaging/rocking their own safe boat to try to secure a lift from me? This has happened on one occasion. I sped away.
4.) The one time I did assist a small dinghy of 4 which was sinking, I initially tried to bring the migrants back to closer shores from where they had come from. This would have been French territory. I was intimidated and threatened into going to the UK. If I do rescue migrants again in the future, will I get in trouble for bringing them to UK shores?
5.) Can I use my past experience of being threatened as a justification for rejecting to assist any future obligations I have under the Merchant Shipping Act?"

Caste-based discrimination at my workplace. Is this illegal under UK law? I can't find caste as a protected characteristic. Would race count? : r/LegalAdviceUK - "I'm a British-Indian woman working in London. I am being discriminated against by other Indian and British-Indian employees because of my family's caste. This includes management. This includes not be considered for promotion, less competent people being promoted ahead of me because they are of a higher caste, and constantly being talked over/ignored/having credit taken for the work I do by members of higher castes. Does the ECHR or UK law protect someone like me from this type of discrimination?"
Time to do more to combat racism by banning Reform
Mirror

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
Back from holiday. Random people living in our home. Police won't remove them as they presented a fake "tenancy agreement."
We've already got a solicitor saying they'll call us back in the morning, but we're freaking out right now. There's a random group of people we don't know in our home. The locks have been changed. Police were called, but the family inside presented a fake tenancy agreement that we NEVER signed. We've been told to sit tight until tomorrow, but there's people in our home, My husband wants to break in and throw them out with his brothers. I've told him not to do this. From what we know it looks like 4 males in 20's and 30's and 1 woman in her 20's.
FAQ:
Yes, we've called police Yes, we've called insurance No, we can't speak with the intruders, Police had to use thebigword to talk with them at first. They don't speak English. Yes, we've got a solicitor calling us back at tomorrow. We're in England No, calling the police back and reporting robbery isn't working. They know what's going on at this property and aren't intervening."

Britain has lost control of its borders, admits Defence Secretary - "The Defence Secretary has admitted that Britain has “lost control of its borders” after nearly 1,200 migrants crossed the Channel in a single day on Saturday. John Healey described the scenes as “shocking” and said people-smugglers were able to load small boats on French shores “like a taxi”."
From June

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK: "One of my councillors is campaigning to be elected as an MP in a completely different country. Is this legal?
As the title states; one of my local councillors is campaigning to be elected as an MP in a different country (not a different part of the UK - a completely different country). I'm getting adverts on Facebook and I follow them on social media. They're using their councillor page to advertise their candidacy for this election in a completely different country. Is it legal for an elected official living in the UK to stand for election in a country on the other side of the world?"

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
My father died in hospital because the two nurses attending him could not communicate with each other or the doctor.
Father died in hosptial last week in England. The cause of his death was a medication error. The two nurses who were looking after him were unable to communicate with each other. My father's best friend and I watched as they frantically bounced between English and two other languages. Neither one was capable of speaking proficient English. When a doctor rushed on to the floor neither nurse could clearly tell the doctor which medication had been administered that caused the reaction. He pointed at a computer and asked them to bring the records up. From what I gather, neither nurse had bothered entering or finishing entering their records on the computer system. My father passed away in front of me and his best friend because of this medication error. It's been a week now and the hospital still hasn't contacted me to apologise or offer an explanation for what they are doing about these two nurses. His best friend and I complained 2 days after he passed. Is there any way I can get the police involved in this? Would it count as manslaughter in some way?"

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
I'm concerned that two students in my daughter's school are actually adults.
Daughter is starting her GCSEs this year. Her year has had several new non-English speaking students join them and she is sharing about half of her classes with two of them. They are extremely disruptive during lessons and my daughter and her classmates feel like they cannot learn or concentrate while these students are present. They've also been harassing other girls in the classroom (Unwanted attempts at flirting, touching etc) This is something which we reported to the Year Teacher on Friday afternoon. We don't yet know what is coming of it. Another major concern is that these two boys do not appear to be 14 years old like my daughter and her classmates. My daughter and her friends have photos from the playground and, at an estimation, these men appear to be quite clearly 20-24. They look like university students. My two concerns are:
1.) These students have lied about their age; and
2.) Their behaviour is disrupting my daughter's education.
The Year Teacher said that they cannot independently investigate or question the age of students, but he did silently and enthusiastically nod his head and purse his lips when we said they don't look 14. I'm supposed to be meeting with the Year Teacher again today at to discuss what actions are being taken in light of the harassment/unwanted touching etc. Is it worth me involving the police at this stage? Or would that undermine the school's investigation? For reference, the school has been VERY good at handling these things so far. My daughter got bullied when she was 12 and the school came down on it like a tonne of bricks. It was handled within 3 hours of reporting and never happened again. Bullies received suspensions almost instantly."

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
My son is isolated at school as he is the only native English speaker in his class. Other children prefer to speak with friends in their native languages. Is it legal for my wife and I to homeschool him instead?
For the past 3 years our son has been having an ongoing issue in his school. He is being isolated and ignored by the overwhelming majority of his class who either cannot speak English, or simply prefer to communicate with friends in their native language. The school has attempted to handle this, but three years later our child still stands alone in the playground with no one interacting with him. In addition to the isolation aspect, his teacher also privately expressed frustration that language barriers were slowing the pace of lessons. Outside of school our son has 6+ friends in both English-speaking and Tagalog-speaking communities, so this isn't an issue of autism or Asperger's where these children sometimes prefer to be alone. The isolation is upsetting my son. My wife and I are both intelligent individuals with masters degrees. However, neither of us have any background in teaching, Would it be acceptable to home school our son for 3-4 years until he moves to secondary school? This is not for religious or cultural reasons. We're looking to give our child the full proper curriculum - nothing excluded"

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
Pakistani husband is marrying a second wife abroad against my wishes
Hi everyone, just looking for some legal advice if you can help me. I live in England, Uk. My husband of 30+ years and 7 kids together had left to Pakistan to visit his mother a few months ago. I've now received news that he is marrying a second wife to take care of his mother when he returns to the UK. His mother is not sick nor disabled. She can walk, feed and clothe herself, but he has lied to me and said she needs a carer to look after her as she is severely sick. I've been told off trusted relatives that she is completely healthy, and it's all a ruse so he can marry a younger wife (in her 20s) when he is nearly 50 years old. He's a disgusting and vile human being. He knows I have told him no, and I wish to separate with him completely when he returns in a few weeks. I don't want him to be allowed in my house with the children, but he does own half the house. How can I stop him from entering the home? He has betrayed me in the worst way possible and he has abused me physically, mentally, financially and emotionally as long as we have been married. I almost feel I can now finally get rid of him from my life. I need some legal advice please on who I can contact and what the best thing to do is for me and the children. Thank you"

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
I won in county court fast track £13k. I warned the judge that the man who stole from me would flee to Pakistan. Judge let him pay £200 per month and he fled to Pakistan.
I am sorry for my English I am from Hong Kong and working here in Engineering. l am have flatmate from Pakistan. We shared in London. He stole £7,000 of Oolong tea and family valuables from me of £6,000. Police told me it was the civil matter and I must go to court. I go to county court and win with evidence. The judge says he can pay me £200 per month of 6 years to recover my money and fees. However I tell the judge he is planning to flee London and go to Pakistan. I have evidence. The man lies to judge and says he doesn't go to Pakistan ever but he always goes. After court he flees to Pakistan. I get no money for 2 months now. Can I complain about judge? I warned judge this is exactly what would happen but judge did not believe me"

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
Extreme pressure from local community not to involve police when my shop is a victim of criminal offences.
Im in England. I dont want to go into anything too specific for fear of revealing my identity. Lown a small shop in England. My community has recently begun attempts to coerce us into not using the police for crimes which impact us. They would rather we handle these issues through our community leaders. Everything from theft to assault to staff disputes- they want it going through the local community first. Another shop owner than ran a chicken place called police for some incident and ended up being the target of a "shunning" campaign. Obviously I'm rather wary of calling police myself now, but my business insurance isnt going to cover me if I haven't been going through proper reporting channels with the police. Especially if something major happens. Are there any UK government or police support schemes for businesses like mine who are facing threats of intimidation if we call or use the police?"

Darren Grimes on X - "The BBC: 17-year-old Afghan "boys" rape a 15-year-old "woman." Read that again. The rapists get the protection of childhood while the child victim is aged-up to soften the blow. It’s not just bias; it’s psychopathic gaslighting from a media class that despises the public they’re meant to serve. Westminster is busy playing dress-up and chasing net-zero fantasies while our streets become a free-for-all. They’ve sold out British girls to protect a failing "diversity" narrative. The establishment isn't just out of touch—they’re actively working against us. Enough is enough. 🇬🇧"

Albanian burglar who cannot be deported taunts Home Office from Mayfair nightclub - "Dorian Puka can be seen smoking a shisha pipe as he sits in the Cirque le Soir club surrounded by burlesque dancers and thousands of pounds’ worth of champagne. The 31-year-old was jailed and deported twice after committing a string of burglaries, but sneaked back into the country on each occasion. Following his most recent return, he is attempting to claim asylum, leaving the Home Office effectively powerless to take action against him until his case is heard. He has spent the past year taunting the Home Office with TikTok and Instagram videos showing his lavish lifestyle. Before posting the video of himself at Cirque Le Soir, he published a video showing off his black Rolls-Royce Cullinan, with his “£10k” hybrid Savannah cat – a cross between a domestic and wild cat species – sitting on top of it."

Labour Blasted Over 'Utter Disgrace' Plan: Migrants To Reportedly Get New-Build Social Homes - "Labour's ambitious £100 million pilot scheme to house asylum seekers in newly-built social properties has drawn fierce condemnation from Conservative and Reform politicians, who argue the Government is abandoning its own citizens in favour of recent arrivals... Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp minced no words. 'There are more than 1.3 million people on the waiting list for council housing and yet thanks to Labour, people who come to this country illegally will jump to the front of the queue'"

Links - 22nd January 2026 (3 - General Wokeness)

Iresist on X - "Funny how I’m ‘hated’ for speaking my mind while others get praised for it. I get dragged for defending myself, but when Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift do it, it’s called empowerment. Same energy, different standards"

Woke agitators blocked a bridge and discovered Kentucky police do things differently. Breakdown here. - "They didn't just "cross the bridge." They blocked traffic while waving the flags of a foreign entity. 👇... Some of the protesters mistakenly thought they had the right to block a critical bridge between two states, and to threaten/ignore officers who arrived to reopen the bridge... This particular woke road takeover was organized by Ignite Peace, Ohio Poor People's Campaign, and Showing Up for Racial Justice in support of Ayman Soliman, a Muslim migrant who was detained by ICE. Okay, remember how I told you to remember the lady with the sign? Well, that 70-year-old Affluent White Female Liberal (AWFL) is my favorite lawbreaker. She cried to local media about getting a cut on her hand after she REPEATEDLY IGNORED POLICE ORDERS TO MOVE BACK AND KEPT APPROACHING THEM WHILE YELLING IN THEIR FACES... we should talk about Mr. Cincinnati Reds Hat Guy. The cop who punched him is on desk duty while the department investigates, and it seems like that officer isn't trained in proper takedowns, to say the least. But to see the full context, you have to see what happened 30 seconds before … this: Mr. Hat was mulling around several officers just moments prior. He could be seen approaching officers from the rear, then he ran away, prompting an immediate response from multiple cops. Could he have taken a weapon or landed a blow on a cop? SOMETHING bad enough happened for officers to swarm him with weapons drawn!"

Why George Zimmerman Was Found Not Guilty - "On his walk back to his car, Zimmerman was approached by Martin who punched Zimmerman in the nose and then climbed on top of him. Martin straddled Zimmerman and threw down a barrage of punches, including blows that slammed Zimmerman’s head into a concrete sidewalk. Fearing that he would be killed or seriously injured, Zimmerman reached for his concealed firearm and shot Martin in the chest."
Naturally, a left winger tried to pretend that Trayvon Martin did nothing wrong

Colin Wright on X - "🚨ALERT: A new paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research advocates for "Queering Children's Rights."
It says children have a right to "gender and sexuality" and condemns the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child's view that children should be "desexualized" and seen as "innocent." It calls this a "protectionist approach to children" that seeks to "preserve [children's] innocence" by steering them away from discussions of "gender and sexuality." It says the protectionist approach "merely reproduces the binary system of sex/gender and heteronormativity, there by creating inequalities between boys and girls and making invisible and stigmatising children's non-conforming subjectivities and bodies." The authors want to "affirm children's right to...genital autonomy, bodily integrity, and sexual agency" so that they can "discover and live as their authentic selves, free from heteronormativity and binary definitions of gender, sexes, and sexuality." It calls for "projects, curricula, experiences and safe spaces where children can explore and express their [gender and sexuality] without facing inequality or discrimination." Ask yourself: Why do these people want to do away with viewing children as innocent and let them explore their sexuality?"
Damn right wing conspiracy theories about pedophilia!

Sean Fraser on X - "Freedom of religion is already fully and robustly protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Please see my statement:"
Ben Woodfinden on X - "In 2018 the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a decision to not allow a private university, Trinity Western, to establish a law school because the school had a code of conduct that required students to uphold a conduct code in line with Christian beliefs. The SCC acknowledged that the law societies were violating religious freedom but allowed this decision to stand anyways. So no, I don't trust our courts to actually protect freedom of religion which is why I find this legislation so disturbing."

Meme - ""In nearly twenty years of this defence existing, we are not aware of a single case in which courts relied on section to acquit an accused. Reported cases turn on the legal threshold itself, and not on the presence of this defence. Removing this clause does not change that." @seanfraserMP's view is that, if the defence of religion has never been relied on, it's not necessary. I'd flip the question around: What's the urgent need to strip away a religious protection that, by the minister's own admission, has never caused a constitutionally cognisable harm?"

Sarah Fields on X - "As the journalist who reported on this case and paid a high price for it, I’ll tell you that Karmelo did not just k*ll an unarmed white kid. The family started a GiveSendGo, raising over half a million dollars. They did not even pay for bail; a friend of the advocates did. Their advocate threatened the school that he would hold public protests if they did not give Karmelo his diploma, and the school buckled. Karmelo was able to be at home on house arrest and is able to go to the barber and the library. He has been able to spend the holidays with his family, while the family he destroyed has spent the holidays mourning their son. The victim's parents have both been threatened, doxxed, and swatted. Both the Anthonys and their advocates have lied and targeted me and my family. I have been doxxed. My husband has been doxxed. I have been swatted. I have been targeted with CPS. My children’s lives have been threatened to the point that one Anthony supporter said that he was going to sl*t my child’s throat. A man who had to be investigated by the FBI and CID is currently sitting in my county jail because he was counting down the days until I gave birth to my child so that he could “end me.” This man was a social media friend of the advocate for the Anthony family. All because I dared to thoroughly report on a black 17-year-old who stabbed a white 17-year-old at a track meet. No one knows this case better than me. And I know just how dark and evil these people truly are. And yes, I am FULLY fatigued."

Melissa Chen on X - "Adorable watching all the privileged revolutionary LARPers in the West who've spent the last few years screaming about honoring the "lived experience" of the marginalized, now suddenly ignoring the actual lived experience of Venezuelans celebrating the downfall of their dictator and Iranians risking their lives to end murderous repression."

Laura Powell on X - "David Sedaris: “How did allowing dogs to bite people become a Democratic point of principle?” You can insert so many policies into that question. “How did letting men into women’s spaces become a Democratic point of principle?” “How did turning cities into open-air drug markets become a Democratic point of principle?” “How did forcing toddlers to mask for years become a Democratic point of principle?” “How did race-based gerrymandering become a Democratic point of principle?”"
"Empathy" means not saying no to any bit of the left wing agenda

Jerr on X - "If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over Whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive."
Left wingers openly call for white people to be killed, then when white people protest, they're the racist ones

Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination - "The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work. “Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws," U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas, a vocal critic of DEI, wrote on X Wednesday evening. The post urged eligible workers to reach out to the agency “as soon as possible" and referred users to the agency's fact sheet on “DEI-related discrimination” for more information."... David Glasgow, executive director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the NYU School of Law... said he has not seen “any kind of systematic evidence that white men are being discriminated against.” He pointed out that Fortune 500 CEOs are overwhelmingly white men, and that relative to their share of the population, the demographic is overrepresented in corporate senior leadership, Congress, and beyond... Jenny Yang, a former EEOC chair and now a partner at law firm Outten & Golden, said it is “unusual” and “problematic” for the head of the agency to single out a particular demographic group for civil rights enforcement. “It suggests some sort of priority treatment,” Yang said. “That’s not something that sounds to me like equal opportunity for all.”"
Naturally, left wingers were very upset, because they hate white men
When you don't understand lagging indicators, and fall for the apex fallacy

Statement of Jenny R. Yang, Chair U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - "across the country, we continue to see discrimination in many forms. I will highlight just a few:
Just last month the Commission held a meeting in Miami where we heard testimony on the persistent challenge of race and ethnicity discrimination in the 21st Century workplace. Also last month, we settled claims that a drilling company subjected African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American workers to racial and ethnic slurs, physical harassment, and exclusion from higher paying jobs. We obtained $14.5 million for over 1000 workers, as well as important changes to the employment practices.
We have represented many women who are paid less than men, even when they are doing the same job and are equally if not more qualified. In addition, in 70% of the pregnancy discrimination charges filed with EEOC, women say they were fired because they were pregnant. We recently resolved a case on behalf a woman who had a miscarriage. She requested five days off to obtain medical treatment, and she was fired for taking this time.
We continue to see harassment in many forms, including sexual harassment and assault, which is particularly endemic for farm worker women. Often, EEOC has been the last hope as criminal prosecutions are rare.
Despite a generation of young people who have grown up with the ADA, many qualified people with disabilities still can't find a job or advance."
Guess she forgot that she singled out particular demographic groups for civil rights enforcement.

Remarks of EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - "We have received many reports of employment discrimination since September 11th against people who are, or are perceived to be, Arab, Muslim, Sikh, Middle Eastern, or South Asian"

A Message from EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows for Pride Month and the Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Bostock v. Clayton County | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - "This June we honor national Pride month, and most significantly this year, we celebrate the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which affirmed – as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or the Commission) had held several years earlier – that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. We could only reach this point through the struggle, sacrifice, and vision of the many brave LGBTQ+ individuals and allies who had the courage to champion civil rights for LGBTQ+ communities"
Clearly, this is equal opportunity for all

British baker’s criticism of Mexican 'ugly' bread triggers social media outrage - "A blunt critique of Mexican bread by a British baker sparked a cascade of social media outrage, ultimately leading to a public apology. In an interview for a food-themed podcast that resurfaced online, Richard Hart, the co-founder of Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City and a well-known figure in international baking circles, said Mexicans “don’t really have much of a bread culture,” adding that “They make sandwiches on these white, ugly rolls that are pretty cheap and industrially made.”... Mexican bread has long been criticized domestically for its industrialization and reliance on white flour and sugar. But many like Martínez say those conversations are different and more nuanced when led by Mexicans themselves rather than by a foreign entrepreneur."
You're only allowed to disparage "white" people, like Americans and Wonder Bread, even if you say the exact same thing as other people. The genetic fallacy is good when it pushes the left wing agenda

Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta court has abused the Charter to declare loyalty to Canada optional - "One of the most basic expectations of citizenship is loyalty to the Canadian state. Well, unless you’re an orthodox Sikh. This is the broader principle you can draw from a recent Alberta Court of Appeal decision , which concluded that requiring individuals to swear an oath of allegiance to the sovereign is an infringement upon religious freedom and a violation of the right to racial and religious equality. Until Tuesday, it was the rule in Alberta that new lawyers swear such an oath — which made sense, considering that being called to the bar makes one an officer of the court in a constitutional monarchy. Courts, it must be remembered, aren’t freestanding entities that came from nothing. They were created by the King when the number of disputes in his realm became personally unmanageable. He created courts and appointed judges to decide matters that came before them in his stead. Courts serve, and are an outgrowth of, the Crown. It’s completely reasonable to expect officers of the court to swear loyalty to the entity at the heart of the system. This became a problem when Prabjot Singh Wirring, an orthodox Sikh, decided that the Alberta oath would interfere with his religion. In 2022, he wanted a licence to practice in the province, but he took issue with the wording of the requisite oath to “be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her heirs and successors, according to law.” Despite being born in Edmonton, and having lived his life in Canada, he wouldn’t swear that he would “bear true allegiance” to the Crown and thus the Canadian state. As an orthodox Sikh, he had sworn an oath to his god, Akal Purakh, which he said took precedence over all other loyalties in his life — to the exclusion of the monarch. Another way of looking at it? He’s above being Canadian. This isn’t the case for all Sikhs, to be clear: plenty enough have been called to the bar in Alberta and have taken oaths of citizenship. Wirring ultimately went to Saskatchewan to be called to the bar, where new lawyers are not required to swear an oath, and from there transferred his licence into Alberta, a process that also has no oath requirement (a loophole that the province should consider closing). Nevertheless, he followed through on his challenge to Alberta’s oath in court on Charter grounds. He lost at trial in 2023 — but on Tuesday, he won the appeal ... the Court of Appeal agreed that his religious beliefs were sincere... As for the lawyers’ oath of allegiance, the court decided that it conflicted with that of an orthodox Sikh, characterizing it as an “overriding commitment to the rule of law and constitutional government” that “supersedes the taker’s personal and religious commitments.” This, the court said, unconstitutionally infringed Wirring’s Charter rights. And while the very first clause of the Charter allows rights to be infringed with good reason, Alberta didn’t present any evidence to that effect. “Alberta adduced no evidence of the beneficial effects of the requirement of the Oath of Allegiance,” wrote the court. “In the absence of supporting evidence, the contribution made by the Oath of Allegiance to maintaining the rule of law and constitutional government in Canada cannot be given significant weight.” Unfortunately, the province didn’t give a full fight. There is a valid argument that the Alberta government shouldn’t have had to present evidence on something so fundamental to the Canadian state, but considering how the courts were expecting it, it would have been good to have on hand. (Perhaps this is something that will be hammered out in an appeal.) Alas, the oath was struck down. The court recommended removing it, making it optional, or neutering the wording by removing the loyalty element. Take a step back and the absurdity of the court’s chain of logic becomes very clear. Loyalty to Canada — loyalty to the Crown — is a fundamental part of our nation-state. We require new citizens , lieutenant governors , as well as senators and members of the House of Commons to pledge “true allegiance.” The latter three are mandated in the text of the 1867 Constitution, and the first was ruled to be acceptable for that reason. The oaths can’t be unconstitutional because they’re part of the Constitution . The Alberta Court of Appeal tried to weasel around this obstacle by claiming that the “legal context” might somehow be different for lawyers — but didn’t explain how that could be. Probably because there is no good explanation: Alberta’s lawyer oath, Canada’s citizenship oath, and all of the oaths required in the Constitution all use the same phrases and mean the same things. Here, the court has enabled the continued degradation of the Canadian state, and through that, the court itself. The expectation of loyalty on the part of citizens is a core aspect of sovereignty, one of the fortress walls within which individual freedoms can be exercised. If the courts settle on the conclusion that the basic responsibility of a citizen — loyalty — is an oppressive limit on individual freedom, then we no longer have a nation with sovereign power. We have an economic zone of people with mixed allegiances to be judged by courts that have the philosophical weight of a Facebook group’s moderation team. This is an attack that naturally comes with being in a post-colonial age. Land-back activists will push the false notion that Canada owes infinite rent and veto capabilities to the sovereign Indigenous people of Turtle Island. Anti-imperialists will attack Canada’s bond to the Crown on the basis that it violates the precepts of obscure religious sects, particularly those that come from former colonized lands. Some constituent groups are going to look to devour the old structures of the state out of historical spite — which is why they must be met with firm resistance... It should be an easy call: if the province’s top court is going to abuse the Charter to attack Canadian sovereignty, then it should be met with the notwithstanding clause and a prompt appeal. Alberta must respond with a show of force."
If you talk about dual loyalty, you're racist
Do left wingers hate religions that aren't Christianity more or do they hate monarchy more?
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Chris Selley: The Crown is Canada. Tell the lawyers refusing to swear allegiance to it - "The whole thing is preposterous, all the way down. In essence, the Alberta Court of Appeal has excused a lawyer from pledging allegiance to Canada. When new lawyers, new citizens or anyone else pledges allegiance to the monarch, they’re not pledging allegiance to the man or woman currently wearing the Crown. That’s why we don’t have to redo everyone’s oaths when a monarch dies. Rather they are pledging allegiance to the Crown itself, which is the embodiment of Canada, including its legal system. Wirring’s challenge to the oath failed in the lower court on precisely these grounds. “I have found that (Wirring’s) inability to take the oath of allegiance is caused by (his) misunderstanding of the oath of allegiance, not his religious beliefs,” ruled Justice B.B. Johnston of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta . “Thus, I cannot reasonably infer that the oath of allegiance causes or contributes to a disparate impact on Amritdhari Sikhs generally based on their religion.” In this, Johnston relied on Wirring’s own affidavit: “I do not and cannot view the (oath of allegiance) as a symbolic commitment to the constitution of Canada and its system of democratic governance,” he averred. Well, too bad, Johnston essentially ruled, because that’s what it is. This is not a controversial view of the Crown; in fact, the appeal court judges say as much in the ruling: “We agree with the chambers judge that, correctly interpreted, the oath of allegiance is not directed at the Queen as a person; its object is the rule of law and the Canadian system of constitutional government.” And then they let him off the hook anyway. There’s an argument to be made that this doesn’t really matter . Wirring is already a member of the Alberta bar via an automatic licence-transfer process for those called to the Saskatchewan bar, which Wirring was in 2023 (although he didn’t practise in Saskatchewan). Saskatchewan is one of the provinces where you don’t have to swear allegiance to the monarch. The matter was therefore “moot,” the Alberta Court of Appeal observed, but then it decided to rule on it anyway. (It’s brilliant, being a judge: The mootness of a proceeding can justify either abandoning it or pursuing it, whichever feels best!)... Canadian lawyers aren’t just advocates for their clients, but officers of the court , duty bound (don’t laugh! It’s not funny!) to “ constantly reflect on what they are doing, and why, and (to) appreciate how their actions affect the client, the legal system, and the public at large,” David Layton and Michel Proulx write in Ethics and Criminal Law. It’s a good general principle that courts shouldn’t try to judge the sincerity of religious beliefs, but rather take people at their word unless there’s compelling reason not to. But few rights in Canada are absolute, for better or worse. And again, in vouchsafing Wirring’s misapprehension about what the oath means, the Alberta Court of Appeal has essentially excused a lawyer from pledging allegiance to the law. It may be “symbolic,” but “symbolic” is by no means a synonym for “worthless.” Our fairly robust constitutional monarchy is proof enough of that."

A transit blunder in the name of equity - The Globe and Mail - "Many readers will have heard by now about Toronto’s latest public transit debacle: the Finch West light-rail line, on which the cars move slower than a person can run. What they might not know is that the debacle had its roots in a desire to serve the disadvantaged. Seldom has the road to hell been so well-paved. To understand how this happened, we need to go back two decades to the mid-aughts. David Miller, a left-leaning former Bay Street lawyer, was mayor. Toronto was booming, spreading in all directions and adding throngs of new residents from every corner of the globe. Its transit system had failed to keep up. While other cities from Madrid to Shanghai were building vast transit networks to carry their commuting millions, Toronto had stood still. The only new subway line that had been built for years was on Sheppard Avenue, a five-stop spur line justly nicknamed the Sheppard stub-way. In 1995, the cash-strapped provincial government even cancelled a subway on Eglinton Avenue that was already under construction. Mr. Miller proposed a solution: Transit City, a network of light-rail lines travelling mostly above ground instead of in tunnels. It would give the city its first comprehensive rapid-transit network, binding east and west, north and south. As an added benefit, it would reach into some of the least prosperous parts of town: its inner suburbs, where many striving newcomers were settling. The plight of those suburbs was much on the city’s mind. An influential 2007 report by University of Toronto housing professor David Hulchanski said Toronto was becoming more polarized, both economically and geographically. As The Globe and Mail put it around the same time, the city was “increasingly comprised of downtown-centred, high-income residents – most living near subway lines – and a concentration of low-income families in less dense, service- and transit-starved inner suburbs.” Transit City was meant to help fix the problem. If not all of the inner suburbs would get subways, given the huge costs of digging tunnels, they would have something nearly as good: reliable, fast, modern “high-order” transit. After much back and forth about the shape and extent of the network, government leaders approved two lines. The Eglinton Crosstown would span the middle of the city from east to west, with a tunnelled section where the city was most dense. This famously delayed and grotesquely overpriced project – with a price tag of $13-billion, when future maintenance is figured in – is due to start running … who knows when? Transit authorities have put off its opening over and over since 2020, as they work to fix its many glitches. The second project, the 18-stop, 10-kilometre Finch line, would reach all the way into the Jane-Finch neighbourhood, one of the city’s poorest. That fit well with the city’s policy of applying an “equity lens” to many of its spending decisions. As a 2024 staff report on the “Prioritization of Planned Higher-Order Transit Projects” puts it: “The City uses a Transportation Equity Lens and a Transportation Equity Opportunity Zones [TEOZ] index to identify and prioritize projects that benefit equity-deserving communities. This ensures that new transit planning considers the impacts on marginalized populations.” The intention was noble. A caring city tries to make sure everyone gets their fair share. City Hall had long decided to invest in education, health and other community services in areas with many low-income residents, among them Jane and Finch. But do the chosen transit projects actually work for those places? Do they work at all? The equity lens blurred instead of sharpened the city’s vision. The result was to plunk a sluggish rail line on a broad suburban avenue, a poor second-best to the fast subway service some areas enjoy. When the city was considering the Finch project, skeptics pointed out that light-rail line would be complicated and expensive to build, with all those new tracks, overhead electric lines and traffic signals. Worse, it might not in fact improve travel time much, because it would have to cross so many intersections and stop so often. It would be smarter, some suggested, to build a dedicated lane for buses – a system known as bus rapid transit, which works well in places from Istanbul to Mexico City, and might well have worked for the Finch and Eglinton areas, at a fraction of the cost. But, no, it was light-rail or bust. The hard-pressed people of the inner suburbs deserved no less. Construction on the Finch West line began in 2019. Six years and nearly $4-billion later, it is finally open, its sleek cars lumbering along at a pace that it would be charitable to call stately. Toronto runner Mac Bauer set out to test that pace after it started operating last month. He beat the train by 18 minutes."

Meme - "IT'S CALLED "PER CAPITA". Your daily reminder that people with an IQ below 85 are incapable of understanding the concept of "per capita." Or deferred gratification, enlightened self interest, moral hazard, compound interest and other concepts required for civilization."

Jake Shields on X - "From the 1970’s through the early 2000’s Germany ran the Kentler project They took young homeless boys and made them live with gay men with the intent for them to be raped They theorized it was good for older men to have sex with children Not a single person has been jailed or held accountable Germany is a failed state"

Matt Goodwin on X - "Here are just 5 things that happened in the UK this week:
-we discovered police in our second city, Birmingham, are doing the bidding of Islamist extremists while scapegoating Jews who were targeted for Muslim violence
-we learn child rapists & criminals have been allowed to become police officers partly because of woke DEI “diversity” recruitment drives
-the United Arab Emirates is so concerned about the risk of Islamist radicalisation in the UK they have just restricted support for UAE students to study at UK universities
-supposedly neutral civil servants told journalists they will either quit their job or work to block policies if the British people dare to elect a Reform government that actually wants to tackle much of this by slashing immigration, ending DEI & banning Muslim Brotherhood
-and the Labour government is so scared of the British people and open debate it is moving to both postpone local elections in areas where Reform is forecast to surge and ban Elon Musk’s X platform
All these things happened. In just a few days. We are quite obviously destroying our country."

The Noticer on X - "The National Socialist Network, along with co-projects White Australia and the European Australian Movement, has disbanded in response to impending new "hate groups" legislation. The laws are retroactive and define past non-criminal conduct as "hate crimes" in order to allow the government to ban groups that previously operated legally, and were tailor-made to outlaw the NSN. Membership and support will be punishable with jail terms of up to 15 years."
You're only allowed to be an activist if you push the left wing agenda

California Tyranny vs ICE / ICE Protesters' Fake Claims

Denise Aguilar @InformedMama209: "I love how Gavin Newsom talks about “gestapo” when he literally unleashed snipers on us. Don’t let him gaslight you, his orders were “get them off my fuc*ing lawn” and demanded we be arrested for peacefully protesting his extreme lock down policies. Please. He’s the OG of tyrannical"
"Remember when Gavin Newsom unleashed the riot police to push breastfeeding moms off the Capitol lawn and had snipers on the roof of the Capitol for peaceful protest ? I do. May 1, 2020 Freedom Angels anti lockdown protest with over 300 officers who violently arrested 32 peaceful protestors"

"9 THINGS PROTESTERS CLAIM VS WHAT FEDERAL RECORDS SHOW
CLAIM. RECORD
ICE targets people at random. Enforcement actions focus on individuals already in violation of federal law.
ICE raids are illegal. Operations are conducted with WARRANTS and court authorization.
Agents ignore due process. Detentions and removals follow judicial and administrative review.
ICE only goes after families. Criminal offenders and prior deportation orders are prioritized.
Enforcement is driven by race. Immigration status is a legal category, not a racial one.
Use of force is routine. Force policies mirror other federal law-enforcement standards and are REVIEWED.
Local leaders were kept in the dark. Federal operations are coordinated through established channels.
Protests are purely peaceful. Arrests, property damage, and interference with operations are documented.
This is a local issue. Federal law applies nationwide, regardless of city politics."

Links - 22nd January 2026 (2 - Donald Trump [including No Kings])

Hot Takes Nobody Asked For | Facebook - "toronto is participating in the anti-trump protests today for some reason. and they had to change the name of it from 'no kings' to 'no tyrants' because canada does have a king. 😹"

Meme - Donald Trump: "I want to shrink the size of government."
Purple haired soyjak: "NOOOO KINGS!!"
Zohran Mamdani: "Government should be involved in every part of your life."
Purple haired soyjak: "Yes, daddy."

Rep. Debbie Dingell on X - "While Trump spends hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build his new ballroom, Fox suggests Americans skip Christmas this year to save money."
Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X - "An interesting fact about Debbie Dingell is that she basically inherited her Congressional seat from her late husband, who inherited it from his dad who was elected to it upon the districts creation in 1933. A non-Dingell has never held the seat Party of “No More Kings” indeed"

 Meme - *Clown putting on makeup*
"Inject yourself with experimental drug or lose your job
Prosecute your political adversaries
Vote for an installed presidential candidate
"No kings!""

Andy Ngo on X - "Slowed-down footage from the Salt Lake City "No Kings" shooting shows one of the volunteer "peacekeepers" firing into the crowd. Arturo Gamboa, dressed in black, runs away when the shots are fired and his rifle wasn't pointed at anyone (in this video). Gamboa, a far-left Antifa-supporting Latino revolutionary-type, has been charged with m—rder for the bystander being killed by the unnamed peacekeeper."
Andy Ngo on X - "I guess “peacekeeper” is the new liberal euphemism for left-wing militia."

Democrats Enjoy Their Favorite Pastime Of Holding All-White Rallies | Babylon Bee

Matt Van Swol on X - "I've been holding back on this, but I'm just gonna let loose...  So many of these "protestors" in Asheville NC have had their lives DRAMATICALLY improved from a year ago by President Trump.  This city didn't even have RUNNING WATER a year ago.  Trump's DOT gave the LARGEST FEDERAL GRANT IN HISTORY to fix roads in bridges in Western North Carolina.  Trump's FEMA resolved 80% of ALL open cases from the Biden administration within WEEKS OF HIM TAKING OFFICE.  Trump's DOT fixed the I-40 highway in what most people thought would take YEARS in a few MONTHS and doing it cheaper than anyone thought possible.  Trump’s HUD approved $1.4B for Helene housing recovery... AND DID SO IN RECORD TIME so rebuilding could start.  Trump’s USDA delivered $221,000,000 in a disaster block grant to WNC farmers hit by Helene too.  JUST GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!!!  It's not that hard.  A dictator, a tyrant, someone who you say hates you wouldn't have done ALL OF THAT for you and those you love.   The same folks who are driving on rebuilt roads, drinking clean water, and living the comeback...  ...are protesting the man who made A LOT of that happen  You look stupid, out of touch, and willfully ungrateful."

MJTruthUltra on X - "HOLEE SHIZZLES! NO KINGS Financials Released! The Financers:
- Arabella: $79M
- Warren Buffet: $16M
- Ford: $51M
- Rockefeller: $26M
- Soros: $72M
- Tides: $45M
$294,487,641 MILLION Source @realannapaulina"

Andrew Kolvet on X - "So the same party that...
Locked kids out of school for nearly two years
Forced experimental jabs just to work, eat out, or serve in the military
Ignored immigration law to allow 10 million+ illegals to pour into the country
Sued to remove President Trump from the ballot
Tried to imprison President Trump for 700 years
Tried to bankrupt President Trump for successfully paying a bank loan
Worked to disbar lawyers who defended Trump against Democrat lawfare
Spied on US Senators in Operation Artic Frost
Spied on Catholic Churches with Latin Mass
Investigated concerned parents at school boards as "domestic extremists"
Rewrote Title IX to force schools to let men compete in women's sport
Coerced social media companies into censoring the origins of Covid-19
Recruited over 50 former intel officials to say Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation
Couped a sitting US President
Crowned Kamala their new candidate without a single primary vote
Weaponized the DOJ against grandmas who took selfies inside the Rotunda on J6
Issued ~100 national injunction against the Trump admin ( versus only ~ 15 against Barack Obama)
Forgave $ billions in student loans even after SCOTUS declared it unconstitutional...
...has the audacity to call President Trump a tyrannical King?
Wild!"

Andy Ngo on X - "At the Ann Arbor "No Kings" protest, a far-left anarchist contingent handed out these flyers threatening that if their demands are not met—the dismantling of ICE, Homeland Security, law enforcement, the Supreme Court, and property rights—they will escalate their attacks and unleash "disorder that will be without parallel in modern times."  At the bottom is an invitation to a training session on fighting ICE, being held in Ann Arbor at a student housing 501(c)(3) nonprofit called the Inter-Cooperative Council Education Center."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BLACK TRUMP SUPPORTER: I can't be black and MAGA? WHITE 'NO KINGS' LIBERAL: No, you can. But you're a f*cking SELLOUT. And a piece of SH*T...You'd expect that from me being white. But YOU? You hate YOURSELF. Folks, the white liberal is a problem."

C3 on X - "When you realize the wife of the guy that prosecuted Jan 6ers runs the “No Kings” protests everything makes sense. Then you learn she also started a legal defense fund with a lawyer representing EJ Carroll and your head is ready to explode. Fatima Graves. A tangle web of evil."

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Trahan Trent Alan, an anti-Trump “No Kings” activist, who smeared Trump as a “pedo,” was just arrested and charged for allegedly possessing child s*xual abuse material. Why does this keep happening"

The inconvenient truth about the No Kings protests that swept the nation - "An inconvenient truth has emerged about the anti-Trump No Kings protests that swept the nation over the weekend - they were mainly attended by rich, old white people.  That demographic is traditionally associated with conservative politics, but it is increasingly synonymous - which some may argue is because of Joe Biden - with the Democratic Party.  In Atlanta, where the population is predominantly black, liberal attendees who took to the streets on Saturday were mostly white, even though they make up just 38 percent of the city.  At other protests across the country, including in Washington, DC, New York and Los Angeles, the diversity and inclusion crowd didn't appear to attract anyone outside their demographic. The vast majority of activists - some of whom were seen holding signs likening Trump to Adolf Hitler and ICE to the Gestapo - appeared to be white, privileged and elderly suburbanites.  They included, predictably, Hollywood stars, including Pedro Pascal, 50, John Cusack, 59, Jamie Lee Curtis, 66, and Glenn Close, 78. The President's deportation policy, a core campaign promise by the Republican that is projected as cruel by the demonstrators, is popular, according to a survey.  Forty-eight percent of Americans agree with Trump's border policy, his most popular behind working for peace in Gaza, according to exclusive Daily Mail polling from JL Partners... CNN commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon pointed out the glaring disparity between those in the streets protesting and the less affluent groups they claim to speak for.  'These protests were overwhelmingly white, they were overwhelmingly elderly people. White boomers have the right to have a mass therapy session about the fact that Donald Trump won. But to call it a No Kings protest, to act like he is a king, is so utterly preposterous,' the journalist said.  'This is a man who won the popular vote, he won every swing state, he is a person who is enacting the exact agenda he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning, and so what they are actually protesting is the absolute perfection of American democracy.'  One commentator, Reggie Brun, told his followers on X: 'No kings rally was all old white people'... On the left-leaning The Rest is Politics podcast, Katty Kay told viewers: 'It looked like a whole load of grannies carrying NPR bags ... It really did not look like a bunch of Antifa communists to me.'  Her co-host Anthony Scaramucci replied: 'When I was a kid, they used to have on the soap operas, when I was home with a sore throat - or at least faking a sore throat -used to have a vitamin called Geritol.   'This was for geriatrics. I felt like that was sponsored by the No Kings Rally, sponsored by Geritol. You know, I mean, guys, you gotta get some younger people out there.'  Lindell TV anchor, Allison Steinberg, said: 'The funny thing is the protests didn't seem too diverse, in fact, they appeared to be primarily comprised of old, white liberals. You know, the old hippie crowd who never grew up.'... Pavlich said it was the same demographic who attended the Women's March after Trump was first inaugurated in 2017,  the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020, and outside federal agencies during the DOGE cuts earlier this year.  'They just show up when they feel they have something to say, even if it's counterintuitive to what they've been saying before,' said Pavlich. Turning Point USA's Savanah Hernandez agreed but argued the group was split into two factions, the older liberal boomer crowd, and more radical left-wing agitators who seek to incite violence.  'There were two different factions of protesters: one faction who had no idea why they were there, no idea why they were protesting, they were simply programmed by CNN or whatever liberal mainstream media they've been listening to,' Hernandez said.  'You had the other faction of protesters who were there to call for political violence against their opposition, so I read signs reading: "All Nazis go to hell," and of course it was MAGA supporters and it was ICE that were depicted as said Nazis.'"

Chuck Schumer on X - "Today’s No Kings rallies are an affirmation of what America is all about. We are a democracy. We have no kings, despite the fact that Trump has even said he wants to become one."
Will Ricciardella on X - "If we’re really a democracy, why do blue states obstruct immigration laws that were top of mind at the ballot box last fall? Congress passed them. The executive enforces them. Now neo-confederates call democracy “fascism” when it doesn’t go their way. Help me square that circle."

Gad Saad on X - "Have you noticed how all of the hysteria around @realDonaldTrump  since the #NoKings idiocy is associated with cosmetic/peripheral issues?  His trolling is apparently "non-presidential."  @PressSec 's responses are "mean."  @JDVance  is "unbecoming" of a VP.  It's exactly what I explained in The Parasitic Mind.  The Progressive Invertebrate Castrati class are all about cosmetic appearances.  If you are a man who speaks with a progressive lisp and you cross your legs like a woman, this makes you presidential.  If you are a "mean troll" like President Trump, you are "unfit" to be president.  NEVER are substantive issues tackled.  President Trump is an existential aesthetic injury to the Anointed Ones (hat tip to Thomas Sowell for that term).  This is the root cause of TDS.  If he can be president for two terms, it invalidates their entire identities curated over decades of castrated uselessness."

Meme - "me watching Covidians who supported mask and jab mandates now posting about 'Resisting Tyranny'"

Liberals want Obama to be a king, not a president | CNN
King Obama our latest monarch: Column

Michael on X - "We had a No Kings protest once. It was called the Freedom Convoy. The left celebrated as the government froze assets, demonized us in the media, stole millions in funds , arrested supporters, and jailed the leaders. Thats authoritarianism. They celebrated it."

America’s king is Burger King | The Spectator Australia - "As the strange but amusing social-media pundit @mr_politics97 said in a video yesterday, filmed in a hoodie while walking by the side of a highway, “Apparently to the Liberals yesterday was a success… we trying to figure out how it was a success. Trump still the President. And you still gonna be getting deported if your ass not a U.S. citizen. So I’m truly trying to understand, what the fuck did y’all think you was doin’ yesterday? Ain’t nothing changed. Ain’t nothing changing.”"

Mario Nawfal on X - "🇺🇸 SPEAKER JOHNSON DEFENDS TRUMP'S FECES VIDEO: “HE’S USING SATIRE TO MAKE A POINT”  “The president uses social media to make a point. He's probably the most effective person who's ever used social media for that.  He's using satire to make a point, he is not calling for the murder of his political opponents. And that's what these people are doing.  In one of these photos... there is a picture of the president hanging in effigy by a noose. It's unconscionable!”  Source: ericldaugh, @SpeakerJohnson"
Mario Nawfal on X - "🇺🇸 SPEAKER JOHNSON: IF TRUMP WAS A KING, HE WOULD CLOSED THE NATIONAL PARKS SO THEY COULDN'T HAVE HAD THE RALLY  "The irony was very glaring.  They called it the No Kings rally.  But the great irony, of course, that we pointed out over and over was, if Trump was a king, the government would be open.  If Trump was a king, he would have closed the national parks.  It's a national mall, so they couldn't have had the rally out here."  Source: @atrupar"

Meme - "DNN. News You Can't Trust. It's Satire Beach, Calm Down...
No Kings Protest. Also No Brains
People Who Can't Tell the Difference Between a Man and a Woman, Also Don't Know Difference Between a King and a President. WASHINGTON D.C. - The "No Kings" protesters also have "no brains" but 57 genders to choose from."

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 on X - "No Kings protester in Bradenton, FL, says she’s glad Charlie Kirk got k*lled and says reporter Kaitlin Bennett should d*e too. The protester then backtracks after Bennett scolds her for being so horrible. No Kings protests are made of the worst people."

Megan Basham on X - "My husband points out that in all the photos of the No Kings protests, the crowds are not only elderly but almost exclusively white. That’s interesting."
Robby Starbuck on X - "Here’s a sampling of No Kings protesters. The big divide is that these elderly people still get their news from legacy media and they believe it. They do limited to no questioning of what they’re told to believe. That won’t change but their influence is dying while ours grows."

LindellTV on X - "🚨 BOMBSHELL: Edited BBC clip used as evidence at J6 trial Enrique Tarrio confirms the exact same edited clip aired by the BBC was shown to his jury - falsely implying President Trump said something he never did.  “It wasn’t until weeks ago I realized - those words weren’t even close together. They were 40 minutes apart.”  @NobleOne  says @theJusticeDept  knew the clip was misleading, used it anyway, and now legal action against both the @BBC  and the DOJ is on the table.  Key detail? The clip cut out @POTUS ’s actual words: “We’re going to peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard.”  Tarrio: “That fake clip didn’t just influence my trial - it influenced the President’s case and justice itself.”  How is this not prosecutorial misconduct?"

Trump is saving Europe from itself - "maybe Trump is doing us a favour by shocking us out of our slumber. In truth, Europe has been coasting gently to disaster ever since Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” at the culmination of the Cold War. This marked the rise of what Simon Sebag Montefiore has called the “comfort democracies”. With conflict and its attendant hardships seen as behind us, the psychological stage was set for liberal flows of capital and migrants, the neglect of defence, the growth of welfarism and the rise of what I think of as the “centrist fundamentalist” elites.  This was – or rather, it still is, though perhaps not for much longer – a class of liberal, university-educated urbanites who placed their faith in soft power, permissive migration policies, free trade, multilateral cooperation, supranational organisations, international law, universal values and ethics-based foreign policy.  With their second homes and ski holidays, they derided anybody who expressed the old values, such as love of one’s country, traditions, flag, history, faith and people, branding them outdated at best and fascist at worst. Remember the Brexit debate? Have you seen their disparagement of Israelis, who proudly express their peoplehood? In their profound intolerance, the “centrists” can only be described as “fundamentalists”, whatever the colour of their rosettes. As Russia was welcomed into the G8 – “a very strong message of support for President Putin and his reforms”, as Tony Blair described it in 2002 – and China was disastrously admitted into the World Trade Organisation, European politicians won elections by diverting their defence budgets to benefits. Before long, as Angela Merkel famously observed, the Continent, which was home to 7 per cent of the global population, accounted for half of the world’s welfare expenditure.  From Blair onwards, Britain followed suit, with vast sums wasted on the inefficient NHS, parents receiving free nursery places and pensioners – who turn out to vote – bought off with triple-locked pensions, winter fuel payments and free television licences. The pursuit of net zero, the most costly vanity project in modern history, dragged heavily on our economy while China and India fired up their coal plants. As the pencils of American voters hovered over “Donald Trump”, Europe was in a zombie state, blissfully unaware of how it was plodding inexorably towards the cliff-edge. National debt hovered around 100 per cent of gross domestic product, while Covid accelerated our inactivity rate. In Britain, “economically inactive” rates can be over 60 per cent in parts of the north, while one in ten children grows up in a household with no working adults and a quarter of working-age people are registered as “disabled”. Last year, we spent £65 billion on incapacity and disability payments alone, outstripping our spending on defence by around £4 billion. Consider the areas of our national life that Trump has most violently disrupted: he has been kicking at every pillar of centrist fundamentalism. Take Nato. In 2015, the year before the Donald was first elected, the average European spending on Nato was 1.44 per cent, well below the 2 per cent agreed at the Wales Summit in 2014. Fast-forward to today and that target has been met, with an agreement made at The Hague this year to raise it to 5 per cent by 2035. The war in Ukraine has played a role, of course; but would we be acting the same way if the United States was still picking up the tab?  Our behaviour towards defence speaks volumes of our sense of self and our place in the world. So does our attitude towards minorities; the way in which Trump’s former lieutenant, Elon Musk, forced the scandal of the predominantly-Pakistani child sex rings to a crisis pressured Britain to rethink its soggy tolerance towards criminality amongst Muslims and our failure to insist upon our values.  Free speech is another example. When Trump sent a White House delegation to support Rose Docherty, a 75-year-old anti-abortion campaigner, in 2024, he was sending Britain a message about the folly of disparaging the morality of our old Christian faith. If he sues the BBC for up to $5 billion, he is picking at the mask of professionalism that behind lurks a sneer of corrosive, progressive ideology. And by supporting Nigel Farage, he is shaming our elites for their habitual disdain of our flag. Obnoxious, disruptive and – in the case of Ukraine – downright depraved he may be, but without Trump in the White House, our eternal Sunday would be extending towards an even uglier and more catastrophic end."

KARE 11 on X - "Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries and it faces a crisis of health care made worse by the Trump administration's deep cuts in foreign aid."
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "In the past three decades Somalia has received over $50B in direct and indirect aid. For context, Japan received $2.4B ($35B today) aid from GARIOA and EROA funding after being nuked twice."
Damn legacy of colonialism!

Thag Simmons on X - "“Yeah Trump is bad, but what are Democrats offering?” is a straight up Republican talking point. It’s unfortunate how many people on the left enthusiastically nod along to that."
Thread by @Noahpinion on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "It's a good talking point, too. Progressive governance has generally been a disaster when implemented -- rampant crime, overregulation leading to economic paralysis, demand subsidies that raised inflation, disorderly uncontrolled quasi-legal immigration that everyone hated. If progressives want to build a durable movement instead of relying on a series of increasingly desperate backlashes to increasingly horrific rightist administrations, they need to address and fix the real failures of progressive governance."
When you hate Trump so much that anything else, no matter how bad, is preferable

Brian Stelter on X - "Nora Benavidez of the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press set out to catalog the Trump administration’s First Amendment infringements this year. She wound up compiling a list of almost 200 incidents."
Brendan Carr on X - "Your stenography for this radical group omitted key facts about them:
1. This leftist group petitioned the FCC to investigate & “rein in” broadcasters simply for airing Trump’s press briefings in 2020.
2. “Are we going to have to shoot Republican[s] to reclaim our democracy?” is one of the member comments this group then filed with the FCC just a year after that.
So, yeah, just a nonprofit advocacy group out there calling balls and strikes."
𝗟⃥𝗜⃥𝗕⃥𝗥⃥𝗘⃥ on X - "They always leave out the part where their own people openly called for violence. These groups pretend to be neutral while pushing the same agenda every time."

Rosie O’Donnell claims that Trump’s presidency drove her to overeat, overdrink, and flee to Ireland

Canada Hates Trump on X - "Canada elected a guy with a PhD in Economics from Oxford University. Mexico elected a woman with a PhD in Energy Engineering. The USA elected a 2X impeached conman who bankrupted 4 casinos & has 34 felony convictions. Mexico and Canada really do border on stupidity."
Left wingers think "qualifications" are more important than results. But that tracks, because qualifications are easier to fake than results

Evaluating how radical AOC is

A friend of mine was hyping Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, and claiming that "By Nordic standards, her policies are center-left. In the US, she is treated as radical left". I pointed out that she was for open borders, and was told that I couldn't cherry pick. So I did an analysis of her avowed platform on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress.

The issues seem to be sorted by order of priority:

1) "Medicare for all"

Sure, this is not extreme in a global perspective. This is also what left wingers have in mind when they go on about how the Democrats would be centre-right in Europe. However, much more is to follow.

2) "Housing as a human right"

Some countries have enshrined it as a human right. But her specifics are more troubling.

Fewer than half of OECD countries have rent control, as she wants. And rent control is an awful idea. She also wants to restrict landlords' ability to discriminate among tenants. This will make rental housing harder to get. And in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, you are allowed to discriminate based on source of income - which she is against.

Sweden has quite strong rent control, but this is by no means uniform across Scandinavia. Norway is laxer, Denmark even more so and Finland has basically none.

She demands more social housing, but that is not working out well in Scandinavia. You can wait 20 years for an apartment in Stockholm. You can wait years in Norway and Denmark. Tellingly, Sweden has the strictest rent control of the 3.

The fact that even in Sweden, they don't seem to have enough public housing despite it accounting for almost 20% of housing (and half the rental sector) suggests that a massive amount of social housing - beyond what any Scandinavian country has today - is required to get the results that AOC would deem acceptable. If it's beyond what any Scandinavian country has today, by definition it is not the status quo and presumably is not uncontroversial. Even in Sweden it is hard to get them to build more social housing, so yes, building the massive amount that she would presumably want would be controversial even there.

3) "A peace economy"

Given that the whole of NATO free rides on the US, if the US reduces defense spending, this is going to be very bad for the West.

It is notable that the Ukraine war has resulted in Europe giving lip service to the idea of increasing spending. So AOC is definitely radical on this. Also, note that Trump gets criticised for expressing similar ideas on non-intervention.

The US spent 3.22% of its GDP on defense in 2025. Norway spent 3.35%, Denmark 3.22% and Sweden 2.51%. So even by Scandinavian standards AOC is radical.

4) "Justice for Workers & Small Businesses"

In 2023/2024, 15% of the OECD workforce was in a trade union. In the US it's 11.1%. So they are not that far off. Note that like rent control, unions are generally considered bad by economists. Among other things, they raise unemployment.

She wants the federal government to not do business with non unionised companies. Scandinavian countries do not seem to have such laws. Note that this will stop the government doing business with small companies, which will hurt them.

She wants there to be more strikes. Strikes are very damaging to the economy.

She wants a federal jobs guarantee. Scandinavian countries do not have this, and this is another terrible idea. Making jobs for the sake of making jobs will waste a lot of money, and the jobs will not be productive.

She wants the Taft-Hartley Act act repealed. The Taft-Hartley Act, among other things, outlawed closed shops (companies are not allowed to hire non-union workers). Note that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that closed shop practices violate Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Freedom of Association).

5) "Real public safety"

She doesn't want criminals in jail and claims expanding the social safety net is the "root cause" of crime. This is provably false. A Finnish experimental study showed that paying poor people did not reduce their propensity for crime. A 2014 Swedish quasi-experimental study also found that "There were no associations between childhood family income and subsequent violent criminality and substance misuse once we had adjusted for unobserved familial risk factors." It is telling that in the US, the richest blacks commit more crime than the poorest whites.

Note that Sweden has had a crime epidemic in recent years and this is spilling over into Denmark and Norway. The Swedish welfare state is extremely generous, so AOC's claims are just preposterous.

6) "Honor in Immigration"

Basically she is in favor of open borders, plus giving illegal immigrants more welfare. This is very radical. As mentioned, this is radical even in Scandinavia. Sweden and Denmark are tightening up immigration and are seeing historic low migration.

There're 6 more items, but the seventh item is about Puerto Rico so I think I've covered the most important parts of her platform; maybe the LGBTQIA+ bit is more important, but we can already see the clear trend here.

So on 5/6 items, AOC is very radical, and I would say she is radical even by Scandinavian standards.