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Friday, March 27, 2026

Hillary Hating White Christian Men / Train Harassment


Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminjlee: "Straight white Christian men were the ones who built the country you claim to love, Hillary"

Jack @jackunheard: "BREAKING: Hillary Clinton is receiving massive BACKLASH after straight up admitting Democrats are targeting white Christian males because "they are a THREAT."

They aren't even hiding it.

"They are just doing so much damage.""

We are still told that left wingers don't hate white people, Christians and men


Allie ✞ @allie__voss: "I have quite literally never had a well-dressed middle aged white man creep on me on the train. Why do we keep using them as the scapegoat for issues that have nothing to do with them?"
The Mirror @DailyMirror: "Petition for women-only tube carriages amid 'growing issue' nears 10k signatures *well-dressed middle aged white man harassing uncomfortable black woman*"

Links - 27th March 2026 (1 - General Wokeness)

Oxfam considered scaling back disaster aid to focus on political ‘influencing’ - "Oxfam considered abandoning disaster response work to become an “influencer” on climate, gender and inequality... Amitabh Behar, the chief executive of Oxfam International, reportedly put forward the proposals to “reimagine” the work of the global aid organisation. The proposals were resisted by Oxfam GB, one of 22 Oxfam organisations around the world, because of fears they could breach British charity laws that prohibit charities having political purposes... One serving staff member told the newspaper: “If the UK public think for one second that Oxfam is turning its back on the humanitarian role it’s upheld for over 80 years to become just another lobbying shop, they’ll abandon the charity. We’ll never come back from such a betrayal. The plan would destroy Oxfam.”"
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution
Clearly, it's time to tax churches

Brandon Warmke on X - "Philosophers discover that fetal ultrasounds are "obstetric violence." "Fetal ultrasound is a normalized and gendered intrusion that can cause epistemic harm, scaffold obstetric violence, and may sometimes constitute a form of obstetric violence in and of itself.""
Russell Blackford on X - "This is the kind of thing that's bringing academia - but also today's cultural and academic Left more generally - into disrepute. When they keep producing this sort of nonsense, it's very difficult for traditional liberals (like me) to defend the value of academia and our other cultural institutions."
Conservatives hate learning and education and are ignorant of facts

Meme - "r/fuckcars
Classic cars need to be banned
By driving a classic car or attending a classic car show you are celebrating and reinforcing an era of misogyny, racism and homophobia. This offensive and makes people who experienced these things feel unsafe. Therefore we need to organize to get classic cars banned to make the world a safer and more equitable place."

Meme - Musa al-Gharbi: "Even the take "most white people are decent and we want them to vote blue" -- apparently intended to be a reductio ad absurdum proof -- is also actually an absolutely correct take! Good luck winning elections without white voters! Or, for that matter, good luck making literally any substantive social change happen (at any point in U.S. history running through the foreseeable future) without white support. Also, Democrats have been consistently bleeding non-white voters for the last decade (musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/a-graveyard -... ), so without offsetting those losses with white voters, they've got zero shot nationally. They should absolutely want whites to vote blue! They should also want more men to vote blue. "Radical" takes to the contrary are wildly antipolitical."
talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith: "derek was right and everybody has lost their minds"
"Yeah seems like Derek Thompson's response to the Left's horror at Ezra is "Hold my beer" He deleted this tweet Lmaooo but wow"
To Bree or not to Bree @BreeEsq:" "David Duke sucks but also most white people are awesome and we want them to vote blue' shouldn't be that hard to think or say"
Derek Thompson @DKThomp: ""Andrew Tate sucks, but also most men are awesome, and we want them to vote for the Democrat" shouldn't be hard to think or say"
To Bree or not to Bree: "Is @DKThomp getting jealous of the Abundance of hate his co-author has been getting lately? Does he have a humiliation fetish or something? WTF is he tryna do here?"
Left wingers hate white people and men so much

Meme - "Holocaust survivors, despite the unimaginable atrocities they endured, did not go on to terrorize Europeans for generations. The Yazidis who were slaughtered by ISIS did not grow up to become terrorists or blow themselves up at concerts in Europe. The Druze who were massacred in Syria did not turn into terrorists or drive vehicles into crowds at Christmas markets Israeli survivors of the October 7 massacre, whose families were murdered, raped, and tortured on the morning of the holiday, and those who spent nearly two years in Hamas captivity, did not become terrorists or blow themselves up at train stations either."
davidrebelll: "Suffering does not produce terrorism. Ideologies and cultures that glorify violence do"
oliansell: "The Germans, after having their country flattened after world war two, immediately got up and worked to become the biggest economy in Europe today. Imagine if they had spent the past 80 years as generational refugees, refusing to rebuild and instead exporting terrorism all across Europe?"

Meme - "East Asian Literature:
A government official helps a female prisoner escape with the hopes of infiltrating her rebel group but ends up falling in love.
A gay couple slowly break up during a spur of the moment trip to Iguazu Falls.
There's this really big lizard ...
A working class family scams their way into the lives of a wealthy couple.
A business executive is ruined when blackmailers kidnap his chaffeur's son by mistake.
A samurai asks to commit suicide in the courtyard of a local lord, who suspects his motives.
Asian American Literature: THERE'S THIS BOYFRIEND. HE'S WHITE. WE CALL IT WHITE BOYFRIEND
AltAzn @Alt_Azn: "Asian-American media is so cringe because it's dominated by women. They write the same shit over and over and over again "I grew up around white people and was insecure"
"I dated a white boy""

Meme - Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee: "I already said this 2 days ago But are Asian diaspora women capable of doing literally anything online besides whining about their white boyfriends and their Asian food sob stories"
I,Hypocrite @lporiginalg: "Asians wanna be oppressed so bad."
"Angela's Substack. The self-betrayal of dating a white person as a racialized person. ANGELA HAN"

The Bathtub Fallacy and Risks of Terrorism - "Bloomberg economics commentator Justin Fox is tired of being told that his chances of getting killed in a terrorist attack are (much) lower than his chances of slipping, falling, and dying in a bathtub. Implication being—suck it up, people, and quit being such irrational babies when it comes to assessing risks from terrorism. Having also grown weary of hearing some version of this following terrorist attacks or government security responses, I was interested to find out why Fox (who's a very smart guy) thinks such comparisons should be reckoned a bad form of argument. Why does he think comparing fatal bathtub accidents and fatal terrorist incidents is fundamentally inapt, to the point of calling it "The Bathtub Fallacy"? (For those who don't know his work, Justin Fox is a sophisticated business and financial journalist with a keen understanding of the literatures of statistics and risk assessment, and he's also the author of the outstanding revisionist history of the “efficient market hypothesis," The Myth of the Rational Market, 2009.) What's “The Bathtub Fallacy,” according to Fox? Following a terrorist incident or government counter-measure, he says (quoting a recent Financial Times (paywalled) column by its principal political columnist, Janan Ganesh), statistics are “dug out to show that fewer Westerners perish in terror attacks than in everyday mishaps. Slipping in the bath is a tragicomic favourite. We chuckle, share the data and wait for voters and politicians to see sense.”"
We're told that in the US you're more likely to die in a bathtub than from terrorism, so if you're worried about terrorism, you're racist. Yet, you're more likely to be killed by a cow in the US than from a school shooting, and left wingers constantly obsess over school shootings

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan on X - "On the anniversary of the Westminster attack, we remember Leslie Rhodes, Andreea Cristea, Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran, and PC Keith Palmer. My thoughts are with their loved ones. It was an attack on our city, but it could never break the values we hold dear."
Ike Ijeh on X - "Sadiq Khan is more than happy to refer to Islam incessantly when it comes to Ramadan lights, Donald Trump or Trafalgar Square iftars. But he is strangely reticent about referring to the role it played in the tragic deaths below. I guess deception is our strength too."

Jeff Fynn-Paul on X - "A colleague argued in a paper that "medieval Europeans were racist." I replied that medieval Muslims were as well, and cited several sources. They said "that is whataboutism... we're not talking about Islam, we're talking about Europe." But the whole point presumably, of saying medieval Europeans were racist, was to point out that medieval Europeans were unusually bad. If everyone was equally racist, then what is the point of singling out Europeans? Why not argue that indeed, racism was prevalent across many cultures in the middle ages? The "whataboutism" counter is therefore a fallacy. If someone is arguing that one group was exceptionally bad, then by pointing out that every other group was equally bad, and therefore that the first group was not exceptionally bad, then you have defeated the original argument. "Whataboutism" is simple deflection, against an argument which does in fact render your original argument meaningless. Now, if someone had been arguing that medieval Europeans were better than everyone else, then, the revelation that Europeans were racist would be a salient point, and the "whataboutist" argument would hold water if someone tried to point out Islamic racism as a counter-argument. But 9 times out of 10, the original argument made by Western scholars is based on the idea that Europeans were in fact worse than other groups. Sorry, dear colleagues, but maybe we should reinstate basic logical training in high school and college..."
If "whataboutism" were so bad, why does common law, philosophy and one of Jesus' most popular sayings revolve around it?

AF Post on X - "Screenshots from the Manhattan Institute's college rankings show the rankings giving greater weight to Jewish safety than to curricular rigor, with curricular weight accounting for 2% of a certain school's rating and Jewish campus climate accounting for 5%. A school loses points for even having an "anti-Zionist" organization. Follow: @AFpost"wa
bumbadum on X - "When I was an irresponsible freshman in college I had this western civ exam that I didn't study for. So two hours before the exam I find an empty study hall room just down the hall and decide to do some last minute cramming in hopes to not fail. After being there for about 45 minutes or so, some frizzy afro haired black chick walks in and looks at me confused. I casually wave at her and get back to my cramming about Tacitus' Histories or something. She then clears her throat, I look at her and she says "you're not supposed to be in this room." Confused I ask "Oh is this a class room, I thought this was a study room." She then crosses her arm, visibly upset and says "no this is a cultural space YOU aren't supposed to be in here. Didn't you READ the sign." I said no, because this room had been a study hall since I started school that year. She then, in a very black bitchy attitude, explains that these rooms were deliberately selected to be "safe spaces" for "people of culture" and that I needed to leave or she was going to get a professor. So I left and went to the empty study hall on the other side of the hallway. It turns out like a week prior or something my university implemented a new program called "cultural spaces" where certain study halls would only be for non-white students. According to Manhattan's grading, this behavior would have no effect on a school's score, but if some jew had something mean said to them then that would. What a joke."

Father Christmas is ‘too white’ - "Father Christmas is too white and should stop putting children on the naughty list, a museum has said. Brighton and Hove Museums claimed Santa Claus needed to be decolonised in the name of diversity, in a blog on its website. The blog also said that Santa should work alongside elves in the name of equality and a “Mother Christmas” would help tackle the patriarchy. The museum post said the concept of Father Christmas and his naughty and nice list was a “Western binary” that teaches children that the “coloniser has the power to judge all people”... “But who decided Santa should be the judge of children’s behaviour in every community? How can he assess, for example, Indigenous children practising their own cultural traditions? “Told like this, the story presents Santa as the ultimate authority of all societies. This asks us to accept colonial assumptions of cultural superiority.” The museum post also urged parents to “challenge the colonial gaze” by stopping Father Christmas “rewarding children based on a Western binary of ‘naughty/nice’”. “Focus on bringing joy to kids of all backgrounds rather than judging them,” it said. The museum urged parents to recast Father Christmas as a “more diverse character who celebrates cultural exchange”... “Include people from around the world in Santa’s workshop. This acknowledges global input. Put Santa to work in the factory alongside the elves. This shows him and the elves as equal.” Alternatively, Father Christmas could become “Mother Christmas”. “An inclusive adaptation could include many Santas from different regions,” the document said. “Include some Mother Christmases. Patriarchy and colonialism went hand in hand. Show the next generation that men don’t have to be in charge.” It concluded: “The goal is moving away from a colonial narrative of dominance. Instead, tell a story that emphasises cultural diversity, exchange and respect.”... Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don’t Divide Us, said: “The idea that Santa Claus needs to be decolonised is laughable. It also shows that there are no limits to what [lengths] ideologues in cultural institutions ... will go to in seeking to rupture our sense of belonging to a common past and culture. “This playing at faux radical, anti-West politics by museums is boring, tedious and intellectually vacuous. This isn’t culture, it’s playpen politics which should not be getting public funding or official endorsement from witless museums. The museum could get Grinch of the Year award, though.”"
More proof that the War on Christmas is a myth

National Trust boss: Ethnic minorities don’t know what to wear in countryside - "Non-white people do not feel welcome in the countryside because they do not know what to wear, the head of the National Trust has claimed. Hilary McGrady said it was the heritage and conservation charity’s job to stop ethnic minorities feeling the outdoors was “not a place for them”. The trust’s director-general said research found minorities did not feel welcome and that the organisation had a duty to respond because it was “here for everyone”... In 2024, the charity Wildlife and Countryside Link claimed the countryside was a “racist colonial” white space “governed by white British cultural values”... The previous year, academics specialising in British colonialism and hate studies were commissioned to record the “lived realities” of ethnic minorities living, working, or hiking in the country to gather evidence of “rural racism”."

Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet on X - "Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea who Carrie Prejean was. Most people didn't. Most people still don't. I read about her history. Oh boy.
1. She participated in Miss USA 2009 where she said she believes marriage is between a man and a woman for which she faced backlash. So far so good. Respect.
2. Semi-Nude photos of her emerged. She took them willingly and posed for them. She then claimed the photos were taken accidentally.
3. Multiple NUDE PHOTOSHOOTS emerged where she clearly posed topless for different people and sources. She maintained that these were unintended. Yeah, right. (Don't look it up.) The nude photos broke her contract with Miss USA which is why she was falsely claiming that they were unintended.
4. She then tried to sue Miss USA, accusing them of breaching her privacy and not respecting her "values" along with libel and slander. Miss USA countersued to get back loans she took for breast implants and other things. During the trial a SEX TAPE she recorded at the age of 17 emerged, which resulted in her dropping of the lawsuit. The hypocrisy...
5. For her repeated lies and breaches, she was fired from Miss USA. She blamed it on her "values" and "religious discrimination." Donald Trump initially defended her but then agreed to firing her.
6. She went on Larry King Live. Larry King rightly asked her why she settled her lawsuit with Miss USA if she is on the right side of things. She walked off stage.
7. In the COVID era, she became politically active and supported Trump. Last year, she became a Catholic (supposedly).
8. Trump gave her a new chance and appointed her to the Religious Liberty Commission together with other Catholics. What he didn't know was that she was getting close with anti-semitic people and organizations, which clearly goes against the foundations of the Religious Liberty Commission. She defended and made anti-Jewish remarks. After backlash, she said she was being persecuted for her Catholic faith. There are multiple Catholics on the Religious Liberty Commission...
9. She wore a Palestine flag and met with the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD-LINKED CAIR which openly supported her. She thanked them. CAIR is an advocate for Islamists and has a long history of Muslim Brotherhood ideas and ties.
10. After her repeated fake victim-playing and antisemitism, masked as Anti-Zionism, she was removed from the Commission. She then blamed it on religious persecution due to her "Catholic faith." (while multiple Catholics are still on the Commission) and started attackiny Donald Trump, the very same man who gave her a second chance.
Carrie Prejean is a cancer who always has the same pattern. Do outrageous and messed up things, lie about them, then blame everyone else and play the victim, and burn bridges."

Thomas Massie on X - "Religious Liberty Commission member @CarriePrejean1 was reportedly removed for making statements that mirror remarks from the Pope. Removing members for religious viewpoints undermines the very purpose of the Commission. I’m asking two Congressional committees to review."
Dana Loesch on X - "I'm surprised at you on this. She was reciting texts sent to her by her Islamist hosts, who attended the commission event with her. She hijacked a discussion on American Christians and made it about herself and Israel. None of the other Catholics present on the commission behaved in such an embarrassing, unprofessional manner, which is why they're still on the panel, which proves this has nothing to do with Catholicism and everything to do with a habitual drama queen seeking attention. There is no debate."
Of course I saw left wingers spin it as censorship of a Trump critic

Nathan Cofnas on X - "Pierre Thiriar—a Justice on the Court of Appeal in Antwerp—wants me in handcuffs "When he states that genetic variants influencing intelligence may be unevenly distributed across populations and that this can explain differences in cognitive performance, this constitutes not merely a neutral hypothesis, but the empirical basis for a hierarchical view of human nature....the boundaries of Article 21 have been manifestly crossed." "Belgian case law has made it clear that packaging a discourse as 'scientific', 'philosophical', or 'critical' does not prevent it from being punishable when it objectively incites discrimination or propagates ideas of racial superiority.""
Dries Van Langenhove on X - "Sadly, this conclusion is correct. Nathan Cofnas could easily be sent to jail in Belgium, as I was for statements that are far less easy to place under our dystopian ‘anti-racism laws’ than his. A month from now I must once again face criminal court and potential prison because I said, during a lecture at university, that parents will choose schools that are Whiter because these, on average, have better schooling quality. This is simply fact, but facts are illegal in Belgium if they go against the equality dogmas."
Trust the Science! Trust the Experts!

Why Belgium is sending in the army to defend its streets - "Soldiers have been deployed to bolster security around Jewish sites and neighborhoods in Brussels and Antwerp, following a spate of clumsy but troubling attacks across Belgium and the Netherlands. Synagogues have been targeted with arson and a Jewish school struck by an explosion... After deploying the army, Theo Francken, Belgium’s effective and plain-talking defense minister, declared Antwerp ‘a little safer again and the Jewish community too’. One suspects the reassurance is aimed as much at a jittery public as the Jewish community itself. While the attacks were amateurish – the work, it seems, of poorly organized youths rather than seasoned extremists – they have taken place in a country already uneasy about its security. Dutch police, meanwhile, have arrested a handful of teenage suspects (some with Dutch-Caribbean backgrounds, according to the Dutch daily, De Telegraaf) in connection with the arson attack in Rotterdam. The same shady group that claimed responsibility for an arson attack on London ambulances owned by a Jewish charity, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), also said it was responsible for the attacks across the Low Countries. Experts do not know who is actually behind the incidents. Organized crime groups in the Netherlands frequently hire youths with migrant backgrounds to carry out jobs. HAYI’s statements reportedly contain errors in Arabic, suggesting they have been written by a non-native speaker – or at least someone lacking sophistication. That is not much comfort though to Jews in the region. There is another factor at play here in Belgium. It has justified deploying its military after the most recent attacks, but the return of soldiers to the streets has been months in the making. It was a move that had been delayed by protracted political wrangling over legal frameworks and rules of engagement... Belgium’s cities, and Brussels in particular, have in recent years acquired a reputation for lawlessness. Drug-related violence has crept into public view; firearms no longer remain in the underworld’s shadows. The police, by most accounts, are overstretched – one could even argue outgunned. And so the military is stepping into the breach. They are cheaper, readily available, better armed, well trained and, to many, reassuringly visible. There is a precedent here. After the Paris attacks in 2015, Belgium’s streets quickly filled with paratroopers in balaclavas. The deployment lasted until 2021 and had one excellent side effect: it reduced crime. Going back further still, the same happened in the 1980s, when troops were deployed after the elusive Brabant Killers terrorized the Greater Brussels area, resulting in 28 fatalities. However, the policy is not without its critics. Military unions dislike the lack of clear legal protections for their members, and have warned that soldiers risk being used as a cut-price police. The so-called “rules of engagement” remain, by all accounts, a work in progress. Talk of giving the military expanded powers, from identity checks to arrests, has alarmed civil libertarians and legal experts. The soldiers deployed in the past did not have a clear mandate. They were trained for war, not for the delicate ambiguities of civilian policing on a busy city street. To blur that line is to invite confusion at best. As one union representative observed, a misstep just beyond the letter of an order could leave an individual soldier personally exposed to legal risk – a heavy burden for a domestic deployment. Yet the federal government appears willing to take that risk, with security in Brussels spiraling out of control and the capital itself struggling with a near-constant political crisis. Deploying troops to back up local police may give Belgium’s federal government some leverage in improving the situation, especially given Brussels’s standing in the European Union. And so Belgium finds itself, once again, in a familiar place: a state seeking to project strength while at the same time quietly acknowledging its own limitations when it comes to policing its own neighborhood."
No wonder it's illegal to talk about the science on racial differences in Belgium

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "The transformation of liberals into "progressives" since 2013 has seriously been the worst thing to happen to American culture in my lifetime. Just absolutely gutted so much of what was good about this country. End of a golden age."

England ditch ‘woke’ St George’s Cross design on new World Cup shirt - "England have ditched the multicoloured St George’s Cross on their new jersey for the World Cup."

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Links - 26th March 2026 (2)

When over 7 tonnes of chicken is discarded daily — the alarming scale of food waste in Asia - "Even the weight of a chicken can determine what retailers sell or choose not to. The standard chicken size, for example, is 1.2kg. But “there’ll be situations where they’re just not the weight that’s stated” — either undersized or oversized. “They can still be eaten, but simply because of cosmetic business requirements, they get lost in the end in the entire process chain,” he said."

I just moved to Australia from America and cannot get over this weird 5pm rule in every state - "Crystal Chanel, who regularly shares her cultural observations online, has been documenting the quirks she can't get used to since relocating Down Under. And in her latest clip, she turned her attention to Australia's early retail closing times, arguing the country desperately needs 24-hour supermarkets. 'In Australia everything closes by five o'clock,' she told her followers. 'Thursdays we have late night shopping. Everything closes by like seven or nine. 'We need like a Walmart or something out here that's open 24/7, because what happens when you run out of something or there's an emergency, you need diapers or medicine. What are you going to do?'... The same has been said about Sydney, which many visitors expect to be a bustling 24-hour city only to discover it has the same closing times as a country town. Visitors - both from overseas and interstate - said they were 'shocked' to see shops and restaurants closed and public transport all but end so early in the evening. Penalty rates for employees make it financially unviable for many businesses to stay open after 5pm, with rates of pay for shift work ranging from 1.5 times normal pay during the week to double pay on weekends. TikToker Jenny Tian pointed out it's hard to get a coffee past 2pm as most cafes have shut, while shops close by 5pm and restaurants stop serving food by 9pm. She said many former 'party areas' have been turned over to housing and those who need public transport at night better 'enjoy waiting half an hour in the freezing cold for a night rider'. Other expats who have moved to Sydney have been sharing their frustrations at how early everything closes. 'What are the real reasons/challenges behind the lack of night activities (putting aside some bars and kebab shops)? And why the city is not vibrant and 24-hour even though there is a big percentage of Sydney's population who like staying up late?' one man asked on Reddit. 'I moved to Sydney from Asia in 2016 and was so surprised to find out that most establishments close so early,' another said. 'Pharmacies, salons, retailers, cafes, restaurants, malls all close before 7pm. It's just dead everywhere and this was even pre-pandemic.' Most Australians were quick to agree while visitors said they were 'shocked' to discover how 'dead' the city can be on weeknights. 'Sydney is the opposite of a 24-hour city,' one Aussie commented and another said: 'I left Sydney in 2004, it was a 24-hour city...moved back in 2017...dead.' 'Coffee shops closing at 2pm in Australia was an absolute culture shock. Where I'm from we drink coffee after dinner at 10pm,' a second wrote. Others pointed out the same was true for most Australian capital cities besides Melbourne."

American woman reveals the 'strange' things she has noticed about Australians after moving from Boston to Melbourne on a whim - "Shannon Knight, from Boston, decided to move Down Under 'on a whim' and experience life in a new country. The 26-year-old was pleasantly surprised by several aspects of Aussie life including the country's reasonable minimum wage, cheap sports tickets, and nightlife culture. Shannon couldn't believe most people on minimum wage jobs in Australia are able to survive because workers back home are 'unable to cover rent even if [they] work 70-hour weeks'. 'The minimum wage here is $25/hour and I've met plenty of adults here who work a cashier job at a grocery store or a boutique and they get by just fine,' Shannon said. The expat was also shocked by Australians' relationships with work. 'In regards to work - people just go to their job and go home. Their work isn't their entire personality, it's not a part of their identity - which is a really hard concept for me to wrap my brain around,' she added. While many Aussies criticise Sydney and Melbourne for not being 24-hour cities, Shannon was pleasantly surprised by the night life. 'The social scene [is great] - people actually go out over the age of 24 here which is so refreshing.' Shannon is also glad that Australian landlords demand rent every week instead of monthly because it's 'not as daunting' when broken up into smaller segments. The one thing Shannon couldn't get her head around was driving. 'Everybody drives very calmly here - but I lived in Boston, where we don't drive calmly to say the absolute least. 'It's just a really hard concept for me to witness. When I'm in the passenger seat and somebody cuts somebody off, I'm screaming on the inside but Australians just kind of shrug their shoulders and keep going.' Shannon was taken aback by one specific Australian male trait. 'The guys are significantly more tattooed here - it's not uncommon to see a guy with a lot of tattoos in America, but [Australians] are tattooed from the neck down to the ankle. We don't see that a lot in America.' She was also shocked by how cheap tickets to professional sporting events were Down Under. 'I saw AFL semi-final tickets on sale for $40 this weekend,' she shared. 'I don't know what a ticket to the AFC Championship would be, but I don't think it's anywhere near $40.' In terms of food, the expat claimed Australian McDonald's one-ups the US. 'McDonald's fries are significantly better - which says a lot because McDonald's fries are very good, and I didn't think anything could top them. But Australian fries are fresher and crispier - they're fantastic.'... Shannon claimed Australians have more in common with Americans than the British do. 'I would've thought the British would be more similar to use because we're closer geographically, but no,' she said."

‘I bought a £435 all-you-can-fly pass and travel the world for £9 a ticket’ - "He is one of 20,000 people who signed up to Wizz Air’s “All You Can Fly pass” – a unique £435 ticket promising a year of unlimited travel for last-minute flights"

Cavemen hunted with biological weapons 60,000 years ago - "Cavemen used poison-tipped arrows tens of thousands of years earlier than thought, scientists have found.  Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock shelter dating back some 60,000 years.  The finds are thought to be the earliest known use of biological weapons, with previous evidence of hunters using poison stretching back only around 35,000 years. The discovery bolsters arguments that early humans had sophisticated thinking and planning comparable with modern people, because of the skill and knowledge needed to prepare such weapons."

Metal detectorist’s Roman brooch ‘discovery’ was an eBay buy - "A metal detectorist who claimed to have discovered a valuable Roman brooch has admitted he bought it from eBay.  Jason Price, 54, was paid £5,000 to display the fake artefact at a museum, even though he had ordered it through the online marketplace, Lincolnshire Police said. The force said over several years, Price submitted a number of artefacts to Lincolnshire county council under the Portable Antiquities Scheme, including Roman coins which were found to not be genuine.  Artefacts previously submitted by Price were also tested for their authenticity and concerns were raised to the police.  The force said Price claimed to have found the Leasingham horse brooch in the Lincolnshire village of Leasingham in 2019, which led to a change in the historic understanding of Roman brooches in Britain and was classed a significant find.  The brooch, which was described as a “once-in-a-lifetime find”, had generated national interest after Price’s “discovery”."

National Trust ‘turned Dorset beach beloved by Enid Blyton into rubbish dump’ - "The National Trust has been accused of turning a seaside beach beloved by Enid Blyton into a “horrific eyesore” after removing its sea defences exposed an old rubbish tip.  The conservation body is carrying out a controversial “managed retreat” policy at Middle Beach in Studland, Dorset, so that the water can reclaim the land.  Engineers took out sea defences at the beach, which was a favourite of the Famous Five author, last September to “allow nature to take its course”... In 2023, the trust demolished Britain’s oldest beach café on top of the small cliff despite overwhelming opposition against the move. They originally planned to replace it with a “burger van”.  Although the building was 60ft back from the edge, the organisation claimed it was at risk of falling into the sea and so had to be razed to the ground.  Andrew Parsons, a nearby resident who is a civil engineer, said: “If it was a building site and this waste was unearthed, Environmental Health would come down on them.  “The National Trust are doing this stupid process of returning it to nature when they should be preserving buildings like the old café.   “Anybody could have seen this would happen and they have shown an incredible lack of foresight.”"

Son of Minnesota AG collecting $110,000 city salary despite full-time Harvard fellowship 1,000 miles away - "Minneapolis City Council Member Jeremiah Ellison is drawing criticism after accepting a full-time fellowship at Harvard University while continuing to collect his six-figure taxpayer salary... Ellison maintains that he will still attend full council meetings every other week and participate virtually in the city’s year-end budget process. But Minneapolis rules do not allow council members to vote remotely, raising questions about how effective his virtual participation will be."

em on X - "I am against men going to therapy. They just learn new words they can use against you. What do you mean your boundaries shut up"
Claire Lehmann on X - "It's a famous finding in criminal psychology that psychopathic sex offenders have higher rates of recidivism after 'empathy training.' They learn better ways to manipulate people"

Erectile difficulties are often blamed on porn. But research actually finds that, if anything, men who use porn tend to report better erectile function. So what does cause ED? : r/psychologyofsex - "First, there are the usual suspects--aging, cardiovascular disease, chronic illnesses (e.g., diabetes), obesity, overuse of alcohol, and medication side effects. Numerous biological factors can contribute to erectile problems, often by impacting blood flow and hormone levels.  But ED isn't just a biological phenomenon. It's also impacted by numerous psychosocial factors, from performance anxiety to relationship problems to mental health issues (e.g., depression, anxiety). There are also many lesser-known causes of ED, which are discussed in this podcast, such as early attachment wounds. For example, research has found that men who experience attachment-disrupting events in childhood (e.g., loss of a parent) are more likely to develop erectile problems in adulthood.  As for porn, despite lots of claims about "porn-induced erectile dysfunction," the research doesn't really support this idea. Studies have found that there's no significant association between porn use and erectile problems, and some research has found that porn users actually demonstrate enhanced arousal to sexual stimuli. While porn is the easy target to blame, it's not necessarily the right one. ED is complex and multifaceted."

What the right gets right - "one thing the right gets right is a patriotic attitude toward The United States of America.  I have read and re-read and wrestled with Alasdair MacIntyre’s essay “Is Patriotism A Virtue?” many times over the years. He says that most people think patriotism is a virtue, but that liberals struggle to develop a coherent explanation of why that should be... most people on the contemporary American left are skeptical of, if not outright hostile to, the idea of patriotism... conservatives have a generally clearer sense of history... Progressives typically characterize their stance on this as being that it’s important to tell people about the darker aspects of history. And they’re right — it is a good idea for people to learn about those things. But I think the standard progressive read of this gets the figure and the ground backwards. The implication of a lot of these takes on episodes of violence, bigotry, displacement, and cruelty in American history is that these episodes are what’s distinctive about the United States of America.  But if you read the history of anywhere, you’ll see that it’s not like there’s some other country where you wouldn’t say “it’s important for people to learn about the darker aspects of our history.” History is dark!... It’s naive to view our sociocultural antecedents here in the United States as flawless, shining heroes, but it’s also naive to think the violence and brutality of American history is what’s unique about it, rather than the fact that we’ve settled into a prosperous and liberal status quo. The related thing that conservatives get right is a sense that good things are vulnerable and it’s worth worrying about wrecking everything.  Martin Luther King Jr.’s mantra, paraphrasing Theodore Parker, that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice” is a nice bit of motivational speaking. But this often leads progressives to the view that there is a strong and inherent directionality to history, and thus that any noisy movement for reform with adequate progressive branding must be good. You hear a lot with regard to the Gaza protests that the people complaining are just the same as the people who complained about every good and virtuous social movement of the past. Implicit is the sense that there is no such thing as a social movement that was bad.  But Communism, to cite probably the most important example, was really bad!... A century ago, eugenics had sterling progressive credentials. More recently, and less dramatically, thousands of people were murdered as a result of progressive over-enthusiasm for de-policing.   The thing that conservatives get right about this isn’t just that far-left activists are sometimes wrong about things, but that mainstream liberals are, by disposition, too indulgent of far-left activists... The view here is that the important thing is to position yourself on the side of reform, rather than to ask too many questions about the precise contents of the reform... conservatives are right to think that, in the context of history, we have things pretty good and that we should be cautious about overturning the apple cart without being quite rigorous in our thinking.  As any good patriot knows, “all men are created equal.”  I think everyone is also aware that it is not literally the case that everyone is created equal... those with strong egalitarian normative commitments tend to shy away from making inegalitarian factual assessments of people. This is annoying, because nothing about the fact that people aren’t equal undermines the idea that their interests deserve equal consideration. If you read John Rawls, he acknowledges the “natural facts” of human inequality that are beyond the reach of justice. But in a practical sense, there is considerable pressure to talk as if everyone is literally equal. Daniel Chandler’s new book on the contemporary application of Rawlsian ideas talks about the natural facts point explicitly. But then he offhandedly cites the fact that “in countries like the UK and USA, for example, someone whose parents earn £10,000 more than their friend’s parents will, on average, go on to earn £5,000 more than their friend” as an illustration of how material inequalities unfairly perpetuate across generations. He doesn’t ask how much of this is about material resources and how much is genetic. Surely the answer is “some of both,” but especially if you want to undertake a big drive for fair equality of opportunity, you need to delve into the issues — issues that progressives are reluctant to engage with in any real way.  You also see this in the fairly perverse impulse on the left to look at each individual example of a rich businessman who doesn’t want to pay higher taxes or comply with stricter regulations and decide that the person in question is stupid or secretly a fraud. It would be convenient if every single rich person who prefers lower taxes was also a moron who succeeded in life purely through dumb luck. But is that remotely plausible? It’s certainly not the official case for egalitarian policy — it just follows nicely from an egalitarian ethic. And unfortunately, it leads to a whole twisted worldview around economic growth... Once upon a time, of course, socialists argued that central planning would make for a more prosperous economy than capitalism. Or else they argued that socialism would emerge only after capitalism had solved all problems of objective scarcity and triggered a crisis period of overabundance. But at a certain point, people started suggesting that degrowth could be a virtue of socialism. Or that the real solution to our ecological problems is for everyone to be poor.  This is dumb, and plenty of people on the left (even the far left) know that degrowth is dumb, but the fact is, it’s a live controversy on the left in a way that it is not on the right. There is, of course, more to life than the monolithic pursuit of economic growth, but it’s a genuinely massive conceptual error to see growth as undesirable or to be indifferent toward it."

S.African township squalid and neglected despite 25 years of black rule
Time to blame apartheid

Chinese woman spends majority of husband’s $163,000 life savings on online streamer - "A Chinese husband was reportedly left in tears after he found out that his wife had spent the majority of his life savings on an online male streamer she had never met. According to reports, the woman sent the money to the streamer to help him win competitions. “Over the past eight years, there were approximately 1.16 million yuan in fixed deposits under her name. After repeated questioning, I discovered that not a single penny was left. About 670,000 (US$163,000) yuan of it was spent on male livestreamer, and she couldn't explain the rest. The crucial point is that she now owes more than 80,000 yuan in online loans,” the husband, Liu, said in an interview with local media."

Building China: Why Does Half of China Struggle to Stay Warm Indoors in the Winter? - "Although as new developments are built the rule is changing, its generally well-known in China that there is no central heating to be found in the country south of the Yangtze River... The question of who gets heat and who doesn’t was decided in the early Mao years in the same blunt and arbitrary manner so many things get decided in the People’s Republic — as the story goes, the Party realized it didn’t have the capacity to install heat in all housing, so Zhou Enlai suggested they confine central heat to the area above the Qinling mountains and Huai river, or what became known as the “Qin-Huai” line. The Qin-Huai rule persists to this day; even after the rise of commodity housing, developers building south of the line were not compelled to install a heating system. And so come winter, hundreds of millions of people below the line shiver in their homes. You can install a space heating unit (空调 kongtiao), sure, but it only works so well to warm up a room and it eats up vast quantities of electricity in the process"
On indoor heating in China

Wall Street Apes on X - "🚨 Information Request finds Minnesota is laundering residents property taxes to NGOs
In just last year alone they’ve laundered tens of millions of property tax dollars to hundreds of NGOs “Ramsey County has the highest property tax rate in the whole state. So we decided to file an information request at the Ramsey County office asking how many NGOs each year receive property tax money.
— Two months of repeatedly being ignored, stonewalled, and it was only after we went directly to one of the Ramsey County commissioners where we finally got at least some of the information that we requested.
— Turns out that last year, Ramsey County gave a whopping $38.4 million to a total of 213 NGOs.
And this is happening at a time when there is a 9.75% property rate increase in property taxes there in Ramsey County as well. They proposed that for the next year’s budget to increase property taxes by 9.75%.  So they’re spending $38.4 million dollars on 213 NGOs and now they want more.”  I guarantee this is happening all over the country in Democrat states"

Outrage over Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir's shocking comments as it continues to operate in Australia - despite terrorist group label overseas and ASIO concerns - "An Islamic group which has been deemed a terrorist organisation in multiple countries faces calls to be banned from Australia after it publicly declared the 'West sucks blood from humanity'.  Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia is now under intense fire over the public rally it held in November, just three weeks before the horrific Bondi Beach attack which left 15 people dead.  Multiple members of the group took the stage to deliver explosive messages, including 'sharia law is the blueprint of a harmonious society' and 'Islam is the only solution for Muslims and non-Muslims alike'.  The controversial conference 'Islam: The Change the World Desperately Needs' was held at The Highline Venue in Bankstown, south-west Sydney, on November 23.  Various speakers slammed the 'impacts of Western civilisation', accusing 'capitalism of weakening the influence of Islam'.   Radical cleric Mohamad Trad, who notoriously called for a Muslim army and an Islamic state with sharia law under a 'final solution' in 2023, spoke at the conference.  'The ugly face of this capitalistic, liberal, secular, capitalist ideology. All of that has come to fruition in the eyes of the whole world In Gaza,' Trad said.  'Islam, it’s the only solution. It’s the only way for Muslim and non-Muslim alike'. Another speaker, who delivered a video message while standing in front of a destroyed building in Gaza, said the West was 'sucking blood and draining the wealth of humanity'.  'They have seen how the slogans of freedom, democracy and human rights are nothing but a mask for an ugly face hidden by their politicians, the masters of colonialism,' the speaker said.  'The West possesses only one value, sucking blood and draining the wealth of humanity.   'Even if it means standing atop mountains of skulls, rivers of blood, and paths of crushed bones.'  The speaker also called for the 'overthrow of Western influence'.  'Muslims are the only ones who possess a civilisational project capable of removing capitalism from its global leadership and taking its place to illuminate the world anew,' he said.  'The West fears our civilisational project; it has incited regimes against us.'  Hizb ut-Tahrir member Wassim Doureihi told the audience it was time to ramp up efforts to establish a 'Muslim state'. 'Brothers and sisters, please, the time to talk about Khilafah (Caliphate) is over. The time to work for Khilafah is now,' Doureihi said.  'Do the work… don’t do the talk. We are not happy trying to organise conferences. We are in the business of trying to organise a state. The time for talk is over.'... Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Hizb ut-Tahrir 'disgusted him'.  'This organisation has been propagating hate for decades and I’ve been publicly opposed to them my whole career,' he said.  'No government has been able to ban them as they didn’t meet the violence threshold.  'The government is lowering the threshold, which means organisations which hate Australia and hate Australians will soon be able to be banned.'"
Time to jail those who criticise this for Islamophobia, and jail Neo-Nazis

C3 on X - "So… 4 Dem states are suing Trump to keep Somalians robbing Americans. 19 Dem states are suing Trump to give sex change operations to kids. 22 Dem states are suing Trump to hide voter data. 21 Dem states are suing Trump to give SNAP benefits to illegals. Sickening."

Meme - Chef Andrew Gruel: "A masterclass in propaganda. One photo, zero context. The caption says "terrorized innocent man." The reality - he grabbed the officer's weapon moments earlier, and that's pepper spray, not a firearm. This is how outrage is manufactured"
Power to the People @ProudSocialist: "Another horrifying image out of Minneapolis. Look at the terror on this man's face as federal agent points a gun at his face & threatens his life. Enough is enough. Our government is committing war crimes abroad & murdering & terrorizing citizens at home. We need a revolution."

Political ideology and closed-mindedness: the Left and Right have become more alike - "in the United States, conservatives generally score higher on self-reported closed-mindedness compared to their liberal counterparts. However, as Kemmelmeier explains, the size of this difference has changed significantly from 1948 to 2019.  “What we found was that in the late 1940s, there was a relatively more pronounced correlation between people who described themselves as being more conservative also identified themselves as being more closed-minded,” said Kemmelmeier. “Over time, however, that correlation becomes smaller and smaller, and today it is less than one-percent of the entire variation.”"
Left wingers are no longer more open minded than right wingers. Given that most left wingers from 10 years ago would be considered "far right" today, that's no surprise. But this won't stop left wingers continuing to report outdated research as if it reflects contemporary realities.

The judge who helped Liberals build a race-based sentencing regime

The judge who helped Liberals build a race-based sentencing regime
As a lawyer, Faisal Mirza pushed judges to adopt racial reasoning. Now on the bench, he uses that reasoning to toss out evidence

There is a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice whose signature move is letting violent men walk free because of racism. One of the architects of race-based sentencing, his name is Faisal Mirza, and he was appointed to the bench by former prime minister Justin Trudeau in 2022.

Mirza’s flourish of race-based acquittals is not a case of a judge gone rogue: indeed, it’s perfectly on-brand. He was writing about the need for more racial considerations in the Canadian justice system in 2001, before he even became a lawyer. Back then, he argued in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal that mandatory minimum sentences for drug and weapons offences would be racist because of the disproportionate impact they’d have on Black people.

Toronto police, he asserted, were racist because of the arrest statistics they produced: in 1988, Black individuals comprised 51 per cent of drug arrests, 82 per cent of mugging arrests and 55 per cent of purse snatching arrests. This, he said, was evidence of over-targeting. He concluded that more mandatory minimums would exacerbate the effect, because the threat of being convicted on a charge with a guaranteed jail term would disproportionately pressure Black accused persons to make plea deals and forfeit the opportunity to expose racist police at trial.

This became a career pursuit. When the Supreme Court was deciding whether to strike down the mandatory minimum for illegally possessing a loaded firearm in 2014, he argued as an intervener in the case that its disproportionate impact on Black individuals needed to be taken into account. The court ultimately ruled that this mandatory minimum was unconstitutional.

In 2018, Mirza laid the foundation for Ontario’s racial sentencing regime. He was the defence lawyer of Kevin Morris, a Black man who was convicted of various firearms offences. They were lucky to draw the hyper-progressive, destructively lenient Shaun Nakatsuru for a judge. Mirza filed two racial context reports about Morris and Black people as evidence, and the judge emphatically agreed to consider them. He settled on a 15-month sentence to account for the racial factors, even though three years was considered the starting point. On appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal made racial considerations in sentencing the province-wide rule in 2021.

In 2019, he was also an intervening lawyer in the Supreme Court case of R. v. Le, advocating for racial considerations in assessing the legality of police searches, which the court agreed with.

In 2020, he co-launched a non-profit that wrote pre-sentence reports for non-white criminals, and for Black offenders in particular. It started as an optional service that defence lawyers could use, but it became essential in 2021, when the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered the province’s judges to give racial discounts to Black offenders if the individual’s criminal conduct could be somehow connected to racism and its nebulous cousin, “systemic racism.” For that work, and for its contributions to the anti-racism movement, it won two federal government grants totalling $780,000.

It was also in 2021 that Mirza, while representing the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, succeeded in convincing the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal to adopt racial sentencing in the case of R. v. Anderson. The court quoted his submissions: “It is time that the distinct mistreatment of Black people in society be given its due recognition in criminal sentencing.”

Mirza was rewarded by the feds with a judicial seat in 2022. Now a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, he’s able to put his principles into practice.

In 2024, Mirza decided the case of a middle-aged Indigenous man who sexually abused his girlfriend’s daughter between the ages 11 of 13 by forcibly kissing her, fondling her breasts and genitals, and sexually assaulting her with his mouth. The Crown asked for a sentence between 4.5 and 5.5 years, but after Mirza considered the impact of colonialism and racism, he settled on three years.

In 2025, Mirza presided over the case of a Jamaican-Canadian pimp with a history of criminal activity who trafficked a semi-homeless Indigenous woman. He pegged the starting point for the sentence at five years, but shaved a year off to address the man’s personal circumstances — primarily racism, which cumulatively put the offender at “higher risk for negative decisions and involvement in crime.”

It was around that time that Mirza started throwing evidence out because of “racism.” In one case, police had detained the occupants of a car idling in a sketchy motel parking lot at 3 a.m. whose licence plate had been flagged by the gang unit. Police repeatedly asked him to exit the vehicle for a sobriety check, and the man — who was actually wanted for a stabbing at Tim Horton’s weeks earlier — refused; police broke his window, and when he still refused to exit, they tased him. After a struggle to subdue the man, during which he tried to put the vehicle in gear, police found a loaded firearm on the ground next to the driver’s side. This triggered a search of the car that turned up cocaine. The man was on a no-weapons order.

Mirza went on to rule that police actions constituted “racist mistreatment,” and excluded all evidence, from questioning to the loaded gun. The car was associated with a black male and gang “flags,” which the judge found to be the reason for arrest; the officers didn’t immediately identify the man (in Mirza’s view, they jumped to a racist conclusion); the officers behaved as if the vehicle’s occupant was dangerous (not unreasonable, considering it was gang-flagged with tinted windows, and not incorrect, considering the loaded gun). Mirza also chastized the police for not reading the man his rights as he resisted arrest (though it’s appropriate to wait until the situation is under control).

The arrest still deserved scrutiny, but Mirza’s diagnosis of racism tilted the calculation of whether to exclude evidence strongly in the accused’s favour: “When a court finds racial profiling or racist mistreatment the evidence must be excluded.”

In January, Mirza issued another judgment tossing out evidence for men caught possessing loaded firearms on the basis of racism. In that case, a victim had reported being robbed by two Black men in a red BMW, possibly with a gun, and provided the licence plate number and the robbers’ associated address. Police found the car in the parking lot of that address and towed it away for investigation. As another officer went to the building superintendent’s office in hopes of finding the owner, and soon enough, the owner came to the office with two companions, hoping to track down his car.

The officer, outnumbered, tried to detain the men on suspicion of robbery. The owner tried to run off, and in the ensuing scramble, a loaded handgun fell from his waistband. The officer held the man on the ground until backup arrived, but did not read him his rights in that time — a fatal delay for the case, in the eyes of the judge.

The whole interaction, he found, was tainted by racism: the officer “decided to dominate the Applicant physically and disregard of his rights because he was Black,” he wrote, downplaying the dangerous situation and the description-matching suspects.

To his credit, there have been instances where Mirza refrained from applying a racial discount, and from tossing out evidence because of racism, but it doesn’t excuse the other times when he let his biases reign. It’s undeniable that he has a habit of projecting racism in assessing any interaction with the state and undermining public safety with his assumptions. One day, it’s going to end up getting someone hurt — if it hasn’t already.

Links - 26th March 2026 (1 - Jeffrey Epstein [including Trump])

World Economic Forum boss Borge Brende quits after review of Jeffrey Epstein links - "The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Borge Brende, has resigned after a review into his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein... Brende's home country of Norway has seen several public figures drawn into the controversy, including Crown Princess Mette-Marit and diplomats Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen.  Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was charged with "gross corruption" earlier this month over his ties with Epstein, police said."

Animal House - "Democratic Representative Dan Goldman accused President Donald Trump of having been “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old minor, and alleged that the Justice Department is withholding related records from the public. The “credible accusation” in question involves an unverified allegation dating back to the 1980s that was investigated by the Biden DOJ. Goldman and Representative Ted Lieu called for a special prosecutor to further investigate.  It is remarkable to watch the left run this same playbook again, especially after it has come back to bite them in the ass time and time again.  According to the FBI documents, this is an uncorroborated accusation that surfaced in 2018 and 2019 regarding something that allegedly occurred in the 1980s. The accusation follows the same pattern as the E. Jean Carroll case, pick something that happened 30 years ago that has never been identified, then publicize sketchy accusations made by credibility challenged individuals that Trump, his sons, Ivanka (who was born in 1981 and would have been between 0 and 8 years old when this allegedly happened) and approximately 30 to 40 other individuals, including Alan Dershowitz and Elon Musk, attended what was essentially a sex-slave market featuring underage girls. For those who haven’t seen it, one part of the accusation is that Trump “measured the children’s vulva and vaginas by entering a finger…”  That’s the level of salaciousness.  Yesterday’s breathless headlines from the left claimed that the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times “confirmed” accusations initially reported by PBS. What those outlets confirmed was not that the events occurred, but simply that the accusations appeared in the documents. That is all. The response from Democratic officials has been swift. This morning, I awoke to a video — sent to me by my personal AWFUL (the teacher I have written about with whom I have been attempting to reason — of Representative Yassimin Ansari grabbing a little TV time by making additional fact-free accusations. I responded with a clip from James King interviewing another young AWFUL, who said she had “deduced” Trump’s guilt. It was telling that my personal AWFUL used the exact same word. Neither of them deduced anything from an uncorroborated, evidence-free accusation. At best, they extrapolated a conclusion from their own emotional biases. There is nothing in evidence with sufficient weight to justify further investigation.  The broader reality is this: President Trump is the most investigated, most surveilled, and most accused president in American history. His life has been examined under a partisan microscope every day for the past decade. One might reasonably conclude that if Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland, Alvin Bragg, Reid Hoffman, or any other Democratic operative had proof to back any of these claims, it would have surfaced at some point over the past eight years when they would have been the most politically useful. The left has also mastered a particular rhetorical trap: dismissing specific, verifiable details in favor of “the bigger idea.” The political right, by contrast, remains ensnared in a world where every sentence is parsed and negative intent is assigned to every word. This is a form of offensive emotional reasoning known as “Kafkatrapping,” defined as: your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of [some charge] simply confirms that you are guilty of it.  The burden of proof is applied unequally. Conservatives and Republicans are not afforded the same evidentiary standard in the court of public opinion as they are in a court of law. This dynamic was crystallized during the Clarence Thomas hearings, when NPR’s Nina Totenberg, commenting on Anita Hill’s unproven accusations, stated that truth was secondary because: “It’s the seriousness of the charge” that matters. This became what might be called the Totenberg Rule, and it operates through four mechanisms: things said cannot be unsaid; things heard cannot be unheard; things seen cannot be unseen; and if something is repeated by enough people, it becomes acceptable to treat it as true. My personal AWFUL added a corollary of her own: that Trump was mentioned hundreds of times in the documents, and therefore it simply must be true.  That is precisely what Democrats are hoping to achieve — convincing the public that guilt or innocence should be judged not by evidence, but by the severity of the accusation. I’m sure that not having a message in the run-up to a midterm election totally has nothing to do with it."
To left wingers, accusations they like, no matter how improbable, are the same as proof. But accusations they don't like don't count (like illegal immigrants who have been accused but not convicted of violent crimes)

Meme - "THE VIEW. Whoopi Goldberg addressed her name appearing in Epstein-related documents, saying being listed does not equal guilt. "Anybody can be on this list," Joy Behar said. "Anybody... I wasn't his girlfriend. I wasn't his friend," Whoopi added. In making the case that being named isn't proof of guilt, she is ironically defending Trump as well!"

tostitos on X - "In 2015, Epstein actively prepared the world for pandemics together with the WHO and the Red Cross.  A new file from a recent DOJ drop (EFTA00654215) reveals the correspondence:  Epstein forwards an email to himself with the subject line "Preparing for pandemics."  It discusses a meeting in Geneva, with the agenda attached. The sender writes:  «Please find attached a draft agenda for the meeting on preparing for  pandemics... Let's discuss next steps, for example how to officially  involve the WHO and ICRC (i.e. co-branding).»  This was 2015 long before COVID. Epstein personally coordinated global pandemic preparedness.  https://polymarket.com/event/will-any one-be-charged-over-epstein-disclosures?via=tostitos   Yes now 28% and continues to grow after such documents  This isn't just "underage parties" anymore. This is impacting global health institutions.  Are you in Yes or do you still think it's a coincidence?"
Clearly, if you advocate employing security guards to defend soft targets from mass shootings, that means you are behind them

Meme - Conor D. Oil @RealConorOil: "Libsh*ts will be mad!"
"BIDEN *Donald Trump*
underage girls *Ivanka sitting on his lap*"
Left wingers hate their families and are miserable, so they cannot imagine kids sit on their fathers' laps.

Meme - Reddit Lies @reddit_lies: "Trump frequently showed up in the Epstein files because a vast majority of Epstein's emails were spam emails from news outlets talking about politics. Redditors cannot comprehend this."
"r/WhitePeopleTwitter
Trump is an embarrassment for America!
Anonymous: "Mentioned more than a million times, but he's innocent. The fucker was in on it and was Epstein's partner in crime. HOW THE FUCK IS HE STILL POTUS? The USA is broken.""

Taylor Sharp on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Under oath, Bill Clinton says Donald Trump “never said anything to me to make me think he was involved” in wrongdoing related to Jeffrey Epstein. TRUMP CLEARED? The Epstein case just keeps backfiring on the democrats."

Canadian Politics on Facebook | Facebook - "Trump released the files and look what's happening...Hopefully more to come!
Hope they get all of them! Former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler is resigning as chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs in the wake of the Justice Department's release of emails and other material that revealed her extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Dubai billionaire CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigns after email reveals Jeffrey Epstein thanked him for "torture video." In the UK Peter Mandelson received THREE payments of $25,000 from Epstein. Emails show he forwarded classified government information to Epstein while serving as Business Secretary. He has resigned from the Labour Party and resigned from the House of Lords. Starmer's Chief of Staff — resigned. His Communications Director — resigned. Scottish Labour leader called for Starmer himself to resign. Today in Norway police raided former PM Thorbjorn Jagland's home. Charge: AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION. Epstein called him "the Nobel big shot." He chaired the Nobel Committee. Ran the Council of Europe. Used Epstein's apartments in Paris, New York, and Palm Beach from 2011-2018. Epstein paid for everything. Norway Ambassador Mona Juul — resigned. Diplomat Terje Rod-Larsen — architect of the Oslo Peace Accords — linked to visa fraud for trafficking victims. Named in Epstein's will for $10 MILLION. The man who brokered Middle East peace was helping traffic children. Norway Crown Princess Mette-Marit — apologized. WEF President Borge Brende — under investigation. National security adviser of Slovakia resigned after Epstein communications surfaced. Former Culture Minister in France Jack Lang resigned. Corruption probe opened. UNHCR chair In Sweden resigned after visiting Epstein's island — AFTER his conviction. Nobel Committee chairs. Peace deal architects. Prime Ministers. Ambassadors. Crown Princesses. This reaches into Academia. Hollywood. Tech. Science. Politics. These aren't random connections. This is a network."

Gator Gar on X - "If Trump was eating babies and molesting minors with Epstein, and that is somehow proven by the files, why didn’t Biden’s FBI just release them, arrest Trump, and win the election in a landslide?  It’s not like they didn’t try to put Trump in prison either. They raided his house, dragged him through court, took him in for a mugshot. If there were any proof in the files that Trump was guilty of such serious crimes, the Democrats wouldn’t have hesitated to weaponize the justice system against him.  Period. End of story."

Epstein files: Biden body double claim amplified by Trump resurfaces - "The latest tranche of Epstein Files released by the DOJ had references to allegations of US President Joe Biden being shot in 2019 by a “firing squad”. The sender claims that Biden was subsequently replaced by a “body double or clone”, a claim which had been circulated by Right wing online spaces and later shared by the US President Donald Trump in his Truth Social platform. The sender and receiver of the email had been redacted by the FBI, but the content appears to have been originated from a former Estimote associate, who is accusing the recipient of being part of an Epstein-like cabal involved in child abuse and trafficking."
Clearly, everything in the Epstein files is true if it makes Trump and the right look bad, but it's false if it makes the left look bad

Bad Hombre on X - "Five things Democrats don’t want to talk about for some reason:
1. Chuck Schumer took money from Jeffrey Epstein, and Democrats running for Congress who wanted to meet Schumer went through Epstein.
2. Stacey Plaskett took money from, met with, and coordinated with Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted.
3. Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign solicited donations from Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted.
4. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) accepted donations from Jeffrey Epstein in 2018.
5. Donald Trump cut off all ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. In 2006, Trump called the Palm Beach police chief to praise the FBI’s investigation into Epstein and provide information about Epstein and Maxwell."

Meme - *BBC News*
"BLACKS OUT "UNDERAGED" GIRLS THAT WEREN'T UNDERAGED
New photos from Epstein estate show Trump, Andrew and Bill Clinton
DOESN'T BLACK OUT UNDERAGED KID WHO IS DEFINITELY A CHILD
ICE detains 5-year-old during Minnesota operation"

Ex-police chief says Trump told him 'thank goodness you're stopping' Epstein in 2000s - "A former Palm Beach, Florida, police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s told the FBI he had received a call from Donald Trump at the time to say "thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this," according to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in 2019... The police chief’s name -- Michael Reiter -- is redacted from the document on the Department of Justice's website, but the information in the FBI statement tracks with previously public information about Reiter’s role in the investigation that began in 2005."
More clear proof that Trump is a pedo!

Meme - "The left's protection of children
Hunter Biden (?) with pre-pubescent girls outting their legs and other body parts on him
William Wallace: "Hold.."
*Child lying on drag queen's chest*
William Wallace: "Hold.."
*Drag Queen Alyssa Edwards (Justin Johnson) with scantily-clad prepubescent girls*
William Wallace: "Hold.."
*Joe Biden sniffing uncomfortable Maggie Coons*
William Wallace: "Hold.."
*Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein*
William Wallace: "NOW!""

Liz Wheeler | Facebook - "Oh what do I think of the Epstein docs?
- Bondi is an idiot for not releasing these a year ago.
- Trump totally exonerated, again. Not a whiff of wrongdoing in 3M documents. In fact, Trump “never got a massage” per Epstein himself who hated Trump. Totally exonerated. Democrats are liars. Duh.
- MSM are worse than you think. The “tip line” allegation that “Trump raped a 13yo” were deemed by the FBI to be non-credible, that tip line was open to any nutcase who called in, most accusations were 2nd hand gossip and easily disproved. Case in point, part of the allegations involved Trump’s LA golf course, and the allegation was supposedly from 1995-1996 but Trump’s LA golf course didn’t open til 2006. The media knows this. They just hate you.
- Bill Gates is an absolute creep. Also duh. I said this years ago. A creep who allegedly got STDs from Russian hookers and fed his wife antibiotics on the sly… What is he willing to do to us on the sly?! But trust his vaccines, sheep!
- Democrats loved Epstein. Sitting Congresswoman Stacy Plaskett not only texted Epstein for advice during a live congressional hearing, she visited Epstein Island many times. Sick. Where are Democrats censuring her? Crickets.
- Obama’s White House Counsel advised Epstein on how to smear Trump. Ew.
- And perhaps most interestingly of all, Epstein emailed former Israeli PM Ehud Barack about denying association with the Mossad. Hmmm. I think we know at this point that Epstein certainly brokered deals for Israeli intel (among other intel agencies) off the books.
- Plus, a photo of Epstein in a room filled with stacks of bankers boxes labeled “CIA”? A FOIA request from Epstein to disclose what info the CIA had on him?
Interestingly, in the past year, no thanks to the DOJ, it’s gone from a question to established with ample evidence that Epstein was associated with intel agencies. Doing what? Brokering off the books deals that govts didn’t want to appear directly involved in—though they were. So, Epstein served as liaison. And profited hugely. A year ago, we were branded as conspiracy theorists (at best) for suggesting that. Now, even Israeli PM Netanyahu seemed to acknowledge it when he posted an article about it. Which again, brings us full circle, to the reason we’ve all been demanding justice on Epstein for so long. He committed heinous sex crimes. He was let off easy for those crimes. We know why, now, due to his obvious associations with global intel agencies. But WHO let him off? THAT question is unanswered. Democrats’ lies about Trump have been exposed though. And Trump was exonerated, again."

Meme - "Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization for 20 years. Here he is posing in a photo with Contestants (Adults)
Democrats released the same photo in 2025, blacked out their faces to insinuate these were MINOR Females"

Meme - Right Winged Angel: "Democrats released an image of Donald Trump with adult Hawaiian Tropic models and blacked out their faces to make it seem like he was with underage Epstein victims."

Donald Trumps name appears more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potters name appears in all 7 Harry Potter books : r/UnpopularFacts - "To be fair, there are roughly 4100 pages in all the Harry Potter books combined, and 3 million Epstein files released. "Harry Potter" is written more in the Epstein files than in the Harry Potter books (134 times in books, 141 times in the Epstein files)."
"Harry Potter is in the Epstein files? Does Ginny know?"
"That's why they got divorced. Harry was trying to secretly cast a curing spell on her after he gave her an STD he got on the island.  No wait that's Bill Gates giving secretly giving his wife antibiotics that I'm thinking of."

Donald Trumps name appears more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potters name appears in all 7 Harry Potter books : r/UnpopularFacts - "Bill Gates is mentioned 6127 times
Obama is mentioned 2495 times
Clinton 3326 times
Elon Musk 1092 times
Being in the files at all is a horrific stain on ones moral character, but let's be real about the absolutely massive scale of 3 million documents. There's gonna be a lot of mentions of a lot of people. FDR was mentioned 444 [edit: 414] times and he died before Epstein was born.
What I'm interested in is finding out exactly which elites participated in the sex crimes and other evil shit and punishing them for it."

Donald Trumps name appears more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potters name appears in all 7 Harry Potter books : r/UnpopularFacts - "I mean they went through Epstein’s entire email. Russell Wilson was just looking at buying a jet so he shows up in the files"
"Winnie the Pooh is in the files 31 times. Someone raid the 100 Acre Wood."

Meme - "TRUMP IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!"
"IT SAYS EPSTEIN HATES TRUMP"
"BUT TRUMP IS MENTIONED!!!"

Greg Price on X - "Now liberals are once again spreading around the affidavit from the Katie Johnson lawsuit-- which has been publicly available since 2016 and was later dropped because she was a mentally ill drug addict who made the entire thing up.  There is quite literally nothing that these people are saying about Trump and Epstein that is true."

❤🎹 Ames 🎹❤ on X - "Trump Golf Course didn’t even exist in 1995. He didn’t buy it and rename it until 2002, and he didn't buy the Westchester property until 1996. These aren't suppressed facts.’ They are literally impossible stories that the DOJ correctly identified as unverified and sensationalist.  While transparency is important, it’s critical to look at the context of these specific screenshots. The Department of Justice explicitly stated in their press release that this dump includes millions of pages of uncorroborated citizen tips, many of which they have flagged as 'untrue and sensationalist claims' submitted right before the 2020 election.  Even the Deputy Attorney General noted that if these tips had 'a shred of credibility,' they would have been used in court years ago. Posting these as confirmed facts without mentioning that the DOJ itself calls them 'unfounded' is misleading. We should focus on the verified evidence in these files, not the noise from a public tip line that anyone can call into.  Posting anonymous tips that are chronologically impossible as if they are 'proof' is exactly why the DOJ temporarily pulled the files to add context. It’s misinformation, plain and simple.  But the left claim Trump r* ped a 13 year old girl even though that was debunked.    They need to move on.   This isn’t  what they hoped it would be.  🤣"

Meme - "WHEN THE PARTY THAT CAME UP WITH "MINOR ATTRACTED PERSONS" AND TRIED TO NORMALIZE IT, START THROWING AROUND THE TERM "PEDO""

Meme - "Some Epstein documents were already redacted when received by the DOJ. Some depict or describe sexual acts with children or have victim's names. Some because they are part of a case that has been sealed by a court. Neither Congress nor The President has the authority to unseal a court case."

Polaroids of Trump and Epstein with young women are fake. Here's the proof | Snopes.com

Was this photo of Trump and a young girl removed from Epstein files? | Snopes.com - "the photo was partially fake; it was manipulated from an authentic picture of Trump with his elder daughter, Ivanka Trump. Whoever created the misleading image either prompted an artificial-intelligence tool to generate the Black girl in place of Ivanka Trump or used other image-editing tools to achieve this result."

Remarks on X - "JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Newly released documents show former Democratic President Bill Clinton swimming alongside Ghislaine Maxwell and a redacted woman."
Svetlana Lokhova on X - "The Steele Dossier, which was actually written originally by the Clintons’ buddies Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal, claimed falsely that President Trump was “compromised” because of “perverted acts” with prostitutes.  In truth it was Bill who was compromised by sex scandals  and a national security risk. They just swapped the names. It’s the usual Clinton tactic: falsely accuse President Trump of what you are guilty of yourself.  That’s why President Trump said that the Clintons’ and their associates’ attempts to put him in the “Epstein Files” are the Steele Dossier 2."
Of course, even before the release left wingers were claiming that the documents would be redacted. Yet at the same time they were claiming Trump was blocking their release and blaming him. Maybe the new cope will be that they're doctored so we can't trust anything in them that makes the left look bad. So they get the best of both worlds - lack of evidence shows right wing figures are evil, while actual evidence doesn't prove anything about the left wing figures

Rep. Burchett claims Democrats blocked motion to get Epstein files ‘straight to the floor’ - "Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) claimed on Wednesday that Democrats blocked his motion to bring the Jeffrey Epstein files to the floor...  “Just left the House floor and I tried to do a UC, unanimous consent, tried to get the Epstein files, get it straight to the floor, cut out all this nonsense,” said Burchett. “And, you know, and the Democrats blocked it oddly enough. Now, here they’ve had it for four years, and obviously, if there’s something there about Trump, they would have released it. And now they’re all ‘let’s get it out, let’s get it out.’” “Well, I just made a motion to bring it straight to the daggum floor, and they blocked it,” he said. “They blocked it. So, this is politics. It has nothing to do with doing what’s right. It’s Washington, D.C. to a T.” “They ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Burchett added. “But they’re probably not.”  Burchett’s comments about the Democrats blocking his motion came just hours after House Oversight Committee Democrats published emails between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and author Michael Wolff. In the exchange, Epstein said that Trump “spent hours at my house” and “of course he knew about the girls.” Burchett also spoke to Bloomberg TV about the Epstein files and whether Trump is mentioned in them. He dismissed such concerns and said the things that are being released are “little pieces” that fit narratives and are “out of context.” Burchett did not speak on the emails released earlier in the day but expressed overall skepticism about anything that would be released.  “The Democrats have had this thing for four years, and let’s be honest, if there was something in there detrimental to President Trump, Joe Biden would have released it,” Burchett said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Joe Mathieu. “He’s the anti-Christ to the Democrats. They want to bury him as soon as they could.”...  “I’m just tired of it. I’m tired of all the pontificating back and forth, what’s in there, what isn’t in there,” Burchett said. “I think what you’re seeing right now is both sides are taking out little pieces that fit their narrative, out of context, maybe, or something that’s been discharged, is not legitimate, maybe.” He also blasted the Democrats for trying to manipulate public opinion about the Epstein files. He claimed they were weaponizing the emails to humiliate Trump and influence public opinion, and doing all of this while being dishonest about their genuine concerns over Epstein’s victims.   “I think that shows what’s really going on in the Democratic Party. They’re not concerned about the people that are involved,” Burchett said. “Some of them, clearly, they just hate Trump, and they think they’re going to embarrass him. They’ll release a few emails that are taken out of context or something that’s not been verified, or worse, something that’s been thrown out as negligible or that’s inaccurate. And they’ll take it as fact, and then you’ll have to rehear all of that. And that’s what it’ll be. It’ll be we’ll hear that for the next however many years.”  When asked if the president should be worried, Burchett said no.  “I don’t think so. Like I said, if there was something in there on Trump, I’m sure Biden would’ve released it. He had those files for four daggum years,” Burchett said. “I’ve talked to legal experts, a guy back home, Teddy Davis, we’ve gone over this thing a thousand times, over the backwards and forwards, and things that could be in there and might not be in there.”  “I don’t have a lot of faith in what’s in there and what isn’t in there right now,” the congressman added. “I think they should have released the files a long time ago because right now it’s just all politics.”"

𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 on X - "Three Democrat-appointed judges spent all year blocking the DOJ from unsealing Epstein’s 2005-2007 Florida grand jury transcripts:
Judge Robin Rosenberg (Obama) → denied
Judge Paul Engelmayer (Obama) → denied
Judge Richard Berman (Clinton) → denied
One Trump-appointed judge, Rodney Smith, just overruled them all and ordered the files released under the new Epstein Files Transparency Act. Drop date: December 19. The names are finally coming."
Proof that Trump is trying to hide the files!

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