Links - 3rd November 2026 (2 - Trans Mania)

Thread by @segm_ebm on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨 WPATH has conceded in court that its "Standards of Care" is merely an opinion. WPATH says it represents one side of an unsettled scientific debate marked by uncertainty — and physicains & orgs that rely on WPATH as the standard of care must bear "independent responsibility." WPATH now agrees that pediatric transgender medicine is marked by "medical and scientific uncertainty." It represents its SOC-8 recommendations merely as an expression of WPATH's "free speech." Yet for years, WPATH presented its guidelines as an unquestionable medical standard of care. The social and scientific costs of questioning their recommendations were steep and could be career-ending. WPATH now says there are two sides to the scientific debate over care for gender-dysphoric youth. On one, the gender-affirming model WPATH promotes. On the other, the Cass Review and Cass-aligned policies such as restrictions or bans on puberty blockers and hormones for minors. To defend itself against the FTC in the federal court, WPATH leans 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 on two Supreme Court rulings that under normal circumstances it decries. One is Skrmetti, which allowed states to ban transgender interventions for minors. The other is the pro-"conversion therapy" Chiles v. Salazar ruling. Leaning on the pro-state-bans Skrmetti ruling, WPATH argues that the states have the right to regulate transgender interventions. While some states exercised their right to ban them—other states likewise have the right to promote transgender interventions for minors, using WPATH as the state-endorsed standard of care.In what appears to be a desperate move, WPATH favorably quotes the SCOTUS ruling that cleared the path for administering talk therapy aimed at changing homosexual orientation and gender identity (Chiles v. Salazar). WPATH previously strongly objected to both as forms of conversion therapy.  Now, WPATH argues that although conversion therapy may be "substandard care," the Court rightly protected it as free speech. They argue that, likewise, WPATH's own SOC-8 guidelines should also be protected as "free speech"—even if the care they advocate for is judged as "substandard."
SEGM is not a policy-making group. Rather, we communicate with the clinical community, and often have to explain why we do not consider the WPATH Standards of Care to be evidence-based.  Our reading of the latest WPATH filing: WPATH's message is that its "Standards of Care" are merely an opinion and an expression of free speech. Clinicians who rely on the SOC-8 document—and organizations that refer to it as the implied standard of care for gender-dysphoric youth—are, in fact, taking on independent responsibility for the premise that the document represents trustworthy clinical guidance.  In turn, patients who trust the clinicians following the WPATH Standards of Care should know they are in a "buyer beware" situation. They are being treated based on what WPATH asserts to be merely an expression of "free speech"—representing only one side of an unsettled scientific debate marked by "medical and scientific uncertainty."
This most recent WPATH court filing is here and deserves to be read in full:"
Wesley Yang on X - "It was always a desperate con. It was never real. It was never true. Well informed people have all understood this for more than a decade.   And now the institution upon which the charade of scientific authority across American institutions relied has said so itself in federal court.  It was a con orders of magnitude worse than Jason Arday, because it implicated nearly every organ of scientific and medical consensus in a conspiracy to tell the most brazen lie ever told by those institutions at the largest scale any such lie has ever been told, and because on the basis of this lie, tens of thousands of confused were medically harmed in pursuit of a delusion that can never be true."

William Allen | Facebook - "Well I have read clinical guidelines, I know many tranistioners and detransitioners, I AM a detransitioner, and I have talked to gender specialists.   My slightly less than clinical evaluation of you is... you're all full of crap.   Patrick Hahn, author of Irreversible, has done exhaustive research into this penomenon, the 'scientists' and physicians who promote it, and the actual so-called research you use to further your agenda.   He discovered that absolutely every 'study' you all rely on is flawed in multiple ways and falls short of your desired conclusions... yet you depend on them anyway, in hopes that no one verifes your work.  But Patrick did. Excerpt from Irreversible.
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘹 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘹 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 – 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦 – 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴” 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 (𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴), 𝘞𝘗𝘈𝘛𝘏 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦."
In 2011, the most complete and longest running study with the most participants, in the most friendly nation to transgenderism... concluded that adult sex reassignment is a dismal failure, leading to regret on a massive scale, and post-op suicide rates 5 - 19 times that of the general population. Reasonable people know what the responsible reaction should have been, but what did you all do?  You doubled down... and came after the children. Folks, Irreversible by Patrick Hahn is a must read for anyone willing to hear the truth about the trans ideology and those like Helen Weberly who push it.  Don't wait, get your copy now, learn the truth, and send Helen Weberly and her ilk packing."

A mob viciously beat a trans couple. Now the alleged victims could get sent to prison. - LGBTQ Nation
Trans couple ‘beaten by mob’ arrested instead of alleged attackers
Trans couple arrests spark social media outrage as ordinance emerges
There is a marked contrast between the media coverage of the arrest of Aurora Rush and Shae Sander. KTAL News is neutral in reporting, mentioning that some find the story incredulous and crucially, contacting the police for comment
LGBTQ Nation and Pink News are unsurprisingly one-sided. At first I was surprised Metro Weekly was too, but then they call themselves "Washington's LGBTQ Magazine", so that explains it all.

Gunther Eagleman™ on X - "🚨 PORTLAND MOM BANNED FOR SPEAKING UP
A Portland mother is suing after the school banned her from events for objecting to their gender ideology curriculum.  Her 11-year-old was given an “identity flower” assignment asking the child to discuss their gender identity. The school also pushed the pride flag hard.  She handed out flyers on a public sidewalk. The school labeled her behavior “harassment” and locked her out.  Public school. Public sidewalk. Taxpayer money. And they still try to silence parents."

Matt Calkins on X - "After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males. It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change."
I was a sports columnist at the Seattle Times for 11 years. This is why I resigned - "I spoke to people attending a rally in support of Sophie Cunningham outside Climate Pledge Arena. The Fever guard had recently taken a stance against biological males competing in women’s/girls sports, and a few dozen folks showed up to express their gratitude for her position.  One of them was 16-year-old Ahnaleigh Wilson, who’d lost to a biological male in a track and field race in eighth grade and was holding a sign reading “Thank You Sophie for Speaking up for Girls!”  I didn’t know if I was going to write something at that point, but after she allegedly got cussed out by a Storm co-owner during the game, I felt like I had to weigh in... This, after all, was one of several columns of mine that had been spiked at the Seattle Times.  One was a piece questioning whether players for the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team were really the victims of discrimination in their equal-pay lawsuit. Another was a more general column on cancel culture in sports. The last, written shortly after George Floyd’s death, implored people to listen to state-champion basketball coach Mike Bethea — a black man urging the public not to stereotype cops. The common theme? All of these challenged prevailing newsroom narratives and likely would have triggered the outrage mob.  I’ve always thought that it was a columnist’s duty to generate discussion on the most hot-button issues. To avoid such topics was to leave the reader shortchanged. I guess in the end, I just didn’t feel like I could do my job properly anymore... in thinking about this decision, I kept going back to an Albus Dumbledore line: “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.”  To be honest, I’m scared shitless right now. I have no idea how the next few months or years are going to play out. But that fear beats the indignity of being muzzled."

Meme - Jennuh @JennuhMarilyn: "Anyone who refers to trans women as "biological men" is either ignorant or a bigot. Gender has nothing to do with biology, if you refuse to accept science and common sense you have severe issues that can only be unpacked in therapy"
Trust the "Science"!
Weird. We keep being told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that

Meme - Jack @j4ppleby: "This is utterly astonishing"
Dr Helen Webberley (she/her): "She's so so so wrong. Being female means having the brain of a woman."
J.K. Rowling @jk _row...: "Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. it is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered. I just described every female on earth."
Weird. We're told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that

Meme - "EVERY TRANS COMIC EVER MADE"
Cute girl: "LALALA, I'M JUST A SILLY TRANSGIRL MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS!"
Man with Nazi Swastika shirt and red cap and JKR heart tattoo: "WAIT, YOU'RE NoT A WOMAN ! WHAT'S THIS BULGE UNDER YOuR SKIRT?"
Cute girl: "IT'S MY ANTI-BIGOT BaT" *BZOING!*
"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!"
Smug Sonic the Hedgehog thinking: "WHAT A WOMAN !! I THINK I'M IN Love !!"

Aaron Rupar on X - "Linda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before""
Travis Akers 🇺🇸 on X - "There is not a single K-12 public school in the United Stares that transitioned any students. Not one. Y’all think we just keep an operating room back behind the cafeteria or something and trans kids during recess? People are so dumb."
How Transphobic. Why don't Transphobes know that you don't need surgery to transition?! Trump haters need to do better. They are literally denying that Trans people exist

LanaQuest aka RosaSparks on X - "So where is this happening? In the cafeteria? What child has been secretly transitioned in school? This is some goofy shit. #DemsUnited"
Erin for Parental Rights on X - "Fascinating how so many people are out here saying “this doesn’t happen” and “this is a made up MAGA problem.”   So let me shed some light… This happened to my little girl (and at the time I was a staunch Democrat who had just voted for Joe Biden.)   I went public and discovered it had happened to many others. I sued all the way to the Supreme Court — along with other affected parents.   The school district admitted to and defended it, in legal documents. Justice Alito called our case “troubling and tragic” and an issue of “great and growing national importance.”   It was a living nightmare that almost destroyed my child.   But willfully ignorant TDS sufferers will claim mine was an isolated incident…   So here are some other lawsuits from affected families that anyone can research, each with hundreds of pages of evidence:
These have reached Supreme Court:
• John and Jane Parents v Montgomery County (23-601)
• Parents Protecting Our Children v Eau Claire (23-1180)
• Foote v Ludlow (25-77)
• Lee v Poudre (25-89) **my case**
• Littlejohn v Leon (25-289)
• Lavigne v Great Salt Bay (25-759)
These other cases have been filed in lower courts all over the country:
• Doe v Weiser (Colorado)
• Mead v Rockford Public School District (Michigan)
• Vitsaxaki v Skaneateles Central SD (New York)
• Lema v Davenport (New Jersey)
• Regina v Staley (California)
• Doe/Heaps v Delaware Valley (New Jersey)
• Blair v Appomattox (Virginia)
• Konen v Spreckles (California)
• Perez v Broskie (Florida)
• Koltenbach v Hilliard City Schools (Ohio)
• DF/Figliola v Harrisonburg City Schools (Virginia)
• Wiley v Sweetwater County School District (Wyoming)
• Parents Defending Ed v Linn-Mar (Iowa)
• TF v Kettle Moraine (Wisconsin)
So many other brave parents have come forward with FACTS about their child’s secret school transition: @bourne_beth2345 , @ErinFriday75490 , @LydiamamaTerf , @AlyashchenkoX , @nogenderpredtrs  just to name a few.   The gaslighting phase has ended. Parents who’ve endured the horrors of the secret school transition of our kids can no longer be denied. There’s too many of us now. We’re going to end this nightmare for other parents,  no matter how many people play pretend that we don’t exist."
This won't stop left wingers lying that schools don't transition children, even if they don't do the motte and bailey (as per the previous link block)
Keywords: transition kids in schools, transition children in schools, transition kids at school, transition children at school

Steve Stewart-Williams on X - "“Around a third of liberal students think professors should be reported for saying that biological sex is a scientific fact, and that there are two sexes.”"
Weird. I thought reality has a left wing bias

Jonathan Kay on X - "My latest for @Quillette: A "trans-inclusive" Australian Rules Football team in California allowed a 6'1" man to compete with the women. Our Quillette investigation identified him as an ex-con who'd been sentenced to 41 years in jail for raping children."

Meme - Jennuh @JennuhMarilyn: "From a trans woman, thank you Pablo for being realistic and also showcasing our humanity with your platform. It means more than you will ever know"
Pablo Torre @PabloTorre: "A category where >99% of the people were born with a vagina. And the other <1% are being used as bait to distract from the most financially corrupt regime in U.S. history"
Clay Travis @ClayTravis: "Pablo, what is a woman?"
Left wingers are retarded because by this definition and their claims, male illegal immigrants are all women

Genevieve Gluck on X - ""I'm openly trans now. It's a lot easier. But that rush will be missed, of having that secret.""
🙏🌧🌍 on X - "This perfectly illustrates just how dangerous it is to accept fetishes into everyday life. These men are never satisfied and eventually need to take it further."

Mary Dyer on X - "Women: “Woman means adult female human being.”
Transwomen: “Woman is an identity.  A social role.  Saying that women are female is deeply misogynist because it’s reducing women to their bodies.  I mean, there’s not even one physical trait that’s shared by every single cis woman in the world, so technically you can’t even define female without inevitably excluding millions of cis women.  It’s therefore much more inclusive to define woman as anyone who identifies as a woman.”
NHS Wales: “Hey, you’re right!  You won’t mind if we cancel all your surgeries that would have given you the physical characteristics of a female, then?  After all, your proclaimed identity should be enough; you don’t need any physical alterations, because that would be misogynist and reductive.”
Transwomen: “OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO KILL MYSELF IF I CAN’T GET MY COCK TURNED INTO A SAD MIMICRY OF A VAGINA!!!  I’LL NEVER BE A REAL WOMAN!!!  REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”"

Brazilian feminist forced to flee, faces 25 years in prison for calling a biological man a man - "Brazil has allegedly been used by the Open Society and the Ford Foundation as a “laboratory” for transgender ideology. Isabella Cêpa, a 30-year-old marketing consultant and graphic designer, has become both a victim of and a symbol of the consequences of a politicised, radical trans agenda.  Cêpa, who grew up amid domestic violence and sexual abuse, has used her Instagram account to address issues such as women’s rights and violence against women. This became increasingly difficult when the transgender movement claimed a monopoly on defining what a woman is. In response, Cêpa adopted more radical feminist positions and, as a result, became a respected voice in Brazil, known for disseminating information about violence and for her unequivocal opposition to allowing biological men who “identify” as women access to female-only spaces – prisons, changing rooms, showers, etc.   Cêpa’s activism took a dramatic turn when, in 2020, she criticised Erika Hilton, a transgender person elected to the São Paulo City Council as the “woman” who had received the most votes. Cêpa referred to Hilton as a man – and was met with a wave of accusations as a result. In June 2022, she was charged with five counts of “racism” after a 2019 Supreme Court ruling equated discrimination against LGBTQ+ communities with racism. Four of the charges stemmed from retweets of innocuous posts addressing issues such as keeping transwomen out of women’s prisons; for example, one post stating that “this is the last chance to vote if we believe transwomen do not belong in women’s prisons”. The maximum penalty for “misgendering” is up to 25 years’ imprisonment.   In July 2024, she planned a trip to Spain to visit a friend. At Salvador Bahia Airport, a federal agent informed her that her passport had been “flagged”. He asked whether there were any legal proceedings or charges pending against her. The agent warned her of political persecution and advised her not to return to Brazil.  Cêpa, who had already lost her job, first fled to Spain, then to Morocco and subsequently to Portugal. In Morocco, she spent six months as the only foreigner in a small town of 5,000 inhabitants. Financially ruined, she applied for asylum in the EU, but her application was initially met with scepticism:.. Cêpa, as the first Brazilian since the military dictatorship, has been granted refugee status on the grounds of political persecution. She is also the first woman in the world to have had to flee her country because of her opposition to transgender ideology...   Several women whose posts Cêpa has retweeted are now reportedly under investigation by the Brazilian prosecuting authorities."

Nicole Solas, Sued by the Teachers Union on X - "RI's Advisory Cmte to US Commission on Civil Rights is wild. They just fight abt pronouns.   One member, Lucia Delaroca, attacked @RamonaBessinger  for calling a male Cmte membet "he." She called it:  malicious, harassment, bullying, entitlement, unchecked misconduct, petulant, degrading disruption, ignoring boundaries of civil behavior.  Her diaper almost exploded.   These are the people appointed to do sTuDiEs about our CiViL rIgHtS 🤤"
Wesley Yang on X - "It should be clear to anyone reading this astonishing document or watching the mind-bending video quote tweeted below it that transgenderism, the movement to deploy state power to coerce everyone into treating any man who says he is a woman as if he is a woman, has cannibalized “civil rights” entirely"

Rona Dinur on X - "In one of his papers, Dr. Talia Bettcher claims that "rape by deception" by trans people who deceive others about their biological sex is OK, because they see themselves as the opposite sex and because the current "gender system" oppresses them.   Now he's been put in charge of an academic chair dedicated to "preventing gender-based violence" at the University of Waterloo.   Academia is an upside-down world"

Charlie Walsham on X - "Gay rights succeeded because they asked society for something profoundly liberal: let consenting adults live their lives without persecution.   Gender activism made a fundamentally different demand: change your language, change your definitions and sometimes surrender sex-based boundaries.  No wonder it became divisive."
Stacey on X - "You left out gender activism’s most outrageous demand:     Change your children’s character and moral values by teaching them that, in order to be a good person, they must:   (1) devalue the importance of truth and prioritize the feelings and demands of others, (2) suppress their knowledge of what they have seen and heard with their own eyes and ears, and (3) distrust their parents and the values that their parents taught them.    Horrific and destructive."

KOMO News on X - "Cornerback Terrion Arnold is charged with eight felonies and faces life in prison. Seahawks Head Coach Mike Macdonald addressed the team's decision to sign him, saying the team was well aware of both Arnold's talent and the allegations against him before moving forward."
Brandi Kruse on X - "Just to be clear. The @Seahawks fired Dori Monson for saying you can’t change your gender. But they just signed a guy facing eight felonies and life in prison."

Jon Fraser on X - "“We are everywhere. We have always existed. We need to be supported and cared for and recognized where we are.”  Funny, but I don't recall there being more than two genders growing up. Yes there were gay and lesbians - my aunt was an open lesbian even in the early 70's - but she was a she.  If you want to pretend there are other genders, then fine, but you should not expect others to "support or recognize you". It's no different than someone pretending to be a cat as far as I'm concerned."
Dale Carleton on X - "what should be recognized is dangerous mental health instability society's allowing to grow. where's studies  that show what flips their switch. 🤔why do they expect to be supported cared for when they created their own situations , stop the funding,  promoting their attitudes."

TheFamousArtistBirdyRose on X - "When I see a “trans” flag this is what it represents in my mind:
1. Sterilising children
2. Mutilating children
3. Gay conversation “therapy”
4. “Transing the autism away”
5. “Trans” activists Beating up women
6. Cancelling people’s bank accounts
7. Refusing cancer treatments to non-believers of “trans” ideology
8. “Trans” activists threatening to rape and kill women
9. “Trans” activists stalking and harassing women
10. Efforts to remove the livelihood of anyone who is a non-believer of “trans” ideology.
In other words, I think it is a symbol of religious extremism, terrorism and tyranny. That’s why I’ll never respect it, comply with it or bow down to it."

Traditionally Sarah🇺🇸 on X - "So let me get this straight, hormones make women crazy. Crazy enough to kill three innocent babies and be exonerated of guilt, but prescribing hormones to children who think they’re the opposite gender has no psychological effects whatsoever? Did I get that right?"
So, hormones are dangerous for killer moms but harmless for transitioning kids?
Erin for Parental Rights on X - "Reiterating what many have already said — because it bears repeating… So, hormones can have profound psychological effects on adults… but when we prescribe them to vulnerable & confused kids — they magically become harmless? Make it make sense."

Musician who identified as non-binary 'raped his date as they celebrated New Year's Eve after meeting on Bumble', court hears - "Sab Cox, a biological male, allegedly attacked the woman, a biological female, as they celebrated New Year's Eve on December 31, 2022.   The 26-year-old, who at the time went by the name Sabrina but now uses male pronouns, is accused of raping his date after becoming aggressive and asserting that he was the 'guy' in the relationship, the Old Bailey heard."
Helen Nettleship on X - "Two non-binary people go on a date. The male non-binary person allegedly rapes the female non-binary person. It’s almost as if sex matters"

Is this phrase homophobic? : r/asktransgender - "Hi! I saw someone wearing this hoodie on fb that said “Kill your local pedophile”. I really liked it. I’m the type of person who likes wearing shirts that have bold statements on it. For example, I have a shit that says “Pro Roe 1975, my body my choice”. When I saw the hoodie I bought it right away because I resonate with it in a personal way. After I bought it I was showing a friend and they said that might be homophobic. When I looked it up, a story came up about a Drag Queen reading to kids at a library. When a group of proud boys and white supremacists disturbed the event. One of the men was wearing a shirt with an assault rifle on it, under the riffle it said to”kill your local pedophile”. I’m affraid that if I wear this hoodie in public it would come off in the same way. The shirts look nothing alike except the same saying “kill your local pedophile”. If I wear this shirt will this make me look like an unsafe person for people in the LGBTQ. I don’t wanna offend anyone in the community. I just want to make disgusting men feel uncomfortable around me. Please let me know. I’m so sorry if this offends anyone. Thank you."
Is this phrase homophobic? : r/asktransgender - "Personally I think that wearing any clothing with that particular word emblazoned on it in public is unlikely to be a good idea, regardless of context. Very much opens you up to misunderstandings.  The phrase in itself is not homophobic, but it can very much be read as a dogwhistle, yes. The far right likes equating LGBT people with grooming, so wearing such a shirt might make you very popular with a very hateful group of people, because they think you are sharing their views."

Rita Panahi on X - "Albanese govt want more of this. A tweet stating that men can't breastfeed was deemed so harmful that the eSafety Commissioner had it removed. Thank God @elonmusk has been standing up against this madness."

Rep. Zooey Zephyr on X - "I literally just got out of meetings with members of Congress & used the bathroom on my way out.  Trans women are women—full stop.  We're every bit as "biologically female" as cis women & @SpeakerJohnson 's statement doesn't change the fact that women's spaces include trans women."
Benjamin Ryan on X - "Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a trans woman, asserts a claim that trans cyclist Veronica Ivy made on Trevor Noah’s show: that trans women are “biologically female.” This speaks to the question of the intersection between scientific vs legal definitions of sex and how those definitions either align or conflict with gender identity."
Weird. We keep being told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that

James Talarico's Deranged Statements

Kevin Bass on X

I made a list of 63 of U.S. Senate candidate James Talafreako's most insane and deranged statements.

Sourced and referenced.

1. "Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six" 2021-04-20, Texas House Public Education Committee

2. "God is non-binary." 2021-10-14, Texas House

3. "Our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign." 2022-02, Texas Humane Legislation Network fundraiser

4. "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?" 2021-03-04, Activist Theology

5. "In context of abortion … God asks for Mary's consent … So, to me that is a an affirmation in one of our most central stories, that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience

6. "Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X

7. "#AhmaudArbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism. The virus kills our black neighbors if they’re jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, or carrying a bag of Skittles... White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go" 2020-05-08, Twitter

8. "Young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country and I think only by understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum

9. "Restoration, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. … it's exactly why we need … to invest in black communities, to invest in black Texans" 2026-07-20, DeSoto town hall

10. "I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism, but the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

11. "Defund the police is considered off limits in our political debate when defunding health services, defunding public education has been the stated policy of our state government for decades now." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising

12. "Governor Abbott has filled this special session agenda with far right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas" 2021-07-19, FOX 7 Austin

13. "Are districts getting, you know, almost hopefully near unanimous consent for students to learn about [sex education,] maybe the most important topic that they'll learn about in school?" 2022-07, Texas House Public Education Committee

14. "Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

15. "God is not a Christian." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

16. "So, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti-gay and anti-abortion, there really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience

17. "Jesus is the prophetic voice in my own life, but it could be for you a different prophetic voice from a different faith tradition." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

18. "I oppose voter ID." 2021-07-13, Fox News Primetime

19. "Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in federal offices" 2022-06-24, Letter to President Biden

20. "Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?" 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

21. "I don't want you in my school doing discipline." 2019-02, The Trey Blocker Show

22. "For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

23. "That [oil and gas] industry is not gonna last." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum

24. "Our system of policing is deeply broken. We must replace it with something new and something better." 2020-09-02, Honest Austin

25. "The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage" 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

26. "I'm not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no Black members of the jury [in Anthony’s case]." 2026-08-05, The Breakfast Club

27. "Our office is the first in the history of the Capitol to add pronouns to our official business cards." 2021-03-31, Twitter/X

28. "If we took just half of what we spend on wars, prisons, and policing, and spent it on education, healthcare, and jobs, we could make prisons obsolete." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation

29. "Jesus came to transform the world. Christian nationalism is here to maintain the status quo. They have co-opted the son of God. They've turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear-mongering fascist." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

30. "In Genesis, God creates life by breathing life into the first human being, which we later call Adam. That life starts when you take your first breath." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience

31. "ICE executed a man in broad daylight on our streets just this morning. It's time to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that actually is going to focus on public safety." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown

32. "I'm Season 2 [of Judaism, Christianity and Islam]—the most violent season. My religion has done more damage to both of those religions than they've done to each other." 2026-02-23, The New Yorker

33. "I think there are some folks … that would think that if you deny your child's gender identity that that's incredibly harmful. And whether or not we can—we label it with the term abuse, I mean, it's abusive for sure." 2019-04-03, Texas House Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee

34. "Our system, our public education system, particularly here in Texas is not built for poor students. It's not built for students of color." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising

35. "I felt like I didn't have the time or space or training or resources to have the really important conversations with my students … I was trapped in a system that was focused purely on academics, reading, writing, arithmetic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising

36. "Prison is violence." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation

37. "But inevitably we're going to spend hours hearing bills that are just kind of conspiracy theory, right, driven, and kind of kooky stuff." 2022-07-26, Texas House Public Education Committee

38. "I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers." 2023-09-16, The State of Belief

39. "God is a verb." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

40. "And again, I haven't studied this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will even say that there is a, there is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience

41. "People who're like, "You're in seminary, you're studying to become a minister. Why wouldn't you want the Ten Commandments in every classroom?" … I said I thought the bill was un-Christian." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience

42. "Incarnation, by the way, is not just limited to Jesus, it's everybody." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience

43. "The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so, if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul." 2026-04-22, CNN The Lead

44. "An assault weapon ban, a large capacity magazine ban" 2020, Virtual voter meet-and-greet

45. "I don't care what taxes you have to raise, but you're not going to make our students and our teachers, you're not going to make the sick and the elderly pay for this pandemic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising

46. "Platforms like YouTube, 4chan, and Parlor are radicalizing an entire generation of white boys." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X

47. "Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image. There's nothing wrong with them. Nothing at all. They are perfect. They are beautiful, and they are sacred." 2021-10-14, Texas House

48. "The only person to teach Jesus something was a woman. Even the son of God had something to learn from one of God's daughters." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

49. "We only have Jesus because a woman consented to creating him." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

50. "Resurrection is when we see Christ in everyone and everything." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

51. "Billions of people across the globe celebrate Passover, Easter, and Ramadan. We may use different lyrics, but we are singing the same hymn." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

52. "The current administration has grown the size of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, except it's not people doing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is a secret police force that is terrorizing communities." 2025-12-14, Jubilee: Surrounded

53. "I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine. … I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes." 2025-12-19, Houston campaign town hall

54. "I would not vote to send any offensive weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu that he is currently using to slaughter children in Gaza." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown

55. "And I taught a lot of undocumented students. And those students tended to be my most patriotic students." 2026-03-19, The Bulwark Podcast, Dallas

56. "I think the Supreme Court needs to be overhauled. … I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices." 2026-09-09, Fox Special Report, Dallas

57. "The first thing is to elect candidates who recognize institutional racism and are committed to dismantling it." 2018, Reddit AMA

58. "As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 2019-07-12, Twitter

59. "This bill [SB 14, restricting gender-transition care for minors,] I think is the most dangerous bill that's being heard on this floor this session." 2023-05-12, Texas House

60. "Meet Tim Dunn & Farris Wilks—two billionaires from West Texas. … Their ultimate goal is even more ambitious: transforming Texas into an authoritarian, Christian Nationalist state." 2023-10-05, Twitter/X

61. "Jesus lost, and Trump is obsessed with winning. … And on Good Friday, Jesus lost his reputation, lost his ministry, lost his friends, lost his life." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

62. "Matthew 25 tells us how we will be judged and saved: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner. Nothing about being a Christian. Nothing about going to church. Nothing about reading the Bible." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin

63. "It was a new state curriculum that would teach Christian Bible stories as historical fact, as the only truth to our youngest students, … And to push propaganda, to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral and should trouble all of us." 2025-08-05, Faithfully (CAP Action / Interfaith Alliance)

Links - 3rd November 2026 (1 - French Migrant Riots)

US radicals who traveled to France to join cop-bashing protests reveal plans to ‘raise hell’ on our shores - "A Minnesota rapper who traveled to France to join escalating riots has urged white people to “raise hell” and “f–k s–t up” as part of a revolution on American soil, The Post discovered. And communist-linked groups in the US may be working to bring that hell to the nation’s capital.  Artist Tufawon, whose real name is Rafael Gonzalez Jr., joined Swedish activist Greta Thunberg outside Paul Éluard, the high school at the heart of the leftist protests marred by violence, looting and arson.  He addressed balaclava-clad protesters before performing his song “No One Is Illegal,” and riling up the crowd with chants of “f–k ICE” and “ICE out.”  “All power to the people,” the 40-year-old from Minneapolis boasted to his fans on Facebook. “After returning home from France I can clearly see how we need to become far more radicalized in the states.   “We have to be more enraged. Our comfort is hindering our progress. It really and truly needs to be white people that go outside and raise hell if we want to see revolution.   “There are far too many neoliberals that are just as bad as the fascists. The French have figured this out a while ago. Now it’s time to take it to the next level. Go f–k s–t up white people. It’s your time.”  “They said they were going to globalize the intifada and now they have,” foreign policy expert at the Heritage Foundation Mike Gonzalez told The Post.  “What you are seeing here is the red-green alliance, the marriage of convenience between leftists and Marxists. They have a common enemy which is the Judeo-Christian democratic West. They want to dismantle it.”  Tufawon, who is part Native American and has appeared on the popular radio show The Breakfast Club, claimed that the perceived underfunding of schools and declining public services in France is similar in the US...   Tufawon urged fellow protesters in the US to “take influence from the French” so that they can defeat the “same common enemy”...   Meanwhile, CCP-linked nonprofit Code Pink, backed by Neville Singham, has wasted no time using the unrest in France to plan similar protests in America, with a “taxpayer uprising” planned in Washington, DC, between November 10 and 12... its leader Jodie Evans, 72, a radical Hollywood filmmaker and wife of Shanghai-based tech millionaire Singham, called on “people to look at France” as she urged Americans to take to the streets.   CodePink has been accused of radicalizing a new generation of activists by spending millions of dollars to teach anti-American rhetoric.  Elsewhere, the Singham-linked Party for Socialism and Liberation, based in the US, has committed to joining French protesters in their “struggle for a socialist future”.  “We in the United States stand with you in your struggle against capitalist austerity,” the group proudly wrote on Instagram.  “We stand with you, because we too demand money for housing and education, instead of war and occupation. Vive la commune! Vive la révolution!”   Gonzalez, who fled communist Cuba in the 1970s, insists that China, Cuba and Iran are directing these protests. “These activists are taught to despise their own society,” he told The Post. “The groups involved in elevating the French protests, a lot are in the Singham network.”  Police made 2,500 arrests across France, while nearly 1,000 officers were injured over the weekend.  French President Macron said that “nothing justifies” the riots his country has seen and blamed the “unrestrained violence” on “insurrectionist elements from radical far-left groups, joined by numerous criminals.”"
Left wingers love chaos and riots and are open about it and how they link to thei Revolution
Time to lock up the "far right" to prevent violence!

French Catholic Church condemns 'unacceptable violence' after weekend unrest - "Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, the archbishop of Marseille and president of the bishops’ conference, also called for an end to violence and the restoration of peace, Vatican News reported Monday.  In a statement posted on the Archdiocese of Marseille’s website, Aveline said shops had been looted, churches broken into, the town hall vandalized, a police station ransacked and security forces attacked."
Weird. Left wingers claim that no places of worship have been damaged and it's not just mosques that have been spared

Meme - Joey Meugniot @realjoeymUS: "Don't worry Europe, as soon as these guys are done rioting they'll get right on to designing and building you rockets, flying cars, and unicorn tech companies." *fierce-looking migrant men*

Meme -  *Tintin and Snowy running from 3 masked men in dark clothing: 1 waving Palestinian flag, one with stone and one with Communist hammer and sickle hoodie*

Meme - "Wait... France has universal healthcare, free education, 5 weeks of paid vacation, and a 35- hour workweek... And they're STILL protesting the cost and quality of living?! Damn... we should implement all that in America Clearly, France just didn't do it right"
Proof that France doesn't have enough social spending and it's capitalism's fault

Basil the Great on X - "🚨🇫🇷BREAKING: The French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornuhas told mobile telephone networks to prepare to cut access to social media outlets such as tiktok, instagram, snapchat and X in an effort to stem the violence on the streets. France is falling apart"

Molly Pitcher on X - "France banned the guns that law-abiding citizens might use to protect their families.   Category A weapons are illegal for regular people.   Handguns and most semi-autos require government permission, club membership, psych checks, and a clean record.   Self-defense isn’t a valid reason.   Carrying guns is banned.   The French public is disarmed on purpose.  Criminals and illegals don’t give a shit about gun laws.  They run around with AKs, Scorpions, and other war weapons bought on the black market from the Balkans and elsewhere.   Millions of illegal guns circulate while the people who follow the rules can’t even own a pistol!   Police reports from the latest riots describe officers holding back because rioters and looters—some minors tied to organized crime—were carrying the exact weapons the government banned for everyone else.  This is what “strict gun control” actually looks like: the good people are helpless, the bad people are armed to the teeth, and the government pretends the laws are working.   Disarm the citizens, import the chaos, then act shocked when the streets are full of illegal Kalashnikovs."

Meme - i/o @avidseries: "My lifelong support for draconian gun control laws was weakened during the 2020 riots when, watching helicopter footage of mobs roaming freely through Philly neighborhoods and attempting to enter homes, a journalist reported that homeowners had told him that when they called police begging for protection they were told that law enforcement personnel were overwhelmed and homeowners were "on their own.""
Philippe Lemoine @phl43: "Just a few hours after Macron spoke on TV about the situations, promising that the government would be inflexible with people who engage in violence, groups of looters are freely roaming Paris and breaking into stores. There are even videos where you see them breaking into residential buildings and the police seem totally overwhelmed and in many places are nowhere to be seen. This is completely surreal and I don't think anything like that has ever happened before."

Z∀⅄⅄N on X - "News: The French are rioting over high cost of living and under-resourced high schools.
The rioters: Yes, that's what we are rioting over.
The French government: Yupp, they're rioting over that.
Everyone: Yepp, that's whats happening.
The far right: Da Blacks! Da Muzlims!"
Left wingers just keep shamelessly lying

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Best-selling French writer Édouard Louis: ''I'm in favor of setting fire to the streets of Paris; I'm in favor of going out and breaking things, because we have to transform the system ... What is burning a bench or a bus compared with having your brother killed because he's Black? ... Doing politics means having or not having blood on your hands: there is no great revolution without excesses.''
I added English subtitles with Claude Code so English speakers can see how mentally insane the French left have become. This clown once wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that working class Le Pen voters like his own father only supported the French right because the left wasn't anti-capitalist enough. No, maybe it's because you're communist scum trying to burn your own country down, you fucking psychopath."
Clearly the far left just want equal rights for everyone and the far right want to kill all minorities/i>

Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر on X - "To all the snowflakes upset about police brutality: if you don’t want to see violence in the streets, don’t instigate violence in the streets. Don’t go around looting businesses. Don’t go around burning down shops. Don’t go around waving foreign flags and promoting “intifada” and terrorist groups while violently attacking police and state institutions."

Erik Dale 🇳🇴 on X - "French women are speaking up 🔥  “It’s an immigration crisis. They come to France only for economic advantage. They don’t want to become French. They are not French in their spirits.  For women it is very complicated.  There is a lot of sexual harassment by migrants, a lot of rapes by migrants. And it’s not only in Paris, it’s in all the big cities of France. Where you have migrants, you have problems.  Women are the first victims. And the government don’t want to speak about that. It’s taboo.  It’s very difficult to get migrants to go back to their country, because their country don’t want them. We have a lot of left-wing liberals. For them migrants are victims all the time.  So it’s very unjust, because there are a lot of poor French people too.  You’re a racist if you just say the truth. Open your eyes and you can see what we say. This is the truth.”  Refreshing and necessary. This pattern is repeated across Western Europe.  Action is long overdue. https://x.com/realjosefbosch"
Josef Bosch on X - "It’s so anachronistic to hear a random woman—let alone a French one—speak like this. I can’t remember the last time I heard a white woman of any national origin speak this defiantly and bravely. Major blancpill."
Lara Logan on X - "Same issue everywhere: if you object to mass illegal immigration, you are branded as racist. While your country if being conquered & your way of life decimated. That does not happen by accident - it happens by design. The question is what are you prepared to risk to address this before all the good options are gone? If they were coming with tanks & bombs, this would be a very different conversation. We would not be arguing, people would just act. But this is warfare of a very different nature & so most people do not recognize it. Unfortunately the goals are the same - whether we recognize it or not, people are still being used as a weapon of invasion & conquest all over the west. So why only the west?"
Left wingers claim that we must listen to French people and/or people living in France to know the truth about the riots. Ironic. Of course, it's not misogynistic to silence 2 women when that pushes the left wing agenda
Time to arrest her for inciting racial hatred!

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 UPDATE: Masked rioters, Islamists and leftists STORMED the COLOSSEUM, rushing past the barriers and going haywire in Rome This is NOT just a "protest" about the cost of living, education or any other issue This is about importing an ideology that wants to rip the West apart. DEPORT THEM ALL!"

Ben Graham on X - "Protesters have forced their way into the Colosseum in Rome today.  The optics of this are terrible.  Rome was once the heart of one of the most powerful empires in history. Its Colosseum has stood for nearly 2,000 years.  Now we're watching protesters force their way past security at one of Europe's most iconic historical landmarks.  Unless this lawlessness is stamped out quickly, we risk losing the culture, heritage and history that make Europe what it is.  Enough is enough."
Zippy on X - "Amazing. Italy has been conquered without a shot being fired."
Ben Graham on X - "I agree, incredible situation for a country with such a rich history."

Florian Philippot on X - "Incroyable ! (cf vidéo ⤵️)  Ursula Von der Leyen vient de faire un discours délirant au parlement européen : « Le chaos migratoire en Europe, c’est la Russie et la Biélorussie qui l’organisent ! »  « Leur objectif est clair : submerger les autorités et semer la peur ! » 🤦🏻‍♂️  Alors que c’est l’UE qui organise la submersion migratoire par Schengen, le Pacte migratoire, ses directives immigrationnistes, la destruction de nos frontières nationales !  ➡️ Ursula dehors FREXIT France libre et forte vite !  Diffusez svp : les Français doivent voir ça"
Left wing logic: Russia and Belarus have weaponised migration. So we must welcome even more migrants and mass migration is the way to go

Rabbi Poupko on X - "Good evening Barcelona 🇪🇸 You have wished. Intifada upon Israel, and now the Intifada has arrived at your gates. This is what a globalizated Intifada looks like."
Proof that the Jews are behind everything! Time to blame Israel for causing all the rioting! Surely it cannot be that when you support terrorists, terrorists get emboldened and eventually turn on you too, just like the US "created the Taliban" - this logic only works when it makes the West look bad

Welcome to the era of champagne jihadism - spiked - "Forget champagne socialism, we are now in the era of champagne jihadism.  The GQ poster boy of this movement is multimillionaire Hasan Piker, who has proclaimed that America deserved 9/11, that his favourite flag is Hezbollah’s and that he would ‘vote for Hamas over Israel’. Awkwardly, if he lived under Hamas, he wouldn’t be able to vote for anyone. Champagne jihadis needn’t actually believe in God, let alone Islam. They simply need an unshakeable conviction that the West (aka the Great Satan) is the root of all evil, and that anyone fighting it must therefore be on the side of good, no matter their methods.  You can find champagne jihadis speaking from positions of privilege throughout the West. They can be found cosplaying holy war by cheering on the ‘Glorious Martyrs’ of 7 October from the comfortable surrounds of £10,000-a-year Glasgow University, where they’re probably studying queer theory – sadly not on the syllabus at schools in Gaza. Or they can be seen in New York shouting ‘long live Hamas’ during a vigil organised by Israelis for Peace to remember the Israelis and Palestinians killed since 7 October. More recently, as rioters destroyed French businesses and historic buildings, the champagne jihadis were seen bravely manning the barricades of their verified social-media accounts. ‘Capitalism doesn’t need your grief’, commented actress and sometime Dior model Christina Ricci beneath a post lamenting the looting of a Dior store in Paris. The champagne jihadi is, in fact, the ultimate capitalist, capable of commodifying absolutely anything, including the destruction of capitalism itself. No doubt Ricci’s next Dior campaign will feature her throwing a Dior J’adore Molotov cocktail at a cop car in a $710 DIO(R)EVOLUTION t-shirt.  But the rioters are not destroying capitalism – one Bangladeshi phone shop at a time – for the love of la patrie. They’re doing it for Palestine, the flag of which has largely replaced the tricolore during the riots. I support a free Palestine, but I’m not sure how destroying a North African man’s shop in the French capital helps achieve that. Whether it’s the suffering of ordinary Gazans under Hamas or the destruction of an immigrant’s livelihood in Paris, the revolution demands sacrifice. Preferably someone else’s. For a masterclass in champagne jihad, watch Sciences Po activist Lola-Fleur Whittaker justify the looting by explaining poverty to Jhemima Sheilha – a woman who arrived in France from Congo aged nine, spent three years in an immigrant hostel and went on to build a chain of bakeries, which rioters just trashed. Whittaker claims her mother, a teacher, struggles financially. But her father reportedly held senior positions at Shell and Alcatel Submarine Networks.  I get it, Lola-Fleur, I really do. When I was a kid I used to pretend to be from the streets, too. It’s the same for kids now, only now it seems those streets have to be in Kabul.   The French have had a word for this unlikely marriage of the radical left and political Islam for over 20 years: Islamo-gauchisme. It signifies those united by their opposition to Western imperialism and Zionism. In 2026, the British Greens are giving the concept an environmental makeover. The champagne jihadi means well. Who wouldn’t support protests calling for more money for schools? Even though setting fire to the schools themselves is a rather unconventional way of demanding it. But by refusing to condemn the violence, the champagne jihadi, who despises the far right, becomes Marine Le Pen’s unwitting recruiting sergeant.  Many of my champagne jihadi friends eagerly denounce certain other riots – like the horrible attacks on mosques and migrant hotels in the UK after the Southport stabbings in 2024. But there is an eerie silence on their normally crowded social-media feeds when it comes to the surge in racially aggravated attacks against Jewish people, such as the alleged one in Hackney a few days ago, or the one before that, or the one before that, or… In France, the rising tide of anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism has been washing over the riots, with pupils filming themselves chanting ‘M*R*H’, a rap song by BORO700 invoking the Bataclan massacre and Mohamed Merah, the terrorist who murdered three Jewish children in 2012. At this point, champagne jihad goes from LARPing to seriously alarming. It seems that when the perpetrators of racial violence aren’t uniformly white and right-wing, champagne jihadis find themselves paralysed by the quantum sudoku puzzle of intersectional anti-racism.  Take Elwan Benoît, another privileged, white star of the French student protests. He demonstrated his commitment to anti-racism by assuming a woman was from the slums of Marseille because she was black. Sarah Lélé, a Belgian comedian of Cameroonian heritage, summed it up well: ‘It’s not the “go back to Africa” kind of racism, it’s more complex, a sort of racist anti-racism.’ The champagne jihadi’s worldview is so patronising that it says only white Westerners were clever enough to perpetrate conquest, colonisation and empire. Even in our self-loathing, we have to be the best at everything. So naturally, we must declare jihad on ourselves, because Islamic extremists couldn’t manage without our help.  The irony is that there can be no greater testament to what a wonderful place the West is than its ability to produce and tolerate an entire political class that believes it should be burnt to the ground. This is why there’s nowhere in the world I’d rather live than the Great Satan."
Damn far right violence! Time to jail Marine Le Pen for inciting violence!

The French Republic is defenceless - spiked - "There have now been weeks of unrest in France. Throughout it all, Palestinian and Algerian flags have been waved all over the country. Some demonstrators have shouted slogans such as, ‘That’s for Palestine!’ and ‘Globalise the Intifada!’. Even Greta Thunberg has been on the scene, attending a school protest earlier this month wearing a keffiyeh.  In a strange sense, this is a huge success for Macron. After all, he decided to recognise a Palestinian state last year, unaware that Paris would become its capital. Compared with what may come in the near future, what France experienced last weekend may seem mild. Demonstrations have been announced for this weekend and, on 20 November, youth organisations from 12 European countries are calling for protests and strikes across Europe. They may not yet have succeeded in globalising the Intifada, but they are certainly Europeanising it.  What happened last weekend was a violent insurrection, a civil war in which only one side was attacking. For many years, the French police have not been authorised to properly defend themselves. Restrictions have been imposed on police officers for fear of a George Floyd-type incident. The rioters are well aware of this and are eager to take advantage. Mercifully, there have been no fatal confrontations linked to the riots, but this ‘miracle’ may not last long, as demonstrations will continue, at least until the presidential elections in six months’ time...   Confronted with the state’s impotence (which is efficient only when it comes to collecting taxes), ordinary people are fed up. Some French people are considering defending themselves, even though it is illegal to carry a weapon. The Paris police have advised businesses to employ private security ahead of upcoming demonstrations. Meanwhile, the government is busy restricting the freedoms of law-abiding citizens in order to avoid punishing the guilty: imposing curfews and increasing surveillance of social networks to anticipate thug violence.  After last weekend’s insurrection, fewer than 200 people slept in jail – one third of whom were foreign nationals, many others had foreign origins and some were even illegal immigrants. None of those appearing in court was given anything close to the maximum sentence for their crimes. The justice system goes easy on thugs and looters due to overcrowded prisons and the predominantly leftist ideology of most French judges.    In a similar vein, far-left and even moderate left-wing politicians have blamed the violence on the police and tried to justify the behaviour of the rioters. Meanwhile, the mainstream media have downplayed both the migrant background of the rioters and any Islamist element to the protests. However, the truth could not be hidden thanks to social networks, where videos of the riots were circulated.  When the next round of ‘demonstrations’ comes, the police will be supported by some elite units of the French army, which are typically deployed in situations involving a high terrorist threat. Will this act as a deterrent, or will it incite the rioters further? What will it take for the state to truly defend itself and its people? Will we have to wait for hostage-takings or massacres like the one on October 7 or the Bataclan attack?   Two days after the riots, Macron jetted off to the Gulf countries, where he went to beg for diesel. Perhaps he was also preparing for his transition to a high-paying speaking career. In response to criticism from abroad, he has called comments by foreign leaders – Trump among them – ‘as unacceptable as they are stupid’. He has even blamed AI-generated images and foreign influence for painting an overly bleak picture, insinuating that they originated from the US. The denialism feels wilful at this stage.  With his head planted firmly in the sand, the last six months of Macron’s presidency are going to be very long indeed."
Anarcho-tyranny strikes again

Matt Goodwin on X - "You won't stop the carnage we see in France by passing a few immigration reforms -- as British politicians are now suggesting.   Tighten immigration, sure. But the problem we face is much bigger than this.   What we are witnessing is a highly-coordinated, deeply ideological and concerted war on not just France but the West more broadly.  At the heart of it is a 'Red-Green' alliance of left-wing extremists, Islamists, and the Palestinian movement that has now morphed into a revolutionary movement.  It wants nothing less than the destruction, dismantling, or 'deconstruction' of Western civilisation.  And it is benefitting from a wider circle of 'tacit support' within our own Western institutions -- our schools, universities, media, publishing, and more.  These activists are now exploiting a West that has become dangerously divided, deluded, & demoralised.  While the West has certainly eroded itself and emboldened its enemies through mass immigration and broken borders, it has also taken a sledgehammer to its own foundations by teaching its own young people to hate who they are -- to hate their own history, culture, identity, and inheritance.   Scruton called this Oikophobia. Furedi called it the war against our past. In France, Philippe de Villiers calls it 'Memoricide'. The stripping away of any sense of who we are. It is cultural vandalism against ourselves.  China, Russia, Islamic states, they are all laughing at us.  We have cut our own young people off from the West's distinctive and proud history by either telling them our nations are racist and embarrassing or bombarding them with historically illiterate documentaries and Netflix shows that present the West as evil.  Unsurprisingly, they now feel little attachment or loyalty to their own nations while many young people today, put simply, don't even know who they are.   With no strong sense of national identity, and no real understanding of where they are from or what their ancestors built, they have become completely disoriented, bobbing around on a sea of globalism and phone-induced narcissism.    The young French destroy their country because they feel no loyalty to their country.  Somebody said to me recently the West resembles a bouquet of flowers on the mantlepiece -- it is still beautiful but if you look closely it's roots have been cut off and it is now slowly dying in the vase.  In the first instance, France is suffering the effects of all this, looking on at a generation that clearly hate its own nation or at least feel no attachment to it.   But this deeper malaise is now visible in pretty much every Western state today, having been encouraged by a political class that decided it was a good idea to redefine Western nations as empty vessels that are merely here to show empathy towards everybody else.  Immigration reforms might help but what we are facing now is actually much bigger than any of that.   As Scruton, Furedi, Caldwall, Phillips, Murray, Lasch and others have been warning us for many many years, there is a war against the West and before it even really begins we are already helping our enemies by cutting off our own legs.  Today it is France, tomorrow it will be everywhere."

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "American-Egyptian activist Eman Mabrouk celebrates the riots in France: ''I think burn it all down, stop sucking European Master's dicks, liberation isn't going to be pretty, it's going to cost blood, it's going to cost lives.''   Really cool how this third world bio-weapon somehow gets a piece of paper calling her American even as she agitates for race war against white people. 70,000 Instagram likes!  Also really fucking cool that so-called ''Australian'' citizen Dr. Mo Mustafa - widely known as the "Beast from the Middle East'' - collaborated with her on this Instagram reel. He calls himself an Australian for the benefits of the passport while endorsing videos like this which call for explicit race war against Europeans.  Western immigration policy has been a catastrophe for decades, how the fuck did these people get passports when they hate us this much."
Weird. Left wingers insist that the riots are about the cost of living

Anabel Schunke on X (Translated) - "A society that can be convinced that the greatest danger comes from the right, while the descendants of migrants are reducing France to rubble and ashes, German children are being hunted by gangs of their migrant peers, homosexuals are being lured into traps and beaten up by migrant gangs on dating apps, and no Jew is safe anymore due to left-wing and Islamic antisemitism, has reached the peak of collective gaslighting and should finally resolutely confront the madness that is unfolding here."

Visegrád 24 on X - "Spaniards shopping at the Corte Inglés shopping mall at Barcelona's have been locked in the store. The shopping mall was forced to close its doors with customers inside to prevent looters from storming the building. Europe 2026…"

128 arrested in Barcelona riots as Italy detains activist who praised Hamas' October - "Spanish police arrested 128 people during a night of looting, vandalism and violent unrest in Barcelona, authorities announced Sunday, as a wave of youth-led protests continued to sweep across European cities. Meanwhile, Italian police detained a 30-year-old pro-Palestinian activist suspected of encouraging further unrest through social media, with local reports revealing his history of praising Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel... Some of the most alarming scenes unfolded inside shopping establishments. Videos showed customers trapped inside stores, including the El Corte Inglés department store, after security shutters were lowered to prevent looters from entering. Other footage showed masked rioters kicking through shop windows before fleeing with merchandise. In several cases, participants broadcast their actions live on social media, where viewers could be seen encouraging them... Italy has become another focal point of the unrest, particularly Milan, where violent clashes and looting the previous weekend involved approximately 2,000 young demonstrators, according to police. Many were teenagers from working-class suburbs, including children of immigrant families... As Italian authorities investigated the violence in Milan, attention turned to Youssef Siher, a 30-year-old Italian citizen of Moroccan descent who had become prominent in pro-Palestinian activist circles. Police detained Siher on Saturday following an investigation into a social media movement called Movimento 17 ottobre, or "October 17 Movement," which promoted demonstrations across several Italian cities. According to Italian reports, Siher created an Instagram page and Telegram group after the initial outbreak of violence in Milan, using the platforms to encourage further demonstrations and urge followers to take control of public squares. Investigators suspect that the online campaign sought to capitalize on anger among young Italians, particularly those from immigrant backgrounds, toward the authorities. Following searches of properties associated with Siher, investigators reportedly recovered electronic files containing proposed gathering points and organizational details for demonstrations planned for Saturday. At least one of those locations was subsequently used by pro-Palestinian protesters. Siher was detained on orders from Milan prosecutors and is under investigation for alleged criminal incitement, organized violence at public demonstrations and terrorism-related offenses... According to Corriere della Sera, Italian intelligence agencies had taken an interest in him in 2024 after he established an organization called Alba Nascente, or "Rising Dawn." The group reportedly promoted demonstrations against Israel and disseminated material sympathetic to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine."
Clearly, Mossad got him to praise the October 7th attacks to build his cover

Bernie on X - "Remember … The government has stated the BBC is its preferred source of trusted news As 500,000 people take to the streets in France alone, looting, rioting, burning and demanding … The BBC has managed to call it “MOSTLY PEACEFUL” yet again. 🤡"

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "The main leaders of the riots in France, Italy, and now Spain are all Palestinian activists. Let that sink in.  These ‘protests’ are being planned in direct coordination with Gazan terrorists.  Thanks to the Palestinian genocide scam and the billions they have received, they are now able to fund the destruction of Europe."

RadioGenoa on X - "They are the ones. The 4 who opened Europe to the Islamic invasion. Look them straight in the face. Top left Merkel. Top right von der Leyen. Bottom left Macron. Bottom right Sanchez. They are the ones responsible. They opened the borders. They signed the Migration Pact. They turned Europe into a 5 star hotel for those who arrive illegally. Merkel in 2015 said "they are all welcome". Von der Leyen from Brussels imposed quotas and mandatory solidarity. Macron and Sanchez applauded and threw open the doors of their countries. The result you see every day in your cities. Chaos, insecurity, Islamic invasion. This photo is the photo of the guilty. Sooner or later they will have to answer."

Links - 2nd November 2026 (2 - Left Wing Economics)

Meme - Tom Jones @93vintagejones: ""The primary cause of the West’s economic decline is the rapid expansion of parasitic rent-seeking actors who extract value without producing it.""
"Rather, the real problem is that Western firms are burdened by unsustainably large non-essential costs placed on them by politicians in order to fulfil the demands of distributional coalitions. Punitive taxes, administrative roles that only exist to ensure the companies comply with non- essential legislation, sky-high costs imposed as a result of political decisions all these layers of nonproductive activity weigh the system down. Chinese companies, by contrast, don't have as many barnacles on their boats; since its' leaders don't need to run for election, they have no need to create or feed distributional coalitions."

🫡 on X - "The goal post just keeps moving farther and farther. First it was “EBT is just kids being able to eat. Kids shouldn’t starve cuz their parents are poor” Then it was “EBT should pay for Little Debbie’s because poor kids deserve a sweet treat too” Now it’s “EBT should get you in at the Zoo for basically free because apparently if you don’t see Giraffes you will literally die”   Come on guys. What are we doing here"
Hawk-I-Doc on X - "Its about bribery for votes. Food, zoo tickets, doesnt matter. There is no limiting principle at play for Democrats, no point at which they think theres too much welfare benefits."

DKM 🍉✊🏾 on X - "The goal of ebt is to give people the same quality of life as a "middle class" person. It's literally that simple."
Allie ✞ on X - "A lot of people don’t realize they’re lying because they’re saying things they wish were true. They’ll make up totally false statements but they sound nice so it feels true to them"
Snakesan on X - "I worked a lot of retail, probably more than I should admit in public but whatever. Most of the folks I'd see using it needed it, the amount of abuse I'd see was also incredible. I balked when I saw an arrangement at a previous employer when a manager would lend a u-boat to someone using EBT to buy pop. Just a ton of pop, sometimes needed two.  A subsidy got reframed, it helped a bunch of folks while allowing for some abuse. I'd hesitate to call what quoted is saying as lying, maybe a half truth?"
This goes beyond the avowed aim of Universal Basic Income, even. Left wingers just want everything for free

Rock Chartrand on X - "Capitalism has a curious habit of creating luxuries faster than socialism can declare them necessities. Two hundred years ago, free modern healthcare and today’s standard of living would have ranked somewhere between a unicorn and a personal dragon. Capitalism creates the impossible; socialism arrives afterward to explain that mankind had been entitled to it all along."

The urgent need to tax billionaires out of existence - "The New Democratic Party, alone among our federal political parties, has called for an annual net wealth tax, which would apply exclusively to people with assets worth $10 million or more. Such a tax could raise $10 billion a year, thereby helping to fund social programs and making our tax system fairer. Those are both very important goals. But there’s another even more compelling reason for a wealth tax: to prevent wealthy interests from becoming so powerful they effectively have veto power over the will of the people."
When left wingers are very explicit that when they screech "tax the rich" or "tax billionaires", they mean to tax them until they are no longer rich / no longer billionaires. Presumably, that's what they mean by the "rich" paying their "fair share"
Left wingers are driven by envy and hatred. So raising money is not the primary purpose of "taxing" the rich - it's to make them no longer rich
Naturally, like other left wingers, the authors don't understand the difference between income and wealth. This is why they're poor

Paul Zupich | Facebook - "The left continues to promote false claims, which too many people believe. For example, it’s reasonable to debate whether the rich pay their fair share of income taxes; it’s a lie to claim that the wealthy pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. They claim that Warren Buffett pays a tax rate of 0.1% while the average teacher pays 9.8%, or that Elon Musk pays 3.3% while the average registered nurse pays 13.3%. Bernie Sanders and others make those claims using numbers generated by ProPublica. For teachers and nurses, the tax rates are calculated as a percentage of income; however, for the wealthy, they use a percentage of wealth, not income. In other word, they are not calculated the same way.  The top 1% actually pay about 26% of their income in federal taxes. The top 1% pay 40% of all federal taxes, while the bottom half pay virtually nothing. Why lie about that?  This is typical of what Democrats and the media do."

The Refined Populist on X - "Lindsay Ellis made a two-hour “critique of capitalism” in which she abandons her family to take five back-to-back solo vacations, spending the entire time feigning abject misery and sneering at the unsophisticated proles who’re actually enjoying themselves.  She ultimately concludes Disney is the “least evil” cruise line because they recognized her as an influencer, gave her a free VIP suite upgrade, had a crew member she wanted to sleep with, and were slightly more transparent about how gratuities are distributed. Virgin was #2 because they had drag queens and no crotch goblins.  The whole video honestly felt like a parody of aging BreadTubers, right down to her cruise buddy being an insufferable twink who wouldn’t shut up about his favorite anarchist philosophers, oblivious to the fact that he’d get his brains bashed in with a rock about six minutes into his romanticized stateless utopia.  My favorite part was when she attended a Frozen princess dinner and, for one brief, glorious moment, experienced a flicker of actual self-awareness about how messed up it was to be on a Disney family cruise without her two young children.  She then immediately drowned such introspections in alcohol before resuming her simultaneous complaints that everything costs too much and that cruise lines should 10x their labor costs.  Leftism in 2026. You genuinely cannot make this up."

Rothmus 🏴 on X - "Argentina’s monthly inflation went from 25.5% in Milei’s first month to 1.7% in August 2026.  As expected when government stops printing pesos to cover the deficit.   Fiscal surplus first, then prices stop sprinting.  The “experts” who called this “austerity theater” now have 33 months of INDEC data to explain away."
Rothmus 🏴 on X - "Milei balanced the budget after 9 years of deficit.   The surplus covers the debt service too, so the government no longer has to borrow or print just to stay open.  That was the inflation machine in Argentina. Chronic deficits financed by the central bank, a collapsing peso, and prices that reset every month.   Close the gap and the printing press loses its reason, the currency stops being a melting ice cube, and saving, lending, and pricing in pesos become possible again. Image"

Melissa Chen on X - "Seeing the riots in France and the terrible state of the French economy made me think of this 🔥 speech by Lee Kuan Yew.
"Look at the buildings around you. Look at the stock market bouncing up.  Let me tell you how to bring it down. Have a couple of really good riots, shake political confidence."
On top of that, the French economy is collapsing. Only one in three French people works in the real economy. Two-thirds live off other people’s taxes. The entire system is completely unsustainable due to absurd pensions and runaway state spending.
 At the end of the clip, Lee says:  "My political opponent says that we are 'obsessed with profits'  I say 'YES! That’s how Singapore survives.'   If you have no profit, who pays for all of this?     If you make profit into a dirty word.. Singapore dies!”  Beyond mass migration, this is how Western Europe is dying btw."

Meme - Tom Jones @93vintagejones: ""The primary cause of the West's economic decline is the rapid expansion of parasitic rent-seeking actors who extract value without producing it.""
"Rather, the real problem is that Western firms are burdened by unsustainably large non-essential costs placed on them by politicians in order to fulfil the demands of distributional coalitions. Punitive taxes, administrative roles that only exist to ensure the companies comply with non- essential legislation, sky-high costs imposed as a result of political decisions all these layers of nonproductive activity weigh the system down. Chinese companies, by contrast, don't have as many barnacles on their boats; since its' leaders don't need to run for election, they have no need to create or feed distributional coalitions."

SinoAngloFuturism - "the most redistributive systems - if you use transfers from top 10% to bottom 50% - are the U.S. and Britain. But it doesn’t seem to be impacting inequality; a recent paper in Applied Economics has demonstrate that Europe’s lower inequality levels cannot be explained by more equalizing tax and transfer systems, because (after accounting for indirect taxes and in-kind transfers) the US redistributes a greater share of national income to low-income groups than any European country...
'China does little by way of redistribution from the wealthy to the poor; rather, it is enacting a Leninist agenda in which the state retains enormous discretion to command economic resources in order to maintain political control and to build toward a post-scarcity world.'...
Being engineers, Chinese leaders see infrastructure projects as a better form of social transfer. They have no intention, even when those infrastructure projects deliver a higher level of development, from altering from that strategy; in 2021 Xi Jinping said said, “Even when we have reached a higher level of development... we should not go overboard with social transfers. For we must avoid letting people get lazy from their sense of entitlement to welfare.”  What is unsaid throughout Wang’s book is that Chinese leaders do not have to worry about elections...
Wang argues that the development of ‘the lawyerly society’ has resulted in America being unable to develop the infrastructure necessary to keep up with its own population growth, or sustain sufficient economic growth – something that is replicated in most modern liberal democracies, particularly those in Western Europe, which have developed a dangerous combination of vetocracy and massive immigration-derived population increases.  But there is now an increasing view that we should treat developed Western nations as developing. Breckneck’s conclusion sees Wang argue that in order to compete with China, America must recapture its desire and willingness to build; the abundance and progress movements in America are also, in some way, a rejection of the approach of the lawyerly society and an adoption of the engineering society’s approach to infrastructure. There is a similar desire to see Britain build again too; Anglofuturism.  While Aris Roussinos has offered some intellectual scaffolding, the movement largely lacks rigorous political philosophy. For most of its adherents, Anglofuturism is defined not by theory but simply by a singular focus on grand infrastructure projects. If there is to be an Anglo future, we have to get Britain building again - and that means treating Britain, if not quite as a developing nation, then as a nation that needs to be developed."
Left wingers will never be happy, because they are just miserable people. Left wingers in the US pretend that their lives are living hells and all they want is free healthcare, but left wingers in Canada have it and are just as miserable as their comrades across the border

ThemeParkScout on X - "So… my daughter tried Rollercoaster Tycoon for the first time ever. She made all the rides free so “everyone can ride” because she has a kind heart. Then she ran out of money. She then started charging on everything, including the bathrooms. Greatest game of all time."

Meme - "GENEROSITY
Man: I WANT TO HELP
YOUR MONEY. YOUR CHOICE. YOUR SACRIFICE.
SOCIALISM
Bernie: I WILL DECIDE HOW MUCH YOU GIVE AND TO WHOM.
Panicked man: BUT I WANTED TO CHOOSE
Bernie: CHOICE IS FOR CAPITALISTS.
YOUR MONEY. HIS CHOICE. HIS CREDIT."

Meme - Leigh Scott: "The top 1% made it possible to get anything delivered to your door within a day. The bottom 1% will steal it off your porch. The top 1% make cell phones and the internet possible. The bottom 1% made it so we have to have a ton of Passwords and security so our money and identity aren't stolen. The top 1% facilitates our ability to travel around the world on airplanes. The bottom 1% are why we have to endure TSA. The top 1% are the ones who allow us to get prescription drugs that make our lives better. The bottom 1% are why the deodorant and Sudafed are locked up in cases. The top 1% innovate to make our lives simpler and more efficient. The bottom 1% make our insurance rates higher. So anybody screaming about the "1%" are screaming about the wrong 1%."

‏ً on X - "You can’t have hyperwealth without hyperpoverty. A billionaire exists in one country because child labor exists in another. Stock markets grow by looting countries raw. That’s the reality of capitalism: the misanthropic greed of the rich is fed by devastating the poor."
Commies think they're poor because other people are rich. That's why communism destroys countries, because of the delusion that destroying success helps failures

Griff on X - "Unpopular opinion but we spend far too much time organising our society around the lowest 20%.  The poor, violent, uneducated, underperforming, illegals, refugees etc etc we throw BILLIONS at them every year and they never seem to get any better.   Instead we lack any compassion for the productive elements of society who get up every day and go to work. We tax them or 'red tape' them to such an extent that they've clearly stopped producing.   We need to build a society around the top 40% - lets get everyone rich. Start believing in ourselves again."

Spencer Pratt on X - "$500M net worth George Clooney could’ve permanently housed 8 homeless people for the rest of their lives with the money he spent on a single-use dress for his wife at a 4 hour event. I will never tolerate a woke scold lecture from these people. Just be an ostentatious celebrity and own it."

Thread by @MattGLilley on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A bunch of Nobel Prize-winning economists have endorsed California's proposed billionaire wealth tax.  I can't oppose them on authority. But I know some academics who can.
Stiglitz (1976) v. Stiglitz (2026)
Atkinson–Stiglitz: redistribute through the income tax, not extra tax instruments.
California: "What about a tax on accumulated assets?"
Stiglitz: signed. The theorem was unavailable for comment.
Acemoglu (2001) v. Acemoglu (2026)
Colonial Origins: "Protection against expropriation risk is extremely important for long-run prosperity."
Also: "Anyway, here's a 5% levy on the existing property of one narrowly defined group." It's a one-off. I pinky promise.
Apparently the lesson of Colonial Origins was credible property rights are important until the property crosses ten figures.
· The coefficient on expropriation risk: enormous.
· The coef when the taxpayer owns Nvidia stock: Appendix B, Vibes.
Diamond (1971) v. Diamond (2026)
Diamond–Mirrlees: Preserve production efficiency. Don't distort productive choices when other tax instruments exist.
Prop 40: tax the assets of people who own lots of productive capital? Professor Production Efficiency: "Sounds good."
Banerjee & Duflo (2007) v. Banerjee & Duflo (2026)
The credibility revolution: Stop waving your hands about giant ideological questions. Find something you can identify. Run the experiment. Measure what happened. And therefore, naturally: California should impose a 5% wealth tax.
The causal chain:
1. Randomize remedial tutors in Mumbai and Vadodara.
2. Observe a 0.28σ rise in test scores.
3. ???
4. Tax Jensen Huang's equity.
Thousands of economist-hours teaching the profession to decompose huge policy questions into narrow ones with credible identification.  Then the ballot proposition arrives:  "No RCT necessary for this one, lads. Pre vs post comparisons in an AI boom are fine."
Krugman (1991) v. Krugman (2026)
New Economic Geography: Firms, workers and capital respond to incentives in deciding where to locate; those choices can shift equilibria.
Location is endogenous. Agglomerations aren't laws of nature.
But then for California: "Yes, location incentives exist. Yes, mobile capital exists. Yes, equilibria can shift. But Silicon Valley will obviously be fine."
Location is endogenous, but apparently not that endogenous.
Truly, the most robust result in modern economics is that, as ideology grows large, every theorem acquires a people-who-are-richer-than-me exception. (If you don't like the jokes, don't blame me, blame my co-author GPT. He did all the work)."
tedfrank on X - "It’s a shame Matthew doesn’t have a blue check, because this is the best thread on X today. Every Nobel Prize winner endorsing the California wealth tax, refuted by their own award-winning writing."
:Trust the Experts - when they push the left wing agenda

Steve Guest on X - "On CNN NewsNight, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill argues that capitalism is oppressive and bound up in white supremacy.
Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.
Hill: “How is it not?”
Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is! That is not white supremacy.”
Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Foster: “I've actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy? … What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?“"
Mary Katharine Ham on X - "Kmele: “You actually have to articulate what the connection is.” Hill writes for the Atlantic and has years of TV experience, but it didn’t occur to her she would ever need to, and she isn’t prepared to."
Left wingers chant their slogans and repeat their platitudes, but are unable to make real arguments for them

Russ Greene on X - "Our great national tragedy:  "Today, most U.S. counties depend on a level of government transfer income that was once reserved only for the most distressed places. In 1970, not even 1 percent of counties derived a quarter or more of their total personal income from transfers. In 2000, just 10.4 percent did. But by 2022, 53 percent of counties were receiving a quarter or more of their income from transfers."  - @InnovateEconomy"
Left wingers keep claiming that they want taxes to be used to help people. Of course, they don't know (or pretend not to know) that the US spends over 2x as much on public healthcare as on defence. Presumably their ideal is to have an economy where all income comes from the government, and then the government then taxes it all away and finances everything with debt, because covid proved that money is fake

Lone Star Liberty PAC on X - "In a private Zoom meeting with Austin Sierra Club activists, James talarico says capitalism is an oppressive system he wants to dismantle:
"I'm ... thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country.
"And I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them." #TXsen"

Meme - Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias: "Part of the affordability crisis is pretty clearly people just refusing to be thrifty - you should not be spending a quarter of your salary on DoorDash."
"There's pasta in the pantry and jarred sauce in the refrigerator. So what compels Kiely Reedy to keep having spaghetti with marinara delivered from the restaurant down the street, for several times the cost of cooking the dish herself? It's not that the restaurant dish is particularly good, she said. "It's the instant gratification." From her roughly $50,000 annual salary as a data processor in San Diego, Ms. Reedy, 34, spends at least $200 to $300 a week on food delivery. Ordering in has eaten away at her savings, she said, and led her to socialize less. She tips generously, but worries that the delivery drivers are poorly paid."
Proof that capitalism has failed!

AnechoicMedia on X - "I think the decline of thrift is part of loss of a shared social script for "average people" that revolves around middle class family formation. Most working people couldn't expect dramatic income gains over their life and so had to build wealth slowly through acts of self-denial.  For those raised online, social comparison and visible inequality has instilled an all-or-nothing mindset about wealth. You're either one of the people destined to 10x your income or you're not. Getting rich makes thrift not matter, and if you're doomed to not be rich, then thrift also doesn't matter because nobody becomes rich through thrift.  Thrift only matters if your goal is to be a slightly more respectable person of the same class. But what are you saving money for today? Probably not to have a family; Society isn't demanding you have kids, you don't attend church, there's no tribe that pats you on the back for doing the little things right every day. Home ownership, already seen as an impossible goal in top cities, also become sharply less affordable in recent years.  On the other end, there isn't a penalty for going bust, either; You're never going to be allowed to starve or be refused medical treatment. And being carefree has its own social status, at least while young. So why not enjoy all the luxuries that are within reach and that everyone around you also seems to be enjoying?  Most of my life I adhered to a strict moralizing attitude about personal finance and making the correct decisions to be better than everyone else. This helped avoid some personal crises, but otherwise, bringing your future retirement a few years closer doesn't change life much. I also frequently failed to live up to my own standards and spent more on eating out, then felt guilty for it.  In the end, none of this mattered. Switching jobs a couple times made a bigger impact on my finances than a decade of buying store brand milk and bread. So either I was always going to make more money, in which case thrift just made me a neurotic weirdo for no reason, or I wasn't, and I was denying myself for no proximate social reward."
Everything adds up. People who spend a lot on one frivolous thing spend on other frivolous things too

Meme - "Yes, great way to drive the private sector out of business"
Sean Collinson: "if the private sector can't compete it shouldn't exist"
Dan Jenkins: "The whole argument for having private enterprise do things under capitalism is that they are more efficient, and the profit is the reward of that efficiency. If at a base level they can't compete with the much less efficient government, what is the argument for their existence?"
Left wing logic - if the private sector cannot compete against a competitor that pays no taxes and gets endless subsidies from taxes, it deserves to go out of business

‘Conservative, business-friendly states:’ Buc-ee’s CEO wants to avoid Blue states - ""We're growing. We're building in a lot of places. But when you find a conservative, business-friendly state with a phenomenal workforce, it makes a difference. And I'm starting to realize life's too short to try to build in places that people don't appreciate what you're bringing, versus a place like this where people do appreciate what you're building," Aplin said in a video shared by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders...   "That leadership, that concept, that idea of conservative, business-friendly, family-oriented concept, works so much better if it trickles down from the leadership, from the very top of the governor's office, at the congressmen, at the senators, at the mayors, the representatives. And so, what we found when we got here in Benton (Arkansas) was a business-friendly town," he added. "They said 'Let's roll up our sleeves and let's go get a Buc-ee's built.'""

John Althouse Cohen | Facebook - "“No one earns a billion dollars. You can only steal a billion dollars.” “So who are the victims of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Jerry Seinfeld, and Paul McCartney?”"

Ro Khanna on X - "I am a believer in free enterprise. I want it to work for the people I grew up with, not just for a few in a few places. Always open to dialogue!"
Cynical Publius on X - "Absolute 🐂💩.  This Congressman wants to tax unrealized capital gains, and when the tax is imposed on a founder of a VC-backed company and that founder has no liquidity to pay the tax, he or she must pledge his or her shares to the federal government to back the debt of an unpaid "wealth tax."  Guess what happens if that founder never gets liquidity?  The government seizes control of the company.  This is a backdoor way to achieving Lenin's dream of seizing the means of production, and is as far removed from "free enterprise" as is possible.  Khanna is a dangerous Marxist operative whose actions speak vastly louder than his words."

Threads - "Here's the difference between you and us: You want to know why a single mom got a $1 Pepsi with our tax dollars. We want to know why Tesla got billions in subsidies with our tax dollars. That's the difference."
Comment (elsewhere): "isn’t it weird how the left demanded everyone buy EVs, bribing people to do so with subsidies? And then after people buy them, the left blames the companies for the subsidies."
Another left winger: "The reason that mom bought a pepsi with SNAP is because Pepsico fought really hard to make that happen. Quit blaming poor people for Corporations faults". Weird. When people stick it to Pepsico by not letting moms buy Pepsi with SNAP, they are apoplectic too

Meme - Smashed head Bernie to Baker with a lot of bread using loudspeaker: "YOUR PROFITS ARE OBSCENE."
*Closed baker with empty bakery and long 90% tax bill from Bernie*
Bernie to long line of shocked people: "THE BAKER WAS GREEDY. THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO BREAD."
"PUNISH THE BAKER. BLAME THE BAKER. REPEAT."

Meme - Angry Soyjak: "Small businesses that can't pay a living wage should die!!!"
Shocked soyjak: "Why is everything controlled by 9 corporations?!"
Proof that capitalism has failed!