Long time...yes I'm still alive and still travelling too much.
Anyhoo... found a great source (of ridicule) today: Green European Journal. Look at these nefarious, heart-stopping, spine-chilling quotes:
Orbán: "it is the mindset of Western elites that prevents us from even being able to identify the most important challenge we face: the question of demography. Instead of this, politics is preoccupied with how to enforce carbon quotas in the economy and gender quotas in society". Evil personified, clearly!
Meloni: "For decades, the dominant culture said that having a child was likely to be incompatible with many other choices; that having a child compromised your freedom, your career, your dreams and in some cases even your beauty…". Such depravity is hard to fathom.
German AfD party: "The federal government is fighting so-called climate change with billions. Let’s instead fight the demographic catastrophe with investments in children and families." Oh the horror!
Farage: "of course we need higher birth rates but we’re not going to get higher birth rates in this country until we can get some sense of optimism". What heinous witchcraft is this?!
Another series of quotes they also repeat as if they are a bad thing, such as "by scaring the youth into mental imbalance a part of adolescence and trust in society is destroyed... I feel bad for them, since they are having a part of their lives destroyed" and "We need to take children and the youth's psychological health seriously, and all the fear-mongering they are hearing may put them on benefits while still young".
To any sane person both these things are patently true but to the GEJ 'children are framed as vulnerable and in need of protection from an environmentalist elite and biased media that are only pushing one side of the debate'. Well, yes, they are! Have you seen the mental health and suicide stats FFS?
Of course, as you'd expect, they end with the obvious: "These regimes declared themselves as representing the 'youth of the nation'. Benito Mussolini’s government, for example, promised to 'make way for youth', while Adolf Hitler famously declared that 'whoever has the youth has the future". Amusingly the article's summary could be summarised as 'make way for youth' LOL. The complete irony with which they finish is beyond parody: "Our educational systems must equip the youth with the tools for the sort of critical thinking that today’s polarised politics requires" [facepalm]... Why the fuck do you think we're in the mess we're in you dickwads?
...and thanks to mike flynn in the comments HERE for the title!
How Trump crushed Obama’s legacy, The president-elect rides the cowboy spirit by David Samuels writing for Unherd.
Reminded me to read back my own attempt from early 2017 about Trump's 2016 administration being plagued by Obama's 'stay behind army', which in turn led me to Obama's offspring II... ("… When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned" from 'Our Greatest Danger' [Herbert Hoover 31st POTUS]) with his blatant stirring of racial tension...
Anyhoo, today's Unherd article is excellent in every way: " After Trump left, Obama stayed in Washington and continued his role as unelected Party Leader during what had been advertised as the Biden Presidency.
Obama’s method of avoiding scrutiny from the pliant DC press was entirely in character"
Until he misstepped. By compelling Biden to withdraw in favour of Harris, who turned out to be an even worse candidate than a senile old man who had begun to resemble a badly taxidermied deer, Obama broke the unspoken agreement that had put him beyond scrutiny [sic]
...and much more. Read it.
...can you spot it?
Eat shit lefties...oh, are we not doing that?
Well done Kemi. You should have won before when Liz Truss won, she began well but was shafted by TPTB (no, not tetraphenylphosphonium tetraphenylborate) to get slimy Sunak in.
Now you have your chance: please be the Conservative you are, not the continuity lefty direction uniparty opposition leader that Gove et al want you to be.
You MUST push for strict immigration control and defusing the rampant bias that Islam enjoys: further Islamification is a no-no. Shut their shit down. And Starmer is a dangerous zealot, make sure he is exposed.
Update 6 p.m.: A good read on UNHERD by Tom McTague that may interest waverers (me for one!)
2.5 trillion. Two point five TRILLION. That is now the UK national debt. No matter that we see chronic wastage everywhere: on Net Zero (Milliband brothers clown show), IT failures, Quantative Easing, Bank bailouts, HS2, Furlough (yes, we won't forget), Track and Trace, (is Hancock in gaol?), more levels of government, more expenses, more overpaid shysters, etc, etc...etc (and NO it has nothing to do with Liz ousted-in-a-soft-coup Truss). [edit: Every WEEK the interest is 100 billion...Every. Week. ] Sorry: Last year debt interest was 100 billion.
"In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the national debt has increased by more than £20,000." Or almost 16 million quid per HOUR. The UK debt clock can be see HERE and I recall when it passed one trillion; yes, at 16 minutes past five in the afternoon of 17th Jan 2011 to be exact; how can I be so sure? Because I blogged an update back then.
The Tax Payer's Alliance have relaunched their "ticking debt clock! 15 years after our original ground breaking campaign publicising the extent of the UK’s national debt." Yippee!
Searching through the archives it isn't hard to see where the problem began to skyrocket, although to be clear it is decades of red and blue and all governments are to blame. It is just a shame The Guardian have removed all the comments (OK, it is 11 years ago - ahem - but I would have liked to have reread an Old Ows opinion and my 'highly recommended' points: presumably NOT as petty as this:
"What irritated me was that in the image [...] they had squeezed the picture of [Gordon] Brown far to the left making him appear over only those 'good' years of surplus (which was when, as we all know, he followed Conservative spending plans) and have the picture of Darling spread over most of the Crash Gordon years and we ALL now know, and it isn't hard to see, that Britain's debt soared from 2000 and Brown was to blame. It is petty things like the positioning of the Chancellors' pictures that annoy me (yes, yes, OK, I'm small minded and petty when it comes to Gordon Brown).
Yes, despite the Conservatives not helping (Blue Labour) I still blame New Labour (Blair, Brown et el...) and you won't change my mind.
Anyway, you may have heard of the Big Mac Index, well the UK national debt (at this moment in time...on no, now it's gone up...and using the World Population Clock) could buy 72 Big Macs, for each and every single living person on the planet...yes, that's the reason for the image above :-) More Recent Articles
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