PAYBACK: Israel and U.S. Strike Deep Into Yemen.

IT WOULD BE A START, BUT IT WON’T HAPPEN:

They can start with begging for forgiveness for a decade+ of attacking checks on separation of power, delegitimizing the courts, and celebrating the executive abuses of Biden and Obama. https://t.co/kkhUkyrjSf

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 5, 2025

COVID FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: What Neil Ferguson’s booty call tells us about modern politics.

The conspiratorial left, convinced the world is run by secret cabals of bankers and cigar-chomping media moguls, thinks the Neil Ferguson story is a ‘dead cat’. In other words, they think the Daily Telegraph – Evil Tory Rag – revealed that Ferguson carried on bonking his mistress in defiance of a lockdown that he himself bears much responsibility for in order to distract attention from Britain overtaking Italy with the highest Covid death toll in Europe. A ‘dead cat’ strategy is when a sensationalist story is introduced to the mix to divert attention from a far more serious political crisis. Ferguson’s sexual antics are the Tory regime’s dead cat to Britain’s corona death toll, apparently.

This sums up the political infantilism of the left. It is actually incredibly important news that Ferguson, the Imperial College modeller who said it was possible 500,000 Brits would die if we didn’t lock down, defied the lockdown. It deserves the frontpage treatment it is getting today. For Ferguson’s booty call with his married lover actually reveals a great deal about the 21st-century elites and how they view their relationship with the masses. It’s one rule for them and another for us. They can carry on enjoying sneaky freedoms because their lives and jobs are important; we can’t because we are mere little people, whose silly work lives can casually be disrupted, whose love lives can be turned upside down, and whose families can be ripped apart. The Ferguson affair provides an illuminating insight into the new elitism.

It’s worth thinking about the largeness of this scandal. Ferguson’s scaremongering, his predictions of mass death if society didn’t close itself down, was the key justification for the lockdown in the UK. It influenced lockdowns elsewhere, too. Of course, this isn’t all on Ferguson. He does not exercise mind control over Boris Johnson. It was a combination of disarray among the political class and the wild clamouring of the media elite for the severest lockdown possible that led to the working people of Britain being decommissioned and almost the entire population being put under an unprecedented form of house arrest. But Ferguson’s figures, his graphs and models, his worst-case scenarios, were the godly pronouncements upon which this historic disruption of society was based. And Ferguson fully backed the lockdown that sprung from his work.

As the BBC reported the same day, Ferguson “quit as a government adviser on coronavirus after admitting an ‘error of judgement’.”

Mistakes were made! But the biggest was made by the man who hired him: Boris Johnson Missed His Churchill Moment: The pandemic was Boris’s biggest test. He failed.

When Johnson’s idol, Winston Churchill, first came to power in 1940, France was in the process of falling to Nazi Germany. Most of the other great European powers had already fallen. For a time, Britain stood alone in the world, the sole defender of the West, with Churchill at its helm. Even when his own ministers urged him to accept Hitler’s peace offer, Churchill held firm to his convictions and chose to fight on.

This is the laudable mantle that Johnson has, all his life, aspired to shoulder. He faced just such a defining moment in March of 2020. The entire world had surrendered to the People’s Republic of China, adopting its totalitarian disease-control strategy, and unlike France or Poland in World War II, we surrendered without a shot being fired. If any man in the world was well-positioned to stand against this, it was the garrulous British renegade, Boris Johnson.

Instead, the United Kingdom became a police state.

Well, to be fair, Airstrip One become an even bigger police state — and most of the authorities there needed little prompting to scale up their efforts.

IT’S USUALLY NICER TO ACCEPT THE CARROT THAN WAIT FOR THE STICK: Trump administration offers to pay immigrants in the US illegally for ‘self-deportation.’ “The Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 plus travel costs if they leave voluntarily as it accelerates its mass deportation agenda. The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that people who use the CBP Home app to announce their ‘self-deportations’ would get the money and be ‘deprioritized’ for detention and removal.”

YEP: Kurt Schlichter: All GOP Senators Have to Do Is Not Be Dumb, So We’re in Trouble. Well, dumb and/or bought off.

LIGHTNING DEAL: 12×60 Monocular Telescope High Powered with Smartphone Adapter. #CommissionEarned

I LIKE THE IDEA BUT IT’S IN AWFULLY BAD SHAPE: Trump to Reopen Alcatraz to Jail the Criminal ‘Dregs of Society’

NOBODY WONDERS WHICH SIDE HARVARD IS ON:   Harvard’s Disgraceful ‘Bothsidesism’ Confirms Its Systemic Anti-Semitism Problem.

“LEGITIMATELY EMBARRASSING:” Apparently Jane Pratt Doesn’t Actually Read Books; Does the Staff at New York Magazine? “This isn’t a case of some 19-year-old incompetently summarizing a book they were assigned to read but didn’t in college. It’s an adult woman, an editor and writer, voluntarily participating in this feature and plugging a book she clearly cannot have read. Why she would do that, I really can’t imagine; surely there’s a book that she actually finished that she could recommend? Why do this?”

These people like to think of themselves as smart and intellectual, but it’s basically a pose.

ANY DOUBT THAT HHS IN THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION WOULD HAVE SUPPRESSED THIS REPORT?  HHS Releases Damning Report on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’.

AS THEY SHOULD BE:  Sympathy for the Devil? CNN Ridiculed for Solicitous Interview with Sinaloa Cartel Member.

GOOD. LEAVE IT TO PRIVATE CHARITIES:  EPA Cancels All Environmental Justice Grants.

ANY DOUBT THAT HHS IN THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION WOULD HAVE SUPPRESSED THIS REPORT?  HHS Releases Damning Report on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’.

GIVEN WHAT I’VE SEEN FROM THE GOVERNMENT, CAN AI BE WORSE???  A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government.

YO, BRO- JUST CHILL (STUPID CONTINENT, DOES  N’T IT KNOW THE SCIENCE HAS BEEN SETTLED?):  Oh, the Latest News Out of Antarctica Is a Huge Blow to the Global Warming Crowd.

THEY DON’T LIKE CHILDREN, ANYWAY:  War on Children.

IT’S BEEN CORRUPTED FOR A LONG TIME:  Terror in the making.

MORE COCKROACHES UNDER THE FRIDGE:  Buffalo Public Schools Has Its Own Long History With Scandal.

THEIR BEST WORDS COME FROM SOMEONE ELSE’S MIND:   This is why no one should take actors seriously on politics.

HOPEFULLY SOMETHING THAT MAKES SURE OF NO MORE 10/7s:  What’s the endgame in Gaza?

WHY AMERICANS SHOULD CELEBRATE THE 5TH OF MAY:  EXTRA EDITION: Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

I’M STARTING TO LIKE MALTA AS MUCH AS LAWDOG DOES:  NGO Says Malta Blocking Access To Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Hit By Drones.

MONDAY IS ALL RIGHT FOR FIGHTING:  All The Trouble In The World.

LET’S NOT START:  Starting with some Democrats want as little restriction against sex- including buy it- with underage teens as possible.

THIS IS NEWS?  Damn, the left hates Jews and Israel.